REGIS
ALUMNI NEWS - Regis High School
ALUMNI NEWS - Regis High School
- No tags were found...
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
<strong>REGIS</strong><br />
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
THE TRADITION<br />
CONTINUES<br />
Fr. Philip Judge, SJ ’80<br />
Fr. J. Thomas McClain, SJ<br />
Fr. Joseph A. O’Hare, SJ ’48
2 Regis Alumni News<br />
R E G I S<br />
A L U M N I N E W S<br />
Volume 69, Number 4<br />
Summer 2004<br />
James E. Buggy<br />
Vice President for Development<br />
Leslie Hannafey P ‘03, ‘07<br />
Annual Fund Director<br />
John W. Prael, Jr. ‘63<br />
Alumni Director<br />
Owen D. Reidy ‘99<br />
Alumni Communications Director<br />
Jennifer Reeder<br />
Executive Assistant<br />
Kathleen Flandrick<br />
Database & Gift Entry Management<br />
Thomas A. Hein ‘99<br />
Layout & Design<br />
Regis grants re pro duc tion rights of all ma te ri al to qual i fied,<br />
non-profit in sti tu tions. Regis High School and the Alumni<br />
Association reserve the right to publish and edit all<br />
sub mis sions and letters to the editor as space permits.<br />
Submissions must be sent to:<br />
Regis High School<br />
Development Office<br />
55 East 84th Street<br />
New York, NY 10028-1221<br />
Phone: (212) 288-1142<br />
Fax: (212) 794-1221
President’s Report<br />
Dear Regis Alumni and Friends of Regis,<br />
This Spring Regis High School has announced<br />
Vision to Lead, an Endowment Campaign<br />
to raise $15 million dollars for the Regis<br />
endowment fund. Already $9.5 Million has<br />
been committed by alumni and friends of the<br />
school, and now in a public phase of our campaign the school hopes to<br />
receive the remaining $5.5 million. Over the next eighteen months there<br />
will be various phases of solicitations, asking alumni and friends to assist<br />
us as generously as you can with a gift in addition to your regular annual<br />
fund contribution. As I have experienced your extreme generosity over the<br />
past eight years, I am confident you will rise to this challenge and meet<br />
this goal.<br />
“Why a campaign?” you may (and should) ask. The answer is simple: the<br />
endowment is structured to grow at inflation rate (if we limit ourselves to<br />
spending 5% of an average 7.5% growth rate). Costs increase at a greater<br />
rate than inflation in a school that has to meet rising costs of competitive<br />
salaries, increased medical insurance expenses, and the need to grow<br />
programs (to mention a few). This is what develops the “gap” in the<br />
Regis fiscal formula, which I have been writing to you about over the past<br />
several years.<br />
45% of support. It is clearly very important for this tuition-free school to<br />
have a strong fiscal basis, and that will only happen with an ever-stronger<br />
endowment. Other schools with significant endowments have made major<br />
strides in increasing their funds, and Regis cannot afford to fall behind in<br />
the same effort to ensure long-term fiscal health.<br />
You may find it unusual for a president to announce a campaign a few<br />
short months before his departure. While it may be the case, I have no<br />
worries that it will succeed. We have worked hard these past few years<br />
in preparing this campaign and in soliciting major gifts, announcing<br />
the campaign with already two-thirds of the goal committed. With the<br />
experienced leadership of Father Joseph O’Hare, my successor, with the<br />
continuity in the Development Office under Jim Buggy’s direction, and<br />
with the strong tradition of generosity of the Regis Alumni and Friends,<br />
this timing is insignificant. I know you can do it!<br />
When you are contacted for a gift, be it by phone or by mail, please do<br />
consider making a generous gift in addition to your ongoing annual fund<br />
support. Campaigns ask all of us to stretch a bit, for the sake of a greater<br />
good. I hope you will be willing to do so.<br />
Sincerely in Christ,<br />
On a regular basis the school will need to find added monies for the<br />
endowment to allow it to fund between 40-45% of annual costs, and have<br />
the annual fund (which has grown at a greater rate) maintain a similar 40-<br />
ON THE<br />
INSIDE<br />
President’s Report ... Fr. J. Thomas McClain, S.J. ...............................................................<br />
To Members of the Regis Community ... John A. Werwaiss ’60 ......................................<br />
Planned Giving at Regis ... Jim Buggy ..............................................................................<br />
New Annual Fund Director ...............................................................................................<br />
Through the Hallways ... Therese Klay, P ‘99, ‘01 .............................................................<br />
A Sighting of Father Steven V. Duffy, SJ ... Father Jim Carney, SJ ‘43 .......................<br />
Ignatian Understanding ... Rev. Kenneth Caufi eld, S.J. ......................................................<br />
Regis Roundup ... Jack Prael, ‘63 ........................................................................................<br />
Father McClain and Regis ... J. Thomas McClain, SJ .......................................................<br />
2003-2004: A Year in Review ...........................................................................................<br />
Capital Campaign .................................................................................................................<br />
Class of 2004: Who’s Going Where ...............................................................................<br />
Regis News and Notes ........................................................................................................<br />
Prowlings ................................................................................................................................<br />
Milestones ...............................................................................................................................<br />
Calendar of Events ...............................................................................................................<br />
3<br />
4<br />
5<br />
5<br />
6<br />
6<br />
7<br />
8<br />
10<br />
14<br />
16<br />
20<br />
21<br />
22<br />
31<br />
32
4 Regis Alumni News<br />
To Members of the<br />
Regis Community<br />
John A. Werwaiss ‘60<br />
Chairman of the Board of Trustees<br />
I am very happy to announce to you that the Regis Board of Trustees,<br />
with the approval of the Provincial of the New York Province<br />
of the Society of Jesus, has unanimously elected Father Joseph<br />
O’Hare, SJ ‘48 to be the 20th president of Regis High School commencing<br />
July 1, 2004, and Father Philip Judge, SJ ‘80 as the 21st<br />
president of Regis, commencing July 1, 2005.<br />
We are extremely grateful to these outstanding men for their willingness<br />
to accept the responsibilities of leading Regis in the years<br />
ahead. They have been generous in their response to the school’s<br />
request for their exceptional talents. Both are Regis alumni who<br />
are very familiar with not only Jesuit education, but with the spirit<br />
and traditions that make Regis the exceptional school it has been<br />
and will continue to be. As you know, Father O’Hare was the 31st<br />
president of Fordham University, having served in that position<br />
for 19 years. Father Judge is currently principal of McQuaid Jesuit<br />
High School, having served in administration prior to that at Fordham<br />
Prep, and as a teacher at Regis before that.<br />
Our gratitude also extends to Father Gerald Chojnacki SJ, the<br />
Jesuit Provincial, for his great support of Regis in making these<br />
men available. In a time when there are fewer Jesuits available<br />
and increasing demands for their services, he has demonstrated<br />
his clear care and support of the work that we are doing here by<br />
making available men with such outstanding leadership qualities.<br />
The Society of Jesus has been truly an outstanding partner with<br />
the school in furthering its mission of providing an outstanding<br />
all-scholarship college prep education with a special concern for<br />
the less fortunate.<br />
As we move forward with new leadership, I would ask you for<br />
your continued support of Regis. As a community we all have tremendous<br />
responsibility to foster what was begun in faith and generosity<br />
over ninety years ago. Our faith and generosity will sustain<br />
it in the future. Join me in praying for the Lord’s blessing on the<br />
work we do with young men entrusted to our care.<br />
Sincerely yours,<br />
John A. Werwaiss ‘60<br />
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Summer 2004 5<br />
Planned Giving at Regis<br />
Jim Buggy<br />
VP of Development<br />
After surviving a spectacularly miserable<br />
season of winter weather in the New York<br />
area, I write about some goods news and renewed opportunities. The<br />
good news is that alumni, alumni parents and friends of Regis are<br />
generously supporting the 2003/2004 Annual Fund. As of April 30,<br />
2004, the fund is performing ahead of last year’s results. For this, we<br />
again thank you for your generous support.<br />
The renewed opportunity concerns Planned Giving. Planned Giving<br />
has become an increasingly important part of fund raising programs<br />
at all non-profit institutions. As a companion to Annual Fund and<br />
Endowment Campaigns, Planned Giving provides the dual purpose of<br />
providing donors with tax benefits while helping to insure the future<br />
of Regis.<br />
Planned Giving at Regis - in the form of the St. John Francis Regis<br />
Society - has enjoyed significant success over the years. Since 1980,<br />
Regis has received bequests or other Planned Gifts totaling more than<br />
$9.5 million. However, because Planned Giving is not in the forefront<br />
of our thinking and does not have the immediate impact of annual<br />
giving or endowment campaigns, alumni and friends should know that<br />
Regis gratefully accepts Planned Gifts.<br />
In the fall, the Development Office will initiate a marketing program<br />
on behalf of the St. John Francis Regis Society that will outline<br />
various options that will be available to alumni, alumni parents and<br />
friends of the school. In advance of that effort, we want to again share<br />
with you some of the Planned Giving opportunities that are available.<br />
• Gifts by Will: Bequests large and small have contributed to the<br />
financial health of Regis High School over the years. Bequests qualify<br />
for unlimited charitable deduction, which reduces one’s estate taxes<br />
and preserves more of the donor’s assets for family and other extended<br />
beneficiaries.<br />
• Gifts of Real Estate: Gifts can consist of almost any type of property<br />
in appropriate condition. Assets may be given outright, serve as the<br />
corpus of a trust arrangement, or in the case of a personal residence, be<br />
given with the right of lifetime tenancy by the donor and/or spouse.<br />
• Gifts of Closely Held Stock: A donor avoids capital gains on<br />
appreciation of the stock and receives an immediate tax benefit.<br />
Often, gifts such as this are followed by an offer from the corporation<br />
to redeem the stock with its retained earnings.<br />
• Charitable Remainder Trusts: Charitable trusts are particularly<br />
beneficial for those who hold highly appreciated, low-yield<br />
investments from which a higher return is desired. A tax deduction<br />
is allowed at the time a charitable trust is created. The size of the<br />
deduction depends on the donor’s age, payment percentage, and other<br />
factors.<br />
In all cases, prospective donors to Regis and the St. John Francis Regis<br />
Society should consult with their legal and financial representatives to<br />
determine which opportunity best suits their needs.<br />
Of course, you call the Regis Development Office at 212-288-1142<br />
with questions as well.<br />
Leslie Hannafey P ‘03, ‘07<br />
New Annual Fund Director<br />
It is my pleasure to announce that the<br />
new Annual Fund Director is Mrs.<br />
Leslie Hannafey. A little about Leslie:<br />
She received a B.A. in economics and<br />
philosophy from Fordham University<br />
and an MBA from the Harvard University<br />
School of Business Administration.<br />
Leslie spent more than twenty years in the investment banking<br />
industry as a partner at Smith Barney, Drexel Burnham and<br />
Prudential Securities where she raised capital for corporations in<br />
the United States and abroad and was an advisor for merger and<br />
acquisition transactions. She has also been a Board Member and<br />
Treasurer of the Brooklyn Historical Society.<br />
and is married to Stephen Hogan, who is partner at the law firm of<br />
Yeskoo, Hogan and Tamlyn.<br />
Indeed the Annual Fund will be in good hands! Please take a<br />
moment to welcome Leslie to Regis, now in an “official” capacity.<br />
As we welcome Leslie, we also say goodbye to Therese Klay,<br />
who as you know, is leaving Regis for a position as Development<br />
Manager at the United Nations Association of the United States of<br />
America. Therese’s dedicated service to Regis – in many different<br />
ways – will never be forgotten. As the mother of two Regians – Ben<br />
’99 and Phil ‘01, Therese understood the mission and traditions of<br />
Regis and, as result, there could have been no better advocate for<br />
the school, preparing alumni for the challenges that lay ahead.<br />
Leslie is the mother of two Regians, Alex ’03, who recently<br />
completed his freshman year at Williams College, and James ’07,<br />
We wish Therese the greatest success in her new position.
6 Regis Alumni News<br />
By Father Jim Carney, S.J. ‘43<br />
Through The<br />
Hallways<br />
Therese Klay P ‘99, ‘01<br />
Annual Fund Director<br />
As we approach the end of the 2004 Annual Fund year, I would like<br />
to update you on our progress. This year we have received a number<br />
of new grants for Regis and the REACH program from the following<br />
foundations: The Charles Hayden Foundation, the Altman Foundation,<br />
the Starr Foundation, the Herman Goldman Foundation and the<br />
Michael Gordon Foundation. With respect to the latter, there is an<br />
interesting parallel to Regis in the life of Michael Gordon. He came to<br />
the US as a poor immigrant from Hungary and at his death established<br />
a foundation to give something back to America in recognition of the<br />
opportunities afforded and successes he achieved in this country, which<br />
he loved. The attributes of generosity and giving back are ones that so<br />
well describe Regians.<br />
In order to meet our budget the Annual Fund must raise $3.8 million.<br />
We are presently at $2.8 million with 44% of alumni participating. For<br />
A Sighting of Father<br />
Stephen V. Duffy, S.J.<br />
When the warm weather rolls around, about once a month I visit “Father<br />
Regis” (he has clearly merited that title). I’m definitely not a cold<br />
weather traveler except to destinations south of Georgia and Alabama.<br />
Other visitors include his very faithful sister, Connie and her husband<br />
Larry who come every week. Pat and Jim O’Rourke ’51 are occasional<br />
visitors and usually take me with them when they go to visit.<br />
As you may or may not know, Father Duffy is living in the NY<br />
Province Infirmary, Murray-Weigel Hall, which is named in honor of<br />
two renowned Vatican II theologians, John Courtney Murray, S.J. and<br />
Gustave Weigel, S.J. The infirmary is located on the southern boundary<br />
of Fordham University’s Bronx campus and fronts on Fordham Road.<br />
A few stories about Fr. Duffy before I get into my recent visit. Early last<br />
Fall, Fr. Duffy called himself the “Pusher.” I know that he is not into<br />
drugs. He told me that I’d learn what his new name meant after lunch.<br />
I usually sit with Steve at a table for four. The late Bishop Neylon, S.J.<br />
(R.I.P. April 13, 2004) was to his right and John Boyd, S.J. ’34, almost<br />
completely blind, was to his left. I had the seat directly in front of Steve.<br />
After the meal, Steve moved Bishop Neylon’s wheelchair towards the<br />
exit, directed Fr. Boyd to stand in front of the wheelchair and then<br />
guided both out the door of the dining room all the while giving<br />
directions to John Boyd as he pushed (hence Pusher) the Bishop along.<br />
It was a very moving sight to behold. For a change, I was speechless.<br />
During the winter months I phoned Steve periodically. One evening<br />
when I called he answered by saying “This is two ring Duffy.” I quickly<br />
those of you who have not made a gift yet, please keep in mind that<br />
the Fund closes on June 30, 2004. There are several ways that you can<br />
make your gift:<br />
• Check or Cash<br />
• Online through the Regis website at www.regis-nyc.org and<br />
follow the links to Alumni Online Giving<br />
• Credit Card: Mastercard, Visa, Discover or American Express<br />
I would like to extend a special thanks to all the Class Fund Chairmen.<br />
It is through their efforts that Regis has one of the highest alumni<br />
donation participation rates in the country for a high school. Indeed,<br />
few colleges can claim to reach Regis’ s participation rate of 60% last<br />
year. I am very grateful for their dedication to Regis.<br />
After a nine year association with Regis I will finally be leaving at the<br />
end of May. I have accepted a position as Development Manager at the<br />
United Nations Association of the United States of America. It has been<br />
an honor to work here at Regis for the last four years and a true blessing<br />
to have had two sons attend the school. I am grateful to so many of you<br />
for your support and friendship.<br />
I also thank all of you who have so generously contributed to the<br />
Annual Fund ensuring that Regis is there for the next generation of<br />
gifted young Catholic men.<br />
learned that this nickname meant he let the<br />
phone ring twice before answering.<br />
Father Duffy’s spacious room is on the first<br />
floor of the infirmary. During my visit on<br />
April 29th, he noted “My memory is shot.”<br />
“Do you remember who I am?” I quickly<br />
asked. “How could I ever forget you?” he<br />
asked. The perfect answer (or question) when<br />
struggling for a name. Incidentally, if you<br />
ever have a chance to visit him, introduce<br />
yourself by name. It is a help to him.<br />
Photo by Mrs. Connie<br />
Corroon, Father Duffy’s sister.<br />
Due to the kindness of his devoted sister, Connie, Steve’s room has a<br />
couple of items he proudly shows to his visitors. A three-foot plastic<br />
golf bag with a plastic putter and a five “iron” sits on his window sill.<br />
There is also a framed picture (1 ½ feet by 2 ½ feet) of a golf ball on a<br />
tee. Honest! I finally spotted a porcelain horse sitting on a shelf of his<br />
bookcase. Steve informed me that this was a reminder of the days of his<br />
youth when he rode a horse in Camp de Smet in Missouri.<br />
From all of the above you can rightly conclude that Father Stephen V.<br />
Duffy, S.J. is alive and well. He has slowed down a bit and uses a cane<br />
or a walker as the situation dictates. As far as I can judge his health is<br />
fine for a ninety year old (he’ll be 91 on August 31st).<br />
After a very pleasant visit, I caught a cross-town bus to the Grand<br />
Concourse and Fordham Road, then another bus which would<br />
eventually deposit me on Fifth Avenue and 85th Street. As luck would<br />
have it at the time, Pat and Bob Weimann (Bob is retired after many<br />
years as a revered science teacher at Regis) were going to downtown<br />
Manhattan on the same bus. They, too, are old friends of Father Duffy.<br />
Meeting them was the icing on the day’s cake. I am already looking<br />
forward to my next visit with “Father Regis”.
