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To her bemusement, Kriebel became a baker par excellence. Less surprising, Pumo, Legassie and ONeill emerged as standouts in well, nursing, cosmetology and electronics.

All four will share their stories when Central Montco Technical High School inducts them into its Distinguished Alumni Association on April 30.

When Kriebel was a 17-year-old culinary arts student at Central Montco Technical High School in the late 1990s, she was admittedly shocked at her baking prowess. As she told it back then, shed enrolled at CMTHS on something of a whim. But by time she snagged first prize for baking at 1999s state-level contest for Vocational-Industrial Clubs of America members, Kriebel had impressed her CMTHS teachers in a big way especially when it came to pie.

The first one I made was apple, and it was unbelievable, she noted in one memorably droll interview following her VICA win. Everybody knew I wasnt really that interested in cooking, so we were all surprised at my skills. Mr. S. [Seth Schram] and Mr. N. [Alan Nesensohn] were both shocked and said, Whoa, this girl has talent. I was pretty shocked myself. I never thought Id get this far. I think winning States was the best thing thats ever happened to me.

As another quotable woman writer S.E. Hinton famously put it: That Was Then, This Is Now. Following her 1999 graduation from both CMTHS and Plymouth Whitemarsh High School, Kriebel earned a degree in baking and pastry arts at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America. The Plymouth native went on to a variety of related experiences but eventually found my passion as a cake designer and is currently making her mark on an equally appreciative but much wider audience via the singular cakes and pastries produced at her Kriebels Custom Bakery in Eagleville.

Kriebel credits her CMTHS teachers for the whole chain of events that led to her achievements and is now involved in student intern and externships, even doing co-op positions for the tech school.

The bakery is a huge success, and our clientele grows bigger and bigger every day, she says. Our next step will be expanding into a larger shop or a caf. Who knows what the future will bring. I realize now that my passion for my craft, my dedication and my commitment to baking all began at the tech school.

On the other hand, CMTHS classmate and fellow Distinguished Alumni inductee Pumo enrolled in the schools Allied Health program because it allowed her to begin my journey in becoming a nurse.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a nurse, recalls the 1999 CMTHS and Norristown Area High School grad, now an emergency room staffer at Einstein Medical Center Montgomery. As a small child, I can remember walking around my childhood home with my Fisher Price first aid kit, wearing my play stethoscope, listening to everyones heart and putting [bandages] on them. At the age of 12, I began volunteering first at Sacred Heart Hospital and then at Mercy Suburban Hospital. My volunteer experiences led me to apply to the Allied Health Program Continued...

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So what happens to these Academic All-Stars who are named every year?

As is tradition, the Journal-World caught up with as many All-Star alumni as possible from the team 10 years ago. The class of 2005 left high school as decorated and ambitious students, and here's where they stand today:

Then: An Ottawa High School graduate who wanted to be a nuclear medical physician and considered majoring in engineering physics. She kept a 4.0 GPA in high school, was a National Merit Semifinalist and volunteered in the radiology department at Ransom Memorial Hospital in Ottawa.

Now: After high school, Yoast earned bachelor's degrees in biology and genetics at Kansas University. She then enrolled in medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, graduating in 2014. She is now married and enrolled in a residency program in Pittsburgh. Her concentration is pathology, where she diagnoses cancer and other diseases. After her residency, she hopes to receive a fellowship in molecular pathology.

Advice: "Stick with it. Whatever you want to do, work hard."

Then: On her way out of Free State High School, Hull did not know what she wanted to do in or after college. She expressed an interest in math and hadn't yet decided where to attend to school; there were four choices at the time. She held a 4.0 GPA, was named an AP Scholar and won a Brown University Book Award. She was the co-president of a community service organization at Free State as well.

Now: After graduating from Kansas University with degrees in economics, math and Spanish, Hull is about to receive her doctorate in economics from Duke University. She specializes in applied microeconomics with an emphasis on labor economics and the economics of education. She will become an economics professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro next fall.

Advice: "I think putting yourself in situations where you're uncomfortable is really important, or not restricting yourself to situations where you are comfortable. You learn a lot more by being uncomfortable and failing than you do by being comfortable and succeeding."

Then: A Free State High School student with plans to attend the University of Pennsylvania to major in Chinese and economics, to become either a translator, college professor or work in international business. She was a National Merit Semifinalist and a Kansas Honor Scholar with a 4.0 GPA. She competed in state piano festivals and volunteered at the Lawrence Public Library.

