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Published twice yearly by: Inner-City Scholarship Fund 1011 First Avenue The 35th Annual Award Dinner New York, NY 10022-4112 Mandarin Oriental Tel 212-753-8583 Monday, December 5, 2011 Fax 212-371-6461 www.icsf-nyc.org Susan George, Executive Director Christine Berko, Manager of Office and Finance Caitlin Carmichael, Development Associate Ginine Cilenti, Senior Director of Development and Major Gifts Christine Desposito, Coordinator, Job Opportunities Program Alyson Gerken, Senior Development Associate Tory Grauer, Development Associate Janelle Hengeveld, Manager of Direct Mail and Volunteers Kerry Hughes, Manager of School Relations Vanessa Luciano, Program Coordinator, Be A Student’s Friend Douglas Melick, Director of Foundations and Corporations Daniel Mileno, Marketing and Communications Coordinator Carmen Stanley, Operations Manager, Be A Student’s Friend Marion Whiting, Associate Director for Special Events icsfNewsletter of Inner-City Scholarship Fund Summer/Fall 2011 CONTENTS THE FRIENDS OF INNER-CITY FRIENDS GALA 1,3 SCHOLARSHIP FUND 35TH Annual GALA On Monday, May 16, 2011, four hundred LETTER FROM Monday, May 16, 2011 THE EXECUTIVE guests sipped Bellini cocktails, dined DIRECTOR 2 Cipriani 42nd Street, nyC on scrumptious fare and danced to SPECIAL EVENTS 3 the music of the Summer Band at the be a student’s FRIENDS of Inner-City Scholarship Friend 4-5 Fund’s 35th Annual Gala. ICSF FAMILY ALBUM 6-7 In a setting of pink peonies and yellow Volunteers 8 tulips, Archbishop Timothy Dolan presided at the fete at Cipriani 42nd SCHOOL Highlights 9 Street. Gala Chairs Mollie and John Callagy led a remarkable fundraising BASF CLASS 10-11 OF 2011 effort, garnering more than $800,000 to assure that Inner-City’s crucial work will continue. Martha MacCallum, archbishop timothy dolan, and Gala Chairs Mollie and John Callagy. (continued on page 3) 1 A LETTER FROM OUR EXECUTIVE Director BOARD OF TRUSTEES Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan ChairMan Peter T. Grauer preSident Robert M. Amen Lawrence B. Benenson Ronald E. Blaylock John M. Callagy, Esq. Anthony J. de Nicola Samuel A. Di Piazza, Jr. John Q. Doyle Florence B. D’Urso Dear Friends, John J. Farrell As I watch our students and their families experience the thrill of graduation Edward D. Herlihy, Esq. each year, I am filled with pride in the work we do and with appreciation for the George B. Irish Thomas S. Johnson enormous generosity of Inner-City Scholarship Fund’s donors and volunteers. Catherine M. Keating Your investment in the lives of inner-city children through our Be A Student’s Friend James B. Lee, Jr. program resulted in 184 seniors graduating from high school this year, with over Arthur J. Mahon, Esq. 90% pursuing higher education at a wide range of schools including Columbia, Thomas S. Murphy, Jr. Cornell, Holy Cross, Marist, Penn State, and Vanderbilt. Ponchitta Pierce Patricia A. Quick I recently received an email from Sister Mary Ann D’Antonio, Principal of St. Raymond Thomas C. Quick Academy for Girls in the Bronx. In her message she shared a story about Miamichelle Mo Rocca Abad, a member of this year’s graduating class: Mauro C. Romita In September 2008, it looked as if Mia’s mother would not be able to afford Catholic School Stephen G. Rooney, Esq. for her daughter. As a result, for two days in early September, Mia enrolled in a nearby public Mark S. Rossi Howard J. Rubenstein high school. Each afternoon, it broke my heart to watch her standing outside our school at Frederic V. Salerno dismissal. When I processed her exit report, someone from Inner-City Scholarship Fund Peter K. Scaturro called me and within an hour Mia was back at St. Raymond. I was told that ICSF had found Joseph R. Schmuckler her sponsors who would take care of everything for the next three years. Their names are Christine H. Schwarzman Stephen and Christine Schwarzman…Last Friday, Miamichelle received the Academy’s ‘Medal Martin J. Sullivan of Honor’: the Alumnae Medal, awarded each year to a graduating student who exemplifies Mary Ann Tighe the mission and philosophy of St. Raymond Academy. She graduated on June 8, 2011 with a Walter S. Tomenson, Jr. NYS Regents Diploma and is headed to Lehman College where she will be part of the SEEK Hon. Milton L. Williams, Sr. program. This is all because of all of you! I am eternally grateful to Inner-City Scholarship Paul P. Woolard Fund and your donors for your support of our students. A note like this is a true testament to the impact our donors make on the lives of TRUSTEES EMERITUS our inner-city boys and girls. Edward Cardinal Egan Hon. Edward I. Koch In this newsletter you will learn about another graduate, Anthony Cato, a member Jonathan O’Herron of the Cardinal Hayes graduating class of 2011. He will attend Boston College next Thomas S. Murphy, Sr. fall. Anthony