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CARDINAL 

St. Charles Preparatory School Alumni Magazine Spring 2004 

Inside 

St. Charles bestowed the 

school’s highest recognition on 

three graduates at its annual 

feast day celebration last 

November. Read about Matthew 

A. Howard ’58, George G. Vargo 

’58, and Homer V. Beard ’46, and 

their service, much of it on behalf 

of their alma mater. Page 6 

In 1941, Bishop James J. Hartley 

started a special Latin School at 

the Cathedral Grade School in 

downtown Columbus for eighth 

grade boys. Read about some of 

the St. Charles alumni who were 

in that school and how Hartley 

hoped it would build enrollment 

at St. Charles and encourage 

vocations to the priesthood. 

Page 11 

Joey Jones ’92 and his company, 

Shadedbox Animations, have 

received international acclaim for 

the animated film short, Little Red 

Plane. Learn how Jones followed 

his heart, about the St. Charles 

teachers who influenced him, and 

how his film is being adapted 

into a children’s book for release 

later this year. Page 4 

In our new section, In Memoriam, 

read about the lives of St. 

Charles family members who have 

passed away. Learn about Page 

Heise ’46, Mike Collins ’56, and 

former principal Fr. Charlie 

Jackson, among others, and their 

influences on their classmates 

and communities. 

Page 28 

Our Alumni Notes section 

provides stories, information, 

and photos of many Cardinal 

alumni. Read about your 

classmates and their many 

interesting accomplishments, 

awards, and careers. Ethan Dicks 

’84 is doing astrophysics 

research in Antarctica; Ryan 

Sullivan ’91 is redesigning the 

school’s webpage; and the class 

of 1978 members update us on 

their happenings. Page 19 

The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education 

Joey Jones ’92 sees his career 

taking flight 

Graduate’s love of computer animation leads to an 

internationally-renowned short t film and a growing 

animation studio with big plans for the future 

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CARDINAL 

The magazine for alumni and friends 

of Saint Charles Preparatory School 

Spring 2004, Volume 18, Number 2 

Saint Charles Preparatory School 

2010 East Broad Street 

Columbus, Ohio 43209-1665 

www.stcharlesprep.org 

Advisory Board 

James P. Finn ’65 

Chairman 

Robert W. Horner III ’79 

Vice Chairman 

Leonard J. lannarino Jr. ’58 

Secretary 

Rev. William L. Arnold ’70 

Albert J. Bell ’78 

Rev. Thomas J. Brosmer ’61 

Hugh J. Dorrian ’53 

Louis V. Fabro ’49 

Charles W. Gehring Sr. ’74 

Thomas L. Horvath ’65 

Matthew A. Howard ’58 

Joseph M. Isbell ’83 

Timothy M. Kelley ’76 

Mrs. Patricia D. Kletzly 

Thomas J. Mackessy ’77 

Richard J.M. Miller ’75 

Thomas M. O’Leary ’64 

David L. Pemberton Jr. ’79 

Daniel L. Rankin III ’53 

Thomas N. Ryan, D.D.S. ’58 

T. Jay Ryan III ’76 

Henry J. Sherowski 

Press C. Southworth III ’65 

George G. Vargo ’58 

Emeritus Members 

Msgr. William A. Dunn ’57 

James T. Foley Jr. 

Joseph M. Gallen, M.D. ’35 

John J. Ritz ’47 

Richard R. Stedman ’54 

F. W. “Bill” Sullivan Jr. 

Michael M. Sullivan ’58 

Administration 

Dominic J. Cavello ’64 

Principal 

Scott M. Pharion 

Assistant Principal & Academic Dean 

James R. Lower 

Assistant Principal & Dean of Students 

The Campaign for St Charles 

Robert D. Walter ’63 

Honorary Chairman 

Matthew A. Howard ’58 

Co-chairman 

Timothy M. Kelley ’76 

Co-Chairman 

2003-04 Annual Fund 

Thomas N. Ryan, D.D.S. ’58 

Alumni Chairman 

Mike and Marcia Kelty 

Parent Co-chairs 

Alumni & Development Staff 

Douglas H. Stein ’78 

Director of Development 

Louis J. Fabro ’83 

Director of Alumni Affairs & Communications 

Cheryl F. Taynor 

Development Secretary 

Louis V. Fabro 

Senior editor 

Principal’s Column 

Reflections in a busy time 

by Dominic Cavello 

St. Charles remains steadfast in its charge from founder Bishop James J. Hartley 

that no qualified Catholic student be turned away because of an inability to pay 

tuition. The school continues to provide students a college preparatory education of 

the highest quality in a Catholic environment of diversity and opportunity. Having 

been prepared for the challenges of life, St. Charles alumni continue to achieve 

great successes in their chosen fields of endeavor. 

While many St. Charles graduates enjoy financial success, they have done far 

more in their careers. They have worked to make worthwhile contributions in 

their career fields such as medicine, law, government, science, teaching, and 

religion. Many share their resources with their alma mater to make certain that 

future students have the same opportunities they did. Several examples are found 

in this edition’s articles. 

St. Charles at its traditional feast day Mass celebration last November honored 

three special alumni with the school’s highest honors. The three — Matt Howard 

’58, George Vargo ’58, and Homer Beard ’46 — have accomplished much in their 

careers. In return for what they have received at St. Charles, they have shared 

much time and their talents with the school. For that, St. Charles Preparatory 

School is truly blessed. 

Recent graduate Joey Jones, class of 1992, earned a degree in architecture, but 

pursuing a personal dream, has produced an internationally acclaimed animated 

film short entitled: Little Red Plane. Read how his bright future includes a book 

for children, a growing company, and a resolve to give back to others by teaching 

school. 

There are several pieces in this edition on alumni who have recently passed 

away and the impressions they made with their lives. Former principal Fr. Charles 

Jackson helped to provide leadership in a difficult period of the school’s history. 

James Visintine ’59 left a beautiful hand-crafted bridge for others to appreciate. Fr. 

Tom Cadden and Fr. Jim Jones devoted their lives in dedicated service to the 

Church and to others. 

A very energetic effort under the direction of Doug Stein ’78, our visionary 

director of development, continues to generate necessary income to provide financial 

assistance to our needy students. Reports on the successes of the Campaign for 

St. Charles and our 2003–2004 Annual Fund are described in this issue’s Development 

Update section. 

It’s noteworthy that in the past four years, need-based student aid has grown 

116% to nearly $350,000. The school’s endowments continue to grow, but increasing 

student aid needs remind us that work must continue to broaden our safety net to 

ensure all qualified boys will have an opportunity for a St. Charles education. 

St. Charles strives to prepare each student not only for the rigors of college, but 

for the challenges of life. As you read this issue of the Cardinal, you will see many 

examples of how our alumni continue to meet challenges, take advantage of opportunities, 

and remain loyal to St. Charles. And, with God’s blessing, will continue 

well into the future. 

On the Cover— 

Class of 1992 graduate Joey Jones holds a copy of the animated short film, Little Red Plane,which he coproduced. 

In the background is the Student Emmy Plane won in 2003 and a movie poster for the film. For 

Jones and his partners at Shadedbox Animations, the sky’s the limit on their future successes. 

Photo contributors: 

Joey Jones ’92, James Mills, Al Kauffman and Sportrait Products, Russ Savage and Finocchi Photography, 

Louis J. Fabro ’83, Ken Snow and The Catholic Times, Kathleen Cavello, Ryan Sullivan ’91, Bob 

Ryan ’54, Richard C. Notebaert ’65, Rob Brisley ’78, The Columbus Diocese’s Department of Communications, 

Rev. William J. Connor ’39, Lt. John Brattain ’91, Coleman Clougherty, Steven Fain ’83, Kevin 

Hollyfield ’95, Mike O’Connor ’84, Andrew Bartz ’93, Adam Saad ’96, Ben Recchie ’99, Steven McVey’76, 

Paul Davis ’48, Irene Francisco, Beth Howard, Msgr. Paul Metzger ’35, Homer Beard ’46, George Vargo 

’58, Bill Igel ’54, Dr. Thomas N. Ryan ’58, Richard Ferris ’63, Marion Smithberger ’72, Ed Hohmann ’87, 

John T. Mackessy ’78, Mike Kelty, Helen Casey, and Phil Smith. 

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St. Charles Preparatory School

Human rights champion, 

Cardinal McCarrick highlights 

2003 Borromean Lecture 

C 

Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick 

advised more than 450 St. Charles 

students and guests that we all 

must live for others, always give our best, 

and must try and make a difference in the 

world. “These are the fundamental rules 

for living a decent, civil, Christian life,” 

McCarrick said. By following these rules, 

he added, “this high school, this Church, 

this nation, and the Lord will always be 

proud of you.” 

McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington, 

D. C., was the featured speaker at 

the 2003 St. Charles Borromean Lecture 

last Oct. 28 in the school gymnasium. 

The lecture followed a luncheon attended 

by business and civic leaders, church 

officials, and St. Charles juniors and 

seniors. 

Cardinal McCarrick is distinguished 

for his leadership role in a wide range of 

religious and social issues. He has visited 

many nations as a human rights advocate 

and to survey humanitarian needs. His 

work has taken him to China, Cuba, 

Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, 

Rwanda, and Burundi. 

He was honored in 2000 when then- 

President Bill Clinton presented him with 

the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human 

Rights. McCarrick earlier was named an 

Officer of the Order of the Cedars by the 

president of Lebanon. 

Cardinal McCarrick is chancellor of 

The Catholic University of America and a 

member of the board of Catholic Relief 

Services. He has served as a member of 

the U.S. Commission for International 

Religious Freedom, the Pontifical Council 

for Migrants & Refugees, the Pontifical 

Council for Justice and Peace, and as 

chair of the National Conference of 

Catholic Bishops Committee on International 

Policy. 

St. Charles established the Borromean 

Lectures in the fall of 2000 in honor of the 

school’s patron saint, St. Charles 

Borromeo. The lecture series provides on 

the St. Charles campus a forum for 

speakers of national renown to address 

topics of morals and ethics in society, 

business, and government. The lecture 

series was launched in the fall of 2000 

through the initiative and generous 

financial support of alumnus Robert J. 

Dilenschneider, Class of 1961, an internationally 

known public relations executive 

who owns and manages The 

Dilenschneider Group, Inc. in New York 

City. 

The lecture could not have been a 

success without the help of numerous 

volunteer parents. Nearly 30 of them 

were on hand to help serve the lunch to 

over 450 guests during the event. Our 

special thanks goes to Anita Davidson, 

Beth Devine, Beth Morgan, Bonnie 

Plapper, Candy Stein, Carson Reider, 

Dennis Cho, Fern Colon, Jane Visocan, 

Janice Goodman, Julie Byrne, Katrina 

Bush, Liz Hasson, Marie Quinn, Mary 

Barcza, Mary Scurria, Mary Zeehandelar, 

Mary-Anne Willard, Melissa Sigrist, 

Michele Melaragno, Pat McJoynt, Sandy 

McGill, Sharon Houghton, Sharri Merz, 

Shelly Cocumelli, Sue Miller, Susan 

Ritter, Teresa Norton, and Tricia 

Yurkovich. 

(Right) Full House 

The 2003 Borromean 

lecture was moved from 

the Cavello Center in the 

theatre to the gymnasium 

to accommodate the more 

than 450 attending the 

event. 

Distinguished guests 

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, left, and Columbus 

Bishop James A. Griffin expressed appreciative smiles 

at the Borromean Lecture . 

(Above) With gratitude 

Principal Dominic Cavello 

presented an etched glass 

momento to 

Cardinal Theodore 

McCarrick for being the 

guest speaker at the 2003 

Borromean Lecture at St. 

Charles. 

(Left) Cardinal Theodore 

McCarrick, archbishop of 

the Washington, D. C. 

archdiocese, addressed 

more than 450 luncheon 

guests attending the 2003 

Borromean lecture in the 

school gymnasium last 

fall. 


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Graduate’s career taking flight 

on the wings of “Little Red Plane” 

For an animated film only six and 

half minutes long, 1992 St. Charles 

graduate Joey Jones and his colleagues 

put in two years of hard work. 

The result? Their film, Little Red Plane, 

has won them international acclaim, 

confidence to start their own company, 

and a partnership with Disney, to name 

one of many opportunities. 

From his company’s offices in Pasadena, 

Calif., Jones in a phone interview 

reflected on his young and successful 

career in film animation. It’s a career that 

wouldn’t have come to fruition without 

the support and encouragement of family 

and friends. Nor would it have occurred if 

he had been unwilling to pursue a dream. 

After earning a degree in architecture 

at The Ohio State University in 1997, 

Jones worked two years for the international 

firm URS Corporation as an architect 

in its Columbus office. With encouragement 

from his wife, Mara, whom he 

met at OSU and married in 1998, and with 

support from his company boss, Jones 

decided to explore a long-time love for film 

animation. To do that, he moved to 

California to enroll at the Art Center 

College of Design in Pasadena. To reach 

his goal, Jones worked three years at the 

Art Center for a masters degree and 

completed a nine-month fellowship at the 

California Institute of Technology. 

While at the Art Center, Jones and 

two fellow classmates began work on an 

animated film. The project, which wasn’t 

for any specific class, mushroomed into a 

collaboration of 11 people in five different 

majors. “We all met in the computer labs 

working late at night,” Jones said. “Most 

of the software that we used had been 

donated to the school. And they paid for 

the film transfer and helped promote the 

film,” he said. Most of the students, even 

after graduating, worked to complete the 

project. 

What was begun as a “portfolio piece” 

or “resume builder” by a group of participating 

students turned out instead to be 

something much more — a widely acclaimed 

production named Little Red 

Plane. The film was produced and 

directed by Jones and his classmate, Wira 

Winata. 

Shown at film festivals around the 

country and at international events, the 

film won many awards and attracted wide 

notoriety. It was honored as “best dramatic 

short” at the Dances With Films 

Little Red Plane 

The animated short won First Place at The Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation College Television Awards in 

2003 and with it, a screening at the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Festival in Hollywood; “first place student 

animation” at the International Family 

Film Festival in Valencia, Calif.; and the 

Fuji Film “audience impact award.” It 

earned awards at the Kalamazoo International 

Animation Film Festival, the 

Heartland Film Festival, the London 

Effects and Animation Festival, Savannah 

Film and Video Festival, Marco Island 

Film Festival, San Luis Obispo International 

Film Festival, and many more. 

Perhap the most impressive award it 

won was the “student Emmy” at The 

Academy of Arts & Sciences Foundation 

College Television Awards in 2003. With 

the award came a plaque, $2,000 check, 

and $2,000 worth of Kodak Eastman 

camera film. More importantly, Kodak 

invited the film production participants to 

the Cannes Film Festival in France where 

they screened their film during the 

Emerging Filmmakers Showcase. 

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Although his wife wasn’t one of the 

project participants, Jones persuaded 

Kodak officials to include her in the 

delegation to Cannes where the award 

winners would meet and network with 

executives from major studios. Having 

his wife, Mara, included was important to 

Jones because she had been the most 

ardent supporter in his move for a career 

change. Not only did she support his 

decision to leave the security of his 

architecture career to explore a new field, 

she provided the financial support needed 

during the three years he worked on his 

masters at the Art Center. 

Thanks to the awards and accolades 

showered on Little Red Plane, which 

was planned originally as a possible 

exhibit in job resumes, talk began about 

starting a company. “We realized later 

that we’d had such a fun time working 

together, we said ‘hey, let’s start a company 

together,’” Jones said. 

Bolstered by the success and notoriety 

of Little Red Plane, they started their 

company, Shadedbox Animations in early 

2002. The company is described as “a 

studio specializing in animation and visual 

FX for film, broadcast, and games,” and 

Jones is its Director. The company’s logo 

is the 3-D depiction of a cube with shaded 

sides. It represents the basic object a 

person can create in the Maya rendering 

program that was used to produce the 

effects in Little Red Plane. 

Shadedbox has worked very hard to 

get Little Red Plane released as a 

children’s book, which will give the 

animated film a much broader audience. 

“In one way it’s a done deal because there 

are contracts and we’ve been compensated 

for our work,” Jones said. He noted that 

the movie’s adaptation to book form has 

taken as long (two years) as it took to 

create the film. 

Because the film contains no dialogue, 

text needed to be written to accompany 

the book’s pictures. Shadedbox and 

Byron-Priess Publishing have been 

working with several professional writers 

during this time to come up with the final 

version of the book’s wording. 

Byron-Priess is the editor in charge of 

content, while Simon and Schuster will 

print and distribute the book. They’re 

partnering because of costs. Each book 

will be accompanied by a DVD, making it 

more expensive than a traditional book. 

It is expected to reach bookstores this 

November. 

Shadedbox is doing well. Its growing 

client list includes: Sony Computer 

Entertainment, Disney Feature Animation, 

Burger King, Bacchus Energy 

Drinks, Space X, and the World Wild Life 

Jones at his desk at Shadedbox Animations. 

Foundation among many others. The 

company recently completed development 

work on a future project for John Williams, 

the head of Vanguard Films and 

producer of the hit film, Shrek. 

Competing with eight other studios for 

a game project for Microsoft, Shadedbox 

was one of three studios chosen as finalists. 

Microsoft will visit the company’s studio to 

determine if Shadedbox would be hired to 

create the animation for a major game 

release. 

“We’re going to use our size as an 

asset,” Jones said. “We’re very small and 

young, compared to the other companies 

we compete with, but in some ways that 

works to our benefit. We have lots of 

ambition and energy, and in several ways, 

we have as much talent as some of the big 

studios.” 

Video games offer huge opportunities 

for animation studios, but the work is 

fraught with ethical dilemmas for Jones 

and his team. The games segment provides 

opportunities for lots of work and 

profits, but at the same time, its often 

violent nature is seen by some as harmful 

to children. Balancing that fine line is 

difficult. 

Jones’ strong religious faith and the 

personal beliefs of his partners have 

presented Shadebox with some very 

difficult choices: Questions they face are 

which clients should they work with and 

what projects should they pursue? 

Shadedbox has turned down jobs, mainly 

video games, because they were “overtly 

grotesque and gratuitously violent.” Jones 

said. It’s a difficult dilemma. 

Shadedbox, meanwhile, is working 

with Disney on several productions. 

They’re creating a pilot project for Disney 

Television and working with Disney 

Animation to have their film idea, Let’s 

Get Francis, developed into a full-length 

St. Charles encourages 

artistic interests 

By Phil Smith 

At St. Charles, we have a steady flow of 

majors in art-related fields. Students 

are given an intense art history course 

to begin the art experience. After a few 

assignments, they are turned loose to 

pursue their areas of interest. 

In the case of Joey Jones, he 

wanted to try his hand at making an 

animated film in art class here, so I set 

aside some space for him to create a 

claymation cartoon. I remember that 

he discovered how much patience it a 

takes to make these things. Last year 

James Pease ’03 and Mike Roof ’03 

made a video on the computer, using a 

program for single-frame animation. 

I like to encourage projects in 

which students branch out and try new 

and challenging projects that in the 

past may not have been a part of the 

high school art class. But we still 

embrace the traditional subjects of 

painting and drawing. Many students 

enjoy making pottery and create a 

variety of items, from pitchers and 

bowls to hand-built incense burning 

houses. Josh Shremshock ’99 is majoring 

in ceramics at CCAD (Columbus 

College of Art & Design) and selling his 

work already. 

St. Charles has produced many 

architecture majors in recent years. 

Jimmy Bushong and Brian Gernetzke 

from the class of 1999 are currently at 

the University of Cincinnati, the 

leading college architecture department 

in the country. More recently 

Phil Schaeffing went off to Notre Dame 

to major in architecture and will spend 

2004-2005 studying in Rome. We also 

have Chris Lomaka ’94 who majored in 

computer animation at Ringling School 

of Design. Kip Malek ’96 is designing 

video games 

The creativity of these guys is 

amazing. And thanks to many lucrative 

and rewarding careers available in the 

filed of Art, their futures are limited 

only by their imaginations. 

animated feature. The plot revolves around 

two hamster brothers kept in a pet store at 

Christmas. They separate when one runs 

off in a jealous moment. A ragtag crew of 

loyal pets sets out on a seemingly impossible 

mission to reunite them. Jones says 

it’s a story about sibling rivalry and what 

it means to be brothers. 

Disney has paid Shadedbox an undisclosed 

sum to hold rights to the story for 

four years. If the movie isn’t made by that 


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time, all rights revert to Shadedbox. It’s 

now in the developmental stage and Jones 

and Company are serving as consultants. 

They hope it will get a green light to 

proceed, but projects often are put on hold 

in this industry, Jones said. 

Jones developed a talent for drawing 

at an early age. One of his earliest 

sources of inspiration was Nathan 

Cartwright, a childhood friend and 1992 

St. Charles classmate. “He was always 

better than I was,” Jones said. “He was a 

really gifted artist” and “was always 

inspiring and pushing me to go further 

and hone my talent.” Cartwright now 

lives and works as an artist in Los Angeles. 

Jones’ foray into the artistic world of 

film animation began in his senior year at 

St. Charles when he saw some ‘claymation’ 

shorts and remembers “just falling in love 

with them,” he said. He and classmate 

Jason Sutton got an OK from art teacher 

Phil Smith to set up their own mini studio 

near the school’s art room. “Jason and I 

proved to Mr. Smith that we could be 

trusted to do this project by ourselves. And 

so he let us go.” 

The two classmates created a stopframe 

animation entitled Michael Jordan 

vs. Larry Bird, a claymation basketball 

game filmed on Super 8 film. Jones said it 

turned out “pretty cool.” 

Because of his love for drawing and 

stop-animation film, and with the overwhelming 

support of his parents, Jones 

gravitated to architecture in college. 

Because he was a good artist and a decent 

mathematician, it was a good choice. But 

while working on his architecture degree, 

Jones discovered the ‘Form Z’ program and 

computer modeling. The film urge was 

still alive – and growing. 

Just before graduating from OSU, 

Jones interned with Morphosis Architects, 

an internationally renowned firm in Santa 

Monica, Calif., started by architect Thom 

Mayne. “It was definitely a dream come 

true,” Jones said. He (Mayne) was an 

inspiration to me while I was attending 

Ohio State and I really admired his work.” 

The company used the ‘Form Z’ computer 

program to produce 3-D modeling that 

created buildings in simulation and 

produced animated walk-throughs for 

clients to view. 

As if his California internship wasn’t 

enough, Jones spent his weekends 

free-lancing with 

an animation 

company comprised 

of Ohio State 

graduates. He 

slept on one of 

their couches and 

stayed with them for three months. They 

used the ‘Form Z’ program to produce 

animation. Jones was impressed with 

their creative results and the fact “they 

were working for themselves.” He could 

now see the potential of the program, and 

it stuck with him. “I thank my lucky stars 

because I realized at that stage that 

architecture was not what I wanted to do,” 

he said. Nevertheless, Jones returned to 

Ohio State to complete work for his 

architecture degree. 

He knew he could get a job easily 

because of his internship with Morphosis 

and his free-lance experience. Six months 

after joining URS, Jones got a career wakeup 

call when he saw an animated movie 

short called Geri’s Game. An Academy 

Award-winning short film from Pixar 

Studios, it was about a man in a park 

trying to win a game of chess against 

himself. 

“I got that same gut feeling that I got 

doing claymation at St. Charles in Mr. Phil 

Smith’s class,” Jones said. “I knew that I 

wanted to do animation. In fact, I even 

bought one of the programs and tried to 

teach it to myself.” Still hesitant to follow 

his inner voice, a year went by. He liked 

the work at the architecture firm, but 

Jones knew he wouldn’t last. 

He had a very good relationship with 

his boss, Mark Molen, so much so that he 

confided that he really wanted to make 

animated films. Molen encouraged Jones to 

look into attending the 

internationally known Art 

Center College in Pasadena. 

Its faculty represents 

more than 24 professions 

that included artists, filmmakers, 

scientists, philosophers, 

and software engineers. 

Jones eventually sent 

for the school’s catalog and 

wound up on the campus in the 

fall of 1999. 

At the Art Center Jones soon 

joined several other students 

working late into the night on 

Fridays and Saturdays on 

individual projects in the 

school’s computer labs. 

It became clear to them 

that “the process to 

create animations was 

so lengthy that it didn’t 

make sense to do it by 

yourself,” Jones said. “So (in 2000) we 

decided to pool our resources and to work 

together on a project we could all be proud 

of,” Jones said. That idea would become 

Little Red Plane. 

It was a true collaboration of talents, 

exactly the kind of working environment 

the Art Center encouraged. (The school’s 

website describes the Art Center as a place 

with “an atmosphere where creative, 

collaborative, and mentoring relationships 

extend beyond the classroom and into 

professional life.”) Little Red Plane could 

qualify as “Exhibit A.” Jones said the 

characters and storyboards were designed 

by illustration students, props and planes 

were designed by product design students, 

tree house scenes were designed by environmental 

students and graphic design 

students created the identity of the film. He 

was able to choose personally the best 

talent for each need. 

As work on Little Red Plane moved 

ahead, Jones was given a fantastic opportunity 

in the fall of 2001 when he was selected 

as one of only nine Fellows to receive 

a nine-month grant from the National 

Science Foundation. This program paired 

students from the California Institute of 

Technology (CIT) and the Art Center 

College with fluency in science, engineering, 

and design. According to CIT’s web 

site, it teaches “skills geared toward the 

development of commercial products in a 

start-up environment. It’s meant to help 

students who want to make the transition 

from the academic environment to the 

world of high-tech business.” 

It was at this time that Jones and his 

group started to think about forming their 

own company. “We had a dream to start a 

studio, and here (the Fellowship) was an 

opportunity to get almost a mini MBA,” 

Jones said. “The process taught me 

everything from accounting, to leadership, 

to having the guts to take a risk, to just 

make a cold call to talk with someone 

to get information. It was a 

great lesson in what it takes to be 

an entrepreneur,” he said. 

“But most importantly, 

it gave me 

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the confidence that once I finished Little 

Red Plane, we could start a studio.” 

Jones completed his masters work in 2002 

with a thesis on character animation and 

film. 

At the Art Center, the group continued 

work on the Little Red Plane project. 

Four of the 11 original collaborators, 

including Jones, were still in school. One of 

the biggest hurdles was the time it took to 

render (create) the animations. As students 

without prior experience, they learned by 

trial and error, which at first took much 

time. Other students started to complain 

because they thought the group used the 

machines too long and took over the 

computer labs. 

As a result, Jones and his group 

decided to move production off-campus and 

into the apartment of one of the group’s 

members. They all pitched in and bought 

six computers on which to do the film’s 

rendering. That’s where production was 

completed on Little Red Plane and it 

housed their new company for its first nine 

months. Then came the notoriety generated 

by the film’s festival success, and the rest, 

as they say, is history. Exploration now is 

under way to expand the Little Red Plane 

into a feature film. 

What else is in Shadedbox’s future? 

“Our ultimate goal is to become a studio 

which is self-financed, like Pixar, that 

doesn’t need to go out and find studios to 

make our films,” Jones said. In the meantime 

Shadedbox hopes to start work on 

another in-house short film to show at film 

festivals and attract more publicity and 

press. Despite the time and effort he 

devotes to growing Shadedbox, Jones tries 

to honor those who guided him to this 

point. For example, he teaches at his alma 

mater, the Art Center, and at Santa 

Monica College. 

In his teaching work, Jones said, “I 

can’t help but think on some of the teachers 

who influenced my style.” He alluded 

to different teaching styles that his St. 

Charles teachers used when he was a 

student. Jones said: “I thought of Mr. 

(Wally) Teeters who used comedy, Mr. 

(John W.) Hoelker was very methodical, 

Mr. (Jim) Lower made sure you understood 

the material before moving on, Mr. (James 

J.) Pacciorretti was very emotionally 

attached to the work, and Msgr. (Thomas 

M.) Bennett preached discipline.” 

Jones added: “They showed me what it 

means to be a teacher (who’s) emotionally 

engaged in the work, like Mr. (James P.) 

Cassidy and (Dr. Paul M.) Jurkowitz. 

When they taught religion, you could tell 

they really cared about the subject 

matter.” 

Red Balloon inspires ‘lushly visual’ and touching 

story; Toy plane heart t of film & proposed book 

In late 2004, Simon & Schuster will put Little Red Plane out as a children’s 

book with a companion DVD that will include ”director’s comments” from Joey 

Jones ’92 and co-director Wira Winata. What can people look forward to in the 

book? A heart-wrenching story and beautiful illustrations featuring a brilliant red 

cardinal. 

The storyline centers on a young boy’s toy plane that takes him on an imaginary 

flight that reunites him with his deceased father, whose spirit is represented 

by a cardinal. In the story the son and father are in a dogfight with enemy planes. 

The father sacrifices his plane, and ultimately his life, to protect his son. The story 

is meant as a tribute to pilots who died in the world wars. 

Asked if it was a coincidence that he used a cardinal, the symbol of his alma 

mater St. Charles, Jones replied, “It’s no accident. It was definitely something 

conscious.” 

The color red was an important feature used by Jones and his Plane colleagues. 

A cardinal, of course, is a red bird and flies, just as the father’s red plane does. And 

the father’s plane has a cardinal for its insignia. 

“I was able to really tie the cardinal from my past into the film,” Jones said. 

“The best thing about the film is making it really personal. Animation was chiefly 

my responsibility so I was able to bring that cardinal to life,” he added 

Jones describes the look of Little Red Plane as a stylized surreal. Others 

describe it as “lushly visual.” A web story published online by Kodak described how 

the film’s effects were created on the computer: “The group used Photoshop (for 

texture maps and concept paintings), After Effects (for compositing) and Maya (for 

animating and rendering) , a program which had gone through two upgrades during 

the two years of production. To prevent these new advances from making their film 

look dated, they produced visuals that didn’t rely on special effects. They instead 

focused on the character in the film that comes from the hand-drawn texture maps 

and attention to detail.” 

Jones said that many elements besides the color and music helped create the 

dramatic atmosphere of the animated short. Jones also credits the lighting, modeling, 

and texturing. “When you use a computer,” he explained “there are so many 

different settings. And if you just use the settings that are standard on the computer, 

then your renderings will look just like everyone else’s. So the trick and 

artistry behind it,” Jones continued “is to really take that tool and put your own 

thumbprint on it. To figure out a way to make this very generic application of 

standard settings and tweak them so your work really stands out.” 

One example of this can be seen in the ‘look’ of the clouds. He said standard 

clouds didn’t look right using the normal applications. So they created ‘work 

arounds’— altered and engineered variations to create distinctive looks to their 

renderings. The same for the gunfire flashes. 

The inspiration for Little Red Plane turns out to be from something most 

middle-aged or younger people might remember from their grade school days: the 

classic French short The Red Balloon. Jones saw it in one of his Art Center 

classes and thought it told a compelling story with just visual storytelling. “There’s 

no dialogue and no narration. And we all knew that if we could pull that off in a 

project of our own, then we would have a good grasp on what it is to tell a story,” he 

said. 

The team discussed The Red Balloon and brainstormed ideas that dealt with 

childhood and themes that tie children together. They came up with ‘making paper 

airplanes’. An idea to present a paper airplane race didn’t seem to work because it 

lacked an emotional aspect to it. “One of the group (Howard Kouo) came back the 

next day and had incorporated his military experience into a new story line.” Jones 

said. The idea worked. 

