Community Preparatory School | Annual Report 2012

Community Preparatory School 

Non-Profit Org. 

US Postage 

PA ID 

Providence, R I 

Permit #110 4 

126 Somerset Street 

Providence, Rhode Island 02907 

(401) 521-9697 

Annual Report 2012

I love the diversity at this school. 

We all appreciate each other’s 

cultures and are proving that you 

don’t have to be rich to have a 

bright future and a great education. 

College Choices of the Class of 2008 

Becker College 

Brown University 

Clark University 

Emory University 

George Washington University 

Johnson & Wales University 

Occidental College 

Purchase College, SUNY 

Rhode Island College 

St. John’s University 

University of New Haven 

University of Rhode Island 

University of South Florida 

Class of 2012 

Blackstone Academy 

Yarinette Ventura 

Classical H.S. 

Darvin Acosta 

Sayee Campbell 

Kimberly Dalton 

Mikaela Dalton 

Christian Diaz 

Gabriela Gonzalez 

Cristian Estevez 

Luis Ibanez 

Kevin Rodriguez 

April Samayoa 

Hideki Tani 

Cranston East H.S. 

Kevin Chen 

LaSalle Academy 

Harrison DeWitt 

Jocelyn Mora 

Paul Cuffee School 

Antonio Harry 

Phillips Academy Andover 

Fiona Yonkman 

Ashley, 6th grade 

Providence Career and 

Technical Academy 

Mark Gall 

Rocky Hill School 

Nathanael DeMoranville 

St. Mary Academy BayView 

Ashlee Reyes 

Shane Gutierrez 

St. Raphael Academy 

Kendra Lopes 

Christian Yepes 

School One 

Benjamen Clark 

d e s i g n Malcolm Grear Designers 

The Wheeler School 

Elizabeth Dabanka 

Henry Sanzo

The Class of 2012 had 26 students graduating at the end of Community 

Preparatory School’s 28th year. They were accepted to very strong high school 

programs and will be matriculating at Blackstone Academy, Classical, Cranston 

East, LaSalle, Paul Cuffee, Phillips Andover, Providence Career and Technical 

Academy, Providence Country Day, Rocky Hill, St. Mary’s Bay View, St. Rafael 

Dear Friends 

Academy, School One, and Wheeler. 

We are very proud of our graduates and know that they will continue to set 

goals and work hard to achieve those goals for academic and personal 

success. Students at Community Prep meet with their parents and teachers at 

the beginning of each trimester to implement this goal-setting process. When 

we hear back from our college graduates, they tell us that they have used 

this formula for success throughout their academic and professional careers. 

I love the diversity at this school. 

We all appreciate each other’s 

cultures and are proving that you 

don’t have to be rich to have a 

bright future and a great education. 

Ashley, 6th grade 

In addition, Community Prep participated in Rhode Island’s standardized 

testing, the NECAPs. 96% of our students are proficient in reading, 91% in 

math, and 93% in writing with 35% distinguished in reading and math. 

Our students work hard, and they have wonderful achievements to show 

for their hard work. They also have fun. 

Many graduates came back and visited during the year, and one focus for 

those visits was the Viola Davis fundraiser. The graduates represented the 

school beautifully. In addition, current students enjoyed meeting Ms. Davis 

and listening to her and the graduates speak. They used the opportunity 

to mingle with guests to talk about their experiences at the school. 

Another way that our students strutted their talents was at the Annual School 

Show. This year, they filled the lobbies of The Vets with their works of art. 

With wonderful background piano music provided by one of our parents 

and a scavenger hunt created by Janine Lee, students showed their parents 

and friends their creations. It was also a great opportunity for graduates to 

visit and remember their Annual School Show experiences. 

In addition, our after-school program participated in a spring sailing event. 

Sixth graders attended Nature’s Classroom, and our seventh graders went to 

The Farm School. The sixth graders performed in a poetry slam at Roots Café 

and the fourth grade made a play from a Dr. Seuss book about Sneeches. 

Also, the whole school enjoyed concerts by Brooklyn Rider String Quartet and 

the World Music Program. 

Thank you for all you have done to make such evenings and futures possible 

for our students. You are very much a part of their academic, artistic, and 

personal successes. 

Peace, 

Dan Corley

Overview 2011-2012 

Student Residences 

70% live in Providence 

Enrollment 

149 Students 

Others live in: 

Central Falls 

Cranston 

East Providence 

Lincoln 

Little Compton 

North Providence 

Pawtucket 

Warwick 

Woonsocket 

Budget 

FY ’02 FY ’03 FY ’04 FY ’05 FY ’06 FY ’07 FY ’08 FY ’09 FY ’10 FY ’11 FY ’12 FY ’13* 

INCOME 

Government 26,890 15,557 54,050 28,243 31,372 27,368 64,772 73,819 64,558 92,236 51,976 50,000 

Endow. Inc. 336,473 348,161 370,619 422,105 493,930 559,194 615,381 510,260 479,316 436,188 489,868 566,000 

Donations 785,475 834,398 843,034 905,717 986,968 1,088,984 915,500 1,012,594 956,033 904,669 989,927 1,040,000 

STEPS — — — — — — 171,843 151,178 97,318 142,028 56,342 100,000 

Grants 151,299 186,599 159,562 67,850 108,900 99,054 76,405 57,180 112,300 85,000 59,400 90,000 

Tuition 260,035 264,434 307,389 336,189 345,675 337,577 360,999 371,385 366,782 436,542 386,918 400,000 

After School 97,117 134,589 97,209 141,643 156,764 130,802 70,512 72,183 55,112 71,143 80,299 55,000 

Fundraisers 52,708 23,758 128,400 63,539 49,832 147,869 70,629 26,127 76,403 56,675 115,110 80,000 

Misc. & Rent 74,971 50,688 49,788 57,429 48,475 45,020 41,068 36,003 33,746 35,145 42,768 30,500 

TOTAL 1,784,968 1,858,184 2,010,051 2,022,715 2,221,916 2,435,868 2,387,109 2,310,729 2,241,568 2,259,626 2,272,608 2,411,500 

SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE 

75% receive nearly full scholarship 

(All Community Prep families 

are asked to pay a minimum 

amount towards tuition.) 

10% pay quarter tuition 

5% pay half tuition 

10% pay full tuition ($13,200) 

Anita Bench 

2500 

2400 

2300 

2200 

2100 

2000 

1900 

1800 

1700 

1600 

1500 

1400 

1300 

1200 

1100 

1000 

900 

800 

700 

600 

500 

400 

STUDENT BACKGROUNDS 

300 

200 

Latino 38% 100 

0 

African American 27% 

Caucasian 14% 

Bi-racial 14% 

Asian 6% 

Native American 1% 

Thousands 

'02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 '12 

Income 

Expenses 

153 153 

155 

154 

154 

150 150 150 150 150 

149 

EXPENSES 

Staff 1,244,273 1,329,202 1,431,850 1,402,915 1,611,596 1,687,817 1,761,938 1,743,131 1,748,037 1,831,738 1,787,111 1,902,000 

Space 153,262 162,861 159,075 183,239 165,587 159,936 162,233 170,702 167,749 171,954 179,268 190,500 

Educ. Mat. 77,484 102,193 95,675 106,104 98,323 119,848 135,732 132,610 114,938 115,940 115,714 160,000 

After School 81,503 79,208 103,579 114,369 100,010 122,203 118,982 102,272 68,395 65,935 78,180 57,000 

Admin. 62,664 63,334 51,039 49,814 53,044 55,596 54,361 55,837 56,610 60,757 64,220 60,000 

Development 89,887 59,842 51,615 51,598 46,172 51,649 53,739 37,567 41,047 30,715 37,465 42,000 

TOTAL 1,709,073 1,796,640 1,892,833 1,908,039 2,074,732 2,197,049 2,286,985 2,242,119 2,196,776 2,277,039 2,261,958 2,411,500 

SCHOLARSHIP ASSISTANCE 

75% receive nearly full scholarship 

(All Community Prep families 

are asked to pay a minimum 

amount towards tuition.) 

STUDENT BACKGROUNDS 

Latino 38% 

African American 27% 

Students 153 153 155 154 150 150 154 150 150 150 149 152 

Staff 12.3 12 8.5 8.5 8.5 9.3 9 9.5 9.5 8.9 10.0 10.4 

Faculty 14.8 15.3 15 15.5 15.5 15.5 17 16.2 16.2 15.9 15.2 15.1 

TOTAL STAFF 27.1 27.3 23.5 24 24 24.8 26 25.7 25.7 24.8 25.2 25.5 

10% pay quarter tuition 

5% pay half tuition 

10% pay full tuition ($13,200) 

Caucasian 14% 

Bi-racial 14% 

Asian 6% 

Native American 1% 

'02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11 

'12 

Total Enrollment 

The financial reports for the years 2002 through 2011 have been reviewed by the accounting firm Aaronson Lavoie Streitfeld Diaz & Co., PC. 

