Executive Officers
Rector – Geoff Curtiss
Rev. Geoffrey B. Curtiss is Rector of All Saints Episcopal Parish/ Day School and the Jubilee Center. Community Service and Development Corporation in Hoboken, NJ where he has served since January 1980. He is married with two grown children who both attended All Saints Day School. Geoff has a passion for urban ministry and urban theology and is a community organizer as well as priest, theologian and teacher. His hobbies include eco-tourism, baseball card collecting and music. He enjoys the New York Yankees, golf, the beach, body surfing, running, and a good conversation.
Head of School – Jill Singleton
Jill Singleton is beginning her seventh year as Head of School. With 23 years of educational experience in public and independent schools in the U.S. and abroad, Ms. Singleton earned an Ed.M. in Literacy and Language from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a B.A. in English and Journalism from Rutgers University. Prior to assuming the headship at All Saints, Ms. Singleton was one of four founding members of the Hoboken Charter School, where she served as one of two lead administrators for six years. Ms. Singleton is the proud mother of two boys, both of whom attend the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, and her family has been a member of All Saint Episcopal Parish for 16 years. This year Ms. Singleton is especially excited to serve on the Board of Trustees for the New Jersey Association of Independent School, and to participate as a fellow in the Klingenstein Center Heads of School Program at Columbia University. When not happily busy working with students, parents and teachers, Ms. Singleton loves knitting, spending time with her family, and walking her two dogs around our wonderful city.
Vestry Members
Meryl Longval was elected to the ASEDS Board in September of 2004, having been an active member of the Parish for the past three years. In 2006, Meryl joined the Vestry and was elected Warden in 2007. Meryl works in the biomedical industry (Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY), as head of operational support functions. Prior to moving to New Jersey ten years ago, Meryl was a life long resident of Massachusetts, having graduated with a BS degree in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts, and an MS degree in Management from Lesley College. Meryl has found All Saints to be the godsend of community support, and looks forward to actively contributing to ASEDS’s charter and goals.
Diana Tully joined the ASEDS board in 2010 as a representative of the All Saints Parish Vestry. Diana and her husband John have lived in Hoboken since 2003 and have been active members of the parish since 2007. Their twin sons, William and Cooper, attend Pre-K at All Saints. Diana works in Marketing/Investor Relations for a New York-based real estate private equity firm. Diana is a CPA and earned her MBA from NYU Stern School of Business after graduating from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. Diana grew up in Wayne, New Jersey and enjoys spending time outdoors and playing trains, cars and dinosaurs with her boys.
Lisa Vickery has been a member of All Saints Episcopal Parish for about 13 years. This will be her second year on the school board. A resident of Hoboken since 1980, Lisa became an accidental “pioneer” in town after wanting to be near Bud Proctor. They married in 1983. Their two boys, Sam and Woody Proctor, attended All Saints for their entire elementary education. The siren song of the suburbs played in the Proctor-Vickery’s ears for a short while when the kids were little, but they resisted– and they are happy they did. (The boys, ages 18 and 16, went to the Hudson School for middle and high school, and Sam went off to college this fall.) Prior to joining the school board last year, Lisa had a few stints on the Vestry. In her day job, Lisa is a news editor on the corporate desk at The Wall Street Journal, where she’s worked for 30 years. Hobbies include thrift shops, flute-playing, kayaking and wine.
Parents and Parish
Gretchen Brigden grew up in New Jersey and moved to Hoboken for the first time in 1990. She moved back with her husband, Julian, in 2003 and their daughter Molly is in the afternoon Nursery class. Gretchen holds an MBA from Duke and a BA in economics from Dickinson College. Gretchen has a strong interest in education. She is a member of the Dickinson College New York Regional Cabinet and is on Women’s Leadership Advisory Board at Duke. Gretchen is currently a Managing Director with Loring Roberts LLC, a financial advisory firm. She has over 20 years experience in finance as an investor, advisor, insurer, and underwriter to a variety of clients including specialty finance companies.