Top see a trailer of the upcoming DVD, just visit www.shadedbox.com and 

follow the link. 


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Honors and Awards 

Alumni Honored 

Three St. Charles alumni were honored by their alma mater at the annual feast day Mass of St. Charles Borromeo 

last November 4. Bishop James A. Griffin celebrated the Mass attended by the entire student body, relatives, 

friends and others in the gymnasium. 

The 2003 honorees were Matthew A. “Matt” Howard, Class of 1958, awarded the Borromean Medal for 

Distinguished Achievement; George G. Vargo, Class of 1958, presented the Borromean Medal for Distinguished 

Service to St. Charles; and Homer V. Beard, Class of 1946, given the Principal’s Award for Leadership and Service 

to St. Charles. 

Borromean Medal for Distinguished 

Achievement Goes to Howard 

Matthew A. “Matt” Howard, Class of 1958, had a 31-year career 

with Sears Roebuck & Co. where he rose from the company’s 

stockroom to its boardroom. He joined the company as a college 

management trainee in Cleveland after graduating from The 

Ohio State University in 1962. 

Sears transferred Howard to Columbus in 1964 to launch its 

first Columbus retail operation in the former Northland Mall. 

Transferred again later to Chicago, Howard served there as a 

vice president in various areas of merchandising. He then was 

elevated to senior vice president of marketing and given charge 

of all company advertising, sales promotions, and store merchandising. 

In 1988 he became senior executive vice president of 

merchandising in which he directed all domestic and foreign 

buying offices, product development, and retail store merchandise 

assortments. 

Retiring from Sears, Howard went into retail consulting and 

became president of Computer City, a $2-billion national computer 

retail chain. Today Howard serves as a private retail 

consultant and as a member of several company boards. He is a 

member of Over The Rainbow, a non-profit group that provides 

barrier-free housing to enable physically handicapped adults to 

live independently. 

As was his career with Sears, Howard’s service to St. Charles 

has been exemplary. He has been an Advisory Board member 

for five years during which time he served a strong leadership 

role in two capital campaigns. He was chair of the 2000-2001 

Annual Fund that raised $330,000; which was a 100% increase 

over the amount pledged and collected the previous year. 

Howard currently co-chairs The Campaign for St. Charles, a $10 

million success effort, with Timothy M. Kelley ’76 and honorary 

chair Robert D. Walter ’63. 

Including Matt, four Howard brothers — Frank ’56, Mike ’63, 

and Danny ’66 — have graduated from St. Charles. Their uncle 

was Monsignor Matthew Howard, a 1928 St. Charles graduate 

who taught at his alma mater from 1939 to 1955. 

Howard and his wife Beth, live in Chicago. She is a 1960 

graduate of St. Mary of the Springs and is a sister of Tom 

O’Leary ’64. O’Leary, who won football renown at St. Charles 

and the University of Notre Dame (he was a starting defensive 

back on the 1966 national championship team), is a member of 

the Advisory Board. 

The Howards are the parents of three grown children, Matt, 

Patsy, and Molly, and have five grandchildren. 

Two members from the 1958 Class — Matt Howard and George Vargo —were honored 

at the St. Charles feast day Mass last November. Howard was recognized for his 

distinguished career achievements and Vargo for his long leadership of the Advisory 

Board. Howard (l) and Vargo (r) in the first row with classmate Len Iannarino. Behind 

them from left are Charlie Keys, Michael Sullivan, Charlie Pickard; Jim Devine, and 

John Sauter. 

Var 

argo go honored for service to St. Charles 

George G. Vargo, Class of 1958, has served as an influential 

leader, benefactor, advisory board member, and board chairman 

for the school. He earned a marketing degree from The Ohio 

State University in 1965 and went to work for the F & R Lazarus 

Company in its executive training program. 

Seeing a business opportunity, Vargo and his brother in 1972 

formed Vargo Associates Inc. to sell material-handling equipment. 

He now is sole owner and president of Tanna Corporation 

which he founded in 1994. Through his earlier and present 

companies, Vargo during the last 25 years has been a major 

supplier to retail marketing giant, The Limited, and all seven of 

its divisions. 

A long-time member of the St. Charles Advisory Board, 

Vargo has been chairman of that board for the past 14 years. In 

the years prior to1985, which was the start of Vargo’s tenure as 

Advisory Board chairman, St. Charles began to enjoy record 

growth in student enrollment which for the first time in school 

history neared 600. 

To cope with the demands of soaring enrollment, St. Charles, 

with the encouragement and support of the Board, embarked on 

major capital improvements. New classrooms were built in 

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former living facilities of the main school building. Existing 

classrooms were renovated. Major renovation was initiated to 

improve the chemistry and physics labs and a facility was created 

to teach the latest in the ever-growing computer field. 

Major capital improvements in the school’s facilities included 

the construction of the $1-million Dedger and Rose Jones Natatorium, 

which was completed in 1990. A fund drive headed by 1970 

St. Charles graduate Father William Arnold, a former teacher at 

the school, led to the construction of the $400,000 Jack Ryan 

student fitness center that was completed in 1999. The theatre, 

built in 1941, was renovated and the Cavello Center was created 

below the theater’s auditorium in 1990. A major improvement 

included the installation of new windows in the school and 

theater buildings. 

Also during Vargo’s term as board chair, the school’s endowment 

funds enjoyed steady growth and The Campaign for St. 

Charles, the most ambitious fund drive in school history, was 

initiated. The drive this year reached its primary goal of $10 

million. Vargo is one of the charter officers of The St. Charles 

Endowment Trustee Advisory group, formed 10 years ago. 

For many years, Vargo was a very active leader in his former 

St. Andrew Parish. He served on its parish council for 20 years 

and was chairman of that body from 1982 to 1992. He chaired 

the parish’s Bishop Annual Appeal drive 10 years and he and his 

wife, Marianne, co-chaired the general phase of the campaign to 

build the St. Andrew gymnasium. 

Vargo has been on the board of the Catholic Foundation 

since l997 and was chairman the past year. He is a knight in the 

Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher, a member of The Ohio 

State University Alumni Association and a member of the OSU 

President’s Club. 

He and Marianne (Heinmiller) have three grown children — 

Thomas (St. Charles Class of ’84), Margaret, and Jane, and six 

grandchildren. 

the Gates McDonald Company, an affiliate of the giant Nationwide 

Insurance organization. 

He is the “decade captain” for the current 2003-2004 Annual 

Fund drive and served in that same role in the last drive held in 

2000-2001. Beard has been a true ambassador for St. Charles 

since graduating in 1946 and is constantly available to share his 

expertise. 

Among other contributions to the school, he helped plan 

many of the special events for the school’s 75 th anniversary in 

1998. Beard was also on the committee that developed the 

school’s Borromean Medals and Principal’s Award, given annually 

to honor individuals for outstanding accomplishments and 

service. Having helped rebuild the St. Charles Alumni Association, 

Beard continues as an active and influential member of that 

group working on the homecoming, recognition, and information 

committees. 

He has served with 1946 classmate Dick Brehm as co-chair of 

all three of the school’s Platinum Reunions. This annual event 

brings together alumni from the earliest years — 1929 through 

1953, and their spouses, of both St. Charles Preparatory School 

and the College and Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo. As 

“decade captain” for the Annual Fund campaigns, Beard personally 

has contacted hundreds of graduates in the classes of the 

’20s, ’30s, and ’40s to seek their participation, to appeal for their 

financial help, and to collect current information to update the 

school’s database. 

He and his wife, Jean, reside in Reynoldsburg. They are the 

parents of five children — Michael, Paul, Colleen, Roger, and 

Rocky — and have 13 grandchildren. 

Principal’s Award to Beard for 

leadership and Service 

Homer V. Beard, Class of 1946, has been instrumental in helping 

the school rebuild its alumni network and especially in restoring 

alumni loyalty among graduates from earlier years – the late 

1920s through the 1940s. 

After high school, Beard served in the U.S. Navy for two 

years and in 1951 graduated from The Ohio State University 

with a degree in education. He became a public school teacher 

and coach and continued his education to earn a masters degree 

in school administration at Ohio University. He made use of 

that degree by working from 1954-1957 as local superintendent of 

schools in Richland County 

In 1957 he became a data processing manager with AMF 

Pinspotters Inc. From there he served in various information/ 

business technology roles such as corporate systems analyst, 

director of business management consulting with Coopers and 

Lybrand, business manager of a standardbred breeding farm, and 

capped his career as administrative services vice president for 

Homer Beard, second from left, the St. Charles 2003 Principal Award honoree, is 

flanked by his 1946 classmates, from left, Dick Brehm, George Rieser, and John 

Babbert. The picture was taken after the annual St. Charles feast day Mass, celebrated 

by Bishop James A. Griffin, in the school gym where Beard received his award. 


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Student News 

National Merit Finalists 

The 2003-04 St. Charles National Merit Finalists are from left, front — Aaron Richards 

and Benjamin Keller; and back — Mathew Evans Inbusch, Samuel Patrick Gavin, and 

Phillip Hudelson 

Five Named National Merit Finalists 

Five St. Charles seniors are finalists in the 2003-2004 National 

Merit Scholarship competition based on scoring in the top one 

percent of over 1.5 million students who took the PSAT/NMSQT 

test last year. Although all students who attain Finalist standing 

in the National Merit Scholarship program are distinguished, not 

all finalists receive a Merit Scholarship Award. Only 8,000 of the 

15,000 finalists will be chosen in April to receive one of the three 

types of scholarships totaling more than $32 million. 

The five seniors are: Samuel Patrick Gavin, son of Patrick 

and Teresa Gavin of Newark; William M. Phillip Hudelson, 

son of David and Betsy Hudelson of Pickerington; Mathew 

Evans Inbusch, son of Ted and Catherine Inbusch of Columbus; 

Benjamin Edward Keller, son of Peggy and Bill Keller of 

Dublin; and Aaron Jacob Richards, son of Ray and Ann 

Richards of Pickerington. 

Nationally-known author/director hosts 

movie premiere for St. Charles track 

St. Charles welcomed nationally-known author and film director 

Peter Hedges October 29, to speak with the members of the 

sophomore, junior, and senior classes in the school’s campus 

theatre. 

The night before, Hedges was on hand for the Gala Ohio 

Premiere of his United Artists movie, Pieces of April, at the 

Arena Grand Theater. The event was a fundraiser for the St. 

Charles track and field team. 

Hedges wrote and directed the movie. He is the uncle of a 

former St. Charles track and field captain, Stephen Evans (Class 

of 2003). Track coach Jeff Pharion ’86 expressed great appreciation 

for the Evans family, who helped arrange Hedges’ visit on 

behalf of the school. 

“We raised $5,700 and that’s fantastic, but the wonderful 

time enjoyed by all those at the premiere and the great feelings 

generated by the event overshadowed the money,” Pharion said. 

“We are very fortunate to have an accomplished author/director 

like Peter Hedges in our extended family. Steven Evans was a 

model student and a leader on the track team. I am honored 

that he chose to give such a great gift to his alma mater,” 

Pharion said. 

Hedges is a well known author and screenwriter who wrote 

the book, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and received an 

Academy Award nomination for his screenwriting contributions 

on the movie, About a Boy, in 2003. He told the students that 

through their future trials and setbacks they should make the 

most of life and help others. He told them “It’s easy to destroy 

something, but very hard to build things” like careers, families, 

and friendships. 

Hedges premiered his movie especially for the St. Charles 

community because he’s been impressed with the school and its 

influence on his nephew. United Artists generously paid for the 

theater rental and Hedges flew in to personally attend the 

premiere. He visited with audience members at a reception 

beforehand, personally introduced the film, and stayed for a Q & 

A session afterwards. 

College bound with athletic grants 

Seniors Derek Hoye, left, and Matt Selhorst signed letters of intent to play Div. I college 

sports. Hoye will attend Georgia Tech for track and Selhorst committed to play 

baseball at The Ohio State University. 

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Follow your dreams 

Critically-acclaimed author and screenwriter Peter Hedges shares some insights with 

St. Charles students in the campus theatre the night after showing a special gala 

premiere of his movie, Pieces of April, in downtown Columbus. 


Open house 

Students carry gifts to be delivered to needy families adopted by St. Charles 

homerooms last Advent. From left — Jimmy Coleman, Frank Zonars, Ken Ralston, 

faculty member Phil Smith, John Ciancetta, Kevin Kowalec, Thomas Vacarro, and Pat 

Larimer. 

Students provide generous holiday 

The St. Charles student council this past Advent oversaw 

Viriditas, a series of school- wide service projects to help provide 

a meaningful Christmas for many Columbus-area children and 

adults. With an outpouring of generosity, the school’s students 

and their families made each of the program’s three components 

a resounding success. 

The first project was an ambitious effort that had each 

homeroom adopt a family in the St. Dominic Parish Christmas 

gift program. The parish coordinator, Willie Moore, was overwhelmed 

with the student response; he reported that 105 people 

in 24 families received gifts. St. Charles families adopted several 

additional families. In a letter, Moore said that “all the families 

expressed their thanks and for many, they were relieved to know 

their children would have gifts to open on Christmas day.” 

The second part of the Advent project was a first-time Mitten 

and Tree program. Some 288 hats, mittens, scarves, and gloves 

were donated. The third part of the program were weekly 

collections to benefit the work of St. John’s Community Kitchen. 

That effort brought in $3,256 to help provide meals for homeless 

and hungry people on the near east side of Columbus. 

Sixteen Named Commended Scholars 

Sixteen St. Charles seniors were named commended scholars for 

finishing in the top five percent of all students who took the 

PSAT last year. They are: James R. Blakeslee, John A. 

Cocumelli, Jimmy V. Coleman, Michael A. Easter, Thomas A. 

Gernetzke, John T. Gramila, Hal C. Hamilton, Matthew A. 

Hay,Gregory R. Hecker, Patrick M. Johnston, Jacob J. Jones, 

Christopher Kanalas, Eric T. Plapper, Brendan T. Ryan, Brogan 

C. Ryan, and Michael Wells. 

Full House 

More than 900 people attended the St. Charles open house last November. 

Presentations by principal Dominic Cavello and assistant principal Scott Pharion 

in the Theatre were simulcast to the overflow crowd assembled in the Cavello 

Center below the auditorium. 

Class of 2007–2008? 

Eighth grade boys register outside the Theatre at the open house. Teachers and 

students led tours, organized by long-time faculty member James Pena, for the 

prospective students and their family members. Guests later gathered in the 

multi-purpose building for refreshments and to chat with faculty members, 

coaches, alumni, and students. 

Timely gift 

Jany (c) and Mark Hill (r) and Cardinal swim coach 

Kyle Goodrich ’95 stand beneath one of the two 

timing clocks the Hills donated and installed for 

use in the Rose and Dedger Jones Natatorium at 

St. Charles. Their son, Hans, is a sophomore and 

swim team member. 

School nurse Betsy Mason speaks with an eighth grader and his parents at the 

St. Charles Open House. 


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Sports capsules 

Cross Country 

Coach Steve Kull’s harriers had another exceptional year, 

capturing their fifth consecutive CCL title. Season highlights 

included first place in the New Albany Invitational, and runnersup 

in the Watkins-Memorial, Central Ohio, and Arrowhead 

Invitationals. The team also placed fourth and sixth in the 

highly-competitive Worthington and All-Ohio Catholic 

Invitationals. The team was paced by first-team all-CCL athletes 

Michael Fowle, J. D. Coppel, Derek Hoye, Sean Cusack, Nick 

Boling, Daniel Zaksheske and second-team member Brendan 

Weibel. 

The Cardinals, led by Michael Fowle’s second place and 

Derek Hoye’s third place performances, finished second in the 

Div. I district meet, just 10 points behind defending state champion 

Hilliard Davidson. At the state regional meet, they placed 

sixth, just two spots from qualifying for the state tournament. 

However, Michael Fowle qualified individually for the meet at 

Scioto Downs and finished 50 th out of a field of 149. Fowle, Hoye, 

and Coppel were named to the all-district squad. 

Football 

Coach Jeff Liebert’s team posted a 5-6 record this year in Division 

II play, just missing the playoffs. The seniors helped the 

team stay focused, determined, and relentless throughout the 

season, Liebert said. “I could not be more proud of their effort,” 

he said. “The last game, a 17-14 win over Portsmouth, was a 

worthy finale for a really great team.” 

Senior lineman Mike Reggie was named all-district, first 

team defense. Linemen Walter Fyda and Evan Scurria were 

named to the second team. Receiver Paul Kuppich and kicker 

Brandon Pavol were named to the second- team all-district 

offense. 

Quarterback John Heffernan and linebacker Mark Lower 

received special mention and wide receiver Justin Cassidy and 

linebacker Dan Kelly earned all-district honorable mention 

honors. Daniel Longbrake, Reggie, Woodruff, Kelly and Lower 

were voted all-CCL. 

Golf 

Coach Bart Mahoney’s team finished second in the CCL with an 

8-2 record, and came in ninth in the district. Over the entire 

season, the team scored better than 106 other teams and finished 

behind 41 others in multi-team matches and tournaments. 

The team included seniors Paul Copeland, Chris Zeitler, and 

captain Mark Pagnotto; junior David Becher; and sophomores 

Joe Pelland and Anthony Owers. Becher was named all-district 

honorable mention and all-CCL with Zeitler. 

Soccer 

Coach Matt Highland’s squad highlighted the program’s reemergence 

as a top-notch competitor in the central district. It gained 

respect by performing well against a stout regular season schedule 

and showcased an increased skill level and toughness in the 

quality matches the team played. An overall record of 10 wins, 7 

losses, and 2 ties carried them to the semi-finals of district play. 

The Cardinals finished second in the CCL (4-1) after another epic 

battle with archrival DeSales. 

The team was led by Brandon Pavol, who earned state 

honorable mention, first team all-district, and first team all-CCL. 

Others making all-league first team were Craig Burke, Nick 

Daniele, Matt Kelty, and Chris Mangone. Nick Lovatt and Bobby 

Orellana were named to the second team. 

2003 Cross Country Team 

2003 Football Team 

2003 Golf Team 

2003 Soccer Team 

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Looking Back... 

St. Joseph Cathedral Latin School 

George Rieser ’46 holds a painting of the Kelley Mansion that housed the former Cathedral Grade School, closed 46 

years ago, and the short-lived Latin School. The 19 th century mansion, razed during the 1970s, was located on East 

Broad Street just east of St. Joseph Cathedral. 

T 

he Catholic 

diocese of 

Columbus 

from 1941 to 1943 

recruited some of 

what were described 

as the 

diocese’s brightest 

eighth grade boys 

to participate in a 

Latin language 

education program. 

Generally known as 

the “Latin School,” 

the unique program 

was conducted at 

the former St. 

Joseph Cathedral 

School in downtown 

Columbus. It was 

intended by Bishop 

James J. Hartley to 

help swell enrollment 

at St. Charles 

Preparatory School 

and encourage 

vocations to the 

priesthood. 

(Bishop Hartley 

had a vested 

interest in the 

project because he 

founded St. Charles 

in1923 as an eightyear 

learning 

institution – four 

years prep school 

and four years 

college-seminary – 

to nurture priestly 

vocations and 

educate future 

priests. But to 

assure sufficient enrollment at St. 

Charles, long referred to as the “bishop’s 

school,” Hartley intended that the prep 

school’s “classical” education be such that 

it would be beneficial to graduates no 

matter what profession they chose.) 

A list of Latin School graduates who 

also graduated from, or attended St. 

Charles, was compiled recently through 

much effort and many long-distance phone 

calls by St. Charles graduates George 

Rieser ’46 and Russ Finneran ’48. They 

graduated from Latin School in 1943 and 

1944, respectively. The list they compiled 

include the following St. Charles graduates 

and their years of graduation: 

1945 — Tom Cotter, Robert Fischer, 

Richard Keefe, Robert Maloney, Fr. John 

O’Rourke, John Rudolph, John Russell, 

and Gene Swisher. 1946 — Harry Barrow, 

John McNulty, Robert Murphy, Max 

Parzinger, Richard Rogers, and Rieser. 

1947 — Msgr. James Berendt, Larry Call, 

Tom Devine, Jack Lavelle, and John 

Winkel. 1948 — John Corcoran, Dick 

Fenlon, Finneran, Fr. Jack Fulcher, Joe 

Laufersweiler, Bill McGovern, and Mark 

Nieman. 

Latin School students who attended 

St. Charles but graduated elsewhere 

include: Tom 

Coughlin, Mike 

Dorrian, Tom 

Hielman, Keith 

Helver, William 

McGovern, Richard 

Ward, and Frank 

Wernz. 

The Cathedral 

Grade School, 

where the Latin 

School was conducted, 

was housed 

from 1907 until it 

was closed in 1958 

in the former 

Kelley Mansion on 

E. Broad Street, 

about a block east 

of St. Joseph 

Cathedral. Noted 

for its classical 

revival style with 

monolithic stone 

columns and ornate 

plaster moldings, 

the 19 th century 

mansion for many 

decades was the 

finest home in 

Columbus. 

It was built in 

1838 by Alfred 

Kelley, an Irish 

Catholic who in his 

lifetime, was one of 

Ohio’s leading 

citizens. An 

attorney, financier, 

and government 

official, he came to 

Columbus to 

oversee the construction 

of Ohio’s extensive canal system 

and served in the Ohio General Assembly 

for 43 years. 

A 1986 article in the Barquilla del 

Santa Maria (monthly bulletin of the 

Columbus Diocese’s Catholic Record 

Society) reported: “After his (Kelley’s) 

death the house passed to his widow, and 

then to his son, and from 1890-1892 

served as the governor’s mansion. Kelley’s 

son mortgaged the property in 1904 and 

sold it in 1906.” 

The Record Society reported in its 

bulletin that Bishop Hartley purchased 

the house and about one acre of land 


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in1907 for $40,300 and assumed the 

original mortgage of $24,000, which was 

considered at the time a “substantial 

commitment toward the Catholic education 

of the Cathedral parish.” 

According to the Barquilla story on 

Cathedral School, enrollment hovered 

between 100 and 125 for the first 22 years. 

Enrollment during World War II dropped 

to around 70, and, even though the city’s 

Catholic population grew following the 

war, growth was in the suburbs and 

declined in the inner city. With the 

decline of enrollment, Bishop Clarence G. 

Issenmann closed Cathedral School in 

May of 1958 and its students were transferred 

to nearby Holy Cross. Best estimates 

are that nearly 600 students 

graduated from Cathedral School during 

its 51-year life. 

The school building was razed in 1961 

to make way for construction of the 

circular Christopher Inn (also gone now). 

The mansion’s sandstone blocks were 

carefully catalogued and stored in Wolfe 

Park across from St. Charles for many 

years in the hopes the mansion could be 

restored elsewhere and returned to its 

former glory. Later the mansion’s stones 

were carted to another city; some were 

used in another restoration. 

As he had intended in building St. 

Charles, Bishop Hartley sought to use the 

Latin School to increase vocations to the 

priesthood. His vision was to have teachers, 

pastors, and parents identify two or 

three boys from each parish who might be 

willing to pursue an education at St. 

Charles and possibly a priestly vocation. 

The Latin School program was initiated 

for 8 th grade boys throughout the city 

in 1941 under the direction of Fr. Roland 

T. Winel ’31 and the Sisters of Notre 

Dame. The school was very small and two 

grades shared each classroom. There 

were four teachers from the Sisters of 

Notre Dame order. The teacher of the 7 th 

and 8 th grades was the principal, Sr. Anna 

Therese. The rooms weren’t remodeled 

into traditional schoolrooms, but still had 

fireplaces and were decorated with ornate 

plaster moldings, just as they were when 

the building was used as a residence. 

The boys of the Latin School met for 

one period during the day in the 

mansion’s most northeastern room when 

the 7 th grade was being taught and the 

other 8 th graders would be instructed to 

study quietly until the lesson was over, 

Rieser said. 

Parental permission was always 

required to attend the Latin School. In 

Rieser’s case, his father had died and his 

mother was in very poor health. “I simply 

did what the priest at the Cathedral asked 

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me to do, because I’d always done it,” he 

said. Rieser grew up in St. Joseph Cathedral 

Parish, was baptized there, and 

served as an altar boy through high 

school. He served ordinations of many of 

the diocese’s priests, including those of 

Msgrs. Edward F. Spiers ’31 and Winel. 

At Cathedral School Fr. Winel occasionally 

pulled aside each boy and ask: 

“Have you considered becoming a priest?” 

One day Winel approached Rieser in his 

8 th grade year and said “George, there are 

a lot of Riesers, don’t you think it was 

time there was a Rieser priest? He hadn’t 

seriously considered the idea, but told 

Winel that he was keeping his options 

open. 

A special benefit for Latin School 

students who finished in the upper third of 

their class was permission to skip the 

freshman year at St. Charles and enroll as 

sophomores. The Latin studied as 8 th 

Interior details 

The Kelley Mansion was considered one of the finest 

homes in Ohio for its Classical design and detailing. 

graders was the same as taught at St. 

Charles in the freshman year. Rieser 

skipped his high school freshman year. 

Two challenges for those who skipped 

their freshman year was being far behind 

sophomores academically, and knowing 

few socially. Rieser said their transition 

was eased by understanding teachers and 

helpful classmates who knew their situation. 

“You also had the support of the 

other students who joined as sophomores, 

maybe four or five with the class,” Rieser 

said. “The quality of the instruction was 

so high,” Rieser said, “that you just 

wanted to stay on, even while you entertained 

thoughts of ‘why am I going 

through this?”’ 

Thomas J. Devine, a 1947 graduate, 

seemed to confirm a special attitude that 

many of his classmates carried with them 

to St. Charles. He cited his Latin School 

days when his football team, coached by 

Joe Stanton ’42 (later Father Stanton), 

lost every game. “Nobody quit, they just 

kept going,” Devine said. Devine finished 

Latin School in 1943 and didn’t skip into 

the sophomore class at St. Charles. “It 

was great,” he recalled, “that when 

Kerrigan (Msgr. John W.) had us in Latin 

class, I did extremely well because it was 

a repeat course for me.” Devine also 

remembered Fr. Winel took him to Good 

Shepherd Convent and had a surplice 

made for him because “I was the train 

bearer for Bishop Hartley at all the 

ordinations and ceremonies at the Cathedral.” 

“St. Charles wasn’t a mystery to any 

of us (Latin School students),” Rieser said. 

“We’d come out and watch all the football 

and basketball games”. Many had older 

brothers who preceded them at St. 

Charles. Rieser’s two brothers, Howard 

’37 and Frank ’41, were St. Charles grads. 

While some eighth graders enjoyed 

skipping a grade, the decision brought 

with it some sacrifice. Those who skipped 

their freshman year were expected to 

focus all their time and attention on their 

studies, and weren’t permitted to play any 

sports at all. If you agreed to skip you 

agreed to forego athletics. 

Fr. John Fulcher, Class of ’48 and 

1944 Latin school grad, had always considered 

becoming a priest in respect of his 

parents and pastors. He grew up in North 

Columbus and attended Cathedral school 

his 7 th and 8 th grade years. One of eight 

children, his four brothers all attended St. 

Charles. His oldest brother was George A. 

Fulcher, a 1940 prep school graduate and 

1944 college grad. Ordained a priest in 

1948, George served at St. Joseph Cathedral, 

was pastor of St. Anthony Parish, 

and editor of The Catholic Times. He was 

consecrated auxillary bishop of Columbus 

and later became bishop of the Lafayette, 

Ind. Diocese. Other Fulcher brothers — 

Bill ’42, Dick ’46, and Edward ’54 are St. 

Charles graduates. 

“My mom and dad thought this was 

the greatest thing that could ever happen 

to us that we were going to St. Charles,” 

Jack Fulcher said. Commenting on his 

Latin School experience, he said: “I’m 

telling you we had very good preparation 

for high school and college. You didn’t 

have to be a genius or anything, but you 

had to be ready to study!” 

Because of the quality of education at 

Cathedral School, Fulcher said, “We were 

in very good shape before we started there 

(at St. Charles),” Fulcher said, He was 

given the option to skip his freshman year 

at St. Charles, but his parents had different 

ideas. “There was no way my mom 

and dad would be in favor of us taking a 

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Alumni News 

From the director’s chair: 

Saving school friendships 

By Louis J. Fabro ’83 

Oftentimes it’s not until we lose something 

do we realize its true value. 

Friendships we forge in high school is 

one such example. Fortunately, a friend 

isn’t lost forever — thanks to a tradition 

called the Class Reunion. 

I’ve been working to help ten classes 

make arrangements for their fall and 

summer reunions. They all will hold 

celebrations here on the St. Charles 

campus where many reunion committee 

members say they spent their most 

important four years together. The men 

on these reunion committees spend a lot 

of time telling old stories. Their eyes light 

up with talk of “Mouse”, and the old cars 

they drove. Their faces break into wide 

smiles when they reminisce about athletic 

triumphs over rivals Watterson and 

Aquinas. Together they shared the 

mundane. Together they won great 

victories. Together they suffered defeats 

and heartache. Together they sat 

through class lectures. And together they 

prayed in Mother of Mercy Chapel. 

Having attended many class reunions 

as the school’s alumni director, I’ve seen 

firsthand the bond of friendship that faded 

over time and distance magically renewed 

among old classmates. I wish more alumni 

could enjoy this unique experience. Sadly, 

many don’t attend their reunions for a 

variety of reasons, ranging from practical 

to simply indifference 

In the January issue of America 

magazine, Fr. James Martin wrote about 

his 25-year class reunion and how he 

almost talked himself out of going. Like 

many people, he thought of many reasons 

not to go, but he eventually relented. “I 

set out, knowing that a few friends would 

be there, but otherwise unsure of what 

awaited me.” 

During the course of the night he met 

with many friends whom he’d lost touch 

with after graduation. He said that by the 

end of the evening he “began to see how 

limited I had been in truly appreciating 

my friends.” 

Martin said “On the way home, I had 

an epiphany of sorts. Here were so many 

good people who were part of my life…The 

ones who lent me their notes, studied 

with me, commiserated over bad test 

grades, congratulated me when I did well, 

and helped me to dream about the future.” 

He says he realized that “this was one 

way God cared for me when I was young. 


Here were people God placed in my life to 

teach me about love and friendship. It was 

a reminder that God does this constantly, 

for us all, whether or not we enjoyed high 

school or college, or even enjoy our lives 

today. God is continually placing people in 

our lives to help us along the way.” 

At St. Charles we are taught to be 

men of God. We go on to be leaders in our 

parishes, civic communities, and workplaces. 

Look back with an open heart and 

mind and you’ll realize just how much 

your friends, teachers, and coaches helped 

you become the men you are today. 

St. Charles awaits your return with 

pride and joy. You graduates mean very 

much to us! 

Value of the Alumni 

Association 

By Marion Smithberger ’72 

After two enjoyable 

years, this will be 

my last column as 

president of the St. 

Charles Alumni 

Association. My 

term expires in 

May, but I will 

continue as an 

Marion Smithberger ’72 

active member 

under the very 

capable leadership of Father Fred Loyd 

’62, our incoming president. 

Serving as president provided me a 

good opportunity to work with many St. 

