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BALDWIN BOOSTER MEMBERS selling all the goodies at Homecoming..
Baldwin boosts Bruins
Volleyball tournaments and the Harlem Magic Masters/Faculty Basketball Game. Of course, you'll always find Bruins Booster volunteers in the "shack" at all home football games and Homecoming, the biggest day of Baldwin football.
Help support athletics in the Baldwin schools by ordering Baldwin Bruins apparel and becoming a Lifetime Booster,
by Barbara Cohen, Bruins Booster Club Vice President
-The Baldwin Bruins Booster Club supports student-athletes and their athletic endeavors in the Baldwin schools. Bruins Booster fundraising has helped purchase equipment, scoreboards, uniforms and, mosf
recently, a scorer's table that TT„I„ „ ^ ^7 1^' • ^i '"* " ..-"vii.iiv i^^v^ciw
will be utilized at all varsity tlelp SUppOVt atnletlCS IH trie Club member for $100
or an annual member, for just $25. Bruins Booster Club meetings are. held on the first Thursday of every month at Baldwin High School. New members and new ideas are welcome! For more information, contact Ed Ramirez^ director of athletics, at 377-9296 or Nancy Deignan, Bruins Booster Club president, at 867-1524 for more information. Go Bruins! ' ,
soccer and lacrosse games.
The club is proud to sponsor the annual Varsity Banquet at the Coral House where every varsity athlete is invited arid thousands of dollars in scholarships are awarded to senior athletes. The Booster Club hosts the Friday Night Lights Football Game at Baldwin High School, which is fast becoming an annual must-see football game for the entire community, as well as the annual wrestling, basketball and
Baldwin schools
Superintendent Eversley resigns
by Ira J. Schildkraut
The major focus of the October 29 meeting of the Freeport Board of Education was the announcement that Superintendent "of Schools Eric. L. Eversley will retire on June 30, 2009, and the decision of the school board to appoint Deputy .Superintendent Kishore Kuncham as his replacement effective July 1, 2009.
Dr. Eversley retires after eight years in the top job in the Freeport School District, the most recent position in a 41-year career in education. In announcing his retirement, school board President Debra McQuillan declared that during these eight years the students of Freeport "have been the recipients of excellent educational leadership.""
Mrs. McQuillan cited a "sustainable growth of student achievement" under Dr. Eversley, including a 200% increase in middle school math scores and 140% improvement in middle school English Language Arts scores on state tests. She noted that among his accomplishments were institution of full-day kindergarten and a great expansion of the high school science i-esearch program.
The school board president said she appreciated his efforts on behalf of all the students, noting that , in discussing plans and programs with various school district stakeholders, she often had heard Dr. Eversley -declare: "That's just not good enough."
The other school board members also expressed their gratitude for his efforts to improve education for all of the District's students and foster better communication between parents and, the schools.
Representatives of the district's employee groups likewise thanked the superintendent for his service to the community and offered their best wishes to him on his planned retirement.
Dr. Eversley thanked^ everyone for their kind words. He noted that improyenients in the schools were the result of efforts by "lots of people working hard to lend their intellect and spirit" to solve problems, and later expressed gratitude that in Freeport "the conversation has changed qualitatively when it comes to school children. It's increasingly ' about teaching and learning." He urged Freeporters to continue to focus on those educational elements.
The board then unanimously appointed Deputy Superintendent Kuncham to
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| Title | The-Leader_2008-11-06 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2008 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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