Brentwood High School (Brentwood, New York)
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Brentwood High School is a secondary school
Secondary school
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 in Brentwood
Brentwood, New York
Brentwood is a hamlet of the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Brentwood is 53,917.The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres of land on Long Island, New York, by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews...

, New York
New York
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. It is one of the largest high schools in New York State, on the southern shore of Suffolk County, Long Island
Long Island
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. Richard Loeschner is the current principal.

1951-1980

The first class to graduate from Brentwood High School was the class of 1957. Prior to this, public school students in the district attended Bay Shore High School. Brentwood High School began with only the Ross Building, with its glorious tennis courts and state of the art swimming pool. It was named for William H. Ross, M.D., psychiatrist, founder in 1898 of the Ross Health Resort (now Ross Healthcare, yet still located on Suffolk Avenue). The Sonderling Building was not built until 1965. By then there were the four Junior High Schools; the original South, then North, West and East (completed in 1966). Their students went into both high school buildings.

For over ten years in sports, Brentwood High School always ranked as League I Champions in all sports, with banners for basketball, wrestling, baseball and football adorning both gymnasiums.

In the autumn of 1968, more than half the female students staged a Dress Code protest. They wore pants. So many were sent to the office, (run by the enduring principal, Stanley P. Yankowski), by their classroom teachers, that the Dress Code was changed.

From 1967 through 1971, all 3,500 students had only 4 minute locker breaks within which to traverse both buildings. During the 1960s there were Hall Patrol Monitors stationed in the centers of all the corridors, and students were expected to walk on the right side of the hallway, to keep traffic flowing. This was abolished in September 1969 because the population was put on "split session" with the sophomores all in attendance in the afternoon session. Half of the 11th grade students with similar courseloads were also in the afternoon session, while the brighter, more advanced juniors were in the morning session with the seniors.

In 1969, the female students were still not permitted to be pregnant and "showing" and attend school. Parents were notified to sign the student out of school and be home schooled or take an equivalency test by attending night school. (Abortions had not yet been legalized.)

Temporary portable classrooms were placed between the Ross and Sonderling Buildings housing the language and health classes. The Guy di Pietro Building was later constructed in between the two main buildings in honor of the late great Social Studies Department Chairman.

The class of 1971 was the last graduating class (1,400) to use the (now demolished) Long Island Arena in Commack for their graduation cap & gown ceremonies. In 1972 the football field behind the Ross Building was used; afterwards the two buildings had separate ceremonies.

From 1974 to 1989, the student body was large enough that the two primary buildings, Ross and Sonderling, were treated as two distinct high schools. Students from North Junior High School and West Junior High School fed into Sonderling, while students from East Junior High School and South Junior High School fed into Ross. The graduating classes for the years 1980 through 1984 were around 700 each for Ross and Sonderling. By 1987, it had dropped to 450 each.

Brentwood High School was the site of the Maslow-Toffler School of Futuristic Education
Maslow-Toffler School of Futuristic Education
The Maslow-Toffler School of Futuristic Education was an alternative secondary school in Brentwood, New York from 1974 to 1983. It was co-founded by John M. Sherin and Milton Siler. Its principal from 1974 to 1982 was Conrad G. Follansbee....

, an alternative
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 high school, from 1974 to 1983.

In 1975, WXBA-FM, the high school radio
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 station was founded at Brentwood High School. WXBA's first general manager was experienced Long Island radio personality Bob Ottone, now the public address announcer for the Long Island Ducks
Long Island Ducks
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. The initial output of WXBA was ten watts (which means that the signal barely made it to the Brentwood
Brentwood, New York
Brentwood is a hamlet of the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Brentwood is 53,917.The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres of land on Long Island, New York, by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews...

/Central Islip
Central Islip, New York
Central Islip is a hamlet and census-designated place in Suffolk County, New York, U.S.. The population was 31,950 at the 2000 census.-History and overview:...

 border three miles east of the school under some conditions), then was upgraded in the summer of 1981 to 180 watts. Students would undergo a training program, usually during the summer between ninth and tenth grade, as DJ's, news readers, and engineers.

Brentwood High School established an Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps
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 (AFJROTC) in 1977. As of the fall of 2006, it was one of only two Long Island high schools to offer the program.