Charles graduates, who, but for my 

involvement with the Alumni Association, 

I would have had no reason to know. 

A St. Charles education has been a 

great gift to many, including me, over the 

years. It has provided an opportunity for 

young men, regardless of their familys’ 

means, to receive a high quality education. 

It has allowed them to position 

themselves for admission to top universities 

if they worked hard and had the 

intellectual skills to be admitted. No 

qualified Catholic student has been turned 

away from St. Charles because his family 

could not afford the tuition. 

Although we are very proud of the 

education students receive, we believe the 

values young men are taught here are 

equally important. Of course we wish 

success and happiness for every graduate, 

but we would call ourselves a failure if we 

had not nurtured Christ’s message in our 

students. Ultimately, faith is a gift from 

God, but we have a role to play. St. 

Charles is committed to developing 

Catholic leaders, whether they ultimately 

choose to serve in Columbus, Washington 

D.C., or Riyadh. 

We’ve worked hard to assemble a 

strong Alumni Association with a range of 

committed people who represent a wide 

spectrum of different classes. Each brings 

unique talents to the table. Our members 

are committed to helping tomorrow’s St. 

Charles student receive the best education 

we can deliver; people who want to 

sustain alumni friendships. 

The restoration of our Alumni Association 

(which had its origin in1927) was a 

labor of love for George Gugle III. It has 

continued to make great strides under the 

able leadership of Louis J. Fabro ’83. As 

wonderful as our volunteers are, no one 

should have any illusion that we could do 

this without their critical staff support. 

There are many ways to give back to 

St. Charles. You can make a financial gift 

to the school; you can volunteer your 

talents, just as Ryan Sullivan ’91 has with 

the school’s website; and you can attend 

our alumni events such as our golf outing, 

softball tournament, our First Friday 

Masses, or our homecoming party. 

While I loved St. Charles before I got 

involved, the alumni I came to know 

Alumni Association 

governing board 

Officers 

Chairman – Rob Ryan ’89 

President - Marion Smithberger ’72 

Vice-President- Rev. Frederick Loyd ’62 

Secretary/Treasurer –Joe Wolf ’87 

Chaplain – Rev. Michael Reis ’59 

Members 

Homer Beard ’46 

Deacon Paul Belhorn ’59 

Gerard Barrow ’72 

Philip Caito ’72 

Kevin Conners ’77 

John Daulton ’92 

Dave Dorward ’59 

Mike Giasi ’96 

Jack Gibbons Jr. ’81 

Colby Grimes ’46 

Tim Klunk ’75 

Steven Meier ’81 

Andy Piccolantonio ’97 

Michael Probst ’89 

George Rieser ’46 

Bob Selhorst ’74 

Matt Weger ’89 

Ex-Officio 

Principal – Dominic J. Cavello ’64 

Chief Development Officer – 


Director of Alumni Affairs and 

Communications – Louis J. Fabro ’83 

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Alumni News 

increased the depth of my commitment to 

the school. For that I am grateful and glad 

to have had their friendship and support. 

I am also grateful for the special support 

that I received from my classmates, the 

very small Class of 1972. 

The St. Charles Alumni Association, I 

believe, is only a mustard seed of what it 

will be some day. An alumni job network, 

along with more and better alumni 

events, is clearly in our future. Belonging 

to the Alumni Association has been one 

way for me to repay, in a small way, what 

St. Charles has done for me. 

Alumni Mothers celebrate 

In what many hope will become an annual 

event, more than 90 women attended the 

St. Charles luncheon for mothers in the 

Campus Theatre Cavello Center last 

October. It was organized to bring together 

alumni mothers to socialize, enjoy 

a light lunch, and see the many campus 

improvements. 

The idea for an alumni mothers 

reunion has been suggested periodically 

during the past 20 years to allow women 

to renew friendships made while their 

sons attended St. Charles and they did 

volunteer jobs like working cafeteria and 

bingo. Kathleen Cavello, mother of 

Dominic ’93 and Chris ’91, said the idea 

resurfaced again at the St. Charles feast 

day Mass reception in 2002 when Molly 

Snell (Steven ’01) and Anne Park (Greg ’99 

and Jeff ’95) brought up the idea. It took 

hold, a committee was formed, and the 

event finally became reality. 

Those who helped plan and run the 

first luncheon included: Cavello, Park, 

Rita Ciancetta, Paulette Conlisk, Mary 

Marg Drumheller, Mary Lou Rahde, 

Sheila Reiner, Molly Snell, Debbie 

Southworth, Joni Warren, Cathy Wickert, 

Carole Winkel, and Mary Zeehandelar. 

The afternoon social started with 

warm greetings, fond memories, and cold 

mimosas. The program included brief 

Prizewinners 

Shirley Powers, left, and Mary Fabro wait to choose 

their raffle prizes at the alumni mothers luncheon. 

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Planning Committee 

Luncheon organizers included from left, front — 

Paulette Conlisk and Molly Snell; 2nd row – Debbie 

Southworth, Rita Ciancetta, Kathleen Cavello, and Mary 

Zeehandelar; back row — Joni Warren, Anne Park, Mary 

Lou Rahde, Sheila Reiner, and Cathy Wickert. Not 

shown are Mary Marg Drumheller and Carole Winkel. 

Enjoying the luncheon 

From left, seated Jenni Workman and Pam Dunigan; 

standing —Marialice Bennett, Janice Benjamin, Dominic 

J. Cavello, and Mary Tracy. 

remarks by Kathleen Cavello, Msgr. 

Thomas Bennett, and Dominic Cavello. 

The ladies enjoyed a lunch of chicken 

salad, fresh fruit, hot tea, and desserts, 

catered by Bob Selhort ’74 and his company, 

Mass Appeal. Twenty-six door prizes 

were drawn and student Frank Zonars ’03 

provided keyboard music for the reception. 

Mothers from classes back to the 60s 

attended. While invitations were sent out 

to alumni mothers from the last ten 

years, an effort was made to get some of 

the ‘pioneer’ moms to attend. The 

Cavellos spent much time searching old 

records for addresses for those ladies, and 

invitations were sent to all that could be 

found. The hope is that more will be 

found for the next event, scheduled for 

Sunday, October 24, 2004. 

Jack Ryan Invitational 

set for June 21 

The Jack Ryan Invitational Golf Tournament 

will be played this year starting at 1 

p.m. on Monday, June 21 — one week 

later than in past years. The annual 

event provides ongoing financial support 

for the school’s Jack Ryan Training and 

Fitness Facility and will once again be 

hosted at the Granville Golf Club in 

Granville, Ohio. The four-man scramble 

includes competitions for closest to the 

pin, longest putt, and longest drive. 

Dinner will be in the delightful Granville 

Inn. 

Reservations are $250 per person or 

$1,000 per foursome. They include a 

round of golf, cart, lunch, door prizes, and 

dinner. You and your company also are 

invited to become a hole sponsor for $250. 

Donations for raffle gifts also are welcome. 

To participate and for more information, 

please contact Louis J. Fabro at 

614-252-9288, ext.21 or by e-mail at 

lfabro@cdeducation.org. 

Class Reunions in 2004 

Contact St. Charles alumni director 

Louis J. Fabro ’83 for more information 

on your class’ reunion activities 

at lfabro@cdeducation.org or by phone 

at 614-252-9288 ext. 21. 

The 2004 Platinum Reunion will be 

held Thursday, June 10 to honor all of the 

school’s earliest graduates and remember 

the school’s alumni and teachers who 

have passed away. All graduates, former 

students, and their spouses and families 

from the classes of 1927-1953 are invited. 

The invitation also extends to graduates 

and former students of the College 

and Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo. 

In addition, surviving spouses of deceased 

alumni from those early classes are 

invited as a tribute to their husbands and 

to see old friends. 

The reunion begins with Mass at 11 

a.m. in Mother of Mercy Chapel, followed 

by a complimentary luncheon at noon in 

the Campus Theatre Cavello Center. 

Priests are encouraged to concelebrate 

the reunion Mass. 

The Class of 1949 will celebrate its 

55-year anniversary June 11–12, 2004. 

Tentative plans call for a golf outing 

Friday morning and an informal social 

that evening at Plank’s Café. Saturday’s 

activities will include the Aquinas College 

High School Class of 1949. There will be a 

Mass in Mother of Mercy Chapel followed 

by a reception and dinner in the Cavello 

Center. The St. Charles reunion committee 

includes Bill Bringardner, Bob Albert, 

Msgr. Kenny Grimes, and Lou Fabro. 

Harry Erb is coordinating the Aquinas 

grads. 


50-year anniversary Aug. 13–14–15, 2004. 

It has tentatively scheduled a round of golf 

Friday morning and an informal get 

together that evening at the Hilton. 

They’ll be back on the links Saturday 

morning before gathering at St. Charles 

that afternoon for Mass in Mother of 

Mercy Chapel. A cocktail reception and 


dinner will follow in the Cavello Center, 

and entertainment will be provided by Joe 

Dunlop. A brunch will be held Sunday at a 

classmate’s home. The reunion committee 

includes John Mullin and Jerry Strelecky. 

( Mullin said the class will be reminiscing 

about the time baseball coach Jack Ryan 

sent Max Miller to the plate without a 

bat… and how Max got walked!) 


45-year reunion Oct. 22-23, 2004. Friday 

night’s activities may be held in conjunction 

with the St. Charles-Watterson 

football game and the St. Charles Alumni 

Association’s Homecoming cookout and 

pizza party. Early plans for Saturday are a 

class Mass celebration in Mother of Mercy 

Chapel followed by a reception and dinner 

in the Cavello Center. Specifics will be 

announced later by Dave Dorward and 

Bob Moses. 


40-year anniversary July 2-3, 2004. A stag 

event is slated for Friday night. Activities 

Saturday include a class Mass in Mother 

of Mercy Chapel to be followed by a 

cocktail reception and sitdown dinner in 

the Cavello Center. The reunion committee 

includes Dominic Cavello, Jim Dill, 

Paul Duffy, and Msgr. Paul Enke. 


30-year anniversary Sept.10-11, 2004. On 

Friday evening, events kick off with a 

tailgate party at the SC vs. Bexley home 

football game and will continue at Plank’s 

Café afterwards. Saturday’s activities 

include a class Mass in Mother of Mercy 

Chapel followed by a cocktail reception 

and dinner in the Cavello Center. Specific 

details are being worked out by reunion 

committee members Chuck Gehring and 

Bob Selhorst. 


25-year anniversary July 23-24, 2004. It 

begins with a stag event Friday night at 

the Polaris Quaker 

Steak and Lube 

restaurant starting 

at 6 p.m. Saturday’s 

activities start with 

a class Mass in 

Mother of Mercy 

Chapel; that will be 

followed by a 

cocktail reception 

and buffet dinner in 

the Cavello Center. 

The reunion 

committee includes 

Andy Baumann, 

Dennis Durbin, Bob 

Horner, Thom 

Milem, Tim Pierce, 

Dave Pemberton, 

Jr., Ralph Recchie, 

Dr. Andy Stein, and 

Paul Woodruff. 

The Class of 

1984 will celebrate 

Carolian Reunion 

Members of the Class of 1948 celebrated their 55-year anniversary with their wives at a 

traditional location: Plank’s Café on Parsons Avenue (which was founded by Walt 

Plank, Class of ’41.) From left, top row — Dick Fenlon, Joe Beshara, Al Bell, Bob 

Gable, Ted Sayer Jr., Msgr. Tom Bender, and Larry Stember Jr.; middle — Roberta 

Fenlon, Marilou Beshara, Jean Bell, Adelaide Gable, Aloyse Sayer, Dr. Richard 

O’Brien, and Jim Doyle; bottom — Bernadine Fox, Tom Fox, Alicia Dee Finneran, 

Russ Finneran, and Rita O’Brien. 

its 20-year anniversary July 9-10, 2004. A 

golf outing Friday morning and a stag 

event that evening at Plank’s Café are 

planned. Saturday’s activities will include 

a class Mass in Mother of Mercy Chapel 

followed by a cocktail reception and buffet 

dinner. The reunion committee includes 

Brian Franz, Andy Hughes, Scott Kays, 

Grant Kelley, Jeff Klingler, Brian Stiltner, 

and John Tiberi. 


15-year anniversary Aug. 27-28, 2004. It 

tentatively plans a Friday night stag party 

at Plank’s Café. A golf outing is listed for 

Saturday and will be followed by a class 

Mass in Mother of Mercy Chapel, cocktail 

reception, and buffet dinner in the Cavello 

Center. The reunion committee includes 

Todd Gummer, Tony Martin, Ralph 

Napolitano, and Jason Younger. 


10-year anniversary 

on June 4-5, 2004. 

It begins with a 

Friday night stag 

party at Plank’s 

Café. A golf outing 

will be held Saturday 

morning 

followed by a class 

Mass in Mother of 

Mercy Chapel and a 

cocktail reception 

with appetizers in 

the Cavello Center. 

Silver Anniversary 

Members of the Class of 1978 took time out from their 25-year reunion celebration last 

September to pose for this picture in front of the school. From left, first row — Tim 

Rubadue, Christopher Holgate, Al Bell, Rob Brisley, special guests Msgrs. Thomas 

Bennett and F. Thomas Gallen, Sean Cull, Ted Ryan, and J. David Ryan; second — 

Jason Plank, John Mackessy. Pat Kelley, Dr. Chris DeFiebre, Scott Postma, Steve Shea, 

Tom Kessler, Mark Kraus, Dr. Barry Backiewicz, Ed Hoffman ’68 (former faculty 

member), Ed Fitzpatrick, and Doug Stein; top — Rev. Mr. Mike Lumpe, Joe Wirthman, 

Mark Schirtzinger, Bill Nye, Dr. Julian Kim, and Ray Zanon 

The reunion 

committee includes 

Brad Chelton, Alex 

Loehrer, Bob 

Mayhan, Andy 

MacKinnon, and 

Brian Murphy. 

Fall Reunions 

1948 

The Class of 1948 held its 55 th reunion 

Friday, Dec. 5 at Plank’s Café on Parsons 

Ave. Eleven classmates and nine wives 

were on hand to enjoy dinner and an 

evening of camaraderie. Russ Finneran 

treated the group to updates on their 

classmates which he’d compiled through 

much effort. He already is hard at work 

seeking volunteers to help with plans for 

the class’ 60-year event in 2008. 

1968 

The Class of 1968 gathered to celebrate its 

35-year anniversary Aug. 23, 2003. John 

Gideon organized the activities, which 

included an afternoon tour of the renovated 

St. Charles campus followed by 

dinner hosted by classmate Paul Mahler 

at his home. 

Still going strong 20 years later. 

Members of the Class of 1983 who returned to St. 

Charles last September to celebrate their 20-year 

anniversary are from left, first row — Kevin Shannon, 

Tim Rankin, John Knapp, Ed Mueller, and Jeff Kuzma; 

second — assistant principal Jim Lower, Joe Isbell, 

Louis J. Fabro, Mitch Barnes, Bill Sharpe, and Jay Kratz; 

top — Andy Carr, Dan Sullivan, Dr. Tim Freeman, Ron 

Thomas, and Nick Wiggins. 


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Alumni News 

1978 

A round of golf at the Columbus Country 

Club kicked off this silver anniversary 

celebration on Friday, Sept. 26. Many 

other ’78 classmates gathered that 

evening at the Cavello Center on the 

campus for a stag party held in conjunction 

with the school’s homecoming festivities. 

Msgr. Gallen celebrated Mass for the 

class and their guests in Mother of Mercy 

Chapel, which was followed by a tour of 

the campus. A cocktail reception and 

dinner were held in the Cavello Center. 

Reunion committee members included: 

Barry Backiewicz, Sean Cull, Pat Kelley, 

Julian Kim, Chris Mahler, John 

Mackessy, and Doug Stein. 

1983 

The class kicked off its 20-year reunion on 

Friday, Sept. 19, 2003 with a stag party at 

a traditional St. Charles gathering destination: 

Plank’s Café on Parsons Avenue. 

Classmates gathered Saturday afternoon 

at St. Charles for a class Mass celebrated 

by Father Fred Loyd ’62. After a school 

tour they enjoyed a cocktail reception and 

dinner. 

A special thanks goes out to Joe Isbell 

for graciously providing the services of 

Bravo! Restaurant for the evening’s 

festivities. Reunion committee members 

included Tim Freeman, John Knapp, Jay 

Kratz, Tim Rankin, Kevin Shannon, Louis 

Fabro, and Joe Isbell. 

Upcoming Alumni 

Association Events 

Alumni Softball Tournament 

The St. Charles Alumni Association’s 

annual Alumni Softball Tournament will 

be Saturday, July 24, at 9 a.m. and includes 

an afternoon picnic. Games this 

year will be played at St. Charles and 

Wolfe Park and plans are underway to 

hold a Faculty-Alumni game on Friday 

night, July 23 at the school. Individual and 

team reservations can be made by e- 

mailing Joe Wolf at jwolf14@insight.rr.com. 

First Friday Masses 

Join the Alumni Association for First 

Friday Mass at 7:30 a.m. in Mother of 

Mercy Chapel each month. A light breakfast 

and warm camaraderie is always 

provided afterwards in the Alumni and 

Development Office’s conference room. 

Coming this Fall 

The Alumni Association will sponsor two 

special events this fall: Homecoming and 

The Alumni Golf Outing. 

The Homecoming celebration will be 

held in conjunction with the Cardinal 

football team’s game vs. Bishop Watterson 

on Friday, October 22. A tailgate cook-out 

will be held before the game along the 

North side of the Campus Theatre at 6 

p.m. A pizza party will follow the game in 

the Campus Theatre’s Cavello Center. 

While no specific date has been set for 

the golf outing, it will probably take place 

in late September or early October. Read 

about last year’s event in this edition of 

the Cardinal and look for more details in 

our fall edition. 

Mothers of Alumni Luncheon II 

Ladies, mark your calendars! Based on 

the success of last year’s event, plans are 

being made for the 2004 St. Charles 

Alumni Mothers Luncheon. It is tentatively 

planned for Sunday, October 24th at 

1:30 p.m. and will be held in the Campus 

Theatre’s Cavello Center. The luncheon 

committee includes Kathleen Cavello who 

invites those interested in volunteering to 

contact her at 614-237-9572. More information 

to follow in the fall edition of the 

Cardinal. 

Reunion for 1929-53 

alumni set for June 12 

St. Charles Preparatory School will host 

the 2004 Platinum Alumni Reunion 

Thursday, June12, on the campus at 2010 

E. Broad St. All graduates and former 

students from the classes of 1929 to 1953, 

and their families, are invited. 

Surviving spouses of deceased alumni 

from those classes also are invited as well 

as all graduates and former students of 

The College and Seminary of St. Charles 

Borromeo and their families. 

The reunion begins with Mass at 11 

a.m. in Mother of Mercy Chapel (lower 

chapel), followed by a luncheon at noon in 

the Cavello Center on the lower level of 

the campus theatre. All diocesan priests 

are invited to concelebrate the reunion 

Mass. 

Please call the school’s Alumni and 

Development Office for extra assistance. 

For those in wheelchairs or on crutches, 

the school has a new chair lift for the 

chapel steps to allow easy access. 

A postcard invitation will be mailed in 

late April, but mark your calendars now. 

For more information, contact Louis J. 

Fabro in the Alumni and Development 

Office by phone at 614-252-9288, or e-mail 

lfabro@cdeducation.org. 

Grad creating new St. 

Charles website 

A newly redesigned 

St. Charles website 

is up and running 

at www.stcharles 

prep.org. Its goal is 

to better serve the 

entire St. Charles 

community 

through useful 

features and a 

sleek new look. 

Ryan Sullivan ’91 Ryan Sullivan ’91, 

the site’s creator, has devoted months of 

work to the project. 

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Auction raises $90,000 

The St. Charles Mothers Club raised 

nearly $90,000 for the school at its Cardinal 

Christmas Silent Auction last December. 

The event at the Hyatt on Capitol 

Square drew a festive crowd of celebrants 

who enjoyed a social hour, cocktails, 

dinner, and silent and live auctions. 

The success of the auction was due in 

large part to the generosity and work of 

many people. They include: Kathleen 

Thon, Debbie Jokovich, and Liz Heller 

who co-chaired the event. Cherri Taynor 

of the alumni and development office 

helped the co-chairs with gift tracking and 

acknowledgements, among many other 

tasks. 

We would also like to acknowledge the 

contributions of the following volunteers 

and their committees: Karen Pagnotto, 

Bob and Mary Ginn Ryan, and to Dan and 

Chris Tarpy, Mark and Denice Meadows, 

Terri Abel Vaccaro, Andrea Mackessy, 

Karla Croswell, Jeanne Bennett, Tricia 

Yurkovich, Tom Thon, Michael Jokovich, 

and Kathleen Cavello. Also deserving 

thanks is Gail Hogan who donated her 

special talent to serve as mistress of 

ceremonies. 

2004 Silent Auction committee chairwomen Debbie 

Jokovich, Kathleen Thon, and Liz Heller. Photo by Will 

Shilling. 

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Silent Auction - Christmas Camaraderie 

The Mothers Club annual Cardinal Christmas festivity was held last December at the 

Hyatt on Capitol Square. It was a huge success, raising $90,000 for technology 

upgrades and capitol improvements at St. Charles. 

Seated from left — Carrie Reis, Mike Baumann ’63, and 

Jan Rothe; Standing — Andy Reis ’86, Pat Baumann ’92, 

Amy and Jim ’88 Greenhalge, and C.J. Baumann ’03 

From left — Patrick J. Norton , Jack M. Marmion Jr., and 

Michael Kelty 

Joanne and Paul Hemmer ’76, and Cindy Kelley 

From left — Fr. Bill Arnold ’70, Mark Klingler ’80, Bart 

Mahoney, and Bert Vonderhae 

From left — John and Mary Ann Heffernan, Susan and 

Pat Dugan 

From left — Paula and Mike Scurria, Mark and Nina 

Ansel 

Seated from left — Jeanne Sweaney, Cindy Sheets, 

Shelly Woodruff, and JoAnne Dulinski; Standing — Dr. 

Richard Sweaney, David Sheets, Paul Woodruff ’79, and 

David Dulinski. 

From left — George ’58 and Marianne Vargo, Chuck and 

Candy Stein 

From left — Dr. Harvey and Kathy Vesha, Leslie Taylor 

and Nicholas Vesha ’98 

Seated from left — Lauren Probst, Susie Probst, Erica 

Probst, and Vicki Probst; Standing — David Probst 

’91,Chad Richards, Mike Probst ’89, and Dr. Stephen 

Probst. 

Photos courtesy of Finocchi Photography 


Seated from left — James and Aida Gerbec, and 

Deborah and Paul Gabriel; Standing — Dr. Karl and 

Michelle Pappa, Marilyn and Michael Haufe, and Lynn 

and Steve Musto 

From left— Gail and the Hon. Judge Daniel Hogan, and 

Terry Conlisk 

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Alumni News 

Premiere Movie Event 

Nationally-known author and film director Peter Hedges was on hand for the Gala Ohio Premiere of his United 

Artists movie release, Pieces of April, at the Arena Grand Theater. The event, held last October, was a fund-raiser for 

the St. Charles track and field team. 

From left, Barb McVicker, Betsy Frerking, and 

Dr. Ty Frerking 

From left, Ryan McVicker, Peter Hedges, Barb and Dr. 

Robert McVicker 

From left, Nina Alexander, Tom Withgott, Janet Finn, 

Mike Finn ’61, Jim Finn ’65, and Maureen Finn Withgott. 

From left, Jim Finn ’65, Marsha and Tom Horvath ’65 

From left, Liz Heller, Jack and Alice Heller 

Msgr. F. Thomas Gallen ’40 and John Mackessy ’78 

From left, Alex Evans, Peter Hedges, Mary Clare and 

Dan Evans. 

From left, Kathy and John Callahan, Fred Holdridge, 

Bonnie and Terry Jones 

From left, Katie Koakley, Kelly Heegard, Cindy and Al 

Hostetler 

From left, Ryan ’91 and Diana Sullivan, Frank ’74 and 

Kitty Whyte 

Alumni and Monthly Activities 

Updates 

Please keep alumni director Louis J. 

Fabro updated with news on your 

family, career, achievements, 

interesting events, honors, awards, 

etc. As space allows, we will publish 

the information in your Cardinal 

magazine to keep your friends and 

classmates informed about your 

current happenings. 

Monthly updates on St. Charles 

alumni and student activities are 

sent on the school’s database to 

people who are listed with current e- 

mail addresses. If you are not 

receiving these messages and wish 

to get them, please send Lou your e- 

mail address and he’ll get you on the 

mailing list. 

You can reach him by e-mail at 

lfabro@cdeducation.org 

or by phone at 614-252-9288 ext. 21. 

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Alumni Notes 

1946 

Homer Beard served as 

1920s-40s decade captain for 

the 2003-2004 Annual Fund 

drive. He also was presented 

the Principal’s Award for Leadership 

and Service to St. 

Charles during the St. Charles 

Borromeo feast day Mass celebrated 

in the gym on Nov. 4, 

2003. The complete story is in 

this edition’s Honors and 

Awards section on page 

seven. 

1951 

John J. Coughlin owned and 

operated Coughlin’s Pharmacy in 

north Columbus for 20 years and 

is now retired. He earned a pharmacy 

degree from The Ohio 

State University in 1956 and 

managed two Gray Drug Stores. 

He also was a sales representative 

for Eli Lilly and Company 

in the Columbus area for 14 

years. 

Coughlin is past president of the 

Academy of Pharmacy of Central 

Ohio. He was awarded an 

honorary life membership in the 

Academy and its Bill Marks 

Award for community and professional 

service. He’s been 

treasurer of the OSU College of 

Pharmacy Alumni Society and is 

a distinguished alumni award 

recipient of that group. 

Coughlin served two and a half 

years active duty in the U.S. 

Army and, including his reserve 

time, a total of 34 years. He retired 

in 1993 with the rank of 

colonel. 

He and his wife, Suzanne, have 

been married 48 years, are members 

of St. Patrick Parish, and 


live in Worthington. They have 

four children and10 grandchildren. 

1952 

Art Lee passes these wishes 

on to his friends: “May the winning 

spirit of coach Jack Ryan 

fill you all!” 

Tom Ryan served as his class 

captain for the 2003-2004 Annual 

Fund. 

1953 

Hugh Dorrian served as his 

class captain for the 2003-2004 

Annual Fund. 

1954 

Hugh Dorrian ’53 was all smiles when his daughter, Julia, was 

sworn in as a Franklin County Municipal Court judge in January. 

Julie continues the Dorrian family tradition of public service. Hugh 

has served as Columbus city auditor since 1969. His brother, Mike 

Dorrian (Julie’s uncle), who attended St. Charles before graduating 

from Holy Family High in 1948, served many years as a Franklin 

County commissioner. 

Bill Igel was his class captain 

for the 2003–2004 Annual Fund. 

He retired as vice president of 

contract work and sales for his 

family’s business. After graduating 

from St. Charles Igel earned 

a degree in civil engineering at 

the University of Dayton. He 

started in the family business 

digging ditches and through the 

years advanced to superintendent, 

manager, and finally, vice 

president. He and his wife, 

Jeanie Bendele, have six children 

and nine grandchildren. 

Igel has served as president of 

the local Chapter of the Ohio 

Contractors Association; director 

and secretary of the Ohio 

Contractors Association; and 

director of the Builders Exchange 

of Columbus of which 

he was honored with the “Man 

of the Year” award. He has 

served on various committees 

of St. Brendan Parish (including 

several fund drives). He is chairman 

of St. Brendan’s building 

committee. He’s a member of 

several boards, including those 

of the Rosemont Center, the 

Catholic Foundation, and The 

Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. 

1956 

Jim Lehman served as his 

class captain for the 2003–2004 

Annual Fund. 

John J. Piecoro Jr. is a professor 

in the University of 

Kentucky’s College of Pharmacy 

and is UK’s faculty athletics representative 

to the National Collegiate 

Athletic Association and 

the Southeastern Conference. 

He and his wife, Mary, have four 

children and five grandchildren. 

1957 

Dan Connor served as the ’50s 

decade captain for the 2003- 

2004 Annual Fund. 

Jerry Morris served as his 


Annual Fund. 

1958 

George Vargo served as his 


Annual Fund. He also was presented 

the Borromean Medal for 

Distinguished Service to St. 

Charles at the St. Charles 

Borromeo feast day Mass celebrated 

on Nov. 4, 2003 in the 

gym. The complete story is in this 

edition’s Honors and Awards 

section on page seven. 

1959 

Jim Jacobs is a co-founder 

and board member of the Men’s 

Lay Movement in the Archdiocese 

of Saint Paul and Minneapolis 

which addresses the 

needs of adult men hungry for 

spiritual growth. He helps men 

“to look for Christ, encounter 

Him, and love Him in their daily 

life.” He and his wife, Barbara, 

have been married for 34 years. 

They have three married children 

and five grandchildren, with 

a fifth grandson due in May. 

1960 

Ted Hummer served as his 


Annual Fund. 

1961 

’54 classmates living the good life 

Bob Ryan, Don DeShetler, Jim Grace, and John Mullin (l-r) got 

together in February at Greenfield Plantation in Bradenton, Fla. for a 

round of golf and a mini 50-year class reunion celebration. Grace 

and Ryan try to round up any classmates that winter/vacation in 

Florida for golf and good times. 

Michael Finn served as his 


Annual Fund. He’s president of 

Central Power in Columbus and 

lives in Upper Arlington with his 

wife of 12 years, Janet 

Alexander Finn. He has two children 

from a previous marriage 

and three grandchildren. 

Finn earned a degree in education 

from The Ohio State University 

in 1964, graduated from the 

OSU College of Law in 1967, and 

received a masters degree from 

Harvard Business School that 

same year. He worked two years 

at McDonnell Douglas in Huntington 

Beach, Calif., as a financial 

planning analyst and has been 

with the family business in Columbus 

for the last 33 years. 

1962 

Pat O’Reilly served as his class 


Fund. 

1963 

Richard L. Ferris served as his 


Annual Fund. He founded the 

law firm of Ferris and Associates, 

P.C. in 1993 in Williamsburg, 

Va. He concentrates on estate 

and trust planning and estate 

administration. He earned an undergraduate 

degree from the 

University of Dayton in 1967, a 

law degree from Ohio Northern 

University in 1970, and a masters 

in taxation from Boston University 

in 1978. 

After working for the Ohio attorney 

general in its tax section, 

Ferris spent 21 years at Aetna 

Life and Casualty Company before 

retiring in 1992 as vice 

president. During his 32-year 

career he wrote three books on 

estate planning — Legacy, Generations, 

and Love, Money, and 

Control — Reinventing Estate 

Planning. 

Ferris and his wife, Joyce, have 

been married almost 30 years, 

are avid golfers, and enjoy motorboat 

cruising the Chesapeake 

Bay. They live at the Governor’s 

Land Golf and Marina Community 

in Williamsburg and are active 

members of St. Bede Church 

there. 

1964 

Ken Castrop served as his 


Annual Fund. 

Tom O’Leary served as the 

’60s decade captain for the 

2003-2004 Annual Fund. 

