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PRESIDENTBob Livoti(516) 579-1195e-mail: gotsha@aol.com1 st VICE PRESIDENTJames Baralo(516) 579-7792e-mail: JimBar47@aol.com2 ND VICE PRESIDENTGeorge Maher(516) 781-2671e-mail: EILGEOMAR@aol.comRECORDING SECRETARYRichard Scibilia(516) 626-1569FINANCIAL SECRETARYVic Dolgos(516) 747-0138ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED POLICE OFFICERSTREASURERAl Livoti(516) 731-7768JUDGE ADVOCATELiam Twomey(516) 674-6100CHAPLAINRay Leonhard(516) 747-7513e-mail: ncpd902@yahoo.comSERGEANT-AT-ARMSAl Bonfardino(516) 538-8248Edward Wahl(516) 579-6592ATTORNEYJoseph D. Meares(516) 249-0040TRUSTEESBlair Beaudet(631) 261-9686George Reiber(516) 887-7390Greg Vazquez(516) 796-4523QUARTERMASTERJim Baralo(516) 579-7792HISTORIANGeorge Maher(516) 781-2671EDITORBob Livoti(516) 579-1195ADVERTISING CONSULTANTDave Fischer(516) 922-4115ARPO QUARTERMASTER ORDER SHEETCHECK YOUR CHOICE AND QUANITY AND MAIL THIS ORDER FORM WITH YOUR CHECKPAYABLE TO ARPO, TO THE ARPO QUARTERMASTER AT THE ADDRESS LISTED BELOWARPO “T” SHIRT NAVY BLUE WITH ARPO COLOR LOGO LG XL XXL XXL $10.00 _____ARPO SWEAT SHIRT STONE COLOR WITH ARPO COLOR LOGO LG XL $15.00 _____ARPO WINTER HAT NAVY BLUE DELUXE EMBROIDED ARPO LOGOARPO SUMMER HAT NAVY BLUE DELUXE EMBROIDED ARPO LOGO$10.00 _____$ 8.00 _____ARPO EMBROIDED FIVE COLOR 3 1⁄2” PATCH(CAN BE SEWN ON SHIRTS, JACKETS OR HAT) $ 4.00 _____ARPO COMPUTER CD “HISTORY OF THE NASSAU COUNTYPOLICE DEPARTMENT”ARPO LOGO TIE TAC/LAPEL PIN$ 6.00 _____$ 5.00 _____TOTAL $__________Shipping & Handling $ 4.00TOTAL AMOUNT ENCLOSED $___________NAME ________________________________________________________________ PHONE_____________________________ADDRESS__________________________________________________________________________________________________CITY___________________________________________________________________ STATE__________ ZIP____+__________MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO ARPO AND MAIL TO:JAMES BARALO, ARPO QUARTERMASTER853 MAYER DRIVEWANTAGH, NY 11793-1124 Phone (516) 579-7792ARPO September 2011 3

Presidents Message...........................................Bob LivotiHope you had a nice summer off. We probably all gaineda few pounds from all those BBQ’s we went to.Say hello to our new members that we took on in June,Adele Burke, Howard Charney, Robert Hoehn, Jr, Daniel LaRusso,Patrick McGrath, John Mullaney, John Pescatore and Laura Sistiand Ron Zimmer. I’d like to welcome you all to ARPO and hopeto see you at some of our meetings.Received a letter from Cliff Buttermark and Cliff alsosent us a donation which I would like to thank him for and he alsosent a little article from his local newspaper. Cliff received anaward from the Pomfret Ct Lions Club, making him "The Citizenof the Year 2010." Cliff received the much deserved award forbeing such a great volunteer in Pomfret, CT. Since his retirement,he has served as the Justice of the Peace for almost 20 years, avolunteer for over 15 years at his local Food Bank and HomelessShelter and the list goes on and on of all the organizations hevolunteers at. He really is a great volunteer worker. You can readall about him in the article in this issue.Back a few months ago, I did the HR218 qualificationcourse over at Mitchel Field with the company that gives ARPOmembers a discount. A nice group of people from SCPD run thecourse and you are in and out of there with no fuss, no muss andno hassle. The course goes as smooth as clock work. Too bad ourown department doesn’t offer it. The county is missing out onmaking thousands of dollars giving the course.Where else do you go to a meeting to see old friends,catch up on the latest gossip and find out what is going on forretirees, have something to snack on before the meeting and thenhave your fill of pizza or hero’s after the meeting and then gohome with a goody bag? Only place that happens is at an ARPOmeeting. Thanks to Dave Fischer who brings in all those take-mehomeitems ranging from light bulbs to pens and pencils and a bagto take it home in!I get a lot of requests for more AARP Driving Classesthan I can handle. The problem is that I’m away most of the winterand I try and squeeze in as many classes that I can do from Aprilto January but I just have so much time that I can devote to thesethings. How about one of you becoming an AARP Driving ClassInstructor? If you have ever taken the course you can become aninstructor by taking a 6 hour course and then keep active by doingat least 3 courses during the year. You don’t get paid for it, butyou are serving the community and friends by giving the courses.If we had another instructor, we could schedule more classes forour members. If you would like to become