Summer 2004 7<br />
Ignatian<br />
Understanding<br />
Rev. Kenneth<br />
Caufield, S.J.<br />
Since we are in the Easter season, I would like to share with you<br />
some thoughts by an English author, Margaret Silf as she reflects<br />
on the Resurrection in her book, Wayfaring. She has written several<br />
books on Ignatian Spirituality and was trained by the English Jesuits<br />
to give The Spiritual Exercises.<br />
Resurrection is not something most of us find easy either to discover<br />
or really to believe in. If asked to meditate on the resurrection events<br />
described in the Gospels our reactions may range from an artificially<br />
induced mood of exhilaration that we feel we ought to be feeling,<br />
through to the painful awareness of a drab routine, apparently<br />
unchanged by the Good News, that so often we are feeling. Does<br />
“resurrection” mean anything at all to us in our everyday living?<br />
Does its promise make any difference? (p. 195)<br />
When I reflect on the events that followed Jesus’ crucifixion and<br />
burial, I notice certain patterns that give me real hope that resurrection<br />
is a here-and-now reality and not just a remote, supernatural event,<br />
or a sequence of sentences in a creed. I see, for example:<br />
-that the resurrected Lord isn’t easily recognized and often comes in<br />
the guise of a stranger<br />
-that he retains the signs of his wounding and suffering and continues<br />
to be marked by his experience<br />
-that he comes into situations of despair, disappointment and doubt<br />
-that he comes unobtrusively, never forcing himself upon us, but<br />
letting us discover him for ourselves<br />
-that in his presence just a small shift of perspective can<br />
make a huge difference to our vision<br />
-that he brings empowerment and commissions us to move on<br />
-that he can’t be clung to<br />
-and that, above all, wherever he appears, he makes a<br />
difference.<br />
-It is in letting go of my limited notions of him that I will be freed to<br />
move on to the larger vision.<br />
-And whatever this is about, it is going to make a difference. It is<br />
going to weigh me in on the side of Life.<br />
Well, I am rather good at these things—at blindness and brokenness.<br />
At being at the end of my rope and bogged down in doubt and<br />
disappointment. At limitation and fear and trying to hold on to what I<br />
feel safe with. So if these were the very places where the resurrected<br />
Lord revealed himself, there is hope for me yet! (pp. 198 –200)<br />
I am reminded of an occasion when I was taking communion<br />
regularly to a dying friend and his wife. One afternoon we were<br />
sitting together round their table. His wife had lit a candle, as she<br />
customarily did. As the Eucharistic service proceeded, the candle<br />
flame flickered and failed, and eventually went out altogether.<br />
We were all aware of the incident, and it seemed to be a tiny<br />
dramatisation of the struggle that was going on in that house between<br />
life and death….Then the patient stretched out his hand, calmly and<br />
slowly, and picked up the spent candle. He turned it upside down<br />
and poured out all the molten wax that was choking it. Then he set<br />
it upright again, and we watched in amazement as the flame leapt up<br />
with new life. No one spoke, but all of us knew what the candle was<br />
telling us. In ways we could not understand, life, not death, would<br />
have the final word, but only when all that we were clinging to was<br />
surrendered and poured away. (p. 211)<br />
What I love about Margaret Silf is that she does see the Spirit<br />
speaking to her in the very ordinary experiences of her own life and<br />
so I am encouraged to look at my own experience and look and listen<br />
for the Spirit. I hope all of you are also encouraged to look and listen<br />
for the Spirit and know that God is in your life waiting, loving, and<br />
calling you to minister to your world and His world.<br />
Reflecting on these facts gives me enormous hope.<br />
-In spite of my failures to recognize him, he will still break<br />
through my blindness.<br />
-The brokenness in me, that I felt to be such a barrier between<br />
us, might be the very place where I find him most readily.<br />
-When I am “down and out and running on empty” he<br />
is perhaps especially likely to be there with resurrection<br />
power.<br />
-I have no need to fear his “ coming in glory” because he will<br />
come as gently as a night breeze.<br />
-I don’t need to go to the ends of the earth to discover some<br />
kind of mystical presence, but instead he is waiting to greet<br />
me on my own doorstep, when I am ready to receive him.<br />
-Whatever resurrection asks of me, he himself will<br />
empower me.
8 Regis Alumni News<br />
Regis<br />
Roundup<br />
Jack Prael ‘63<br />
The Regis website contains a tremendous amount of<br />
information about the school including an extensive Alumni<br />
section. This is the best way to keep current on Regis<br />
happenings - after all, we publish this magazine only four<br />
times per year. Aim your browser at www.regis-nyc.org to<br />
enter the current world of Regis.<br />
The left hand column contains a listing of informative sections<br />
you may wish to peruse. Click on Regiana to open an Adobe<br />
download of our catalogue of Regis logoed items. These can<br />
be purchased at Alumni events, through email (alumni@regisnyc.org)<br />
or by phone to the Development Office.<br />
If you click Alumni, a new list will appear as you enter the<br />
main Alumni page. News items and current event listings<br />
keep you current on what is happening and scheduled to<br />
occur in the near future. Information on the events is often<br />
available by clicking More in the individual event or news<br />
item.<br />
Online Giving and Vision To Lead lead you to screens which<br />
allow credit card contributions to the Annual Fund and our<br />
capital campaign.This is an easy way to contribute to Regis.<br />
Alumni Database is one of our most important services. You<br />
can keep your personal information current, look up fellow<br />
Regians by name, year of graduation, profession, college<br />
attended and geographic location. I suggest each of you<br />
become a member. Simply follow the new member directions<br />
and soon you will have access to current information 24/7.<br />
The Photo Gallery features events during the past year<br />
including reunions. If you see Owen Reidy or your author<br />
with a camera frequently - here are the results. Check on the<br />
new look of old friends.<br />
Other sections include an Adobe download of the RAN;<br />
news of Business Network and Bar Association events; a<br />
listing of lost Alumni; details on awards and generous gifts<br />
to Regis; finally, the current staff of the Development Office<br />
with contact information is listed.<br />
Anyone who uses the web should join the Alumni Database<br />
and check the Regis website for current information. It’s a<br />
great way to keep in touch with Regis and fellow alumni.<br />
Have a great summer!<br />
Save the Date!<br />
Regis High School will host the 15th Annual Golf<br />
Tournament again this year at the Westchester Hills<br />
Country Club in White Plains, NY.<br />
The outing will take place on Monday, September 20, 2004. Mark<br />
your calendar and watch your mailbox this summer for more<br />
information, or contact the Regis Development Office at 212-288-<br />
1142 for more information.
Summer 2004 9<br />
Screenshot of the Regis alumni home page.<br />
Screenshot of the Regis Online Giving web page.<br />
Screenshot of the Regis Alumni online photo album<br />
Screenshot of the Regis Alumni web search
10 Regis Alumni News
Fr. McClain<br />
Regis<br />
and<br />
Regis High School President<br />
To the Regis Community<br />
1997 - 2004<br />
As I take leave of Regis, I would like to give you an accounting of my stewardship of your school over these past eight years. They have<br />
been years of great blessing for the school, but also of challenges. I believe I leave a school that in many ways is stronger than when I<br />
came, but facing still new demands to be faithful to the mission it has.<br />
Regis: the Catholic and<br />
Jesuit Community<br />
For the students who come to Regis, their school becomes<br />
a significant experience of “Church” for them. This has<br />
been consistent through my time at Regis. Rich school-wide<br />
liturgies, a faith-challenging retreat program, theological<br />
instruction and reflection in the classrooms, and ever increasing<br />
opportunities to give Christian service are together a healthy<br />
and inspiring training in what it can mean to be a part of a livegiving<br />
Christian Community – the Church. The community at<br />
once both supports but challenges each member.<br />
To strengthen this dimension over these years, we have added<br />
the position of a Chaplain for the Faculty and Staff, so as to<br />
afford the opportunities in our adult community to be more<br />
informed about the religious dimensions and Ignatian traditions<br />
– for their own spiritual growth and to build an awareness<br />
of our school’s spirit. For our students we have increased<br />
expectations of Christian Service to all four years, and have<br />
offered to some the opportunity to serve in less fortunate areas<br />
of our country or the world (service trips to Ecuador, Haiti,<br />
Dominican Republic, and “urban plunges” to the poor areas of<br />
Camden, New Jersey).<br />
A concern from my first days has been the economic diversity<br />
among our students. As the Catholic Church has become more<br />
affluent over the past 90 years so have the families who have<br />
applied to Regis. To make sure that the school is equally<br />
available to those who have as well as to those who have not,<br />
the REACH program was established two years ago to prepare<br />
qualified young boys from families at or below the poverty<br />
level for the Regis exam three years hence. That first class will<br />
sit for the Regis exam this coming November 2004. As I have<br />
said so often, this program is not an “add-on” project, but is an
12 Regis Alumni News<br />
essential part of the Regis mission to assure the level playing<br />
field for those with and without resources. I am hopeful we will<br />
be most successful in this effort.<br />
I must mention an ever increasing role that has been played in<br />
recent years by the Regis Parents, both current and past. The<br />
Regis Parents’ Club has demonstrated an amazing spirit of<br />
support for the school through the auction that it runs for the<br />
school’s benefit. But beyond that, it has grown to be a strong<br />
community of support and care for each other, so much so that<br />
in recent years those bonds have led to the establishment of<br />
a Regis Alumni Parents group, that seeks to come together<br />
regularly to maintain their friendships and their connection<br />
to the school. The presence of parents at so many school<br />
functions as participants and as volunteers has enriched Regis<br />
in unforeseen and delightful ways.<br />
A dwindling presence of Jesuits has been a factor over the<br />
past twenty years. As I leave Regis there will be five Jesuits<br />
working at the school. However, because of the involvement<br />
of committed lay men and women on the faculty and staff the<br />
school’s Ignatian traditions are as strong as they ever have<br />
been. The Society of Jesus continues to stand in partnership<br />
with Regis in sharing what resources it can (both in manpower<br />
and programming) to assure the continued presence of the<br />
Society of Jesus at Regis – in person and in spirit.<br />
The future challenge for Regis will be that of any dynamic<br />
community: to continue to strive to understand the needs of<br />
each other in the community, build a sense of respect and trust<br />
in our midst, and then “turn outward” to be of service to those<br />
outside of our community. As a Catholic Community we cannot<br />
afford to insulate ourselves from the needs of our society.<br />
(l to r): Fr. McClain, SJ, Kieran Quinn ’67, Jim Power ’57,<br />
John Werwaiss ’60 at the 2003 Deo et Patriae Dinner<br />
Regis: the School<br />
There has been steady progression of growth in the school’s<br />
academic program. Under the excellent leadership of our<br />
principal, Father Biagi, the school has reviewed its curriculum<br />
and has chosen a path that is to enrich the global dimension of our<br />
curriculum (concretely: adding Chinese as a language option,<br />
and including a non-Eurocentric element to our Social Studies<br />
curriculum), increase the scientific knowledge (requiring three<br />
years of a lab science), and continue to integrate an appropriate<br />
role of technology into the learning process. It has been a truly<br />
amazing period of growth and adaptation. There is still a ways<br />
to go, but clearly the school has been enriched by broadening<br />
the scope of its curriculum and increasing the amount of<br />
information that is available through the internet.<br />
To support the learning process we needed to address structural<br />
and infrastructural concerns. When I arrived, there was the<br />
sense that we needed to do some minor building improvements.<br />
However as we examined more closely the building and<br />
educational needs, the “minor” task quickly became a major<br />
renovation of the whole building. New wiring for power and<br />
data was installed throughout the building, and the interior<br />
features were enhanced through new lighting, refinishing<br />
wood surfaces, new windows, and many other necessary<br />
improvements. The most ambitious and exciting project was<br />
the transformation of our library into an information/media<br />
center, now one of the busiest rooms in the school. Finally,<br />
this summer the last segment of the building, the basement,<br />
will be given a facelift, to keep it consistent with the qualities<br />
established in the rest of the building.<br />
Father McClain leads the student body in song at the annual<br />
lighting of the Christmas tree in the Regis Courtyard,<br />
December 2003.<br />
The school has been truly re-modeled both in curriculum and in<br />
structure. Both are still classic in their spirit – but appropriately<br />
focused on preparing for leadership in a modern world.
Summer Spring 2004 13<br />
Regis: the Not-for-Profit<br />
Corporation<br />
Like any entity that exists – it must deal with the realities of<br />
the business world. Bills have to be paid, policies have to be<br />
established, fiscal responsibility must be assured. Regis is no<br />
different.<br />
Regis has been blessed over these years to have had an<br />
outstanding Board of Trustees dedicated to fostering the best<br />
in the Regis programs. Their concern for the religious nature<br />
of the school, as well as for the academic program has been<br />
equally impressive. They have brought their experience in the<br />
business world to assure that the school and its endowment are<br />
managed in a fiscally responsible way. They have demonstrated<br />
their real ability to govern a school in such a way that we will<br />
continue to be an all-scholarship, strong, Catholic and Jesuit<br />
college preparatory school. The governance is in good shape.<br />
education to worthy students. With 60% of alumni solicited<br />
responding so generously, the school can count on a community<br />
of support for its future. However I have seen that we cannot be<br />
overly reliant on this growing source of income, as it needs to be<br />
appropriately balanced by significant endowment income. It is<br />
for that reason that over the past three years we have worked at<br />
getting major gifts to shore up the endowment (which currently<br />
stands at about $45 million). Elsewhere in this issue you will<br />
see the announcement of the over $9.5 million in major gifts<br />
raised, and the desire to raise an additional $5.5 million for the<br />
endowment in the Vision to Lead Campaign. This will have to<br />
be an ongoing part of the Regis fiscal landscape for years to<br />
come – regular efforts to increase the endowment to keep up<br />
with rising costs. Yet it is my sense of the alumni that there is<br />
a depth of support and magnanimity to realize this ambitious<br />
fiscal task.<br />
Fiscally, the school will continue to depend on two “fragile”<br />
feet: annual giving and the endowment. When the economy<br />
is strong, the school will be able to meet its demands as<br />
endowment income and annual giving will be more robust. In<br />
economic downturns, the school will struggle to maintain fiscal<br />
health, and not to have to make choices that would harm its<br />
future health or programs.<br />
When I began at Regis, the annual fund had brought in the<br />
previous year $1.9 million. This year the anticipated amount<br />
raised will be $3.8 million – a 100% increase in 8 years! The<br />
annual fund income generated is the equivalent of income off<br />
of an $80 million endowment! That is an outstanding testimony<br />
to the great generosity of the Regis Alumni and friends of the<br />
school. It is a sign of hope for a school that strives to give this<br />
Bill and Sheila Sullivan ’52 with Fr. McClain, SJ<br />
Regis: the gift.<br />
(l to r): Richard Meyer ’51, Fr. Don Harrington ’63, John<br />
Werwaiss ’60, Fr. McClain, SJ<br />
As I review these years in one sense I want to say I haven’t<br />
done much – Regis has done great things. Students, faculty,<br />
staff, alumni have all come together to strengthen this special<br />
school in many and varied ways. As President I have kept you<br />
informed as to what is happening both good and bad at your<br />
school. I have welcomed you. I have tried to articulate for you<br />
in many ways what our mission is and how we are doing it.<br />
I have urged us all to strive to be better, to seek the magis. I<br />
have asked you for support in small and large ways to make<br />
that mission actual. I have prayed constantly to our God, for<br />
blessings on all we do. For what I have failed to do, I ask for<br />
your pardon. For what has been able to be accomplished – I<br />
simply say: thank YOU and our God for all you have done. You<br />
are the Regis gift – generosity that begets generosity.
2003-2004: A Y<br />
14 Regis Alumni News<br />
Students gather for the<br />
Mass of the Holy Spirit and<br />
Academic Convocation on<br />
September 5, 2003. James<br />
P. Kelly ‘71, Editor of Time<br />
Magazine, spoke to the student<br />
body about leading a<br />
moral life in a sometimes<br />
immoral world.<br />
Students traverse Central<br />
Park on October 20, 2003<br />
as part of the annual Student<br />
Walkathon to raise money<br />
for Regis. This year’s Walkathon<br />
was an extraordinary<br />
success, as the students<br />
combined to raise over<br />
$148,000 for Regis!<br />
Jeffrey Morris ‘05, Kwasi<br />
Mensah ‘04 and Evan<br />
Smoak ‘06 lead the Regis<br />
Jazz Band through one of<br />
their harmonious hits at the<br />
Jazz Band Concert on May<br />
21, 2003.<br />
Here we see the Jazz Band in<br />
its entirety at the final concert<br />
of the year on May 21,<br />
2003. The Regis Jazz Band<br />
enjoyed another banner<br />
year under the leadership of<br />
the Chairperson of the Fine<br />
Arts Department, Mr. Jim<br />
Phillips.
Summer 2004 15<br />
ear In Review<br />
Seniors wait patiently for a<br />
chance to show their stuff at<br />
the plate during the senior<br />
- faculty softball game on<br />
September 26, 2004. Every<br />
year the seniors and faculty<br />
lay their reputations on the<br />
line and battle in a softball<br />
game for the prize of bragging<br />
rights. This year the<br />
class of 2004 enjoyed the<br />
last laugh.<br />
The Regis Varsity Basketball<br />
team looks for an open shot<br />
against Jesuit rival Xavier<br />
High School on January<br />
25, 2004. The Basketball<br />
Coaches Association of New<br />
York selected Kevin Cullen<br />
as the Coach of the Year for<br />
his efforts in leading Regis<br />
to its fi rst City Championship<br />
since 1993.<br />
Students enjoy a relaxing<br />
lunch in the shade at Bear<br />
Mountain. The annual trip<br />
to Bear Mountain provides<br />
an opportunity for students<br />
and teachers to interact<br />
outside of an academic atmosphere<br />
and enjoy one last<br />
day of summer-like relaxation<br />
before settling into the<br />
challenges awaiting them<br />
throughout the school year.<br />
These fans enjoy an up close<br />
and personal view of one Regis<br />
crooner at “Livestock” a<br />
Regis dance and battle of<br />
the bands which was held<br />
on April 23, 2004. Young<br />
ladies from schools throughout<br />
New York packed the<br />
auditorium for this event,<br />
one of many Regis dances<br />
which was held throughout<br />
the year.<br />
The Regis Varsity Baseball<br />
team gathers for a team<br />
photo. Although they were<br />
eliminated in the playoffs by<br />
Monsignor Farrell, the team<br />
has a lot of which to be proud,<br />
including their 14-3 record<br />
during the regular season,<br />
their Bronx-Manhattan Division<br />
Title, and the fact that<br />
they made it to the CHSAA<br />
“A” Division tournament’s<br />
“Final Four”.<br />
The Regis Varsity Soccer<br />
team poses in front of their<br />
net for a team photo. The<br />
team reached the playoffs<br />
despite losing more than<br />
half of last year’s squad due<br />
to graduation. After a hard<br />
fought battle in the quarterfi<br />
nals Regis fell to St. Francis<br />
Prep, the eventual state<br />
champion, in a shootout.<br />
Another band of Regians<br />
gives their all on stage in<br />
an attempt to win the battle<br />
of the bands at “Livestock”<br />
2004. These fi ve seniors are,<br />
from left to right: Matthew<br />
Thrun-Nowicki, Charlie<br />
Davis, Vincent Penge, Chris<br />
Seneca (on drums), and<br />
Nikola Lekic.<br />
Benny South Street (Matt<br />
Barbot ’05) and Nicely Nicely<br />
Johnson (Jeffrey Morris ’05)<br />
appear here in a picture from<br />
the Regis production of “Guys<br />
and Dolls” this past fall. The<br />
tremendous success of “Guys<br />
and Dolls” is a manifestation<br />
of the enormous growth of the<br />
Regis Repertory, an organization<br />
that, in the past two years,<br />
has grown to encompass the efforts<br />
of over 100 Regians!