1965 

Jim Finn was his class captain 

for the 2003-2004 Annual Fund 

Mike Rafferty is a utilities management 

consultant and lives in 

Jacksonville, Fla. with his wife, 

June, and three sons. 

Family visit 

Capt. Al Schmitt ’55 visited St. 

Charles last summer with his 

sister, Karen Marshall. Schmitt 

is a retired United Airlines pilot 

who lives in Washington. 

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Alumni Notes 

1966 

Dan Howard was his class 


Fund 

1967 

Andy Dick served as his class 


Fund. 

1968 

Paul Mahler served as his class 


Fund. He spent 25 years 

as a financial planner and portfolio 

manager at Smith Barney 

and currently works at Merrill 

Lynch in Upper Arlington. 

He earned a political science 

degree from Loyola University 

in New Orleans in 1972 and is a 

certified financial planner (College 

of Financial Planning Denver, 

Colo.) and a certified portfolio 

manager (Merrill Lynch & 

Co).He and his wife, Susan 

Halverson, have been married 

for 27 years and have four children. 

1969 

Bob Ryan was his class captain 

for the 2003–2004 Annual 

Fund. 

1971 

Sam Wallace continues as a 

professor in the Department of 

Communication at the University 

of Dayton where he says he 

“sees many St. Charles graduates.” 

Francis A. Iannarino currently 

is assigned by Bishop James A. 

Griffin as the full-time chaplain 

at Bishop Watterson High School 

where he has long been a faculty 

member. He is director of the 

Office of the Diaconate for the 

Diocese of Columbus. His parish 

diaconal ministry is at St. 

Brigid of Kildare Church in Dublin. 

Iannarino has spent most of the 

last 30 years in education. He 

taught history at DeSales High 

School in Columbus; history and 

theology at Notre Dame High in 

Portsmouth; and currently 

teaches theology to seniors at 

Watterson where he’s been 

since 1977. Along with teaching, 

he has coached freshmen 

baseball and basketball, and 

varsity golf. 

Iannarino earned a degree in 

history and education from Capital 

University in 1975; a masters 

in education from The Ohio State 

University in 1980; and a masters 

in theology from The University 

of Dayton in 1985. 

He completed formation studies 

in the Columbus Diocesan 

Diaconate School of Theology 

and was ordained a deacon in 

1989 by Bishop Griffin. He and 

his wife, Peggy, have been married 

since 1979, have three children, 

and live in Dublin. 

1972 

Marion Smithberger served 

as his class captain for the 2003- 


1974 

Dr. Bill Buoni was his class 


Fund 

George L. Gugle IV recently 

was appointed associate director 

of stewardship and parish 

development for the Catholic 

Diocese of Columbus to help 

parishes develop capital campaigns 

and stewardship drives. 

He is well known to St. Charles 

alumni for his 15 years of service 

to the school as the development 

director, and later as director 

of alumni affairs and public 

relations. He coordinated the 

makeup and design of the 248- 

page St. Charles 75-year history 

book 

Gugle earned a journalism degree 

in 1979 from Miami University 

in Oxford. He was the advertising 

manager for The 

Times newspaper in Canal Winchester, 

was in advertising 

sales for the Ohio Newspaper 

Association, and handled special 

events and trade show sales 

and management for Mid- 

America Enterprises. He and his 

wife, Kristy, live in Grandview. 

They are members of St. Christopher 

Church where he is guitarist 

for the folk group. 

1975 

Rick Mackessy was his class 


Fund. 

Eric Stinson has been living in 

Washington, D.C. for over 20 

years. He’s a sales executive in 

the office furniture industry and 

works primarily with the federal 

government. 

1976 

Paul Kunzen served as his 


Annual Fund. 

1977 

Rick Mackessy was his class 


Fund. 

1978 

Compiled last September on the 

occasion of their 25-year reunion 

Barry Backiewicz is a dentist 

practicing in Gahanna. He is still 

single, an avid Buckeye fan, and 

enjoys all outdoor activities, especially 

golf. 

The Lee family 

Arthur R. “Bobby” Lee and wife, Joyce, with son Joseph and 

daughter, Rachel. 

Mark Baumann and his wife, 

Angi, have three children. Their 

infant son, Max, passed away 

when he was almost 7 months 

old. “Though only on earth a short 

time he still lived a lifetime and 

we are grateful to have had the 

time with him.” Baumann is a 

self-employed plumbing contractor. 

“When I’m not working 

or running between volleyball 

games, basketball games, baseball 

games, dance recitals etc. 

etc. etc., I enjoy playing golf, fishing, 

boating and spending time 

with good friends.” 

Al Bell is vice chairman, chief 

administrative officer, and corporate 

board member for Big 

Lots, Inc. Prior to joining Big Lots, 

he was a writer for Battelle Memorial 

Institute and was a private-practice 

attorney. Bell is 

active with mentoring programs 

and supports students at Capital 

University Law School (his 

law school alma mater), St. Paul 

the Apostle School, Catholic Social 

Services, and St. Charles. 

Bell last June accepted a threeyear 

appointment to St. Charles’ 

Advisory Board. He and his 

wife, Carla, have been married 

for 17 years and live in 

Westerville with their two children. 

Rob Brisley lives in Charlotte, 

N. C., where he is a captain with 

the city’s fire department. He 

serves as the department’s public 

information officer (PIO), a 

role that frequently places him 

in front of news cameras when 

dealing with fires and disasters 

in the Charlotte area. Within 

months of graduating from St 

Charles, Rob enlisted for four 

years in the U.S. Air Force where 

he served assignments in Texas 

and England, working as a 

medic. Rob and his wife, Amy, 

have three daughters. 

Christopher Bryan is the chief 

financial officer in Plant City, Fla. 

22 

St. Charles grad 

featured in Wall Street 

Journal 

The Wall Street Journal devoted 

extensive space in its Jan. 19, 2004 

issue for a major article about St. 

Charles graduate Richard C. “Dick” 

Notebaert, Class of ’65. The mostly 

complimentary article described his 

managerial style and his efforts to 

rescue Qwest Communications 

International Inc. from near financial 

collapse. Qwest is a major telecom 

company based in Denver. 

When Notebaert was hired 18 months earlier (June, 2002) as 

Richard C. Notebaert ’65 

chairman and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications, 

the company was “mired in an accounting scandal and laden with 

debt” ($26 billion), the WSJ writer noted, and the company’s 

shares price had plunged from “a high of $66 in 2000 to just over 

$1 in 2002.” (Business Week described Qwest “a mess” when 

Notebaert was elected CEO.) 

Thanks to a strong turnaround, Qwest’s “prospects are 

looking up,” the Wall Street Journal observed. Its debt has 

been chopped by $8.5 billion, and the company is teaming up 

with another corporation to expand from a regional wireless 

operation in 14 states to a countrywide service. It’s also entering 

the video business and has made a $390 million bid for another 

telecom company. 

“Much of the credit for these changes goes to Richard C. 

Notebaert,” according to the article, which described him as a 

“no-nonsense manager.” In contrast to his flashy predecessor, 

the article continued, Notebaert “resembles a clean-cut Boy 

Scout,” who “favors clothes bearing the Qwest logo – down to his 

pajamas.” The article noted that Notebaert has pushed to 

improve the company’s accounting practices, “shuns consultants 

to help foster change,” and “concedes he has much work to do.” 

His work includes more debt reduction – it’s down to a still 


for Beacon Food Services, Inc., 

formerly located in Dublin. He 

said most of the company’s business 

involves selling meats to 

restaurant chains such as KFC, 

Chili’s, Cooker, Big Boy, etc. “My 

(spare) time is primarily filled with 

raising four children (with his 

wife, Marcia),. helping with 

homework, attending school 

activities (sporting events, plays, 

choir performances, etc.),” he 

said. “I also spend a significant 

amount of time working with the 

church and, when possible, acting 

in plays and singing in various 

functions.” 

Thomas I. Caine IV has been 

a Columbus city firefighter for 

11 years. He’s assigned to Ladder 

15 (the old neighborhood) at 

Nelson and Livingston. He previously 

worked for The Ohio 

State University as an electrician. 

He and his wife, Kim, own 

Caine Properties, residential 

rental properties in Columbus, 

and Caine’s Lawn Service. They 

have been married eight years 

and have three children 

Robert P. Carlisle works for 

the Columbus Division of Fire 

and has a private law practice. 

He graduated from The Ohio 

State University in 1981 with a 

degree in business administration-finance 

and from OSU’s 

College of Law with a Juris 

Doctor. He and his wife, Mary 

Jo Baker, have been married 

since 1988 and have four children. 

Mike Conners is a lead software 

developer at Sterling Commerce, 

where he works on a 

wide variety of hardware/software 

platforms writing primarily 

in Java and C++ programming 

languages. He and his wife, Lori 

Miller, were married in 1997 and 

have two daughters. “Over the 

years I’ve played in rock/blues 

bands but in the past few years 

got interested in Irish traditional 

music,” he said. “I took up the 

Irish Uilleann bagpipes and have 

been playing since ’98, and play 

in a few of the local Irish music 

sessions in town. I won a first 

place medal in a local Feis competition 

in 2001 and occasionally 

go to out-of-town Uilleann 

piper’s gatherings.” 

Sean Cull is pharmacy coordinator 

at Knox County Hospital in 

Mt Vernon. He earned a degree 

in pharmacy from The Ohio State 

University in 1983. He and his 

wife, Mary Jo Essig, were married 

in 1986 and have two children. 

Christopher de Fiebre has 

been an assistant professor for 

the last seven years in the Department 

of Pharmacology & 

Neuroscience at the University 

of North Texas Health Science 

Center in Fort Worth. He earned 

a degree in psychology (minor 

in biology) from the University 

of Minnesota and a Ph.D. at the 

University of Colorado at Boulder 

in pharmaceutical science, 

specializing in neuro-pharmacogenetics. 

He received post-doctoral 

training at the University of 

Florida and worked as a research 

faculty member. He and 

his wife, Nancy Ellen, have a 

son, Kurt. 

Scott M. Engle is an independent 

sales contractor representing 

McNichols Roofing in 

Sunbury, Ohio. He graduated 


in 1983 with a degree in business 

administration. He and his 

wife, Julie, have three children. 

Joe Fawcett had cancer and 

is coming up on his third year of 

remission. He is a born-again 

Christian who, he said “was 

homeless at one time, and then 

another time I brushed cuffs with 

the vice president of the United 

States. I know what it is like to 

be totally unimportant, and then 

to be sought after by the mighty 

and powerful. I have learned 

where to put my hope, faith and 

trust — in God.” 

Ed Fitzpatrick is an English 

teacher at Camden County Technical 

Schools in Sicklerville, N.J., 

where he teaches 9th, 10th, and 

11th graders, and coaches the 

junior varsity basketball team. He 

is the father of two children. 

Mark Alan Gordon is an actor 

and teacher living in New York 

City. He attended the Sundance 

Theatre Institute, where he originated 

the roles of Bob in Chuck 

Mee’s Wintertime and Fabrizio 

in Heather McDonald’s When 

Grace Comes In and then went 

on to perform them for the La 

Jolla Playhouse and at the Long 

Wharf Theatre. Mark also originated 

the role of Daniel in Available 

Light at Arlington’s Signature 

Theatre. Other original plays 

include Romulus Linney’s 

Ambrosio’s True Crimes. 

Marty Haran is a software engineer 

for a company called 

Tekelec. He previously spent 

two years with Applied Innovation, 

10 years with CompuServe, 

and six years with Dresser Industries. 

He keeps busy working 

out and jogging. “I’ve been 

coaching Little League baseball 

for the last six years and currently 

volunteer help at the food 

bank of North Carolina,” he said. 

He and his wife, Michelle, have 

been married for 15 years and 

have two children. 

Jim Heinmiller is an industrial 

engineer for Boeing Guidance 

Repair Center in Heath. He and 

his wife, Jeanne, have two children. 

He enjoys watching the 

Columbus Blue Jackets (NHL 

hockey), the OSU Buckeyes, 

and his kids’ sporting events. 

Christopher Holgate used to 

sell real estate and was a ski 

bum in Snowmass (Aspen 

’78 graduate Rob Brisley lives in Charlotte, N. C., where he is a 

captain with the city’s fire department. He serves as the 

department’s public information officer (PIO), a role that frequently 

places him in front of news cameras when dealing with fires and 

disasters in the Charlotte area. He’s seen here giving an interview to 

a local news reporter. 

area), Colorado. In 1993 he 

joined Max & Erma’s real estate 

department “where there are 

many connections to St. 

Charles” and is in his third year 

as vice president of real estate. 

He graduated from Ohio State 

University with a degree in business 

administration and a major 

in finance. Holgate was a member 

of the Buckeyes’ varsity 

soccer team and for fun served 

as rush chairman for Sigma Chi 

Fraternity. He snow skis, competes 

in American Rhythm Pro- 

Am ballroom dancing, and still 

plays soccer competitively. He’s 

in his 16th year as a Big Brother 

and third year on the board of 

trustees for Big Brothers Big 

Sisters. 

Jan Jancosek owns an automotive 

repair center and a car 

wash with an emissions station. 

He and his wife, Lisa, have been 

married seven years and have 

two children. 

Pat Kelley is president of Falco, 

Smith & Kelley Ltd, real estate 

brokerage and consulting firm, 

and vice president of Donald W. 

Kelley & Associates, real estate 

appraisal and development. He 

earned a degree in business 

administration and masters from 

The Ohio State University. He 

and his wife, Lisa, have eight 

children. 

Tom Kessler lived in Atlanta 

the last four years where he 

was president of Dynalectric. 

He recently re-located to the 

Westerville area and is employed 

with Dynalectric’s parent 

company, EMCOR, in national 

business development. He and 

his wife, Danita, have been married 

21 years and have two children 

“The children keep us busy 

with sports, dancing, and theatre,” 

Tom said, “but also enjoy 

boating, water sports, fishing 

and golf. We are blessed with 

good health, good friends, and 

a great family.” 

Julian Kim has had a practice 

in surgical oncology and cancer 

research at the Cleveland Clinic 

daunting $17 billion — and dealing with ongoing government 

investigations that were begun before he was hired. 

Asked by the newspaper reporter what he would advise 

CEOs faced with corporate challenges, Notebaert generally 

repeated some of what he said in a 40-minute interview with the 

St. Charles alumni magazine, the CARDINAL, for its fall, 2002 

issue. His advice included “passion for what you do . . .and 

passing the newspaper test,” both of which he said last year “goes 

back to St. Charles.” On the newspaper test, he explained in the 

St. Charles interview (and rephrased for the WSJ,) “if what’s 

written (in the newspaper) bothers me, then I probably shouldn’t 

have done that.” 

As are other regional phone companies, Qwest is challenged 

by increasing competition. To overcome what was described as 

the company’s “terrible reputation with customers,” Notebaert 

emphasizes the need for “outstanding service.” Practicing what 

he preaches, he said people “can send me an e-mail and get a 

response within 24 hours.” 

In response to a WSJ question about ethics, Notebaert 


replied that “every talk I give I talk about ethics. I like to say 

there is a right way to do things.” 

The WSJ interview article was prominently displayed on 

page 1 of the second section and was jumped inside. It was 

illustrated with a three-column sketch of Notebaert; the Wall 

Street Journal rarely prints sketches. A “teaser” paragraph, 

with a reduced version of the sketch, was run on the newspaper’s 

front page to draw reader attention to the article. 

Earlier, the Denver Post daily newspaper reported that 

Notebaert had done “an above average job in guiding Quest 

through what may have been its darkest days.” That verdict 

came after the newspaper last summer polled nine financial 

analysts, 14 Qwest employees and retirees, and 10 state utilities 

regulators and consumers in Qwest’s operating territory. 

Before accepting the challenge at Qwest, Notebaert enjoyed 

a highly successful business career that included 30 years with 

Chicago-based Ameritech. He rose to CEO and board chairman 

of Ameritech before retiring in 1999 after completing the sale of 

that company to SBC communications for $74 billion. 

23

Alumni Notes 

Robert and Lilia Connor 

Mike Lorz ’61 and his uncle, Rev. William J. Connor ’39, visited St. Charles 

last summer to view the Memorial Grove plaque on which the name of 

Connor’s brother, Robert, is engraved. 

Robert Connor attended St. Charles until his junior year before graduating 

from Holy Rosary in 1936. He enlisted in the Marines in 1939 and was 

sent to Shanghai in 1941. 

There he met and married an English-Portuguese woman, Lilia, who 

had been born in China. His regiment was suddenly transferred to the 

Phillipines, leaving his wife stranded. Connor died in a Japanese concentration 

camp following the brutal World War II Bataan Death March in 1942; 

his wife didn’t learn of his death until after V-J Day in August, 1945 when 

Japan surrendered. 

Connor’s parents were unrelenting in efforts to get their daughter-inlaw 

to Columbus united with Robert’s five brothers and five sisters. It took 

six years of wrestling with strict immigration policies to win permission to 

bring Lilia to the United States. Then Columbus Bishop Michael J. Ready 

personally carried a letter of appeal to Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Japan 

and the Connors filled out many forms and wrote countless letters to 

Washington. 

Finally, on October 13, 1947, Lilia arrived in San Francisco aboard the 

USS Mitchell en route to begin a new life with the Connors in Columbus. 

Tragically, she had been infected by tuberculosis before her trip and died 

within a year after making it to Columbus and her new family. 

since 1998. He graduated from 

Miami University (Oxford) medical 

school. He served his general 

surgery residency in Baltimore, 

Md., and relocated to Columbus 

where he completed a 

surgical oncology fellowship and 

was an assistant professor of 

surgery at The Ohio State 

University’s James Cancer Hospital. 

He and his wife, Amy, have 

two children. 

Alan E. Koch works as an assistant 

manager at AutoZone. He 

and his wife, Cecilia, were married 

four years ago in a civil ceremony 

“here in Columbus and 

then one month later in her parish, 

Nossa Senhora Das Dores, 

in Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil,” 

Alan said. “Most of my family 

was able to fly to Brazil for the 

wedding and spend a week exploring 

Campinas and the surrounding 

area. Cecilia and I fly 

down to Brazil at least once a 

John Amnah ’03, on leave from the U.S. Air Force Academy, holds 

the Bible as his uncle, Mike Walsh, was sworn in as mayor of 

Logan, Ohio. The oath of office was administered by U.S. Rep. Ted 

Strickland (r) as Walsh’s wife, Kay, looks on. Photo courtesy of 

Rochelle Hawk, the Logan Daily News. 

year on vacation and to visit her 

family. Last year while on a two 

week European cruise, we 

docked in Antwerp, Belgium and 

attended Sunday Mass at The 

Church of Saint Charles 

Borromeo.” 

Mark Kraus is office manager 

of the Coldwell Banker King 

Thompson real estate office in 

Bexley. He earned a bachelor of 

fine arts degree from Ohio University 

in 1982. He and his wife, 

Susan, have two daughters. 

Arthur R. “Bobby” Lee works 

for FEDEX in Marietta, Ga. He 

and his wife, Joyce, have been 

married for 19 years and have 

two children. 

Brian Lehner has been involved 

in real estate since 

graduating from St. Charles. He 

was an agent with RE/MAX for 

several years before opening 

his own brokerage, Realty Solutions. 

“I have a great office in 

Old Westerville with five agents 

and spend most of my time building 

an investment portfolio,” he 

said. “I often reflect on the lessons 

learned at St. Charles.” He 

and his wife, Kathy, have been 

married 20 years and have four 

children. 

Rev. Mr. Michael J. Lumpe is 

to be ordained a priest for the 

Diocese of Columbus on June 

26, 2004. During his priestly formation, 

he served three years 

as technical director for the 

weekly television Mass, has 

been involved in numerous 

projects to help the poor and 

needy of the diocese, and 

serves Bishop Griffin as his 

master of ceremonies. He 

graduated from John Carroll University 

in 1982, and worked for 

16 years in public and governmental 

affairs with what is now 

Akron-based FirstEnergy Corporation. 

During his career, 

Lumpe held various management 

positions, including director of 

public affairs and director of 

nuclear communications. He 

also was based in Columbus for 

three years as a lobbyist before 

the Ohio General Assembly. 

After a number of years of 

prayer and discernment, Lumpe 

answered God’s call and entered 

the Pontifical College 

Josephinum seminary in 1998 

and was ordained a deacon in 

2003. His summer parish assignments 

as a seminarian have 

included St. Mary Parish and St. 

Francis of Assisi in Columbus, 

St. Edward the Confessor in 

Granville, St. Brigid of Kildare in 

Dublin, and St. Joseph in Dover. 

Lumpe noted that while traveling 

with Bishop Griffin to various 

parishes he has run into 

several St. Charles alumni. He 

asks for your prayers and that 

you pray for more vocations to 

the priesthood because, he 

noted, “the number of priests are 

getting fewer each year!” 

Joe Luthman is employed in 

wholesale nursery sales for 

Willoway Nursery in Hilliard. He 

is active with the Central Ohio 

Model Railroad Club. He’s single 

and enjoys volleyball, softball, 

running, cycling, hiking, camping, 

and home improvement. 

John Mackessy served as the 

’70s decade captain for the 2004 

Annual Fund. He has spent the 

last 20 years as an informationsystems 

professional. He is a 

partner with HMB, Inc., an IT 

consulting company that specializes 

in project management, software 

acquisition, and software 

development. It serves a wide 

variety of industries including 

government, public utilities, insurance, 

and retail. 

Mackessy earned a degree in 

mathematics from Kenyon College 

in 1982 and a masters of 

information systems at Northeastern 

University in1988. He 

previously worked for Nationwide 

Insurance, Gates 

McDonald, and General Cinema 

Corp. He lives in Bexley with his 

wife of 19 years, Linda, and their 

four children. They belong to St. 

Catharine parish. 

Chris Mahler was his class 

captain for the 2004 Annual 

Fund. He’s an accountant working 

exclusively with Ohio hospitals 

on Medicare reimbursement 

issues. He and his wife, Elizabeth 

(Beth) Greely, have been 


three children. “Our current 

hobby is attending our children’s 

school and sports functions,” he 

said. “We occasionally run into 

fellow alumni at various school 

sports events.” 

Tony Monaco is a jazz musician. 

In recent years, the Tony 

Monaco Trio has performed at 

every major festival and outdoor 

concert in Central Ohio, including 

the Jazz and Ribs Fest and 

Confest. Monaco’s second national 

release, “Master Chops T” 

was featured in the March 2002 

issue of Jazz Times and climbed 

into the top 10 on the jazz radio 

charts. Later that year, his third 

national release, “Intimately Live 

at the 501” climbed the radio jazz 

charts to #15. Recently he’s 

been endorsed and endorses 

Hammond Organs, joining his 

fellow organ mates Joey 

DeFrancesco, and Jimmy Smith, 

and Jimmy McGriff. Tony now 

travels and plays the “New B3” 

organ. His fourth national release, 

“A New Generation,” is a 

very special release as the recording 

features his Trio along 

with the Joey DeFrancesco Trio. 

Monaco has three daughters. 

Bill Nye founded Nye Tru Landscaping 

in Fountain Hills, Ariz. in 

2000 and is a year-round coach 

of girl’s fast-pitch softball in the 

Phoenix area. He served in the 

U.S. Army from 1979 to 1993 – 

many years as a drill sergeant 

at Fort Sill, Okla., and received 

an honorable discharge as a 

master sergeant. In 1997 he be- 

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Top Gun graduate 

Navy Lt. John Brattain ’91, call sign “Bam!,” at the controls of his F- 

14 Tomcat fighter plane. 

gan a three-year stint as a high 

school teacher and coach. He 

and his wife, Georgia, have 

three children. 

Shawn Nye is a customer service 

supervisor at Medco Health 

Solutions where he’s worked 

for five years. He previously 

worked 16 years at Nationwide 

Insurance. He and his wife, 

Crystal, live in Columbus and 

have three children. 

Jason Plank is administration 

manager at Gap, Inc.’s Direct 

Fulfillment Center in Groveport. 

He earned a degree in accounting 


in 1982 and obtained his 

C.P.A. in 1985. He and his wife, 

Susan, have been married for 

22 years and have two sons 

(one, Alexander, is a sophomore 

at St. Charles, where he plays 

on the football team). Jason enjoys 

golf, exercising, and volunteering 

at St. Charles football 

games concessions. 

Scott Postma works for Heinz 

as a southeast U.S. sales director. 

He began his career in sales 

with various local companies in 


All smiles 

Coleman Clougherty and his son, Cole ’03, enjoyed the alumni 

hockey game last December at Core Comm Ice Haus at Nationwide 

Arena. Cole is a pre-med freshman at John Carroll University where 

he is a member of the hockey team. 

Columbus. He graduated from 

Miami University in 1982 and in 

1986 landed a job with Dial and 

has been in the grocery business 

ever since. Postma’s family 

has moved several times for 

several promotions with companies 

such as Dial, Dannon Yogurt, 

and Frito-Lay. He and his 

wife, Karen, have been married 

20 years and have two children. 

“St. Charles was a great overall 

experience as I tell my kids the 

many stories of the friends I 

made and the many different 

things that happened,” he said. 

“Because of this, I can now appreciate 

the struggles and victories 

my kids experience at their 

school and in their lives.” 

Thomas Rachner, M.D., is 

chief of the department of radiology 

at Memorial Hospital in 

Martinsville, Va. He and his wife, 

Linda, have two sons. Rachner 

enjoys wake boarding, kayaking, 

road and mountain biking, and 

golfing. 

Tom Ritz started a telecommunications 

company, ONcomm 

Communications, over two years 

ago. It’s a full-service telecommunications 

company representing 

various telecommunications 

products and services. 

Those include local landline, 

high-speed data services, wireless, 

business telephone equipment, 

and cabling. He earned a 

degree from Franklin University 

in business management with 

additional majors in accounting 

and finance. He also earned an 

MBA from Capital University. 

Until the mid-80s, Ritz worked 

for his uncle’s road construction 

business, handling most of 

the accounting functions. He 

then joined Central Telephone in 

Chicago as a regional finance 

manager for some three years. 

David Ryan is vice president of 

information services for 

Artromick International, Inc. 

which manufactures medication 

carts for the acute care and 

long-term care markets. David, 

a CPA, spent six years as an 

accounting and information systems 

consultant in the public 

accounting arena before joining 

Artromick 3 ½ years ago. In 2001 

he earned the outstanding technology 

awareness advocacy 

award from the Ohio Society of 

CPAs for his work in the field. 

He and his wife, Christine, have 

a son, Jacoby. 

Ted Ryan has worked within 

the commodity and derivative 

industry for the last 25 years. 

He’s a director of the Stonington 

Institute, an adult and adolescent 

substance abuse rehabilitation 

center in Connecticut. He and 

his wife, Catherine, have been 

married 17 years and have two 

children. They’ve lived for 13 

years in Hawthorn Woods, a 

suburb northwest of Chicago. 

Very involved with his kid’s 

sporting activities, he coached 

his son’s baseball and softball 

teams the last seven years. “I 

continue to enjoy running as I 

did in high school,” he said. “I am 

working on my ninth marathon.” 

Commenting on two Columbus 

Marathons he ran, he said: “It 

was very exciting to run by St. 

Charles on mile two.” He added: 

“We (he and his wife) enjoy returning 

to Columbus and occasionally 

watching a St. Charles 

football game. Catherine and I 

look forward to retaining a residence 

in Columbus — perhaps 

when the kids enter college — 

so we can spend more time with 

family and friends.” 

Mike Scheafer is self-employed 

as a CAD artist for commercial 

piping contractors. His 

wife, Teri, invented the name for 

the company: Bytes to Pipes. 

“Being self-employed has allowed 

me to begin to pursue 

what I have always thought was 

my vocation.” He planned to begin 

graduate school and hopes 

to become a licensed counselor 

and practice pastoral counseling, 

integrating spirituality and 

psychotherapy. “I will also be 

applying to enter the next permanent 

diaconate class in 

2005.” He and Teri have been 


five children. 

Mark Schirtzinger graduated 


College of Pharmacy in 1987 and 

worked for various retail pharmacy 

chains. After graduating 

he became interested in the 

stock market and traded stock 

indexes, and treasury and 

currency futures for nearly 

seven years. He volunteers as 

a co-facilitator for an intensive 

outpatient treatment program for 

the recovery from alcohol and 

drug addiction in the Dayton area. 

He and his wife, Beverley, were 

married in 1987 and have four 

children. 

Steve Shea is founder of 

Clintonville Tax Consulting, Inc. 

and Central Ohio Financial Consultants, 

LLC. Shea is involved 

in the Notre Dame Club of Columbus 

as a board member, treasurer, 

and membership committee 

chairman. 

Bob Shook is owner of Advantage 

Supply & Services, Inc. in 

Columbus. Bob and his wife, 

Dana, have been married 18 

years and have two children. He 

and his wife lead a home-based 

Bible study and are home group 

leaders at Xenos Christian Fellowship. 

“Still playing tennis 

three times a week; also enjoy 

darts and reading,” he said. 

Steve Sims has worked for the 

Kroger Company for 25 years. 

He is based at the Maxtown 

Road store in Westerville. 

Doug Stein is director of development 

at St. Charles and 

Military family 

Kevin Hollyfield ’95 with his 

wife, Kalli, daughter Madison 

Mae and son Coltin Lee. 

serves as senior advisor for 

donor relations at the Catholic 

Foundation. He spent 15 years 

at Ohio State as the advancement 

program director for the 

College of Pharmacy and two 

years as chief fundraiser at the 

Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital 

and Richard J. Solove Research 

Institute. He and his wife, 

Barbara, have been married 18 

years and live in Westerville with 

their four children. Doug’s 

brother, Ray Stein, St. Charles 

’77, last year was named sports 

editor of The Columbus Dispatch. 

Ken Taylor has been serving 

as the co-host of The Screening 

Room with Debbie 

Matenopoulos on The TV Guide 

Channel. He began his career 

as a radio entertainment editor 

and reporter for several radio 

stations in Central Ohio and in 

Los Angeles. He later moved on 

to become a host for E! Entertainment 

Television’s E! News 

Daily where he provided celebrity 

information every day. Tay- 

Bowl of nuts 

Steve Fain ’83 (left), now living in Tempe, Ariz. attended this year’s 

Fiesta Bowl game with three friends: Anisa Alhilala, a co-worker of 

his from Honeywell; Amy Koler, a surgeon from Lorain, Ohio; and 

Steve Meyer, also from Lorain and a former U. of Dayton football 

player. Fain also attended OSU’s 2003 national championship victory 

against the University of Miami 

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Alumni Notes 

lor is no stranger to the big 

screen. He has had actor roles 

in big budget films, including 

Mighty Joe Young and Scream 

3. 

Joe Wirthman runs the 

Wirthman Brothers Auto Parts Inc 

along with several other family 

members. For several years he 

served as the yard foreman 

there. After graduating from St 

Charles he went to work as a 

ranch hand for a friend of the 

family outside of Tombstone, 

Ariz. for three years. He then 

worked for a paper company in 

northern Arizona, and later a 

construction company cutting 

paths for logging roads in national 

forests. 

