The Garden City Clergy Fellowship, after several meetings which included Village representatives and school district representatives, is pleased to announce that total agreement has been reached within the village to limit village-scheduled athletic events to a 1 p.m. start on Sundays. Most major faiths have activities which involve Sunday morning, be they religious or educational in nature. At the request of the Garden City Clergy Fellowship, it is agreed that no events scheduled for athletics or supportive of same (band practice, team practice) will commence prior to 1 p.m. on Sundays.

The Clergy Fellowship is aware that countrywide programs (traveling teams, football, etc.) are outside the control of Garden City. However, now that there is full commitment within the Village, the Garden City Clergy Fellowship will attempt to have all faiths coalesce around the need to place a 1 p.m. limit throughout the county. Religious faiths within Suffolk County have attempted, with some success, to achieve the Sunday morning free for religious activity. The clergy of Garden City are asking their judicatorial leaders (bishops, presidents, etc.) to publicly appeal to all sports organizations throughout Nassau and Suffolk Counties to make Sunday mornings free for worship and religious education.

The members of the Clergy Fellowship are:

Rev. James Adelmann - Garden City Community Church; Deacon Paul E. Bedell - Adelphi University; Rev. Byron H. Brown, Jr. - Christ Episcopal Church; Canon Anthony Cayless - Cathedral of the Incarnation; Father Paul Cochran - Adelphi University; Dr. Arthur Dobrin - Ethical Humanist Society; Dr. John C. Evans - Presbyterian Church in Garden City; Rev. Sara Fetty - Garden City Community Church; Rev. Donald Hillyard - Church-in-the-Garden Baptist Church; Rev. Virginia Kreyer - Garden City Community Church; Rev. Charles Magistro - Unitarian Universalist Church; Rev. Brian McKeon - St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church; Rev. William J. Meyer - Lutheran Church of the Resurrection; Rev. Abigail Murphy - Cathedral of the Incarnation and Dean Robert Wilshire - Cathedral of the Incarnation.