Board & Staff

Board

Cordelia Delson, President. Chair, Astral Artistic Services, Philadelphia, Pa.

Scott Kessler, Vice President and Secretary. President, H.W. Marston and Company, Swarthmore, Pa. Former General Manager, The Pennsylvania Opera Theater.

Leslie Reid Price, Treasurer. Board member: Penn State at Great Valley, Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College. Former Senior Vice President, Liberty Property Trust, Malvern, Pa.

John Alston, Founder and Director, Chester Children’s Chorus. Associate Professor of Music, Swarthmore College. President, Chester School of the Arts (development stage).

Maurice G. Eldridge, Ex Officio, Swarthmore College. Vice President for College and Community Relations, Swarthmore College. President, Chester School of the Arts (development stage). Former Principal, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Wendy Emrich, Ex Officio, Chester School of the Arts. Managing Director, Chester School of the Arts (development stage). Volunteer mediator, Center for Resolutions, Media, Pa.

Mary McTernan, Former Vice President, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Former trustee, Williams College. Former Chair, Valentine Foundation.

Jay Tucker, driver with Lafayette Supply, Broomall. Former owner/head coach of Delco Mustangs semi-professional football team. Parent of Chester Children’s Chorus member.

Staff

John Alston, Founder and Director. Associate professor of music, Swarthmore College. Doctorate in choral conducting, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Anjali Gallup-Diaz, Managing Director. Joined the Chester Children's Chorus in April, 2008. Musical Director, the Larks of Philadelphia.
Former program coordinator, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Ed.M. Columbia University, M.A., New York University.

Andrea Knox, Director of Development. Joined Chester Children’s Chorus in 2001. Former Pulitzer Prize-winning business reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer. B.A., Swarthmore College.

Elisa DeNofio, Administrative Assistant. Joined the staff in September, 2005.