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Young Alumni ARTISTS

A B U L L E T I N F O R A L U M N I , P A R E N T S & F R I E N D S O F C A T H O L I C M E M O R I A L

C AT H O L I C M E M O R I A L

My wife Jamie and I are proud of all of our children and the unique path each has taken professionally. One, like me, chose to pursue education, while another works for a non-profit that prepares students for admission into schools like ours.

And our third? We have followed him over the years as he pursued a career in music, struggling from humble beginnings as a singer-songwriter to achieving critical acclaim and a worldwide audience.

Unless you have a child who is trying to make a living as an artist, the arts may not be on your radar in quite the same way. It is on our radar in another way because, in addition to our son, our family is blessed with many who have an active involvement in the arts, from poets to musicians to painters.

Except for music, the arts had a very low profile during my years as a student. So after returning to Catholic Memorial School nearly fifty years after my own commencement, I was all the more pleased to see how integral a part of this school arts had become. Despite a lack of facilities strictly devoted to them, the theater, music, fine and graphic arts had found a place at CM, thanks to talented faculty members and ambitious students.

My pleasure reached pure astonishment on April 14, 2010, when Les Miserables came to the CM stage. Our faculty, staff and students put on what ranks as the finest high school production I have seen in my 42 years in education. And who would have thought that CM’s chamber ensemble would someday perform for the Catholic Schools Foundation’s annual gala in the Boston Public Library, where it was the featured entertainment in 2011?

Art fills us out as human beings, giving us a way to explore the depth and complexity of our humanity in sometimes very non-traditional ways. Certainly, not all of us express ourselves quite like Alex Citrone ’04 or Brennan Williams ’09, but I believe we all have that same drive, yearning or passion to create and to share our creations with others.

I’m glad that CM has become a stage for such creativity to thrive.

Paul E. Sheff ’62

FROM THE PRESIDENT

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOL

Paul E. Sheff ’62 President

Douglas Zack Director of Advancement

David Erwin ’96 Assistant Director of Advancement and Director of Alumni Relations

Patricia Walsh Director of Database Management and Stewardship

Joe McGonegal Director of Communications and Editor, CM Magazine

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CM Magazine is a publication of Catholic Memorial School, a college preparatory school for young men, grades 7-12. It is published three times a year by the Christian Brothers Institute of Massachusetts, under the direction of Mr. Paul E. Sheff ’62, President.

CORRESPONDENCE POLICY Letters and correspon-dence are encouraged.

CONTACT US AT Catholic Memorial School 235 Baker Street West Roxbury, MA 02132 Phone: 617-469-8000 JosephMcGonegal@CatholicMemorial.org

CONTRIBUTORSDavid Erwin ’96 Pat Walsh Douglas Zack Thomas Ryan

PRINT & DESIGNFlagship Printing Karen Ancas Design

PHOTOSEllen Eberly P’98 ’05

David Ertischek

Lifetouch Photography

Deb McCourt

UT Arlington College of Science

WickedLocal-West Roxbury

24 New Faculty, Staff & Board

26 Sports Log

28 Baker St. Bits

30 Class Notes

40 In Memoriam

45 Admissions Update

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“Life is short. Art is eternal.” Five young artists reflect on their craft.

“We rock.” Four alumni navigating their way through the music industry.

Tetraazatetrapyridopentacene? Big Thinker: Professor Frederick MacDonnell ’82 talks about his latest work on cancer research and solar energy.

The 2012 Vince in Bono Malum Awards...And the 11th annual President’s Society Dinner

“It was a hundred and you-don’t-know-what-degrees.” Deployed: John Mackie ’10 reflects on his year in Farah, Afghanistan

“I’m more of a baseball fan.”Catching up with Chris Rooney ’93, NHL Referee

On the cover: A storyboard from the ever-animated John McGowan ’06.

Young alums in the arts

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Actor: Patrick Simas ’10 College of the Holy Cross ’14CURRICULUM VITAE: Hay Fever, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweeney Todd, The Changeling, The Time of Your Life, Shackled Spirits, Psycho Beach Party (December 2012), Spring Awakening (February 2013). LISTENING/READING: Mumford & Sons. The Grief of Others by Leah Cohen. ON ACTING: It’s just playing make believe. You can give an actor the most complex plot or this arc that brings them everywhere and back again, but when you look at it, you’re playing dress up and make believe. We come here to kind of be four year olds, to play make believe. The best part is sharing it. ON EXPERIMENTATION: I’m going to be in a play called Psycho Beach Party this year, directed by Jhovani Cotton. He has a palpable energy and spirit and is really fun to work with. I think he integrates Beyonce into everything he works with. This is a parody of 60s surfing movies. I’ll be playing a 60-year old mother. The other play coming up is Spring Awakening. It was one of the first shows I saw in my life. It really taught me how to look at theater and at art. It had the energy of a rock concert but the narrative arc of theater. ON STUDYING: I took Lynn Cramer’s voice class at Holy Cross. She’s very geared towards Balinese interests and preparing actors to use their voice and facial expressions correctly. It was really revelatory, the way she pointed out all our different quirks as actors, and created this great environment. ON CHALLENGES: Detaching yourself from the character but bringing your experiences of life into it is tough. Playing To-bias in Sweeney Todd was a great example: the world of that play is miserable! And my character was argu-ably the one who gets most shafted by the system. It’s difficult to keep that divide within yourself. And time is a challenge, just keeping everything man-aged. ON GRADUATION: Five years from now, I’d love to have gotten some traveling done, maybe grad school, definitely work with some rep companies, I’d love to work with ART in Cambridge or Steppenwolf in Chicago. ON BROADWAY: I just saw The Book of Mormon. It’s the best American comedy out there. I left just surrendering, I was just so very humbled.

YOUNG ALUMNI ARTISTSFive young artists who have devoted their time since graduation to cultivating,

creating and producing fine work. Here the actor, performer, body artist,

illustrator and photographer reflect on their craft–as they know it so far.

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Performer: Jon Lott ’10 University of Vermont ’14 CURRICULUM VITAE: UVM TV host: Dirty Pop, Late Night with Jon Lott. Student government: Public Relations Senator. Blogger. Appeared on NESN’s “Face Off” trivia broadcast. LISTENING/READING: “I don’t really listen to much music.” The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. ON FILM: I’m a film minor. I really like movies and doing stuff in broadcasting. I’ve taken courses like “History of the Motion Picture,” “The Production Era through 1960,” “History of TV,” “Global Cinema” and a film theory course. ON TV PERFORMING: When I visited UVM senior year, I met with some kids who hap-pened to work for UVM-TV, and I just fell into that community. Then, by November of freshman year, I had my first show. ON STAGE FRIGHT: I never had it. I love the attention. Theater is definitely more challenging than TV though. And some inter-views are easier than others. On the Late Show with Jon Lott, I had each student on who was running for SGA president. I prod-ded each with questions. They had to talk. ON INFLUENCES: Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert are my favorites. Is Jon Lott [on TV] a character? To a certain extent, it’s me, but to a certain extent, it’s hammed up, but there’s a balance. ON GRADUATION: I’m not really sure I’ll do anything with broadcasting after college. I might try to become a newswriter in Burlington, or pursue a teaching certificate.

Body Artist: Brennan Williams ’09 University of North Carolina ’13CURRICULUM VITAE: Multimedia Communications major. Photoshopper, web designer, illustrator, bass guitarist. Offensive tackle for the UNC Tarheels. Top NFL prospect. LISTENING/READING: Cellist Canan Walkashi-ma. The Hunger Games trilogy. ON BODY-ART: There’s a professional wres-tler I’ve always admired named Jeff Hardy. He’s always done a good job incorporating the fact that he’s an artist into the fact that he’s a wrestler. I’ve always thought that cool and have tried to emulate that as a football player. I’m more than just a football player. I always paint my face with crazy designs for pregame. It’s just the idea of getting into a different character. I don’t think of myself as a violent, terrible person off the field but you have to convince yourself you are. Everything’s a performance. ON DIVERSIFYING: I’ve got a lot of interests but not a lot of time…I’ve taken a lot of theoretical stuff, but I’ve also taken some acting classes and I’m currently in a screenwriting class and working on a script for an hour-long TV drama. I’ve really enjoyed it. I’ve always said that I’d like to go into TV or movies. I always felt that I’d use my body for something, if not the NFL, and they don’t always have guys my size [on screen]. ON COURSEWORK: I’m in a class this term and we’re talking about the me-dium of terrorism as performance, how terrorists are trying to display things and if you look at that, there’s a lot to be said about the differenc-es in cultures. Ultimately, it’s what we need to do to know how to stop it.

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The Illustrator: John McGowan ’06 Stonehill College ’10, UMass Dartmouth ’12 CURRICULUM VITAE: BA in Fine Art, MFA in Digital Media. Currently an animator at Planet Nutshell in Cambridge, MA. LISTENING/READING: Smashing Pumpkins (as always). Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. ON CRAFT: My passion right now is 2-d animation. All the other stuff plays a role in it – it’s nice to have color theory and composition and all that jazz. Animation gets easier the more you do it, but you can never animate everything and every time you take on a new project there’s new challenges. It’s a very labor-intensive art form with plenty of headaches for sure, but there’s just something about it, getting to see it all come together and see your artwork move on screen is really rewarding. ON WORK: This firm does a lot of “explainer” videos for companies so I’m working on a few projects for them. I came in today and opened up Word to review some storyboards, then began making some edits to a client video they wrapped up a few months back but which the client wants tweaks done to. I plugged in the newly recorded audio into After Effects and shifted the visuals and timeline to line up with the audio. ON THE BIG SCREEN: I’m still doing tweaks to my thesis project, a 2d animation about a sloth who wants to learn how to fly: “Slothfulness.” Just to tweak some things that I felt were unfinished. I’d like to submit it to a few more film festivals. It was recently in the Glove Box Film Festival in Somerville. ON INFLUENCES: Peter Reynolds at Fablevision has been a big inspiration of mine. In terms of animators, I really look up to Nacho Rodriguez, an animator from Barcelona. I’ve been working with him on a small animation project for some time.

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“Life is short. Art is eternal.” Hippocrates

The Photographer: John O’Toole ’07 Syracuse University ’11 CURRICULUM VITAE: Earned a BFA in Art Photography. Light Work Exhibition Best in Show winner: “What Was Once Familiar.” Currently a digital lab technician at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. LISTENING/READING: Mumford & Sons. The Pleasure of Good Photographs by Geoffrey Badger. ON PHOTOGRAPHY: I just saw a really good show at MOMA by Taryn Simon, “A Living Man Declared Dead.” She works in a very different, conceptual way, incorporating a lot of research into her work. I’m at work on a new project now focusing on Irish immigration and the diaspora, a mix of appropria-tion and original photos. I’m studying the way people came here in the 1800s and landscape photos of areas of importance to them, like Five Points in Manhattan. ON WORK: I freelanced after college, and since January I’ve taken care of the Digital Arts Lab, teaching students how to use Photoshop, print and scan photos and other art. There’s 150 students in the photography department, it’s a re-ally good program. I also run the Pratt Photography blog. My boss calls me the “blog guru.” I like working here and having access to all the technology, and I’m working a proposal for a visiting residency program here like Syracuse had. ON NEW YORK: I love living here. I’m living in Brooklyn, in Park Slope. The cheap side of Park Slope. ON PUBLISHING: I have a back-catalog of photos that I’m working on. I’m working on a physical book for “What Was Once Familiar,” and I just finished one book last February, which was in a photo book show in Finland. All the images for that were based on an image search using “O’Toole” as the search term.

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Late on a Wednesday night in September, the neighbor-hood around Union Bar in Somerville was deserted. The hipsters that call trendy Union Square home were inside watching season pre-mieres of their favorite HBO series, or maybe they were asleep.

Approaching Union Bar, though, you started to feel the pulsating bass. As you got closer, you could make out the heavy guitar chords and see the glass in the one use-less steamy window vibrat-ing. And just inside the door, where the bouncer wearing earphones held up eight fingers to signify the cover charge, you could hear the screams.

THEY WERE COMING FROM

ALEX CITRONE ´04.

As the frontman for the thrash metal band Razor-maze, Citrone is all screams and attitude, rasping out disenchanted anthems to a crowd of hardcore fans with an act that tours up and down the East Coast and is set to release its third album this winter.

If you knew Citrone at CM, you won’t recognize him now. An array of requisite ink lines his arms, a rich mane of head-banger hair animates each move on stage, and his voice, pitched midway between melody and chaos, commands attention.

“The drummer and I have been playing together for almost a decade,” Citrone said by phone the day after the September concert. “I was at Emerson when I met him. They were looking for a bassist and I showed up.”

Citrone’s first band, Aggro-Culture, played hardcore songs about farming, with an obligatory metal twist: one song combined the idea of going organic with harvesting humans.

“It was silly, but it was the start of something serious,” he said. “The stakes have been high since then and we’re serious about touring now. I’m essentially the band manager and the spokesper-son. You have to keep people engaged if you’re going to grow your following.”

Hard work has paid off quick-ly for Razormaze. Their first album, True Speed of Steel, came out in 2009 and their second, Miseries, in 2010, both earning critical atten-tion. Razormaze earned the 2011 Band of the Year Award from the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Music Award for Metal/Hardcore Artist of the Year.

While he plays a mean guitar and aims for vocals akin to Sebastian Bach or Chuck Billy, Citrone’s focus is also on songwriting.

“A lot of my songs have a po-litical basis to them,” he said. “Mysticism is a theme, too. Anything is fair game in metal but there’s always the feeling of being ostracized, battling the status quo, or being aware of the powers that be.

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If I were to put a theme to Razormaze’s songs it would be how we suffer and how we’re not awake to our suffering.”

Asked what song he’s proud-est of on the band’s forth-coming album, Citrone cites “The Slowest Death.”

“It’s about the U.S. prison system and how people who are put in juvenile jail for petty crimes end up staying in the system their entire life. The system doesn’t rehabili-tate anyone and the sentenc-es are incredibly long.”

“There are countless bands that came along since thrash’s resurgence that, you know, did the whole flip-hats-and-beer-and-partying thing,” Citrone told the Boston Phoe-nix, “…but we take our music super-seriously, and we try to bring something new to the table. I mean, barebones thrash is cool, you can write some good songs that way, but how far can you take it?”

