This is Miss Eleanor McAuliffe, the first principal of Sousa Junior High School.
This is the story of how Miss McAuliffe became the principal of Sousa Junior High School. Kudo's are extended to Bill Marcopulos (AHS 1961) for discovering this historical nugget in a scrapbook belonging to Miss McAuliffe's brother, General Anthony Clement "Nuts". McAuliffe, who was a senior United States Army officer, who earned fame as the acting commander of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division troops defending Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Click Photo Album, go to bottom of Album to read the story.