Freeport Authors: C

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Homer A. Cable was the city and assignments editor of Stars and Stripes, the international serviceman’s newspaper.  He was the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Al. B. White, the vaudevillians and owners of Al B. White’s restaurant on Brooklyn Avenue.  Their daughter was Mary Jane Cable, a graduate of Freeport High School.

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Anna Jean Cacciatore pursued her Master’s degree in history at NYU.  She taught social studies in Baldwin and Freeport high schools.  She was active in community affairs and served as a trustee on the board of the Village of Freeport.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Jeannette Franklin Caines was employed by Harper & Row Publishers in New York.  She was a member of the Coalition of 100 Black Women and the Negro Business and Professional Women of Nassau County.  In Freeport, she sat on the Board of Trustees of the Freeport Memorial Library, was a member of and councilwoman at Christ Lutheran Church, and served on the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army.  She wrote a column for the Freeport EOC newspaper and was a member of C.O.A.C. (Council on Adoptable Children.) She moved to Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

An author, educator, coach and health enthusiast, Patrick Carolan was a member of Nassau Community College’s Health and Physical Education Department.  He was involved in both national and international programs of sports oriented activities, was an official in intercollegiate and amateur track and field and president of the National Junior College Athletic Association Track and Field Coaches Association.  In 1972, he lived in Freeport.

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

GregoryS.Carr finished his B.S. Degree in 2002 from Nyack College in organizational management.  His desire to work with children led him to substitute teach in his hometown of Freeport as well as Roosevelt and Uniondale.  His students enjoyed hearing stories so he made up a scary one.  The students were extremely responsive and he decided to commit it to paper and have it published.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Leo Carrillo was born in California to a prominent family who traced its roots back to the conquistadores.  A college graduate, he became an actor in vaudeville, played Broadway and made over 90 films.  He was most famous for playing Pancho, the sidekick of Duncan Reynaldo’s Cisco Kid, on television from 1950-1956.  On his Wilson Avenue property, built in 1917, he maintained a two acre zoo of fur bearing animals.  He was one of the founders of the LIGHTS Club in Freeport.

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Dr. Phyllis Carter is the wife of Bishop Ronald H. Carter, Pastor of the Refuge Church of Christ at 106 Broadway.  She is a counselor, clergy person and educator.  In 2004, she was ordained and installed as pastor of the Refuge Apostolic Church of Christ and is also the dean of counseling of the Refuge Bible Institute.  She has a B.S. in sociology from Southeastern University in Greenville, South Carolina (1978) and a M.S. in counseling from St. John’s (1984).  She also earned an Master’s of Divinity from the New York Theological Seminary in 1984.  She holds a post graduate certification in marriage and family therapy.  Her doctorate in divinity is from New York Theological Seminary.  She has a private practice in marriage and family therapy.  An adjunct professor at Nyack College, Carter also supervises interns at Hofstra University.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Dr. David Cassidy was born in Richmond, Virginia, and earned his B.A. in English and physics in 1967 and his M.A. in physics in 1970 from Rutgers University.  His Ph.D. (1976) is from Purdue University in physics.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Berkeley and a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Stuttgart, Germany.  He is a professor in the Natural Science Department of Hofstra University where he has coordinated a number of courses on physical science for nonscience students.  He wrote a historical essay for the Lawson translation of Albert Einstein’s Relativity : Special and General Theory.  He has held teaching positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Purdue, German universities and Boston University.  He is also an adjunct professor at SUNY Stony Brook.

Marcia Caton is the author of My Babysitter Is a Smartphone.  She donated a copy of her book to the library in June 2021.

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Originally from Freeport, Dan Celentano graduated with a degree in psychology and sociology from Yankton College in South Dakota.  In 1975, he established "Operation Aware" for sixth grade students to help cut juvenile crime.  The program expanded nation wide.  The Ranch Program in Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota was created in 1996.  Later, he formed Up to You, Inc. which focused on the special needs of ninth graders and the important issue of "self concept."  He also works closely with the New York Foundling Mott Haven Prevention Program, which is based in the South Bronx, New York.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

A Mexican citizen, Walter Chisholm was born in Costa Rica, and was educated in agriculture and food in his homeland.  After receiving his master’s degree, he attended Humboldt University of Berlin and earned his PhD in agriculture in 1989.  He worked as a professor of food science in a college in Mexico.  He now works as a manager in an industrial bakery.  He primarily writes in Spanish but speaks fluent English and German.

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Denise Shelly-Ann is the author of Quiet Speak Someone Will Listen. She donated a copy of her book to the library in September 2021.

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Headstrong, determined, driven, and passionate are just a few words that can be used to describe Denise Shelly-ann Clarke. This lovely human was born and raised In a rural area of Jamaica, where all the abuse took place.  She was just a girl, A girl who wanted to live a normal life with a normal family. Mama's favorite child and Daddy's little princess. Little did she know that daddy had other ways of showing her his love.

She migrated to the United States 8 years ago and resides with her husband and 4 children. After overcoming adversity and trauma, she has managed to pull herself out of the pain and suffering that it caused and has steered her life onto the right path.

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This book will teach children where to find help if they're going through a trauma or had a traumatic event in the past. Children are the light of their parents. Their hearts and minds are so pure, like a clean slate. They can be molded however life exposes them – be it happiness or sadness. That slate is in the hands of the parents/guardians to ensure they get the best upbringing, thereby shaping their personalities as examples for other parents.

However, life is not the same for everyone, and that is how every child receives exposure differently. For those unfortunate children whose parents neglect them, or those children who have been the victim of someone’s wrongdoing, scarring them for life – those are the kids that need to be looked after and taken care of more than others. It is the sole responsibility of the parents/guardians to ensure their children have a positive outlook on life.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

George C. Colyer was born in Brooklyn and his family moved out to Freeport when he was one.  A graduate of Freeport High School in 1906, he participated in baseball and football as well as debate and the student literary magazine.  After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1911 with a degree in dentistry, he continued his studies in the Philadelphia Post-Graduate School of Dentistry.  He returned to Freeport where he practiced dentistry for a number of years.

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

John Condenzio was born in Far Rockaway and moved to Freeport in 1963.  After graduating from Freeport High School in 1972, he attended Adelphi University where he studied archaeology, ancient mythology, and Latin.  He mainly worked in construction and was an athlete in high school.  He has written articles for Horror Writer Magazine.  In 1999, he moved to Cape Coral, Florida.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

William F. Cornell was born in Brooklyn, was a broker and a Freeport Village Trustee from 1935-1940.  He also was a fire chief.  His wife, Leone Smith Bedell, was the daughter of Jay F. Bedell, Village Police Justice and Trustee.

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Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

T. Glen Coughlin grew up in Freeport a few blocks from the fishing boats.  He loved to fish and clam.  At 15, he worked as a butcher’s apprentice and joined the meat-cutter’s union.  In high school he worked the 4 to midnight shift cutting up chickens and mixing chop meat.  He had four siblings, his father was a NYPD detective, and his mother worked at the Freeport Memorial Library.  Coughlin said he majored in auto mechanics and handball.  He graduated from Freeport High School in 1976.  He went to Hofstra University and wrote a short story that won a $100 prize and he switched his major from business to English.  After graduating from Hofstra, he attended Columbia’s Masters of Fine Arts program.  He was employed by the Department of Justice as a narcotics agent and moved to New Orleans.  In 2000 he lived in Manalapan, New Jersey.  He also wrote a screenplay, “Brown Season” for Twentieth Century Fox, in 1991.

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