STREET NAMED IN HONOR OF P.S. 84 PRINCIPAL

By [Allen Houston] Sidney Morison, a life-long educational leader on the Upper West Side, has had a street named after him, near the school where he was principal for 26 years. Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed the street bill, sponsored by Council Member Gale Brewer, Dec. 20, that included the co-naming of West 92nd Street between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West in honor of Morison. Morison graduated from Columbia University in 1963 and did his post-graduate work at Harvard. He began his career in New York City as a math teacher at J.H.S. 118, then became a math coordinator for District 3 and was later named Deputy to the Superintendent for District 3 before becoming the principal of P.S. 84: The Lillian Weber School for almost three decades. P.S. 84 is located on West 92nd Street, where the co-naming signage will be placed. While principal, P.S. 84 won the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which is a national award for Integrated Arts, and in 1989, Principal Morison was awarded New York City's "Schools and Culture Award." He retired from the Department of Education in 1995 and became a professor at City College, Bank Street College and Barnard College. He also consulted to the National Institute of Education, Teachers Corps, Carnegie Corp. and the Ford Foundation.