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NOTTINGHAM TEACHERS RETIRE IN 2006

Congratulations, good luck, and thank you to the Nottingham teachers who retired in 2006:Karen Calenzo, Carol Cooper (Vice Principal), Pat Doney, Len Fonte, Barb Grimm, Stephanie Ladd, Chris Perkins, Pat Reid, and Diane Phipps (Nottingham class of ’60).

December 28, 2006

Nottingham was one of six schools selected for a yearlong research project by the Partners for Arts Education, a non profit group that assesses relationships between local schools and cultural organizations.

December 3, 2006

Several students from Nottingham participated in the recent New York State Association of Reduction, Reuse and Recycling (NYSAR3) / Go Green Initiative (GGI) in Syracuse. Twenty-five schools in the Syracuse city school district are involved with the GGI program – the most of any city school district in the country.

November 30, 2006

Eight students from Nottingham and Corcoran are participating in the Unity Project, a radio, television and publishing intiative to teach young people about media images and messages, as well as giving them experience in developing a radio program and television segment. They will produce a documentary about the reality of high school, with assistance from professors at SU’s Newhouse School. The documentary is expected to be released Jan. 12.

November 23, 2006

Kevin Brown took second place in the high school division of the Syracuse school district oratorical contest.

November 22, 2006

Nottingham social studies teacher John Fredette ran the Harrisburg Marathon,  He was helped in the race by the memory of his son Josh, who was murdered last year.

November 10, 2006

Junior Chris Davis has become a top golfer at Nottingham. He won a medal at the City Tournament at Drumlins Sept. 22.  His goal is to play golf at a Division I school.

November 9, 2006

Keyboardist-singer-songwriter and Nottingham grad Jonah Smith performed at the OHM Lounge in Syracuse. He has performed in major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Minneapolis, and Chicago, and has released a self-titled CD.

November 9, 2006

Nottingham lost the Section III Class A football championship to East Syracuse-Minoa. It would have been their first championship since 1980.

November 8, 2006

At a meeting held by Principal Debra Mastropaolo, parents and staff said Nottingham is a safe place, despite recent incidents.

November 2, 2006

Former Nottingham football players Darnell Pratt and Nick Barksdale both transferred to Milford Academy in a successful effort to meet eligibility requirements to play college ball. Darnell has received a full scholarship offer from Western Michigan University.

October 31, 2006

Junior Danielle Evans is part of the Signature Syracuse jazz education program. She plays bassoon, bass guitar and flute.

October 27, 2006

Several incidents at Nottingham in less than a month have caused Nottingham teachers to file charges against students. The incidents involved threats, assaults, foul language and menacing.

October 15, 2006

Several Nottingham alumni were inducted into the Nottingham Wall of Fame in a ceremony October 14. Christina Rose Skillin and Joshua Federman were married October 7, 2006, in Hot Springs, NC. Joshua is a social worker in Asheville, NC, where the couple reside.

September 29, 2006

Stephon Martin, senior, is a semifinalist for the 2007 National Achievement Scholarship Program. Finalists will receive awards in April, 2007.

September 13, 2006

Nottingham was one of the schools which improved so much that they may get off the state Education Department’s list of schools in need of improvement.

September 10, 2006

A Post-Standard column featured Nottingham alumnus Andrew Branch who started a successful driving school 43 years ago. His children Deraux, Della, and Theresa are now involved in the school. Andrew just won a gold medal in the 100-meter dash at the Empire State Games, senior division. Andy’s driving teacher at Nottingham was Ed Parent, who retired in the 60’s.

September 5, 2006

Senior Lauren Davis volunteered to help during Nottingham’s freshman orientation. She is also senior class president, active in DECA business club and play sports.

August 29, 2006

Nottingham graduate Mac Gifford will be retained as associate head coach of women’s tennis and director of tennis operations at SU. He previously coached the SU women to an 83-64 record, finishing in second place in the 2004 Big East tournament.

