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Vol. 11, Issue 2
N I V E R S I T Y
2007

How to build
and sell a better
Graduation

John CarRoll University

President
Robert L. Niehoff, SJ
Interim Vice President for
University Advancement
James Noffke
Director of University ­
Marketing and Communications
Christine Somosi
Editor
Jerry Pockar
Alumni Journal
Michele McFarland
Advisory Board
Dr. George Bilgere
Dr. Karen Schuele
Dr. Sherri Crahen
Dr. Linda Eisenmann
Ms. Kimyette Finley ’95
Rev. Howard Gray, SJ
Mr. John Marcus ’72
Dr. Paul V. Murphy
Mrs. Barbara Schubert ’62
Ms. Christine Somosi ’81
Mr. Brian Williams
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Vol. 11 Issue 2 2007

COVER STORY
14 To Build and Sell a Better Mousetrap

FEATURES
20 Vision, Mission, Core Values. . .
22 Jaimé Maldonado’s Great Leap
26 Q &A: Maria Alfaro-Lopez
28 Students With Disabilities
33 The Lion’s Head
61 Jouney to the Top of the World
62 Letter From Chile
63 Lines on Howard Gray

DEPARTMENTS
2 President’s Message
3 HOME - News On Campus
3 Commencement
5 Appointments
6 Faculty Awards
8 Advancement
10 Athletics
30 Enrollment
34 Images of Carroll
35 Alumni Journal
36 Class Notes
59 In Memoriam
64 My Turn - Howard Gray
Inside Back Cover
Profile - Dr. Richard Hansler
Contributing photographers:
John Reid, Rob Wetzler
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A
college-educated worker
earns in a career an average
of $1.1 million more than a
high school graduate. Ohio
ranks 39th among the states in percentage
of college grads. Those are provocative
sentences. We live in a competitive world,
whether the “we” refers to individuals, cities,
states, a university or a nation. Thirty-
ninth isn’t going to get it done. Consider
that first sentence and then think about
what is lost in economic activity, taxes,
and social vitality when you have a work
force that places in the lowest 11 among
the states in percentage of college gradu-
ates: you begin to comprehend the urgency
of our doing a better job in helping our
young people earn degrees.
Helping our young people earn degrees
is part of what I talked about at the Cleve-
land City Club on May 24. I also touched
on how strongly I feel about saving the Ohio
Student Choice Grant (SCG). You may be
reading this after the SCG legislation has
been signed. Even if the matter has been
– temporarily – settled, I want you to know
about this issue because we haven’t seen the

MESSAGE
John Carroll university
last of it, and it’s important for JCU.
Governor Strickland proposed cut-
ting $35 million from grants that have for
two decades been given to Ohio students
who attend in-state private colleges. Last
year, 58,000 Ohio students received $900
toward their tuition – almost 2,000 at
John Carroll. Our reality is that the cost
of higher education and the competition
among colleges for enrollees are such that
$900 can make a difference in whether or
not a student enrolls at John Carroll.
Private colleges award 36 percent of the
bachelor degrees in the state, yet financial
aid to private college students is less than
five percent of the state’s higher education
budget. Since fostering a high number of
degree achievers is critical, that five percent
is a good investment. Before the SCG
program, the number of students from Ohio
attending independent colleges in Ohio
was 48 percent. Today, it is approximately
72 percent. The grants keep our students in
Ohio; they support institutions like JCU;
they strengthen our chance of being com-
petitive as a university, city, state.
We were active in lobbying to restore
the SCG cuts. It appears we will be at least
partially successful, but the cause will take
our best effort over time. The SCG matter
is a corollary of our commitment to making
higher education affordable. If we don’t do
that, we will enable the gap between the
haves and have-nots to grow and contrib-
ute to the decline of our city and state.
There was an article in the NY Times a
couple of days ago about how “elite”
colleges like Harvard and Princ-
eton are trying hard to help a
diverse population of economi-
cally challenged/academically
qualified young people gain a
P RESI D ENT ’ S
degree from a very good school. We are part
of that group. Our lower-income student ini-
tiative, discussed by Brian Williams, our VP
for enrollment, in the last issue, has elicited
a powerfully positive response. I heard that
at the City Club. I heard support for it from
Cleveland’s Mayor Frank Jackson when I
met with him recently. I hear it from a mul-
titude of citizens whose paths cross mine. I
also hear it when I speak with alumni. The
commitment to this kind of initiative speaks
to the heart of the Vision, Mission, Core
Values and Strategic Initiatives Statement our
board recently passed, and which you can
read on page 20.
Our enrollment numbers are still com-
ing in, but they look pretty good. Our new
approaches won’t really bear fruit until next
year, but Williams tells me that applicants,
even the ones who don’t choose JCU, are
positive about us. That’s good news.
As is the fact that our campus master
plan study is well under way. And that we
are receiving significant gifts (page 8) and
are investing them in areas like mission,
student aid, faculty chairs and academic
program support.
Bud Koch, who has been a friend and
a wise counsel as board chair, has complet-
ed his term and the torch is being passed
to Allyn Adams ’64, one of those stalwarts
who has added so much to the university
community over so many years. I thank
them both, and also the irreplaceable
Howard Gray, SJ (page 63).
It’s a beautiful spring. We had a won-
derful Commencement. We look forward
to the best party of the year, Reunion. I
think our present and our prospect get
better with each passing day. I thank you
for all you do for John Carroll. May you
have a satisfying summer.
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NEWS ONCAMPUS

Commencement
O
n the morning of Commencement, the weather was “iffy.”
But, as we’ve said before in these pages, nature seems to smile

home
on JCU on graduation day, and that was the case again. It
happened. It was joyous, it was what it should have been. Six
hundred and sixteen undergraduates clutched their hard-won diplomas.
Seventy-eight graduate students did the same. Honorary degrees were
bestowed upon Rev. Jared Wicks, SJ; Rev. Gerald O’Collins, SJ; Rev.
John O’Malley, SJ; and the Federal Reserve’s Sandra Pianalto, who was
the commencement speaker. You may listen to Ms. Pianalto’s talk at the
JCU Web site: www.JCU.edu. Two-time Student Union president Dan
O’Malley was the Millor Orator and the Beaudry Award winner was Erin
Grzegorzewski. It is fair to say that a good time was had by all.

Sandra Pianalto
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Commencement

Levada Receives
Honorary
Doctorate
Though he received his honorary degree
almost a month earlier at Gesu Church,
Cardinal William Levada, the prefect of the
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,
and the highest ranking American in the
Vatican was, because of his honorary degree,
part of the Commencement experience.
The cardinal delivered an address, “Where
I Find Hope, at Gesu under the auspices of
the university’s Cardinal Suenens Center for
Theology and Church Life. You will find the
text of that address at the university’s Web
site-www.JCU.edu.
More information is available at
www.jcu.edu/JohnCarrollMagazine

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Doreen Riley named vice
president for advancement
Following a national search, Doreen Riley
has been named John Carroll University’s
vice president for advancement.
Riley, a native of Northeast Ohio, is
the first female vice president in the
university’s history. Before her selection
by John Carroll, she was the director of
foundation programs
for the Association
of Governing Boards
of Universities and
Colleges. Prior to
that, she was the
vice president of
development for the
Aspen Institute. She
also served in high-level
development positions
at Kent State University
and the University of
Georgia.
Upon receiving
notice of her
appointment, Riley said: “I am honored to
be given this opportunity and delighted
to join an excellent university with
such a rich academic tradition and
history. I look forward to working with
alumni and community leaders to see
how we can better engage them in John
Luis Calingo steps down at Boler
Less than a year after becoming dean of
the Boler School of Business, Dr. Luis
Calingo resigned from his post, citing
family reasons. A letter Calingo wrote to
faculty and staff in April said: “I have made
this decision after thorough consideration
of my family’s needs, which unfortunately
must override the commitments that I have
made to my professional colleagues.”
David La Guardia, academic vice pres-
ident, was quoted in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer as saying, “[Calingo} has some very
Carroll University’s future success and
development.”
Riley replaces interim vice president
James Noffke. Noffke was called upon
as an interim executive after Timothy
Shannon, SJ, left the management
of Advancement to become a special
assistant to the
university president.
Shannon confronted
health issues and has
now been reassigned
to another post in
Michigan.
Two other important
appointments occurred
in Advancement in
early spring. Lisa
­Mencini, who had been
the university’s director
of human resources,
made an internal move
to become a develop-
ment director. Richard Ryan Daly ’99,
who has been John Carroll’s director of
alumni relations, accepted a similar
change in job focus to also become a
development director. Daly is temporarily
filling both the development officer and
alumni relations role.
demanding family pressures that prompted
his decision. It has nothing to do with any
pressure we brought on him at all.”
Dr. Karen Schuele was named acting
dean of the school after Calingo’s de-
parture. Schuele, who first taught at the
university in 1985, is an associate profes-
sor in the Department of Accountancy. In
announcing her appointment, La Guardia
said, “Dr. Schuele comes to this position
with the strong support of the faculty and
staff in the Boler School. I am most grate-
appointments
In other appointment news,
Dr. Jonathan Smith, chair of
Management, Marketing and
Logistics, was, in early May,
named executive assistant to the
president, Rev. Robert L. Niehoff,
SJ. The president said, on the
occasion of Smith’s appointment,
“His management and leadership
skills will be a great benefit for
the future of the university.”
Timothy Peppard ’68 is now
on campus as the director of
Campus Safety Services. He was
the chief of police of University
Circle, Inc. “We couldn’t be
happier to have someone with
Tim’s level of experience and
qualifications,” said Dr. Sherri
Crahen, the dean of students and
chair of the search committee.
Gerald Sabo, SJ, professor in
the Department of Classical and
Modern Languages since 1981, is
the new rector of the John Carroll
local Jesuit Community. As such,
he is responsible for the physical
and spiritual welfare of the local
community Jesuits. Fr. Sabo
succeeds Howard Gray, SJ, who
ended a six-year term as rector
and is leaving the university for
another assignment.
ful to her for her willingness to assume
this important position of leadership in
the business school and in the university.”
He also said that the university will delay
its search for a permanent dean to “allow
the pool of applicants to grow.”
Dr. James Martin, professor in the
Department of Management, Marketing
and Logistics, accepted the post of interim
associate dean of the Boler School. He
replaces Schuele. Martin joined the
faculty in 1986.  
John
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The Culicchia Award:
for excellence in teaching
Dr. James Lissemore, Biology

I
am honored to be the recipient of this
year’s Culicchia Award and I accept it as
a tribute to the many fine teachers at
JCU who work so hard every day for our
students. Over the course of my life, many
teachers have inspired and guided me, but the
most memorable may have been Brother
Robert Grondin, my high school biology
teacher. I vividly remember that early in the
course Br. Grondin told us that we would
eventually be learning about DNA and about
the discovery of the double helix by Watson
and Crick, at which point he genuflected,
which he did throughout the course at the
mention of their names. This comical gesture
had the desired effect of capturing my attention
and leaving no doubt that my future lay in
genetics and molecular biology.
While it is a privilege to receive this
award, it is an even greater privilege to have
had the educational opportunities that I have
had throughout my life. At the start of each
semester, I remind my students that it truly
is a privilege to receive a college education,
available to only a tiny fraction of the world.
As a result, I challenge my students, as well
as myself, with the charge from Father Peter-
Hans Kolvenbach, SJ that in the course of their
education, students “should learn to perceive,
think, judge, choose and act for the rights of
others, especially the disadvantaged and the
oppressed.” To the extent that I have been able
to encourage students to take this goal seriously,
I can consider myself worthy of this award.

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The Distinguished
Faculty Award
Dr. Paul Lauritzen, Religious Studies

L
ast year’s recipient said, “We are in the
business of planting seeds; we may not
see the results of our labors, but we go
on planting anyway, trusting in a per-
son’s innate goodness and potential for growth.”
I thought of those remarks when I received
an amazing email from a former student, Jude
Killy, thanking me for a class he had taken with
me over ten years ago. I keep in touch with a fair
number of former students, in whom the seeds
planted at John Carroll University have bloomed
in beautiful ways, so hearing from a former stu-
dent was not unusual. But Jude is not a student
with whom I have stayed in touch. Thus, his
note was a complete surprise: “You have had and
still have,” he wrote, “a tremendous impact on
my life and my outlook on life.”
Jude’s note was a reminder of the responsibility
we have as members of a university community, for
we can and do have an enormous impact on the
lives of those who are entrusted to our care, even
when we are completely unaware of that impact.
We are fortunate to be part of a community
that takes that responsibility very seriously.
To paraphrase Howard Gray, in professing our
commitment to the young people whom we serve,
we express our devotion to making the university
a place of justice and solidarity. This is never
an easy commitment to keep, and, as Howard
reminds us, keeping that commitment at a Jesuit
institution that combines religious seriousness and
academic pluralism can be a risky business.
May we dedicate ourselves to make John Carroll
a university community where risk in the service of
justice and solidarity is always a way of life.
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Three major gifts support university initiatives
Three couples who have long been among
the primary sources of philanthropy to
John Carroll have once again blessed the
university with their generosity. John and
Mary Jo Boler, in whose honor the Boler
School of Business is named, recently gave
$2.5 million dollars to the university. The
gift is intended to be the beginning of what
has been called The President’s Opportunity
Fund, a resource that will allow President
Niehoff to expeditiously make strategic
investments in institutional priorities.
John and Mary Jo Boler
John Boler ’56 said after news of their
gift was received: “I told Fr. Niehoff that
I believe he should have a discretion-
ary fund, and that if he saw a project that
needed to be done, he should have the
resources to be able to accomplish that.
However effective the board may be,
sometimes a chief executive needs to move
quickly. I told him that we would give $2.5
million, and that we would see where it
went from there. The continuing growth
and success of the university is among our
important concerns. I will be forever grate-
ful that I graduated from John Carroll.”
Boler’s friend and classmate, John
Breen ’56 has, with his wife, Mary Jane
’91, ’94G, also been a profoundly impor-
tant benefactor and university leader over
the course of decades. This spring, the
Breens announced that they are giving
$2.5 million to endow a chair in Catholic
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John and Mary Jane Breen
Systematic Theology within the Department
of Religious Studies. The endowment is
intended to fund an outstanding teacher/
scholar who will interact with students and
provide resources for teaching and research
projects in Catholic theology.
Jack Breen told John Carroll: “Mary
Jane and I are pleased to support
Fr. Niehoff’s vision for John Carroll
University. This chair will strengthen
our understanding of our rich Catholic
tradition, which has been the foundation
for building and growing John Carroll.”
Dr. Joseph Kelly, the chair of the
Department of Religious Studies, said
after the Breen gift was announced: “This
generous gift from the Breens will enable
the Department of Religious Studies to
get an accomplished scholar of Roman
Catholic systematic theology to teach
courses and do research. This chair will
augment the quality and range of our
offerings. We are very grateful.”
College of Arts and Sciences dean
Linda Eisenmann added, “The creation of
this endowed chair expands our ability to
strengthen students’ experience with and
understanding of Catholic theology, both
inside and outside the classroom.”
John and Barbara ’62, ’67G, ’80G
Schubert announced that they are giv-
ing $1 million in support of mission and
identity programs. The gift was made in
honor of Rev. Howard Gray, SJ, who is
leaving the university for another assign-
ment. Barbara Schubert said: “John and I
wanted to help insure that Howard Gray’s
initiatives in mission and identity will
continue after he leaves the university.”
The Schubert gift will allow the university
to appoint a senior administrative leader
in the mission and identity area, one who
will articulate Ignatian thought, as has
Father Gray, and serve as a liaison with
Jesuit leaders throughout the country.
Like Jack Breen and John Boler,
­Barbara Schubert has had long service
on the university board and has been a
volunteer in many capacities. She and
her husband tutored in a Jesuit school in
Tanzania several years ago and have been
dedicated supporters of Ignatian ideals and
Jesuit education. The same can be said of
the Bolers and Breens.
Reflecting on the three gifts,
Fr. Niehoff said: “It is great to have loyal
alumni like these three couples who are
willing to partner with me to make JCU
– already great – stronger and better for
future generations of Blue Streaks. I am
grateful for their friendship and support.”
John and Barbara Schubert

The Piercy/Goerbert Endowment
for Lower-income families
By Peter Bernardo ’67
Director of Planned Giving
When John Carroll University announced it
was seeking partners to make our new lower-
income initiative possible, Dr. James Piercy
and his wife, Ursula, were the first to respond
with an endowed scholarship. Jim and
Ursula are the first of their families to go to
college. Jim’s father was a laborer in central
Mississippi and Ursula’s father was a pattern
maker in a steel plant. Her mother worked
as a maid during the Depression. Both sets of
parents shared a dream: to see their children
develop their potential and make a contribu-
tion to their society.
Jim and Ursu-
la’s parents instilled
the importance
of performing to
one’s potential.
The children’s lives
are a testament to
their parents. Jim
entered the army
Dr. James Piercy during WWII as
an enlisted man and received a battlefield
commission. Ursula earned a degree in
nursing and was commissioned a lieuten-
ant in the Army Nurse Corps. Jim met
Ursula during WWII, in Marseille, France
where she was working as a nurse. They
Carroll Fund surpasses the $2 million mark
For the first time since 1999 the ­Carroll
Fund has surpassed the $2 million
mark. This milestone continues a trend
of success that includes an almost 50
percent increase in annual dollars raised
over the past three fiscal years. Leading
the charge this year were the board of
directors and board of regents. At their
joint meeting this past fall both boards
committed to making their first gift to the
institution a ­Carroll Fund donation. Hon-
Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Piercy
Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Goerbert
married in 1947 and had three sons.
While in the army Jim received a BA
at the University of Maryland, and his MS
at the Air Force Institute of Technology.
He rose to the rank of full Colonel and was
the Professor of Military Science from 1969
to 1973 at JCU. He retired from the Army
and received his Ph.D. from Case Western
Reserve University, and then returned to
JCU as an associate professor of manage-
ment in 1977. He chaired the Department of
Business Administration from 1977 to 1981
and became the acting dean of the School of
Business in 1984-1985. He retired in 1987.
He was rehired as a private consultant for
space planning in the early 90s and his rec-
ommendations were responsible for moving
Development, Business Office, Admissions,
and IT into Rodman Hall.
oring their word, 100% of the members of
each group have contributed or made a
pledge of support this year.
“It is my hope the commitment made
by the board of directors and board of
regents will serve as an inspiration for our
alumni,” said Robert P. Kirschner, direc-
tor of annual giving. “Their example is
especially important when we talk about
John Carroll’s participation rate. Indeed,
giving at any level is important since John
advancement
Jim and Ursula have dedicated this
scholarship to their parents: Mr. and Mrs.
W.J. Piercy and Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Go-
erbert. The Piercys also wanted it made clear
that: “There are thousands of lower-income
parents in Ohio who have the same dreams
for their children and have worked cease-
lessly toward this goal. This scholarship is in
their honor as well. Ursula and I are blessed
to be able to participate in this new initiative
to make JCU more affordable to deserving
students from lower-income families.”
John Carroll University is proud to spon-
sor this lower-income initiative, and of the
alumni, friends, and parents who are helping
make it possible. Jim and Ursula’s lives are
indeed what we envision and hope will be
the reality for these lower-income students.
If you would like to find a way to join the
Piercys, please call Pete Bernardo ’67, director
of planned giving, at 216.397.4217.
Carroll’s participation rate is a sign of
strength and vitality that not only impacts
our ranking, but is reviewed by grant
awarding and other funding sources.
The Carroll Fund is an important tool
for the university, as it helps Fr. Niehoff
and other university leadership create
and maintain an extraordinary learning
experience for future graduates. To make
a gift, please visit www.jcu.edu/givetojcu
or call 216.397.4198.
John Carroll
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athletics
Chris Kempf and Jenny Sopkovich
receive Clyde A. Lamb Award

J
ohn Carroll seniors Chris Kempf and Jenny Sopkovich were among 20 student
athletes in the Ohio Athletic Conference who received the Clyde A. Lamb
Award as the top male and female scholar athletes of their schools. Kempf’s
particulars are detailed elsewhere on these pages. Sopkovich was a four-year letter
winner and three-year starter for the women’s soccer team, earning second team
All-OAC honors as a forward in 2006. She was a Department of Chemistry Student
of the Year, won the 2007 Ohio Board of Regents Graduate Fellowship Scholarship
and was a recipient of the Callahan Endowed Scholarship.

Overlaps between OAC track

Chris Kempf
excellence and all-academic
Senior Chris Kempf and junior Katie
Winings both became first-time league
champions by winning the men’s 5,000-
meter run and the women’s triple jump,
respectively, at the 2007 Ohio Athletic
Conference (OAC) Outdoor Track &
Field Championships at Baldwin-Wallace.
Kempf’s effort accounted for nearly one
third of John Carroll’s team points as the
Streaks finished ninth out of ten schools.
Winings was a major factor in the JCU
women placing seventh among ten teams.
Joining Winings in earning All-OAC
status, which goes to those taking first
through third places, were senior Mary
Katie Winings
Mary Gilloon
Gilloon, senior Tricia Stege and sopho-
more Tara Ford. Kempf captured his first
career OAC title with a thrilling finish in
the 5,000-meter run, holding off a pair of
Mount Union runners. Although Kempf
was the only JCU male athlete to earn all-
conference status, two other Streaks made
valiant bids for top three showings. Senior
Josh Zamiska was fourth in the long jump
final while junior Kevin McPeek was
fourth in the shot.
Gilloon, Stege and Kempf were also
named to the 2007 Academic All-OAC
Cross Country/Track & Field team.
Gilloon was all-conference in cross
country, then followed with an OAC
indoor title in the 1,000-meter run.
An eight-time All-OAC honoree in
track and cross country, Gilloon was an
accountancy major with a 3.56 G.P.A.
Stege earned Academic All-OAC
honorable mention. Kempf was the male
Clyde A. Lamb Award recipient. He
lettered seven times in cross country and
track & field. A two-time OAC track
champion, Kempf also earned All-Great
Lakes Region accolades twice. He was an
English major with a 3.84 G.P.A.

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OAC’s all-academic and all-conference
baseball and softball players
sports

horts
Men, 3rd; women, 6th
Junior Adam Sockel and senior Matt in OAC all-sports
McKinnon headed up a contingent of five The John Carroll men’s program
Blue Streaks named to the 2007 All-Ohio finished third and the women’s sixth
Athletic Conference Baseball Teams. In in the final Ohio Athletic Conference
a coaches vote, Sockel and McKinnon (OAC) All-Sports Trophy standings
were named first team, junior Sean Mc- Bolstered by a regular season cham-
Carthy and freshman Michael Carbo were pionship in basketball and wrestling,
selected to the second team, and junior John Carroll tallied 58.00 points to
Brandon Kurtz received honorable finish behind Ohio Northern (66.42)
mention status. and Mount Union (59.50) in the
Sockel, the designated hitter men’s standings. On the women’s
on the first team, batted .391. side, the JCU program, whose best
McKinnon finished the 2007 regular finish this year was a runner-up by
Warren Ciabattoni
season as the league leader in ERA the golf squad, was a distant sixth at
(above), and
2.29 and wins 8. Adam Sockel (left) 37.91 points.
JCU finished the year 21-14
overall and 10-7 in conference play. 
Seniors Warren Ciabattoni and
2007 men’s and women’s
Matt McKinnon and junior Marty
tennis results
Smith, were selected from the baseball Smith, the closer, is an accounting major Sophomore James Steward and
team for the OAC All-Academic squad. with a 3.76 G.P.A. On the softball side, German study-abroad student Roman
Ciabattoni, an English and Italian Studies senior Betsy Rafferty was Academic All- Lehberger were named to the 2007
double major with a 3.70 G.P.A. batted OAC with a 3.61 G.P.A. as a mathematics All-Ohio Athletic Conference First Team
.243 and drove in 15 runs. McKinnon is and religious studies double major. She Men’s Tennis team, and freshman Matt
a senior finance major with a 3.26 G.P.A. had a .419 on-base percentage. Tomayko received honorable mention.
Steward completed his sophomore
year with a record of 13-1 as John
For Streak gridders, it’s springtime in Switzerland Carroll’s #1 singles player. Lehberger
completed his first and only season
at JCU with an 8-1 record in singles.
Tomayko won 13 of his 16 matches.
On the women’s side, senior
Elizabeth Spirk was the lone John
Carroll representative as an honorable
mention.
The JCU men’s tennis team was
10-7 this season overall and 7-2 in
the OAC. The Blue Streaks reached
the semifinal round of the OAC
Tournament before falling to eventual
champion Ohio Northern. The
For the fifth time in the program’s history, the JCU football team traveled across the women’s team completed its fifth
pond to play a springtime exhibition game against a team in Europe. After Germany, consecutive winning season, posting
Spain, Italy and Ireland, Switzerland was the destination this spring. The gridders an 8-7 record in all matches and a 5-4
left on May 21 and played the Landquart Broncos near Switzerland’s border with
ledger in league play. They lost in the
Liechtenstein and Austria on May 26. They had an easy match with the Swiss and
quarterfinals to Mount Union.
triumphed 49-0. They returned on May 29.

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NEWS ONCAMPUS

Heartland-Delta V brought the region’s

Jesuit universities to confer on mission
Heartland-Delta V, a major regional conference of leaders from eleven U.S. Jesuit
colleges and universities and one institution abroad, took place on campus from May 29
to June 1. The assembly brought 497 representatives from the schools, most of which
are in the Midwest. These gatherings, which begin in 1994, are an effort to foster
community among a cluster of Jesuit educational centers. The conferences, of which the
one at John Carroll was only the fifth, initially drew schools from the Midwest, but the
range of the participants has been expanded along the way to inlcude St. John’s College
in Belize, Loyola of New Orleans and Alabama’s Spring Hill. The western edge
of the Heartland is represented by Denver’s Regis, Nebraska’s
Creighton and Kansas City’s Rockhurst. The other contingents
present were from the host school, Detroit-Mercy, Saint
Louis; Xavier, Marquette, and Loyola Chicago.
The theme of the conference was Learning from Each
­Other: Companions in Mission. The event featured a wide
range of speakers and small and large group sessions. On
Tuesday, the initial gathering featured an address on the Jesuit
tradition by John Carroll’s Rev. Howard Gray, SJ.
The Heartland conferences are an important regional element
of the ongoing effort in Jesuit education to creatively focus on
issues of mission and identity, so that the Jesuit vision of education
Rev. Robert L. Niehoff will be preserved and enhanced in an era of change.

Allyn Adams’64 is new board chair

Allyn Adams, a very active alumnus who
holds the university’s Alumni Medal,
is John Carroll’s chair of the board of
directors. Adams succeeds Charles “Bud”
Koch, who led the directors since 2003.
Adams, a retired partner of the accounting
firm Deloitte & Touche, has been a
member of the board since 1997.
In accepting the appointment,
Adams said, “I appreciate the
confidence that the other directors
have in electing me to chair
the Board of Directors of John
Carroll University. Fr. Niehoff has
addressed and resolved a number
Allyn Adams of critical issues in the two years
that he has been president of John
Carroll. I am looking forward to the
Charles “Bud” Koch
opportunity of working together with
him and the board as we move forward
in the implementation of the strategic
initiatives and master plan for our
university.”
Rev. Robert Niehoff, the university
president said, “Bud Koch has been a
friend and a wise counsel. He has served
John Carroll extraordinarily well during
his term as leader of the board. We are
grateful for his stewardship. Allyn Adams
is one of those stalwarts who has added so
much to the university community over
so many years. We thank him for accept-
ing the charge to lead the board.
Jose Feliciano ’72 was named
vice chair of the board. He succeeds
Kathleen O’Neil ’74.

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Relay for Life 2007 is a triumph
Relay for Life, the 18-hour
fund-raising event and
accompanying festival
of fun, food and frolic
raised, $100,106.86 for
the American Cancer Society on campus
on April 21-22. When, after Fr. Niehoff’s
liturgy in Saint Francis Chapel, the relay
participants were finally asleep and the cam-
pus quiet, the event co-chairs, graduating
seniors Joel Mullner and Patrick Kelly, put
out a statement saying: “Thanks to your
dedication and commitment to supporting
this cause, the American Cancer Society’s
research, education, advocacy, and service
programs have considerably more funding
from our Relay than even we thought pos-
sible.  This amount speaks volumes about
the type of people associated with John
Carroll University, and we are so very proud
of everyone who volunteered, participated,
donated, or otherwise supported our efforts.”
misc.
• Thirteen students, four faculty
members and one staff person are
participating in this summer’s
South Africa Institute. The
contingent, led by Dr. Jeanne
Colleran ’76, will be in South Africa
from June 26 to July 10. The trip is
part of a course and was preceded
by classroom work on campus. The
South African expedition is a
variation on the theme established
several years ago by the Belfast
Peace Institute and will be rich in
academic and cultural experience.
• The Carroll News did well in awards.
In the Society of Professional
Journalists Region 4. The CN won
second place in the Best All-Around
Non-Daily Student Newspaper
category. The CN staff took five
individual awards. Robert Duns of
WJCU won a third place for a radio
feature on “The Presidential Debate.”

Remembering Dean Farrell

You did have to be there at
7 p.m. on March 20 in Euclid,
Ohio. And you also had to
know Joe Farrell, which an
enormous number of people
did. On the day after the tenth
anniversary of the death of
the former dean of students, a
very large number of people
gathered at Henn House to
celebrate liturgy and tell
stories about the unforgettable There a bit many people for photo IDs, but present are Ohio
man who was a profoundly Senator Sherrod Brown, Dr. Patrick Rombalski, Jerry Sheehan,
associate vice president government and community relations,
important figure on campus. and the members of Rombalski’s The Politics of Education
The attendees included a class. The vice president for student affairs, and Sheehan, took
the class to the nation’s capital for a close-up view of part of
sizable JCU contingent. their government.

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 How to
build
and sell
a better
By Jerry Pockar

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T
wo golden goals: build a better mousetrap; and, second, market that better
mousetrap. Actually, Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke only to the first. The
19th century American writer famously said, “Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.” Emerson asserted that the
fabrication of a quality product will bring about – in a causal relationship
– the buying of that object. He apparently didn’t see any particular need
for the marketing dimension that is such a powerful part of our economy
and, consequently, of the Boler School of Business. But as marketing
student Lisa Iafelice ’07 says elsewhere on these pages, the product –
e.g., the better mousetrap – is but one of the sacred Four Ps of the
marketing creed. The others are pricing, placement, and promotion.

