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RCDS Appoints New Head of Lower School and Director of Curriculum After an extensive search, The Rumson Country Day School announced the appointment of Lea Prendergast as Head of Lower School effective July 1 and Heather Parker as Director of Curriculum effective September 1.

Prendergast joins the RCDS community from Staten Island Academy (SIA), where she served as the Lower School Director since 2014 and led her division in making significant progress in curriculum and faculty professional development, among many other accomplishments. Prior to her service as Lower School Director, Lea was the librarian at SIA, and her previous experience includes working as an elementary and pre-K teacher in public schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Lea has a dual bachelor’s degree in education and anthropology from Hunter College and her master’s in library science from Rutgers University.

Throughout the interview process, the RCDS search committee was impressed

by Prendergast’s depth of relevant experience, energy, warmth, approachability, empathy, and her obvious passion for working in education and with children.

“The first thing that attracted me to RCDS was the people,” said Prendergast.

“Immediately, I could tell that it is a warm and welcoming place where children come first and that is important to me. After happily working at a school for 19 years, I knew if I were to make a change it could only be to a place

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that genuinely embodies and lives up to the values of children coming first.”

Parker, who will be joining Prendergast and the RCDS administrative team as the Director of Curriculum beginning at the start of the 2023-24 school year, drew similar observations.

“I was struck by the friendliness and openness of the community, especially the enthusiasm of the students,” said Parker.

“It is clear that everyone at RCDS is truly living by the school’s Four Pillars – Kind, Honest, Responsible, Respectful. I’m excited to dig in and celebrate the great work already happening at the school and to continue to grow and serve the needs of the students and teachers.”

In addition to her role as Director of Curriculum, Parker is thrilled to return to the classroom to teach a section of 6th grade math. She is eager to apply her experience that ranges from working with children from lower school through high school, to best prepare RCDS students for what’s ahead.

For the past 11 years, Parker has work at the King School in Stamford, CT as their Upper School Director of Teaching and Learning. Prior to joining the King School, Heather was a teacher in grades

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1-3 at Mary McDowell Friends School in Brooklyn. In addition, she has experience working in summer programs at Phillips Academy and Fay School, both of which are in Massachusetts. Parker is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Middlebury College, where she was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa and holds an M.S.Ed. in Childhood Special Education from Bank Street College of Education. Heather’s husband, Ted, is also an independent school educator.

Prendergast and Parker have already begun working with RCDS administration on campus this summer to ensure a smooth transition.

“I am thrilled that Lea and Heather will be joining the RCDS community and am confident that they will be assets to our School,” said Head of School Carson Smith.

“Each of them brings a breadth and depth of experience that will doubtless benefit both RCDS and, most importantly, our students.

Throughout the interview processes, Lea and Heather impressed faculty, staff, and parents with their knowledge and expertise, and they quickly formed meaningful connections with students and teachers alike. We are fortunate that they are joining our community.”

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The Mayor’s Cup Roars Back in 2023 The Mayor’s Cup Regatta hosted at the Shrewsbury River Yacht Club (SRYC) in Fair Haven featured a robust field of sailors on the banks of the Navesink, with boats and captains from all over Monmouth County. The youth sailors stole the show with a crowded field in the Opti and 420 class of boats. The winners of the four (4) featured award categories were captained by Fair Haven residents. Dozens of sail boats launched from the docks of SRYC in the early hours of July 1st for the annual regatta under wonderful sailing conditions.

The Mayor’s Cup, the NJYRA Irwin Bowl and the One Design Fleet award went to Fair Haven resident, skipper George Harrington on the “Bolt” which is a Lightning, a nineteen-foot centerboard sloop sailed out of Monmouth Boat Club (MBC) with an all-Fair Haven crew of Jack and

Chris Rodriguez. The Cruising Keel Boat Class hardware went to another Fair Haven resident, skipper Lou Moore with crew mate Brian Krakjik on the “Lynn” which is a Cape Cod Bullseye sailed out of Fair Haven Yacht Works.

The Optimist class single handed dinghy winners included Kate Golden 1st, Lucas Kantrowitz 2nd and Luca Gesell 3rd overall. The 420 racing dinghy youth awards went to Piper and Annie 1st, Charlotte Richards 2nd and Andrews Pedoza 3rd.

The Mayor’s Cup Regatta is held annually and brings together many from the peninsula and surrounding communities to enjoy the time-honored tradition on the Navesink River. This was the ninth race for the Mayor’s Cup, which was started concurrent with the centennial celebration on Fair Haven in 2012. The “bridge”

race was open to all sailboats and used the Portsmouth Handicap system (a universally accepted way to normalize times/ scores of widely differing types of sailing vessels). The bridge race was comprised of various fleets including Cruising, One Design, Optimist and 420 classes. The race was held between the Oceanic Bridge and Lewis Point under ideal racing conditions with winds around 10 MPH and sunny skies.