*estimated

“If you met me today, you wouldn’t know that two of my childhood 

friends died from drug overdoses, two of my brothers spent years in and 

out of jail, and that my parents had to support an entire household on 

$7,000 a year. Had I not gone to Community Prep, my life would certainly 

have been different. The school taught me that just because my family 

was poor, I didn’t have to settle for that life.” Joyce Hopkins ’92 

Trustees 

Donors 

Dear Friends 

I have been involved with Community Prep for over 25 years and after all 

these years, it is gratifying to see the impact that a school can have on a 

community’s children. The above quote from Joyce Hopkins ’92 inspires my 

commitment to this school and their mission and makes it easy for me to lead 

its Board. A bit more about Joyce tells us that she has lived, worked, and 

traveled extensively throughout the US, Europe, South America, Asia-Pacific, 

and Africa, and is now conversational in five languages. Joyce graduated 

cum laude from Mount Holyoke College with a BA in International Relations 

and Statistics and holds her MBA in International Management and Finance 

from Boston College. Most recently, she is pursuing an MS in Taxation as 

well as a single-subject mathematics teacher certification. 

I am inspired by our alums who make headlines like Amber Johnson ’07 who 

is a 4.0 GPA student at Tufts University and winner of the National Poetry Out 

Loud competition, a contest that has 325,000 entrants. She performed at 

President Obama’s National Book Festival and recorded a poetry album with 

Meryl Streep and James Earl Jones. 

And our alums give back: to their communities and to the school. Monica 

Rodriguez ’99, Alumni Coordinator, hosted a panel of five alumni, talking 

about planning for college: Trinh Truong ’99, Trung Truong ’98, Vanessa 

Gomez ’05, Genesis Garcia ’07 and Stephanie Preston ’93. Those alums 

represented the following phenomenal colleges: Brown University, Boston 

College, Tufts, Duke and MIT. 

Angell Fine Arts 

Head’s Council 

2011– 2012 

Letitia Carter 

Ellen Collis 

Murray S. Danforth III 

Robert A. DiMuccio 

Andrew Ian Douglass, Chair 

Peter B. Freeman 

David H. Haffenreffer 

William F. Hatfield 

Artemis A.W. Joukowsky 

John W. Wall 

Board of Trustees 

2011– 2012 

Alden M. Anderson Jr. 

Kathleen Bartels 

Peter Burke 

Nick Cardi III 


Mark Carty ’97 

Eszter Chase 

Jeffrey B. Cianciolo 

Ruth A.B. Clegg 

Sharon Conard-Wells 

Dan Corley 

Richard K. Corley 

Piers L. Curry 

Mary “Polly” Daly 

Sarah Denby 

Andrew Ian Douglass 

Julia Russell Eells 

Warren Galkin 

Merle Goldstein, Vice Chair 

J. Malcolm Grear 

Karen Greene 

Robert W. Hahn 

Myrna W. Hall 

David Hibbitt 

Barry G. Hittner 

Tom Hoagland 

Keith Jacobson 

Jenny L. Jourdain ’99 

A. Max Kohlenberg 

Nancy T. Lerner 

Ellen S. Miller 

Richardson Ogidan, Chair 

K.J. Payette 

Thomas E. Pitts 

Stephanie Ogidan Preston ’93 

Paul A. Pyne 

Martha Roberts 

Stephen E. Russell 

Chithy Saing ’89, Secretary 

R. James Stahl 

Trinh Truong ’99 

Ted Turnbull 

Kenneth A. Wong 

Ellicott Wright 

Endowment 

Endowment provides for Community 

Prep’s future. The school’s long-term 

goal is to have 40% of its annual 

operating costs covered by the income 

from endowment. Currently, 25% 

of those costs are covered. We spend 

5% of our endowment fund’s threeyear 

average. 

Endowment gifts this year: 

Amica Mutual Insurance Company 

Sarah Denby 

Mary Pat and Michael Denci 

Joyce and Warren Galkin 

Merle and Stanley Goldstein 

Lisa Goldberg 

Susan and David Hibbitt 

Michael Kraus 

Eleanor and David Lewis 

Fla Lewis 

Paul Pyne 

Geoffrey Tootell 

Mary Welch 

The following individuals have 

provided endowment funds that enable 

us to offer perpetual scholarships in 

each of the categories below. 

ENDOWMENT HEADMASTER 

An Endowment Headmaster has made 

a donation that endows a minimum 

of two full scholarships–$528,000 or 

more (in 2012 dollars). 

Letitia and John Carter 

The Collis Foundation 

CVS /pharmacy 


Haffenreffer Family Fund 


Barbara and George* Sage 

2 donors wish to remain anonymous 

ENDOWMENT Sponsor 

An Endowment Sponsor has made 

a donation that endows one full 

scholarship, or $264,000–$527,999 

(in 2012 dollars). 

Amica Mutual Insurance 

L.G. Balfour Foundation 

Daphne and Peter* Farago 

The William Randolph Hearst 

Foundations 

Mary Ann Lippitt* 

Loulie Mauran Groton and 

D. Hunter* Mauran 

Pascucci Family Foundation 

Christine Perry Memorial Scholarship 

Prince Charitable Trusts 

Prospect Hill Foundation 

Fred M. Roddy Foundation 

William E. Simon Foundation 

Joan and Paul Sorensen 

Jane and Arthur Slaven 

Robert D. Watkins 

Memorial Scholarship; 

Helen Buchanan and 

John C.A. Watkins* 

ENDOWMENT PARTNER 

An Endowment Partner has made 

a donation that endows one-half 



Nancy and Donald Cloud (f) 

Mimi and Peter Freeman 

Russell Grinnell Memorial Trust 

Joukowsky Family Foundation 

Frances* and A. Edmund* Miele 

Sachem Foundation 

The Peter & Elizabeth C. Tower 

Foundation 

ENDOWMENT PATRON 

An Endowment Patron has made 

a donation that endows one-quarter 



The William Bingham Foundation 

John C. Cahill Memorial Fund 

Edith Erlenmeyer* 

The Felicia Fund 


Robert W. Hahn 

Carolyn and Harrison Huntoon 

Fla Lewis III 

Martha and Arthur Milot (f) 

The Providence Journal Foundation 

Eva and Jim Seed 

Mary and Clarke* Simonds 

Lisa and Chris Van Allsburg 

Mary* and John Wall 

Richard P. Welch 

Memorial Scholarship 

WKBJ Foundation (f) 

1 donor wishes to remain anonymous 

These are just a small sampling of the benefactors of the time, talent and 

treasure people commit. They are community leaders because of Community 

Prep. They are life-long learners because of this school. As I enter my final 

year as Board Chair, it is my hope that their stories continue to inspire you 

as they do me. We all thank you for your continued support. 

Richardson D. Ogidan 

Board Chair 

Past Parent CP ’90, ’93, ’96 

Anita Bench 

Letitia Carter, Myrna Hall, Howard Hall, and John Carter 

Joanne Rich 

As of June 30, 2012 (f) Faculty or program needs *deceased

ALUM N I PROF I LE Leticia Lopes ’09 

Annual Fund Donors 

Leticia Lopes ’09 is a senior at Lincoln School. During 

the summer of 2012 she attended the National Student 

Leadership Conference at the University of California, 

Berkeley. This conference is a leadership program that 

allows students from across the United States and more 

than 45 different countries to explore the academic and 

career interests of their choice. 

She wanted to learn more about engineering, including 

mechanical, civil, electrical, environmental, and computer 

engineering. “My 10-day leadership experience was 

truly phenomenal. I participated in multiple hands-on 

engineering simulations and had the opportunity to 

attend guest lectures by noted industry professionals. 

In addition, I was fortunate enough to visit facilities like 

the NASA Ames Research Center, Boehringer Ingelheim, 

and Intel. 

The opportunity to think, analyze and effectively 

communicate as an engineer was combined with the 

leadership values I was able to strengthen from a variety 

of activities at NSLC. I met dozens of scholars from all 

over the country, some of whom I am still in contact with. 

It was extremely difficult to say goodbye to the friends 

and lively staff that I stayed with while at Berkeley. 

The experience I had at the National Student Leadership 

Conference was one that I know will influence my future 

as I enter a world of diverse and promising leaders. I 

am proud and extremely fortunate to now be considered 

an NSLC alum.” 