The Green Machine marching band came into creation during the mid-1970s.

The Associated Press
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 reported in 1980 that, a week after the principal, Stanley P. Yankowski, instructed homeroom teachers to take down the names of students who do not stand for the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
Pledge of Allegiance
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, the practice was stopped after a teacher complained to the New York Civil Liberties Union
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1981-1990

WXBA moved to expanded facilities in the newly-built G. Guy DiPietro Learning Center during the 1988-89 school year.

The Brentwood Science Olympiad team competed in the New York State Science Olympiad tournament held at West Point
United States Military Academy
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 on April 16, 1988. According to Newsday, "[t]he team finished second in Suffolk County, third on Long Island and 13th out of 147 schools in the State of New York."

In 1988, Brentwood's AFJROTC unit was named honor unit by the U.S. Air Force. "Only the top 20 percent of all units in the nation are considered for recognition as honor unit. In addition, Lt. Col. Arthur Bennett and Master Sgt. James Waide have been named outstanding instructors," according to a Newsday report.

Newsday
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, the mainstay Long Island newspaper, awarded Brentwood High School the High School of the Year Award in 1989.

1991-2000

In 1991, Katti Gray wrote in Newsday:
"A 4-by-8-foot wooden plaque, painted white and festooned with a painted yellow bow, hangs in a foyer of Brentwood High School. It lists the names of 313 who serve in Operation Desert Storm -- most of them men and women who grew up or live in the Brentwood and North Bay Shore
Bay Shore, New York
Bay Shore is a hamlet and a census-designated place located in the Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York, USA. It is situated on the south shore of Long Island, adjoining the Great South Bay. Bay Shore celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2008. The population of the CDP was 23,852 at the time of...

 areas.
The plaque carries the names of reservists and full-time soldiers, first-class privates and colonels, a West Point graduate or two, soldiers with a family history of military service and poor people for whom enlistment was the only way to earn a living."


In January 1993, John T. McQuiston reported in The New York Times
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that Matthew Hunter, a former student, had been shot and wounded during a basketball game between Brentwood and arch-rivals Sachem
Sachem School District
Sachem Central School District is one of the largest school districts by population on Long Island and among all suburban school districts in New York, United States. Founded in 1955, the district now encompasses residents of the Census-Designated Places of Holbrook, Holtsville and Farmingville, as...

.
"Anthony Felicio, president of the Brentwood School Board, said he planned to take steps to assure that 'nothing like this would ever happen again.'

Mr. Felicio and other officials decided at a meeting [January 6] that they would require students to show their school identification cards before entering sporting events."


The incident is cited in Todd Stasser's book Give a Boy a Gun.

In 1999, 56 solar panels were installed on the Ross Building.

2001-present

In 2004, The New York Times
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reported that Brentwood would be one of four Long Island school districts (the others being Hempstead
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Hempstead is a village located in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 53,891 at the 2010 census.Hofstra University is located on the border between Hempstead and Uniondale.-Foundation:...

, Lawrence
Lawrence, Nassau County, New York
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 and Manhasset
Manhasset, New York
Manhasset is a hamlet and neighborhood in Nassau County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the population was 8,080....

) that would be audited by the state comptroller in the wake of charges of theft made against school administration officials in Roslyn
Roslyn, New York
Roslyn is a village in Nassau County, New York, on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2010 Census, the village population was 2,770...

.

On Veterans' Day in 2005, Newsday
Newsday
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covered the dedication of a memorial to 15 graduates of the high school who had died during the Vietnam War
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. From top to bottom, the names and graduation years are: Richard P. Lancaster, Jr. (1960); Jose Vazquez (1963); Edward LaBarr (1964); James Seidensticker (1965); Peter Colicchio (1966); Frank Sardina (1965); Nicholas Fritz (1965); Michael Cacciuttolo (1966); Gary Guasp (1964); Daniel Hommel (1965); Joseph Funk (1964); Lawrence Soltan (1966); David Scolnick (1966); John Rosa (1968); and Thomas Wynne (1967).

In October 2006, Brentwood High School's Green Machine won in the category of Large School III at the New York State Field Band Conference
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 in Syracuse, New York
Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, the largest U.S. city with the name "Syracuse", and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170, and its metropolitan area had a population of 742,603...

