Fall 2005 - St. Charles Preparatory School

Friends for life
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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