Sunday’s “Running aHEAD of Cancer” event attracted more than 700 runners and walkers for its first Swarthmore iteration. The event raised more than $30,000 to support the HEADStrong Foundation in its mission of aiding families with members undergoing cancer treatment, some of whom are guests at the Foundation’s Nick’s House in Swarthmore. Photo by Linda Heffernan.

Robert “Bob” Frick (left), along with his wife, Rebecca (front right), traveled to Montana on August 22. Bob, who recently retired, was a sales executive for a manufacturer of large wind turbines for large power/energy projects, and before his retirement, he was working on a project being developed in Montana. The developer invited Rebecca and Bob to visit him in the beautiful town of Red Lodge (former home to Jeremiah Johnson). (In 1897, the town bank had an attempted robbery by the Sundance Kid, but it was foiled.) One evening, the Fricks were dining at the restaurant Piccola Cuccina at Ox Pasture, in Red Lodge, when their Haverford Avenue neighbors, Marc Fuccillo and Abby Deans, walked over to say hello! As Bob says, “It is a small world!”

U.S. Air Force Air National Guard Airman 1st Class David T. Brown graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills.

David, the son of Patricia and Thomas Brown of Wallingford, is a 2014 graduate of Strath Haven High School.

Swarthmorean and St. Joseph’s University alumna Dr. Patricia Williams Diaw is a contributing author to the recently released book, Black Panther Paradigm Shift or Not? (A Collection of Reviews and Essays on a Blockbuster Film) by Third World Press.

Lee Hagon-Kerr was recently named director of music ministry at Wallingford Presbyterian Church. A 2006 graduate of Westminster Choir College in Princeton, N.J., Hagon-Kerr earned a Masters of Music from the Hartt School in West Hartford, Conn., and has served as a music minister or a Lutheran Church in Wilbraham, Mass. She will continue as director of upper school choral music at the Baldwin School in Bryn Mawr.

Andrew Bunting will soon return to the Swarthmore area, according to sources at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, where he has been hired as Vice President of Public Horticulture. Bunting worked for Scott Arboretum for 27 years, and established Fine Garden Creations, Inc. in Swarthmore. He left the area four years ago for a leadership position at the Chicago Botanic Garden, then moved to the Atlanta Botanical Garden, which he leaves to return to our area. In his new position, Bunting will lead PHS’s urban design, public landscapes, pop-up gardens, and Meadowbrook Farm.

One of the greatest Strath Haven football teams ever brought some Panther magic to George L. King Field last Friday night as members of the 1999 PIAA Class AAA state championship winners reunited (along with family members) on the field between quarters. Haven’s varsity dominated as it had twenty years before, rolling over Ridley High School 49-13 for the Panthers’ third consecutive Central League blowout. The campaign continues Friday night, September 13, as Haven visits Radnor High School for a 7 p.m. game. Photo by Deirdre Abrahamsson.

On Labor Day, Rose Valley Swim & Tennis Club recognized the 35 members of its 1,000 Lap Club for 2019. Joan Stankiewcz lapped the field several times, recording 8,430 laps, or nearly 144 miles in Rose Valley’s 30-yard pool. Steve Sheaffer led male swimmers with 2,534 laps — not bad for a tennis player! Photo by Jennifer Reynolds.

Frances Sheehan and Ricardo Gelman of Swarthmore are thrilled to announce the arrival of their first grandchild, Maya Rose Barr, born August 7th, weighing 6 lb. 10 oz.

Maya lives with her parents, Julia and Marcus Barr, both Strath Haven Class of 2007, in South Philadelphia. Julia is the director of Employee Giving at Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health; Marcus is web designer at Hartford Funds.

Proud paternal grandparents are Mike and Barbara Barr of Wallingford.