Academic Recognition

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on May 20, 2015

• Top photo: Three members of the UHS Rowing Club recently signed to continue their rowing careers in college. Seated from left to right are Justin Best (Drexel), Sara Beth Johnson (Robert Morris) and Julia Pinamont (Loyola Marymount). Also in the photo from left to right are Paula Massanari (UHS Principal), Jeanne and Glenn Best, Janice, Steven and Katie Johnson and Bernadette and William Pinamont.

• Trisha Kumar of Chadds Ford, was recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective collegiate honor society for all academic disciplines. Kumar was initiated at University of Delaware.

• Alyssa Coombs, of Chadds Ford, graduated alongside 1,063 Millersville University of Pennsylvania students during the spring 2015 undergraduate commencement ceremony held on Saturday, May 9, in Millersville's Biemesderfer Stadium at Chryst Field. Coombs earned a bachelor’s degree in occupational safety & environmental health.

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute has announced that Charles Frick of Chadds Ford, a junior majoring in electrical and computer engineering, was named to the university's Dean's List for academic excellence for the spring 2015 semester.

• Ashlie Pilotti, of Chadds Ford, was among eight Coastal Carolina University students who recently took first and second place honors in several categories at the Future Business Leaders of America-Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference in Charleston. Pilotti, from the College of Science, won first place in website design.