Author: Brian Wallace

• PM open source program subject of documentary

  

  A crew of filmmakers is in Penn Manor School District this week to create a documentary on the district’s innovative open source 1:1 laptop program, one of the first of its kind in the United States. The film will debut at an upcoming global open source conference. The film crew from Red Hat software company…

• PMHS named No. 1 high school in county

  

  Congratulations to the students, staff and faculty of Penn Manor High School, ranked the No. 1 high school in Lancaster County by U.S. News & World Report! The magazine’s annual Best High Schools issue evaluates public schools and awards gold, silver and bronze medals to those it considers the best at preparing students for college. Penn Manor is…

• Herr honored for state FFA service

  

  Penn Manor school board Monday honored Victoria Herr, a 2014 graduate of Penn Manor High School, for serving as FFA State Secretary this year. The board formally commended Herr, who joined six other FFA officers to represent the organization at events across Pennsylvania in 2014-15. Victoria told school board members she participated in leadership workshops and…

• Howe appointed Hambright ES principal 

  

  Eric Howe, a longtime Penn Manor teacher and administrator, has been named principal of Hambright Elementary School, effective July 1. Currently an assistant principal at Penn Manor High School, Howe will replace Jerry Egan, who is leaving Hambright to become Penn Manor’s assistant superintendent for elementary education. Howe began teaching social studies at Penn Manor…

• Penn Manor students earn state technology awards

  

  Seven Penn Manor School District students have earned awards at the Technology Student Association State Conference, held April 15 to 18 in Champion, PA. The middle and high school students were competing against 1,800 others from across the state in an array of technology challenges. Penn Manor High School sophomore Kyle Groff was named a…

• Manor MS student wins regional essay contest

  

  Manor Middle School eighth-grader Peyton Cassel’s fictional story about the Salem witch trials has earned her a top award in the 2015 Hershey Story History Contest. Peyton’s entry, Bewitched, won first-place honors in the senior fiction division. The story is a first-person account of an accused witch’s final day before she is put to death in July 1692.…

• Penn Manor honors Distinguished Alumni

  

  Four outstanding Penn Manor High School graduates were inducted Saturday into the Distinguished Alumni Wall of Honor during the Alumni Banquet in the high school cafeteria. Also honored at the banquet were members of the health care profession. The 2015 Distinguished Alumni are Kenneth Hackman, Class of 1955; Coleen Ortmann Kayden, Class of 1973; Tracy Goodman,…

• Congressman honors Penn Manor HS artist

  U.S. Rep. Joseph Pitts recently honored a Penn Manor High School senior by recognizing her artistic accomplishments in a citation read into the official Congressional Record. It’s the latest honor for Alessandra Levato, who last year earned a $10,000 scholarship for her winning painting in a nationwide art competition. Pitts, an artist himself, met with Ali this…

• PMHS music ensembles perform at Pearl Harbor  

  

  Sixty-one Penn Manor High School students had the experience of a lifetime when they performed this month on the grounds of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The school’s choral and orchestra groups performed April 3 in a tribute to the men and women who have served and continue to serve in the U.S. military and to honor…

• Fund-raiser aids good cause, gives principal a lift

  

  When Hambright students and staff set out to raise money for the American Heart Association’s Jump Rope for Heart, principal Dr. Jerry Egan issued a challenge: If they raised $5,000, he’d work for an hour suspended on a lift. On Friday, Egan fulfilled his promise, but instead of an hour perched 20 feet high on the…