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  Class Notes
     
    1925-1979

1980-1989

1990-2000

1935
Rev. Edward J. Dyer is celebrating the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood; Fr. Dyer, who retired from active ministry on Feb. 28, 1985, had most recently served as pastor of St. Catherine of Sweden Parish in Worcester. 

1940
Class Co-Chairs
Gerald M. Earls
Paul F. Saint
Rev. Robert G. Howes is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Retiring in 1993, Fr. Howes had been active in parish ministry and pastoral planning for many years. A weekly columnist for the Catholic Free Press, he is the author of the book, Bridges, which was awarded first prize in 1998 by the Catholic Press Association. 

1943
Class Chair
James L. Garrity
Class Correspondent
Anthony N. Tomasiello
John R. McCarthy has been elected to an additional term as chair of the Peterborough (N.H.) Town Library.

1944
Monsignor Frederick R. McManus received the Alumni Achievement Award for pastoral service from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. 

1945
Class Chair
Francis J. McCabe Jr.
The Worcester Veterans' Council has selected John E. McAuliffe, D.D.S., "Veteran of the Year." A retired dentist, McAuliffe served in Europe during World War II as a member of a mortar squad with the 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th Infantry Division; during the Korean War, he served in the Army Dental Corps. He is the founder and current president of the Central Massachusetts Chapter, Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge. 

1946
Class Chair
Thomas H. Smith
Rev. Urbain J. Gionet is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood; Fr. Gionet, who retired from active ministry in 1992, had most recently served as pastor of St. Camillus de Lellis Parish in Fitchburg, Mass. 

1948
Class Co-Chairs
John F. Becker
Vincent Zuaro
Rev. Thomas J. Markey, who became a senior priest with residence at the Blessed Sacrament Parish in Worcester in 1999, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Rev. Joseph W. McKiernan, who was named a senior priest at St. Mark's Parish in Sutton, Mass., in 1994, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Monsignor Edmond T. Tinsley is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood; active in parish ministry and diocesan affairs, he was named director of fiscal affairs for the Diocese of Worcester in 1991. Monsignor Tinsley is also diocesan coordinator for Catholic Relief Services. 

1952
Class Chair
William J. Casey
William P. Walsh retired in November as principal court attorney with the New York State Supreme Court in Nassau County after more than 30 years in the Court's Law Department. 

1953
Class Chair
Rev. Msgr. John J. Kelliher
Gerald F. O'Neill Jr. retired in January as senior judge of the Superior Court in Barnstable, Mass., after 21 years on the bench. G. Richard Reney has been named director of theater emeritus at Mineral Area College, Park Hills, Mo. Rev. Peter J. Scanlon has served 32 years as the director of the Newman Apostolate and vicar of all college campus communities for the Diocese of Worcester and 39 years as chaplain for the Worcester Fire Department. 

1954
Class Chair
Barry R. McDonough
Class Correspondent
Paul F. Dupuis
Raymond L.H. Murphy Jr., M.D., has retired as chief of pulmonary services at Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain, Mass. John G. Phelan, who retired from Fletcher-Thompson Inc. Architects-Engineers, Bridgeport, Conn., on Jan. 1, 2000, after 45 years of service, continues to serve on two business and four nonprofit boards in Bridgeport. 

1955
Class Chair
Paul F. Coveney
Class Correspondent
Robert F. Danahy
Richard C. Casey, judge of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, was selected to address the 104th annual Lincoln Day dinner of the Norwalk (Conn.) Catholic Club. 

1956
Class Chair
Daniel M. Dunn
Rev. John J. Bagley celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on Dec. 18 at St. Mary's Church, North Grafton, Mass. Glennon R. Griffin works as a manufacturing representative in food service equipment. Joseph F. Hellauer Jr., president and owner of the Electronic Marketing Co., Woodbridge, Conn., has recently been named the administrative officer for the town of Woodbridge. William J. Lane II, who is president of Austin Associates in Stamford, Conn., has been elected president of the Financial Planning Association of Connecticut. Daniel F. O'Sullivan, M.D., who has been a surgeon for 36 years, continues to maintain his medical practice in St. Louis, Mo. 

