Mt. Airy USA’s Cicely Peterson-Mangum joined Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller at City Hall for the official signing of an ordinance creating the Mt. Airy Business Improvement District.

Benjamin J. Finkel, a rising junior at Germantown Friends School, is one of 86 high school students from 32 states who have been selected by the Earthwatch Institute to participate in this summer’s Student Challenge Awards Program. Finkel will join five other SCAP award winners to assist LeeAnn Fishback, Ph.D., on a Tundra Wetlands scientific expedition in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. He and his team members will research water quality and the ecology of the tundra wetlands along the edge of the Arctic where the trees of the boreal forest meet the open artic tundra.

Regina Coeli Academy announces the appointment of Scott S. Bucko as its new headmaster. Bucko, a resident of Chestnut Hill, holds two master degrees: a M.Ed. in school leadership and administration from the University of Virginia and a master of Christian studies from Regent College at the University of British Columbia. The new headmaster comes to Regina Coeli Academy with extensive experience in education, and for the last several years has served as a principal at The Geneva School, a Christian and classical college preparatory school in Winter Park, Florida. A reception will be held 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, at the Academy to welcome Bucko, his wife and four children to the community.

Oak Lane Congratulates Members of the Class of 2007: Mackenzie Ballentyne, from Andorra (Springside School), Claudia Stedman, from Worcester (William Penn Charter),  Andrew Garfinkel, from Mt Airy (Germantown Friends School), Toni Spiller, from Chalfont, (Solebury School), Scott Solodar, from North Wales (Woodlynde School), Tara Malone, from Ambler, (William Penn Charter), Jim Getsy, from Plymouth Meeting, (William Penn Charter), Emily Winokur, from Ambler, (Abington Friends School), Ben Holl, from Mt. Airy, (Friends Select School), Aliya Stimpson, from Mt. Airy, (Philadelphia School District), Riley Druger, from Gwynedd, (Woodlynde School), and Shayna Koren, from Gwynedd (Homeschooling).

 

Germantown Friends School graduates from Mt. Airy and Germantown are (front row from left): Heather Tannenbaum, Rose Plager-Unger, Emma Case, Laura Struznya, Elizabeth Celata, Allison Coker, Jessica Gray, Sarah Mooar, Julia Bergman, Grayson Board; (middle row): Veronica Fleming, Suzanne Parker, Rebecca Childs, Cecilia Davis-Hayes, Cara Smith, Elena Ballard, Madeline Kaufman; (back row): Michael Nourie, Emile Paulmier, Sheldon Bowman-Brunk, Shaine Morgan, Daniel Sprague, Peter Grauman, Jasper Sneff Nanni, Patrick Gordon, Henry Robb, Joshua West, Andrew Steiker-Epstein. Not pictured: David Askew Gould, Max Hawes.