Board

 

JOHN ALSTON, President and Founder

• Founder and Director of Chester Children’s Chorus
• Associate Professor of Music, Swarthmore College
• Doctor of Music in Choral Conducting, Indiana University

Honored for his work with Chester’s children by Turning Points for Children,
a Philadelphia children’s service agency; Epsilon Pi (Chester) chapter of the Omega
Psi Phi fraternity; Congregation Beth Israel of Media, Pa.; and the YWCA of Chester

MAURICE ELDRIDGE, Chair

• Vice President, College and Community Relations;
  Executive Assistant to the President, Swarthmore College
• Member, Chester Children’s Chorus Advisory Board
• Former Principal, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Washington, DC
• Co-founder and past President, Arts Schools Network,
  a nonprofit organization serving arts-school leaders

 

DONALD DELSON, Vice Chair and Treasurer

• Senior Advisor, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., New York
• Co-publisher, The Swarthmorean
• Former Director, Wallingford Swarthmore School Board
• Member, Finance Committee, Crozer Keystone Health System
• Board Member, WSFS Bank, Wilmington, Delaware
• Former Associate, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, LLP

 

CHARLES GRAY, Secretary

• Former Director, PA Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• Former Board Chair, Chester Education Foundation
• Board Member, Widener Partnership Charter School

 

BEN BRAKE

• Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Epic Research, LLC
• Former Chief Marketing Officer, Juniper Bank (now Barclaycard US)
• Former Executive Vice President, First USA

APRIL BYRD

• Counsel, Dechert, LLP
• Member, Editorial Board, Philadelphia Lawyer magazine
• Adjunct Professor, Villanova School of Law
• Co-chair, Minorities in the Profession Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association
• Member, Juvenile Justice Alliance

CORDELIA DELSON

• President, Chester Children’s Chorus Advisory Board
• Board Chair, Astral Artistic Services, Inc.
• Trustee and Secretary, Swarthmore Centennial Foundation
• Former Board President, Orchestra 2001
• Widener University Engineering Faculty, retired

ERIC KRAEUTLER

• Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
• Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and Special Deputy Attorney General for the
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2008-2011)
• Recipient, Norman Cohn Hope Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society

JAY McENTEE

• Chief Executive Officer, Alesco Financial, Inc.
• Director, The Bancorp Bank
• Founding Partner, Harron Capital LP
• Former Director, Pegasus Communications Corporation

JEFFREY SCHEUER

• Author, The Sound Bite Society:  How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left, 1999 (a CHOICE “Outstanding Academic Title”), and The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence, 2007
• Commentator, critic and essayist in the New York Times, Washington Post,
  Los Angeles Times and other publications
• Former Adjunct Professor, New York University Department of Culture and Communication
  Contributor to the Dictionary of American Biography and Encyclopedia of New York

NOLAN WOODLAND

• Member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
• Graduate, Temple University School of Education
• Former Member, Board of Directors, Chester Upland School District
• Leadership Delaware County Volunteer of the Year, 2005

ANDREA KNOX, ex officio — Chester Children’s Chorus

• Managing Director, Chester Children’s Chorus
• Former Pulitzer-Prize winning business reporter and editor, Philadelphia Inquirer