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photos by RCM/SHP
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Newark Corporation Counsel
Julien X Neals '82
visits the Future Lawyers Club
Former Chief Judge of Newark Municipal Court, Julien X. Neals SHP '82, returned to The
Prep on September 26 to speak to the Future Lawyers Club as part of Adviser John Pascal's continuing series of speakers on the law, the judiciary and law enforcement.
Mr. Neals was formerly
a partner in the Secaucus law firm of Chasan Leyner & Lamparello, and in 2006 was appointed Chief Judge of Newark's Municipal Court, the largest and busiest municipal court in New Jersey, with 11 full-time
judges and a 100 member staff. He recently joined the administration of Mayor Corey Booker as Corporation Counsel, replacing Aney Chandy. Previously Chandy managed the city's 45 in-house attorneys and 30 support staff.
Mr. Neals, while at The Prep, played on one of the state championship football teams coached by Tony Verducci, and ran the hurdles on Coach Bill Persichetty's track teams. He encouraged the
students to be interested in a variety of activities, and to contentrate hard on their studies, particularly reading and writing, noting their importance in law school and in practice.
Nr.
Neals initially recalled for the students some of the early choices that his family made that resulted in his becoming a student at the, at the time, South Orange campus of Seton Hall Prep. He also described how his
early prime interest in music gradually became a pursuit of the study of law. After earning his bachelor's degree in communications cum laude from Morehouse College, in 1991 he received his juris doctorate from Emory
University School of Law.
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TEAMWORK TAKING HOLD
Frosh Field Day Has Homerooms Come Alive
After a somewhat cerebral approach to the concept of teamwork in the first few weeks, with a few icebreakers and classroom exercises thrown in, the freshman
class put the pedal down on the idea of teamwork and team spirit at the Annual Frosh Field Day on Septemeber 19.
With classes put aside for the day, the 270 newest members of the SHP Community
headed to the Kelly Athletic Complex, and later to Tracey Gym, for a day of contests and competitions. The morning offered the colorfully bedecked homerooms a chance to duke it out in volleyball, relays, free-throw
shooting, and both touch and frisbee football.
Following a lunch in the Dining Hall, the group headed for the tug-of-war battle in the gym. A couple of monumental struggles had the onlookers on
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FROSH GET A JUMP-
a full day's orientation puts them
through their paces
September 4 was a big day for 270 former strangers from nearly 80 towns scattered across the counties of northern New Jersey. At 1:00,
saying good-bye to parents on the front driveway, they gathered in the Giblin Auditorium to begin the task of becoming the Class of 2012. With many activities planned for the day, they would be here until after 8 in the
evening.
Following a welcome by Headmaster Msgr. Michael Kelly and remarks by Director of Admission Tom Cuomo and Dean of Studies Matt Cannizzo, the new students were assigned their homerooms and
quickly got to meet their Peer Leaders and the rest of the small group that will form their base of operations for the year. They spent the afternoon picking up books, shirts and locks, logging on to the school computer
network, testing out the best routes to their classes, getting their yearbook pictures taken, hearing from school administrators and program directors and learning the Alma Mater.
The Peer
Leaders, who will shepherd the frosh through the year and in their homerooms, had met earlier in the day [photos, rt] to game plan the day, organize their freshmen's schedules and ensure that they were all on the same
page of their mission.
Capping the day's activities, the freshmen regaled their parents, who had arrived at 6:30 for their own orientation, with their first group effort at the Alma Mater.
Then they headed home to get ready for their first real day of high school.
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PEER LEADERS
ON THE ROAD TO PREPARE
FOR THE YEAR'S WORK
While many students were getting in their last licks at vacation, The
Prep's 32 senior Peer Leaders set to work on the important issues of how they would build an efficient team to lead the 275 new freshmen through their first year at the school.Team-building, problem solving and
leadership development were on the agenda as the seniors headed south to a retreat off Rt 195 near Wall Township on the first weekend of August. Under the direction of Progran Director Theresa Neglia and associates
Richard Ingraffia and Dr. James Incardona, the group experienced many of the same issues their ninth grade charges would experience during the year, and they developed plans and strategies to smooth the way for the
newest members of the Prep Community to have success in their new home. >>> last year's Peer Leadership Retreat
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