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Pallone Announces Start of Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers Dredging Project Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. has announced the start of a major dredging project of the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers. Pallone secured $26 million for maintenance dredging of the rivers in a federal spending bill for Fiscal Year 2023 that President Biden signed into law late last year.

The Army Corps of Engineers will dredge both the entrance of the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers at Sandy Hook as well as the Navesink River to Red Bank and the Shrewsbury River as far as the Branchport Avenue Bridge in Long Branch – a total of approximately 14 miles. This is the federal channel that covers most of the waterway boaters use.

The dredging project will take place in three phases. The first phase of the proj-

ect includes dredging sand material at the mouth of the Shrewsbury River in Sandy Hook Bay to the Route 36 bridge. The second phase of the project will include dredging the remaining sandy material down the Shrewsbury River into the Navesink River as far as the Oceanic Bridge. Sand will then be pumped onto portions of Monmouth Beach. The third phase includes dredging the rest of the federal channel inside the two rivers.

“Both the Shrewsbury and Navesink Rivers are important waterways for Sea Bright. Many people from our town depend on them for boating and fishing. We couldn’t be happier to see this funding come to Monmouth County,” said Sea Bright Mayor Brian Kelly. “Thank you to Congressman Pallone who fought for this funding in Congress.”

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Bill Boglioli Family • Community • Dedication Story by Brian O’Malley

Two of Central Jersey’s most cherished institutions, the Woolley-Boglioli and Holmdel Funeral Homes have been caring for Monmouth County families for generations. Originally founded by the Sexton family in 1882, the Long Branch location took on the Woolley name in the 1920s, when Willis A. Woolley joined the business. Woolley would later become the owner of the funeral home and continued to build its practice and reputation.

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hristine and Anthony Cozzetta founded the Holmdel Funeral Home in 1981 and continued to operate the business until 2015. The Cozzettas were driven by a desire to serve their neighbors and their community.

Bill Boglioli, who now owns and manages both funeral homes alongside his wife Denise, is a man who is well-respected by his neighbors and peers. Boglioli grew up in Long Branch and had his first experiences in the industry as a child while visiting the funeral home of a family friend in Warren County. “My grandfather had the largest impact on me,” Boglioli says, “he lived in a town named Blairstown, and he had a friend who owned the funeral home in town and would take me there in the mornings when I was young.” Later, Bill went on to work at the Woolley Funeral Home while he was a student at Long Branch High School, and the staff there hosted his grandfather’s funeral in 1977. Bill says

that the excellent care that the Woolley staff provided to his grandfather and his family confirmed for him that his vocation would be to work in the funeral business. “Bruce Woolley was very kind, and it cemented my mind this is what I wanted to do.” In 1982, Bill graduated from the American Academy McAllister Institute of Mortuary Science in New York City, and has been a funeral director ever since.

Woolley-Boglioli and Holmdel Funeral Homes have been a family business since Bill and Denise became the owners and operators. Boglioli’s wife Denise (nee Jackson), was the niece of the funeral home’s owners Bruce and Irene Woolley. When Irene decided to sell the business in 2011, Bill and Denise made the decision to purchase the funeral home.

“Denise had worked at her aunt’s funeral home in high school and college doing bookkeeping and always continued to work in the office,” Bill says, “when we bought Woolley Funeral Home, she

took a job at Ronald McDonald House during the day and worked at the funeral home at night and [later] when we

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bought Holmdel she decided she needed to be full time at the funeral homes to manage the offices.”

The practice now includes the next generation, with son Scott Boglioli joining the team as a licensed funeral director. “Scott does an amazing job,” Bill proudly shares, “he had always wanted to work at the funeral home and there was no changing his mind. As soon as he graduated college he came to work right away.”

Today, the two funeral homes employ five licensed funeral directors who work alongside a dedicated team of office managers and part time staff members. The staff continue a legacy of outstanding service to Monmouth County residents and a commitment to the surrounding community. “I believe we provide a comforting service and environment to care for families when they have

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a loss,” Boglioli note, adding, “we also are supportive of both areas with our support of any cause… we believe strongly in supporting everyone.”

Planning for the End of Life As one of the doyens of funeral care in Monmouth County, Bill Boglioli is in a unique position to advise clients on planning ahead for the end of their lives. One of the ways to simplify what can otherwise be a difficult time is by pre-planning and arranging many aspects of a funeral in advance.

