1939
Class Chair
George J. White
Class Correspondent
William T. Shea
As a past inductee, John A. “Whitey” Piurek has been invited to attend the 2001 National High School Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony, held July 1 in Hawaii.

1942
Class Chair
Lee F. Bartlett Jr.
Class Correspondent
Robert J.M. O’Hare
Thomas D. Connelly has been elected chair of the Parish Council of St. Joseph’s Church, Kingston, N.Y.; a two-term president of the Hurley (N.Y.) Lions Club, he has also been awarded lifetime membership in the club. Joseph E. Cunneen, who retired after 48 years as editor of the ecumenical quarterly, CrossCurrents, recently published two articles about the late French priest-novelist, Jean Sulivan—one in the Marquette University quarterly, Renasence; the other, in the Jesuit publication, The Way. Cunneen, who continues to serve as the movie critic for the National Catholic Reporter, has also had articles published in Spiritus, Commonweal and the English Jesuit publication, The Month.

1945
Class Chair
Francis J. McCabe Jr.
The Diocese of Fall River, Mass., recently announced the retirement of Rev. John P. Driscoll, effective June 20. Fr. Driscoll has served as the pastor of St. Lawrence Church, New Bedford, Mass., since 1972. Maurice J. Lonsway Jr., M.D., continues to work as a consultant for Blue Cross; he also teaches ecology to school children at a nature center in St. Louis, Mo.

1946
Class Chair
Thomas H. Smith
The Troy (N.Y.) Legislature honored Rev. Thomas Phelan on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood, in recognition of his contributions to Rensselaer County’s religious, historic and cultural communities. Fr. Phelan, who served as dean of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s (RPI) School of Humanities and Social Services until his retirement in 1992, is pastor of Christ, Sun of Justice University Parish, housed in the RPI Chapel and Cultural Center he helped establish in 1969. He is also a longtime trustee of the Rensselaer County Historical Society, which offers an endowed lecture series in his name.

1947
Class Chair
George A. Cashman
The College of Education Alumni Society of the University of Oregon selected Harold D. “Bud” Fredericks as the recipient of its 2001 Outstanding Alumnus Award, for the many contributions he has made in the field of special education. Fredericks served as a researcher for 25 years at Western Oregon University, Teaching Research Division, prior to his retirement in 1995. 

1949
Class Co-Chairs
Donal J. Burns
George F. Cahill
The Eastern Regional Office of the National Electrical Contractors Association Inc. (NECA) has established an award in memory of the late Donald F. Collins, to be given to individuals who exemplify the qualities of integrity, loyalty and dedication. The Western Massachusetts Chapter and NECA recently presented this award in his memory to his wife, Louise, in recognition of his many years of dedication and service to the electrical contracting industry. Mr. Collins, who had been treasurer of the Collins Electric Co. in Chicopee, Mass., had served the Western Massachusetts Chapter of NECA four years as its president; two years as vice president; 12 years as treasurer; and almost 40 years as governor. The Donald F. Collins Memorial Award is to be given on a selective basis—whenever the Association feels that an individual is deserving of such recognition.
Santo S. “Sam” Cataudella, D.M.D., has recently been promoted to professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery-Boston University Medical Center; on May 1, he was awarded a certificate for “distinguished educator” of dental students in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery, Boston University, Goldman School of Dental Medicine. The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons selected Cataudella as the recipient of its first Daniel J. Laskin Award for distinguished teaching and mentoring of outstanding dental students committed to postgraduate training; he is to receive the award in September at the association’s national meeting. The Worcester Diocesan Guild of Our Lady of Providence honored John A Riordan, M.D., in May, for volunteering his services at the guild’s free health clinic at St. Bernard’s Church in Worcester.

1950
Class Chair
James P. Diggins
For the past four years, Richard A. Madden has been a tour guide at the mansions in Newport, R.I.—The Breakers, Chateau-sur-Mer and Marble House. John F. O’Connor retired in April as the assistant clerk magistrate, criminal session, for the Worcester County Clerk of Courts; he began working for the court system in 1958 as a deputy assistant clerk in the civil section of Worcester Superior Court.

1951
Class Co-Chairs
Thomas M. Ganley Jr.
Albert J. McEvoy Jr.
David P. Anderson, sports columnist for the New York Times, wrote the article, “In My Brooklyn, There’s Always Baseball,” for the June 24 edition of the Sunday New York Times.

