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Wednesday, December 1
Friday, November 12
Schroeder leaves school board
in midst of first term
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Michelle Schroeder has resigned from the Southington Board of Education, halfway through her first term and one year after she and five other Republicans took a majority on the board. In her Nov. 4 letter of resignation to board chairman Brian Goralski, Schroeder cites personal issues as her reason for stepping down.
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The 38-year-old tells the Record-Journal yesterday that she has "a lot going on as far as health and personal issues. In order for me to do the best job I can as a board member, I would have to get past a lot of things going on in my life. I just need to take a step back and take care of myself and my family first."
Wednesday, November 10
Officials suspend SHS football coach
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Southington High School football coach D.J. Hernandez has been suspended for one game after being accused of getting an inside track on an opponent's plays.
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For the story in today's Hartford Courant, click here.
Friday, October 1
Remembering...
ANNA FONTANA
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Anna Fontana is considered a pioneer in the field of business education. In 1932 she was tapped by William Strong, the supervisor of rural education in southern Connecticut, to teach business courses at Old Saybrook High School. Three years later he called on her again when he became the superintendent of schools in Southington, encouraging her to come north to fill a vacancy at Lewis High School. After an absence of nearly 10 years in which she left the classroom to raise her only daughter, Mrs. Fontana returned to Lewis in 1949. She would retire 27 years later as the chairperson of the SHS Business Department.
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Under her guidance, Southington was one of the first towns to incorporate electric typewriters into its business curriculum. She was advisor to the Senior Secretarial Club and in 1959 started the Southington High chapter of FBLA. She is credited with helping to design the business department wing of the Pleasant Street high school. Mrs. Fontana retired in 1976, two years after the new SHS opened and three years before her husband, legendary coach and athletic director Joseph Fontana, called it a career. She stayed active in the community for decades after she left SHS and just prior to her death at age 89 in 1999.
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So what are your memories of Anna Fontana? Her style, personality and how she made an impact on you in the classroom? Click on Comments below and share your recollections. And don't forget to scroll through our archives to see the other teachers we have honored in our "Remembering..." feature - Anna Miley, Lawrence D'Angelo, Raymond Joyal, Lawrence Mucci, Carol Cope and Edward Feeney.
Sunday, September 19
Monday, August 16
Happy Anniversary to us! -
Three years ago today we introduced The Southington High School Alumni Connect! The best gift we could get would be hearing your feedback and getting your photos and stories from your days at Lewis or SHS! E-mail us any time at shsalum@gmail.com.
Friday, July 23
THE 'ART' OF STOPPING
TO SMELL THE ROSES
-A former Southington High School student is teaming up with one of her favorite former teachers to help people incorporate meaning into their hectic lifestyles in a workshop slated for next week.
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Lisa Pedersen, Class of 1983, is working with retired Southington High art teacher Cheryl Jankura in organizing "Recreate Yourself," an event that "focuses on meditation and the concept of visualizations, imagining goals as a motivational tool," according to today's Southington Observer.
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"We're always going and going; we don't stop to ask if we like what we're doing and we can operate almost robotically," Pedersen tells The Observer. So those who participate in the workshop will choose a goal which will be incorporated into an art project. That's when Jankura takes over.
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Various media will be involved, Jankura told The Observer, anything from drawing to painting. "It's however they want to express the thoughts that been provoked," she said. The art project offers participants a permanent reminder of the goal.
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Pedersen is a licensed social worker who has a counseling and psychotherapy practice in California. Jankura was a teacher in the Southington school system for 35 years, retiring in 2005. She was a class advisor to Pedersen's Class of 1983.
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The "Recreate Yourself" workshop will run from 7 to 9 p.m. on Fri., July 30, at the Southington Athletic Club, 151 Queen St. For more information or to register, e-mail Pedersen at lisa@mindfulbeginnings.com.
Wednesday, June 23
Board hires new SHS principal
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Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi this afternoon announced who will succeed Kathleen McGrath as principal of Southington High School.
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After interviewing candidates in a special meeting last night, the board of education has tapped Martin Semmel to take the helm at SHS following McGrath's retirement next week. Semmel has been the principal of Bristol Central High School since 2007.
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He is only the second educator hired outside of the school system to lead Southington High School (and Lewis High before it) in more than a century; the last being Jerome Auclair, principal from 1987 to 2002. McGrath leaves next week after eight years as principal and more than 30 years in the local school system.
Tuesday, June 15
McGrath leads group of SHS retirees-
Kathleen McGrath, the principal of Southington High School for eight years and a member of the staff for more than three decades, is among five members of the faculty retiring at the end of this school year.
Kathleen McGrath, the principal of Southington High School for eight years and a member of the staff for more than three decades, is among five members of the faculty retiring at the end of this school year.
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Following a stint as a substitute teacher at Wilby High School in Waterbury, McGrath joined the SHS English department in 1979. She later became the assistant department chairperson and in 1994 was named the high school's third assistant principal when the ninth grade wing opened. Eight years later she succeeded principal Jerome Auclair when he left after nearly 15 years to become principal of Darien High School.
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Also wrapping up their careers at Southington High at the end of the month are veteran Technology Education department chairman John Ellsworth, World Language department chair Mary Perlot, English teacher Marilyn Messina and Family & Consumer Science teacher Rosalind Diemand.
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