Network Amherst: The Lehrer Report

By Phyllis Lehrer

Published on August 01, 2008

August birthdays: Jean Haggerty, Bernie Rubinstein, Mary Sepko, Tom Flittie, Annie Richmond, Aaron Berman, Yvette Monks, James Jemison, Victoria Dempsey, Gordon Sutton, Michele Johnston-Torras, Daniel Boudreau, Luca Zubic, Robert Mikalunas, Roman Yakub, Martin Karlin, David Levenstein, Lace Stokes, John Brigham, James Schlessinger, Lucy Benson, Patricia O'Brien, Debra Beturney, Calvin Brower, Jennifer Goodheart, John Cunningham, Valerie Young, Erik Zoltan, Judith Ingram, Thomas Mcguire, Gladys Thayer, Robert Goshko, Sonya Bergquist, Olga Gustin, Allan Feldman, Stephen Fellers, David Semon, Bernice Rosenthal, Roger Lind, Carol Forman, Kevin Jones, Timothy Bushey, Todd Zabawa.

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Munson Memorial Library Director Sue Hugus said the deadline for book logs for the Summer Reading Club is Aug. 25. The Reading Club party is Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. in the library garden. She reports 100 children have signed up for the club.

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Dave, Karen, Sadie and Maggie Ranen, of Amherst, sent a card from Trinidad and Tobago, where they saw Steel Drum Ensemble musicians who performed at the Regional Middle School. The weather is beautiful and the food delicious, they report.

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Charles Dworkin, the son of Motoko Dworkin, of North East Street, and Thomas Dworkin, of Bay Road in Amherst, was named to the dean's list at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where he is a senior majoring in government.

Meagan Magrath, the daughter of Adrian and Maggie Magrath, of Stagecoach Road in Amherst, has graduated from the 180 days in Springfield master's program at the University of Massachusetts. She is an honors graduate from Skidmore College and graduated from Amherst Regional High School. She will teach social studies at the Renaissance School in Springfield.

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Pete Westover, former Amherst conservation director, is training for the New York City Marathon as a member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's "Team in Training." Each member is trying to raise at least $7,500 to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. He is running in memory of his dad, Dr. J. Huston Westover, who died of chronic myelogenous leukemia in 1994 after a 10-year battle with the disease, and a cousin Bill Hood, who died of leukemia in 2005. He is also running for a 12-year-old Florida girl, Shelby Kay Batley, who has been through three difficult years of chemotherapy treatments for acute lymphatic leukemia.

The November marathon will be his seventh and Lisa Rock and family members are his sponsors. Checks can be made to the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society and sent to: P.O. Box 67, Whately, MA 01093. Donations may also be made online. All tax-deductible donations go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society with 75 percent of funds spent going directly to research and patient aid, and help bring hope to cancer patients and their families. Visit his race Web site at pages.teamintraining.org/vtnt/nyc08/pwestover or call 665-4077.