Byron will hold its second Alumni Basketball Challenge Oct. 6 at Byron High School.

Among the names returning to play are Jordan Auker, Matt Pendergrass, Ryan Considine, Matt Meline, Dan Cameron, Hannah Miller and Travis Bond on the Black Team, and Justin Rosecke, Adam Head, David Hillis, Cody Lindsey, Jenna Mooberry, Brandt Voiles, Hunter Hill and Alex Johnston on the Orange Team.

The game follows a 6 p.m. game between Byrons and Winnebagos middle school girls teams. Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults. The game is sponsored by Byron Community Revitalization as a fundraiser for Byrons Challenge Day, which is a self-esteem anti-bullying seminar presented annually to freshmen.

New coaches Guilford has hired Tug Gillingham as its new baseball coach. Gillingham has seven years of coaching experience at the college and high school level, coaching two years at Triton Junior College, two years at Walther Lutheran before taking over as head coach at Lincoln Park the past three years. A 1999 Walther Lutheran graduate, Gillingham played three years at Purdue and two years at Northern Illinois. He also played five years of professional baseball with the Windy City Thunderbolts, South Georgia Peanuts, Sioux City Explorers and Joliet Jackhammers.

Oregon has hired former Byron standout Lindsay Nauman as its new head softball coach. Nauman was a pitcher for the Tigers before graduating in 2008. She just finished her college career last year at Elmhurst College, where she was a Second Team College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin All-Conference Pitcher. Nauman replaces Jamie ReVelle, who took over the Hawks in 2008 after successful playing careers in Division I (University of Evansville) and professional softball. Oregon released ReVelle last June.

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BOSTON The former medical director of an exclusive Massachusetts prep school will stay jailed on a child pornography charge, for now.

Physician Richard Keller waived his rights to detention and probable cause hearings during a Friday appearance in federal court in Boston.

Authorities arrested the 56-year-old on Sept. 13, saying they seized hundreds of photos and several dozen DVDs of child pornography from his Andover home.

Law-enforcement officials say Keller had child porn delivered to him on the campus of Phillips Academy before his 2011 resignation.

The Andover boarding school's alumni include former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and his father, along with Humphrey Bogart and John F. Kennedy Jr.

Keller also voluntarily surrendered his state medical license this week, while the Massachusetts medical board does its own investigation.

Children's Hospital in Boston also put the pediatric endocrinologist on leave from his job, as did Harvard Medical School, where Keller is a pediatrics instructor. Keller's attorney Max Stern declined to comment after court.

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The Trent Semans Center is located in the heart of Duke's transformed medical campus.

When Leonard White, Ph.D., convenes his School of Medicine course on brain and behavior on Jan. 2, he will do so in a new building designed around the innovative way in which he teaches Duke medical students.

The class will be the first one to meet in the new Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center for Health Education (TSCHE), a part of the dramatic transformation of the Duke medical campus. The striking new building was built to support School of Medicine's team-based learning model.

There are still appropriate times and places for lectures in medical education, but we have been working hard to move into a pedagogy that reflects the real-life experiences of health care professionals, said White, associate professor and director of education for the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. The details that make the opening of the Trent Semans Center so exciting are its flexibility and its ability to support small teams of students thinking and learning together.

Construction is nearly complete on the six-story building adjacent to the Seeley G. Mudd Building and at the crossroads of the transformed medical campus. Its main entrance is just yards from the new Duke Cancer Center, the Duke Medicine Pavilion and Medical Center Library.

Each floor of the building is designed to bring together education spaces that are now spread throughout the medical campus.

The Trent Semans Center is all about spaces big spaces for large groups, medium spaces for labs and demonstrations, and small intimate niches for self-study, said Edward G. Buckley, M.D., vice dean of medical education.

The building is configured for adaptation. Walls move, furniture is portable and technology allows for communication for anywhere to anywhere. Most important, Buckley said, the building is readily accessible because it is at the very heart of the medical campus.

Before the TSCHE, the brain and behavior course met in an amphitheater in the lower level of Duke Clinic for lectures, in rooms on the fourth floor of the Davison Building for small group sessions and in the gross anatomy lab in the lower level of that building to examine brain specimens.

In January, 100 first-year medical students and about dozen grad students from other parts of the university taking the brain and behavior course will use team-based learning environments on the second and third floors of the TSCHE. They will work primarily in teams of six to seven students. Med students learn with their team throughout their first year.

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KEARNEY Six University of Nebraska at Kearney alumni will be recognized during 2012 Homecoming activities.

