Leaving her mark at Harvard
Adrienne Whaley of West Mt. Airy is scheduled to graduate from Harvard University on June 8 magna cum laude in her major. Whaley will receive a bachelor of arts degree in African and African American Studies, with an emphasis on Women and Families . She is a 2002 graduate of Masterman High School.
Whaley has been accepted to work this summer as a teaching apprentice at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the position, she will work with high school students.
Last summer, Whaley completed an internaship at the Smithsonian Museum/Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture in Washington . She helped curate an exhibit that is scheduled to run through Aug. 6. The exhibit is “Reclaiming Midwives: Pillars of Community Support.”
Whaley served as director of Keylatch Mentor, a partnership between Harvard students and lower-income Boston youth. In the position, she oversaw the work of 10 mentors, each responsible for one student. She organized field trips, mentor meetings and other gatherings.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COMMITTEE in the lower school at Germantown Friends School has received the Schuylkill Action Network’s Educational Source Water Protection Award. The award – given May 10, during National Drinking Water Week – recognizes the work of the committee, which has improved recycling practices at GFS and established a native plants habitat on the campus. Attending the awards ceremony were (from left) Peter Lee of Mt. Airy; Jack Martin, Chestnut Hill; Theresa Shropshire, Mt. Airy; Eliza Lukens-Day, Mt. Airy; Ben York, Chestnut Hill; teacher Geoffrey Selling; Kevin Wiesner, Wyndmoor; Nicolette Riley, Chestnut Hill; Liliana Sabsowitz-Silverman, Mt. Airy, and Anjanee Ferguson, Mt. Airy.

WILLIAM PENN CHARTER JUNIORS (from left) Jaji Hulting-Cohen of Elkins Park; Elizabeth Golden, Chestnut Hill; Alexander Moss, of Huntingdon Valley, and Alex Crozier-Jackson, Roxborough have been selected for five-week Governor’s Schools of Excellence summer programs. Hulting-Cohen will study music and Crozier-Jackson, dance, at Mercyhurst College, Erie; Golden, the sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and Moss, international studies, University of Pittsburgh. The programs place artistically and academically talented high school students on college campuses statewide.

NORWOOD-FONTBONNE ACADEMY’S Oratory Club has met with success. At the annual La Salle Forum, an elementary school forensics competition held recently at La Salle College High School, club winners or finalists included (front, left to right) Taylor Stabler of Abington, second place, declamation; Christina Hamilton of Lafayette Hill and Maggie Rush of Fort Washington, fifth place, duo interpretation; (rear, left to right) Alex Gilliam of Wyncote, second place, poetry; and Saara-Anne Azizi of East Falls, first place, extemporaneous speaking. Not pictured is Jasmine Azizi of East Falls, sixth place, dramatic interpretation.

THE CHESTNUT HILL GOLF CLASSIC is set for June 14 at the Sandy Run Country Club. Sponsors of the 11th annual event are the Chestnut Hill Rotary Club, the Johanna Sigmund Scholarship Fund at Springside School and the First Presbyterian Church in Springfield. Costs vary, but include greens fees, cart, lunch and dinner. Register online at www.springside.org or call 215-247-7003. Participants in last year’s classic included (from left) Johanna’s brother; her mother, Ruth Sigmund; Head of Springside School Priscilla Sands; Steve Bauer of the Rotary Club; John Sigmund and Joe Bonavita.