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Letter from the President
Dear Friends of Northwest Catholic,
“True happiness is found in unselfish love, a love which increases in proportion as it is
shared.” — Thomas Merton
Those present in the Cathedral of St. Joseph at this year’s commencement exercises
were riveted by the words of Rev. Rick Frechette ’71. For more than two decades, Fr.
Rick has been giving his most precious resources – his time and the love in his heart —
to the poorest of the poor in Haiti. By giving all he has to offer, he brings dignity and
hope to the impoverished and uneducated. During his talk, he impressed upon our
graduates that, when he was a senior at Northwest Catholic, his future was no different from theirs — he began his life’s journey from the same pews in which they were
sitting that evening.
The power of Fr. Rick’s message lies in the beautiful expression of his inner self. To be in his presence is to understand that he gives completely of himself to others. This manifestation of giving of self is the thread that runs through
this issue of Logos.
The faculty, students, alumni, and parents in our community are endowed with many gifts. In different ways, and
in varying degrees, we witness every day how these individuals share their gifts with others. The stories in this issue
demonstrate how people adopt the values they’ve learned here and carry them out into the world. I urge you to read
the article by Wilder Leavitt ’82, in which he describes how he assisted a helpless individual in dire need. Read the
remarkable commencement speeches of Sarah Schwartz ’07 and Kimberly Oaks ‘07, two teenagers who were honored
for their academic achievements yet chose to speak about the way their community service shaped their careers at
Northwest Catholic. Then I respectfully ask you to send me an email ([email protected]) and let me know if
these pieces did not bring a tear to your eye.
There are students at Northwest Catholic who will follow the road taken by Fr. Rick. Many others will come to
understand that their daily expressions of love, shared with friends and neighbors right here at home, can also transform lives in meaningful ways. Within the fullness of our community percolates the hopes, desires and joys of people whose happiness is found in the multifaceted ways in which they share their gifts.
In this issue, you will also find our Annual Report – which seems only fitting, since it is the financial gifts from our
many donors that make the present possible for our current students. These gifts, too, are expressions of love and hope
for the future of our School. And, we — faculty, staff, volunteers, and Board members – are grateful to give ourselves
in service to them as well.
Sincerely,
Matthew O’N. Fitzsimons
President
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THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
CONTENTS
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HOME FROM HAITI, AN ALUMNUS TELLS GRADUATES:
“THE WORLD NEEDS YOU”
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STUDENT PERSPECTIVE
“One measure of success is how much you do for others”
By SARAH SCHWARTZ ‘07
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STUDENT PERSPECTIVE
“Live with gratitude and enthusiasm”
By KIMBERLY OAKS ‘07
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ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE
“Strive constantly to make a difference”
By WILDER J. LEAVITT ‘82
Log
ogos
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The Magazine of Northwest Catholic High School
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FAITH IN ACTION
Service Projects Build Community – On Campus and Off
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ANNUAL REPORT, 2006-07
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The Greek word
or logos (pronounced lo-gaas) is defined as “word” or
“meaning.” St. John’s gospel opens: “In the beginning was Logos (the Word),
and Logos was with God, and Logos was God.” The phrase “Word (Logos) of
God,” found in John 1:1 and elsewhere, shows God’s desire and ability to
“speak” to the human. The Dominicans (the founding Order of Northwest
Catholic) have been noted for their effective ability to preach the word. The
mission of the Dominicans is to provide intellectual formation, social communication, and service through word and action. Our publication, Logos, conveys our mission and values through this medium of the word.
Logos is published three times a year by the Communications Department of
Northwest Catholic High School. Please send comments or suggestions to:
Depar tments
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Michelle M. Murphy
Director of Communications
Northwest Catholic High School
29 Wampanoag Drive
West Hartford, CT 06117
860.236.4221 x133
[email protected]
Editor:
Michelle M. Murphy
President:
Photography:
Art Rich Studios; Congregation of the Passion;
Mark Dodd; Michelle Murphy; Nancy Taylor
ALUMNI NEWS
Design:
GO media
Contributors:
Wilder J. Leavitt ‘82, Kimberly Oaks ‘07,
Sarah Schwartz ‘07, John Shukie
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WORLD
Needs You
“ The
”
Because he can’t always build new schools,
Fr. Rick also creates schools in the areas
where the children actually live. These
“street schools” may look like they’re
about to fall down, but inside they are an
oasis for children who otherwise have no
place to go for a daily meal, clean water, and
a sense of belonging.
Cover Story
aiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere,
sits just a few hundred miles off the coast of the richest.
Here in the United States, there is one doctor for every
500 people; in Haiti, it’s one for every 15,000. The infant mortality rate is staggering: 20% of all Haitian children die before
they turn five.
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This is the environment in which Rev. Richard Frechette ’71,
Northwest Catholic’s 2007 commencement speaker, has labored
over the past 20 years – a labor of love that so captivated the 139
graduates and their families, you could hear a pin drop.
Fr. Frechette arrived in Hartford late on June 5, the night
before graduation. He couldn’t leave Haiti, he said, until he’d
completed one of his most gruesome, yet grace-filled, daily
chores: burying the children who’d died overnight. “I bathe
them, anoint them with scented oils, wrap them, and bury them
in papier mache coffins we make ourselves,” he said. “[Because]
there isn’t enough wood left in Haiti for them to have wooden
coffins.”
He would be back in Haiti in time to perform the same task
the next day. Despite the stunning sadness of these images, Fr.
Frechette bore an amazingly peaceful mien as he addressed the
bright and hopeful young adults seated before him.
“I remember when I was a student, reading 1984, and how it
seemed so far away,” he said, adding that the unexpected death
of a classmate was another vivid memory from his high school
years. “You see how short our life is; how fast it goes. How are
we going to spend the precious amount of time we have together on this earth?”
He urged the graduates to follow a “golden thread” they’d
received at baptism, the metaphorical link between themselves
Fr. Rick Frechette returned to West Hartford in June to
address the Class of 2007 at commencement.
and God. His thread had led him, he said, to Mexico, to
Honduras, and then to Haiti, when he joined a charismatic
priest, Fr. William Wasson, who was building a home for
Haitian children orphaned by the ravages of disease and violence.
Richard Frechette’s personal “golden thread” is remarkable.
At Northwest Catholic, he was actively involved in the community, participating in the Mission Club, the Dramateurs, Ski
Club, Junior Achievement, Up with People, Great Books Club,
NOWECA, and the Spanish Club. He was also a member of the
National Honor Society.
One in five Haitian children dies before age five;
tender and respectful care of their bodies is one of
Fr. Rick’s most sacred duties.
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A graduate of Assumption College, Fr. Frechette went on to
earn two Master’s degrees in theology from St. John’s University
in New York before being called to the Congregation of the
Passion, a Catholic order of priests commonly referred to as the
Passionists. After ordination, he went to Mexico to study
Spanish and begin his ministry work. From Mexico, he went to
Honduras for four years to open and run an orphanage for children.
dition continued to deteriorate; today, Haiti has an 80% poverty rate. The “brain drain” that occurred caused many professionals to flee the country. The need for professional health care
providers was urgent, and in the 1990s Fr. Frechette believed his
power to serve the people of Haiti had reached a plateau. To
meet the overwhelming need for adequate health care, he determined that he must leave Haiti for a short time to earn a medical degree in the United States.
In 1987, when Fr. Frechette and Fr. Wasson began their work
with Haitian orphans, mortality of children accounted for half
of all yearly deaths. The children served by their orphanage and
in the surrounding areas were so afflicted with AIDS, tuberculosis, starvation, and other problems that it was necessary to
establish a hospice, as well.
Twenty-five years after graduation from Northwest Catholic,
Fr. Frechette’s “golden thread” was taking him in a new direction. He trained to be a physician at the New York College of
Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of Technology in
Westbury, New York. The school’s newspaper called him “one of
the brightest stars of the class of 1998.” Fr. Frechette’s “golden
thread” led him back to Haiti, where he helped to establish a
Throughout the 80s and 90s, Haiti’s social and political con-
Eager to learn, more than 3,000 children arrive each day at one of Fr. Rick’s 11 “street schools.”
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“The World Needs You”
thriving medical center. In 2003, he was appointed International
Medical Director for Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos. In the fall of
2006, he opened a new hospital on ten acres of land in Port au
Prince with 150 beds, two emergency rooms, two operating
rooms, and a large intensive care unit. The hospital cares for
about 25,000 people per year and contains a large outpatient
clinic with all specialties of pediatrics, including HIV and cancer
centers.
As the audience at St. Joseph’s Cathedral sat transfixed by this
man’s message, one could not help but marvel at his peaceful
demeanor, which belied a store of boundless energy – an energy
that springs from the progress he has made for the people of
Haiti. As committed to education as he is to health care, Fr.
Frechette and his staff have opened small, one-room-style schoolhouses that now serve over 3,000 children. His new hospital will
also be the training center in pediatrics for the Catholic medical
and nursing school of Haiti.
In the face of immense odds, Fr. Frechette has persevered in his
mission to bring better health care, education, and a sense of
hope to the children of Haiti.
Fr. Frechette concluded his address by echoing a message the
graduates had heard many times during their years at Northwest
Catholic High School: to whom much is given, much is expected. He spoke to each member of the audience as if he was meeting with them one on one: “Our world is beautiful, but it is also
troubled and tormented. This is the world that is waiting for you.
The world needs you! It needs your enthusiasm, and your belief
that you can set things right.
“You are very blessed,” Fr. Frechette continued. “But your
blessing puts upon you a burden – to care for this very troubled
world. Heal it. Set it up right again. We need you. The world
needs you! May God bless you and help you to submit your head
to your heart so you may answer God’s invitation to you all
throughout your life.”
Because he is both priest and physician, Fr. Rick is able to
minister to the physical and spiritual needs of thousands of
people in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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Student Perspective
“One measure of success is
how much you do for others”
woke up on the morning of my second birthday incredibly
excited to put on my Little Mermaid costume. It was clear
from my repeated exclamations of, “I’m a mermaid! I’m a
mermaid!” that there was no one else I would rather be. I’m sure
all of you can remember your own childhood heroes, whether it
was one of the Disney princesses or perhaps one of the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles. Either way, there was something about
these figures that made us want to grow up and be just like them.
I
As we have matured, not only have our role models changed,
but so have our ideas about what we want to be when we grow
up. Some of us might want to be as rich as Bill Gates, as famous
as Paris Hilton, or as athletic as Michael Jordan. In today’s society, these ideals of wealth, fame, and position are often how success
is defined for us. While all of these are noteworthy accomplishments, I do not think that these are the only standards by which
we should measure success. During my four years of high school,
I have encountered many people who in my opinion exemplify
success. None of them have been celebrities, millionaires, or
prominent figures. In fact, the successful people I have met are
ordinary people, who love what they are doing and find meaning
in their lives. Over time, they have become my new role models.
One place where I have met successful adults has been in the
classrooms of Northwest Catholic. My teachers have shown a
passion and love for teaching that goes beyond their subject matter. In Mrs. Gillespie’s ACTS class, I found myself eating a meal
with a family of Liberian refugees, leading a blind person around
the Westfarms Mall, and serving food at a soup kitchen during an
amazing five-day urban immersion. In American Mind class, Mr.
Shukie discussed how history repeats itself and helped us to draw
connections between the Vietnam War and the present-day war in
Iraq. I left that class with a much greater appreciation of how history applies to my life. And who other than Mrs. Metzler could
motivate exhausted high school students to be at school at 6:30 in
the morning to do calculus problems, and on top of that, get all
of the boys in her class to wear bright pink t-shirts? The teachers
at Northwest Catholic have shown me that they care not only
about how we develop academically, but also how we develop as
well-rounded people who are ready to contribute to society.
I have also met very successful people in the numerous
Thursday afternoons I have spent at the Catholic Worker House
in Hartford. There I found adults devoting their lives to others
and living in voluntary poverty. To some, this existence without
any wealth or status might seem to be the opposite of success, but
anyone who has spent time at the Catholic Worker knows better.
The Catholic Workers have shown me that one true measure of
success is how much you do for others.
But in the past year and a half, one particular person in my life
has risen to the top as one of the most successful people I know.
This person, my Uncle George, died just a few weeks ago of brain
cancer. If anyone lived life to the fullest, it was my uncle. He
delved whole-heartedly into his interests, which included reading,
mountain biking, cars, history, and spending time with family
and friends. The Uncle George I remember was constantly offering to bring my sisters and me to a museum, coming over to
watch a movie, or celebrating our birthdays with us. He measured his own success not by the amount of money he had, his job,
or the size of his house, but rather by how much he was enjoying
life. He was truly remarkable.
When George’s illness took away some of his favorite activities
BY SARAH SCHWARTZ ‘07
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and left him unable to drive his prized
ready to begin her life above the water.
Porsche or read his favorite books, he
Now, it is our turn to find our own legs,
found new ways to channel his energy and
and begin to live the lives that we choose.
enthusiasm. George developed a keen
I think that as we move on to the next
interest in photography. On his final trip
stage in our lives, each one of us needs to
to Arizona, he woke up early every morndevelop our own definition of success, and
ing with his camera in hand, ready to take
let that definition shape our decisions.
thousands of photographs, even though he
God has a different plan for each and every
probably knew he would never have the
one of us. Maybe we are meant to become
chance to see them all. The simple pleasteachers, athletes, unpaid volunteers, rock
ures that my uncle enjoyed certainly were
stars, priests, stay-at-home moms, or docSARAH SCHWARTZ
not without meaning or purpose. George
tors.
Whatever it is that you love, embrace
VALEDICTORIAN, CLASS OF 2007
reminded us regularly that it was more
that calling and you will have fulfilled
important to focus on what you can do,
God’s plan. Because in the end, if you can
rather than dwelling on what you cannot do. By embracing his
look back on your life, with all of its ups and downs, and say that
life in both sickness and health, my uncle George gave us wonder“life is good,” I think that will be the true measure of success.
ful memories of him as a happy and active person.
As I look back on my four years of high school, I am filled
One of my favorite memories of my uncle happened this past
overwhelmingly with the feeling that life is good. I can see many
Easter, shortly before he died. He used to love to wear a particuimages in my mind that are worthy of a “life is good” t-shirt.
lar shirt, one that said “Life is Good” on the front. You have probImages of friends sitting together in the caf; of Northwest
ably seen the shirts, bumper stickers, and other items that bear
Catholic students dressed in green to support the basketball team;
this logo. They each contain an image that will make you smile,
of sunny afternoons with the children at the
such as a man on a bike, a hammock,
Catholic Worker house; of my uncle smilor cup of tea, with the words “Life is
ing in his “Life is Good” t-shirt; and finally,
Good” written below. On Easter, my
of all of you sitting in front of me, ready to
entire family wore our own Life is
graduate. To me, these images do not only
Good shirts, and took pictures surdemonstrate that life is good, but that God
rounding my uncle. When I looked at
is good. We have been blessed in so many
the pictures later, I saw on my uncle’s
ways, and for all of these blessings I am very
face an expression of complete and
grateful. I would like to take this opportutotal happiness. The pictures amazed
nity to thank everyone who has helped me
me. I couldn’t even imagine that a perget where I am, but especially my parents,
son who was terminally ill would be
who have provided me with a tremendous
able to sincerely believe that “life is
amount of support.
good.” Yet, it was written all over his
I hope that as we look back on our four
face that this was exactly how he felt.
years of high school, we can all see that our
To be able to appreciate life at a
lives have in fact been very good. I know that all of you will
moment such as that, to me, is the ultimate success.
become great successes in the future, and I wish you the best in all
In the end, there might have been some wisdom in my childthat you do.
hood admiration of the Little Mermaid. While I no longer hope
— Sarah Schwartz, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter
to become a mermaid, I continue to admire some of Ariel’s qualSchwartz of West Hartford, was the valedictorian of the Class of
ities. Ariel really knew who she was, and she didn’t let anyone
2007. She is now a first-year student at The College of the Holy
stop her from reaching her dream. As a child, I watched with awe
Cross in Worcester, MA.
as Ariel rose to the surface and finally stood on her own two legs,
“planGodforhaseacha different
and every
one of us...Whatever it
is that you love,
embrace that calling
and you will have
fulfilled God’s plan.
”
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Student Perspective
“Live with gratitude and enthusiasm”
would like to begin my speech with a wish for all of us here
today. My hope for all of us is to be like children. Not to
act childish, but to be child-like. I hope for us to be mature
in behavior but young at heart. Many people view graduation as
a time to grow up, a milestone that marks the end of high school
and the start of college, of living on your own, and becoming an
adult. However, I hope that at this important moment in our
lives we all can maintain some of our childlike qualities.
I
The first quality we are taught as children is to mind our manners. As children we are all taught to say please and thank you to
everyone, and to be gracious and grateful. As we grow older, we
begin to take the people and the events in our lives for granted.
In reality, we never could get through life alone. I believe that
these manners, which we are taught as children, should be carried
with us into adulthood. I challenge everyone to be like a child …
to say please and thank you to the cashier at the grocery store, to
the driver on the bus, to the attendant at the movie theater, and
to the waitress at a restaurant. Just say thank you to everyone who
does anything to improve your life. Do not take anyone for granted. I truly believe those two words, “Thank you,” have the power
to make someone’s day.
With these thoughts in mind, I believe that graduation should
be a time for all of us to say “thank you” to everyone who has
made this evening possible. First and foremost, we should thank
God for all of His special blessings. We should thank our friends
and classmates, our siblings and family, and especially our parents.
But also, thank you to all those people behind the scenes who
...Thank you to all those
“people
behind the scenes
who made our lives a little
bit easier through our high
school career.
”
made our lives a little bit easier through our high school career:
the administration, faculty, and staff of Northwest Catholic, the
cafeteria ladies, the custodians, and the librarians. All of these people are what made Northwest Catholic truly memorable. None of
us would be here today, and I know I certainly would not be here
giving the salutatorian speech, if it were not for the efforts of all
of these people.
The next quality of a child that I hope we will retain into adulthood is enthusiasm. Children are enthusiastic about every task
they do. As teenagers and as adults, I think we begin to be less
excited about the little moments in life. We tend to just go through
the motions of everyday living. We go to school or work, complete
our tasks and go through all of the mundane details. But as children, everything that we do, we see as the greatest and most fun we
have ever had. To a child, nothing else matters but the activity they
are focused on at that moment. I saw this fact very clearly a few
months ago while volunteering.
I volunteer at The Malta House of Care van in Hartford. This
is a mobile medical clinic that stops at churches throughout
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Hartford to supply primary medical
This amazing little boy taught me a
care to the uninsured. The van is mostlife lesson. He had no idea how hard
ly volunteer run and is funded through
his life was. He had already endured
donations from the Archdiocese of
more hardships in his four years than I
Hartford, St. Francis Hospital, and
have experienced in my 17. But just
many generous people. A few months
like any other child, he did not even
ago, I was with the van at St. Peter’s
think about his circumstances, and he
Church on Main Street, and a young
was completely absorbed in whatever it
woman came in with her daughter and
was that he was doing. He was enthusison. The woman was 21, her son and
astic about the stickers and his new
daughter were four and two, and she
cape. His enthusiasm for life was conwas pregnant with her third child. The
tagious. His story provides an example
van usually does not encourage parents
for all of us.
to bring their children because the docI hope that as we go onto college we
tors do not specialize in pediatrics, and
KIMBERLY OAKS
all will remember to be like a child.
because all children in Connecticut are
SALUTATORIAN, CLASS OF 2007
Even though we will be burdened with
covered under Husky Care (health
work and responsibilities, we need to
insurance for children). However, the
remember to look past the hardships and to engage everything in
young woman told the volunteers that the children’s father had
life with the enthusiasm of a child. I hope we will all learn, build
forced her and their two children out of the house. She could not
friendships, practice, rehearse, and work with enthusiasm. I hope
get back her children’s birth certificates, which were necessary to
we never lose that joy for life that we effortlessly perfected when we
qualify for the Husky Care program. They were living between
were very young.
shelters, unsure where they would be from one night to the next.
