Published by the American Association of School Administrators By Joseph P. Batory    (Recipient of the Lifetime Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of School Administrators) One of the first telephone calls I received after becoming the superintendent in Upper Darby, Pa., way back in 1984 was from Guido, the neighborhood South Philadelphia bookie […]

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In each of the past 30 years,  Joseph Batory has awarded scholarship assistance to a worthy and needy Upper Darby High School grad.    From 1984 to 1999, Joe was the award-winning superintendent of schools in the very diversely populated Upper Darby School District.  Upper Darby High School, one of the 14 schools in the […]

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Reprinted with permission of the Delaware County Daily Times Joseph Batory, Times Guest Columnist 08/03/17 In July of 2017, I made my fourth visit to the Omaha Beach invasion battleground in Normandy. As time has passed, what happened at Omaha Beach can easily be glossed over as just another World War II military victory. However, […]

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