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  Class Notes
     
    1925-1979

1980-1989

1990-1998


1943 
Class Chair 
James L. Garrity 
Class Correspondent 
Anthony N. Tomasiello 
Joseph J. Garamella, M.D., a thoracic cardiovascular surgeon who has maintained a practice for many years in Minneapolis, Minn., is now working in the area of thoracolumbar medicine. Cornelius V. McGillicuddy, alumni moderator at Canisius High School in Buffalo, N.Y., is now in his 38th year as statistician for the Buffalo Bills. Three years ago, he was appointed official historian for the team.  

1945 
Class Chair 
Francis J. McCabe Jr. 
Monsignor Austin P. Bennett, retired vicar for administration of the Diocese of Brooklyn, was the recipient of the Catholic Medical Center's 1997 Faithful Steward Award. Maurice J. Lonsway Jr., M.D., retired pediatrician, was honored by the Washington University Medical School and the St. Louis, Mo., Children's Hospital as the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award. Frisbie Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.H., honored Alexander C. Smith, M.D., for his 45 years of medical service to the community at a retirement reception held in September.  

1949 
Class Chair 
Donald F. Collins 
Class Correspondent 
Donal J. Burns 
Robert R. Massa is a charter member of the Cincinnati, Ohio, chapter of the Serra Club. 

1950 
Class Chair 
James P. Diggins 
In August, Lawrence X. Dalton retired as village justice in Massena, N.Y., a post he had held for nine years. In January, William H. Welch retired as a judge of Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, Mass.  

1953     45th Reunion  
Class Chair 
Rev. Msgr. John J. Kelliher 
David J. Nangle retired from the Lincoln Electric Co., in Fairfax, Va., after 42 years of service in welding engineering sales. James H. Walsh III, president of Walsh Bros. Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., has been appointed to the BankBoston's Cambridge Regional Advisory Board.  

1954 
Class Chair  
Barry R. McDonough  
Class Correspondent  
Paul F. Dupuis  
John (Jay) Shapley Jr. was elected a fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP). He received this honor at the SETP Awards banquet held in September in Beverly Hills, Calif.  

1956 
Class Chair  
Daniel M. Dunn  
Paul K. Maloney Jr., M.D., has been appointed chief of the Norwalk (Conn.) Hospital medical staff.  

1957 
Class Chair  
Franklin M. Hundley  
Class Correspondent  
Joseph W. Mullen Jr.  
James P. Fanning, a guidance counselor with the Dade County Schools in Miami, Fla., is editor of Shroud Sources, a bimonthly newsletter presenting significant news and research on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin.  

1958     40th Reunion  
Class Chair  
Braden A. Mechley  
Class Correspondent  
Arthur J. Andreoli  
In October, Robert J. Bond Jr. retired from Romac International in Boston after 30 years of service. Thomas G. Conway, an attorney in private practice, was appointed a member of the College Council of SUNY-New Paltz. W. Lawrence Drew, M.D., a physician at Mt. Zion Medical Center of UCSF in San Francisco, was named Physician of the Year by the hospital. He also was elected to the American Board of Internal Medicine and was named a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. Mark Goddard is a teacher at F.L. Chamberlain School in Middleboro, Mass. Francis G. Grather, a partner in Broderick Newmark & Grather, Morristown, N.J., was elected president of the 1200-member Morris County Bar Association for 1998. Rev. Robert A. Grattaroti, pastor of St. Joseph Church in Charlton City, Mass., celebrated the 35th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in November. In November, Kenneth F. Happe, associate professor of classics at Holy Cross and theater critic for Worcester Magazine, received a regional achievement award for his contributions to area theater from the New England Theatre Conference. David M. McKeon, a marriage and family therapist in Rockwall, Texas, received the Distinguished Service Award after the completion of a two-year term as co-president of the Association for Image Relationship Therapy. In November, he was honored by Truax Foundation at Texas A&M University, Commerce, as an outstanding alumnus of the counseling department. Gerald F. McLaughlin is press secretary to New York state Sen. John J. Marchi of Staten Island. Alfred E. Pfoertner, who retired from Scott Paper Co. in Louisville, Kentucky, is a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker All Star Real Estate in Destin, Fla. He earned the Certified Residential Relocation Specialist designation in September. William B. Strong, M.D., pediatric cardiologist at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, was the recipient of the Endowed Chair Distinguished Faculty Award. He is also founder and director of the Georgia Prevention Institute, director of Health Promotion Disease Prevention curriculum and director of Community Research.  

