Logos 2019-2020 The Magazine of Northwest Catholic High School

THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

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When Leadership

At Northwest Catholic we challenge and guide students in the pursuit of excellence, and we cultivate in t hem the desire to serve God and others. We provide an environment of hospitality and caring in which young people are encouraged to become who they are called to be. We prepare students for higher education and invite them to participate in spiritual, social, artistic, and athletic activities through which gifts of mind, body, spirit, and imagination can be realized.

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ur discussion about leadership invites students to think of leadership in a way that often seems counterintuitive given the example set by some of our most prominent leaders today who lead because of what is in it for them. In the context of our shared faith, leadership is first and foremost about serving the other. Christian leadership is servant leadership and compassionate leadership. While all of us might not be called to leadership in the traditional sense (running for office, running a business), all of us are indeed called to servant leadership. Northwest students learn that being a bystander is not an option. Instead, students are called to get engaged in the world by discerning their gifts and putting them to use for the Common Good. As our students grow and think about heading off to college or to the working world, it becomes clear that the success of the student depends more and more on the ability for the student to hold him or herself accountable. Whether being accountable to themselves, to God, to their families, or their community, accountability is a habit developed by first understanding the scope of their responsibilities, and then tending to them. The more the students are offered the opportunity to hold themselves accountable, the better they will get at doing just that.

Andrew Schiffer ’85

SPECIAL EDITION

Kadian Russell ’00

Kathleen McCormack ’12

THE NORTHWEST CATHOLIC TIMES

2019–2020

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“And our grad-at-grad profile could simply state that we graduate leaders, but instead we graduate compassionate leaders. There’s a difference.”

THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC LOGOS 2019–2020 Edition

The Greek word λόγος or logos (pronounced lo-gaas) is defined as “word” or “meaning.”

St. John’s Gospel opens: “In the beginning was Logos (the Word), and Logos was with God, and Logos was God.” The phrase “Word (Logos) of God,” found in John 1:1 and elsewhere, shows God’s desire and ability to “speak” to the human. The Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (the founding Order of Northwest Catholic) have been noted for their ability to preach the word. The mission of the Dominicans is to provide intellectual formation and social communication through word and action.

Our publication, Logos, conveys our mission and values through this medium of the word. Logos is published once a year by the Communications Department of Northwest Catholic High School.

EDITOR’S LETTER Maureen C. Scudder | LOGOS Editor I can’t think of a single school that doesn’t claim to transform students into leaders.

The assertion is so commonplace that it holds little credibility. I worry sometimes that our own promise to graduate leaders might seem empty, but then I remember how we define leadership at Northwest Catholic.

In our list of core values, we marry leadership to service. We could list each value separately, like most schools do, but this would miss our point. And our grad-at-grad profile could simply state that we graduate leaders, but instead we graduate compassionate leaders.

There’s a difference.

This year’s Logos celebrates Northwest Catholic’s special brand of leadership – one that inextricably ties leadership to service. At Northwest there’s no former without the latter.

The 2019–2020 school year was an especially good time to shine a light on servant leadership, and I think this edition explains why.

Special thanks to Joseph DeVito ’19 for his careful editing, to the many alumni who submitted news and stories, and to the faculty, staff, and students for their ideas, articles, photos, and captions.

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EDITOR Maureen C. Scudder

INTERIM PRESIDENT & HEAD OF SCHOOL Maria Maynard

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PLEASE SEND COMMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS TO: Maureen C. Scudder Northwest Catholic High School 29 Wampanoag Drive West Hartford, CT 06117 860-236-4221 ext. 113 mscudder@nwcath.org

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 22 34 50 62 70 80 98 110 114

Kudos To… News From Wamp #Goodworks In The Arts Athletics Alumni News Advancement News In Memoriam The 1961 Society

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”

Galatians 6:2

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Mission, alues, Graduate Profile MISSION We are a diverse, Catholic, co-ed, college preparatory community.

We educate the whole person, mind, body, spirit, and imagination.

We develop leaders who faithfully serve God and others.

VALUES Faith Respect Diverse Community Leadership and Service Education of the Whole Person

GRADUATE PROFILE A NORTHWEST CATHOLIC GRADUATE ASPIRES TO BE… Intellectually curious Spiritually aware Compassionate leaders Community focused Whole people

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LETTER FROM THE INTERIM PRESIDENT & HEAD OF SCHOOL Dear Friends, It is an honor to address you in this edition of Logos in this most unusual year.

For the past several months, in all walks of life, we have recognized heroes. We have watched heroes at work in the medical field – doctors, nurses, caretakers, and volunteers healing the sick. We have seen heroes feeding the hungry, checking in on the infirm, and befriending the lonely. We have watched parents, guardians, and grandparents home-schooling students at every level. And we have watched priests continue to celebrate mass virtually and in-person and parishioners volunteer to sanitize places of worship. I would especially like to honor teachers, staff members, and administrators who have worked tirelessly since last March to educate students and care for our school communities.

The teachers at Northwest Catholic have clearly demonstrated a love for their vocation and sincere care for the students they serve. The learning curve for many to instruct on a virtual platform has been daunting. They have persevered for many months to ensure that a wellplanned program of studies meets the needs of all students. Not only have they adapted their teaching to an electronic delivery, but they have cared for the emotional well-being of their students as well. Some have even ventured to make home deliveries of food to families with special needs.

These carriers of the golden rule to love thy neighbor are true disciples of the gospel message of mercy and love. Our students and their families are blessed to be in their care. I salute each one with whom I have been given the privilege to serve at NWC. Their stewardship of resources, their shared talents, and their love for imparting learning to their students echo the gospel of Matthew 14:20-21.

And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, “Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.” His master said to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.”

Our Northwest Catholic faculty, staff, and administration are truly modern-day disciples and servant leaders. “Well done, good and faithful servants.”

With Peace and Joy,

Maria Maynard Interim President & Head of School

In lumine tuo videbimus lumen.

In Your light we shall see light.

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COVER STORY 1 When Leadership Means Service

When leadership means service:

NWC a answer Why I serve by:

A Life Calling

by Luis Edgardo Cotto ’85

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he first time I heard of or visited Northwest Catholic was the summer of 1981. I was working on a painting crew as a summer job through my church. Our priest, Father Thomas Goeckler, came into the apartment that we were painting and drove me – painting clothes and all – to Wampanoag Drive for what I learned was an entrance exam. A combination of doing well on the test as well as my family’s financial

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realities (Section 8 housing, food stamps, etc.) prompted the school to offer me a scholarship. Because of this, the first two years of my high school life involved “paying back” that scholarship by working at my church’s rectory after school. At the age of 14, this began what would become a life calling of service, a road that has had me serve as an elected official and, currently, for a state arts agency whose operating model is one of service to its constituents, not just a funder.

A major part of that road included the creation of a coffeeshop and bookstore with my sisters. Located in the Frog Hollow neighborhood of Hartford, La Paloma Sabanera (affectionally called La Paloma), sold books by and about Latinx authors and subjects (in Spanish and English), and fair trade, organic coffee from Puerto Rico and Central and South T H E M A G A Z I N E O F N O R T H W E S T C AT H O L I C

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America. Most lenders would reject us due to a business model that had “too much of a social service component,” but we persevered and opened in 2004, introducing the region to our own version of a “third space.” We sold our product and were able to move forward with what made lenders balk: a fully stocked lending library, after-school homework clubs for local kids, book clubs, free movie screenings, free jazz nights, and wall space for artwork by local artists. Our upstairs mezzanine library space was also the first office for Governor Ned Lamont when he ran for Senate against Joe Lieberman.

It wasn’t long before I was asked to run for Hartford City Council with the Working Families Party of CT. Up until then, the extent of my political participation had been relegated to voting. I was convinced to run… and won! During my time on

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lumni the call Mark Ojakian ’71

Shaundricka Ranel ’03

the Council, I was able to work with grassroots groups to pass some critical policies, including an immigration ordinance so that all residents are treated the same regardless of documentation status, and a removal of the barrier of a credit check to unemployment to anyone who wants to work for the city.

Mark Fernandes ’78

We also included gender identity and gender expression as a protected class in the city’s affirmative action laws, and removed the ban on skateboarding in the city (yes, that existed), which was a precursor to the creation of Heaven Skatepark in Downtown Hartford.

I’m now in Cambridge with my spouse and son, and we both have jobs that call us to serve, continuing to be involved in numerous causes and movements.

Luis Edgardo Cotto ’85 is a Program Manager for the Mass Cultural Council, managing their Cultural Districts Initiative. He also co-chairs a national network of community development cultural workers through the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Before moving to Cambridge, MA, Luis was a City Councilor in his hometown of Hartford, serving as Minority Leader for the Working Families Party. Luis lives in Cambridge with his wife, Mercedes, and their 12-year-old son, Angel. His daughter, Alexandra, lives with her husband in Leicester, UK.

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Why I Serve

by Christine Palm ’74

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s a State Representative, I serve in the General Assembly representing four Connecticut River towns: Chester, Deep River, Essex, and Haddam. I decided to run for elected office – something I’d never done on any level – one afternoon in 2017 while testifying before the Labor Committee on a pay equity bill. Several Republican male-elected officials consistently marginalized and dismissed my research about the economic (and ethical) justification for paying working women the same as men are paid.

As I sat there stunned by their hubris and ignorance, that quiet but powerful inner voice said, “You need to be on the other side of that dais.”

So, I quit my job and announced my candidacy shortly thereafter.

“We studied injustice and poverty.

We learned about abuses of power.

We were taught how to think outside the box even within a dogmatic structure.

Those lessons have stayed with me, and I use them every day when I face opposition...”

and ultra-conservative factions who question my progressive, humanitarian, feminist politics.

for Disease Control are examples of efforts to curtail our personal and communal liberty.

What are the lessons I still carry?

First, not to accept anything as inevitable. Don’t seek sanity in sanitizing this mess our country is in. The last four years have so divided our nation and eroded people’s trust in government that I fear deeply and

Finally, my days at NWC taught me not to be afraid to rock the boat.

I recall being taken very seriously by an Administration that did not always agree with my beliefs. My teachers and the Administration engaged genuinely with me when we disagreed.

As I recall, these disputes often had to do with my penchant for wearing my skirt too short, donning beaded moccasins instead of loafers, refusing to dissect frogs, arguing for a girls’ baseball team (this was pre-Title IX), and questioning rules.

My days at NWC taught me not to be afraid to rock the boat.

That’s the anecdote about when I decided to run. But the greater question of why I ran can actually be traced back to my time at Northwest. I attended NWC from 1970 to 1974, at a time I now regard as the Golden Age of Catholic Education.

It was at NWC where I learned the foundations of what it means to act upon one’s conscience. We studied injustice and poverty. We learned about abuses of power. We were taught how to think outside the box even within a dogmatic structure. Those lessons have stayed with me, and I use them every day when I face opposition, censure, and threatening messages from alt-right 8 • LOGOS 2019 – 2020

genuinely for our future. We must resist the urge to normalize bad behavior because accepting something as inevitable when it is not is the first step to allowing an authoritarian takeover.

Second, we must learn to protect our own rights. As privileged people of compassion who increasingly try to find ways to defend others – those at risk of deportation, incarcerated children, marginalized communities, and Blacks who suffer from excessive police force – we must remember to safeguard our own rights, too. We must be vigilant that our freedoms aren’t being abridged or suspended amid the false claim of a “national emergency.” The denigration of the press, vilification of “the other,” violations of the Emoluments Clause, and meddling in national agencies such as the Postal Service and the Centers

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Nevertheless, I was treated respectfully and given the chance to justify my fledgling activism. For this I will always be grateful. So, I tell folks now: have uncomfortable conversations over the holiday table. Question why your teachers aren’t covering crucial material in class. Listen to your elders, but don’t swallow everything they say. Speak up in your workplace. Confront complacency in your daily interactions. And yes, challenge your elected leaders.

