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Page 8 EMSB Express Vol. 6 Nº 1 Fall 2004
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Fashion Show Raises $10,000 for Shriners
Lester B. Pearson
High School Principal
Terry Quinn and
Vice-Principal Evelyn
Alfonsi strike a pose.
Administrators
and professionals
from the schools
and head office
of the English
Montreal School
Board (EMSB)
became models
for a day on June
1 when they took
part in EMSB In
Vogue: Fashion
for Compassion
at Buffet Le Crystal
in St-Laurent.
More than 550
people were in
attendance at the
soldout event, raising $10,000 for the
Shriners Hospital (www.shrinershq.org).
Q92 morning show host Aaron Rand
and newscaster Murray Sherrifs were
the very entertaining emcees.
EMSB Chairman Dominic Spiridigliozzi
and Director General Antonio Lacroce
commended their staff for accepting
such a major undertaking. Maureen
Brennan, executive director of the
Shriners, accepted the cheque from
Association of Montreal School Administrators
(AMSA) President Dominic
Furfaro. She thanked the EMSB for
their support in trying to keep the
Shriners in Montreal. Maria Di Perna,
Connie Primiano and Tina Lavranos cochaired
the event.
The 40 enthusiastic models –
principals, vice-principals, adult
centre directors, senior management
and professionals – spent several
gruelling months rehearsing, under
the guidance of choreographer
Sandra Furfaro, the EMSB’s assistant
director of Pedagogical Services.
Fashion and accessories were
provided by: Moores Suits, Dizaro,
Baranda, Vania Spose, Rudsak, Tribal
Sports Wear, C Joli, Items by Design,
Triangulum Uniforms, Mery and
Victor, Creations D’Oraz, Simon
Chang, Hush Puppies and BCBG Max
Azria. Balonik (www.balonik.com)
provided a spectacular balloon
display. Omega Productions handled
music and sound. St. Pius X Culinary
Institute, Maria Di Placido Catering,
Buffalo Bill’s and the World’s Greatest
Caterer supplied food. There were
plenty of door prizes from Bijouterie
Serko, Scores, Baton Rouge, Esprit
Group Ltd., Nickels, Park Avenue
Furniture, Papeterie Zoubris, Boutique
Olympia, the YMCA and the Shriners.
Other sponsors were Aline Zerounian
(one ticket to Atlantic City) Fleuriste
Madonna di Pompei, CAE Aerospace,
Kaufman Laramée, Alma Printing and
Autobus Transco.
Models from the schools were: Gail
Somerville, Margaret Dobson, Mary
Reynolds, Teresa Germano-Saucier,
Darlene Kehayan,
Judy Simpson,
Ginette Clarke,
Eileen Kelly,
Connie Primiano,
Tina Lavranos,
Terry Quinn, Nick
Katalifos, Andre
Vamvakas,
Howard Posh,
Maria Di Perna,
Carol Morrison,
Katherine Snow,
Evelyn Alfonsi,
Leah Auclair,
Rosetta Ortona-Perri, Phyllis D’Amato,
Don Houston, Jim Daskalakis, Nick
A $10,000 cheque is presented to the Shriners.
Marymount student
Khai Lewis.
Primiano, Richard Wieczorek, Mario
Argiropoulos, James McMorran,
Richard Mason and Terry Tinker.
Models from the EMSB central
head office were: George Alexiou,
Sophia Kakouratos, Luc Harvey,
Mel Pololos, Brian Seltmann, Lew
Lewis, Marie-André Veilleux, Stacy
Nash, John Nicolopoulos, Tom Booth
and Paul Saunders.
One of the unexpected highlights
of the evening was a stunning
performance by Khai Lewis-Welsh,
presently a Grade 11 student at
Marymount Academy, who brought
the house down with two songs.
Students from the Coronation and
St. Monica Steel Pan Bands, directed
by Salah Wilson, performed prior to
the show.
First EMSB Scholarship
Fund Golf Tournament
Raises More than $20,000
The EMSB held its first annual
Scholarship Fund Golf Tournament on
Wednesday, June 30 at the Lachute
Golf Club (355 Bethany Road) in
Lachute. More than $20,000 was
raised. The Norshield Development
Foundation served as a major sponsor.
Paul Kefalas, the president and CEO of
ABB, a Switzerland-based company
that specializes in power and
automation technologies, was the
honourary chair.
Proceeds from the tournament will
help establish a new Scholarship
Program, which will benefit a number
of current students and EMSB
graduates, so that they can pursue
their post secondary studies in
vocational education, CEGEP studies
or undergraduate studies. As well,
funds will go towards the refurbishment
and maintenance of the
special collection of artwork that
adorns the EMSB’s schools, centres and
administration building.
Participants enjoyed 18 holes of golf
(shotgun start, Vegas style), brunch,
cocktails and dinner, plenty of fabulous
door prizes, plus prizes for longest
drive and closest to the pin. As a
special promotion, Lexus Toyota Gabriel
(www.gabriel.toyota.ca) in St. Laurent
was prepared to award a new car to
a golfer who could get a hole-in-one
on the 17th hole. Several people came
close, but there was no winner in this
category. Door prizes included a full set
of Calloway Golf Clubs, an MP3 Player,
a DVD/VCR, Three Nights’ Stay in
Mont Tremblant, a Weekend for Two
Shown here at the 15th hole at the EMSB Golf Tournament are (left to right): Kosta Papoulias,
Action démocratique du Québec leader Mario Dumont, EMSB Chairman Dominic Spiridigliozzi
and Tasso Kalos.
in Vermont, a fur coat and four golf
tickets for Lachute.
Mario Dumont, leader of the Action
démocratique du Québec (ADQ), was
among the golfers. He was part of
a foursome which included EMSB
Chairman Dominic Spiridigliozzi.
EMSB Deputy Director General
Donald A. Reid coordinated the event,
with the assistance of a devoted
committee and a corps of volunteers
who spent the day carrying out a wide
array of different jobs. Ron Francis
from the Team 990 spent the day on
the course and served as emcee for
the dinner.
Plans are already underway for
the 2004 tournament. Log on to
www.emsb.qc.ca for a complete pictorial
of this year’s event.