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 St. Andrew Day School

 

St. Andrew Day School

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Brief History

 

St. Andrew Day School was founded in September 1972. It was the vision of Pastor

Robert Thomas, along with Joan and Bob Holloway, to reach out to the community and

offer a quality pre-school and day care program. No other organization in the township

offered a day care program. St. Andrew was the first.

 

Pastor Thomas approached Paula Tomchak, who at that time, was teaching a nursery

school class in the North Hills. With a degree in Early Childhood Education, Paula was

hired to develop and organize a pre-school and day care program. She was the Director

and also taught the four-year-old children. Pam Boustead was hired to teach the 3 year

old children with Audrey Longerman and Leah Svat were teacher aids.

 

Paula Tomchak: resigned in July 1975 and was replaced as Director by Joanne Thomas.

Because of job relocation, Joanne resigned in December 1975.

 

With the resignation of Joanne, the job title of Director/teacher was changed to

Director/Supervisor/Treasurer. This position was offered to Audrey Longerman who

accepted. Audrey served as Director from January 1975 until August 1987. The St.

Andrew Day School achieved the highest kindergarten score in the Moon Area School

District in the 1983 - 1984 school year.

 

In August 1987 the Day School was licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare

which required educational credentials, physicals for staff and students, training in CPR

and the American Red Cross multi-media first aid course. Ellen Heriger was named

Director for the 1987-1988 school year. She held this position until September 1996.

 

Karen Drnach accepted the position of Day School Director for the 1996-1997

school year. She remained the director until 2014.   Since 2014 Pastor Larry F. Mort has acted as Director of the Day School, and Ms. Jessica Ohr has served as Lead Teacher/Supervising Director.  Mrs. Marlane McGinnis is the Bookkeeper and Judy Brant is the Office Manager.  Current enrollment is over 90 children in six classes, ages 2 through Pre-k.

 

 

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