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Summer/Fall 2013 Newsletter of Inner-City Scholarship Fund Summer 2013 CONTENTS 37TH ANNUAL INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND GALA RAISES $1 MILLION FOR STUDENTS IN NEED FRIENDS GALA 1,3 Nearly 500 guests raised over MESSAGE FROM 2 $1 million at the 37th annual FRIENDS THE EXECUTIVE of Inner-City Scholarship Fund Gala DIRECTOR on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at Cipriani EVENTS 3 42nd Street. Proceeds from the BE A STUDENT’S 4-5 evening went to scholarship and FRIEND enrichment programs benefting ICSF FAMILY 6-7 students attending ICSF-supported ALBUM Catholic schools. IN THE NEWS 8 The black tie affair was emceed by VOLUNTEER 9 Dari Alexander, Fox 5 evening news CLASS OF 2013 10-11 (Left to Right) His Eminence, Timothy anchor and daughter of longtime Cardinal Dolan, ICSF Be A Student’s Friend ICSF trustee Milton Williams, and scholarship recipient Tyreece Santana, Gala Chairs Joy and Michael Millette (continued on page 3) 1 A MESSAGE FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR BOARD OF TRUSTEES Timothy M. Cardinal Dolan CHAIRMAN Peter T. Grauer PRESIDENT Lawrence B. Benenson Ronald E. Blaylock John M. Callagy, Esq. Anthony J. de Nicola Samuel A. Di Piazza, Jr. John Q. Doyle John J. Farrell Robert Gittings As we celebrate the class of 2013, I am so grateful to all of you who made high Edward D. Herlihy, Esq. school graduation a reality for our inner-city students. Without your generous gifts George B. Irish of time and resources, many of these young people would not have had the support Thomas S. Johnson they needed to complete high school and go on to college. The impact you make Catherine M. Keating by providing New York City’s children with access to safe, quality Catholic schools Arthur J. Mahon, Esq. cannot be overstated. Michael J. Millette Timothy C. Muccia With your support, ICSF has provided nearly 8,000 scholarships to students living Thomas S. Murphy, Jr. at or below the poverty level this year. We’ve also been busy with special events and Ponchitta Pierce Patricia A. Quick new initiatives to bolster our assistance of inner-city children and their schools. In the Thomas C. Quick pages ahead you will read about our latest activities: Mo Rocca Mauro C. Romita • ICSF held its 37th Annual FRIENDS Gala – a truly memorable evening Stephen G. Rooney, Esq. Howard J. Rubenstein • Our new School Champions program is helping volunteers lend their Frederic V. Salerno talents to our inner-city schools Peter K. Scaturro Christine H. Schwarzman • Seniors celebrated their graduation with their sponsors at the Martin J. Sullivan Be A Student’s Friend Graduation Reception Mary Ann Tighe Walter S. Tomenson, Jr. Robert P. Weisz I hope you enjoy a glimpse at the pictures and stories that recognize our students’ Hon. Milton L. Williams, Sr. accomplishments and the sponsors and volunteers who helped make them possible. There is so much more to be done to ensure that a Catholic school education in TRUSTEES EMERITUS New York City is possible for all children regardless of their family’s economic status. If you know someone who would like to learn more about our work, Edward Cardinal Egan please don’t hesitate to refer them to our offce at 212-753-8583 or by email at Thomas S. Murphy, Sr. [email protected]. Francis C. Rooney, Jr. Wolfgang Schoelkopf On behalf of the Staff and Board of Trustees of ICSF, thank you again for your Frank J. Tasco dedication to providing a brighter future for inner-city students. Warmest regards, Susan George Executive Director 2 ICSF SPECIAL EVENTS PROJECT YESS RECEPTION RAISES OVER $220K His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan addressed the crowd and thanked them for their continued support of inner-city Catholic schools. Project YESS Leadership Committee Co-Chair Timothy Muccia introduced Our Lady of Lourdes School Principal Cathy Hufnagel as the recipient of the Project YESS Principal Award which recognizes the outstanding leadership and dedication of an elementary school principal. Since 1998, Project YESS has provided over $4.2 million to schools for over 250 projects. These grants aim to fx windows, update bathrooms, improve Project YESS Co-Chair Timothy Muccia presents Principal Award to lighting, upgrade security Our Lady of Lourdes School Principal Cathy Hufnagel systems, and fund other capital improvements to provide a safe Over 250 guests attended the This year, Project YESS funded and pleasant learning environment. Annual Project YESS reception on grants for 15 schools. Our Lady of Tuesday, May 23rd at the Top of the Lourdes School, St. Mark the To learn more about Project YESS, Rock observation deck. The event, Evangelist, and Transfguration please contact Ginine Cilenti at in collaboration with the YESS School were represented at the event [email protected]. committee, raised over $220,000 by their students and principals, and to support capital improvements funds were raised for a new