Huntington School Briefs
The Huntington School Board has scheduled public meetings on Mon. Aug. 9 and Mon. Aug. 23. Both meetings will be held in the J. Taylor Finley Middle School large group instruction room and be gaveled to order at 7 p.m.
2010 Homecoming Day
The annual Huntington High School homecoming celebration is scheduled for Sat. Oct. 23. A parade through Huntington village will kickoff at noon, followed by a football game against East Hampton at 2 p.m. and a student dance in the school gym from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Orientation Programs
Orientation will be held for incoming Huntington High School freshmen on Weds. Sept. 1 from 9:30-11:30 a.m. J. Taylor Finley Middle School will host orientation for seventh graders on Tues. Aug. 31 from 8-10 a.m. and for eighth graders on Weds. Sept. 1 from 11a.m.-1p.m.
SCOPE Membership
The Huntington School District will once again be a member of SCOPE Education Services. The membership year runs from September through the following August.
According to its website, SCOPE “is a not-for-profit, private organization permanently chartered by the New York State Board of Regents to provide services to school districts. Founded in 1964 by school superintendents, it is a cooperative venture for sharing resources to deal with common concerns.”
The district will pay a membership fee of $3,840 for the year. Membership benefits include various publications, discounted tuition for School Board members, administrators and teachers at SCOPE conferences, seminars, workshops and special events, discounted fees for customized staff development program and School Board seminars, access to user-fee programs such as teacher and administrative placement, child care, management and demographic studies, longitudinal financial analysis, security-safe school assessments, fingerprinting of new employees, outdoor learning programs, child abuse prevention courses, continuing and adult education programs, paraprofessional training and assorted other programs and services.
Garofalo Heading to Binghamton
Haley Garofalo is preparing to leave for her freshman year at SUNY Binghamton where she plans to study in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Huntington High School Class of 2010 member forged strong relationships with her teachers over the past four years. She was on the varsity crew team, travelled to Italy during spring break, and was president of the Italian honor society and vice-president of Huntington’s orchestra.
Ms. Garofalo enjoys exploring museums and gaining new intellectual insights. She has even spent time working in a soup kitchen.
Teachers will be Partying
The Associated Teachers of Huntington is organizing an “end of summer” barbeque for its members on Sunday, August 29 at Caledonia Park. The ATH is the professional organization of teachers in the Huntington School District.
Woodhull Facts
Nathaniel Woodhull Elementary School opened on Monday, January 30, 1967. Its entire student body had previously been attending Roosevelt Elementary School on Lowndes Avenue in Huntington Station.
A closing ceremony for Roosevelt was held on Friday, January 27, 1967. The ceremony was attended by various dignitaries, including Theodore Roosevelt’s son, Archibald, who also attended the school’s dedication in 1927 with his mother, Edith.
Woodhull’s first principal, Robert Fitzgerald, was Roosevelt’s last. Lowndes Avenue School opened in 1913. When its size was doubled, the Huntington Board of Education renamed it in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt.
In the 1950s when school officials were looking for property on which to erect a new high school, the land that would later be acquired for Woodhull was evaluated. The Woodhull, Village Green and R.L. Simpson High School properties were nearly contiguous.
Woodhull’s 24.9 acre site is more than eight times the size of what were Roosevelt’s grounds. In 1973 the state commissioner of education ordered that Village Green and Woodhull schools be closed and their students dispersed to other schools in the district as part of an integration order.
The Village Green School, which was built in 1952, was closed and sold to the Town of Huntington. The sale of Woodhull was also arranged but in a public referendum, Huntington School District voters rejected the deal.
Today, Woodhull has 52,616 square feet of space. It might be growing larger. Residents will go to the polls on Tuesday, August 24 to vote on a capital reserve fund referendum. The Huntington School Board is seeking the release of $2 million from the district’s building improvement fund to cover the costs of constructing 5-7 new classrooms at Woodhull. Passage of the referendum will not increase taxes since the funds already exist and can only be used for renovation and construction projects.
Jennifer Dell to Vermont
Jennifer Dell, a member of Huntington High School’s Class of 2010 is headed to the University of Vermont in the fall. She plans to major in biology there. Ms. Dell displayed a genuine joy while learning new things over the past four years. She was an integral part of the school’s Italian honor society and helped tutor fellow students. The society awarded Ms. Dell a $50 scholarship this past June.
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