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JEFFERSON HIGH students wait to enter school Monday for their first day of classes at the new school.
BILL WEST / Star Beacon
DAVID BOOKBINDER, 13, and Shyann Blasiman, 14, make their way to the new Jefferson Junior High School Monday for the first day of classes in the school. The students are in the eigth grade.
Published November 02, 2009 11:12 pm - The long anticipated first day for Jefferson Junior and Senior High School students and staff dawned bright with excitement and pride Monday morning.
An historic day in Jefferson Excited students, faculty, staff welcome first day in new high school complex
By ELLEN KOLMAN - Staff Writer - ekolman@starbeacon.com Star Beacon
JEFFERSON — The long anticipated first day for Jefferson Junior and Senior High School students and staff dawned bright with excitement and pride Monday morning.
Thanks to a student/parent orientation last week, and armed with schedules and maps, most students seemed confident about where to go on their first day.
“This is going to be a great day in our new building,” said senior Matt Osborne.
Senior Sarah Paul agreed.
“Any confusion will soon work itself out,” she said with a big smile.
The two-story, 162,000-square-foot junior/senior high school boasts a 750-seat state-of-the-art, 11,000-square-foot auditorium, a central kitchen area, which is complete with seven flatscreen televisions, a multimedia center with 50 new computers, two gymnasiums and much more.
To help ease the students into their new surroundings was a team of former teachers and staff members who served as guides and friendly familiar faces on the first day.
“They called us in to help, and so far I haven’t had to help too many lost students,” said Ed Pickard who retired from teaching in 2005.
Retired guidance counselor Pat Inman said the most common question she was asked by students was, “Do you know where locker so-in-so is?”
“We’ve been divided up into sections and have answered a few questions, but everyone seems to know where they are going,” Inman said.
Junior Syanne Palmer got up extra early to get to school early to avoid any chaos.
“It will be a whole new experience, I’m exited about it,” she said.
High school science teacher Christy Seymour said, “There is a lot of excitement and positive energy here today.”
In order to make sure everyone knew what was expected, all students, two grade levels at a time, were called into the auditorium for an assembly.
“The community gave us this beautiful school and we are counting on you to help us keep it beautiful,” said principal John Montanaro.
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