SPRINGSIDE’S KATIE RUTAN seen here with Xavier University women’s basketball coach Kevin McGuff, Springside School’s Katie Rutan recently made a verbal commitment to accept a scholarship to Xavier, an NCAA Division I school and two-time defending champion in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Rutan missed her junior season at Springside due to injury, but the senior shooting guard enjoyed extensive exposure in summer competition while playing for her AAU club team, the nationally prominent Philadelphia Belles.

HEALTH AIDE HEROES: On Wednesday, July 23, Keystone Home Health Services and Keystone Hospice administrative and clinical staff in Wyndmoor donned aprons to serve an appreciation dinner and present service awards to its home health care aides. This fourth annual recognition event was a way to acknowledge the caring and support that each of the agency’s 100 home health aides provide every day to hundreds of home care and hospice patients throughout greater Philadelphia. Seen here are, from left, Keystone Hospice President and Executive Director Gail Inderwies; Health Aides Chanelle Spearman, Monique Mitchell and Carmen Mercado; and Keystone Home Health Services President Joan Smith-Reese. For more information, visit www.keystonecare.com.

SCIENTIFIC MUSICIAN: Chestnut Hill resident Jim Tisdall is a guitarist who has appeared solo and with his own bands, and has played with various artists including Nico (of the Velvet Underground), the James Cotton Blues Band and electric guitar innovator Allan Gittler, among others. His latest CD, just released, is Three Men in a Boat, with help from guitarist David Bromberg and bass player Tyrone Brown. Tisdall is also a research scientist in genetics, having worked on the human genome project at the University of Pennsylvania and at Fox Chase Cancer Center. For more on the new CD, visit www.threemeninaboat.com