Now: Jiang did attend Penn, but after making friends with several business school students, she got "immersed in the business world." She graduated in 2009 with degrees in psychology and Chinese and moved to New York City to work in marketing. In 2012, she moved to Chicago, where she is now employed at the Nielsen Company, doing market research.

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AMES | A Belmond couples $2.5 million gift is establishing whats being called a national first-of-its-kind position at Iowa State University.

Lora and Russ Talbots donation is creating an endowed position for the Iowa State University Alumni Association. The gift was announced at an Alumni Association fundraiser Friday night.

The Talbots gift creates the first non-academic endowed position at Iowa State and establishes the first endowed alumni association president and CEO position at a college or university in the United States, according to a press release from the ISU Alumni Association.

Jeffery W. Johnson, the current president and CEO of the ISU Alumni Association, will be the first holder of the Lora and Russ Talbot Iowa State University Alumni Association Endowed President and Chief Executive Officer position.

We wanted to increase the visibility of the Alumni Association and to help in advancing and showcasing the Alumni Associations excellence, Lora Talbot said. We are dedicated to the goal of ensuring that the Alumni Association is the organization that makes a positive difference for alumni, students and friends for many years to come.

The endowment will allow the association to more visibly connect with and engage Iowa State alumni and friends, according to the press release.

Funds will support Johnsons professional development and a portion of his salary and travel expenses, as well as expanded programming initiatives within the Alumni Association. It will also establish a new Talbot Student Intern position for the organization.

The Talbots are well-known Iowa State philanthropists, even though neither of them went to school there.

Both now retired and living in Belmond, they previously lived in Ankeny where Russ Talbot was a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service and Lora Talbot was an executive officer for the Iowa Public Employees Retirement System.

In 1998 they established the Russell G. and Lora L. Talbot Scholars in Veterinary Medicine program, an endowed fund that provides a four-year scholarship to seven students each year.

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Public universities have a long history of collaboration, investment and economic impact in the Inland Northwest. Now our public institutions of higher learning are poised to usher in a new era of innovation andprosperity.

Youve heard about the initiative to create a new medical school at Washington State University Spokane. You know that we have a new College of Health Science and Public Health at Eastern Washington University Spokane. These are just two of the many creative initiatives that will continue invigorating thisregion.

While our institutions continue to bring tremendous value to the state, debate continues in

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Public universities have a long history of collaboration, investment and economic impact in the Inland Northwest. Now our public institutions of higher learning are poised to usher in a new era of innovation andprosperity.

Youve heard about the initiative to create a new medical school at Washington State University Spokane. You know that we have a new College of Health Science and Public Health at Eastern Washington University Spokane. These are just two of the many creative initiatives that will continue invigorating thisregion.

While our institutions continue to bring tremendous value to the state, debate continues in Olympia about how the state should be funding education. Those discussions will intensify in the coming weeks as the House and Senate debate how to adequately fund higher education while keeping tuition affordable for Washington families. What cant be lost in the dialogue is the fact that higher education is critical to the future of ourregion.

Investments in education are investments in our young people, in our families and in ourworkforce.

Public universities are key to ensuring that Washingtonians have good jobs and good wages, that our state remains competitive. In todays knowledge economy, possessing a college degree significantly increases a persons chances of getting a job. On average, workers with bachelors degrees earn 84 percent more than those with only high schooldiplomas.

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When Paul McNulty visits South Hills Country Club in May, it wont be to run on the golf course as he did almost 40 years ago when he was a member of the Baldwin High School cross-country team.

Instead, he will be among 11 alumni including Utah Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, class of 1952 who will be inducted into the districts first Distinguished Highlander Alumni Hall of Fame.

Sen. Hatch is unable to attend the gala, but his acceptance will be shown on video during the event that evening, according to his press secretary, Matt Whitlock.

The gala is part of a series of year-long festivities to celebrate the Baldwin-Whitehall School Districts 75th anniversary.

The hall recognizes the personal and professional achievements of alumni and the list of inductees is awhos who among Baldwin High School graduates.Alumni will be inducted every other year.

Mr. Hatch was student body president and played basketball and boxed at Baldwin High School. He also played the piano, organ and violin.

I had friends who were quite different than me, so I discovered the value of finding common ground, he said in a statement. I learned from teachers who challenged me to expand my horizons and to seek opportunities to make a difference in the world around me.

