Alumni & Development Team
Rich Feitel
Director of Alumni & Development
Rich taught U.S. History, Geography, and Economics at Xavier High School from 1968 to 1985. He also was an Assistant Track Coach with legendary Head Coach Bob Michalski from 1970 to 1986. Their teams won over 160 dual meets in a row during those years as well as many Class and State Championships. He was appointed as the school’s first Director of Alumni & Development in 1985 and served in that position until 1997. Rich then became a Senior Development Consultant with Catholic School Management, Inc. He had a very successful 20-year career with that firm where he assisted other Catholic schools across the country to build and enhance Alumni Associations, create Annual Fund programs, and plan and conduct capital campaigns. Rich and his wife Lauralane are life-long residents of Middletown. His daughter Nanci ’84 is a graduate of Mercy and son Bryan ‘86 a graduate Xavier. Grandsons Peter Schinas ‘08, Thomas Schinas ’10 and Jacob Schinas ‘14 are also graduates of Xavier. His youngest grandson, Hunter, graduated from Xavier in 2024.
(860) 346-7735 x732
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TJ Kronenberger '04
Associate Director Alumni & Development
TJ is a 2004 Xavier graduate and earned a BA in Business from Gettysburg College in 2008. TJ earned his MBA from the University of New Haven in 2011. TJ returned to Xavier in June of 2025. TJ’s father Tom was part of Xavier's inaugural graduating class in 1967. His uncle Brian '75 and several of his cousins are also Xavier graduates.
(860) 346-7735 x733
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Suzanne Berry P’18
Office Manager Alumni & Development
Suzanne is a 1983 Mercy High School graduate and earned a BS in Economics from Southern Connecticut State University in 1986. In 1990, she earned an MBA from Quinnipiac College. In 1997, she married Steven Berry, Class of 1983. Steve, Suzanne and their son Matt, Class of 2018, are one of Xavier’s many Legacy families.
(860) 346-7735 x 737
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The mission of the Alumni & Development Team is to build and nurture lifelong relationships and philanthropic investment between Xavier High School, and its alumni, parents, grandparents, donors, and the community while fostering the values of our founders, the Xaverian Brothers.
Simplicity, Humility, Compassion, Zeal, and Trust represent the core Xaverian vision that distinguish our way of life as we build investment in the school’s mission to foster the spiritual, academic and physical growth of each student.
Our goal is to provide meaningful opportunities for all of our partners to share their wealth, work and wisdom in the education that fully prepares every Xavier student to respond to the Christian call of the school motto “Be a Man, a Man like Christ.”