“We absolutely encourage that families make pre-arrangements,” Boglioli says, “Melanie Siano is our dedicated Preneed Counselor and works with many

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families each year helping them plan their own life celebration.”

Woolley-Boglioli and Holmdel Funeral Homes also offer regular informational sessions to educate people about the options they have when pre-planning their funerals or life celebrations. Bill notes, “we hold a lunch-and-learn every month at a local restaurant which is educational meeting for consumers to learn about pre-arranging funerals”.

Planning ahead and making arrangements prior to death allow a family to focus on bereavement when that time inevitably comes. Pre-need funerals also relieve one’s family of the burden of determining how they would like to be memorialized, as the New Jersey State Funeral Directors Association puts it, “communicating your wishes in advance relieves your family from having to make difficult decisions at an emotional time.”

Celebrating Your Life, Your Way People have a multitude of options these days when it comes to funeral care. Traditional choices like viewings, religious ceremonies, burial, entombment, or cremation, have been joined by alternatives like green burials or donation for medical research.

Here in Monmouth County, the trend has stayed more traditional, according to Bill Bogioli. As he observes, “we are seeing cremation increasing; however families are still favoring a traditional wake, then a funeral mass, followed by cremation.”

Nevertheless, Boglioli’s team is committed to working with a family to tailor each funeral or celebration of life to their loved one’s wishes. They also offer some unique optional services to ensure that a client’s send-off retains a personal touch. “We celebrate the person’s life along with their family relationships,” Bill says, “we do this through the family’s photographs as well as beloved personal items (for example: cooking items, sporting good items, hats, etc.) We can provide the family with a beautiful blanket, collages or banners, a giveaway for all your guests and a beautiful photographic register book.”

They also help connect families with military services, f loral providers, and places to host a post ceremony repast reception.

A Lifetime in Monmouth Though born in Sussex County, Bill Boglioli was raised in Long Branch from an early age. When asked what he loves about living in this area, Boglioli says,

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“Monmouth County has everything you need. You have the beach, beautiful rural areas, great open space thanks to the County government being progressive thinking over the years.” He also notes that Monmouth County provide its residents with easy access to all parts of New Jersey, New York City, and Philadelphia.

Bill has also given back to the Monmouth community as through public service. He served for 12 years on the West Long Branch Borough Council, and has been an active volunteer with the Rotary Club, the United Way, the Kiwanis Club, the Visiting Nurses Association, and St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church.

Monmouth residents are certainly happy to have Bill, Denise, and their staff working in the area. The warm

professionalism, congenial personalities, and generous spirit of the team at Woolley-Boglioli and Holmdel Funerals Homes make us hopeful that they will be serving the families of this area for generations to come.

For more information about Woolley-Boglioli and Holmdel Funeral Homes, their services, and their pre-planning lunch-andlearn sessions, you can visit: holmdelfuneralhome.com or call (732) 946-3322 [Holmdel] or (732) 229-0122 [Long Branch]

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Senator Vin Gopal Votes Against Ørsted Bailout Bill Monmouth County State Senators Vin Gopal, representing Colts Neck and Declan O’Scanlon, representing Holmdel and Lincroft, in a bi-partisan vote, opposed Governor Murphy’s Orsted Bailout Bill. “The company, Ørsted, made record profits last year – $4.4 billon. This felt to me like a corporate welfare giveaway,” said Sen. Vin Gopal “It’s going to be on the back of ratepayers and I felt they (Ørsted) needed to do a lot more explaining and there were still a lot more concerns.” “I don’t support large corporations getting big tax breaks if they can’t provide the value and show the value. For me they (Ørsted) didn’t make that argument. That’s why I opposed the bill,” Gopal explained. Senator Declan O’Scanlon also opposed the bill and voted against it.

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Grand Opening of The George Moss History Room at Borough Hall, Rumson On Tuesday night June 27, 2023, Rumson Mayor Joe Hemphill, joined by members of the borough council, Rumson Historic Preservation Commission Chairman Rob Adler and commission members past and present, members of the Moss family and special guests marked the official opening of the George Moss History Room at Borough Hall with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

The event marked the lifelong dedica-

tion of George Moss Sr. commitment to Rumson history and his extensive collection of photos and documents, which he kindly donated to the borough.

The George Moss History Room is open to the public and residents of Rumson are encouraged to come to the room and check out the wealth of information this great room holds. You can do all kinds of research on your

home, the town and historic people.

Special recognition to former commission members Laura Tooker, Ross Millhauser, Laura Atwood, Tom Clark, Charley Shay and others for their hard work and dedication in making the Moss History Room a reality.

Located on the 3rd f loor of Borough Hall the room is open on the second Tuesday of each month from 10am - 2pm or by appointment.

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