The Greenwich Japanese School Alumni Association (APPLESEED)

New York ChapterAutumn Leaves

Fresh Meadows, New York (Queens)

196-25 Peck Avenue
Flushing, NY 11365

December 22, 1980 - June 30, 1991

 

Picture of the Fresh Meadows School

 

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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