James E. Allen Learning Center Memories

In September 1973, Western Suffolk BOCES (then known as BOCES III) opened an innovative new school facility called the James E. Allen Learning Center. This facility had an unusual design consisting of hexagonal shaped classrooms that were arranged in the manner of flower clusters. Inside these unusually shaped classrooms, however, were classes devoted to teaching academic and living skills to the learning disabled and emotionally disturbed.

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This is only the beginning of this web page tribute. I hope you will visit over the next few weeks as a include information about this school based on my own personal memories and my collection of memorabilia from the first five years of James E. Allen.

Thank you.

This is an unofficial history of the James E. Allen Learning Centers and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Western Suffolk BOCES.

Also, please visit the Camp NYABIC section of the Page of Summers Past: Long Island's Lost Day Camps at https://www.angelfire.com/ny5/limemories/LICamps/licamps.html