Battling through cold winds and challenging conditions at Alumni Stadium in Keyser the Berkeley Springs High School boys’ and girls’ track and field teams turned in gritty performances at a six-team meet hosted by Keyser High School several Berkeley Springs athletes stood out with personal and seasonal bests showcasing their determination against strong competition from host Keyser The Berkeley Springs girls’ team placed fourth overall with 64.5 points led by standout efforts across both track and field events Freshman Abigail Close was a force in multiple events placing fifth in the 200m dash with a personal record (PR) time of 29.29 while also finishing fourth in the 300m hurdles (53.66 season record) and second in the high jump (4-08.00) claimed fourth place in the 800 meters with a PR of 2:45.67 season record) and Bella Shoemaker (13:29.54 PR) added crucial points in the 1600m and 3200m runs Aviona Ambrose finished sixth in the 100m dash (14.29 Circe Powell and Delilah Rhoten in the 4×100 relay for a sixth-place finish (1:01.01) The 4×800 meter relay team of Charity Brown Bella Shoemaker and Reese Souders finished third with a time of 12:18.70 Katie Risinger placed second in the shot put with a strong throw of 29-06.00 and Maddie Close vaulted to fifth in the pole vault (6-00.00) Makayla Bowers also turned in a seventh-place long jump (11-06.00) adding depth to the team’s scoring efforts The boys’ team finished fifth overall with 22 points with senior Shawn Bland delivering a highlight-reel performance in the field Bland soared to first place in the long jump with a leap of 17-10.00 marking one of the Indians’ top finishes of the night He also contributed to the third-place 4×100 relay team (48.80) alongside Douglas Smith season record) and 11th in the 200m (25.48) finishing seventh in the 1600m with a PR of 4:59.00 sophomores Jay Nazelrod and Haven Ailor placed eighth (11:59.88 showing promising endurance in the long-distance events Field athlete Brian Ailor placed 15th in both the shot put (32-01.00) and discus (88-07) Girls’ Team Final Standings: Keyser – 201; Mountain Ridge – 186; Frankfort – 119; Berkeley Springs – 64.5; Moorefield – 53.5 and Peters- burg – 34 Boys’ Team Final Standings: Keyser – 206.5; Frank- fort – 176.5; Mountain Ridge – 134; Moorefield – 71; Berkeley Springs – 22 and Petersburg – 5 Despite the chilly temperatures and fierce competition Berkeley Springs athletes continued to improve with multiple personal bests demonstrating grit and growth as the season moves forward the Indians look to keep building momentum at their upcoming meet at Spring Mills High School on Friday where warmer weather and more breakthroughs could be in store Link IconCopy linkFacebook LogoShare on FacebookXShare on XEmailShare via EmailLink copied to clipboardTed Keyser longtime teacher and Hall of Fame coach at Haverford High has died at 97 He started the boys’ volleyball program at Haverford in the 1960s and won 17 District One championships and nine state titles over two decades and Hall of Fame coach at Haverford High School of a pulmonary illness at his home in Irvine Keyser coached and taught at Haverford for three decades He started the boys’ volleyball program in the 1960s created a dominant game strategy he called “power volleyball,” and led his teams to 17 District One championships and nine state titles His signature attack on the volleyball court featured intricate ballhandling and passing and a 70-mph spike or subtle tap at the end to frustrate opponents and score the point He was a master at recruiting the school’s best athletes to his teams and had a knack for turning untested newcomers into stars “It takes about two years before a player learns our system and fits in,” he told The Inquirer in 1981 “The ones who stay are the ones who understand what volleyball is at Haverford.” He and his teams were featured often in The Inquirer and other publications and colleagues named him local volleyball coach of the year in 1971 and ‘74 He was a demanding and inspiring coach who talked often about “intestinal fortitude,” his former players and colleagues said in tributes “We’re virtually trying to knock the other team down It takes almost a year to learn how to spike the ball properly and the good players must really work at the sport.” Mr. Keyser was inducted into the Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the Haverford High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1996 ‘76 and ‘81 state championship volleyball teams joined him in the Haverford Hall in 2003 He directed a junior club volleyball team to an Amateur Athletic Union national championship coached intramural volleyball and soccer at Haverford College and loyalty to the school in their attitude and actions.” Former students recalled his impressive iron cross gymnastics move on the rings He played baseball at Frankford High School and Temple University and soccer on Temple’s 1952 national championship team He picked up volleyball at the Main Line YMCA “He believed in discipline,” said his daughter “and that hard work paid off with success.” A former player said: “He not only made us better athletes but also better people.” and we had our best performance under pressure at Penn State in the state tournament Theodore Ira Keyser was born March 13 He played saxophone and clarinet at Frankford and Temple and earned an outstanding senior award and bachelor’s degree in physical education in 1952 he earned a master’s degree in physical education at Pennsylvania State University He met fellow teacher and volleyball player Joan Waterfield at Haverford He lived in King of Prussia and West Chester before moving to California when he was 80 “Coach Keyser was one of the most influential people in my life In addition to his children, Mr. Keyser is survived by two granddaughters, a great-grandson, his former wife, and other relatives. A sister died earlier A private celebration of his life is to be held later. Installation view: Raoul De Keyser: Touch Game An expansive indeterminacy exists between these relative ideas raising the question as to which may hold more significance Raoul De Keyser has often been labeled the former (a somewhat ambiguous cliché) but as this collection of his work reveals his true focus seems to lie in perfecting the latter His ability to playfully conjure a sense of unselfconsciousness gives his paintings making them feel both dashed off and deeply considered This subtle balance imparts his art with a unique a quiet confidence that eschews authorial approbation but simply is—as though it could only be what it is It’s this delicate