1957
Class Chair
Franklin M. Hundley
Rev. John E. Kelley, pastor of St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Baldwinville, Mass., is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Rev. Anthony T. Marteka, who is currently serving as pastor of St. Philip Parish, Grafton, Mass., is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Monsignor Thomas J. Needham, who has served as pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in Worcester since 1993, is celebrating the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood.

1958
Class Chair
Braden A. Mechley
Class Correspondent
Arthur J. Andreoli
Joseph H. Maguire, associate professor and chair of the education department and assistant dean of Holy Cross, is retiring in June and relocating to Auburn, Mass. In March, the Diocese of Worcester presented him with its highest honor, the St. Paul's Award, in recognition of his 39 years of service to Holy Cross. 

1960
Class Co-Chairs
George M. Ford
George F. Sullivan Jr.
John S. Casko, D.D.S., has been named the B.F. and Helen E. Dewel Chair in Clinical Orthodontics at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry in Iowa City; the Dewel Chair is the first endowed chair in the College of Dentistry. Casko, who has been professor and head of the department of orthodontics since 1976, is a past president of both the American Board of Orthodontics and the Midwest Component of the Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontics.

1961
Class Chair
Joseph E. Dertinger Jr.
In December, NiSource Inc., Merrillville, Ind., announced the appointment of Peter V. Fazio Jr. as executive vice president and general counsel for the super-regional energy company created Nov. 1 with the completion of its merger with the Columbia Energy Group. Fazio, who has served as NiSource general counsel since Jan. 1, 1999, is also chairman and partner of the Chicago, Ill.-based law firm of Schiff Hardin & Waite. William J. Hall, M.D., was recently appointed president of the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine; he is chief of the general medicine/geriatrics unit and director of the division of geriatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y. Cortland (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital and the Cortland Memorial Foundation recently announced that F. Michael Stapleton has been named to the foundation board of directors; Stapleton is the president and chief executive officer of Cortland Savings Bank. 

1962
Class Chair
William J. O'Leary Jr.
Rev. John E. Doran is the pastor of St. Leo's Parish in Leominster, Mass. "The History of St. Martin of Tours High School, Millinocket, Maine," by Harry A.M. Rush Jr., was published in the History of the Sisters of the Holy Rosary in the United States, 1899-1999

1963
Class Chair
Charles J. Buchta
Class Correspondent
Michael J. Toner
William Bernet, M.D., has recently been promoted to professor of psychiatry at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.; he is the co-author of The Fragile Alliance: An Orientation to Psychotherapy of the Adolescent, now in its fifth edition. In November, Joseph F. Finn Jr. was elected to the national board of councilors of the American Association of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Malta, for the period Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2003. The First Federal Savings Bank of America, Fall River, Mass., recently announced that Frederick R. Sullivan has been named executive vice president, director of banking group at FIRSTFED America Bancorp Inc. and First Federal Savings Bank of America; in this capacity, he is responsible for all retail and business banking functions of the corporation.

1964
Class Chair
Ronald T. Maheu
David A. Spina has been named chairman of the board of State Street Corp., Boston. 

1965
Class Co-Chairs
David J. Martel
Thomas F. McCabe
George V. Lynett, publisher of the Scranton (Pa.) Times and Tribune newspapers, has been appointed to the board of directors of the New Hampshire newspaper corporation, the Union Leader. In January, Montefiore Medical Center in New York City announced the appointment of A. Thomas Tebbens Jr. as vice president of marketing; in this position, he is responsible for all marketing and advertising programs as well as oversight of internal and external communications. 

