No one looking at the small older woman who volunteered at her community center or her civic association would think she was a second-degree black belt in tae kwon do. Or that she had been part of the New York Wall Street Dragons, a dragon-boat racing team. But Betty Leong, of New Hyde Park, took on tasks and challenges with the mental precision of the retired high school mathematics teacher that she was.

"I liked that she was fun and athletic," recalled her husband, John Leong, of when they had met as fellow students at Queens College decades ago. She kept those traits through the years, he said. "We went swimming, bike riding — we'd take 50-, 75-mile rides sometimes. And we'd have a ride from Queens out to Montauk," a distance of 115 miles with their route, he said. "You can do that in

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