16 Regis Alumni News<br />
To All Friends of Regis:<br />
Help Us Build the Legacy<br />
It is our honor to invite you to join with<br />
us in supporting VISION TO LEAD, THE<br />
ENDOWMENT CAMPAIGN FOR <strong>REGIS</strong>. This<br />
campaign has the full support of the Board<br />
of Trustees, which has empowered us to<br />
share the reasons for the campaign with all<br />
our fellow Regians.<br />
John A. Werwaiss<br />
Chairman,<br />
Board of Trustees<br />
Martin J. Mannion<br />
Co-Chairman,<br />
Endowment Campaign<br />
On the following pages, you will read<br />
about the Regis so many of us know and<br />
love. In many ways, the school today is<br />
unchanged from the Regis we attended.<br />
Scholastic standards remain rigorous for<br />
our very gifted students. The Ignatian<br />
spirituality in which we were immersed<br />
remains a strong and ever-present influence<br />
throughout the school. The air of<br />
intellectual discovery, spirited debate and<br />
quiet reflection is palpable throughout the<br />
corridors.<br />
Anthony J. DiNovi<br />
Co-Chairman,<br />
Endowment Campaign<br />
You will also see a Regis with which you<br />
may not be familiar. The face of the school<br />
is changing, as physical refurbishments<br />
and improvements elevate the environment<br />
in which our students learn.<br />
Fabian Fondriest<br />
Chairman,<br />
Development Committee<br />
The financial profile of the school is<br />
changing as well. The noble generosity<br />
of the Foundress and of her family left
Summer 2004 17<br />
Each of us came to Regis with varying talents and abilities. We left with all<br />
these things and much more. It is with the sure knowledge of the value of these gifts<br />
that we ask for your help, confident that you will respond.<br />
us an invaluable legacy. But an appropriately<br />
managed endowment such as<br />
ours cannot grow fast enough through<br />
investments alone to keep pace with the<br />
normal advance of expenses, so many of<br />
which are beyond the direct control of<br />
school administrators. The numbers do not<br />
deceive. Despite the generous outpouring<br />
of support from you each year in the Annual<br />
Fund - support which now accounts<br />
for more than half of annual income<br />
- future projections indicate that the gap<br />
between income and expenses will only<br />
continue, even widen, as the growth in the<br />
endowment’s contribution to our income is<br />
continually exceeded by rising costs.<br />
The Board of Trustees in consultation<br />
with the president of Regis has considered<br />
various remedies available to us. We must<br />
continue to rely on your support year after<br />
year through the Annual Fund, but this<br />
alone will be insufficient to close the gap.<br />
The Board has concluded that the wisest,<br />
most prudent course is to undertake this<br />
campaign, which will begin to enlarge the<br />
permanent endowment. So we write to you<br />
plainly to make the case, trusting that you<br />
will look reality squarely in the face and<br />
agree with our assessment. To put Regis<br />
on a firm financial foundation for the 21st<br />
century will require your material support.<br />
We do not urge you to consider the need<br />
because you owe Regis a debt. Our Regis<br />
education was a gift, freely given, with no<br />
strings attached. You have no obligation<br />
to respond. For many of us, however, the<br />
same generosity which sparked the original<br />
endowment now inspires us, and leads<br />
us to want to pass the legacy to succeeding<br />
generations of young men.<br />
The vast majority of Regians believe, as<br />
we do, that our success in our chosen field<br />
of endeavor is in large part attributed to<br />
the training of mind and spirit we received<br />
while we were at Regis. So we ask you to<br />
do whatever you can within your means to<br />
make this campaign the success we know<br />
it will be.<br />
Your contribution to the campaign will not<br />
be used to cover shortfalls in operating<br />
costs this year, or any year. Your participation<br />
in VISION TO LEAD will go directly<br />
into the endowment and become a timeless<br />
legacy, a resource that will help unknown<br />
numbers of young men in the future come<br />
to Regis, study and mature for four years,<br />
and leave prepared to assume leadership<br />
roles in law and government, the Catholic<br />
Church, academia, the arts and other<br />
walks of life, confident in their traditions,<br />
abilities and beliefs.<br />
Deeply grateful for the indispensable<br />
support provided by you, its loyal alumni<br />
and friends, each year through the Annual<br />
Fund, Regis now asks you to look to the<br />
future and to follow in the tradition of the<br />
founding family by making your contribution,<br />
thereby helping ensure the strength of<br />
Regis for generations to come.<br />
John A. Werwaiss ’60<br />
Martin J. Mannion ’77<br />
Anthony J. DiNovi ’80<br />
Fabian Fondriest ’79
18 Regis Alumni News<br />
The Vision to Lead:<br />
Building the Legacy<br />
Income<br />
Annual giving, which provides over half of<br />
the school’s income, is projected to grow at an<br />
annual rate of 7.0 percent. The endowment,<br />
which stood at $40 million at the beginning of<br />
FY 2004, is managed under guidelines ensuring<br />
that the endowment grows each year at least at<br />
the rate of inflation, or 2.5 percent. Assuming<br />
an average total return in the investments of 7.5<br />
percent, this provides proceeds of 5.0 percent<br />
annually as income for the school. In FY 2004,<br />
this is estimated to be $2.25 million. Taking<br />
these assumptions together, our forecast is for<br />
an average annual increase for all income of<br />
4.25 percent.<br />
Expenses<br />
Regis’ largest expense, for classroom instruction<br />
and administration, consumes 74 percent<br />
of our budget. To remain competitive in attracting<br />
and retaining excellent teachers, and due to<br />
rising health benefit costs, we project that this<br />
portion of our budget will need to increase at<br />
an annual rate of between 6-9 percent through<br />
the remainder of the decade. Other operational<br />
expenses, including such items as insurance,<br />
maintenance, activities and development,<br />
increase annually at 4.0 percent. Aggregating<br />
these projections, we expect to experience an<br />
average annual increase in expenses of 6.6<br />
percent through the year 2010.<br />
Conclusion<br />
Do the math... Regis’ budget will see an average<br />
annual gap between income and expenses<br />
of 2.35 percent, or $1,800 per student. The<br />
Annual Fund is essential for operating expense<br />
of the school, but cannot address this long-term<br />
growth. Other possible sources of funding also<br />
present complications. Bequests, for example,<br />
are not a reliable source of growth in income.<br />
We receive no government aid, and while we<br />
solicit funds from foundations and corporations,<br />
our religious character will always limit<br />
this as a source of funding. We will never<br />
charge tuition.<br />
So the one clear option for strengthening our<br />
financial foundation is to increase the size of<br />
the endowment itself. Hence our goal, which<br />
is to increase the permanent endowment by at<br />
least $15 million. This in and of itself will not<br />
eliminate the possibility of future gaps, since<br />
expenses (as indicated earlier) are projected<br />
to continue to rise at rates higher than even a<br />
good endowment can grow. However, a sizable<br />
addition to the endowment fund over the next<br />
five years will enable us to raise the income<br />
from the endowment, and thereby strengthen<br />
the school’s finances through the year 2010.<br />
A forecast of the income and<br />
expenses for Regis reveals<br />
the financial challenge we<br />
confront.<br />
What will Regis look like over the coming century?<br />
Let us affirm that whatever changes the<br />
school undergoes in the years to come, certain<br />
values will always remain the same.<br />
Continuing Academic Excellence: The<br />
median composite SAT score of a Regian is<br />
1420 today, and 85 percent of students qualify<br />
for Advanced Placement credit. We continue to<br />
see gratifying results against national standards,<br />
with Regians well-represented among<br />
National Achievement Semi-Finalists. College<br />
placement results continue to be exemplary.<br />
Recent additions to the curriculum ensure that<br />
our students will continue to excel in a global<br />
community strongly influenced by science and<br />
technology. Physics is now a required subject,<br />
study of Chinese is available, and we have<br />
expanded our course offerings in computer languages<br />
and applications. At the same time, we<br />
maintain a strong liberal arts tradition, adding a<br />
global focus in English and Social Studies.<br />
Faith Formation: The Catholic faith continues<br />
to be at the very center of life at Regis. From<br />
school-wide liturgies and reconciliation services<br />
to strong theology courses, retreat programs<br />
and campus ministry, our students are encouraged<br />
to deepen their understanding of and<br />
appreciation for the meaning of belief in Jesus<br />
Christ, including the service this belief entails.<br />
We have recently increased the service requirement<br />
for students from one to four years, and<br />
they can choose from a variety of service<br />
programs, including Habitat for Humanity<br />
here at home and our innovative Third-World<br />
Program in Ecuador. In recognition of the need<br />
to sustain and strengthen the Ignatian vision at<br />
Regis, the school recently added a Chaplain to<br />
the Faculty for Ignatian programs.<br />
Faculty and Resources: One of Regis’ greatest<br />
assets will always be its instruction, and<br />
the school recognizes the need to attract and<br />
support exceptional teachers. Faculty development<br />
in the form of participation in conferences<br />
and school-supported coursework is<br />
ongoing, enabling our departments to remain<br />
at the forefront of their respective disciplines.<br />
Regis seeks to build on an already strong base<br />
of technology resources. From an ample supply<br />
of laptops for teachers and students to the use<br />
of electronic Smartboards in class, a wireless<br />
library and school-wide email and faculty<br />
websites, Regis will remain ably equipped to<br />
leverage technology for learning.<br />
Extracurricular Activities: A rich offering<br />
of extracurricular choices distinguishes Regis<br />
today, and this diversity can only be expected<br />
to increase in the years to come. The nationally<br />
ranked Speech/Debate Program continues to<br />
attract significant student participation, as 25
Summer 2004 19<br />
Regis in the 21st Century:<br />
Scholastic Excellence<br />
percent of the student body participates in The<br />
Hearn. The well-rounded sports program was<br />
recently expanded with the addition of varsity<br />
teams in golf and volleyball. Student publications<br />
continue to be essential channels of<br />
expression, as are Regis Rep for drama, several<br />
cultural groups, and the school’s many clubs<br />
for special interests.<br />
REACH (Recruiting Excellence in Academics<br />
in Catholic High Schools): The inspiration<br />
for the founding of Regis was the desire<br />
to make a Catholic education available to all,<br />
regardless of their economic circumstances.<br />
The REACH program, founded in 2002,<br />
sharpens this vision by reaching out to the<br />
many deserving grade-school students in the<br />
New York metropolitan area who are Catholic,<br />
academically gifted, have leadership potential,<br />
and whose families have significant financial<br />
need. REACH is an educational and leadership<br />
program that prepares students to earn admission<br />
to Regis, as well as to other top Catholic<br />
high schools in New York City. The acceptance<br />
of REACH graduates to Regis will increase<br />
the economic diversity of our student body.<br />
Whether at Regis or elsewhere, REACH hopes<br />
that all its participants develop into young men<br />
willing to serve as leaders in the Church, in the<br />
community and in their profession.<br />
by Jesuits and their lay colleagues.<br />
These values will surely guide Regis<br />
through the 21st century as well. That<br />
individual care and concern for each<br />
student be manifest in the school,<br />
that Christ is a model for human life,<br />
that a truly Christian commitment<br />
must be active, that a Jesuit alumnus<br />
should manifest a particular concern<br />
for the poor and magis in all we do<br />
– these are not strictly the preserve of<br />
Ignatian schools; they are, however,<br />
carefully focused ideals that we<br />
pursue out of tradition and continuing<br />
commitment.<br />
A rich offering of<br />
extracurricular choices<br />
distinguishes Regis today,<br />
and this variety can only be<br />
expected to increase in the<br />
yeards to come<br />
<strong>REGIS</strong> NATIONAL EXAM RECOGNITION<br />
National Hispanic<br />
National Achievement<br />
National Merit Semi-Finalist<br />
National Merit Commended<br />
The Ignatian Tradition: The vision of Ignatius<br />
of Loyola has for four centuries sustained<br />
the schools initiated by Jesuits and conducted
20 Regis Alumni News<br />
Class of 2004: Who’s Going Where<br />
American University<br />
Michael A Koch<br />
Amherst College<br />
Brian N Lewis<br />
Boston College<br />
Sean P Gallen<br />
Nikola Lekic<br />
John J Nolan<br />
Alejandro Pena<br />
Luigi A Pulice<br />
Boston University<br />
Alfonso A Iriberri, Jr<br />
Michael L Ponterotto<br />
Carnegie Mellon University<br />
Kwasi A Mensah<br />
Colgate University<br />
John C Kelly<br />
Frederick J Magovern<br />
Michael G Nanna<br />
College of the Holy Cross<br />
Bruce C Colet<br />
Corey D Evans<br />
Robert A Maccariello<br />
Marshall D McKenna<br />
Gregory W Minogue<br />
Joseph J Sammarco<br />
Dominick J Sciame<br />
James F Varsam<br />
Eric Yoon<br />
Connecticut College<br />
Christopher P Buonincontri<br />
Cornell University<br />
Nicholas A Ledesma<br />
Noel Manuel<br />
Carlos A Molina<br />
Davidson College<br />
James S Farrelly<br />
Yancey Flores<br />
Duke University<br />
Mark G Marex<br />
Daniel R McCartney<br />
Christopher J Neufeld<br />
John Patrick Taddei<br />
Duquesne University<br />
William S Spelker<br />
Emory University<br />
Matthew C Thrun-Nowicki<br />
Fairfield University<br />
Michael J Skrapits<br />
Fordham University<br />
David Carretero<br />
Jeffrey M Connors<br />
Michael J Fernandez<br />
Jakub Mydlarz<br />
Quang Nguyen<br />
Paul R Ryan<br />
Marc Tambini<br />
George Washington University<br />
Richard J Martinelli<br />
Georgetown University<br />
Charles W Allen<br />
Nicholas Davies<br />
Daniel RS Kennedy<br />
Matthew S Murtagh<br />
Matthew Nemeth<br />
Christopher J Seneca<br />
John P Uehlinger, Jr<br />
Harvard University<br />
Raymond A Jean<br />
Matthew A Kelly<br />
Peter C Krause, Jr<br />
Rory H Malone<br />
Craig B Monsen<br />
Joseph Francis Quinn<br />
Matthew S Smith<br />
Haverford College<br />
Raymond E Panek<br />
Johns Hopkins University<br />
Michael J Poli<br />
Andrew A Rocca<br />
Keith Staskiewicz<br />
Lafayette College<br />
William L Hanlon<br />
LaSalle University<br />
Robert I Fierro<br />
Loyola College in Maryland<br />
Robert Assini<br />
Charles M Boer<br />
Brendan Charles<br />
Kyle Emmich<br />
Kevin Hughes<br />
Joshua M Levitt<br />
Thomas F Moran<br />
Nicholas C Naclerio<br />
Matthew J Regan<br />
Francis Rodrigues<br />
Brendan Silhan<br />
Loyola Marymount University<br />
Daniel A Rios<br />
Loyola University<br />
of New Orleans<br />
Rory J Payne<br />
Massachusetts Institute<br />
of Technology<br />
Peter A Lamb<br />
McGill University<br />
Timothy J Gorta<br />
Jacob R Krzanowski<br />
Middlebury College<br />
Andrew W Goodwin<br />
New York University<br />
Daniel J Armao<br />
Michael F Esposito<br />
Kevin W Hill<br />
George G Mancheril<br />
Vincent B Penge<br />
Vito R Pitta<br />
Northeastern University<br />
Mark Corsillo<br />
Oberlin College<br />
Sean H McKeown<br />
Olin College of Engineering<br />
Alexander A Jenko<br />
Duc T Nguyen<br />
Princeton University<br />
Scott S DeBenedett<br />
Blaise J Latella<br />
Providence College<br />
Michael P Donovan<br />
Drew C Goucher<br />
John P O’Donoghue<br />
Paul E Yuskevich<br />
Quinnipiac University<br />
Kevin M Fitzpatrick<br />
Rice University<br />
Matthew G Meyer<br />
Rutgers University<br />
Adam E Chabal<br />
St. Francis College<br />
David J Noble<br />
Stanford University<br />
Charles C Davis<br />
Peter N Porcino<br />
Stevens Institute of Technology<br />
Andrew P Scagnelli<br />
SUNY Albany<br />
Christian M Rodriguez<br />
SUNY Binghamton<br />
Nicholas A Pipitone<br />
John M Reyes<br />
Ryan G Robinson<br />
Swarthmore College<br />
Joseph E Borkowski<br />
Rahul A D’Silva<br />
Mark P Loria<br />
Syracuse University<br />
Joseph T Mauceri<br />
Brian J Taylor<br />
The Cooper Union<br />
Jeremy R Capungcol<br />
Trinity College<br />
Timothy M Scarella<br />
University of Chicago<br />
Michael J Jordan<br />
University of Notre Dame<br />
Kevin J Conroy<br />
Andrew C Sedia<br />
University of Pennsylvania<br />
Neiman A Ramjattan<br />
University of Virginia<br />
Robert C Zizza<br />
Vassar College<br />
Robertino Lim<br />
Villanova University<br />
George M Cuevas<br />
William J Iwasiw<br />
Brendan H Strang<br />
Washington University<br />
in St. Louis<br />
D. Edmund Anstey<br />
Yale University<br />
Geoffrey Cajigas<br />
Edward T Quinones<br />
Eric M Sauerhoff
Summer 2004 21<br />
Regis News and Notes<br />
Anonymous Donation<br />
Regis received a gift of PPG Industries stock in April. We<br />
were not advised of the donor’s name. If you gave this stock<br />
to Regis please call the Development office at 212/288-1142<br />
or e-mail Leslie Hannafey (lhannafe@regis-nyc.org) and<br />
identify yourself so that we can acknowledge your generous<br />
gift.<br />
The Regis Classics Society<br />
The Regis Classical Association held its first meeting on<br />
April 24th at Regis. The meeting opened with a prayer and<br />
an invocation of St. Ignatius and St. Thomas More and St.<br />
Augustine. After a brief discussion of principles and future<br />
plans - current plans include a yearly Vergil reunion - we<br />
read a poem of Horace (“Diffugere nives”) to welcome the<br />
spring. Check the Regis website for future meetings, or<br />
contact John Kuhner ‘94 (jbkuhner@alumni.princeton.edu),<br />
(212) 289-4913.<br />
RBN Update<br />
On Thursday May 13, the Regis Business Network<br />
(RBN) held its Spring Networking Event, “The Business<br />
of Major League Baseball,” at O’Reilly’s Pub on West<br />
31st Street. The panel comprised a high powered group<br />
of baseball experts whose baseball knowledge would be<br />
hard to surpass:<br />
Larry Burke (‘83) is a Senior Editor for Sports<br />
Illustrated and runs that publication’s baseball coverage.<br />
Also attending from SI was Pete McEntegart (‘87), who<br />
writes for the magazine’s web presence, SI.com. Ken<br />
Hirdt ’94 (son of Steve Hirdt, Class of ’67) works for<br />
the Elias Sports Bureau where he is the head researcher<br />
for Mets information. Finally, Robert Manfred is one<br />
of four Executive Vice Presidents of Major League<br />
Baseball. Rob’s son is currently a student at Regis and<br />
scheduled to graduate in 2005.<br />
The conversation was lively, candid and very interesting.<br />
Larry spoke about the challenges of covering baseball,<br />
an everyday sport, for a weekly magazine like Sports<br />
Illustrated. Pete talked about his interactions with<br />
players and other current hot topics in baseball. Ken<br />
explained how computerization has enhanced the world<br />
of baseball statistics, and created many new categories<br />
as well. Finally, Rob discussed how baseball issues,<br />
because it still is the national pastime, are very much<br />
magnified. Two examples he addressed were the<br />
Save the Date!<br />
Regis High School will host the 15th Annual Golf Tournament<br />
again this year at the Westchester Hills Country Club in White<br />
Plains, NY. The outing will take place on Monday, September<br />
20, 2004. Mark your calendar and watch your mailbox this<br />
summer for more information!<br />
