Schools
Sunquam Library to be Renamed After Former BOE President
Alissa Sue Taff championed for the school's re-opening in 1999.
Half Hollow Hills Board of Education President Anne Marie Sorkin announced at this month's board meeting that the library at will be renamed, The Alissa Sue Taff Library.
The surprise announcement honors Taff, a former board president who was also instrumental in both the re-opening and expansion plans of the Sunquam building.
On March 18, 1991, the school board voted to close Sunquam due to a significant reduction in state aid. Sunquam was the smallest school in the district and needed the most repairs. Closing the only school in the Western portion of the district, however, created an uproar in the community.
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Backed by the foresight, passion and dedication of Taff, the then current president of the Civic Association of Sweet Hollow, many attempts to sell Sunquam were thwarted. In March of 1999, the school board faced with an influx of new housing, and a lack of classrooms, voted unanimously to reopen the school in the fall of 1999.
Information and photo courtesy of Felice Kristall.