SPECIAL INITIATIVES 

The Billy Andrade– Brad Faxon 

Charities for Children, ● 

SummerPrep 

Bank of America, Arts Showcase 

Series Concerts 

The Champlin Foundations, 

capital needs 

Eszter Chase, Elizabeth Mayer 

Music Fund 

Alan Shawn Feinstein, student 

newsletter 

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & 

Wine Bar, Wine Down Wednesday, 

Founders’ Society Dinner and 

Golf Sponsor 

Friends of the Music Mansion, music 

lessons and musical instruments 

Joyce and Warren Galkin, ● 

Spanish program, Investment Club 

Malcolm Grear, eighth grade etiquette 

class luncheon 

Myrna Hall, eighth grade etiquette 

classes 

Emma G. Harris Foundation, ● 

computer training 

FirstWorks, concert 

IECA Foundation, SummerPrep 

& TestPrep 

Ted Mattis, eighth grade etiquette 

class luncheon 

The Met School, one intern 

The Music School of The R.I. 

Philharmonic, concert and school 

performance 

Laura J. Niles Foundation, 

SummerPrep & TestPrep 

Ocean State Charities Trust, 

All-School Show 

B. Pinelli’s, 8th grade luncheon 

sponsor 

Providence Picture Frame /Joe Gallo, 

framing 

Providence Rotary Charities 

Foundation, SummerPrep & 

TestPrep 

The Providence Shelter, SummerPrep 

& TestPrep 

Read to Succeed, Accelerated Reader 

The Rhode Island Foundation, 

SummerPrep & TestPrep 

Rhode Island School of Design 

Artist-In-Schools program, 

two interns 

Rhode Island School of Design, 

Dig The Museum program 

Rhode Island School of Design, 

Industrial Design Graduate 

Department Co-Design 

Collaboration with Amy Leidtke 

Edwin S. Soforenko Foundation, 

computer training 

Sovereign Bank, SummerPrep & 

TestPrep 

Target, art program 

Tsetse Gallery, poetry contest 

performance 

Richard P. Welch Community Prep 

Science Healthcare Professional 

Leadership Scholarship, ● 

student award 

HEADMASTER charter 

A headmaster-charter has made 

a donation of a minimum of three full 

scholarships, or >$35,000, including 

matching gifts. 

The Carter Family Charitable Trust ● 

The Collis Foundation ● 

Mimi and Peter Freeman ● 

Robert W. Hahn ● 

HEADMASTER leadership 

A headmaster-leadership has made a 

donation of a minimum of two full 

scholarships, or between $23,000 and 

$34,999, including matching gifts. 

Amica Mutual Insurance Co. ● 

The William Bingham Foundation 

Merle and Stanley Goldstein ● 

Loulie Mauran Groton ● 

The June Rockwell Levy Foundation ● 

Susan and Daniel Rothenberg ● 

Ryan Family Foundation 

Joan and Paul Sorensen ● 

HEADMASTER pioneer 

A headmaster-pioneer has made 

a donation of a minimum of 

one full scholarship, or between 

$12,000 and $22,999, including 


Helen Buchanan ● 

The John Clarke Trust ● 

Barbara and Andrew Ian Douglass ● 

Ferguson Perforating and Wire Co. ● 

Joyce and Warren Galkin ● 

Barbie N. Gracie Fund 

Kathleen and Barry Hittner ● 

Fla Lewis III ● 

Morning Glory Family Foundation ● 

Warren and Mary Naphtal 

Roddy-Holden Foundation 

The White Family Foundation/Taco 

Mary and Ellicott Wright ● 


SPONSOR 

A sponsor has made a donation 

of a minimum of 1/2 scholarship, 

or between $6,000 and $11,999, 

including matching gifts. 

Sarah Denby ● 

Rosalie Fain ● 

The Farago Foundation ● 

GTECH 

Winifred and Harold Hitchen ● 

Marie Keese LeLash Foundation ● 

Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Fund ● 

Dorothy and Norman McCulloch / The 

McAdams Charitable Foundation ● 

Sondra and Thomas Pitts ● 

Henry and Julia Sharpe ● 

Mynde and Gary Siperstein ● 

Janet and Thomas Wing ● 


PARTNER 

A partner has made a donation 


or between $2,500 and $5,999, 


Rebecca and Peter Burke 

John C. Cahill Memorial Fund *● 

John Carter III 

Dan Corley and Betsy Beach ● ◆ 

Mary (Polly) and Robert Daly 

Judith and Murray Danforth ● 

Alan Shawn Feinstein 

FM Global ● 

Frank B. Hazard General Charity Fund ● 

The Hazard Family Foundation ● 

Susan and David Hibbitt ● 

Hope and David Hirsch ● 

Harry C., Miriam C., and William C. 

Horton Charity Fund ● 

Jennifer and Keith Jacobson 

Martha and Stanley Livingston 

Macy’s ● 

Frederick Mattis ● 

The Murray Family Charitable 

Foundation ● 

Marie Palladino 

Rhode Islanders Sponsoring Education ● 

Eva and James Seed 

William E. Simon Foundation ● 

Mary and Sherwood Small 

Frederick C. Tanner Memorial Fund ● 

Technic, Inc. 

Texcel, Inc. 

TJ X Foundation ● 

Liela and Thomas Tracy s 

John Wall ● 


PATRON 

A patron has made a donation 


or between $1,000 and $2,499, 


Patricia and Melvin Alperin ● 

Rev. Robert Blais ● 

Gail and Patrick Bolger 

Jill and Andrew Caslowitz s 

Marjorie and Robert Catanzaro 

Christopher Covert and 

Catherine Conover 

Barbara and Piers Curry ● 

Dana DiMarco ● ◆ 

RenaMarie and Robert DiMuccio ● 

Diane and P. Christopher Ellis ● ◆ 

Melvin Finkelstein 

Atsuko and Lawrence Fish 

Timothy Flanigan ● 

Gencorp Insurance Charitable 

Foundation 

Myrna and Howard Hall ● 

Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld ● 

Thomas Hoagland 

Kane-Barrengos Foundation 

Virginia Kenney 

A. Max Kohlenberg and 

Rebecca Minard ● 

Randall Kroszner ● 

Anne and Bruce Landis ● 

Masonic Lodge 

Meehan Foundation ● 

Martha Milot 

Stephanie and Donald Paton 

Cynthia and James Patterson ● 

Gordon Perry ● 

Paul A. Pyne 

Sarah and Craig Richardson 

Judith and Hugh Ryan ● ◆ 

Juanita Sanchez Community Fund 

Betty Jane and John Saukaitis ● 

Mary and Michael Schwartz ● 

Peggy and Henry Sharpe Jr. ● 

Grant Sherburne Trust 

Special People In Need 

R. James Stahl and 

Mary Jane Sorrentino ● 

The Straetz Foundation ● 

Whitney and Ted Turnbull 

Denise and Daniel Wall 

Marie and Alan Weiss ● 

Harold A. Winstead Charitable Trust ● 

Kenneth Wong 

CONTRIBUTOR 

A contributor has made a donation 


or between $500 and $999, including 


Robin and Richard Abedon 

Joan Abrams 

Emily and Alden Anderson 


Ann Beach ● 

Judith and William Braden 

Greta Brown 

Elizabeth Cheng and Gerald Codola ● 

Ruth and William Clegg s 

Diane and George Cunha s●◆ 

Sophie Danforth ● 

Dexter Commission 

Julia Eells 

Denise English and Alan Paylor s 

Michael Fontaine 

Helen and George Hahn ● 

Julie Masse-Hanna and Michael Hanna 

Thomas Hazlett 

Gloria and John Kilmartin 

Phoutone Kingvilay 

Elinor Krach 

Cathleen and John LaRose ● 

Nicholas Long and Abigail Brooks ● 

Donna Benoit and Robert McConnell 

Maureen and Charles McDonald 

Jane and Gordon Parker 

Jessica and John Pinkos 

Marni and Morris Propp 

Joan Ress Reeves ● 

Joanne Rich and Bart van Belle s●◆ 

Herman Rose ● 

Esteruth and Leonard Rumpler 

Rachel Schwartz and Peter Kramer ● 

James Sunshine ● 

Ralph Wales 

Winthrop B. Wilson Trust 

Women & Infants Hospital 

BOOSTER 

A booster has made a donation 


or between $250 and $499, 


Association of Healthcare Philanthropy 

Jean Barnes 

Barak Barnoon and Karen Parmett ● 

Penny Beach and Michael Lanza 

Sarah and Edward Beach ● 

Thomas Beach and Barbara Peterson ● 

Anita Bench ◆ 

Marjorie and Russell Boss 

Janet and Buell Carter 


Martha and Steven Cavanagh s 

Joan and Park Chamberlain 

Bintou and Allen Chatterton 

Judith and Joseph Cianciolo 

Linda and Richard Corley ● 

Lisa Dantas ◆ 

Barbara and William DiMarco 

Nancy and Charles Dunn ● 

Exit Realty/RI 

FreeLove Clothing 

Genesis Ecumenical 

Dorcas and David Haller s 

Barbara Henry 

Catherine Jacques and Andrew Frew ● ◆ 

David Karoff and Barbara Hunger s 

Marc Laverdiere 

Stephen Lynch 

Maverick Funding 

Ellen S. Miller ● 

Daniel Ocone and Marian Glenn 

Kathy and J. Geddes Parsons 

Elizabeth Pinkos 

Elizabeth and Daniel Reardon ● 

Marcia Riesman ● 

Sally and Frederick Rotenberg 

Jonathan Seely 

Cynthia and Bruce Selya 

Jonathan Stone 

Vanech Family 

Mary and Richard Worrell 

Ying Zhou and Gail Walter s 

Janine Lee 

As of June 30, 2012 ● Annual giving for 5 or more consecutive years s Current or former parent ◆ Faculty or staff member *deceased

