Specialists
“To touch the hearts of your students is the greatest miracle you can perform.”
-St. Jean Baptiste de la Salle
Mr. Alexnder Sanfilippo-Scherer, Lower School Latin
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Mrs. Allison Klimetz, Drama (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
Allison Klimetz earned her Master of Arts degree in Theatre from Hunter College. During that time, she immersed herself in theatre history, theory, playwriting, acting and directing. In 2010, she received the Rita and Burton Goldberg Award in Playwriting for her original works. Mrs.Klimetz also spent time directing and acting at the 13th Street Repertory in New York City.
Mrs. Kilmetz is passionate about arts education, and has taught theatre in various forms and directed productions for young actors. She is inspired by these words of Oscar Wilde: “I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Mrs. Klimetz lives in Nanuet, New York with her husband and two young children. She enjoys participating in school events, attending dance classes, reading, cooking new and nostalgic recipes. and hosting family gatherings.
Ms. Leslie Frost, Music (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
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Mrs. Margo Balan, Music (Grade 3 - Grade 5)
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Mr. Chris Carrico, Music (Pre Kindergarten - Grade 2)
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Mrs. Marta Pisarczyk, Art (Pre Kindergarten - Grade 5)
Mrs. Pisarczyk was born and raised in southern Poland, a land of rich cultural heritage. She grew up in an art oriented family, which is what she encourages in her own household. Mrs. Pisarczyk moved to the States as a teenager and has made New Jersey her home ever since. In college, she studied literature and art history. She was fortunate to spend a semester in Italy and travel around the globe following her college years. But the most beautiful journey of her life is that of marriage and motherhood. Mrs. Pisarczyk loves reading and hiking. She also enjoys learning Ayurvedic medicine. Her favorite quote comes from Maria Sklodowska-Curie: "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." Mrs. Pisarczyk is happy to be a part of the OLMC team and loves sharing the adventure of art history with her students.
Mrs. Ellen Denuto, Seventh Grade Art
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Mrs. Annie Link, Art (Grade 6 and Grade 8)
“All artists experience the unbridgeable gap which lies between the work of their hands, however successful it may be, and the dazzling perfection of the beauty glimpsed in the ardor of the creative moment: what they manage to express in their painting, their sculpting, their creating is no more than a glimmer of the splendor which flared for a moment before the eyes of their spirit.” -Pope Saint John Paul II, “Letter to Artists”
Annie Link is a multi-dimensional artist whose experience ranges from art direction, conceptual design, and illustration to physical production and implementation. Her personal work focuses on portraiture and narrative illustration and is inspired by mythology, poetry, literature, and her own travels.
Annie attended the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, graduating with a B.A. in Concept Art for Game Development. While at school, she studied both traditional and digital methods for illustration and design. She chose the program because of its intense focus on designing for narrative storytelling, as well as learning the traditional skills associated with realism.
Annie has been working as a freelance artist ever since, and is excited to share her skills and love of art with her students. She is currently continuing her art education by taking courses online from New Masters Academy.
In her free time, she enjoys haunting cafes and libraries, boxing, getting lost in books, exploring new places, and of course drawing and painting. Annie and her husband Brenden currently reside in Annie’s hometown of Denville.
“Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in icomparable terms: ‘Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!’”-Pope Saint John Paul II, “Letter to Artists”
Mr. John Khanjian, Physical Education (Grade 6 - Grade 8)
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Mrs. Leslie Kania, Physical Education (Pre Kindergarten- Grade 5)
Leslie Kania earned her undergraduate degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University. She worked in the fast-paced television industry for 20 years, but she always had a passion for health and fitness. She has spent the last several years raising her three children, and watching them grow and develop helped fuel her interest in what it means to flourish in body, mind, and soul.
Mrs. Kania has always had a passion for health and fitness. She has studied nutrition and is a certified personal trainer, cycle instructor, and youth coach. She delights in sharing her love for health and wellness with her students, and hopes they continue to challenge themselves in fun and interesting ways throughout their lives.