Board Trustees
Correspondence for trustees can be directed to the Board of Education at board@hufsd.eduBoard President Emily Rogan
Contact: 631- 425-1875
Term Expires: June 2012
Emily Rogan was re-elected to the Huntington School Board in May 2009 and is serving her second three-year term. Her fellow trustees chose Mrs. Rogan to serve as president of the Board of Education during the 2011-2012 school year.
An award winning journalist, Mrs. Rogan grew up here and graduated from Huntington High School in 1983. She went on to earn a Bachelor's degree at Cornell University and a Master's degree at New York University.
Fourteen years ago Mrs. Rogan moved back to Huntington from New York City with her husband Bob (Huntington Class of 1979). Together they have a son Henry, who is a sophomore at Huntington High School and a daughter Julia, a sixth grader at Woodhull School.
Prior to winning her first term on the School Board in May 2006, Mrs. Rogan was active in the school community for many years, serving on various district-wide committees and participating in building level PTA organizations. A member of the district's Comprehensive Health Advisory Committee and the Lowndes Avenue Task Force, she is passionate about education in general and particularly public education, and firmly believes in the benefits it reaps for children.
Mrs. Rogan has an especially fierce passion for the Huntington School District and a particular interest in the health and wellness of all students. She enjoys visiting schools across the district and attending academic and co-curricular events, where she regularly speaks with students, teachers and parents.
Professionally, Mrs. Rogan is a freelance writer, frequently authoring articles for newspapers and magazines about subjects affecting children and families. During the past year, the second-term trustee had an essay published in the book, "Fits Starts and Matters of the Heart - 28 True Stories of Love, Loss and Everything in Between." It is a collection of works by writers from Freelance Success, an online professional writer's organization that counts Mrs. Rogan as one of its members.
Before becoming a mother, Mrs. Rogan worked for the CBS News show 48 Hours. She also worked for many years for Junior Achievement of New York, a non-profit organization that focuses on education and mentoring.
In her free time Mrs. Rogan enjoy running, yoga and playing golf. Last spring she completed Tough Mudder New England, a challenging event that required participants to run ten miles up-and down a Vermont mountain and overcome 25 military-type obstacles along the way. She is also an avid reader and is known to keep a pile of books nearby.
Board Vice President John P. Paci III
Contact: 631-796-8571
Term Expires: June 2013
John P. Paci III is serving his fifth year on the Huntington School Board after being re-elected in May 2010. His fellow trustees elected him vice-president of the Board of Education during both the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years.
Mr. Paci and his wife Kelly are the parents of three children. He has been a resident of the district since the age of 11 and graduated form Huntington High School in 1990, earning a full athletic scholarship to Indiana University, where he was the starting quarterback for the football team for three years. He is employed by the Wall Street firm, Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Paci, who won the 1989 Hansen Award as Suffolk's top football player, obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in business in 1994. During his collegiate athletic career he completed 262 of 494 passes for 3,119 yards and 15 touchdowns at quarterback for Indiana University. He was inducted into the National Football Foundation's Long Island Hall of Fame in 2008. His 99-yard touchdown pass at Penn State on November 6, 1993 set an NCAA Division I record. He also threw a 75-yard touchdown pass in the 1993 Independence Bowl.
Mr. Paci played professional football in the World League of American Football with the Barcelona Dragons and the Frankfurt Galaxy and in the National Football League with the New York Jets and the Washington Redskins. He was nominated for the NFL Man of the Year Award in 1997.
Following his retirement from pro football in 1999, Mr. Paci embarked on a successful Wall Street investment banking career. Despite his professional commitments, he has supported the school district in several ways including volunteering at practices, mentoring students, helping them achieve their academic and athletic goals and supporting numerous PTA, Booster Club and Huntington Foundation events. He has also delivered motivational speeches in schools across Long Island, a practice he began while playing for the Jets.
Mr. Paci was raised in an extended family committed professionally and personally to education. His father, John is well known throughout the community for his many years of service as a teacher and football coach at Huntington High School. His mother, Donna, was an elementary school teacher in West Hempstead. She also served as president of her union. His uncle, Sonny retired as a principal with Western Suffolk BOCES. His aunt, Fran is currently a BOCES special education teacher. They collectively represent well over a century of education service.
Mr. Paci hopes to constructively contribute to the dialogue and program development of the district and use his professional expertise with financial related matters.
Trustee Elizabeth Black
Contact: 631-796-0630
Term Expires: June 2012
Elizabeth Black is serving her third three-year term on the Huntington School Board. A graduate of SUNY College at Geneseo (Bachelor of Arts in English Education) and SUNY Stony Brook (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies), she earned her state school administrator certification through the College of New Rochelle.
Mrs. Black and her husband Edwin have three children: Brady Rose, Brendan and Kieran. She retired in June 2009 after a 33-year career as a secondary grade level English teacher in the Kings Park school district.
While working as a teacher in Kings Park, Mrs. Black served as a New York State trained peer mediation advisor and teacher mentor for several years and designed and facilitated workshops for first year and probationary teachers. She also coached the girls' varsity soccer team and the middle school track team over the course of her career.
After retiring from her tenured position, she worked as a long-term leave replacement teacher in the Smithtown School District as a long-term leave replacement teacher. Most recently she has worked as an adjunct professor at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue, teaching methodology courses to future secondary English teachers. She has also been an adjunct professor for Syracuse University.
