Class of 1968 - 50 Year Reunion Booklet (2018) by Gonzaga College High School

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Editor’s Note We arrived in 1964 on Eye Street—not really Eye Street; the driveway—from all points on the capital compass. We were 225 strong, in many cases strangers to one another and utter strangers to ourselves. We side-eyed the auditorium aisles when Father McHale, S.J., talked about looking left and right. We barked “Bah! Bay! Be! Bo! Boo!” for Ernie Clements. We learned to inhale lunch with one foot planted defiantly on a bench. We got deficiency notices, we got honors, we howled like mandrills at rallies, we gaped at seniors’ surefootedness and marveled at their nicotine-stained haven until it was ours. We took buses or cadged rides with upperclassmen who had wheels or risked life and jug to thumb. We wanted so to believe in the myths of the $100 Jeep and the boxing orangutan. By way of tribal welcome we tormented transfer students and substitute teachers. Cogs in a ratio studiorum that would vanish when we left, we stayed in the same classrooms all day all week all year. Under the sign of an America in conflict, 183 (some say 181) of us graduated, knowing ourselves and each other better, but not realizing how well we would come to understand one another. —Michael Dolan

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REST IN PEACE.....................................................................................................................................................................4 GONZAGA MEMORABILIA..............................................................................................................................................5 AQUILIAN...............................................................................................................................................................12 THE DERENGER....................................................................................................................................................16 20 YEAR REUNION PHOTO............................................................................................................................................30 CLASS BIOS..........................................................................................................................................................................32

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Kevin Appel I had spent 9th and 10th grade in the seminary of the Richmond Diocese in Goochland, Virginia, when I decided to change career paths. My brother Frank had graduated from Gonzaga in 1964, the year my grade school classmates John Andary, Mike Duggan, and Frank Finn started there, so I met with Father McHale. He told me he had expected me to end up at Gonzaga. Accordingly, I made it there junior year. After Iona College in New York, I attended law school at Catholic U, was admitted to the Virginia Bar, and opened a solo practice in Arlington. I specialized in keeping democracy safe for criminals through courtappointed defense cases, meanwhile handling divorces for my sisters and friends. For fun, I got involved in local politics; in 1983, I was asked to manage a campaign for an unknown candidate running for Arlington County Treasurer. He won with what a local paper called the “minor miracle campaign,” and I left private practice to become his chief deputy and legal counsel for 24 years. In 1991, the Treasurers’ Association of Virginia appointed me its legal counsel and ever since I’ve been advising county, city, and town treasurers on such issues as how to collect taxes from folks who “forgot to pay,” ways of successfully firing disgruntled employees and prevailing in disputes other government officials, and the like. During this time, I managed other successful campaigns and worked on each of Don Beyer’s runs. In 1997, a leave of absence from the Treasurer’s Office allowed me to serve as one of the legislative counsels to Lieutenant Governor Beyer during the Virginia legislative session. Another leave in 2003 enabled me to serve as outreach coordinator for efforts by the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority to bring the Montreal Expos to the state. I was so successful in that push that the team landed in D.C. However, I am pleased to attend about 25 games a year and several years ago saw one with Mike Dolan and Bob Moriarity, as well as a game with John Andary and Chris Innocenti Andary, his bride and Notre Dame Academy graduate. I try to attend spring training in Florida with my daughter Katie, 33, and son Deegan 28; my fourth such circuit occurred in March 2018. Go Nats! My most important work in the past 40 years has been service in substance abuse recovery, including 34 years on the regional board of directors of Phoenix House and predecessor entities. Phoenix House, a non-profit charitable corporation, provides high-quality substance abuse recovery services to adult and juvenile clients nationwide. I also have served as president of the Arlington County Bar Association and chairman of the Arlington Democratic Committee, been honored with several gubernatorial appointments to Virginia advisory commissions, and served on the boards of several charitable organizations. I round out my life with my bride of the past 10 years, Anna Necheles, a proud Boston Red Sox fan, with lots of travel, including visits to Ireland, Iceland, Switzerland, Spain, Guatemala, Ecuador, St. Lucia, Jamaica, and Hawaii, home of Frank ’64. Locally, I travel five miles a day hiking with Anna and Sandy, our fox-red Labrador retriever puppy.

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Mike Ball I grew up in Hyattsville, Maryland, before moving to University Park when I was 12. Both my older brother, Joe, and my younger brother, Greg, went to Gonzaga. Joe started high school while we were living in Hyattsville. He carpooled with Coach Kozik freshman year. I like to say I used about every form of transportation to get to Gonzaga: car-pooling, DC Transit, Greyhound, even the B&O Railroad, which stopped a few blocks from my house and went to Union Station. Of course, senior year I drove my famous Rambler American, whose engine I had overhauled the summer before. I received both my BES in Engineering Science and MSE in Operations Research from Johns Hopkins and my PhD in Operations Research from Cornell. I credit the rigor of Fr. Woodward’s math classes at Gonzaga with setting me up to succeed in college and grad school. I spent my last year of grad school in Leuven, Belgium, at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics. This was a transformative year intellectually and personally, learning as I did to appreciate the many European cultures, along with good food and wine and also strong coffee. Upon graduation, I went to Bell Labs in a group trying to invent what became the internet; since Al Gore was not on our team, we failed! After two years, I left for the University of Maryland, where I have worked since. I have been married to Charlotte Yarrington-Ball—yes, Bob’s sister—for 38 years. After three dates in high school, including a Purple & White and seeing To Sir with Love, we reconnected 10 years later and were married in 1979. We have three children: two girls and a boy. They live in Takoma Park, Maryland, Seattle, Washington, and New York City. Our daughter, Stephanie, recently married so we have some hope of grandchildren. Coincidentally, we have been living near downtown Silver Spring since 1986, in the house that Zach Bedford lived in when he attended Gonzaga. At the University of Maryland, my research evolved from a focus on telecommunications to various transportation applications. With three colleagues, I founded RouteSmart Technologies, a company we sold several years ago. Most recently I have worked on air transportation problems and am co-director of NEXTOR, a multi-university consortium in aviation operations research. I have a joint appointment at Maryland in the Smith School of Business and the Institute for Systems Research in the engineering school. I also moved, a bit reluctantly, into administration and am now Senior Associate Dean for Faculty in the Smith School. As part of my academic endeavors, I have managed to take full-year sabbaticals at the University of Waterloo (Ontario), University of North Carolina, and University of California, Berkeley (twice). I always thought the D.C. area was the best place to live in the U.S. but, after spending time at Berkeley, I concluded the Bay Area has its merits, not the least of which is proximity to the California wine regions. Nonetheless, Charlotte and I are quite happy living in Silver Spring with easy access to D.C. and all that the region has to offer.

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Don Beyer At Williams College, I thought to major in Political Economy—until, straight away, I got my lowest grade ever, a C+ in…Political Science. I shifted to economics and rediscovered physics; liked the former, loved the latter. Upon graduation, I married my high school sweetheart, a fellow first grader at Our Lady of Victory. I joined the D.C. staff of the Boy Scouts of America. I learned to schedule every minute, but rarely saw a Scout, and mostly raised money, a foreshadowing I failed to note. I saw my college roommate enjoying medical school, so I crammed four years of pre-med into 12 months. Georgetown admitted me to the class matriculating in 1974. That summer, I drove the parts truck for my dad’s Volvo store. By August, awash in angst over medicine, I also was feeling a love for business. Georgetown deferred me, my father made me sales manager, and 45 years later I’m still selling cars. We adopted Don III in 1975 and Stephanie in 1980. In 1981, I applied for a White House Fellowship. The day my rejection letter came, a congressional candidate recruited me to volunteer. I was stuffing envelopes when someone asked what I did for a living; 30 minutes later I was finance chairman. I eventually ran the campaign, seven 18-hour days a week. I never felt so alive. We lost by one point—but I had found my place. My marriage ended in 1984. Two years later, at Quigley’s, I met a reporter, Megan Carroll. We talked a few minutes, then got married and had Clara in 1992 and Grace in 1995. From 1982 until 2009, I had a hand in one campaign or other. Highlights: running the Northern Virginia arm of Gerry Baliles’ 1985 gubernatorial race; winning Virginia’s lieutenant governorship in 1989 and 1993; losing the governorship to Jim Gilmore in 1997. Stung, I set about growing the family business. We added Land Rover, Volvo-Subaru, another Volvo store, and two Kia franchises, with VW and Mazda to come. We grew too quickly and made lots of mistakes, but it was fun. I was getting restless, however. Howard Dean and I had met as lieutenant governors; I worked on his presidential campaign, then for John Kerry, Mark Warner, and a guy from Illinois, name of Obama. When he won, I oversaw the transition at the Department of Commerce; it was a letdown not to be asked to work there. But then White House personnel invited me to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein, a 2009-13 assignment my family and I completely enjoyed. I was back in the showroom again when our district’s congressman retired. Once more I entered the fray, prevailing in the primary and in November 2014. I truly enjoy my small role in shaping American policy. Per Megan’s stipulation, we live in Old Town Alexandria. All four kids live in the area. Stephanie has given us two precocious grandchildren. Clara is a coder at WeddingWire.com. Grace is in grad school at GW. Megan is the busiest woman I know, most recently as Executive Director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Sciences, which President Ronald Reagan created and which the incumbent voided. The lessons of Gonzaga have been my bedrock. A man for others. Good friends. Honesty, loyalty, charity—if not always realized, always striven for. I’ve been blessed with good Gonzaga friends in my life all these years. Go Gonzaga.

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Jim Borsari I grew up Tenleytown in Northwest DC, the youngest of five. Two brothers attended St. John’s but graduated elsewhere. Another graduated from Archbishop Carroll. My sister went to Immaculate Conception. At Gonzaga, I existed in relative obscurity that included playing golf—often, other guys didn’t even know Gonzaga fielded a golf team, though senior year we won the private school league championship, losing only the final match, in post season. Recruited to play for Virginia Tech, I chose instead to attend the University of Florida, home of the reigning NCAA golf champions. In qualifying to golf as a Gator, I scored even par over eight rounds. Soon after, in a pickup basketball game, I dislocated my left knee and, resetting the joint myself, caused a minor fracture. I had to trade my college golf career for a couple of years of physical therapy. Another school recruited me, but I stayed at Florida, earning a B. Sci. in broadcasting, minoring in political science and sociology, and getting my pilot’s license. One summer in Virginia Beach I met Sharon McCrary, a Duke sophomore who was babysitting my nephew. We were engaged within three days and this year celebrate our 45th anniversary. After college I golfed professionally, supplementing my tournament earnings giving golf lessons—obviously, in Sharon I found a partner who is patient and forgiving. Golf lessons paid the bills until I joined the Federal Aviation Administration as a member of the manager’s staff at Washington National Airport. In 31 years with FAA, I rose to head the national policy and legislative office for a $3.5 billion airport improvement program. We have three kids—a son who’s an anesthesiologist, a daughter who’s a psychotherapist, and a daughter who teaches high school biology—and three grandchildren. Since retiring in 2005, I’ve been an aviation consultant. I am a history buff and for more than 20 years have been a genealogist.

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Vincent Brannigan At the University of Maryland, I enrolled in History Honors, whose flexibility allowed me to design a program around technology, law, and ethics and undertake projects like a thesis on submarine warfare and international law. As a student activist, I played a small role in bringing the Chinese table tennis team to College Park in 1972. My date for that match was my first with Ruth Dayhoff, a wonderful girl and UMd classmate who upon graduation attended Georgetown Medical School. Continuing my focus on technology and the law, I attended Georgetown Law School. Ruth and I married in 1975, the year I graduated from Georgetown. I clerked for the Chief Judge of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and began teaching law at UMd College Park in Engineering and Consumer Economics. I joined the Maryland faculty full time in 1977. The same year Ruth graduated from Georgetown with an MD and began a brilliant career as a pioneer in medical computer systems. We co-authored a number of articles. The National Library of Medicine named Ruth one of America’s outstanding woman physicians who changed the face of medicine. She retired as Director of Digital Imaging in Medicine for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Ruth and I have two daughters. Margaret is a scientist with the Food & Drug Administration; Eleanor is an Assistant Attorney General in Maryland. We have three grandchildren and one on the way. I rose through the ranks at Maryland, becoming a Professor in 1991. Work and pleasure have taken us all over the world. We made seven trips to Egypt to install Ruth’s medical computer system. For many years, we were scuba divers and dove all over the globe. I’ve worked in every American state, primarily on fire safety regulation. My overseas work is in technology and law. Despite appalling grades in German at Gonzaga I regularly have lectured in in that language in Germany and Austria. I’ve held faculty positions in Frankfurt and Munich and been invited to numerous other institutions. I was a visiting professor in Scotland. In 2007, the University of Maryland appointed me Professor Emeritus. I continue to lecture, as well as research and write, most recently on astronaut safety. I have the same address in Bethesda as when I was at Gonzaga; Ruth and I bought my parents’ house. I treasure the intellectual discipline and the introduction to ethics I got at Gonzaga, which have guided my career.