He and his wife, Cindy, were 

married in 1981 and he later 

adopted Cindy’s one year-old 

daughter, Gina, and moved back 

to Columbus in 1982. They live 

on five acres outside of 

Lithopolis. “I spend a lot of my 

free time taking care of my property, 

three dogs, two cats, two 

ducks, and a game-fish pond,” 

Wirthman said. “My family and I 

enjoy attending my son’s 

motorcross races all over the 

state of Ohio and as far away 

as Michigan and Florida. I also 

enjoy fishing — whenever I can. 

I am also an avid Buckeye fan.” 

Ray Zanon works for a site 

development construction company 

in Bowling Green, Ky. He 

earned a marketing degree from 

The Ohio State University and is 

employed in the sales in the construction-product 

industry. Ray 

and his wife, Ann, have three 

children and live in a 1910 home 

they restored. “I received a wonderful 

high school education at 

St. Charles. And the further removed 

I am from that time, the 

more I cherish it. No matter what 

accomplish in life, nothing will 

compare with being able to say 

that I was once the oldest living 

student at St. Charles,” Zanon 

said. 

1979 

Bob Horner served as his 


Living in LA 

Mike O’Connor ’84 and his 

fiancee, Angela Blevins. 

26 

Annual Fund. 

1980 

Dr. Jim Mackessy served as 

his class captain for the 2003- 


Davis Shea lives with his wife, 

Carolyn, in Ridgefield, Connecticut. 

They moved there from Boston 

three years ago when he 

went to work with Citigroup Asset 

Management. He is director 

of quantitative research and a 

chartered financial analyst. 

Shea worked in the investment 

management business for the 

past 15 years. Prior to that, he 

worked in the software industry 

and worked for several 

years in the Behavioral Neurosciences 

Lab at MIT. He graduated 

from Tufts University with 

a degree in Computer Science 

in 1984. 

Shea and and his wife enjoy traveling 

as much as possible and 

he plays the guitar. “Last Easter, 

Carolyn and I got back into Columbus 

and got to meet up with 

Dave and Karen Lawler, Louis 

Pallay, Scott Schaefer, PJ 

McSweeney, and Mark Batcheck 

for a bit of a reunion,” Shea 

said. 

1981 

Steven Meier served as the 

’80s decade captain for the 

2003-2004 Annual Fund. He operates 

Cardinal Financial Advisers 

in Upper Arlington where he 

began a career in financial services 

in 1986. He is a certified 

financial planner, chartered life 

underwriter, chartered financial 

consultant, and an accredited 

estate planner. 

Meier earned a degree in biology 

from Denison University in 

1985 where he was all-conference 

in track. He spent the next 

year teaching biology at St. 

Charles and coached cross 

country and track. He earned a 

masters degree in financial services 

in 1999 from the American 

College in Bryn Moor, Pa. Steve 

and his wife, Sally, have been 

married 16 years and live with 

their three sons in Upper Arlington. 

They are members of Our 

Lady of Victory Parish. 

Paul Solomon works as a development 

engineer in the aerospace 

industry in Florida. He and 

his wife, Bobbie, were married 

in Mother of Mercy Chapel at St. 

Charles in 1992. She is a task 

force agent with the DEA and 

they have a daughter who is in 

the second grade at All Souls 

Catholic School in Sanford, Fla. 

What is DEA? 

Joe Wagy served as his class 


Fund. 

1982 

Chris Meacham was his class 


Fund. 

1983 

Joe Isbell and his wife, Rani, 

became proud parents of 

daughter Fiona Jude on Sept. 28, 

2003. 

Tim Rankin served as his class 


Fund. 

Bill Werst manages the worldwide 

business for Hewlett 

Packard digital cameras and 

scanners. He and his wife of 13 

years, Julie, have three children 

and live in Fort Collins, Colo. 

1984 

Mike O’Connor “somehow 

ended up in Los Angeles working 

as a film producer making 

music videos and commercials,” 

he said. He holds a science 

degree from The Ohio State University 

(1989) and is getting 

married this June in Los Angeles 

to Angela Blevins, who 

works in the film industry. In their 

free time they try to take advantage 

of the California climate by 

getting outdoors as much as 

possible and also volunteer with 

the Make A Wish Foundation. 

Brian Reis is a licensed insurance 

and real estate agent in 

Columbus. He has two children 

who attend St. Catharine School 

in Bexley. 

1985 

James Heller and his wife, 

Janice, welcomed their first 

child, William James, on Feb. 18, 

2003. 

1986 

Mike Durbin is the chief administrative 

director of the Morgan 

Stanley Individual Investor’s 

Group. He and his wife, Julie, 

and three children live in Darien, 

Conn. 

Dr. Kevin O’Reilly served as 



David Thorton is a partner with 

Crowe Chizek and Company in 

Columbus. He and his wife, 

Christy, have three children and 

live in New Albany. 

Kevin Stinson has been working 

in the in the real estate development/construction 

industry 

for 13 years and currently 

serves as a project manager. 

After graduating from St. 

Charles he served in the U.S. 

Marine Corps for almost four 

years before attending North 

Carolina A&T State University 

where he studied construction 

management. He worked on 

Nationwide Arena in Columbus 

and on one of the biggest Chevron 

Oil refineries on the west 

coast. 

He enjoys rehabbing old houses 

and is building eight houses for 

low-income people living with 

AIDS/HIV. He likes to read, work 

out, attend church and spend 

time with his three children. 

1987 

Ed Hohmann, AIA, served as 


2004 Annual Fund. He recently 

was promoted to director with 

Feinknopf Macioce Schappa Architects 

in Columbus. He earned 

a degree in architecture from 

Yale University in 1991 and a 

masters in architecture from The 

Ohio State University in 1995. 

After spending a year in Krakow, 

Poland researching public housing, 

he returned to Columbus and 

has been a practicing architect. 

He has taught as an adjunct professor 

in the architecture school 

at Ohio State and is a standing 

member of the Diocese of Columbus 

Sub-commission on Art 

& Environment, which reviews 

church design in the diocese. 

He and his wife of eight years, 

Basia, have a son and are expecting 

a second child in the 

spring. They recently moved to 

Jefferson Township near Gahanna 

to be closer to his parents, 

John ’59 and Anne Hohmann. 

They are members of St. Matthew 

parish. 

1988 

David O’Reilly served as his 


Annual Fund. 

Andrew R. Boyle ’01 

1989 

Terry Brennan recently graduated 

cum laude from Temple 

Law School, and works as a 

staff attorney at Fair Share 

Housing Center in New Jersey. 

“We bring fair housing litigation 

throughout New Jersey, enforcing 

the rights of the poor and 

minorities to affordable, integrated 

housing in the New Jersey 

suburbs,” Brennan said. 

“There are three attorneys here, 

and all have come to this work 

because of our Catholic social 

justice values,” Brennan said. “I 

credit Mr. Cassidy’s religion 

class for first steering me in this 

direction!” 

Brennan graduated in 1993 from 

John Carroll University with a 

degree in political science, and 

minors in history and German. 

He earned a masters in German 

in 1995 from Bowling Green 

State University having spent 

his first year studying in 

Salzburg, Austria. From 1995 to 

1996 he worked with homeless 

and formerly homeless persons 

in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in 

the Bronx, N.Y. The next year 

Brennan went back to Austria 

for a year as a Fullbright teaching 

assistant and taught English 

in two high schools near Vienna. 

He returned to New York, and 

began a graduate program in 

political science at the New 

’99 grads Kyle Scholl and Jason Hollern on a recent visit to St. 



School for Social Research, receiving 

a masters in 2000. While 

there, Brennan also directed a 

homeless street outreach team 

in Brooklyn for two years. He 

decided rather than pursuing a 

Ph.D, he wanted to work more 

directly on poverty issues, so 

he went to law school. 

As for free time, he still runs and 

has completed three marathons. 

“I ran track at SC for Mr. (Michael 

C.) Arends,” he said. Still single, 

he sends “My best to all at 

St.Charles. “It will always be a 

special place to me,” he said. He 

lives in Philadelphia and said he 

often sees classmate Devin 

Rice, who lives in Brooklyn. 

Mike Probst served as his 


Annual Fund. 

Ben Recchie graduated in 2003 

from the University of Chicago, 

with a degree in astrophysics 

and is working at that 

university’s observatory, Yerkes 

Observatory, in Wisconsin. “I’ve 

started my own research project 

on a volunteer basis, called 

ARDA (Asteroid Recovery, Discovery, 

and Astrometry),” he 

said. He uses one of the 

university’s telescopes “to 

search for the asteroids and 

comets in our solar system that 

might conceivably hit the Earth,” 

he said. “It’s actually a lot less 

glamorous than it sounds.” he 

confesses. 

“An obligatory thank-you would 

have to go to Dr. (Sarah) 

Vandermeer, for shepherding 

me along in physics for two 

years,” Recchie said. “Doug 

Montgomery, too, for though you 

might think drama has nothing to 

do with science, the theater 

helped me develop public speaking 

skills. And Dr. (Paul M.) 

Jurkowitz, too. I don’t think a day 

goes by when I don’t think about 

something from his senior religion 

class.” 

1990 

Jeff Dodd is working in Cincinnati, 

where he lives with his 

wife, Kristen, and son. 

He earned a Series 7 license and 

has taken additional financial 

securities coursework. Kristen 

is involved in the local BackStage 

Theater and has convinced Jeff 

to participate on a regular basis. 

“I actually enjoy the experience 

immensely, it is a great 

medium for relieving the stress 

of everyday life,” he said. 

Chris Kazor served as his 


Annual Fund. 

1991 

Brandon Belli was as his class 

captain for the 2003–2004 Annual 

Fund. 

Christopher P. Hill and his 

wife, Adrienne, welcomed their 

first child, Gabrielle Elizabeth, on 

Aug. 5, 2003. 

Lt. John Brattain, U.S.N., completed 

the Navy’s prestigious 

TopGun training in Fallon, Nev. 

last September. “I was lucky 

enough to make the very last 

TOPGUN class for F-14 guys 

and graduated this past fall,” he 

said. (The F-14s will be retired 

in several years and ‘replaced’ 

with F/A-18 E/F Super hornets, 

so now only F-18 aircrew have 

the opportunity to attend 

TOPGUN.” He currently teaches 

fighter tactics to fleet aircrew at 

the Naval Strike Fighter Weapons 

School Atlantic based in 

Viginia Beach. 

Brattain graduated from the U.S. 

Naval Academy in 1995 with a 

degree in history and a minor in 

Russian. He started naval flight 

school in the winter of 1996 in 

Pensacola, Florida flying the T- 

34 ‘Mentor’. “My first carrier landing 

was in August of 1998 in the 

Skyhawk on board the John F. 

Kennedy.” He and his wife, 

Chritina, were married that fall 

and moved to Virginia Beach to 

fly F-14 “Tomcats”. 

His call sign is “BAM!” which 

has nothing to do with television 

chef Emeril Lagassi! 

1992 

Paul Vellani served as his class 


Fund. 

1993 

Andy Bartz served as his class 


Fund. He and his wife, Sarah, 

welcomed their first child, 

Bennett Rockwell, on Feb.6, 

2004. 

Jeff Mullenix works as a senior 

business analyst for Nationwide 

Insurance in Columbus. 

He graduated from The Ohio 

State University in 1999 with a 

degree in criminology with a minor 

in sociology. He and his wife, 

Kathryn (Condit), have been 

married two years and became 

the proud parents of Nathan 

Charles Mullenix Dec. 1, 2003. 

Nathan was born six and a half 

weeks early and spent the first 

three weeks in the newborn 

ICU. “Everyone is doing 

well. Nate was home for Christmas 

and is doing awesome.” 

Mike Pione served as the ’90s 

decade captain for the 2003– 

2004 Annual Fund. He works for 

Nationwide Realty Investors as 

a project manager in the 

company’s development and 

construction department, which 

has building projects primarily in 

the Arena District. Pione earned 

a degree in civil engineering from 

Bennett Rockwell Bartz, St. 

Charles Class of 2017 

Ohio University in 1998 and an 

MBA from Capital University in 

2002. He worked for Turner 

Construction for several years 

as a construction engineer and 

superintendent on the Nationwide 

Arena project, the Ohio Stadium 

renovation and expansion, 

and various other projects. He 

lives in German Village and is a 

member of St Mary Parish. 

Ryan Wackerly is practicing 

law in Tucson. He received a 

bachelor’s degree from The Ohio 

State University in 1998 and his 

law degree from OSU in 

2001. Ryan is married to Abbey 

(Cantrell), a Bishop Watterson 

graduate. 

1994 

Gabe Diana deployed to Kuwait 

and Iraq as part of Task Force 

Tarawa in support of Operation 

Iraqi Freedom. He led a rifle platoon 

in combat operations in An 

Nasariyah, Ad Diwaniayah, and 

An Numaniyah Iraq. His wife, 

Lauren, also a Marine officer, 

was deployed to Kuwait as part 

of the Marine Logistics 

Command. She had an opportunity 

to visit her husband in central 

Iraq last April. “My wife and 

I live on Emerald Isle NC, but 

unfortunately are always deployed 

and do not get to enjoy 

our home, which is located three 

blocks from the beach. I think 

often of my experiences at St 

Charles, and the lessons have 

served me well in some very 

(difficult) situations.” 

He earned a degree in history 


in 2001 and was married to 

Lauren in January of 2002. He 

had to report immediately to Marine 

Officer Candidate School in 

Quantico VA and was commissioned 

March 28, 2002. He 

graduated from Infantry officer 

course in late December and 

reported to the 2nd Marine Division 

located at Camp Lejuene 

North Carolina. 

“All my memories are special. I 

think of Mass in the (Mother of 

Mercy) Chapel with Msgr. 

Bennett, Msgr. Gallen, and Fr. 

Arnold. Also the young men of 

St Charles singing the alma 

mater following Mass. 

David Andrew Fetters is currently 

finishing graduate school, 

studying to be a minister in the 

Evangelical Lutheran Church in 

America (ELCA). He graduated 

from Cleveland State University 

in 2001 with degrees in philosophy 

and religious studies. He 

worked four years as a restaurant 

manager at the Spaghetti 

Warehouse in Cleveland before 

attending Trinity Lutheran Seminary 

in the summer of 2001. He 

hopes to begin a year long internship 

next fall. 

Ben Kaltenecker is working in 

Hollywood as a production assistant 

for the company producing 

the new DC Comics cartoons. 

Steven Kane has launched a 

website, www.savewalker 

creek.org, for a project that’s trying 

to save a watershed that 

borders the land where he resides 

near the south coast of 

Oregon. His group, he said, is 

trying to “consolidate ownership 

of Walker Creek Valley in order 

to restore its native old growth 

forest ecology and conserve the 

natural values in perpetuity.” He 

invites all to visit the site and read 

all about their efforts. 

Kane attended The Ohio State 

University from 1993-1995 and 

studied communications and 

natural resource management. 

He moved to Seattle for a few 

years and took some classes at 

the University of Washington. He 

moved to Oregon in July 2003 

and works odd jobs while trying 

to get into the renewable energy 

field (i.e. solar, hydroelectric, and 

wind power). 

His past jobs have included network 

engineer at CompuServe/ 

UUNET/WorldCom in Hilliard and 

Seattle, as an Alaskan salmon 

fisherman, software instructor 

at old North High School in Columbus, 

and a whole host of 

other jobs in between. 

“My proudest accomplishment of 

the last four years was my 2001 

‘Thru-Hike’ of the Appalachian 

Happy Couple 

Adam Saad ’96 married his 

Indiana University sweetheart, 

Jessica Chastain, on Oct. 4, 2003 

at St. Josaphat Church in 

Chicago. 

Trail,” he said. “I traversed 2167 

miles (Georgia to Maine) in five 

months and one day, summating 

Mt Katahdin with two other Cardinals 

(Jon Mess ’93 and brother 

Luke Mess ’00) on my birthday 

just three days prior to Sept 

11th.” 

Alex Loehrer served as his 


Annual Fund. 

James Mulligan lives in the 

Czech Republic city of Prague 

where he works in the theatre 

and teaches. After graduating 

from St. Charles, he earned a 

fine arts degree in theatre at 

Emerson College in Boston. He 

moved to San Francisco and 

went to work for the American 

Conservatory Theatre, before 

moving to Prague last year. 

Jeff Park is a project engineer 

for the Gilbane Construction 

Management Company. He 

works in Cleveland and is a 2001 

graduate of the University of 

Cincinnati. 

All in the family 

Freshman Grant Highley (l) was joined by his brothers, Luke and 

Clint at the alumni hockey game during the Christmas break. Luke 

is a 7th grader at St. Andrew’s and Clint, who attended St. Charles 

for three years, is playing Junior-A hockey for the Greenville Glades. 

Behind the trio is Eric O’Brien ’03, a freshman lacrosse player at 

The Ohio State University. 


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Alumni Notes 

1995 

Matt Baehr served as his class 

captain for the 2003–2004 Annual 

Fund. 

Kevin Hollyfield joined the U. 

S. Air Force in July 1995 and has 

served at several Air Force 

bases around the world. Since 

being reassigned to Minot AFB 

in North Dakota in 2001, he’s 

been deployed in support of 

Operations ENDURING FREE- 

DOM and ANACONDA in Afghanistan, 

and IRAQI FREEDOM. 

He will serve for a year at Osan 

Air Base in South Korea to work 

on the F-16 Fighting Falcon and 

then rejoin his family in Minot in 

February 2005. Hollyfield then 

will go to Lakenheath RAFB, 

United Kingdom for four years 

to work on the F-15E Strike Eagle. 

“From Lakenheath we hope to 

move to Aviano AB, Italy, but that 

is just a hope at this time,” he 

said. 

After basic training Hollyfield 

was reassigned to Shepperd 

AFB, Wichita Falls, Tex. for three 

months of aircraft armament 

systems technical school. He 

graduated at the top of his class 

with full honors. Upon graduation 

he was assigned to Kadena 

Air Base (AB), Okinawa, Japan 

from where he was deployed 

twice to Prince Sultan Air Base, 

Al Kharj, Saudi Arabia in support 

of Operation SOUTHERN 

WATCH. 

He is married to Kalli and they 

have two children, both born in 

Okinawa, Japan and oddly 

enough they were born at the 

same hospital where his father 

worked when he was assigned 

to a holding company during the 

Vietnam war. He’s an active 

youth sports association coach, 

and member of Knights of Columbus 

Council 9839. “Mostly I 

try to spend my free time with 

my family since I spend enough 

away to perform my duties,” he 

said. “This next year will be the 

toughest since I have to serve 

my assignment in South Korea 

alone but I know I will come out 

the better for having done this 

tour.” 

1996 

Mike Giasi served as his class 


Fund. 

Pat Wackerly graduated 

Summa Cum Laude from Notre 

Dame in 2000, spent a year of 

graduate school (in theater) at 

Yale, and is now applying to law 

schools. He’s married to Elaine 

Bonifield, (Notre Dame University 

’00 and Yale University ‘03) 

and lives in New Haven, Conn. 

Lars Mahler invites his classmates 

and friends to contact him 

at his e-mail address: 

larsmahler@yahoo.com. 

Adam Saad married Jessica 

Chastain on Oct. 4, 2003 at St. 

Josaphat Church in Chicago. 

Corey Todd lives in West 

Lafayette, Ind. and is the head 

lab technician at Patriot Engineering 

and Environmental. He 

received a degree in geology 

from Ohio University in 2001. In 

his spare time he helps support 

his girlfriend, Carrie Davis, in 

achieving her doctorate in geology 

at Purdue University. Corey 

is also a member of the Bach 

Chorale Singers, the premier 

community choir in the Greater 

Lafayette area. 

1997 

Majeed Nami graduated from 

The Los Angeles Film School and 

was putting the finishing touch 

on his thesis film, The Other 

Side. It’s a 17-minute 35mm film. 

He attended Miami (Ohio) University 

and earned a degree in marketing 

and a minor in theater. He 

chose what he said is “the creative 

route and went to California 

to pursue my dream …to 

make films anyway possible.” His 

hobbies are watching films, 

video games, and working out. 

Mike Zelina is a mortgage broker 

with aspirations of starting 

his own company. Since graduation 

he’s served in the Marine 

Corps and traveled 

frequently. He bought a house 

last May and lives in Old 

Worthington. He enjoys playing 

all sports, riding motorcross, and 

working on his project car. “I 

bleed scarlet and grey, and have 

been to every Ohio State home 

and away game the past two 

years,” he said. That included 

attending the Buckeyes’ 2003 

national championship game in 

Arizona. “What A Game!!!,” he 

exclaimed 

1999 

Jason Hollern is studying mechanical 

and nuclear engineering 

at The Ohio State University. 

He is working on fuel cell research 

for automotive use, and 

when he graduates in March, he 

hopes to be working with the 

U.S. State Department, at a 

nuclear power plant somewhere 

around the country, or 

Honda Manufacturing. Until 

graduation he works with the 

Ohio Emergency Management 

Agency in the radiation division 

as a resident engineer/intern. 

In his free time he enjoys spending 

time with friends and restoring 

classic muscle cars. Commenting 

about St. Charles, he 

said: “I can’t believe all of the 

changes that has been done to 

the school in the past five 

years!” 

Greg Park graduated Magna 

Cum Laude from Case Western 

Reserve University last May 

with degrees in philosophy and 

psychology (with honors). He’s 

a research assistant in Case 

Western Reserve’s psychology 

department. 

Kyle Scholl is majoring in zoology 

at The Ohio State University. 

He plans to get his degree 

and join the OSU police department. 

Eventually, he would like 

to return to school for a degree 

in wildlife management and become 

a park ranger. 

Scholl is a member of TBDBITL 

(The Best Damn Band In The 

Land – the OSU marching band). 

He will be going into his fourth 

year as an active band member 

and his second term as vice 

president of Kappa Kappa Psi, 

the national honorary band fraternity. 

He works as a student 

supervisor with the OSU transportation 

department on campus. 

Scholl supervises campus buses 

and coordinates all student related 

issues, such as, but not 

limited to, payroll and schedules. 

“I also participate in the Athletic 

Band at Ohio State, which is different 

from the Marching Band,” 

Scholl said. “This band plays at 

men’s and women’s basketball 

games and men’s ice hockey 

games, and includes woodwinds 

unlike the Marching 

Band.,” he said. 

2001 

Andrew Boyle, a short-stick 

defender on the Syracuse University 

lacrosse team, was 

named scholar athlete of the 

week on Feb. 9, 2004. Majoring 

in finance, he also was named 

to the athletic director’s honor 

roll during the fall and spring 

semesters in 2003. Boyle last 

year played in six lacrosse 

games and tallied his first career 

assist against Princeton in 

the NCAA quarterfinals. He 

played football and lacrosse all 

four years at St. Charles. In lacrosse 

he was first-team all- 

Ohio in 1999, 2000 and 2001and 

was team captain his junior and 

senior seasons. 

Pretty as a postcard 

This image graces a postcard featuring the covered 

bridge restored by James Visintine ’59. 

A bridge from the past 

James Visintine ’59 passed away in May of 

2003, but he left behind a work of love 

that continues on for others to appreciate 

and treasure for years to come. 

For two years he worked to move an 

old covered bridge near his home in 

Fairfield County, Ohio, and restore it on 

his property. Using old-fashioned tools and 

his bare hands, plus knowledge and 

experience gained from his family’s 

bridge-building business, Visintine reworked 

the old timbers and restored a 

segment of Americana. 

Visintine and his wife, Susan, moved 

in the early ’60s from Powell, Ohio, to 

a10-acre plot on Tollgate Road in 

Pickerington. An old boy scout bridge that 

crossed the creek that ran in front of the 

property needed to be replaced. 

Nearby was a covered bridge that had 

been damaged by an oversized truck. 

Visintine bought the bridge from the 

township for $1 and set forth one winter 

to dismantle the structure piece by piece 

by hand. After carting the salvaged 

material to his property, he discovered 

there wasn’t enough for his bridge rebuilding 

project. 

But nearby was another covered 

bridge – well known as the Hizey Bridge – 

which was built in 1891 and was then 

closed to traffic. “Evidently the State of 

Ohio loved covered bridges,” Susan said, 

“but hated them for traffic.” 

Visintine set to work by having steel 

pilings sunk into the creek bed to support 

structure. Then he, his son, and son’s 

friend set to work. “They put a brand new 

roof and siding on the structure,” Susan 

said. “The beams are original, and so is 

the gable,” she added. Once, while working 

alone on the bridge rafters, Visintine 

fell and broke his wrist, three ribs, and a 

tibia. He managed to get back to his 

truck where his son found him. He was 

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taken to the hospital but was back at work 

the next Monday. 

When he had completed his project, 

Visintine planned to place on the bridge’s 

gable the name of James W. Buchanan, 

the original builder, “I blew my stack,” 

Susan said. After rebuilding the bridge, 

she felt her husband deserved to have his 

name on it. Tradition dies hard. Because 

of its original location on Hizey Rd, that 

name stuck. It’s now the Hizey-Visintine 

Bridge. 

Visintine’s work won recognition in 

the article, Covered Bridges of Ohio that 

appeared days before his death in the May 

2003 edition of The World & I magazine. 

The article reviewed the history of Ohio’s 

historic covered bridges, many of which 

have been lost because of indifference and 

neglect. 

Many of Ohio’s covered bridges have 

been bypassed or moved to parks, county 

fairgrounds, and college campuses. “Some 

have been rehabilitated at great cost, as 

they are truly treasures of the past that 

cannot be duplicated,” Bridges author 

Jeanne Conte wrote. 

When working on her story about 

Ohio’s covered bridges, Conte, a photo 

journalist, contacted the Visintines and 

said she’d like to produce a postcard of 

their bridge and include it in her article. 

Sadly, Visintine, who was a very stoic 

person, his wife recalled, had just a short 

time to live. As it turned out, he had lung 

cancer. “It was quite a shock when (May 6, 

2003) I was told,” Susan said. “He was 

dead a week later.” It was 12 days after 

their 38 th wedding anniversary and his 

ashes were spread over the bridge and the 

property. 

His wife said her husband saw the 

postcard before he died and was looking 

forward to seeing the article. Copies of the 

article arrived the day of his funeral. As it 

turned out, Conte, the writer, held them 

in her hands when she visited the funeral 

home. Susan didn’t read the article until 

long after her husband’s funeral. The 

account is as follows: 

“An interesting restoration is the 

Hizey-Visintine covered bridge in 

Fairfield, County Ohio, built in 1891 by 

James Buchanan and moved and rebuilt in 

1991 by its new owner, James Visintine. 

The old bridge sagged a little (Buchanan 

always built camber into his bridges, 

tuning them like violins.) Visintine moved 

it piece by piece, rebuilding it over Sycamore 

Creek on his property. He worked 

with simple tools and replaced broken 

timbers with those of like kind.” 

“It’s just beautiful. To sit on the hill 

and look down on this covered bridge, 

which is a dark walnut color, it all blends 

in to the surroundings…There is so much 

peace and serenity out here.” 

According to the story, more than 

5,000 wooden truss-covered bridges were 

built in Ohio, but only 140 remain today. 

As people traveled West by horse and 

wagon through Ohio, there were many 

streams, rivers, and canals to cross. Many 

bridges were lost to the ravages of 

weather, the Civil War, and neglect. 

Visintine’s family owned a company 

that was in the bridge and road building 

business. “It was in his blood”, Susan said 

for his whole life he only worked for his 

family and also built garages.” 

The Visintines attended his St. 

Charles class reunions. He was good 

friends with ’59 classmates Dave Dorward, 

Bob Moses, and Joe Conie. 

Moses, remembered Jim as “a real 

intense exterior, but underneath he was a 

real sweet person. He was just a guy you 

could count on.” They knew each other 

from early grade school together at St. 

Christopher on through St. Charles. “I 

was sure glad to see him at the reunions 

and talk with him. He was just a nice 

person,” Moses said. “He and Father 

Haluska (St. Charles’ Dean of Discipline at 

the time) were pretty good friends.” “They 

knew each other well,” he joked. 

Dorward said that “Jim was a very, 

very tough and rugged guy. He had a 

voice that absolutely boomed! At all the 

football and basketball games he led all 

the cheers without the megaphone. He’d 

really got excited and into it,” he said. 

Conie and Visintine attended school 

together from third grade until graduating 

from St. Charles. They would see each 

other for many years after when Visintine 

visited his parents in Grandview for the 

Fourth of July parade. Connie lived 

nearby in the neighborhood, so they’d get 

together and have a couple beers afterwards. 

“We thought the world of the priests 

who at St. Charles and all the guys we 

met. That was the best thing that happened 

to us,” Conie said. 

In her article, Conte says the covered 

bridges in Ohio are “truly treasures of the 

past that cannot be duplicated.” Friends 

might consider James Visintine the same 

way. 

Labor of love 

James W. Visintine ’59 (l) works to reconstruct the Hizey covered bridge on his property with some help from his 

son Jimmy (r) and friend, Paul Fetter. The bridge was renamed the Hizey-Visintine Bridge. 


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Alumni News 

Ethan Dicks ’84 at home in front of the Transantarctic Mountains 

The Sun never sets on a St. 

Charles graduate 

Ethan Dicks has a pretty good reason for 

not making his class’ 20-year reunion this 

July. 

He’ll be wintering at the South Pole, 

doing astrophysics research for the 

University of Wisconsin running 

AMANDA, the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino 

Detector Array. What’s more, the 

station he works and lives at is closed 

from mid-February through late October. 

No planes, no mail, no anything…in or 

out. 

So how did a St. Charles graduate end 

up in one of the world’s most inhospitable 

places? He says it was his experience in 

computers, going back to his sophomore 

year at St. Charles when he started 

computer programming for money.“ Not 

the background you expect for an astrophysics 

researcher,” he said. 

He earned a degree in history from 

The Ohio State University in 1989, 

including a summer at New College, 

Oxford and two seasons of archaeology in 

Greece. His career has encompassed 

system administration, software design, 

hardware and software maintenance, and 

more. 

For this job, the University of Wisconsin 

was largely interested in his networking, 

software development and Linux 

experience. He said they were willing take 

someone who was technically savvy and 

train them on the physics required, and 

on the theory and operation of the detector 

itself. 

He said it has been a great opportu- 

nity. He’s a fulltime 

member of the 

faculty of the Space 

Science and Engineering 

Center 

(SSEC) of the 

University of 

Wisconsin-Madison, 

the lead institution 

of 19 members of 

the AMANDA 

collaboration. He 

works directly with 

folks from 

Stockholm, Sweden; 

Mainz, Germany; 

Lawrence Berkeley 

Labs; the Bartol 

Institute; and 

others. 

Dicks said that 

AMANDA is a 

neutrino telescope that “sees” the universe 

in a different kind of radiation than an 

optical or radio telescope. “Neutrinos pass 

through the Earth from distant places 

unaffected by dust clouds and other obstacles. 

Besides being able to peer through 

and into things that are optically dark, we 

can indirectly pick up events like supernovae 

and “Gamma Ray Bursts,” he said. 

”Like all astronomy, it’s about observation 

and experimental data to 

fit or refute models of the universe, not so 

much about preventing or developing 

anything.” 

He said that in the future, AMANDA 

will be succeeded by “Ice Cube”, a cubic 

kilometer of sensors that will envelop the 

present detector, and expand its vision 

fifty times. “It’s just like using a bigger 

mirror: you don’t know what it is you will 

be able to see, but you can just about 

guarantee that you’ll see something that 

you never could have imagined you 

would.” 

