Local historian Chuck Langerman has highlighted the current professional statuses of three Cheltenham alumni:
Candace Allen (above left)
Allen, a 2001 graduate, beauty queen and actress, recently appeared in the 2024 film “The Requiem Boogie“.
From the film’s description:
A middle-aged former child actor has been in deep grief and isolation over the death of his movie star Father when an increasingly surreal bunch of rascals show up at his house to convince him to participate in a reunion show of the long-ago sitcom he starred in.
She has also appeared in Endless Summer and Days of Our Lives.
Allen won the Miss District of Columbia USA 2006 beauty pageant and went on to finish as a semi-finalist in the Miss USA 2006 crown in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the niece of Kathy Sledge, one of the founding members of the popular musical group “Sister Sledge.”
Allen earned a Bachelor of Arts in Legal Communications from Howard University in 2006.
Antonia Gale (above middle)
Gale, a 2005 graduate, is a Senior Accountant at the Philadelphia accounting firm of Horsey, Buckner & Heffler, LLP. She has over ten years of accounting experience, and specific expertise in performing audit planning and developing audit strategies for not-for-profit, public sector, quasi-governmental entities, and employee benefit plans.
Gale was the primary reason the Lady Panthers’ basketball team advanced to the PIAA Class AAAA girls’ championship game in 2005. She scored 21 points in the Lady Panthers’ 55-37 loss to Oakland Catholic and finished her career with 1,443 points. She was named The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Southeastern Pennsylvania “Girls’ Basketball Player of the Year” that season.
She went on to graduate from La Salle University and also coached the women’s basketball team at Penn State Abington.
Jack “Silk” Clark (above right)
Clark, a 2018 graduate, has scored 1,044 career points and counting in his collegiate career, making him only the second former Cheltenham High boys’ basketball player to eclipse 1,000 career points at a men’s Division One basketball school.
The other former Panther boys’ player is 2005 Cheltenham High graduate Harris Mansell (pictured below), who scored 1,317 career points at Rider University.
Clark is majoring in Homeland Security at Virginia Commonwealth which is the pre-season favorite to win the Atlantic 10 Conference, the same league that Philadelphia schools St. Joseph’s University and LaSalle University play in.
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