Author: Hal Gordon Brown

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...

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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...

[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...

[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...

[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_4279" align="alignnone" width="229"] Then-Lieutenant Colonel Sele as a Congressional Fellow in front of the United States Capitol[/caption] Working on the hill [/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]It's been 35 years since Queens native Cyndi Lauper made a feminist statement with her billboard hit “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”. Lauper explained it as meaning...