Author: Hal Gordon Brown

[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 Sayville Alumni Association presents a very short video tutorial on searching for historical articles in the Suffolk County News.  We intentionally spell a search name incorrectly and...

[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]Sayville History Splash; February 7, 1946. S. Sergeant Harold J. Limouze receives Bronze Medal.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

[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]Sayville History Splash, June 25, 1920, Today marks a 100-year-old Sayville High anniversary! Yes! ONE-HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY!   Exactly 100 years ago today was the Sayville High School Class...

[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]Sayville History Splash; Preparing for the day when we can play on Sayville High sports teams!   Continuing the Sayville High School Class of 1950’s “Small Fry” yearbook theme. Photo...

[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 is with heavy hearts that the Class of 1959-60-61 reunion as planned for several years has been postponed due to continuing concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The...

[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] Need some help! Does anyone have a subscription to newspapers.com? Apparently, there is an obituary for an alumnus of the class of 1912; Name: Joseph Anton Fisher Gender: Male Death Age:...

[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]Sayville History Splash; Do I have to read all these books? Exploring the 1950 Sayville High School library, this lad seems a bit overwhelmed.   Continuing the Sayville High School...

[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]There are hundreds of Mary Russo's in the world.  Joseph's very informative obituary provided the missing piece to the puzzle -- Mary's married name of "Bahto".  We then...

[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] A "History Mystery" is solved!  We finally found Mary Russo, Class of 1930!   And, in the process, found her brother Joseph B. Russo, who was in the graduating...

[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]Sayville History Splash; Looking at the world through a Sayville High Seniors camera lens. Check out that camera! Continuing the Sayville High School Class of 1950’s “Small Fry”...

[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] Talk with Suffolk County News' editor Nicole Allegrezza Fuentes this Wednesday, June 17th, via Zoom at 7 pm. Pre-register at www.tinyurl.com/NicoleFuentes. A Sayville High School graduate, Nicole is the...

[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]Sayville History Splash; The small fry are being pests and are shooed away from the bleachers. Continuing the Sayville High School Class of 1950’s “Small Fry” yearbook theme....