Schools
Chazy is home to Chazy Central Rural School, and Miner Institute. Miner Institute's campus is also home to William Miner's preserved One Room Schoolhouse.
Chazy Central Rural School was opened on November 14, 1916 as a consolidation of eleven rural schools in the area. William H. Miner, a wealthy railroad industrialist and philanthropist donated 2,000,00 dollars to build the school. It consisted of an Elementary program, a High School program, as well special departments such as, Agriculture, Industrial Arts, Household Arts, Library, Drawing, Music, and Physical Training. The children also had access to expert medical and dental services free of charge. The old school was five stories high surrounding a bell tower of 71 feet, contained two gymnasiums, two swimming pools, as well as an auditorium capable of seating 1,100 people. The school was demolished and rebuilt around the old clock tower in 1969.
Chazy Central Rural School is a hub of recreation activities. Its four soccer fields host youth, men's and women's leagues. The boys' varsity soccer team has won five New York State Public High School Athletic Association State Championships (2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010) all under coach Rob McAuliffe, a Chazy Central Rural School graduate. The girls' varsity soccer team has won 3 State Championship in 2007, 2010, and 2011. The girls team is currently coached by Karin Sherman Trombley, is a member of SUNY Plattsburgh's Cardinal Hall of Fame for her achievements in women's soccer. The school built its own soccer stadium, which opened in the fall of 2007 and is named after George Brendler, a former gym teacher and athletics coach at the school. The filed is complete with stadium seating, lights, and a state of the art score board. The school's baseball and softball fields also host several youth leagues as well as a fireman's softball league. In 2011, the boys varsity baseball team won its first Sectional Championship in school history. The school also has a large public playground and a pond. Chazy Central School is recognized as being the first rural central school to ever be established.
Read more about this topic: Chazy, New York
Famous quotes containing the word schools:
“Columbus stood in his age as the pioneer of progress and enlightenment. The system of universal education is in our age the most prominent and salutary feature of the spirit of enlightenment, and it is peculiarly appropriate that the schools be made by the people the center of the day’s demonstration. Let the national flag float over every schoolhouse in the country and the exercises be such as shall impress upon our youth the patriotic duties of American citizenship.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion—these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.”
—Jerome S. Bruner (b. 1915)