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Vince Branson My father was in the class of ’33. Marilyn and I were the first in our class to have a son graduate from Gonzaga. When Kevin was a freshman, F.X. Wheeler, S.J., stated that our generation was more scholarly than our successors. When Father Wheeler retired he was given a sabbatical abroad and our paths crossed again in Paris. The three generations of Bransons got an honorable mention in Paul Warren’s book about Floyd Gibbons which I recommend as a good read. Get it on Amazon. Our three children are now in their 40s. Kevin went to Southern Cal and is a jack of all trades. Patrick graduated from Maryland in IT and works in Arlington with his significant other. Our daughter Lee attended Visitation, Penn and Harvard and administers the pro bono program at Harvard Law School. Along the way I worked my way through school, practiced law, and then got a B.S. in secondary math education. I taught high school math at Wilson and Holy Cross High Schools. Marilyn has retired from the Post Office. After 34 years in Bethesda near Glen Echo, we moved recently to Massachusetts to be near Lee and her two young daughters.

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Bob Brooks I grew up in Riverdale, Maryland, where I went to St. Bernard’s Elementary. I got to Gonzaga mostly by hitchhiking with my still good friend, Steve Earley. How stupid was that? I worked 17 years at the Government Printing Office (couldn’t get enough of North Capitol Street). Steve Dolan, Mike’s dad, also worked there. He was a wonderful guy who always smoked a pipe. I next worked 23 years with the Department of Army as a publishing program officer. After retiring in 2007 with 40 years’ federal service, I took a contract job at the Federal Aviation Administration as printing and graphics manager. After five years, at age 62, I saw the light and decided my golf game needed more work. Nobody told me playing more golf but getting older means you will still suck. I’ve been married for 37 years to Susan Sykes, who grew up in Lewisdale and went to Northwestern. We have three children—Kimberly, Kevin, and Kelly—but as yet no grandchildren. Susan will retire this year from the Prince George’s County school system and we plan on spending more time at our beach house in Ocean Pines, Maryland, and doing more traveling. We have lived in Gambrills, Maryland, for 28 years.

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Steve Brown I’m writing from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico near Biloxi, a locale I chose in an effort to stay warm. I’m doing OK at that so far. Freshman year at Gonzaga was my first exposure to the pure concept of Jesuit subversivenessfor-Christ. Fr. Long, S.J., he of the iron fist in the silk glove, slap-punched Furnary. Sophomore year Clarence Beck was the first person I heard vocalize a public anti-war position in 2B. The Vietnam War opened many political eyes, including a frank assessment of U.S. Army vs. Viet Cong from Colby, and occasioned a Collision of Worlds when the senior class sat down in the cafeteria and refused to purchase lunch. I went to Villanova 1968-70, applying only to get out of my parents’ house at long last. I transferred to Georgetown, allowed to live at home because, despite coming very close very often, I had not brought shame upon the clan while at Villanova. My arrival at GU marked the start of three years of FUBAR, concluding with my making Dean’s List senior year. In 1972, I took a summer job at a commercial heating ventilation and air conditioning company that turned into six years, during which I lived at Rye-Lea Farm in Darnestown with a rotating cast of the usual suspects. In 1978, I drove the LeRoy Queen, a homemade motor home, to San Diego, California, where I got a great job working in the public schools managing heating controls. In 1980 illness in the family brought me back to DC, where I engaged in self-employment, actualizing what turned out to be poor skills at business administration. In 1982, I answered a classified ad in the Washington Post for an opening at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which needed a building engineer. They hired me. I moved into museum FM at the Corcoran, which led to stints at the Folger Library and the National Gallery of Art. I retired in 2012 from the Corcoran to take a dream job in global controls technology that became a nightmare, so I quit. After a hellish year of unemployment, I returned to the National Gallery to work on the East Building renovation. In 2017, I retired again to move to Bend, Oregon, and travel in expeditionary vehicles. So far I’ve covered 28,000 miles overland and on state scenic routes across the USA, joined along the way by Hector the Westie pup. One marriage, one divorce, no children.

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Paul Byrne I went to Georgetown with, among others, Bill Howard, Carl Colby, and Mike deBettencourt. The first week Mike talked me into going to the crew team orientation, one of the best choices I made. I rowed for four years as a lightweight, and for several summers at Potomac Boat Club, winning a National Championship in 1972. Devotion to rowing may have figured in my failure to graduate in sociology as scheduled that year, but in 1976, in a “light bulb” moment, it came to me to go into computer science. Georgetown now offered digital courses unheard of in 1972, and as a computer science minor I took every one, graduating in 1977. I got a job with a government contractor, then joined what was then U.S. Office of Education, working in special education. Among my state-level contacts was Sandra Miller Cosby with the Illinois State Board of Education. A year and a half of official phone calls led us to meet in person on Election Day 1980. In 1981 Sandra moved here; we married in 1986. She worked for many years at the National Institute of Standards and Technology / Commerce Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Program. I left Education for six years as an analyst and project manager with a computer consulting firm while pursuing an MBA at George Washington University. Upon receiving that degree, I went into business for myself until retiring in 2016. In 2007 I joined the board of the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia, which offers English language courses mostly attended by immigrants. I have been treasurer most of that time, an assignment I’m about to give up. Working on the Literacy Council has been among my most satisfying experiences. Sandra and I enjoy life in Alexandria, and occasionally take wonderful trips, like one later this year to Spain. My only regret about retirement is that it has not magically made my golf game better, as I assumed it would. But there is always hope.

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Shawn Casey From our Gonzaga graduation ceremony, I went directly to the airport to catch a flight to Austin, Texas, where I reported to the office of the House Sergeant at Arms at the state capitol. For the next four years, while attending the University of Texas at Austin, this was the job I held every time the Legislature was in session. I graduated in 1972 with a B.A. in Government, and that spring was named as an outstanding student. That autumn I entered law school at the University of Houston. In 1975 I was awarded a JD and passed the Texas bar exam. The same year, I entered the private practice of law in Houston, eventually becoming certified by the State Bar of Texas Boards of Legal Specialization in civil trial law and civil appellate law. I argued numerous cases before the state Appellate and Supreme Courts. In 2002, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, which in 2015 made practicing law impractical. Retirement has been sweeter thanks to the Astros winning the World Series! This May Cheryl “Suggie” Walker, a PhD from Rice University, and I celebrate 45 years of marriage. We are the proud parents of four—our two sons attended Strake Jesuit High School here in Houston—and seven grandchildren.

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Wesley Chin At the University of Maryland, I got a B.S. in mathematics. During school, I opened a tropical fish shop in D.C., called Chinatown Tropicals, that was in business for about 25 years. In 1974, Jo Ann and I got married and moved to Bethesda. In 1976, I started working as a programmer for the Census Bureau. Later I worked for IRS, HUD, Navy, and NIH as a computer specialist, systems analyst, project manager, and team leader. I retired in 2010. We’ve lived in Bethesda for more than 40 years. Our sons Nicholas and Kevin attended Gonzaga and Maryland. Our daughter Laurie also attended Maryland after graduating from Stone Ridge and Colgate University. She and Nick got master’s degrees at Maryland. Nick works for an internet startup in Boston. Laurie is an investigator for GAO in D.C. Kevin, an ER physician in Orlando, Florida, is about to return to the area to work at Baltimore Medstar. I’m a long-time member of the Knights of Columbus Rock Creek Council, where I’ve held nearly every office, including Grand Knight and treasurer of the council and building corporation; I continue to chair programs and work on committees. Jo Ann and I serve on the University of Maryland Parent Advisory Council and help out at that organization’s functions. I usher at St. Jane Frances De Chantal, where I also serve on the money-counting team, and at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Jo Ann ushers at Strathmore Music Center. I love to bowl and play golf.

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Pat Conroy Brothers, I write from White Sulfur Springs. I was a classmate only freshman year, so I doubt many remember me. I played intramural football, got cut from basketball, played clarinet in the band, and was in the school play at the end of second semester. My parents had divorced when we were in 4th grade, and in 1965 I left D.C. to live with my father in Snohomish, Washington. Through two years of public school Latin, I never had to crack the book! I studied Poli Sci at Claremont Men’s College. I set every school distance running record from 2 miles up. My 5K record of 14:56 stood for 24 years; my10K—30:56—not so long. In 1969. I ran 2:34:20 in a marathon. After a class in same sophomore year, I was among the founders of an improvisational theater group. One of the freshman members that year was Robin Williams. No lie. I went to Gonzaga Law School in Spokane, planning eventually to become a U.S. Senator from Washington State. But at Gonzaga I ran into a community of Jesuits who inspired me, and in 1973 I joined the Oregon Province. I thought I was done with the law, and with politics. But after I earned an MA in philosophy from Gonzaga—making me a bona fide ZAG fan—the Jesuits sent me back to law school, this time at St. Louis University (I’m still waiting for the day the Billikens become a basketball powerhouse). In my short-lived law career I was an attorney for the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington State for two years and while studying theology in 1982 worked for the Conference of Catholic Bishops’ immigration office in San Francisco representing Salvadoran refugees. Upon my ordination in 1983, the law faded. I pastored four Native villages on the Colville and Spokane Indian Reservations 1984-89, and for 13 years as a university chaplain ran retreat programs with a focus on freshmen at Georgetown—1990-94, 1997-2003—and Seattle University (1994-97). From January 2004 to May 2011, I taught freshman theology at coeducational Jesuit High School in Portland, Oregon. In May 2011, I interviewed with Speaker Boehner and Leader Pelosi and didn’t blow the interview, landing an assignment as the 60th Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives. My dream once was to be a U.S. Senator. This is a much better gig.

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George Coyle I’m married to the former Elizabeth Anne (Liz) Giblin of Binghamton, New York. Our children are Matthew (1986) and Claire (1988), born in Middletown, New York; Emily (1990), born in Stamford, Connecticut; Killian (1992), born at Bethesda Naval Hospital; and Joe (1994), born at Annapolis General Hospital. My avocations are running, music, reading—nearly every subject but my favorites are science, history, theology, and philosophy—and skiing. I’m an instrument-rated private pilot. Liz and I like to travel. I work in D.C. at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in the Division of Engineering and Physical Sciences. My colleagues and I support the Air Force Studies and Intelligence Community Studies Boards. I’m also an adjunct professor of Astronomy and Chemistry at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland. After 30 very active years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve, I went to work for Northrop Grumman managing business development, then as a program manager, in Linthicum, Maryland. I worked 2008-12 at DRS Defense Solutions in Bethesda, Maryland, as vice president of advanced programs. I joined the Air Force as a lieutenant in 1972 upon graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a B.S. in Biology. At Fort Lee, Virginia, I was a weapons controller with 20th Air Division, assigned to F-102s, F-106s, and F-4 Phantoms. In 1975, in the postVietnam drawdown, I left active duty for grad school—I got a PhD in Chemistry at Maryland—but stayed in the reserve. My assignment was research chemist at the Air Force Materials Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, then at Rome Air Development Center in upstate New York. In civilian life, I was a researcher with IBM in East Fishkill, New York. When IBM offered me a spot on a marketing team on Wall Street, I accepted—just in time for the October 1987 crash. My customers were the “quants” at Goldman Sachs whose work helped to bring about the 2008 crash. In 1991, the Air Force invited me back to active duty, which brought us to DC. I helped realign Headquarters, Air Force Systems Command, with HQ Air Force Logistics Command to form Headquarters, Air Force Materiel Command. At tour’s end, I was privileged to salute as the flag of the command that made U.S. Air Force air and space technology preeminent was lowered a final time at Andrews Air Force Base. I returned to Wright Pat as a reservist/chemist 1992-97 while working in the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Research and Development, where I managed development of technologies to clean up Cold War-era radioactive and hazardous waste. In January 1997 I again returned to active duty at the Pentagon to assist in accelerating adoption of urgently needed technologies. My final assignment, following the 9/11 attacks, was in Germany at HQ U.S. Air Forces in Europe. I retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 2003.