The six will be honored at the 32nd-annual Homecoming Awards Banquet Friday.

Jamie Gutierrez of Omaha, class of 1989; William C. Bill McGahan of North Platte, class of 1964, master of science 1968, educational specialist 1981; and Jeanette Keller Wojtalewicz of Omaha, class of 1984, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Dan Whelan of Schaumburg, Ill., class of 2000, will receive the Distinguished Young Alumnus Award, and Jerry and Nancy Stahr Dulitz of Kearney, class of 1965, will receive the Jim Rundstrom Distinguished Alumni Service Award.

Gutierrez is president and owner of Midwest Maintenance, a building service provider headquartered in Omaha. As a leader in the housekeeping industry, Midwest Maintenance maintains more than 8 million square feet of office, industrial, health-care and arena space. The company has been Omahas largest minority-owned, woman-owned and Hispanic-owned business since 1998.

Gutierrezs company has been recognized as one of the fastest growing Inner City 100 businesses by Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Inc. magazine.

McGahan is a retired educator who spent 48 years in education, 42 in a variety of positions with North Platte St. Patrick schools. For 37 of those years, he served as superintendent of the North Platte Catholic Schools system before retiring in 2011.

McGahan was a charter member of UNK Educational Administration Advisory Committee, serving from 1991 to 2011. He served on 24 Nebraska Department of Education school accreditation team visits to Nebraska schools.

Wojtalewicz is chief financial officer for Catholic Health Initiative Nebraska, a position she has had since 2010. CHI Nebraska is a $1 billion company that includes hospitals and organizations such as Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, St. Francis Medical Center in Grand Island, St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center and the Nebraska Heart Hospital in Lincoln, St. Marys Hospital in Nebraska City, and the Physicians Network and Health Connect at Home.

Wojtalewicz is a member and was past president of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. She is treasurer of the board of the Nebraska Surgery Center in Lincoln and president-elect of the board for the Missouri Valley Cancer Consortium in Omaha. Wojtalewicz served as a member of the UNK Gold Torch Society from 2006 to 2008.

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Memories will be shared at Immaculate Conception Cathedral School's Mercy Day celebration and Hall of Fame luncheon Friday when eight honorees will be inducted into the school's newly established Alumni Hall of Fame.

Margaret "Peggy" Scobey

Margaret "Peggy" Scobey, Class of '67, the Service to the Community honoree, was the U.S.ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt from April 2008 until July 2011. She previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Syria from 2003 until 2005, when she was recalled in reaction to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. She is currently the Deputy Commandant of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University.

Tina Santi Flaherty

Receiving the award in the Role Model for Women In Business category, Tina Santi Flaherty, Class of '57, has earned numerous accolades, including the designation of the country's first "Powerchick." While still in her 20s, she blazed new paths for women in business when she became the first female vice president at three leading American corporations, Colgate-Palmolive, GTE and Grey Advertising. Flaherty has penned two award-winning books, "The Savvy Woman's Success Bible," and "Talk Your Way to the Top," along with her latest work, "What Jackie Taught US: Lessons from the Remarkable Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis." Flaherty was named one of 73 "Women Ready to Run Corporate America" by Working Women's magazine, Business Week's "One of America's Top Corporate Women," and was among the "100 Amazing Americans" by America's Elite 1000, Millennium Issue. Now retired, she devotes her time and support to one of her favorite causes, animal rights.

Rose Marie Cross

Rose Marie Cross will receive the Service to the School award. A classroom teacher for 50 years, Cross was chairwoman of the ICCS English Department, organized the first model United Nations Assembly, and created ICCS' student literary publication. She received an Outstanding Educator in the State of Tennessee award, Teacher of the Year Delta Level, as well as the Crystal Apple Award for Teachers from WMC-TV. She was the 2008 nationwide winner in an essay contest sponsored by the Memphis Chapter of UNICO for her essay "How my Italian Heritage Influenced My Life."

Helen Martinelli Weirich

Helen Martinelli Weirich began the first grade at ICCS in 1952 and was enrolled through her graduation in 1964. A current ICCS faculty member, she will also receive a Service to the School award. She has been a full-time French teacher in the high school since 1987 and was a substitute teacher for six years prior. An adjunct French professor at Christian Brothers University, Weirich's influence on her students is evident each year as ICCS graduates return to share how their college experience was shaped by their studies under her direction.

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BOSTON - The former medical director of an exclusive Massachusetts prep school was reprimanded for using a school computer to access adult pornography, one of the many reasons his appointment was not renewed, the school says.

