Author: Hal Gordon Brown

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We have some news tonight! Registration and log-ins on our website are hereby eliminated. Just come enjoy your Sayville Alumni Association website. Some might ask why...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]2020 marked the first occasion we volunteers have not had to devote hours upon hours scanning annual senior photographs. In harmonious support of our Sayville Alumni Association, the professionals...

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We updated our Master Roster. This roster includes not only graduates but also those who would have graduated that year and for various reasons did not, i.e. joined...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are saddened to learn of the passing of William Bernard “Bill” Thieben, Class of 1952 on April 15, 2021 (aged 86). In his early career, Bill was a...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are saddened to learn of the passing of Craig B. Priemer, class of 1985 on May 1, 2021 (age 53). Craig was born July 25, 1967. We extend...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text] Thank you very much to Andrea L. (McCormick) Gilbert, class of 1980, and Lynette L. McCormick-Phillips, class of 1969 for generous donations of $25 each, in memory of...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]336 marriages! 672 Sayville alumni married other Sayville Alumni. This is really quite amazing! Special Thanks to Vanessa (Sanchez) Bishop, Class of 2004 who has provided assistance with this...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Sadly, we have been informed of the passing of Emil J. Polak, class of 1953, born July 16, 1936, and died April 8, 2021 (age 84). We are saddened...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]However, we have nothing listing between 1994-2003 and also, nothing from 2005 to present. So, we are undoubtedly missing a good many more! Who are we missing? Click here to view...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text css=""]How we solved the mystery of Douglas Dybdal's birth date. Establishing our Sayville Alumni birthday remembrance calendar is an enormous and ongoing initiative. We started out with...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]It seems most color photography debuted in the 1960s and '70s. History prior was typically envisioned in sepia or black and white. Thus, technology which offers colorization of...

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thomas McMahon, Class of 1970 and a member of our historians' committee has done it again! Please come read Tom's nicely prepared biography and watch his lovely video which...