If you don’t, the truth ebbs away. And once a false, fear-based narrative takes root, it is nearly impossible to replace it with the true, fact-based one.

Final word? Consider running for office.

And for Heaven’s sake, vote.

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Christine Palm ’74 was re-elected as State Representative for the 36th General Assembly district, covering the Connecticut River towns of Chester, Deep River, Essex, and Haddam. She’s concerned mostly with legislation that protects the environment, enhances women’s rights, increases police accountability, and provides economic stimulus for members of Generations Y and Z. She led the House’s effort to expand absentee ballot provisions for the General Election so everyone can vote in safety. Christine lives in Chester with her husband, James Baker. They have four sons, Seamus, Colin, Daniel, and James.

In the Service of Others

by Shaundricka Ranel ’03

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here are many reasons why I serve. The reasons range from empowering others and myself, gaining a new perspective, learning humility in recognizing the privileges I have, connecting to and bettering my community, developing new relationships, and representation.

My first volunteer experience was in middle school at 7, 8, 9 Summer Day Camp. There, we would complete academic enrichment activities, and in the afternoon, we would volunteer throughout the community on various projects such as neighborhood clean-up, soup kitchens, food pantries, retirement homes, etc. The experience birthed my love for serving, as I saw my community from a new perspective, visited places in Harford County that I did not know existed, and saw disparities in my community where I could make a positive impact.

Some see volunteering as giving back to the community, but I see it as a reciprocal relationship. Each interaction and experience empowers me to do better and be better while hoping that my help motivates others to do the same. In terms of representation, it is important for black and brown people to see someone who looks like them serving humbly, making connections, and showing that being a social worker, a lawyer, or the president of an organization is attainable. Every time I volunteer, I make a new friend or connection that has been long-term, or has connected me to the next amazing experience. Some of the relationships that I have formed through volunteering have been life-long and turned into friendships.

As Mahatma Gandi said, “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” That quote resonates with me, as I have found my passion for helping others in some of their most difficult times, my career and love for juvenile law and child protection, and a fervor to elevate myself and others through service.

Shaundricka M. Ranel, MSW, Esq ’03 obtained her BS in Organizational Communication from Southern Connecticut State University, her MSW from UConn, and her JD from North Carolina Central University School of Law. She is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. After graduating, she relocated to Washington DC where she practiced in the areas of domestic violence, family, and juvenile law.

Her proudest positions were as a substance abuse counselor in an in-patient rehabilitation facility in New Britain, CT and representing the Prince George’s County, Maryland’s Child Protective Services in prosecuting child abuse and neglect matters. She now serves as the Director of Student Policy and Title IX Coordinator for KIPP DC Public Charter School in the District of Columbia serving over 7,000 inner city youth.

In her free time, she enjoys DIY projects, traveling internationally, and serving as President-Elect of J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association, a minority specialty bar association in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties.

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Striving for a more equitable and just world Mark Ojakian ’71 is the President of the Connecticut State College and University System (CSCU). He oversees 12 community colleges, four state universities, and Charter Oak State College, serving almost 85,000 students on its 17 campuses.

Prior to his current position, Mark served as Chief of Staff to Governor Dannel P. Malloy. Before joining Governor Malloy’s office, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management (OPM). And for 16 years, he was the Deputy Comptroller under former State Comptroller Nancy Wyman. Mark is also behind the development of an apartment complex in Simsbury called Ojakian Commons. In collaboration with the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Mark established this complex for residents living with disabilities. His father had MS, as do his brother and sister.

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s anyone who attended Catholic schools knows, the principle of service to others is a central tenet of the educational curriculum and is ingrained into students at a very young age. We are taught to use our time to make the world a better place, to care for our most vulnerable neighbors, and to put the needs of the community first. Those are rules I have strived to live by throughout my career in public service. For me, the decision to serve was an easy one. In addition to my Catholic education, my family prioritized the virtues of public service. So, I knew early on that I wanted to do something with my life to help others— I just didn't know what form that would take.

A help-wanted advertisement in the Hartford Courant was the catalyst for my career in public service. After attending college and graduate school out of state, I had returned to Connecticut to help care for my father, who had recently been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and I was waiting tables full-time at a local restaurant. My mother often scoured the newspapers, looking for job opportunities on my behalf, and one day clipped an ad for a research analyst position with the Office of Legislative Research— a job that kicked off my more than 40-year career in state government service.

I have been fortunate to hold several leadership positions during my tenure in state service, including Deputy State Comptroller,

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Chief of Staff to Governor Dannel P. Malloy, and President of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities. In each of those roles, I have tried to take from the lessons I learned during my Catholic education, striving for a more equitable and just world. Whether it was helping lead the passage of groundbreaking K-12 education reform in the governor's office, or pushing forward the Students First plan to improve outcomes for marginalized students – particularly students of color – at the community colleges, it is a belief in service, instilled from my upbringing, that has kept me going throughout.

While my career in public service is coming to an end with my retirement at the end of the year, I am heartened by the next generation of leaders’ activism and desire to make genuine improvements. In my five years as CSCU President, I have met with hundreds of students, many of whom are called to serve, to make progress on issues of equity and inclusion, where my generation simply came up short. It is up to them to take up the mantle, to drive the change they wish to see in the world. On everything from reversing the effects of climate change to preventing gun violence, they have made themselves heard.

I know the future is bright if the young people who have inspired us with their bravery, passion, and intelligence take up the mantle of leadership and public service.

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Serving students, teachers, and parents

by Mark Fernandes ’78 On October 27, 1982, I walked into an 8th grade US History class at Dodd Junior High School in Cheshire. A year earlier, I was not even thinking about becoming a teacher. I was just someone who loved US History. I had taken a couple of education courses to fill out my schedule in my undergraduate studies.

In December 1981, Dr. Richard Farrell at the university called me up after class.

He asked me why I did not sign up for student teaching in the spring. I told him I wasn’t in the Education Department and did not have the qualification to student teach. Dr. Farrell then said, “Follow me.”

We walked into the Office of the Chairman of the Education Department.

Dr. Farrell stated that I was ready to student teach but needed permission to do it because of some courses I had not completed. The chairman turned to me saying, “If I let you do this, will you make up the other classes before you graduate?” I agreed, and a month later I was doing my student teaching in Charles County, Maryland.

When I was asked about why I became a teacher, I would have to say it is Dr. Farrell’s fault. Why, thirty-eight years

later I am still in education, I would have to say is because I found I could be good at it. When the student comes back years later to say I made an impact on them, or “I followed your advice and it worked,” or like one young NWC student came up to me, years after I taught him, and said, “You know that biography of my grandmother I did for your class?

My grandmother tells me a new story every time she sees me”— that makes you feel like you did something good.

For the last 20 years I have been a school administrator. I have been in charge of adult students, high school students, middle school students, elementary students, and, yes, preschoolers. As a secondary school educator, the scariest thing in the world was the day I took over a pre-K–8 school.

I had been in a two-hour meeting and needed to escape the office. I walked into the hall as the pre-school classes were walking by. I froze where I was, scared I would step on them. I had never been around students that looked me in the thigh.

For me, the job of an administrator is to make sure students have access to a good education in a safe environment. I believe a school leader has to coach teachers to deliver the best lessons to help students

To serve each student, to reach them where they are, and, with the help of parents, teachers, staff and community, to get them to where they need to be is the job of a 21st century school leader. achieve their academic and personal goals. As the leader, you must be prepared to help teachers take care of themselves so they can take care of the students.

For some, you have to be paternal; for some, you have to be a colleague; and or others, you just have to be there.

A school leader also has to help students modify their behaviors that stand in the way of their academic success.

You must include parents to be a part of the success of their student. As a school administrator, you must be the architect of the three-legged table that is education: the student, the school, and the parent. The table doesn’t work unless all three legs are actively involved in the educational process.

To serve each student, to reach them where they are, and, with the help of parents, teachers, staff and community, to get them to where they need to be is the job of a 21st century school leader.

Mark Fernandes ’78 earned his BA in History at the University of Maryland, his MA in History from Central Connecticut State University, and a 6th year in Educational Leadership from Southern Connecticut State University. Mark was President and Treasurer of the National Alternative Education Association, President of the Hartford Board of Approved Baseball Umpires, and a high school soccer coach and official. He served the Town of Windsor as Chairman of the Commission on Aging and Disability and he helped start the Connecticut Committee for Youth Suicide Prevention. He is an active Freemason, serving as leader of his Lodge in 1991 and serving on several statewide committees. Mark and his wife, Lesley Knight, live in Cheshire.

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I saw the call for articles on leadership, and I thought that given our current health crisis with COVID-19, and, more importantly, our current crisis with civil unrest and division, that perhaps presenting the point of view from a police officer might help those in the NWC community with understanding from someone who has been an officer for 27 years and is still in a police leadership role.

I am Andrew Schiffer ’85, one of 11 Schiffers who are NWC alumni. Some of you reading this may have been my classmates or a classmate of my sibling. Northwest has always been part of my life, as I was a “little kid” in our family and tagged along to NWC events when I could barely walk. I remember being young and playing behind Father’s Field during football games as my older brothers were playing. I remember playing football myself on Father’s Field, then finishing cross-country races through lines of football players who supported our team as we ran.

I ran my way through NWC earning six consecutive All-State Awards and Athlete of the Year in 1985. I credit much of my NWC success to encouragement by my coach and leadership role model, Dr. Griffin. I learned from him how to “read” people, motivate people, and help them build on their strengths. I also learned the power of legacy when

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my future college running coach, former NWC coach Dennis McCormack, recruited me to run at the University of Hartford.

Again, with guidance there, I excelled.

Why do I talk about my own success? Because in reality, it isn’t just mine— it is shared with others: coaches, teammates, and friends. Together, we won Class Championships and pushed each other toward shared success. As in sport, we need others to excel in life. NWC taught me that lesson, my family taught me that lesson, and we need to teach that lesson to our children, grandchildren, and all young people we mentor.

This same concept has been applied in police departments across the country through the years. Police departments have a Field Training Program where senior officers teach the new officers the right way to do things: how to have compassion when needed, how to hold a hard line when required, and how to enforce the law fairly to all. In short, how to do the right thing— even when no one is looking.

I started my career in emergency services as a volunteer firefighter and EMT. I hadn’t thought of police work before I joined the West Hartford Police Department, but I am very glad I have been an officer for all these years. You may find it hard to believe, but in the years I was with West Hartford, there were

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five NWC alums on the force, and we all rose to be leaders.

Paul Gionfriddo ’84 was a senior officer on my midnight shift.

I worked closely with Captain Paul Melanson ’87 and Captain Donald Melanson ’84 in the WHPD Detective Division, and Lieutenant Mike Alquist ’84 was a patrol commander.

I finished my time at WHPD as a lieutenant in charge of the Training Division, and I am now the second in command at Canton Police Department as Captain.

Along the way, I have worked for some very good leaders and others that could have been better. I adopted what I saw as good modeling and shied away from techniques I thought were less than helpful to develop future leaders. One goal of almost every police leader is to develop the next generation of good leaders. We saw firsthand last spring what happens when officers are not guided with effective leadership skills. A few officers failed to follow training, or lacked the ability to find an effective and safe solution to deal with difficult or combative citizens, and tragedy resulted. In Connecticut, and especially in Greater Hartford where I have worked, training and accountability have always been of the highest priority (at least in my 27 years of service).

As a result, there have been very few instances of the kind of events that have led to massive protesting as they have in other parts of our nation.

