Sayre names school archives after board member and another
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Review Photo/C.J. Marshall Kay Husick (left) was honored by the Sayre Area School Board at its regular meeting Monday when it voted to rename the school archives as the House-Husick Sayre Area School District Archives. In addition to Husick, the archives were also named for Phyllis House. In the center is district business manager Sam Moore, and board member Donald Skerpon, who made the motion to rename the archives.
By C.J. Marshall
The Sayre Area School Board honored one of its own at its regular meeting on Monday by naming the school archives after her and another person.
However, during the board's action, member Kay Husick, who was the proposed recipient of the honor, protested that she has an aversion to anything being named after anyone. But despite her protestations, the board, on a motion made by member Donald Skerpon and seconded by Chuck Carver, voted to name the archives the House-Husick Sayre Area School District Archives. Husick was the only board member to vote "no" on the motion.
In addition to Husick, the archives have also been named for the late Phyllis House, who served for many years as secretary to the Sayre Area School District, and who, along with Husick, kept the archives for many years. District Superintendent Dean Hosterman explained after the meeting that the archives are housed in the Sayre High School, and contain a collection of school memorabilia that goes back many years. Among the items in the archives, he said, are cheerleaders uniforms from the 1950s, old baseball uniforms, yearbooks, and other items donated by people over the years. He said House and Husick performed a lot of volunteer work in setting up and maintaining the archives.
Husick said afterwards that's she very honored by the board's actions.
"Even though I still think that it's wrong to identify it (the archives) with a person," she said with a smile.
Husick said she also wants to make note of all the effort House put into working on the archives before she died.
"Nobody will every realize how important that is," she explained.
In other business during the meeting, Hosterman had high praise for everyone who worked at making the flu shot clinic in the district a success on Friday - particularly for school nurse Cindy Jones who organized it. The clinic was for the inoculation of students with the H1N1 vaccine against swine flu.
Hosterman said that of the 7,000 school districts across the nation participating in the program, Sayre was the first to do it. He said Jones was the one who made it all happen for the district, and thanked her and everyone else who worked hard to make it a success. He said that the event was covered extensively by the media, and he had calls from school districts in Pittsburgh, Lancaster and State College calling and asking him how things went.
In addition, the board also presented certificates to four students in recognition for their being named Student of the Month. High school principal Dayton Handrick presented the certificates to 11th grader Andrea Webster, ninth grader Nicholas Skerpon, eighth grader Brook Wampole, and eighth grader Stephen Yanuzzi.
C.J. Marshall can be reached at (570) 265-1652; e-mail: cjmarshall@thedailyreview.com.
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