Summer 2015 - Regis High School

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REGIS HIGH SCHOOL
VOLUME 80 | NUMBER 4
SUMMER 2015
Contents
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President’s Report
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The Judge Presidency
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The Dedication of Jim Phillips
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The Wisdom of John Murphy
10 News and Notes
11 Departing Faculty & Staff
Michael Faucher ’15 and a team of students had some high-flying fun in the annual student-faculty tchoukball game.
12 Class of 2015 College Destinations
13 Prowlings
23 Milestones
23 Events Calendar
REGIS
James E. Buggy
Vice President for Development
Thomas A. Hein ’99
Director of Communications
Vincent Catapano ’96
Alumni Director
Jason Adulley ’15 addressed the Regis class of 2015 at the graduation ceremonies held on June 6 in the Church of Saint
Ignatius Loyola. Read Jason’s full speech in the news story found at news.regis.org.
On the cover: Alongside Peter Labbat ’83 and Rev. Ian Gibbons, S.J., Rev. Philip G. Judge, S.J. ’80 helps distribute
diplomas during his final graduation ceremony as President.
Noel Selegzi ’84
Annual Fund Director
Paul Atkinson ’71
Major Gifts & Planned Giving
Alison Nash
Database Manager
Jennifer Reeder
Executive Assistant
Some photographs for Regis publications are
provided by Harisch Studios and the staff of
The Regian, the school yearbook.
Regis High School and The Office of
Development reserve the right to publish
and edit all submissions as space permits.
Submissions must be sent to:
Regis High School
The Office of Development
55 East 84th Street
New York, NY 10028-1221
Phone: (212) 288-1142
Teammates look on as Michael Flood ’15 earns a point for Regis on a powerful spike during the CHSAA City
Championship match held at Regis this May. The Regis Volleyball team earned its fifth consecutive championship with
a dominating win over St. Joseph by the Sea High School.
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President’s Report
“De More”
“De more.” This was a convenient
expression to use when making
entries in the house diary recording
the comings and goings, activities
and occurrences of daily life in
the Jesuit novitiate in Syracuse,
NY when I was there in the mid1970s. Many days were very much
the same as the previous one, so
the entry would read in whole
or in part, “de more,” indicating
that all went according to custom,
according to what was expected.
I have thought of that expression frequently as I prepared to
write this President’s Report for the summer Regis Alumni
News, which might appear counter-intuitive given the
number of singular events and achievements we celebrated
this year: among the most notable the Centennial, a Noble
Prize for Dr. John O’Keefe ’57, and the National Book
Award for Phil Klay ’01. But perhaps not so counterintuitive when we remember that Regis is a place of sustained
excellence and these notable achievements are highlights of
a culture which is cultivated and encouraged year after year,
from one generation to the next.
“The Hearn had another great weekend” is a very familiar
Monday morning announcement on 84th Street and they
had many great weekends leading to another New York
State Championship, the 26th in 31 years, and were again
recognized as one of the top five secondary schools in the
nation in speech and debate. Along with consecutive city
championships in basketball (their second) and volleyball
(their fifth!), plus a second consecutive New York City
Regional Science Bowl championship and a first place finish
in the New York State round of the CyberPatriot competition
the breadth and depth of student achievement becomes all the
more evident. And these few items barely scratch the surface.
The Regis culture of sustained excellence is manifest in the
128 members of the recently graduated Class of 2015 and in
what they and the underclassmen accomplished academically,
in extracurriculars and in retreats and service programs all
through the year. We wish the newest alumni and the yet to
be alums of the underclassmen years every success as all look
ahead to the challenges and opportunities of a new academic
year both on 84th Street and on college and university
campuses around the country.
Also of note is the school’s successful attainment of its
first New York State Association for Independent School’s
(NYSAIS) accreditation and the Board of Trustees, equally
successfully, completing a thorough presidential search
process in the hiring of Fr. Dan Lahart, S.J. to succeed Fr.
Phil Judge, S.J. ’80 (with me bridging the gap until Fr. Lahart
takes the reins in summer 2016.)
Phil’s ten years of leadership has left the school not just “strong
to endure” but poised to move forward into our second century
with a “holy boldness,” a hallmark of Jesuits and Jesuit works.
Regis continues to be gifted with an outstanding faculty and
staff who bring intelligence, skill and commitment to their work
in and out of the classroom with a gifted and talented student
body. Regis will long be in debt to Phil for his exemplary
leadership and we all wish him well in his new duties assisting
the Provincial, Fr. John Cecero, S.J., in his leadership of the
USA Northeast Province of the Society of Jesus.
Yes, much has changed and we recognize some unique
events and accomplishments, but it all fits within that
sustained excellence that has long formed such a strong
part of the Regis culture. “De more” indeed. But an even
more fundamental part of the Regis culture is rooted in the
extraordinary generosity of the founding family and the
vision of Fr. Hearn, so let our last words always clearly state
our profound gratitude for all that has been and all that is yet
to be as we look to the next hundred years. Deo gratias!
James Croghan, S.J.
President
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The Judge Presidency
A Look Back at a Decade of Leadership at Regis
On June 30, Rev. Philip G. Judge, S.J. ’80
concluded his 10 year Presidency at Regis.
The second longest in Regis history, Fr.
Judge’s tenure showcased his passion
for education, his commitment to social
justice, and his ambitious drive to preserve
both Regis’s history and its future.
A 1980 graduate of Regis, Fr. Judge
previously served as an English teacher
at Regis, Assistant Principal of Fordham
Preparatory, and Principal of McQuaid
Jesuit High School before beginning his
tenure as Regis President in the summer
of 2005. He now serves as the Provincial’s
Assistant for Strategic Planning for the
USA Northeast Province of the Society of
Jesus. He is also the superior at the Jesuit
community at America House.
While the annual President’s Dinner
recognizes supporters of the Regis
Annual Fund at the President’s Circle
Level, this year’s reception in May served
the dual purpose of honoring Fr. Judge
and his Presidency.
“Strong principled leaders are hard to
find,” said Mr. Peter Labbat ’83, Chair
of the Regis Board of Trustees, to the
alumni and friends in attendance. “We
found one with Phil Judge. During the
last 10 years, Fr. Judge brought what
I call a muscular brand of leadership
to Regis. Decisive and moral, Fr.
Judge tackled any challenge with
thoughfullness and clear-eyed conviction
for what needed to be done.”
Before the conclusion of President’s
Dinner, the Board of Trustees had a
surprise revelation for Fr. Judge and the
Regis community. Without Fr. Judge’s
knowledge, the Board had organized a
fundraising effort to dedicate the Regis
Green Roof in his honor.
“Throughout his 10 years as Regis
President, Fr. Judge has overseen a
number of initiatives and projects
having to do with the physical space and
property, and these initiatives have taken
many forms. There’s probably no physical
project more dear to Fr. Judge’s heart than
the Regis Green Roof,” said Mr. Labbat.
Tucked away above our stately, landmark
façade, the green roof functions as a miniecosystem that includes native grasses,
solar panels, a weather station, an
astronomical observatory, apiaries, and
herb gardens. Formally opened in 2010,
the roof system covers 25,000 square
feet of varying soil depths. Its unique
design serves as a learning laboratory for
students to enjoy the benefits of green
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roofs and outdoor education. Upon
installation, it became the fifth largest
green roof in New York City.
Alongside Mr. Thierry Porte ’75, Mr.
Labbat proudly announced that an
astonishing $750,000 had been raised in
that effort, and unveiled a bronze plaque
that will be installed on the Green Roof
later this summer. The plaque reads:
The Regis Green Roof
Dedicated to Rev. Philip G. Judge, S.J. ’80
21st President of Regis High School (2005-2015)
Who Conceived and Oversaw the Development
of This Unique Space, Presided over the
Successful Growth of the REACH Program, and
Led Regis Through its Centennial, Celebrating
100 Years of Forming Men for Others
to Regis. In his ten years as President,
the REACH program has continued to
grow and succeed, and now boasts close
to 100 graduates as alumni or current
students at Regis. These efforts have
invigorated the Regis mission of making
a Catholic education available to young
men who could not otherwise afford
it, and strengthened our focus on the
underserved.
Beyond the REACH program, Fr.
Judge’s tenure has overseen an enhanced
emphasis on student service initiatives,
which include retreats, the senior year
Christian Service program, and student
outreach trips to disadvantaged areas
such as St. Aloysius Gonzaga in the
Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
May 14, 2015
Video of the evening’s program is
available online at news.regis.org.
Shaping the Face of Regis
“The Mercy of the Judge”
Under the direction of Fr. Judge, our
landmark building has seen a variety of
updates and upgrades including:
From the first days of his presidency, it
was evident that a focus on charity and
service would be a prominent theme
during Fr. Judge’s tenure. As referenced
in his inaugural President’s Report
in the fall of 2015 (RAN Volume 71,
No. 1) a visit to Camp REACH at the
University of Scranton was one of Fr.
Judge’s first priorities upon his return
• The Upper Gym was rebuilt after
damage sustained during the 2011 fire.
• The entire school has been retrofit with
LED lighting, brightening our hallways
and conserving energy consumption.
• Every classroom in the entire building
now features wireless technology.
• One of the largest green roofs in New
York City was installed in 2010.
Father Judge is one of only
three Regis alumni who
have served as President.
As a student, he was a
four-year member of the
Hearn. Left: His 1980
senior year portrait. Right:
With senior members of
the 1980 Hearn team.
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“A Judge Worth His Salt”
Some of the highlights from Fr. Judge’s
tenure as President include the following:
• His 10 year presidency is recorded as
the 2nd longest in Regis history.
• Over those 10 years, approximately
1,300 Regians have graduated.
• Fr. Judge has served as a freshman
advisor, providing mentoring and
guidance to our newest arrivals each year.
• He has also taught continuously in the
classroom as both a freshman English
teacher and teacher of the popular
senior elective, Theatre in New York.
• His tenure weathered the financial
crisis of the late 2000’s, providing
sound financial stewardship to help
guide Regis out of harm’s way.
• His Presidency concluded the $21
million Vision to Lead campaign, a
fundraising record at the time.
• He oversaw Strong to Endure, the largest
fundraising campaign in school history,
raising approximately $42 million.
• His tenure concluded with the school’s
centennial, presiding over several
memorable events including the ringing
of the closing bell at the NYSE, the
re-dedication of the school building
as a historic landmark, the Gala
dinner at the Waldorf Astoria, and
the Centennial Mass celebrated by
Cardinal Dolan.
Father Judge oversaw
the rebuilding of the
Upper Gym after damage
sustained during the 2011
fire. Left & Below: Fr.
Judge presiding over the
dedication of the Upper
Gym during its re-opening
in the fall of 2012.
Far Left: Fr. Judge with
Congresswoman Carolyn
Maloney at the opening
of the Regis Green
Roof in 2010. Left: The
plaque presented at the
President’s Dinner on May
14, 2015 dedicating the
Green Roof to Fr. Judge.
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Who Are We To Judge?
A Selection of Reflections from Colleagues, Classmates, and Friends of Rev. Philip G. Judge, S.J. ’80
I saw firsthand his dedication to education.
His passion for perfection. His constant
desire to improve the plight of those less
fortunate. His selflessness in serving the
flock. His commitment to the Ignatian
ideals of the magis, seeing Christ in all
things, and becoming a man for others.
Through all of our experiences together
his unwavering dedication shone through.
Regis has benefited from Phil’s passion
and will undoubtedly continue to do so for
years to come.
Fr. Judge was a busy man during his ten
years as Regis President, but a few things
stood out for me. First, Fr. Judge officiated
both at the Regis Chapel and in Timisoara,
Romania at my wedding. Second, Fr. Judge
baptized my daughter, Gloria. There were
many times during his successful tenure
at Regis when it might have been easy
to forget that Fr. Judge had a job more
important to us all than serving our school.
But Fr. Judge never forgot that he entered
the Society of Jesus to become a priest not
a president.
Fr. Judge is highly regarded among the student
body: from his freshman advisees, learning
the hard way not to use weak verbs, to seniors
in his English courses, trying to analyze a
play in his Theater in NY class. His thoughtprovoking homilies at school Masses and
his guidance on retreats have defined him as
a religious leader of the school. As a priest,
advisor, teacher and friend, he has had a
powerful impact on the entire community.
— Thomas Bergman ’15
— Mr. Anthony J. Domino, Jr. ’80 P’08
— Noel Selegzi ’84
I can honestly say he was one of my best
friends and still is today. I have great,
great affection for Phil. I think he’s been a
fabulous President and a fabulous teacher,
and we will miss him greatly. Phil had
such a strong sense of what it was that he
wanted to do with his life, and his calling
was so strong. I was always impressed
with the clarity of that calling, and I think
we can say that he’s lived up to that calling
with amazing grace and excellence, and
its been fun to watch that turn into such a
great career.
When I first met Fr. Judge as a freshman
in 1995, he was my English teacher and
advisor. In the two decades since, Fr.
Judge has shepherded Regis through a
magnificent centennial celebration that
focused singly on Regis’s Catholic mission,
all while being the same man I remember
from long ago: dedicated, generous, good
humored, and energetic. Thanks to his
leadership, Regis has entered her second
century with a still noble heart that will be
strong to endure.
I cannot overstate how much I treasure
the time that I have known Fr. Philip Judge,
my freshman advisor. Over the past four
years, I have come to know him as one of
the friendliest, most dedicated members
of the Regis community. Despite his hectic
schedule, many obligations, and endless
workload, his door is always open for visitors
to stop by, whether he is handwriting thank
you letters on behalf of the school or marking
freshman English papers. Fr. Judge embodies
the Jesuit ideals that define Regis, being a
man for others and striving for the magis,
and I truly feel blessed to have known such a
great man and role model.
— Mr. Anthony J. DiNovi, Jr. ’80
— David Bonagura ’99
— John McGahay ’15
Fr. Judge served as the 21st
President of Regis. Left: with
James J. Fischer, S.J. (17th);
Bottom Left: Kenneth J.
Gavin, S.J. ’62 (18th) and J.
Thomas McClain, S.J. (19th);
Below: Joseph A. O’Hare,
S.J. ’48 (20th); Right: James
Croghan, S.J. (Interim)
Even as President, Father
Judge continued to
dedicate time to teaching,
as he’s never lost his
passion for the classroom.
Left: With Dr. Gary Tocchet,
Principal. Below: In the
classroom instructing a
group of students.
Similar to the Green Roof
project, retrofitting the
entire school with LED
lighting in 2012 was a
project near and dear to
Father Judge’s Heart. The
project brightened the Regis
hallways and lessened
Regis’s energy consumption.
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In His Own Words
A Selection of Quotations from the Writings of Rev. Philip G. Judge, S.J. ’80
If each of our graduates is to serve as an
instrument of change, to be a real co-worker
in the divine project of redemption, then
all of our students must know the diversity
that exists in so many ways around them.
In many ways Regis has “gone global” in
increasing increments, not to foster some
sightseeing mentality, but to expose our
students to the realities they might not
otherwise notice and lessons that should
not be ignored. Solidarity cannot happen in
a local vacuum, even it if is the very diverse
one we create on 84th Street.
How does a school teach an attitude or
purpose? By making it an expected part of what
Regians “do”, by reflecting on the meaning
of service itself, and by providing extensive
opportunities for that experience. After all,
life is never about being gifted or bright and
cherishing such a label. Rather, it is always
about what we do with the gifts God has given
us: being men and women for others.
— Let Us Work the Redemption of the
Human Race, Winter 2006
The success of a Regis education, though,
lies in whether or not we live up to our
mission to educate talented Catholic young
men for leadership in service, particularly
those who could not otherwise afford such
an education... We challenge, goad, and
sometimes prod the young men in our care
to the magis in everything from academics
to extracurriculars.
Building a real community is about
cooperation and support and respecting
the gifts and talents of others. Too often
education for gifted students seems to be
about top GPAs, getting into only selected
colleges or beating out the next person. That
is not the way we work at Regis. Perhaps,
ironically, individual commitment to the
magis really does build up the community. I
trust it seems but a short step to note that
this is how we build up the Body of Christ.
May Regians continue to take that lesson
into the world!
— School is Only Part of It, Winter 2011
— Learning to Serve, Spring 2011
— Of Listings and Rankings, Winter 2008
Regis is not a second home because a
group of unconnected strangers call it
that. There is a spirit of intellectual inquiry,
service, and Christian leadership, as well as
human friendship, which tie us together.
The Second Vatican Council taught us
many things, including that we must learn
to imagine the ministry of the Church
as the ministry of all the baptized, and
not simply the ordained. It comes as no
surprise that the Jesuit phrase “men for
others” is consciously and actively taught
and developed in all of our students, not
just those who would consider a religious
vocation. Service in the Church and in the
world is a hallmark call for all of us who
have graduated from Jesuit schools, but
particularly from Regis where the gift of
education for leadership clearly demands a
generous response.
— Questions Worth Asking, Spring 2008
To be here as a student was an amazing gift;
to return as a faculty member was a great
honor, to serve for ten years as President
was something I never imagined and got
talked into by persistent classmates. I’m
very glad they did. Indeed, it has allowed
me to ‘know the place for the first time’ and
really understand the transformative power
of Regis and what it might continue to be
for future generations.
— President’s Dinner Address, May 14, 2015
— Of Places and Networks, Summer 2012
Far Left: Fr. Judge on the
steps of Santa Maria del
Mar church, where Saint
Ignatius begged for alms for
the poor some 500 years
ago; Left: Fr. Judge with
Fr. General Adolfo Nicolas,
S.J., Superior General of the
Society of Jesus.
As the 21st consecutive
Jesuit President, Father
Judge continued the
tradition of serving as a
leader of religious life at
Regis. Left: Father Judge
presiding over the annual
Academic Convocation in
the fall of 2012.
Father Judge presided
over several memorable
centennial events. Left:
closing bell at the NYSE,
singing the alma mater at
the Gala; Above Left: with
Cardinal Dolan after the
centennial mass; Above:
Regis landmark rededication
Messrs. Murphy, Phillips Retire A
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Jim Phillips began his career at
Regis in the fall of 1984. His tenure included
numerous years as the chair of the Fine Arts
Department, and he taught a number of
courses within that area of study, from Music
Appreciation & Theory to Computer Studies.
Most notably, Mr. Phillips served as Musical
Director and was involved in decades of Regis
Repertory musicals and band performances.
Regis received numerous notes of well-wishes
from alumni wanting to express thanks and
appreciation to Mr. Phillips. Among them was
a note from an educator who articulated well
the appreciation that many alumni have for Mr.
Phillips. He states, “With the advantage of time
and the further advantage of seeing things from
your side as a teacher, the thing I’ve come to
appreciate most about you is that you really set
us free. We were allowed, in class and chorus,
to discover music: what was fun about it, what
was beautiful about it, what was joyful about it,
what was heartbreaking about it.”
