The safety patrol for Cedar Road School, April 1961.
staff for the newly built Commack High School South. Recruitment teams were organized and dispatched to find teachers throughout New York City, New York State, the eastern seaboard, and the middle West. Joe travelled with the teams, and offered positions and salary agreements to prospective candidates. The Board of Education would subsequently approve these agreements. The District still needed more teachers so job fairs were organized in the gymnasium of Green Meadows JHS. Buses were sent to New York City colleges and universities to bring college graduates to Commack where they were interviewed and offered jobs on the spot. In this way, the Commack School District found the 183 teachers that were needed. By the end of the 1960's, the Commack School District had become the 2nd largest school district in Suffolk County with more students, schools and teachers than any other district except Brentwood.
A composite of images taken from a 1967 Commack District publication.
Nurse-teacher Mary-Jon McWhirter measures and weighs students at Cedar Road School.
(38)