- Southold Supervisor William R. Pell III - -There's Nothing Fishy About This-
By Danny McCarthy
The February 17, 1972 The Long Island Traveler-Mattituck Watchman stated ~ “A Village Narcotics Council was created with the following appointed for three-year terms: Chairman, Thelma Richter, Reverend Donald Hamblin, George Stankevich, Dr. John Hansen, Peter Lieblein, Curtis Breese and William Pell, III.”
The April 25, 1974 The Long Island Traveler-Mattituck Watchman said that William Pell III owned a “wholesale and retail fish market” in Greenport.
The November 3, 1977 The Suffolk County news reported that one of the “Long Island members of the Mid-Atlantic Marine Fisheries Council” was “William Pell, III of Greenport.”
He Took “Precedent”
The April 25, 1963 The Long Island Traveler-Mattituck Watchman carried the information that Greenport Methodist Church Men’s Club President was William Pell.
The May 15, 1975 The Long Island Traveler-Watchman mentions that: “The last ten years have been years of change and improvement for the Greenport School Systems. And this period also coincided with the tenure of William Pell on the Greenport Board of Education. He retired this month.” That item clarifies that William Pell “was President of the Greenport Board of Education for four out of the ten years he served.”
Do You Have a Minute {or Two?}
The December 27, 1979 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes included: “Supervisor James Homan thanked the Town Board and the public for extending to him the privileges and obligations of the office of Supervisor. In his years on the Board{,} there have been a number of people {who did} leave the Board for various reasons: Justice Rich, Justice Demarest, Supervisor Martocchia and Justice Suter. All of them in their own way have set standards which he has tried to follow and Supervisor Homan hopes in some small way he has set a standard for the Board which will follow him. He recognizes that in assuming the Supervisor’s position that, as Harry Truman said, ‘The buck stops here,’ and no further words were ever spoken because at the Supervisor’s office it does. He apologized to the press because he recognizes he has not been good copy and perhaps that was of his own choice. He felt that actions speak louder than words and it has always been his theory. However, in the office Supervisor{,} more consideration should have been given to the press than he did. Supervisor Homan said that to the Town Board that follows the present Board he only asks that they be governed by action and not reaction. That they consider the silent majority. Supervisor Homan thanked the Town for allowing him to be Supervisor.
“A regular meeting of the Southold Town Board, the Organizational Meeting, was held on Wednesday, January 2, 1980 at the Southold Town Hall, Main Road, Southold, New York. Supervisor Pell opened the meeting at 3:00 P.M.” You see, William Pell III “was on board,” or, rather started his change from Southold Councilman to Southold Town Supervisor.