Harvard Applicants to Interview at Huntington High School
Huntington High School will play host to the Harvard Club of Long Island’s alumni-student interview day on Saturday, January 9. Harvard College alumni will interview applicants from Suffolk and Nassau high schools, including those from Huntington.
Last year’s event drew 23 students. All Long Island applicants receive an interview. Bernadette Walsh, Huntington’s college counselor, is helping to organize the event along with Harvard Club of LI Advisory Board members Dick and Dottie Oehmler.
Mr. Oehmler earned an undergraduate degree at Harvard in 1956 and graduated from the business school there in 1960. He served on the Huntington School Board from 1976 to 1988 and has been interviewing Harvard applicants since 1960. Mrs. Oehmler obtained her Harvard degree in 1957 and has interviewed students since 1970. She was a Huntington PTA president in the 1980’s.
Each of the interviews lasts for approximately one hour, according to Mrs. Walsh. The high school library and a dozen classrooms will be reserved for the series of interviews. The Oehmler’s are lining up Harvard alumni members to act as interviewers.
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