Alumni X-Cerpts the 50- and 100-yard backstroke, setting new U.S. records in both. In the 50 and 100 freestyle he was touched out by Olympian Rowdy Gaines. Proving age is only a state of mind, he swam the 200 freestyle in a time equal to what he swam in 1976 at the state swimming championships.
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’81 GEORGE SNIDER III was awarded second place for best screenplay in the Appalachian Film Festival in April 2010 for his movie “The Honeymoon.” The class of 1960 gathered for its 50-year reunion in September.
50s 60s 70s ’54 KARL LIETZENMAYER reassumed directing the choral club that used to be at Mother of God Church in Covington, Kentucky. It is a traveling group of 30 singers incorporated as The Choral Club of N.Ky. They have sung at several churches and other venues in Ohio & Kentucky while universally being well received. ’58 BOB MEYER retired as emeritus professor of psychology from the University of Louisville, where he published 16 books and 70 scholarly articles. He still plays senior softball and tennis. Bob and wife Peggy spend the winter in Bonita Springs, Florida, and enjoy time with their five grandsons. Fr. Bob Thul S.J. (’48) and Alumni Chaplain Fr. Denny Ahern S.J. (’56) shared a moment at the annual class of 1948 reunion.
‘66 HENRY TABELING recently retired from private dental practice in oral and maxillofacial surgery. He and wife Vickie spent two weeks exploring the coastline of Maine from Portland to Acadia this summer. ’68 ED BURKETT retired after 38 years in food distribution, including 28 with Kroger and 10 more with Atlas Logistics. He and wife Carolyn live in Roanoke, Virginia.
’68 NORM SPITZIG has a new book, Murder and Mayhem at Old Bunbury, available at Clive Endive Ogive IV’s website: www.CliveEndiveOgiveIV. com. In this follow-up tale of humor and intrigue, President Clive and waitress extraordinaire Esther team up to solve a complicated and gruesome murder at one of the world’s great private clubs: the Old Bunbury Golf Links & Reading Club. Along the way Clive and Esther reacquaint you with many wacky old friends and introduce to some even zanier new ones. ’69 RANDY OVERBECK had his first novel published by Heroic Teacher Press. With more than three decades in the service of children as a teacher, college professor and administrator, he knows schools and his writing has vividly captured the drama of the world of education. The novel Leave No Child Behind, explores that world. Randy is working on his second novel, Harsh Lessons, a mystery about a rogue drug that kills students in a middle school.
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’70 PAUL MUETHING serves as chair of the Catholic Inner-City Schools Education Fund 2010 campaign. Joining him as co-chairs will be brothers Tom (’74), Stephen (’76), Mark (’77) and Jim (’81). CISE hopes to raise $2.5 million in unrestricted funds. ’73 GARY GRUBER has been promoted to executive vice president of the Great American Property and Casualty Group, where he has worked since 1977. ’75 GREG NIEBERDING is a secondyear board chairman of Community Partners of Dallas. CPD provides resources to ensure safety, restore dignity and inspire hope to abused and neglected children served by Dallas County Child Protective Services. In addition, Greg is a member of the board of directors at Wipe Out Kids’ Cancer Foundation supporting pediatric cancer research at Children’s Medical Center, Dallas. He also is a board member of DIFFA Dallas, which is the local arm of New York’s Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS, supporting more than 20 AIDS service organizations in the Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex. Finally, Greg invented the Baby B’Air Flight Vest (www.babybair. com) for lap children on aircraft. ’76 RICK KAMMERER was co-captain of the 1976 Aquabombers state championship team and returned to swimming competitively after hanging up his goggles for many years. He is now the top-ranked sprint backstroker in the country in his 50-54 age group with U.S. Masters Swimming. In April at the national championships he won
’83 TOM AUG deployed with the Army Reserves 643rd Regional Support Group out of Columbus, Ohio in July, where he will run the U.S. Garrison at Kandahar AirFied in Afghanistan. Tom is an LTC Judge Advocate. (See more about the Aug family on page 8.) ’83 RUSS FELDKAMP was ordained to the deaconate in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati April 24, 2010. ’86 RICH KLUS is the new associate principal at Seton High School.
90s
’90 JAMES TOMASZEWSKI joined the Cincinnati law firm of Finney, Stagnaro, Saba & Patterson Co. LPA, where he will concentrate his practice in employment and labor law, general civil litigation, personal injury and wrongful death. ’92 GEORGE STRINGER celebrated 10 years with his firm in May and was promoted from vice president to senior vice president and global accounts executive at Jones Lang LaSalle in June. He is responsible for the outsourced delivery of real estate services to S&P 500 corporations on a global scale. ’95 TOM CROOKHAM now works for Whole Foods as an associate coordinator in the Whole Body department. Tom will be the Whole Foods account manager for the North East and North Atlantic divisions, based out of Tree of Life’s facility at North Bergen, N.J., just across the river from Manhattan. ’96 MILES GREER earned his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University in August and was awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Women’s Studies and Literature at Duke University for 2010-2012. “Now,