Visit Dick’s personal website to see 

photos, journal entries, or to contact him 

at http://penguincentral.com/ 

penguincentral.html 

Pirik new clerk of courts 

Michael A. Pirik ’77 was sworn in as the 

clerk of the Franklin County Municipal 

Court on Jan. 22. Several St. Charles 

graduates, including three of his classmates, 

participated in the ceremony that 

capped his promotion to clerk. 

1977 graduates Marty McSweeney and 

George A. Fulcher III performed as 

members of the Columbus Police and Fire 

Pipes and Drums Corps. Brian Smith, also 

from Pirik’s class, sang a powerful rendition 

of The Lord’s Prayer. Father 

Romano Ciotolo, a 1965 graduate of the 

former St. Charles College and pastor of 

Our Lady of Victory Parish, gave the 

Star patrol 

Ben Recchie ’99 looks up at Yerkes Observatory’s 40-inch refracting telescope, the largest of its type in the world. 

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Bagpipers George A. Fulcher III ’77 (l) and Marty McSweeney ’77 (r) were invited by 

classmate Mike Pirik ’77 to play at his swearing-in ceremony as Franklin County Clerk 

of Courts in January. 

invocation. 

Pirik has worked at the courthouse 

for almost 20 years, most recently as chief 

of staff to his predecessor, Paul M. 

Herbert. Pirik was appointed to fill the 

remaining two years of Herbert’s term 

after he was elected a Franklin County 

Municipal Court judge. 

In addition to his courthouse duties, 

Pirik is the countywide chairman for 

Operation Feed, a coordinator for Red 

Cross blood drives, a member of Charity 

Newsies and the Agonis Club, and is an 

usher at Our Lady of Victory Church. 

A 1981 political science graduate from 

The Ohio State University, Pirik earned a 

masters in public policy from OSU 10 

years later. He and his wife, Chrisitne, 

have been married almost 20 years and 

have three children. 

’48 grad now in 

university’s Hall of Fame 

Paul Davis ’48 was inducted into the 

Fairfield University Athletic Hall of Fame 

for his contributions to FU athletics and 

the rugby football club at the school’s 

alumni association’s Hall of Fame dinner 

last Oct. 31. It’s the first time that a 

moderator of a club sport was named to 

the school’s athletic hall of fame. 

An assistant professor emeritus of 

history, Davis has been on Fairfield’s 

faculty for over 40 years and for many 

years was moderator of the rugby football 

club. Davis, who still teaches two nights a 

week, has been involved with the rugby 

club since its inception in 1963 and served 

as its moderator from 1968-1989. Invited 

to a game by a 

Scottish professor, 

he “was impressed 

by the fact that 

winning wasn’t the 

most important 

thing.” 

One of his duties 

as moderator was 

to determine who 

played in matches, 

which he based on 

players’ attitude, 

attendance, and 

ability. “By following 

the three A’s, it 

became hard for 

anyone to get a big 

head and think he 

was more important 

than the 

team,” Davis said. 

Paul’s two brothers also are St. 

Charles graduates: Larry ’58 and Bill ’56. 

Paul was married to Eileen Walsh in 1964; 

she died in 1985. 

Davis was appointed the second editor 

of the Carolian by Father (now Msgr.) 

Edward Spiers ’31 — who, he said “ran 

everything” — after Art McGovern (later 

Father) graduated in 1947. Davis also was 

his class’ valedictorian. 

He was a member of “Fulcher’s 

Vultures” championship intramural 

football team, named after classmate Fr. 

Jack Fulcher ’48. He acted in a number of 

school plays when the casts were all male; 

he played women’s roles in two of the four 

productions in which he participated. 

Asked about teachers from his days at 

St. Charles, he 

recalled Msgr. 

Joseph A. Cousins 

with the 

Stagecrafters and 

Msgr. George T. 

Wolz “who got me 

into stamp collecting, 

which I still do 

after all these 

years.” 

“Fr.(John W.) 

Kerrign installed in 

me a little bit, 

unfortunately not 

enough, selfdiscipline. 

He was 

an extremely strict 

and very fair 

person, and I 

always admired 

him.” He was most 

influenced to attend St. Charles by the 

Fulcher family. The Fulcher brothers 

were good friends of his. They became Fr. 

John M. “Jack” Fulcher ’48 and Bishop 

George A. Fulcher ’40. 

Davis had been awarded one of four 

citywide scholarships to Aquinas College 

High School. “The Fulchers talked me 

into going to St. Charles. It opened the 

week before Aquinas and thought I had 

nothing to lose by going out to see how I 

liked it. And I loved it right from the first 

day. Fr. Cousins gave me a scholarship 

that first year.” 

In his sophomore year, he once cut 

class and walked up part of Alum Creek in 

waist-high water to avoid detection by the 

staff en route to St. Mary’s of the Springs 

College (now Ohio Dominican University) 

to meet the last empress of Austria who 

was there for a visit. 

He said the sister at the convent must 

have been impressed with the hutzpah of 

a 14-year- old boy asking to see the queen 

while covered up to his belt with mud and 

water. The empress spoke with Davis for 

over 20 minutes, and “that’s what really 

got me into history,” he said. 

Jack Corcoran was his closest friend 

at St. Charles. They went on to room 

together at Notre Dame; Corcoran died a 

few years after they graduated. 

Davis still keeps in contact with many 

of his classmates. The fact that Dick 

Fenlon and Joe Laufersweiler and I are 

still in contact 60 years later – one in 

California, one in Connecticut, and one in 

Ohio, and we’re still in constant contact — 

shows the kind of friendships that were 

forged…” at St. Charles. 

Hall of Famer 

Paul Davis ’48 (center) was inducted in the Fairfield University Hall of Fame last 

October. Displaying Davis’ memorial plaque are Fairfield alumni president Bryan Le 

Clex (left) and the Very Rev. Aloysius P. Kelley, S. J., university president. 


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Grad notes 60 years 

as priest 

By Louis V. Fabro ’49 

“I always was in 

trouble,” Msgr. 

Paul Metzger, 

confessed with 

perhaps a touch of 

exaggeration, in 

summing up his 

eight years at St. 

Charles in a phone 

interview from his 

home in 

Middletown, Ohio, 

where he lived 

Msgr. Paul E. Metzger ’35 

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most of his grade 

school years. He’s 

a 1935 graduate of St. Charles Prep and 

1939 grad of the former St. Charles 

College-Seminary. Metzger said Leo 

Wangler, Class of 1930, steered him to St. 


He lived all eight years at St. Charles, 

as did many out-of-town students when 

the school had dormitory and rooming 

facilities. He was called out of class many 

times, he said, to drive Msgr. Joseph A. 

Weigand, the school’s first rector, to 

various destinations in his Franklin 

automobile. 

As did his college classmates – Msgrs. 

Lawrence J. Corcoran, Michael “Andy” 

Nugent, and Robert R. Schmidt – Msgr. 

Metzger last spring celebrated the 60 th 

anniversary of his 1943 ordination to the 

priesthood. While their celebration was at 

Holy Cross Church in Columbus, 

Metzger’s was at Holy Family Church in 

Middletown. Metzger has celebrated daily 

and weekend Masses there for the past six 

years. 

Msgr. Metzger was separated from his 

St. Charles classmates in 1944 when 13 

eastern counties of the Columbus Diocese 

were incorporated in the newly-formed 

Steubenville Diocese. At the time, he was 

in his first priestly assignment as pastor of 

St. Mary Church in Pine Grove, which is 

about nine miles from Ironton. The late 

Father Peter Sartori, a 1932 St. Charles 

Prep grad, also wound up in the 

Steubenville Diocese. 

During his priestly career, Msgr. 

Metzger was diocesan director of charities 

for 18 years, and served as pastor of St. 

Joseph Church in Bridgeport and St. John 

Church in Bellaire where he was kept 

very busy running both St. John elementary 

and high schools with a total of some 

1,200 students. 

He retired in 1985 but continued as a 

social administrator for Belmont County 

and later in Akron where he worked for 

five years. He later took on priestly 

assigments in St. Clairsville and 

Dillonvale. In addition, he served on 

many education and financial boards and 

held memberships in many fraternal 

groups. 

Among his many activities in the 

Middletown community, Msgr. Metzger is 

chaplain of the parish and district units of 

the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the 

Middletown Knights of Columbus. He said 

“my years as a priest have been most 

wonderful and rewarding” and that he was 

glad he chose St. Charles. He reports that 

he is “very healthy.” Although 87, he still 

mows his own lawn and the next-door 

lawn of his cousin, Sister Bridget Cottle. 

Another cousin, Peggy Cottle, shares his 

home. 

Video award for “God” 

Steve McVey ’76 won the Bronze Plaque 

award from the Columbus International 

Film and Video Festival last November 

for his production of a religious video 

entitled “The Existence of God.” The 11- 

minute video describes the classic proofs 

for the existence of God. 

McVey finds time to experiment with 

the use of the internet to make videos 

available via “streaming video.” Anyone 

interested in his work can, by using high 

speed internet access, see portions of the 

video (free) by visiting his website at 

www.faithvideos.com. He invites you to 

use the email button and send him a note. 

Creating videos is a hobby for McVey. 

He’s now working with one of the dioceses 

in Massachusetts to create several 

more videos. In his professional life 

McVey is a certified project manager for 

IBM. He currently is working in his 

Steven McVey ’76 displays the bronze plaque he was 

awarded by the Columbus International Film and Video 

Festival for his video, The Existence of God. 

company’s quality assurance operation. 

McVey graduated from The Ohio State 

University, moved to Cleveland, and spent 

seven years working for a bank in its 

information technology department. After 

a brief stay at a small startup company 

that didn’t work out, he joined IBM and 

has been with them 16 years. During that 

time he’s moved seven times, once living 

in Buenos Aires, Argentina for 18 

months. 

“St. Charles,” he said, “integrated faith 

and life for me.” It provided him with an 

environment, he said, “where I found 

encouragement. St. Charles showed me 

that worthwhile dreams can become 

realities with hard work and the help of 

friends and family.” 

Steve and his wife, Barbara, have 

been married for 20 years, have two 

children, and live in Milford, Mass. 

St. Joseph Cathedral Latin School 

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year off, even if we were doing pretty 

good. But I wanted to be in for four years 

anyway. I enjoyed it!” Students from his 

generation still recall “Fulcher’s Vultures,” 

the championship intramural 

football team he captained. Something 

memorable about that team name. 

Fr. John Fulcher also became a 

recruiter after his ordination in 1952. For 

almost nine years he traveled around the 

23 counties that make up the Columbus 

Diocese seeking priestly candidates. “I was 

on the road all the time trying to talk 

guys into coming to St. Charles,” he said. 

“Come to St. Charles and we’ll see if you 

like it,” Fulcher would tell the candidates. 

“It doesn’t mean you have to become a 

priest, but you’re going to get a great 

education,” he advised them. His job was 

to get boys to the school, and the rest was 

up to the priest-teachers at St. Charles. 

They made certain that students received 

a great education, Fulcher said. “There 

was no messing around; they were very 

serious.” 

Rieser said Bishop Hartley’s wisdom 

in founding the Latin School at the old 

Kelley Mansion “should have been a 

historical reference, but I’ve never read 

anything about it. There’s no mention of it 

anywhere I’ve ever seen,” he said. Just 

like the old stones that once formed the 

Kelley Mansion, memories and references 

are buried. 


In Memoriam 

Fr. Charles A. Jackson 

Father Jackson was 

talented teacher; 

led St. Charles during 

revival years 

by Louis V. Fabro ’49 

“As a teacher, Father Jackson had the 

unique ability – the gift – to break open 

the mystery of what he was teaching and 

to make it understandable,” Bishop James 

A. Griffin commented in his closing 

remarks at the funeral Mass he celebrated 

in December for Father Charles A. Jackson 

at Our Lady of Victory Church. 

Father Jackson, who died Dec. 15, “spent 

23 years in the classroom as a teacher,” 

noted Msgr. William A. Dunn in his 

homily. “Students consistently rated him 

as a demanding – but witty – teacher. His 

religion classes were alive.” Among 

subjects Jackson taught in college and 

high school were Latin, Greek, scripture, 

and theology. 

Msgr. Dunn described Jackson as a 

“renaissance man” with wide interests. 

“He knew and loved theater,” Dunn said. 

He was a movie fan, too, and during his 

high school years at Cleveland Cathedral 

Latin became a devoted opera buff. 

Father Jackson was able to make good 

use of his knowledge of theater when in 

1965 he was given charge of the drama 

department at St. Charles College. He 

directed a half dozen plays, including 

Murder in the Cathedral, Oliver, and 

Luther. 

He was an accomplished cook, who 


loved pasta but disliked chicken and 

turkey, Dunn noted. Being a Cleveland 

native, Charlie Jackson was a dedicated 

fan of the Cleveland Browns and Indians, 

both currently in need of special assistance, 

Dunn observed. In his homily he 

described possible heavenly intervention 

that led to the call-up of Father Jackson to 

seek the special assistance his favorite 

teams needed. (Displayed in Jackson’s 

casket before Mass was a Cleveland 

Indians cap.) 

Father Jackson began his teaching 

career in 1963 when he was named a 

professor at the former St. Charles 

College where he remained until it was 

closed in 1969. He returned to teaching in 

1971 when he was appointed principal of 

St. Charles Prep, a position he held until 

1976. 

Jackson served as St. Charles principal 

at a very difficult time in the school’s 

history. It had been reopened in 1969 as a 

college prep school after being restricted 

for four years (1965-69) as a seminary prep 

open only to boys who were interested in 

vocations as priests. The seminary prep 

effort failed, as evidenced, among other 

things, by school enrollment collapsing to 

69 in the 1968-69 school year. (Enrollment 

now hovers near 590.) 

Dunn in an interview said that Father 

Jackson “had a very significant role in 

reviving St. Charles.” Qualities that 

helped him, he said, “were very good 

people and management skills and an 

ability to quickly analyze balance sheets. 

While he was stern and commanding, he 

had great rapport with students.” 

Among challenges Jackson had to 

confront as principal were lukewarm 

support for St. Charles from the diocesan 

establishment, pressure from various 

factions to close the school, and hostile 

alumni who were still embittered about 

the years when St. Charles enrollment 

was restricted. 

There was vigorous opposition to the 

re-admission of St. Charles to the Central 

Catholic League. As a result, Msgr. Dunn 

pointed out, St. Charles had great difficulty 

scheduling games for its athletic 

teams. Cardinal teams had to travel 

frequently – and far – to play games. Not 

exactly a sports fan himself, Dunn said he 

discovered a great variety of gyms gallivanting 

all over Ohio with St. Charles 

teams. 

In the face of often bitter opposition of 

member schools, Dunn said Father 

Jackson campaigned vigorously for readmission 

to the CCL, of which St. Charles 

was an original member. He eventually 

succeeded with support of several league 

coaches and others. 

As did other Catholic school administrators, 

Dunn said, Jackson had to find 

qualified teachers to replace departing 

priests and sisters. (Holdover St. Charles 

priest teachers in 1969 included Fathers 

F. Thomas Gallen, Thomas M. Bennett, 

Roger A. Emmert, Ralph J. Huntzinger, 

and Dunn. Father Daniel A. Pallay joined 

the staff a year later.) Another daunting 

task was generating enough tuition 

income to pay higher lay teacher salaries 

and growing facility and equipment costs. 

Among lay teachers Jackson hired 

were Dominic J. Cavello, Class of ’64, and 

Jerry M. Connor. Cavello was assigned to 

handle student discipline as well as teach. 

He remains a St. Charles teacher and 

since 1985 has been the school’s principal. 

Connor, a former DeSales coach and 

graduate of former Rosary High School, 

was named athletic director in charge of 

rebuilding the school’s athletic program 

and to coach. 

To rebuild enrollment, Father Jackson 

launched a strong student recruitment 

program that featured visits to 

diocesan grade schools. A key recruiting 

tool was a slide presentation assembled 

and narrated by veteran WBNS radio 

newscaster Don Smith, a 1938 St. Charles 

graduate who then was chairman of the 

St. Charles advisory board. 

Jackson began a serious effort to raise 

money for scholarships, expanded and 

energized the advisory board, introduced 

social activities to help attract more 

students, and worked to win back alienated 

alumni. He revitalized the alumni 

association, which had become dormant 

when the school became a seminary prep, 

and organized the tedious effort to rebuild 

the alumni mailing list, which had become 

terribly outdated. 

To provide needed support in his 

efforts, Jackson relied upon his faculty 

members, the advisory board, and various 

alumni and parents of students. 

Upon leaving St. Charles, Jackson was 

appointed co-pastor of St. Andrew Parish 

in 1976 and served as pastor of Newark 

St. Francis (1977-82) and at Hilliard St. 

Brendan (1982-93). 

After 17 years of pastoral duties, 

Bishop Griffin noted, “Father Jackson was 

eager to return to teaching.” He spent his 

last 10 years as a professor in the College 

of Liberal Arts at the Pontifical College 

Josephinum where he taught classical 

languages. Other duties included aca- 

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In Memoriam 

demic dean, director of personal formation, 

and as a member of the academic, 

library, and grievance committees. 

Father Jackson earned his B.A. 

degree in philosophy from St. Charles 

College in 1957, won bachelor’s and 

licentiate degrees in theology at the 

Pontifical Gregorian College and was 

ordained Dec. 18, 1960, at the North 

American College, both in Rome. 

A very learned man, Jackson gained a 

masters degree from The Ohio State 

University, took counseling courses at the 

University of California, and library 

science courses at Ohio Dominican University. 

His first priestly assignment was 

associate pastor at Columbus Holy Name 

Parish after his return from Rome in 

1961. 

Fr. . Jones was 

‘“down to earth” 

th” 

Father James W. Jones 

34 

Father James W. 

Jones, a Catholic 

convert and the 

first black priest 

ordained for the 

Columbus Diocese, 

died last Feb. 28 

minutes before he 

was to celebrate a 

Saturday afternoon 

Mass at Christ the 

King Church where he resided in retirement. 

He was a 1964 graduate of the 

former St. Charles College. He was 

ordained in 1969 at the age of 39. 

Noted for being very down to earth — 

much like the proverbial “common man” 

— Jones once confessed at a Good Friday 

service at St. Joseph Cathedral that he 

was disappointed for not having had an 

“audacious” ministry. 

Harking back to that somewhat 

surprising comment, Father Stanley 

Benecki in his homily at Father Jones’ 

funeral noted that in his career Jones had 

been “a soldier (he enlisted in the air force 

when he was 17), a professional jazz 

pianist, a Carthusian monk, a teacher, a 

hospital chaplain, a pastor, and a prison 

chaplain. How did he fit it into 74 years?” 

he exclaimed. 

Born in Chillicothe, Jones’ priestly 

career included assistant pastor at St. 

Joseph Cathedral and pastor at St. 

Dominic Church, associate pastor at 

Sacred Heart Church, chaplain at Franklin 

County Jail and St. Ann and Doctors 

Hospital North, and he taught religion at 

the former St. Joseph Academy. 

Fr. . Cadden pursued 

social service mission 

Fr. Thomas J. Cadden 

Father Thomas J. 

Cadden was a 

restless exponent of 

the corporal works 

of mercy. Or as 

Father Donald E. 

Franks said as he 

began his homily at 

Father Cadden’s 

funeral: “he had a 

special mission for 

the poor and vulnerable – the disenfranchised, 

the lost and forsaken…” 

Cadden died March 7 after his car 

veered off the road in Madison County and 

struck two trees. He was driving to Plain 

City to celebrate Sunday morning Mass at 

St. Joseph Church there. Conscious after 

the accident, he reportedly apologized to 

the homeowner for damage caused to his 

tree. He died several hours later at Grant 

Hospital. 

Born in Chillicothe, Father Cadden 

was a 1952 graduate of St. Charles College, 

where he later taught philosophy. 

He was ordained Aug. 27, 1955, in Mother 

of Mercy Chapel at St. Charles. He was 

ordained a year early – a full year ahead 

of his class by virtue of being appointed 

prefect in his last year at Mt. St. Mary’s of 

the West Seminary in Cincinnati where 

he completed his studies. 

In addition to his many pastoral 

assignments, Cadden served as diocesan 

vicar for Catholic Charities and Social 

Concerns, was Cum Christo spiritual 

director and served as chaplain at St. 

Ann’s Hospital, St. Raphael’s Home for 

the Aged, and St. Rita Nursing Home. He 

served on the boards of many social 

service agencies and worked directly with 

several, including St. Lawrence Haven, 

JOIN, and St. John’s Community Kitchen. 

Commenting at the close of the 

funeral Mass he had celebrated for Father 

Cadden at St. Joseph Cathedral, Bishop 

James A. Griffin said Cadden “gave his life 

to serve his brother and sister. . .he 

helped all of us in our community … with 

shelter for the homeless and assistance to 

the needy and sick. Far more important,” 

the Bishop continued, “his service was 

fueled by his faith . . .” 

Father Cadden in 1988 was presented 

The Columbus Dispatch Service Award 

and the Governor’s Award for Humanitarian 

Services. 

Proud parents 

Dominic and Irene Francisco at their son, Greg’s 

graduation from medical school. 

Grateful alumnus gave 

back to school 

Dr. Dominic Francisco, Class of 1956, 

passed away April 22, 2003 in St. Louis at 

the age of 63 after fighting pancreatic 

cancer for the last 19 months of his life. 

He continued seeing patients at his 

office despite his affliction and the ordeal 

of chemotherapy and radiation treatments. 

“He was the bravest soul there 

ever could be,” his wife, Irene said. “He 

still wanted to practice.” They were 

married nearly 40 years and raised five 

sons, all who attended St. Louis Priory, an 

all-male high school run by Benedictine 

monks. 

Irene said her husband talked about 

how “St. Charles gave a firm education.” 

She said he was determined every year to 

send a gift to the school because he was so 

grateful for all that the school had done 

for him. 

One of his best friends was Msgr. 

Michael L. Donovan, a classmate who died 

in 1994. Another was Bob Ferris, who died 

in the terrorist attack on the World Trade 

Center in 2001, and who visited the 

Francisco home once during a trip 

through St. Louis. Francisco made a gift 

to the Robert Ferris Endowment at St. 

Charles to honor his classmate and friend. 

Elaine Casey DiSalvo (c) presents librarian Antoinette 

Koontz with a collection of books for the Holy Angels 

Library at St. Charles. The books are from her late 

father, Daniel J. Casey, (inset) who was in the first (1927) 

graduation class at St. Charles. 


Francisco graduated from The Ohio 

State University in 1960 and four years 

later from St. Louis University Medical 

School he began his residency in radiology. 

He was drafted in the army in 1966 

and served in Vietnam. Francisco returned 

to St. Louis, completed his residency, 

and in 1969 began his lifetime 

private practice of radiology. 

First grad with pro contract 

Page Heise, Class of 1946, is believed to 

be the first St. Charles graduate to sign a 

professional baseball contract. He died 

March 5 at the age of 76. Mass of Christian 

burial was celebrated for him at 

Christ the King Church. Concluding a 

eulogy on behalf of his family, son James 

Heise placed a new baseball on his father’s 

casket and called out baseball’s familiar 

signal for action: “Play Ball!” 

A superb baseball player, Heise was 

the first of many standout pitchers who 

helped make St. Charles a perennial 

baseball power under Coach Jack Ryan 

through the mid-1960s. Don Kelley ’47, a 

high school teammate, remembered Heise 

threw a “terrific sinker.” 

Heise went to Milwaukee shortly after 

graduation to join the Triple-A Milwaukee 

Brewers which had signed him to a 

contract. An injury, unfortunately, 

suffered on the playing field, cut short his 

career. Heise is survived by his wife of 55 

years, Mary Ann, five daughters – all 

named Mary but with different middle 

names – and four sons. 

Former Carolian, Times 

editor was brilliant 

By Louis V. Fabro ’49 

After 42 years as 

writer-editor for 

The Catholic 

Times, Mike 

Collins, St. Charles 

Class of 1956, 

looked forward to 

retirement. It 

would be a time 

free of schedules 

and deadlines — a 

Michael E. Collins ’56 

time for his consuming 

love of 

reading. It would be a time to use his 

newly purchased computer to explore the 

internet with its inexhaustible sources of 

information. And it would be a time for 

him to accept writing invitations from 

favorite organizations. 

Many friends and associates joined 

Mike for a joyous luncheon party at the 


diocesan office at 197 E. Gay St. on Jan. 

30, his last day at the Times, to celebrate 

his retirement. But on Feb. 11, only 12 

days later, the earthly life of Michael E. 

Collins came to an abrupt end. 

Appropriately, the shortness of life 

was the opening theme of Msgr. James L. 

T. Ruef ’s homily during the Mass of 

Christian Burial at Holy Name Church in 

Columbus where Collins had been a 

lifetime member. Noting that many 

Scripture passages remind us of the 

brevity of life, Msgr. Ruef recalled the 

words of another priest who said “no 

matter how long we live, life will always 

seem short to us.” 

One could be philosophical about 

Mike’s aborted retirement plans and point 

out that he doesn’t have to plow through 

mountains of books for enjoyment. And 

he doesn’t have to go through the tedious 

– and sometimes frustrating — task of 

searching the internet for information and 

be concerned about potential viruses or 

possible computer glitches and crashes. 

That practical observation likely would 

have brought a smile to his face. 

Upon retirement, Collins completed a 

42-year career as a writer-editor for The 

Catholic Times, official newspaper of the 

Catholic Diocese of Columbus. 

Collins served five bishops, all publishers 

of the newspaper: Clarence G. 

Issenmann, John J. Carberry (later 

elevated to Cardinal), Clarence E. Elwell, 

Edward J. Herrmann, and James A. 

Griffin. He worked for several years with 

a future bishop, Father George A. Fulcher 

when he was editor of the Times. (A 1940 

graduate of St Charles Prep and 1944 grad 

of St. Charles College, Fulcher was 

consecrated auxiliary bishop of Columbus 

in 1976 and bishop of the Lafayette, Ind., 

diocese in 1983.) 

Well known for his encyclopedic 

knowledge, many who knew Collins 

remarked that he seemed to know something 

about almost everything and, what 

he didn’t know, had a knack for finding 

the necessary information. His knowledge 

served him well; he was a National 

Merit scholarship winner the first year 

(l956) that award was made available. He 

used that scholarship to attend MIT 

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 

before transferring to The Ohio State 

University where he majored in English. 

Collins got a taste for journalism as 

editor of the Carolian, the student 

newspaper at St. Charles. He worked on 

the Newman Society newspaper at MIT 

and joined the Times as a staff writer in 

1962. He rose to news editor in 1966 and 

a few years later to editor, a position he 

held for 25 years. He was consulting 

editor his last nine years with the newspaper. 

One of Collins’ notable achievements 

was membership in Mensa, an international 

society for people who have exceptionally 

high IQs. Reportedly, only 

100,000 have membership in the 100 

countries that have Mensa chapters. 

Among his memberships, Collins 

belonged to the Knights of Columbus, the 

former Press Club of Ohio, St. Vincent de 

Paul Society, the Catholic Press Association, 

and the Central Ohio Chapter of the 

Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). 

He served as SPJ chapter president for 

nearly two years; only three others – two 

of them former chief editors of Columbus 

daily newspapers – were presidents more 

than one year in that society’s 55-year 

history. 

St. Charles community 

loses good friend 

Joan (Kappes) O’Leary 

Smith (r) with her 

daughter, Beth (O’Leary) 

Howard. 

Joan (Kappes) 

O’Leary Smith 

passed away Feb. 

6, 2004 at St. 

Raphael Home 

for the Aged in 

Columbus. She 

and her family 

have been 

members of the 

St. Charles 

community all 

the way back to 

the school’s third 

year of operation (1925-26). 

Her second husband was John Smith, 

president of the St. Charles Class of 1929 

who that year captained the school’s first 

championship basketball team and later 

served as a head coach. Both of Mrs. 

Smith’s brothers, Fr. Francis Kappes and 

Msgr. William E. Kappes graduated from 

St. Charles College in 1937 and 1938, 

respectively. 

Smith’s children include; Tom 

O’Leary, a 1964 St. Charles graduate and 

current Advisory Board member; Peggy 

O’Leary Bennett; and Beth O’Leary 

Howard, who is married to 1958 St. 

Charles graduate and current Advisory 

Board member, Matt Howard. She is also 

survived by her stepson in-law Bob Albert, 

a 1949 St. Charles alumnus. 

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In Memoriam 

Paul Gallo took great 

pride in St. Charles 

O. Paul Gallo Jr. ’36 

O. Paul Gallo 

“took great pride in 

going St. Charles,” 

his brother, Bo, 

said in a telephone 

interview. His 

affection for the 

school continued 

long after his 

graduation in 1936. 

He died Nov. 14 

after an extended 

illness. 

No matter the 

weather conditions, Bo added, Paul 

walked every day to and from St. Charles 

from his home at Mound and Oakwood in 

St. John the Evangelist Parish. That was 

a hike to school of about four miles each 

way. Illustrating his enthusiasm for his 

school, Paul never missed class. 

Because of the Great Depression, 

most families during the 1930s had very 

little money – none for school tuition. 

“Money was so scarce,” Paul said in an 

interview for the St. Charles history 

published in 2000 – perhaps with a little 

exaggeration — “that St. Charles had only 

two footballs – one for the game.” Even 

though St. Charles tuition then was only 

$50 a year, that was a small fortune and 

beyond the reach of many parents. Paul’s 

tuition was paid for by Msgr. Ed Murphy, 

who taught at St. Charles (1927-36). 

(Many St. Charles students – and, for 

that matter, students at other Catholic 

schools during the depression – had 

tuition paid for by non-family members, 

often through the intervention of pastors. 

Among those who were helped were the 

four Fulcher brothers, including George 

A. Fulcher, a 1940 St. Charles graduate 

who went on to the priesthood and consecrated 

a bishop.) 

A memory that Paul shared in his 

interview for the St. Charles history book 

was the excitement generated when the 

Notre Dame football team in 1935 practiced, 

ate, and stayed overnight at St. 

Charles before its first-ever game with 

Ohio State. (There’s a film clip of Notre 

Dame’s team stay at St. Charles in the 

school archives.) Many people, he said, 

“tried to make the game a religious 

confrontation – the Catholics against the 

Protestants. Heck, most of Ohio State’s 

starting team were Catholics, “ he said. 

So was the Buckeyes’ coach, Francis A. 

Schmidt, who was noted for his razzledazzle 

offense. 

Both teams went into the game 

unbeaten. Ohio State was touted as a 

potential national champion. The Buckeyes 

dominated the game and went into 

the last quarter leading 13-0. Notre Dame 

rallied and closed the gap to 13-12 with 

two minutes left in the game. With the 

game all but lost, the Irish recovered a 

fumble near midfield, and with 30 seconds 

left, completed a pass for the winning 

touchdown. Final score: Notre Dame 18, 

Ohio State 13. The Ohio Stadium crowd 

was stunned into silence and the game 

remains as a milestone event in OSU 

football sports annals. 

Paul Gallo continued to hold St. 

Charles dear to his heart long after his 

graduation. He demonstrated his affection 

by heading several school projects. 

