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keep you posted of district happenings during the 2011/2012
school year. This page is updated frequently so please do
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at SOCSD, go to Student and Staff Achievements.
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Upcoming Events

PTA
Founders Day Award!
The South
Orangetown Central School District will award five honorees
with the National PTA's Honorary Lifetime Membership Award
at its annual Founders Day Celebration on Wednesday,
February 15th from 6:30 until 8:30 pm at the Casa Mia Manor
House in Blauvelt, NY.
The Founder's Day Celebration is a National PTA event, this
year celebrating the 114th anniversary of the founding of
the PTA. The evening's highlight will be the presentation of
Lifetime Membership Awards to individuals who have made
outstanding contributions which benefit the youth of the
South Orangetown Central School District.
Each PTA unit for the South Orangetown CSD PTA selected a
recipient deserving of the award. The South Orangetown
Community Elementary Schools (SOCES) PTA will recognize
Laura DiMaio and Eleanor Pellicci. The South Orangetown
Middle School PTA will honor Vicki Shaw. The TZHS PTA will
award Trish Bakker, and the PTA Council will award Margaret
Umbrino.
All members of the South Orangetown community are invited to
attend. Light fare will be served. Tickets are $15. and must
be purchased by February 8th. Seating is limited and
reservations are recommended. If you would like to attend,
please contact
SOCSDFoundersDay@aol.com or mail to PTA Council at SOCSD,
160 Van Wyck Road, Blauvelt, NY 10913
Event
& School Highlights
Never
Too Early to Explore 21st Century Skills
WOS
Library Media Specialist, Barbara Bandura, has been busy
teaching first grade students the features and countless
possibilities in the world of Microsoft Word. Students were
in the lab working collaboratively and intently with their
partners as they learned all about the keyboard. They
learned to type their names, highlight text, and change the
font, color, size and theme. Next, the children will be
learning how to insert clip art, eventually using what they
learned to work in PowerPoint.

Leos Hone Cooking Skills AND Feed the Homeless
Members
of the Blauvelt Lions Leos at Tappan Zee High School spent
Thursday afternoon and Friday evening cooking and serving
dinner to Rockland County homeless through Rockland’s
Helping Hands program.
Leos baked cookies and prepared the pasta sauce on Thursday
afternoon. On Friday evening, 18 Leos, and Lions Kerry
Beckmann, Tricia Castelli and Ron Fritz, along with TZHS
Principal Jennifer Amos, gathered at the Piermont Reformed
Church which was hosting the group through Helping Hands.
There they finished preparation, and then served the dinner
of pasta, chicken, mashed potatoes and dessert.
WOS
and TZE Teachers Partner For Greater Cross Building
Collaboration
Throughout the year 1st grade teachers at WOS have been
meeting with 2nd grade teachers at TZE to discuss curriculum
and instruction at each grade level. In their most recent
meeting, teachers used a text protocol to review two
articles from Habits of the Mind with regard to mathematics.
The group then broke into two smaller groups with teachers
observing two of their TZE partners teaching a mathematics
lesson. After observing the lesson, the group critiqued the
teaching teachers focusing feedback on a predetermined set
of criterion as their focus for the lesson. Principals of
both schools are excited about the partnership and consider
it to be greatly beneficial to teachers in both schools at
all levels.

A Towering Problem
TZE students in Ms. Claire Brady’s 3rd grade class joined in
a team building activity with the assigned task to build a
tower that would stand on its own using 10 pieces of paper
ONLY. The students worked in groups, discussing thoughts and
strategies to complete the task. They had to work together
and determine how best to build a structure that would stand
tall without using any other tool besides their own hands.
With the towers completed, students were asked to reflect on
what worked and what didn't within their groups so they
could improve their collaboration for next week’s
undertaking.
WOS
Kindergarten Showcases Art and Music
On
Thursday, January 19, three kindergarten classes presented
an Art and Music Showcase for parents and special guests.
The students in Ms. Anna Coughlin, Ms. Paula Ferzola and Ms.
Margaret Graham’s classes, prepared music and art work to
the story of “My Many Colored Days” by Dr. Seuss. WOS Art
teacher, Mrs. Elizabeth Piteo, had students create their own
pictures to recreate and tell the story. WOS Music teacher,
Mrs. Beth Fox, and her students added sounds from musical
instruments: hand and finger drums, maracas, castanets,
triangles, finger cymbals, glockenspiels and xylophones. The
students then recorded the story, which was added to the
instruments and art work and then shown as a PowerPoint
presentation. Students sang “The Rainbow Song” using colored
scarves to illustrate the colors of the rainbow.

