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<strong>REGIS</strong><br />
ALUMNI NEWS<br />
Regians<br />
in China<br />
Volume<br />
72<br />
Number<br />
3<br />
Spring<br />
2007
<strong>REGIS</strong> HIGH SCHOOL | p a g e 2 SPRING 2007 | page 3<br />
<strong>REGIS</strong><br />
alumni news<br />
Validating the Vision<br />
President’s Report<br />
James E. Buggy<br />
Vice President for Development<br />
Tina Throckmorton<br />
Annual Fund Director<br />
John W. Prael, Jr. ‘63<br />
Alumni Director<br />
Edward Stenger ‘02<br />
Alumni Communications Director<br />
Jennifer Reeder<br />
Executive Assistant<br />
Chelsea Glickfield<br />
Database Manager<br />
Thomas A. Hein ‘99<br />
Layout & Design<br />
Regis grants re pro duc tion rights of<br />
all ma te ri al to qual i fied, non-profit<br />
in sti tu tions. Regis High School and the<br />
Alumni Association reserve the right<br />
to publish and edit all sub mis sions and<br />
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<br />
alumni@regis-nyc.org<br />
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Validating the Vision: President’s Report<br />
A Letter from the Regis Alumni Board<br />
A Pilgrimage for Our Children’s Future<br />
Regis News & Notes<br />
Deo Et MTA<br />
Regis and China<br />
Prowlings<br />
Milestones<br />
Calendar of Events<br />
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When there are so few schools<br />
that attempt the Regis mission<br />
of an all-scholarship, leadership<br />
education for the academically<br />
gifted, a legitimate question is<br />
how we measure our success.<br />
While we have an absolute charter<br />
from the Board of Regents of the<br />
University of the State of New<br />
York, we do not participate in the<br />
Regents testing program. Without<br />
boasting, the scores our students<br />
achieve on standardized tests,<br />
beginning with our own entrance exam and running through<br />
Advanced Placement exams and the SATs are already among<br />
the highest in the nation. We would expect that from the<br />
kind of student we attract. Similarly, all of our students go<br />
to college, and the colleges they attend are among the most<br />
competitive in the country. It could be easy to become a bit<br />
complacent and self-congratulatory. All schools need to avoid<br />
the former; at Regis there might be more of a temptation to<br />
the latter. In fact, our ongoing self-assessment is both holistic<br />
and comprehensive.<br />
This April Regis will finish a year and a half-long process for<br />
re-accreditation by the Commission on Secondary Schools<br />
of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.<br />
We have been a member of the Association since 1929,<br />
shortly after it began itself in 1921. The accreditation process<br />
occurs every ten years. The process began with our choice<br />
of an instrument for evaluation, “Reflections on Standards<br />
of Quality: A Comprehensive Curriculum Based Self-Study<br />
Guide.” This 260 page guidebook established the rationale<br />
for a large number of school committees to evaluate every<br />
program at the school from each academic department,<br />
through areas such as Finance, Governance, and Health and<br />
Safety. Committees have been meeting since the fall of 2005<br />
to prepare reports for the accreditation visit. The next-to-last<br />
version of the book of reports runs to some 918 pages! Each<br />
area of the school is examined in light of data collected from a<br />
community wide survey (including recent alumni and parents),<br />
a review of the goals of a particular program or department,<br />
a test of the program against our mission statement, and an<br />
assessment of strengths and accomplishments. Based on that<br />
reflection, each report notes areas that need to be addressed<br />
and three to five “action steps” for the next five years.<br />
A Steering Committee, chaired by Dr, Ralph Nofi, our school<br />
psychologist, coordinated all of these efforts and worked<br />
closely with the final and essential School Improvement Plans<br />
Committee. This last Committee was charged with reviewing<br />
the whole of our self study and identifying the school-wide<br />
goals we will address in a systematic way for the next five<br />
years, until our “mid-accreditation review.” The areas we have<br />
determined to address are: 1) to establish a regular review<br />
and assessment of standing programs, 2) to strengthen our<br />
students’ Catholic identity in light of the “religious” goal of our<br />
Profile of the Regis Student at Graduation, 3) to improve the<br />
collection, analysis, and communication of data throughout<br />
the building, and 4) to expand the skills and behaviors that<br />
characterize students as “independent learners.” While any<br />
one of these goals might sound somewhat vague, each has<br />
anywhere between seven and 15 action steps, with time-lines,<br />
responsibilities, and outcomes for accountability.<br />
All of this work comes to fruition from 24-27 April when<br />
we welcome a “Validation Team” of 12 visitors from the<br />
Commission. They will be chaired by Br. James Butler, FSC,<br />
who is a member of the Christian Brothers Leadership Team<br />
responsible for their secondary schools. As the name implies,<br />
their days of visiting classes, meeting as many members of<br />
the community as possible, and reflecting on our reports has<br />
as its goal the “validation” of our self-review. In particular, they<br />
will look to see that our mission is clear and coherent, that we<br />
respond appropriately to its challenges, and that we have real<br />
and realistic plans for growth in the coming years. There is<br />
no doubt that we will be re-accredited as always. The team’s<br />
report, though, will give constructive support and criticism of<br />
our self-measures of success and our future hopes.<br />
While the whole process is a bit grueling for the Regis<br />
community, the benefits of ongoing reflection and amendment<br />
are lessons that lie at the heart of Ignatian Spirituality and the<br />
educational enterprise. So, please know there’s no “resting<br />
on our laurels” here at the school! Enjoy the rest of this issue<br />
of the RAN, and thank you for your ongoing support of our<br />
vision and mission.<br />
Philip Judge, S.J.
<strong>REGIS</strong> HIGH SCHOOL | p a g e 4 SPRING 2007 | page 5<br />
A Letter from the<br />
Regis Alumni Board<br />
In less than a full year’s worth of<br />
meetings, the tack that the Alumni<br />
Board is taking in service of our<br />
fellow Regians is becoming apparent.<br />
Our meetings primarily cover those<br />
social events, outreach and volunteer<br />
efforts that speak to the experience of<br />
being “men for others” long after our<br />
graduation from Regis. We’ve tended,<br />
thus far, to confine our discussion to<br />
practical concerns of planning and<br />
outreach over the coming few quarters.<br />
It is in this vein that we have covered<br />
so much ground already in reshaping and lending our support to a<br />
number of events.<br />
In an effort to help continue the intellectual connection of alumni<br />
to Regis, the Board will make a concerted effort to advertise “The<br />
Classroom Revisited” at Regis on April 21st. Participants will be able<br />
to choose a few courses from among 20 offerings by Regis faculty<br />
and alumni across a variety of fields including foreign language,<br />
film, theology, etc.<br />
Additionally, at the urging of the Board, the Alumni office continues<br />
to gather reading lists and syllabi for a sampling of current courses<br />
offered to Regis students for posting to the alumni section of the<br />
website. These materials will give some insight into the evolving<br />
subject matter making up the Regis curriculum, and may also serve<br />
to spark interest in the texts being studied. Further, the Alumni<br />
Board has advised Regis to have its technology staff determine the<br />
feasibility of adding capability to the website for alumni to post their<br />
literary and academic work of interest for public viewing.<br />
The next “Beyond the Quad” program, featuring Regians in the<br />
entertainment industry, will take place in Los Angeles on April<br />
17th. Though the event is not open to the public, the minutes will<br />
be subsequently submitted for publication in the RAN. We welcome<br />
suggestions for future topics to be addressed in the “Beyond the<br />
Quad” series.<br />
Early board discussions of a possible retreat program for alumni<br />
have taken root. Planning is underway for a “Day of Reflection.”<br />
Fr. Mike Holleran ’67, Fr. Judge ‘80, Tom Hickey ’53, and Bernie<br />
Kilkelly ’78 are working together on the event which will focus on<br />
Adult Christianity. We expect the retreat to occur on a Saturday in<br />
September after Labor Day. The day will run from about 9am to 3pm<br />
and be comprised of a general session and guest speaker followed<br />
by smaller, break-out groups in the afternoon. Each small group will<br />
be lead by a priest or other qualified individual and focus on any<br />
of several possible topics including: family issues, bereavement,<br />
estrangement from the church, etc. The board welcomes ideas for<br />
future retreat topics.<br />
With respect to existing, annual events, the Golden Owls event<br />
will continue this year in its usual, mass and brunch format. We<br />
anticipate having a greater time period between the Golden Owls<br />
and this year’s 50th Reunion (for ’57) to strengthen attendance at the<br />
former. The Golden Owl members of the Board will be advertising<br />
the event to their classmates as it approaches.<br />
The Alumni/Senior event will be held as a breakfast on Monday,<br />
May 7th featuring presentations by alumni and staff. The breakfast<br />
will be a welcoming of the graduating senior class into the alumni<br />
ranks and those interested in participating should reach out to the<br />
Alumni office or members of the Board.<br />
The Board discussed the format of the Deo Et Patriae celebration,<br />
which will be similar to last year’s reception. It is expected that this<br />
practical solution to the growing ranks of Order of the Owl members<br />
will be able to accommodate both those who prefer a sit-down dinner<br />
experience as well as those who would prefer to mingle during the<br />
shorter program.<br />
The 2007 Regis Alumni Basketball League season is now underway.<br />
Play started in February and continues through April playoffs. The<br />
RABL, in addition to the regular games, also features a family day on<br />
March 31st at Regis with a slate of games and a reception.<br />
Discussions of the methods by which alumni are keeping in touch<br />
with fellow Regians have lead to us to recommend making greater<br />
use of Regis website for facilitating email listserves and virtual<br />
communities to bolster those existing offline and to complement<br />
the efforts of successful alumni groups like the Regis Business<br />
Network and Regis Bar Association. Such an effort would have to<br />
wait until the end of the academic year at the earliest, but alumni<br />
may presently make use of the online Alumni Database.<br />
As always, we welcome input from all alumni on ways to be of better<br />
service to the Regis community.<br />
Chris Nooney ‘00<br />
Member of the Board<br />
Regis Alumni Association<br />
Regis Alumni Board<br />
Mr. J. Kenneth Hickman ’46, jkenhickman@verizon.net<br />
Mr. Andrew J. Hernon ’49, hernon0613@earthlink.net<br />
Mr. Thomas J. Hickey ’53, tjhickey@warpdriveonline.com<br />
Mr. John M. Morriss ’55, jmorriss11@optonline.net<br />
Mr. John F. Tweedy ’63, john.tweedy@verizon.net<br />
Rev. Michael Holleran ’67, celestial49@msn.com<br />
Mr. William J. O’Connell ’74, billo@bestweb.net<br />
Mr. Bernard J. Kilkelly ’78, bjkilkelly@gmail.com<br />
Mr. William G. Passannante ’80, wpassannante@andersonkill.com<br />
Mr. Richard W. Morgner ’88, richard.morgner@millerbuckfire.com<br />
Mr. James F. Donohue ’90, jdonohue@wrhambrecht.com<br />
Mr. John P. Morris ’98, johnpmorris@gmail.com<br />
Mr. Christopher J. Nooney ’00, chrisnooney@optonline.net<br />
A Pilgrimage for Our<br />
Children’s Future (or what I learned by failing)…<br />
By Chris Lowney ‘76<br />
On a rainy August morning, I started walking from the French border<br />
(and Pyrenees foothills) toward Santiago de Compostela in northwest<br />
Spain, one of Christendom’s most famous pilgrimage sites as the<br />
traditional resting place of St. James the Apostle.<br />
Devoted RAN readers may recall that, before leaving, I sought pledgesper-mile-walked<br />
to benefit various education and healthcare charities<br />
in the developing world (most of them Jesuit-sponsored, like Jesuit<br />
Refugee Services). Because of Regis’s nascent relationship with St.<br />
Aloysius Gonzaga secondary school, all pledges I received from<br />
Regians were allocated to St. Al’s. This relatively new school, located<br />
in one of Africa’s worst slum districts in Nairobi (Kenya), is offering a<br />
wonderful secondary education to AIDS orphans, under the auspices of<br />
the Christian Life Communities, which are rooted in the Jesuit, Ignatian<br />
tradition.<br />
I planned to walk the 500 miles in under thirty days, averaging about<br />
17 miles a day. I carried my belongings in a backpack, slept in bunks at<br />
50-bed pilgrim hostels, blogged from internet cafes, hand-washed my<br />
clothes each night, ate lots of bread and cheese drank Spanish wines,<br />
attended mass at medieval Churches, walked by headlamp very early<br />
most mornings, and befriended fellow pilgrims from Argentina, Japan,<br />
across Europe, and elsewhere.<br />
I had little doubt I would make it all the way to Santiago. After all, as a<br />
Regis graduate and former investment banker, I’m all about “can do”<br />
and “Type A” and “strong to endure, daring though skies be dark.” But<br />
by mile 225, I was sitting in medical center at Carrion de los Condes<br />
with one badly ulcerated foot blister, a fever, and a respiratory infection<br />
requiring a course of antibiotics. Santiago or bust? Bust.<br />
My trek had gone exactly according to plan; unfortunately for my ego,<br />
however, it just hadn’t gone according to my plan. It’s God’s world, not<br />
mine. And much though I behave otherwise, I’m not in control of this<br />
world. That was one of many lessons learned (well, re-learned) during<br />
my wonderful 225-mile trek. Here’s another lesson learned: be grateful.<br />
Let me share my prayers of gratitude with you:<br />
For a beautiful journey: My last day of walking (post-ulcerated-blister but<br />
pre-respiratory crisis) was both my most painful and happiest. I knew<br />
my foot condition would prevent me from finishing. So, for once, I wasn’t<br />
thinking about clocking extra miles and getting ahead of schedule.<br />
Instead, I was grateful for the day, happy to be alive. I was gifted with<br />
one more day to walk, look at the beautiful landscape, chat with passersby,<br />
and admire the handiwork of medieval Church-builders.<br />
For generous Regians: Regians of various generations, from around the<br />
U.S. and as far away as Hong Kong, donated enough money to support<br />
ten students at St. Al’s for a year (about $8000). I’m hoping that some<br />
of them will continue to do so (and that others of you may join us going<br />
forward). What a testament to the true spirit of Regis that we alumni as<br />
a group are helping to educate through our donations not only our own<br />
“protégés” at 84th Street, but some of the world’s neediest children in<br />
Africa.<br />
For the Regis administration: When I first floated the idea of soliciting<br />
pledges for St. Al’s from Regis alumni, I told Fr. Judge and Jim Buggy<br />
that I would (reluctantly) understand that they may not want to publicize<br />
a pledge drive that could conceivably “cannibalize” alumni donations to<br />
Regis. They completely brushed aside that concern and supported the<br />
idea unhesitatingly. I’m grateful for their “abundance mentality,” their<br />
embrace of gospel mystery that, “give, and it will be given to you; good<br />
measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into<br />
your lap.” Amen. What we give comes back to us, if not in our pockets,<br />
then surely in our hearts.<br />
For Regis students and faculty: Regis students have themselves raised<br />
about $7,000 to support St. Al’s students through various ingenious<br />
fundraising activities. They are also actively and insightfully discussing<br />
and learning about this modern plague of AIDS in Africa.<br />
For the St. Al’s students: the real heroes of this pilgrim story are, of<br />
course, the students of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, who are determined to<br />
make a better life for themselves and therefore walk forward with hope<br />
and optimism, despite lacking even the most basic life amenities that<br />
you and I take utterly for granted.<br />
For those who are lifting me up and carrying me forward: As I trekked<br />
toward Santiago, I was well aware that many thousands of my medieval<br />
Christian ancestors had died during this same journey and lie buried all<br />
along the route. I very palpably felt I was carrying their hopes forward<br />
as I went. Now others are, metaphorically, carrying me forward on the<br />
journey I couldn’t complete: three recent Boston College graduates, for<br />
example, will this Spring undertake the same pilgrimage to Santiago to<br />
raise money for the same causes I supported.<br />
God is good. We have today. Let’s be thankful for how much we have<br />
rather than resentful over what little we lack.<br />
Brother Regians and friends, would you be willing to commit to join<br />
me in supporting not only our successor students at Regis, but also<br />
these students at St. Al’s? We alumni and students are already sending<br />
approximately 20 St. Al’s students to school: could we keep doing at<br />
least this much or more? Please email me (chrislowney@verizon.net)<br />
if you are willing to pledge ongoing support. Or, perhaps you yourself<br />
want to mount a pilgrimage to Santiago or anywhere else (from the NY<br />
subway system or to Mt. Everest!) that could become a “pilgrimage for<br />
our children’s future” (www.pocf.org). Trekking to Santiago was one of<br />
the best things I’ve ever done; I’ll definitely try it again, and would be<br />
happy to share my practical learnings with any other Regian.