E. Jerome McCarthy, the author of Basic
Marketing, identified the critical impor-
tance of the Four Ps. E. Jerome would be
hard pressed to out-duel Emerson on the
fields of poetry or philosophy, but he could
probably teach Ralph Waldo a thing or two
about getting those traps off the shelves.
Fair to say that the nine graduating
John Carroll seniors playing the Mouse
Trap game on our cover would tend to
line up with McCarthy on the question
of whether building that quality trap and
sitting back to wait for the mob to beat
a path to your door is the way to go. The
majority of our nine, six, are marketers in
training. Those six drew the magazine’s
interest because they performed well in a
student project: creating a marketing plan
for devices JCU maintenance man Ken
Boehnlein designed to deal with the often
extreme vibration problem of front-loading
washing machines. Lisa Iafelice is simply
an articulate marketing major.
The other three guys, Dan Lynch, Phil
“These young people, who will have become JCU
graduates between the time this is written and the
point when it reaches your eyes, are also engaged
in the adventure of marketing themselves.”
Terpolilli and Aaron Joslin, are manage-
ment majors, not marketers, but the name
of the relevant department for all these
students is Management, Marketing and
Logistics, and Lynch, Terpolilli and Joslin,
whose venture company is MAP*D.Net,
are on the way, they hope, to building a
better mousetrap – or, in their case, a Global
Positioning ­System (GPS)-based personal
security device. They are also well aware, at
what is still an early stage of their entrepre-
neurial adventure, that they will need to
market the product once they get the
technology and manufacturing parts down.
These young people are also engaged
in the adventure of marketing themselves.
They either are, or will soon be, in the
process of hooking on with a real-world
employer who will pay a real-world salary
so that they can assist said employer in a
variation on the better mousetrap theme
and/or work with a crew of colleagues in
marketing some kind of better mousetrap/
product. Which is also to say, the main
thrust of this story is that the young Boler
graduates are beginning their career paths.
Their personal start-ups are undoubtedly
exciting (and anxiety producing) for the
students living them.
Dan Lynch, Phil Terpolilli and

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Aaron Joslin carry their excitement with
appropriate restraint. They are a ways
from their destination and they’ve been
schooled in business deportment. Their
excitement is, nonetheless, smack-dab-
in-the-middle obvious. The short of it is
that an idea came out of a class the trio
had with part-time management instructor
From left, Joe Bugaj, Katie Krueger, Eric Garling, Ken Boehnlein,
David Graves, Matt Tavernelli and Dave Kukurza
16 John Carroll university
Joe Menger. Dan Lynch said: “There is a blue light
The young marking four campus safety phones. If
grads give their you’re in some kind of trouble, you may
young teacher not be able to get to those blue lights.
major credit With our device you’ll be able to call for
for the notion. help from anywhere and your location will
Which was and be immediately known. So, response time
still is: wouldn’t becomes the only issue.”
it be good if A bunch of people saw light bulbs
there were a when they heard the idea. Personal
miniaturized David Graves security and campus safety are big issues.
Global John Carroll has had a relatively trouble-
Positioning System device that a student free history in this regard, though student
could carry, say, on her cell phone, or around affairs personnel might snort derisively
his wrist, or maybe even in a slightly fatter at “relatively”– from their perspective,
student I.D.? This gizmo would allow the one sexual assault or other act of violence
student in any kind of difficulty to press a is too many. Be that as it may, there are
button, which would transmit the student’s many universities whose campuses are in
location to campus security. high crime locations. You don’t need to be
a visionary to understand the appeal of a
device that will pinpoint the location of a
student in trouble.
The magazine talked to the MAP*D.
Net crew after the violence at Virginia
Tech (VT), and
the guys were
gracefully skittish
about even
acknowledging
that horror
as a potential
marketing
re-enforcer.
Nonetheless, the
VT incident will Katie Krueger
have that kind of
effect, as the World Trade Center nightmare
did. It is quite likely that you can count on
the MAP*D.Net crew not to do anything
in marketing that their ethics and religious
“Putting their heads
together, they worked
backward from
Boehnlein’s goal and
designed a 12-step
plan to place the
entrepreneur’s version
of a better mousetrap
in the marketplace.”
“How many times do we hear professors talk about
hypotheticals. This is a real product in the real world,
and we had the experience of working to try to place it
in the market.”
studies profs would look askance upon.
Nevertheless, the truth is that because we
live in a dangerous world, the “promotion”
part of the guys’ Four Ps will probably fall
into place. They have a list of universities to
which they will try to market their product
when they have a product.
The MAP*D.Net team took the idea
to the LaunchTown Entrepreneurship
competition sponsored by the Boler School
in conjunction with the Kauffman Founda-
tion and several other local entities. This
was the initial year of the LaunchTown
Entrepreneurship Award, and this time it
was open only to JCU students – next year,
six other area universities will participate.
Nineteen teams of would-be university
entrepreneurs submitted business plan
ideas to be judged by business leaders and
venture capitalists. The MAP*D.Net Boler
team won the award and with it $1,000 in
cash and $50,000 in in-kind consulting and
business services.
The LaunchTown Award was a
blessing for the
MAP*D.Net
venture. The
team took that
momentum
to California,
where they
became
one of nine
semifinalists in
the Spirit of Eric Garling
Entrepreneurship
and Enterprise Development (SEED)
jamboree in Santa Barbara. They didn’t
take top honors. The team that did
already had $2 million in venture capital
and was celebrated on CNN after being
anointed. However, most of the SEED
competitors were grad students from
places like Yale, Johns Hopkins, Virginia.
The JCU guys took meetings with the
likes of David Morgenthaler, recently
dubbed “the senior statesman of venture
capital.” “Two and a half hours we spent
with him was more valuable than the six
weeks we spent
before that,” said
Aaron Joslin.
The guys
came back in
early March on
a cloud disguised
as an airliner.
The Plain Dealer
ran a significant
“above-the-fold” Joe Bugaj
feature on them
and many interested bystanders smiled on
their promise. They met with a team of
Akron Archangels, a regional group that in-
troduces investors to market-driven, tech-
nology-based investments. That group was
positive but more discussion – and more
work – is required.
MAP*D.NET also, post California, sat
down with a technology whiz, expensive
whiz, from Case Western Reserve Univer-
sity. His task, should he accept it, will be
to design a prototype of the MAP.D.Net
gizmo. That’s the rub: at this point the
product is only a vision.
However, apparently essentially no
one familiar with this kind of product
and industry thinks the technological
impediments should be at all daunting.
GPS devices exist; that mythical they
entity routinely does wonders with minia-
turization. It may take a while and clever-
ness, but if they stay with it, MAP*D.Net
may be a fair bet. Incidentally, the name of
the venture translates as Mappednet for the
intended location-tracing power of their
device. It also reflects the first initials of
the first names of what were four principals
in the operation. One, fellow senior Mike
Rohrer, has amicably left the venture, pro-
viding everyone with a lesson in the human
complexity of entrepreneurial aspirations.
Dr. John Soper, the holder of the Kahl
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Aaron Josling
Chair in Entrepreneurship and one of the
primary advisors of the group, said, “They’ve
done a nice job so far. What they come up
with as a patentable entity is an important
part of the process, but I think they have a
fair chance of bringing this to market.”
“We are passionate about this,” says
Dan Lynch, who will work on the project
all summer before getting on board with
JPMorgan Chase & Co. Terpolilli and
Joslin have internships in the short term,
but all their available time will be spent
on the entrepreneurial venture for the
foreseeable future.
This gizmo would allow the student in any kind of
difficulty to press a button which would transmit the
students’ precise location to campus security officers.
Lynch, Terpolilli, Joslin and Lisa
Iafelice only make four out of nine. The
other five on the cover, David Graves,
Katie Krueger, Joe Bugaj, Matt Tavernelli
and Eric Garling, aren’t joined in a “maybe
we’ll hit it big” entrepreneurial venture.
They are, rather, aspiring marketers who
were busy this semester learning their
future trade in the #495 Marketing Man-
Possible shell of the MAP*D.Net GPS Device
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university
agement class of IBM lifer turned Boler
School visiting instructor Dave Kukurza.
Here is the story on #495’s Good
Vibration’s marketing plan(s). Veteran John
Carroll maintenance man Ken Boehnlein
created a product that he hopes to place in
appropriate “Big Box” stores. Aware of the
chronic vibration problem with front-load-
ing washing machines, Boehnlein bought
a front-loader and experimented. He says,
“I watched my washer for many hours. The
first time it shook the house. They vibrate
so strongly because they’re moving at 800-
1400 RPMs in the spin cycle – much faster
than top-loading washers.” Boehnlein said
he runs the washer drain hose off his deck
and one time forgot to place the hose out-
side and flooded his kitchen.
His product consists of four hard
rubber disks, each of which contains an
aluminum plate in the middle. Used as
anti-vibration pads under the washer, the
disks, which look like large hockey pucks,
reduce vibrations sharply for washers,
dryers and dishwashers.
Kukurza had his three classes break
into teams and come up with 13 different
marketing plans for Boehnlein’s ven-
ture. All 13 teams did presentations and
Boehnlein most liked the suggestions of
Graves, Krueger, Bugaj, Tavernelli and
Garling, though he is free to pick ideas
from the other twelve plans.
The no-name student quintet listened
to Boehnlein and prepared a 12-page
marketing plan. They worked backward
from Boehnlein’s goal and designed a 12-step
approach to
place the
entrepreneur’s
version of a
better mousetrap
in the market-
place.
One of the
group’s recom-
mendations was
to increase the
Phil Terpolilli
price of the
product by 30% to $29.95. Another was
to seek placement of information about
the product in an article in John Carroll
magazine. The price has already been
increased; you are reading the accomplish-
ment of one of the team’s suggestions for a
low-budget advertising campaign. Another
ad suggestion was using church bulletins.
The team did a SWOT (Strengths,
Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats)
analysis. They determined that the
weaknesses of GVI Enterprises Inc, LLC
included the fact that Boehnlein has
limited business experience and financial
resources. Among the Good Vibrations
opportunities, said the students, are
the facts that front-loading washers
use less water
and electricity
and in an
environmentally-
concerned age are
“greener” than
top-loaders. Other
pluses are that the
product seems to
work better than its
several competitors, Dan Lynch
and Boehnlein’s
price is right since his lowest-priced
competitor comes in at $15 higher.
Matt Tavernelli, said: “How many
times do we hear professors talk about
hypotheticals. This is a real product in the
real world, and we had the experience of
working to try to place it in the market.”
Katie Krueger said, “We had to think out-
side the box and consider creative ways
to get the word out. Ken really likes the
pamphlet we did for Good Vibrations.”
Ken Boehnlein and his student coaches
will be absolutely delighted if you check
out the colorful Good Vibrations web site at
GVIInc.net. Similarly, the MAP*D.Net crew
would love it if they could have the pleasure
of your company at GetMAPD.Net.
That famous real world beckons these
seniors. There is neither clarity nor security
about their path.
But in one case, the
MAP*D.Net team,
there may be a win-
ning entrepreneurial
venture down the
road. In another,
the Good Vibrations
#495 class team, the
student quintet feels
like they received
solid prep that will Matt Tavernelli
be useful when they
do this for money. In the final case, Lisa
Iafelice says she has achieved an incisive
understanding of what the real mission is
– corralling customers. These students are
all on the way. If you’re looking for a better
mousetrap, we just might know where you
can find one, or get some help selling one.
My marketing major
By Lisa Iafelice ’07
As a freshman coming into John Carroll University, like many other students,
I wasn’t sure which major I should choose. I eventually realized that I wanted
to do something related to business. I ended up deciding on marketing. At the
time, I thought that marketing was essentially the same as advertising. I then
started reading the course catalog, and realized that since there were only
two advertising classes listed, there must be
more to marketing than I had thought. My
first exposure to the real “marketing” was in
Marketing Principles. I learned that advertising
is only a small part of promotion, which is one
of the Four Ps of marketing. The other three
are product, price, and placement.
Throughout the next years, I took a
variety of marketing courses, and learned a
great deal about product, price, placement,
and promotion. In Advertising, I learned
Lisa Iafelice
how to format ads to make them eye-
catching and effective. Multinational Marketing taught me important cultural
differences from various parts of the world. My Logistics course taught
me how to make the best economic use of each shipment, and also which
modes of transportation were the best in certain situations. In Marketing
Technology, I learned skills for creating customer databases to track purchases
and customer information. Through Market Analysis, I learned the various
methods of researching customers, and analyzing the results mathematically.
I also learned that all of the information in these courses will be useless
without customers. I learned that if you do not create a product customers
want, at a price they can afford, if you do not make it available and convenient
for them to purchase, and find ways to let them know your product is out
there, you will not sell one item.
Many things have changed since I first considered majoring in marketing.
I now see marketing as meeting customer needs, while making money for the
people who’ve put funds into the company. There is more to marketing than
creating ads and producing a product that you think customers will buy. Where I
used to think in terms of what I would personally want in a product, now I know
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Vision, Mission, Core Values and
President Robert L. Niehoff, SJ, the
staff and the members of the board of
directors have spent a great deal of time
over the past several months reflecting
upon and crafting a vision, mission,
core values and strategic initiatives
statement. The statement to the right
has been unanimously approved by
the board. It does not supplant but
supplement the university’s mission
statement, which has been very slightly
amended. The words to the right are
intended to stand as a strong statement
about direction, commitment and
values. These words constitute a kind
of road map for the university. On the
facing page, there is a small sample of
comment about the statement.
20 John Carroll university
Vision:
John Carroll University will graduate individuals of intellect and character who
lead and serve by engaging the world around them and around the globe.
Mission:
As a Jesuit Catholic university, John Carroll inspires individuals to excel in
learning, leadership, and service in the region and in the world.
Core Values:
The university’s core values include a commitment to
learning in order to create:
• An environment of inquiry which embraces Jesuit Catholic education as a
search for truth where faith and reason complement each other in learning. In
pursuit of our educational mission, the university welcomes the perspectives
and participation in our mission of faculty, staff, students, and alumni of all faiths
and of no faith.
• A rigorous approach to scholarship that instills in our graduates the knowledge,
eloquence, sensitivity, and commitment to embrace and to live humane values.
• A campus committed to the intellectual, spiritual, emotional, and physical
development of each student.
• An inclusive community where differing points of view and experience
are valued as opportunities for mutual learning.
• A culture of service and excellence that permeates every program and office.
• A commitment to sharing our gifts in service to each other and the community.
• A campus that responds to demographic, economic, and social challenges.
• An appreciation that our personal and collective choices can build a more
just world.
Strategic Initiatives:
The following initiatives are essential to the university being recognized as a
center of learning and service:
• Create a diverse community of faculty, staff, alumni and friends dedicated to
advancing the university’s vision, mission, and core values.
• Create a learning community of outstanding teacher-scholars characterized
by the commitment to student achievement.
• Create a talented cohort of service-oriented staff committed to achieving and
being recognized as a center of learning and service.
• Recruit, enroll, retain, and graduate a talented, diverse student body prepared
for today’s global reality and committed to learning, leadership and service
that will engage the world.
• Secure resources necessary to foster an extraordinary learning experience
and promote John Carroll’s mission as a Jesuit Catholic university.
• Assist in responding to demographic, economic, and social challenges in our
region in order to support investment and employment opportunities and
build confidence in our shared future.
Strategic Initiatives Statement
The university community has worked together most
effectively to produce a document that states clearly the
Jesuit Catholic vision and mission of our university,
affirms and reinforces our core values, and sets forth
specific strategic initiatives to accomplish our mission. The
statement definitely distinguishes and differentiates John
Carroll University in a very positive and desirable manner
from the numerous alternatives offered to an individual
making critical decisions about a college education.
Allyn Adams ’64
Partner (retired), Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Chairman, John Carroll University Board of Directors
This is an ambitious, energetic, far-reaching
statement. I am encouraged by its emphasis
on inclusivity and on engagement and I
welcome its insistence on rigorous, open-
minded inquiry. This statement articulates
high standards for learning and for action
and I hope that its expectations will not only
inform but enliven how we see ourselves at
John Carroll and how we move forward.
Anne Kugler
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of History
I am delighted that John Carroll will be emphasizing
the core values of inclusion and diversity as it
prepares present and future students to “lead
and serve.” The demographics of America have
dramatically changed from my days as a student, and
this can only help our students and university as they
faces the challenges and opportunities of the future
and engage the world around them.
Jose Feliciano ’72
Partner, Baker & Hostetler, LLP
Vice Chairman, John Carroll University Board of Directors
Passionate, committed people of character and
integrity are needed in all facets of our world
today. Engaging in the challenge to fill that need
with people of faith is the embodiment of John
Carroll’s mission.
James Kirsch
President and CEO Ferro Corporation
Member John Carroll University Board of Directors
My favorite image in the new statement
is the “environment of inquiry” we are
fostering at John Carroll. To me, this
phrase captures the combined longstanding
commitment of the Jesuits, the dedicated
effort of our faculty, and the goal of our
students as work that challenges and
sustains us all.
Dr. Linda Eisenmann
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences
Every organization, whether in education
or industry, needs to have stated goals and a
path to follow. The Vision, Mission, Core
Values and Strategic Initiatives recently
developed provide that road map for John
Carroll University. Fr. Niehoff and the
other contributors are to be applauded for
articulating JCU’s vision and mission so
clearly and succinctly. Preparing our students
for the 21st century with learning, leadership
and service, combined with both a local and
global perspective, will only help to make a
more just world.
Mary Ann Corrigan-Davis ’75
President, St. Joseph Academy
Member, John Carroll University Board of Directors
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 great leap
Jaimé Maldonado’s

By Jerry Pockar

Jaimé (Himee) Maldonado ’04 has

made a gap-spanning leap ... from the
Developing World to our privileged one.
That doesn’t make him rare: many of
our family members made the same kind
of leap, moving with varying degrees of
ease between very different cultural and
economic worlds. Most of us are removed
from that classic American experience
now, so Jaimé provides a refresher course.
In his case, the transition was also a
little more rapid, the leap a little more
extreme than it is for many immigrants.

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The just-turned 28-year old Maldonado,
who has a good job at a hot local company
– Hyland Software in suburban Westlake
– sprang across an ocean and a cultural gap, Maldonado, the son of a factory worker
to matriculate at John Carroll in 1999. He
took off from dusty Duran, Ecuador, a poor
suburb of the port city Guayaquil – itself
not exactly the opposite of “poor.” Jaimé’s when he graduated in 1997 he was em-
leap was profoundly aided by Dr. Patrick
Rombalski, the university’s vice president
for student affairs, and for many years
now the passionate leader of the Rostro
de Cristro (Face of Christ) program in
Duran. Rombalski was captured by the
Face of Christ program in the early
’90s, and for several years has been its
long-distance leader. Rostro de Cristo,
founded 18 years ago by an American
priest, Fr. James Ronan, aims to help the
people of Duran with various assistance
programs, and to help young Americans
to know the poor by visiting the people
of Duran. The program’s “deep mission,”
if you will, is to facilitate knowing the
poor so that one is able to see the face of
Christ in them.
For some years, Carroll students
have traveled to the land of the Equator The Maldonado family in Duran
for a “faith-based immersion” trip. Some
graduates have also committed to a post-
graduation volunteer year, serving the
people there and shepherding visiting
U.S. student groups. Rostro de Cristo (see
page 25) is relatively modest in scope and
simple in approach, but it’s seemingly had
a big impact on some of the people of
Duran and their gringo visitors.
Jaimé Maldonado helped guide
visiting Rostro de Cristo groups as a boy in that enabled the aforementioned leap.
Duran. Independently, he was admitted
to a life-changing school, Escuela Nuevo
Mundo (New World), with strong lines
of connection to Rostro de Cristo. He
obtained a good secondary education.
Nuevo Mundo also has a dual purpose.
Founded by two former Catholic nuns,
the school offers an excellent education
to the children of Guayaquil’s affluent
in the morning and then buses in
scholarship students in the afternoon.
Maldonado met Rombalski when
the former was a pre-teen; they stayed in
touch during Patrick’s Duran expeditions.
and the operator of a tiny tienda corner
grocery did well at Nuevo Mundo. He had
a gift for working with computers and
ployed for a year in the school’s computer
lab. Before the job began, he experienced
a short immersion at a Brockton, Massa-
chusetts, high school, where he sharpened
his English. The year working at Nuevo
Mundo was followed by another doing
technical support for a Guayaquil bank.
In the middle of all that, Rombalski
asked Jaimé how he felt about pursuing
an American college education. With
Rombalski’s sponsorship in place, Jaimé
passed John Carroll’s tests, gained admis-
sion and obtained the financial package
As Jaimé’s departure approached, his
mother, Rosa, hearing about the shootings
at Columbine in Colorado, expressed fear.
Jaimé, realizing what moving north could
bring, remembers, “It was exciting.” There
were other staff and student members of
the campus community who embraced
him here when he arrived, but initially the
main bonds were with Patrick and Helen
Rombalski and their two very small (then)
sons, Matthew and Joseph. Jaimé lived
with the family for his freshman year.
Rombalski says now: “We anticipated
that his adjustment would be difficult
and we knew we couldn’t move him into
a residence hall. He came from a very
family-based culture and we also wanted
to keep that going. He has always been a
great young man, but at first the cultural
difference made it hard for him.”
To understand Jaimé’s adjustment,
know that it is misleading to refer to his
parents as being a factory worker and the
proprietor of a grocery store. When
Jaimé was growing up, his cement
block house didn’t have running water
and the electricity was pirated. Nuevo
Mundo could undoubtedly compete
scholastically with a great many
American high schools, but Jaimé’s
world in Duran was indisputably part of
the realm of the planetary have-nots.
It certainly wasn’t Darfur, Sudan, but it
was and is eye-openingly different from
University Heights or wherever most
John Carroll students were raised.
Jaimé’s perception is: “The lan-
guage (when he became a student
here) was a huge challenge. I went
from not having my own room to having
my own room and living on a paved road.
It was hard to get used to a lot of things.
I was very judgmental in the beginning
– for the first year or two. In the cafeteria,
I saw how much food there was and how
some kids wasted it. I worried about a lot
of things in the beginning that took me
away from what was really happening.”
About two years in, though, he
made another leap and this one prob-
ably required more resources than the
first. Looking back, Jaimé reflects; “In my
junior year, I said to myself: ‘It’s not their
fault that they (his fellow students) had a
lot more than I did. Why don’t you try to
get to know these people? You have two
choices: you can be judgmental, feel sorry
for yourself and quit or you can do some-
thing about it.’”
He said that when he dismantled the
little wall his judgment and alienation
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erected, people – fellow students in particu-
lar – reached out to him and he was able
to reach and touch back. Staff members
like Rombalski’s administrative assistant
Barb Kingsbury and Student Health Center
director Rose Bentivegna were there from
the beginning, but, fairly dramatically it
seems, students were suddenly connecting
with Jaimé and ... he had friends.
Simple to talk about transitions like
Jaimé’s in a couple of paragraphs, but for
this earnest, very polite young man, it
must have been an arduous daily march
through uncertainty. He says he still wor-
ries, “Why me?” and “What will it (his
leap) do to my head?” He also says; “I
had to make sure I keep my feet on the
ground. I went to church and I used to
pray a lot. I tried my best to remember
Be that as it may, he’s done it. He
did well academically, his English got
better and better, he found friends, he
graduated from the Boler School. He
graduated and he got a good job at Hyland
Software. He says Hyland’s culture “is
amazing,” collegial, warm; he says he feels
appreciated. He works, managing team
work flow, for Hyland’s internal software
database team. He also develops electronic
forms and still does some technical support
– when he first started with the company,
he was on the phone lines, offering
technical support in Spanish, to Hyland’s
South American clients.
Jaimé has a roommate from Ecuador,
whom he met here, and another from
Mexico, whom he met at John Carroll.
He has a girlfriend, a woman pursuing her
master’s at Columbia University, whom he
met years ago when she visited Duran as
a high school student. He plays soccer on
Saturday mornings, and though he didn’t
allow himself a beer until he turned 24, he
is able now to loosen his own reins enough
so that he can have an occasional libation.
He says that when he goes back to
Ecuador, which he does often, people will
ask about something in the U.S., and he
will say, in Spanish of course, something
like, “I can see why you would ask that. I
used to feel that way.” He also says, “I’ve

Rostro de Cristo:
who I am. It’s a big, big commitment to
remember who I am. I stopped constantly
feeling guilty and I started thinking maybe

Jaimé and fellow students

Nueovo Mundo in Duran, Ecuador.

I did something that makes me deserve it
and maybe I can do something about it.”
It wasn’t’ clear what the final “it”
meant. It felt like it meant some mea-
sure of paying back life or others for the
wild good fortune that resulted in Jaimé
Maldonado’s being enabled to make a leap
from the Developing to the First World. It
also was not clear what he meant by, “It’s
a big, big commitment to remember who
I am.” He might well have meant both: It
takes a big commitment to remember who
I am and I have made a big commitment
to remember who I am.

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 learned that this (Hyland, Northeast
Ohio, the U.S.) is my reality.” He doesn’t
know if he will go back. He says, “When
I first went to college, I thought about
going back right away, but you have to
build a foundation. Ideally, I would like to
spend half my time here. I became who I
am here. I wish I could succeed the way I
am succeeding now back home.”
It’s clear his feelings about his two
worlds are complex. Rombalski says about
that: “There still remains a mystery to it,
an anger, a love of his family that always is
playing in the back of his mind.”
Jaimé has long sent significant money
back to his family. He pays for his sister
seeing Christ in the poor
Rostro de Cristo has had a profound impact
on many people and Dr. Patrick Rombalski
is one of them. In recalling his first
experience with the Ecuadoran program,
back in the early 1990s when he was at
Fairfield University, Rombalski said: “At
the first Mass after Ecuador, when it came
to the Our Father, it was like the skies
opened, and I remember being very
emotional … It was as if things were being
experienced for the first time.“ He
honored that moment and is now the
executive director of the organization
founded by Fr. James Ronan 18 years ago.
Rostro de Cristo will lead well over 20
In foreground, JCU students on an immersion trip
Rosa’s college education in Ecuador, say-
ing,” I was blessed with a full ride.” There
is also, shyly, pride when he relates, “She
says I am like her second dad.”
At the end of the discussion in the airy
Hyland lobby, Maldonado repeats a phrase
he used earlier, “I am working on building
my own foundation; ...” This time though,
he appends a few more words: “it’s not so
much about me; it’s about my family.”
He also says that the last time he was
in Duran, several months ago, his mother
told him he had grown up a lot but hadn’t
changed. There is a bit of silence in the
Hyland lobby and then Jaimé says:
“I remember what my parents did for me,
groups of U.S. students on approximately
week-long retreats in Duran, Ecuador,
this year. The retreats allow the Ameri-
can students to walk with the poor and to
provide some assistance to the Rostro de
Cristo programs in Duran, programs such
as three after-school tutorial/mentoring
efforts. In addition to the visiting
students, Rostro de Cristo’s programs are
served by graduates of U.S. universities,
who volunteer for a year of service to
assist the people of Duran and lead the
visiting retreatants.
Rombalski said there are now more
Ecuadorans involved in running Rostro de
Cristo in Duran and that, with
help from the Jesuit Fe y Alegria
(Faith and Joy) and Catholic
Relief Services, the effectiveness
of Rostro de Cristo’s assistance
programs is now being assessed
in a more sophisticated way.
John Carroll generally
has two student trips a year to
Duran. A number of faculty and
staff members have also had
the experience. Dr. John Ropar
of the University Counseling
so I try to give back to them a lot.”
What resonates most from 45 minutes
with an Ecudoran-American in the lobby
of a software company in Westlake, Ohio,
was Jaimé saying that when he is back in
Duran, where his parents now enjoy run-
ning water in their casa, when he takes a
shower, he continues to fill a bucket with
water, and to use a ladle to pour it over
his body. The way he said it, it was clear
that this was a ritual activity of remem-
bering who he is, a personal way of being
baptized once more into the old life for
which he has great reverence, the life
which gave him the vitality and strength
to make the great leap he has made.
JCU students with the people of Duran
Center is an important part of the program
and has led a number of trips. Young
graduates like Mary Seryak ’03 and Marissa
Madden ’05 have been among the year-long
post-graduate volunteers in Duran.
Rombalski said he frequently receives
messages about the “haunting” impact the
interaction with the people of Duran has
had on visitors from this and many other
American universities and schools. The
leader of John Carroll’s Student Affairs
division said: “We try to foster a change of
reference for our visitors in terms of how
they view the world and how they under-
stand poverty. We pray that will lead to a
conversion of heart and mind in terms of
how they live their life.”
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Q&A
With Maria Alfaro-Lopez
University counsel and secretary to the board of directors

M
aria Alfaro-Lopez, John Carroll’s
new university counsel and
secretary to the board of directors,
is a lawyer with 12 years experience in the
legal offices of Wayne State University and
the University of Michigan. She was also
the leader of an environmental law team for
Wayne County, Michigan, and, subsequently,
a prosecutor for that county, which includes
Detroit. She was the city attorney for a
Detroit suburb before she accepted the
university counsel position at John Carroll.
Alfaro-Lopez is the mother of three and is
married to an immigration attorney. She is
the daughter of immigrants from Mexico,
who worked for a time as agricultural workers
in Texas before moving to the Detroit area.

Tell us a little about the back-
ground of your birth family?
My father is from Guadalajara and
my mother is from a rural area in the
state of Zacatecas – her family didn’t
have running water or electricity. We
traveled every two years to visit our
families in Mexico. My dad worked as a
laborer at Ford. I’m the oldest daughter
among six children. I did not speak
English in my first years. In 1960 when
I was four, we moved to a home in
Pontiac, outside Detroit, and people drew
up petitions to have us move. It was
pretty frightening as a kid. They believed
that we were going to bring down the
neighborhood. In a short period, they
realized that we enhanced the property.
I went to Michigan State undergrad and
to Arizona State for law school. I was in
the legal office at Wayne State for three
years and then I joined the University of
Michigan’s legal staff and was there for
nine years. I enjoyed both experiences in
higher education.
When I was at Michigan, I represented
the university in an environmental matter
in Wayne County. The case took nine
years, and when it was over the county
recruited me to lead their environmental
legal team. After three years, I moved to
a larger municipal team. The current
governor of Michigan, Jennifer
Granholm, was the corporation counsel
for Wayne County at that time, and she
was persuasive about my moving to the
municipal team. Then I went to the
county prosecutor’s office. I was there for
four years, after which I served as the city
attorney for Highland Park, Michigan.
What special equipment is re-
quired for higher education law?
Being open to learning. It’s likely
to involve anything one would handle
for a corporation – contracts and other
business transactions, property matters,
managing litigation, employment issues

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– a broad range of legal issues. Added
to that are all the higher education areas
such as governance, advancement and
those related to students and faculty. My
experience in higher education predated
the accountability and ethics-related
standards that follow from the federal
Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Fr. Niehoff has
made it very clear that he is intent on our
integrating standards of transparency into
our processes, so I will be attentive to that
dimension. Best practices resulting from
Sarbanes-Oxley gave rise to the univer-
sity establishing its anonymous reporting
system, EthicsPoint – an important tool to
help us identify, understand and address
ethics violations, other problems, as well
as develop appropriate policies and stan-
dards, and even help us prevent litigation.
But every day is a new experience. There
are some special dimensions because we
are a Catholic university. For instance, I’ve
already encountered two legal issues that
involved aspects of canon law, which is a
legal dimension I hadn’t been exposed to
prior to this position.
What attracted you to this
university?
When I saw the job posting and I
read the university’s mission statement,
it resonated with me because of my own
focus on social justice and education. It
was a very appealing statement of the
environment at John Carroll. I grew up
in a family with a strong commitment to
civic activism and building community.
One of my satisfying volunteer activities
was working within my Catholic parish
to help solve the problem of abandoned
houses. There is a values base at John
Carroll that is harmonious with my
values. My husband and children were
settled in Michigan and it wasn’t easy to
move here – that process is still taking
place – but I was drawn to what John
Carroll stands for and to how I could help
advance its mission.
We’re speaking to you on a dark
day in higher education – the
Virginia Tech massacre occurred
this morning. Will you also be
attentive to campus security
issues?
Of course. I was just at a conference
and one of the issues was workplace
violence for faculty and students.
That was rarely an issue on American
campuses in years gone by. Too often
we tend not to pay attention to the
warning signs for this kind of violence,
but paying attention is also a matter of
education, as well as knowing what to
do when you witness those warning
signs. Interaction with Campus Safety
Services will be part of my role.
Obviously, a proactive and preventative
approach is always advisable. This
kind of horrible event continues to be
blessedly rare. However, we need to
work to ensure that everyone on campus
is safe and appropriately treated. To
help accomplish that, policies guide our
behavior. It’s necessary to review, adjust
or update them as is required. At the
University of Michigan, whenever there
was a law suit, we reviewed the case
when it was concluded and determined
whether adjustments had to be made in
university policy or practice. That kind of
attention works to help keep our campus
a place of peace and justice.
You’re also secretary to the
board. Describe that role?
It’s an important “process” role. I
have the responsibility of ensuring that
records are maintained appropriately
pursuant to our bylaws. The position is
largely a matter of managing records,
board meetings, minutes, agendas,
board policy statements and other
official records.
As a Latina in a university with
a small Latina presence, do you
also expect to be a mentor in a
significant way?
I know that I will be involved in
mentoring here, but right now my focus
is on the responsibilities of my job.
Having been the first in my family to go
to college, I had no idea what a college
setting was before I applied. Given who
I am and the experience I’ve had, I’m
sure I’ll be involved in outreach to
Latino students. So, mentoring is going
to come naturally.
You suggested that the
abandoned houses work was
particularly satisfying. Please
tell us more?
At Holy Redeemer Parish in South-
west Detroit, we organized to do what
we could about the particular kind of
urban blight that involves boarded-up,
abandoned homes. Then I was asked
by Wayne County to approach the issue
in my capacity as a municipal attorney
and prosecutor. We wound up bringing
around 200 lawsuits in the first filing.
We asked the court to make an equitable
ruling to require the property owners to
either demolish the house within 60 days
or turn it over to us so we could demol-
ish it – the county would then gain title.
We were recognized by Harvard Univer-
sity as having developed an innovative
solution to the problem. It was a great
experience of public service.
First impressions?
I love what I’ve seen of Cleveland.
The campus is beautiful and everyone
has been extremely welcoming. We’re
in the process of looking for a house. I
expect my younger son, Rafael, to attend
St. Ignatius and my older son, Miguel,
is likely to join the John Carroll class of
2011. Our daughter, Dañela, is still deter-
mining her next step, but she might also
continue her studies here. My husband,
Joe, will continue serving some of his le-
gal clients in Michigan, but he will make
a gradual transition to the establishment
of a practice in Northeast Ohio.
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Serving students with particular challenges:
Services for Students with Disabilities
Christina Mullins is a congenial and
relaxed junior from Cortland, Ohio, near
Youngstown. When she was in the third
grade her visual world became fuzzy.
Doctors informed Christina and her
parents that the girl had Stargardt’s
Disease, a genetically transmitted variation
of macular degeneration that manifests in
From left, Allison West and Christina Mullins.
juveniles. A decade down the road,
Mullins is a bright Boler School student
who intends to pursue a human resources
career in the hospitality industry. She has
challenges. She can’t drive and can’t read
the blackboard. However, her listening
skills are first rate, as is her peripheral
vision, and it’s clear there will be little
Christina cannot accomplish.
The 227 students currently served
by the university’s office of Services for
Students with Disabilities (SSD) are 227
individuals who manage a wide range
of challenges. Mullins isn’t necessarily
representative, but she illustrates the
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mission and function of the important John
Carroll component that operates under the
leadership of Coordinator Allison West.
Last year Christina spent a semester
in London with fellow business majors.
Succeeding in carrying out a study-abroad
experience is a testament to the fact that
Mullins does not allow her visual impair-
ment to limit her experience. However, as
she prepares to embark on her senior year,
Mullins emphatically affirms that West’s
unit has been an indispensable source of
support during Christina’s first three years
on campus and an important reason why
Mullins is having a productive and happy
undergraduate experience.
Christina takes all of her exams, in-
cluding finals (six this past semester), in
the room next door to where West and
secretary Maureen Rosfelder are based.
There is a closed circuit television system
(CCTV) in that workroom. The CCTV
technology enables print to be greatly
magnified by the video camera and allows
Christina and other visually impaired
students to decipher written words. There
is another unit of the costly CCTV system
in the library, so if Christina needs to read
a book (as opposed to listen to a book),
she does that in Grasselli.
In her residence hall and in campus
labs, she has Zoom Text on her computer.
The software allows her to magnify text
and graphics up to 16 times. The SSD
office also provides text in alternative
format, such as CDs from Recording for the
Blind and Dyslexic. There are electronic
texts available that are scanned by the
publisher or the SSD office and then
read aloud to listening students in a clear
computer voice through screen-reader
computer software.
Another available technology, although
not one used by Mullins, is an FM radio
broadcasting system that can transmit a
professor’s words through a tiny microphone
into a student’s earpiece. This instrument
is likely to be employed by someone with
hearing, not visual difficulties. In their tool
bag, West and Rosfelder also have, among
other items, a Braille printer.
The technology is important. Earlier
generations of students with disabilities
didn’t have the tools human ingenuity
has devised to create bridges to those who
can’t easily use their sensory apparatus to
gather the information they need to suc-
ceed. Nonetheless, West, who is working
on a Ph.D. in counseling, is far more than
a tool dispenser. There is a great deal of
counseling and simple encouragement
that goes on in West and Rosfelder’s office
in the garden level of the Administration
Building. Meetings with a given student
are sometimes daily occurrences. There is
also a wide range of negotiation and liai-
son activities in the course of which the
office advocates for students in every di-
mension of their university experience, be
it accommodations, special considerations on accessibility standards mandated by the They refer students to us and we refer
in the classroom, parking, etc. 1990 ADA legislation. West said, “I think students to them. Confidentiality is a major
The complexity of West’s role is shaped we’ve done a good job with compliance, but issue for both of our offices. There are times
by the fact that there are a multitude of there is still more to do. Moreover, compli- when someone comes in to us and presents
categories of students with disabilities. ance with the law is one thing, and meeting with anxiety or depression, but there is
The Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 the students’ needs and being a welcoming occasionally some resistance to being des-
defined “disability” as a serious limitation environment is another.” ignated as a student with a disability and
in one major life function. Those with She said members of the campus receiving help for that condition.”
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and community are generally sensitive and West said that her work involves con-
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder compassionate to the situations of students tinuous attention to the central mission
(ADHD) make up the biggest group with challenges. Faculty will frequently of Jesuit education; the care of the whole
presently served. The medical condition walk students to meet West and seek person. She cites the case of one woman
catchall, including those with problems help. Much of the work of the office student who is taking a semester off to
such as asthma or diabetes, is the second involves formal or informal outreach to recover from the rigor of her complex
largest contingent. Dyslexia and related help everyone comprehend. On April 24, challenges. She said, though, that the
learning disabilities challenge those in for example, there was a panel discussion woman related that her high school guid-
the third largest grouping, and bipolarity, in which four students and West talked ance counselor had told the student she
anxiety disorder and similar psychological about their lives, challenges, successes. would not make it through college, and
issues represent almost a sixth (39) of The students, faculty and staff now have that prediction is in the process of being
West’s client population.
Students with documented disabili-
ties can register with the office to explore
receiving various accommodations and
adjustments. They include: extended test
time, note-takers, books in alternative
format, wheelchair accessible residence hall
rooms and classrooms and a variety of other
measures to facilitate learning and living.
West has been in the coordinator’s
role since 2005. The office was established
in 1999. West said the university adminis-
tration has made a profound commitment
to serving the students with disabilities
population. The office’s mission state-
ment affirms that: Services for Students
with Disabilities ensures equal access to the
educational opportunities at John Carroll
University by supporting the whole student
as an individual with unique talents, skills,
needs, hopes, and dreams. We also pledge to a better understanding of students with proven wrong.
support the university community in creating disabilities and the ­positive effects of the “I think,” said West, “some people may
and maintaining environments and opportu- accommodations that the SSD office still perceive a stigma in coming to this
nities where all students, including those with facilitates. office and asking for help, but I believe
disabilities, can learn and grow into men and West’s office works closely with the that is changing. I think we have done a
women for others. University Counseling Center. The center’s pretty commendable job so far, but every
There is a web presence on the univer- director, Dr. John Ropar, said, “The num- day I discover another way in which there
sity site (www.jcu.edu/studentL/disabilities), ber of students served by Allison’s office is is more for us to do.”
a handbook and a newsletter. A good deal steadily going up, and as it does, the num- jp
of the coordinator’s attention is focused bers at the counseling center also increase.