Gifts in Tribute 

Gifts in Memory 


Anita Bench 

Joanne Rich 

FRIEND 

A friend has made a donation of 

an amount up to $249, including 


AAA of Southern New England 

Joyce and Dick Allphin ● 

Sondra Allphin ● 

Cynthia Almonte 

Opal Alves ◆ 

William Anderton 

Nancy and William Ayton 

Evelyn and James Baronian 

Brenda and Gerald Bedrick 

Martha and Oliver Bennett 

Big Blue Bug Solutions 

Comfort and Ebenezer Boadih 

Marion Brown 

Francois and Kenneth Burgess 

Anne and Guido Calabresi ● 

Carolyn and Russell Campbell 

Ronald Caniglia 

Case Construction 

Kathleen Casey 

Lily Cavanagh ’98 

Irwin Chase 

Audrey and Edward Clifton 

Coastway Community Bank 

Annette and Alfred Coleman 

Sharon Conard-Wells s 

Leon Cooper ● 

Brendan Corley ’97 ◆ 

Cynthia and Stephen Cote 

Beth Cotter and Stephen DeWitt 

Linda Covill ● 

Lisa and David Curry s 

June Daniel and Enrique Martinez s 

Yamilka De Los Santos s 

Bonilyn and Robert DeBlois ● 

Lourdes DeJesus ◆ 

Catherine and Vincent DeMeo 

Beverly Denicourt 

Sally and David Dillon 

John Everson ● 

Sandra and Jonathan Farnum ● 

Phyllis Fern 

Judith Fleming 

Anneke and David Frazer 

Laura Frazer s 

Karen and David Gardner 

Robert Gershkoff 

Carol Gibson 

Belkis and Agustin Gomez s 

Natalie and Michael Gooding 

Clarice and Malcolm Grear 

Eva and Joshua Gutman 

Nicole Guyon ◆ 

Elizabeth and Gene Hammett 

Karen and David Harris s 

Pamela Harrop and Kathleen Tevyaw 

Susie and William Hatfield 

Clary and Christopher Healy 

Elinor Hough ● 

Pamela and William Hyde ● 

Paul Hyman 

Jennifer Jansen 

Andrea and David Joseph s● 

Virginia Kahn 

Kathryn Kaiser 

Raphael Kanter s 

John Kelly 

Robert Kenyon 

Steven Lancia 

Emma LaRose ’02 

Janine and Peter Lee s●◆ 

Nancy Lerner 

Patricia McDonald Luca ● 

Christine Luke and Jack Barry 

Marge and Winston Lyford ● 

Dorothy and David Marshall 

Paul Martin 

Daniel Marwill 

Nancy and William Mayer ● 

Patricia and William McAvoy 

Daniel McCarthy s 

Sarah and John McConnell 

Lynda McCoy s 

John McHale 

Emily McKenney ● 

Claire and Charles Messina s 

Thomas Mirza and 

Margaret Howard s 

Simon Moore and Adeola Oredola 

Susan Moore s 

Elizabeth and M. Granger Morgan ● 

Jane Mraz 

Ronald Mucci 

Adelaide and Paul Nicholson ● 

Ellen O’Hara ◆ 

King Odell ● 

Jacqueline and Richardson Ogidan s 

Mary and Thomas Parris 

Kathy-Jo Payette 

Dilys Peirce 

Daniel Pendergast 

Richard Pizzi and 

Diane Brousseau-Pizzi 

Suzanne and William Prescott ● 

Kurt Raaflaub and 

Deborah Boedeker ● 

Frederic Reamer and 

Deborah Siegel s 

Margaret and Frank Robinson ● 

Carmen and Sergio Rodriguez s 

Mónica Rodríguez ’99 ◆ 

Lois Roy 

Ellen and Stephen Russell ● 

Antonio Sanchez ’88 

Audrey and Robert Shapiro 

Deborah Shuster ● 

Anita and Larry Slater 

Maxine Smith 

Jill and Richard Smith 

Karen Solomon 

Edward Staples 

Joyce Stevos 

Colleen Sullivan 

Marjorie Sundlun 

David Suraski 


Elizabeth and John Tyler s● 

Will Tyler 

Natalia Vanegas s 

Francisco Velasquez ◆ 

Barbara and Harvey Wagner 

Jeanne and William Waters 

Mary Welch 

Josh Wentworth 

Joel Westerman 

Maria and Robert Wilhelm 

Ariano Wohl 

John Wolf and Wenley Ferguson 

Mary Jo Younger 

Janet and Melvin Zurier 


ALUMNI GIFTS 


Brendan Corley ’97 ◆ 

CP Class of ’11 

Thomas Darden ’92 s 

Joanne Debrah ’93 s 

Stephanie Preston ’93 

Meily Rodriguez ’07 

Mónica Rodríguez ’99 ◆ 

Chithy Saing ’89 s 


Kathryn Trites ’96 ◆ 


Nina Williams ’04 

IN-KIND GIFTS 

In addition to donation of prizes and 

auction items for the golf tournament 

(listed elsewhere in this report), 

Community Prep received many 

in-kind gifts including books, concert 

tickets, creative arts materials, musical 

instruments, computer equipment, 

science equipment, tickets to sporting 

events and the theatre, school show 

materials. 


Diane Ellis 


Wine Bar / Jennifer Jansen 

Karen Harris 

Irving Oil 

Christine Luke 

Joan and Paul Sorensen 

GIFTS OF TIME 

In addition to trustees and others who 

served on board committees and who 

volunteered at events (listed elsewhere 

in this report), we would like to thank 

the following volunteers who gave so 

generously of their time and talents, in 

and out of the classrooms: 

Kathy Bartels / Lerner, Ladds & Bartels 

Tom Butcher 

Jeffrey Cianciolo 

Rina Consuegra s ◆ 

Ken Davis, LSG, Inc. 