DOWN IN CENTRAL SQUARE, A WEEK LATER,

DAN MASTERSON ´08

took the stage at the Cantab Lounge’s Club Bohemia. No earplugs were necessary at this subdued, candle-lit club, where three songwriters perform in one night for fans seeking refuge beneath the bluesy rock of the louder club upstairs.

Masterson, who had enough poise to go around even as

a teenager, commanded the center of the stage, with another singer-songwriter on either side. They took turns crooning out their latest original work, playing off each others’ lyrics or banter at times, and at other times ignoring one another as they struggled to convey their work to the audience.

“That’s a tough performance experience,” Masterson said later, “but it’s great to get that. It’s not the typical performance I do, but a lot

of entry-level venues and gigs do it that way to get you more exposure.”

For a young man who played to sold-out benefit concerts at CM and capacity-crowd events at the Sanders Theater during his Harvard years, Masterson clearly appreci-ates the value of playing for unfamiliar audiences.

Since college, where he worked in musical theater at the ART, sang in an a capella group (the “Veritones”) and covered his share of 90s rock

for formals with friends in a cover band, Masterson has devoted himself to the art of being himself. His no-frills/no gimmicks appearance on stage draws more attention to his lyrics and music than other pop performers. For-tunately, his musical abilities have continued to improve, as has the complexity of his lyrics and vocal range.

“I think you just get better at it, and I’m prouder of these songs and more excited to get them out,” he said.

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“They’re more emotionally dark…but I don’t want to be that brooding singer-song-writer. I want to play with a band, and want to do that without sacrificing the quality of the songwriting.”

At Bohemia, Masterson tried out songs from his newest EP, with a working title of Learn to Live.

“Most of the new songs are some form of love song,” he said, “about relationships that have gone bad and about moving on, learning to figure it out.”

Masterson’s influences these days run from Billy Joel to Bruce Springsteen, Dawes to Mumford and Sons to Jackson Browne. And like many aspiring musicians just starting out, he’s got an

eye on the chimerical music industry. “Clearly, the old paradigms are changing,” he says. “I get a lot of questions from friends who ask, ’So are you trying to get on a label?’ My answer is no, not really. I’d consider some of the indie labels out there that are small time, but the major labels, un-less you have 10,000 YouTube followers, it’s too big a risk.”

That Saturday night, another paradigm of the music industry was still working quite well at The Whiskey Priest in South Boston: the cover band.

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JOHN BINIERIS ´01 & KEVIN ROWLEY ´01 ,

half of the four-man band Bearfight, the paradigm has worked quite well at keep-

ing them well-practiced in their instruments (bass and drums), profitable, and young at heart.

Best of all, Bearfight has lon-gevity. “We started practicing after college, in the summer of 2006,” Binieris said. “And our first gigs were in 2007.”

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Over a hundred gigs–and hundreds of Zeppelin songs–later, Bearfight continues to play to full Saturday night houses like that of The Whiskey Priest. Crowds of college-age revelers and 20-somethings line up at such popular bars for the unusual ritual of competing with Bearfight’s volume, shouting phone numbers and such into each other’s ears over the din of the band’s near-perfect rendition of “Float on” by Modest Mouse or Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter.”

Is there any cover song Bearfight won’t play?

“At the beginning, there was a lot of stubbornness,” Binieris said, laughing. “I’m the stubborn one. I’d play Led Zeppelin all day if I could. But at the end of the day, you have to bite the bullet and play Lady Gaga. The thing with us is we try to play stuff other bands don’t play.”

For a while, Bearfight tried to do creative versions of covers, like one of N’Sync’s

“Bye Bye Bye.” “We learned it for a wedding, then played it out, but the crowds never liked it,” said Binieris.

Besides the clubs and weddings, the band has played college proms and reunions. As a stable side job (Binieris is a tax analyst by day and Rowley’s in real estate), they have trouble seeing an end to it.

“We’re in a good spot now,” he said. “It gets tiring sometimes, but it’s satisfy-ing knowing that you’re making a supplementary income doing it. And it’s better than working at a restaurant on a Saturday night. Your friends enjoy it, and you make your own schedule.”

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Frederick MacDonell ’82 (above, left) is the associate department chair of the chemistry department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has taught and researched at UTA since 1995, earning the College of Science’s 2012 Outstanding Teaching Award. MacDonnell is best known, however, for his work on cancer-fighting drug compounds.

I started to read your biography on the university website but stopped when I got to the word Tetraazatetrapyridopen-tacene. (Laughing) We don’t even use that word, we call it “TATP.” Much shorter.

Even though I don’t understand it, I can tell that your research will have some very useful applications. I started out as a

synthetic chemist making new compounds, but

over time I’ve developed the program here into

two research thrusts: solar energy conversion and

the other as a lead candidate for a [cancer] drug.

What does the drug do? We know that many

tumors are hypoxic: they grow so fast, they out-

strip their blood supply, and most cancer drugs

are either insensitive to oxygen in the tumor or

require oxygen to work. Our drug is inactive until

then a research group meeting at noon till 2pm.

There, one student usually gets up and presents

their work, and we pepper them with questions,

like a mini-oral exam that prepares them for thesis

defenses and paper presentations.

Will you live long enough to see the effects of your research? I’d love to see somebody

achieve a breakthrough, but right now we have

only incremental advances. Honestly, at the

university level, research is definitely the primary

mission, but it’s also about training and education.

A senior colleague of mine says, “You might not

change the world with your research, but if you

can train 30 more PhD’s, you’ll have a hand in it.”

Will you ever return to Boston? I come back

to visit my family, but I’m always ready to come

home after two weeks of freezing.

it detects that there’s not much oxygen, then it

becomes ‘activated’ and kills the tumor cells, at

least in mouse studies.

As there are few areas in the body that are

naturally hypoxic, this drug’s action applies only to

tumors. So far it’s just preclinical and there are a

lot of chances it won’t make it to the clinic, but it’s

very promising. We obtained a patent, and we’re

now publishing with the hope of attracting a phar-

maceutical company to develop it. It’s a long road

to follow but at least there’s a novel mechanism

of action we’ve found, a new way of doing things.

And what about the solar energy part of your work? Much of our research is 20 years out,

but nobody’s come up with anything yet that’s

going to replace sticking a pipe in the ground.

But Texas is a good place, I bet, to study solar energy. We get a lot of sun…but we also

get a lot of hail storms.

What’s a typical day at UTA like for you? My

day is spent in the classroom and then the office;

my workload is supposedly half of each. Yesterday

I came in and got my notes ready for a lecture for

a course I’m teaching on descriptive and organic

chemistry. The lecture was about how we isolate

metals from their ores. Then to the office to meet

grad students who were coming in for an hour,

Big Thinker: Professor Frederick MacDonell

More thinkers, artists and

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President’s Society Dinner

Over a hundred and fifty donors converged at the Westin Copley Hotel on November 8 for the elev-enth President’s Society Dinner and fourth annual Vince in Bono Malum Awards ceremony. President Paul Sheff ’62 and the Catholic Memorial Board of Directors welcomed the President’s Society guests, being those alumni, parents and friends who make a significant gift to CM’s Annual Fund each year.

“Tonight is one big ’thank you,’” said Sheff in his opening remarks. “It’s a warm and grateful ’thank you’ to you for your financial support. Yes, great ideas are important, and yes, the dedication of an inspiring faculty is important. But frankly, without the support of our benefactors, we could not endure as an institu-tion, much less thrive. On behalf of the young men and our dedicated faculty who benefit from your generosity, I offer our deep thanks.”

In his remarks, Sheff reflected on CM teacher and coach

Br. John Crowley ’63, who passed away in October, and the legacy of all Edmund Rice Christian Brothers whose devotion strengthened the school over the years.

“Br. Crowley was a loyal alumnus and an inspiring teacher and coach,” he said. “After his burial at West Park last month…I passed by Br. McKenna’s grave in the cemetery there. I paused and wondered how much our school owes to the dedica-tion of these wonderful men – espe-cially the five founding brothers who

built our school, literally from the ground up. The Christian Brothers are the heart and the soul of Catholic Memorial School.”

During dinner, guests were enter-tained by CM’s chamber ensemble, led by Craig Spaner. Pierre Philippe-Auguste ’13, Max Durham ’16, and Alex Young ’15 delighted the crowd in the grand ballroom overlooking Copley Square.

After dinner, Sheff and Board of Directors chair Robert Maloney ’77 bestowed upon four graduates this year’s Vince in Bono Malum Awards. They went to Dennis Curran ’67 (professional achievement), Thomas Manning ’65 (professional achieve-ment) Jack Cradock ’61 (service to community) and Myles Dudley ’98 (outstanding young alumnus). Each received a plaque and citation recog-nizing their achievement.

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In a spacious perch above Boston Harbor and the city skyline, Jack Cradock looks out over the city he has strengthened in the past forty years.

On the horizon is West Roxbury, where he joined the class of ’61 at Catholic Memorial as a pioneering Knight. There’s Jamaica Plain, where he grew up. Up on the heights, there’s Boston College, where Cradock studied management and found inspiration to effect change in the world. Closer to his office is Chinatown, where he served as executive director of the South Cove Community Health Center.

In Roxbury is Boston Medical Center, where Cradock’s leadership experience is a priceless asset for its Board of Trustees. Up the hill from there is the State House, where he fought hard for better health-care for the poor in the state’s pioneering health care legislation.

But across the harbor is the terra firma of East Boston, a too-often neglected part of Boston. There Cradock has found the soil for his life’s greatest work, sewing seeds that are now fully blossoming. Thanks to the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center, sixty thousand resi-dents get almost all of their health care without stepping foot in a hospital. They are served by 850 of Cradock’s employ-ees who take in 95% of emergency visits in Winthrop, Chelsea, East Boston and Revere.

“For [my wife] Susie and me, it’s always been a faith journey,” Cradock says. “I get to live out what I believe in my work every day. I love my work. It’s about healing, making people feel good about themselves. It‘s fabulous.”

For that journey, and for the tenacity and inspiring spirit of generosity that perme-ates nearly everything he does, we honor Jack Cradock with the Vince in Bono Malum Award for Service to Community.

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Jack Cradock ’61

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What role would Dennis Curran play on a National Football League team? Would it be quarterback? In his 32 years serving as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Labor Litigation and Policy for the National Football League, he has certainly called many crucial plays for the League.

Curran has huddled with teammates, con-sidering all options, before lining up against some of the toughest labor relations prob-lems in professional sports. He has nego-tiated a series of successful collective bargaining agreements when a deadlock seemed much more likely to occur, and advanced the ball downfield in measures calculated to advance his industry.

As a defensive coordinator of sorts, Curran anticipates the other side’s plays and drafts counter proposals to maintain a proper balance. Whether the subject was sub-stance abuse, performance enhancing sub-stances, health care for retired players or salary caps, he’s always had the compo-sure and grit to see that his side—the NFL owners and the League office—was best represented.

At times a blocker on special teams, he organized timely and effective responses to two-player strikes and a lockout. And coach? “Dennis has always assembled and coached a diverse assembly of attorneys, using them both for long term, league-wide projects and individual lawsuits,” says col-league Buck Briggs. “He always gets the best results possible from each of them.”

On a typical day this fall, Curran dealt with club owners to set and implement litigation strategy in the many lawsuits that are filed, advised clubs on work rules for current players or talked to retired players or their widows about the disability or pension ben-efits available to them. This winter, he’ll attend his thirty-third consecutive Super Bowl, like it’s another day at the office.

For his untiring dedication to growing America’s most popular sport while rep-resenting the values attained from a Catholic Memorial education, we are proud to honor Dennis Curran with the Vince in Bono Malum Award for Professional Achievement.

2012 VINCE IN BONO MALUM AWARD for

Dennis Curran ’67

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In the world of finance and investing, as in life, getting ahead depends upon leveraging risk. Myles Dudley’s life thus far is a testament to that basic tenet, a wisdom he acquired quickly in the brief span of time since he graduated Catholic Memorial.

When the housing bubble was about to burst and the markets were about to enter into turmoil, Dudley had the fore-sight to see the storm clouds gathering, and the courage to move on from Smith Barney to form his own firm, Pinnacle Private Wealth, in 2009.

There, he has prospered, working to manage wealth for his clients while imple-menting alternative planning techniques and tax-efficient investing. Earning a Five-Star Wealth Manager honor at Pinnacle, he has earned the trust of his clients and industry while managing $300 million in assets, and he is clearly a rising star in the Boston financial world.

“It was perfect timing for us to forge ahead on our own,” Dudley says of his move in 2009. “There was a breakdown of the bricks and mortar of the larger financial institutions. Our clients found it refreshing that we provided the plat-forms, knowledge, and expertise of the big firms while enhancing our service model for them.”

“It was a big risk, but a risk that we feel was calculated,” he says. “I enjoy the managerial role at Pinnacle and helping other advisors grow their business, but I also enjoy the relationships that I have built with our clients. We want a firm that attracts top advisors in the industry while constantly adapting in this ever-changing marketplace.”

For this impressive start to a career in the challenging world of finance, for his intellectual maturity in the pursuit of excellence and for his tenacity in getting the job done for his clients and family, we honor Myles Dudley with the Vince in Bono Malum Award for Outstanding Young Alumnus.

OUTSTANDING YOUNG ALUMNUS2012 VINCE IN BONO MALUM AWARD for

Myles Dudley ’97

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In 1978, long before anyone had uttered the phrase “health care for all,” before the notion of public and private health care partnerships were the fashion, and when health care experts were just beginning to find better ways to treat those afflicted by mental illness, Tom Manning began his work at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

For Manning, it has become a life’s calling, and he has poured 34 years’ worth of energy into it. By the time he retired this past spring, Manning’s life work was evident across the state, and it was profound. Under his lead-ership at Commonwealth Medicine, UMass Med School’s facilities grew to include the Shriver Center in Waltham, the Worcester Foundation in Shrewsbury, Century Drive and the South Street campus and the Lazare Research Building.

In fostering partnerships between the Medical School and state agencies and non-profits, Manning has increased the efficiency of health care research, legislation and poli-cies, saving taxpayers billions of dollars over the years in the process.