an instructor and helpout, let me know and I’ll set things up for you. It would be nice tohave someone pitch in and do courses while I’m away during thewinter months.AARP Driving ClassThere will an AARP Driving Course on Friday, September2 at 10 AM at the PBA office in Mineola. For an application, senda stamped, self-addressed business size envelope to: Bob Livoti,AARP, 245 Sprucewood Dr., Levittown, NY 11756. Class size islimited so send for your application ASAP.Notes from Dave….I hope everyone had a good summer and withthat I want to thank our advertisers who without their continuedsupport this fine newsletter would not be possible. I also want tothank the following: Alex, Alex & Vadim and the staff at BagelMaster in Syosset for their great bagels served at all meetings, theHon. Frank Trotta, President/Publisher of 50+ lifestyles magazinefor their copies provided for all meetings and to a great groupof recruiters at the recruitment center in Delco plaza, Hicksvillefirst for their service to our country and for the knick knacks forour members. Thank you for knick knacks to: Chris Hogan ofOyster Bay, Lee Gerstein of Hearing Health Associates, the LongIsland Radio Group KJOY Rep/Coordinator Keith Scoponich forK/K and raffles items, to the CVS/Caremark corp managers,EricO’Connor, Lee Meyer, Jennifer Veillux and Bonnie Eastham fortheir great knick knacks as well. Jesse Vinson client relations mgrfor BeneCard located in Lawrenceville, NJ, to Larry Burkart andhis staff at Modells in East Meadow, the Bifulco family of AllWeather Tires in Huntington who again remind members of theirspecial discount, see Gary and tell him I sent you. Mike Espositomgr and Rena Barkouras A/mgr at TD bank in Farmingdalefor their K/K and to Xia Leto mgr at TD bank in Hicksvilleto Jeraldine Fedoriw supervisor with Gurwin Jewish Nursing& Rehab in Commack and Shawn Lockwood mgr and NicoleMahecha a/mgr at Bethpage Fed Credit in Melville,,to Joe Livoti(no relation) mgr at Citibank in Old Brookville, Julian Huertasmgr at TD bank in Westbury, and to Matt Allgauer, mgr at MillersAle House in Levittown who reminds members of their SPECIALDISCOUNT (with proper I.D. as ARPO member).....thank you forknick knacks to:Karen Sprague mgr TD bank Commack, LI Ducksorg and Lauren Brady, Donna Callegari mgr Bethpage FCU, Scott& Chris @ Modells, Rosedale, Carl mgr Modells, Westbury, DomTrovato mgr TD Bank, Roslyn and Brian Christophersen @ DavisVision, a shout out to the P.I.O. department of NCPD, Det. MikeBitsko and Det. Vinny Garcia for a great job they do. Last but notleast, with cooperation of Maureen O’Connell, Nassau CountyClerk and her Rep Patrick Casey, they will be our special guestat the OCTOBER 12th meeting...bring your DD214 (HonorableDischarge Certificate) and they will scan it and then record it in therecords of Nassau County and send you (2) certified copies of theDD214 and give you an I.D. card at the meeting which identifiesyou as an honorably discharged Veteran which will give youdiscounts at over 100 Nassau county businesses...remember, theOCTOBER 12th meeting, bring DD214.....also do not forget ourfirst meeting back from summer, SEPTEMBER 14 th . BE THEREor you are missing out. You will all go home with a nice GOODYBAG......stay healthy and BEAT THE SYSTEM! 10-44 ARPO September 2011

Nassau County’s Own Haunted Houseby Bob LivotiPOPPER THE POLTERGEISTStrange Happenings on New York's Long Islandby Troy TaylorTroy Taylor is an occultist, supernatural historian and the author of 82 books on ghosts, hauntings, history, crime and the unexplainedin America. He is also the founder of the American Ghost Society and the owner of the Illinois and American Hauntings Tour.Editors note: I didn’t know or work with Joe Tozzi, but a lot of you out there probably did. One of the guys at the June meeting gaveme an article he printed out from the Internet about Joe and the poltergeist house in Seaford. I did some research on it and also onJoe and came up with a lo t of th ings. When Jo e was on th e jo b, he wa s in volved in q uite a few ca ses on the job tha t ma de Lifemagazine, Time magazine and a lot of newspapers. It’s all very interesting to read and if you have a computer, you should take thetime to read about many of the exploits of Det. Joe Tozzi while he was on the job. After he retired, he took on a job as Chief of Policein Colleyville, Texas. Joe Tozzi pa ssed away November 14, 2003 at 78 after a battle with cancer. Tozzi served as Police Chief ofColleyville from 1976 through 1984. His career in law enforcement spanned a fifty year period including Nassau County Detective,service with the DFW Police and Security and Chief of Colleyville Police. Now, onto one of his famous cases while he