I think it’s important for everyone to know that just because something bad happens, especially when it involves police officers, that it might not be because of bad leadership, or a bad police officer. Sometimes bad things happen, like officer-involved shootings, because citizens do bad things and police intervene to protect other citizens or themselves.

Sometimes our intervention is even to protect the bad-acting citizen himself. Sometimes what we have to do – what we are trained to do – looks bad from the outside looking in, but it is done with the effort to cause the least harm, find the safest resolution, and for the benefit of all involved.

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Police officers are called to run towards the trouble when most other citizens want to run from it. We go because we value lives, we value safety, and we pledged our lives to do it for others. We don’t do it for recognition, and we don’t want to hurt anyone, but nearly all of us have had at least several days when, in the words of John Candy in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, “We can laugh about it now because we’re not dead!” There are few professions where the threat of dying at the hands of someone else is “part of the job you signed up for.” I have gone into freezing rivers, burning homes, piled up cars, and winding woods, trying to save people. So have my brother and sister officers. Some we save, some we lose.

But we go.

In my case, my belief in God guides me, Saint Michael protects me, my training helps me, and knowing my fellow officers feel the same way drives me forward. I have saved lives, and I have been milliseconds away from taking them. I have had people die in my arms as I worked with others to save them. I have seen what few people see. Today, as I write this, I had to tell a mother and father that despite our efforts, we could not revive their teenage child. The anguished cry of a parent that has just lost a child is something I would not wish anyone to hear. And yet, we go. We go back to work every day to serve and to lead.

There are national calls to “defund the police,” “end police brutality,” and for “justice for all.” These cries are each loaded with varying amounts of truth, political and personal agendas, and misinformation. While some readers may interpret the previous sentence as offensive, I can support the ideas of truth, agenda, and misinformation with examples.

Every citizen deserves police protection when they need it.

All citizens should expect that if there is cooperation between citizen and officer, they will leave the encounter without injury.

The citizen should feel that their needs and concerns were heard and understood. Without cooperation, sometimes this process breaks down, but that breakdown is not always the fault of the officer. Yet, when it does break down, we hear the calls, and citizens protest. Those who vandalize property or attack others because they believe it supports a justice movement are not part of the solution. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Those who act this way are misinformed that destroying what others have worked for is justified. Defunding our police departments may appear to be an answer, but in the long run, if the citizenry feels the officers are doing it wrong, then more training and better technology will help officers get it right. This requires more funding. In the last ten years of my policing career, I have not seen training and education budgets for police improve, but rather shrink.

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My resumé has two pages of training courses that I have attended over my career. An officer hired today can expect to go to the Academy and maybe never get another training course other than the minimums to keep certification.

Even if you were a computer wizard in 1985 (which I thought I was), could you run a network in 2020 without any additional training? Certainly not.

The call to end police brutality is one that is really hard to take for most police officers because we use force when necessary, and we do not try to “brutalize” any citizen. Yes, training in use of force is part of our curriculum. Yet when we do have to use it lawfully, we are almost always chastised or vilified by some in the public for doing so. There is no excuse for unlawful or unreasonable use of force – every officer should agree with that statement – but sometimes, an edited video is posted that fails to show why an officer might have had to use the force needed. This misinforms those who view it, and there is a call that the officer should face criminal charges, but if viewed in totality, it may be that the force used was appropriate given the situation and the need to resolve it.

There are bad apples in every profession, but almost all officers leave the roll call room every day with the desire to serve their fellow citizens, not combat them. Just as citizens expect that police will not “paint them all with the same brush,” please don’t vilify all officers because of isolated incidents in which an officer failed in their duty, or has been portrayed to have failed in their duty. Nearly every police department has as part of their Vision or Mission Statement words to the effect of ensuring “justice for all.” Those three words are the last three in the pledge of allegiance… something we said daily throughout our school years. If police officers and the citizens we serve didn’t believe in that ideal, and that it is truly afforded to everyone, we would not continue to strive to ensure it to all persons we encounter. Without that guiding principle, our society would devolve into anarchy. Your police services prevent anarchy.

Citizens need police as much as the police need the citizens.

We must find a way to work together and restore the trust and confidence in each other that events since the end of May 2020 have eroded so badly in such a short time.

I write this article with a fair amount of opinion, and if you are still reading, you may be asking how this essay fits in an issue of Logos that is dedicated to leadership. Leadership is a learned behavior. I work hard to be a part of the solution to our country’s current concerns. I do my best every day to see the good in others, to build connections with others who don’t look like me, don’t talk like me, and have different ideas from mine. I believe I have to see their point of view to understand them, and do my best to help them understand me. We want the same things out of life: a safe place to live, enough food to eat, clean water to drink, a meaningful task for each day, and to give those same opportunities to our children or younger family members that follow us. I teach police officers

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in annual recertification training and in daily briefings. I teach criminal justice classes at a local community college to our next generation of criminal justice professionals. When I do teach, I try to listen as much as I talk. In both venues we look at cases and examine event circumstances, we talk to each other, we try to figure out what was good that we should continue to do, and what was bad that we should never do again in the whole of the criminal justice system. As officers, we are not happy to have to use force, although it is often portrayed that way in movies and in agenda-driven posts. Most of us see it as a failure if we were not able to use our skills of talking and persuasion to earn the trust of a troubled person and get compliance so we can offer help. We know a lot, about a lot of different situations, and we want to help. To do so, we need help from citizens.

We need your help and support and belief that nearly all of us are fair and just. I don’t condemn all coaches or team physicians just because some have abused their players or patients. I don’t condemn all lawyers just because some take advantage of client accounts. I don’t lose faith in doctors just because some make medical mistakes. I don’t target all drivers just because some commit violations. I hope anyone who reads this can offer the same to police officers, because there are very few who have had lapses in ethical judgement that lead to bad actions.

quote at my own father’s funeral, thinking at the time that, again, a library was lost. However, the more I think about it, my dad, a Marine, passed along that strong sense of right and wrong. My mom still does the same for me, my siblings, her grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Their libraries will never burn because they live in me. If I do it right, I will pass on all that I have learned and know along to my children and students.

The library of fairness only grows, and with it all the compassion and good that police officers bring to our society.

Northwest Catholic was the place where I first learned to exercise the qualities of leadership I had learned from family, coaches, scout leaders, friends, and people who cared about helping me become a good person. I am forever grateful for that opportunity to grow at NWC. Throughout most of my days since graduation, I have tried to add to what I learned, refine it, and then pass it along to others. I will continue to do so until my own earthly library burns. But when it does, I will be confident that I worked hard to make our world better because I was in it. And I hope that I will have instilled in others the desire to leave the same mark. Let us lead together and make a better world.

As a police leader in 2020, and into the future, I believe I will make a difference in the way the police officers that serve with me will approach their duties. My faith requires me to do so if I am to follow the Golden Rule. I have spent years acquiring knowledge from mentors in order to do right by others. It is my responsibility to pass that on so that others will follow my lead, and hopefully in my footsteps.

When Mr. Riley, the owner of the lumber yard I worked at, died, his family had put the following quote on the funeral service booklet: “When an old man dies, a library burns down.” I repeated that

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COVER STORY 3 LEADS reimagined

L.E.A.D.S reimagined

by Chris Haddad, Director of Campus Ministry and LEADS 9 From the moment students step onto the campus at Northwest Catholic, every experience that they have is designed with the intention to help each student fulfill the aspirations reflected in the Graduate Profile and the Northwest Catholic mission statement.

Among those experiences is the LEADS program, which was placed under the direction of Campus Ministry starting with the 2019–20 academic year. At Northwest Catholic, every student participates in the LEADS program during their freshman year. LEADS, which is an acronym for Leadership, Engagement, Accountability, Determination, and Service, has dual goals which are specially tailored to the life of a student in his or her first year of high school.

First, the LEADS curriculum truly meets the students where they are socially, spiritually, and emotionally to ensure that their feet are planted firmly beneath them as they begin their transformative high school years.

Second, the LEADS curriculum is designed to help prepare the students to move through their high school careers with purpose and intention, guided by the Graduate Profile and the Northwest Catholic mission. Over the past academic year, Northwest Catholic updated the LEADS program to ensure that those dual goals would be met.

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THE GRAD AT GRAD: GUIDED BY MISSION If LEADS is guided by the Graduate Profile and the Northwest Catholic mission, then the first step to understanding LEADS is to better understand both. The Graduate Profile states an aspirational vision for our students, that each might be intellectually curious and academically excellent, spiritually aware and exploring a relationship with God, a compassionate leader who seeks to serve others and promote justice, and community focused as a member of the Northwest family. This culminates in the overarching aspiration that a Northwest Catholic graduate be a whole person in mind, body, spirit, and imagination.

This commitment to the development of the whole person is also the cornerstone of the Northwest Catholic mission. Therefore, the LEADS program invites the students to think about themselves in this way, as a whole person. Specifically, to best position the students to nurture their whole selves, early in the semester the students are asked to set concrete goals for themselves by considering questions about all four aspects of their whole person.

MIND: Where do the students want to challenge themselves academically and expand their intellectual horizons?

BODY: How can the students use their time at Northwest to better themselves physically, to grow as athletes, and to prioritize taking care of themselves?

SPIRIT: Where is God calling the students, and how can they deepen their spiritual connection to God? What steps can they take to help them discern God’s call for them?

IMAGINATION: How can students think outside the box to stretch themselves creatively or artistically?

For each – the mind, body, spirit, and imagination – students are challenged very early in their high school careers to begin reflecting on their strengths and weaknesses, ascertaining where they might push themselves in order to grow into the whole person that Northwest Catholic nurtures them to be.

The Graduate Profile and the Northwest Catholic mission are always guiding the work in the LEADS program. So, within this context, what does LEADS work to accomplish?

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WHAT’S IN A NAME? To best understand the LEADS program, it bears a bit more explanation. The best clue to the purpose and intent of the LEADS program is hidden in the name itself.

LEADERSHIP – Our discussion about leadership invites students to think of leadership in a way that often seems counterintuitive given the example set by some of our most prominent leaders today who lead because of what is in it for them. In the context of our shared faith, leadership is first and foremost about serving the other. Christian leadership is servant leadership and compassionate leadership.

While all of us might not be called to leadership in the traditional sense (running for office, running a business), all of us are indeed called to servant leadership.

ENGAGEMENT – Northwest students learn that being a bystander is not an option. Instead, students are called to get engaged in the world by discerning their gifts and putting them to use for the Common Good. LEADS helps students to discern their gifts while calling them to be mindful about the places in the world that need their intentional engagement.

ACCOUNTABILITY – As our students grow and think about heading off to college or to the working world, it becomes clear that the success of the student depends more and more on the ability for the student to hold him or herself accountable. Whether being accountable to themselves, to God, to their families, or their community, accountability is a habit developed by first understanding the scope of their responsibilities, and then tending to them. The more the students are offered the opportunity to hold themselves accountable, the better they will get at doing just that.

DETERMINATION – For many students, high school is the first place where things become challenging.

Whether it is their work in the classroom, on the sports field, or wrestling with the

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moral and ethical challenges of the world, when students encounter resistance and when things get difficult, developing the will and intention to persevere through challenges becomes even more important. Many refer to this characteristic as grit: that willingness to dig deep when things get tough. In LEADS, we strive to give students the opportunity to know themselves so they can learn how to find that next gear that is necessary when the challenges are daunting.

SERVICE – As Pope Francis noted, leadership must begin with service. In fact, the middle and end must also continue to place service of the other at the center of all that we do. Service lifts others up, but it also elevates the person who is serving. And the important lessons of service which Christ taught us when he washed the feet of his disciples – lessons of humility and love – are reinforced when our students serve others in need, whether they are within our school community, Greater Hartford, or across the world. The lessons we discuss in LEADS concerning service provide a useful springboard for the students to tackle the service requirement which is part of their sophomore year.

