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Year 32, No. 32
“Women on the Rise” Speaker Series Baldwin’s April 19 Speaker is Sarah Robb O’Hagan, CEO of FlyWheel Sports Inc. he Baldwin School invites the community to “Women on the Rise,” a Speaker Series that is free and open to the public. The series showcases women who are leaders in their professions and harnessing their passions and forging new paths. These women will talk about where they are, how they got
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Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Amy Aldridge to Retire Culminating 23-year career at Pennsylvania Ballet with George Balanchine’s Rubies
Sarah Robb O’Hagan, CEO of FlyWheel Sports Inc. will speak Wednesday, April 19, at 7 p.m., at The Baldwin School. The event is free and open to the community. there and what they’ve learned along the way. The next program in the series will be Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 7 p.m., at The Baldwin School, 701 Montgomery Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA. Sarah Robb O’Hagan, CEO of FlyWheel Sports Inc. will speak. Executive, activist and entrepreneur, O’Hagan is described by the media as everything from “Superwoman undercover” to the “Queen of the Jocks” to the ultimate example of where fierce business woman, mother and fitness fanatic combine. She is named among Forbes “Most Powerful Women in Sports” and recognized as one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business.” As CEO, O’Hagan plans to transform FlyWheel Sports into an omni-channel lifestyle brand through the enrichment of program content, enhanced services and the strengthening of its technology platform. For information, visit www.BaldwinSchool.org or call 610-525-2700.
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Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Amy Aldridge for Christopher Wheeldon’s “DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse.” ennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Amy Aldridge has announced she will retire after 23 seasons on stage with Pennsylvania Ballet, with a performance of George Balanchine’s pas de deux from Rubies on Sunday, May 14 at 2 p.m. at The Academy of Music.
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The Barbara and Harvey Brodsky Enrichment Center Opens New Bala Cynwyd Home for Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia and adoption, to family supor 161 years, Jewish Famport and education, to finanily and Children Services cial assistance and healthcare (JFCS) of Greater Philadeland much more. In the lobby, phia has assisted countless individuals and families in the Attending the opening of Philadelphia region at every the new Barbara and Harvey stage of life. Now these serBrodsky Enrichment Center vices will be much more conof JFCS in Bala Cynwyd, PA, venient to those in the westare – Pia Eisenberg, Senior ern suburbs as the new Barbara Vice President of Community and Harvey Brodsky Enrichment Engagement, Adam Laver Center of JFCS has opened in JFCS Board Chair, Michael Bala Cynwyd, PA. Officially Wilner (Penn Valley), Past opened April 3, this new 18,000 JFCS Board Chair, Barbara sq. ft., $8 million project at 345 (Bobbi) Brodsky Montgomery Avenue, becomes (Haverford), Margie Brodsky the fifth branch of JFCS of Greater (Haverford), Paula Goldstein Philadelphia adding to those President/CEO, Bob Kagan in Center City, Elkins Park, and (Merion Station), JFCS Board North and Northeast PhiladelBuilding Committee Chair. phia, offering therapeutic services and educational programs. visitors will find very large This state-of-the-art building black and white portraits (12 was designed by Jason Wilhelm ft. x 8 ft. in size) of 18 Holoof J. Wilhelm Consulting and caust Survivors with a suphas been custom-built to meet portive educational iPad to the needs and programing for a wide range of clients extending from Holocaust survivors, older adults, provide history of each survivor. Some of these survivors are JFCS clients. Paula Goldstein, JFCS President/CEO, is thrilled that the building is ready children, LGBTQ communities, people living with disabilities, parents seeking to adopt a child, family counseling, to food insecurities and helping indi- for operation. It has been a longtime goal for the board to service individviduals to gain financial stability. Its social services range from foster care See The Barbara and Harvey Brodsky Enrichment Center Opens page 11
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