“Under Tom’s leadership, Commonwealth Medicine became an integral component of public health financing and delivery in the state and across the country,” said Commonwealth’s chancellor, Michael Collins. “[It] has set the standard for cost-effective and efficient public sector partnerships for state government. Tens of thousands of lives in Massachusetts have been made better by the work of Commonwealth Medicine.”

Asked how he felt on retirement this spring, Manning replied, “I felt pride in a job well done and was very happy with both my replacement and the leadership team I’ve worked with. Their team is strong and firmly in place looking ahead.”

For his role in shaping Massachusetts’ role as a nationwide leader in health care policy and research and his unwavering devotion to achieving success in adverse and trying times, we honor Thomas Manning with the Vince in Bono Malum Award for Professional Achievement.

2012 VINCE IN BONO MALUM AWARD for

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Tom Manning ’65

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You joined the Massachusetts National Guard right after graduation. Why?

I just felt it was something I wanted to do. I graduated in 2010, and for nine years I had watched the war on the news. I just felt it was something I wanted to do as soon as I was able to do it.

How was your boot camp experience?

Before I joined someone had told me the Mass National Guard would be deploying quickly so I wanted to get on that boat as soon as possible. So I got into boot camp in August. I went to Fort Benning, Georgia for three months. While I was there I got a letter saying that we would deploy on March 26, 2011.

What was your job once assigned to your unit?

They threw an 18-lb. squad automatic weapon at me and said you’re going to be a machine gunner. I said, “Oh this sucks, it’s so heavy.” But my job completely changed when I got there.

Arriving in Afghanistan must have been frightening.

You get off the plane in Kandahar and every-thing’s really fast-paced and unfortunately not as organized as you thought it would be. But you trust it. That night we were in a tent on the airfield and next thing you know, mortars are coming into the place, alarms going off, and they tell us to get in a bunker. But a few guys said, “You’ll be fine, they’re not strong enough.” At breakfast the next morning we looked at each other and said, “So this is the real deal.”

Then we got on a plane to Farah, and when we got there, the back door opened and it

was like a movie: hazy, with sand and wind rushing in. You just get off the plane and there’s a guy yelling, “Welcome to Farah!” It was dead summer, a hundred and you-don’t-know-what degrees.

Was there a typical day in Farah?

Our mission was to be the Provincial Re-constructive Team, providing security for people rebuilding the infrastructure of the city. If there was a road being made, we’d take Seabees out to work on it with Afghan construction companies. The job changed daily: roads, bridges, schools, prisons. But you always worried about unconventional warfare. You’re not fighting tanks, not even people with guns in their hands. You build a road one day and the next day there’s an IED there.

Later, I worked security in the governor’s house. It was really cool to have him introduce us to these other people as if we were really important. And at all the events there, that was when I really got to learn the culture, and have normal conversations with Afghan people.

Did you feel like your work there helped the country move forward?

We did help. Americans are the most knowl-edgeable ones there, needed to train the country to work and function with its own justice system. They learned from us and we learned from them.

Talk about returning home.

The in-process to get back is extremely extensive. We were in Indiana then in Massa-chusetts, and to be back but not home is the worst feeling in the world. Now, I’m enroll-ing in college this spring, have a great-paying job in the laborers’ union…and am saving up to buy a house.

JOHN MACKIE ’10

John Mackie spent a year in Afghanistan with the 26th infantry brigade of the Massachusetts National Guard, returning in March 2012. Several months after his tour of duty, he reflected on his time there.

Farah, AfghanistanDEPLOYED:

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C A T H O L I C M E M O R I A L S C H O O L

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Now is the time...To make your charitable contribution to Catholic

Memorial. Make your gift before December 31st

to receive a tax deduction for 2012. Make your gift

online: CatholicMemorial.org.

If you wish to donate securities, please call

Doug Zack, Director of Advancement

at 617-469-8017 for instructions.

BY SOURCEIndividuals ................................................$1,140,055Alumni ...........................................................$601,032 Current Parents.............................................. $92,105 Others* .........................................................$247,713 Foundations .................................................. $52,700 Organizations, Corps. ................................ $146,505

BY TYPE OF GIFT Outright ......................................................$1,140,055

Bequests .................................................................. $0

BY PURPOSECurrent Operations ..............................$665,901

Capital Purposes ................................... $284,154

Designation Pending ............................$190,000

$1,140,055

Unrestricted ..................................................$391,803

Restricted* ................................................... $274,098

Endowment ..................................................$173,443

Facilities..........................................................$110,711

ALUMNI PARTICIPATIONAlumni of Record ..............................................9,956

Alumni Solicited ................................................7,667

Alumni Donors (all funds) ..................................815

% of Participation ............................................10.6%

TOTAL SUPPORT (cash) $1,140,055

* FY 2012 Restricted included net proceeds from Golf Classic and Fashion Show

A N N U A L R E P O R T

Robert P. Maloney, Jr. ’77 Chairman Board of Directors

For the third consecutive year Catholic Memorial

School has exceeded the seven figure dollar mark

in total philanthropic support. On behalf of the

Catholic Memorial Board of Directors, I want to

express my sincere gratitude and say “thank you”

to our loyal donors for such generous gifts.

Because of your steadfast support, CM was able

to provide the necessary financial foundation to

maintain our standard of excellence in academics,

the arts and athletics.

Allow me to share with you some highlights from

the last fiscal year:

Overall giving increased 7.6% over last year. This

includes gifts for the unrestricted annual fund,

restricted operating funds, capital improvements

and the endowment.

Giving by our alumni saw a huge jump. A total

of 815 alumni made a gift last year, which was

a 39% increase over the 2011 fiscal year. Our

alums responded to our drive, choosing to

support “Every Knight Every Year.”

The Senior Class Gift took on an extra special and

heartfelt meaning. Parents from the Class of 2012

gave thoughtfully and generously to raise money

to help endow two scholarships in the name of

their deceased classmates, Chris Donlon and

Francis McInerney.

In honor of their 50th reunion, the Class of 1962

started a class scholarship and by the time their

reunion came around in June 2012 they had

raised more than $82,000 toward their goal of

endowing a scholarship of $100,000.

This past Thanksgiving, we celebrated the

O’Connor Stadium dedication. The largest crowd

in many years filled the bleachers and ringed the

stadium to be a part of the great CM – BC High

rivalry. The highlight was going on the field at

half time with fellow football alumni to honor

Coach Jim O’Connor. The best news was that

$261,000 was raised for the school.

What is most impressive is the unwaver-

ing support from our benefactors during this

extended time of economic challenges and slower

than expected recovery. This record of giving is a

true testament to our alumni, parents and friends

who have chosen to make CM a priority in their

charitable contributions. Each one believes in

the mission of Catholic Memorial School and the

Edmund Rice Christian Brothers.

Thank you.

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SUPPORT BY SOURCE SUPPORT BY PURPOSE

ALUMNI 53%

CURRENT PARENTS 8%

ORGS & CORPS 13%

FOUNDATIONS 4%

OTHERS 22%

UNRESTRICTED* 34%

DESIGNATION PENDING 17%

RESTRICTED* 24%

ENDOWMENT 15%

FACILITIES 10%

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A N N U A L R E P O R T

Douglas H. Zack Director of Advancement

Stephen J. Berte ’98John F. Roddy ’99Peter G. Trovato ’00John J. Colleran ’01Christopher R. Wall ’03Douglas A. Eberly ’05Michael J. Connolly ’06Joseph T. Devin ’06Michael P. Devin ’06Brian M. Kickham ’07Peter M. McGovern ’07Joseph J. McLean ’07Christos Alexopoulos ’08Matthew Charest ’08Michael Collins ’08Brian D. Hickox ’08Kurtis A. Buczynski ’09Mark Collins ’12

Read the full

Annual Report online:

CatholicMemorial.org

It is always a pleasure for me to write this letter

to the CM community because it allows me the

opportunity to thank our benefactors who have

made a financial commitment to the success of

Catholic Memorial. I’m especially excited to write

this letter as I look back on the last year because it

was such a successful time for Catholic Memorial.

For the fiscal year (July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012),

giving to Catholic Memorial totaled $1,140,055

for a 7.6% increase over the previous year - an

incredible accomplishment for CM! Thank you to

the more than 1,600 individuals, businesses and

foundations who donated to our great school.

Most encouraging last year was the increase in

alumni participation. In 2011, CM launched a

new drive for participation called “Every Knight

Every Year”. The purpose of this operation was to

have our alumni make a gift at whatever amount

they felt comfortable and to make a gift every

year. Our goal was simple – to become #1 in

the Catholic Conference in alumni giving. We

created a web site, EveryKnightEveryYear.org,

where alumni could share reflections about their

CM experience, get updates on their class par-

ticipation and make a donation. The Catholic

Memorial alumni responded to this drive and

39% more graduates made a gift over last year

for a total of 815 donors. They gave in support of

the James R. O’Connor Stadium project, The Class

of 1962 – 50th Reunion Scholarship, the CM golf

classic and most generously to the unrestricted

annual fund.

This puts CM at an overall alumni giving rate of

10.6% and I know we can do better.

Another highlight of the year was the Class of

1962 – 50th Reunion. Coincidently, 62 classmates

returned to campus for the June 8 & 9 events

and it seemed like the guys never wanted the

weekend to end. It is a pleasure for me and the

Advancement Office to work with each reunion

class but especially the significant milestone of a

50th reunion class. The members of this second

graduation class were pioneers when they started

as freshmen in the fall of 1958. Today, they are

an important part of the school’s legacy and

Brother McKenna’s vision that “Catholic Memorial

students be able to work together to be winners

in sports, in studies, in life and in the salvation of

their souls.”

In the lobby of the main school building is a

display, “Stand Up and Cheer”, taken from the

title of the CM fight song. The display includes

highlights from the school year from academic

accomplishments to team athletic achievements.

Now, I stand up and cheer for our loyal benefac-

tors who have made CM a priority in your chari-

table giving.

PRESIDENT’S YOUNG ALUMNI SOCIETY

1 - 7 YEARS .................2005-2011 ...............$100

8 - 10 YEARS .............. 2002-2004 ...............$150

11 - 12 YEARS .............2001-2000 .............. $250

13 - 14 YEARS .............1998-1999 ...............$300

15 YEARS ............................... 1997 .............. $500

The Young Alumni President’s Council Giving Society

allows young alumni, who have graduated within the

past 15 years, to join the school’s prestigious President’s

Society. Members receive an annual invitation to the

President’s Society dinner, attended by leadership

donors, the Board of Directors and Trustees and are

invited to additional events throughout the year.

The minimum giving (corporate matching gifts

included) levels for the Young Alumni President’s

Society are as follows:

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BLESSED EDMUND RICE SOCIETY $20,000+ Christian Brothers of Massachusetts CommunityMr. Francis A. Doyle III ’66Mr. Joseph J. Galligan ’77Mr. Richard J. Harrington ’64Milliken & Company FoundationRoxbury Latin SchoolThe Catholic Schools Foundation

LEADERSHIP GIVING

The Catholic Memorial School Leadership

Gift Societies recognize those donors who display

exceptional interest in the advancement of the School’s

mission. The following societies honor the financial

role many members of the CM community have

in supporting the exceptional education offered by

Catholic Memorial School under the guidance of

the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers.

Leadership gifts include gifts made in support of the

CM Annual Fund (unrestricted and restricted) and

gifts for capital purposes (endowment and facilities).

For the 2012 fund year, 197 donors gave a Leadership

Gift ($1,000 or more) to the school for at total of

$947,989 or 83% of the amount raised. Clearly,

leadership gifts are the foundation for a solid

annual giving program.

FOUNDERS’ SOCIETY $10,000+CM Forensic’s “Afternoon of Exceptional Oratory”Cooley Manion Jones, LLPMr. John F. Corcoran ’71Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Hanley ’72Mr. Paul G. Heffernan, Jr. ’76Mr. F. Timothy Hegarty, Jr. ’66, P’97Mr. Patrick J. LeonardMarie Conley Memorial Scholarship FundRev. Henry P. Nichols ’62Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. O’Donnell ’74Mr. Steven P. Palladino ’75, P’07Mr. Ronald K. Perry ’76Mr. Barry J. Sawayer ’67Mrs. Kathleen Sullivan in memory of Kevin J. Sullivan, Esq. ’62Mr. Barry J. Sawayer ’67

WATERFORD CIRCLE Robert L. Amrhein, M.D. ’67Mr. James D. Blue II ’82Mr. Bert J. Capone, Jr. ’62Mr. & Mrs. John F. Chipman ’83 P’14, ’15Mr. Paul W. Chisholm ’66Events for Christopher R. Donlon ’12 memorial scholarshipMr. Joseph C. Connolly, CLU ’71, P’92, ’94Mr. Kevin P. Costello ’63Mr. William H. Curley, Jr. ’79Mr. Michael J. Daley ’74 P’07, ’09Mr. Stephen A. Dempsey ’62Mr. Kevin N. Fitzgerald ’69 & Mrs. Cynthia FitzgeraldMr. Martin V. Joyce, Jr. ’64Dr. Kyungwon Kim & Mrs. Jinyoung Ha P’16Mr. Richard F. Leahy ’66Robert P. Maloney, Jr., Esq. ’77Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. McNally ’79 & FamilyMr. Daniel O. Mee ’77Mr. Richard Newman ’76Mr. Joseph P. Plunkett III ’62Mr. James P. Reilly, Jr. ’64Mr. Robert J. Sheehan ’64Mr. William J. Supple ’77Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Tedesco P’12, ’13The PINCH Foundation, Inc.Mr. & Mrs. Michael Woodall P’10, ’12

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1957 SOCIETY $2,500+AnonymousMr. Michael F. Broderick ’80Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Brooks P’13Captain Joseph R. Fandrey Memorial FundMr. Jeffrey M. Chisholm ’93John J. Cleary, Esq. ’64Mr. Michael J. Costello ’67Rev. Ronald D. Coyne ’65Mr. John C. Dunne ’77Mr. & Mrs. Dana Erikson P’13, ’18Mr. Kevin D. Hicks ’78Mr. & Mrs. William J. Kennedy, Jr. P’14Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Larkin P’13, ’16Mark Bavis Leadership FoundationMr. Peter J. McAvinn ’80Br. V. Gregory M. McNally, C.F.C. ’62Robert E. McWhirter, M.D. ’64Mr. Patrick G. Mee ’79Mr. John F. Mulhern ’63Mr. Joseph L. O’Brien ’73Mr. Jin Gyu Park & Mrs. Chung Hi Lee P’10, ’12Mr. Stephen J. Reilly ’76Mr. Paul F. Rogers ’79Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Scannell ’83 P’17John J. Sheff, Ph.D. ’62Mr. Paul E. Sheff ’62Sovereign BankMr. John M. Tobin, Jr. ’87Mr. Thomas A. Walsh ’62

