The Upper Perkiomen School Board will swear in two new members during Thursday night's reorganization meeting. Three additional incumbents who ran successfully for reelection during last month's General Election will also take the oath of office.

            All five will be sworn into office during the meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Education Center, located at 2229 E. Buck Road in Upper Hanover. Following the ceremony, and the appointment of officers, the members will address a full agenda during the meeting, which was originally scheduled for Monday, Dec. 2.

            Peg Pennepacker and Dana E. Hipszer will join the board for the first time. Incumbents Mike Elliot, Judy Maginnis and Raeann Hofkin are also scheduled to take a similar oath and begin a four-year term, according to Sandra Kassel, the district's business administrator.

            Pennepacker, a retired educator who lives in Red Hill, received the most votes of all non-incumbents. She received 3,191 votes in eight Montgomery County precincts and 428 votes in two Berks County precincts for a total of 3,622.

            Hipszer, an insurance agent based in Sumneytown, got 2,430 total votes. That includes 2,182 in Montgomery and 248 in Berks, according to a Dec. 2 letter from the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners to a district official and obtained from spokesperson Nicole Gum.

            Representatives from both counties confirmed the totals. In Montgomery County, Teresa Harris, a communications and public relations coordinator, stated Tuesday that the totals on its website were accurate. "According to Voter Services, we should be posting the updated official results (Wednesday), but the numbers won't change," she wrote in an email message received Tuesday afternoon.  

            Hofkin finished with 2,404 votes, edging newcomer Thomas Manion for the fifth and final spot by eight votes, according to the letter to USPD officials. Ed Walczak collected 2,380 total votes.

            Elliott received the most votes of any school board candidate. His total of 3,795 edged Maginnis by nine votes (3,786).