Senior
Pen Pal Remembers and Honors Dr. King for SOMS ELA Classes
Mrs. Naomi
Anthony, one of the senior pen-pals in SOMS teacher Ms.
Arlene Sorensen's "Bridging the Generations" program visited
her ELA classes in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Now 76 years old, Mrs. Anthony shared memories of her early
life growing up in the segregated south through music and
storytelling. She shared with students the fact that she was
not allowed to attend libraries, nor go to a beach because
she was black. She attended an all black school which was
run down and did not have the beautiful facilities that the
schools for white children had. She was forced to drink out
of dirty water fountains which were labeled "for colored
only". She could not use the clean bathrooms which were
labeled "for whites only." Mrs. Anthony recalled attending
Dr. King's funeral in Atlanta. Through her music, she sang
the message of Dr. King's dream of hope and that all human
beings should be treated equally. She spoke of how far we
have come since the 1960's considering that a black man was
elected President of the United States. Mrs. Anthony's
grandson, Leon Thomas III, is a successful television actor.
He plays "Andre" on Nickelodeon's hit television series
"Victorious".
TZE’s
Word of the Month in Books and Characters
Each month
at Tappan Zee Elementary School there is a read aloud for
students that highlights a character education word. Mrs.
Tatiana DiPierno, TZE’s art teacher, has constructed
characters from the read aloud books, giving them the
personalities of the word for that month Mrs. Kristin
Cavanagh’s class came to “visit” with the characters from
three of this year’s books. They include the Statue of
Liberty (Community), the Hawk (Thankful) and Mean Jean the
Recess Queen (Fairness). The Statue of Liberty, representing
word of the month “Community”, is taken from Betsy Maestro’s
book, Coming to America. The Hawk, representing word
of the month “Thankful”, is taken from Jonathan London’s
book Giving Thanks. Mean Jean the Recess Queen
representing the word of the month “Fairness”, is taken from
Alexis O’Neil & Laura Huliska-Beith’s book, The Recess
Queen.

Tappan Zee Elementary
Students Work to Solve 21st Century Concepts
TZE students in teacher Clair Brady’s 3rd grade classes have
been studying problem solving the 21st century way. Every
Friday the class studies robotics. The students have been
working in groups to build robots from scratch following a
manual written only in diagrams. Each group of students have
to work together as a group to solve any problems that arise
in completing the task. They are monitored by their teacher
who does not provide any answers but simply makes sure they
are working together in figuring out their task. Each group
must develop a schedule and assign roles so that every
person is accountable. This, they must determine on their
own through effective communication. In the end? Sharpened
problem solving skills, effective communication with
classmates ………and robots !!

TZE
Welcomes the “Snowflakes”
Jack Frost might
not have visited everyone yet this winter, but he has
arrived with certainty at Tappan Zee Elementary School.
Children in Mrs. Eileen Corry-Griffith's 2nd grade class,
along with the assistance of their Foster Grandma Marie,
created large paper snowflakes and decorated the halls and
windows of the school. The craft/activity provides students
with both an excellent fine-motor skill exercise as well as
a lovely finished product for all to enjoy.