But John Palfrey, the head of Phillips Academy in Andover, stressed in a Friday email to students, parents, staff and faculty that the schools concerns with Dr. Richard Keller are unrelated to a federal child pornography charge against him. Palfrey said he does not believe any of the students were the subject of Kellers alleged crime.

Keller, 56, a pediatric endocrinologist, was arrested at his Andover home Thursday. He remained in custody Friday and has a Monday bail hearing. Both Childrens Hospital in Boston, where he works, and Harvard Medical School, where he is a pediatrics instructor, say they have placed him on leave.

Federal prosecutors allege that Keller purchased and ordered more than 50 DVDs of child pornography online. During a search of his home, authorities found more than 500 photographs and 60 to 100 DVDs of child pornography, according to an affidavit.

Keller was the medical director at Phillips Academy in Andover for 19 years.

Palfrey said in the email that the school told Keller in April of last year that his contract would not be renewed. Palfrey said Keller resigned and left that same month.

Palfrey said the school did not renew Kellers contract because of professional misconduct unrelated to the federal charge. He said the reasons included the reprimand in 1999, an inappropriate cartoon Keller showed students in 2002, and an inappropriate voicemail he left a colleague in 2010.

Childrens Hospital has said no complaints or concerns have been expressed by any patients or family members about the care Keller provided to them at Childrens.

Paige Kelly, a federal public defender who represented Keller in court after his arrest, didnt return a call seeking comment. If convicted, Keller faces a mandatory minimum sentence of five years and up to 20 years in prison.

Phillips Academy in Andover is one of the nations most selective prep schools and alumni include both presidents Bush, Jack Lemmon and Humphrey Bogart.

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The Boston Children's Hospital pediatric doctor charged with receipt of child pornography was disciplined for using a school computer to access adult pornography when he was medical director at Phillips Academy boarding school, school officials said Friday.

Richard Keller, 56, who is also a pediatrics clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School, was the medical director at Philips Academy for 19 years, according to John Palfrey, the head of the school.

In an e-mail to faculty, staff, students, alumni and parents on Friday, Palfrey said Keller was reprimanded in 1999 for using an academy computer to access pornography that featured adult subjects, and in 2002 was reprimanded for showing an inappropriate cartoon to students.

According to Palfrey, Keller was cited for "poor management and poor judgment," leading the Andover, Massachusetts, school to place him on administrative probation in 2009.

Palfrey went on to say that as recently as 2010, Keller sent an inappropriate voice-mail message to a colleague at the school. A claim by Keller that the school had discriminated against him was determined to be "groundless," according to Palfrey.

In April 2011, the academy informed Keller that his contract would not be renewed. The doctor resigned that month, the school said.

"We have no reason to believe that any of our students were involved in, or affected by, Dr. Keller's alleged criminal behavior," Palfrey said, adding the federal case made Thursday against Keller is unrelated to alleged misconduct at Phillips.

Keller's name came to the attention of authorities after the U.S. Postal Inspection Service began a 2010 investigation into a movie production company that sold films featuring minor boys, according to the criminal complaint.

Investigators conducted a review of the company's customer database and located alleged customer Richard Keller, who had two addresses listed, authorities said.

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When Dr. Richard Keller, the Boston Childrens Hospital pediatrician who had served 19 years as the medical director at Phillips Academy in Andover, was arrested Thursday on charges of receiving child pornography, school officials said the private boarding high school had refused to renew Kellers contract last year. They would not say why.

In an e-mail to parents, students, faculty, staff, and alumni Friday evening, Head of School John Palfrey provided more details and disclosed that Keller had been reprimanded in 1999 for using a school computer to view adult pornography. Palfrey wrote:

As always, our highest priority is the safety of our students. We offer many layers of support to ensure their well being while in our care. We have no reason to believe that any of our students were involved in, or affected by, Dr. Kellers alleged criminal behavior.

These are the facts surrounding Dr. Kellers departure from Phillips Academy. Dr. Keller was employed for 19 years as the schools physician on a year-to-year contract. In April, 2011, Phillips Academy informed Dr. Keller that his annual contract would not be renewed. Dr. Keller resigned his appointment and left the school that same month.

