Press Room
September 2018
Vocalists Raise Funds to Send Special Needs Children to Lourdes
Demarest, NJ: Emily Stanzione, Olivia Polise, and Caitlin Neville pooled their vocal talents to help send special needs children and young adults to Lourdes, France. This month, these three AHA students and 10 other teens presented “This Is Me,” a benefit concert at Saint Therese Church in Cresskill. Their efforts, guided by the church music directors, netted funds for the American Special Children’s Pilgrimage Group, which will host a trip to Lourdes at no cost to the participants’ families.
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AHA Freshman Named Reserve Champion at Equestrian Event
Demarest, NJ: Cassandra Beckmann, a freshman at the Academy of the Holy Angels, became Reserve Champion at Horses in the Sun Saugerties, a horse show held in upstate New York. Beckmann received this honor for winning or placing in different equestrian events, or “classes.”
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All Are Welcome: AHA Focuses on Greater Unity
Demarest, NJ: The Academy of the Holy Angels has reopened to students with the 2018-19 theme “Love gives everything” and the featured song “All Are Welcome,” which reflect AHA’s commitment to respect and unity within the school’s diverse community. This fall, 30 students have launched a Diversity Council that will strive to value each individual’s unique gifts, while AHA’s administrators, faculty, and staff are being encouraged to be mindful of implicit biases.
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Fencing Phenom Brings Vaccines to the Philippines, Studies at Harvard
Demarest, NJ: An exceptionally motivated junior from the Academy of the Holy Angels spent her summer competing in the United States Fencing Summer Nationals, studying biotechnology at Harvard, and traveling to the Philippines to provide local children with free pneumococcal vaccines. Czarina Alfonso’s summer started in Missouri, where she competed in the national fencing tournament. She placed 15th in Division 1A and brought home All-American and All-Academic Team honors.
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