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August 17, 2010
How Can I Get My Kids Ready to Go Back to School?
Hey parents! Enjoying your summer? Well, soak up that sun while you can, because school starts real soon. For some, it’s as early as next week. And sure, while you and your kids don’t want to be thinking about textbooks and homework just yet, it’s best to start getting ready for the new school year now, if you haven’t already.
“Losing summer vacation is a major change for [kids],” said Kevin Muirhead, head of head of early childhood and lower schools at Harrisburg Academy. “They go through a grieving process.”
To shorten that grieving process, and to ensure that your family is fully prepared to head back into the classroom, we’ve put together a list of tips that should help keep your anxiety level to a minimum. Make sure the kids complete any work assigned over the break. Did your children have a book to read or report to write? Be sure it’s done before they have to go back.
July 26, 2010
Harrisburg Academy Wins at 2010 Best of Web Awards
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Harrisburg Academy won “Best Recurring eNews Product” for its weekly Explorer and was recognized as a finalist for its school website (arts and education division) at the 2010 Best of the Web Awards program today at the Radisson Penn Harris Hotel and Convention Center in Camp Hill, Pa. The Academy’sweeklyemail-based campaign, the Explorer, designed to keep parents well-informed while demonstrating the overall value of an Academy education, was selected by an independent panel of judges for its thoroughness, interactivity, and overall user experience.
July 14, 2010
Harrisburg Academy a Repeat Winner in Central Penn Parent Family Favorites Awards
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – For the second year in a row, Harrisburg Academy has been recognized as the #2 private school in Central Pennsylvania — and the #1 independent (non-religious) school in the region — in Central Penn Parent magazine’s Family Favorites Awards. “Our school has been a valuable community resource for 226 years, providing an education that is quite different from the other private and independent schools in our geographic area,” said Kristina Pae, communications associate. “We are so pleased that Central Penn Parent magazine’s readers recognize the value of a Harrisburg Academy education, and we hope they will schedule a visit with us when considering educational options for their children!” she said.
July 9, 2010
Harrisburg Academy Announces $30,000 Scholarship Winners, 2010 Full IB Diploma Recipients
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Harrisburg Academy implemented the globally recognized International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB) into its curriculum in 2005 to connect students with an ever-growing global society. Three years later, the school continues to provide world-wide learning opportunities by offering four scholarships for IB Diploma candidates. Harrisburg Academy proudly announces the recipients of its inaugural 2010 International Baccalaureate Summer Study Scholarship: Amna Elnour ’12 (incoming student), Rose Levenson ’12 (current student), David Levine ’12 (current student), and Hanna Moreland ’12 (current student).
June 16, 2010
Harrisburg Academy Tennis Trio Hit the Heights
Source: The Patriot-News
Every once and a while, you get a special group of players that lift a team and school to heights never thought obtainable. No team from
June 16, 2010
2010 Patriot-News Boys' Tennis All-Star Team
Source: The Patriot-News
Andrew K. ’10, Doug K. ’11, and Ted O. ’10 represent
June 16, 2010
Trinity sprint ace Natimi Black-Heaven takes gold home to London
(Nat B., Harrisburg Academy student participating in Trinity sports co-op)
Source: The Patriot-News
As other high school graduates and students went their separate ways for the summer, some took a trip to the beach. Others started a summer job right away. Natimi Black-Heaven? He hopped on a plane and went home.
Black-Heaven, Trinity’s speedy 4x100 relay anchor is originally from
June 7, 2010
College Recruiting Watch: Harrisburg Academy's Adam Chernicoff to Lafayette
Source: The Patriot-News
Aside from his soccer and basketball commitments in Wormleysburg, Chernicoff hit the diamond for
May 30, 2010
Best and Brightest 2010 Semifinalists & Judges
Source: The Patriot-News
Twenty local high school seniors represent the Best and Brightest Class of 2010 in a program started by The Patriot-News to spotlight the potential of each year's high school graduating class. The 18th annual program drew 150 applications from 45 schools. Selection committees reviewed applications to consider academic excellence, honors and awards, school and community involvement, post-high school goals, and, for some, response to obstacles and challenges. Committees also reviewed student essays and letters of recommendation.
May 29, 2010
Kantor and Otto Take Home Fourth-Place Medal at PIAA Singles and Doubles Championships
Source: The Patriot-News
It just wasn’t enough. Kantor and Otto battled through a grueling three set semifinal and a third-place match only to come up short, finishing fourth during Saturday’s PIAA Singles and Doubles Tennis Championships at the Hershey Racquet Club.