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ENROLLMENT
Reunion smiles tell you a
June means Reunion Weekend at John
Carroll. Our Quad is transformed with
class tents that echo with stories of col-
lege days past. Pay close attention, and
you can learn what was most important to
graduates about their college experience,
what was valued, and what has lasted.
Reunion Weekend comes relatively
By Tom Fanning soon after most high school seniors make
Director of Admissions their own college choice and we begin
and Retention
working with the next class of students
considering applying to John Carroll. If ev-
ery prospective student could visit during
those June days, they might see firsthand
the lasting impact that Carroll could have
on their lives. But how can we portray
that John Carroll essence to prospective
students as they make their choices? Too
often the early decision process is based
heavily on facts, figures and rankings.
Ironically JCU recently completed its
portion of the annual U.S. News & World
Report (UNS&WR) annual survey. This
survey is one of the more prominently
used and critiqued college ranking guides
and underscores the need to balance facts
and feelings in the recruitment process.
Data used by USN&WR primarily mea-
30 John Carroll university
sures inputs rather than outputs. Reten-
tion and graduation rates measured in the
survey can provide clues to student satis-
faction. But the value of other elements
of this survey are perennially called into
question. So far this year, 27 prominent
college presidents have come forward to
boycott completion of the survey (www.
educationconservancy.org/presidents_let-
ter.html). Summarizing their concerns:
• 25% of the total score comes from a
school’s reputation among peer college
presidents and deans.
• 30% of the formula comes from faculty
and financial resources – providing a re-
ward for colleges that raise tuition and
have high faculty salaries because that
equates to higher “educational expen-
ditures per student” and more “faculty
resources” in the formula.
There are stories behind the data
that you won’t capture in a cursory view.
Understanding how and why a school is
ranked and what data is important makes
us all more educated in the college search
process. And every guidebook and rank-
ing has its place and purpose. USN&WR
is a good first introduction to a campus,
but a student should not choose a school
simply with this tool alone. To select a
school, there are many other tools that
tell a larger story.
lot about choosing a college
For this purpose, John Carroll par-
ticipates in the National Survey of Student
Engagement (NSSE). This survey provides
information about our currently enrolled
students, their expectations, and how the
quality of their experience at John Carroll
meets these needs. Further, NSSE al-
lows comparisons among the many other
schools using the same instrument. Some
current findings include:
• 78% felt JCU contributed “quite a bit”
or “very much” to the ability to think
critically and analytically. (NSSE 2005)
• JCU students viewed faculty as mostly
available, helpful and sympathetic.
(NSSE 2005)
• About 80% of students felt JCU
contributes to students’ ability to
make ethical decisions in personal and
professional situations. (NSSE 2005)
NSSE has historically helped schools
reflect on the needs and expectations of
their students, and help measure if those
expectations are being met. But more
recently, NSSE and its data have been
opened up to help students in the admis-
sion process. NSSE published “A Pocket
Guide to Choosing a College.” Its ques-
tions go deeper than just facts and figures.
The answers to the questions in the guide
encourage further explanations and create
opportunities for dialogue. It is this dia-
logue that helps students understand what we hope that people think deeply about
is truly important in choosing a college. the process because much is at stake in
The best way to assess a school’s qual- the decision. The goal is to enroll future
ity is to visit the campus, talk to current alumni, like those in the tents in June.
students, meet faculty, observe classes and When you’re making your choice, use all
try on the “feel” of the place. Asking the available information and clues about the
right questions on your campus visits will institution. Use the guidebooks. Visit.
help you to dig deeper and get beyond And most importantly, listen. Listen to the
statistics. JCU’s reunion captures many of stories. Maybe we’ll meet under the tent
these intangible qualities that no guide- years from now as your story is added to the
book alone can easily capture. Most of the legacy of an institution in a way no piece of
JCU alumni will speak in lofty terms about data can capture.
a faculty member or an administrator who
served as a mentor, the rigor of
the classes, the lasting friend-
ships they made, the values and
character inherent in the com-
munity. This is what lasts.
Ultimately, the admission
process starts with facts
and figures and ends with
something much more
personal. It’s a balance of
making a decision with your
head and your heart. It’s
about finding the right “fit.”
As admission professionals,
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A Pocket
Guide to
Choosing
a College
Are you asking the
right Questions on
a campus visit?
Academic Challenge
Demanding intellectual and creative
academic work.
• To what degree is studying and
spending time on academic work
emphasized?
• Do faculty hold students to high
standards?
• How much time do students spend on
homework each week?
• What type of thinking do assignments
require?
• How much writing is expected?
• How much reading is expected?
• Do exams require students to do their
best work?
Active Learning
Intense involvement in learning.
• How often do students discuss ideas
in class?
• How often are topics from class
discussed outside of the classroom?
• Do students work together on projects
– inside and outside of class?
• How often do students make class
presentations?
• How many students participate in
community-based projects in regular
courses?
• How many students apply their
classroom learning to real life through
internships or off-campus field
experiences?
• Do students have opportunities to
tutor or teach other students?
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Student-Faculty Interaction
Meaningful contact with teachers.
• Are faculty members accessible and
supportive?
• How many students work on research
projects with faculty?
• Do students receive prompt feedback
on academic performance?
• How often do students talk with their
teachers about what they are learning
in class?
• How often do students talk with
advisors or faculty members about
their career plans?
• Do students and faculty members
work together on committees and
projects outside of course work?
Enriching Educational
Experiences
Additional opportunities to deepen
learning.
• What types of honors courses,
learning communities and other
distinctive programs are offered?
• In what ways do faculty use
technology in their classes?
• How often do students interact with
peers with different social, political,
or religious views?
• How often do students interact with
peers from different racial or ethnic
backgrounds?
• How many students study in other
countries?
Put John Carroll to the test
The questions below come
directly from the National
Survey of Student Engagement
[NSSE]. Each year NSSE
collects information directly
from students at hundreds
of colleges and universities.
Responses to the survey provide
valuable information about what
is actually going on in the lives
of students and the quality of
their college experience. John
Carroll participates in this student
survey. Once you get beyond the
numbers, consider asking these
questions in your college search.
We’re always glad to tell you John
Carroll’s story.
• Do students participate in activities
that enhance their spirituality?
• What percentage of students do
community service?
• What kinds of activities are students
involved in outside of the classroom?
• What kinds of events does the
campus sponsor?
• Is a culminating senior year
experience required?
Campus Environment
Positive relationships among
students, faculty, and staff.
• How well do students get along with
other students?
• Are students satisfied with their
overall educational experience?
• How much time do students devote
to co-curricular activities?
• How well do students get along with
administrators and staff?
• To what extent does the school help
students deal with their academic and
social needs?
• What types of financial aid or
scholarships are available to students?
• How accessible are library services?
• What safety services are available to
students?
• What types of health and counseling
services are available?
• What types of career planning and
job placement services are available?
 The story of The Lion’s Head
Eamon D’Arcy was trained as a master
craftsman in stone in his native County
Down, Ireland. He came here in the early
1950s and eventually founded D&W
Stone, which subsequently participated
in several projects on the John Carroll
campus. Eamon also sent two of his
children to the university: Kevin ’96 and
Annette D’Arcy Blanc ’92.
D’Arcy the father played a central role
in the establishment of a John Carroll
tradition. In the fall of 1973, he donated
The Lion’s Head, which sits in the back
of Pacelli Hall. According to The Carroll
News, the tradition of students painting
the approximately four-ton, beautifully
crafted sandstone ornament began at the
U.S. Bicentennial in 1976. Supposedly,
a group of students thought they would
improve the lion’s appearance by painting
it red,white and blue and stamping stars
upon it with a star cut into a potato.
For many years now, every John Carroll
organization that possesses colors or is able
to at least temporarily establish an identity
linkage with particular colors has adorned
the lion with the mark of its identity. And
when someone applies their colors, you can
be sure that another John Carroll student
organization will soon come upon the
scene to re-decorate the stone beast. When
beloved Dean Joe Farrell died in 1997, the
lion was green in his Irish honor.
Donor D’Arcy was recently honored
by the Irish American Archives Society
for his superb stone work, which is an
important element of many buildings
in the area and of sites like the Irish
Famine Memorial in the Flats. He was
also honored for his role in establishing
Cleveland’s United Irish societies. He
most probably has ambivalent feelings
about seeing the lion covered with
“thousands of coats of paint.” Part of
Darcy’s work was to preserve and enhance
the natural (unpainted) beauty of such
stone. But in conversation, he expressed
his understanding that he had played a key
role in establishing what now qualifies as a
“venerable” John Carroll tradition.
Mr. D’Arcy and his company acquired
some decorative elements when the
magnificent mansion of brewer Otto
Leisy was razed around 1969. Leisy, one
of the members the family that owned
Cleveland’s largest brewery, built, in 1905,
a 36-room home that he called Hochwald
(High Forest) on an 80-acre property
at the top of Fairhill Road, between
University Circle and Shaker Square.
What we will now capitalize as The Lion’s
Head was a functional piece, one of five
lions that stood at the base of 25-foot
high columns surrounding the main
stairway into the mansion. The lions were
engineered so that water falling on the
porch of the Leisy estate ran into pipes
inside the lions and then spilled through
the orifice of their beasts’ mouths into a
pond adjacent to the mansion.
After the Leisys left in the early 1930s,
the mansion was an elegant speakeasy,
the Shawnee Club, during the late stages
of Prohibition. When that closed, the
building became, in turn, a sanatorium,
the administrative offices of St. Ann’s
Hospital and the residence of the Sisters
of Charity of St. Augustine.
According to a university release in
1973, D’Arcy’s company lost their lease
on their storage yard and disposed of the
lion by donating it to John Carroll. The
donor remembers discussion about using
the ornament as part of an artificial water-
fall on the Quadrangle. The 1973 release,
on the other hand, read: “It is hoped that
we can develop around this object a stone
terrace with benches.”
The terrace was never built and water
never trickled through The Lion’s Head.
The ornament stayed in dry-dock, as it
were, behind Pacelli Hall, where for 30
years, John Carroll students have used the
brewer’s beast to roar their identity on
campus.
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Holy cow! It’s been two years already?
Paul Hulseman, ’82G
John Carroll University
National Alumni Board Member
Ryan Daly, Director of Alumni Relations
and I set out two years ago with the
encouragement of Fr. Tim Shannon and the
board of directors, to reenergize the National
Alumni Association. We quickly assembled
a fantastic board of nine dedicated alumni
to help us navigate this process and started
down a strategic development process.
This focused our conversations and gave us
purpose and direction.
In August of 2005 I had the opportunity
to meet with JCU leadership – deans
Get Connected with
Ken Honecker, ’04G
John Carroll University
National Alumni Board Member
Get connected! JCU Connect, an Internet-
based database and communication tool,
is set to launch in June. The purpose of
the site is to bring the JCU community to-
gether and leverage the most-valued assets
of the university – its people. The site will
provide an easy way for alumni to network,
both personally and professionally. It will
also provide a convenient channel for such
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and directors. I also met the previous
presidents of the association. With lots of
input and discussion, the board developed
our Guiding Principles: Sharing Resources,
Spirituality, and Friendship. Everything we
did as an organization had to be part of one
or more of these principles.
The last year or so we have been
working on nine Strategic Activities,
each of which was championed by one
of our board members. These activities
included: Admission, Scholarships and
Parent Networking (Tim Freeman ’78);
Development (Bob Valente ’69); Board
Organization (Rich Radke ’91); Reunions
(Julie Schwing ’01); Career Networking
and Online Services (Ken Honecker ’04G);
National Day of Service (Peggy Finucane ’80);
City Clubs (John Creamer ’85); Annual
Alumni Mass (Fr. Casey Bukala ’54);
Engage Faculty with Alumni (Joe Whelan ’65).
While we have made progress and laid
the foundation for the future, we are not
finished.
This past year, we also increased the
alumni communications as class notes ma-
terial and information and dialogue related
to the city clubs. Once logged into the site,
alumni will be able to search for classmates
and friends in order to send a greeting or
reestablish a friendship.
JCU Connect also includes functional-
ity that will empower alumni to enhance
professional contacts. The alumni data-
base contains information on professional
field, position title, company name and
the location of its members. You will be
able to connect with alumni and establish
a mentoring relationship or review best
practices with peers. If you are considering
a transition into another position within
your field, investigating a new field or
moving into a new geographic market,
size of the board and now include the
president of JCU’s Blue-Gold Club,
Mike Pappas ’79, and the chairman of
the Entrepreneur’s Association, Chuck
Ciuni ’68. These are two very important
organizations on campus and we are glad
they have begun to be part of the dialog.
This has been a fascinating experience
for me and I am moving away from the
president’s position with a twinge of
sadness because I enjoyed it so much.
I can’t thank enough my fellow alumni
board members who are moving on: Joe
Whelan, Julie Schwing, John Creamer
and Rich Radke. Their energy and insight
has been invaluable. John Carroll is a
better place because of them.
Thank you for all of your support these
past couple of years.
Below is a message from the man who
in the next issue will address you as the
president of the association.
Onward On!
Paul Hulseman
JCU Connect will be a valuable asset. The
personal and professional value that the
JCU alumni community has to offer its
members is limitless.
This online community for John
Carroll alumni is a joint effort between the
Alumni Office and the National Alumni
Board. JCU Connect is the result of an
ongoing discussion that began in 2004.
Both the Alumni Office and the National
Alumni Board recognize that an education
at John Carroll can provide value
throughout the lifetime of its graduates. We
are dedicated to establishing programs that
add value and enrich the lives of the JCU
alumni community.
Take advantage of your affiliation with
JCU and get connected on JCU Connect!
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to Rocky River from Willoughby, Jim Schlecht
The Golden Years Send your notes to:
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1943
from Euclid, Bud Noetzel from University Heights, Bruce E. Thompson
Send your notes to: and Lou Sulzer from reform school to accommo- 2207 South Belvoir Blvd.
Larry Kelley date the guys that would miss the lunches other- University Hts., OH 44118
16213 Marquis Ave. wise. ... I end these musings each time with “Take 216-382-4408
Cleveland, OH 44111
care of each other,” the above is what it means in
216-941-1795
Technicolor and surround sound! ... I wrote James
O’C Morgan in Texas and I may get a response In our previous issue we wrote of the passing
for the next column. I recall what I think is straight of ’43 classmen Bob Gorman, Al Piccuta, and
“Morgan.” It was at the reception prior to dinner at Bob Wilson. Sadly, the shock continues into this
Two more from the ’30s at JCU have died, both
our 50th Reunion we all had our badges on, and one issue with the passing of Tony Nicolay and John
were Jesuits and in retirement at Colombiere
of our hosts, trying to be chummy with Jim, looked Whelan. Tony died Easter Sunday in Leisure
Center in Michigan. Rev. Herman J. Muller, SJ ’31,
at his badge and asked, “Do I call you Jim, Jimmy, World, AZ, where he and wife, Jane, have lived for
died on April 19, and five days later Rev. Joseph
or James?” Morgan fixed him without a smile and years. A couple of months ago Marge and Pete
P. Owens, SJ ’38, passed on April 24. Both were
said, “You can call me Mr. Morgan.” ... Take care of Diemer lunched with the Nicolays at the Phoenix
also graduates of St. Ignatius High School in
each other. Carl airport on the way to Cleveland. Tony was a loyal
Cleveland and both taught at JCU. The last time I
Carroll man. Several years ago he called inquiring
saw Fr. Owens was at the Cleveland Clinic shortly
before he was transferred to Colombiere. He was
REUNION YEAR about replacing his JCU class ring, worn and
effaced by chemicals encountered when working
the Catholic chaplain and attended to my wife, Send your notes to:
Frances, when she was a patient in 1995. May
1942 Art Wincek
at Diamond-Shamrock Chemicals. I put him in
touch with the Belfour people. If you recall, we
they rest in peace. ... I got a long letter from one 3867 Floral Court
Santa Cruz, CA 95062 paid $35 — that ring now goes for $500. Belfour
Fr. George Follen who is retired and living at Co-
831-475-1210 gave Tony an $85 credit on his purchase for the
lombiere Center in Clarkston, MI. “George” was
atwincek@aol.com gold content in his original ring. Do you still have
the “whiz kid” in chemistry in our undergraduate
your ring? Wear it? Or is it in your dresser drawer?
days at JCU. One of these days I will answer his
From the Alumni Office came word of a gentleman ... Professor John W. Whelan died in March at
sister – just as soon as I find her letter – again! It’s
whose whereabouts have been unknown to his Mill Valley, CA, near San Francisco, his home with
somewhere in my office. ... This year will be the
classmates for quite a few years. Bill Driscoll died Maryrose. John was a professor at the University
70th reunion for the class of 1937. It won’t be the
July 22, 2004 and it appears that his residence was of California Hastings School of Law in Berkley.
same without Mike Dwyer ’37 (fellow columnist!),
in Fairfax, VA. He had many good dorm friends who He curtailed his teaching the past several years
Jim Priebe ’37 and Bill McMahon ’37 – both cheer-
asked about him many times over the years. In the to complete his third legal book. John was one of
leaders with me at JCU. Jim worked at NASA
last issue of the magazine, our column referred to two summa cum laude grads in our class. Nothing
– Lewis Research Center and we retired on the
the fact that I was unable to make contact with Fr. is more distressing as your correspondent than
same day, January 11, 1980. ... During the war, I
Matt Herttna, and in the death notices we learned to be the bearer of sad news particularly re the
bumped into Bill McMahon in the men’s room at
that he died on December 13, 2006. ... Maureen passing of a ’43 classman whose friendship has
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. He was in
E. Coughlin ’79 cousin to our Tom Coughlin (’43 or been a source of enjoyment over the years even
the Navy – in charge of the gun crews on tankers,
’44) was kind enough to write me and furnish Fr. though often time and space intervened. These
carrying 150 octane aviation fuel to the ETO. I
Herttna’s obituary. Maureen’s family and Fr. Herttna men will long be remembered and respected. ...
think I prayed for him every night as I was with
were well acquainted. His obituary follows — A April anniversaries: Elaine and Don Coburn, 60
an outfit that was with an anti-sub air patrol out
Mass of Christian Burial was offered December 18, years; Rita and Dick Moriarty, 63 years; Mary
of Charleston, SC. Tankers were prime targets of
at the National Shrine of St. Dymphna, Massillon, Ruth and Bruce Thompson, 63 years. ... Last
the German subs in the Atlantic Ocean. ... Nadine
OH, for Fr. Matthew Herttna, 85, who died De- December, while in University Hospitals following
Nardi Davidson – thanks for the letter and address.
cember 13. Fr. Herttna was a retired priest of the a hip replacement, Pete Diemer mailed me some
... ‘til later, keep praying. Just Larry
diocese. He was born April 12, 1921 in Montville, miscellaneous reading material “to comfort a
OH, a son of Matt and Helen Herttna. He attended recuperating patient.” It arrived at my home in mid-
Send your notes to: Hartsgrove Elementary School, Orwell High School, April. Interesting reading for Navy men who served
1940

Carl Giblin Rome High School, John Carroll University, and in the South Pacific in WWII: Sea of Thunder
1100 Ponce DeLeon Blvd., 401 N St. Mary’s Seminary, Cleveland. He was ordained by Evan Thomas, and Halsey’s Typhoon by Bob
Clearwater, FL 33756 May 26, 1945, by Bishop James A. McFadden. Fol- Drury and Tom Clavin. ... Al Balocca recently called
727-518-7961
lowing ordination, Fr. Herttna served as associate and made mention of his daily routine. For the
GIBBI612@aol.com
pastor at St. Peter Parish, Canton (1945-52), Sacred past 25 years, or more, it begins with Mass and
Heart Parish, Youngstown (1952-53) and St. Charles Communion at either Ascension, Mother Queen
I am an addict! I am addicted to the possibilities
Parish, Boardman (1953-54). While at St. Peter’s he of Heaven, or Visitation Church — he estimates
afforded by my MAC, digital camera, printer, scan-
was the first chaplain of the Canton Police Dept. that he has missed only once or twice! That is
ner, and copier. I get my material downloaded from
and the Stark County Sheriff’s Dept., where he devotion and commitment considering the severity
the Internet. It fills many waking hours. In order to
coordinated a project carried out by the inmates of Chicago’s winters. ... A red-letter date: June
make those hours useful, I have my “mail minis-
— the renovation of part of the building as a 20-22, 2008. The 65th reunion of the class of 1943.
try.” I have a list of shut-ins, old friends, hospital
Catholic chapel. He celebrated Mass and counseled All classes ending in 3 or 8 will gather in reunion.
patients, etc. that get mail from me about three
there. In January 1954, Fr. Herttna was assigned as Mark your calendar in anticipation and hope that
times a week. Everyone likes to get first class mail
Catholic chaplain to Heartland Behavioral Health- you will be on campus for all or part of this once
that’s not a bill, a request for money, or advertising.
care. He retired on May 31, 1996. In his retirement, in a lifetime gathering. ... Let’s look at our class
So I scour the Internet and so far, have been able to
he continued to care for the hospital patients as mailing list as it now exists — names only: Mrs.
get enough good material to keep the pipeline full.
chaplain. During his ministry Fr. Herttna served as L. Ray Antolik, Alfred Balocca, Leo Bedell, Sr.,
... John Sweeney, news bureau chief in Cleveland,
diocesan director of Catholic nurses, a member Bernard Brysh, Milan Busta, Dr. John Byrne,
reports that the lunch bunch agreed to meet on
of the Diocesan Pastoral Council and chaplain of Mrs. Dennyse Cahill, Gorden Cahours, Salvatore
the second Tuesday of each month. They are very
the Catholic Daughters of America, Court Massil- Calandra, Mrs. Loretta Cleary, Dr. Donald
eager to make it as easy as possible for anyone
lon, No. 1244. He was an instructor of religion at Coburn, Leo Corr, Mrs. Mae Corrigan, Warren
interested to attend, and planned to lunch in Rocky
Ursuline High School and was a representative Corrigan, Thomas Daly, Pierre Diemer, Mrs. Ann
River to make it easy for Jack Brennan and Dick
for the Ohio Council of Churches Commission on Dooling, Thomas Dunnigan, Dr. Edwin Elshaw,
Breiner. Had to cancel because Jack had a cold. It
Institutional Ministries. Fr. Herttna leaves several Dr. Joseph Gurley, Edward Heil, Edward Hurley,
is impressive that John Sweeney is willing to travel
nephews and nieces. ... Art John Kerr, Dr. James Kilduff, Edward Kipfstuhl,

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Raymond Lanigan, Mrs. Dorothy Leslie, John
Malone, Thomas Mazanec, Richard Moriarty,
Robert Obringer, Dr. James Phipps, John
Rozance, Arnold Schmidt, J. Walter Schwarz,
Dr. Joseph Seibert, Joseph Sepkoski, Mitchell
Shaker, Jerome Sullivan, Frank Sullivan, Bruce
Thompson. ... Notice the absence of Ted Saker,
who was extremely active as a student. Does
anyone know the reason why Ted requested his
name purged from all JCU communications?
Regardless the reason, surely Ted should be on
campus. IMPORTANT: Please, will each one of
your tell me your thoughts re our 65th class reunion.
Take care, Bruce
Send your notes to:
1944
Don McDonald
3440 South Green Rd.
Beachwood, OH 44122
216-991-9140
On April 24, His Eminence Cardinal William J.
Levada, Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, Vatican City, Rome, gave a talk held at
Gesu, concentrating on the importance of increas-
ing the number of vocations. The Margaret F.
Grace lecture was sponsored by The Cardinal
Suenens Center at John Carroll and the Church
of the Gesu. Pete Bernardo ’67 arranged a dinner
following the talk at 7 p.m. in the Faculty Dining
Room. Currently there are 25 seminarians from
the Cleveland seminaries taking courses at John
Carroll plus approximately nine students at the
university who are thinking about their possible
vocations. ... Rev. Gerald J. Sabo, SJ, is the new
rector of the John Carroll community starting
July 1. All the best to Rev. Howard Gray, SJ, who
will be assistant to the president at Georgetown
University. ... We welcome Leo Corr ’43 and his
wife, April, back to the Cleveland area after many
years of residence in Michigan ... Rosalie Massey
is back working on special events! Jim Mason
’60 and Rosalie are organizing the golf outing at
Sleepy Hollow County Club to be held June 4. ...
Take care, Don
REUNION YEAR
Send your notes to:
1947
Ed Cunneen
22020 Halburton Rd.
Beachwood, OH 44122
216-561-1122
edcunneen@ameritech.net
I would like to “invite” members of the classes of
’45 and ’47 to make a supreme effort to spend a
moment or two at Reunion, June 22-24. Class-
mates from both years are becoming more
scarce, so give it a try you guys and ladies and say
hello to everyone. ... Also for all those with over
50 years since graduation, you are encouraged to
join in the ceremonial graduation “march” in
honor of the Class of 2007. ... My current
“employment and hobby” is project managing the
“gas well” drilling at Canterbury Country Club. I’m
not an engineer but a “peddler” by trade. You tell
me how I got that job! ... Ed
Send your notes to:
1948
Julius Sukys
440-449-8768
journal@jcu.edu
And it happens again ... Death has taken one of
the most illustrious members of the class of ’48.
Ed Muldoon passed away recently at his home
at Coto DeCaza, CA. Ed had his roots in Cleveland
– attending Cathedral Latin School and then John
Carroll. After graduating, Ed worked and eventually
became CEO of a Cleveland company and then on
to California to conquer the West. Ed was genuine
in giving to non-profit entities and especially to
Carroll. The university named the Dolan Science
Center atrium in his honor – Edward M. and Ann
Muldoon Atrium. He will always be missed with
his gregarious demeanor and wonderful sense of
humor. He leaves his wife, Ann, and four children.
We will always remember him. Adios old friend,
R.I.P. ... J.P.S.
Send your notes to:
1949
Tom Harrison
3980 West Valley Dr.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
440-331-4343
216-881-5832 (fax)
taharrison2001@sbcglobal.net
I spoke with Vic Rozance in Palm Harbor, FL, and
expressed condolences on the recent death of
his wife, with whom he’d had a happy and loving
life for 58 years. I asked if he might move back to
Cleveland, and he explained that three of their four
children had moved to the nearby Tampa area long
ago and established long term careers there, so
he’d remain there. Vic spent his life in the banking
and mortgage business, while down payments
were 20%, and second mortgages few, retired
from The Mellon Bank and settled in FL. ... As the
snow piled up during Holy Week, I called Dave
Gibbons in sunny Palm Coast, FL, to hear some
good weather news. As expected it was warm and
sunny, but Dave had some new news, his great-
niece was a Carroll basketball star! This is brother
Tom Gibbons’ granddaughter! To learn more
details, I called Tom Gibbons in Naples. Jessica
Gibbons ’07 was the captain of the JCU ladies
basketball team through her junior and senior years.
The team was very successful; the “big games”
were victories over BW 58, JCU 61; Otterbein 81,
JCU 83; Muskingum 71, and JCU 80. In that game
Jessica scored 21 points. She plans to continue
her studies in grad school. Tom continues to enjoy
Florida weather, his only comment, like that of each
of our aging classmates is “everything is beautiful,
with an occasional rough spot.” ... Ed McKenna
brought up the subject of men’s basketball at a
recent “Gray Streaks” lunch, displaying his copy
of The Carroll News of January 15, 1943. JCU
had had a grim season, losing to Case 52 to 46, to
Akron U 38 to 37, to BW 38 to 33, and to Wooster
50 to 38. Ed explained, he’d brought this old
bad news to highlight the fact that this year the
basketball team had doubled it’s scores, and has
been highly successful, won the big games over
Albion 82 to 64, over Otterbein 77 to 86, and beat
Muskingum 74 to 81. Al Zippert pointed out the
fact that both the men’s and women’s teams are
AlumniJournal
playing in faster company than in ’40s, and that
both have been winners. ... Frank Washko, long
retired from Lear Siegler, joined the group for the
April lunch, enjoyed it, and looks forward to its
resumption in the fall. ... Bill Primavesi fell ill while
visiting with his few remaining relatives in Chicago,
and after a long hospitalization, died. Carol and I,
and Eileen and Ray Fox, attended his memorial
Mass at St. Malachi Church. Father Jim Conry
was a concelebrant. We visited briefly after Mass.
... Len Neiger recently passed away. Len had a
busy dental practice located on Center Ridge Road
in Rocky River. He suffered failing health for the
past year. ... Send news! Good news, preferred. All
reported with reasonable accuracy, Tom
Send your notes to:
1950
Jack Reilly
216.291.5762
I had but one contestant respond to my picture
quiz of last month, and yes it was John Buckon,
identified by Joe Raymond, long time resident of
Saginaw, MI. Joe spent time in the Marine Corps,
as this writer did, and was relocated to Saginaw
by Procter & Gamble as a regional sales manager
for many years. (Serving in the Corps in Korea for
a year can prepare you for anything!) The father of
seven children and 13 grandchildren, with some
family in town, he keeps busy with this twenty!
Yet, I hope to be able to buy him that beer! ... I
was able to reach an old pal, Pat Monroe (Kay), by
phone to find out he too is still working! Though
his children bought the business (tools sold to the
fiberglass trade) in 2000, they can’t seem to get rid
of Pat, the wise old master no doubt! Wonder if
he gets a salary yet? He and Kay have six children,
all in the area, half of them working with him; they
produced 19 grandchildren, three great-grandchil-
dren, with three more expected! Prolific group
they! ... Some fellas take their Godfather responsi-
bility seriously – Jim Conway, Godfather of Neal
Buckon ’75, recently visited the Lt. Col. chaplain
at his post-Iraq assignment to the 57,000 soldier
garrison at Fort Sill, OK. Jim, who retired in 1967 as
a Lt. Col. after 24 years as an Infantry officer (five
years active and 19 years reserves) has tracked his
Godson ... visiting him in 2001 at Fort Stewart, GA;
in 2004 at Heidelberg, Germany and now Fort Sill
... and a long way to go for confession! ... Hugh
Gallagher is doing well after his triple bypass of
almost a year ago. Has retired from his business of
“giveaway” type products — Chinese competition
here too he says. ... We have lost two classmates
this year, Robert Stack and Fernando Calimano-
MacCormac. Our sympathies. ... Class president
Jack Reilly likes to call some of you from time to
time and pass on information to all the class, and
since my recent right arm rotator cuff surgery was
not successful, I find my attempt at typing this
occasional article a difficulty. Thus, I am asking him
to take over this task! Good luck comrade! Finis,
Charlie
Thank you, Charlie. Long, diligent, dedicated
service. You have done very well by your alma
mater. May you long enjoy.
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1951
J. Donald FitzGerald
2872 Lander Rd.
Pepper Pike, OH 44124
216-765-1165
jfitz@papsco.com
Here I am again facing the deadline for the class
of ’51 column — for a change a note in my files
provides me an opportunity to highlight the activity
and recognition of one our classmates. ... Larry
Badar was recently listed among the 75 “notable
people in physics and physics education” selected
by members of the American Association of Phys-
ics Teachers, commemorating the organization’s
75th anniversary. Now retired, Larry’s physics career
spanned a half century, including nearly 30 years
teaching at Rocky River High School and 15 years
at Case Western Reserve University as director of
the Center for Science and Mathematics Education,
as well as teaching at St. Bonaventure University
and serving as a program officer at the National
Science Foundation. Congratulations Larry — well
deserved! In addition I feel certain most of us have
had the opportunity to view our classmate’s recent
television commercial on weight loss — I wonder if
we might be able to obtain a class group rate. Don
REUNION YEAR
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1952
Dorothy Poland
PolandMomdot@aol.com
It is a beautiful spring day, after all the snow we have
had, I am enjoying the sunshine. This column will
be very short because I have not heard from many
of you. I have had e-mails from Don Terrell and Lee
Cirillo ’51 and Tom Fields ’71, but where are the rest
of you hiding? If any of you are interested in “Elder
Abuse/Law” the go-to guy is Tom Fields. I have his
e-mail address if any of you are interested. This is
our 55th Reunion year and I hope many of you are
planning to attend at least some of the events. I did
get to the last Gray Streaks luncheon early in April
and saw George Englehart. Any of you who are still
in the vicinity should try to make some of these lun-
cheons. The food is good, the company is exception-
al and the speaker brings a wealth of knowledge to
us. I began writing this column November of 1981 to
August of 1992 when Paul Mooney took over. When
Sam Wetzel asked for help a few years ago, I was
happy to help. It is really difficult to give out news of
classmates when nobody tells me what is happen-
ing in their lives. I would really appreciate hearing
from you! Till next time, God bless and I hope to see
you at the Reunion in June. Dorothy
Send your notes to:
1953
Jim Myers
315 Chesapeake Cove
Painesville Twp., OH 44077
440-358-0197
cealejim@gmail.com
Hi all – no news this time except for a new way for
you to contact me with all of your information to make
our class column interesting. Please send news to
my new e-mail address - cealejim@gmail.com.
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We have a new computer and fast Internet now!
... See you at the Saturday night dinner Reunion!
Jim
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1954
Peter Mahoney
401 Bounty Way, #145
Avon Lake, OH 44012
440-933-2503
peter007@centurytel.net
...news from the most interesting places ... if you
are a business reader and a stock player one of
our classmates is mentioned in a book written by
Jeremy Siegel a prof at the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania. Title of the book
is Stocks for the Long Run ... He writes that one
of his best students, Clarence Blake, followed
the profs advice and was a force while on Wall
Street. To many of us Clarence is known as Jake.
... Austie Groden took a top ten in a California
Seniors Golf Tournament. He plans to spend the
summer looking for loose change at local courses.
... While vacationing in Florida, Don Buynack and
wife Marilyn entered an AARP Dancing with the
Stars contest and won it all! Marilyn must be the
star. ... Dave Nilges is still concerned about “is
Denver, Colorado, overbuilt”? His newsletter is
a compendium of the world of capital and land
in and around Denver. ... In our last publication I
mentioned Gene Flynn, who has an accounting
firm in Hudson, OH. Seems that last year he fell
and injured his left shoulder ... still hurts ... but after
much thermo kinematics he mastered the use of
his right hand (he has been left handed for the last
70+ years) and sailed through the tax season. The
IRS may question his right hand signature on those
forms. ... Prayers for Bob Coerdt who recently had
some health challenges. ... Keep the faith, Pete
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1955
Ray Rhode
1543 Laclede Road
South Euclid, OH 44121
216-381-1996
rrrhode@aol.com
GOOD NEWS: I am happy to report that our
snowbirds have returned to their Northern area
nesting grounds safely and in good health. BETTER
NEWS: Dick Mulac will testify to the power
of prayer. In the last issue of the John Carroll
magazine, we asked you to pray for Dick, who
was paralyzed from the waist down. Doctors had
told Dick and Kathy that he probably would never
walk again. In just three months he has progressed
from using a wheel chair to a walker to a cane. The
doctors at the Texas Medical Center are amazed
at the progress he has made. Lots more rehab
is necessary but he is on the mend. ... While we
Clevelanders are suffering from the coldest and
snowiest winter in a very long time, Lady Lake in
Central Florida was also misbehaving. Tom Jira
reports that on February 1 and 2, five tornado cells
blew through the area and narrowly missed his
home. In The Villages and surrounding area, where
Tom lives, lives were lost and property damage
was extensive. ... Stan Gorski recently renewed
his friendship with Robert Tuma ’57. Stan served
as Tom’s campaign manager when Tom ran for the
Ohio Senate in the ’60s. ... Joan and Dave Hauer
cruised the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the
Panama Canal in January. But time marches on ...
Dave reports that his nine-year-old granddaughter
now shows him up while doing California style
skiing and certainly will leave him in her wake next
year. ... Remember Paul Kozak ’04 from the cover of
the last issue of the John Carroll magazine? Tony
Musca thinks that maybe the Class of ’55 can take
some pride in molding his strong character. It seems
that our Jim Lawless and Mike Cleary ’56 coached
Paul in basketball while he was at St. Philomena’s
Elementary School. Tony Musca also attended
St. Philomena’s but missed out on the excellent
coaching of Jim and Mike. Another example of
character building in the Class of ’55: Ed TePas
plays golf almost every day in sunny California and
reported that good things are starting to happen to
his golf game. He had his second hole-in-one this
year and that came one hour after he took his first
ever golf lesson. Way to go! ... Molly Sweeney
reports that her 13th grandchild has arrived. ...
Please remember in your prayers, John M. Skoda,
who passed away March 5, 2007. ... Stay well and
remember to pray for our many classmates who are
in poor health and suffering greatly, Ray
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1956
Leo Duffy
1561 Towhee Ln.
Naperville, IL 60565
630.355.2199
January-May
1500 Park Beach Cir. Unit 5G
Punta Gorda, FL 33950
941.505.8394
leomaryduffy@peoplepc.com
The class of ’56 Florida mini-reunion hosted
by John Boler, in Fort Myers, was held March
15, 2007. Those attending, with our spouses,
were John Boler, Mike Conti, Ed Daugherty,
Al DeGulis, Leo Duffy, Jim Knechtges, Ben
Miralia, Tom O’Neil, Bob Pascente, Phil
Schaefer, Paul Schlimm, and Leo Slack. Mary
Therese and I were joined by all our children and
grandchildren at our daughter’s home in Orlando
to celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary on
February 2. ... Ruth Ann and Fritz Eder will be
celebrating their anniversary with their family on
a cruise in June, and Mary Jo and John Boler will
also be celebrating theirs with a family trip to Italy
in November. ... Leo
REUNION YEAR
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1957
Salvatore R. Felice
3141 W. Pleasant Valley Rd.
Parma, OH 44134
440-842-1553
srfelice@cox.net
Your reunion committee worked long and hard to
make our “big 50” a truly special event. Thank
you to all committee members and others for their
phone calls, letters and e-mails to make it all hap-
pen! ... Joe Luby was in Ireland in October 2006
and April 2007 working with his wife, Frances,
on genealogy searches in Counties Limerick and
Monaghan. Joe closed his consulting business at
year end 2006. ... John Gormley reports that Jerry
Holzhall, who is doing well, has moved perma-
nently to Destin, FL. Jerry’s phone is 850.837.6380.

