Fall 2005 - St. Charles Preparatory School

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CARDINAL
St. Charles Preparatory School Alumni Magazine Fall 2005
Inside
See photos from the
Groundbreaking Ceremony for
the Robert C. Walter Student
Commons and the St. Charles
Student Services & Fine Arts
Center as well as a timeline
progression to date of the
construction project’s progress.
Page 4 & 5
St. Charles honored three special
men at its annual feast day Mass
in November. Read about Msgr.
Lawrence J. Corcoran Jr. ’35,
Msgr. Ralph Huntzinger ’42, and
Henry J. “Hank” Sherowski and
their efforts on behalf of the
school and the community.
Page 10
Dr. James Yeager ’64 is the
director of sacred music at the
Pontifical College Josephinum.
Read inside about his many
duties, accomplishments, and the
two St. Charles organs he
rescued and fully restored to
working condition. Page 49
There were many alumni events
to report on, including the
inaugural presentation of the
Distinguished Alumnus Awards,
the Alumni Association’s annual
golf outing, and nine class
reunions. Pages 18, 22, & 19
And read about the great things
our students are accomplishing:
100% passage rate for last year’s
OGT test, 11 young men named
National Merit Semifinalist and 21
Commended Scholars, and great
results on last year’s AP exams.
(Starting on page 12)
On the Development front, learn
about progress on Phase II of the
Campaign for St. Charles and the
many families and individuals
who are helping to support the
school’s endowments and the
new building expansion. Page 50
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Breaking new ground
Construction of the new Robert C. Walter Student Commons
and the St. Charles Student Services & Fine Arts Center
commenced following a June groundbreaking ceremony.
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the
CARDINAL
The magazine for alumni and friends
of Saint Charles Preparatory School
Fall 2005 Volume 20, Number 1
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
Rev. William L. Arnold ’70
Albert J. Bell ’78
Rev. Thomas J. Brosmer ’61
Hugh J. Dorrian ’53
Charles W. Gehring Sr. ’74
Thomas L. Horvath ’65
Matthew A. Howard ’58
Joseph M. Isbell ’83
Timothy M. Kelley ’76
Peter Kleinhenz
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
John L. Sauter ’58
Press C. Southworth III ’65
George G. Vargo ’58
Emeritus Members
Msgr. William A. Dunn ’57
Louis V. Fabro ’49
James T. Foley Jr.
Leonard J. lannarino Jr. ’58
John J. Ritz ’47
Henry J. Sherowski
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
2005-06 Annual Fund
David L. Pemberton Jr. ’79
Alumni Chairman
George and Terri Lewandowski
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 ’49
Senior Editor
Design and Layout
Marcy Design Group
Greg Krivicich ’75
Yuko Kelly
Principal’s Column
Dear Friends of St. Charles,
by Dominic J. Cavello
What a start for a new school year! We began early June by breaking ground for the
Robert C. Walter Student Commons and Student Services & Fine Arts Center. We
followed in July and August with demolition of the old maintenance building and
began construction of the $5.5-million building. At the end of August, amid the mud,
dust and debris, our students – 580-strong — arrived and classes began. It’s a real
challenge to keep everyone’s attention in class while heavy construction machines
are rolling by, but we adjust well and “school” is what St. Charles does best.
Each year, no matter what the difficulty, our St. Charles faculty strives to
continue to nurture academic excellence with its students. The school’s reputation
requires standards that are considered high, indeed, demanding but fair, and second
to none. Again this year the academic accomplishments of our St. Charles students
attest to just how successful they and our academic program are.
Our student’s performance on the 10 th grade Ohio Graduation Test (OGT)
illustrates how successfully our curriculum prepares them to meet the academic
challenges that they face. On the state tests, given for the first time in March 2005,
St. Charles was one of only three schools in Columbus to score a perfect passing rate
of 100%. What’s concealed within those excellent results is even more telling. St.
Charles students not only passed every test, but a minimum of 95% of them scored
in the highest two grading levels — advanced and accelerated — in each test area —
reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.
Some might argue that the success displayed by St. Charles is a natural result
of a student body consisting of only advanced students. The fact of the matter,
however, is that a large number of our students have average academic ability.
They complement well with our students who qualify as National Merit and Commended
Scholars. What they all have in common is a commitment to do the hard
work and preparation needed each day to succeed. The school’s impressive standardized
test results on the SAT, ACT, National Merit statistics, and student scholarship
awards reflect a dedication and an ethic of hard work and personal discipline.
Of equal importance in the school’s academic focus is the dedication of our
faculty members and their commitment to provide our students strong moral
guidance, a sense of values, and an understanding of what it means to be “our
brother’s keeper.” When St. Charles students graduate, they not only are ready to
On the Cover—
Pictured is a panoramic view of the ground breaking ceremony from the roof of the St.
Charles’ Campus Theatre, facing the school’s powerhouse and north courtyard. It was
taken in June during the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Robert C. Walter Student
Commons and the Student Services & Fine Arts Center, a $5.5 million project. 1963
alumnus Robert D. Walter addresses alumni,benefactors and friends of the St. Charles
community on hand for the celebration. (Inset) James P. Finn ’65, Chairman of the St.
Charles Advisory Board, adds to the school’s graffiti legend and lore. He was one of the
first people to sign a steel beam that has now become part of the new St. Charles Student
Services & Fine Arts Center. He wrote “O.B, IS FAT,” carrying on a certain St. Charles
tradition from his “day” of inscribing Father Robert O’Brien’s ’41 initials to school property.
Father O’Brien taught at St. Charles from 1949-1972. Photo by Finocchi Photography.
Photo contributors—Russ Savage, Finnochi Photography, Louis J. Fabro ’83, Phil
Smith, Michael Sarnacki of New City Photgraphic, The Columbus Dispatch, The Catholic Times, and
the many St. Charles alumni and friends who shared their photos.
Correction
Benjamin P. Jones, Class of 1996, was mistakenly identified as Benjamin L. Jones, Class of 1997 in the
last issue. We apologize for our mistake!
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master the challenges of their college years, but also to become leaders in the church,
business, civic, and academic communities. Accordingly, it’s a delight to point to the
accomplishments of many alumni who are showcased in this issue of the Cardinal.
Several clergy-graduates of the prep school and former seminary college have
found their way onto the pages of this issue: Msgr. Lawrence J. Corcoran ’35, Msgr.
Ralph J. Huntzinger ’42 and Msgr. John J. “Jack” Dreese ’50 have all been recently
honored by the school.
Dr. James Yeager ’64 is profiled for his work to rescue and resurrect two St.
Charles organs from destruction and giving them new life in his renowned musical
program at the Josephinum. And the influential life of coach and teacher Jack Ryan
is celebrated as he was inducted into the Columbus Hall of Fame in August.
Several important events have kept the campus alive with activity. The school
in early October played host to the 2005 Borromean Lecture and guest speaker Dr. F.
Russell Hittinger, the Warren Professor of Catholic Studies in the Department of
Philosophy and Religion at The University of Tulsa.
The most noticeable and very significant activity on campus is the construction
of new facilities. You will find the groundbreaking ceremony last spring for the
Student Commons and Student Services & Fine Arts Center is illustrated in pictures
on page 5.
Add in more than a dozen alumni happenings (10 class reunions, softball tournament,
homecoming, golf outing ) and Mothers Club activities (The Mothers Luncheon,
and silent auction, etc.) and any visitor will see a campus and community
bustling with wonderful activities.
And again this year the school is providing financial aid — more than $360,000
— to nearly 20% of its students. The financial assistance is made possible thanks to
the generosity of alumni and St. Charles friends. Their generous contributions and
prayers are greatly appreciated.
May our Father and our patron saint, St. Charles, in heaven continue to watch
over and guide St. Charles Preparatory School each day.
Two steel columns were signed by the school’s faculty,
staff and student body as well as many alumni and
friends of St. Charles; St. Charles faculty and staff
members take their turn signing their names for
posterity. They include-from left- nurse Betsy Mason,
freshman counselorJames Ort, academic dean Scott
Pharion, Development secretary Cherri Taynor, and
accountant Pat Kuhn.
Yours in Christ,
Dominic J. Cavello
Students-from left- Phil Migitz ’07, Matt Korth ’07 and
Kurt Meadows ’06 witness a bit of history as beloved
faculty member Monsignor Thomas M. Bennett signs his
name to one of the main support beams for the Walter
Student Commons.
Placing signatures on a steel beam representing three generations of Carolians past
and future are Liam O’Reilly, Class of 2019; Jack O’Reilly, Class of 1952; and Dr. Kevin
O’Reilly, Class of 1986.
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Timothy M. Kelley ’76, flanked by his sons Michael ’03
and Benjamin ’09, speaks at the ground-breaking
ceremony in the north courtyard last June.
Msgr. David V. Sorohan ’59 (College) and Beth Howard
Joseph R. Sabino ’63, Robert J. Corna ’63, and James P.
Finn ’65
Sophomore Geoffrey Stein (left) listens to Bishop
Frederick Campbell deliver a special blessing. Stein
assisted the bishop in the sprinkling of Holy Water
on the site. In the background are (from right to left)
James P. Finn ’65, Matthew A. Howard ’58, Robert D.
Walter ’63, Dominic J. Cavello ’64, and Timothy M.
Kelley ’76.
Dominic Cavello and Bishop Campbell survey the plaza
gracing the Alfred Tibor sculpture entitiled “With
Knowledge All Things Are Possible”
Photos courtesy of Finnochi Photography
Dominic Cavello and Bishop Campbell complete a tour
of the St. Charles campus last June. It was the bishop’s
first visit to the school.
Handling official duties last spring at the ceremony to break ground for the new Robert C. Walter Student
Commons and the Student Services & Fine Arts Center were: Matthew A. Howard ’58, co-chairman of The Campaign
for St. Charles; James P. Finn ’65, St. Charles Advisory Board chairman; Dominic J. Cavello ’64, St. Charles
Preparatory School principal; Timothy M. Kelley ’76, co-chairman of The Campaign for St. Charles; Robert D. Walter
’63, honorary chairman for The Campaign for St. Charles; and Bishop Frederick F. Campbell, head of the Columbus
Diocese.
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With the help of Tom Santor, Bishop Campbell selects a
sandwich at a reception in the Campus Theatre’s Cavello
Center following the groundbreaking ceremony. Santor
is the executive director of brand marketing and public
relations for Donatos Pizza and father of St. Charles
sophomore, Tristan.
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$5.5 million transformation:
The Rober
obert t C. Walter Student Commons and
the Student Services & Fine Arts Center
A new architectural sketch of what the main St. Charles
school building will look like after construction of the
Robert C. Walter Student Commons and the Student
Services & Fine Arts Center is completed next spring.
This was the scene in mid-July when demolition was
begun on the original powerhouse and remains of its
smokestack at St. Charles.
A crane is worked carefully to take down a school
landmark, the remains of the powerhouse smokestack.
By late August, digging footers for Walter Commons
was almost completed and the foundation of a future
stage had taken shape.
Excavating machines create a huge crater for part of the
foundation of the Students Services & Fine Arts Center.
The basement of the former powerhouse is being
modified and expanded in conjunction with the new
construction.
In early October, three-quarters of the concrete for the
floor of the Walter Student Commons had been poured.
Upon the completion of backfilling various locations,
work was set to begin on the steel skeleton for the
Students Services & Fine Arts Center
A concrete pumper boom truck just finishes pouring the
basement floors of the Student Services & Fine Arts
Center. The brick tower had been topped off a day earlier
and steel beams were being erected in the first week of
November.
Cold winter weather has not slowed down progress.
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Religion
eligion, , the Court, & civility
addressed in Borromean Lecture
Msgr. James Ruef, Thomas A. Bringardner ’43, and Joe Finan.
Before the Borromean Lecture, St. Charles junior Conor
Dagenfield interviewed guest speaker Dr. F. Russell
Hittinger for the Carolian student newspaper in the
Harry L. Thoman’47 Alumni and Development Office
conference room.
A
primary mark – if not the primary
mark – of civility is harmony
among religious and state authorities
in a manner that both respect each
other’s proper sphere, asserted Dr. F.
Russell Hittinger, the featured speaker at
the 2005 Borromean Lecture at St. Charles
last month. Neither should ever attempt to
divide the culture, he said.
“Both civic and religious loyalties,” Dr.
Hittinger pointed out, “are enmeshed in
culture, and cultures cannot be split into
two or more parts.”
Dr. Hittinger is the Research Professor
of Law and Warren Professor of Catholic
Studies at the University of Tulsa College
of Law. He delivered his comments at a
noon luncheon attended by more than 280
members of the faculty and junior and
senior classes. They were joined in the St.
Charles Gymnasium by 125 guests from
the business, political, educational, and
religious communities of Central Ohio.
Speaking directly to the students in the
audience, Dr. Hittinger said, “When you
leave St. Charles, there is nothing more
important than supporting the work of this
institution and others like it.
Do it out of gratitude for what
you received here; do it for the
sake of your own children; but
at the end of the day, do it for
society. In these institutions,
minds are enlightened, careers
are formed, broken bodies are
mended, and souls are inspired
to divine things.”
Dr. Hittinger, who earned
his Ph.D. at St. Louis University,
is an Academic Fellow at
the American Enterprise
Institute for Public Policy
Research in Washington, D.C.,
where he was a research scholar from 1991
to 1996. He became the first incumbent in
the University of Tulsa’s Warren Chair of
Catholic Studies in 1996. He has taught at
Catholic University of America, Princeton
University, Fordham University, and New
York University.
Dr. Hittinger received the Silver Gavel
Award in 1991 from the American Bar
Association for Privacy and Liberal Legal
Culture. His books and articles have been
published by Oxford University
Press, the University of
Notre Dame Press, the Review
of Politics, and in several law
journals.
In his remarks, Dr.
Hittinger proposed that a
primary mark — if not the
primary mark — of civility is
harmony among religious and
state authorities in a manner
that both respect each other’s
proper sphere, and neither
should ever attempt to divide
the culture. “Both civic and
religious loyalties,” he said,
“are enmeshed in culture, and
cultures cannot be split into
two or more parts.”
Hittinger reviewed the
quagmire the U.S. Supreme
Court and the American
judicial system find themselves
in over the issue of
separation of Church and
State. That hasn’t always been
the case, he said. “From the
time of the early Republic until
the 1940s, the religion clauses
of the First Amendment were
an extraordinarily serene
sector of constitutional law,” he explained.
The problem was a self-inflicted wound
by the Supreme Court itself, he said. “In
1947 the Court ruled, that, henceforth, the
establishment clause will be applied
against the states and municipalities,”
Hittinger said. But more importantly, he
added “it also ruled that ‘establishment’
means not only trying to set up a state
church or religion, but any governmental
preference for religion over irreligion.
“In 1948, the Court went on to rule
that states must create religion-free zones
in public schools,” Hittinger said. “By
implication, all other public institutions
and places would have to follow the same
pattern. In other words, the Court, however
well-intentioned, got itself into the business
of attempting to separate religion from the
ordinary culture.”
It was then that the flood gates of
litigation were opened, Hittinger said.
“Suddenly most everything in American
public life looked suspiciously religious,”
including pledges of allegiance, coin inscriptions,
textbooks, maps, bible readings,
prayer in schools, prayer in Congress,
Michael J. Jarosi ’85, Donald J. Smeltzer ’62, and Frank J. Bettendorf ’55.
Traci Breekner, wife of Don Breekner ’74, Nancy Biecker, John L. Sauter
’58, and Charles M. Pickard ’58
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prayer by the executive branch, and the
National Anthem, among others.
Almost tongue in cheek, Hittinger went
on to say that the Court had yet to tackle
the subject of football games, moments of
silence, Christmas nativity scenes,
menorahs, yarmulkes, native American
burial grounds, peyote, Amish education,
evolution, city seals, secular humanists
tracts, science textbooks in religious
schools, sign language interpretation, the
mystical aspects of social security numbers,
postings of commandments, the
Declaration of Independence … and, of
course, the constitutionality of the Ohio
motto, “With God, All Things Are Possible.”
With so many political activist groups
gearing up for more litigation, he wishes
that the Court would extricate itself from
symbolic politics involving religion because
it creates a totally unnecessary conflict
between the two great civilizing forces of
religion and government.
Hittinger said that the Court has had
more than 55 years to put into order the
house of establishment clause jurisprudence,
but has failed to do so. Meanwhile,
St. Charles principal Dominic J. Cavello presents Dr. F.
Russell Hiitnger an engraved glass momento in
appreciation of his 2005 Borromean Lecture
presentation.
James P. Finn ’65 (left), Tim Grady (center) and Charles P. Rath.
he said that according to
opinion polls, 80 percent of
Americans want these displays.
“Even those who call
themselves ‘strict
separationists’ cannot muster
a majority against religious
symbols in public places.”
But because only two of the
Supreme Court justices are
satisfied with the establishment
clause jurisprudence, he
suspects that the Court is one
vote away from reconsidering
the whole issue.
“In the meantime,”
Hittinger said, “Congress is
now considering the appropriation
of monies to reimburse
religious institutions for their
aid to hurricane victims on the
Gulf Coast. By my rough
estimation, it will be the single
largest transfer of federal
money to religion in the
history of our nation. That’s
something worth worrying
about.”
St. Charles Preparatory
School established the
Borromean Lectures in honor
of the school’s patron, St.
Charles Borromeo. Robert J.
Dilenschneider, Class of 1961, initiated the
series in the fall of 2000 and supports the
program. He is a nationally known public
relations executive (see Heroes, page 42)
who heads his own company in New York
City.
The goal of the lectures series is to
bring to St. Charles speakers of national
prominence to explore topics of morals and
ethics in society, government, and business.
Past speakers have
included Cardinal Theodore E.
McCarrick, Archbishop of
Washington, D.C.; former U.S.
ambassador Michael Novak;
Cardinal Avery Dulles, the
Laurence J. McGinley Chair at
Fordham University; and Joel
I. Klein, the Chancellor of the
New York City schools.
Special thanks are extended
to Robert Selhorst ’74,
whose company, Mass Appeal
Dining Services, catered the
2005 event. The school also
Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Julia L. Dorrian (left) with her
father, Columbus City Auditor Hugh J. Dorrian ’53, and Judge Richard
C. Pfeiffer Jr., Columbus City Attorney.
Robert E. Shay ’58 (center) and his wife, Mary (nee Dilenschneider), chat
with Dr. Daniel L. “Doc” Rankin ’53.
Dr. F. Russell Hittinger answers questions to end his
Borromean Lecture.
expresses its sincere appreciation to the
many student parents who volunteered to
help serve the meals to the 410 guests.
They included: Vickie Bobbitt, Terri
Casino, Fern Colon, Yvonne Deibel, Pam
Grady, Diane Hare, Debra Hartman, Gina
Langen, Susie Loushin, Anne McCaffrey,
Sandra McGill, Pat McJoynt-Griffith,
Sharri Merz, Conie Michalec, Alison
O’Grady, Marie Quinn, Rose Ann and
Philip Schaeffing, Mary Scurria, Mary
Beth Shanahan, Suzy Steensen, Cathy
Wickert, and Susan Zelasko.
Photos courtesy of Finocchi Photography
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Columbus Hall of Fame
F
enrolls coach Jack Ryan
T
he staid halls of Columbus
City Hall took on a festive
glow last May 11 th when the name of
one of Central Ohio’s best-known and most
revered high school coaches and teachers –
Jack Ryan – was enrolled in the Columbus
Hall of Fame.
Baptized John Thomas Ryan in 1916,
but better known as “Jack Ryan,” or simply
“Jack,” or “coach,” and to an older generation
as “J.R.” and to many as “Mr. Ryan,”
he devoted more than a half century of his
life coaching athletic teams and teaching in
classrooms, first at St. Charles Preparatory
School and then at Bishop Hartley High
School.
Some 200 admirers joined together to
celebrate the special occasion of adding the
name of Jack Ryan to other Columbus Hall
of Fame luminaries who include World
War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker,
famed humor writer James Thurber, major
league baseball star Hank Gowdy, one-time
commander of the Strategic Air Command
Gen. Curtis Le May, former Ohio State
football coach Woody Hayes, and Notre
Dame football all-American Jack Cannon,
who 70 years ago recommended to St.
Charles the hiring of Ryan as coach.
In Columbus City Hall chambers were
many St. Charles alumni from a past
generation and some from more recent
times, Hartley alumni, other admirers, and
the many members of the Ryan family –
children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
Master of ceremony for the event was
Hugh J. Dorrian, Class of 1953, who has
been Columbus city auditor for 37 years. It
was Dorrian, who a year earlier nominated
the admission of Ryan to the city’s hall of
Adoring husband
Jack Ryan, shown with his wife of 51 years, Elaine.
By Louis V. Fabro ’49
Legendary coach Jack Ryan
fame.
Keynote speaker (see related story) for
the event was Tom O’Leary, Class of 1964,
who was football captain under Ryan and
went on to play on the University of Notre
Dame’s national football championship
team of 1966.
Among those participating in the
festivities were Mayor Michael Coleman,
Bob Telerski ’58; Mike Mentel, Thomas P.
Byrne, and Dr. John T. Ryan, the honored
coach’s grandson. Msgr. Kenneth Grimes,
Class of 1949, who played on Ryan-coached
baseball teams at St. Charles, now pastor
of Our Lady of Peace, gave the invocation.
As a tribute to Ryan’s service in the Coast
Guard during World War II, the St.
Charles Chorus under the direction
of Johnny Steiner sang the
stirring Semper Paratus (Always
Ready), the Coast Guard Anthem,
and God Bless America.
Adding pomp and circumstance
to the event was the
Columbus Police and Fire Pipes
and Drums and the Columbus
Fire Honor Guard presented the
colors.
An informal reception,
during which cookies and beverages
were served, and when many
alumni compared notes with each
other, concluded the happy event.
Ryan was positive
influence, O’L
’Lear
eary says
“He made a positive difference in so
many lives,” observed Tom O’Leary,
Class of 1964, who delivered the
keynote address at the induction last
May 11of coach Jack Ryan in the
Columbus Hall of Fame in Columbus
City Hall. “His induction,” O’Leary
said, “is so appropriate,” an opinion
shared by so many, who knew John T.
Ryan.
The legendary high school coach
and teacher, who died in 1996 at the
age of 80, began his career at St.
Charles in 1936 where he remained
until 1964 when he left the school as it
was being converted to a seminary prep
and about to discontinue interscholastic
sports. He spent the next 25 years
coaching and teaching at Bishop
Hartley.
O’Leary described Ryan as “my
mentor and my hero,” whose “list of
accomplishments and awards are
incredible.” O’Leary said he was
honored to represent St. Charles for
Ryan’s Hall of Fame induction, and
that Ryan “was a positive influence on
so many people in so many ways.” A
great number of those, he noted, have
today reached positions of influence and
leadership.
O’Leary starred on Ryan-coached
football teams at St. Charles in the
early 1960s. In 1962 he scored all three
touchdowns in the Cardinal’s memorable
20-14 upset of the powerhouse
Bishop Watterson Eagles that earned
St. Charles the first football championship
awarded by the Central Catholic
League. In the 1963 season, O’Leary
sparked St. Charles by scoring 136
points, tops of all Franklin County
players.
Recruited to play for Notre Dame
University by famed coach Ara
Parseghian, O’Leary was a starter on
ND’s 1966 national championship
team. In his talk at the Hall of Fame
induction of Ryan, O’Leary said he’s
often asked what it was like to be on
that Notre Dame team. “My usual
response,” he said is that “I am one of
the luckiest people because I was so
well prepared by St. Charles and Mr.
Ryan.”
Recalling that poet Ralph Waldo
Emerson once advised “hitch your
wagon to a star,” O’Leary continued:
“We did just that with Mr. Ryan. May
our children and grandchildren have
that same type of Mr. Ryan in the
classroom that I had.”
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John Leach ’54 with former Columbus Dispatch football
All-Stars Phil Cleary ’51 and Joe Murray ’51 at the
reception following the Hall of Fame induction
ceremony.
Bob Ryan ’69 (right) with brother, Andy, at City Hall
reception.
Hugh J. Dorrian ’53 accompanies Thomas M. O’Leary
’64, who carries the Jack Ryan plaque to the Columbus
Hall of Fame on the first floor of City Hall. Following is
Bob Telerski ’58, a long-time coach and teacher at
Bishop Hartley High School.
In Columbus city council chamber Hugh Dorrian ’53 and
Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman display the photo
montage and biography of Jack Ryan to be hung in the
Hall of Fame at City Hall.
Msgr. David V. Sorohan ’59 (College) and Father
Lawrence L. “Buzz” Hummer ’65, right.
Richard J. Ryan ’51 and Margaret Crabtree
1958 alumni James A. Devine Jr., left, and George G.
Vargo
The St. Charles chorus directed by Johnny Steiner, left, singthe U.S. Coast Guard Anthem, Semper Paratus (Always
Ready) at the Ryan induction ceremony.
Jack Ryan’s extended family together after the induction
ceremony.
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Photos by Finocchi Photography
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Honors and Awards
St. Charles honored three members of its community at the annual feast day Mass of St. Charles Borromeo Nov. 4, 2005, in the
campus gymnasium. Bishop Frederick F. Campbell and nearly 20 priests celebrated the Mass attended by the entire student body,
faculty and staff, parents, and many alumni and friends.
The 2005 honorees were: Msgr. Lawrence J. Corcoran, P.A., Class of 1935, who was awarded the Borromean Medal for
Distinguished Achievement; Msgr. Ralph J. Huntzinger, Class of 1942, who was awarded the Borromean Medal for Distinguished
Service to St. Charles; and Henry J. “Hank” Sherowski, who was awarded the Principal’s Award for Leadership and Service to
St. Charles.
Msgr. Lawrence J. Corcoran, P.A., Class of 1935, right,
was honored by St. Charles Prep with its Borromean
Award for Outstanding Achievement. With him in the
photo is Dominic J. Cavello and in the background are
Bishop Frederick F. Campbell, left, and Deacon Frank
Iannarino ’74, center. The award, voted by the St.
Charles Advisory Board, was presented to Corcoran at
the Nov. 4 Feast Day Mass in honor of the school’s
patron, St. Charles Borromeo.
Msgr. . Corcoran ’35
honored for Distinguished
Achievement
Much of the priestly career of Msgr.
Lawrence J. Corcoran, P.A, has been
devoted to charitable work, particularly
caring for the poor, neglected, and the
forgotten. He began as assistant director of
Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Columbus
in 1947 and helped found the diocesan
St. Vincent de Paul Society two years later.
He went on to head for 17 years (1965-
1982) in Washington, D.C. the National
Conference of Catholic Charities, one of the
nation’s largest social services agencies.
Today, at the age of 88, and although
officially retired, Msgr. Corcoran continues
his dedication to helping the poor and
underprivileged and serving as an advocate
for their needs. He has been honored for his
social work by Catholic University and
Loyola University of Chicago.
Msgr. Corcoran, early in his career,
helped oversee and expand the role of the
diocesan Catholic Charities organization
and the growing number of people it served.
He worked to establish the Ohio Catholic
Welfare Conference and its pursuit of
beneficial state legislation. The diocesan
St. Vincent de Paul Society he helped found
with a handful of conferences and founding
members has grown to 60 conferences with
more than 1,000 members. Msgr. Corcoran
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Msgr. Ralph J. Huntzinger, Class of 1942,
served as principal of St. Charles Preparatory
School from 1969-1971, a very challenging
period after a troubling effort to
operate the school the previous eight years
as a seminary prep school strictly for those
contemplating the priesthood. At one time
during the seminary prep experiment,
enrollment had plummeted to 65.
When enrollment was reopened to all
qualified young men, serious doubt prevailed
that St. Charles would succeed in its
comeback effort. Msgr. Huntzinger succeeded
in helping re-establish the school
despite being confronted by skeptical
alumni, outside opposition,
financial uncertainties, low enrollment and
other problems.
Prior to becoming principal, Msgr.
Huntzinger had served St. Charles13 years
as a dedicated faculty member and spiricontinues
as the Society’s spiritual director.
He helped establish the Diocesan Child
Guidance Center to provide with the St.
Vincent Family Center a range of services
for children and their families.
As executive director of National
Catholic Charities, he expanded its role
dramatically from its basic service of
helping the poor to an agency that was an
aggressive force in combating social injustice.
The agency under his direction was
reorganized to provide services to the
handicapped, elderly, troubled youth and
their families and become active in counseling
divorced Catholics, and to assist in
alcohol and abuse programs, housing and
neighborhood development, child welfare,
protecting Social Security, Medicare,
Medicaid, and other social services.
Corcoran is a 1935 graduate of St.
Charles Preparatory School and earned a
degree in 1939 from St. Charles College.
After completing his theological studies at
Mt. St. Mary Seminary in Cincinnati, he
was ordained in St. Joseph Cathedral on
April 17, 1943. He was appointed a monsignor
in 1957.
Msgr. . Huntzinger
recognized for Service to
St. Charles
tual advisor for the school’s young men.
A graduate of St. Leo Parish School, he
enrolled at St. Charles on a scholarship.
After his father’s death during his senior
year, Huntzinger decided to enroll in St.
Charles College-Seminary where he received
his degree in 1946. He went on for
his theological studies at St. Mary of the
West in Cincinnati (also known as Mount
St. Mary) and was ordained a priest on
March 18, 1950.
His first priestly assignment was as an
assistant at Blessed Sacrament Parish
(1950-1954) in Newark and also as a
teacher at nearby St. Francis de Sales
High School. That was followed by a year’s
assignment at St. Christopher Parish in
Columbus. He returned to St. Charles as a
teacher in 1954.
Except for a brief time when he served
at St. Nicholas Parish and taught at
Rosecrans High School in Zanesville, his
ministry at St. Charles continued for 16
years through 1971. Msgr. Huntzinger
served as director of the high school resident
department and its student boarders
and taught freshman English while pursuing
a masters degree in English at Ohio
State University.
When Msgr. Huntzinger was serving
as St. Charles principal to oversee the
transition that reestablished the preparatory
school to its former status, he also was
assigned to the Pontifical College
Josephinum to represent Columbus diocesan
priests, a first for the diocese.
Msgr. Huntzinger served eight years at
The Borromean Award for Distinguished Service to St.
Charles was bestowed on Msgr. Ralph J. Huntzinger,
Class of 1942 , right, with principal Dominic J. Cavello.
In the background are Bishop Frederick F. Campbell,
left, and Deacon Frank Iannarino ’71, center.
St. Charles Preparatory School

football, and soccer games at night.
Sherowski used his construction
management skills to oversee new construction
and renovation projects relating
to various campus buildings. He supervised
replacement of all windows in the
central school building and theatre, renovation
of the school’s lunchroom and bathrooms;
and facilitated the donation of
various pieces of kitchen equipment in the
main building and Cavello Center.
He oversaw the extensive renovation
work done inside the theatre. That included
the replacement of the entire electrical
system and restoration of the wooden
backed/upholstered chairs; the design and
construction of the Cavello Center beneath
the second-floor theatre; and the design and
construction of the base and surrounding
areas of the striking Alfred Tibor sculpture
that honors all present and former faculty
and staff members, and priests who graduated
from St. Charles Preparatory School
and Seminary-College.
Sherowski earned an associate engineering
degree from Wentworth Institute
in 1962 and an architecture degree from
The Ohio State University in 1968. He
served in the army from 1968-1971, the
last two years as a 1 st lieutenant in Vietthe
Josephinum as a spiritual director and
was appointed the first director of the
diocese’s diaconate program. On weekends
he helped at St. Elizabeth Parish. Msgr.
Huntzinger returned to full-time parish
ministry when he was appointed pastor of
St. Mary Church in German Village. Both
his parents had been baptized there. He
remained pastor there for the next 15
years. (1979-1994).
Now retired, Msgr. Huntzinger lives in
a condominium on the East Side. He
assists Father Dan Ochs at St. Pius X
Church. The two previously coordinated the
pastoral program for the seminarians at
the Josephinum where Msgr. Huntzinger
also served as Och’s spiritual director.
Henry J. “Hank” Sherowski, right, displays the
Principal’s Award for Leadership and Service to St.
Charles, which was conferred on him by the St. Charles
Advisory Board. The presentation was made by
principal Dominic J. Cavello, left. In the background are
Bishop Frederick F. Campbell, center, and Deacon John
Vellani ’59, left.
Principal’s Award goes to
Sherowski
Henry J. “Hank” Sherowski, for many
years, gave St. Charles leadership and
provided his architectural and projectmanagement
talents on long-term capital
improvement projects involving the main
campus buildings, the theatre and athletic
facilities.
Sherowski was a member of the St.
Charles Advisory Board for 12 years (1990-
2002) and continues in an emeritus role.
He has overseen numerous construction
and remodeling projects on the St. Charles
campus during the last 15 years. Those
improvements have contributed considerably
to the stability of campus facilities and
the safety of the students, faculty, and
staff.
Projects for the St. Charles athletic
program that Sherowski worked on include
construction of the Jack Ryan Fitness and
Training Facility and expansion and
improvement of the locker room. He also
supervised the relocation of St. Charles
Field and construction of the “stadium”
seating and press box. He supervised
construction of the baseball complex and
installation of lighting, a major project that
enabled the school to play host to baseball,
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Bishop Frederick F. Campbell proceeds out of the
school’s St. Charles Feast Day Mass after the student
body had joined with him, much to his delight, in a
rousing rendition of the song, Gaudeamus Igitur. The
Bishop had said during an earlier visit to St. Charles
that he would dismiss the students for the remainder of
the school day if they could sing that song with him at
the Feast Day Mass. Never was a song sung with such
gusto and hamony at a Mass celebrating our school’s
patron, St. Charles Borromeo.
Members of the Cardinal community gather in the
Campus Theatre’s Cavello Center for a reception
following the school’s Feast Day Mass on Nov. 4 when
the Borromean Medals and Principal’s Award were
presented.
nam. Upon his return home, Sherowski
went to work in Columbus for Mussawir &
Associates as a project architect for three
years. He worked 16 years (1974-2004) with
Wendy’s International where he rose to a
vice president of engineering. He’s now
president of HF Design Systems.
St. Charles Borromeo
stood before us
At the conclusion of the St. Charles Feast
Day Mass Nov. 4 during which he received
the Borromean Medal for Distinguished
Achievement, Msgr. Lawrence J.
Corcoran, P.A.’35 addressed the gathering
and graciously praised the other two
awardees – Msgr. Ralph J. Huntzinger ’42
and Henry “Hank” Sherowski.
Earlier in his homily, Bishop
Frederick F. Campbell described how St.
Charles Borromeo helped society’s most
vulnerable people in the 16 th century.
Reviewing the lifetime charitable work of
Msgr. Corcoran on behalf of the poor and
neglected, one could draw a parallel
between the life of St. Charles and that of
Msgr. Corcoran.
“Most of my life consists of, and has
been devoted to, advancing the social
mission of the church,” Msgr. Corcoran
related to the gathering. “A central part of
that mission has always been the care of
the poor and the sick, and the establishment
of social structures, which will
advance the common good.”
He attributed that commitment to his
years at St. Charles that were devoted not
only to excellent academics, but also
formation in Christian living. “The
elements of the Church’s social mission
were very much a part of the education
and daily experience of our days here at
St. Charles — in our classes, in our
discussions, and yes indeed in our arguments.
We were exposed to this social
doctrine of the Church and encouraged to
engage in this social mission,” he said.
Msgr. Corcoran drew a laugh from the
assembly, particularly the students, when
he talked about “the eight very enjoyable
years” he spent at St. Charles (1931-1939
in high school and college) … “days that
are probably thought of by so many of you
as ‘ancient history.’”
He noted that “When I was here the
faculty was filled with many wonderful
men — Msgr. Glenn, Msgr. Cousins,
Msgr. Mattingly, and many more…too
many more to mention. They inaugurated
a tradition of excellence, which continues
to this day under the dedicated leadership
of Dominic Cavello. It (St. Charles) has
continued to be an institution that stands
proudly in the Church and the community.”
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Student News
National Merit Semifinalists
Eleven St. Charles seniors qualified as 2005-2006
National Merit Semifinalists, the most of any Central
Ohio school. Front left, they are — Michael R.
Hessenauer, Michael T. Banning and Nworah B. Ayogu.
Back row — Adam P. Woodruff, Dennis W. Mawhirter,
Alexander P. Deak, Sean C. Quinn, Daniel J. Francescon,
Arthur T. Cheng, John D. Coppel, and Joseph J.
Zelasko.
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Semifinalists for St.
Charles; most in city
Eleven St. Charles seniors were named
National Merit Semifinalists by the National
Merit Scholarship Corporation based
on their scores on the Pre-Scholastic
Aptitude/National Merit Qualifying Test
(PSAT/NMSQT) they took last year as
juniors. Overall there were 16,000 semifinalists
named and who now compete with
students nationwide for National Merit
Scholarships totaling more than $33
million, underwritten by approximately 500
independent sponsor organizations as well
as by the NMSC. Only 8,200 students will
be selected National Merit Scholars later
this year.
St. Charles students are: Nworah B.
Ayogu, son of Mrs. Carol Ayogu of
Westerville and a member of St. Matthias
Parish; Michael T. Banning, son of Mrs.
Eileen Banning of Columbus and a member
of Our Lady of Peace Parish; Arthur T.
Cheng, son of Philip and Seong Cheng of
Gahanna; John D. Coppel, son of Paul and
Lori Coppel of Gahanna; Alexander P.
Deak, son of Alex and Lisa Deak of
Westerville and a member of St. Paul
Parish; Daniel J. Francescon, son of Mark
and Diane Francescon of Columbus and a
member of St. Timothy Parish; Michael R.
Hessenauer, son of Michael and Anita
Hessenauer of Dublin and a member of St.
Brendan Parish; Dennis W. Mawhirter,
son of Charles and Jane Columbus and a
member of Immaculate Conception Parish;
Sean C. Quinn, son of Kevin and Marie
Quinn of Hilliard and a member of St.
Brendan Parish; Adam P. Woodruff, son of
Paul and Shelly Woodruff of Pickerington
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and a member of Seton Parish; and Joseph
J. Zelasko, son of Gregg and Susan Zelasko
of Columbus and a member of St. Agatha
Parish.
21 Commended Scholars
Twenty-one St. Charles seniors qualified as
National Merit Commended Scholars by
the National Merit ® Scholarship Program
for their performance on last year’s Pre-
Scholastic Aptitude/National Merit Qualifying
Test (PSAT/NMSQT). They are among
the 34,000 students to be honored, but don’t
continue in competition for Merit Scholarships.
The commended students are:
Armando Colon, son of Fern Colon of
Delaware and a member of St. Mary
Delaware Parish; Patrick Damo, son of
Cris and Elaine Damo of Columbus and a
member of St. Michael Parish; Nicholas
Eberly, son of John and Kanita Eberly of
Columbus and a member of St. Catharine
Parish; Colin Golian, son of Joseph and
Amy Golian of New Albany and a member
of St. Matthew Parish; Jonathan Haas,
son of Doug and Rene Haas of Columbus
and a member of St. Agatha Parish; Justin
Harris, son of Bruce and Denise Harris of
Columbus and a member of Holy Cross
Parish; Ian Hasson, son of Davis and Liz
Hasson of Pittsford, New York, and a
member of Church of the Resurrection
Parish; Edgar Hayes, son of John and
Blessed Mother Devotion
Msgr. Thomas M. Bennett leads the entire student body,
faculty, and guests in prayer during last May’s Marian
Devotion at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, an annual
event since the landmark was built on the campus in
1931.
Colleges Chosen By 2005 Seniors
Honor Society Speaker
Hugh J. Dorrian ’53, Columbus City Auditor and St.
Charles Advisory Board member was the special guest
speaker at last May’s National Honor Society induction
ceremony in Mother of Mercy Chapel.
