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Civitan Club Donates Chromebooks Mother Seton School’s new Eco-Friendly

The Catoctin Area Civitan Club Photo Courtesy of Mary E. Dal-Favero and Energy Eficient HVAC System
donated three Chromebooks for the
students in the Catoctin High School Mother Seton School Courtesy Photo
Special Education Department. (MSS) is the coolest
place to be this fall for
returning students—
Pamela Adams-Campbell, a special
education teacher at Catoctin literally! Thanks to
High School, is shown accepting the generosity of our
the donated Chromebooks from benefactors and donors,
Catoctin Area Civitan Club including the Daughters
President Ginger Malone.
of Charity, St. Louise
Civitans Selling White House Ornament Province, and the
Delaplaine Foundation,
The 2015 White House Christmas Ornament honors the administration of contractor Morgan-
President Calvin Coolidge, who served as the 13th President of the United Keller has recently
States, from 1923-1929. At $25.00 each, the ornaments are a fundraiser of completed an installation
the Catoctin Area Civitan Club. To order, please contact Nancy Shaffer by of the school’s HVAC Morgan-Keller Superintendent Harold Virgin shows the new
emailing nshaffer01@aol.com or calling 301-676-9752 or 301-271-3202. system. The school, condensers to Mother Seton School Principal Sister Brenda Monahan,
D.C., and Assistant Principal Sister Joan Corcoran, D.C.
which was originally
Emmitsburg High School Alumni Banquet built in 1965, was still
The Emmitsburg High School’s 91 Annual Alumni Banquet will be held on using the boiler and system installed at that time. In 2002, an extension was
st
built to the school with its own HVAC system. The new system connects the
Saturday, October 17, 2015. All graduates of Emmitsburg High School, and two together.
all who attended the school at some time, are invited. They are asked to seek As a certified Maryland Green School, MSS is committed to promoting
out classmates and encourage them to attend. Graduation is not a requirement. environmental responsibility and sustainability. The new heating and cooling
Teachers of the Emmitsburg School are also invited. system Morgan-Keller has installed is eco-friendly and more efficient, reducing
The event will be held at the Emmitsburg Ambulance Company, located at the school’s energy costs and eliminating waste. It consists of Energy Recovery
17701 Creamery Road in Emmitsburg. Social hour will begin at 5:00 p.m., Ventilators, Variable Refrigerant Volume Equipment, Rooftop Conditioning
followed by dinner at 6:00 p.m. The cost for the dinner is $25.00. Honored Units, and an Energy Management System. With energy the second-highest
class photos will be taken after the meeting. expenditure for K-12 schools, according to the U.S. Department of Energy,
Anyone who has not received an invitation and would like to attend may installment of a more efficient system
call Sam Valentine at 301-447-2507 or e-mail csam46@gmail.com. can result in savings up to $100,000
per year.
“We are grateful to our sponsors
and benefactors for blessing us with
the means to make this long-awaited
dream come true for us,” said Sr.
Brenda Monahan, D.C., principal of
Mother Seton School. “A new HVAC
system may not sound glamorous, but
the difference this will make for our
students, staff, and faculty is priceless.
We are very excited to enter this new
“cool zone” when we return.”
Work on the system commenced
immediately after school let out
in June and was completed in late
August, in time for the new school
year.
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