PRESIDENT’S SOCIETY $1,000+Mr. Kevin J. Ahearn ’66Mr. Christos Alexopoulos ’08 ♦

Mr. John Aversa ’78Mrs. Mary T. BavisMr. Stephen J. Berte ’98 ♦

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Bogart P’15Rev. Charles E. Bourke, Jr. ’62Mr. & Mrs. Paul Brauer P’12Capt. Thomas E. Broderick USN ’69Mr. John T. Buckley ’64Mr. Kurtis A. Buczynski ’09 ♦

Dr. Daniel R. BurkeMs. Tracy Campion & Mr. Bernard GreeneMr. & Mrs. Joseph Casserly P’07, ’12Mr. & Mrs. Dino Cauteruccio P’09, ’12Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Charest P’08Mr. Matthew Charest ’08 ♦

Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Chisholm P’93, ’98, ’03Mr. John J. Colleran ’01 ♦

Mr. Mark Collins ’12 ♦

Mr. Michael Collins ’08 ♦

Mr. John B. Conners ’63Mr. Michael J. Connolly ’06 ♦

Mrs. Mary J. ConnorsMr. John M. Conroy ’87Mr. Richard J. Conway ’65Corrib Charitable TrustMr. Joseph M. Corsi, CISA ’80Mr. Martin W. Courage ’73Mr. Francis V. Creeden, Jr. ’66Mr. Robert J. Creeden ’73John E. Creeden, Ph.D. ’70Mrs. Mary Creeden RisioMr. John E. Dahlstrom ’63Mr. Raymond L. D’Arcy ’70Mr. Joseph T. Devin ’06 ♦

Mr. Michael T. Devin ’06 ♦

Mr. John L. Dondero ’67

Dr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Donnelly P’12Mr. Michael J. Dorsey, Sr. ’79 P’03, ’10Rev. Nicholas J. Driscoll ’61Mr. Richard J. Dunn ’63Thomas E. Dwyer, Esq. ’63Mr. Kevin M. Dyson ’83Mr. Douglas A. Eberly ’05 ♦

Mr. Joseph M. Fallon ’70Mr. John P. Feeney ’67Dr. & Mrs. Alejandro Flores P’10John G. Flores, Ph.D. ’67Mr. R. Terrance Fuller ’61Mr. James L. Galvin ’71Mr. Michael D. Gaquin ’77Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Geraghty P’13Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Gill P’13Mr. Richard F. Gormley ’66Mr. Michael E. Guilfoy ’68Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hamel P’12, ’14Gerard F. Hartigan, Esq. ’67Mr. James P. Healey ’71Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hedberg P’08, ’09Mr. Paul T. Heinsohn ’78Mr. Brian D. Hickox ’08 ♦

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Hock P’16Mr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Hoey ’79, P’15Miss Rosemary T. HurleyMr. & Mrs. Carl Jonasson P’05, ’08Mr. & Mrs. Patrick T. JonesMr. Henry G. Kara ’62Ms. Judith M. KelleherMr. Sean T. Kelly ’79Mr. Brian M. Kickham ’07 ♦

Mr. Michael W. Kinchla ’79Mr. John F. King ’79Brian G. Leary, Esq. ’73Mr. Stephen J. Leary ’67Mr. & Mrs. Christopher F. Lee ’85, P’14

Mr. Gregory F. Lewis ’61Mr. Gerald M. Lydon ’62Mark G. MacDonald, D.O. ’80Mr. John D. MacKinnon III ’62Mr. William K. Martin ’68Mr. John C. Maus ’68Mr. William McCullen ’83Mr. John J. McDonnell ’79Mr. Edward J. McGonagle ’76, P’03Mr. Peter M. McGovern ’07 ♦

Mr. Peter F. McGowan ’65Mr. & Mrs. Francis C. McInerney III, P’12Mr. Kevin F. McLaughlin ’74

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Mr. Philip M. McLaughlin ’61Mr. Joseph J. McLean ’07 ♦

Mr. Thomas F. Meagher, Jr.Mr. Leo G. Mogavero ’65Mr. Michael E. MullaneyMr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Mullen III ’81, P’16Mr. Michael Newman ’84Mr. & Mrs. James R. O’Connor P’78, ’80, ’86Ms. Marjorie O’Malley P’07Mr. Daniel F. O’Sullivan, Jr. ’66Mr. Taki G. Pantazopoulos ’78Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Perry P’76Mr. J. P. Plunkett IVMr. Matthew F. Power ’81Rev. Peter F. Quinn ’63Mr. Bernard A. Regan ’70Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Regan ’63Mr. Thomas P. Riordan ’65Mrs. Mary RisioMr. John J. Roche ’71Mr. John F. Roddy ’99 ♦

Mr. Bruce J. Ryan ’61Mr. & Mrs. Daniel H. Shea P’13Mr. Robert T. Shea ’94Mrs. Catherine E. Sheehan P’64Mrs. Corina E. Sheff P’ 62, ’62Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Simas P’10Mr. Jean-Paul St. Germain ’85St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, BridgewaterMr. Paul T. Stanton ’75Mr. David W. Stirling ’65Dr. & Mrs. James D. SullivanMr. Jay F. Sullivan ’65Mr. Paul A. Sylvester ’72Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Tobin P’08Mr. & Mrs. Michael Traynor P’13Mr. Peter G. Trovato ’00 ♦

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Twerago ’76, P’11, ’15Walsh Brothers, Incorporated. Mrs. AnnEllen Walsh P’74Mr. Christopher R. Wall ’03 ♦

Mr. William B. Welsh, Jr. ’70Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. WhelanMr. Richard J. Woodman ’74Mr. Mark A. Young & Dr. Laurie E. Young P’13, ’15

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Mr. & Mrs. Tom Allen

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Andrea

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Ashe

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Barton

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Beckwith, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Brauer

Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Carpenter

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Casserly

Mr. & Mrs. Dino Cauteruccio

Mr. & Mrs. Dino Cauteruccio

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Colarusso

Mr. Robert J. Connelly & Dr. Margaret Connelly

Mr. & Mrs. David E. Consigli, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel F. Costello

Mr. & Mrs. John Cushing

Mr. & Mrs. David H. Dalzell

Mr. & Mrs. David Doherty

Dr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Donnelly

Dr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Donnelly

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Driscoll

Mr. J. Henry Droney

Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. DuBois

Mr. & Mrs. Scott England

Mr. & Mrs. David C. Ewanouski

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis J. Ferzoco

Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Foley

Mr. & Mrs. John Gill ’83

Ms. Jennifer Gilpatric-Mitchell

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Griffin

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Griffin

Mr. & Mrs. George Grubner

Mr. & Mrs. Mark C. Hamel

Mrs. Dale Harrison

Mr. & Mrs. Howard Henry

Mr. & Mrs. Monte J. Ishige

Mr. Ronald R. Jackson & Ms. Lauren M. Galvin

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Khoshabjian

Mr. & Mrs. Eric Krause

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. Lally

Mr. Michael G. Lawler & Ms. Marie Drottar

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Lawler, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Lawler, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Lester, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Mannion

Mr. & Mrs. James Marcel

Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. McBride

Mr. & Mrs. Charlie McCann

Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. McCarthy

Mr. & Mrs. John F. McGowan ’71

Mr. & Mrs. Michael McKeeney ’82

Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. McMahon, Jr. ’83

Mr. & Mrs. James G. Merlino

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Morris

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen G. Muldoon

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Nee

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Nkwantah

Mr. & Mrs. John D. O’Callaghan

Mr. & Mrs. John D. O’Callaghan

Mr. Robert O’Neill

Mr. & Mrs. Michael O’Neill

Mrs. Frances Page

Mr. Jin Gyu Park & Mrs. Chung Hi Lee

Mr. & Mrs. William Parlon

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Perry ’75

Mr. & Mrs. Renato Pisano

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Preston

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Rogantino

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Romagnoli

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rooney

Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Ruiz

Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Ryan

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Schneider

Mr. Michael A. Schofield ’76 & Ms. Andrea D’Amato

Mr. & Mrs. Keith H. Shaffer

Mr. & Mrs. David G. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Stanton, Sr.

Mr. Michael E. Steele

Mr. Richard Stelluto & Dr. Valerie Pronio-Stelluto

Mr. & Mrs. Gerhard Stenger

Mr. & Mrs. Kyle Sullivan

Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Tedesco

Ms. Mary P. Thompson

Mr. & Mrs. David H. Towle

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Tufts

Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Walsh

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Walsh

Mr. & Mrs. Michael W. Walsh ’83

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Ward

Mr. & Mrs. Curtis L. West, Sr.

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin M. White

Mr. & Mrs. Brent Williams

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Woodall

Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Zegarelli

The tradition of the senior class gift had a very

special and personal purpose for the Class of

2012 parents. With the passing of two members

of the class, Chris Donlon and Francis McInerney,

the committee decided that the most meaning-

ful gift would be to raise money toward the two

scholarship funds set up in memory of their fallen

Knights.

Family and friends of Chris and Francis originally

raised funds to begin the scholarships. With the

approval of the Donlon and McInerney fami-

lies, the senior parents’ gifts went to helping to

add to the scholarships to help them reach the

endowment thresholds so they would continue in

perpetuity.

More than $27,000 was raised from 93 families

and the funds were divided equally among the

two scholarships. The scholarships are already

being put to use with two current CM students

benefitting from these awards.

Thank you to each of the senior parents who sup-

ported these scholarships and helped create a

meaningful and lasting legacy to Chris and Francis.

2012 SENIOR CLASS GIFT COMMITTEE:

Paul and Diane Brauer

Joe and Christine Casserly

Dino and Diane Cauteruccio

Kevin and Maureen Donnelly

Monte and Susan Ishige

Robert and Marie McBride

John ’71 and Karen McGowan

Al and Mary Tedesco

Gabriel and Carine Vonleh

Brent and Jacquie Williams

Mike and Julie Woodall

CLASS OF 2012 SENIOR GIFT

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Barbara Flynn | Religion

Barbara Flynn is a graduate of Fontbonne Academy. She received her BA in history from Fordham University, before studying to earn a masters in secondary education from UMass-Boston in 2001. From 1996-2000, Mrs. Flynn taught English, reading and reli-gion to 7th and 8th graders at Sacred Heart School in Roslindale. Since then,

she has been teaching religion and history at Msgr. Haddad Middle School in Needham. She has also previously taught in CM’s Summer Education Program. Outside of the classroom, Mrs. Flynn has run class trips for Msgr. Haddad to Philadelphia and Gettysburg. She is married to Jay Flynn ’92. They live in Dedham and have two sons and a daughter. This year, Mrs. Flynn is teaching religion in the Middle School Program.

Richard Izzo | Biology

Richard Izzo received his BS in biology and chemistry from North-eastern University, his M.Ed. from Cambridge College, and his CAS from Harvard University. He has held previous teaching assignments at Boston Latin, Wellesley High School and the Mai-monides School. Mr. Izzo is teaching biology to the freshmen and sophomore

classes this year. Mr. Izzo is an avid skier and has run many trips for Boston Latin in the past. He is married and he and his wife Judith have three grown sons. Mr. Izzo lives in Brighton.

Tom Walsh | Math

Tom Walsh is a Duxbury native who went on to earn his BS in mathemat-ics from Villanova University. Since college, he has been teaching math to junior-high students at the Rising Tide Charter School in Plymouth, where he later became the Math Department’s curriculum coordinator. Mr. Walsh has also coached soccer and basketball. He

is a music aficionado, playing piano, cello and bass guitar. This year, Mr. Walsh is teaching math in the Middle School Program. He and his wife Maura live in Quincy.

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Jim Dempsey | French+Spanish

Jim Dempsey grew up in Boston, attending Boston Latin School. He received his BA in Foreign Language from Northeastern University and his M.Ed. in school administration from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Prior to CM, he taught at Don Bosco High School, Winthrop and Waltham Public Schools. He has taught both

French and Spanish from junior high through high school. Mr. Dempsey ran numerous school trips to Quebec and Montreal in his time at Winthrop. At CM, he is teaching both French and Spanish to 8, 9, and 10. Mr. Dempsey is married, with 3 children and lives in Dedham.

Caroline DiCicco | Art

Caroline DiCicco hails from Londonderry, NH. There, she attended Londonderry High before studying for a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She went on to earn her masters in education in teaching of visual arts from Lesley University. She has taught art at St. Paul’s School in Wellesley and St. Mary’s of the Hills School in Milton as well as

other art programs in Quincy and Newton. Mrs. DiCicco has taught ceramics, sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking and mixed media. Prior to teaching, she worked at the Boston Children’s Museum as a senior coordinator for school and community groups. At CM, Mrs. DiCicco is teaching art to grades 7 & 9 and civics to the 8th grade. Mrs. DiCicco is married and lives in Winthrop.

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✒ CM’s guidance director Bob Tegan is currently serving as President of the South Suburban Guidance Council, a consortium of private and public guidance directors whose purpose is to share best practices, promote guidance events and awareness, and advance the professional standards of guidance counsel-ors and departments in the metropolitan area south of Boston.

✒ Congratulations to world language teacher Ashley Critchley and her husband Eric on the birth of their daughter Mia Hope, born October 5, weighing 7 lbs. 7oz. and 20 ½ inches long.

✒ Congrats to librarian Ann Magyar, who had three poems published in the Aurorean’s Fall-Winter 2012-2013 issue, available online at encirclepub.com. Craig Spaner’s first play, The Morning Bird Sings, was also published this summer.

✒ Congratulations to Ellen Eberly on the birth of her first grandchild Reagan Jacqueline Eberly, 7 lbs 9 oz 21 inches at 8:09 a.m. on September 25th. Proud parents are Ellen’s son Doug (’05) and his wife Sandra.

