Education officials and Mayor Nutter present the Mayor’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Civic Engagement to Fox Chase resident, Maura Quirk (center), of Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls, Philadelphia, Pa. (photo courtesy of Linda Quirk)
Mayor Michael Nutter presented the Mayor’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence and Civic Engagement to Maura Quirk, a Fox Chase resident and recent graduate of Little Flower High School.
Quirk was one of 500-plus seniors who joined Nutter on June 1 in a procession from Broad and Pine streets to City Hall Courtyard.
Students with a B-plus average or better were invited to the parade. They wore matching blue T-shirts that read, “I did it.”
Quirk won the grand prize based on her essay.
Brianna Bennett, of George Washington High School, was among four runners-up. They received tickets to a U.S. destination on Southwest Airlines.
Nutter, teachers and district officials wore shirts that read, “And I helped.”
The procession was led by the drum lines from Kensington High School for Creative and Performing Arts and the High School of the Future.
