The Greenwich Japanese School Alumni Association (APPLESEED)

New York Chapter

Fresh Meadows, New York (Queens)

196-25 Peck Avenue

Flushing, NY 11365

December 22, 1980 - June 30, 1991

In December of 1980, the school moved to the former building of P.S. 179 in Fresh Meadows. The school stayed in the facility until June of 1991, and during that time the student population exploded. The largest population was in 1985, when the school had close to 500 students. After the initial years in Jamaica, we were amazed by the spaciousness of the facility, and the transformation of our little school. Unfortunately, we only had no real schoolgrounds, and only a small asphalt area for the children to play, so many children hurt themselves playing outside.

The grassy area in front of the school building provided the practice area for the annual Field Day exercises. We always had students breaking their bones, or hurting themselves in other ways, and so there was never anytime to relax and eat lunch. There were so many injuries that the insurance companies refused to extend coverage to our students.

(Translated from Ms. Okajima, "Omoidebanashi")

ENTERING STAFF

1981:

Principal: Kubota

Teachers: Kamata, Nambu, Matsukaze, Fujiie, Hirai, Onodera, Braverman, Paluszek, Murayama

Custodial: Kotec

1982:

Teachers: Hashimoto, ?Shiinoki?, Doosui, Nakane, Nakajima, Iemura, Tanaka, Yonekawa, Chiba, Oozeki, Tsumita, Lawler

Administrators: Shionoya

1983:

Principal:Isogai

Teacher:Hamaguchi

1984:

Vice Principal:Tate

Teachers:Saito, Nakazawa, Kato, Udo, Sakashita, Kusakabe, Terauchi

1985:

Teachers: Nosaka, Tanaka, Yaezawa, Goto, Sunakawa, Yoshida, Ueshiro, Nishimura, Saito, Parwez, Lai

1986:

Principal: Endo

Teachers: Ishikawa, Furuno, Nakamura, Tachibana, Duckett

Administrator: Oohashi

1987:

Teachers: Sano, Uekawa, Iharada, Furukawa, Shimada, Hatano, Yamamoto, Meyer, Yampolsky

1988:

Teachers: Kamisaka, Takahashi, Suzuki, Suzuki, Yomatsu, Iriuchijima, Okabe, Komiyama, Kimura, Judge, Schwartz, Kimata

Administrators: Shinjo

1989:

Principal:Harie

Teachers:Komuro, Narikawa, Stagnaro, Uchida, Fernandez

1990:

Vice Principal:Yoshizaki

Teachers: Hashikura, Yamukai, Sasaki, Takayanagi, Chubachi, Sokooshi, Greitzer

1991:

Teachers: Takeuchi, Ishihara, Mizuguchi, Ishii, Yamahira, Fujimoto, Ooishi, Sekiguchi, Okahara, Kusakabe, Kubota, Nemsick, Ellis, Brolin, Hurwitz

Administrators: Nishida, Harii

Custodial: Bonifonte

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