Im honored to accept a nomination into the Highlander Hall of Fame. This award is meaningful to me, not because of any success Ive had since I left Baldwin High School, but for the transformative experiences I had in those halls. Experiences that laid the groundwork for anything positive Ive done since, Mr. Hatch said.

Mr. McNulty, class of 1976, is Grove City Colleges new president. He spent more than 30 years working in Washington, D.C., with the U.S. Department of Justice. As a U.S. attorney, he prosecuted terrorist cases following the 9/11 attacks.

He fondly remembers giving his commencement address during that bicentennial year and playing one of the leads in the high schools first large-scale musical, Brigadoon.

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The final design for the new MUSC womens and childrens hospital hasnt been approved, but the building, pictured here, will mimic the look of the Ashley River Tower, located next door. Provided

Medical University of South Carolina fundraisers are courting two donors that may offer $25 million pledges for the new womens and childrens hospital.

Jim Fisher, vice president of development and alumni affairs, told the MUSC Board of Trustees on Thursday that his department is working multiple fronts to raise at least $50 million in private funds for the $350 million project.

Two individuals, corporations, foundations have expressed interest in making very large donations, Fisher said. He did not disclose their names.

Will it happen? I dont know, he said.

The board would consider offering naming rights for the new hospital in exchange for a $25 million donation.

To date, MUSC has raised about $15 million for the project, which includes a $5 million Boeing pledge. The new building will be largely paid for with state funds and a federal loan.

It is expected to open on the corner of Calhoun Street and Courtenay Drive by fall 2019.

In other business, the Board of Trustees is expected to approve on Friday tuition increases for the 2015-2016 academic year.

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AURORA, Colo. (PRWEB) April 09, 2015

As a growing number of workers and volunteers travel abroad to assist during times of disaster and crisis, they often are exposed to unfamiliar and sometimes extreme situations for which they are unprepared. Presented by the University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicines Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine at the Anschutz Medical Campus, the free Coursera Foundations for Global Health Responders MOOC teaches responsible engagement during health care crises near and far.

Launching May 4, Foundations for Global Health Responders gives the introductory global health knowledge needed to contextualize experience, optimize self-reliance and situational awareness, and allow learners to be more effective in their work in low-to-middle-income countries. The six-week course focuses on changing trends in the 21st century, including urbanization, environmental stress, and resource scarcity, as well as global health security with a focus on access to food, water, and energy. Other areas of focus include the global burden of disease, human rights and how to prepare to be an effective global health participant and savvier world traveler.

After the Haitian earthquake in 2010, thousands of well-meaning humanitarian responders flooded the country in hopes of providing assistance and relief, yet many of them were unprepared for the conditions and ill-prepared to take care of themselves, and ultimately were more of a hindrance than a help. The course is not about disaster response; rather it is about responsible engagement, to provide the introductory foundational knowledge necessary to be a meaningful participant in the world of global health.

Designed and led by experts from CU, Harvard School of Public Health and Weill Cornell Medical College, Foundations for Global Health Responders will also provide basic competencies for organization or university members traveling abroad with a goal toward mitigating institutional risk. We developed this course as a starting point for all-comers, and have invoked the guiding principle of medicine as our mantra: Do No Harm, said Jay Lemery, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine in the CU School of Medicine.

The six-week course is a primer for people who seek the knowledge and skills to effectively participate in global health ventures. Participants should plan on spending between three and six hours studying each week. The course is meant to be a stand-alone introduction to global health, but also serves as the first step toward a more advanced certification. To sign up or to learn more about the Foundations for Global Health Responders MOOC, please visit http://www.coursera.org/course/ghresponder.

Those wishing to obtain additional hands-on skill sets are invited to participate in an in-person three-day Global Health Advanced First Aid courseoffered throughout the world in 2015to be certified as a Global Health Responder through the University Of Colorado School Of Medicine. CU Medical School Facultyleaders in austere care medical educationwill be leading the courses. Details including dates and locations can be found at CU Wilderness and Environmental Medicine.

About Coursera Coursera is an online technology platform that hosts open, full-length, higher-education academic courses in a wide variety of topicsfrom art to computer science to writing and beyond. For more information, go to https://www.coursera.org.

About the University of Colorado & the Section of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine The Section of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine of University of Colorados Department of Emergency Medicine is a university-based enterprise to promote research, best practice, education, and outreach to advance health and wellness in extreme or austere environments. The sections work includes attention to the greater policy issues of environmental change in health, and it is committed toward advancing the conversation based upon the best scientific evidence to improve discourse and understanding. For more information, go to http://www.coloradowm.org.

