By Win Damon |
Haverhill School Superintendent Margaret Marotta. (WHAV News file photograph.)
With the global pandemic entering a second year, it’s not just students having to cope with new school realities. Administrators are likewise finding themselves facing challenges such as the prospect of another unusual graduation day.
Haverhill School Superintendent Margaret Marotta, a guest recently on WHAV’s morning program, says with Haverhill High School’s graduation coming up in less than four months, thought is already going into the graduation ceremony for the class of 2021.
“We’ve been creating a series of different plans of what it’s going to look like. I think we know it’s not going to be our typical graduation. We’re hoping that it can be some kind of a in-person, socially distanced graduation maybe with some limitations on the number of people that can attend, or something. That’s sort of the best-case scenario,” she says.
Margaret Kazarosian.
Margaret Kazarosian, 94, of Haverhill, passed away Sunday, Jan. 31, the same way she lived her life: with grace and elegance. Her last moments were spent in her home, surrounded by her loving family.
She was born in Haverhill on March 2, 1926, the daughter of the late Yeghia (Edgar) and Vartouhie (Stepanian) Movsesian.
Margaret attended Haverhill Public Schools and graduated from Haverhill High School in 1943, then graduated from what was formerly known as Lowell State Teacher’s College in 1948, where she served as the art editor for the yearbook and was voted King of the Mardi Gras celebration!
During her time in college she cultivated her love of music to become an accomplished classical pianist, giving concerts and recitals throughout the state. She started her teaching career at Newburyport High School in the early 1950s, then returned to teaching as a music teacher in the Haverhill Public Schools, including at the Fox School, after raising her children
Robert “Bob” A. Kneeland.
Former Newton, N.H., postmaster, who later retired as superintendent of the Ward Hill Post office Robert “Bob” A. Kneeland, 92, of Bradford, died Thursday morning, Jan. 28 at High Pointe House in Haverhill.
He was born in Haverhill July 26, 1928, to the late Richmond R. and Jennie (née Dufault) Kneeland.
A life-long resident of Bradford, Kneeland was educated in the Haverhill school system, graduating from Haverhill High School with the class of 1946 while enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He graduated from the U.S. Navy Hospital Corps School as a Hospital Apprentice 1st class Corpsman, serving as an enlisted member of a military medical unit until Aug.2, 1946. After an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy on Feb. 17, 1949, Kneeland attended Merrimack College.
January 29, 2021
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The Haverhill Exchange Club is inviting applications for its three annual $1,000 student scholarships.
The Youth of the Year Award honors an outstanding student in the community who has exhibited excellence in academics and leadership, while the Accepting the Challenge of Excellence or ACE Award recognizes a high school student who has overcome great physical, emotional or social obstacles and is now eligible for high school graduation and the Maggie (Drossos) Rosinski Teaching Scholarship awarded to a graduating senior who plans to pursue a teaching career.
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