Religious, physicians, teachers among inductees into Hall of Fame

SOMERVILLE — Immaculata High School has announced the members of its eighth Hall of Fame class, who with their induction next year will join the ranks of those previously inducted into the Hall of Fame, which includes 54 individuals and members of two teams.

The newest class was inducted as part of a March 23 gala at The Palace at Somerset Park, Somerset.

Recognized for their respective contributions to the parochial Catholic high school and its surrounding Somerville community, those who are inducted into the Hall of Fame were honored at the gala and their contributions memorialized with a formal plaque placed prominently in the front hallway of the school.

Members of the eighth Hall of Fame class are:

Dr. Kelms Amoo-Achampong, Class of 2005

Now an orthopedic surgery sports medicine fellow at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, AmooAchampong was a standout varsity football and basketball player and three-time letter-winner. He received the “Courier News” first-team all-area and “The Star Ledger” first-team all-county honors his junior and senior years. His senior year, he was named “News 12 New Jersey’s” Player of the Week, Old Spice Red Zone’s Player of the Year, and The “Star Ledger’s” Offensive County Player of the Year. Amoo-Achampong went on to play four years of Division 1 football at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in health and societies, then a Doctor of Medicine degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.

Rick Bobrowski ’79

Top-ranking former U.S. Marine Master Sergeant Rick Bobrowski enlisted in the military three years after graduating from Immaculata and served until his retirement in 2008. His long-spanning military career and service in Operation Desert Storm earned him the highest rank an enlisted Marine can achieve: Master Sergeant, a rank reserved for individuals who provide technical leadership and serve as specialists in their specific military occupational specialties. His professional achievements only added to the list of personal achievements he earned at Immaculata, among them his status as an honor roll student and his contributions to the school’s respective baseball, bowling, and football teams, garnering him 11 out of 12 possible varsity letters.

Hope Pellicane Boczon ’89

Second-time Immaculata High Hall of Famer and High School Teacher Hope

Pellicane Boczon was first inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2019, when the 1987 Immaculata girls basketball team was inducted as part of the sixth Hall of Fame class for their state championship win. Before beginning her college basketball career at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., the four-year letter-winning high school athlete was commended for her skills on the court, earning her a long list of accolades, among them the Somerset County Interscholastic Athletic Association Scholar Athlete Award, the Spartan Club Outstanding Women’s Basketball Award, “Courier News” all-area, “Home News” all-Somerset County honors, and Mountain Valley All Conference Team honors. Boczon later went on to earn the Athlete of the Year Award during her career at Lehigh University and still holds records in their women’s basketball record book.

Dr. Robert Goitz, ’84

Orthopedic surgeon and former team physician for U.S. Paralympic athletes, Goitz received the Outstanding ScholarAthlete award at Immaculata, where he played varsity football and baseball. He went on to study biomedical engineering and graduated summa cum laude from Boston University before securing a place in the prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Well-known in his field for his many publications on various orthopedic conditions, Goitz now serves as a professor and the chief of hand and upper extremity surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. Throughout his distinguished career, he has developed a patented prosthetic joint for the hand and has pioneered successful hand transplantations.

Teresa Lavin Kuboski ’69

An alumna and retired faculty member of Immaculata High School, Teresa (Terry) Lavin Kuboski is a longtime presence in the school community. While a student, she was the editor of the school’s newspaper and was involved in the student council and the prom committee. After graduating as class salutatorian, Kuboski went on to study at Seton Hall University in South Orange, where she graduated with honors, earning her bachelor’s degree in communications. Along with her responsibilities in the classroom, the former journalism and English teacher tutored and taught summer study skills, served as the school’s director of communications and its archivist and historian, and oversaw the production of 23 yearbooks and 20 video yearbooks. Too voluminous to name in their entirety, Kuboski’s contributions to the school span decades and still continue today through her leadership of the school’s Spartan Memorial Mass held each February.

Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Regina Karen McNeil

Known by generations of Immaculata High School Spartans, Sister Regina faithfully served the school community for 36 years, first as a theology teacher and department chair, and then as a campus minister. Now living at the community’s motherhouse in Immaculata, Pa., Sister Karen – as she is affectionately known by Spartans past and present –once served schools in Peru, Miami, and Pennsylvania, before settling into her long tenure at Immaculata High School. She is credited with helping to pave the way for the school’s robust campus ministry program and for influencing the lives of thousands of faculty members, students, and alumni, always keeping faith at the forefront.

Dr. Gamal Mohame ’09

A frontline healthcare worker during the COVID-19 global health crisis, Emergency Medicine Doctor Gamal Mohamed was a high-achieving student athlete at Immaculata High School before beginning his career in medicine. He was a three-year starter in basketball, which earned him a varsity letter in the sport each year. His junior year, Mohamed was awarded first-team all-area and his senior year, he was named first-team allstate and Somerset County Player of the Year. Ending his Spartan basketball career with a total of 1,681 points, he was a member of back-to-back state champion boys basketball teams and the two-time tournament MVP. He earned a full scholarship to play Division 2 basketball at Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, a Catholic college where he studied pre-med before earning his Doctor of Medicine degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University. He now practices emergency medicine at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston.

State Champion Football Teams of 1984 and 1985

The first Immaculata High School Spartan football teams to win state titles in the school’s history, the 1984 and 1985 football teams were the third school team to be inducted into the Immaculata High School Hall of Fame. Their respective wins, under the coaching of longtime Immaculata Football Coach Pierce G. Frauenheim, prompted the phrase “Repeat the Feat” to be printed on bumper stickers and plastered to cars around Somerset County.