Kirsten Georges is originally from Bethesda, MD. She has been living in Hoboken since 1996, apart from a short hiatus in London from 2002 to 2004. Kirsten is a Vice President and Senior Trust Officer with Fiduciary Trust Company International in New York City and has 18 years of experience in trust and estate administration and relationship management. Kirsten earned her B.A. in 1991 from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, and was awarded the designation of Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CTFA) in 2008. Kirsten and her husband, Mike LaTona, became active members of All Saints Parish in 2007. They are ecstatic that their daughter, Ruthie, will be in her second year as a student at All Saints entering into Pre-K in the fall of 2010 and are looking forward to furthering their participation as All Saints parents. Kirsten is eager to continue expanding her involvement with the All Saints community and especially looks forward to being actively involved on the ASEDS School Board.
Lenore Jones
Kate Miller married her husband from New York and moved from rural Delaware to the “big city” of Hoboken in 2001. Kate earned a B.S. in Elementary Education from Wilmington College and most recently acted as the head teacher in the Mile Square Abbott Program at the Wallace School in Hoboken from 2001 through 2004. Kate is a parish member and has two girls who attend All Saints (Ella in Kindergarten and Sophia in Nursery).
Jill Preston is both a parish member and an All Saints parent. Jill and husband Baz moved to Hoboken in 2002 and they are the proud parents of Lucy (1st grade), Penny (Nursery), and Jack (9 months). Jill grew up in Wichita, Kansas and moved to New York after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. Jill is a partner at Deloitte where she provides tax services for private equity clients.
Jessica Seaton is an attorney, with experience in nonprofit and governance matters among many others. She practiced law in New York for 18 years, at two law firms and a large financial institution, until the birth of her son. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Chicago. After growing up in Maryland and California, and attending schools in the South and Midwest, she has lived with her partner, Linda, in Hoboken for over 20 years. And since having their son in 2006 they have come to appreciate all that Hoboken offers to families with children. Their son attends the day school, and their family is actively involved in the parish.
Mary Anne Sullivan
Steve Walkowiak’s background encompasses an education in fine art, photography, graphic design and Web design. He has worked for a number of publications, including LIFE magazine, National Geographic Adventure and This Old House magazine. He is currently employed at Newsweek as an art director, but also freelances on many other publishing projects. In 2001 Steve became one of the directors of the Hoboken Family Alliance, helping to build this organization into a group of about 400 local families. The HFA is a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to helping Hoboken families connect with each other through activities and events, as well as being committed to enriching the community through philanthropy and promotion of local businesses and resources. Steve grew up in Kansas, but he and his wife Merle Schneider have been Hoboken residents since the mid-eighties. Their daughter Lucy is a fourth grade student at All Saints.
Carolyn Yuhas
Community
Stacey Gruber, who served as the Assistant Head of School for three years from September 2004-June 2007, is delighted to begin her fourth year as a member of the Board of Trustees and her second year as treasurer. Ms. Gruber is the Manager of Education Programs for the Merck Institute for Science Education, an organization focused on providing research-based professional development in science for K-12 teachers in public schools in NJ and PA. Before coming to All Saints, Ms. Gruber co-founded and served as co-coordinator and Dean of Students at the Hoboken Charter School. She also taught science, math and social studies in public schools in Newark and New York City. Ms. Gruber earned her Ed.M. in Secondary Science Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and her B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. To enhance her work life, she is an adventure traveler and a lifelong violinist and member of the New York Repertory Orchestra. Ms. Gruber has lived in Hoboken since 1991.
Non-Voting Members
Veronica Loving (Second Grade Teacher and Faculty Representative) is very excited to start her fifth year as a head teacher at All Saints and her third years as faculty representative to the board. Born and raised in Bergen County, NJ, Ms. Loving earned her B.S. in Elementary Education from Boston University and a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Teaching from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education. Since attending elementary school, Ms. Loving has always wanted to be a second grade teacher. Thus, she is particularly excited and passionate about her position at All Saints. Ms. Loving, a devoted baseball fan, loves dogs and likes to travel. She, her husband Jim, her daughter Delia, and their two dogs live in Hoboken.
Michelle White (School Chaplain)