National Spanish Exam Winners<br />
Congratulations to our National Spanish Exam Winners! Four<br />
of our Regis participants placed in the NYC Metro Chapter.<br />
Marco DeSousa and Michael Mazzeo tied for Second Place<br />
in the Chapter for Level One with scores in the ninety-ninth<br />
percentile nationally. Eddy Farrell also scored in the 99th<br />
percentile nationally and came in Third Place in the Chapter<br />
for Level One Outside Experience. Matt Barbot came in 3rd<br />
Place in the Chapter in Level Four Outside Experience. All<br />
Regis participants scored well, and most scores were above<br />
the 90th percentile nationally. Congrats to all!<br />
Spiderman logo controversy and the steroids scandal.<br />
Rob has had direct involvement in dealing with both of<br />
these issues.<br />
The Q&A session was great with a lot of terrific questions<br />
and responses shared on topics including, Barry Bonds,<br />
Pete Rose and others. Feedback from attendees was<br />
terrific and the RBN looks forward to more interesting<br />
events to come.<br />
(l to r): Pete McEntegart ‘87, Dave Janny ‘79, Ken Hirdt ‘94,<br />
Larry Burke ‘83 and Rob Manfred P’05 at the Regis Business<br />
Network Spring Networking Event “The Business of Baseball”.<br />
Photo courtesy of “Harisch Studios”
22 Regis Alumni News<br />
Prowlings<br />
1934<br />
Harry McClain Smith, now a Senior Vice-President<br />
at Moors & Cabot, Inc. writes, “I believe the recent<br />
title is partially in recognition of the fact that I have<br />
lasted this long!”<br />
1939<br />
Kevin G. Tubridy, 3524 Taft St., Wantagh, NY, 11793,<br />
k.tubridy@att.net<br />
Dan Wagner’s bride of almost 60 years had to be<br />
moved after eleven years confinement in an assisted<br />
living facility in South Florida to a special nursing<br />
home in the area. Dan is in good shape at Good<br />
Samaritan nearby.<br />
Jim Lanigan is still very much the way we all<br />
remember him. Forty five minutes on the phone with<br />
him demonstrated that his wit, memory and command<br />
of Latin and Greek are undiminished. As I write he is<br />
preparing for his nineteenth trip to China. Christine<br />
will accompany him. Larry Reilly attended a recent<br />
meeting of Regis alumni of the lower Connecticut<br />
area. He enjoyed the evening and was pleased to meet<br />
Fr. McClain.<br />
Elaine and Kevin Tubridy revisited one of their<br />
favorite areas - the Southwest. This past March they<br />
vacationed in Arizona and Nevada. The first stop was<br />
Scottsdale where, among other things, they saw the<br />
Giants and Cubs open the Spring training season and<br />
also spent an afternoon watching the touring tennis<br />
professionals play. On to Laughlin for some time<br />
at the casinos, a trip to the Hoover Dam and Lake<br />
Mead followed by a cruise down the Colorado River<br />
to Lake Havasu City, the home of the London Bridge<br />
since 1971. The wind-up of the vacation took them<br />
back to northern Arizona for a visit to the incredibly<br />
beautiful red rock country of Sedona. One highlight<br />
there was a wilderness train ride through the Verde<br />
River Canyon.<br />
1940<br />
Patrick McCarthy writes: I keep in regular touch<br />
with Fathers Robert Moore, OSCO, and Edward<br />
McGrath, S.J. both of my class, ‘40. The former, a<br />
Trappist, prays for us all at Abbey of the Genesee,<br />
P.O. Box 900, Piffard N.Y.14533-0900. He had<br />
been posted in dangerous Uganda, and now, having<br />
well recovered from heart by-pass surgery, leads an<br />
active life of prayer and study. Fr. Ed returned to<br />
India after a summer visit to the U.S., during which<br />
he saw friends and family, older former students<br />
from Loyola High School, newer Indian students<br />
now living in the U.S. Back at the Human Life<br />
Centre, 2, Unit 9. Bhubaneswar 751022, Orissa, he<br />
still teaches and gives labor relation seminars, often<br />
far from his home base, sometimes at the invitation<br />
of national companies. His energy and commitment<br />
are unmatchable. I remain active with Dickens studies<br />
and spend part of every day editing Dickens-L, the<br />
Dickens Forum, a wide-ranging e-mail information<br />
and discussion group. It enrolls some 650 Dickensians<br />
from around the world, many of them academics. Any<br />
Regian with a strong interest in The Inimitable is<br />
invited join at dickns-1@listserv.ucsb.edu. You may<br />
also e-mail me at mccarthy@english.ucsb.edu.<br />
1942<br />
Gerard T. Foley, 14 Louisa Ct., Northport, 11768,<br />
jerryf1@optonline.net<br />
Fr. Bob Haus, S.J. will retire from his teaching<br />
position at Canisius College at the end of this year<br />
after 45 years as a Professor of Mathematics. He will<br />
continue at Canisius College in an administrative<br />
position and as a residence hall counselor.<br />
1943<br />
Joe Clark, 181 E. 73 rd St., New York, NY 10021,<br />
joeclarkhere@msn.com<br />
Al Volpe, 52-40 39 Dr., Apt. 12-F, Woodside, NY<br />
11377<br />
If you were to ask almost any Regis man from the<br />
‘40s to name his most memorable teacher, chances are<br />
the name Joe Quintavalle would be at the head of the<br />
list. If you were to ask almost any student attending<br />
the Ateneo De Manila in the Philipines in the ‘50s<br />
to name his most memorable teacher, it is, perhaps,<br />
likely the name Al Volpe would be at the head of<br />
the list. Al taught English and Latin at the Ateneo,<br />
when his former students gather routinely for their<br />
35 th , 40 th and 45 th anniversary, Al has routinely been<br />
invited to join the festivities as a guest of the classes.<br />
He has been to Manila many times to celebrate with<br />
his former students among whom are the Secretaries<br />
of Energy and Labor in the Philippine government<br />
and the President of the Philippine Central Bank,<br />
who over the years have been his friends. Al had also<br />
supervised the school intramural program in which all<br />
one thousand students participated. Bobby Ocampu, a<br />
star on the 1960 Philippine Olympic Basketball team<br />
was among his players. Al left the Philippines to join<br />
the Creole Petroleum Company, subsidiary of Exxon.<br />
He was assigned to the support staff in Venezuela<br />
where he taught Spanish to employees from stateside.<br />
Over time Al recognized that his fortune included<br />
the computer. He changed his career direction from<br />
teaching to data processing. When he retired in 1990<br />
from Johnson and Higgins, a leader in the general<br />
insurance field, he was director of the department<br />
which prepared written “helps” to assist computer<br />
users. Al and his wife, Cay, live in Woodside, Queens.<br />
They have one daughter, a Physician who specializes<br />
in public health. They have one grandchild. Al is an<br />
inveterate volunteer. He has served on the Executive<br />
Council at Regis for many years and has contributed<br />
to “Prowlings” as well. Al is a very active<br />
member of his co-op board. He is also<br />
active in the federation of NYC housing<br />
and the National Association of Housing<br />
Coops. Al is an enthusiastic letter writer<br />
and has been published in both the<br />
“NY Daily News” and the “NY Post”<br />
on matters of interest to the Woodside<br />
anti crime council and the Woodside<br />
community council. He is active in both<br />
organizations.<br />
1944<br />
Gene Maloney, 31 Almond Tree<br />
Lane, Warwick, NY 10990,<br />
Emaloney31@yahoo.com<br />
Class Representative Gene Maloney has<br />
this to report: Gene Rooney reports from Santiago,<br />
Chile that in March of 2004 he had the first 60 th mini<br />
reunion of our class. He met up with Hank Schaf<br />
and his sister, Frances, who were arriving on another<br />
cruise that happened to stop in Chile. Hank was a<br />
day late in arriving and Gene had to hang around his<br />
favorite “watering holes” waiting for him. He finally<br />
met up with them on Sunday at a hotel on the outskirts<br />
of Santiago. Gene reports that they had a delightful<br />
reunion feast at the hotel. I am told that Hank’s sister<br />
got stuck paying the tab. Hank and his sister then took<br />
a bus to Valparaiso to pick up the Royal Princess to<br />
continue their trip. Gene Rooney says he will be up<br />
in the states in August and September. I have alerted<br />
Buddy O’Mara and his wife, Maureen, so that they<br />
can arrange to be out of town. Buddy and Maureen<br />
were in the Warwick, NY area in April and stopped<br />
by to see Barbara and Gene Maloney. We chatted for<br />
an hour or so. Buddy has been retired from the NYC<br />
School System, where he was a teacher for 40 years.<br />
They tried to pull a Gene Rooney and stay over for<br />
a few days, but we got rid of them. Tom Sheridan<br />
is organizing a reunion of our classmates who will<br />
celebrate 60 years in the Jesuit community this year<br />
in the Cornwall retreat house. They are: Tom, Charlie<br />
Whelan, Jack Scully, Gene Rooney, Tom Murphy,<br />
Bob Kelly and Bob Lynch. Marty Murtagh, Jim<br />
O’Connell and Gene Maloney had lunch with Coach<br />
Don Kennedy and his son, George, in Pearl River,<br />
NY. Don was 97 on April 25 th . He is still in need of a<br />
walker to get around, but his mind is as sharp as ever.<br />
Jim (or Jake) had been in Florida for a few weeks and<br />
on his trip back, he had a flare up of his divirticulitits<br />
and spent a week in a hospital in Georgia. He’s fine<br />
now. While in Florida, Jake and Terry were joined<br />
by four of their five children from Philadelphia,<br />
New Jersey and Racine, WI. His brother Tim and<br />
Jake’s two surviving sisters were also there. Marty<br />
looked trim and ready for a half court game. Jake has<br />
agreed to do the legwork to arrange for a 60 th reunion.<br />
He is contacting Jack Scully to see if anything can<br />
be set up on the Fordham Bronx Campus, which<br />
is pretty convenient to get to. A LETTER WILL<br />
FOLLOW AS SOON AS SOMETHING DEFINITE<br />
IS ARRANGED. Bill Dunn reports that all is well<br />
on Cape Cod. He tried out for the role of Hamlet<br />
with the local theatre group, but didn’t get the part.<br />
The director had seen his performance in the Regis<br />
rendition back in 1944. They offered him a job with<br />
the stage crew. Tom Murphy resides on the Fordham<br />
Campus and says Mass on Sunday at his old parish,<br />
Fran and Dick Schneider ‘54 at the Class of 1954 Reunion.
Summer 2004 23<br />
St. Margaret in Riverdale. Bob Morison’s son, Kevin,<br />
was Mac McGarry’s guest at a recent taping of Mac’s<br />
TV show “It’s Academic” in Washington, DC. Mac’s<br />
program, which begain in 1961, is in the Guinness<br />
Book of World Records as the world’s longest running<br />
TV quiz show.<br />
1945<br />
William J. O’Brien, 92 Riva Ave., North Brunswick,<br />
NJ 08902<br />
Frank Peters’ two volume “The Monotheists” is now<br />
available in bookstores (and Amazon.com) as well<br />
as two audio cassette courses on “Jerusalem” and<br />
“Judaism, Christianity and Islam”. He still uses Fr.<br />
Donnelly’s “Answer Wisely” to teach Islam at NYU.<br />
It’s not easy to change old habits.<br />
1947<br />
Joseph C. Miranda, 1270 Plandome Rd., Plandome<br />
Manor, NY 11030, jcm59@juno.com<br />
John Cirino had this to say: My wife Jean and I are<br />
doing OK, although I’m now running on a pacemaker.<br />
Glad we made the 50 th reunion in 1997. Would like to<br />
know if anyone has an address for Joe Davis ’47. He’s<br />
listed on “Classmates.com”.<br />
1949<br />
Andy J. Hernon, 60 Sutton Place, S., Apt#10AS, New<br />
York, NY 10022<br />
On April 17 th Bill Sabatini succumbed to cancer. Bill<br />
was a graduate of Fordham University and Columbia<br />
University and did postgraduate studies at New<br />
York University. He served for four years with U.S.<br />
Army Intelligence in Germany and Austria. He was<br />
a graduate of the U.S. Army School of Languages<br />
in Monterey, California. He taught mathematics for<br />
five years at Regis and was a computer analyst with<br />
IBM for 28 years. He was an Associate Professor of<br />
Mathematics at Pace University, Pleasantville, NY<br />
for five years, and taught for two years at the Hackley<br />
School in Tarrytown, NY, in addition to doing private<br />
tutoring. He was an accomplished pianist and music<br />
composer. He maintained a life-long interest in<br />
European languages and in national and international<br />
affairs. Our deepest sympathies are extended to<br />
his wife, MaryJane, and to his children, MaryJane,<br />
Caroline, Billy, and Bob. He was a brother of Ray<br />
Sabatini, Regis ‘47. Given his skills, talents, and areas<br />
of interest, ranging from education and mathematics<br />
to music and current affairs, he was sui generis, a true<br />
Renaissance man, and we may not see his like again!<br />
R.I.P. In attendance at his the funeral Mass at St.<br />
Helena’s in the Bronx were Frances and Ray Lamb,<br />
and Ellen and Andy Hernon; John Morriss ’55<br />
delivered one of the eulogies. Joe Garon passed on<br />
the sad news that Pete Lynch has died of a cerebral<br />
hemorrhage; Pete had had the flu, his system became<br />
dehydrated, he collapsed and struck his head. Please<br />
remember Bill and Pete in your prayers. Jean<br />
Johenning suffered a stroke and is in a nursing<br />
home in the southern part of New Jersey. Should you<br />
wish to contact him, his mailing address is 100 Third<br />
Avenue, c/o Mrs. Joan McCullough, Haddon Heights,<br />
NJ 08035. From St. Louis Ed O’Donnell reports he<br />
is “getting there a little bit” but not as fast he would<br />
like. Please include Jean and Ed in your prayers. Joe<br />
Mulqueen has retired and is living in the rectory of St.<br />
Mary’s Church, 10-08 49 th Avenue, Long Island City,<br />
NY 11001. His phone number is (718) 472-2025. In<br />
early March Joe flew to California to visit Ashken<br />
and Jim Evrard in Los Angeles. Mike Browne was<br />
semi-retired and has now elected full retirement;<br />
he moved from Lake Grove on Long Island to Port<br />
Jefferson. His new mailing address is: 154 Windward<br />
Ct. So. Port Jefferson, NY 11777. Joe Garon, your<br />
Prowlings correspondent for over 50 years, is retired<br />
and lives in Manasquan, New Jersey and reports he<br />
is feeling fine. This past winter Joe fled the cold of<br />
the Northeast for the warmth of Florida. In the spring<br />
he will attend a mini-reunion of the Fordham class of<br />
’53 in Tuscon, Arizona.; late September will find Joe<br />
traveling to Italy for a two week stay. He will start in<br />
Rome and then go south to Sicily. In October Joe and<br />
Claudia will celebrate their 50 th wedding anniversary.<br />
Also vacationing in Italy this coming September will<br />
be Al Cavagnaro. March 27 th John Lynch proudly<br />
walked his daughter Maureen Bridget up the wedding<br />
aisle. Al Reichert had a shoulder separation repaired<br />
and fully expects to resume his golf game in May.<br />
George Roos was in New York City in early April<br />
to attend his wife’s 50 th Class Reunion at Marymount<br />
College in Manhattan. George is retired and living<br />
in San Diego where he does volunteer work for the<br />
Navy in disaster communications and where he is<br />
the Chairman of the Engineering Advisory Board at<br />
the University of San Diego. George is in the process<br />
of installing a radio station on the carrier Midway,<br />
hopefully in time for the upcoming anniversary of<br />
the battle this June. His wife does volunteer work at<br />
the local library in San Diego. George and his wife<br />
have four sons – the oldest teaches in Germany; the<br />
second has a Ph.D. in bio-chemistry and resides<br />
in San Diego; the third lives in Tuscon and works<br />
for Raytheon performing international offset tasks;<br />
and the youngest is a detective in Vista, California.<br />
George recently welcomed grandchild number<br />
six, Nathan Roos, in January 2004. That’s makes<br />
three boys and three girls – a matched set! George<br />
now plays organ concerts at retirement and nursing<br />
homes in San Diego about twice a month. During<br />
this year’s phonathon in March I was privileged to<br />
speak with the following members of the Class of ’49:<br />
Charles Riche, Bill Kearney, Jack O’Connell, Paul<br />
Kennedy, Ed Vojtisek, Bishop Tom Kelly, Dave<br />
Donohue, Joe Griffin, Dick Caplice, Andy Baber,<br />
Bob Byrnes, Al Mally, Al Pinado, Art Romagnoli<br />
and Paul Geissler. Dolores and Dave Donohue<br />
will visit Ireland in May and June in company with<br />
their son Steven and his family from London. Dave<br />
continues working as Corporate Technical Director<br />
of Thermal Spray and Machine, Inc. of Norfolk, VA.<br />
Dave is chairman elect of the Tidewater, VA section of<br />
the American Society of Naval Engineers.<br />
1951<br />
Donal F. McCarthy, 22 Shorehaven Lane, Manhasset,<br />
NY 11030-1826, fi nbarr@optonline.net<br />
Don McCarthy has the following to say: For years, I<br />
thought it almost a law of physics that walking around<br />
Manhattan on errands or business virtually guaranteed<br />
that, at some point, I would run into someone from the<br />
old neighborhood, from Regis, from college or from<br />
other haunts. As we age, however, our acquaintances<br />
increasingly are staying close to home, have fled<br />
the jurisdiction or are no longer here on the planet.<br />
It is with pleasure, therefore, that I can report that<br />
McCarthy’s First Law still applies, at least to a couple<br />
of other people. Jim O’Rourke advises that he had an<br />
unexpected meeting with Hank Kensing. They and<br />
their spouses (Pat and Eileen, respectively) ran into<br />
each other and had a lively chat at the Irish Repertory<br />
Theatre, an institution that all of them support and<br />
enjoy. Gene Reilly, up in the Catskills, tells us that<br />
his daughter has two little girls and is expecting<br />
another baby. His older son is in the IT business (and<br />
I’m pretty sure I know what IT means; it is somehow<br />
related to our ability to e-mail class notes to the RAN<br />
office; or am I wrong?) and his younger boy is in the<br />
Marines. When I spoke to Gene in March, his son was<br />
training at Camp Pendleton. Pray for him and for all<br />
our other fine young fellows at risk now, or soon to be<br />
so, in our necessary war in Afghanistan and our other<br />
war in Iraq. Peter Mullany, unlike his lazy retired<br />
classmates, is still a professor of English at Fairleigh<br />
Dickinson and also teaches a course at Fordham. Tom<br />
MacPeak’s wife advises us that Tom is now in a<br />
nursing home and pretty much out of communication.<br />
For those of us local residents who have attended<br />
Rich Meyer’s annual parties, a consistently missing<br />
presence has been Larry McKenna. As you know,<br />
Larry is a federal judge right here in New York, but<br />
he might as well be in Mobile or Omaha. If any of<br />
you are in a position to see him and talk to him, please<br />
get on his case and urge him to come and meet his old<br />
pals (assuming of course that Rich invites us again).<br />
Larry has one of the most demanding jobs in the legal<br />
profession; good judges tend to bury themselves in<br />
their work, and our job is to get him to come up for<br />
air. One night off shouldn’t be a problem, Larry.<br />
1952<br />
James A. McGough, 12 Highland Ave., Sleepy Hollow,<br />
NY 10591<br />
John Krebs, SJ recently passed away. The following<br />
is a piece written about Father Krebs’ passing by<br />
his dear friend, Father Cal Poulin, SJ: John has<br />
been through many very serious crises since he first<br />
fell ill two years and two months ago, but by some<br />
great inner strength, he has always pulled through,<br />
in a way that was a source of constant amazement<br />
to all of us. This last crisis began on the morning<br />
of April 15, while he was still here with us in the<br />
community. I was called to his room, and despite<br />
being on the respirator, he was having great trouble<br />
breathing, and was not responding to me at all. The<br />
whole community gathered to pray with him, and he<br />
was then anointed. We called the doctor, and she said<br />
that we should bring him to the hospital, where he was<br />
returned to the very familiar setting of the ICU, where<br />
he had previously spent periods of 25 and 33 weeks.<br />
Of course, from what looked to be his last struggle,<br />
