2018 Fall Dragon Magazine
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Alumni NEWS<br />
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Legacy Families<br />
Spanning<br />
Generations<br />
CELEBRATE<br />
CONNECTION<br />
By Brian Cushing ’84<br />
Family connections have been part of the O’Dowd experience<br />
from the earliest days of the school’s existence.<br />
Literally thousands of alumni can make connections to a<br />
sibling, cousin, parent, or grandparent who also walked the<br />
“hallowed halls” sung about in our alma mater (the 1963<br />
version, not the original 1955 version).<br />
Brian Cushing ’94, Sheila Moyles Cushing ’57 and Colleen Cushing ’19.<br />
rousing game of Bishop O’Dowd High School Trivia. Do<br />
you know which principal had the longest tenure of office?<br />
(see answer below)<br />
Sheila Moyles Cushing ’57 was the elder stateswoman at<br />
the event, sharing stories with her grandchildren,<br />
Colleen ’19 and Bob ’20. Jess Brown ’98 and his daughter,<br />
Jasaiya ’21, were the youngest Legacy connection in<br />
attendance. Five different decades of <strong>Dragon</strong> experiences<br />
were shared and some recorded as current students interviewed<br />
their parent/grandparent as part of the <strong>Dragon</strong><br />
Stories Oral History Project launched in anticipation of<br />
the school’s 75th Anniversary. Plans are in the making for a<br />
Legacy Luncheon in <strong>2018</strong>-19, so if you are part of a current<br />
Legacy family, keep your eye out for news of this fun event.<br />
Answer: Fr. Richard Ranalleti, CSB, was O’Dowd’s longest<br />
serving principal (1991-2000).<br />
On April 26, <strong>2018</strong>, more than 50 members of Legacy families<br />
came together for a special reception sponsored by<br />
the Alumni Relations Office. Legacy families are unique<br />
members of the O’Dowd community who have second or<br />
third generations of students following in a direct line the<br />
footsteps of their parents or grandparents.<br />
Guests gathered in the Center for Environmental Studies<br />
on a evening that was blessed with a beautiful sunset on<br />
the Bay. After mingling with and getting to know other<br />
families from the decades (helped along with an O’Dowdbased<br />
game of People Bingo), the families competed in a<br />
Heide Aguire Happoldt ’62, center, with grandsons<br />
Diego ’22 and Connor ’20 Whitehill.<br />
38 // <strong>Dragon</strong>
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