Let’s go Sharks!
Eastport-South Manor Jr.-Sr High School recently hosted its second annual Career Day.
Tenth-grade students spoke with community members who turned out to promote the perks of their respective jobs. These professionals shared insights about their career paths and the keys and recipes for attaining success.
Career Day especially highlighted the arts, media and communications fields; business and finance; health and wellness and medicine; law and public service; STEM and trades, and skilled labor.
Assistant Principal Shelia Dempsey and teacher Alexis Duggan organized the event. The pair explained that Career Day gets underclassmen thinking about the long-term value of their education.
Elective courses with more specialization also help bridge the gap between grade school and university as students begin fine-tuning their passion-and-profit playbooks.
Brendan Blackford of the US Navy was a noteworthy featured guest. Jessica Ocasio, an outpatient oncology nurse, Stephanie Ogeka, a Blackstone accountant, Danielle Gruttadaurio, a Suffolk County Police Department forensic artist, and Suffolk County Police Officers were also in attendance.
Meanwhile, upperclassmen were encouraged to don their college garb on Thursday, May 1 to commemorate National College Decision Day.
Seniors gathered in the hall and took photos of their classmates and friends’ wide-ranging undergraduate pursuits.
Eastport-South Manor Central School District mainstays that grew up together may be geographically pulled apart in a few months.
But the celebratory memories of this final sprint will forever remain.
As the sun shines again upon the good times roll montage playing daily and nightly for graduating high school seniors across the greater area and beyond, it’s incumbent upon loved ones of the next chapter-bound to remind them: they only get this time once.
Thus, stop listening to beautiful songs through a heartbreaking lens. You have your whole life to do that. Value the glass-half-full wonder years as they wind down.
It’s not “set an end to something beautiful” in “Yellow” by Coldplay, it’s “turn it into something beautiful” — I know, I’m just as shook as you are.
And the somehow-reunited Oasis didn’t damn their education. Nor did they not want to be there when you hit the ground. They do want to be there, in fact.
…so don’t (do) go away.