Imploring her fellow Roslynites to remain involved in community affairs, Deputy Mayor Marlene Freeman reflected on her 29 years of community service to the village and noted that she has served as a board of trustee member for the past six-and-a-half years.

Deputy Mayor since 1995, Mrs. Freeman will resign her post effective July 21 because she and her family are moving to Manhattan.

"Being able to make a difference enriches lives," Mrs. Freeman said. "Children are proud to have their parents participate in school programs, after school recreation, religious centers and cultural institutions. I believe participation says to our children: 'We are happy where we live and we want to make it the best for you and others.'

"Anyone can participate in all that I have had the opportunity to enjoy," Deputy Mayor Freeman continued. "People do not realize how easy it is to call the museum or the village hall and say, 'Is there a committee on which I may serve?' That phone call can make a difference for the organization, your family and yourself. It is truly a glorious feeling to know that you can make a difference."

Marlene Freeman was elected to the board of trustees in 1992, defeating incumbent Roy Arroll in a primary election that saw one of the largest voter turnouts in modern village history. In November, 1994, along with fellow trustee Janet Galante, Mrs. Freeman voted against Stop and Shop construction. The next winter, Ms. Freeman was elected deputy mayor on the Clock Tower party ticket that also voted in Janet Galante as mayor and elected two anti-Stop and Shop trustees.

As far as the future of the supermarket controversy is concerned, Ms. Freeman merely asked: "Is there anyone who can't realize that a business situated in the middle of our quaint, historic village potentially generating 2,000 cars an hour at peak times in a 4/10 of a mile zone between the water trough and the Clock Tower would destroy our village?" Traffic would back up on Bryant Avenue, Willis Avenue, Main Street and East Broadway. Who would be able to get to the supermarket in the center of the Village? How could fire trucks get through in an emergency? It's a fine supermarket and a quality developer----but it just doesn't make sense."

During her tenure on the board of trustees, Mrs. Freeman represented the village on the Committee for the Protection of Hempstead Harbor, as liaison to street fairs organized by the Chamber of Commerce, being co-chairman of the 350th anniversary celebration of the village, co-chairman of both the "Clock Tower Restoration" and "Save the Grist Mill" organizations and finally, as a liasion with Dr. Roger Gerry to the Bryant Library. The deputy mayor termed these assignments as "wonderful opportunities to help our community prosper."

Deputy Mayor Freeman's time on the board of trustees culminated a long career of community service in Roslyn. After moving to the Country Estates section of the village with her family in 1969, Mrs. Freeman became president of the Country Estates Civic Association and was active in the Cooperative Nursery School and the Pool Board where she met such "caring community workers" as June Nemet, Drs. Arnold Stearn and Harvey Schilowitz, Marcia and Jerry Lazarus, Linda Nathanson, Bill and Shirley Fleischer and Ellen Lattman.

Mrs. Freeman was eventually elected president of the Greater Roslyn United Civic Associations (GRUCA) where she worked with Walter Muller, Larry Krasnoff, Bob Feinsod and Ann Croce on a "Lights on Campaign" to deter burglaries.

Mrs. Freeman was also involved with both the Sid Jacobson JCC and the Nassau County Museum of Art. She was a board member at the JCC and founded its Parent-Teen Committee with Debbi Buslik. Mrs. Freeman also cited working on the JCC's Board of CCPA) the Coordinating Council of Parent Associations) with Dooley Reissman, Bette Howard, Lois Finkel, Carol Hecht, Dedee Lovel and "many other dedicated women."

While working as a publicist for the Roslyn Claremont Hotel, Mrs. Freeman met Constance Schwartz, director of the county museum. Mrs. Freeman went on to co-chair the Silent Auction and Publicity Committee for the Museum Ball for several years. "It's been great to intercact with the museum's curator Franklin Perelle," she added.

By law, the mayor of Roslyn is allowed to appoint a deputy mayor who then will run for the same office in the village's next-scheduled election. For now, Mrs. Freeman expressed her thanks to village residents "for all the satisfaction that my family and I have derived from living in the village."

As for future plans, Mrs. Freeman plans to spend more time with her husband, Dr. Leonard Freeman, her octogenarian father, and her retarded middle child, David. Her youngest child, Joy, will be a freshman at Emory University in Atlanta and her oldest son, Eric, is a chief resident in orthopaedics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Mrs. Freeman also looks forward to playing better golf with friends at the Glen Head Country Club.