Oak Lane Day School Community Scholarship recipients James Nicholson and Inaya Mander (both of Mt. Airy) visit the school and are welcomed by Director of Admissions, Lynn Unipan and Head of School, Karl Welsh.

Penn Charter’s honor society, the Cum Laude Society, inducted 23 students and longtime math teacher William J. Goulding on April 23. Of the student inductees, 22 are seniors and one is a junior. Pictured, left to right (front row): Mariel Solomon, Liz Spagnoletti, Alex Olsman, Ben Goldenberg, Derek Speranza, Tim Decker; (middle row): Sam Lozoff, Kashif Smith, Sasha Verma, Sierra Tishgart, Hannah Campbell, Katherine Damm, Todd Cooke, Katherine Diaz, junior Laura Kurash; (back row): Mike McInerney, Julian Williams, Dave Maas, Kyle Maurer, Mike Blechschmidt, Katie Corelli, Matt Star, and teacher Bill Goulding. Not pictured: Art Bartolozzi.

For the second year in a row, Julian Paul Spears, received an award in the William Jeanes Library’s book writing contest open to students from first to third grade. This year, he received an honorable mention in the category of Best Story. His story was entitled ‘The Robot and Alien that Became Friends’ and it will be bound and available in that library later this year. Spears, a second grader at Whitemarsh Elementary School, was the only student in the school to receive an award in the contest.

Nicholas Hanson, a seventh grader at Chestnut Hill Academy, will perform a solo in Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with the Ambler Choral Society on Sunday, April 27 at 3 p.m. The concert of American Moderns will be performed at the Church of the Open Door, 1260 Fort Washington Ave., Fort Washington. Mark Daugherty, the conductor of the choral society, also teaches and conducts the upper school choirs at CHA. Roland Woehr, music director at CHA, will accompany the choral society at the concert.

 

Tyler Stout, of Wyndmoor, had a role in the cast of St. Lawrence University’s recent production of the French farce Tartuffe, by Moliere. Stout is a freshman at St. Lawrence, in Canton, N.Y. He is a graduate of Chestnut Hill Academy and a member of the men’s squash team at St. Lawrence.