Recent Events
2011-11-03
John Wilson Memorial Award
John will receive the John Wilson Memorial Award, a great honor, in recognition of John’s striving for excellence. This award will be presented to John Thursday, November 3, 2011, at the Awards Reception of the Pennsylvania Council for Exceptional Children Convention in Harrisburg Pennsylvania.
2011-04-10
Watch Dateline NBC on Sunday, April 10, 2011
Be sure to watch Dateline NBC
on Sunday, April 10, 2011
To see John's amazing story! - 7 PM Eastern Time
2010-11-21
St. Mary’s Center 620 West Pine Street (Pine and D Streets) Mahanoy City, PA 17948
an afternoon with
John Lahutsky
co-author of
The Boy from Baby House 10
Sunday, November 21, 2010
3:00 PM
St. Mary’s Center
620 West Pine Street (Pine and D Streets)
Mahanoy City, PA 17948
Come and hear John share his journey from an orphanage in post-Soviet Russia
to a loving home in Bethlehem PA
Sponsored by St. Mary’s Byzantine Catholic Youth
For more information, or if bringing a large group,
Please call Margaret Shemansik at 570-773-1382
Free Admission / Open to the Public
The Boy from Baby House 10
By Alan Philps and John Lahutsky
Published by St. Martin’s Press
www.stmartins.com
www.johnlahutsky.com
2010-08-26
MAHANOY AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Thursday, August 26, 2010 John will be speaking at 7 pm at the
MAHANOY AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Rhoades Downtown Center
1-7 West Center Street
Mahanoy City, PA 17948
570-773-1295
2010-07-01
Bethlehem Salvation Army
John will be speaking at the Bethlehem Salvation Army Thursday, July 1 at 10:45 AM
521 Pembroke Road, Bethlehem PA
2010-03-27
Freedom High School
John will be signing his book
The Boy from Baby House 10
at 12 noon at the
Freedom High School LOVES BOOK
BOOK FAIR
Saturday, March 27, 2010
on the front lawn of
FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL
2010-02-15
AfterWords Café
Moravian College’s Zinzendorf Society presents:
Monday, February 15, 2010
7 pm
AfterWords Café
Lower Level, Reeves Library
~Refreshments provided~
Brought to you by the Zinzendorf Society in conjunction with the Friends of Reeves Library and Sigma Tau Delta With the help of USG funding.
About John:
John was born in Moscow, Russia in 1990. A preemie who weighed only two pounds at birth, John miraculously survived, despite the questionable level of medical technology available in Russia at that time. This was the first indication of John’s remarkable spirit, a spirit that allowed him to survive under enormously difficult circumstances in the years to come and to never give up hope for a better future. When John was eighteen months old, his birth parents abandoned him and his six-year-old sister Olga. The children were separated, with Olga going to one orphanage and John to another. John languished in the Stalinistic orphanage system which treated him as less than human because of his physical disability resulting from cerebral palsy. There were valiant attempts by concerned individuals, including Sarah and Alan Philps and a young Russian woman named Vika, to rescue John from this system, a system that placed John in an adult mental asylum at age six. But it was not until 1999, when he was 9 ½ years old, that John’s life turned around dramatically as he was adopted by Paula Lahutsky who became his mother forever. They live in Bethlehem Township, Pennsylvania with their chihuahua named Jambo. Currently, John is an honor roll student in the Bethlehem Area School District at Freedom High School where history is his favourite subject. He enjoys giving presentations about his life and his book The Boy from Baby House 10.
2009-12-12
Borders in Whitehall, PA
Book Signing - The Boy from Baby House 10
2 PM Saturday, December 12, 2009
Borders in Whitehall
1937 Whitehall Mall
Whitehall, PA 18052
610-432-5520
2009-12-03
Barnes and Noble
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Book Fair Fundraiser for the Bangor Area High School Band
Barnes and Noble
4445 Southmont Way
(intersection of Route 33 and Freemansburg Avenue)
Easton, PA 18045
Phone 610-515-0376
The book fair will be held from 5 PM to 9 PM
John will be signing books from 6:30 PM to 8 PM
2009-11-16
East HillsMiddle School
Bethlehem AreaSchool District Board of Education Meeting
Monday, November 16, 2009, 7 PM
East HillsMiddle School
2005 Chester Road
Bethlehem PA 18020
At this meeting, during the superintendent’s verbal report, John will be recognized for his accomplishments in co-authoring The Boy from Baby House 10.
2009-10-25
Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America (FOCA)
The Boy from Baby House 10
Please join us for the book signing by John Lahutsky
Sunday, October 25, 2009
at the
Fellowship of Orthodox Christians in America (FOCA)
Central Pennsylvania District Convention
at
St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church
1034 2nd Avenue
Alpha NJ 08865
Divine Liturgy at 9:30
Book Signing in the church social hall immediately following the Divine Liturgy
