RAN - Summer 2005 08.indd - Regis High School

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appears on the Home depot billboard on the BQE
going south as you go over the Gowanus Canal.
Jim Bonnell on the move again. As of July 1,
2005, he’s relocating near Auburn, PA. His son
just celebrated his first birthday. Mike Shef on
the mend after falling on the ice at home during
a March storm. He tore the quadriceps and had
a small fracture of the knee-cap He had to work
from home while the New York law office in which
he is a partner split from its Texas headquarters
and merged with Trautman Sanders LLP, an
Atlanta based firm. Frank Figlozzi reports the
birth of his first grandchild last December. A busy
winter and spring for the O’Leary family; two
daughters married (December and February) and
their son engaged on Valentine’s day. They are
also expecting their second grandchild. Dan still
commuting from Southampton LI to his Chicago
law office. Marty Gavin reports that Chris Daly is
now toiling at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Marty’s wife now almost fully recovered from last
year’s accident. Leo Tymon visited San Francisco
in May for the wedding of his younger daughter
Severine.
1962
Carl P. Saunders, 32 W. 82 nd St.,
New York, NY 10024, csaun31644@cs.com
After 38 years of circling the Globe for Bechtel
Corp. of San Francisco, William G. Leunig has
finally retired on June 30. He will remain in the San
Francisco area and look forward to seeing fellow
Regians.
1963
John W. Prael, Jr., 34-06 81 St.
Jackson Heights, NY 11372, johnprael@yahoo.com
John F. Tweedy, Jr., 26 Huron Rd.,
Floral Park, NY 11001, john.tweedy@verizon.net
13 classmates and 11 spouses spent an enjoyable
evening at O’Reilly’s Pub and Restaurant in
Manhattan May 14th for our 42nd reunion dinner.
Tim and Hyon O’Brien got the award for the
longest distance, coming all the way from Seoul,
Korea. John and Bernice Sesody came in second,
traveling from Phoenix, AZ. Bernice has recovered
from some very serious illness over the past few
years so we were happy to see her doing well. Also
attending were Jim Trezza, Jack and Pat Prael,
Tom Mullaney, John Timm and his wife Jeanne,
John and Denise Stack, John and Pat Tweedy,
John and Trudi Kelly, John Tuccillo and his wife
Jane, Kevin and Mary Ellen Morris, Fred and
Jill Kuehn, and Ken and Mary Lynch. Tim and
Hyon O’Brien recently moved from Hong Kong to
Seoul. Tim joined the Korean law firm Shin & Kim
in March, 2005 as senior foreign legal consultant
after completing 25 years with Coudert Brothers in
New York and Hong Kong. They came to New York
for their daughter Jane’s graduation from NYU Law
School, the third birthday of granddaughter Esme,
and most importantly, the Class of ‘63 dinner!
Bob Kelly notes that he is enjoying teaching
software engineering and information systems at
Monmouth University and Stevens Institute. Len
Smiley is still teaching in Anchorage and invites
any classmates traveling to Alaska to visit him.
Dennis M. Moulton, 326 E. 90 th St., #4-E,
New York, NY 10128,
moultond@saintignatiusloyola.org
Ken Beirne is allowing his wife Susan to carry him
off to Ireland for four months, starting in June,
while she does an executive exchange with the
Irish Commission for Energy Regulation. Ken will
be writing and reading in the land of poet-warriors,
and may even do something gainful himself, if he
can tear himself away from the visions of the
Wicklow Mountains and the Blessington Lakes.
