REGIS

26 Regis Alumni News
1962
Carl P. Saunders, 32 W. 82 nd St., New York, NY 10024,
csaun31644@cs.com
James Mulhall passed away this past winter. Please
keep him in your prayers.
1963
John W. Prael, Jr., 34-06 81 St. Jackson Heights, NY
11372, johnprael@yahoo.com
John F. Tweedy, Jr., 26 Huron Rd., Floral Park, NY
11001, john.tweedy@verizon.net
Twelve classmates and six wives/guests gathered at
O’Reilly’s Restaurant in NYC for a mini-reunion
dinner. Present were: Dan Burns, Bob & Madeline
Dillon, John & Jane Domingue, Vincent (Pat)
Gallagher & YK, Rich & Judy Johnsen, Art
Madigan, Luke & Nancy MacCarthy, Tom & Chris
Mullaney, Kevin & Mary Ellen Morris, Jack Prael,
John & Pat Tweedy and Charlie Zabrowski. Before
our meal, Fr. Art Madigan, S.J. led us in prayer, giving
thanks and remembering our deceased classmates,
including four from 2003. Everyone seemed to enjoy
catching up, especially since some had not attended
our 40 th reunion last year. Pat Gallagher noted that
this was his first reunion since graduation. We may
try to make this an annual event! John Lellis has the
following to report: Our oldest son, Andrew, received
his PhD in Plant Genetics from Washington State
University last Summer. He has been doing postdoc
work at Oregon State University since, and he and his
wife Nicole are moving to Austin, Texas this month.
He will continue his postdoc efforts at The University
of Texas at Austin while she will be designing web
pages for a local real-estate company. Both are happy
to be relocating closer to home after being away for
more than 5 years “on the road”. Youngest son, Joshua,
has also recently relocated to Austin from London,
England, where he had been working for the Royal
Shakespeare Company (and later the Texas Embassy).
He is an apiring playwright, whose most recent effort,
Word and Thought (a farce loosely based on the life
of Alexander the Great) played to good reviews in the
local Austin theater scene. Barbara and I were able to
drive up for a performance and we were both duly
impressed. So, it looks like Barbara and I should be
looking at Austin real estate if we want to get closer
to the boys. But our daughter, Amy, and 4-year-old
grandson Wilde live here in Houston, so they still
have the greatest pull. And, who knows where they
will all be in five years’ time? Charlie Zabrowski
presented “Half-sheet, Lads”, a tribute to the late
Joseph Quintavalle ‘30 at this year’s Classroom
Revisited event. He did a fine job and an additional
treat was the presence of Betty Quintavalle, Mr. Q’s
wife. She brought letters written to her during WW II
while Mr. Q was in the army. Also present were David
Quintavalle ‘73 and Jerold Kappes ‘52.
1964
Kenneth J. Beirne, 417 N. St. Asaph St., Alexandria,
VA 22314, kjbeirne@mindspring.com
Dennis M. Moulton, 326 E. 90 th St., #4-E, New York,
NY 10128, moultond@saintignatiusloyola.org
Dan Pukstar is enjoying his book “Traveling with
Athena” a humorous look at his legally blind travels
in Italy and Greece.
1965
George T. Griffi th, 73 Sunset Rd., Blauvelt, NY 10913,
GTG1ESQ@aol.com
Jeff Davis reports that his daughter Rebecca
is changing gears after three years of chemical
engineering in Japan and the US for Tokyo Electron
and begins her doctorate in Biomass Conversion
this summer in Purdue’s College of Agricultural and
Biological Engineering. Jeff has now served 17 years
as an Assistant Attorney General and Counsel to the
University of Washington and still going strong.
Jack Murtagh’s daughter Kerin Leigh was wed to
Anthony Addison Goethals, great grandson of Gen.
G.W. Goethals, U.S.A. and grandson of Gen. Thomas
Goethals, USMC, on June 7, 2003 at St. Elizabeth’s
Church, Edgardtown, Martha’s Vineyard, MA. John
Woodruff’s son Michael, co-captain of the soccer
team at Beacon High School, was elected to the NYC
All Star and named an “All City Player” by Newsday.
1966
James E. Maguire, 419 Third Ave., #4D, New York, NY
10016, jmaguire@courts.state.ny.us
John Dobrovolsky is on the teaching faculty of the
C.G. Jung Institute in LA. His daughters Sonja and
Molly are acting and dancing, respectively. Pete
Maguire has one daughter who’s a Rutgers grad and
one who’ s a senior. Al Bartosh was in a car accident
8/03 and has been recuperating ever since. Rich
Ouzonian is the theatre critic of the Financial Post in
Toronto. His second book, “ Are You Trying to Seduce
Me Ms. Turner” a bestseller last year in Canada, will
soon be released in paperback here. A second volume
follows... John Marquardt lost his wife last year
and is caring for three kids, working in NYC for
the Housing Authority. He says he “retired” to city
work. George Schwerdt will marry off a daughter
in October, and has two sons, one in Clarkson,
graduating this year and one in RPI, a freshman.
