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The Distinguished Alumni/ae Award honors an alumnus or alumna who has displayed distinctive achievement in a chosen field or endeavor and has made significant contributions to public service and community.
 Marsha Levick, Esq. ’68
2011 Distinguished Alumna Award Winner
Marsha Levick is a nationally recognized leader in juvenile law who has served as a tireless advocate for the rights of young people and has a profound dedication to enforcing and improving juvenile justice. Marsha is the co-founder of Philadelphia’s Juvenile Law Center and served as its first executive director from 1975 to 1982. After a few years in private practice, she returned to the Juvenile Law Center in 1995, where she is currently the Deputy Director and Chief Counsel. Marsha has championed the right to education for pre-trial youth in county prisons, advocated for the safety of the mentally ill at detention centers, argued for juveniles’ right to counsel at all stages of the court process, and has fought against the juvenile death penalty. As a student in the 1960s, she was introduced to the world of social justice and political activism through speakers who questioned America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, and she feels Friends Select taught her the importance of appreciating one’s role and responsibility in the community. Marsha is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Beasley School of Law. She is an adjunct faculty member at both the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she teaches courses on Juvenile Justice and Appellate Advocacy.
The Meritorious Service Award honors an individual for sustained and exemplary service to Friends Select School. Eligible individuals include alumni/ae and other qualified “honorary” alumni/ae of the Friends Select School community, such as faculty, trustees, administrators and parents.
 Richard Wolgin ’67
2011 Meritorious Service Award Winner
Richard Wolgin may have graduated in 1967, but in his heart, he has never left the school. A Friends Select lifer, Richard was part of the historical last class to graduate from the old building. He graduated from Penn State University and began his real estate career in Mexico, building vacation complexes for the local population in Cuernavaca. After returning to the United States, Richard served as executive director of the South Philadelphia Medical Group and co-owned Webb Manufacturing Company, a manufacturer of advertising specialty items. He also worked for a period of time for Buyenlarge, a publishing group connected with Barnes and Noble, which created posters from their massive archive of vintage novels, maps and newspapers. Richard continues with his real estate background with Friends Center City Riverfront, a Quaker organization that is developing retirement communities in Center City. Richard continues to serve Friends Select School as a member of the National Board of Visitors. Through the NBOV, he is interested in creating new ways for representatives from different graduating classes to share information.
The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes faculty and staff who have contributed significantly to the life of the school through their teaching and mentoring over a minimum of five years. Criteria include a commitment to the school community; record of outstanding teaching effectiveness; ability to inspire, promote, and sustain the intellectual and developmental needs of students; pedagogical approach that is innovative, intellectually rigorous, creative, and engaging; and commitment to Quaker values, practice and service.
2011 Distinguished Teaching Award Winners
 Anne Thomforde-Thomas
Anne Thomforde-Thomas has been teaching at Friends Select School since 1978, shaping the lives and minds of thousands of students with her unique blend of both progressive and traditional educational style. She moved from Italy to attend Bryn Mawr College and received her master’s in education from Temple University. Her Quaker background and values drew her to Friends Select, where Anne feels children are valued for what they know rather than what they don’t know. Over the past 33 years, Teacher Anne has taught every grade from kindergarten to fourth and she feels the occasional shifting around has kept her new and fresh. Anne enjoys knitting, gardening and playing the violin; over the past ten years, she has performed with the Chestnut Hill Orchestra. She is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, one of two Quaker meetings that oversee governance of Friends Select.
 Janet Goldstein ’57
Janet was both a serious and witty teacher who had a unique ability to translate classic literature in a contemporary and engaging way. Whether she was acting out scenes from A Tale of Two Cities or using Star Trek episodes to help her students understand difficult concepts in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, She had a style all her own marked by a keen intelligence, a love of literature, a passion for language, and her meticulous attention to grammar; many of Janet’s former students credit her with their writing careers. Janet graduated from Friends Select in 1957 and went on to Radcliffe College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She received her master’s in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In addition to teaching, Janet co-authored English Brushup, which is published by McGraw-Hill and is now in its 5th edition. She currently works as an executive editor for Townsend Press, a small educational publishing company in New Jersey, where she gets to express her many talents in writing, editing, proofreading, consulting, and marketing.
 Gene Kerrick
Gene Kerrick was known to all as a wry and intelligent teacher whose style went far beyond a discussion of the facts. He expected a great deal from his students, and encouraged them to think bigger and broader, understanding a particular subject but also applying it to the modern world. “Master” Gene was also known for his humor and told at least three jokes per 40-minute class. Before coming to Friends Select, Gene received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from the University of California at Berkeley, leaving at one point to serve as a translator and interpreter in World War II at Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. His service continued after the war as an interpreter in the Navy’s War Crimes trials on Guam before serving in the Pentagon for the Korean War. He later continued graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, eventually accepting a position with Friends Select School in 1957. Three years in, he married his late wife Virginia Henning, also a teacher at FSS. The two had twins who graduated from Friends Select in 1983. Gene currently lives in the Poconos and continues to genealogical and local historical research. For more photos from the Alumni/ae and Teaching Awards, check out the FSS Flickr page!