was assignedto the 7th Squad taken from an article by Troy Taylor:In 1958, a series of ghostly events that were occurring on Long Island, New York transfixed television viewers and readersall over the country. A house belonging to a family named Herrmann was being beset by strange and inexplicable incidents that wereattributed to a ghost who was dubbed “Popper” (for reasons that will so on become obvious). But what was really happening in thehouse? An unseen force from beyond, or something else?The “Popper” case remains unique in the annals of the supernatural today for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is thefact that this became the first haunting that was actually s hown on television. Wide-eyed audiences all across the country stared attheir television screens in amazement as Popper literally performed for the cameras. These films became the ghost’s claim to fame, butwere not the first incidents to take place in the Herrmann house.Popper first made himself known at around 3:30 in the afternoon of February 3, 1958. The James Herrmann family lived inSeaford, New York, a suburb on Long Island, about 30 miles from New York City. Their white and green ranch-style home had beenbuilt in 1953 and con tained three bedrooms, a b athroom, a k itchen, a small d ining room, a liv ing ro om an d a basement th at wasdivided between a utility room and a playroom. In other words, it was a typical 1950’s-era home in a quiet, conservative neighborhoodwith public parks and tree-lined streets. It was the last place that you would expect anything out of the ordinary to occur.That February 3 was a day like most any other. It was clear and cold outside and Mrs.Lucille Herrmann, a registered nurse, was there to welcome her children home from schooland to prepare dinner. The children were Lucille, 13, and James, 12, two ordinary kids withordinary interests. Their ordinary world, however, was about to change!Soon after the two Herrmann children entered the kitchen, chaos erupted in the house! Inmoments, various bottles containing liquid (in different rooms of the house) suddenly beganto pop their caps and dance around. No one saw the bottles move or explode, but all of themheard the caps as they popped loose and the bottle’s contents went spewing into the air.They would later disc over an opened bottle of bleach in the basement utility room, a bottle of liquid starch in the kitchen,bottles of shampoo and medicine in the bathroom and a bottle of holy wate r that had opened i n t he master b edroom. E ach o f t hebottles had been sealed with twist-off typ e metal or plastic caps and there were no corks or crimped caps that might have somehowcome loose. Puzzled, Mrs. Herrmann called her husband, who worked for Air France in New York City, and reported the strange“popping” sounds they had heard and the opened bottles. Herrmann was just as confused by the incident as his wife was, but as no onehad been hurt by the “explosions”, he decided that he would not leave work early and come home. Following his usual schedule,Herrmann took the train to Long Island and arrived home just before 7:00 PM. During his commute, he pondered his wife’s call andwas sure that he had a solution for the mystery. He believed that some sort of chemical reaction in the products had caused the bottlelids to blow and the fact that they did so at the same time was merely a coi ncidence. Perhaps it had been caused by some sort ofexcessive humidity in the house? He quickly investigated the bottles when he arrived home and confessed to being baffled when hefound that they were screw-top lids. How could they have simply popped off?ARPO September 2011 5

Thankfully though, the excitement over the event had calmed down and th e Herrmann’s gave no indicatio n of being upset.With that in mind, they decided to just write the whole experience off as “just one of those funny things.” Two uneventful days passedafter that and the popping bottles were almost forgotten.Then, on Thursday, and once again at about the same time that the Herrmann children came home from school, another halfdozen bottles popped their lids. A bottle of nail polish burst open, as di d a bottle of rubbing alcohol, a bottle of bl each, detergent,starch and even the holy water. It was an almost exact repeat performance of February 3!On Friday night, it h appened again! Only this time, when the bottles began to pop open, James Herrmann began to suspectthat h e knew the cu lprit resp onsible for t he m ultiple co ntainers’ strange b ehavior. He su rmised th at h is scien ce-loving son hadsomehow rigged the bottles to pop to scare his family. He thought that perhaps some carbonated capsules might have been planted byhis clever son and timed