he again made a remarkable recovery, and asked to<br />
have his TV set up so that he could watch the NBA<br />
and NHL play-offs. However, seeing him every day<br />
The late Bishop Martin Neylon, SJ
24 Regis Alumni News<br />
during this whole period of ups and downs, I could<br />
clearly see that he was not bouncing as high this time.<br />
His doctor referred to him as Bouncing John. He had<br />
to be nourished through a nasal tube, but even at that<br />
he was looking forward to his next cheeseburger. On<br />
Thursday morning, May 20, there was a knocking on<br />
my door a little after five o’clock. It was one of the<br />
boys who are in constant attendance on John, and<br />
he told me that he had been experiencing extreme<br />
difficulty in breathing since one o’clock that morning.<br />
So I rushed to the hospital. I spoke to him, and got a<br />
nod from him, while his eyes were half closed. I am<br />
sure he knew I was there, but he was drifting farther<br />
away. I anointed him again, said some prayers with<br />
him, and just waited. I went home for breakfast then<br />
back to the hospital. The x-ray showed that his left<br />
lung was totally collapsed, his blood pressure was<br />
irregular, and his heart beat erratic. I asked the doctor<br />
about the prognosis, and she could give me no time<br />
frame at all--knowing how unpredictable those had<br />
been in the past. So I went home for lunch. Our<br />
Rector came in, and I told him that I did not think<br />
John would last out the day. As soon as I spoke those<br />
words, someone came over and said I should get to the<br />
hospital as soon as possible. I rushed back there, and<br />
the bed was surrounded with doctors, nurses and other<br />
attendants. The tracer line on the heart monitor was<br />
giving short little bleeps, with intervals of a straight<br />
line. About three minutes after I arrived, it went into<br />
a continuous straight line, and the doctor looked over<br />
and nodded to me that he was gone. One of the sisters<br />
said: “He waited for you!” When I recount that story<br />
now, many people say the same thing. So typical and<br />
thoughtful of him. John touched the lives of many<br />
people very deeply, and everyone is now speaking of<br />
him in terms that are ordinarily used in talking about<br />
a saint. And I think they are right on target. I know<br />
he will be missed greatly, for his passing is a great<br />
loss. But much greater is the impact he has had on<br />
all of us.<br />
1955<br />
Karl Brunhuber, 35-44 167 th St., Flushing, NY 11358<br />
John M. Morriss, 3 Salem Pl., Valhalla, NY 10505,<br />
jmorriss11@aol.com<br />
Our 50th Anniversary Reunion will take place on<br />
Saturday (afternoon and evening), May 14, 2005.<br />
Please reserve this date in your social calendar. A<br />
mailing from the 1955 Reunion Committee will be<br />
sent to you in the Fall of 2004. Since this will be<br />
our 50th Anniversary Year, it would be soul-stirring<br />
and exciting if as many members of the Class would<br />
attend Jug Night in late October, 2004, as a warmup<br />
and prelude to the May 14, 2005, gala reunion. Also,<br />
for the school year of 2004-2005, given our 50th<br />
Anniversary Reunion, it would be especially fitting<br />
for all of us to be as generous as possible to that year’s<br />
Annual Fund Drive and also to the Capital Campaign<br />
Drive, both of which are intended entirely to keep<br />
Regis financially solvent in the years ahead. Thanks<br />
as always for your generosity and loyalty. We look<br />
forward to the pleasure, and participation, of your<br />
company! “May ours be the noble heart....” Bishop<br />
Martin J. Neylon, S.J., passed away on April 13, 2004,<br />
at Murray- Weigel Hall on the campus of Fordham<br />
University. He had been the first bishop of the Diocese<br />
of Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia for 25<br />
years, an area that he had served for 30 years overall.<br />
A mass of resurrection was offered at St. Ignatius<br />
of Loyola Church and the Bishop was buried in the<br />
Cathedral of Chuuk. Bishop Neylon was arguably the<br />
best athlete to ever join the American Branch of the<br />
Jesuits, having earned his varsity baseball letters at<br />
Canisius High School, playing with Sibby Sisti and<br />
against Warren Spahn in Summer American Legion<br />
Ball. The Bishop had an enormous influence on the<br />
members of the Class of 1955 for which we will be<br />
forever grateful. As Master of Novices for 12 years at<br />
St. Andrew-on-Hudson, he trained a whole generation<br />
of young Jesuits, who performed brilliantly in<br />
schools, colleges, universities, parishes, and mission<br />
territories. A separate article on the Bishop will be sent<br />
to the members of the Class of 1955. R.I.P.<br />
1956<br />
Paul T. Lennon, 17 Pine Ridge Road, Larchmont, NY<br />
10538, pault.lennon@verizon.net<br />
Jim Farrell reports that his son Michael just returned<br />
from a thankfully short stay in Iraq and is now<br />
attending the Navy war college in Newport, RI. He<br />
has been advised that he will be promoted to Lt.<br />
Colonel this year.<br />
1957<br />
William P. Gillen, 30 Clinton St., Apt. 2-J, Brooklyn,<br />
NY 11201, wpgillen@aol.com<br />
John J. Hannaway, 67 Ridge Rd., New Rochelle, NY<br />
10804, hannawayjj@aol.com<br />
Willie Werwaiss lost his wife Gail in March in an<br />
automobile accident while they were traveling in<br />
Maine. Family and friends crowded into Christ the<br />
King Church in Old Lyme, Conn., for a funeral<br />
Mass. Bill Gillen, John Hannaway and Ted O’Neill<br />
represented our class. In a recent e-mail, Willie said<br />
he and Gail “met in the Navy and were married<br />
(swords and all) a little over 40 years ago.” Their<br />
son Rick, one of their three children, delivered the<br />
eulogy at the Mass. Bob Mazzella is teaching in the<br />
Carmel, N.Y., schools. He began teaching in 2001<br />
after a career in insurance and sales. His first stint at a<br />
middle school in the Bronx ended after some budget<br />
cuts. ... Bill Byrnes reports that he’s involved with his<br />
startup company, Shared Spectrum. It’s developing a<br />
more efficient use of the airwaves. His daughter has<br />
recovered from a series of operations and is now<br />
working as a nurse. Nancy and Bill McGeveran<br />
report the birth of their first grandchild, Estella<br />
Elizabeth, to their oldest son Bill (Regis ‘88) and his<br />
wife Elizabeth. Bill admits to having taken numerous<br />
digital photos of her, “probably a few hundred more<br />
than could be of interest to any person not closely<br />
related to her by blood.” Tim Lake ’85 recently ran<br />
into a fellow Regis alum, Dr. Gene Cheslock ’57. Dr.<br />
Cheslock was the driving force behind<br />
the Parker Family Health Clinic in Red<br />
Bank, NJ. The clinic began operating out<br />
of a donated trailer July 2000,and now<br />
provides free health care to over 6,000<br />
patients in a brand-new facility that was<br />
completely paid for by donations. The<br />
clinic was profiled on ABC’s 20/20 in<br />
December of last year.<br />
1958<br />
Gerard M. McKenna, 7 Hilltop<br />
Rd., Katonah, NY 10536,<br />
colmckenna0715@aol.com<br />
Kevin Mansfield and his wife, Marge,<br />
recently spent a week in London visiting<br />
their youngest son John. Kevin and<br />
Marge will be Eucharistic Ministers at his wedding in<br />
June. John is on a two-year marketing assignment for<br />
his company and has been in London since December<br />
2003.<br />
1959<br />
Leo F. Tymon, Jr., 6 Greenwood Rd., Mountainside,<br />
NJ 07092, lftymon@msn.com<br />
A very good turnout for the 45th reunion, held at the<br />
school on April 24th. Attending were: Steve Agli, Pat<br />
and Christine Brosnan, Joe and Nancy Dennin,<br />
John Felago MM, Marty Gavin, Jack and Nina<br />
Godfrey, Rich Loeffler, Donal MacVeigh SJ, Don<br />
and Kristin McDonough, Pat Monahan and guest<br />
Ellen Smith, John and Helen Nugent, Dan and<br />
Marilyn O’Leary, Mike and Lorraine Shef, Ralph<br />
and Regina Thomann, Leo and Marie-France<br />
Tymon, Bob and Gwen Wiggers. Paul Mulligan<br />
was also scheduled to be there from Russia, but had<br />
to cancel at the last minute due to an emergency<br />
situation at work. Paul is with the USAID. He said that<br />
he hopes to be a regular at jug night starting in 2006,<br />
and hopes to see us all at the 50th. The best excuse for<br />
not being able to come belongs to Jim Bonnell. He<br />
had to stay in Puerto Rico to be with his wife Maisae<br />
to welcome the birth of their son Mark Thomas, born<br />
on April 14th. Jim is headmaster at the American<br />
school in Ponce, but may be returning to the US soon<br />
after a number of overseas assignments. Ed Wilkens<br />
was planning to come, but had to sub for his son on<br />
a special weekend with his grandson. Ed has four<br />
children and four grandchildren. Ray Tatti and Chris<br />
Conroy unable to attend, as they were both celebrating<br />
anniversaries. On a sadder note, since the last reunion,<br />
we have lost Bernie Fox, Bob Purcell and Charlie<br />
Restivo, as well as Rosemary Loeffler, wife of Rich,<br />
and Joanne Monahan, wife of Pat. John Felago and<br />
Don MacVeigh concelebrated the mass preceding the<br />
reception with Fr. Tom McClain, the Regis president.<br />
Representing our era’s faculty was Fr. Jim Carney,<br />
who resides at 83th street, helps out at St. Ignatius<br />
and keeps in contact with Fr. Steve Duffy, who is now<br />
90. News from those attending the soiree: Steve Agli,<br />
among others, picked up a new Regis school tie at the<br />
bookstore. Pat Brosnan is a professor of Pediatrics<br />
(endocrinology) at the University of Texas Medical<br />
School in Houston. His wife Christine is an associate<br />
professor of Nursing at the University of Texas Health<br />
Science center. Son Patrick - at Princeton Institute of<br />
Advanced Studies in algebraic geometry; grandson (2<br />
yrs). Daughter Elaine is public relations chief at SPIN<br />
magazine. Daughter Claire - Law in Asheville, NC;<br />
granddaughter (2 mos). Son Anthony grad of Tisch<br />
School at NYU, produces music and commercial<br />
(from l to r): Father Jim Carney, SJ ‘43, Jack Conroy ‘54, Joe<br />
Panzarino ‘54, and Bill Beebe ‘54 at the class of 1954’s Golden<br />
Anniversary on May 14, 2004
Summer 2004 25<br />
videos. Joe Dennin’s son Peter works as an associate<br />
in same law firm where Chris Conroy toils. Joe and<br />
Nancy have seven grandchildren, with two more on<br />
the way. John Felago had returned to Japan for a<br />
second tour in the Maryknoll order, but has been back<br />
in California for three months in order to assist in the<br />
care of his parents. He is hoping they can be stabilized<br />
and he looks forward to returning to Japan to continue<br />
his work. He recently got in touch by phone with<br />
Pete Burchyns in Palo Alto, and he hopes to see him<br />
when he gets back to California. Marty Gavin’s wife<br />
and mother-in-law are recovering nicely after an auto<br />
accident earlier this year. Marty has left Toronto and is<br />
now in Pittsburgh. Jack Godfrey’s wife Nina is about<br />
to embark on a trip to France in May. Bon voyage.<br />
Jack is now living and working in Maryland. Rich<br />
Loeffler, now fully retired, with eight grandchildren to<br />
keep him occupied. He’s also involved with his local<br />
parish council and school, the local hospital, and the<br />
National Association of Retired Federal Employees.<br />
Dan and Marilyn O’Leary are back in the area, living<br />
in eastern Long Island, but Dan is still working at<br />
his Chicago law firm, making a weekly commute.<br />
One grandson. His son recently returned from a tour<br />
in Iraq with the Florida National Guard. Looking<br />
forward to upcoming marriage of a daughter. Also one<br />
son still at home, attending grad school at LIU. Don<br />
MacVeigh is still at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey<br />
City. Don McDonough’s daughter Anne recently had<br />
a restaurant review published in the Washington Post.<br />
His daughter Susan is at Yale for doctoral studies.<br />
Pat Monahan continues to work for the State of New<br />
Jersey Judiciary. Son Sean tours campuses with an<br />
improv group called Mission Improbable. Daughter<br />
Megan graduates in May ‘04 from William and Mary.<br />
Son Patrick is Senior VP of IT at BPA in Connecticut.<br />
John and Helen Nugent married for 38 years, three<br />
children and two “great” grandsons. After a corporate<br />
career with P&G, Unilever and J&J (President of J&J<br />
Consumer Products), he did an LBO and then sold it<br />
in 2002. Fighting retirement and trying to do another<br />
LBO. Mike and Lorraine Shef’s grandson turned one<br />
in January. Son Michael is beverage director and<br />
manager at chef Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill in New<br />
York City. Ralph Thomann retired two months ago<br />
from post as Senior VP of Operations for Lillian<br />
Vernon Corp. Two children and two grandchildren.<br />
For the moment, enjoying retired life. Leo and Marie-<br />
France Tymon making frequent trips to West Virginia<br />
to visit their grandson, who turned one in February.<br />
Two daughters still on the west coast, one in Seattle<br />
and the other in San Francisco. After a year of semiretirement,<br />
Leo is starting a new job at Independence<br />
Community Bank in Newark, NJ in the first week in<br />
May. Bob Wiggers continues to work as an attorney<br />
with the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.<br />
[Sorry if I missed something. E-mail me with any<br />
updates. Go to the school web-site and see the pictures<br />
from the reunion evening in the photo gallery part of<br />
the Alumni section. L.T.]<br />
1960<br />
Joseph A. Vaccarino, 49-23 216 th St., Bayside, NY<br />
11364, JVQLA@aol.com<br />
Our condolences to the family of Orazio Russo, who<br />
passed away on May 4. May he find eternal peace and<br />
joy. Dick Pyatok Weber (rweber@worldcom.ch)<br />
now living in Geneva, is having his novel,<br />
HOMELAND, published as I write this. It can be<br />
ordered now for end of May shipment from Amazon<br />
(go to amazon.com and do search for “Dick Weber”).<br />
Dick has two more novels scheduled for publication<br />
next year. (Let’s see if we recognize any of the<br />
characters in Dick’s novels!) If you buy the novel(s),<br />
Dick will autograph them for you on your next trip<br />
to Switzerland–what could be better. Dick’s not the<br />
only smart one in the family: his older daughter Julia<br />
is approaching her final exams this summer in Berlin<br />
(Freie + Humboldt Universities) & in September will<br />
return for her final year at the University of Kent in<br />
Canterbury UK (European Studies - Politics). Younger<br />
daughter Emma starts London University/Arts at<br />
Central St. Martin’s College (in graphic design &<br />
communication) in London in September.. ..Speaking<br />
of publishing, Henry Ricardo (henry@mec.cuny.edu)<br />
is on sabbatical from Medgar Evers College (CUNY),<br />
writing a linear algebra textbook for Houghton Mifflin<br />
and thinking about the second edition of his earlier<br />
book (Henry went from linear Latin translations to<br />
linear algebra...a true Renaissance man). His wife’s<br />
second book, Databases Illuminated, was just<br />
published by Jones & Bartlett. And congratulations<br />
to them on the birth of their second grandson,<br />
Nicholas Vincent, last October, and to their son<br />
(Regis ‘85) and daughter-in-law too! ...Ed Powers<br />
(powers1693@juno.com) writes from Troy, Michigan<br />
that his son Mark, is getting married in Ann Arbor<br />
on June 12th to Amy Radak, whom he met at the<br />
University of Michigan. They will live in Santa<br />
Monica, CA, where Mark serves as an Air Force officer<br />
and Amy does genetic research. Ed will try to squeeze<br />
in some golf before the wedding. Congratulations!<br />
...Pat Conroy’s (PConroy@ccsd.edu) son Kieran will<br />
graduate from Drew University on May 15 and expects<br />
to attend Columbia School of Social Work in the near<br />
future. Pat is completing 36 years in education, 31 of<br />
them in the Clarkstown School District and is still a<br />
more years from retirement as he’s putting his second<br />
son through college. Pat’s wife, Sheila, is into her<br />
second term as Supervisor of the Town of Woodbury<br />
(Orange County). Congratulations! Mike Kane’s<br />
(mkane@med.mit.edu) son, Joshua, is carrying on the<br />
family tradition, graduating from SUNY Downstate<br />
med school on May 24th, and doing a residency in<br />
psychiatry at Brown starting in July. Congratulations!<br />
Jim Shepard [jshepard@optonline,net] (“hey Joe Vac<br />
hope you are still taking English as a second language”)<br />
married his sweetheart Kathy in March, who “would<br />
like to spend some time with all the GEEKS” he went<br />
to school with at Regis (isn’t Shep enough for her<br />
to handle?). Emil Iannacone came in from LA for<br />
the wedding. Congratulations! Shep wants to hear<br />
from everyone and looks forward to the 45th next<br />
year....John Werwaiss (jnwerwaiss@yahoo.com),<br />
Chairman of the Regis High School Board of<br />
Trustees, lives in Manhattan and is still carrying on his<br />
real estate development business [quiz: who’s richer,<br />
Werwaiss or Paduano?], but is “unable<br />
to attract any of my three children into<br />
the business.” They’re all single, so no<br />
grandchildren (sorry, John!). John’s<br />
wife, Beth, is very active at her alma<br />
mater Marymount School on 84th & 5th.<br />
Thanks to John for all the dedication and<br />
work on behalf of Regis...Jim Doran<br />
[BlackSeaFarmer@aol.com] is now<br />
single again (divorced) and on the prowl<br />
[what better place than Prowlings?]<br />
in both Catonsville, MD and Little<br />
Falls, NJ. He spends his time trying to<br />
verify whether a flood in the northwest<br />
corner of the Black Sea 8,000 years<br />
ago “launched European civilization”<br />
by spreading neolithic farming and the<br />
Indo-European language [references<br />
Joe Quintivalle’s recommended reading, “The Loom<br />
of Language”]. Best of Luck, Jim! Let us know what<br />
you discover–we’ll see you on PBS...Finally, Larry<br />
Squeri (jsqueri@po-box.esu.edu) writes: “Nice<br />
to hear from you. Nothing of great significance to<br />
report.” Relax, Larry! Thanks to everyone who<br />
responded – hope to see you all at the 45th. If you<br />
want to get together before then, e-mail me and I’ll<br />
try to organize it!<br />
1961<br />
Joseph F. Carlucci, 481 W. 22 nd St., Apt.3, New York,<br />
NY 10011<br />
Michael Pyatok’s wife, Fern Tiger, was honored by<br />
the City of Oakland on her last birthday. Her birthday,<br />
December 12, was named Fern Tiger Day in Oakland<br />
for all her good work on behalf of not-for-profit social<br />
organizations in the Bay Area. Fern, an artist whom<br />
Mike met at college in Brooklyn, founded and has<br />
been operating a business consulting firm for more<br />
that twenty five years. Philip McGough and his wife<br />
Sally (Sally is an attorney with the county of Sonoma)<br />
are celebrating the graduation of their oldest child,<br />
Brian, this month from college at the University of<br />
California-Davis. Brian took a junior year abroad in<br />
Japan, and after graduation will be returning to Japan<br />
to work and study. Phil teaches law at California State<br />
University-Sonoma, where he has been chair of the<br />
Faculty Senate, and from where he now has visions<br />
of retirement. His youngest child, Meg, is sixteen. In<br />
between are twins, Philip, Jr. and Cody. John Chendo<br />
will be going to The Democratic National Convention<br />
in Boston July 26-29 as a delegate for John Kerry<br />
from California congressional district#1(Davis-Napa-<br />
Sonoma-Eureka). He’d love to hear from any Regians<br />
in the Boston area while he is there: he’ll be staying<br />
with the California delegation at the Westin Hotel in<br />
Copley Square. Jack Newman, our class president<br />
emeritus, has moved to Los Angeles (he says he is in<br />
danger of becoming “an Angeleno”). He is continuing<br />
his work as Deputy Attorney General for the State of<br />
California, now handling primarily criminal appeals.<br />
His son, Peter, is studying dramatic arts at UCLA,<br />
