Amityville Memorial High School is a Public High School located in Amityville, New York on the South shore of Long Island. The high school is part of the Amityville Union Free School District, which includes the Village of Amityville and portions of North Amityville and East Massapequa. The school follows a basic New York State Regents guideline and offers Advanced Placement (AP) and Syracuse University credited courses.
Hip-Hop group De La Soul got their start here, as students of Amityville High School, and released their debut LP 3 Feet High and Rising soon after (1989). Most were still high school students when their first album was released. Also hailing from Amityville is Taking Back Sunday founder, Eddie Reyes.
Read more about Amityville Memorial High School: Sports, Notable Alumni
Famous quotes containing the words high school, memorial, high and/or school:
“The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall.... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, “Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.””
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“I asked my mother for fifty cents
To see the elephant jump the fence.
He jumped so high he reached the sky,
And didn’t get back till the Fourth of July.”
—Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 1–4)
“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made School Boards.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)