so that he could get home from school in time to see the startled expression on his mother’s face.As he developed this theory, Herrmann spent the entire weekend secretly observing his son. He was determined to catch himin some action that might give away his plans. So it’s no wonder that he was s o surprised on Sunday morning, February 9, whenseveral caps popped off bottles of starch , turpentine and ho ly water and left their containers rocking back and forth on th e shelves!Herrmann had kept a cl ose eye o n James Jr., so how could the boy have managed to put something inside of the bottles? Even so,Herrmann burst in to t he bathroom, w here James Jr. w as brushing his t eeth, an d he accu sed th e boy o f rigg ing th e bottles to po p.Needless to say, h is so n vigorously p rotested h is innocence and as if t o p rove th e point, Herrmann was startled to see a bo ttle ofmedicine suddenly move across the top of the sink and fall into the basin! A moment later, a bottle of shampoo also moved across thesink and fell with a thud to the floor!Still skeptical, Herrmann immediately examined the bathroom, searching for h idden wires or strings. He foun d nothing andfinally realized that there were things going on in the house that he could not explain. Unsure of what else to do, he called the policeand spent the next several minutes on the phone trying to get the officer who answered the call to take him seriously. When he heardthe story, the officer first accused Herrmann of either playing a practical joke or drinking too much, but he was soon swayed by thetone of the man’s voice. Herrmann did, in fact, have a very good reputation in the community and because of this, the officer promisedto send a patrolman to investigate.The patrolman w ho ans wered t he cal l, Ja mes Hu ghes, went t o t he h ouse very s keptical an d perhaps w ondering how hemanaged to wind up with the nutcase calls. Within a few minutes though, he had changed his mind about the nature of the case... whenseveral bottles in the bathroom popped their lids and fired them in his direction! He quickly concluded that the Herrmann’s did indeedneed help.Detective Joseph Tozzi was assigned to l ook into the ca se. He read Hughes’ report of the incidents in the bathroom withinterest and while not willing to pass judgment on the case without actually visiting the scene, he was relatively sure the Herrmann’swere experiencing some natural phenomenon or were simply hallucinating. Or, he noted with the cynicism of a veteran police officer,the popping bottles were getting some help a human source.On February 11, Detective Tozzi began his vigil at the Herrmann house. That same evening, a perfume atomizer overturnedand spilled perfume in the daughter’s bedroom. There was no one in the room at the time, according to reports. Over the next few days,the disturbances seemed to cen ter around the bottle of holy water in th e bedroom. On several occasions, the lid of the bottle poppedoff and once, after hearing the distinctive sound, Mr. Herrmann dashed into the bedroom and found the bottle on the floor. He pickedit up and found it strangely warm to the touch.Later t hat sam e d ay, on February 15 , th e poltergeist activ ity to ok ano ther t urn. As t he Herrm ann ch ildren were watchingtelevision in the living room with Marie Murtha, a middle-aged cousin of James Herrmann, a porcelain figure actually rose up off thecoffee table and hovered in the air. It moved several inches and then fell to the rug.After this last demonstration, the Herrmann’s decided to turn to another source of comfort to aid the stumped Detective Tozziin his investigations. They contacted Father William McLeod of the Church of St. William the Abbott for help. As devout Catholics,the Herrmann’s believed that the church could possibly help them where ordinary methods had failed. Father McLeod came to thehouse and sprinkled holy water in each of the rooms, blessing the building. Unfortunately though, “Popper” as the poltergeist came tobe called had decided that he didn’t want to leave!During the two weeks since Popper had made his first appearance in the Herrmann house, news of the strange happeningshad leaked to newspapers, radio and television reports. The story received a great deal of publicity and the onslaught of m edia andpublic attention became worse than any antics that the ghost could dream up. During the day, the Herrmann home was surrounded byreporters, photographers, curiosity-seekers and an astounding array of television equipment (especially for these days of e arly TV).While the Herrmann’s managed to get used to these intrusions into their lives, they weren’t quite prepared for some of the strangenessthat came with it.Letters and