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Confessore calls it a career By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
HARRISON – s one longtime administrator leaves, a new one enters at the Harrison Board of Education. After 43 years with the district, educator Fred Confessore retired Dec. 31, having served as assistant superintendent since 1991. He began his lengthy career as a science teacher in September 1974. And, effective Tuesday, Jan. 17, Maureen Kroog, of Kearny, started work as the district’s newly appointed director of curriculum and instruction for K to grade 12. She spent the past 13 years with the Passaic public schools, most recently as
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Fred Confessore will be focused on serving up food at the family-run sub shop now that he’s retired from his school job.
supervisor of English Language Arts. Confessore’s departure leaves personnel director James Doran as the titular chief administrator for the district. Doran said the BOE is exploring several scenarios, including the appointment of an interim superintendent, filling the newly vacated position and/or searching for both a new assistant superintendent and a superintendent. In the meantime, Doran said the board is very pleased to have Kroog on its roster. She replaces Cynthia Baumgartner who retired the end of October 2016. “We interviewed seven or eight candidates for the job and Maureen had everything we wanted,” Doran said. “She’s interested in improving instruction and learning and she’s going to continue where Cindy left off.” Kroog, known as McShane prior to see CONFESSORE page
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Getting into the spirit of the paranormal
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent
speaker is Kearny psychic Karl Petry, who worked his magic at Belleville High School last BELLEVILLE – Friday afternoon (Jan. 13). How do you get 130+ high Petry has been presenting school students to sit in abso- programs to Belleville juniors lute silence, listening with rapt and seniors for more than a attention to a guest speaker half-dozen years, at the invitafor 2 1/2 hours? It’s easy if that tion of English teacher Karen
McLean, who had developed a course in Paranormal Literature. In introducing Petry on Friday, she told the young audience in the Connie Francis Auditorium: “This is probably the most exciting day you will have in your high school career.”
The best way to explain that is to quote from the cover notes of Petry’s recently published book, “Absent Witness”: “Karl Petry was born with an unusual ability to see and communicate with the dead, see into the past, and touch the troubled hearts of the
living. Throughout his life, he has helped people reconnect with loved ones who have passed and resolve their grief. He has also given a voice to the dead who wish to be heard and who have urgent see PARANORMAL page
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