by David Trevaskis | Nov 3, 2024 | LEAP in Action
The Advisory Board for LEAP circa late 1980s, early 1990s. Top row, left to right, Al Cunningham, then LEAP Program Director, David Keller Trevaskis, then LEAP Education Director, Elzar Camper, East Stroudsburg University and Board member; next row, three unidentified...
by David Trevaskis | Aug 6, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
LEAP LRE trainer and North Allegheny High School teacher George Sagan with then Pennsylvania State Senator and future United States Congresswoman Melissa Hart with North Allegheny students discussing how laws are made, circa 1993. The students were lobbying for a bill...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 26, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
The boys of LEAP, circa 1994…Left to right, the late David Vanderhoof, LEAP Scholar in Residence in the early 1990s, a Pennsylvania mock trial author before taking a teaching position at UNC–Penrose where he helped bring the national high school mock trial finals to...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 25, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
LEAP staffer David Keller Trevaskis (on left) with PCSS President Steve Bullick ( on right) honoring LEAP trainers George and Debbie Sagan from North Allegheny School District. They are being honored for work done with North Allegheny students on a bill ( it failed...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 25, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
Check out the picture of Judge Marvin Halbert. The event was a LEAP statewide training session at Chestnut Hill’s Sugarloaf Conference Center probably in the late 80s or early 90s. The late Judge Halbert was a longtime supporter of LEAP and his wife, Marcia, is a...
by David Trevaskis | Jul 25, 2024 | LEAP, LEAP in Action
Bob Catina, an original participant in the LEAP-Pleasant Valley School District partnership in 1985, still is engaged in civics having served many years now as a Court Tipstaff in Monroe County after retiring from 36 years as the Pleasant Valley High School Business...