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Regis News & Notes<br />
Regis Class of 2011<br />
On January 6th, 2007 each of about 230 semi-finalists for admission<br />
to Regis was interviewed by two members of the Regis community of<br />
faculty, staff, alumni, and friends. From these 230 young men, around<br />
150 were invited to join the Regis Class of 2011. This year’s class has<br />
been hailed as a strong one- some 40 or more students than last year<br />
scored in the 99th percentile on the entrance exam. The REACH<br />
program also continued its tremendous success; nine students are set<br />
to enter the Regis Class of 2011 and the remainder of the students are in<br />
strong demand for scholarships at other Jesuit schools.<br />
Regis Mentioned in National Catholic<br />
Reporter 11/3/06<br />
Quote from Free Tuition by Tom Beaudoin: “It is not as if there are no<br />
examples today of the free Jesuit education in the United States. Regis<br />
High School in New York offers free tuition to young men fortunate<br />
enough to be accepted, combining the traditional Jesuit commitment<br />
to education for all social classes with a special consideration for those<br />
in need. Jesuit colleges and universities have much to learn from the<br />
leadership and generosity that keeps the endowment going for this Jesuit,<br />
Catholic school that, because its very existence appears to us so radical,<br />
reminds us of what should in fact be “normal” for Jesuit education.”<br />
Article on James Nobile ’80 in<br />
Newark Star Ledger<br />
In the January 15, 2007 issue of the Newark Star-Ledger, John P.<br />
Martin, a staff writer, published an article entitled “Prosecutor shuns<br />
the limelight”. The subject of the article is James Nobile ’80. Jim has<br />
supervised the U.S. Attorney’s Special Prosecution’s Unit for nearly<br />
a decade. This unit is charged with investigating public corruption in<br />
New Jersey and under Jim, prosecutors have won scores of convictions<br />
against politicians and businessmen. Nobile is a career prosecutor with<br />
no political roots, party affiliation or palpable aspirations, someone<br />
so respected he has kept his post under three U.S. attorneys but who<br />
humbly runs from a spotlight that he insists belongs on the investigating<br />
agents, his assistants or his boss. Nobile credits the Dominican nuns<br />
at Saint Peter and Paul grammar school and the Jesuit priests at Regis<br />
with instilling in him the discipline to learn. Those who know him say<br />
Nobile works nights and weekends, raely takes vacation, and is known<br />
for prosecuting the small, forgettable cases- like tax evasion or petty<br />
bribes- so his line assistants can focus on the bigger ones. If Nobile<br />
allows himself an indulgence, it might be sports, particularly the Mets<br />
and Jets. Most weeknights, Nobile unwinds by running four or five miles<br />
around a high school track and listening to sports talk radio.<br />
Interested in the Regis Archives?<br />
Find Out More Online<br />
Although the newly-formed Regis Archives is not open to the general<br />
public, the school does hope to gradually make some of its contents<br />
available to alumni in digitized format. Currently available online at www.<br />
regis-nyc.org are transcripts of the first four years of the Regis Diary, a<br />
handwritten, official document detailing daily events of note during the<br />
school year. An article regarding the contracts from the construction of<br />
the school is also online. Make sure to check the website periodically<br />
for more updates!<br />
Regian Serves as 2006 Jersey City Pulaski<br />
Day Parade Grand Marshall<br />
Kenneth Jan Kwiatkowski ’69 was chosen as the 2006 Grand Marshall<br />
for Jersey City . He proudly led the Jersey City contingent on Sunday,<br />
October 1, 2006 down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan as his father, Gary,<br />
did in 1990. Ken’s family has served the community in Jersey City for<br />
many years. He is the fourth generation funeral director with Evergreen<br />
Funeral Home and Plaza<br />
Funeral Home. Chester<br />
Kwiatkowski began the<br />
family business in 1911,<br />
succeeded by Frank and<br />
Stacia Kwiatkowski who<br />
opened a second office in<br />
1944. Ken’s parents Gary<br />
and Sue are currently active<br />
in the family business and<br />
are happy that Ken has<br />
joined them. Ken graduated<br />
from McAllister School of<br />
Mortuary Science in 2000<br />
and received his license<br />
as a funeral director in<br />
New Jersey. He is the vicepresident<br />
of the Hudson<br />
County Funeral Directors<br />
Association and also serves<br />
as President of St. Ann’s<br />
Polish RC Church Council.<br />
Salvatore Rand ’51 Honored with ASTM<br />
International Lowrie B. Sargent Jr. Award<br />
W. Conshohocken, Pa. – On January 18th, 2007, ASTM (American Society<br />
for Testing and Materials) International Committee D02 on Petroleum<br />
Products and Lubricants honored Salvatore Rand, Ph.D., a consultant<br />
and principal of Rand Associates in Fort Myers, Fla., with the Lowrie B.<br />
Sargent Jr. Award. The committee cited Rand for his outstanding and<br />
dedicated leadership to standards development complemented by his<br />
technical understanding and communications abilities particularly in<br />
Subcommittee D02.A0 on Gasoline and Oxygenated Fuels.<br />
An ASTM fellow and Award of Merit recipient, Rand serves on a number<br />
of D02 technical standards-writing groups and has been involved with<br />
the committee’s work since 1980 including a stint as vice-chairman. In<br />
addition to D02, Rand is a member of the ASTM Committee on Technical<br />
Committee Operations and a 50-year member of the American Chemical<br />
Society.<br />
A graduate of Fordham University with a B.S. in Chemistry, Rand earned<br />
his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<br />
For much of his career, Rand was a senior consultant with Texaco<br />
Research Lab in Beacon, NY. Throughout his professional work, he has<br />
focused on fuels research and fuels test laboratory management.<br />
William P. Berlinghoff ’57 One of<br />
Two Recipients of MAA’s Beckenbach<br />
Book Prize<br />
“Beckenbach winning authors<br />
Fernando Gouvea and Regis’<br />
William Berlinghoff ‘57<br />
FARMINGTON, Maine – The<br />
Mathematical Association of<br />
America (MAA) announced that<br />
Oxton House authors William<br />
P. Berlinghoff ‘57 and Fernando<br />
Gouvêa are the recipients of the<br />
prestigious Beckenbach Book<br />
Prize for their co-written book<br />
Math through the Ages, A Gentle<br />
History for Teachers and Others<br />
(Expanded Edition). The prize,<br />
established in 1986, is awarded<br />
to an author or authors of a<br />
distinguished, innovative book<br />
published by the MAA. The Beckenbach Book Prize is not awarded on a<br />
regular basis, but is given only when a book appears that is judged to be<br />
truly outstanding. The citation notes:<br />
Regis Faculty Member Fr. Anthony D.<br />
Andreassi, C.O. Ordained by Bishop<br />
Frank Caggiano ‘77<br />
Father Anthony Andreassi, C.O. was ordained by Auxiliary Bishop<br />
Frank Caggiano ’77 at the Oratory Church of St. Boniface in Brooklyn on<br />
Saturday, January 13, 2007. This was Bishop Caggiano’s first ordination-<br />
Regis clearly provided him with some good practice material. Father<br />
Andreassi has been a teacher of religion and history at Regis since 2003.<br />
He joined the Oratory as a brother in 2004.<br />
Around 40 priests concelebrated the Mass with Bishop Caggiano<br />
including President Philip Judge, S.J. ’80, Art Bender, S.J. ’67, Joe<br />
Lienhard, S.J. ’58, and Fr. Bob Imbelli ’56. In attendance at the ordination<br />
were Fr. Andreassi’s family, many longtime friends, parishioners from<br />
St. Boniface, and a number of students from Regis some of whom were<br />
the servers for the liturgy.<br />
Fr. Andreassi’s order, the Oratorians, have always had a close connection<br />
with the Jesuits. St. Philip Neri founded the Oratory in Rome in 1575, and<br />
he and Ignatius were friends. Anthony now continues this tradition. In<br />
his homily, Bishop Caggiano addressed Fr. Andreassi saying, “Through<br />
your ministry at Regis you are touching many…you have revealed the<br />
face of Christ. Teach courageously. Practice what you teach.”<br />
Father Jim Carney, SJ, ‘43<br />
Father Jim Carney, SJ, ‘43 has informed us that he has been assigned<br />
to Murray-Weigel Hall located on the Rose Hill Campus of Fordham<br />
University. Father Carney has been staying at Murray-Weigel for<br />
the past few months and is in good health now. Our retired Alumni<br />
“Math Through The Ages, A Gentle History for Teachers and Others<br />
consists of twenty-five short historical sketches of important topics in<br />
general mathematics and a 54-page mathematical ‘history in a nutshell’.<br />
The graceful writing in William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Gouvêa’s<br />
short expanded edition has the great advantage of being appealingly<br />
readable to a wide audience ranging from secondary school and liberal<br />
arts students through the mathematical community’s educators and<br />
practitioners. For each of the important concepts it treats, a carefully<br />
chosen sketch concisely brings together in a single unified chapter its<br />
many centuries of development…The beautiful writing makes it difficult<br />
for a reader to put the book down, and it is inviting to jump from one<br />
historical sketch to another.”<br />
After Regis, Mr. Berlinghoff was educated at Holy Cross, Boston College,<br />
and Wesleyan University, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics.<br />
Now retired, he was recently a Visiting Professor at Colby College in<br />
Maine. There he often taught a first-year course in mathematics for<br />
liberal arts students. Bill is author or co-author of four college texts,<br />
including A Mathematics Sampler (5th ed., Ardsley House, 2001) and<br />
The Mathematics of the Elementary Grades (Ardsley House, 1990), and<br />
was a Senior Writer of MATH Connections, a Standards-based secondary<br />
core curriculum. He currently resides in Farmington, Maine.<br />
Bishop Frank Caggiano ’77 and Fr. Anthony Andreassi surrounded<br />
by Regians at Fr. Andreassi’s ordination<br />
Moderator welcomes visitors and can arrange his schedule with<br />
advance notice. Murray-Weigel Hall is located at 515 East Fordham<br />
Road (near the Bathgate Avenue entrance to the campus), Bronx,<br />
NY 10458. Please call Father Carney at 718-430-4936 at least one day<br />
in advance if you plan to visit him.
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Six classmates from 1996 break the Guinness World Record<br />
for riding the entire NYC Subway system.<br />
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By Kieran Darcy ‘96<br />
Some interesting topics tend to come up in<br />
conversation at Regis reunions. Religion.<br />
Politics. And even more importantly, the<br />
Regis alumni basketball league.<br />
But occasionally other topics come up as<br />
well. And at the Class of 1996’s 10-year<br />
reunion last summer, a few Regians were<br />
talking, and dreaming, big.<br />
Guinness Book of World Records big.<br />
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Bill Amarosa was the ringleader. Amarosa<br />
has always been fascinated by the subway,<br />
and ever since his days at 55 East 84th Street<br />
he’d had a dream – to ride the entire New<br />
110 St<br />
103 St<br />
York City subway system on a single fare,<br />
and break the record for the fastest time.<br />
That’s the kind of lofty goal that sounds a lot<br />
more attainable after a few adult beverages.<br />
But five of his classmates were still serious<br />
about it after the reunion. “I don’t think<br />
I’ll get around to running a New York<br />
City marathon,” said Michael Boyle, “so<br />
this challenge seemed like a fair enough<br />
replacement for running through all five<br />
boroughs.” Soon, plans for the historic ride<br />
were underway.<br />
To break the record, the Regians needed<br />
to stop (doors opening and closing) at each<br />
and every one of the sprawling system’s 468<br />
stations. (There’s another record, for which<br />
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86 St<br />
77 St<br />
the trains don’t need to physically stop and<br />
open the doors at every station, but that’s<br />
not officially recognized by Guinness.) The<br />
previous record was 26 hours, 21 minutes<br />
and 8 seconds – set by a man named Kevin<br />
Foster back in 1989.<br />
With the help of some computer modeling,<br />
Amarosa along with his “teammates” -- Boyle,<br />
Brian Brockmeyer, Stefan Karpinski, Jason<br />
Laska and Andrew Weir, all members of the<br />
Class of ‘96 – designed a route projected to<br />
break the record by a significant margin.<br />
Weir’s scientific approach to the route<br />
planning, combined with Amarosa’s infinite<br />
knowledge of the subway system, made for<br />
an extremely efficient ride.<br />
The Regians kicked off their journey by<br />
boarding a shuttle train at the Rockaway<br />
Park station in Queens at 3:43 p.m. on<br />
Thursday, December 28th. Confidence was<br />
high. But there was a lot of work to be done.<br />
Team members had to document train car<br />
numbers and the exact time they stopped<br />
at each and every station, as well as gather<br />
dozens of witness signatures along the way.<br />
“We rarely got a break and I never got the<br />
chance to put my iPod on and relax during<br />
the ride,” said Boyle. “We were constantly<br />
noting our log books or preparing for the<br />
next scramble through a transfer station.”<br />
In all, the group made 75 transfers. Their<br />
longest ride on a single train was 1 hour, 9<br />
minutes and 27 seconds, on the L train.<br />
The group spent the majority of Thursday<br />
afternoon and evening blanketing the<br />
boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The<br />
overnight portion of the journey was the<br />
toughest. The guys were operating on<br />
practically no sleep and little food, and<br />
limiting their liquid intake so as to avoid<br />
lots of time-consuming bathroom breaks.<br />
(Although the group had mapped out<br />
bathroom availability along their route, too).<br />
But there were also some pick-me-ups<br />
along the way. The guys got early-edition<br />
copies of the New York Daily News Friday<br />
morning, with their pictures and story<br />
featured prominently. Members of the<br />
public and MTA workers recognized them<br />
and cheered them on, even egging them on<br />
to run between transfers. And several fellow<br />
Regians hopped on board at various points<br />
in the journey to offer support, particularly<br />
Tom Noone ’96 – who brought some<br />
much-needed delicacies from McDonald’s<br />
Thursday night, and coffee on Friday<br />
morning, along with his witty banter.<br />
As the sun rose and they continued to<br />
make good time, the Subway Six knew that,<br />
barring a disaster, they would break the<br />
record easily. The journey was downhill<br />
from there. The group wrapped up their trip<br />
on a No. 2 train at the Wakefield-241st Street<br />
station in the Bronx at 4:37 p.m. Friday<br />
afternoon, surrounded by well-wishers<br />
and news crews. Their final time, 24:54:03,<br />
shattered the world record by almost an<br />
hour and a half.<br />
“The best part of the experience was<br />
the teamwork among the six of us,” said<br />
Amarosa. “Whenever one person was tired<br />
or needed a break, someone else would step<br />
in right away and take over. I don’t think<br />
we could have completed the ride without<br />
everyone doing their part.”<br />
So, the hard part is over – but the group’s<br />
journey is not complete. In order to make<br />
the record official, they had to submit<br />
an extensive package of information to<br />
Guinness documenting their journey – and<br />
they’re still waiting for the record to be<br />
verified. The earliest they expect to hear<br />
from Guinness is the end of March.<br />
In the meantime, these six Regians are<br />
soaking in the satisfaction of a job well done.<br />
And by the way, the guys also managed to<br />
raise more than $2,600 for their alma mater<br />
as well.<br />
Will they ever convene again for another<br />
record-breaking attempt? Doubtful, they<br />
say. But these six now share a bond they’ll<br />
treasure for a lifetime.<br />
“It was a unique experience, it was definitely<br />
worth 10 years of waiting for,” said Amarosa.<br />
“It was great to spend the day on the subway<br />
with other New Yorkers, with my friends<br />
and classmates. It was just an awesome<br />
experience.”<br />
And if the 2nd Avenue subway line ever<br />
does get built … well, watch out.<br />
For more information on the record setting<br />
ride, please visit<br />
rapidtransitchallenge.com.<br />
Facts About The Ride<br />
ABOVE: Bill Amarosa points out an<br />
upcoming segment to Brian Brockmeyer while<br />
on the L Train at 2:53 a.m.<br />
LEFT: At the final station on their journey:<br />
Bill Amarosa (front) with Brian Brockmeyer,<br />
Stefan Karpinski, Andrew Weir, Jason Laska,<br />
and Michael Boyle (left to right)<br />
Stations and Transfers:<br />
• 75 transfers were made over the course of the run<br />