play with the illusion of unselfconsciousness that sustains his authorship—where an acute awareness of its impossibility somehow becomes the very ground for its realization © Raoul De Keyser/Artists Rights Society (ARS) Courtesy Family Raoul De Keyser and David Zwirner De Keyser’s imagery was most often sourced in his immediate environment where he maintained his studio for more than thirty years This habitual engagement with the everyday exerts a pedestrian punch not unlike Alex Katz’s universal firmament of everyday constellations in his own paintings De Keyser’s abstractions based on monkey puzzle trees (a murky version of which can be seen in Untitled [1991]) echo Katz’s perennial return to the white pines of his Maine summer retreat Both artists subtly transform these ordinary subjects into something beyond the familiar Their shared interest in navigating the razor’s edge between representation and abstraction positions them as quietly strident figures in this ambiguous domain Yet their paths diverge when it comes to De Keyser’s adjacent forays into “pure” painting—for example a medium-large vertical canvas which is subtly brushed with a crimson stain floating asymmetrically mid-composition then “riveted” by Hooker’s green (a staple of the painter’s palette) squiggle-dots seemingly applied directly from the paint tube’s mouth Here De Keyser exerts his painterly touch most literally as opposed to the game of “guess the reference” he plays in many of his other works sees the artist suggest a field of delicate white bloemen whose heads are smeared blurs atop Hooker’s green “stalks” similarly applied directly via the paint tube Between these two contemporaneous works lies the gist of De Keyser’s irresolute resolution to reinvent the painted image as potentially both representational and abstract one inhales a liberatory breath of feeling (touching enough?) where what one chooses to read into his works is ultimately none of the artist’s business The show is deftly curated by Helen Molesworth to convey how De Keyser’s light-footed lyrical navigation between mundane memory and painterly alchemy remained a constant throughout his career Distinct variations on this see-saw theme abound in the show from the Bernard Piffaretti-esque pairing of Come on to the alternatively outlined and filled abstract “potatoes”1 of Come on An example of one of his best-known color field/soccer pitch abstractions is seen here in Kalklijn en twee groenen (Lime [or chalk] line and two greens) (1970–71) an early introduction into De Keyser’s wry literary wit (he was an arts and sports journalist for a time) juxtaposing a literal playing field with the art historically charged “field” of Leo Steinberg’s “flatbed picture plane.” The agonistic back and forth of such zones of contention is a sly analogy for the artist’s experience of painterly call and response in the studio not unlike the pitch of Harold Rosenberg’s Abstract Expressionist “arena.” As the artist elaborated in a studio interview “Things can sometimes be aggressive between me and a canvas much of the pleasure of painting lies in taking the risk In a certain sense I am also an actor for myself I confront myself with obstacles in order to overcome them.”2 painting was an enactment of what a grand game could be made from a pursuit of the trivial—and that he envisioned his role in it as far from a trivial pursuit Tom McGlynn is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in the N.Y.C. area. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian. He is the director of Beautiful Fields, an organization dedicated to socially-engaged curatorial projects, and is also currently a visiting lecturer at Parsons/the New School. Home Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application California to Paul and Adena J (Eck) Kasper.  She later married Robert M Keyser on May 18 Beverly enjoyed camping at Marion Reservoir and caring for her cats Family was a big part of Beverly’s life and she found great joy in being a mother and grandmother.  She is survived by her son Jeff Grochowsky daughters Tamara (Mark) Moreno and Rebecca (Daniel) Reese brother Jack Kasper and sister Shirley Davis She is also survived by 6 grandchildren.  Beverly is preceded in death by her parents and husbands at Petersen Funeral Home Chapel in Newton with Pastor Chip Bungard officiating Memorials may be made to Caring Hands Humane Society and left in care of Petersen Funeral Home Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Tom devoted his life to his family after marrying Randell Hurley on October 15 they celebrated 58 years of a loving marriage and nurtured their children The role of being a grandfather and great-grandfather brought Tom joy as he watched his children raise their families with the same love and care he had instilled in them Tom began as a roofer alongside his father before working at Agway Seeds He later became a press operator at Bomarko where he dedicated over 25 years until his retirement Tom took great pride in maintaining an immaculate landscape Many afternoons were spent on his John Deere mower or tending to his vibrant garden filled with vegetables and flowers Neighbors often saw him sitting on his porch enjoying the company of birds at the feeders and greeting passersby with a wave Tom also cherished the moments spent fishing Fondly remembered for his ornery personality Tom was the kind of person that if he wasn’t joking around with you he will be dearly missed by all who had the privilege to know him 2024 from 11AM – 1PM at Johnson-Danielson Funeral Home Funeral services will immediately follow at 1PM with Pastor Rick Hurley officiating Burial will take place at New Oak Hill Cemetery in Plymouth Add to Calendar Complete the form below to RSVP for the Visitation for Thomas Lee Keyser Complete the form below to get directions for the Visitation for Thomas Lee Keyser Add to Calendar Complete the form below to RSVP for the Funeral Service for Thomas Lee Keyser Complete the form below to get directions for the Funeral Service for Thomas Lee Keyser Add to Calendar Complete the form below to RSVP for the Graveside Service for Thomas Lee Keyser Complete the form below to get directions for the Graveside Service for Thomas Lee Keyser This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page How to watch West Virginia high school playoff girls basketball: Wayne vs Wayne High School will host Keyser High School How to watch Keyser vs. Wayne playoff high school girls basketballKeyser and Wayne will face off on Wednesday, March 12 at 7:15 p.m. ET. 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