Point Pleasant Teachers, Students Honored By Education Foundation

POINT PLEASANT, NJ — The Point Pleasant Foundation for Excellence in Education honored teachers, students and staff at its annual Boro's Best program.

The foundation, which provides support to the Point Pleasant School District, honored the Teachers of Special Recognition at the district's four schools. Those teachers, who also were honored by the district's Board of Education in May, are: Paige Grainer, Point Pleasant Borough High School; JeanMarie Solinski, Memorial Middle School; Erin Daly, Nellie Bennett Elementary School; and Valerie Domas, Ocean Road Elementary School.

In addition, the event honored the Ocean County Teachers of the Year: Jennifer Murphy (Nellie Bennett), Erin Hoffman (Ocean Road), William Fall (Memorial), and Jennifer Kasyan (High School), and Kathleen O’Gorman (High School) as Educational Support Professional of the Year.

The Foundation also presented four $2,500 grants to an individual or a group of teachers who submitted requests for funding for special programs/projects in their schools that are outside of the usual district funding stream. Recipients were Erin Nagle, Jill Vitale and Jennifer Malpass (Ocean Road), Debby DellaMonica (Nellie Bennett), Lynn Thompson and Ellen Keelan (Memorial), and Denise LaPlaca and Ryan McMichael (High School).

Ten Point Pleasant High School seniors received $1,000 Leadership grants: Sophia Addice, Kalena Bing, James Cook, Josh Cotta, Lorri Gillow, Sean Haugh, Heather Kimak, Scott Miller, Chris Nunez and Olivia Valente.