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]The Brave Art Teacher: Making the Contemporary High School Art Class Relevant to Your Students By Jodi Patterson We teach in contemporary, not modern times. This realization requires a transformative...

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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]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 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]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 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...

[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 tragic passing of Scott William Logan, Class of 1989, and a United States Navy Veteran.  Scott died April 3, 2021. Scott was...

[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 received information regarding the passing of Carol Bernice (Seesing) Shirley, on March 22, 2021, age 67. A member of the Sayville High class of 1971,...