from 13 to 2. They enjoy spending their summers in Rockport and live in Stuart, Florida, most of the year. He is looking forward to seeing all of the class of ’61 at the 50th reunion in May 2011.
1964 Joe DiVincenzo is retiring after 38 years of doing labor relations and organization development work for educational employee unions in New York. Joe’s wife, Lorraine, retired from teaching two years ago. Their son Joe (35) lives in Massachusetts where he is a job coach and son Anthony (20) is a junior at Mt. St. Mary College in New York. Toby Danforth is working for Oxfam America to staff their humanitarian mission in Haiti. Oxfam has committed to help with the rebuilding of Haiti’s infrastructure and Toby will hire the senior team to manage this herculean effort. Toby has also been in contact with Paul Rudenberg ’74 who is a long time resident of Haiti and who, as a veterinarian, is playing a crucial role in the rebuilding of Haiti’s agricultural sector. Toby can be reached at tdanforth@ oxfamamerica.org.
1965 Dr. Rick Buckley is director of weight loss surgery at Salem Hospital and has, over time, evolved into a minimally invasive surgeon. He and his wife, Pat, celebrated their 37th year of marriage in July. He describes her as a “true saint.” Their son Matt ’94 is a bond analyst for Eaton Vance in Boston and he and his wife, Val, have two daughters, Abby and Alicia. Mike ’99 has just completed 5 ½ years in the Marine Corps and has attained the rank of captain. He has begun an M.BA. program at NYU’s Stern School. Their daughter Sara is enrolled in veterinary school at Cornell. Capt. Edward Coffey, USN(Ret.) was called back to work at the Bexar County district attorney’s office in San Antonio, Texas, after three years of retirement to work on veterans affairs coordination. They have recently launched a Veterans Treatment Court to get mental health services to vets and active duty/reserve personnel with posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury who become involved with the criminal justice system, many on a recurring basis. They estimate that more than ⅓ of vets have this condition and that more than ¼ of all homeless are vets. Once the program is up and running on local bases, they will be the only Vets Court in the country serving active duty military as well. Phil Burke retired from the Salem Public Schools in June. His most recent assignment had been as principal of the Carlton school. He also retired from the National Guard in March,
after 25 years in the Army Reserve and Guard. He was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and in 2005-06. He is now the director of psychological health for the Joint Forces Command in Massachusetts. Richard Crane reports, “Despite an assiduous effort after St. John’s to educate myself in mathematics at Georgetown, finance and control at Yale, accounting at Northeastern, taxation at Bentley, and passing all parts of the CPA examination, my career seems to have taken an unexpected turn for me working for the past seven years as a figurative art model in Greater Boston, mostly for college and university art students and also professional artists. I use some of my modeling fees to support interests in photography enlargements of local and Hawaiian landscapes and seascape shots of mine. In the summer, I seem to gravitate to gardening at my mother’s home in North Andover. I use a bicycle to get around everywhere I go, sometimes piggybacking it on the T and buses.”
1966 Bob Luongo attended Northeastern University for a year following his graduation from the Prep and then enlisted in the Air Force during Robert Luongo ’66 the Vietnam War. When his enlistment was over, he held various jobs in the computer industry before moving to Austin, Texas, in 1988. He graduated from Texas State University in 1994 with a degree in business and started his own home building business, Craftmaster Homes. He has been a custom homebuilder for 18 years and lives in Wimberley, Texas, with his wife and two boys. Brother David Mahoney, CFX spent several months this summer and fall on the North Shore and returned to his post in Kenya in early November. On his return, he moved to Nairobi to work with young professed Xaverian Brothers, who are college students, as well as with Kenyan and Congolese third-year postulants. Richard Chiarappa writes, “Ever since the days of unlocking a piano for practicing, and playing organ for our Sunday night Benediction service, I’ve been fortunate to be able to spend my life in and around music. While it took me a while to get there – after a B.A. in English and a year in law school – it’s been music ever since. I’ve been a director of choruses, jazz bands, and, for the last 19 years, a director of two different community orchestras – the Bristol Symphony Orchestra (CT) from 19912002, then as founding music director of the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra (CT) since 2002. I’ll always remember
how Brother Lionel poked his head around the corner while I was practicing Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” on the chapel organ. Once he saw me, it was Sunday night services for me. Most recently I was very happy to see and chat with Brother Sulpicius (aka Brother James Boyle) at a WHSO concert. If any Prep alum or student ever attends one of our concerts please stay afterwards and say hello. You can see our season dates at the whso.org website. I think back so fondly of the Prep and speak about it happily and often with my own students. Cheers!”
1967 David Hornig has recently moved from Larchmont, N.Y., to White Plains, N.Y. He is a senior partner in the litigation department at the law firm of Nicoletti, Hornig & Sweeney in Manhattan where he has worked for 30 years and is still an active trial attorney. He hoped to get to at least one Prep football game this year.
1968 Jim Murray retired in 2008 after 35 years in law enforcement, the last 19 as a chief of police in Georgia. During his career, both as commander of the homicide division and chief of police, he spent a lot of time on television, both on local and national shows. That led to the development of a new TV show called “Undercover Citizen,” now under contract with a major Los Angeles production company. They are in pre-production and getting ready to film this fall with the plan now being for him to host the series. He is also signed up to host another TV series dealing with police property rooms around the United States. He says he never thought that police work would lead to another career in television. He reports that it is a lot more fun and pays a whole lot better. He now lives in Murphy, N.C., on top of a mountain in a log cabin that he restored. He cannot see another neighbor without a telescope and loves it! He sends his best regards to all of his ’68 classmates.
1969 Peter Van Wagner reports that it’s been a great year for reunions with class of ’69 Prep classmates. In May he got together with Maurice Cleary in Evanston, Ill. They reunited their old band from the ’80’s, Riffmaster and The Rockme Foundation, at a club called S.P.A.C.E. and had a fantastic rock & roll revival. It went so well that the club has asked them to come back. He spent a bachelor weekend over July 4th with Tom Streit in Boston. Their wives and kids were away, so they hung out, drank a lot of beer and played a lot of music. In ST. JO H N’S PR E P TO DAY
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