CLASS NOTES BISHOP LOUGHLIN SUBMIT YOURS Send us your news! Do you have a new job, a personal achievement, family changes, or a memory? We want to hear from you! email mallison@blmhs.org mail Class Notes Office of Institutional Advancement Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School 357 Clermont Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11238
Matthew Panczyk ‘50 retired from teaching in 1998 — having taught at Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ, and earlier, in Camden , NJ. “I am in touch with four Loughlinites, a “band of brothers”, from the class of 1952. My brother Ray Panczyk ‘52 is retired from Catholic Relief Services and the Peace Corps but is still working with a small school in Niger, West Africa. Ray raises funds and is an advisor to their organization. Art DeSimone, MD ’52 is retired, but serves as the director of a volunteer medical clinic in Hackensack, NJ. Both Jay Fraser ‘52 and Steve Gaughran ‘52 live in Long Island with their families. All five of us are graduates of Manhattan College — where we continued to benefit from the tutelage of the Christian Brothers, or “the monks” as they were sometimes called. One of the very special lessons that we received is saying the short prayers which we said daily at Loughlin: St. John Baptist de La Salle...pray for us! Live Jesus in our hearts. Forever!” Anthony Cottell ‘54 is enjoying life in The Villages, FL.
Members of the St. Augustine class of 1965 have been catching up inperson every year since 2001. This photo is from their 2019 gathering. This year, in lieu of physically gathering, the class has elected to send donations to Loughlin in support of scholarships. We are grateful!
Daniel Sofield ‘55 joined the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity after graduating from Loughlin — “where I am Brother Loughlan. I have had the privilege of working in 300 dioceses on six continents and have had a dozen books published.” Edward O’Donnell ‘56 is still working as a Senior Geologist for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the Office of Research. “We are located in Rockville, MD, which is a northern suburb of DC. In March, NRC transitioned to 100% telework with great success, which was a surprise to us all. My wife continues to teach cello at our home. We have three children. One lives near Dulles Airport and the other two live in San Diego. Each has two children for a total of six grandchildren for us. I look back fondly at the education I received at Loughlin and at Queens College. It’s a big surprise
to hear that Brooklyn has become such a desirable place to live. I wish my best to the current crop of Loughlin students. I hope you are able to return to in class learning soon.” Dennis Duffy ‘57 retired in 2014 and is home more now due to COVID-19. “I grow vegetables and herbs at my residence and my Adirondack vacation home, have built seven planter boxes to accommodate my “farms”, installed three drip irrigation systems to water, built and hung six bird houses, installed a solar panel on my boat to keep the bilge pump from running the battery down, researched 500 Union Army veterans and entered the findings into a database maintained by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), read more books, enjoyed fresh from my garden salads almost every day, made tomato sauce, repaired the firing platform at my gun club, and am incredibly busy as Treasurer of my homeowners association as well as Secretary/Treasurer of the Moses A. Baldwin Camp #544, SUVCW & Graves Registration Officer of the Dept. of NY, SUVCW. I miss my three times a week gym and pool visits but that gives me more time to advocate for school choice — the most important issue facing our nation today! My email is duffy99999@ aol.com.” John (Jack) Lynch ‘57 retired from Federal Executive Service, and since 2004, is living in Colorado. “Would love to hear from classmates; I can be reached at hattaboat@aol.com.” Thomas J. Lynch ‘57 is living in Melville, LI and Bluffton, SC, trying to outfox the weather. Widowed in 2016; remarried in 2019. He writes, “Life is good, as are my seven grandchildren. Trying to stay healthy both physically and spiritually. Loughlin was great preparation for life. Adversity and complexity are significantly reduced by goodness and kindness.” John Tarpey ‘57 left New York for the U.S. Coast Guard’s boot camp at Cape May, NJ “right after graduation along with two of my classmates Tom McCarthy ‘57 and Larry Devine ‘57. After completing our training, we returned to New York and I attended at Fordham’s School of Business. Prior to graduation in 1963, I joined the ranks of the NYC Police Department and spent almost 29 years there — retiring as a Lieutenant. I’ve
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