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Girls High Girls Are Everywhere

About 3 years ago, I met a young lady who was new to my department. She is a
Philadelphian and a Girls High girl who also happened to settle in the SF Bay Area!

~ Kelly

I'm a 239 grad. I ran into a 229 grad one
day about 2 years ago coming out of my
office on Andrews AFB in MD. She is a
Colonel in the Air Force and was talking to
a coworker of mine. Said coworker
introduced us and said how we both were
from Philly and she asked what HS did I
attended. It was crazy that both of us were
Girls High girls, even funnier that I was
239 and she was 229. ~ Nadja

We were in Durango, Colorado, with our
teenage nieces. We stopped to let them get
body paint from a street artist. Started
chatting and [it turned out] the artist was a Girls High girl, and actually had grown up
less than a mile from where I did, though 20 or so years later. ~ Tamar

My husband is in the Navy. When he checked into his new command, he met a fellow
Chief. Turns out she is from Philly...and a Girls' High girl. We're everywhere! I love it!
~ Maria
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News from Our Alumnae

By Dorothy G. Kapenstein

Penny Leon Glackman (June at a local elementary school during
1965) sent this update: "I retired as the past 2 years, helping in various
a teacher from Lower Merion School classrooms, and working with
District in June 2014. I continue to be teachers around STEM activities.
involved in district efforts as a Putting my years of teaching
member of the Strategic Planning experience to further use, I am an
Committee and the Committee to academic coach in after-school hours.
Address Race in Education. As a This has included not only basic
former member of the Cultural tutoring but extending and enriching
Proficiency Cadre, I have attended the academic experiences of the
the annual all-day ‘retreat’ each students with whom I work in a
August to review and discuss issues holistic approach to learning. Being
around cultural proficiency and the the grandmother to 3 wonderful
achievement gap in Lower Merion children has only encouraged my
School District. I have volunteered decades-long interest in