Author: Hal Gordon Brown

Christine Pensabene, who manages the Rollstone Ave. Facebook page was kind enough to share this fantastic Sayville High team photo from 1933! An added fabulous feature is that each member is numbered with and identified in the numbered roster below....

Currently, we have only been informed of two 2020 re-unions; 1. Combined classes of 1959-60-61 and 2. 1980. Please let us know if others are being planned so that we can keep all the details listed here; http://sayvillealumni.org/reunions/...

[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] [caption id="attachment_4824" align="alignnone" width="300"] Timorese children with toys from donations.[/caption] East Timor in 2001 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

Continuing now with our “Endless Waves” series, come meet Shirlee Munkelwitz & William Nugent, Sayville High School sweethearts who married. Both were Class of 1934. Direct link to their story is here; https://sayvillealumni.org/endless-waves-remembrances-of-sayville-alumni-shirlee-munkelwitz-william-nugent/ "Endless Waves" series is here; https://sayvillealumni.org/endless-waves-remembrances-of-all-things-sayville-alumni-table-of-contents/...

[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]If you missed Christine Pensabene's reply to an earlier post, look what she found on Ebay. ARm3C Charles Edwin Diuguid,Jr, class of 1938, was as lost at sea during World War II, April 5,1944. He was just 24...

[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_single_image source="external_link" onclick="img_link_large" qode_css_animation="" custom_src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ACtC-3cAa56sWcRIM1tFG0p_7tW1MPfhJvltmqdOcd8oJyMVaW12_10SgdtvGBgxZOik24PG1x-eJtvjLnqFqHW5TmFMMm5EbaVHd79LOTY1wZQRoxxhHMJPkcFyJLt2anZ2sShWcjmU2VAxir7QLykO_paL=w1215-h909-no?authuser=0"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Today's History Mystery; Janet Isabella (Berton) Abruzzo, Class of 1960. Her parents were Edward and Josephine (Mazzullo) Berton.  Mother, Josephine "Jean" Mazzullo was born 17 JUNE 1913, Greenport, Kings County, NY, and...

Today's History Mystery; Roberta McCoy. We have received information that Roberta (McCoy) Welch was in the SHS Class of 1961. We can't find Roberta in any class roster and have no picture. Her find-a-grave link is noted below. Can anyone help solve this mystery? https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131717605/roberta-j-welch...

[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]The mystery was solved courtesy of Mary's brother Stephen Carlisle (SHS Class of 1959). Thank you, Stephen! Mary was born in Minneapolis, MN on October 30th, 1938, and moved with her family to Oakdale in 1942. She graduated...