Frank Allegra
University Test Prep Services
33A South 42nd St., 2nd floor
Philadelphia,
PA 19104
email: utestpreps@comcast.net
THE TEACHING STAFF
The teachers - experienced, highly skilled, understanding, and eager to help - are the key resource of UNIVERSITY TEST PREPARATION SERVICES.
* FRANK ALLEGRA, B.S., M.Ed., founder of University Test Preparation Services in 1978, has done 20,000 hours of tutoring in math, statistics, physics, and chemistry, as well as SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, and MCAT preparation, on a group and individual basis. Developing ways for people to solve Science and Math problems is his forte. He conducts GMAT courses for Drexel University and standardized test preparation for the University of Pennsylvania English Language Program. He conducts SAT Subject classes for the International Program of the Graduate School of Education of the University of Pennsylvania. He provides individual SAT preparation for promising Simon Gratz High School students. He taught SAT preparation classes for Philadelphia Futures and for the College of General Studies High School Summer Program at the University of Pennsylvania. In former lives Frank has been a graduate student in Space Physics at M.I.T.; a draft counselor in NYC during the Vietnam War; a director of residence halls at Rutgers, New Brunswick and U. of Penn.; and editor of The Newsletter for Teachers & T.A.'s. He has developed a GRE preparation course for Delaware County Community College, and taught math at Camden County College. Happily married, he lives with his family in University City in a Victorian house whose upkeep is his avocation.
* SHELLY BAUM-BRUNNER, B.A., M.S. Ed., Ph.D., has been teaching reading, writing and test-taking strategy skills since 1980. She has developed effective techniques for writing more coherently in limited amounts of time. Former head of the writing department at the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, she has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Beaver College. She writes, edits, and publishes her own work and helps authors to publish theirs. She has been a teacher with University Test Preparation Services since 1992.
* SHEILA ROBINSON, B.A., a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, studied to be a conductor at Julliard School of Music. Having lived in Northern Italy and Japan, she returned to her native Philadelphia where she taught an SAT Course for fifteen years and a GED Course for five years at Philadelphia Community College. She provides SAT preparation for Simon Gratz High School, the Rise Program of Rosemont College, and Neighborhood Interfaith Movement in Germantown. She taught SAT preparation classes for Philadelphia Futures and for the College of General Studies High School Summer Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She has tutored children for many years in basic math and reading. She also trained standardized patients at Temple Medical School and Jefferson Medical School. She has been a teacher with University Test Preparation Services since 2000.
* ROBERT DUNCAN, B.A., Oxford University, M.A., University of Pennsylvania. While in graduate school at Penn, he lectured in the Sociology Dept. and, as a resident adviser, assisted undergraduates with study skills. Robert has been tutoring full-time since 1997. He works with our middle and high school students, as well as with adults going back to school, in a variety of subjects (math, physics, chemistry, biology, writing, SAT preparation, and study skills). Previously he home schooled his children who graduated from some of the top colleges in the area.
* AL AIRONE, B.A., M.A., M.S., is a chemist with the Philadelphia Water Department - the people who make sure there is fluoride in the water and there isn’t tetrachloroethylene. Al has lived in Philadelphia since 1982, and, although he grew up in New York City, he likes Philly and thinks it does a good job for such a small place. When not reading obscure chemical research, Al’s other interests include his family (Carolyn and daughter Nora), foreign languages, and computer programming. The Organic Chemistry instructor for the MCAT, Al has been a teacher with UNIVERSITY TEST PREPARATION SERVICES since 1985.
* MARY ALLEGRA, B.S., M.Ed., a human resource expert who worked for over 30 years for the Philadelphia Water Department, has conducted numerous workshops around the country. She has worked with the Academies Program and Small Learning Centers of the Philadelphia School District. She has kept active in the performing arts as a singer, choir director, actress, and director. She has volunteered a great deal of time for a number of community organizations in the University City area and is the President of the Garden Court Community Association. Along with her husband Frank, she developed a GRE preparation course for Delaware County Community College. The initial teacher and curriculum innovator of the verbal portions of the GRE, GMAT, MCAT & LSAT courses, Mary has been a teacher with UNIVERSITY TEST PREPARATION SERVICES on a part-time basis since 1985.