telep hone calls ca me every day. Many of them proposed logical solutions, while others assured the Herrmann’sthat Martians had landed nearby or that the problem in the house was the spirit of a long -dead Indian chief or that the Russians weretunneling under Long Island to invade New York. The Herrmann’s managed to stay patient with everyone though. They never turnedanyone away an d th ey listen ed atten tively to th e calls an d suggestions that cam e in, eve n those who shouted “R epent!” into thetelephone at midnight or proclaimed that “the Sputniks are here!”Many of the letters and visitors were not easy to remain patient with though. Letters arrived in barely intelligible scrawl,condemning the Herrmann’s for their sins and suggesting that they had invited these “tricks of Satan”. Ministers from all sorts of“faiths” conducted rituals on the front lawn of the house. One man in a blue serge suit, who claimed to be a “holy man from CenterMoriches”, knelt in the yard and prayed for ten minutes. The he stood and announced: “Everything is all right. You have beenforgiven”. With that, he left... but “Popper” remained.6 ARPO September 2011

But not all of the suggestions and helps were so bizarre. One man who came to the house, Robert Zider, was a physicist fromBrookhaven National Laboratory. He brought a set of dowsing rods with him and went over the property with them. When he wasfinished, he stated that he believed there were underground streams below the property, which might be affecting the house. Hethought that the water might be creating a “freak magnetic field”. Detective Tozzi examined this idea at length, but a geologicalsurvey suggested that the information was inaccurate.Tozzi considered it anyway th ough, as he did a ny othe r information that came along. His case files becam e thicker andthicker with added notes, observations, research and facts that he collected. He had checked with the Air Force and after studying theirflight plans, they had told him that sonic booms from passing jets could not have caused the disturbances. He also ruled out radiowaves by contacting the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The Long Island Lighting Company had set up a delicate oscilloscopein t he ba sement, but t hey had detected n o u nderground vibrations. Inspectors from t he T own of H empstead B uilding Departmentpronounced the house structurally sound. The Seaford Fire Department even inspected a well on the property to see if th e changes inwater l evel c ould be ca using t he di sturbances. However, t hey found t hat the water l evel had been stable for at least five years .Although puzzled, Tozzi remained determined and he tried valiantly to discover a source for the happenings.He finally found hope in a l etter from a w oman named Helen Connolly of R evere, Massachusetts. She wrote that she ha dexperienced a living room in her home where chairs and furniture moved about. She didn’t have a ghost in her house, but rather aheavy downdraft through he r fire place. When ca pped with a r otary metal turbine, t he flying ta bles and c hairs cea sed to fly. Mr.Herrmann immediately had one installed on his own chimney, convinced that the strangeness was finally coming to an end.But that wasn’t meant to be.... No sooner had the workmen completed the installation than a porcelain figure launched itselffrom a table and smashed against a desk! The figurine had managed to travel a distance of more than 12 feet! It left a dent on the woodthat was broadcast to television audiences all over New York.On February 20, events became even more violent. Another figure was smashed against the desk;a bottle of ink popped its screw cap, then sailed into the air and splashed its contents on the wall;and a sugar bowl flew off the table under the watch of Detective Tozzi. It had been close toJames Jr. but not within his reach. Needing a break, the Herrmann family spent the night with arelative. Tozzi stayed in the house, but the rest of the night passed without incident. When thefamily returned the next evening though, the sugar bowl again flew from the table and this time itshattered into pieces.On February 24, Tozzi was startled to his feet by the sound of a loud noise in James Jr.’s room. No one had been in the roomor near it, yet a large bookcase had managed to fall facedown onto the floor. The next night, while James was in the room doing hishomework, his record player lifted and moved 15 feet across the room. A small statue of the Virgin Mary flew more than 12 feet andstruck a mirror frame in the master bedroom. A bookcase filled with encyclopedias was upended. A heavy glass centerpiece from thedining room table flew up and stuck a cupboard, chipping away