• 579 stations were visited, 111 of which were<br />
repeats<br />
• All but one of the 26 subway routes were taken,<br />
the Z train being the only omission<br />
• The route was arranged to meet the requirement<br />
of stopping at the Aqueduct Racetrack station in<br />
Queens. This station is only open on racing days<br />
(there are about 120 each year), from 11am-7pm on<br />
those days, and trains stop only in the Manhattanbound<br />
direction<br />
• Both Cortlandt Street stations are closed for longterm<br />
construction, so the Guinness rules allowed<br />
them to pass through them without stopping<br />
A Typical Hour During the Ride Included:<br />
• Stops at 23 stations with 19 being first time visits<br />
• 3 transfers between trains<br />
• 11.7 miles of track traveled<br />
• 4 new witness signatures collected<br />
Speed and Distance:<br />
• The approximate distance covered during the run was 292.2 miles of track<br />
• Only 44.3% of the 660 miles of passenger track in service were covered<br />
• Excluding transfer time, the average speed was 16.1 miles per hour<br />
• Total travel time was 18 hours, 8 minutes, 17 seconds<br />
• Total transfer and waiting time was 6 hours, 45 minutes, 46 seconds
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Regians<br />
in China<br />
Mr. Acosta and the Regis<br />
Chinese Program<br />
by Kevin Gallagher<br />
‘07<br />
In November of 2006,<br />
Regis was visited by a<br />
delegation of Chinese<br />
representatives from<br />
the Hanban Group<br />
of the Chinese<br />
Education Ministry<br />
who are working on the Chinese AP textbook.<br />
The Chinese AP exam will be offered for<br />
the first time in May of 2007, even though<br />
the textbook will not be available until the<br />
fall. Professors Zhu Ruiping, of Beijing<br />
Normal University, and Ma Ruojiang, of<br />
Beijing University, sat in on Mr. Acosta’s<br />
Chinese classes at Regis to witness how<br />
American students study Chinese. This was<br />
a follow-up to their initial visit in February<br />
of last year. The professors chose Regis for<br />
these visits because our school offers four<br />
levels of Chinese and because they saw<br />
the high level of accomplishment of Regis<br />
students. Over the past several months, the<br />
professors have been collaborating with Mr.<br />
Acosta on the preparation of a textbook that<br />
will be used to help students prepare for the<br />
AP exam. Mr. Acosta is one of the authors<br />
of this textbook project.<br />
One of the main purposes of Professor<br />
Ma and Professor Zhu’s visit was to get<br />
to know American students, and to try to<br />
determine what sort of lessons and reading<br />
passages they would find most interesting.<br />
Students in Mr. Acosta’s Chinese classes<br />
tested out sample materials from the<br />
Chinese AP preparation book, and provided<br />
lively feedback. These interpretations<br />
were hardly limited to the pages of the<br />
textbook. Presentations on a sample<br />
lesson about traditional Chinese sports in<br />
Chinese IV soon evolved into a pantomime<br />
of various Olympic events, with students<br />
providing commentary in Mandarin. The<br />
visiting professors were impressed by the<br />
energetic classroom atmosphere, and they<br />
later remarked that they had admired the<br />
students’ ability to express themselves in<br />
Chinese.<br />
Professors Ma and Zhu returned to China<br />
in November, but they remain in touch with<br />
Mr. Acosta as work continues on the AP<br />
textbook and supplementary materials. The<br />
AP textbook will be published by Thomson<br />
Publishers and by Beijing University Press.<br />
It will be made available to high schools<br />
across the United States by the fall of 2007.<br />
Mr. Acosta has been a teacher at Regis<br />
since September of 2001. He was hired as a<br />
teacher of French and Spanish, but he also<br />
was asked to set up a Chinese program for<br />
Regis. After obtaining his B.A. in Chinese<br />
and Modern Languages at Seton Hall<br />
University, Mr. Acosta earned his M.A. and<br />
M.Phil. (all but dissertation for the Ph.D.)<br />
in Chinese at Yale University. Later on he<br />
also earned an M.A. in French at Montclair<br />
State University and an M.A.T. in Spanish<br />
at Rutgers University. Prior to coming to<br />
Regis, Mr. Acosta taught at East Hamden<br />
(Connecticut) High School for one year; at<br />
Pope John XXIII High School in Sparta, New<br />
Jersey, for nine years; at Oak Knoll School<br />
of the Holy Child in Summit, New Jersey<br />
for four years. He also taught Spanish parttime<br />
at Saint Peter’s College in Jersey City<br />
for one year.<br />
Mr. Acosta has written articles for the<br />
Journal of the Chinese Language Teachers’<br />
Association. He contributed thirteen<br />
translations to Classical Chinese Tales of<br />
the Supernatural and the Fantastic, a book<br />
edited by Karl S.Y. Kao and published by<br />
Indiana University Press in 1985. He also<br />
wrote an article on the Ming Dynasty writer<br />
Fang Hsiao-ju for the Indiana Companion<br />
to Chinese Literature (1986), a book edited<br />
by William Nienhauser, Jr. As Chinese<br />
language studies at the high school level<br />
begin to grow in popularity, Mr. Acosta says<br />
he is confident that Regians will be able to do<br />
extraordinary things with their knowledge<br />
of the language in the coming years.<br />
By Jay Jay Loftus ‘07<br />
During the summer before my Junior year,<br />
whilst most of my friends were either on the<br />
beach or stuck at their summer jobs, I was<br />
boarding a 747 en route to Shanghai, China<br />
where I was to spend a month studying<br />
and living as part of the Glimpses of China<br />
program. Although this program is not<br />
Regis-run, I was introduced to it by my<br />
Chinese teacher here at Regis, Mr. Pedro<br />
Acosta, and was convinced to make the trip by the upperclassmen<br />
who took it before me.<br />
Although I was skeptical at first, I can honestly say that my time<br />
in Shanghai was not only one of the most rewarding experiences<br />
during my time at Regis, but of my life as well. I was able to immerse<br />
myself in an ancient and proud culture, interacting and forming<br />
relationships with local Shanghai students on a daily basis. I took<br />
intensive Mandarin classes as well as other classes with topics<br />
ranging from ancient seal carving to China’s role in the 21st century.<br />
I was able to make lasting friendships with high school students<br />
from all over the world. The other program participants hailed from<br />
countries such as South Africa, England, and Colombia.<br />
The month flew by, and I found myself not wanting to leave. I wanted<br />
to spend more time learning and experiencing the Chinese culture,<br />
and I am certain I will return in the near future.<br />
By Tully McLoughlin ‘07<br />
“I spent a month in Shanghai with fellow Regians<br />
Kevin Gallagher, D.J. Judd, Conor Halloran,<br />
Tim McCormick, and James Melvin. It was the<br />
furthest any of us had been from home—it is<br />
almost as far away as you can go. As a part of the<br />
Glimpses of China program, in late June we met<br />
fifty other students from around the world to<br />
study the language and culture of China. I met<br />
some phenomenal people—there was a young<br />
lady from Belgium who spoke English, French, Spanish, and some<br />
Italian, and a young man from Mexico whose native tongue was Spanish<br />
and who decided to spend a month of his summer in, of all places, China.<br />
In class, we hearda from professors of architecture, history, theater,<br />
music, and economics. But it was the time spent in the city itself<br />
that left an indelible impression on me. It was a month of enormous<br />
learning and joy: at the nearby Trust-Mart we purchased everything<br />
from dirt-cheap ice-tea to flip-flops; in open markets we bargained for<br />
bags, T-shirts, and watches decorated with the face of Mao; and on dirt<br />
fields near the dormitories we played soccer with high-school students,<br />
practicing our new languages on each other.<br />
The language barrier held its own problems and mysteries. The food<br />
took some adjustment. But the amount of pollution in the Shanghai air<br />
produced some of the most beautiful sunsets I have ever seen. And from<br />
a small vendor on a side-street I purchased, at the going rate of eight<br />
for a dollar, the most delicious dumplings I have ever had the pleasure<br />
of eating! I wrote my college essay about my trip to China, because<br />
that summer in Shanghai opened the world to me. I recommend an<br />
adventure in China to anybody. It is unforgettable.
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Prowlings<br />
1938<br />
Jim Holahan, 5 Mohegan Trail,<br />
Saddle River, NJ 07458<br />
Mrs. Lawrence J. Durney writes: “Larry would<br />
have been so happy to see our grandson, Timothy<br />
Hudson graduate this coming spring. I’m sure he<br />
will be with us on that joyful day!”<br />
1939<br />
Kevin Tubridy, 3524 Taft St.,<br />
Wantagh, NY 11793, k.tubridy@att.net<br />
1940<br />
Patrick McCarthy is still an active Dickensian,<br />
trans Dickens-L (listserv@listserv.ucsb.edu),<br />
and reports that Fr. Eddie McGrath, S.J. is still<br />
fully active in India and hopes to visit the States<br />
in June. James Toolan retired from practice of<br />
psychiatry in April. He’s now<br />
1941<br />
Russell K. Casey’s wife, Kathleen C. Casey,<br />
died on April 30, 2006. Please keep her in your<br />
prayers.<br />
1942<br />
Marjorie, wife of the late John Mooney, proudly<br />
announces the first great grandchild, Donovan<br />
Patrick Mooney, born on September 15 th . This<br />
also means that Gregory Mooney ’71 is a greatuncle.<br />
Frank Schmid writes: “It’s great to see<br />
how the REACH program is working.”<br />
1943<br />
Al Volpe, 52-40 39 Dr., Apt. 12-F,<br />
Woodside, NY 11377<br />
1944<br />
Gene Maloney, 19 Cropsey Street,<br />
Warwick, NY 10990, emaloney31@yahoo.com<br />
News from Jim O’Connell. In 2006, he was<br />
honored with a plaque and a mass, followed by<br />
a small reception, for 50 years membership in<br />
the Knights of Columbus. Jim’s son , Chris, was<br />
inducted into the Hall of Fame at Seton Hall<br />
Prep for swimming. He previously was inducted<br />
into the Fairfield Univ. Hall of Fame, also for<br />
swimming. Chris is an attorney in south Jersey.<br />
Bob Lynch has been stationed at Our Lady of<br />
Peace parish in Pinedale, Wyoming since the<br />
mid 80’s. It’s a small town of 1800 people. Bob<br />
says the population will increase now that natural<br />
gas deposits have been found. He enjoys crosscountry<br />
skiing to keep in shape. Bob Rafferty<br />
proudly reports that he now has a grandson at<br />
Regis. Win Holfeld had dupuytrens contraction<br />
in both hands 2 years ago. Surgery, with<br />
extended re-hab was suggested. His son, who is<br />
a TV investigator in Florida on medical issues,<br />
found a doctor in Jupiter, Fla., who had recently<br />
learned a non-invasive procedure with minimal<br />
recovery period. He did the surgery and it was<br />
taped and shown on TV. Win says the Doctor’s<br />
business “took off.” Jim Holland doing nicely in<br />
Jersey. Enjoys visiting his 2 great-grandchildren<br />
in Ohio. Sends his best to all. Jack Scully resting<br />
and taking it easy at Fordham, recovering from<br />
surgery on both carotid arteries in the early part<br />
of this year. Gene Maloney and Barbara sold<br />
their house and moved to a Condo in the same<br />
town of Warwick, NY. Gene’s 2 daughters will<br />
be inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame at<br />
Albertus Magnus High School this spring. He’s<br />
proud to see that Harvard is one of the colleges<br />
with the “most current Regis graduates.” He<br />
believes that when he entered Harvard in 1944<br />
he was the first Regis graduate to matriculate<br />
at the school. Dan Brockway gave a talk to a<br />
group called Global Decisions in his hometown<br />
in Maryland. The topic was “Nuclear Threats<br />
from Terrorists.” Dan had worked many years<br />
as an Aerospace Consultant. Incidentally, Dan<br />
earned 2 battle stars in WWII as an artilleryman<br />
in the Battle of the Bulge and Remagen Bridge.<br />
Art Colligan says things are gong pretty well<br />
and says hello to all of his old buddies. Bill Dunn<br />
Michael Pyatok ’61, Sharon Harper, and Ollie Harper ’61 at the Harper’s home in Phoenix during the<br />
Regional Reunion held there on January 24th<br />
admits that he is slowing down a bit. (aren’t we<br />
all). Enjoys his Barca lounge chair and beautiful<br />
Cape Cod. John McGeechan checks in from<br />
Mahwah, New Jersey. Feeling good and sends his<br />
best to all. Bill Thorwarth and Noreen enjoy the<br />
easy living at their Retirement Community home<br />
in Lansdale, Pa. Bill was recently presented with<br />
an award from the Community Board for coming<br />
to the aid of an elderly resident who was the<br />
victim of an attempted mugging. Bill pursued the<br />
assailant and subdued him with his famous ju-jitsu<br />
hold, that he was known for at Regis. When the<br />
police arrived, they took the mugger and his wheel<br />
chair to the station house for booking. The Broph<br />
would be proud of Bill. Sev Ambrosio retired<br />
from his medical practice in Parlin, NJ almost 2<br />
years ago. His son is an Allergist in the area. Sev<br />
has joined the choir at his local parish church and<br />
is considered one of the groups leading soloists.<br />
Gene (Bud) Rooney disappeared off the radar<br />
screen for awhile. We knew he was headed up<br />
from Chile to the States in Jan. Finally, in Mar., he<br />
surfaces at the Woodstock Theological Center in<br />
Georgetown. He is looking forward to a reunion<br />
in June with fellow classmates, Jack Scully, Tom<br />
Murphy, Tom Sheridan, Bob Kelly et al who<br />
will celebrate their 50 years since ordination in<br />
the Jesuit Community. Joe Williams reports<br />
that he doesn’t get around as well as he used to.<br />
Welcome to the club, Joe. Tom Glasser doing<br />
fine in the north country in upstate NY. Still<br />
manages to keep in shape by skiing. Jack Cronin<br />
and Bud O’Mara joined the Polar Bear Club at<br />
Coney Island. That’s the group that runs into the<br />
frigid waters at Coney Island in mid winter. Bud<br />
tells us that Jack fell asleep in the water and had<br />
to be pulled out by the life guards.<br />
1945<br />
William J. O’Brien, 92 Riva Ave.,<br />
North Brunswick, NJ 08902<br />
William J. O’Brien and his wife attended the<br />
wedding of their granddaughter, Maria Hooks, to<br />
Matthew Alberty in Houston, Texas where she<br />
works for NASA. John P McCabe is joyfully<br />
recovering from a heart attack and quadruple<br />
bypass surgery in July of 06.<br />
1946<br />
Roman Chapelsky, 7 Clinton Pl.,<br />
Cranford, NJ 07016-1938, chapelRN@verizon.net<br />
Charles Schneider, 112 Fenway,<br />
Rockville Centre, NY 11570<br />
James G. Barron writers: “At my venerable age,<br />
I have become a first time grandfather courtesy<br />
of my son and daughter-in-law, Greg and Amy<br />
Barron. She was born February 28, 2006. Her<br />
name in Keira Rose.<br />
1947<br />
Joe Miranda, 269 Sparrow Dr. Estates I,<br />
Manhasset, NY 11030, jcm59@optonline.net<br />
Diva and Jim Muller are kept very busy with 14<br />
grandchildren and number 15 on the way. Their<br />
ages range from 1 year to 17 years, eight girls<br />
and six boys. Perhaps a future student at Regis<br />
many years off- would Jim love that! Kimiko and<br />
Hank D’Angelo celebrated their 50 th wedding<br />
anniversary with a cruise to the Mexican Riviera.<br />
They enjoyed their visits to Acapulco, Puerto<br />
Vallarta and Cabo San Lucas but didn’t drink<br />
the water. In 2005, Jerry O’Neil moved to Penn<br />
National, a golf community near Gettysburg,<br />
PA. He’s started playing golf after a several year<br />
layoff. He and Joan will be celebrating their 55 th<br />
wedding anniversary next June. He reports that<br />
they’re both in good health and do a lot of visiting<br />
with their children and their families in Buffalo,<br />
South Carolina, Iowa, and near Pittsburgh.<br />
1948<br />
William F. Churchill, 411 Second Avenue,<br />
Satellite Beach, FL 32937, DOODNYFL@aol.com<br />
Ray Bergan, The Ashby at McLean,<br />
McLean, VA 22101, rwbergan@aol.com<br />
We have some good news, some sad news,<br />
some goings-on, and some bios. Some good<br />
news- Fr. Joe O’Hare, S.J. has volunteered<br />
to organize arrangements for our 60 th reunion.<br />
Congratulations and thanks, Joe. Joe says that<br />
he “would be happy to head up a NY based<br />
committee to plan the reunion.” You can help Joe<br />
in this work by volunteering and notifying him<br />
at any of the following: johare@fordham.edu,<br />
(212) 515-0136, 106 West 56 th St, New York,<br />
NY 10019. Fr. Joe would also like to hear from<br />
you regarding what kind of program you would<br />
like to have. One of you has suggested Mass at<br />
Regis and dinner at the Lincoln Center (a oneday<br />
affair). Another has suggested Mass and<br />
dinner in one place, the Lincoln Center. Another<br />
classmate suggested a boat ride to Rye Beach<br />
and everybody do the Savoy (the favorite dance<br />
in the Bronx in 1948). One class actually did<br />