The Dedication of Jim Phillips. Over the last three decades, Mr. Phillips
has made tremendous contributions to Regis, not only as an outstanding
teacher of music history, but also as director of the Band and the Regis
Repertory musical productions. Whether it is at 7:45 a.m. for an early
rehearsal with the band or a dress rehearsal that goes past 6:00 p.m., you
can always find Mr. Phillips hard at work in the auditorium, perfecting
the shows that win the applause of thousands each year. His commitment
to the growth of each performer, singer, and musician has earned him the
respect and admiration of countless Regians.
— David Vascones ’14
This spring, at the conclusion of conducting
his final concert at Regis, Mr. Phillips was
surprised with a video tribute with well-wishes
from alumni and some reflections by current
seniors. Lauren Moon ’15 addressed the
audience and stated, “He always smiles and
laughs regardless of how many mistakes we’ve
made—and trust me when I say we have made
a lot. Mr. Phillips puts everything he has into
what he does, and no one can truly replace his
drive and determination to make the Regis Rep
the best that it can be.”
Mr. Phillips’s dedication to Regis will be long
remembered and sorely missed!
Students and friends celebrated
Mr. Phillips and his career at the
spring Jazz Concert. Left: Mr.
Phillips looks on as the band plays
Sing Sing Sing as a tribute to him.
Right: Students pose for a photo
with Mr. Phillips after his final
concert. Far Right: Image from the
alumni video tribute to Mr. Phillips,
which can be seen in the news
story found at news.regis.org.
After 58 Years of Combined Service
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John Murphy
, long-time
member of the History Department, retired
at the conclusion of the 2014-2015 academic
year after a 27 year teaching career at Regis
that began in the fall of 1988. While he was
a member of the History Department for
his entire tenure, Mr. Murphy also taught
freshman English and Writing early in
his career. He also previously served as a
moderator of The Regian.
Many of the notes Regis received from
alumni congratulating Mr. Murphy on
his retirement highlighted his incredible
knowledge of history and his unique
classroom wit. Rumor has it that for the
past 20 years, Mr. Murphy may very well
be the second most-quoted individual in The
Regian (just behind Ferris Bueller). Some
favorite quotes include: “One day, a KGB agent
will show up in this class pretending to be me. If
you’re smart, you’ll play along.” / “Put your desks
into a square all you want, men, you’re still getting
the quiz.” / “We can’t send you to Siberia, but
there is Staten Island.” / “Your book report was as
much fun as reading the phonebook.” / “Let’s get a
new face in the crowd...”
The Wisdom of John Murphy. If his unforgettable quotes tell us anything,
it is that Mr. Murphy keeps his students entertained. Walking into
European History class, I did not know what to expect aside from simply
reading passages in textbooks, but Mr. Murphy went far beyond that.
What made Mr. Murphy’s class so memorable for me was not merely his
outstanding knowledge of history (he could give a lecture off the top of
his head and teach us more than a textbook ever could), but also how he
treated each and every student as he would his own son, either through a
special nickname or some warm-spirited humor. Thanks for all that you
have given Regis over your career.
— Alis Dicpinigaitis ’13
But perhaps Mr. Murphy’s most important
contributions were not always related to
academics. One alum wrote, “I remember
that Regis was a tough time. I never seemed
to avoid trouble... you gave me heartfelt
advice and told me to stay out of trouble
because I was a good kid. No other teacher
had done that for me... For being such a
great role model, from the bottom of my
heart I thank you.”
Mr. Murphy will be remembered
as a great lecturer with a sharp
memory of historical dates and
figures. Far Left: Mr. Murphy in
discussion with long-time friend
and retired faculty member Mr.
John Connelly ’56 P’90’99. Left:
Mr. Murphy calling on a student
in his class. Right: Mr. Murphy
engaged in an animated lecture
with his history class.
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News & Notes
Lions, and Tigers, and
Bears—in Latin!
Volleyball Earns Fifth
Consecutive Championship
Alumni Share Advice and
Experience in the Classroom
Members of the Regis Classics Club
traveled to the Bronx Zoo this May
to see the animals—and discuss
them in Latin. The fifth annual “Iter
Zoologicum,” sponsored by the New
York Classical Club and organized by
Patrick Burns ’94, invited participants
to consider the lions, tigers, and bears
of the vivarium (the zoo) in an entirely
new light.
The Regis Volleyball team earned its
fifth consecutive CHSAA Championship
with a dominating win over St. Joseph
by the Sea High School. Regis won the
title match in 3 straight sets, 25-14, 2519, and 26-24. The championship win
is also the sixth in the past seven years
under the leadership of Alex Chan, who
has now completed 13 years as Head
Coach of the Regis Volleyball team.
This spring, a few alumni returned to
the Regis classroom to share their advice
and experiences with seniors enrolled in
various third trimester electives.
“Latin is not just a language to be read
on a page,” explained Burns, who is
completing his doctorate in classics
at Fordham University. “Like any
other language, Latin is a means of
communication, and a prism through
which we can experience the world in
a different way. The Iter Zoologicum
is an exciting and fun opportunity for
Latin enthusiasts to actively employ the
language in a unique way.”
The power hitting of seniors Mike Flood
’15 and Michael Morrone ’15, coupled
with the setting and defense coverage
skills of Jared D’sa ’15, Ryan Conlon
’15, and Kieran Talty ’15 set the stage
for an impressive season.
Led by David Bonagura ’99, Latin teacher
and Classics Club moderator, the Regians
made their way through the animal
kingdom. Tour guide John Kuhner ’94
also led students in an introductory Latin
speaking exercise called “Quid videtis?”
(“What do you see?”). Students described
the natural scenes before them using the
accusative case.
For expanded coverage of these
and other news stories, visit
news.regis.org
“We went undefeated in my freshmen
year, so going undefeated in my senior
season was really important to the other
captains and me, as it felt essential in
order to cement our legacy,” said Mike
Flood ’15, a four-year member of the
Volleyball team. “The team felt very
confident going into the city playoffs.
We knew the stakes were high for the
championship, but our experience over
our four years prepared us very well,
because Coach Chan has always been
committed to developing the next group
of players. Overall I’ve really enjoyed
being part of the team and continuing
the tradition of success of Regis
volleyball.”
Since the league’s inception in 1999, Regis
has won 8 of the 17 City Championships.
Regians in the senior elective titled
“Theater in New York” welcomed Mike
Izquierdo ’96 to discuss his career in the
arts post-Regis. Izquierdo discussed with
students their reactions and thoughts
to the shows they have attended as part
of the class. “The class had such an
impact on me when I was a student as
it opened up my eyes to so many forms
of theater,” said Izquierdo of the senior
elective.
Marine veteran and National Book
Award-winning author Phil Klay ’01
spent an afternoon speaking with
students in a course titled “Regis
Contemporary Authors”. Klay talked
at length about great art as “starting
a conversation”. Klay also openly
discussed his own writing process.
Fr. Michael Holleran ’67 visited
Dr. Eelka Lampe’s Senior Elective
“Meditation in Action”, introducing the
class to the Catholic monastic tradition
of centering prayer, which concentrates
on using a short word to focus the
mind within and thereby realize that
God dwells inside of us rather than
“somewhere out there.” Fr. Holleran
also guided students to experience the
different-yet-related practice of Zen
meditation.
S U M M E R 2015
Parents Club Continues
Impressive Auction Results
Alumni Tee Up at Annual
Regis Golf & Tennis Outing
Approximately 700 guests enthusiastically
arrived at 84th Street on March 28 for
the 2015 Parents Club Auction. The
annual auction is an exciting celebratory
event that adds significantly to the
financial support Regis needs every year.
Over 100 golfers teed up to gorgeous
weather on Monday, June 22 for
the annual Regis Golf & Tennis
Outing at the Rockaway Hunting
Club (Lawrence, New York). A small
contingent of tennis players also joined
in for a memorable outing.
During the evening’s live auction, Rev.
Philip G. Judge, S.J. ’80 introduced the
auction challenge, titled The Science Lab
Challenge. The goal of the challenge
was to financially support critical
renovations to the Biology and Chemistry
labs. A short video highlighting key
improvements to the labs followed,
illustrating the ability of students to work
in much more sophisticated surroundings,
in smaller lab groups, and in a safer
environment. Truly extraordinary
support was offered as attendees donated
more than $214,000, with more pledges
continuing to come in online.
By the evening’s end, gross proceeds from
the auction and raffle were an impressive
$511,000, with net income projected to
be an estimated $490,000.
As usual, the extraordinary fundraising
efforts at the auction could not have been
possible without the help of volunteers
which included countless parents and
students who donated their time and
energy towards the effort. Regis is
thankful for the many volunteers who
helped run this year’s event, and to the
many guests who attended and supported
Regis through auction bidding.
The outing began at 11:00 a.m. with
registration and a brunch buffet. By
12:30 p.m. all golfers were out on the
course for their shotgun start, and
the tennis players began their play on
the pristine grass courts. In his final
event as Regis President, Rev. Philip
G. Judge, S.J. ’80 traveled the course
throughout the afternoon on a golf
cart to help distribute refreshments to
players. By 6:00 p.m. all participants
had returned to the clubhouse for an
outdoor reception. After group scores
were recorded, the foursome of William
Miller P’89, Bill Miller ’89, Woody
Victor ’90, and Bill Miller Jr. earned
top spot with a score of 66 on the par
70 course. While there was no hole-inone contest winner, many participants
walked away with some great raffle
prizes, which included a variety of golf
foursomes, tickets to sporting events,
golf clubs, and Regis gift baskets.
Many thanks to our sponsoring
members Arthur T. Minson, Jr. ’88 and
William Miller ’89, to all who helped
contribute prizes for the evening raffle,
and for the heartfelt support of the day’s
participants.
11
Regis Bids Farewell to
Departing Faculty and Staff
126
years of
combined
service!
Regis bids farewell to fourteen faculty
and staff members who are retiring
or moving on to pursue new career or
educational opportunities.
Pictured, from left to right: Jim Phillips
(Fine Arts, 31 years), John Murphy
(History, 27 years), Aida Mergeche
(Principal’s Office, 16 years), Rev.
Philip G. Judge, S.J. ’80 (President, 10
years), Todd Austin (REACH Director,
10 years), Mary Ellen Brockmeyer
P’96 (Dean’s Office, 8 years), Mary
Katherine Sheena (Theology, 7 years),
Brianne Kilpatrick (Database Manager,
4 years), Jeff Marcucio (Science, 4
years), Brendan Coffey (English, 3
years), Brad Serton (Dean, 2 years),
John Hannon ’05 (Language, 2 years),
Dan Adler ’10 (Alumni Mentor, 1
year), David Desrosiers ’10 (Alumni
Mentor, 1 year).
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REGIS HIGH SCHOOL
CLASS OF 2015
College Destinations
Amherst College
James Flatow
Arcadia University
Paul Ippolito
Bentley University
Michael Cerone
Binghamton University
Michael Morrone
College of the
Holy Cross
Declan Cronin
Billy Ford
Henry Harrs
Michael Morigi
College of
William and Mary
Christopher Kelly
Boston College
Ryan Carragher
Michael Flood
Nicholas Hissong
Mark Kindschuh
George Matli
Richard Rasor
Joseph Ryan
Kevin Sprotte
Yashar Tesori-Montoya
Alexander Urtula
Cornell University
David Boak
Liam Brozen
Joseph Caparelli
Frederick Kauber
Nicholas Sarkis
Bowdoin College
Kevin Lane
Emory University
Patrick Thomas
Brown University
John Dall’Aglio
Carleton College
David Gallagher
Case Western Reserve
University
Alexander Koniuta
Catholic University
of America
Paul Elizalde
Colgate University
Steven Viegas
Dartmouth College
Ryan Hall
Davidson College
Michael Peruggia
Florida Southern
College
Thomas Tyson
Fordham University
Oscar Banh
Matthew Breen
Padraig Comer
Michael Corrado
Brian Gallagher
Griffin Hornung
Alessandro Leva
Sean Phillips
Elliot Sanchez
George Washington
Brett Simmons
Georgetown University
Daniel Baldwin
Arthur Calcagnini
Sean Davey
Jared D’Sa
Matthew Grillo
Christopher Jandora
Jonah Langan-Marmur
Luke Powers
Brandon Spear
Mateusz Zezula
Georgia Institute
of Technology
Michael Brzozowski
Harvard University
Brendan Powell
Haverford College
Robert Borek
Hunter College
Sean Crisp
Michael Scacalossi
Johns Hopkins
University
William Lajes
Loyola University
Maryland
Ryan Conlon
Joseph Gabriel Nacion
Tyler Schoch
Loyola University
New Orleans
Marist College
Ariel Camilo
Peter Wrobleski
Manhattan College
Ryan Gamilo
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Christopher Hillenbrand
Joshua Mesfin
McGill University
Patrick Cheiban
Middlebury College
Brandon Baldovin
New York University
Steven Almanzar
Thomas Bergman
John Guido
Christopher Lee
Roy Nathan Menguito
Northeastern University
Anthony Bommarito
Kyung Hwan Lee
Kyle Martis
Michael Parrish
Kieran Talty
Stevens Institute
of Technology
George-Douglas Price
Stony Brook University
Kyle Mastropietro
The Cooper Union
John Tronolone
University of Virginia
Timothy Foxen
Edmund Rossi
The University
of Oxford
Colin Donnelly
Vanderbilt University
Liam Kelly
Tufts University
Edward Natkin
Ronny Zampolin
Villanova University
Charles Gavigan
Liam Hogan
Ryan Sumberac
United States
Military Academy
Matthew Babich
Washington University
in St. Louis
Evan Nagel
University of
California, Berkeley
Matthew Hilado
Wesleyan University
Thomas McCarthy
Northwestern University
Matthew Gaschler
James Schuller
University of
California, Los Angeles
David Sniffin
Princeton University
Laurence Loprete
Justin Sansone
Daniel Sullivan
University of Chicago
James Koehne
Rutgers University
Andrew Hernandez
Jeremiah Jacinto
Sophie Davis School of
Biomedical Education
Loren Moon
St. John’s University
Joseph Trostl
University of
Notre Dame
Conor Dillon
Billy Fox
Mark Hershey
University of
Pennslyvania
Frank Aguilar
Monserrate DeLeon
John McGahay
Andreas Nolan
University of
Richmond
Esteban Angeles
Patrick Ndukwe
Paul Torre
Andrew Wilson
Wheaton College (MA)
Jeremiah Ryser
Williams College
Jason Adulley
Joseph Boncardo
Breidy Cueto
Jonathan Hall
Minh Tran
Yale University
Michael Faucher
Ariel Sanchez
Sean Singleton
Daniel TenreiroBraschi
List as of 7/10/2015
At a reception celebrating
the end of the 2014-2015
academic year, alumni serving
on the current faculty and
staff (along with a few retired
alumni faculty) posed for a
group photo. From left to
right: David Bonagura ’99,
José Machuca ’92, Jack Prael
’63, David Desrosiers ’10, Tom
Hein ’99, Paul Atkinson ’71,
Jerry Kappes ’52, Dan Adler ’10,
Joe Quinn ’04, John Connelly
’56 P’90’99, Doug Eickman
’05, Tom McKenna ’09, John
Hannon ’05, Chris Reisig ’00,
Alan Garcia ’08, Kyle Mullins
’05, David Grunner ’05, Art
Bender, S.J. ’67, Tom Hannon
’76, James Kennedy ’02, Phil
Judge, S.J. ’80.
S U M M E R 2015
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Prowlings
1938
We are sad to report the passing of longtime class correspondent Jim Holahan
on July 4. Jim was the founding editor of
Aviation International News. He founded
The Convention News Company in 1972
and served for 27 years as the group’s
editor-in-chief before retiring in December
1998. Before starting his career in aviation
journalism during the 1950’s, Holahan flew
Lockheed P-38 fighters with the U.S. Army
Air Corps during World War II and worked
as a radio engineer with Western Electric.
Subsequently, he flew F-80 jet fighters with
the Air Force during the Korean War, having
built on his knowledge of avionics in the
interim. Holahan got his start in the news
business as the electronics editor of Aviation
Age and served as editor of Business &
Commercial Aviation from 1964 to 1971.
1939
Kevin Tubridy, [email protected]
3524 Taft St., Wantagh, NY 11793
1941
William Carroll, [email protected]
4254 Via Verde, Cypress, CA 90630
1943
Don Gross, [email protected]
41 Strickland Place, Manhasset, NY 11030
1944
Tom Sheridan, S.J., [email protected]
515 East Fordham Rd, Bronx NY 10458
We were saddened to learn that our
classmate William T. (Bill) Thorwarth, M.D.
passed away early Tuesday morning, April
14, 2015, at Meadowood Senior Living in
Worcester, PA, where he had resided for
the last 15 years. After graduating from
Regis Bill attended Georgetown University
and later received his medical degree from
University of Pennsylvania. During the Korean
War he served in the U. S. Air Force. Aside
from that Bill spent his entire career as a
radiologist at Chestnut Hill Hospital, part
of the University of Pennsylvania Health
Network, retiring as Chief of Staff in 1989.
He was an avid antique collector, golfer, and
reader, and he cherished time spent with
family in the family home in the Pocono
Mountains. Bill is survived by four children,
Mary Pottier and her husband, Claude, of
Reeds Beach, NJ, William Thorwarth, Jr.
and his wife, Nancy, of Hickory, NC,, Peter
Thorwarth and his wife, Ally, of Murietta, CA,
and Carolyn Bruey and her husband, Paul,
of Lititz, PA, by seven step children, and by
many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
He was beloved by all. His daughter Carolyn
writes: “Although my dad ended up going to
Georgetown University and then University
of Pennsylvania for his medical degree, Regis
was always closest to his heart. In fact, when
we cleaned out his bookshelf, we found no
diplomas from Georgetown or U of P, but did
find his Regis diploma still in its canvas cover.
My siblings and I all decided that he would
love the idea of being cremated in his Regis
sweatshirt with his diploma, so that’s what we
did.” And she added that “It was Bill’s wish
that in lieu of flowers, contributions might
be made in his memory to Regis.” Online
condolences may be made to the family at
RLWilliamsFuneralHome.com. The month
after graduating from Regis Bob Morison
went into the Navy V-12 program at Union
College in upstate New York. In October of
’45 the Navy shut down that program and
he was transferred to the NROTC program
at Dartmouth around the first of November.
