R-UTN

Holiday Greetings

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Dear Colleagues,

Happy Holidays! Enjoy and celebrate! We made it through a very difficult year! Take heart and endure. We look forward to 2022 with hope and anticipation, and offer best wishes to you and your families for a healthy and prosperous New Year. We look forward to a year of more opportunities to gather, chat, laugh and share good memories of our years together in the Northport-East Northport School District. Oh…the stories we can tell, and enjoy!

Let us know what you look forward to in this New Year. Send a brief message to our webpage to share your hopes, expectations and plans for 2022. We want to hear from you and stay connected. Email your messages to [email protected].

R-UTN Winter Luncheon

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Jackson’s Restaurant

Tuesday, January 25, 202

12:00 – 3:00 p.m.

$40. p/p (includes apps, salad, choiceof 5 entrees, dessert, coffee, tea, soda)

*Raffle to be held (benefit Scholarship Fund, details to follow)

RSVP BY JANUARY 10th

Mail check, made out to R-UTN, to Dave Hosie, 19 Jay Court, Northport 11768

**MASKS AND VACCINATION CARDS REQUIRED, per CURRENT NYS regulations**

Jackson’s is located on Jericho Turnpike, just east of Larkfield Road

Contact Email Change

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We have changed the email address to use when submitting Member News and Memorial Tributes. The new email address is: [email protected].

We ask members who have recently submitted Memorial Tributes for Marita Hickey or Carole Gandy to please resubmit them to the new email address

Sad News

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Update – Marita Hickey, R-UTN member and former district Math Chairperson, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, November 16th at the age of 77. She is survived by her husband Steve, daughters Allison Schmidt and Becky Hickey, two grandsons and a sister Sr. Lorraine McGrew. She was predeceased by a brother Thomas McGrew and sister Maureen Green.

Marita and Steve made their retirement home in the Glen Lakes Golf and Country Club community in Weeks Wachee, Florida, Marita was active in the Women’s Gardens Club of Glen Lake, The Italian Club, The Glen Lakes Library and the Wahoos. She was a member of St. Francis Catholic Church and will be dearly missed by her loving family and friends.

A Funeral Mass was held on November 25th, and there will be a memorial Mass on Tuesday December 7 at 10 a.m.  at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church in Spring Hills, Florida.

If any R-UTN members have memories they wish to share about Marita, please email [email protected]. Please keep your commemorative brief and include your name and school.

Sad News

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Michael Hosie, son of retired elementary teacher Dave Hosie, passed away on November 17. The wake will be at Nolan’s funeral home on Sunday, November 21, from 3 – 6 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held the next day, Monday, November 22, at 10:00 a.m. at St Philip Neri Church in Northport.

Donations can be made in his memory at www.helpinghandsrescuemission.org.