Riverhead High School - Blue Peconic Yearbook (Riverhead, NY)

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The River head Schools believe that . . . Character is the highest aim of education . . . The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. In 1922, when the Roanoke Avenue School was first opened, it served as both an elementary school and a high school for the children of Riverhead and the surrounding districts. It wasn't until September of 1937, after the con- struction of the present high school building, that its facilities were devoted to elementary schooling only. At first it housed a faculty of 17 teachers and an en- rollment of 541 students. The registration has grown to 635 pupils. The 21 members of the faculty who compose its teaching staff for this 1952-1953 school year are as follows: Alfred Demarest, principal; Con- stance E. Petroski, Catherine McCann, and Helen J. Osip in Grade 5; Elizabeth M. Davignon, Josephine B. Coleman, Nancy C. Jacobs, and J. Elaine Lorys, in Grade 4; Julia E. Fehler, Mary E. Aldrich, Bernice Glidden, and Alice D. Huntington, in Grade 3; Elea- nor K. Schwartz, Virginia Nickerson, Jean B. Rodinis, and Dorothy Baron, in Grade 2; Ramsey T. Walters, Alice F. Bruno, Dorothy W. Kulesa, and Viola M. Grunow, in Grade 1; and Margaret M. Connors, Public Librarian. Since its opening, it has housed the Public Library in the southeast corner of its lower floor. The Pulaski Street building was opened in 1937; it immediately relieved the Roanoke Avenue School of its dual duties. Its beginning staff of 29 teachers has grown to its present faculty of 48 highly trained instructors. Mr. E. W. Shafer, who is now retired, was principal the

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let us look at The 1953 Blue Peconic Published by THE SENIOR CLASS Riverhead H. S. Riverhead,N.Y.

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I '1 opening year; Mr. Harry B. Ward, who at this time holds the office of Superintendent of Schools of the First Supervisory District of Suffolk County, was vice- principal. In this building there are now 325 stu- dents in the junior high, 486 in the senior high, and 18 in the kindergarten. The total registration is 1,504, an increase of over 200 students since 1950. Of the 60 members of the faculty, 48, who spend all or the major part of their day with classes at the high school building, are as follows: John B. Thomas, supervising principal; George A. Trutner, vice-principal, high school; Lizette F. Hand, English, department head; Harold R. Hogstrom, English, speech, and dramatics; Alice H. Spann, English; Elsie L. West, English and journalism; Robert H. Stevens, French and social studies; Morris Diamond, Latin and social studies; Augustus Askin, mathematics; Lester D. Brower, mathematics and driver education; Henry T. White- head, mathematics and science; Charles E. Lawrence, science and visual aid education, department head; Andrew J. Kirsch, science, mathematics; Elizabeth M. Blue, social studies, department head; Nathanial Shaff- ran and Robert L. Tormey, social studies; Elwood H. Beaver and Joseph A. Shipule, commercial subjects; William S. Mason, distributive education; B. John Ross, diversified occupations; Miriam Conrad, home- making; Anthony J. Braun and Edmund Robertson, industrial arts; James F. Pyne, agriculture; Howard P. Ho.vey, director of band; John W. MacDonald, direc- tor of orchestra and choral music; Bernice Klingaman, music; Arlouine L. Spahner and Josephine A. Bruno, art; Michael McKillop, director of physical education and health, Walter Stewart and Anthony J. Synakow- ski, boys' physical education, Carol L. Cook and Vir- ginia Rose, girls’ physical education; Clair A. Mul- doon, Marie A. Murray, and Helena R. Scott, Grade 8; William J. Downes, Herbert E. Goldsmith, and George F. Batchelder, Grade 7; Miles F. Fairley, Donald C. Kearns, and Remo P. Perini, Grade 6; Margaret E. Philip, nurse-teacher; Hallock Luce, M.D., school physician; Delia M. Brown, high school libra- rian; Alice R. Nugent and Janis Bagshaw, kinder- garten. These are for many citizens of Riverhead, where I went to school.