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Alumni
3rd Annual Alumni Water
Polo Match
The Alumni Office had its biggest turnout yet for this
year’s water polo reunion match held this winter.
Alumni of all ages participated and it proved to be a
great competition with the white team bringing home
a win by a score of 18-11.
Water polo alumni pictured: (front row, left to right) Matt
Welde ’03, Danny Demento ’03, Brint Markle ’04, Matt
Deasey ’03, Brian Kline (coach), Ryan Egan (asst. coach),
Stephan Connelly ’05, Austin Frieman ’99, Ann Kratzinger
’97, Dan Connelly ’99. (Back row, left to right) Bruce Godick
’71, Robert Havens ’04, Ed McAnany ’94, Christie DiSilvestro
’10, Ryan McShane ’02, Ashley DiSilvestro ’06, David Fell
’08, Ross Godick ’07, Kevin DiSilvestro ’08, Josh Krotec ’96,
Bruce Leto ’10, Mike Good ’99, Ben Jones ’08, Lauren Griesser
’06, Courtney Asher ’05, Matt McMonagle ’03. (Not pictured,
Susie Talbot ’04, Katie Harris ’04, and assistant coach
Duncan Kraig.)
Alumni Return to Campus for Career Day
Each year the Alumni Society Board of Managers hosts
a Career Day program for the senior class as a way
to introduce them to Episcopal’s vast alumni network
and maybe spark some possible “career” ideas.
This year’s program boasted a lineup of successful speakers,
most of them new to the Career Day circuit, and a brand new
career category focusing on the arts and graphic design. Seniors
were asked to choose two workshops from the following
list of categories: Business, led by Gene Lefevre ’67; Law, led by
Gordon Cooney ’77; Medicine, led by Mike Ciccotti (EA parent)
and Becky Demorest ’91; Journalism, led by Ron Burke
(EA parent) and Amy Donohue Korman ’86; Arts/Graphic
Design, led by Sarah Iams ’84 and Sarah Karp ’99; and Advertising/Marketing/PR,
led by Joe Giles ’80 and Alexandra
Golaski ’88.
In addition, Holly Rieck ’91 and Carolyn Shaud ’88 conducted
a networking workshop for the seniors, giving them some perspective
on the dos and don’ts of making a business connection.
Larry Light ’67, editor at Forbes magazine and author of thriller
Many thanks to all those who completed the
Alumni Survey. Your input will help all of us at Episcopal
who work with alumni-related activities to do our jobs more
effectively. It will also assist the school in better understanding
how our alumni feel in retrospect about their student years
at Episcopal. We will make available the results of the survey
to all those who participated in the process and we expect to
have that completed by the end of the summer.
We are constantly working to keep the Alumni Section of
the Episcopal Web site up-to-date with listings of upcoming
activities, photos from recent events, and links to many
aspects of school life that are of interest to our alumni
community. One class, 1950, has its own class page, which
it maintains with news that is pertinent to their classmates.
If you are interested in exploring such a page for your class,
please contact Clayton Platt ’73, Director of Alumni, at
platt@ea1785.org.
Every day our office receives inquiries from alumni about
contacting friends or classmates and looking for phone
numbers and/or email addresses. It is always our pleasure to
help connect our alumni to one another, but there is an easier
way! You can log onto the alumni portal of the Web site and
access the Online Directory. Looking to network with fellow
alumni in a certain industry? Moving to San Francisco and
want to see what alumni live in California? Then EACareerNet
is for you! You can access it by logging onto the alumni portal
as well. If you don’t know your username and/or password,
please contact Nancy Taylor, at taylor@ea1785.org, and she
will send you what you need.
Several of the 2007 Career Day speakers (from l to r): Gene Lefevre ’67, Joe
Giles ’80, Gordon Cooney ’77, Sarah Karp ’99, Sarah Iams ’84, Larry Light ’67,
Alexandra Golaski ’88, and Mike Ciccotti (EA Parent).
novels, gave the keynote address, entitled: “Never Knowing
What You’ll Encounter At A Job and Being Open To The
Possibilities!”
community service update
Spirituality & Community Service
Update from the Community Service Office…
This year started off with “A Day of Community Building”
in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Many students, families
and friends participated in service projects both on and off
campus all day. Episcopal supported many organizations in
feeding the hungry, caring for the elderly and homebound,
and helping students in West Philadelphia. The Community
Service Department also encouraged students to think about
what their dream is for society today… Books, books, and
more books! Thanks to so many generous families and good
readers, Episcopal was able to donate hundreds of books to the
Reach Out and Read Program at Children’s Hospital, and to our
partner school in Mika, Tanzania, the Mika Village School…
In Upper School, the school continued many existing projects
or programs. The Episcopal chamber orchestra performed at a
school in West Philadelphia that is without a music program, the
clothing drive and blood drive were both enormously successful,
and the department made sure that the community did not forget
those who are still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
by hosting a fundraising dinner for the Episcopal Relief and
Development Fund… Mika March Madness was a great success,
raising nearly enough money in one month to fund a complete
latrine at the Mika Village School. The school was about to be
shut down because it lacked one. Thanks
to our students’ creative efforts in raising
awareness and money, no shutdown will
be necessary. Five students and two faculty
members will again visit and work in Mika
this summer… Students continue to serve
dinner every week at a homeless shelter for
women & children in addition to a local soup
kitchen… After-school assistance at the
local day care center goes on and students
continue to play Bingo with the residents of
Inglis House… Students helped Carousel
House in Fairmont Park with their annual
SUN*Y Celebration on May 12th… The
Upper School ended its year of service with
the annual play-n-picnic for the residents
of St. Barnabas on May 16th… In Middle
School, students continue to read to children
at local day care centers, and work with physically challenged
students at St. Katherine’s Day School… In Lower School,
students have worked hard to raise money for the Biamba Marie
Mutombo Hospital in the Congo through the “Spare Change to
Save a Life” program. Students in all forms have been collecting
spare change in empty tennis ball cans. To date, over $1,500
has been raised… Lower School students have also visited food
banks, retirement homes, and a homeless shelter.
Chapel Theme, Vestry
Members Announced for
Next Year
Members of the Vestry, Middle School Chapel
Council, and Chaplains Squire, Zug, and Patton-Graham
met this past April to formulate the
2007-2008 Chapel theme. After much discussion,
and some inspiration from Episcopal alumnus and Drexel basketball
coach James “Bruiser” Flynt ’83, who recently spoke
to students (see p. 34), the theme for next year will be “Reach
Back to Go Forward.”
The theme focuses not only on the institution reaching back
into Episcopal’s history and celebrating its past as the school
leaps to the Newtown Square campus, but also in making sure
students remember where they have come from as they move
on in life.
In addition, next year’s new Vestry members were announced
this April. They are: Christie DiSilvestro ’10, Kelsey Gula ’10,
Tommy Bergstrom ’09, and Bob Wassell ’09. In addition, Kevin
DiSilvestro ’08 was elected Senior Warden, and Alex Jahnle ’08
was elected Accounting Warden. The new members join Michael
Harvey ’09, Ben Mickel ’08, Kevin DiSilvestro ’08, Rich
Rosati ’09, and Alex Jahnle ’08.
The 2007-2008 Vestry (front row, l to r): Kelsey Gula ’10, Christie
DiSilvestro ’10, Michael Harvey ’09, and Alex Jahnle ’08; (back row,
l to r): Bob Wassell ’09, Kevin DiSilvestro ’08, Tom Bergstrom ’09,
Rich Rosati ’09, and Ben Mickel ’08.
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