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...talking about Adam Hornstine, 16, who lives 15 miles from Camden, one of the state's poorest communities. By contrast, Adam's neighborhood, where he attends Moorestown High, boasts many homes with parklike landscapes. His group is actually a high school club he founded as a freshman and named MAGIC (Moorestown Alliance for Goodwill and Interest in the Community...
English teacher Mary Betancourt, a MAGIC volunteer and Adam's mock-trial adviser at Moorestown High, says someone once defined a gentleman as a person who makes everyone comfortable, regardless of status. "That's Adam," she says. Depending on need, anywhere from a handful to hundreds of teens show up to take part in MAGIC projects in collaboration with Christmas in April and local organizations. (Today Adam is the only student on the board of directors of Camden's Christmas in April group.) For MAGIC, Adam has single-handedly raised more than $7,500 in grants, donations and supplies...
...three-county area asking them to participate in a concerted food drive for the Food Bank of South Jersey, which provides 16,000 meals a month for the hungry. Thanks to MAGIC, the Food Bank has collected more than 4,000 lbs. of food. After previous drives at Moorestown High, "we often didn't know what to do with the food," says school principal Lynn Schilling. "Adam jumped in right away and gave us a mission." --Reported by Emily Mitchell/Moorestown...
Courted by colleges across the country for her math and science skills, Resnik chose to attend Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, from which she received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. She landed a job as a design engineer with RCA Corp. in Moorestown, N.J., received her doctorate from the University of Maryland and went to work for the Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. In March 1978, Resnik began training as an astronaut with NASA; she had been chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Said Resnik at the time: "This is the first semester since...
Adriane Y. Stewart '89, of Stoughton Hall and Moorestown, N.J., said that while her parents are at Harvard, she "can't get wasted." She also said that freshman parents weekend comes at a bad time because many freshmen have papers and midterms to prepare for this weekend...