Vintage back-to-school photos on Long Island
From left, first-graders Barbara Erickson, Beth Maloney and Maris Abolins at Bayview School in West Islip on Sept. 9, 1973. Credit: Newsday/Bob Luckey
As summer draws to a close, children and young adults across Long Island are preparing for the beginning of a new school year.
It’s a time of fresh starts — new teachers, new classmates and new adventures — but also new challenges.
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As summer draws to a close, children and young adults across Long Island are preparing for the beginning of a new school year.
Clockwise from top left: Kindergartners at Babylon Elementary welcome the school year with a mix of expressions in 1991; June Isaacson gathers her second-grade students at Gribbin Elementary School in Glen Cove in 1985; tears stream down the face of kindergartner William Ferrara, of Bethpage, in 1960 as teacher Evelyn Molinoski pins on a name tag; students line up for the buses outside Pulaski Road School in East Northport on the first day of classes in 1974; and, in 1980, at Westbury High School, the district’s new superintendent of schools, John M. Franco, right, talks with students watching football practice. Credit: Jim Peppler, Alan Raia, Jim Nightingale, Stan Wolfson and Cliff De Bear
It’s a time of fresh starts — new teachers, new classmates and new adventures — but also new challenges.
Lisa Rogers runs to her mother at the end of her first day of kindergarten at Forest Road School in Valley Stream on Sept. 3, 1980; and youngsters head to Pulaski Road School in East Northport on Sept. 3, 1974. Credit: Bob Luckey, Stan Wolfson
Newsday photographers have been there to capture it all, from a kindergartner’s first-day tears to weightier moments, like the integration of local schools.
From left, first-grade classmates Mark Johnson, Tommy Haberle and Tommy Woodward work together on a puzzle on their first day of classes at the Munsey Park School in Manhasset on Sept. 9, 1964. The school had been ordered integrated by a federal court. Credit: Newsday/Marvin Sussman
You can find more scenes from Long Island’s past, all curated by Newsday’s librarians, at the Vintage Newsday Instagram account.
Clockwise from top left: Margaret Kelly, 5, reluctantly heads for the school bus stop with her mother on her first day of kindergarten at the W.S. Mount School in Stony Brook in 1973; Danielle Papsidero, 6, gets some one-on-one time with her teacher, Carmen Cicero, at the Gribbin Elementary School in Glen Cove on Sept. 2, 1980; transportation budget cuts led to a crowd of bicycles outside Robert Cushman Murphy Junior High School in Stony Brook on Sept. 4, 1968; John Kalish, assistant Syosset schools superintendent, checks stacks of books meant for students at the high school on Aug. 29, 1973. Credit: Bob Luckey, Naomi Lasdon, Walter del Toro and Alan Raia
You’ll recognize it by the circular photo of Newsday’s first female photographer, Edna Murray, circa 1945. — Kim Predham, LI Life Editor
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