Our classmate, Vin Burke, who had been
sent to Colgate as part of the same program,
was transferred to Dartmouth at the same
time. To complete his service, Bob attended
the Navy Supply Corps School in Bayonne,
NJ in 1947. He was assigned to a destroyer
in ’48 and ’49 and then sent to a SeaBee
Base in Davisville, Rhode Island until his final
discharge in 1953. After leaving the Navy Bob
worked for Inspiration Consolidated Copper
Co. in various positions (some concurrently),
Treasurer, Corporate Secretary, Vice PresidentAdministration, and in various locations as
well: downtown NYC, Morristown, NJ, and in
both Inspiration and Phoenix, Arizona. After
retiring in 1987, he continued working, as a
consultant, for another 15 years. He continued
living in Phoenix after his dear wife Muriel
died in 2005, but in 2007 he moved into a
retirement community in Tempe. His three
children Robert, Jr., Barbara and Kevin are all
doing well in their chosen careers. We had
already reported that Barbara’s two sons had
made Bob a great grand-father twice over.
We are happy to report that a third greatgrandchild is due in October. After graduation
Tom McGuire went to Notre Dame and
thanks to the accelerated program was able
to finish in three years. While there he was
joined by our classmate John Murphy as well
as by Larry Madigan from Regis ’43. Tom
majored in organic chemistry with a minor
in chemical engineering, After graduation
in 1947 he joined Union Carbide. In 1951 he
was sent to Brazil, and it is there that he met
and married his English bride Elvira. Tom
was inducted into the U.S. Army Chemical
Corps during the Korean War and stationed
in Alabama, where their first two daughters
were born. After the Army he decided to make
a career change to marketing and general
management, so he left Carbide and in
1955 joined the international division of Vick
Chemical Company (of cough drop fame).
Two years and one more daughter later, in
1957, he was transferred back to Brazil to set
up a company operation there. After 6 years
he, Elvie and their five daughters went back
to the NY headquarters, where Tom was
put in charge of Latin America (1963) and
spent a year and a half in Mexico. In 1967
his territory was expanded to include Asia
and the Far East, from the Philippines and
Japan south to Australia, and east to India
and Pakistan—as he put it: “A lot of water
and a lot of humanity.” Meanwhile two more
daughters had arrived (they have a total
seven daughters). Tom ran Vick in that part
of the world from 1967 until 1981. In 1981 he
was moved up to V.P. in charge of corporate
development. In 1985 Richardson-Vick was
acquired by Procter and Gamble. Tom did
some consulting work with Procter for the
next five years and then went on to do the
same for and/or run a few turn-around
companies. He is now working on a startup company and getting ready to begin
marketing a new type of eyeglasses. The great
sorrow of his life was when Tom and Elvie
lost one of their daughters two months after
her fiftieth birthday to sepsis following a heart
operation. On the bright side, however, the
Carlos Arnaldo ’58 with children at one of 14 homes in Makati City for abandoned street
children and orphans. See the 1958 class Prowlings for full description..
six remaining girls have given them twelve
grandchildren, and they now have four greatgrandchildren—look to your laurels, Bob
Morison!
1945
Will O’Brien, [email protected]
92 Riva Ave., North Brunswick, NJ 08902
1946
Roman Chapelsky, [email protected]
7 Clinton Pl., Cranford, NJ 07016-1938
Charles Schneider,
[email protected]
112 Fenway, Rockville Centre, NY 11570
1947
Joe Miranda, 269 Sparrow Dr. Estates I,
Manhasset, NY 11030, [email protected]
Sadly, the wife of Vin Gavin, Patricia, of 63
years, passed away in 2014.
1948
Joseph Breen, [email protected]
960A Heritage Hills, Somers, NY 10589
1949
Andy Hernon, [email protected]
60 Sutton Place S., Apt.#10, NY, NY 10022
When Ralph Baron turned eighty a few years
back he had to give up flying his small plane.
Not to be denied his place in the skies, Ralph
qualified as a member of UFO (United Flying
Octogenarians), a group of pilots who have
flown their aircraft after their 80th birthday.
Twice in the past two years Ralph has flown
as a passenger to Italy; in September 2013 he
visited Prea, a centuries-old village outside
Naples, where both his paternal grandparents
were born and where he connected with a
distant cousin. A year later he returned with
his children and their spouses for a family
reunion. After their stay in Prea, Ralph and
his family spent a week touring the Amalfi,
Heraculaneum and Bari areas before moving
on to Rome to visit St. Peters, the Sistine
Chapel and the Vatican Museum. Ralph
admits his facility with Italian is limited to:
“Dov’e il bagno?. In June 2014 John Weiser,
son Tom (Regis ’77) and two grandchildren
spent a week walking the Camino de Santiago
in Northern Spain. His description of the
walk follows: “We started at the beginning,
finished at the end, but skipped a lot of the
middle. Very inspirational meeting pilgrims
most of whom were walking for weeks
and in some cases months. We did it the
easier way. We had a car drop us off at the
trail in the morning and meet us in the late
afternoon down the trail. After a pleasant
dinner and overnight stay at some nice B&B,
we’d leapfrog ahead to another picturesque
section of the trail. It’s the way to do it if you
are not trying to earn too much grace. We
spent a day in Santiago, made several visits
to the cathedral... and were deeply moved
by the pilgrims’ Mass.” This June John, his
sons, again Tom and John (Regis ’73), and
a grandson are preparing for a week’s hike
in the Swiss Alps. When not engaged in
long hikes, John serves on the boards of the
National Catholic Reporter and a foundation,
and as the Chair of the President’s Council
of United Religious Initiatives. In summing
up his full schedule, it “keeps me out of
my wife’s hair”. His wife Maria is “happily
occupied with our 8 children and eleven
grandchildren”. Leaving for Stuttgart,
Germany in mid-June were Warren Roth and
his wife Margaret. Stuttgart is Margaret’s
hometown. Their plans include short trips to
other sites in Southern Germany and visits
with their relatives. The Roths expect to return
home to Naperville, Illinois just after Labor
Day. Returning home to San Diego from a 12
day stay in Stuttgart was George Roos. His
oldest son and wife are teachers in Stuttgart,
the son a high school physics teacher in
an American high school and the wife a
learning disabilities teacher in four elementary
schools. George made the trip to attend the
high school graduation of their daughter.
The young lady Caity was one 150 graduates,
140 of whom are headed to college, 3
planning careers in the military and 7 still
undecided. Those pursing college studies
will be attending 125 different institutions;
forty –two members of the graduating class,
including Caity, have been inducted into
the National Honors Society. As for Caity
she has garnered three partial scholarships
which can be applied to her school of choice
Virginia Commonwealth University in
Richmond. George was greatly impressed
by the high school’s student population
diversity—Black, Hispanic, Filipino and
Asian-American. In response to George’s
query about the student body’s “colorblindness” one class member said: “We’re all
friends”. George concluded this is “a good
sign for the country”. George confesses his
command of the German language was
rusty but, nevertheless, he did manage to
order wine and beer in the local restaurants.
Bob Risse and his wife Dee celebrate their
55th Wedding Anniversary in July. Joining
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REGIS HIGH SCHOOL
in the festivities are their six children, their
spouses and fourteen grandchildren. Happy
Anniversary and Wishes for Many More.
Joe Garon and his wife Claudia survived the
record snows of this past winter in their new
home on Cape Cod. The Garons moved
from Manasquan, New Jersey a while back
to the Cape to be close their two daughters.
Joe will have to let us know the precise
location of his new home. In the spring Pat
and Al Pinado journeyed from Atlanta to
Boston and Bucks County, Pennsylvania to
attend the high school graduations of two
grandchildren, one of whom will be headed
to Duquesne and the other to the University
of Southern California. While in Boston,
they attended the commencement at the
Boston Agricultural College which conferred
an honorary doctorate upon their daughter
Jeanne. Al continues to be an active “advocate
for revitalization of public education”. Our
classmates have shared with us their travels
overseas to Italy, Spain, Switzerland and
Germany. Now I can tell you Art Romagnoli
has returned from China. He has decided to
put down roots in San Diego. He has lunched
with George Roos. He happily spent two and
half hours at the California Department of
Motor Vehicles, which issued him a driver’s
license, on the basis of an eye exam and of
passing a computer ‘written’ exam. Since Art
has not driven in about five years, he plans
to take a refresher course at a driving school.
Art recalls the hilarious Bob’s Newhart’s
monologue about the driving instructor. (It
is still available. Just Google it.) He plans to
purchase “an affordable, serviceable used’”
car to enable him to do an apartment search
throughout San Diego County from his
current temporary lodging. A Mini-Reunion
was held in late May and in attendance
were Bob, Byrnes, Frank Cryan, Connie
and Ken Keating, Ray Lamb, Joe Mulqueen
and Gerry Watson. It is our intent to meet
again at Hurley’s in October and it is our
hope Frances Lamb will join us again. Please
remember in your prayers Ed Carney, who
died on April 3 in Rancho Mirage, California,
and Frank Gehring, who died on May 21 in
Charlottesville, Virginia. May the souls of Ed
and Frank rest in peace.
1950
William Allingham, [email protected]
Mike O’Connor, [email protected]
We had another successful annual reunion
on June 4 at Hurley’s Saloon attended by
13 classmates: Jerry Rubin, Joe Purtell, Bill
Peloso, Tom O’Brien, Ray Murphy, Larry
McKearney, Howard McCormack, Ted
Harrington, Bob Dalury, Jack Corrigan,
Marty Collins, Mike O’Connor and Bill
Allingham. Rick Donovan and John McIvor
had signed up to attend but were unable
to be with us. Paul Giuffre sent word from
Fort Smith, Arkansas that he retired in
December after practicing law there for 53
years. Don Hinfey is well and still hard at
work in his Jesuit ministry in Ghana. Bill
Peloso reports that he and Julie have had
more than enough of Florida summers and
are acquiring a new home back in New York;
they still have a place in Florida for winter
use. John Jones has moved his residence
to Monroe Township, New Jersey. The
major event for 2015 will be the celebration
on September 19th of the 65th anniversary
of our graduation from Regis on June 16,
1950, which then was the feast day of St.
John Francis Regis. We have had many
great five-year reunions but this will be the
first conducted wholly at Regis and it will
be done jointly with the 60th anniversary
celebration of the class of ’55. Tom Farrelly
has already booked his flight to join us from
Seattle, and Tillie and Joe Marchese have
committed to attend from their home in
North Carolina. In addition, all but one of
those 13 that attended the get-together at
Hurley’s are planning to come on 9/19, and
we have been told by classmates as far away
as Phil DeLeo in Colorado that they will be
with us for the 65th event. Dick Neergaard
has been hard at work for months preparing
montages of our pictures as we appeared
in our yearbook with current photos sent to
him by all of us. Mike O’Connor and Jack
Corrigan have provided major assistance to
Dick in this effort. Jack Cina recently sent
in his photo which brought the number of
current pictures for the montage to half of
our 57 surviving classmates. If you have
not already done so, please send a current
photo of yourself to Dick Neergaard at
the address provided to you in several
notices. The montages will be displayed
at the anniversary event, and copies will
be distributed to those in attendance and
mailed to the other members of the class.
1951
Donal McCarthy, fi[email protected]
22 Shorehaven Ln., Manhasset, NY 11030
The genuine class notes according to
McCarthy: Corrigenda: Because I didn’t
read my incoming emails properly, let us
begin with a couple of corrections. It was
Bill Foote who went to the Regis CHSAA
state championship game in March, not
Bernie Tracey. Pete Donovan wants me
to make clear to all that he did not say he
was present at Khesanh during the siege.
The USMC sent him there shortly after the
siege had been lifted. Wow. I certainly made
a mess of all those items, but I think I got
the Jack Barry story right. I added a little
color to Jack’s by referring to the Plain of
Jars. It’s what Pooh Bah would have called
“merely corroborative detail.” I recently
spoke to Fred Hahn, who has lived in the
Left: Jack Prael ’63 and his American and Italian families in Santa Lucia di Serino.
Right: 1963’s Bill Brown, Dick Chiarello, Luke MacCarthy, John Stack and John Tuccillo spent
a week playing golf at Hilton Head Island.
San Diego area since the late 60s. Fred was
in the Foreign Service, and he and his wife
Dorothy didn’t want to drag the family off
to still another third-world city. So he left the
government and found a successful career
in the insurance business. Their five children
have scattered to the winds, as children will
do. Fred stopped tennis a couple of years
back but walks regularly, averaging a mile
and a half daily. Here’s another episode of
How We Nearly Lost The Cold War: Fort Dix,
September 9, 1956, the second morning to
awaken in the army. (Only 728 days to go!)
Privates Frank Lynch and Don McCarthy
have noticed that when the sergeants gather
up some recruits to be marched off for a
day’s KP, no one takes their names until the
casually-chosen sheep arrive at their place
of perdition. Those left behind must stay
in the company area lest their names be
called over the PA system, possibly about
something important. But none of the
NCOs know who’s who and where they are.
So, what is a soldier to do? But wait, across
a nearby meadow, a patch of woodland
beckons. Said meadow is marred by a few
pieces of litter. A sergeant rounds up some
GIs and marches them over for a police call:
spread out in a wide single rank (McCarthy
and Lynch being careful to stand at one
end of the rank), all move slowly through
the meadow, picking up scraps of paper
as the end of the rank moves closer to the
copse. When the sergeant is momentarily
distracted by an opportunity to browbeat
some hapless recruit down the line, our
two heroes slide away from the formation
and into the woods. There they find some
twenty other GIs already hiding out from
the authorities, but within earshot of the PA.
This was an early bit of on-the-job training in
two subjects they would study in depth later,
in basic training: Cover-and-Concealment
and Escape-and Evasion. Urgent appeal to
’51: Get in touch with me. Tell us what you’ve
been doing these last 64 years. Give me
your news! Watch This Space. Here ends the
official McCarthy text.
1952
Jerry Kappes, [email protected]
We mourn the death and celebrate the life of
acclaimed master photo artist Charlie
Harbutt, who first began to learn and love his
craft working on the Regis Owl. George
Lardner writes: “I was devastated to learn that
Charlie Harbutt is gone. We have lost a truly
great photographer and an even better man.
After graduation from Regis in 1952, we were
roommates for three years in a tiny offcampus bedroom when we were journalism
students at Marquette University. Charlie took
the upper bunk and never complained about
it. He liked to smoke up there, and he would
often fall asleep swallowing the butts. He did
love to write, but as I remember it, he loved
photography much more, right from the start.
He saw more truth in it, and as someone
who stuck to the written word, I’m afraid he
was right. He left a legacy that won’t be
matched. I loved Charlie. I wish I had a
picture of him in that top bunk.” Bill Sullivan:
“Sorry to hear about Charlie’s passing, but
enormously impressed with how much he
was able to accomplish and leave for the
world in his chosen career. My recollection of
him is of a guy who always engaged and
always had a smile.” Jack Magan: “Charlie
was the youngest member of the Class of ’52
by far. He was handed a camera upon joining
the staff of The Owl as a Regis freshman, and
from that acorn grew a mighty oak. In my
mind’s eye, I have no recollection of Charlie
without that camera. They seemed
inseparable.” Joe Schineller: “Charlie was the
photographer for the class of ’52. I have an 8
1/2 x 11 picture of myself in my basketball
uniform taken in the Regis gym by Charlie in
sophomore year, a photo I’ve treasured all
these years. I wasn’t much of a basketball
player, but Charlie was quite a photographer
early on!” Lew Bowlby: “Charles (for some
reason I never called him ‘Charlie’) was no
doubt my best friend at Regis. He loved to
take pictures and, ham that I was and am, I
loved to pose. We were a perfect match! He
was also a good friend and confidant. Had I
for some unexplained reason not skipped our
daily post-lunch cigarette in the photography
department dark room the day he was
caught, I also would have end up suspended
as were he and Mermagan. I walked down to
the Village following our annual lunch two
years ago and had a wonderful dinner and
chat with him. It was like we never skipped a
day. Ave atque vale.” Frank Neeson:
“Beautiful obit (Times, 7/5/15) on Charlie,
which is great tribute to a Noble Heart. My
vivid memory of Charlie is the Classic Crime
Photographer with his camera slung over his
shoulder, looking for the best place for the
perfect shot.” Remembering Jim McGough
and our tribal tradition, 11 of us gathered for
drinks, lunch, and good conversation on May
16: Larry Boland, Lew Bowlby, John
Donohue, Bob Fitzgerald (thanks for great
photos), Jerry Kappes, John Kissane, Gerry
Loftus, Bob Maresca, Ted McAniff, Bob
Moore, Lee Sculti. Mike Hayes couldn’t
make it due to the terrible Amtrax accident.
Sending greetings: Harry DeMaio, Ed Kelly,
Al Kenneke, Charlie Lynch, Jack Magan,
Frank Neeson, Bill Sullivan, Bob Walker.
From Dan Boone: “Just wanted to let you
know that I will be with you in spirit on the
16th. I’m still enjoying good health.” From Jim
Brennan: “Nancy and I are back to
Connecticut, enjoying being close to the kids
and five grandchildren; great being a
grandfather. Yale University Chapel Sunday
liturgy music is outstanding. We are going to
Adirondacks for vacation with family. I am
dealing with neurological problems that have
affected my legs and memory, however I’m
living with it.” Conversation at lunch touched
on the age-old public-private split in issues of
government/politics, schools, and personal
concerns, noting the recent privacy ruling by
Judge Gerard Lynch, ’68, making N.S.A. bulk
collection of phone data illegal. On another
“illegal” note, Gerry Loftus brought up the
mystery of the grand piano that
“disappeared” from the auditorium our
senior year. Tom O’Toole couldn’t make it on
the 16th, but he was in town earlier and so
arranged for lunch at the NYAC with Larry
Boland, John Donohue, Jerry Kappes, Frank
Neeson, and Bob Walker. Larry Boland tells
of an event you won’t find in the history of
Regis, Teach Me to Be Generous: “On Palm
Sunday, 1999, I attended Mass at St.
Vincent’s Hospital Chapel. The Lector had a
distinctive voice, with an unusual
pronunciation of the word “Golgotha.” As I
looked more closely, I realized the man was
James J. Daly, our unforgettable Latin teacher.
After Mass, I introduced myself, and we
chatted for a few minutes. He said my name
was familiar, but after so many students he
could not really place me. However, a few
days later I received a letter from Mr. Daly,
commenting on our pleasant chat and
recalling the evening of June 16, 1952, when
S U M M E R 2015
he and Bob Clancy (another unforgettable
Latin teacher) were at the bar in The Penguin
on Madison Ave. He recalled an encounter
with four just-graduated Regis men, Larry
Boland, Jim Daley, Jim Hanrahan, and Jim
Connolly, by name, who were celebrating
their graduation. Over a few drinks, the Latin
teachers gave each of the Regis men off-therecord appraisals, telling us what they
expected when we were called on for
recitation. Some impressions were comical,
some were flattering, some colorless (I was
‘reliable’). The details in The J’s letter were a
perfect replay of my recollection. On June 16,
1952, graduation night, we four had retired to
The Penguin to celebrate. As we entered the
bar, we were caught short when we saw Daly
and Clancy at the bar. A quick conference
concluded we had nothing to fear…we had
our diplomas, we were of age, we had
money…let’s go in. Regis grads and Regis
teachers tentatively acknowledged each
other’s presence and exchanged a few
pleasantries. But soon the tension
disappeared and we had a delightful ole’ boys
evening. I never forgot the event, so when JJ
Daly wrote his letter 47 years later, recounting
the event with the four names, I was floored.
