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and encourages continued dialogue between alumni and the University community. It hosts
alumni functions, including reunions and homecomings, and promotes the interests of the
University by identifying prospective students, assisting the placement of graduates, collecting
and preserving materials for University history, encouraging networking among its
membership, providing numerous services and benefits, performing community service projects,
and honoring student, faculty and alumni accomplishments. These activities are coordinated
through the office of alumni relations on campus.
The excellent record of Scranton alumni in gaining acceptance to professional schools ,
including the nation’s most prestigious, is documented in the Health Professions and Pre-
Law sections later in this catalog.
INDICES OF QUALITY AND ACHIEVEMENT
PROMINENT GRADUATES
Working with dedicated faculty and staff to maximize their potential, students at The
University of Scranton become achievers. Of the more than 35,000 alumni, the following
might in particular be mentioned:
Patrick Cardinal O’Boyle (‘17), archbishop of Washington; Michael J. Eagen, Sr.
(‘27), chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; Dr. Clarence Walton (‘37), first lay
president of The Catholic University of America; Hon. John D. Butzner (‘38), judge, U.S.
Circuit Court of Virginia; Joseph Ostrowski (‘38), major league pitcher, New York Yankees
(1948-52); John C. Keeney, Esq. (‘47), deputy assistant attorney general, U.S. Department
of Justice; Arthur W. Brown, Ph.D. (‘37), former president of Marygrove College and
Adelphi University; Joseph J. Loferski, Ph.D (‘48), physicist and pioneer in the development
of solar cells currently used in items from portable calculators to commercial satellites;
Joseph Austin (‘52), president/chief executive officer, General Life Insurance,
Chicago; Gerard R. Roche (‘53), chairman of the board, Heidrick and Struggles, Inc.;
Claude R. Martin, Jr. (‘54), professor of marketing, School of Business Management,
University of Michigan; Dr. Glynn Lunney (‘55), lead flight director for historic moon
flights of Apollo 11 through 15; Dominic Cossa (‘57), leading baritone, Metropolitan
Opera; Maj. Gen. John Herrling (‘60), secretary, American Battle Monument Commission;
Jason Miller (‘61), winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for That Championship
Season and “Oscar” nominee for his role in The Exorcist; Paul Montrone (‘62), chief executive
officer and president, Fisher Scientific International, Inc., a Fortune 500 Company;
Hon. Michael J. Collins (‘62), State Senator, Maryland; Francis J. Castellino, Ph.D. (‘64),
dean of the College of Science, University of Notre Dame; Gene Gibbons (‘64), former
chief White House correspondent; Edward J. Lynett (‘65), publisher, Scranton
Times/Scranton Tribune newspapers; James J. Loftus, M.D. (‘66), director/part-owner of
Emergency Medicine, Cedar Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles; John A. Walsh (‘66), executive
editor, ESPN; Walter J. Bobbie (‘67), Broadway musical director and Tony Award winner;
Christopher Condron (‘70), president and CEO, AXA Financial Inc.; Stanley Wojewodski,
Jr., Ph.D. (‘70), dean, Yale School of Drama; William J. Wilkinson (‘71), senior vice-president,
human resources, Walt Disney Company; Susan Swain (‘76), executive vice-president
and co-chief operating officer, C-SPAN Cable Network; Dennis Size (‘76), Emmy Award
winning television lighting director; Debra Langan (‘78), vice-president, American Express;
and John J. Lynch, III (‘83), chief executive officer and president, St. Luke’s Hospital and
Medical Center, Houston, TX; Robert Stephen Weiss (‘62), executive vice president and
CFO of the Cooper Company, Inc.; Paul Gillette (‘59) (deceased), novelist, screenwriter,
best-known book Play Misty For Me, made into a movie by Clint Eastwood, also noted
wine expert and creator of first national television program on wine; William Gerald
Connolly (‘59), co-author of The New York Times Stylebook; James Papada, III (‘70), chairperson,
president and CEO of Technitrol, Inc.; Thomas J. Wonsiewicz (‘67), president of
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