In Memoriam

Alumni

Joe “Buddy” O’Neill ’41, 4/24/22

Paul Butler ’44, 11/29/21

Dr. Thomas Draper ’44, brother of David Draper ’49†, 1/9/23

Vincent Grey ’45, 3/10/19

Thomas McCarthy ’45, 1/27/23

Joseph Roche, S.J. ’45, 11/27/22

Thomas Facelle ’46, 7/30/21

William Fitzpatrick ’46, 7/12/22

Thomas Robertazzi ’46, 12/17/21

Thomas Orso ’48, 2/5/19

John Beglan ’49, brother of Joseph Beglan ’52, 12/28/22

Louis Lopez ’49, 8/20/22

Kenneth McGinity ’49, brother of Leo McGinity ’45, 12/18/21

Alexander Gross ’50, 9/11/21

Robert Riese ’50, 2/7/22

James Alford ’51, 1/16/22

Joseph Kraft ’51 P’04, father of James Kraft ’04 and brother of John Kraft ’54†, 7/28/22

Victor Melone ’51, 2/4/22

Vincent Coghlan ’52, 3/16/23

Thomas D. Carver ’53, 1/10/23

Robert Delfino ’53, 6/2/22

William Rogers ’53, 11/18/21

John Kraft ’54, brother of Joseph Kraft ’51† and uncle of James Kraft ’04, 6/27/22

Andrew Lawler ’54, 12/8/22

Edward McGuinness ’54, 5/8/2 2

James Galvin ’55, 2/17/22

Dr. Ronald J. Lofaro ’55, 6/26/22

John Mellert ’55, 12/22/22

Joseph Basta ’56, 1/1/23

Michael Butler ’56, 12/22/22

Basil Castrovinci ’56, 1/21/20

Hon. Anthony G. DiFalco ’56, 4/9/22

James J. Hanley ’56, 2/4/23

Paul Mulcahy ’56, 2/19/21

Robert Smith ’56, 1/25/23

Paul White ’56, 11/5/22

Dr. John McGrade ’57, 1/21/23

Andrew J. Mulrain ’57, 3/13/22

John Corrado ’58, brother of Martin Corrado ’63, 1/9/23

Anthony H. Dragoni, Jr. ’58, 3/6/23

John Kilkeary ’58, 1/24/22

Dr. Noel Testa ’58, 6/29/22

Neil Doran ’59, 4/11/22

Richard Hornack ’59, 9/8/22

John Horgan ’60, brother of Paul Horgan, S.J. ’55† and Andrew Horgan ’58†, 5/12/22

Thomas McCarthy ’61, 7/22/21

Donald Klein ’62, 9/16/22

Nicholas LaRosa ’62, 6/28/22

John Meehan ’62, 10/14/22

Guy Warnken ’62, 6/9/22

John VanCamp ’63, 6/9/19

Michael Yates ’63, 9/26/22

George Campion ’64, brother of Thomas Campion ’53, Dr. Robert Campion ’57 P’87, and uncle of Dr. David Campion ’87, 11/14/22

Joseph Cleary ’65, 11/27/22

Claudio Gonzalez ’65, 12/2/22

Robert Ford ’66, 8/21/22

James Crisafulli ’67, 10/4/22

Denis Grampone ’67, 11/14/21

Stephen Carney ’70, 12/13/21

Robert McGuire ’70, 8/10/22

Theodore Poppe ’70, 2/12/22

George T. Szymczak ’72, 2/25/23

Kevin Tattam ’72, brother of Timothy Tattam ’76 and son of the late Aloysius C. Tattam ’44 P’72 ’76, 11/23/22

Kevin Corridan ’73, 4/16/20

Robert Ezersky ’73, 4/18/22

Joseph Vidulich ’74, 8/14/22

Edward Piderit ’76, brother of Fred Piderit, III ’60, John Piderit, S.J. ’61, Francis Piderit ’70, and Thomas Piderit ’77, 10/4/22

Donald F. Ryan, Jr. ’78, brother of Joseph Ryan ’82 P’19 ’21 and Michael Ryan ’90 and uncle of Stephen Ryan ’19 and Thomas Ryan ’21, 4/7/22

James Skelly ’81, brother of John Skelly ’80, 9/9/22

Wayne Quacinella ’83, 7/7/21

Andrew Corrigan ’84, 5/21/22

Robert “Bob” Granato ’86, 6/24/21

William McPadden ’86, 12/16/20

David Dybdal ’87, brother of Craig Dybdal ’91, 3/5/22

Steven Zatorski ’87, 8/11/22

Justin Porto ’88, 10/25/22

Dominic Busnelli ’92, 4/4/22

Vatchpol “Paulie” Srinuan ’92, 5/3/22

Robert Gallagher ’94, 11/26/22

Louis Niles ’00, 11/23/22

Dariusz Soszynski ’06, brother of Daniel Soszynski ’07, 4/2/22

Parents

Marietta Tridente P’66, mother of Conrad Tridente ’66, 10/12/22

Sam Tridente P’66, father of Conrad Tridente ’66, 10/7/22

Lieba Fernandez P’72, mother of Mike Fernandez ’72, 4/19/23

Marilyn Connors P’74, mother of John Connors, Jr. ’74 and aunt of John Wynne ’80, 6/8/22

