Network Amherst: The Lehrer Report

By Phyllis Lehrer

Published on July 04, 2008

Happy 232nd birthday to the United States. A happy and safe Fourth of July to all our friends and neighbors while enjoying parades, barbecues and fireworks.

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Garden report: I have small green tomatoes but the tops of some of the plants are very limp after all the rain. I hope they recover. I also have small cucumbers.

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July birthdays: Viola Stawasz, Earl Bacon, Kathleen Rice, Marjorie Buckley, Mark Sadlowski, Barbara Crossman, Vernon Loud, Phoebe Sunderland, Devon Spence, Sylvia Meadows, Maryanne Hebert, Frank Karasz, Ella Kusnetz, Ben Lieber, Joseph Kushick, George Moriarty, Nancy Buffone, Eduardo Cattani, Kathleen O'Connor, Linda Clifford, Tara Lashway, Jonathan Smyser, Lynn Bechtel, William Franklin, Mark Jackson, Robert Jones, Willie Hill Jr., John MacKimmie, David Foulis, Audrey Wilga, Matthew Eichenlaub, Ronald La Plante, Sheldon Ross, Pat Ononibaku, Raymond Frenkel, Yuh-Fang Hsiao, Angie Boucher, Brian Higgins, Eve Perry, Darcy Zbinovec, Curtis Onita.

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Brooke Steinhauser, the daughter of Larry and Ann Steinhauser, of Bridle Path in Amherst, graduated from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., where she majored in art history and theatre. She was named to the dean's list and has the Katzenberger Art History Internship at the Smithsonian, in the education department at the National Portrait Gallery. She graduated from Amherst Regional High School.

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Correction: Mary Lou Ferro, of Shutesbury, graduated from the University of Massachusetts cum laude. I misspelled her last name.

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Ninth-grader Christine Ha, of Amherst, and second-grader Jayden Wooley, of Hadley, were named to the Jonathan Edwards Academy Honor Roll. Christine earned magna cum laude and Jayden, cum laude.

Brett Long, the son of Laurie Long, of Woodlawn Road in Hadley, was named to the dean's list at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Conn.

Samuel Bromell, the son of Nicholas Bromell and Laura Doyle, of Mill Street in Amherst, was named to the dean's list at American University in Washington, D.C., where he is a senior majoring in political science in the School of Public Affairs.