Faculty & Staff Directory

Deacon Roberts lives in Chestnut Hill with his wife Hannah and their four daughters. He is a permanent deacon at Our Mother of Consolation parish. The Roberts family moved to Philadelphia in 2005 so Chris could teach in the Ethics Program at Villanova University. Chris has also worked for the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Chris is a graduate of Yale (BA, Religious Studies and Environmental Studies), Oxford (MPhil, Christian Ethics) and the University of London (PhD, Theology). He also received a further MA in theology from Philadelphia's St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in 2017.

Dr. Cherico, her husband Colin, and their five children live in Blue Bell. Rebecca majored in Italian at Yale University, living in Florence during her junior year. Rebecca met Colin at New York University while he was pursuing a law degree. She received her doctorate in Spanish Literature from NYU. Rebecca taught in Villanova's Augustine and Culture Seminar for over a decade, a class which integrates freshman composition, seminar-style teaching, and a great books reading list. She has also taught Spanish language classes at Montgomery County Community College, UPenn, and Villanova.

Mrs. Sonja Civillico was born and raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Baylor University in 2004 with a B.S. in Biology and Forensic Science and double minors in Chemistry and English. Upon graduation, Mrs. Civillico moved to Philadelphia, PA to pursue her M.S. in Biology at St. Joseph’s University as a research fellow at Lankenau Institute for Medical Research. From 2006-2010, Mrs. Civillico worked as a laboratory manager and research specialist in a genomics lab at Princeton University. More recently, she has been teaching science at the Regina Academies.

Sheehan Clark is a native of Lancaster County, PA, where he was raised in the Brethren in Christ (Anabaptist) tradition. Sheehan became Catholic in 2014. After graduating from the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University, he worked in a residential treatment facility for boys with violent behavioral disorders, a third grade classroom with Great Hearts Classical Academies, and a private school for students with severe autism and/or violent behavioral disorders. Earning his PA teaching license through the University of Pittsburgh's Master of Teaching program, he taught at North Catholic High School, just north of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Cuddy grew up in Dauphin, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Seton Hill University with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Sacred Music Certificate. Mr. Cuddy continued his studies at the University of Arkansas, earning a Master of Music in Choral Conducting. In addition to conducting collegiate ensembles, he conducted a nearby church choir, worked with choirs at a local high school, and began teaching private voice lessons. Following graduation, he spent a year in Yuma, Arizona as the Choral Director at a public high school.

Sister Marganne Drago is a Sister of Saint Joseph, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. She holds a doctorate in Music Education from Temple University, Philadelphia, a Masters in Music Education from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, and a Masters in Liturgy from the Liturgical Institute, Mundelein, Illinois. She studied piano at Carnegie Hall in New York City for five years. Her career has been principally in music education: on the elementary level in Illinois, New York, and Philadelphia; on the high school level at John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls High School; and as professor of music and chair of the music department at Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia.

Caitlin grew up in La Crosse, Wisconsin in the Mississippi River Valley. She was born in Germany, when her parents served in the military as medical doctors. Mrs. Fletcher graduated from Thomas Aquinas College in California. She moved to Philadelphia to study realist painting at a small school called Studio Incamminati. She has shown art at the Rittenhouse Fine Art Show two years in a row. She has also been accepted for an artist’s residency at the Sheen Center and was a recipient of a scholarship to study at the Grand Central Academy in New York for the summer of 2021.

Mr. Franz was raised in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. He earned his B.A. in History at West Chester University where he concentrated on American History and Education. After he graduated from West Chester, he moved to Asheville, North Carolina and worked at a folk art gallery. Subsequently, Mr. Franz moved to Annapolis, Maryland, to study the Classics in a formal setting at St. John’s College. He earned his Master’s in a calendar year and focused on medieval poetry, philosophy and ancient Greek. He translated pieces such as the opening to St. John’s Gospel and the Homeric Hymn to Hephaestus. He and his wife Heather have two daughters and one son.

Nathaniel Gotcher hails from the Midwest and received a bachelor of architecture degree with a minor in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame. He is a practicing architect registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and was project architect for the new St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Student Life Center and Chapel. He has a deep passion for traditional church design as well as urban planning and believes that a well-designed city can greatly aid in establishing a just society. Mr. Gotcher lives with his wife and kids in a railroad suburb of Philadelphia where he enjoys artistic and philosophical diversions of all kinds.

Holly Guertin is a fiber artist and textile designer based outside of Philadelphia with her husband and four sons. Holly grew up in suburban North Carolina and studied Fibers at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Throughout her college years, she was a leader at an all-girls Catholic high school in Savannah for a non-denominational discipleship ministry called Young Life. In the Catholic faith, Holly has found a rich language, artistic precedent, and treasure trove of theological concepts to deepen her understanding of wool and sheep and their window to the sacramental worldview. Holly's most known for her "Sheepskin" series of crocheted artworks, which have been commissioned for SCAD's Permanent Collection and displayed internationally.