1966
Class Chair
Kenneth M. Padgett
Class Correspondent
William L. Juska Jr.
As one of two North American representatives, Ronald J. Ferreri was eligible to attend an executive council meeting of the World Union of Jesuit Alumni/ae (WUJA), from Jan. 25-28, in Rome, Italy; a highlight of the three-day session was a luncheon with Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., the superior general of the Society of Jesus. Thomas A. Kelley retired from the FBI in January after 31 years of service as a special agent; he had been the deputy general counsel in Washington, D.C., since 1985. In September, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, Calif., announced the appointment of Richard A. Murphy as president and chief executive officer of the institute. Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis announced in January that Robert Somma, managing partner of the firm's Boston office, has been included in the ninth edition of the guide, The Best Lawyers in America 2001-2002

1967
Class Co-Chairs
John J. McLaughlin Jr.
John P. Sindoni
Philip T. McLaughlin has served as the attorney general of New Hampshire since 1997. Anthony V. Proto, M.D., who currently serves as editor of the imaging journal, Radiology, has recently been appointed assistant executive director of the American Board of Radiology; in this position, he has oversight responsibility for the written and oral examinations of candidates seeking board certification in all categories of imaging. Philip L. Sbarbaro has been named deputy general counsel and chief litigation counsel at VeriSign Inc., Herndon, Va. 

1968
Class Co-Chairs
John T. Collins
Brian W. Hotarek
Benedict J. "Ben" Ticho is the director of Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Worcester County Inc. 

1969
Class Co-Chairs
David H. Drinan
James W. Igoe
Daniel M. Spada, M.D.
Boron, LePore & Associates, Inc., Fair Lawn, N.J., announced in February that Joseph A. Mastracchio has joined the company as executive vice president, business integration, and as a member of its executive committee. James M. Quinn, M.D., of the department of anesthesiology and critical care at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), has been appointed chairman of the department of anesthesiology at the Cambridge Health Alliance (Cambridge and Somerville Hospitals) to which the MGH provides anesthesiology and critical care services. Richard F. Rodger, D.V.M., who maintains a veterinary practice in North Grafton, Mass., has been active in animal welfare veterinary missions to third world countries, particularly the Dominican Republic and Mexico, since 1993. He also serves as an adjunct professor of biomedical engineering at WPI. George L. Tully III, M.D., is chief of endocrinology and vice chairman of the department of medicine at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, Mass. A member of the staff of St. Elizabeth's for 20 years and an advocate for the education of patients with diabetes, he founded the Diabetes Education Center at St. Elizabeth's in 1997. 

1970
Class Co-Chairs
Anthony M. Barclay
John R. Doyle, M.D.
Michael C. Aube is president of Aube-McInnes Insurance Agency of Rumford, Maine; a certified insurance counselor since 1978, he earned the chartered property casualty underwriter designation in 1979. John W. Bradley Jr. a partner in the Hartford, Conn., law firm of Rome, McGuigan, Sabanosh, has recently been appointed town attorney for Wethersfield, Conn. Kevin M. Hume has recently been elected to the board of directors of the NLC Mutual Insurance Co. in Washington, D.C., a reinsurance provider to state municipal league insurance pools in the United States. On Sept. 9, John P. Steuterman was ordained a permanent deacon by Archbishop Bernard Cardinal Law in Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston; he has been assigned to Resurrection Parish in Hingham, Mass. Steuterman is employed by H.P. Hood Inc. as a regional sales manager-organic dairy products/military channel sales. 

1971
Class Chair
Robert T. Bonagura
Class Correspondent
Jerome J. Cura Jr.
Raymond E. Carey is in his 24th year of teaching at St. John's Prep in Danvers, Mass. James R. Chaillet Jr., M.D., is the president and chief executive officer of IPN Inc., an IT firm in Sussex, Wis., specializing in custom IT solutions for the healthcare industry. Stephen J. Lahey, M.D., is the chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Worcester Medical Center. Stephen P. McAllister is the executive director and budget officer of the Rhode Island Department of Administration's Expenditure Program in Providence. Robert R. Sheldon has been named a James W. Cooper Life Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.

