Eastport South Manor school news, September 3

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Eastport South Manor

Orientation for seventh-graders entering Eastport South Manor Junior-Senior High School this year will be held on Thursday, September 3, starting at 9:45 a.m. at the school, which is located on Moriches-Middle Island Road in Manorville.

Students will get their class schedules, meet guidance counselors and teachers, and receive a tour of the building so they can find their classrooms and lockers. A picnic lunch will be served in the courtyard after an assembly and students will get to socialize with their new classmates.

The first day of school for students attending the Eastport South Manor School District is Wednesday, September 9.

Several new administrators will greet students when classes resume next week. Daniel Espina, Ellen Fantauzzi, Jon Lebenns, Bill Madsen, Maureen Malone-Avione and Lawrence Puccio will be among the new and familiar faces that are expected to play a big role this school year.

Daniel Espina joins the district as its new director of technology. Before coming to Eastport South Manor, Mr. Espina held the same position with the Hewlett-Woodmere School District. Additionally, he is the vice president of Computer Associates International and president and chief information officer of Merging Technologies, Inc.

Mr. Espina recently received his advanced certificate as a school district business leader and a professional diploma in school district administration from Dowling College. He holds a master’s degree in technological systems management from SUNY at Stony Brook and bachelor’s degree in secondary education, with a concentration in biology, from SUNY at Plattsburgh.

Ellen Fantauzzi is filling the district’s vacant position of English department chairwoman. She most recently served as the assistant to the assistant superintendent for instructional services with the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District. Also, she held the titles of district staff developer and director of public relations.

Ms. Fantauzzi had a wide range of responsibilities, including directing the district’s ESL program, and coordinating its Professional Development and Project Lead the Way programs. She was previously employed as an English teacher in both the West Islip and Bay Shore school districts. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from SUNY at Stony Brook, her master’s degree in secondary education from Hofstra University, and her professional diploma as a school district administrator from Dowling College. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in curriculum and teaching at Hofstra University.

Jon Lebenns returns to ESM as chairman of the math department. Mr. Lebenns had served as the acting department chair for the second half of the 2008-09 school year and has been teaching at ESM for more than eight years.

Prior to his arrival at ESM, Mr. Lebenns taught at both the junior and senior high school levels in the Rocky Point School District. He received his master’s degree in liberal studies from SUNY at Stony Brook and his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and natural science from Dowling College.

Bill Madsen has been appointed to serve as the new director of athletics for ESM. Mr. Madsen most previously served as the director of physical education, health and athletics, as well as the supervisor of buildings and grounds for the Sag Harbor School District. Before that, he spent a combined 15 years as a physical education teacher and coach in the Rocky Point and Brentwood school districts. He also has experience coaching on the collegiate level as the head women’s softball coach at C.W. Post.

Among his many honors, Mr. Madsen was named Man of the Year in Athletics in 2005 by The Village Beacon Record. He was selected as the Suffolk County Football Division III Coach of the Year in 2005 and 2007, the Junior Varsity Boys Basketball Coach of the Year in 1995, 1996 and 1997, and National Junior College Basketball Coach of Year in 1994.

Maureen Malone-Avione is a familiar face in the ESM Social Studies Department. She will once again serve as that department’s chairwoman, a position she held for the 2007-08 school year. Prior to her time at ESM, Mrs. Malone-Avione worked in the Plainview-Old Bethpage School District as a social studies teacher at the secondary level.

She also has experience as a social studies teacher at Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows and as a prevention specialist at Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School in Jamaica, New York. She received her professional diploma, master’s degree in education and bachelor’s degree from Queens College.

Lawrence Puccio is the district’s new science department chairman. His administrative experience includes several years as principal at the Trinity Lutheran School in Hicksville and dean of students at Saint John the Baptist Diocesan High School in West Islip. He also served as a science teacher/coordinator at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County in Uniondale.