Flushing High School Diamond Jubilee Pageant

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

The principal announces the Diamond Jubilee of Flushing High School, the oldest public school in the Greater New York area. The celebrations will include a pageant detailing the history of the school. This pageant is presented in this recording.

The first graduating class, 6 girls, prepares to give speeches on stage. Former teachers are profiled. Flushing basketball team wins the championship in 1904. Other athletic achievements. Famous graduates. Honor Society. Reactions to D-Day and war. Community service. A message from Maurice A. Fitzgerald, Borough President of Queens.

Transcription through the Board of Education radio station.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 69554
Municipal archives id: LT511

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