For example, he organized the first 

reunion of his class, started a successful 

fund-raising campaign to build the first 

Alumni Memorial Gateway from Broad 

Street to the school, and chaired the 

committee that revived the school’s 

alumni association in the late 1940s. 

The gateway, constructed in 1948 at a 

cost of $2,500 raised by the alumni, 

remained for more than a half century at 

the Broad Street entrance to St. Charles. 

(It was rebuilt a few times when damaged.) 

Simple in design, the gateway 

consisted of two monuments bearing the 

St. Charles name, one on each side of the 

driveway, flanked by brick walls and 

topped by large Florentine-style lamps. 

This gateway was replaced by a new and 

larger entrance that was built in 2003 

during extensive renovation of the Broad 

Street side of the St. Charles campus. 

Paul Gallo helped organize and headed 

the effort to resurrect the school’s alumni 

association in 1948. Because of travel 

restrictions and gasoline rationing caused 

by World War II, the last alumni gathering 

had been held in 1941, about a month 

before the United States was jolted into 

the war by the Dec. 7 surprise attack on 

Pearl Harbor. 

The annual alumni meeting actually 

was an outgrowth of a yearly dinner that 

Bishop James J. Hartley, founder of St. 

Charles, initially held on Thanksgiving 

eve at St. Charles for all the priests of the 

diocese to thank them for their work. 

Bishop Hartley later invited the alumni to 

that annual event before it was suspended 

in 1941. 

With the help of Paul Gallo and 

others, the alumni association was reborn 

in 1948 and continued to function into the 

l960s. The group resumed the Thanksgiving 

tradition by holding an annual banquet 

during that week. A highlight of the 

evening was an address by a prominent 

speaker. Cleveland Browns star, Lou 

“The Toe” Groza, was one notable 

speaker. Another was Ken Coleman, then 

a well-known play-by-play radio announcer 

for the old Cleveland Browns. 

Described as a “good people person” 

who got involved, Paul Gallo was a member 

of the Dublin Kiwanis Club, that was 

instrumental in establishing the annual 

Dublin frog jumping contest (which brings 

to mind the humorous Mark Twain story, 

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of 

Calveras County). 

Similarly, Paul helped establish, with 

his Kiwanis buddies, Dublin’s evergrowing 

St. Patrick’s Day celebration – 

very appropriate for a town with the name 

of Dublin. 

Generous with his time and talent, 

Paul was gifted with an excellent tenor 

voice. He sang in various choirs, including 

St. Patrick’s in Columbus and with 

another when he lived in Cincinnati, and 

participated in various amateur entertainment 

groups as a singer and dancer. 

His willingness to share his singing 

talent included participation with Zivili, a 

traveling entertainment troupe of singers 

and dancers that was based at the 

Croation Lodge on Reeb Avenue in the 

South End of Columbus. So Paul could 

sing Croation songs, his wife, Mary, 

transcribed the song words phonectically, 

because, she explained, “Croation words 

are hard to pronounce for people who 

don’t know the language.” She does. 

Thanks to his wife’s help, Paul was able to 

sing like a native – and a good time was 

had by all. 

Paul Gallo entered the army at the 

outset of World War II, went to officers 

candidate school, transferred to the army 

air force, and rose to captain. He and 

Mary had seven children. For most of his 

working career, he was with the O.P. 

Gallo company, now a formal wear concern 

founded by his father as a tailoring 

business in 1908. 

A man who was generous with his 

time and talent in life, Paul in death 

shared his body by having it donated to 

The Ohio State University medical school. 

A memorial Mass was offered for him at 

St. Brendan the Navigator Church. 

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Development Update 

Campaign for St. Charles 

Reaches First Goal 


The November 4 

feast day Mass 

honoring our 

school patron, 

Charles Borromeo, 

has always been 

memorable for St. 

Charles students, 

alumni, and parents. 

The 2003 

event turned out to 

be a very special 

event because of a special announcement 

from Mass celebrant, Bishop James A. 

Griffin. He reported that the Campaign for 

St. Charles had reached its primary goal 

of $10 million. The Bishop applauded the 

students for their diligent efforts with the 

annual Cardinal Walk scholarship drive, 

which helped pushed the five-year capital 

campaign over its primary goal. To date, 

the campaign has raised $10.4 million in 

gifts and pledges from 675 alumni, parents 

and long-time benefactors. 

The campaign’s final phase is scheduled 

for a public announcement later this 

year. Principal Dominic J. Cavello spent 

the winter months meeting with architects, 

our general contractor, city planners, 

and members of the community on 

plans for the proposed atrium expansion 

enclosing the rear courtyard. Our alumni 

and parents will be kept informed on the 

project’s projected cost and campaign plan 

as details take shape. 

Endowment Repor 

eport 

Since July 2001, a total of 25 new endowments 

have been formed as part of the 

“Campaign for St. Charles” to benefit our 

students and faculty and to improve our 

technology offerings and physical facilities. 

Please refer to the attached St. Charles 

Endowment Report in this issue of the 

Cardinal for details about generous 

investments that help make the dream of 

a St. Charles education a reality. All 

Carolian alumni and parents can be very 

proud of these endowments with total 

assets of $6 million. Most of our endowments 

are designated specifically for our 

students and families in need, which 

addresses the vision of our founder, 

Bishop Hartley, to make a St. Charles 

education available to any qualified 

Catholic young man, regardless of financial 

means. 

Annual Fund Update 

After three years of inactivity because of 

the capital campaign, the St. Charles 

Annual Fund has made a triumphant 

return! This year’s appeal, which was led 

by alumni chair Dr. Tom Ryan ’58, and 

parent chairs Mike and Marcia Kelty, 

surpassed by mid-February its $350,000 

goal. By March 10, it reached an all-time 

Annual Fund record of $401,000. More 

than 30 St. Charles alumni worked on the 

drive. They served as decade captains and 

class captains, and called on classmates, 

fellow parents and longtime St. Charles 

friends seeking their support. 

An innovated wrinkle in this year’s 

appeal was an automated outbound 

telephone message from each alumni class 

captain to classmates and fellow parents. 

The adjacent photos feature a few of our 

Annual Fund decade and class captains. 

When the call goes out seeking support 

for the next Annual Fund, please consider 

a gift to St. Charles. As we close this 

year’s drive, I wish to give special thanks 

to our 2000-2001 Annual Fund chairman 

emeritus, Matt Howard ’58, who developed 

a highly effective volunteer network 

three years ago that netted a then all-time 

record $343,000. 

Class Reunion Giving 

Several St. Charles classes made special 

statements of financial support as part of 

their class reunions in 2003. As reported 

in the fall issue of the Cardinal, the 

Class of 1963 raised $6,200 for a new 

endowment, the Class of 1963 Alumni 

Memorial Fund, in observance of its 40- 

year reunion. Special thanks to reunion 

host Bob Walter, and committee members 

Bob Cull, John Connor, Bob Mottet, Jim 

Saad, and Joe Sabino. The Class of 1968 

raised $3,500 to celebrate its 35-year 

reunion. Special thanks to class captain 

Paul Mahler for coordinating pledges and 

gifts. The 1983 Class raised $7,500 as part 

of its 20-year reunion last September. 

Special thanks to class captain Tim 

Rankin for handling pledges and gifts. The 

Class of 1978, which celebrated its 25-year 

reunion last September, established a new 

endowment at St. Charles, the Class of 

1978 Fund. Pledges and gifts for the new 

fund now total $20,000. 

New Endowments 

Honor Carolians 

St. Charles announces the establishment 

of The John W. Brown ’51 Memorial Fund 

as part of the St. Charles Endowment. 

The endowment fund honors John W. 

Brown, a 1951 St. Charles graduate who 

died last June 12 at the age of 70. He is 

survived by his daughter, Debra B. Parker 

(Jim) of Falmouth, Me.; sons David 

A. (Shareen) and Scott; their mother, 

Sandy of Columbus; and a sister, Mary 

Lou (Keith) McNamara. The Brown 

Family’s recent gift, coupled with memorial 

gifts dating back to last summer, 

boosts the fund principal to St. Charles’s 

endowment benchmark of $25,000. About 

her father, Debra recently wrote: “Many 

of my father’s fondest memories were 

from his years at St. Charles. His father, 

Harry P. Brown, died when he was a 

teenager and I believe St. Charles played 

an important role during this time in his 

life. His friendships from St. Charles were 

life long and his faith was strong.” 

St. Charles announces the formation 

of The Heller Family Fund as part of the 

St. Charles Endowment. The new endowment 

is a family gift to St. Charles from 

John H. “Jack” (Sr.) and Alice Heller of 

Worthington, who are the parents of two 

St. Charles alumni, Paul G. Heller ’82 and 

James E. Heller ’85. Joining his parents 

as equal partners in the endowment 

funding are Paul G. ’82 and Renee Heller 

of Dublin. When fully funded, The Heller 

Family Fund will support need-based 

student financial aid at St. Charles. 


announces the 

formation of The 

Sean P. Reed 

Memorial Fund as 

part of the St. 

Charles Endowment. 

The endowment 

fund honors 

the late Sean P. 

Sean P. Reed 

Reed, a member of 

the current senior 

class, who died 

February 16, 2004 at the age of 18. Sean 

was a two-year football letter winner at 

St. Charles football, volunteered with Mt. 

Carmel Medical Center and Adena Regional 

Medical Center and was a summer 

camp counselor. Sean is survived by his 

parents, Gary and Paula Jo Reed of 

Reynoldsburg; grandmother, Joanne 

Distelzweig; aunt, Ann Marie Distelzweig; 

uncle, Fred (Karen) Distelzweig Jr. ’76; 

godmother, Sr. Marilyn Sue Hopkins, 

O.S.F. When fully funded, the memorial 

fund honoring Sean Reed will provide a 

need-based scholarship to a student 

participating in St. Charles football. 

Designating St. Charles 

in Your Estate 

As a tribute to anyone who names the 

school in wills for an estate provision, St. 

Charles enrolls those individuals in its 

Borromean Society, the school’s major 


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2003-2004 

Annual Fund Leadership 

donor recognition unit. So far this year, 

10 St. Charles alumni and the parents of 

an alumnus have notified St. Charles that 

they have named the school in their 

estate plans. Most of those notifications 

came in the way of a “check box” on this 

year’s Annual Fund appeal card. To begin 

the process of naming St. Charles in your 

will, be advised to contact legal counsel or 

a certified financial planner. 

Unlike a cash gift, a bequest will not 

provide you with an income tax deduction. 

However, your estate will receive an 

estate tax charitable deduction for the fair 

market value of your charitable bequests. 

It is also worth noting that a bequest to 

St. Charles can establish a permanent 

fund which provides a lasting memorial to 

the donor, the donor’s family, or anyone 

the donor wishes to honor. 

For assistance, it’s recommended that 

you consult with our Development Office 

to draft an endowment description that 

guides the use of your endowment once 

it’s established. This confidential description 

will remain in our files until your 

bequest is received. You can also begin 

the endowment now with an outright gift 

and supplement the fund with your 

bequest. Your attorney, accountant and 

other advisors can give you more detailed 

information about the tax consequences of 

your estate plans. Contact St. Charles 

Preparatory School, Development Office, 

2010 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 

43209. 

The process of replacing the school’s original wood 

doors began this winter as part of several new upgrades 

to the building. An elevator has been installed to allow 

handicapped access to the entire building and the tile 

flooring on the first and second floors was replaced. 

For his many years of devoted service to St. Charles, the 

school’s renovated front courtyard was named in honor 

of Msgr. Thomas M. Bennett in response to a major gift 

to the school from Robert Horner III ’79 and his family. 

Horner, left, presented the veteran teacher a bronze 

plaque (displayed in the center) designating the new 

name of the courtyard. Posing below the plaque is 

Horner’s son, Bobby, who was baptized by Msgr. 

Bennett and is looking forward to starting his own St. 

Charles experience in the fall of 2006. 

Courtyard named to 

honor Bennett 

For four decades, Msgr. Thomas Bennett 

has endeared himself to St. Charles 

students as an authoritarian teacher and 

friend. To recognize his pervasive influence, 

one of his former pupils made 

arrangements to have the school’s front 

courtyard named in his honor. It has 

been formally named the Msgr. Thomas 

M. Bennett Courtyard. 

A major financial gift from the family 

of Robert W. Horner III ’79 was the 

impetus for the special dedication. In his 

endearing, irascible manner, Bennett 

promptly described it “a grand waste of 

money!” Horner smiled as he enjoyed the 

trademark consternation which has made 

Msgr. Bennett a beloved personality at St. 


“It is a privilege for me to be able to 

facilitate this recognition which is so 

genuinely and richly deserved,” Horner 

said. The Bennett Courtyard provides “a 

unique and fitting opportunity to honor 

an exceptional person during his lifetime 

for his 40 years of extraordinary service to 

St. Charles,” Horner said. “Monsignor 

represents everything that makes St. 

Charles special. 

“Some 25 years after my graduation, I 

still find myself relating stories of my 

experiences in his classes as an illustration 

of the remarkable nature of the St. 

Charles experience,” Horner said. 

Horner, who serves as vice chair of 

the school’s Advisory Board, praised 

Bennett’s outstanding academic teaching 

with his unique blend of discipline and 

levity. Moreover, despite a lifetime of 

notable achievement, “Monsignor remains 

one of the more truly humble people I 

have ever had the pleasure of knowing,” 

Horner said. “He is a true servant of the 

Lord in every sense.” 

Decade (’20s, ’30s, and 

’40s) captain Homer V. 

Beard ’46 

’54 class captain William 

P. Igel 

’63 class captain Richard 

L. Ferris 

’70s decade captain John 

T. Mackessy ’78 

Parents co-chairs Mike 

and Marcia Kelty 

’58 class captain George 

G. Vargo 

Alumni chairman Dr. 

Thomas N. Ryan ’58 

’72 class captain Marion 

E. Smithberger 

’87 class captain Edward 

J. Hohmann 

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Saint Charles 

Benefactor Honor 

Roll 

St. Charles Preparatory 

School gratefully acknowledges 

the following 

benefactors who have 

supported The Campaign 

for St. Charles and the 

2003-2004 Annual Fund 

during the period of 

September 1, 2003 to 

March 25, 2004. All subsequent 

donors will be 

recognized in the next 

issue of “the Cardinal.” On 

behalf of St. Charles 

students, faculty and staff, 

thank you for you financial 

support, which continues 

to make a significant 

difference. 

Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Absi 

Mr. Anthony E. Absi 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Adams 

Adena Health System 

Adena Health System - Support 

Services 

AHC Environmental Services 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Albert 

Mr. Michael T. Allen 

Dr. James W. Allen 

Ms. Rosemary Amicon 

Mr. Rockne A. Amicon 

Mr. & Mrs. Mick Amicon 

Mr. Richard H. Amicon 

Sister Rosina Amicon 

The Amigo Club @ Plank’s Cafe 

Dr. & Mrs. Dale M. Anderson 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Angle 

Anonymous #1 — Annual Fund 



Anonymous #1 — Campaign for 






Mr. & Mrs. Kent Anslinger 

Rev. William L. Arnold 

Mr. Scott R. Arthur 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry O. Askew 

Mr. & Mrs. Alan Austin 

Mr. Andrew N.C. Babson 

Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Bachman 

Dr. Barry P. Backiewicz 

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Backiewicz 

Mr. Matthew J. Baehr 

Mr. Jerome Balkenhol 

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Ballantyne 

Mr. & Mrs. Henry M. Banta 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Barcza 

Mr. & Mrs. Harry W. Barrow 

Mr. & Mrs. James Bartholomew 

Mr. Andrew W. Bartz 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Batogwski 

Mr. John C. Baumann 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Baumann 

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Baumann 

Mr. Michael J. Baumann 

Mr. Charles E. Baumann 

Mr. & Mrs. Homer V. Beard 

Mr. Joseph A. Beckner 

Deacon & Mrs. Paul C. Belhorn 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Belisle 

Dr. John P. Bell 

Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Bell 

Mr. & Mrs. Brandon G. Belli 

Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bendinelli 

Mr. Vincent H. Bennett 

Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. Bennett 

Msgr. Thomas M. Bennett 

Mr. Carl Bergman 

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew I. Berrisford 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Bettendorf 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Bettendorf 

Mr. & Mrs. A. William Bickham 

Dr. Stephen H. Bickham 

Mr. E. Francis Biggert 

Mr. Michael W. Bissmeyer 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Blodgett 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Blubaugh 

Dr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Blum 

Ms. Shelley G. Boales 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bogen 

Mr. & Mrs. William F. Boland 

Mrs. George M. Boller 

Mr. Stephen Boller 

Mr. Jack A. Boller 

Dr. Joseph L. Borowitz 

Mr. John W. Boswell 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Botts 

Dr. & Mrs. Donald Bowen 

Mr. & Mrs. Erik B. Bower 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Boyle 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bozymski 

Mr. Thomas V. Bracken 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Bracken 

Mr. Michael T. Bradley 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Brady 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Brady 

Mr. & Mrs. James M. Brady 

Ms. Susan Brattain 

Mr. James E. Bray 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Brehm 

Mr. Joseph C.K. Breiteneicher 

Mr. Thomas A. Bringardner 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Bringardner 

Mr. & Mrs. William Bringardner 

Mr. & Mrs. Rob Brisley 

Mr. William C. Brosmer 

Rev. Thomas J. Brosmer 

Mr. Frank Brown 

Mr. Michael T. Brown 

Mr. Ronald Bruno 

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph I. Brush 

Mr. Michael O. Bryant 

Mrs. William Buoni 

Dr. & Mrs. William G. Buoni 

Mr. & Mrs. Gordon W. Burke 

Mr. A. Michael Burkey 

Mr. & Mrs. Keith C. Burris 

Mr. & Mrs. C. Andrew Bush 

Mrs. Anne Bush-Cassady 

Mr. & Mrs. Freddie Butcher 

Mr. & Mrs. E. William Butler 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Cadieux 

Mr. William Cain 

Mr. Thomas I. Caine IV 

Mr. Gary A. Caito 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip C. Caito 

Mr. Michael A. Calvert 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Patrick Campbell 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Campbell 

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore D. Campbell 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Cannata 

Mr. Michael B. Cantlon 

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Carducci 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Carlisle 

Mr. Bryan A. Carnahan 

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Carnes 

Mr. & Mrs. John K. Carollo 

Ms. Patricia B. Carr 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew R. Carr 

Mr. Steven P. Carroll 

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Casino 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Daniel Cassidy 

Dr. Andrew J. Catanzaro 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Michael Cavanaugh 

Mr. Dominic A. Cavello 

Mr. & Mrs. Dominic J. Cavello 

Mrs. Ronald K. Chelton 

Mr. & Mrs. Bradford K. Chelton 

Mr. & Mrs. Jack Cherry 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Cherry 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Chmielewski 

Dr. & Mrs. Victor Ciancetta 

Mr. Michael A. Cianflona 

Msgr. Carl P. Clagett 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Clancey 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. Clark 

Mrs. John W. Cleary 

Mr. Michael L. Close 

Mr. & Mrs. Coleman J. Clougherty 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Coady 

Mr. & Mrs. Deane Cobler 

Mr. & Mrs. William A. Cohan Jr. 

Mr. Michael E. Collins 

Mrs. Bruce Colosimo 

Mrs. Katherine Condo 

Mr. Richard P. Conie 

Mr. & Mrs. A. Terrence Conlisk Jr 

Mr. & Mrs. James J. Conlon Jr. 

Ms. Barbara E. Connor 

Mr. Daniel D. Connor 

Hon. & Mrs. John A. Connor II 

Mr. & Mrs. John W. Connor 

Mrs. Karen Cooney 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Copeland 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Copeland 

Mr. Daryl W. Corbett 

Msgr. Lawrence J. Corcoran 

Mr. Mark Corna 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Corrigan 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Coughlin 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Crabtree 

Mrs. Richard D. Crabtree 

Mr. David F. Craft 

Mr. & Mrs. Franklin J. Crawford 

Critical Care Innovations 

Dr. & Mrs. Mark Crnkovich 

Mr. Robert T. Cull 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Cull 

Mr. Robert C. Culp 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Cummings 

Mr. Michael J. Cummins 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Curran 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Curtin 

LTC & Mrs. Edward B. Cush 

Msgr. John A. Cymbor 

Mr. & Mrs. Cristino Damo 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank D’Antonio 

Mr. John K. Daulton 

Dr. Paul I. Davis 

Mr. & Mrs. William S. Davis 

Dr. & Mrs. Gary Davis 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Dawes 

Mr. & Mrs. Chester J. DeBellis 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Deerwester 

Dr. Conrad W. DeFiebre 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Deibel 

Col. & Mrs. Robert E. Del Corso 

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard C. DeLeo Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Lee H. DeMastry 

Mr. & Mrs. John A. DeMastry 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel D. Dent 

St. Francis DeSales Student 

Council 

Dr. & Mrs. Louis DeSantis Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. DeShetler 

Mrs. Richard L. DeShetler 

Mr. Robert L. DeStazio 

Mr. Dale Deubler 

Mr. J. James Deutschle 

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Devos 

Huntington National Bank 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul DiPaolo 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Dick 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Dickas 

Mr. Michael E. Dickerson 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dilenschneider 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Dillard 

Mr. James T. Dillard, Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dilley 

Mr. Anthony DiNovo 

Mr. John P. DiRosario 

Mr. & Mrs. John DiSabato Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Jon DiSabato 

Mr. & Mrs. Stanley J. Dobrowski 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dodd 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dodd Jr. 

Mr. Edward Dollenmayer 

Mr. Dennis Donahue 

Ms. Susan L. Donohue 

Dr. Scott Donaldson 

Mr. Craig E. Donley 

Dr. Robert Donley 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Donovan 

Mr. Keary M. Doon 

Mr. John E. Dorrian 

Mr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Dorrian 

Mr. & Mrs. David W. Douglas 

Mr. & Mrs. John Dowd 

Mr. James T. Doyle Sr. 

Mr. Lawrence J. Doyle 

Mr. & Mrs. William F. Drake 

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Dreska 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip T. Driscoll 

Dr. & Mrs. Fredrick T. Drugan 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Drumheller 

Mr. & Mrs. George T. Dube 

Economy Linen Of Zanesville 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Duffy 

Mrs. John C. Duffy 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Duffy 

Mr. & Mrs. George Dunigan II 

Mr. Arthur V. Dunn 

Msgr. William A. Dunn 

Dr. & Mrs. Dennis R. Durbin 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher A. Durbin 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Durbin 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Durbin 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Durik 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Dury 

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Easter 

Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Eberts 

Mr. Robert L. Eblin 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Eifert 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald W. Eifert 

Mr. Harry E. Eisel 

Mr. Jerry A. Emerick 

Mrs. Jeanine M. Emrich 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Endres 

Mr. Jeffrey D. Engle 

Msgr. Paul P. Enke 

Mr. James J. Erb 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Erdy 

Mrs. Janet Erlinger 

Mr. & Mrs. James S. Erwin 

Rev. Charles P. Essman 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Evans 

Mr. & Mrs. Louis V. Fabro 

Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Fabro 

Mr. & Mrs. Vincent J. Fabro 

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony P. Fabro 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Faherty 

Mr. & Mrs. Gino A Fantozzi 

Mr. Richard Favret 

Mr. William E. Favret 

Mr. & Mrs. James V. Felty 

Ms. Cheryl A. Ferkany 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Ferris 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Ferris 

Mrs. Susanne Ferris 

Mr. William J. Fields 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Z. Filiatraut 

Mr. & Mrs. John F. Finn 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Finn 

Mr. & Mrs. James P. Finn 

Mr. Leo E. Finnen 

Mr. Lawrence Finneran 

Mr. John E. Fisher 

Mr. J. Richard Fisher Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Fitzpatrick 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fletcher 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Flynn 

Msgr. Charles J. Foeller 

Mr. & Mrs. James T. Foley Jr. 

Dr. & Mrs. Jon L. Forche 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Forche 

Dr. Robert J. Forche 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Foust 

Mr. Ronald E. Fowler 

Ms. Joyce A. Frabott 

Mr. & Mrs. Ron Frash II 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Kenneth 

Fredrickson 

Dr. & Mrs. Timothy A. Freeman Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Fritz 

Ms. Daine H. Frush 

Mr. William C. Fulcher Jr. 

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Funaro 

Mr. Thomas L. Gabelman 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Gable 

Ms. Katherine Gage 

Mr. & Mrs. Dane L. Galden 

Ms. Carolyn Anne Gale 

Msgr. F. Thomas Gallen 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Gambs 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence D. Garrison 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. Garvey III 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Gassman 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Gehring 

Mr. & Mrs. Joshua R. Gelhaus 

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Gelhaus 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Gerlacher 

Mr. & Mrs. James Gernetzke 

Ohio Valley Hospital Consortium 

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph W. Giasi 

Dr. Terence J. Gibboney 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Gibbs 

Mr. John L. Gibson 

Mr. & Mrs. William E. Gilham 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary D. Giller 

Dr. Michael F. Gilligan 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Gillilan 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Gilmour 

Mr. & Mrs. Bradford J. Glavan 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Gleich 

Rev. Michael Glockner, 

Mark E. Goldsmith, M.D. 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goodman 

Mr. & Mrs. John E Goodrich 

Mr. Kyle Goodrich 

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Gordon 

Dr. & Mrs. John Gordon 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Gordon 

Mrs. John W. Gordon 

Mr. & Mrs. George B. 

Gottemoeller 

Dr. & Mrs. John R. Grady 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Graham 

Ms. Janis Gray 

Mrs. Michael A. Greiner 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Griffith 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Colby Grimes 

Mrs. Daniel G. Grimes 

Msgr. Kenneth F. Grimes 

Mr. & Mrs. James J. Grimm 

Mr. & Mrs. Marvin S. Grossman 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Grote 

Dr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Gruber 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Gruenwald 

Mr. & Mrs. Henry Gruesen 

Mr. Jeffrey S. Gugle 

Mr. & Mrs. Roy K. Gutmann 

Mr. John J. Guzzo 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Haas 

Mr. Thomas Hackett 

Ms. Mary Ellen Haggard 

Mr. & Mrs. Philip Hall 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Hammond 

Dr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Haney 

Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Haney III 


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Mr. Richard J. Hanf 

Msgr. James P. Hanley 

Mr. & Mrs. Lee Hanna 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hanson 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Harlow 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Harmon 

Mr. & Mrs. Gary Harmon 

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Harris 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Hart 

Mr. John A. Harvath Jr. 

Ms. Vivian Harvey 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher L. Harvey 

Mr. W. Scott Haselwood 

Mr. & Mrs. David Hasson 

Mr. & Mrs. Dale A Hatem 

Mr. Jeffrey F. Havens 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Hayes 

Mr. Terrence R. Heffernan 

Dr. Daniel J. Heinmiller 

Mr. & Mrs. G. Douglas Heitz 

Mr. Keith A. Helfer 

Mr. & Mrs. John Heller 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Heller 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Heller 

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Heller Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul K. Hemmer 

Msgr. Joseph M. Hendricks 

Mr. & Mrs. John W. Herbert 

Mr. Daniel P. Hickey 

Mr. & Mrs. Bryan F. Hickey 

Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Hickey 

Mr. Ray Highfield 

Ms. Annette Prunte Hilaman 

Mr. & Mrs. Chip Hill 

Ms. Patricia Hoch 

Mr. John A. Hoffman 

Mr. Joseph M. Hoffman 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J.P. Hoffman 

Sister Margaret Hoffman 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Hohl 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Hohmann 

Dr. & Mrs. John E. Hohmann 

Mrs. Walter Holden 

Mr. Christopher S. Holgate 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Holleran 

Mr. & Mrs. John G. Hondros 

Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Horn 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Horner 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Horner III 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Horvath 

Mr. John A. Houck 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Howard 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Howard 

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew A. Howard 

Ms. Leslie Howard 

Mrs. Joan Hoye 

Mr. Christopher T. Hughes 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael T. Hughes 

Mr. & Mrs. Ted Hummer 

Mr. & Mrs. John Hunter 

Mr. & Mrs. Bradley S. Hunter 

Drs. Mark & Elizabeth Hurst 

Mr. & Mrs. John Hykes 

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Iacobone 

Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Iacovetta 

Mr. Leonard J. Iannarino Jr. 

Deacon & Mrs. Francis Iannarino 

Mr. Richard Iannarino 

Mr. & Mrs. William P. Igel 

Mr. George J. Igel 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Igoe 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Inbusch 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Jander 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter Janotka 

Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Jaquay 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Jepsen 

Mr. Frederick W. Jestand 

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Dr. Lynne Johnston 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jokovich 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Jones 

Mr. Mark Jones 

Mr. & Dr. Shelby Jones 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Jordan 

Dr. Paul M. Jurkowitz 

Mr. Christopher M. Kazor 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Kazor 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Kelleher 

Mr. & Mrs. William Keller 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Kelley 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Kelley 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Kelley 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kelly 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Kelty 

Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Kemerling 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Kessler 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Khoury 

Lt. Col. & Mrs. Charles P. Kielkopf 

Dr. & Mrs. Julian A. Kim 

Mr. Robert J. Kitsmiller 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Kitsmiller 

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew J. Kletzly 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Kletzly 

Rev. Charles F. Klinger 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark H. Klingler 

Mr. & Mrs. Jesse H. Klingler 

Mr. & Mrs. James D. Klunk Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Knapp 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Knapp 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger D. Knott Jr. 

Mr. Thomas M. Koch 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Koch 

Mrs. John Kochensparger 

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Koebel 

Mr. Gregory Kontras & Paula 

Brooks 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Korth 

Mr. Mark Kotlinski 

Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Kowalkowski 

Mr. & Mrs. Maury Kraines 

Mr. & Mrs. D. Bryan Kratz 

Mr. & Mrs. John N. Kratz 

Mr. Jack Kreber 

Mr. David Kreuzer 

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory A. Krivicich 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kron 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Krucker 

Mr. & Mrs. Fred Kuhn Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery Kuhn 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Peter Kuhns 

Mrs. Patricia Kuhns 

Mr. Paul J. Kunzen Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kuppich 

Mr. Jeffrey E. Kuzma 

Mr. & Mrs. Wilford L. L’Esperance 

Mr. Charles A. LaForge 

Mr. & Mrs. Peter T. LaFramboise 

Mr. & Mrs. David Laing 

Ms. Patricia Lamphear 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Landes 

Mr. Aleck K. Landgraf 

Mr. & Mrs. Neil Larrimer 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark A. Latorre 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Lauber 

Mr. & Mrs. William J. 

Laufersweiler 

Rev. Raymond E. Lavelle 

Mr. & Mrs. David K. Lawler 

Mr. & Mrs. Alexander J. Laymon 

Mr. & Mrs. Albert Lee 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Lee 

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Leers 

Mr. & Mrs. James D. Lehman 

Mr. Thomas L. Lehman 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Leister 

Mabel Leitch Trust 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Leonhardt 

Mr. Lawrence Letzelter 

Dr. & Mrs. George S. 

