Those local residents making the dean’s list at the University of Scranton for the spring 2005 semester were Margaret T. Diamond, Roxborough; Daniel J. Golasa, Roxborough; and Marianne C. Maxwell, East Falls. All are seniors.

Kristen Welker, a 1994 graduate of Germantown Friends, is now a news reporter for NBC 10.

Tracy Russell, of Wyndmoor, news director of KYW Newsradio 1060, has been is named to the board of directors for the American Red Cross Blood Services, Penn-Jersey Region. Russell, an Emmy award-winner, is an adjunct professor of journalism at Temple University and a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Dr. Sarah M. Whitman has opened her psychiatric practice in Chestnut Hill. She specializes in pain medicine and pain management.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Anwar Z. Williams, a 1997 graduate of Germantown High School, made a port visit to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during a scheduled deployment, while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, homeported in Bremerton, Wash. During the visit, members of Williams’s unit took time to read, play and assist in teaching children at the Rashid Pediatric Therapy Center in Dubai. The 130 children at the school have a variety of disabilities and range in age from 3 to 15.

Northwestern Human Services raised $73,000 at its Golf Classic at Whitemarsh Valley Country Club on June 27.

Among the highest sales producers for the Lafayette Hill office of CENTURY 21 Alliance through April 30 are: Eileen Gray, 10th in closed units and 47th in gross closed commissions; Helene Lazarus, 48th in closed units; Tricia Packer, 58th in gross closed commissions; Carol Miller, 65th in gross closed commissions. The office’s top producers for May 2005 were Carol Miller, Mia Schrank, Marguerite Stokes, Tricia Packer and Marge Welsh.

Betty Lyons, of Mt. Airy, was installed as the president of the Northwest Philadelphia chapter of the National Alliance of the Mentally Ill, Pennsylvania (NAMI-PA).

Marine Corps Pfc. Benjamin S. Kroker, of Lafayette Hill, a 2004 graduate of Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, recently completed the Electrical Equipment Repair Specialist Course. Kroker joined the Marine Corps in September 2004.

Mary Wallace, of Flourtown, has graduated from The Peddie School. She will attend the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State in the fall.

At the Long & Foster®, Real Estate, Inc.’s Blue Bell office, Francine Graglia and Diane LePera were named “Top Resale Producers” for May 2005. Lee Garell, also a sales associate, was named “Top Producer” for May.

Certified financial planner George Toth, president of Chestnut Investment Advisory in Erdenheim, has won a trifecta of broadcast awards for his radio program, “Regarding your Money,” on identity theft.

Ellen M. Cavanaugh, of Chestnut Hill, VP, transmission strategy and business operations, Exelon Business Services Company, has been elected secretary/treasurer of the Forum of Executive Women.

Edward Jones investment representative Christopher Kemezis, of the Chestnut Hill office, recently received the firm’s Winner’s Circle Award for his outstanding sales and service efforts over the past year. Kemezis, who is Vice President-Operations of the Chestnut Hill Community Association, was one of only 883 of the firm’s more than 9,000 investment representatives to receive the award.

Attorney A. Richard Feldman, of Chestnut Hill, a named shareholder of Bazelon Less & Feldman, P.C., was recently elected a vice president of CADE - Helping Children Make Smart Decisions.

The Independent Educational Consultants Association Foundation has announced the appointment of Chestnut Hill-based educational consultant Joseph (Jody) Dobson to its board of trustees. Dobson works with families who are seeking to understand their children’s educational needs, and he helps them find the schools that are best equipped to meet those needs - locally, nationally, or internationally, day schools or boarding schools. His office is also an Independent Test Center for the Secondary School Admission Test (SSAT).

Recent area graduates of Rosemont College include: Stephanie Foster, of Lafayette Hill, M.A. in curriculum and instruction; Noreen Gopez McElroy, of Ambler, M.A. in English; Linda Marie Hellgoth, of Conshohocken, M.A. in curriculum and instruction; Lori Monique Wells, of Glenside, M.B.A.; Jamie L. Probinsky, of Lafayette Hill, M.A. in counseling psychology; Bia Lynn Gerngross, of Chestnut Hill, M.A. in counseling psychology; John Carlyle Berkery, of Roxborough, M.A. in English and publishing; Michelle E. Conley, of Mt. Airy, M.B.A.; Jacqueline King, of Mt. Airy, M.B.A.; Razinn Marissa Gibson, of Germantown, M.B.A.; Kelly C. Qualls, of Germantown, M.S.M.; Kelly Fox, of Conshohocken, B.A. in business communication; Eric J. Woodton, of Conshohocken, B.S. in management, magna cum laude; Tiffany W. King, of Plymouth Meeting, B.A. in business communication; Robin A. Nimmerichter, of Roxborough, B.A. in business communication; Azikiwe Mahcolmle Watson-Forbes, of Fort Washington, B.A. in biology; Lauren Joy Curtis, of Glenside, B.A. in English literature.

Rhona Weintraub and Cristina G. Tarca have joined Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc., Blue Bell, as sales associates.

Jessica Samph, of Chestnut Hill, class of 2006 at Skidmore College, earned honors for the spring semester.

Marion Rudin Frank, Ed.D., a licensed psychologist in private practice in Philadelphia and Chestnut Hill, was elected president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Gold Star Wives of America Inc., a national nonprofit military widow/widower organization that appears before Congress to fight for eligible members’ rights. Frank is also president of PPS, a mental health professional corporation, serving workplaces and private clients in the Delaware Valley.

James Perelman, 17, a student at Abington Friends School, will spend two weeks this summer as a Landmark Volunteer with Scenic Hudson, working to preserve the Hudson River.