TZHS
Seniors Reflect, Remember, and Advance
It might have been
Friday the 13th for some, but for seniors at TZHS it was
unveiling day for the Senior Portfolio Day Project. The
project, which is a culmination of each student’s years at
TZHS is their own collection and reflection of their work,
thoughts, and experiences through their high school years
and their hopes for the future. The portfolios include saved
“special” pieces from previous years as well as happenings
since September of this, their senior year. As part of this
midterm project in their English classes, students culled
their work, added some decorations and laminate, and created
their own personal montage of their years at TZHS. During
Portfolio Day, all portfolios are displayed in the HS lobby
and all English classes throughout the day are invited to
come down to peruse the albums and glean some insight into
the events, experiences and treasured moments of their
friends and classmates.
TZE Staff Comes
Together for People to People
This past December, Tappan Zee Elementary School staff
members attended and contributed to the 3rd Annual "Project
Joy" Get Together. Project Joy, which is sponsored by People
to People, provides potential donors with the opportunity to
"adopt" a family for the holidays in order to purchase
presents from their child's wishlist, or they can also
purchase presents for children of all ages to stock the
shelves of the Project Joy Store. People to People receives
approximately 1,000 requests for assistance around the
holidays, and for the third year, they have reached out to
the community for help in answering letters and making
children’s dreams come true. Over the past two years, the
TZE staff has surpassed the previous year's contribution.
This year, their success allowed the purchase of $800 worth
of toys for the Project Joy Store. “It has proven to be not
only a great way to help families in Rockland County, but
also a special time of year to spend with colleagues and
reflect power of giving,” said Principal Dr. Bill Lee.
WOS
Students Exceed Last Year's Covered Cupboard Project
For the
tenth straight year, students attending William O. Schaefer
Elementary school have helped the Meals on Wheels Program
with their Covered Cupboards initiative. Each year students
pack up, wrap, and decorate a shoebox filled with
non-perishable food items which is delivered to Rockland's
elderly and homebound so that during the winter months, if a
hot meal delivery is hampered by weather or any other
emergency, recipients will not go hungry. The Meals on
Wheels Program relies on many volunteers to cook and deliver
meals to the elderly in the community. A bad winter's day or
other emergency might not allow safe delivery to some or all
recipients. This year was especially important in that Jim
Burton, Assistant Executive Director, stated they did not
have enough “Cupboards” for all the Meals on Wheels
recipients. He was thrilled to hear that WOS had volunteered
for the tenth year to help solve this problem in our
community.
WOS Principal Nora Polansky explained to the assembly of
students that their "participation in the Covered Cupboards
project went hand in hand with their word of the
month......GENEROSITY."
On the day of the assembly Meals on Wheels staff members
Marissa Moscatello, Volunteer Coordinator and Jim Burton,
Assistant Executive Director along with Greg Carino, who for
the last ten years has counted, loaded and driven the
cupboards to Meals on Wheels for distribution, thanked the
students for their commitment and "generosity".
On final count 321 cupboards were collected which broke last
year's record.

