The 2009-2010 Calendar & Directory - Syosset High School

Parent Teacher Association
The Syosset Council of PTAs was organized in 1954 and includes representatives from all eleven
PTA/PTSA units in the Syosset Central School District. It forms a part of the Nassau District and
the New York State PTA, a branch of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
The Council voting body consists of the president, the principal and six delegates from each elementary
unit. The secondary schools are represented by the president, the principal, the assistant
principals, as well as seven delegates from each middle school, and fourteen delegates from the high
school. SEPTA is represented by the president, the Director of Pupil Personnel Services and six
delegates.The Superintendent of Schools is also a voting member of the Council.
PTA Council serves to strengthen and coordinate the activities of its member units, to promote
cooperation and communication on community-wide projects, programs, and activities
that will fall within the scope of PTA objectives.
All PTA Council Executive Board and General Meetings listed in the calendar begin
at 8:00 p.m.
PTA Council Officers
President
1st Vice President
2nd Vice President
3rd Vice President
4th Vice President
Recording Secretary
Susan Parker
364-2401
Roberta Dochter
921-4252
Stephanie Avidon
935-8234
Belinda Wiseman
692-7884
Julie Gropper
921-5055
Lisa Fallah
364-9259
Corresponding Secretary Sandi Kroll
933-4826
Treasurer
Past President
Theresa Gordon
921-7227
Susan Contino
921-2753
PTA Objectives:
* to promote the welfare of children
and youth in home, school, community
and place of worship
* to raise the standards of home life
* to secure adequate laws for the care
and protection of children and youth
* to bring into closer relation the home
and school, that parents and teachers
may cooperate intelligently in the
education of children and youth
* to develop between educators and
the general public such united efforts
as will secure for all children and
youth, the highest advantages in
physical, mental, social and spiritual
education
Unit Presidents
Baylis Sue Tabakin 677-0459
Berry Hill Liza Rosen 677-0386
Patty Santella 682-5117
Robbins Lane Robin Altman 827-1310
Tristen Sussman 390-9692
South Grove Nikoletta Tsiolis 677-0833
Village Yesim Kuliner 364-4656
Jeanmarie Scanapico 496-3887
Walt Whitman Karen Avrick 692-2444
Margot Miller 364-2818
A.P. Willits Vicki Leibowitz 677-0028
Amy Starr 496-7353
South Woods MS Robin Grossman 681-9070
Donna Zaino 496-8296
H.B. Thompson MS Shari Beck 933-1849
Syosset High School Marcia Sparer 496-3612
SEPTA South Grove Amy Cantor 367-2918
(Special Education PTA) Randi Gertler 692-6265
The Syosset Scholarship Fund, Inc.
In 1958, the Syosset Council of PTAs and the Syosset Teachers’
Association jointly sponsored the Syosset Scholarship Fund to promote
higher education through grants to Syosset High School graduates. Annual
fund raising activities are held to support the program, including a mailing
campaign scheduled to begin in September 2009 and an annual theater
party weekend in March 2010.
In June 2009, 8 scholarships of $3,000 each were awarded to
district graduates.
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