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Vol. 65, No. 31
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july 29, 2016
Principal to leave school after 1st year
FROM NHP TO ASIA, THEN TO SPAIN
Samuel Thompson will return to Farmingdale after stint at Herricks By n o a h Manskar Samuel Thompson, principal of Herricks High School, will leave the school next month to become principal of Farmingdale High School, where he previously worked for eight years. “He decided to return to his home, where he has deep roots,” said the Herricks school superintendent, Fino Celano. Thompson submitted his resignation July 15 and will leave Herricks Aug. 15 before starting at Farmingdale in September, Celano said, adding that the Herricks school board would appoint an interim principal on Wednesday. Thompson succeeded Jane Modoono as Herricks’ principal last July after eight years as Farmingdale High School’s assistant principal. He is also an adjunct professor at St. John’s University, where he received a doctorate in education
in 2014. Thompson will succeed Glenn A. Zakian as Farmingdale principal. The “bittersweet opportunity” came at the end of the school year, and the decision to leave Herricks was “an extremely difficult one,” Thompson said in an email. “Herricks is an exceptional school community and one which I will always be proud to have served as high school principal,” Thompson wrote. “My experiences at the high school were filled with support, collaboration and cooperation amongst committed students, parents and professionals.” Thompson sat on a district committee that researched later start times for the high school, leading to the school board’s decision to start classes at 8 a.m. in the fall rather than 7:30 a.m., the school board president, Nancy Feinstein, said. “The board thanks Dr. Thompson for all of his work and contriContinued on Page 50
Photo courtesy of Andrew Chang
Andrew Chang of New Hyde Park, seen here in Taiwan, is backpacking through southeast Asia before heading to Madrid, Spain, next month on a Fulbright scholarship. See story on page 3.
Driver, 19, gets 4 years for causing fatal crash in NHP By n o a h Manskar
prison on Friday. Judge Robert McDonald of Nassau County Supreme Court A New Hyde Park man handed down the sentence for whose drunken driving killed a Deepak Kumar, 19, on Friday California man in August 2014 after he pleaded guilty in Januwas sentenced to four years in ary to 14 crimes stemming from
the crash that killed 55-year-old Sir Pierre Antoine and severely injured his wife and daughter. “This was not an accident,” Nassau District Attorney Madeline Singas said in a statement. Continued on Page 50
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