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May 29, 2010
Harrisburg Academy's Natimi Black-Heaven '10 Helps Trinity Secure PIAA Class AA Track & Field Championship
Source: The Patriot-News
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May 28, 2010
Harrisburg Academy's Lacrosse Program Moving to Trinity
Source: The Patriot-News
May 7 saw the end of an era at
May 27, 2010
Harrisburg Academy's Andrew Kantor, Ted Otto Begin Quest for PIAA Gold
Source: The Patriot-News
A year ago,
May 22, 2010
Harrisburg Academy Puts Up Fight But Loses in State Team Tennis Semifinals
Source; The Patriot-News
There were points Saturday when it looked like
The Spartans were deadlocked in a state semifinal match with
May 5, 2010
Cumberland Valley and Harrisburg Academy Claim Mid-Penn Team Tennis Championships
Source: Patriot-News
There is no longer any doubt that
May 1, 2010
Prom on a Budget
Source: Patriot-News
Katie Roksandic had more to figure out than the color and cut of her prom dress. Roksandic, 18, drew up a budget for the prom. "I guestimated how much my hair would cost, my nails, my shoes, my makeup, alterations," said Roksandic, a senior at Lower Dauphin High School.
...Read MoreApril 30, 2010
International Baccalaureate Diploma Will Be Offered to Students in 2011-12
With quotes from Dr. Tom Banks
Source: Patriot-News
The difference between credits earned through a
Graduates who also earn an International Baccalaureate diploma will have made all the stops on a planned, academic " "tour." Those who enroll in AP classes will "travel" their own academic path.
...Read MoreApril 23, 2010
Harrisburg Academy Announces New 2010-11 Trustees, Community Advisory Board Members
The Board of Trustees is a governing body comprised of community leaders and parents and is responsible for the development of policy and the institution’s fiscal integrity. Since 2003-04, the Board has committed itself to an annual self-review and goal-setting in keeping with “best practices” as delineated by the National Association of Independent Schools. The Board uses the responses to this self-review, along with its critique of the administration’s progress toward achieving designated priorities of Challenge 2013, the school’s five-year strategic plan, as criteria for developing its goals and those of the Head of School for the next school year.
...Read MoreApril 20, 2010
Middle School Students to Plant 225 Trees in Honor of Anniversary, Earth Day
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Harrisburg Academy’s Middle School (MS) students will get a hands-on lesson about conservation and tree planting this Friday at a park in South Londonderry Township. The students will plant 225 saplings in honor of Earth Week and the school’s Triple Anniversary (225th anniversary since its founding, 200th anniversary since its chartering, and 50th anniversary of occupying its current location).
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is supporting Academy students in this day of learning and service by helping to coordinate and facilitate four stations: Tree Planting, Water Quality & Stream Study, Group Hike & Writing Activity, and Water Treatment Plant Tour. The students, split into four groups based on grade level, will spend 45 minutes at each station:
...Read More April 10, 2010
It's Quite Easy, Learning Green
Source: Harrisburg Magazine
Junk bands, trash talk and the wasted quarter pounder. At
powerful tools teaching students to "think green." The message of reduce, reuse and recycle is taught and lessons are well learned. "If you don't take care of Mother Earth, then she cannot take care of you," one young student reminds others. "We have students who are great at reminding us to take the compost bucket to the gallery
(our lunch room)," says
April 9, 2010
'Bravo' to Elementary Language Education
Source: Patriot-News
BY PATRIOT-NEWS EDITORIAL BOARD
President Obama says he is embarrassed he can't speak a second language.
Students in China begin learning English in the third grade. Students in Germany are studying English by the fifth grade, and college-bound Germans are expected to pick up a third language in high school. Contrast that to America where most students do not begin to study a second language until the eighth or ninth grade.
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Harrisburg Academy Announces $30,000 IB Scholarship Opportunity
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – When Harrisburg Academy considered implementing the globally recognized International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB) into its curriculum in 2005, the school’s faculty and administrators anticipated — and achieved — success. Three years later, the school is excited to expand on its tradition of being on the forefront of global education with a unique opportunity for IB Diploma candidate students.
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Students to Plant Trees in South Londonderry
Source: Lebanon Daily News
CAMPBELLTOWN – A group of 80 students from
April 2, 2010
Harrisburg Academy to Celebrate Charter Day with Time Capsule
This year’s celebration will remain close to home as the focus of the event is burying a time capsule on school grounds. Items submitted for the time capsule vary and represent each class, including class work, scrapbooks, photos, music, writing, and many other items of significance.