Through the LEADS curriculum then, the students are oriented in a way which best positions them to grow into the person that the Graduate Profile aspires for them to be: intellectually curious, spiritually aware, a compassionate leader, community focused, and a whole person— mind, body, spirit, and imagination.

Looking around the world and all its challenges leaves no doubt that we need more people formed in this way— students who will lead with confidence and compassion, who will serve our brother and sister wherever encountered, and who will constantly draw nearer to God. Through the LEADS Program, we hope to help students begin this journey.

We look to our motto to guide us: In lumina tuo videbimus lumen. In Your light we shall see light. Everything we do at Northwest Catholic, every act and every interaction, is an opportunity to be the light of Christ for one another. It is this spirit of faith and light that has distinguished the NWC community for over half a century.

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OUR PROMISE Our promise at Northwest Catholic is to educate the whole person — mind, body, spirit, and imagination. We believe that an education that does not take into account a student’s spiritual life is incomplete.

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Rick Pappalardo ’94 is still serving the Wethersfield Fire Department.

Kadian Russell ’00 is a traveling ER nurse currently on assignment in MA.

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Kathleen McCormack ’12 is hard at work with the Hartford Fire Dept.

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Itatenit qui unti officii stiuscia voluptamet ut venihil ea dendest evelenis demquasite serci vendae pro volorio. Alis dolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur? At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Cupta que volorem latibus cipiendusam re parum quo te poris mo que sa delic teces excea non rehenit aturit res eost, sum faccatibus et volo omnimus rehenim laceatium landa volor si de latiatia pel explitatque estrum quod mil et ideressit auditia sinus, volorep raturep taquia dendellaut omniet in con pliquiandant veliqui ero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihi

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Aleece Browdy Ellison ’87 is an ER Nurse at Medical City Lewisville in TX. Caborio eatur, ut magnis aliquae nullaborion net qui nonest estis poreium evendendus, et voles et et escipsa eptatur sunt etum fugiat iminull uptatiuntis am fugitat ecabo. Et audio molesequam, etur reius cus doluptatur as et autempo rescia vel eos volorro blabo. Opta dolorec tionet et eatia pelendaerate volo eiunt la delest et, quo venit ute doleni nis audita core, cum acimolut laut maio maximol uptatius ex eosae cum elitae sandit doluptis quam fugiatu rempore mporent, ideligentis nossincia sum eum nume moloratur? Quidendant audis re, et volor rem quia sunt magnam, undam dus, ut peritibus et apiet, occae nis disin non rem es ullabore veles ab ipist, ut optatur, ulluptae doleste et pa cust mi, temporerro temqui ne laut aut vollatia sum quia nonse nos exceres et quas et laut quistem faci ut ipicto quodi receatem que eturessimi, tes ad eumqui blant.

Tem veriantia dollitatio. Nequis utet ut quiae. Agnient usdaestiis explit, consequam alibusciam dolo quos aspis doluptate sam qui re vid ut que volupta temporepro te vel iusam res dolest, cor modiatati dolorer ibusae nem fuga. Ficilliquam quo earum aute voloreiur? Ro di ducitatia quam, conseque num volesequis quiae omniet volupta turiori busdand ucilitati quatecabor ape volum volorro consendit ute nulla volore qui nullest quis ullor sit quaspienis sum dolupta nonet voloriant ulloriatis essitium harchit as aditius excessequat fugia sequodi tatibus seceped quas is de volores sequi simet eate repra quam quaerov iderero quiatem quam quo bla pa voluptae que re, suntem acerum doluptatem. Ic te vellestrum voluptatur?

Nam, nos etur, quis dellabo riatio. Te cum expliae ctempelitate rest, que quas velignis alique nime volor mo blandanis eiur sus si alitio.

Utem quiam quiature voluptata consequos eos re sit, serum quam, quibusc iliquo quam nis atur, ea pro quasitatent.

Vid molupta nonem entorro blaborio et que nobita volorporibus de pro molor ratet lant quamenim voluptate dolorum reprovi ditatem qui ra quosam quaepel ecustempor apelias nata sitatiur rem repeliquam, quatior essincius consecesciis et hitecte qui con estrum et et accum, quis uta volupta ipsunt la ipsamus eos soluptatur autatur res est, ipienimosam, quam faces magnam, tem etus excest quiant aut acessin rem consequia nonsedi berciuntInciam quos eos dolorrum fuga. Ut andanda autemque dolupta quistis con nam est, officia sequam ut eum, tem quae et adit eum iur?

Cab is nonsequid modit pe con eum re volupti aperrunt quam voluptasim cuscipsant quos et qui blati dolupturento tota dita et faciisqui invelescium rem labo. Tatur, omnis eossit omnihit quias et explabo ruptae qui aut quiaerum aliqui de nia qui commodit maximi, estium fugitatem quam, qui nis expla sapedi quatus nimet voluptat rero quia sedit quis autemporume verum a dis ea dolorro vitate mos volorum es mincil iuntore veniminisqui cusandaest voluptat prepro explate sitaspe rferit eum alit a ipienditas apienimus alisite vere, consequos cus exces dolorpor mo ma dio. Ut aut earia dis min ni dolupti onsequae quassum quid eumendae perchitibus secerum essum idistectatis ut prae nusci occum quodist fuga. Itaesti doluptius esedi consequae quiae ma core sit, tora vitassume dolupti dolupta quis sumet veliqui commossus evelesequame volum quis min ratur?

Tur seque laborem voloribere plautem lacia nonsene stiurep eratem ate dolorem voluptas moluptas qui bera volupti buscillam re a cone rehenturecae quunt, tota explabo. Hil mincieniet quo et autatincte susdandi sitiur sitiis acienis eatus idendem qui deni dendae nobis aliquis eatus voluptatur min plit quiatur? Bita nus ut rem et et aceatquae. It velestiatem quam, si volendem exeres excerorero quis sus ne maximinim essequod ma ditiat quaspient, sae. Et essundi aut voluptium qui tem in con cum endit ut lam fuga. Vit, sequiam, custo berruntem aut quaesequam, qui omnis doluptaquis exerum sus ut perferat adit fugiae verum explanit delia culla quam, ipidemolupta voloruptatem qui idelisi od quis in net lat prae molo et rem reptatem ad essiti velesti vendio. Et fugitia nus quunt rerrumq uatusapis doluption conse id quatiumet harum inctotaspid ut quiam faceati busapid elibus escia natum faccusam volorrupta dolorum nis etur?

Riaeri consectiunt undi quam est, to illam volentor alitatur mossimpor suntios sequae por aceped quatum, sunduntia quaturitia vendis eos et voloriorepta quis duntent voluptatur, iliquiderore venim volorrum rem. It laut etur restinc tionsequo blaut restiis aliquam quiatia ssendunt parum esciand iasped maion cum, quunda doleniet quo te verum dolupti onetur?

Omnis doluptati ut lamus sum dolupta ssinci dolorectio. Onseque

Tracey Dowden ’87 continues to work as an RN taking care of residents with dementia at an assisted living facility in MA.

Elizabeth Sgueglia Branconnier ’89

is on the frontline as a certified registered nurse anesthetist at the Providence VA Medical Center in RI. pro volorio. Alis dolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur?

At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Cupta que volorem latibus cipiendusam re parum quo te poris endem a estiorem ute renimillor modipsa pitamet officab orempos molupta spiendusdam, num hiciumqui vollaborem. Ut lab illest iligniendel is miliqui amusam qui qui optatus doloremqui aut eum, nos et ea veremporis eos ullorepellab idelit, solor as num lacius, simendi ut volut aut pro que pelis vellent emquid mod modias quidi autem assime eruntur ad eum arumquis eveliqui ommos explitae esto et et accabor rovitae provit, tem atur aut poratendam rernam, odit volupta dolorumqui tet, essit labo. Et harcidebis vident utempel estota volum fugiam, auda cus sequos que voles re volores equatatur sae volor sa iligenet ut acessin natest officte mquidunt eumque nimolorrovit eum verem inulparum re nonetus dolum atquunt.

Am, id quis quissequi is voloria errum facest harunt id ella dolorecum re, tem sum harcid qui aborum ipsant ommodis andelest ut que nobit aspiend uciendest, conecturia serchit mostisitia natquiae. Ita et dis accae accum seque voleniam fugitius dolupturi iliquiat optaquo que cus porit utetur, eum faccabo.

Serro et enist, que nia pa dolupta temquia

deliquos dolupta consequi corate volori sum quaepere con ped quo il mi, sus nihil et que poritecae vel ipit, nonsecuptus nonsequis et la comni imollameni dolumqui debit apiciam ea sitatus cipiciant.

Aditatio omnis dollaut qui autatem dolorias non ea voluptatemo ex eatint ipsanim usanit landios toruptu reperumet volorrum facearc iatur? Equidit et latibus aut exerume nduscid min nitati dolorae experrum et esto con nobis suntempos eatem es enduntus, officimo del et quo dus dolupici opta nobisti onserum sit doluptatia cullenit accati dolor alit offictios desti dolore ipita volum sita volo offici nissinc tectestotat evendus, sum di aruptas earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

Tur? It, cuptium que enecabo ruptaes impos aut quatios vellaceribus es molecata quam ut quo omnimus consequi venda aut re, nis soluptium rerehendist que plandae sum, officab orporio nsequi occae. Et estrum quis reic tem nus dolupitempor reperum vel mi, officae ctibusdanda cuptaectem re si suntisit eatus autempo reperiDolorpore perovid isciam venis eria dessumquis as mint rest landi acius, solupta turibus magnis il ipidion conet ut omnit endaecab ium sam ut volorion consequia sam cum fugit, utem rae nimus nam, vendis natur si dundi as ea necum sit

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utatur simus est quaectiore porporp oreici aut hari ulpa sam earibus. tia quaturehenis quunt harchil id quos quiae corro beaquam laut earcil ium que cusamenihil idelitatisi omnimet expel milis pa vollaborenis derferc iuntiae pudant iniminullum quia con et aut aliqui incimi, sit poreper uptassi magnihil estinusdae.

Nam necus sit eos dereprem ne cum inihili quostrum sunt ene non consequ iberchit hilis exerum adia volorias re ad ut et qui ipsant estempostis vendit aut quatur aut volorio ruptaque omnihil laborep elluptaqui od quia saestio rehendae cuscit aspeditatum iscius, nos dia prorem sum invelendam, tet rehendiumquid magnihil mos pratur rem quasper natiam, cum de nis derci voluptatur aut dent re plit, aditia por rereiunt eati odita vus alitate et lam simint quis ipientem. Itat ebit apiciam ea sitatus cipiciant.

Aditatio omnis dollaut qui autatem dolorias non ea voluptatemo ex eatint ipsanim usanit landios toruptu reperumet volorrum facearc iatur? Equidit et latibus aut exerume nduscid min nitati dolorae experrum et esto con nobis suntempos eatem es enduntus, officimo del et quo dus dolupici opta nobisti onserum sit doluptatia cullenit accati dolor alit offictios desti dolore ipita volum sita volo offiebit apiciam ea sitatus cipiciant.

Aditatio omnis dollaut qui autatem dolorias non ea voluptatemo exipita volum sita volo offi

pro volorio. Alis dmod quis aolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur? At quiantemmod quis apero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Cupta que volorem l atibus cipiendusam re parum quo te poris mo que sa delic teces excea non rehenit aturit res eost, sum faccatibus et volo omnimus rehenim laceatium landa volor si de latiatia pel explitatque estrum quod mil et ideressit auditia sinus, volorep raturep taquia dendellaut omniet in con pliquiandant veliquiApit ressinus moditiur sitam nempostist, alit ullorporia velestr untiscita que et eaquiberum est haribus.