Noelya De La Cruz 

Neomy De La Cruz 

Sarah Denby 

Melissa Ea 

Dariana Espaillat 


Wine Bar / Jennifer Jansen 

Joshua Glean 

Ashley Gomez 

Malcolm Grear Designers 

David Hibbitt 

Harold Hitchen 

Tom Hoagland 

John Lacerda, North East Roofing 

Nancy Lerner 

Rod Luther 

Michele Neiley 

Marie Palladino 

Donnie Sparks III ’14 

Hideki Tani ’12 

Steve Wilkinson, Wilkinson Associates 


Christian Yepes ’12 

Daniela Yepes ’13 

Joyce and Dick Allphin 

Sondra Allphin 

Royce Conner 

Ariana Wohl 

Dan Corley ◆ 

Joan Ress Reeves 

Herman Rose 

Karen Solomon 

Mary Welch 

Brendan Corley ’96 ◆, Dan Corley ◆, 

Eddie Moyé ◆, Natalia Vanegas ◆, 

Janine Lee ◆ 

Ying Zhou s 

Dana DiMarco ◆, Lisa Dantas ◆ 

Marc Laverdiere 

Judith and Murray Danforth, III 

Marni and Morris Propp 

Barry McCoy 

Karen Gardner 

Edward Moyé ◆ 

Raphael Kanter s 

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Belkin 

Helen and George Hahn 

Andy Reamer 

Frederic Reamer s 

John Wall 

Herman Rose 


Elinor Krach 

Joanne Rich 

Rodney V. Beach 

Penny Beach and Michael Lanza 

Dan Corley and Betsy Beach ◆ 

Genesis Ecumenical Community 


Dorothy Corley 

Cynthia Almonte 

William Anderton 

Evelyn and James Baronian 

Ronald Caniglia 

Kathleen Casey 

Marjorie and Robert Catanzaro 

Cynthia and Stephen Cote 

Diane and George Cunha s◆ 

Marilyn Davis 

Bonilyn and Robert DeBlois 

Beverly Denicourt 



Genesis Ecumenical Community 

Malcolm Grear Designers 

Elizabeth and Gene Hammett 

Barbara Henry 

Winifred and Harold Hitchen 

Barbara Hunger and David Karoff s 

John Kelly 

Nancy Lerner 

Christine Luke and Jack Barry s 

Daniel Marwill 

Sarah and John McConnell 

John McHale 

Daniel Pendergast 

Diane Brousseau-Pizzi and 

Richard Pizzi 

Martha and Maurice Roberts 

Monica Rodriguez ’99 ◆ 

Lois Roy 

Judith and Hugh Ryan ◆ 

Larry Slater 

Joyce Stevos 

Sandra Tavitian 

Jeanne and William Waters 

Mary Welch 

Maria and Robert Wilheim 

Wenley Ferguson and John Wolf 


Hannah Goldberg 

Christopher Covert and 

Catherine Conover 

Lisa Goldberg 

Eleanor and David Lewis 

Michael Kraus 

Jane Mraz 

Ambassador Kahn 

Marie and Alan Weiss 

Jack McCoy 

Lynda McCoy 

Karen Gardner 

Natalie Morra 

Steven Lancia 

Christine Perry 

Gordon Perry 

Juanita Sanchez 


Meyer Schwartz 

Rachel Schwartz and Peter Kramer 

Helen Szonyi 

Irwin Chase 

This list acknowledges gifts made to 

Community Prep through June 30, 2012. 

We make every effort to ensure accuracy. 

Please report any errors to the 

Development Office at 401-521-9697. 

Edward Walsh 

Mr. and Mrs. William McAvoy, Jr. 

Richard Welch 

Mary Pat and Michael Denci 

Geoffrey Tootell 

Mary Welch 

Winthrop Wilson 

Greg Pope 

Barbara and Andrew Ian Douglass 

Myrna and Howard Hall 

As of June 30, 2012 ● Annual giving for 5 or more consecutive years s Current or former parent ◆ Faculty or staff member *deceased

ALUM N I PROF I LE Julian Dash ’92 

Planned Giving 

One of an increasing number of CP grads with an 

advanced degree, Julian Dash ’92 is widely recognized 

as one of Rhode Island’s rising stars. 

After graduating from Morgan State University, he 

earned his MBA in Entrepreneurship at Babson College. 

Now Julian is back in Providence, making a difference in 

the community where he grew up. He served as Director 

of Real Estate for PUENTE, a non-profit real estate and 

community development organization in Olneyville, 

where he oversaw the redevelopment of the 60 Valley 

Street Mill into over 26,500 square feet of below-market 

commercial space and 29 affordable Live/Work units. 

Julian also served as the director of the R.I. Renewable 

Energy Fund. There he managed the distribution 

of grants, loans and other financing for renewable 

energy projects that produce electricity in a cleaner, 

more sustainable manner. 

Julian is now working with a new clean energy fund, 

which will focus on the finance, development and 

management of both renewable energy and energy 

efficiency projects. This new venture will fill a void 

in the clean energy marketplace, particularly as 

it relates to providing solutions to challenging yet 

high-impact projects — specifically small business, 

non-profit and public entities seeking to reduce their 

energy use/costs in the state. 

Julian’s commitment to the community is broadreaching. 

He has served as the president of the Rhode 

Island Black Political Action Committee and the Director 

of Diversity of the Rhode Island Young Democrats. 

He has been a Providence Phoenix “Local Hero,” and 

was recognized by the Providence Business News 

as one of the State’s “40 under Forty,” chosen from R.I. 

young professionals, business and nonprofit leaders. 

Honorees are recognized based on career success, 

community involvement and a commitment to making 

a difference. 

“Community Prep taught me about community service, 

and the lesson has stayed with me,” says Julian. 

Sarah Denby 

Sarah Denby has been involved at Community Prep since 

2006, when her friend, Paul Shannon, invited her to visit. She 

was very impressed by The Calculator Club, especially when 

an eighth grader explained a math concept that was new to 

her. She was — and continues to be — impressed by how polite 

and courteous the students are. Several committees have 

benefited from Sarah’s participation, including the Education, 

Executive, and Golf Committees. She also served as chair 

of the Special Events Committee, leading the effort to bring 

Viola Davis to the school, which culminated in a successful 

fundraising event held at The Squantum Association. 

Sarah also enjoys her involvement with the students, having 

been a tutor at the school for many years. 

She decided to include Community Prep in her estate plans 

by bequeathing the school an Individual Retirement Account 

and encourages others to do the same. She was pleased at 

how easy it was to add Community Prep as a beneficiary. 

Sarah lives in Barrington, R.I. with her husband, Charley, and 

her papillon, Apollo. 

Thank you, Sarah, for all you do for our students! 

Joanne Rich 

Joining the The Founders Society is easy— 

just advise the Development Office of the 

creation of your estate gift. We also encourage 

documentation of the gift, and if you prefer, 

the gift can remain anonymous. 

Community Prep can help you take advantage 

of important personal and family financial 

and estate-planning benefits. There are many 

incentives for charitable giving offered under 

current tax laws. It is entirely possible for you 

to make a generous gift to Community Prep 

and obtain significant financial and estate 

planning benefits for you and your family. 

These incentives can help you: 

● bypass capital gains taxes; 

● increase current income; 

● increase current income tax deductions; 

● increase gift and estate tax deductions; 

● conserve estate assets for heirs— 

even in some cases pass on a larger estate. 

You can obtain these benefits by giving a 

variety of assets. For example: 

● Gift of securities; 

● Charitable Gift Annuities; 

● Trusts; 

● Retirement Assets; 

● Personal Property; 

● Life Insurance. 

All members of the Founders Society are 

investing in the future of our students. 

Feel free to speak to any of the current 

members about their experience. 

For more information about planned gifts, 

please call the Development Office at 

401-521-9697. 

FOUNDERS SOCIETY 

The Founders Society was established to honor 

individuals who have included Community 

Preparatory School in their estate plans. Individuals 

who have designated the school in their wills or 

have made gifts through charitable remainder trusts, 

charitable lead trusts, life insurance or other gifts 

of property are invited to join as members. These 

gifts will help to build a permanent endowment at 

Community Prep. Confirmed bequest expectations 

total $7.5 million. We are delighted to recognize the 

far-sighted generosity of the following individuals 

(as of June 30, 2012): 

Peter Arnold 

Robert Blais 

Mary Cabral 


Dan Corley and Betsy Beach ◆ 

Richard and Linda Corley 

Chris Covert and Catherine Conover 

Piers Curry 

Charles Denby 

Dana DiMarco ◆ 

Barbara and Andrew Ian Douglass 

Diane and Chris Ellis ◆ 

Edith Erlenmeyer* 

Peter Farago* 


Warren Galkin 

Hannah Goldberg* 

Merle Goldstein 

Loulie Mauran Groton 

Helen and George Hahn 

Robert Hahn 

Myrna Hall 

Hope and David Hirsch 

Winifred and Harold Hitchen 

Barry & Kathleen Hittner 

Joy Hopkins 

Max Kohlenberg 

Fla Lewis III 

Frederick Mattis 

Frances* and Edmund* Miele 


Gordon Perry 

Lincoln W.N. Pratt* 

Joanne Rich ◆ 

Monica Rodriguez ◆ 

Barbara and George* Sage 

Lu and Chris Simonds 

Mrs. Clarke Simonds 

Kathy and Jim Sohar 

Karen Solomon 

Jim Stahl and Mary Jane Sorentino 

James K. Sunshine 

John Wall 

Philip Weinstein 

Etta Wilson* 

Will and Robin Wilson 

Winthrop B. Wilson * 

Jan and Tom Wing 



founders society dinner — 

fleming’s prime steakhouse 

& Wine Bar 

The Founders Society Dinner was held on 

October 19, 2011. Once again hosted by 

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 

guests enjoyed a fabulous five-course dinner 

and a wonderful array of wines. This dinner 

welcomes all members of The Founders 

Society (those who have included Community 

Prep in their estate plans) and is a favorite 

among Community Prep supporters. 

We are very fortunate to have Fleming’s 

as our partner! 

Lisa Dantas, Peter Freeman, Dana DiMarco, 

and Mimi Freeman 

Joanne Rich 


As of June 30, 2012 ◆ Faculty or staff member *deceased

ALUM N I PROF I LE Chithy Saing ’89 

STEPS 

ALUM N I PROF I LE Zoe Hansen-DiBello ’00 

Community Prep continues to partner with other organizations 

through STEPS . . . Scholarships To Economically Poor Students. 