security at Catholic elementary schools system, a new fre alarm system, and throughout the Archdiocese a backfow preventer, respectively. of New York. GALA (CONTINUED) songs sung by the St. Brigid School the workplace, and fundraising for Choir. ICSF Be A Student’s Friend quality of life capital improvements scholarship recipient and Cardinal in their schools. Hayes High School senior, Tyreece Santana, delivered a moving speech Coming this winter, ICSF will host that was followed by Mr. Millette’s the 37th Annual Award Dinner at touching frst-hand account of his the Stephen A. Schwarzman building experience with the Be A Student’s of the New York Public Library on Friend program. These speeches Monday, December 16, 2013. garnered 16 new sponsors for the Please Save the Date. Students from ICSF-supported St. Brigid School Choir perform for guests program, totaling over $60,000 to support ICSF’s signature To learn more about our future events, chaired by Joy and Michael Millette, scholarship initiative. please contact Alyson Vetter at ICSF Trustee. Among the many ICSF [email protected]. supporters attending were His The FRIENDS Committee is made Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan. up of more than 200 volunteers who support ICSF students through Guests were welcomed into the initiatives including teaching art dining room by an upbeat medley of appreciation, preparing students for 3 BE A STUDENT’S FRIEND A NIGHT TO CELEBRATE Sponsor Jim Marbach with students Bryonna Vickers (left) and Shena Marshall (right) On May 2nd, 2013, high school either elementary or secondary years, but to hug the person who has seniors receiving scholarships school level students. A sponsor been such a help to my mom and me through ICSF’s Be A Student’s Friend can choose to build a relationship is really special.” program celebrated their upcoming with their particular student or to graduations with their sponsors remain anonymous. On average, 98% Longtime supporters of the Be A and thanked them for their of seniors in the program graduate Student’s Friend program Barbara generous support. and 96% pursue higher education. Weisz and Maris Fiondella were recognized at the event for the 11 Founded in 1992, the Be A Student’s While many of the students and years of support they have provided Friend program is designed to support sponsors at this year’s graduation to their graduating students. the education of economically reception event were old friends, disadvantaged children attending some students were meeting their To learn more about ICSF’s inner-city Catholic schools of the sponsor for the frst time. “It was so Be A Student’s Friend program, Archdiocese of New York. The nice to meet my sponsor in person,” please contact Kelvin Gentles program selects and matches students said Angela Rivera, a graduating senior at 646-794-3328 or with sponsors who commit fnancial from Aquinas High School in the Bronx. [email protected]. resources to help pay tuition for “We’ve been writing to each other for INNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND FACTS • Average number of ICSF scholarships • Percentage of students who live near or provided per year: 8,000 below the federal poverty level: 68% • Percentage of high school seniors • It costs our ICSF-supported Catholic that graduate from ICSF-supported schools $5,247 annually to educate the same schools: 98% elementary school student that public schools do for $15,498. The average annual • Percentage of ICSF graduates that pursue cost to educate an ICSF high school student a college education: 96% is $9,734 compared to $14,525 per high school student in NYC public schools. 4 BE A STUDENT’S FRIEND MEET AN ALUMNUS Hedge fund manager Lundy Wright’s Lundy then discovered how The two now see each other regularly initial contact with his sponsored far Errol had traveled on his own, and are a living example of how student, Errol Winter, eventually burnishing his own image by one generous hand can help another evolved into an inspirational life graduating early from Fordham, to surmount the world’s material journey for both of them. then continuing on as a graduate obstacles. Lundy hopes to do the student in Finance online to complete same for his newly sponsored student, Lundy sponsored Errol beginning an MBA from Northeastern University. a junior at St. Raymond’s High School. with grade school in 1997 and Errol told him then that he could not continued through graduation from have reached such heights without St. Raymond’s High School in the Lundy’s faith and encouragement, Bronx in 2002 up to Errol’s entry especially when fnancial and family into Fordham University on a full pressures weighed heavily on him. scholarship the same year. Throughout For both of them, Lundy says, “the that time, they saw each other four experience revealed the power of a times a year to enjoy pizza and trade Catholic education to break the cycle stories of triumphs and pitfalls.
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