Sadly, the Virginia Tech disaster hit the Gormley
family exceptionally hard. John’s cousin, Katie
Read, lost her granddaughter in the shooting in
mid-April. Mary Read, daughter of Peter Read,
was half Korean. Katie’s son Peter, father of Mary,
married a Korean girl upon graduating from the Air
Force Academy. Kindly, keep the Read and Gormley
families, along with the kin of all the slain victims in
your prayers. ... Georgia and Jim Gasper became
grandparents for the eighth time with the birth of
beautiful Kyle Marie, the daughter of son Charles
and wife Lisa on February 8. ... Frank Petro, Esq.,
still working and loving it, is looking forward to
visiting with old friends at Reunion 50. Frank has
been representing railroad unions for over 45 years.
Of the six children, Danny and Debbie are both
attorneys. The youngest, Mary Frances, is an opera
singer and real estate broker in Connecticut, near
Long Island Sound. She sang in Rome in the early
’90s. Daughter Catherine has been married to an
Australian Naval officer for 26 years and lives in
Australia. Other children are Lisa and Thomas. ...
Larry Lau - llau@carolina.rr.com or 704.969.8627
- is retired and living in Charlotte, NC. He and
wife Lynn have five children – Barbara, Michael,
Lisa, Jennifer and Jon. ... Richard A. Donahue
- rad0517@windstream.net or 440.355.4581 - is re-
tired and resides with wife Erma in LaGrange, OH.
... John Scanlan and Nancy, from Williamsburg,
VA, - 757.565.1625 - are most anxious to be with
good friends at Carroll on Reunion Weekend. ...
Bart Merella attended a St. Ignatius (Cleveland) re-
union in Washington, DC, on April 19 and reports a
good turn-out. He says there are about 450 Ignatius
alumni living in the DC area. ... Our class family has
lost two more members: Enos Fouratt (12/29/06)
and James D. Mix (4/08/07). Enos was retired
and living in Capitan, NM. Jim lived in Hudson,
OH, with wife Gail since 1990 and passed away
after a year long battle with multiple myeloma. Our
heartfelt sympathy is extended to the Fouratt and
Mix families. This loss brings our total deceased
class members to 99 (that we are aware of) – six
of which were graduate student members. I’ll look
forward to seeing you all at our SPECIAL and FREE
50th Class Reunion! God bless, Sal
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1958
John E. Clifford
922 Hedgestone Dr.
San Antonio TX 78258-2335
210-497-3427 (w)
1-888-248-3679
JohnEClifford@prodigy.net
I write this on April 24, during the wettest spring I
can remember in my 35 years living in South Texas.
As a result, my peach trees are full, and I trust
that later the apple tree will bear fruit – apples. If
you listened to WGAR at night on this day in 1951
you heard The Micky McQueen Matter on Yours
Truly, Johnny Dollar. ... Speaking of accounting, we
heard from another business major — one who has
not strayed too far from home. When he was at
Carroll, he lived in Wickliffe. Now Jim Cromie lives
in Willowick with his wife, Ellen Devitt Cromie,
’60 English major. Jim and Ellen have six children
and ten grandchildren, most living in the Cleveland
area. He keeps busy working part-time at the public
library. ... Speaking of another business major still
living in the Cleveland area, James Gray lived in
Lakewood during his JCU years, and he can still be
found there. Jim was a graduate of St. Ignatius and
served as a self-employed public accountant until
he retired three years ago. His five children, and
three grandchildren all live in the area. At age 74,
Jim still manages to get up each day and turn on
the TV, and occasionally get to a baseball game. A
recent stroke has slowed him down, but his sense
of humor is still evident. ... I conclude with a piece
of sad news: Bill Doran died on the afternoon of
March 14. His son, Bill Jr., told me that for several
months before, and including on the 14th, his wife,
Judy, and his four children and five grandchildren
“got the opportunity to tell him exactly how they
felt about him. Best of all, he had ample time for
rebuttal.” Knowing Bill for 60 years, I’m sure the re-
buttal was in good humor. When we were growing
up, Bill and his sister, Elinor, lived on 201st Street in
Euclid just down from Holy Cross School. I lived on
196th Street. We both graduated from St. Joseph
High School in 1954. Col. William K. Doran, U.S.
Army (Ret.) is scheduled for burial with full military
honors at Arlington National Cemetery in May.
Over the past years, Bill regularly sent me insulting,
derogatory, negative, ridiculing (but funny) e-mails
about Texans and Texas. I miss those e-mails, Bill.
... On the road to the Big Five O! Peace, JEC
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1959
Jerry Burke
1219 W. Grove St.
Arlington Heights, IL 60005-2217
847-398-4620
gburke987@SBCglobal.net
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1960
Jerry Schweickert
14285 Washington Blvd.
University Hts., OH 44118
216-381-0357
bjschweick@sbcglobal.net
I am saddened to report that our classmate Jim
Kaiser passed away on March 15. Not a good
way to begin the column! ... Continuing with the
information sent by Larry Beaudin, for which I had
no room in the last column, he was able to spend
some time with Tom Bausch at a Jesuit function.
He reports that Tom is still with Marquette Univer-
sity. They shared memories of Pacelli Hall. Larry is
an instructor with the AARP Safe Driver Program
(wonder why they use young people to teach in
AARP?). He also teaches seventh grade Religious
Education at his daughter’s parish. She teaches
fifth grade and her 16-year-old daughter teaches
first grade. (Don’t do the math we are all that old!)
Larry is active in Knights of Columbus serving
as an officer at both his council and assembly.
The Beaudins have 14 grandchildren living in the
Chicago area and Larry is even an official “assistant
Den leader” in his daughter’s Cub Scout Pack. At
the time he sent this info, he and his wife, Peg,
were heading for the Jesuit retirement community
in Clarkston, MI, to visit some long time friends
including, hopefully, J. Otis Schell, S.J. Thanks for
sharing this news, Larry. ... If more of you guys
would do the same, you wouldn’t have to put up
with the following: Steve Schuda has joined our
third Friday lunch group a couple of times since
Thanksgiving. How many guys do you know who
would drive from Pittsburgh to join you for lunch?
He also joined Jim Mason, Bob Fitzgerald, Greg
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Fisher, Dave Nichting, Frank Dempsey and me
on our annual trip to Santee, SC, for a week of golf.
We wouldn’t mind expanding the group. If you
have an interest, let me know and I’ll send details.
We have already reserved our dates for ’08. We
will leave Cleveland on Friday, March 28 and return
on Friday, April 4. Denny McGrath has surfaced as
a potential first round draft choice for next spring. ...
Bev and I joined Melinda and Jim Mason, Judy and
Denny Judy McGrath, Lynne and John Magnotto,
Jim Shannon and his friend, Diana, for a quick trip
to the Grand Canyon in late February, after which
we headed to Phoenix for a visit with Jerry Malizia
and his fiancée, Jeanie Ralls. Needless to say, we
had a great time with an abundance of laughter. ...
Plans are being made for a joint mini-reunion with
the class of ’59 at Homecoming this fall. We will
make it a “pay as you go event,” but will probably
ask for some kind of reservations. At the moment
we are thinking of a get together on Thursday
evening for those who come in early or are local
residents. The university will work with us concern-
ing Friday. Golf for the guys who are interested can
be arranged with a possible tour of some of the
attractions of Cleveland for non-golfers and wives.
Friday evening dinner could be held in the new
Alumni Lounge in Rodman Hall depending on the
number of attendees. Saturday is the Street Fair on
Belvoir and the football game. At the moment, we
are thinking of leaving Saturday evening and the an-
nual Alumni Mass and Breakfast on Sunday open to
individual choice. Homecoming is the last weekend
in September. ... Please send an e-mail to journal@
jcu.edu if you are interested in attending this mini-
reunion! We will plan accordingly. Be well, Jerry
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1961
Jack T. Hearns
4186 Silsby Rd.
University Heights, OH 44118
216-291-2319
216-291-1560 (fax)
jhearns@sbcglobal.net
Jack Doerr, Dick Murray, Lou Colombo, and
Gerry O’Connell recently spent a week in Palm
Desert, CA, improving their golf game and are
planning a tour of Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the
Republic of Ireland for ten days of golf this coming
September. Jack is retired from his executive
position in the insurance industry and has done
extensive traveling around the world. He has been
instrumental in representing the Chicago diocese in
leasing prime land in the Oakbrook area West of
Chicago for the development of a world class golf
course. Jack has spent more than five years driving
this project and taking the lead in screening and
selecting the course architects. He is also the
current president of Big Foot, his golf club in Lake
Geneva, WI. ... Lou resides just outside Denver.
After his service experiences as a pilot shuttling
troops and supplies to Vietnam, he spent most of his
career with Continental Air. He is back in the pilot
seat, this time flying a Lear 55 for members of the
Coors family (as in beer). Lou was the president of
his golf club in Colorado last year. ... Dick Murray
moved from Dallas to Asheville, NC, a few years ago
and, while he is retired from a career in the
advertising business, he is active in support of
church, hospital, retirees, and the needy. ... Joe
Esser from New Providence, NJ, is retired but has
taken two courses on George Washington and has
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made visits to Washington’s headquarters in
Morristown, NJ, as well as viewing the locations of
his winter encampments in Jockey Hollow Park in
1779-80. ... Irene and John Cleary recently returned
from a spring trip to Fort Lauderdale and the Cayman
Islands. ... Ed “Clarkee” Clarke was spotted viewing
Cleveland’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. While many
JCU grads weathered the snowy, cold, windy march
down Superior Avenue — Ed (always Irish to the
core) was discovered sitting in front of a fireplace at
the Marriott Hotel in downtown Cleveland watching
the parade on TV. ... Peg and Jack Durkin spent
some time recently in Florida at New Smyrna and
Amelia Island. Jack is an avid baseball fan and took
the opportunity to scout the Cleveland Indians during
spring training. ... Jeanne Woolever Kinney is
retired from education and is living in Hopedale, MA.
She is the mother of seven children, was a member
of the English department at Stonehill College, and
for thirteen years taught English as a secondary
language at the Massachusetts Correctional
Institution in Framingham, MA. ... Mike Caton who
lives in Naples, FL, for the last seven years is semi-
retired and believes he is twice blessed because he
resides in the Sun Belt and all of his children and
grandchildren live in close proximity. ... Ed McGervey
and his wife, June, are enjoying retirement in
Savannah, GA, by playing lots of golf, walking, and
bike riding. They recently returned from Ireland,
where they combined golf with a sight seeing trip.
Ed is still doing some consulting for his former
accounting firm via the computer. The McGerveys
now have seven grandchildren. ... Patrick Meanor is
Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the
State University of New York in Oneonta, NY. He is
in his 33rd year at the university; received his MA
from JCU, and a Ph.D. from Kent State University.
He has authored three books, close to two hundred
articles, and is the editor of five volumes of the
Dictionary of Literary Biography. He also serves as
a classic music reviewer for Fanfare and Listener
magazines. ... Keep us informed, Jack
REUNION YEAR
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1962
Bob Andolsen
36100 Maple Dr.
North Ridgeville, OH 44039-3756
440-327-1925
440-327-5629 (fax)
rrandolsen@aol.com
The reunion committee for the class of 1962 has
been hard at work over the past few months
attempting to contact you and encourage your
participation in our class gift and your attendance
at our 45th Reunion. I know that each member of
the committee was hard at work finding those of
you that were difficult to reach, as well as whose
addresses are unknown. I was amazed at some of
your reactions to being contacted over the phone,
and encouraged by the numbers who indicated
their plans to attend this Reunion. We are all look-
ing forward to seeing you in June and sharing in the
good times with one another. ... While spending
the cold months in Florida, we had the pleasure of
having dinner in Satellite Beach with Mary Kay and
Paul ’63 Kantz, Judith and John Doyle, Donna and
Bud Meyers, and Jean and Bob Andolsen. We
also had the opportunity later that month to have
lunch at the beautiful gulf coast Sanibel Lighthouse
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with Sharon and Paul Dwyer, who are planning on
attending Reunion. ... Don Hagerty ’59, ’62 MA
who resides with his wife, Phyllis, in Centerville,
OH, was recently awarded the prestigious Circle of
Distinction Sales Award by the CEO of Prudential
Residenz, Jim Keyes at the NCR Country Club in
Dayton. ... The members of the reunion committee:
Bob Andolsen, Marty Burke, James Carnago,
Jim Devine, Mike Evans, Doc Kopfinger, Michael
Leonard, Tom McDonough, Gerry O’Malley,
Jerry Stanoch, Mike Shean, and Joe Suranni
are appreciative of your generosity toward our
memorable class gift and your cooperation and
friendliness during our efforts to encourage your at-
tendance at this Reunion. It is difficult to make cold
calls, often times to classmates that we have not
talked to for many years, but great to be received
with friendship and understanding. ... As a result
of your responses, we were able to successfully
locate a number of missing classmates, including
Daniel Doyle in Belleair, FL, and Edward Thomas
in Geneva, IL, and to add them to the list of active
classmates. ... We are looking forward to reporting
next time on Reunion participants and activities.
Have a great summer and stay safe. Bob
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1963
Pete Mykytyn
3015 Alveria Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-549-1946
618-453-7885 (w)
mykytyn@cba.siu.edu
I received a few nice notes this time around, but
as you know, I am always asking for more updates.
There are many of you who haven’t responded at
all over the years, so do so now. ... John Jarrett
- kjj319@comcast.net - was, like most of us, very
saddened about the passing of Chick Montrose.
John lived next door to Chick for the first two
years at Carroll and got to know him very well.
As I can attest, John indicated that Chick was the
resident genius, a great guy, and a great friend. As
for John, he received a master’s of public health
at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and
never left! He has since retired from the U of M
hospitals, where he was a supervisor in the chemi-
cal pathology lab for more than 40 years. John was
married, but unfortunately his wife passed away in
1999. Please accept our condolences, John. He has
two grown daughters in the medical field and two
wonderful grandchildren. John remembered too
that Jack Hearns ’61 mentioned him in an article
in John Carroll magazine about music at Carroll,
when he was an accompanist for the Glee Club. He
still plays the piano daily and does a little accompa-
nying for singers, local theater rehearsals and pit
orchestra. ... Don Baltz - donbaltz@hotmail.com
- lives in North Las Vegas, NV. Hey, Don, remember
Jack Kodweis? The last time I heard from Jack,
he too had retired to Vegas. Anyway, Don went on
to obtain an advanced degree at UNLV in 1989. He
and his wife, Pamela, have three children, Michael,
Michelle, and Kevin. In case some of you may
be wondering, Don indicated to the alumni office
that this is a change of address. So, Don, are you
new to Vegas or just changing addresses there?
... Robert Gelarden - joeg@gwi.net - lives on the
rockbound coast of Maine. When he contacted
me in January, he said the wind was howling, the
snow was blowing, but he had a fire crackling in
the stove. I’ll bet the “Nor’easter” in April caused
some concern. Robert also used to sing in the Glee
Club, I might add. Robert and his bride (you didn’t
give me her name or how long you have been
married, Robert) are proud to say that they enjoy a
bottle of Il Mulino di Grace now and then. In case
you have forgotten, that comes from the vineyards
of Frank Grace and his Tuscan winery. Their first
toast was to their late pals, Billy Petro and Pete
Attenweiler. Then they toasted the “pine riders”
from 1963. I had to e-mail Robert back because I
didn’t know what a pine rider was. Robert said they
were the football players who rode the bench and
never got into a game. What with the vino from
Frank’s vineyard, the nice fire, a great couple, and
great food, Robert said it was “not a bad evening.”
For the record, he retired in 2003 after spending
36 years working? (his question mark, not mine)
as a reporter and columnist with the Indianapolis
Star. His bride was from East Boothbay, ME, and
she suggested that they retire to Maine. Turns out
it was a great idea. Robert added a postscript too
— he had seen Ron Timpanaro’s ’64 name in the
Alumni Journal, and was glad to read that. The
last time he had seen Ron was in a dusty USMC
mess hall in Vietnam. Pete
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1964
Frank Kelley
20 County Knoll Dr.
Binghamton, NY 13901-6109
607-648-5947
fkelley@stny.rr.com
Happy summer! I hope this column finds you
healthy, well supplied with 30 (minimum) sun block,
tennis racquets restrung, and golf clubs bright and
shiny ... Al Rutledge writes that he’s ready for
2007 golf; his ball retriever has been re-gripped
and his #1 iron has been carefully removed from
its cosmoline-lined winter storage container. I
told Al of my recent cervical spine operation for
a compressed spinal cord and requested strokes
when we match up this summer. His response:
“bring your x-rays and we’ll ‘discuss’ it.” Lobo y
olla, indeed! I think Mo smells blood in the water.
... In other surgical matters, Pat Nally visited Ann
Arbor at year’s end for repair of a left iliac aneurysm
(abdomen) which was discovered during a routine
checkup. Four months later, Pat reports he’s getting
back to normal activity. Be wary of an opportu-
nistic phone call from Rutledge, Mr. President. ...
Tony Petricca, Ray Hofer and Jim Capparelli
braved Chicago’s zero degree temperatures to get
together at Zol’s annual winter bowling bash. I’ve
got no further details, but you know there are grins
afoot when these guys get together. I distinctly
remember them and Tad Walters, spring of 1964,
booth at Nagle’s, hair combed down over their
eyes, singing along with Beatles songs hour after
hour. Tad’s comment: “when those guys cancel Ed
Sullivan with stage fright, we’ll be ready.” SIGH,
what might have been. ... Closer to the sun, the
second annual Sanibel Island luncheon expanded
to seven this March. Charter members Tim Logan,
Tom Moore, and John Breen were joined by
Tom Gazdic, Ross Tisci, Jim Corsica, and Lou
Mastrian. Further details are also spotty from this
meeting. Are we detecting a pattern? ... One of our
finest accomplishments is the Class of 1964 Schol-
arship Fund in commemoration of our 20th year

reunion. Since the inception of the fund in 1984
our class has granted scholarships to 22 daughters,
sons, nieces, and nephews of our classmates.
Highly noteworthy in 2006 was the first scholarship
granted to a grandchild, Tyler Hankinson class of
2010, grandson of John Krebs. The first of many
grandkids to be so rewarded, I suspect. The fund
continues to be ably administered by Allyn Adams
and John Baker. Thank you, men, from all of us.
... Lastly, on a very sad note, Tony Petricca and
Tom Leahy wrote in early February of the passing
of Mike “Ripper” Collins on January 30, 2007.
The notice was received just past the March issue
deadline, thus the delay in this report. Mike was a
great guy who would always lend a hand or do a
favor. I worked with Ripper on many an IXY project;
you could always count on him in a tough situation.
The news prompted a great many messages; Pat
Nally wrote: “Mike was a spirited classmate with
a constant mischievous smile and a twinkle in his
eye.” Indeed, witness his class picture on yearbook
page 180 and that twinkle leaps right off the page.
Our prayers are with Mike’s wife, Pam, and their
children Brian and Kerry. Rest in peace, Mike. We
will remember you. ... Until next time, God bless all
Streaks! Frank
Send your notes to:
1965
Dick Conoboy
165 South 46th St.
Bellingham, WA 98229
riton@comcast.net
Jean and Jack Loeffler - gijl@comcast.net - report
they have become residents of Florida this year.
Although he retired from Ford Motor Company back
in 1999, they now call Venice, FL, their home, a big
change from Michigan. ... I note from a previous
column that Mark Hanket and his wife, Carole,
also have a condo in Venice, FL. Do they know
something about Venice that the rest of us don’t?
... Dave MacDowell - davemacdowell@cox.net
- and wife, Susan (Hoffman), contacted me from
their home in Glendale, AZ. Dave was active in IXY
and the Brotherhood Through Song, the Glee Club
conducted by Jack Hearns at Carroll. He also wrote
for our school’s paper. In 2001, Dave received an
MBA from Capella University. He and his wife have
three grown children, Connor (28); Blaine (26); and
Bride (24). ... Chuck Friedman, still working full time
in the environmental compliance field, would like to
send his greetings to everyone. Chuck just recently
won a “Bridging the Gap Award” from his employer
for exemplary work with the Environmental
Protection Agency on compliance issues. ... I got
an e-mail recently from Jack Kenesey, who is still
enjoying retirement in the Chicago area with his
wife, Mary Ann, who, by the way, judging from
recent photos, looks very much like she did when
I first met her as a teenager. As for Jack... My
wife, Cecile, and I have finally managed to spend
a few consecutive months at home; however,
travel looms again in June. I will accompany her to
French Guyana for a week, where she will attend
a conference in Cayenne and we will visit Kourou,
the French equivalent of Cape Canaveral and Devil’s
Island, the former temporary “residence” of Alfred
Dreyfus and Henri Charrière (AKA “Papillon”). ...Time
to get my vaccinations up to date. Regards to all of
you – and send your news. Dick
Send your notes to:
1966
Dave Griffin
1347 Solitaire Pl.
Holiday, FL 34690 6454
727-944-5229
dgriffin53@tampabay.rr.com
Hello to all. I had a good talk with Steve
­Chamberlain. He gave me some advice about
the column and what to do about getting all of you
involved. Steve was our scribe for many years so he
has the experience. He told me that he and John
Schwartz were at the JCU vs. Wooster College
basketball game in Rochester for the NCAA Division
III Championship tournament. ... Ron Gillenkirk
told me that he could not make it to the NCAA
game. He is enjoying his retirement after teaching
for all these years. He has a couple odd jobs that
keep him busy and right now is getting their 1000
Island retreat ready for the season. ... Rob Searson
told me that he is still involved with some teaching
at CCC in Cleveland. He is also building his own
business, helping companies screen prospective
employees with various profile tests to determine
aptitudes and positions within a company. Rob told
me that they are attending a Tim Robertson wed-
ding soon. It seems as though Tim’s son is getting
married in the spring. We wish them the best. I had
an e-mail from Jim Fineran. He was involved in
the successful election of the governor of Maryland
and now holds a position in the Maryland Public
Information Office. ... I had an unexpected e-mail
from Dale Christman after he saw the last column.
He remembers going into the Navy Pilot Officer
Candidate School with Jack McLain. ... I had a
talk with Peter Kassay-Farkas, who is doing well
and still living in Nebraska. He and his wife, Joan,
enjoy their travels. Peter is retired after 32 years in
the pharmaceutical industry. You may remember
that Peter was a founder of the soccer program at
JCU. Believe it or not, he still plays today. ... That is
all for this edition. If I left anyone out, it is because
you did not call, write or e-mail. I would like to have
the longest column in the class section but that
depends on all of you. I would love to hear from
everyone so I can write what you are up to today.
Tell me about your children, your grandchildren, and
your job that you hate or love or why you are retired
and I am not. Talk to me! Take care everyone, Dave
REUNION YEAR
Send your notes to:
1967
Peter French
27955 Forestwood Pkwy.
North Olmsted, OH 44070
216-881-7882
216-881-7896 (fax)
peter2play@yahoo.com
My wife, Jan, and I recently went to Chicago to
visit our daughter, Jennifer ’99. As we were driving
by Lake Michigan, we were struck at the number
of people along the shores of Lake Michigan. The
beach was crowded. On our stay there, I left sev-
eral copies of the last two John Carroll magazines
in the lobby area of the Drake Hotel, where we
were staying. It took 24 hours, but comments on
the magazines were very favorable. Some people
were there to attend various meetings. You never
know! ... I called our friend Charlie McCarthy,
but he was not home. I left a message about our
AlumniJournal
Reunion at Carroll in June. Charlie is an attorney in
Oak Brook, near Chicago. ... Recently I heard from:
Frank Tricomi from Chesterland, MO, writes that
he is a VP of Operations & Business Division at
Conley & Associates Inc. While at JCU, Frank was
a member of the Pershing Rifles and the Scabbard
& Blade. Frank and his wife, Barbara, are well. ...
Daniel Harrington writes that he and his wife,
Kathleen, reside in South Euclid, OH, (my old home
town). Daniel is the CFO at Saint Luke’s Founda-
tion. He sends his greetings to all. ... Heard from
Robert Sledz. He and his wife, Ingrid, reside in
Rocky River, OH. Robert reports that he retired
from Garfield Heights High School after 35 years of
teaching. Since 2003 he’s been the president of the
Cleveland Astronomical Society. ... Joseph Mosin-
ski advises that he lives in Hinckley, OH, and is the
president of the Mosinski Funeral Home, Inc., in
the Cleveland area. ... A note for our sports-minded
alumni, John Gibbons recently became the new
head football coach at Bedford High School. John
has a career coaching record of 204-74 since he
began his career at his alma mater, Cathedral Latin
School. John has won two Division III state football
titles. Congratulations and good luck John. ... Look-
ing forward to the class of ’67 Reunion Weekend
on June 22-24 on campus in University Heights.
It’s been 40 years! Can this be? As you know, our
goal is to reach $100,000 as a class gift. To date,
we have reached over $67,000 and are almost
there – we can reach it with the class of ’67s help.
Any Reunion Weekend questions, please contact
Theresa Spada - tspada@jcu.edu. ... Keep the cards
and notes coming. As always, Peter
Send your notes to:
1968
Ray Burchyns
P.O. Box 771
White River Jct., VT 05001
802.234.9780
ptbrcb@earthlink.net
Send your notes to:
1969
Gerry Grim
ggrim@christchurchschool.org
804-758-2306 x136
Hope each and everyone is doing well. Since
my last column I have visited Buffalo, NY, and
Providence, RI, in my endless search for news but
the best news report came from Tom Nowel. Tom
wrote first about the passing of Father Woelfl and
how much he admired him. Tom reminded me of
Father’s run for Congress at the height of the war
and how his attempt at office was done out of a
strong sense of principle and not for personal gain.
Tom also shared with me the fact that his son, Will,
has enrolled at JCU and starts in the fall. Tom, you
do know we will have our 40th Reunion before,
Will graduates — just kidding. That is great news
as second generation attendance is a key indica-
tor of a great college. Tom also reported that since
leaving University Heights he has been active as a
union organizer, negotiator and currently works in
human resources for a Children Services agency,
but it was Tom’s new career position that is really
interesting. Effective May 1, Tom will become the
presiding clerk of the Miami Quarterly Meeting
of the Religious Society of Friends. This organiza-
tion represents Quakers in Southwest Ohio and
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Kentucky. Tom, I think Father Woelfl would be
very proud of this career choice. Hope to see you
on campus for our 40th — get your son to work
the weekend. ... My wife and I recently spent four
great days in Providence visiting with longtime
friend and classmate Dr. John Parsons and his
lovely wife, Margie. They have a wonderful house
right on the river, which they have renovated. John
retired from the Veterans Administration but still
works 70 hours a week in his private practice and is
lucky to have Margie as his partner in this practice.
It was also a great visit because John has a great
wine cellar, which I will dub the Best in the Class of
1969 until I get offers to try other great cellars, so
I can make a truly objective decision. Please e-mail
me and I will schedule my visit for a tasting of your
best offerings. Thanks, John and Margie, for a great
visit. ... Seeing Bill Badke was the highlight of my
visit to Buffalo. Mr. Badke still roams the mean
streets of Chicago but was in Buffalo to watch
first round action in March Madness. Bill is truly
enjoying retirement with lots of great travel all over
the world. Since it was St. Patrick’s Day weekend,
Bill and I shared some excellent green beer under
the name of Rolling Rock. We were joined for
the weekend by the ever famous Ed Christy. Big
Ed has all the sports teams in Pittsburgh sad by
choosing Phoenix, AZ, as his new home. Ed and
Peg should be moved into their new home and
ready for visitors by the time you read this column.
We were also to meet George Mackey down from
Rochester but missed the former Student Union
president in the crowds. Tom Nowel, George has
a son still in high school that might go to JCU,
which would make you both winners of some kind
of award at our 40th reunion. ... Everyone please,
if you have not already done so make a gift to the
Carroll Fund. A strong annual fund is essential to
JCU’s long term future; make a gift today; it will
not hurt. ... Still looking to get back to Ohio; please
keep me in your thoughts. Go Tribe, Grimmer
Send your notes to:
1970
Ted Heutsche
2137 East Howe Road
Dewitt, MI 48820
517-669-4005
tedh@midwestairfil.com
I don’t have a lot of news this time around. In my
spare time, I have been trying to locate and contact
some old classmates whom I have not heard
from or talked to in quite some time. My recent
“detective work” turned up Bill O’Rourke. After
John Carroll, Bill and I both attended Duquesne
University School of Law (he graduated — I didn’t). I
“googled” his name and turned him up on the Alcoa
Aluminum web site. I sent an e-mail to the Web
site editor asking if there was any way that I could
get in contact with Bill, and lo and behold, a week
or two later I received the following e-mail (dated in
February): “Ted, I got a note from our Alcoa Internet
editor saying you were looking for me. Well, you
found me. In fact you found me in the middle of
Russia, where I have been for two years now. Alcoa
invested ($257.5 million) in two very large aluminum
manufacturing facilities in Russia, They’re about 50-
years old and include the largest forging press in the
world, the largest extrusion press in the world, one
of the largest rolling mills in the world, and when we
came here they had over 13,000 employees. That’s
42 John Carroll university
Bill O’Rourke ’70 standing on the frozen Volga
down to under 10,000 now, while production is “up”
by over 25% and investments exceed $200 million
more; revenue is $1 billion. The future for aluminum
in Russia is very bright (per capita consumption of
aluminum is about 4 kilogram/person in Russia, while
in Western Europe and North America it’s closer
to 40 kilogram/person. Life here is an adventure,
that’s for sure. I live in the city of Samara, where our
largest plant is located (388 acres, 129 buildings,
20 kilometers of sidewalks, etc.). Samara sits on
the Volga River. I’ll attach a photo of me standing
in the middle of the frozen river. To give you an
idea of the extremes: it’s -30 degrees (Centigrade)
today — that’s cold. I hope you are well. Bill O.”
According to the web site, Bill is a vice president of
Alcoa Aluminum of America, and president of Alcoa
Russia - William.O’Rourke@alcoa.com. Another JCU
success story! ... Paul DeFranco - the.oec.man@
earthlink.net - updated his alumni profile online. Paul
is living in Twinsburg, OH, and is a research associate
at Ferro Corp. in Independence, OH. While at JCU,
Paul was affiliated with the American Chemical
Society. ... The alumni office also forwarded me
notice of the passing of Robert C. Mann, ’70G, on
March 28. Please pray for his family and friends, and
the repose of his soul. ... Hope this finds you all well.
Drop me a note or an e-mail with what’s going on
with you and yours. Regards, Ted
Send your notes to:
1971
Tom and Rosemary Costello
716 West Vermont Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801-4827
217-344-2076
tcostello@cumtd.com
Greetings from Champaign Urbana, the home of
Ebertfest, which has just concluded. I understand it
received two thumbs up. A big thanks and a hearty
handshake to those of you who sent us a note
of current news. A number of you have changed
e-mails or have ordered me to the spam tank. If
you can update us with the latest e-mail, we can
stay in touch and put a smile on the bust of John
Carroll on the quad. Now as they say, here’s the
news. Pete Hamm took a month off to get rid of
that pain in his back. His biggest regret is that he
claims his golf game suffered as a result. I am sure
that golf pals Vic Matteucci, Mark Plush and Jim
McHale ’72 have seen a dip in their golf income. ...
Mike Bobinski sends greetings from East Lansing.
He felt it important to tell us about the National
Hockey Champions Spartans. Mike is retired and
he and wife Nancy just recently returned from a trip
to China. ... Jim Girardy is mulling retirement from
his surgical practice as he and wife Karen approach
30 years of friendship. Jim’s oldest son, John, is a
Navy Medical Corpsman on his way to the Middle
East, and son Mark will soon be a newly minted
teacher from Loras College. ... Where are Calabrese,
Cass and Root? If they only knew the damage that
Spotty’s was doing to their bodies. ... Dick Leehr
is living with wife Karen in Warwick, NY, where
he is building an $800 million pipeline across New
York state. Dick’s daughter graduates in May from
Eastern Michigan and better yet, she has a job. He
has plans in July to see Holly and John Collins ’72
in Newport. Hope he visits the Tennis Hall of Fame.
... Paul Pojman is the staff librarian for the Bedford
Historical Society. He retired from the parish school
where he was the librarian for 31 years. You might
spot Paul as a member of the Blossom Festival
Chorus, as they are doing music from Lord of the
Rings this summer. ... You might recall that we have
sadly mentioned the death of Sheila ’73 and Denis
Nowacki’s son, Andy, in Iraq. Heard from George
Batyko and Mike Bobinski about a foundation that
was founded at Lakeland Community College in his
memory. At the second annual fundraising event
were Dennis Perry, Terry Dziak ’69, Tom Czech ’72,
Ted Klimczak ’75. ... We want to remind everyone
that the Friday night of the June Reunion Weekend
is open to all classes. So if you are in town or looking
for an excuse to relive the good times, put it on your
calendar. Have a terrific summer. ... If you have not
heard from us in the last month, we do not have a
good e-mail address for you. Please update us at
tcostello@cumtd.com. Tom and Rosemary
1972 Send your notes to:
John M. Marcus
5707 Trafton Pl.
Bethesda, MD 20817-3738
202-296-0901
jmarcus887@aol.com
Got a nice phone call from Doug Webber. Didn’t
understand a word he said — so I nonchalantly
said, “Douggy – my memory is going SO fast would
you mind jotting down a few notes so I could include
this stuff in the column.” The note came, so I can
pass on his news. Now you all remember Doug
– he’s the guy from Jasper, IN, who had a very
distinguished accent from ... Jasper, IN. No one
could understand him. He was a star student for
Joe Miller in Public Address and Austin Freeley in
Argumentation and Debate – he was the golden
boy of the speech department. But nobody could
understand a word he said. But he spoke with such
homegrown resolve, energy and conviction that ev-
eryone thought – “he MUST be smart.” Doug was
a big shot in the Student Union where his speeches
were so passionate ... but nobody could understand.
He pledged the ICHIs – they didn’t understand him,
but he seemed so smart when he spoke, that they
couldn’t cut him. (Instead they cut Don Farrell, Billy
Doyle, Gregg Gianpetro, Timmy Manning, Ron
Smith (who deserved to be cut) and yours truly.
So now where is this modern day speech dyslexic
Forest Gump? You got it – he’s a big shot! He’s
deputy attorney general of Indiana. Seems they’re
the only ones who could understand the Jasper

