Jack Malis died at the age of 90. Born and raised in Great Neck, he served in the US Army in the 1940s and danced with the USO. He also danced on Broadway in the 1940s. He is survived by a few relatives in the US and Lithuania. Arrangements were made by Fairchild Sons, Manhasset. A Memorial Mass was said at St. Aloysius Church.

Richard Scharrer, Knickerbocker Yacht Club's manager for more than 25 years, died of cancer at age 52 on May 31, 2006.

Dick Scharrer graduated SUNY Maritime College at Fort Schuyler in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation and a US Merchant Marine License: 3rd Mate Unlimited Tonnage. After graduation, he briefly operated the Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Ferries. He began as assistant dockmaster of Knickerbocker Yacht Club in Port Washington at age 22 and was promoted to dockmaster within several years. The members quickly realized his exceptional capabilities and promoted him to club manager, where he served 13 commodores and was truly the irreplaceable guiding spirit of KYC.

The members and staff of KYC will remember Dick for his dignity, his patience, his unfailing grace under pressure and his warm smile. At the commissioning ceremonies for Knickerbocker Yacht Club on April 29, 2006 Dick Scharrer, surrounded by his family, was awarded the Paul Zamzok Memorial Trophy, which is annually given to the member who has performed extraordinary services for the benefit of the club. This tribute was but a small example of the high regard in which he was held by those at the club he guided for three decades.

Dick Scharrer is survived by his wife Sherry, his son Richard, his daughter Kelly, his mother Lucille, his brother William and his sisters Lucille Rudek, Patricia Gray, Peggy Ann Cuervo and Barbara Wolfmann. A memorial service at Knickerbocker Yacht Club will be held on Saturday, June 24 at 11 a.m.

Rosalyn Long Udow, died peacefully at the side of her loving and beloved husband, Alfred Udow, on May 29, 2006. The cause of death was Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. Roz said that she lived a charmed life. She grew up in a loving family in Brookline, MA, went to Bennington College and University of Michigan, graduating with a BA degree in 1947. After college she spent time with her mother running an antique's shop in Boston and then in San Antonio, TX. She met her husband to be in San Antonio in 1951. Six weeks after they met, Roz and Al were married in Larchmont, NY.

Roz went on to make major contributions to Great Neck and New York State as both a volunteer and paid professional in the fields of education, racial and gender equity, legalized abortion, reproductive rights, academic freedom and first amendment rights. Roz had a long and diverse career. She was a founder of the Great Neck League of Women Voters, first woman official of the Village of Great Neck where she was a member and then chairman of the village planning board, a member and president of the Great Neck School Board and a member and president of the Board of Trustees at Nassau Community College. She was also a lobbyist in Albany for legalized abortion, director for government policy affairs at Planned Parenthood of NYC and NY regional director at People for the American Way. For the past 20 years, she had been a board member of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). During that time, Roz also worked as director for education and public affairs and as editor of NCAC's quarterly newsletters, Censorship News.

Roz was also a tremendously talented artist who was principally a printmaker working with woodcuts, collagraphs and etchings. She had exhibited and sold her pieces in many venues. She was particularly proud of the fact that her work is housed in the permanent collection at Bennington College, Nassau Community College and in many corporate and private collections.

Roz has left a legacy of love and commitment to public service in the hearts of her devoted children, Marianne and Hank; her husband, grandchildren, brother, nieces, nephews and her many friends and community members who have been greatly enriched from knowing her and learning from her example.

Roz was preceded in death by her father Harry A. Long; mother Anne Florence Long; sister Thelma Long and half-sister Dena Bixby.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made either to the Roz Udow Fund at the National Coalition Against Censorship, 275 Seventh Ave., #1504, New York, NY 100001 (www.ncac.org) or Bennington College, One College Dr., Bennington, VT 05201.

A memorial service to celebrate Roz Udow's life will be held on July 8 at 11:45 a.m. in the All Purpose Room at the Cumberland School, 30 Cumberland Ave., Great Neck. Flags will be lowered to half-staff in her honor and July 8 will be Roz Udow Day at NCC.