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David Cushman My June 9, 1968, started with a ticket. The MPD officer was not impressed with this 17-year-old in a white dinner jacket, driving a ‘68 Dodge Super Bee at twice the speed limit on the South Capitol Street Bridge, claiming to be late for his high school graduation. What a fitting conclusion to four great years of academic and personal development at Gonzaga College High School. That fall, I was off to Villanova with several Gonzaga classmates. In 1970, I secured #22 in the draft lottery, but maintained my college deferment until graduation. In 1972, within three weeks earning a BS in Finance, I was drafted by the U.S. Army— managed to find a Reserve slot in Philly)—I married Gloria Roberson; and I landed a $9K/year job as a corporate contract auditor for Amtrak. Career & Relocation Log (1972 – 2016): 1972-80—U.S. Army Reserve: basic and advanced individual training, Fort Polk, Louisiana; Supply Sergeant (E5) Military Police 1972-74—Amtrak: corporate auditor (Philadelphia; Tampa; San Francisco; Topeka) 1974-80—NCR: corporate auditor (Dayton, Ohio); financial planning manager, engineering services manager (Cambridge, Ohio). 1980-85—International Computers Ltd.: manufacturing engineering manager (Utica, New York) 1985-93—Par Microsystems: vice president, manufacturing (Utica) 1993-2016—Grayson Wireless/Allen Telecom/Andrew/Commscope: senior vice president, global operations & supply chain. Responsible for production and engineering facilities in France, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Shenzhen and Suzhou China, Montreal, Mexico, Boston, San Jose, Warren, New Jersey, and Forest Virginia (Forest, Virginia). With all that stress and business travel out of the way, in November 2015 Gloria and I built our retirement home on Mid Pines Golf Club in Southern Pines, part of Pinehurst, North Carolina. It’s a great place to host and entertain our children and their families. Our son, Topher, lives on Capitol Hill with his wife, Debbie, and our three grandkids: Jack (Gonzaga ’27), Eliza, and Cate. Our daughter, Heather, lives in Fort Worth, Texas, with our granddaughter, Carly. June 3, 2018—And now it has come full circle. I’m very proud to have had the opportunity to attend Gonzaga with such a distinguished and accomplished group of classmates. It is humbling and an honor to participate in the 2018 commencement, knowing that the young men we march with have lifetimes ahead in which to succeed and carry on the Gonzaga tradition. In 50 years, they will return and participate in the Class of 2068 commencement—our 100th reunion. GO EAGLES!!

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Robby de Andrade I majored in Business Administration at Wheeling Jesuit University, graduating in 1972. That November, I married Mary, who attended Georgetown University, and got my green card. Four days after the wedding I went to work for IBM, where in 42 years I had numerous global sales and sales management positions. In 1983, I became a U.S. citizen, relinquishing my Canadian citizenship but keeping my Brazilian citizenship. Over the years my assignments took us to Panama City, Panama, where Colin—Gonzaga `96, Santa Clara University—and Meghan (Stone Ridge, Northwestern)—were born, and to locations around the U.S. After each assignment, we came home to Bethesda. Mary retired from teaching in the Montgomery County public schools and I from IBM. Our permanent address is in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware; we have a place in Bethesda, too. I consult part-time, advising companies selling to the U.S. Department of State, and through consultation and instruction help businesses increase sales results. I play tennis and paddle tennis weekly and hope to continue doing so. Our first grandchild, Elliott Marie de Andrade Cannon, was born February 9, 2018.

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Mike Dolan Gonzaga & me: In August `68, driving to see Hendrix at Merriweather, I had for company, among others, Park, McDermott, and Lauten. Campbell’s dad was my PE instructor. Letters to Hambleton got me writing; one from him arrived with the name of a band and its one Top 40 hit on the envelope, which Madzelan had handled at USPS. G&P 101 students sat alphabetically; Doerrer, then Dolan; later, Chris was my dentist. Meenehan and I saw Led Zeppelin at Laurel. For a history study grind, I bought a black beauty from Huebner. Hitching home from Boston, I wore as a raincoat a trashbag of McCarthy’s. I bought a used Volvo from Beyer `cause when I turned the key “Sugar Magnolia” was on. Schultze faded me $300 to buy a used ‘fridge. Madzelan, with whom I have done more shade-tree mechanics and seen Jerry Garcia more often than with anyone else, was best man at my divorce hearing. I asked Brown did he ever jack a house & replace a sill plate. “No,” Steve said. “But I’ve always wanted to,” and we did. When Father Wheeler, S.J., baptized our son—in the chapel—Marty wore purple socks. In ’93 I fractured a femur. My first visitor was Morris, someday to be one of the Sherier Mountain Boys, a band inspired by an upright bass Warren, my second visitor, later provided; his son Tim had played it in the Gonzaga orchestra. Actors in Manhattan presented a play of mine; Pohl attended. Moriarty gave Marty a used bike subsequently stolen in the Bronx. Finn tipped me to my current job, editing American History magazine. To review a book about Ngo Dinh Diem, I hired his former neighbor, Colby. My next-door neighbor, Marshall Scallan, went to Gonzaga in the `90s and has a two-year-old son. At Maryland, I haunted student media, always lagging on credits except in history. I sold shoes, ran a roller coaster, cut grass, humped Sheetrock, drove trucks, unloaded boxcars, made pizza. In `71, I came up 37 in the draft lottery, right before my microbus threw a valve, teaching me how to rebuild an engine. The next spring, I wangled a campus editorship & credentials to the GOP convention. In Miami, to which I rode a BMW R60/2, I met Norman Mailer, had my German corrected by Henry Kissinger, and played journalist. General Hershey ignored me. I left school to be a reporter. I lived in Baltimore & on a southern Maryland pig farm. I finessed a BA, got married, got fired. We bought a house in Takoma Park. I got a job promoting artificial limbs and braces. We got divorced. I began covering regulation, finagled a gig as a TV home repair guy & managed my brother’s band, The Catholics. I sold the house. I married Eileen O’Toole, Elizabeth Seton `68. We bought a bungalow in Palisades that we spent 15 years rebuilding. I reviewed music for the Washington Times, leading to Washington City Paper, New Yorker, Outside et al, and writing & producing TV documentaries & writing histories of the porch and the Kennedy Center. I took up bass. I cofounded WMD, the Mountain Boys & The Powerful House Ways & Means Committee. Marty—Gonzaga `08, Fordham `12—is in the music business in LA. Eileen teaches at Holy Child. We still live in ‘sades. C’mon by.

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Robert Egan At Boston College, I double majored in Political Economics and English Literature, captained the rugby team for a season, and became more engaged in the civil rights and antiwar movements. Eager to continue my studies and my social engagement, I accepted admission to Oxford University, where I studied Political Theory and Critical Studies under the esteemed Terry Eagleton. At Oxford I played soccer and rugby and fell in love with theatre as an actor and director. I wrote and directed the first production ever staged in the gardens of Trinity College Oxford in a circus tent—an adaptation of They Shoot Horses Don’t They with 50 actors and full orchestra. Amazing how big we think when we know very little about convention. I received a scholarship to pursue Ph.D. studies at Stanford University in Critical Methodologies and Theatre Directing. After four years, I went to run the Ph.D. program in Theatre Aesthetics at the University of Washington. Eager to direct full time, I accepted the Associate Artistic Directorship at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, where I created a new play development program, The Other Season, and began 40 years as a professional producer, director, and dramaturge. Passionate about developing stories that speak to the realities of contemporary American life, I became the Producing Artistic Director for 20 seasons at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, where I founded the internationally acclaimed New Work Festival where the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America and Kentucky Cycle were developed. Presently I am Artistic Director/Producer of the Ojai Playwrights Conference. I have directed and developed hundreds of new plays with writers such as Jon Robin Baitz, Sandra Tsing Loh, Stephen Adley Guirgis, Charlayne Woodard, Tony Kushner, Sussan Deyhim, David Hare, Bathsheba Doran, Tom Stoppard, Meow Meow, Anthony Minghella, Patrick Marber, Luis Alfaro and Christopher Hampton. Recently I returned from Zimbabwe, where I helped create the first African New Play Festival. I make live multi-media events for nonprofits like Homeboy Industries, Global Green USA, Cure Autism Now, and UCLA. These productions include documentary films about social, political, and educational issues like gang intervention, environmental justice, and income equality. I’ve directed multiple episodes of television shows including Frasier and Stark Raving Mad. I’m blessed with two sons. Alec Egan is a nationally renowned painter—you can go to his website and see his work. Ian Thomas Egan is a wonderful and wise philosopher now studying at UC Santa Barbara. I am married to writer, teacher, and actress Michelle Joyner. Through Michelle I have twin step-sons, Cassius and Duke, who just entered the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Kansas, respectively.

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Steve Furnary Eight years at St. Camillus made clear that eternity would be better if I went to a Catholic high school. Many of my grammar schoolmates were attending or headed to Gonzaga. What could have been cooler than attending the oldest school in DC, in sight of the Capitol, its name plastered about town in support of beating other schools at football? Hitchhiking to school from Silver Spring, understanding the needs of an impoverished neighborhood, immersed in a rigorous curriculum—Latin, German, Biology. none of it came naturally to me— and making new friends from all over enhanced my coming of age. Plus, JUG and the paddle! This was a serious place. In summer `67, IBM transferred my dad, and my family moved to Atlanta. Finishing at Gonzaga was paramount to me. My parents— and Father McHale—refused to consider this option. Every time I brought it up, my mother cried. Then Bill Sutton and his family generously invited me to live with them so I could. In hindsight, it was the right decision, and the heart of my growing up. I attended Villanova, where I met my wife, Cathy. I went to Boston College for an MBA, joined Citibank, and began a real estate career and family life in New York City. In 1982, I started my own firm, Clarion Partners, which grew to eight offices and a portfolio of 1,100 properties around the U.S. I’m still there, able to lead but also enjoy a nice life/ work balance. Most importantly, Cathy and I have three sons—Tim, Alex, and Scott—as well as two grandchildren. Our boys all live in New York, so we see them often, like it or not for them. My brother Kevin and his four sons went to Gonzaga, a legacy I had the pleasure of beginning. When we graduated, I committed to myself to support the school every year for the rest of my life. It’s a great place. Go Eagles! (We even have a great mascot.)

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John Giuliani As a son of Brookland, I attended the now defunct Campus School on the Catholic University grounds and came to Gonzaga with Campus classmates Vincent Branson, Bert Goodson, Dermot Kinnane, John Larkins, and the sadly departed Kevin McCormick and John McAlinden—may they rest in peace. I received a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Georgetown University in ‘72. Senior year, in the midst of courting a nice young lady I decided to stay on for a Masters in Mathematics. I married Joyce in ’75. We moved to Connecticut where in `80 I earned a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale. After postdocs at the Institute for Advanced Study and at Princeton University, I was forced to find a real job, given the fact of two kids. Since 1983, I’ve been at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, doing research and publishing in such plasma physics areas as high-altitude nuclear effects; laser-target interactions; plasma lighting; and especially Z-pinch radiation sources. A Z-pinch plasma is analogous to the flash that occurs when the filament in an old style incandescent light bulb bursts, except that a Z-pinch plasma occurs not at the typical quarter amp in a lightbulb but at a current of millions of amperes. I head the Radiation Hydrodynamics Branch and direct that group’s research on plasmas with magnetic fields. I have guest-edited special issues of journals on Z-pinches, am on the Physics of Plasma editorial board, and am a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Joyce and I have been hitched 43 years. Our extroverted daughter lives in Telluride, Colorado, and knows every resident of that ski town. Our introverted son lives in Manhattan working in finance. Whenever we visit our offspring and three grandsons we are among canyons— whether formed by mountains or by buildings. Over the years I’ve taught CCD, done prison ministry at Lorton, and now with Joyce participate in Sunday Suppers, a program providing hot meals and fellowship for DC’s needy. We enjoy our place in Chincoteague, Virginia, and kayaking among the barrier islands. Looking forward to retirement soon and woodworking. Gonzaga taught me brotherhood in alliance with classmates under the formidable Jesuits’ strict tutelage, and instilled a social consciousness based on religious conviction and the discipline to study five hours a night.

