Student Directory
Three Mars Area High School students were selected as Rich-Mar Rotary Students of the Month for September, October and November.
Seniors Macy Barshick, Isabella Gaydosh and Theodore Ruffner will be recognized at a virtual rotary meeting Wednesday.
For more information, visit http://rich-mar.org.
Seneca Valley High School teacher James “Jim” Lucot Jr. has been named the 2020-21 Holocaust Educator of the Year by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh.He has taught A.P. U.S. Government and Honors U.S. History for the last twenty years at Seneca Valley High School. He also created a Holocaust Studies course at Butler County Community College.The Holocaust Educator of the Year award was established by an anonymous donor, in the interest of recognizing and encouraging excellence in Holocaust education in the tri-state area. This is the fifth year the award has been given.James received a B.S.N. from Duquesne University, an M.S.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and Pennsylvania State Education Certificate from Robert Morris University. He recently finished a second master's in holocaust and genocidal studies at Gratz College where he wrote his thesis on the differentiation of Holocaust memorialization in the United States.His book “My Prison Had No Bars” was published in 2018. James lives in Wexford and has two children: Nick, a recent graduate of Purdue University, and Tara, a high school senior.