Robert Mollenhauer’s daughter and son in law, Cher
and Rob, gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, Conor
Reese Lepre. Cher works at Merrill Lynch for Rocco
Papandrea ’85, who’s wife Danielle also gave birth
to their first child in February 2004. Bob’s company,
Metes Group LLC., has also recently merged with
Weinhart and Associates, a tax preparation business in
the Ansonia hotel! Ed Scher happily reports that he’s
been at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute for
over 30 years. One daughter-graduates from BC this
June while her older sister does grad study in sports
psychology at the University of Michigan. Their 14-
year-old brother is at home with Ed and his wife who
do jazz piano and vocals at an upscale Cape Cod club.
Ed also teaches piano at the Cape Cod Conservatory
of Music. According to Ed, “It all started in the Senior
Room.” Chris Lamb, who’s lived in Bangor, Maine,
most of his adult life, reports that his son Dourgla,
a HS senior, is considering attending college in the
Big Apple, the reverse of Chris’s journey a quarter
century ago. The American Association
of School Administrators named Tom
Sullivan New Mexico’s Superintendent
of the Year. Robert Thorns is still in
Saudi Arabia. Terry McDonough is
into insurance consulting. Tom Sullivan
lives in Farmington, New Mexico, and
would love to see a coastline again.
Denis Achacoso has been speaking to
classmates, is awaiting a new test, The
Johnson Museum at Cornell will show
one of his paintings. Kate Schoener,
a junior at Dartmouth majoring in
geography, will do her Spring term at
Prague. Last year she was in Tolouse.
Jim Kuntz is an adjunct at the Graduate
School of Education at Fordham. After
hepatitis, malaria & typhoid, heart attack
and kidney failure he’s feeling better,
teaching and looking forward to doing new things.
Francis Bellon’s mom passed away in October 2003.
Doug Brown attended his nephew Chris Brown’s (93)
wedding. Vinnie Hevern will be in Poland during
August to give a paper on the Internet and Personality
Development. He is pioneering an on-line graduate
course for New Zealand University in psychotherapy.
John Van Name spent most of the last two months
working in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. “One Sunday in
February, I drove to Memphis and had lunch with Art
Yanushka. We hadn’t seen each other in 35 years. Art
promised to come to the 40th reunion,” John reports.
John hopes to contribute again this year. Work has
been very slow, hence the assignment in Arkansas.
We have plenty of work in Iraq, but he has refused
that assignment four times so far. John Magovern’s
son John is in the MBA program at Boston College.
His other son Robert graduates from Catholic
University Law in May 2004. His daughter Elizabeth
is a freshman at George Washington University. Tom
Gaye is moving to San Francisco in the Spring- he
says he’ll look for Jack Collins with flowers in his
hair.
1967
William R. Armbruster, 42 Van Wagenen Ave., Apt 8,
Jersey City, NJ –07306, billarmbruster@comcast.net
Fr. Mike Holleran, St. Lucy’s Church-833 Mace Ave.,
Bronx, NY 10467, celestial49@msn.com
The street in Queens where George McCann grew
up was recently named Firefighter Thomas McCann
place in honor of his brother Tommy, who died at the
World Trade Center on 9/11. The many journalists in
attendance included Pete Landis ‘67, managing editor
for the cable channel New York 1. “My mother gave
him a kiss and told him he had not changed a bit in over
forty years,” George writes. “Pete provided my family
with a copy of the film footage as a remembrance.
Thank you, Peter.” The street sign is at the corner of
44th Street and 50th Avenue in the Woodside section
of Queens. Jack Alexander finally tied the knot in
January. The “Lucky Lady” is Karen Alexander. We
will have a Class Retreat/Reunion Weekend Nov. 12-
14 at Mount Manresa Retreat House in Staten Island.
The cost is $200 per person. Contact Bill Armbruster
at Billarmbruster@comcast.net if you wish to attend.
So far 16 people have signed up.
1968
Walter Matthews writes: This past weekend my wife,
Claire, and I attened a Worldwide Marriage Encounter.
We had wanted to do this last year to celebrate our 25th
anniversary but were not able to get to it. The weekend
The street in Queens where George McCann grew up was recently
named Firefi ghter Thomas McCann place in honor of his brother
Tommy, who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11.