TZHS Leos Deliver
Holiday Wishes on Midnight Run
On December 23rd, in their ongoing effort to help the less
fortunate, over 30 TZHS Leos along with Blauvelt Lions
Dennis Michaels, Dennis Kiernan, Ron Fritz, Tricia Castelli,
Mike Conklin boarded the Blauvelt Fire House Bus (thank you
Blauvelt Fire Dept.) and, with parents Irene Dunlay and
Roberta Avantifiori driving the crew, joined members of the
Immaculate Conception Church in Stony Point on a Midnight
Run into the city to bring hot food, sack lunches, clothing
and Christmas presents distributed by Santa Claus, to the
homeless. The Leos packed holiday gift bags that included
warm socks and toiletries for the homeless, prepared hot
vegetable soup and a donated lasagna for the city's
homeless.
TZHS
Leos Collect and Deliver Food to People to People
The TZHS Leos collected 2600 lbs of food, for a value of
$5200.00 which was delivered to People to People on
Thursday, Dec. 22. just in time to help make some holiday
dinners for the less fortunate. Over 40 Leos participated in
collecting the food over a three week period, donated from
the TZHS student body through their English classes. The
Leos sponsored a competition amongst all English classes,
and, at the end of the three weeks, the class with the most
items of food was Ms. Duffy's period 9 class with 540 items,
followed by Ms Sorrese-Lefkow's period 1 class with 397
items, and Ms. McMane's period 6 class with 334 items.
Blauvelt Lions members, Dennis Michaels, Steve Purkis, Tom
Swift, Len Feroldi, Ron Fritz, Tricia Castelli, and former
student Dan Di Giacomo assisted in getting the food delivery
to People to People for the final weigh-in.
TZHS
Skypes the Holidays
On
Monday, December 19th and Thursday, December 21st, freshmen
and sophomore TZHS students studying Italian, video
conferenced using Skype with MS 322 in Washington Heights.
The TZ students taught the middle school students, who are
also studying Italian, about how Italians typically
celebrate the holidays. They discussed traditional Italian
sweets and introduced them to singing Italian holiday songs.
At the end of the conference, everyone played Tombola, an
Italian version of Bingo, traditionally played during the
Holidays in Italy. The experience was rewarding for all.
SOMS
Pie Sale Tastefully Successful
The Music Department at SOMS held another incredibly
successful pie sale this year. Just before Thanksgiving,
approximately 1,350 pies were delivered to the middle school
for distribution. Student and parent volunteers helped to
fill orders and organize this project alongside the SOMS
music staff. This was the 23rd pie sale!
The pie sale is held annually to raise money for Department
trips and awards. This year our students will be
participating in the High Note Festival, where students will
receive ratings and comments from professional adjudicators.
Following the festival we will celebrate at Lake Compounce
in Connecticut.
Thank you to students, teachers, administrators, and all
parents and community members for supporting music in our
schools!
TZHS Italian Club
Columbus Day Trophy
The
Tappan Zee High School Italian Club has been awarded the
trophy for Best High School Group marching in the 2011
Rockland County Columbus Day Parade. The trophy was
presented to Italian Club President Emily Dries and Italian
Club Advisors Tricia Castelli and Maria Stillo at a dinner
hosted by the Parade Association which was held on November
17, 2011 at Noel's Irish Pub.
Leos
and Lions Working in Cooperative Spirit
“The early bird word catches the worm” surely holds true for
members of the Tappan Zee High School Blauvelt Lions Leos
who had two early wakeup calls in the final two weekends of
November. The calls, with one common goal, were to serve
others. At 7:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 29, over 30 Leos
accompanied by several Blauvelt Lions and parents, joined
members of the Immaculate Conception Church of Stony Point
on a Breakfast Run to Manhattan, to bring food, clothing,
toiletries, etc. to the homeless. Leos helped to serve
breakfast to over 60 people who have fallen on hard times.
They also distributed snacks, water, and sack lunches, and
warm winter clothing and toiletries that the Leo Club has
collected over the past year.
The previous Saturday, thirty-three Leos joined members of
the Blauvelt Lions on a Road Cleanup, picking up garbage and
other discarded items along Erie Street, Van Wyck Road and
5th Ave. in Blauvelt. All three roads have been adopted by
the Blauvelt Lions in the Adopt a Road program. TZHS Leo
advisor Tricia Castelli summed up the two day experience by
saying,” It is heart-warming to see how enthusiastic our
students are in getting up early to get out to help others
Every time we ask for volunteers for the Breakfast and
Midnight Runs, the response is overwhelming. We can only
take a limited number and have had to turn many away. These
students are an extraordinary credit to our school and our
community.”


