Did You Know...

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Next month marks 50 years since Martin Phelan retired as principal of Southington High School?

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The longest-serving leader in the history of Southington's secondary school program, Mr. Phelan began his career at Lewis High School in 1923, teaching chemistry, physics, and commercial law. He left in 1925 to become principal of the Hawley School in Newtown but returned to Southington two years later to take the principal job at Lewis. He would hold that post for the next 31 years, by far a longer tenure than anyone who held the job before or after. This year also marks 90 years since Mr. Phelan was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds he received in the Argonne Forest during World War I. Mr. Phelan died in 1977 at the age of 83.