Sewanhaka High School - Totem Yearbook (Floral Park, NY)

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What lines of endeavor should be provided for instruction of the young people of this group that was to grow so fast? The first curriculum consisted of eleven departments: English, Commerce, History, Mathematics, Ancient and Modern Lan- guages, Music, Art, Industrial Arts, and Printing. The teaching staff was a representative group selected from thirty-four colleges and universities and seven states of the Union. The number under portrait indicates year of entry. For a time the Lodge sufficed but the tribe was prolific and soon increased from 800 to 7,500. The number of departments also increased. In answer to the very apparent need for more classroom space, the wings, aeronautics building, agricultural house and the radio house were added to the reservation.- As the number of students increased so did our faculty and staff which increased to a grand total of 369, when the seventh and eighth grade teachers were placed under the iurisdiction of the Sewanhaka Tribe. Through the years there have been four great chiefs of this reservation: Mr. Arthur M. Croop, Mr. Charles C. Cooper, Dr. Alva T. Stanforth and our present Chief, Mr. Harold W. Wright who was chosen to head the Lodge in 1947. Under their wise leadership, Sewanhaka has made great progress in expanding its curriculum and thereby offering its students a wider range of subjects to prepare for a larger choice of occupations and professions. The post-war house building boom on Long Island has brought an expansion of the population in the Sewanhaka district beyond anyone's expectation. Such unprecedented over- crowding made necessary staggered sessions from 7:30 a.m. to 6:42 p.m. daily during the last four years. lt made necessary a fleet of buses to bring the braves and squaws from great distances. Happily, the construction of four new junior-senior high schools and one iunior high school in the Sewanhaka district will be completed in the near future and proper education can be reinstated. Dr. R. Lester Springer is the Great Chief. The products of our schools are the citizens of tomorrow. Surely the greatest satisfaction of our faculty is the ioy of know- ing that their students are going out into the world to take their places properly equipped. Our mothers, fathers and teachers hold the future of our country in their hands. On Commencement Day each year, as the younger members of the Tribe prepare to leave the Great Lodge, they take with them grateful memories of our faculty's faithfulness to their trust under great stress. The temple the teacher builded Will last while the ages roll, For that beautiful unseen temple ls a child's immortal soul. ANONYMOUS

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MR. JOSZEPH A. BRUTON MR. ROBERT PARKINSON MRS. VIOLA S. SOUTHERN MR. H. FRANK CAREY MR. JOHN J. DOYLE lfrfe-freszdrnt District No. 16 District No. 5 District No. 17 District NO. 17 District NO. 16 1953 1952 194-1 1952 1950 Boord oi HE Board of Education of Central High School District 42 is unique in structure in that its membership is composed of trustees from the Boards of Education of New Hyde Park, Elmont, Franklin Square and Floral Park. Two members from each of these component boards are selected to serve on the central board but represent the entire central area and not the local district. While this imposes a double burden on each member of the High School Board, its value has been well proven by the high standards of edu- cation within the elementary districts and the integration of the total educational pattern from grades K through 12 throughout the Central District. In a high school such as Sewanhaka, the problems of business and finance, while tremendous, are almost secondary to the develop- ment of its comprehensive educational program, A high degree of commendation is due to the Administration and the board members of the previous 25 years from whose cooperative efforts has evolved a system of education which has made the name Sevvanhaka synony- mous with outstanding secondary education in America. They have provided the best educational system possible within the economic ability of the taxpayer. They have maintained a high degree of morale among the staff and student body to the end that education is an enthusiastic process. The educational process is basically one Vci ucoiion MR. VICTOR G. KANE of teamwork and satisfaction through accomplishment. Difriiztdggs VICTOR G. KANE 1952 Pre'.tiz1'ent,B0r1rd of Education, Central I-Iigh School District No, 2 MRS. ANNE M. BOECKMANN MR. RUSSELL F. THOMAS, JR. MR. ALFRED LOEW MR, J. EDWIN RUSSELL MR. ALFRED G. KIEFER District No, 22 District No. 22 Atiornfy Clerk Treasurer 1952 1953 1941 1931 1931 Yi 1, . ' f ,t s 'wat gf5'f'35.1 , ' nav -iv, ff ? :Wy se igi'? : - -- , 13