Program & Operations Leadership
Mr. Brenden Link, Dean of Students
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Mrs. Rosalee Bolleia, Middle School Division Head (Grade 6 to Grade 8)
Mrs. Bolleia teaches middle school Latin and English. She is excited to share with her students the wonderful worlds that the Classics make available and that she herself traversed as a child. By encountering beautiful Literature, Mrs. Bolleia believes as John of Salisbury writes: “The soul is purged of its defects and is revivified even in adversity by a mysterious and serene cheerfulness.”
Classically homeschooled with her nine siblings, Mrs. Bolleia received her B.A. in Classics and Early Christian Literature from Ave Maria University in Florida. After graduating from college, Mrs. Bolleia spent a year traveling and teaching, both in the United States and abroad in China. She is currently completing a Master’s degree in Classical Education from the University of Dallas. When not furiously writing papers and preparing lessons, Mrs. Bolleia enjoys hikes, swing dances, travel, a good book and a cup of coffee, and the occasional thrilling adventure such as sky diving or scuba diving.
Mrs. Kim Marion, Lower Division Head (PreK to Grade 5)
Kim Marion brings a both a passion for teaching and a wealth of experience into her classroom. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education with a minor in mathematics from William Paterson University, and in addition to 1st grade has taught kindergarten and third-grade for more than thirty years in the Diocese of Paterson.
Mrs. Marion continues to share her love of learning through Our Lady of Mount Carmel’s classical method of education. Every year she looks forward to preparing the first-grade students for future success and an utter love for learning all their own.
Mrs. Marion is married with two adult children. When she is home, she devotes much of her time to her brand new grandson. In her free time she likes to devote her green thumb to the cultivation of her family garden.
Dr. Carl Patrick Bolleia, Director of Music
With performances and recordings reviewed, featured, and/or previewed by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Gramophone, New York Classical Review, American Record Guide, Fanfare and more, Carl Patrick Bolleia has performed as pianist, organist, harpsichordist, and conductor throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean at major venues including Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium and Weill Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Merkin Hall, NJPAC, Bargemusic, le poisson rouge, Spectrum, and more.
A frequent chamber music collaborator with musicians of the The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Juilliard415, and the New Jersey Symphony, he has recordings on Naxos and MSR Classics and has premiered/performed over 100 compositions written by the world’s leading composers, including Frederic Rzewski, Reena Esmail, Tyshawn Sorey, and Stephen Hough.
Dr. Bolleia has presented his research on American Modernism, Performance Analysis and Topic Theory throughout the world at international and national symposiums and conferences. He is Assistant Professor of Music at William Paterson University where he is Director of New Music and Coordinator of Piano/Keyboard Studies. Active in digital media and industry, he has composed and recorded multiple scores for Audible by Amazon and for the 125th Anniversary Campaign of Dr. Pepper. He began his work in sacred music at the age of 13 and is the Director of Music at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Boonton and Lumen Gentium Academy. Additional pursuits include the study of sacred music at The Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University and Gregorian Chant at the Wethersfield Institute.
He cites his tutelage under a variety of mentors to be most profoundly influential, especially with Ursula Oppens, Alan Feinberg, Peter Sykes, Gary Kirkpatrick, Min Kwon, Richard Egarr, Béatrice Martin, Avi Stein, Skip Sempé, Jerome Lowenthal, Fred Hersch, Nicolas Hodges, Warren Jones, William Christie, Robert Mealy, Renée Anne Louprette, Dr. Billy Taylor and Vincent Condro.
He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts with several honors from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, with his dissertation, “A Taxonomy of Musical Gesture and a Hermeneutic of Narrative and Diatonic Continuity in the Piano Music of Charles Wuorinen.” Dr. Bolleia received the Graduate Diploma in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School.
Mrs. Alexis Minson, Admissions/ Director of Student Life
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Mrs. Theresa MacDonald, Deputy Director of Communications
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