...Read MoreMarch 8, 2010
Middle School Students Discover Success at CASEF
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – For many young scientists in the Harrisburg area, March is the month for science because of the annual Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair (CASEF). On March 3-6, students representing 42 middle and high schools from central Pennsylvania shared science experiments and lab reports with fellow students at this regional science fair held at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg.
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RESULTS: Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair
Source: Carlisle Sentinel
The following students were category winners in the Capital Area Science and Engineering Fair. Listed is the student’s name, grade, school, project title and placement. Some also list special awards received by that student.
...Read MoreMarch 5, 2010
Harrisburg Academy Congratulates Two National Merit Finalists
March 3, 2010
Phones, Computers, Games Can Keep Teens Awake Too Late
Source: The Patriot-News
It’s 8:30 a.m., and Loran Jackson, Jasmine Kennedy, Dana Washington and Kuron Taltoan have already been at school for a half-hour. It’s an early start to a day that probably won’t end until midnight or later. The SciTech High School seniors are typical of today’s sleep-deprived teens. Washington considers a midnight bedtime a “great accomplishment.” “I have to tell myself to go to sleep sometimes,” she said. “I’m often up till 2.”
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'Bravo' to Elementary Language Education
Source: Patriot-News
February 25, 2010
Mark Parsells '78 Named as Alumnus of the Year
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – The Harrisburg Academy Alumni Council has selected Mark Parsells ’78 as the Alumnus of the Year and featured speaker for the Class of 2010’s graduation ceremony in June. This is the first year that the Alumni Council has been responsible for choosing the award’s recipient.
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Harrisburg Academy Honor Roll
Second Quarter
Source: The Patriot-News
Harrisburg Academy congratulates its students who made the Honor Roll for the second quarter and commends their hard work. Please click on the link to view the complete list.
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Gift of Tennis Turns Heads at USTA Featuring Tennis Coach April Gift
Source: The Patriot-News
If you're a young, aspiring baseball, basketball or soccer player and want to play outside your high school season, there are plenty of opportunities to sharpen your game There's American Legion baseball, AAU basketball, club soccer and travel soccer programs available to a variety of age ranges. But what about a sport such as tennis? Sure, there are junior programs all over the area, but there never was that much available to get the competitive juices flowing.
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Harrisburg Academy Boys' Hoops Coach Steve Pancoski Insists on Balance
Source: The Patriot-News
Steve Pancoski has been a fixture not only at Harrisburg Academy but in the midstate hoops scene as well. He's in his 17th year leading the Spartans boys team, making him one of the longest-tenured basketball coaches in central Pennsylvania. In his 16 years of coaching at Academy, he's guided the Spartans to nine District 3 playoff appearances, five Susquehanna Independent Athletic Conference championships and a 154-190 overall record.
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Harrisburg Academy Good Fit for Zach C.
Source: The Patriot-News
For all the moves Harrisburg Academy senior Zach C. shows off with a basketball, he saved his best one for off the court. He started his high school career at Susquehanna Twp., a basketball hotbed where Zach mostly sat and watched for two years. But then he made what turned out to be a fortuitous decision.
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Middle School Grandparents Enjoy a Day of Science and Song
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Harrisburg Academy Middle School (MS) students welcomed loved ones to school today for Grandparents and Special Friends Day yesterday. The morning feature musical performances, project displays, and refreshments. Grandparents and special friends of the students had the opportunity to meet teachers and experience first-hand what the students are doing at school — including the excitement of the Middle School’s yearly Science Fair.
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Harrisburg Academy Receives Substantial Bequest from Elias Estate
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Marie Graupner Elias, who died earlier this year, and her husband, David A. Elias, Jr., who died in 1989, bequeathed a generous portion of their estate to Harrisburg Academy. The bequest will come to the Academy in two installments, totaling more than $200,000.
...Read MoreJanuary 7, 2010
Class of 2010 College Acceptance Announcements Start Strong
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – As of Jan. 5, 2010, 20 of our 35 Harrisburg Academy seniors have been offered admission to at least one college or university. Current acceptances are only for colleges and universities that offer "rolling admission," or for those students who have received an Early Action or Early Decision acceptance. With nearly 250 applications submitted by the Class of 2010, most of the "regular admission" decisions will not be received until March and April.