Gratitude and enthusiasm, I believe, are very important charHer little boy was adorable and full of life. He kept coming
acteristics that we must take with us from our childhood. These
over to where I was working on files, talking to me, and asking my
qualities are necessary for a truly successful life. In Matthew 18:3,
name. I started playing with him and gave him a sticker book. He
Jesus tells us “Truly I say to you, unless you …become like chilimmediately dove into the book and made scenes with the stickdren, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” Jesus taught us
ers on the pages. Then he started putting them on his forehead
that we must retain some childlike qualities to lead a truly happy
and all over his arms. The little boy had a contagious giggle that
and successful life.
erupted every time he put a new sticker on his head. He gave me
Even though every once in a while throughout college (and for
a sticker to wear and started giving the stickers to other volunthe rest of our lives), we are all bound to act childish, I pray that
teers. He was thoroughly enjoying that sticker book.
we will always be child-like. I pray that you will remember to say
I met the little boy and his family on a cold, wintry day. The
please and thank you, and that you will be excited for everything
waiting room in the House of Care van had no heat. I had been
you do in your life. God bless you, good luck, and congratulacollecting blankets at my church to distribute at the van to help
tions to the class of 2007!
the waiting patients stay warm. One of the donated blankets was
— Kimberly Oaks was the salutatorian of the Class of 2007. The
a shawl that had a string to tie around the shoulders. I took the
daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Oaks of West Simsbury, she is now
shawl and gave it to the boy. I tied it around his neck like a cape
a first-year student pursuing speech pathology at Stonehill College in
and said, “Look, you’re Superman.” He erupted into a series of
Easton, MA.
giggles and began zooming through the room as if he were flying.
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“Strive constantly to make a difference”
he man looked at me through the most frightened eyes I
have ever seen. He was bleeding profusely, breathing
hard and moaning from the intense pain that I could
only imagine he was feeling. Seconds earlier, he had been jockeying for position on our interstate highway when he decided to
exit from the far left-hand lane. He didn’t make it. The car
crashed off the ramp and slammed into a copse of trees.
T
My wife and I were seconds behind him. Because I am an
emergency medical technician (EMT), I knew I had to act fast.
Stopping in the breakdown lane just past the accident, I jumped
out and grabbed a medical bag I keep in the back of my truck.
A bystander was holding a blanket against the man’s chest. “I
think he has a sucking chest wound,” he said. I asked whether
he could see any of the man’s ribs and whether anything was
protruding from the wound; then, I applied pressure to the
man’s chest and told the bystander to continue holding pressure.
A police officer arrived; I asked him to radio the county’s
Emergency Communications Center and tell them that we had
a priority one, chest trauma patient with a partially severed arm,
to send a medic unit and the rescue squad, and to alert the local
WILDER J. LEAVITT, CLASS OF 1982
trauma hospital that we were coming. I identified myself to the
injured man and started asking him the questions every EMT in
the country asks: “What is your name?” “Do you know where
you are?” “Can you tell me what happened?” “Can you tell me
what hurts?” I was assessing his level of consciousness, the quality of his circulation, whether his airway was open, whether he
had a pulse, and whether he had any uncontrolled bleeding. I
was trying to determine the extent of his injuries and whether
they were life threatening. He was dying.
* * *
ecently, Matt Fitzsimons asked my opinion about
whether, and how, students’ high school experiences prepare them for the future and influence their postgraduate choices. For me, the answer is unequivocal; in fact, it would
take many pages to enumerate all the ways that Northwest
Catholic has influenced me. But one thing stands out: that is,
that the point of our lives is not about simply pursuing achievement and attaining success; it is about stretching ourselves by
helping others. I learned this lesson over and over again at
Northwest Catholic, not only in my religion courses (where one
might expect it), but also in science labs, classrooms, clubs, and on the track, through the
words and deeds of teachers, coaches and fellow
students.
R
This notion of stretching oneself through service has coalesced for me into a personal philosophy
that I can easily attribute in part to studying
ancient Greek cultures in Dan Marcus’s English
class; history and society in John Shukie’s class; or
belief, faith and philosophy in Fr. Bock’s seminar.
And that philosophy is this: to properly attend to
ourselves, we must focus on developing our minds,
our bodies, and our spirit. It is not enough to do
one or two and not the others. Personal stability
and strength comes from crafting all three legs of
the human platform so that it will support the trials and challenges that come before us. To this day,
I try to do for myself what Northwest Catholic did
for me then: educate my mind, train my body, and
feed my soul.
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For me, a perfect expression of this philosophy might be to live
a hundred lives and pursue a hundred interests. But I am content
with the experiences I have had: as a military officer, a management
consultant, a lawyer, an EMT, a husband, and most of all, as a compassionate member of my community trying to make a difference.
These diverse experiences add richness and, I hope, stretch my
skills, character and ability to contribute in three dimensions.
* * *
he police officer has returned, telling me that additional
resources are on the way. Although I can’t open any of
the car doors, I am treating the severe injuries the driver
has to the left side of his body. His breathing has become more
labored, and I can see a halo of sweat forming around his head,
which I know means he is getting worse. I get a mask device
ready because I am pretty sure that I will have to lean into the
car and begin CPR shortly. I am holding his head trying to help
him breathe when he says, “I’m fading.” “No, you’re not!” I
respond, squeezing him on the neck in the hope of eliciting pain
and responsiveness.
T
* * *
f we are the sum of our experiences and our decisions, then
surely some of our most enduring lessons occurred in our
adolescence. My first English teacher, Mary Fran Hennessy,
gave me the confidence and instruction I needed to become a
better writer. Toward the end of freshman year, she encouraged
me to sign up for the honors-level sophomore course. She knew
I could do it, but I lacked confidence. She believed in me when
I didn’t, convinced me I was capable and made a difference.
Carol Canora stimulated my interest in science by demanding
academic rigor – yet she tempered her high expectations with
genuine compassion. When I approached her about an experiment I’d read about to calculate the force of gravity, she encouraged me to reproduce the experiment in the physics lab on her
time. She stayed after school and gave me the run of the lab.
While I made my measurements, I felt like a colleague, another
discoverer of the wonders of the scientific world. And Mike
Griffin, in his role as track and field coach, helped me learn how
to lead. He would often toss me a stopwatch at the beginning
of practice, give me the training schedule for the afternoon and
entrust all the sprinters to me. I’m not sure that always worked
the way he planned; we were high school kids, after all, prone to
cutting corners whenever we could. But I had moments running alongside my friends, clutching the digital stopwatch,
when I really felt like I was leading the pack – a skill I would
come to rely on heavily as an Air Force officer.
I
Equal in importance to the roadmap laid out by adults at
Northwest Catholic were the interactions I had with my fellow
students. It is true that if you want to become a better runner,
you should run with those who are stronger and faster than you.
They will elevate you in a way no individualized training can.
When I saw my classmates achieve in the National Honor Society,
on the yearbook staff, in student government, on teams, and especially in the classrooms, I wanted to be like them. Although none
of us realized it at the time, they were my role models, allowing
me to see me in them and what I might be capable of doing.
* * *
J
ust then, I see familiar faces. One of the units from my
Squad has arrived. I feel a swell of relief as I call for a backboard, oxygen and trauma dressings and begin squeezing air
into my patient’s lungs. At the same time, other firefighters are
tearing off the car door so we can extricate the driver. He’s
about 270 pounds, and it takes six of us to get him on the backboard. I stabilize his traumatized arm as we sidestep over the
uneven ground to get to a nearby ambulance. The rear doors
close, the ambulance pulls away with lights and sirens blaring,
and it is over. As I peel off my latex gloves, I realize I am shaking uncontrollably. “Do you think he will make it?” the police
officer asks. “I don’t know,” I reply. He asks, “Do you think we
saved his life?” I pause to think. “I’m not sure, but I think we
made a difference.”
And that is what I have carried from days at Northwest
Catholic: strive constantly to improve yourself, to serve your fellow human beings, and, if you are able, to make a difference.
— A 1982 graduate of Northwest Catholic High School, Wilder
Leavitt earned a B.S. degree in aerospace engineering from Syracuse
University in 1986. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the
U. S. Air Force and served for the next seven years as an aircraft and
munitions maintenance officer. After leaving the Air Force, he
earned an M.S. degree in 1995 from MIT’s Sloan School of
Management. He worked for several years as a management consultant for Coopers and Lybrand, but he returned to school in 1998 as a
law student at the American University Washington College of Law.
In 2001, law degree in hand, he began practicing intellectual property and environmental law in several Washington, D.C. law firms
before starting a solo practice in Bethesda, Maryland. He focuses on
management consulting and nonprofit/public interest law and volunteers as an EMT and ambulance driver at the Bethesda-Chevy Chase
Rescue Squad. Wilder is married to Mary Morningstar and is studying to be a paramedic.
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Faith In Action
Service Projects Build Community
– On Campus and Off
M
onday mornings are always busy at Northwest Catholic
– but even more so on the first Monday of the month.
That’s when, amid the normal hustle and bustle of a new school
week, the makings of a giant potluck supper miraculously appear
in the office of Campus Ministry Director Kristi Gillespie — the
literal and figurative home of Northwest Catholic’s myriad community service activities.
Mike Freund ’10 brings chocolate chip cookies (made with
freshly ground cinnamon).
Kate Williamson ’08 can always be counted on for brownies.
Michael Lathrop ’08 and his family are known for their outstanding cakes.
Kaela Paternoster ’09 and Erika Dueñas ‘10 pitch in with
tons of groceries and paper goods, cutlery and other supplies.
And other students take turns providing side dishes: noodles
with cheese sauce; frozen Italian mixed vegetables; tossed salad;
bread and real butter.
Meanwhile, at home over the weekend, Mrs. Gillespie and several of her colleagues – usually Claudia Hart and Mark Dodd –
prepare about 25-30 pounds of chicken breast, the foundation for
“Chicken Catalina,” Northwest Catholic’s signature entrée in the
multi-course meal that’s served to about 50 people at the Manna
Program soup kitchen at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford.
“The longer I teach here, the more I realize that we all need to
do more to help others,” said Dodd, a science teacher, explaining
why he’s become a “Chicken Catalina” chef.
“The guests get very excited when they see us coming in with
the chicken – it’s a very popular dish,” said Mrs. Gillespie, her eyes
Michael Lathrop, Kate Williamson (center) and Kaela Paternoster prepare plates of “Chicken Catalina,” Northwest Catholic’s
signature dish, with all the trimmings.
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from the school refrigerator (where it’s been kept cold), load a school
van with supplies and student helpers – some
who come every month, some who come
whenever they can — and head to Church
Street, where the soup kitchen is located. The
Northwest Catholic group prepares the dinner
between 5:00 and 6:00pm; serves it at 6pm
(restaurant style); and then cleans up, packages
and stores any leftovers and heads out, arriving
back at school between 7:00-7:15pm.
The number of helpers varies all the time,
Mrs. Gillespie said, but is generally between
four and 12. Besides Ms. Hart and Mr.
Masciocchi, other helpers may include teachers
Kristi Gillespie, director of NWC’s Campus Ministry program, enjoys dinner with
(like Joan Keating-McKeon, who provides
one of the clients at the Manna Program soup kitchen in Hartford.
many groceries); coaches (like John Mirabello,
who brought his young son to help at the sumlighting up. “They call it the ‘red chicken,’ because of the sauce
mer
meal);
alums
(like
Molly Eastman ’06, Amanda Tremblay ’07,
it’s baked in. They love it when it’s a Northwest Catholic night.”
and Kate Flaherty ‘07); and current and alumni parents (like Brian
And although the chicken is part of it, it’s probably not the only
reason the NWC night is so popular. When the Northwest
Catholic crew is there, smiles abound – from the clients enjoying
the meal, of course, but also from the many different members of
Soup Kitchen Shopping List
the Northwest Catholic community who come together for three
hours, one Monday a month, in this very well-oiled machine.
Boneless chicken breast
“We have our system down to a science,” explained Mrs.
(cut into nuggets, breaded, and baked)
Gillespie. After the students’ donations come in on Monday mornKraft Catalina Fat-Free dressing
ing (see sidebar), she places a call to Al Masciocchi, father of Kate
Egg noodles
’06 and Rebecca ’08, who always stops to pick up anything that’s
missing while on his way downtown to help serve the meal. (His
Ragu Cheese Sauce
son Matthew, a sixth grader at St. Timothy Middle School, comes
Frozen Italian vegetables
along to help – he’s known as the “chocolate milk boy,” because he
Bagged salad
delivers and mixes the sweet powder with milk at each table.)
At about 4:30, Mrs. Gillespie and Ms. Hart retrieve the food
Ranch and Italian dressing
Milk
Butter
I
n order to prepare and serve dinner at the Manna
Nestle Quik chocolate milk mix
Program soup kitchen on the first Monday of each month,
Hot cocoa mix
Northwest Catholic needs the following supplies, which
Mrs. Gillespie requests during morning announcements at
school. Students take responsibility for bringing various items
Italian bread
Desserts
by signing up on an enormous poster on her office door, and
Baking spray
they deliver their contributions on Monday morning. (She’s
Heavy-duty paper plates
happy to accept donations of the non-perishable items at any
Paper bowls
time, however!)
Paper cups (10 ounce)
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Feature
Faith In Action
Williamson and Kim Bowen, whose son Dillon is a freshman).
And then there are the current students, of course.
“It does take time, but I have time to give,” said Michael
Lathrop.
Kim Bowen, parent of an NWC freshman, sits down to
supper with a Manna Program client.
Kaela Paternoster adds that, as someone who feels shy herself,
she can understand why a new volunteer might feel nervous or
unsure about participating. “I’ve been involved since freshman
year, and I still don’t know what to say when I get there!” she
admits with a sympathetic smile. “But they help you along. The
people there will ask you about yourself, and before you know it,
you are talking to people and you feel kind of like you made a
new friend.
“It’s one of those things where you just have to put yourself
outside your comfort zone,” she continued. “You definitely get
back two times as much as you put in.”
“I go to the soup kitchen because I have seen that there is a
need to provide this meal, and it is something I am capable of
doing,” said Ms. Hart, chairman of the Math Department.
“Problems like hunger seem so large and insurmountable, but in
a small way we can help this group of people.
“I also like seeing a different side of our students as we work
side-by-side rather than in a teacher-student relationship, “she
continued. “They show leadership and compassion in the work
they do.”
“Chocolate milk boy” Matt Masciocchi, a 6th-grade student
at St.Timothy Middle School, accompanies his dad Al to the
soup kitchen each month.
Her mother, Kathleen Hart (PP ‘72,’73,’74,’76,’78,’80,’82),
participates by helping to underwrite the cost of some of the
ingredients in the meal her daughter prepares. “She wanted to
be involved,” Ms. Hart said.
“Sam Dusza’s mom came to help out this summer, even
though Sam had just graduated,” Mrs. Gillespie said. “She said
she really just enjoyed the camaraderie of our group.”
Teresa Bournique ’84, who has returned to her alma mater as
a religion teacher this year, volunteered at the Manna Program
in August – just a month after she was hired, and before she’d
even met any of her students.
“How inspiring it was to receive my first impression of
Northwest Catholic High School students and parents in the
context of preparing and serving a soup kitchen meal!” said Mrs.
Bournique. “The joyful, humble, respectful, and efficient manner of the volunteers that night set the tone for my work in
teaching and campus ministry at NWC.”
Sophomore Erika Dueñas and math teacher Claudia Hart
take a break for dinner themselves, after making sure all
the clients have been served.
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President’s Letter
Dear Alumni, Parents and Friends,
We wish to thank you for your support of our mission to educate the whole person in a dynamic educational environment that thrives in its diversity. With
your gifts of time, talent and treasure, you truly make a difference in the lives of the students we are privileged to serve.
Here at Northwest Catholic, we cherish the many intangible gifts you share with us; indeed, throughout this issue of Logos, we celebrate the myriad ways
that members of our community share their gifts with family, friends and others whom they meet in the world around them.
We also acknowledge the abundant “treasures” or financial gifts that we are blessed to receive, and we do so in the pages of this Annual Report.
Northwest Catholic relies on annual giving for 8% of the operating budget. Your generosity to the Northwest Catholic Fund, previously known as the
Annual Fund, has been inspiring to our community during the 2006-07 fiscal year: Gifts totaled $660,469, an increase of $84,321 (14.7%) from last year’s
total of $576,148. These gifts allow us to:
• Support and invigorate the caliber of the teaching essential to engaging students in the pursuit of knowledge;
• Ensure that financial aid remains at the heart of the school for students of need; and
• Perpetuate an environment that emphasizes academic excellence, faith in God and service to others.
We also depend upon the generosity of those who contribute toward our modest but growing endowment,
those who make directed gifts to capital projects that enhance our facilities, and those who give generously to
our financial aid fund. The school also posted capital and endowment gifts of $383,836 and $168,148,
respectively.
The result? Our Advancement program yielded a total of $1.261 million during this past fiscal year, representing not only donations to the Northwest Catholic Fund, capital projects, and the endowment, but also
gifts in kind and revenue from three special projects: the annual golf tournament, Saturday Night Live, and
the annual magazine drive.
All of us — students, faculty and staff — benefit from this generosity, as it enables us to continue to offer
the unique Northwest Catholic education in the manner that you all have come to expect. From the bottoms
of our hearts, thank you.
Just after the end of this past fiscal year, our Advancement department entered a period of transition. We
bade farewell to Linda Massaro, who had served so ably as our Director of Advancement for the past five years,
and to Assistant Director Caitlin Dowd and Advancement Assistant Debbie Kennedy.
We are delighted that our new team includes not only Colby Thresher, a stalwart NWC Advancement
Officer and promoter of our planned giving program, but also Jane Leary (AP ’05, ’07), our new Director
of Constituent Relations, who, like Colby, has deep and long-standing ties to the Northwest Catholic community. Debra LeBel, our new Advancement Assistant, is another integral member of our team.
TOP NWC FUND
CONTRIBUTORS
Class Year
1974
1968
1973
1970
1965
Amount
$25,582.36
$13,460.00
$10,630.00
$9,995.00
$9,855.00
TOTAL OVERALL GIFTS
Class Year
1968
1965
1974
1973
1972
Amount
$64,660.00
$58,355.00
$33,832.36
$31,182.97
$16,695.00
Just as I thank all of them, I thank all of you: Thank you for demonstrating, in so many ways, how much
Northwest Catholic means to you. Please know that it is greatly appreciated.
I ask God’s blessings on you and your family in the year ahead.
HIGHEST CLASS PARTICIPATION RATE
Sincerely,
President
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Class Year
2007
1973
1972
1979
1975
1965
Total Donors
45
39
46
36
33
46
NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT, 2006-07
Total Active Members
139
162
193
166
164
229
Class Participation
32%
24%
24%
22%
20%
20%
Advancement Report
Statement of Operating Activities
An unaudited statement of revenues and expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007.
REVENUES
EXPENSES
Operations
Operations
Tuition and Fees
Asssessments
Subsidies from Archdiocese
Athletic Income
Support Service Income
Other Operating Income
$6,206,736
$132,000
$242,184
$15,172
$130,337
$336,316
Subtotal
$7,062,745
Administration
Instruction
Library/Media
Plant
Athletics
Support Services
Capital Expenditures
Other Operating Expenditures
Advancement
Development
Internal Fundraising
$565,068
$127,135
Subtotal
$692,203
Total Revenues
Subtotal
$7,355,208
Development
$343,597
$56,143
Advancement
$7,754,948
Total Expenses
Tuition and Fees
Asssessments
Subsidies from Archdiocese
4.3%
1.7%
7.3%
$1,299,354
$4,043,801
$125,073
$640,586
$501,311
$222,527
$286,136
$236,420
1.6%
0.2%
Athletic Income
Support Service Income
Other Operating Income
Development
3.1%
1.7%
3.7%
3.0%
4.4%
0.7%
16.8%
2.9%
$7,754,948
Administration
Instruction
Library/Media
Plant
6.5%
Athletics
Support Services
Capital Expenditures
Other Operating Expenditures
Development
8.3%
1.6%
80.0%
52.1%
Advancement Report for fiscal year ending June 30, 2007
3.4%
5.4%
25.1%
5.1%
Alumni
Current Parents
Alumni Parents
Friends/Faculty
Foundations
Saturday Night Live
Golf Tournament
Magazine Drive
Totals
Gifts In Kind
Total All Sources
Annual Fund
$120,922
$105,328
$62,686
$63,610
$140,807
$61,947
$39,980
$65,189
Capital
$135,710
$103,500
$16,513
$63,113
$65,000
Endowment
$47,728
$2,690
$2,610
$115,120
$660,469
$383,836
$31,734
$17,140
$48,874
$692,203
$400,976
$1,261,327
$168,148
Total
$304,360
$211,518
$81,809
$241,843
$205,807
$61,947
$40,865
$65,189
$1,212,453
17.0%
17.4%
19.9%
Alumni
Current Parents
Alumni Parents
Friends/Faculty
6.7%
Foundations
Saturday Night Live
Golf Tournament
Magazine Drive
This listing reflects gifts received between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007.
We apologize if we have inadvertently omitted any name from this listing. Please let us know so we can correct our record.
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Highlights, 2006-07
Academic Accolades
•
Two seniors named National Merit Semifinalists; seven
named National Merit Commended Scholars.
