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

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MR. JOSEPH A. SHIPULt MR. CLAIR A. MULDOON Mr. Shipule received his B. of Education degree from Rider College in 1937. After teaching for a few years, he entered the U.S. Army where he spent five years. He spent three and a half years overseas. While he was overseas he received a battlefield commission as first Lieutenant in the Adjutant Generals Department. In 1948 he received his M.S. in Business Education from the University of Pennsylvania, further graduate studies were taken at N.Y.U.. Hofstra and C. W. Post. In 1950 he came to Riverhead as a teacher of business education and moved on to guidance counselor in 1962 and as Director of guidance and assistant principal in 1965. He has traveled thru Africa. Italy. France. Germany. Austria and Switzerland. His career began after he received his B.S. degree in 1936 from Buffalo State Teachers College. He then spent 5 years teaching in Versailles. New York and 10 years in Baiting Hollow. He served 21 2 years overseas in Europe during World War II. Mr. Muldoon entered the staff of Riverhead High School in 1945 and has remained until this year of his retirement. He has also, during this time, traveled widely throughout the U.S. These teachers have devoted their lives to education and have accomplished a great deal in those years. We. as students, are sorry to see them leave their profession which they carried out with much ambition and fortitude. They will be forever remembered for their advice and guidance. “Old. — are we growing old? Life blooms as we travel on Up the hills, into fresh, lovely dawn: In spirit we are children still With a promise to fulfill. Because heaven is in us, to bud and un- fold. We are younger, for growing old!” Lucy Larcom MR. WILLIAM S. MASON MISS ALICE H. SPANN In 1931 Miss Spann received her B.A. degree from Hunter College and in 1935 her M.A. degree. For 8 years she taught in New York City. She then devoted 27 years to teaching English and German in Riverhead High School. During that time she attended several universities and traveled extensively throughout Europe and the United States. Mr. Mason is a native of California but has taught in New York since 1939. He attended Hobart College where he received his B.A. degree in 1937. Before coming to Riverhead he taught in Rochester from 1939-40. While at Rochester he also worked for A.B. Dick Co. from 1941-42. Later that year he entered Riverhead High School and has been with us since except from 1945-46 when he taught in Washington. D.C. During :iis teaching career he attended several universities and received his Master of Science degree from New York University in 1948. 24

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Mrs. Rita Bell Mrs. Margarette McLean LIBRARY Mrs. Marie Taylor HOME-EC NURSE 23 Mrs. Ruby Priapi

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Betty Tyler Mildred Wagner Secretaries Rosie Langhorne. Alberta Krukoski. Helen Hepmstall. 25