People and Events

Villanova students visit Rembrandt exhibit

  Students  from Villanova University attended the “Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus” exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art which ran from August through the end of October. Nathan Droba, a freshman at Villanova University, was among the students enjoying the exhibition. Photo by Enrique Mendoza at Aurora Imaging Company

Preparing for excellence in math at Archbishop Ryan H.S.

Students from Archbishop Ryan High School are preparing for the new academic year. But there is a group of students that began preparing earlier than most. They attended the Advanced Statistics Institute held at Ryan Aug. 29 to Sept. 2.

DARE graduation at SS. Simon & Jude School

West Chester –SS. Simon and Jude school’s fifth grade students, pictured with Officer Michael Meiswich from the Westtown East Goshen Police Department, celebrated D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Graduation on June 13. Weekly discussions during the school year included the effects of tobacco, marijuana, and alcohol. However, D.A.R.E. is more than just drug prevention education; […]

Walk this way

WARMINSTER — Nativity of Our Lord School held its 20th Annual Walkathon fundraiser April 29 beginning at 10 a.m. on the school grounds. The entire school student body of over 500 students from pre-K to eighth grade, faculty, and parents began with a brief rally in the school yard and walked together around the school […]

Living stations of the cross enacted at St. Mark in Bristol

BRISTOL — Seventh and eighth-graders from St. Mark School in Bristol performed living stations of the cross April 19, in preparation for Holy Week.

Baking bread at St. Agnes School

WEST CHESTER — Thanks to a grant received from the King Arthur Flour Company, St.Agnes students attended a Life Skills assembly on April 12 and learned how to bake bread — from scratch. According to the Vermont-based company, which has delivered their Life Skills Bread Breaking Program to 120,000 other school students elsewhere, baking is […]

Cover girl

Mount St. Joseph Academy Senior Kathryn Glover of Langhorne made the cover of FIRST USA’s Robotics Magazine! She is shown displaying the trademark hand sign of her school’s all-girl Robotics Team, The Firebirds. Kathryn, along with the other 59 members of the team, competed at the FIRST Robotics Regional Competition in Washington, DC this past […]

Sister Helen Prejean to talk at Chestnut Hill College

PHILADELPHIA, PA- Sister Helen Prejean, best-selling author of “Dead Man Walking” and anti-death penalty advocate, will present the lecture, “Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues” at Chestnut Hill College on April 6 at 7 p.m. in Sorgenti Arena. The lecture is sponsored by the Institute for Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Chestnut Hill College. Sister Helen […]

Conwell-Egan Catholic’s EAST Program recognized

While attending the 2011 Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST) Conference in HotSprings, Arkansas, Conwell-Egan Catholic High School’s EAST team was honored as ranking among the top in the nation. Conwell-Egan Catholic (CEC) was named Superior School, thehighest conference rating, and CEC’s program won the Award of Excellence as one of the top three schools for […]

Jumping for Japan

The Peace Partners in first, second, third, and fourth grade in St. Eugene School in Primos will have people sponsor them as they Jump for Japan. Each student will collect $.25 from sponsors each day they jump. Student will be jumping with their Peace Partner at lunch recess time beginning March 27th and ending April […]