Now in her ninth year on the School Board, Mrs. Black has been a member of both the District Mental Health Task Force and the Audit Committee, which was mandated by the New York State Legislature to provide enhanced oversight of school district financial operations.
Mrs. Black was named a 2008 Educator of Excellence by the New York State English Council, a professional organization for English teachers. The prestigious award "honors those teachers who are leaders in the classroom, collaborators with colleagues and mentors for those teachers new to the profession."
As a member of the Board of Education she has enjoyed delving into academic, extracurricular and financial issues and works hard to remain well versed in all areas of district operations.
Contact: 631-421-6293
Term Expires: June 2012
Kimberly A. Brown was first elected to the Huntington School Board in May 2008 to serve the unexpired term of a trustee that resigned from office. She was re-elected to a full three-year term in May 2009.
A graduate of Huntington High School and a lifelong resident of the Town of Huntington, where her family has lived for four generations, Mrs. Brown resides in Halesite with her husband, Dave and their two daughters, Morgan, a sophomore at Buffalo State College and Haley, a Huntington High School senior.
Widely known as Kim, Mrs. Brown is a graduate of New York Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She currently works in the Town of Huntington's Department of Environmental Waste Management. She has a long history of volunteering with the Huntington Foundation for Excellence in Education and has also served as a past-president, vice-president and council delegate for the PTA.
Mrs. Brown, whose husband is also a lifelong Huntington resident, earlier worked part-time in the school district as a teacher aide and as a substitute teacher. She participated in the formation of the existing Southdown Primary School PTA. She is also a member of the Marble Hills Civic Association.
Prior to starting a family, Mrs. Brown was a full-time graphic artist. She later spent all of her time volunteering and working for the district. She also served in a variety of capacities with the Huntington Foundation and enjoyed participating in the evaluation and awarding of creative grants that brought excitement to the classroom.
Mrs. Brown has deep roots in Huntington as her father graduated Huntington High School in 1958 and her grandparents also attended school here. Her family owned the Bay Deli in Halesite for 34 years.
Trustee Jennifer HebertContact: 631-425-6160
Term Expires: June 2014
Jennifer Hebert was elected in May 2011 to serve a three-year term on the Huntington School Board. She has an extensive background in education as a teacher and parent volunteer.
Mrs. Hebert and her husband Jamie have lived in Huntington for 14 years. Together they have three boys attending district schools. Mrs. Hebert grew up on Long Island and graduated from the East Williston School District in 1986. She attended Tufts University in Boston, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 and a Master's degree in Teaching in 1991.
Prior to moving back to Long Island, Mrs. Hebert worked as a public school kindergarten teacher in Massachusetts for several years. Since settling here she has been teaching pre-school at St. John's Nursery School, as well as devoting countless volunteer hours to the Huntington School District as a PTA president and treasurer. She has also served on the district's Long Range Planning Committee and has regularly attended Board of Education meetings for many years.
Mrs. Hebert is known as a creative thinker who enjoys learning about all aspects of the district and its educational program and listening to every side of any issue. She is passionate about public school education and believes the learning experience offered to students should be the finest in the nation.
Trustee Richard McGrath
Contact: 631-427-9737
Term Expires: June 2013
Richard McGrath is serving his fifth term on the Huntington School Board after being re-elected in May 2010. A certified public accountant, he is a national sales director of Thomson Tax and Accounting, Inc, a Thomson-Reuters tax processing company. e heads up sales and field support for the company's 1099 Information Reporting division.
A 1975 graduate of Huntington High School, Mr. McGrath received a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Long Island University in 1979. He is a member of the district's Audit Committee, which helps to provide oversight in dealing with Huntington's internal and external auditors and has represented the School Board on the Town of Huntington's Affordable Housing Task Force and Huntington Station Revitalization Committee.
Mr. McGrath has been very active in advocating for the district on issues which have the possibility of negatively impacting the school community, especially the issue of illegal and unsafe housing, which affects students and learning, as well as property taxpayers.
Mr. McGrath and his wife Laura Jean are the parents of twin boys, Kenneth, a freshman at Long Island University – C.W. Post College and John, a freshman at Adelphi University.
In his free time, Mr. McGrath enjoys coaching youth lacrosse in the community. An avid long distance runner and fitness devotee, he has successfully completed five New York City marathons, two Boston marathons and one Long Island marathon and can often be seen running along area streets and through local neighborhoods.
Trustee Adam Spector
Contact: 631-423-6769
Term Expires: June 2014
Adam Spector was elected in May 2011 to serve a three-year term on the Huntington School Board. A 20 year resident of the Huntington School District, he resides with his wife, Meredith and their children Jackson and Jamie, who attend our public schools.
Mr. Spector spent many years in the field of corporate technology management in New York's financial district where he worked for some of the world's largest banks. He helped develop and manage two separate technology consultant firms, including one focused on serving families and small businesses in the Huntington area. Most recently, he has focused his energy on his family, school district and community.
After growing up in Old Bethpage, Mr. Spector attended Binghamton University where he earned a Bachelor's of Science degree in Management from Binghamton's School of Management.
An active participant in the school district, Mr. Spector has served on multiple shared decision making teams and has a long resume of PTA executive leadership. He has coached youth soccer and regularly volunteers for community and school events.
Mr. Spector is interested in helping the district provide cost-effective educational programs to the students of the district while continuing to offer a diverse set of programs allowing for an enriching school experience. Aware of the complexities of Huntington and New York's public school landscape, Mr. Spector plans to use his analytical skills and understanding of community sentiment to help continue Huntington's tradition of excellence.