Girls Inter-Ac track holds championship meet
by TOM UTESCHER
Since the late 1990's most of the track teams in the
Girls Inter-Ac League have gathered at Germantown Academy at the end
of the season for a multi-meet called the GA Invitational. With Springside
School making its debut as an official interscholastic team this spring,
it was decided to rechristen the annual assembly in Fort Washington,
so the inaugural Girls Inter-Ac Track & Field Championship was
staged at GA last Saturday.
Episcopal Academy, which won the Invitational last year and went undefeated in league dual meets this season, won gold medals in seven of the 16 events and topped the team tally with 106 points. Host GA, with five first-place finishes, was second with 84 points, and Penn Charter beat out Springside for third, 57 to 48. Notre Dame was fifth with 18 points, while league members Agnes Irwin,...
by TOM UTESCHER
Early last week rain caused the postponement of both Malvern matches in Chestnut Hill Academy's initial Inter-Ac League series of the 2004 golf season, but the Blue Devils finally got on the course for a non-league session on April 16.
In the first foursome to finish the nine-hole round at Sunnybrook, Bo Maguire of visiting Hill School came in right at par with a 36 to help give the Blues an early edge. Later on, a 38 from Jason Ochroch and a 39 from fellow sophomore Nick Pearson helped turn it around for the locals, and Chestnut Hill prevailed in the end, 248-254.
Coupled with a win over Abington Friends the week before, the recent victory upped the Devils' record to 2-0, while Hill leveled off at 3-3. Due to relatively high scores in the fourth foursome...
By KARA DADDARIO
Mike Berger, Jeff Stern and Nate Jellar have jumped
right out of Germantown Friends School and into the crusade for
the improvement of third world countries. While most 19-year-old
young men are solely trudging through freshman year of college,
this ambitious bunch have been advocating for nonprofit status
for their organization "Cultural Convergence: A helping hand
for communities in need." This community service endeavor
got its start late in 2003 and has made substantial progress since
its conception. To understand its roots, however, I asked Mike
Berger to take us back to the beginning, to where this brainchild
was first born, and the inspiration that prompted it.
It was senior year and service was on the horizon
Berger and Stern, co-captains of the GFS baseball team, joined GFS Spanish teacher Bob Rhodes in the spring of 2003 to travel to Tres Brazos in the Dominican Republic. They provided this small community with baseball equipment, medical supplies and a water filtration system. "We didn't really have a plan when we went down there," said Berger. "All we knew was that we wanted to help...