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Bert Goodson Life has been better than I ever could have imagined as I was driving my tan Valiant to and from Gonzaga listening to the Night Hawk on WOL with Wells riding shotgun and Boehner in the back. Thanks to many patient high school and college instructors, I graduated from Notre Dame, where I acquired a lifelong love of college athletics. After a stint back home trying to make a living playing the horses, I returned to Notre Dame to watch more sports and get a law degree. In 1977, a fellow Notre Dame alum and lawyer hired me and I’ve been gainfully employed since. I specialize in defending physicians, health care facilities, managed care organizations, and medical device manufacturers in malpractice lawsuits. I’ve had the great fortune to partner with many talented professionals in several D.C. firms, including one I started in 1984. I now manage the Maryland, D.C., and Virginia practice group for a New York-based firm. For fun, I conduct seminars on legal risk management and serve as an instructor in the Notre Dame Law School Trial Advocacy Program. I remain happily married to Erin. We met in a bar in Dewey Beach in 1983. We’ve been to at least a dozen Bruce Springsteen shows. We’ve raised three great kids, including a son who graduated from Gonzaga and Marshall University and a daughter who graduated from Stone Ridge School and Santa Clara University. I may be alone among this year’s Jubilarians in having a son—our youngest—graduating in Gonzaga’s Class of 2018! Of course, we planned it that way. Gonzaga has been fundamental to my happiness. I have remained close with friends from those days and enjoyed being involved with Gonzaga again as our sons attended. In all honesty, though, I admit that when I retire I hope to persuade my wife that we need to get parttime jobs—not on Eye Street but in Rehoboth.

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Michael Hackett My brothers Peter (’71), John (’74), and I attended Gonzaga in a perpetual state of irony, because our father, Sergeant Mike Hackett, taught in the military program at St. John’s for 38 years. Our mother, Kitty Hackett, worked in administration at Georgetown. So we grew up in a world inhabited by Christian Brothers and Jesuits. Our next-door neighbors were Paul Warren and his family. I like to think that my career as a director of classical plays began in the Gonzaga Theater where I performed as the Priest of Apollo in Oedipus Rex—acted by Richard Ponds—and played percussion for the chorus with Dr. Warman. On that same stage, I participated in the debate club with Vincent Brannigan, took my Greek oral final, and in speech class made an impassioned address—“We must have Home Rule Now!” Fifty years later, I am not sure how effective I was in making my point. After Gonzaga, I went to Boston College, where I began directing plays, and to Stanford University, where I received a doctorate in Drama and the Humanities. For my thesis production, I directed Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Bob Egan was the stage manager and later in real life the altar boy when I married Claire Leddy, who had played Miranda in the production. For three years, Claire and I moved to London, where she worked for the British Theatre Museum and I taught at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Our daughters, Kate and Stephanie, are involved in the arts as a filmmaker and as an art historian. I am most proud of productions that I have directed for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; the Centrum Sztuki Studio and the Dramatyczny Theatre in Warsaw; the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; the Los Angeles Opera; and the Getty Museum and Villa. I am a Professor of Directing and Theater History and the former Chair of Theater in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television—this is my 39th year of teaching at UCLA. It is impossible to articulate the profound effect that my four years at Gonzaga have had on my life and profession. I am informed by them every day!

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Dan Hambleton With encouragement from Ed Gurski ’66, I attended the University of Virginia, majoring in history, which I’ve always loved, but also taking every art class I could. Amid the Vietnam War, and with a lot of soul-searching, I left school in my third year to do volunteer work with Jehovah’s witnesses in central Virginia. To support myself, I ran service businesses such as window washing and repairing vinyl interiors for auto dealerships. I thought to continue this when I moved back to the D.C. area around 1985, but another outfit had the vinyl repair in Northern Virginia sewed up. I worked for a few years for my brother Bob ’65 at his rare coin business in Alexandria, at book stores, and in the audiovisual department at George Washington University Law School. I realized I enjoyed doing art vastly more than repairing dashboards or most anything else, and began to freelance illustrations to the American Nurses Association, Newspaper Association of America, and other publishers of trade periodicals. This boosted my confidence and led me to see that what I really love is traditional painting. Studio art courses at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria showed me how much there was to learn. Living in Northern Virginia, I got to know many of the Vietnamese “boat people” who had resettled in the D.C. area. Their culture, lively spirit, and immense practicality attracted me so much that, to learn the language, I moved into a Vietnamese boarding house. A Vietnamese friend who was planning to take the U.S. Postal Service placement test suggested I do the same. The result was that at almost 50 I may have been the oldest person in America to become a mail carrier. This job brought me the wherewithal to visit Vietnam in 1999, a trip that crystallized my desire to live there. I decided to complete my undergraduate degree at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, majoring in art history with a minor in studio art. At Mason I learned that teaching English was a good vehicle for working in Asia. I got accredited as an ESL teacher and went to work at Inlingua English Center in Rosslyn and with the adult community services offices in Fairfax and Arlington Counties. Inlingua’s owner had a Vietnamese friend who ran a school in Hanoi and who offered me a job. I accepted, and in 2001 I left for Vietnam. I live in Hanoi. I’ve taught at universities and language centers, enjoying meeting and working with people, and never ceasing to be amazed at the beauty and daily surprises of life in Vietnam. I especially enjoy motorbiking in the northern mountains. I’ve described much of this dream-to-reality journey in a forthcoming book, Warm Rain: My Memories of the Vietnamese. I continue my work with Jehovah’s witnesses, and to paint, with plans for a solo exhibition in 2018. I’ve stayed in touch the most with Pete Meenehan and Mike Dolan, and occasionally Steve Brown, Tom Kelly, and John Gurski. Mike’s kept me up-to-date on classmates. Best wishes to all the guys!

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Mike Hannon Bill Miner and I went to Princeton separately. As a Catholic from an inner-city, all-male, Jesuit high school, I got in on affirmative action. I think there were 11 Catholics gathered in the upper room where the Aquinas Institute held its open house. There were ten black students in the Princeton class ahead of us. Vietnam and apartheid seem to dominate my memories. Someone blew up the ROTC building. Worked as a waiter, complete with jacket and bow tie, at one of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s eating clubs. Played very little football, but more rugby—which continued in Ireland and after graduation but stopped when a marine broke my jaw. Missed Vietnam with a high number. Went to school in Dublin for the first half of senior year. Guinness works wonders. Taught high school English in Montgomery County for eight years while coaching swim teams with some success. Got a Masters at the University of Michigan, where I taught an undergraduate course. Ann Arbor was my first co-ed experience since eighth grade. Mirabile dictu. Went to law school nights my last three years of teaching. Served eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Lots of jury trials putting people in jail. In private practice, a mentor fixed me up with a Korean War veteran whose case went to the Supreme Court. Rehnquist spat on me during oral argument. Justice Souter wrote the unanimous opinion in favor of veterans with his quill pen, by firelight, in his New Hampshire cabin. Daughter Caitie is in theater, including the Gonzaga Theatre Hall of Fame. Imagine that. Kerry is a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. Joe was his Gonzaga Class Salutatorian, and is a linguist teaching in Berlin. Winters, Kathleen, my Irisher wife, and I live on an island in the Gulf of Mexico and at Bethany Beach in the summer. We visit Ireland annually. Come see us. Semper Fi.

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Tom Holtz I graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Architecture and Fine Arts in 1972 from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. I spent a year in Germany as a Fulbright German Academic Exchange Service scholar at Technical University Munich, studying under the late Gerhard Weber, an architect educated at the Bauhaus. During 1973-74, I was a Thouron scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge University, U.K., studying under David Thurlow, David Handlin, and the late Peter Bicknell. At the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 1975-77, my teachers were Urs Gauchat, Edward Tsoi, Gerhard Kallmann, and Eduard Sekler, as well as the now-deceased Joan Goody, Jerzy Soltan, and Joseph Zalewski. In 1977 Harvard granted me a Master in Architecture degree. I’ve been a registered architect in the State of Maryland since 1985, and a member of the American Institute of Architects since 1986. I spent 1978-79 as an architect with P.T. Astore, AIA, in Bethesda, Maryland and 1979-82 as an architect with the German firm Beck-Enz-Yelin of Munich. I participated in two competitions with BEY, which received a prize for one of those designs. In 1982, I went to work with Thomas Clark Associates Architects and then Building Technology, Inc., both in Maryland. Starting in 1984 at Heiserman & Giles, Chartered, in Silver Spring, Maryland, I was principal designer of a $2 million addition to the Bethesda Country Club as well as project architect and designer for store interiors in the D.C. area and for a $3 million rehabilitation at the historic U.S. Marine Corps Barracks on Capitol Hill. In 1987, I joined the U.S. Department of Navy, handling large and small projects 1988-2004 at David Taylor Model Basin at Carderock, Maryland, and 2004-13 at Washington Navy Yard. I retired in 2013 and since have been a consulting architect to the Institute of the Incarnate Word, my parish—St. John Baptist de la Salle—and the parish of St. Mark the Evangelist, both in Maryland. I have published two books—Drawings 1970-2008 and Architecture and Design 1970-2010. Among my recognitions, I count being named 1994 Employee of the Year at Carderock and being a finalist for 2008 Civilian of the Year Award at the Washington Navy Yard. I participated in the 2003 World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition in New York City. I began volunteering with Saint Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Washington in 1982. After being associated with the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites since 1992, in 2000 I became a professed member of that order’s St. Edith Stein Community. Copies of my books and a number of my drawings were presented to Pope Benedict XVI in New York City in 2008, and to Pope Francis in Washington, D.C., in 2015. My study and work at Gonzaga, the University of Pennsylvania, and in Germany led me to acquire reading, writing, and speaking knowledge of German.

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Bill Howard I earned an AB in government at Georgetown, followed by an MA in government and politics and an MBA at Maryland. In 2011, Loyola University granted me an MA in spiritual and pastoral counseling. In 1974, I married Linda Elaine Pritt, Holy Cross Academy, 1965. Our son Philip graduated from Gonzaga in 1996. Philip and his wife, Delyza, have two children, Leah and Gabriel. Our daughter Theresa (Tara) graduated from Mount de Sales Academy in 2005; she was killed on January 6, 2006. I worked in commercial and international banking, public sector economic development, and association management. Among my credits, I count mediating the acquisition of a major high tech company in Howard County, Maryland, preserving 300 jobs and a $15 million payroll; being named one of the city’s Best of Banking by Baltimore CEO Magazine; and my work on the legislative affairs committees of the Maryland Bankers Association and Howard County Chamber of Commerce. I joined the Gonzaga Alumni Association in 1978 and was president 1988-90. Other positions: Class of 1968 cocaptain, VP Father’s Club, Remembrance Day committee chairman, and service on the Carmody Open executive committee since 1985 and the Gonzaga/DC Classic Tournament committee since 1988. Since 2014, I’ve served on the board of Howard County Community Action Council. I negotiated with a major grocer the donation of design expertise and commercial equipment that helped the county food bank expand significantly. I’ve served on the committee of Howard County ARC, as board treasurer for the Resurrection-St. Paul School board, as treasurer of the board for senior transportation provider Neighbor Ride, Inc., and as chair of the Jim Rouse Entrepreneurial Fund. After Tara died, I enrolled at Loyola. In 2009, while interning at Howard County General Hospital, that facility named me an associate chaplain, working with the ailing and those grieving the loss of a loved one. I’m also a commissioned minister of consolation. In Tara’s memory, Linda and I established a scholarship at Mount de Sales Academy, annually recognizing a student for works of compassion and social justice. We also created a foundation that provides counseling and financial support to youths and young adults engaged in social justice and community service projects, and for 12 years have sponsored toiletry drives at Tara’s elementary and high schools on behalf of homeless in Metropolitan Baltimore. In her honor, our family began preparing and serving dinners annually for the homeless; we continue this tradition with the Howard County Coalition of Churches. My goals are to improve as a husband, father, grandfather, and chaplain; to research my dad’s valor during WWII in the U.S. Army’s 29th Division; to strengthen my faith; to be a man for others, making things “on earth as it is in heaven;” to carry on Tara’s legacy; and to celebrate and support Gonzaga College High School.