After some thought, I concluded that he had
to have kept a diary/log of his time at Regis. I
wish I had done likewise.” Bob Moore
remembers when the J threatened to punish
an entire class with detention unless one
member of the class recited all of “The
Hound of Heaven.” Frank Nolan (RIP)
recited it perfectly and freed the class from the
J’s quirky sense of humor. Harry DeMaio:
“My fantasy detective series, The Casebooks of
Octavius Bear, keeps rolling along. Book
Three, The Case of Scotch, is in limited prerelease and available from MX Publishing’s
website: www.mxpublishing.com. Books One
and Two, The Open and Shut Case and The
Case of the Spotted Band, are also available
from MX as well as Amazon and Barnes and
Noble.” From a review: “DeMaio is a skilled
and engaging storyteller and crafter of
characters and mystery narrative. Somehow,
through Octavius Bear and his associates, he
has managed to create something that is
entirely new and entirely familiar. His world is
a very enjoyable place to lose yourself.”
Charlie Lynch appreciates the phone calls
from classmates, and he is happy to report
that his granddaughter Rose will be singing in
a chorus in July at Notre Dame Cathedral in
Paris. Fr. George Restrepo invites classmates
to join him in celebrating the 50th anniversary
of ordination to the priesthood on Sept. 12 at
Fordham. See separate email for details. Bob
Walker: “Barbara and I are keeping busy
taking classes at Stony Brook University as
part of the excellent Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute (OLLI) program on the campus. I
continue serving as a board member at TelInstrument Electronics in East Rutherford,
NJ.” Bob Maresca: “I have visited Jerry
Shanley several times, although I’m not sure
he recognized me or would remember I was
there. Unfortunately, while not critical, he is
not in good condition, mentally and
physically. It’s difficult to know how to help
him other than remembering him and his
family in our prayers.” Lew Bowlby:
“Rosemary and I enjoyed an eight-day cruise
on the Danube River this spring, Nuremberg
to Budapest with stops along the route.
Weltenburg Abbey has a spectacular Baroque
church, and the working abbey featured one
of Germany’s oldest brewed beers. Yum.
Budapest features its fabulous riverside
Parliament and churches illuminated at night,
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Left: The five of The Regis ’61/Manhattan’65 Twenty-three who celebrated their 50th Reunion at Manhattan College on Saturday, June 6.
Right: 1964 classmates Bob Shullman, Jim Oliviero, Rich Shanley, and Jim Hoolahan at the 2015 Regis Golf & Tennis Outing.
a thrilling sight. This is the only way to travel
in Europe.” Jerry Kappes thanks the gracious
Class of 1965 for a warm welcome at their
50th reunion, and he looks forward to
greeting Betty Quintavalle on her 99th
birthday August 10.
1953
Thomas Hickey, [email protected]
474 Kossuth Street, Paramus, NJ 07652
Another classmate has left us. Brian Brady
died on Friday, April 24, 2015 at Vassar
Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie
NY. Brian was born in London, England
but was raised in NYC. He had been
an Assistant Facilities Manager for the
Maryknoll Sisters in Ossining, retiring
in 1999. After marrying his childhood
sweetheart, Jean in 1957, Brian had a keen
desire to build his and his wife’s first
and only home in Cold Spring NY. After
completion of the home, Brian developed
a passion for fine woodworking. He also
had an extensive bonsai collection, was an
avid gardener and loved the art of gourmet
cooking. Brian also had an interest in
the sciences and was invited to become
a member of MENSA. In addition to his
wife, survivors include four sons, sixteen
grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
Brian’s daughter, Joann Marie Brady
predeceased him in 1990. Jack Wallace
reports that “while on a retreat for Regis
Freshmen, my grandson, Christopher Frick,
Class of 2018, had the privilege of being an
altar server for our classmate, Msgr. John
Sullivan, who was the celebrant at the Mass
that the freshmen attended.” Joe Junker
writes that two of his short stories were
recently published: A Clean Well-Lighted
Pub in The Galway (Ireland) Review and
Irish Time in the Boston Literary Magazine.
When asked about his Irish connection, Joe
told us that “Holley and I had many friends
in Ireland and spent much of our vacation
time there over the years. I wrote A Clean
Well-Lighted Pub as an homage and farewell
to my son Christopher who had spent a
good deal of time in Ireland both with us
and on his own. Crannog Magazine, also in
Galway, had published Yesterday, perhaps
my homage and farewell to Holley. So
Ireland was my first thought for Christopher.
The Irish seem to understand grief.” Bob
Golden was finally able to enjoy the art, food
and wine of Paris. A highlight of his visit was
attending a performance of Vivaldi’s Quattro
Stagioni at the magnificent Jesuit church
of St Pierre-St Louis, similar in style to our
own St. Ignatius church, built for Cardinal
Richelieu. Because his companion, Rita
is of German Swiss origin and is fluent in
French, they stayed in the historic working
class district of Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Bob
notes that the inhabitants of that district had
long ago stormed the Bastille and in 1870
had ferociously defended the Commune
to the bitter end. He was also delighted
to discover the Chapelle des Auxilliatrices
where in 1534 the Jesuit Order had been
founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola. The
Chappelle is near the well-known Basilique
du Sacré Coeur de Montmarte which, Bob
tells us, was symbolically constructed on the
site where the Communards had secured
their captured cannons. Jim Whelan’s wife
and son surprised him with a belated 80th
birthday party in Mt. Pleasant, SC. Kathy and
Brian Fitzgerald were among the guests
as was a bagpiper who led a march around
the property! Prolific e-book author George
Bouvet recently published his 8th e book,
“Basketball Memories”, on Amazon. Pete
Hamill and Tom Hickey continue their
successful recoveries from remarkably
parallel physical issues. They are determined
that, as the Persian poet wrote, this too shall
pass! N.B.: If there is a change in either your
e-mail or home address, please let us know
and, if possible, update your entry in the Regis
Alumni database at regis.org.
1954
John Conroy, [email protected]
180 Forest Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10804
On June 16th Tom Finnegan wrote (just in
case!), “I’m sure that you remember that
61 years ago today, we graduated from
RHS.” Pre- Vatican II it was the Feast of John
Francis Regis. I just recently spent some
time reading over the responses to the 60th
anniversary questionnaire that Ben Trigani
put together with such style. Virtually every
response speaks of how well prepared we
felt graduating from Regis for whatever
was to come. The other response that was
close to universal was the importance of the
relationships we formed those three score
years ago and how they have impacted our
lives. It is this latter reflection that comes
home to me each time I collate these news
notes. For that reason I am including these
last few e-mails from Tom Tierney, especially
for those of you who do not use e-mail and
would not have had the chance to see them.
For the rest of us they are very much worth
a second read. On April 7th, Tom wrote:”
I can hardly believe all the events of this
prayer group that came together over recent
days and how they impacted this Regian,
for one. Peggy and I returned to Idaho on
March 22 after a long and tortuous journey
that started here but took us to Southern
California, Arizona and three weeks in Florida.
I must have thought that I was 38 when I
planned the trip. Shortly after our arrival, it
was apparent to both of us that something
was seriously wrong with me. We checked
into our local ER and could not believe how
quickly they got me diagnosed and treatment
began. I had a roaring pneumonia so that
within minutes, I was being hydrated and
treated with the latest antibiotics and whisked
to the ICU. A surgeon operated to allow
sufficient drainage to get the accumulation
of liquids dissipated. That worked for a while
but it became obvious that more was needed.
I was air-evacuated to a bigger hospital in
Boise, another surgery performed and the
treatment continued. I spent Holy Week on
my back, thinking about my classmates and
their prayers for me. Believe me, it was close
and I am eternally grateful for all the Regis
’54 outpouring. I was released on Easter
Sunday and we are now at home recovering.
With love, Tom Tierney” He followed this up
on April 8th, “It really makes an impact that,
even after all these years, we can and will help
each other out. Tom” His final e-mail on May
4th, “I am still struggling with pneumonia.
Would appreciate your prayers Thanks. Tom
Tierney.” On May 26th, Dan Daly, Tom’s
cousin from the class of 1957, sent Tom’s
obituary: “Tierney, Thomas J. age 78, of Sun
Valley, ID, passed away on Saturday, May
23, 2015 of congestive heart failure. Thomas
was born on June 17, 1936 in Brooklyn, NY to
James A. and Ella W. Tierney. He graduated
from Regis High School in New York City
(Class of 1954) and from the College of the
Holy Cross in Worcester, MA (Class of 1958).
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1961,
achieving the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade.
On October 3, 1998, Thomas married Peggy
F. Tierney in Sun Valley.He lived in Brooklyn
until 1965. Before settling in Edina, MN in
1970, he lived in Atlanta and in Southfield, MI.
From 1998 until his passing, he lived in Sun
Valley.Thomas worked for thirty-five years in
various roles and divisions of 3M Company,
as a sales and marketing executive, until his
retirement in 1996.He loved fishing on the
Wood River and was an active member of the
Hemingway Chapter of Trout Unlimited. He
also had a passion for golf and loved playing
at The Valley Club and especially with the Ball
Drop Group. Thomas was also a member
of the 200 Club, which took him to play golf
courses around the world. Thomas was a
happy and integral part of the Sun Valley
community. He served as Board Chairman
of Hospice of the Wood River Valley. At Our
Lady of the Snows Catholic Church, he served
on the Pastoral Council and the Finance
Committee. He was also a proud member
of American Legion Post 115 in Ketchum,
ID.Thomas was preceded in death by his
parents James and Ella; his first wife Judith;
and his brother James. He is survived by his
wife Peggy; son Tom (Lisa) Tierney and their
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children Ella and Gavin of Vero Beach, FL;
daughter Christine (Tom) Meyer of Excelsior,
MN; daughter Lyn (Eric) Gustafson and
their children Ben and Charlie of Edina,
MN; son Michael (Rachel) Tierney and their
children Jude and Anne of Minneapolis; step
son Finnegan (Allison) Faldi and their child
Shane of Boulder, CO; and step son Kelleigh
(Daphne) Faldi and their children Charlie,
Owen and Reid of Hamilton, MA” I sent
these to everyone for whom I had an e-mail
address but I include it here as a reminder
for all of us of how important still are those
connections of “noble hearts” we formed so
long ago. There is not room here to include
all of your responses to this sad news. John
Ryan, SJ wrote to let us know that the has
moved Buffalo to the Province Infimary.
His address is Murray-Weigel Hall, 215 E.
Fordham Rd., Bronx NY 10458-5029. On May
26th Joe Sullivan, Ed Wilson and George
Culliney spent a pleasant mid-day reunion
with John at a restaurant on Arthur Ave. They
had great conversation about Regis, John’s
experiences during his 19 years in West Africa,
the Church, etc, etc. On May 12th Phil Trainor
reported that he and Roberta “… were treated
to the almost annual pilgrimage of Peggy and
Traug Lawler to Chapel Hill. They were clearly
suffering from Northeastitis, a combination
of too much snow and too little sun. They
were rewarded with three days of Carolina
blue. We played some not particularly
memorable academic golf (UNC and Duke)
and had a chance to have dinner with Tom
Finnegan. It continues to amaze me how,
in each get together new stories arise. Tom
related the tale of a mother tearing up the
Regis acceptance letter because she wanted
the dear boy to become a priest . OY! Our
plans for a larger gala were thwarted by Cahill
and Tierney being on injured reserve and
President Frank and Burgess overwhelmed
by family. Next year for certain.” Kathy and
Jack Conroy were delighted to welcome
their newest grandchild, Malcolm Youn ChoConroy, the adopted son of Greg Conroy ’96
and his spouse, Ul Cho. May you and your
families enjoy the blessings of summer!
1955
John Morriss, [email protected]
3 Salem Pl., Valhalla, NY 10595
Our 60th Anniversary Reunion will take
place at Regis on September 19, 2015. It
will include tours of the school, mass,
cocktail reception, and dinner. You should
receive a formal invitation in the mail
around June 22, 2015. Be on the lookout,
and mark your calendar. We look forward
to the pleasure of your company. On that
day we will celebrate, along with the Class
of 1950. In May 2015, George Royall was in
San Diego and Los Angeles and attended
his son Steve’s retirement from the US
Navy and visited his son, Matt, Air Force
doctor stationed in Los Angeles. George
also visited his grandchildren. George also
talked up our 60th Reunion with ’55-ers
living in California. Joe Ramos will try to
make our Reunion, coming all the way
from Chile, where he has lived for the past
50+ years. He has many fond memories of
Regis and of his many, closest friends, with
whom he will communicate prior to our
Reunion. Most of us haven’t met with Joe
since graduation (60 short years ago! his
English better than our Spanish!). Rita and
Paul Rosso (CA) plan to attend our Reunion.
Great responses from ’55-ers planning to
Reunion in September! In June 2015, Judy
and John Morriss visited their daughter
and family in London and attended the
high school graduation of their grandson
(James Callaway) from the American School
in London (ASL). Impressive to witness the
infectious camaraderie of Americans living
abroad! In September, James Callaway will
enter Georgetown, following in the footsteps
of his mother (Julienne Morriss Callaway
’87). Two “Hoya Saxa” in one family! Go
Hoyas! In England, the Catholic Church
is alive and well, and its adherents filled
with dedication and ardor. An American
Catholic feels very much at home in their
churches, schools, hospitals, and social
services agencies (“One, holy, catholic,
and apostolic!”). We trained-it through the
English countryside en route to Edinburgh
(great scenery and culture, lively people).
Following the May 7, 2015, national election,
the new British government (Conservative)
will deal with the same problems as the US
government: economic growth, jobs, health
care, immigration, Muslim extremism,
plus EU membership. The country bears
watching! In Autumn 2014, Rochelle and Bill
Brennan did a great cruise on the Danube,
Main, and Rhine Rivers, visiting Prague,
Budapest, Amsterdam, Vienna, Cologne,
etc., with Bill taking excellent photos.
1956
Paul Lennon, [email protected]
17 Pine Ridge Road, Larchmont, NY 10538
Lee and Andre Vernot spent 10 days in
California. Their trip started in San Luis
Obispo where their granddaughter, Alexandra
Burkhardt, graduated from CALPOLY with a
degree in architecture. Andre and Lee went
out for her project presentation and while
there they visited the San Louis Obispo
Mission, the Morro Bay Estuary, the Corallina
Cove at Montana de Ora State Park, the
Botanical Gardens and the Hearst Castle
at San Simeon. Then it was on to Santa
Left: Paul Litka ’67 after his son Andrew’s graduation with a chemical engineering degree
from the University of Utah. Right: George McCann ’67 says his one-year-old granddaughter is
already hitting the books, wearing her Regis shirt, just in case women are admitted in the future.
Barbara and, of course, their first stop was
Mission Santa Barbara, which is referred to
as the Queen of the Missions. Next stop
the Botanical Gardens where the redwoods
were planted 85 years ago and the Maritime
Museum. Next came the Getty Villa and the
Getty Museum where both declared “the
museum itself is the art.” Andre and Lee
caught up with cousins, nephews, nieces
and their aunt who turned 90. Andre says
Lee is learning to cram more into every
vacation day with each new trip she plans.
Bob Goldstein recently attended the 55th
reunion of his Saint Peter’s University
Class of 1960, where he participated in a
very moving ceremony. At a special Mass
commemorating deceased members of
the class, candles were lit and placed on a
table. Bob carried candles in memory of two
of our Regis classmates, Bill Noll and John
Spellman. Bob had done the same at their
50th for Walter Bradshaw. RIP. Bob Imbelli
was honored at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in May
along with eleven other “Golden Jubilarians”
to celebrate 50 years in the priesthood. Bob
has had a variety of interesting missions in
New York and in Boston during his career,
and is currently living at Sacred Heart
in Newton Centre, MA and doing some
lecturing and writing. Bob’s recent book,
“Rekindling the Christic Imagination” was
just given one of the first place awards by
the Association of Catholic Publishers. Jack
Culkin died in December 2013. He leaves
his wife, JoAnn, four children and four
grandchildren. We will certainly miss Jack at
our 60th reunion next year. Rest in Peace.
1957
Packy Lawler, [email protected]
44 Beaver Pond Rd, Lincoln MA 01773
Jim Power reports that a second grandson
will be following in the Jesuit college tradition
by attending Fairfield University next fall. An
older grandchild graduated from Fordham
(Jim’s alma mater) three years ago and is
teaching in the South Bronx. Bill Gillen writes
“Ann and I are working with an agency called
Untours. We have rented an apartment in
Leiden, Netherlands, for one week in July
and a second one for a week in Paris. We’re
staying in France for an additional week,
mainly to celebrate my older grandson’s 18th
birthday in central France at his grandparents’
estate. He’s going to SUNY Binghamton in
the fall.” Dennis Flannery reports on his four
grandchildren: Judy (15) has been cast as Jean
Fordham in Southern California’s Theatricum
Botanicum summer theater production of
August, Osage County. Judy is the youngest
cast member by 10 years. Conall (13) played
the Pirate King in Rosa Parks Elementary
School’s Pirates of Penzance, belting out a
lively “I am a Pirate King”. Caitlin (12) was first
runner-up (fourth overall and highest sixthgrader) in the 2015 Santa Monica/Malibu
Kiwanis Club Middle School Solo Singing
Scholarship Competition and has qualified for
the Junior Olympics in the 50 meter butterfly.
Finally, Cian (11), playing for Dig in Baseball,
the top U11 traveling team in Maryland, is
batting .629 in 35 games with 34 rbis and 42
runs scored. I’m tired just typing this. Joe
Vaira reports the passing of his wife Anita in
his arms the day before Thanksgiving, after 50
years of happiness crowned by that dog-sled
ride in Alaska last July. Our condolences to Joe
and his family. Joe Phelan & Cindy celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary on June 26th
with Mass and a special blessing, followed
by a weekend celebration with children and
grandchildren at their home in Chesterfield,
NH. Joe writes, “God has truly blessed us and
we look forward to many more”.
1958
Michael Napoliello, [email protected]
From Carlos Arnaldo: “I start my second
semester teaching Revolutionary Philippine
History and General Education at the
Enderun Colleges (school of culinary arts),
a mix of thesis writing, presentation and
academic practica. But now the course is
more finely focused on business writing,
business presentation and interviews, in
response to demands of the HRM industry!