Sherena Hayes of Columbus and a member
of St. Mary German Village Parish; Kevin
Kawalec, son of Tom and Kay Kawalec of
Pataskala and a member of St. Pius X
Parish; Andrew Klausing, son of Anthony
and Kathleen Klausing of Westerville and a
member of St. Paul Parish; Tom
McCartney, son of Cam and Barbara
McCartney of Columbus and a member of
St. Michael Parish; Howard Merkle, son of
Tim and Pam Merkle of Gahanna and a
member of St Matthew Parish; Joseph
Milacek, son of Larry and Donna Milacek
of Columbus and a member of St. Andrew
Parish; Andrew Nester, son of Jim and
Molly Nester of Columbus and a member of
St. Andrew Parish; Richard Patton, son of
Rich and Carol Patton of Pataskala and a
member of St. Pius X Parish; Sam Sheets,
son of David and Cindy Sheets of Galloway
and a member of St. Cecilia Parish;
Michael Shen, son of Mo-How and Julia
Shen of Dublin; Andrew Stock, son of
Michael and Jill Stock of Columbus and a
member of St. Timothy Parish; Zachary
Swartz, son of Vic and Donna Swartz of
Pickerington and a member of St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton Parish; Aaron Wangugi,
son of Joseph Wangugi of Columbus and a
member of St. Joseph Cathedral Parish;
and Zach Zmyslinski, son of Tom and
Nancy Zmyslinski of Blacklick and a
member of St. Matthew Parish.
Bellarmine University (1), Belmont University (1), Boston College (1), Bowling Green
State University (3), Bridgton Academy (1), Butler University (1), Case Western
Reserve University (2), Cedarville College (1), Clarion University (1), Columbia
University (1), DeVry University(1), Fordham (1), Goshen College (1), Heidelberg (1),
John Carroll University (1), Kent State University (1), Kenyon (1), Marquette
University (1), Marshall University (1), Miami University of Ohio (16), Morehouse (1),
New Jersey Institute of Technology (1), Ohio Dominican University (2), Ohio Northern
University (1), Ohio University (9), Purdue (1), Spring Hill College (1), The Citadel (2),
The Ohio State University (28), The Pontifical College Josephinum (1), Towson (1),
United States Air Force Academy (1), University of Arizona (2), University of Chicago
(1),University of Cincinnati (7), University of Dayton (6), University of Kentucky (1),
University of Notre Dame (4), University of Pennsylvania (1), University of South
Carolina (1), Vanderbilt University(1), Wittenberg University (2), Wright State
University (3), Xavier University (1) and three undecided. St. Charles Preparatory School

To University of Dayton
Greg Ochab ’05 last spring signed a letter of intent to
play football at the University of Dayton.
4 national achievement
qualifiers
Four St. Charles seniors were recognized as
National Merit Achievement Semifinalists
by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
They are: Nworah Ayogu, son of Mrs.
Carol Ayogu of Westerville and a member
of St. Matthias Parish; Armando Colon, son
of Fern Colon of Delaware; Lamarr Holland,
son of Gabriella Holland of
Westerville and a member of St. Dominic
Parish; and Aaron Wangugi, son of Joseph
Wangui of Columbus. Ayogu also was a
National Merit Semifinalist, while Colon
and Wangui were named National Merit
Commended Scholars.
The National Achievement® Scholarship
Program was established in 1964 to
provide recognition for outstanding Black
American high school students. About
1,600 high-scoring participants in each
year’s National Achievement® Scholarship
Program are designated semifinalists and
are brought to the attention of about 1,500
four-year colleges and universities in the
United States. They will learn this spring
if they are finalists and eligible for one of
700 National Achievement Scholarships
valued at $2500.
29 students record
outstanding AP results
Last year only 18% of the more than one
million high school students worldwide who
took Advanced Placement exams performed
at a high enough level to merit recognition
in the AP Scholar Awards program. St.
Charles had 29 of these accomplished
students recognized by the College Board.
AP courses offer students the opportunity
to take challenging college-level
courses while still in high school, and to
receive credit, advanced placement, or both
for successful performances on the AP
exams-at most U.S. colleges and universities.
Eleven students qualified as “AP
scholars with distinction” by scoring an
average 3.5 or higher on all AP exams
taken and a grade of 3.0 or higher on five
or more of those exams. They are all 2005
St. Charles graduates: Daniel Alt ’05, John
Hanson ’05, Robert Jen ’05, Benson Kwee
’05, Aaron Malone ’05, Matthew O’Kelly
’05, Mitchell Sherman ’05, Benjamin
Stinson ’05, Michael Tyznik ’05, Michael
Wodarcyk ’05, and Frank Zonars ’05.
Five students were designated “scholars
with honors.” They qualified with an
average of at least 3.25 on all AP exams
taken and grades of 3.0 or higher on four or
more of those exams. The five are Preston
Bennett ’05, Terrence O’Donovan ’05, Alex
Sigrist ’05, Nathaniel Smith’05, and
current senior, Michael Hessenauer, son of
Michael and Anita Hessenauer of Dublin
and a member of St. Brendan Parish.
Thirteen students were recognized as
“scholars.” They completed three or more
AP examinations with grades of 3.0 or
higher. Nine are 2005 graduates: Ian
Ballard ’05, Stephen Coppel ’05, Scott
Hawksworth ’05, Alex Hollingsworth ’05,
Sean Kelleher ’05, Michael Lazau ’05, Doug
Schuda ’05, Jared Wade ’05 and Adam
Woodruff ’05; Four are current seniors:
Nworah Auogu, son of Mrs. Carol Ayogu of
Westerville and a member of St. Matthias
Parish; Alexander Deak, son of Alex and
Lisa Deak of Westerville and a member of
St. Paul Parish; Sean Quinn, son of Kevin
and Marie Quinn of Hilliard and a member
of St. Brendan Parish; and Michael Shen,
son of son of Mo-How and Julia Shen of
Dublin.
Military academy invitees
Three St. Charles students were extended invitations to
attend military academies last spring. Chad B.
Vanderhorst ’05, left, was accepted to, and is attending,
the Air Force Academy in Colorado and is studying
engineering. Paul V. Kuppich ’05, middle, received
appointments to all three military academies — West
Point, Naval, and Air Force. Kuppich decided, instead,
to attend Ivy League school Columbia University where
he hopes to play football and baseball. Christopher J.
O’Keefe ’05, right, was offered appointments from both
the Naval Academy and West Point. He decided on a
career in the Navy, and is first attending Bridgtown
Academy in Maine for a year before going to Annapolis
in 2006-2007.
Back on campus
Class of 1938 graduate Robert Heil stopped by the
school this summer to pick up his grandson, freshman
Tony Tertuliani, from summer classes. From his days at
St. Charles, Heil remembers the “Slobbers Table” to
which messy eaters were banished by the first St.
Charles rector, Msgr. Joseph A.Weigand.
Hispanic Recognition
Senior Brad D’Antonio, son of Frank and
Beth D’Antonio of Columbus and a member
of St. Pius X Parish, has been recognized
as a “scholar” by the National Hispanic
Recognition Program for exceptional
academic achievement in last year’s PSAT/
NMSQT test.
St. Charles is victorious in
blood drive competition
Beloved St. Charles school nurse Betsy
Mason has been tireless for years promoting
the annual St. Charles blood drive. Her
efforts were rewarded again this September
when St. Charles was notified it had won
the Columbus Area private/parochial high
school blood drive for 2004-05 (although it
is really the entire Central Ohio community
that “wins” in the blood drive). It’s the
second year for the competition and a St.
Charles victory.
St. Charles was deemed the winner by
having the highest percentage of its eligible
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Family committed to blood drive
The Schubert family has for the last several years made
donating to the St. Charles blood drive an annual family
event. Last year was no exception. Donors from left are:
parents Ron and Jan with sons Jeff ’99 and current
senior, Chris.
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Student News
Tuckered out
St. Charles students feign exhaustion after completing
the 2005 Cardinal Scholarship Walk last spring. From
left — Geoff Thomas, Zach Zymslinski, Alex Deak,
Michael Shen, J.R. Unverzagt, and Sean Quinn.
student population donate that day. St.
Charles’ 49.8% edged out Columbus Torah
Academy’s 48%, and far outdistanced thirdplace
Bishop Hartley with 24.7%.
Mason credits the St. Charles students
who answered the call when the American
Red Cross visited the campus. Those who
contributed to the record 161 pints that
were collected included junior and senior
students, faculty members, and parents.
“Our goal was 160 pints,” Mason said,
“and we were successful in attaining this
goal! Several alums and their wives came
to donate. It is always a memorable day.
Hopefully, this day inspires our students to
continue donating the rest of their lives. All
of our donors truly gave the gift of life,”
Mason added. The next bloodmobile is
scheduled for March 30, 2006, from 8 a.m.
to 2 p.m.
Scholarship Walk
surpasses goal
The 22nd annual Cardinal Scholarship
Walk and Circus Day activities, sponsored
by the St. Charles Student Council, raised
more than $26,840 for the school’s general
scholarship fund. The goal had been to
raise $25,000 and students have collected
more than $108,000 in the last four years.
John O’Neil, student council moderator,
said the current economic conditions in
the United States and worldwide underscore
the need for St. Charles “to continue
to attract and support young men of
potential and to send them forth to impact
those conditions for the betterment of the
community at large.”
O’Neil said a number of scholarship
students annually attend St. Charles as a
result of the money raised by this campaign.
“These students could not otherwise
afford to attend St. Charles due to family
financial limitations. Past beneficiaries of
the drive include many of our most accomplished
community leaders, scholars,
athletes and artists,” he said.
Award winners,
spring 2005
3 share volunteerism award
Three students — Peter James, Jared
Wade, and Ryan Wolford – shared the 2005
Hamburger Volunteerism Award and its
$500 prize. Religion faculty members Jim
Paccioretti and Linda Haas nominated the
students in recognition of their outstanding
community service work.
Sponsor and namesake of this special
award is Timothy H. Hamburger, a 1984
St. Charles alumnus, who has dedicated
his volunteer service to the Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society of America. Hamburger
established this award at St. Charles to
recognize graduating seniors who have
demonstrated outstanding service to their
fellow man.
Peter James devoted a great deal of
time to Shepherd’s Corner, a retreat center
run by the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary’s
of the Springs, and to Rock of Faith Baptist
Church. He also designed an after-school
program for students at Mansion Day
Grade School and tutored Cardinal studentathletes.
Jared Wade was instrumental in the
tutoring programs at three grade schools
Broadleigh Elementary School, St. Thomas
Grade School and All-Saints Academy.
Ryan Wolford has been tutoring
immigrants from Somalia, China and
Uzbekistan for several years, teaching
them to speak English. He also was
involved with Vacation Bible School for
Hispanics.
Volunteerism awardees
Recipients who shared the 2005 Timothy H. Hamburger
’84, Volunteerism Award are from left — 2005 graduates
Peter James, Jared Wade, and Ryan Wolford. With them
is faculty member Linda Haas.
100% Pass OGT; ; most at highest levels
Three years ago, the Ohio Board of Education adopted the new
Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) for English language arts, mathematics,
science and social studies. All students in the graduating
classes of 2007 (this year’s sophomores) were the first required to
take and pass all five tests as a graduation requirement.
According to recently released results from last year’s OGT,
St. Charles students performed at the highest levels of any school.
Moreover, St. Charles was one of only three schools in the entire
city to score a perfect 100% passing rate. (See attached chart).
But what’s hidden inside those results is even more telling.
Student scores were rated on a five-tiered scale: Advanced,
Accelerated, Proficient, Basic, and Limited. St. Charles students
not only passed the test, but in every area (reading, writing, math,
science, and social studies) at least 95% of them scored in the
highest two grading levels.
Principal Dominic J. Cavello said that St. Charles does not
teach directly to the OGT. However, in a note to parents, academic
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dean Scott Pharion said St. Charles has taken several steps to
ensure its students are adequately prepared to pass the test. In
addition to modifications in curriculum, changes in course
schedules and content standard additions, St. Charles has created
a review schedule for all sophomores to enhance their preparation
for each of the OGT exams.
Two weeks in advance of the test, students receive an in-class
review of content for the two- week period leading to the exams.
The in-class instruction in the regular English, mathematics,
science and social studies classes focuses on review content for the
exams. Homework and quizzes given by teachers help students
practice the subject matter as well as the testing methods in each
discipline included on the OGT.
During exam week, sophomores follow a schedule that emphasizes
the exams exclusively. On each test day, students report to
their homerooms and then move to the multipurpose room for
testing. Lunch and a rest break are followed by a prepared intensive
review session for the next day’s exam presented by the core
discipline teacher(s).
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On diocesan honor team
Benjamin Stinson was named to the 2004-
2005 Columbus Diocesan Academic Honor
Team. He graduated from St. Charles last
spring with a 4.19 GPA and was a National
Merit Finalist. He’s enrolled at the University
of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League
school, studying biology and chemistry.
Swimmer Receives 2005
Jack Ryan MVP Award
Junior Chris Doman, an All- American
swimmer and the captain of the varsity
swimming team, was selected as the 2005
Jack Ryan Most Valuable Student Athlete
Award by the St. Charles varsity athletic
coaches. He was chosen from a group of 18
St. Charles athletes who were 2004-2005
MVP’s of each of the school’s 13 varsity
sports.
Last year Doman helped lead the
Cardinal’s swim team to a seventh straight
CCL crown and an 8 th place finish at the
Division I state swimming championships.
Academically he maintained over a 3.5
GPA during the entire swim season.
Doman, the Ken Flaherty ’82 Team
MVP, broke Flaherty’s 23-year-old team
record in the 100 M Butterfly while swimming
the 2nd-fastest time in the state--a
time that would have placed 15th this year
at the Big Ten Championships. As a junior,
he is already a 9-time All-American. At the
States, Chris finished 5 th in the 100
Freestyle, 6 th in the 100 Butterfly, and was
a member of the 200 Medley Relay team
which placed 5 th .
Chauffeur Dominic J. Cavello
St. Charles sophomore Carson Reider answered a knock
to his residence door one morning last May and
received quite a surprise: Principal Dominic Cavello on
his porch and a Chrysler Crossfire Roadster in the
driveway. Carson enjoyed a day’s chauffeur services to
and from school with Cavello, shown in the picture with
the fancy car. The luxury service was made possible by
Reider’s grandmother, Sue Dell Thoman. The wife of
the late Harry Thoman ’47, Sue Dell was top bidder for
the special service at last December’s Silent Auction.
2005 Student-Athlete MVP
Then-junior Chris Doman is congratulated by athletic
director Lawler who is shown presenting him the 2005
Jack Ryan award for which he was selected last spring
by Cardinal coaches.
On Saturday, January 28, 2006, the St. Charles Music Department will present a special concert, Big Band on
Broadway, featuring The Rick Brunetto Big Band with vocalist Chuck Gillespie. Also appearing will be the St.
Charles Jazz Ensemble. The 8:00 p.m. program will be in the Campus Theatre and highlight some Broadway
favorites performed by the 17-piece orchestra. Tickets are $20 and may be reserved by calling the school’s main
office at 252-6714. Proceeds to benefit the St. Charles band program.
Senior Scott McClure
thanks Dr. F. Russell
Hittinger following his
presentation of the 2005
Borromean Lecture in the
school’s gymnasium.
Drawing a crowd
St. Charles faculty member Dr. Sarah VanDermeer
(center, left) supervises a chess match that garnered a lot
of attention on last year’s Circus Day.
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Student News
St. Charles Students
Respond to Victims of Katrina
Richard Stedman ’54
I
n the immediate wake of Hurricane
Katrina, students, staff and families of
St. Charles Preparatory School asked
how they could help survivors of one of the
worst natural disasters to strike the
United States in the last century. The
administration reached out to offer
displaced Louisiana students a place to go
to school and the Student Council organized
weekly monetary collections throughout the
month of September.
No displaced students accepted the
invitation to come, but the school-wide
effort raised $5,000 for the disaster relief
effort. There was much thought and
discussion about what specific cause or
group would receive the funds. Rather than
just donating money to the American Red
Cross or other relief group, the St. Charles
administration and its students sought a
true link or relationship between the school
and those the money helped.
Just such a worthy cause and connection
were brought to the attention of faculty
member and Student Council moderator,
John O’Neil, by Richard “Dick” Stedman, a
long-time St. Charles Advisory Board
member (now an emeritus) and a 1954
graduate.
Stedman has two sons who live in New
Orleans: Patrick, Class of 1997, is a
student at Loyola University in New
Orleans, and Richard, Class of 1989, works
and lives in the city. Both were in the area
at the onset of Hurricane Katrina and were
very fortunate in that their home and
apartment were only slightly damaged by
the hurricane and its aftermath.
Through the Stedman family, St.
Charles was told of the plight of New
Orleans Jesuit High School, an all-boys
preparatory school in
New Orleans that
suffered extensive
flood damage. St.
Charles, under the
leadership of the
student council and
moderator O’Neil,
began taking up a
weekly homeroom
collection throughout
the month of September
with those
contributions going
towards the hurricane
relief effort. Principal Dominic Cavello
discussed with O’Neil, students, and
faculty members the best destination for
the student collections.
It was the Stedman brothers’ father,
Dick, who came up with the idea to help a
“local” institution. Jesuit High in New
Orleans appeared to be a good fit. Dick and
his sons all agreed that Jesuit was an
obvious choice because of its similarities to
St. Charles. Richard contacted the school’s
president, Fr. Anthony McGinn, through a
website set up to help the scattered Jesuit
students and faculty communicate with
each other. O’Neil then followed up with
phone call to Fr. McGinn.
Fr. McGinn said the school’s entire
first floor was a total loss, including its
auditorium, cafeteria, student commons,
ROTC armory, bookstore, 11 classrooms,
switchboard, some offices and meeting
rooms, and the maintenance department.
Jesuit lost most of its athletic equipment
and its physical education building sustained
heavy damage, especially to the roof
and hardwood floor. Some of the school’s
heating and air-conditioning equipment
also was damaged. Jesuit’s principal, as
well as several priests and a maintenance
man, had stayed at the school throughout
the storm and were stranded there for a
few days after the hurricane when they
were rescued by boat!
Fr. McGinn said that the school’s flood
insurance will cover only a fraction of the
damages, and any public assistance grants
to help in its rebuilding efforts
won’t be enough to cover the costs to
rebuild Jesuit. “Eventually, we will turn to
our loyal and faithful alumni and many
friends whose generosity has helped Jesuit
through the many good years,” he reported
on the school’s website.
Because the students have been scattered,
Jesuit is running a night shift at two
other locations. About 300 of its middle
school and high school students were
transferred to Strake Jesuit College Preparatory
School in Houston where split
sessions were arranged. There students
receive instruction under 20 of their own
faculty, with Strake, allowing the New
Orleans students to begin their instructional
days at 3 p.m. Back in New Orleans,
400 students attend St. Martin’s Episcopal
School in nearby Metairie and endure the
Help for “brother” school in New Orleans
Student Council president Kurt Meadows hands Council
moderator and faculty member John O’Neil a $5,000
check and a copy of the St. Charles 75-year history book
that were forwarded to Jesuit High School, an all-boys
preparatory school in New Orleans. The check
represents St. Charles student donations for Hurricane
Katrina relief.
same inconvenience: their “school day”
runs from about 4 to 10 p.m. each weekday.
Another 740 of Jesuit’s students
remain scattered throughout the United
States.
In a phone conversation with O’Neil,
Fr. McGinn spoke with conviction about
the commitment of the students and the
staff in the face of adversity. He expressed
concern about the 20% of his students
whose families had lost their homes. Fr.
McGinn spoke with patience of the plans to
rebuild Jesuit, indicating that much would
depend on the availability of work crews,
many of whom had been relocated elsewhere
in response to the widespread
destruction of the Category-4 hurricane.
Jesuit High’s plan is to begin reconstruction
around Thanksgiving after initial
cleanup and decontamination are completed.
“We will be able to return to the
building on Monday, November 28. We will
use the second, third, and fourth floors.
The entire first floor is gone. Everything in
the auditorium, cafeteria, and gym has
been lost,” Fr. McGinn said.
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Eerily reminiscent
Jesuit High School’s entire first floor was flooded,
ruining the school’s auditorium, cafeteria, student
commons, athletic facility and many classrooms.
The flood of 1959 covered St. Charles’ entire first floor,
including the library, cafeteria, Mother of Mercy Chapel,
and science labs.
The Great Flood
Taken as the water began receding, this photo from near
the Broad Street bridge shows the entire St. Charles
campus flooded in January of 1959.
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He said that unfortunately for the
students, their Christmas break will be cut
to one week. They will also be in classes
further into summer break than usual.
School officials have not yet been able to
assess the effect the disruption will have on
the students’ college application process,
but they have two guidance counselors
devoted to
the issue.
The St. Charles community sent the
$5,000 check to the Stedman brothers in
New Orleans and designated for aid to
students whose families were most affected.
The brothers personally delivered the
funds, along with a copy of Saint Charles
Borromeo Preparatory School: The First
75 Years of Excellence, by Louis V.
Fabro’49, issues of The Carolian, and the
prayers of many for the recovery and future
success of Jesuit. They all met on November
10 for lunch in the French Quarter.
“I see that there are a great number of
similarities between our two schools. I
deeply appreciate the generosity of the
faculty and staff. Thank you for the 75th
anniversary year book. I find it very
interesting. Thank you for your help. The
school and many of our families need the
help,” McGinn wrote.
Jesuit students have recently published
the “hurricane edition” of the school newspaper,
The Blue Jay. You can view it at
www.jesuitnola.org along with
several pictures of the flooded school.
Stedman brothers very
fortunate
“We were much luckier than most in the
city,” reported Richard Stedman Jr.’89 by
phone from New Orleans. He and his
brother, Patrick ’97, live in the 20% of
New Orleans that did not flood.
Patrick ’97 Stedman, in his third year
at Loyola University Law School, says his
apartment, just four blocks from Loyola
was relatively untouched” by the storm.
Loyola was forced to close, so he currently
makes a three-hour commute three times a
week to Louisiana State University Law
School in Baton Rouge for classes. LSU
took in many Loyola students, including
Patrick, while New Orleans
recovers from the hurricane
damage.
Patrick moved to Baton
Rouge initially, and slept on a
friend’s couch for four weeks.
Since he has chosen to return
to his old apartment because
that city has grown to twice
its original size and is very,
very crowded. He hopes that
he can finish up next semester
at Loyola after it re-opens
sometime in February. Loyola
set up its law school at the
University of Houston, but
not before Stedman had made
other arrangements. Patrick
holds a degree in finance and
marketing from Tulane
University (2002).
“It’s got a great reputation throughout
the New Orleans’ community and all the
alumni of Jesuit are very committed to
their school.”
Whether Patrick remains in New
Orleans after graduating from law school is
a decision he has yet to make. The city has
suffered significant damages, and no one
knows what kind of employment opportunities
will be available New Orleans or even
in the region.
Richard ’89, lives just two miles away
from Patrick. He, too, graduated from
Tulane University undergrad in 1993 and
earned his J.D. from Loyola law School. He
met and married his wife, Amy, and they
have three young sons, ages 1, 4 and 6.
Richard works for Phelps Dunbar, a local
law firm in commercial litigation department.
His offices are located on Canal
Street.
They, along with Patrick, evacuated to
his wife’s parent’s sugar cane plantation in
Donaldson, Louisiana. Richard’s law offices
were not flooded, and he was back to work
shortly after the storm. His family just
retuned to the city the first week of November
and are settling back in. “Things are a
bit different then they were a few weeks
ago.”
Richard has lived in the city since
graduating from St. Charles 16 years ago,
and as terrible it is to see the destruction to
the city he’s really touched to see St.
Charles and other people who really care
reaching out to the people affected by
Hurricane Katrina.
Richard said that if he couldn’t send
his sons to St. Charles, they will go to
Jesuit. It has a long history, excellent
academic credentials and exceptional
athletic teams. He also sees the bonds his
friends, who are graduates of the school,
have formed, and is reminded of St.
Charles.
Patrick ’97 and Rick Stedman ’89 with Fr. Anthony McGinn in the French
Quarter
Huge undertaking in 1959
St. Charles Prep school students clean lockers on the
school’s first floor which had been flooded with more
than six and half feet of water and covered by mud.
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Alumni News
Well-deser
ell-deserved “thank you”
for all Cardinal supporters
by Louis J. Fabro ’83
It’s a generally
accepted fact that
St. Charles could
not exist without
the generous
support of the
Cardinal community.
Parents,
alumni, and other
friends of St.
Charles provide
hundred of thousands
of dollars in
Louis J. Fabro ’83
financial support,
countless hours of
volunteer service, and their prayers. The
school’s faculty and staff deserve much
credit, too, for their sacrifice and dedication
to our students.
All our supporters have one thing in
common — they never sought to have their
efforts publicly recognized or promoted.
Therefore, I want to recognize these people
– and I earnestly hope no one is overlooked
— and their “gifts” of time and talent to the
school.
My thanks to Joe Finocchi of
Finocchi Photography, who provides,
free of charge, a professional photographer
to record many of the school’s most important
events. Finocchi people are always on
hand for graduation and the Baccalaureate
Mass, the Borromean Lecture, Silent
Auction, St. Charles Feast Day Mass, and
Borromean Medal presentations.
Finocchi went to extraordinary lengths
to help us record the Jack Ryan induction
ceremony at Columbus City Hall and our
recent groundbreaking ceremony for the
Walter Student Commons and the Student
Services & Fine Arts Center.
These professional photographs enhance
our publications, especially the Cardinal,
and help us recognize and report on events
and people affecting and shape our school.
Thanks Joe and also to our regular photographer,
Russ Savage!
When it comes to saving the school’s
history, I want to thank several alumni
who’ve come forward with archival materials.
They include 1960 alumni John A.
Medert, David A. Nardone, Jr. and Richard
J. Sheehan; Dr. William J. Gallen ’42; Joe
Rinehard ’41 and Msgr. George J. Adams
’43 who provided old photographs and St.
Charles memorabilia for the school’s
archive room.
First “Distinguished Alumni” awards
presented at opening all-school Mass
The newly established St. Charles
Distinguished Alumnus Award was
presented for the first time to three
graduates at St. Charles’ Opening
school Mass celebrated Friday,
August 26 in the gymnasium. The
inaugural recipients were Arthur E.
“Art” Lee, Class of 1952; Monsignor
John “Jack” Dreese, Class of 1950;
and posthumously to Dr. William L.
Moran, Class of 1939.
The St. Charles Advisory Board
established the new award last
spring to recognize alumni who have
honored St. Charles Preparatory
School by their outstanding volunteer
activities, professional achievements,
and community-organization
advocacy. The honored alumni were
recognized for their affection for St.
Charles and being shining examples
of high moral and ethical standards.
St. Charles specifically chose the opening school Mass as the forum at which to
honor these men because it enabled the school to acknowledge these alumni as
visible role models for students to emulate.
After the Mass and awards presentation, a reception was held in honor of the
awardees in Holy Angels Library. On hand with Mr. Art Lee were his wife,
children, including two sons who are alumni – Craig, Class of 1977 and David,
Class of 1982 — and grandchildren. Also present were several of Mr. Lee’s ’52
classmates, friends, and members of the St. Charles Advisory Board.
The honorees:
Arthur E. Lee spent much of his adult life serving his fellow man and working
for the less fortunate. He has been a leader for the Columbus Catholic Diocese in
the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. He was a founding member of
BREAD, an interfaith organization that seeks solutions to community problems.
And he has been busy in other agencies working to solve social problems. And he
has been very successful in real estate work.
Msgr. John J. “Jack”
Dreese
Msgr. John J. “Jack” Dreese has devoted nearly 50
years of his life in the service of the Catholic Church in
pastoral duties, as a Catholic college and high school
educator, author, and humanitarian. Among his efforts, he
served on the first Ecumenical Commission for the Columbus
Diocese and was the founder and one of the incorporators
of the Open Shelter in Columbus.
William Moran, who died in 2000,
was an esteemed scholar, particularly
in the study of ancient Assyria
and in the study of ancient literary
texts to determine their authenticity
and meanings. His study of certain Akkadian texts from
ancient Mesopotamia of the 14th century B.C. was recognized
as “brilliant” and his work helped revolutionize the
study of Biblical Hebrew. He taught Biblical and related
subjects in Rome and later at Harvard. He wrote nearly 100
book reviews and published articles on Babylonian and
Mesopotamian literature and on Biblical matters.
Classmate honored
Six members of the Class of 1952 in September attended
St. Charles’ opening school Mass at which three
distinguished alumni were honored, among them their
classmate, Art Lee, with plaque in this photo. Flanking
Lee are Don Jackson, left, and Jack O’Reilly. From left
in rear are Tom Ryan, Tom Miller, Ron Eifert, and Chuck
King.
Dr. William L. Moran ’39
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Robert L. Selhorst ’74, who owns
Mass Appeal Dining Services, Inc., works
with the school to provide outstanding
catering services for the most important
events held on campus throughout the
year. These include The Borromean Lecture
luncheon, the receptions for our Feast
Day Mass and various alumni programs.
They include the Homecoming cookout,
many development office meetings, and
several class reunion dinners. He volunteers
countless hours of his and his staff’s
time at greatly reduced cost to St. Charles.
He also devotes his time as a member of
the St. Charles Alumni Association’s
governing board.
Keith A. Helfer ’57, the owner and
founder of Capitol Communications, Inc., in
Columbus helps with the school’s annual
Cardinal Walk. For many years he and his
company have printed and donated all the
special two-part pledge forms used in this
traditional event by St. Charles students to
raise of thousands of dollars in scholarship
funds every year.
William T. “Bill” Sharpe ’83, the
owner of Discount Furniture stores, who,
among other items, donated a wall unit for
the Alumni and Development Office’s
hallway. The unit contains shelves, drawers,
and display areas for photographs,
school literature, and lots of memorabilia
items.
Michael J. Sweeney, Jr. ’82, the
owner of Beer Dock East in Bexley, has
been supportive year after year of the
Alumni Association’s annual Homecoming
celebration.
There are so many people who give
their time, talent, and money on behalf of
the school. Again, thank you all for what
you do on behalf of St. Charles. Your help
contributes to St. Charles and its work to
provide great education and opportunities
for our students and the faculty and staff
who work tirelessly for their benefit.
Sixty Years Out
Attendees for the Class of 1945 reunion included from
left, front — Art Ulrich, Tom Magaw, Gene Swisher, Bob
Schwendenman, Bud Mangia, and Don Weisgerber;
back — Charles Raiser, Bill Killilea, Fr. Bernie McClory,
Ray Beery, Bill Bolster, Derrell Hauser, and Carl Eifert.
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2005 Platinum Reunion Attendees
Celebrants of the Platinum Reunion Mass last June were third from left in front — Msgr. Carl P. Clagett ’47, Msgr.
Charles J. Foeller ’42, Msgr. Ralph J. Huntzinger ’42, Msgr. James P. Hanley ’43, Fr. W. Jared Wicks SJ ’47, and Msgr.
William A. Dunn ’57
Class Reunions in 2005
The 2005 Platinum Reunion was held
June 9 to honor the school’s 50-year-plus
graduates and to recall alumni and
teachers who have passed away. All graduates,
former students, and their spouses
and families from the classes of 1927-1954,
both preparatory school and College of St.
Charles Borromeo, were invited. Mass was
celebrated at 11 a.m. in Mother of Mercy
Chapel and was followed by a complimentary
luncheon in the campus theatre’s
Cavello Center.
Class of 1955 celebrated its 50-year
anniversary July 29-31. Jack Batcheck
produced a special 50-year commemorative
booklet for the occasion. Weekend golf plans
were coordinated by Brian Donahue and
Dick Conie with a number of classmates
playing the storied Scioto Country Club
Friday morning. Brian and Binnie
Donahue hosted a very nice dinner party at
their home that night. Classmates and
wives Saturday were treated to a campus
tour followed by an anniversary Mass
celebrated by Fr. William DeVille, a
member of the class. An organist and
soloist beautifully added their talents to the
liturgy.
The celebration continued at Lindey’s
Restaurant in German Village where the
group was joined by special guests, assistant
principal Jim Lower and his wife,
Cathy. Wrapping up the weekend was a
Sunday brunch at the home of Frank and
Sheila Bettendorf, with most in attendance.
The Class of 1955 has pledged $9,500 to
help establish the Class of 1955 Endowment
to provide student financial aid. The
initial goal is $25,000.
Golden Anniversary
1955 Class reunion photo: From left, front — Ray
Clifford, John Zettler, Brian Donahue, David Sheehan,
Lee DeMastry, Fr. Bill Metzger and James Bradley; back
— Al Schmitt, Jack Stack, Fr. Bill DeVille, Dick Conie,
Frank Bettendorf, Bob Galbreath, Richard Welsh, and
Jack Batchek.
’60 class marks 45th
Members of the Class of 1960 got together this summer
to mark their 45-year anniversary. From left, front, they
are — Ed Slattery, Tim Reis, and Fr. Michael Glockner.
Back and up the stairway — Tom Lehman, John Medert,
Tom Wiles, Daryl Corbett, Fr. Homer Blubaugh, Dave
Nardone, Dick Sheehan, Mike Cummins, Steve Bickham,
Dick Rodenfels and Ted Hummer.
Class of 1960 gathered for its 45-year
reunion on June 3-4. It started informally
that Friday evening at Plank’s Cafe for
refreshments and pizza. The group got
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Class of 1965
On hand to celebrate their class’ 40-year anniversary
were from left, front: Tom Horvath, Fr. Larry “Buzz”
Hummer, Mark Kotlinski, James Finn, Terrance Trojack,
Robin Kuhns, Tom Boyle and Rick Fisher; middle row
— Mike Rafferty, Chuck Campbell, Merrill Phelan, Bob
Hooks, Joe McAndrews, Mike Cantlon, Todd Bakely,
John Burns, and Press Southworth; back — James
“Kip” Clager, Sean Maxfield, Paul Bettinger, Tom Young,
Joe DiCesare, Mike Oddi, John Finn, Leo Dietlin, and
Jack Ryan.
’75 Class Reunites
The Class of 1975 celebrated its class reunion reception
and dinner in the Campus Theatre’s Cavello Center.
From left, front — Tim Byrne, Dan Harrison, Tim
VanEcho, Mark LaTorre, Rick Stein, Kirk Wuellner, and
Rick Ryan; second row —Jim Hoffman, Rick Ralston,
Greg Kontras, Ron Rau, Rick Mackessy, Dale Hatem, and
John MacKinnon; third row — Greg Krivicich, John
Boswell, Fred Messmer, Dan Leonhardt, Eric Stinson,
and Tim Ryan; top — Brad DelMatto, Sam Marable, and
Daniel Heinmiller.
together Saturday morning for a continental
breakfast at St. Charles followed by a
campus tour. All were then invited to the
Champions Golf Club for tennis and golf.
The group returned to St. Charles that
evening for a class Mass celebrated by Fr.
Homer Blubaugh in Mother of Mercy
Chapel. A reception and dinner were held
in the Campus Theatre’s Cavello Center.
Reunion committee members included Ted
Hummer, Daryl Corbett, and Steve
Bickham.
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Class of 2000 met for its 5-year anniversary
on August 4-5. More than 40 graduates
gathered that Friday night at Our
Lady of Lourdes Grotto on campus for a
pizza party-picnic before venturing to the
downtown Arena District. The next morning
the class formed a team for the St.
Charles Alumni Softball Tournament. Matt
Ference organized the event.
Class of 1965 held its 40-year anniversary
celebration September 2-4. Principal
Dominic Cavello ’64 joined the celebrants
Friday night at a stag event in the Campus
Theatre’s Cavello Center. Press and Joan
Southworth served as reunion hosts
Saturday at their downtown Miranova
home. Father Lawrence “Buzz” Hummer
celebrated a special Mass for the class.
More than 40 people attended a wonderful
reception and dinner in the Miranova party
room. The ensuing celebration went on well
into the evening. Reunion committee
members included Jim Finn, Tom
Horvath, and Press Southworth.
Class of 1975 celebrated its 30-year
anniversary Sept. 16-17. Mark Latorre and
Rick Ralston organized a tailgate party at
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto Friday night
before the Cardinals’ home football game
against Marion Harding. Many classmates
later met up at Planks’ Café. The guys got
together Saturday morning for a golf outing
at Heritage C.C. in Hilliard before meeting
back at St. Charles later in the afternoon
for Mass in Mother of Mercy Chapel.
After a campus tour, there was a
reception and dinner in the Campus
Theatre’s Cavello Center. Joining them
were special guests Don Henne and Jerry
Connor. Classmates had a great time
reliving the great football win over
Watterson and their CCL championship
baseball teams! As part of this special
occasion, the class pledged $5,400 to
augment the existing Class of 1975 Endowment.
Reunion committee members besides
Latorre and Ralston were Greg Kontras,
Mike McCabe, Fred Messmer, Ron Rau and
Tim Van Echo.
Full house
More than 60 people (33 classmates) were on hand for
the Class of 1985 reception and dinner held last August
in the Campus Theatre’s Cavello Center.
1980’s Silver Anniversary
From left, front — Mark Klingler, Lou Pallay, Jim
Mackessy, Mark Batcheck, Tom Bogen, and Bill Worley;
back — Ron Westhoff, Mark Gibson, Dan Nye, Joe
Smithberger, Dominic Cavello, Terry Rankin, Tim
Sullivan, Michael Bals and Dave Lawler. Not pictured:
Chris Harvey and Bob Thompson.
’80 reunion guests
Mark and Michelle Klingler, Lou Pallay, Mark Gibson,
and Karen and Dave Lawler enjoyed a conversation
before the 1980 Class reunion dinner.
20 Years gone by
The Class of 1985 celebrated its 20-year anniversary last
August. From left, front — Vince Fabro, Kevin Kranz,
Steve Jones, Mike Creedon, Dan Schneider, Hal Epler,
Tony Austing, Bill Turner, Neal Roberts and Pat Barry;
middle — Kevin Shockling, Mike Adams, Mike Kletzly,
Rick Thomas, Mike Jarosi, Alan Gummer, Mike Murphy,
Tom Koch, Brian Boley, Jim Heller and Fr. Bill Arnold;
back — Pat O’Connor, Erick Lauber, Jim Saas, Bob
Moss, Steve Fairchild, Mark Ridgeway, Bill Mifsud, Tom
Gerlacher, Dave Hayes, and Ralph Rohner.
Class of 1980 assembled for its 25-year
anniversary September 9-10. On Friday
there was a stag gathering at Plank’s Café
after the St. Charles homecoming football
victory over Whitehall. There was a golf
outing Saturday morning and in the
afternoon the class gathered back at
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Mother of Mercy Chapel where Fr. Bill
Arnold celebrated Mass. After a school tour,
the group then enjoyed a reception and
dinner in the Campus Theatre’s Cavello
Center. The reunion committee included
Mark Batcheck, Chris Harvey, Mark
Klingler, Dave Lawler and Lou Pallay.
Class of 1985 gathered for its 20-year
anniversary Aug. 26-27. As part of its
weekend activities, the class pledged nearly
$25,000 for a scholarship endowment in the
name of the Class of 1985. Classmates
began their celebration by attending St.
Charles’ opening home football game
against Briggs and going to Plank’s Café
afterward. There was a golf outing Saturday
morning at the Phoenix G.C. and Fr.
Bill Arnold celebrated a class Mass that
afternoon in Mother of Mercy Chapel. The
group took a school tour and enjoyed a
reception and dinner catered by Lindey’s
Restaurant in the Campus Theatre’s
Cavello Center. The reunion committee
included Mike Creedon, Hal Epler, Vince
Fabro, Alan Gummer, Dave Hayes, Mike
Jarosi, Mike Kletzly, Bill Misfud, Neal
Roberts, Kevin Schockling, and Bill
Turner.