•
Every member of the Class of 2007 – 139 students – went
on to continuing education: 94% to four-year colleges,
4% to two-year colleges, 1% to postgraduate work, and
1% to technical higher education.
•
A record 24 students named Advanced Placement
Scholars.
•
More than 130 students took AP exams.
•
Fifty-two juniors and seniors inducted into the National
Honor Society.
•
SAT scores remain at a 30-year high.
New Technology
and Improved Facilities
Members of the Freshman Contact Group – comprising seniors who serve
as special ambassadors to the freshman class – prepare for the Freshman
Dance in September 2006.
•
Forty new state-of-the-art computers installed in computer labs.
•
Four classrooms in the Math Corridor were upgraded with white boards, Smart boards, and LCD projectors mounted on the ceiling.
•
A total of 12 Smart boards throughout the building.
•
Navin Room and Campus Ministry office were renovated.
Winning Seasons
•
Field hockey became a varsity sport.
•
Nine teams – football, golf, boys’ and girls’ basketball, boys’ and girls’ lacrosse, baseball, and boys’ and girls’ soccer – all advanced to state tournaments.
•
Baseball team set a school record for wins, finishing as state runner-up.
•
184 students named to the conference All-Academic team.
Fine and Performing Arts Awards
•
Women’s Choir placed first (Gold Medal Ranking) at Heritage Festival in New York City, while Concert Choir, Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band
all placed second.
•
Concert Band and Chamber Choir placed third (Superior Rating) at the Music in the Park Festival at Six Flags New England.
•
Syncopate, the year-old dance team, competed in two categories at a national competition in Las Vegas, placing first (National Champions) and second, respectively.
•
Northwest Passages, our student-produced school newspaper, won first place from the National Scholastic Press Association and a silver rating from the
Columbia Scholastic Press Association – the highest such journalism awards in the paper’s history.
•
Several members of the newspaper staff also won awards for individual journalistic achievements.
•
The Writer, our literary magazine, was awarded First Place from the American Scholastic Press Association.
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Faculty and Staff
Administration
Matthew Fitzsimons
BS Finance; M Ed Education
Administration; MA Pastoral Ministry
President
Margaret Williamson
BA French; MA French;
Sixth Year, Educational Leadership
Principal
Richard Callahan
BA History; MS Education
Vice Principal and
Dean of Students
John Cusson
BA English; MA Literature;
Certificate of Advanced Study,
Administration and Supervision
Academic Dean
Faculty
Kathryn Alexander
BA Music Education
Music
Paul Fitzpatrick
BA History; MA Public Policy
Social Studies
Patricia Lynch
BA Education; MA English
English
Elizabeth Quinn
BA English; MA Special Education
Guidance
Daniel Avery
BM Music
Fine and Performing Arts
Scott Fletcher
BS Geology; MA Science Education
Science
Nancy Martin
BA Spanish
World Languages
Joshua Reese
BA History; MA History
Social Studies
Ana Barrett
BS Spanish; MA Spanish
World Languages, Chair
Mary Jo Foran
BA English;
30 Hours, School Counseling
Guidance
Rosemary McNally
BA Religious Studies
Religion, Chair
Deacon Richard Santos
BA Religious Studies
Religious Studies
Deborah Metzler
BA Economics; MA Education
Mathematics
Carol Schave
BS Math Education
Mathematics
John Mirabello
BA Psychology; MA Social Studies
Education
Physical Education and Health
John Shukie
MA American Studies
Social Studies, Chair; Athletic
Director
Jennifer Montoney
BS Biological Sciences
Science
James Shugrue
BS Mathematics; Fifth-Year
Certificate, Math
Mathematics, Chair
Madonna Burke
BA Pastoral Ministry; BA Religious
Education; MA Youth Ministry
Religion
Christopher Gallagher
BA English
English
Cory Carlson
BA Sociology; MA History
Social Studies
Christopher Garr
BA History; MA History
Social Studies
Beth Casey
BS Psychology; MA Teaching
I.T. Coordinator
Kristina Gillespie
BA Spanish; MA Spanish
Religion, World Languages, and
Campus Ministry
Roger Clapper
BS Accounting
Permanent Substitute
Timothy Crowley
BS Health Education; MS Marine
Environmental Education
Science
Catharine Curran
BA Mathematics; MA Mathematics
Mathematics
Sara Demos
BA Theatre Arts; BS Ed English
Director of Theater; English
Mark Dodd
BS Biology; MBA
Science
Allison Donnelly
BS Math
Mathematics
Valerie Doucette
BA German; BA English; MA English
English
Yvonne Ellis-Rousseau
BA Foreign Languages; MA
International Affairs
World Languages
Sandra Hayes
BS Business Management; MA
Library Science; MA Educational
Technology
Assistant Librarian
Claudia Hart
BA American Studies; MA Education
Mathematics
Barbara Iorillo
BA Spanish; MA Hispanic and
Italian Studies
World Languages
Patricia Juda
BA English and History; MS
Reading
English, Chair
Joan Keating-McKeon
BA English; MA English Literature; JD
English
Fran Laffin
BA History; MA Pastoral Ministry
Religion
Richard Luddy
BS Physics; MS Physics; PhD Physics
Science
Virginia Murphy
BA Biology; MS Marine
Environment Education
Science, Chair
Robert Nasta
BA Music; MA Music; DMA
(Doctorate of Music Arts)
Fine and Performing Arts
Elizabeth Oates
BA Art History; MS Art Education
Fine and Performing Arts, Chair
Joyce O'Rourke
BS Physical Education; MS School
Guidance Counseling
Director of Guidance
Katy Sibley
BA Spanish
World Languages
Kerri Smith
BA English; BFA Acting
English
Jeffrey Sutherland
BS Chemical Engineering; BSC
Management Studies
Science
Ronald Swanson
BA Latin and Education; MA
Classics
Social Studies and World
Languages
2006-2007
SCHOOL BOARD
Mr. Peter Bourdon, Chair
Mrs. Danielle Schiffer
Andruszkiewicz ’77,Vice Chair
Mr. Philip Bonee ’72
Fr. Joseph Crowley
Mrs. Kerry Kearns Curry ’77
Mr.Thomas Filomeno
Mr. Matthew Fitzsimons
Mr. Brendan Fox, Jr.
Mrs. Nancy Chesnut Gautier ’73
Mrs. Christine Golic
Dr.Tracy Brennan Graham
Mr.William Harris
Mr. Scott Mansolillo
Mrs. Kathy Murphy
Mr. Robert O’Hara
Mrs. Joyce O’Rourke
Mrs. Laurie Paternoster
Mr. Jonathan Reed ’94
Mr. George Scurlock
Helga Phillips
BA Psychology; MA Library Science
Director of Library
and Media Studies
William Tressler
BA History; MA American History
Religion and Social Studies
Michael Tyler
BS Business Economics;
MA Social Work
Guidance
Stanley Piorkowski
BA Chemistry; MA Education
Mathematics
Terri Turley
BS Education
Long-Term Substitute
Marisa Varney
BS Math Education
Mathematics
David Woodford
BA English; MA Education
Religion, Fine and Performing Arts
Jeffrey Przech
BA English
English
Staff
Support Services
Nancy Bannon
Director of Admissions
Colleen Harrison
Secretary
Lynn Prendergast
Guidance Assistant
Sister Ann Moore, CND
Teacher Consultant
Pat Allen
Food Service
Susan Brimmer
Administrative Assistant
Lisa Huston
Administrative Assistant to the
President
Richard Puskarz
Director of Finance
Rev. Joseph Crowley
Chaplain
Luke Alston III
Facilities and Maintenance
Joanne Czerwinski
Finance Assistant
Caitlin Dowd
Assistant Director of Advancement
Cindy Fusco
Assistant Director of Admissions
Deborah Kennedy
Advancement Assistant
Maryann Lacouture
Admissions Assistant
Linda Massaro
Director of Advancement
Nancy Taylor
Director of Communications
Slobodan Bogdan
Colby Thresher
Advancement Officer
Bobby Pace
Karen Tyler
Administrative Assistant to the
Principal
Floyd Wilson
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Founders’ Circle
The Founders’ Circle comprises donors who display exceptional interest in the advancement of the School by virtue of their gifts of $1,000 or more.
It recognizes the financial stewardship that many members of our community play in supporting the School’s operating and capital needs. Their generosity serves as an inspiration and is most appreciated.
Legacy Society $100,000+
These donors have an unwavering belief in the vision and
future of Northwest Catholic. Gifts given in this society are
usually allocated for capital improvements or endowed scholarships. Many of these generous gifts originated from
thoughtful estate planning or a special bequest.
Presidents’ Circle $50,000-$99,999
Presidents’ Circle members demonstrate exceptional generosity, faith in our vision, and a strong commitment to the
mission and values of our school.
Rev. Frascadore Society $25,000-$49,999
As the school’s first president, Rev. Henry C. Frascadore initiated the Annual Fund and pioneered the development of
Legacy Society
($100,000.00 + )
Mr. James F. Shugrue
Presidents’ Circle
($50,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Breen ’68
Foundation for the Advancement
of Catholic Schools
Rev. Frascadore Society
($25,000.00 + )
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allen
(Laura Connelly ’65)
Catholic Charities, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael O. Eagan ’74
(Geralyn Tuohy ’74)
Hartford Courant Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt
The John G. Martin Foundation
William & Alice Mortensen Foundation
The Trane Company
Rev. Colton Society ($10,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Bourdon
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy H. Callahan ’68
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dornfried, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fenoglio
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Genovese ’65
Mrs. Carol Dupuis Haylon ’80 & Mr.
Michael Haylon
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hughes
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Morrisett ’73
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Paternoster
Mr. John Randazzo
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the Northwest Catholic Endowment Fund. As a result, the
school grew tremendously, and today’s students continue to
enjoy the fruits of these programs.
Rev. Colton Society $10,000-$24,999
During his time at Northwest Catholic, Rev. Bradford
Colton, the first principal, was an exemplary leader, educator
and mentor to many students. He lived the mission of our
school with humbling grace and dedicated his life to educating others.
1961 Society $5,000-$9,999
Green & White Circle $2,500-$4,999
Every fan of Northwest Catholic knows that green and white
are as popular and as ubiquitous now as they were in 1961,
when they made their debut as our school colors.
Dominican Order Society $1,000-$2,499
In 1961, eight Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs
devoted their time and energy to educating the young minds
of Northwest Catholic students. Their guidance provided
the foundation for the growth and development of the student body.
Northwest Catholic opened its doors in 1961. Gifts from
the members of this society make a notable impact on the
growth and progression of our school and inspire others to
invest in its future.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Roller
Superior Industries
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Shima
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sisk ’90
Sullivan, Schoen, Campane and Cannon
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Wentworth ’65
(Kathleen Collagan ’65)
1961 Society ($5,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Andruszkiewicz
(Danielle Schiffer ’77)
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Barton
(Elizabeth Collins ’70)
Mr. John Berry ’86
Ms. Cathleen Collins ’65
Mr. and Mrs. Giuliano DiFrancesco
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Doran Jr. ’78
Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Finigan
Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Golic
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Hudak ’82
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Knortz
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Lathrop
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Lubozynski
Mr. John P. Makuch ’88
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Miller
Navin Bros. Food Service, Inc.
Paul and Mary Cancellarini Charitable Trust
St. Ann Church
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Shangraw ’76
Green & White Circle ($2,500.00 + )
Mr. David Berges
Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Bonee ’72
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Connelly
(Anne Danaher ’70)
Mr. and Mrs. Wes Cooper
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Dowd
(Rosemary Navin ’73)
Mr. Walter J. Dyber
Mr. and Mrs. Augusto Gautier
(Nancy Chesnut ’73)
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Grenham ’78
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Jason ’71
Mr. Matthew H. Lynch & Ms. Susan Banks
Mrs. Gail McCue
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McGuire ’73
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Merkel
Mr. and Mrs. Gerard P. Mullane ’76
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Navin ’69
(Suzanne Dumont ’78)
Mr. and Mrs. Terrence D. O’Connell ’69
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pariano
Ms. Mary E. Scott ’69 & Mr. John
McGroary III
Town of West Hartford
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Turner ’74
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey E. Wagoner
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Wolf ’65
(Elaine Civittolo ’66)
Dominican Order Society
($1,000.00 + )
Anonymous, AL
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Baker ’88
Mr. and Mrs. Winston Barrett
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beckerman
Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Bieluch ’72
Mr. and Mrs. David Bonney
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Boudreau ’69
Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Boya ’77
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Bracken, III ’66
Mrs. Catherine Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. William Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Brickley, Jr. ’72
Mr. Joseph G. Buda and
Ms. Linda Moran-Buda
Mr. and Mrs. Lucien J. Cance
Founders’ Circle
MISSION STATEMENT
Northwest Catholic High School is a
coeducational, college preparatory school
whose mission is to foster in young people a
faith that gives meaning and direction to life,
to challenge and guide them in the pursuit of
academic excellence, and to instill within
them a spirit of service to God and others.
Mr. and Mrs. David Cardwell
(Gail Davis ’73)
Mr. Daniel Carney
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Carpenter
Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn D. Chang ’86
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. George Colli ’73
(Catherine Finley ’72)
Mr. and Mrs. William Collins ’68
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Conway
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Coursey ’72
Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Cowles
Dr. and Mrs. George B. Curry ’77
(Kerry Kearns ’77)
Day Pitney LLP
Mr. and Mrs. John M. DeAngelis, Jr. ’72
Mr. Thomas W. Donohue ’76
Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Dornfried, Jr.
Mr. Thomas Driscoll and
Mrs. Patricia Teufel-Driscoll
Mr. Mark Drusedum and Ms. Molly Knorr
Mr. and Mrs. F. Owen Eagan
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Facey
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Filomeno
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Filomeno
Mr. Joseph Filomeno
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Fiocchetta ’72
Dr. and Mrs. John T. Fitzpatrick
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fitzsimons
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Fitzsimons
Mr. Thomas Freund & Ms. Diane Mineck
General Casualty
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Gilbert
Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Godbout
Dr. and Dr. Neville J. Graham
Mr. and Mrs. R. Nelson Griebel
Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Griffin
Dr. and Mrs. Craig M. Hudak ’79
Dr. and Mrs. Mark L. Hudak ’71
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Hug
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Kearney ’74
Mr. and Mrs. Kelly J. Kearney
Ms. Joan Keating-McKeon &
Mr. Michael McKeon
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Keenan
Mr. and Mrs. Philip F. Kelly
Mr. Paul Kelly ’71
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Krupa
Dr. and Dr. Richard L. Kuntz
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Lenz, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Terrence T. Lescoe ’72
Mr. and Mrs. Wells Lindsay
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Lonczewski
(Gail Dionizio ’71)
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Luby ’69
Ms. Geraldine A. Luksic ’69
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Magistri
Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Malliet ’75
(Maura Ann Kearney ’75)
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Mansolillo
(Marie DeMaio ’82)
Mr. and Mrs. Marc Massaro
May, Bonee & Walsh
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. McAndrews
Mr. and Mrs. James McCloskey ’73
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McGoldrick
The Honorable and Mrs. Kevin McMahon
(Patricia Romano ’71)
Mr. William D. Molloy, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Mortillaro
Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Moses
(Bridget Walsh ’76)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Mulready ’65
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Murphy
Ms. Margaret Naness
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. O’Hara
Dr. and Mrs. Liam P. O’Leary
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. O’Rourke
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Quinn, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Quinn
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Quinn
Mr. Joseph Reese
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ritson
The Roland Family
Mr. and Mrs. George Scurlock
Dr. and Mrs. Martin C. Seremet
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Shukie
Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Sider
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Sisk ’85
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Spignesi
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Strid
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Sullivan
Mr. Ronald Swanson
Anita & Colby Thresher
Mr. and Mrs. John Tuohy ’65
(Mary Boucher ’66)
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Venora ’81
Dr. and Mrs. Paul V. Vignati
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Walsh
Wentworth, De Angelis Insurance
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Williamson
Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Wilson, Jr.
YOUNG ALUMNI FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE
To encourage and cultivate major gifts from its newest alumni, Northwest Catholic has
established the Young Alumni Founders’ Circle Society.The Founders’ Circle has long been
the province of generous donors of $1,000 or more, but the YAFC gives young alums the
opportunity to participate in this elite group with a smaller annual gift, based on how many
years they have been out of school.The members of the Young Alumni Founders’ Circle are
invited to the annual Founders’ Circle appreciation dinner.
The contribution structure for young alums is the following:
For the classes of
Contribution amount
2000-06
$100
1998-99
$150
1995-97
$250
1993-94
$300
1991-92
$500
The following people became members of the Young Alumni Founders’
Circle in 2006-07, the inaugural year of the group:
Mr. Ramon Chavarro Casas '06
Mr. Patrick Corkum '96
Mr. Joseph Fulliero '99
Dr. Alicia ZuWallack Graves '94
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Oates
(Elizabeth Lynch '94)
Ms. Hilary Scurlock '03
Mr. John Scurlock '06
Mr. Jeffrey Slomski '02
Ms. Elizabeth Stafford '00
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Alumni Honor Roll of Donors
Alumni giving totals in each class year are reported in three ways. Participation rates indicate the number of donors in relation to the number of “active” members, i.e. alumni with deliverable addresses. Total Class Contribution reflects gifts made to the NWC Fund (formerly known
as the Annual Fund), along with gifts for capital or endowment purposes. The Annual Fund total represents gifts to the NWC Fund; these
gifts are vital to our operations and help to fulfill our mission.
Class of 1965
20% Participation (46 out of 229)
$58,355 Total Class Contribution
$9,855 to Annual Fund
($25,000.00 + )
Laura Connelly Allen
Rev. Colton Society
($10,000.00 + )
Frank Genovese
Kathleen Collagan Wentworth
Ralph Wentworth
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
Cathleen Collins
Green & White Circle
($2,500.00 + )
Christopher Wolf
($1,000.00 + )
Robert Mulready
John Tuohy
Benefactors ($500.00 + )
Clare McGuinness Drury
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Kenneth Carpenter
Charles Drury
Catherine Zunner Kennelly
Philip Lawton
Susan Edmunds Staecker
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Marilyn Bacon
Kenneth Cahill
Brendan Durkin
Stephen Ellis
L. Frank
William Kerin
Raymond Kinghorn
James Leary
James McGill
Jacqueline Beaupre Rozza
Ralph Roosevelt
Noreen Weaver Shawcross
Dennis Spurr
Geoffrey Walker
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Anniversary ($50.00 + )
Norma Fortier Ingram
John King
Donors
Carol Dalton Beach
Joseph Davidson
Gilberta Boucher Dugas
Norene Osgood Haley
Stephen Keller
Jeanne Tonucci Kelly
Neil Kelly
Albert Lavoie
Everett Pelkey
Joyce Corbin Roy
Jerome Salmon
William Shages
Janice McCutcheon Stelljes
Patricia Killington Thompson
Noreen McNamara Waller
Joseph Woolley
Class of 1966
Anne Pettit Conway
Vincent Ferlini
Karen Lagan McNamara
Constance Merritt
Margaret Burns Morrison
Doris Turgeon Ouimette
Margaret Linehan Skahill
Ann Cameron
Linda Goulet Curro
Jane Henahan House
Kenneth Kelly
Joan Buckley Matson
Michael Steeves
Allicia Giuca Wertheim
Donors
Gary Battiston
Armando Casals
Peter Fay
Margaret Clair Greenhut
John Jordan
Susan Whalen McKeown
Rosalie Wisniewski O'Neill
Mary Campise Zdrojowy
Class of 1967
($2,500.00 + )
Elaine Civittolo Wolf
($1,000.00 + )
John Bracken
Mary Boucher Tuohy
Richard Lamb
Martha Smith Murphy
Marie Osborn
Patricia Welch
Jeffrey Dowling
Eugene Madara
Jane Carangelo Slagle
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Marie Scully Gray
Ronald Lapointe
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Anonymous
Class of 1966 Reunion Gift
Sheila Navin Armour
Donald Armour
John Bohannon
Nancy Dillon Cocchiola
Stephen Urban
Mary-Rose Vasques
Nicholas Walsh
James Donnelly
Molly Rees Gavin
Patricia Hamilton
Thomas McGuire
Susan Wolfe Seigars
Mary Troiano Washburn
Mary Ellen Malone White
Donors
Thomas Daddario
James Danaher
Patricia Danaher
Joanne Warner Fyfe
Laura Franco Jeppesen
Dorothy Hippe King
Sarah Sprogell
Class of 1968
Presidents’ Circle
($50,000.00 + )
Mark Breen
Rev. Colton Society
($10,000.00 + )
Timothy Callahan
($1,000.00 + )
William Collins
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Barbara Curry Brimmer
William Brimmer
John Dowd
Thomas Clark
Mamella Murphy Wontka
Richard Wontka
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Patricia Halloran Barrie
Dennis Cardello
Pamela Sullivan Christian
James Emswiler
Sally Calafiore Keefe
Charles Keefe
Robert Slusarz
Charleen Parent Taylor
Margaret McCormack Urban
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Miguel Satut
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Kathleen Curry
Joseph Meny
David Miller
Robert Muzzulin
Maurice Turcotte
Virginia Redden Boland
Terence Donovan
Edmund Dunn
Vincent Kraft
Kathleen Moriarty Ramont
Mary Jordan Sanford
Nancy Tantalo-McGuire
John Tully
Diane Bachta Zalewski
The dedicated, fun-loving, and hardworking administrators, teachers, coaches, and staff members in the
Northwest Catholic community not only developed my
academic and athletic abilities, but they also instilled values such as the importance of good friendships, strong
communication skills, teamwork, leadership, and sportsmanship. With this foundation, I was able to “give back”
to the community what was given to me.
