
White Top Blue Bottom Prom Dress
Carol Pitkewicz, center, enjoys a appropriate moment with acceptance at the Bayport-Blue Point High School inferior brawl at Majestic Gardens in Rocky Point on Friday, May 22, 2015. Photo Credit: Jennifer A. Uihlein
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By JENNIFER A. UIHLEIN Special to newsday.com Updated May 24, 2015 6:14 AM
Bayport-Blue Point High School algebraic abecedary and apprentice board adviser Carol Pitkewicz is backward at the end of the year, capping off a 23-year career with the district.
When it comes to brawl fashion, she's apparent it all.
["582"]"We went through a time aback [the boys] were cutting babyish dejection and white, all kinds of top hats and altered kinds of shoes," Pitkewicz said of the school's prom, which commonly happens during inferior year. "There is a cilia that runs through it that is consistently the same."
And nobody knows cilia as it pertains to the brawl absolutely like Pitkewicz.
As a longstanding tradition, Pitkewicz brings a travel-sized bed-making kit to the prom, accessible to bounce into activity aback a button is alone or a quick fix is needed.
["388"]"Sometimes the dresses are actual adapted and the ladies are dancing and accepting a acceptable time, and all of a sudden, a button will pop," Pitkewicz, 62, said.
Reflecting on proms past, she recalled a apprentice agreeable the absolute breadth of her dress about 10 years ago.
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"She had to go into the ladies room, booty her dress off in the stall, and put the dress over the arrest door," Pitkewicz recalled. "I sat there and sewed that bond from top to basal with a little tiny bed-making kit, threading and rethreading the needle.
"It took a continued time, and she kept saying, 'Are you done yet?' She got it aback on. She went aback out there. It didn't appear afar for the blow of the night."
As her promgoing years appear to an end, the abecedary has a assignment for the acceptance -- one that goes forth able-bodied with the added accomplishment and caring she's apparent in befitting appropriate brawl nights from actually falling apart.
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"Continue to assignment as adamantine as you assignment now," she said. "Always accumulate a smile on your face. Tell the bodies that you adulation them."
By JENNIFER A. UIHLEIN Special to newsday.com
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