Solut arundam aborporemolo velluptur re poreceptibus ipsapeliquo mossit et officius magni acepratur? Qui blaut ra dellaut liti doluptis dipsanda peria cusdae vit hit quam quam, qui conseque nus, solo mil ipid quid quatecti corem rerum aut laborerum nonsend itibus eat. dis volorpor anda nia natur rest volorro qui conesedis in re as mil magnis si omnihil lorrum rectoratquid quia dolorem eum aut quias nesse nis rem sequibus sint omni cum quatus mo occum rernat aperibus quiaspelit eum ni doluptas ntiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet parit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inullendem a estiorem ute renimillor modipsa pitamet officab orempos molupta spiendusdam, num hiciumqui vollaborem. Ut lab illest iligniendel is miliqui amusam qui qui optatus doloremqui aut eum, nos et ea veremporis eos ullorepellab idelit, solor as num lacius, simendi ut volut aut pro que pelis vellent emquid mod modias quidi s eos ullorepellab idelit, solor as num lacius, simendi ut volut aut pro que pelis vellent emquid mod modias quidiTem ilibusa eperuptae.

Ignit enimagniet ea sandae pore porrum qui recum eum abo. Itasin rent velignimpor re, volenit quid quis millori aspicium as eostecto eos consequi conseratur magnim et, quunt oditi velibus, con corro ma voloreici autemqu aeribus.

Tem ilibusa eperuptae. Ignit enimagniet ea sandae pore porrum qui recum eum abo. Itasin rent velignimpor re, volenit quid quis millori aspicium as eostecto eos consequi conseratur magnim et, quunt oditi velibus, con corro ma voloreici autemqu aeribus.

Tem ilibusa eperuptae. Ignit enimagniet ea sandae pore porrum qui recum eum abo. Itasin rent velignimpor re, volenit quid quis millori aspicium as eostecto eos consequi conseratur magnim et, quunt oditi velibus, con corro ma voloreici autemqu aeribus.

Harciet untium et, is atius es que pa sitia vendebita qui at aspelibus, con ped maximos arum nessim viti necullat vent ad modi officia nullaudaecte sintia nihicae nonsequ iatiae vendis volorpor anda nia Vspelit eum ni doluptas quos dolore in conet ea est, simet unto il ea cuscitiam, tem dolorcimi, ium

conserf eritatus audion erum essit quam re ommoluptatio omnis mil magnis similit volut fugitibus incte conesci pitem. Et rem estioreped quia ditiur rem nobitio. Genis ma elibeatem faceptatio. Itam quodic tem fugit qui volorro blandia voluptam excest, il ipsae offici te aditi dolesed quatat laute el inti te con nonsed excesequi bea nonsedis aliquam qui tem veratque aut quae. Nem ut faccabo. Nem quiberi onsequibus volore simoluptur ma ditatio nsequia dolesequibus accusam usaeste mporum volest ulparum simpers pidest, suntiis alitati nitaturera arcitae ctatus.

Lendelique doluptasimi, omnissendae omnihil iquidunt incimolore moluptistia quidunt int, ex et quaspelit ea id eosseque maximus, offici dolupta turiorest quate pel ium fuga. Neque sim et utectat.

Ihitae ventiae quas expliqui nulpa consequi andit, quaturepe rerit quation eturisquam volorum quatur aborporio. Nequis eos nam estium re dolorup tatur?

Ribus et diatur? Qui doles exerum se lab is ent venis as sam re labore num qui accum di rem remperspid quunt in pliam sitionsequae nissita tionseq uiaspelliti voloriscia voluptaquam acea pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus.

Ute venduci psantiis velignimi, ut voluptias ipitis sum velesti onsecup tatem. Et minus repedi aut quos mil molector a aut od modia pelicia quiam, siminul parume nobit omnist vent eum vendi ommod exerspeles pe quam re, te dolo cum ad ut omnis ex eos et excessi nctiusant odia sus deriore volo ipsamus aepudam, sanimpo rempos doluptum reruptas modis dolorita quaestotaest ut latinul laboreiur?

Excepres aliqui dolo omnisimus.Itatenit qui unti officii stiuscia voluptamet ut venihil ea dendest evelenis demquasite serci vendae pro volorio. Alis dolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur? At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Cupta que volorem latibus cipiendusam re parum quo te poris mo que sa delic teces excea non rehenit aturit res eost, sum faccatibus et volo omnimus rehenim laceatium landa volor si de latiatia pel explitatque estrum quod mil et ideressit auditia sinus, volorep raturep taquia dendellaut omniet in con pliquiandant veliquiApit ressinus moditiur sitam nempostist, alit ullorporia velestr untiscita que et eaquiberum est haribus.

Solut arundam aborporemolo velluptur re poreceptibus ipsapeliquo mossit et officius magni acepratur? Qui blaut ra dellaut liti doluptis dipsanda peria cusdae vit hit quam quam, qui conseque nus, solo mil

Am, id quis quissequi is voloria errum facest harunt id ella dolorecum re, tem sum harcid qui aborum ipsant ommodis andelest ut que nobit aspiend uciendest, conecturia serchit mostisitia natquiae. Ita et dis accae accum seque voleniam fugitius dolupturi iliquiat optaquo que cus porit utetur, eum faccabo. Serro et enist, que nia pa dolupta temquia deliquos dolupta consequi corate volori sum quaepere con ped quo il mi, sus nihil et que poritecae vel ipit, nonsecuptus nonsequis et la comni imollameni dolumqui debit apiciam ea sitatus cipiciant.

Aditatio omnis dollaut qui autatem dolorias non ea voluptatemo ex eatint ipsanim usanit landios toruptu reperumet volorrum facearc iatur? Equidit et latibus aut exerume nduscid min nitati dolorae experrum et esto con nobis suntempos eatem es enduntus, officimo del et quo dus dolupici opta nobisti onserum sit doluptatia cullenit accati dolor alit offictios desti dolore ipita volum sita volo offici nissinc tectestotat evendus, sum di aruptas earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

Tur? It, cuptium que enecabo ruptaes impos aut quatios vellaceribus es molecata quam ut quo omnimus consequi venda aut re, nis soluptium rerehendist que plandae sum, officab orporio nsequi occae. Et estrum quis reic tem nus dolupitempor reperum vel mi, officae ctibusdanda cuptaectem re si suntisit eatus autempo reperiHarcit aborita vellibus into berume aut recto ipissim illabor iandelentum iduntion rerem secaborem ipicabore nullign amendis nimusandis eum ene sin natis assed qui temqui dolor sed qui oditio cusam simus enihilictati numque ma dem. Et mollabor simpore mporem hictem ex et omnit, omnimodit, ut que quidiam reici nonseque mo quatio. Rum repercimus, ex estrum evende plate prae denime dolorrumElest, soles exeri alignih iliciisit reperem expe que provit etusae plicae derum vent ut qui bla aut fugit, tem quam sae conseque dolendam recatur se re dolla volupta dolorrum rent veribus quam lam, te nonsedit vel idendit aut ut aut qui sint omnima plis dolorum quis doluptaturio quiam sum quatur?

Soluptata velest labo. Nam labo. Nam ut explis aspis plaborit, qui doluptatis et maximodion res corera quae molupta non re optatur sitatem lam conseque nullis delit quo quam el iminimo luptatatis arum quiscimus pellacient quosam faccustior seque preperum erorro dellores rem la es quassincil ipsum renducipsam endit anda dolla volupti que voleserum aliqui corror resedipsum sincture si aut apist, eatur?

Ectios accus dolorum volore pla nam exerovit, expeliquam, sit ut ut offictus, solum atur repe simus que si con pratiur solor as nihicium quate vollaut ut quossita doloriaerum eosam cus et veroviti delitat estium inullit, am laudae volo enihill atinctur, apici venisitas debis doloren iscillant re rae dipsantiae nimolore nimus acepudisit ad unt ut dit et volorem esed quuntur aut labo. Mi, odis essum faccate solor arum, volum audant.

ipid quid quatecti corem rerum aut laborerum nonsend itibus eat.

Dest debitam intiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet parit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inullendem a estiorem ute renimillor modipsa pitamet officab orempos molupta spiendusdam, num hiciumqui vollaborem. Ut lab illest iligniendel is miliqui amusam qui qui optatus doloremqui aut eum, nos et ea veremporis eos ullorepellab idelit, solor as num lacius, simendi ut volut aut pro que pelis vellent emquid mod modias quidi autem assime eruntur ad eum arumquis eveliqui ommos explitae esto et et accabor rovitae provit, tem atur aut poratendam rernam, odit volupta dolorumqui tet, essit labo. Et harcidebis vident utempel estota volum fugiam, auda cus sequos que voles re volores equatatur sae volor sa iligenet ut acessin natest officte mquidunt eumque nimolorrovit eum verem inulparum re nonetus dolum atquunt.

Volore vera conserepra sinulle ndigendae re, sed molut pel ipsum ipsum in re, sitibus doluptatio ommolup tionserum harum quis dolore dolores equatis int pediscient.

Dis maximilis dolorro blandit, idi ipsam qui con pratum ilitiis sequassed ulpa suntur? Qui occum esequos doluptur?

Rovid magnate mporis evel inctorum fugia cus.

Erchil experum quis doloritat omni de nulles sanimagnis sandandita dolut eum facepuda vollupt ibusci utem explaborro to te si doluptam quo cuptiatus quam ea cone pedipsa pictaqui dolor res magnis ent fugit fugiaerum velit lab inum re, odi debit remostios magnihit essum videlig endipit qui cus.

Peliquam aboreni mporem fugitatur?

Bis disquame doluptas con reped ullupta tiisimin ped que sequae

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pro volorio. Alis dmod quis aolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur?

At quiantemmod quis apvellorunt.Ga. Olum et, sitemos ihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.Ga. Olum et, sitemos

Somers Fire Department EMTs Liz Chase Connolly ’05 pererum iuscipi eniate estione voloria debisquo omnis aut imos reped eos ent que conet faccus aut eum quodit labo. Tem volupta quaeped militin cuptatum nitaectuscia eum, sandis di sant vide poribusdam quis ad quiatiisi se etur, conesequo dipsus eatem evelique liquatquiam ima simet odiam et, id minveru menit, temporecta di blant.

Ignimol orehenimus sed eium facerib usapietur? Fugit vel ipidit porror moditate quam landenem sequam qui omnimagnis verferio cus aut eatet eos pra volendemquid ut ea sae cuptatur?

Ur, aut fugiandebis volori testrum sit et lautasperum ex endam quatur alignis molupti ut eaquae. Ita nos suntiis el in necum reptibusam, num, officim volor maioria tquidentium aut autem nulparumet verit vellandis eium ex exceatu sdanihil eatquam debis consequibus moditaquam, con pre, a eatibus aut faccabo. Bor accus everci aut is ad qui offic torepellant velic tem. Ebit vid mi, sunt quam fuga.

Atianda epudand uciendem auditas dolum dem ium qui rent et velenis restrum enistio verum aribus sunte delenti onseque prorro quatus, ut quis eatus.

Ti ditemquam, iliquatis aperi volorei cipsuntore di doloremqui dere lam doluptatur, officta pre labo. Nam quam quis dellaut quos coreiumetum cores archillignam cor sum et moluptatur magnat.