a piece of molding before falling to the floor. A world globe shotdown a hallway and just missed Detective Tozzi. A newspaper photographer named John Gold from the London Evening Newswitnessed his flashbulbs lift off a table and fly through the air to strike a wall. In addition, Popper had begun knocking on the walls toget attention, although no attempts to “communicate” with the ghost (if there was one) were ever made.Tozzi had become concerned about the new violence in the disruptions. Until that point, the activity had been limited topopping bottle tops. He had attempted every possible explanation that he could come up with and while he was not prepared to say thehouse was “haunted”, he was all out of fresh ideas. About this same time though, the staff of scientists at the ParapsychologyLaboratory at Duke University, North Carolina, became interested in the events reported in the Herrmann home. This group of men,under the leadership of Dr. J.B. Rhine had already compiled a mass of evidence that supported the idea that certain people, under theright circumstances, could influence the behavior of objects without touching them. They called it psychokinesis, or PK.As the disturbances on Long Island continued (and in fact, increased) Dr. Rhine’s assistant, Dr. J. Gaither Pratt, traveled toNew York and arrived at the Herrmann house on February 26. Pratt believed that someone in the house was unknowingly causing thestrange incidents to occur. Meanwhile, other researchers came to believe that the incidents in the house were being caused by an actualghost, a poltergeist, or “noisy spirit”. These prankster ghosts traditionally targeted religious items, as the disturbances had done withthe holy water and the Virgin Mary figure in the Herrmann house.On the other hand though, strong evidence remained for the idea that there was a human component behind the haunting. Ithad been noted by the Rhine researchers (and remember this was new and groundbreaking material at the time) that an adolescentchild, usually a girl, was almost always among the members of the household being plagued by poltergeist phenomena. They believedit possible that this young person might be capable of psychokinesis during the height of puberty. In every case though, this personmight manifest this without knowing, making them as bewildered as the adults around them. In the case of the Herrmann house, JamesJr. (according to Detective Tozzi’s notes) was at or near the scene of the poltergeist disturbance more than 75 percent of the time. Formany incidents, he was the sole witness. However, the detective had completely cleared the boy of faking or causing any of thedisturbances.Like the others who came before him, Dr. Pratt was welcomed into the Herrmann residence and greeted warmly. Heexplained that he had come as an observer and he spent most of the time there chatting with James Jr., playing cards with him, helpinghim with his homework and generally just being around the young man. There was no sign of strangeness during the visit.... Popperwas absolutely quiet.Pratt then summoned another colleague from North Carolina, William G. Roll. Together, they interviewed the familymembers and were convinced that none of them were perpetrating a hoax. “The family was much too shaken for it to be a colossalhoax,” Pratt told a United Press reporter.ARPO September 2011 7

Things were quite for the next several days, as though the poltergeist did not want to perform for the scientists. Then, onMarch 2, one month after Popper first arrived, he decided to make himself known again. All of the Herrmann’s were in the house towitness what took place. First, a dish vaulted from the kitchen cabinet and shattered on the floor. Then, a night table flipped over inJames’ room. Popper was back and yet there was still no explanation as to who, or what, he was. Two days later, a bowl of flowersslid down the dining room table and jumped into the air. A bookcase turned end over end in the cellar.But this would not be Popper’s “farewell performance”. That event would occur on March 10 while Mrs. Herrmann, James Jr.and Lucille were getting ready for bed (James Herrmann was away on business). Pratt and Roll suddenly heard a loud popping soundin the cellar and they hurried downstairs to see what it was. The found that a bleach bottle, sitting in a cardboard box, had somehowlost its plastic lid.For reasons unknown, this became the last act of the Herrmann family poltergeist. There had been a record of 67 recordeddisturbances between February 3 and March 10. Unbelievably, the Herrmann’s had been visited by detectives, building inspectors,electricians, plumbers, firemen, parapsychologists and half of the “nutcases” on the east coast