About the University of Colorado The University of Colorado is a premier public research university with four campuses: the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, the University of Colorado Denver, and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. With nearly 59,700 students, over 4,900 full-time instructional faculty members and an additional 1,200 research faculty members across the four campuses, CU is the largest institution of higher education in the state of Colorado. CU researchers attracted more than $861M in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2013-14. Academic prestige is marked by the universitys five Nobel laureates, eight MacArthur Genius Fellows, 18 alumni astronauts and 19 Rhodes Scholars. For more information about the entire CU system, and to access campus resources, go to http://www.cu.edu.

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Parents gathered at the Arthur W. Christopher Community Center Tuesday to discuss the future of Burke High School. Amanda Kerr/STAFF

A meeting of more than 50 downtown Charleston parents, residents and community leaders Tuesday night made one thing clear something needs to change at Burke High School.

The question is what and how that change occurs. And thats why a group of downtown parents organized the meeting at the Arthur W. Christopher Community Center on Fishburne Street to find out.

Parent Elena Tuerk, who led the meeting, urged the diverse, and sometimes divided community, to focus on finding common goals for parents to rally around.

This is a really great starting point for us to remember that we have shared visions for our families and shared values, Tuerk said.

Tuerk tasked the group with identifying what a good community school looks like and how that could translate into whats needed at Burke. Suggestions included adding trades and bio-technology programs, identifying ways to attract more students to the school, implementing a rigorous college prep curriculum, partnering with area colleges such as the Medical University of South Carolina to provide targeted academic tracks and potentially bringing in an outside group to run the school.

But discussions about the future of Burke carried an undercurrent of racial tension over changes to the historically black school.

Many alumni spoke passionately about their alma mater, blaming the schools decline in part on the fact that the once strong trades program at Burke was taken out in the 1990s. Some alumni feared the school has been ignored because it is predominantly black

Burke should look like any other school and have the trades as well as academics, said Jerome Smalls, a 1969 graduate of Burke. We want everything any other children would have.

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Commitment recognizes school's growing recognition and its impact on technology entrepreneurship and economic development

With a $30 million lead gift in 2004, Evelyn and Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation helped establish UC San Diego's world-class, entrepreneurial business school--the Rady School of Management. They also contributed $5 million toward the expansion of the business school's campus, and gave other significant gifts to ensure excellence at the school. Today UC San Diego announced that the Rady Family Foundation has made a $100 million commitment to help recruit and retain faculty and fund strategic priorities at the Rady School of Management.

"What a magnificent first 10 years--and the school is just getting started," said Ernest Rady. "Dean Sullivan and other leaders within the community held a vision of a business school in a symbiotic relationship with the innovative culture of our region. The school is already exceeding expectations and there is so much more to come."

UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said, "The Rady School is an integral part of UC San Diego and a vital, entrepreneurial component to San Diego's science and technology communities. The generous commitment from Evelyn and Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation allows the school to continue its tradition of success and impact."

For Ernest Rady, one of San Diego's most prominent philanthropists and business leaders, this recent commitment to the Rady School is driven by his "Return on Life (ROL)" philosophy. "We want the resources that we've been fortunate enough to accumulate to go to help other people," he explained. That help could be for a student who receives a fellowship to attend the region's top business school. Or success for a startup whose founders learned how to turn ideas into opportunities. Or saving a child through technology and science developed by a Rady graduate.

"The Rady School has had an impressive first decade as measured by quality of faculty and successes of its entrepreneurial alumni. However, the best and most significant impact is on the horizon," said Dean Robert S. Sullivan. "The transformational support from Evelyn and Ernest Rady is the largest single commitment in history to a business school of Rady's size and youth and will continue to propel the Rady School on its meteoric rise - enabling the recruitment of world-class faculty, attracting the best and brightest students, and pioneering with creative new academic initiatives."

The past decade has held many accomplishments for UC San Diego's Rady School of Management, including the prestigious accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the launch of over 80 sustaining companies and 100 "intrepreneurial" products and services by students and alumni, the construction of the Rady School campus, and the recognition of outstanding faculty research through national and international publications. Recently Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the school as the number one MBA program in the U.S. for Intellectual Capital.

Since its founding a decade ago, the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego has distinguished itself as a pioneer in a new model of business education. The school's concentration in innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration has led to rapid success--borne out by outstanding achievements of its students, faculty and alumni.

