Latest  Alumni  Information

 

 

 

Can you believe the CHS building on Rices Mill Road is 50 years

 old this year?  We are looking for any memorabilia dating back to

the years of 1959/60 (first graduating class), 1960/61 and 1961/62.  

We are especially seeking the first several issues of “The Cheltonian.”

 

 

“SAVE THE DATE”

 

Friday evening October 23, 2009

 

Cheltenham High School Alumni

 

HALL  OF  FAME

Induction

 

                                            Additional information to follow.                                                              04/01/09

 

The Alumni Association Board has voted to

present to the high school two financial gifts:

1.    $500. for the stadium lights project

                                                             2. $500. for the lobby showcase project                                        04/01/09

 

Lance Balderson, ’59; has been honored on the occasion of the acquisition of one of his painting by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This painting entitled “Tryst”, will be part of the museum’s permanent collection. On March 11, family, friends and students gathered at the Ocean City Arts Center to honor Lance Balderson. Others offered tribute, and state Sen. Jeff Van Drew presented Lance with a resolution by the New Jersey legislature. “Artists like you,” Van Drew told Balderson, “inspire us and honor us. We are very proud of you and what you have done. We appreciate the honor you have brought to New Jersey and southern New Jersey.” (Thursday, March 19, 2009Ocean City Sentinel).  http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/181/story/399610.html       04/04/09

 

E-MAIL ADDRESSES WANTED

In the near future, we hope to send you our  annual newsletter by e-mail. 

Won't you please take a minute and provide our office with your current e-mail.

                                                                                            Mail to:   alumni@cheltenham.org                                                                          03/10/09

 

Mark Levin, Class of 1975; Levin has become one of the hottest properties in talk radio, his top-rated show on WABC New York is now syndicated nationally by ABC Radio Networks. He is also one of the top new authors in the conservative political arena. His book “Men inBlack was released in February of 2005.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             03/09

 

Tom Rice, Class of 1958; Rice serves in the Georgia House of Representatives. He was first elected in 1996.                                                                      03/09

 

William Blum, Class of 1968; Blum is an administrative law judge, lawyer and writer. He has also written three legal thrillers. “Prejudicial Error” and “The Face of Justice and the Last Appeal”.                                                                                                                                                                                                              03/09

 

RANDY BRECKER, CLASS OF 1963; AND JAZZ TRUMPETER, WON BEST CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM FOR, “RANDY IN BRASIL''.  He won a Grammy at the recent awards program.       02/21/09                                                                                                                          

 

The Alumni Association is seeking a graduate who is an Accountant or CPA to be our Treasurer.

This is a volunteer position. Contact: e-mail: alumni@cheltenham.org or call 215-886-4697.

 

Ed Landau, RLA, class of 1966 is a registered Landscape Architect.                                                      01/24/09

 

Deborah Weiss Mendelson, ’65 and David E. Robinson, Esq. ’88, both were Re-Elected to the

Upper Dublin School Board in November, 2007.                                                                                     01/24/09                                          

 

Bert Filemyr (Class of 1965) has co-authored a book titled "The Composite Prints of John James Audubon's Birds of America". This book, for the first anywhere, provides an analysis as to how and why these extremely rare Composite Plates were made, while providing illustrations depicting all 13 of the Composite Plates.

More information is available at http://www.thefilemyrs.com/AudubonComposites/index.htm and the book is listed on Amazon.com.                                                                                                                                                                           01/17/09

 

Willard Spiegelman, Ph.D. ’62; has written a book titled “Seven Pleasures: Essays on Ordinary Happiness.” It is part memoir, part meditation, part everything else. In his book, he discusses with nostalgia his formative years (1953-1962) in Cheltenham Schools, a system which he owes a great deal. Spiegelman is The Duwain E. Huges Jr., Distinguished Professor of English at Harvard University.                                                                                                                                                                                       September, 2008

 

BRUCE F. FREED, '62; IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND A FOUNDER OF THE CENTER FOR POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY                  September, 2008

 

After twenty-eight years of practicing Law, Gary Jaffe, ’74; is semiretired and living in Florida.

 

Chief Master Sergeant John L. Hoffman, Jr. class of 1977.  Chief master Sergeant Hoffman leads 48 talented force support airmen responsible for establishing and maintaining bare bases for headquarters U.S. special operations command’s deployment cell (D-Cell. He is responisible for developing training, equipping and manning D-Cell to support over 54,000 special operators assigned to Joint Operations Task Forces engaged in fighting the Global war on terrorism. July, 2008

 

Earl Hulihan, Class of 1967; is Vice President of Global Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance at Medidata Solutions. (based in New York City) He has received the Drug Information Association’s Founders Service Award is the DIA’s highest honor for volunteerism, honoring Earl’s lifelong contributions to medicine, regulatory science and people around the World.

 

Please visit the location of the old Cheltenham High School which was located at the intersection of Montgomery Avenue

and High School Road in Elkins Park, now called “High School Park”. http://www.fhsp.org/

 

The Cheltenham High School Alumni Newsletter,

“Panther’s Tale”

 

This newsletter is only mailed to alumnus whom have joined the Alumni Association at a minium membership of a “LIFE” membership.

Our mailing cost have increased to a point that we can no longer afford to send our newsletter to non member graduates.

. There is a membership application on this web site for your convenience.

 

Attention: C.H.S. graduates

The Alumni Association is looking for graduates

interested in serving on our Alumni Board of Directors.

Please contact us, 215-886-4697

or

Email:   alumni@cheltenham.org

 

 

If you have any C.H.S. memorabilia and would like to donate it to the Alumni Association, please call 215-886-4697 or e-mail alumni@cheltenham.org

We are currently looking for copies of the football programs from the following Cheltenham/Abington games: 2002-2003 : 2003-2004 :  2005-2006

We will make copies if you do not want to give up your program.

 

A company is sending out e-mails under the name of  "New Cheltenham High School alumni archive".

This organization is not sanctioned nor affiliated  with our CHS Alumni Association.

 

 

If you have ever been in the active or reserve military, please inform the alumni so you may be added to those who served

 

 

 

09/24/08