Huntington School Briefs
The 8th annual career day at Jack Abrams Intermediate School was an informative exercise for students there. The Huntington Foundation provided materials that originally inspired the program, librarian Patricia Dillon said.
Presenters included Lisa Hodes, proprietor of Sweeties, Meredith Spector, a marketing research analyst, Scott Yanuck, president of Laurel Environmental Associates, James Millitor, a chef, Irma Nykolyn, a software product manager, Ark Latt, a vice-president and operations manager with Turner Construction Co. and keynote speaker Emerson Boozer, a former New York Jets great and supervisor of parks and recreation and special assistant to the supervisor for the Town of Huntington.
Mrs. Dillon is the driving force behind the event and performed extensive planning, attending to even the smallest of details. Students were prepped well in advance, providing them with background information they later used during discussions with the presenters.
College Center Report
Huntington High School juniors and seniors were recently visited by representatives of SUNY College at Oneonta, Casanovia College, SUNY Binghamton, University of Richmond, Utica College, Manhattan College, Sacred Heart University and Iona College.
Huntington is also expected to send a contingent of students to the annual national Hispanic college fair at Molloy College in Rockville Centre on Thursday, November 18. The group will be led by guidance counselor Gloria Jaramillo.
Class of 1961 Loses Member
Huntington High School’s Class of 1961 lost one of its members when Frank A. Bruno passed away in September. He was 66.
In the 1961 Huntington yearbook, Mr. Bruno is shown looking quite serious. Below his name, it lists he was “Navy Bound” and so he was. He went on to serve on the high seas with the U.S. Navy.
Born in 1942 in Huntington Hospital, he attended college in Florida and worked at Grumman Aerospace when that company was flying high. He was later employed as a landscape architect in Florida and was active in his local parish in Inverness, Florida.
Mr. Bruno was laid to rest in the Huntington Cemetery.
College Grads
Dowling College has awarded bachelor degrees to Huntington High School alums Talar Ardzivian and Michelle Sangiovanni.
Huntington History Lesson
Found in the minutes of a May 1954 Huntington Board of Education meeting comes this interesting item under the heading “Selection of Names for New Elementary Schools:”
“Supt. Warren reported that on the contest with the grade schools for selecting a name for the three elementary schools he had the following to report to make: The majority vote went for the names of Flower Hill, Southdown and Whitson. He said that the committee recommended that the schools in the Station are to be named after presidents and the schools in the Village area be named after locations.
“A motion was made and seconded that the Village schools would be named the Flower Hill School and the Southdown School and that the school in the Station be named as the Washington School.
“The motion was unanimously carried.”
It should be noted that Washington School is located on Whitson Road, thus the students’ desire to name it Whitson School.
Jack Abrams School Clubs
A number of clubs are running at Jack Abrams Intermediate School this year. Among them is Husky Happenings, the school newspaper guided by librarian Patricia Dillon, the drama club overseen by faculty advisors Allison VonVange, Karen Morea and Katie Canales, School of Rock with faculty advisor Paul Esposito and the Husky Student Leadership Organization (student council), supervised by Mr. Esposito and dean of students Scott Armyn. Teacher aide Peggy DeLaRosa is the knitting club’s advisor. Students even have an opportunity to participate in a bridge club.
Finley Honor Society
This year’s National Junior Honor Society chapter at J. Taylor Finley Middle School is led by Alex Castillo (president), Natalie Lanzisero (vice-president) and Katherine Gerdes (secretary).
The group’s first service project of the year was a clothing drive. Members spent a month collecting gently used clothing that was later donated to the Family Service League. Members are currently organizing “Hoops for Heart,” a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, to raise money for the American Heart Association.
Math teacher Matthew Perlongo serves as the faculty advisor.
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