pennsbury senior prom!!!

for those of you in the know, pennsbury high school hosted it's FABULOUS, extravaganza, just ask artist JOHN MAYER who actually performed there a few years ago, of a senior prom last night!!!

one of the ONLY schools left in the entire country to host this gala still AT the high school, it is the highlight of ALL lower bucks county.

i graduated in 1994 and a good friend of mine decided a limo would NOT do for his date, himself and two friends so they rented a helicopter and landed on the football field and the rest is now world known history.

below is an article written in the trentonian newspaper regarding the fanfare that has become a small town prom...

Sunday, May 18, 2008

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A 'PROM'inent night at Pennsbury High
By Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman
FALLS TWP., Pa. — Sporting a multi-colored springtime dress, Amber Mazzocchi flipped burgers on a grill set up on a truck-towed float that chugged along at snail’s pace.

Joined by 15 others, Mazzocchi’s entourage hooted and waved to the thousands who lined the parking lots and grass fields of Pennsbury High yesterday in awe of the school’s annual spectacle — senior prom.

Perhaps it’s this flair and red-carpet treatment that prompted Reader’s Digest in 2004 to honor Pennsbury as host of America’s No. 1 prom.

“There’s no other prom like this in the nation,” a tuxedo-wearing Mike Ostro said while Mazzocchi was grilling the beef patties. “It’s the experience. You have to go all out.”

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And going “all out” for Pennsbury’s senior prom is a longtime school district tradition that always excites the community. School officials say the prom gets bigger every year, but the truth is that the gala hasn’t changed much in the five years since I attended the prom as a student.

The 2003 senior prom had a Hollywood theme, which is comparable to yesterday’s theme of “Big Scenes from the TV Screen.”

The inside of the school’s east campus was transformed into a virtual studio with artwork ranging from an “American Idol” stage set to the painted figures of the six Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

The decorative designs were the fruit of several months of labor from student and parent volunteers who worked tirelessly since January to put on the big dance. More than 1,200 prom attendees hit the dance floor yesterday in the school’s gym with popular rock and hip-hop music blazing from the speakers.

But as exquisite as the inside always is, the highlight of Pennsbury’s senior prom is always the ways in which students arrive to the red carpet.



Students strolled through in fire trucks, trolleys, Hummers, stretch Lincoln Navigators, unmarked police vehicles — and one couple exited from a Hearse.

Then you had Stephen Sek, who escorted his date, Sarah Eppolito, in a paramedic stretcher. The idea spawned from the fact that Sek is a “big fan” of the TV show Scrubs and that Eppolito’s dad works at Temple University Hospital.

The theme song to “SpongeBob SquarePants” blasted from the truck-hauled “homemade pineapple” that pumped out bubbles through a pipe. The pineapple vehicle carried a group of 10 prom-goers.

“It took 2½ months to make,” said Melanie Perlstein, who was decked out in a zebra-colored dress.

The guys and girls created the apparatus because “it’s what we wanted the whole year,” said Joe Parrell. “This is the completion of our awesome year.”

Shawn Johnson and Jenna Harris revved their engines as the couple rode alongside each other in their ATVs. “I’m having a lot of fun already,” Johnson said while his engine boomed with his ATV halted in the slowing-moving queue to the red carpet. “And this is just the parade.”

It’s nice to return to my alma mater to see familiar faces at the prom that, in addition to being recognized by Reader’s Digest, was profiled in the 2002 book “Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School.”

“I think each year brings its own uniqueness,” Pennsbury Principal David Bowman said amid the cacophony of color and noise and excitement. “This is my fifth prom, and this is the best I seen. All of America really needs to learn about this prom and this community.”

Sulaiman Abdur-Rahman is a Trentonian reporter. Reach him at sabdur-rahman@trentonian.com.


PS...the HEARSE...MY COUSIN!!!!!