accent — and they found out he really is smart. We
knew it though, because he wrote our class column
for ten years, before me (and after Dan Pierce). We
also know he’s smart because his daughter is smart.
His middle daughter, Kate, just got her doctorate in
pathology from Case, after tearing up the science
department at Carroll. If you see him at Reunion,
say “hi!” — then just nod and smile and listen on
autopilot. ... Also heard from Billy Petrovic – he too
will be at Reunion. But the question is: have you
heard from Petrovic? Bill and a gang that includes
Jimmy Peters, Mark Pacelli, Tom Czech, Linda
Hurley, Elizabeth Brannigan Rock, and Vic Sossi
have taken it upon themselves to call members of
the class to get support for our class gift. If you can’t
make it back to the Reunion, please try to help out
with the gift. ... Finally, I heard from Duff, Andrea
Wasdovich’s husband and PR agent. Duff reports
that Andrea has finished her third year as chief
nursing officer at the Cleveland Clinic. Duff and Andi
have been traveling to Ireland, San Francisco, and
down South. Andrea is just one of the stars of our
class. I know A.J. Cianflocco and Marty Schreiber
have distinguished themselves and I know of Carroll
grads from other classes who have done good work
there, as well. As I look back on how we have done
in 35 years it’s quite an accomplishment – start-
ing with our Beaudry man Tim Russert and going
through our class to people like Andrea, the lawyers,
the priests (Fr. Sandy Ytsen), teachers and coaches
and advisors and counselors, business people, proud
mothers and fathers, and of course Doug Webber,
who knows I tease; a better man, you can’t find.
By the time you get this column it will be, like three
days, before the Reunion. If you decided to come
– I look forward to seeing you. If you decided not
to – do something you haven’t done in a while – be
spontaneous and pack up your car and head over
to University Heights and surprise us. We’ll be the
class in the Big Tent smiling, snapping photos, telling
stories of past glory ... and smoking Frankie P’s
Cubans. Hope to see you in June. JM
Send your notes to:
1973
Gerry O. Patno
13421 Merl Ave.
Lakewood, OH 44107-2707
216-410-0129
g.patno@att.net
The first JCU night at the Great Lakes Theatre
Festival downtown proved to be another opportune
time to gather a few notes from your classmates.
On hand to see Shakespeare’s The Tempest,
were Mary Kay ’75 and Tom Malone of Cleveland
Heights. Their oldest son, Brian, a recent graduate
of Cincinnati Xavier, is attending Cleveland-Marshall
College of Law. The other two are currently attending
Xavier, and each one has picked up one of their dad’s
avocations from his Carroll years. Middle son Dan
plays club rugby for the Musketeers, while youngest
daughter Kate is involved in the theatre. Tom is still
the finance director for the city of Cleveland Heights,
while Mary Kay is the financial secretary for Brush
High. ... Lucy (Giuffrida) Kopcak from Lyndhurst has
completed 28 years of teaching at St. Clare School,
recently being named for the seventh time to the
“Who’s Who of American Teachers.” Lucy’s oldest
son, Michael, is a cardio research physician, younger
son Chris is a physical therapist in Columbus and is
expecting Lucy’s first grandchild in July. Youngest
daughter Darice ’04 is involved with special events
marketing for Porsche Audi. Darice is named in
honor of former JCU roomie Darice Zabak, who is
a physician in Toledo, married to Martin Lipsky. ... In
other news, Robert Keenan’s son, Ryan, a lineman
from Northwestern via Lakewood St. Edward, saw
his stock rise considerably. According to the Plain
Dealer, during a local tryout with the Cleveland
Browns, he has an excellent chance to be drafted
or signed as a free agent. ... And Cleveland’s current
Police Chief Mike McGrath, who has both a son and
daughter enrolled at John Carroll, reportedly turned
down an opportunity to return to campus himself
as Carroll’s top cop, opting instead to stay with the
city – and new administration — that needs him the
most. That’s all the news for now. Please send me
something. gop
Send your notes to:
1974 Dave Robinson
3963 Oakland Hills Dr.
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301
248-642-9615 (h)
800-240-3866 (fax)
DRobby_18@Yahoo.com
Ed Kelly and Dan Conrad entertained fellow
classmates Chris Schuba, Tim McMahon, Roger
Hull, Marc Haag, Jim Cannan, Ron Deneweth
and Joe Samuelson ’75 at their “home away from
home,” Las Vegas, in March for some serious golf-
ing. Joe Sam showed up his class of ’74 alumni,
winning the “high” stakes golf match. A special
thanks to the Alumni Office for providing golf hats
and playing cards to compliment the 19th hole
entertainment. ... Art Shibley shared news that
his restaurant chain, Yours Truly, will add its eighth
location this summer at Rockside and Canal, just
minutes from the I-77 exit at Rockside. Last year,
the readers of Northern Ohio Live magazine voted
Yours Truly “Best Breakfast Menu,” “Best Cheap
Eats,” and “Best Place to Take Kids.” Cleveland
Magazine readers recognized Yours Truly in four
categories in 2006, including, “Best Breakfast,”
“Best Family Dining,” “Best Burger,” and “Best
Cheap Eats.” ... Joe Virostek and wife, Lale,
will celebrate oldest daughter Margaret’s gradua-
tion this spring from John Carroll with a degree in
psychology. She plans to attend graduate school
at Carroll in the fall. Daughter Laura is a junior
business major at Duquesne University; and son
Alexander was recently accepted to the John Car-
roll fall 2007 freshman class. Joe wanted to pass
along the following: Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity is
holding a Reunion for all members this summer
in Cleveland the weekend of June 22-24. All past
and current members are invited to meet at the
JCU beer tent on Saturday, June 23 at 3 p.m. Joe
is VP investment operations at BPU Investment
Management in Pittsburgh. ... Jim “Chico” Rados
and his wife, Sandy, will celebrate their 25th an-
niversary this May. Jim has been practicing law in
Chicago for 30 years. He is the controlling partner
of an eight person firm, Beverly & Pause. Jim and
Sandy have three kids. Their oldest, Christopher,
graduated from Miami of Ohio and is following in
his dad’s footsteps and is a first year law student
at Valparaiso. Middle daughter Stephanie spent a
semester abroad in Italy while in her junior year
at the University of Missouri; and youngest child,
Nicole, is a junior in high school. They paid a visit
AlumniJournal
to Carroll but she has not yet decided if she wants
to be a Blue Streak. ... Finally, Kevin and Kathy
Smith traveled to Florida in February as guests of
their daughter, to watch the Super Bowl. Kara is the
director of alumni relations for the Chicago Bears.
The rest of the Smith clan also made the trip and
although “Da Bears” did not win, the trip was a
winner for Kathy and Kevin. Kathy is going through
the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises, and intends to
be an instructor upon completing the program. ...
Barbara Danielson Ciofani lives in Solon, OH, with
her husband, Peter. Barb received an early retire-
ment package from MBNA/Bank of America, where
she had been a credit analyst. She reports enjoying
the freedom retirement affords her to spend more
time with children — Nicholas who works for the
House of Representatives and his wife; and daugh-
ter, Kim, who works in Columbus as an actuarial. ...
After close to two years in the senior living market,
I made the move back to IT this past March, joining
Teoma Systems, a systems integrator in Troy, MI.
... That’s all for this column. Hope you all have a
great summer. Drop me an e-mail or give me a call;
would love to hear from you. Robby
Send your notes to:
1975
Rick Rea
7450 Grant Village Dr., Apt. A
St. Louis, MO 63123
314.843.4703
rick.rea@sbcglobal.net
Hello classmates! Melissa and I are settling into
our new digs in St. Louis. We still have not sold our
former digs in Hermitage, PA. If anyone is planning
a move to the Shenango Valley (right!) we’ll make
you a heck of a deal! My son, Brian, and daughter-
in-law, Dayna, recently informed me that I will be
a grandfather towards the end of October! Didn’t
we just graduate? This past week NBC’s 30 Rock
had an episode with a story line in Cleveland. There
were a lot of nice scenes of the Cleveland area.
but I didn’t see any of the Mad Hatter at Cleveland
State (drum roll please, get it?) Didn’t we just grad-
uate? My pleas for news went unanswered this
time but I will be glad to put ANYTHING — ANY-
THING — ANYTHING in my next column, so e-mail
me some NEWS — NEWS — NEWS or I’ll have to
make some up and embarrass you! ... The Alumni
Office notified me that Betsy L. Billings passed
away on March 9. Remember her in your prayers
and pray for peace. ... RR
Send your notes to:
1976
Diane Coolican Gaggin
118 Elm St.
Fayetteville, NY 13066
cools@twcny.rr.com
REUNION YEAR
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1977
Dennis J. Lane
8144 Winding Ross Way
Ellicott City, MD 21043
dlane@ryancom.com
By the time this issue of John Carroll magazine
appears our 30th Reunion will have already come and
gone. The weird thing is that I am writing it two
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months before the Reunion. I haven’t even gotten
my plane tickets for Cleveland yet! Anyway, it was
great seeing you; at least it was good to see those
of you that I did see. Unless of course for some yet
unknown reason I didn’t make it which would mean
that I didn’t see anybody. Ahem. ... I did see a few of
the class of ’77 in March though. Brian Henke and
Stan Mambort once again organized a great JCU
Spring Training trip to Naples, FL. Bill Gagliano, Bob
Keir, Urban Picard, Mike Downing, Dave Cullen,
Joe Crogan, John Rutherford, Al Hess’79 and,
yours truly got together for five days of golf,
baseball, boating and male bonding. At one point,
while lounging around the pool, Stan threw out a
challenge to see if we could all lose ten percent of
our body weight before our Reunion. I guess Stan
was inspired by the sight of all of us sitting around in
our bathing suits. Again, by the time you read this
column the Reunion will be over with, so you’ll just
have to wait for the fall issue to find out who lost
what. ... The alumni office sent me some info on
other members of our class too. ... Deborah
(Calevich) Wilson checked in from Charleston, WV,
where she lives with her husband, Michael, and their
two kids, Tyler (14) and Emily (9). Deborah is the
senior vice president for Kimley-Horn and
Associates, an engineering and land planning
company. ... We also heard from Randy D’Amore.
Randy is living in Farmington Hills, MI, with his wife,
Deirdre, and their four kids. Three of Randy’s kids,
Donovan (10), Caragh (9) and Bridget (5) all dance
competitively in Irish Dance. The oldest, Donovan,
competed in the World Championships in Glasgow
Scotland this past April. The fourth child, Dillon, is
still in the predancing stage. He turns one this
September. ... Darlene (“Darby”) Watts is living in
Maple Heights, OH, with husband Danny Baldwin.
Darlene is the president and CEO of Midtown
Scientific in Cleveland. ... Former Little Theatre
director extraordinaire, Carol Dougherty, dropped a
note from San Francisco, CA. Last year Carol was
ordained as a Soto Zen Buddhist priest by Teah
Strozer. Carol spent three years at the Tassajara
Monastery in Carmel Valley. She writes that her
Buddhist name is KanShin KiJaku which means
Generous Heart, Returning to Silence. Peace. ...
Keep those cards and letters coming. Your real news
is better than the stuff I make up! Dennis
Send your notes to:
1978
Tim Freeman
334 N. Catherine Ave.
LaGrange Park, IL 60526
773-975-6909 (w)
708-579-9075 (h)
tim@jesuits-chi.org
Greetings! Here’s the latest from our classmates:
Greg DiCillo is founding partner of Life Cycle
Strategies, Inc. which is a consulting and training
firm specializing in product management and
planning. The firm began nine years ago, working
with industrial and business to business companies
throughout the United States and in Europe. Greg’s
been enjoying the trips to UK, Germany, and Italy.
He and spouse Tina celebrated their 25th wedding
anniversary last July. The DiCillos live in Willoughby
and have three children: Michelle recent graduate of
Kent State University, Brian currently training for
EMT and ultimately Fire Academy, and youngest,
Kenneth, is a sophomore at Willoughby South High
School. Greg is still working on his golf game as
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well. ... Tom Keir has been married to Beth Friedel
’80 for 25 years. The Keirs have two boys: Cameron,
a freshman at Ohio Northern University, and Evan, a
freshman at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High
School. Beth is a fourth grade teacher in Brecksville,
OH. Tom has been with the Lubrizol Corporation for
27 years and is the global business director of a
business that sells specialty chemicals to the civil
explosives industry. Tom has traveled to over 25
countries including South Africa, China, Russia, all
over Europe, Latin America and Australia. Tom gets a
great perspective about a country, seeing their
beautiful cities as well as the “interior” or rural
regions, where customers are usually located. He
keeps in touch with Mark McGinley and Ray
Dalessandro, Mike Keresman ’79 and Tom Kaiser
’79. Tom would like to hear from Dan Patalita, Rich
Seiple and John Baran. ... John Bundra and his
wife, Debi, have been married for 27 years and this
summer will be celebrating the marriage of their
oldest daughter to Sean Mullen in Dublin, Ireland. ...
Jeff Shibley expands his business once again. Yours
Truly Restaurants has announced plans to open its
eighth restaurant at 8111 Rockside Road (near the I-
77 exit at Rockside). Slated to open this summer,
Yours Truly will seat 100 guests and, like many other
Yours Truly locations, will offer patio seating for
seasonal outdoor dining. Jeff and his siblings opened
the first Yours Truly location in Beachwood in 1981.
Last year, the readers of ­Northern Ohio Live
magazine voted Yours Truly “Best Breakfast Menu,”
“Best Cheap Eats,” and “Best Place to Take Kids.”
Cleveland Magazine readers recognized Yours Truly
in four categories in 2006, including, “Best
Breakfast,” “Best Family Dining,” “Best Burger,”
and “Best Cheap Eats.” Named by the Employers
Resource Council as one of the “99 Best Places to
Work in Northeast Ohio,” Yours Truly employs 400
full and part-time employees and estimates hiring 50
employees at the new location. ... Condolences to
Steve Ryan on the passing of his mother, Elizabeth
Ryan, in March. Steve and spouse Linda live in
Farmington Hills, MI. Linda works with Head Start
pre-schoolers. Daughter Katie graduated from
Michigan State and began working for Nordstrom’s.
Kelsey is a sophomore English major at Western
Michigan. Steve said she has inherited her
namesake’s (Robin ‘Duke’ Kelsey ’78) gift for
reading and writing. Charlie, the baby, is a high
school senior. ... In March, Dr. Brian Farrell joined
other celebrities in Chicago by raising thousands of
dollars for medical research and prevention of
childhood cancer. Eight years ago St. Baldrick’s
began as a casual conversation between friends and
has exploded into the world’s biggest volunteer-
driven fundraising program for childhood cancer!
Events have taken place in 10 countries and 42 U.S.
states, raising over $20 million, and shaving more
than 26,000 heads, including Brian’s. ... Thanks for
writing. Tim
Send your notes to:
1979
Nancy Agacinski
4009 Washington Blvd., #3
University Heights, OH 44118-3865
216-932-2824
nagacinski@yahoo.com
Hi everyone! I certainly hope that spring has arrived
by the time you are reading this! Easter was this
past weekend, and Cleveland had 12+ inches of
snow over the weekend alone (up to 30 in some
areas). Christmas and Easter swapped seasons
this year! ... I am sorry to report that one of our
classmates has passed away — Will Secre died
on February 18, 2007. ... Jeffrey Kraus, his wife
Cherie (Balan), and children Josh (17) and Jamie
(14) are living in Chicago. Jeff received his law
degree from the University of Chicago and works
for ALAS, Inc. as loss prevention counsel. ...
Michael Allison has relocated to sunnier, warmer
climes. Michael is working for Office Depot and
now lives near Coral Springs, FL. ... I was coming
back from San Francisco in March and ran into Pete
Hughes on my flight. He and his wife, Bonnie, had
been celebrating their 25th anniversary with friends
in Carmel, CA. Pete’s wife mentioned that one of
Bryan (Harpo) Kennedy’s ’80 children attends the
school that she teaches at! Small world. ... The
Singing Angels, Cleveland’s world-renowned
youth chorus, recently elected, Michael Pappas,
CPA, its president and chief executive officer. Mike
is a director at Cleveland-based accounting firm,
Barnes Wendling CPAs, Inc. and is the head of the
accounting and assurance services department.
Mike has been involved with The Singing Angels
since 2004 and has also served as treasurer.
Mike lives in Kirtland with his wife, Christine, and
three children, Angela, Carli and Michael. ... Mary
(Miller) ’84 - phonicsqueen1@yahoo.com - and Ed
DiVincenzo - ecenzo@yahoo.com - report that
they will both be turning 50 soon. They have three
children: Kevin (23), Selah (20) and Leah (19). Ed
has been in vending sales and has owned and
operated several bread and cookie routes. He
claims that this attributes to the extra pounds they
both carry! Mary is finishing up a second master’s
in educational leadership. She works for the central
office in the Mobile County Public School System.
They have lived in the sunny south for 20+ years!
... Denise LeGrand - djlegrand@ualr.edu - wrote
to say that she is a math instructor and director
of the math lab at the University of Arkansas in
Little Rock (UALR). She has worked there for
17 years and previously taught at LSU for seven
years. Denise received her master’s from the
University of Arizona and then spent two years in
New York City. She enjoys traveling (Hong Kong,
Hawaii, Alaska, Paris, Austria), fishing, dancing and
motorcycle riding (she traveled 14,000 miles last
year on the back of one!). She is divorced with two
sons - Christopher (26) and Bruce (24). ... Paula
Bruening has joined the firm of Hunton & Williams
LLP as deputy executive director for The Center
for Information Policy Leadership (“The Center”)
and senior policy advisor at the firm. Previously,
Paula was counsel at the Center for Democracy &
Technology, a nonprofit, public interest organization,
where she focused on cyber-privacy issues. She
will be based in the firm’s Washington office.
... So how will you all be celebrating the big 5-0
milestone? Would love to hear about your plans
and adventures! Beth Maher Rinz and I rang in
Sue Vargo Kunas’ 50th with her in January and
then I celebrated Cathy Dinkel Newell’s 50th with
her and a couple of other gals at Niagara Falls and
Niagara-on-the-Lake during the middle of March
in a lovely winter snowstorm. We have all had a
spectacular time welcoming in these “fantastic
50s”! Wishing you all your own spectacular
festivities! ... Keep your news coming. Your JCU
friends want to know what you’ve been up to all
these years! With love, Nancy
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alumnNews
Five honored with the Alumni Medal
Five alumni received the John Carroll National Alumni Association’s highest
award, the Alumni Medal, at Commencement on May 20. They were also
honored at the Alumni Awards Dinner on May 18.

Barbara Schubert 15 years. During this time, I have met many Association (EA), and in 2004, in the
’62 holds three very fine men and women. But I have not association’s moment of need, John
degrees from the met a person who can touch Vince Panichi’s volunteered to be its acting director,
university, is a loyalty, love of John Carroll and strong steering it through temporarily difficult
long-time member Christian values.” waters. Another dimension of John Lewis is
of the board of his volunteer work. Last year he was named
directors and is, Timothy ­Freeman Volunteer of the Year at the Franklin Circle
with her hus- ’78 was a Student Hunger Center. Among his many board
band, John, a Union president and service roles, he was for a decade the
notable benefactor whose heart was chair of the Alcohol and Drug Addiction
of long standing. captured by his Services Board of Cuyahoga County; was
Mrs. Schubert’s alma mater. He president of the Alcohol and Drug
award citation said in part: “If one set out to returned as director Addiction Services Federation of Ohio and
imagine the ideal graduate, board member, of alumni relations chair of the Cleveland Alternative
volunteer, benefactor, it would be exceedingly in the early 1980s Education program.
difficult to improve on the reality of Barbara and was the
Schubert. … Barbara has given so much in so architect of the Gerald J. Breen
many ways and has so lovingly honored and reunion and class ’68 had the vision
served her attachments. As association presi- agent programs. He was drawn back to his which came to
dent Paul Hulseman ’82 said in nominating native Chicago in the late 1980s and has long be realized as the
her, ‘Her life is the model for Alumni Medal been a lay leader of the Chicago Jesuit Entrepreneurs
recipients, and she is a role model for us all.’” province. He has, however, continued at John ­Association,
Carroll as the Silver Quill-winning alumni which is aligned
Vincent Panichi magazine class columnist, as a force for with the univer-
’57 was for 26 reunions and within the alumni association. sity’s Muldoon
years a professor The Alumni Medal citation says in part: Tim Center. The heart
of accountancy. is a well-spring of Ignatian spirituality. He of that vision was
He went on coordinates retreats, develops workshops in to connect the
to become Ignatian values, oversees the publication of hundreds of alumni who are business owners
an important Partners magazine, travels to a place like in the region. Breen, a notable entrepreneur
member of the Nepal to see Ignatian works, and serves on and business owner, has been president of the
advancement staff the board of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. Alumni Association and a very active mem-
and the creator ber of a number of the association’s com-
of the Magis John Lewis ’62 is mittees. He has also been a member of the
Society. Panichi a Boler School university’s board and was the chairman of
co-founded a major regional accounting firm grad who became its Properties Committee during the critical
and he has been an advisor to the White a successful period in which the Dolan Science Center
House and the federal government on small entrepreneur and was being designed and built. Jerry Breen has
businesses. He has also been a political a man for others. been a very active and unfailingly generous
and civic leader. Robert Welsh, SJ, who He has long been servant of his alma mater and his community.
seconded Vince’s nomination for the medal, a stalwart of the
wrote: “I have been a ­Jesuit for 53 years. I university’s
was a member of the John Carroll board for Entrepreneurs

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Send your notes to:
1980
Matt Holtz
22487 Laramie Dr.
Rocky River, OH 44116
440-331-1759
mfh2885@sbcglobal.net
Hello from the North Coast ... it is summer vaca-
tion time. My gang, Adam, Patrick, Rosemary and
spouse Mary are planning a get away to Myrtle
Beach. We have never been there so it should be
fun and the pictures look nice. I laugh to myself,
knowing that pictures can make Edgewater Beach
on Lake Erie a hot vacation spot also. My other hot
spot will be the Visa bill hitting my checking ac-
count. ... Let me share with you what I found in my
e-mail bin. Wendy and Paul Lioon are celebrating
their 10th year living in Southwest Florida, where
they celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary.
I will never forget visiting the Indians at Chain
O’Lakes Park in Winter Haven with about 5,000
other fans and hearing someone yell my name and
seeing it was none other than Paul and Wendy.
Clare Lioon is a junior at the University of Florida,
majoring in journalism; middle daughter Virginia is
a freshman at Florida State University, majoring
in mass communications; and youngest, Geoff, is
a junior in high school playing football. Wendy is
teaching first grade and Paul is working at Charlotte
State Bank, where he started a Trust Department
five years ago. The Lioons spent Easter break
with Herb Kramer and his family. Herb has two
daughters — Annalise a senior in high school and
Julia a freshman in high school. Herb is a partner
in the law firm of Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer
& Ulrich Co., L.P.A. ... Rich Chelko keeps in touch
reliving those Pacelli Hall memories with Scott
Heran, Bruce Lockhart and John Moeschberger.
Rich stays connected with happenings on the East
Coast via Don McGuire and has the latest news
from the Columbus area coming to him from Tom
Cua, who is president of Cua Builders. Rick’s oldest
daughter is out of college and his son is a soccer
player at Wake Forest. Rick is also active in the
JCU Entrepreneurs Association. ... Ken Perusek
sends word that he is the director of operations for
Great Lakes Management in Golden Valley, MN.
His company develops and manages real estate:
apartments, condominiums, retail and office space
throughout the state of Minnesota. Ken also man-
ages his own portfolio of apartments, including
student housing apartments on the University of
Minnesota’s main campus — home of the Golden
Gophers. Ken and spouse, Joan, live in Inver Grove
Heights, which is located about nine miles south of
St. Paul. Ken has two daughters, Katie and Jenny,
living out of town. ... Kevin Whalen dropped me a
note from sunny Florida. I am not sure if he sent it
from his primary home beach condo or while walk-
ing the dog using one of those high tech gizmos.
Kevin has been with Cisco for the past seven years
and prior to that he spent 13 years with Storage
Tek. Suzanne and Kevin have two children — their
son, also a swimmer, will be graduating from Notre
Dame and their daughter enrolling in Notre Dame.
Kevin received a note from former Dolan Hall
resident and Blue Streak swim team captain, Tom
Burland. Tom is now a realtor for Coldwell Banker
Residential Brokerage in Madison, CT. Tom and
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spouse, Helen, have five kids. Tom is the oldest,
graduating from University of Delaware; Catherine
is in her second year at University of Connecticut;
John is a junior in high school, and Elizabeth and
Helen are still in grade school. Tom also recently
started on his MBA, so that will keep him busy. ...
June 22 to 24 is Reunion Weekend at JCU. The
30th class reunion is three years away. Keep the
notes coming. Go Tribe! MFH
Send your notes to:
1981
Julie Sanner Hepfer
406 Hunt Club Dr.
St. Charles, IL 60174
630-586-3367
RPHEPFER@AOL.COM
Hi everyone! The news is brief but, as always,
important. Melinda (Valena) Sheets joined Mo
Huntley as a principal partner to form Huntley-Valena
Hospitality Group. Their company has acquired four
Michigan restaurants. Their acquisitions include Gil-
bert and Blake Seafood and Steak Grille in Okemos,
D Coy Duck’s in Lawton, The Parlour Old Fashioned
Hand Dipped Ice Cream in Jackson, and The Parlour
in Kalamazoo. Melinda will serve as vice president/
secretary and general council for the company. She
is an attorney with an extensive background in real
property law, business organization, and probate-
estate planning. Melinda, we wish you well in your
new venture! ... I’m sad to share with you the
news that one of our classmates has passed away.
Patrick J. Hanrahan died on February 2, 2007. Our
thoughts and prayers are with his family at this
difficult time. ... One last thought; after 16 years as
class columnist, I’m well aware that I have made
mistakes in the column. I don’t do it intentionally,
and I consider these errors to be incentives to keep
you curious about my articles. Hopefully, I have
never offended anyone. Please try to find humor in
the mistakes. God Bless, Julie
REUNION YEAR
Send your notes to:
1982
Paul Hulseman
120 Evergreen Ln.
Winnetka, IL 60093
847-867-9322 (c)
PJHulseman@aol.com
Paul.Hulseman@solocup.com
Greetings from Chicago! ... It was 26-degrees
on Saturday for Winnetka’s annual Easter egg
hunt. Cleveland’s opening baseball weekend was
snowed out? While I can’t guarantee perfect
weather for our 25th reunion in June, I will go out
on a limb and say it will not snow – I promise.
Pack your bags and get ready for a great weekend.
Great reunions are not weather dependent! ...
Judy Schoen Thomas, former Maumee domestic
engineer of the year, has hung an Internet shingle
focused on travel and entertainment. Check out
her web site - www.ticketsbyjudy.com. ... The
highlight of our Christmas cards has to be Char
Murawa Donelan’s. Don’t let her business degree
fool you, this classmate can write! It made me
laugh. It made me cry. It had a good beat and was
easy to dance to, too! I’d give it an 82. ... Mary
Lou Petrancosta Prendergast dropped me a
great e-mail. Her husband, Mike, has published
a book and will be giving a presentation about it
during reunion. Don’t Chew Jesus! A Collec-
tion of Memorable Nun Stories” came out last
November. I just picked up a copy for my father at
Barnes and Noble. Anyone who went to a Catholic
grade school will relate to this book. I may have to
dust off a few memories of Sister Angelica for his
next book. ... Gina Iaderosa Samuels is slowing
down? Nah, but she has moved her activities from
New York City to Canfield, OH. While working in
marketing and investor relations in NYC, our very
own Gina was on the board of directors of the
American Suicide Foundation. She co-founded
the Junior Lifesavers League. Gina was awarded
Fashion Group International’s Frontliner award
for her work in public relations and advertising
and was asked to sit on the board of directors for
Frontliners. She has been published with by-lines
in Runners’ World, New York Magazine, USA
Today, the Wall Street Journal and The New York
Times. Retired to Ohio? Nope. Gina is now buying
jewelry for Saks Fifth Avenue in Beachwood, OH.
... Paul Zakelj earned an advanced degree from
Penn State in 2001 and is currently senior engineer
at Bridgestone Firestone in Akron. He and his wife,
Kathleen ’86, live in Stow, OH, and have two boys
and two girls ranging in age from 20 to 15. ... Carol
Berg Rolecek has landed! After 20 years with
United Airlines in sales and marketing, Carol has
become a full-time mom. Carol and her husband,
Terry, live in Barrington, IL, with their two girls and
one boy ranging from almost 6 to 10. Carol has a
nephew who transferred to John Carroll after his
freshman year. So the Berg tradition lives on in Uni-
versity Heights. ... Frank Cicco was in Chicago for
business recently and agreed to stay with Patrice
and me and 11 of our 13 kids (the other two are at
John Carroll). After getting his clock cleaned by my
10-year old pool shark son, enduring a 5:30 a.m.
swim practice with old farts, and getting the kids
fed and off to school on Monday morning, Frank
was looking forward to returning to Butler, PA. ...
Onward on! Paul
Send your notes to:
1983
Tony Pallotta
31507 Drake Dr.
Bay Village, OH 44140
440-892-4766
tpbam@aol.com
Greetings, Blue Steaks! As I write this column, the
Indians are in first place in their division and the
Yankees are in the cellar in their’s. I know the only
standings that matter are at the end of September,
not April, but it’s still fun to see. A huge thank you
to Deb Solyan for filling in as guest columnist for
the past two issues. I don’t know how you all sur-
vived without an update on the Bunecke/­Czekaj/
Mockler/Pallotta/Hadley animal. As Deb men-
tioned, I did make an employment change. Two of
my colleagues and I broke away from our old firm
and formed GPS Financial Group, LLC ... “Navigating
your Financial World.” Pretty catchy, eh? Good thing
I partnered with guys named Gallagher and Smola.
Otherwise, it would’ve been hard to capture the
GPS thing! ... Janice Marin Arouh was featured
in a recent JCU e-news. She lives in Los Angeles
with husband, Albert, daughter Mackenzie (13)
and son Alec (5). Janice is senior VP of Network

