On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will be treated to an eclipse of the sun and Charlotte Koons will fulfill a lifelong dream of riding in a hot air balloon. The balloon ride is a late birthday present and Charlotte is very excited. We expect photos in the days to follow!
A photography by Linda Quinn has been awarded 2nd place in the Third Annual International Phone-Ography Competition at FotoFoto Gallery in Huntington.
by Glenn Baldwin
Chris Pendergast (retired elementary teacher 2003), Founder and President of Long Island’s Ride for Life, an organization that has raised over six million dollars for ALS research, is still riding after 24 years of fighting and besting this disease. This past May he and two fellow patients along with a core of volunteers headed by retired Northport teacher, Charlie Catania (retired Phys. Ed teacher), began the 20th Anniversary wheelchair ride from Yankee Stadium to Washington, D.C. They braved a monsoon across the George Washington Bridge for starters. Continue reading
Mary Ellen Utell, 83, retired Bellerose Avenue teacher, passed away on Wednesday, May 24 in Ridgefield, Connecticut. She moved from Northport to Connecticut in 2001 to be closer to her daughter’s family. She was the pre-deceased by her husband Leonard.
The R-UTN welcomes five new members to the retiree ranks —
Ellen Comiskey, Pulaski Road Special Education
Margaret Minardi, Northport High School Art
Angela Mislowack, Northport High School Special Education
Pamela Waldroup, Northport High School Art
Linda Van Yahres, Pulaski Road Fifth Grade
Frances Ahern, former Northport High School social studies teacher, died on February 8 in New York City at the age of 91.
With an undergraduate degree in journalism and a masters focusing on the Chines government, Frances received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1993 and her dissertation on the stylistic variations and uses of pottery among the coastal Mixtec and Amuzgo in Mexico. She spent much time in Oaxaca, Mexico, a place she loved as a second home and where she did research at the archeological site of Monte Alban, driving from New York to Mexico well into her 80’s. After retiring she also taught English as a second language and spent several years teaching at universities in Chengdu, Wuhan and Fujian, China