SOMS
Takes A Veteran to School
Students in
SOMS teacher Arlene Sorensen’s 6th grade ELA classes took
part in the Take a Veteran to School program during the week
of Veteran’s Day. Take a Veteran to School is a national
program designed to help link veterans with students,
schools, and communities by allowing them to share their
stories and experiences, and to receive thanks and praise
for their services. Veterans who attended Ms. Sorensen’s
classes were all a part of the pen pal program linking each
of them to students in the classes. They each spoke about
their experiences as members of the armed services whether
during war or times of peace. Their stories help connect the
generations while giving students the tools to learn about
the past. On the panel during one of the sessions was: Ray
Coffee who served during Desert Storm, Thomas Mooney who
served during the Korean War, Ray Purlet who served in
Germany during the Korean War, Chet Lubeck who was a POW
during the Battle of the Bulge as part of WWII, Richard
Lehan who served during the Cold War in the Vietnam era,
Simon Jeruchim who served with the 5th Regimental Combat
Team during the Korean War, and Marvin Feinberg who served
in the Navy in Pearl Harbor during WWII.
The students listened intently to the stories shared with
them by the Veterans, and asked rapid fire questions that
quickly came to mind which the panel readily answered. “The
entire experience was rich with learning and I am so happy
to have been able to bring the program to my classes”,
expressed teacher Arlene Sorensen. “Hopefully we can make
this an annual event”, she added.
SOCSD Placed on
College Board's AP District Honor Roll
The
South Orangetown Central School District is one of 367
public school districts across the entire nation being
honored by the College Board with a place on the 2nd Annual
AP Honor Roll. This distinction is awarded for
simultaneously increasing access to Advanced Placement
coursework, while maintaining or increasing the percentage
of students earning scores of 3 or higher on AP exams.
Achieving both of these goals is the ideal scenario for a
district’s Advanced Placement program, because it indicates
that the district is successfully identifying motivated,
academically-prepared students who are likely to benefit
most from AP coursework. Since 2009, SOCSD increased the
number of students participating in AP from 426 in 2009 to
536 in 2011 while improving the number of students earning
AP exam scores of 3 or higher. The majority of U.S. colleges
and universities grant college credit or advanced placement
for a score of 3 or above on AP exams.
“This school district has achieved something very
remarkable. It managed to open the doors of its AP
classrooms to many more students, while also increasing the
percentage of students earning high enough AP Exam grades to
stand out in the competitive college admission process and
qualify for college credit and placement,” said Trevor
Packer, the College Board’s senior vice president of
Advanced Placement and college readiness.
TZHS
Italian Students Study World Issues
Students in Italian IV classes at TZHS began the
month of October learning about the workings of the Italian
Government and comparing and contrasting it with the US
government. They then studied the European Community,
Italy's role in it, and the government that oversees it.
That progressed to a unit on the United Nations, the
relationships of countries around the world, and how the
world powers deal with many of the issues presently plaguing
our world. The students, working in groups, researched
several world issues such as world hunger, violence against
women, genocide, world economies, and climate changes and
prepared reports in Italian to present to their classmates.
Students evaluated the impact of the issues on different
areas of the world, and discussed the interdependence of one
issue on the other. They ended the days of presentation with
a reflection sheet on what they had learned. All the
students felt they were now aware of world problems they did
not even know existed, and appreciated the interdependence
of all the nations of the world on each other, and the
importance of all countries working together. The unit will
end with a field trip to the United Nations.
Italian Heritage
Month at SOMS
The South Orangetown Middle School Italian club was very busy
celebrating Italian Heritage Month during the month of October.
The club members started the month off by marching in the
Columbus Day Parade. The celebration continued with two field
trips to Torino's Deli in Blauvelt. The Paris family, once
again, extended their friendship and hospitality to the SOMS
Italian club by inviting the students to an afternoon of
learning about and tasting Italian delicacies. The students
learned how to make Mozzarella and Italian sausage. The
afternoon ended with a tasty dish of pasta with meatballs.

Kudos to William O.
Schaefer's Newest Writers
William
O. Schaefer Elementary School's entire first grade has been
learning how to write Personal Narrative stories about their
lives. The students worked hard in learning basic writing
skills and focused on how to make their stories more
interesting for their readers as well as learning correct
sentence structure and punctuation. In celebration of their
hard work and efforts October 27 saw the Third Annual
Grade-Wide Writers Celebration which was held in the school
cafeteria. The children received the accolades of their
first grade teachers, and then had an opportunity to share
their writing with their ex-kindergarten teachers and
classmates. "That experience offers the students a new and
yet familiar audience in which to share their new writing
skills," said Jeannine Carr, WOS Assistant Principal.
Narratives in hand, the WOS first graders then marched out
of the auditorium and re-assembled in different classrooms
to proudly read their personal narratives aloud.