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Harrisburg Academy Receives 2010 Global Classroom Honorable Mention
December 13, 2009
Holding Court (featuring Steve Pancoski, Harrisburg Academy Boys Basketball Coach)
Source: The Patriot-News
Continuity just isn't what it once was. After another summer of coaching changes within the midstate's boys' basketball ranks, it was time to stop and think: Which coaches have been around longer than the beat writer? Who has the most years with the same team? Where is the continuity? No one has a longer sustained run than Patrick Dieter, who just tipped off his 27th season at Boiling Springs. "When I first came to Boiling Springs we were like a farm school," he said. "All these places the kids know, that have been there all their lives, weren't even there when I was a kid. It was all farm fields."
December 8, 2009
Harrisburg Academy Musicians Featured on National Stage
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – The Hershey Festival Strings, a local youth orchestra, has been selected from amongst the outstanding student orchestras throughout the nation to be included on the “Live from Lincoln Center” website. The orchestra’s featured performance from 2006 includes Harrisburg Academy students Mary R. ’12, Mackenzie S. ’10, Kendall S. ’12, Angela P. ’10, Rose L. ’12, and Zachary S. ’12, then middle school students.
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Harrisburg Academy Fall Athletes Celebrate High Accolades
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Harrisburg Academy is proud to announce that AnnElizabeth K. ’10 has been selected to the Patriot-News All Star Girls Tennis Team. Konkel beat Class AAA competition and was the Mid-Penn playoffs runner-up. In addition to making it to district playoffs in singles tennis, she advanced in doubles tennis with partner Sophia K. ’10.
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Academy Sophomore Receives Leaders of Tomorrow Award Recognition
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – The 2009 Leaders of Tomorrow program honored Rose L. ’12, a Harrisburg Academy sophomore, at its awards banquet last night. The competition, sponsored by CenturyLink and The Sentinel (Carlisle) and now in its sixth year, honors local youth in grades nine through 12 who exhibit outstanding leadership and community service. This year’s 107 nominees, eight finalists, and one winner, were recognized at the event.
...Read MoreNovember 25, 2009
Harrisburg Academy students exceed food drive goal by 100%
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Harrisburg Academy students collected a staggering 4,000 nonperishable food items during their annual food drive from Nov. 2-10, 2009. The initial goal to collect 2,000 items was not only successfully attained, but surpassed by 100%. Roughly, the number of donated items averages out to 10 cans per Academy student.
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Celebrating 225 years of tradition and 3 generations of family
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – Harrisburg Academy Early Childhood (EC) and Lower School (LS) students will welcome loved ones to school today for Grandparents and Special Friends Day. This annual favorite, fittingly themed, “Celebrating 225 Years of Tradition & Three Generations of Family,” will feature an afternoon of musical performances, class displays, and refreshments.
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U.S. Embassy flag to be raised and honored at Harrisburg Academy
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – For one day, a piece of world history will fly over Harrisburg Academy. On Monday, Nov. 23 during Morning Meeting time (10:42 a.m.), Harrisburg Academy Middle School students will conduct a brief ceremony while raising a special American flag on the school flagpole. The last time this flag flew was on Flag Day, June 14, 2009 – over the U.S. Embassy in Iraq in honor of Harrisburg Academy.
...Read MoreOctober 31, 2009
PHOTOS: Camp Hill defeats Harrisburg Academy 2-0 in their District 3A Quarterfinals at Landis Field
Source: Patriot-News
This collection of game day photos is courtesy of Patriot-News’ photographer Sean Simmers. Featured Harrisburg Academy students include Ted O. ’10 and Alec D. ‘11.
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Harrisburg Academy hires Operations and Special Events Associate
WORMLEYSBURG – Harrisburg Academy named Beth Zak Operations and Special Events Associate of its pre-K through 12th grade independent school in Wormleysburg. Beth will manage the coordination of all Development office events and Parents Association events in addition to coordinating the activities of the Development office staff. Before joining Harrisburg Academy, Beth was the President/Owner of Eventz, Ltd., a Charlotte, NC events management firm that she founded. Beth is a graduate of Winthrop University.
October 20, 2009
Harrisburg Academy announces 2009-10 Board of Trustees
WORMLEYSBURG –Harrisburg Academy is pleased to announce its 2009-10 Board of Trustees: Thomas Schmidt III (President), Joyce Kantor (Vice-President), Stacey Zuckerman (Secretary), David Desfor (Treasurer), Jayne Abrams, Dawn Altmeyer, Elizabeth McInnis Benito, Helen Colvin ’60, Jan Coxon, Joyce Davis, Benedict Dubbs, Tom Farr, Linda Goldstein, Nirmal Joshi, Joyce Levin, Bill Miller, Diane Mulcahy (Parents Association representative), Michael Silver ’83, Addison Taliaferro, Jr., Ellen Warren, and Gene Trindell.