Also brought my students to community
service projects for handicapped children,
street kids and typhoon victims. Many
took this as more important than book
learning. Reminiscent of our outreach and
community activities in Regis, I’ve also been
helping Virlanie Foundation in Makati City,
a squirrel den of 14 homes for abandoned
street children and orphans. At Elizabeth
Home there are 20 girls: 12 elementary grade
schoolers and 8 in high school. They start
school on June 1. High school is extremely
important to them, since after 12th level,
they graduate to ‘independent living!’ So
we brought them school bags, notebooks
and ball pens to start them off. For us a
very small investment, for them, a major
start in life. In gratitude, they danced for
us!” From John Friia: “The Suffolk Classical
Society’s (of which I am President) website
(SuffolkClassicalSociety.com) is now fully
functional.” John and his wife Barbara
will be traveling to Venice and Barcelona
in September. George Garces writes: “In
April I saw Daneen, Paul O’Keefe’s wife, in
St. Augustine, Florida. We were there for
the wedding of one of our mutual friend’s
granddaughter. We had a wonderful time
and it was good to see Daneen under these
happier circumstances. She’s doing well
and of course misses Paul. Luckily, she’s
surrounded by her children and grandchildren
who watch over her. As a matter of fact,
she spent the winter months in West Palm
Beach, Florida with her son Rick and his
family. Rick was their first child and my
godson.” In May, Peter Kern and his wife
Carol traveled to Minneapolis to be inducted
into the University of Minnesota Golden
Medallion Society in recognition of the 50th
anniversary of their graduation. They had
received their graduate degrees in 1965
from the University’s College of Science &
Engineering—Carol in astronomy and Peter
in mathematics. In their three-day visit—their
first in five decades—they were accorded
royal treatment. They were given tours of
the campus, attended classes in chemical
engineering, and lunched in private dining
areas. Their trip culminated as they led
the 2015 CSE graduates into the arena for
commencement ceremonies. They don’t plan
to wait another fifty years for their next visit!
Michael Napoliello and girlfriend Judith Wist
just returned from their third consecutive
annual visit to the marvelous Costa Verde of
Spain, this time to Cantabria (Santander).
Michael continues to run his clinical research
consulting business full time, punctuated
by twice-yearly vacations in Europe and
annual visits to New Mexico. He was recently
invited to speak at the 50th anniversary of the
Department of Psychiatry at the University
of New Mexico School of Medicine, where
he had taken his residency and was the first
Chief Resident in the program. Charley Stark
S U M M E R 2015
writes: “I still am in shock at the untimely
passing of one of our singular members of
the Class of ’58: Paul O’Keefe. It seems like
yesterday that we (Carlos, Charlie Hamilton,
Paul and I) celebrated our Senior Prom with
our friends and family at Rockaway Beach
at my Uncle’s home there. Was it really 57
years ago? Seems impossible that time has
passed so quickly. Meanwhile, RoseMarie
and I continue to spend our winters on the
west coast of Florida, and the balance here in
New York or visiting our two children and five
grandkids in New England. All is well here.
Cheers to one and all.....Charley.”
1959
Leo Tymon, [email protected]
6 Greenwood Rd., Mountainside, NJ 07092
From James Bonnell: My son Ted, and his
family, moved to southern Texas: they are
busy saving the good guys (tarantulas) who
eat the bad guys (scorpions). In May, I had
the privilege to go to New Hampshire and
again wear my army uniform to swear my
son into the US Army as a 2Lt; initial duty
station is Ft.Lewis. My graduation present
to him was a trip to the Oktoberfest; I have
been persuaded to go too to guide him
around. Attempts to travel again to Syria
have been again thwarted by the latest
developments there. From Martin Gavin:
Here’s something from the “What are the
chances?” department. I’m teaching a class
at the University of Pittsburgh on computer
security in this Summer trimester. In the
class is Michael Colavita, Regis 1963. It’s an
accidental mini-reunion. And we wouldn’t
have realized it except Mike noticed that I was
carrying one of those Regis Messenger Bags
from the bookstore. From Richard Loeffler:
It’s been quite a Spring: four grandchild
graduations—two high school and two
college—and to top it all off, my youngest,
Chris, became a Dad for the first time on
June 4th, 23 days ahead of schedule. I’m
back working at Monmouth Park Racetrack
for the summer, my 11th year, and, of course,
we are all hoping to see American Pharoah
in the Haskell on Aug. 2nd. From Donal
MacVeigh, S.J.: I am being transferred. As of
August 1, I will be at Saints Mary and Joseph
Parish, 33 Main St. Salem NH 03079-3934. I
will become the assistant pastor there. [Don
has retired from the Saint Peter’s University
position he held as chair of the Computer and
Information Science department. Don joined
the Saint Peter’s faculty in 1987, and while
there also performed parish work on Long
Island.] Lorraine and Michael Shef just got
back from Hawaii where we enjoyed lunch
with Jody and Ed Montell. Marie-France and
Leo Tymon visited San Francisco in early
May to see their newly-born grand-daughter
Josephine, who joins her sister Beatrice. Two
weeks later their dad received his Ph.D. and
will join the UC Santa Cruz faculty in the fall.
1960
Ken Bailie, [email protected]
32 Country Ridge Drive, Rye Brook, NY 10573
Dick Pyatok Weber’s latest book “F TRAIN:
A Brooklyn Crimes Novel” was released by
Random House Alibi on June 23.
1961
Dave Eitelbach, [email protected]
2830 Cascadia Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98144
Jay Chendo visited Regis in late April and
was told that the 55th reunion of our class
will be on Saturday, September 24, 2016. So
put this on your calendars for next year!! Jay
and Dave Eitelbach are planning to release
a second print edition of our class Bios Book
in time for the 55th. Please lobby any of your
friends who have not yet sent Dave a onepage life story to do so now. Nick Zirpolo
has joined the Design for the Future program
in the Stanford School of Engineering as a
mentor to teams of 10th-, 11th- and 12thgrade high school students interested in
engineering careers, who will be learning
the communication, needs-uncovering, and
technical skills to design and build assistive
devices for people with various disabilities.
To his surprise he found that 40% of the
students are female. “So far, they’ve all been
asking excellent questions to understand
a mentor’s point of view for improving
ADL—Activities of Daily Living—needs, like
cooking utensils that give better leverage than
the traditional kinds, such as a serrated-edge
knife with the handle actually oriented like a
wood saw’s. It was striking to see my group
of five mesh over several days and function
as an interactive team, no longer needing
‘herding cats’ steering. My comments on the
team’s development processes brought me
an invitation to join upcoming discussions
at the Institute of Design, which should be
a real delight.” Jim O’Sullivan welcomed
his first grandchild. “Emily Rose O’Sullivan
born to Dori and Jim Jr. (Regis 1990) on May
30. Please note her initials spell a word in
Greek. Do you remember?” Cosmo Salibello
wrote “On May 8th, I visited Nashville, TN
to see my stepson receive his MBA from
Vanderbilt University. He will soon move to
New York, to work in the Manhattan office
of KPMG.” Jay Chendo called a second time
to recommend a book for your summer
reading: The Prizefighter and the Playwright
by Jay R. Tunney. The book tracks the long
relationship between George Bernard Shaw
and the boxer Gene Tunney (Jay Chendo’s
godfather). Reviewers called it a fascinating
story of boxing, fame, friendship, and the
power of faith and art. Greg D’Alessio
attended the 50th Reunion for the Class of
’65 at Manhattan College, along with Ted
Vorburger, Bob Kelly, Dominic Pistone,
and Joseph Wetzel. Together, they provided
the following account along with a picture
of themselves at the festivities. Fifty-four
years ago this coming September, twentythree members of the Regis High School
Class of 1961 began our collegiate careers at
Manhattan College in the Riverdale section
of the Bronx. Four years later in June 1965
we were awarded twenty-three bachelor’s
degree diplomas. Twelve of these were in
engineering. Six more were in science: five in
physics and one in chemistry. Another four
were in history, philosophy, economics and
economics & psychology. One diploma was
in business. The Regis ’61/Manhattan ’65
Twenty-three are: Joseph A. Angelo, Jr., John J.
Berta, John F. Bubel, Charles P. Catalano +,
Kenneth J. Conrade +, Gregory J. D’Alessio,
John A. Dooley +, David L. Eitelbach, William
F. Eng, Daniel J. Eramo, Salvatore A. Fertitta
+, Victor Gonnella, Kevin P. Hughes, Robert
B. Kelly, Jr., William A. Losonsky, Thomas J.
Martin, Jr., Dennis P. O’Connor, James M.
O’Sullivan, Crescens P. Pellecchia, Dominick
Pistone, Theodore V. Vorburger, Stephen
M. Turczyn, and Joseph A. Wetzel. Many of
the eighteen of us who majored in science
and engineering made our college decision
because of the surge in national interest in the
U.S.-U.S.S.R. space race and its implications
for national security. That was half a century
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Members of the class of 1970 gathered for their Rump Reunion on June 13.
ago. Fast forward fifty years (50 revolutions
around the sun or a little more than 29
billion earth orbital miles…it’s not your age,
it’s the mileage!) to the late Spring weekend
of 5-7 June 2015, when five of The Regis ’61/
Manhattan ’65 Twenty-three returned, older
and hopefully wiser, to the Jaspers’ campus
to remember our college days, share with old
classmates where our lives had led over the
past five decades and recall those who have
gone before us. In that regard, we met Rich
Biondi, Manhattan ’65, the cousin of our late
friend and Regis classmate Charlie Catalano.
We spent time speaking of Charlie. Charlie
had earned a Ph.D. in Astronomy, was an
officer in the U.S. Air Force, and taught at the
U.S. Air Force Academy. We also remembered
Charlie as a member of The Jasper Trio, the
popular campus music group back in the
day. This was the 146th Annual Manhattan
College Alumni Reunion Weekend, the first
being held in 1870, 17 years after Manhattan’s
founding in 1853. Among the highlights
of the day at Saturday’s luncheon for the
class of 1965 was a brief but moving talk by
Manhattan College’s most famous alumnus,
our classmate Rudy Giuliani ’65, former
mayor of New York City, Time’s Person of the
Year in 2001, and as far as we know, the only
Jasper ever to be knighted by the Queen of
England. And, of course, we are thankful for
the Jesuits and other teachers at Regis who
prepared us so well for college and for that
long half century that’s now in our rear view
mirrors. We Golden Owls/Golden Jaspers
hope all of you Regis ’61 alumni enjoyed
your 50th College Reunions as much as we
did ours at Manhattan College. I think that
the five of us who attended our 50th college
reunion enjoyed it so much that we are
looking forward with increased anticipation
to the 55th Reunion of the Regis High School
Class of 1961 on Saturday, September 24,
2016, a scant 15 months in the future. See
you next year!
1962
Ron Ferreri, [email protected]
4776 Alberton Court #2702, Naples, FL 34105
1963
John Tweedy, [email protected]
26 Huron Rd., Floral Park, NY 11001
Jack Prael, [email protected], 34-06 81
St.,Apt.#1, Jackson Heights, NY 11372
Bill Riebling retired October 1 after 10 years
at Pennsylvania Power and Light as VP of
Engineering and Construction Management.
He and his wife Lucy will be snowbirds
having bought a home in Welllington near
West Palm beach ,FL for winter usage. Bill
plans to golf 3 days a week. Their son Dan is
a civil engineer and is working for Alstom on
solar power plants for Isreal. Dick Chiarello
reports:I officially retired from active practice
may 31. Was pleased to be able to join Jack
Stack, Luke McCarthy , Bill Brown and John
Tuccillo for 4 days of golf at Hilton Head.
Now to emptying the attic of 39 plus years
of stuff. John Sesody mentions that our
daughter and son-in-law have just returned
from a trip to Rome. Our grandson Matteo
is choosing the wine for the lunch and also
making some suggestions on what’s best
on the menu. Anyway they had a really good
time. I am working on my new journey in
life—progress slow so far. Pat and John
Tweedy took a cruise to Bermuda from
Boston in June. On the very first night at the
evening show, a gentleman and his wife sat
down next to them. On second look, John
was astonished to see that it was none other
than classmate John St. George and his wife
Ellen who were travelling with a group from
Boston College. Both Johns report that it was
a delightful cruise and that they refrained
from reciting dactylic hexameter to their
fellow cruise mates. Pat and Jack Prael spent
eighteen days in Italy in May , mostly on
Tauck’s Classic Italy tour which they strongly
recommend. The best part of the trip was
spending the first three days meeting and
staying with Jack’s family in Santa Lucia
di Serino, near Avelino. The connection
between Italy and the U.S. ended with
the death of Jack’s maternal grandfather,
Agostino Monte, in 1940. A couple of years
ago, Jack received a letter from his cousin ,
Nicola Monte, hoping they were related. Pat,
Jack, daughter Elisabeth and her husband
Jim had a great time meeting about eighteen
cousins and their spouses. They can’t wait to
return to Italy.
1964
Jeff Weinlandt, jeff[email protected]
Back on March 2nd Marty Besant sent me
an email about an article that appeared in
the Canisius College Alumni magazine that
profiled Mary Ellen Rybak, the deceased wife
of Tom Griffin. The Canisius article was sent
to the fifty-five participants on our group
email list but there are other classmates
who are not aware of the write-up. Marty
Besant’s email noted that “Tom’s wife,
Mary Ellen, was an alumnae of Canisius (as
are Ken Service, Danny Pukstas, “Froggy”
(Mike) Carroll and I). This issue of the
Alumni magazine had a nice article on
Mary Ellen and a few comments from Tom
because March is Women’s Month and the
focus is on women in science.” Marty had
cleared with Tom the release of my note to
our email group since nothing is ever shared
about a classmate without his permission.
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The article was titled Women in Medicine:
“For nearly four decades, the late Mary Ellen
Rybak ’71, MD, worked tirelessly to find
targeted, effective treatments for cancer. Her
goal was simple: to help others who needed
a cure. Rybak also steadfastly advocated
for women in medicine. ‘After Mary Ellen’s
passing, I received notes from more than
100 women whom she influenced,’ says
Thomas Griffin, MD, Rybak’s husband of 37
years. ‘When she began her medical career
it wasn’t—and still isn’t—a level playing
field for women.’ He adds, ‘Years ago, we
held identical positions at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School. Mary Ellen’s
salary was half of mine.’… ‘Mary Ellen was
so grateful for her Jesuit education,’ says
Griffin. ‘The professors taught her to think
critically and gave her a solid foundation for
her studies at Harvard Medical School.’…
An estate gift from Rybak’s husband, Tom
Griffin, now makes scholarships available
to young women who study pre-medicine
at Canisius.” On April 2nd, Holy Thursday,
a Last Supper group of thirteen of us
convened in an upper room at the venerable
Brendan’s Bar & Grill on West 35th Street. We
anticipated a group of fourteen but Bernie
Poirier called in sick that day…something
about a dog that ate his homework. Once
Bernie opted out, triskaidekaphobia opted
in and one attendee, Frank Silvestri, warned
the group that “I an NOT participating
in any feet washing.” Well, we skipped
the feet washing but we certainly ordered
enough drinks to have included that ritual.
The dinner saw the return of Rich Shanley
who had been unable to make a few of the
earlier gatherings. Rich explained how the
brutal winter of 2014-2015 had left a snow
cover for the entire winter on their 9-hole
golf course and the ensuing required work
had set back the usual opening date by
many weeks…and we thought the snow
caused the rest of us problems! The Regis
’64 basketball team was well represented
by Chief John Boden, Chuck Joe Cirrito
and Stinky John Steinmuller. The other
eight classmates at Brendan’s were Bob
Shullman, Jeff Weinlandt, Joe Coyne, Ron
Tristal, Rob Haberski, Bob Metz, Kevin
Rodgers and Jim Pielli. Many notes of
regret were sent such as the one from Tim
Chorba writing “Thanks for the invitation
and for tracking down my personal email
address. Unfortunately, on April 2nd I’ll be in
Myrtle Beach for a golf event.” Vince Alline
indicated “If the date had a 0 after the 2, I
would be there. Unfortunately, I’ll still be in
the boondocks on the 2nd. My best to all.
See youse guys in October.” Marty Besant
emailed “Have to post my usual decline
also. Older daughter arriving in DC from
Africa for birth of her second child. Bringing
down car and some furnishings for her six
month stay.” Jim Hoolahan wrote “Sorry
I will miss your dinner. Returning from
Florida on the 4th.” Gene Boggia sent word
from Philadelphia that “Unfortunately, I will
not be able to attend in April, but hope to
rejoin y’all in the future.” Dennis Moulton
has rarely missed a dinner (after all, he is
both retired and lives in Manhattan) so
when no yea or nay from him surfaced, we
reached out to Rob Haberski for insight
and Rob reported that “I saw him last
month and he is doing fine. I believe he
has headed off to London—he was taking
a new flat this time after a number of
years at the same one—somewhere near
Covent Garden I think.” It was pointed out
to the email group on June 3rd that there
was a YouTube video online of Robert De
Niro’s commencement speech to the 2015
graduating class of New York University’s
Tisch School of the Arts. Louis Scheeder,
the Dean at Tisch, introduced De Niro to
those assembled, and Louis looked great in
his robes on the stage. Louis remarked that
“Actually, De Niro was quite nervous about
the Teleprompter malfunctioning so earlier
I had to place his speech on the podium for
him. The Teleprompter (obviously) worked
fine. He looked at me backstage and said,
‘Don’t steal any of my jokes!’ I replied,
‘You’re giving me ideas!’ His manager
looked nervous but Bobby smiled.” After
the YouTube video was forwarded to the
group, Ray Smith emailed back “Admirably
done friend, admirably done. Mr. Marasco
would be proud!” During De Niro’s address
you can clearly see Louis and his facial
expressions as he was sitting directly next
to the podium (“I’m the M.C. every year for
the Tisch Salute!”). Vince Alline, like any
meticulous Regian, read the comments on
YouTube posted by viewers after De Niro’s
speech. Vince forwarded to our group one
viewer’s comment: “You can see that the old
man who introduced De Niro is rethinking
his choice of speakers :).” Old Man? What
does that make all of us?
1965
George Griffith, [email protected]
Below is a recap of the 50th Reunion of the
Class of 1965, which took place the weekend
of June 12, 2015. For our 50th Reunion there
were 128 registrants for Saturday night, 93
registrants for Friday night, 55 registrants for
Saturday’s Interactive Conversations and
over 85 Biographies posted on the Reunion
website. John Woodruff and Mike Ingrisani
collected remembrances of deceased
classmates likewise posted on the Reunion
website. Of 144 members in our year, 20
have passed. Of the remaining members
approximately 75 attended Saturday’s
dinner. At Friday’s cocktail party held in the
Fordham University Lincoln Center Café
Atrium approximately 60 classmates with
spouses and significant others attended.
Jerold Kappes and Sandy and Jack LaBonte
’56 were a welcome addition to our Reunion
Events. Our Reunion Mass was celebrated
by Father Arthur Bender SJ ’67. Our 20
deceased classmates were prayed for at
Mass and their graduation photos were
displayed in the foyer entrance at East 84th
Street, then moved to the foyer outside the
auditorium during dinner. Of all classmates
who registered for Reunion Events, only two
at the last minute couldn’t come. The first
Interactive Conversation was facilitated by
Brendan Reilly, MD and Dick Denecker.