is extremely grateful for his Catholic education, which he credits to Francis C. Rooney, Jr. his Be A Student’s Friend sponsors, Kevin and Mary Anne Mulvey: “My sponsors Wolfgang Schoellkopf have made a great investment in me, and I understand that I must capitalize on Frank J. Tasco this investment by succeeding at the college level.” These joyous achievements are only possible because of people like you who have given so many deserving inner-city children the priceless gift of a quality education. Congratulations to the Class of 2011 and to all of the donors who helped them reach this milestone! With warm regards and sincere gratitude, Susan George Executive Director 2 ICSF SPECIAL events LeFt: Cardinal hayes student wows the crowd riGht: Gala emcee Martha MacCallum GALA (cont.) Martha MacCallum, Anchor of secondary schools in the Archdiocese; Stewart—retired at the end of this America’s Newsroom on the Fox News these include the Learning to Look school year and will be missed. Channel, emceed the evening, which program, the ICSF Junior Committee, was highlighted by Cardinal Hayes the Job Opportunities Program The Junior Committee provides High School students singing selections (JOP), and the Project YESS tutoring and mentoring to students, from Joseph and the Amazing Leadership Committee. has established a basketball league, and Technicolor Dreamcoat, the school’s organizes field trips and hands-on work spring theatrical production. Hayes The firstLearning to Look art projects in the schools. The FRIENDS’ president Father Joseph Tierney appreciation classes began in the Job Opportunities Program conducts offered an Invocation that highlighted spring of 1994. This school year, 27 Saturday workshops to prepare 11th the ways in which a Catholic school volunteers taught classes in seven and 12th graders for the workplace education impacts the lives of students. schools; in May, volunteers conducted and to place them in minimum-wage their classes at the Metropolitan summer internships at non-profits and Since its founding 35 years ago, the Museum of Art, where students were corporations. Project YESS (Young FRIENDS committee has developed able to see first-hand many of the Executives Supporting Schools) raises and implemented a wide variety pieces they had studied throughout funds for capital improvements. of volunteer programs in support the year. Two valued Learning to Look of inner-city elementary and teachers—Marcy Russo and Linda The Gala funds will enable all of these programs to continue. PROJECT YESS AUCTION On June 21, 2011, the Project YESS Elementary School in Washington to learn more about project YESS and Leadership Committee hosted its Heights with a new Smart Board how to get involved, please contact annual reception and silent auction earlier in the year. alyson Gerken at 646-794-3330 or at the majestic 620 Loft and Garden. [email protected]. The venue provided beautiful views of “Our schools have meant so much Rockefeller Center and Saint Patrick’s to the New York Community for Cathedral while the smooth jazz of the generations and Project YESS is Dustin Cicero Trio entertained guests. keeping them around for generations to come,” said special guest Archbishop The event raised nearly $50,000 to Timothy Dolan, who addressed the support capital improvements 200+ guests in attendance. and repairs at inner-city Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese ICSF-supported schools are safe-havens of New York. Additionally, 24 guests in which inner-city children receive a generously donated a total of $7,500 for life-changing Catholic education, but a much needed project at Saint Joseph many are aging structures in significant School in the South Bronx, which will need of repair. replace windows last updated in 1922. tom Cunningham, principal of Saint Since 1998, Project YESS has provided elizabeth School, thanks guests at the Project YESS founder and Co-Chair Tom almost $3.7 million to ICSF schools for project yeSS reception Madden welcomed those in attendance 169 projects, including 16 new grant and honored Jim Knight, who was awards this past school year. instrumental in providing St. Elizabeth 3 BE A student’S FRIEND BaSF sponsor Mo rocca celebrates with students at the BaSF Graduation gathering A NIGHT to celebrate On May 25, 2011, at the 3 West Club “Who knows where I would be you’ve all done so well—frankly, against in mid-town Manhattan, our BASF today without my sponsor?” a lot of odds. and i’m the one who’s sponsors and graduating students inspired here—i’m looking to you for had a chance to gather together to Through the Be A Student’s Friend some advice at this point.” mark the milestone that epitomizes (BASF) program, ICSF finds willing —Mo rocca everything the program works sponsors to provide financial for — Graduation Day! assistance to inner-city Catholic “We loved being sponsors.