1952
Class Chair
William J. Casey
Joseph A. Califano Jr., who is president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University in New York City, wrote the article, “Carrots, Sticks and Children / A Revolution in Drug Policy,” for the June 4 issue of America. John J. Moynihan retired in March as a justice of the Worcester Probate and Family Court.

1953
Class Chair
Rev. Msgr. John J. Kelliher
Monsignor Harold B. Bumpus, who serves as spiritual moderator for the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, gave the invocation at the 33rd annual convention of the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, held May 7-9 in Tampa. Prior to his retirement, Frederick S. Conlin Jr., D.D.S., practiced dentistry in West Springfield, Mass., for 38 years; he has recently been elected to West Springfield’s First City Council. John W. Feuerbach, D.D.S., who has recently retired, practiced dentistry in Larchmont, N.Y., for 42 years. Kenneth V. McGinity has been elected vice president of the board of directors of the Conference for Catholic Facility Management (CCFM) at its annual convention held May 23 in Indianapolis, Ind.; the CCFM is a national organization of Catholic dioceses responsible for building or restoring church facilities. John D. O’Connell is retiring after 44 years as associate professor of accounting and finance at Holy Cross; during the ’01-’02 academic year, he is to continue to teach one course each semester. O’Connell was honored by his departmental colleagues at a dinner on May 1 and, also, by the fourth-year accounting majors during the final class of the spring semester.

1956
Class Chair
Daniel M. Dunn
Rev. Daniel B. Brunton has joined the staff of Providence Care Center of Lenox, Mass., as a spiritual care coordinator. Joseph F. Hellauer Jr., who is a technical education manufacturing representative, assisted with the 27th annual Skills USA-VICA (Vocational Industrial Clubs of America) state Leadership and Skills Conference held in April at the Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School in Marlboro, Mass. Aiden J. Kenny is retiring after 16 years as computer coordinator for the Haworth (N.J.) Public School system.

1960
Class Co-Chairs
George M. Ford
George F. Sullivan Jr.
The Syracuse, N.Y., law firm of Bond, Schoeneck & King announced in April that James D. FitzPatrick has been selected to receive a 2000 Post-Standard Achievement Award, given to individuals who have made significant contributions to the Syracuse community. FitzPatrick, who specializes in real estate issues, is a partner with the firm. 

1961
Class Chair
Joseph E. Dertinger Jr.
Boston University has honored Clark V. Booth with the Dennis Kauff Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award in Broadcast Journalism 2001. Kevin J. Collins received an honorary degree from Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, at commencement exercises held May 17; Collins, who is executive vice president of Gates Capital Corp. in Upper Saddle River, N.J., is chairman of the Board of Governors of Rutgers. Curry College, Milton, Mass., selected John P. Hamill as a speaker and honorary degree recipient at the college’s commencement ceremony held on May 20; Hamill currently serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of Sovereign Bank New England. Tim Hazen, executive director of the Connecticut Bar Association, announced in April that the association had nominated John W. Hogan Jr. to a one-year term as vice president, effective July 1. Richard A. Wiklund, M.D., is now the medical director of the operating rooms at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor at Harvard Medical School, Boston.

1962
Class Chair
William J. O’Leary Jr.
Charles F. Stark Jr., who retired from IBM, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in March 2000 after almost 33 years of service, now teaches history part time at Marist College, also in Poughkeepsie, and social studies at a local parochial high school. 

1963
Class Chair
Charles J. Buchta
Class Correspondent
Michael J. Toner
James Billington, librarian of Congress, announced in June that William J. “Billy” Collins has been named the next poet laureate of the United States; the one-year appointment is effective this fall. Collins is currently a distinguished professor of English at Lehman College of the City University of New York. Henry A. “Hank” Cutting Jr., who has coached high school football for 32 years, has been inducted into the Massachusetts High School Football Association’s “Coaches Hall of Fame”; he is currently in his ninth year as head coach of Brookline (Mass.) High School. Christopher J. Daly, M.D., has recently accepted a position as clinical director, health care quality improvement projects, for KePRO, a healthcare management corporation in Harrisburg, Pa. 