Class of 1995 celebrated its 10-year
anniversary Sept. 30-Oct. 1. It began with
a stag event Friday evening at Plank’s Café
followed the next morning by a round of
golf at Mentel Memorial G.C. (Formerly the
Airport G.C.). Classmates and their guests
met that evening for dinner at Buca
di Beppo Restaurant in the downtown
Arena District. The reunion committee
included Damion Clifford, Matt Baehr, Dan
Clark, Andrew Hanrahan, Kevin Ryan and
Brian White.
Devoted to St. Charles community
Fr. Bill Arnold ’70 gave a “state of the school”
presentation at the ’85 Class Reunion last August. The
former St. Charles faculty member (1979-1985 and 1992-
1996) and current member of the St. Charles Advisory
Board is pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Dover, Ohio, a
more than 2 ½ hour drive from Columbus.
Fr. Arnold remains fiercely devoted to St. Charles
and its students and graduates. Despite the distance and
drive time, he was celebrant for three class reunion
Masses and presided over several weddings this
summer in Mother of Mercy Chapel. And he’s a regular
at Advisory Board meetings. Thank you Father!
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2000 team at Alumni Softball tourney
As part of its 5-year reunion activities, the Class of 2000
fielded a team that competed in the 2005 Alumni
Softball Tournament. In front is Matt Saraniti; from left
in middle row — Matt Ference, Casey McDonald, Bill
Welch, Andrew Chelton, and Travis Dent; back row —
Chad Bradley, Chris Milne, Ryan Gelhaus, Brad
Johnson, and Zach Pavol.
Alumni Softball Tourney
Held Saturday, August 6, 2005, at St.
Charles, the annual tournament drew more
than 50 players. A team of graduates from
the classes of 1991-92-94-96 won the
tournament championship. Under sunny
skies, grads played a round-robin format
and enjoyed a picnic lunch and camaraderie.
St. Charles Class Reunion
Week
eekend end August 18-19,
2006
Featuring the Class of 1956 Golden
Anniversary Class
Other classes celebrating reunions this
year: 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976,
1981,1986,1991,1996, and 2001
St. Charles has scheduled a single Class
Reunion Weekend (August 18-19) for all
the school’s classes marking anniversaries
in 2006. Participating classes can enjoy
celebrating in the beautiful new Robert C.
Walter Student Commons, which is being
constructed in tandem with the new
Student Services & Fine Arts Center in
the north courtyard. The expansive open
area will be ideal for the first combined
alumni reunion weekend.
Classes will schedule their own Friday
night and Saturday morning activities. All
will meet on campus Saturday afternoon
for campus tours; an all-class Mass in
Mother of Mercy Chapel; a “state of the
school” presentation by principal Dominic
J. Cavello in the Walter Student Commons;
and the option for each class to remain
their for dinner (each class seated together
in separate, designated areas). Reunion
committees met on December 1 and
classmates in reunion classes will receive
a letter in the next month asking for their
feedback.
Alumni softball veterans
Front left — Chris Cavello ’91, Gerard Tracy ’91, Rick
Callahan ’84, Matt Piela ’84, and Jason Kubin ’94; back
— Nick Porter’91, Mike Gast ’84, Eric Felty ’84, David
Wallenfelsz ’84, and Andy Hughes ’84.
Softball timeout
From left — Dave Hanrahan Jr. ’92, Chris Reyes ’92,
Kelly Mullins ’92, Justin Arends ’98, Dan Rankin V ’96,
and Jeremy Mazza ’99 in pre-softball tournament mode.
Alumni Golf Outing was
great success
Our thanks to the 114 St. Charles alumni
and friends who helped make the 2005
Alumni Golf Outing at Champions Golf
Course a huge success. The noon scramble
event held Sunday, October 2, treated
players to golf, refreshments, prizes, and a
steak dinner.
Two foursomes finished with matching
scores of -12 under par. According to
tournament rules, “All ties will be broken
by going back to the No. 1 handicap hole
and comparing score cards. If a tie remains,
the No. 2 handicap hole will be
used, and so on.” After going all the way to
the fifth handicap hole, the group of Dave
Driver ’77, Kevin Clay ’77, Tim Krauss ’77
and Ed Perrini was declared the winner.
The group of Eric Horvath ’92, John
Morgan ’92, Chris Reyes ’92 and Jeff
Schultz finished as runners-up.
Special thanks go to Champion’s
assistant golf professional, Scott Kays’84,
and Alumni Association board members
Mike Probst ’89 and Rob Ryan ’89 for all
their help. And we sure don’t want to forget
to thank our tournament sponsors. They
were: Dave Pemberton Jr. ’79 of Suburban
Natural Gas Co., Joe Pemberton ’00, Joe
Dorrian ’89, alumnus parent Coleman
Clougherty and Farmers Citizen Bank, Joe
Isbell ’83 and Mike Creedon ’85 of Bravo!
Inc., and Bob Selhorst ’74 and Mass Appeal
Dining Services, Inc.
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Alumni News
Some of the 29 foursomes in this year’s
Alumni Golf Outing
From left — Tom Horvath ’65, Anthony Mampieri ’93,
Bart Mahoney, and Jack Frencho.
From left — Dave Rice, Mike Rice ’86, Brian Franz ’84
and Tom Rice ’84.
From left — Tim Backiewicz ’83, Jeff Havens ’84, Amy
Havens, and Barry Backiewicz ’78.
From left — Jeff Mattingly ’87, Sean Roerhenback ’89,
Brian Saas ’89, and Pete Tatera.
From left — Jason Younger ’89, Kevin Saas ’87, Mike
Probst ’89, and Shawn Wilkinson ’89
George Gillespie, Ray Benjamin ’91, Dave Hanrahan ’92,
and Greg Fox ’91.
From left — 2005 Tournament winners Dave Driver ’77,
Kevin Clay ’77, Ed Perrini, and Tim Krauss ’77.
From left — Bill Pemberton, Greg Marinelli, Dave
Pemberton Jr. ’79, and Dave Pemberton Sr.
From left — Scott Wardlow ’89, Tony Weiss, Jason
Howard ’90, and David Probst ’91.
The group of (from left) Eric Horvath ’92, John Morgan
’92, Jeff Schultz, and Chris Reyes ’92 was runner-up in
the Open.
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Phil Caito ’72, Chris Leister ’72, Jack Kramer ’72, and
Marion Smithberger ’72.
Ed Rice ’79, Rick Baumann ’57, Bill Connor ’79, and
Andy Baumann ’79
St. Charles Preparatory School

Mothers Club at Work
“A Cardinal Christmas” gala
offered segments of St. Charles
history
The annual “A Cardinal Christmas,” gala
was celebrated at the Clarion Hotel on
December 3. The St. Charles Mothers Club
event, was organized by chairwomen
Kathleen Cavello and Andrea Mackessy.
Proceeds this year will be used to
purchase furnishings for the St. Charles
Student Services & Fine Arts Center now
under construction on the campus. Last
year’s event raised more than $63,000, a
record, for technology upgrades and capital
improvements.
This year’s event offered a unique
opportunity to buy pieces of St. Charles
history. Items included many of the 80-
year-old school building’s original wooden
doors, among them the original exterior
doors facing Broad Street. Also for sale
were more than 20 church pews from the
upper chapel, (former Holy Angels Chapel)
two glass arches that were above the north
courtyard’s exterior doors, and other items.
Bobbleheads of Cavello &
Msgr. Bennett
Taking advantage of the popularity of
bobblehead figures, the St. Charles Mothers
Club and the St. Charles bands will commemorate
two St. Charles personalities —
beloved faculty member Msgr. Thomas
Bennett and principal Dominic J. Cavello
— with their own ‘action’ figures. And just
in time for Christmas!
With proceeds going to the school’s
band program and the Msgr. Thomas H.
Bennett Scholarship Fund, this is a good
way to support two great causes while
having a little fun at the expense of two St.
Charles icons.
An order form can be found here in this
issue of the Cardinal magazine or by
contacting Laurie Berndt in the school’s
main office at 614-252-6714. Figures are
Mother’s tea
The Mothers of Alumni Luncheon drew more than 80
ladies last October.
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Msgr. Francis X.
Schweitzer ’38
2005 Clergy Jubilarians
Msgr. William A. Dunn ’57
Msgr. Carl P. Clagett ’47
2005 Clergy Jubilarians
65 years
Msgr. Francis X. Schweitzer ’38
50 years
Msgr. Carl P. Clagett ’47
Msgr. Edward J. McFarland ’47
Fr. Robert F. Reilly ’47
40 Years
Msgr. William A. Dunn ’57
Msgr. Romano Ciotola, College ’62
25 Years
Fr. William L. Arnold ’70
Msgr. Romano Ciotola,
College ’62
$20 each, and shipping will be $6 for outof-state
orders or $4 for destination inside
Ohio. Send your order form and check,
payable to St. Charles Band, to St. Charles
Preparatory School, Attn: Annie Kerr, 2010
E. Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43209.
Third Alumni Mothers Luncheon
More than 85 ladies attended the 2005
Mothers of Alumni Luncheon held Sunday,
October 23, in the Campus Theatre’s
Cavello Center. The third annual event
included a social hour, luncheon, and the
humor of Catherine Vonderahe, mother of
Henry ’05, William ’06 and Duke’07.
Committee members who helped
organize this year’s event were: Ginny
Bauman, Kate Buckley, Kathleen Cavello,
Msgr. Edward J.
McFarland ’47
Fr. William L. Arnold ’70
Fr. Robert F. Reilly ’47
2005-2006 Alumni
Association
Governing Board
Michael Probst ’89, President
Members
Homer Beard ’46
Deacon Paul Belhorn ’59
Gerard Barrow ’72
Philip Caito ’72
Damion Clifford ’95
John Daulton ’92
Mike Giasi ’96
Jack Gibbons Jr. ’81
Colby Grimes ’46
Steven Meier ’81
Andy Piccolantonio ’96
Michael Probst ’89
Bill Prophater Jr. ’86
Rob Ryan ’89
Bob Selhorst ’74
Matt Weger ‘89
Ex-Officio
Dominic J. Cavello ’64, Principal
Douglas H. Stein ’78, Director of
Development
Louis J. Fabro ’83, Director of Alumni
Affairs and Communications
Rita Ciancetta, Candy Clougherty, Eileen
Fantozzi, Jane Mazza, Anne Park, Sheila
Reiner, Molly Snell, Betsy VanHeyde, Joni
Warren, Cathy Wickert, Carole Winkel and
Mary Zeehandelar.
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Alumni Notes
Taynor off to Holy Cross
Standing between his mother, Cherri (St. Charles Alumni and
Development Offices assistant), and father, Randy Taynor, is very
happy alumnus, Don ’05. He is now studying at Holy Cross College
in Notre Dame, Indiana.
2004
Joseph “Josh” Ebrahimian,
who is a sophomore at The Ohio
State University majoring in political
science, spent the summer
as an intern for state representative
Scott Oelslager of the 51 st
Disrict. “I enjoy the size and diversity
of the university,” Josh
commented. “It’s literally a city
with many types of people from
the entire world.” He hopes to
work for a foundation to help
others and serve the community.
Recalling his teachers at St.
Charles, Josh said they all were
very influential and talented and
“all should be recognized for
their dedication and commitment
to St. Charles and its tradition of
excellence.” Among those who
were most influential: Mrs.
Amnah, Mrs. Haas, and Mrs.
Pena.
“Mrs. Amnah spent countless
hours helping me understand
algebra and honors geometry,”
Josh said. “She never complained
about helping me and she
explained problems thoroughly.
I will never forget (her) tremendous
patience with me.” He described
Mrs. Haas, his sophomore
religion teacher, as “very
spiritual and straightforward.
She always had a positive attitude
and listened to what I had
to say.” About Mrs. Pena, his
German teacher, Josh said: “I
really enjoyed her upbeat attitude.
She was dedicated to
teaching, was a clear and precise
teacher (and) had a very
worldly attitude that has benefited
me in college. She was
very considerate; whenever
someone had a question, she
would go out of her way to explain.”
2003
John C. Duffy is in his junior
year at the University of Notre
Dame working on a double major
in economics and computer
applications. He’s on ND’s varsity
lacrosse team that this summer
traveled to Prague to play
the Czech Republic’s national
team. His Irish team put on a lacrosse
clinic to teach Czech
children how to play. They spent
10 days there training and
sightseeing and took trips to
Moravia, Vienna, and Prague.
Duffy said the team toured
castles, cathedrals, chateaus,
and a former Nazi concentration
camp.
“All around it was an amazing
experience,” said Duffy, whose
team won two national championships
the last three years. He
wears jersey #32 and plays
defense (more specifically as a
long-pole midfielder).
John A. Siefert is enrolled in
the welding engineering program
at The Ohio State University
and interned with the State
of Ohio in engineering-related
work during the last year. He
reports his younger brother,
Stephen, is a freshman this year
at St. Charles.
“I have great satisfaction,”
Siefert said, “that even after two
full years of being exposed in
college to a huge array of diversity
and numerous kinds of
people, my best friends are still
the ones that I went to school
with at St. Charles. I have been
told by my parents and others
that you meet your lifelong
friends in college, but the men at
St. Charles have the unique opportunity
to find lasting friendships
in high school, and I am
proud to say that I took advantage
of this, as did many others
that I know and keep in contact
with.” .
Siefert said his St. Charles education
prepared him better for
college than many in his engineering
classes. “I am extremely
Another Heller graduate
The Hellers celebrated the graduation last June of another family
member — John H. From left, his father, John, grandmother, Alice,
St. Charles principal Dominic J. Cavello, grandfather, John H.
“Jack” Heller Sr., and mother, Liz. Other Heller alumni are uncles
Jim ’83 and Paul ’82.
lucky that St. Charles taught me
not only to write, but write extremely
well. I have never once
struggled with my grammar or
writing skills here at Ohio State
in English or engineering
classes. Because of this, I have
been able to take the leadership
role in many group projects.” He
said his best college grade came
in an English course, due in large
part to the English teachers at
St. Charles – “to whom I remain
extremely grateful.”
2002
Mark Blackstone is at
Kalamazoo College in
Kalamazoo, Mich. “I wish that
more St. Charles students would
have the opportunity to learn
about my college and the wonderful
experiences I have had. It
is an excellent school to go to
after St. Charles.” Blackstone
last April returned from eight
months of traveling in Quito, Ecuador
and San Jose, Costa Rica.
“It was an amazing learning experience,”
he said.
2001
Andrew R. Boyle graduated
last May from the University of
Syracuse with a degree in finance.
Liam Gruzs is pursuing dual JD/
MS degrees in sports administration
at Valparaiso University.
He graduated from the University
of Notre Dame in liberal studies,
a Great Books Program.
Gruzs spent three years as a
student manager, and was head
administrative manager for the
football team during the 2004
campaign.
Jason R. Koralewski graduated
last May from the Mendoza
College of Business at the University
of Notre Dame.
David R. Munczinski graduated
last June from Harvard University
with a degree in anthropology.
2000
Daniel Federer, who received
a degree in theatre from The Ohio
State University in 2004, is a
sales associate and personal
trainer at The World Gym.
Charles Plummer reports he
has completed his first year at
the Lutheran Theological Seminary
in Philadelphia where he’s
studying to become a Lutheran
minister.
Musical memories
BJ Yurkovich ’05 wears the “Bishop Fulcher Memorial Award”
medal awarded to him at his St. Charles graduation last June. The
annual Fulcher Award recognizes a St. Charles senior who has
achieved excellence in some aspect of creative writing, drama, visual
arts, journalism, or music.
Yurkovich played in the jazz and concert bands all four years at
St. Charles. He now is double majoring in computer science and
jazz studies at The Ohio State University, and is in its Arts Scholars
program. With him in the photo are his mother, Tricia (a very
frequent school volunteer), St. Charles band director Dr. Rick
Brunetto, and BJ’s father, Steve.
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Joseph “Josh” Ebrahimian ’04 Jason R. Koralewski ’01
European “vacation”
John Duffy ’04 (second from
right) and his Notre Dame
lacrosse teammates shake hands
with players from the Czech
Republic’s national team in
Prague.
St. Charles Preparatory School

Brian Vance ’00 and his wife,
Jamie.
Brian D. Vance is a civilian price
analyst and contract negotiator
for the Aeronautical Systems
Center (ASC) at Wright
Patterson Air Force Base near
Dayton. ASC is a division of the
Air Force. Vance previously
was involved in the acquisition
of several different aircraft systems
(F-15, F-16, C-17, A-10 and
Predator) and now holds a permanent
position in the F-15 Systems
Group. He negotiates the
purchase of aircraft, software
upgrades, spares, armaments,
radar and antennae related to
the F-15. He also is involved
with writing contracts. He has
been with ASC since August ’04
and in his new position for about
a month.
Vance is looking to begin postgraduate
master’s studies this
winter at either Wright State University
or the University. He had
graduated with honors from
Cedarville University in May 2004
with a degree in business finance
and minors in global economics
and comprehensive biblical
studies. He played for the
school’s soccer team all four
years he attended and was also
selected as an All-American
Scholar Athlete his junior and
senior seasons- the only two
years an athlete is eligible
Vance and his wife, Jamie, were
married in January of 2005. The
couple enjoys traveling, hanging
out with friends and family,
and watching any episode of the
Law & Order syndicate. He’s
still active with the Cedarville
University men’s soccer program
as well as his Church.
One of Vance’s best St. Charles
memories was as a member of
the soccer team when it traveled
to the Netherlands in 1999
to play and train. “Some of the
best times on that trip, aside from
playing, were spent touring cities
such as Amsterdam,
Eindhoven and Rotterdam and
playing euchre in our rooms,” he
said.
1999
Mike Herrel reports that he and
his wife Rachel bought a new
house in Cincinnati where he
started a new job as a computer
programmer.
Timothy P. Mason and Kristen
Lepore were married in Mother
of Mercy Chapel at St. Charles
on September 3, 2005. Classmate
Gino A. Canini was a
groomsman and Fr. William
Arnold ’70 was the celebrant.
2000 grad relates daunting
schedule while at Ohio U.
25 The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education
Anthony A. “Tony” Castricone, Class of
2000 recently related a tale of an exhausting
work schedule he had while a journalism
student at Ohio University. He currently
is a “Sportscenter” update anchor for
WBNS-FM, a reporter for the station (1460
THE FAN), and the host of a Sunday
morning college football show that airs
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. It’s called “The
Buckeye Sunday Sports Brunch” with
Mark Wyant.
After graduating from St. Charles,
Tony earned a degree in broadcast journalism
at Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps
School of Journalism, considered one of the
finer journalism schools. There he gained
valuable experience necessary in the
colorful world of sportscasting.
He began sports reporting with WOUB-AM
radio in Athens in January, 2001 when an
OU freshman. His schedule included
waking up at 5 a.m. two to five times a
week to read local sports updates on the air
at the student station, which had the NPR
format.
That summer, Tony landed an internship
at 1460 the Fan in Columbus, which
proved to be a huge step in his career. His
schedule then consisted of waking up at
4:30 a.m., interning at the station from
5:30 to 9 a.m., and working during the day
at a construction job. At night he would
call the internet play-by-play action for the
summer-league baseball games of the
Delaware Cows.
“I probably never had more than five
listeners,” Castricone said, “and I was
exhausted most of the time, but it was all
experience that was vital to my growth as a
broadcaster.” He likened this exhausting
schedule to his days at St. Charles. He
grew up in Centerburg, a 50-minute oneway
drive to school. He left for school at
6:30 a.m., participated in track and crosscountry,
held down a job, and continued to
study. “It was the perfect preparation for
the work ethic I needed,” he said.
“Sportscasting is a job that so many
people THINK must be great but don’t
realize how many long hours and how
much hard work is required,” he said.
His sophomore and junior years at OU
included volunteering over 30-40 hours a
week (sometimes more) at the student TV
and radio stations for no money while
taking a full load of classes. That junior
year Tony met a producer of college football
and basketball broadcasts and was offered a
job as a sideline reporter for a few OU
games on ONN, Fox Sports Ohio and even
one on ESPN-Plus. “I was so nervous,” he
said, “and looking back, I really don’t think
I did a very good job, but it gave me the
practice and the confidence to broadcast to
large audiences.” In 2003 Fox Sports Ohio
reached 2.4 million homes.
In May of 2003, Tony was named
sports director at WOUB-AM-FM & TV
heading a sports department of over 40
workers. The station’s benchmark program
was a TV show called “Gridiron Glory,” a
30-minute live show of high school football
every Friday recapping Southeast Ohio
high school games. “We ended up winning
an Emmy, and created some of my most
fond memories of college,” he said.
He was hired the following October at
Athens’ commercial radio station, WATH-
AM and WXTQ-FM as its sports director at
a grand salary of $7 an hour. He worked
early weekday mornings, was host for a
daily hour-long evening show, and called
play-by-play high school football, basketball,
and baseball games. All while still a
full-time student at OU.
Tony did radio work at WATH/WXTQ
for 14 months, until becoming sports editor
of the Athens Messenger daily newspaper
in Dec. 2004. It proved to be another
grueling experience that included working
into the early morning hours (until 5-6 am)
Climbing the ladder
Anthony A. Castricone ’00 has worked a lot of crazy
shifts and jobs to climb his way up to radio personality
and sports reporter on 1460 WBNS ( The FAN) Radio.
as many as seven nights a week. “In
February, I went almost an entire month
without a day off... and I was STILL
TAKING CLASSES — it took me five years
to finish my degree” Tony said.
He was offered a play-by-play job in
March of last year with the Dayton Dragons,
a minor league baseball team (the A-
ball affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds). Tony
called it a dream opportunity, but was
unable to take the job because of other
circumstances. “It was a time in which my
faith came in very strongly because I was
extremely disappointed and felt crushed
emotionally. But I ended up learning that
everything happens for a reason.”
Less than two months later, Castricone
was offered a job with WBNS-AM Radio in
Columbus, and happily accepted. He had
one class he continued to take in Athens
while working in Columbus to finish his
degree, which he did last June. “If there’s
one thing St. Charles taught me that I
used all through college,” Tony said, “it was
work ethic. Anyone who wants to work in
broadcasting needs to know it takes humility,
work ethic, and stick-to-itiveness. I did
so many gigs for free, I worked so many
games I didn’t want to be at, but it all
ended up being extremely valuable experience
for my future profession.”
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Alumni Notes
Federers at Notre Dame
Mike Federer ’98, in cap and gown, with his family following his
graduation from the University of Notre Dame Law School last May.
On the left is his father, Michael, his mother, Ann, is on the far right,
and next to Mike is his brother, Dan ’00, a 2004 graduate of The Ohio
State University.
Paul J. “P.J.” Shelton is a
vowed Jesuit studying philosophy
at Loyola University Chicago.
1998
Michael W. Federer is an associate
attorney with the law
firm of Kirkpatrick Lockhart
Nicholson Graham at its Pittsburgh
office. He graduated
summa cum laude from the
Fisher School of Business at
The Ohio State University and
earned his law degree from The
University of Notre Dame Law
School last May. He was an articles
editor for the Notre Dame
Journal of Legislation.
Michael’s grandfather, Carl
Kegelmayer, St. Charles class
of 1937, also graduated from
Notre Dame in 1941 in a commerce
and pre-law program. He
entered the Army after graduation
– it was World War II time —
and didn’t complete his remaining
two years of law school.
1997
Mark S. Dobrowski and his
wife, Elizabeth, recently moved
back to Ohio in the Cincinnati
area. He had been working in
western Iowa as an engineer
for Pella Windows & Doors and
remains with that company at its
Cincinnati facility. He reports that
he was scheduled to complete
his MBA in August from Indiana
University’s Kelley School of
Business.
Mark B. Lorenz received his
medical degree from The Ohio
State University College of Medicine
last June. He will be doing
his residency in Otolaryngology
at the University of Michigan.
Mark also won the 2005 International
Neurofibromatosis Research
Prize.
An Otolaryngologist, (also
known as an ENT, or ear, nose
and throat surgeon), deals with
the surgical management of diseases
such as chronic ear infections,
sinusitis, and head and
neck cancers. It’s a surgical field
without a clear medical equivalent,
Lorenz said, “so patients
and ENTs tend to develop long
professional relationships.”
Lorenz graduated from the University
of Notre Dame in 2001
with degrees in English, French,
and pre-professional studies.
He spent the 1998-99 school
year at the L’Universite
Catholique de L’Ouest, in Angers,
France. “Working in a hospice
while at Notre Dame,” he said,
“really drew me towards medicine.”
At OSU, he researched a genetic
form of deafness/brain tumors
termed Neurofibromatosis
II, and won a research grant and
a $10,000 research prize that
included a trip to Aspen to
present a paper at a conference.
His extracurricular activities included
competing with the Ohio
State Judo Club, and he enjoys
woodworking (making furniture
mostly), and bowling (180-200
pin average) “like it’s my job.”
Daniel H. White is a manager
at The Container Store in Washington,
D.C. The best part of his
job, he said, is being able to directly
affect the quality of lives
with whom he works. He graduated
from The University of Cincinnati
with a degree in anthropology.
While at UC, he minored
in classics – “an interest fostered
by my Latin and Greek
studies at St. Charles,” he
said.He likes to attend DC United
soccer games and keep up with
the latest news around the
world.
”While at St. Charles, I spent my
last year completely entrenched
in Monty’s (Doug Montgomery)
theatre. My experience in productions
of The Compleat
Works of Wllm
Shkspr(Abridged, The Boys
Next Door and School House
Rock LIVE gave me a great
schooling in the arts. I went on
to continue acting in productions
in Cincinnati, including Beautiful
Thing by Jonathan Harvey,
Polaroid Stories by Naomi
Iizuka, and Track & Field - - an
original premier production written
by Kevin Barry. Mr.
Montgomery’s guidance and direction
proved invaluable as a
tool in the rest of my life as well.”
1996
Michael J. Giasi and Trudy A.
Carnate were married in Mother
of Mercy Chapel on July 30,
2005. Fr. William Arnold ’70 was
the Mass celebrant, and fellow
’96 classmates Brett Younkin,
Calvin Cheng and Brian Harrison
served as groomsmen.
1995
Matthew J. Baehr is membership
director for Infocomm International
in the Washington, D.C.
area. He has a human resources
degree from Catholic University
of America and an MBA and
masters in sports administration
from Ohio University. Baehr previously
was a human resources
manager in the Washington area
for three years. He played soccer
all four years at Catholic
University and taught a business
class and coached soccer for a
small Indiana college. He and his
wife, Mary, have been married
for two years.
Corey D. Belcher is a behavioral
specialist at the Acadiana
Brain Injury Center in
Youngsville, La., and has a degree
in exercise physiology from
the University of Louisiana,
Lafayette. He officiates high
school and college football in the
region.
Thomas J. Botkin is an account
manager for Modern Office
Methods in Columbus where
he served a year on its board of
directors. He didn’t plan for a
career in sales but says he’s
done very well so far. In seven
years in sales he’s won 14
awards. Botkin spent five years
playing semi-pro football and
during that time was named a
captain three times, elected to
an all-star team, and helped win
a league and state championship.
Patrick J. Crerand missed his
class reunion this year because
he was “either recovering or
evacuating from one of the many
catastrophic hurricanes that
decided to call Louisiana home
this past September.” He is a
Ph.D. student in English Literature
at the University of Louisiana,
holds a degree in literature
from The Ohio State University,
and a masters in creative writing
from Bowling Green State
University. Crerand and his wife,
Anna, have been married a year
and live in Lafayette.
Daniel J. Clark is an attorney
with Vorys, Sater, Seymour and
Pease LLP in Columbus. He
earned a degree from
Wittenberg University in political
science and has his J.D from
The Ohio State University College
of Law.
James R. English is human
resources manager for the
Nordstrom Department Stores at
its Easton Town Center location.
He earned a degree in business
administration, with an emphasis
on human resources, from
Thomas More College in
Crestview Hills, Ky, where he
was a kicker and punter for the
football team. After leaving college
he went to work for
Nordstrom in Cleveland and Chicago
before coming to Columbus
to open its Easton location.
He and his wife, Lisa, were
married in 2002 and live in
Blacklick with their two sons.
Jason P. Fenner is a sales
manager with Brinks Home Technologies
in Columbus, which
places security systems in
homes in the metro area. He has
a degree in ancient history from
The Ohio Sate University (2000)
and worked for Edy’s Ice Cream
for six years prior to joining
Brinks in 2003. He was Brinks’
No. 3 U.S. sales representative
in 2004 and promoted to sales
manager of the Columbus
Mark B. Lorenz ’97
branch, the second largest builders
operation branch in the
country. He and his wife, Pam,
were married in Mother of mercy
Chapel at St. Charles in 2000.
Joshua R. Gelhaus is an assistant
controller with Horizons
Real Estate Group. He earned a
degree in economics management
from Ohio Wesleyan University,
and lives in Columbus
with his wife, Lyndsey, and their
two sons: Quinn (2) and Drew
(2 months).
Kyle S. Goodrich is an attorney
with William A. Morse, ALPA,
and the varsity swimming coach
at St. Charles. He has a degree
in psychology from Indiana University
and his J.D. from Capital
Law School. He and his wife,
Jamee, live in Worthington.
Andrew N. Hanrahan is in
store management with the
Kroger Company and earned a
degree in marketing at Ohio University.
He lives in Powell and
has a son, Aaron.
Shawn J. Martin is a project
librarian at the University of
Michigan. There he administers
a project that’s linked with over
200 universities worldwide to
Visiting mom
St. Charles secretary Laurie Berndt, had two special campus visitors
in late October: her two sons, Mark ’97 (left) and Michael ’00. Mark, a
1 st lieutenant in the Navy and a nuclear-trained officer, was in town
to speak to members of ROTC at The Ohio State University about
the Navy’s nuclear program. His brother, Michael, lives and works in
Columbus.
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Mark Gramlich ’94 with wife,
Jennifer and sons: Zachary (8)
and Kyle (2).
address ways of using the electronic
media for scholarly communication
and publication. He
began working in ‘digital libraries’
after grad school, first at the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
then at the Ohio Historical
Society, and now at the University
of Michigan. Martin has an
undergraduate degree from The
Ohio State University, a masters
in history from William and Mary
College in Massachusetts, and
is working on a masters in library
and information science at U of
M.
He reports that he’s traveled
extensively, including a yearlong
back packing trip across
Europe, and has visited Egypt,
Kenya, Tanzania, among other
countries. While finishing his
masters, he’s thinking about pursuing
a Ph. D. and in his few
spare moments is planning trips
to South America and Asia.
Joshua A. Mathis is an art
consultant with Shaffer Fine Art
in Portland Oregon. He has a
degree in international studies
from The Ohio State University.
Christopher S. Marmion lives
in Chicago where he’s a regional
sales assistant with Claymore
Securities covering Eastern
Pennsylvania and Delaware. He
joined the company after earning
an MBA from DePaul University
where he enrolled after
graduating from St. Charles.
While at DePaul, he spent a year
in Sheffield, England for business
school, which ignited a
passion for traveling. After
earning a degree in accounting,
Marmion decided to pursue other
interests and went to work for
Hewitt Associates managing
company 401 plans.
He left Hewitt in June of 2002 to
volunteer in Antigua, Guatemala
tutoring students.
After five months, he “set off
for the rest of Central America,”
visiting every country there and
meeting many interesting people.
He returned to the U.S. in the
summer of 2003 to attend DePaul
for grad school. He has remained
active in athletics, playing
soccer and competing in
triathlons. His next trip is to Thailand
and Cambodia — marking
his fifth continent and more than
30 countries visited.
Marty M. Meyer is working on
his M.D. and is in his final year
of residency in internal medicine
at The Ohio State University Medical
Center. That will be followed
by a three-year fellowship at
OSU in gastroenterology. Meyer
earned a degree in professional
studies from the University of
Notre Dame. He and his wife,
Lisa, have been married three
years and have a four-monthold
daughter, Kaela Rose. The
family resides in Dublin.
Jeffrey G. Park is a project
engineer for Gilbane Building
Company in Tucson, Arizona. He
has a degree in construction
management form the University
of Cincinnati.
Adam P. “Darren” Price is a
police officer with the city of
Gahanna. He earned a degree
from Western State College of
Colorado, where he lived for
eight years and was involved
with the Mountain Rescue program.
He and his wife, Krisitna,
have been married two years.
Neale J. Rath is an intern with
Pricewaterhouse Coopers (financial
due diligence) in Shanghai,
China. He earned a degree
in linguistics from The Ohio State
University, and an MBA with an
emphasis on China from the University
of Hawaii.
Benjamin C. Recchie recently
moved to Chicago where he’s
with the University of Chicago
Press editing manuscripts for
the Astrophysical Journal and
other scientific journals.
Andrew Riederer is a research
scientist in the aerosol
and process technology department
at Battelle Memorial Institute.
He earned a degree in
chemical engineering from the
University of Notre Dame. He
reports the last six years have
been filled with interesting travels.
After graduation from ND,
he worked for Merck & Co., Inc.
for five years and traveled extensively
while leading the technology
transfer of new pharmaceutical
products into manufacturing
facilities. He traveled to
Turkey, England, China, Korea,
Charles R. Porter III ’93
Puerto Rico, and Italy in that order.
He and his wife, Melissa, have
been married for three years and
lived in Singapore for 16 months
starting in April of 2003. Before
returning to the United States,
specifically to Columbus, Ohio,
he and his wife traveled to
Amsterdam, Borneo, Japan,
Thailand, Malaysia, and New
Zealand. They live in Blacklick
and have a six month-old daughter,
Penelope.
Ben Rottman is a lawyer in
New York and applying for admission
to the bar in Washington,
D.C. With Feldesman Tucker
Leifer Fidell in Washington, he
would like to work in international
trade and business transactions.
He has an eye toward
Grad, son of former St. Charles counselor,
has book in works on famed Russian writer
Russian Research
Dr. Fred H. White ’88 during his trip to Russia last
Spring to do research on Leonid Andreev, and to do
a presentation on the early 20 th -century Russian writer
in Berlin. White will soon be releasing a book on
Memoirs and Madness: Leonid Andreev Through the
Prism of the Literary Portrait.
Dr. Fred H. White ’88, son of former
St. Charles guidance counselor, Ruth
White (1981-93), has done original
research on Russian memoir literature
and related psychobiography. His efforts
have led to the publication of several
articles in various journals and a book
that’s soon to be published by McGill-
Queen’s University Press. The book is
entitled Memoirs and Madness: Leonid
Andreev Through the Prism of the
Literary Portrait. It concentrates on the
literary portraits of Leonid Andreev, a
famous early 20 th -century Russian
writer.
White, who earned a Ph.D. at the
University of Southern California, is
with Memorial University in Newfoundland,
Canada. He recently returned from
a two-month research trip to Russia
where he did research in various libraries,
reading pre-revolutionary newspapers
connected to the issue of Leonid
Andreev’s mental health. On his way
home, White gave a paper at a conference
in Berlin entitled: “Leonid Andreev and
his Narratives of Illness.”
During the past several years, White
has taught elementary, beginning,
intermediate, and advanced Russian
language courses. He twice taught an
interdisciplinary course entitled, West to
East: Aspects of the German Cultural
Influence on Russia, which is cross-listed
for students of Russian, history, and
German. Last winter, he taught a new
course on critical theories involved in
reading Russian memoir literature. “The
course was a great success with my
undergraduate students,” White said. “I
have also taught literature courses on the
Russian short story, on the St. Petersburg
myth, and supervised several
independent study projects on Russian
prose.”
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one day teaching and/or starting
his own business. He
earned a psychology degree
from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1999 and his law
degree from American University
in D.C. in 2004.
Rottman says he’s slowly wrapping
up a masters degree in international
affairs at AU and
should be done by the end of
the year. He reports that he is
still happily single and “still holding
out for the right one.” He
added, “I did divorce law for the
past six months, and I definitely
don’t want to be in my clients’
shoes.” His main interest is
travel. He backpacked during the
summer around Spain, Morocco,
Berlin, Prague, and Poland. He
has traveled elsewhere in Europe,
and lived for a time in
Montpellier, France. In addition to
traveling, he cooks, writes, and
hikes and bikes in nearby Rock
Creek Park. Visit Rottman’s
BLOG at a http://users.rcn.com/
benrottman to read about his
many exciting adventures during
his two-month trip to Europe.
Rottman has special memories
of the lacrosse team as it was
established at St. Charles. “I was
a wretched soccer player, a
lousy actor, and I couldn’t stand
running without doing anything
else,” he said. “Fortunately, I got
involved with lacrosse. The
variety of sports allowed me to
find my niche, and I hope that all
extracurricular programs — not
just sports — continue to grow
so more students can get involved.”
Roshod S. Wilson lives in the
Washington, D.C. area where he
works as a senior systems engineer
for Science Applications
International Corporation (SAIC).
The company seeks solutions to
complex technical problems in
national and homeland security,
energy, the environment, space,
telecommunications, health care,
and logistics for commercial and
government customers.
Wilson earned a mechanical engineering
degree from Alabama
A & M University and an MBA
with a concentration in management.
Wilson said St. Charles and
its faculty prepared him for the
challenge of college. “The discipline
that was instilled in me 10
years ago also served as leverage
when things seemed to get
difficult in college.”
Joel White graduated from Kent
State University and is a manager
for a national home improvement
company. He’s married and
has two children, Nebraska and
Jackson.
1994
Mark J. Gramlich has worked
at UPS for over 11 years and
currently works in the industrial
engineering department. He
earned a degree in financial
management from The Ohio State
University in 1999. He and his
wife, Jennifer (nee Schmidt),
have been married for five years
and have two sons: Zachary (8)
and Kyle (2).
1993
Charles R. Porter III is vice
president of the Charles R. Porter
Company, which is owned
by his father and handles real
estate appraising, the bulk of
which is commercial. He says
he enjoys the work and is “really
lucky to be able to work with
my family.” He has two boys and
a girl, ages 4-8, which keep him
and his wife, Aimee, “pretty
busy.”
Porter remembers playing for
assistant football coach Joe
Bossetti, who died in August.
“He was the toughest old guy I’d
ever met. No matter how many
times you told him, he couldn’t
get (Andy) Babson’s name right
and always called him Baskins.
It would be really funny on Friday
night, under the lights and
the whole crowd could hear old
Coach Bossetti scream and yell
“Baskins!!! Baskins!!! Baskins!!!!”
My dad and Andy’s dad used to
get a big kick out of it!”
1992
Seth T. Hill is principal and creative
director for Mathematic
Arts, an interactive design firm
in Milwaukee. He does not have
a college degree, but is continuing
studies in piano at the Wisconsin
Conservatory of Music
this fall. In his free time (what
little of it there is), he’s involved
with music and other arts, and
collects vintage motorcycles.
”Probably my favorite special
memory of St. Charles was
when my friends and I were
seniors on the In the Know team.
Before every televised show,
we would chat “Kill the pig, cut
her throat, kill the pig, spill her
blood.” (A reference to Lord of
the Flies.)
1990
J. Scott Hennerfeind and Shannon
Meyer were married in
Mother of Mercy Chapel October
15, 2005. Shannon’s
brother, Joe ’91, served as his
groomsman.
Damian S. Stone lives in Colorado
and works as an attorney
practicing civil litigation in several
jurisdictions, including the
state of Colorado, the U.S. District
Court for Colorado and the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Tenth Circuit. “I became involved
in the legal profession, in part,
because the law provides me
with the knowledge and means
to challenge the assertion of
authority that falls outside the
constraints imposed by the legal
system,” he writes.
1989
Mark T. Colucy and his wife,
Cindy, are proud parents of three
sons: Charles (class of 2019),
Atticus (class of 2021), and
Maxwell (class of 2023). “I have
12 years in at JP Morgan Chase,
where I am a first vice president
and likely will be working there
forever to pay for three boys to
get through St. Charles. We
wouldn’t want it any other way.”