have a reunion on a boat ride around Manhattan.<br />
Please contact Joe and give him your thoughts<br />
on what you think we shoul do. Right now we<br />
need an answer to the question about when we<br />
should have the reunion- fall of 2007 or spring of<br />
2008. Joe says “that decision is our first important<br />
question. WE NEED TO DECIDE THIS SOON<br />
IN ORDER TO ADVISE <strong>REGIS</strong> PEOPLE AND<br />
GET AN EXACT DATE.” Joe asked your class<br />
correspondents (Bill Churchill and Ray Bergan)<br />
to canvass the class and get a preference. So<br />
please Bill Churchill at: DOODNYFL@aol.com,<br />
(321) 777-1780, 411 Second Avenue, Satellite<br />
Beach, FL 32937. PLEASE ADVISE Bill Churchill<br />
ASAP. FALL OF 2007 OR SPRING OF 2008? Fr.<br />
Jack Keating, S.J. tells us that since November<br />
2006 he has been on leave from Fordham to<br />
teach a semester-long course on “The Hebrew<br />
Prophets” at Loyola School of Theology in Manila.<br />
It is a school with over 400 students, diocesan<br />
seminarians, and members of religious orders<br />
preparing for priesthood and other ministries.<br />
Jack is grateful for the chance to reconnect with<br />
classmates in the Phillipines, including Fathers<br />
Tom Steinbugler, S.J. and Jim O’Donnell,<br />
S.J., and Denis Murphy. Jack expects to return<br />
stateside by Easter 2007. Denis Murphy has<br />
published another book. It is entitled A Woman<br />
Pope, Neanderthals, and Other Stories. This is<br />
his fourth collection of short stories. Denis has<br />
also written a novel. Denis and his wife Alicia<br />
reside in the Phillipines. He has spent much of his<br />
life in social work assisting the urban poor. Their<br />
daughter Marifel now works and studies in New<br />
York City. Some sad news- Our classmate, Tom<br />
Egan, died on October 18 th , 2006 in New Jersey.<br />
Tom had been an Executive at Haskins and Sells<br />
Accounting Firm in New York City for five years.<br />
Phoenix-area Regians gathered at the home of Sharon and Ollie Harper ’61 on January 24th<br />
For forty-two years, he had his own business as a<br />
Tax Accountant. Surviving are his two sons, two<br />
daughters, two grandchildren, and a sister. Dan<br />
McCabe died in December 2006 in a Pompano<br />
Beach, FL hospital after a long illness. Dan spent<br />
most of his career working for Pitney-Bowes Corp.<br />
Dan’s survivors include his sister, two nieces,<br />
and a nephew. Hank McCormack, our class<br />
president, died in Chatham, MA on February 20,<br />
2007. He is survived by his wife, Carol, two sons,<br />
two daughters, and six grandchildren. Hank was<br />
in charge of the Notre Dame Development Office<br />
for the New York Area. May they all Requiescant<br />
in Pace. Some goings-on- Joe Sweeting, MD<br />
reports that he has reduced his clinical medical<br />
practice but continues to teach regularly at<br />
Columbia University Medical School. In March<br />
and April of this year, Joe will be in Taiwan and<br />
China as a visiting professor at several medical<br />
schools. Like Fr. Jack Keating, Dr. Joe is hoping<br />
for an opportunity to meet our other classmates<br />
in the area of Southeast Asia. John White<br />
reports that his house escaped damage when<br />
that terrible storm went through Washington<br />
State last December. He said that, “there were<br />
a tremendous number of trees knocked down<br />
or uprooted.” Fortunately, John’s wife Carol had<br />
insisted that all the fir trees on their property be<br />
cleared before they had the hoise built. John sent<br />
us a picture of a nearby house that had ten fallen<br />
trees on top of it. In John’s planning for a possible<br />
bad storm, he had purchased a gasoline-driven<br />
engine-generator. Unfortunately, after the storm<br />
hit, all local power was lost. As a result, the local<br />
gas stations had no power to provide gasoline.<br />
John and Carol were without power for eight<br />
days. Joe Breen and his wife Allison enjoyed a<br />
mild winter in their home in the foothills of the<br />
Adirondack Mountains northwest of Albany, NY<br />
until mid-January. Then a horrid ice storm hit.<br />
Power was cut off for four days. One night the<br />
outside temperature was -12 with a wind chill of<br />
-25. The generator worked hard but did not have<br />
enough juice to provide full radiant heat. The<br />
kitchen stove and the wood-burning fireplaces<br />
added some more heat to make the in-house temp<br />
a cozy 44 degrees. After power was restored, Joe<br />
and Allison rewarded themselves and went on<br />
a ten day Caribbean cruise to St. Maartin and<br />
San Juan, PR. One of Joe’s daughters, Chrissie<br />
Williams, lives in County Claire, Ireland. Joe is<br />
very proud that his grandson, Joseph Williams,<br />
was named the outstanding student last semester<br />
at Glenstat abbey, a Benedictine prep school<br />
in Limerick. Chrissie and Joseph are going to<br />
Capetown, South Africa for six weeks to teach<br />
reading to school children there. Commendable.<br />
Ray Bergan and his wife, Mary Elizabeth,<br />
have just completed their annual winter Florida<br />
vacation, with a month in Ft. Lauderdale, ten<br />
days on Marco Island, a South Caribbean cruise,<br />
stopping at Half Moon Key, St. Thomas, Aruba,<br />
Curacao, and Domenica, and finally a week in<br />
North Palm Beach. While in Ft. Lauderdale, they<br />
had lunch with Dr. Jerry Waters ’47, older<br />
brother of the late Ed Waters. And some bio<br />
news- Len Dank. After leaving Regis, Len went<br />
to Cornell University and graduated in 1952 with<br />
a degree in zoology. Then he completed a threeyear<br />
postgraduate Medical Illustration program<br />
at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts<br />
General Hospital. He formed Medical Illustrations<br />
Company in 1958 in NYC and moved his company<br />
into St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, NYC in 1960 as<br />
Consultant Medical Illustrator and Department<br />
Head until 1983. Len has co-authored Gynecologic<br />
Operations, New York, Harper Collins, 1978, and<br />
he is the major illustrator of seven editions of the<br />
best-selling high school textbooks, Principles<br />
of Anatomy and Physiology, and Principles<br />
of Human Anatomy by Gerard Tortora, New<br />
York, Harper & Row 1983-2005. Len has created<br />
illustrations and accompanying text in more<br />
than 50 books, in numerous medical journals<br />
and popular magazines. As a nationally known<br />
Medical Illustrator, Len has earned many honors<br />
and awards. His biography appears in (among<br />
others) Who’s Who in America. He lives on a<br />
horse farm in Cutchogue, in Eastern Long Island<br />
with his wife, Beryl. He also has a daughter, Mia.<br />
FINAL MESSAGE: Send your preferences, NOW<br />
to Fr. Joe O’Hare and Bill Churchill. We need to<br />
hear from you.<br />
1949<br />
Andy Hernon, 60 Sutton Place S., Apt.#10,<br />
New York, NY 10022, hernon0613@earthlink.net<br />
As many of you who have Internet-access know,<br />
just before Christmas Charlie Schneider ’46,<br />
the brother-in-law of Bob Groenewold, called
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me with an offer to give and ship all four of<br />
Bob’s Class Yearbooks to any member of the<br />
class who might have lost or mislaid them. Bill<br />
Storz, happily, took Charlie up on the offer. Bill<br />
in an E-mail noted: “In our 14 Navy moves (with<br />
4 kids) my Regis year books never made it to<br />
the 14th move so I haven’t had them for some<br />
28 years. I called Charlie Schneider … and he<br />
is going to send me the year books.” Dave<br />
O’Keeffe received a wonderful 25 th wedding<br />
anniversary present in January, a letter from The<br />
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford,<br />
Connecticut. His play, Just A Few Pennies Down,<br />
has been selected from 600 submissions as a<br />
semi-finalist for consideration in this summer’s<br />
National Playwrights Conference. If his play is<br />
one of the eight chosen, he will receive a stipend,<br />
travel, room and board for the month of July<br />
where a director and cast will work on developing<br />
the script. Dave writes: “I’m still pinching myself<br />
to see if this is some wild imagining of mine, but<br />
even if I don’t get to the finals I feel that I have<br />
at least written a half way decent comedy.” Rest<br />
assured, Dave, we are all pulling for you. Claudia<br />
and Joe Garon spent February and March in<br />
Florida after returning from a cruise on which<br />
they circumnavigated Cape Horn. Al Pinado<br />
and his wife Pat in September and October<br />
cruised the Greek Isles. On December 15 th Al<br />
observed his 75 th birthday but the celebration<br />
was deferred until the first week of January when<br />
three of his four children joined in the festivities.<br />
Ken Keating sent the following glad tidings: “On<br />
January 9, 2007 my wife Connie and I became<br />
grandparents for the third time. Our daughterin-law,<br />
Ingrid gave birth to a healthy baby girl,<br />
Isabella Keating. Our son, Raymond, is the proud<br />
father. For Raymond and Ingrid, Isabella is their<br />
first child.” Raymond last fall was promoted to<br />
the position of Director of Project Organization<br />
at the New York Mercantile Exchange and<br />
Ingrid is a Vice-President for Sales, Marketing<br />
and Trading in the Banknotes Department of<br />
the international bank HSBC. Rolanda Keene,<br />
daughter of Ed Romary has done it again – she<br />
has located another of our missing classmates,<br />
Richard Geruson. To contact Rich, you can<br />
write to him care of his son Gregory Geruson,<br />
1008 Cypress Rd, Jenkintown, PA 19046-3806.<br />
1950<br />
William Allingham, 5 Jill Drive,<br />
Holmdel, NJ 07733, allingb2@yahoo.com<br />
Marie and Warren C. Nolan celebrated their<br />
50 th wedding anniversary on Nov. 24, 2006. Their<br />
8 th grandchild, Emily Marie, was born in Virginia<br />
on Jan. 19 th . Tom Farrelly has been in Seattle<br />
four years now. It’s far from NYC, but he’s seen a<br />
number of Regians come through including Jack<br />
Corrigan. Donald O’Brien writes: “On 5/28/06,<br />
St. Eleanor and I celebrated a dual anniversary-<br />
50 years of marriage and my 23 rd anniversary of<br />
ordination to the Diaconate. Present were 6 of<br />
our 8 children and all 16 grandchildren. So too,<br />
Laura and Rich Donovan. It was a glorious day.<br />
God is good.” We are sad to report the passing<br />
of Richie Hughes on February 24, 2007. We<br />
offer our deepest condolences to Roberta, and to<br />
Richie’s 10 children and 23 grandchildren. May<br />
he rest in peace.<br />
1951<br />
Donal McCarthy, 22 Shorehaven Ln., Manhasset,<br />
NY 11030-1826, finbarr@optonline.net<br />
Joseph D. Saccio’s first year of retirement<br />
has been less than satisfactory. Surgery on his<br />
left foot has terminated his mountaineering at<br />
least for the time being- the eventual outcome is<br />
uncertain. Still, he’s able to work at his sculpture<br />
studio everyday and that goes well. He says he<br />
misses caring for patients but his second career<br />
as a sculptor makes up for that loss. The 55 th year<br />
party, sponsored by an anonymous benefactor,<br />
was held in December. Attending (most with<br />
spouses) were Rich Meyer, Tom Fahey, Don<br />
Butterfield, Joe Saccio, Don McCarthy,<br />
Jack Higgins, John Lawler (retired from<br />
engineering, but teaching math at St. Thomas<br />
Aquinas College), Bill O’Connor, Bob Walsh,<br />
Don DeMarco, Jack Reilly, Jim O’Rourke,<br />
Bill Foote (recently retired), Peter Mullany,<br />
Dave LaBelle, Hank Kensing, Bernie Tracey,<br />
John Ryan, and Ken Hellwig all of whom<br />
are located in the greater metropolitan area.<br />
Chris Connell ’67, John Dunleavy, chairman of the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and Greg D’Alessio ’62<br />
at Gadsby’s Tavern in Alexandria, VA<br />
This year’s cooperative weather also brought<br />
Bill Hanrahan and Bob Cavalier from their<br />
upstate haunts. (This account is from memory;<br />
apologies to anyone we left out and, as usual,<br />
apologies to all the unnamed wives.) Where was<br />
everybody else? Herewith a few items that your<br />
preoccupied reporter omitted from previous<br />
Prowlings: Agnes and Sal Rand celebrated their<br />
50th wedding anniversary last summer. (Agnes<br />
was Sal’s date for the Regis senior prom.) Their<br />
children surprised them with a week at the<br />
Jersey Shore, and all five children, their spouses<br />
and nine grandchildren attended. One highlight<br />
of the week was a mass celebrated at a church<br />
in Wildwood Crest, during which they were<br />
presented with a scroll signed by Pope Benedict.<br />
The Summer/Fall 2006 edition of the St. John’s<br />
University Alumni Magazine recognized Rich<br />
Meyer with a cover story that briefly discussed<br />
his career but focused on his good works,<br />
specifically his substantial help in funding some<br />
of the capital costs and operations of Boys Hope<br />
Girls Hope, a unique residential program for<br />
promising students from bad neighborhoods or<br />
unstable family situations. (Rich’s generosity has<br />
had a far wider sweep than what was mentioned<br />
in the St. John’s article; as we know, he has also<br />
done a lot for Regis and for Calvary Hospital.)<br />
In October, Don McCarthy received the Silver<br />
Beaver award from the Theodore Roosevelt<br />
Council of the Boy Scouts. This is the highest<br />
award a scout council can bestow on a volunteer<br />
leader. Don has been in Scouting for all but ten<br />
of the last 62 years, having originally joined<br />
as a boy in 1944. Dick Backe sent an email to<br />
the class requesting prayers for John Burke. I<br />
have since spoken to John. After an operation a<br />
couple of years ago, he had a recurrence in 2006<br />
of two chordomas. If they do not grow in size, he<br />
won’t need an operation. He goes in for an MRI<br />
periodically, and – thus far – has had no growth.<br />
He is nevertheless in some pain and is unable to<br />
travel. I join with Dick in urging your prayers.<br />
Kudos to Bill Foote, who has been doing a<br />
nice job of keeping up and circulating the everchanging<br />
email address list of ’51. Many of us<br />
depend on him quite a bit. (This marks the end<br />
of McCarthy’s class notes.)<br />
1952<br />
James McGough, 12 Highland Ave., Sleepy Hollow,<br />
NY 10591, jamcgough@optonline.net<br />
Charles A. Lynch writes: “I retired from the New<br />
Jersey Commerce Economic Growth & Tourism<br />
Commission on January 31, 2006 after eight<br />
years as Account Executive for the NJ chemical<br />
industry. Marilyn, my spouse, retired on 3/31/06<br />
from the NJ Dept of Health & Senior Services<br />
after 23 years as Program Manager in the US/<br />
DA-funded WIC programs.” John Keutmann’s<br />
first grandson, John, was commissioned as a 2LT<br />
in the Army at Arizona State in August. He’s at<br />
Fort Rucker, Alabama learning to fly helicopters.<br />
His dad, John, is a Captain with SWA and his<br />
uncle, Kevin, flies the airbus for FedEx. Ed Kelly<br />
is still working full-time at the Way Group, an<br />
international human resources management<br />
consulting firm. Unfortunately they have not sent<br />
him overseas on an assignment. He’s also still on<br />
the board of a concert/orchestra series. He and<br />
Kathy enjoy their grandchildren (all nearby) and<br />
overseas traveling (Salzburg and Ireland this<br />
year). George Lardner is working on a book<br />
as an associate at the Center for the Study of<br />
the Presidency. He was awarded a residency in<br />
August at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio<br />
Center. May the 16th marks the 55th anniversary<br />
of our graduation from Regis. It is more than<br />
appropriate that we come together once again<br />
to celebrate that auspicious happenings in our<br />
young lives and the happy friendships that<br />
evolved at 84th Street. The 16th of May (no<br />
matter what day of the week!) has become our<br />
tradition, under the leadership of Gerry Loftus,<br />
to gather for dinner in Manhattan. The venue for<br />
many years was the Back Porch restaurant, which<br />
over time some felt was rather compressed and<br />
not very conducive to easy mingling. Last year,<br />
we met at DoTomasso - excellent Italian cuisine,<br />
private room, BUT expensive when New York<br />
prices for wine and desserts were factored into<br />
the final tab. I’ve floated the idea with some of<br />
the Class about having this year’s commoration<br />
at my home in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester<br />
County. It’s about a 50 minute train ride from<br />
Grand Central Station. Rose and I would be<br />
delighted to be hosts. Our house permits an easy<br />
flow for folks to move about. If Mother Nature<br />
cooperates with warm weather, we could enjoy<br />
our comfortable back porch (no reference to the<br />
restaurant) or spread into the back yard. Dinner<br />
would be catered, along with whatever form<br />
of sarsaparilla folks might prefer. It’s an easy<br />
format, and certainly less expensive per person<br />
than DaTomasso or most other restaurants in<br />
Manhattan. Because our 55th is literally a oncein-a-lifetime<br />
special event, the feeling has been<br />
