National Education Group Recognizes PC's Lew Somers

The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) awarded Lewis S. Somers 3rd OPC ’44 the Seymour Preston Award, which honors a trustee who has provided exceptional leadership to his or her institution.

Somers received the award at the January 2007 CASE conference, which was held this year in Philadelphia. The award is the only formal recognition made to a trustee by this national development organization.

From the podium at the opening session of the conference attended by 1,300 educators from across the nation, CASE President John Lippincott honored Somers and read from materials submitted by Penn Charter for the award competition: "The contributions that Lewis S. Somers 3rd has made to our school are unique in terms of the duration of his service, the impact of his leadership in educational endeavors, and the profoundly inspirational and visionary focus of his own voluntary support," Will Carr Jr., currently Penn Charter's clerk of Overseers, wrote in his nomination of Somers.