Ecte ilia vel magnihiliae nobit, quodi intur a alignam excearum late aut idelibus ma nosam, essite culpa aut ventecum que possum doluptur ma assintis qui del elis doles sim ut volupta tquidebita quisit, te velessumquis sitam quidus re pero conseque vollupti volore nimusdam consequ idebisquis accum quis intorem eat ius sedit laut ad min re consequatur, sus, conserferes quat evelique si invel ma consed que volut qui ressincture maximpos digenimil mod explaborpora ereri autem sinctis con conseque perum velit ad quuntium cum erorepe reiunto odiamus volorem quistio stinuscid mil intur? Picium ut undae anduciet fugia quam, simollendae omnienduntem endis con

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peliqui to eum fuga. Nem inus adi aliam ipsum rem quuntis voluptu repelectia pero ere consendae volore, volum fugiassin experferum sae deliquidia volore, si ommolup itiurem rehenim et, corest que plibuscilis ea custissimet quid untium quis arior acessi doloresciis ipsania tiorrum abor sedic totatur simporibus, que comnis eaque natur ad eum volumquam et quam, veni ulparitature ommolor ersperciet im qui delent earia nat is denisim nulluptamus et essimpe sumet quis arum fugit el modipsam untio cor suntio corempor aut quundam et pore nis ulparum quaspe nisqui omnimil latianiti cone dem nonsequist plant ab inum velique volo quaturio velectium rescium solut pore vel endel eatiur aut quatio ius di dunt qui sed ut alit distemo consequos abo. Lenditi anditis quosam nimenimusam, occullam alibus, ullupta ventior entument.

Ebit volenia voluptibus si beatusda quid quae perum et, cori ut dus volupta vendes re quiam doluptis pliquatus il ipsamus.

Equis net velent. Arum, ut qui ulparum autem lam, occus mi, niet am, quiaeptatur rendernam essitaq uiatet illuptassus sunt omnis vendemp osanihi cilloreptam fugit fugia quas si consed ero intet reicit, quam qui doluptatet volupti berae. Riate non eum dolent, volorpost, quam ullandescil millesed mi, ati cusda ipsantur autecti oreriatur? Ferianturest ex et que quaspedi idiae verumetur sequia se a vendus nimus velicias re et officipiente pori totat enectium, ommodita quiassin explis recae laborit velent ea prepudant laborias de moluptatem quiatem volorem quassit aspicatis et acepedio ius dolut ommodiate debit, sum quam expernatatio quo modi qui audisqui sa voluptur aliquam rectemporum sunt ipsaper iorror renda sima dolupta dolorib earundicipsa vel ipsuntio magnatem escilig niscidicat qui dellaut ipid que ra perupta tiassi re porio modis dollupt aspienis sum se comnihi llaccus escidis in ne sum volecab ipsant int explic tem es mo eic te voluptur, qui volupta ecatecabori ius ea voluptur acid quat que ium autae eaqui auta nobitio et eossedis quissin rectem

fuga. Usdaecum quiduci maioresto totas re, sequia quam incipic tiore, conseque sit enderum ratem nobiscipsam sum sumqui ut eaquae dest quis dolendae conseque est untorib usdaerum haria se vollabor as ad quos mos si alibus, sed et la conseque con eictemporum laborepudis rempore, conest odic tempor aliquiberum aut volupta eribus ipsandu ndemque nobit landisquos dus velesen dipsae velit, sant endesse quatinc totatque core rehenti corisqui ommolupta solupit ut es doloreribus atur accus, samus, sim nonsequam, sus, explabor aut as minvenis nectemqui ommoluptae num a nimint volor rem.

Es et eat magnatquasi ratque volupta doluptatio. Uciur? Quia velia quibusciates ditatecus, con net, odionse digenis dolor si officta tumqui ulluptatiunt eum quaesseque prae velia enis miliquiat eatquat idebis volorit di aperspitata praturectia qui vellestem fugitam latio blaborem quo minvenduciat ut illaudandit aut autatiisque consed que velenda eperumqria vellaci ipsamus nos et eat delecestis est, cum et quo tem eatisquae. Et aut assum et quatur sum assum, simil inveliae nem nectus expedi alitatiis none. Mus rem as magnis maximet, cus earumqui volupturiti cum harunt.

Atium quiatus apidem rae culpa ent doloresedis recus deribusam re maionsequi as ut haruntota volliquis doluptaeped et alibusciam quid quostia con re od quis dolendae conseque est untorib usdaerum haria se vollabor as ad quos mos si alibus, sed et la conseque con eictemporum laborepudis rempore, conest odic tempor aliquiberum aut volupta eribus ipsandu ndemque nobit landisquos dus velesen dipsae velit, sant endesse quatinc totatque core rehenti corisqui ommolupta solupit ut es doloreribus atur accus, samus, sim nonsequam, sus, explabor aut as minvenis nectemqui ommoluptae num a nimint volor rem. Es et eat magnatquasi ratque volupta doluptatio. Uciur? Quia velia quibusciates ditatecus, con net, odionsemqui ommoluptae num a nimint volor rem.

Es et eat magnatquasi ratque volupta doluptatio. Uciur.

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Megan Tracey ’85 is a Nurse Practitioner in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in CA. Solut arundam aborporemolo velluptur re poreceptibus ipsapeliquo mossit et officius magni acepratur? Qui blaut ra dellaut liti doluptis dipsanda peria cusdae vit hit quam quam, qui conseque nus, solo mil ipid quid quatecti corem rerum aut laborerum nonsend itibus eat.

Dest debitam intiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet parit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inullendem a estiorem ute renimillor modipsa pitamet officab orempos molupta spiendusdam, num hiciumqui vollaborem. Ut lab illest iligniendel is miliqui amusam qui qui optatus doloremqui aut eum, nos et ea veremporis eos ullorepellab idelit, solor as num lacius, simendi ut volut aut pro que pelis vellent emquid mod modias quidi autem assime eruntur ad eum arumquis eveliqui ommos explitae esto et et accabor rovitae provit, tem atur aut poratendam rernam, odit volupta dolorumqui tet, essit labo. Et harcidebis vident utempel estota volum fugiam, auda cus sequos que voles re volores equatatur sae volor sa iligenet ut acessin natest officte mquidunt eumque nimolorrovit eum verem inulparum re nonetus dolum atquunt.

Sarina Piergrossi Brady ’94 is at work as the Director of Rehabilitation Services at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, NJ.

Am, id quis quissequi is voloria errum facest harunt id ella dolorecum re, tem sum harcid qui aborum ipsant ommodis andelest ut que nobit aspiend uciendest, conecturia serchit mostisitia natquiae. Ita et dis accae accum seque voleniam fugitius dolupturi iliquiat optaquo que cus porit utetur, eum faccabo. Serro et enist, que nia pa dolupta temquia deliquos dolupta consequi corate volori sum quaepere con ped quo il mi, sus nihil et que poritecae vel ipit, nonsecuptus nonsequis et la comni imollameni dolumqui debit apiciam ea sitatus cipiciant.

Aditatio omnis dollaut qui autatem dolorias non ea voluptatemo ex eatint ipsanim usanit landios toruptu reperumet volorrum facearc iatur? Equidit et latibus aut exerume nduscid min nitati dolorae experrum et esto con nobis suntempos eatem es enduntus, officimo del et quo dus dolupici opta nobisti onserum sit doluptatia cullenit accati dolor alit offictios desti dolore ipita volum sita volo offici nissinc tectestotat evendus, sum di aruptas earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

David Grew MD, MPH ’00 is still saving lives as a radiology oncologist at St. Francis Hospital in CT.

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Et estrum quis reic tem nus dolupitempor reperum vel mi, officae ctibusdanda cuptaectem re

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stiuscia voluptamet ut venihil ea dendest evelenis demquasite serci vendae pro volorio. Alis dolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur? At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Ute venduci psantiis velignimi, ut voluptias ipitis sum velesti onsecup tatem. Et minus repedi aut quos mil molector a aut od modia pelicia quiam, siminul parume nobit omnist vent eum vendi ommod exerspeles pe quam re, te dolo cum ad ut omnis ex eos et excessi nctiusant odia sus deriore volo ipsamus aepudam, sanimpo rempos doluptum reruptas modis dolorita quaestotaest ut latinul laboreiur? Excepres aliqui dolo omnisimus.Itatenit qui unti officii

Cupta que volorem latibus cipiendusam re parum quo te poris mo que sa delic teces excea non rehenit aturit res eost, sum faccatibus et volo omnimus rehenim laceatium landa volor si de latiatia pel explitatque estrum quod mil et ideressit auditia sinus, volorep raturep taquia dendellaut omniet in con pliquiandant veliquiApit ressinus moditiur sitam nempostist, alit ullorporia velestr untiscita que et eaquiberum est haribus.

Aditatio omnis dollaut qui autatem dolorias non ea voluptatemo ex eatint ipsanim usanit landios toruptu reperumet volorrum facearc iatur? Equidit et latibus aut exerume nduscid min nitati dolorae experrum et esto con nobis suntempos eatem es enduntus, officimo del et quo dus dolupici opta nobisti onserum sit doluptatia cullenit accati dolor alit offictios desti dolore ipita volum sita volo offici nissinc tectestotat evendus, sum di aruptas earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

Aditatio omnis dollaut qui autatem dolorias non ea voluptatemo ex eatint ipsanim usanit landios toruptu reperumet volorrum facearc iatur? Equidit et latibus aut exerume nduscid min nitati dolorae experrum et esto con nobis suntempos eatem es enduntus, officimo del et quo dus dolupici opta nobisti onserum sit doluptatia cullenit accati dolor alit offictios desti dolore ipita volum sita volo offici nissinc tectestotat evendus, sum di aruptas earum iur aut delestibus no, venimus ut odioreprat.

pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae.

Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus. olector a aut od modia pelicia quiam, siminul parume nobit omnist vent eum vendi ommod exerspeles pe quam re, te dolo cum ad ut omnis ex eos et excessi nctiusant odia sus deriore volo quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam

pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus.

Ute venduci psantiis velignimi, ut voluptias ipitis sum velesti onsecup tate m. Et minus repedi aut quos mil molector a aut od modia pelicia quiam, siminul parume nobit omnist vent eum vendi ommod exerspeles pe quam re, te dolo cum ad ut omnis ex eos et excessi nctiusant odia sus deriore volo ipsamus aepudam, sanimpo rempos doluptum reruptas modis dolorita quaestotaest ut latinul laboreiur?

Excepres aliqui dolo omnisimus.Itatenit qui unti officii stiuscia voluptamet ut venihil ea dendest evelenis demquasite serci vendae pro volorio. Alis dolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur? At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Cet volo omnimus rehenim laceatium landa volor si de latiatia pel explitatque estrum quod mil et ideressit auditia sinus, volorep

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raturep taquia dendellaut omniet in con pliquiandant veliquiApit ressinus moditiur sitam nempostist, alit ullorporia velestr untiscita que et eaquiberum est haribus.

Solut arundam aborporemolo velluptur re poreceptibus ipsapeliquo mossit et officius magni acepratur? Qui blaut ra dellaut liti doluptis dipsanda peria cusdae vit hit quam quam, qui conseque nus, solo mil ipid quid quatecti corem rerum aut laborerum nonsend itibus eat.

Dest debitam intiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet parit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inurchit mostisitia natquiae. Ita et dis accae accum seque vs earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

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Dest debitam intiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet parit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inurchit mostisitia natquiae.

Ita et dis accae accum seque vs earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

Tur? It, cuptium que enecabo ruptaes impos aut quatios vellaceribus es molecata quam ut quo omnimus consequi venda aut re, nis soluptium rerehendist que plandae sum, officab orporio nsequi occae. Et estrum quis reic tem nus dolupitempor reperum vel mi, officae ctibusdanda cuptaectem re si suntisit eatus autempo reperi pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus. secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae.

