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Leadership at SMSA

 Professor Slater, School Director

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SMSA is excited to announce that Professor Marion Slater will be our School Director at SMSA for the 2022 - 2023 school year!

 

Professor Slater has been a member of the SMSA Leadership Team since its inception in June 2022 and brings a wealth of teaching and educational leadership experience.

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Professor Slater will have the same authority as a principal, which means she is the operational Head-of-School and reports to Father Scott and secondarily to Dr. Virgilio, the Superintendent of Schools.

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SMSA is excited to have Professor Slater help us achieve our goal of providing the students with ingredients for success: Powerful Minds, Prayerful Hearts, and Helping Hands.

Fr. Scott VanDerveer, Pastor

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Fr. Scott VanDerveer, a passionate educator and life-long learner, is the pastor and leader of St. Mary’s Parish and SMSA.  Fr. Scott was born and raised in Rochester, received a degree in Journalism & Mass Communication from St. Bonaventure University and went on to earn a Master’s in Education at Boston College.  

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After spending time abroad serving in Up with People program, he took a position as a high school theology teacher for five years at Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Boston. In 2007, he took a middle school teaching position near his maternal relatives in Albany, while he took a closer look at what it would mean to follow the pull he had felt for so long toward religious life. 

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In 2009, Father Scott returned to Boston to study at Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary as a seminarian of the Diocese of Albany.  He earned a Masters of Divinity degree and was ordained as a priest on June 8, 2013 at age 38.

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His first assignment was at St. Mary’s Parish in Oneonta then went on to become pastor of two parishes: St. Mary’s in Coxsackie, and the Church of St. Patrick in Ravena. In September 2021, he became the pastor of St. Mary’s Parish and SMSA.

SMSA School Board

The SMSA School Board meets once a month to discuss policies, events, and academics at SMSA.  The SMSA School Board is instrumental in deciding what happens in daily life at our wonderful school.

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Please check the Calendar for updated times and information..

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Board Members:

  • Marion Slater, School Director

  • Father Scott VanDerveer, Pastor

  • Kathleen McNulty, President and Catholic ID Committee Member

  • Patricia Siano, Vice President and Catholic ID Committee Member

  • John Scrivo, Recording Secretary, Recruitment & Enrollment Committee Chair

  • Mark Olechowski, Finance & Development Committee Member

  • Mary Tully, Buildings & Grounds Committee Chair

  • Nancy Underwood, Finance & Development Committee Member

  • Rachel Dutra, Recruitment & Enrollment Committee Member

  • Theresa Aslin, PTSA Chair, Recruitment & Enrollment Committee Member

  • Anne Casola, Teacher Rep

  • Rosario Gallo

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