Brendan discussed among other things
medical end of life issues. Brendan has just
published a book called “One Doctor.” Dick
discussed among other things financial
matters relevant to retirement and beyond.
Dick has been in this field for over 30 years.
The second Interactive Conversation was
facilitated by Bob Serow and Father Anthony
D. Andreassi who wrote “Teach Me To Be
Generous,” a history of the first 100 years
of Regis High School. They discussed
the affect Regis has had on us from our
freshman year to the present and into the
future. Father Anthony Andreassi is a History
teacher at Regis. At the end of the second
Interactive Conversation, John Woodruff
read excerpts from a novel he has written
with many allusions to Regis. John has a
special gift and his recitation was very well
received. Andrew Cavanaugh of our class
reported that our goal of a class gift in the
amount of $100,000.00 was exceeded and
presently stands at over $125,000.00. The
cloud in the silver lining is that Regis has
been withdrawing more from the investment
reserve than it earns each year, and we can’t
continue to do that. Those classmates who
could not attend were missed. The date for
Jug Nite this year is yet to be determined
and it is another opportunity for us to get
together as a class.. Jug NIte is free to classes
with 50 years or more passage of time
since graduation. If anybody has any ideas
regarding future events to bring us together,
please forward them to John Felago or Jim
Ross or any other member of the Reunion
Committee. An hour or so into Saturday’s
party there was a pause to acknowledge the
efforts of the Reunion Committee, especially
John Felago who spirited the Reunion effort
since August 2014. Also on the Committee
were Jim Ross, Bob Carlina, Ed O’Brien,
John Woodruff, George Griffith, Mike
Ingrisani, Ron Statile, Peter Nardi and
Andrew Cavanaugh, all of whose combined
efforts made the Reunion a tremendous
success. Dick Merz made a memorable
toast for the past, present and future of our
classmates and Regis. Words of Wisdom—
“Victory has many fathers, defeat is an
orphan.” If you would like to share some hard
earned wisdom with your classmates, please
forward it to me for inclusion in a future RAN.
1966
Bob Mollenhauer, [email protected]
1967
Chris Connell, [email protected]
1977 classmates met in Scottsdale, AZ for a Spring break of Golf and Grapefruit League baseball.
When Bill Armbruster and Kieran Quinn
dial for dollars, they often pick up welcome
news, too. Bill filed this fascinating report on
John Javetski: After earning a bachelor’s in
Electrical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytech
in 1972, John spent his career proving that
a “wire head” could also be a “word head.”
His resume includes staff writing and editing
positions at several business and technology
magazines and newspapers, many published
by McGraw-Hill. John was fortunate to be
in the right place at the right time (the ’80s)
to have chronicled the go-go early years of
Silicon Valley, writing for and about the likes
of Intel and Apple. Then, at 40, John changed
gears by quitting his job, selling his house
and earning a master’s in Linguistics from
San Jose State. He leveraged that degree by
teaching English for a few years in Thailand,
the Philippines, and a country on few bucket
lists—Papua New Guinea. Following a
two-year sabbatical as a beach bum in
Hawaii, in 2000 John made his way back to
New York, where he met the love of his life,
Viena—aka Miss Honduras 1969 [Editor’s
note: true]—through work. They now live in
Manhattan, but plan to retire next year to the
San Francisco Bay Area to be near Viena’s
three-year-old grandson, Max. For the past
five years, John has been a writer/marketer/
engineer for General Tools & Instruments, a
90-year-old importer/developer of consumer
and industrial products such as laser
thermometers, moisture meters, electrical
equipment and borescopes—“cameras on
a stick.” John promised to make the chow
line at Jug Night this year. Kieran caught up
with the redoubtable Robb Wray, who after
working for almost 40 years with Eastern
Mountain Sports in New Hampshire,
retired last year. “He was an IT wiz but
after decades as a self-described computer
nerd, feels he has a book somewhere deep
inside. He has not been back to Regis in
forever but will think hard about coming
back in 2017 for our fiftieth,” KQ relayed.
Joe McShane, S.J., delivered the keynote at
an ecumenical service with leaders of the
Catholic and Orthodox faith at the Cathedral
of Christ the King in Atlanta in late April.
The archdiocesan newspaper quoted Joe as
saying momentum toward church unification
has slowed after 50 years of dialogue, but
the healing of division can be spurred “by
selflessly doing God’s work in our world.
That is where we will come to unity.” Kieran
and Donna and Lindy and Terry Chorba were
on hand. Kieran and Donna just decamped
from Atlanta after 36 years; home now is
Hilton Head Island. Meanwhile, back in
the Big Apple, Michael Connor attended a
Fordham Law School conference on privacy
where Joe delivered opening remarks. “He
told attendees that the topic of privacy `was
clearly important’ because one of his high
school classmates was in attendance. He
then introduced me to the crowd. The Regis
meteor endures,” Mike writes. And this from
quondam globetrotter Peter Landis: “Peter
and Bebe Landis have put down roots in
Asheville, North Carolina after their eightmonth backpacking adventure around the
world. They are quite happy to be settled in.
At least for now.” [Do the kids know their
inheritance is being squandered?] Peter
added a postscript: “Oh—and while talking
to his downstairs neighbor, Marilyn Shames,
Peter learned her brother is Scott Staruch—
president of the Class of 1966.” Our man at
Airbus writes: “Steve Malone retired in July
after 35 years in the aerospace industry, the
last ten as head of finance at Airbus’ U.S.
defense operations. Wife Maureen retired in
June from teaching. Maureen and Steve (43
years married) are relocating from Virginia to
Annapolis, Maryland, where two of their three
grandchildren live. They are looking forward
S U M M E R 2015
to life on the Chesapeake, travel and parttime teaching positions.” Eugene Lugano,
chief of pulmonary diseases and critical care
at Pennsylvania Hospital, is eyeing a 2016
date to switch full-time to oenology. Karen
and Jack Alexander are once again soaking
up the summer sun in Avon, N.J., “where
we hope to run into some classmates,
and preparing for our autumn trip to the
Bordeaux region of France, the Basque region
of Spain, and a few days in Paris.” George
McCann says his one-year-old granddaughter
is already hitting the books, wearing her Regis
shirt, “just in case” women are admitted
in the future. And Paul Litka wrote: “Our
oldest son Andrew (Jim Keaney’s godson)
graduated from the University of Utah and
started a good job in Salt Lake City. Laura
and I are so happy that he and Bernice are
staying in the Valley, and remain in awe at the
amount of talent and hard work that Andrew
put into his chemical engineering degree.”
So, too, were Nancy and Chris Connell proud
at daughter Ellen’s graduation from New
York University School of Law.
1968
James Sherwood, [email protected]
1969
Bart Robbett, [email protected]
After a long hiatus, your class correspondent
is back. My wife’s health continues to
improve and we’re optimistic about the
future. A memorial gathering for Rob
Schmidt took place in Lancaster, PA in
May. Cliff Malmgren, Bob Fagella were
among those planning to attend. News
from John Kearney, “I have been a partner
for the past 10 years with the law firm of
Ballard Spahr LLP, a national firm based in
Philadelphia. As of July 1st, I will take over
as the Managing Partner of the firm’s New
Jersey office. I think it means I get to shut
off the lights on the way out at night. We’ll
see. I was recently recognized in the 2015
edition of Chambers USA: America’s Leading
Lawyers for Business as a top practitioner
in New Jersey in the category of General
Commercial Litigation. No cash award with
the honor, unfortunately. I get to see our
classmate John Gimblette and his wife Kim
more often now that they both have retired
and moved to Central New Jersey. I also
stay in touch with Jim McGuire and Chris
McArthur. Jim is now an adjunct college
professor when not consulting on HR and
labor issues. No word yet whether he is
using the “half sheet” for testing. Chris is a
retired Navy doctor who is on a quest to visit
every museum in the country. Still waiting to
show him around the Mummers Museum
in Philly. Speaking of Philly, Sonny Avallone
now lives in the City of Brotherly Love. We
took in a Knicks-Sixers game this past winter
to see if two teams could lose the same
game. The only losers were the fans who
had to watch.” Joe Sclafani writes from
Africa, “About a year and a half ago I left my
cushy, lucrative position as a faculty member
at New York Methodist Hospital in Park
Slope to join Baylor College of Medicine in
Houston. I accepted the position of Director
for Global Women’s Health in Malawi and
have been living in Lilongwe, Malawi for the
past 14 months. This year marks yet one
more transformational era in my life. I now
treat the sickest people in one of the poorest
countries on earth. I am part of a clinical
team that is comprised of some of the
brightest and most compassionate people
I have ever met. Baylor College of Medicine,
UNC Chapel Hill, the CDC and the
Government of Norway have collaborated
to develop an OB/GYN residency program
in a country with 12 obstetricians to serve 15
million people. The program is now 2 years
old and going strong and is making tangible
progress in improving the health care of
this country. In addition to this teaching
program, Baylor is also collaborating with
a rural hospital one hour out of the capital
in Msundwe, Malawi (you won’t find it on a
map). I serve as the medical director for the
project. The hospital was founded by Child
Legacy International (childlegacy.org) and
is supported by donations. The project was
constructed three years ago, is completely
off the grid, and is surrounded by villages
with a population of 20,000 people. It is
powered completely by renewable energy
(wind and solar) since there is no electrical
power for miles around. In addition to
running an outpatient clinic, we recently
opened an inpatient unit and built two
operating rooms that are also powered by
solar energy. We will be starting a maternity
program in September and expect to deliver
about 1000 babies in the first year. CLI also
has an agriculture and aquaculture program
that provides 80% of its food and creates
jobs for neighboring villagers. Sorry for the
long winded email but I am more excited
about my career now than when I started
practicing medicine 34 years ago.”
1970
Kevin Conboy, [email protected]
Jack Regan, [email protected]
Gentlemen of the Class of 1970, before
the news of the Rump Reunion, a somber
note and request for assistance. Our mate
Tomas Muggs O’Dalaigh lost his son-in-law
suddenly, just a few weeks ago, at the age
of 34. Tom’s daughter Siobhan is a young
widow with four young children, ages 11,
8, 4 and 2, and in addition to the personal
tragedy, the family has some significant
financial needs. First, prayers are requested
for Tom, Siobhan, and children. Second, for
those of you who are able, please consider a
donation of any size through the GoFundMe
website. Here is the link: http://www.
gofundme.com/vmg6r8. Thanks for your
prayers and anything else you can do for this
part of the Regis family. On June 13, 2015
seventeen classmates gathered at the Pig
n Whistle Pub on West 48th Street for the
Class of 1970 Rump Reunion. Many were
unable to attend the 45th Reunion at the
school in March. Five significant others also
attended. Amidst excellent food, drink and
service the joint was jumping from 6:00pm
until about midnight. We had a moment of
commemoration and raised a glass to the
members of the graduating class who are
no longer with us: Dan Chang, Ken Friend,
Ed Girnys, Jim Grasso, Chris Hafstead,
and Bob Ingria. Happy conversations were
raging all night long. We had such a good
time that it took the mob 30 minutes to sit
after a few suggested it was time to eat! The
cast included one who hadn’t been to a Jug
Night or Reunion since, well, graduation on
6/16/70. Bob Gasser took Amtrak up from
DC (he lives in Vienna, VA) and regrettably
was the first to leave to make an 11:00pm
train back to DC and home. Bob is doing
pharmaceutical research after retiring as
a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Air Force following
many years of service as a physician. Bert
Sarmiento is moving to Bayside soon,
still working in the insurance adjustment
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Top left: John Buckheit ’80 with daughter Lauren Frances at her graduation from Bryn Mawr
College. Top right: Matthew Weingast ’06, Greg DiBella ’08, and Stephen Raiola ’08 on the
occasion of their graduation from Georgetown Law School. Bottom: Both Brian Fodera ’93
and Carlos Capellan ’96 recently made appearances on Jeopardy!.
business and getting ready to celebrate his
son’s 40th birthday. Alex Sansone continues
to practice law, doing both plaintiff and
defense work in civil cases, and being his
usual good humored self about the law,
family and life in general. Kevin Bryant’s
professional home, the original Barnes
& Noble at 18th and Fifth (where we all
trekked to get out textbooks 49 years ago!)
is now, sadly, a Banana Republic. Kevin is at
the Rutgers Barnes & Noble store in New
Brunswick four days, the one at Kean one
day a week. Tomas Muggs O’Dalaigh (Tom
Daly, in the language of the Oppressor)
remains the same shy, soft-spoken lad we
all knew at Regis. Tom does mental health
work with veterans. When not gigging with
his Irish band, Tom surrounds himself
with his children and grandchildren. Bruce
Williamson is of counsel with a two-lawyer
firm in Charlottesville, VA doing criminal
defense. He commutes to Chicago to spend
time with his daughters, their significant
others, and grandson. Chuck Radcliffe is an
investment advisor in mid-town. He is a bit
modest describing the little bank he works
for and some of his small clients…like NYU.
Jay Allen, DDS, is still at his profession,
living in Connecticut about equidistant from
Boston and New York and enjoying the
high life in both cities (mainly NYC) several
times a year. Frank DeLeo still runs around
in Brooklyn, literally, and it shows. Frank,
and fellow runner Dan Gonzalez look pretty
much exactly as they did in 1970. They both
affect grey hair in an attempt to look older.
Dr. Mike Fitzgerald still lives in the old
neighborhood in Peter Cooper Village and
practices pediatrics in Queens. Doug Kellner
remains the head of the Board of Elections,
and gets paid to travel the world. Doug’s
law practice has evolved into international
asset recovery, working for clients to enforce
judgments and other claims all over the
world. Tom Osborn is still his seemingly
perpetually smiling self and is still enjoying
the practice of law. Roger Flahive has
worked as the CIO (“I” for investment) for
several colleges and universities and is still
going strong. Ed Marron, on temporary
medical leave from Axa Equitable, has a
second, and new, grand daughter, Anne. Bill
Lee, retired from the Navy, is teaching math
and attending a very impressive number of
baseball games, particularly at AAA parks.
If you need someone to start a nuclear
reactor on an aircraft carrier…blindfolded…
Bill is your man. Jim Harkins moved in June
to Orlando, Florida. No more NYC metro
area winters! Jim works as a marketing
consultant for online presence and takes
on projects that appeal to him. The fruits of
semi-retirement. Please mark your calendars
for the Second Annual Class of ’70 Rump
Reunion: June 11, 2016. Chuck Radcliffe,
who found the perfect spot for this year’s
gathering, will be challenged by finding the
perfect place for a much larger group but it’s
a problem he’s looking forward to tackling.
One last point. Let’s get the class e-mail
list up towards 100% coverage. If you did
NOT receive the e-mails concerning this
year’s Rump Reunion, please send a brief
note with your e-mail address to brwjr37@
hotmail.com), and a copy to your class
representatives, listed above.
1971
Luke Garvey, [email protected]
Roger Rooney, [email protected]
1972
Kevin Farrelly, [email protected]
Jim Burdi’s daughter Marissa graduated
from Loyola University New Orleans, with
a degree in Music Therapy. While pursuing
her internship, she will also be playing
trumpet wherever she can find a gig. Thank
you, Mike Davies, our former Class Rep,
for all your work in keeping the Class of
1972 informed. In addition to heading the
Commercial Litigation Department at the
New York City Housing Authority, Matt
Dineen plays second clarinet in a community
orchestra. Matt’s wife Ro teaches English at
LaGuardia Community College. Daughter
Ali is a musician who performs in New
York. Her songs can be heard and her art
seen on cargocollective.com. Son Jerome
attends George Washington University.
Kevin Farrelly, our new Class Rep, has been
enjoying married life with husband Steve
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Klein since 2010. They met 43 years ago,
shortly before our class graduated from
Regis. Having traveled to five continents, in
June they were finally able to cross Buffalo off
their bucket list. Raymond French has never
attended an alumni event. Jim Geraghty
and new wife Joan live in Boston where they
work hard at staying connected with their six
far flung adult children. Jim spent 20 years
building Genzyme, a biotechnology company,
which made important contributions in
the field of ‘orphan’ diseases. After it was
acquired, he helped start new companies as
a biotech entrepreneur, investor, and director.
“Still married” to Geraldine McDonagh,
Kevin Gil has a Family Medicine and
Geriatric practice in Rockville, Maryland.
Daughter Sinead is studying in India and son
Liam is student President at the local high
school. Bob Gorman, who retired from the
trucking business in 2004, enjoys the Jersey
Shore with wife Cheryl. They have three sons:
Evan, who attends Seton Hall Law, Kyle, who
graduated from The College of New Jersey
and is prepping for the New York CPA exam,
and Tim, who attends Dartmouth College.
Bob, who has been treated for small cell
lung cancer and diabetes, writes “I spend
a lot of time with a battery of doctors (no
Regis boys yet) and can honestly say the
cure is worse than the disease. My time is
limited and that is why Cheryl and I focus on
enjoying what we have. Although, right now
I am doing pretty well and managing my
current chemo treatments with a modicum
of comfort. Things could be a lot worse.”
In the past 10 years, Bob Kelly graduated
from law school, got married, became a
step-father and lost a kidney to cancer.
He is now a Deputy Attorney General in
Trenton, New Jersey. After accepting an early
retirement offer from AT&T in March, John
Klincewicz plans on teaching a course on
Probability to first-year Master’s students
in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers
University in Piscataway, New Jersey. Recently
retired from his position as an industrial
psychologist at Ford Motor Company,
Bob Lorenzo plans to work part-time as a
freelance consultant while also pursuing his
musical interests (“I’ve played drums since
my grade school days”). He and wife Laura
will continue to reside in Novi, Michigan.
Mike Molyneux and wife Lisa Matthew have
settled into the Boston area, where both
work for nonprofits, Mike for The Charity
Guild and Lisa for Health Imperatives. Their
son, Thomas, graduated from Oberlin this
year. Kevin Murray retired in November
from the United States Navy at a ceremony
in Texas attended by over 150 shipmates,
friends, and family. He served for 27 years
and retired as a Master Chief, the Navy’s
highest enlisted rank. During his career he
served four years at sea and twelve years with
the Seabees, including tours in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Saudi Arabia. His awards include
the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the
Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy
and Marine Corps Achievement Medals,
and the Afghan and Iraqi Campaign Medals.