October 16, 2009
Depleted Trinity advances in team tourney
Souce: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – Trinity girls' tennis coach Will Stonebraker was concerned.
His Shamrocks were scheduled to face Harrisburg Academy in the Mid-Penn Class AA Team Championships with a district spot on the line. And they had to do it without all of their weapons.
October 14, 2009
Clarke passes two tests in Mid-Penn Conference Tourney
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – Liz Clarke began her Tuesday morning with a math test at Camp Hill before jettisoning over to East Pennsboro for the final day of the Mid-Penn Conference Class AA girls' tennis championships. Here is a tried and true tennis equation -- steady ground strokes + consistent first serve x minimal unforced errors = singles gold.
October 13, 2009
Academy senior reaches AA finals
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – It's easy for AnnElizabeth K. to fly under the local tennis radar. She plays at Harrisburg Academy and isn't part of the Mid-Penn Conference, and it's tough to garner any star power or respect at an independent school. AnnElizabeth made a name for herself Monday by carving her way through the No. 1 singles bracket and taking a semifinal win over Bishop McDevitt's Lauren Lacey to advance to today's 9:30 a.m. final of the Mid-Penn Class AA Tennis Championships at East Pennsboro High School.
October 5, 2009
Harrisburg Academy celebrates two National Advanced Placement (AP) scholars
WORMLEYSBURG – Two students at Harrisburg Academy have earned AP Scholar Awards in recognition of their exceptional achievement on AP Exams. The College Board’s Advanced Placement Program® (AP®) provides motivated and academically prepared students with the opportunity to take rigorous college-level courses while still in high school, and to earn college credit, advanced placement, or both for successful performance on the AP Exams. About 18 percent of the 1.6 million students worldwide who took AP Exams performed at a sufficiently high level to also earn an AP Scholar Award.
October 3, 2009
Reasons to cheer: Harrisburg Academy celebrates three milesones
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – What do the years 1784, 1809 and 1959 have in common? Each marks a milestone in the illustrious history of Harrisburg Academy, which celebrates this threefold anniversary this year. Harrisburg Academy was born in 1784 in one room of the John Harris Mansion, which today houses the Dauphin County Historical Society, three years before the ratification of the Constitution of the United States and 76 years before the City of Harrisburg was incorporated.
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Pennsylvania needs to legalize medical marijuana
- Patriot-News op-ed By Reuben M. '10
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – In 1988, Judge Francis Young, former chief administrative law judge at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, ruled in favor of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in its case for the legalization of medical marijuana.
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COACH OF THE WEEK: First-year coach at Academy brings wealth of experience
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – Marcie Boyer is deep into her first season as the field hockey coach at Harrisburg Academy. It might be just her first year of coaching at the high school level, but she brings a wealth of experience to the job. After a successful playing career at Northern High School, she played at the University of New Hampshire, then starred for two years with the United States national U-23 team.
...Read MoreSeptember 30, 2009
Harrisburg Academy Homecoming Weekend to highlight service, celebration
WORMLEYSBURG – The students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of Harrisburg Academy are preparing to celebrate yet again – this time with packed weekend of homecoming events. The school, founded in 1784 by John Harris, Jr., is observing a special Triple Anniversary Homecoming this year with stewardship and celebration.
September 25, 2009
Predictions are more than sci-fi, they teach
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – Back in the 1950s, scientists and sociologists predicted technological advances would make it easier for future generations of American women to keep their houses clean and shiny. Included in the list of modern developments: plastic houses that homemakers could clean just by rinsing with a hose. We're still waiting for that one. Not all of the predictions made over the years have come true, but they're still interesting and important to examine, according to Amy Miller, a teacher at Harrisburg Academy.
...Read MoreSeptember 18, 2009
Harrisburg Academy Congratulates Two National Merit Semifinalists
WORMLEYSBURG – Two students at Harrisburg Academy were named as Semifinalists in the 2010 National Merit® Scholarship Program: Sophia K. ’10 and Reuben M. ’10. The National Merit Scholarship Program honors individual students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in rigorous college studies. Sophia and Reuben will have the opportunity to continue in the competition for 8,200 available National Merit Scholarships, worth more than $36 million, that will be offered next spring.
