May 18th, 2009 - Newsday
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Bouquets of flowers and lighted candles sat outside the front entrance to IS 238 in Hollis, Queens, Monday morning, as faculty, students and parents remembered the assistant principal who became the first New York fatality of the swine flu virus.
Mitchell Wiener, 55, the assistant principal at IS 238 in Hollis and an educator for 30 years, died Sunday at 6:17 p.m. at Flushing Hospital Medical Center, a hospital official said.
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