Huntington School Briefs
By now, the Huntington High School prom is but a pleasant memory for the 371 students who attended the affair at the Milleridge Inn in Jericho. Upon entering the facility, participants were asked to cast ballots for this year's prom king and queen and prince and princess.
Nominees for king included John Cimetta, Daniel Moya, Jimmy Ferraiolo and Eric Sze. Nominees for queen were Melanie Grossman, Melissa Rosenberg, Katelyn Postiglione and Taylor Palmer.
Prince nominees included Zachary Burden, Ben Kocis, Donovan Richardson and Alex Castillo. Princess nominees were Cynthia Gowani, Sabrina Blakley, Kristy Delwey and Joellen Ceide.
Seniors Eric Sze and Katelyn Postiglione were crowned prom king and queen, respectively. Juniors Alexander Castillo and Cynthia Gowani were named the prince and princess.
New Huntington District Clerk Settles In
Joanne Miranda is settling in as district clerk in the Huntington School District, where she also serves as the superintendent's confidential secretary. She replaced Elizabeth Troffa, who retired after a nearly 17 year career in the district.
Mrs. Miranda comes to Huntington from the nearby South Huntington School District, where she worked as a principal stenographer and confidential secretary to the assistant superintendent for personnel and district services. She also worked as a senior clerk typist in the personnel office and the South Huntington Teacher Center. Prior posts include stints as a collection manager at Allied Linotype Co. in Hauppauge, as a credit and collections administrator at Greenman Brothers, Inc. in Farmingdale and as a clerk typist at Metco, Inc. in Westbury.
A graduate of SUNY Farmingdale, Mrs. Miranda is well-versed in school district operations.
Class of 2013 Gifts Water Filtration Systems
Huntington High School's Class of 2013 gave the school two water filtration systems as its class gift. Class President Stephanie Rafuse said one of the systems will be placed in the gym lobby for students and guests to use and another will be installed in an area that can be accessed by faculty and support staff members.
"We ran through a lot of ideas," Ms. Rafuse said. "We looked into filtration systems. We all go to the YMCA gym and they have a terrific fountain there so it came about from that."
Ms. Rafuse announced the gift during Huntington's 152nd commencement exercises. A crowd of more than 2,000 attended the event.
Flower Hill PTA
The Flower Hill School PTA will be led by co-Presidents Lauren Meagher and Tracy Tucker in 2013/14. Erin Sclafani and Dana Forte will serve as vice-presidents. Steve Fox will be the treasurer. Melissa Argaman and Krista McDonald will be the corresponding and recording secretaries, respectively. Rosaria Pepeo and Christiane Flewelling will serve as Flower Hill's PTA historians. Amy Girimonti and Amy Fives will be Flower Hill's PTA Council delegates.
Guercio & Guercio Reappointed District Legal Counsel
Huntington School Board members reappointed the law firm of Guercio & Guercio as the district's general legal counsel for the 2013/14 school year with a retainer of $42,000 and a litigation rate of $245 per hour. The contract runs from July 1 through June 30, 2014.
Trustees also reappointed Guercio & Guercio as district labor counsel with a retainer of $81,500 and an hourly rate of $245. The retainer covers all negotiation services, grievances, arbitrations and related items. The hourly litigation rate covers litigation services other than those related to collective bargaining and special investigations.
Donations to District
The Huntington School Board accepted four separate donations to the district during a meeting of trustees last week. Retired school principal Jack Abrams donated an alto recorder, two soprano recorders and 16 recorder music books to the Woodhull School music program. The donation is valued at $183.
The Huntington High School video club donated a 13-inch MacBook Pro to the high school video program. "This laptop will be used for all audio recording in the sound room, assembling and editing videos and a variety of other work produced in the video program," Assistant Superintendent Sam Gergis said.
Toby Goldberg and Camry Philippa Libes each donated a violin to the Woodhull School music program. Each violin is valued at $400.