1972
Class Chair
Allan F. Kramer II
Rabbi Norman M. Cohen, who delivered the annual Kraft-Hiatt Lecture at Holy Cross in March, was also invited to speak at the Shabbat service in Temple Sinai, Worcester, on March 2; the title of his talk was "Judaism and Christianity: Two Paths to the Same God." Rabbi Cohen is currently serving as spiritual leader of Bet Shalom Congregation in Hopkins, Minn. 

1973
Class Co-Chairs
Gregory C. Flynn
Edward P. Meyers
Peter H. Gilligan and his wife, Lynn, announce the adoption of their son, Alexander Patrick. Edward J. Ludwig is the president and chief executive officer of Becton Dickinson and Co., headquartered in Franklin Lakes, N.J. Michael S. Mudd is senior vice president, corporate affairs, for Kraft Foods, Inc., Northfield, Ill.; his responsibilities include issues management, media relations, marketing and internal communications and corporate contributions; he is also a member of the company's operating committee. 

1974
Class Co-Chairs
Stanley J. Kostka Jr.
Robert C. Lorette
Edward J. Sullivan
Richard A. Gaudette and his wife, Kathleen '76, announce the birth of their daughter, Elise Kathleen, on Feb. 27. Citadon Inc., an e-business service provider targeting the building and engineering industry headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., announced in January that Schone L. Malliet has joined the company as senior vice president of field operations for the Americas. 

1976
Class Chair
Thomas E. Ryan
Class Correspondent
Thomas C. Healey
Stephen A. Durant continues to work at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a clinical psychologist in the child psychiatry out-patient department; his specialties are adolescent and family therapy. Kathleen (Heffernan) Gaudette and her husband, Richard '74, announce the birth of their daughter, Elise Kathleen, on Feb. 27. Nutter, McClennen & Fish, headquartered in Boston, recently announced that William F. Kennedy Jr. has accepted a position in the firm's business law department, in charge of its public law practice; Kennedy has most recently served as chief of staff and chief legal counsel to the Massachusetts Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas M. Finneran.

1977
Class Co-Chairs
Kathleen T. Connolly
Shaun P. Mathews
Michael J. Dean recently joined the Falmouth, Mass., law firm of Furman, Cannon & Ross as an associate; he concentrates his practice in domestic relations and civil litigation. Pamela W. Heffernan has been named program director of Leadership Rhode Island, the community leadership development institute. Brian G. Leary is the co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Arctius Corp., a technology services consulting firm headquartered in Boston, specializing in knowledge management. Sallyanne (Cataldo) Winslow recently completed her certificate of advanced graduate studies degree in educational administration at Bridgewater (Mass.) State College; she is currently the director of special education for the King Philip Regional School District in Wrentham, Mass. 

1978
Class Co-Chairs
Marcia Hennelly Moran
Mark T. Murray
Michael H. Shanahan
David J. Castellani is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Mi8 Corp., a business-type application service provider in New York City. In September, the National Multiple Scelerosis Society honored Kerry J. Dale, a general partner of Keystone Venture Capital, Philadelphia, Pa., as one of its 2,000 Top Corporate Achievers. Janice Merz Lettick and her husband, Robert, announce the birth of their son, Jacob, on Dec. 20. Margaret Comard Lynch has been named chair of the New York State Bar Association's 4,065-member Trial Lawyers Section. A partner in the Albany, N.Y., law firm of Ainsworth, Sullivan, Tracy, Knauf, Warner & Ruslander, she concentrates her practice on civil trial and appellate practice in state and federal courts. Barbara A. Piselli is now the director of enforcement with the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine. Humbert J. Polito Jr., a partner with the New London, Conn., law firm of Faulkner & Boyce, has been certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a civil trial advocate. 

 

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