Family Practice Medical Associates South Upper St. Clair Office f ffice Summerfield Commons Suite 211 2581 Washington W Road Upper St. Clair, r PA P 15241
Jefferson f fferson Hospital Office f ffice South Hills Medical Building 209 575 Coal V Road Jefferson Borough, PA P 15025
(412) 469-7010 Bethel Park Office f ffice Metro Pr
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Southpointe Office St. Clair Medical Suite 501 Corporate Drive Canonsburg, PA 15317
(724) 746-3369 * * * * * * * * * * * * * Matthew C. Portz, M.D. Peter J. Gagianas, M.D. Louis M. Komer, M.D. Daniel J. Crable, M.D. John (Sean) Barrett, M.D. Richard S. Urban, M.D. Nupur Dashottar, M.D. Dawn Minyon-Sarver, D.O. Lisa A. Goss, M.D. Jennifer Darkowski, PA-C Dana Motika, PA-C Dawn Bocianoski, CRNP We attend St. Clair Hospital and Jefferson Hospital
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UPPER ST. CLAIR TODAY
2002 Graduation School Board Response Delivered by Jim Murdy, former School Board President There have been many important things said this afternoon by the
valedictorians, by Dr. Kushner and especially just now by Dr. Pope. Speaking for the School Board I’d like to congratulate each graduating senior and your parents. Dr. Pope set the historic context of this class. It is unique. You have already seen so much at such a young age. I will stay with his theme. You are historic not for what you have seen, but for what you can accomplish for yourselves and for all of us. You are the second high school class of a new century—a new millennium—the next one thousand years. But think of this. There are 319 of you graduating—three hundred nineteen Upper St. Clair 18-year-olds. In the entire world, there are roughly 100 million 18-year-olds. That means you are only a small fraction (three one thousands of one percent) of the worldwide 18-year-olds who are privileged to be from the graduating class of 2002. In math class, did you ever solve such a tiny number? So, in an arithmetical sense, this class is inconsequential. But this School District doesn’t believe you’re inconsequential. And you can’t believe you’re inconsequential, either.
Your class and graduating classes like yours across America and across the rest of the civilized world will carry a tremendous burden. It is sad and sobering to realize that tens of millions of today’s 18-year-olds won’t contribute to our world. You, Upper St. Clair graduates, may be the tiniest fraction of the shear world numbers. But you are a crucial fraction of the world’s hope. Is there a graduating class anywhere today that’s expected to accomplish more than your parents, your teachers and this community expect you to accomplish? There isn’t. Continued on page 98
Class of 2002 High School Academic Achievers Valedictorians Shoshana Hetta Ballew, Matthew Thomas Birris, Michael Harris Iskoe, Brent Aaron Jackson, Holly Beth Law, Amy Rose Lorincy, Ashime Mathur, Aditya Sankaranarayan, Amisha Mukesh Shah, Stephen Robert Singerman, Kevin Michael Slowey, Jenna Lee Young, Karl Edward Zelik and Sarah Shuohua Zhang. Superintendent’s Academic Achievement Award Sarah Christine Cameron, Jessica Leigh Jones, Elizabeth Ann Luley, Kara Irene Mikula, Elizabeth Louise Miller, Pamela Ann Swaney and Claire Cecilia Yeargers. International Baccalaureate Diploma Award Troy W. Baily, Emily Marie Lovell, Christina Catherine Luke, Mark Peter O’Connor, Stephen Robert Singerman and Sarah Shuohua Zhang. ■
Fall 2002
Steve Singerman lives up to his surname and sings his graduation speech to fellow classmates.