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Friends Select honors alumni/ae and teachers during Annual Awards Ceremony O


n October 19, Friends Select Alumni/ae took part in alumni/ae activities during the eighth annual gathering of the National Board of Visitors. The agenda for the day included classroom visits, lunch with upper school students, meetings, presentations, and Meeting for Worship. It concluded with an evening reception and the 2012 Friends Select School Teach- ing and Alumni/ae Awards Ceremony.


Steven Abrams ’76


received the Distinguished Alumni/ae Award, which honors an alumnus or alumna who has displayed distinctive achievement in a chosen field or endeavor and has made significant contributions to public service and community. Abrams resides in Florida and is former mayor of Boca


Raton. He currently serves as vice chairman of the Palm Beach County Board of Commissioners. Robin J. Bernstein ’67 and Frank Mustin ’41 received the Meritorious Service Award, which honors an individual for sustained and exemplary service to the school. Retired from politics and law, Bernstein resides in Pittsburgh and currently spends her time volunteer- ing for several causes. She is an active member of the Board of Trustees at Friends Select. Residing in Haver- ford, Pa., Mustin spends his time playing golf and is committed to the rejuvena- tion of the Landsdowne community. He is a member of the Landsdowne Friends Quaker Meeting. John Colgan-Davis and Bob Harnwell received the Distinguished Teaching


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Friends Select, Harnwell has helped run a construction business, taught math in Tanzania and Peru and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean with his wife and former teacher Sally Jo Gordon. He is currently working for Search Associates, an educational placement firm. Corey Riley ’94 and Alex


John Colgan-Davis


Award, which recognizes faculty and staff who have contributed significantly to the life of the school through their teaching and mentoring. Colgan-Davis resides in Mount Airy, Pa., and currently teaches in the middle- and upper school history department. In his spare time, he plays harmonica and sings with his blues band, The Dukes of Destiny. Since leaving


Swift ’91 received the Athletic Hall of Fame, which honors an alumnus or alumna who has ex- emplified outstanding athletics and academic achievement, as well as good sportsmanship. Ri- ley resides with his wife Denise in Mount Vernon, NY. Swift lives in Northern Liberties, Pa., and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Pulmonary and Critical Care at Temple Univer- sity. She is also affiliated with Abington Memorial Hospital and Abington Pulmonary & Critical Care Associates. www. friends-select.com


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Lansdowne Friends students watch Monarchs emerge


First and Second graders at Lansdowne Friends School help tag a monarch butterfly as a part of Journey South, a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change.


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n October 12 first and second grade students at Lansdowne Friends School released monarchs that came to their classroom as caterpillars. “The class has been so excited to watch as the chrysalises turn darker, orange wings become visible through the clear shell, and eventually monarch butterflies emerge,” said first and second grade teacher Jill Bean. The classes are participating in a symbolic migration program through the Journey North website, which engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. More than 800,000 students at 38,000 sites participated in the Journey North program. Through Journey North, students can track the monarch migration to Mexico. Each student also made his or her own life-sized monarch butterfly, which will be sent through Journey North to a class near the butterflies’ overwintering site in Mexico. In the spring, when the butterflies begin their journey northward, the classes will receive symbolic butterflies back from Mexico. www.lansdownefriendsschool.org.


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