Distribution & Service for Hallmark Channel and
Hallmark Movie Channel. She’s won many Cable
TV and Marketing Assoc. (CTAM) awards and
was named one of the 50 most powerful women
in cable and one of the top 100 leaders by Cable
World magazine for 2006. Congratulations, Janice.
... Robert Forrest checked in from Naples, FL.
His oldest daughter, Jenna, will have graduated
from The Ohio State University by the time you
read this. Rounding out the rest of the Forrest
family are son Bobby (19) and daughter Ally (15).
... Congratulations to Andy Majeske for obtaining
his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of
California-Davis. He moved with wife Andrea Ross
and son Owen (4) to Philadelphia in 2005, where he
has been employed at the Law School Admission
Council helping to write the LSAT. He’s also been
teaching at Temple University Beasley School of
Law and at the Drexel University Pennoni Honors
College. He will be an associate professor in the
English department at John Jay College of Criminal
Justice/CUNY in the fall of 2007. His book, Equity
in English Renaissance Literature: Thomas
More and Edmund Spenser, was published by
Routledge Press in November 2006. His most
prestigious accomplishment, though, was surviving
freshman year as John Mockler’s roommate! (Just
kidding! I spent two years as John’s roommate and
we got along great and are still friends 25 years
later.) ... Speaking of 25 years, it’s not too early to
mark your calendar for the weekend of June 20-22,
2008, for our 25-year Reunion! Circle the weekend
in red so it doesn’t sneak up on you. ... OK, more
news after that brief commercial announcement:
James Lindsay checked in from Maumee, OH,
where he is VP-legal counsel for Louisville Title
Agency for Northwest Ohio. James and his wife,
the former Julie Mylander, have four children, Erin
(20), Molly (18), Connor (14), and Madison (11). ...
Alan McDonough checked in from Hudson, OH.
He and wife Holly have one child, Randy (14). ...
Lastly, David Wiemels reported in from London,
where he is information programs officer at the
U.S. Embassy. ... All right, Blue Streaks, as you
begin your summer vacations and stop on your way
to somewhere else to visit with classmates, please
drop me a note so the rest of us can listen in on
your conversations! Stay safe this summer; see
you in June! Tony
Send your notes to:
1984
Don D’Amore
29570 Dorchester Dr.
North Olmsted, OH 44070
440-235-1323
jcuclassof84@yahoo.com
Tragically, we lost a classmate (of two years) in the
Virginia Tech massacre on April 16, 2007. Kevin
Granata, a professor at V.T. and a member of our
class from September 1980 until he transferred to
OSU December 1982, was killed that day. JCU held
a memorial prayer service for him soon after the
event. By all accounts, Kevin was an extraordinary
person, who loved helping people and teaching. He
was considered one of the top five biomechanics
researchers in the country, working on movement
dynamics in cerebral palsy. The Plain Dealer on
April 18 quoted their business reporter (and our
classmate) Mary Vanac, who was friends with
Kevin as freshmen in JCU’s honors program. “He
was probably the finest man I’ve ever known,”
Mary said “Integrity and chivalry were part of his
genetic makeup.” Mary sent an e-mail to Kevin on
the day the news of the shooting first came out, but
she never got a response. Chris Fortunato wrote
to me that he remembered Kevin being on the quiet
side, but very pleasant when he was at JCU. Kevin
transferred to OSU because of their ­engineering
program. He and his wife, Linda, had children ages
11 to 14. I heard from eight other classmates
regarding Kevin in the days following the event. The
prayers of our class go out to Kevin and his family
and all those affected by that tragedy. ... David
Olderman in St. Louis, MO, was recently thinking
about JCU when he found out his niece went on a
tour of JCU and it became her number one school
of choice. Even more interesting is that the tour
took David’s niece through Dolan Hall, and ironically
she was shown Dave’s old dorm room: the famous
corner room that he shared with Tim Cavanagh
sophomore year and Ed Cooper junior year. Dave
thought it was interesting that the article that
featured successful Chicago alumni included both
Cavanagh and Cooper, and maybe he should get a
little credit for their success! David heard from Tony
Gregorich, “SLAV,” who says his daughter is
considering Saint Louis University. ­David was very
saddened about losing our friend Pat Goold. David
fondly recalls a humorous moment: he and Pat
were up in the middle of the night studying for an
accounting final, when suddenly Pat enthusiastically
declared that he had enough and was going to
switch majors and go into business with his father.
David said: “I knew right then that the moment was
definitive in his life.” David says his family is — “My
17-year old, Patrick, set the school record for
interceptions in his football team and is doing well in
school — but no JCU in the cards for him. My 13-
year old, David, is in all sports and just having a
great time in middle school. Wrestling begins next
year for him. And my daughter, Gracie (10), is my
princess and a terror in soccer, basketball, and
track.” David’s wife is a speech language patholo-
gist (like me) who just returned to full-time work and
who very much likes what she does. David
continues teaching history — AP U.S. History and
regular U.S. History. He is finishing up his second
master’s; an Ed.S. - principal certification, but David
adds “…though I am in no rush to become one.” (I
have a niece myself attending JCU! Lisa Ugran ’09!
We visited Lisa this spring and she gave us a tour of
the modern campus. We can’t get over all the
changes and additions. We ended with a nice
reminiscent visit to Geraci’s pizza, which is exactly
the same BTW.) ... I am sad to report that I received
word that classmate Cheryl (Baird) Ramsey passed
away on January 10. Our prayers go out to her
family as well. ... Don
Send your notes to:
1985
Diane (Nerem) Wendel
629 Quaker Road Rte 120
Chappaqua, NY 10514-1507
914-238-2227
DWendel@Optonline.net
As you read this column, “Camp Carroll,” as we
affectionately called summer school back in 1985,
is in session. Stop for a minute and reflect upon
your memories of summer: do lightening bugs,
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sleepover camp, swim team, golf, family vacations
come to mind? Appreciating the little stuff in life
is so important. I hope you are enjoying some
fun in the sun right now. ... Congratulations are in
order for first time papa, Matt Koenig, expecting
in September and living in Duxbury, MA. Matt
also jokingly asked me to add that his house on
Martha’s Vineyard is for sale. If you are interested
in congratulating, buying or just want to say hello,
contact Matt - mwk4619@gis.net. ... Another
­Bostonian, Maureen Flaherty Menton, has recently
been hired as head of human resources in the U.S.
for British Telecom Conferencing. BTC is the leading
specialist in the field of telecommunication, video
and web conferencing. ... I received a press release
on our beloved “Captain” Marsh. This past March,
John Marsh joined the law firm of Hahn Loeser
and Parks, LLP as a partner in the Columbus office.
Partner in charge, Stephen E. Chappelear stated,
“John brings a wealth of experience and knowledge
in litigation area that complements the strong team
in place at Hahn Loeser. John’s background is
ideal for the clients we serve.” Marsh, who joins
the firm’s litigation practice area, earned his JD
in 1989 from Vanderbilt University. He resides in
Worthington with his wife and stepson. Additional
information can be found at www.hahnlaw.com.
... John and Franca Rago’s son Jack, is attending
WVU as music major in percussion. Franca is a
middle school teacher at Fox Chapel in Pittsburgh.
John still keeps in contact with Jeanguenat and
Tom Smith, who reside in North Carolina. ... I
have been asked a lot lately about all the press
regarding the “Westchester Wine Sisters” that I
formed three years ago. If you have any desire to
learn about wine the “wine sister way” or wish
to read the articles visit www.winesisters.com. ...
The third annual reverse raffle for the Bob and Tony
Steele Scholarship Fund at St. Ignatius High School
was held February 9 at Brennan’s Party Center in
Cleveland – it was a big success. Well over 200
people attended and raised over $6,000 for the
educational scholarship fund for a well deserving
St. Ignatius High School student. ... Please continue
to pray for Peggy Bertsch Currier and her family
– Joe, Ryan and Grace – as she continues her
treatments. My mother, Nancy Nerem, just
completed her radiation treatments as she was
diagnosed with inoperable cancer of the voice box
this winter and is recovering wonderfully. Thank
you for all your thoughts and prayers for our family.
God bless! Diane
Send your notes to:
1986
Gigi Togliatti-Rice
931 Sheirer Rd.
Mansfield, OH 44093
419.529.5530
gigirice@neo.rr.com
Beth (Bonanno) Hausoul
179 S. Kenilworth Ave.
Elmhurst, IL 60126
ehausoul@mac.com
We have heard from several people since the last
column so we want to get right into the scoops.
Maureen Turney Guise and her husband, Rick,
live in Downington, PA, with their three children
— Rick (9), Kelly (7) and Katie (6). We have heard
from Sister Donna Gribschaw, who is in Arecibo,
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PR, which is about 60 miles from San Juan. She is
supervisor of four AmeriCorps* Vista members for
grant writing and fund-raising activities, she can
be reached through the admissions office if you
are heading her direction. ... Eileen McDonough
’83 is living in Portugal; she reports that Elizabeth
Gallant Grundy is an IronMan. The race sounded
very exciting – Elizabeth’s whole family was in
Arizona to cheer her on. What an accomplishment,
Elizabeth; congratulations. ... Mary Cavanaugh
Monroe is an attorney practicing in Cleveland.
She is married to John and they have two boys:
Reilly (6) and Aiden (4). They live right next door
to Jeff and Letitia Linker, both ’85, in Euclid.
... Denise Borkowski Siemborski lives in Old
Brooklyn with her husband, John. ... Mary Kulina
Jurcisin ’87 is a teacher and is married to Tommy,
a firefighter in Cleveland. They have three kids:
Kaitlan, Alex and Hannah. ... We heard from
Bill O’Donnell; he reports that Susan Caraher
just moved back to Chicago after a three-year
job transfer to LA. She is the VP of corporate
marketing for Mac Steel USA. She has been with
them for seven years and with the steel industry
for 19 years. She misses the weather but is
happy to be home. Bill also met up with Randall
Koczara in Chicago for a business meeting. He,
his wife and daughter Camilla (10) live in Dallas.
... Jamie Foley Bautista lives in Clarendon Hills,
IL, with her husband, Michael, and three boys.
Jamie contact us, we would love to hear more. ...
Chris (O’Brien) and Rich Kramer reside in Bath,
OH, with their four children. I know the children
are doing well in sports and hopefully I will have
an update for the next column. Rich was named
president, North American Tire for The Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Company, in March 2007. ... I also
heard from Jamie Milton Marsh, who is still
working in NY. He resides in New Canaan, CT,
and has four children: Max (9), Charlie (8), Betsy
(6), and Sammy (4). It was good to hear from you,
Milts. ... Thanks for all the e-mails and calls. We
would love to hear from Kevin Flynn, Howard
Dobbins, Rita Schafer Carroll; where are you
guys? ... Your friends, Beth and Gigi
REUNION YEAR
Send your notes to:
1987
Sue Farinacci Grazia
10338 Loreto Ridge Dr.
Willoughby, OH 44094-9547
440-256-0338
jsgrazia@adelphia.net
By the time you read this column we should be
within a week of Reunion. I can’t wait, as well as
many of you. Please be sure to send me some
great stories for the next column. I had a few
classmates write for this issue, as well as some
information sent by the alumni office. ... Robert
Reaume sent me a note that he and his wife
Bridget and their six children: Liam (11), Jack (9),
Daniel (7), Anna (5) Bobby (3) and MaryJo (1) are
living in Beverly Hills, MI. The children attend Our
Lady Queen of Martyrs School. The family spends
most of their free time hunting, fishing, and skiing
at their cottage in Searchmont, Ontario. Robert is
a partner in The Reaume Company, an insurance,
investment and employee benefits firm, with his
two brothers. He is fortunate to have some old
JCU friends as clients, and does make it back to
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Cleveland occasionally. He also keeps in touch with
Frank Murino (who was just in town), Chris Statt,
Chris Bender, John Rock, Chris O’Brien, Neil Ko-
reman, John Redding, Joe Mooney and John Fox.
Thanks for the update. ... I received an update from
Rob “Beto” Aldave, who is so looking forward to
Reunion this summer. He and his friends typically
have a “Crusty Boy Open” golf/fun trip every
couple years and this year are going to combine it
with Reunion. This group includes friends like Dave
Till, Joe Semancik, Joe Bonafede, Frank Murino,
Brian Eslick, Gary Giangreco, Art Johanson ’85,
Kevin Garmey ’88, Rick Siberski ’84, Jim Hansen
’88 and Mark Oswald ’88. Rob said he can’t wait to
do a little “fun in a box” at Mama’s Boy, whatever
that means! Rob lives in Baltimore (Catonsville),
MD with wife Missy and three girls: Maddy (12),
Paige (9) and Andie (7). They spend most of the
year playing lacrosse. ... I was also informed that
JoAnn and Bill Lock just became grandparents for
the 8th time. And, they will also be spending part
of their summer traveling to Spain and Australia. ...
Jane Overslaugh Rathbun is living in Alexandria,
VA, with husband, Roy, and daughter Lillian (5).
Jane is chief of staff to the Department of Defense.
How impressive, Jane, and I hope to see you at
Reunion to hear more. ... Thank you all for the
updates. Have a great summer, Sue
Send your notes to:
1988
Jamie Jamison
7072 Kildeer Rd.
Canfield, OH 44406
330-702-1965
jjamison@zoominternet.net
Kathy Reali Matthews
28012 W Oviatt Rd.
Cleveland, OH 44140-2145
440-871-7283
bk3matthews@yahoo.com
We’ve been getting a few updates but they are def-
initely slow in coming. We did get an update from
Ed Hammele and his wife, Dana Lemmons. They
are living in Fairhope, AL, with their children and
loving the laid back lifestyle of the South along with
the good weather! ... David Williams checked in
and he, his wife, and three children live in Florence,
SC. David works for South Carolina Cardiovascular
Surgery. … I recently ran into the Honorable Mike
Donnelly and begged him to help gather updates,
so for those of you who know Mike, please help
keep the updates coming. ... In April, Megan
Leahy Tilles ran the Boston Marathon for a great
cause – The Boston Ronald McDonald House. As
you may recall, it was the worst weather Boston
has had for this event in over 100 years! Congratu-
lations, Megan! ... Speaking of updates, when we
agreed to take over our column, we did so as a
team, hoping that we would have a little more to
report each issue. However, we are running a little
thin on material lately. So we don’t leave you with
another empty column in the months to come, we
thought we would give you: The Top Ten Reasons
to Send Column Updates. It takes five minutes
to e-mail us and our column will be much more in-
teresting. Simple updates are great, we don’t want
to start adding “fluff” or worse yet have nothing to
say at all. Alums in Virginia, North Carolina, Califor-
nia, Colorado, New York, and Florida have interest-
ing lives too. Let’s hear from you. It’s a great way to
connect with fellow classmates. You may find that
a fellow classmate lives in your backyard. Many of
us have kids, new jobs and successes. You’re not
bragging; we are celebrating with you. It’s fun to
hear about everyone in our class and it only takes
a few minutes. Did we mention it only takes a few
minutes! Our reunion is around the corner and the
more updates we have, the more you’ll be in the
know at reunion. Writing the column is great fun,
but we are desperate for material. We may pass
this baton to you! ... Hope to hear from you. Best
wishes, Jamie and Kathy
Send your notes to:
1989
David Gassman
3996 Astoria Way
Avon, OH 44011
440-934-0366
dgassmktvp@aol.com
I hope everyone is well and enjoying the spring
weather. I have to tell you even though JCU seems
like a small college, its arms truly reach around the
world. My wife, Beth, and I were fortunate enough
to travel to Rome, Florence and Venice over the
Easter holiday and I took along some JCU shirts. Our
last day in Rome I was approached by two girls from
Ohio Northern and the mother of one of them was a
professor at JCU. On our first day in Florence, I was
approached by Dr. Tom Nevin’s son and daughter as
well; small world but full of JCU contacts. ... Well the
news was sparse this quarter but I did run into Mike
Murphy at our parish fund raiser. The former JCU
baseballer is now an attorney and doing well; we
shared a few names of other alumni we both knew
and had talked to. ... I also sat with Mike Bilardo
and his wife at the event as well. Mike is head of
government sales for Hyland Software and keeps in
touch with Jeff Smith and Amy Van Strien, who
live in Cincinnati. ... Joan Kiernan Korinek wrote
in to give me grief about things and mentioned she,
husband Jim, and daughter Margaret are doing well
and the Baxter gig is going well. ... I received notice
that Mike Mastrian and wife Theresa (Scimeca)
welcomed baby Thomas on December 27, 2006 to
join brother Zachary (23 mos.). Mike is with the U.S.
Senate and is the director of radio and TV gallery
at the capital. ... Last but not least, I heard from
Doug Wood right after I submitted my notes for
the last column so sorry this seems so long ago,
but Doug welcomed daughter Isabel in April 2006.
The baby and wife joined Doug during his fall tour
across the country; 50 states in all. Doug also has
released his second CD titled DreamCatcher,
which features Jamey Haddad and Tracy Silver-
man. Doug also is/was up for “best guitarist” in
the Cleveland FREE TIMES and I hope you did
well. Thanks for the update and continued suc-
cess. ... Well ’89ers, as always, keep the news
coming and GO TRIBE ... David
Send your notes to:
1990
Melissa Wenzler
4021 Wandsworth Road
South Euclid, OH 44121
216-691-3759
WenzJCU90@aol.com
April 21-22 was the First Annual American Cancer
Society Relay for Life on campus. The Relay is an
eighteen-hour walk to raise money for advocacy,
research and services related to cancer. It celebrates
the survivors and memorializes those lost. I took part
in the Relay on Chris’ team – JCU Sports Informa-

tion — with the students in his office. I never felt
more proud to be alumni as I walked with the
hundreds of students who walked for life, and
celebrated raising over $76,000.00 toward a cure! ...
I got an e-mail from Mike Schilling all the way from
Thailand!! He is doing well ... he and his wife, Whan,
have a baby daughter, Eve. Mike is looking forward
to a visit this spring from classmates, Scott Mosser
and Gary Ritter. He mentioned that Asad Sultan is
getting married and will be heading to India to work
for Cantor Fitzgerald. Mike is already gearing for
retirement. He told me the party will be on January
8, 2014, on the beach in Phuket, Thailand! All are
invited! ... Dave Rastoka is living in Columbus. He is
the regional director for ResCare, the largest provider
for people with mental retardation and developmen-
tal disabilities. Dave is also the president of
HeartFelt Stories. With the help of Tony DeCarlo
’88, Dave began Heartfelt Stories, a children’s book
company. The stories provide wonderful illustrations
and are packed with great messages. My son Oliver
got an autographed copy of More Than a Spoonful;
it quickly became one of his favorites. Check out
Heartfelt Stories - www.heartfeltstoriesllc.com. ...
Rita Abdallah is an LISW for the Ireland Cancer
Center in Cleveland. She leads workshops on topics
related to cancer. She recently was recognized for
her work in her field by her peers. ... Ann-Margaret
(Leshinsky) and Jamie Lambo recently purchased a
new home in Jackson Township (North Canton area).
Jamie took a new job in August with Diebold. He is
the vice president of internal audit. ... Tracey
(Ludwig) Holecek and her hubby, Terry, have
relocated to Powell, OH, near Columbus. Their three
girls: Abby (9), Kristen (8) and Anna (5) are growing
fast! Tracey mentioned that they love the Columbus
area and the girls are happy and thriving! ... Jane
(Wagner) Nicolette e-mailed me. She is a senior
training ­consultant with Mellon Financial Corp. in
Pittsburgh. She mentioned that Larry was elected to
the Murrysville local municipal council. He is in his
second of four years and holds the VP position on
council. ... Life in L.A. continues to be an adventure
for Bob Kasunic! He decided to use these
adventures to create, write and produce a short film!
The film made the rounds of some film festivals in
the fall, but you can view it on YouTube — http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Efnc828AM. Bob
has been writing for a few magazines; still does
consulting work with his marketing and strategy
company he started a few years ago. He took a long-
term project in NYC as the director of creative
From left, Betsy Traben ’91 and family including
newly adopted daughter from China.
development for a new green/health and wellness
company. ... Beth (Warfield) Hansen is living in
Solon with her husband, Toby. She writes that their
three children, Eric (11), Emily (7) and Luke (4) are
doing fine. ... Tracy Backer has been living in
Minnesota the past 15 years; working in the
mortgage industry with GMAC-ResCap. Tracy
recently returned from a seven week, 10-country,
solo trip around the world. Tracy wrote that Prague,
Paris and Istanbul were favorites on the itinerary!
Check out Tracy’s trip blog - http://realtravel.com/
member-m1942408-tracer1.htm ... Be sure to keep
in touch and enjoy summer! Cheers, Melissa
Send your notes to:
1991
Molly Coughlin Fanta
25107 Wildwood Dr.
Westlake, OH 44145
440-716-1749
mfanta4714@wowway.com
I hope this column finds all of you well and enjoying
some nice weather. I recently went to a party at
the home of Amy Finke Cook ’90 in Westlake. Amy
and her husband, Brian, have five children and are
members of St. Bernadette Parish. Amy’s daughter
and my son recently had roles in Music Man Jr.
Amy is a stay at home mom and traveled to Italy
last summer. It is always fun to reconnect with
JCU alumnae and flourish friendships; it is like you
have a common bond. ... I was happy to hear from
several of you recently. Kristin Gulling lives on the
West Side of Cleveland and will be married August
10 to Michael Zeno. Kristin’s husband will be
deployed to Iraq after the wedding. Please keep the
soldiers in your prayers and especially Kristin and
Michael. Best Wishes, Kristin! ... Julie Bjorkman
lives in Illinois, where she is the director of human
resources and culture communications for the Sara
Lee Corporation. She will finish her Ph.D. in orga-
nizational development at Benedictine University.
She earned her master’s in OD from Case Western
Reserve University. She’ll continue working at
Sara Lee and teach at the University of Chicago
and Elmhurst College after finishing the Ph.D. ...
David Bobango resides in Erie, PA, and is a mate-
rial manager at Plastek Group. ... Melissa Butler
resides in Chagrin Falls and has three girls. ... Lynn
Zimmerman resides in Lorain, OH, and has one
son. ... Elizabeth Uber resides in Charlotte, NC.
... It is great to receive your updates; keep the info
coming! Start thinking about making arrangements
to visit Carroll in June for Reunion Weekend. May
God continue to bless all of you! Molly
REUNION YEAR
Send your notes to:
1992
Jim Sislo
203 Marilyn Ln.
Eastlake, OH 44095-1561
440-269-1245
James@Sislo.net
Hello everyone. My next column will feature all
the highlights from our 15th Reunion. However,
I wanted to include some recent news in this
column. ... Molly (McTigue) McNally dropped me
a note to share some positive changes that have
been going on in her life over the past year or so.
She and her husband, Tom, decided last spring that
it was time to leave their condo in the city for the
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greener pastures of the suburbs. So the couple
bought a house in Glen Ellyn (Western ‘burbs of
Chicago) last spring and learned soon after the
move that twins were in their future! They moved
last July, and spent the summer getting settled and
acclimated with their two boys, Jack (4 1/2) and
Michael (2). Molly said “It’s a total change from
city living but so much better!!” Coinciding with
the move, Molly quit her job in pharmaceutical
advertising to be a stay at home mom. While she
misses the work (at times), she doesn’t miss the
stress that goes with being a working mom! On
November 25, 2006 the JCU stork delivered twin
sisters Meghan and Riley to join the happy family.
... Sean Kearns has three children: Jackie (4), Liam
(3) and Brendan (1). He left the telecommunications
industry a couple of years ago and is in the soft-
ware industry working for Oracle. Sean has been
running in a lot of marathons. He ran the Cleveland
Marathon last spring and Akron Marathon last fall.
... Brent Desiderio and Mark Francl ’93 came to
town to run the Cleveland Marathon as well. Brent
started working for SAP about five months ago and
is doing well. Brent and Sean are thinking that they
should run another spring marathon. The class of
1992 says, “Go for it!” ... Tim Keo is in his third
year as an actor/teacher for Great Lakes Theater
Festival. Tim goes to different schools each week
and spends the week acting with them. He covers
grade 1 through grade 12, using various stories
for the younger students and Shakespeare and
Arthur Miller for the high school students. Tim is
still in The Bel-Airs, a ’50s band, where he plays
bass and sings backup vocals, plus he has been
playing in various pit orchestras including playing
for The Cleveland Cabaret Project downtown. ...
I was happy to hear that Catherine Glaser was
married on July 21, 2006, in Pittsburgh. She and
her husband, Rich, work for Quaker Valley School
District in Sewickley, PA. Megan Larkin-Curry, Su-
sie (Bresnahan) McLaughlin, and Ann Showers
were in her wedding. Also in attendance was Beth
Horstman Zugelder and Julie Kovass Lynch.
Catherine said, “Everyone is doing well and busy
with kids and other priorities!” ... Jim
Send your notes to:
1993
Julie Reardon
12361 Woodridge Dr.
North Royalton, OH 44133
440-877-0939
dereardon@adelphia.net
Dennis and I ran into Doug Shostek and his wife,
Debby, at the mall; they were with their daughter,
Emily (4), and son Ryan, born December 6. Doug
works at Parkwood Corporation as a manager of tax
and they live in Strongsville. ... Lori (Polisseni)
Deuberry and husband, Robert, live in Hudson with
Payton Elizabeth (6), Robert Nathaniel (3) and
­Bronwyn Alexandra (1). Lori is a regional VP for
American Funds Distributors. ... Stacy (Stahurski)
Gray is in Olmsted Township with husband, Edward,
and three kids: Samuel (6), Rocco (4) and Erin (1). ...
Laura (Willig) Miller was married recently to Ken
Miller, she is managing director for Navigant
Consulting, Inc. in Pittsburgh. ... Sarah Drickhamer
married Ryan Sawyer in December, and is living in
Denver, CO. In attendance were Doug ’88 and
Maggie ­(Andros) Stumpfl. ... Ryan Hoffecker
works for Lincoln Electric as the Workers’ Comp
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administrator. He has a son, Diego (2). Ryan says
hello to Matt Hite and his family. ... Daniel O’Brien
is in Denver at Arrupe Jesuit High School as the
work-study director. ... Todd and Rachel (Long)
Brenner are in Boca Raton, FL, with Dylan Rae (2).
Rachel is a senior consultant with Oasis Outsourc-
ing. ... Elizabeth (Beth) Suter-Haas moved to
Zurich, Switzerland in 1995 to be with her husband,
Stefan. They have two children: Jeremy (8) and
Emilie (6). Beth teaches grades five and six at a
bilingual school. … Jeff Siegel and his wife, Janet,
had their third child in October, Cole Michael joins
Carter (5) and Ryan (3). Jeff was promoted in August
to SVP, customer marketing and sales at ESPN out
of their NY offices. Andy Botzer, Craig Frabotta,
Mike Costanzo, Brian Kurtz and Jeff still get
together once a year. This year’s trip was delayed
because Andy Botzer got married and had his
second and third children (twins). ... Lori (Souser)
Sprague e-mailed me: Lori is married to Tim and
they live in Sagamore Hills. Lori is an HRIS analyst
with John Carroll. ... Mark Henderson ’92 and Julie
(Lull) Henderson live in Macedonia with Alek (8) and
Ryan (5). Mark is working for the Cleveland Clinic
and Julie is working at Datatrak International. They
are expecting their third child in August. ... Jan
(Huczko) and Mike Vulku live in Westlake with
Matthew (6) and Luke (4). Mike is a financial planner
with H&R Block Financial and Jan is a stay-at-home
mom. ... Elizabeth (Gallagher) Higgins and her
husband, Kevin, are expecting their second daughter
in August. She works for Accenture and lives in
Naperville, IL. ... Chris Frank ’98G and Donna
Lucente Frank live in Broadview Heights, where
they are raising Lucina (4), Christian (3) and Patrick
(1). Donna teaches religion at St. Basil the Great. …
Dean and Diann (Dellafiora) Jenne live in Westlake
and have a daughter Leah (2). ... Lynn (Flaherty)
Kessel and husband Tim ’90 live in Gibsonia, PA,
raising their four children. ... Mike and Kelly
(Holmes) Nolan live in Downers Grove, IL, with
three sons Jack, Luke and Brent. ... Sarah Swingle
is an HR consultant at Progressive and lives in
Cleveland Heights with Frank Kuhar ’94. Frank is
working for Rysar Properties in sales. Thanks Lori. ...
Larissa Kosmos and husband, Jim, had a son in
August, Alexander. He joins his sister, Sofia (4) in
NYC. ... Amy and PJ Hruschak had a son, Rory
Joseph on January 29. Amy works as a page
designer for the Dayton Daily News. PJ writes a
video game column for Cincinnati Enquirer’s CiN
Weekly magazine and freelances for various print
and web publications. ... Thanks for the updates.
Take care, Julie
Send your notes to:
1994
Maureen “Moe” McGuinness
940-566-1361
moe@unt.edu
Patrice Adamonis works from home in Cleveland
for Polytech Inc. and gets to take care of daughters
Mackenzie (3) and Sydney (9 mos.). ... Melissa
Lohman Manner and husband Kevin ’93 are expect-
ing their first child in August. ... Sionann Jones
Monroe is a manager at Progressive Urban Real
Estate’s Cleveland Heights office. She is married and
has two sons, Malachi and Kieran. ... Angela Harrivel
is pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at the
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U. of Michigan. This summer she will be working
for NASA Glenn in their Bioscience and Technology
Branch. ... Andrea Tuckerman Earley had her third
child in February. Julia Katherine joins Sophia (5)
and Charlie (3). ... Michelle Thomas Burchfiel and
husband Brian just had their third child, Madison,
who joins brothers Evan and Andrew. They are still
in Houston, TX, where Michelle works for Exxon. ...
Ami Reed Casper and husband, Brent, had triplets
in January of 2005. James Dwight, Luke William
and Reagan Elizabeth joined big sister Lucy and they
are hitting the “terrible twos.” (WOW). ... Maria
(DeMichele) Kerekes will be celebrating 13 years
with husband Ed this September. They have three
children — Eddie, Angela and Julia. Maria is working
for Life Center Plus as a manager in Hudson, OH.
Both Maria and her husband are training for the
Columbus marathon in October. ... Susie Donegan
Magyar in this column for the first time! Susie and
husband Jason are living in Dublin, OH, and have
three boys — Casey, Aiden and Brady (great Irish
names!). She is training for the Chicago marathon
and raising money for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
Susie and Jason’s youngest, Brady, was born with
life-threatening liver tumors. If you would like to
assist the Magyars in their quest, contact Susie at
Magyars@nationwide.com. ... Our very own Jim
Driscoll is a proud father of Jacob Badger Driscoll.
Jim says he is “the coolest guy ever”! He would
love for anyone to contact him in Columbus - jimd@
paydayperx.com. Jim’s younger sister, Joanne, mar-
ried JCU classmate, Brian Fox. Pete Duggan, Peter
Chapman, Matt Sullivan, Tim Bayne, Bill Morcze,
and John Mangan were in attendance. ... Jonathan
Eric Agin writes that he is a partner at his own law
firm of Taylor Sylla and Agin in Washington, D.C. His
legal specialty is insurance defense and general civil
litigation matters. Jonathan and his wife, Neely, have
a daughter, Alexis, and reside in Arlington, VA. He
is training to do his seventh marathon . ... Danielle
Nadolski has been married to Scott for eight years
in August. They live in Concord Township, OH, with
Nicoletta and Antoinette. ... Margaret and Dale
Hall moved to Bloomington, IL, six years ago. They
have two daughters, Regan and Cailin. Dale is vice
president and chief actuary of COUNTRY Insur-
ance & Financial Services and Margaret is a mom
and busy volunteering at the kids’ school. ... Mike
Connole returned from a year in Iraq in October. The
Connole family, Mike, Kris and children, Liam and
Alexis moved from San Francisco to Washington.
Mike also wrote that Brian Beckno is a major in the
Army and stationed in Italy. He will soon deploy to
the Middle East for his fourth time. ... I had to cut all
the information I got in two. So if you didn’t see your
info here it will be in the next column. Sorry ... I have
editors too. Keep things coming my way - moe@
unt.edu. And if you couldn’t tell by the change in the
last name I have gotten a divorce and returned to
my Irish roots of Moe McGuinness. ... Luck to you
always, Moe
Send your notes to:
1995
Annie (Hummer) DePerro
4161 Glenmoor Rd. N.W.
Canton, OH 44718
330-966-8845
anniedeperro@nls.net
Shrek III is coming to a theater near all of us this
spring so with this fairy tale romance on my mind
let me share a few real love stories from our
former classmates. The first comes from Hillary
(Garard) Jackson ’97. Hillary writes that she and
Ben Jackson will happily celebrate their 10th
wedding anniversary this August. Their son,
Nathaniel, was born last year. Ben is the COO of
Kiodex, a division of Sungard, in NYC; they reside
in Wilton, CT. Hillary’s brother-in-law is John Paul
(JP) Bania ’93. JP married Hillary’s sister in 1999
after they fell in love when she visited Hillary, at
Carroll her sophomore year. In other news, Hillary
reports that the actual John Carroll ’94, Colleen
Carroll’s brother, is an attorney for Cook County
(Chicago) courts. Hillary also writes that Gerry
Thomas welcomed his first born in December
2006, Bridgette Thomas. Gerry and his wife, Mary,
teach and reside in Euclid, OH. Finally, Hillary men-
tioned that Danny Mazzucca ’93 and his wonderful
wife have twin girls and live in Arizona. ... My next
tale of love comes from the border states. It all
began four years ago when Joe Vankos became a
Border Patrol agent. Originally stationed in Casa
Grande, AZ, Joe joined the Border Patrol’s special
response team based in Tucson in 1995. The SRT
is essentially the SWAT team of Border Patrol.
Joe’s job is to respond to shootings and to serve
arrest warrants whenever needed and to do
special operations involving drug smuggling. In all
of this chaos, Joe was also able to find true love.
March 24 was the date of his wedding to Anica, a
fellow agent of the Border Patrol. Sounds like big
changes for a guy who spent six years doing
computer programming in Cleveland! ... My
accounts of love would not be complete without
sharing some baby news: Greg Weishaar and
wife Kristine recently became parents to Audrey
Elizabeth in March. Greg became a senior recruiter
for Bausch & Lomb in January. They plan to travel
to Cleveland this summer for a mini-reunion with
Jeff and Jen Yost, Jason Evans, Scott Martin
and Gerry Nannen. In Rochester they see John
Kendall, his wife, Jen, and their daughter, Carmen,
on a regular basis. ... Sara (Mitchell) Ohlin
reports her love affair with the Pacific Northwest,
which she says is about as close to paradise as
one can get. Sarah and husband, Greg, spend their
free time there when not working from home in
Everett, WA. Sara is a writer, personal chef and
teaches cooking classes. Additionally they are
fixing up their 94-year-old house. ... Speaking of
94-year-olds, I have a bittersweet love story also
to report. A man I knew died of a broken heart just
three weeks after his wife of 66 years passed
away. Now that’s love! Among the other mourn-
ers at the funeral were JC alumni Robert Lombardi
’80 and Cathy (Coburn) Costello ’73. Mr. Lombardi
lives and works just outside of New Orleans,
where he has been for the past 20 years and Mrs.
Costello is a neighbor of my parents in Columbus.
Both were close to my grandparents and I wanted
to express my appreciation for their support of our
family’s loss. Thanks for all the love stories. Until
next time, Annie
Send your notes to:
1996
Amy Spisich Kogovsek
ASKamy@aol.com

