Ursinus College

Jean Harshaw Lesko of Abington was inducted into Washington College's athletic hall of fame last month. Harshaw, an outstanding tennis, field hockey and basketball player, was the only woman on the Washington tennis team in 1936 and 1937. Mike Burnetta, a senior midfielder from Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School and the co-captain of the Philadelphia Textile soccer team, ranked ninth in a recent ISAA-Adidas Coaches Poll. Seamus McElligott, a freshman from La Salle High, placed fifth to lead Tom Donnelly's Haverford College cross-country team to its second straight title in the Allentown College Invitational.

Doug Markley and his band will perform their powerful fusion of rock and intricate jazz at 8 tonight in the Bomberger Auditorium at Ursinus College, Main Street, Collegeville. Markley says the best way to describe his original work is as a cross between a funky Jeff Beck and Tom Scott. "There are a lot of very recognizable melodies so it's pleasing to the ear," Markley said. The compositions performed will be original work featuring plenty of solos by sax player Bill Butryn; pianist Ted Baker, who plays with Phillip Glass; bassist Steve Green, and drummer Chris Jones, also of the Elevators, and by the driving force of guitarist Markley.

The top players from the region's small colleges will be honored by the Herb Good Basketball Club on Monday. Nick Shattuck of Ursinus College yesterday was named the Philadelphia-area player of the year. He and seven others will be honored as the all-Philadelphia-area team. They are: Ed Braswell of Cheyney; Matt Byrnes of Rowan; Keith Dundas of the University of the Sciences; Dante Blanton-Holcombe of Lincoln; Malcolm Ingram of Philadelphia University; Ian McCormick of Swarthmore; and Michael Sturns of Holy Family.

Robert Ross MacMurray, 71, of West Chester, a retired college professor, died Sunday at Chester County Hospital. He had cancer and also suffered from heart problems. Dr. MacMurray taught economic history for about 30 years until retiring in 1989 from Bloomsburg (Pa.) University, where he had been on the staff for about 17 years. He previously had taught at Ursinus College and Rutgers University. Before he began a career in teaching, Mr. MacMurray worked as an industrial engineer for the General Electric Co. and for Eli Lilly & Co., a pharmaceutical firm.

Dr. Eugene H. Miller, 87, a retired professor emeritus at Ursinus College who had taught political science internationally, died last Wednesday at Brittany Pointe Estates in Upper Gwynedd Township. Until moving to the retirement community in 1994, he resided in Collegeville for many years. He retired in 1982 as professor emeritus at Ursinus, where he had been a professor of political science since 1935. During his tenure, he served as department chairman (1941-1982) and as a director of the college's Japanese culture studies program at Tohoku Gakuin University in Japan.

Raymond V. Gurzynski, 94, a longtime coach and professor emeritus at Ursinus College, died Thursday, April 22, at Brightview Senior Living in East Norriton Township. Mr. Gurzynski, a native of Catasauqua, Pa., earned a bachelor's degree from Ursinus College, where he lettered in football, track, and baseball, and was a member of the Student Council. He then taught at Stewart Junior High School in Norristown for five years and earned a master's degree in education from Temple University.

To hear Pete Souders tell it, he missed being a preacher by the skin of his teeth. Souders is the proprietor, talent coordinator and resident tenor saxophonist of a Northern Liberties saloon named Ortlieb's Jazzhaus, and how he escaped not only the cloth but a lucrative career in computer science is the nub of this instructive life's adventure for the '90s. This lanky, blond, somewhat self-effacing fellow of Teutonic ancestry would indeed look perfectly at home in the pulpit of a Lutheran church.

As far as the issues go, the race between Raymond Bunt Jr. and Keith Strunk for the state House seat representing the 147th District looks a lot like Reebok's Dan and Dave campaign, which touted the two decathletes' similarities. Bunt, the Republican incumbent, wants to look at development and environment issues. Strunk, the Democratic challenger, wants to look at development and environment issues. Bunt wants to see more regional planning. Strunk wants to see more regional planning.

Abington graduate Larry Spector, a freshman at the University of Delaware, qualified in three events at the Eastern Coast Conference men's swimming championships. Spector, a dean's list biology major at Delaware, qualified for the championship meet in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke and the 100-yard freestyle. A resident of Huntingdon Valley, Spector was elected to membership in Outstanding College Students of America as result of his academic achievements and extracurricular activities at Delaware.

Gladys C. Pearlstine, 88, a civic-minded dynamo who infused energy and perspective into social and educational issues in Montgomery County, died Monday of cardiac arrest at Bryn Mawr Hospital. A longtime resident of Collegeville, she moved to the Quadrangle in Haverford in 1992. She was the widow of Raymond Pearlstine, a prominent Norristown lawyer, who died in 2000. After graduating from Ambler High School, she earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1940 from the University of Pennsylvania.