MEC Students Raise Money for American Heart Association

Media Release

The gym was completely transformed with decorations and the music could be heard miles away as Mary Ethel Costello students and teachers recently  finished the annual JUMP ROPE FOR HEART EVENT, and raised money for the American Heart Association.   

The event took place on April 16th and 17th. The stations included the  Long Jump, "The Egg-Beater", Individual, Helicopter, and the "Rest" station.  The students received snacks, certificates of participation, stickers and prizes.  A total of $5,912.49, the highest amount ever for  MEC , was raised for the American Heart Association.

The Top 5 Students included Dexter Williams (Narducci's homeroom) $737, Nick Arey (Groff's homeroom) $360, Thelena Draper (Groff's homeroom) $302.20, Amanda Blankenship (Harris's homeroom) $280, and Teresa Zenobi (Lehr's homeroom) $185.

Honorable Mention included Amber St. Clair (Roney's homeroom) $145.70, Bryan Brenman (W. Kohler's homeroom) $137, Joetta Mottas (Roney's homeroom) $125, Annie Sacilowski (Roney's homeroom) $115, Heather Dobb (Murray's homeroom) $110, Nathaniel Weisser (Quigley's homeroom) $100.

Homeroom Totals were as follows:, Groff- $894.40,  Narducci - $747, Roney - $586.95, Harris - $556, Koenig - $444.30, W. Kohler - $419.25, Whipple - $418.50, Brady - $372, TEACHERS/STAFF - $363, Lehr - $342.17, Murray - $190.30, Quigley - $153, Bartley - $129, C. Kohler - $86, Gandy - $80, Devereaux - $50, Napoli - $42, Shank - $33, Reading - $5.

SPECIAL THANKS to physical education teacher Lisa Ambrosino for organizing the Annual Jump Rope for Heart event. Thanks to teacher Evelyn Anthony, the Double-Dutch QUEEN for all of her help and Melissa Whipple for collecting the teacher donations for the AHA for Jeans Day.

Thank you also to all those teachers/staff members that came out to help our students JUMP.Debbie Saxenmeyer, Virginia Colvin, Colleen Ott, Kim Stamm, Karen Kessler, Kerri Kaminski, Jen Lampi, Robin Marks,  Betty Averell, Karen McGlinn, Christie Murray, Lisa Schmitt, MaryBeth Reiners, Dana Fresolone, Ken Wagstaff, Dawn Meehan, Jennifer Mayer, Sharon Dagney, Cristina Crocetti, Katie Gielda, Melissa Whipple,  and Ray Sherry.