1965
George T. Griffith, 73 Sunset Rd.,
Blauvelt, NY 10913, GTG1ESQ@aol.com
The class of 1965 celebrated their 40th reunion on
April 16, 2005. Efforts were made to contact all
members of the class and those efforts paid off as
the class enjoyed a record turnout. The following
people were at the reunion: James Barry, Joan
and Joel Bonamo, Paul Bressan, Francis and
Georgia Browne, Kevin and Joan Carey,
Andrew Cavanaugh, Patrick and Jane Dallet,
Vincent de Daly, Jeffrey Davis, James Derham,
Kenneth Dillon, Dennis During, Richard
FitzGerald, John and Deborah Fogarty, George
and Eileen Griffith, Kenneth and Patricia Heid,
Betty Jordan Huysman, Michael and Karen
Ingrisani, Robert and Allyson Kalisch, William
Keane, James Klein, Edmund Kulsick, Harry
Kutner Jr., William and Patricia Leininger,
Robert Logan, Joseph and Miriam Lyons, Paul
McAuliffe, James and Karen McCann, Robert
McCarthy, Joseph and Webster McEvoy, Kevin
McKenna, Winifred McNeill, Richard Merz,
David O’Brien, James and Ginger Ross, John
Seta, Ronald and Margaret Statile, John and
Alana Steffen, Donald Ulisse, Marinus and
Marita Van der Have, Melanie Wilson and
John Woodruff. Many thanks to all those who
made the effort to attend – please keep in touch
and remember the 45 th is just around the corner,
Spring 2010! Joseph Featherstone was recently
awarded the Borough President’s Declaration of
Honor Award due to his efforts and achievements
on behalf of persons with disabilities, most visible
through his service in the Special Olympics.
1966
James E. Maguire, 419 Third Ave., #4D,
New York, NY 10016, jmaguire@courts.state.ny.us
Rick Service is recovering nicely from cancer
surgery and without major interruption to his
divinity studies at General Theological Seminary
in Chelsea (NYC) in preparation for ordination to
the Episcopal priesthood. His son, Tim, is engaged
and teaching high school in Maine. Jim Mullany
is traveling to China working on a venture that
will bring children’s and lifestyle programming
to Shanghai. According to Lemoine classmate
Terry McDonough, Jim is also deeply involved in
pulling together Lemoine’70s 35 th reunion. Tom
Sullivan, his wife Patricia, and their youngest
son, now in high school, have moved back to
Albuquerque where Tom is now serving as the
Executive Director of the New Mexico Coalition
of School Administrators. This is a natural step
for Tom who was voted Superintendent of
the Year two years ago by his peers serving as
superintendents of New Mexico’s eighty-nine
school districts. Terry McDonough is alive and well
and in Ada, Michingan (close to the Grand Rapids)
with his wife and youngest child, now a college
student. His insurance business is doing well and
if it continues to thrive, Terry hopes that he will
be joined in the business by the oldest of his three
children, currently living back East. Vinny Hevern,
SJ, will be living at Holy Cross and working on a
book at Clark University in Worcester, MA during a
sabbatical leave from Le Moyne during the 2005-
2006 academic year. William H. Mulligan Jr. was
awarded the 2005 Murray State University Board
of Regent’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He was
also appointed newsletter editor for the American
Council for Irish studies, and had an article in the
Tipperary Historical Journal in 2004. Larry Sheerin
writes: I guess the one season of the year for shutdown
and hibernation is the winter. (Remembering
hiberna from J.Caesar!) NOPE! This winter we
have exploded with two new grandchildren Sean
Patrick Irwin was born on Jan 15, 05 and Katherine
Rose Mayer was born on Mar 6, 05. Mothers and
children and especially grandparents are doing
fine! Sean joins his brother Brendan Jones Irwin
who will enter the two’s on May 7. Can’t wait
to see what next winter brings! Charles Webel
writes: My latest book, Terror, Terrorism, and the
Human Condition was just published in the UK
and the rest of the world by Palgrave-Macmillan.
I will be traveling to Cape Town in June to deliver
a lecture at the International Society of Theoretical
Psychology. And in July, I will be giving another
lecture at the World Congress of Psychoanalysis
1964
Kenneth J. Beirne, 417 N. St. Asaph St.,
Alexandria, VA 22314, kjbeirne@mindspring.com
Ed Kulsick ‘65 Andy Cavanaugh ‘65 and Jack Prael ‘63 at the class of 1965’s 40th reunion on
April 16 2005.