1959 
Class Chair  
William P. Maloney  
Class Correspondent  
John J. Ormond  
Michael T. Tomaino was named senior vice president and general counsel of Rochester (N.Y.) Gas and Electric Corp.  

1962  
Class Chair  
William J. O'Leary Jr.  
Class Correspondent  
Michael J. Leding Jr.  
Philip M. Byrne, retired from Keystone Investment Management Corp., Boston, was active in the master's track and field, culminating in a second-place finish in the National Championships in the decathlon. The Rev. John E. Crean Jr., an Episcopal priest of the Diocese of Western Michigan, was elected dean of the Grand Valley Deanery of the diocese. He has oversight of 15 parishes and serves as a member of the Diocesan Executive Council and as council liaison to the Christian Formation Commission. Vincent J. Dolan Jr. is senior vice president of Buckingham Research in New York City. Eugene F. McMahon retired from Ernst & Young on Sept. 30.  

1963     35th Reunion   
Class Chair  
Charles J. Buchta  
Class Correspondent  
Michael J. Toner  
Charles W. Heuisler, vice president and director of Archer & Greiner in Haddonfield, N.J., has been appointed chairman of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Amicus Committee. William A. Prizio has been named principal of East Hartford (Conn.) Middle School. 

1964  
Class Co-Chairs  
Ronald T. Maheu  
Robert P. Trudel  
William J. Dooley Jr., M.D., is developing a five-physician medical practice in eye surgery in Lake Havasu City, Ariz.  

1965  
Class Co-Chairs  
David J. Martel  
Thomas F. McCabe  
Frederick L. Cumming III has begun his own San Diego-based company, Ergosoft, marketing ergonomic software in California and Arizona. Edward J. Mullen, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Knights of Columbus insurance operation in New Haven, Conn., was elected to a three-year term on the Order's board of directors. Robert H. Williams is president and chief executive officer of the Better Business Bureau Inc. in Boston. 

1966  
Class Chair  
William L. Juska Jr.  
Kenneth J. Moynihan, a professor of history at Assumption College in Worcester, has been appointed to write a history of the College for its 100th anniversary in 2004.  
MARRIED: Edward P. Costa and Deborah L. Fanaras on Sept. 12 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Georgetown, Mass.  

1967  
Class Co-Chairs  
P. Kevin Condron  
John P. Sindoni  
Edward M. Cooney has been named deputy administrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Special Nutrition Programs for Food and Consumer Service, in charge of child nutrition programs. Rev. Edward R. Dufresne was named executive minister of the Interchurch Council of Greater New Bedford, Mass. George C. Finley Jr., president of Finley Associates Inc., in Glastonbury, Conn., has been named a corporator of the Farmington (Conn.) Savings Bank. In May, Philip T. McLaughlin, an attorney with McLaughlin, Hemeon & Lahey in Laconia, N.H., was appointed attorney general of New Hampshire. Thomas J. Parciak and his wife, Marianne, announce the birth of their son, Matthew Thomas, on July 30.  

1968     30th Reunion   
Class Co-Chairs  
John T. Collins  
Brian W. Hotarek  
In January, Orion L. Douglass, a judge of the State Court of Glynn County, Brunswick, Ga., gave a lecture entitled, "A Life in the Law," at the Coastal Georgia Community College in Brunswick, as part of the Distinguished Professor Program 1997-98/Education for a New Millennium. Donald L. McGuirk Jr., M.D., has been named executive medical director of Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Overland Park, Kan. C. Brendan Montano, M.D., has published a paper, "Impact of Panic Disorder in Managed Care Setting," in Medical Interface. Stacy L. Moore Jr. is a partner in the Marlton, N.J., law firm of Parker, McCay & Criscuolo. Thomas C. Strekas was elected chairman of the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the City University of New York-Queens.  