SADD
Run 2011 Exceeds All Expectations
Under
the leadership of Vickie Shaw and Susan Maher a record
setting 330 runners and walkers lined up to participate in
the Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) annual run
held at the South Orangetown Middle School on Saturday,
October 22, 2011. SADD helps students make positive
decisions about challenges in their everyday lives.
Participants at the event were as young as five and went all
the way up the line. Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Ken
Mitchell, and Assistant Principal of Tappan Zee High School,
Sheila Silverman also came out in support of the run..
This year, the proceeds from the event will finance guest
speakers addressing issues related to teen emotions. They
will also be used to help support programs to prevent
cyber-bullying; educate students about the consequences of
cyber-bullying and teach respect of others. At the middle
and high school level SADD takes a supportive role in
helping students make healthy life choices.

TZHS Hosts Annual Acoustic Underground
The
musical talent of Tappan Zee High School was enjoyed by
students, staff, and parents on Friday evening, October 21,
2011, as the school library was converted into a venue for
Acoustic Underground, sponsored by the Spanish Honor
Society. Over 40 performers sang, played guitar, piano and
drums while audience members clapped, cheered, and joined in
by singing and swaying to well-known songs as well as
original compositions. Acoustic Underground has become a
traditional twice yearly event, which performers and
community have come to anticipate with enthusiasm.
TZHS Leos Offer a Full Day of Service to Others
More
than 40 of the Blauvelt Lions Leos from Tappan Zee High
School offered over 250 hours to the community in service
this past Saturday, Oct 15th. Beginning the day early in the
morning, about 20 TZHS Leos joined several members of the
Blauvelt Lions club for a workday at Visions Vacation Camp
for the Blind, in Spring Valley. Visions VCB is a vision
rehabilitation and training center for the blind or visually
impaired. The camp is a adapted to meeting the needs of the
blind and visually impaired, thereby providing a safe
environment so that individuals and their families can enjoy
safe vacations. The Leos, along with several Blauvelt Lions
Club members, helped to clean and paint at the VCB, to
prepare it for the winter.
Later that evening 28 Leos, along with several Blauvelt
Lions and parents of Leos, joined members of the Immaculate
Conception church from Stony Point for a Midnight Run into
the city to bring food, clothing and toiletries to the
homeless. The group left TZHS at 9:30pm and proceeded to the
four assigned locations in Manhattan. At each stop, the
group served warm food to the homeless who were anxiously
waiting at the stops. After the meal was served, the group
distributed clothing, toiletries, sack lunches and snacks.
Following the last stop, at around 2:00 am, the group headed
home to Rockland County. "The Leos are an amazing group of
young people" said Leo Club advisor Tricia Castelli. " It is
an honor and pleasure to work with them. They give
enthusiastically and unselfishly of their time and energy.
Several of the Leos attended both events today, and many
left the Homecoming dance early, so that they could come on
the Midnight Run." The Leos have many other service events
planned, including a Road Cleanup in Blauvelt, a cleanup at
Blauvelt Lions Park, a Breakfast Run in November, and a Food
Drive for the Holidays.
TZHS LEOS PITCH IN AT
PIERMONT APPLEFEST
On a warm,
sunny day that was forecast all week to be a washout, over
120 Leos and Lions worked at the Piermont Applefest,
sponsored by the Blauvelt Lions for Blauvelt Lions charities
for the blind. Games, rides, food, crafts, and vendors
provided fairgoers with much to see and do. The TZHS Leos
were on hand all day to man the face painting, jewelry,
goldfish toss, spin art, bouncy castle, and ticket tables,
and they helped all day with the food, cakes, apple pies and
apple muffins. Even thought the Applefest took place on the
first official weekend of fall, people were hard-pressed to
believe summer was gone. A beautiful day, a successful
event, and a lot of happy faces. What could be better?