expressed that wives and significant others<br />
(including children and grandchildren, should<br />
they be interested) definitely join in the evening’s<br />
festivities. Some guidance is sought, please:<br />
1. May 16th is a Wednesday. Should we advance<br />
the gathering forward to the Friday, Saturday<br />
or Sunday of May 11, 12 or 13? Or, perhaps slip<br />
it back to May 18, 19 or 20? What might prove<br />
easier for travelling considerations versus other<br />
commitments? 2. Who might be interested<br />
in carpooling from Long Island, Manhattan,<br />
Jersey. Westchester, Hudson Valley? 3. Who<br />
might be interested in driving? 4. Who might<br />
prefer to come by train (Harry DeMaio and<br />
Frank Neeson have volunteered to Run a “taxi”<br />
service fom the Philipse Manor train station to<br />
our home for those who are unable or prefer not<br />
to walk the five-minute distance) Incidentally,<br />
train service runs every hour from GCT and<br />
back to GCT. Please let me know your interest<br />
and your thoughts: jamccgough@optonline.net<br />
1953<br />
Thomas Hickey, 474 Kossuth St., Paramus,<br />
NJ 07652, tjhickey@warpdriveonline.com<br />
Bob Mulligan is busy enjoying his six<br />
grandchildren- ages 6 ½ to 2 years, 4 boys<br />
and 2 girls. He even finds time for tennis and<br />
skiing. In addition to his teaching duties at St.<br />
Peter’s College, Tony Aracich also acts as copastor<br />
of a Jersey City parish that boasts not<br />
one, but two churches. (John Sullivan, take<br />
note.) The first, St. Patrick’s Church, was built<br />
by Irish immigrants 140 years ago and is listed<br />
in the National Register of Historic Places;<br />
its parishioners are predominantly black and<br />
Haitian. The second, Assumption and All Saints<br />
Due to a faculty absence, Alumni Director Jack Prael ’63 fills in as homeroom advisor for an unsuspecting<br />
group of Regians<br />
Church, was created by an earlier merger of<br />
two parishes bearing those names and whose<br />
parishioners were originally Polish and Slovak<br />
but are now predominantly Spanish-speaking<br />
Central Americans. “Keeps me moving,” Tony<br />
adds. Tom Hickey’s daughter, Rebecca Lainovic,<br />
was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of<br />
her alma mater, Providence College. Jim Shea<br />
is an active member of the St. Charles (Arlington<br />
VA) Advocacy Committee. The group sends<br />
weekly e-mail newsletters on social justice issues<br />
to 100 or so parish subscribers who are inclined<br />
to advocate on behalf of these causes. Jim has<br />
been concentrating on affordable housing and<br />
homelessness issues but also contributes to<br />
other areas of interest such as international<br />
affairs. In a recent message, for example, he<br />
wrote an article about the Buckingham Villages<br />
affordable housing redevelopment in Arlington.<br />
He also arranged for inclusion of an article on an<br />
upcoming Just War Symposium sponsored by the<br />
Arlington Diocese and arranged by a Georgetown<br />
University group. Another affordable housing<br />
project to which Jim has contributed is the<br />
Clarendon Baptist Church’s Clarendon Views,<br />
approved last month by the Arlington County<br />
Board. The Views project will provide 70 badlyneeded<br />
affordable apartments located close to a<br />
Metro station, shopping, and restaurants as well<br />
as convenient employment opportunities. The<br />
mix of apartments will enable low-to-moderate<br />
income disabled and working individuals and<br />
families to have a safe, decent and affordable<br />
place to live. The tenants will include teachers,<br />
police, firefighters and other public servants who<br />
have been increasingly priced out of the Arlington<br />
housing market. Kathy and Brian Fitzgerald<br />
celebrated their fifth anniversary recently. Their<br />
combined family includes seven children and<br />
eleven grandchildren. Kathy is recovering nicely<br />
from knee replacement surgery and hopes to be<br />
back, pretty close to normal for the golf season.<br />
Brian reports, “Kathy has been teaching me to<br />
golf, but I’m a slow learner. I’m hoping this will be<br />
the year I break 100!” Pete Hamill’s new novel,<br />
North River, will be released in early June by<br />
Little, Brown and Company. The novel tells a love<br />
story set on the Lower West Side with the City<br />
in the grips of the Great Depression. In a panel<br />
discussion sponsored by the Lower East Side<br />
Tenement Museum in early March, Pete and<br />
five other well-known New Yorkers discussed<br />
the question of how the Irish shaped New York:<br />
an appropriate run-up to our City’s St. Patrick’s<br />
Day celebration. At the annual public meeting<br />
of the Académie française in Paris on November<br />
30, 2006, Ron Tobin was awarded the Grand<br />
Prize for the promotion of French language and<br />
literature throughout the world. The prize took<br />
the form of a medal “en vermeille”, which (for<br />
us non-Francophiles) means silver on the inside<br />
and gold on the outside. The ceremony itself<br />
was very formal, as befits an institution founded<br />
in 1635 under the Bourbon monarchy. A total of<br />
60 prizes were given, but only 25 were “Grands<br />
Prix”. This is the first Grand Prize that the<br />
Académie has bestowed on an American in ten<br />
years and the first ever to a faculty member of the<br />
University of California. While in Washington,<br />
DC, for a meeting, Ron had supper with Phyllis<br />
and Jim Shea at their home. He notes that “Not<br />
only is Phyllis a great cook and Jim a connoisseur<br />
of wine, but Phyllis entertained us with, among<br />
other melodies, the Regis anthem, from memory,<br />
on the violin. Her first musical love, the violin<br />
has now reentered her life as she plays one of<br />
the two that the Sheas own - and she is very<br />
talented. Her passion [for the violin] warmed<br />
us all on a cold northeastern night.” Ron also<br />
alerted us to a national television appearance on<br />
The People’s Court by Joe Barbosa as a friend<br />
of the victorious defendant. According to Joe, the<br />
whole thing “was a gas! My best pal runs a group<br />
house and was sued because she did not carry<br />
Direct TV.” The parties agreed to have the case<br />
tried on People’s Court, instead of Small Claims<br />
Court in Nassau County. “So instead of going<br />
out there several times for nothing, we were<br />
picked up by a limo, got made up, shot [with a<br />
camera] etc. in about 3 hours, and Lila received<br />
$500 for defending successfully. The limo drove<br />
5 of us (including her witnesses) to lunch, at<br />
which we spent about $250 of her award.” Our<br />
most recent class gathering at Mario’s on Arthur
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Avenue included Jack Wallace, Joe McDonald,<br />
Ken Lally, John Cannon, Bob Golden, Msgr.<br />
John Sullivan, Joe Barbosa and Tom Hickey. A<br />
final note: For many of us, 2007 marks the 50th<br />
anniversary of our college graduation. The<br />
reunion celebrations at our various alma maters<br />
will provide additional opportunities to spend<br />
time with our classmates. We might even take<br />
time out to make car pooling plans so as to attend<br />
one - or both - of the class of ‘53 55th reunions<br />
taking place in 2008: New York in late spring and<br />
Santa Barbara post-Labor Day. Please keep on<br />
sending in your news and remember to let Tom<br />
Hickey know when you change your e-mail or<br />
residential addresses.<br />
1954<br />
John Conroy, 180 Forest Avenue,<br />
New Rochelle, NY 10804, jmconroy1@aol.com<br />
William Ungvarsky, 728 Boulevard,<br />
Westfield, NJ 07090-3212<br />
James O’Brien’s grandson John Magarian<br />
(mother Jean O’Brien) is a freshman at Jesuit<br />
High School in Carmichael, CA. He plays<br />
freshman football and is in the glee club which<br />
sung at Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in<br />
Sacramento at Christmas time. Ben Trigani<br />
reminds everyone that he is still vertical and<br />
sends his warmest regards to all his classmates.<br />
Tom Finnegan is alive and well enough in North<br />
Carolina.<br />
1955<br />
John Morriss, 3 Salem Pl.,<br />
Valhalla, NY 10595, jmorriss11@optonline.net<br />
Ron Polant shares the following: “Enjoying our<br />
first winter in Florida. Yes the ‘Leisure Police’<br />
came and got Bev and Ron Polant and took them<br />
to Tierra Verde, Fl. We plan to travel as long as we<br />
are able- life being uncertain. 2007 will see us in<br />
FL, Hawaii, New York, Connecticut, and Alaska.”<br />
William T. O’Leary III is currently enjoying<br />
8 grandchildren (6 boys, 2 girls) from his sons<br />
Bill IV and Brian. In March he expects to have<br />
two more. In March 2007, John Morriss did<br />
the Annual Fund Phonathon and was delighted<br />
to learn that all of our classmates are enjoying<br />
their post-professional career: children and<br />
grandchildren, travel, water coloring, physical<br />
exercise, golf, teaching, research, real estate,<br />
investing, hobbies, etc. You name it, they do it!<br />
Please keep the Alumni/Development Office<br />
up to date on your present home address, home<br />
telephone number, and e-mail address. Alumni<br />
Board minutes have been sent to some e-mail<br />
addresses, which are no longer current. Thanks,<br />
as always, for your cooperation.<br />
1956<br />
Paul Lennon, 17 Pine Ridge Road,<br />
Larchmont, NY 10538, PaulT.Lennon@verizon.net<br />
John McLoone writes in to Prowlings: “Great<br />
50 th reunion. I’m glad I made the trip. Although I<br />
was hoping that the prize for coming the farthest<br />
would have an automatic transmission and blue<br />
metallic paint.” Jim McShane writes that he<br />
thoroughly enjoyed reading the reunion book we<br />
sent him. Jim and Carol were enroute to Burkina<br />
Faso in West Africa, to spend Christmas with<br />
their daughter, who is serving in the Peace Corps<br />
there.<br />
1957<br />
John Hannaway, 67 Ridge Road,<br />
New Rochelle, NY 10804, hannawayjj@aol.com<br />
Packy Lawler, 29 Division Ave.,<br />
South Nyack, NY 10960, pjjal@verizon.net<br />
Florian Storch writes: “The tomato crop this<br />
year was minuscule whereas in our graduation<br />
year, I grew a record 232 pounds of tomatoes.<br />
What a tomato grower!” Bill Byrnes was married<br />
in Mid-February, with Dan Daly in attendance.<br />
Congratulations Bill, we hope you and your wife<br />
will be at the reunion. Bill Berlinghoff has been<br />
awarded the Bechenbach book prize for his most<br />
recent co-authored work: Math Through the Ages:<br />
a Gentle Guide for Teachers and Others. This<br />
prize is awarded by the Mathematics Association<br />
of America, the world’s largest society for<br />
undergraduate mathematics teachers. Peter<br />
Schineller, S.J. writes that he is looking forward<br />
to seeing old friends at the reunion and beyond,<br />
including the golf outing. Check out his new<br />
website: www.loyolajesuit.org/peterschineller.<br />
He’ll be in New York for the month of June.<br />
Kevin Farrelly ’72, President of the Regis Bar Association, surrounded by the Guests of Honor at the RBA’s<br />
“Meet the Judges” event which recognized the considerable amount of Regians now serving as judges<br />
1958<br />
Gerard McKenna, 7 Hilltop Rd.,<br />
Katonah, NY 10536, colmckenna0715@aol.com<br />
Thomas Ryan checks in with the following: “This<br />
year I was appointed Benefit Fund Administrator<br />
for Local 74, SEIU, and served as grand marshal<br />
of the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Rockaway,<br />
Queens.” Michael Napoliello submits the<br />
following: “As many of you noted in a previous<br />
edition’s In Memoriam section, our classmate,<br />
John Kruger, passed away on June 3, 2006.<br />
Ironically, this occurred on the day preceding<br />
the passing of another wonderful classmate, Don<br />
McMahon. John and I go back 51 years, starting<br />
with sophomore year at Regis, in Class 2C (also,<br />
coincidentally, the same class of Don McMahon).<br />
After Regis, we both went to Fordham and to<br />
NYU Medical School and kept in close touch<br />
since graduation. During those student years,<br />
John and I studied together, played football<br />
together, drove around the U.S., and did trips<br />
to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. John leaves<br />
behind a wonderful family – his wife Nancy and<br />
three grown children, and his sister Carroll -<br />
and a myriad of friends. Friends and colleagues<br />
were represented in abundance at the funeral,<br />
in addition to a phenomenal number of patients<br />
whom he had treated over the years (John was a<br />
gastroenterologist in the Delaware Valley area of<br />
Pennsylvania/New Jersey). The attendance, the<br />
eulogies and the many side conversations were<br />
an enduring testimony to the warmth, charisma,<br />
and excellence with which he had touched so<br />
many of us. He is terribly missed but leaves<br />
behind an ocean of memories to sustain those of<br />
us who had the privilege to know him.”<br />
1959<br />
Leo Tymon, 6 Greenwood Rd.,<br />
Mountainside, NJ 07092, ltymon@icbny.com<br />
Jack Boorman has retired (for the second time!)<br />
from the International Monetary Fund where<br />
he was Director of Policy and Special Advisor<br />
to the Managing Director. He’s now relaxing<br />
in Florida at his home on Sanibel Island and<br />
contemplating the future. John Felago, M.M.<br />
is still in California helping his parents- mom at<br />
92 and dad at 90. A rare blessing! Chris Conroy<br />
retired from Simpson Thacher last December<br />
and started a new job as CFO in January ’06.<br />
To quote Chesterton, “Anything worth doing is<br />
worth doing badly.” On a sad note, John Felago<br />
sent notice in early January of the passing of our<br />
classmate Steve Agli. For those who have not<br />
read his original notice, here are some excerpts<br />
from John’s moving tribute to his friend. “I need<br />
to share with you tonight my sadness to learn<br />
yesterday [January 8] of the death of Steve Agli.<br />
I am still in some shock. I am blessed to not<br />
yet lose any immediate family members, so it<br />
is rare for me to say of a death, ‘I can’t believe<br />
it’, but this is my true feeling regarding Steve. I<br />
feel like I have lost a brother. Steve and I were<br />
rather different, our lives went in quite different<br />
directions, but we also had much in common. At<br />
times years went by without any direct contact,<br />
but partly because geographically he was the<br />
nearest classmate when I visited my parents in<br />
Yonkers, I was somehow in touch with him, if<br />
thru his wonderful mother…Steve and I actually<br />
go back to 1A together at Regis.Mr. Quinty<br />
insisted on calling him ‘Ahl-yee’ and at least to<br />
me, he continued to refer to himself that way for<br />
the rest of his life...I don’t know how many years it<br />
took Steve to finally get his PhD on G M Hopkins,<br />
well-known Jesuit English poet - it was surely at<br />
least 20...But he stayed with it and was still able to<br />
go back to his many studies to offer a course on<br />
Great Thinkers in his final earthly home in Holy<br />
Apostles Seminary in CT...Steve struggled with<br />
pursuing a religious vocation, I believe, thru his<br />
whole life. He finally decided, entered a seminary<br />
for older vocations and was there for only a few<br />
months before his God decided Steve had suffered<br />
enough...For me, Steve’s death is a reminder<br />
again of how fast life goes by, strengthening<br />
my hope and desire that all of us use as many<br />
opportunities as we can to be together. God bless<br />
you, Steve, and soon give you total life and joy.<br />
I know you will remember us poor brothers of<br />
yours who live in hope of joining you someday.<br />
I surely will miss you. Your brother, John F”<br />
(Please contact Leo Tymon if you would like a<br />
complete copy of John’s remarks. Many thanks<br />
to those who shared their remembrances via e-<br />
mail.) Bob Fraleigh now is retired and enjoying<br />
his ten grandchildren. Ed Montell also reports<br />
ten grandchildren. Can anyone from the class top<br />
this? Mike Shef announced the birth on January<br />
4th of his granddaughter, Stephanie, his and<br />
Lorraine’s second grandchild. Jack Boorman<br />
recently retired from the International Monetary<br />
Fund where he was Director of Policy for 11 years.<br />
He’s now splitting time between Washington, DC<br />
and Sanibel Island, Florida. Peter Burchyns<br />
claims to have failed Retirement 101 and has<br />
returned to work on a 75% basis at the San Mateo<br />
County Office of Education, where he toiled for<br />
most of the past 30 years. Vacation time will still<br />
allow for ample time to travel and spoil the three<br />
grandchildren. In July, Chris Daly plans to trade<br />
in his professorial gear at Duquesne Univ. for<br />
some irons and woods, but hopes to keep active<br />
with some part time consultation work.<br />
1960<br />
Joseph Vaccarino, 49-23 216th St.,<br />
Bayside, NY 11364, JVQLA@aol.com<br />
Charles Altieri writes: “I discovered I cannot<br />
retire because I have no skills other than<br />
university teaching. So I am very glad I still very<br />
much enjoy what I do.”<br />
1961<br />