...Read MoreSeptember 2, 2009
Harrisburg Academy hires Director of Development and Alumni Relations, Communications Associate
WORMLEYSBURG – Harrisburg Academy named Arthur Moore Director of Development and Alumni Relations and Kristina Burlew Pae Communications Associateof its pre-K through 12th grade independent school in Wormleysburg. Arthur will manage the Academy’s development operations. He has successfully led development programs in a number of other independent schools in Wisconsin, Georgia, New York City, Arizona, and most recently the Poughkeepsie Day School in the Hudson Valley (New York).
...Read MoreAugust 30, 2009
Small schools have players, too
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – In this second year of Harrisburg Academy's football co-op agreement with Trinity, one player has crossed over. The important thing is that one player has his chance. "That was my big push, to be able to provide the opportunity for the students to be able to play," Harrisburg Academy athletic director Jeane Serino said. "It's easy when you're part of a big school," said the Shippensburg High School grad. "But when you go to a smaller school and kids want to play ... why not?"
...Read MoreAugust 24, 2009
Harrisburg Academy wins Central Penn Parent magazine Family Favorites award
WORMLEYSBURG, PA – The readers of Central Penn Parent magazine have spoken, and Harrisburg Academy has been recognized as the #2 private school in Central Pennsylvania – and the #1 independent (non-religious) school in the region for the 2009 Family Favorites Awards. Thirty-one schools were nominated for this honor.
...Read MoreMay 13, 2009
Harrisburg Academy continues magical ride
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – Fans lined the sidewalk as the Harrisburg Academy boys' tennis team pulled out from the school in a chartered bus for its trip to Williamsport's Memorial Park. The teachers cheered. The students waved. It was the perfect sendoff for a team that had achieved so much. Get ready for another celebration.
...Read MoreMay 12, 2009
Bill would require open activities
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – Competition for making the wrestling or debate team could get stiffer at public schools if a bill in the state Senate becomes law. School districts would be required to allow nonpublic school students the chance to participate in extracurricular activities in their home districts if their own schools do not offer the activities.
May 10, 2009
She's No. 1: Carlisle woman voted top mom
Source: Carlisle Sentinel
CARLISLE – Eight-year-old Hayden Q isn’t the only person who thinks he has a great mother. Hayden’s winning nomination in The Sentinel’s Mother’s Day Contest drew 223 votes. “It was a big surprise,” Qualls said. The 38-year-old Carlisle Borough resident explained that her husband, Karl Qualls, found out about the contest and suggested to Hayden that he enter it as a sort of Mother’s Day gift.
...Read MoreMay 8, 2009
Academy receives $318,000 for scholarship from Hoopy estate
HARRISBURG –Harrisburg Academy recently received a $318,000 bequest from the estate of businessman and philanthropist George C. Hoopy, Class of 1926, to create an endowed scholarship fund. Revenue from the Patricia R. and George C. Hoopy Scholarship Fund will be used annually to provide financial aid to needy families.
...Read MoreApril 4, 2009
MAKING TIME: Academy celebrates 225th anniversary
Source: Patriot-News
HARRISBURG – Its graduates go on to schools like the University of Pennsylvania, New York University and even the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. It strives to be academically challenging and globally minded, teaching students not only how to excel scholastically but also how to be engaged in and focused on their community and their world. Harrisburg Academy is now celebrating its 225th anniversary, making it one of the country's oldest private schools.
March 23, 2009
Charter Day, April 6, to kick off triple anniversary celebration
Source: The Patriot-News
WORMLEYSBURG – The school’s triple anniversary – 225th year of its founding, 200th year of its incorporation by the Commonwealth, and 50th year at its current site – kicks off at 9:30 a.m., Monday, April 6, in the State Capitol Main Rotunda. (The actual anniversary is April 4 – a Saturday this year.) State Sen. Jeffrey E. Piccola and State Reps. Glen R. Grell and Sheryl Delozier will be hand to present legislative citations. Executive Deputy Sec. of Education Thomas E. Gluck will present a citation from Gov. Edward Rendell.
January 26, 2009
Harrisburg Academy Receives 2009 Global Classroom Honorable Mention
HARRISBURG, PA –The Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET) honored Harrisburg Academy last month with a Global Classroom Award Honorable Mention. The Global Classroom Award recognizes schools that bring international issues and global awareness into the school and larger community.
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