Staff Updates 2022-2023

Many PVI faculty and staff are celebrating milestones this year. We also welcome many new faculty and staff to our PVI family!

“Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily.” ~St. Francis de Sales

This year we have several teachers and staff members celebrating milestone years of service to PVI! We are grateful for their dedication to our school community!

30 Years of Service: Ms. Gatto
20 Years of Service: Mr. Emerson, Mrs. Karas, Mrs. Corpeno, Dr. Opfer
15 Years of Service: Mr. LaDuca, Mrs. Liberti, Ms. Cayotopa, Ms. Garcia
10 Years of Service: Mrs. Aldana, Mrs. Bozik, Mr. DeBroeck

The following faculty and staff members retired at the end of the 2021-2022 school year. We appreciate all the big and small ways they have helped our students, faculty and staff grow in grace in grace and wisdom!

Mrs. Ginny Colwell, Teacher, Advisor, Academic Dean, Assistant Principal, Principal, Head of School (29 years)
Madame Christine Casey, French (24 years)
Mrs. Roberta Fisher, Finance Office (14 years)
Mrs. Eileen Johnson, Math (32 years)
Dr. Peg Weimer, Instructional Technology/Dean of Instruction (23 Years)

The following faculty and staff have moved on to their next adventure. We thank them for their hard work and dedication over the years and wish them the best. Dr. Bruno, Mrs. Beardsley, Ms. Henderson, Mrs. Madelmayer, Ms. Neves, Ms. Rand, Mr. Resnick, Mrs. Schwartz, Mr. Senson, and Mr. Whitehead.

We also thank and send best wishes to Mr. Bond and Mr. Badstubner, two of our Youth Apostle Missionaries who are reassigned to other ministries in the Diocese.

We now welcome our new faculty and staff to the PVI family!

Mrs. Laura Swenson is our new Head of School.
Mrs. Missy Gurley will teach in our Theology department.
Ms. Miriam Huettner will teach in our Theology department.
Mrs. Melissa DeBruyne will teach in our English department.
Mr. Brian McClernand will teach in our English department.
Mr. Mark Monastyrski will teach in our English department.
Mr. Michael Cresson will teach in our Social Studies department.
Mrs. Nina Valli will teach in our Social Studies department.
Mrs. Paige Gartner will teach in our Science department.
Mrs. Jocelyn Pileggi will teach in our Science department.
Dr. Earle Stone will teach in our Science department.
Mrs. Emily Shanley will teach in our Science department.
Mr. Mikhail Balachov will teach in our Math department.
Mrs. Anne Marie Brandow will teach in our Math department.
Mrs. Jennifer Ingersoll will teach in our Math department.
Dr. Antoine Assoumou will teach in our World Language department.
Mrs. Nancy Jeffrey will teach in our World Language department.
Ms. Hannah Silva will teach in our Options program.
Mrs. Stephanie Ly will teach in our ACE program.
Mrs. Jane Burke (PVI ’87) will teach in our DeSales Learning Center.
Ms. Amanda Kruczkowski (PVI ’18) will assist in our Options program.
Mr. RT Iliff will assist in our Options program.
Meg Brinker (PVI ’93) joins us as a School Counselor.
Mrs. Irene Zaso joins us as our Director of Communications.
Mrs. Carla Grimm joins our Finance team.
Mrs. Amy Hennessy joins our Finance team.
Miss Christine Moan joins our Advancement team.
Mrs. Annemarie Mandarino joins our Admissions team.
Mrs. Lissett Lineberry (PVI ’95) joins our Dining Commons team.
Mrs. Mia McIntyre joins us as an Assistant in Campus Ministry.
Mr. Kieran Koch joins us as a Youth Apostle Missionary and Mentor with Campus Ministry.

Some of our staff moved to new roles at PVI:

Mrs. Cindi Harkes has been appointed Assistant Principal/Dean of Instruction.
Mrs. Sandra Stankiewicz has been appointed Director of Counseling.
Mrs. Tracy Fentress and Mrs. Julie Yanchulis have been appointed Co-Chairpersons of the
English department.
Mrs. Ellen Fihlman and Mrs. Allison Smith have been appointed Co-Chairpersons of the Social Studies department.
Mr. Scott Bennett and Mr. Greg Knowles have been appointed Co-Chairpersons of the Science department.
Mrs. Lisa Whiting has been appointed Co-Chairperson of the Mathematics department.
Mrs. Maria Devlin and Mrs. Rosalila Mastriano have been appointed Co-Chairpersons of the World Language department.
Mrs. Ana Aldana and Ms. Colleen Marshall have been appointed Co-Coordinators of the New Teacher Mentoring program.
Ms. Emily Chinchilla has moved to serve as our Coordinator of Campus Ministry.
Mrs. Anne Sullivan has moved departments to teach in our DeSales Learning Center.
Mr. Gordon Leib has moved departments to teach full time in our Physical Education Department.
Mr. Keegan Collins has moved departments to teach full time in our Math Department.
Congratulations to Ms. Vestermark who was married this summer and is now Mrs. Solini.

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