SOCSD’s Family
Resource Center Welcomes Families Back At Annual Breakfast
On September 28th, Family Resource Center families, under
the direction of coordinator Margaret Umbrino, brought in a
veritable buffet of prepared and/or purchased breakfast fare
and quickly became comfortable at tables set up for their
Fall Welcome Back Breakfast. Moms, Dads, siblings and
extended family members attended the event, comingled with
other families and watched the children as they engaged
themselves in arts and crafts and interaction with the other
children. Family members had the opportunity to network with
other families with similar needs and questions. They were
able to sit and chat comfortably in a cultivating and
supportive environment. The Family Resource Center acts as
an important conduit between families and County sponsored
programs and services.
TZHS
Leos Exceed Apple Baking Expectations
On September 22nd the TZHS Leos, under the direction of Leo
Advisor Tricia Castelli, made a visit to the Blauvelt Fire
House to bake with the Blauvelt Lions and the Ladies
Auxiliary at the Fire House. The group baked over 100 apple
pies, apple muffins, and apple loaves which then went on
sale at the Blauvelt Lion’s Applefest that weekend to
benefit the Lions charities for the blind. Bushels of apples
were brought in to be washed, peeled, cut up and combined
with the additional ingredients necessary to create the
final apple delights. The Leos watched and assisted in all
phases of the prep and baking processes, and everyone shared
in an enjoyable experience. Final critique at the Applefest…………………..DELICIOUS
!!
ZEE NITE V -
A ROUSING SUCCESS
It was
a great weekend for the Dutchmen as ALL our teams did an
outstanding job on the field (see scores below) and the
Block Party on Saturday afternoon was a good time for all in
attendance.
TZ Athletics appreciates everyone's support of what has
become not just a school event, but a community event as
well!!
-
Volleyball: TZ 3 - Nyack 0
- Girls
Tennis: TZ 4 - Nyack 3
- Football:
Somers 19 - TZ 18 (TZ took the NYS #15 ranked team down
to the wire. Great game!)
- Girls
Swimming: TZ 92 - Pearl River 73
- Boys
Soccer: TZ 1 - Nyack 0
- Girls
Soccer: TZ 1 - Nyack 0 (Girls staged a 'Pink out'
raising money for Cancer research)
- Girls
Cross Country: Suffern Invitational Champions
- Boys Cross
Country: Suffern Invitational Runners-Up
- TZ
Cheerleading did a great job at the football game, Block
Party & Pep Rally!
If that wasn't
enough, TZ Boys Soccer player Chris Kane was selected at the
Journal News first Rockland Scholar Athlete of the Week for
2011-2012 (http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2011109170322)
School spirit is alive and well in South Orangetown!
TZHS
and SOMS Italian Students Keep Italian Culture Alive
Over 60
Tappan Zee High School and South Orangetown Middle School
students of Italian studies opened the entertainment for the
final day of the Italian Feast and Carnival in Tappan on
Sunday, September 18th. The group, accompanied by their
teachers, Roberta Avantifiori, Tricia Castelli, Christina
Crowe and Maria Stillo, performed The Tarantella, a fast
paced, upbeat, traditional dance from Southern Italy, as the
audience clapped along. At the end of the demonstration, the
audience was invited to join in, and over 200 participants
of all ages and ethnicities enthusiastically joined the
group for a second round, twirling their partner and moving
to the left and right, to the beat of the lively music.
Sunday was the fourth day of the Feast, organized by the
Blauvelt Sons of Italy Rockland Lodge. Organizers Greg
DiCola, Rob Cipperino and Nick Sfraga, along with committee
members Paul Borghese, Steve Caruso, Alex DiMenna, Kenny
Lee, and Anthony Siciliano were extremely proud of the
success of the second year of this event, which was attended
by over 30,000 people, and have already extended an
invitation to the South Orangetown Dancers for two days next
year.
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