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Pansing out on the water.

POTTSTOWN PA – Peter Pansing, a member of The Hill School Class of 1963, hopes his Pottstown PA alma mater can again position itself at the peak of rowing history.

Pansing and about 20 other alums of the college prepatory school on the north side of High Street gathered Oct. 30 and 31 (2010; Saturday and Sunday) to compete in The Thomas Eakins Head Of The Schuylkill Regatta in Philadelphia PA. The race, known as the city’s fall rowing classic, marked its 40th anniversary this year. Now a 2.6 mile course, the event started in 1970 as a 1,000-meter sculls race founded by four members of the University Barge Club … one of whom was a Hill School grad himself.

Organized by fellow Hill alumni Davis Bales, the October group “sought to encourage rowing at Hill and celebrated as completely as possible the (regatta’s) anniversary,” Pansing wrote in an entry posted Wednesday (Nov. 10) at his YouTube account.

• Watch a video, above, of Pansing rowing the regatta course, or see it at his YouTube account.

Photo from YouTube

GLEN ARBOR MI – The Hill School‘s current dean of faculty is leaving the venerable Pottstown college preparatory institution to become president and headmaster of The Leelanau School, a private boarding school in Leelanau County MI, the Traverse City (MI) Record-Eagle newspaper reported Thursday (Feb. 12, 2009).

A number of current and former Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township residents are among The Hill’s alumni.

Matthew B. “Matt” Ralston, who has worked at The Hill School for 17 years, assumes his new post July 1. Ralston was the top choice of Leelanau’s board of trustees from a nationwide search of more than 40 applicants, according to board Chairman Robert McNutt.

The Leelanau School focuses exclusively on 9th- through 12th-grade students who struggle with learning difficulties such attention-deficit disorder or dyslexia. Ralston’s first teaching job was at a private school for boys with dyslexia in New York state, he told the newspaper, and said Leelanau’s work with similar students appealed to him.

He and his wife Mary Beth also “figured it’s a good time for us to do something if we wanted to try something different,” Ralston, 51, told the Record-Eagle. Leelanau County, he said, “looks like a place that has got a lot to offer.”

In addition to his faculty duties at The Hill, Ralston teaches mathematics and is an assistant coach for its boys junior varsity lacrosse team, according to school website. His appointment at Leelanau was announced to The Hill community Jan. 4 in an e-mail from Headmaster David Dougherty.

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POTTSTOWN PA – Free ice skating for residents of the Pottsgrove School District will be offered Sunday (Jan. 18, 2009) from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the indoor ice rink at The Hill School, 717 E. High St. All skaters must wear a hat. No skate rentals or sharpening will be available.

The originally advertised skating times have been changed as a result of a scheduling conflict.

Skaters and visitors are asked to enter the rink from the school’s Beech Street parking lots. The event is sponsored by the Pottsgrove Recreation Board.

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