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Hall of Famers from the ’90s
Katy Perrone McGrath ’97 a former Ohio
Athletic Conference Player of the Year and
First Team All-OAC in 1996, Katy Perrone
was a guiding force behind the Blue Streaks’
three NCAA teams in the 1990s. She helped
JCU reach the NCAA Elite Eight in 1994
and 1995. Her play earned her Outstanding
Defensive Player in 1994, and team captain
in 1995 and 1996. At the time of her
graduation, she held the record for career games played (438) and
the conference record with 1,684 digs.
Matt Colucci ’97 a former two-time
Ohio Athletic Conference champion
and two-time All-American at 126
pounds, Matt Colucci finished his
career with an 80-26 record and
his wins ranked 14th in program
history. He was a three-time national
qualifier, earning All-American
accolades in both 1994 and 1997. His
contributions helped the team earn an OAC title in 1994.
Scott O’Donnell ’97 was the only Blue
Streak to be the Most Valuable Defensive
Lineman in the Ohio Athletic Conference.
In 1995 and 1996, he was voted to the
All-OAC First Team. He was named
Football Gazette National Division III
Defensive Lineman of the Year and an
All-American. O’Donnell led his team
in sacks for four years. He remains the
school record holder for the most sacks in a game, season, and
career. In 1994, he helped lead the team to a share of the OAC title.
Frank D’Angelo ’97 captured eight Ohio Athletic
Conference titles and set both school and
conference records in 1- and 3-meter events.
In1997, he earned OAC Diver of the Year. His
best national finish at the NCAA Division III
Championship was eighth. He helped lead the
Blue Streaks to OAC titles in 1994, 1995, 1996.
AlumniJournal
Darlene Sheehan Neitzel ’95, who was
named a Kodak and AWSF All-American in
1994, was part of the most successful era
of women’s basketball in school history.
She was named first team All-Ohio Athletic
Conference as a junior and second team as
a senior. The team’s Most Valuable Player as
both a junior and senior, Sheehan finished
her career ranked second all-time in JCU
history with 1,494 career points and 281 assists. She remains the
school record holder for career 3-pointers made and attempted.
Steve Voinovich ’97, a three-time Division
III All-American, was a member of one of
the most accomplished JCU golf teams. He
was a three-time All-OAC golfer and was the
runner-up in the OAC Championship tourna-
ment in both 1995 and 1997. He also had
his best finish at the national tournament in
1995, when he tied for second in the nation.
Voinovich’s skills helped his team place in the top ten of the nation
in all four years of his career.
Matt Glovna ’96 joins teammates Steve
Voinovich and Brian Unk as Hall of Fame
members from the powerhouse John
Carroll teams of the mid 1990s. A three-
year letter winner, Glovna helped the
Blue Streaks finish third nationally in his
sophomore and junior years, and fourth
in his senior year. In both his junior and
senior years, Glovna topped very talented fields – including future
Hall of Famers on his own roster – to capture medalist honors at
the OAC Championships. He played a vital role in leading John
Carroll to OAC championship crowns in both 1994 and 1995.
Chris Anderson ’97 was named to the
American Football Coaches Association
Division III All-American team in 1996. He
also received the Bill Edwards Award as
the Most Valuable Linebacker in the Ohio
Athletic Conference in both 1995 and
1996. He was named First Team All-OAC
on two occasions. He was a four-year let-
ter winner and starter, and led the team in
tackles in each of his first three seasons.
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REUNION YEAR
Send your notes to:
1997
Brian Sparks
5011 Oakes Rd.
Brecksville, OH 44141
Phone: 440-746-0309
bdsparks@meistermedia.com
The big news coming up for us is Reunion Weekend
taking place June 22-24. You’ll probably be receiving
this just before the event takes place. Hopefully you
can make it. We’ll have plenty of stories to share! ...
I heard from Maureen (Shaughnessy) Mackar. She
works in marketing and community relations for
Barnes and Noble in Cleveland, and recently planned
area events for the final Harry Potter book coming
out this July. Sadly, she couldn’t spill the beans on
how the series ends. ... Arthur Soroka is living in
Mayfield and is a senior manager with Accenture.
... Laura (Seide) Davidson lives in Holiday, FL, and
has a son named William (2). ... Russell Kunic was
recently named manager of VPEC, the anesthesia
pre-operative evaluation clinic at the Vanderbilt
University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. ... Elaine
(Cirino) Perdion lives in Brecksville, OH, (my neck
of the woods!) and has a daughter named Ella (8).
... Maureen (Sweeney) Calkins lives in Hamburg,
NY, and has a son named Gavin (3). ... J.J. Huszczo
lives in Concord, OH, and is a sales executive with
IntraLinks. ... Bridget (Smith) Wendt just moved
back to the Philadelphia area after living in Germany
for three years. She is working for Siemens Medical
Solutions and has a daughter named Louisa (1).
... John C. McLaughlin is a traffic supervisor
with John Morrell & Co. in Cincinnati. ... Anthony
Mahfood is a wealth management advisor with
BB&T Wealth Management in Greenville, SC.
... I heard from Angel Kornuc ’98, who shared
the stage with me in a number of JCU theatre
productions (actually, she was usually at the front
of the stage, while I stayed in the back with the
other chorus members) “I spent the last ten years
as an entertainer: first doing a cruise ship, then
cabarets and singing telegrams. I also worked for
five years with grades K-12 in performance shows
and workshops. Currently, I am the full-time musical
Randy and Carla (LaVigne) ’97 Wessels at the
Ware Fire Department Firefighter’s Ball
54 John Carroll university
theatre director for Estero High School, in Estero,
FL. I am getting married to Michael McNeeley (he
went to Carroll, too) in December, in Ohio.” ... My
wife Annmarie Tirpak and I ran into Amy Everetts
following a Billy Joel concert here in Cleveland.
Amy’s working for the American Red Cross. ...
As for me, I headed Down Under earlier this year
for a work-related meeting in Tasmania and New
Zealand. You can read a bit about my trip (hopefully
the fruit growing information doesn’t bore you to
tears), and see a few photos, by going to www.
americanfruitgrower.com/ifta. ... Talk to you soon!
Brian
Send your notes to:
1998
Cherie Skoczen
216-741-1823
cherieskoczen@ameritech.net
Congratulations to my good friends Kelly and
Adam Mordock who welcomed their adorable
son, Owen Ross, to their lives on a very snowy
February 15. Adam works as an IT consultant in the
Cleveland area, and Kelly is a recovery room nurse
at the Cleveland Clinic. The Mordocks live in Beach-
wood. ... Also congrats to Michael Maassen and
Dana Kubilis Maassen, who welcomed Jonathan
­Michael on March 24. Dana is a manager of finan-
cial reporting at First Advantage Corporation, where
she has been for almost three years. Michael is a
senior buyer at the CarMax. The Maassens live in
Largo, FL, about an hour from Dana’s parents and
brother and just 15 minutes from the beach. ...
Laurie and Brian Pellow were married on August
20, 2005, in Bay Village, OH. Their son, Quinn
Xavier, was born on December 23. Brian recently
started a new job as a quality assurance analyst for
Ernst & Young in Cleveland. Previously he worked
as an QA analyst for the TALX Corporation for nine
years. ... Scott and Kara (Keating) Copeland
were married in Cleveland on September 16, 2006.
Many JCU grads attended the fun wedding. Scott
is a manager at the Moreland Partners consulting
firm in Beachwood, OH, and Kara is the director of
resource development at the Boys & Girls Clubs of
Cleveland. Kara said her matron of honor, Jessica
Pinter, and her husband, Todd, have a beautiful
little girl named Camille, and they are expecting
another baby in September. Jessica is an attorney
at the Federal Office of Medicare Hearings and
Appeals. ... Congrats to my good friend Ann Hricko
who received a promotion to vice president in
March. As a workgroup manager in National City’s
Corporate Operations and Information Services Di-
vision in Cleveland, OH, she focuses on the bank’s
acquisition conversions. Ann is looking forward to
visiting her JCU roommate, Christine Castro, in
Chicago, IL, in May. And we’re both looking for-
ward to returning to our favorite long-weekend city
of Nashville, TN, this summer! ... Jeff and Kristen
(Schneidler) Schultz were married on February 4,
2006. They were happy to have many John Carroll
alumni at their wedding, including Christy (Wilder)
Babbitt, Karen Salerno, Alexia Kapeluck, Steve
and Kate (Curry) Conway, George Schaefer,
and Mike Schneidler ’00. Kristen and Jeff honey-
mooned in Hawaii and are looking forward to an-
other big trip this spring: Paris and Rome. They live
in Bay Village, OH. Kristen most recently worked
Kristen (Schneidler) Schultz ’98 and her
husband, Jeff
as the sales promotions manager for The Cleveland
Orchestra, but she left that position several months
ago to launch her own non-profit organization — a
brain tumor support group. Kristen hopes to hold
a fundraising event for research and support in the
near future, so stay tuned for upcoming details. Or,
visit www.braintumorsupport.org for more informa-
tion. ... Summer is upon us, and I hope you all have
a great one. But before you put down this maga-
zine and go outside to enjoy the sun, please take
a moment and send me an e-mail about what’s
new in your life. I’d love to include you in our next
column. Until then, take care, Cherie
Send your notes to:
1999
Mark J. Annichine
216.401.8995
mannichine@yahoo.com
Hello friends. Because I missed the last issue, I have
a lot to catch up on (and little space), so here we
go... I am fortunate to keep in touch with Randy and
Michelle (Laurio) Roark. Randy recently got back
from Afghanistan, where he was serving as a dentist
in the U.S. Army. They have a son, Jackson (2 1/2).
Michelle is a pediatric nurse practitioner in the
emergency room. At the moment I’m typing this,
they live in the Ft. Bragg, NC, area, but by the time
this hits your hands, they will be in Columbus, OH.
... Adrienne Timonere-Publicover is the assistant
principal of Saint Ann School in Cleveland Heights.
She and her husband, Dan, got married in 2001
and live in University Heights. ... Michelle (Bjel)
and Rob Velotta were married at Saint Francis
Chapel in 2002. They had their first baby, Thomas
Robert, on October 14 and are living in Willoughby,
OH. ... Shannon (Shepard) and Michael ’98 Scott
had a son, William, who will be two years old this
June. ... I saw Maria Mahfood Terezis this fall
and I heard from her again this winter. She and
her husband, Nick, also had their first child, Ava
Tsambika arrived into this world on October 24.
... Ryan Gorczyca and his wife, Michelle, now
have two children: Gavan Michael (2) and Sean
Ryan (5 mos.). ... Rochelle (Nowinski) Young
married a University of Dayton graduate, Jason, in
September. Those on hand at the wedding included
JCU’s Beth Wood, Leah Kramer, Emily Berdell,
and Siegmund Fuchs, as well as Allyson Hunter
’98 (exchange student from Ireland). Rochelle

is working at the CBS affiliate in Columbus and
working toward her MBA from Capital University. ...
In November, Shaena (Welsh) and Chad ’00 Miller
had a baby girl, Shaunee. ... Ed Novak married Lori
Nita of Lansing, IL, in 2005. Ed also successfully
completed his first marathon that year in Chicago.
Then in 2006, he received his MBA from the
University of Chicago. They reside in Lincoln Park
in Chicago. ... Suzanne Brown recently moved
to Gilbert, AZ, to teach first grade. She had been
teaching in the Cleveland Municipal Schools prior
to the move. She’d love to hear from any other
JCU alumni in the Phoenix area. ... Ann (Crowley)
Raven brought another Blue Streak into this world
on November 25. Welcome to the JCU family,
little John “Jack” Adam Raven. ... I heard from
Brian Leisgang. He and his wife, Jennifer, started
a new division of their printing and promotional
products company in November 2004. They offer
over 30,000 office products, office furniture, and
janitorial products - www.bplofficeproducts.com.
... Kelly (Sobek) and Tom ’00 Clark had a baby
boy, T.J., in June. Congratulations, Clarks. ... On
August 18, Claire Kew successfully defended her
doctorial thesis in French literature at the Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. She was set
to marry Dr. Gerardo Vazquez on December 21 in
Walt Disney World. ... Raymond Krohn is married
to Hannah Rodabaugh and living in West Lafayette,
IN. Ray is a Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University....
Jennifer Bryk Hechko, DDS, MS graduated from
OSU College of Dentistry and did her residency
training at Columbus Children’s Hospital. In June,
she married Adam Hechko, DVM. Wedding
guests included John Kochilla, Carrie (Gargasz)
Balthaser, Michael Hart, Kelly (Baracz) Hanobik,
Erin Biehle Wimmer, and Dan Nauert. Jennifer
practices pediatric dentistry in Aurora, OH. She
also manages her husband’s office at his veterinary
practice. ... Leslie (Butler) and Darren Hilliard
welcomed a baby boy. Owen Butler, into this world
in October. ... I look forward to hearing from YOU
next! All my best, Mark
2000
Send your notes to:
Lisa Foster
3795 Lowell Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44121
440-339-6572
lisafoster19@gmail.com
Clare Taft
2171 Middlefield Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44106
claretaft@hotmail.com
As the weather warms, we are excited to bring
news of some classmates’ weddings. Kevin
Garvey and Kim Oblak were married April 21 at
John Carroll. Scott VanDenHaute, Tim Corrigan
’01, Chris Miklich, Mike Hofherr and Scott
Beran served as groomsmen. ... Laura Pyzik and
Courtney Cheney will marry on July 7 in Toledo.
Jane (Howarth) Vogelsberger is a bridesmaid
in the wedding. Laura and Courtney live in the
Washington, D.C., area. ... Congratulations to Tori
(Rendano) Nook, who was recently promoted to
vice president, retail division of Kowit & Passov
Real Estate Group in Beachwood, OH. Tori and
her husband, Jon, also recently purchased a
home in Gates Mills. ... We have some great
news about another one of our classmates who is
making headlines and doing his part to bring relief
and peace of mind to children in need. Captain
Jonathan Powers, who now lives in Washington,
D.C., spent 14 months serving in Iraq throughout
2003 and 2004 with the Army’s 1st Armored
Division. His experiences lead him to found the
War Kids Relief Program under the Vietnam
Veterans of America Foundation. The mission
of War Kids Relief, which launched in November
2005, is to help the children of Iraq recover from
the destructive effects of war and give them
hope and resources for a better future. Jon and
War Kids Relief were featured in the January 24,
2007, cover story of Newsweek. We encourage
you to visit the program’s web site - http://www.
veteransforamerica.org/programs/war-kids-relief/
- and see for yourself what a positive impact one
person can make on children’s lives. You can read
about his efforts and donate to the cause. We are
proud to call Jon one of our fellow classmates and
we should all do what we can to help him as he
supports innocent children who are caught in the
middle of war. Thank you, Jon, for stepping forward
when you saw a need and using your talents to
make a difference. ... Clare and Lisa
2001
Send your notes to:
Maureen DeMers Fariello
257 Ironbark Court
Bolingbrook, IL 60440
jcualumni2001@yahoo.com
Happy spring! Many marriages to celebrate and
share — Tom Rennie proposed to Michelle
Hawkins late summer 2006 and will marry
Michelle this June in Dallas, TX. Anthony Mastro
’00, Dave LaRusse ’00 and Jeb Schmitt ’00 are
in the wedding party. Aaron Brown and Jen
(Croston) Brown, Kevin Kuhar ’00 and Chris
Tomley ’96 will also attend the celebration. ... Joe
Enright provided his own update and those of
his “knucklehead” friends: In December 2006,
Joe married Lauren (Clark) Enright of Chicago at
St. Francis Xavier Church in LaGrange, IL. JCU
alums in attendance included Pat Fitzgibbons,
John Frye, Brian Barton, Brendan Hotchkiss,
Jim Comerford, Matt Covell, Nish Vartabedian,
Liam Bresnahan, Catherine Cummings, Michelle
Marquette, Susie Kovass, and Lauren Ferrari ’02.
Weeks after Joe’s wedding, Brian Barton got down
on one knee at the Chicago Ridge Red Lobster
and proposed to long-time girlfriend Catherine
Cummings. They are planning a wedding in May
2008. In the next several months, Liam Bresnahan,
Jim Comerford and Michelle Marquette, John
Frye, and Matt Covell will all be getting married.
... Patrick Connors ’02 shares the good news of
his friend, Katie Kitsko, who married Christopher
Topolewski on October 28. Her bridesmaids
included Natasha Marin and Lindsay Hofmann.
Patrick Connors served as a groomsman. Nick
Gentilcore was the cantor and John Paul Fielder
’02 served as a reader. Dr. Erica Roesch ’02 also
attended. Katie and Chris honeymooned for ten
days in Dubai. They live in Philadelphia, where Katie
is an attorney for Segal McCambridge and Chris is
investment counsel at West Capital Management.
... Amy (Atanacio) Santos sent, in her words, a
long overdue update on her life. She married Edgar
in August 2001 and they are the proud parents
AlumniJournal
’01 friends at Joe Enright’s wedding – left to
right – Brendan Hotchkiss, Pat Fitzgibbons,
Nish Vartabedian, Joe, Matt Covell, Liam
Bresnahan, and Brian Barton. kneeling John
Frye and Jim Comerford
of Joshua (3) and Lysandra (7 mos.). The Santos
family lives in Brook Park. Amy has been teaching
in Shaker Heights since graduating from JCU; she
earned her master’s in educational administration
at CSU. ... Many classmates sent updates on both
location and work. Erica Taylor lives in Westlake,
OH ... Robert Matelski III lives in San Francisco,
CA ... Zoe Corson lives in Atlanta, GA ... Chris
Kozlik lives in Santa Rosa, CA, and works as a
supply chain manager for Medtronic. ... Scott
Williams lives in New York, NY, and works as a
senior consultant for Protiviti. ... David Burrows
lives in San Diego, CA, and plays music full-time
with the band Modern Day Moonshine; the band’s
debut album was released in spring 2006 and a
second album is expected in summer 2007. ... The
legacy of Tim Anderberg, a classmate who died
in 2004, continues to affect lives. In his memory,
the Anderberg family established Tim’s Fund for
Kids. Tim’s Fund works in connection with Hope
Clinic International; a medical mission organization
that serves needy children throughout the world.
Since its inception, Tim’s Fund has established a
clinic in Nicaragua named Tim’s Clinic for Women
and Children, which has provided critical medicine
and treatment for countless families in this
impoverished community. Fundraisers were held
in the Chicago area in April, including an evening
out at Quartino’s and a baseball game between
the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds. Make
the most of every moment; each is a gift to be
treasured and shared. Maureen
REUNION YEAR
2002
Send your notes to:
Kristen (Muoio) McVean
9 Warrington Dr.
Fairport, NY 14450
585.259.3955
jcuclassof2002@gmail.com
Hi everybody! I will be compiling the updates
for our class going forward. Please e-mail me
- jcuclassof2002@gmail.com - with your news. On
behalf of all of our classmates I would like to thank
Gina Ferrara for doing such a fantastic job keeping
us informed over the last three years. It’s an honor
to take over her post, and I look forward to hearing
from you! ... Heather (Fox) Barringer and her
husband, Chris, are living in Brunswick, OH. Heather
is a global sourcing project manager at Lubrizol. ...
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Meghan (Ehrlich) Conley and her husband, Mike
’00, welcomed their first child, Mackenzie Marie,
on March 19. Meghan is a chemistry teacher at St.
Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron. ... Sermonte
Anderson Walker married Colin Walker on February
24. The couple has known each other since high
school and is now residing in South Euclid. ...
Scott Martin is living in Omaha, NE, and works
as a network manager for Werner Enterprises. ...
John Pacini is a client manager for SmithBucklin
in Chicago. ... Rich and Emily (Farkas) Wyman
both attended Youngstown State University after
graduating from JCU. Emily graduated with a
bachelor’s degree in secondary education and Rich
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical
engineering. After eight years of dating, they married
on August 19, 2006. JCU’s own Fr. Casey Bukala,
SJ ’54, traveled to St. Charles church in Boardman
to marry them. Emily is working as an intervention
aide with autistic children at the Rich Center for
Autism at Youngstown State University and Rich
works as an electrical engineer for First Energy in
Akron. They recently became the proud owners of
an English bulldog puppy named Finnegan. ... David
and Jessica (Craig) Duke moved back to Ohio from
Lexington, KY, and are enjoying their new jobs. ...
Amanda (Karpus) Mooney and her husband, Sean
’04, welcomed their first child, Ryan. ... Raechel
Betz Scarchilli married John Scarchilli in April
2006 on the beach in Gulf Shores, AL. Several JCU
classmates were there for the celebration, including:
Jen Langley, Sara Zezzo, Ashlie Trudnowski,
Oliviana (Grama) Catrone, Christine Taddeo
and Amy Marcelis. ... Erin Cullen graduated with
her master’s in science from Gannon University
in 2004 and just received her license in mental
health counseling (LPC). She works in Erie, PA,
at Sarah Reed Children’s Center as a therapist. ...
David Rothstein is a policy researcher with Policy
Matters Ohio, where he focuses on economic
issues in Ohio, including tax, education, energy,
and consumer protection issues. David recently
testified to the U.S. House of Representatives and
also was appointed to the Board of the National
Left to right – Patrick Reidy ’03, Tom Goebel ’03, Rimon Bebawi ’03, Ed Giles ’03, Samantha
Buzzacco ’04, Patrick Vrobel ’03, Patrick Manning ’03, Kate Ferguson ’04, Mary Buling ’04, Melanie
Johnson ’06, Lindsay Marciniak ’04, Joe Lowry ’04, Eileen Cummings ’04, Carmen Krystyniak ’04,
Joe Indriolo ’04, Andrea Gonzalez ’04, and Ernie Timbs ’04
56 John Carroll university
Community Tax Coalition. ... As for me, 2006 was a
busy wedding year. I was married to Scott McVean
in May 2006. Angie Sabatini Milks was my maid
of honor, Joelle (Lindner) Byers and Theresa Litz
were bridesmaids, and Laura (Ley) Carlson sang at
the ceremony. ... Angie Sabatini married Jim Milks
in November and I had the privilege of being her
matron of honor. ... Stacey (Borecek) Raso ’03,
Natalie Nicholas, and Kristie Raynovich were
bridesmaids. ... Last but not least, Joelle Lindner
married Barry Byers in December; Theresa Litz and
Laura (Ley) Carlson were bridesmaids. Angie, Joelle
and I were all fortunate to have many additional
JCU friends surrounding us as guests on our
special days. Again, I look forward to providing you
with our class news – keep the updates coming!
Kristen
2003 Send your notes to:
Theresa Polachek
4844 Westbourne Rd.
Lyndhurst, Ohio 44124
jcu2003@hotmail.com
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few
understand.“ Leo Durocher (1906 - 1991) It’s my
favorite time of the year – baseball season! I’m
crossing my fingers for the Tribe this year. ... I heard
from lots of people this time around, thanks for
sending in all your news! Here’s what everyone had
to say. Vanessa (Vienna) Braun lives in Memphis,
TN, with her husband and daughter Natalie (15
mos.). Vanessa taught first grade in Memphis until
the birth of her daughter and now owns her own
handmade jewelry business and works from home
- www.viennastreasures.com. ... Amy Keating
graduated from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
in May 2006 and passed the Ohio Bar. She’s now
working as an associate with the law firm of Slive
& Slive Co., LPA in downtown Cleveland and lives
in Cleveland Heights. ... Another of our classmates
can now add “Esquire” to his name; Patrick Kang
passed the Nevada Bar and just made associate
attorney at Callister & Reynolds in Las Vegas!
He is mainly practicing corporate law. ... Rhose
(Donley) Huffmyer married Scott Huffmyer in June
2006; the two built a house in Pittsburgh and just
welcomed their first baby into the world! Scott
Alan Huffmyer Jr. was born on March 18, 2007 at
1:28 p.m. Congratulations to the Huffmyer Family!
... Caitlin Rohrer is living in Pittsburgh and works
as an interventionist at Every Child, Inc. She is
starting an M.Div. degree at Pittsburgh Theological
Seminary in 2007-2008. Good luck, Caitlin! ... Ann
Ortega is a systems analyst with The MetroHealth
System and lives in North Royalton. ... Jennifer
LaGuardia wrote to say that she received her
Master’s of Science in Nursing degree from Case
Western Reserve University with a specialization in
pediatrics. She’ll be sitting for the Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner Certification exam in the next two
months (as of April) and is continuing to work on
her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree with a focus
on clinical expertise. ... Michael Roche ’02 is living
in South Euclid. ... Laura Wray is on cloud nine,
she just got engaged! She and her fiancé bought
a condo in Chicago and she started a new job in
advertising at AOL. ... Mark Gunn is a network
engineer II with Verizon Business. He and his wife,
Antoinette, bought a house in New Albany, where
they live with their three children. Antoinette will
take the MCAT in June, and their son in taking his
Green/Dk Green belt test in Tai Kwan Doe. Mark
will also be starting a master’s program in the fall.
... And there isn’t really anything new with me,
except that we acquired a puppy, a chocolate lab
named Malley who now rules the roost. I’m having
a blast chasing her around. Hope everyone enjoys
the summer! Take care, Theresa
2004
Send your notes to:
Paul Clapp
11850 Edgewater Dr. #103
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
216.276.3821 (c)
pclapp04@jcu.edu
I got so many updates that I had to shorten a few
... Mauni Khoury completed her master’s in school
psychology from Carroll ’06. She’ll be a school
psychologist with Fairview Park City Schools. ...
Claire (Yeasted) Holekamp attends the University
of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She married Dr.
Scott Holekamp in 2006 and plans to work at a
New York City hospital in Manhattan. ... Caroline
(Ortega) Stull and husband Chris are living in Ithaca,
NY, while Chris pursues his Ph.D. Caroline became
PHR certified in September and is the HR rep for a
medical facility in Ithaca. ... Lisa Krall is the manager
of camp programs at the Achievement Centers
for Children’s Camp Cheerful in Strongsville. ...
John Skendall graduated May ’06 from American
University with his master’s in political science. He’s
working as a writer for a trade association in the D.C.
area. ... Dan and Kim (Cahill) Knoch are living in
Eastlake. Kim is working as a kindergarten teacher
in Mentor and has only a couple more classes to
complete her master’s in educational literacy. ...
Jennifer Randall is living in the Ft. Lauderdale
area, where she is a risk manager of operations for
the Florida division of Balfour Beatty Construction.
... Mark Spilker is a financial analyst for Henkel
Corporation, and has obtained his CPA. ... Greg
Holcomb works at the Lorain County Auditor’s
office as a tax settlement specialist. He’s also in his
first term as a Lorain City councilman — working
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alumnNews
Anthony Garofalo ’04 is part of the
area’s hottest Hip Hop group
Anthony Garofalo ’04 and the Ill Disciples
say on their web site: “We spit lyrics for real
Hip Hop heads and represent the good lyrical
Hip Hop to the fullest. We ...appreciate all the
love we receive when we are performing, in the
streets, or just around. Keep the comments com-
ing. Good or bad we keeps it movin.” That is
not a voice familiar to John Carroll alumni of
all ages. It is a voice comfortable for alumni
of the last decade or two. That includes
Garofalo, who used his day-job voice over
the phone and didn’t sound much like Antik
DJ, his nom de Hip when he is working on
stage with the Disciples.
The big news is that Anthony and the
group not long ago won in the Best Rap/Hip
Hop category of the Cleveland Free Times 8th
Annual Music Awards. That’s pretty good.
You don’t have to be of an age to appreciate
Hip Hop to know that the music biz has
a deserved rep for breaking the emotional
knee-caps of those who aspire to thrive From left, Khaz Finley, A.J. Jennings and Anthony Garofalo in downtown Cleveland.
within it. Still, the Disciples have recently
headlined at Cleveland’s Agora; they’ve The three hooked up. a reference to the fact that the group isn’t
opened for big name acts; they’re searching Garofalo doesn’t have to open his mouth faithful to the conventions of Hip Hop, that
for a record company, and they’re enjoying on stage to complete his part of the act. it marches to its own beat box.
the ample love they’re picking up locally, as He’s still managing sounds, as when he was Garofalo also said he and his guys put on
reflected in the Free Times award. a DJ. He’s up there with turntables and a “crazy” stage act, with fireworks and fog
Garofalo was a marketing major here, had a slew of equipment, playing a CD with machines and whatever they can think of
a WJCU radio show and DJed Homecoming the instrumental base for Jennings and to stir it up. The Free Times related: “The
dances when he was a regular on campus. He Finley and then making the music fresh Ill Disciples, winner of Best Rap/Hip Hop,
also could be found making contemporary and improvisatory by “scratching”– in, then delivered an over-the-top set. One of
sounds wherever “to pay the John Carroll bill.” seamlessly integrating – parts of other songs, the band members wore a Scream mask and
Garofalo grew up in Canton, Ohio, other sounds. “My job,” says Anthony, “is to waved a giant flag, often jumping into the
digging his parents’ Pink Floyd and the make it all sound good.” crowd...the guys graciously thanked everyone
Temptations – “ listening to everything.” His Garofalo is emphatic that the Disciples for the love and put on an entertaining show
day job now is telecommunications sales do not do gangsta. He said Jennings and that got more than one head bobbing.”
and consulting for businesses. He found his Finley are classically trained and are into Another mag said the group returns Hip
passion a couple of years ago, though, when talking, in their music, about their lives and Hop to its “roots as a lyrically driven art
he encountered A.J. Jennings and Khaz having good times – “We would never talk form...With few fancy production tricks,
Finley performing at a Coventry club. They about having a brand new Cadillac. I have a their words bounce across crisp drum loops
gave him some sounds to take home; shortly Honda Civic.” and a steady dose of sampled instruments,
after, he countered with some instrumental The force of the name is a little elusive, such as flute and strings.” Check it out and
tracks he had laid down with his computer. but Garofalo says the Ill Disciples moniker is listen at www.theilldisciples.com.

