Educator
Raymond W. Van Giesen was born in Auburn on 25 January 1906. After graduating from Auburn High School, he completed his undergraduate education at Hobart College, where he played lacrosse for four years and was named All-American in that sport in 1930-31. In 1931, he commenced a fifty-eight year career as an educator. He taught science and coached football, hockey and lacrosse at Fayetteville High School. He served as supervising principal (a position now called "superintendent of schools") from 1951-61, and became the first superintendent of schools of the newly-created Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District. In 1999, that district honored him by naming the Fayetteville Elementary School and Wellwood Middle School complex the "Raymond W. Van Giesen Campus." Van Giesen was the recipient of the Hobart Alumni Medal and was inducted into the Hobart College Hall of Fame.
Raymond W. Van Giesen was born in Auburn on 25 January 1906. After graduating from Auburn High School, he completed his undergraduate education at Hobart College, where he played lacrosse for four years and was named All-American in that sport in 1930-31. In 1931, he commenced a fifty-eight year career as an educator. He taught science and coached football, hockey and lacrosse at Fayetteville High School. He served as supervising principal (a position now called "superintendent of schools") from 1951-61, and became the first superintendent of schools of the newly-created Fayetteville-Manlius Central School District. In 1999, that district honored him by naming the Fayetteville Elementary School and Wellwood Middle School complex the "Raymond W. Van Giesen Campus." Van Giesen was the recipient of the Hobart Alumni Medal and was inducted into the Hobart College Hall of Fame.
