LOWER MERION\u2014The Lower Merion School Board approved its contracts with Villanova University to hold its two high school graduation ceremonies on campus for the third year.<\/p>\n
The contracts were discussed during the school board\u2019s January finance committee meeting and then given final approval as part of the board\u2019s consent agenda at its January business meeting.<\/p>\n
The ceremony is taking place at Villanova\u2019s Finneran Pavilion, according to information on the agreement.<\/p>\n
Victor Orlando, chief financial officer for the Lower Merion School District, outlined the two agreements for each of the district\u2019s two high schools.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone seems to be very satisfied with Villanova, and so we\u2019re proposing to move forward with two agreements with Villanova for Lower Merion and Harriton graduation ceremonies,\u201d Orlando said. \u201cThey\u2019re both estimated at around $39,000 each for the use of the facility and other services.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orlando said the pricing for last year\u2019s ceremonies at Villanova was around $38,000 for Lower Merion and about $37,600 for the Harriton ceremony. <\/p>\n
Shawn Albert, athletic director at Harriton High School, said the agreement also includes a practice session on each school\u2019s designated day. <\/p>\n
\u201cVillanova\u2019s been really great to work with, accommodating every need that we\u2019ve had in the last two years,\u201d Albert said. <\/p>\n
Board member Shayna Kalish described having the ceremonies at Villanova as being successful. <\/p>\n
\u201cI agree that it has been a very successful place to have our graduation, having done it there and at Saint Joes and at the fields, and I\u2019ve enjoyed the Villanova events the most, so I\u2019m glad we\u2019re going there again,\u201d Kalish said during the finance committee meeting. <\/p>\n
Board member Jen Rivera added her support for holding the ceremonies at Villanova. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is a great partnership with Villanova. Looking at the pricing, they\u2019re very generous compared to prices that I work with at our company using facilities,\u201d Rivera said.<\/p>\n
Harriton\u2019s graduation this year is scheduled for June 2, and Lower Merion\u2019s graduation is scheduled for June 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION\u2014The Lower Merion School Board approved its contracts with Villanova University to hold its two high school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,200,28,199,729],"class_list":["post-102840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-mlt","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}