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Nurse Mongillo Williams
The Southern Connecticut chapter of the Black Nurses Association celebrated its 18th annual scholarship and awards luncheon recently in North Haven.
Among the award winners was Vineyard summer resident Mary Jane Mongillo Williams, RN, PhD, who won the Nursing Leadership Award. She is chair of the department of nursing at the University of West Hartford and a leading advocate for new training and recruitment programs to address the nation’s nursing shortage.
Solar Car Race
Check out the speed of light at the annual model solar car race on Saturday, June 5, at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club in Edgartown.
Nearly 220 fifth and sixth graders from all Island schools will race their model solar cars beginning at 11:30 a.m. While working to complete their cars, students have learned about engineering, energy transfers and renewable energy sources. Spectators are welcome.
Four Martha’s Vineyard students were among the 26 Falmouth Academy seventh and eighth graders inducted into the junior National Honor Society on Sunday, May 16.
They are Eli Hanschka, the son of Nancy Tutko and Whit Hanschka; Nathaniel Horwitz, the son of Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz; and Jackie Menton, the daughter of Julie and Paul Menton, all of Vineyard Haven; and Aidan Huntington, the son of Susan Reidy Huntington and Peter Huntington, both of West Tisbury.
What follows is the list of awards given to Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School students at the annual Honors Night ceremony, held last night at the high school performing arts center.
Departmental Awards: Faculty
Art : excellence in drawing and painting: Patrick Lampart and Lonni Phillips; excellence in photography and graphics: Tova Katzman; excellence in 3D design and architecture: Michaella Gaines and Kelsey DeBettencourt; excellence in crafts and sculpture: Nicholas Dorr.
An important piece of Island history is for sale.
The old Marine Hospital in Vineyard Haven has been placed on the market by the St. Pierre family, which has owned the property since the 1950s.
Built on a hill overlooking the Vineyard Haven waterfront in 1895, the hospital treated soldiers and sailors and their families, in peacetime and through two world wars. From the late 1950s until two years ago, the property has housed a summer camp for children.
The long investigation into the cause of the September 2008 plane crash which took the life of Cape Air pilot and Vineyard Haven resident David D. Willey is over, its findings summarized in two words: “spatial disorientation.”