Robert Kopcho, CPA, Chief Financial Officer
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My Hometown: Born in Scranton, PA, Moved to Bristol, PA at age 5.
My Dad Always Said...: “I went to school everyday, I went to work everyday. I always had perfect attendance.”
My Mom Always Said...: “Bobby, prayers are powerful. Always, pray for everyone.”
..“Teach us to give and not count the cost”
St. Ignatius
My Dream Job: To be David Letterman, to spread my goofy thoughts, laughter and humor to the world each day as I meet and talk with many celebrities and politicians.
Job I Wouldn't Do in a Million Years: I’d find some satisfaction and sense of accomplishment in any task or job. No job is too small or too large for me.
”Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains”
William Penn
Best Thing about Working at Crossroads: The opportunity for daily communications with our diversified qualified program and administrative staff as we all support our organization mission to empower youth to lead healthy, safe and productive lives.
”Never stop learning, look at problems from every angle, reject the quick fix, embrace complexity, we were made to serve God wittily in the tangle of our minds.”
Rev. Scott R. Pilarz, S.J.
My Greatest Extravagance: In all ways for always to love and respect others and try to use gentlemanly kindness to spread some goodness to others.
My Proudest Accomplishment: To provide professional services as a self employed CPA from 1977 to 2007 and to have been associated with Crossroads since its inception in 1978.
Thing I Can't Live Without: My faith, my friends and my family.
Talent I Would Most Like to Have: I’d love to be a major league baseball player and hit some home runs. “The one constant through all the years .., has been Baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But Baseball has marked the time. The field, the game: it’s part of our past.. , It reminds all of us of all that once was good and it could be again.” Terrance Mann in Field of Dreams
My Biggest Pet Peeve: Wasting automobile gas in any drive-through line.
”I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again”… William Penn
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