Kevin previously retired from the Texas public
schools to devote more time to the Navy
Reserve. Jim Provenzale is back working
full-time in the Department of Radiology at
Duke University Medical Center after dividing
his time between Duke and Emory University
School of Medicine for the past seven
years. He, wife Dawn, a gastroenterologist,
and their two daughters live in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina. Jim received the excellence
in teaching award for the Duke Radiology
department in May and spoke at the
European Leukodystrophies Association
meeting in Paris in June. In September, Doug
Redosh will retire after 34 years in medicine
and 24 years in Neurology. He and wife
Rhonda Teitelbaum plan to travel including
international volunteer opportunities. They
have two daughters, Emily and Lauren. Doug
is halfway through climbing all 54 peaks in
Colorado over 14,000 feet. Margaretanne
and Richard Reina attended Kevin Murray’s
retirement ceremony in Texas last year and,
in May, Kevin traveled to New Jersey for his
great-niece’s birthday party. Margaretanne,
Kevin’s sister, and Richard are the proud
grandparents of the birthday girl. Luc Sante
lives in Kingston, New York, with partner
Mimi Lipson and teenage son Raphael.
Since 1999 he has been Visiting Professor of
Writing and the History of Photography at
Bard College. (Luc explains: “That’s a long
visit, you will say, but it’s just Bard’s way
of indicating that I lack a PhD—or, indeed,
any sort of academic degree; I’m a born
dropout.”) His latest book, The Other Paris,
which concerns the working and criminal
classes of that city in the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, will be published in
October. Since retiring from the foreign
service in 2010, Andy Schilling and wife Tracy
have lived in Omaha. They have two sons—
Tony, a graduate of Creighton University; and
Andrew “Jamey,” currently a sophomore at
Marquette. Andy writes that he ”reinvented
myself in banking” and works on compliance
issues at First National Bank of Omaha.
John Schipisch has sold his drugstore and is
semi-retired. Bo Twerdowsky reports: “After
graduating from West Point I served five
years in the Army, then toiled in logistics for
over 20 years before settling into real estate
in the Princeton area. My older daughter,
Tanya, is married and resides in Birmingham,
Alabama, while my younger one, Natalie,
Crystol and Brian Devaney ’97 celebrated their daughter’s baptism (Meghan Frances) in the
Regis Chapel with Fr. Philip Judge ’80.
lives in nearby East Windsor. My wife
Chrystyna and two pups keep me in line on
the home front.”
1973
Robert Billings, [email protected]
Let’s lead off this session with Ol’ Reliable,
Vin Maher. Vinnie will be in Lisbon to
give two papers at a Global Business and
Technology Conference. Also headed across
the pond is Gene Ferraro. Since he can’t
knock a Ranger Stanley Cup off his bucket
list, he will instead be in Scotland for The
Open at St. Andrew’s. (They don’t call it
the “British Open.”) I’ll keep an eye on
our beloved Blueshirts while you are gone,
Geno! Hector Boscarino is still recovering
from wife Liz’s birthday celebration, but will
head to Atlantic Beach, NC in August for
the annual gathering of the Boscarinii. Sorry,
my Latin’s rusty. A rare John Vella report!
Great to hear from you, John, who is retired
from federal law enforcement and works a
“retirement job.” That’s a quote. He hooks
up with Alan Sclafani a couple of time a
year and has spoken to Tony Sollecito, Mike
Giattino and Brendan Cuneen on occasion.
John is in the book so when passing through
Philly, give him a call. Jim Montagnino, a
closet thespian, will take it outdoors this
August as Little John in a comic adaptation
of “Robin Hood,” to be performed at the
Ten Broeck Mansion in Albany. And yes,
good tickets are still available. Back to sports
news: Hizzoner John Collins was at Belmont
for American Pharaoh’s Triple Crown win.
JC was joined by his son, John, a guidance
counselor at St. Anthony’s in Huntington. It
was Junior’s first trip to the track so he had
to ask Dad what all the noise was about!
For the most recent outing to CitiField, the
’73 flag was carried by Bob Emmons, Don
Girone, Vin Ferriola, Gene Ferraro (does
this guy work?) Rich Sloper and Brian
Donahue. Thanks go to Lefty for organizing
things and seeing that everyone got into and
out of McFadden’s safely. Your loyal reporter
bailed at the last minute due to work. But I
am proud to announce that one of my eighth
graders, Memphis Peralta, was accepted as
a member of the Class of 2019. I know what
you’re asking and the answer is I don’t know.
Maybe his mother was an Elvis fan!
also in frequent contact with Marty Doyle,
Carl Popolo (at Cornell reunions and, lately,
the Regis State Championship basketball
game) and Ray Girnys (alive and well in
Mississippi—can you picture the good
Doctor with a combo Southern/Brooklyn
accent?). Look us up in Freehold if you’re
ever in the area.” Anthony Ceritelli writes:the
Ceritelli Clan grew this year. We had our first
granddaughter (Ava Wooten) in October
and our first grandson (Nicholas Kapcar) in
November. Some things don’t change—and
I haven’t! Still selling packaging all over the
place based out of Columbus, OH. Also loud
as ever. Joseph Ochoa writes: Well I have
been riding a motorcycle for 40 years without
a scratch. On April 18, 7 hours before I was
supposed to be at Jimmy Buffet Concert I
fell off a ladder and broke my ankle, all three
bones (I’m sure there are enough physicians
in the group to know what that is called)
Had surgery for a plate and 22 screws. I
missed the concert and missed my daughter
Cassie’s graduation from Sacred Heart in
Stamford (Master in Film and Television)
in May. Thank god for webcasts. Should
be walking in a few more weeks. Scratch
cripple myself with a ladder from my bucket
list. Peter Rivera writes: I am teaching at
Bloomsburg University’s College of Business
in Pennsylvania while working on a doctorate
in finance at Pace in NYC. All while the family
lives 100 miles north of NYC in Dutchess
County: I do a lot of driving. My twins,
Alexander and Rebecca just finished eighth
grade and have a host of planned summer
activities before, egads, entering high school
in the fall! John Hall writes: still playing
hardball with over 48 league (SS/relief
Pitcher)—most of our class will be turning
60 within the year—how did we ever get this
old. Just celebrated 33 wedding anniversary.
Special woman to put up with me for that
many years. John Canavan is enjoying his
new responsibility as class correspondent.
It is great to hear from everyone and if you
haven’t replied to any of the earlier requests
please consider doing so in the future.
1975
Steve Tranchina, [email protected]
Michael Del Rosso, [email protected]
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1974
Jon Powers, [email protected]
John Canavan, [email protected]
Hugh Finnegan’s son Danny graduated
with the class of 2015 from Fordham
University. Since both Peggy and Hugh were
Fordham graduates, they happily escorted
him at the receiving of diplomas. Danny
will be working in Portland, OR for the next
year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Hugh
adds more to this issue of Prowlings as his
oldest son Phil is due to get married this
July. Jon Powers’ oldest daughter Tara gets
married in October. She and her fiancé met
at Villanova and the mass will be in their
beautiful church. His youngest, Kaitlyn (now
a Fordham sophomore) just completed a
week long Global Outreach service stint
helping 7-12 year old children in a catholic
camp in Mississippi, and loved working with
the children from various walks of life. Luke
O’Keefe moved over to First Reserve as an
Asset Manager overseeing due diligence,
contract structure and execution around
energy investments worldwide. Luke will be
attending both Hugh and Jon’s children’s
weddings, and Hugh and Jon promise to
provide photos of Luke’s superior dancing
skills. Enjoy the summer all...
Lou Di Napoli writes: “Anne and I are
coming up on our 34th anniversary soon,
and we’re in our 20th year in our home in
Freehold, NJ. I completed 30 years in Human
Resources at Verizon last November, but I’m
not ready to retire yet... Our oldest son, Tom,
earned his degree in Physics from Dartmouth
College in 2010 (yes, it’s probably been that
long since I’ve provided a “dropping”!); he’s
been working as an Engineer at the Procure
Proton Therapy center in Somerset, NJ for
about five years now, shooting killer protons
at cancer cells. Jim, our younger son, is
graduating from Cornell with a degree in
Mechanical Engineering in a few months.
He’s not sure what he’ll be doing yet, but
wants to find something in the Aerospace
field (career advice always welcome). Anne’s
twin brothers are Frank and Bob Kelly ’72,
and John Johnston ’72 is literally my next
door neighbor, so Regis is always topic of
conversation with those guys. Anne and I got
to visit the Dudars at their home in Palatine,
IL last summer—twice!—and had a great
time sightseeing with them in Chicago. I’m
S U M M E R 2015
1977
James Shanahan, [email protected]
Chris Duchene, Dennis Miller, Joe Arigo
and Chris Hetherington, recently reunited
at Vincent’s in Little Italy. Dennis and Chris
went to San Diego for opening night of
the Rolling Stones North American Tour.
After the attacks on 9-11, and after 19 years
with the NYPD, Chris Heatherington
was detailed to the Office of Emergency
Management where he was appointed to
the position of Homeland Security Liaison.
He attended the Naval Postgraduate School
Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
After retiring from the NYPD, Chris was
appointed the Chief of Staff at the NYC
Police Pension Fund, concentrating on
building resiliency for business continuity
and disaster recovery. In June of 2006
he went to Citigroup as the Global Crisis
Management Officer in the Office of
Business Continuity. Since March of 2008
he has been managing business continuity
at Weil Gotshal & Manges. Chris’s daughter
is a 4th year resident at NYU Langone in
emergency medicine and his son runs a
car repair shop concentrating on computer
modules. Bob Decandido has been living in
Nepal doing bird migration research since
1999. In November and December he does
his research on a ridge near the start of
the Annapurna Base Camp trail and from
August to late October, he is in Thailand on
the southeast coast doing bird migration
research near the city of Chumphon at
a site called Khao Dinsor (Pencil Hill), a
remote area with sporadic electricity and
internet. Bob has been doing this since
2003.He works mostly with birds of prey,
(raptors). He spends the rest of the year in
New York with longtime girlfriend Deborah
Allen. Jim Fields, Mike Dowd, Marty
Dowd, Tom Leonard, John Canning, James
Shanahan, Doug Sgarro, Tim Knierim and
Joe Mcaleer met in Scottsdale Arizona for a
Spring break of Golf and Grapefruit League
baseball. Highlight of the trip was visiting
with Breeda and Doug Sgarro who have
retired to Carefree Arizona. Mike Bellissimo
was at the Regis Gala. Mike is the Senior
Vice President for Service Operations for
Humana in Louisville Kentucky. His wife
Barbara is Executive Director for the Fund
for Transforming Education in Kentucky.
His daughter Elisabeth is enrolled at Penn’s
Graduate School of Nursing.
1978
Bernie Kilkelly, [email protected]
1979
Rich Weber, [email protected]
1980
William Passannante,
[email protected]
On Saturday June 20th the Class of 1980
celebrated its 35th Reunion with festivities
at Regis. The event also happened to be
one of Phil Judge SJ’s final official events as
President of Regis. Good food, conversation
and conviviality were enjoyed by all. Forty two
guests were present, including: Marty Barry,
Jean-Luc Briguet, James Buggy, Patricia
Cassidy, Kyran Cassidy, Vincent Catapano,
Brian Coll, James DeGraw, Giuseppe
Del Priore, Menjean Del Priore, Lorraine
DeMaio, Andrew DeMaio, Mark Garbowski,
Helen Garbowski, Arunas Gudaitis, John
Hayden, Philip Judge, Denis Keane, Laurie
Keane, Bill Kirwan, Alex LaBianca, Maureen
LaBianca, Hubert Lem, Jonathan Lucas,
Richard Macksoud, Patrick Mahoney,
Patrick McGreal, John McNicholas, David
Mollon, Mark Moss, James Nobile, John
Parr, Bill Passannante, Judith Passannante,
John Schorn, Kevin Schweers, Susan
Schweers, Robert Snow, Paul Squire,
Jeremiah Sullivan, Judy Sullivan and
Michael Waters. Pat Muldowney’s daughter,
Shannon, graduated in May from Cedarville
University in Ohio with a bachelor’s degree in
Criminal Justice. Shannon currently is looking
for an entry-level position as an intelligence
analyst (note to potential employers: she
has interned in this area and already has
obtained security clearance). Paul Kelly
started last Fall as an EVP and General
Counsel at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Bob
Morahan’s son Bobby Morahan has moved
back to his shore house in Ortley Beach, N.
J.. After travelling extensively since graduating
Rutgers, Bobby moved back from S.C. to care
for his ailing mother, making it just in time
for Sandy. The house and some of Bob’s
guitars were flooded, but otherwise OK. On
May 16, 2015, John Buckheit’s daughter,
Lauren Frances Buckheit, graduated cum
laude from Bryn Mawr College. Frank A.
Whelan also attended the graduation
ceremonies. Manny Ribot’s son Evan
graduated from Harvard last year and has
been in the work force off the family payroll
for a year! Son David finished his second year
at Yale. Lisa Ribot is busy defending doctors
with about six trials in the second half of 2015
in medical malpractice cases. Manny is still
doing his “insurance stuff”! Bill Passannante
and Judith’s daughter Grace is a rising senior
at Sacred Heart in Greenwich, student body
president and captain of her basketball team,
son Luke ’14 finished his first year at Williams
College, and son William ’10 is pleased to
be chasing wrongdoers as a legal assistant
in the US Attorney’s office. Mark Moss
couldn’t seem to see enough of Phil Judge
before Phil left Regis at the end of June. After
photographing graduation, Mark ran into
Phil again twice the following weekend at
Jesuit ordination events, at the 1980 class
reunion, and again as Phil Christened his
new nephew, William, son of Ray Moss ’84.
1981
Mike Morriss,
[email protected]
Chris Varrone is in the rapidly growing
renewable energy field. “I founded my own
company in 2010,” Chris told me, “when
our family came back from Denmark.
It’s called Riverview Consulting, Inc., and
focuses on technology commercialization
in wind, solar, energy storage, biomass,
biogas, hydrokinetic (all forms of clean
energy generation), and microgrids, small
grids that can operate independently of the
national or regional electrical grid that is
typically run by a monopoly power company.
I advise impact investors, those who want
to do more than just get a financial return.
At the present time, many institutions and
endowments are divesting from extractive
industries such as Oil & Gas, Coal, and
Mining, businesses that have significant
negative externalities that harm humans,
animals and the biosphere. I help such
investors find environmentally sound
investments that yield superior returns while
helping to replenish the earth. I am working
with a 5th generation Rockefeller family
member at the moment, and have worked
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Grandfather of the groom Maurice Murphy ’48, Gabe Diaz ’02, Owen Reidy ’99, Jack Prael ’63,
Ted Stenger ’02, Eric Tseng ’02, Nick Punzalan ’02, and best man Quentin Stenger ’06 at Ted’s
wedding on December 13 to Elizabeth Holtz.
with other leading families such as the
Pritzker Family.” Chris and his wife, Kirsten,
recently moved to Philadelphia. “We love it!”
Chris commented. “We are trailing parents,
following our daughter Elise’s acceptance to
a pre-professional ballet program at the Rock
School for Dance Education. Elise is 13, and
we did not want her to board, so we moved.
The older two were in college, and that made
us more flexible. Philly is now being called
the sixth borough, due to the number of New
Yorkers moving in.” Chris and Kirsten have
three children. “Emilia (21) is a neuroscience
major,” Chris explained, “on the pre-medical
track at Oberlin College. We expect her to
graduate in 2016. Espen (19) is studying
business and hospitality at Boston University.
Elise will be 14 in June, and will spend five
weeks at the Miami City Ballet this summer.”
Chris said “Regis was the first place where I
found like-minded peers who could challenge
me, and among whom I felt at home. My
values were matured and cemented at Regis,
and most of the views I hold today—moral,
political and otherwise—can be traced to Fr.
Beirne, Fr. Duffy, and the other teachers I had
the privilege of knowing and learning from.
Mr. Sikso (in addition to putting up with me
on stage in Anything Goes) woke me up to
higher mathematics, a field I still use every
day in my work in technology. Mr. Connelly’s
class in Political Philosophy rivaled anything
I encountered at Williams or Harvard—and
I studied with John Rawls! But probably the
most unforgettable day was in freshman year,
encountering Fr. Ed Lavin for the first time.
A more penetrating, and indeed petrifying,
lecture one can hardly imagine…”
1982
John McGuiness, [email protected]
1983
Joe Accetta, [email protected]
1984
Michael Horowitz, [email protected]
Ray McGoldrick, [email protected]
It seems the next generation will be well
represented at one of our fine Jesuit
institutions of higher learning... at the
Georgetown weekend for accepted students
in April, Mike Nemecek ran into Dr. Ray
McGoldrick and his daughter Aisling, who
will be heading to Georgetown University
this Fall. Mike also bumped into Katie and
Kieran Fallon; their son Aidan is similarly
GU-bound. And in keeping with the
Georgetown theme, Manny Grillo’s son,
Matthew, is also on his way to the Hilltop
(Mathew’s brother Chris recently completed
his sophomore year at Georgetown). Finally,
lest you think that Mike was just hanging out
in DC checking out the incoming freshman
class, his daughter Amanda will also be a
Hoya this fall. In non Georgetown news...
Bill Dunn submits the following: “my wife
and I recently visited England, where we
traveled throughout Yorkshire and finished
up in London. Since one of my dreams was
to see Eric Clapton in the Royal Albert Hall,
we went to see his opening night there on
May 14th. We had seen him at the Garden
two weeks before, which was part of his
70th birthday celebration. The highlight of
the show was seeing him do ‘Let It Rain’,
which I hadn’t heard him do live since I saw
him with Mike Horowitz in Providence in
1985. I can’t believe that was thirty years
ago! Clapton swears he’s retiring after the
RAH shows, but I hope not.” Gus Bottazzi
says he is happy to report his business is
expanding into NYC and “if anyone wants
to hook up, I teach self-defense classes
Thursday night’s from 6-7:30PM at 250 East
49th Street.” For more info on Gus and his
business check out http://israelikravct.com/.
Kieran O’Connor writes, “my oldest, Emily,
heads off to Skidmore in Saratoga Springs,
NY in the fall; next up is our son, Matthew.
My daughter, Nancy, 13, continues voice
actor work and recorded parts of a book for
Random House in May. Finally, in August
it’ll be 25 years of marriage for Inge and me.
Hard to believe someone would stay with
me that long.” And finally, please keep Steve
Herd and his family in your prayers, as his
mom recently passed away.
1985
Thomas Flood, thomasfl[email protected]
Class of ’85 had a solid showing at our
30th reunion—in attendance were David
Barbrack, Ed Boyle, Tom Burke, Tony
Calenda, Brian Kavanagh, Pat Kelly, John
Kelsh, Jim Krebs, Kevin McCarthy, Paul
McGreal, Rick Murtha, Rocco Papandrea,
Henry Ricardo, Ken Rosenquest, Ray
Russo, John Schiavone, Bisham Singh,
James Sullivan, Dan Twohig, Patrick J.
Walsh, Kevin White, yours truly and some
of our classmates brought their significant
others—it was a great group for a great
occasion. The 30th Reunion offered another
reason to celebrate, Rick Murtha was sharing
news of his engagement and introducing us
all to his fiancé Jacky. Welcome to the Regis
family Jacky. Those who could not make the
30th—you were missed. We will try to pull
our class together for another gathering soon.
