Biography | Bernadette Meehan — The Somers Campus Where a Pleasantville Student Finished School

People treat a Wikimedia chief as a San Francisco invention.

She finished school on a Westchester hill.

Bernadette M. Meehan was born on 3 August 1975 in the Bronx.

Wikidata and the English Wikipedia both give that date and borough.

She was raised in Pleasantville, New York.

The Examiner News in 2015 recorded Bedford Road School and Pleasantville Middle School as the earlier stops, then Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers.

The school stands at 54 Route 138.

OpenStreetMap pins the campus at that address under the present name Kennedy Catholic High School.

English Wikipedia gives 1993 as the graduation year.

Between junior and senior year she spent a summer in Río Gallegos, Argentina, through the Pleasantville International Association exchange, a detail the same town paper and later encyclopedia entries both keep.

The campus is a working Roman Catholic preparatory school of about sixty-four acres, opened under the Kennedy name in 1966 after St. Mary's High School closed.

It is a public pin at a school, not a house.

Meehan is a living executive.

This memory marks a dated diploma at a published school address.

It does not mark a childhood home in Pleasantville or any private residence.

The photograph is an official White House-era portrait from her later National Security Council post, used here because no rights-clear 1993 yearbook image was found.

Photo: Bernadette Meehan, NSC Spokesperson, Executive Office of the President of the United States, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.