The Alumni Magazine of Paul VI High School Spring 2018 Alumni Amoré Take Your Seat in the Spotlight! ou don’t have to be a performer to play a starring role with the Paul VI YTheatre Arts Program. Whether you were in the cast or crew of a past Paul VI production or were an appreciative member of the audience, the Paul VI Theatre Seat Campaign offers you the chance to leave a lasting legacy and play an important role in enhancing the Paul VI High School Performing Arts Program. We Saved You a Seat. Now put YOUR name on it. Take “Your Seat in the Spotlight” and enjoy having your name, or that of a person you wish to honor, laser engraved on a plate on an elegant seat. You can name one seat or an entire row and pledge your payment over time. When you sponsor a seat, we will acknowledge your gift to the recipient of your choice. Seat donations are 100% tax-deductible as allowed by law. We will honor all seat requests on a first-come, first-served basis. Note: Seat sponsors must still purchase tickets to any Maintain the Dream performance at the theatre. Seat name recognition does not Donations to “Your Seat in the Spotlight” will fund ongoing Paul VI Theatre guarantee use of that particular seat for future performances. programs. Your contributions helped us to completely renovate the auditorium. Purchase your seat today by sending this form indicating the name to be engraved (as noted above, three lines of up to 15 Plates are engraved metal and may include up to three lines of up to 15 characters each, for a total of 45 characters, including spaces characters each, for a total of 45 characters, including spaces and punctuation. and punctuation), along with a check. Sponsorship Information (Please print) Seat Selection: Name __________________________________________________________________ $500 Premiere Filippini Section Street Address ____________________________________________________________ (House Center Seats) City, State, Zip ____________________________________________________________ $250 Eagles Section Phone __________________________________________________________________ (House Right and Left Seats) Email __________________________________________________________________ $100 Blue & White Section Signature ________________________________________________________________ (Back Seats) If requesting an acknowledgement letter to an additional party (i.e., in honor of, in memory of), please include this request (name and address) along with your form and check. Thank you. Purchase your seat online Plate Imprint Information (Please Print) at www.pvihs.org LINE 1 Click on Seat Campaign –or– Reply by mail. Send check to: LINE 2 Paul VI High School LINE 3 Attn: Seat Campaign 901 Hopkins Road Haddonfield, NJ 08033 For more information: For additional information on the full range of naming opportunities, please contact Mary Anne Yeager, Director of Institutional Advancement, at 856-858-4900 x343, or email [email protected]. SS OOAARR 3 IN THIS ISSUE Diocese Honors Sister Marianne McCann 3 What’s Your Story? 4 Students in Action 7 19 Sports Update 10 Alumni in the Spotlight 14 Mary Poppins 23 23 Alumni Gatherings 24 Class Notes 26 In Memoriam 32 SOAR Magazine is published by the Advancement Office of Paul VI High School, 901 Hopkins Road, Haddonfield, NJ 08033. President Michael Chambers ’94; Principal Sr. Marianne McCann, MPF; Editor and Director of Institutional Advancement Mary Anne Yeager ’73; Contributing Editor Karla Schroeder-Kolakowski ’77. Paul VI High School SOAR magazine is located in the iTunes Store. Subscribe to SOAR magazine by searching iTunes for Paul VI High School and be up to the minute with our alumni publication. The subscription is free, and you can download the most recent SOAR magazine to your Apple device. Spring 2018 | 1 ever-changing world.” This proclamation of truth could so easily be Message from the President applied to the way we think about love. What food and water are This issue of SOAR bears witness to Truth to the body, so truth and love are to the soul. Therefore, we strive and Love, truth and love inextricably in- to form our students’ minds to know the truth, and we call them to tertwined in the ideals—and realities—of the ideal of love by teaching them to see the good in one another. marriage and family. Within these pages In Catholic education, “truth” means much more than “proven.” we pay homage to the many loving teen- While we enable our students to learn facts and grasp concepts, age relationships nurtured here at PVI love demands that we do more. Therefore, we seek to fully educate that developed, matured, and culmi- our students by drawing them into an encounter with truth. A true nated in marriage. We highlight truth and Catholic education leads to a special encounter with Jesus; often love, both in our work and in our lives, that