Donors
Nancy Blaschinski
Mary Ellen Sullivan Connors
John Facey
Anne Lagan
Michael Schweihs
-- William Mullady ‘66
Hartford Board of Education
Assistant Lacrosse and Field Hockey Coach,
Northwest Catholic
Class of 1969
($2,500.00 + )
Joseph Navin
Terrence O'Connell
Mary Scott
($1,000.00 + )
Edward Boudreau
John Luby
Geraldine Luksic
Anonymous
Richard Tonino
Patrons ($250.00 + )
John Collins
Susan Gray
Rene Lopez
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Margaret Bracken Cherchia
Thomas Chrosniak
Anne Ryan Degnan
Nancy Tuohy Frobel
Katherine Bowie Green
Donna Anderson Halloran
Linda Whalen Kocha
Robin Williams Larkin
Daniel Montano
Alexander Pezzulo
Janet Crowley Sackbauer
Larry Sicard
Catherine Peck Tamburro
John Tamburro
David Downes
William Keenan
Marcia Bullard Keeney
Donors
Louise Lagueux Concodello
Ann Marie Faucher Corona
Dennis Dobruck
Theresa Troiano Emery
Mary Molloy Johnson
Monica Slusarz McKerracher
Stephen Pitura
Kevin Prout
Class of 1970
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
Elizabeth Collins Barton
($2,500.00 + )
Anne Danaher Connelly
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Barbara Parutka Maffett
Thomas Sheridan
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Thomas Callahan
Robert Cleary
Lorrie Devine
Maureen Meaney Dietze
David Fulton
Sandra Dittman Mendes
Jose Mendes
James Moore
James Mulshine
E. Flynn O'Keefe
Sandra Corthouts Petruccelli
William Scully
Michael Slusarz
David Acquaotta
Roberta Allison
Joseph Anderson
Dennis Blaschinski
Linda Borawski
Patricia McHugh Brynga
J. Michael Halloran
Liza Dunlay Marecek
Andrea Gerich Miller
Arthur Poliquin
Donors
Lillian Hewston Diachenko
Wayne Levasseur
Ellen Maguire Martinelli
James Martinelli
Kathleen Meaney
Class of 1971
($2,500.00 + )
Edward Jason
($1,000.00 + )
Anonymous
Mark Hudak
Paul Kelly
Gail Dionizio Lonczewski
Patricia Romano McMahon
James Duffy
Jane Lennox
James Malone
Peter Murphy
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Thomas Dudeck
Walter Ghent
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Thomas Burton
Barry Emswiler
Robert Griffin
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Anonymous
Christine Gibson
Susan Gworek
Mary Bellizzi Halloran
Dona Silvestri Manuck
Terence McGuire
Jamie Dernbach Potkai
Gregory Ruffy
Mary Quinn Spillane
Barbara Beck Stiles
Donors
Marie Giedraitis-Edgar
Class of 1972
($2,500.00 + )
Philip Bonee
($1,000.00 + )
Philip Bieluch
Arthur Brickley
Catherine Finley Colli
Michael Coursey
John DeAngelis
William Fiocchetta
Terrence Lescoe
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Barbara Blanchfield Carpenter
Joan Sennett Compagna
Susan Devine Dick
Richard Malone
Daniel Mara
Mary Ellen Burke Nichols
Maureen O'Brien
Jean Sennett
Robert Shangraw
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Leonard Burke
Sandra Fanelli Cannone
Mary Pat Daniels Dunbar
Joseph Fleming
Mary-Ellen Hennessey Gerardi
James Gorman
Mark Hagarty
Lucinda Harris
Gary Jachym
Joanne Rees Kaczor
Karla D'Onofrio Ludwig
Kevin McGuire
Christopher Perigard
Mary Randall
James Sarr
Bruce Woolley
Mary Lou Angelastro
Jerome Schierberl
Joseph Turner
Jacqueline Lapenta Wasta
Mary Lou Tuohy Duffy
John Phelan
Donors
Gerard Boucher
Albert Callahan
Herve Gelinas
Kevin Gherard
Douglas Guimond
Kathleen Tracey LaChance
Donald Perrault
Class of 1973
$31,182.97 Total Class
Contribution
Rev. Colton Society
($10,000.00 + )
Russell Morrisett
($2,500.00 + )
Rosemary Navin Dowd
Nancy Chesnut Gautier
Timothy McGuire
($1,000.00 + )
Gail Davis Cardwell
George Colli
James McCloskey
Timothy Bourret
Mark Lennox
Anthony Mascolo
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Nancy Scully Bannon
Michael Hughes
John Kelly
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Eugene Cronin
Margaret Keller-Derby
Michael Klimas
Sharon Maloney
Ellen Callahan O'Connor
Susan Heslin Quish
William Quish
Roberta O'Brien Stimpson
Michael Tyler
Margaret McElaney Woolley
Bradford Brimmer
Patricia Hart Brodeur
Kenneth Goroshko
Elizabeth Graves
Violette Haldane
Robert Leeds
Peter Lesiczka
Susan Hickey McCabe
Maureen Fitzgerald Norton
Donors
Elizabeth Curry
Janet Descoteaux DeAngelo
Karen Mastrandrea DeBari
Laurier Fillion
Sylvie Veilleux Fillion
Kathleen O'Connor
Timothy Shangraw
Northwest Catholic instills a long-standing sense of community in its students. Its holistic approach to learning -- encouraging students to grow their minds, bodies and souls
alike -- prepares them to tackle personal and professional challenges arising throughout
their lives. The School’s ability to stimulate intellectual curiosity while also emphasizing
compassion for others benefits not just its students, but all of the communities in which
they interact. Northwest Catholic’s positive spirit is contagious and has blessed me with
my most cherished lifelong friendships.There is no greater compliment to any institution
than its outstanding capability to foster genuine kindness, lasting friendships and a true
sense of community in its students. Northwest Catholic High School has mastered this.
-- Gail Davis Cardwell ‘73
President & CEO
MHI (Manufactured Housing Institute)
Arlington,VA
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For some reason, perhaps it was divine providence, I knew in 8th grade I needed to attend
Northwest Catholic I grew up in the Elmwood section of West Hartford and the kids I was
hanging around with, let’s just say, were not on a great track educationally. Had I continued
on this track, well, I just can’t imagine where I’d be today. I knew I needed the discipline, academic rigor and the religious-based value system that Northwest Catholic had to offer.
Northwest Catholic truly changed my life. It prepared me for the academic challenges of
Wesleyan University and ultimately Harvard Business School. Whatever success I have
achieved, it was built on a foundation of a loving family, great friends, and the caring teachers
and demanding coaches of Northwest Catholic. I am very grateful to the School, and in my
heart, will forever be a Northwest Catholic Indian.
-- Dennis Robinson ‘75
Sr.Vice President, National Basketball Association
New York, NY
Class of 1974
$33,832.36 Total Class Contribution
$25,582.36 to Annual Fund
($25,000.00 + )
Michael Eagan
Geralyn Tuohy Eagan
($2,500.00 + )
James Turner
($1,000.00 + )
Thomas Kearney
Cynthia Killian Dodd
Justin Fox
Robert Keefe
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Stephen Balkun
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Victor Pileika
Andrew Resnisky
Irene Piccione Resnisky
Claudette Brousseau Cigich
Anita Dal Ponte
Geraldine Morrissey Duncan
Judith Preston Francis
Elise Greenfield Furman
Michael O'Brien
Robert Strano
Donors
Thomas Davoren
Ann Marie O'Neil Davoren
Gerard Donohue
Susan Grimes
Bruce Jachym
Ida McGhee
Kathleen Beatty Palma
Class of 1975
($1,000.00 + )
Maura Ann Kearney Malliet
Peter Malliet
Michelle Maglaty Mostello
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Dennis Robinson
Lynn Smith
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Richard Cobb
Theresa Desjardins Cobb
Michael Flaherty
Robert Giuliano
Catherine Gobes
Jacqueline Bisson Gustafson
Carolyn Hughes LaMonaca
John Lyons
John Roth
Linda Martin Wood
Sandra Benson
Sheri Williams Connelly
Joseph Darman
Melanie Wentworth Dumont
Jacqueline Johnson
Maureen Keefe
Donors
Leonard Discenza
Cristina Creamer Downes
Kathleen Dzenyuy
Vladimir Kalas
Mary Ellen Leahy
Terry Caruso Michalman
Donald O'Connor
Peggy O'Neil O'Neil-Murphy
Judith Brennan Oulundsen
Margaret Wilkinson Petitjean
Susan Shea
Paul Tetreault
Class of 1976
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
Michael Shangraw
($2,500.00 + )
Gerard Mullane
($1,000.00 + )
Thomas Donohue
Bridget Walsh Moses
Theresa Notte Becker
Kenneth Eilers
Mary Schiffer Jones
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Anthony Donatelli
David Dupuis
Patrice Preston Heslin
John Heslin
Ellen Guillet Kelleher
Jean Lambertson Nowak
Gloria Maradie Reddy
Maura Hennessy Shaw
Robertina Saltibus Analo
Jennifer Albert Didier
Duane Haley
Eleanor Hart
John Simoneau
Mark Smith
Mary Rice Sternberg
Jeffrey Walsh
Joan O'Brien Wildfeuer
Donors
Paula Frothingham
Noreen Holmes Giannini
Deborah Samolyk MacMillan
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Class of 1977
Class of 1978
Class of 1979
Class of 1980
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
Danielle Schiffer
Andruszkiewicz
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
William Doran
($1,000.00 + )
Craig Hudak
Rev. Colton Society
($10,000.00 + )
Carol Dupuis Haylon
($2,500.00 + )
Kevin Grenham
Suzanne Dumont Navin
John Flannery
Patricia Bray
William Scully
($1,000.00 + )
Mark Boya
George Curry
Kerry Kearns Curry
James Brewer
Michael Deneen
Mark Molloy
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Elizabeth Hemond Cannone
Maureen Davis Grabowski
Vicki Shangraw Kvedar
Sally Scully
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Michael Cobb
Carl Frobel
Brian Gorman
Cathleen Fox Laffin
Timothy O'Brien
Diane Berube Purcell
Michael Riley
Thomas Selig
Mary Malloy Brotman
Kevin Hughes
Laura Kelly
Maura Walsh O'Brien
J. Thaddeus Rice
John Turner
Donors
William Dougherty
Elisa Craemer Genovese
Nancy Davis Mainelli
Anne Davoren O'Gorman
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($1,000.00 + )
Claudia Hart
Sara Grady Corcoran
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Anne Dante Carroll
Jean Donnelly Molloy
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Mary Anne Francoeur
Baldassarre
Angela Coco
Martha Fanning Erickson
Michael Morris
James O'Toole
Maryann Sheehan Schuppe
Jan van der Werff
Tom Bisson
Anne O'Connor Hutchins
James Lester
Kevin McHugh
Kathleen Lennon Newman
Daniel Walsh
Donors
Andrew Clarke
Nadine Crispino Durkin
Robert Kay
Ellen McGuire Kelly
Kathleen Meany Kerchaert
James Lovkay
Kevin Wholey
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Paul Bisson
Shawn Daly
Andrew Kearns
Maura McNally Kearns
Mary Muccio
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
William Balcezak
Sharon Tracey Barrett
Antonietta Zullo Carreira
Jeffrey Casey
Christopher Deneen
Susan Smith Dolan
Maureen McGoldrick Hann
Robert Hilliard
Cecil Hudson
Nancy Sinsigalli Nardone
David Pastula
Edward Pilkington
James Scully
Ann Flaherty Steinle
Peter Vaphiades
Margaret Randall Brodeur
Patrick Daly
Richard Hemond
Deborah Belch Lyon
Edward Maguire
Mary Dunn Miner
Kathleen Ohlheiser Murray
Donors
Joseph Coleman
Frances Giuliano DiFiore
Craig Eilers
Veronica Kulig
Robert Melanson
Craig Mendola
Michael Morgan
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Joan Janiszewski Karas
Kevin Quinn
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Charles Andrew
Deirdre Walsh Crowell
William Denton
Bridget Cassell Dunn
Dwight Edwards
Barbara Lennon Hooper
Lori Boya Lusardi
Colleen Brewer Moore
Kevin Walsh
Mary Cobb Gothers
Elizabeth Haley Howard
Robert Hyatt
Donors
Elizabeth Rodgers Lomedico
Lisa Sumpter Lowe
Class of 1981
($1,000.00 + )
Timothy Venora
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Diane Sisk Tretton
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Linda Rusconi Andrew
Eileen Brennan Deneen
Bernadette Keefe Dore
Elaine Coco Dunie
Suzanne Wise King
Kara Cunningham Langan
Karen Rodgers Miller
Michele Cavanagh Burris
Elizabeth Bartus Cahill
Susan Silvester Duncan
Michael Griffin
Maria Scotti Scotti-Laifer
Donors
Kathi Shangraw Cotugno
Lauren Kramer Murphy
Class of 1982
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
James Hudak
($1,000.00 + )
Marie DeMaio Mansolillo
Margaret Eagan
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Martha Lennox Hickey
Christopher Kearns
Sharon Kristofak McHale
Katherine Parker
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Thomas Brewer
Susan Pastula D'Anna
Sharon Royce Dempsey
Catherine O'Toole Denton
Kerry Casey Kelley
Susan Shimkus Lemkuil
Eric Peterson
Cheryl Weissenburger Blough
David Blough
Class of 1983
Patrons ($250.00 + )
G. Thomas Marshall
Kelly Murray
Annemarie Smith
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Edward Connors
Matthew Marafino
Maureen Townsend
Timothy Flanagan
Jill Gagne Manners
Donors
Tammy Mendes Snyder
Lisa Walczewski Souza
Class of 1984
$882.50 Total Class Contribution
$882.50 to Annual Fund
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Julie Flaherty Livingstone
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Donald J. Melanson
Maribeth Brewer Morrissey
James O'Brien
Patricia Randall Taylor
Jeffrey Batson
Kathleen Quinn Votaw
Donors
Sharon Sweeney Bruce
Patricia Keightley Dabney
Maura Travers Douglas
Ellen Shea Gilhooly
Suzanne Violette Hilborn
Class of 1985
($1,000.00 + )
Michael Sisk
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Robert Chesner
Amy DiPippo Connors
Kathleen Shima O'Brien
Patricia Hayes Reyda
Michael Shea
Royd Vassiljev
Ronald Brunner
Eileen Walsh Neubert
Andrew Schiffer
Margaret Guertin Schubach
Donors
Anonymous
Johanna Goodrich Goetcheus
Sandra Murray Hayes
Julie Shea Holt
Class of 1986
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
John Berry
($1,000.00 + )
Franklyn Chang
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Scott Thresher
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Leslie DeMaio Costello
Jennifer Schiffer Freeh
Kathryn Van Bramer Palmer
James Quagliaroli
Rosemarie Liss Sughrue
Yvonne Shank Jackson
Katherine Schave
Donors
Michael Collyer
Maureen Fenton
Amy Blake Hornish
Kristen McCullen Strain
Lisa Wojtowicz Wood
For me, Northwest Catholic was all about developing as a
student, as an athlete, and as a person. Northwest Catholic
more than made its mark on me in all three categories, and
I am very thankful. If you give your personal best there,
the benefits are endless and measurable…"Diversity" is a
word that gets thrown around in today's world far too
often, but at Northwest Catholic, diversity is truly at work.
The benefits and importance of learning and developing in
that atmosphere are hard to measure, but simply ask, hire
or spend some quality time with someone from
Northwest Catholic, and it becomes clear!
-- John T. Berry ‘86
Director,Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC
Boston, MA
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Class of 1987
Attending Northwest Catholic was a tremendous opportunity and left a lasting impact on who I am today. The
school complemented and expanded on the work my parents did in raising me and preparing me for life. The
Northwest Catholic community and faculty reinforced my
value set and priorities while challenging me to reach my
full potential both academically and personally.
$800 Total Class Contribution
$800 to Annual Fund
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Michele Lattanzi Paul
Lynne Chesner Torbeck
– Daniel Sisk ‘90
Senior Market Manager
UNUM Provident
Columbia, MD
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Michael Remigino
Suzanne Liss
Mark Stevenson
Rachel Ginnetti Tressy
Richard Tressy
Class of 1988
1961 Society
($5,000.00 + )
John Makuch
($1,000.00 + )
Kevin Baker
Scott Bennett
Mark Murnane
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Linda Krein Cullen
James Cullen
Karen Whittel Lavoie
Peter Lavoie
Elizabeth Guertin Regan
Katherine Santos Hawkom
Jennifer Samolyk
Michelle L. Thresher
Class of 1989
$434 to Annual Fund
Kathryn Williams Cochrane
Marc Piergrossi
Donors
Jennifer Snyder Carra
Amy Powers
Class of 1994
Class of 1990
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Alicia ZuWallack Graves
Elizabeth Lynch Oates
$200 to Annual Fund
Rev. Colton Society
($10,000.00 + )
Daniel Sisk
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Jonathan Reed
Jeffrey Soto
Byron Thresher
John Wilson
Donors
Sarah Griffin Casper
Mary Beth Sweeney
Class of 1997
$275 to Annual Fund
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Amy Griffin
Kyla McMahon
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Elizabeth Gies Schuck
Paul Sullivan
Eric Michaud
Class of 1991
Donors
Gerard Bielinski
Elise Guidobono Garbeck
Donors
Amaris Mendez
Class of 1995
Class of 1998
$125 to Annual Fund
$75 to Annual Fund
David Marceau
John Shukie
Daniel Leahy
Donors
Jason Lambert
John Quinn
$105 to Annual Fund
Lauren Shukie McHugh
Donors
Jennifer Guertin Shockley
Class of 1993
$15 to Annual Fund
Donors
Sal Guerrieri
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Margaret Hennessy Knight
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$870 to Annual Fund
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
George Oprica
Danielle Watt
Donors
Class of 1996
$500 to Annual Fund
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Patrick Corkum
Class of 1999
$555 to Annual Fund
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Kathleen Kennelly Breitenwischer
Joseph Fulliero
Justin Smith
Donors
Kelly Carpenter
Karen Crozier
Jill Carpenter Devor
Niamh O'Leary
Amanda Vacca-Bartley
Nigel Williams
Patrick Williamson
Class of 2000
$210 to Annual Fund
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Elizabeth Stafford
Donors
Jennifer DiMarzo
Class of 2001
$200 to Annual Fund
Stephen Shukie
Justin Sider
Donors
Danielle Appel
Cara McNamara
Delroy Ross
Christine Willey
Class of 2002
Sarah Driscoll
David Johnson
$130 to Annual Fund
Class of 2005
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Jeffrey Slomski
$110 to Annual Fund
Donors
Emily Phillips
Christopher Thorner
Class of 2003
$230 to Annual Fund
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Hilary Scurlock
Joshua Sider
Donors
Ari Barnett
Timothy Bourdon
Nicole Krupa
Jennie Quinn
Kate Thorner
Class of 2004
$115 to Annual Fund
Donors
Molly Andruszkiewicz
Meghan Bissell
Michael Lichniak
Donors
Peter Bourdon
Nicholas Lorenzo
Timothy Rooney
Class of 2006
$235 to Annual Fund
Sponsors - ($100.00 + )
Ramon Chavarro Casas
John Scurlock
Donors
William Bissell
Rachel Driscoll
Class of 2007
$49 to Annual Fund
Donors
Kara Allard
Kevin Ayotte
Stephen Bodell
Christina Boling
Matthew Bossi
Kara Boucher
Michael Bourdon
Alyson Cannone
Maeve Daly
Robert Dornfried
Samuel Dusza
Kate Flaherty
Deirdre Graham
Adam Grant
Danielle Griffiths
Danita Griffiths
Sarah Hebert
Jennifer Horn
Jesse Hoyer
Clayton Jason
Meghan Kiley
Christopher Knortz
Michael Kugler
Justin Lorenzo
Michael Ludlow
Elizabeth Manly
Andrea Manzanares
Robert Marandino
Veronica Marquis
Mary McCormack
Stephanie Merkel
Daniel Mitchell
Marybeth Mitsch
Margaret Molloy
Camille Moore
Robert O'Brien
Chrisovalantis Platsis
Katherine Purple
Jan Radomski
Danielle Riley
Alisha Roller
Erica Sands
Keegan Shepardson
Kathleen Spignesi
David Tomolonis
While Northwest Catholic offered a challenging academic environment that prepared
me well for college and professional life, the most important lessons were those I
learned about being a part of a community. Northwest provided a diverse school environment, enriching our lives with people of all races, ethnicities and economic backgrounds.We graduated with an appreciation for each person and the contribution they
make to our community and the understanding that we are responsible for helping
make our community a better place. These are life lessons not taught in a book, but
shown by example and demonstrated by faith.
