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Townsend Harris High School at Queens College. 75-40 Parsons Blvd., 11366
Hanis chosen for excellence advances in national competition as state finalist By David Herszenhorn at Townsend Harris regarding the ownsend Harris was com petition and the filing of the named one of the 36 application. "That piece of work New York State (the application) was pu t together high school fmalists by a large com mitt ee including . to advance to the st u d e nt s , par ents, teache rs , next level of the (Queens College liais o n) Dr. National Secondary (Rob ert) Haan and myself," said Schools of Excellence competition. Dr. Largmann. This competition is designed to The committee was chaired by recognize the achievements of high Dr. Largman n who ass igne d schools on a national level. responsibilities and superv ised the A c c o rd i n g to Pr incipal proceedings . Dr. Largma nn said, Malcolm Lar gmann , " A commit- "I decided who woul d be respontee of specialists at the Sta te sible for which part ... Everybody Ed ucation Department selected helped everybody else... . I put certain sch oo ls fro m th e number together what everybo dy did ." that applied . These schools are Speaking of the lengthy applicanow qualified to compete on a na- tio n, Gui dance Assistant Pri ncipal Sheila Orn er said, "Since I firmly tionalleveI." A c cording to Principa l believe that we are a scho ol of exMalcolm La rgm ann , "A commit- cellence, I truly enjoyed working tee of , specialists at the State on it." Education Department selected The completed application was certain schools from the number due on November I, 1988 and had that applied. Th ese schools are to be approved by Queens High 'n ow qualified to comp ete on a na- Scho ols Superintend ent Samuel tional level." Kostrnan and New York City Townsend Harris repre sents the 'Board of Education President , on ly high school in Qu eens to ad- Rob ert F . Wagner Jr. vance in th e competition. Pleased to be a state fin alist, Mem bers of th e Department of Dr. Lar gmann said, "The fact Educat ion in Washington, college that we were sent to the na tion al professors, and experts in the field level by Alba ny indicates that of educ ation will visit a pre- , we're recog nized in the state . selected number of schools from We're hoping it will be tremenamong the stat e finalists in order dous for morale and great for our to fur the r evaluate the school's image, but it 's a long- shot because credentials and verify the accuracy we are only four years old. Other of the application. 'older schools have been comDr. Largmann said , " If we are peting for years. " Mrs. Orner chosen, sometime in Febru ary ex- said , "I think we trul y deserve it." aminers will come to spend a couThe Nat i o n a l Se c o n d a r y pie of days with us. They will ex- Schools of Excellence recognizes amine our program and talk to 'not' only the achi evements of high students and teachers to see if we schools throughout the country. were being honest in our applica- but also element ary, intermediat e, tion. The kids have to be made and junior high schools. Queens Intermed iate School aware of how important their 227 in East Elmhurst was comremarks are." Schools were invited to submit . mended as a National School o~, applications which, upon their Excellence in 1983. I. S. 227 is a completion, according to Dr. magnet school which allows Largmann, "ran to almost 40 'students from all over Queens to pages ' of essays." Schools apply for admi ssion and. similar to answered questions dealing with Townsend H arris, has a strong atcurriculum and were required to filiation with Queens College. Other New York ..City high state individual school goals and philosophy. schools reported as ad vanc ing in Dr. Largmann said that there this year's National Secondary were "very rigid and specific Schools of Excellen ce competition guidelines. The application had are the Bronx High School of to be as anonymous as possible. Science , William H . Taft, also in (The committee) was not suppos- the Bronx, South Sho re and Eded to know the name of the school ward R. Murrow high schools in that they were reading about." Brooklyn and Susan E . Wagner in A series of meetings were held Staten Island .
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Math team places second Sophomore, junio-r rank 2, 3 By Lisa B. Sanders of three competitions which took he Townsend Harris place in October, November and . Iunior Math Team December. placed second citywide. H a ral d indicated that he narrowly fmishing thought the questions posed in the behind Styvesant High competitions "were not School in a series of three faIl difficult ," and that Mr. Rattien's competitions sponsored by the , coaching was "helpful." New York City Interscholastic Mr . Rattien, speaking of the Math Leag\JCII Math Team's achievements, said, "Having our Junior Math Team Sophomore Jung Yueh placed place second in New York City second citywide in individual scor- was really exciting. Adding one ing, with a total of 16, one point sophomore, who is already one of behind City Leader Richard Sun the best problem solvers in the of Stuyvesant. Junior Harald Kiel city, to a team of high-scoring is tied for third place, one point juniors, has put the T ownsend Harris High School J unior Math behind Jung. The contest consisted of a total Team on the map, where it . of eighteen problems, six in each belongs ."
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