Rady School alumni have had an economic impact on the local and state economy. Over the past decade, Rady students and alumni have created 82 companies that are operational today--hiring employees, launching products that save energy, providing goods and services, and improving and saving lives. Last year, Rady alumni-founded companies contributed an estimated $2 billion to the regional economy.

One such local impact was realized through the work of Ashley Van Zeeland, Ph.D., a 2012 Rady alumna and co-founder and CEO of Cypher Genomics, Inc. This leading genome informatics company helps people like Lilly Grossman, a local 16-year-old, who had experienced a mysterious form of muscle weakness and seizure-like fits since infancy. She and her parents were desperate for a cure. Thanks to genomic sequencing built on technology developed by Van Zeeland and Cypher Genomics, Lilly's medical team identified two suspicious gene mutations. This discovery improved her doctors' understanding of the disease, and is now guiding the treatment protocol. With renewed hope, Lilly is now visiting universities and looking forward to life as a college student.

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SAN DIEGO, April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --With a $30 million lead gift in 2004, Evelyn and Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation helped establish UC San Diego's world-class, entrepreneurial business schoolthe Rady School of Management. They also contributed $5 million toward the expansion of the business school's campus, and gave other significant gifts to ensure excellence at the school. Today UC San Diego announced that the Rady Family Foundation has made a $100 million commitment to help recruit and retain faculty and fund strategic priorities at the Rady School of Management.

"What a magnificent first 10 yearsand the school is just getting started," said Ernest Rady. "Dean Sullivan and other leaders within the community held a vision of a business school in a symbiotic relationship with the innovative culture of our region. The school is already exceeding expectations and there is so much more to come."

UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla said, "The Rady School is an integral part of UC San Diego and a vital, entrepreneurial component to San Diego's science and technology communities. The generous commitment from Evelyn and Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation allows the school to continue its tradition of success and impact."

For Ernest Rady, one of San Diego's most prominent philanthropists and business leaders, this recent commitment to the Rady School is driven by his "Return on Life (ROL)" philosophy. "We want the resources that we've been fortunate enough to accumulate to go to help other people," he explained. That help could be for a student who receives a fellowship to attend the region's top business school. Or success for a start-up whose founders learned how to turn ideas into opportunities. Or saving a child through technology and science developed by a Rady graduate.

"The Rady School has had an impressive first decade as measured by quality of faculty and successes of its entrepreneurial alumni. However, the best and most significant impact is on the horizon," said Dean Robert S. Sullivan. "The transformational support from Evelyn and Ernest Rady is the largest single commitment in history to a business school of Rady's size and youth and will continue to propel the Rady School on its meteoric rise enabling the recruitment of world-class faculty, attracting the best and brightest students, and pioneering with creative new academic initiatives."

The past decade has held many accomplishments for UC San Diego's Rady School of Management, including the prestigious accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the launch of over 80 sustaining companies and 100 "intrepreneurial" products and services by students and alumni, the construction of the Rady School campus, and the recognition of outstanding faculty research through national and international publications. Recently Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the school as the number one MBA program in the U.S. for Intellectual Capital.

Since its founding a decade ago, the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego has distinguished itself as a pioneer in a new model of business education. The school's concentration in innovation, entrepreneurship and collaboration has led to rapid successborne out by outstanding achievements of its students, faculty and alumni.

Rady School alumni have had an economic impact on the local and state economy. Over the past decade, Rady students and alumni have created 82 companies that are operational todayhiring employees, launching products that save energy, providing goods and services, and improving and saving lives. Last year, Rady alumni-founded companies contributed an estimated $2 billion to the regional economy.

One such local impact was realized through the work of Ashley Van Zeeland, Ph.D., a 2012 Rady alumna and co-founder and CEO of Cypher Genomics, Inc. This leading genome informatics company helps people like Lilly Grossman, a local 16-year-old, who had experienced a mysterious form of muscle weakness and seizure-like fits since infancy. She and her parents were desperate for a cure. Thanks to genomic sequencing built on technology developed by Van Zeeland and Cypher Genomics, Lilly's medical team identified two suspicious gene mutations. This discovery improved her doctors' understanding of the disease, and is now guiding the treatment protocol. With renewed hope, Lilly is now visiting universities and looking forward to life as a college student.

"My UC San Diego Rady experience was instrumental in providing me the knowledge, tools and network to translate science into a meaningful business," commented Van Zeeland. "The experience has enabled me to define our value proposition and secure partnerships that have catapulted our growth and potential to impact many lives."

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