Mary Elizabeth Bambury P’75 ’83, wife of Joseph A. Bambury, Jr. ’49 P’75 ’83† and mother of Joseph A. Bambury, III ’75 and Justin F. Bambury ’83, 2/23/23

Eleanor Apicella P’76, mother of Frank Apicella ’76, 5/23/22

Ann Loesch P’78, mother of Brian Loesch ’78, 3/22/22

Maria Porras P’79 ’80, mother of Dr. Cornelio Porras ’79 and Fernando Porras ’80, 3/18/23

Patricia Ann Carlin P’80, mother of Tom Carlin ’80 and grandmother of Brennan Carlin ’23, 5/17/22

Joseph Scognamiglio P’80, father of Neil Scognamiglio ’80, 4/19/22

Patricia Tolkin P’80 ’82 ’85 ’87, mother of Douglas Tolkin ’80, Christopher Tolkin ’82, Michael Tolkin ’85, and Matthew Tolkin ’87, 12/3/22

Daniel Maher P’80 ’83, father of Richard Maher ’80 and Patrick Maher ’83, 1/23/23

Eva Anna Dianiska P’81, mother of Andrew Dianiska ’81, 11/7/21

John Wood P’81, father of John Wood ’81, 8/20/22

Roseann Genco P’82, mother of Robert Genco ’82, 9/6/22

Regina Cranston P’83, mother of Michael Cranston ’83 and grandmother of Ryan Woerner ’06, Timothy Crockett ’08, Matthew Crockett ’13, and Kevin Crockett ’14, 11/25/22

Dolores Daudelin P’84 ’85 ’87, mother of Quentin Daudelin ’84, Douglas Daudelin ’85, and Bart Daudelin ’87 and grandmother of Isaac Daudelin ’20, John Daudelin ’20, and Thomas Daudelin ’20, 8/9/22

Herbert Imbornoni P’85 ’87, father of John Imbornoni ’85 and Richard Imbornoni ’87, 2/6/23

Giovanni Di Salvo P’88, father of Anthony Di Salvo ’88 and grandfather of Giovanni Di Salvo ’23, 9/27/22

Charles Conduah P’89, father of Emmanuel Conduah ’89, 10/31/22

Francis Newall P’89 ’95, father of Peter Newall ’89 and Michael Newall ’95, 1/27/23

John Glynn P’90, father of Michael Glynn ’90, 4/13/22

Patricia Ryan P’92, mother of James Ryan ’92, 10/14/22

Patricia Bisso P’93 ’95, mother of Louis Bisso, III ’93 and Scott Bisso ’95, 10/21/21

Joanne Pellegrino P’94, mother of Joseph Pierce ’94, 11/24/22

Juliette Cole P’95, mother of LTC Geoffrey Cole, USA ’95, 5/12/22

Ernest Lund P’96, father of Andrew Lund ’96 and uncle of Michael Casella ’82 and Joseph Casella ’83, 11/24/22

Florence Lund P’96, mother of Andrew Lund ’96 and sister of Michael Casella ’82 and Joseph Casella ’83, 2/15/23

Joseph Shabouk P’97 ’01, father of Joseph Shabouk ’97 and George Shabouk ’01, 12/18/21

Edward Hagerty P’02, father of Edward Hagerty, III ’02 and Sean Hagerty, S.J. ’02, 1/15/23

P. Kevin Faherty P’03, father of Peter L. Faherty, ’03, 2/26/23

Susan Bentley P’05, mother of Salim Lewis, 12/2/22

Robert Furey P’07, father of Matthew Furey ’07, 3/14/23

Jacob Klein P’12, father of Joseph Klein ’12, 6/16/22

Thomas Freeman P’12 ’23, brother of Roger Freeman ’73 and father of John Freeman ’12 and Louis Freeman ’23, 1/3/23

Thomas “Harry” Hibbits

P’16, father of Liam Hibbits ’16, 10/16/22

Elaine D’Alessandro P’21, mother of Michael Fernandez ’21, sister of Xavier staff member

Carmela Barbieri P’10, sister-inlaw of Michael Barbieri ’80 P’10, and aunt of Peter Barbieri ’10, 2/25/23

