3 Assistant Principals Named in South Huntington

The South Huntington School District has appointed three new assistant principals for Stimson Middle School.

Elizabeth Keating will be assistant principal for the main office, which means she’ll work closely with the principal and handle a lot of the day-to-day running of a large building, including teacher, student and test scheduling; organizing special events, activities and assemblies; and interacting with the counseling and guidance departments.  She comes to South Huntington from 17 years at Sewanhaka High School as a science teacher and assistant science chair.  She has an M.A. from Adelphi University in Secondary Education in Science and an Advanced Certificate in School Building and District Leadership from St. John’s University.

James Tomeo was named assistant principal for the seventh grade, He moves to Stimson from Maplewood Intermediate School where he has been a teacher since 2021. After receiving his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, he got a Master of Arts in Childhood Education from Fordham University, and his School District & Building Leadership Advanced Certificate from Long Island University.  Tomeo is the president of the Elwood School District Board of Education.

Thomas DeMartinis will be assistant principal for grade 8.  He has been teaching Social Studies in grades 7 through 12 in the Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District for the last eight years. He has a B.A. in History and in Political Science from the University at Buffalo, a Master of Arts in Teaching (Social Studies Grades 7-12) from Stony Brook University, and earned his Advanced Certificate in Educational Leadership from Long Island University.

Two of the appointments fill existing positions while the third is a new position.

All three administrators began their new jobs on July 1.

“It’s really a great opportunity to get to know kids really well and support them as best we can before they move on to the high school,” said Stimson Principal Michael Duggan.  “It’s a great opportunity for me to focus a lot more on those bigger philosophical pieces of what I think Stimson can be in the future. This is allowing me to not only think ‘big picture,’ but actually act on a lot of things that I’ve been kind of chomping at the bit to do for the last couple of years.  I’d like to work more with parents to motivate kids to do more community service and give back to charities.  And I’d like to have more involvement between Stimson and Whitman.”