Tony Martin recently graduated
from The Ohio State University
with his MBA. He and his wife,
Amy, have two future St. Charles
students: Matthew (4) and John
(2).
1988
David Foley, who worked as a
sales rep for Judson Lumber
Company for five years, is with
Nationwide Financial where he’s
a financial service representative
and doing mutual fund trading.
He graduated from Ohio
Dominican College with a degree
in political science.
He and his wife, Deena, were
married in 1998 and have two
sons — Brandon and Connor,
born in 1999 and 2001, respectively.
They live in Dublin. David
likes to play golf, bowls, and
spends much time with his sons.
Derrick Palmore is a territory
manager for a pharmaceutical
company and has won many
awards for outstanding sales
performances. He lives in Atlanta
with his wife, Shea, and
two children: Derrick (6) and
Danyelle (1). Derrick graduated
from Morehouse State University.
At the national office for the 100
Black men of America, Inc. he
worked as a program manager
responsible for providing the logistics
and management for recruiting
400 volunteers to serve
as mentors for four national pilot
sites — Atlanta, New York,
Oakland, and Washington, D.C.
He’s a proud and active member
of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
for which he serves on various
community-service committees.
Beatty a “Rising Star”
Otto Beatty III xx ,
a partner in the law
firm of Baker &
Hostetler LLP, has
been selected as a
“Rising Star” by the
Ohio Super Lawyers,
Law and Politics,
2005, a listing of
outstanding young
Ohio lawyers who
have “demonstrated
superior professional
potential.”
Otto Beatty III ’87
Beatty is a
graduate of Morehouse College and the University
of Michigan Law School. He is active in
several charitable and political organizations,
including: as chair of the United Way of Central
Ohio Key Club, the Columbus Museum of Art
board of directors, I KNOW I CAN board of
directors, Fifth Third Bank, Columbus Community
Advisory Council, and the Capital University
Corporate Advisory Board.
Beatty also received the “2005 Community
Service Award” by the Columbus Bar Association
(CBA). This award recognizes attorneys who
substantially contribute their time and effort in
service to the Central Ohio community. Besides
working in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors’
rights, commercial finance law and commercial
litigation, Beatty serves as personal counsel to
several small businesses, entrepreneurs, corporate
executives, among other professionals. He
was recently elected vice chair of the bankruptcy
section of the National Bar Association.
1986
Jeff Berry is the network support
team lead for Franklin
County Dept. Jobs and Family
Services in Columbus. He and
his wife, Cheryl, have been married
nearly seven years and
have two daughters, Amy and
Erin. Amy has two children
Kieran and Zane (a future St.
Charles student).
Berry has spent time working on
a ranch in Arizona, but mostly
been a river guide in West Virginia.
He fondly looks back on
the camaraderie of his 1986
class “even if you weren’t part
of the ‘IN’ crowd.”
Todd Kreider is in his fourth
year teaching special education
at Hunters Creek Middle School
in Jacksonville, N.C., (home of
Camp Lejeune) where he also
is serving his ‘principal’ internship.
Kreider, who’s working to
complete his masters in school
administration at East Carolina
University by this coming May,
hopes to be an assistant principal
by the 2006-07 school year.
He’s in his 15th year of teaching.
He previously worked at
TICO (1991-93), Marion Catholic
H.S. (1993-96), and the Ohio
River Valley Juvenile Correctional
Facility (1996-2002).
Kreider and wife, Traci Logsdon,
have been married for 14 years
and have a daughter, Carole,
(8th grade) and son, Zachary
(5th grade).
Kreider said St. Charles gave him
the strong academic background
he needed to succeed as an
educator. “I cannot express in
strong enough terms how the
high standards at St. Charles
prepared me to take on any challenge
I have encountered,” he
said.
“Above anything else, I look to
my experiences at St. Charles
as a reference point for what I
do in the classroom, Kreider
said. “I take the best experiences
I had with my teachers,
like Monz, Fr. Bennett, Mr. Teeters,
Mr. Arends, Mr. Lower, and
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Mike Murphy, left, and Jim Heller strike a pose at their ’85 class
reunion dinner.
so many others, and incorporate
their ideas in my classroom.
Good teachers steal ideas from
the best teachers they know,
and I had many great role models
to follow!”
John F. Greenhalge has been
promoted to assistant executive
director of the Ohio State Board
of Registration for Professional
Engineers and Surveyors. This
state agency licenses and regulates
the professions of engineering
and surveying in Ohio.
The board is responsible for
some 35,000 registered professionals
and 1,900 registered
firms, and administers 2,500 licensing
examinations yearly.
Greenhalge supervises the
Board’s enforcement and continuing
professional development
programs and fiscal matters.
Prior to joining the Board
in 1998, he worked for the
Franklin County prosecuting
attorney’s office and Sears Roebuck
& Co. Greenhalge has a
degree in business administration
and is completing work on
his MBA degree at Ashland University.
He and his wife, Susan,
and sons Brendan and Taylor,
live in Lewis Center.
Ali Mahboub lives in Zimbabwe
where he has a communications
company. He’s married,
and happily reports the birth of
his first child, Aalia. When Iraq’s
deposed dictator Saddam
Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1991,
Mahboub decided not to return
and went to the U.S. to finish
work on his electrical engineering
degree. At the time, he explained,
the U.S. government
was kicking out all sons of Iraqi
diplomats from the States. “I
stayed in Zimbabwe until 1993,
then I gave Baghdad a try for a
year and that sort of sucked, so
I came back to Zimbabwe. I have
been here since and have been
married for four and half years,”
he said.
1985
Michael Adams is a warehouseman
for Volvo Parts North
America in Columbus. He earned
The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education
a degree in Japanese from The
Ohio State University in 1993 and
enjoys cycling and traveling.
“I fondly recall that Monsignor
Gallen, while reflecting on his
youth, wished he had ‘raised a
little more Hell’ when he was
younger. And while I do not
count myself among those ‘hell
raisers’, I do reflect on his commentary
and take more risks in
my life,” Adams said.
Pat Barey lives in Dublin, Ohio,
and is a store manager for grocery
chain Aldi, Inc. He earned a
degree in psychology from the
Ohio Sate University in 1989. He
and his wife, Phyllis, have been
married for nine years, and he
has two stepsons: Eddie (24)
and Jason (21). In his free time
he enjoys riding his ‘Harley’,
working out, and doing home
improvement projects.
Brian Boley is an entrepreneur
who manufactures and supplies
automotive parts. He’s in
the process of funding a manufacturing
facility to apply a patented
chrome replacement technology
to automobile wheels for
General Motors, Chrysler, Ford,
and Toyota among others. He
lives in Worthington and attended
Ohio University (1985-87) and
Franklin University (1987-89). He
and his wife, Lisa, have been
married 15 years and have two
children: Joe (7) and Robert (2).
What he finds amazing about St.
Charles, Boley said “is the fraternity
we all belong to. My closest
friends are the men I attended
St. Charles with. We all
have high ethical values, and it
makes me proud to see us
achieve success in business,
family, and life. If one leaves the
area to further his career, or
becomes disconnected over
time, he’s welcomed back with
enthusiasm.”
Boley added: “Although we did
not realize it when we entered
St. Charles as freshmen, we
began a journey that made us
mature beyond our years: Fr.
Bennett teaching us how to introduce
our dates properly;
learning business economics
from Father Arnold — yes, I was
paying attention; to my accelerated
four years of Latin from Mr.
Cavello who told me ‘Even mentally
challenged Romans learned
this!’ ;both the curriculum and
learned etiquette gave us an
advantage.” Boley holds most
special the day he and Lisa were
married in the school’s Mother
of Mercy Chapel.
Mike Creedon works as a district
partner for the Bravo! Restaurant
Group. He and his wife,
Lisa, have been married eight
years and have three children:
David (7), Patrick (3) and
Caroline (7 months). They live in
Cleveland.
Creedon, who attended Ohio
University “for many years,” said
he has many special St. Charles
memories. Among them: Theater
with Monty and Polletta — “some
of the best times;” trip to Italy
with Cavello and Europe with
Henne; Epler in his white linen
jacket; Fr Arnold as the head of
Pep Club — “what a gas!!!!”;
practical jokes with Mr. Arends;
and the great basement fish
bowl incident.
Brian Dollenmayer is a senior
vice-president for the Fox Network
and runs its creative onair
promotion department. He
and his wife, Lilly, have been
married 10 years this November
and they have three children:
Dominique (7), Noah (5) and
Sophia (3). He earned a degree
from Otterbein College in 1989
and lives in Newbury Park, Calif.
He plays drums, loves poker
with the guys and is extremely
addicted to X-Box. “St. Charles
was great,” Brian said, “it made
college a cakewalk. Still glad I
had physics in the 7th period —
would’ve never made it through
the morning,” he said.
Hal Epler is a customer care
representative for Beazer
Homes’ Columbus Division. He
and his wife, Carla, were married
in Mother of Mercy Chapel
in November of 2001 and they
now have three boys: John
Daniel (2) and twins Maximilian
and Gabriel, who were born in
August of 2004. He earned a
degree from Xavier University
and lives in Hilliard.
Vince Fabro, who lives in Columbus,
is a director at
Covansys, an international information
technology consulting
firm. He’s been consulting for the
company at American Electric
Power for several years, writing
various software systems
for AEP’s Power Generation Division.
He’s been an IT consultant
since 1994 and before that
worked as an IT developer at
the Cleveland Clinic in its cardiology
department’s electrophysiology
lab.
He earned a degree in computer
science (1990) and a master’s
in biomedical engineering (1992)
from The Ohio State University.
Fabro and his wife, Michelle,
have been married for 12 years
and have two children —
Freddie (10) and Elizabeth (8).
He continues his love of soccer
by playing in a league and is
heavily involved in woodworking
making cabinets and other
furniture, a few pieces of which
have been offered in St. Charles
auctions.
Looking back, Fabro recalls going
to soccer camp his freshman
year and feeling so small
next to the upper classmen. “I
remember my first day of school,
waiting in the main hallway
knowing only two other people.”
He also remembers winning almost
every soccer game in four
years, “only to be robbed of a
victory in the State semifinals in
our senior year.” He also said “I
remember in Monz’s AP math
class getting the highest score
on some standardized math test,
only to have Monz announce
later on that he re-graded the
tests and Matt Van De Weghe
got the highest score — to no
one’s surprise. But a 2nd place
to Matt always ranked pretty
high in my book!” He added: “I
remember finally winning a music
competition with Kevin Kranz
in our senior year.”
Tom Gerlacher works as an
investment banker and is the
managing director in the mergers
and acquisitions group for
Haris Nesbitt, a subsidiary of
Bank of Montreal. Previously he
spent 11 years as an investment
banker for Merrill Lynch in New
York City and Houston. He holds
a degree in accounting from the
University of Notre Dame, which
he got in 1989, and a masters
from the Fuqua School of Business
at Duke University (1995).
He has four children: daughters
Michaella (10) and Tanner (9)
and sons Jared (7) and Jordan
(5).
Gerlacher has completed 15
marathons, including the Boston,
NYC, Big Surr and Mardi Gras.
He’s also completed numerous
triathlons, including the Ironman
Florida in 2001, and climbed several
mountains, including Mt.
Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Mt. Fuji
(Japan), Mt. Whitney (California),
and Pike’s Peak (Colorado). His
favorite memory is the four
years of playing varsity soccer
at St. Charles. “I have never forgotten
my teammates, coaches,
and classmates who supported
us. During those four years, our
record was
75-5-6 with a state championship,
a runner-up and two thirdplace
finishes in the state tournaments.”
Seann Gibson is a missionary
in Taiwan. He and his wife have
been married 17 years and have
two daughters, ages 11 and 9,
who attend an international
school in Taiwan and speak fluent
Mandarin. A guitar player, he
has a degree in computer science
from the Ohio State University
(1991). “I’d like to thank
Monsignor Bennett for teaching
me how to do pushups correctly,”
Gibson said with tongue
in cheek.
G. Alan Gummer is a human
resource manager for Gummer
Wholesale in Heath, OH. He and
his wife, Rachel, were married
last May and are currently doing
improvement projects at their
home. My interests are fantasy
football, model railroading, and
home improvement projects. He
earned a degree in business
administration from The Ohio
State University in 1990. “I remember
as an incoming freshman
(at St. Charles), I had to do
work study over the summer to
help pay the tuition. This gave
me an opportunity to meet some
of my teachers, upperclassmen
as well as classmates that I became
friends with throughout
and after high school.”
Full house
More than 60 people (33 classmates) were on hand for the Class of
1985 reception and dinner held last August in the Campus Theatre’s
Cavello Center.
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Alumni Notes
1985 (continued)
David Hayes is the managing
partner for the Longhorn
Steakhouse Restaurant at Tuttle
Crossing Mall in Dublin. He and
his wife, Carolyn, have three
children: Adam (freshman in high
school), Justin (8 th grader) and
Natalie (6 th grade). “When I see
anyone from St. Charles,” he
said, “we are instantly friends
even if we were in different
years or didn’t pass through the
school at the same time.
James Heller works at AK
Steel and Clear Channel Radio
stations WSPD-AM and WRVF-
FM. He also handles morning
sports duties on WSPD-AM Toledo.
He and his wife, Janice,
have been married seven years
and they have a two-year-old
son, William. He reports he has
little free time, but is interested
in having more. Heller remembers
that over the years he has
seen several classmates get
married in Mother of Mercy
Chapel at St. Charles. Fr. Arnold
co-celebrated his wedding
there. His special teachers include
Mr. James Anderson and
Dr. Michael Gilligan.
Kevin Intrieri is self-employed
at Eye Care Technologies in Columbus.
He has a business degree
from Ohio Dominican University
and enjoys travel and
outdoor sports. At St. Charles he
remembers “great people at a
great school!”
Mike Jarosi lives in Westerville
and is an attorney in private
practice (the “Jarosi Law Office”).
He earned an undergraduate
degree from the University
of Virginia (1990) and a law degree
from Capital University Law
School (2003).
Steve Jones is a private investor
and financial consultant in
San Francisco. Previously, he
was the founding chief financial
officer of a start-up bank in
Palo Alto, Calif. He earned an
undergraduate degree from
Vanderbilt University in 1989 and
an M.B.A from the University of
Cincinnati in 1991. “No single
memory (at St. Charles) really
stands out,” Jones said “except
for the friendships I made. Even
though it’s 20 years later and I
live nearly 2,500 miles from Columbus,
my closest friends are
still my friends from St. Charles.”
Jones likes to surf, still follows
soccer, and enjoys taking in a
Giants’ baseball game or a 49’ers
football game. Other interests
include renovating his home, dining
at various restaurants, attending
various cultural events
with his girlfriend, serving on the
finance committee at St. Ignatius
parish, hanging out at coffee
shops, taking day-trips to Napa
and hiking along the Mendocino
Coast (Northern California
Coast).
Mike Kletzly is the director of
religious education for St.
Francis de Sales Catholic Parish/School
in Lebanon, Ohio,
(near King’s Island) in the archdiocese
of Cincinnati.
He also owns an academic tutoring
business. He and his
wife, Beth, have been married
nine years and have a son, Jack
(4). In his free time he likes to
read and travel.
Kletzly earned degrees in secondary
English education (1999)
and secondary history education
(1991) from the Ohio State
University, Catechetical certification
in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati
in 2003 and is pursuing a
masters in School Counseling at
Xavier University with an expected
graduation date in 2010.
Among his St. Charles remembrances
are his best friend Dave
Hayes (they also had gone to
grade school together); much of
religion class content, “which
helps daily in my job;” Butch
Miller; Msgr. Bennett; Mr. Lower,
and Fr. Pallay.
Tom Koch of Hebron works as
a CPA/CFO for a store fixture
manufacturer. He and his wife
of eight years, Julie, have a son,
Jacob (6) and he says he enjoys
hunting, fishing, and boating.
He earned a degree in business
administration and accounting
from Washington & Lee
University in 1989. “I believe my
character was enhanced by the
many smacks administered by
Msgr. Bennett,” he said.
Robert Koerner is an optometrist
and owner of Professional
Eye Care Associates with locations
in downtown Columbus,
Upper Arlington, and Polaris. He
and his wife, Robbin, have two
daughters: Jennifer (11) and Julie
(8). Koerner enjoys hunting and
fishing the family farm, and
horseback riding. He earned his
optometry degree at The Ohio
State University in 1992. “I always
remember Msgr. Gallen
mispronouncing my last name for
fun,” he said.
Kevin Kranz earned a degree
in finance at The Ohio State University
in 1998 and works as a
portfolio manager. He and his
wife, Diane, and their two sons:
Zachary (5) and Jacob (3) live
in Lewis Center. They love
boats, fishing, hockey,
racecars, and trains. He also
enjoys cross word puzzles,
boating, wood working, ice skating
and Thomas the tank engine.
“German class with Fr. Arnold
before school is a memory I will
always carry with me,” Kranz
said. “Evidently, it’s a good
memory because Fr. Arnold has
presided over our wedding and
baptized both boys.”
Tim Kreider of Westerville is a
business analyst at JP Morgan
Chase, formerly known as Bank
One. He earned a degree in English
from The Ohio State University
in 1989. He and Emily
have been married almost six
years and have two daughters:
Barbara and Rachel, who are in
7 th and 6 th grades. He manages
to play golf a few times a year,
played softball on his church
team and said he spends time
“catching up on some of the
books I was supposed to read
in high school and college but
never did.”
His special St. Charles memories
include Circus Day,
WrestleMania, senior year, and
crushing Jim Heller with a figure-four
leg lock. “I can still hear
the crowd going wild.”
Erick Lauber is a special agent
with the FBI in New York. Nearing
his 10 th year in the organization,
he currently works on a violent
crimes task force. He has
an undergraduate degree from
Indiana University and a J.D.
from The Ohio State University
School of Law. He and Lisa
have been married five years
and have three children — Colin
(3 ½), Thomas (2), and Kaitlyn
(4 months). Free time is sparse,
but he does play softball with
the guys from work and ran his
first (“and likely last”) triathlon in
June.
“As we all do, I look back on St.
Charles as some of the happiest
years of my life. If I were to
start listing friends I would leave
someone out and be mad at myself
during the reunion. I do realize
how the school shaped me
and guided me on through my
adult years. It is so evident in my
entire family. My brothers Kurt
(’86) and Chris (’88) have fantastic
families and wonderful
careers. Kurt with 5 kids in St.
Paul, MN and Chris has a daughter
and lives in Cincinnati. “
Lauber said that his athletic experience
in his senior year was
a heart break, “but now I look
back on the situation differently.
I tore my knee up prior to the
senior football season. Unable
to play, the coaching staff included
me on the sidelines and
as much as they could in the team
itself. Every Friday night was
torture but the way everyone,
players and coaches, helped me
through it was wonderful. Let’s
face it, I was never going to have
a football scholarship but the lesson
I learned about not quitting
lasted forever. I hope to get a
transfer back to Ohio so my boys
can attend St. Charles.
“My favorite teacher was Father
Bennett. Even while drawing
blood on my neck because I
needed help buttoning my collar,
he still could make me laugh. He
taught us right and wrong and
with teenage boys, that’s a heck
of a feat.”
Kevin Meara is a measurement
statistician for Educational Testing
Service in Princeton, N.J.,
and coordinates psychometric
work for K-12 testing programs
in some states. He and his wife,
Briana, were married in 1995
and have two children: Patrick
(5) and Isabel (3). Meara has
moved around quite a bit. He’s
lived in St. Louis, Chicago, Boston,
Brooklyn, Amherst and Dover.
He has degrees in education
research and evaluation
methods from the University of
Massachusetts and an MA/B.A.
in architecture and psychology
from Washington University in St.
Louis.
“One of my fondest memories
from St. Charles,” he said, “involves
Msgr. Gallen. When applying
to undergraduate universities,
I asked if he would write
a letter of recommendation for
me. He graciously accepted. To
my surprise, Msgr. Gallen shared
his letter with me. I will never
forget how touched I was by
his kind words. His writing was
eloquent and moving and gave
me more credit than I deserved.”
“The letter itself, however, was
an invaluable gift for a young
man. It told me that Msgr. Gallen
had faith in me. It told me I had
potential, and it suggested that I
could possess all of the qualities
described in that letter. When
I think of him, I think of his letter
of recommendation and I am reminded
that I should continue to
strive to be a person who acts
with thoughtfulness, conviction,
integrity, and compassion. The
memory of Msgr. Gallen and his
recommendation is something I
will always cherish,” Meara said.
William Mifsud of Hilliard
works as a hospital administrator
at the Ohio State University
Medical Center and is responsible
for renovation and construction.
He and his wife, Julie,
have two sons: Will (3) and
Dylan (1). Mifsud earned his
undergraduate degree in 1990
from Ohio Dominican University.
Michael Murphy is the general
manager of The Murphy Company.
He and his wife, Kimberly,
have been married eight years.
They live in Columbus and have
two children: Hannah and Ryan.
Mark Ridgway works as a network
administrator and manages
the entire network infrastructure
for Memorial Health System. He
lives in South Bend, Ind., and
received a degree in electrical
engineering from the University
of Notre Dame in 1991. He and
his wife, Michelle, have been
married 14 years and have a
son, Shea (11) and a daughter,
Alysha (7). He is an avid Jeff
Gordon (#24) NASCAR fan, attends
some car races, enjoys
camping with the family, and
spends time maintaining their
home. Special St. Charles memories
include he, Alan, and Randy
at the video arcades and work
study landscaping the grounds
before freshman year. I established
great first friendships
then. What great times!”
Neal Roberts is creative director
of Adrenaline, a marketing
and advertising agency with offices
in Boulder, Colo., and Columbus.
After graduation he
went to and left college and
moved to Telluride, Colo., with
classmate Pat O’Connor to ski
for a year. He eventually became
a ski instructor and also became
an assistant editor for the local
newspaper. Later he became a
rock climbing guide working the
western U.S. and Europe while
earning cash in freelance sports
writing. During his athletic
spree, he also earned an English
degree from Miami (Ohio) University
in1989.
Five years later he met his wife,
Bonny, in Columbus and moved
with her to Connecticut where
she worked for her fellowship.
They moved back to Boulder
where he joined Adrenaline.
They now have a son, Quinn (2)
and moved back “home” – Columbus
— where he opened a
second Adrenaline office. In his
free time he plays soccer with
classmate Vince Fabro and
competes in duathlons. He built
a climbing gym in his basement
to keep conditioned for climbing.
“St. Charles is still one of my
single largest influences,” Roberts
said, “outside of the friendships
— there were many and
they still go on — and the happenings
— which also were
many and continuing). I loved
that the school was not a oneway
download of information.
Education was not just read this,
memorize it, and shoot it back
during a test. St. Charles and its
amazing staff taught me to think
for myself, to question, to explore,
to respect what you read
and hear, and to seek and find
your own understanding. It
taught me that knowledge is everywhere
and that learning can
be and should be a life-long pursuit.”
Ralph Rohner work as a senior
project analyst for Qwest
Communications. He lives in London,
Ohio, and has three
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Carr family relaxing
Andy Carr ’83 and his wife, Darcy, and sons, Elias (4) and Bennett (3-
months) relaxing in this summer photo.
The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education
ters — Emily (16), Britney (15)
and Courtney (13). His interests
are camping, boating and home
improvement and construction
projects.
J.T. Saas sells and services
metal finishing chemistries for
his family’s business, All-Star
Chemical in Carmel, Ind. He and
his wife, Elizabeth, have a
daughter Casey (3). In his free
time he enjoys kayaking, golf,
landscaping, homebuilding, and
attending sporting events. He
earned a degree in marketing/
management from the University
of Dayton (1989).
Dan Schneider owns three dry
cleaners called “Comet 1 HR
Cleaners.” He and his wife,
Vicky, have been married for 13
years and live in Las Cruces,
N.M. They have three children:
Dominic (11), Patrick (8), and
Mary (2). His interests are in theology
studies, running, wine
making, hiking and coaching
youth football. He earned a B.S.
from the University of Notre
Dame in 1989 and nearly completed
master’s degree in theology
from Franciscan University.
Kevin Shockling of
Pickerington is vice-president for
Tax for Too, Inc, which was
spun off from the Limited in 1999
and operates the Limited Too and
Justice retail stores. He and his
wife, Debra, have three daughters
— Jordan (12), Morgan (3),
and Cameron (4 mos.). He
earned a degree from The Ohio
State University in 1989 and likes
to read and watch sports when
he has free time.
Shockling remembers a life-preparing
lesson from Msgr.
Bennett. “I remember before
each class with Father B., I always
checked that my top button
was buttoned and my cravat
was straight. This daily ritual
instilled in me the importance of
being prepared and the power it
provides in achieving a particular
goal. Whether a test in college,
a meeting with my boss, or
a family debate — the better prepared
I am as I enter the situation,
the better I control the endresult,”
he said.
Viraphonh “Harry”
Sopraseuth works for the Department
of Job and Family Services
as accounting supervisor
in Columbus. He and his wife,
Addie, were married in 1987 and
have three children — daughters
Soukie and Nina and son
Nemitt. Sopraseuth has a degree
from Franklin University and in
his free time enjoys fishing and
spending time with his children.
He would like to open a gift shop
or retail store when he retires.
Charles Sweeney of
Gainesville, Fla., is an ophthalmologist
specializing in cataract
and LASIK surgery. He and his
wife, Susan, were married in
Mother of Mercy Chapel by
Msgr.Bennett. They have a
daughter, Erin (9), and a son
Connor (7). Sweeney likes to
swim, run, bicycle and golf. He
earned his undergraduate degree
(1989) and his M.D. from
The Ohio State University in
1993.
Rick Thomas recently relocated
to Cleveland to accommodate
his wife, Anne Marie’s new
job. They have three children —
Matt (8), Megan (6), and Josh
(2). He plans on taking some time
off to get his family situated and
oversee building the family’s
new home. Thomas has a degree
from Miami (Ohio) University
(1989). He plays golf,
cooks, and plays with the kids.
William Turner is an equity research
analyst who earned an
MBA at The Ohio State University.
He and his wife, Amy, have
been married for nine years and
live in Dublin with their two children,
Madelaine (6) and Aaron
(3). He spends his free time with
family and friends.
David Winters of Grove City
works in account management
for Bank One / Chase.
He loves to play golf and softball
and enjoyed all the friendships
he made during his time at
St. Charles. “When you graduate
and later in life, when you
come across alumni, there is always
that feeling that you are
part of a very special society,
unlike any other school. It’s a
proud feeling to respond to the
question of where you attended
high school, to be able to respond:
Columbus St. Charles,”
he said.
1984
Ethan Dicks is still with the University
of Wisconsin, as was
reported in the Spring 2004 Cardinal
magazine. He returned
from the North Pole last January,
and is scheduled to go back
for a 13-month stint for his third
winter and fifth deployment
there in 11 years.
This time, though, rather than just
running the old neutrino detector,
AMANDA, he’ll help to construct
Ice Cube, the world’s largest
scientific instrument. With
one string of sensors in the ice
at present (out of an eventual
60), the research group hopes
to install 8 to 12 more strings this
austral summer, bringing up to
4800 individual sensors arrayed
over a cubic kilometer. The new
detector will be 50 times as large
as the present detector, and will
have an operational lifetime measured
in decades.
”It’s a state job,” he said, “but
the pay is OK. What’s more important
is how exciting the work
is. One of the best things about
this trip is that I’ll be helping to
construct the largest scientific
instrument on the planet, with an
expected useful life of at least
40 years. Even the old detector
is interesting; it was declared the
“weirdest telescope in the
world” last year. Never a dull
moment!” Visit http://
icecube.wisc.edu/
1983
Andy Carr is a stay-at-home
dad and (temporarily) retired
secondary science and drama
teacher. He earned a fine arts
degree in Theatre from Ohio
University in 1987, engaged in
post-baccalaureate studies in
biology and chemistry at the
University of Louisville (1993-
1995) and earned a masters in
teaching from the University of
Washington in 1999.
He and wife, Darcy Barry married
in 1997 and live in Seattle
with their two children: Elias and
Bennett. “We named Bennett,
which means “Blessed”, after
Msgr. Bennett in honor of the
positive influence he has had on
Future Carolians (?) and sister
Ian Timothy, Class of 2023, being held by his sister, Cassidy, 7, was
born May 25 to Tim Freeman ’83 and wife Julie. He joins on the left
sibling Jack, 3, Class of 2020, and on the right another sibling, Sam,
5, Class of 2018.
my life as well as the lives of the
hundreds (or is it thousands?)
of his students that he has
taught through the years,” Carr
said.
”A highlight for me at St.
Charles,” Carr said, “was forging
the close relationships that I
had with Doug Montgomery,
Fred Smith, and all those who
were involved in the 12 theatre
productions in which I participated.
The most important relationship
that was fostered at St.
Charles, however, was the one
with Jesus Christ. I can’t imagine
my life today without the
strong Christian foundation that
was forged during my four years
there.”
Louis J. Fabro, and his wife,
Susan, welcomed son Louis
Alexander to the family on June
15, 2005. “Alex” has an older
sister, Megan (3) and looks forward
to graduating from St.
Charles during its Centenial Celebration
in 2023- joining his
grandfather (Louis V. ’49), father
(Louis J. ’83) and uncles
(Vince ’85 and Anthony ’92) as
proud alumni.
Dr. Timothy A. Freeman Jr.’s
wife, Julie, gave birth to son, Ian
Timothy Freeman (St. Charles
Class of 2023?), on May 25,
2005. He joins sister Cassidy
and brothers Samuel and Jack.
“Everyone is doing well!”
Joe Isbell is a district partner
with Bravo! Development, Inc.
He’s a member of the St. Charles
Advisory Board and served as
a committee member for the 14 th
Annual Bravo! For the Children
last July benefiting St. Stephen’s
Community House in Columbus.
The event featured music, great
food From Bravo! Restaurants,
and a silent auction and raffle,
all by Bravo!
1980
Michael R. Bals attended the
University of Toledo after graduating
and now owns and manages
a machine shop, Acrodyne
Mfg. Co., which specializes in
custom computerized machining
of metals and plastics. Bals has
been married for 19 years and
has three children ages 5 to14.
He uses his free time golfing,
fishing, investing in the stock
market, gardening, and
barbequing.
Bals also is a trustee of the
Germania Singing and Sport Society.
One of his special memories
of St. Charles is meeting
Stephen Schneider ’81 in 1981,
at the Germania Club, where the
two serve as trustees. He is a
former club champion at
Oakhurst Country Club.
St. Charles Class of 2023
Big sister Megan Fabro is happy
to pose with four month-old
brother, Alex. They are the
children of alumni director
Louis J. Fabro ’83 and his wife,
Susan.
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Alumni Notes
1980 (continued)
Mark C. Batcheck has worked
for the last two years as the director
of the International Ministries
Department for the Vineyard
Church of Columbus. He
and his wife, Kristin, own and
run Four Winds, a home furnishings
store in the Short North Arts
District of Columbus. They have
two children: David, a high
school sophomore, and Lauren,
a junior. Batcheck graduated in
1984 from Ohio State University
with a degree in history and
earned a masters in religion two
years later at Trinity International
in Chicago.
He and his family lived in Indonesia
for four years. They continue
to be active in global relief
and development projects and
have led several medical relief
teams to Indonesia since the
Tsunami disaster of 2004.
Dr. Anthony J. Blum teaches
psychology at Stetson University
in Deland, Fla. He attended
The Ohio Sate University where
he earned his undergraduate
degree in 1984, his masters in
1988 and his Ph.D. in 1993. He
and his wife, Toni, have two
children: Val (12) and Maggie
(9). Anthony enjoys playing with
his children, napping, and trying
to keep up with Buckeye football.
A special pre-St. Charles
memory he shared: “Whether or
not I should attend St. Charles
was the subject of the worst
fight my parents and I ever had.
I wanted to go to the local public
high school with my friends, but
my parents insisted on St.
Charles. Fortunately, I lost that
argument. It was the best decision
I never made. The difference
between those of us who
were prepared for college and
those who were not was obvious
on my first day” (of college).
Thomas E. Bogen Jr. teaches
biology at St. Ignatius High
School in Cleveland. He earned
a degree in biology from the University
of Notre Dame and a
masters in science education
from The Ohio State University
in 1991.He and his wife, Paula,
have been married ten years and
have two daughters: Dorothy (3)
and Lucy (1).
He has not forgotten his two
years of Latin and remembers
the president’s test with Father
Bennett, Tom said, adding: “As
a teacher, I have tried to model
myself after Monsignor Gallen
and Doc Gilligan.”
Lawrence Dieker Jr. is a practicing
attorney who lives in Columbus.
He received a degree in
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journalism and a masters in English
from The Ohio State University
and a J.D. from Tulane
University. He and his wife,
Jeannie, have three children:
Guss (3), Marquella (10) and
Olivia (8).
Christopher L. Harvey works
for J.P. Morgan in New York City
in its derivative group, which
helps clients manage their exposure
to fluctuating interest
rates and currencies. He earned
a degree in economics at
Harvard University. He and his
wife, Mary Beth, have four children:
Brendan (13), Grace (11),
Jack (9) and Patrick (5). It’s difficult
to find free time, he said, but
his wife managed to find it for
him and signed him up to coach
four different basketball teams
last year!
Harvey remembers Msgr. Gallen
asking the following question in
Algebra...”WHAT DOES THE VIN-
CULUM MEAN,” and, totally unrelated,
the caramels with the
white icing center from Rosati’s
Market. He also remembers
Dominic Cavello telling his class
the sooner they started living life
the better off they’d be. He encouraged
them to move forward
in their own lives versus pleasing
their parents.
“You guys who live in the Columbus
area should feel really
lucky to have the opportunity to
send your sons to St. Charles,”
Harvey said. “There is no better
balance of academics, religion,
social, values, and cost;” he
said.
Timothy J. Holleran is a supervisor
in the Air Force and
lives in Rochester, N.Y. where
he earned an associates degree
at MCC. He has two children:
Andrew (19) and Katie (15). In
his free time, he enjoys softball,
basketball, golf, travel, gardening,
biking and working out.
Mark W. Gibson is a teacher
at River View High School in
Warsaw, Ohio. He earned degrees
in business and sociology
in 1984 and in secondary education
in 1985 from Muskingum
College. Gibson and his wife,
Sherri, have been married for 19
years and have two daughters:
Taylor (13) and Jessie (8).
In addition to teaching, he
coaches volleyball, track, and
softball. He and his wife are
youth leaders at their church.
One of Gibson’s memories of St.
Charles is circus day boxing.
Mostly, he remembers great
teachers who had an impact on
his career choice.
Dr. Hans Guter is a practicing
dentist in Columbus. He earned
his undergraduate degree in
1984 at The Ohio State University
and his D.D.S. from OSU’s
School of Dentistry. He and his
wife, Katherine, share three
children: Austin (13- and future
St. Charles student), Madison
(11) and his stepson, Brent (20).
Guter reports he is very involved
in organized dentistry, and is
learning to play golf. He fondly
remembers Dr. Gilligan as softspoken,
a true gentlemen, and a
friend whom he still keeps in
touch with. “St. Charles prepared
me for life, not just college,”
Guter said. “Nothing is
easy, but is achievable with
hard work, discipline, family and
God.”
Mark H. Klingler lives in
Reynoldsburg and is pursuing
an M.B.A. at Capital University.
He has a degree in mechanical
engineering from the University
of Dayton (1985). He and his
wife, Michelle, have four sons:
Luke (13), Logan (12), Gabriel
(9) and Ian (7). Klinger reports
that all four are preparing for,
and looking forward to attending
St. Charles. He likes spending
time with his sons, camping,
bike riding, golfing, and hunting.
His memories of St. Charles include
“ ‘Monz’; ‘Morning Glory’;
Father Bennett searching for the
presidents over the horizon;
Father Arnold keeping us out of
trouble on the weekends;
Dominic Cavello keeping us
straight; and the only weight
room in the CCL that shared
space with pottery kilns.”
David K. Lawler is in his 11th
year as athletic director at St.
Charles. He and his wife of 21
years, Karen, have three children:
Nikki (a senior at Bishop
Hartley) and their twin sons
Kevin and Trevor (6 th graders
“who have three more years
before they become Cardinals!”).
Dr. James P. Mackessy is a
family practice physician who
earned his undergraduate degree
from The Ohio State University
in 1984 and his M.D. from
Wright State University in 1989.
He and his wife, Peggy, have
seven children: Kelly (a senior
at Bishop Hartley), Megan
(freshman at Hartley), Michael
(7 th grade), Molly (5 th grade),
Danny (3 rd grade),Emma (kindergarten)
and Katie (2). In his
“free” time, Jim enjoys playing
guitar, golfing, and coaching
whichever sport is in season.
Shawn E. McManigell, a retired
Air Force officer/pilot (B-
52’s), is a senior staff engineer/
scientist for Dynamics Research
Corporation. The company,
based in Bossier City, La.,
is a government contractor
working on Lancer aircraft. He
earned a degree in aeronautics
from Miami (Ohio) University in
1984 and a masters in human
resource management at
Chapman University in 1993.
McManigell and his wife, Cherrie,
have been married 21 years and
have three children: Sean (16),
Caitlin (13) and Reice (9). He
says he spends most of his free
time driving, six hours one way,
commuting back and forth from
Oklahoma City to Bossier City
every weekend. And he still
keeps actively involved in his
children’s activities and schooling.
“My time at St. Charles taught
me to be self-reliant and selfmotivated;
two characteristics
that come in handy in a 20-plusyear
military career.”
John P. Meier works in sales
at Keystone Steel & Wire. A 1984
graduate of the University of
Dayton, he and his wife, Dina,
have a five-year-old daughter,
Theodoia and live in Columbus.
Meier enjoys golfing and gardening.
He brags that “Two years
of Latin enabled me to be extremely
proficient at crossword
puzzles!”
Brett A. Navin teaches high
school math and English in
Bremen, Ohio. He earned an
undergraduate degree in English
from Miami (Ohio) University in
1984 and his masters in English
at Northern Arizona University
in 1998. Navin is married to
Patricia, who has two grown
children: Brady and Rachel. He
enjoys running, coaching running
sports, outdoor activities,
and environmental education.
He has several memories of St.
Charles: Being pulled into the
hallway, by the ear, for personal
conferences; the boiler room/
weight room; Monsignor Bennett
on piano; and watching Louie
Pallay as Randall McMurray in
the theatrical production of One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”
and thinking “he might be all of
us.”
Louis J. Pallay, AIA, is a registered
architect and senior associate
at Karlsberger Companies.
He’s worked there for 15-
plus years after being with
Moody/Nolan Architects for eight
years. Pallay is a former head
volleyball coach at St. Charles,
where he coached for 16 years.
He was the president of the Ohio
Volleyball Coaches Association
from 2001-2004 and was the
regional boys volleyball coach
of the year in 1997 and 1998.
While working on major architectural
projects in and out of
the state, Pallay has worked on
several capital projects for St.
Charles. They included the Jack
Ryan Training and Fitness Center
and Epler Tower gymnasium
extension, landscaping for the
Upper Courtyard and various
expansion studies for the main
building, Campus Theater, gymnasium,
and athletic field complex.
Terry P. Rankin is a realtor and
real estate investor in Indianapolis.
He graduated from The Ohio
State University in 1985 with a
degree in food service and nutrition.
He and his wife, Mary,
have been married for 14 years
and have two children: Anna (7)
and Patrick (5). Rankin is a Third
Degree Knight with the Knights
of Columbus. He enjoys rugby,
golf, and whatever his children
want to do at the given moment.