-- Elizabeth Stafford ‘00
Finance Director, Connecticut Republicans
Hartford, CT
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Current Parent Honor Roll of Donors
Northwest Catholic is fortunate to receive considerable financial support each year from the parents of our students. Recognizing that tuition alone does not cover the cost
of a child’s education, many parents choose to make a gift to the Northwest Catholic Fund that helps subsidize the difference between the actual cost and the tuition. These
important gifts make it possible for us to maintain a reasonable tuition relative to other private schools. Additionally, parents support Northwest Catholic through other gifts
to endowment and capital projects. We are indeed grateful to these parents for the investment they have made in enhancing the education experience we are able to provide
the students we serve.
($25,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Michael O. Eagan ’74
(Geralyn Tuohy '74)
Mr. John Randazzo
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Roller
1961 Society ($5,000.00 + )
(Danielle Schiffer '77)
(Elizabeth Collins '70)
Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Golic
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin B. Lathrop
Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Bonee '72
Mr. and Mrs. Augusto R. Gautier
(Nancy Chesnut '73)
Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Jason '71
Mr. Michael McKeon and
Ms. Joan Keating-McKeon
Mrs. Gail McCue
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. McGuire '73
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Navin, Jr. '69
(Suzanne Dumont '78)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. O'Hara
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Pariano
($1,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beckerman
Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Boya '77
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. Brickley Jr. '72
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Mr. and Mrs. Lucien J. Cance
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. William Collins '68
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Condon
Dr. and Mrs. George B. Curry '77
(Kerry Kearns '77)
Mr. Mark Drusedum & Ms. Molly Knorr
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Filomeno
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Filomeno
Dr. and Mrs. John T. Fitzpatrick
Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Godbout
Dr. and Dr. Neville J. Graham
Dr. and Dr. Richard L. Kuntz
Mr. and Mrs. Wells Lindsay
Mr. and Mrs. Peter T. Malliet
(Maura Ann Kearney '75)
(Marie DeMaio '82)
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Strid
Dr. and Mrs. Paul V. Vignati
Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Williamson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Dahlem
Atty. and Mrs. Michael P. Deneen '77
Mr. and Mrs. Justin C. Fox '74
Ms. Laurie Kennedy
Mr. and Mrs. Steven W. Krupa
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Ludlow
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Marandino
Mr. and Mrs. James Mitsch
Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Molloy '77
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Shepardson
Mr. and Ms. Michael J. Wagner
Dr. Susan M. Wiskowski
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Aponte
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Balkun '74
Mr. and Mrs. Allen P. Bellefleur
Mr. Robert J. Buckley and Mrs. Noreen
Branley-Buckley
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Buell
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Cannone
(Elizabeth Hemond '77)
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Ciotto
Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Conway
Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Desiderato
Dr. and Ms. Richard Duenas
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis F. Durao
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Flaherty
Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Hopkins
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hunter
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Italia
Atty. and Mrs. Andrew E. Kearns '79
(Maura McNally '79)
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Lemp
Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Mas
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Oleasz
Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Rosensweig
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Savary
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Scobee
Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Varney
Mr. Michael Young & Dr. Lisa Jordan-Young
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ayotte
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Backhaus
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Baldassarre
(Mary Anne Francoeur '78)
Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Banville
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Battaglia
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Benusis
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bianchet
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bona
Mr. Peter J. Boorman and Ms. Lyn Connery
Mr. and Mrs. Paulo Carreira
(Antonietta Zullo '79)
Mrs. Mary Casas-Chavarro
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Chin
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Christina
Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Clapis
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy T. Corey
Ms. Kathleen Crotty
Current Parent Honor Roll of Donors
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Deneen '79
(Eileen Brennan '81)
Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Dombek
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Donnelly
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Erickson
(Martha Fanning '78)
Mr. Timothy Fitzgerald and
Ms. Margaret Collins
Mr. and Mrs. Adelino J. Frazao
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gauger, Jr.
Mr. and Ms. Alfred J. Masciocchi
Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Grady, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Greenberg
Ms. Cynthia Gworek
Mr. and Mrs. Pahlaj C. Harpaldas
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Healey
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Henzler
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Heslin '76
(Tracey Preston '76)
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Hull, Jr.
Mr. Dean W. Hummel
Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kallfelz
Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Kevorkian
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lacouture
Mr. Alan E. Lake and Dr. Anne Pidano
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. LaPorte
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Leary '65
Ms. Donna Lorenzo
Mr. Nicholas Lorenzo
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Lusardi
(Lori C. Boya '80)
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Macchi
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Mackinnon
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Marone
Ms. Pearl Mendez
Mr. and Ms. Steve P. Milewski
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. David H. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nuhfer
Mr. and Mrs. James B. O'Toole Jr. '78
Deacon and Mrs. James F. Papillo
Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Pelton
Mr. and Mrs. John Platsis
Mr. Michael Regan & Ms. Lynne Tuohy
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Riley '77
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Rode
Dr. and Mrs. William M. Sanders
Atty. and Mrs. Robert A. Scalise, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Selig '77
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Shea
Mr. Hyuntack Shin & Mrs. Joungsoon Huh
Ms. Paulette Simon
Mr. Yawo L. Simpini
Dr. and Dr. William Tracey
Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Tyler '73
Mr. Jan P. van der Werff '78
Ms. Tracie L. Vicki
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Watts
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Winland
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Sergey V. Arzumanov
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Bachteler
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Beaule
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence F. Bissell
Mr. and Mrs. Winston A. Blake
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Boin
Mr. Joseph A. Bonfatto &
Ms. Corinne Kapp
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Boucher
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Bruskey
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Cicero
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Clarke
Ms. Zofia Czyzycka
Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Danahey, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Duarte
Mr. and Mrs. James Duncan
(Susan Silvester '81)
Dr. and Mrs. Kevin Flanagan
Ms. Gail Frye
Mr. and Ms. Thomas W. Gostyla
Mr. and Ms. William D. Haflin
Mr. Milton G. Jackson Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Fabio Jimenez
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Kinley
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Landsman
Mr. Richard Lassiter
Mrs. Molly E. Loftus
Ms. Andrea E. Lombard
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Marquis
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Massaro
Mr. and Mrs. James McCormack
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Murray
(Kathleen Ohlheiser '79)
Dr. and Mrs. Paul T. Picciano
Mr. and Mrs. Wieslaw Pokusa
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Richardson
Ms. Valerie E. Ricketts
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shelburne
Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Smith
Mrs. Regina C. Stewart
Mrs. Gloria L. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Joel D. Willis
Donors
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Svetozar Alexandru
Dr. and Mrs. Todd A. Bell
Ms. Sherril V. Brown-Cross
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory T. Carter
Mr. and Mrs. Sung Chen
Mrs. Sandra Cleary
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Connor
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Cronin
Mrs. Kimberly D. Davis
Mr. Michael J. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Durkin
(Nadine P. Crispino '78)
Mr. and Rev. James Frazier, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Boris Garcia
Mr. and Mrs. Russel Garcia
Mr. and Mrs. Justin B. Gilhooly
(Ellen P. Shea '84)
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Grasso
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hebert
Mr. and Mrs. William Hewlett
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Hunter
Mr. Andrew J. Kelly
Mrs. Elaine King
Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Kudlacz
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kugler
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Lane
Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. LeDuc
Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Leonard
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Malec
Mr. and Mrs. Morris E. Mansfield
Mr. Deryl R. Marrow &
Ms. Antoria Howard-Marrow
Mr. and Mrs. James V. Martinelli '70
Ms. Colleen B. Michelson
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Neagle
Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Nelson
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Olson
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Olszewski
Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Paine
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey M. Pannell Sr.
Mrs. Elizabeth Parody
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Powojski
Ms. Anna Maria Salmeri Pherson
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Salvio
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sands
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Scapellati
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Shevchuk
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Siegel
Mrs. Jamillia S. Stewart
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Tanguay
Mr. and Mrs. George E. Tuite
Mr. Joseph A. Whalen
Mr. David P. Yarger & Mrs. Lauren Yarger
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Shima
1961 Society ($5,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. William T. Miller
Mr. David Berges
Mr. and Mrs. Wes Cooper
Mr. Walter J. Dyber
($1,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Winston Barrett
Mrs. Catherine Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Cowles
Mr. Thomas M. Driscoll and Mrs. Patricia
A. Teufel-Driscoll
Mr. and Mrs. F. Owen Eagan
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Facey
Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Griffin
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher R. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Philip F. Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Lenz, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McGoldrick
Mr. William D. Molloy, Sr.
Dr. and Mrs. Liam P. O'Leary
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph G. O'Rourke
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Quinn
Mr. Joseph Reese
Mrs. Mary Louise Roland
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Scurlock
Dr. and Mrs. Richard G. Sider
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Sullivan
Anita & Colby Thresher
Mr. William Brewer, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hanks
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Ricciardelli
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sitarz
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Attianese
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Battersby, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Bouvier
Mrs. Anne Burke
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Callahan
Mr. and Mrs. Carlo Fusco
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Horton Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lennox
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lichtenfels
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lynch
Mr. H. Russell Ohlheiser, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Phillips
Mrs. Josephine C. Rovaldi
Mr. and Mrs. H. Michael Schiffer
Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Tosatti, DMD
Judge and Mrs. Richard A. Walsh
Mr. and Mrs. William W. Walsh
Mr. Roger Williams
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Cheered on by their classmates, boys from the Class of ’10 are determined to prevail at
tug-of-war during Field Day in May 2007.
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Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous
Mrs. Eileen Allard
Mr. and Mrs. Balford Anderson
Mr. William F. Baker
Mrs. Elisa Barbarese
Mrs. Janet D. Berry
Mr. Richard Berry Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Brazel
Mr. and Mrs. Rae C. Bremner
Mr. and Mrs. John Brett
Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Callahan
Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Casey, Sr.
Mrs. Paula Casey
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Cavanagh
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Cenci
Mr. and Mrs. David Cloud
Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Cobb
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Collyer
Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Connolly
Mr. and Mrs. James G. Corbalis
Mrs. Beverly M. K. Curry
Mrs. Ann M. Davis
Mr. and Mrs. John Glenn Decker
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas DeNapoli
Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. DiPippo
Ms. Eileen Donaghey
Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Donnelly
Dr. and Mrs. William E. Dowden
Mrs. Mary E. Dube
Mrs. Lorraine Florio-Olson
Mr. and Mrs. Roland M. Francoeur
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Fusick
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Galligan
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gies
Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Godfrey
Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Grady, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Grimes
Mr. and Mrs. John Guedes
Mrs. Helen M. Gworek
Mr. and Mrs. Duane Haley
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Hansen
Mrs. Helen S. Hill
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hilliard, Sr.
Mrs. Eileen S. Horan
Dr. and Mrs. Alois Kallfelz
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Kowalczyk
Mr. and Mrs. Eugeniusz Lichniak
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Malloy
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Melanson
Northwest Catholic’s cheerleaders are among the school’s most ardent fans.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Myott
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur B. O'Donnell
Mrs. Marjorie Palm
Ms. Rosita Creamer
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pellino
Dr. and Mrs. David Crombie
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Powers, Jr.
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Cronin
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Quinn, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. David C. Allabaugh
Mr. and Mrs. Frank D'Addabbo
Mr. Paul Reardon
Mr. and Mrs. Baxter Atkinson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Daly
Mr. Philip Rensen
Mr. and Mrs. Waldemar J. Bak
Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Delphia
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Rothman
Mrs. Helen Batayte
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Donnelly
Mrs. Corrie Sadler
Mrs. Lucille J. Bellizzi
Mr. William R. Eckert, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Salvatore
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Beneski
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fenton
Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Sandberg
Mrs. Sharran Bennett
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Goicochea
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schmidt
Mrs. Deborah Berry
Mr. Edward Gray and Mrs. Laurel
Mrs. Elizabeth Scully
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Blaschinski
McDonald Gray
Mrs. Barbara Selig
Mr. and Mrs. Floran J. Boland
Mrs. Helen D. Gray
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Shaughnessy
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Boorjian
Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Greenfield, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Sisk
Mrs. Mary Bowie
Mr. and Mrs. David Greenwood
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Slomski, Jr.
Mrs. Rita Brassil
Mrs. Kathleen Hart
Mr. and Ms. Michael St. Denis
Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Cardone
Mr. and Mrs. George Hayes, III
Ms. Janet Stone & Mr. Michael Selissen
Mr. and Mrs. Mark B. Caron
Mrs. Theresa M. Horan
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Carr
Mr. and Mrs. Errol F. Hosein
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Carroll
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jagielski, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Swetcky, Jr.
Mrs. Mary Chamberland
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Kristofak, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Tanner
Ms. Donna Charette
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Kudla
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Taylor
Mr. and Mrs. Attilio Cianfaglione
Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. Liner
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Tuohy
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ciccaglione
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Maus
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Walsh
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cieri
Mrs. Mildred May
Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Coco
Mr. and Mrs. John J. McMahon
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn J. Zaugg
Mrs. Elizabeth Concannon
Ms. Susan McNamara
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Mr. and Mrs. Michael Nelson
Mr. Nicholas Notte, Sr.
Dr. and Mrs. George B. Odlum, Jr.
Mr. John Ogilvie
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Ozark
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Paparella
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Pearson
Mr. and Mrs. Steven Pincott
Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Pinney
Ms. Barbara K. Pulito
Mr. and Mrs. Hector Rivera
Mrs. Catherine Rodgers
Mrs. Betty Jane Rolon
Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Samolyk
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Shea
Mr. David Simpson
and Ms. Barbara Laurain
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Smith
Mrs. Carol Stevenson
Dr. and Mrs. Edmund Suski
Mrs. Gail Tyler
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony S. Vacca
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker
Mrs. Mildred C. Young
Donors
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. Martin F. Adams
Mr. Louis Albert
Mr. Bruce Althen
Mrs. Helen M. Archambault
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Barry, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Barry
Mr. and Mrs. Gary C. Bennett
Mr. John L. Bonee
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence J. Bourret
Mr. and Mrs. William Brimmer
Dr. and Mrs. John A. Britting
Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Brock
Mrs. Barbara T. Bullard
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Burke
Mrs. Gloria C. Chambers
Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Cocolla
Mrs. Dolores A. Conderino
Mr. and Mrs. Benito A. Crispino
Mr. and Mrs. Dominick J. D'Amato
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Danaher III
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Dean
Mrs. Josephine DeAngelis
Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Debboli
Mrs. Anna M. Dennison
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. DeVito
Mrs. Marguerite W. Dionizio
Mrs. Vincy C. Discenza
Mrs. Joan B. Drury
Mrs. Yolande Dumont
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dunlea
Mrs. Elizabeth W. Egan
Mr. and Mrs. Dale Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Fairbairn
Mrs. Maria Ferreira
Mr. and Mrs. Albert P. Fiocchetta
Mr. and Mrs. Everton Francis
Mrs. Lena Franco
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Gagnon
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gervais
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Giovino
Mrs. Leonora Goroshko
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Grasso
Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Guillet
Dr. and Mrs. Walter R. Hampton
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hayes
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen B. Hudak
Dr. and Dr. James G. Joseph
Mr. and Mrs. David F. Kirwan
Judge and Mrs. Glenn E. Knierim
Ms. Debra Knight
The ladies who keep the Northwest Catholic community well-fed! (From left): Mary Ellen Katafiaz, Sara Longcor, Jan Sheehan, June
Mullen, Christina Sheehan, Pat Allen, and Cindy Todd.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kulig
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Lawton
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Lester
Mrs. and Mr. Agnes Looney
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Marks
Mr. and Mrs. Aurelia Mascolo
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Matthews
Mrs. Ann C. McCarthy
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory McCusker
Mr. and Mrs. John C. McGee
Mr. and Mrs. Gregory McMahon
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Melanson
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Menyfield
Mr. John R. Metzler
Mr. and Mrs. William Miskavitch
Mrs. Donna Morrison
Mrs. Noreen Murnane
Ms. Jacqueline Nelson
Mrs. Gayle Nicolay
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Oprica
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Penoncello
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Perrault
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Phillips
Mrs. Lila C. Pitek
Mrs. Elizabeth Plumley
Mr. and Mrs. Neil Quagliaroli
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Reilly
Mr. and Mrs. Biaggio Rinaldi
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Roehl
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Rogers, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Rooney
Mr. and Mrs. Joao Rosa
Mr. and Mrs. Mario A. Rubino
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Schultz
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Shangraw
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sieczek
Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Simoneau
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Smith, II
Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Sponzo
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Stoecklin, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward F. Strange
Mr. and Mrs. John Stratton
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Sullivan
Ms. Kathleen L. Thompson
Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Tinker
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Tressy, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Twambly
Mr. Robert Veneziano and
Ms. Dianna Rafferty
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Walsh
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen W. Warren
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne White
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wilkerson
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Willey
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond L. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wilusz
Mr. and Mrs. William Yokow
Mr. and Mrs. Claudius Young
Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn E. Young
Mr. and Mrs. John Zullo
“Meet Me in St. Louis,” the heartwarming musical about an Irish family from the Midwest at the turn of the century, received standing
ovations and rave reviews when it was performed at Northwest Catholic this past spring.
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Friends Honor Roll of Donors
Legacy Society
($100,000.00 + )
Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Wilson, Jr.
Mr. James F. Shugrue
($25,000.00 + )
Anonymous
Mr. and Mrs. John Hunt
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dornfried, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. William Fenoglio
($1,000.00 + )
Mr. Daniel Carney
Mr. Joseph Filomeno
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fitzsimons
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Keenan
Ms. Margaret Naness
Mr. Ronald Swanson
Anonymous
Rev. Lawrence Bock
Mr. John Cusson and Dr. Regina Cusson
Mr. and Mrs. Mark V. Diorio
Mr. Paul B. Fitzpatrick
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hickner
Mr. and Mrs. David McNally
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Nigro
Ms. Maureen G. Phelan
Patrons ($250.00 + )
Anonymous
Ms. Madonna Burke
Father Joseph P. Crowley
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Deck, Sr.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Juda
Rev. Eugene M. Kilbride
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Martin
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mirabello
Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Puskarz
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Taylor
Sponsors ($100.00 + )
Ms. Mary J. Abel
Mrs. Marilyn Adamo
Mr. Donald Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brewer
Ms. Marilyn Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Curran
Mr. Michael Fitzsimons
Mr. Stuart Katz
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher P. Keating
Mr. William Kelleher
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Maluccio
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mirabello
Mr. Robert M. Mittica
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Moore
Mr. James Nolan
Mr. and Mrs. Julian J. Senko
Ms. Nancy D. Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs. William V. Tressler
Anonymous
Ms. Caitlin Dowd
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Gillespie
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth O. Hungerford
Ms. Lisa Huston
Mrs. Jackie Kurz-Dunn
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Langenus
Mr. and Mrs. David Leon
Mr. Jon Mayhew
Mr. Thomas Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peterson
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Robinson
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Setaro
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sica
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Weiswasser
Donors
Sean Murphy ’09 (left) and Jake Spignesi ’09 collaborate on a chemistry experiment.
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Ms. Nellie A. Agostino
Ms. Valerie Doucette
Ms. Justina M. Black
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Corrado
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Fraulo
Mr. Andrew Goldberger
Mrs. Catherine F. Grzesiuk
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Hallisey
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hubert
Mrs. Joan Kane
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Moran
Ms. Anita Poulin
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence R. Rubb
Father Richard B. Sherer
Faculty & Staff Honor Roll of Donors
The Northwest Catholic faculty, supported by administrators and staff, devote their time and energy to students’ intellectual, social, psychological, and
spiritual development. As the core members of the School’s learning community, the faculty is dedicated to the maintenance of a stimulating and enriching educational environment. While that dedication is most obvious in their attention and concern for students, it also appears in the generosity with
which faculty and staff support the School’s mission. Two members of the faculty – Paul Fitzpatrick and Joan Keating-McKeon – this year wrote a beautiful letter of invitation to their colleagues, inviting them to consider gifts to the annual fund; the letter read, in part; “We are truly blessed to work daily
in a vocation, rather than a job. Daily we are given the privilege of serving God’s children in imitation of the greatest teacher, Jesus. We are writing to
ask you to extend your generosity beyond the classroom … and consider making a gift that will be used to fund a student in need of financial assistance.”
