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Schools seek 2 admins for 2015-16 year
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Manhasset looks to hire dean of students, assistant principal BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO The Manhasset School District plans to hire two administrators for the upcoming academic year: a dean of students at the Manhasset Secondary School and an additional assistant principal at Munsey Park Elementary School. In an editorial published in this week’s Manhasset Times, School Superintendent Charles Cardillo wrote that the district plans to fill both positions in the next few weeks in an effort to meet new and ongoing curriculum needs and other supervisory responsibilities. Manhasset Secondary School previously did not operate with a dean of students, but rather two assistant principals, one of which was eliminated during the 2013-14 budgetary process that resulted in cuts throughout the district.
Anthony Ambrogio, the district’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, said Monday the need for a dean of students became apparent due to increased enrollment in the last few years and the start of capital improvements to the secondary school building. “We really need some assistance with some of the structural needs of the building,” he said. The position would be salaried between $95,000 and $105,000 per year, Ambrogio said. According to enrollment projections recorded last September, the Manhasset School District will have 1,115 students in grades 9-12 and 589 in grades 7 and 8 for the 2015-16 school year. Cardillo cited Munsey Park and Shelter Rock enrollment as among the highest in Nassau County, with 1,647 students projected in the Continued on Page 50
PHOTO BY ABNER ZARABI
Pictured is a piece by Roslyn Heights artist Abner Zarabi, who combines photography and images designed using the Adobe Photoshop program. Read more on Page 13.
M-L firefighter celebrates 60 years with department BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO Joe Morris’ neighbor knocked on his door one day in 1955 and suggested he join the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department. “He lived across the street
and ran the gas station across from the firehouse,” said Morris, 87. “It seemed like the right thing to do.” Morris had recently moved to the unincorporated Bayview neighborhood in Manhasset with his new bride, Anne, a Manhasset native.
A Korean War-era veteran now working for the former Long Island Lighting Company, a precursor to the Long Island Power Authority, Morris went out with Company No. 1, driving trucks and extending fire hoses. Continued on Page 50
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