Dr. Harnett earned her B.A. in Classics from Temple University in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from Bryn Mawr College in 1986. Her dissertation centered on the study of Roman sculpture in its civic context at the ancient town of Minturnae in southern Italy. She has worked as a field archaeologist in Israel, Romania, and at Franklin Court, the site of Benjamin Franklin’s house in Philadelphia. With over 40 years of teaching experience, Dr. Harnett has taught Latin at every level—from 4th graders to graduate students. For most of her career she was at Friends’ Central School, where she received an award for excellence in teaching. Dr. Harnett is also an adjunct professor of Latin at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.

Ms. Lindmeier is a recent graduate of Immaculata University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English Secondary Education and Theology with minors in American & British Literature and Communications. This past fall, she completed her student teaching at St. Joseph’s Preparatory School. Graduating in May 2020, Ms. Lindmeier received The Sister Marian William Hoben Medal for English and was named the 2020 recipient of Immaculata University’s “Legacy of 1920 Award.” Ms. Lindmeier graduated from the Theology of the Body Institute’s Certification Program and has worked for Ascension Press (Exton, PA), where she helped to develop the introduction of Ascension Kids, the company’s first line of children’s books.

Ms. Nicole Marshall was born in Buffalo, NY, homeschooled K-8 in Salt Lake City, UT, and went to Lansdale Catholic High School in PA. Ms. Marshall graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in International Business and minors in Finance and Theology. After graduating, she served at a boarding school run by The Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) in a small town in Mexico called Colon. Upon returning to the United States, Ms. Marshall started as an Admissions Counselor at Franciscan University and became Assistant Director for a total of three years. She completed her M.S. in Educational Administration in the summer of 2023. She wrote her thesis on The Effects of Technology on High School Students’ Cognitive and Social Abilities.

Mr. David Merola and his wife, Christine, currently live with their three children in Dresher, Pennsylvania. He was born and raised in Warwick, RI. David attended Lehigh University where he earned a minor in music and a B.S. in pure mathematics. He was awarded Lehigh’s Thorburg Mathematics Prize for the most outstanding record in an advanced mathematics course. He continued his studies at Florida State University to earn an M.S. in pure mathematics. He first taught at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth and then spent 3 years teaching and living alongside students with non-verbal learning differences and Aspergers at Franklin Academy. After that, David spent the next decade teaching at The Solebury School in New Hope, where he learned to teach Harkness Table mathematics.

Ms. Casey O’Donnell grew up in Lansdale, PA. She recalls her first distinct moment of encounter with Truth in her senior year high school theology class, learning the profound wisdom of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. She went on to study in the Humanities department at Villanova, also majoring in Theology and minoring in English. She also had the opportunity to study at Blackfriars, Oxford, for several months, where she attended tutorials in Theology, Scripture, and Shakespeare under the guidance of the Dominicans there. After undergrad, Ms. O’Donnell went on to complete her M.A. in Education at Villanova, for which she completed her student teaching requirement at Martin Saints.

Mr. Post is a guide and chaperone on the annual canoe and camping trip that launches Frassati Fridays and each school year. He also teaches Craftsmanship classes in wood working, first aid, and outdoor skills. In addition to several years of service on the National Canoe Safety Patrol and certification in wilderness first aid, Mr. Post is a professional carpenter. He worked as a teenager with Amish builders and now has a career in Residential Construction Management and a certification from the Building Performance Institute. Previously, Mr. Post served in many positions from apprentice to lead carpenter, eventually becoming vice president of Janiczek Homes, a luxury home builder on the Main Line.

Mr. Ryan is a native of Chicago where he was raised in a Catholic family. He attended Ave Maria College when it was still in Michigan and transferred his last year to Franciscan University of Steubenville where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy. He later entered a religious order and was sent to Argentina to continue his formation and studies in the humanities and philosophy, studying theology at the Pontinfical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. After much prayer and discernment, it became clear that God had other plans for him. Soon after returning to the U.S., he began teaching at a classical Catholic school in Scottsdale, Arizona. There he met his wife and they are now happily married with a baby boy.

Mr. Blair Tiger is a retired US Army officer, Catholic educator, and administrator. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. He was commissioned as an Infantry Officer. Over the next 22 years, he served overseas and across the United States at various postings. His final assignment was back to West Point, where he served as both faculty and staff. Upon retirement Lieutenant Colonel, Mr. Tiger and his family moved to Peru, Illinois, to teach and coach at St. Bede Academy, a Benedictine Order prep school. In 2015, Mr. Tiger and his family moved to the Lehigh Valley to become the Principal at Allentown Catholic High School. Mr. Tiger also has a Masters of Arts from Webster University. He is working on his dissertation for his Ph.D. from Benedictine University.

Rose Tomassi grew up in Portland, Oregon and has lived in New York City for the past eight years. In college at Ave Maria University, Rose majored in Literature. She entered a PhD program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC, where she also had the opportunity to teach Composition and Literature classes at City College of New York and New York City College of Technology. Eventually she decided to leave graduate school with a Masters degree in order to pursue a career in high school teaching. For the past several years, she has worked at St. Joseph High School, a small all-girls Catholic school in Brooklyn, NY.