✒ Congratulations to Nancy Graham on the birth of her new grandson Daniel Lawrence Bairstow, 7lbs. 10 ozs. born on September 27th. Proud parents are Nancy’s daughter Susan and her husband Todd.

✒ Congratulations to Coaches Rob Croteau ’93, Br. Cavet, Greg Cunningham ’88, Max Erilus ’05, Michael Macchi ’05 and Ellen Eberly P ’98 ’05. CM’s speech and debate team has been recognized again this year as a member of the prestigious “200 Club” by the National Forensic League. Their accomplishment as a team put CM’s program in the top 5% of chapters in the nation.

Mary Coffey Moranjoins the CM Board of Directors this year. A financial officer with over 30 years experi-ence in private industry and education, Moran most recently served as the CFO at St. John’s Preparatory School. Since 2002, she has been President of her own finan-cial consulting business, MCM Financial Consulting in Boston.

In her current work, Moran advises leadership in both private and non-profit sectors as they seek to leverage growth opportunities in the short and long term. Moran also serves on the Board of Trustees for her alma mater, College of the Holy Cross (where she served as vice-chair in 2010-11). She is also on the boards of Danvers Bancorp, the Society of Jesus of New England, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants (former), and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

“It is an honor and privilege to join the Board,” says Moran. “Paul Sheff has such vision for CM, and it is very exciting to join a group of talented people who are committed to deliver on that vision.”

William McCullen ’83 brings a wealth of experience and insight to the CM Board of Directors this year. Currently the Director of the Cambridge of-fice of Launch Capital, LLC, McCullen leads the investment process for the seed-stage venture fund’s northeastern investments. Prior to this post, McCullen worked in product management, strategic planning, marketing and analysis for a variety of firms, both nascent and established. His career began at AT&T Network Systems/Lucent Technologies, where he worked in a variety of technical and marketing positions.

A graduate of WPI, McCullen earned his MBA in 2005 from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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Varsity golf team places in South Sectional Golf Tournament Coach John Palermo ’79 and the varsity golf team placed 4th in the South Sectional Golf Tournament in October. Individual scores: Matt Wessenberg ’13 (77) and Mike Mason ’13 (78) led the team, with both advancing to the State Championship on November 5.

CM’s Spirit Program returnsThanks to a new partnership between CM and Mt. Alvernia, the Catholic Memorial Spirit Program is underway again under the leadership of science teacher and spirit coach Ms. Cells. Cheering for the Knights at football games this fall, the Spirit Program will reinforce the already spirited cheering section of “Superfans” at home games. This winter, they plan to lead cheers at home basketball games and wrestling meets.

JV golf team undefeated Congratulations to Coach Kiernan Joyce ’01 and the JV Golf Team, who finished the season with an undefeated (12-0) record.

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Alumni, friends compete in 4th annual Conley Golf Tournament On Friday, September 28 family and friends braved the rain to play golf for the benefit of the Marie Conley Scholarship Fund. Now in its 4th year, the golf event, which is so well attended that it’s held at three courses, raises funds to support scholarships in memory of Marie at Catholic Memorial and St. Ann’s Parish, Dorchester as well as the Mather School’s “Marie Conley Achievement Fund.”

Since 2009, the tournament has generated over $120,000 for these schools.

Thanks to the Conley and Finn families for their generosity and support for Catholic Memorial students and our scholarship pro-gram. Their efforts embody our school motto: Vince In Bono Malum “Conquer Evil by Doing Good.”

Marie Conley from Dorchester was a mother of 4 (Jim, Jennifer, Michael, and Christopher). She had 5 grandchildren and was a loving mother, sister and daughter. She worked as a crossing guard for the city of Boston at the Mather School in Dorchester.

Marie loved to help people; from her family and friends to the children she came in contact with at the crossing, as well as caring for the elderly. On the morning of October 21, 2008 she was crossing a child when a vehicle struck her; luckily she was able to push the child out of the way to save him. Unfortunately she succumbed to her injuries and died on October 29, 2008.

The 26th Annual CM Golf TournamentThe winners of this year’s CM Golf Tournament, held September 19 at Walpole Country Club, were Rich Paterniti, Michael Donovan, James Donovan, and Jim D’Ambrose.

What was their secret to success? According to unofficial team captain Mike Donovan P’09 GP ’16, it was “finding good golfers to join me and help support this great cause.”

“I’m not a good golfer,” Donovan joked at the end of the tourna-ment, after his team was called forth to receive their 1st place prize. “I’m a public servant and a law professor, but fortunately I was joined by these guys.” Joe D’Ambrosie, one of the four, was a particularly deft secret weapon. “He could put the ball anywhere you want it today,” Donovan said. “And fortunately, the course was magnificent today: well-groomed, well laid out and quite a challenge. A course even a beginner like myself can enjoy.

This was the first time in the 26 years of the tournament that a four-some of chief sponsor Cooley Mannion Jones won first place. Thanks to event organizer Dave Erwin ’96, Walpole club president John Palermo ’79 and master of ceremonies Thomas Meagher. Thanks also to all of the 140 golfers and supporters who made this year’s event a memorable one and helped raise over $35,000 for CM scholarships in the process! Save the date for the 27th Annual CM Golf Tournament: Monday, September 23, 2013 at Walpole Country Club.

2012 Golf Tourney winners.

Dave Erwin ‘96, Assistant Director of Advancement, Michael Conley ’04, Marie Conley’s brother, Joe Finn P’09, ‘12, Chris Conley and Advancement Director Doug Zack.

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Making Strides, rain or shine

Sophomores get a break – at Campus Ministry retreat

Four hundred and fifty CM students in grades 7-12 boarded nine school buses on Octo-ber 14 to walk in the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Walk Against Breast Cancer.

Behind them was a busload of supportive moms and dads, CM parents who found inspiration in their sons joining together for such a cause. And just as many fac cash do-nations during lunch periods and held a special collection on Olympic Day.

The total amount will likely come close to that of the 2011 Walk, which earned CM first place in the “High School Challenge” over thirty rival schools from across the state. CM has participated in every walk since 2005.

Leading the CM delegation was cancer sur-vivor and Director of Campus Ministry Deb Mc-Court, who accepted the High School Challenge plaque on the Hatchshell stage from ACS New

England CEO Peg Camp. President Paul Sheff ’62 and the student body, meanwhile, crooned the school fight song and cheered enthusiasti-cally after McCourt spoke.

“It’s not about the fact that we brought 450 students here today or raised thousands of dol-lars,” McCourt told the thousands of walkers at the Hatchshell. “It’s that we are out here in solidarity with you, the survivors and families of survivors who need our support today and every day.”

Also leading the school was Tara Shuman, wife of Brian ’98, who formed her own walk team but soon merged with CM’s when the student body took up her cause as a rallying cry.

“A little over a month ago I was diagnosed,” Shuman told the audience. “Three weeks ago I had a double mastectomy. And a week ago I started chemotherapy. Even though I’m feeling a little sick today I want to walk with all of you.”

Of the students’ involvement, which in-cluded printing her name on each of the 500 t-shirts made for the occasion, Shu-man remarked, “Absolutely unbelievable. I am forever grateful.”

The College Board has recog-nized thirteen Catholic Memorial students with its highest honors for their per-formance on Advanced Placement exams in May, 2012.

The thirteen members of the Class of 2012 excelled in all their studies but achieved particular distinction in college-level courses taught by CM faculty.

THOSE EARNING HONORS: AP Scholars: Dominic Cauteruccio, Harrison Connelly, Garrett Ewanouski, Brandon Hamel, Ryan Lemoie, Joshua Morey, and Antonio Zegarelli. AP Scholars with Honor: Kevin Donnelly, Miles McCarthy, Dennis Muldoon, Jonathan Schneider, and Emmit Tkach. AP Scholars with Distinction: Gerard Lawler.

“This is a great accomplishment for our students and for our faculty, who work so hard with our Advanced Placement students to maximize their potential,” said Catholic Memo-rial Guidance Department Director Bob Tegan.

Catholic Memorial School currently offers AP courses in 17 subjects for students who demonstrate talent in those areas.

College Board recognizes AP Scholars from Class of 2012

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Making Strides

After the array of tests and quizzes and homework that the first quarter brought to the sophomore class this fall, thirty-five of them took a break on October 27, heading to St. Tim’s in Nor-wood for the first one-day retreat of the year.

There, along with friends new and old, Kyle Hinds ’15, Jimmy Dalton ’15 and Kevin Sullivan ’15 reflected on their growth as Christian men and their roles as students, friends and leaders at CM.

Joined by Campus Ministry director Deb Mc-Court and teachers Krystal Bertoni and Bradley Boyle, students listened to talks on various subjects, debated about current events and walked the grounds of the retreat center in quiet reflection.

“We had time to just go off and be by your-self,” said Dalton. “With no talking, just a time

for yourself to relax and think about what you’d heard in the talks and what they meant to you.”

Of the three talks he heard, senior Tom Brooks’s stood out most for Kevin Sullivan. “It was about stereotypes. He did a good job of talk-ing about what everyday society thinks and how it’s not always correct, and how kids can hate someone because they don’t look or act normal,” he said.

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Bombs away with Mr. Atkins

After reading Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken this summer, students in Mr. Atkins’s English 12 classes toured two World War II bombers at Norwood Airport on Septrember 24. Students were able to walk through the cramped bomb bays, gunner stations and cockpits of a B-17 and a B-24 and talk with crew of the two touring planes, both of which conducted combat missions.

Joining the classes was American History teacher Bernie Sullivan. Students also met Nor-wood resident Bert Kinney (pictured, left), who himself was a technician on the crew of a B-17 bomber, flying over Dunkirk in World War II.

Said Mr. Atkins: “We’ve been flushing out what happened in Unbroken, and make that book more real for them. Reading about a bomber is nothing like touring it in person. We’ll follow it up with some Randall Jarrell poems like ’Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner’ this week.

“It follows in our whole theme of injus-tice this year. Being wrenched out of your

Freshman Year

Lunch with freshmen: September recapTheir first month behind them, five CM freshmen convened over lunch on October 1 to talk about the beginning of their high school careers. Con-nor Powell of Readville, Rob Mullen of Newton, Griffen Larkin of Franklin, Justin Fernandes of Natick and Jesse deMello of Readville weighed in.

Your year began with a freshman retreat in the Berkshires. How was it?Mullen: I loved it. I got to meet a lot of people I didn’t know - from towns other than mine. I liked that I got to get a head-start on friends before the school year started.Powell: The best activity there was a spider-web thing and you could only get through the hole once, and it involved a lot of bonding with our group. What did you think of your homeroom teach-ers on the first day?Fernandes: Mr. Cusson was really welcoming, and made it easy…helped me figure out my schedule and locker and any questions I had. I only knew a few students coming in.

deMello: I already knew Mr. Jordan from the freshman retreat. He was really nice and helped us a lot. He has a lot of personality to him, it’s not just about straight school.How did Olympic Day go for you?Fernandes: We came in dead-last! I think it could be a little more organized next year...too many kids just went right up to the activity they wanted to participate in.Larkin: Too many kids just joined in with what-ever team their friends were in. They didn’t all work with their country, but I still had fun.Do you remember anything about the first class you went to on day one?Powell: I had Mr. Jordan for Global Studies. Nope, I don’t remember anything from it!Fernandes: Biology with Mr. Izzo. Going into class, I thought it would be really difficult, but he breaks things down well and makes it fun.Mullen: My first class was theology with Br. Cavet. He’s a goofy guy, he has different voices when he talks to indicate certain things. He’s a good teacher.Have you joined any activities yet?Powell: I joined the speech team. I’m doing a duo with Will Moriarty ’16. It’s a good experi-ence because you get to bond with the coach who’s helping you out. What do you think of lunch at CM?deMello: The food is very good. It was one of my key decision factors in deciding to come here! The chicken box, and the buffalo chicken pizza. And great muffins in the morning!

childhood state, or for Louis Zamperini, being denied entrance into the 1940 Olympics. This was an opportunity to visualize something very real from the summer reading. It just made the book come alive.”

“The students were pretty animated by the experience of being in the planes. We talked about the cramped quarters, the comfort factor, what was between you and the environ-ment, or you and the enemy. It became very real for them.”

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Hinds enjoyed Mr. Boyle’s talk on relation-ships. “I like how much he opened up to us, talking about personal relationships in his life,” he said.

“We had a great day of fun and fellowship,” said Mrs. McCourt. “The kids were given an opportunity to think about how to live as a Christian in today’s world.”

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1961On May 20, Fr. Richard Kelley celebrated a special Mass of Thanksgiving for the occasion of his 40th anniversary in the priest-hood. This coincided to the exact day and hour when he was ordained a priest on May 20, 1972 at Saint Joseph Cathedral in Manchester, New Hampshire. The Mass of Thanksgiving took place at Saint Christopher Church in Nashua, where he has served as pastor for the past 12 years. U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte presented him with a flag from the U.S. Capitol as well as a presenta-tion of a congressional record honor-ing Kelley. Five of his CM classmates attended.

Jack Barry wrote in June to report that “my daughter, Louise Pon-Barry, is wedding Derek Cienfuegos of San Francisco on August 18th, and that my other daughter, Heather Pon-Barry, is receiving her Ph.D. at Harvard University this fall. And I hope that ’Founders’ Day’ will be held annually to salute CM’s ’Founding Five’ forever.

Joseph Walsh is an assistant professor at Amarillo College in Amarillo, TX, where he has taught film, language and communication

and fine arts courses. Walsh’s own photo exhibitions have appeared in several galleries across Texas.

1962Ned Schofield retired recently as superintendent of schools in Glastonbury, CT. In the last decade, Schofield has been active in the con-struction, staffing and curriculum of St. Genevieve School in Z’oranje, Haiti, having made four trips there himself.

“I am looking forward to our next reunion in Naples and would encourage my classmates in the area to attend,” says Jerry Lydon.

“Great to see all the boys from 62. Truly was,” said JP “Skippy” Plunkett after his 50th reunion last June. “I had a blast. Wish you all look as young as me.”

“I had a great time and enjoyed reconnecting with several old friends,” added John Boyle. “I am pleased that the school that means so much to me seems to continue to be a place where boys can become educated, Catholic gentlemen. My thanks to all at the school who made this event possible and to all the guys who returned for the reunion.”