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Tom Kelley About a dozen of us from Northern Virginia parochial schools took two DC Transit buses to Gonzaga, transferring at 11th & G Streets NW for the final leg. The commute itself was an education punctuated by “real world” happenings. We saw things on the street that friends in the suburbs wouldn’t experience until much later. I definitely needed the discipline and work ethic instilled by (some) Jesuits, including the “required,” but occasional, three hours of homework. The lessons I learned from priests, scholastics, and classmates were key for any success I’ve had. At the University of Virginia, I found Econ and Accounting more appealing than the liberal arts. My four-year, $20K vacation ended with a finance degree. I hoped it would lead me further than a summer construction job. After a few months traveling Europe with a friend who’d graduated from St. John’s High, I started work with Richmond, Virginia-based UVB, which became CRESTAR, which later merged into SunTrust Bank. In the course of 36 years, I progressed through challenging positions, mostly in commercial real estate finance and mostly in the greater DC area. Earning an MBA in finance via evening classes at GW was helpful. My last 12 years were in executive management. I retired in 2012. Phyllis and I met at a college roommate’s wedding in ’82, and married after she graduated from Michigan, a year later. This year we celebrate our 35th anniversary, and I give her all the credit for juggling a career at Sallie Mae with managing the family and several relocations. Our son Brian, ’06, attended Virginia and got an MBA at Georgetown. He lives in Northern Virginia, and works in operations analysis for Navy Federal. Johnny, ’09, recently got married—he and his wife, Amie Chase, met at Fordham. He works in data analytics for Viacom in New York City, and has been accepted to attend grad school in Silicon Valley in the fall. During our 20th reunion, meeting former classmates— thanks, Frank, Mike, Bert, and others—convinced Phyllis any sons we had ought to attend Gonzaga. Once each boy got in, we stopped worrying about his future, confident he was being well prepared for life. The Father’s Club, DC Classic committee, and connections with other ’68 dads have been a great way to reconnect with Gonzaga, and see the culture evolve in a good direction. Phyllis and I are staying in the DC area for now. Each summer we spend a couple of weeks at a lake house in Michigan, catching up with her family. I’ve kept busy on two boards and with volunteer activities: tax return preparation assistance, financial literacy training, coaching with First Tee of Washington. I no longer try to lower my golf handicap, and enjoy just getting out on the course with friends. Having lost touch with my closest Gonzaga friends, some of whom are no longer with us, it’s been very satisfying to get together occasionally with eight 8 or 10 ’68 grads at a local Irish pub. Attending the smoker with both sons reminds me how important those four years were to all of us. I look forward to seeing everyone at our reunion!

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Paul Lafranchise I transferred to Gonzaga at the beginning of junior year. After graduation, I attended Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland. The summer of 1971, while taking classes at Universidad Maria Christina in El Escorial, Spain, I met Mary Frances Walsh, of Camarillo, California—my future wife. I got a B.A. at The Catholic University of America, followed by a J.D. at the University of Georgia School of Law—Go Dawgs!—and an LL.M. at Georgetown University Law Center. Thus overeducated, I began my legal career with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission on K Street NW and was happy to learn that our classmate Sam Goldstein was working there as well. Georgia admitted me to the bar, and while working in D.C. I became a member of the bar there. I also served in the U.S. Navy Reserve as a Judge Advocate General. After four years in D.C., Mary and I headed to Santa Barbara, California where I worked for the Office of Hearings and Appeals at the U.S. Social Security Administration. I joined the California bar. The feds loaned me to the State of California to prosecute unfair labor practice charges against growers and unions in Monterrey County, after which I began what became 30-plus years of practicing law in Bakersfield, primarily litigating on behalf of management in employment disputes. I found being a first chair trial attorney very satisfying. Several years ago I semi-retired, occasionally representing employees in disputes with employers. While I was in law school in Georgia, Mary was volunteering as a nurse in the back country of Kenya. After our marriage, she worked at Washington Hospital Center, then raised our seven children. To Mary’s credit, they all completed college and are leading seemingly happy, productive lives. Andrew helped topple a dictator as a U.S. Marine in the Iraq War. He has an M.S. in computer science from the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterrey, California, and lives in Seattle with his wife and twin daughters. He works as a software engineer for Amazon. Ann, who has two daughters, is a home schooling mom in Calgary, Canada, where her husband works in the oil services industry. Laura is a pharmacist in La Jolla, California. She works at the University of California hospital there. Julia, who lives in Denver, works for Pactimo, a cycling gear company. Her husband recently opened his own specialty meat shop. They are expecting a little girl in April. Peter, a Cal Poly math graduate, lives in Los Angeles and works as an actuary in the film industry. After she graduated from Fresno State, Theresa spent a year living and working in Holland, Brazil, and China. She is in graduate school in Chicago, studying design. Lucy, a Division 1 diver at the University of California, Davis, graduated in marine biology. She spent the following summer as an inspector on a factory ship in the Bering Sea, making sure crew members threw back Nemo and Flipper and others like them. She’s now working in Pullman, Washington, for two marine biology laboratories at Washington State University. Mary and I remain practicing Roman Catholics who try to impart to our children and grandchildren the faith passed down to us from our parents, our parishes, and our educational institutions like Gonzaga. At Gonzaga, I was immature and self-absorbed. I want to apologize to those I offended and ask you to forgive me. “So then, if you are bringing your offering to the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar, go and be reconciled with your brother first, and then come back and present your offering.” —Matthew 5:23-24.

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John Lynch I was fortunate enough to go to college on a basketball scholarship. Afterwards I wandered through positions in teaching, as a psychiatric aide, and other odds and ends until I fell into a school psychology program and found my direction. I practiced in school systems and went back to complete my training in clinical psychology. I specialize in treating our combat veterans with PTSD and developed a program that VA hospitals across the country have adopted. My profession has brought me many opportunities—helping folks with unusual conditions, writing two self-help books, and having most of a third ready to go. I have three daughters and am a recent widower. I live in Richmond, where I have a community of friends, and my family remains in the D.C. area.

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John Madigan I graduated from Boston College in 1972 with many Gonzaga classmates and was one of the last draftees, serving 1972-74 in the U.S. Army, primarily at Heidelberg, Germany. Using the GI Bill, I obtained an MBA from NYU in 1976. I joined Exxon, now Exxon Mobil, and, enrolling in night classes at St. John’s University, in 1980 acquired a law degree. I spent my career with Exxon Mobil, moving through and enjoying many positions, principally involving tax and finance, around the U.S. and internationally. Most importantly, I have been married to Marion Weston, Immaculata ’69, for 45 years. We have four children—one a Gonzaga grad, class of 2006—and two grandchildren. We spend most of our time in Austin, Texas, chasing grandchildren, traveling, taking courses, and, in my case, working on reducing my golf handicap. We spend summers at our cottage in Bethany Beach, Delaware. The painting in the background of my photo is of my grandfather, Colonel Patrick S. Madigan, MD, Gonzaga `06, Georgetown `08. `12. A career military physician, he’s known as the father of Army neuropsychiatry. He was on active duty when he died in 1944. That year the Army named the hospital at Fort Lewis, Washington, for him. The painting hangs in that facility.

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Dan Madzelan A proud son of Chillum, Maryland, entered the University of Maryland with a misguided notion of becoming an engineer. Fourteen months later, physics class and a broken leg had disabused me of that notion. My knowledge of physics never improved. My leg healed, but despite my lottery number of 131, the U.S. Army no longer was interested. Consequently, my leisurely nine-semester path to an Econ BA took the better part of nine calendar years. But I had other things to do—smoke marijuana in the paid employ of the U.S. government, install switching equipment in the C&P Telephone building at 20th and L Streets NW, ride a Harley-Davidson FXE to and from Fairbanks via the Alaska Highway, chase oysters from the “middle deck” of the Claud W. Somers—#55 in the Maryland Department of Natural Resources skipjack starting lineup—and ask Al Hirt if his band could play some Rolling Stones. I met and married Miss Jerrie Lynn Shewbridge of Birkittsville, Maryland. We bought a house in University Park, Maryland, where we raised Anne, Kaitlin and Molly, and the Heir to My Dominion, Tom, a legacy admit—Class of 2010. I got a job with the U.S. Department of Education when someone called me on the phone and offered it. I worked on higher education public policy for some 33 years, including a stint as an assistant secretary. I aged out of the federal system and retired in 2012, but within two years took a job with the American Council on Education. I feel compelled to note that I find nothing wrong with retirement—it’s hard to complain about mailbox money—but now I get to say, “Back off. I’m a lobbyist!” However, the best job I ever had remains the time I was an electric submersible dewatering pump mechanic employed by Flygt Corp. of Norwalk, Connecticut. Ask me about the Independence Day weekend I saved Bethany Beach, Delaware, from itself.

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Pete Maher At Boston College, thanks to the math I learned at Gonzaga, I was done with my math major requirements by junior year and took fun courses like history, economics, and political science. I worked for two years at Social Security Administration headquarters near Baltimore, then took a leave of absence to join the Peace Corps and teach math in Ghana, where I met fellow volunteer Nancy Keller. We married in 1978. By late 1981, we had an infant, Patrick. I was back at SSA, attending law school in night classes at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. I graduated from law school in four years, feeling as if I’d survived Gonzaga’s academic rigors a second time. In 1986, I joined the U.S. Foreign Service, and the five of us lived half of the next 21 years in Honduras, Mexico, South Korea, and Greece, half in Silver Spring, Maryland, when I rotated to DC. Our kids had a real international education. Since retiring in 2006, I’ve kept my hand in diplomatically, working a few months a year filling in as a manager at our embassies in Africa. After I retired, Nancy and I lived near Fort Myers, Florida, for eight years until the magnetic force of four grandchildren pulled us back to the DC-Baltimore area. We have a condo in Elkridge, Maryland. My Jesuit education and extracurricular activities definitely prepared me for what I’ve faced in life.

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Jim Marshall After graduating with a BA in marketing from Villanova in 1972, I started at Campbell Soup Co. as a salesman, but decided the suit-and-tie-and-tied-wingtips uniform did not fit my style. I decided real estate was my calling. I syndicated farmland in Northern Virginia until the 1974 recession, when I went to work in the real estate department at Fotomat Corp. Remember film? Building 20 D.C.-area kiosk stores convinced me overnight photo processing was a good business, so I partnered with one of the Cafritz boys to start Foto Express. In 18 months, we built more than 70 stores throughout the Southeast and sold the operation to a New York company. During that time, we had relocated to North Carolina, where from 1978-81 I built restaurant properties for Chi Chi’s, Del Taco, Taco Bell, and other multinationals. I was pretty much known as the Mexican food king of North Carolina. In 1981, I teamed with a couple of guys to form Forsyth Partners, which became one of the largest commercial development companies in the Southeast. With a recession in full swing in 1991 and feeling bored, I retired from Forsyth and went to China. Since 1991, I’ve made more than 50 trips there to develop, build, and own specialty medical facilities in Hangzhou and Nanjing. I also founded LindBrook Development Corp., a boutique company specializing in developing and owning medical and corporate office facilities, primarily in North Carolina. I recently started a company that converts hog manure into gas use to power a system for generating electricity that we sell the local utility. Hope it works! Beth and I have been married for 44 years. We live in Greensboro, North Carolina, and have four kids and eight grandkids, with a grandchild on the way. Two of our kids live in D.C.; we live vicariously through them.

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Joe McCarthy My very good fortune in being admitted to Gonzaga was compounded when, mirabile dictu, Boston College made a kindred error, and I headed happily to BC in the company of an unprecedented number of Eye Street brethren. Once matriculated, I came to my senses and bailed out of pre-med, landing in BC’s very good English department. I loved being at BC and in the Land of the Bean and the Cod and benefited in many ways from my time there, including meeting Stone Ridge graduate Marina Chukayeff, who was at BU. We got married after graduation. I completed an MA, also at BC, then taught public school in Lexington, Massachusetts. After a few years, Marina and I took jobs teaching at the American School in Athens, Greece, then at the American School of The Hague. Teaching in Europe was an enlightening and pleasurable experience. Upon our return to D.C. in 1979, I taught for three years at Mater Dei School; Marina, at Stone Ridge. When Harvard Graduate School of Education admitted me to a one-year program, I enrolled, expecting to return to D.C. afterward. However, the EdD program lured us both into pursuing doctorates and taking a series of part-time teaching and administrative jobs at the university to pay the bills. One thing led to another, as they will, and we ended up at Harvard for three decades. Our son, Kevin, thirty, was born in Cambridge. I spent most of my Harvard career at the Kennedy School of Government, a perfect venue for a native Washingtonian, eventually becoming, in the way that loftiness of title relates inversely to compensation and actual authority, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Degree Programs. When the university offered early retirement, I accepted, and we repatriated to Bethesda. We live in the house in which Marina grew up. My job at Harvard and retirement from that job brought a bonus: friendships with former Kennedy School students, so many of whom are serving society. I offer them free bad advice, I sit on the boards of their nonprofits, and I support their campaigns for elective office. It’s a great deal—for me, anyway. I trace my interest in teaching to role models I encountered at Gonzaga. I credit my sense of obligation to serve others not only to the Ignatian ideals we learned at Gonzaga, but also to traveling daily for four years into the inner city and seeing those less fortunate. For these experiences, I remain grateful.

