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Vol. 94 No. 53 ' ” .	'	Wednesday, Discember. 31,1997	;	.	50i Gents
News
B After 16 years of serving on Quaker Valley School Board, Joyce Cortese looks back at her satisfying tenure.
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Sports
B A special feature examines the college basketball recruiting process and what determines a recruit's success or failure.
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Around Town
B Dr. Sidney Selkovits has been honored by his friends with an endowment fund in his name at Sewickley Valley Hospital.
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW
School renovations topped ’97 news
As the book is closed on 1997, the Sewickley Herald takes one more look back at the people and events that shaped the year.
January
H Longtime Osborne Borough secretary Mary Lou ' Sullivan stepped down from the position she held for 17 years. .
Mary Lou Sullivan
■	ICiwanis Club of Sewickley turned its attention toward seniors with the formation of Sewickley Golden K Kiwanis Club.
.H Sweetwater Center for the Arts put the finishing touches on its expanded facilities.
■	Les Powner and Joe JubihSki, longtime members of Fair Oaks Volunteer Fire Department’s board of directors, stepped down. The pair had served for a combined 50-plus years.
■	Malachy Whalen stepped down as president of Sewickley Borough Council,
R S. Phil Hundley is appointed by Sewickley Heights Borough Council to fill the seat vacated by Georgia Mosier,
H Dr. R. Gerard Longo, superintended of Quaker
QUAKER VALLEY School District got a new look, but work ran into a few snags along the way.
Valley School District, was named Pennsylvania's Superintended of the Year.
H Gene Klein, Quaker Valjey boys' soccer coach, was named National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Umbro National Coach of the Year,
H Zedric Coaston came aboard as new pastor of St. Matthews AME Zion Church, B Jonathan Showe is appointed as the new president of Sewickley Borough Council.
■ Matthew and Michael
Nester, twin brothers from Fair Oaks, earned Eagle Scout awards.
February
■ Sewickley Academy’s boys’ basketball team upset undefeated Aliquippa 71-58.
R Roy Lilly Jr,, who served as president of Quaker Valley Democratic Organization for 10 years, announced he was leaving that position.
R Quaker Valley and Sewickley Academy joined in
a joint celebration of black churches during Biack History Month. The calendar of events included music and an art show,
R The Quaker Valley boys’ basketball team clinched die section championship with a win over Vincentian. It was the Quakers’ first section title since 1989.
' R'Donald Spalding,iCindy t Giles and Flossie Hayes Manning were named Sewickley Herald’s Man, Woman and Citizen of the Year.
R Residents of Bell Acres • voiced their opposition to a proposed sewage plant that would be build in neighboring Economy Borough.
R Ken Johns, mayor of Sewickley, offered a formal apology for a racial remark .he made to a female member of the Quaker Valley track and field team. The remark sparked attention from local and national media.
R Maleet Gordon was hired as the new secretary of Osborne Borough.
March
R The Quaker Valley boys’ basketball team captured the WPIAL Class AA championship with a 57-49 win over New Brighton at Duquesne University's A.J. Palumbo Center. Justin Shegog and Andy VVormsley each finished with 15 points to bring QV its first-ever title.
Sewickley Academy’s boys, meanwhile, lost the Class A final to Clairton, The game was significant, though, as Clairton head coach Carol Gelet became the first woman to take a boys’ basketball team to the WPIAL title,
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