August 15, 2006

Vuong Nguyen, Nottingham junior, is spending his third summer working with children at the Asian Apostolate’s summer program in Syracuse.

July 20, 2006

The New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants sponsored a Career Opportunities in the Accounting Profession program for high school juniors. Among the attendees was Nottingham student Nina Daoud.

June 29, 2006

Boston-based Nottingham alum Harry Skoler, a nationally known swing clarinetist, performed June 18 at the seventh annual Jewish Music and Cultural Festival in Clinton Square. June 24, 2006 Chris Andrews, junior, was named to the All-CNY track & field team.

June 22, 2006

Gillian Jackson will become the 12th child in her family to graduate from Nottingham. Ranked sixth in her class, Gillian will attend Hamilton College. Her Nottingham siblings are: John (Harvard), Joel (Cornell), Katherine (Cornell), Lydia (Amherst), Nicholas (Colgate), Nathaniel (Colgate), Susannah (William Smith), Samuel (Hamilton), Martha (Hamilton), Sylvia (Colgate), and Brandon (Middlebury).

June 21, 2006

Twins Anita “Annie” Hargrave and Augustine “Gus” Hargrave are salutatorian and valedictorian, respectively, of their senior class at Nottingham.

June 19, 2006

Sanabor Kakhramanova, a Meskhetian Turk, faced discrimination in Russia. Now her son and daughter attend Nottingham and enjoy it because they don’t feel second-class.

June 18, 2006

Corey Harris was a winner of the National Achievement Scholarship from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. He planned to attend MIT to study mechanical and aerospace engineering.

June 12, 2006

Two Nottingham students, Nicholas Fields, tenor, and Maricia Seigler, alto, were in the mixed chorus at the New York State School Music Association Conference All-State concert performance in Rochester last Nov. 30 – Dec. 4. Samantha Lynn Rifkin and Jeremy Garelick were married June 8, 2006, in West Orange, NJ. Samantha, formerly employed by Goldman Sachs, changed her career to cooking and is now a personal chef, instructor and food consultant residing in Los Angeles, where her husband is a screenwriter and producer.

May 30, 2006

Junior Kevin Brown II wrote a column in the Post-Standard urging more focus on education in the early years to ensure success in high school.

May 27, 2006

Nottingham’s track and field team won the Section III Class A-1 meet, under coach Paul Sealy. Key performers were Chris Andrews, Chaz Legette, Brian Hall, and Stephan Martin.

May 24, 2006

Congratulations to the following Nottingham students (and their parents!) for their academic accomplishments.  Their academic averages put them in the top ten of Nottingham's class of 2006, and their ranks were announced at Tuesday evening's Academic Awards celebration.  Very well done!

Valedictorian:  Gus Hargrave  planning to attend Syracuse University
Salutatorian:   Annie Hargrave planning to attend University of Rochester
3.  Nadia Essi  SUNY-Environmental Science and Forestry
4.  Corey Harris  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5.  Natalie Bennet    University of Buffalo
6.  Gillian Jackson   Hamilton College
7.  Corey Kotlar   SUNY-Geneseo
8.  Pat Moore    SUNY-Binghamton
9.  Jasna Ramic  Lemoyne
10. Katarina Stuetzle  Lemoyne

May 21, 2006

Len Fonte received a lifetime achievement award from the Syracuse Area Live Theatre Youth Awards (SALTYS). Len also received an award for Best Director and Distinguished Educator. Other Nottingham honorees: Best Actress High School Musical: Fiona Barbour “Ragtime”  (tie), Best Play: “Under Milkwood”.

May 21, 2006

Congratulations to the Nottingham drama department that brought home several of the first-ever Syracuse Area Live Theater Youth (SALTY) awards announced Saturday.  Junior Fiona Barbour won the Best Actress in a High School Musical, Nottingham's production of Under Milkwood won Best High School Play, and retiring teacher and director Len Fonte won Best High School Director and Lifetime Achievement Award.  Bravo!

