Stuyvesant Alumni and friends are invited to attend our Frank McCourt x Stuy Caliper Alumni Panel, to be held on Thursday, November 19 from 5:30PM to 8:00PM at Stuyvesant High School, 345 Chambers St, New York, NY 10282.

This evening celebrates the legacy of Frank McCourt, who taught roughly 5,000 students at Stuyvesant from 1972 to 1987 and changed the lives of many of them.

The panel will look at how his memoirs portray Stuyvesant, the new essay collection Sez I to Myself, and the 30th anniversary of Angela’s Ashes. It will also explore how McCourt shaped his students’ lives, and how they shaped his.

We are glad to welcome his former students, current students, and younger alumni to celebrate his inspiring legacy.

Please note, this event requires a ticket. Your registration confirmation will serve as your ticket.

Tom Allon ’80 is an award-winning journalist, columnist, media executive, and publisher. A friend and colleague of Frank McCourt’s at Stuyvesant High School, he was the editor of many of the pieces that appear in Sez I to Myself. Allon is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Cornell University, and Stuyvesant High School. He has taught opinion writing at Hunter College and journalism and American literature at Stuyvesant High School. He has four adult children, three cats, and is married to Rebecca Cohen. They live in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and East Moriches, Long Island.

Ellen McCourt spent 25 years in entertainment public relations working in theatre, television and with corporate sponsors. She is presently on the board of the Irish Repertory Theatre, is an advisor to the Sun Valley Writers Conference and consults with non-profit organizations in Connecticut and New York.

Jordan Sonnenblick ’87 was a public school teacher for fourteen years, but always dreamed of being a writer, so one night in 2003 he sat down and started his first young adult novel, Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie (Scholastic, 2005).  He has made his living as a full-time author ever since. Jordan was a cofounder of the young adult novelist group Authors Support Intellectual Freedom (AS IF!), and is currently a PA state co-chair for Authors Against Book Bans. Jordan’s website is the cleverly-named www.jordansonnenblick.com.

Moderator
Mark Chiusano ’08 is a journalist and author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, and the story collection Marine Park, a PEN/Hemingway honorable mention. He contributes to places like New York magazine, Politico Magazine, The Nation, and The Drift, and has published fiction in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, The Iowa Review, and Electric Lit. He teaches English at CUNY City Tech, and was a New America Fellow for the class of 2026.

Please RSVP, as your registration confirmation email will serve as your ticket(s).

If you have any questions about this event, please reach out to [email protected].