{"id":2697,"date":"2015-01-16T11:55:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2015-01-16T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T17:17:49","slug":"troy-brennan-of-emmaus-high-school-receives-nomination-to-u-s-merchant-marine-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Troy Brennan of Emmaus High School Receives Nomination to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Sen. Toomey Announces Nominations to the <\/strong><strong>U.S. Service Academies<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C. <\/strong>\u2013 Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today announced the Pennsylvania students he has nominated to the United States Service Academies for the class entering 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the greatest honors of my office is nominating outstanding young Pennsylvanians to the United States Service Academies,\u201d <strong>said Sen. Toomey. <\/strong>\u201cThe selection process for these academies is very competitive and nominees must demonstrate the highest caliber of academic success, leadership skills, and character. These students embody these qualities, and I wish each of them nothing but the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Madeline Suba, Huntingdon Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Bell, Northern York High School<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Campanella, Manheim Township High School<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Cross, Central York High School<\/p>\n<p>Megan Henderson, Saint Mary\u2019s Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Galen Kreutzberger, Penn-Trafford High School<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Maloney, Lansdale Catholic High School<\/p>\n<p>Brian Jacob Matus, The Hill School<\/p>\n<p>Rocco Maue, Moon Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Gino Nicosia, Penns Valley Area High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Miriam Ewell-Wice, Taylor Allerdice High School<\/p>\n<p>Julia Corton, Peters Township High School<\/p>\n<p>Charles Akerblom, Harriton High School<\/p>\n<p>Peter Collins, LaSalle College High School<\/p>\n<p>Kahse Mandarino, Episcopal Academy<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Johnson, Burrell High School<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Kiehn, Fox Chapel Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Tora Scott, Central Valley High School<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Sermarini, Boyertown Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Nagy, Great Valley High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Spring, Colo.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Lionel Gumireddy, North Alleghany High School<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Barr, Malvern Preparatory School<\/p>\n<p>Scott Bartkowiak, York Catholic High School<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Layng, Grace Preparatory High School<\/p>\n<p>Connor Martin, Homeschooled, Washington County<\/p>\n<p>Mark McVeigh, Marple Newtown High School<\/p>\n<p>Cheyenne Philson, Dallastown Area High School<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Shea, Leechburg Area High School\/USAF Preparatory School<\/p>\n<p>John Stein, Greater Latrobe High School<\/p>\n<p>Albert Taglieri, Spring Grove Area High School<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Seth Balkey, Homeschooled, Centre County<\/p>\n<p><strong>Troy Brennan, Emmaus High School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bryce Carroll, Northern York High School<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Doratt, Pequea Valley High School<\/p>\n<p>John Heffernan, Carlisle High School<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Kelly, Booner &amp; Prendergast Catholic High School<\/p>\n<p>Mary Lyons, Archbishop Wood High School<\/p>\n<p>Nathanael Marino, Blue Mountain High School<\/p>\n<p>Neil Painter, Cedar Cliff High School<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Robinson, Shaler Area High School<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Jaffee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Press Assistant<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Senator Pat Toomey<\/p>\n<p>248 Russell Senate Office Building<\/p>\n<p>Washington, D.C. 20510<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"tel:202-224-4254\">202-224-4254<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Toomey Announces Nominations to the U.S. Service Academies \u00a0 Washington, D.C. \u2013 Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) today announced the Pennsylvania students he has nominated to the United States Service Academies for the class entering 2015. \u201cOne of the greatest honors of my office is nominating outstanding young Pennsylvanians to the United States Service Academies,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/?p=2697\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troy Brennan of Emmaus High School Receives Nomination to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[947,951,950,955,953,948,945,956,954,949,952,943,946,957,944],"class_list":["post-2697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2","tag-annapolis","tag-colo","tag-colorado-spring","tag-emmaus-high-school","tag-kings-point","tag-md","tag-n-y","tag-sen-toomey","tag-troy-brennan","tag-u-s-air-force-academy","tag-u-s-merchant-marine-academy","tag-u-s-military-academy","tag-u-s-naval-academy","tag-u-s-service-academies","tag-west-point"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Toomey-Press-Release-2.jpg?fit=626%2C434&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}