Joanne Rich 

Since 2007, Rhode Island companies may give donations to 

scholarship-granting organizations and receive up to a 90% tax 

“My son, Antonio, never wanted to miss a day of school,” 

credit on their Rhode Island Corporate Taxes. 

Zoe Hansen-DiBello ’00, has been working as the 

says Chithy Saing ’89. “He just graduated from CP 

and had perfect attendance for all six years he was at 

Community Prep.” Chithy’s daughter, Natasha CP ’07, is 

Community Prep partners with San Miguel School, Sophia Academy, 

and The Grace School (a branch of the Meeting Street School) to 

Sustainability Education and Youth Coordinator for the 

Marion Institute since 2009. She coordinates the Youth 

Initiative for a powerful conference called Connecting 

on the Dean’s List at Johnson & Wales. A true Community 

Prep family, Chithy’s story, while unique in the details, 

is like so many CP’s students. A Cambodian refugee, 

form STEPS, Scholarships To Economically Poor Students, which 

distributes the corporate donations among the schools. 

Community Prep graduates reunite 

for Change: A Bioneers by the Bay conference presented 

by the Marion Institute. The conference is an annual 

three-day, solutions-based gathering that brings together 

Chithy came to R.I. from a Thai refugee camp. Her parents 

worked hard, but the family was still poor. 

She came to CP in 6th grade, when the school was only 

three years old. The school didn’t have a girls’ basketball 

team, so Chithy became the only girl on the team — and 

in the league. “Community Prep taught me I shouldn’t 

let anything stop me if I wanted something.” Chithy 

graduated from Mount Pleasant High School and 

attended RIC for a while before leaving to support her 

family. She’s now at CCRI part-time, finishing up an 

accounting degree. 

In 2002 Chithy started working at Blue Cross Blue Shield. 

Three promotions later, she is now a Finance Projects 

Specialist and serves on their Diversity Committee. 

“My experience at CP taught me about diversity and how 

to give back. I’m a mentor to friends and colleagues 

now, an ambassador.” Chithy won BCBS’s 2009 Health 

and Wellness Award and donated the $250 prize to CP. 

A Board member since 2007, Chithy has served CP’s 

Board Secretary and chairs the Alumni Relations 

Committee. “Living is an education in itself,” says Chithy. 

“A degree is important, but alone it won’t get you the 

life you want. Success is defined by your own terms; 

how you live your life and what you give. CP taught me 

how to do all those things.” 

Last year Community Prep received $56,742 through this program, 

which provided 14 students with partial scholarships. 

Participating corporations: Aaronson Lavoie Streitfeld Diaz & Co., 

Add Ventures, Affiliated FM Insurance Company, Amica Life 

Insurance Company, Amica Mutual Insurance Company, Atlantic 

Furniture Co., Barreto & Schwartz Psychology Associates, C&S 

Rehabilitation, Community Matters, Gemiluth Chasidim, Glass 

Project, GPS Investment Advisors, I Squared, Jacob Talbot, Jamie 

Moore Appraisal Services, Jephry Floral Studio, Technic, Verve, 

and Weybosset Research & Management. 

Information about how your Rhode Island LLC, S-Corp or C-Corp 

can participate is available at rischolarshipalliance.org or from 

Lisa Dantas, 401-521-9697 x6. 

Sixth graders at Nature’s Classroom in Charleton, MA 

Joanne Rich Anita Bench 

a diverse audience to create deep and positive change 

in their communities. Zoe aims to have youth leave with 

an understanding of social and environmental justice 

issues as well as the ability to not just identify issues in 

their communities, but to see themselves as part of 

the solution. Zoe also coordinates “Seed the Table” 

school programs. There she helps incorporate gardening 

into curriculum. Zoe enjoys connecting urban youth 

to “real” food. She smiles as she recalls seeing teenage 

girls with acrylic nails happily digging in the dirt and 

“tough” boys telling stories to beds of carrots to make 

them grow faster. Where does Zoe’s passion come from 

“It started at CP. Community Prep is a movement, seeking 

educational justice for urban youth.” She goes on, “I ask 

myself, how I can apply learning experiences from CP 

in my current work Take urban youth; hold them to the 

highest of standards, while also having empathy to hold 

their trust. Community Prep demonstrated this to me 

as a student, I am now learning to provide the same for 

the youth I serve.” 

Mayor Taveras and students celebrating Hispanic Awareness Month

ALUM N I PROF I LE Sofia Fuentes ’05 

Committees 

ALUM N I PROF I LE Andra and Alexus Lee, ’02 and ’08 

Sofia Cifuentes ’05 is now a senior at Mt. Holyoke 

College, but her journey there was anything but easy. 

As a 10-year-old, Sofia and her mother, a doctor, fled 

Colombia because of kidnapping threats. Sofia landed 

in an underfunded public school, where her teachers 

couldn’t see past her poor English to her intelligence. 

She lived in a neighborhood rife with crack houses 

and had to fend for herself while her mother cleaned 

hotel rooms to feed them. 

Then, her mother found Community Prep. Sofia found 

a place of hope, where her teachers and fellow students 

wanted for her what she wanted for herself: to learn for 

the love of learning, to attend college, to have a successful 

career and help others like herself. “My teachers kept 

saying, ‘just go for it.’ They had confidence in me when 

no one else did.” 

Though she had only learned English three years before, 

Sofia was the valedictorian of her class. And, like so 

many of CP’s nearly 600 graduates, she earned a full 

scholarship to a prestigious independent school. Sofia 

was thriving at Rocky Hill School, but when her mother 

was in a serious car accident, Sofia’s dream fell apart 

and she had to withdraw. 

Undaunted, Sofia worked hard at Classical High School 

and was accepted to a number of highly competitive 

colleges. Then, another setback. Sofia had been waiting 

for years for her green card. No green card, no financial 

aid for college. Devastated but determined, Sofia scraped 

together just enough to attend community college. 

Finally, her green card came, and Sofia transferred to 

Mt. Holyoke with plans to become a human rights 

attorney. She was recently one of a handful of students 

selected to participate in Hilary Clinton’s women’s leader 

ship development program. She went to Washington 

to meet the Secretary of State in December 2011. 

Admissions 

Kwasi Asante 

Dan Corley, staff 

Azikiwe Husband, staff liaison 

Cathy Jacques, staff 

Heath Jones 

Patricia LaSalle 

Patricia Luca, staff 

Ellen Miller 

Thomas Pitts 

Judy Ryan, staff 


Buildings AND 

Grounds 

Alden Anderson 


Peter Burke 

John Carter 


Eszter Chase 

Jeffrey Cianciolo 

Dan Corley, staff liaison 

Julian Dash ’92 

Dana DiMarco, staff 


Myrna Hall 

H. David Hibbitt 

Richardson Ogidan 


Development 

Patrick Bolger 

Bruce Cadden 

Allen Chatterton 


Richard Corley 

Lisa Dantas, staff 

Dana DiMarco, staff liaison 

Diane Ellis, staff 

Karen Greene 

Myrna Hall 


Paul Jamrog 


Louise Mauran 

Joanne Rich, staff 

Chithy Saing ’89 

Chris Santilli 

Ted Turnbull 

John Wall 

John White 

Will Wilson 

Education 


Allyn Copp 


Sarah Denby 

Sharon Hanover 

Susan Lena 

Ellen O’Hara, staff 

Kathy-Jo Payette 


Judy Ryan, staff liaison 

Jared Schott 

Jim Stahl 

Chanda Womack ’95 


Executive 

Peter Burke 



Piers Curry 

Sarah Denby 

Andrew Douglass 


H. David Hibbitt 

Barry Hittner 



Thomas Pitts 



Martin Trueb 

Ralph Wales 


Finance 

Amy Tellier, staff liaison 

Peter Burke 



Piers Curry 

Polly Daly 

Peter Freeman 


Tom Hoagland 

Jim Lynch 

Brook Moles 

Thomas Pitts 

Steve Russell 

Martin Trueb 

golf tournament 

Samuel Chase 




Sarah Denby 


Diane Ellis, staff liaison 


Paul Jamrog 

Gordon Perry 


Adam Seed 

Eric Walsh 

Ned Walsh 

Tim Walsh 

Marie Weiss 

Investment 

Amy Tellier, staff liaison 

Peter Burke 



Piers Curry 

Polly Daly 

Peter Freeman 


Fla Lewis 


Sherwood Small 

Ted Turnbull 

Long-Range 

Planning 

Alden Anderson 


Sharon Conard-Wells 


Piers Curry 

Polly Daly 

Julia Eells 

David Fox 

Warren Galkin 


Nancy Lerner 

John Moran 


Stephanie Preston ’93 

Paul Pyne 


Jonathan Stone 

Kenneth Wong 

Nominations and 

Governance 

Eszter Chase 




Barry Hittner 


Nancy Lerner 



Thomas Pitts 

Special Events 

Nick Cardi 

Ruth Clegg 



Sarah Denby 


Christen D’Oliveira 


Karen Greene 

Shane Halajko 

Sean Harrington 

Jennifer Jansen 

Joyce Leven 

Ellen Miller 

Michele Neiley 

Marianne Pursley 


Marie Weiss 

John White 

Rachel Wills-Russell 

Janine Lee 

Sisters Making Music 

Community Prep grads release their first album! 

