Where are they now?

Dora Schloss Witkowski

Years you were at the school and the grades you attended.
I was at The New School from Kindergarten to 6th grade. From 2001-2002 until  2008 – 2009

New School favorite memory.
Highland Forest and the fun field trips we have had.

What you missed most about The New School.
My friends and the no homework!

What are your plans now?
To go to MPH for next year. After that?

Danny Li

Years you were at the school and the grades you attended.
I was at The New School from Kindergarten to 2nd grade. From 2006-2007 until  2008 – 2009

New School favorite memory.
Watching the caterpillars turn into butterflies and releasing them.

What you missed most about The New School.
Having an inspector assistant.

What are your plans now?
In the fall 2009 I will be going to Enders Road Elementary.

Davis Reeher

Years you were at the school and the grades you attended.
I was at The New School from 2nd grade to 5th grade. From 2005-2006 until  2008 – 2000

New School favorite memory.
Building my rocket because I created it.

What you missed most about The New School.
“Journaling” because it is my favorite period.

What are your plans now?
In the fall 2009 I am going to Fayetteville Manlius, Eagle Hill.

Anything else you would like to add?
Eagle Hill has sports teams, soccer, basketball, lacrosse, baseball and gym. I’ll probably do basketball.

Max Otteson

Years you were at the school and the grades you attended.
I was at The New School from Kindergarten to 3rd grade. From 2005-2006 until  2008 – 2009

New School favorite memory.
Adam’s great rocket explosion

What you missed most about The New School.
I will miss Highland Forest because it was fun.

What are your plans now?
In the fall 2009 I will be starting at Tecumseh Elementary.

Theoge Chrestler

Theoge Chrestler was at the New School from 2000-2007, grades K - 6.

My favorite memory would be either Shove Park, with the dam that we build every year and the waterfall hike, or Highland Forest, with its hikes, campfires, over night stays, that (unnamed) place down the hill from pines, and skyline, or all my friends that I have met at the school.

The thing I will miss most about The New School Is the teacher student connection thing that I keep forgetting the name of.

My plans are to go to Onondaga Hill Middle School (O.H.M.S.)

for the next school year.

Matthew O'Connor

Matthew O’Connor was at the New School from 2005-2007, grades 2 and 3.

My favorite memory is going to Highland Gorest and going horseback riding.

I will miss having a lot of fun every day  (at my different school I will have fun but not as much) and the gym games you have I will miss.

My plans are going to Tecumseh Elementary where I am going to set up a Scrabble club. I will also know what I am doing this year by hearing what my sister Emily did at Tecumseh.

I would like to add that when I went to the New School I had a lot of fun but I am going to Tecumseh to learn how to go to the middle school (even though it is not as much fun) At Tecumseh I know a little about what I am going to be doing because my sister told me they play instruments etc.

Alecsander Dantuano

Alecsander Dantuano was at the New School from 2004 – 2007, grades 3 – 6.

My favorite thing to do at the New School would be going to Highland Forest and catching frogs and showing them to everybody in camp. I also enjoy the long hikes through the forest.

The thing I will miss most is all of the friends I have made like my best friends, Theoge and Will. I will also miss the turtles I have come to know and love.

My plans are that I will either be going to Grant Middle School or a Charter School until 8th grade.

I would like to add that this is the best school that I have ever gone to (and one of the only ones.)

Alex Melnick

Alex was with The New School from 2004-2006, grades fifth and sixth. His favorite memory was when Tom Huff came to visit and spoke about the Haudenosaunees and taught students how to carve soap stone.

Alex will be homeschooled for two years and continue on to Onondaga Community College. He mentions that he will miss the people most of all.

Cora Cool Mihalyi

Cora was with The New School from 2000-2006, grades first through sixth grade. When asked about her favorite memory, she mentions her 2004-2005 school year and having good friends.

Cora moved on to Levy Middle School in the fall of 2006 and says that she will miss helping the little kids and being with them because it was a good experience.

Daniel Chang

Daniel was with The New School from 2000-2006, kindergarten through fifth grade. Some of his favorite memories through the years include his first day, Shove Park and Highland Forest field trips, the little kids and his times with Youngwook. When asked what he will miss most, Daniel mentions friends, ice cream in after school and all of his years at the school.

After spending time in Korea this summer with his family, Daniel will move on to Middle School. We will attend Onondaga Hill Middle School.

Emmy Jo Mallia

Emmy Jo was with The New School from 2004-2006, for fifth and sixth grades. When asked about her favorite memory, she shared that she enjoyed the first day when she met the other students at The New School.

Emmy Jo moved on to homeshooling in the fall of 2006. She says she will miss the experiences and activities during afterschool most of all.

SungHun Choi

SungHun was with The New School from 2005-2006 for his kindergarten year. He enjoyed spending time with his friends and he especially liked his contract work.

SungHun moved on to South Korea with his family in the summer of 2006.