and enjoys performing on stage very much. Jack’s<br />
new address is 813 Alpine Street#311, Los Angeles,<br />
Ca. 90012. Peter E. Carter says, “After 34 years<br />
as a school administrator, retirement looms in the<br />
very near future. It has been great to have been able<br />
to serve thousands of children over the years.” Nan<br />
and Matt DeLuca have just completed one more<br />
job hunting book for McGraw Hill “24 Hours to the<br />
Perfect Interview” It is set to reach bookstores on<br />
April 1, 2004.<br />
(from l to r): Jim Perrone ‘54, Walter Lennon ‘54, Ed Malloy ‘54,<br />
Pat Lee ‘54 and Joe Sullivan ‘54 at the class of 1954’s Golden<br />
Anniversary on May 14, 2004
26 Regis Alumni News<br />
1962<br />
Carl P. Saunders, 32 W. 82 nd St., New York, NY 10024,<br />
csaun31644@cs.com<br />
James Mulhall passed away this past winter. Please<br />
keep him in your prayers.<br />
1963<br />
John W. Prael, Jr., 34-06 81 St. Jackson Heights, NY<br />
11372, johnprael@yahoo.com<br />
John F. Tweedy, Jr., 26 Huron Rd., Floral Park, NY<br />
11001, john.tweedy@verizon.net<br />
Twelve classmates and six wives/guests gathered at<br />
O’Reilly’s Restaurant in NYC for a mini-reunion<br />
dinner. Present were: Dan Burns, Bob & Madeline<br />
Dillon, John & Jane Domingue, Vincent (Pat)<br />
Gallagher & YK, Rich & Judy Johnsen, Art<br />
Madigan, Luke & Nancy MacCarthy, Tom & Chris<br />
Mullaney, Kevin & Mary Ellen Morris, Jack Prael,<br />
John & Pat Tweedy and Charlie Zabrowski. Before<br />
our meal, Fr. Art Madigan, S.J. led us in prayer, giving<br />
thanks and remembering our deceased classmates,<br />
including four from 2003. Everyone seemed to enjoy<br />
catching up, especially since some had not attended<br />
our 40 th reunion last year. Pat Gallagher noted that<br />
this was his first reunion since graduation. We may<br />
try to make this an annual event! John Lellis has the<br />
following to report: Our oldest son, Andrew, received<br />
his PhD in Plant Genetics from Washington State<br />
University last Summer. He has been doing postdoc<br />
work at Oregon State University since, and he and his<br />
wife Nicole are moving to Austin, Texas this month.<br />
He will continue his postdoc efforts at The University<br />
of Texas at Austin while she will be designing web<br />
pages for a local real-estate company. Both are happy<br />
to be relocating closer to home after being away for<br />
more than 5 years “on the road”. Youngest son, Joshua,<br />
has also recently relocated to Austin from London,<br />
England, where he had been working for the Royal<br />
Shakespeare Company (and later the Texas Embassy).<br />
He is an apiring playwright, whose most recent effort,<br />
Word and Thought (a farce loosely based on the life<br />
of Alexander the Great) played to good reviews in the<br />
local Austin theater scene. Barbara and I were able to<br />
drive up for a performance and we were both duly<br />
impressed. So, it looks like Barbara and I should be<br />
looking at Austin real estate if we want to get closer<br />
to the boys. But our daughter, Amy, and 4-year-old<br />
grandson Wilde live here in Houston, so they still<br />
have the greatest pull. And, who knows where they<br />
will all be in five years’ time? Charlie Zabrowski<br />
presented “Half-sheet, Lads”, a tribute to the late<br />
Joseph Quintavalle ‘30 at this year’s Classroom<br />
Revisited event. He did a fine job and an additional<br />
treat was the presence of Betty Quintavalle, Mr. Q’s<br />
wife. She brought letters written to her during WW II<br />
while Mr. Q was in the army. Also present were David<br />
Quintavalle ‘73 and Jerold Kappes ‘52.<br />
1964<br />
Kenneth J. Beirne, 417 N. St. Asaph St., Alexandria,<br />
VA 22314, kjbeirne@mindspring.com<br />
Dennis M. Moulton, 326 E. 90 th St., #4-E, New York,<br />
NY 10128, moultond@saintignatiusloyola.org<br />
Dan Pukstar is enjoying his book “Traveling with<br />
Athena” a humorous look at his legally blind travels<br />
in Italy and Greece.<br />
1965<br />
George T. Griffi th, 73 Sunset Rd., Blauvelt, NY 10913,<br />
GTG1ESQ@aol.com<br />
Jeff Davis reports that his daughter Rebecca<br />
is changing gears after three years of chemical<br />
engineering in Japan and the US for Tokyo Electron<br />
and begins her doctorate in Biomass Conversion<br />
this summer in Purdue’s College of Agricultural and<br />
Biological Engineering. Jeff has now served 17 years<br />
as an Assistant Attorney General and Counsel to the<br />
University of Washington and still going strong.<br />
Jack Murtagh’s daughter Kerin Leigh was wed to<br />
Anthony Addison Goethals, great grandson of Gen.<br />
G.W. Goethals, U.S.A. and grandson of Gen. Thomas<br />
Goethals, USMC, on June 7, 2003 at St. Elizabeth’s<br />
Church, Edgardtown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA. John<br />
Woodruff’s son Michael, co-captain of the soccer<br />
team at Beacon High School, was elected to the NYC<br />
All Star and named an “All City Player” by Newsday.<br />
1966<br />
James E. Maguire, 419 Third Ave., #4D, New York, NY<br />
10016, jmaguire@courts.state.ny.us<br />
John Dobrovolsky is on the teaching faculty of the<br />
C.G. Jung Institute in LA. His daughters Sonja and<br />
Molly are acting and dancing, respectively. Pete<br />
Maguire has one daughter who’s a Rutgers grad and<br />
one who’ s a senior. Al Bartosh was in a car accident<br />
8/03 and has been recuperating ever since. Rich<br />
Ouzonian is the theatre critic of the Financial Post in<br />
Toronto. His second book, “ Are You Trying to Seduce<br />
Me Ms. Turner” a bestseller last year in Canada, will<br />
soon be released in paperback here. A second volume<br />
follows... John Marquardt lost his wife last year<br />
and is caring for three kids, working in NYC for<br />
the Housing Authority. He says he “retired” to city<br />
work. George Schwerdt will marry off a daughter<br />
in October, and has two sons, one in Clarkson,<br />
graduating this year and one in RPI, a freshman.<br />
Robert Mollenhauer’s daughter and son in law, Cher<br />
and Rob, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Conor<br />
Reese Lepre. Cher works at Merrill Lynch for Rocco<br />
Papandrea ’85, who’s wife Danielle also gave birth<br />
to their first child in February 2004. Bob’s company,<br />
Metes Group LLC., has also recently merged with<br />
Weinhart and Associates, a tax preparation business in<br />
the Ansonia hotel! Ed Scher happily reports that he’s<br />
been at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute for<br />
over 30 years. One daughter-graduates from BC this<br />
June while her older sister does grad study in sports<br />
psychology at the University of Michigan. Their 14-<br />
year-old brother is at home with Ed and his wife who<br />
do jazz piano and vocals at an upscale Cape Cod club.<br />
Ed also teaches piano at the Cape Cod Conservatory<br />
of Music. According to Ed, “It all started in the Senior<br />
Room.” Chris Lamb, who’s lived in Bangor, Maine,<br />
most of his adult life, reports that his son Dourgla,<br />
a HS senior, is considering attending college in the<br />
Big Apple, the reverse of Chris’s journey a quarter<br />
century ago. The American Association<br />
of School Administrators named Tom<br />
Sullivan New Mexico’s Superintendent<br />
of the Year. Robert Thorns is still in<br />
Saudi Arabia. Terry McDonough is<br />
into insurance consulting. Tom Sullivan<br />
lives in Farmington, New Mexico, and<br />
would love to see a coastline again.<br />
Denis Achacoso has been speaking to<br />
classmates, is awaiting a new test, The<br />
Johnson Museum at Cornell will show<br />
one of his paintings. Kate Schoener,<br />
a junior at Dartmouth majoring in<br />
geography, will do her Spring term at<br />
Prague. Last year she was in Tolouse.<br />
Jim Kuntz is an adjunct at the Graduate<br />
School of Education at Fordham. After<br />
hepatitis, malaria & typhoid, heart attack<br />
and kidney failure he’s feeling better,<br />
teaching and looking forward to doing new things.<br />
Francis Bellon’s mom passed away in October 2003.<br />
Doug Brown attended his nephew Chris Brown’s (93)<br />
wedding. Vinnie Hevern will be in Poland during<br />
August to give a paper on the Internet and Personality<br />
Development. He is pioneering an on-line graduate<br />
course for New Zealand University in psychotherapy.<br />
John Van Name spent most of the last two months<br />
working in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. “One Sunday in<br />
February, I drove to Memphis and had lunch with Art<br />
Yanushka. We hadn’t seen each other in 35 years. Art<br />
promised to come to the 40th reunion,” John reports.<br />
John hopes to contribute again this year. Work has<br />
been very slow, hence the assignment in Arkansas.<br />
We have plenty of work in Iraq, but he has refused<br />
that assignment four times so far. John Magovern’s<br />
son John is in the MBA program at Boston College.<br />
His other son Robert graduates from Catholic<br />
University Law in May 2004. His daughter Elizabeth<br />
is a freshman at George Washington University. Tom<br />
Gaye is moving to San Francisco in the Spring- he<br />
says he’ll look for Jack Collins with flowers in his<br />
hair.<br />
1967<br />
William R. Armbruster, 42 Van Wagenen Ave., Apt 8,<br />
Jersey City, NJ –07306, billarmbruster@comcast.net<br />
Fr. Mike Holleran, St. Lucy’s Church-833 Mace Ave.,<br />
Bronx, NY 10467, celestial49@msn.com<br />
The street in Queens where George McCann grew<br />
up was recently named Firefighter Thomas McCann<br />
place in honor of his brother Tommy, who died at the<br />
World Trade Center on 9/11. The many journalists in<br />
attendance included Pete Landis ‘67, managing editor<br />
for the cable channel New York 1. “My mother gave<br />
him a kiss and told him he had not changed a bit in over<br />
forty years,” George writes. “Pete provided my family<br />
with a copy of the film footage as a remembrance.<br />
Thank you, Peter.” The street sign is at the corner of<br />
44th Street and 50th Avenue in the Woodside section<br />
of Queens. Jack Alexander finally tied the knot in<br />
January. The “Lucky Lady” is Karen Alexander. We<br />
will have a Class Retreat/Reunion Weekend Nov. 12-<br />
14 at Mount Manresa Retreat House in Staten Island.<br />
The cost is $200 per person. Contact Bill Armbruster<br />
at Billarmbruster@comcast.net if you wish to attend.<br />
So far 16 people have signed up.<br />
1968<br />
Walter Matthews writes: This past weekend my wife,<br />
Claire, and I attened a Worldwide Marriage Encounter.<br />
We had wanted to do this last year to celebrate our 25th<br />
anniversary but were not able to get to it. The weekend<br />
The street in Queens where George McCann grew up was recently<br />
named Firefi ghter Thomas McCann place in honor of his brother<br />
Tommy, who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Summer 2004 27<br />
was wonderful and we wholeheartedly recommend it<br />
to all. On the weekend we met Bill Kelly (‘56) and<br />
his lovely wife Kate. Regis came up at one of our<br />
luncheon conversations! We compared notes about<br />
some of the teachers we shared in common, and about<br />
his classmate turned Regis teacher John L. Connelly<br />
(‘56). It is always such a blessing to discover “one of<br />
us” in such unexpected places. On a personal note:<br />
our oldest son, Christian, graduated from Villanova in<br />
May and is now at the Law School there. Our second<br />
son, John, is a sophomore at Xavier in Cincinnati,<br />
and our daughter, Katie, a senior in high school, is<br />
awaiting college acceptances. I will celebrate 20 years<br />
working for the National Service Committee (national<br />
office for the Catholic Charismatic Renewal) this<br />
May. My wife joined the staff a few years ago as our<br />
Fund Raising Coordinator.<br />
1969<br />
Hon. Dennis E. Milton, 89 Lake Rd., Greenlawn, NY<br />
11740, dmilton1@optonline.net<br />
Bernard Roan had the following to report: I’d been<br />
working as a Senior Attorney (Contracts) at NASA<br />
HQ since retiring from the USCG in 1995. When<br />
Columbia happened, I got pulled into the deluge<br />
of legal issues. NASA offered me a promotion and<br />
transfer to Johnson Space Center, the flagship human<br />
space flight center in Houston, as the Chief Counsel<br />
of the 13 attorney legal office. We moved down in<br />
November, hoping to make this a 3-5 year tour before<br />
returning to the DC area. Daughter Lauren is a junior<br />
at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg,<br />
VA, and my two sons (Brian, a high school junior,<br />
and Kevin, a fourth grader) are in the local schools,<br />
Scouts and sports down here. Been to the Alamo and<br />
Laredo, and gearing up for the big Houston Rodeo<br />
next month. Like the bumper sticker says, “We may<br />
not have been born in Texas, but we got down here as<br />
fast as we could.” The 35th Class Reunion was held<br />
on April 17th. A small but lively group attended: Al<br />
Avallone, Peter Brown, Mike D’Angelo, Ed Dorchak,<br />
Larry Liodice, Cliff Malmgren, John Mannhaupt,<br />
Jim McGuire, Chris Moroney, Mark Puleo, Charlie<br />
Tessagrossa and Joe Travo. They were joined at<br />
dinner by Fr. Jim Carney, who provided an update<br />
on Dennis Milton, who was unable to attend the<br />
reuniuon. On April 15th, Dennis underwent successful<br />
surgery for a colorectal cancer which was detected in<br />
a routine colonoscopy examination in early January.<br />
The prognosis for a full recovery is excellent. Dennis<br />
is grateful to John Butler, M.D., for his advice and<br />
support during the past few months.<br />
1970<br />
Robert M. Leonard, 56 Highland Ave., Chatham, NJ<br />
07928, rleonard@dbr.com<br />
Dennis Drucker took early retirement from NY State<br />
in March 2003 and moved to Albuquerque, which<br />
has been wonderful. His wife’s health has improved<br />
incredibly. The sun, warmth and lack of humidity<br />
are great. The winter snow is measured in inches and<br />
usually melts in hours. They live in a great apartment<br />
with an outdoor pool for five months and moved into<br />
their home in early January. The Archdiocese has a<br />
great program of marrying Catholics in church who<br />
had civil weddings with about 150 couples. Dennis<br />
just finished the two day New Mexico Bar Exam and<br />
continues to job hunt. Weather is great; the pool opens<br />
in April!<br />
1973<br />
John O’Toole, 4 Haldimann Lane, Blairstown, NJ<br />
07825, john.o’toole@morganstanley.com<br />
Paul Crowley writes: I have recently become a<br />
columnist for an online adventure computer gaming<br />
site(www.justadventure.com); the column title is<br />
Adventure Seeker (yes, that’s right, I spend my time<br />
playing and thinking about computer games - sad,<br />
isn’t it? Well, George Bush is president, so there!)<br />
James Montagnino had a summer intern, Bruce<br />
Connolly ‘00, who’s graduating Fordham this year<br />
and going to law school. William Parley is working<br />
on a private pilot license. Frank Peace’s daughter<br />
is at Fordham and visiting friends who are studying<br />
abroad. She spent St. Patrick’s day in Ireland. Mike<br />
O’Keefe is completing his 23 rd year with the NYC<br />
Fire Department. He is a deputy chief currently<br />
working in Lower Manhattan. Mike and Sue’s son<br />
James passed away in October 2003 at age 20 after<br />
a long illness.<br />
1974<br />
William O’Connell, 26 Peachtree Drive, Cortlandt<br />
Manor, New York 10567 o’connellw@wcmc.com<br />
Mark Koltko-Rivera writes: Kathleen and I<br />
(married 2/15/2000, just before I completed my<br />
doctorate – Counseling Psych, NYU) live in Sunny<br />
Central Florida, where I have the annoying habit of<br />
mentioning to my friends up north that my students<br />
are rollerblading in shorts in February. I am the<br />
director of research for Professional Services Group,<br />
in which capacity I conduct psychologically oriented<br />
research under government contract. In addition, on<br />
an adjunct basis, I direct a small factors psychology<br />
research group at the University of Central Florida.<br />
(I am still working towards an academic position.)<br />
As of this writing (2/17/04) I am anxiously awaiting<br />
the publication of what I hope will be a major article<br />
“The Psychology of Worldviews” in the March issue<br />
of “The Review of General Psychology”. On the<br />
family front: Kathleen has done so much to renovate<br />
the house that all the night cashiers at Home Depot<br />
know her by first and middle names. Mom continues<br />
to serve as mayor of the Lower East Side. My oldest,<br />
Sonya, married her long-time boyfriend Miles Grover<br />
(May ’03); they have moved out to Seattle where she<br />
will attend the University of Washington and he will<br />
continue to learn web design. Claire is completing<br />
her sophomore year at Brigham Young University,<br />
where she is an honors major in English; she plans<br />
to spend the fall semester in Italy. Leah will start<br />
in the fall at Maryland Institute College of Art.<br />
Viktor (H.S. sophomore) hopes to finish his Eagle<br />
Scout project this spring (future plans:<br />
academic physics? engineering?). In<br />
short, we have been blessed, for which<br />
we are very grateful. Give a holler at<br />
koltkorivera@yahoo.com. John Hall<br />
writes: I just sent my son Ryan back<br />
to Manhattan College (freshman) so<br />
we stopped in to see the Dries’. They<br />
have two girls (Alli and Emi) and live<br />
in Pearl River. Our youngest is 2 (Tara)<br />
and we still have one other in high<br />
school (Diana). Also heard from Bob<br />
Sexton about two months ago. His firm<br />
relocated him and Yasim from Moscow<br />
to Istanbul. Says he likes it and Yasim<br />
is from Turkey so she is right at home.<br />
Jim Heimann writes: I continue to live<br />
in northeast NJ and enjoy radiology.<br />
Nothing new going on. I try to play hoops from time<br />
to time. Still competitive desire despite my advancing<br />
age, bad back and surgically repaired knee. However,<br />
the body lets me know about it for the next couple<br />
of days. I may try knitting as an alternative. Tony<br />
Ceritelli writes: I have been in Columbus, OH on<br />
and off for the last 26 years. My wife Tracy and I<br />
have been married for almost 20 years and we have<br />
four children: Jessica (age 21, junior at Ohio U.);<br />
Christina (age 19, freshman at Columbus State CC);<br />
Anthony (age 15, sophomore at Bishop Watterson<br />
HS) and Mary (age 12, 6 th grade St. Michael). I am a<br />
Regional Sales Manager for Nordenia USA (a flexible<br />
packaging company) and Tracy is a Kindergarten<br />
Teacher’s Aide at St. Michael’s School.<br />
1975<br />
John J. Colgan, 453 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215,<br />
jcolgan@nypd.org<br />
Sal Principe just retired from17 years of coaching<br />
varsity baseball at Keyport High School, NJ – 2 state<br />
championships and 4 division championships! Sal<br />
also coached the boys and girls bowling teams to<br />
division championships this year.<br />
1976<br />
Cornelius Grealy, 17 Overlook Drive, Greenwich, CT<br />
06830, grealc@ldcorp.com<br />
Andrew Tymocz, 207 Farragut Ave., Hastings-on-<br />
Hudson, NY 10706, atymocz@nyp.org<br />
Jim and Tracy Doyle welcomed their newest addition<br />
Nicholas on Nov 11, 2003, joining his brother Jimmy.<br />
Jim retired from the NYPD after 21 plus years, as<br />
Executive Officer of the Computer Crime Squad.<br />
After 9/11, Jim was assigned to the morgue where he<br />
was in charge of cataloguing the victims and keeping<br />
the official count. He is now currently the Director<br />
of Operations for Guidance Software, which offers<br />
software to do forensics and incident response in<br />
computer security issues. Alex Kuzyszyn lives in<br />
Woodbridge, NJ with Olga, his wife of 21 years and<br />
two daughters Adriana (18) and Alexandra (13). He is<br />
in his 20th year of working for the American Society<br />
of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP),<br />
where he was recently promoted to Director of<br />
Radio Distribution. His wife and he are owners<br />
and partners in a music publishing company, Duma<br />
Music Inc., since 1985. On weekends, he is busy with<br />
his club date band, Luna, which recently released a<br />
CD. Joe LaFiandra recently became president of<br />