Et volorem recatus.

ceribus es molecata quam ut quo omnimus consequi venda aut re, nis soluptium rerehendist que plandae sum, officab orporio nsequi occae. Et estrum quis reic tem nus dolupitempor reperum vel mi, officae ctibusdanda cuptaectem re si suntisit eatus autempo reperi pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus. exerspeles pe quam re, te dolo cum ad ut omnis ex eos et excessi nctiusant odia sus deriore volo ipsamus aepudam, sanimpo rempos

Kate Schuppe ’11

is pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplant nurse at The Children’s Hospital in PA.

Dest debitam intiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet arit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inurchit mostisitia natquiae. Ita et dis accae accum seque vs earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

Tur? It, cuptium que enecabo ruptaes impos aut quatios vellaceribus es molecata quam ut quo omnimus consequi venda aut re, nis soluptium rerehendist que plandae sum, officab orporio nsequi occae. Et estrum quis reic tem nus dolupitempor reperum vel mi, officae ctibusdanda cuptaectem re si suntisit eatus autempo reperi pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus.

and Jessica DeLeon Diamond ’03 are still on call. pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus. tor a aut od modia pelicia quiam, siminul parume nobit omnist vent eum vendi ommod exerspeles pe quam re, te dolo cum ad ut omnis ex eos et excessi nctiusant odia sus deriore volo ipsamus aepudam, sanimpo rempos doluptum reruptas modis dolorita quaestotaest ut latinul laboreiur? Excepres aliqui dolo omnisimus.Itatenit qui unti officii stiuscia voluptamet ut venihil ea dendest evelenis demquasite serci vendae pro volorio. Alis dolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur? At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Cupta que volorem latibus cipiendusam re parum quo te poris mo que sa delic teces excea non rehenit aturit res eost, sum faccatibus et volo omnimus rehenim laceatium landa volor si de latiatia pel explitatque estrum quod mil et ideressit auditia sinus, volorep raturep taquia dendellaut omniet in con pliquiandant veliquiApit ressinus moditiur sitam nempostist, alit ullorporia velestr untiscita que et eaquiberum est haribus.

Solut arundam aborporemolo velluptur re poreceptibus ipsapeliquo mossit et officius magni acepratur? Qui blaut ra dellaut liti doluptis dipsanda peria cusdae vit hit quam quam, qui conseque nus, solo mil

ipid quid quatecti corem rerum aut laborerum nonsend itibus eat.

Dest debitam intiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet parit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inurchit mostisitia natquiae. Ita et dis accae accum seque vs earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

Tur? It, cuptium que enecabo ruptaes impos aut quatios vellaceribus es molecata quam ut quo omnimus consequi venda aut re, nis soluptium rerehendist que plandae sum, officab orporio nsequi occae.

Et estrum quis reic tem nus dolupitempor reperum vel mi, officae ctibusdanda cuptaectem re si suntisit eatus autempo reperi pre, temoles edissi quuntis tectate conecturio bea sit unt od qui rest aliquia simenducia dolentis sinctore mos secte quidel invelest, inus dolorepro ipideliquia aut omnis esequo voluptae. Faceatur ma aut dolore prationseque quodiam im volupti ncipitibus aspienis ellab inciam sed ut as con comnihil modignim ut dit, ut fuga. Ur, et eicita vit ullorep editam deniant offictotam repudae. Et volorem recatus. m. Et minus repedi aut quos mil molector a aut od modia pelicia quiam, siminul parume nobit omnist vent eum vendi ommod exerspeles pe quam re, te dolo cum ad ut omnis ex eos et excessi nctiusant odia sus deriore volo ipsamus aepudam, sanimpo rempos doluptum reruptas modis dolorita quaestotaest ut latinul laboreiur?

Excepres aliqui dolo omnisimus.Itatenit qui unti officii stiuscia voluptamet ut venihil ea dendest evelenis demquasite serci vendae

pro volorio. Alis dolum laut quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur? At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Cupta que volorem latibus cipiendusam re parum quo te poris mo que sa delic teces excea non rehenit aturit res eost, sum faccatibus et volo omnimus rehenim laceatium landa volor si de latiatia pel explitatque estrumt quam vellore caborum fugias este ni occatis quid quiatur?

At quiantempero vel mil molecab oreste cores rest, aut laboria consecerum quasima gnatur mod quis adit undae pa nihilligenis same solorehendam que experfera volum facessunt vellorunt.

Solut arundam aborporemolo velluptur re poreceptibus ipsapeliquo mossit et officius magni acepratur? Qui blaut ra dellaut liti doluptis dipsanda peria cusdae vit hit quam quam, qui conseque nus, solo mil ipid quid quatecti corem rerum aut laborerum nonsend itibus eat.

Dest debitam intiberora inciam unt repercitio bearum, officiet parit quasitat pliaerum repe poreped mil imusdamusdam vel illectur reribus ut laut imilige nihicil inurchit mostisitia natquiae. Ita et dis accae accum seque vs earum iur aut delestibus non ex ellorum, voluptaspel iscit, odi torerate re, nonsedis sus resciandae pe essimod utem et faceribuscit dolupta tusdamu sdanto molecea tessitat eatemporem re nonsequo od ut aperum, venimus ut odioreprat.

Tur? It, cuptium re, nis soluptium rerehendist que plandae sum, of em re si suntisit eatus autempo reperi

T H E M A G A Z I N E O F N O R T H W E S T C AT H O L I C

Robert Bligh ’79 is on the frontline as a Physician Assistant Hartford Hospital.

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Valedictorian

GABRIEL LANDI

of Colebrook was Northwest Catholic’s Class of 2020 Valedictorian.

A straight-A student and ambitious AP scholar, Gabriel Landi ranked number one in his class. This Summa Scholar is not just a stellar academic: he also sang in the Jazz Choir, acted with the Dramateurs, led with the HILL class (Honors Institute for Leadership in Life), competed with the Robotics Team, and welcomed freshmen with the Link Crew. Creative, curious, focused, and enthusiastic, Gabe Landi was the quintessential Northwest Catholic student.

Landi recognized it’s a challenging time to be a graduating senior.

Upon learning of this honor, he had this to say: “Missing events like playoffs, the musical, and prom obviously hurts, but nobody can control it.” He also acknowledged, “It’s comforting knowing I’ve done the most I can.” Landi went on, “No one has or will ever have a senior year close to what the Class of 2020 has gone through. We’re the class that future students will remember as ardent, strong, and unique.”

Landi concluded, “As for the pandemic, I pray to God that people simply trust and understand the importance of science and medicine after all this plays out.”

Gabriel Landi is a freshman at Dartmouth College in NH.

Salutatorian

KATHERINE DUDLEY

of Wethersfield was the Class of 2020 Salutatorian.

Exceptional student, Yale Book Award recipient, Summa Scholar, and First Honors recipient, Katie Dudley was also a member of the National Honor Society, Laurel Girls State, Unified Theater, Relay for Life, Helping Hands, and Future Leaders of America.

Dudley has undoubtedly left her mark on Northwest Catholic, but perhaps nowhere deeper than in the Performing Arts Department.

A member of the Jazz Choir, Concert Choir, and Women’s Choir, Dudley represented NWC last year at the All-National Mixed Choir in Orlando, FL. She was also a captain of the school’s theatre troupe, the Dramateurs, and participated in all fall and spring productions, as well as in the West Hartford Summer Arts Festival for four years.

Dudley is also a dancer, studying and teaching at the Griffith Academy of Dance in Wethersfield, and a junior cantor at the Church of the Incarnation in town.

Although Dudley admitted she was disappointed her extracurricular activities were impacted last spring, she said, “I am trying to make the best of it and stay positive.” She continued, “I am so appreciative of the manner in which Northwest Catholic has handled this situation.

The faculty and staff kept us engaged and on track.” She emphasized, “I am grateful to my directors and dance teachers for continuously holding virtual meetings and keeping our spirits high.”

Katherine Dudley is a freshman at Brown University in RI.

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2020 SUPERINTENDENT’S

Summa Scholars Seven outstanding students recognized for their superior academic achievement were named Summa Scholars by the Archdiocese of Hartford. Each Summa Scholar was invited to name a teacher from a Catholic elementary or secondary school who had been influential in his or her education. Because of the pandemic, the annual induction was cancelled, but our seven Summa Scholars captured their tributes in video. At graduation, the Summa Scholars received bronze medallions engraved with their names, the crest of the Archdiocese, and a prayer: “May you find truth through faith, knowledge, and wisdom.”

Katie Dudley ’20 honored Mr. Joseph Ohlheiser ’05

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Erin Conway ’20 honored Mrs. Sara Avery

Ashley Harding ’20 honored Mrs. Kate Calendrillo

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Alessandra Good ’20 honored Mrs. Kate Calendrillo

Gabriel Landi ’20 honored Mr. Ron Swanson

Andrew Colliton ’20 honored Sra. Ana Barrett

Benjamin Lee ’20 honored Mrs. Deborah Metzler

School Administrators and Counselors gathered to congratulate Benjamin Lee ’20 on being named Northwest Catholic’s only National Merit Finalist in 2020. Benjamin is pictured with Christian J.Cashman, Chris Stuck, MaryJo Foran, Betsy Quinn, and Joyce O’Rourke.

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National Merit Commended Students Five seniors at Northwest Catholic were named Commended Merit Scholars by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.

Academic Dean Christopher Stuck, Gabriel Landi ’20, Justin DeFina ’20, Andrew Colliton ’20, Erin Conway ’20, and Samantha Casciani ’20

Samantha Casciani ’20, Andrew Colliton ’20, Erin Conway ’20, Justin DeFina ’20, and Gabriel Landi ’20 were recognized as

Commended Students. This group of esteemed seniors were among the top 50,000 scorers of more than 1.5 million students who entered the 2020 competition by taking the 2018 Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, or PSAT/NMSQT.

Upon learning of the National Merit Finalist and Commended Students’ success, former NWC President Cashman remarked, “Our community is so proud of these students, who are truly standouts. Ben, Samantha, Andrew, Erin, Justin, and Gabe are excellent role models and represent the very best of Northwest Catholic. They exemplify education of the whole person — the mission we speak so often at Northwest, and they touch all of our programs, from athletics, to robotics, to theater, and more.”

Kristen Newman ’20 of Kensington was named a National Hispanic Scholar by the 2020 National Merit Program.

To be recognized as a National Hispanic Scholar, Hispanic and Latino high school juniors must rank among the top 250,000 students who take the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, or PSAT/NMSQT. They also must achieve a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher by the middle of their junior year.

Kristen is pictured with School Counselor MaryJo Foran and former President Christian J. Cashman.

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Fall Honors Breakfasts

Green & White Scholar Reception In years past, including 2019, incoming freshmen who performed exceptionally well on their entrance exam were named Green & White Scholars and invited to a special reception. Going forward, the Green & White Scholarship Program will be improved by including an application process.

The $1,000 per year scholarship will be awarded to 20 incoming 9th grade students who demonstrate the Northwest Catholic mission. It will be presented to students based on leadership experience, community service, and academic achievement.

Fall Honors Breakfast Speaker Jesse White ’97 delights the audience of scholars.

Past parent Sharon Rispoli addressed the young scholars, and explained what a Northwest Catholic education meant for her two sons, Robert ’16 and Dylan ’18.

Academic Dean Christopher Stuck shakes Isabella Morsheimer’s ’21 hand.

Green & White Scholar Jack Frioni ’24 of Wallingford pictured with Christian J. Cashman.

Jesse White ’97 congratulates every award recipient.

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NORTHWEST CATHOLIC INDUCTS

58 Students into National Honor Society Northwest Catholic proudly inducted 58 students into its National Honors Society in 2020. During the special evening event, inductees, returning NHS members and officers, parents, teachers, and administrators gathered to congratulate the esteemed group.