Sisters Andra and Alexus Lee, ’02 and ’06, concentrating on Vocal Performance and the 

have been creating music since they were business side of the industry. “At Berklee, 

little. Their first joint effort, when Andra was I learn a lot in my classes, but I am learning 

15 and Alexus was 11, was a jingle for 

even more from the experiences I have 

Frosted Flakes composed on a keyboard that working with people from so many different 

their mom, Community Prep creative arts artistic backgrounds.” Alexus has big 

teacher, Janine Lee, brought home from 

dreams and hopes to be touring and getting 

school. They were dreaming of having their her music recognized nationally and 

song in a commercial. Fast forward to 2012: internationally in the future. Both Andra and 

these Community Prep alums have released Alexus credit Community Prep with laying 

a collection of songs called “Quiet.” It’s a 

the foundation for their creativity and their 

digital album and represents a whole new ability to turn ideas into results. “CP pushed 

way of creating music from what is familiar the idea of collaboration — we were always 

to most of us. 

working in teams, and that is such a big 

part of the way we make music,” explains 

Andra produces the music, creating the “beat” 

Andra. “Even if we are just emailing tracks 

— essentially everything except the vocals: 

back and forth, it is all a team effort.” Alexus 

the rhythms, bass track, instrumentation, etc. 

adds, “The knowledge you gain at Community 

Alexus gets the files and, listening to them, 

Prep is so broad; we were exposed to so 

improvises lyrics and melody over the beat 

many things. And, they really taught us to 

to create the song. It is a highly collaborative 

multitask, which is so crucial. It feels like we 

process and can involve people all over the 

each did twenty different jobs to bring out 

country connecting by email and Skype. And, 

this album.” 

it’s all digital — everything is done on or via 

their computers. 

The artistic collaboration is not just between 

the sisters. Their mother — Community 

Andra is a self-taught musician. When she’s 

Prep’s Creative Arts teacher, Janine Lee, has 

not producing, she is studying Fashion 

been behind the scenes, lending support — 

Merchandising at Johnson & Wales. Her 

moral, creative and logistic, to help her girls 

heart, however, is in music and art direction. 

bring the album to fruition — everything 

In addition to the music, she created the web 

from making costumes to renting lights for 

design and graphics, right down to programming 

the HTML. She hopes to work as a 

the video. She’s clearly proud of her 

daughters, but she is even happier that they 

full-time art director in the future, but always 

are both doing what they love. The digital 

keeping her hand in music. 

album is available online. 

Alexus is a senior at the Berklee College of 

Music, majoring in Professional Music, 

“CP showed me there was a light at the end of the tunnel. 

It gave me the skills and confidence that put me at the 

top of my class, even though I was an inner-city kid.”

ALUM N I PROF I LE Joy Hopkins ’92 

On-Line Auctions 

Golf Classic 

Joy Hopkins ’92, Mount Holyoke ’00, MBA 

Boston College ’05, describes how the 

$7,000 scholarship she received to attend 

Community Prep (more than her mother had 

each year to raise four children) gave her her 

start in life. “CP taught me that I alone had 

a choice about how I was going to lead my 

life. I just cannot imagine the choices I might 

have made had I not learned to take control 

of my life at Community Prep at a time 

when everyone that I cared about was out 

of control.” 

Joy, now a Senior Transfer Pricing Analyst 

in the Global Tax and Trade Division at Intel’s 

corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, 

California, has traveled all over the world 

and is conversational in five languages. 

She movingly thanked the many members 

of the Community Prep family who took 

her under their wings, bought her her first 

winter jacket, outfitted her college dorm 

room, and always insisted she was worth 

their investment. 

Two on-line auctions were held, in 

November 2011 and April 2012. 

Together, they raised $22,200 for the 

Annual Scholarship Fund. Because 

these auctions were held on-line at 

BiddingForGood.com, auction item 

donors had some wonderful exposure 

to more than 200,000 bidders from 

all over the country. 

item donors 

Adler’s Hardware 

Agawam Hunt 

Dawn Albanese –Wizzzz Systems 

in Hair 

Elizabeth Alper 

AMF Cranston Lanes 

Amica Insurance 

The Apartment 

Arthur Company Salon 

Bay Point Country Club 

Bella Faces –Wendy Brescia 

Bob’s Discount Furniture 

The Boston Celtics 

Cathy Bour 

Brock’s Collision Center 

Cape Cod Melody Tent 

Carabiner’s Indoor Climbing 

Castle Entertainment 

Celebrities for Charity Foundation 

Chart House Inn 

Michael Chase 

Cipco Cleaning Service 


Cranmore Mountain 

Crestwood Country Club 

Barbara Curry 

CVS Caremark 

Eric Dantas 

Sarah and Charley Denby 

Diamond Décor 

Dick’s Sporting Goods 

East Bay Bed & Breakfast 

Eddie C’s Salon 

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP 

Essex Inn 

Faial’s Restaurant 

Jacob Fain 

5 Wits 

Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse 

& Wine Bar 

Flynn Pest Control 

FreeLove Clothing 

Nancy Gillooly 


Karen and Jonathan Greene 

Theresa Guenard 

Harborfront Inn at Greenport 

Harpoon 

Kathleen and Barry Hittner 

Hyatt Place 

Hyatt Regency 


JCC Rhode Island 

Jigsaw2order 

Johnston Acupuncture Clinic 

Julian’s 

L’Attitude 

Elizabeth LaRose 

Nelia Lawton 

Learning Connection 

Geral Lee 

Legal Sea Foods 

Liberty Hotel 

Lindt 

Louisquisset Golf Club 

Luminous Salon & Spa 

Massage Therapy Associates 

Matunuck Oyster Bar 

Skip Mauro 

Metacomet Country Club 

Meyer House 

The Misquamicut Club 

Mohegan Sun 

Chrissy Mollicone 

Terry Monroe 

Russell Morin Catering 

The Motion Center 

Mount Pleasant Hardware 

Newport Bay Club & Hotel 

North Conway Grand Hotel 

The Organized Way 

Outback Steakhouse 

Parkside Rotisserie & Bar 

Personalized Cakes & Dena Payne 

PGC Basketball Camp 

Kim Praast Photography 

Providence Bruins 

Providence Children’s Museum 

Providence Picture Frame Co. 

Rejuvaderm MediSpa 

Renaissance Patriot Place 

Renaissance Providence Hotel 

Roch’s Produce 

Rock Spot Climbing 


Victoria Rodriguez 

Ronnie Golden Engle 

Rota Portrait Design 

Rue De L’Espoir 

Sleepy’s 

Southside Community Land 

Trust 

The Spot Underground 

Swarovski 

Technology Therapy Group 

Texas Roadhouse 

Theatre By The Sea 

Tin Cup Golf 

Traditional Eastern Medicine 

Fredy Trejos Donohue 

Trinity Repertory Company 

Trinh Truong 

Bart Van Belle 

Eric Walsh 

Tim Walsh 

WCVB-TV / Channel 5 

Phil Weinstein 

Robin Wilson 

Vienna Inn 

XV Beacon Hotel 

Walt Disney World 

WPRI-12 and Jay Howell 

Z Bar & Grille 

The 2012 Golf Classic was held 

at The Misquamicut Club in 

remembrance of Christine H. Perry 

and Edward B. Walsh. 

A smaller tournament was also 

held in October ’11. The 

tournaments raised $43,000 for 

the Annual Scholarship Fund. 

Sponsors 

Title Sponsors 

DeWal Industries 


& Wine Bar 

Lead Sponsors 

Bank of America 

Bank of America / Merrill Lynch 

Brentwood Nursing Home 

Jeneet, Inc. 

Tourtellot & Company 

Weybosset Research & Management, LLC 

Tournament Partners 

Bradley Hospital / Dan Wall and 

Rowland Barrett 

Dr. Robert W. Hahn 

Tee Sponsors 

AAA Southern New England 

Aaronson Lavoie Streitfeld Diaz 

& Co., PC 

The Baldwin Family 

Big Blue Bug Solutions 

Case Construction 

C & S Rehabilitation 

Sarah Denby & Apollo the Papillon 

Donnelly’s 

Bob Donohue, in memory of 

George J. Shippee 

Michael M. Gooding, D.M.D. 