and yet none of them had been able topresent a satisfactory explanation for what had occurred in their home.Weeks after the household returned to normal, “experts” still came to investigate and to theorize about what had taken place.As late as August 1985, the scientists at Duke still had no clue as to what had happened and why. By this time though, the Herrmann’shad had enough of investigations and just wanted their lives to get back to normal. James Herrmann no longer cared why thedisturbances had taken place, he was just happy they were over.Mrs. Herrmann told an Associated Press reporter: “I don’t think there is a definite solution. It was just one of those thingswith no rhyme or reason to it. But there was a definite physical force behind it.”And what did happen at the Herrmann house on Long Island? No one really knows, as these events remain as puzzling todayas they were in 1958!panies.The grand jury returned a 60 count indictmentagainst Ivan Jerome for pornographic evidenceof Jerome and up to 20 girls from the ages of 11to 17 having sex and being filmed at his house inMassapequa. Jerome skipped the country and bail of$100,000 and was never found again.Photo top left, Joe Tozzi being interviewed for Armstrong Circle Theater TV Show. Top right, IvanJerome being taken to arraignment in radio car. Lower left, Joe Tozzi as Chief of Police in Colleyville,Texas.. Lower right, Joe Tozzi escorting Governor Connoly and his wife on a trip to Nassau County.8 ARPO September 2011

RESIDENT SHARES ST ORIES OF LIFE LIVEDTO THEFULLEST By Jack Meltzer, Villager staff writer, Pomfret, CTof the repair control department for the Apollo 12 mission. Apollo12 was launched on November14, 1969, four months after the firstmoon landing of Apollo 11.At Grumman, he determined why and which parts weredefective. He had engineers inspect them and try to fix them. IfThey simply don’ t breed men like Clif ford Buttermarkanymore. Twenty years on the Nassau County Police Force,veteran of two wars, and working with engineers for the spacemodule Apollo 12, Buttermark is a rarity in society and truly froma different era.Now 93, Buttermark is retired and lives in PomfretCenter at Seely Brown Assisted Living and Senior Center . Whenhe's not there; he spends most of his days either volunteering atDay Kimball Hospital in Putnam, or receiving awards across thestate for being an outstanding citizen. The Lions Club of Putnamrecently named him Citizen of the Year at Positively PomfretDay.Buttermark volunteers Tuesdays and Fridays at DayKimball Hospital — where he has logged more than 2,000 hours.Furthermore, he served two terms of justice of the peace for thetown of Pomfret. He volunteered 15 years at the Access Food Bankin Danielson, 15 years the Emergency Housing in Danielson, andwas awarded Knight of the Blind for his charity work with thecollection of used eyeglasses and giving them to those who can'tafford new ones. He has been a member of the Pomfret Lions Clubfor 32 years."I've been fortunate," Buttarmark said. "I've been throughtwo wars, 20 years of police work, and I don't have a scratch onme. That's why I do so much volunteer work."they couldn't be fixed within 24 hours, Buttermark would backcharge that company and in six months, Buttermark recoveredmore than $700,000 for Grumman. "They liked that very much,the work I did at Grumman. Especially saving all that money ,"Buttermark said.In 1971, after three years with Grumman, Buttermark made hisway up to Connecticut by the way of research and development forHull Forest Products, where he created a library of timberland thatHFP still uses to this day.Buttermark has been a resident of the Pomfret area foralmost 40 years, and has been living in Seely Brown since 2008.He has a daughter who lives in Florida, a son who lives in NewHampshire. He has three granddaughters and two great-grandsons.None of Buttermark's lineage has followed in his engineeringfootsteps. "I feel pretty good," Buttermark said. "Hey, people thinkI'm 65 or 70 still. That's OK with me.Here is a list of some of Cliff’s Volunteerism: Cliff movedto Pomfret, CT from Long Island, NY in 1972. Before movinghere, he was a WWII and Korean War veteran, serving with theU.S. Navy as a Ship Fitter First Class. As a civilian. He was a shipBorn in Staten Island, N.Y . and a second-generationItalian-American, Buttermark was one of 15 kids, and recalls the fitter first class for three years, a Nassau County Police Of ficertime of the Great Depression very well. He remembers going to for 10 years in uniform and 10 years as a Detective. He retiredrent parties where everyone from the neighborhood would throw in 1968 after 20 years of service, went to Grumman Aerospacein $1 or a 50-cent piece to