Memorial Day ceremonies on the North Shore

The Glen Cove Memorial Day Parade Committee will sponsor a Memorial Day ceremony to honor the war dead on Monday, May 31, at 11 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Monument Park at North Street and Forest Avenue in Glen Cove. This year’s honoree is Sgt. Ralph W. Young, who attended Lincoln University, the first historically Black degree-granting university in the United States. He served as a crew member aboard an air transport ferrying vital war supplies to China from India by way of the Himalaya Mountains. He was killed in April 1945 when his aircraft crashed into the mountains.

Also being honored is Dr. Chester "Chet" Pierce, a WWII U.S. Navy veteran, who is being named as a "Son of Glen Cove. Born in Glen Cove in 1927, Pierce was a psychiatrist and the first African American full professor at Massachusetts General Hospital. He died in 2016.

Glenwood Landing American Legion Post 336 will host a parade and ceremony beginning at 9 a.m. on May 31, at the intersection of Willard Place and Glenwood Road in Glen Head, continuing to the American Legion Post and Memorial Park for a short memorial service.

James F. Brengel American Legion Post 456 will host a brief ceremony in Clifton Park in Sea Cliff. The ceremony will be about 15 minutes long and begins at 10 a.m. All village residents are invited. Social distancing and wearing of masks are required of all attendees. There is no rain date.