Fall 2005 - St. Charles Preparatory School

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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