"Women Empowering Women" Honors Margaret Marchand
By Maureen Daly
The recently founded "Women Supporting Women" group held their second annual awards reception to honor Locust Valley's own Margaret Marchand.
Margaret serves on the School Board of the Locust Valley School District, and after serving as Chair of the School Board, recently passed the baton as Chair to her colleague Lauren Themis.
Over 250 prominent Long Island women filled the garden room at the Lannin (formerly the Carltun) in Eisenhower Park, to mutually support each other, and to recognize and honor Margaret Marchand.
Nassau County Comptroller Elaine Phillips - formerly the Mayor of Flower Hill - acted as the Master of Ceremonies to explain the mission of Women Supporting Women, and introduce the many women officials and business leaders present.
Some of the women officials present were North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena; TNH Receiver of Taxes Mary Jo Collins; Nassau Legislator Samantha Goetz; NYS Senator Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick; and Huntington Councilwoman Brooke Lupinacci.
Eager to support the women leaders were several men, including NUS Senator Jack Martins; US Congressman Anthony D'Esposito; and Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph Cairo.
Margaret Marchand was the only member of the Locust Valley School Board to stand-up to Governor Kathy Hochul's disgraceful 2021 Order to forcibly "Re-Mask" children in school - Hochul's sop to the powerful teachers' unions - after former Governor Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Health Commissioner had already lifted all student masking in schools.
Marchand assembled a team of concerned parents who then swept the next school board elections, and elected serious, pro-family, and pro-American leaders to the Locust Valley school board.
Marchand and her Board made the tough decisions - to fire, hire or retain the Superintendent, Principals and leading school administrators - to restore the concept of academic achievement and American civic education to the curriculum.
Locust Valley became a model for bringing back a normal and rigorous curriculum, after radical elements in the teachers unions and bureaucracy tried to "radically transform" America by aggressively propagandizing children with self-hating racism, Marxism, bizarre sexual obsessions, self-mutilation, and coached gender dysphoria.
Last year, Marchand brought the "Remembrance Bowl" to Locust valley - a historical re-enactment of the Christmas Day 1944 football game that was supposed to be played in newly-liberated Normandy, but had to be canceled due to the WW2 Battle of the Bulge.
This year, the Remembrance Bowl was hosted by the Cold Spring Harbor School District, and WW2 US General George Patton's grand-daughter flew in to help commemorate the event.
Marchand has now been elected as the President of Operation Democracy - which promotes American history and patriotism, and works closely with the Foundation of the late US General George Patton.