Category: Student Voices

• PMHS Mini-THON raises more than $40,000

  

  Penn Manor students and community members raised $40,115.23 for the Four Diamonds Fund, which assists childhood cancer patients and their families. The initial goal for this year was to raise $30,000. Penn Manor collaborates with the entire school and multiple clubs to raise funds for the cause. Some of the activities that raised funds were…

• Hambright student’s holiday card selected in contest

  

  Students from Central Manor, Hambright, and LeTort had the opportunity to show off their art skills for Manor Township Police department’s holiday card contest. Paisley Metze, a fifth-grader from Hambright Elementary School, had her card selected as the winner. Her designed holiday card will be featured as the 2025 Manor Township Police holiday card. The…

• Senior publishes first novel, “Susquehannock”

  

  Penn Manor senior Robert Ethan White has accomplished something that few high school students ever do: he wrote and published his own novel. Working under the direction of English teacher Scott Hertzog, Robert recently published Susquehannock, which follows Dean Higgins, a miserable old man living a hollow life in a small community along the Susquehanna…

• PMHS singers qualify for District, Regional honors

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School singers Sierra Echavarria and Diane Imboden, who qualified to participate in the Pennsylvania Music Educators’ District 7 Jazz Festival in April. In addition, Penn Manor senior Alison Murphy qualified for Region V Chorus after auditioning at the PMEA District 7 Chorus Festival at Susquehannock High School Jan. 25-27. Sierra, a senior,…

• Student speakers named for June 7 commencement

  Five student speakers have been named for Penn Manor High School’s 2016 commencement, scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 7, at Franklin & Marshall College Alumni Sports and Fitness Center. Evan Toomey, John “Jack” Zimmerman, Danielle Wright, Emily Ferrick and Emily Thyrum will address the graduates and guests during the ceremony. Evan is class valedictorian.…

• PM students earn Scholastic Writing Awards

  Congratulations to the 13 Penn Manor students who won awards for outstanding writing in the 2015-2016 Lancaster County Scholastic Writing Awards competition, sponsored by Lancaster Public Library. Penn Manor students won 14 Scholastic Awards, including three Gold Keys, the top honor, and six Silver Keys. Four Penn Manor students also earned writing awards in the Newspaper…

• Penn Manor HS student published in Teen Ink

  

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School sophomore Katherina Vanatta, whose poem was recently published in the national magazine, Teen Ink. “Can You Hear Me?” was selected from among hundreds of submissions to appear in the January 2016 issue, which focuses on teens and health. This is the fifth time Katherina’s writing has appeared on the…

• PM students to perform in music festivals

  More than two dozen Penn Manor high school and middle school students will be performing over the next month in music festivals in Lancaster County. Sixteen students will perform in the Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators’ County Band Festival concert Jan. 23 at Conestoga Valley High School. Eleven Penn Manor students will participate in the LLME County Orchestra Festival…

• Eight named to District Band, Chorus, Orchestra

  

  Eight talented students will represent Penn Manor High School when they participate in the upcoming District 7 Orchestra, Chorus and Band Festivals. The students qualified by scoring well in an audition process that involved more than 900 students from Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry and York counties. Penn Manor will be represented in…

• PM student earns award for essay on plastic pollution

  Penn Manor High School freshman Peyton Cassel has won an honorable mention and a $100 prize for her prose submission to the 2015 International Ocean Awareness Student Contest. As one of the selected winners from more than 1,100 submissions from 35 countries, Peyton’s writing will be featured in galleries and merchandise sent around the world. The…