While we could never showcase every graduate who has left the Academy and gone on to great things, the following list is representative of the wide breadth of interests, careers, and futures that our graduates have created for themselves.

• Thomas Adinolfi ’97 founded AuctionsEast, New York’s foremost eBay store. He was considered for Forbes Small Business Enterprise Award, featured in an Industry Magazine piece about entrepreneurs under 30, held the first ever eBay Roadshow, and is noted in two nationally published books about eBay. Thomas has also been featured in the Staten Island Advance for the listing and sale of the Quaker Gift Shop for $1.15 million and in the story "Collecting One Oddity at a Time."

• Erna Burry Fredrik Gerber ’43 is a Tony-Award-winning producer for the show Travesties. She was also the stage manager, producer, and director of more than twenty Broadway productions, including Inherit the Wind, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Royal Family, Milk and Honey and Too True to Be Good.

• Caroline Diamond Harrison ’82 is carrying on her father’s legacy as publisher of the Staten Island Advance. She began her career at the Advance in 1984 as a college intern, working in the Lifestyle Department. Two years later, she joined the Times-Picayune as an executive-in-training. Caroline has also served as general manager of the Advance as well as the Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News. She was re-elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the Newspaper Association of America, which represents 2,000 newspapers in the US and Canada.

• Richard F. Larkin ’60 is technical director of not-for-profit accounting and auditing for BDO Seidman, LLP, in Bethesda, Maryland. Previously, he was the technical director of the Not-for Profit Industry Services Group in the national office of Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He is a certified public accountant with over thirty-eight years of experience serving not-for-profit organizations. He is a co-author of the fourth, fifth, and sixth editions of Financial and Accounting Guide for Not-for-Profit Organizations. He graduated from Harvard College and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

• Daniel L. Master ’71 is the Chief Assistant District Attorney in Richmond County. Mr. Master is also an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School and New York Law School. He taught full-time at Boston College Law School, the University of California, and NYU School of Law. Prior to working at the DA’s Office, Mr. Master was an associate attorney at Shea & Gould and counsel to the Borough President of Staten Island.

• Edgar Moreno ’78 is the Assistant Director for Domestic Operations in the US Department of State. As the Assistant Director Domestic Operations, Edgar Moreno is responsible for managing and directing almost all (Diplomatic Security) DS activities within the United States, including all DS field offices, criminal investigations, counterintelligence, and protection operations. Since joining the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in 1986, Mr. Moreno has worked as a Special Agent in DS’s Washington Field Office, as a Program Officer for the Anti-Terrorism Assistance program, and as Assistant Regional Security Officer in Madrid, Spain, where he helped provide security assistance and coordination for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics. Mr. Moreno earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from the American University, Washington DC.

• Michael Ekin Pearson ’66 is an artist and illustrator. She has designed artwork in Europe, the East Coast, Midwest and Pacific.  Her work has been in over forty solo exhibitions as well as group and juried shows, winning several awards.  She owned and operated a fine art gallery for eight years.  Michael has served as a juror for watercolor and mixed media shows and has taught adult classes and workshops.

• John Peoples ’50 was the director of Fermilab from 1989 until 1999. Peoples' physics pursuits at Nevis and Brookhaven Laboratories, and at Columbia and Cornell Universities, brought him to National Accelerator Laboratory (NAL) in 1971, where he has remained for his exciting and productive career. As director, John took up the banner to upgrade the Tevatron with the Main Injector and began to build local, state and federal support for Fermilab's future. In September 1994, Fermilab discovered evidence of the top quark. From 1993 to 1997 John was Chairman of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) which marshaled the support of the world high energy physics community for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider. Stepping down as Laboratory Director in June 1999, John's research interests steered him into the experimental astrophysics domain. He was director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from June 1998 to June 2003.

• Joseph Rallo ’67 is the President of Angelo State University in Texas. Prior to being named President at Angelo, Rallo was Provost and Academic Vice President at Western Illinois University. He has 27 years of experience in higher education. Rallo was director of the Colorado Institute for Technology Transfer and Implementation from 2001-03; Dean of the College and Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs from 1999-2003; and Dean of Business at Ferris State University in Michigan from 1995-99. Rallo earned his law degree in 1976 from Western New England College. He received both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1978 and 1980, respectively.

• Damian Slattery ’76 is a screenplay writer. His credits include A Day in October, 1992, a story about 1943 Copenhagen coming to a boil as Nazi Germany absorbs Denmark into its deadly arena, as well as the upcoming Harry and the Butler. A well-rounded alumnus, Mr. Slattery is a 2009 inductee into the Staten Island Academy Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame