Quick note for alumni of Fort Hamilton High School – the 40th Reunion for the Class of 1973 has been scheduled for September 28th at 7pm, and will be held at the Rex Manor (1100 60th Street).
Tickets are $75 per person, and are not sold at the door – if you are interested, you should reach out to the reunion committee in advance at fhhs1973@earthlink.net. The ticket price includes dinner and an open bar.
This is just one of the best-looking high schools I’ve ever seen. Certainly doesn’t look anything like a jail, a design aesthetic strangely commonplace in other schools across the city. I feel like I should hang out on this spot during thunderstorms waiting for Marty McFly to zip past at 88 miles-per-hour.
Weather: A good chance of rain on Monday, especially in the evening, but relatively warm with a high near 65F. It should be dry for the rest of the week, but with midday highs cooling off to the 40s. Overnight lows in the mid-30s.
Alternate-side parking rules are in effect all week.
Fort Hamilton High School, as seen from Third Avenue. (Photo: Brian Hedden)
We saw this note from Councilman Vincent Gentile come across our Facebook wall – we thought this was interesting in light of last week’s report that Fort Hamilton High School principal Jo Ann Chester was expected to retire/resign/be forced out:
I just got off the phone with the DOE High School Superintendent who informed me that Mrs. Kaye Houlihan will be the interim acting principal at Ft. Hamilton High School. Mrs. Houlihan comes from a prestigious specialized art background as an Assistant Principal at LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts and Edward R. Murrow High School here in Brooklyn. I wish her the best as she completes the screening process with the Dept. of Education and the Community Education Council and as a proud Ft. Hamilton alum, I look forward to working with her for the future of our great community.
Gotham Schools reported this morning that the ouster of embattled Fort Hamilton High School principal Jo Ann Chester could come as soon as tomorrow, when students and teachers will return from a four day weekend.
Reporter Geoff Decker wrote that “the school’s beleaguered principal appears to be planning her exit, according to multiple people close to the school.”
In August, the same news site had reported on the city Department of Education’s investigation into a purported scheme by the principal to underpay fourteen newly certified teachers.
The fraud allegedly allowed Chester a way around a three-year-old hiring freeze, and prevented the school from being sent short-term substitute instructors from the Absent Teacher Reserve – a pool of city teachers without permanent positions. Continue reading »
According to Gotham Schools reporters Geoff Decker and Philissa Cramer, an alleged plan to underpay over a dozen new teachers at Fort Hamilton High School has landed the school’s principal in hot water.
The scheme, which has been under investigation for months, could make Fort Hamilton High School liable for hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay to “desperate” jobless young teachers who agreed to work for “low pay, no benefits, and little security.” Continue reading »
The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life is an all-day amateur track meet that honors cancer survivors, and commemorates the millions of lives lost to the disease – all while raising money and awareness to both fund and encourage further medical research.
This year’s Relay For Life for Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Dyker Heights will take place tomorrow, Saturday, June 23, at the Fort Hamilton High School Athletic Field, beginning at 1 p.m.
Scheduled events for Saturday include an opening ceremony at 2 p.m., a Survivor Recognition & Victory Lap at 5:30 p.m., a Luminaria paper lantern ceremony at 9 p.m., and a closing ceremony at 9:30 p.m.
For more information, please visit the American Cancer Society’s website, or contact Nancy Colt at (718) 622-2492 ext. 5134, or at Nancy.Colt@cancer.org.
The Fort Hamilton Athletic Field is located near Fort Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge. It takes up two entire city blocks, bounded by 83rd Street, 85th Street, Colonial Road and Narrows Avenue.
Edgar Degas - Sala de ballet de la Ópera de la Rue Peletier
Starting in September, students at Fort Hamilton High School [8301 Shore Road] will have the opportunity to be future Baryshnikovs, Pavlovas, Ashtons and Fonteyns. In short, they’ll have the chance to dance.
And it all stems from a random conversation in a hair salon, reports Mark Morales for the Daily News. Continue reading »
A Brooklyn-raised acquaintance who move moved to Pittsburgh once marveled at the views of downtown’s skyscraper office buildings from the bluffs of the nearby Hill District – a “city at eye level” is what he called it. I’m often reminded of that by the views down the side streets off Third Avenue, particularly down 84th Street facing Fort Hamilton High School.
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