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The Distinguished Alumni/ae Award honors an alumnus or alumna who has displayed distinctive achievement in a chosen field or endeavor and has made significant contributions to public service and community.
Wendell Pritchett '82, Distinguished Alumnus Award
Wendell Pritchett, a noted scholar and experienced administrator, is chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden. Prior to this appointment, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law school from 2001-2009. He attended Friends Select for 11 years. He earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University, a J.D. from Yale and a doctorate from Penn. He served for a number of years on the Friends Select alumni/ae association board and the National Board of Visitors. Earlier in his career, Wendell Pritchett worked for Congressman Thomas M. Foglietta (D-PA), as an attorney for non-profit organizations, an assistant professor at the City University of New York, and Mayor Nutter's deputy chief of staff and director of policy for the City of Philadelphia. He has written two books and many articles on urban history and policy. The Meritorious Service Award honors an individual for sustained and exemplary service to Friends Select School. Eligible individuals include alumni/ae and other qualified “honorary” alumni/ae of the Friends Select School community, such as faculty, trustees, administrators and parents. Josie Whitlock receives the Meritorious Service Award from Darryl Ford '83. Josie Whitlock served Friends Select in her official title of registrar - the job she held for 30 years. She helped coordinate hundreds of college applications a year, set up appointments with college representatives and talked to anxious parents. But Mrs. Whitlock offered students something more. Former director of advancement, Bob Cotter described her in this way, "Josie's unofficial role is to be guardian, confessor, sympathetic ear and whip-cracker for each senior class." After going part-time in 2003, Mrs. Whitlock remained a regular fixture at school. She attended events and, of course, played her signature role on graduation day, when she pinned roses to the boys's lapels, handed bouquets to the girls, and lined up the graduates for their processional into post-FSS futures.
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1973 R. Jean Brownlee '29 1974 Calvin Morris '59 1975 John R. Everett '37 1976 Anna Hawkes Hutton '27 1977 Admiral William W. Behrens '39 1979 Dorothy Buckley Crawford '17 1981 Walter N. Read '35 1982 Dr. Joel J. Nobel '52 1983 Richard L. Ashbrook '38 1984 Louise Bowen Ballinger '27 1985 Andrea K. Delgado '63 1987 Domina Eberle Spencer '37 1988 Peter Solmssen '48 1989 Peter Orion Price '58 1990 Muriel Morisey '65 1991 David Goodman '72 1997 Louis Massiah '72 1998 Bruce Toll '61 1999 John Wallace '68 2000 Gilda Mann Ellis '45 2001 Elizabeth Woods '71 2002 Eugenia Oster Kaledin '47 2003 Judith Haviland Chase '50 2006 Saranne Rothberg '81 2007 Michael Fitts '71 2008 Joanne Green Breuer '55 2009 Darryl J. Ford '83 2010 Wendell Pritchett '82 2011 Marsha Levick '68
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1973 H. Carlton Draper '19 1974 Sarah Pithouse Becker '23 1975 G. Laurence Blauvelt, Faculty/staff 1976 Ruth Hallowell Gray '30 1979 Margaret I. Conover '16 1980 Clayton E. Ranck '34 1981 Walter A. Smith '52 1983 Gerald Zeigerman '57 1984 Marlene Flanagan Milner '57 1984 George Milner '57 1985 Suzanne Root '54 1986 Lois Meadowcroft Baker '37 1987 Gene Kerrick, Faculty/staff 1987 Ginnie Kerrick,Faculty/staff 1988 Judy Love Keogh '55 1989 Ellen Speiser Katz '52 1990 William Sigmund Gross '58 1997 Dorothy Sigman Stratford '39 2002 Ed Smiley Faculty/staff 2006 Michael Fox '70 2007 Dick Hoffman, Faculty/staff 2008 Dan Fascione '49 2009 Charles X Block '81 2010 Josie Whitlock, Faculty/staff 2011 Richard Wolgin '67
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The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes faculty and staff who have contributed significantly to the life of the school through their teaching and mentoring over a minimum of five years. Criteria include a commitment to the school community; record of outstanding teaching effectiveness; ability to inspire, promote, and sustain the intellectual and developmental needs of students; pedagogical approach that is innovative, intellectually rigorous, creative, and engaging; and commitment to Quaker values, practice and service.
2010 Calvin Bourgeault Patricia Noonan Ralph Reinwald 2011 Anne Thomforde-Thomas Janet Goldstein '57 Gene Kerrick
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