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Board of Trustees
Our trustees work to ensure that La Salle maintains financial health and strength of programming, so that it can continue its mission to provide a superior Catholic, Lasallian education to the young women and men entrusted to our care.
La Salle Academy Board of Trustees 2023
| John Regan, Esq. ’67, Chair David T. Miele, Esq. ’78, Vice Chair Brother James Butler, FSC Brother Dennis Cronin, FSC Hon. Francis J. Darigan, Jr. ’60 Lawrence P. Fillipelli, Ed.D. ’91 Barbara Cottam Garrahy William T. Giannini ’73 Laura Graziano-Boehm ’06 Cedric P. Huntley ’77 Sarah Laitinen |
Michael A. Lee ’75 Lauren Lemoi ’05 Stephanie A. Maloney, Esq. ’02 Brother Dennis Malloy, FSC Daniel McConaghy ’85 Thomas F. McDevitt ’75 Ann McDonald Murphy ’88 John Pastore M.D. ’59 Felicia Raton ’05 James Schlegel |
WELCOME OUR NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
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Lawrence P. Filippelli, Ed.D. ’91 P’24
has served as Superintendent of Lincoln Public Schools since 2018. He was named 2023 Superintendent of The Year by the Rhode Island School Superintendents Association (RISSA). He also serves as adjunct faculty at Providence College, in the Graduate Program in Educational Administration, and at Johnson & Wales University, in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership. Larry sits on the Rhode Island School Safety Committee, the Rhode Island Green Business Advisory Committee, and serves as secretary on the executive board of RISSA. He is a current member and past president of The 100 Club of Rhode Island, an organization that helps first responders across the state and provides scholarships to high school seniors who are the children of first responders. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Rhode Island. Larry is a graduate of Providence College, where he also earned a master’s in American history, and holds a doctoral degree in educational leadership from Johnson & Wales University. ❝ E As an alumnus and current parent of a La Salle stu- dent, it is the relationship among the members of the La Salle community that is most special to me. The way in which stu- dents, teachers, parents, alumni, and friends of La Salle work together to ensure the excellence of our school is how we can provide the best environment for the learning and growth of the young people entrusted to our care.” -
Cedric P. Huntley ’77
is the executive director and a founding Board member of the Nonviolence Institute of Rhode Island. He previously worked for the Department of Labor & Training EEOC, at the Met School as director of Facilities and for Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun. Cedric is the recipient of numerous community service awards. Most recently, he was the recipient of the 2022 Medgar Evers Award from the Rhode Island Chapter of the NAACP. He is Board co-chair of the Providence Police Advisory Board and a Trustee of the College Unbound Board. He is a member of the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence. Cedric attended the Community College of Rhode Island and is a graduate of Cambridge College where he also earned a master’s in education. - "La Salle Academy instilled in me the value of patience, the importance of education and respect of tradition. My participation in sports is part of my most precious memories about La Salle. It’s my opportunity to contribute to an institution from which I received a great education and many life changing experiences, lasting friendships, and connections." -
Stephanie A. Maloney ’02
is senior counsel at the U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She has extensive government and private sector experience, with a focus on appellate litigation. She recently served as chief of staff and counsel in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Stephanie served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edith Brown Clement, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the Honorable Stephen J. Murphy III, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University Maryland, where she received a bachelor’s degree in political science, and cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, where she served as symposium editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. She also holds a master’s degree in theology from Emory University. She previously served on the faculty at La Salle in the religious studies department. - "La Salle Academy is a place where the worth, dignity, and unique gifts of young men and women are recognized and valued. And La Salle offers those same young people a transformative education that instills the tools needed to 4 | la salle alumni magazine 2022 imitate the life of Christ. The Board of Trustees is dedicated to preserving the mission of La Salle Academy and to providing the resources needed for the students to live out that mission.”
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Thomas F. McDevitt ’75
is the founder and managing partner of Edgewood Capital Advisors. He has more than 30 years of experience in real estate and real estate capital markets, and has held senior positions at Salomon Brothers, Citibank, Meenan, McDevitt & Co., and Société Générale. Tom sold Meenan, McDevitt, founded in 1991, to Société Générale in 1998. Tom currently serves on the Boards of Neuberger Berman’s Crossroads Private Markets Funds and the Private Markets Access Fund. Additionally, he has served on a number of non- profit boards including, Foundations in Education, A Better Chance of Wilton, Community Nursery School of Wilton, and the Wilton Riding Club. Mr. McDevitt received his A.B. from Harvard College and his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. - "During my four years at La Salle I was afforded the opportunity to grow both intellectually and spiritually. I always felt that my time at La Salle provided a tremendous foundation to allow me to flourish personally and in my career. As a member of the Board, I look forward to contributing to the La Salle community so that others may have the same opportunities that I and countless other La Salle graduates have had.” -
Dr. John O. Pastore ’59
has been a cardiology consultant since 2016, when he founded the Physicians Medical Legal Consultants of Boston. He enjoyed a long career in cardiology at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, a Tufts teaching hospital, where he established the Echocardiography Laboratory, one of the first if its kind, and managed a busy practice of clinical cardiac care while teaching residents and fellows. He holds the academic title of Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. John is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he enrolled in science pre-med but also graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. He received his medical degree in 1967 from the Yale University School of Medicine. John was then accepted into the internal medicine residency training program at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Following his initial two years of residency training, he fulfilled his military obligation, serving for two years as a research internist and USPHS officer (LCDR) at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. John has been actively involved in the physicians’ movement for the abolition of nuclear weapons, serving over the years as the executive secretary of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War when it was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1985 - I have always been attracted to institutions that espouse a clear, motivating goal, beyond ‘education,’ for instance. Looking back, I found that principle at La Salle, at Notre Dame, and at Yale Med. But many of my best teachers were at La Salle." -
Felicia Raton ’05
is a project manager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her alma mater. She earned a bachelor’s of science in business management and began her career at Boston Medical Center as operations manager. She served in a similar role at University of Massachusetts Hospital, Worcester, Mass. After moving into the higher education realm, she worked as a quality assurance/quality control training specialist at Brown University for a number of years. She returned to MIT in her current position. - "What I love about La Salle Academy is its ability to evolve with the times, while remaining true to its values. La Salle provides a safe and comfortable environment where mistakes are seen as opportunities to learn and grow.”
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La Salle Academy is a high school rich in history and grounded in the person and teachings of Jesus and the Catholic faith, which are core to the school's life and culture. The De La Salle Middle School provides a strong holistic foundation for students to transition into high school. The high school and middle school provide students of diverse ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds, a community to foster growth in the tradition of St. John Baptist de La Salle’s ideals of faith, service, and community.
