Fall 2005 - St. Charles Preparatory School

Alumni Notes
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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