Dexter Arrives

Carolina and Daniel Cooney of West Tisbury announce the birth of a son, Dexter Patrick Cooney, born on March 21 at the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. Dexter weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces at birth and joins big brother Dashiell.

Announcing Rose

Robyn and Simon Athearn are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Rose Hope Athearn. Rose was born on March 24, 2012 at 12:17 a.m.weighing 8 pounds, 3.5 ounces.

Her attentive grandparents are Rose and I.J. Hosey of Dallas, Pa. and Jim and Debbie Athearn of Edgartown.

Rose will take her place on the family farm off New Lane in West Tisbury in the house in which her great-great-grandmother was born.

HARVARD VISIT: The Brazilian history and culture class and the advanced placement European history class visited Harvard where they were the guests of the Brazilian studies department. The students enjoyed a tour of the campus, a wonderful lunch and attended a graduate seminar on Thursday, March 22.

Tisbury School principal John Custer has announced the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2011-2012 academic year.

Eighth grade high honors go to Benjamin Davey, Edwin Gould-Hatt, Olivia Jacobs, Nelly Katzman, Casey McAndrews and Kaela Vecchia-Zeitz.

Eighth grade honors go to Noell Coburn, Celena Guimaraes, Olivia Jacobs, Elijah Larue, Chace Lewis, Dayanna Middleton, Ellie O’Callaghan, Megan Piche, Michaela Piche and Maxwell Santos.

Seventh grade high honors go to Benjamin Nadelstein.

Dean’s List

Clay Edwards of West Tisbury has been named to the dean’s list for the 2011 fall semester at Vermont Technical College.

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Julia MacNelly, of West Tisbury, was named to the dean’s list for the fall 2011 semester at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.