Derek Hamburg is a self-professed “people person” and unrivalled lover of sports. He has been progressively sharpening his public speaking skills ever since high school with a dream of becoming a sportscaster. This fall he was recruited by Carroll County’s Francis Scott Key (FSK) High...
By Gordon Warehime Jr., Brothers Services Company Our company CEO approached me one day with what was then an unusual request. One of his business associates — a board member at Penn-Mar Human Services – had inquired if there might be some job opportunities in our...
By Kelly Baker, Career Ladders Program Coordinator Since August I have been immersed in my new role as Career Ladders Program Coordinator. As many of you know, this is a career development and credentialing program designed to help improve the skills and earning potential of our Direct...
The Penn-Mar HEART Committee is proud to announce our most recent round of HEART Award winners!The Penn-Mar HEART Award program recognizes team members whose passion and performance leave the mark of their own legacy through exceptional demonstrations of Honesty, Excellence, Advocacy, Respect, and Team Work.Read...
Joe Ginter hadn’t finished his first day on the job at the new HomeGoods store in Hunt Valley, Md., when the compliments started coming in.  That was this past April Fool’s Day as Joe, 23, noted, and five months in he’s loving his job and the people he works with, who he said, “love me too.”  Joe’s...
By Sue Maras, Penn-Mar Parent As parents, all you really want for your children is for them to be happy. By the time our son Stephen was nine months old, we discovered he had developmental delays. Over time he was diagnosed with high-functioning autism and an intellectual disability.  There was no...
Normandie Ridge, the Continuous Care Retirement Community in York, Pa., didn’t have a dedicated dishwasher until two years ago, when York native Michael Blashock took on the job.As Normandie Ridge Food Service Director Chris Rhoades put it, dining services staff would routinely step in to...
By Michael F. Shriver, Consultant, Penn-Mar Human Services I first met Greg Miller, Penn-Mar’s CEO, at a leadership development program in the mid-80s sponsored by the Ryan Family Foundation. Obviously he was a great note taker and I must have been a great judge of character,...
June 26, 2019 One of the first questions Susan Vita was asked 25 years ago, when she took her then infant son Michael to Baltimore’s Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Down syndrome clinic was, “what are your hopes for him?” “Essentially my answer was that I want him to be happy....
By Vanessa Whitman, Director of Maryland Services, Penn-Mar Human Services Walking through the doors of Penn-Mar’s Far Hills Day Learning Center in New Freedom, PA is such an uplifting experience. This amazing space was officially opened last June to much fanfare and was so unlike the...