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

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Front row: Charles Webb, Sherrill Raynor, Vernon W. Lane, Superintendent of Buildings; William Bremeyer. Second row: Jacob Zak, E. Russell Losee, Charles Downs, and George W. Lehmkuhl. Not pictured are Walter Budd, John Heid, Robert Howell, Clarence Robin- son and Lottie Winnicki. These Are Our Custodians . . . We are sincerely anxious to acknowledge in this yearbook the services of the men who have long done r j w i. so much to keep the buildings and campuses of our Each day Mr. Downs collects more r ° r than one load of paper! Riverhead schools not merely neat and trim but

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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.

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Students rush through routines before school Blue and White goes on sale at 8:15. Miss Klingaman checks the new semester’s schedule.