help your neighbor pay back rent. Herecalls memories of going to Curtis High School (Class of 1936),where they had 30 desks to a room and two students to a desk— totaling 60 students to a classroom with one teacher."Those were different times. Kids don’t know how theygot it now," Buttermark said. "At school, I took elocution classes,where they showed you how to escort a woman through a doorway ,how to set a table properly . Now you go to the restaurant and allCorporation, Long Island, NY, worked on the F14 Navy fighterplane and others. He also worked on the Lunar Module that landedmen on the moon on Apollo 12 on Nov. 14, 1969. In addition heserved 16 years as the Justice of the Peace for the Town of Pomfretfrom 1977-1993, volunteered 15 years serving at the Access FoodBank in Danielson, also 15 years serving at the Access HomelessShelter. He served 20 years at The Soup Kitchen which becamethe Community Kitchen. He is a 32 year member of the Pomfretthese kids are wearing baseball Florida, a caps son in who the lives restaurant. in New Hampshire. It's terrible. He Lion's has Club years and and was editor awarded of their Newsletter. "The Knight of the Blind" andThe year was 1929. Europe three was granddaughters in shambles. and Stockbrokers two great-grandsons. who None was Secretary At of present, the Lion's he has Club been two a Day years Kimball and Hospital editor of theirlost everything were jumping of Buttermark's out of windows. lineage has Families followed couldn't in his engineering Newsletter. volunteer with over 2,000 hours of working withpay the rent. Buttermark footsteps. said he remembers "I feel pretty watching good," Buttermark his father, said. a "Hey, special At present, education he has boys been and girls a Day over Kimball the last Hospital 6 years.building contractor, draw people out blue- think prints I'm 65 at or 70 the still. dinner That's table, OK and with me. volunteer For with the last over 6 years, 2,000 he hours has been of working the Secretary with special forhow influential that was on his Here life. is a list of some of Clif f’s Volunteerism: education recording boys and of burials girls over for the the Pomfret last 6 years. South For Cemetery. the last 6 years,By age seven, Buttermark Cliff moved could to Pomfret, read blueprints, CT from Long and Island, if it NYhe hasinbeenHe didthea 4-yearSecretaryhistoricalfor recordingresearch projectof burialsfor thefor the Pomfretwasn't for the one summer 1972. where Before he moving had to take here, he summer was a WWII classes, and KoreanSouth Cemetery.cemetery ofHealldidgravesa 4-yeardatinghistoricalback to theresearch1600's andproject forhe wouldn't have gotten War the veteran, chance serving to take with mechanical the U.S. Navy drafting as a ShiptheFittercemeteryreceivedofanallawardgravesfromdatingthe Historicalback to theConservation1600's and received— two things that would First shape Class. his life As forever. a civilian. He was a ship fitter an first award Commission. from the Historical Conservation Commission.After Curtis High class School, for three with years, his a blueprint Nassau County reading Police Of ficer .skills, he found a job at for a shipyard 10 years that in uniform paid him and $65 10 years a week, as a and Detective.was ranked as a first-class He shipfitter retired in 1968 . After after a couple 20 years years of service, at the went toshipyard, Buttermark found Grumman himself Aerospace being recruited Corporation, by the Long Navy Island, NY ,for World War II as a mechanic worked for on the their F14 ship Navy repair fighter unit. plane In his and first others. Heyear with the Navy Buttermark also worked was on soon the converting Lunar Module private that yachts landed men oninto gunboats. the moon on Apollo 12 on Nov. 14, 1969. In additionAfter more than he 12 served years 16 of years duty as in the the Justice Navy of the , Peace and for theenduring two major wars;TownWorldof PomfretWar IIfromand19771993,the KoreanvolunteeredWar,15Buttermark decided to workyearsasservinga policeat theofficerAccessinFoodNassauBankCounty,in Danielson,where he was promotedalsoto detective15 years servingafter 10atyearsthe Accesson theHomelessforce. InShelter.these years, he patrolledHecrimeservedscenes,20 yearssolvedat ThedomesticSoup Kitchendisputeswhich becameand aided people whothewereCmmunityinjured inKitchen.violentHecases.is a 32Heyearspentmember of the20 years on the force beforePomfretdecidingLion'stoClubgoandworkwasforawardedGrumman"The Knight ofAerospace Corp. in Bethpage,the Blind"NY.andHewaswasSecretarya mid-levelof themanagerLion's Club two Cliff in his white Appolo 12 jacketARPO September 2011 9

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