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North Side School Timeline
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1917
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North
Side School
was built.
There were four classrooms, three teachers and sixty-three
children.
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1924
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The auditorium and two classrooms were added to the school
building.
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1926
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The East
Williston School
District bought the land alongside Wheatley Avenue.
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1927
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143 children attended North Side
School. More land was purchased, this time
alongside downing street. There were
860 books in the library at that time.
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1929
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The third grade wing was added. Each grade had its own classroom.
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1931
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226 children attended North Side
School. There were ten classrooms and 1,050 books
in the library. The land alongside Andrews Road was
bought and twenty-five trees were planted on the new property.
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1939
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Bus transportation to and from school was begun. Fifty children took the bus to and from
school each day.
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1948
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A library wing was added to the building.
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1953
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The Kindergarten Suites and a first grade wing was added
to the existing school building.
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1956
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Frank Heroy became principal in l956.
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1957
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A fire on March 2, 1957 severely damaged the original North Side School.
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1958
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The North
Side School
building was repaired and restored.
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1967
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North
Side School
became a Kindergarten - Grade 4 school.
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1977
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Clint Ingram became principal.
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1980
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The Learning
Center (now called
Enrichment) was established.
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1983
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The playground was built in three days with the help of
parents, teachers and children.
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1989
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Dr. James Newman became principal.
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1991
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More renovations on North Side
School began.
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1992
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North
Side School's
75th birthday. 495 Children
attend school in twenty-seven classrooms.
There are 20,000 books in the library.
North Side School's
graduates will be The Wheatley Class of the year 2000.
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1995
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The Deidre Hannafin Writing and Publishing Center
was established in the memory of a tribute to Deidre Hannafin a teacher who
died of cancer a few years earlier at the young age of 32.
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1998
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North Side News began because of an idea shared between
Mrs. Jeanne Bouza-Rose and a student named Leah Libresco.
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1998
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The Wheatley School was named the number one public High School
in America
by Newsweek magazine.
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2003
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New wing added to existing structure to create the IMC (Information Media Center)
and six new first grade classrooms. Reading rooms, Library,
Computer Lab, Enrichment room are part of new "IMC."
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2004
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Mr. Jim Bloomgarden becomes principal of North Side
School
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2006
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10,842 books, Magazines, DVDs, VHS tapes, Audio Cassettes
and Books on Tape: 399.
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Information adapted from:
"North Side School:
75 Proud Years" by Cameron Abadi, Lauren Amira, Jeffrey Beecher, Michael
Campagna, Adam Cohen, Heather Draizen, Philip Fort, Katherine Garger,
Katherine Giordano, Ariel Herman, Eleni Kaufman, Lara Mones, Bianca
Nejathaim, Jessica Scholl, Shelby Senzer,
Kiran Sethi, Nicole Setzen, Matthew Singleton, Megan Sita, Linda
Spritzer, and Lauren Turkel with help from their teachers, Jeanne Bouza-Rose,
Lillian Krasner, and Glenn Pribek
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Information also
adapted from: The Incorporated Village of East Williston Web Site: http://www.eastwilliston.org
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