1964
Class Chair
Ronald T. Maheu
Kevin E. Booth has recently been appointed to a second eight-year term as a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court in Meriden. Arthur J. Krener, who is a professor of mathematics at the University of California-Davis, has been named a Guggenheim fellow this year. On April 26, Rimvydas P. Miksys was elected president of the Seattle (Wash.) chapter of the Lithuanian-American Society; in November, he hosted Vytautas Landsbergis, the first president of independent Lithuania, in his home for several days. Thomas E. Sullivan, M.D., has been elected to a one-year term as vice president of the Massachusetts Medical Society; Sullivan, who specializes in cardiology and internal medicine, is associated with Peabody (Mass.) Medical Associates. 

1966
Class Chair
Kenneth M. Padgett
Class Correspondent
William L. Juska Jr.
The Mount Wachusett Community Foundation, Gardner, Mass., recently awarded William E. Aubuchon III its Harold E. Drake Citizen of the Year award, for the many contributions he has made to the local area; Aubuchon currently serves as chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of W.E. Aubuchon Co., Inc., a hardware retail-store chain headquartered in Westminster, Mass. George J. Gilson, M.D., recently accepted a position as a perinatologist at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. Alton P. Mattioli was honored at a special ceremony held in Plymouth, Mass., on July 7, in recognition of his exemplary service during the Vietnam War. Mattioli, who served as a first lieutenant with the 101st Airborne, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action; state Rep. Vinny deMacedo presented him with a proclamation from the House of Representatives acknowledging his service, and the selectmen granted him permanent honorary citizenship of the town of Plymouth. Mattioli currently works as a guidance counselor at Kent (Wash.) High School. 

1967
Class Co-Chairs
John J. McLaughlin Jr.
John P. Sindoni
Thomas F. Hogan, who is a partner in the Litchfield, Conn., law firm of Guion, Stevens & Rybak, was selected to serve as the speaker at Memorial Day exercises held on May 27 in Bantam, Conn. Christopher J. Matthews delivered the address and received an honorary degree at the commencement exercises of Loyola College, Baltimore, Md., held on May 19. Stephen W. Murphy, who received a certificate in alcohol and substance abuse counseling from the University of Massachusetts-Boston in December, is now a case manager in the detoxification unit at the CAB Treatment Center, Danvers, Mass. 

1968
Class Co-Chairs
John T. Collins
Brian W. Hotarek
Richard E. Ring is the executive director of the Travelers Aid Society of Boston.

1969
Class Co-Chairs
David H. Drinan
James W. Igoe
Daniel M. Spada, M.D.
David S. Abusamra, who recently completed his 31st year of teaching French and Spanish, has taught at the Governor Dummer Academy in Byfield, Mass., for 29 years. William T. Christopher Jr. was elected to the board of directors of Liberty Bank of Connecticut, at its annual meeting on April 16; Christopher has been the president and chief executive officer of Lawrence & Memorial Hospital, New London, Conn., since 1988.

1970
Class Co-Chairs
Anthony M. Barclay
John R. Doyle, M.D.
In March, New Directions Inc., based in Boston, announced that Michael D. Jeans has been named vice president and senior consultant of the firm. Control Delivery Systems, headquartered in Watertown, Mass., announced the appointment of Michael J. Soja as vice president and chief financial officer of the company; his responsibilities include overseeing corporate finance, taxation, human resources, financial planning and information systems. 

1971
Class Chair
Robert T. Bonagura
Class Correspondent
Jerome J. Cura Jr.
Joseph T. Foley is chairman of the business studies department at Assumption College in Worcester. Edward P. Mascari, who has been giving private music lessons in the Boston area for 23 years, also serves as the organist and choir director at the Hartford Street Presbyterian Church in Natick, Mass., and performs as solo pianist weekends at the Radisson Hotel in Milford. After nine years as principal of St. Pius High School in Atlanta, Ga., Donald T. Sasso has been promoted to Secretary for Education for the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

1972
Class Chair
Allan F. Kramer II
James J. Bailey Jr., principal and director of tax services of the Rockland, Mass., certified public accounting firm of Needel, Welch & Stone, recently completed the requirements to earn certification by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. Joseph E. Gadbois, who is vice president of fraternal services at Catholic Family Life Insurance (CFLI), Milwaukee, Wis., has been elected vice president of the Volunteer Center of Greater Milwaukee, Inc, and secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin Fraternal Congress; Gadbois has also been appointed to the Youth Development Committee of the National Fraternal Congress of America, a national trade association for organizations like CFLI. In May, the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Center for Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presented Allan F. Kramer II with one of its new Ovations Awards, given in recognition of his contribution to the betterment of Brooklyn’s community and cultural life. Kramer is conservator of the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Botanic Garden and president of the Montauk Club in Park Slope. Lincoln Financial Group, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Ind., announced that Mark E. Reynolds has joined the company’s annuities operation as chief administrative officer. John L. Talvacchia joined the Boston law firm of Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott as a member of its corporate and business division. 

