RCS hopes to make a splash for Poole

Community to rise to the occasion for ill teacher

The RCS school community is rising to the occasion for beloved foreign language teacher Colin Poole.

The community is invited to attend a January 18 fundraiser for the teacher, who is battling a rare form of cancer called Burkitt’s lymphoma.  Burkitt lymphoma is a very fast growing form of  non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The young teacher - he is just 28 years old – was diagnosed with disease just after the school year began and is receiving aggressive treatment at New York City’s Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Poole, who lives in Colonie, started in RCS three years ago.

To offset some of the astronomical costs he has incurred, RCS faculty, staff and administrators will take on the New York State Police in a basketball game on Friday, Jan.18. The evening begins at 6 p.m. in the High School gymnasium. The game is slated to start at 7p.m.The school is located at 2025 Rt. 9W in Ravena.

Tickets cost $3 for adults, $2 for students. There will also be a 50/50 raffle and refreshments.

Some of the players suiting up for RCS will include Middle School Principal Pam “Dribbles” Black, Teacher Dr. Neil ”Street Life’ Howard;  Teacher Joe “Trips” Jaskolka; Teacher Tony “Too Tall” Lintner; Teacher Anthony “Sweater Vest” Marturano and Teacher Kermit “Chicken Wing” Wamsley.