Syosset High School Hosts Senior Citizen Prom

Syosset High School’s Future Leaders of America Club hosted a Senior Citizen Prom in the school’s main gymnasium, welcoming approximately 200 senior citizen guests from the Woodbury-Syosset community.

The guests included more than 50 residents from the nearby Cold Spring Hills Center for Health and Rehabilitation.

Syosset High School’s Jazz Band and girls a cappella group, The Adelettes, provided live entertainment early on, with swing, line and other styles of dance taking place on the gym floor throughout the day. Students served a catered meal, including a delicious dessert they prepared. This year’s theme was Safari, so the gymnasium was decorated like a jungle with many of the students adorning safari hats. There was also an exhibit of student artwork for viewing.

Members have been fundraising throughout the year to make the Senior Citizen Prom possible, says FLAC President Alyssa Casale.

“It’s not every day that the senior citizens have the opportunity to sit down and talk with young people like us, so it’s great that they can learn a little bit about our generation and we get to learn a lot from them,” said Alyssa. “We enjoy the interaction.”

Joanne Leonardi and Susan Occhiuto are Syosset High School’s FLAC co-advisers.

Story by Sytnax, Photos courtesy of the Syosset CSD

A: Local senior citizens strutted their stuff during Syosset High School’s senior citizen prom.

B: Syosset school officials, student officers from the school’s FLAC and teachers were happy to host a safari-themed prom for residents of the Cold Spring Hills Center for Health and Rehabilitation and other local senior citizens.