Local historian Chuck Langerman has highlighted the current professional statuses of four Cheltenham alumni:

Andrew Egendorf (above left)

Egendorf, a 1963 graduate, is a highly accomplished lawyer and entrepreneur.

Egendorf earned a degree in Earth Sciences from MIT and then attended Harvard Law School and the Harvard Business School simultaneously, earning both a law degree and MBA in 1971. While at Harvard, he met famed consumer advocate Ralph Nader and helped form “Nader’s Raiders,” a group of volunteer students interested in improving consumer protections.

Egendorf’s group studied the Federal Trade Commission, leading ultimately to the agency’s overhaul. He also co-founded Symbolics, Inc., a company which manufactured and sold the first computer built specifically to run AI software. On March 15, 1985, Symbolics was assigned “Symbolics.com” as the first “.com” domain on the internet.

Egendorf eventually became interested in patent law as applied to the emerging field of electronic commerce and subsequently applied for numerous patents worldwide dealing with e-commerce, many of which have now been issued. 

Judge Ellen Green-Ceisler (above middle)

Judge Green-Ceisler, a 1975 graduate, is one of only nine Commonwealth Judges in the state of Pennsylvania.

She grew up in Cheltenham Township as the daughter of a single mother who worked several minimum wage jobs to keep the family afloat. Green-Ceisler started working at fourteen years old to help pay for her family’s basic living expenses, then worked her way through Montgomery County Community College. Through part-jobs, loans and grants, she was able to attend Temple University and Temple Law School.

Judge Green-Ceisler started her legal career in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office as a domestic violence prosecutor. She left the DA’s Office to become an investigative journalist with CBS News and was later brought into the Police Department as the Deputy Director of Integrity and Accountability. In that role, she authored several expansive reports which fundamentally changed police training and tactics in Philadelphia.

In 2007, she was elected a Judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. She served four years in the criminal division and the last six in the civil division.

In 2017, Judge Green-Ceisler was elected a Judge of the Commonwealth Court. She is a member of the Anti-Defamation League, Support Center for Child Advocates, New Leash on Life, and the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.

Dr. Anthony Ciabarra (left) and Dr. Allan Goldstein (above right)

Dr. Ciabarra is a neurologist in Fullerton, California and Dr. Goldstein is a pediatric surgeon in Boston.

During their senior year at Cheltenham High in 1985, they were among 40 students from 33 states chosen as the winners of the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

The Westinghouse Science Talent Search, now known as the Regeneron Science Talent Search, is often called the “Super Bowl of Science.” The two Cheltenham seniors were two of only three students chosen from the state of Pennsylvania. As winners, Ciabarra and Goldstein flew to Washington, all expenses paid, to compete in the 44th annual national Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

In the national contest, judged by an eight-judge panel of academic scientists, Ciabarra took sixth place, winning a scholarship of $7,500, while Goldstein placed tenth, winning a $5,000 scholarship.  

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