As a result, six students received financial aid that would otherwise not have been available to them.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Marilyn Adamo
Pat Allen
Nancy Scully '73 and James Bannon
Ana and Winston Barrett
Madonna Burke
Richard and Kathleen Callahan
Peg Cifaldi
Fr. Joseph P. Crowley
Catherine and Thomas Curran
John and Regina Cusson
Mark and Cynthia Killian '74 Dodd
Valerie Doucette
Caitlin Dowd
Paul B. Fitzpatrick
Matthew and Sarah Fitzsimons
NWC’s daytime custodial crew (seated, from left):
Luke Alston III, Floyd Wilson (standing, from left):
Bobby Pace, Slobodan Bogdan.
Kristina and Jerry Gillespie
Claudia Hart '78
Sandra Murray '85 and Bob Hayes
Lisa Huston
Pat and Michael Juda
Mel Katafiasz
Joan Keating-McKeon and Michael McKeon
Deborah and John Kennedy
Maryann and Michael Lacouture
Francis and Cathleen Fox '77 Laffin
Patricia and Joseph Lynch
Nancy and Michael Martin
Linda and Marc Massaro
Rosemary and David McNally
John and Isabella Mirabello
June Mullen
Virginia and John Murphy
Elizabeth Lynch '94 and Patrick Oates
Joyce and Joseph O'Rourke
Helga and Al Phillips
Anthony and Ann-Mary Puskarz
Elizabeth and John Quinn
Chris Sheehan
Janet Sheehan
Kim Sheehan
James Shugrue
John and Mary Shukie
Ronald Swanson
Nancy and Craig Taylor
Colby and Anita Thresher
William and Deanna Tressler
Michael '73 and Karen Tyler
Marisa and Thomas Varney
Margaret and Brian Williamson
NWC’s night custodians (from left): Angel Rivera, Marcos Herrera,Vince Grant, Domingo
Alvarado.
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Gifts in Memory
In Memory of Robert Bagnall '66
Mrs. Kathleen Hart
In Memory of William Batayte '79
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Scully '79
In Memory of Matthew Brazel '79
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Brazel
In Memory of Mary Breen, AP
Mrs. Catherine F. Grzesiuk
In Memory of Paul Bremner '78
Mr. and Mrs. Rae C. Bremner
In Memory of Neil J. Brewer '73
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Brewer '82
Mr. Donald Brewer
Ms. Marilyn Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Brewer
Mr. and Mrs. David Cardwell
(Gail Davis)
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Clark '68
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Clark
Mr. and Mrs. George Colli '73
(Catherine Finley '72)
Mr. and Mrs. John M. DeAngelis, Jr. '72
Mr. and Mrs. James Duffy '71
(Mary Lou Tuohy '72)
Mr. Kenneth Eilers '76
Mr. Mark Hagarty '72
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Heslin '76
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Kearney '74
Mr. and Mrs. David Nichols
(Mary Ellen Burke '72)
Mr. and Dr. Dennis R. Robinson '75
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Weiswasser
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wentworth '65
(Kathleen Collagan '65)
In Memory of Anne Burke
In Memory of Mary Burke
Ms. Joan Keating-McKeon &
Mr. Michael McKeon
In Memory of Carol Canora, F-Fac
Mrs. Lorraine Florio-Olson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schubach
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(Margaret Guertin '85)
In Memory of Christopher Casey '78
Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Casey, Sr.
In Memory of Paige Ann Corrigan
Faculty & Staff Donors
Marilyn Adamo
Ana and Winston Barrett
Madonna Burke
Richard and Kathleen Callahan
Christopher and Johanna Garr
Deborah and John Kennedy
Patricia and Joseph Lynch
Elizabeth Lynch Oates '94
and Patrick Oates
Joyce and Joseph O'Rourke
Ronald Swanson
Margaret and Brian D. Williamson
In Memory of Richard Cullina, AP
In Memory of Carol Cunningham
In Memory of Maurice “Mush” Guillet, AP
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy H. Callahan '68
In Memory of George Lescarbeau '66
Mrs. Kathleen Hart
In Memory of Thomas McHugh '75
Mrs. Margaret Wilkinson Petitjean '75
In Memory of Joseph McKay
In Memory of Thomas Pellino '77
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pellino
In Memory of Richard Pitek '84
Mrs. Lila C. Pitek
In Memory of Julie Roiduka Riscassi
Mr. Michael Mc Keon &
In Memory of Carmelo Romano, AP
The Honorable & Mrs. Kevin McMahon
(Patricia Romano '71)
In Memory of Patricia Kenny Seremet, AP
Ms. Ruth B. Nelson
Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Pearson
In Memory of Bruce Sicard '73
Mr. Larry P. Sicard '69
In Memory of Steven Gworek '77
Mrs. Helen M. Gworek
In Memory of Thomas Hill '65
Mrs. Kathleen Hart
Mrs. Helen Hill
In Memory of Judith Keefe
Dr. Mary Randall '72 &
Mr. Lawrence Neureither
In Memory of Ronald Krogh
Mrs. Ann M. Davis
In Memory of Stephen Lennox '69
Ms. Susan K. Gray '69
Mrs. Martha Lennox Hickey '82 &
Mr. Brandon Hickey
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Horton Sr.
Mr. and Mr. Andrew D. Lennox
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lennox
Mr. Mark Lennox '73
Ms. Jane A. Lennox '71 &
Mr. John Sanzone
Gifts in Kind
Bloomfield Discount Liquors
Mr. Peter D’Amato, FR
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Eagan '74, CP
(Geralyn Tuohy '74)
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Filomeno, CP
Lebon Press, Inc.
Navin Bros. Food Service
(Joe Navin '69 &
Rosemary Navin Dowd '73)
Mr. Joseph Reese, AP
Sullivan, Schoen, Campane & Connon, LLC
Superior Industries
Trane Inc.
Matching Gift Companies
Many businesses and corporations will match the amount of a donation from one of their employees, increasing the value of the gift dramatically.
The companies listed here matched donations Northwest Catholic received from our constituents – alumni, parents, friends, and alumni parents.
Please check with your employer to see if they, like the companies identified below, will match your donations to Northwest Catholic.
IKON Office Solutions
ING Foundation
ISO New England
Jay Sons Screw Machine
Levi Strauss Foundation
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company
Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter
New York Life Foundation
Northrop Grumman Foundation
Pfizer, Inc.
Phoenix Foundation
Pitney Bowes
Prudential Foundation
Aetna Foundation
Art Technology Group
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Chubb & Son
CIT Group
Eli Lilly and Company
Federated Department Stores
Fidelity Foundation
Genentech Employee Giving Program
General Re Corporation
Gerber Scientific
Glaxo Smith Kline
Goldman Sachs Educational
Hartford Insurance Group
Reader's Digest Foundation
St. Paul Travelers Foundation
Stanley Works
Steelcase Foundation
Stop & Shop Supermarket Co.
Times Mirror
United Technologies
UNUMProvident Corp.
UPS Foundation, Inc
Vanguard Group, Inc.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Wachovia Foundation
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Organizations
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.
Ashley's Distinctive Jewelry and Gifts
AT & T Community Connections
Barrieau Oil Company, Inc.
(Jim O'Toole '78)
Begley Landscape Co./L&M Paving
(John Begley '81)
Birch Meadow Banquet Facility
Bouvier, Beckwith & Lennox, Inc.
(Rob Bouvier '81)
Catholic Charities, Inc.
Church of the Holy Spirit
Cooney, Scully and Dowling
Corpus Christi Church
Cowdery, Ecker & Murphy
CWPM LLC
Day Pitney LLP
Dill, Joyce & Thresher, Inc.
(Bob Eilers '74)
Dillon Mailing Bureau, Inc.
DocuSource
(Charles Harding '71)
Drs. Seidman & Bucari, P.C.
F. A. Hesketh & Assoc., Inc.
Farmington Savings Bank
Foundation for the
Advancement of Catholic Schools
Furniss & Quinn, PC
Gardner Group Graphic Design
General Casualty
(Tom Greenfield '79)
Hartford Courant Foundation
Herb's Sports Shop
Highland Capital Brokerage
Hometown Marketing
(Tom Hickey '78)
House of Flora
Hutchinson Financial Services, LLC
Italia & Lemp Inc
JED Brothers, Inc.
The John G. Martin Foundation
Levin, Powers, Brennan & Shea, LLC
(Patty Shea-Lovell '78)
Lyons Service Corp.
The Estate of Maureen Dennehy
May, Bonee & Walsh
(Phil Bonee '72)
Molloy Funeral Home
(Randy Molloy '65)
New England Fraternal Congress
Olsen Construction Services, LLC
O'Malley, Deneen, Leary,
Messina & Oswecki
Paul and Mary Cancellarini Charitable Trust
P. F. Kelly Co.
(Phil Kelly, AP, Laura Kelly '77)
Private Capital Group, LLC
Sacred Heart Church
Saint Joseph College
Sinatro Agency One, LLC Insurance
St. Ann Church
St. Bernard Church
St. Brigid School
St. Joseph Church
St. Mary's Church
St. Thomas the Apostle School
St. Timothy School Middle School
Target
Town of West Hartford
Venora Electrical Service
(Tim Venora '81)
Wentworth-DeAngelis Insurance
Whittlesey & Hadley
(Ed Jason '71)
William & Alice Mortensen Foundation
Getting ready to graduate! (from left): Patrick Tracy, Boris Chevannes, Bryan Little, Joseph Ludlow.
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30th Annual Golf Tournament
Torrential rain forced the first-ever postponement of the annual golf tournament from the originally scheduled date of June 4, 2007 to June 19, 2007.
Patient golfers were rewarded with a picture-perfect day at Wampanoag Country Club for the 30th annual event, which was named this year for Rev.
Bradford Colton, the school’s first principal. With Jim O’Toole ’78, CP as chair and Dan Filomeno CP as co-chair, the tournament grossed $39,980
and netted $19,434.57. The proceeds from this year’s tournament were used to help need-based students meet the costs of tuition, making Northwest
Catholic affordable to worthy students who might otherwise not have been able to attend.
Sponsors
Diamond ($5,000)
Navin Bros. Food Services, Inc.
Cart ($3,000)
Wentworth- DeAngelis, Inc.
Hole ($2,000)
Acoustics, Inc.
ProCourier
Shepard Steel Co., Inc.
Platinum ($1,000)
Day Pitney LLP
General Casualty
Kevin Baker ’88, Met Life Investor
May, Bonee and Walsh, Inc.
Mark Murnane ’88
Wampanoag Country Club
Gold ($500)
Bloomfield Discount Liquors, Super Cellar
Warehouse Liquors
Lebon Press
The P.F. Kelly Company
Bill Selig Ford
Venora Electric
(From left):Tom Bisson ’78, Kevin McHugh ’78, Dan Lynch ’78, CP, Jim O’Toole ’78, CP, cochair of 2007 Golf Tournament.
Edward Connors Insurance Agency
Filomeno & Company, PC
Gardner Group Graphic Design
House of Flora Flower Market
Hutchinson Financial Services
John Watts Associates
Levin, Powers, Brennan & Shea, LLC
Lyons Service Group
O’Malley, Deneen, Leary, Messina &
Oswecki, LLP
Reliable Tire
Sheehan, Hillborn, Breen Funeral Home
Green ($300)
Barrieau and O’Toole Company
Bouvier, Beckwith & Lennox, Inc.
Dill, Joyce and Thresher, Ins.
DocuSource – Chuck Harding ‘71
Farmington Savings Bank
Herb’s Sports Shop
Kevin & Marilyn Lathrop, CP
Olsen Construction Services
Sinatro Agency
Thomas E. Spignesi, D.M.D., F.A.G.D., CP
White ($125)
The Berry Family
Ronald L. Bucari, D.M.D.
Cardiology Shop
Ed & Jean Cowles, AP
Dillon Mailing House
Raffle & Silent Auction
Contributors
Kevin Baker ‘88
John Berry ‘86
Paul Bisson ‘79
Black Eyed Sally’s
Phil Bonee ’72, CP
Avery and Eileen Buell, CP
Cindy Calitri ’81, CP
Cuzzi’s
Edith DiFrancesco, CP
Elbow Room
Fitness Clinic
Brenda Frasco, CP
The Golf Club of Avon
The Hartford
Herb’s Sports Shop
John & Tracy Heslin ’76, CP
Hop Meadow Country Club
Hot Tomato’s Restaurant
Gail Hughes, CP
Geissler’s Supermarket
Glynis Huffman, CP
Jed Bros. Dry Cleaning
Keney Golf Course
Daniel & Gina LaPorte, CP
Regina Livingston, CP
Lux, Bond and Green Jewelers
Mayor Mike’s
Modern Tire
Linda Moran-Buda, CP
Mark Murnane ‘88
Neutrogena
New Britain Museum of Art
Pfau’s
Plimpton’s
Betsy Quinn, AP, FC
Matt Quinn, FR
Reliable Tire
Dennis Robinson ‘75
Ski Sundown
Sporthouse
Vito's Pizza
Wampanoag Country Club
Jason Waters, FR
Wintonbury Hills Country Club
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30th Annual Golf Tournament
Players
Danielle Schiffer
Andruszkiewicz
Kevin Baker
Andrew Baldassarre
Mary Anne Francoeur
Baldassarre
Kathy Dunn Bassett
Rick Beckerman
John Begley
Scott Bennett
Tom Bisson
Phil Bonee
Chris Bonee
Eileen Buell
Jim Carroll
Jeff Casey
George Colli, III
George Colli, IV
Ed Connors
Kerry Kearns Curry
Sam Cusano
Sam J. Cusano
Mike D'Amato
Peter D'Amato
Jordy DeAngelis
Sarah DeMaio
Mike Deneen
Val Doucette
Ken Eilers
Bob Evans
Sean Farrell
Tom Filomeno
Ed Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzsimons
Matthew Fitzsimons
Michael Fitzsimons
Brendan Fox
Sam Fresina
Tom Furniss
Paul Grady
Steve Hansen
Chuck Harding
Ed Henry
Chris Hickner
Paul Hickner
Glynis Huffman
Kelly Jones
Joan Kane
Tom Kearney
Mike Kennedy
Kevin King
Charles LaCunche
Fran Laffin
John Langenus
Donna Leibin
Tom Leloup
Dave Leon
Steve Litchfield
Dominic Lopreato
John Lynch
Dan Lynch, Jr.
Ed Maguire
Marie DeMaio Mansolillo
John Manuck
Frank Marrocco
Anthony Mascolo
Jon Mayhew
Dennis McCormack
Kevin McGuire
Kevin McHugh
Steve Mencio
Mary Dunn Miner
Chris Molloy
Randy Molloy
Bobbi Moran
Mike Morris
Mark Murnane
Noreen Murnane
Joe Navin
Denis O'Donoghue
Jim O'Toole
Rimas Pileka
Jeff Pingpank
Jim Quinn
John Quinn, Jr.
John Quinn, Sr.
Doc Resnisky
Ted Rozum
Bill Scully
Sally Scully
T.J. Selig
Tip Simons
Mark Sinatro
Bob Strano
Scott Strid
Steve Sztaba
Jim Turner
John Turner
Karen Tyler
Pat Walsh
Brian Williamson
Tom Worth
(From left) – Marie DeMaio Mansolillo ’82, CP, Sarah DeMaio, Mary Anne Francoeur Baldassarre ’78, CP, Eileen Buell CP.
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Saturday Night Live
Never happy with the status quo, parent volunteers broke their own fundraising record for the 23rd annual Saturday Night Live, grossing $61,947 and
netting an incredible $43,718.72 from this extraordinary evening of entertainment and camaraderie.
Room Sponsors
Ashley’s Distinctive Jewelry & Gifts
Cowdery, Ecker & Murphy, LLC
F.A. Hesketh & Associates
Highland Capital Brokerage
Mike & Mike in the Morning
Molloy Funeral Home
Whittlesey & Hadley, PC
Advertisers
Begley Landscape Co./L&M Paving
Birch Meadow Banquet Facility
Carvel
Church of the Holy Spirit
Copaco Liquors
Corpus Christi Church
Furniss & Quinn, P.C.
Hometown Marketing
House of Flora Flower Market
Italia & Lemp, Inc.
May, Bonee & Walsh
Morgan Stanley
NWC Campus Ministry
Private Capital Group, LLC
Sacred Heart Church
Saint Joseph College
St. Bernard Church
St. Brigid School
St. Joseph Church
St. Mary's Church
St. Timothy Middle School
Stoneware for Home, LLC
The Olivieri Quickprint Centers, Inc.
Venora Electric
Wentworth DeAngelis, Inc.
William Raveis Real Estate
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Bodell
Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Bonee
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bonner
Mr. Peter J. Boorman and Ms. Lyn Connery
Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Boya
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Boyd
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Buell
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Cannone
Dr. and Mrs. John T. Cappadona
Mr. and Mrs. Paulo Carreira
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Cleary
Mr. and Mrs. William Collins
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Condon
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Conlin
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Connor
Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Conway
Ms. Kathleen Crotty
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Daly
Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Desiderato
Mr. and Mrs. Mark V. Diorio
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Dowd
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Driscoll
Mr. Mark Drusedum & Mrs. Molly Knorr
Atty. and Mrs. Owen P. Eagan
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Fagan
Mr. and Mrs. Kamlesh R. Faldu
Mr. Paul B. Fitzpatrick
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Flaherty
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene R. Foster, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. James M. Frasco
Mr. and Mrs. Trevor French
Ms. Lynne E. Fritter
Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Fusick
Mr. and Mrs. Augusto R. Gautier
Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Geitz
Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Grady, Jr.
Patrons
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas N. Alexander
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Angelico, Jr
Mr. and Mrs. Sergey V. Arzumanov
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Bachteler
Mr. and Mrs. James Bannon
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bianchet
Rev. Lawrence Bock
Current parent John Olszewski proffers a tray of delightful goodies at the Starlight Café.
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Saturday Night Live
Drs. Neville and Tracy Graham
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Green
Mr. and Mrs. James Hallinan
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Hansen
Mr. and Mrs. William H. Harris
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Haylon
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Healey
Judge and Mrs. Francis X. Hennessy
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Henzler
Mr. and Mrs. Philip B. Hopkins
Mr. and Mrs. Terry E. Huffman
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Hunter
Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Juda
Mr. Michael McKeon &
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Kelly
Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Kennedy
Mr. and Mrs. Colin Knowles
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Krikawa
Mr. Alan E. Lake and Dr. Anne Pidano
Mr. and Mrs. James J. Leary
Dr. Marc Leuenberger and
Dr. Mary E. Leuenberger
Mr. Carlos M. Lopez
Ms. Donna Lorenzo
Mr. Deryl R. Marrow & Ms. Antoria
Howard-Marrow
Mrs. Gail McCue
Mr. and Mrs. David McNally
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Merrill, Sr.
Current parent Marisol Aponte delights in serving Puerto Rican cuisine at the
International Food Court.
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Mr. and Mrs. Chris E. Moore
Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Murphy
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Navin, Jr.
Dr. and Mrs. Liam P. O'Leary
Mr. and Mrs. David M. Oleasz
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Olson
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Olszewski
Mr. Scott C. Pearsall
Mr. and Mrs. Al Phillips
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Rode
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Sanacore
Dr. and Mrs. William M. Sanders
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Scapellati
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schawiak
Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Scobee
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Scurlock
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Shepardson
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Sitaro
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Skahill
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Spalluto
Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. St. Jacques
Mr. and Mrs. David A. Story
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sumple
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Tartaro
Mr. and Mrs. Colby Thresher
Dr. and Mrs. Michael S. Tosatti, DMD
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Turbert
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Varney
Mr. and Mrs. John Vaughn
Mr. Richard Vega and Ms. Laura Garskie-Vega
Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Visintainer
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Williamson
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Winland
Dr. Susan M. Wiskowski
Mrs. Dyanne Wooldridge
Mr. Michael Young & Dr. Lisa Jordan-Young
Dr. and Mrs. Richard ZuWallack
Planned Giving at Northwest Catholic
T
he Heritage Society recognizes as members those alumni, parents and friends of Northwest Catholic who make a planned gift
to the School. Planned gifts include a provision in a will or trust; naming Northwest Catholic as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, pension, profit-sharing, IRA or 401(k) plan; establishing a Charitable Gift Annuity (see below) or Charitable
Remainder Trust. These gifts allow individuals to make an ultimate statement of commitment and will define future educational
opportunities for deserving students.