May 18, 2006

Partners for Education and Business recognized some local students, businesses and educators during its annual meeting. Among the honorees were Nottingham students Kevin Brown, Lauren Davis, Corey Gabriel Harris, and Zelda Thomas

May 18, 2006

Nottingham was one of the sites for career fairs organized by the Military Alternatives Education Project, a coalition of groups including Peace Action CNY, AFSE, Pax Christi Syracuse, Syracuse Greens, and Syracuse Peace Council. Participants included Planned Parenthood, Americorps, and American Friends Service Committee. One of the organizers was Nottingham junior Tessa Corcoran-Sayers.

May 17, 2006

Stephen A. and Nottingham graduate Nancy M. Rogers received the 2006 Inter-religious Leadership Award from the InterReligious Council of Central New York.

May 16, 2006

Lauren Davis, Nottingham junior, was one of the students traveling south for the annual Civil Rights Connection trip. The students will help with Katrina cleanup in Mississippi, visit the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, tour a plantation, and meet Charles Evers, brother of assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

May 11, 2006

Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll declared a community recognition day for retiring English teacher Len Fonte. He was honored as the driving force behind Nottingham’s successful drama program.

May 7, 2006

State legislators have introduced a bill, the Healthy Teens Act, which would create a grant program for sex education programs in schools and community-based organizations that cover more than abstinence. Nottingham health teacher Pat Reid says, “Everything we do is certainly prefaced by, �Abstinence is the only way to avoid all these things.’ But we do discuss all these issues. If we can’t do it here in this atmosphere, where can we talk about it in an educated manner? Where are students going to get the information?”

May 4, 2006

Mitchell Cyrus, a sentry at Nottingham, was awarded the Mary Ficchi Lifetime Achievement Award on April 26 by The Parents for Public Schools of Syracuse. Molly Voorheis received the Parent Excellence Award for Community Service.

April 17, 2006

Javier Garcia, Ilko Luque, Gerardo Madera,Luis Marrero participated in the "Cross-Cultural Connection," a collaborative project of the Syracuse Police Department, Syracuse City School District, Syracuse University and the West Side Learning Center.  These students worked with police department officers, serving as their Latino "teachers."

April 14, 2006

Three Nottingham students are being recognized by the CNY Reads program - http://library.syr.edu/cnyreads/   Nottingham English teacher Michelle Monsour's 11th grade English classes, including an inclusion class taught with Judy Lonergan, read this year's CNY Reads book, Miriam Grace Monfredo's historical mystery novel, North Star Conspiracy.  They also participated in the essay and poetry contest related to the novel sponsored by CNY Reads.  The following won awards: Essay winner: Rosin Machnaigh;  Poetry winner: Jargalan Nermunkh; Honorable Mentions for poetry:  Rosin Macnaigh and Darryl Carter

April 11, 2006

An article on student clubs mentioned Nottingham’s juggling and break dancing clubs.

April 7, 2006

Nottingham hosts its annual Multicultural Day.   Classes run a bit shorter, and by noon students are invited to watch a variety of performances and purchase an array of delicious foods that represent the many ethnicities of Nottingham students.

April 2, 2006

The Neighbors section of the Post-Standard featured a great article on upper-level French students enjoying new copies of The Little Prince (or Le Petite Something, if you remember just a little of YOUR high school French).  Nottingham French teacher Cindy Cronin was able to purchase a new set of books thanks to a grant from the Nottingham alumni group, The Nottingham Connection.

April 2006

Nottingham science teacher Dr.  Myriam Ibarra, was recently selected to participate in the Cornell University Research Experience for Teachers I (RET) from July 5 - August 15, 2006.  This program provides middle and high school math and science teachers with an intense, six-week period of in-depth study at the Cornell Center for Materials and Research (CCMR) laboratories.  This mission of CCMR is to advance, explore and exploit the forefront of the science and engineering of advanced materials.  The unifying theme of current research is the study of materials purposefully structured at the nanoscale (near Atomic dimensions).

March 31, 2006

Two Nottingham music students were selected to participate in the All-County Jazz Festival on Saturday, April 1. Missy Seigler will perform with the senior high vocal jazz ensemble, and Nick Fields will play with the senior high jazz band.

March 30, 2006

Amir Junuzovic, a teaching assistant at Nottingham was featured in an article.  He works with the English as a Second language program.  Junuzovic emigrated from Bosnia when he was 20.  He speaks Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, English and some German. He is taking his Masters at LeMoyne in Education.

March 30, 2006

A Post-Standard article featured the positive effects of some of the grants awarded by The Nottingham Connection: new books, digital cameras and microphones for the Foreign Language Department.

March 28, 2006

Select sophomores and music students will participate in session two of the baroque workshop led by Ms. Fennessey, Mr. Little, Mr. Sturge, and Mr. Fonte.  Students will have the opportunity to look more closely at the culture of the baroque period.

March 3, 2006

Nottingham journalism teacher Ginny Fennessy reports the following:  Staff members of Nottingham's school newspaper, Common Ground, have won several awards from the Syracuse Post-Standard's editorial contest.  This year, for the first time, we have a first place winner in the editorial writing contest: sophomore Malcolm Walters, whose editorial will be printed on March 23.  Receiving honorable mention in writing were India Robinson, Luke Thorley  and Henry Flournoroy, and in cartoons Dan Baldwin and  Anthony Hinkelman.

March 3, 2006

Two Nottingham mathletes are moving on to the state Math League competition April 8 after a good showing in Saturday's 29th annual Onondaga County Math League Meet.  Corey Harris and Jargalan Nermunkh have accumulated enough points during the season to be eligible to compete in the state meet.  Math teacher Stephanie  Ladd coaches the Nottingham math team.

March 2, 2006

This year’s spring musical was Ragtime. Twenty-three actors, 13 members of the Harlem Ensemble, 26 members of the New Rochelle Ensemble, a pit band of 6 students and 5 adults, and a crew of 13, plus a student co-choreographer,  were guided by director Len Fonte and 8 other coaching adults. The play ran for 3 performances to rave reviews! Xiaoqin Wu and George A. Rathbun were married Feb. 26, 2006, in Syracuse. The couple reside in Brooklyn.

Feb. 9, 2006

The All-City Instrumental Music Festival included the following Nottingham students:  Leslie Gordon, flute; Dan Fields, clarinet 1; Denise Memelli, clarinet 1, Katherine Town, clarinet 1; Emilo Santos, tenor saxophone; Charlie Conant, trumpet 1, Meghan Ferro, trumpet 11, and Ethan Eschoffery, euphonium.

Jan. 29, 2006

Chaz Legette was one of 56 area high school football players honored at the Central New York Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's Sixth Annual Scholar-Athlete Awards Banquet. Honored students received scholarships and heard from keynote speaker and NFL great Art Monk.

Jan 19, 2006

Missy Seigler, 17 years old, sang at the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra’s Young Persons Concert on Jan. 18.  It’s rare for the SSO to allow students to join them.   Quick to give credit to school and family, Missy said that “There are very good music programs at Nottingham.”

Four Nottingham students will join students from Corcoran and Henninger to play Jan. 8th with the S.U. Pep band at the Carrier Dome.  The high school students are filling in for vacationing SU students.

Jan. 7, 2006

The Nottingham Leadership Development class and the Central New York Community Foundation contributed $1,000 to the Huntington Center for a youth program to build 4 canoes under the guidance of Ted Rulfs, amateur canoe building. Denise Marie Canino (Nott. grad) and Christopher Russell Williams were married Sept. 2, 2005, in Syracuse.  Denise is a teacher in the Syracuse City School District

January 9, 2007

In an article about the Gifford Foundation, it was noted that the Syracuse City School District had received a grant of $15,000 in 2006 for the Nottingham High School Career Center.

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