News on classmates that was shared at the
reunion and outside of the event included:
Tony Calenda is now working for Geller &
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Company—a firm that specializes in ultrahigh net worth wealth management and
outsourced CFO services. Paul McGreal will
serve as Dean of Creighton University’s Law
School. Paul is vacating his position with
the Marianists at Dayton and coming home
to the Jesuits. Paul we wish you luck in your
education and fundraising endeavors—a
Dean’s job is never done. Rocco Papandrea
gave the Commencement address to the
Class of 2015 at Cathedral Preparatory
Seminary and High School in front of a full
crowd including the Bishop of Brooklyn,
the Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio and
Rector of Cathedral Prep, Fr. Joseph Fonti.
From what I heard, he made the Regis Class
of 1985 proud. Rocco also serves on the
Board of Trustees. Phil Penn officially starts
is role as new Business Manager for the
Plymouth School District on July1st. Congrats
Phil. I had the privilege of being at a Catholic
Charities of Brooklyn and Queens event not
too long ago with emcee and classmate Ken
Rosato. Kudos to Ken for growing awareness
of all the good Charities does and for helping
CCBQ help others. You were amazing Ken—
keep up your good works! Ken unfortunately
could not make the 30th due to the death of
one his friends (prayers are with you and your
friend’s family) but shared the following story,
“I can remember one time in Father Egan’s
physics class. The poor man had just come
in from smoking one too many cigarettes, his
lab coat stinking of smoke, coughing all the
way into the physics lab from the hallway. As
we were taking our seats, Father Egan started
a coughing fit that was so severe, he literally
passed out and fell to the floor behind the
stage at the front of the room. With that, the
room turned dead silent and I believe it was
Ken Rosenquest (I can’t swear by that) who
jumped up and screamed, ‘HE’S DEAD!’
After a few seconds, Father Egan started to
cough again, and, red-faced, climbed to his
feet, asked everyone to open their textbooks
to a specific page and began teaching as if
the episode had never happened!” The Jesuit
resiliency and commitment to education
was center stage. Thank you Fr. Egan! Tom
Burke and his good work for CYO of the
Archdiocese of NY was another occasion for
some 85ers to gather as a group, support
a good cause and a good friend. Joining
Tom were Ed Boyle, Brian Kavanagh, Kevin
McCarthy, Henry Ricardo, Ray Russo, James
Sullivan, Patrick J. Walsh and me. Chris
Mullin was among the honorees and made
his way over to say hello to the group and
added “oh you guys are the smart ones in the
crowd.” Then he made a comment about our
skills on the hardwood which we conveniently
ignored—selective hearing is a gift. I close
with this note of thanks to each member
of our class and Regis—the last thirty plus
years has been a true gift. The education, the
memories, the stories that grow with time
and the treasured friendships that will last a
lifetime—all meaningful gifts. It is what Regis
is and will always be for us and those that
follow. “We are your sons fair Regis, Our Spirit
is from you.”
1986
Bob Sciarrone, [email protected]
Allan Powe, [email protected]
After 10+ years in sunny California and
working for Charles Schwab in the SF Bay
Area, Rodney Prezeau and his family moved
to York, England, closer to his wife’s family
in Manchester. They decided to move back
when he got an offer from Aviva, the largest
insurance company in the UK, to build an
online brokerage business (à la Schwab).
Rodney is excited to be working at a startup
in a familiar field with big company backing.
The whole family is looking forward to this
great adventure, and he is happy to link
up with any Regians traveling through the
area. After 7 years in production, Vincent
Macaluso’s new book Multiple Sclerosis
From Both Sides of the Desk: Two Views
of MS Through One Set of Eyes is finally
out! Leveraging his 28 years of personal
experience with and clinical research on MS,
he uses poetry, fictional and non-fictional
pieces to teach about having the disease.
He believes it is a chance to help people
whose lives are affected by MS. The book
contains some very funny segments, like
the story about Vincent jogging with Jim
Gaffigan strapped to his arm, and a good
romance story. The book is available online
at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and iUniverse
and will be stocked in Barnes & Noble
stores. Kevin McCoy is celebrating the fifth
anniversary of his law firm, Kelly McCoy,
PLC, being open for business this month in
Phoenix, Arizona. His firm represents clients
in bankruptcy, family law, employment law,
and commercial litigation matters.
1987
Dave Curley, [email protected]
1988
John Middleton, [email protected]
1989
Lolan Adan, [email protected]
R.J. Hinners was recently named to the
Development Committee at his alma
mater, St. Francis College, where he has
been reunited with Thomas Flood ’85 who
serves as Vice President for Development.
R.J. has worked at Blackrock since 2007
([email protected]). Tony Lim
continues to develop online resources and
sign relevant monographs in constitutional
law at Oxford University Press (Tony.Lim@
oup.com). Tony writes, “Of recent note
are the launches of Oxford Constitutions
of the World and US Constitutional Law
resources and the publication of Jeffrey
L. Kirchmeier’s Imprisoned by the Past:
Warren McCleskey and the American
Death Penalty.” Tony is currently working
on the update to 2012’s Constitutionalism
in Islamic Countries: From Upheaval to
Continuity. Tony lives in Bergen County with
wife Simone and home-schooled Isabelle (7)
and Ethan (4). Matt Dowd has joined the
DC office of Andrews Kurth as a partner in
the firm’s litigation and appellate practice.
“It’s an excellent opportunity, and I’m
excited to join this energetic group. I will
continue my focus on intellectual property
litigation and procurement,” reports Matt
([email protected]).
Roger Rigaud is finishing up his Turkish
language training in DC, and his family is
expecting to leave for Istanbul on August
1st for the next three years. “Looking
forward to getting our stuff out of storage
and setting up our home in the Istinye
district of the city. Hope to see you there,”
Roger writes ([email protected]). Matt
McGowan and his family—Katie, Lucy, &
Nell—are spending the summer in Rome;
Matt is teaching Latin and studying Greek
([email protected]). Matt recently
entertained Edmund O’Brien, his wife Dana,
and their two kids (Spencer and Amy) in
Rome before hosting Patrick Burns ’94,
his wife Kristin and their two kids (Juliette
and Xavier). Among the highlights of their
fantastic summer in Rome was having
lunch with Fr. Dean Bechard, Latin & Greek
Teacher at Regis (1985-88) at the Pontificio
Instituto Biblico, where Fr. Bechard has been
teaching since 2004. Finally, may the Lord
our God grant eternal peace upon Lisa Marie
Graf, wife of our brother, Andy, and mother
to Andrew (14), Ryan (12) and Michael (8).
Lisa entered into eternal rest at the age of 43
on April 28, 2015 after a courageous battle
with cancer. The Graf family is accepting
donations to the Graf Children’s Education
Fund, c/o Lisa Castellano (124 Cathedral
Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932). May
the Holy Spirit continue to dwell in an
even more fiery way in the hearts of Andy
([email protected]) and his boys.
1993
1990
Stephen McGrath, [email protected]
John Zadrozny, [email protected]
James Donohue, [email protected]
Joseph Sciabica, [email protected]
1996
The Class of 1990’s 25th Reunion on April
25th was an extreme success. The turnout
was phenomenal. It was a particular
pleasure to see some classmates who have
not been able to make events in recent years.
Congrats and thanks to all in attendance.
To those who could not make it, you were
missed. In other news, Sergio Sortino was
recently married. Sergio married Charlene
Fabbiano on May 24th on Hutchinson
Island, FL. Eddie Gamarra & Chris Ocampo
served as best men. On more casual fronts,
Jim Donohue enjoyed bumping into Marvin
Scott at the Central Park Boat House. They
both agreed that a few cocktails in the sun
beats laps around the reservoir. Lastly, Fred
Baptiste’s face was making the rounds on
Facebook for his service as a “plus one”
on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” Fred
credited his clutch performance on all
matters related to dinosaur extinction and
rickets to Mr. Weiman.
1991
Nolan Shanahan, [email protected]
Peter Gallagher and his wife, Juliana, just
welcomed a baby girl, Isabela. Her 3-year
old brothers, Thomas and Daniel, have
been great helpers, and are as excited
as their parents. In other life news, after
about 5 years in Sao Paulo, Peter moved
back to New Jersey in 2013 and the family
is now settled in Chatham. He welcomes
reconnecting with any Regians in the area
([email protected]).
1992
Mike McCarthy, [email protected]
Dan Chen and his wife Su celebrated the
birth of their son, Luke Sebastian Chen
on May 11, 2015. Luke was welcomed by
brothers Isaac (7) and Nate (5), and sister
Juniper (2). Adding to the excitement,
the Chens relocated from a wonderful
neighborhood in Millburn NJ to New
Providence NJ, just a few miles further
west. Dan continues in his work at MetLife
Investments and Su as a doctor at St
Barnabas Medical Center.
Brendan Loonan, [email protected]
Dan Roche, [email protected]
1994
Matt Guiney, [email protected]
Bill Foley, [email protected]
Phil Allen checked in to report two growing
boys, a bike fall leading to a scraped up left
shin, a new cat named Boots, and a book
recommendation for all the parents out
there: “Mr. Wuffles!” by David Wiesner.
Mike Puma checked in, letting us know
he made a contribution to the Annual
Fund all the way from Korea, where he was
visiting family. (But it shouldn’t take a NASA
scientist to remind us all that we can make
contributions to the Annual Fund from
anywhere in the world!).
1995
Mike Boyle, [email protected]
Brian Lennon, [email protected]
1997
Erik Netcher, [email protected]
Mike LaValle’s startup Gojee was recently
acquired by XO Group, and he is now
working at American Capital Management,
his family’s investment firm. Crystol and
Brian Devaney joyfully welcomed Meghan
Frances Harber Devaney to their family on
March 13, 2015, joining big sister Juliet and
doggy Oliver at home, everyone is doing
great. In April, Meghan was baptized in the
Regis Chapel by Fr. Philip Judge ’80 where
also in attendance were Jim Hein ’96 and
Tom Hein ’99. Andrew Snow is happy to
announce from up north that he got married
last fall! After traveling from Moscow to
Beijing by train in May 2014, he proposed
to Katryna Swartwout on the Great Wall of
China. They were married by a family friend
in the small parish church of Sant’Anna in
the Vatican City on November 22nd with
a small group of family and friends. They
enjoyed their honeymoon in Italy before
returning home to Richmond, Vermont.
1998
John Morris, [email protected]
1999
Tom Hein, [email protected]
Brian Hughes, [email protected]
The class of ’99 was deeply saddened to
learn of the passing of Dan Tana on June
2nd from complications of diabetes and
heart disease. After Regis, Dan earned his
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in MA.
He worked as an independent contractor
and author. Dan was a deep thinker who
loved to sing and he delighted in making
people laugh. He will be missed. Andres
Jauregui got engaged to his girlfriend of
five years, Katharine Reutershan. Karl Lugo
and Neha Sheth are preparing a September
5th wedding in Charlottesville, VA. Neha
is originally from Wisconsin, and she and
Karl met at a bar called Jack Rose in Adams
Morgan. Ruben Bacares will serve as a
S U M M E R 2015
groomsman, and several other Regians will
be in attendance. Michelle and Martin Bell
welcome Zora Violet on July 3.
2000
James Walsh, [email protected]
2001
Mike Schimel, [email protected]
Kevin Galligan, [email protected]
2002
John Hein, [email protected]
Luigi Naguit, [email protected]
After finishing his first season at the
Metropolitan Opera, Ned Hanlon is
spending his summer in Vienna traveling,
tour guiding, and (occasionally) singing
with his wife, Tanya. In December, Emily and
Matt Mulqueen welcomed Dylan James
Mulqueen into the world. They have started
calling him “the longshoreman” given his
apparent attempts to break the baby growth
chart curve. Oskar has been loving his new
big brother status, and of course continues
to enjoy smoking meats of all varieties on
the weekend. Angelica and John Fahy are
well and recently welcomed a daughter.
Emmeline Margaret Fahy was born on May
8 and baptized on June 7. Older brothers
John, age 5, and Brendan, age 2, are both
doing well and doting over her quite often.
John, age 31, still chairs the Theology
Department at Strake Jesuit in Houston and
will be filling an interim Assistant Principal’s
position starting in January. Mike Schneider
and Ryan Huber were recently in Houston
for a visit. Good times were had by all. Julie
Yuen and Anthony Manganiello welcomed
the arrival of Olivia Yunah Manganiello
on June 9. Bobby Heaney continues to
live the good life in Boston. He is the
Owner & Chief Crawling Officer of Boston
Crawling—a historic pub crawl company.
Boston Crawling is listed as the #1 Nightlife
Attraction in Boston on TripAdvisor. Bobby
invites all Regians to come crawl with him
whenever they are in Boston. Check out his
website at www.bostoncrawling.com. Cheers!
Mike Cruz no longer lives with Charles
Imbelli (who recently moved back to the
west coast—this time to Palm Springs).
Mike’s YouTube channel hit one million
subscribers recently, and he lost 50 lbs in 2
months on the internet. Now he’s producing
a feature film in the fall, writing a time travel
heist, and looking for a puppy to fill the
emptiness in his heart since he can’t join
the class fantasy league because he doesn’t
follow sports. Elizabeth Cabrera Holtz and
23
Ted Stenger were married at Our Lady of
Mercy in Potomac, MD on December 13.
A number of Regians were in attendance
including grandfather of the groom Maurice
Murphy ’48, Ted’s former boss and Alumni
Director emeritus Jack Prael ’63, Owen
Reidy ’99, classmates Eric Tseng, Gabe
Diaz, and Nick Punzalan, and best man
Quentin Stenger ’06. Liz works as an
animal protection lawyer and advocate, and
Liz and Ted now reside in Stamford, CT with
their two cats. After nine years in the military,
Mike Conway is back home to pursue a
civilian career. He finished his service as
a Green Beret captain with the 5th Special
Forces Group and will begin a full time
MBA program at Columbia this fall. We are
grateful that Mike is back safely and thank
him for his service to our country!
(5 years at Binghamton, 3 years in New
Orleans), he is excited to move back. Tom
O’Connell and Chris Rodeschin will be
teaching REACH this summer: ELA and
mathematics, respectively. Chris has been
working with the Hearn this past school year
and has had a fantastic time.
2003
Phil Gillen, [email protected]
Justin Hunte, [email protected]
Nick Nikic, [email protected]
Bennet Chan, [email protected]
Will Marra, [email protected]
2010
Olivia Yunah on June 9 to
Julie Yuen & Anthony Manganiello ’02
Tim Leddy, [email protected]
Aidan Tansey, [email protected]
MARRIAGES
2011
Sergio Sortino ’90 and Charlene
Fabbiano on May 24, 2015
Gabe Velez married Catherine Curley at St.
Joan of Arc Church in Nashotah, Wisconsin,
on June 20. John Hein ’02 was among the
guests in attendance for the mass and the
weekend celebration in Milwaukee. The bride
and groom are grad students at the University
of Chicago, where Catherine is studying for
her MSW at the School of Social Service
Administration, and Gabe is earning his PhD
in Comparative Human Development.
2004
Chris Seneca, [email protected]
2005
Evan O’Brien, [email protected]
John Calhoun, fl[email protected]
2006
Ed Walsh, [email protected]
Daniel Denicola, [email protected]
2007
Jimmy Burbage, [email protected]
Tully McLoughlin, tully.mcloughlin@gmail.
com
Rob Brochin will be available to treat all
RABL injuries as an orthopaedic surgery
resident at Mt. Sinai as of July 1st. Especially
Jay Jay Loftus’s broken ankles. Danilo
Bandovic graduated law school at Loyola
University New Orleans College of Law In
May 2015. He takes the New York bar in
July. After living away from NYC for 8 years
2008
Nick Domino, [email protected]
John Wachowicz, [email protected]
Mike Esposito earned his MBA with
Dean’s Honors from Colombia Business
School. He is currently a Vice President at
Morgan Stanley where he head of the firm’s
alternative investments sales desk.
2009
Bobby Hausen, [email protected]
Eddie Kelly, [email protected]
This April, Jake Kinsley underwent a
transplant procedure to donate bone
marrow to a mother with leukemia. After
being identified as a match, Jake elected to
miss part of his senior season as a catcher
on Furman University’s baseball team to
help save the woman’s life. Neil Hannan
was selected as the Salutatorian of Princeton
University. Graduating as a classics major
with a certificate in finance, Neil delivered
the speech in Latin, yet his words would
have been just as recherché had he spoken
in his native tongue.
2012
Evan Lumbra, [email protected]
Joe Pollicino, [email protected]
Hao Lam, [email protected]
Events
Calendar
AUGUST
6 Alumni Family BBQ
26 Student Family BBQ
SEPTEMBER
9 Regis Night at
Yankee Stadium
OCTOBER
Deo et Patriae Reception
DECEMBER
The class of 2010 edged out the class of 2009 in the Regis Alumni Basketball Championship to
earn the 2015 title. This was only the third time in the league’s 21 year history that a rookie team
has won the league championship.
Isabela on December 27, 2014 to
Juliana and Peter Gallager ’91
Luke Sebastian on May 11, 2015 to
Su and Dan Chen ’92
Meghan Frances on March 13, 2015 to
Crystol and Brian Devaney ’97
Zora Violet on July 3 to
Michelle and Martin Bell ’99
Emmeline Margaret on May 8 to
Angelica and John Fahy ’02
Dylan James in December, 2014 to
Emily and Matt Mulqueen ’02
Andrew Snow ’97 and Katryna
Swartwout
on November 22, 2014
Ted Stenger ’02 and Elizabeth Cabrera
Holtz on December 13, 2014
Gabe Velez ’03 and Catherine Curley
on June 20, 2015
DEATHS
Rev. Joseph V. Dolan, S.J. ’35
on May 1, 2015
James P. Holahan ’38
on July 4, 2015
Thomas C. Brodie ’42
on January 5, 2015
Francis P. Gehring, Jr. ’49
on May 21, 2015
John J. Generelli ’50
on July 3, 2015
Charles H. Harbutt ’52
on July 1, 2015
Brian M. Brady ’53
on April 24, 2015
Thomas J. Tierney ’54
on May 23, 2015
Frederick G. Watson ’54
on March 24, 2015
John J. Culkin ’56
on December 3, 2013
Daniel J. Tana ’99
on June 3, 2015
Jug Night
NOVEMBER
3
BIRTHS
William T. Thorwarth, M.D. ’44
on April 14, 2015
2013
2
Milestones
28 College Jug Night
Editor’s Note: The cover of the Spring
2015 RAN incorrectly identified
the author of How the Irish Saved
Civilization as a member of the
class of 1954. The book was actually
authored by Thomas Cahill ’58. Many
thanks to Jack Conroy ’54 for helping
us correct this error!
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