Author: Gary Weckselblatt

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has rec­og­nized three Quakertown Community High School seniors in its pres­ti­gious pro­gram for 2021.

Michael Dennis is a semi­fi­nal­ist while Matt Catalano and Veronika Durr each received a Letter of Commendation. Each stu­dent is rec­og­nized  for their out­stand­ing per­for­mance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship … Read more...

Gabe DaCosta, one of the most pop­u­lar stu­dents at Quakertown Community High School, is high­light­ed in the November 1st Eagles Gameday Magazine.

The pro­file, on Page 16, explains how Gabe devel­oped cere­bral pal­sy from his pre­ma­ture birth and now spends most of his time in a wheel­chair. It also … Read more...

When Audrey Nolte, the daugh­ter of Holocaust sur­vivors, speaks to stu­dents, one of the many high­lights of her pre­sen­ta­tion involves the sto­ry of her father’s pock­et watch, a gift from his father.

When Mrs. Nolte explains how a Nazi guard pur­pose­ful­ly stepped on it, break­ing the glass, stu­dents hear­ing the … Read more...

Beginning July 1, Quakertown Community High School will have a new principal.

The Quakertown Community School Board vot­ed 9–0 Thursday night in sup­port of the administration’s rec­om­men­da­tion to name Mattias van’t Hoenderdaal to the posi­tion pre­vi­ous­ly held by Dr. David Finnerty.

Mr. van’t Hoenderdaal, 35, is cur­rent­ly prin­ci­pal of School … Read more...

When Ashton Herd woke up Saturday morn­ing, he wasn’t feel­ing too great. The Quakertown Community High School line­man and his Panthers had lost their first game, a phys­i­cal con­test, 17–14, to Cheltenham, drop­ping their record to 4–1.

But then Ashton turned on his lap­top and clicked on Facebook. He soon … Read more...

Since the clos­ing of school build­ings on March 13th, Quakertown Community High School senior Kaitlyn Zajkowski has missed her time in the band room where she could “find my peace” play­ing her favorite musi­cal instru­ment, the marim­ba.

During the quar­an­tine from the COVID-19 Pandemic, she dis­cussed options with her par­ents, … Read more...

Two sopho­more stu­dents at Quakertown Community High School have been nom­i­nat­ed for the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) schol­ar­ship. The award comes with an invi­ta­tion to attend a two-day lead­er­ship sem­i­nar with the orga­ni­za­tion, designed to give stu­dents the tools they need to turn their ideas into action … Read more...

What if … you’re a teacher in the hall­way and you hear some­thing that sounds like glass break­ing.? What do you do? 

What if … you’re a school nurse and you hear stu­dents run­ning down a hall­way shout­ing? What do you do?

What if … you’re a cafe­te­ria work­er and you hear … Read more...

Quakertown Community School District Superintendent Dr. Bill Harner is a recip­i­ent of the Torch of Global Enlightenment Award for 2020, award­ed by the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg.

The announce­ment was made by Joyce M. Davis, pres­i­dent and chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of the orga­ni­za­tion which hon­ors indi­vid­u­als and orga­ni­za­tions … Read more...

The ener­gy in the Pennsylvania Capitol wasn’t radi­at­ing from the 18-foot Douglas Fir that Gov. Tom Wolf and First Lady Frances Wolf lit dur­ing the December annu­al tree light­ing ceremony.

No, the ener­gy flow­ing in the rotun­da came from the melo­di­ous tones on the mar­ble steps. The mar­velous voic­es belong … Read more...

Quakertown Elementary School held a food dri­ve called Bring Color to Our Community that allowed stu­dents to be cre­ative. Each grade received a col­or of the rain­bow and had a goal of find­ing food of that col­or.

If the box of mac­a­roni, for exam­ple, was blue that worked for the … Read more...

About 250 stu­dents and 25 teach­ers and admin­is­tra­tors packed the Quakertown Community High School cafe­te­ria this morn­ing and heard from a dynam­ic speak­er before head­ing out to var­i­ous parts of Bucks County and the Lehigh Valley to serve their fel­low cit­i­zens.

The district’s sec­ond Martin Luther King Jr. Day of … Read more...

A group of stu­dents from Quakertown Community High School has been teach­ing Quakertown Elementary School stu­dents about dif­fer­ent cul­tures from around the world.

The high school stu­dents are with the Diversity Club, and they make the two-block walk to QE once a month to edu­cate the younger stu­dents.

“Being a … Read more...

One hun­dred twenty-eight Quakertown Community High School stu­dents vir­tu­al­ly vis­it­ed with 18 col­leges on April 22, an event that replaced the tra­di­tion­al College Fair held in the gym­na­si­um.

“This was def­i­nite­ly new ter­ri­to­ry but the tech­nol­o­gy held up and the stu­dents pre­sent­ed them­selves very well,” said coun­selor Eric Gozzard, who … Read more...

If a stu­dent is seek­ing an oppor­tu­ni­ty to become col­lege or career ready, Quakertown Community High School has all of the prepa­ra­tion need­ed for suc­cess.

A sur­vey of the 2020 class showed that the 85 respond­ing grad­u­ates were offered $6.4 mil­lion in schol­ar­ships from the schools they applied to and … Read more...