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Bill McPadden I am so glad Sister Kathleen, my 8th-grade teacher at St. Camillus, talked my dad and me out of close-by DeMatha so that Gonzaga became my school then and forever. I was beadle for Father Nicholas Murray, S.J., in 2A and played three seasons of varsity baseball for Coach Kozik. My unwillingness to bow to authority meant Father Bradley, S.J, and I became very well acquainted! Before the onslaught of the paddle, he always made me take out my wallet. I continued my Jesuit journey at Wheeling College—now Wheeling Jesuit University. I majored in history and participated in many activities including theater and intramural sports. To pay for college I worked in the registrar’s office and as a resident assistant. I went into insurance then pivoted to printing, where I learned the art of salesmanship and, especially, listening—the only way to understand customers’ needs and help them succeed. I worked for nearly 40 years in what at the time was a highly lucrative industry as a sales representative for Avery Dennison, RR Donnelley, American Press, and the Sheridan Group. I was fortunate to meet a wonderful Regina girl in 1980. Cindy and I were married in October 1981. In 36 years of marriage, we have been blessed with the amazing Katie and Colleen. After progressing through the Fairfax County, Virginia, schools, our girls attended James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Thank goodness for Virginia’s public university system! Katie married Brian, also a JMU alum, in 2009. In July 2015, she had twins Caroline and Sam. Katie, Brian, and their children live in Boston. Colleen, who lives in millennial Arlington, Virginia, has a career position in Washington, D.C. We live in Herndon, and are planning to downsize but stay in the D.C. area. I retired in 2013 to become our household’s official errand runner and helpless handyman. Cindy teaches at Edlin School in Reston, Virginia, where I am known as “purple man” for all my Gonzaga apparel!

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Pete Meenehan I was born and raised in Northwest D.C. near Rock Creek Park, and attended St. Michael’s in Silver Spring with Tordella, Buescher, Kemp, Burns, and Bedford—I commuted to Big G with Zack. I swam on a YMCA team coached by gym teacher Bob Budway. During high school, I worked in my family’s hardware stores in Brookland and at 14th & U Streets NW; after the `68 riots Rich Park and Steve Brown helped us move the 14th & U store to Penn-Branch Shopping Center; I later worked at our Rose Hill store in Alexandria, Virginia, until `73. At Gonzaga I was in 1A, 2E, 3A, 4A. I got the nickname Peter from Ed Flanagan, in 2E. I deeply regret, as a Booster Club member, participating in the cheer “All the way with Yahweh!”; see Matthew 6:9, Exodus 20:7. I designed and rendered Purple & White dance decorations, theatre programs, sets, and lighting. With Dolan, Hambleton, Park, and others, I put out The Derringer (“Gonzaga’s Underground Newspaper that Hits the Target”). I painted signs, including for Guys and Dolls “No peace unto the wicked,” Isaiah 48:22. At Georgetown University, I got a BA in English with a minor in Religious Studies. I assisted Colby on sound for his movie, Fat Tuesday. With Brown, Lauten, and Dolan, I built geodesics and “zoons,” as we called inflated plastic structures onto which we projected light shows. Who remembers the Meenehan Cornucopia? I photographed, fabricated stained glass, silkscreened—Lauten and I made T-shirts for Big Wheel Bikes—and at Glen Echo welded sculptures. In the late `60s Hambleton introduced me to Jehovah’s Witnesses. I became a Witness in `77 and remain one; Genesis 48:15, Psalm 23. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam. As an undergraduate, I worked at GU’s Lauinger Library in Audiovisual-TV department. In 1973, I became supervisor of the AV-TV department at GU Law Center, producing video and audio and managing projection, PA systems, and master antenna and closed-circuit TV. My role expanded to include information technology. As executive director of IT, I managed AV-TV, telephone systems, personal computers, computer network and copier maintenance. I designed a system allowing TV broadcast to the entire school; automatic audio and video recording and transmission from any classroom to any or all classrooms, as well as systems for managing the school’s web presence and personnel changes. I oversaw design and installation of telecom wiring for three new buildings. I designed sets and lighting for and videotaped law school student productions of Gilbert & Sullivan plays. In the late `90s, Johns Hopkins University granted me an MS in IT and telecommunications and organizational management. I left Georgetown in 2000, taught at Hopkins grad school and Watkins Mill High School, and in `01 joined Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as project manager in the IT department. Since `02 I’ve been a certified project management professional. At WMATA, I was project manager for systems for bus and rail scheduling, managing maintenance and materiel, completed the move of the Rail Operations Control Center to Landover, Maryland. I also worked on such projects as an interactive electronic technical manual, the passenger information display system, and IT systems architecture. My final undertaking was an update of MetroRail emergency response maps. I retired in January `17. I’m still adjusting. In `79 I married the beautiful and talented Constance; we have two wonderful sons. We reside in North Potomac, Maryland, and often vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. I’m an amateur naturalist, I enjoy hiking the Billy Goat Trails, kayaking on the Potomac and on the Eastern Shore, biking, waterlilies, soap-making, and making sauerkraut and sourdough pita.

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Bill Miner I followed my brother George into Gonzaga. He graduated Valedictorian ’62 so the school thought it had another budding genius. Wrong. I inherited the fun gene and pursued the arts—first photography, then architecture, which saved me from a life of poverty. After six fun-filled years in architecture school at Princeton and MIT, I returned to D.C. and worked odd jobs looking for a career. I taught at the University of Maryland, edited books for the American Institute of Architects, and with my young bride, Allison Nevels, ran away to Saudi Arabia to build new towns for the Kingdom. Like I said, I’m no genius. However, the overseas experience led me into public service. I spent 27 years designing and building U.S. Embassies and Diplomatic compounds for the Department of State. This brought stability into my life such that Allison and I could raise two awesome kids, Will and Ava. Will followed me to Gonzaga—he graduated in ’06— and now lives near Ava in NYC. I was very honored when Father Novotny, S.J., asked me to join the Gonzaga Board of Directors and very thankful when Father Planning took the reins after the former president’s untimely death. I’m proud of the small part I played in the remake of the campus, which turned out quite well. Four years ago, when we moved to Coral Gables, Florida, I thought I was retiring. I took an “easy” job as that city’s Building Director, which was fun until Allison had enough of the Land of No Seasons. Last year, I found a similar position in Alexandria, Virginia, bringing us to live and work in the area’s historic, diverse, and temperate environment. The Miner family has enjoyed God’s grace and remembers it every day.

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Bob Moore Gonzaga Moments: Beadle, receiving complimentary tickets to attend the circus with Lady Bird Johnson and the rest of CCD students at St. Aloysius, gave birth to the memorable football banner escapade, was a Latin P.A.I.N. monitor. Before exams I listened to Debussy in the library. I served Mass for Fr. McKenna, S.J. To get to school from my first home I walked the buried bed of the Tiber River, later rubbled into I-395; my second home, at 4th and Massachusetts, became a Bob’s Ice Cream. I worked switchboard and at the bookstore. I was in on the midnight kitchen raid during the Wernersville retreat. Life Highlights: Attending college, where I got a BA and MA, I found myself living in the George Inness painting The Lackawanna Valley, which I knew from seeing it at the National Gallery of Art, seeing the same buildings and riding the same tracks. Subsequently I became a Master Teacher and diagnostician and obtained a BA and MS at State University of New York. My wife’s name is Sonia; our sons are Alex and Paul. I was at Tinian for the 40th anniversary of the loading and take off of the Enola Gay and met members of the plane’s crew. ½ decade & ½ world away met crew. One Bastille Day I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower when embers from fireworks burned my scalp. Cat and Trap at sea on Lexington. I flew out of the jungle in Peten, Guatemala, aboard a DC-3. I developed a crisis response communication vehicle, and was the “father” of inter-service regional councils for the U.S. military at home, in Canada, and in the Far East. I’ve ridden funiculars in Paris, Kiev, and Haifa. On Guam, I observed that it rains daily at noon and 5 p.m. I laid the ground work the first group recognition by U.S. Air Force of surviving Medal of Honor recipients. I’m a local and national officer of the U.S. Jaycees.

Canyon, I hiked Kaibab down and Bright Angel up.

Medical: wrapped hospital baby in swaddling after 1st bath; staff, Lancaster Course and Gesell, guest lecturer: Institut et Centre du Optometrie, Paris. While watching a chess tournament at Reykjavik, Iceland, I met Boris Spassky. When it comes to mountains, I’ve seen Mt. Cadillac at sunrise, I’ve climbed Mount Evans in Colorado and Mount Washington in New Hampshire by car, and I’ve hiked Masada in Israel. In the Grand

I attended the Olympics at Munich, Montreal, and Los Angeles; in LA, I completed a lap on the track. I earned my Open Water SCUBA certification in waters abutting the Mariana Trench. I’ve climbed pyramids at ChichenItza—the observatory, too— Copan, Palenque, Tikal, and Teotihuacan. Seaborne: English Channel, Oresund, Saronikos Kolpos, Strait of Gibraltar. I conversed with survivors of Titanic. Trainwise, I’ve served as a fireman on a 1912 Baldwin locomotive, I rode on the Kiruna-Narvik Express beneath the midnight sun, and I’ve ridden a maglev to Tsukuba. I watched the Blue Angels from a moving Ferris wheel. “Trolling for Sharks” at Water Survival.

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Bob Moriarty Good Hurtin’ Nightclub Fugitive Arraigned The Ulm edition of the Schwabisher Zeitung, circa 1971, published a photograph of U.S. Army Corporal Robert M. Moriarty is delivered to High Court Judge Elizabeth Mark by armed military police in an historic turnover of an American soldier in accordance with Status of Forces Agreement between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. Convicted of 1305 counts of the “Beschmirchment of German Womanhood” statute, Moriarty was apprehended inside the Good Hurtin’ Nightclub after a lengthy standoff with authorities. Second from right, the notorious Corporal Moriarty protests alleged irregularities of his arrest warrant to Judge Mark prior to being incarcerated at Ulmisher prison. I assure you the foundation laid by Fr. Donald Pantle, S.J. served me well in various German institutions. After my release, German authorities returned me to the custody of the U.S. Army, which forced me to shave my mustache.

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David Pallai Dave received a BA and MA from Boston College, and later, an MA from Yale University. In 1976, he began a career in publishing as a sales rep for Prentice-Hall and grew into several executive positions. In 1994, he started Charles River Media, a computer graphics and game development company. He sold that company to Cengage Learning in 2006. In 2010, he started Mercury Learning and Information, specializing in STEM publishing, which he continues to operate. Dave taught marketing and publishing at Emerson College 1998-2006 and is an adjunct instructor at Boston University. He and Jean married in 1977. They live in Duxbury, a suburb of Boston. Their children are Matthew, who lives Westport, Connecticut, and Jeremy, who lives in Milton, Massachusetts. They have seven grandchildren. Dave served in the U.S. Army National Guard 1972-78. He is a member of MENSA, the Knights of Columbus, the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, the International Game Developers Association, the Yale Club of Boston, and previously the Harvard Club.

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Rich Park At Maryland Institute College of Art, I majored in Fine Arts (Sculpture). Shockingly, four years later, there were no “Wanted: Sculptor” ads in the Washington Post. So I took a job as a graphic designer with a small design studio in Silver Spring. After stints at a few more studios, I spent several years freelancing design and illustration projects for clients around Washington. In 1983, I joined Goldberg Marchesano, a highly creative D.C. ad agency, as a print art director, eventually moving into television and radio. I spent 19 years there, the last 10 as creative director. When Williams Whittle acquired that firm, I took over as creative director at Williams Whittle, where I worked on hundreds of accounts. The ones I enjoyed the most were IKEA, the USO, Catholic Charities, and National Geographic. For 15 years, I lived on a farm near Poolesville, Maryland, with a revolving cast of housemates that included Steve Brown, Jimmy Tighe, John Kehoe, and Kevin Collins. When we moved out, the house had to be gutted and rebuilt. In the `90s, Steve Brown and I completely rebuilt my 1872 townhouse in Georgetown; when we finished, I swore I would never do that again. But I got married and my wife and I bought an even older townhouse in Old Town Alexandria. Brown and I completely rebuilt this one, too. It’s all done. Sort of. I retired last year. I’m enjoying myself. I take on freelance projects but keep it to a minimum. My brother and I have built two vintage Triumph flattrack motorcycles that we race on half-mile tracks in Pennsylvania and Maryland during the summer. I still get together for lunch with the guys I went to grade school and Gonzaga with—Joe McCarthy, Don Beyer, and Steve Brown—whenever the Congressman can squeeze us in.

