| Category: | School, |
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| Address: | 226 Linda Ave, Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA |
| Postal code: | 10532 |
| Phone: | (914) 749-2900 |
| Website: | http://www.hcks.org/ |
I was at the school in the 80s this place saved my life. I was a serious juvenile delinquent in and out of juvenile hall. Before I came to the school, I was award of the Court and was turned over to the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. I spent three years here at school from 1980 to 1983. After Hawthorne School I joined the United States Marines for 8 years. During my time in the Marines I went to school in California. Became a mechanical engineer at UCLA paid for by Uncle Sam. I worked 20 years as an engineer before I retired, I thank the school for not giving up on me. It is because of the school that I became a very successful adult. I have no regrets, people like the guidance counselor George Carlson. Bill tarplin, Norm friedmann, rich friedmann, and Rupert Neal. Are credited with saving my life with their care and concern. Excellent role models I have nothing but love for the school.
I was a resident and student here. I was a loner and an outcast but as i look back in my mind it wasn't that bad.
I know all but one in that picture of 1960, forgot their names except Levine (the partial cut out) , wish there was a place I could research their "sinces". One I went to school White Plains High after his graduation; one I met his old girlfriend in Brooklyn and took a wild punch at him in cafeteria; one I went to Brooklyn with when we were both inmates
there in Hawthorne. Loved that place.
It was way back in the very early seventys when I was in Hawthorne Cedar Knolls School for boys and girls. I was sent there by the courts, it was a great place, i just wish I would have realized it back then.