Joseph Carlucci, 130 Barrow Street, Apt. 219,<br />
New York, NY 10014, jfcarlucci@verizon.net<br />
Barbara and Jack O’Connell will celebrate 35<br />
years of marriage in July. Jack is semi-retired<br />
and a consultant to the Dilenschneider Group<br />
in New York. Barbara does a thriving business<br />
in her art studio. John C. Chendo recently had<br />
his poetry published in a hardbound volume,<br />
entitled “Blessing the Animals: God’s Creatures<br />
Wild and Tame” edited by Ms. Lynn L. Caruso,<br />
2006. The ISBN# is 1-59473-145-4. John adds that<br />
he owes Mr. Jerry Kappes a debt of gratitude for<br />
introducing him to the world of poetry in his first<br />
year of studying, and Mr. Kappes’ first year of<br />
teaching, at Regis. Bob Bonnell took an early<br />
retirement from Saint Francis Medical Center,<br />
Grand Island, NE on Dec. 31. He and Winnie<br />
have sold their house and purchased a 38’ motor<br />
home to travel the country. “I will be able to<br />
practice my avocations of scenic photography<br />
Rich Pfeiffer ’68, Larry Ehmer ’78, Greg Tino ’78, and Joe Torregrossa ’62 at Mr. Pfeiffer’s home for the<br />
Philadelphia Regional Reunion on December 8th<br />
and writing, while seeing this beautiful country<br />
and visiting the four kids and four grandkids in<br />
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.”<br />
1962<br />
Ron Ferreri, 4776 Alberton Court #2702,<br />
Naples, FL 34105, rferreri@swfla.rr.com<br />
Richard Wendt retired from Towers Perrin in<br />
May, 2006 and now spends his time trying to beat<br />
the stock market and visiting his kids in Atlanta.<br />
His first grandchild, Dylan, was born in July,<br />
2006. K.B. Meagher’s daughter Caitlin is in the<br />
3 rd year of a Ph.D. program at U. of Wisconsin.<br />
His son Evan is in his first year of ID/MBA<br />
program at Northwestern. Retirement delayed.<br />
In preparation for our 45th Anniversary and<br />
Reunion the “Regis Road Show” toured the Robert<br />
Trent Jones Trail (as in golf trail) throughout<br />
the State of Alabama. Yes, Alabama, the place to<br />
which Ron Ferreri fled in 2002. John Paxton<br />
organized the trip which began on April 12th and<br />
ended on April 19th. Greg Burke, Dave “Wild<br />
Man” Birch, Ned “Do Over” Butler, Curt “It<br />
was Supposed to Go Straight” Brand, Bob “Do<br />
they allow Georgians to play” Radics and Ron<br />
rounded out the group. Anyone attending the<br />
reunion will hear all of the gory details.<br />
1963<br />
John Tweedy, 26 Huron Rd., Floral Park,<br />
NY 11001-4007, john.tweedy@verizon.net<br />
John Prael, 34-06 81 St., Apt. #1,<br />
Jackson Heights, NY 11372, john.prael@gmail.com<br />
John Sesody’s son John was married on<br />
December 9 th to Laura Marchisi at Sacred Heart<br />
Church in Brooklyn. Richard A. Chiarello’s<br />
father, Carmelo Joseph Chiarello, passed away<br />
October 9 th , 2006 at the age of 98 (still driving<br />
until 97 years old). Daughter Stephanie married<br />
Brent Grissom on April 29 th , 2006. For his own<br />
part, Dick “starred” as Jacob in “Joseph and the<br />
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at Theatre<br />
Arlington. Last year Denise and Jack Stack<br />
and Barbara and Dick Chiarello attended each<br />
other’s daughter’s wedding. Stephanie Chiarello<br />
was married in Austin TX in April, and Karen<br />
Stack tied the knot in Stamford CT in June.<br />
Notably, Jack and Dick each served as the other’s<br />
best man many years ago.<br />
1964<br />
Ken Beirne, 417 N. St. Asaph St., Alexandria,<br />
VA 22314-2317, kjbeirne@mindspring.com<br />
Dennis Moulton, 326 E. 90th St., #4-E, New York,<br />
NY 10128, moultond@saintignatiusloyola.org<br />
Louis Scheeder is the Associate Dean of<br />
Faculty at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Ron<br />
Malanga writes: “Rosemarie and I are enjoying<br />
retirement. We now have three grandsons-<br />
Anthony Malanga (3), Dominic Malanga (4<br />
months) and Noah Schafer (6 months). Two<br />
oldest children, Chris and Veronica, are married<br />
and doing well. Youngest, Monica, will graduate<br />
from Northwestern in June, 2007. Louis Fuoco<br />
says: “My daughter will be married in August to<br />
Matt Landry and my son just moved out on his<br />
own and is doing very well.”<br />
1965<br />
George Griffith, 73 Sunset Rd.,<br />
Blauvelt, NY 10913, gtg1esq@aol.com<br />
Brendan Reilly is the subject of a 15-page<br />
section of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, Blink<br />
(2005). Gladwell’s prior work, Tipping Point,<br />
is one of the most influential books of the past<br />
decade. In Blink, he describes Brendan Reilly’s<br />
innovation as Chairman of the Department<br />
of Medicine at Cook County Hospital. The<br />
innovation involved how to rapidly recognize<br />
and treat patients presenting with potential heart<br />
attacks in the ER.<br />
1966<br />
James Maguire, 419 Third Ave., #4D,<br />
New York, NY 10016, jmaguire@courts.state.ny.us<br />
Bob Mollenhauer, 225 W. 34th St., Ste. 1800,<br />
New York, NY 10122, yobob928@aol.com<br />
Charles Webel spent the fall term as Fulbright<br />
Senior Specialist in Peace and Conflict Studies<br />
at the University of Rome. His next book, the<br />
Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies, is to be<br />
published this winter by Routledge in London.<br />
Bob Mollehauaer’s daughter is expecting<br />
her third child. Bob has moved to Malverne,
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LI. He and Jim Maguire spent another warm<br />
Christmas on Maui. Vinny Hevern, S.J. was<br />
recently promoted to full Professor in the Le<br />
Moyne College Psychology Department where<br />
he has taught for 16 years. Lawrence Sheerin<br />
writes: “Another productive winter: Alice Quinn<br />
Mayer was born on October 28th, 2006 in Athens,<br />
GA and joins her sister Katie Rose (b. 3/6/05).<br />
Matthew James Irwin was born on February<br />
2nd, 2007 (125 years after Jame Joyce!) in Garden<br />
City, NY and joins his brothers Brendan (b.<br />
5/7/03) and Sean (b. 1/15/05). And now I have a<br />
basketball team! Can’t wait for 2009!”<br />
1967<br />
Bill Armbruster, 42 Van Wagenen Ave., Apt. 8,<br />
Jersey City, NJ 07306, billarmbruster@comcast.net<br />
Frank Prestipino’s son, Frank Jr., graduated<br />
magna cum laude from the University of Florida,<br />
Gainseville, FL, in August 2006. Chris Connell<br />
writes: “You New Yorkers might enjoy my<br />
pictures from Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Parade<br />
in Alexandria, Va., which claims to be the first<br />
in the nation each year. They are online at:<br />
www.kodakgallery.com/connellphotos/parade. I<br />
was the official photographer for the Ballyshaners,<br />
who put the parade on. I inherited the volunteer<br />
duties from another Regian, Greg D’Alessio ‘62,<br />
who came to my Regis alumni cocktail party last<br />
November. We got a picture of ourselves taken<br />
with John Dunleavy, the chairman of the NYC<br />
parade, at historic Gadsby’s Tavern in Alexandria<br />
after Saturday’s festivities. He looks like a million<br />
bucks and we look like schlubs, which I guess<br />
it is our respective positions in life.” Victor<br />
Skowronski has had a couple articles published<br />
in IEEE Computer. The first, in August 2004, was<br />
a critique of a computer software development<br />
methodology called Agile Methods. His theme<br />
was that the verbal communication style used<br />
by Agile Methods might be incompatible with<br />
the working styles of some very capable people.<br />
One example that Victor used was St. Thomas<br />
Aquinas, so quiet in college that he was called<br />
“the Dumb Ox.” Some of the comments that Mr.<br />
Skowronski received from the first article were<br />
to the effect that Agile Methods managers did<br />
not want solitary geniuses working for them.<br />
This gave him the idea for the second article,<br />
which was that these managers were frustrated<br />
because they did not know how to communicate<br />
with these geniuses. As it turns out, he was<br />
able to use St. Thomas Aquinas as an example<br />
because he had earlier asked Arthur Bender,<br />
S.J. to recommend a biography of him. Victor<br />
says: “With a Masters Degree in both History and<br />
Theology, I knew Arthur was the perfect choice.<br />
At the time, I was interested in determining<br />
whether Aquinas’s life history was consistent<br />
with autism and Asperger Syndrome. It was. So I<br />
think we can say that my Regis education helped<br />
me with the articles.”<br />
1968<br />
James Sherwood, 325 Riverside Dr. #32,<br />
New York, NY 10025-4156, jcs@schlamstone.com<br />
For Fall of 2006, Carl Guarneri was at Colgate<br />
University as A. Lindsay O’Connor Visiting<br />
Professor of History. His book, America in the<br />
World: United States History in Global Context,<br />
has been published by McGraw-Hill. Terence<br />
Chorba retired from his distinguished career<br />
at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and<br />
Prevention (CDC), much of which was spent<br />
overseas promoting global health in African and<br />
Asia, in May, 2006. At that point, he accepted<br />
a position as Vice President in the Applied<br />
Research Division of Macro International, Inc.,<br />
with responsibility for overseeing Macro’s<br />
Global AIDS program. Jim Ross ‘65 is Senior<br />
Vice President and Managing Director of the<br />
division Terry joined. Tom McCormick, who<br />
attended Regis from 1964-67 writes: “Although I<br />
never graduated from Regis (Chemistry was my<br />
Achilles heel), I still relish the time spent with so<br />
many wonderful friends, faculty and Jesuits priests<br />
who made my three years there unforgettable.<br />
The Jesuit influence was such that I landed in<br />
Omaha, Nebraska in 1968 where I attended<br />
Creighton University, graduating with a degree in<br />
Journalism/Mass Communications. After stints<br />
as a disc jockey, director or communications<br />
for Mutual of Omaha, development director for<br />
a local parish and free lance writer, I am now a<br />
The crowd at Karen Sue and Erich Wolz’s ’79 home for the Houston Regional Reunion on January 20th<br />
customer service specialist for a major employer<br />
in Omaha that is owned by Warren Buffet’s<br />
Berkshire Hathaway Company. I have many<br />
fond memories of Regis– playing table hockey<br />
with Gerry Purtell (With two popsicle sticks and<br />
three dimes if I remember right). Taking the<br />
subway to the George Washington bridge bus<br />
station with Bill Mullin, Rich Pfeiffer, Dennis<br />
Degnan, Dan Murphy and the rest of the New<br />
Jersey crew. Running track for Mr. Ferguson,<br />
knowing, no matter how poorly I ran, if I passed<br />
the baton to Mike Plate, we were always in the<br />
running for a medal. Mr. Clancy curling my lips<br />
so I could learn how to “twill” the “r” sound.<br />
Mass in the chapel. Walking Jug, only to find out<br />
I wasn’t supposed to be there. (I was “excused”<br />
because so many others New Jersey classmates<br />
were also late because of a major accident on the<br />
bridge. I found this out after Jug was over). And<br />
so many other great times. I would love to hear<br />
from my friends and classmates who graduated<br />
in 1968. If any Regians make the annual trek to<br />
hear Warren Buffet, aka “The Oracle of Omaha”,<br />
address shareholders at the annual Berkshire<br />
Hathaway meeting held in May, or if you would<br />
like to experience the treasure that is the annual<br />
College World Series held each June in Omaha,<br />
please let me know. I promise you sizzling steaks,<br />
cold beer and warm hospitality. If any of my<br />
former classmates know the whereabouts of two<br />
other close friends of mine who did not graduate<br />
with the class of ‘68– Steve Stock or Joe Molloy –<br />
I would appreciate an address. I thank John Prael<br />
for allowing this Chemistry-challenged former<br />
Regian the opportunity to be included with my<br />
class of ’68 update and sending me copies of the<br />
Alumni Newsletter. Now that I know there are<br />
other Regians here in the Omaha area, I would<br />
hope to be able to get a Regis reunion organized<br />
in the near future. I have already heard from<br />
Kevin Cassidy ’87 – also a Creighton alumnus -<br />
- so ‘the wheels are turning.’ I would ask you to<br />
kindly remember my parents, who passed away<br />
recently, in your prayers as I will remember all<br />
of you in mine.”<br />
1969<br />
Bart Robbett, 76 Hillandale Rd.,<br />
Westport, CT 06880, Bart@Robbett.com<br />
David Krol writes, “After over twenty five<br />
years of working for major museums, including<br />
the Metropolitan Museum and the American<br />
Museum of Natural History, I have moved to<br />
Prague, Czech Republic, as the Deputy Director<br />
of The Princely Collections, Lobkowicz Palace<br />
Museum, on Castle Hill in the heart of the<br />
city. The website www.lobkowicz.cz gives the<br />
remarkable history of this amazing collection<br />
(including Breughel’s Haymaking and other<br />
major paintings, the manuscripts of Beethoven’s<br />
Third, Fourth and Sixth symphonies, firearms,<br />
furniture, porcelain, castles, palaces, vineyards<br />
and a brewery!) and its restitution after The<br />
Velvet Revolution. Nothing like uprooting to<br />
a new city to let you know how much stuff<br />
you have accumulated over the years!” Mike<br />
D’Angelo writes: “Our oldest daughter, Gina, is<br />
getting married June ’07. Matt is still sailing with<br />
Moran. Meredith is in her junior year at Florida<br />
State; she will be interning with Ritz-Carlton<br />
this summer. Jen is in her freshman year in the<br />
BFA Drama program at Syracuse University.<br />
Deb and I are adjusting to the empty nest.” Lou<br />
Coglianese says it was terrific to be in the city<br />
for his son Charles’ wedding in October. The<br />
ceremony was right on the old neighborhood<br />
at 80 th and Lex. The reception was at Gramercy<br />
Park. It was a day to reflect on how life, love, and<br />
learning are refreshed and renewed every year.<br />
Bill Quinn who is a Professor of English at the<br />
University of Arkansas, is currently a Visiting<br />
Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge. “I have<br />
been married to Tricia Reed Quinn since 1977,<br />
and we have two children: Catherine (21) and Bill<br />
(19).” Bart Robbett recently had the pleasure of<br />
working with former classmate Rich Schrader<br />
who is the New York legislative director for<br />
Natural Resources Defense Council. Rich has<br />
had an interesting career including a stint as<br />
head of NYC Department of Consumer Affairs<br />
where he took the lead in passing one of the<br />
nation’s first laws prohibiting the sale of tobacco<br />
to minors. And, just in from John Twomey, “My<br />
wife, Uli, and I presently reside in the DC suburb<br />
of Springfield VA, where I commute daily to my<br />
vineyard labor as an IT manager in the Office of<br />
the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. Uli<br />
and I recently celebrated, or in her perspective,<br />
suffered, our thirtieth wedding anniversary.<br />
Our twenty-three year old daughter, Alessandra,<br />
who, though born in Texas, grew up while I was<br />
stationed in Germany with the Department of<br />
the Army, hopes to graduate this coming May<br />
from the US Coast Guard Academy, incidentally,<br />
Bernie Roan’s Alma Mater, and pursue a<br />
career in the USCG, guarding the coasts and<br />
saving lives. Not bad work. Give my best to our<br />
classmates.”<br />
1970<br />
Robert Leonard, 56 Highland Ave.,<br />
Chatham, NJ 07928, robert.leonard@dbr.com<br />
Michael Fitzgerald’s son, a Regian of the class<br />
of 2010, has won his first medal on the track<br />
team. He also attended his first Regis vs. Xavier<br />
basketball tripleheader- from his account, it<br />
appears times haven’t changed the Regis-Xavier<br />
rivalry. J. Herbie DiFonzo received the Stanley<br />
Cohen Distinguished Award for “outstanding<br />
research in the field of family and divorce.” Tomas<br />
“Muggs” O’Dalaigh reports that Thomas J.<br />
Daly IV and Antonia Victoria Petrizzo-Daly are<br />
expecting Thomas J. Daly V in May 2007. Siobhan<br />
Erin Daly-Ruperto is expecting a boy also in May.<br />
Which grandson will be #3 and #4? CPL Martin J.<br />
Daly II, USMC has returned to Camp Le Jeune,<br />
NC after desert and urban training in California.<br />
Please keep him in your prayers. He adds, “yours<br />
truly started working at St. Vincent’s Midtown<br />
Hospital in Hell Kitchen in October (Psych Unit<br />
& Detox).” Bruce Williamson has both sad<br />
and happy news to report. In the Spring of 2005<br />
his marriage to Roberta Bell Williamson ended<br />
with a separation and, in early 2006, divorce.<br />
On October 14, 2006, mirabile dictu, he married<br />
Marianne C. (now)Williamson in Canandaigua,<br />
New York. Kevin Bryant was there with Joan<br />
and their daughter Annie. Annie, 10, stole<br />
the show Saturday night at an after-reception<br />
gathering that included Bruce’s daughters Erin<br />
and Sarah. Annie watched them play charades<br />
and word games, said “I know a game!”, and<br />
became the life of the party...until her bedtime<br />
an hour or two later. Kevin, Bruce, Marianne<br />
