Multi-Faith Forum at HSE

Ninth grade students at Smithtown High School East recently participated in an activity with the Long Island Multi-Faith Forum. The LI Multi-Faith Forum is an organization representing eleven faiths, and exists in order to acquaint people with the beliefs and practices of these traditions in order to promote interfaith understanding. Students had an opportunity to meet and dialogue with representatives of the Baha’i Faith, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, and Unitarian Universalism, as well as examine articles of the faiths.

Leadership Awards

Deanna Grunenberg has been selected as the student who will represent Smithtown High School East at the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Seminar. The selected student is an outstanding sophomore who has demonstrated exceptional leadership ability and has participated in community service. The leadership seminar is designed to prepare our country’s high school sophomores to become effective, ethical leaders in their home, schools, workplace, and community. Selected high school students from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico, Korea, Taiwan and Israel attend each year. Only one student is selected each year from HS East.

Christopher Morano and Samantha Cardillo have been selected to receive the Rotary Youth Leadership Award. This program is for 10th grade students who demonstrate exceptional leadership qualities. Rotary defines best leaders as students who have shown leadership potential, have demonstrated outstanding ability in public speaking or have been regarded by their peers as having leadership qualities. This leadership potential may be demonstrated in any activity in or out of school.

Gang of Shoe Thieves

Crime Stoppers and the Fourth Precinct Crime Section are asking the public’s help to identify four subjects who stole shoes from Love My Shoes in Smithtown. On Monday, October 27, 2008 at about 8:20 PM, four people entered Love my Shoes located at 220 West Main St., Smithtown and walked out with $700.00 worth of shoes.

Subject #1 is described as a black female, between 25-32 years old, wearing a black jacket and blue jeans. Subject # 2 is described as a black female, between 5’10”- 6’0”, with a heavy build, wearing a white tee-shirt and blue jeans. Subject # 3 is described as a black female, 40-50 years old, with a heavy build wearing a dark jacket, blue jeans and a white bandanna. Subject #4 is described as a black male, 25-30 years old, 6’1”-6’4”, wearing tan pants, white sneakers and a brown jacket.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to call Crime Stoppers at
1-800-220-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential and the caller will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $5000.00 for information that leads to an arrest.

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LOTE Honor Society Induction at SHS East

The LOTE (Language Other Than English) Honor Societies of Smithtown High School East held their Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at Smithtown High School East. 167 students were inducted into the French, German, Italian and Spanish Honor Societies. Parents, teachers and administrators were there to honor the students’ achievements.