encounter is found in love for another. In this issue of SOAR, for the two are inseparable. we celebrate the many times that such encounters led to Christian The fortunate alumni featured in this issue all share in a loving marriage and family. It is remarkable to see how many couples experience that transcends personal advantages and adopts a share the rewards of truth and love—a blessing bestowed here at strong, self-sacrificing, compassionate union. As these Paul VI Paul VI. It is our privilege to bear witness to these couples who family members have found, that’s the beauty of a long, loving are the living embodiment of 1 Corinthians 13:13: “faith, hope and relationship—each day the bond grows more fervently. Our love—and the greatest of these is love.” married alumni are vibrant, real-life examples of what author and During this springtime season of renewal, I wish for every member philosopher Sam Keen observed, “We come to love not by finding of the Paul VI family a profound rejuvenation of the truth and love the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person harvested at Paul VI. May God continue to bless you with love that perfectly.” It is the day-to-day commitment to truth and love, the is grounded in truth, and may your lives, like those you’ll read constant dedication to renewal, that makes these stories precious about here, continue to be enlightened and transformed. and worth sharing. All the best, This is more than a celebration of truth and young love—it is the reality of our mission statement lived out. Truth is at the core of our mission statement, when Paul VI specifically “calls students to open their minds and hearts to the truth, to be enlightened and Michael Chambers ’94 transformed by it, and to proclaim it through word and deed in an President watched as Sister greeted each one and remembered every former Message from the student by name. This is a well-deserved award for a great leader. Alumni Association President Speaking of family, this issue of SOAR pays recognition to Paul VI graduates who married one another. Just one more special reason Dear Classmates and Fellow PVI Alumni, why PVI feels like “family.” So many couples went through PVI as On behalf of the Paul VI Alumni boyfriend and girlfriend and ended up getting married. Living life Association, I would like to recognize and together in the sacred institution of marriage and PDA guilt-free! Just congratulate Sister Marianne McCann to name a few, congratulations to PVI alumni Mary Anne Rauscher for being named Parochial Leader of ’73 and John Yeager ’73; Andrea Christaldi ’85 and Jack Donegan ’86; the Year in the Camden Diocese. Sister’s Denise Vespe ’87 and Art Mascolo ’86; Ellen Aaronson ’88 and Gregg leadership in Catholic education for over Conti ’88; and Allison Kowal ’90 and BJ Orzechowski ’90. 5 decades has been unmatched and Until our next issue, please keep on supporting PVI in the many unparalleled. How can one even imagine Paul VI High School ways you are able. Stay well. without Sister? She has led us with superior Christian values. She led with strictness but also with great fairness. She is our matriarch, God bless, and we are her family in this great institution we call Paul VI High School. At a recent Homecoming game, alum after alum walked up the metal ramp toward Sister’s customary “seat” at all football Dominic J. Vesper, Jr ’88 games. As alumni paid their respects and said a simple hello, I President, Paul VI Alumni Association 2 | Soar Magazine Visionary Leader Sister Marianne McCann Recognized by Diocese Mary Beth Peabody, Communications and Marketing Manager, Office of Catholic Schools t’s hard to imagine a leadership quality Sister Marianne McCann said she knew she would become a teacher. “I was precocious. I does not possess. Recipient of the 2018 Diocese of Camden was a public schooler… It probably comes with being bossy,” she I“Lead. Learn. Proclaim. Award,” Sister Marianne has been said of her chosen career path. principal at Paul VI High School in Haddonfield since 2001. Her The decision to enter religious life was not far behind. In sixth dedicated and inspirational service began when she joined the grade Sister Marianne made the move to Villa Walsh Academy in school in 1974 as an English teacher and Morristown, where the Religious Teachers became assistant principal in 1975. Filippini taught and inspired her through “Sister doesn’t live in the here and now; Sister high school. Combining religious life with a sees three years, five years and even longer teaching career seemed like a natural fit. And into the future. In the 21st century, her vision it still does. included electronic texts and student iPad use “I’ve never lost my love for teaching. Still long before other schools,” said Lea Pittman, today, above all I love being in the classroom.