the South Orangetown Music Boosters Association<br />
(SOMBA). “My daughter started playing oboe in<br />
the fourth grade, and then the School Board proposed<br />
The Regis Alumni Basketball Champions, the class of 1997
28 Regis Alumni News<br />
eliminating orchestral music from the budget. I had<br />
to do something. Music is so important to the kids.”<br />
He and his brother firefighters also saved a neighbor’s<br />
home from burning down on Palm Sunday morning.<br />
Jim “Dollar Bill” Marchwinski is happily married<br />
to Joyce, a Registered Nurse, and they have four kids<br />
- two boys and two girls - ages 11, 9, 6 & 5. “There<br />
is also Buddy, our miniature Dachshaund. We live<br />
in New Jersey. I’m a lawyer and a solo practitioner.<br />
Dance lessons, soccer, my wife is getting ready<br />
for a bake sale tomorrow.” Peter Moerler is still<br />
enjoying life in Singapore where he does credit work<br />
for Deutsche Bank. He’s been in Asia for 19 years<br />
(Seoul, Jakarta, Hong Kong and now Singapore).<br />
He’s been married for 8 years to Rani Arianti, and<br />
they have two girls, Beth (5) and Cathy (3). If anyone<br />
goes over to Singapore, be sure to let Peter know:<br />
peter.moerler@db.com. Luke and Phyllis O’Keefe<br />
celebrated their 20th anniversary last September, with<br />
their daughters Meghan 18, and Kathryn 13. Luke has<br />
formed his own consulting company after working for<br />
Texaco for ten years, and is pursuing clean energy<br />
projects, so send some business his way, or he is going<br />
to turn the lights out on you. Frank Pietrantonio is<br />
beginning his 5th year with Cooley Godward, a Palo<br />
Alto based technology-centric law firm and he is<br />
now the leader of the firm’s Patent Prosecution and<br />
Counseling Group. “Our three children Anna 11, Sofie<br />
9 and Luke 5, lead active lives, much more so than I<br />
ever did. The two girls are swimmers and they have<br />
helped me see 4 a.m. again (practice calls), although<br />
for the first time without being under the influence of<br />
any substances. I encourage all sight-seeking Regians<br />
to give a holler if you are making the pilgrimage to<br />
our Nation’s Capital.” Jon and Lynn Powers are<br />
celebrating their 20th anniversary this summer. They<br />
plan to return to Hawaii for a second honeymoon with<br />
their three girls, Tara 16, Megan 13, and Kaitlyn 8.<br />
Jon is still at JPMorganChase, in technology in their<br />
Auto Finance business. Lewis Stoffel is living in<br />
Cincinnati, and working as an RN in an oncologist’s<br />
office giving chemotherapy. His wife Sue is a nurse<br />
midwife delivering “many babies”. They have two<br />
sons, Robert who is 16 and 6ft 6in (does not play<br />
basketball-chess is his game) and Andrew, 13 who<br />
loves to swim. Pat Mauro’s elder son Jaime has<br />
become an Eagle Scout and is now a freshman at the<br />
Music Conservatory at Purchase College. Pat is very<br />
involved in all aspects of Scout leadership and hopes<br />
his younger son, Jack, will soon be an Eagle, too. Wife<br />
Elizabeth has had her book “The Way of the Cross in<br />
Times of Illness” published by Liturgical Press.<br />
1977<br />
Joe Pineiro writes: I now live in Northwest Spain, not<br />
far from Santiago de Compostela. I would like to offer<br />
my help and hospitality to anyone who is interested<br />
in visiting the area. Please feel free to call or write<br />
anytime, I will answer all inquiries with accurate<br />
information. The city of Vigo is a good place to stay<br />
while visiting Santiago. This area is filled with chapels<br />
and interesting Catholic sites. My home number is:<br />
011-34-986-314344. My mobile number is: 011-34-<br />
680-356041. (When calling from Spain the first five<br />
digits are not necessary.) My address is: Carreiro do<br />
Xaldeiro/ Moana, Pontevedra 36950, Spain. Hope to<br />
hear from you soon!<br />
1978<br />
Bernard Kilkelly, One Samuel Place, Lynbrook, NY<br />
11563, kilkellybj@cs.com<br />
Greg Rapisarda, Father Ray Sweitzer, SJ ‘63 and<br />
Stan Parchin drove to the Philadelphia Museum of<br />
Art to go see the Manet and the Sea special exhibition.<br />
Then Father Ray and Stan went to see Creating St.<br />
Peter’s (featuring works by Michelangelo), a show<br />
from Vatican City, at the Knights of Columbus<br />
Museum in New Haven, CT. Congratulations to<br />
Larry Ehmer and his wife Kristen on the birth of<br />
Amanda Kelly on April 13. Amanda was welcomed<br />
by her sisters Katherine and Janet and brother Jared.<br />
Larry writes “in the busy month of April, I finished<br />
my Executive MBA at Villanova and was selected<br />
for Beta Gamma Sigma (the National Honor Society<br />
for Business grads). It was a fast-paced 21 months,<br />
but I learned how to work incredibly efficiently and<br />
how to exist on 5 hours of sleep each night. We had a<br />
great class trip to Santiago, Chile and Buenos Aires,<br />
Argentina in January.” Jim Olivo is Chief Executive<br />
Officer of the Structured Products Division of Quanta<br />
U.S. Holdings, a unit of Quanta Capital, a Bermudabased<br />
specialty insurance company. Michael Bérubé<br />
wrote an essay for the New York Times Sunday<br />
Magazine on May 2 about “How to End Grade<br />
Inflation” (at colleges, not at Regis). Mike is the<br />
Paterno Family professor of literature at Penn State<br />
University.<br />
1979<br />
Richard J. Weber, 240 W. 102 St., #24, New York, NY<br />
10025, weberrick@rcn.com<br />
On March 21st our class had its 25th reunion. We had<br />
a nice turnout of alumni and wives and were able to<br />
learn the following Prowlings.<br />
Tom Massaro concelebrated the mass with Regis<br />
President Fr. Tom McClain. Tom has a new book<br />
out that, unlike his prior books that had a more<br />
conservative perspective on the Catholic Church,<br />
takes on the church’s traditionally pacifistic view<br />
of war as he comments on America’s participation<br />
in Iraq. You can pick it up on Amazon. Erich Wolz<br />
writes that Father Tom might be interested to know<br />
that one of his books is being used in a junior<br />
Theology class at Strake Jesuit in Houston, where<br />
Erich’s older son, Erich III, is a freshman. When<br />
Erich III gets to that point, he’ll have to have his<br />
copy signed by the author! Mike McConnell, an<br />
Assistant Professor in Cardiovascular Medicine, was<br />
in from Stanford, CA via a conference in Florida – “it<br />
gave me an excuse to cut out early.” He is at Stanford<br />
Medical Center with Russ Altman, who sends regards<br />
but missed the reunion because “unfortunately, we<br />
are leaving to live in Florence, Italy for 4 months<br />
on Tuesday, and are crazy and frantic<br />
packing, etc.cthis weekend.” Russ sends<br />
his regards (we feel for you, Russ!).<br />
Speaking of doctors, Dr and Mrs. Frank<br />
Messina were not able to make it in from<br />
Indiana, but send their regards. Kevin<br />
Rochford came in from Chicago, where<br />
he is at Northern Trust. He and his wife<br />
Margaret just adopted their second child.<br />
Kevin pledges to reconnect with folks he<br />
has not seen in a while. John Morgan<br />
and Peter Barrasso, also co-graduates of<br />
Columbia Business School, reminisced<br />
about the companies that they have both<br />
been working at since leaving B-School:<br />
John, at Pfizer, and Peter at ATT. John<br />
and his wife Emily just purchased a<br />
home in Brooklyn (12 feet wide but very<br />
tall, says John), adopting their second<br />
child from Korea in the fall. When it comes to<br />
employment longevity Benson Louie has us all beat<br />
– he is at JP Morgan Chase, and has been through all<br />
the mergers since interning there while at Regis! John<br />
Feeley, now taking courses towards a Masters degree<br />
at the National War College between gigs at the State<br />
Department, back from Mexico “received a call from<br />
Ivan Harangozo (who is practicing medicine in<br />
Manassas, VA) two days ago about this “thing” and<br />
was in attendance. Rich Hickey, living in Westchester<br />
is hoping to bring a little credibility into the electoral<br />
process. As a software engineer, he is working with<br />
the networks to deliver real-time polling results for the<br />
presidential election. Rich reports, “It’s the ultimate<br />
show time – nobody cares if you fixed the bug the<br />
day after the election.” Other Westchester participants<br />
Larry McCartney and Jim Hussey checked in.<br />
There’s always a mystery guest at these reunions and<br />
this year it was Charlie Moran (we may remember<br />
him as Charlie Grossman). Charlie and his wife were<br />
in from Kansas City where Charlie is an engineer. Bob<br />
McDermott’s record collection is now up to 6,000<br />
(after culling about 300 entries that either had electric<br />
piano or Bossanova crap). Still in Boston area with<br />
wife Beth, son, and daughter. Enjoyed some music<br />
around NYC when he was in town. Bob probably gets<br />
the “looks the most like he did in HS” award after 25<br />
years. Tom Watson, living in Chicago, is President<br />
of Petro Canada’s US subsidiary y. Joe Vargas and<br />
wife Usha were in from West Palm Beach making<br />
a weekend of things here in the Big Apple. Joe is a<br />
software engineer and is working with Fred Sharp’s<br />
(’80) brother-in-law. Ah, those Regis connections.<br />
Our two classmates on the Regis Board of Trustees<br />
– Dave Bowen and Fabian Fondriest – both were in<br />
attendance. Fabian is the CEO of Home Site Insurance<br />
in Boston area and Dave (who has twins at home like<br />
at least one of his classmates Peter Barrasso) is<br />
managing a private equity fund in NYC. Joe Faga,<br />
now at Cap Gemini, was in from Ohio. He has taken<br />
on quite a project with his children – making a Lego<br />
Movie. Joe is both producing and distributing this epic<br />
and hopes for an end of summer release. I forget to ask<br />
him what the plot was. Oh well, guess I’ll have to wait<br />
until it comes out. John Haddad just showed up from<br />
Houston, TX. He combined a visit with his father into<br />
the 25th anniversary. John’s practicing medicine in<br />
Houston and his wife is expecting their third child.<br />
The jug night regular crew of Bob Schmidt (and his<br />
wife Gail), Mike Guararra, Bill Tietjen, and Dave<br />
Janny were all there in fine form. Rumor had it that<br />
Bill has not only obtained a drivers’ license but also a<br />
car, but that was too frightening a concept for any of<br />
us to accept. Rich Johnson and wife Michelle were<br />
From the wedding of Jose Villar ‘87 to Kelly O’Connor on May 1, 2004<br />
in Del Rey Beach, Fl. From left to right, it’s Chris Rooney ‘87, Daren<br />
Turner ‘87, Jose Villar’87, Peter McNally ‘87 and Kevin McNally ‘88.
Summer 2004 29<br />
pleased to learn recently that their son Erik would<br />
be entering Regis in the fall – the first legacy of the<br />
class of ’79. Nice going, to all the Johnsons! Mike<br />
Ramos was in from Seattle, winning the distance<br />
award. Mike has been in Seattle for 20 years with his<br />
wife and 2 children, and has been working in various<br />
Catholic ministries the entire time. Charlie Cigna<br />
sees some signs of life in the technology executive<br />
search market. When he is not adding grateful clients<br />
to the ranks of the gainfully employed he is lives with<br />
his wife and children in West Windsor, New Jersey.<br />
Tim Murphy is a lawyer in Boston, but hopefully<br />
not a Red Sox fan! Chris McGovern is working on<br />
Wall Street in a field I can barely even understand,<br />
let alone explain. Tom Swift is working as in-house<br />
counsel at CFSB, still living in Manhattan and vows<br />
he will never leave (Manhattan, that is!) Thanks to<br />
Rich Johnson, Bill Tietjen, and Peter McAliney,<br />
and particularly to the Development office, for their<br />
invaluable efforts in organizing the event. Reporting<br />
in from the fronts with Prowlings were the following<br />
classmates: Ray Ressy relocated to London last<br />
year, where he’s working on Central/Eastern Europe<br />
debt capital markets at ING Bank. Ray left<br />
law practice in 1996 and has been working<br />
on the investment banking side of emerging<br />
markets - first in New York for Latin<br />
America and now in London. Pat Galizio and his<br />
family have relocated to Manchester, England with<br />
Kellogg Company and plan to be there for 3 years and<br />
then return to the states. John Scola, President of the<br />
Catholic Community Foundation in Phoenix, sent his<br />
sincere regrets to all for missing the reunion. He sends<br />
special greetings to Frank Messina, Peter Barrasso,<br />
Marcos Rodriguez, Luis Villareal, and the Radical<br />
Fringe. James Murphy’s daughter Meghan will be<br />
graduating high school in 2004 with Honors, she is<br />
currently looking at colleges. His son Jamey will be<br />
graduating grade school in 2004 with Honors and is<br />
considering Chaminade H.S. Jim Clark, unable to<br />
attend, sends his “greetings with fond remembrances<br />
and best wishes to all on this Silver occasion.” He<br />
also reports, “On the (very) good side, last August,<br />
my wife since 1989, Renee, and our two boys (Ethan,<br />
11, and Trevor, 9), moved into our first house—here<br />
on Staten Island, where we’ve been living since right<br />
before Ethan was born. Renee has a position with<br />
New Jersey’s Division of Consumer Affairs, and I’m<br />
holding down the fort at home because, on the down<br />
side, I’ve been on the DL since September 1999.<br />
...hope everyone enjoys the evening very much!”<br />
Phil Garone is in the final throes of his Ph.D. (in<br />
Environmental History and Ecology) at UC Davis,<br />
after an earlier career as a high school (boarding<br />
school) teacher. His project is a historical and<br />
ecological study of the wetlands of California’s Great<br />
Central Valley. He’s living with his significant other<br />
Teresa, who is a professor of documentary film and<br />
rhetoric, in Chico, near the Sierra Nevada foothills.<br />
Phil is finding it tough to get things done with the<br />
weather being a “distracting 85 – 90” on a pretty<br />
constant basis this time of year. Life is good.<br />
1981<br />
Robert Schirling, 63-46 252 St., Little Neck, NY<br />
11362, rschirling@nyc.rr.com<br />
After two years in private practice, Bob Scott is<br />
working for one year as a law clerk for Judge Zita<br />
Weinshienk in the United States District Court for<br />
the District of Colorado. Raymond Jude Cappiello<br />
married Elaine Matthews on February 29, 2004.<br />
His best man was fellow Regis graduate John<br />
Dieffenbach. Attending the ceremony were A.J.<br />
Smith and Tom McCluskey.<br />
1982<br />
John O. McGuinness, 33-21 82 nd St., Jackson Heights,<br />
NY 11372, john.o.mcguinness@chase.com<br />
Edward Donahue was married to Dr. Diane Garrigan<br />
on February 28, 2004. They honeymooned in Nevis,<br />
Toyko and will be leaving in April for a year’s stay in<br />
Japan. Edward is being sent there by Morgan Stanley.<br />
Ed was a regular at Jug Night but will be unable to<br />
attend this year, he plans on returning to his “regular”<br />
status when he fulfills his company obligation. Chris<br />
Derby, SJ was named Director of Vocations for the<br />
New York and Maryland Provinces of the Jesuits,<br />
effective in July 2004.<br />
1983<br />
Joseph M. Accetta, Esq., 24 Agnola St., Tuckahoe, NY<br />
10707, jsaccetta@aol.com<br />
Michael J. Kelly sends his warmest regards to the<br />
class. Michael is an attorney in Chicago where he and<br />
his wife Tara have three boys: Max, Sam and Jack.<br />
They love Chicago and are rooting for the Cubs to<br />
finally win it all.<br />
1984<br />
Emanuel C. Grillo, 130 Aldershot Ln., Manhasset, NY<br />
11030, lgrillo@optonline.net<br />
Michael Murphy, 15 Canterbury Rd., Apt. D-24, Great<br />
Neck, NY 11021, mmurphy@bnysecurities.com<br />
Danny and Kerri Sullivan are please to announce<br />
the birth of their second child...James Patrick Sullivan<br />
arrived on Saturday, Feb 28th,at 7:50 PM. “We think<br />
that he was in a hurry to avoid having his birthday<br />
on the 29th of Feb, because the first inkling that we<br />
had of his arrival was at 6:20 PM. An hour and a half<br />
from start to finish!! The doctor said the he practically<br />
delivered himself!” The vitals...Weight - 31.2 N (7 lb<br />
3 oz) Length - 50.8 cm (20 inches)<br />
1985<br />
Thomas F. Flood, 5 Reed Ave., Floral Park, NY 11001,<br />
tomfl ood@earthlink.net<br />
Class rep Thomas Flood writes: Recently<br />
corresponded with Rick Murtha. Sometime last<br />
year Rick decided to completely abandon the<br />
technology consulting world and started working<br />
as a mortgage loan officer. Then in<br />
January of 2004, two partners and Rick<br />
opened Texas Mortgage Advisors. The<br />
change has been felicitous according<br />
to Rick. Even better was the arrival<br />
of baby Gabriela on March 18th. She<br />
was 7 lbs. 6 ozs and 19.75”. Big sister<br />
Daniela is thrilled about her new baby<br />
sister. Rick congratulations to you on<br />
all fronts and we are happy to hear that<br />
you are planning to return to NYC for<br />
our 20 th reunion. Speaking of returning<br />
to NYC - David Gravano is back. Well,<br />
kind of. David is currently working for<br />
Fortress Investment Group a New York<br />
based hedge fund. However, he returns<br />
to his family and home in San Francisco<br />
every weekend. Got together with Fred<br />
Fields. Fred now serves as the New<br />
York Managing Director of the Taproot Foundation<br />
(http://www.taprootfoundation.org) which provides<br />
Service Grants to non profit organizations operating<br />
within New York City. (A second office serves the<br />
San Francisco region). Volunteer teams, composed of<br />
highly-skilled professionals from the marketing, PR,<br />
technology, design, video production and advertising<br />
sectors, deliver the Service Grants, which culminate<br />
in a high-quality “product,” such as a new corporate<br />
identity, marketing collateral, a designed database,<br />
and a proper website. Taproot and its teams charge<br />
nothing for these deliverables. Taproot volunteers<br />
work to make a difference in the community, meet<br />
like-minded professionals, and develop new skills<br />
while augmenting their portfolios. Nonprofits benefit<br />
by being equipped with crucial tools needed for<br />
fundraising, program management and community<br />
outreach. If you want to share your time and talent<br />
with this endeavor or if you represent a non-profit<br />
organization, give Fred a call (917)324-4763.<br />
Recently, Regis played host to the Alpha Sigma<br />
Nu reception, a Jesuit College Honor Society. The<br />
keynote speaker was Regian Chris Lowney (‘76.)<br />
Ray Russo and Pat J. Walsh were in attendance. Last<br />
but not least, want to give kudos to the representatives<br />
from ‘85 that participated in the Alumni Basketball<br />
League. Frank Carbone, Dave Gravano, Bill<br />
Hogan, Jim Sullivan, Mike Webb and Kevin White<br />
teamed up with some Regians from ‘87 and competed<br />
well. Unfortunately, they came up a little short of<br />
their goal - an RABL Championship. They lost in the<br />
quarters to the Class of 1997 - no need to mention the<br />
score. Maybe next year fellas.<br />
1986<br />
Chris N. Saqqal, 3485 Nathaniel Dr., Nazareth, PA<br />
18064, chrissaqqal@aol.com<br />
Robert Sciarrone, 3158 Perry Ave., Bronx, NY 10467,<br />
rob_bxny@yahoo.com<br />
Mike Lazorchak reports:”I would like to announce<br />
the birth of my son, Shane Alexander Lazorchak,<br />
born January 11, 2004. He was a healthy 7 pounds, 5<br />
ounces and full of energy. Mom (Kristen Lazorchak)<br />
and baby are both doing excellent. In other news, I<br />
am living in Southern California and enjoying life<br />
as the director of marketing and sales for a small<br />
international company that specializes in insured<br />
shipping. On the social front, Mike Fitzgerald and I<br />
were the champs of a fantasy football league involving<br />
fellow Regians Phil O’Reilly, Matt O’Reilly ‘88,<br />
Mike Gonzalez ‘88 and David Viscovish ‘88, among<br />
others. Any Regians passing through El Segundo<br />
Chris Wiedmann ‘93 and Andrew Lee ‘93 at the recent Regis Thin<br />
Air Reunion on the summit of Mount Whitney, celebrating the birth<br />
of Andrew’s fi rst child, Sean.