Hughes Family, in memory of 


William J. Lamar & Sons 

E.S. Miller / Marketing Communications 

Scott, Karen, Thomas, Tyler, Michael 

and Ryan Perry, in memory of 


RBS Citizens 

Revens Revens & St. Pierre 

Stretch-Tite Premium Plastic Food Wrap 

Prize Donations 

and Services 

Bernie & Phyl’s 

Boston Beer Company 

Brock’s Auto Center 

Eric Dantas 

Dave & Busters 


Dunkin’ Donuts 

Faial’s Restaurant 

Jacob Fain 


& Wine Bar 

Geral Lee 

Little Falls Bakery & Café 

Louisquisset Golf Club 


Joanne Rich 

Sakura 

Swansea Country Club 

Trader Joe’s 

Whole Foods 


The Corleys and The Goodings 

Committee 

Samuel Chase 



Diane Ellis, tournament director 


Skip Mauro 

Gordon Perry 


Adam Seed 

Eric Walsh, co-chair 

Ned Walsh, co-chair 

Tim Walsh, co-chair 

Marie Weiss 

Volunteers 

Eric Dantas 


Sarah Denby 


Chris Ellis 


Ellen Miller 



Bart Van Belle, staff 

Joanne Rich 

Joanne Rich

ALUM N I PROF I LE Nicole Asante ’08 

An Evening with Viola Davis 

Four years ago, a Community Prep volunteer 

helped me through the high school 

application process. Now, after boarding 

at Tabor Academy, I’ll be going to Emory 

University in Georgia for my freshman year 

of college. I can’t even begin to describe 

how excited I am to be going to Emory, 

and none of this could have been possible 

without Community Prep’s help. 

While at Tabor I was involved in several 

extracurricular activities. I was on the varsity 

track team for four years and played squash 

the first two years. I participated in two 

fall drama productions and worked as an 

understudy for a production this past spring. 

In the arts I learned that I’m particularly good 

at wire sculpting. I won an award for one of 

my sculptures and incorporated this medium 

in my six-week senior project. Academically, 

I was extremely challenged at Tabor, and 

finished with four AP courses, two my junior 

year and two my senior year. 

I also had the opportunity to attend various 

conferences while at Tabor: 

– Writer’s Conference at Middlebury College 

– Journalism Conferences at Columbia 

University and Harvard University 

– Three-day Student Diversity Leadership 

Conference in Philadelphia 

Additionally, I was Proctor of Bushnell dorm; 

a Peer Counselor; Head Tour Guide; Global 

Partner (helps new international students 

And I received the following awards: 

Excellence in Introduction to Studio Art, 

Spanish, Advanced Art Major; Makepeace 

Scholarship Award, Track Award; Fifth 

place ribbon for the triple jump event in the 

ISTA track championship meet; Regional 

Scholastic Award (gold key) in Massachusetts 

for my wire sculpture; Senior Project “High 

Pass” for my wire sculptures; Major 

dedication to the production of the student 

newspaper; Major contribution to residential 

life as a dormitory proctor; Excellence in 

English Composition; Major contribution to 

the Tabor art program. 

Earlier this week I received a letter from 

Emory saying that I was chosen of the 

science majors in the freshman class to 

participate in a program they call GLUE. 

I will be in Atlanta for three weeks to study 

and research with professors and graduate 

students on various scientific inquires. 

I will be one of 50 students going to Emory 

next year who will get the opportunity 

to do this. 

The last four years of my life have truly been 

memorable, and none of it would have 

happened without Community Prep’s help! 

Each and every 

one of you has a 

gift to give to 

the world, your 

own special gift, 

whatever it is. 

Viola Davis 

Award-winning actor Viola Davis 

took time out of her busy schedule 

during her visit to R.I. to help raise 

scholarships for Community 

Preparatory School. Held at the 

Squantum Association, “An Evening 

with Viola Davis” brought home 

Community Prep’s mission of giving 

motivated students the tools they 

need to reach for their dreams. 

keynote speaker 

Viola Davis 

Emcee 

Danielle North 

Alumni Speakers 

Joy Hopkins, Community Prep ’92, 

Dublin School ’96, Mount Holyoke 

College ’00, Boston College, 

Carrol School of Management ’05 

Amber Johnson, Community Prep ’07, 

Classical High School ’11, Tufts 

University ’15 

Honorary Chairs 


Renamarie and Robert DiMuccio 



The Honorable Angel Taveras 

Event Chairs 

Sarah and Charley Denby 


Sponsors 

Red Carpet 



Nominee 

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C. 

Sondra and Thomas Pitts 

Presenter 



Walk-On Part 

BankRI 

CVS Caremark 

Polly and Robert Daly 

Renamarie and Robert DiMuccio 

Dunkin’ Donuts and Jim Lynch 

Edwards Wildman 

Big Fan 

The Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. 



Myrna and Howard Hall 

Melinda Knight 

Ellen Miller 

Paul Pyne 

Taco / The White Family Foundation 

1 sponsor wishes to remain anonymous 

Special Thanks 

ATR / Treehouse 

Blue Skys Flower Farm 

Ruth Clegg 

Rina Consuegra 

Shirley Consuegra 

Elmwood Sports 


Janine Lee 

Nancy Lerner 

Joyce Leven 

Ellen Miller 

Ellen O’Hara 

Elaine Foster Perry 

Providence Business News 

Susan Reid 

The Rhode Show 

Amy Rojek 

Pattie Saracino 

Sweenor’s Chocolates 

WKT Public Relations 

Viola Davis 

Viola Davis and husband, Julius Tennon 



settle into the United States a week before 

school starts) for 2 years; Managing Editor/ 

Layout Editor of the student newspaper 


for 2.5 years; Editor-in-Chief/Layout Editor 

of the student literary magazine for 2 years; 

Co-head of the campus diversity club. 


Amber Johnson ’07

GRADUATION 

Richardson Ogidan, Board Chair 

Welcome 

Fiona Yonkman 

Valedictorian 


Salutatorian 


Richard P. Welch Community Prep 

Science Healthcare Professional 

Leadership Scholarship Award 


Photography 

St. Mary Academy Bay View 

Venue 

B. Pinelli’s 

Luncheon Sponsor 

Janine Lee 

8th Grade Activities Coordinator 



Kendra Lopes 

Ashlee Reyes 

Fiona Yonkman 

8th grade performances 

CP seventh grade class 

Lourdes DeJesus 

Decorations and greeters 

John Boomer 

Technical Needs 

Dear Mr. Corley, 

I just wanted to give you an update on Donovan’s progress at Hillside 

School. The semester ended and I had my first parent/teacher 

conference last Friday. Donovan received all A’s, also scoring the highest 

in the class on his history finals. I’m told he’s become such a leader 

amongst his peers. He’s taking French and learning Chinese from some 

of his classmates. 

His English teacher was so impressed with his writing and grammer, he 

stated “Donovan’s former school really prepared him academically for 

the curriculum here at Hillside.” In all his years of teaching, he’s never 

seen a child from the inner-city who writes as well as Donovan. I’m told 

he is excelling in math and science as well (which were not his strong 

suits while at CP). 

I just wanted to pass this along and thank everyone at Community Prep 

for preparing Donovan for the next level in academics and life. 

Best Regards, 

Wrenele Theme (parent of Donovan Theme ’11) 

Lifetouch 

d e s i g n Malcolm Grear Designers 

College Choices of the Class of 2008 

Becker College 

Brown University 

Clark University 

Emory University 

George Washington University 

Johnson & Wales University 

Occidental College 

Purchase College, SUNY 

Rhode Island College 

St. John’s University 

University of New Haven 

University of Rhode Island 

University of South Florida 


Class of 2012 

Blackstone Academy 

Yarinette Ventura 

Classical H.S. 

Darvin Acosta 

Sayee Campbell 


Mikaela Dalton 

Christian Diaz 

Gabriela Gonzalez 

Cristian Estevez 

Luis Ibanez 

Kevin Rodriguez 

April Samayoa 

Hideki Tani 

Cranston East H.S. 

Kevin Chen 

LaSalle Academy 

Harrison DeWitt 

Jocelyn Mora 

Paul Cuffee School 

Antonio Harry 

Phillips Academy Andover 

Fiona Yonkman 

Providence Career and 

Technical Academy 

Mark Gall 



St. Mary Academy BayView 

Ashlee Reyes 

St. Raphael Academy 

Kendra Lopes 

Christian Yepes 

School One 

Benjamen Clark 

The Wheeler School 


Henry Sanzo

Community Preparatory School | Annual Report 2012

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