Daniel Purtill P’21, father of John Purtill ’21, 2/11/23

Latisha Wilson P’23, mother of Ryan Brown ’23, 11/22/22

Spouses

Paula Cohen-Martin, wife of Paul Martin ’82, 2/24/22

Wayne Dompierre, wife of COL

Robert Albracht, USA (Ret.) ’60, 7/15/22

Gail Morda, wife of Frank Morda ’60, 9/25/22

Jane Padgett, wife of Kenneth Padgett ’62, 9/4/22

Lynn Phelan, wife of Robert Phelan ’62, 5/14/22

Linda Signorini, wife of John Signorini ’62, 12/2/22

Faculty/Family

Anthony Braccia, brother of Michael Braccia ’93, 8/7/22

Rodolfo “Rudy” Casals, S.J., Xavier faculty member, 20112013; Xavier trustee, 2022, 8/2/22

Rose Mary Devaney, former assistant to the headmaster, 8/31/22

Maria Remiszewski, mother of former staff member Melissa Cassidy, 7/8/22

Cecelia Syvertsen, mother of longtime Xavier faculty member John McGoldrick, 4/16/22

William Walsh, S.J., Xavier faculty member, 1961-1964, 10/7/22

David White, S.J., Xavier faculty member, 1972-2002, 5/26/22

Children

Gregory O’Donnell, son of Roger O’Donnell ’60, 3/17/22

Dr. Thomas Draper ’44

Dr. Thomas Draper, Jr. ’44 died at his home in Newtown, Connecticut, on January 9. He was 96 years old. The son of Thomas Frazer Draper and Ann Griffin, Draper was born in Queens Village on October 15, 1926. After his graduation from Xavier, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and proudly served his country as a 1st Class Seaman during World War II. He subsequently earned a bachelor’s degree at Fordham University (where his roommate was future Xavier history teacher and Hall of Famer Joe Caruso), a medical degree at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, and a master of public health degree at Yale University. Draper completed his pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins University/Baltimore City Hospital and served as chief pediatric resident at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse.

Draper cared for generations of families in Connecticut. He served as a member of the medical staff at Danbury Hospital for more than 60 years, serving as chief of pediatric ambulatory care (1971-1991), chairman of the pediatric department (1980-1982), and president of the medical staff (1991-1994). With his passion for public health, he also served as director of community medicine at Danbury Hospital (1991-2005) and director of health for Newtown (1965-1998), continuing to work as a medical advisor until his death. In addition, he worked for the City of Danbury Department of Health for more than 45 years as director of health (1971-1974), director of communicable disease services (1975-2008), and medical advisor (2008-2017). In 2008, he became the medical advisor to the Connecticut Institute for Communities (CIFC), where he helped establish the community health center now known as CIFC Health and went on to serve as medical director for several years.

Draper also served as the school physician in Newtown for many years, becoming a regular presence at Newtown High School football games, ready to care for any injury.

He is survived by his children, Kathleen Mount, Mary Maloney, Dr. Joan Draper, Martha Odell, Donna Draper, Rosemary Gallant, and Joseph Draper; 21 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his wife of nearly 69 years, Patricia Gafney Draper, the sister of Leo Gafney ’53; an infant son, Thomas III; and two of his granddaughters.

Joseph Roche, S.J. ’45

Joseph Roche, S.J. ’45 died at the Jesuit Health and Wellness Center in Quezon City, Philippines, on November 28, 2022. He was 94 years old.

Born in Brooklyn on June 14, 1928, Fr. Roche joined the Society of Jesus on September 7, 1945 and was ordained a priest on June 21, 1958. After ordination, he earned a doctorate at Louvain University in Belgium and completed post-graduate studies at Fordham University.

He was first assigned to the Philippine Province for his philosophy studies, introducing him to the nation where he would spend most of his life and have an extraordinary impact on Catholic education. Fr. Roche spent more than 40 years teaching in the Ateneo de Manila University’s philosophy and theology departments, the Loyola School of Theology, and the Mother of Life Catechetical Institute. He was one of the first professors to teach philosophy in Tagalog, the national language.

“Fr. Roche taught generations of Ateneo undergraduate and graduate students,” an obituary published by the Ateneo de Manila read. “He generously founded FIRE [the Formation Institute for Religion Educators] in 1979 in order to offer opportunities for graduate education that would help religion teachers and catechists be of better service to their students, the church, and Philippine society. To all his students and alumni, he is most of all a brilliant and incisive teacher who believed in the importance of a relevant theological and religious education. He challenged students to be their best and was a beloved mentor to many teachers today whom he motivated to think, write, and teach rigorously and passionately.”

In recognition of Fr. Roche’s distinguished service to the church, Pope Benedict XVI bestowed upon him the “Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice” (“For Church and Pope”) award in 2006.