Vol.6 No. 3 - St. Thomas University

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Summer 2005
1955
Alberto Beguiristain, Francisco de la
Cámara and Felipe J. Villaraus, alumni
of Santo Thomas de Villanueva Law
School in Havana, Cuba, the precursor
of Biscayne College, recently celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary of their graduation
and pray that some day they will go
back to Cuba and practice law again.
1970
Tom Casey, B.A., English, is Field
Organizer for the International Union of
Painters and Allied Trades for the
Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts and
all of Maine, Vermont and New
Hampshire. He and his wife are celebrating
their 30th wedding anniversary
this year by riding down the Colorado
River through the Grand Canyon in a
raft with their two children, Alyson and
Tom, Jr. They live in Lawrence, MA,
where Tom has served on a number of
city boards, including the Lawrence
Airport Commission and the Lawrence
Redevelopment Authority. Tom is spearheading
efforts to create a STU New
England Alumni Chapter.
L to R: Bill McLaughlin, Tom Casey, and
John Conroy looking at memorabilia at
2005 Reunion.
John Conroy, B.A., History, has just
retired from a 30-year career teaching
English, computers and math in
Gibbsboro, NJ. He and his wife Margo
have two children – John who is a police
officer for Montgomery County, MD,
and James, who is a junior at
Georgetown University.
Bill McLaughlin, B.A., English, is the
English Coordinator for Brandywine
School District in Wilmington, DE. In
1996, during his teaching career in
Wilmington he was selected National
English Teacher of the Year and received
the Russell Galt Award. He has coached
boys’ basketball over the years and his
team was Delaware State Champion in
1980 and he was basketball coach of the
year in 1984. He was also Campaign
Chair for his father who was Mayor of
Wilmington for two terms. Bill has been
married for 33 years to Toni, an
accountant, and they have one son,
Christopher, a junior at Neumann
College.
Richard Murray, B.A. Accounting,
received the New Jersey Hospital
Association’s (NJHA) Distinguished
Service Award for
2005. President
and CEO of
Kennedy Health
System since 1992,
he is a fellow of the
American College
of Healthcare
Executives and Past
Chairman of the
NJHA and the American Osteopathic
Hospital Association. He has also
served on the Board of Trustees of
Rowan University. Richard lives in
Haddonfield, NJ, with his wife
Jacquelynn.
1975
Vincent Butera, B.A., is the State Sales
Manager for Florida and Alabama for
ACS, Inc., a computer services and software
company. He married Susan, his
high school sweetheart, in 1976 and
they have two boys, 25 and 21. They
now live near Atlanta in McDonough,
GA.
Rick Cywinski, B.S., Accounting, was
the tax manager at two publicly traded
oil companies during the late 70s and
early 80s. He and his partner then ran a
successful CPA firm in Houston, TX. In
1991 Rick joined the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the
Houston field office. He is now Chief of
Tax Policy at the FDIC’s headquarters in
Washington, DC. Rick is married with
four children.
Lew Reed, B.A., Business
Administration, is Vice President of
Sales for Bentley Systems, Inc., a software
developer that provides engineering/CAD
software. In his 30-year
career in sales he has worked for various
technology companies, such as Data
General, Gould, Inc., Pioneer,
Bayer/Agfa and Harris Corp, moving
from a sales rep into management. He
has been married 29 years to Kathy
Burns, a Barry University alumna who
he met while in college in Miami, and
they have two sons, Patrick and Bryan.
Both graduated from the University of
Scranton and Patrick has just received
his master’s in education from Seton
Hall University. Lew and Kathy live in
Morristown, NJ.
1976
William B. Berger, B.A., Criminal
Justice and M.S., Human Resource
Management (1978), served 16 years as
Police Chief in North Miami Beach, and
is now Chief of Police of the City of
Palm Bay, FL. He graduated from Nova
Southeastern University Shepard Broad
Law Center with a J.D. in May 2003.
William served as the President of the
International Association of Chiefs of
Police Organization 2001/2002.
1979
Mark R. Antonelli, B.A., Accounting,
is an attorney/partner at Gaebe Mullen
Antonelli Esco & Dimatteo, P.A. Mark
has been married for 20 years and has
three children Jenny, 18, Chris, 15 and
John, 13.
1980
Sean Donohue, B.A., worked for many
years as an athletic trainer in the Miami-
Dade Public School System after get-
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