By Peter Simon, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jan. 8--Christopher J. Lauricella, now head of the upper school at The Brimmer and May School in Chestnut Hill, Mass., has been named head of The Park School of Buffalo effective July 1.

Park School Address: 600 W. Townline Road, Round

By Martha Woodall, The Philadelphia Inquirer Jul. 9--While Philadelphia was celebrating the nation's Bicentennial in July 1976, Earl J. Ball III was a 33-year-old educator trying to get used to the idea that he was the new head of the William Penn Charter School.

By Louise Continelli Amherst alone lost 11,000 trees. Yet one glimmer of the silver-maple lining in the clouds of last October's surprise snowstorm is that the devastation also may have wiped out landscape mistakes of the past -- enabling many to shape their grounds all over again.

THE number of specialist schools has reached doubl