News from Fox Chapel Area schools

Six Fox Chapel Area High School students are nominees in the Third Annual Prime Stage High School Drama Awards for their work in the high school’s fall play, “Arsenic and Old Lace.”

The students nominated are senior Ghost Snyder, best actor; junior Sophia Rike, best actress; junior Benjamin Werner, best supporting actor; sophomore Marina Dunham, best supporting actress; junior Sofia Liberto, best student costume design; junior Kaylee Dunham, best student stage manager category.

The play was nominated for best overall production.

Winners will be announced on April 24, 2023, at Prime Stage’s New Hazlett Theater Center for the Performing Arts. The awards are sponsored by the Prime Stage Theatre and recognize excellence in high school drama in schools across Southwestern Pennsylvania.

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Scott Vensel, a teacher at Dorseyville Middle School, participated in the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous’ 2023 Advanced Seminar, an intensive three-day academic program that explores several topics addressing the history of the Holocaust.

The seminar took place at the Hilton Newark Airport Jan. 14-16. Teachers from nine states participated.

The Advanced Seminar is a graduate-level program in which a select group of educators well-versed in Holocaust history study more focused topics relating to the Holocaust from world-renowned lecturers.

Vensel sponsors the LIGHT Education Initiative at Dorseyville with grants provided through the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the Grable Foundation. The club’s goal is to educate students to embrace tolerance. Programs and activities focus on social and environmental justice, kindness, volunteerism and humility.

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The Bob Williams Rotary Memorial Scholarship Program has scholarships available for the 2022-2023 academic year.

In recent years the Rotary District 7305 has awarded at least 8 scholarships at $5,000 each. High school seniors in Allegheny County are eligible to apply. Vocational students, G.E.D. students and those attending parochial, charter and private schools are also eligible.

Students must have a 2.5 or higher-grade point average. They also must complete an essay that highlights their community and school service as part of the application submission.

Complete application and criteria materials, including application deadline, are available on the Rotary District 7305 website, www.rotarydistrict7305.org; Scholarship Link, or from area high school counselors.

For more information contact Dr. Robert Arbuckle, chairperson, at rarbuckl@yahoo.com.