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Malverne H.S. alumna takes center stage she returned to the village and attended Howard T. Herber Middle School and Malverne Jordan Tyson received her High School. “It’s really my home base for first lead role in a musical in 2013 when she was cast as Carla sure, where I spent the most in the Malverne High School time in my childhood,” Tyson production of “In the Heights.” said. Her grandparents still live in the village, while A little more than her mother and sib10 years later she lings reside in made her BroadLakeview. “I come way debut as visit when I can,” Younger Allie in she added. the musical producAfter graduating tion of “The Notehigh school in 2015, book.” Tyson studied theTyson, 27, is now ater at Marymount starring alongside Manhattan College Tony Award-winfor two years before ner Audra McDond ro p p i n g o u t t o ald in Broadway’s star in the off“Gypsy.” The proBroadway musical, duction follows the “Sweetee.” s t o r y o f R o s e , KeN ZAGARe After a few years played by McDon- Malverne choral auditioning and ald, and her two director taking on different daughters, Louise roles, Tyson landed and June, performed by Tyson, the role of Younger Allie in a as they navigate the world of regional production of “The vaudeville and burlesque. Tyson was born in Malverne Notebook,” which she debuted and spent the majority of her in on Broadway in March of childhood in the village. Her 2024. “It was so amazing,” Tyson grandparents, Mary and Russell Kupfer, moved to Malverne said, crediting this role for in 1968 and her roots remain in much of her growth as an the area. After spending a few actress. “The opening night of years in Baltimore, Maryland, Continued on page 4
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oll Basketball go undefeated all season Our Lady of Lourdes 6th Grade CYO basketball team won the championship game at Kellenberg High School on March 22.
G.I.R.L.s club honors women in sports, and the experiences By MAdIsoN GusleR mgusler@liherald.com
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Malverne High School’s G.I.R.L.s Club hosted an event celebrating women in sports on March 20. The Play Like a Girl event included a panel of women from the community who are involved in athletics and were invited to discuss their experiences and the challenges they’ve overcome. The GIRL in G.I.R.L.s club stands for “growing into responsible leaders,” Merola Ibrahim, co-vice president of the club, explained. “Our goals are to come together and work to realize our full potential as leaders in our homes, schools and communities.” The club invited four guest speakers to take part in the panel discussion, Sandra Brunson,
Lisa DeAngelis, Melissa McGowan and Brenda White. The discussion was led by club Co-Presidents Isabella Ramharakh and Coleene Elias. Brunson, a Lakeview native, is a former NCAA Division I volleyball player at Temple University, the co-founder and CFO of the Second Round Foundation Inc., the mother of New York Knicks captain Jalen Brunson and the wife of Knicks assistant coach Rick Brunson. DeAngelis has taught special education at MHS for 18 years, played basketball at Loyola University, in Maryland, and coached at Molloy College, now Molloy University, where she was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame. McGowan has been teaching in Malverne for 27 years and grew up in the district. As a middle school student, she joined the boys’ soccer and Continued on page 27
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’m proud of her persistence to go for what she wants, her dedication to the craft.