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Alumni Notes
Notebaert ’65
elected chair of
Univ. Notre Dame
Board
Richard C.
Notebaert, a
1965 graduate
of St. Charles
and the
chairman and
chief executive
officer of Qwest
Communications
International,
Richard C. Notebaert ’65 was elected
in February
to a three-year term as chair of the
University of Notre Dame’s board of
trustees. His term begins in July. He’s
only the sixth board chairman in Notre
Dame’s history.
Notebaert has been a Notre Dame
trustee for the past 10 years. He has
served as chair of ND’s university
relations and public affairs and
communication committee. He also
is a Fellow of the University, a role in
which he will continue.
Notebaert has led Qwest, a leader
in broadband, data, voice and image
communications, since 2002. Before
joining that company, he served as
chief executive officer of Tellabs Inc.
and as chairman and chief executive
officer of Ameritech Communications.
A graduate of the University of
Wisconsin, Notebaert is a member of
the board of directors of Aon Corp.,
Cardinal Health Inc., the Denver
Center for the Performing Arts and the
Denver Art Museum. His professional
activities include memberships in the
Business Council and the International
Advisory Council of the Executives
Club of Chicago. He’s on the National
Security Telecommunications Advisory
Committee, a position that he was
appointed to by President Bush four
years ago.
In 2001 Notebaert received the
school’s highest recognition, Borromean
Medal for Distinguished Achievement,
and established the Richard C.
Notebaert Family Scholarship Fund.
Notebaert and his wife, Peggy, have
two children, Michelle and Nicole, and
five grandchildren.
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’62 grad Pat O’Reilly in
24th year with Newsies;
starts presidency
Pat O’Reilly is in his 24th year with the
Charity Newsies. A 1962 St. Charles
graduate, O’Reilly has risen through the
ranks since he started working with the
charitable group and this year served as
chairman of its all-important fund-raising
newspaper sales drive.
O’Reilly will become Newsies president
in June and board chairman next year.
Many other St. Charles men have
helped needy members of the Central
Ohio community through their work
with Charity Newsies. They include the
late George Rieser (Class of 1946), John
Mullin (Class of 1954), and Bart Mahoney
(former golf coach at St. Charles). All are
past presidents of the organization. Many
other St. Charles men have been and continue
to be Charity Newsies volunteers.
The Newsies are in their 100th year of
service. O’Reilly said the Newsies mission
has always been to make certain that no
child is kept from attending school for
lack of proper clothing. The group provides
needy children appropriate clothing
from underwear to winter coats, shoes,
and if required, vouchers for school uniforms.
O’Reilly proudly noted that a hallmark
of the Newsies is that each child who
receives clothes from the group is visited
by Newsies representatives in his or her
home to validate needs. “But more importantly,”
he said, the visits “offer a positive
message of encouragement for the child
to remain in school and to develop their
full potential.” Newsies last year clothed
13,360 needy school children of whom
almost 600 were from the Columbus Diocese
including 15 at St. Charles.
A Columbus native and graduate of the
Ohio State University, O’Reilly and his
wife, Diana, have two children and six
grandchildren. His son, Dennis, is a 1985
St. Charles graduate and is following in
his father’s footsteps. He’s a Newsie and
serves as corner captain at Main and
Cleveland Avenue in Westerville. It’s a
corner where he and some of his friends
from St. Francis DeSales High School
started working more than 10 years ago.
O’Reilly, who carried newspapers from
grade school until his senior year at St.
Charles, helped establish in his second
year with the Newsies a new site for the
organization’s annual paper sale (Frantz
Road and Route 161). Over time he became
involved in various committees. He
served as Newsies treasurer from 1996-
2002 and in 2005 was elected second vicepresident.
That automatically boosted
Newsies Drive Chairman
Patrick J. O’Reilly ’62
him to assistant drive chairman and a
four-year commitment as an officer.
The Newsies have proudly stated for
100 years “100% for Charity.” That
means 100% of every dollar donated is
used only to purchase clothing for needy
school children. The administrative, management,
and fundraising expenses of the
Newsies are paid for by the annual dues
from each Newsie, membership fundraising
events, and investment earnings.
It is a volunteer run organization with
only three full-time employees. Thus, the
volunteer effort of some 700 Newsies is
necessary.
“Why do I volunteer?” O’Reilly asks. “I
think it began through the influence of
several of my St. Charles instructors and
mentors. Fr. Robert O’Brien and Coach
Jack Ryan instilled in me a desire to serve
others in ways (that) could best utilize
my God-given talents. They chose me to
go to youth in government programs and
encouraged me to accept leadership in
volunteer youth organizations. I have just
kept doing those things all my life. My life
has been blessed and I hope to continue
serving God by serving others.”
In addition to his deep involvement
with the Newsies, O’Reilly has been active
in a variety of other community organizations.
He served many years as treasurer
for the Committee for Children for Franklin
County’s Children Services. He was
a candidate for Franklin County auditor
and currently is on the board of Nazareth
Towers.
A Certified Public Accountant, O’Reilly
is vice president of MedComm Billing
Consultants, LTD. He was the treasurer
of the Pontifical College Josephinum for
eight years and formerly was a partner in
the international CPA firm of Deloitte &
Touche.
O’Reilly is a former Ohio State University
lecturer. He’s a former chairman
of the Accountancy Board of Ohio and
served as vice president of the Ohio Society
of CPAs and president of its Columbus
Chapter. He also served as president of
the Central Ohio Chapter of the Association
of Government Accountants and as
president of the Ohio College and University
Business Officers Association.
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