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Fine print: Class notes reflect the great diversity of voices and lives that our alumni live. Very often, we excerpt the notes in part or in whole from interviews we have with alumni or from notes we receive. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of Catholic Memorial School.

Tell us your news. Visit CatholicMemorial.org and click on “Submit Class Notes.” We welcome photos of alumni gathered together anywhere in the world. If you’re having a wedding, please gather the CM alumni present for a photo, and please send along baby photos, job changes, small-world stories, relocations and shouts-out to class-mates! Deadlines for class notes: 2/28 for the spring issue, 5/31 for the summer issue, and 10/31 for the fall issue.

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1963 Congratulations to Fr. Peter Quinn, who celebrated 40 years in the priesthood this year and received the Cardinal Cushing Award from the Society of St. James the Apostle (pictured with Cardinal O’Malley).

1964Vince in Bono Malum award recipient Dick Harrington has co-authored a new book entitled Heart, Smarts, Guts and Luck. It reached the #3-spot on the New York Times bestseller list on September 2.

The South Dakota State Medical Association honored Dr. Robert McWhirter with the Community Service Award at its annual banquet on June 1 in Sioux Falls. McWhirter has been a devoted surgeon in the Mitchell, SD community for nearly thirty years. The citation stated that McWhirter “has been benevolent in his contributions of monetary donations toward new and upgraded athletic facilities and is also a giver of his time and energy, donating hours as team physicial and preceptor for Mitchell High School and Dakota Wesleyan University. He has also been active in the Mitchell District Medical Society and has served on the Board of Directors at Avera Queen of Peace Hospital.”

1965Mark Campbell writes to say, “Happy to be alive and kicking.”

Father Nichols “Nick” Driscoll passed away on January 5, 2012 less than six months after his class of 1961 cele-brated Catholic Memorial School’s first 50th reunion. He was an organizing force on the committee to help plan the activities and events for the class reunion and he concelebrated a special 50th reunion mass with his classmate Father Richard Kelley at the June 2011 weekend.

Father Driscoll and his classmates were pioneers who blazed a trail for the 10,000 Knights who have fol-lowed. The Class of 1961 wanted to give a special gift to Catholic Memorial in honor of their golden anniversary so they created a scholarship called, “The First Knights Scholarship.” The members of the class understand that parents still sacrifice greatly to send their boys to Catholic Memorial, just as their parents did more than 50 years ago. And they wanted to help. Thus began the scholarship.

Just a few months ago, the Catholic Memorial Advancement Office received word from an insurance agent with the Knights of Columbus that Father Driscoll had taken a life insurance policy and a retirement annuity naming

Catholic Memorial the sole beneficiary. The two policies totaled over $35,000 for the benefit of the Class of 1961, First Knight’s Scholarship.

Follw Fr. Driscoll’s lead: Join the McKenna Society

Father Driscoll’s legacy and that of the other First Knights will be realized through the young men in the halls of Catholic Memorial who will benefit from their gifts.

Catholic Memorial’s planned giving program began in 2003 and was known as the Legacy Society. In 2011 we rebranded our program and are hon-oring CM’s first headmaster and a true visionary by creating “The Brother Joseph McKenna, CFC Society”. By doing this, we also recognize those members of our school commu-nity who are visionaries in their own right by including CM in their estate plans. Please consider making Catholic Memorial School a part of your estate plans and join the Brother McKenna Society.

To learn more, contact the Advancement Office at 617-469-8017 or Advancement@CatholicMemorial.org

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held on November 17. His daughter, Melissa, is a 1993 graduate and he also served on the board of Ursuline Academy.

`1967“Many thanks to Dave Erwin, Doug Zack and the entire CM staff who contributed to the success of the 2012 Reunion. It was a great time,” wrote Bill Brackett in June.

1968Tom Nowell is “looking for class of ’68 alums to get together at my home in Charlestown, RI and enjoy the stories that formed our bonds. I live by the shore so we could enjoy relaxing and maybe start a fun business.”

William Martin’s new book, The Lincoln Letter, was published in August.

1969Kevin Fitzgerald and his wife Cyndie welcomed their fifth grand-child on April 30. Jameson Riley Fitzgerald will join cousins Talia, Erik, Grady and Cooper. Fitzgerald sold his Goodyear dealership in Plainville, CT and is moving to Summerville, SC (20 miles west of Charleston).

1966Old classmates Jack Pierce and Dick McGlynn met over the summer in Dublin, Ireland, while Pierce was speaking at the annual conference for the International Bar Association and McGlynn was making his first trip to Ireland, along with his wife and children.

The home of Frank Doyle and his wife Donna, on the banks of the Herring River in West Harwich, was a gorgeous setting for CM’s fourth Cape Cod reception in August. Forty alumni, parents and friends gathered for the midsummer event. Doyle welcomed guests and spoke about his parent’s commitment to Catholic education and their sacrifice in being able to afford to send him to Catholic Memorial. Doyle noted that many parents continue to do so now, with the knowledge that “a CM educa-tion provides endless opportunities for success in life.” President Paul Sheff ’62 updated the crowd on the vision of CM’s future curriculum and facilities.

Kevin Hines was recognized as a 2012 Honoree by Ursuline Academy in Dedham, MA. Hines was honored at the school’s annual “Brescia Ball”

1965 Remember David Stirling? He’s been an architect for nearly 40 years and is currently president and owner of Stirling/Brown Architects, Inc. Stirling has been guest critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Boston Architectural Center. He has participated in career edu-cation programs at the Wentworth Institute of Technology and at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2002-03, he served as project archi-tect for the PBS series “This Old House.”

Jay Sullivan (profiled in last fall’s issue of CM Magazine) served as master of ceremonies for the town of Dover’s Memorial Day ceremonies in May.

The alumni office was recently pleased to discover that Joe Sullivan made a career for himself at FEMA, serving as assistant inspector general for investigation.

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John Ondrejko owns John’s Racecraft, a specialty vehicle company in Brockton, MA. Ondrejko has worked as a crew chief on multi-ple Pro Stock teams including multi-time NHRA pro stock top-5 finisher and national event winner Chuck Harris. He has spent the last 7 years as the crew chief on his son’s super-gas, top dragster and top sportsman entries. They have accumulated over 30 race wins, 20 NHRA “Wallys” and six championships.

1977Phil Morimoto is the founder and CEO of Executive Search Associates, Inc. (ESA). He practices in major business centers across the USA, Asia and Europe with a focus on law firm office openings and law firm M&A activities.

Robert Ricciardi retired from Broward County Fire Rescue in April after a thirty year career. He celebrated by spending six weeks in Italy this summer.

Bill Supple was awarded The College of the Holy Cross Alumni Association In Hoc Signo Award in September 21. Supple earned the honor by “forging close relationships with classmates and vigorously leading his class to raise the bar for participation and support of the Holy Cross Fund. He models both the grit and the grace needed to achieve record-breaking results through his volunteer leader-ship and his generous investment of time and resources to the college.”

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Jim Rafferty is general counsel for AREVA Solar in Mountain View, CA. A former tax attor-ney in Washington, Rafferty manages legal affairs for the international company, whose subsidiaries are located in several countries abroad.

Colonel Joe Fitzpatrick, USAF (ret) is proud to announce the arrival of three more grandchildren: Claire Slazinik in Okinawa, Japan and Ryan and Dylan Marshall in Monterey, CA. Col. Fitzpatrick spent the summer visiting all seven of his grandchildren. His wife Sandy was able to be at both deliveries, about two weeks apart. He and Sandy’s daughters are both married to Air Force pilots.

1970Fr. Richard J. Donovan, OFM celebrated his 25-year jubilee as a Franciscan this year.

John DiNatale has spent four years working with his nephew Myles Jewell on a film about his father’s role in investigat-ing The Boston Strangler. The film, entitled Stranglehold, premiered as part of the Boston Film Festival this past fall. DiNatale and his brother took over the private detective agency that their father started in the 1960s.

1971“I graduated in 1971 and CM is on my Facebook timeline,” writes Al “Skip” Lehner. “I hope I can track down fellow classmates through here. The CM Facebook page looks great, by the way! Can never forget my days at CM.”

1972Jim Von Euw is currently serving as Athletic Director for St. Joe’s Prep in Brighton, MA.

Dave Cowhig, a foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department is now assigned to the U.S Embassy in Malawi, where he leads the public affairs section.

1973The Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network of Chapel Hill, NC named Robert Creeden, founder and managing partner of Partners Innovation Fund (PIF) of Boston, as its first executive director in October 2011. In that role, Creeden coordinates a major effort to draw marketable innovation out of the area’s “Triangle” and its universities.

John McColgan published his first novel, Where ever the Truth Might Lie, in 2011. Learn more at whereverthetruthmightlie.com.

1975In June, the Leukemia/Lymphoma Society of Massachusetts named Al Morteo the 25th annual Dr. Anthony D. Cortese Award winner at the annual Volunteer Appreciation Night. The award was established in 1987, and named after Tony Cortese, an active member of the LLS who was diagnosed with leukemia.

After more than 15 years, Bill Martin stepped down as cross country/track coach at Norwalk HS this summer and has taken over the job as track and field coach at New Canaan High School.

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classmates I played sports with, and my guidance counselor, all of whom were in attendance. I was shocked. The reunion was an absolutely won-derful experience. Thanks again.”

1984Patrick King is a Contracting Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is hoping to return to Boston next spring, when UMass-Lowell, where he played basketball, honors its 1988 team on the 25th anniversary of its national championship title.

1985Plenty of alumni turned out for the Boston area alumni reception at the 21st Amendment on October 4, thanks to Mike Conlon, who hosted.

1987John Sweeney will be starting as a Plasterers and Cement Masons Local 534 business agent in July 2013. Sweeney is celebrating 25 years in the union this year.

Jim Drury wrote: “The 2012 reunion was a great time and I am very glad I attended!”

locations nationwide. He oversees the chain’s test kitchen and leads all aspects of recipe development, including the sourcing of quality ingredients.

1980Peter McAvinn has continued his efforts to fundraise in his wife’s memorial walk each spring. CM’s admissions director Tom Ryan and several students joined in the walk this year.

1981Captain James Hughes earned his master’s degree in national secu-rity and policy this spring at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI.

1982 “I haven’t been back to CM in 30 years,” wrote Joe O’Hara, “and I took my oldest son with me. I was told during orientation that CM would be the best four years of my academic life. Since completing both undergraduate and graduate degrees, I have found that state-ment to be true. I have many fond memories of staff and classmates. As I drove from Washington, DC to Baker Street to attend the reunion, I thought of three specific people: two

1978Stephen Howard began work for Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP in September, as a partner in their liti-

gation department.

William “Chuck” Nally, Jr. writes: “My wife Cheryl and I are happy to report the birth of our daughter, Erin Elizabeth Nally, born November 18, 2011.”

1979John McDonnell was named in June to the Suffolk University board of trustees. He joins Dan Conley ’76 on the board.

Paul Rogers is president & COO of Pacific Resources in Chicago, IL, where he also serves on the company’s board of directors. He shares P&L responsibility with the CEO, oversees corporate strategy, product development, brand strat-egy and marketing, underwriting and distribution.

Chris Gatto is executive chef and vice president of food and bever-age for Uno Chicago Grill. In that role, Gatto is responsible for the wide variety of menu items at all Uno Chicago Grill and Uno Due Go

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1990Liam Day is currently at work on a series of poems about city bus routes in Boston. Through each poem, Day explores a specific route, citing the ways mass transit exposes its riders, the neighborhoods it passes through, and contributes to an understanding of the city on whole, if only through a more grounded understanding of self.

1991Patrick Sylvester is now working for Bucknell University as a Senior Regional Director, covering Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.

Joey McIntyre again performed at the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary’s annual fall gala, helping raise $1 million in the process.

Gregory Westwater-Mota and Bill O’Brien ’80 0fficiated the Central Connecticut State v. University of New Hampshire football game on September 15, 2012. Both are members of the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Football Officials Association (EAIFO).

1988Greg Cunningham, Jr. was elected President of the National Catholic Forensic League in May for a two-year term. Cunningham has served as the league’s First Vice-President for the past two years. Cunningham is an English Teacher at Hull High School.

Patrick Bleakney graduated from Framingham State University on May 20, 2012. He has been working for American Express at Logan Airport since September 2011.

Congrats to Wayne Lanchester who was recently promoted to head the Boston Police’s Allston-Brighton district.

In July, Mike Donahue was named a profes-sor of military science at Georgetown University.

1989“I was recently promoted to Director of Public Relations at a large science and technology company,” writes Anthony Petrucci.

J.P. Bedard opened Wicked Sharp Ski and Sports on Centre St. in West Roxbury in December 2009. Stop in to see him for skate-sharpening or ski/snowboard advice.

Eric Hohmann and his wife Cheryl are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter

Chloe on October 10, 2011. They live in Dedham.

1992Remember Tim Regan? He’s playing on the same professional hockey team in Bavaria, Germany – the SC Riessersee team – with Mike Devin ’06 (Cornell ’11).

Senator Mike Rush led the Massachusetts state senate this summer in its passage of the Valor Act, also known by its full name, “An Act Relative to Veterans’ Access, Livelihood, Opportunity, and Resources.” The act, signed by Governor Deval Patrick on May 31, broad-ened the educational and entrepreneurial opportunities for veterans in the state. On July 4, Rush was honored by Mayor Menino in being chosen to deliver the Independence Day oration from Faneuil Hall. On October 13, the PINCH Foundation in West Roxbury honored Rush with the Civic Spirit Award.

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structuring, and formation issues. Most recently, I have had the great opportunity to represent a number of large public pension plans in struc-turing their investments on behalf of retirees.”

2002Edward Lydon married Lisa MacGillivray on Sunday, October 14 in Southbridge, Ma. A recep-tion was held at The Publick House in Sturbridge. They honeymooned to London, Paris and Ireland for two weeks. Eddie’s brother Tommy Lydon ’99 served as best man. Ushers included Greg Dufresne ’02 and Martin Kinsman ’04. Ed and his wife will live in Worcester.

