CAMPUS CURRENTS
PLAYER OF THE YEAR!
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he Markward Club named senior Sean O’Brien the Inter-Ac boys basketball Player of the Year, just one of the superlatives O’Brien earned at the end of his Penn Charter career. O’Brien also won 1st Team All Inter-Ac, Daily News All-City, and AAA All-State 3rd Team, and finished with 1,116 career points, making him one of the top scorers in the city. With head coach Lynard Stewart and Director of Athletics and Athletic Planning John Thiel, O’Brien is shown here on the night he scored his 1,000th point – in a spirited, crowdpleaser of a game in which PC beat favored Haverford School. O’Brien has signed to play for Colgate University next year.
GO CHARTER! First four students in the fall and then six in the winter signed national letters of intent to play their sport in college. “This is one of the biggest decisions of your young lives,” said John Thiel, director of athletics and athletic planning. “We congratulate you and thank you for sharing this moment with us.” For both signings, the student athletes gathered in Gummere Library for a brief ceremony and photo opportunities with family and friends, teachers and coaches.
Congratulations and best wishes! JULIANNA CASASANTO, Soccer, Chestnut Hill College STEVE COHEN, Baseball, Lafayette College LAUREN DIMES (not pictured), Soccer, St. Joseph’s University CHARLES HOYT, Track and Field, Lafayette College COREY KELLEY, Football, West Chester University SCOTT MASON, Track and Field, Lehigh University DREW MURRAY, Lacrosse, Fairfield University SEAN O’BRIEN, Basketball, Colgate University DEAN ROSEMAN, Lacrosse, University of Richmond STEPHANIE SOROKA, Soccer, Drexel University
Recycling Hero
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enn Charter was honored as one of 26 “Recycling Heroes” in the Green Cup Recycle Challenge, a fourweek competition designed to improve recycling compliance rates in schools in the U.S. and abroad. To compete, the Green Club members Stephen Flemming, Akeem Blake and Robert Kerwood, all ninth Middle School and Upper graders, helped lead the Green Cup School Green Clubs this Challenge at PC. fall surveyed recycling and trash bins once a week for four weeks. Students calculated the “percent correct” — which means no trash in the recycling bins and no recyclables in the trash bins — and submitted this data to the competition database. Both student clubs worked hard to inform the faculty and student body of the challenge: speaking in assemblies, creating posters that showed exactly what and how to recycle, and even monitoring the dish-drop area in the cafeteria on two days. READ MORE about Penn Charter’s new “green” initiatives on page 16.
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