Keys to Greatness

Born in Jersey City, a graduate of Our Lady of Victories Grammar School, the Academy of Saint Aloysius, and The College of New Rochelle where she majored in Speech Pathology and Audiology with a Certificate in Special Education. She earned an MA in Educating Students with Learning Disabilities from Jersey City State Teachers College.

She was employed as a Special Education Teacher at Marlboro High School and at West Essex Regional Middle School where she created the self-contained class for students with varied special needs to ensure that they were in a regular public school setting. She retired in 2021 after 34 years of educational leadership.

Seton’s connection to Saint Peter’s is deep and wide. The wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, sister-in-law, niece and cousin of Prep graduates. Most importantly, she met her late husband, Bill Ahearn, ’75 in their senior year of high school and they were married in 1981. They welcomed Liam, ’01 in 1983 and Caitlin in 1986. Following the family’s Jesuit tradition, Liam graduated from Georgetown and Caitlin from Fordham. Liam is married to Allison Kelly, while Caitlin is married to Sean Cochran. Seton has been blessed with five grandchildren – Charlotte, Will and Eleanor Ahearn and Bill and Louis Cochran.

Over Liam’s student years and beyond, Seton and Bill hosted accepted students and their parents at a reception in their home in Cranford. Their efforts markedly increased enrollment from Union County. In 2008, Father Bob Reiser, S.J., asked Seton and Bill to serve as co-chairs of the Inaugural Prep 144 Grand Gala. In that role, they developed the format of the evening and the important concept of “Fund a Scholar” which has provided more than $5 million in aid over the life of the event.

A graduate of The College of the Holy Cross and The Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Bob Moriarty is a General Partner at Twin Oaks Partners, a Chatham, New Jersey-based equity investment fund, which he joined in 1998 after practicing law as a commercial litigator in New York, Washington, D.C., and New Jersey.

In between undergrad and graduate school, Bob spent two years with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, teaching and counseling at-risk youth in Syracuse, NY. This commitment to education and service runs deep in Bob’s family. His father, Donald P. Moriarty, was a 1948 graduate of St. Peter’s Prep and served as its first board chair from 1985 to 1991. Together with his wife, Eileen, Don was a preeminent steward, benefactor, and trusted advisor to the school throughout his life.

A former trustee of St. Peter’s Prep himself, Bob now sits on the school’s campaign advisory committee. He is also co-president of the Donald P. and Mary E. Moriarty Charitable Foundation, as well as a trustee for his alma mater, The College of the Holy Cross, where he co-chairs the College’s Aspire comprehensive campaign; Le Moyne College, in Syracuse, NY, where he chairs the board’s advancement committee; and Saint Vincent Academy and The Liberty National Foundation, in Newark and Jersey City, respectively.

Bob lives in Summit, NJ, and is the father of four. As the former board chair of the Summit Area YMCA, Bob led its endowment campaign from 2006 to 2011 and remains a member of its investment committee today. In addition, Bob served as an inaugural trustee of the PEP Foundation, an educational, enrichment, and college tuition assistance program for select students in the Summit, NJ, Public School system. For over 20 years, Bob has served as Vice Chair of the Summit Men’s Lacrosse Alumni Association.