New Martin Saints Board Member

Your Martin Saints board, hard at work last week.

To the Martin Saints community,

As we prepare to move to St. Titus in June, our board is thinking strategically and planning how our school will grow in the years ahead.

To that end, you may recall that two months ago, we welcomed aboard Mark Gaeto, a devout Catholic, husband, father, and businessman.

Today we are pleased to announce another new board member: John Kasbar, who comes to us with deep ties to Regina Coeli Academy. John has three daughters at RCA, where his wife Kristie helps lead their Montessori program. John recently served on the RCA board, where, among many other things, he has led the development of their athletic program.

Martin Saints has significant ties and many overlapping relationships with all four Regina academies, and we are honored to strengthen this alliance through John's appointment. Twenty years ago, Regina Coeli opened as the first Regina academy, launching the Catholic classical education movement in Philadelphia. The four Regina academies are our older brothers and sisters, blazing the trail we follow today.

Professionally, John has served for twenty years as an attorney for the Army Corps of Engineers. He has immense legal, administrative, and financial experience, planning and executing a range of civil and military missions at home and abroad. He is also a former teacher, a third order Knight of Columbus, a member of the pastoral council at Immaculate Conception parish in Jenkintown, and an avid cyclist.

At Martin Saints, your board members are joyful and hardworking servant leaders, quietly in the background, laying the foundations for school life: the budget, the bylaws, the policies, insurance, real estate, fundraising. Board members create the context, enabling families and faculty to get on with the main event, which is to mentor and form our students.

2024 will be exciting for our school. The move to St. Titus will double our space and make Martin Saints accessible to many new parishes and schools. All of us will want to pitch-in with the planning and execution of this move. Please stay tuned for ways to get involved; for now, you might want to keep Monday, January 15th available. That's Martin Luther King day, and we're planning a day of service to help prepare and spruce up our new campus.

Welcome aboard, John. We're honored and grateful to have you shoulder to shoulder with us as we educate young men and women in the faith.

Let us pray for one another, and for our work together growing Martin Saints.

Very gratefully yours in Christ,
Deacon Chris Roberts

John Kasbar - Catholic, husband, father, attorney - and newest member of the Martin Saints board of directors.