He remembers Msgr. Gallen’s
advice as follows: “When you
meet people in your life, talk about
them before yourself, because
they won’t care about you unless
you care about them.” Terry
also advises: “Don’t do anything
to anyone that you wouldn’t
want done to yourself.” He
noted that “There isn’t a day that
goes by that my experiences and
lesson learned at St. Charles
aren’t utilized.”
Joe Smithberger is a commercial
photographer in Canton
and has a degree in mechanical
engineering from The Ohio State
University (1985). He has four
children: Adam (18), Tara (15),
Trey (8), and Jack (4). Joe enjoys
playing music, as well as
boating and fishing on their lake.
Timothy J. Sullivan is director
of National Account Sales at the
Georgia-Pacific Corporation. He
graduated from Miami (Ohio)
University in 1984 and lives in
Atlanta. He and his wife, Anne,
have been married for 16 years
and have two daughters:
Conner (13) and Claire (11).
Sullivan enjoys family activities
and playing golf. A special
memory is being a member of
the CCL tennis “dynasty” at St.
Charles in the late 1970s.
Ronald L. Westhoff of
Pataskala works for Conn’s Potato
Chip Company. He and his
wife, Paula, have been married
22 years and have two children:
Amanda (19) and Bradley (15).
Westhoff enjoys going to
NASCAR races as well as working
on and driving his 1968 Ford
Mustang. He said his “longest
lasting memory from St. Charles
is Father Bennett walking into
Latin II class and starting to teach
American history for about five
to six minutes before he caught
himself. Of course, we said
nothing.”
William P. Worley is a field engineer
and received a degree at
DeVry, in 1986.
He and his wife, Gwen, have
been married for 15 years and
live in Junction City, Ohio. Worley
spends his free time volunteering
as a Fire Fighter/EMT 1, as
well as raising and showing
quarter horses.
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Matt Connor lives in
Reynoldsburg and is a software
developer for the American Motorcyclist
Association (AMA). He
says his new position is like a
dream come true. “I’ve been into
motorcycles my whole life and
have owned many enduro-type
bikes, including my current one,
a 2000 Honda XR400R. This
position requires that I attend
motorcycle race events throughout
the Midwest and eastern
U.S. I’d probably attend many of
them anyway — as a spectator.
But now I’m being PAID to attend.
The thought gives me chills,” he
said.
Previously he worked five years
for the Online Computer Library
Center (OCLC) in Dublin as a
software developer before being
laid off in March, 2004. A
year later he landed his position
with the AMA. He’s developing
an application for the AMA that
motorcycle race promoters will
use to manage motorcycle race
events (motocross, supercross,
flat-track, hare-scrambles, etc).
Testing the software is set for
this June with a planned rollout
date of January, 2006.
Connor’s most special memory
of St. Charles is of Father (now
Msgr.) Bennett. “He was the
greatest teacher I ever had and
his personality and charisma is
something that’ll stay with me
until I pass. He always said,
‘When you say the Lord’s Prayer
in Latin, the Lord hears you better.’
For that reason, I can still
recite the Our Father and Hail
Mary in Latin, and often do when
I think the Lord needs to hear a
special prayer.” Connor has two
nephews at St. Charles — John
Connor (sophomore) and his
brother, Drew, (freshman) and
“I’ve already warned.....er, I
mean.....told them about Mr.
Cavello. Don’t mess with Dom
— the drill sergeant!”
1978
Al Bell is the chief executive
officer and co-owner of
Moochie & Co., a mall based
specialty retailer of themed merchandise
for dogs, cats, people,
and their homes. He has served
three years on the St. Charles
Advisory Board and development
committee, and was chairman
of the 2004-2005 Parents
Annual Fund drive.
1975
John W. Boswell lives in Atlanta
and is a vice-president of
the Bank of America responsible
for business development. He
earned a bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in business
administration from Xavier (Ohio)
University in 1979 and 1982, respectively.
Michael F. Coady is the president
of Coady Construction, Inc.
in Columbus. He earned a degree
in business administration
(1979) and a juris doctorate
(1982) from The Ohio State University.
He and his wife, Anne
(sister of classmate Mike Shea),
have five children — one girl and
four boys, ages 10 through 16.
Coady enjoys reading, stamp
collecting and model rocketry.
Dale A. Hatem is a consultant
in the financial and information
systems area. He earned his BA
degree from the University of
Notre Dame in 1979. He has three
children — Chris (20), Sam (10)
and Maria (9). In his free time he
coaches youth basketball and
baseball. He likes to track his investments
and volunteers at his
church.
“The entire experience at St.
Charles was both a positive and
formative. The daily lessons
learned at St. Charles, coupled
with guidance from parents, provided
a priceless spiritual and
ethical grounding for which (I’m)
truly thankful.”
Donald B. Harrison is a corporate
manager for the Kroger
Company. He and his wife, Sally,
have been married for eight
years and live in Loveland, Ohio.
He enjoys golfing, attending
sports events and going to family
functions.
Daniel J. Heinmiller is a pediatrician
with his own general
practice; Gahanna Pediatrics.
He earned his B.S. from the University
of Notre Dame in 1979
and his M.D. from The Ohio State
University in 1982. He and his
wife, Marva, have five sons in
their combined family: Heinmiller
has three sons: Shawn, Daniel
and Brian and his wife has two:
Nick and Sean.
Dan enjoys playing guitar, golfing,
and gardening in his spare
time. He also serves a homeless
ministry. His favorite teacher
was Michael Gilligan (3 rd year
French) who “instilled enthusiasm
for academic excellence
and service to mankind.” As for
athletics, he played baseball for
Don Henne, who he states was
an “excellent coach” The team
won CCL championships in 1974
and 1975 and was a state semifinalist
in 1975.
N. Gregory Kontras is an investment
real estate broker selling
shopping centers and properties
on both a local and national
basis. He graduated from
The Ohio State University in 1982
with a BSBA and also earned
an MBA from the University of
Chicago in 1994. He holds memberships
with the (ICSC) International
Council of Shopping
Centers as well as other relevant
realtor associations.
He and his wife, Paula Brooks,
have been married for 21 years
and have two children: Elise (20)
and Evan (16). They live in Upper
Arlington. He and his family
enjoy traveling and are currently
planning a river cruise from
Amsterdam to Budapest, Hungary.
His wife Paula also will be
presenting a “paper” at Oxford
University in England which
gives Greg an opportunity to tag
along for a few days and make
a visit or two to some local pubs
and a soccer match.
During his time at St. Charles he
mostly enjoyed Monsignor
Gallen’s classes. “His style of
teaching was very pleasant…
even a bit soothing, Kontras said.
“Plus I have the good fortune to
be seated next to Johnny
Hatem.” He said that Fr. (now
Monsignor) Bennett was also
another of his favorite teachers
– “pretty demanding and highly
effective!”
Greg Krivicich is the president
of the Marcy Design Group, Inc.
in Columbus. He received a fine
arts degree from Kent State University
in 1979 where he had a
dual major. He and his wife, Gail,
have three children — Kelly, Joseph,
and Sara. Krivicich is involved
in school and parish activities
at St. Catherine and
coaches basketball and baseball,
as well.” St. Charles helped
me build a strong academic foundation
in my life,” Krivicich said,
“and Monsignor Gallen was a
true inspiration to me in high
school and later in life.”
Mark P. Latorre is the owner/
partner in Latorre Concrete Construction,
Inc. in Columbus. He
and his wife, LuAnn, have been
married 28 years and have three
children — Jason (25), Amy (22)
and Mario (18). The Latorres
enjoy spending many weekends
relaxing at Apple Valley Lake.
Dan Leonhardt is the general
manager of strategic cost manufacturing
at the Kroger Company,
a company he has worked
for 25 years. He and his family
have lived in Texas, Virginia, and
Indiana in addition to Ohio. They
currently live in Cincinnati. He
earned a degree in food science
& technology from The Ohio State
University. He has two daughters:
Susan (23) and Kimberly
(18).
Leonhardt lives just a few miles
from his brother, Dave ’76. He
likes to golf, travel, play racquetball,
snorkel and snow ski. He
has been a Eucharistic minister
at his church and works with a
local orphanage. Leonhardt said
he enjoyed playing baseball with
Coaches Wally Teeters and Don
Henne at St. Charles.
He especially appreciated the
teaching and lessons he learned
Sharing special memories
Sharing baseball championship memories at the 30-year reunion for
the Class of 1975 were (top, left) Rick Mackessy, Dan Heinmiller, Dan
Leonhart, and their former teacher and baseball coach, Don Henne
’61; bottom, left- Fred Messmer and John MacKinnon.
from Father Bennett. “I feel that
it (St. Charles) was a unique
experience in many ways. Our
class was small enough to know
most everyone, yet big enough
to be respectable in athletics. I
also learned that when you work
hard to get something started or
accomplished, it may not benefit
you directly, but it can positively
impact others. I had lots of good
memories, some challenging
teen years, but that’s life!”
Leonhardt said he worked very
hard to get wrestling started at
St. Charles by his senior year,
and although it didn’t happen
then, the next year the wrestling
program did get started. He
said it brought him a lot of satisfaction
knowing others benefited
from his efforts. He singled
out Dr. Dan Rankin’53 and Butch
Miller’s ’76 father for being the
biggest supporters of his efforts.
Rick Mackessy is the CFO of
Glass & Associates, Inc., a medium-size
consulting firm in
Hudson, Ohio. He earned degree
in business administration
from John Carroll University in
1979. He and his wife, Mary,
have been married for 25 years,
and have three children — Ricky
(19), Abbey (a high school
sophomore) and Carly (a 7 th
grader). Rick enjoys golf, biking,
tennis, hiking, skiing and
snowboarding. His time at St.
Charles, he says “was all so
special; it would be impossible
to describe all the good times in
less than a 10,000 word essay.”
Rick Ralston is owner of the
newly formed Ralston Home
Services, which provides home
inspections and maintenance in
Central Ohio. He and his wife,
Ann, have two grown children:
Christy and Jay (RJ). Rick said
his St. Charles experience has
been a great benefit in his life;
even, he jokes “though there are
still some emotional scars that
haven’t healed.” Rick enjoys
spending time with his family and
grand dogs.
Ronald T. Rau is director of
store operations/maintenance/
energy services for Limited
Brands. Ron and his wife, Linda,
live in Worthington and have four
children — Nathan (29),
Katharine (21), Meghan (19) and
Ethan (15). Ron enjoys golf,
watching the kids, and attending
sporting events.
Tim Ryan is a financial advisor
at Merrill Lynch. He graduated
from Xavier (Ohio) University
with a degree in Finance in 1979.
He and his wife, Lisa, have four
children and live in Hilliard.
Rick Stein works for Hewlett
Packard’s personal systems
group as the Microsoft Alliance
manager for the Americas region.
He and his wife, Linda, live
in Georgia and have two sons
— Andy (19) and Tommy (16).
Stein earned a B.A. from
Otterbein College in 1979 and
enjoys spending time at his
weekend lake house boating,
water and jet skiing.
Mike Speidel is an executive
director of Morgan Stanley and
the portfolio manager of several
institutional real estate funds and
accounts. He received a degree
in economics from the University
of Massachusetts in 1978,
and a master’s in city and regional
planning from Harvard
University in 1980. He and his
wife, Connie, have been married
25 years and live in Belmont,
Mass. They have two sons —
Matthew (a junior in college) and
Greg (a high school senior).
Speidel is a director and past
president of the Boston Chapter
of the Real Estate Finance Association,
a CFA instructor for
the Boston Security Analysts
Society, a member of the Real
Estate Advisory Committee of the
Archdiocese of Boston, and
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1975 (continued)
chairman of the Capital Budget
Committee of the town of
Belmont, Mass. He recently enjoyed
a mini-reunion in Dallas in
June with classmates and lifelong
friends Mike Holleran, Sam
Marable, Mike Reagan, and Luke
Stinnett.
Bob Thompson is the vice
president of business development
with the Catalyst Technology
Group in Indianapolis.
Tim Van Echo is the executive
vice president of BBC&M Engineering,
Inc., a civil engineering
firm in Columbus with 130 employees.
He received a civil engineering
degree in 1979, and
his master’s in 1981, both from
The Ohio State University. He
and his wife, Jan, have been
married for 20 years and have
two children — Ryan (a high
school senior) and Emily (a high
school sophomore). Van Echo
enjoys playing golf, but does not
seem to be getting any better at
it! He throws dart and plays
dartball in a church league.
He said: “I believe St. Charles
gave me a great foundation for
my engineering education at Ohio
State. I really enjoyed meeting
classmates from all areas of the
city, and remaining friends with
many of them.”
Kirk Wuellner is president of
P. & P.E., Inc., a food packaging/
equipment sales company. He
and his wife, Jennifer, live in
Bexley and have two children:
James (6) and Sarah (3). He
earned his BSBA at The Ohio
State University in 1982 and enjoys
canoeing, golfing and yard
work. He remembers “beating
Watterson in football and Mr.
Cavello’s great rendition of a
Roman Soldier at the pre-game
Pep Rally.”
William Worley has been married
since 1990 and works for
NCR. He is a volunteer firefighter
and EMT.
1973
Jay Van Echo, of Tucson (since
1975) is a civil engineer and part
owner of Entranco Engineering,
Inc. (www.entranco.com), with
offices in Tucson and Phoenix
AZ; Boise, Ida.; and Bellevue,
Wash. He earned a degree in
renewable natural resources
(environmental) and civil engineering
from the University of
Arizona, He and wife, Sandy,
have been married for 27 years
and have four children, Brianna
(26), Dylan (24), Lauren (22 )
and Cassidi (20).
He devotes his spare time to farm
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living He has a 10-acre farm/
ranch (Sir Echo Farm) in Tucson
populated with horses, pigs,
steers, chickens, and numerous
barn cats and dogs. He and
Sandy also raise dairy goats; the
current population consists of 25
milking goats, babies (kids),
bucks, and breeding stock.
They’re winners, too. They took
home from the National Dairy
Goat Association national show
in Spokane Wash. last July two
1st place finishes and nine topten
place finishes in the various
dairy goat categories. Those included
a 3rd place best dairy
goat herd in Tucson. The goat
milk is used for dairy products
such as milk (of course),
cheese, butter, cream, ice
cream, as feed for feeder market
animals (pigs and steers)
and for making soap and lotions
for sale and home use.
1969
Terrence R. Heffernan is a
partner in the Columbus office
of Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co,
LPA. He served in the U.S. Army
(1973-1977), earned a degree
in 1979 from The Ohio State University
and is a 1982 graduate
of Capital University Law School.
He and his wife, Margaret
Kinney, have been married for
11 years, and she has two children.
In his free time he likes to
golf and travel (he and his wife
have traveled extensively
throughout the Caribbean). He
is a member of American Legion
Southway Post 144, Columbus
Shamrock Club, Northwest Civic
Association, Ohio State Alumni
Association, and St Andrew
Parish.
1965
Paul R. Bettinger lives in Galloway,
Ohio where he is a permanent
substitute teacher for
Southwestern City Schools. He
also teaches classes adults
through the Tolles Career &
Technical Center. He earned
a degree in history from The Ohio
State University in 1969 and a
master’s in education from the
University of Phoenix in 2005.
He and his wife, Candy, have
been married 36 years and have
two sons and three grandchildren.
In his free time he likes to
jog, read, work crossword
puzzles and spend time with his
grandkids.
While he says it would be hard
to pick out a single outstanding
event during his time at St.
Charles, he does “cherish the
memory of running on the same
880-yard relay team with Tom
O’Leary and winning the CCL.
Thomas E. Boyle is a partner/
attorney with Wiles, Boyle,
Burkholder and Bringardner in
Columbus. He earned his undergraduate
degree from The Ohio
State University in 1969 and his
J.D. cum laude from OSU’s law
school in 1972.He and his wife,
Susie, have four grown sons.
He reports that his law firm is
the quintessential “St. Charles
mafia.” He practices daily with
Dan Wiles ’59, Jim Wiles ’63, Mike
Close ’62 and Mark Sheriff ’63.
“Regarding the academic rigors
of St. Charles,” he wrote, “I have
concluded that four years of
Latin prepares you for nothing
specific; however, the mental
exercise prepares you to handle
just about anything.”
John A. Burns is president and
CEO of C.O.W. Industries, Inc. in
Columbus. He earned a degree
in political science (1969) and a
J.D. (1973) from The Ohio State
University. He and his wife,
Lorrie, have been married four
years. Burns has three daughters
from two previous marriages
and two grandchildren.
His interests include playing
chess, reading, poker, and running
marathons. He reports he’s
run in 73 of them!
Charles B. Campbell is retired
from General Electric after 32
years at the company and now
works as a respiratory service
technician for Respiratory Care
Resources/Omnicare. He also
works part-time at the Madison
County sheriff’s office and has
his Ohio Peace Officer’s Training
Council certification (1974).
He and his first wife, Joyce,
were together over 38 years and
had 11 children. They lost a
daughter in 1985 and he lost
Joyce in 2003 to cancer. He remarried
and is with his new
wife, Lu, who had lost her previous
husband to cancer. In his
free time he enjoys hunting, fishing
and shooting sports.
Michael B. Cantlon is a librarian
at the Library of Congress in
Washington, D.C. He has a degree
in sacred theology from the
Gregorian University in Rome
(1971) and a master’s in library
science from Catholic University
(1979).
James T. “Kip” Clager is still
working and lives in Worthington.
He remembers the Sunday night
classical music sessions with
Father Luchi.
Kenneth R. Devos is a real
estate appraiser and art educator
in Ft. Myers Beach, Fla.He
and his wife of 36 years, Mary
Ann, work for a company near
Dallas that imports a new art
product from Japan involving
jewelry making and helps teach
people all over the world how to
use it.
Devos has a B.A. from Ohio
Dominican University (1969) and
an MAI in appraisal designation
(1994). He and Mary Ann have
two daughters and four grandchildren.
In his free time he enjoys woodworking
and bonsai. His job has
taken him abroad to Switzerland,
Sweden, France, Italy, Japan,
throughout the United
States. He plans a trip to Australia
next.
His strongest memories of St.
Charles are his former teachers.
“These men showed me that
knowledge and learning are an
important part of life. We each
gather experiences in life and it
is our obligation to pass along to
the next generation what we
have learned. Maybe that’s why
my best times have been teaching
others,” he writes
Donald W. DeWitt works for the
Ohio Dept. of Rehabilitation and
Corrections as curriculum director
at the Corrections Training
Academy. Previously he served
as a warden, deputy warden,
school administrator and
teacher. He earned a B.A. at St.
Charles College and a master’s
in education from Xavier (OH)
University. He and his wife,
Marjorie, have been married 32
years. He likes to fish, play
cards and do yard work at his
Canal Winchester home.
Joseph L. DiCesare owns his
own general contracting company
and lives in Dublin. He
earned a degree from the University
of Dayton in 1969. He
and his wife, Sukey, have three
children and four grandchildren.
He loves to golf, is involved in
Cum Christo (Cursillo) at St.
Brigid Kildare, and enjoys trips
to his vacation home in Ft.
Myers, Fla. In retrospect”, he
writes, “how great was my education
although I didn’t know it at
the time.” He remembers Monsignor
O’Dea’s hamburgers and
playing in the mud during a lightning
storm at the spring sports
picnic his senior year.
Leo Dietlin owns and runs a
food processing company in Milwaukee.
He earned degrees
from The Ohio State University
(1969) and the Kellogg management
Institute (1997). He and his
wife, Kathy, have five children
and four grandchildren. He
spends his free time with his
family and grandchildren and
loves to play golf.
Richard D. Dodd is director of
logistics for an oil-field services
company and lives in Houston,
Texas. He earned a degree in
business from Southern Methodist
University in 1970, and an
M.M. (1976) and M.B.A. (1980)
from the University of Texas. He
enjoys traveling, particularly to
the West Coast wine regions
and coastal beach locations. He
owns a home in Los Angeles to
which he commutes every two
or three weeks. He wrote that
“the closeness of our class instilled
in me the value of friendship
and relationships with others.
They are to be respected,
valued, nurtured and cultivated.”
Harry E. Eisel is retired after
working the major part of 30
years as a prison psychologist,
including six years at the old
Ohio Penitentiary in downtown
Columbus. He earned a Ph.D.
from The Ohio State University
in 1978. He is battling his third
major cancer in the last seven
years.
David W. Ennis is a health care
management consultant living in
Wilmette, Illinois. He has an undergraduate
degree from The
Ohio State University (1970) and
an M.B.A from the University of
Chicago (1972). He and his
wife, Mary, have three children,
and he enjoys sailing, reading
and writing. He remembers the
excellent faculty during his time
at St. Charles, especially Msgr.
O’Dea, Tom Duffy, Fr. Charlie
Jackson, Fr. Charles Lenhard
and Fr. James Geiger
James P. Finn is the principal
in several wholesale distribution
companies, and is very involved
in venture capital and real estate
development. He earned a
degree from Kenyon College in
1970 and his M.B.A. from
Harvard University in 1974. He
and his wife, Susan, have a
grown son and have been married
23 years. Finn enjoys reading,
fly fishing, cooking, traveling
and an occasional round of
golf.
He writes that he remains very
involved with St. Charles through
continuing friendships particularly
his involvement with its
Advisory Board, of which he is
chairman. He also serves on
the endowment fund committee,
chairman of the Campaign for St.
Charles’ major gift committee, as
a member of the design committee
for the new St. Charles expansion
project and on the 40 th
reunion planning committee.
John F. Finn is the president of
Gardner Inc. and has degrees
from The Ohio State University
(1970, economics) and Harvard
University (M.B.A. in finance,
1972). He and his wife, Bebe,
have been married 35 years and
have three children. He enjoys
the arts, traveling, reading and
fly fishing. He credits Msgr. Paul
O’Dea as being his role model,
mentor and inspiration; Jack and
Elaine Ryan for being like a second
set of parents, and says his
best friend is still classmate Jack
Ryan.
Robert W. Hooks is the vice
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president and project director at
Sargent & Lundy, LLC, a large
consulting and engineering firm
that designs electric power
plants worldwide. He has a degree
from The Ohio State University
(1971).He and his wife,
Kathi, live in Hinsdale, Ill., and
have been married for 37 years.
They have three children and
two granddaughters. He likes to
play golf and ski, and spends
two or three weeks a year in
Steamboat Springs, Colo. Hooks
remembers that Msgr. Gallen
provided a great deal of encouragement
and counseling to pursue
mathematics and ultimately
a career in engineering.
Thomas L. Horvath is an attorney
in private practice who
works on estate planning, trusts,
administration of estates and
guardianships. He has a degree
from The Ohio State University
(1970) and his J.D. from the
school’s College of Law (1973).
He served as a magistrate in
probate court (1973-1976) and
part-time magistrate for hearings
on mental health and commitment.
He and his wife, Marcia,
have been married for 35 years
and have a daughter and two
sons (alumni Eric ’92 and Jeff
’99). He enjoys traveling, playing
golf and gardening. Horvath
is a member of the St. Charles
Advisory Board.
James E. Knapp is superintendent
of schools for the Berkshire
School District in Geauga
County, Ohio. He has a degree
in philosophy from St. Charles
College (1969) and a master’s in
education from the Ohio State
University (1974). He and his
wife, Barbara, have been married
31 years and have twin
daughters. Knapp spends most
of his free time on volunteer activities
at his church and with
Kiwanis. He enjoys bicycling on
the many trails throughout Ohio.
Having spent eight years at St.
Charles, including being in the
last college class, he says the
school will always hold a special
place in his heart. “The academic
preparation received there
has served me well in my life. I
wish all my classmates continued
success.”
Mark D. Kotlinski is a retired
teacher who works part time in
quality employee management.
He holds a degree from Ohio
Dominican University (1971) and
enjoys coaching junior high and
middle school athletics, play softball
and gardening. He believes
that, thanks to the fantastic efforts
of people like Dominic
Cavello, the school is in the best
shape it’s ever been.
Robert L. Kuhns recently purchased
and runs a local
laundroma . He has a degree
from Ohio Dominican University
The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education
(1970) and an M.B.A. from
Xavier (OH) University (1976).
He and his wife, Laurie, have a
daughter (9) and he has two
daughters and two grandchildren
from a previous marriage.
Michael J. Lannan is retired but
still does consulting work for
Praxair. He earned a degree in
mechanical engineering in1971
and has five grown children. He
enjoys playing tennis and golf,
running, and “messing with old
cars.” His current project is a
’71 Porsche.
Torrence A. “Tod” Makley, III
is involved in the medical sales
field with the Caligor division of
Henry Schein, Inc. in Central
Ohio. He has three daughters
and two grandaughters. Makley
enjoys weekends and summer
vacations, primarily spent at one
63 alumnus revives
making wine at home
of the Great Lakes, winter vacations
sailing in the Caribbean,
and any kind of shooting sports
like skeet and clays. He has many
special memories of St. Charles
friendships and of special times
with his classmates since graduation.
Sean H. Maxfield is an attorney
in private practice, specializing
in criminal defense, as well
as serving as a magistrate in the
New Albany and Whitehall Mayors’
Courts. He earned a psychology
degree from The Ohio
State University in 1972 and a
J.D. from Capital Law School in
1976. He and his wife, Jane,
have been married for 29 years
and have three daughters. He
enjoys playing golf, fantasy
baseball, watching his children’s
athletic activities, and is in his
36 th year playing organized softball.
“I developed a keen interest
As a kid growing up in a
typical Italian family, Joe
Sabino ’63 remembers that
wine was important at family
meals. So much so that the
children typically were given
glasses of water with a little
wine in it, and the wine
ration was increased with
Joe Sabino ’63
their ages. Some of his most
pleasant memories, Sabino
said, are of his grandfather bringing homemade
wine to holiday dinners.
Sabino, who has been for a number of years a
pharmacist in Hudson, Ohio, near Cleveland,
opened an institutional pharmacy last July for a
group of investors, which provides pharmacy
services to long term care facilities in Ohio.
Following in his grandfather’s footsteps, like
many Italians, Sabino has taken up the tradition of
making wine at home. He starts with 500 pounds of
California grapes, which when grinds and presses.
When finished, he has about 45 gallons – or nearly
200 bottles — of wine.
Sabino credits his foray into winemaking
directly to his grandfather, Leonida Vellani, who’s
also the grandfather of John Vellani ’59 and great
grandfather of Paul Vellani ’92. Leonida came to
the United States in 1913 from northern Italy and
was followed two years later by his wife and their
four children, ages 2 through 7. The family lived in
the South End of Columbus and worked for nearby
Buckeye Steel Casting.
“Grandpa acquired oak barrels and made a
wooden crusher and a wine press with a 6-8” steel
beam at the foundry. Sabino said his grandfather
used Zinfandel grapes, a dark purple tightly packed
grape with good sugar content. When he died in
1970, his wine-making equipment was sold or given
away by Sabino’s aunts. Several years ago some
family members who made wine themselves
in government and politics from
Fr. O’Brien’s election night party
our senior year,” he wrote.
Joseph M. McAndrews designs
commercial kitchen equipment.
He has four daughters and
four grandchildren. He is PSRmiddle
school principal-Pope
John XXIII Parish and on its parish
council. He enjoys refinishing
antique furniture, playing the
piano, bridge clubs, and is working
on setting up in a new home.
He said that when he attended
St. Charles he didn’t know anyone,
but “learned many important
skills that I use everyday —
planning, coordinating, relationships,
and especially prayer life
and religious studies. I have
gained many new life-long
friends.
Thomas M. Murnane is a retired
partner from
PricewaterhouseCoopers and
currently the director of Pacific
Sunwear, The Pantry, Findlay
Enterprises, and Captaris, and
business advisor and strategic
consultant for Thomas M.
Murnane and Associates. He
has a business degree and an
M.B.A. from The Ohio Sate University.
He and his wife, Kandy,
have four children and split their
time between residences in Los
Angeles and Manhattan. He enjoys
playing golf, traveling, and
OSU football. He remembers St.
Charles for its great education,
great tradition, and great people.
James A. Moskus works in
marketing and lives in Beverly
Hills, Mich. He earned a journalism
degree from The Ohio State
University in 1973. He and his
wife of 37 years, Terry, have
three children and five grandchildren.
Vino Di Sabino 2004
The label that graces every bottle of the home-produced wine of Joe
Sabino ’63 pictures his grandfather, Leonida Vellani. The label
reads: Prodotto di Leonida Tranquillo Vellani (product of Leonida T.
Vellani) since the wine is made from his grandfather’s recipe.
encouraged Sabino to give it a try. He borrowed
their equipment, located a crusher and press on
eBay, and started making wine in his garage.
“Like Grandpa, I blend Zinfandel with a touch
of Moscato,” Sabino says proudly. He crushes the
grapes together and lets them ferment with skins
(the source of the red color) stems and seeds (the
source of tannins which impart dryness to the wine).
After a week of fermenting, Sabino presses the
grapes and lets the juice ferment for another week or
so in 15 gallon containers. When the fermentation
slows, the containers are sealed with a water lock,
which allows gas to escape and keeps out air.
Sabino decants the clear wine four to six times
the next six months to clarify it, and bottles it.
Sabino says the wine generally should peak at
about 3-4 years. The result is what he describes as a
dry red wine with a ruby color which he enjoys with
just about any food, particularly meat dishes,
risotto, and pasta.
“People speak of comfort food,” Sabino said.
“This is comfort wine. When I drink it, it reminds
me of enjoyable family times at my grandparents
and of our immigrant roots.”
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Alumni Notes
’61 graduate authors book
exploring what makes a hero
St. Charles alumnus Robert L.
Dilenschneider ’61 has authored another
book, this one entitled, A Time For
Heroes.(Published 2005 by Phoenix Press,
Beverly Hills, Calif., 244 pages, $24.95.)
The author of eight books, Dilenschneider
in his latest effort seeks to answer the
questions: “what does it really mean to be a
hero or heroine?” and “who, in fact, should
be (considered) our heroes?”
Dilenschneider is president and chairman
of The Dilenschneider Group, a major
public relations firm headquartered in New
York City. Dilenschneider is also a noted
speaker who has addressed scores of
professional organizations and lectured at
colleges, including the University of Notre
Dame, The Ohio State University, New
York University, and the Harvard Business
School.
He helped initiate and annually sponsors
the Borromean Lectures at St.
Charles. In 2000 he was awarded the
school’s highest honor, the Borromean
Medal for Distinguished Achievement.
Dilenschneider invited 17 prominent
and successful people to discuss in the
book’s 17 chapters various candidates who
they believe belong in the pantheon of
heroes. Among the book’s contributors
are Senators Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and
Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Forbes
magazine publisher Steve Forbes, the
presidents of New York University and
the University of Notre Dame, and two
eminent religious – Catholic and Jewish –
leaders.
Contributor of one chapter in the book
is St. Charles Principal Dominic J. Cavello,
who offers his personal views about heroes
and heroic acts and some he holds up as his
personal heroes. They include three St.
Charles students he’s known during his
years at the school.
It was an easy choice in selecting
Cavello as a chapter writer in his book,
Dilenschneider said, because he stands for
a lot that’s good in U.S. education and life.
Dilenschneider in his introduction to
Cavello’s chapter praises St. Charles and
its principal noting that he could attest to
the school’s high standards in academics
and civility, and points with pride to the
three decades Cavello has spent at St.
Charles as principal and Latin teacher.
“Dominic Cavello,” he wrote, “is a hero
to me because he is the motivating force
behind that institution. Every year, nearly
a hundred well-trained, well-educated
young men graduate from St. Charles and
go out into the world. In no small measure,
their success is a tribute to their principal.”
Dilenschneider said that the book’s
diverse heroes, some well known, others
obscure, and many surprising and unexpected
choices, come from every walk of
life. What they all have in common, he
said, is the significant difference they made
in others’ lives – often a single individual,
sometimes an entire nation.
One man singled out by Dilenschneider
was Msgr. Paul J. O’Dea, a 1933 St.
Charles graduate who served on the faculty
from 1946 to 1969, the last 12 years as
principal. “This man was an educator
beyond belief,” Dilenschneider said. “He
really set the tone for (Dominic) Cavello in
many ways. He spoke Latin and taught
Greek. He was grounded in the classics,
had a superb sense of fair play and helped
motivate a generation of young men around
him…”
Dilenschneider said “It is my hope that
readers of this book will be stimulated to
find their own heroes and to nurture within
themselves the qualities of heroism, The
times demand it.”
Asked who he would name his hero,
Dilenschneider replied it was his father,
Sigmund, who was an editor at the Columbus
Citizen, a former daily newspaper in
Columbus, when Bob was a youngster.
Freedom and independence of the press
were uncompromising articles of faith for
his father, whatever the consequences.
Once when an advertiser threatened to
withdraw a sizable advertising contract
with the paper if a certain story was
published, the elder Dilenschneider would
not back down. “He was incorruptible,” his
son said with justifiable pride.
Cavello names students as
hero candidates in book
St. Charles principal Dominic J. Cavello ’64
was among 17 contributors invited to share
their thoughts in a book, A Time for
Heroes, about their choices for “hero”
status and their qualities that earned them
that designation. Published this year, the
book was authored by 1961 St.
Charles alumnus Robert L. Dilenschneider,
an internationally known public relations
executive.
Cavello said he was surprised and
flattered to be chosen to author a chapter in
the book alongside some very notable
people. Dilenschneider said he used different
criteria to select each author, and went
through some 100 people before settling on
the final 17.
Cavello discussed classical heroes of
Greece as defined by their courage and
physical abilities, who often sought honor
on the battlefield or in other violent situations
— something that Cavello says is
fundamentally at odds with how we now
believe.
Cavello says that a hero is someone
“who overcomes great adversity in order to
do the right thing. There’s a moral component
to being a hero today, as opposed to
those ‘classical’ heroes.”
Cavello in his chapter wrote about
several people in history whom he views as
heroes, many who chose to do the right
thing at great political, social, and physical
costs. They included our country’s early
abolitionists, people profiled in John F.
Noted Author and Distinguished Alumnus
Robert L. Dilenschneider ’61 (right) was awarded the
school’s highest honor, The Borromean Medal for
Distinguished Achievement, at St. Charles’ Feast Day
Mass in 2000 by principal Dominic J. Cavello and
Advisory Board president George G. Vargo ’58.
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Kennedy’s book, Profiles in Courage, published a
half century ago, and civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. He mentions past presidents,
including George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
and Franklin Roosevelt who led our country at
critical times.
“I have taught young men who have had to
overcome great adversity,” Cavello wrote. “They
were inspirational to me.”
Among three such students, Cavello wrote
about Frank Dury, who learned he had leukemia
just before he came to St. Charles as a freshman.
When his condition worsened during his sophomore
year and he had to be hospitalized, and
Cavello was one of the teachers who helped tutor
him at his home. Dury, who died in the spring of
his junior year 1991, “never complained of his
workload,” Cavello said. “He always did the best he
could.”
Another student, who had escaped alone from
Vietnam after several failed attempts, eventually
made his way to St. Charles via Hong Kong and a
placement service. He came to St. Charles with a
young man from Laos and the two graduated with
nearly four-point averages despite the difficult
academic environment and knowing little English.
“That’s overcoming adversity,” Cavello wrote.
And Cavello also includes a current student who
battles severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and is
nearly always in pain- and usually in a wheelchair.
Despite his adversity and regular hospital visits for
treatment, “you see this boy with a smile on his face
— and he, too, has almost a four-point average.”
Cavello concluded the chapter with this observation:
“My whole perspective on heroes has changed
over the years and it’s because I’ve been brought into
contact with young men such as these. I’m sure
there are great sports heroes and political heroes
today. But it’s interesting that as an adult, I can
look at a fourteen year-old or a fifteen year-old and
say ‘You’re my hero.’”
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Richard C. Notebaert is chairman
and CEO of Qwest Communications
in Denver, Colo. He
earned his undergraduate and
M.B.A. degrees from the University
of Wisconsin. He and his
wife, Peggy, have been married
37 years and have two daughters
and five grandsons. He enjoys
playing golf, sailing, and fishing.
A special memory he has of his
days at St. Charles include playing
football his sophomore year.
“Jack Ryan sent me in to play
left guard in my first varsity
game. Bob Walter, senior right
guard, asked “is this a joke?” It
was a very humbling experience,
but the team won and Bob
(who is chairman and CEO of
Cardinal Health on whose board
Notebaert serves) today is a
very good friend.” He also remembers
how being the last
class to go through the high
school before enrollment was
limited to strictly those students
pursuing the priesthood “made
us unique and bonded us in a
special way.”
Merrill D. Phelan is the authority
manager for information systems
at Metropolitan Washington
Airports. He has B.S. I. and
M.S. I. E. (1970) degrees from
The Ohio State University. He
has three children and two
grandchildren and lives in Burke,
Virginia.
He likes to spend time with his
grandchildren, travels, and his
interests include sports.
Michael F. Rafferty is the coowner
of a utility management
consulting firm and a co-owner
of a mortgage broker business.
He has a degree in electrical
engineering from The Ohio State
University (1973) and lives in
Jacksonville, Fla. He and his
wife, Jane, have three sons and
he’s active in his parish men’s
club, church choir, and is a 4 th
degree Knights of Columbus
member. He credits the educational
excellence of St. Charles
as being invaluable to him in college
and ever since.
Press C. Southworth III is a
retired partner of
PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.
He serves on the board and
chairs the audit committee for
ProCentury Corporation. He majored
in accounting and earned
a business administration degree,
cum laude, from The Ohio
State University in 1975.He and
his wife, Joan, have been married
for 37 years and have a
daughter and two sons (alumni
Press IV ’88 and Jonathan ’02 )
and two grand children.
Southworth serves on the St.
Charles Advisory Board and
numerous not-for-profit boards.
He enjoys writing short stories
and spends a considerable
amount of time with his grandson,
Collin (9), especially at most
sporting events in Columbus.
“St. Charles gave me a sense of
values and ethics for my life.
While I struggled with Latin for
four years, its value was apparent
as I proceeded through
my career. Of course, I always
have fond memories of playing
sports at St. Charles yearround,”
he writes.
Terrance A. “Terry” Trojack
is a battalion chief for the Columbus
Division of Fire and has
a degree in business administration
from Franklin University.
He and his wife, Linda, have
been married for 38 years and
have two children and two
grandchildren.
Thomas A. “Andy” Young
lives in Galloway where he is
an attorney and partner for the
Columbus-based law firm of
Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur.
He earned a business degree
from The Ohio State University
in 1969 and his J.D. from Capital
Law School in 1973. He and his
wife, Nancy, have two sons. He
enjoys playing tennis and following
the Cleveland Indians, OSU
football and basketball, and the
Columbus Blue Jackets hockey
team. “John Rectewald taught
me everything there was to
know about sodium,” he said.
William Zapp is an attorney
who serves as a mediator for
the Ohio Supreme Court. A
member of the Hilliard’s Recreation
and Parks Commission,
Zapp has a degree in social studies
(1969) and a J.D. from Capital
Law School (1972). He has
three sons, the oldest of which,
Andy, is a 2001 graduate of St.
Charles. He follows the Ohio
State Buckeyes and Columbus
Crew soccer team, and enjoys
bicycling, playing tennis.
Some special memories he has
of St. Charles include the rocket
launchers for physics class;
Mike Velton, the real rocket expert.
He writes that he and Andy
Van Camp put together several
rocket launchers in the spring
of 1965 out on the old tennis
courts, and “for some reason
the entire school came out to
watch our version of ‘October
Sky.’ They never retrieved their
three-stage rockets, but believe
“we managed to terrorize the
East Side and Bexley with the
parachute landings of our nose
cones.”
1959
Edward H. Keys has been
elected by the United States Harness
Writers Association to the
Communicators Corner of the
Harness Racing Museum and
Hall of Fame in Goshen, N.Y. He
is the chief photographer for the
United States Trotting Association.
He started with the USTA
40 years ago as a photographer
and became managing editor of
its monthly magazine, Hoof
Beats, in 1972. Keys returned
to the photo department in 1985
and has been there ever since.
