Rebel 5ive

This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Paul Corsaro R’07. Following in the footsteps of his athletic parents, Greg R’83 and Susan (Kuntz) Corsaro, R’83, Paul entered Roncalli as a decorated athlete and student his freshman year. He would not disappoint, leaving four years later as a football state champion, a football state runner-up and the all-time leading scorer for the basketball team, among many of his accolades. All this was accomplished while overcoming a serious bout with cancer early in his high school career. Paul was recently named the new head men’s basketball coach at the University of Indianapolis.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Paige (Weber) Tapp R’07. This St. Mark Lion entered Roncalli High School in the fall of 2003 and almost immediately began to make her mark on our volleyball program. Four years later, she graduated and traveled out west to play for the Arizona Wildcats, but not before earning the IHSAA Mental Attitude Award, a 3A Volleyball State Championship and being named Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year. These accolades don’t even scratch the surface of all Paige’s accomplishments. This summer, she is finishing her third year of law school at the University of Chicago. This Rebel dynamo is sure to do great things as she contemplates her future in law.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Dr. Chad Huck R’77. In the mid 70’s, Roncalli High School was widely known for our outstanding marching band while athletic success was modest. That reputation changed in a big way when the Fountain Square native, Chad Huck, would quarterback the Rebels to the school’s first of 20 football sectional championships at the end of the 1976 season. Dr. Huck still has a significant presence in the Rebel football record book, holding six offensive records. He would graduate from Roncalli and head to IU to play for Lee Corso and the Hoosiers. Today, Dr. Huck is the Clinic Director at The Eye Center of Southern Indiana. He and his wife, Dr. Patricia Henderson, have two children and reside near Bloomington.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Phil Anderson. The Franklin Central alum came to Roncalli in 1998 after graduating from Anderson University, and he’s been creating magic on the Roncalli stage ever since. The limitations of staging productions on the old gym stage were nothing more than opportunities to overcome challenges for Phil and his students. With the opening of the “new” auditorium in 2006, the bar was raised even higher, and we Rebels have been the beneficiaries of wonderful theater productions ever since. The Roncalli theater department has made stars on the stage and behind the scenes under Phil Anderson for 22 thrilling years.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Phil Milroy. Raised in Columbus, Indiana it was a Roncalli alumna who introduced Phil to our school as his youth minister. Thirteen years later, after graduating from Notre Dame and serving in its 2-year ACE program, Phil is celebrating his eleventh year at Roncalli. His devotion to his students, his faith and Roncalli are unique and undeniable. This week we discuss E-learning, anticipating fatherhood in June, forming young minds, reflecting on the Roncalli pilgrimage and the significance of his senior retreat contributions.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Gerard Striby. His voyage to Roncalli began over 28 years ago, talking to Dr. Joe Hollowell around a campfire in Colorado on Summer Field Study. Gerard’s career at Roncalli coincides with the school’s exemplary service programs, which he helped to implement, including mission trips to Appalachia and service as part of the curriculum. He coached in our softball program for 17 years and has been awarded Roncalli’s most prestigious trophy, the St. John XXIII Award. Listen this week to Gerard Striby’s inspirational journey from Little Flower Trojan, to Latin School Cougar to Roncalli Rebel.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Ben Stallings R’81 and Ben Briggeman R’92. This week’s episode is a story about overcoming great personal tragedy at a very young age, taking life’s opportunities and sharing them with the community, making Roncalli and the Southside a better place. Both of these Rebels took on life’s challenges and didn’t blink. We are fortunate to call them our own and appreciate their contributions to our school and community.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Lori Paul Taylor. This 1999 Roncalli graduate has been building an empire as the founder and CEO of Produce Moms. She’s a lobbyist, blogger, podcast host, cook, and most importantly of all, mom to her two sons Joe and Mac. She routinely sits in Fortune 500 boardrooms, visits national and international growers all over the western United States and South America and has been to the White House twice, advocating for the fruit and vegetable industry. Listen this week to our very inspirational story Lori Paul Taylor.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with Joey Mulinaro. Since graduating from UIndy three years ago, this 2012 Roncalli graduate has been working at local media outlets. He’s produced weekend radio shows for Emmis Broadcasting, worked high school basketball wrap-up shows on AM-1070 The Fan and worked for the Colts. He hosts a local podcast with his dad Joe and also produces sketch youtube videos, but recently Joey has gone national with his viral videos that include impressions of Ed Orgeron, coach of the LSU Tigers and Nick Saban, coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. We finish this week’s episode with the Rebel 5ive questions.

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This week’s Rebel 5ive podcast interview is with the Science Department Chair, Ben North. Eighteen years ago, Ben began teaching at Roncalli, developing his craft to where he is now one of the most respected teachers in the building. Listen this week as he discusses hobbies a chemistry teacher is likely to have, developing young minds while inspiring our youth, keeping an open mind to change and planting the seed of success for so many Rebels he has taught over the years. We finish this week’s episode with the Rebel 5ive questions.

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