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A Day in the Life: Sam Waters ’12
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, reading about other people’s lives has become a common obsession. Here, Maroon takes you into the lives of four people at SHS: three students and one teacher. Senior Curan Mehra, juniors Courtney Loo and Sam Waters, and beloved Physical Education teacher Devin Hoover all spend their days at [...]
A Day in the Life: Physical Education Teacher Devin Hoover
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, reading about other people’s lives has become a common obsession. Here, Maroon takes you into the lives of four people at SHS: three students and one teacher. Senior Curan Mehra, juniors Courtney Loo and Sam Waters, and beloved Physical Education teacher Devin Hoover all spend their days at [...]
A Day in the Life: Courtney Loo ’12
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, reading about other people’s lives has become a common obsession. Here, Maroon takes you into the lives of four people at SHS: three students and one teacher. Senior Curan Mehra, juniors Courtney Loo and Sam Waters, and beloved Physical Education teacher Devin Hoover all spend their days at [...]
No Child Left Untested
Hallway banter about the likability—or lack thereof—of a particular teacher is typically accompanied by frequent, surveying glances to ensure that the teacher in question is not nearby. Whether venting or praising an instructor, these reflections are secretive, their details largely unknown to faculty. Pending federal mandates aim to create a public form of those evaluations, [...]
Making it Clique: Social Shifts at SHS
Where only first names appear, names have been changed at the request of those interviewed. “A certain clique will be sitting at one table, and you can’t sit there because it’s as if they think they own it,” Rose ’11 remarked on the SHS cafeteria scene. “Certain groups just take the first table, and it’s [...]
Maroon Talks With Assistant Principal Sue Peppers
How long have you been at SHS? Sue Peppers: I’ll be starting my twenty-third year. Did you work at any other schools before? SP: I taught at Ardsley High School before I came here and I also taught very briefly at, what was then, Harrison Junior-Senior High School. So you were a teacher before you [...]
In the Hot Seat: Maroon Talks with Principal John Klemme
How long have you been at SHS? John Klemme: I’ve been principal here for 13 years. Did you work at other schools before? JK: I moved here from suburban Detroit where I was an assistant principal, an English department chair, and an English teacher before that. So having been both an administrator and teacher, which [...]
Maroon Talks With Assistant Principal Fred Goldberg
How long have you been at SHS? Fred Goldberg: This is my 13th year at Scarsdale. Scarsdale is the fifth high school where I have worked. I worked at my alma mater for two years in the Bronx, and I worked at Stevenson High School in the Bronx for 14 years. I was the English [...]
Maroon Talks With Assistant Principal Kelley Hamm
For how long have you been at SHS? Kelley Hamm: I have been at SHS for 30 years. I worked in the Bedford and Patchogue-Medford school districts before this. Have you always been an administrator? KH: I have, for most of my career, been a teacher. I was a teacher here for many years, and [...]
