In Memoriam 1943 62
J. ROBERT LEAHY, Seymour, IN, died September 5, 2021, at the age of 100. After Saint Michael’s, he enlisted in the Air Force during World War II and served both as an enlisted man and as a commissioned officer from 1942 to 1946. He spent 34 years in the beverage business and retired in 1984 from the G. Heileman Brewing Company, where his positions included director of marketing services. J. Robert’s wife of 71 years, Mary, died in 2016. He is survived by two daughters, three sons, and extended family.
1948 JOHN F. GRIFFIN, M.D., Peabody, MA, died September 13, 2021. Jack enrolled at Saint Michael’s in 1943 and left after his junior year to serve in World War II, enlisting in the Navy. He returned to the College after the war to graduate before going on to earn his M.D. from Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, D.C., where he graduated summa cum laude in 1950. He then interned at North Carolina Baptist Hospital before completing his residency at Boston City Hospital. Thereafter, he completed a
fellowship in cardiology at Georgetown before returning to his hometown of Springfield, MA, where he established a private medical practice and had a distinguished career focusing on internal medicine and cardiology. He founded Springfield Cardiology Associates, now known as Pioneer Valley Cardiology Associates. He was devoted to his Catholic faith and supported charitable endeavors relating to his faith, his calling, and his alma mater without fanfare, and was a President’s Medallion supporter of the College, establishing the Dr. & Mrs. John F. Griffin Medical Studies Award Foundation with Saint Michael’s. He was an avid fan of the Red Sox and Patriots. His wife of 69 years, Janice, died in 2020, and a son also predeceased him. Jack is survived by four sons, a daughter, and extended family.
1951 HAROLD B. “CHUBBY” MORAN, Shelburne, VT,
died September 1, 2021. He was the first baby born in the then-new DeGoesbriand Hospital in Burlington after his mother refused to cross the Winooski River on a pontoon bridge after the
1927 flood to reach Fanny Allen Hospital. “Chub” was a Navy veteran (fire controlman third class) who had a long career as a financial administrator for Burlington hospitals, housing entities, local businesses, and benevolent organizations. He and his wife were avid antique collectors and attended weekend auctions frequently. He enjoyed hunting, ice fishing, golf, and his camp in North Duxbury, as well as the mountains, lakes, and back roads of Vermont, and was active in supporting the Red Cross and K of C. Chub’s late sister, Lorraine, worked for the College for 41 years in various capacities. His wife of 68 years, Flo, died in 2018, and his youngest son died this year. He is survived by two sons, a daughter, and extended family.
1953 LEO PAUL MCGREEVY,
Shelburne, VT, died September 19, 2021. Paul was an accomplished entrepreneur, supporting both community and friends. He was proud of his French Canadian and Irish heritage. His wife Harriet died in 1967 at age 36 when their six children ranged in age from 4 to 13, and the family formed an
unbreakable bond from then on. Annual gatherings at the family camp were the highlights of Paul’s year. Predeceased by his wife and by a daughter, Paul is survived by his partner, Annetta Barrett; two sons; three daughters; two brothers; a sister; and extended family.
LEO O’BRIEN JR., South
Burlington, VT, and Deerfield Beach, FL, died September 18, 2021. With his late brother, Daniel O’Brien P’91, P’95, Leo established the Dan & Leo O’Brien Family Scholarship at Saint Michael’s, and he was a longtime President’s Medallion supporter of the College. He grew up on the family farm in South Burlington and came to Saint Michael’s from Cathedral High School, attending (with the Class of 1953) from 1949 to 1950, and later earned his political science degree from the University of Vermont (1957). Leo served in the Navy from 1950 to 1954 as a sonar-man in the Atlantic Fleet. In the late 1950s, Leo, like his father and grandfather before him, became deeply involved in government and politics, serving on the South Burlington Planning Commission (1960–68), and as a South Burlington state representative