1969  
Class Chair  
David H. Drinan  
Sean V. Golden is dean of the faculty, Facultat de Traduccio, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. Robert G. Powderly, executive vice president of Eastern Utilities Associates in West Bridgewater, Mass., has been named to the board of directors of Southeastern Massachusetts Manufacturing Partnership. Paul A. Raia, a gerontologist, is director of patient care and family support of the Alzheimer's Association of Eastern Massachusetts, in Cambridge. Larry E. Salem, title attorney, has acquired Gould Title Co. from the Worcester law firm of Mirick, O'Connell, DeMallie & Lougee.  

1970  
Class Co-Chairs  
Brian T. Mahon  
James O. Walsh  
Shawn M. Donovan, a co-founder of the Mustard Seed Catholic Worker House in Worcester, spoke on a panel at Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., last October, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Dorothy Day's birth. Francis J. (Frank) Kittredge is the owner of Kittredge Insurance Agency Inc., in Northboro, Mass. Capt. John B. Noll, USN, is chief staff officer, Regional Support Group, in Mayport, Fla. The exhibition, "Compound Fracture," shown Nov. 7 to Dec. 21 at the Houston (Texas) Center for Photography, was dedicated to Edward J. Osowski for his four years of service as president of the board. In April 1997, Lawrence R. Smith led a group of Chicago attorneys to Nottingham, England, to present a trial demonstration of a products liability pharmaceutical case to the Association of Insurance and Risk Managers Conference. In October, he was involved in forming the law firm of O'Hagan, Smith & Amundsen, a litigation and insurance practice comprised of 55 attorneys with offices in Chicago and five suburban locations. 

1971 
Class Chair  
Robert T. Bonagura  
Class Correspondent  
Jerome J. Cura Jr.  
Daniel P. O'Brien has joined the staff of the Lawrence Office of the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission as a vocational rehabilitation counselor.  

1972 
Class Co-Chairs  
Allan F. Kramer II  
Mark L. Monty  
Rabbi Norman M. Cohen, who has been invited to teach "Introduction to Jewish Life and Thought" at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., is serving a two-year term as president of the Midwest Association of Reform Rabbis. In January, Gilbert L. Klemann II was named executive vice president-strategic and legal affairs, of Fortune Brands Inc., in Old Greenwich, Conn. In January, Grafton J. Nunes Jr. became dean of the Emerson College School of the Arts in Boston. 

1973     25th Reunion  
Class Co-Chairs  
Gregory C. Flynn  
Edward P. Meyers  
Michael O. Duane is an assistant attorney general in Montpelier, Vt. Col. Kevin M. Gureckis, D.M.D., USAF, has been transferred to the 1st Dental Squadron, Langley AFB, Va., where he is serving as program director, Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency. He has also been appointed as board examiner, Federal Services Board of General Dentistry, for military dentists seeking diplomate status as comprehensive dentists. Thomas A. Hickey III is a partner in the Boston law firm of Finnegan, Hickey, Dinsmoor & Johnson. James E. Judge, M.D., is president of Pyramid Primary Care Physicians in Wallingford, Conn. John J. Mahoney Jr. is executive vice president and chief administrative officer of Staples Inc., based in Westboro, Mass. James L. McGovern Jr. has been named senior development officer at Children's Hospital in Boston. Peter Q. Smith is associated with the Cape Cod Bank & Trust Co. in Provincetown, Mass. Stephen A. Truhon presented a paper entitled, "Predicting Ease of Movement between Air Force Specialties," at the International Military Testing Association meeting in Sydney, Australia.  

1974  
Class Co-Chairs  
Stanley J. Kostka Jr.  
Edward J. Sullivan  
In September, Michael F. Audette became principal of the Clara T. O'Connell Elementary School in Bristol, Conn. Roger C. Campbell, who is general counsel for a group of Wall Street securities firms, was awarded the U.S. Soccer Federation "A" coaching license. Active in youth soccer, he coaches two travel teams, serves on the boards of the local recreation and traveling leagues and teaches coaching for the New Jersey Youth Soccer Association. W. Kelly Collins Jr., vice president and clerk of Colt Insurance Agency Inc. in Pittsfield, Mass., was recently named treasurer of the company. John J. Schweska, who teaches grief counseling part time at Seton Hall University School of Theology, is bereavement coordinator at the Compassionate Care Hospice in Clifton, N.J.  

