Deborah Heart and Lung Center has announced the winners of its Time Capsule Competition, sponsored for area students in celebration of the hospital’s 90th Anniversary. Deborah Heart and Lung Center asked students for their best guesses as to what will be obsolete in 2022 – Deborah’s 100th Anniversary Year. After careful review, the judges selected the following winners:
Middle/High School:
First Place:
Gregory Kamback, 12th Grade,
Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Sciences,
Manahawkin
Obsolete in 2022: Fax Machines
Second Place:
Christian Adens, 7th Grade,
St. Paul School Burlington
Obsolete in 2022: Board Games
Third Place:
Shaun Hare, 8th Grade,
Frances DeMasi Middle School, Evesham
Obsolete in 2022: Newspapers
Elementary School:
First Place:
Ms. McNabb’s Technology Classes, Ft. Dix Elementary School, Pemberton Township
Obsolete in 2022: Books/School Books
Second Place:
Ms. Riddell and Ms. Gardiner’s 5th Grade Classes,
Isaiah Haines School, Pemberton Township
Obsolete in 2022: Keys
Third Place:
Ms. Scola’s 5th Grade Library Class, Hainesport Township Schools
Obsolete in 2022: Computer Keyboards
Honorable Mentions,
Elementary: Ms. Smith and Ms. Santino’s 1st Grade Classes,
M.J. Pearson School, Delanco Township
Obsolete in 2022: Landline Phones
Ms. Knipple and Ms. Ciconte’s Kindergarten Classes,
Harker-Wylie School, Pemberton Township
Obsolete in 2022: Music CDs
Winners will be honored at Deborah’s 90th Anniversary Celebration on Wednesday, June 6 at 11:00 a.m., when resolutions will be presented by state Senators Dawn Marie Addiego (District 8), Diane Allen (District 7), Joseph F. Vitale (District 19), Assemblymen Christopher J. Brown, Scott Rudder, Troy Singleton and Herb Conaway, as well as the Burlington County Freeholders and Pemberton Township Officials.
New Jersey Hospital Association President and CEO Elizabeth A. Ryan, Esq. and New Jersey Department of Health Acting Deputy Commissioner Bill Conroy will be on hand to assist the students fill the time capsule with the winning items. “Who knows if their predictions are right?” said Deborah President and CEO Joseph P. Chirichella. “But in ten years when Deborah turns 100, we will open this time capsule -- as well as two others buried on our property -- and we will be able to look back and reflect on these youngsters’ visions of the future.”
Deborah Heart and Lung Center was founded in 1922 by New York City philanthropist Dora Monness Shapiro, and founded on the motto “there is no price on life.” Today Deborah is one of the country’s leading cardiac, pulmonary, and vascular centers, named as a Top 50 Cardiac Hospital in the nation by Thomson Reuters.
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