LibGuides: Freeport Authors: Z

Zaluski, John

John Zaluski donated copies of his poems that were published in periodicals to the library in 2021.

[Biography by Author]

John Zaluski moved to Freeport in 1980. After working for many years in the corporate world in Manhattan, he made a midlife career change, becoming a business librarian, and later a public librarian. He worked as a reference librarian at Freeport Memorial Library for 15 years. He is currently an officer and trustee of the Freeport Historical Society.

Zarchy, Harry

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Harry Zarchy wrote dozens of how-to-craft books starting in 1941. He was a fine arts (painting, photography, stagecraft) teacher in primarily in James Madison High School and Martin Van Buren High School, for 36 years. He retired from teaching in 1972. He was born in New York, the eldest of three of Russian-Jewish immigrants and graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Pratt Institute and New York University.

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Zielenziger, Michael

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Michael Zielenziger, a Freeport High School graduate in 1973, is a visiting scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies, U.C. Berkeley and was the Tokyo based bureau chief for Knight Ridder until 2003 (7 years). After 9/11, he spent a great deal of time in Asia. He was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University in 1991 and studied at its Graduate School of Business. He is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He wrote for the Chicago Sun Times, the Kansas City Star and was the first Pacific Rim Correspondent for the San Jose Mercury News.

Shutting Out the Sun by Michael Zielenziger
Call Number: LI R 305.8 Z
ISBN: 0385513038
Publication Date: 2006-09-19
The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as troubling are the more than one million young men who shut themselves in their rooms, withdrawing from society, and the growing numbers of “parasite singles,” the name given to single women who refuse to leave home, marry, or bear children. InShutting Out the Sun, Michael Zielenziger argues that Japan’s rigid, tradition-steeped society, its aversion to change, and its distrust of individuality and the expression of self are stifling economic revival, political reform, and social evolution. Giving a human face to the country’s malaise, Zielenziger explains how these constraints have driven intelligent, creative young men to become modern-day hermits. At the same time, young women, better educated than their mothers and earning high salaries, are rejecting the traditional path to marriage and motherhood, preferring to spend their money on luxury goods and travel. Smart, unconventional, and politically controversial,Shutting Out the Sunis a bold explanation of Japan’s stagnation and its implications for the rest of the world.

Zimmerman, Charles J.

Biography by Cynthia J Krieg, Village Historian

Charles J. Zimmerman retired from the Wantagh School District where he taught art. He was the historian for the Village of Freeport and the curator of the Freeport Historical Society Museum. As the latter, he reorganized the displays and artifacts. He also was a member of the Landmarks Commission. He was a frequent contributor of articles on the history of Freeport to the Freeport Leader. He owned two businesses in Freeport: the Sportsman’s Café on Woodcleft Avenue and a card gift shop, the Remembrance Shoppe, on Merrick Road. He now lives in Albany, New York.

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