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AlumniJournal
Wildali Lugo ’04 and Luis DeJesus ’05
on his re-election. And if that’s not enough, he’s
going to Cleveland State University in pursuit of a
master’s of public administration. ... Kate Ferguson
trains federal government employees on leadership
and management at the Council for Excellence in
Government in DC. ... Lindsay Marciniak is working
in fundraising at the Kellogg School of Management,
Northwestern University. ... Brice Civiello is doing
political consulting for American Strategies, LLC
in Columbus, OH, while he finishes a master’s of
applied politics at the University of Akron. ... Aimee
Bragle just opened a new boutique, Cosmetique
de Stefino, in Pittsburgh. ... Matt Krupa and Barb
Bain graduated with their master’s from Cleveland
State. ... Ryan Paugh finished his master’s in
finance at Cleveland State in December and is now
a financial advisor for Raymond James & Associates,
Cleveland. ... Megan Macala finished her master’s
in chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and
works for Schering-Plough in New Jersey. ...
Matt Rura moved to D.C. to work in golf course
management in 2007. ... Erika Thomas moved to
Michigan to work on her Ph.D. in communications
at Wayne State. ... Caroline Salib is starting her
fourth year at CWRU School of Dental Medicine
— she’ll earn a DMD May 2008. ... After completing
her first year of doctoral studies at the University
of Akron, Sarah Chessar will be interning with the
ACT testing corporation where she will develop an
assessment tool for determining eligibility for testing
accommodations in accordance with the Americans
with Disabilities Act. ... The list of marriages grew: In
January, Wildali Lugo-Santiago and Luis DeJesus
’05 were married in San Juan, Puerto Rico — best
man was Matt Davenport ’05. ... Kevin Garvey
’00 and Kim Obluk married on April 21. Heather
(Buchkoski) Calvert married Simon Calvert on
January 5 and they are moving to Todmorden,
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England, where Heather will be teaching. Audra
Welch married Brian Van Winkle June 16. ... The list
of who’s expecting: Randall and Lisa (Nau) White
are having a baby girl at the end of August. Matt
and Melissa (D’Amore) Joseph moved to Erie, PA,
and are expecting in July. Amanda (Karpus) ’02 and
Sean Mooney had their first born, Ryan Joseph,
on February 14. ... And those who are engaged:
Emilie Lupiani got engaged in February and plans
to get married in Barcelona, Spain, in July 2008.
Amanda Kresak and Joe Calabro will be married
in July. Kristy Monday and Bill Kerr plan to marry
in October in California — Megan Maier and Abby
Fernandez will be in the wedding. ... Paul
2005
Send your notes to:
Jennifer Tolhurst
jtolhurst04@jcu.edu
Hi, everyone. I’m writing this column in the week
after the shootings at Virginia Tech, and I’m sure that
tragedy is on all of our minds right now. Only two
years out of school ourselves, we can all sympathize
with what those students are dealing with, even
though none of us can really comprehend it. We’ll
keep those affected in our thoughts and prayers.
Not much to report this time — you must all be too
busy enjoying the beginning of summer to write
to your bored, lonely class columnist. ... Janet
Kramer started in April in the human resources
department of Yahoo Inc. She’s working in Santa
Monica, CA, a city that will probably never see a
“white Easter,” and I for one am jealous. ... Erin
Wall fled to California too, and is working as a
business and legal coordinator at GRB Entertainment
Inc., in Sherman Oaks. ... Alicia Sadonick is closer
to home, teaching at Citizens’ Academy and living
in Fairview Park. ... Michael Johnston is working
as a field representative for Capital Planners, Inc.
in Beachwood. ... David Borowske is working at
Borowske Builders in North Royalton. ... Robyn
(Rodock) Abens is living in Galloway, OH, with
her husband, Todd, and is doing membership
services work for Kappa Kappa Gamma. ... Elisa
Corrao is a vendor manager for First American
Title Insurance Co. in Cleveland. ... Anne Talabisco
traveled East to work as a media buyer for Mentzer
Media Services Inc. in Maryland. ... Those still in
school include Matthew Hunt, class of 2008 at
Case Western Reserve School of Law, and Denise
White, who will graduate from medical school in
2009. ... Wildali Lugo ’04 and Luis DeJesus were
married on January 14, 2007, in Puerto Rico. They
were accompanied by their fellow classmate Matt
Davenport, who served as bestman. ... Keep the
news coming, people! Jennifer
2006
The position is now open. If you are
interested in writing four engaging
class columns per year, please
send journal@jcu.edu a little bit of
information about yourself.
Busy, busy, busy ... it’s finally spring and a year
since we all graduated! It seems like we all have
been keeping busy. I keep hearing of new job
news and moves to new cities so ... including a
large group in New York City. I heard from Melissa
Witek, who says that Tim Mahoney is doing sales
for CARR Business Systems, Curtis Watkins
is working at KPMG and Brad Neumeister just
started his new job at Goldman Sachs doing
execution and clearing sales. In addition, Meghan
Betz is working for Condé Nast as a sales assistant
in the bridal group. Melissa says, “It’s nice to have
everyone here in such a big city. It’s made the
transition of working and moving to a new city so
much easier.” ... Another grad who recently made
a big move is Mike Scanlan, who accepted a job
with the LPGA as the media relations coordinator in
Florida. Mike accepted this position after concluding
this past football season doing media relations with
the Buffalo Bills. Mike joins Sean Martin, who is
also working in Florida as a tax associate for Grant
Thornton LLP. ... Some Pittsburgh news includes
Brigid O’Neil, who is finishing up her nursing
master’s at Duquesne this spring and plans to
move back to Cleveland this summer while Brian
Walsh is still taking MBA classes at Duquesne. ... In
Cleveland, Jeffrey Nick MBA ’06 works for Oatey
Company corporate director for EHS while Jocelyn
Mazzoni is working for Exel Global Logistics as
a project manager. William George continues to
work as a personal trainer for JCU and the JCC and
Megan Mahaffey works at Stern Advertising as an
account executive. ... Thanks to everyone I’ve talked
to. Unfortunately, I’m afraid this is going to be my
last column. The time is unfortunately not there to
stay in touch with everyone and produce a column
each time, so if you’re interested in writing for the
class of 2006, contact journal@jcu.edu. ... Hope
things are well, Meghan
Silver Quill Award
Jack Hearns ’61, shown here after
receiving the award from the maga-
zine’s editor, was this year’s recipient
of the Silver Quill Award for the year’s
outstanding class columnist.
Edward Muldoon ’48, entrepreneur, philanthropist
The magazine did a piece on Edward Muldoon six years
ago. It began with the line, “Edward Muldoon ’48, ’98H
is a good working model of what it is to be an entre-
preneur. True, but the sentence didn’t take account of
how generous and gracious Mr. Muldoon was as he
captured his share of the American Dream and spent
a lifetime serving his customers and his employees, to
whom he ultimately turned over ownership of Bivar,
an optoelectronics company and assembly hardware
company based in Irvine, California. After a long illness,
Mr. Muldoon died on March 23 in Southern California.
Mr. Muldoon was born in Youngstown, Ohio,
went through the V-12 program at JCU in the early
1940s, and then served as an ensign in the Pacific. He
returned to school here and graduated in physics and
mathematics. He served another tour of duty in the
Korean War, after which he founded a company, ETC,
in the Cleveland area.
After divesting himself of that firm in the mid-1960s,
Rev. Joseph Owens, SJ, ’38, education faculty
Fr. Joseph Owens was one of the Jesuits who had a
profound impact on the students of John Carroll for
a goodly portion of the last half of the 20th century.
From 1953 to 1987, Fr. Owens was a faculty member
in the Department of Education and after he, quickly,
hit his stride, he became a shaping force with a major
role in the formation of generations of elementary
and high school educators. Fr. Owens died on
April 24 at the age of 81 at Colombiere, the Jesuit
retirement center in Michigan.
Fr. Owens middle name was not “Rigor,” but a
multitude of stories attest that it could have been.
Dr. Jack Hearns ’61 said upon learning of the death
of his professor and friend: “Those of us who took
Fr. Owens’ courses quickly discovered why he was
viewed as one of the most demanding professors.
We learned how to study, take notes, become critical
Lucien Aubé, professor or French
Lucien Aubé was for 40 years a professor of French in
the Department of Classical and Modern Languages.
After his death on May 5, Virginia Beyer Ivec ’77 wrote
in an online memorial book, ”Reading through the
entries. I am missing Dr. Aubé even more. My French
classes are vividly called to mind. Oh how he would
tease me till I talked back. A superb tacher, counselor,
friend.” Another student, Christine Allen also ’77,
wrote: “A great motivator and mentor. I will always
in memoriam
Mr. Muldoon relocated to Southern California and
acquired Bivar, which he built into a firm modest
in size but vibrant in ingenuity and market reach.
When the aforementioned piece was written in
2001, Bivar had a product line of over “12,000
­different standard styles and sizes of products.”
Mr. Muldoon and his wife, Ann, were extraordi-
narily generous to John Carroll and to a Southern
California hospital. The Edward M. Muldoon
Center for Entrepreneurship at the Boler School
and the Edward M. and Ann Muldoon Atrium
of the Dolan Science Center are testaments to
Mr. Muldoon’s philanthropy. The Muldoons also
donated generous amounts for scholarships in
honor of the late Jesuit academic leaders Michael
Lavelle, SJ, and Frederick Welfle, SJ.
Mr. Muldoon is survived by his wife and by his
children: Edward, Kevin, Constance, and Mary
Ryan; and by four grandchildren.
thinkers, give oral presentations and write scholarly
papers. It was not that we had not developed such
skills, but Fr. Owens’ expectations took us to higher
levels. He was tough and demanding, but with a
purpose. He was an educator of educators and as
good a teacher as one could ever have hoped to have
encountered.”
Fr. Owens was born in Cleveland and graduated
from St. Ignatius High School here and from John
Carroll in 1938. He entered the Jesuits that year. He
earned additional degrees from Xaxier University and
West Baden College, and took his Ph.D. in education
at Fordham University. He was ordained in 1948. He
taught at Xavier High School in Cincinnati and the
University of Detroit before returning to his alma mater.
The Department of Education confers an annual
student award in Fr. Owens honor.
remember his ‘dancing eyebrows’ as symbolic of his
wit and good-natured outlook on life.”
Dr. Aubé was born in Maine. He moved to the
Cleveland area as a young man and received his
degrees from Western Reserve University.
He is survived by his wife, Dolores, sons Larry and
Edward; by his daughter, Mary Elizabeth; by four
grandchildren.
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Harry Svec ’40, noted scientist
Harry Svec was a Cleveland native who graduated
magna cum laude in pre-medicine and then
did graduate work in biochemistry at Iowa State
University because he couldn’t afford medical
school tuition. He became an important part in the
development of the atomic bomb. He was called
from his graduate studies to work on the Manhattan
Project, for which he was involved in producing large
quantities of enriched uranium that was utilized in
developing the nuclear bombs used at the end of the
Second World War. Dr. Svec, who earned his Ph.D. in
1950, died at 88 on November 28.
After WWII, he joined the Iowa State faculty
and was a longtime member of the Chemistry
Department. He concluded his career by being
named Distinguished Professor in Science and
Humanities. He gained an international reputation for
his use of mass spectrometry in physical, inorganic and
analytical chemistry.
Upon Dr. Svec’s death, a statement from Iowa State
read in part: Professor Svec was a very enthusiastic
teacher, especially about lab instruction. He thought the
labs often got short shrift and made it his personal cause
to look out for them, particularly the physical chemistry
lab for undergraduates. His love of personal skill led him
to require all the p-chem lab students to submit a very
small glass object that required some glass blowing. He
would keep the better of these on a shelf in his office.”
Dr. Svec is survived by his wife, Edna, with whom he
raised their nine children.

Fenton Moore ’64, biology professor

Dr. Fenton Moore was a graduate of the university
and a longtime professor in the Department of
Biology. He joined the faculty in 1972 and from 1980
to 1990 was department chair. He also served for a
lengthy period as the chair of the Health Professions
Advisory Committee, which oversees the education
of those preparing for advanced degrees in health
professions. Dr. Moore retired several years ago but
continued until recently to serve on a part-time basis.
Dr. Moore’s retired biology colleague, Dr. Andrew
White, said :”Fenton was good at teaching and he
was good at research. He had a grasp on the totality of
biology. He was an extraordinarily astute cell biologist,
and was able to integrate the various dimensions of
biology – he could take cell biology, physiology and
ecology and integrate them and do it well. He was also
a brilliant and a dedicated teacher. Over the years I
would see him spending hours with a single student
explaining a concept to them.”
Dr. Moore is survived by Kathleen, his wife of 45 years;
by sons Fenton and Gregory; by daughters Kathleen and
Megan; by five grandchildren and by a sister.

in memoriam
Rev. Herman J. Muller, SJ ’31 4/19/07
Rev. Joseph P. Owens, SJ ’38 4/24/07
Raymond A. Gardner ’41 9/15/05
Rev. Joseph F. Wagner ’41 5/12/05
William C. Driscoll ’42 7/22/04
John R. Bruch ’43 1/01/07
Richard P. Schmidle ’43 2/28/07
John W. Whelan ’43 3/11/07
Msgr. Robert C. Fannon ’44 4/05/00
Richard F. Michalak ’46 5/7/07
Robert E. Mullally ’46 5/15/07
Edward M. Muldoon ’48 3/23/07
George R. Smith ’48 1/11/07
Robert F. Belovich ’49 4/30/07
John E.P. Mullally ’49 3/2/07
Leonard R. Neiger ’49 4/12/07
William A. Primavesi ’49 3/2/07
Fernando Calimano
MacCormac ’50 2/11/07
William J. Clark ’50 11/11/06
John E. Moviel ’50 4/9/07
John L. Robb ’50 1/21/07
Robert A. Stack ’50 1/26/07
Bernard L. Dragon ’51 8/10/06
Martin S. Cipar ’52 4/8/07
Robert Kusner ’53 9/21/06
Hugh E. Mullen ’53 2/21/07
John M. Skoda ’55 3/5/07
James D. Mix ’57 4/18/07
William Kern Doran ’58 3/14/07
P. Robert Goold ’58 5/11/07
Walter E. Smith ’58 5/12/07
James J. Kaiser ’60 3/15/07
Mary E. Mazzei ’61G 4/25/07
B. Lawrence Fox ’62 9/07/04
Ron J. Novak ’62 5/25/06
Fenton D. Moore ’64
and retired faculty 5/05/07
Martha M. Rini ’69G 4/2/07
Robert C. Mann ’70G 3/28/07
Richard W Noel Jr. ’70G 4/21/07
Jack Allin Rollin ’72 4/30/07
Blanche A. Young ’72 4/8/07
Richard A. Fratianne ’73 4/8/07
Judith L. Buerger ’74G 5/20/07
Robert J. Waugh ’74G 3/21/07
Betsy L. Billings ’75 3/9/07
Stephen W. Kovalcheck, Jr. ’76 5/22/07
William K. Secre ’79 2/18/07
Patrick J. Hanrahan ’81 2/18/07
Robert F. Conway ’82G 4/13/07
Cheryl Ramsey ’84G 1/10/07
Gregory G. Bernardo ’86 2/20/07
David R. Miller ’95G 4/11/07
Loren L. Greeley ’96G 12/18/06
Lucien A. Aube retired faculty 4/30/07
S. Darwin Noll 4/23/07

This is the deceased list as we know it. We apologize for any omission and ask that you please notify Joan Brosius 216.397.4332.
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Journey to the Top of the World
(Or, At Least, the Top of University Heights)

By Dr. George Bilgere

It was the editor’s fault. The reason I
was clinging for dear life to a rusted iron
ladder, thirty feet above the floor, was that
the editor was doing an article about me for
the magazine, and he wanted a photograph
of me that was “different.” Did I have any
ideas? As I was pondering this in my office,
I heard the bells from the clock tower begin
to chime, and I realized that in the fifteen
years I’ve taught at John Carroll I’d never
been up there. What mysteries did it house?
Did John Carroll have its very own Quasimo-
do ? The editor liked the idea.
Our Sherpa on this journey was Ken
Boehnlein of Facilities. He unlocked an
ordinary-looking door on the third floor of
the Administration Building, and the three
of us, along with a very fit young photog-
rapher, headed up an old spiral staircase.
Very steep, very dusty, very narrow. But do-
able. So far, I thought, so good. Now we
were at the level where, from outside the
building, you can see that first set of high
windows. Turns out that in ancient days
this is where WJCU, the college radio sta-
tion, used to be housed. It makes sense,
as the station’s antenna is attached to the
top of the tower.
That’s when Ken told us that he’d ar-
ranged to have the station power down its
signal strength during our visit. Otherwise,
he explained, we’d all be more or less
microwaved by the recently boosted signal
coming from the antenna. The young pho-
tographer, recently married and thinking
about having kids, looked longingly down
the staircase we’d just climbed.
The view from the little windows was
spectacular. I figured I was already higher
than I’d ever been in Cleveland. After all,
there’s a reason the area is called University
Heights. Note to self: if I claimed this aban-
doned space I could then have the coolest
office in the university, safe from the students
who pester me during office hours.
On to the next floor. Another spiral
staircase. A single, naked light bulb il-
luminating the way. And now we emerged
into a large room that contained only two
things. There was a huge, black water tank,
scrawled over with student graffiti going
back to the Pleistocene. In the dim light I
could make out the names of fearless, long-
forgotten JCU students, who had managed
to climb and leave their mark.
Next to the water tank was a beauti-
ful machine, an ornately crafted mass of
gears and levers and pulleys. This was the
clockworks, the actual machine that turns
the big hands on the clock face. I stood
behind the heavy glass of the clock face
itself, feeling as if I’d passed through a mir-
ror and was looking out at the world from
the other side of time.
We had to get going, before the radio
antenna went on again and cooked us.
And, we had to be there well before the
hands on the clock reached the top of the
hour. If we were standing next to the bells
when the big clappers hit them we’d be
vibrated into atoms.
The last leg of the journey involved a
30-foot climb up a rusting ladder bolted to
the wall with rusting staples. It led to a little
hatchway on the ceiling. Ken and the pho-
tographer scrambled up without a problem.
Now it was up to the editor and me to make
it look like the kind of thing we did every day.
As the editor made his painstaking way up
the ladder, I wondered whether, if he slipped,
I should try to catch him in order to break his
fall. No, I thought. Probably it would be bet-
ter to preserve my own life, in order to write
a poem about his sacrifice.
Panting, I squeezed through the little
hatchway. Suddenly the whole world was
stretched out before me. Before we got
down to the business of photographing me
in front of the bells, we all rewarded our-
selves by taking in the view. This was Octo-
ber, and the leaves were in their fall glory. I’d
never seen the city look more beautiful.
On the way back down, which was, if
anything, more terrifying than the climb
up, I briefly wished I had a piece of chalk,
or maybe a can of spray paint. I wanted to
leave my name on that water tank, among
the other ancient petroglyphs of John Car-
roll history. Maybe next time.
George Bilgere is a poet, English pro-
fessor and frequent contributor to
John Carroll.

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 LETTER FROM CHILE
A Quiet Afternoon with Pinochet and Satan
By Dr. Maria Marsilli, History
It is Sunday, December 10th, early
afternoon in Chile. My five-year-old son
and I are enjoying the last minutes of a
nap. He is still asleep at 2:30, so I go into
the family room to watch the news. A
headline, frantically announced on every
Chilean channel, paralyzes me: Augusto
Pinochet is dead. The 91-year-old former
dictator had been rushed to the hospital
a week ago, gasping for breath, the victim
of a heart attack. His condition improved
over the following days, and his support-
ers spread the rumor that he was, indeed,
immortal. Now the news headlines shout
that Pinochet – the dictator who kept
Chile under his iron fist for 17 years, the
man who claimed that not a leaf shook
in the country without his knowledge,
the Chilean who sentenced thousands of
fellow citizens to torture and death, the
leader who said he worked an economic
miracle – is dead.
The afternoon will unveil two differ-
ent countries coexisting in Chile. Around
the hospital, the general’s supporters are
crying. For them, the event is like the
passing of a close relative. Women sob in
front of the cameras, showing deep sorrow
for the passing of their tata (grandfather),
as Pinochet’s followers affectionately
called him. At the same time, a differ-
ent Chile gathers in the Plaza Italia. The
square is the center of public life in the
country, where Chileans spontaneously
gather to celebrate happy events. TV
cameras broadcast the square inundated
with people dancing, chanting, and
generally expressing happiness. Even
poor people, those viewed as “disposable”
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in the country’s aggressive neoliberal
economy, spend some pesos on sparkling
wine and exchange toasts with strangers.
They rejoice because the tyrant is dead.
The news stations avidly report the
celebrations taking place in Plaza Italia.
Suddenly, a banner appears floating in the
midst of the crowd. It reads: “Por favor no
lo devuelva Don Sata” (Satan, please do
not send him back). Catholicism pervades
Chile, and the belief that Satan has taken
Pinochet’s soul gives comfort to many.
There is something painfully true in
the banner. The TV reporter notices it
and comments on the ingenuity of the
text. At that moment, my son enters the
family room. His Spanish has blossomed
during our time in Chile, and he under-
stands the news. He asks two questions
that I will struggle to answer: “Por qué
celebran que se murió ese Pinochet?” and
“Quién es Don Sata?” (Why are they cel-
ebrating the death of that Pinochet guy?
And who is Satan?).
Pinochet’s regime affected every
Chilean profoundly. We all remember
where we were on the morning of Tues-
day, September 11, 1973, when Chilean
military forces led by Pinochet and three
other chief commanders attacked the
presidential palace. The military coup
resulted in the death of Salvador Allende,
a democratically elected president, and
launched Pinochet’s seventeen-year dic-
tatorship. We also all remember what we
were doing on the evening of October 5,
1988. The results of a plebiscite held that
day indicated that Pinochet should step
down in 1990.
The years in between left deep
emotional wounds in all of us. Over 3,000
Chileans were killed by Pinochet’s secret
police and many more were tortured;
thousands left the country to live in exile;
bloody street protests took the energy and
lives of many young men and women. In
the same period, the country’s economy
underwent an acute depression, which was
largely a result of Pinochet’s neoliberal
economic policies. Over time, this
system made the rich richer and the poor
even poorer. Pinochet’s administration
tore Chile in two, creating a country
of winners and a country of losers. The
Chilean-against-Chilean country that the
dictator so eagerly promoted was more
visible than ever the afternoon he died.
On a split screen, the TV showed two
unrelated Chiles, one mourning and the
other celebrating Pinochet’s death.
In the emotional days that followed
Pinochet’s funeral, an anecdote from his
biography caught my attention. Not long
ago, one of the general’s biographers asked
him what his main fear was. Augusto
Pinochet had known the answer all his
life: “Going to hell. I have feared Satan since
I was five,” he replied.
My son intuitively knows that death
should cause sorrow, not happiness, and
I struggle to answer his first question.
The second one, about Satan, is far more
dangerous, however. I have read enough
inquisitorial cases to know that Satan
appears only to those who go looking
for him. One afternoon of TV and that
detail in Pinochet’s biography prompt
my decision: I will hold my answer until
my arguments (and emotions) are sound
enough to pass the test of his unbeatable
preschool logic.
Since 2002,
Dr. Maria Marsilli
has been an assist-
ant professor in John
Carroll’s Department
of History. She is
presently on leave as
a visiting professor at
the Center for the Study of Desert Man at the
University of Tarapaca in Arica, Chile.
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Howard Gray, SJ
Little did I know nearly six years
ago what a blessing it would be to work
with a funny little Jesuit priest. While I
had worked at the university for nearly
18 months, and my son had just entered
Walsh Jesuit High School, I knew nothing
about the Jesuits. Father Gray opened my
heart to what he loves: the Jesuit tradition
and Ignatian spirituality and for this I am
grateful. Over the course of these years I
have learned from Father Gray through the
many ways that he has touched my life and
the lives of so many others he encounters
including our students, staff members, fac-
ulty, and yes, even my own children. While
he is moving on from JCU, everything that
Father Gray has and continues to teach me
will forever remain ingrained in my heart
and soul. I am blessed to call him teacher,
mentor and friend.
Laurie Frantz
Assistant to Fr. Gray
To my brother in the Society of Jesus,
housemate, fellow grocery shopper, co-
host of dinner parties, companion at the
Eucharist, and dear friend: I shall forever
remember your joy, welcoming smile,
infectious humor, birthday greetings, and
singing operatic arias in a language that
only the Holy Spirit could understand. As
teacher, preacher, and spiritual mentor of
many thousands, you generously share with
us your wisdom, knowledge, love, and joy.
You make us laugh and help us to feel good
about ourselves. No wonder that we feel
supremely good about you.
Rev. Tom Schubeck, SJ
Religious Studies
Howard Gray has been a wonder-
ful gift to the John Carroll Community,
students, faculty, staff, administrators
and board. To say that we will miss him
seems so understated. His is among the
most sought after voice in the community.
No one is more loving or loveable than
Howard Gray.
When Howard Gray appears at the
altar in the Carmelite Chapel there is a
quiet but unmistakable sound that can be
heard. It translates as “Oh, lucky us, How-
ard Gray is presiding today.” We cannot
replace Howard, but we also cannot allow
his good work to languish.
When I think of Howard Gray I think of
the importance of loving one another – and
of keeping a sense of humor about those
times when it might be difficult to do so.
Barbara Schubert ’62, ’67, ’80G
Board of Directors
Like so many at John Carroll, I am
happy to call Howard Gray both mentor
and friend. He is an extraordinary example
of the Jesuits’ public commitment to share
their spiritual heritage, resources, and friend-
ship with all of us who would be their part-
ners in mission. I am inspired to see how
many people have been touched by
his ministry and who have accepted
his inclusive invitation to become
more engaged in the many facets
of our Ignatian mission.
I have never heard anyone
speak more convincingly or
eloquently about God’s uncondi-
tional love for us.
Dr. Edward Peck
Associate Dean
of The Graduate School
Sometime after 1991 I met and listened
to Howard give an address. I began to see
the qualities which I had heard described
for so many years: the ability to articulate
Jesuit history, spirituality and tradition in
an extraordinary manner; a style of cura
personalis which makes each person feel
that the Spirit of God is in them and that
Spirit is doing great things now and forever.
Then and now, I often felt that
Howard had taken on the mind of
Ignatius and translated that for me in our
day. In gratitude for the ‘care’ Howard
has shown to me and to so many others at
Carroll, thank you.
In gratitude for his efforts to strength-
en our Jesuit Catholic mission and iden-
tity, our hope is stronger as Howard has
shown the way, and we see more clearly
the face of our companion Ignatius.
In gratitude for Howard’s companion-
ship, we see more clearly the face of our
companion Jesus Christ.
Blessings, my friend. Go with our love
and gratitude – Go with God.
Rev. Robert L. Niehoff, SJ
President
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The images I carry with me
from John Carroll
Recently I chanced on a volume of
portraits by famed photographer Yousuf
Karsh, a book that offers a marvelous set
of photos that caught the personalities of
artists, politicians, scientists, and ordinary
folks from our last century. This collec-
tion triggered envy because in reviewing
my past six years, I wish I could lay out
the images of the people who populate
my memories of John Carroll. But I am a
lousy picture taker; however, the symbol
of images is a good one.
My internal images can be grouped
into three. First, there are images that
illustrate what we mean in Jesuit educa-
tion when we talk about cura personalis.
Second, there are images that reflect what
we mean by saying we are Catholic and
Jesuit. Third, there are images that catch
what we mean when we talk about com-
munity and tradition.
Images of Cura Personalis. The phrase
attempts to catch a characteristic of Jesuit
education. It has been feebly translated as
personal care, a literalism that snatches the
phrase from its spiritual context. The phrase
truly connotes a dedication to helping
young adults recognize that authentic
freedom flourishes when people learn to
use their talents to help other people. Cura
personalis represents one of the ends of Jesuit
education: to help educators and students
become better people.
When I think of John Carroll, one
set of images will be the moments when I
saw this happen: when a young woman or
man came to see in literature or history or
biology – whatever – a revelation about
learning as a gift and an opportunity.
The images appeared, often dramatically,
in the service immersion experiences,
where students learned hospitality was
not conspicuous consumption but the
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quiet generosity that made the poor their
hosts and friends. The images were also
frequently sacred ones as students came to
receive communion or opened their hearts
to the action of God in a retreat.
Images of Catholic and Jesuit. This
final year at John Carroll I spent time work-
ing on a modest document that attempted
to represent briefly but accurately the
Catholic and Jesuit character of the school.
This project received the cooperation of the
community. It was a project that involved
Catholic members as well as colleagues with
other religious convictions and philosophies.
I was never rejected in my inquiry and more
frequently was healthily challenged to dig
more deeply into what these realities mean
at John Carroll.
What I came to appreciate was the
deeply inclusive sense of Catholicism that
John Carroll represents, a place where all
have a right to search for their personal
creed because only that search allows us,
in our Catholic and Jesuit context, to
truly find God in all things. My second set
of images features the Carroll community
in dialogue about faith, images of dedi-
cated people looking at their beliefs and
moral choices.
Images of community and tradition.
Some years ago in an interview with a
prospective administrative candidate, I
asked why he wanted to come to John
Carroll. His answer remained long after he
himself had departed: “I want to be part of
an institution that has not just a history
but a tradition.” I interpret tradition as the
passing along of values and the culture
that nurtures them.
The people of John Carroll form a col-
lage of dedications. From the maintenance
worker who fights the snow, to the Garden
Café servers who know students by name
and pass along encouragement at exam
time, to the professors who move beyond
specializations to oversee service immer-
sion programs, to the team in Campus
Ministry who keep the soul of Carroll alive
and generous: these are the images I hold of
this community that is rich with tradition.
As I mentioned at the baccalaureate
liturgy this year, I feel a little like Salva-
tore (Toto) at the end of the film Cinema
Paradiso. As the now successful film direc-
tor views the film reel he has inherited
from his deceased friend – the wise and
loving father-figure Alfredo – he begins to
weep and laugh at the images that have
been saved for this moment. Salvatore
momentarily becomes the boy he was,
Toto, as images of love coalesce into a
life symbol that helped him grow into
manhood. I think the reason that the film
worked and why this concluding scene is
renowned is that we need images of love.
For me that is what I will remember most:
John Carroll as a place that for all its
struggles gave me images of love and hope.
 Dr. Richard Hansler
A scientist not a wizard
Here is part of what Dr. Richard Hansler
believes: The veteran lighting scientist
thinks there is compelling evidence our
artificially lit-up lifestyle disturbs the
natural melatonin production of our bod-
ies, and this results in consequences for
our sleep and our susceptibility to cancer.
That sentence invokes a world of complex-
ity, which will not be resolved in these
750 words . Much of the medical/scientific
community isn’t ready to nod their heads .
Some, however, including a leading light
at the Cleveland Clinic, generally agree
with Hansler. It may be useful to ponder
that the blind, who produce melatonin in
their darkness, have a far lower incidence
of many cancers; and the same is true for
citizens of “primitive” (less artificially
illuminated) societies. Similarly, there is
persuasive data that night shift workers,
who spend more time under artificial light,
have much higher rates of breast cancer.
Hansler knows it is the blue-spectrum
of visible light that disturbs melatonin
production. He and his colleagues at the
Lighting Innovations Institute (LII) in
the basement of Bohannon Center have
devised a pair of plastic glasses that block
blue light and – unlike many blue-blocking
shades – allow the rest of the spectrum in.
Hansler is convinced wearing the glasses
for a couple of hours before bedtime is
likely to improve sleep. Again, complexity’s
daunting head rears. There are individual
variations in melatonin production and the
ramifications for health of using the glasses
hasn’t yet been established.
Those two paragraphs above are much
of what Dick Hansler is about: light and
sleep, light and health, and under that
enormous umbrella cluster conditions like
Seasonal Affect Disorder (SAD), post-par-
F A C UL
PROFILE
tum depression, ADHD. In brief, Hansler’s lured to John Carroll 11 years ago when he
work suggests we need to ensure we have faced a corporate age boundary. His title
melatonin at night, but should seek to sup- on campus is adjunct professor, but he has
press it when there is a need to awake, or been a de facto scientist in residence, work-
when we’re depressed. Thus, SAD sufferers ing with faculty and student colleagues on
get a prescribed regimen of bombardment a variety of lighting challenges. For a time,
by melatonin suppressing blue light. it seemed that the Lighting Innovation
Not simple stuff. Nor is Hansler’s Institute (LII) Hansler created on campus
work with Light Emitting Diodes (LED), would be the first entity in the university’s
the other enormous part of the applied JCCI (John Carroll Collaboration with In-
scientific work the Minnesota native shares dustry). Alas, the JCCI concept unraveled,
in the basement of Bohannon with Dr. Ed but Hansler and his LII colleagues continue
Carome ’51, Vilnis Kubulins ’89 G and to generate applied scientific work of great
Dr. Marty Alpert. Hansler and colleagues interest and innovation.
have had sizable contracts with, among Someone once said of teachers:
others, German-based conglomerate “a good teacher is like a candle – it
Siemens and with the Federal Aviation consumes itself to light the way for others.”
Administration. The LII crew has Nice, and it applies also to Dick Hansler,
produced, among other illumination, who teaches but is first a researcher. Dr.
L.E.D. runway lights, which aren’t prone Richard Hansler, a lighting scientist, has
to sudden failure and involve far less devoted himself to illuminating the way
maintenance costs. You can also use a for all of us for a more than a half century.
one-watt blue L.E.D. in place of a 40-watt On the sunny side of his ninth decade
white light with a blue filter. The L.E.D. (that doesn’t mean he’s 90), there isn’t any
is more potent because it is itself – not a indication his flame is diminished.
filter – blue, green, red, etc. An L.E.D.’s
color depends on the kind of crystalline
material the electric current is passing
through. L.E.D.s are becoming vastly more
important and Hansler and his basement
bunch have a piece of the action.
You want to call Dick Hansler a
wizard, The Cleveland Plain Dealer did
some years ago, but the fit isn’t exact. The
“skilled or clever person” part is right on,
but the “sorcerer, magician” stuff doesn’t
work. Scientist...yes.
Hansler has a doctorate in physics
from Ohio State. For 42 years, he was
a leading optical scientist at General
Electric’s Nela Park in Cleveland. A fer-
vent disbeliever in retirement, Hansler was
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