2022 Benefit Auction & Gala

SUPPORT HOLY CROSS

It was wonderful to be able to return to campus in person for the 2022 Benefit Auction & Gala – our Spring Soiree! The March 2022 event was a huge success, raising over $125,000 to support Holy Cross.

It was a lovely evening filled with great auction items, raffles, lots of food and drink, live music, and most of all, a generous group of Holy Cross parents/guardians and alumnae who not only had a great time, but enthusiastically raised their paddles for financial aid! Thank you.

Special thanks to this year’s amazing chair, Josie Militello and her dedicated team of parent/guardian and alumnae volunteers, our generous donors and sponsors, Lynn Zink our auctioneer, photographer George Allan, and of course, music by The Chance Club featuring the Academy’s own Laura Van Duzer!

Months of planning and hard work go into auction planning and preparation, but it’s worth every minute! After all, monies raised benefit what is most important – our girls! Thank you for making the event a success!

1. (L-R) Karen Kincer, Blair Kincer, Katy Prebble, 2. (L-R) Maggie Murphy Hummer ’08, Jessie Dankos ’08, Zoe Anthony Allardt ’08, Rachel Doan Tobin ’08, 3. (L-R) Dominica Groom Williams ’00, Stephanie Sprow Owens ’00, Katy Prebble, 4. Jessica Dominguez and Lisa Luksic, 5. Ruthie and David Metger, 6. Anna Stewart, 7. (L-R) Carlos Gomes, Katy Prebble, Isabel Serra Gomes ’96, 8. (L-R) David Luksic, Lisa Luksic, Anita DeMino, Joseph Anthony DeMino, 9. (L-R) Natalia Darling ’07, Christina Benedetti ’08, Katie Gallagher ’07, Valerie Christina Parra ’07, 10. (L-R) Janie Worch, Anthony Worch, Carolann Bellaman, 11. Rachel and Andrew Kwok, 12. (L-R) Helen Cannaday Saulny, Rich DiPippo, Molly DiPippo, 13. Front row seated (L-R): Michael Hite, Suzy Avon Hite ’95, Colleen Mallon Schrier ’89, Jennifer Murphy; Back row standing (L-R): Kim Mooney McNamara ’95, Sara Foulkes, Thomas Foulkes, Jamey Schrier, Paul Murphy, 14. (L-R) Kate Miner, Bradley Boekeloo, Stanley Drake, Ebony Broadwater, Anne Feeny Mascari ’83 playing Heads or Tails, 15. Michael Bellaman, 16. Mark Anthony Jackson with Auctioneer Lynn Zink, 17. The Chance Club (faculty member Laura Van Duzer center)

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Gabriela and Victor de la Garza were the winners of the 50/50 raffle that was drawn at the 2022 “Spring Soiree” Benefit Auction and Gala in March. Their daughters are alumnae Almendrita Vergara ’11 and Andrea Vergara de la Garza ’13. Almendrita attended the Honors Program at the University of Maryland and received dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and film studies and earned a master’s degree in library sciences. Almendrita has worked as a librarian at the American University and in D.C. public libraries. Andrea lives in Manhattan and is a first-grade teacher at a bi-lingual school for special needs children. She has two master’s degrees, in children’s rights and bilingual special education. She speaks three languages. After college in Scotland, Andrea returned to Maryland and worked at the United Nations Foundation and designed programs for “Girl Up,” a program for high school girls promoting gender equality. She is engaged to a man whom she met at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.