Charitable Gift Annuities
With an irrevocable gift of cash or securities of at least $10,000 to Northwest Catholic, a donor can:
•
lock in a high annual fixed rate of return for life;
•
benefit from a healthy charitable deduction;
•
reduce capital gains taxes, if it is a gift of appreciated securities; and
•
make a difference for Northwest Catholic!
Gift Annuity Rates Paid Annually to a Donor for Life
Age 70: 6.5%
Age 75: 7.1%
Age 80: 8.0%
Age 85: 9.5%
For more information about The Heritage Society, charitable gift annuities, or other options for planned giving, please contact
Colby Thresher, Advancement Officer, at 860.236.4221, x156 or [email protected].
“I am pleased to have included Northwest Catholic in my estate plans because Northwest provided me with a life-changing
experience. Now, I feel fortunate to give something back to this wonderful school through a bequest that will offer young men
and women similar opportunities.”
– John F. “Jay” Luby ‘69
Charter Member, The Heritage Society
Scholarship-Funding Opportunities
Over the past two decades, alumni parents and friends have chosen to honor an individual or family while helping students in financial
need by funding an endowed scholarship. A portion of the annual earnings ensures that needy students can take advantage of all the educational opportunities Northwest Catholic has to offer. Endowed scholarship funds are essential to the promotion of a diverse economic background and to Northwest Catholic’s tradition of supporting students of need. Endowed scholarships may be initiated with a gift of $25,000.
Annual scholarships may be established with a gift of $5,000 or more, provided it is the donor’s intent to make a long-term commitment.
Endowed
Annual
Rev. Lawrence R. Bock Scholarship
Rev. Bradford Colton Scholarship
Paige Ann Corrigan Scholarship
Carol Cunningham Family Scholarship
Daly Family Scholarship
Regina Guilmartin Scholarship
Stephen Lennox Scholarship
McKiernan Scholarship
Patricia Mittica Scholarship
Russell Morrisett Scholarship
Salvatore Piacente Scholarship
Catherine Pintaville Scholarship
R.A. Roncari Family Retreat Ministry
Rev. John T. Shugrue and Mary G. Shugrue Scholarship
Trina Sullivan Scholarship
Bruce Torrell Scholarship
Ellen McGuire Williams Scholarship
Archbishop’s Scholarship
Timothy and Meg Callahan Scholarship
Cancellerini Trust Scholarship
Foundation for the Advancement of Catholic Schools
William R. Fenoglio Foundation Scholarship
Dr. William Hart Scholarship
Hartford Courant Foundation Scholarship
Hartford Inner-City Scholarship
Haylon Scholarship
Thomas Hill Scholarship
Knights of Columbus Scholarship
Mahoney Scholarship
Matthew 25 Scholarships
Norko Scholarship
John Randazzo Scholarship
Paul Roland Scholarship
Carmelo Romano Scholarship
Sanchez Scholarship
St. Ann’s Scholarship
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News From 29 Wampanoag
Nine New People Join Faculty and Staff
Danielle Belliveau joins our
Science Department, where she
will teach Biology. She is a graduate of Eastern Connecticut
State University and had been
working as a substitute teacher
in the Norwich and Groton
school districts.
Teresa Bournique ’84 returns to
her alma mater as a Religion
teacher. After graduating magna
cum laude from St. Joseph College
with a degree in Religious Studies,
Ms. Bournique worked for several
From left to right,Teresa Bournique, Danielle Belliveau,
years in the private sector, and
Michelle Murphy, Jane Leary and Debra LeBel.
then as a classroom assistant at a
public school. She has also been
Hall of Fame, and Grandparents’ Day – and Saturday Night Live!
extremely active in Sacred Heart Parish in Suffield, teaching in the
RCIA and CCD programs, directing the Vacation Bible School, and
Debra LeBel brings nine years of experience in the Advancement
working in youth ministry.
office at Miss Porter’s School to her new position as an Assistant in
our Advancement office. Proficient in a wide range of software
Sarah Desroches joins the English Department. A graduate of
that’s critical in the fundraising arena, Ms. LeBel has also worked
Central Connecticut State University (B.A. in English) and St.
at The Institute for Living and CIGNA.
Joseph College (M.A. in Reading and Language), Ms. Desroches
taught at Berlin and New Britain High Schools and was the JV
Michelle Murphy, new Director of Communications, is also a
Girls’ Soccer Coach for one season at Conard High School in
Current and Alumni Parent of Kate ’07 and Jack ’10. A graduate
West Hartford.
of Georgetown University and the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism, Mrs. Murphy had been the Director of
Jane Leary is the new Director of Constituent Relations in the
Development and Admissions at St. Thomas the Apostle School
Advancement Office – and, considering her ties to the school,
since May 2005.
seems well-suited to the job: Her husband Jim ’65 and both her
sons (Jay ’05 and Sean ’07) are alumni. She’s also been an active
Jennifer Puskarz joins our Social Studies Department, where she
Northwest Catholic volunteer, including a three-year stint (with
will teach History. She earned an undergraduate degree in U.S.
Noreen Knortz) as co-chair of Saturday Night Live. Mrs. Leary
History from the State University of New York at Albany, and then
earned her BA from Regis College and her MA from St. Joseph
worked as a substitute teacher in the West Hartford and South
College, and worked most recently as a parent liaison in the New
Windsor school systems while completing a Master’s degree in
Britain public school system. She will be responsible for reunions,
Secondary Education at UConn.
phonathons, and special events like the Golf Tournament, Athletic
Raymond Sinclair, another UConn graduate
(Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music
Education), is the newest member of our Fine and
Performing Arts Department. In addition to
teaching music, Mr. Sinclair is our Band Director,
overseeing the concert band, jazz band, advanced
jazz band, pep band, and wind ensemble. He has
a wide array of experience in music instruction in
the Greater Norwich area.
From left to right,Terri Turley, Raymond Sinclair, Sarah Desroches and
Jennifer Puskarz.
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Terri Turley joined our math department in the
middle of last year, after Carol Schave’s retirement.
A graduate of the University of Hartford, where she
earned a BS degree in Education, Ms. Turley
worked for CIGNA from 1989-2000, including a
two-year stint as the Year 2000 project manager.
National Merit Scholarship Program Honors Nine Seniors
ine outstanding seniors have been honored by the
National Merit Scholarship Program for exceptional
performance on the PSAT/NMSQTs taken in October
of junior year.
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Four students were named National Merit Semifinalists:
Jessica C. Gioia, daughter of Ms. Alisa Conte of Rocky Hill;
Hannah L. Pelton, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Russell Pelton of
Enfield; Kenneth G. Rousseau, son of Mrs. Yvonne EllisRousseau of Collinsville and Mr. Henry Rousseau of
Burlington; and Carolyn G. Spalluto, daughter of Mr. & Mrs.
Joseph Spalluto of West Hartford.
Three students were named Commended Students: Rachel
Godbout, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Louis Godbout of
Wethersfield; Taylor Knortz, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. David
Knortz of East Granby; and Keating McKeon, son of Mr. &
Mrs. Michael McKeon of West Hartford.
Two students – Natalie Bell and Jasmine Clayton – were
honored as part of the National Achievement Test. Natalie is the
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Todd Bell of Bloomfield, while
Jasmine is the daughter of Ms. Kimberly Clayton of Hartford.
“These students have worked very hard to excel not only in
their studies, but also in numerous activities,” said Principal
Margaret Williamson. “They continue to enhance the community of Northwest Catholic with their gifts.”
The four Semifinalists will now continue in the competition
for possible designation as National Merit Finalists and for
Merit Scholarships that will be awarded next spring.
NHS BOOK DRIVE
National Honor Society students sit among a few of the thousands of children’s books they collected during the first week of school for the pediatric unit of St. Francis Hospital.The book drive was inspired by an organization called myGoodDeed.org, started by companies that lost colleagues
and friends in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.The goal is to remember that horrible day in a positive way, encouraging people to honor those who were
lost by doing “one good deed” for someone else. (Front row, from left): Mary Kate Kearney ’08 of Simsbury; Carolyn Spalluto ’08 of West Hartford;
(Back row, from left): Michael Lathrop ’08 of Plantsville; Adam Mortillaro ’08 of Simsbury; and Caleb Battersby ’08 of Windsor, along with Patricia
Juda, chairman of the English department and moderator of the National Honor Society.
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Learning to Be Better Teachers
Imagine returning to class the day after school gets out?
Nine Northwest Catholic teachers were among two dozen
educators from the Hartford Archdiocese who just couldn’t stay
away after the 2006-07 school year ended. That’s partly because
a seminar created by a Harvard professor was luring them back.
Laura Porter, an educational consultant with a firm called
Research for Better Teachers, conducted the workshop titled
“The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills” on the
Northwest Catholic campus from June 20-22. Emphasizing collegiality and experimentation, the seminar offered a number of
instructional strategies, as well as new ways to observe and support peers.
The teachers who attended the workshop were Madonna Burke,
Chris Gallagher, Claudia Hart, Patti Juda, Joan Keating-McKeon,
Deb Metzler, Jeffrey Sutherland, Marisa Varney, and Dave
Woodford.
SINCE WE LAST SPOKE … Updates from News in our Spring/Summer Issue
Not bad for its first year in existence! Syncopate, the Northwest
Catholic High School Dance Team led by moderator Kerri
Smith, blew the competition away at the Dance America/Dance
Olympus National competition in Las Vegas this past July.
Having qualified for nationals at the regional competition in
Boston,, the team went on to compete in two categories – and
won in both.
Brandon Couloute ’10, Rachael Lathrop ’08, and Merideth
Lathrop ’10 pose with the first-place trophy they won at the
dance competition in Las Vegas.
“Take It To The Floor,” a group hip-hop number, captured second place in the Intermediate Large Group Hip-Hop category,
while “Break It Down,” an original breakdance/acro routine
featuring three students, won first place in their category as
well as the title National Champions. Smith said she expects
the team to grow this year, and she intends to have the dancers
compete in Boston and at the 2008 National Finals in Orlando.
That’s a lot of cookies! Brandon Marshall ’08, inspired by
Sports Illustrated columnist Rick Reilly to fund the purchase of
mosquito nets to help combat malaria in Africa, raised $1,210
by selling baked goods last spring (here to Patrice Hubert
’08). That was enough to buy 121 nets. Brandon plans to hold
more bake sales this year for his “Nothing but Nets” project,
and is “shooting” to beat his own fundraising record.
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Sports News
BY JOHN SHUKIE, RETIRED ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
What a spring! Despite what sometimes
seemed to be endless rain, the Northwest
Catholic athletes turned in one of the finest
competitive seasons in school history.
Baseball
The baseball team (21-3 overall) led the
way by rewriting our record books. They
set a school record for wins and posted our
first Northwest Conference baseball championship with a perfect 16-0 league record.
Senior pitchers Jack Wagoner (6-0) and
Kyle Sumple (7-0) were named to the AllConference Team; Jack was also selected as
All-State. Behind the plate, senior catcher
Mike Bourdon was a rock, demonstrating
outstanding defense and a superior and
intimidating arm. With a .394 batting average, Michael was also named both AllConference and All-State. Senior shortstop
Rob Dornfried (.418, 37 runs, 5 home
runs, 24 RBI), junior leftfielder Tony Blake
(.394, 32 runs, 19 RBI), and freshman centerfielder Tom Bourdon (.424, 21 runs, 16
RBI), were selected for the All-Conference
team, as well. Jack Wagoner was the team
MVP, and Mike Bourdon received the
Coaches’ Award.
In the Class S, state tournament the
Indians were seeded number 2 and received
a first-round bye. Playing at home in round
2, the boys beat Cromwell High 11-5, with
Kyle Sumple getting the victory. In Bristol
for the quarterfinals, Coach Carlson and his
band squeezed out a 2-1 nail-biter over
Shepaug on a Jack Wagoner one-hitter.
Mike Bourdon won the game with a walkoff, bases-loaded single in the bottom of the
seventh. At the state semifinals at Muzzy
Field, Kyle and Jack combined forces to put
Northwest Catholic in the state championship, beating defending State Champs
Windsor Locks, 6-4.
dedicated crowd of Northwest fans was on
hand. The Indians came up just a little
short, dropping the game 6-4 to St.
Bernard’s and finishing as Class S state runner-up. Congratulations to Coach Carlson
and his expert staff on leading the boys
through such a grand season. The team finished the season at 7th overall in the state in
the Hartford Courant poll — our highest
ranking ever.
Yale Field – and the Indians – were ready
on Saturday, June 9, despite a rainy morning. Northwest Catholic had not been in
the baseball state final since 1965, and a
Two days after graduation, catcher Michael
Bourdon was drafted by the Boston Red Sox in
the 41st round of the amateur player draft; he is
believed to be the first Northwest Catholic athlete to hold this distinction. An excellent threesport athlete (football, basketball, baseball), Mike
is now a freshman at Fairfield University, where
he received a scholarship to play baseball.
Dear Northwest Catholic Family,
It has been my great pleasure to have had the opportunity to collect and write these “sports notes” for many
years. Athletics is part of the glue that holds the Northwest Catholic community together, and I have been most
proud to record and pass on to all of you the great accomplishments of our teams and athletes. For 31 wonderful years, I have watched as our young men and women competed and brought great honor and recognition to
our school. Banners fill the gym and our trophy cases are full to overflowing, but there has been so much more
to Northwest Catholic athletics than victories and championships.
Retired Athletic
Director John Shukie
As a coach and an athletic director, I have been witness to the growth of individuals in mind, body, and spirit. I
have watched friendships form that have lasted for lifetimes. I have seen lessons learned that have transcended
the playing fields and the gym and have been carried on into careers and family life. I have seen sacrifices made
by competitors, coaches, and parents all in such an unselfish and generous manner that I get emotional just thinking about them. My life has been truly blessed to have been part of this.
I want to thank all of you for making Northwest Catholic part of your lives. There is truly no other place like it anywhere. It is my hope
and intention to stay involved with our school, and I hope you will do so, as well. Perhaps I will see you at a game, the Hall of Fame banquet, the Golf Tournament, or Saturday Night Live. We can talk over old times and share a few memories of fun and glory passed, or we can
catch up on what’s new in our lives and at Northwest Catholic.
May God keep you all safe,
John Shukie (The Old Coach)
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Sports News
Golf
Coach Scott Fletcher and his golf team
turned in an equally stellar season: their
regular-season record was 21-10-1, and they
finished third in the Northwest Conference.
The squad was led by junior Keith
Kwasnik, averaging just over 36 strokes for
9 holes during the regular season; he was the
team MVP and was named to the AllConference team.
Sophomore Matt
Collins and freshman Brendan Lemp
joined Keith on the All-Conference team.
Senior captain Kevin Bonney won the
Coaches’ Award. Seeded first for the Class
S championship at Blue Fox Run in Avon,
the boys made a gutsy showing, finishing as
state runner-up to second-seeded
Housatonic Valley Regional High School by
five strokes overall (317-322). Keith
Kwasnik (who shot 76 for the 18 holes) won
All-State honors. Kevin Bonney and Matt
Collins each shot 81.
Lacrosse
The boys’ lacrosse team finished the regular season at 13-3, good enough to be seeded
fifth in the Class S state tournament. Senior
Joe Ludlow led the team with 71 points
overall, while brother Mike Ludlow led the
squad with 31 goals. Senior Mike Boya
scored 28 times and junior Chris Kevorkian
20.
Defense, however, became the
Northwest Catholic trademark, as junior
goalie Joe Buda recorded 206 saves, and a
group of stalwart defensemen — including
seniors Chris Knortz and Sean Leary and
junior Kevin Eagan — protected him. Mike
Boya, Sean Leary, and Mike Ludlow were
named second-team All-Staters, Chris
Knortz was the MVP, and senior Tim
Murphy received the Coaches’Award. In the
Class S state tournament, Coach Chris
Gallagher’s boys easily took Valley Regional
High School 11-3, but fell 14-3 in the quarterfinals to fourth seed New Fairfield on
graduation afternoon.
Northwest Catholic’s athletic program was named the 2nd place winner of the Michaels
Achievement Cup for Class SS, based on its success in the 2005-06 season. This was
the fifth year in a row that Northwest Catholic finished in the top three in the state
in its class. The award – which is based on a school’s won/loss record, the strength of
its program offerings, and student participation — was presented on April 22 at the
Gold Key Dinner of the Connecticut Sports Writers Alliance.
Senior Brittany Massaro won the Brian Piccolo Award and scholarship from the
Greater Hartford UNICO. Overcoming a serious ankle injury, Brittany became a twotime,All-State athlete in lacrosse. She is a freshman at Springfield College.
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Under the guidance of coaches Jill and
Bill Mullady, girls’ lacrosse finished the regular season at 10-6, after getting off to a
slow start with a young squad (there were
only two seniors on the team). The one-two
punch of senior Brittany Massaro and junior Ashley Mara accounted for 111 of the
team’s 162 goals. Brittany was named MVP
and was a second team All-Stater; Ashley
was chosen for the All-State first team.
Junior Kelsey Cahalan won the Coaches’
Award, sophomore Kayleigh Donnelly
contributed 19 goals, and freshman
Bridget Daly made 132 saves in goal. In
the Class II state tournament the girls beat
the eighth-seeded Pomperaug High School
in Southbury by a score of 10-7 triumph,
but then lost 11-6 to the number-oneranked Stonington. Fifteen varsity letter
winners will return next year.
Sports News
Tiffany Hyde competed in the New
England meet as a shot putter.
Softball
Boys’ track improved markedly over last
spring, finishing sixth in the conference
meet. Mike Knowles was named AllConference in the discus, and junior
Brendan Jasper did likewise in the shot
put. Mike was named the team MVP, with
junior sprinter Manny Simpini taking
home the Coaches’ Award. Returning
coach Jeff Przech has much to look forward
to with young athletes on both teams.
The softball team’s 3-17 record was
deceiving, as the girls battled hard and were
very competitive throughout the season.
Senior Veronica Marquis was excellent in
centerfield and led the team with a .347 batting and 18 RBIs, winning MVP honors.
She was also selected to the All-Conference
team.
Fellow senior and co-captain
Kathleen Spignesi won the Coaches’
Award. Sophomore Nina Varney pitched
109 innings, recorded 101 strikeouts, and
had three shutouts.
Track
The girls’ track team turned in a stellar 71 season, finishing second in the Northwest
Conference meet. Senior Jacquie Beliveau
took first place in the 100- and 300-meter
hurdles, breaking a school record in the 300
that had stood since 1979. Teaming with
juniors Kristina Krupa, Ashley Gostyla,
and Ida Cance, Jacquie was also part of the
4x400-meter relay team that placed first.
Ida Cance was first in the high jump, while
junior Tiffany Hyde and senior Camille
Moore took first and second place, respectively, in the shot put. Juniors Taylor
Carter, Maya Dean, and Ida Cance teamed
with freshman Jenniqua Bailey to place
second in the 4x100 relay. All of these girls
were selected as All-Conference. Jacquie
also won All-State recognition in the 300
hurdles and was named team MVP. Junior
Megan Clark won the Coaches’ Award.
Tennis
Coach Stan Piorkowski and his girls’ tennis
team qualified for the state playoffs with a 97 record. Senior Meghan Kiley went 11-5
and freshman Emily McDonough went 133 to lead the squad and qualify as individuals
in the State Open. Meghan was the team
MVP, while fellow senior and co-captain
Kristina Carreira won the Coaches’ Award.
Although the boys’ tennis team finished
4-11, junior Jon Olszewski and freshman
Joe McAndrews were the Northwest
Conference doubles champions. Both were
named All-Conference. Senior captain
Ankit Harpaldus was the MVP for Coach
Tim Crowley, with fellow senior Adam
Pokusa taking home the Coaches’ Award.
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Four members of the Class of ’07 had
something unusual in common: their
fathers all graduated together, too, in
1977. From left: Mark Boya ’77 and
Michael Boya ‘07; Erin Deneen ’07 and
Michael Deneen ’77; Michael Riley ’77
and Danielle Riley ‘07; Jean Donnelly
Molloy ’78, Margaret Molloy ‘07, and
Mark Molloy ’77.
chance to be a part of this self-empowerment week. Sophia’s fear of the water,
which she has had since childhood, was
uncovered during the meditation on this
retreat.
