Garden School

33-16 79th Street | Jackson Heights | built 1928

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1927
Headmaster Otis Flower moves the young Garden School to this site
Garden School began in 1923, named for Jackson Heights' new garden apartment complexes, with grades K-3 meeting in the Laburnum Court Apartments. Grades 4-6 followed in 1925 under director John Bosworth Laing. Otis Flower took over as headmaster in 1927 and moved the school to the location it still occupies.
Source: Wikipedia
1929
Garden School graduates its first class: three students
The school held its first graduation in 1929, with three students finishing. Within three years, as Garden Country Day School, it became independent, governed by a board of trustees under New York State rules for not-for-profit schools.
“It had its first graduating class in 1929, presenting three students.”
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2012
Student Rory Staunton, 12, scrapes his arm at school and dies of septic shock days later
According to court filings and reporting, a gym teacher put a bandage on Rory Staunton's scraped arm without cleaning the wound; he was not sent to the nurse and his parents were not told. He developed fever and vomiting, was hospitalized and died on April 1, 2012. His case raised awareness of sepsis in children, and New York adopted Rory's Regulations in 2014.
“…the injury was addressed by a gym teacher who applied a bandage; the wound was not cleaned, and Staunton was not sent to the school nurse…”
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