Brian M. O’Hara is in his second year of law school at Suffolk University. He is attending law school on a John Joseph Moakley Scholarship, one given to a student from the city of Boston who is seeking a career in public service. This past summer, O’Hara was a judi-cial intern in the Probate and Family Court in Brockton. O’Hara reports that his CM classmate Matt Maalouf is in his third year at Suffolk Law and that Mike Welsh graduated from there in 2011.

colleagues. Currently, Br. Ford serves as the Campus Minister and Enrollment Manager at Archbishop Curley Notre Dame Prep in Miami. In the initial formation process of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers, a brother must renew his vows each year for six years before becom-ing eligible to profess his final vows. “The opportunity to publicly commit to being a Brother forever was an honor,” he said, “and a chance to thank all those that have supported and encouraged my vocations from my family, to my friends, and each of the Brothers in their own ways.”

1998 Jason Luisi is the assistant women’s basketball coach at Em-manuel College.

2000“Just writing to let everyone know that I have recently left the alternative-investment group at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch to join the Boston office of Foley & Lardner LLP,” writes Matthew O’Connor. “I am in the business law department, focusing on hedge and private equity fund investment,

1993Brian Bernier recently accepted a position of General Manager at Borggaard Construction Corporation in North Grafton, MA. Bernier and his wife Christine just welcomed their new daughter, Caroline, on October 4, who joins their sons Brian, Jr. and Shane.

Mark Hohmann of Louisville, KY has been appointed chief finan-cial officer of Spaulding University, a Catholic university founded by the Sisters of Charity in Nazareth.

1995Mike Gallagher and his wife Kerry are the proud new parents of a baby girl, Katelyn Marie, born June 6.

Catholic Memorial’s Vice Principal of Student Affairs Hal Carey proudly announces the birth of his daughter. Hal and his wife Meredith welcomed Claire Rose on June 6.

1997Congratulations to former faculty member Br. Jason Ford, CFC, who celebrated his perpetual pro-fession of vows as an Edmund Rice Christian Brother on June 17. Ford made his vows in a ceremony held at CM’s fellow Edmund Rice school in New Jersey, Bergen Catholic, sur-rounded by his family, friends and

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join the North American Lacrosse League this year. The Boston Rockhoppers will begin play in January at the New England Sports Center in Marlborough.

2005Andrew Dalton earned his MBA from Anna Maria College in May 2012. He’s still coaching football at the college and was recently pro-moted to recruiting coordinator and defensive coordinator.

Jonathan Hall is currently serving as data manager at Family Independence Initiative in Boston.

2003“I will be graduating in May ’13 with a Masters of Science in Investment Management (MSIM) from BU,” says Mike Dorsey. Mike Christopher, Andrew Lane, Chris Adams, Nick Bernazanni and David Kelly continue to impress. The five former classmates rode in the Pan Mass Challenge this summer, though they had trouble keeping up with CM assistant dean of students Tom Meagher, who slowed down to take this photo with them.

Stephen McSherry and Caitrin Ryan were married back on December 10, 2011.

2004On June 23, Paul Todesca wed Gina Buontempo at St. Gregory the Great in Warwick, RI. Pictured at the reception are Joe Batista ’12, Al Todesca ’70, Br. James MacDonald ’75, Paul Todesca ’72, Michael Todesca ’03, Angelo Todesca ’07, Br. Jason Ford ’97, Tim Forde ’07, Dan Krusz ’87, Doug Eberly ’05, Chris Moscatelli ’04, Phil Preskenis ’06 and faculty Bill Hanson and Ellen Eberly.

Jason Wellemeyer, who won the Vince in Bono Malum young alum award in 2011, announced in October that a new team, spon-sored by his PrimeTime Lacrosse concern, will

Bryan Jonasson married Ashley Nelson on October 6. The two met at St. Leo University in Florida, and they were married on Marco Island. They are living in Land O’Lakes, Florida with their dog Bogey.

2006Brian Hughes finished 20th in the 12th running of the BAA Half Marathon on October 7, running the 13.1-mile Boston course in 1:14:15 and finishing ahead of 5,400 other runners. Hughes finished 5th in his age division.

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deployment at the end of this year, which means I graduate but don’t owe any time in the service. After I received the Navy’s official deci-sion that I would not be going into the service, the Naval Academy’s alumni association was unbelievable in helping to find a job. I had several opportunities all over the country, but I decided to take a great job with the management team at EMC in Hopkington.”

Michael O’Neal dropped in to the CM alumni office to test its fire alarms the other day. O’Neal studied to become an electrician in 2011 and currently works for Keyes North Atlantic. He says he keeps in regular contact with Sean Milien and David Grant and others. O’Neal lives in Dorchester and still has that infec-tious smile.

2009Mark Anderson will be enter-ing his senior year at Florida Institute of Technology, planning to graduate with a BS in construction manage-ment and a minor in sustainability.

Teddy Poppe was voted presi-dent of the student government this spring at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. He will graduate in 2013 with a master’s degree in engineering.

After a successful college hockey career playing for Stonehill, Pat Greene signed a contract with the Telford Tigers of the English Premier Ice Hockey League (EPIHL) this past August.

Mike Collins represented Merrimack College at a Sox game at Fenway Park in May as part of Merrimack’s commitment to Team Impact. Collins joined Team Impact member Tim Burke for a pregame ceremony on the field before he announced “Play Ball” to begin the game. Throughout the Northeast, Team IMPACT enhances the lives of children facing life-threatening dis-eases by matching them with college athletic teams.

“I just graduated from the Naval Academy with a degree in systems engineering,” writes Brendan Belschner. “I’m actually an interesting case. I was medically disqualified from

2007Dan Adjemian graduated from Keene State last year and is working for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s office.

Over fifty alumni converged on Spring Valley Country Club in Sharon on August 6, including Russell Rioux, David Marshall, and Marc Campea, in the 3rd annual CM Football alumni tournament. Thanks to all who organized the event, which supports the CM football program.

Angelo Todesca and Tim Forde ran the Falmouth Road Race on August 12, raising nearly $9,000 in the process for We Beat Cancer.

2008Brendan Ahern graduated from Merrimack College last year and is now working for Meditech in Framingham.

BU graduate, Richard Anderson is an ensign in the U.S. Navy and stationed currently on the USS Michael Murphy DDG 112 as a gunnery officer. At his ship commis-sioning in New York in September was Jack Mulhern ’63, member of CM’s board of directors.

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2011Actor Matt Damon presided at MGH’s annual The One Hundred event on June 7 at the Westin Boston Waterfront, where Mike Slonina was honored for his 2011 “Shot for Life” event. “I’m just thrilled to be here tonight,” Slonina said at the gala, as he mingled with other honorees recognized by MGH for “diligence and discoveries, philan-thropy and passion that have helped advance the fight against cancer.” Slonina and his team earned the respect of the entire student body in April 2011, who cheered him through the effort, and the attention of MGH, who saw in him an emerging leader in the fight against cancer. For this, they recognized him at the gala, and for this, they continue to work with him on expanding the “Shot for Life” concept.

2010Conor Jennings would like his fellow alum to know he is doing very well entering his junior year at Saint Leo University outside of Tampa, FL. He is majoring in education and hopes to impart wisdom and guidance on students the same way the faculty and staff at CM did for him. He also has a hit hockey video blog, “The Power Play with CJ” and has been gaining attention across the hockey world for his work.

Ryan O’Connell is a junior at Assumption College. This summer, he worked as an EMT for Fallon Ambulance.

Eric Anderson will be entering his middles year at Northeastern, pursuing a BS in mechani-cal engineering and starting his first co-op this summer at NStar.

Ed Colvin, currently a junior at Brandeis, won the Corrib Classic Road Race in West Roxbury on June 3, finishing 1st place in a field of 2,500.

Kevin Beazley is a sophomore at Anna Maria College. In September he was named co-director for the fall play at the college, “Marvin’s Room.” He has also initiated a resur-rection of the school’s a capella group and is serving as the music director for the Campus Ministry department.

2012Brian Curley was named as the recipi-ent of the St. Michael’s College Edmundite Scholarship in late June. This prestigious schol-arship is named for the founders of SMC and is valued at $20,000 over four years. It is awarded to select graduates from Catholic high schools.

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Maurice D. Aherne, father of Francis X. Aherne ’65. September 9, 2012.

Salvatore (Sal) Aversa, father of Charles A. Aversa ’64, Thomas J. Aversa ’75 and Stephen Aversa ’77 and uncle of Charles J. Aversa ’72 (deceased), Joseph C. Aversa ’70 and faculty member John Aversa ’78. September 26, 2012.

Richard A. Blake, father of Richard A. Blake ’73 and Robert S. Blake ’77. June 1, 2012.

Edward J. Bradley, Jr., father of Brian Bradley ’82 and uncle of Robert E. Bradley ’82. August 19, 2012.

Mary E. Burke, mother of Thomas M. Burke ’65, Edmund J. Burke ’70 and Stephen F. Burke ’71. October 12, 2012.

Patrick J. Burke, father of Ste-phen P. Burke ’76 and Joseph P. Burke ’80. July 9, 2012.

Constance R. (Hannon) Byrne, mother of Daniel J. Byrne ’77 and Peter J. Byrne ’82. October 7, 2012.

Jennie (Deneno) Chinetti, mother of William J. Chinetti ’77. August 14, 2012.

Alice May (Hatherly) Colton, mother of Robert E. Colton ’76. July 7, 2012.

Mary P. (Kineavy) Cosgrove, mother of Stephen R. Cosgrove ’79 and Kenneth M. Cosgrove ’81. July 15, 2012.

Miriam (Sheenan) Costello, mother of Paul A. Costello, Jr. ’65. June 12, 2012.

Patrick John Cuthbert, father of Patrick J. Cuthbert, Jr. ’88 and Edward L. Cuthbert ’93. August 17, 2012.

David J. Davis, father of Robert J. Davis ’84. August 17, 2012.

Marie Dempsey, mother of Stephen A. Dempsey ’62. June 2, 2012.

In MemoriamRichard D. Armstrong, Jr. ’64September 21, 2012

Richard Armstrong grew up in Milton, a mem-ber of St. Agatha’s Parish. At CM, he joined the track team as a freshman, then got involved in the debate team, newspaper club, and student council, becoming class president by his senior year.

John J. Crowley, CFC ’63 October 2, 2012

Br. John “Jake” Crowley, brother of James Crowley ’65, was a devoted faculty member, coach and assistant athletics director at CM for thirty years. A native of Dorchester, during his high school years he was a varsity track runner, and was a member of both the National Honor Society and Knight clubs.

John B. Curran ’61 August 17, 2012John Curran grew up in Milton and was a member of St. Agatha’s Parish. After graduation, he pursued his studies at Boston College.

Rocco DePace ’89June 5, 2012

Rocco DePace, brother of Nicola DePace ’90, was an active member of the CM community in his years here. He was a member of the forensics and football teams and participated in the student government, foreign language, ski and Key clubs.

Eugene J. Derba, Jr. ’74 October 24, 2012

Eugene Derba, brother of Edward J. Derba ’78, came to CM from Dedham. During his years here he played basketball and ran cross country and track and was active on the student government.

Michael Hill ’71November 1, 2011

Michael Hill grew up in Mattapan. During his years at CM he was active in the intramural basketball program.

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Stephen M. Forkin ’78August 30, 2012

Stephen Forkin, brother of Timothy R. Forkin ’76 and uncle of Timothy R. Forkin ’01. grew up in Roslindale. At CM, he was active in the science club and played on the intramural street hockey, basketball and football teams in addition to run-ning cross-country.

John Y. MacKinnon ’75October 20, 2012

John MacKinnon, brother of George Y. MacKinnon ’74, James Y. MacKinnon ’79 and Paul G. MacKinnon ’83, was a Dedham native, who during his years at Catholic Memorial joined the volleyball team and was a leader on the student government in his junior and senior years.

Joseph R. Martin ’96October 10, 2012

Joseph Martin grew up in Roslindale and was a member of Sacred Heart Parish. He had many friends at CM and was known to be an avid basketball fan.

Arthur McDevitt ’65 October 4, 2012

Arthur McDevitt, brother of John H. McDevitt ’70, was a West Roxbury native and a member of St. Theresa’s Parish. He was active on the glee club and the bowling team at CM, and he played softball and intramural basketball. He was also an active member of his Parish CYO during his high school years.

Paul J. Twerago ’80October 23, 2012

Paul Twerago, brother of Stephen Twerago ’76 and uncle of Stephen A. Twerago ’11 and Matthew R. Twerago ’15, grew up in Hyde Park. At CM, he was an avid fan of all sports, and he played in the intramural football, basketball, volleyball and hockey programs.

Joseph M. Walsh ’71July 31, 2012

Joseph Walsh came to CM from Dorchester. Here, he became a leader on the student council and yearbook staff and was a member of the basketball and football teams.

Charles A. DeRoma, father of Charles A. DeRoma ’86. August 15, 2012.

Margaret (Palombi) DiGiron-imo, mother of David C. DiGi-ronimo ’79. October 19, 2012.

Joseph A. Doherty, father of Brian J. Doherty ’77. September 14, 2012.

Arthur D. Dowd, Sr., father of Arthur D. Dowd, Jr. ’72. September 22, 2012.

Paul T. Duffy, father of Paul R. Duffy ’84. June 25, 2012.

John R. Duggan, father of Wil-liam P. Duggan ’84. August 21, 2012.

George F. Elliott, father of Dan-iel G. Elliott ’81 and James Elliott ’85. June 8, 2012.

A. Loretta (Haley) Farry, mother of Frank J. Farry ’68. September 29, 2012.

Alice J. (Sexton) Ferris, mother of Joseph W. Ferris, Jr. ’69 and James F. Ferris ’69, and grand-mother of Christopher W. Tracy ’03. July 3, 2012.

Francis E. Gavin, father of John F. Gavin ’77. September 20, 2012.

Kathleen (Eastwood) Gildea, mother of Matthew G. Gildea ’85. September 4, 2012.

Patricia A. (Noonan) Hanlon, mother of Daniel F. Hanlon ’80 (deceased). June 3, 2012.

Walter J. Hanlon, father of Dan-iel F. Hanlon ’80 (deceased). July 17, 2012.

Thomas F. Keeley, father of Thomas J. Keeley ’69 and Dennis L. Keeley ’75, and grand-

father of Brian T. Keeley ’10. September 18, 2012.

Barbara M. (Nelligan) Kelley, mother of Scott F. Kelley ’81. August 1, 2012.

