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News & Laurels Three seniors named National Merit Finalists Three Wyoming Seminary seniors, Jason Curtis, Hannah Gabriel and Henry (Gus) Smith, have been named Finalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship competition, said Jay Harvey ’80, Dean of the Upper School. They now have the opportunity to continue in the competition for about 8,300 Merit Scholarship Awards, worth more than $34 million, that will be offered this spring. Every Finalist will be considered for one of 2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state representational basis. Seen are, from left: Curtis, Gabriel and Smith. Lower School teacher named Apple Distinguished Educator Janel McCormick, sixth grade reading teacher at the Lower School, has been named a 2013 Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE), one of only 75 teachers across the nation to be so honored. McCormick is one of about 2,000 educators worldwide who have received the honor in recognition of her passionate commitment to the use of educational technology to improve teaching and learning. She routinely incorporates the use of iPods, iPads and computers in her lesson plans and has presented her teaching strategies at several statewide educational technology conferences, including the annual Pennsylvania Education Technology Exposition and Conference (PETE & C), the largest educational technology conference in the Commonwealth. Students named to Cum Laude Society Janel McCormick and her daughter PAYTON MCCORMICK ’17 at a recent PETE & C. Last fall Wyoming Seminary inducted 10 seniors into the Cum Laude Society, the national academic honor society for college preparatory schools. Seen following the induction ceremony are, first row from left: Dakota Pace, Danielle Melnick, Amanda Schall, Lauren Fernandez and John Hornung, Sem faculty member. Second row, from left: Rachel Gleicher, Sem faculty member; Tyler Martin and Hoang Viet Tran. Third row, from left: Hoang Doan Do, Byoungjoon Jang, Henry (Gus) Smith and Qifang Cai. Kubasek receives teaching award Anthony J. Kubasek, director of instrumental music, recently received the Teaching Excellence Award from the Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church. He directs the Wyoming Seminary Orchestra, handbell choir and wind ensemble and teaches music at the Upper School. He also serves as the music director for the drama department’s musical theater productions and as an accompanist for the Lower School choral groups, and coordinates the musical aspects of the annual Commencement exercises. JAY HARVEY ’80, Dean of the Upper School, is seen at left with Anthony J. Kubasek following the Teaching Excellence Award presentation.
New creative arts center to be named for Allan P. and Marian Sutherland Kirby Wyoming Seminary’s performing arts program will soon have an extraordinary venue, thanks to a remarkable gift from the F.M. Kirby Foundation of Morristown, N.J. Allan Price Kirby 1892-1973 Construction has just begun on a new creative arts center on the Upper School campus. In recognition of and gratitude for a gift of $7.5 million from the Kirby Foundation, the Wyoming Seminary Board of Trustees has announced the building will be named the Allan P. and Marian Sutherland Kirby Center for Creative Arts. The Kirby Center, a 34,652 square foot, two-story structure situated next to the Buckingham Performing Arts Center, will house Sem’s highly regarded music, theater and dance programs and will include a new gallery for the visual arts program. The $16.3 million project is expected to be completed in the fall of 2014. Marian Sutherland Kirby 1892-1980 S. Dillard Kirby, president and director of the Kirby Foundation, said the Kirby Family historically has strongly supported education and the arts. The Foundation’s gift is in recognition of the important role that Wyoming Seminary has traditionally played in the Wyoming Valley as an eminent college preparatory school and as a center for exceptional visual and performing arts. The school’s many musical, theater and dance performances, most of which are free and open to the public, serve as an important resource for the enrichment of community life. “My grandparents met at Wyoming Seminary and my father and family members always felt it was important to have a significant facility in their honor on the campus,” Kirby said. “This gift was particularly important to my father Fred and I am so grateful that through conversations with Kip Nygren he was aware of the final design and plans for the building, and fully endorsed our gift before he passed away. I know my Mom, who remains on our family foundation Board, plans to be around to see the final product. So she says, ‘hurry up!’ ” Allan Price Kirby, Dillard Kirby’s grandfather, attended the college prep division of Wyoming Seminary and graduated from the Dean School of Business in 1914. He served as a member of the Sem Board of Trustees from 1941 to 1957 following in the footsteps of his father, Fred Morgan Kirby, who was a trustee from 1910 to 1941. Marian Sutherland Kirby also attended both the college prep and business school divisions of Sem as did her father, Walter C. Sutherland, who graduated from the Business School in 1882. Through this gift, Wyoming Seminary will be able to provide its students with the highest quality arts facility which will enhance their educational and artistic performance, as well as provide an inviting setting for the public to enjoy outstanding concerts, plays, dance shows and visual art displays, said Dr. Kip Nygren, Sem president. “I remember meeting with Fred and Walker Kirby shortly after I arrived at Sem,” Nygren commented. “Members of the Kirby family were coming to northeastern Pennsylvania to look at several of the institutions in the Wyoming Valley that the Kirby Foundation had supported for generations and of course Wyoming Seminary was one of those. That meeting began a wonderful dialogue with Fred that ultimately resulted in this marvelous tribute to his parents. In addition to all that this facility will provide to our creative arts program, this beautiful building will now grace the entrance of the campus when families arrive on North Sprague Avenue.” This latest gift from the F.M. Kirby Foundation is the largest in school history and continues a remarkable legacy of support by the Kirby Family. “The immeasurable impact of the Kirby Family and Foundation is continuously experienced and appreciated on the Sem Upper School campus,” said Richard M. Goldberg ’55, chairman of the Board of Trustees. “From the Kirby Library to the Kirby – Lafayette Scholars Program, from the President’s Office that bears the Kirby name to the Kirby Endowment given to the School in 1921, this family daily enhances the lives of the students and faculty at Sem.” “Over the years, the legacy of the Kirby Family has been to enrich the Wyoming Valley community, and most especially the students, faculty and families of Wyoming Seminary,” Nygren said. “This most generous gift makes it possible for this grand old school to continue enabling talented, dedicated students to develop their own gifts and use them for the betterment of their communities.”
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