Staff News
Capitol Record have their Beastie Boys – Gateway Regional have their Beardy Boys.
Teachers (back row l-r) Jason Straub, Chris Metzger, Mark Deal, Mike D’Alessandro,
Steve Hindman, Liam James, Keith Abed and (front row l-r) Mike DiCicco, Shawn
Cunning and Mike Pietroforte banded together growing out their beards in order to
help raise money for Pancreatic Cancer Research. The entire school was in on the
fun and the team raised over $1300 in donations. Additional teachers who grew out
their beards but were not available at the time of this photo are: Kevin Mandala, Brian
Dericks, Michael Karp, Steve Pasquarello, and Guy Pridy (who won the contest!).
Middle School students had the opportunity to choose an act for Middle School vice
principal, Mr. D’Ostilio, to perform at their fall pep rally. The choices were: dress like a
cheerleader and do a cheer, dress like a clown and juggle; dress like a One Direction
member and dance or dress like a rapper and perform a rap song. The rapper votes
won and Mr. D’Ostilio gave a performance that was hard to beat! As you can clearly
see by the above photo, our administrative staff are multi-talented. All proceeds from
this event went to help out the family of a fellow Gator, so there was also a purpose
behind the fun.