Author: Brian Wallace

• Manor FFA members earn multiple awards at banquet

  Manor FFA members earned multiple awards at the chapter’s 57th annual banquet, held recently in the Penn Manor High School cafeteria. Pennsylvania Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Gregory Hostetter and PA State FFA Officer Garrett Jenkins were the speakers at the event, which celebrated the hard work of chapter members during the school year. Members received the…

• PM staffer honored with ‘Impact of the Individual’ award

  Penn Manor School District’s director of technology, Charlie Reisinger, was honored today with the premiere of a video about his positive impact on the district’s students, teachers and staff. “Charlie Reisinger: Impact of the Individual,” a short film honoring Charlie, premiered this morning at the Red Hat Summit, a global open-source technology conference that attracted…

• Penn Manor honors employees, retirees for 2017

  Penn Manor school district honored eight retirees with more than 175 years of  combined service May 2 during the 38th annual Employee Recognition Dinner in the high school cafeteria. Attendees watched a video presentation of comments by six of the retirees — Louise Aument, Judy Gingrich, Dell Jackson, Kay Kane, Gail Lynch and Konrad Fritz. The other retirees…

• Three from PMHS chosen for prestigious PA Governor’s School

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School students Nicholas Fafel, Emma Spearing and Vinny Vozzella, who were accepted into the prestigious Pennsylvania Governor’s School program for 2017. Emma, a sophomore, will attend the Governor’s School for Global & International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh June 18 to July 14. Her program will include lectures on human rights…

• District shares schematic designs for Penn Manor HS

  Nearly 40 people turned out, despite the rain, to see schematic design proposals for the Penn Manor High School construction and renovation project Tuesday night. The district plans to rebuild the high school on its current site beginning in the summer of 2019 in a project that is expected to take three years to complete…

• Penn Manor HS earns third straight silver award from U.S. News

  For the third year in a row, Penn Manor High School has been honored with a Silver Medal from U.S. News & World Report and is ranked the No. 1 high school in Lancaster County! Penn Manor improved its state ranking from No. 35 last year to No. 26 for 2017, and is the top-ranked high…

• Penn Manor students named tops in state in TSA competition

  Congratulations to Penn Manor High School students Trey Erisman and Bryce Eberly, the top finishers in the Problem-Solving Competition at the Technology Student Association State Conference, held April 19-22 at Seven Springs Resort. Kudos, also, to the eight other Penn Manor students who finished in the top 10 in the competition, which included more than…

• State champion bowling team honored by school board

  Penn Manor school board Tuesday honored coaches and members of the Penn Manor bowling team for earning a second straight state title. It was the first time in history that a Penn Manor athletic team won back-to-back state titles. The seven members of the team that competed at states – Nick Fisher, Tanner Simet, Kyle Shertz,…

• PM history teacher Mealy publishes fourth book

  Congratulations to Penn Manor history teacher Todd Mealy on the publication of his fourth book. Titled “This is the Rat Speaking,” the nonfiction book chronicles the takeover of Franklin & Marshall College in 1969 by African-American students. On May 22 of that year, black students took faculty members hostage and demanded that the college diversify…

• Penn Manor student meets Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai

  Penn Manor High School student Gisela Espinosa got the shock of her life when she was asked to participate in a panel discussion this week and walked in the room to find Malala Yousafzai, the internationally known advocate for girls’ education, as the guest participant. “I was already scared to speak in public, and then Malala walks in!” Gisela recalled. “I was…