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Eric Herman
After publishing an article on the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps in Friday’s paper, the Gazette learned that Eric Herman is among those Vineyarders currently in the Peace Corps. He is in his second year of service in Morazán Yoro, Honduras.
He graduated from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School in 2005 and from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009.
At What Cost?
Katharine L. Kavanagh, the director of the Rebecca Amos Institute at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School, was invited to present at the National Alternative Education Conference in Nashville, Tenn. Her presentation, At What Cost?, was an analysis of the struggle inherent in alternative education, how to provide quality education while maintaining the same per pupil costs. The presentation was well attended and well received.
Janet Woodcock, of Tisbury, is one of the Vineyard’s premier black and white photographers. While there are many who have embraced the medium, she is one of the last who still uses film, still goes into the darkroom and under a dull amber light prints her silver gelatin prints.
If the summer rental market is any indication of the Island economy, Vineyarders can expect a turn for the better this season.
The early summer rental market is already up significantly over last year, with real estate agencies reporting increases between 17 and 30 per cent.
“We’re very excited about the season to come and found we have good, strong rebooking coming off of last season, and a lot of early bookings coming into the summer,” Anne Mayhew at Sandpiper Rentals in Edgartown said earlier this week.
Al Hurwitz, a world renowned art educator, has won numerous awards in his lifetime, including a National Art Educator award and a Sir Herbert Read award from the International Society for Education Through Art.
As the weary Vineyard boys basketball team boarded a ferry that had waited half an hour to carry them home on Tuesday night, they looked up to see that the raucous cheering did not end at the doors of the Sandwich gymnasium where they had just suffered an 88-85 point loss to Cardinal Spellman.