Board & Staff
Board
Cordelia Delson, President. Chair, Astral Artists, 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 and founder, The Chester Fund for Education and the Arts, a private non-profit that partners with the Chester-Upland School District to provide arts, teaching, and other support for a public magnet school, the Chester Upland School of the Arts.
Susan Brake, Founder and President, EPIC Consulting, Swarthmore, PA, specializing in management and leadership development for business; former human resources executive, American Express and Pizza Hut.
Barbara “Bunkie” Darlin is an historian of American costume and regional vice president of the Costume Society of America.
Marlene Mackason, Administrator, Morgan Lewis Bockius, Philadelphia. Parent of Chorus member.
Mary McTernan, Former Vice President, Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Former trustee, Williams College. Former Chair, Valentine Foundation.
Jay Tucker, Former owner/head coach of Delco Mustangs semi-professional football team. Parent of Chester Children’s Chorus member.
Ian B. Wilcox, Global Director of the Pharmaceutical Practice, Hay Group consulting, Philadelphia.
Maurice G. Eldridge, Ex Officio, Vice President for College and Community Relations, Swarthmore College. Chair, The Chester Fund for Education and the Arts.
Wendy Emrich, Ex Officio, Managing Director, The Chester Fund for Education and the Arts. Former professional mediator specializing in interpersonal disputes.
Staff
John Alston, Founder and Director. Associate professor of music, Swarthmore College. Doctorate in choral conducting, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Andrea Knox, Acting managing director and development director. Joined Chester Children’s Chorus in 2001. Former Pulitzer Prize-winning business reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer. B.A., Swarthmore College.
Daniel J. Beal, Assistant Music Director. Former music teacher and choral director, York Suburban School District (Pa.) and Ephrata Area High School (Pa). Joined chorus June, 2009. B.A., Music, summa cum laude, West Chester University.
Elisa DeNofio, Administrative Assistant. Joined the staff in September, 2005.
Amie Richan, Piano teacher. Private teacher with 20+ years teaching beginning through advanced students.