The Beyond the Quad panel listens as Vin Maher ’73 and Ken Lynch ’63 deliver some remarks<br />
and their Australian mate Ian McNeilly toured<br />
Regis on November 4, 2006 (Admission Exam<br />
day). McNeilly, in to run the NYC Marathon the<br />
next day, sports a multi-color cap topped by a<br />
propeller. Bruce, Marianne and Kevin wore like<br />
hats in Ian’s honor. Kevin and Bruce explained to<br />
several prospective members of the Class of 2011<br />
who gave us skeptical looks that we were Class of<br />
‘70 and “this is what happens when you get old.”<br />
A pleasant time was had by all.<br />
1971<br />
Luke Garvey, 3 Ridge Road, Weston,<br />
CT 06883, ltgarvey@aol.com<br />
Roger Rooney, 203 Carrollwood Dr.,<br />
Tarrytown, NY 10591, rooney414@aol.com<br />
Edward Miller continues as a psychologist at<br />
Aurora. He has a daughter who is a senior in high<br />
school and a son who is a freshman in high school<br />
so he has his hands full. He would also like to<br />
hear from anyone who visited with Bill Roethel<br />
before his untimely death last year. Alfred W.<br />
Pirovits completed the 2006 LA Marathon with a<br />
pulled hamstring, hangover, shingles, and recent<br />
infectious tick bite without training.<br />
1972<br />
Michael Davies, 887 Park Ave., Huntington,<br />
NY 11743-4520, mdavies1@optonline.net<br />
Kevin Farrelly, 272 First Ave., Apt. 11F,<br />
New York, NY 10009-1804, kjf@farrellylaw.com<br />
1973<br />
John O’Toole, 4 Haldimann Lane,Blairstown,<br />
NJ 07825, john.o’toole@morganstanley.com<br />
After many years as a partner with Dewey<br />
Ballantine, effective November 27 th Tom<br />
Giegerich accepted a partner position with the<br />
law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery as head of<br />
the deferral tax practice in their New York office.<br />
Bill Popovich writes: “My oldest son Bill just<br />
got a JD from Rutgers-Camden this December<br />
in 2 ½ years, after an electrical engineering<br />
degree in 3 years at Villanova. I’ll be starting<br />
at Rutgers-Camden part time as a first year law<br />
student myself, following in my son’s footsteps,<br />
this fall, after 30 years in technology, the last 20<br />
for the East Windsor, NJ school district. My sons<br />
Bill, 24, Brian, 22, and Nick, 20, as well as my<br />
wife of 26 years, Lee Ann, and myself, were all<br />
in college at the same time a few years ago, my<br />
wife completing her bachelor’s, my sons working<br />
on their undergraduate degrees, as I finished an<br />
MBA in technology management. We have lived<br />
in Robbinsville for the last 3 years.”<br />
1974<br />
William O’Connell, 26 Peachtree Drive, Cortlandt<br />
Manor, NY 10567-5232, billo@bestweb.net<br />
Jim DiMartini Mandala says: “It’s interesting to<br />
watch my oldest as she goes through the college<br />
application process as a high school senior. My<br />
son is finishing up 8 th grade and reminding me<br />
that I am growing old.” Bill O’Connell writes:<br />
“On December 7, I joined several members of the<br />
class of ‘74 at Polonia Restaurant on First Avenue<br />
to fete Mark Koltko-Rivera on the occasion<br />
of his 50th birthday. Mark’s wife, Kathleen,<br />
organized the affair. Jim Solloway and his wife<br />
Elaine attended as did Damian Pezzano and his<br />
wife Olya. Kudos to Peter Rivera who presented<br />
Mark with selected photos from his years at<br />
Regis. One picture from the Regis Dramatic<br />
Society brought the house down. On a serious<br />
note, Dr. Harold Takooshian, longtime Fordham<br />
Professor, surprised Mark with the presentation<br />
of a medal from American Psychological<br />
Association - Division 1, honoring Mark’s<br />
contribution to psychological theory, especially<br />
in the area of Worldview and multi-cultural<br />
psychology. We also learned that Kathleen will<br />
soon be joining the Fordham family when she<br />
embarks on her doctoral studies in counseling<br />
psychology. Needless to say, a grand time was<br />
had by all! On a personal note, my wife Lynne<br />
has recently joined Fordham in the capacity<br />
of Assistant Dean of Admissions at Fordham<br />
College of Liberal Studies at Tarrytown.”<br />
1975<br />
Steve Tranchina, 124 Dartmouth Rd.,<br />
Manhasset, NY 11030, satmd@hotmail.com<br />
Michael Del Rosso, 2404 Old Ballard Farm Road,<br />
Charlottesville, VA 22901, m.j.delrosso@ieee.org
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1976<br />
Neil Grealy, 17 Overlook Drive,<br />
Greenwich, CT 06830, grealc@ldcorp.com<br />
Joe Bringman writes: “June 2006 brought<br />
to an end my 3-year term as a King County<br />
Bar Association trustee (including one year<br />
as Secretary). At the KCBA Annual Dinner,<br />
I received the 2006 President’s Award “for<br />
Distinguished and Exemplary Service” to<br />
KCBA, in recognition of my contributions, while<br />
a trustee, to the efforts of the Audit Committee<br />
(which I chaired), and subcommittees on task<br />
forces addressing issues of judicial campaign<br />
standards, allocation of judges to different<br />
divisions of the King County District Court, and<br />
same-sex marriage. No longer a trustee, I’ve been<br />
using my “leisure” time to write articles- profiles,<br />
really- concerning some of the more prominent<br />
local lawyers. I’m currently working on one<br />
concerning William Neukom, President-Elect of<br />
the ABA, which will appear in the January 2007<br />
Bar Bulletin. As to non-leisure time, it’s mostly<br />
a combination of securities, antitrust and other<br />
complex commercial litigation at Perkins Coie,<br />
where I’ve been practicing law for the last 21+<br />
years.”<br />
1977<br />
James Shanahan, MD, 37 Crystal Farm Rd.,<br />
Warwick, NY 10990-3028, shanahan@warwick.net<br />
Michael Gutierez is Standard and Poors<br />
director of U.S. servicer evaluations. He was<br />
recently honored by the National Hispanic<br />
Corporate Achiever Organization as their 2006<br />
Corporate Achiever. He was featured in an article<br />
in The World, the news letter for McGraw- Hill<br />
Company, and was honored at a banquet at The<br />
Waldorf Astoria. Congratulations Mike!<br />
1978<br />
Bernie Kilkelly, 595 Scranton Avenue,<br />
Lynbrook, NY 11563, bjkilkelly@gmail.com<br />
Jim Baldassarre has worked overseas (England<br />
3 years and Italy 2 years) and has traveled<br />
throughout Europe with his family. He’s back<br />
in the states and still travels extensively. He’s<br />
the proud father of two girls and one boy. Stan<br />
The Beyond the Quad panel discusses New York City: 5 Years After 9/11<br />
Parchin has been researching the lost painting<br />
“Leda and the Swan” by Italian High Renaissance<br />
master Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) for an<br />
upcoming article on About.com, The New<br />
York Times Company’s’ educational website.<br />
His scholarly essay, “Sacred and Profane:<br />
Christian Imagery and Witchcraft in Prints by<br />
Hans Baldung Grien,” is now available by link<br />
from Wikipedia. Robert Spring ‘58, Stan’s<br />
neighbor who shares many of his academic<br />
interests, just gave him brand new Encyclopedia<br />
Britannica software on European paintings and<br />
museums. Father Ray Sweitzer. S.J. ‘63 is<br />
happily teaching German and Latin at Fordham<br />
Preparatory (High) School in The Bronx.<br />
Gregory Rapisarda, retired (?) Dean of Regis’<br />
faculty, enjoys tutoring some of our alma mater’s<br />
present students in Spanish. Bob Marraccino,<br />
who teaches at City University of New York-<br />
Hunter College, looks forward to the opening of<br />
the new Hall of Human Origins at the American<br />
Museum of Natural History. Jack Fowler of “The<br />
National Review” checks in periodically from his<br />
publishing duties. Both Regians and their families<br />
are doing quite well. Fresh from her successful<br />
Venezuelan Consulate gallery opening with five<br />
of her contemporaries (opposite St. Patrick’s<br />
Cathedral off Fifth Avenue), Hilda O’Connell-<br />
Harris has more students in her Senior Year<br />
Studio Art course. She continues to nurture<br />
Matisse (what else?), her German Shepherd/<br />
Beagle mix pup; “Matty” will turn two this<br />
April. Chicago’s Armando Pauker contacted<br />
Stan about taking Clara, his eight-year-old<br />
daughter, to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br />
And Jerrold Kappes ‘52, past English teacher<br />
of “Landmarks in Literature” fame and director<br />
of an uproarious production of “The Mikado”<br />
by Gilbert & Sullivan, resurfaced “sans scrim” at<br />
Regis this past January.<br />
1979<br />
Richard Weber, 176 Broadway, #4F,<br />
New York, NY 10038, rick.weber@mccann.com<br />
Mike McConnell continues at Stanford as an<br />
Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine<br />
doing imaging research and clinical work. He and<br />
Lena Wu had their 15 th anniversary this year and<br />
spent a week on the Big Island. His daughters<br />
Kelly and Mia are now 11 and 8.<br />
1980<br />
William Passannante, 7 Hook Rd,<br />
Rye, NY 10580, wpassannante@andersonkill.com<br />
Peter Schiano writes: “We now have 2 teenage<br />
boys, so we’ve assumed crash positions. Still<br />
doing process control engineering with Siemens<br />
outside Philly. Lisa & I have gotten sucked into<br />
the local zydeco dance cult which helps keep<br />
us in shape.” Mike McLoughlin sends in the<br />
following: “My wife, Jennifer, and I and our two<br />
sons, Evan, 5, and Kyle, 2, recently moved from<br />
Providence, RI to Pittsburgh, in order to be closer<br />
to Jennifer’s family who live here. I’m enjoying my<br />
new job as a psychologist at Allegheny Children’s<br />
Initiative and adjusting to life in ‘Steeler country.’<br />
Pittsburgh’s a very hilly and surprisingly treefilled<br />
city with lots of great things to do with<br />
kids. It’s also kind of cool having a 26 yearold<br />
mayor- Luke Ravenstahl”. Dr. Giuseppe<br />
(Joe) Del Priore is the lead author of a study<br />
related to uterine transplants for young female<br />
cancer patients, which was discussed in the<br />
January 30 edition of the New York Times at F5.<br />
1981<br />
Robert Schirling, 63-46 252 St.,<br />
Little Neck, NY 11362, rschirling@nyc.rr.com<br />
Romeo B. Mateo is currently living in<br />
Westchester, New York with his wife Zora and<br />
two boys: Vincent and Stephen. His email is<br />
romeobmateo@optonline.net. He’d love to hear<br />
from old friends anywhere in the country.<br />
1982<br />
John McGuinness, 175 Union Avenue,<br />
Apt E102, Rutherford, NJ 07070-3520<br />
john.o.mcguinness@jpmorgan.com<br />
Lt Col Gene Zuratynsky was deployed to<br />
Afghanistan in October and will be serving there<br />
until April of this year. He is an Air Force security<br />
police officer. Please pray for Dan McGrath’s<br />
father who passed away on March 11 th , 2006.<br />
Sean Reddington is living in Montclair with<br />
his wife, Hollie. They have 3 children- Paige (8),<br />
Grace (6) and Callum (3). He’s looking forward<br />
to catching up with the class at the 25 th reunion.<br />
1983<br />
Joseph Accetta, 140 Grand St., 9th Floor,<br />
White Plains, NY 10601, jsaccetta@aol.com<br />
John J. Zipay writes: “I am still working on the<br />
Space Shuttle tile repair project, have participated<br />
in a lunar lander study and am working on<br />
the requirements for the spacecraft that will<br />
go back to the Moon. I also played the King<br />
and choreographed the sword fight for a local<br />
production of Hamlet.” Gerard Forster writes:<br />
“Believe it or not, my daughter Janine is now<br />
a Junior at Whittier College, in Calif., and just<br />
spent the fall semester as an intern at the United<br />
Nations in NYC with the UN High Commission<br />
on Refugees. I got to visit her several times over<br />
the semester and was impressed at how quickly<br />
she has become a New Yorker. My son Patrick<br />
will be graduating high school this year and then<br />
my wife and I will be ‘empty nesters.’ Does that<br />
make you guys feel old or what? I know it makes<br />
me feel that way.”<br />
1984<br />
Emanuel Grillo, 130 Aldershot Lane,<br />
Manhasset, NY 11030, lgrillo@optonline.net<br />
Michael Murphy, 102 Park Avenue, Williston<br />
Park, NY 11596, mickmurph@hotmail.com<br />
1985<br />
Thomas Flood, 5 Reed Avenue,<br />
Floral Park, NY 11001, tflood@rcdob.org<br />
Joseph G. DiMare is presently working as<br />
a statistician for mlb.com. Edward Straka<br />
married Yuko in Hawaii last September 19 th .<br />
They’ll continue to live and work in Tokyo. He’s<br />
still at Citigroup and Yuko is still working for JAL<br />
as a flight attendant.<br />
1986<br />
Robert Sciarrone, 3158 Perry Ave. #5B,<br />
Bronx, NY 10467-4137, rob_bxny@yahoo.com<br />
1987<br />
John Wing, 309 Avenue C, #10B,<br />
New York, NY 10009-1606, johnw@tzell.com<br />
1988<br />
John Middleton, 411 E. 53rd St., Apt. 8G,<br />
New York, NY 10022,<br />
jrmiddleton92@post.harvard.edu<br />
Bill McGeveran writes: “I’ve moved (in 2006)<br />
to St. Paul, Minnesota where I’m a law professor<br />
at the University of Minnesota (teaching<br />
civil procedure, data privacy, and intellectual<br />
property), and survived open-heart surgery.<br />
Big year. My wife and I have fun with 3-year old<br />
Estella.” Keith Murphy retired from the FDNY<br />
in July 2006. He’s currently a full time stay-athome<br />
dad for Gretchen, and she has him working<br />
harder than ever!<br />
1989<br />
Joseph Macchiarola, 91 Adams Street, Garden City,<br />
NY 11530, joseph.macchiarola@thehartford.com<br />
Jeremy Clifford and his wife Laura have moved<br />
to Watertown, CT and are now teaching at the<br />
Taft school. Aldina and David Kennedy are<br />
happy to announce the birth of Jonah Declan<br />
Vazao Kennedy on January 17 th , 2006.<br />
1990<br />
James Donohue, 59 West 76th St. Apt. 4E, New York,<br />
NY 10023-1553, jdonohue@wrhambrecht.com<br />
Joseph Sciabica, 62 Verbena Ave.,<br />
Floral Park, NY 11001, jsciabica@wagroupllc.com<br />
John Farrelly shares the following news: “On<br />
April 13, 2006, Aileen and I had our fourth child,<br />
Aileen Mary Farrelly. Aileen Mary’s godfather is<br />
Kevin Moclair. Big sisters, Ellen (9) and Clare (6)<br />
and big brother, Sean (3) are great with their new<br />
baby sister.” Jim Wilson will be getting married<br />
to Michele Tate on May 12 in DC. Kevin Moclair<br />
reports the birth of his third son, Aidan Joseph,<br />
on June 6, 2006. He joins Kevin, 5, and Ryan, 3.<br />
Jason Creux married Kathryn Young of Houston,<br />
TX on July 2, 2006 in Hastings-On-Hudson, NY.<br />
Kathryn works as a Speech Pathologist at the<br />
Westchester School for Special Children in<br />
Yonkers, and Jason works as a Systems Engineer<br />
for Instinet Incorporated in Manhattan. They live<br />
in Bronxville, NY. Woody Victor writes that he<br />
is currently the Director of On-Air Operations for<br />
Black Entertainment Television. Ricky Kullen<br />
got married 1/13/07 to Vicki Casker, in sunny<br />
Jupiter, FL. The wedding took place on the beach<br />
“Attendees at the wedding of Emma Brazier and Peter Buff ’91 included Tom Downey ’91, Jonathan<br />
Iwaskow ’91, best man Paul Henninger ’93, Jose Marquez ’91, Fr. Dan O’Reilly ’93 who celebrated the<br />
wedding, James McGovern ’91, Tim O’Reilly ’91, and Peter Henninger ’98”<br />
at sunset. They were joined in the ceremony by<br />
ring bearers Dakota and Daniel, and flower girls<br />
Morgan and Alexandra. The celebration included<br />
other Regis alumni: Mike Kullen ‘92 with wife<br />
Kathy, Mike Lorraine with wife Stephanie, and<br />
Mark Reilly. Chris Ocampo and his wife, Iris<br />
Kassem, had their first child on January 3. His<br />
name is Ryan Kassem Ocampo, weighing in at a<br />
healthy 8lbs 4oz. Eddie Gamara is busy trying<br />
to do the Hollywood thing, setting up film and TV<br />
projects. Ed writes that, “The big buzz out here is<br />
‘hedge funds,’ so if any of those fiscally successful<br />
Regians out there want to get in the game, I’d love<br />
to chat - eddiegamarra@hotmail.com.”<br />
1991<br />
Chris Caslin, 770 Elm Ave.,<br />
River Edge, NJ 07091, ccaslin@coleschotz.com<br />
Nolan Shanahan, 61 Hillcrest Road,<br />
Warren, NJ 07059, Nolan@TheShanahans.org<br />
Tom Rodi is expecting #2 this May. Terry Wilson<br />
and his wife are expecting their first child June<br />
29 th . Elizabeth and Todd Cosenza had their first<br />
child, Matthew Todd, on September 15, 2006. On<br />
December 16 th , 2006 Peter Buff married Emma<br />
Brazier in Cambridgeshire, England. The couple<br />
live in London. Among those attending included<br />
Tom Downey, Jonathan Iwaskow, best man<br />
Paul Henninger ‘93, Jose Marquez, Father<br />
Dan O’Reilly ‘93 who celebrated the wedding,<br />
James McGovern, Tim O’Reilly and Peter<br />
Henninger ’98.<br />
1992<br />
Michael McCarthy, 76-15 35th Avenue,<br />
Apt. 2-P, Jackson Heights, NY 11372,<br />
mccarthym@stpetersprep.org<br />
Major Christopher Dougherty is separated<br />
from active Air Force after 10 years as a pilot- 4<br />
tours in Iraq, landed in North Korea, now flying<br />
for the Delaware National Guard and looking<br />
for commercial pilot slots. Cedric G. Heraux<br />
and his wife recently bought their first house<br />
in East Lansing, MI, and Cedric started work at<br />
the University of Michigan. Any Regians in the<br />
area are welcome to look him up. Tim Gallen<br />