Leon E. Kelley, father of Grego-ry J. Kelley ’90. June 22, 2012.

Daniel J. Kelly, father of Sean T. Kelly ’79. October 14, 2012.

Mary L. (Kinsella) Kelly, mother of James T. Kelly ’66 (deceased) and John F. Kelly ’70. June 23, 2012.

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Margaret H. Alter, grandmoth-er of John F.X. Chipman ’14 and Matthew C. Chipman ’15. September 8, 2012.

Richard C. Anderson, Sr., grandfather of Richard C. Anderson ’08. June 22, 2012.

Jeanette E. (Kozlowski) Blinstrub, grandmother of Matthew Blinstrub ’04. June 10, 2012.

Norah (O’Malley) Boyle, grand-mother of Joseph P. Boyle ’07 and Conor B. Boyle ’10. June 13, 2012.

Carlton Wesley Brown, grand-father of Lennox V. Whitworth ’03, Carlton W. Brown ’03, Isaac C. Whitworth ’08 and Donovan A. Henry ’12. October 11, 2012.

Eileen Judith (Lowney) Casserly, grandmother of Brian R. Casserly ’04. August 27, 2012.

Daniel F. Chisholm, grandfather of John S. Harn ’15. September 4, 2012.

Erin Denise Clifford, daughter of Thomas M. Clifford ’74. July 7, 2012.

Susan C. (Kelliher) Collins, wife of Richard E. Collins ’62 (deceased) and sister of Robert J. Kelliher ’61. June 16, 2012.

Mary Francis (Connolly) Coleman, grandmother of John P. Harrington ’17. August 19, 2012.

Wilfred G. Kelly, father of Kevin Kelly ’83. June 22, 2012.

William P. Kenney, father of James M. Kenney ’71, and grandfather of Timothy J. Murray ’10 and Patrick W. Murray ’14. August 29, 2012.

Ann (O’Toole) Kyne, mother of Tadhg P. Kyne ’18. May 12, 2012.

Edward T. Leahy, father of Ken-neth E. Leahy ’75. June 17, 2012.

Richard Francis Lepore, father of Robert A. Lepore ’78 and grandfather of Ryan P. Lepore ’14. October 29, 2012.

Gerardo H. LoPilato, father of Christopher G. LoPilato ’90. October 30, 2012.

John Lydon, father of John T. Lydon ’90. September 12, 2012.

Thomas MacCormack, father of James MacCormack ’85. October 4, 2012.

Sarah “Sally” MacGillivray, mother of John B. MacGillivray ’68. June 4, 2012.

Mary D. (McCall) MacGregor, mother of William F. MacGregor ’97. June 17, 2012.

Robert M. Mayer, Sr., father of Robert M. Mayer ’98. October 22, 2012.

Michael McCormack, father of Brendan McCormack ’89. June 18, 2012.

Gilbert S. McDonald, father of Scott M. McDonald ’89. October 6, 2012.

Scott E. McElman, father of Andrew J. McElman ’15. June 12, 2012.

Mary A. (Callahan) Moore, mother of William J. Moore ’82 and Gerard J. Moore ’86. October 15, 2012.

Elizabeth A. (Downey) Munns, mother of William Munns, Jr. ’76. June 14, 2012.

William F. Murray, father of James E. Murray ’78, and grand-father of Eric T. Schmidt ’97. September 2, 2012.

William C. Nally, father of Wil-liam C. Nally, Jr. ’79. June 27, 2012.

Martin A. O’Connor, father of staff member Rory F. O’Connor ’88, and grandfather of Daniel K. O’Connor ’18. October 9, 2012.

Lillian E. O’Donnell, mother of Robert K. O’Donnell ’66 and Stephen G. O’Donnell ’70. October 22, 2012.

Rose Plunkett, mother of Joseph P. Plunkett III ’62, and grandmother of board member J.P.Plunkett IV.

Thomas G. Raffoul, father of George F. Raffoul ’74. June 30, 2012.

Mary K. (Lynch) Sagan, mother of Philip J. Sagan ’80. June 15, 2012.

Michael J. Sameski III, father of Robert M. Sameski ’79, Richard J. Sameski ’81 and Michael V. Sameski ’83 and husband of former staff member Eileen P. Sameski. September 15, 2012.

Laurence J. Stanford, Sr., father of Laurence J. Stanford, Jr. ’64. July 6, 2012.

Rita A. (O’Connor) Thompson, mother of Frederick Thompson ’68 and John J. Thompson ’70, and grandmother of Matthew O. Thompson ’93 and Frederick L. Thompson ’02. June 19, 2012.

Margaret Mary “Dee” Hines Treseler, mother of Edward G. Treseler ’74 and James R. Treseler ’87. August 9, 2012.

Frank J. Umbro, father of Michael F. Umbro ’81. July 13, 2012.

Thomas J. Valeri, Sr., father of Michael A. Valeri ’82. August 20, 2012.

Jeanne M. (George) Vozzella, mother of Joseph G. Vozzella ’81 and John A. Vozzella, Jr. ’85. August 24, 2012.

Grace B. (Maguire) Waystack, mother of Philip R. Waystack ’66. September 16, 2012.

Chester T. Wojdakowski, father of Paul C. Wojdakowski ’68. October 19, 2012.

Thomas J. Yered, father of John Yered ’84. October 27, 2012.

Julia Marie Zampi, mother of Carl R. Zampi ’75. July 12, 2012.

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Freida (Houhoulis) Condos, grandmother of Aaron Clancy ’15. June 24, 2012.

Daniel Cyhan, brother of Michael Cyhan ’82. October 8, 2012.

Marguerite M. DeJoie, grandmother of Matthew T. DeJoie ’01. June 15, 2012.

Angela M. (Ruta) Doherty, grandmother of Dustin E. Horan ’94 and Gregory J. Horan ’98. August 25, 2012.

Br. Robert A.B. Durning, CFC, former faculty member. October 1, 2012.

Gordon F. Fitzgerald, grandfa-ther of Brian M. Fitzgibbon ’97 and Daniel D. Fitzgibbon ’99. October 17, 2012.

James Edward Foley, Jr., brother of Kevin P. Foley ’68 and Leo P. Foley ’71. September 19, 2012.

Robert Ewing Foley, Sr., grand-father of Timothy R. Van Cisin ’04. September 15, 2012.

Angela M. (Sears) Gaughan, wife of Thomas M. Gaughan ’73. October 17, 2012.

Margaret A. (Cassidy) Geraghty, grandmother of Martin P. Geraghty ’13. June 26, 2012.

Katherine S. (Saunders) Grant, grandmother of Matthew F. DeCilio ’10. July 20, 2012.

Cecilia M. (Preciado) Gutierrez, grandmother of Juan J. Gutierrez ’89. August 1, 2012.

Margaret Mary (Finnegan) Ferrucci, grandmother of William Besinger ’07 and Brian G. Besinger ’10. June 22, 2012.

Maureen A. Hanlon, sister of Daniel F. Hanlon ’80 (deceased). July 11, 2012.

Mary E. (Leahy) Iorio, sister of William J. Leahy ’64, James A. Leahy ’66, Patrick F. Leahy ’72 and Thomas M. Leahy ’72. July 5, 2012.

Orvil Lee Judge, grandfather of Christopher M. Judge ’09. July 24, 2012.

Rita W. (Kane) Keville, grandmother of Michael T. McManus ’96. October 12, 2012.

Violet Larkin, grandmother of Hunter S.C. Larkin ’13 and Griffen C.A. Larkin ’16. March 13, 2012.

Joseph J. Lattanzio, grandfather of Joseph O’Hear ’75, Thomas M. O’Hear ’78, and Edward C. O’Hear 79, and great-grandfa-ther of Daniel T. O’Hear ’11, John W. O’Hear ’13 and Anthony J. Sears ’13. June 16, 2012.

Edith Luongo, grandmother of Michael F. Luongo ’04. August 25, 2012.

Clara F. Mahoney, grandmother of Andrew Mahoney III ’02 and Gerard Mahoney ’05. October 4, 2012.

Gerardo Mancini, grandfather of Carlo E. Pesce ’04. October 9, 2012.

Gerardo Mazzola, father of former CM coach Sid Mazzola. August 31, 2012.

Anne T. (Kelly) McDonagh, grandmother of Patrick G. McDonagh, Jr. ’04. October 15, 2012.

Br. Daniel Bernard McIlmurray, former faculty member. July 7, 2012.

Fay Medico, grandmother of Jeffrey Mogan ’96 (deceased) and Jason D. Medico ’03. September 3, 2012.

James M. O’Keefe, brother of Joseph O’Keefe, S.J. ’82 and uncle of Edward J. Gay ’01.

Margaret (Barry) O’Sullivan, grandmother of Collin G. O’Sullivan ’94. September 2, 2012.

Matthew J. “Knocko” O’Toole, grandfather of Aidan R. O’Toole ’17. August 13, 2012.

Harriet Pappas, grandmother of Richard J. Savage ’15. June 6, 2012.

Christopher T. Powell, brother of Jonathan G. Powell ’95. October 27, 2012.

Martha Rohen, wife of John Rohen ’61. October 18, 2012.

Gloria (Dimitros) Salemis, grandmother of John G. Mirabella ’11. July 16, 2012.

Vincent B. Shea, grandfather of John A. Devlin ’17. July 21, 2012.

Roseanne (Henderson) Sullivan, wife of William M. Sullivan ’67. September 18, 2012.

Eileen D. (Black) Thibeault, mother of staff members Frank and Chuck Thibeault. September 1, 2012.

Rita L. (Tardiff) Timmerman, grandmother of Matthew Timmerman ’87. August 23, 2012.

Ralph W. Verity, Jr., grandfather of Alexander S. Verity ’04 and Kevin M. Verity ’10. June 6, 2012.

John A. Walsh, grandfather of Christopher N. Walsh ’14. October 20, 2012.

Jackelene M. (Vanvolsen) Walton, sister of former staff member Marlene Stout, and aunt of A.J. MacQuarrie ’06. June 11, 2012.

Pauline T. (Delaney) Ziniti, grandmother of Matthew T. Ziniti ’07, Andrew P. Ziniti ’09 and Brian C. Ziniti ’11. September 2, 2012.

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hockey at an early age. His talents at the

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career in the NHL, officiating games at the

2010 Winter Olympics, and this past June,

reffing his first Stanley Cup Finals.

How long have you been a referee?I started reffing when I was 11 years old, as a part time job. Back then, you’d do a mite game and get $20 for an hour. It was better than bagging at Stop and Shop!

How long have you been refer-eeing professional hockey?I started back in 1999. My first game was a November game in Tampa. I’ve reffed close to 800 games since then. This will be my 14th year.

It’s basically the same schedule as a player – life on the road, isn’t it?I spend between 150-200 nights a year in a hotel. I don’t see my kids a lot.

Do you spend much time on skates in the off-season?Trust me, no! I won’t be on skates all summer. I finished the season on June 12 and was due back on September 8.

This Stanley Cup featured New Jersey vs. LA. Did you ever have a preference for one team over the other? I’m more of a baseball fan. I love the Red Sox.

This being your first Stanley Cup series reffing, did you have a “pinch me” moment when you laced up for game 2?It really hit me in games 4 and 6 ,when I started seeing the Stanley Cup at the games. I saw it for the first time in between the second and third periods of game 4.

Your colleague called Devils right-winger Steve Bernier with boarding in the first period of game 6 on June 11, a call that many argue cost New Jersey the cup. How do you see the controversy? You can call it a controversy, but it wasn’t in my eyes. It was the right call and we were both in agreement. We know it when we see it.

How often do you ref a Bruins game back in your hometown? About once a month, or six a year.

You’re 37 years old. How do you keep up on the ice? I did break my ankle last year, but I have good knees.

Catching up with Chris Rooney ’93 NHL Referee

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from AdmissionsLegacy Mass draws hundredsOn September 9, Catholic Memorial School’s admissions department launched a new tradition, an annual Legacy Mass to celebrate alumni fathers who sent their sons to become Knights. Over thirty-five current students and their alumni fathers celebrated Mass with Fr. Chris Palladino ’84, followed by a reception in the café.

Pictured at right: Three generations of the Flynn family: (l-r) Ryan, Jay ’92, John ’69, Jake ’18, Tom ’05, and Andy ’04.

Some who gathered after the Mass are pictured below. ROW 1: (l-r) Declan O’Malley’16, Patrick O’Malley ’78, Rory O’Connor ’88, Danny O’Connor ’18, Ben Finn ’78, Ben Finn ’14. ROW 2: (l-r) Stephen Mowles ’78, Tom O’Hear ’78, William Conroy ’83, William Conroy ’14, Ben Hailer ’17, Richard Hailer ’83, Matt Pazienza ’14, Kevin Pazienza ’86, Brian Pazienza ’17, Andrew O’Leary ’18, Brian O’Leary ’86, Patrick O’Leary ’15. ROW 3: (l-r) Robert Hurley ’83, Sean Hurley ’14, Mario Tenaglia ’81, Paul Tenaglia ’17, Marc Tenaglia ’15, Bill O’Brien ’80, Jack O’Brien ’16, Chuck Lisi ’61, Tim Kelly ’16. ROW 4: (l-r) Michael Walsh ’82, Ryan Walsh ’13, Joe Johnston ’75, Colin Johnston ’18, Michael Celluci ’74, Michael Celluci ’15, John Flynn ’69, Jay Flynn ’92, Jake Flynn ’18. ROW 5: (l-r) Paul Keressey ’67, Matt Keressey ’16, Bobby Mullen’16, Joe Mullen ’81, Todd MacDonald ’13, Paul MacDonald ’82, Mike Scannell ’83, Joe Scannell ’17, Jay Crawford ’16, Jay Crawford ’87. ROW 6: (l-r) Pat Travers ’79, Jack Travers ’17, Mike Hutchinson ’75, Brian Hutchinson ’15, John Carrigan ’15, Ed Carrigan ’78, Dolan McCarthy ’16, Tim McCarthy ’88, Garrett McCarthy ’18, Dominic Sciaolia ’16, Jack Sciaolia ’18, Pat Sciaolia ’87.

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Whalen has been an artist since

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YOUNG ALUMNI ARTISTSArtist: Brian Whalen ’04 Providence College ‘08

“Rearview.” Oil on canvasboard.

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