Author: Hal Gordon Brown

The family of Linda Ann (Jansch) Schaum, class of 1969 has kindly shared an obituary;

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Sayville History Splash; Suffolk County News; June 25, 1937, Page 7 Wedding of Adrian Dingness Paauwe & Marion Van Wyen (both SHS class of 1925)

Sayville History Splash; 1938 Yearbook staff… recognize some of these alumni?

Sayville History Splash; 100 years ago, 1920, Garrett Vander Borgh, Class of 1916 heads to India

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Sayville History Splash; Suffolk County News; April 15, 1938. “The Queen’s Gambit”

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Sayville History Splash; the 1939 wedding of Helen (Ritter) Wehrenberg, Class of 1938.

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A comical sketch of the Sayville High Faculty in 1926

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Sayville History Splash; November 23, 1928. Seward Smith Travis appointed Superintendent of Schools.

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Sayville History Splash; Suffolk County News; May 23, 1968, Page 1

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Sayville History Splash; Class of 1926’s Newton A. Raynor sketches a lovely classmate.

Newton had a gift of sketching…

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Sayville History Splash; Newton Amos Raynor, Class of 1926

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