He photographs harness racing
around the country for the magazine
and provides photos to the
media. He has a journalism degree
from the Ohio State University
(1963).
Keys and his wife, Debbie, have
been married for 38 years and
have five children and seven
grandchildren. He photographs
high school football and basketball
and have shot most of the
St. Charles home football games
for the past five or six years.
1958
Savario “Buddy” Capuano
closed down his landmark downtown
store, Cappy’s and Sons
Deli, last March. The combination
deli, wine shop, and fruit
stand had been in business
since 1949 at various locations
throughout downtown. He continues
to run his family’s restaurant,
Olde Summit Towne, in
Pataskala.
1957
Keith A. Helfer is the owner
and founder of Capitol communications,
Inc., in Columbus.
For several years he and his
company have donated all the
Cardinal Walk Pledge Forms
used by St. Charles students in
their efforts to raise scholarship
funds.
1956
Gerald J. “Jerry” Rankin and
his wife, Maria, report the birth
of their daughter Geraldine (7-
28-2005). Maria is from Peru,
and July 28 is Peruvian Independence
Day. He says, “tell the
guys that Jerry Rankin thinks
that this will be the last child born
to a member of the class of 1956.
In fact, she might be the last child
born to a member of the classes
of ’56-’60?”
1955
John R. “Jack” Batcheck
graduated from Ohio State University
with a degree in business
administration and worked
in the retail and sales industry
before growing his own wholesale
and retail organization. He
and his wife, Peggi, have been
married for 47 years and are
parents of two daughters, one
son (St. Charles alumnus, Mark
’80) and are grandparents of
four. They are also the adoptive
parents of Henna, who sometimes
believes she is a black lab.
“I remember Jack Ryan, especially
in his tweed sport coat,
teaching the history class,”
Batcheck said. “Looking back
now, I can understand Father
Duffy’s appearance at 10 o’clock
in the morning! The gentleness
of Fr. Healy still remains vivid in
my memory. I can still feel the
blow to the back of my head from
Fr. Murphy who was merely intent
on helping me stop disturbing
the class.” I have only fond
memories of St. Charles but
carry this question on: “What
was four years of Latin for?”
Frank J. Bettendorf is a senior
vice president at Morgan
Stanley and spent 40 years as
senior vice president with Prudential-
Securities -Institutional.
He is a graduate of The Univer-
Hall of Fame
photographer
Ed Keys’59 was recently elected
into the U. S. Harness Racing
Hall of Fame. He’s shown here
taking photos at Pompano Park
in Pompano Beach, Fla. In 2003.
Ed often can be seen along the
sidelines of St. Charles home
football games taking game
photos.
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Alumni Notes
1955 (continued)
sity of Notre Dame and has been
the leading member of many organizations,
including the Notre
Dame Club (past president), NW
Kiwanis, the Pontifical College
Josephinum (board member) and
The Mt. Carmel Foundation. Of
all his memories of St. Charles,
he remembers most of all what
a great education he received.
He and his wife, Sheila, married
for 42 years, are the parents of
Ann and Joseph, are the proud
grandparents of three.
“I remember Mr. Fitzgerald’s
chemistry class; Father O’Brien
and his classical music on our
ride to school; Msgr. Glenn calling
us a “bunch of apes”; Msgr.
O’Dea for Latin, Fr. Gallen for
being a great teacher,”
Bettendorf said.
James P. Bradley and his wife,
Deedee, live in Plain City, Ohio
where they are active members
of St. Joseph Parish. They are
enjoying condo life and travels
so far to 49 states, Tahiti, the
South Seas, Europe, and the
Caribbean. They are the parents
of Karen, Thomas, and
Daniel and the grandparents of
10. Jim’s career as a realtor
garnered him many real estate
awards. Jim views his education
at St. Charles as “the best
you could get.”
He remembers ‘Sink or Swim’
tests by Fr. O’Dea; Fr. Gallen
playing “Donkey Serenade” by
acclamation; Bill DeVille (now Fr.)
being locked in the locker; Fr.
Healy - “anything worth doing is
worth doing even badly”; and
Fr. Kraus “Schultzgruber”.
Harvey Bush has been married
to wife, Barbara, for 44 years.
For 35 of those years he has
been a purchasing agent for
Speer Industries. They are the
parents of Ted and Barbara and
committed members of St Christopher
Church. He has been an
active member for 44 years of
The Moose Club, The
Grandview Booster, The Brothers
Club, and the OSU Buckeye
Boosters. His motto of life is:
“Could Be Better, Could Be
Worse.” Bush is very proud of
his education at St. Charles and
remembers it as “the good old
days.”
Raymond E. Clifford and his
wife, Linda, live in Muskego Wis.
and have been married almost
10 years. He has two grown
children — Vicki (42) and Kathy
(40). After graduation from St.
Charles, Ray served in the army
for three years and worked for
Lennox Industries for 39 years.
He was a district manager for
28 years and has spent the last
38
11 years in sales with TRANE
Co. He retired from the Ohio
Army National Guard as a lieutenant
colonel after 23 years
service.
His life was pretty uneventful,
Clifford said, until 1994 when he
relocated from Denver to Milwaukee.
It was the following
year when he met Linda. The
two love to travel to places like
Cancun and Vegas at least once
a year, and they have a timeshare
in Door County, Wis.,
which they visit five or six times
a year. They share a lot of time
with Linda’s large family. He
says they are very happy and
life is definitely good!
Clifford remembers having fun
hitchhiking to St. Charles every
day and he actually liked Latin
class! He did not, however, like
Msgr. O’Dea reading everyone’s
grades out loud. He enjoyed Friday
night football games, but
didn’t like going to Ohio State for
swim practice. He liked going to
the dances at St. Mary of the
Springs for six years, but not
writing essays after school for
not doing something he was
supposed to do. He liked physics,
algebra, and trigonometry,
but not chemistry or geometry.
He liked the cinnamon rolls from
the nuns in the cafeteria, but
didn’t like most of the rest of the
food!
He feels the St. Charles experience
prepared him for life better
than he would have received at
any other school. “It taught me
discipline and a good work ethic.
It also taught me to respect others
and the St. Charles education
served as a building block
for my future endeavors.”
Richard P. “Dick” Conie and
his wife, Carol, are the parents
of Richard, Craig, and Ann Margaret.
Richard has enjoyed a
career in developing raw land
into residential property. “When
we leave an undeveloped land
it has streets, sewers, curbs,
and gutters ready for homes.”
Dick has been an active member
of The Country Club at
Muirfield, St. Andrew’s Church,
the CAC club, and The Athletic
Club. Dick loves his wife, his
church, and his family, and believes
St. Charles prepared many
to become good religious leaders
in our society.
Fr. William H. DeVille is pastor
of Our Lady of the Miraculous
Medal in Columbus. After graduating
from St. Charles Prep, he
continued on in St. Charles college/seminary
department
where he earned a Bachelor of
Arts degree. From there he went
to the major seminary in Cincinnati,
at Mount Saint Mary of the
West, and received a Master of
Divinity degree.
He was ordained to the priesthood
in early December of 1962.
In June of l963, Fr. DeVille was
appointed to Saint Mary Church
in Lancaster, served as an associate
pastor in several parishes,
and as a pastor at
Wellston, Saints Peter and Paul,
Saint Timothy, and Sacred Heart.
He taught high school religion for
ten years at Lancaster,
Chillicothe, Bishop Watterson,
and DeSales High Schools. Fr.
DeVille lived a year at the chancery
and served as Master of
Ceremonies for Episcopal liturgies
for Bishop Herrmann.
While at Sacred Heart Parish, he
helped introduce the Divine
Mercy Devotion in the diocese.
Fr. DeVille views his life as
“pretty much that of a ‘simple’
priest.” “Like all of you, he said,
“my life was very much influenced
by my years at St. Charles
and the faculty who taught
there. Priests such as Msgr.
Glenn, Msgr. O’Dea, Msgr. Healy,
Kraus, and such dedicated laymen
as Jack Ryan and John
Rectenwald, and of course,
Mary Rohr in the office.”
Lee H. DeMastry is a graduate
of The Ohio State University and
his career has involved several
challenging positions in human
resources. Following his retirement
as corporate human resource
manager for Park-Ohio
Industries, he founded
Carrington & Associates H.R.
Consulting Company. DeMastry
lives in mentor, OH and is a member
of his parish council, president
of his condominium association,
holds office in the Mentor
Chamber of Commerce, and
is president of the Human Resource
Council. He and his
wife, Margie, are the parents of
Daniel, Beth, Amy, and Michelle,
and have three grandchildren.
DeMastry enjoys being a season
ticket holder to the Browns
and the Indians.
He views his years at St. Charles
as a turning point in his young
life, having to learn to study for
the first time. The moral guidance
he received helped him
through many years after graduation.
“My fondest recollections
are fine sports teams and my
participation and Msgr. O’Dea’s
‘Sink or Swim’ Latin tests.”
Brian P. Donahue began his
own real estate brokerage firm,
Brian P. Donahue Realty, after
graduating from The Ohio State
University with a degree in marketing,
and remains active in real
estate sales and investments
with his firm. He began a career
in retailing with Rikes Department
Store in Dayton, Ohio.
Supporting the St. Charles archives
Joseph Reinhard, Class of 1941, stopped at the school to drop off an
old St. Charles jacket for the Archive Room. The St. Cecilia
parishioner reports that he and his wife are keeping as busy as ever.
Donahue is a member of The
Columbus Board of Realtors, The
Scioto Country Club, St. Brendan
parish, and The Charity
Newsies. Donahue Realtors
won The National Board of Realtors
fFirst place award for radio
and TV Advertising in 1979.
Brian, and his wife, Binnie, are
the shared parents of Shawn,
Kerry, Colleen, Stephanie,
Wendy, and Alison.
He views his years at St. Charles
as a time of growth. “It was a
time of growth; learning about
foreign languages, math, religion,
and sports. From a family of five
boys, learning about girls up the
street at St. Mary’s. And a few
line-long friends.”
Robert G. “Bob” Galbreath of
Kingwood, Texas, earned a degree
in accounting from The Ohio
State University where he was
a member of Beta Alpha Psi and
the national honor society. After
becoming a CPA in 1961, he
received an MBA from Toledo
University and completed an
executive level advanced management
program in international
business from the Institute for
International Business in Switzerland
in 1974. Galbreath has
more than 40 years experience
in executive level positions with
major corporations and as a
consultant.
He is a noted lecturer at many
universities and business
schools and has led “in house”
training programs for Fortune
500 companies. Retired two
years ago, Galbreath remains
active 150 days of the year with
one consulting client and traveling
with his wife, Bonnie. They
have a daughter and two sons
and this year Bob joined the Service
Corps of Retired Executives
and continues to lecture in
SCORE’S “Starting And Running
Your Business” seminar.
Joseph E. Little, Sr. served in
the army from 1955-1958 as a
paratrooper in the 101st Airborne
Division. He retired from the
Postal Service after a 36-year
career, during which time he held
many positions, including letter
carrier for 20 years, station
manager, a Columbus Division
manager, and manager of the
Grove City post office. Joe lost
his beloved wife and a son, and
has two other sons, Jonathan
and Joseph.
After retiring, Joe worked various
part-time jobs as a youth
leader For Franklin County Juvenile
Detention Center, a lifeguard
and swim instructor, and
for America West Airlines. Joe
views his years at St. Charles
as superb. His younger son, Joe
Jr. graduated in 1989 and a
grandson will matriculate at St.
Charles next year.
“Something that Jack Ryan (often)
always brought up,” Joe
said, “was the day I chased a
naked Al Finks through the locker
room, smacking him with a dead
carp that I picked up on the creek
bank.”
Fr. William J. “Bill” Metzger
had a varied career as a priest.
He served as an associate pastor
at St. Agatha, served at St.
Joseph in Circleville, St. Paul in
Westerville, St. Anthony, and St.
Joseph in Dover. He served as
administrator at St. Francis
Newcomerstown and pastor of
Holy Rosary, St. Joseph LaRue,
St. Mary Waverly, St. Ann
Dresden, and St. Agnes parishes.
He spent two years in
Europe serving at churches in
Germany, France, Spain, and
Italy and lived several weeks
with priests in Kenya, India, and
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Costa Rica. He continues fulltime
as pastor of St. Agnes parish
in Columbus. Although he
spent only his senior year at St.
Charles Preparatory School, he
feels it was “a good part of my
foundation.”
John A. “Alan” Schmitt was
a pilot for United Airlines from
1966 to 1997 when he retired
as captain. He flew many types
of planes, ranging from the longrevered
DC-3 to the DC-10 and
on to the B-727, Lear23/24 and
others. He attended Xavier University
and graduated from The
Ohio State University and then
took up entered flight training
with the navy. He served aboard
Atlantic fleet carriers and remained
active in the naval reserve
until retiring as captain in
1986.
Schmitt fills his retirement years
flying, boating, shooting, and
singing barbershop harmony. He
is president of a local chapter of
Barbershop Harmony Society
and says the best part of his life
was leaving bachelorhood and
marrying Patricia in 1977. “She
is still trying to get me squared
away but I remain a work in
progress.” They are the parents
of a daughter, Susan. He sees
his St. Charles education as the
best thing that could have happened
to a poor kid with a sick
father. “It opened my eyes and
broadened my possibilities in
life”.
He remembers what he calls the
“privilege of playing for Jack
Ryan, the guidance and tolerance
of Father O’Dea, his selection
to go to Buckeye Boys
State, the friendship and competition
with the guys, and the
chance to go to the same school
as my dad.”
Edward C. Schroeder is retired
after a 38-year career in
the soft drink industry. He and
his wife, Barbara, are the parents
of Edward, Theresa, Joseph,
and Ann Marie. Barbara
and Ed live in Dublin, Ohio.
David D. Sheehan is a nationally
known syndicated TV entertainment
reporter who lives
in the tiny village of Spring
Green, Wis., with his wife, actress
Susan Angelo. Sheehan’s
headquarters remain in Los Angeles
with his company, Hollywood
Close-Ups. The Sheehans
have permanent homes in Los
Angeles and New York and enjoy
the peaceful quality of life in
Spring Green. Sheehan’s latest
TV special, “Summer Movie
Magic,” featured Brad Pitt,
Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman and other big
stars. The TV special aired on
142 stations nationwide. He is
also the featured commentator
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on ABC’s Summer Movies 2005-
”What’s Hot and What’s Not,” a
one- hour ABC radio network
special. Sheehan’s brother, Dick,
is a 1960 alumnus of S. Charles
John E. “Jack” Stack Jr. and
his wife, Sheila, live in Winston
Salem, N.C., where he was a
manager with The Belk Department
Store from 1975 until his
retirement in 2000. Stack served
as general manager to the vice
president /regional manager of
the 14 family-owned Belk stores.
Jack is a member of St. Leo the
Great Catholic Church and the
K. of C. He’s president of the
Better Business Bureau, of Retail
Merchants, and of Hanes Mall
Merchant Association. He’s on
the board of the Children’s Center
for the Physically Disabled
and the Foundation of Forsyth
Hospital. He was named Belk’s
“manager of the year” for the
largest increases in sales and
profit.
Jack has been blessed with 46
years of marriage to Sheila, four
children, and five grandchildren.
He spends his retirement playing
golf, fishing, and working in
his yard and pond, and riding his
Harley Davidson to many states.
He said he’s glad his mother convinced
him to attend St. Charles
where he received an excellent
foundation both spiritually and
educationally.
“I told my Mom ‘I’m not going to
St. Charles. I’m going to the tough
school, Aquinas.
St. Charles is a sissy school.’
Well, you know who won, and
I’m glad. St. Charles was four
wonderful years and great faculty,
students, and friends.
Thinking back, I remember the
football games, the tests, the
Mass, the good times.”
Richard A. “Dick” Welsh and
his wife, Mary, have four children
and 10 grandchildren. He
has yet to retire.
David Wilson works part-time
in Rutland, Vermont where he
lives with his wife, Trudy.
John J. Zettler owns the
Zettler Hardware Stores in Columbus,
and is a real estate investor.
He and his wife, Jeane,
are members of the Columbus
Country Club and St. Catherine
Parish. John is active in jumping
horses and rides every day. He’s
a member of the North American
S. F. Horse Association and the
National Retail Hardware Association.
He and Jeane, who recently
enjoyed a vacation in
France, have three daughters
and a son. John regards his
years at St. Charles as very
good, but would have liked a
typing class instead of Latin.
Faculty News
3 full-time teachers
added
Three full-time teachers – Kyle
Callahan, Joseph Moyer, and Jack
Gibbons Jr. — have been added to
this year’s staff. They fill vacancies
created by the
departures of
Pat Cassidy,
Jeff Liebert,
Scot Brewer,
and Richard
LaBrake.
Callahan, a
substitute for
nearly the
entire 2004-
2005 school
year, now is
Kyle D. Callahan
formally fulltime
and
continues as senior religion teacher.
He holds a degree in psychology from
Earlham College and a masters in
theology from the University of
Dayton. He taught previously at
Archbishop Alter and Chaminade-
Julienne high schools (Dayton).
Callahan commutes daily to St.
Charles from the Dayton area, where
he is a member
of St.
Anthony
Parish. The
self-described
“World’s
Biggest Notre
Dame Fan”
has an eight
year old
daughter,
Joseph P. Moyer
Kennedy.
Moyer isn’t
new to the
school, either. He did his student
teaching at St. Charles from January
through April of 2004. He holds a
degree in math/computer science
from the University of Cincinnati and
a masters from The Ohio State
University. He spent 18 years in the
telecommunications computer
industry and retired to pursue a
teaching certification in integrated
mathematics from Ohio Dominican
University.
He’s a member of St. Pius X
Parish and has been active in Big
Brothers/Big Sisters of Franklin
County for 20 years. He enjoys most
sports and has traveled across the
United States,
Europe, and
South
America.
Gibbons is a
1981 St.
Charles
graduate and
is teaching
sophomore
economics and
U.S. government.
He has
Jack F. Gibbons Jr. ’81
been a member of the St. Charles
Alumni Association’s governing board
since 1999. He earned degrees in
history and anthropology from the
University of Notre Dame in 1985
and returns to St. Charles with a
professional background in business,
finance, and school development.
Gibbons has initiated education
licensure through Columbus State
Community College and Ashland
College and is completing work
through Ohio Dominican University.
Gibbons and his wife, Brenda,
have two children: Matthew (5) and
Andrew (1). He is a lector and Eucharistic
minister at St. Michael’s
Church and is chairperson of the
Worthington Hills Fourth of July
parade and activities.
Meanwhile, Matt Downey, who
previously taught freshman English,
now teaches junior religion and
continues as moderator of The
Carolian student newspaper.
State Athletic Honor
Faculty member Sr. Margaret Hoffman was
awarded the Ohio High School Athletic
Association’s Respect the Game Award at last
year’s Academic Awards Banquet. She was
honored for continually exemplifying good
sportsmanship, for being a positive role model to
the young men of St. Charles Preparatory, and for
reflecting a high level of ethics and integrity with
students.
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Armed Forces Update
2001
Lnc. Cpl. Francis J. Hartge
(Headquarter Battalion, Marines
4 th Division) recently returned
from a tour of duty in Iraq. He
plans to return to Ohio University
in January and work towards
a spring degree in biology
and graduate school seems
to be in the plans. He completed
Officer Candidate School in summer
2004 and still has three
years of reserve duty. He has
yet to decide on whether or not
to accept a commission in the
active Marines.
2000
Cpl. Rian M. Call of Lima
Company’s 3 rd Battalion, 25 th
Marine Regiment recently returned
from a tour of duty in Iraq.
He plans to return to his studies
at The Ohio State University this
January. He is pursuing a career
with Homeland Security as
a Border Guard, in hopes of relocating
to either, Texas or California.
He has two years remaining
with the Marine Reserves.
1999
Army 1 st Lt. Justin Habash is
the executive officer for the
headquarters platoon for Bravo
Company in the First Battalion of
the 502 nd Regiment which is part
of the 2nd Brigade of the 101 st
Airborne. He and the 502 nd recently
were deployed to
Baghdad, Iraq for 12 to18
months. He formerly was with
the 101st Airborne Division in Ft.
Campbell Ky. He was promoted
to lst lieutenant this summer.
Habash completed ROTC training
through Xavier University in
Cincinnati where he graduated
in June 2003 with two degrees
— one in English and the other
in philosophy. He was commissioned
a 2 nd lieutenant with the
army. He received both officer
and ranger training.
1997
Matthew K. Toomey is a 2 nd
lieutenant in the Ohio Army National
Guard’s 838th Military Police
Company. He’s currently a
military police platoon leader in
support of Operation Noble Eagle
at Ft. Story, Virginia.
1995
Robert J. “Rob” Chinnock, a
captain in the Air Force, was
deployed this past Labor Day at
Bagram AFB in Afghanistan flying
A-10 Thunderbolt II’s, also
known as the “Warthog.” He
flies missions in support of
ground operations as needed
and his unit supports both U.S.
Army and Marine operations as
well as Afghan Army operations.
He’s scheduled to return home
in early February.
Core values inspire ’87 grad
Chinnock is continuing a family
tradition: he is the third generation
of Air Force flyers. His dad,
Ed, was a B-52 navigator/bombardier
during the Vietnam era,
and his grandfather, Gilbert,
was a B-24 pilot during WW II,
Major Brian A. Hill is an active duty officer in the Air Force and a student at the Naval
War College in Newport, R. I., a center of strategic thought and national security policy
innovation for the U. S. Dept. of Defense. The college prepares officers for future command
and general staff positions throughout the Defense Department and awards
master’s degrees in National Security Studies.
Hill says that his experience at St. Charles provided a foundation for pursuing a life of
service, which he is fulfilling through a career in the Air Force. He says the core values
of the AF are “integrity first; service before self; and excellence in all we do” Hill said: “I
was taught those values by folks like Monsignor Gallen, Monsignor Bennett, Mr. Cavello,
Mr. Lower, Mrs. Cobler, Mr Arends and Senor Pena as a student long before I enrolled at
the Air Force Academy. I am gratified that those values are still taught there (at St.
Charles) today.”
Hill is a veteran of Operations Iraqui Freedom, Enduring Freedom, Southern Watch,
Joint Forge, and Joint Endeavor. He graduated in 1991 from the U. S. Air Force Academy.
Since then he has earned a master of arts in physical education from the University
of Northern Colorado (1995). He also was in residence at the Squadron Officer’s School
in 1995 and earned a degree by correspondence in 2003 from the residence Air Command
and Staff College.
Before his assignment at the Naval War College, Major Hill was the operations officer
of the 906th Air Refueling Squadron at Grand Forks Air Force Base in N. D. There he led
18 aircrews and associated staff in operations, training, and combat readiness in a squadron
tasked with executing world-wide air mobility missions. He also is an instructor pilot
with more than 2900 flight hours (220 combat) in various types of aircraft.
He has received numerous decorations. They include: Meritorious Service Medal with
Oak Leaf Cluster, Air Medal, Aerial Achievement Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary
Medal, Air Force Outstanding
Unit Award with
4 Oak Leaf Clusters, Air
Force Commendation
Medal with 2 Oak Leaf
Clusters, and the Air
Force Achievement
Medal. Hill and his wife,
Suzette, have an eleven
year-old son, Brayden.
Hill has served in
various positions in
Ramstein, Germany, as
an instructor pilot at
Elmendorf AFB in Arkansas,
pilot at Pope AFB in
North Carolina, at the Air
Force Academy, assistant
athletic director and
English instructor at the
Air Force Academy
Preparatory School, and
at Sand Point, Wash.
flew C-47’s in Korea, and flew
many other aircraft during a long
AF career. When Rob graduated
from pilot training, he was
pinned with his grandfather’s
wings.
Showing off the campus
On a cross-country move last summer from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North
Dakota to the Naval War College in Newport, R. I., Brian Hill ’87 (right) and his
family made stopped in Columbus. While in town he brought his son Braydon to
the St. Charles campus and met up with classmate Michael Smith ’87.
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His father says Rob works 12-
hour days most of the time. He’s
on alert two-three shifts, flying
three or four sorties, and works
one or two mission planning
shifts per week. He provides
close air support for coalition
ground troops. “He often will
just fly in the areas where they
are operating — that usually
scares off the insurgents — but
if it doesn’t the A-10’s can hammer
them pretty hard,” Ed said.
The parents e-mail almost every
day and Rob can instant message
a couple of times a week,
thanks to a special Air Force IM
system.
When he returns home, Rob will
have a couple of weeks off and
then will go to Maxwell AFB in
Alabama for three months to attend
Squadron Officers School.
“All junior officers have to take
the SOS course, but most do it
through orrespondence. It is a
privilege to actually go to Maxwell
for it,” Ed said. His family
plans to accompany him there.
After graduating from St.
Charles, Rob attended Bowling
Green State University where he
earned his private pilot’s license
and went through the AFROTC
program. Upon graduation, he
returned to BGSU to work with
the ROTC detachment until his
pilot training slot at Vance AFB
in Enid, Okla., opened up. After
graduating from pilot training, he
stayed for three years at Vance
as a T-37 instructor pilot and in
the last year completed a masters
in aeronautical studies from
Embry Riddle University.
Rob and his wife, Martha, have
two daughters, Abby (4) and
Amelia (2). An avid outdoorsman
who favors hiking, camping, and
Returning veterans hailed
“heroes” at school Mass
At the school Mass for the Feast of All Saints, St.
Charles honored graduates who had returned home
safely from military duty, particularly from Iraq.
There also were prayers for the safety of those still
in harm’s way around the world, and all the blessed
faithful, whatever their rank or status, who have
“gone before us to eternal life.”
In his homily, Msgr. Thomas M. Bennett hailed
the Marines as true “heroes” for doing their duty and
answering their nation’s call. He reminded the
student body assembled that “these men once sat in
the very seats where you are now” and their service
was neither “pleasant or convenient, but they did it
nonetheless.”
On hand were four Marine Corps ‘veterans’ and
their families. Alongside them were family members
representing other alumni who had served in Iraq.
Among those present with family members were
Rian Call ’00 and Patrick Ryan ’02, reserve members
of Lima Company’s 3 rd Battalion, 25 th Marine
Regiment. Also there was Steve Riley ’00 (Marine
Reserves 4 th Comm) and Frank Hartge ’01 (Headquarter
Battalion, Marines 4 th Division).
Family members of veterans not present included
Tom Strausbaugh, father of Chance ’01
(Army101st Airborne Div.); Jack and Margaret
Cahill, parents of John W. “Will” Cahill ’98 (Army
1 st Cavalry Div.); principal Dominic and Kathleen
(nee Cull) Cavello, for nephew Matt Cull ’94
(Marine’s 2 nd Fleet Anti-terrorism Security team);
and St. Charles physics teacher, Dr. Sarah
Vandermeer, mother of Chris Widell ’97 (Army 1 st
Cavalry Div.).
Principal Dominic Cavello, an Army veteran of
Vietnam, told the assembly that at last year’s
Marian Devotion at Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto,
“We received word that Lima Company was under
Marines heroes
Frank Hartge ’01, Steve Riley ’00, Rian Call ’00 and Patrick Ryan ’02,
recently returned from duty in Iraq, participated in the all-school
liturgy for the Feast of All Saints on Nov. 1. St. Charles students
and community honored its military alumni and prayed for the
safety of them still in harm’s way around the world.
heavy fire in Iraq. We prayed that day more intensely
than before for the safety of those men and
particularly for our alumni wherever the service of
our nation took them.”
He added: “We can only imagine the experiences
that they have had since leaving St. Charles,
and we are grateful that they and their families are
here to share with us this celebration of All Saints
Day.”
Many other St. Charles alumni have returned
from tours of duty in Iraq. They include: Colin
Cusack’96 (Army 1 st Cavalry Div.); Brian L. Davis
’76 (Marine 1 st Battalion, 25 th Regiment); Gabe
Diana ’94 ( Marines);Kevin Malloy ’97 (Lima
Company 3 rd Battalion, 25 th Marine Regiment); Dr.
Michael A. Oddi ’65 (Army 848 th Forward Surgical
team); and Robert Rodock ’97 (Army military
police).
John Dreska ’98 (Army Quartermaster) is
currently in Iraq, Chance Strausbaugh ’01 is on his
second tour of duty, and Robert Rodock ’97 is to be
deployed there.
Now piloting A-10’s
Lt. Robert J. Chinnock ’95, after
completing pilot training in
2000.
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Welcome Home!
Frank Hartge ’01 stands outside his family’s Reynoldsburg home
after returning from Iraq with his Cincinnati-based Marine unit.
Logisitc Man
Major John Dreska ’88, seen smiling, prepares to travel to
downtown Kabul from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with a
convoy of armored Humvees to inspect a new warehouse to food for
all U.S. forces in that country.
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Alumni Armed Forces Notes Update
mountain biking, he really enjoyed
Arizona where opportunities
for those activities are plentiful
and he was close to his
brother Tom ’87 in Phoenix.
1988
Major John M. Dreska is at
Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan
just above Kabul, the nation’s
capital. He is the quartermaster
in charge of all the wholesale
logistics (food, water, general
supplies, petroleum, packaged
petroleum, barrier and construction
materials, medical supplies
and repair parts) and disposal
of items. Dreska says the situation
is “not as bad as Somalia
was in 1993, but certainly no
place to picnic. Pray for us all,
we’re doing God’s work.”
He’s with a team working out
details for the $217-million fullline
food contract with Supreme
Food Service AG. This contract
will provide chilled products,
semi perishable food stuffs, frozen
fish, meat, poultry, fruits,
vegetables, prepared foods,
dairy, ice cream products, fresh
and frozen bakery products,
beverage base and juices, and
other food items for all U.S.
forces in Afghanistan.
1981 and 1983
Major Endre A. Gayer ’81 has
been in Baghdad, Iraq since July
Brothers cross paths
Brothers Ferenc ’83 and Endre
’81 Gayer, together at an
undisclosed location near
Baghdad in 110 degrees heat.
Endre says: “You want to hear
something funny, typical
American military humor? The
stores over here are selling t-
shirts with a picture of a soldier
and his Humvee. Underneath the
picture there is phase that says
“Who is your BaghDADDY?”
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serving as a comptroller for a
civilian affairs brigade. His brigade
supports humanitarian
projects for the Iraqi people. His
workday starts at 5 a.m. with
physical training and ends at 6
p.m.
He reports that his brother,
Ferenc ’83 was with him for a
time serving as the deputy signal
officer for the brigade. His
office was just 50 feet away!
“Pray for us and in turn we will
keep our heads down,” he said.
Conditions are hot and dusty, he
noted, with temperatures
around 115 degrees. Take care.”
Theresa Pickard, daughter
of Charlie Pickard ’58, joined
the Navy a couple years out of
East High School and was
trained as an electrician’s mate.
She was assigned to Air Squadron
VS-35 in San Diego and
completed two tours in the Persian
Gulf aboard the aircraft
carrier Abraham Lincoln. In
2003 she qualified for the “Seaman
to Admiral” program, similar
to NROTC for enlisted soldiers.
She’s attending Worcester State
College in Massachusetts
and on the Dean’s List. Upon
graduation she will be a navy
ensign and hopes to become a
public affairs officer. She and
her husband live in North
Uxbridge, Mass.
Theresa Pickard
Lima company
receives joyful
welcome back
After seven months of
intensive combat duty
in Iraq, embattled Lima
Company of the 3 rd
Battalion, 25 th Marine
Regiment from
Rickenbacker Air Force
Base returned in early
October to Columbus to
a huge celebration.
The celebration was
well deserved for this
unit suffered heavy
casualties. Sixteen of
its 160 members were
killed and 37 others
were injured during its
seven months deployment
in Iraq. Its
casualties were one of
the highest of any units
in the war so far. The
group gained worldwide
attention for its gritty
fight in Haditha, along
the Syrian border where
they encountered heavy
opposition from insurgents
for nearly 14
continuous days.
The company
included three St.
Charles graduates:
Kevin Malloy ’97, Rian
Call ’00, and Patrick
Ryan ’02. Ryan was
injured by a roadside
blast but recovered and
returned to finish the
tour with his comrades.
After a stop at Camp
LeJune in North
Carolina, company
members were transported
to Port Columbus
on Oct. 7 to be
reunited with their
families. From there
they were bused to the
Navy and Marine Corps
Reserve Center at
Rickenbacker AFB 13
miles away.
They were welcomed
back by many
thousands of Columbus
residents, including
many from the St.
Charles community,
Welcome back!
Rian M. Call ’00 (center), a member of the celebrated Lima Company
Marine reserve unit, celebrated his return home from duty in Iraq
with family and friends, including brother Matthew T. Call ’04 (far
left) at Rickenbacker AFB in October.
Back with family
Pat Ryan’02 was welcomed home by his entire family at
Rickenbacker AFB when his unit, Lima Company, returned from
duty in Iraq. From left in front — his mother Mary Ginn Ryan,
sisters, Megan, Kathleen, and Colleen; back — brother Brendan ’04,
father Bob ’69, brothers Mark ’00, Brogan ’04, Bobby ’93, sister
Courtney, and brothers Kevin ’95, Philip ’98 and Michael ’08.
Cardinal Marines
Four St. Charles alumni crossed paths in an undisclosed location in
Iraq near the Syrian border this summer. From left are Kevin Malloy
’97, Pat Ryan’02, Gabe Diana ’94 and Rian Call’00.
who lined the roadway
to their destination.
After marching in
formation from the
buses, they heard the
words they’d been
waiting for from their
company commander:
“Dismissed!” And with
that, the true celebration
began.
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’64 graduate has crafted at Josephinum
a music program of considerable renown
Dr. James Yeager, a 1964
graduate of St. Charles, is a
remarkable musical talent who
serves as director and professor of
sacred music at the Pontifical College
Josephinum in the far north side of
Columbus. At the Josephinum, he has
nearly single handedly created a
renowned music program.
His teaching duties at the Catholic
Church’s only pontifical seminary
outside Rome are impressive and
include six classes of graduate and
undergraduate level courses that
encompass every aspect of liturgical
music.
He teaches a college course on
music history and appreciation,
another on liturgical music that
covers the theology and history of
sacred music in the Roman Catholic
tradition, two course levels of liturgical
chants for priest and deacon
candidates, Gregorian Chant, and the
Josephinum Choir. The choir, consisting
of 28 student singers, sings music
of the Roman Catholic tradition at
Sunday Masses, ordinations, and in
public concerts. It has made two
professional recordings with a third on
the way, and has toured Europe in
concert twice since 2003.
Yeager’s professional duties
include curriculum development in
sacred music; coordinating, managing, and
planning liturgical music for daily Theology
School liturgies (Lauds, Mass, and
Vespers) and weekly liturgies (Sunday
Mass and Vespers), composing chant for
the daily Masses, and schooling student
cantors in the School of Theology.
He’s also the school organist. He serves
as the daily and weekly organist for the
aforementioned liturgies, organizes and
conducts a Gregorian Chant, Schola
Cantorum, that sings regular Latin rite
liturgies, and organizes and conducts the
pontifical brass ensemble, a faculty-student
instrumental group.
And we’re not done yet. Yeager also is
the musical advisor to two student liturgy
committees and the founder and artistic
coordinator of the Josephinum Performing
Arts Series called I Fiori Musicali. Now in
its 17th season, the series brings up to
eleven performances to the campus each
year. Open to the public, performances
include chamber ensembles, choral
groups, orchestras, and nationally known
artists.
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Instrument of choice
Dr. James A. Yeager, D.M.A. ’64, with the Gray Chapel
Organ at Ohio Wesleyan University where he recorded,
James Yeager in Recital, a concert album of classical
organ music.
Yeager says he still has one major
project he’d like to finish. That would be to
find the means to build a proper pipe organ
for the main chapel which, he says, in 70
years has never had one.
“It’s an enormous and costly project,”
Yeager admits. “The vision is a world-class
instrument perfectly fitted for the seminary
chapel and its great liturgies. It would
require an investment of at least $500,000,”
he said. A proper pipe organ combined with
the school’s “music curriculum, choir, and
its musical infrastructure, the Pontifical
College Josephinum would be complete in
my professional judgment” he said. “And
the seminary would be unrivaled by any
like institution in the world for its devotion
to the great sacred music of the Roman
Catholic tradition.”
Yeager’s introduction to sacred music
preceded his arrival at St. Charles, but it
was one of the school’s alumni, Father
(later Msgr.) Robert Schmidt ’35, who
stirred his interest. Schmidt was Yeager’s
parish priest at St. Agnes, and “it was his
deep love of music, the organ, and the
music of Johann Sebastian Bach that
touched me in an indelible way as a 12-
year-old kid,” Yeager said. At the
request of Fr. Schmidt, Yeager played
the reed organ at Sunday Masses at St.
Agnes as an eighth-grade student
there. He later participated in the St.
Charles glee club under the direction of
Monsignor F. Thomas Gallen, but
says he was decidedly not an outstanding
music student. He said his interest
in the organ was nourished by an
environment at St. Charles that
allowed for an interest in serious
music.
Yeager was introduced to
Gregorian Chant by Msgr. Gallen, a
chant scholar. At the time, the College
Seminary at St. Charles was still in
operation. He remembered being asked
to provide the chant at private Masses
for Father O’Brien (who was known as
“OB”). “I would …chant the Kyrie,
Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and
Agnus Dei at various levels of solemnity,”
Yeager recalled. (There are
about 18 different sets of Latin chants,
some very ornate, for the Mass Ordinary.)
“This rich heritage of chant
lives on in me to this day as I teach
Gregorian Chant at the Josephinum,”
Yeager said.
While Yeager was a student at St.
Charles, the Kilgen pipe organ in the
lower chapel was a big source of interest.
At the time, his classmate, Bill Foley,
would regularly accompany him at the
school Mass and the two became fast
friends. Unlike many fellow students, they
didn’t sneak off to smoke cigarettes or get
into some other kind of mischief. In fact,
they often sneaked into chapel to play the
Kilgen organ, only to be reprimanded from
time to time by Msgr. Gallen about playing
too loudly and needing to clean the ivories
that became a little grimy from their
sweaty hands.
Surprisingly, while Msgr. Gallen was
supportive of Yeager’s music (‘Monz’ is
often remembered for playing the organ at
school Masses and former spaghetti dinners),
the two didn’t work together at the
organ. It was Father Charles Haluska who
encouraged Yeager’s interest in classical
music, photography, and the radio club. “It
was in my junior year that I realized that
my career would be in music,” Yeager said.
After graduating from St. Charles,
Yeager enrolled in the School of Music at
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Former St. Charles organs still bellows out
hymns in new home
Dr. James Yeager ’64, director of sacred
music and the school organist at the
Pontifical College Josephinum, has two St.
Charles “alumni” as musical companions at
the school. They are the organs that
provided beautiful music for many years at
Masses and other religious events in the
school’s former upper chapel. One organ’s
playing days ended in the 1940s because of
its age and wear and the other when the
chapel was de-consecrated and remodeled
into Holy Angels Library.
The oldest and largest of the two was
built by Estey Reed Organs. It’s a twomanual
organ with a foot keyboard (not
unlike a pipe organ) whose origin is a bit
uncertain. Yeager remembers from a
conversation with Monsignor F. Thomas
Gallen that the organ originally may have
been at either Columbus St. Augustine
Church or St. Mary in Bremen, Ohio. It
dates from the 1920s.
He believes it was the original organ
installed in the upper chapel at St. Charles,
but fell into disuse when its bellows (exhausters)
became riddled with holes. The
big organ was probably used in the upper
chapel until it died (before my time),” he
said.
St. Charles principal Dominic Cavello
offered to give Yeager the organ three years
ago if he could have it removed, which he
did. To move it, he enlisted the help of four
or five then-seminarians at the Josephinum
who all happened to be St. Charles grads.
