Chestnut Hill Local — JUNE 10, 2004 Issue

June 10, 2004 Issue

In The News...

Woodmere addition approved despite dissent

by MICHAEL J. MISHAK

The Chestnut Hill Community Association's Land Use Planning & Zoning Committee (LUPZ) voted to support Woodmere Art Museum's planned addition in a contentious three-hour meeting last week.

The unanimous 7-0 vote, which granted conditional approval with several provisos, sends the project to the CHCA's Development Review Committee next week.

The museum needs a use variance from its residentially zoned...

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In Sports...

Lax seniors win at national tournament

by TOM UTESCHER

A group of graduating lacrosse players from the area went out on a high note on Memorial Day weekend, winning the High School Senior Division of the U.S. Lacrosse Women's Division National Tournament held at Lehigh University.

Springside School's Erin Lawson, Zan Morley and Lucy Ross and Germantown Academy's Jess Dwinell and Caitlin McKinney all played for the victorious Upper Atlantic region "Gray" team, which was coached by Springside mentor Brooke Fritz.

This was the first year that seniors and underclassmen were separated at the tourney, which started in the 1930's as a gathering of club teams from different regions around the country and began to include high school players in 1985. Because...

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In LocalLife...

Memoir tells of pioneering Hill journalist, 97

by BILL GODFREY

"I was born in a white pebbledash house with green shutters at the end of a street called East Gravers Lane. Some people thought the name so funereal that they would not have it on their visiting cards."

From: Wings on My Heels: A Newspaperwoman's Story, by Ellen Taussig, 1986.

CAPE MAY — Ninety-seven-year-old Ellen Taussig began life as a privileged child of Philadelphia society — a "marcher in the parade," as she described it. But fate had other challenges in mind for the Chestnut Hill native. From a sheltered upbringing,...

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