Staten Island Academy Hosts 37th Annual Auction Fundraiser

Co-chairs Colleen Sorrentino and Teresa Pelosi with Albert Cauz, Head of School, and auctioneers Erin Ward and Jill Doherty at the Staten Island Academy annual auction at the Richmond County Country Club Saturday, April 20, 2013. (Staten Island Advance/ Bill Lyons) "Staten Island Academy had its 37th annual auction Saturday night at the Richmond County Country Club, Dongan Hills. The event, with a "Roaring Twenties" theme, featured more than 140 items in a silent auction and some two dozen in the live auction. Some of the items up for bid included a vacation home in Ireland, as well as a "romantic" vacation to Charleston, S.C.; a MacBook Pro laptop computer, and a paintball package pitting six Academy students against faculty members. A $10,000 raffle prize was also drawn. Art by the Academy's lower-school students was also auctioned off. Auctioneers were Erin Ward and Jill Doherty of the Long Island-based Star Benefit Auctions. Teresa Pelosi and Colleen Kelleher-Sorrentino served as co-chairs of the event, one of the school's major fund-raisers."