. With a score of 83.75 they defeated their rivals Walt Whitman Wildcats, and the Sachem Flaming Arrows.

October 28, 2007, the Green Machine defended its New York State Championship in Large School III at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. For 2 consecutive years the Brentwood Green Machine has won the NYSFBC Governors Cup. They won at the Carrier Dome with a score of 86.10.

November 16, 2008, Brentwood High School Soccer won the NYSPHSAA Boys Soccer Championship - Class AA defeating Clarence 2-1.

June 12, 2009, Brentwood High School Softball won the NYSPHSAA Girls Softball State Championship - Class AA defeating Fairport which included Nicole Flint pitching a perfect game.

November 1, 2009, with a score of 89.95 Brentwood Green Machine Marching Band received 2nd place in the NYSFBC. Competing in the "Large School II" category. Defeating the Huntington Blue Devils, Horsehead's Blue Raider marching band, and many others.

December 5, 2009, the Green Machine Marching Band represented Brentwood in C.W Posts production of "BABES IN TOYLAND" at the Tilles Center in Brookville, NY. http://www.tillescenter.org/press/200910/pdf/babes.pdf

April 14, 2010, Brentwood High School Students Ijeamaka Anyene, William Genova, and Lauren Herrera were awarded the Bronze Medal at the International Sustainable Word Project Olympiad.

October 31, 2010, the Green Machine Marching Band won the NYSFBC Governors Cup in Large School II at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York with a score of 90.20.

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Brentwood
Brentwood, New York
Brentwood is a hamlet of the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Brentwood is 53,917.The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres of land on Long Island, New York, by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews...

 High School is among the nineteen elementary and secondary schools in the Brentwood
Brentwood, New York
Brentwood is a hamlet of the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Brentwood is 53,917.The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres of land on Long Island, New York, by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews...

 Union Free School District in Suffolk
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, NY. Brentwood High School educates students from grades 10-12 (9th graders attend the Brentwood Freshman Center) and also has an adult continuing education programs. According to city-data.com, the school has a total of 3532 students attending: 1371 from 10th grade, 991 from 11th grade, 806 from 12th grade, and 275 from adult continuing education. The high school has two auditoriums, two gymnasiums, and six cafeterias. The school is divided into 3 centers, Ross center, Sonderling center, Dipietro learning center. Students that came from East or South middle schools go to the Ross center and students who came from West and North middle schools go to the Sonderling center. The Dipietro learning center holds art and music classes. It also has a weight room and a gym, as well as a lecture center, where students go to attend lecture.

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Brentwood
Brentwood, New York
Brentwood is a hamlet of the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Brentwood is 53,917.The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres of land on Long Island, New York, by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews...

 High School is among the nineteen elementary and secondary schools in the Brentwood
Brentwood, New York
Brentwood is a hamlet of the Town of Islip in Suffolk County, New York. According to the 2000 Census, the population of Brentwood is 53,917.The colony was established on March 21, 1851, on 750 acres of land on Long Island, New York, by Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews...

 Union Free School District in Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...

, NY. Brentwood High School educates students from grades 10-12 (9th graders attend the Brentwood Freshman Center) and also has an adult continuing education programs. According to city-data.com, the school has a total of 3532 students attending: 1371 from 10th grade, 991 from 11th grade, 806 from 12th grade, and 275 from adult continuing education. The high school has two auditoriums, two gymnasiums, and six cafeterias. The school is divided into 3 centers, Ross center, Sonderling center, Dipietro learning center. Students that came from East or South middle schools go to the Ross center and students who came from West and North middle schools go to the Sonderling center. The Dipietro learning center holds art and music classes. It also has a weight room and a gym, as well as a lecture center, where students go to attend lecture.

1960-1981

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    , a founder of the Free Software Foundation
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     (graduated in 1967)
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1981-2000

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    , staff editor, The New York Times
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    (graduated in 1981)
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  • James "Buddy" McGirt
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    , boxer (graduated in 1982)
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     (graduated in 1986)
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    , rapper (graduated in 1988)
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    , boxer (graduated in 2000)

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