30 Regis Alumni News<br />
(right next to LAX) are welcome to contact me at<br />
mlazor47@yahoo.com.” Vincent Macaluso, MD is<br />
currently trying to set up a multiple sclerosis center<br />
at his hospital, Flushing Hospital Medical Center.<br />
He is currently being featured on Healthology.com’s<br />
website since he both has and treats people with MS.<br />
1987<br />
John J. Wing, 309 Avenue ‘C’#10B, New York, NY<br />
10009, johnw@tzell.com<br />
Jose Villar got married on May 1st to Kelly<br />
O’Connor in Del Rey Beach, FL. Some of the guys<br />
in attendance were: Chris Rooney, Daren Turner,<br />
Jose Villar, Peter McNally and Kevin McNally ’88.<br />
Tom Ferguson has been made a Director at Johnson<br />
& Johnson (Personal Care Products Division). He and<br />
his wife Elisa and three-year-old daughter Tracy have<br />
moved to Bentonville, Arkansas. Tom is in charge<br />
of the Wal-Mart account, Johnson & Johnson’s #1<br />
retail customer. Stefano Cugno and his wife Patty<br />
and three-year-old twins, Cara and Christian, have<br />
moved to Buffalo. Stef can be reached at cugnostefano@emc.com<br />
1989<br />
Joseph J. Macchiarola, Esq., 116 New Hyde Park Rd.,<br />
Garden City, NY 10022, jmacchiarola@rmefpc.com<br />
Giles Kavanagh lives in beautiful Buffalo, NY<br />
in the first floor apartment of a house owned and<br />
occupied by Jim Abramson, his wife Bridget Evans,<br />
and son Henry (2 years old). Giles looks forward to<br />
having Matthew McGowan moving into the Lake<br />
Erie watershed as a new Professor of Classics at the<br />
College of Wooster in Ohio. J.P. Freeley is engaged<br />
to be married. The ceremony will take place in<br />
Warsaw, Poland and the couple will reside in Kew<br />
Gardens, NY.<br />
1990<br />
James F. Donohue, 30 W. 63 St. Apt. 3P, New York, NY<br />
10023, jfd207@yahoo.com<br />
Kevin Delaney reports that he moved to San<br />
Francisco with his wife and two kids in March after<br />
over 5 years in Paris. He worked for The Wall Street<br />
Journal there and now will report from the paper’s<br />
San Francisco bureau, contributing to its coverage of<br />
Silicon Valley. Brian Dunphey had the chance to visit<br />
Chris Sclafani, his wife Jeannie Rhee and progeny<br />
Oliver in January. Anyone who knows Chris will<br />
marvel at Oliver’s sunny, bright disposition. Looks<br />
like Brian will be moving to Los Angeles to practice<br />
law. Anyone on the other coast, look him up.<br />
1991<br />
Chris J. Caslin, 770 Elm Ave., River Edge, NJ 07091,<br />
ccaslin@ddanyc.com<br />
Nolan E. Shanahan, 20 93 rd St., Apt. 3F, Brooklyn, NY<br />
11209, NolanShanahan@nyc.rr.com<br />
Luis Velez is currently working at Morrison and<br />
Foerster after graduating from Columbia Law School<br />
in 2004. Robert Porada got married last year to<br />
Cari Levine. The wedding took place at the Bellagio<br />
Hotel in Las Vegas. Regians in attendance included<br />
Robert’s brothers Frank ’81 and John ’82, as well as<br />
Eric Barna.<br />
1992<br />
Michael J.B. McCarthy, 35-35 82 St., Apt.52, Jackson<br />
Heights, NY 11372, michaeljbmccarthy@hotmail.c<br />
om<br />
Craig Geneve graduated UCLA Business School in<br />
June 2003. Craig left the sun and beaches to return to<br />
NYC and start as an associate in technology, media<br />
and telecom investment banking at Bear Stearns. He<br />
can be reached at cgeneve@bear.com<br />
1994<br />
Basil R. Kolani, 18 E. 23 rd St., Apt. 4C, New York, NY<br />
10010, bkolani@panix.com<br />
Gregory Cote is going to Colorado in July for James<br />
McGrath’s wedding. Greg is finishing a residency in<br />
internal medicine and will be starting a fellowship<br />
in gastroenterology. John Kuhner plans to explore<br />
Hannibal’s route across the Alps this summer. He will<br />
make a full report of his findings to the Regis Classical<br />
Association (q.v.) in the fall.<br />
1995<br />
Stephen McGrath, 1421 Hemlock Farms, Hawley, PA<br />
18428, mcgrath@columbia.edu<br />
Congratulations to Father William Cleary who<br />
was ordained at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on May 15,<br />
2004 and celebrated his first mass at St. Margaret of<br />
Cortona Church in Riverdale on Sunday, May 16 th .<br />
Father Cleary says that, ”The idea of priesthood first<br />
occurred to me when I was a student at Regis High<br />
School. The Jesuits at Regis were a “big influence”<br />
and so were the priests at the Neumann Residence.”<br />
Denis Brogan is now working as an associate attorney<br />
in the intellectual property group of Gibney, Anthony<br />
and Flaherty, LLP in midtown Manhattan. Arthur<br />
Plaza writes: I was recently awarded a Fulbright<br />
Fellowship to study in Paris, Lille and Brittany. My<br />
doctoral research in European History examines<br />
how Christian Democrats transformed Catholic<br />
political culture between World War II and Vatican<br />
II while participating in the French Fourth and Fifth<br />
Republics. Fortuitously, Janene, my wife of two years,<br />
will be accompanying me during the fellowship year.<br />
Michael Brown will be married on June 26, 2004 to<br />
Kerry Hurley. The couple met at The College of the<br />
Holy Cross, where they will be married. Mike lives<br />
in Milton, MA and works as a paralegal at Sloane and<br />
Walsh in Boston. He is a third year law student. Todd<br />
Johnson and Jack Macken will serve as Mike’s<br />
groomsmen.<br />
1996<br />
Brian S. Lennon, 40 Sutton Pl., Apt. 5F,<br />
New York, NY 10022, lenres@aol.com<br />
Michael J. Boyle, 200 East 84th<br />
Street, Apt. 9A, NY, NY, 10028,<br />
boylemj@georgetown.edu<br />
Andrew Weir is engaged to Dana<br />
Roitberg with a wedding planned for<br />
June 12 th . He is a graduate student at<br />
NYU, pursuing a second Master’s degree<br />
in Biology. His fiancé is a second year<br />
law student at NYU. Vincent Pantone<br />
graduated from Downstate Medical<br />
School and will begin the Residency<br />
Progam at Montefiore Hospital.<br />
Congrats, Vincent! Paolo Brion is a<br />
project engineer at de Simone & de<br />
Simone.<br />
1997<br />
James P. Langstine, j.langstine@valuemetrics.com<br />
John M. Rossiello, im2bigred@yahoo.com<br />
Charlie O’Donnell is still an analyst for the private<br />
equity group at the General Motors pension fund. (In<br />
fact, GM is an LP of two funds whose partners are<br />
Regis trustees.) He is also trying to publish a book for<br />
college freshman about taking the right first steps for a<br />
successful college career. He got some great tips from<br />
Regis alumni Chris Lowney ’76, author of “Heroic<br />
Leadership”. Patrick Durkan flew off on March 10th<br />
for the Olympic Trials in Sabre Fencing to Athens,<br />
Moscow and Bulgaria. Patrick took the bronze at<br />
the Olympic Qualifying Sabre World Cup in London<br />
last month which moves him closer to one of the<br />
four slots on the US Olympic Team that will fence in<br />
Athens this coming summer. Wish him luck. Patrick<br />
Brown graduated Fordham University with a BA in<br />
English and is an assistant in the distribution division<br />
of Penguin Books in NYC. Richie Brockmeyer is<br />
engaged to Una Ramirez and is planning a wedding<br />
for 2005.<br />
1998<br />
Daniel D. Kirchoff, 630 W. 168 th St., Box 583, New<br />
York, NY 10032, ddkircho@yahoo.com<br />
Dave Anfora became engaged to Maria Campanelli<br />
of Lindenhurst, NY on 3-12-04. They plan to marry<br />
in the summer of 2005. Dave landed a job as a First<br />
Officer for Continental Connection on 9-29-03. He<br />
flies a Beech-1900, and is based out of Albany,NY. He<br />
hopes to upgrade to a Captain by the end of this year,<br />
which would make him one of the youngest Captains<br />
to ever work for the company. Patrick Wickman is<br />
now in his second year working as an environmental<br />
scientist at Hazen and Sawyer, P.C. in NYC. He was<br />
also recently accepted to NYU’s Wagner School of<br />
Public Service to work on a Master’s degree in Urban<br />
Planning. Scott Schwieger is currently a professional<br />
gambler. John Power is living in Warsaw, Poland,<br />
where he’s “at work on the Great American Novel”.<br />
Jerry Carita is the Assistant to the Director/Executive<br />
Producer for a new television series on AMC called<br />
“Into Character.” The series debuts on June 16th at<br />
10PM. Jared DiDomenico almost started writing a<br />
lengthy account of a recent Antarctic expedition, but<br />
decided to actually write something truthful, to make<br />
up to those of you who may have read his bios in the<br />
Regis Repertory playbills. To that end, he’s living<br />
with friends in the Bronx, rehearsing a band and<br />
recording demo material, is a writer and actor in the<br />
CREATE theater company (new show this summer),<br />
Bridgid Janson, Tom Hein ’99, and Brian Hughes ’99 at the<br />
Volunteer Recognition Barbeque
Summer 2004 31<br />
and has started a multi-media group which can be<br />
found on the web at www.lacamarata.com. He’s very<br />
close to having a reality show that will air in Guam<br />
and hopes everyone is well, email him if you’re going<br />
into entertainment law. Class members, please update<br />
your alumni profiles at www.regis-nyc.org.<br />
1999<br />
Thomas A. Hein, 400 Kneeland Ave., Yonkers, NY,<br />
10704, thein@fordhamgrad.com<br />
Brian C. Hughes, 149 Park Drive North, Staten<br />
Island, NY 10314, rwiggum99@aol.com<br />
Kevin Clancy plans on visiting Japan next year, where<br />
he will study philosophy and Feng-Shui. Sean Colvin<br />
recently moved to Atlanta, GA for his second rotation<br />
in General Electric’s financial management program.<br />
Sean will be living and working there at least through<br />
the coming summer and looks forward to visiting NY<br />
again in early July. The class of 1999 made their debut<br />
this spring in the Regis Alumni Basketball League.<br />
An unexpected off-season injury to Pat Heffernan<br />
weakened their hopes for a championship. But the<br />
dynamic inside combo of Rob Alarcon and Brian<br />
Hughes, and the sizzling guard play of Joe Maceda,<br />
Tom Hein and Mark Cummins, helped the team<br />
surpass all expectations and win one game. Other<br />
‘99ers who participated in the league were: Dave<br />
Harman, Omar Delgado, Owen Reidy, Chris<br />
Reenock, Joe Tursi, Tom Brennan, Matt Hansen<br />
and Mike Williams. Don’t forget, the class of 1999<br />
will celebrate our 5 th year reunion here at Regis on<br />
June 12 th starting at 4 PM. Let’s make it a good one!<br />
2000<br />
Christopher Nooney, 339 East 240th St., Bronx, NY<br />
10470, cnooney.student@manhattan.edu<br />
Toma Dedaj reports on behalf of Matt Tarpey, Scott<br />
Callahan, Joe Forte and Kieran O’Donnell, among<br />
the inaugural group of Crusaders to inhabit the new<br />
Senior Apartments, that they’re doing well down the<br />
home stretch at Holy Cross. Toma noted that Scott,<br />
who has plans to join the NYPD after college (as<br />
does Alex Wancel) has a girlfriend. When asked for<br />
confirmation, Scott opined “and she’s hot too!”Joe<br />
plans to teach high school for the coming year before<br />
regrouping to pursue his Ph.D. On his way out of<br />
Holy Cross he will take with him the prestigious<br />
Flatley Medal in Philosophy. James Walsh will be<br />
taking his Holy Cross degree in mathematics to law<br />
school next year. (He’s still deciding which.) Sam<br />
Valverde has been accepted to Yale Law School<br />
following his undergrad work at Dartmouth. Chuck<br />
Keeley makes his way to Fordham Law School next<br />
year. Mike Memoli is finishing up studies at Loyola<br />
Maryland, where he has dutifully served as the<br />
Editor-In-Chief of the college’s weekly Greyhound<br />
newspaper. He now stands an unapologetic 5’8.<br />
Frank Golom finished up a year as Loyola’s Student<br />
Body President. Chris Nooney, who had been the<br />
Editor for Manhattan College’s weekly Quadrangle<br />
newspaper, gave publishing up to pursue his position<br />
as the Jasper’s Student Body President. He graduates<br />
this May, winning the college’s Hazelton Medal for<br />
Humanities. Neil Toomey intends to study Chinese<br />
language in Beijing, as part of his Light Fellowship<br />
from Yale, where he finishes his bachelor’s in May.<br />
Francis Fallon has been accepted to graduate studies<br />
at the University of Cambridge. Nick Gorski reports<br />
that he has changed courses at UVA and will remain<br />
there studying English until 2006. Jeff Coe will return<br />
to Manhattan College after a sojourn into the working<br />
world, to finish his BS in computer engineering next<br />
fall. Tim Morris reports that he will be gainfully<br />
employed with JP Morgan Chase starting this August.<br />
Erich Rastetter finished 3 years as I.T. Manager<br />
at WFUV upon becoming an Economic Policy<br />
Analyst intern at the Bronx Borough President’s<br />
Office. He recently led a student service project<br />
working with HIV/AIDS patients to Nashville. He<br />
expects to graduate with majors in Political Science<br />
and Economics. Chris Saltamacchia will graduate<br />
from Emory with a double major in Religion and<br />
Chemistry. He is working hard on his thesis, not sure<br />
what next year holds…Mexico? Med School? Sounds<br />
like an easy choice, Chris. Thomas Foley will enter<br />
law school in the fall, having completed his B.S. in<br />
Economics at The Wharton School of the University<br />
of Pennsylvania. He thanks Regians young and old for<br />
their counsel.<br />
2003<br />
Bennett C. Chan, bcc2101@columbia.edu<br />
Edward Kamintzky is a member of the Fairfield<br />
University baseball team.<br />
Milestones<br />
Births<br />
Natalie Laidan on February 26, 2004 to Tristin and Marty Mannion ‘77<br />
Amanda Kelly on April 13, 2004 to Larry and Kristen Ehmer ‘78<br />
Matthew Paul on January 29, 2004 to Paul and Ariana Sidoti ‘80<br />
Callum David to Sean and Hollie Reddington ‘82<br />
Kathy Julia on July 10, 2002 to Daniel and Amy DaSilva ‘84<br />
James Patrick on February 28, 2004 to Danny and Kerri Sullivan ‘84<br />
Gabriela on March 18, 2004 to Liliana and Rick Murtha ‘85<br />
Shane Alexander on January 11, 2004 to Kristin and Mike Lazorchak ‘86<br />
Charlanne Angelica on January 14, 2004 to Anthony and Jennifer Zepf ‘86<br />
Alexander Warren on March 3, 2004 to Kim and Michael Francis ‘95<br />
Marriages<br />
Raymond Cappiello ’81 married Elaine Matthews on February 29, 2004<br />
Edward Donahue ’82 married Diane Garrigan on February 28, 2004<br />
Anthony Zepf ‘86 married Jennifer Mitlof on September 14, 2002<br />
Jose Villar ‘87 married Kelly O’Connor on May 1, 2004<br />
Deaths<br />
John F. Fitzsimons ’25 on March 25, 2004<br />
John C. Madigan ’33 on January 11, 2004<br />
James V. Regan ’34 on February 13, 2004<br />
John. J. Fiala ’34 on March 30, 2004<br />
Lawrence J. Durney ’38 on April 8, 2004<br />
William F. Lally, Jr. 38 on May 13, 2004<br />
John M. Lore, Jr. ’39 on January 12, 2004<br />
Michael J. Ames ’39 in April 2004<br />
John F. McKenna ’39 in April 2004<br />
William G. Orr ’40 on March 4, 2004<br />
John J. Sandt ’43 on May 16, 2004<br />
Victor A. Belinski on June 1, 2004<br />
Timothy A. Healy, SJ ’47 on May 16, 2004<br />
Eugene V. Mohr ’47 in March 2004<br />
Peter J. Lynch ’49 in February 2004<br />
William J. Sabatini ’49 on April 17, 2004<br />
Robert M. Ryan ’50 on March 18, 2004<br />
John G. Krebs ’52 on May 20, 2004<br />
Richard F. Reggio ’60 on January 17, 2004<br />
Orazio R. Russo ’60 on May 4, 2004<br />
James P. Mulhall ’62 on November 11, 2003<br />
Nolan Shanahan ‘91, John Zadrozny ‘95, Pat Tweedy and Dennis<br />
Moulton ‘64 at the Volunteer Recognition Barbeque<br />
Leslie Hannafey P’03, ‘07, Michael Shef ‘59, Mark Kolakowski ‘77<br />
and Lorraine Shef at the Volunteer Recognition Barbeque
Calendar of Events<br />
DATE<br />
September 20<br />
September 24<br />
October 22<br />
October 24<br />
October 29<br />
November 8-10<br />
December 11<br />
December 28<br />
December 29<br />
EVENT<br />
Golf Outing at Westchester Hills<br />
Deo et Patriae Dinner at the NYAC<br />
Alumni Parents Party at Regis<br />
Golden Owls Mass & Brunch at Regis<br />
JUG Night One at Regis<br />
Fall Phonathon at Regis<br />
Crimson Circle Reception and Event<br />
JUG Night Two at Regis<br />
College Phonathon<br />
Regis High School<br />
55 East 84th Street<br />
New York, NY 10028<br />
Address Service Requested<br />
NON-PROFIT<br />
ORGANIZATION<br />
U.S. POSTAGE<br />
PAID<br />
PERMIT NO. 314<br />
JERSEY CITY, NJ