Author: Hal Gordon Brown
Jeff Navratil, Chuck Raynor and Linda Schaefer Stelly all answered our quiz correctly! Come read about a Sayville High grad, Capt. Augustine Edward “Gus” Hubal, Jr.
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100 years ago, in 1921, this lady Eileen Dorothy (Vunck) Masin, 1903–1978, graduated from Sayville High School.
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German Student seeks exchange year at Sayville High School in 2023/2024
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Women you should know… Carol Paukner, Class of 1981
[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_single_image source="external_link" alignment="center" external_style="vc_box_border" onclick="img_link_large" qode_css_animation="" custom_src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bTk1d696S355pGyYj21KJIUfVeTWvXKy96CtPYwMxohUIIn0R6LO_TKzY_zzGOi-eRjrHFIDU-6oBJ88JYEVglAkVY9w6P9DVe0PcpIyXoxYMPTEPu1VaeOlPFXlGup8VVnbNA0bwM4=w1920-h1080"][vc_empty_space height="64px"][vc_column_text] Link to Facebook page "In Honor of CAROL PAUKNER, Sayville's Hometown Hero" [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Link to "“We’re Not Leaving.” – NYPD Officer Carol Paukner,...
Tragically, Jennifer Kost, SHS class of 1967, died fifty years ago today. Come read some classmate tributes to the remarkable young lady.
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Imagine if you can the world 119 years ago; teachers were comfortable having their addresses and summer destination plans published in the local newspaper.
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Well, let’s see how you react to this quiz today! Referring specifically to Sayville High School in a short speech, can anyone guess who stated the following words, and when? “The high school is the people’s college, and the high school of today is better than the college of Jefferson’s day. Remember that Sayville is the best town on earth! Be loyal to your town, your home, and your school. Above all live up to your highest ideals.”
The Sayville Alumni Association is something like a cat with many lives.
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New Sayville Alumni Veterans Remembrance Quiz for August 17, 2021.
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The answer to our Veterans History Mystery from August 6 regarding two SHS alumni brothers; one surviving a ship sinking and the other brother taken prisoner is below. Thank you to Virginia “Ginger” (Fox) Farrell for your participation!
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Sayville High School Military Veterans Wall of Honor
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Come read an interesting oral history interview of Louis L. Pokorney, Jr., Class of 1939!
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As many are aware, a Sayville High School project spearheaded by principal Ron Hoffer, referred to as the “wall of honor”, will display media honoring al Sayville alumni who served in the military. Many volunteers are involved and the initiative is progressing in a most positive direction. Just to wet your appetites, here is a Alumni History Mystery or two, for you. Can you name the Sayville Alumnus who became a US Navy Ensign in WWII and survived the sinking of his ship in the Atlantic Ocean with only minor injuries? If that is not enough for you, then can you name his brother, also a Sayville High Alumnus, who was taken prisoner by the Germans while fighting with the infantry in France?
Alumni History Splash; Richard Drury King, Class of 1965 – a US Airman, describes Hurricane Camille in 1969
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