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Our School Board candidates will work hard to ensure:

• That our new high schools are well constructed, on time and on budget;
• Improved communication with our community; and
• Respect for our tax dollars by controlling runaway spending.

These five impressive individuals are committed to the belief that all of Lower Merion’s children can receive the best education this country has to offer right here in our distinguished public schools.  

 

• Sheryl Bartos has the ideal perspective we need on the school board.  She is the involved mother of two young daughters: a first grader at Cynwyd Elementary where Sheryl is a class parent, and a preschooler headed for Cynwyd in the fall.  For the last two years, Sheryl has served as PTA co-president for the Gateway School.  She has her Masters in Education from University of Virginia and has worked in hospice care and as a Speech-Language Pathologist.  She and her husband, Jeff, live in Merion.

 

• Bill Duffy, as an educator for over 40 years, brings a broad-based background to the position.  He has worked as a science teacher, a department chair, an assistant principal and a principal. Bill holds a Master’s degree in Science Education and Master’s and Doctorate degrees in Educational Leadership. He is currently the Director of Pupil Services for the Marple Newtown School District.  His Pennsylvania certifications include: General Science, Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction, and Secondary Principal. In addition, Bill has a Pennsylvania Letter of Eligibility for Superintendent. He and his wife, Maggie, residents of Bala Cynwyd for 31 years, raised their four children in Lower Merion.  Their granddaughter is a student at Penn Valley Elementary.

 

• Larry Hollin is a principal of Independence Capital Partners (ICP), a family of Private Equity and Real Estate Funds with over $6 billion under management. His economic and finance background will benefit the school board.  Additionally, he holds a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he has also served as a guest lecturer, and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar.  He graduated Magna Cum Laude from both the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, with a degree in economics, as well as the University’s College of Arts and Sciences.  Larry, a product Lower Merion schools, lives in Bala Cynwyd with his wife and two daughters, who will also be attending Lower Merion schools.

 

• Shelley Marine, a homegrown candidate for the Lower Merion School Board, attended Penn Wynne Elementary School, Ardmore Junior High and Lower Merion High School.  She also went to Gratz College High School and received a degree in Accounting from Villanova University. Shelley has demonstrated her commitment to the Lower Merion School district over the past eight years as president of the Cynwyd Elementary Home and School Association and currently as Co-President of the Bala Cynwyd Middle Home and School Association.  She has been President of her Hadassah group and active in her synagogue. Her husband is a science teacher, her son attends Lower Merion High School and her daughter is a student at Bala Cynwyd Middle School.  They reside in Bala Cynwyd.

                                              

• Philip Zuzelo has lived in Lower Merion most of his life and, like his siblings, is a product of Lower Merion public schools.  Phil has both a BS in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He runs a specialty contracting company and has an extensive background in financial analysis, project management and cost accounting.  His business proficiency and acumen are essential to a well-rounded school board.  Phil and his wife Emily live in Bryn Mawr and their three children, all who attend Lower Merion public schools (two at Harriton High School and one at Gladwyne Elementary).