was recently named to the Strategic Planning<br />
Committee for the Pennsylvania Association for<br />
College Admission Counseling. His big news,<br />
though, is that he recently became engaged<br />
to be married to Susan Naab, an alumna of St.<br />
Joseph’s University and a production editor<br />
with the National Catholic Bioethics Center in<br />
Philadelphia.<br />
1993<br />
Brendan Loonam, 227 E. 88th Street,<br />
Apt. 5W, New York, NY 10128-3398,<br />
Loonambk@yahoo.com<br />
Daniel Roche, 600 West 246th St., Apt. 409,<br />
Bronx, NY 10471, droche@talkpoint.com<br />
Brian Fodera recently graduated from USC<br />
Law School and passed the California Bar. Denis<br />
Reilly left Kodak in January after working there<br />
for more than eight year. He moved to a smaller<br />
company, Spectracom Corporation, which is also<br />
in Rochester, NY. Abner Louissaint, M.D. PhD<br />
from Cornell, is at Mass General Hospital in<br />
Boston with his wife Dr. Angelica Louissaint. Dave<br />
LoRe got engaged to Amber Field on February<br />
23rd. The wedding is tentatively scheduled for<br />
April or May of 2008. Christian Talbot recently<br />
had the chance to catch up with Andy Lee in<br />
Palo Alto, CA while he was there attending the<br />
JSEA Seminars in Ignatian Leadership. Christian<br />
will be moderating the third “Beyond the Quad”<br />
roundtable discussion in Los Angeles on April<br />
17th. The topic is the entertainment industry.<br />
He’s also written two psychological thrillers<br />
and is currently looking for a literary agent. In<br />
his spare time, he rescues kittens from burning<br />
buildings. Barrett Comiskey writes: “Jojo<br />
(wife), Lia (stepdaughter) and I have been here<br />
in Shanghai for about 2.5 years now, and I’m<br />
happy to report we are well settled in, personally<br />
and professionally. I was recently in Boston, to<br />
celebrate the 10th anniversary of the company<br />
we started out of undergrad in ‘97, E Ink. E Ink is<br />
doing well, with products in the market by Sony,<br />
Lexar, and Motorola. E Ink is also a customer<br />
of my current company Nicobar – we’ve built<br />
most of the manufacturing infrastructure here in<br />
China and still support E Ink on production and<br />
logistics – it’s been rewarding for me to see the<br />
technology through from conception to very high<br />
volume. Our newer company (Nicobar Group) is
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also doing well, we have offices in Shanghai and<br />
NYC and a good mix of clients. We’re working on<br />
interesting problems in manufacturing, logistics,<br />
and international investments. You can check out<br />
the website at www.nicobargroup.com. MOST<br />
IMPORTANTLY – it’s sometimes lonely over<br />
here on the other side of the world, so PLEASE<br />
STAY IN TOUCH! Technology has dropped the<br />
cost so much, so stay close.<br />
EMAIL: bc@nicobargroup.com”<br />
1994<br />
Christian Browne, 16 Main Street, Apt. 2N,<br />
East Rockaway, NY 11518, cb9498@yahoo.com<br />
Basil Kolani, 403 Pacific Street #3,<br />
Brooklyn, NY 11217, bkolani@mac.com<br />
Paul McGuire is a freelance writer from Las<br />
Vegas. He covered the 2005 and 2006 World<br />
Series of Poker for Fox Sports and Poker Player<br />
Newspaper. He recently returned from a month<br />
long assignment in Melbourne, Australia where<br />
he covered the Aussie Millions poker tournament.<br />
He’s a partner in LasVegasVegas.com. Dana and<br />
Jeff Briscoe announce the birth of their third<br />
child, Joseph Thomas Briscoe, born October<br />
10th, 2006 in Port Charlotte, Florida. Joey now<br />
joins son Jimmy, age 4, and daughter Anna, age 2,<br />
in a crowded, loud, but very blessed household!<br />
Frank Martignetti submits the following online:<br />
“I’m in my second year of teaching college as<br />
an adjunct, at the University of Bridgeport.<br />
I love it! I direct the University Singers and<br />
Chamber Singers, give lessons, and teach one<br />
class a semester in music or music education.<br />
It’s great! I’m in my fourth year at High School<br />
in the Community in New Haven, where I was<br />
hired to start a music program from scratch in<br />
2003. It’s been rough, but it’s finally there. There<br />
are a few aspects of it that are suspiciously like<br />
Band/Chorus... This past spring, the New Haven<br />
Symphony gave me their Excellence in Music<br />
Teaching Award. That was humbling, as it usually<br />
goes to much more experienced people. I’m living<br />
in New Haven (a great town these days) and have<br />
room for guests if anyone is passing though!”<br />
1995<br />
Stephen McGrath, 1421 Hemlock Farms,<br />
Hawley, PA 18428-9067, sdm25@columbia.edu<br />
John Zadrozny, 57 Montague Street, #8K,<br />
Brooklyn, NY 11201, zadroznyj@dany.nyc.gov<br />
Frank R. Cowan, IV will transfer to the Naval<br />
Postgraduate School in March 2007 to study<br />
electrical engineering for the next two years.<br />
Michael O’Brien has moved to Hackensack, NJ<br />
07601, 310 Prospect Ave, Apt 404 (212-228-4262).<br />
He continues his employment where he began as<br />
an intern when he was 18. He is now a director at<br />
Blackrock Finance and played a key role in the<br />
recent merger with Merrill Lynch. Joe King’s<br />
father, Joseph P. King, passed away on February 2,<br />
2007. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to<br />
Regis in his name. Please keep his family in your<br />
prayers. Paul Zummo was married to Lauren<br />
Streusand in Washington, D.C., on Saturday,<br />
February 17, 2007. John A. Zadrozny performed<br />
best man duties (and somehow managed to not<br />
lose the rings on the way to the church), while<br />
Mike Francis served as one of several of Paul’s<br />
groomsmen. Other Regians in attendance at<br />
the wedding included Denis Brogan, Imre<br />
Knausz, Rich O’Connor, Spencer Reames,<br />
Rob Votin, and Ted LaBarbera ‘94. Michael<br />
Francis send the following: “Greetings! I’m<br />
writing to announce the birth of Samantha Grace<br />
Francis, born November 27, 2006. Wife Kim<br />
and big brother Alex are quite happy fawning<br />
all over her, though we are not quite as happy<br />
to be experiencing sleep deprivation again. I’ve<br />
posted pictures at my blog, http://francaseplace.<br />
blogspot.com. In addition, I also began the MBA<br />
program at Georgia State University. I continue<br />
to work for Bank of America after a promotion<br />
earlier this year into the Business Capital (Risk)<br />
department. We are all doing quite well here in<br />
Atlanta, so if you happen to be in town, drop by!”<br />
1996<br />
Michael Boyle, 349 Village Pointe Dr., Apt C,<br />
Akron, OH 44313, boylemj@gmail.com<br />
Brian Lennon, 40 Sutton Place, Apt. 5F,<br />
New York, NY 10022, brlennon@gmail.com<br />
Faculty members take part in “Faculty Feud,” a Family Feud take-off organized by the student government.<br />
Teams competed to find out who best knew Regis trivia- the winners received the proceeds from the audience<br />
of students to donate to a charity of their choice<br />
Luis Gutierrez is living in Chicago and attending<br />
Northwestern University part-time pursuing his<br />
MBA. Stefan Karpinski is still out on the left<br />
coast working away on his graduate studies and<br />
longing to move back to the east coast soon.<br />
1997<br />
John Rossiello, im2bigred@yahoo.com<br />
1998<br />
Daniel Kirchoff, 180 West 82nd Street,<br />
New York, NY 10024, ddk2107@columbia.edu<br />
John Morris, 33-55 14th Street, Apt 4C, Long<br />
Island City, NY 11106, johnpmorris@gmail.com<br />
Jerry Carita just got back from Austin, TX where<br />
he was producing a pilot for MTV. This is his<br />
second producer role for MTV. Between creating<br />
trashy reality TV programs, Jerry works as a<br />
location scout for such network shows as “Love<br />
Monkey” for CBS and “The Black Donnellys” for<br />
NBC. He is planning a trip to Mardi Gras this year<br />
along with fellow alum James Veneruso. Joe<br />
Kondel finished his MS in Computer Science at<br />
Fordham University, a feat made more impressive<br />
by his being located in Washington, DC, where<br />
he works at NASA Headquarters. Jesse Saviola<br />
has become a master of the 3am wakeup call,<br />
a result of working in production on Law &<br />
Order: SVU. Mike Griffin has matriculated at<br />
his third Jesuit school, this time as a graduate<br />
student in Fordham’s MBA program. Russell<br />
Capone is working at the New York office of<br />
Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Matthew Connolly will<br />
start working at the Nassau County DA’s office<br />
after graduating from Hofstra Law this May.<br />
Mike Zanetti writes from Chicago, “I moved<br />
from Germany to Chicago and bought a place<br />
in Naperville. I also transferred my commission<br />
from active duty Army to the National Guard and<br />
now I am training future officers for service in<br />
Iraq and Afghanistan. I accepted a management<br />
position with Caterpillar and have been working<br />
there (quite a bit I might add!) since mid-<br />
December. Beyond the necessary settling in, my<br />
next big event is that I will be getting married on<br />
September 29th, 2007. So all in all, lots going on<br />
but definitely very positive across the board.”<br />
Rich Paulis is practicing emergency medicine at<br />
Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. He’ll be getting<br />
married on September 8, 2007, to Lisa Asgaonkar,<br />
whom he met while the two were students at<br />
Albany Medical School. Lisa is a physician at<br />
Bryn Mawr Hospital in Philadelphia, where she’s<br />
completing her residency in radiology.<br />
1999<br />
Tom Hein, 5 Midland Gardens, Apt. 4G,<br />
Bronxville, NY 10708, tomhein@heindesign.org<br />
Brian Hughes, 149 Park Drive North,<br />
Staten Island, NY 10314, RWiggum99@aol.com<br />
Andy Horner is working in the Marketing &<br />
Communications Department of the New York<br />
Mets.<br />
2000<br />
Chris Nooney, 359 East 62nd St., Apt 3B,<br />
New York, NY 10021, chrisnooney@optonline.net<br />
Daniel Shapiro is still living in the Seattle<br />
area and working on the new, upcoming 787<br />
“Dreamliner” for the Boeing Company. John<br />
Witkiewicz reports that life is good in Colorado.<br />
He is teaching Theology full-time at Arrupe Jesuit<br />
High School in Northwest Denver, coaching the<br />
Soccer team, and doing his best to mold ‘young<br />
men and women for others.’ He is getting married<br />
in June of this year to Kelsey Hanno in Boulder,<br />
CO and hopefully heading back East after a stint<br />
down in Mexico. He’s divided his time between<br />
freeing his heels in the mountains, playing indoor<br />
soccer, and organizing and executing eccentric<br />
pub crawls. He spent some time last summer in<br />
Northern India and might be in the market for<br />
a degree in counseling in the near future. His<br />
Subaru is still alive, though he no longer drives<br />
it in the mountains. He hopes everyone is well.<br />
Chris O’Leary is finishing up his 2L year at BC<br />
Law and will be a summer associate at Thacher<br />
Proffitt & Wood in NYC. Jim Walsh is nearing<br />
completion of his final year at Brooklyn Law and<br />
looks forward to starting a career in the Real<br />
Estate Development arena. Denis Lyons and<br />
Angela Cogswell are engaged to be married<br />
this September in Cape Cod. The two have<br />
been together since their undergraduate days at<br />
Georgetown. Adding to anecdotal evidence that<br />
there is something in the water at G-town, fellow<br />
Regian and Hoya, Kevin Bailey proposed to his<br />
undergraduate sweetheart, Mary Dombrowski on<br />
December 9 th . Fortunately for him, she accepted,<br />
and the pair plan to wed on December 15 th , 2007<br />
in New Haven, CT. Intellectual journeyman Neil<br />
Toomey has accepted a new role as School Affairs<br />
Coordinator at the Harlem Success Academy,<br />
a charter school run under the stewardship of<br />
former NYC Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz. The<br />
school opened to an inaugural class of 150 K-1 st<br />
graders and will expand one grade per year until<br />
it is fully K-8.<br />
2001<br />
Kevin Galligan, 19 Rutgers Pl., Scarsdale,<br />
NY 10583, Kevin.Galligan@hotmail.com<br />
Mike Schimel, 16-59 155th Street,<br />
Whitestone, NY 11357, MMSchimel@aol.com<br />
Peter James Cook graduated from Yale in 2005<br />
(along with Kevin Abels and Mike Palmieri) and<br />
majored in History and Theater. He spent the<br />
2005-2006 school year at Regis as an Alumnus<br />
Mentor. Summer 2006 saw him in a directing<br />
internship sponsored by Drama League at<br />
Hanger Theater in Ithaca. He’s currently acting<br />
in and directing plays around NYC, including<br />
“Hell House,” for fun, not money. Tom Corsillo<br />
is currently working as an Assistant Account<br />
Executive at the Marino Organization, a public<br />
relations firm located in midtown Manhattan.<br />
2002<br />
Anthony Manganiello, mangan@cooper.edu<br />
John Donodeo, Manhattan College class<br />
of 2006, was recently accepted for a full-time<br />
position with AIG, a global investment firm in<br />
NYC. Greg Gencarello, Hamilton College ’06<br />
Phi Beta Kappa, was awarded The Edwin B. Lee,<br />
Jr. Prize in Asian History/Asian Studies and The<br />
Jeffrey P. Mass Prize in Japanese History from the<br />
college. Bobby Heaney has been awarded a full,<br />
3 year scholarship to the New England School of<br />
Law in Boston. Ted Stenger has been awarded<br />
a scholarship of sorts to study well-crafted beer<br />
under the tutelage of Jack Prael ’63.<br />
2003<br />
Bennett Chan, bcc2101@columbia.edu<br />
Mathias B. Weiden will graduate from Holy<br />
Cross in May 2007, after majoring in Economics,<br />
Pablo Torre ’03 (center) leads a scholarly discussion amidst the masses at College JUG Night at Regis on<br />
December 27th<br />
with a minor in German. Mathias is the captain<br />
of the Holy Cross crew team. Evan Simko-<br />
Bednarski writes: “Chris Stanton and I<br />
spent the week of New Year’s in New Orleans’<br />
Lower Ninth Ward, assessing and gutting flood<br />
damaged houses so that they can be rebuilt. This<br />
was my fourth trip to the ninth, and Chris’ first.<br />
If any Regians are interested in doing hurricane<br />
relief work, or coming along on a grand southern<br />
roadtrip should I make a fifth visit, please<br />
email me at esimkobednar@wesleyan.edu. An<br />
all-Regian house-gutting crew, complete with<br />
crowbars, respirators and collared shirts, would<br />
be a sight to be seen.” Nicholas Zimick and<br />
John Latella will be Alumni Mentors in the AMP<br />
program for the 2007-2008 school year, while<br />
Nick applies to Medical School and John figures<br />
out Law School.<br />
Milestones<br />
2004<br />
Chris Seneca, cjs58@georgetown.edu<br />
Michael Nanna is a junior at Colgate University<br />
– premed. Dean’s List 04-06, Phi Eta Sigma<br />
Honor Society, Co-Editor Sports Section Colgate<br />
Maroon, Co-Captain Baseball Club, Biology<br />
Honor Society. Thanks Regis!<br />
2005<br />
Kevin Bowles, kbb25@georgetown.edu<br />
Peter Gallotta, PeteNYC343@aol.com<br />
Marriages<br />
Bruce Williamson ’70 and Marianne C. Williamson on October 14, 2006<br />
Jason Creux ’90 and Kathryn Young on July 2, 2006<br />
Richard Kullen ’90 and Vicki Casker on January 13, 2007<br />
Peter Buff ’91 and Emma Frazier on December 16, 2006<br />
Paul Zummo ’95 and Lauren Streusand on February 17, 2007<br />
2006<br />
Edward Walsh, etw5@georgetown.edu<br />
Daniel Denicola, dan.denicola@gmail.com<br />
Births<br />
Jonah Declan Vazao on January 17, 2006 to Aldina and David Kennedy ‘89<br />
Aileen Mary on April 13, 2006 to Aileen and John Farrelly ‘90<br />
Aidan Joseph on June 6, 2006 to Dyan and Kevin Moclair ‘90<br />
Ryan Kassem on January 3, 2007 to Iris and Chris Ocampo ‘90<br />
Matthew Todd on September 15, 2006 to Elizabeth and Todd Cosenza ‘91<br />
Joseph Thomas on October 10, 2006 to Dana and Jeff Briscoe ‘94<br />
Samantha Grace on November 27, 2006 to Kim and Michael Francis ‘95<br />
Deaths<br />
Charles W. Lynch ’30 on March 3, 2007<br />
Harry P. Cronin ’32 on December 6, 2006<br />
William P. Richardson ’34 on January 21, 2007<br />
James J. Brant ’35 on September 20, 2006<br />
Robert J. Fitzgerald ’35 on January 18, 2007<br />
Harold T. Broderick ’40 on December 19, 2006<br />
Robert F. Walsh ’41 on August 18, 2006<br />
Daniel L. McCabe ’48 in December, 2006<br />
Henry A. McCormack ’48 on February 20, 2007<br />
J. Richard Hughes ’50 on February 24, 2007<br />
William F. O’Leary ’55 on March 4, 2007<br />
Stephen M. Agli ’59 on January 8, 2007<br />
Robert D. Juliano ’67 on October 15, 2006<br />
Gerald P. Jeromski ’68 on December 18, 2006<br />
John P. Suozzo ’68 on December 3, 2005
Calendar of Events<br />
April 14<br />
April 19-22<br />
April 21<br />
April 21<br />
April 28<br />
May 4<br />
June 9<br />
June 16<br />
5 Year Reunions at Regis for the Classes of 1977 and 1992<br />
Regis Alumni Events in San Francisco<br />
The Classroom Revisited at Regis<br />
5 Year Reunions at Regis for the Classes of 1962, 1972, & 1987<br />
5 Year Reunion for the Class of 1967<br />
Vision to Lead Celebration at Regis<br />
5 Year Reunions at Regis for the Classes of 1997 and 2002<br />
Class of 1957’s 50th Reunion at Regis<br />
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