70th Anniversary Celebration

Friday, May 4, 2018

Auditorium at the Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau

380 Washington Avenue, Roosevelt, NY

“Through the Years “ —Song Dedicated to CP Nassau

www.cpnassau.org

I can’t remember when you weren’t there So many people care

To make this a better place. Even though we have some obstacles

We achieve our goals And it’s all because of you.

Through the years you never let us down You turned our lives around

The best times that we’ve had have been right here Through the years the laughter and the tears

You’ve helped us calm our fears And learn so many things

We did it all through the years. I can’t remember what I used to do

Everything was blue Before I came to you

Now I’m stronger than I ever knew It’s all because of you

The things I’ve learned I’ve learned at CPN.

CREATION Singers

Mary Corbett

Melissa Herrera

Sara Ozol

Noelle Schwarz

David Tindal

Alyssa Wasserman

Chris Wawrzonek

Robbie Zafiratos

Riva Zinno

Staff:

Maura Wachsberger

Billy Gaines

Ariel Lopez Lopez

Takiyah McGuire

Abibi O’Campo

Jessica Persaud

Mario Reyes

Dontay Robinson

Elizabeth Shadood

Roberto Velasquez

Staff members in Chorus:

Will Lowry

Francette Holland

Tiffany Lightfoot

Sherry Floyd

Kai Grant

CHILDREN’S Learning Center

Chorus—Led by Jen Green

Ashly Aguilar Lopez

Jelfy Arimendy-Araceria

Arileydi Baez-DeJesus

Shaun Bermeo

Da’Vonta Calhoun

Kymani Elliot

Esteban Enriquez

Frank Gonzalez

Hadiya Hickman

Andre Jenkins

Jayleen Lane

The Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County

70th Anniversary Celebration

9:30 am—10:00 am

Continental Breakfast

Pledge of Allegiance CLC students, Jayleen Lane and Takiyah McGuire God Bless America Creation and the Children’s Learning Center Chorus with signing by Juliana Zizzo

Welcome Robert McGuire, CP Nassau Executive Director

Presentations A Love Story—Cathy Alloy

A Mother’s Wish Comes True - Will Abel and family A Father’s Dream Day—the McAlinden/Popolizio family MOVE (Mobility Opportunities Via Education)

Remarks Bob Masterson President, Exec. VP, Board of Directors Mary Lou Zizzo, President, Council of Auxiliaries 50+ year volunteers Micki Saracino, Council of Auxiliaries Volunteers who have given 50 plus years of service will be recognized Program Participants Six individuals enrolled at the Agency in 1949 still in the program will be recognized Tommy Stallone

Charlie Warren Mark Conroy Walter Weiss Jeannie Billello, speaking on behalf of group Maureen Carpenter

CLC Student Kymani Elliot

Closing Songs Creation and the Children’s Learning Center Chorus

Cutting of Anniversary Cake

Tours of CP Nassau

The Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County

CP Nassau is an independent, non-profit health agency serving over 1,500

children and adults with cerebral palsy, developmental and other

disabilities. The association, founded in 1948, operates a comprehensive

Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Roosevelt, NY that has earned

international recognition for innovative and high-quality programs. CP

Nassau is a total therapeutic community meeting the needs of individuals

with disabilities from birth through their senior years.

MOVE (Mobility Opportunities Via Education) at CLC

You can witness many exciting examples of progress at CLC in the Mobility

Opportunities Via Education (MOVE) curriculum.

MOVE's Mission is to improve the overall quality of an individual's life

regardless of age or disability; to provide for fuller participation at home,

school, work and community environments and to promote the

belief that movement is the foundation of learning that lays the

cornerstone in building an individual's personal dignity.

Think about this from a student's perspective, participation in

MOVE means:

•I have the ability to move about rather than sit in my wheelchair.

•I have choices of daily activities that I can actively participate in.

•I can effectively communicate and interact with staff and my peers.

I can look them in the eye!

10:00 am

Ceremony

Take a Trip Down Memory Lane—

books compiled by Council of Auxiliaries Members

Make sure you stop by our Anniversary scrapbook table while you are here!

See interesting news clippings, photos, brochures and

more from over the years. Also take a took at the com-

pilation of letters written in celebration of the 70th

Anniversary from friends, staff, participants and

volunteers from today and yesteryear!

We will add your letter to the collection if you write and send one!

Hope You Got to See our 70 Day Video Countdown! It Started on February 24, 2018 In celebration of the CP Nassau 70th anniversary, we wanted to share info with our community and the world about the programs and people in our Agency and progress that CP Nassau has helped bring about since 1948. Agency history was visited and new, innovative programs such as MOVE were featured. A selection of personal interviews were included too. You can view the videos here today and they will be repeated on our Facebook page along with lots of new footage about the latest happen-ings at CP Nassau. If you have not done so already, please LIKE us on Facebook! www.Facebook.com/cpnassau

Check Out the Decorated ANNIVERSARY Doors in the Adult Day Services Area and Vote for Your Favorite Participants and staff have been working hard and using all their creativity to decorate the doors in their area! The Door Decorating contest between all Adult Day Services (ADS) Programs: Group Site-Based Day Hab (GSBDH), Life Options (LO), Oceanside, and Wantagh Hub.

17 Doors will be judged in 6 categories, with a winner in each category. All guests today are invited to vote for “People’s Choice. “

Choose your favorite door and drop a voting slip in the voting bag located outside the door you choose. Results to be announced 5/7.

CLC Classrooms as well as program offices are being very creative with a music/art/television theme through the decades on the doors and hallways. (School is not part of the voting though!)

ROCK Scroll of Honor:

We are grateful to these schools

for the sharing of time and talents in decorating rocks:

Babylon Memorial Grade School, Babylon

Freeport High School, Freeport

Garden City High School, Garden City

John F. Kennedy High School, Bellmore

Valley Stream Central High School, Valley Stream

Walt Whitman High School, South Huntington

Zucker Medical School/Hofstra University

Hempstead

Many people worked on a commemoration of CP Nassau’s 70th

anniversary in a fun, creative way: by painting and decorating a

collection of inspirational rocks to celebrate the solid foundation so

many have helped build over these seven decades!!

Staff, program participants, students, volunteers and other friends of

the Agency synergized to make a unique collection of over 500 rocks!

Seven local schools shared their time and talents! Make sure to pick

one up during your visit today as a unique souvenir of our 70th

Anniversary Celebration.

A ROCK SOLID COMMUNITY!

Our GIANT Starfish:

As you may know, we have adopted the “Starfish Story” as our philosophy here. The premise of this story by Loren Eisley is that everyone can make a difference one person at a time! With great thanks and appreciation to John Seery, CP Nassau Board Member and owner of Old Mill Nurseries, we now have a 10 foot starfish created entirely of rocks at the entrance to our building! (Photo on cover!)

Thank you so much John!