Category: Awards

• Eight seniors vying for 2019 Penn Manor Homecoming Queen

  

  Eight Penn Manor High School seniors are vying for the title of 2019 Homecoming Queen while raising money to support families in need. Delaney Mercado, Kaitlyn Stauffer, Ella Hart, Miriam Badri, Kailey Stoner, Kayla Mills, Leilani Torres and Mary Anna Vozzella are this year’s candidates. The Homecoming Queen will be announced at halftime of the…

• Forty-eight students inducted into PMHS National Honor Society

  

  The Penn Manor chapter of the National Honor Society welcomed 48 new members during an induction ceremony Oct. 2 in the high school cafeteria. To qualify for NHS, the Penn Manor High School juniors and seniors had to maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.85 and demonstrate strong leadership, service and character traits. The…

• Fifteen PMHS students qualify for County Chorus

  

     Fifteen Penn Manor High School students have qualified to participate in the Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators Association County Chorus Festival in January.    The students auditioned Sept. 28 at ELCO High School before a panel of judges along with other students from public and private schools throughout Lancaster and Lebanon Counties.    All 15 Penn…

• Letort Elementary named a 2019 National Blue Ribbon School

  

     Penn Manor School District’s Letort Elementary has been named a National Blue Ribbon School for 2019 – one of just 362 schools in America to receive the honor.    The Blue Ribbon awards were announced Thursday, Sept. 26, by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.    Letort, with 312 students in kindergarten through grade six, was honored…

• Rintz, Long honored for service to Penn Manor school board

  

  Congratulations to school directors Carlton “Herk” Rintz and Ken Long for their combined 28 years of service to the Penn Manor school board! At the Sept. 3 school board meeting, Rintz was honored for 16 years of service, and Long was honored for his 12 years of service to the all-volunteer board of school directors.…

• Girls’ volleyball team earns third straight national academic honor

  For the third year in a row, the Penn Manor girls’ volleyball team has been named to the Academic All-American Honor Roll by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. The 2018 team qualified by earning a cumulative grade-point average of 3.68, which ranks among the top 25 of girls’ high school teams in the United States.…

• Manor FFA members earn honors in state competition

  Several Manor FFA teams and individuals were named state champions and earned other honors at the State FFA Activities Week, held June 11-13 at Penn State University. The Dairy Cattle Evaluation team was crowned state champions and will compete at the National FFA Convention and Expo Oct. 30-Nov. 2 in Indianapolis. Members include Colt Barley,…

• Penn Manor Quiz Bowl team places in top 50 nationally

     The Penn Manor Quiz Bowl Team recently placed in the top 50 in the nation in the High School National Championship Quiz Bowl Tournament.    The event featured 336 teams from across the country and was held May 24-27 in Atlanta.    The Penn Manor team went 6-4 in preliminary matches to make the…

• 417 members of Class of 2019 earn diplomas

  Members of the Penn Manor Class of 2019 received their diplomas Tuesday night before family and friends during an upbeat graduation ceremony at Franklin & Marshall College. In his address to the crowd, principal Dr. Phil Gale celebrated the many accomplishments of the 417 graduates, including state and national recognition in academics, technology, agriculture, the…

• Class of 2019 receives more than 200 local scholarships, awards

  Penn Manor High School seniors got a boost to their post-high school plans when members of the Class of 2019 received 203 scholarships and awards totaling more than $110,000 during the Senior Awards Ceremony, held May 23. The honors included $70,000 in scholarships awarded to 65 seniors through Penn Manor Education Foundation. Many thanks to the Penn Manor community…