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Accomplishments and Activities of the Bethpage PTA
Date Information
1922 Charter
1924 Words and music to "Central Park PTA" composed by Henry Ebisch
About 1930 School lunch program financed with our state aid. Hot lunches served at 5 cents per person. Needy children free. Only one paid cook. All the rest volunteer help.

Purchase of equipment for kindergarten.

1934 Purchase of backdrop for stage in Powell Ave. School to improve acoustics.

Purchase of radio-phonograph for the school. Purchase of velvet curtains for stage. Book awards started to classes having highest attendance of parents at PTA meetings.

1937-45 Purchase of outdoor play equipment.

Purchase of movie projector. Insurance on it paid by PTA

1940 Purchase of books for Powell Ave. School.
1944-47 Purchase of two pictures for each classroom.

Award of two effort prizes each year for 8th grade graduation. Purchase of victrola records for school.

1948-50 Monthly teenage dances.
1950 Purchase of musical instrument for school use.
1951 Purchase of lectern for Broadway School.
1952 Purchase of picture library for Powell Ave. School.
1953 Establishment of the Bethpage PTA Scholarship Fund with a contribution of $100.


History of Bethpage Parent-Teacher Associations
Name Date Found
Central Park PTA 1926
Bethpage PTA 1936
Bethpage PTA's Scholarship Fund June 1953
Bethpage H.S. PTA June 10, 1954
Bethpage Elementary PTA became 1954
Powell Avenue PTA 1955
Pine Ave. PTA June 1955
Central Blvd. PTA Dec. 1955
Kramer Lane PTA June 1957
Bethpage Council of PTA's 1957
Junior High School PTA 1959
Bloomingdale PTA June 1959


PTA Origins
Central Park Mothers' Club 1922
became
Central Park PTA 1926
which became
Bethpage PTA 1936
which became
Bethpage Elementary PTA 1954
which became
Powell Avenue PTA 1955
which became
Broadway Elementary PTA 1960
which became
Charles Campagne PTA 1962


The need was realized by parents of children with special needs to organize and establish a Special Education PTA (SEPTA) in the Bethpage School District. A difficult undertaking in the beginning, but under the leadership of Judy Caputo we succeeded. On January 20th, 1976, with the assistance of the Nassau PTA leadership, Lori Aragona, Lillian Antonucci, Ann Albertson, Kathy Preziosi, Ann Galneck and Judy Caputo became charter members of Bethpage Special Education PTA.

The purpose of SEPTA is to support the parent and the child with special needs.

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