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Stephen Pohl I grew up in Hillcrest Heights on the Southeast side of DC. After Gonzaga, I went to Towson State. I majored in Theater Arts, the more active and fun alternative to being an English major. I left a few credits short of a degree. For five years, I was a Baltimore City cop; yes, The Wire is depressingly accurate. After friends and co-workers died—one shot with his own gun wrestled away by a naked schizophrenic, one down an elevator shaft evacuating apartment building residents from a fire, one from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by a torn trunk lid seal, and one by suicide who shot himself in our sector—I completed my degree and got out of Dodge. After stints in sales I got into insurance investigations and claims adjusting, which I’ve done for most of my career. After hurricane Andrew in ‘92, before Miami International reopened and before the National Guard arrived, I was in Homestead, Florida; it was like a bombing range without the flames. I spent five weeks there. Most claims paid policies to the limit of coverage. For 25 years, I’ve served as senior claims adjuster for Baltimore County Government and more recently in human resources on the hiring side and as a police background investigator. I married young; we each repented in haste and divorced. Hope overcoming experience, I married again 42 years ago and the clock is still running. We have a wonderful daughter. I write for pleasure and occasional publication: short fiction, non-fiction, poetry, lyrics. I see Dolan and Moriarty periodically. I saw Dolan’s play, Desert One, with him in New York. Dolan is more than a journalist. I suspect much of his best work has not seen print. Moriarty also writes better than I, but refuses to publish. To get the flavor of Bob’s writing, read Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence. If you ever want to know the origins of the slogan, “You don’t know Jack,” Moriarty’s essay on the subject is a masterpiece.

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Dean Rakoskie At Catholic University, I studied electrical engineering—my last three years, on a U.S. Air Force ROTC scholarship. In 1972, BA and commission as a 2nd lieutenant in hand, I was assigned to Little Rock Air Force Base in Arkansas. During three years there, I obtained a master’s degree from the University of Arkansas. I spent a year in Korea, returning to D.C. to work on Air Force space programs at the Pentagon. I met Marie, and we were married in 1979. For 16 years, I was stationed in the D.C. area or Los Angeles, California. Marie, our daughter, Lynn, and I were living in Haymarket, Virginia, in 1992, when I took my first run at retirement to work for a Virginiabased defense contractor. I rose to be vice president of a division supporting federal space programs focused on national security. In 2005 I retired again, this time to be a consultant. That led to commuting on Monday mornings to Pennsylvania and spending weekdays in King of Prussia and Newtown supporting Lockheed Martin in the competition and early stages of the GPS-III satellite program before returning home Friday nights. In 2010, I decided three years of hotel living was enough. Marie and I began to think about retirement—again. Lynn had married, given us two grandsons, and moved with her family to Lexington, South Carolina. We wanted to live where snow is a four-letter word, seldom uttered. We built a house about 40 miles west of Savannah, Georgia. In June 2011, as we were about to move, NASA called about a project at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland: developing a ground system for new-generation weather satellites—six months max, telecommute, fly north occasionally. We left Virginia on a Thursday, moved into the new house the next Wednesday, and four days later I was on a plane to DC, my third failure at retirement. I’m still riding the Georgia/Maryland shuttle every other week or so. At home, I’m commander at my local Veterans of Foreign Wars post. Veterans and their families need so much support that that could be a full-time job, but Marie ensures that we get away, especially to make the three-hour trip to Lexington several times a year to see Lynn and family. Being with our grandsons helps keep us feeling young…or so we believe. I’m looking forward to whatever the future holds.

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Gerry Riley I attended Boston College with many other Gonzaga alumni. I studied Mathematics and graduated in 1972. In 1973, I moved to Baltimore to work at the Social Security Administration on the Medicare program. In 1980, I enrolled at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in Chapel Hill to pursue a master’s degree in biostatistics, which I received in 1982. I returned to Baltimore, working for Medicare and Medicaid as a health services researcher focusing on policy issues related to disability, cancer care, managed care, and end-of-life care. I retired from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2014, and now work at Actuarial Research Corporation in Columbia, Maryland. In 1989, I married Jackie Solomon, a health educator and middle school teacher from Long Island. We lived in the Baltimore area until 1995, when we moved to Columbia. Our son Jack, 24, lives in Baltimore. Jack has a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and works at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

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Frank Robey Personal 1 wife (41.5 years): Dr. Pamela Gehron Robey; marriage witnessed at 7 p.m. January 7, 1977, by my cousin, John Woodward, S.J.—yes, that Fr. Woodward Offspring: Jillian (Jill), 37; Chuck, 35 Granddaughters: 2, ages 5 and 3 Since 1981, have lived in a house in Bethesda, Maryland, less than a mile from where I worked for many years as a government scientist. Hospice volunteer 2007-present Gym rat 1981-present Professional 1972—B.S. chemistry 1973-74—High school chemistry teacher, assistant basketball and baseball coach. 1977—Ph.D., physical chemistry 1978—Postdoctoral fellow, American Red Cross Blood Research Laboratories 1977-present: Have given thousands of scientific classes, lectures, and seminars to groups ranging in size from 2-3 (often) to more than 1,000 (rarely), published professional papers and obtained multiple patents, and mentored many undergraduate and graduate students as well as M.D. and Ph.D. postdoctoral fellows. 1978-2002—Tenured scientist, U.S. Food & Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, and National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 1995-2001—Adjunct medical school professor 1987-present—Biotechnology consultant 2002-present—Biotech entrepreneur

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Bob Santucci “Four unearned Doctorates” As Bob Santucci’s closest associate, I always addressed him as “Dr. Santucci.” In an itinerant career, Bob achieved PhD-level proficiency that he demonstrated four times on a nationwide scale in differing but complementary disciplines. After Gonzaga, Robert was admitted to Georgetown University, where he studied intermittently for eight years amid a period of exuberant adventure. He graduated as the pre-penultimate in his class, undergoing a postgraduate education at a state-run entity of the lowest reputation. Armed with the discipline and Jesuit respect for humanity he learned at Gonzaga, Bob turned his focus toward people and their shelter needs. All his achievements have been facilitated by Virginia, his delightfully whimsical wife, whose strong will and patience have supported her husband and their three sons. Bob obtained his first equivalent of a PhD first in construction management. His initial fieldwork involved rehabilitating more than 125 substandard homes for elderly homeowners. In Phase two, over four years he developed six multiple-family affordable housing projects in Arlington, Virginia. Bob’s “thesis” constituted 1,200 pages of operating procedure manuals published in three volumes that jumpstarted the housing rehabilitation specialist industry. Andragogy—adult education—was Bob’s second unearned PhD. His psychiatrist father had long counseled him, “If you wish to learn something, teach it.” Bob wanted to learn a lot. He designed and developed 28 adult training courses, created the central exhibit for the National Building Museum, and authored The Consumer’s Guide to Home Improvement, selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club as an alternate. Bob’s fieldwork in this phase included on site training of more than 20,000 adults, and most importantly, mentoring fellow technicians in the craft of adult education. Epidemiology was Dr. Bob’s third wayward PhD. He cofounded the National Center for Lead Safe Housing, whose mission is to identify how environmental lead poisons children and to verify effective methods of mitigating hazards. Bob organized teams in 13 cities to translate local opinions into scientifically measurable actions. The project analyzed more than 3,000 lead hazard mitigation interventions. The results directed federal requirements stipulating how to evaluate and control environmental lead hazards. After six years of crisscrossing the country 200 days a year advocating effective lead hazard reduction techniques and correct interpretation of the nascent law, Bob gladly moved to his fourth unearned PhD, Nonprofit Management. His laboratory consisted of two six-month hands-on postgraduate practicums in Business Planning and Asset Management for nonprofit organizations. This time he produced a formal thesis in the form of the textbooks Business Planning for Affordable Housing Providers and The Asset Management Handbook. Across the field of nonprofit management fellow practitioners continue to honor these volumes by extensively plagiarizing their contents. “Dr. Santucci” is a hands-on “academic” who discovered and disseminated practical solutions. He has been outspoken, truthful, extremely focused, and opinionated—at times in inappropriately wild ways—but always he has worked to build a better America and a better world. Bob Santucci now wanders in undirected leisure in America’s Coolest Small Town—Beaufort, North Carolina, under Virginia’s adept guidance.

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Kevin Schultze I spent most of my career working in New York and Chicago working for securities firms. My specialty was fixed income, a sector in which I worked as an institutional portfolio strategist and economist. My last stop prior to retirement was six years as a managing director and financial economist with Oppenheimer and Co. I’m married with two children, retired, and living in Wyoming. I divide my time between traveling the world and building classic Arts and Crafts-style furniture.

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Phil Smith G’day, mates, from the land down under! In `68 I waved goodbye to Gonzaga and travelled back to sunny Australia, carrying great memories of my high school years in Washington. My ambition was to be a lawyer, so in 1969 I enrolled at The Australian National University, Canberra. Between ‘69 and ‘74 I was a student, hitting the books and doing those jobs—pulling beers, flipping burgers, and pumping petrol—that you never want to do again for the rest of your life. I was fortunate not to be called up for national military service. After six years, I was pleased to graduate with a law degree. And with the Vietnam war over, national service was abolished. In 1976 I commenced practice as a private lawyer, initially in Canberra, and in 1995 decided to pack up the family and move to Sydney. I’ve been a practising officer of the Court for 42 years. Like many private lawyers, I’ve practised in a number of areas—family law, commercial disputes, and defamation and more recently commercial, property and franchising law. I expect I will retire in 2020. I’m not sure how I’ll handle that. Surprisingly, I have come across only two former Gonzaga students in Australia. Australia might be far away, but I’ve been lucky enough to travel overseas for work and in recent years have come to the U.S. for the annual conference of the International Franchise Association. I’ve also travelled the Pacific, Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. My wife Verity and I live in downtown Sydney. It’s a beautiful city, and I reckon I’ve got one of the best office views going—daily I look out onto glistening Sydney Harbour, taking in the Opera House and Harbour Bridge. Sydney’s a long way from the outback but recently traffic on Harbour Bridge stopped for a wallaby hopping the length of the span. No, Crocodile Dundee nor Crocodile Hunter nor Hugh Jackman was sent to the rescue. Come on down and I’ll buy you a Fosters or two, and put a shrimp on the barbie. Of course, my most important jobs are as Husband, Dad and now Grandpa. I have 2 adult daughters and a very beautiful granddaughter, Holly Rose. As I was at Gonzaga, I’m a passionate rugby follower. I’ve travelled overseas following the Wallabies and my Canberra team, the Brumbies. I also follow the Australian cricket and tennis teams. I’m a sports tragic, trying to keep fit playing tennis three times a week and walking. Gone are the days of jogging and cycling. Of course, the older I get the better I was. I travelled to DC for the 40-year reunion, and I am fortunate to receive the weekly Eye Street Headlines so as to keep up with the happenings which regrettably include the passing of too many class mates. Looking forward to seeing you all in June.

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Jerry Sonnenberg After Gonzaga, I continued with Jesuit education, receiving a BS in Physics in 1972 from St. Joseph’s in Philadelphia. I started with Burroughs Corp. on what was to be a 45-year journey in computer communications. My first assignment was the circuit design for a communications port on one of the earliest microprocessors. Also in 1972, Maria Valiela-Peraza (Immaculata, ‘72) and I married, and I started classes at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a MSEE in Computer Science in 1977. After graduating from Penn, I joined Sperry Univac developing communications protocols. In 1982, we moved to Melbourne, Florida, where we still live, as I continued in computer communications, including stints at NASA and during 35 years at Harris Corp. fielding networked radio systems for the Army, Navy and Air Force. One of my most memorable assignments was the design and installation of the high-speed display network—in 1988, 100 Mbps was high speed—for the upgraded launch control center at Kennedy Space Center. I miss the Space Shuttle. However, in the new world of launch vehicles, if you forget there’s a launch, the thunder and the vapor trail keep you in the loop, at least a little. And you have the opportunity to see a Space-X booster firing during a controlled descent landing. Our son, Chris, is an assistant dean at Florida Institute of Technology. Upon my retirement, he suggested I teach a course in Computer Networking he had developed but no longer could squeeze into his schedule. So, Adjunct Professor it is! Great fun to teach stuff you were involved with in its infancy. I am a member of Alpha Sigma Nu and Sigma Pi Sigma and a Life Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers. I hold a series of patents on cognitive radio design and recently was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors. Maria and I divide our time ferrying our pack of dachshunds between Melbourne and Lake Lure, North Carolina.