1975  
Class Co-Chairs  
Joseph W. Cummings  
Joseph A. Sasso Jr.  
Thomas F. Collins Jr. is a partner of Vogel Chait Schwartz & Collins in Morristown, N.J. Abbott Laboratories in Illinois named Stephen W. Fesik Outstanding Researcher of 1997, the company's highest research honor. Stephen, a senior research fellow, was recognized for spearheading the use of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in pharmaceutical discovery research. John S. Gibadlo is the Southeast division marketing manager for Diebold Inc. in Atlanta, Ga. Col. Francis E. Nasser Jr., USA, assigned to the Army Dental Command at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, was promoted to the rank of colonel. Matthew R. Sturgis has been named headmaster of St. Peter-Marian Junior-Senior High School in Worcester.  

1976  
Class Chair  
Thomas E. Ryan  
Class Correspondent  
Thomas C. Healey 
Mary A. Guth and her husband, Tom, became the parents of Anne Lieu, on July 3, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Gary F. Jeznach, M.D., a family physician in Sturbridge, Mass., for more than eight years, has been named a diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice, the certifying entity of the family practice specialty. George J. Leontire, partner in the Boston law firm of Leontire & Shub, has been named city solicitor of New Bedford, Mass. Paul M. Vrabel, a partner in the Adams, Mass., law firm of Donovan & O'Connor, has been elected president of the Berkshire Bar Association.  

1977  
Class Co-Chairs  
Kathleen T. Connolly  
Shaun P. Mathews  
Margaret M. (Meg) LaVigne has been named vice president and general manager at UPN-27, television station WGNT in Portsmouth, Va. Gregory L. Metcalf is Southeast regional manager of American Capital Resources Inc. in Charlotte, N.C. Raymond P. Trubia is the Newport, R.I., operations manager for Analytical Systems Engineering Corp., which provides engineering services to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. 

1978     20th Reunion  
Class Co-Chairs  
Marcia Hennelly Moran  
Mark T. Murray  
Michael H. Shanahan  
Ann Dowd Arancio plays the role of Sister Maureen in the ABC television show Nothing Sacred. James A. Bourgeois, M.D., was promoted to lieutenant colonel, USAF Medical Corps. His job is chief, Inpatient Mental Health Services, David Grant Medical Center, Travis AFB, Calif. Cmdr. Michael C. Dubik, M.D., USN, was guest speaker at the "Frontiers in Pediatrics" educational symposium held in San Antonio, Texas and sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is professor of pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. Mary R. McNally-Gutierrez is supervisor of production accounting for CBS Television in Los Angeles, Calif. In April 1997, the Creative Attic published three books written by Nina M. Riccio and illustrated by Beth Blair. Five Kids and a Monkey Banish the Stinkies,Five Kids and a Monkey Solve the Great Cupcake Caper, and Five Kids and a Monkey Investigate a Vicious Virus, offer lessons in health and hygiene for children aged seven through 11. The Boston-based commercial real estate brokerage firm of Fallon Hines & O'Connor has named Sean M. Teague a partner in the company.  

1979 
Class Co-Chairs  
George A. Ashur  
Deborah Pelles  
James M. Boucher is executive director of Hartford (Conn.) Areas Rally Together (HART), a nonprofit organization aimed at encouraging home ownership, fighting crime, providing job training and sponsoring small neighborhood groups. Robert G. Flater's work with Fidelity Group Pensions International, Boston, involves extensive travel throughout Europe, as well as Canada, Japan and Hong Kong; he is currently based in London. Robert J. Knowles Jr., vice president of the Knowles Group of Hartford and Philadelphia and president and partner of the Knowles Associates, Scranton, Pa., is a director of the YMCA in Scranton. Julie Panciocco Macksoud was promoted in September to senior research specialist, development and alumni relations, at Colby College, in Waterville, Maine.

1979
Class Co-Chairs
Glennon L. Paredes
Deborah Pelles
In May 2002, Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart received her Ph.D. in educational leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wis. John P. O’Connor is now working in the medical devices industry as the general manager of the Endovations group at Boston Scientific Corp. in Natick, Mass.

 

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