DRAGON PARADE Thirty-six tiny legs scurried through the Germantown Friends School campus on Feb. 1, celebrating the arrival of the Year of the Dog as part of Teacher Cheryl Pinkus’ first grade class study of China. Pinkus (left) led the students on a parade through the school as children took turns portraying a Chinese dragon and using noisemakers.

New president William H. Pugh V, Esq. of Erdenheim was recently installed as President of the Montgomery Bar Association for 2006. Pugh is a longstanding member of the MBA and is the managing partner of Kane, Pugh, Knoell, Troy & Kramer LLP. He is a 1986 graduate of Villanova University School of Law and today focuses his practice primarily in the area of medical malpractice defense. He frequently serves as a mediator and arbitrator in a wide variety of litigation matters.
Atop his agenda for the upcoming term will be the preparation of a new long-range plan; rumored to include an ambitious continued commitment to public outreach, community service and membership.
Pugh will be following closely in the path of his father, William H. Pugh IV, a pillar of the Greater Philadelphia legal community who served a successful term as Montgomery Bar President in 1995. Like his father, he is very active with the organized Bar. He has served on the Board of Directors and as a past Editor of the Montgomery County Law Reporter. Pugh is also active in the Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association, where he recently served a term as President and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates.
He is a past Chairman of the Professional Liability Committee of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute and is the current State Liaison to the Professional Liability Section of DRI. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute and the Defense Research Institute.

Coach Dennis McCooe coaches young slugger. Registration is now open for the 2006 Baseball Season. Who can remember which skater performed the best triple Lutz-double toe loop at the Olympic Games in Torino which concluded just this past Sunday? The scores of players and family members of the Chestnut Hill Youth Sports Club who turned out at the Spectrum on Feb. 18 to whoop it up for the Philadelphia Kixx Indoor Soccer Team in a hard fought, close loss to the St. Louis Steamers, are unlikely to forget their experience. The kids got to snag hundreds of little soccer balls tossed into the stands by the Kixx cheerleaders and even play soccer on the field. They saw good teamwork in action and come fall, expect to see them apply this, along with some fancy footwork, on the CHYSC fields. Baseball season opens this spring: to sign up, visit chysc.org.

Norwood-Fontbonne Academy’s Kindergarten took advantage of some February snow to hold their own Winter Olympics on the school grounds. The games began when Fran Doyle, maintenance supervisor, carried the torch into the opening ceremonies. The students each held a small flag representing the participating nations. They were then able to compete in various events: “speed skating”, snowman building, toboggan and tube racing, and a snowball relay race. The event closed with a special medal ceremony and every participant received an award for good sportsmanship and willingness to be a team player. The “Olympians” included: (front, l-r) Chloe Ferraro of Chestnut Hill, Abby Schwenger of Plymouth Meeting, Fiona Connerty of Mt. Airy; (back, l-r) Brooke Howard of Wyndmoor, Matthew Harkins of Abington, Fran Doyle of Oreland, Jake Ashenfelter of Roxborough and Conner Stephenson of Wyncote.

NEW COAT, NEW PAINT! Springside students volunteered at Metropolitan Career Center (MCC), a nonprofit job training organization for unemployed and underemployed adult Philadelphians. The students helped paint MCC’s Business Boutique, which provides business clothes for interviews and jobs. Pictured (from right) are Springside alumna Leah Smith ‘84 who is chair of MCC’s board of directors, juniors Emma McClafferty, Sarah Patches, and Christine Giovinazzo, and parent Margie Patches, a member of MCC’s board of directors who chairs the nominating committee.