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Jody Spaniol I grew up in Bethesda, one of many Little Flower guys who entered Gonzaga. At Holy Cross I majored in English and graduated with the school’s last all-male class. About six months after the famous break-in, I took a job as a night manager at the Watergate Hotel, meanwhile enrolling in evening classes at University of Baltimore Law School. Mornings I’d nap at home. Late in the afternoon I’d boogie at high speed to class, then back to work at the Watergate. In the wee hours at the hotel I could study torts and contracts, sometimes distracted by misbehaving guests; ask me about Iggy Pop, Richard Pryor, and others. I rinsed and repeated that Watergate routine for two semesters before taking a contracts management job at Litton Industries, which built destroyers, avionics, and other products I never really understood. But I enjoyed government contract management, its complexities, and its challenges, which persuaded me to pursue a career in government contracting instead of practicing law. Before starting law school and again the early `80s I coached youth football and basketball, first at Bethesda Boys Club and later CYO teams at St. Bernard’s in Riverdale, Maryland. My mini-sports career included teaching future Heisman Trophy candidate Paul Palmer to play football—credit God and genetics for Paul’s success, not me. DeMatha offered me a job on the freshman football staff; don’t boo—I declined. Coaching taught me valuable lessons about leadership, management, and most importantly humility. Long after I had stopped coaching, I encountered players who told me how I had influenced their lives in a positive way. It doesn’t get much better than that. For more than 40 years I learned my trade and rose through the ranks with companies large and small doing business with federal, state and local government. I became expert in procurement regulations. In the `90s, with a partner, I started a company that sold the Defense Dept. live-fire targets to be used with real bullets. We had a serendipitous product placement in Danny DeVito’s 1994 movie Renaissance Man, but entrepreneurship didn’t end well. However, I learned, survived, and moved on. For the next 20 years, I served in upper management at hightech companies—Senior Vice President, Contracts, Pricing and Procurement at Wang Federal; and Vice President, Public Sector Contracts at EMC Corporation’s federal division. I retired in 2016 after Dell purchased EMC. Selling to the government is fraught with ethical risks. I am most proud of the work I did during my career to develop ethics and compliance programs to manage those risks, avoid those temptations, and encourage candor in the wake of mistakes. I developed codes of conduct, trained personnel in ethics and compliance, and sometimes enforced the rules. I credit Gonzaga with instilling in me a concern for ethics, morality, personal responsibility, and justice that served me well throughout my career. I hope I was able to help others. I have been married for 20 years to the love of my life, Suzanne. We are enjoying retirement and reside in Bethesda. We belong to Holy Trinity parish—can’t get enough of the Jesuits! Our children are grown: David (wife Marisa, daughter Madeleine); Dennis (wife Mandy, sons Aidan and Evan); Jason; and Erin (husband Will). I am grateful to see classmates again, after 50 years! It seems like it was only a moment ago that we were boys on Eye Street.

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Bob Taplett I attended Colgate University in New York 1968-73, including a year off to replenish finances. At Beta Theta Pi, I served as rush chairman, pledge chairman, intramural captain, and treasurer. I worked on the campus newspaper and literary magazine and played rugby for three years. Upon graduating with a BA in English Literature, I joined Manufacturers Hanover Trust. At night, I studied finance at NYU Business School. I became deputy head of the multinational group providing solutions for international financial needs and was promoted to deputy regional head of 35 officers. I next headed the European Sector, overseeing strategic planning for 19 business units, while managing the restructuring of the company’s global shipping group. In 1989 I joined Prudential Securities, managing trade counterparty risk and internal audit for investment banking and for securities trading. I briefly moved to Long Term Credit Bank of Japan, responsible for approving credit risk and management of all restructuring before joining Societé Generale in 1999. For 18 years at Societé Generale, I managed debt restructuring and loan workout in a broad range of industries. On the hottest day of 1978 in New York City—102o—I married Jean Cawley, an advertising executive and graduate of Sacred Heart in Garden City and St. Johns University. After living for a year on Long Island we acquired a stable-cum-carriage house “in need of work,” as the saying goes, on three acres in Purchase, New York. We raised four children while slowly and patiently renovating the carriage house and clearing the property. Jean pursued her career through International Bakeries, Playtex, Texaco, and MasterCard. She currently markets credit card solutions to governmental and academic institutions for JPMorganChase. As a side note, Manufacturers Hanover merged with Chemical, subsequently acquired by Chase, which merged with JPMorgan—in effect, I started my career and Jean is ending hers at the same firm! I played rugby for three years in New York City with Old Blue. Later, for nine years, I coached girls’ softball and girl’s and boy’s soccer. I knew next to nothing about soccer when I commenced and probably even less when I concluded. Jean and I successfully raised: Amanda—Dartmouth and MIT/Sloan, worked for Boeing in Washington state on the Dreamliner and as Chief Engineer for the 747 and 767 fuselages. Now with Amazon in Seattle. Married with second child due in March. John— Columbia, U.S. Navy Intelligence Officer on the USS Ronald Reagan, and a graduate of University of Chicago/ Booth who worked as an investment banker on the oil industry in Houston, Texas. Now living in Boston, John co-owns and is chief operating office of a software start-up software serving the oil industry. He is married with two daughters. Lydia—Vanderbilt, wedding and event planner in New York City, managing events globally. Mary—University of Southern California, Director of Investor Relations at Apollo in New York City. I retired in October 2017.

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Dave Tordella Education: B.S., Mathematics, The University of Scranton, 1972 Wife: Denise Usher Tordella, from East Islip, New York Children: Patricia Ayn Tordella Cronin, Louis Thomas Tordella, David Alexander Tordella, Brian Matthew Tordella, Marisa Kennedy Tordella Grandchildren: Kiersten, Tyler, Emily, and Camille Cronin and Joshua Tordella After Scranton, I went to work programming computers at the Internal Revenue Service. During 35 years and 10 months with IRS, I worked on various IT systems and progressed into systems development. I became a software engineer, then a computer scientist specializing in development of enterprise architecture. Among many interesting assignments, I assisted in the early work on the electronic filing system and developed the first asbuilt architecture for IRS processing. Ten years ago, I joined the MAXIMUS Inc. unit Information Systems Consulting Co., where I’m a subject matter expert and principal architect, software. As an employee and as a contractor I have found great satisfaction in training IRS and contract personnel in IT processing. I’ve enjoyed seeing my children grow to adulthood and hope to have the opportunity to experience the next generations as their lives evolve. Denise and I love visiting our progeny and traveling the country, including recent trips to Alaska and Hawaii and trips through Europe. We look forward to exploring Italy in-depth this year. Photographing houses of worship especially intrigues me; our trips offer many such opportunities. Some church websites display my photographs. As the house has emptied, we have been blessed with caring for granddogs. They are fun to watch; especially their excitement when a “parent” returns. Fifty years later, Gonzaga, which taught me logic and how to prove a premise, still influences me. One of my favorite lines is “Remember, ‘political science’ is not ‘science’!” While watching Star Trek, we dreamed of intergalactic space travel. That seems as far off today as it did back then. “Beam me up, Scottie!”

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Paul Warren Paul is publisher of Warren Communications News in Washington, D.C., which publishes Communications Daily and International Trade Today, among other news publications. He is author of In the Web of History: Gonzaga College and the Lincoln Assassination; Adventurer Floyd Gibbons: Eye Street’s Eyewitness to History, and, with Mike Dolan, co-edited Echo Ever Proudly: Gonzaga College High School in the Press 1821-1899. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York, and was a reporter for the Rochester, New York Times-Union and the Hornell, New York, Evening Tribune. Paul also has written for the New York Daily News, Sporting News, and TV Guide. He enjoys surf fishing and carp and bass fishing at the ocean and bodies of fresh water within a short bike ride of his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, summer home. Oddly, he writes in the third person. He is past president of the Gonzaga Fathers’ Club, a former member of the Gonzaga Board of Trustees, and is a recipient of the Gonzaga Man of the Year Award and the St. Aloysius Medal, despite having been suspended from the school twice and nearly flunking out junior year. He did, however, once receive third honors. He is on the board of Washington School for Girls, a free Catholic school for at-risk children in Anacostia. He serves on the board of the Father McKenna Center, which feeds and shelters homeless men in the basement of St. Aloysius Church at Gonzaga. Paul and his wife, Katherine, whom he met on their third day at Le Moyne, are the parents of four children and seven grandchildren. Kathy, a psychiatric social worker with two master’s degrees, has a practice in the home. Chris, their eldest, is a professor of English at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh. Tim is an editor at Warren Communications News. Marie is a D.C. public school teacher. Lucy is a nurse in New York City. All are married. Paul, who for many years officiated the penalty box for Gonzaga lacrosse games, coached his children’s soccer teams for 25 seasons without ever being clear on what constitutes off sides.

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David Wells The day Patti and I were married, Bert Goodson toasted that I was the luckiest guy in the world. Turns out our best man was right. We split our time among our home in Towson, a vacation place in St. Michaels, Maryland, and a camp on a lake in Maine. We try to spend a month in Florida during the winter. We celebrated our 40th anniversary in Italy, something I highly recommend. We have three great kids. Two graduated from Loyola High in Baltimore; their sister went to Notre Dame Prep. We have four grandchildren under five, all local. The mental discipline and dedication to hard work we learned at Gonzaga set the stage for all that. Maryland U. was such a breeze I felt that to gain real-world skills I had to go to law school. After graduating from the University of Baltimore I joined the Maryland Bar. I parlayed a state regulatory job into a position with a small struggling savings and loan. Upon becoming president and CEO in 1985, I helped build K Bank into Maryland’s third largest independent community bank. In 2010, we were merged into M&T Bank, and I retired. Since then I have concentrated on personal investments and non-profit work, first as director, then as chairman of St. Ambrose Housing Aid Center in Baltimore City. St. Ambrose, founded by a former Jesuit, annually provides housing and foreclosure counselling to more than 1,000 families. We also have redeveloped more than 600 properties for low-income families. It’s rewarding work. I recently joined the board of the Orokawa YMCA in Towson. I’ve always tried to follow the values instilled in us at Gonzaga, but a few years ago Patti gave me a shirt that reads, “Music is my religion,” which sums up where I am on the organized religion spectrum. Music takes me to that higher plane. Starting with working the tunes in Grossnickel’s `51 Ford, my love for music has never faded. Last year, I caught concerts by The National, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, Ryan Adams, Josh Ritter, and Courtney Barnett. Contrary to popular belief, a lot of talented people are making great music. I’ve experienced bumps—I guess we all have—but nothing that hasn’t resolved itself. I try not to take anything for granted. Watching the Ken Burns documentary, The Vietnam War, I thought a great deal about my classmates. How lucky most of us were not to have been caught up in that failure of conscience. As someone who has tried to follow our tenet of “men for others,” I am astounded almost daily by political news out of DC, and from time to time tweet as @DavidWellsJr. Would love to keep in touch with you through Twitter. I’m looking forward to hearing what you’ve been up to and seeing what the next 50 years bring.

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Robert Yarrington At the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, I received a B.S. in aerospace engineering in December 1971. For six years, I worked in DC on EPA-funded research and engineering/construction support, meanwhile attending Catholic University Columbus School of Law. In 1976, I received my J.D. in 1976; I passed the Maryland Bar in 1977. Mary and I got married, bought a house, started a family, and inherited a Gonzaga brother-in-law when Mike Ball married my sister, Charlotte. We moved to Pensacola, Florida in late 1977, when I was recruited by ICS, an automation technology design, construction and support firm. I passed the Florida Bar. For six years at ICS I served as a combination corporate counsel, engineer, and project manager. In 1984, we moved to the Atlanta, Georgia, area, where I worked for ATS, another firm in the same field. Both those jobs involved management, design, procurement, installation, and start-up of advanced process and control systems for utilities, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and infrastructure. From 1990 until I retired in 2017, I worked for Lockwood Greene, an architecture and engineering firm, acquired in 2001 by CH2M Hill, which by Jacobs Engineering acquired in 2017. My division worked globally, providing program management, consulting, design, and construction support, mainly in process manufacturing. Expertise in industrial automation—I was a senior member and chapter president of the International Society of Automation and a Certified Automation Professional— took me to South Korea, Germany, Ireland, Japan, China, Singapore, Netherlands, France, and Brazil, among others. I’m active in the University of Michigan Alumni Association and a past president of the 8,000-plus member Atlanta chapter. Mary and I have been married for 45+ years and live in the Atlanta area. We’re blessed with four wonderful children and five grandchildren. Jennifer (husband: Dan, children: Sebastian and Genevieve) and Catherine (husband Todd, children: Charlie, Evelyn, and Sylvia), are my engineers. Both received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgia Tech and both work for the Georgia Tech Research Institute. Older son Bobby received his biology degree from Georgia Tech and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins. He’s on the research faculty at the University of Utah Salt Lake City. Younger son Chris (wife: Cortney), graduated from Clemson University and is a captain in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Besides volunteering, gardening, engaging in politics, and traveling, we often spend weekends cheering on the grandchildren at soccer, softball, gymnastics, and other activities. I’m looking forward to seeing my classmates!

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