Fred Muscara, Nancy Serpis win the Dean Wheeler Award for Sensitive Excellence

If Sully can create awards, so can I.

From 'Santa' told to lose costume at Hampton school dance:

A student dressed as Santa Claus was told to remove the suit and white beard when he arrived at a Hampton [New Hampshire] Academy Junior High School dance last Friday...

Nancy Serpis, chairman of the Hampton School Board [insisted] the dance was a "holiday" event and that dressing as Santa Claus was "inappropriate..."

...Principal Fred Muscara, who declined to be interviewed for this story, is quoted telling a Hampton newspaper: "It was a holiday party. It was not a Christmas party. There is a separation of church and state. We have a lot of students that go to Hampton Academy Junior High that have different religions. We have to be sensitive to that..."