Allen High's new principal brings wave of change

http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-allentown-allen-high-shannon-mayfield-20121020,0,7256977.story FROM THE MORNING CALL On a gray, humid September morning, Carmen Samol walked with her daughter toward the teen's new school, a 96-year-old institution that has seen better days. "This is a scary day for me," Samol said. Fights. Failures. Feuding gangs. Those are the things Samol feared 15-year-old Wilmary Rivera would face as a freshman at Allentown's Allen High.