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A Syosset Scrapbook Part Six |
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Please
be patient. The images may take a while to load.
Look for the signs to see
the latest additions, as of May 23, 2007.
Listen to the late Joseph Boslet Jr., interviewed by Isabel
Goldenkoff at the Syosset Public Library,
as he reminisces about old Syosset.
We placed excerpts from this 1991 tape throughout Scrapbook. You may
have to temporarily disable your firewall in order to access the sound files.
Look for the
signs.
If you live in Syosset, visit the library to borrow
the entire tape and tapes featuring other longtime Syosset residents. If
you wish to listen to the tapes in the library, call the library first to see if
they have a tape player; otherwise bring your own.
Click on small
pictures below to see larger images.
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Syosset High School was established in 1955. For the first year, the school consisted of only the 9th grade. Classes were held at the Woodbury (elementary) School (below) while the present Syosset High School on South Woods Road was under construction.
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Left, Mr. Hueppe; right, Mr. Moreau
Left, Mr. Kupec; right, Mr. Baltz

Mrs. Gereshan with Martin Stickle
Above,
teachers '56-'57
(photos courtesy of Priscilla Thralls King)
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The first Syosset High School diploma
Terry Pollock was the only student in the class of 1958; he became
Syosset
High School's first graduate. A 1954 graduate of Locust Grove
School,
he transferred from Westbury High School in
the fall of 1957.
(courtesy of Terry Pollock)

Syosset High School in
the 1960s
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The first yearbook
(courtesy of Lynn DeRosa)
(courtesy of Rob Giordano)
(1968, courtesy of Eileen Gersh Isison)
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Above: Senior play programs
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1960 senior prom mug
(donated by Dave Paradine, Wesley Chapel, Florida)
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Scene from the Pajama
Game, 1961 Senior Play |
At the class of '61 Senior Trip
Left to right: Mona Wolfson, Monte Brown, Marsha Wolfson, Jerry Rosenblum,
Paul Weintraub, Debbie Lester, Barbara Wolheim, Ray Orabona, Jack Ketay.
(image courtesy of Lois Green)
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Ticket to the jazz concert of
March 24, 1961 |
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Gerry Horan De Asla, '62, in Project Area A, 1962
Project areas no longer exist; they were filled in with offices and studios.
(image courtesy of Richard De Asla)
SHS Absence Sheet, March 1, 1962
Was this unusually long Absence Sheet a coincidence or...
"Public enthusiasm over the success of the Friendship 7 space flight was illustrated vividly in New York City when the Mercury 7 astronauts arrived there on March 1, 1962 for a ticker tape parade. An estimated four million people turned out in frigid temperatures to cheer John and Annie Glenn as they rode, again in an open automobile with Vice President Johnson, in the procession down Broadway—temporarily named Astronaut Way for the event." from Friendship 7: A 40 Year Legacy
Vintage chair
(image courtesy of Steven Becker)
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(image courtesy of Richard De Asla)
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SHS 1962 Graduation, held on the SHS field
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'63 senior trip: Denise Frazer, Marita Gerhardt,
Bonita Bauer, Karen Geoffrey
Noreen Taylor, Barbara Wagner, Marilyn Werblin,Cheryl Berliant, Angela D'Agostino
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Vintage cookbook, 1975
by the Syosset High School PTSA
(image courtesy of Warren Mills)
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Syosset High in 1998 |
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St. Edward the Confessor Church
Dedication and History of St. Edward the Confessor
Roman Catholic Church on Jackson Ave.
June 12, 1955
(images courtesy of Mary Wencko Gaida)
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St. Bedes Episcopal Church
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Faith Lutheran Church
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St. Sergius Russian Orthodox Church
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Community Church of Syosset
The
Community Church was established in 1860.
It was originally named the Free Church, then the Union Church.
"Syosset has...a free church edifice, standing on a one-acre lot, donated
by S.W. Cheshire.
This church was built in 1860, under the direction of five inhabitants of
the place, who became
trustees. It cost about $1,300. The free church building is
open to all denominations
of Christians, and various clergymen have officiated from time to time.
A Sunday- school of 50 or 60 scholars is maintained, with a corps of
efficient teachers of both sexes. John Cook is the
superintendent." from History of Queens County,
New York: W.W. Munsell & Co.; 1882.
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Left, cover of the Annual Statistical Report
of the Sunday Schools in Nassau and Queens County, 1905. |
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Click
here: Reception
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Click here: Reception
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Video clip of Mildred and Forrest Vanstane's wedding reception, August 5,
1944,
at the home of Mildred's parents, William and Laura Smith Knettel
On the bride's right is Glenn Cook, best man.
On the groom's left is Leone Knettel Taylor, matron of honor.
On her left is Bob Boslet, usher, and next to him is Edith "Poncey"
Webb, the bride's cousin.
Also in the video are William and Laura Smith Knettel, Carrie "Gram" Smith, the bride's grandmother,
and Harry Webb, "Poncey"'s father.
(video courtesy of Diane Oley)
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(photos courtesy of The Library of Congress,
Prints and Photographs Division, Gottscho-Schleisner Collection:
left, LC-G613-63601; right, LC-G613-63602)