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Wilder Leavitt ’82 and his wife, Mary
Morningstar, live in Bethesda, MD. “We
don’t have any children, but are fortunate
enough to have several of Mary’s siblings living in the area, whose children we love to
indulge,” he wrote in an e-mail to his classmates, when expressing regrets for missing
the 25th reunion. Mary is an environmental
attorney for Lockheed Martin, while Wilder
says he’s “had several careers, ending with
my present occupation as an attorney and
volunteer EMT, which is my real love (see
“Alumni Perspective” on p. 12). Married
nearly 17 years, Wilder says he and Mary
would love to hear from anyone visiting the
D.C. area.
LTC Kelly A. Murray MD ’83 was awarded the Purple Heart, three Bronze Star
Medals (one with Valor), and an Army
Commendation Medal with Valor during
two tours of duty in Iraq. She taught many
classes for Iraqi doctors covering the latest
procedures and medicines, as well as rehabilitated ten hospitals and 76 clinics used by
more than five million Iraqi citizens in East
Baghdad. She also made sure the American
troops received improved Kevlar vests, saving many more lives.
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This past year, Kelly was sent on a special
six-month mission to Afghanistan to assess
the medical situation for the Pentagon. In
July 2007, she moved to Texas to write
Army manuals. To read more about Kelly’s
heroics in the Armed Forces, visit her brother’s web site dedicated to her service:
www.freewebs.com/tommyboysplace.
Michael Collyer ’86 is now working as an
Assistant United States Attorney in
Cleveland, Ohio. He had been prosecuting
gun crimes, but is moving to the white-collar crime section to prosecute economic
crimes and health care fraud cases. He and
his wife Jen also enjoy renovating their 85year-old house and spending time with their
three daughters, Rachael, 14, Katy, 12, and
Ava, 5.
Gillian Pratt ’86 is a new mom, and she
loves it! Her adoption came through in
May after nearly three years of waiting. She
now has a baby boy, Alexander Charles
Benedict Pratt (Alex), whom she has had
since he was 12 days old. Her new motto is:
“Sleep is for Sissies!”
Sophia Taylor-Edwards ’87 joined Oprah
Winfrey and Gayle King for five days at
Miraval Resort and Spa near Tucson, AZ.
Sophia and 59 other women won the
Betsy (Guertin) Regan ’88 and her husband Joe welcomed David Patrick Regan on
February 4, 2007. David joins big sisters
Emma, 5, and Abby, 3. Betsy is a full-time
mom and volunteer with the Shoreline
Greenway Trail in Branford.
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Jennifer (Guertin) Shockley ’91 and her
husband Tony celebrated the birth of their
second son, Zachary Hyatt. He joins his big
brother, Noah, 4. She is working as a physical therapist with stroke patients at the
Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital in
Hartford.
Angela (Gasior) Smith ’92 and her husband Damian left West Hartford last year
and traveled through Europe, India, and
Thailand and finally relocated to Brisbane,
Australia. She continues to do oncology
research in the United States, but now from
the southern hemisphere. She was sorry to
have missed her 15th reunion.
Frank Pericolosi ’93, a graduate of
Williams College and Springfield College,
where he earned a Master’s degree, is head
coach of the Pomona College baseball team.
He led the team to a 30-13 record this year,
winning a berth in the NCAA Western
Alumni News
Regional Playoffs as well as the Southern
California
Intercollegiate
Athletic
Conference (SCIAC) title.
Monica (Walsh) Swanson ’93 and her husband Brian celebrated the birth of their second daughter, Geneva Maeve Swanson on
April 21, 2007. Geneva joins big sister
Meredith Helen, 4.
Steve Lenz ’94 coached the Barrington
High School girls’ basketball team to the
Rhode Island State Division II title this past
winter. Following a perfect season, Steve led
the Eagles to a 37-24 triumph over Scituate
to gain the crown. (The Scituate team had
been averaging 51 points per game in the
state playoffs.)
Beth (Lynch) Oates ’94 was included in
“Who’s Who Among American Teachers”
for 2006-2007. She has also been selected
for the second time into a year-long exhibit
at the Chancery office of the Connecticut
State University in Hartford. In addition,
she is being represented by the Farmington
Valley Arts Center and has selected ceramic
works in their Visitor’s Gallery collection.
John Shukie ’95 is glad to report that he
and his wife Cela recently welcomed their
first child, Marisol Elena, on June 25, 2007.
She has already been visited by her aunts
Lauren ‘91 and Elizabeth ‘91 and uncle
Steve ‘01, and of course Grandpa and
Grandma Shukie. They are now living in
Indianapolis, and John is working at the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA).
Two Northwest Catholic teachers tied
the knot this summer! Sara Demos and
Dan Avery ’97 were married on July 15
at The Farmington Club. Sara has been
the Director of Theater for five years,
while Dan has been the Director of
Choral Studies since 2000.The wedding
party included Eamon McGee ’98 and
Brian Avery ’02, and wedding guests
included several members of the faculty
and staff: Mrs. Patricia Juda, Miss Kerri
Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch Oates ’94,
Miss Beth Casey ’96, Ms. Marilyn Adamo,
Mrs. Jennifer Montoney, and Ms. Susan
Brimmer.
Hartford, she’s engaged to marry Safhe
Morales on May 3, 2008. The couple
recently bought a home in Bristol.
April (Luciani) Siefert ’99 graduated from
Simmons College in 2003 and married
Michael Siefert, M.D., on May 6, 2007.
The couple moved to Boston, and both
work at Boston Children’s Hospital —
Michael is a pediatric nephrologist, and
April works in the pediatric intensive care
unit.
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Ed Murphy ’01 graduated with highest
honors from the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, CA with a Master’s in
Amy Delligan ’99 works as an account
executive for Clear Channel radio in
Hartford. A graduate of the University of
Madison Leigh Ramos, age four months, is
already on her way to Northwest
Catholic! She paid her first visit to the
school office in September, when her
mom, Elizabeth Giannetta ’98, brought her
in to meet the staff.
Send us news of your new additions, and
we’d be delighted to send you this adorable
bib so your offspring can help to show off
your school spirit! (We’d love to publish
their pictures, too; send photos to Michelle
Murphy, Director of Communications,
[email protected].)
Computer Information Security. He was
one of only ten civilians in his class; the
other students were mostly U.S. military
officers who had graduated from one of the
service academies and had completed four
years of active duty. He is working in
Chantilly, VA.
Amber Orvis ’01 has been working as a
social worker for the Connecticut
Department of Children and Family
Services since graduating from college in
May 2007.
Steve Shukie ’01, who’s starting his second
year as assistant football coach at Bowdoin
College, was the speaker at Northwest
Catholic’s MVP banquet in June.
Jill Terrion ’01 graduated from Emerson
College in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in
communications/marketing, and now
works as a marketing specialist for
Parkinson Technologies. She now lives in
Providence, RI with her husband of one
year, William DaPonte.
Caitlin Melley ’02 graduated from St.
Anselm College in 2006 with degree in
biology. She has now returned to school as
one of only 12 students accepted into a
two-year Master’s program in genetic counseling at Brandeis University.
Alex Taylor ’02 was an assistant coach for
Northwest Catholic’s indoor and outdoor
track teams this year.
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Caitlyn Curley ’03 graduated from
Manhattan College and is living and working in New York City.
Kristen Kennedy ’03 graduated from Bates
College with a BA in sociology. She spent
her junior year at the University of
Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Torey Knight ’03 graduated from Marist
College and is now working in Hawaii.
Nicole Krupa ’03 graduated magna cum
laude from Fairfield University. A double
major in Accounting and Music, Nicole was
also a tour guide manager for the
Admissions Office. She was inducted into
the Beta Gamma Sigma International
Business Honor society and was also a vicepresident in the Alpha Psi Honor Society for
accounting students. Nicole signed with
the accounting firm, RSM McGladrey LLP,
as a tax associate in their Stamford, CT
office. She began a Master in Taxation program at Fairfield this fall.
Mark Lewis ’03 earned a BS in biochemistry from Eastern Connecticut State
University in May 2007 and is now doing
genetic research at Monsanto Corp. in
Mystic, CT.
Colleen Murphy ’03 graduated cum laude
from Providence College in May 2007 with
a degree in Elementary Education and
Special Education. She is teaching fourth
grade at Lattimer Lane School in Simsbury.
Kimberly Sanders ’03 graduated magna
cum laude from the Park School of
Communications at Ithaca College, where
she majored in journalism and worked as a
reporter for an Ithaca, NY television station.
She’s
currently
employed
as
a
reporter/writer for the Office of Radio and
Television for the Archdiocese of Hartford.
Hilary Scurlock ’03 graduated cum laude
from Harvard University in June 2007 and
is working at The Corporate Executive
Board, a consulting firm in Washington,
D.C.
Meg Terrion ’03 completed her BS in business administration/marketing at the
University of Connecticut in May 2007.
She now works for Nordstrom and lives in
Framingham, MA.
DeShaun Walker ’03 graduated from
Temple University in May 2007 with a
bachelor’s
degree
in
Business
Administration, double majoring in
Finance and Real Estate. He is working as a
junior financial analyst at Wilmington
Finance in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
Francis Rogers ’04, a senior at the College
of the Holy Cross, performed this summer
at the “Mostly Mozart Festival” at Lincoln
Center in New York City with a select
group of Holy Cross Chamber Singers. This
marked the first time that outside performers were able to participate with professional musicians and vocalists in “Pasion Segun
San Marcos.”
Peter Luciani ’05 is a computer engineering major at Central Connecticut State
University. He is engaged to marry Jeannett
Wells in 2010.
Dan Murphy ’05 is a junior at Notre Dame
University, where he is double majoring in
Journalism and Broadcasting and is a sports
writer for the school’s daily newspaper, The
Observer. Dan has been on the Dean’s List
each semester, and completed an internship
at a local South Bend television station last
year. He will study at Notre Dame’s campus
in Freemantle, Australia, during the second
semester this year.
Rachel Ogilvie ’05 made the Dean’s List at
Bates College for the second semester of the
2006-07 school year.
Do you have news to share? Send in engagement, marriage, baby, or job announcements,
or just let your fellow alumni know what
you’re up to. We’d love to hear from you! Drop
a note or an email ([email protected]) to
Jane Leary, Director of Constituent Relations,
Northwest Catholic High School, 29
Wampanoag Drive, West Hartford 06117.
Want to become more involved?
Contact Mrs. Leary by email
or phone at 860.236.4221, x131.
Heard on NPR: Catie Talarski ‘99
Recent Northwest Catholic alums who are fans of
Connecticut Public Radio may have done an aural double take
recently: Did that reporter say her name was Catie Talarski? Is that
OUR Catie Talarski?
The answer is, yes! Catie Talarski, who graduated from
Northwest Catholic in 1999 and with a sociology degree from
Assumption College in 2003, is now a producer for “Where
We Live,” a daily morning news talk show on WNPR. She also
researches and reports stories about health care issues facing
Connecticut’s underserved, immigrant, and refugee communities. Her work has aired on “Here and Now,” “Day to Day,”
NPR’s podcasts, and on other NPR affiliate stations.
Considering where she’s been and what she’s done over the
past eight years, this seems like the most logical possible place
for Catie to be.
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After college, she served with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in
Sacramento, CA (which she chronicled in a past edition of
Northwest Catholic NOW). A subsequent job at Boston
Children’s Hospital led Catie indirectly to Nepal, accompanying
young U.S. resident doctors to a Himalayan clinic where she
did research and passed out free vitamins and medicine. “We
then trekked from Lukla, Nepal, to the Everest Base Camp in a
little over a week, reaching about 18,000 feet,” she said.“It was
one of the most incredible experiences – I am very lucky to
have been able to have that experience.”
Back home in the States, Catie attended the Salt Institute for
Documentary Studies in Portland, ME, in the spring of 2006,
where she studied documentary radio and produced two documentaries: “The Maine Squeeze,” about an accordion band,
and another about a group of homeless teens putting on a play
about their life experiences. She’s been working full time at
NPR in Connecticut since January.
Alumni News
REUNION
Sharon Kristofak McHale and Joe Liss
Paula Forte Thompson, Sharon Royce
Dempsey, Kerry Casey Kelley
Debbie Keightley Hammel and
Rosie Craemer Shea
1982
The Class of 1982 reunited on Saturday, September 22, to reminisce and share their
amazement that it had been 25 years since they graduated from Northwest Catholic. After
wine, cheese and tours of the school, the group of about 60 people – many of whom had
come in from all across the country -- continued the festivities with dinner and dancing
across the street at Wampanoag Country Club. “I was amazed at how comfortable and easy
it was to be with everyone after so long,” said Annie Allard-Lane, who traveled from
Colorado for the event. “I still have a sore throat from all the yapping!”
Bill O'Connor and Chris Gauthier
Peter Gobes and Marigrace Mulshine Roche
From left, Debbie Keightley Hammel, Rosa Weeks, Michelle Walker Stewart, Annie AllardLane, Paula Cote Branday, Patricia DiMinno Nesta, Frank Amat
SAVE THE DATE
FOR REUNIONS!
{
April 26, 2008
Classes of ’68, ’73, ’83, ’88, and ’93
November 29, 2008
Classes of ’98 and ‘03
Fall 2008 (Date TBA)
Class of 1978
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IN MEMORIAM
Northwest Catholic extends its prayers and sympathies to the families of members of our community who have passed away recently.
ALUMNI
CURRENT PARENTS AND FAMILIES
Ruth (Hudak) Marzano ’74 passed away Tuesday, June 19,
2007. A lifelong West Hartford-area resident, she attended St.
Francis Nursing School after graduating from Northwest
Catholic. She spent 18 years working for Abrams Insurance
Agency in Bishop’s Corner. She is survived by her son Joshua
Marzano, her parents Stephen and Evelyn Hudak, and her
brothers Mark ’71, Craig ’79, Jim ’82 and Stephen Hudak.
Robert Collier, father of Elizabeth Collier ‘10
Jeanne Serocke-Stavola ’80 and her husband Joseph Stavola of
Pelham Manor, NY, passed away on June 9, 2007, in an automobile accident. Joe and Jeanne were college sweethearts at the
College of the Holy Cross. Jeanne went on to earn her law
degree from Fordham University. She spent much of her free
time as an advocate for special needs children and had been
named as the next president of the Special Education Parents’
Association. Jeanne and Joe’s lives revolved around their family
and their two young sons, James and William.
Robert Mara, Sr., grandfather of Ashley Mara ’08 and Elliott
Mara ‘11
Thomas Krikawa, father of Katie Krikawa ’10
Patricia Lacouture, grandmother of Nicole Lacouture ’10 and
mother-in-law of Maryann Lacouture, Assistant in the
Admissions Office
Nicolas Cruz Pagan, grandfather of J.J. Marino ‘09
Judge Francis C. Vignati, grandfather of Sarah Vignati ’07,
Paul Vignati ’08, Kathryn Vignati ‘11
George Wilson, uncle of Carrie Schwartz ’06, Sarah Schwartz
’07, Emily Schwartz ‘08
FACULTY AND STAFF
Claire Hungerford, wife of Ken Hungerford, who worked in
the Northwest Catholic business office during the 1990s
ALUMNI PARENTS
Vincent Amodeo, father of Mary Amodeo Briggs ’67
Eileen O’Keefe, mother of E. Flynn O’Keefe ’70
Theresa Angelastro, mother of Mary Lou Angelastro ’72
Irene Pace, mother of Stella Pace ’77
Alberta Doherty, mother of Francis Doherty ’72, Michele
Doherty Juers-Durkee ’75
Mary Quinn Rees, mother of Molly Rees Gavin ’67, Joanne
Rees Kaczor ’72
Jean Donnelly, mother of Jean Donnelly Molloy ’78, John
Donnelly ’83, and grandmother of Margaret Molloy ’07,
Katherine Molloy ‘11
Robert Saunders, father of Christopher Saunders ‘73
Carol Dowd, mother of Mary Elizabeth (Lisa) Dowd
McGinley ’66, Donna Dowd Cullen ’68, Bernard Dowd ’69,
Gregory Dowd ’73, Kevin Dowd ’77, Thomas Dowd ’78
Elizabeth Murphy Scully, mother of Nancy Scully Bannon ’73,
Jack Scully ’75, Sally Scully ’77, Jim Scully ‘79, and Bill
Scully ‘80
Maurice Sponzo, father of Anne Sponzo Cappelli ’82, Marilyn
Sponzo ’71
Marie Lavoie, mother of Albert Lavoie ’65, Rosemary Lavoie
Bennett ’66
Lucy Strano, mother of Robert Strano ’74
Brian Lewczyk, father of Christina Lewczyk ’05
Peter Tabol, father of Miriam Tabol Johnson ’67
Joseph Newcomb, father of Barbara Newcomb ’71, Mark
Newcomb ’75, Jeanne Newcomb McGeehin ’77
Adrian Tyler, father of Elizabeth Tyler ’65
William O’Connor, father of Laura O’Connor Bourque ’81,
William O’Connor ’82, Christopher O’Connor ’85, Elise
O’Connor ’86
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FIVE ALUMS INDUCTED INTO ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME
Five people were inducted into the Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame on a beautiful evening in September (from left): Dennis
Robinson ’75; Mary Cobb Gothers ’80; Richard Fairbrother ’70; Elizabeth McNulty Alquist ’87; and William Mullady ’66.
ack in the day, they were Northwest Catholic superstars
– each in his or her own era, each for his or her own
sports. On Sept. 15, five outstanding alumni athletes
were recognized for their tremendous achievements by being
inducted into their alma mater’s Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame.
B
Richard Fairbrother, DMD ’70 of West Hartford: Named an
All-State basketball player and Athlete of the Year as a senior,
Fairbrother hit the 1,000-point mark at both Northwest
Catholic and at Wesleyan University. He was an Academic AllAmerican at Wesleyan in 1974.
The ceremony was held during a lovely reception and dinner
in Stosuy Gymnasium. Each new member was presented for
induction by another Northwest Catholic alumni athlete, who
recounted highlights of the honoree’s career. Athletic Director
Joshua Reese ’95 and Liz Stafford ’00, chairman of the NWC
Alumni Council, welcomed each person with congratulations
and two plaques – one that will be permanently mounted on the
Wall of Honor outside the Stosuy Gym, and one that went
home with the honoree.
Dennis Robinson ’75 of Ridgewood, N.J.: Another alumnus of
Wesleyan University, Robinson was the first 1,000-yard rusher
in Northwest Catholic football history. He was an All-State
Honorable Mention in 1973 and earned All-HCC honors in
football in 1974. At Wesleyan, he set six school records and led
the nation in average yards per punt return in 1978.
“Today’s Northwest Catholic athletes must thank each of you
for your accomplishments on our athletic fields,” said Reese.
“You led the way toward a path of success and are part of the reason we have such a rich athletic tradition.”
Comprising only the third group of athletes to be voted into
the Hall of Fame, this year’s inductees were:
William Mullady ’66 of Bloomfield: Mullady was AllConference in basketball and baseball, played on the state runner-up baseball team in 1965, and won the Northwest Catholic
Athlete of the Year award in 1966. He’s currently the assistant
coach (with his daughter, head coach Jill Mullady) of the
Northwest Catholic Girls’ field hockey and lacrosse teams.
Mary Cobb Gothers ’80 of Wethersfield: Gothers was the first
female to receive a partial scholarship to Boston College for
track and cross country. At Northwest Catholic, she was the
Class M cross-country state champion in 1978 and the Class M
2-mile state championship in 1980. She has coached high
school cross country and track at Conard, Farmington, and
Northwest Catholic.
Elizabeth McNulty Alquist ’87 of West Hartford: Alquist
earned All-HCC and All-State honors for basketball in both her
junior and senior years — and was All-HCC in soccer, as well,
during the same time frame. She was a basketball Academic All
American during her senior year at Mount Saint Mary’s College.
She now coaches in the West Hartford Girls’ Basketball League.
Northwest Catholic Heritage Society
Announces Charter Members
We are proud to announce the charter members of the Northwest Catholic High School Heritage Society.
These people have made provisions in their wills* for a bequest to Northwest Catholic:
Mr. & Mrs. Clarence J. Bourret (AP)
Rev. Henry C. Frascadore (Former president)
Mr. Philip F. Kelly (AP)
Mr. Jay Luby ‘69
Mr. & Mrs. William P. Murphy ‘67
Mr. Dennis P. Sullivan (AP)
Colby and Anita Thresher (AP)
* These individuals have agreed to let us publish their names for the benefit of the Heritage Society.
We would be pleased to know of others who have made this provision, as well.
For information on becoming a member of the Heritage Society, see page 47 of this issue,
or contact Colby Thresher, Advancement Officer, at 860.236.4221, x156 or [email protected].
Thank you in advance for your thoughtful consideration of Northwest Catholic as one of your “heirs!”
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