“We discovered that the instrument was
enormously heavy — I will hazard a guess
at more than 1000 pounds,” Yeager said.
“So with the help of the varsity football
squad —called on the spot by the principal
via intercom — we manhandled the thing
down the staircases and out the door.”
Restoration work by Yeager and an
enterprising Josephinum student was
begun in the summer of 2002. They disassembled
the organ down to its 100 or so
components, ripped away the decrepit
fabric on the exhausters (five set on a
crankshaft) and cleaned it. The rebuilt
organ “sounds like a million dollars,”
Yeager said. “We have it in the Fick
Auditorium . . .and it is used every year at
graduation when I play, among other
things, Pomp & Circumstance as the
students and faculty process. Of course it
requires the help of an able-bodied student
to crank the bellows while I play,” Yeager
said.
A little one keyboard foot-pumped reed
organ know affectionately as ‘Monz’s little
pump organ’ had replaced the original one.
The ‘replacement’ organ had been used for
Mass and Benediction in the upper chapel
up into Yeager’s high
school days in the
1960s.
Yeager said many
such organs graced
chapels around the
country in the late 19 th
and early 20 th centuries.
Made by Estey Reed
Organ Company in the
first part of the 20 th
century, they have
about 12 stops or “tone
knobs” that control
either the bass (left) or
treble (right) sides of
the keyboard. The
instrument is pumped
by two foot pedals that
open bellows like
wedges that exhaust air
from a larger wedge
bellows. When a key
was depressed and a
stop had been pulled,
the air is sucked
through a reed and
makes the familiar
sound of the organ.
Yeager spotted the
Upper Chapel’s original
large organ while
touring St. Charles
some six years ago with
a nephew during open
house for eighth grade
students. He spied it
sitting sadly in a corner
and asked principal
Dominic Cavello, his
classmate from the
Class of 1964, about it.
Cavello said the school
had been trying to
figure out just what to
do with it for years. Yeager responded if
the school ever decided to get rid of it, he
would be very interested in it. A call came
from Cavello in 2002, and the rest, as they
say, is history.
Two students back at the Josephinum
helped Yeager disassemble the organ,
clean it, and replace the fabric making up
the bellows. The process was time-consuming
but gave the instrument back its
lungs. It’s now in the upper chapel at the
Josephinum, named St. Rose of Lima. It’s
used often for Serra Club and other
devotions and Masses in the little chapel.
The organ accompanies the Josephinum
Choir on its two CDs.
How did these two musical treasures
come to be discovered and then rescued?
Skeletal state
With the organ having been stripped almost entirely to its bare bones, Yeager
installed the instrument’s new crankshaft. The original one had long ago been
sawed off, so he went to the Fortin Iron and Welding Company in Grandview
to have a new one made.
A second chance
Fully restored and re-assembled in perfect playing order.
Was it luck or the ghosts of the St. Charles
seminary that led to the rescue of these
grand old instruments? Who knows? Either
way, they have found renewed lives and
will continue enhancing the liturgy of the
Mass with their beautiful tones for many
years to come.
“The little organ was sitting by the old
‘dumbwaiter’ elevator shaft in the northeast
wing. It seemed to be having a lonely
life. And I believe in a moment of relief at
seeing the big organ out the door, I
‘conned’ Dominic into letting us find a new
home for the ‘Monz’ organ where it would
be used a lot,” Yeager said.
(Editor’s note: One thing I am quite
sure of is that Dominic Cavello has never
been “conned.”)
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The Ohio State University to major in
organ (performance) with a minor in voice
after having started to pursue simultaneous
degrees in teaching and music.
After his graduation from OSU, he
pursued a major in composition and theory
and he also continued organ study. He
completed his masters in sacred music
studies at Union Theological Seminary in
New York in 1971. Yeager proceeded to find
a full-time job at a church in Indiana
where he was organist and choir director of
multiple choirs. After three years he
moved to Colorado and entered a Doctoral
program.
The Doctor of Music Arts is a performance
oriented terminal degree (aimed at
teaching). “In addition to the six full
recitals required for the degree, I wrote two
dissertation length papers on historical and
practical aspects of the organ and its
New lungs
Josephinium seminarian Christopher Golliver displays the organ’s
restored exhauster/bellows. They draw air through the instrument’s
harmonica-like reeds to create the familiar rich and mellow tones of a
traditional parlor organ.
Ravages of time
Golliver displays the original bellows, caked with dirt and dust. A new
one was made by hand cutting new material.
The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education
construction.” Five years of research and
travel to major libraries led him to complete
the papers to receive the degree in
1985 in Boulder, Colorado.
The position at the Josephinum came
open in 1984 and, by chance, he was
suggested to the school’s academic dean as
a possible candidate. After a lengthy
discussion and brief audition, he was
accepted by the school and was formally
appointed by the papal delegate, Yeager
began his Josephinum teaching position as
an assistant professor in sacred music,
coincidentally, on the feast of St. Cecilia,
the patron saint of music.
“It seemed that every aspect of my
life’s study, beginning with those first days
at the reed organ at St. Agnes under Fr.
Schmidt, the music and chant at St.
Charles with the wonderful mentoring of
Msgr. Gallen, and all the subsequent
organ, voice, and other
scholarly work had
equipped me to provide the
Josephinum with its own
specialized program in
sacred music,” Yeager
said.
When he arrived
at the Josephinum,
Yeager recalled, “the
College’s expectations
were modest. Teach basic
Mass chants to seminarians
in theology preparation,
and lead the Schola
of singers for Masses.
There was little in the
way of a music curriculum
other than chant class and
the schola.” But Yeager
had more ambitious goals.
His first one was to create
a full curriculum in sacred
music that matched the
expectations of the
program of priestly
formation and other
church documents on
liturgical formation in
seminaries.
“At present we
have a core course in
sacred music required of
all theology students
covering the basic history,
documents, and definition
of sacred music,” Yeager
said. “The chant courses
have been expanded,” he
said, (and) “I offer a music
history/appreciation
course for college students. And I reestablished
the Josephinum Choir that was once
the great and renowned men’s chorus
famed in central Ohio for the first half of
the 20th century.”
After completing his masters in Divinity
in 1985, he advanced step by step to the
rank of full professor. In addition to the
music curriculum, he is most proud of the
Josephinum Choir that, in addition to its
two professional recordings and two European
tours, won a prize in the music
competition in Frankfurt in 2003, sings
regularly at parishes around the diocese,
performs a public concert every spring to
a packed chapel at campus, and is planning
its second European tour – to Italy —
in June of 2006.
Yeager has earned many prestigious
and important awards, two of which he
holds close to his heart. As a graduate
assistant at the University of Colorado, he
received in 1976 the Dean’s Top Ten
Graduate Teaching Assistants Award for
his work in the organ department. And
after his doctoral graduation at Colorado in
1985, the graduate committee on arts &
humanities selected Yeager’s dissertation,
Chronicle of Organ Reform and Unequal
Temperaments and the Organ, as one of
two winners of the Chancellor’s Dissertation
Award.
The nominating committee for the
dissertation award wrote: “Dr. Yeager’s
research links both the technical and the
humanistic aspects of the history of organ
playing with great skill, based on a vast
amount of reading of largely inaccessibly
literature. It thus constitutes a significant
contribution to our knowledge of organ
playing.”
Dr. Yeager is quick to say: “Whatever
honors or achievements I have obtained in
my life and work during and after college
all trace back to the formative study at St.
Charles. At every moment along the way,
bachelors, masters, doctorate, I had a
strong leg up on my colleagues because of
things I learned and knew at the hands of
great men like Monsignor O’Dea, Monsignor
Gallen, Father. Haluska, Father
Luchi, Father Geiger, Father Lehnhart,
Father O’Brien, John Rectanwald, Jack
Ryan et al.”
“The content of the curriculum (at St.
Charles), with its emphasis on classics and
critical thinking, gave me enormous tools
for graduate study. The striving for
excellence, inquisitive scholarship, rigorous
research and creativity in writing all
flow from classes there. We were challenged
to go beyond the merely acceptable.”
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In Memoriam
John Richard Baird, Class of 1965, April
9, 2005.
Joseph S. Bossetti, father of Joseph A.
Bossetti, Jr.’58, July 15, 2005.
Nicholas Coady, Class of 1955, August 8,
2005.
William B. Carlisle Sr., father of James
’74 and Robert Carlisle ’78, May 4, 2005.
Anson Chan Jr., Class of 1999, Aug. 20,
2005.
Helen Casey, wife of the late Daniel J.
Casey ’27.
Thomas W. Connor, Class of 1938,
brother of Roger L. ’43, father of Patrick
A. ’75, Kevin H. ’76, Matthew R. ’79, and
grandfather of St. Charles freshman Drew
and sophomore John, November 3, 2005.
Martha M. Dilenschneider (nee
Witucki), mother of Robert L.
Dilenschneider ’61, April 30, 2005.
Margaret Shircliffe Emerick, mother of
Jerry O. Emerick ’64.
Msgr. Clement F. Faistl, Class of 1929,
Aug. 12, 2005.
Charles Raymond Gambs, Jr., Class of
1941, brother of Richard ’50, October 26,
2005.
Dorothy Altman Gordon, sister of
James Altman ’50; mother of Patrick ’69,
Kevin ’71, Michael ’76 and Mark ’78; and
grandmother of Patrick Gordon, Jr. ’94,
October 28, 2005.
Leola Fern Cormany Groom, mother of
John A. Groom ’74 and grandmother of
Michael Groom ’05, , May 12, 2005.
Charles G. Hayes, Class of 1936, March
8, 2005.
Coach Bossetti served
19
years at St. Charles
Pursuing his passion of coaching football,
Joe Bossetti devoted 62 of his 87 years
teaching thousands of Central Ohio
youngsters the joys and challenges of that
sport. He served 19 of those years as an
assistant coach at St. Charles. Among
Cardinal players he coached was his son,
Joe, a 1958 graduate.
Bossetti started football coaching at
Santa Lucia Community Center for youngsters
on St. Clair Avenue and at old St.
Peter’s Elementary School. Both were
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Daniel Lee Kelly, Class of 1952, July 19,
2005.
Geraldine M. “Gerri” Killilea, wife of
William “Bill” Killilea ’45, April 14, 2005.
Mary Eloise Klingler, mother of Fr.
Charles F. Klingler ’61, August 25, 2005.
Walter Koch, Class of 1942, father of Alan
Koch ’78, September 26, 2005.
Ruth “Nana” Sarah Thomas La
Framboise, mother of Peter LaFramboise
’64, September 21, 2005.
Patricia Ann Lang Mattingly, mother of
Jeff Mattingly ’87, March 30, 2005.
William L. “Bill” Phillips, Class of 1950,
father of William L. Phillips Jr. ’74, April
22, 2005.
George E. Rieser, Class of 1946, July 2,
2005.
Martha J. Schell, mother of Philip Schell
’81, October 3, 2005.
Rita A. Smithberger, mother of Marion
Smithberger ’72, July 10, 2005.
Frank C. Stein, father of Daniel ’76 and
Andy Stein ’79, June 26, 2005.
Lois A Stock, grandmother of Andrew ’06
and Brian ’07 Stock, June 27, 2005
Eugene “Gene” Stluka, Class of 1955,
May 12, 2005.
Catherine Sharshal Tarpy, mother of
Dan, and Tom ’62 Tarpy, and grandmother
of Brian ’89 and Jonathan ’93 Tarpy,
October 3, 2005.
Lawrence Paul “Larry” Zelina, father
of Michael L. Zelina ’97, March 30, 2005.
Harry E. Zimmer Jr., Class of 1958, Aug.
27, 2005.
located in Milo, a predominantly Italian-
Irish neighborhood during the Depression
and World War II eras when railroading
was a major employer there.
At St. Charles, he assisted high school
hall-of-fame coach Jack Ryan, with whom
he was a best friend. Ryan named his son,
Joe, after Bossetti, who was Joe’s godfather.
Bossetti also coached with Jack Ryan
at Bishop Hartley, and at DeSales, Whetstone,
Centennial and Westerville South.
He coached both offensive and defensive
linemen.
An all-Ohio lineman at the former
Columbus Central High School, Bossetti
Dean of Coaching Assistants
Doc Goodwin, former sports cartoonist for The
Columbus Dispatch, with his signature artistic talent
honored the life and football coaching career of Joe
Bossetti. Courtesy of The Columbus Dispatch.
was a Golden Gloves finalist and was a
founding member of the St. Clair Athletic
Club, which fielded rugged football teams
in a Columbus amateur league, which had
its heyday in the Depression and following
years. Its annual battles with the 740
Athletic Club team on Mt. Vernon Avenue
were monumental.
Bossetti joined the St. Charles football
coaching staff in 1942 with Dom Tiberi,
personnel manager for one of the major
railroads, who was recruited to be interim
head coach in 1942 when Ryan enlisted in
the Coast Guard. Along with his railroad
job, Tiberi had coached St. Clair A.C.
football teams. He agreed to coach St.
Charles on one condition: that Joe Bossetti
be hired as an assistant, which he was.
Bossetti also was a railroad man; he
worked for the N&W Railway for 37 years.
Bossetti stayed at St. Charles until 1946,
returned to assist Ryan from 1957 to 1963,
and followed him at Hartley for the 1964-67
seasons.
He also served as assistant to attorney
Tom Vargo, Class of 1962, who coached the
Cardinals to their first post-season football
playoffs in 1983 when they posted an 8-3
record that included a stunning upset of
powerhouse Watterson. Bossetti during this
stint was an assistant at St. Charles from
1974 to 1983. The following year he went
to Watterson.
Bossetti was a student of football,
Vargo said. “He studied the game; he
taught me, as a player (for St. Charles)
fundamental techniques. He believed that
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y learning techniques a player has an
advantage and can compete with bigger
players.
“Football to Joe,” Vargo continued, “was
a wonderful way for groups of people to get
together for a common cause and to form
friendships. It was a means for camaraderie.
It gets into your blood.”
Among high school coaches that
Bossetti assisted, Vargo noted, were Ray
Bellisari, an Aquinas graduate, at Whetstone,
Pat Sergio, a Wehrle grad, at
Centennial, and Tony Pusateri, at DeSales,
of which he was a graduate.
Lou Fabro
Near miss in 1944
St. Charles never had an unbeaten football
season, but came close seven times
when it lost only one game. One of those
near-miss unbeaten seasons was in1944,
which Joe Bossetti recalled with considerable
emotion five years ago in an interview
for a history feature about St.
Charles football.
He noted that St Charles went into its
final game against Columbus Academy in
’44 with a perfect 7-0 record and heavily
favored over the Vikings, who that year
had a so-so team. But on game day, the
skies opened up and it poured all day. The
playing field at game time was oozing with
mud.
Despite pleas from players and
coaches to buy mud cleats, a cost-conscious
decision was made not to make a
purchase. As expected, neither team could
mount an offense. But an Academy player
in the second quarter grabbed a St.
Charles punt and, eluding St. Charles
defenders stuck in the mud, got loose for a
touchdown. It was the game’s only score.
Academy won 6-0.
“On a dry field,” Bossetti exclaimed
five years ago with maybe a touch of
exaggeration, “we would have beaten
them 50-0.”
Rieser was “brother’s
keeper
eeper” ” to
many
George Rieser, Class
of ’46, was a truly a
“man for God and
others” during a
lifetime in which he
helped countless
numbers of people.
He lived by a motto
that he repeated
often: Always help
George Rieser ’46
others because “you
never know who you
might help in this life.” In July he passed
away unexpectedly and much too early.
His obituary was a tribute to a man
who touched countless lives. He was the
youngest of nine children and attended the
Cathedral Grade School before coming to
St. Charles. Rieser served in the U.S.
Army, attended The Ohio State University,
and worked for the Central Ohio Paper
Company for many years before joining the
Central Ohio Management Association and
retiring in 1995.
For most of his adult life he was active
in Charity Newsies, only too happy to give
back to the organization that helped
provide him clothing when he was a boy.
He served as the organization’s drive
chairman from 1987-1989.
Reiser loved music and had a rich tenor
voice. He was a member of the Columbus
Maennechor for 30 years. He served as its
president in 1998 and oversaw the gala
celebration of the club’s 150 th anniversary
and the National Saengerfest when it came
to Columbus.
He was an active member of the St.
Charles Alumni Association board, frequently
attended First Friday Mass at the
school, and loved participating in the
annual Platinum Reunion for the school’s
earliest graduates.
Classmate, close friend, and Alumni
Association board member, Homer V.
Beard remembers Reiser fondly, and that
he was a wonderful husband who adored
his late wife, Peg, their five daughters and
many grandchildren.
Rieser was also very proud of his
association with St. Charles and many
other aspects of his life: attending the
former Cathedral Grade School and
Bishop James J. Hartley ‘s “Latin School
downtown; serving Mass for Bishop
Hartley at St. Joseph Cathedral; earning a
scholarship to attend St. Charles and
getting to ‘skip’ his freshman year there;
his presidency of Charity Newsies and
Maennerchor; his long presidency of the
Central Ohio Management Association;
and being a member of the St Charles
Alumni board.
The St. Charles and entire Columbus
community have lost a great friend and
supporter.
Latin & Greek in high
school!? ’41 grad recalled
shock of others
Charles R. Gambs, Class of ’41, described
his years at St. Charles as “a great educational
opportunity,” when interviewed for
St. Charles Borromeo Preparatory School;
The First 75 Years of Excellence, the
school history book published in 2000.
Gambs, a former special agent for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a
retired assistant vice president at The
Ohio State University where he had
earned his law degree, and a retired army
colonel, died Oct. 26, 2005, at the age of 81
due to complications from a fall.
“You told someone outside that you
took four years of Latin and two years of
Greek, they could hardly believe it,”
Gambs said with a note of pride in his
interview. All St. Charles students were
required to take Latin and Greek until
1945 when the Greek requirement was
replaced by two years of a modern language
– French or Spanish.
“The older you get,” Gambs said in
recalling his high school years, “the more
you appreciate how important that St.
Charles training is.”
Msgr. . Hanley described as
being good servant
“The Gospel tells us
all to be servants.
The measurement
of a good servant is
the fulfillment of
duty. Today, we
mourn the loss of a
good servant –
James Patrick
Hanley.”
With those words,
Father William
Msgr. James P. Hanley ’43 Arnold began his
eulogy of Msgr.
Hanley whose funeral Mass was celebrated
at Christ the King Church in Columbus by
Bishop Frederick F. Campbell assisted by
retired Bishop James A. Griffin. The
funeral drew a near capacity crowd of
mourners, including a very large number
of diocesan priests.
Msgr. Hanley died Oct. 21. He was 79.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he
was a 1943 graduate of St. Charles Preparatory
School and earned a B.A. degree
from St. Charles College-Seminary in 1947.
He was ordained a priest May 26, 1951, at
St. Joseph Cathedral. He was appointed a
monsignor in 1992 and retired three years
later but continued his priestly ministry.
In his very lively eulogy, Father
Arnold, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in
Dover, Ohio, described Msg. Hanley as “a
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consoler and a lively conversationalist. His
social calendar was always full” and “he
loved St. Patrick’s Day,” Arnold said. He
added: “We were always uplifted by his
graciousness. We thank God for this
marvelous priest. He loved his Church,
he loved Christ the King Parish, and he
loved its people.”
When Christ the King Parish paid off
its very sizable mortgage, Arnold recalled
that Msgr. Hanley wanted to have a
“celebration to end all celebrations” for
the ceremonial burning of the mortgage.
So big was the celebration, Father Arnold
said, that it prompted a letter from the
bishop to all diocesan priests urging that
they “practice moderation when having a
celebration.”
At the close of Mass, Bishop Campbell
said that being fairly new to the diocese,
he didn’t know Hanley well, but he had
discovered that for Msgr. Hanley “celebrating
Mass was a special joy.”
During his priestly career, Msgr.
Hanley, who was an eloquent speaker, was
assistant pastor of three parishes – Holy
Redeemer in Portsmouth, St. Christopher
in Columbus, and St. Mary in Delaware.
He was pastor at five parishes – St.
Augustine in New Straitsville, St. Mary in
Shawnee, and St. Dominic, Christ the
King, and St. Timothy in Columbus, and
served as rector of St. Joseph Cathedral.
He also was administrator of Holy Spirit
Parish in Columbus.
Msgr. Hanley served in many other
positions, including assistant editor and
then editor of The Catholic Times, of
which he served four years, and he was
diocesan vicar of communications for 14
years. Hanley’s many assignments
included that of state chaplain for the
Knights of Columbus, spiritual director for
the Josephinum, task force coordinator for
urban and racial problems, and others.
Walter Koch, from the Class of 1942, was a great
supporter of the St. Charles Theatre Department. He
took and donated thousands of photos of stage
productions and their casts and crews for more than 15
years on behalf of the school. Son’s Tom ’85 and Alan
’78 are St. Charles alumni.
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Faistl was WW II, Korean
chaplain
Msgr. Clement
Faistl lived a long
life during which
time he was involved
in several
very memorable
events. Msgr. Faistl
was:
…in the first
freshman class that
assembled in the
fall of 1925 at the
Msgr. Clement F. Faistl ’29
newly-constructed
St. Charles Preparatory
School on East Broad Street (two
earlier classes were taught at old Sacred
Heart Grade School);
…with the 101 st Airborne on June 6,
1944, as a regimental chaplain, that took
part in the World War II D-Day invasion
of Normandy, France, which was the
largest assault in history by sea (see fall,
2003 issue of the Cardinal) ;
…with the same unit when it was sent
to help defend at all costs Bastogne, Belgium
in December, 1944, to block its
capture during the epic World War II
“battle of the bulge” when German dictator
Adolph Hitler launched an all-out – and
unsuccessful — attack with 12 divisions to
capture that key crossroads city and stop
the allied liberating offensive across Europe;
again a front-line chaplain, this time
for two years (1951-53), in the Korean War;
the oldest priest in the Columbus Diocese
before he died Aug. 12, 2005, at the age of
92.
Msgr. Faistl was recruited by his Holy
Rosary parish priest to attend St. Charles
and was allowed to skip a year in grade
school that enabled him to enroll when the
newly built high school building opened.
He graduated in 1929 with 15 others,
earned a degree four years later from St.
Charles College Seminary, which was
housed in the same building as St. Charles
Prep, completed his theological studies at
Mt. St. Mary Seminary near Cincinnati,
and was ordained a priest in 1937 by
Bishop James J. Hartley, founder of the St.
Charles educational complex.
Faistl served in pastoral roles at St.
Vincent in Mt. Vernon, St. Joseph in
Fairport, Newark St. Francis, Newark,
Columbus St. Dominic, Danville St. Luke
and LaRue St. Joseph. He volunteered in
1980 to serve as a missionary in San Pablo
Diocese in the Philippines where he spent
three years before returning to Ohio. He
was named a monsignor in 1995.
John and Dorothy Gordon
Mrs. Gordon was mother
of 4 St. Charles grads
Dorothy Altman Gordon, mother of four St.
Charles alumni, died at the age of 82 on
October 28. Mrs. Gordon was a long-time
member of Christ the King Parish, a
graduate of Rosary High School and St.
Mary of the Springs College, and a veteran
of World War II in which she rose to
captain in the U.S. Army. She was preceded
in death by her husband, John W.
“Jack” Gordon Jr.
Mrs. Gordon was the mother of John
W. III (Hartley ’68): and St. Charles
alumni: Patrick N., Class of ’69; Kevin J.,
Class of ’71; Michael J., Class of ’76; and
Mark Alan Gordon, Class of ’78. A grandson,
Patrick Gordon Jr., ’94.
Family friend and St. Charles alumnus
Fr. Mike Lumpe ’78, celebrated Mrs.
Gordon’s funeral Mass on All Soul’s Day at
Christ the King Church, where he is
pastor. In his homily, Fr. Lumpe described
the home of Mrs. Gordon and the five
Gordon boys as follows:
“1477 Wilmore Drive is like walking
into a time capsule of the Gordon family.
There are boxes of photos, mementos, old
report cards, letters and correspondences
dating back decades, carryout menus from
TAT and Wing’s,” Lumpe said.
He spoke of a recent visit to the Gordon
home. “Mike showed us his first communion
class photo. Pat showed us some of
Dorothy’s singing cardinal collection. Some
of the grandkids were coming across items
from the days when their fathers were just
young boys growing up in that house.”
Home and family life were very important
to Dorothy, and to her husband Jack – both
of whom are now reunited.”
At the conclusion of the Liturgy, the
five Gordon brothers assembled in single
file behind the lectern on the altar and
delivered personal recollections and
tributes to their “dear mother.” It was a
beautiful and fitting sendoff to one of the
great ladies in the St. Charles community.
St. Charles Preparatory School

Advisory Board
Advisory Board changes
announced
After 56 years of combined service to the
St. Charles Advisory Board, Louis V. Fabro
’49 and Leonard J. Iannarino Jr. ’58
completed their final three-year terms last
May and will continue in an “emeritus”
status.
Elected to fill their vacancies were John
L. Sauter, Class of ’58 and Peter G.
Kleinhenz, the parent of a current student.
The recently expanded board has 25
members plus nine who are listed as
“emeritus.”
Sauter is an attorney in private practice
in Westerville. He formerly was a vice
president for the Ohio National Bank and
its successor, BancOhio, and served as
development director at St. Charles from
1998-2002. He is on the board of the
Catholic Foundation and a member of St.
Paul Parish. He and his wife, Connie, have
five children.
Kleinhenz is a general partner and
managing director of CID Capital Inc. a
private equity investment firm. He manages
CID’s Columbus office, leads their
investments in healthcare and serves on
the board of a variety of medical and
technology based companies. He is on the
executive committee and treasurer of
Omeris, Ohio’s life science organization and
a director of Nidus Center BioGenerator
and The Midwest Healthcare Investment
Network. He and his wife, Judy O’Brien
are members of St. Andrew Church, have
three children, including current St.
56 years of service continues
Louis V. Fabro ’49 (left) and Leonard J. Iannarino Jr. ’58
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Charles sophomore, Nolan.
Fabro was on the board for 31 years,
was president/chairman for eight years
(1976-84), and was the annual fund chairman
during the 1994-1995 campaign. He
was the publicity chairman for the 2002
Campaign for St. Charles.
At the St. Charles Feast Day Mass in
2001, Fabro was presented with one of the
school’s highest honors, the first Principal’s
Award for Service to St. Charles. He was
honored for authoring St. Charles
Borromeo Preparatory School, The First
75 Years, a 250-page hardbound history
published in 2000. It chronicles in stories
and photos many individuals who figured
in the growth and development of St.
Charles, highlighted memories and anecdotes
of alumni, teachers, and administrators,
and many of the school’s athletic
achievements.
He represented the school for six
years on the Diocesan Secondary School
Board. He’s currently in his fifth year on
the diocese’s Catholic Schools Advisory
Commission. A former daily newspaper
reporter, he worked 37 years for Nationwide
Insurance where he retired in 1997
as its news and information director.
Fabro remains as publicity chairman
for the Campaign for St. Charles and is the
senior editor of the Cardinal, the school’s
alumni magazine.
Iannarino was a board member for 25
years, the last 23 as secretary, and was
chairman of the 1991-1992 annual fund
campaign. He served on the planning
committee for the
successful $10-
million Campaign
for St. Charles,
launched in 2002
and which was the
largest in school
history and one of
the largest for a
private school in
Central Ohio.
For his many
ongoing contributions
to St. Charles
and its alumni,
Iannarino was
awarded The
Principal’s Award
for Leadership and
Service in 2002 at
the school’s annual
feast day Mass.
Iannarino also
represented St.
Charles for eight
years on the
John L. Sauter ’58
Peter Kleinhenz
Diocesan Secondary School Board and was
on its student grievance committee for
several years. He worked for the State of
Ohio for 22 years, the last 13 for the
Department of Administrative Services
from which he retired in 2001.
Asked about some standout events
while on the board, Fabro cited the school’s
comeback after its enrollment had fallen
to 65 students in its final year as a seminary
prep in 1968-69 and its ability to
overcome the loss of the diocesan subsidy,
which had been used to support the school
during its seminary years and was ended
in 1975. To do that, the school rebuilt
enrollment, increased tuition, and established
bingo, an annual lottery, and other
fund-raising projects, and established a
development office to become self-sufficient
financially.
Other important highlights cited by
Fabro and Iannarino were the ambitious
and successful $10-million Campaign for
St. Charles and the establishment in 1987
of the first St. Charles Preparatory School
Endowment Fund of which deceased board
member Harry L. Thoman was the primary
motivator and architect. That
endowment now exceeds $7 million.
Other notable achievements were the
extensive capital improvements, including
the conversion of former dormitories and
apartments into classrooms, and the
building of new facilities – the Jack Ryan
physical fitness center, the multipurpose
building, the natatorium, and the Robert C.
Walter Student Commons and Student
Services & Fine Arts Center now under
construction.
Iannarino and Fabro agreed that the
appointment in 1985 of Dominic J. Cavello
as the school’s first lay principal stands out
as a singular wise decision. Cavello has
preserved and enhanced St. Charles as an
academic stronghold in keeping with the
high scholarly standards for which it was
founded. In addition, he has worked over
and beyond the call of duty to oversee the
many physical improvements that have
been made during the past 25 years.
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Development Update
Annual Fund Sets Goal
Douglas H. Stein ’78
A challenging goal
of $475,000 has
been set for the
2005-2006 St.
Charles Annual
Fund. This includes
efforts to raise
$325,000 from
alumni and
$150,000 from
parents of current
students according
to principal
Dominic J. Cavello. The appeal runs
thorugh June 30, 2006.
A total of $567,983, a record, was
raised last year from all sources—alumni,
parents of St. Charles students, parents of
alumni, grandparents, and long-time
friends of the school.
The alumni segment of this year’s
Annual Fund again
will be chaired by
1979 alumnus
David L.
Pemberton Jr., a
member. of the
school’s Advisory
Board and Development
Committee.
Under Pemberton’s
leadership last year,
the alumni appeal
Dave Pemberton Jr. ’79
raised an all-time
high for gift receipts
to an annual fund in a one-year period of
$375,100. Pemberton, who is president and
chief operating officer of Suburban Natural
Gas in Lewis Center, Oh., is also the
parent of a St. Charles alumnus, Joe
Pemberton, a member of the class of 2000.
Leading this year’s Parents Fund are
co-chairs Dr. George and Terri
Lewandowski, parents of a current
senior, Christopher, and a 2003 St. Charles
alumnus, Michael. Dr. Lewandowski, is a
Terri and Dr. George Lewandowski
surgical oncologist with Gynecologic
Oncology and Pelvic Surgery Associates in
Columbus. Terri is a technical editor for
the American Chemical Society and Chemical
Abstracts. She and her husband are
members of Immaculate Conception Parish
and have served previously as Parents
Fund class captains.
Joining the Lewandowskies are four
parent class captains: Mike and Anita
Hessenauer, senior class captains; Mike
and Ann Stromberg, junior class captains;
Mike and Renee Sherman,
sophomore class captains; and Bob and
Suzanne Meyers, freshman class captains.
Cavello said last year’s Parents
Annual Fund responded with a recordhigh
gift total of $192,000 used to initiate
the all-school HVAC project. This year’s
goal of $150,000 will complete the entire
project, which includes new furnaces on
every floor of the main building, a new
air-conditioning system for the entire
main building, and new ductwork throughout
the school. The school’s old steam
boilers were dismantled and scrapped last
summer as part of the demolition of the
old powerhouse to make way for the new
Student Services and Fine Arts Center.
“The Parents Fund is an important
tradition that provides St. Charles with
funding for renovations and important
upgrades that enhance a comfortable
learning environment for our students,”
Cavello said. “Our building turned 80 years
old this September and is in remarkable
condition,” he said. “The parents of our
students have helped keep it that way.”
The Alumni Annual Fund proceeds
traditionally support need-based tuition
assistance, Pemberton said.
“One hundred percent of each gift to
the Alumni Annual Fund is designated
toward the school’s student financial aid
program,” he said. In most cases, our
graduating classes have a class captain
who has pledged to make contact with
their fellow alumni for leadership gifts,”
Pemberton said.
“Over 600 St. Charles alumni and
parents of alumni contribute $350,000
annually for student aid,” Cavello said.
“This equates to nearly 25 percent of our
student body being awarded some level of
aid.”
A growing part of those annual gifts
are coming from the school’s Class Reunion
Giving Program,” said director of
development Doug Stein.
“The foundation for this year’s alumni
fund was created by a generous outpouring
from the Classes of 1955, 1975, and
1985."
As “the Cardinal” went to press, a total
of $40,700 had been pledged from these
three reunion classes,” Stein said.
“The school has received two new
$25,000 class endowments that were
initiated by the reunion Classes of 1955 and
1985, respectively,” Stein said. “These new
funds will be here forever and have helped
guarantee future scholarship awards for
students in need.”
Stein said the Class of 1975 Endowment
was initiated three years ago as part
of The Campaign for St. Charles. The fund,
which had a balance of $15,446 before the
class reunion, has received an additional
$3,550 in pledges toward the pending
endowment.
Classes that have engaged alumni are
encouraged to initiate new funds that
perpetuate the mission of the school, Stein
said. “When you’re a student here you
probably don’t realize the generosity that
goes on behind the scenes, but take my
word for it: private philanthropy and
sacrifice helped St. Charles through some
difficult years and much of these recent
investments have secured the future of the
school.”
Stein said alumni leaders who are
forming class reunion committees will
discuss class gifts when they meet with the
school’s alumni director, Louis Fabro’83.
Louis will tell them that the ability to “give
back” is one of the most satisfying things
alumni can do on reunion weekend.
St. Charles Endowment
Update
Class of 1963 Alumni Memorial
Scholarship Fund Tops $28,000
When the St. Charles Class of 1963 celebrated
its 40-year
reunion in 2003, a
group of alumni
passed the hat at a
reunion cocktail
party to raise
money for student
scholarships at St.
Charles. A total of
$10,000 was raised
that night at Bob
Stephen Boller ’63
Walter’s house. At
the end of the 2005
fiscal year, the fund
has grown to $13,250.
Sadly, a member of that Class of 1963,
Steve Boller, died last year after a brief
illness. Unbeknownst to his classmates,
Boller had written St. Charles into his will,
which called for a generous gift from his
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estate. This August, a check for $15,000
arrived from Boller’s estate, designated
toward the scholarship fund the Class of
1963 initiated two summers ago as part of
its 40-year reunion.
Boller’s estate gift brings the Class of
1963 Alumni Memorial Scholarship to
$28,200, an amount that meets the
school’s endowment benchmark of
$25,000. Next school year the ’63 Fund
will begin producing an annual award
equal to 5% of the Fund principal.
’85 Class Creates Fund;
$24,150 is Pledged
The Class of 1985 gathered for its 20-year
reunion the weekend of August 19-20 and
presented St. Charles with a new endowment
fund to support the school’s
longstanding mission of granting needbased
student aid. At the time of this
report, a total of $24,150 had been pledged
by 18 members of the class. The benchmark
for a new scholarship endowment at
St. Charles is $25,000.
“This particular reunion committee
did a fine job of reaching out to their
classmates from all over the country,” said
St. Charles Principal Dominic Cavello.
“The results speak for themselves. This is
a highly successful class of alumni who
are also very generous.”
Leading their ’85 Class Gift Committee
were alumni Vince Fabro, Mike Jarosi,
Neal Roberts and Bill Turner.
“On behalf of the Class of 1985, I am
proud to announce the launch of the Class
of 1985 Endowment. Many members of
our class were generous with their time,
effort, and resources in planning our 20-
year reunion. The planning stages gave
pause for many to reflect upon their St.
Charles experience. An overriding sentiment,
not uncommon to alumni of all
’85 Class creates endowment
St. Charles principal Dominic J. Cavello holds a pledge
“check” presented to him by the Class of 1985 at its
reunion event at Plank’s Café last August. The “check”
was to help establish the Class of 1985 Endowment with
$17,150 in pledges. That figure now stands at $24,150.
Other St. Charles faculty members attending included
Doug Montgomery and Mike Arends.
The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education
classes, was the role of St. Charles in
shaping their formative years. Our class
members, however, made specific note of
the unique socio-economic diversity of the
student body and how, upon reflection,
this element was so very integral,” said
Jarosi.
Jarosi said his classmates made a
commitment to the mission of St. Charles
as established by its founder, Bishop
James Hartley, that no young man should
be denied, or deterred from, the opportunity
of a St. Charles education due to lack
of family financial resources.
“The Class of 1985 Endowment has
received over $23,000 in pledges, at such
an early date from its inception. We are
confident this endowment will to continue
to grow, so that Bishop Harley’s mission
may be guaranteed – and enhanced – for
generations to come,” Jarosi said
Campaign’s Phase II Will Fund
Walter Student Commons and St.
Charles Student Center
St. Charles alumni and campaign leaders
Matt Howard ’58, Tim Kelley ’76, and
Robert D. “Bob” Walter ’63 announce a
successful launch of the $4.6 million
Phase II of The Campaign for St. Charles.
Since April 2005, Phase II has raised $2.6
million in leadership pledges and gifts for
naming opportunities within the Robert C.
Walter Student Commons and the St.
Charles Student Services & Fine Arts
Center.
In late October, members of the
school’s Advisory Board and Campaign
Committee began their calls on the
school’s longtime donors to raise $1
million through naming opportunities.
Areas include floors in the new Center,
classrooms, and beautiful new west
colonnades to mirror the iconic colonnades
located at the front of the school.
The St. Charles Walk of Honor will be relocated
to its new home underneath the
new colonnades.
The school’s director of development,
Doug Stein ’78, reports plans for a new St.
Charles Wall of Honor, which will be
located inside the Walter Student Commons.
The Commons will be utilized by
every St. Charles student, every day of
the school year.
The campaign leadership team also
reports St. Charles is relying on pledges
and gifts of its alumni and parents to
complete the project.
Principal Dominic Cavello reports onethird
of the Commons base floor has been
poured and is positioned in mid-November
to begin erecting steel supports for the
courtyard enclosure. Mr. Cavello is optimistic
the project will be ready in time for
Class of ’75 Gift
Greg Kontras presents St. Charles principal Dominic J.
Cavello a pledge “check” for $5,400 to go towards the
existing Class of 1975 Endowment.
Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement
scheduled in early June. Please refer to the
school’s Website for updated color photos of
the project. To get involved in the new St.
Charles Wall of Honor, the St. Charles
Walk of Honor, or to receive a list of roomand
area-naming opportunities, please
contact the school’s Development & Alumni
Office at (614) 563-6963.
Walter Student Commons
Groundbreaking
On June 6 St. Charles celebrated a ceremonial
groundbreaking for the Robert C.
Walter Student Commons and the new
Student Services and Fine Arts Center.
The estimated cost for the expansion is
$5.5 million, which will be funded by The
Campaign for Saint Charles – Phase II..
When completed next May, both
structures will provide 25,000 square-feet of
functional gathering space for everyday use
by the student body. It will also accommodate
student-body and faculty convocations,
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Development Update
all-school Masses, lectures and special
presentations, and special events. Attached
at the Commons northernmost point will be
a 12,000-square-foot Student Services &
Fine Arts Center, which will house a new
cafeteria.
Student Commons Naming
Class of 1963 alumnus Bob Walter and his
wife Peggy, a St. Mary of the Springs
Academy alumna, initiated Phase II of the
Campaign for Saint Charles with a naming
gift for the new student commons, which is
being named in honor of Bob’s father, the
late Robert C. Walter. Mr. Walter was a
staunch believer in the traditions and
educational philosophy of St. Charles. The
Robert C. Walter Student Commons is the
vision and original architectural plan of
1963 St. Charles alumnus Bob Corna, who
like his classmate Walter, felt a common
gathering space was the one thing missing
from their St. Charles experience. The
15,000-sq.-ft. Walter Student Commons
will be used by every St. Charles student,
every day of the school year and will be
made available to the public for special
events on a first-come first serve basis. The
west entrance to the Walter Student
Commons will also feature new colonnades,
which are one of the school’s distinctive
architectural features.
