Twenty six high school and prep school scholar athletes will be honored for
academic excellence and citizenship at the 53rd Anniversary of the Gene Casey
New Haven County Chapter of the National Football Foundation and College Hall of
Fame scholar athlete dinner will be held on April 12 at Fantasia Banquet
Facility in North Haven. A reception will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the march to
the head table at 6:30.
Greenwich resident Jim Bell, the Executive
Producer of NBC Universal’s coverage of the Olympic Games, will receive the
Distinguished American Award. Previously, Bell was the executive producer of the
Today Show on NBC.
Chapter member Robert Rafferty of North Branford will
receive the Chapter Award of Merit and long time football official Joseph
McVetty of Hamden will receive the Official Recognition Award.
Hand coach
Steve Filippone will receive the Chapter Coach of the Year Award. The Tigers
finished with a 14-0 record and won the Class L state championship and finished
No. 1 in the final Register Top 10 poll.
The scholar athletes are: Eli
Bonadies (Hamden), Alexander Borkowski (Branford), Jordan Coley (Hamden Hall),
Timothy Kovel (Cheshire), Kevin Dean (Xavier), Gary Falanga (North Branford),
James Farrell (Shelton), Michael Ferrara (Guilford), Peter Gerson (Hand),
Christopher Golger (Fairfield Prep), Bucky Gumbrewicz (Oxford), Qusaan Hoskie
(West Haven), Matthew Marcarelli (North Haven), Dillon McMahon (Derby), Sean
Merrill (Sheehan), Je’Vaughn Moore (Hillhouse), Ryan O’Connor (Ansonia), Rourke
Phalon (Holy Cross), Kyle Rivera (Platt Tech), Anthony Scirpo (Woodland),
Devante Sealy (Hyde), James Semmonella (Amity), Matthew Shumaker (Notre
Dame-West Haven) and Daniel Ziebell (Law).
Tickets can be purchased for
$45 and can be ordered by calling Donna Limone at 203-481-8375 or by email at
dpludlo214@aol.com. Anyone interested in placing a congratulatory ad can contact
Paul Criscuolo at 203-231-3992 or at paul@rabassociates.net.
Information
about the chapter can be found at www.newhavenfootballfoundation.com.
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