Lewandowski 

Mr. Michael J. Linder 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew M. Lindsay 

George Link Jr. Foundation 

Mr. James M. Litwaitis 

Mr. & Mrs. Alex K. Loehrer 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Loehrer 

Dr. & Mrs. Adolph Lombardi 

Mr. & Mrs. William Lonergan 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Lorms 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Lorms 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Lorr 

Mrs. Arthur G. Lorr 

Rev. James W. Lothamer 

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Lovatt 

Mr. & Mrs. C. Jack Loviner 

Mr. & Mrs. James R. Lower 

Dr. & Mrs. Joel G. Lucas 

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Lumpe 

Mr. Joseph B. Luthman 

Mr. Frank J. Macioce 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. 

Mackessy Sr. 

Dr. & Mrs. James P. Mackessy 

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Mackessy 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Mackessy 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Mackessy 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. MacKinnon 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. MacKinnon 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas W. MacLachlan 

Mr. Douglas P. MacLachlan 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael P. Madigan 

Mr. Lars P. Mahler 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher M. Mahler 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Mahler 

Mr. & Mrs. Zaheer Mahmood 

Mr. & Mrs. Bart P. Mahoney 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark P. Majernik 

Mr. & Mrs. Torrence A. Makley III 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Malone 

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Mampieri 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Mangone 

Mr. Lawrence E. Manierre 

Mrs. Angelo P. Marchi 

Ms. Elisa Marchi-Roberts 

Mr. John M. Marmion III 

Mr. & Mrs. John M. Marmion Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John Maroney 

Dr. & Mrs. Edward A. Marque 

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis P. Martin 

Mr. Paul F. Martin 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Mason 

Mr. Daniel J. Massey 

Ms. Stephanie Mathes 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy B. May 

LTC & Mrs. Thomas J. Mazuzan 

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Mazza 

Mr. Theodore Mazza 

Mr. & Mrs. John A. 

McAndrews Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Ty McBee 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. McCabe 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick McCaffrey 

Mr. & Mrs. William J. McCarthy 

Rev. Bernard J. McClory 

Mr. & Mrs. Don W. McClure 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark McCord 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. McCrery 

Mr. James D. McElroy 

Mr. & Mrs. M. Kevin McGee 

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth McGill 

Mr. Kim A. McGovern 

Mr. & Mrs. John McGregor 

Mr. John P. McIntosh 

Mr. & Mrs. David E. McKee 

Mr. & Mrs. Regis F. McKenna 

Mr. & Mrs. William McKinley 

Mr. Bruce McNamara 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert McNamara 

Ms. Mary Lou McNamara 

Mr. Keith McNamara 

Mrs. Patrick McSweeney 

Mr. & Mrs. John D. McVey III 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher D. 

Meacham 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey E. Meacham 

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph F. Meara 

Mr. John A. Medert 

Mr. Steven D. Meier 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Melaragno 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark K. Merkle 

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Merry 

Mr. & Mrs. James Merz 

Mr. & Mrs. David E. Merz 

Mr. Jonathan J. Mess 

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Mess 

Msgr. Robert E. Metzger 

Msgr. Paul E. Metzger 

Mr. & Mrs. David R. Meuse 

Mr. Robert Mildenberg 

Mrs. Ann R. Milem 

Mr. William Millard 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward W. Miller Jr. 

Dr. Thomas J. Miller 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J.M. Miller 

Mr. & Mrs. Maurice N. Milne III 

Ms. Patricia Moloney 

Mr. Anthony G. Monaco 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Moore 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Moore 

Mr. Edmund C. Moore 

Mr. & Mrs. John Morgan 

Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Morgan 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Morgan 

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Morgan 

Mr. Daniel D. Morrill 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph J. Morris 

Mr. & Mrs. Mike Motil 

Mr. & Mrs. Dwight L. Mottet 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Mottet 

Mr. & Mrs. Herbert J. Mould 

Mt. Carmel West Respiratory 

Department 

Mt. Carmel East Respiratory 

Department 

Mt. Carmel East Higher Ground 

Circle 14 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Munczinski 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Murnane 

Mr. & Mrs. James T. Murphy 

Mr. & Mrs. Norm Murphy 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Murphy 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Murray 

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry J. Murray Jr. 

Mr. Stephen M. Mustard 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Mynark 

Mr. & Mrs. Carell Nappier 

Mr. Edward F. Nardini 

Dr. David A. Nardone Jr. 

Mr. James V. Neill 

Mr. & Mrs. John H. Nester 

Mr. & Mrs. James D. Nester 

Mr. Gary L. Nicholson 

Mr. Joseph T. Nightwine 

Mr. Thomas P. Nolan 

Ms. Donna J. Noland 

Mr. & Mrs. James E. Norris 

Mr. Brandon C. North 

Mr. Chris J. North 

Ms. Teresa Norton 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Norton 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Nourse 

Dr. & Mrs. David P. O’Brien 

Mr. John O’Grady 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochab 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. O’Leary 

Mr. & Mrs. John H. O’Neil 

Mr. David T. O’Reilly 

Dr. & Mrs. Kevin P. O’Reilly 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. O’Reilly 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. O’Reilly 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick F. O’Reilly Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Panda 

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher K. Paolini 

Mr. & Mrs. Leroy R. Paolini 

Mr. & Mrs. Karl Pappa 

Mr. & Mrs. George A. Paraskos 

Dr. James J. Pardi 

Mr. Jeffrey G. Park 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven G. Park 

Mr. & Mrs. James T. Parker 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew M. Parrish 

Mrs. David B. Patrick 

Mr. William M. Patton 

Mr. & Mrs. Allen Pavol 

Mr. & Mrs. Keith Pecinovsky 

Mr. Gary Peffly 

Mr. Robert M. Pellican 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen N. Pellican 

Mr. David L. Pemberton Jr. 

Mr. William N. Petrakis 

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. Pharion 

Mr. & Mrs. Scott M. Pharion 

Mr. Merrill D. Phelan 

Mr. & Mrs. William L. Phillips II 

Mr. James P. Pickard 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Pickard 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. Piecoro Jr. 

Mr. Thomas G. Pillifant IV 

Mr. Michael A. Pione 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Poirier 

Devotion to Mary 

Oakland Park Nursery workers install a flagstone walkway to Our 

Lady of Lourdes Grotto. The project, sponsored by the St. Charles 

Mother Club, also includes a dry stream bed, a pedestrian stone 

bridge, and a flagstone landing on which stone and marble benches 

memorializing ’92 graduate Frank Dury will be replaced. 


Mr. David M. Postlewaite II 

Dr. & Mrs. David Postlewaite 

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Powers 

Mr. & Mrs. Howard B. Pritz 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Probst 

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Probst 

Mr. & Mrs. Dominic W. Prunte 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Prunte 

Mr. J. Aaron Purdy 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Rafferty 

Ms. Donna E. Raley 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Ralston Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy S. Rankin 

Dr. Patrick L. Rankin 

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Rankin III 

Mr. Gerald J. Rankin 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Rath 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Rath 

Mrs. Helen Rau 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald T. Rau 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank A. Ray 

Mr. J. Michael Reagan 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Reasbeck 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger Reed 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Reidelbach 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Reidy 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Reilly Sr. 

Mr. Paul Reilly 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Reiner 

Mr. Joseph Reinhard 

Mr. Brian C. Reis 

Rev. Michael J. Reis 

Mr. Timothy F. Reis 

Mr. John A. Reynolds 

Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Reynolds 

Mr. & Mrs. William Riat 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward Rice 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. 

Ridgeway Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Riederer 

Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Riehl 

Mrs. Francis P. Rieser 

Mr. & Mrs. M. Neil Rinehart 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. Ritz 

Mr. Raymond T. Roberts Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Thomas 

Rodenfels 

Mr. Richard J. Rodenfels 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Rogerson 

Dr. & Mrs. Ralph G. Rohner Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John B. Rohyans 

Ms. Theresa L. Roski 

Mr. F. Donald Rothermich 

Mr. & Mrs. Clare A. Rubadue 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Rubadue 

Ms. Nancy Jane Ruetsch 

Mr. Joseph L. Rugola 

Mr. & Mrs. S. William Rushay 

Mr. Kevin M. Ryan 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Ryan 

Mr. & Mrs. Edward J Ryan 

Mr. Robert E. Ryan III 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Ryan 

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Ryan Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. John C. Ryan Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Ryan 

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Ryan 

Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan J. Ryan 

Mr. & Mrs. Jay Ryan 

Mr. Thomas J. Ryan Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Saad 

Sabety Family Foundation 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Saelzler 

Mr. Eric S. Sagun 

St. Charles Mothers Club 

Mr. William A. Salvini 

Dr. & Mrs. Scott Sanders 

Dr. & Mrs. Peter M. Sanfelippo 

Mr. & Mrs. John L. Sauter 

Mr. & Mrs. Martin L. Savko 

Mr. & Mrs. Theodore J. Sayer Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Garrett Scanlon 


Mrs. Charles Schaefer 

Dr. Arthur T. Scherer 

Mr. & Mrs. Bernard J. Schick 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy G. Schlotterer 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Schmidt 

Msgr. Robert R. Schmidt 

Capt. & Mrs. John A. Schmitt 

Mr. Michael J. Schmitt 

Mr. Jacob W. Schneider 

Mr. & Mrs. Andrew A. Schneider 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Schneider 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. Schneider 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin R. Schockling 

Schottenstein Homes 

Foundation 

Mr. Frederick C. Schramm 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Schreick 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Schroeder 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Schuda 

Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. Schuele 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. 

Schwendenman 

Dr. & Mrs. David Scurria 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scurria 

Dr. & Mrs. Robert R. Seghi 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Seidt 

Mr. Joseph C. Servick 

Dr. & Mrs. William P. Sexton 

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin C. Shannon 

Mr. & Mrs. William T. Sharpe 

Mr. Andrew W. Shawver 

Mr. H. David Shea 

Mr. Richard J. Sheehan 

Mr. David J. Sheehy 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Sheeran 

Mr. & Mrs. David Sheets 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Shenk 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Sherman 

Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. 

Sherowski 

Mr. Michael J. Shott 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Siefert 

Mrs. Rita Siemer 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Simmons 

Mr. Craig A. Simon 

Mr. & Mrs. George N. Simpson 

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Sinatro Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Skunza 

Mr. & Mrs. William J. Slattery 

Mr. Edward J. Slattery 

Mr. Donald J. Smeltzer 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Smith 

Mr. & Mrs. Marion E. Smithberger 

Mr. & Mrs. Craig Smucker 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Solomon Jr. 

Msgr. David V. Sorohan 

Mr. & Mrs. Press C. 

Southworth IV 

Mr. & Mrs. Press C. 

Southworth III 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Spagnuolo 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Spangler 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Spangler 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Speidel 

Mr. & Mrs. Leo M. Spellacy 

Mr. William G. Spiers 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy F. Sprosty 

Mr. Robert W. St. John 

Mr. & Mrs. Roland P. Stanton 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Stanton 

Rev. Francis M. Stanton 

Mr. William L. Staudenheimer 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Stedman 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard R. Stedman 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Stein 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas H. Stein 

Mr. George Steinbrenner 

Mr. Lawrence H. Stember Jr. 

The Stern Family Foundation 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Eric Stevens 

Mr. & Mrs. James Stevenson 

Mrs. Laura Stewart & Family 

Dr. & Mrs. Michael Stiff 

Mr. & Mrs. Eugene F. Stluka 

Mr. & Mrs. Greg Stonerock 

Mr. Kyle J. Strahler 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Straub 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Strausbaugh 

Mr. & Mrs. Roger Street 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stromberg 

Mr. & Mrs. David Strosky 

Ms. Lillian C. Strouss 

Mr. & Mrs. Donald Stump 

Mr. Joseph E. Sulick 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Sullivan 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Sullivan 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael M. Sullivan 

Mr. & Mrs. F. William Sullivan Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Ryan P. Sullivan 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Summers 

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph L. Susey 

Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Sutton 

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Swearingen 

Mr. Michael J. Sweeney Jr. 

Mr. Barry A. Swepston 

Mr. Francis R. Schwinne 

Mr. & Mrs. Eugene H. Swisher 

Mr. William E. Switalski 

Mr. & Mrs. Lajos Szabo 

Target Take Charge Of 

Education 

Mr. Jonathan Tarpy 

Mr. Brian C. Tarpy 

Mr. & Mrs. Daniel J. Tarpy 

Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Taubken 

Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Taylor 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick O. Taynor 

Mr. & Mrs. Larry Taza 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Tedesco 

Mr. Kenneth E. Teeters 

Mr. Richard J. Terrill 

Mr. & Mrs. Todd Thoman 

Mrs. Sue Dell Thoman 

Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Thomas 

Mr. Daniel P. Thompson 

Dr. & Mrs. Mark E. Thompson 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Thon 

Mr. & Mrs. David A. Thornton 

Mr. & Mrs. John A.Q. Tiberi 

Mr. Edward A. Timko 

Mr. & Mrs. John Tonti 

Mr. & Mrs. James Tornes 

Mr. & Mrs. John A. Toth 

Mr. Sean T. Tracy 

Mr. John C. Tracy 

Mr. & Mrs. Gerard B. Tracy Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. P. Joseph Tracy 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Tracy 

Mrs. JoAnne Trees 

Mr. James R. Tritschler 

Mrs. Priscilla Tyson 

Mr. & Mrs. John Tyznik 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur N. Ulrich 

Mr. & Mrs. James J. Ulrich 

Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Unger 

Dr. & Mrs. Patrick Vaccaro 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Van Meter 

Mr. & Mrs. Ben Vanderhorst 

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Vandermeer 

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Vargo 

Mr. & Mrs. George G. Vargo 

Mr. Paul A. Vellani 

Dr. & Mrs. Harvey R. Vesha 

Dr. & Mrs. Richard J. Vesler 

Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Vincent 

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph A. Vogel 

Mr. & Mrs. Bert Vonderahe 

Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Wackerly 

Wagbros Company 

Mr. Thomas G. Wagenbrenner 

Dr. & Mrs. L. Tad Wagenbrenner 

Mr. & Mrs. John R. Wagner 

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Wagner 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wagy 

Dr. & Mrs. Samuel P. Wallace 

Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Walter 

Mr. & Mrs. Todd P. Wandtke 

Mr. Joseph Wangugi 

Mr. Paul W. Warnick 

Mr. & Mrs. Ted Waterfield 

Rev. Michael Watson 

Mr. & Mrs. James Weaver 

Mr. Michael H. Weaver 

Mr. & Mrs. Matthew S. Weger 

Mr. Thomas Weiler 

Mr. Terrence M. Weiler 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven Weiler 

Mr. Donald E. Weisgerber 

COL & Mrs. Elliot J. Welch 

Mr. & Mrs. George Wenger 

Mr. Peter A. Wenger 

Mr. Dean T. Wenger 

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Wenger 

Mr. & Mrs. William H. Werst III 

Ms. Roganne West 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald L. Westhoff 

Mr. Paul J. White Jr. 

Mr. Marcus T. Whitehead 

Mr. Brian P. Whitlatch 

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Whitlatch 

Sr. 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Whitlatch 

Mr. & Mrs. Frank P. Whyte 

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wickert 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Wickham 

Mr. Michael J. Wihl 

Mr. Thomas J. Wiles 

Mr. William F. Williams Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James K. Williams Jr. 

Mr. & Mrs. James K. Williams III 

Dr. & Mrs. Michael Wodarcyk 

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur F. Wohlfrom 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Wolf 

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Wolf 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Wolfel 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Wollett 

Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Wood 

Mr. Wade L. Workman 

Dr. & Mrs. James A. Yeager 

Mr. Thomas R. Yonk 

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald P. Younkin 

Mr. V. Craig Yuskewich 

Mr. & Mrs. Francis X. Zang 

Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Zanon 

Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Zelasko 

Mr. & Mrs. John J. Zettler 

Ms. Jane P. Zimmerman 

Mr. & Mrs. James H. Zink 

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Zmyslinski 

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Zonars 

NB: If your contribution to the 

Campaign for St. Charles or the 

current Annual Fund was made 

between Sept. 1, 2003 and 

March 25, 2004 and your name 

is not listed, please email director 

of development Doug Stein 

at: dstein@cdeducation.org or 

call him at (614) 252-9288 ext. 

20. 

Gifts to The St. Charles Annual 

Fund have been received in 

honor of the following: 

Matt Bringardner ’00 

Steve Bringardner ’02 

C. Andrew Bush ’92 

Christopher A. Bush ’95 

John I. Butler ’00 

Rev. Charles H. Haluska 

John H. “Jay” Heller III ’05 

The Hessenauer Family 

John and Justin Hykes 

Thomas Milem ’79 

Joshua Monahan ’92 

Brandon Morgan ’99 

Corey Morgan ’07 

Gary Reed 

Paula Jo Reed 

Thomas N. Ryan, DDS ’58 

The Strausbaugh Family 

John C. “Johnny” Schmitt ’29 

Peter Zemaitis 

Gifts to The St. Charles Annual 

Fund have been received in 

memory of the following: 

Anthony Alan Austin ’98 

John W. Brown ’51 

W. David Brown ’45 

“Class of ’64” deceased alumni 

John W. “Jack” Cleary ’45 

Coleman F. Clougherty 

Richard L. DeShetler ’52 

Carol Ann Gabelman 

Msgr. J. Colby Grimes 

Page Heise Jr. ’46 

J. Kevin Igoe ’63 

Rev. Charles A. Jackson 

Leo J. Kletzly ’54 

Angelo P. Marchi 

Tim Maroney ’79 

Patrick McSweeney 

Casey Mentel ’93 

Michael W. Mould ’88 

Geraldine H. O’Brien 

Thomas Pillifant III 

Chester Radke 

Sean P. Reed 

John T. “Jack” Ryan 

John C. “Johnny” Schmitt ’29 

Joan Kappes O’Leary Smith 

Don Swartz ’68 

Sarah Weisgerber 

Matching Gifts 

St. Charles gratefully 

acknowledges the following 

corporate foundations 

and family foundations that 

matched 20 charitable 

donations between Sept. 1, 

2003 and March 25, 2004. 

For those alumni, parents 

and friends of St. Charles 

considering a gift to the 

school in the coming year, 

please consult with their 

employer’s human 

resources office to obtain 

a matching gift form. St. 

Charles Preparatory 

School meets all non-profit 

organization standards as 

prescribed by IRS code 

sec. 501 (c)(3). 

Abbott Laboratories Fund 

AK Steel Foundation 

Altria Foundation 

American Express Foundation 

Ameritech Foundation 

Bank of America Fund 

Emerson Foundation 

SC Johnson Fund 

Merck Company Foundation 

Merrill Lynch & Co. Foundation 

Morgan Stanley 

Nord Family Foundation 

Pepsico Foundation 

Pfizer Foundation 

United Parcel Service 

Foundation 

Wachovia Foundation 

World Reach Matching Gifts 

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By Sister Margaret Hoffman, 

O.S.F. 

Here at Saint Charles the 

liturgy has always been an 

integral part of our identity. 

The school crest, for example, bears 

the symbol of the eucharist — a 

chalice. We have been blessed over 

the years with dedicated presiders 

at eucharist, and teachers devoted 

to guiding our students in liturgical 

ministries that enrich the prayer 

life of our school community. 

When I came to St. Charles 15 

years ago, the priests on the faculty 

were Msgrs. F. Thomas Gallen and 

Thomas M. Bennett, and Father 

William A. Arnold. All imparted to us 

formative messages. Msgr. Gallen would 

include in his homilies incidents of the 

lives of the saints to inspire us. In addition, 

he would include a theme, such as 

the four cardinal virtues, which would be 

the basis of his homilies all year. 

Msgr. Bennett has been a wellrespected 

homilist for many years. He 

always can say much in a very short time. 

Father Bill Arnold has a wonderful ability 

to make the gospel message relevant to 

today’s world. His background in economics 

and government, coupled with his 

passion for justice, invigorated us with 

inspiring and challenging messages. 

It was to a school enriched by such 

preaching that I arrived as an English 

teacher and gradually charged with the 

school’s liturgy. Mr. Dominic Cavello, 

who had in mind some innovations in 

liturgy, brought to faculty in-service 

meetings speakers who would pursue 

Catholic identity. They included experts 

in church architecture, liturgical developments, 

and building community. Those 

sessions also included witness talks by 

faculty members of all Christian faiths. 

The administrators and faculty members 

have been very supportive and 

receptive to those sessions, and are 

willing to train lectors, servers, and 

musicians as needed. Any group, such as 

ours, that undertakes having Mass for 600 

people, knows the importance of cooperation 

by many willing individuals. 

When I came to Saint Charles, we all 

managed to fit in the Mother of Mercy 

Chapel. When I picture it now I realize 

Liturgy is integral part 

of St. Charles 

The senior class’ Baccalaureate Mass is celebrated each year in Mother 

of Mercy Chapel the night before graduation. 

how cramped we were. The choir loft was 

crammed with pews and students. Young 

men were seated behind the altar and 

around the parameters of the chapel. But 

we managed. The students sang and 

prayed as they had in that same worship 

space for decades before them. 

Needing more space, we moved our 

traditional all-school Masses to the gym. 

Mr. Cavello inaugurated having banners, 

each representing a class, carried in the 

entrance procession for Mass. Through 

his efforts, a huge altar backdrop highlighted 

with the St. Charles crest, was 

made by the Matthew Gruber family and 

hung in the gymnasium to transform it as 

much as possible into a sacred space. 

In time, Mr. Cavello had programs 

printed for the Masses. They list Scripture 

readings, psalm responses, order of 

service, and names of participants. The 

computer helps tremendously in this and 

in the production of Mass cards. The 

cards include Mass prayers and words to a 

cannon of hymns that a committee felt are 

important for students to know. It’s a big 

undertaking because each faculty member 

is asked for input and the variety of 

“standard hymns” suggested was unexpected. 

The computer also has a significant 

part in recent years for greater participation 

by the entire student body in our 

liturgical celebrations. Religion teachers 

on the second day of the school year give 

each student a survey form asking what 

ministries he’s willing to take for the 

year. The ministries include those of 

lector, cantor, instrumentalist, acolyte, 

banner bearer, gift bearer, and 

sacristan. From that computerized 

survey, students are assigned and 

trained to participate in the Mass. 

The faculty and staff also are given 

a survey that offers an opportunity 

to train students in those areas. 

The September survey allows many, 

many students to be involved in our 

celebrations. 

Music is, of course, a specialized 

gift to liturgy. Students and teachers 

have come forward to be cantors. 

Our liturgies are enriched by 

the St. Charles Chorus under the 

direction of Johnny Steiner and 

Doug Montgomery and the instrumentalists 

under the direction of Rick 

Brunetto. Many cantors also are chorus 

members. 

The restoration of the chapel organ 

and installation of an organ in the gym 

also have been key to developing our 

liturgy. Thanks to donations led by Msgr. 

Gallen, the chapel organ was restored, 

and in 2002 was rededicated. As usual 

this year, we have in each class at least 

one student who can play the organ for 

Mass. We also have violinists, 

keyboardists, saxophonists, clarinetists, 

trumpeters, guitarists, pianists, drummers, 

etc., who have all played at liturgies 

to enhance the prayer of the community. 

Five years ago, Mr. Cavello instituted 

the practice of weekly Masses for one 

entire class at a time. Several years 

before that Mr. Richard Elflein designed 

and built the beautiful altar of sacrifice 

and cantor’s podium that blend in with the 

chapel’s architectural beauty. Now we 

have reunion and first Friday Masses for 

alumni in the chapel. That’s possible 

thanks to the willingness of priests from 

around the city and suburbs to celebrate 

with us. We’re most grateful on Wednesdays 

at 10:40 A.M. to welcome one of the 

priests from various parishes and assignments 

to celebrate here. 

Our Lenten devotions include the 

Stations of the Cross which students 

prepare one class at a time. As on the 

days of Mass, other activities in the 

building stop so that all can attend the 

services. Any student who wishes to 

participate in the weekly religious service 

is free to do so. Penance Services are 

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held twice a year, during Advent and 

Lent. Priests of the area conduct Penance 

services and now take turns in delivering 

the homily that for so many years was 

done by the late Msgr. J. Colby Grimes. 

Spiritual retreats are provided for all 

students. Seniors and juniors go to the 

Bergamo Retreat Center in Dayton, Ohio, 

and sophomores and freshman have their 

retreat on our campus. The faculty 

retreat is usually at the Shrine Center for 

Renewal. Our annual Marian devotions 

include recitation of the rosary in October 

and prayers and a homily about Mary at 

our campus grotto in May. 

Whether it is in the parish or school 

community, the congregation is in its 

essence formed and reflected in the way it 

celebrates. All liturgical ministers are first 

and foremost members of the Body of 

Christ. It is the right and privilege of 

baptized persons to participate in the 

ministry of Christ. The Roman Missal’s 

General Instruction states: “the fullest 

and most fundamental expression of 

involvement in Christ’s ministry is the 

conscious, active, and fruitful participation 

in the mystery of the eucharist.” Because 

the celebration of the Eucharist is the 

“action of the whole Church” everyone in 

the assembly has “an individual right and 

duty to contribute their participation.” 

As each new class of students come to 

us at St. Charles, many well-trained from 

their parish schools of religion, Catholic 

elementary schools, or other church 

communities in various roles in liturgy, 

we rejoice in their gifts and invite them to 

lead us in the special ministries of prayer. 

The origin of the word “liturgy” is the 

Greek for to work, which is so appropriate 

because the efforts of many are needed to 

make a “joyful sound unto the Lord,” to 

praise God in the midst of the varied 

emotions of each day, each season, each 

school year. 

Grad creating new St. Charles web site 

continued from page 18 

He said his “overarching goal is to 

create something that not only reflects 

the image and integrity of St. Charles but 

also interconnects the school’s students, 

faculty, friends, family and benefactors.” 

He hopes the website will be used by 

alumni, friends, and parents as both a 

source of information and as a channel of 

communication between the school and 

the community. “I want the website to 

convey that sense of pride and fraternal 

bonding that St. Charles men share,” 

Sullivan said. 

He’s redesigning the current website 

to provide more comprehensive information 

to a wider target audience. Most 

information on the current website is 

from the student handbook. Sullivan is 

reorganizing this information by using a 

different style of drop-down menus and 

introducing new items. 

New features include: a map tour of 

the campus with identifications and 

histories of buildings and landmarks; a 

class registry that enables an alumnus to 

update personal information or to look up 

graduates by name or graduating year; an 

expanded page for the school’s alumni and 

development office that includes sections 

devoted to the Borromean and Principal 

Award winners; and guidelines for making 

gifts to St. Charles. 

Sullivan hopes to create a section that 

can be used to sell St. Charles apparel 

online. He’s also seeking to establish a 

secure online donation page. 

The site will always be a work in 

progress, he said, and “hopefully will be a 

foundation for even more exciting ideas 

for the school’s web presence.” Sullivan 

welcomes comments or suggestions for 

the site. He can be reached at 

rpatrick@wideopenwest.com 

While searching for a job last July and 

with extra free time, Sullivan volunteered 

his professional talents to St. Charles. 

Doug Stein (the development director), 

Sullivan said, “mentioned that they 

needed someone to help out with the St. 

Charles website. I was very eager to 

assist, as website development was 

something that I had worked in and 

wanted to learn more about,” he said. 

He submitted a business proposal and 

project plan to redesign the school’s 

existing website. He analyzed the current 

site and researched websites of many 

other institutions, both high school and 

college, for additional ideas. Sullivan met 

regularly with principal Dominic Cavello, 

Stein, and alumni and communication 

director Louis J. Fabro to discuss site 

requirements and update them on progress. 

Sullivan earned a master’s degree in 

Slavic Linguistics from The Ohio State 

University, but an interest in computer 

hardware and software led him to a career 

in information technology. He served as 

regional coordinator at Expeditors International 

and moved on to American 

Electric Power (AEP) a couple years later 

as a desktop support specialist. He was 

promoted to project coordinator the next 

year and realized that his strength was 

communicating with business about its 

short and long term IT initiatives, as well 

as managing projects that arose from 

them. 

Soon after, however, his job was 

eliminated in a corporate restructuring 

move. His ensuing job search, Sullivan 

said, afforded him time to spend with his 

newborn daughter, Katie, and to contribute 

his talents to the school that he says 

gave so much to him. “I still look back on 

my days at St. Charles with a great sense 

of pride,” beamed Sullivan. He has since 

secured a project management position at 

Bank One, but is open to exploring a 

permanent position should the right 

opportunity come along. 

St. Charles Preparatory School 


The Campaign for St. Charles Leadership Committee Chairs 

Robert D. Walter ’63 (Honorary Chair) 

Matthew A. Howard ’58 and Timothy M. Kelley ’76 (Co-Chairs) 

and Principal Dominic J. Cavello ‘64 

Cordially Invite You and Your guest to 

A Special Celebration on the St. Charles Campus 

Thursday, June 3, 2004 from 7-9 p.m. 

Call (614) 252-9288 for additional information 


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Calendar of Events 

Apr 29-30, Thur. & Fri. at 8 pm Drama Dept. presents spring musical, 

May 1, Sat. at 3 pm and 8 pm Godspell, in the Campus Theatre. 

& May 2, Sun. at 8 pm For ticket information, call main office 

during school hours at 614-252-6714. 

May 7 at 7:30 am 

May 20, Thursday at 7 pm 

June 3, Thursday 7-9 pm 

June 4-5, Fri. & Sat. 

June 4 at 7:30 am 

June 11-12, Fri. & Sat. 

June 21, Monday at 1 pm 

First Friday Mass in Mother of Mercy 

Chapel. Alumni, students, friends, and 

staff welcome. 

Alumni Association board meeting in the 

alumni-development office conference 

room. All alumni are encouraged to attend. 

Campaign for St. Charles Celebration in 

the Rear Courtyard of St. Charles at 2010 

East Broad Street. Call alumnidevelopment 

office for information at 

614-252-9288. 

Class of 1994 celebrates its 10-year 

reunion. 


Chapel. Alumni, friends, students, and 



reunion, joined by 1949 Aquinas alumni. 

Jack Ryan Invitational Golf Tournament at 

Granville Golf Course & Granville Inn. To 

play or become a hole sponsor, contact 

Louis J. Fabro at 614-252-9288 ext.21 or by 

e-mail at lfabro@cdeducation.org. 

July 2 at 7:30 am 

July 2-3, Fri. & Sat. 


July 24, Saturday at 9 a.m. 



Chapel. Alumni, students, friends, and 



reunion. 


reunion. 

Alumni Association’s annual alumni 

softball tournament. Games at St. Charles 

and Wolfe Park Cookout to follow. To 

make individual and team reservations, 

e-mail Joe Wolf at jwolf14@insight.rr.com. 


reunion. 

Aug. 6 at 7:30 a.m. First Friday Mass in Mother of Mercy 

Chapel. All alumni, students, friends, and 


Aug. 13-14, Fri. & Sat. 

Aug. 19, Thursday at 7 p.m. 

Aug. 27-28, Fri. & Sat 

Sept. 10-11, Fri. & Sat. 


reunion. 

St. Charles Alumni Association board 

meeting in the alumni-development office 

conference room. All alumni are 

encouraged to attend and become active 

members. 


reunion. 


reunion. 

Saint Charles Preparatory School 

2010 E. Broad St. 

Columbus, Ohio 43209-1665 

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