Ground Floor Naming
Thanks to a generous donation from
locally-owned Donatos Pizza and its
founder and chairman, James E. “Jim”
Grote, the school will relocate its kitchen
and cafeteria to the ground floor of the
new Student Services & Fine Arts Center.
The Donatos Pizza Kitchen will be utilized
by every student, every day of the school
year. Donatos Pizza will also serve as the
school’s official caterer for on-campus
athletic and extra-curricular events. Jim
Grote is a graduate of Aquinas College
High School and is the father of Thomas
J. Grote, a member of the St. Charles
Class of 1982.
Second Floor Naming
Thanks to a $250,000 pledge from the
Younkin Family, the second floor of the
Student Services & Fine Arts Center will
house the Younkin Family Student Success
Center, which will promote afterschool
tutoring and counseling. A similar
tutoring and life-skills guidance center
provided by the Younkin Family exists at
The Ohio State University. The leadership
pledge from the Younkins is based on the
family’s long-time affiliation with St.
Charles and local charitable causes: Ron
and Linda Younkin, owners of Greenlawn
Homes in Columbus, are the parents of
two St. Charles alumni, Ronald L.
Younkin, Class of 1989, of South Lyon,
Mich., and Brett E. Younkin, Esq., Class of
1996, of Columbus, and Brian P. Younkin,
a 1991 Bishop Watterson alumnus. The
family gift also pays tribute to St. Charles
alumni Robert M. Benjamin, Class of
1987, and Raymond M. Benjamin, Class of
1991. The family matriarch, Mrs. M. Irene
Younkin, is active in charitable causes in
Columbus and nearby Ashville, Oh. In
addition to the after-school tutoring
center, the Younkin Family Success Center
will house a student lounge; a campus
ministry office; a large conference room; a
college and university resource library; a
computer lab; four counseling rooms; a
nurse’s office; and a reception area.
Main Building Entryway Naming
Thanks to a $100,000 gift from the Steve
Savko Family and the Marty Savko Family
in honor of the Savko Family matriarch
and patriarch, Nickolas and Gilda Savko,
The Savko Family Entryway will provide a
new entrance from the school’s main
hallway into the new Walter Student
Commons. To make way for the new
entrance, the school receptionist office and
the bookkeeper’s office will be demolished
and will be relocated to the old Guidance
Office area. The Guidance area will be
relocated on the second floor of the new
Student Services & Fine Arts Center. The
centerpiece of the Savko Entryway will be
the three arched stained glass windows
that are located in the alcove of the main
entrance. Marble statues of the Blessed
Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph will be
dedicated to the Savko Family matriarch
and patriarch, Nickolas and Gilda Savko.
The statues will be located at the entryway
in close proximity to new glass doors that
will be installed on both sides of the
stained glass windows.
Nurse’s Office
A pledge from The Mason Family, has
made possible the Nurse Betsy Mason
Room, which will house the school-nurse’s
office at St. Charles. Mrs. (Postlewaite)
Mason, a graduate of St. Mary of the
Springs Academy and St. Louis University
College of Nursing, has been the school
nurse at St. Charles for 22 years. Her
compassion, care and concern for the young
men at St. Charles, and the school’s faculty
and staff, makes Mrs. Mason’s contributions
to her fellow man unmatched in the
area and the state. The Nurse Betsy Mason
Room will be located on the second floor of
the Student Services & Fine Arts Center.
Interior view
This new artistic rendering shows the planned interior
of Walter Commons and the front of the Student
Services and Fine Arts Center now under construction.
Campus Ministry Office
A pledge from The Robert W. Horner III
’79 Family will honor his parents by
creating The Robert and Jane Horner
Campus Ministry Office. The office will
house the school’s religion faculty. The
office will also focus on outreach and
service projects for St. Charles students.
Student Lounge
A $25,000 pledge from 1979 St. Charles
alumnus David L. Pemberton Jr., and his
family, will honor longtime St. Charles
English faculty member Ann Cobler with
the naming of the Ann Cobler Student
Lounge. Mrs. Cobler, who joined the St.
Charles faculty in 1977, was the recipient
of the 2004 St. Charles Principal’s Award
for Leadership and Service and the 1988
Distinguished Teaching Award from the
Diocese of Columbus. Mrs. Cobler has
taught English at all four levels during her
28 years at St. Charles and takes great
pride in preparing juniors for their PSAT
and Advance Placement scores. The
student lounge will be located on the second
floor of the Student Services & Fine Arts
Center and will offer students a “place of
their own” when assembling for college
admissions-officer visits as well as a place
to review college admissions materials
retrieved from the nearby college resource
stacks.
Conference Room
Pledges and gifts from the school’s current
Advisory Board has led to the naming of
the St. Charles Advisory Board Emeritus
Conference Room. A permanent roster
inside the conference room will honor
those members who have been granted
emeritus status and emeritus members in
future years. Currently there are nine
such members: Msgr. William A. Dunn
’57; Louis V. Fabro ’49; James T. Foley Jr.;
Leonard J. Iannarino Jr. ’58; John J. Ritz
’47; Henry J. “Hank” Sherowski; Richard
R. Stedman ’54; F. W. “Bill” Sullivan Jr.;
and Michael M. Sullivan ’58. The late
Joseph M. Gallen M.D. ’35, a longtime
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member of the Board, will be recognized “In
Memoriam.” The conference room will seat
approximately 25 and will be located in the
guidance area on the second floor of the
Student Services & Fine Arts Center.
Guidance Rooms
Four separate guidance and counseling
rooms will be located on the second floor of
the Student Services & Fine Arts Center.
Rooms in this suite were each made
possible by pledges of $25,000 to $50,000.
The Aquinas College High School Alumni
Memorial Room is being dedicated in honor
of all alumni of the former Aquinas College
High School of Columbus, Ohio. Aquinas
was founded in 1905 by the Dominican
Order and was closed in 1965. The appeal
is being chaired by Aquinas alumnus
Richard A. “Dick” Schneider, a member of
the Class of 1957 and parent of two St.
Charles alumni. Gifts totaling $50,000 for
this room naming have been made by area
Aquinas alumni, most notably leadership
gifts from Columbus-area alumni Jim
Williams Jr., and Jim Dew, and Mr.
George M. Steinbrenner III, a former
Aquinas coach, of Tampa, Fla. In addition
to financial support from the alumni, the
spouses and parents of Aquinas alumni are
also supporting the appeal. A permanent
nameplate recognizing The Aquinas
Alumni Memorial Room will be be placed
on the new St. Charles Wall of Honor.
The Dean Jim Lower Room is being
dedicated to recognize St. Charles faculty
member (mathematics) and dean of students,
Mr. Jim Lower. The $25,000 gift
was made by the Savko Family.
The Dominic Frangella and John
Martonchik Memorial Room is named in
honor of the maternal grandfathers,
HVAC Heroes
The school’s transition to central air and heating has
kept the crew of Wenger Temperature and Control busy
since last May as workers installed ductwork, pipe,
and control units throughout the main building’s four
floors. Dan Camp (back to the camera) and Troy Fogle
(far left) have been fixtures at the school all summer
long and later were joined by Joe Moro (knit cap), John
Morrow (at controls) and Jeff Jones (top).
The Distinctive Leader in Catholic Education
respectively, of Peter Kleinhenz and Judith
O’Brien, parents of St. Charles student
Nolan Kleinhenz. Both of these men were
immigrants to this country and consistently
stressed the value of a good education
and hard work to their children and
grandchildren. A $25,000 gift from the
Kleinhenz family makes this room possible.
The Saint Charles Faculty and Staff
Guidance Room is being dedicated to
recognize the outstanding efforts made by
the St. Charles faculty and staff in the
education and development of all men of St.
Charles. This room was made possible by a
gift from Dr. George and Terri
Lewandowski and their alumni sons, Mike
Lewandowski, Class of 2003, and Chris
Lewandowski, Class of 2006.
Fine Arts Classrooms
The Prunte Family Art Room is being
dedicated to honor members of the Prunte
Family, many of whom are alumni, parents
of alumni, and parents of current
students. A $50,000 pledge from Annette
Prunte Hilaman, D.D.S. is making this
naming opportunity possible. The 1,250-sq.-
ft. art room will be housed on the third
floor of the Student Services & Fine Arts
Center. See related article.
The Mahler Family Ceramics Room is
being dedicated by Paul and Susan Mahler
to honor Robert F. Mahler Sr. and Clara E.
Mahler, the parents of St. Charles alumni
Paul ’68, William ’74 and Christopher ’78.
In addition Paul and Susan have two
alumni sons, Lars P. Mahler ’96 and Leif
E. Mahler ’03. The Mahler Ceramics Room
was made possible by a $25,000 pledge and
will include a clay and materials room and
a kiln firing room. Paul Mahler, a central
Ohio financial advisor and portfolio manager
will donate a special display from his
private ceramics studio
(www.mahlerstudio.com).
The Class of 1957 Art Faculty Office is
being dedicated to honor the members of
the St. Charles Class of 1957. Msgr.
William A. Dunn ’57 is chairing the fund
drive to raise $25,000. The faculty office
will be located on the third floor of the
Student Services & Fine Arts Center.
The Monsignor F. Thomas Gallen Music
Classroom is being dedicated in memory of
Msgr. F. Thomas Gallen ’40, a member of
the St. Charles math, music, and English
faculty from 1950 to 1999. The school’s new
music classroom will be 1,850 sq.-ft.,
which is much larger than the current
music room. The Msgr. Gallen Music
Classroom will be located on the third floor
of the Student Services & Fine Arts Center
and will provide rehearsal space for the
school’s always-excellent St. Charles
Chorus and St. Charles Concert and Jazz
Bands.
The Class of 1953 Music Faculty Room is
being dedicated to honor the members of
the St. Charles Class of 1953. The $25,000
fund drive is being led by ’53 classmates
Hugh Dorrian, Dr. Joe Meara, Pat
O’Reilly, Doc Rankin, and Mrs. Sue
Haney, wife of the late Harry Haney ’53.
The new music faculty office will be
located on the third floor of the Student
Services & Fine Arts Center.
The Deacon Donald ’70 and Julie Poirier
Arts Computer Center is named through a
pledge of $10,000 by 1970 St. Charles
alumnus Don Poirier. The new center will
house the art program’s graphic arts
computers, which are currently housed in
the hallway outside the fourth-floor art
room.
West Driveway
The Class of 1958 Driveway is being
named in honor of the St. Charles Class of
1958. The naming is made possible by a
class pledge of $50,000. The new semicircular
driveway will serve as a drop-off
and picking-up point for the new student
commons and student center.
Saint Charles Wall of Honor
The St. Charles Wall of Honor is being
made possible by an anonymous leadership
pledge of $250,000. The recognition wall
will be located on the south wall of the new
Student Services & Fine Arts Center and
will recognize alumni achievements; the
many contributions of time, talent and
charitable gifts to St. Charles; and the
founding mission of the school.
Alumni, Parent and Graduating
Class Window Tributes
The school’s 15 lower level windows of the
main building will be filled in with 5-ft. x
5-ft. limestone insets. The Bill Riat Family
has made the lead gift for the first of these
window tributes by making a campaign
pledge of $50,000. An additional 10 lowerlevel
windows remain along the east and
west wings and will be inside the new
student commons. The tributes are
suitable for St. Charles alumni and their
families, faculty members, and individual
graduating classes. For additional information
on the remaining insets, see the
naming opportunities below.
Student Tutoring Fund
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Tutoring Fund has been initiated by
Frederick J.
Gottemoeller, an
alumnus from the
Class of 1958. The
endowment honoring
the late Father
Haluska, who
taught geometry
and physics at both
the prep school and
the former St.
Fr. Charles A. Haluska
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from 1953 to 1963,
will become a
permanent fund in the St. Charles Endowment.
Gottemoeller, a world-renowned
bridge and highway designer, credits
Father Haluska for “unlocking the potential
that he didn’t know existed” in him
when he was a student at St. Charles in
the 1950s. When fully funded at $25,000,
The Father Haluska Fund will support the
school’s after-school tutoring program,
which will be located on the second floor of
the new Student Services & Fine Arts
Center. Gifts to support this fund are
encouraged from alumni and parents of
alumni. Call the Development Office at
(614) 252-9288 to make your pledge.
Special Thanks
St. Charles wishes to thank the following
for their assistance with the Campaign for
St. Charles naming opportunity brochure:
Adrenaline Advertising
(www.adrenalineadv.com) and its founder,
Neal Robert, a 1985 St. Charles graduate,
for his graphic design and creativity; and
Sue Horn, principal of Old Trail Printing
(www.oldtrailprinting.com) for the generous
support in helping produce St. Charles
programs throughout the years. Horn’s
son, Matt Kaercher is a member of the
Class of 2005.
Remaining Opportunities
Funding for the balance of the Student
Services and Fine Arts Center is coming
from private donations from alumni,
parents of alumni, and parents of current
students. Numerous naming opportunities
for the building’s floors, rooms and areas
are being offered.
The Fine Arts Floor will house a new
classroom, faculty office and rehearsal
space for the music program, including
choral and jazz band rehearsal space, a
large art classroom and a faculty office,
and a new ceramics studio including a kiln
and a mud room. The school is seeking a
pledge of $250,000 to name the third floor.
St. Charles Colonnades will mirror the
school’s front colonnades and will be
located at the west entrance to the new
student commons and student center. The
new colonnades will not only provide
shelter to those walking from the student
center and commons to the school’s
gymnasium, but it will provide cover to
the new St. Charles Walk of Honor that
was previously located in the north
courtyard. The school is seeking a pledge
of $250,000 to name the colonnades.
A Second Floor Balcony will be located in
the St. Charles Student Services Center
and will provide an overlook to the new
student commons. The school is seeking a
pledge of $50,000 to name the second floor
balcony.
A Third Floor Balcony will be located in
the St. Charles Student Services & Fine
Arts Center and will provide an overlook
to the new student commons. The school
is seeking a pledge of $50,000 to name the
third floor balcony.
A Music Rehearsal Room will be located on
the third floor of the St. Charles Student
Services & Fine Arts Center. The school is
seeking a pledge of $25,000 to name the
room.
Window Tributes made of 5-ft. x 5-ft.
limestone blocks will be located on the
ground floor of the student commons. The
tributes will be created when the 11 lowerlevel
windows of the east and west wings
and 4 windows in the main hallway are
removed and enclosed. The tributes are
suitable for St. Charles alumni and their
families, faculty and individual classes.
The school is seeking $25,000 for each of
the remaining 10 inserts.
The Saint Charles Walk of Honor will be
relocated from the north courtyard to
underneath the new St. Charles Colonnades.
The school is seeking $1,000 for
each of the 20 bricks remaining on the
Walk of Honor.
Principal Dominic J. Cavello said
funding for both structures was made
possible solely by gifts and pledges of
alumni, parents, and area friends through
the Campaign for St. Charles.
“We have a tremendous group of
campaign leaders and a loyal group of
alumni and parent contributors who have
been solidly behind St. Charles and its
expansion projects through the years. All
of us here are grateful for this support
toward a one-of-a-kind project,” Cavello
said.
S.C. Mom expresses special
affection for St. Charles with
$50,000 gift
Annette Prunte Hilaman, D.D.S. expressed
her special heartfelt affection for
St. Charles last July by extending a
$50,000 gift for the Prunte Family Art
Room to be located in the St. Charles
Student Services and Fine Arts Center now
under construction.
Her gift acknowledges her family’s
strong ties to the school. She said her son,
Elliot, “enjoyed and learned from art
classes he took during his two years at St.
Charles.” He went on to graduate last
spring from Bishop Hartley High where
he was a member of the honor roll and is
now a freshman at The Ohio State University.
With her gift, Dr. Hilaman also
wanted to honor her parents, John and
Hilda Prunte, who worked so hard in the
school cafeteria, with the Mother’s Club,
and in other activities when St. Charles
resumed its normal preparatory high
school operations in 1969 after restricting
enrollment to seminary prep students the
previous eight years.
Her brothers John ’72, Thomas ’75
and Dominic Prunte ’77 are St. Charles
graduates, as is her nephew Tom Prunte
’03. Two other nephews – sophomore John
Prunte and freshman Michael Simmons —
are current St. Charles students.
Dr. Hilaman has a “strong belief in
Catholic education” and wanted to support
the values and type of education St.
Charles that provides its young men.
A single mother, Hilaman maintains a
dental practice in Columbus. She credits
St. Charles Advisory Board member, Dr.
Tom Ryan ’58 for being both a friend and
mentor. She said Ryan “motivated me to
pursue dentistry as a profession, which
allows me to give back to the community.”
Generous gift — generous supporter
Annette Prunte Hilaman, D.D.S. and her son, Elliot.
St. Charles Preparatory School

THE CAMPAIGN FOR SAINT CHARLES – PHASE II
FACILITY & ROOM NAMING OPPORTUNITIIES 2006-2008
Robert C. Walter Student Commons
RESERVED
Student Services Building & Fine Arts Center
OPEN
Ground Floor
St. Charles Wall of Honor
$250,000 RESERVED
Cafeteria and Kitchen
$250,000 RESERVED
South Entryway & Overlook
$100,000 RESERVED
West Entrance Driveway
$50,000 RESERVED
Second Floor
Second Floor Student Services Center $250,000 RESERVED
Advisory Board Emeritus Conference Room $50,000 RESERVED
Second Floor Balcony Overlook $50,000 OPEN
Second Floor Computer Lab $50,000 OPEN
Campus Ministry Office
$50,000 RESERVED
Nurse’s Office
$50,000 RESERVED
Second Floor Student Lounge
$25,000 RESERVED
Second Floor Guidance Room #1
$25,000 RESERVED
Second Floor Guidance Room #2
$25,000 RESERVED
Second Floor Guidance Room #3
$25,000 RESERVED
Second Floor Guidance Room #4
$25,000 RESERVED
Third Floor
Third Floor Fine Arts Facility $250,000 OPEN
Third Floor Balcony Overlook $50,000 OPEN
Art Room
$50,000 RESERVED
Monsignor F. Thomas Gallen
Music Classroom
$50,000 RESERVED
Ceramics Studio
$25,000 RESERVED
Music Faculty Room
$25,000 RESERVED
Music Rehearsal Room $25,000 OPEN
Arts Computer Center
$10,000 RESERVED
Student Tutoring Fund
Father Haluska Student Tutoring Fund $25,000 RESERVED
Special Tribute Areas
West Colonnades (exterior) $250,000 OPEN
Lower Level 5’x5’ Limestone
Window Inserts $25,000 OPEN
Walk of Honor (limit of 20 names) $1,000 OPEN
Wall of Honor $1,000 OPEN
To reserve a space for either your name, your family’s name, or
to honor someone special, please call in your pledge to the St.
Charles Development Office at 614-252-9288.
Pledge terms and naming opportunity recognition
Pledge redemption periods for naming opportunities are negotiable.
Recognition of each naming opportunity will appear on the
St. Charles Wall of Honor located on the south face of the new
Student Services & Fine Arts Center and at the entrance to the
named room or area.
Gifts are fully tax deductible as provided by law, but donors
are advised to consult their financial advisor, accountant or tax
attorney with regard to the potential tax savings on certain gift
vehicles. For additional information, please contact the St.
Charles Development Office at 614-252-9288.
Updated December 7, 2005
Saint Charles
Benefactor
Honor Roll
St. Charles Preparatory School
gratefully acknowledges the following
contributors who have
supported the ongoing Campaign
for St. Charles, the 2005-
2006 Alumni Annual Fund and
Parents Annual Fund, memorial
gifts and gifts of special intentions
during the period of March
30, 2005 to November 11, 2005.
All subsequent contributions to
St. Charles will be recognized in
the spring 2006 issue of the
Cardinal. On behalf of our students,
faculty and staff, thank
you for your kind support and
generosity. You and your
family will remain in prayers.
Mr. Anthony E. Absi
Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Adzima
Mr. Peter D. Albanese
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Albers, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Allardyce
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Alt
Mr. Charles Amicon
Sister Rosina Amicon
Mr. & Mrs. Monte Amnah
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Anastasi
Anonymous #1
Ms. Margaret Anstine
Rev. William L. Arnold
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Augustine
Mrs. Carol Ayogu
Mr. Aaron M. Bachman
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Badgeley
Mr. Shane D. Ball
Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Ballantyne
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Barcza
Mr. Thomas Barnett, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. James Bartholomew
Ms. Erin Bastoky
Mr. Otto Beatty III
Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Bell
Mr. Albert L. Bell
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Bender
Mr. & Mrs. Chris Bendinelli
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Bentley
Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Bettendorf
Mr. Gregory S. Bigler
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory C. Billhardt
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Billiar
Mr. & Mrs. Christian Birnbrich
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Bitler
Mr. & Mrs. James Blakeslee
Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Bobulski
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Bogen
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Boling
Mr. Stephen Boller
Mrs. George M. Boller
Lt. Col. & Mrs. Thomas J.
Borowitz
Ms. Jeanette Bosworth
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Botts
Mr. & Mrs. J. David Bourke, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Donald Bowen
Mr. Thomas V. Bracken
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew D. Brady
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Branch
Ms. Susan Brattain
Dr. James E. Brehm, DVM
Mr. & Mrs. James Bresler
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Bringardner
Ms. Phyllis Brophy
Rev. Thomas J. Brosmer
Capt. & Mrs. Mark Brown
Ms. Jeanie Brown
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Bruce
Mr. & Mrs. Raleigh Burges
Mr. & Mrs. Chester Burkhart
Dr. & Rev. Robert Burnard
Mr. & Mrs. C. Andrew Bush
Mr. & Mrs. Tom Busher
Mr. & Mrs. Freddie Butcher
Mr. & Mrs. David Butler
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Byorth
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Byrum
Dr. & Mrs. A. Clifton Cage
Mr. & Mrs. Chad C. Cage
Ms. Sidra Calmese
Mr. Michael A. Calvert
Most Rev. Frederick F. Campbell
Mr. Duncan M. Campbell
Mr. & Mrs. David Canale
Mr. Michael B. Cantlon
Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Carducci
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew R. Carr
Ms. Mary Lou Casanta
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Casino
Mr. & Mrs. Dominic J. Cavello
Mr. Dominic A. Cavello
St. Charles Mothers’ Club
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Cheng
Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Chmielewski
Mr. Jeremiah Chmielewski
Mr. & Mrs. Manoj Choudhary
Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Christan
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Christin
Mr. & Mrs. Donald A. Christopher
Dr. & Mrs. Victor Ciancetta
Msgr. Carl P. Clagett
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Clancey
Ms. Anne H. Clark
Mr. & Mrs. Coleman J. Clougherty
Mr. & Mrs. Jan Cohen
Ms. Janet M. Cole
Mr. & Mrs. Neil Collins
Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas G. Collis
Mrs. Fern Colon
Columbus Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. A. Terrence Conlisk, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin R. Conners
Hon. John A. Connor, II
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick A. Connor
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Coppel
Msgr. Lawrence J. Corcoran, P.A.
Mrs. John Core
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Corna
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Coughlin
Mr. Michael P. Creedon
Mr. & Mrs. David Critser
Dr. & Mrs. Mark Crnkovich
Mr. & Mrs. John Croswell
Ms. Michele Crumrine
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Cull
Mr. & Mrs. Sean D. Cull
Mr. & Mrs. David L. Cutri
Msgr. John A. Cymbor
Mr. & Mrs. Cristino Damo
Ms. Jane M. Dannenhauer
Dr. & Mrs. Gary Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Deak
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Deerwester
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Deibel
Mr. & Mrs. Ted Deibel
Col. & Mrs. Robert E. Del Corso
Mr. John A. DeMastry
Mr. & Mrs. J. James Deutschle
Ms. Judith Devillers
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Devine
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Mr. James F. Dew
Mrs. Mary Dew
Ms. Patty DiAntonio
Mr. & Mrs. Robert L.
Dilenschneider
Mr. James T. Dillard, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dilley
Mr. & Mrs. John DiSabato, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Jon DiSabato
Mrs. Mary Dixon
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Dodd, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. John Donovan
Mr. Joseph E. Donovan
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Dorrian
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Dorrian, Jr.
Mr. John E. Dorrian
Dr. & Mrs. John T. Duddy
Mr. Paul J. Duffy
Mrs. Betty Duffy
Ms. Josephine Dulin-DiDonato
Mr. & Mrs. George Dunigan, II
Mr. Todd Dunkle
Msgr. William A. Dunn
Mr. & Mrs. Donald F. Dupre
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher A. Durbin
Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Dury
Mr. Robert Dusterberg
Mr. & Mrs. John Eberly
Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Eberts
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Ellis
Mr. Craig P. Engle
Msgr. Paul P. Enke
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Evans
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ewing, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Fabro
Mr. & Mrs. Louis V. Fabro
Mr. & Mrs. Vincent J. Fabro
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Faherty
Msgr. Edward J. Fairchild
Mr. & Mrs. Terry Fairholm
Family Physicians Of
Gahanna, Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Farrell
Ms. Paula Farrell
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Favazzo
Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Ferris
Ms. Ruth E. Fink
Mr. & Mrs. James P. Finn
Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Finn
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Finneran
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Finneran
Ms. Bertha Fischer
Mr. John E. Fisher
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Fishking
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fix
Mr. Philip Fletcher
Mr. Patrick J. Flynn
Mr. & Mrs. James T. Foley, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Foley
Foods Endo Research, Inc.
Dr. Robert J. Forche
Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Forche
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Forrest
Mr. Gregory M. Forrest
Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Foster
Mr. & Mrs. Garry Fourman
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Foust
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Francescon
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Frash II
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Fritz
Robert Fromuth & Michelle Wolfe
Mr. & Mrs. George Fulton
Mr. & Mrs. Jeremiah S. Fultz
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy P. Furlong
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Fyda
Mrs. Mairead Fyda
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Gabriel
Mr. & Mrs. Dane L. Galden
Ms. Carolyn Anne Gale
Mr. Peter R. Gallen
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Gambs
Dr. Francisco A. Garabis, M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Jose Garabis
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gardner
Mrs. Mary Geanekopulos
Ms. Gladys Geanekopulos
Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Gehring
Mr. & Mrs. John R. Gelhaus
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Gerberry
Mr. Thomas L. Gerlacher
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Gibbons, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. John F. Gibbons, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Gibbs
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Gillilan
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Gilmour
Mrs. Elmer Gleich
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Goodman
Mr. & Mrs. Marty Gottesman
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Govern
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Grady
Mr. & Mrs. James J. Graf
Mr. & Mrs. W. Mark Gramlich
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Greger
Rev. Charles R. Griffin
Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Griffith
Mr. & Mrs. J. Colby Grimes
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph M. Groom
Mr. & Mrs. Roger K.
Grosswiler, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Gruenwald
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Grunden
Mr. & Mrs. Yann Guezennec
Mr. & Mrs. Larry Guglielmi
Mr. & Mrs. Leo Guglielmi
Mr. Todd M. Gummer
Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Guthrie
Dr. & Mrs. Doug Haas
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Haas
Mr. & Mrs. Gregory Haggit
Mr. David T. Hall
Mr. Timothy H. Hamburger
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Hamrock
Mrs. Harry J. Haney, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Karl Hanf
Mr. & Mrs. Bradley J. Harmer
Mr. & Mrs. Gary Harmon
Mr. & Mrs. Donald B. Harrison
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Hart
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hart
Ms. Kathleen Hart
Mr. W. Scott Haselwood
Mr. & Mrs. David Hasson
Mr. & Mrs. Dale A Hatem
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Hawksworth
Mr. & Mrs. John Hayes
Mr. & Mrs. John Hedmond
Dr. Daniel J. Heinmiller
John E. Heinmiller Memorial Fund
Mr. Paul R. Held
Ms. Mary M. Held
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Heller
Mr. & Mrs. Paul K. Hemmer
Ms. Marie A. Hensel
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Herbert
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hessenauer
Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Hickey
Dr. Annette Prunte Hilaman
Mr. Thomas Hilbert
Mr. & Mrs. Chip Hill
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hill
Mr. & Mrs. William B. Hobstetter
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hof
Mr. & Mrs. John Hoffman
Mr. & Mrs. Steven Hoffman
Hon. & Mrs. Daniel Hogan
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Hohman
Mr. Edward J. Hohmann
Mr. & Mrs. Rick Holbein
Ms. Gabriella Holland
Mr. & Mrs. David Hollingsworth
Ms. Keira Holloway
Mr. & Mrs. Dewey Horn
Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Horner III
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Ms. Linda C. Nusbaum
Mr. & Mrs. William J. Nye
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Ochab
Mr. & Mrs. Terrence O’Donovan
Mrs. Linda O’Horo
Mr. & Mrs. John O’Keefe
Mr. & Mrs. Morton O’Kelly
Mr. & Mrs. James Olding
Lt. & Mrs. Daniel W. O’Leary III
Mr. & Mrs. John H. O’Neil
St. Charles Student Council
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Opperman
Mr. & Mrs. Patrick F. O’Reilly Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. James E. Ort
Dr. & Mrs. Craig O’Sullivan
Mr. Paul K. Hemmer
Mr. David R. Packer
Dr. Margaret L. Palmer
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Palmer
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Palmer
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Panda
Mr. & Mrs. Karl Pappa
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Park
Mr. John A. Passaglia
Mrs. David B. Patrick
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Patton
Mrs. Grace H. Paul
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Paulucci
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Pelland
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen N. Pellican
Ms. Mary Lou Pelzer
Mr. David L. Pemberton Jr.
Mr. David L. Pemberton Sr.
Pemberton Family Scholarship
Ms. N. Jeanne Pender
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. Pharion
Mr. & Mrs. Scott M. Pharion
Mr. James P. Pickard
Dr. & Mrs. John J. Piecoro Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Eugene H. Pierce, Jr.
Mr. Michael A. Pirik
Mr. & Mrs. Jason C. Plank
Ms. Mary Kathleen Poe
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Polletta
Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Polletta
Mr. John Porter
Mr. Roger J. Porterfield
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Pospishil
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Potnick
Mr. & Mrs. David Powell
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Powers
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Prange
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Prest
Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Probst
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Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Quinn
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Quinn
Mr. & Mrs. Francis Rajendram
Mr. Ronald J. Ralston
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel L. Rankin, III
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy S. Rankin
Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Rath
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Ray
Mrs. Patricia Raynak
Mr. & Mrs. John W. Reau
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Reidelbach
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Reidy
Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Reilly, Sr.
Rev. Justin J. Reis
Rev. Michael J. Reis
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Reynolds
Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Riehl
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Rieser
Mrs. Francis P. Rieser
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Rieth
Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Rinchiuso
Mr. & Mrs. M. Neil Rinehart
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Ritz
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Roberts
Ms. Kathryn Roberts
Mrs. Beth Robine
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Rocchi
Mr. & Mrs. Terrence Rodeman
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Rodock
Mr. Jeremy J. Rodock
Mr. & Mrs. Rick Roe
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Roeble
Mr. Raymond Roehrenbeck
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Rogers
Ms. Sandra Rossetti
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Ruggiero
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Rugola
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Ryan
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Ryan
Mr. & Mrs. Jay Ryan
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan J. Ryan
Mr. Robert B. Ryan
Mr. Thomas J. Ryan, Jr.
Mr. James Saas
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Sabino
Mr. & Mrs. William Saefkow
Mr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Sagurton
Dr. & Mrs. Scott Sanders
Mr. Louis J. Sandor
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Schwendenman
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Mr. & Mrs. Robert Willard
Mr. & Mrs. James K. Williams, Jr.
Dr. Cathy McDaniels-Wilson
Mr. & Mrs. David Wilson
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Wodarcyk
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Mr. Theodore J. Wolfe
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald S. Wollett
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Mr. & Mrs. Leo F. Woodruff
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The St. Charles Alumni Mothers Club is proud to
offer this special Cat’s Meow Village keepsake:
Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto
On the back of each piece you’ll learn some
of the history of this peaceful campus landmark
Each 3” x 4” scene is done in full
color and is $15 + $1.50 for S & H.
Order yours today!
Send your check to:
St. Charles Prep. Attn: Grotto
2010 East Broad Street
Columbus, Ohio 43209
Make checks payable to “St. Charles”
All proceeds benefit the St. Charles Scholarship Fund.
St. Charles Bobblehead Icons
As They’v
y’ve Never er Been Seen Before!
Are You an FBF? (Father Bennett Favorite)?
Do you remember the Dean of Discipline?
Order Your St. Charles Bobblehead Toda
oday!
These St. Charles “keepsakes” are made of resin and stand 7" tall.
Their 3" square bases bear their name and three noteworthy sayings
.
Fr. Bennett’s base reads:
Push Ups, “Why must I suffer?” and “Front & Center”
Mr. Cavello’s:
Facta Non Verba, “Big Dog...Tall Grass” and “Are you taking notes?”
Bobbleheads are $20.00 each plus shipping and handling ($4 in-state,$6 out)
Send order form and check payable to St. Charles Band to:
St. Charles Preparatory School Attn: Annie Kerr
2010 E. Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43209
These bobbleheads will be deliverd to St. Charles the second week in January
You will be contacted with an order confirmation, so please provide us your e-mail address,
phone number, and ship-to address
E-mail Louis J. Fabro ’83 at St. Charles at lfabro@cdeducation.org for more information.
Proceeds benefit St. Charles Band Boosters and The Monsignor Thomas M. Bennett Scholarship Fund
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2005 St. Charles Open House & Application Review for 8th Graders
This special page is being produced for
parents and their eighth grade boys
who were unable to attend the St.
Charles Open House on Nov. 6. We
hope this helps to answer some
questions you might have about the
school’s philosophy and enrollment
process, and refreshes information for
those who did attend.
children’s first and most influential
teachers. What parents do to help their
children learn is more important to
academic success than any other factor.
II. We believe that many highly successful
individuals have above-average rather
than extraordinary intelligence.
Achievement in a particular activity
depends more often upon hard work and
self-discipline than on innate ability.
For more than 80 years St. Charles has
been very successful in educating young
men of this diocese with a solid college
preparatory course of study. If you are the
least bit familiar with our school you may
know that many of our graduates hold
important leadership positions in our
community and that they exhibit well their
St. Charles education.
First and foremost St. Charles is a
Catholic school. Our primary mission is to
spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ; and, as
our American Bishops expressed it so
eloquently, “To teach as Jesus did.” It is
within this Christian framework that we
offer a rigorous college preparatory course
of study. If you have been following the
recent state and national discussions
concerning education, be aware that our
curriculum is now the recommended norm
for any student who intends to go on to
obtain a college degree.
Our academic success is reflected by,
among other things, our students’ results
on SAT and ACT standardized tests in
which St. Charles ranks with the top
10% in the nation. (please also see
‘Academic results’ on page ___ of this
magazine). It’s also reflected in the quality
of the colleges and universities from which
our alumni graduate.
Our academic philosophy and success is
based on five basic tenets:
I. We believe that parents are their
Packed open house
This year’s St. Charles Open House attracted one of the
largest crowds in school history, with more than 230
eighth-grade boys and their families attending. The
presentation was in the packed Campus Theatre and a
second full house watched a simultaneous broadcast of
the program on a giant-screen in the Cavello Center
reception hall on the lower floor.
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III. We believe that teachers, who set and
communicate high expectations to their
students, obtain greater academic performance
than teachers who set low expectations.
IV. We believe that how much time students
are actively devote to learning
contributes to their achievement. Student
achievement rises significantly when
teachers regularly assign homework and
students conscientiously do it.
V. We believe in strong instructional
leadership, both administrative and teaching,
coupled with a safe and orderly school
climate.
Academia, however, is not the only place
where young men learn to grow during
their high school years. Students who
complement their academic studies with
extracurricular activities gain experience
that contributes to their success in college.
Besides the 13 varsity sports we offer,
students are able to participate in an array
of interesting activities. During our recently
completed first quarter, almost twothirds
of our nearly 580 students were
involved in some sport, student activity or
organization. Involvement helps growth;
growth leads to success.
Frequently asked questions by parents and
students at the Open House
—When does the application process
begin? The answer is now. Each eighth
grader who attended the St. Charles Open
House last November filled out a registration
card and received a Thank You note
for taking time to visit us and a courtesy
application. When eighth grade first
quarter grades have been received, preliminary
application may be made. The
student’s most recent standardized testing
scores (6 th or 7 th grade) should be submitted
along with the application and grade card.
Students who apply during the month of
January should send in their 8 th grade
standardized test scores. Interviews with
prospective students and their parents are
also part of this process but will be arranged
after we have received your
application.
Registration
At the school’s annual Open House, 8 th grade guests
and their parents fill out nametags and registration
cards.
—-What about eighth grader visits
during a regular school day? Starting
the second week of January eighth grade
students interested in attending St.
Charles next year will be given the opportunity
to spend a half day here. During their
visit they will meet with each of the
administrators, have an opportunity to talk
with some of the coaches, and sit in on two
or three freshman classes. Notification of
these visitation days will be sent out at the
end of December.
—-How much does it cost to attend St.
Charles? Our tuition for this 2005-2006
school year is $5990 for Catholics registered
in a parish and $6290 non-registered
students. If you have financial need, both
the diocese and St. Charles sponsor significant
grant programs. This year we
provide nearly $400,000 in scholarships,
grants, and work-study aid to
those who need help. Our scholarship
exam this year will be given at St. Charles
on Saturday, January 28, in two sessions, 9
am and 1 pm. Eighth grade boys will
receive notification for registration after
Christmas.
—-Is St. Charles too far away? Transportation
should not be a major problem.
Public school buses provide transportation
from almost every district in Central Ohio.
Our office is willing to provide information
for setting up car pools by letting you know
who lives in your end of town and is
attending St. Charles.
If you would like to have an application
mailed to your home, receive
information as part of our 8 th grade
E-mail list, or wish to receive any
other general information (a copy of
the school profile, student handbook
or alumni magazine), you are invited
to contact our school secretary,
Laurie Berendt at 614-252-9288.
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Calendar of Update Events
Calendar of Events
Date and Time Event and Location Date and Time Event and Location
Wed., Dec. 14
The Cardinal Christmas Concert
features the St. Charles Chorus and
Concert and Jazz Bands in the
Campus Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Free.
Thurs., Mar. 30
St. Charles Annual Blood Drive,
8 a.m.-2 p.m.in the Gymnasium. For
information call Betsy Mason at
614-252-6714.
Sat., Jan. 28
Thurs., Feb.9
Thurs.-Sun., Mar. 2-5
Scholarship Tests for 8 th grade boys
in main school building; test times
are 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Call school’s
main office for information.. Phone
614-252-6714
Alumni Association meeting in
Holy Angels Library at 6:30 p.m.
Drama Department presents winter
production, —— in the Campus
Theatre. For show times and tickets
call school’s main office at
614-252-6714.
Sunday, Mar. 12 St. Charles-Columbus School for
Girls Band Concert, Shedd theatre at
CSG, 3 p.m. Free.
Thurs.-Sun., Mar. 2-5
Thurs.-Sun., May 4-7
Thurs., May 11
Friday, May 19
Monday, May 22
Thurs., June 1
Drama Department presents winter
production, —— in the Campus
Theatre. For show times and tickets
Drama Department presents spring
musical, ——-— in the Campus
Theatre. For show times and tickets
call school’s main office at
614-252-6714.
Alumni Association meeting in
Holy Angels Library at 6:30 p.m.
Cardinal Scholarship Walk and
Circus Day.
Spring Band and Chorus concert,
featuring the St. Charles Chorus and
Concert and Jazz Bands. Campus
Theatre, 7:30 p.m. Free.
2006 St. Charles Graduation.
Walter Commons, 7:30 p.m.
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