1973
Class Co-Chairs
Gregory C. Flynn
Edward P. Meyers
Peter H. Gilligan, who is a professor of microbiology-immunology and pathology-laboratory medicine, at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, was the recipient of the 2001 bioMérieux Sonnenwirth Award for Leadership in Clinical Microbiology. Burlington Resources Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, announced in April that Joseph P. McCoy has been appointed vice president and controller of the company, effective May 1. 

1974
Class Co-Chairs
Stanley J. Kostka Jr.
Robert C. Lorette
Edward J. Sullivan
Johan G. “Hans” Blickman, M.D., is chairman of the radiology department at UMC Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Richard A. “Rick” Gaudette is the vice president of sales with TechMar Corp. in Bedford, Mass. Robert J. McGuirl has been qualified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a certified trial attorney. McGuirl, who maintains a private practice in Westwood, N.J., concentrates his practice in trial work, focusing on products liability, medical malpractice and personal injury litigation.

1975
Class Co-Chairs
Joseph W. Cummings
Joseph A. Sasso Jr.
Sur La Table, a retail, mail-order and e-commerce kitchenware company headquartered in Seattle, Wash., recently announced that Timothy J. Hopkins has been named chief executive officer of the company.

1976
Class Chair
Thomas E. Ryan
Class Correspondent
Thomas C. Healey
Rev. John T. Brown is in his seventh year as pastor of missions in McCurtain County, Okla. Michael L. Brown is a partner with Brown & Brown, a certified public accounting firm, with offices in Boston and Worcester. Norman F. Chalupka Jr. serves as legal counsel in the labor relations department of the Massachusetts Highway Department in Boston. Kathleen (Heffernan) Gaudette continues to work as a medical social worker in clinical practice. In November, Margaret R. “Margo” Griffin-Wilson presented a paper at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, as part of an annual seminar organized by the combined departments of Irish at University College and the Cork Irish Texts Society. Griffin-Wilson was one of five presenters to speak on the 17th-century Gaelic poet, Dáibhí Ó Bruadair; her topic was the poet’s love poems. Griffin-Wilson is currently the acting director of the College's Study Abroad Program.

1977
Class Co-Chairs
Kathleen T. Connolly
Shaun P. Mathews
Brian G. Leary recently served as the master of ceremonies for “The Worcester Dinner of Champions,” an annual fund-raising event sponsored by the Central New England chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. In March, Long Island (N.Y.) Business News named Donna Murphy O’Brien one of Long Island’s 50 top women for 2001; she currently serves as vice president and chief administrative officer of Catholic Health Services of Long Island.

1978
Class Co-Chairs
Marcia Hennelly Moran
Mark T. Murray
Michael H. Shanahan
The Albany (N.Y.) College of Pharmacy announced that Thomas E. D’Ambra has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the college’s 121st commencement ceremonies held on June 3. D’Ambra is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Albany Molecular Research Inc. and a member of the college’s Presidential Advisory Board. Thomas W. Kellner, who teaches sculpture at the Worcester Art Museum and serves as an adjunct faculty member at Anna Maria College, Paxton, Mass., recently donated a sculpture in relief of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) to Anna Maria College. The sculpture is to remain on permanent display as part of the college’s art collection. Kellner did the sculpture of Bishop Fenwick at the entrance to Brooks Music Hall at Holy Cross. Charles E. Rainey Jr. has been elected chairman of the 2001-02 board of directors of the Crime Prevention Association of Philadelphia; he is administrative law judge for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission in Philadelphia. The New England American Studies Association recently awarded Nancy Lusignan Schultz its Lois Rudnick Book Prize, for her work, Fire & Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834; Schultz is an English professor and coordinator of graduate studies in English at Salem (Mass.) State College.