The reasons for the schools decision not to renew his appointment involved professional misconduct unrelated to the charges Dr. Keller faces from the US Attorneys office. The facts that led up to the schools decision not to renew Dr. Kellers contract were several; no single incident led to this decision. The salient facts include the following. In 1999, Dr. Keller was reprimanded for using an academy computer to access pornography involving adult subjects. In 2002, Dr. Keller was reprimanded for showing an inappropriate cartoon to students. Dr. Keller was also cited for poor management and poor judgment, which led the school to place him on administrative probation in 2009. In 2010, Dr. Keller sent an inappropriate voice-mail message to a colleague at the school. Dr. Keller subsequently claimed that the school had discriminated against him. The school investigated Dr. Kellers claim and determined it to be groundless. Upon conclusion of that investigation, the school informed Dr. Keller that his contract would not be renewed for violating his administrative probation.

We will continue to assist the US Attorneys office in all aspects of this investigation, while responding to the needs of our community in the days ahead. We encourage anyone with any information as it pertains to these charges to contact the US Attorneys office.

Keller has been placed on leave from his roles at Childrens Hospital and as part-instructor at Harvard Medical School, a role he has had since 1992.

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GE Healthcare pledged $32.9 million over 10 years Thursday for an imaging research facility at UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

The company and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation also announced an agreement for intellectual property and licensing practices from the research. Their 11-year collaboration has already resulted in 200 inventions and more than 80 filed U.S. patents, WARF said.

The imaging facility, to be located in the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research near UW Hospital, will focus on applications of medical imaging such as personalized medicine. For example, molecular scans of cancer patients' tumors after initial doses of chemotherapy could help doctors check if the drugs selected are best for the patients.

"That can save patients a tremendous amount of challenges associated with chemotherapy," said Dr. Thomas Grist, chairman of radiology at the UW medical school.

GE Healthcare plans to invest the $32.9 million in equipment, researchers and research support. Some equipment might be installed this year, with the imaging center expected to be fully functional by early 2014.

It will be in the second tower of the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research, which is expected to open by the end of 2013. The $135 million, nine-story building, supported by $67 million in state funding, will also house the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and labs focusing on cardiovascular diseases, neuroscience and other areas.

The building is part of a $600 million, three-tower hub expected to eventually house some 1,700 researchers and lab workers. No date has been set for construction of the third tower to begin.

GE Healthcare's new partnership with the medical school could create up to 100 research scientist and related jobs, press materials said. The company employs about 6,500 people in Wisconsin, including about 700 at a plant on Madison's Southeast Side.

The partnership could lead to advances like a vascular MRI scanning technique already developed through the company's partnership with the university, officials said.

"The technology that we develop here will help health care around the world, as well as right here in Wisconsin," said Tom Gentile, president and chief executive officer of the company.

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Northampton Community College's (NCC) Alumni Association will hold its annual Recipes for Success 2012 Alumni Awards Presentation on Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 5:30 p.m. at Alumni Hall, Gates Center.

The honorees will be Joan Christopher 91, Distinguished Service to NCC; Walter Bartholomew 97, Distinguished Service to the Community Award; Maryann Haytmanek, Educator's Award; Michael Caruso, Honorary Alumnus Award; Tara Fetzer 06, Outstanding Young Alumna Award; Richard Patricia 89, Professional Achievement Award; and John Posh 88, President's Award.

Christopher has been a volunteer of the Alumni Associations Fundraising Committee providing support to the annual White House dinner and auction. She has freelanced for Broadcast Images, Clark Production and RCN TV4, and is a radio/TV graduate of NCC. She lives in Northampton.

Bartholomew, an NCC alumnus, is scientific advisor to Teleflex Medical, Perouse Medical and Personal Medical Devices. He is also the board director of the Lehigh Valley Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He lives in Nazareth.

Haytmanek is the project director for NCC's New Choices, KEYS and Benefits Access for College Completion programs. She serves as co-president for Pennsylvania Women Work, part of the National Network for Women's Employment. She lives in Allentown.

Caruso is the founder and board chairman of Caruso Benefits Group. He is on the Lehigh Valley Partnership board of directors and acts as chairperson of the Lehigh Tower Society for Planned Giving. He is a past president of the NCC Foundation. He lives in Bethlehem.

Fetzer, an alumna of NCC's veterinary technician program, received her doctorate in veterinary medicine from North Carolina State University. She is a small animal intern/instructor at Texas A & M University College of Veterinary Medicine. She lives in College Station, Texas.

Patricia, a radio/TV graduate of NCC, is a broadcast media art teacher at Warren County Technical School, where he was named "Teacher of the Year, 2011-12. He is also a professional videographer. He lives in Phillipsburg.

Posh is an NCC alumnus in radiographic technology, who completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. He is the director of the MRI internship program at the University of Pennsylvania and an adjunct lecturer in radiology and forensics at Quinnipiac University. He lives in Bethlehem.

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