The Pennington School has announced that Osagie Imasogie will be the speaker at the 2013 Commencement exercises on Saturday, June 1. Mr. Imasogie is senior managing partner of Phoenix IP Ventures in Philadelphia. His daughter, Masoma, is a member of the Class of 2013.

Three Pennington Middle School students scored high marks in the May 8 Gill St. Bernard's Silver Spike Invitational track meet.

On Monday, May 6, twenty-five members of the cast and crew of the Middle School Play, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, travelled to the Bucks County Playhouse (BCP) in New Hope, PA, to present a portion of the show . . .

Princeton University politics professor Robert P. George came to Pennington as a guest lecturer on Tuesday, May 7, addressing students in Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Law and Government.

A film created by Pennington School students has been awarded the prize for best comedy film at the Green Mountain Film Festival’s High School Filmmakers Showcase. The festival, sponsored . . .

Pennington School eighth-graders in Mrs. Susan Wirsig's advisory group have maintained a special relationship with the four-year-old class at Pennington Presbyterian Preschool this year.

Marc Elliot, noted speaker on tolerance, provided the keynote talk on Monday, April 22, launching the School's Diversity Week. Elliot talks with school and college audiences about his experience with Tourette Syndrome . . .

The Pennington School’s Odyssey of the Mind team won the state tournament held on Saturday, April 13. They will go on to compete in the world finals in Ann Arbor, MI, on May 23-24. Odyssey of the Mind is an international creative problem solving competition.

A team of seven Middle School students from The Pennington School recently triumphed in the regional competition for building a submersible Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) and are heading to the national contest in May.

Henry Sheeran '14 has been awarded an all-expense-paid summer study trip to Germany by the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG). He was selected as a national winner after scoring in the ninetieth percentile on the Level III 2013 National German Exam for High School Students . . .

Four Pennington School students have discovered two previously unknown viruses. Working as a team every day in the laboratory, the students took more than four months to isolate and purify the viruses from local soil samples. The four are students in an innovative honors research course, Advanced Research in Molecular Biology, launched at the School in 2011 by biology teacher Dr. David Hauser.

Pennington School senior Matthew Bloom was invited to speak at the Child Study Center at New York University in December. Bloom serves as a "Think Different Diplomat" with Eye to Eye, the national mentoring program that pairs children with learning disabilities with high school and college mentors who have similar diagnoses. He spoke to undergraduates pursuing a degree in special education.

On Sunday, Feb. 24, two junior Drama students, Hayden McGovern and Ellie Jarboe, represented The Pennington School at the Princeton area English Speaking Union’s Shakespeare recitation contest held at the Lawrenceville School. They each performed a monologue and sonnet from Shakespeare and earned high praise from the judges and the organizer of the event.

The Red Cross Blood Drive, sponsored by the Junior Proctors on Feb. 19, collected 63 units of blood--potentially saving as many as 189 lives. The JPs thank all of the students and adults who donated blood or contributed baked goods for the comfort station.

On Saturday, Dec. 15, The Pennington School welcomed more than 360 guests to its annual holiday party for clients of HomeFront, the organization serving Mercer County families in need. The School has a longstanding relationship with HomeFront, and the holiday event has been held each December for over two decades. There were nearly 100 student, faculty, and parent volunteers . . .

Pennington rising senior and professional disc jockey (DJ) Dane Kunkel is spending his time this summer producing an electronic dance music (EDM) concert for thousands of teens and young adults. He hopes to raise $100,000 from ticket sales for Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). Slated for September 29, 2012, at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, NJ, the concert will kick off October’s National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

The Pennington School has announced the appointment of Stephen D. Milich as director of admission. Milich comes to Pennington from The Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where he had been associate director of admission since 2008. In a career devoted to admissions . . .

Saturday's Mary Kline Classic, established by Alex Kline '12 and co-sponsored by the School, brought a capacity crowd to Sparks Gymnasium. An estimated 1,000 people attended, and representatives of at least 50 media outlets, including the New York Times , the New York Post , and Slam Online covered the story. The event raised $20,000 for brain cancer research.

Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg recently spoke to the Advanced Placement Government class, taught by Marc Epstein.

Instructions for use of Rjenda have been posted on RaiderWeb.

September 8—September 30: Pulling Pictures from the Paint: A Collaborative Community Art Project and AP Studio Art Students’ Summer Work

October 4—October 27: Portraits and Figures

Pennington's sixth-graders' attendance on May 10 at the twenty-third annual Student Summit hosted by Clean Ocean Action provided them an opportunity to experience hands-on, marine environmental education at the Jersey Shore.

Pennington faculty members (from left) Rick Ritter, Lisa Houston, Erin O'Connell, and Tara Jennings joined over 5,000 other participants in the Flemington Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day.

The School’s Run for the Cure on Oct. 17 drew a record 116 participants and raised $4,500 for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the foundation for breast cancer research. The 5K run, organized and sponsored by the senior Peer Leaders, had almost twice the number of walkers and runners as last year.

The Pennington School's fourteenth annual Flying Pig 5K run drew 124 runners and walkers ages 12 to 75 on the hot evening of August 11. Proceeds from the event, held off-road in Rosedale Park, benefit Athletes Helping Athletes and the School's cross country and track programs. The top three finishers--all Hamilton Township residents and students or alumni of Notre Dame High School in Lawrence Township--were Jonathan Sewnig, Shaun Foley, and Tyler Jeavons. The fastest female in the race was also one of the youngest: Hannah Molloy, age 14, of Levittown, PA. Click the headline for a complete list of the race results.

Ms. Erin O'Connell's sophomore honors English students recently attended a New York production of Tennessee Williams's famous play, The Glass Menagerie.

Pennington School students and faculty participated in community service projects for Habitat for Humanity in both Myrtle Beach, SC, and Boynton Beach, FL, during Spring Break.

The Pennington School honored 147 of its Upper School and 61 of its Middle School students recently for having been included on the Dean’s List in the spring semester of 2009. For students to be on the Dean’s List, all of their grades must be B or higher; "high honors" indicates that all of their grades are A-minus or above.

Winter's famed "Earth Mass" to be performed at Patriots Theater Feb. 21.

Contact: A. Melissa Kiser (609-737-6116); amkiser@pennington.org

For Immediate Release: Sept. 26, 2007

Contact: A. Melissa Kiser (609-737-6116); amkiser@pennington.org

Pennington Alumnus Jerry Eure has been appointed director of athletics, succeeding the retiring Dean Waters.