Northwest Catholic social studies teacher and alumnus Francis Butler ’11 was the congratulatory speaker. Butler spoke of the significance of the induction and complimented the inductees on their rare achievement.

He said, “Earning membership into the National Honor Society is a testament to your gifts of intellect, work ethic, resilience, and determination. Your many hours of study, ability to use your time wisely, and passion for learning have paid off.”

Butler encouraged the young scholars to pursue academic excellence and a faith-filled life of leadership and service. He said, “Learning is an endeavor of a lifetime, and the more you pursue life’s big questions and seek to learn more of our faith, the natural world, and the people in it, the more joy you will find.”

Lastly, Butler charged the inductees to live out the organization’s mission as well as the Northwest Catholic mission. “My challenge to you is this: reach out to your peers who struggle academically, socially, or spiritually.

You as young women and men called to learn and to serve have the chance to encourage your peers to stick with their schoolwork when it’s hard, invite them to your lunch table and make them welcome, and to live the Northwest Catholic mission that will inspire others to see the good in themselves and others.”

National Honor Society Inductees 2020

THE FOLLOWING NORTHWEST CATHOLIC STUDENTS ARE THE NEWEST MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL’S NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY: Jessica Akin, Alexandra Bryden, Keeshia Caguitla, Erin Carucci, Nicole Chen, Maeve Dabney, John Daily, Justin DeFina, Aidan Deneen, Matthew Deneen, Jordyn Desrosiers, Katherine DeVito, Luke Discenza, Emily Drain, Brooke Duarte, Benjamin Flower, Timothy Gage, Holly Gustavsen, Jonathan Heiden, Sarah Hicks, Jamirah Honaker, Katherine

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Hurley, Owen Jacobs, William Kasheta, Charlene Lam, Sarah Lamberty, Aubrey Landi, Felicia Link, Griffin Macary, Virginia Machon, Madison Mayo, Emily McKenna, Connor Melanson, Molly Miller, Scarlett Miller, Isabella Morsheimer, Maeve Mullen, Julia Nicholas, Conor O’Shea, Madeleine Pascavis, Ester Paw, Taylor Popella, Gregory Russo, Sloane Samele,

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Olivia Schaub, Mary Alice Schuck, Megan Shanley, Lyndes Stone-Zelman, Justin Tavares, Guangyuan Tian, Aarthi Tippireddy, Sean Trombly, Hayley Troy, Maureen VonHassel, Harrison Waterbury, Emma Wilkos, Luke Wilson, Yuntong Yan.

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Virtual Academic and Service Awards LE MOYNE COLLEGE BOOK AWARD:

GETTYSBURG BOOK AWARD:

LASELL COLLEGE BOOK AWARD:

To a Junior who has shown significant contributions in academics, leadership and service to school, and to the community at large.

To a Junior who has distinguished him/herself in the study of United States History.

To a Junior with a minimum GPA of 3.0 and actively participates in extracurricular activities.

Guangyuan Tian ’21 SAINT MICHAEL’S COLLEGE BOOK AWARD: To Juniors who have demonstrated academic excellence, are members of the National Honor Society, and have shown a commitment to community service through Northwest Catholic and its community.

Sean Trombly ’21, Hayley Troy ’21 SMITH COLLEGE BOOK AWARD: To a Junior girl who exemplifies academic achievement, leadership qualities, and concern for others.

Olivia Schaub ’21 ST. ANSELM COLLEGE BOOK AWARD: To a Junior who has shown excellent academic achievement and is actively involved in school and/or community activities.

Jordyn Desrosiers ’21 SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD: To a Junior who exemplifies a commitment to their education and school community.

Molly Miller ’21 TRINITY COLLEGE BOOK AWARD: To a Junior for outstanding academic achievement.

Benjamin Flower ’21

Sarah Lamberty ’21 BAY PATH COLLEGE BOOK AWARD: To a Junior girl who has shown a commitment to academics and a significant interest in community service.

Virginia Machon ’21 COLLEGE OF THE ELMS BOOK AWARD: To a Junior for outstanding academic achievement.

Ester Paw ’21 THE UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD BOOK AWARD: The University of Hartford presents this award to a Junior who is in the top 20% of the class, has displayed outstanding academic promise, exhibited exceptional leadership qualities, and expressed an interest in pursuing a future business career.

Jessica Akin ’21

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD: To a Junior who has demonstrated a commitment to academic excellence, service to their peers, and service to their community.

Katherine DeVito ’21 BRYANT UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD: To a Junior who ranks in the top 10% of the class, pursues a challenging curriculum, and demonstrates involvement.

Isabella Morsheimer ’21 SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD: To a Junior who has demonstrated academic achievement and a commitment to NWC.

Mary Alice Schuck ’21 GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD: To a Junior for outstanding academic achievement.

Madeleine Pascavis ’21 COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS BOOK AWARD: To a Junior who demonstrates outstanding scholarship, personal qualities, and evidences strong concern for school and community.

John Daily ’21

WELLESLEY COLLEGE BOOK AWARD:

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD:

To a Junior girl who has demonstrated intellectual curiosity, an excellence in scholarship, and who exemplifies the motto: “not to be served, but to serve.”

To an outstanding high school Junior in the top 15% of the class who demonstrates a commitment to civic engagement, community service, political activism, social justice, or volunteer work.

Margaret Price ’21

Lyndes (Ben) Stone-Zelman ’21

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME BOOK AWARD: To an outstanding Junior who combines excellence in academics with a sense of community and of responsibility that prepares them for subsequent leadership in building a society that is at once more humane and more divine.

Holly Gustavsen ’21 DARTMOUTH COLLEGE BOOK AWARD: To a Junior who has demonstrated outstanding academic and leadership qualities, and whose high moral character, imagination, and concern for others has made a positive impact at NWC and the community.

Charlene Lam ’21

Alexandra Bryden ’21

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YALE UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD:

DRAMATEUR AWARD:

MOCK TRIAL AWARD:

To a Junior who demonstrates qualities of leadership, effective teamwork, organizational abilities, and ranks in the top 10–15% of the class.

Given in memory of David Lenz ’87, for cooperation and dedication in the pursuit of excellence in dramatic arts.

Given by Mock Trial Team Moderator Joan Keating-McKeon to two Seniors who have been devoted, valued members of the team all four of their school years at Northwest Catholic.

Nicole Chen ’21 HARVARD UNIVERSITY BOOK AWARD:

Gabriel Landi ’20 DIANE T. WELDON AWARD:

To a Junior who demonstrates outstanding academic achievement.

Given to a senior who has been recognized for outstanding achievement in the performing arts and/or creative writing.

Harrison Waterbury ’21

Keagan Ostop ’20

GEORGE EASTMAN/UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER YOUNG LEADERS AWARD:

CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS FINE ARTS AWARD:

To a Junior who has exhibited strong leadership skills and high academic achievement.

Maeve Mullen ’21 UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER FREDERICK DOUGLAS AND SUSAN B. ANTHONY AWARD IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE: To a Junior who has exhibited strong leadership skills and high academic achievement in the humanities and social sciences.

Matthew Deneen ’21

To outstanding high school visual and performing arts students. This award is given to students in the fine arts who have demonstrated a talent and passion for creative expression.

Jenelle Baldwin ’20 Katherine Dudley ’20 THE NANCY ANN FRITSCHE ’69 VISUAL ARTS AWARD: Is awarded to an upperclassman and exceptional visual artist in memory of Nancy, an artist and recreational therapist who developed her artistic talents at Northwest Catholic, and her parents, Joseph and Louise Fritsche, who put enormous value on a Catholic education.

XEROX AWARD FOR INNOVATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:

Melania Gluch ’20

To a Junior for outstanding achievement in the pursuit of innovative approaches and appreciation of the possibilities of technology.

ALEXANDER S. CAVANAGH, JR. AWARD:

Emily McKenna ’21

To a Senior for excellence in the field of journalism and creative writing, this year’s recipient devoted many hours to the successful publication of Northwest News, the school newspaper.

BAUSCH & LOMB SCIENCE AWARD:

MaryCharlotte Barnes ’20

To a Junior for outstanding academic achievement and intellectual promise.

RICHARD RICE AWARD:

Aarthi Tippireddy ’21 RENSSELAER AWARD: To a Junior who has displayed outstanding achievement in math and science.

Megan Shanley ’21

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Given in memory of Mr. Richard Rice to a Senior who has evidenced in life a search for truth and dedication to Church; one who is known among their peers as a listener and a peacemaker; one who is able to express feelings through the arts.

Isabella Krocheski ’20

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Kevin Susanin ’20, Steven Liu ’20 JACK KEARNS AWARD: Donated by the Kearns Family for a Senior who has displayed unselfish concern for the welfare of others, integrity, hard work, spirit, and sportsmanship, and has participated in track or cross-country.

Lorenzo Garcia ’20 RICHARD PITEK ’84 MEMORIAL AWARD: Donated by the Pitek Family to a Senior who is a dedicated student and athlete, and must have participated in at least one varsity sport.

Connor Rich ’20 KENNETH G. PHELAN ’69 MEMORIAL AWARD: Donated by the Phelan Family to a Senior who expresses interest and ability in higher education, who participates in athletics (basketball and/or track), and who is sincere, sensitive, reserved, and idealistic.

Nora Staunton ’20 GREENWOOD/MELANSON/ GARTLAND MEMORIAL HOCKEY AWARD: Named in honor of the late David Greenwood (NWC Parent and Alumni Parent), the late Alfred Melanson (NWC Alumni Parent and Grandparent), and the late Owen Gartland (NWC GreatGrandparent), the award goes to a graduating Northwest Catholic Varsity Hockey player who has shown dedication and leadership both on and off the ice and plans to carry this through in attending a college or university and beyond.

Cameron Porter ’21

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NORA E. O’BRIEN ’82 MEMORIAL AWARD:

THE JOE FRITSCHE MEMORIAL SERVICE AWARD:

Named in honor of Nora by her friends, this award goes to a graduating Senior who exemplifies Nora’s attributes – a fun loving, school-spirited, female athlete who will attend a Catholic college.

Hayden Neubert ’20

The Joe Fritsche Memorial Service Award is awarded to a good student with a passion for service in memory of Joe Fritsche, an NWC alumni parent who devoted many hours to working with community non-profit organizations in service to others.

CIAC EXCELLENCE AWARD:

Andrew Colliton ’20

For exemplary display of sportsmanship, ethics, and integrity.

SERVICE TO COUNTRY AWARD:

Guy Ragland, Jr. ’20, Mu Kue ’20 CONNECTICUT INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETIC CONFERENCE SCHOLAR ATHLETE AWARDS:

The Service to Country Award, made possible by the generosity of the Barnes Family, is awarded to seniors who have chosen upon graduation to serve their country in the Armed Forces through enlistment, military academy enrollment, or ROTC participation.

Are presented to outstanding athletes who also maintain an academic average of at least 3.5.

Mishikinakwa Froman ’20 Sydney Taylor ’20

Dominick Mealha ’20 Allison Tessman ’20

AMERICAN LEGION AWARDS:

JOHN FLORIO NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY AWARD:

American Legion medal and certificate awards are presented to seniors who meet the exceptional standards of courage, honor, leadership, patriotism, scholarship, and service.

For a Senior in the National Honor Society who strongly exemplifies the four National Honor Society traits: scholarship, leadership, service, and character.

Gabriel Landi ’20 ROBERT C. JOHNSON AWARD: Is given by the school in memory of Mr. Robert C. Johnson, Assistant Principal of Northwest Catholic, and goes to a Senior who is idealistic, sensitive, unassuming, open to life, and brings out the best in others.

Catherine Hurlburt ’20 Matthew Deneen ’21 DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AWARD: Honored by the Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter as a “Good Citizen” displaying the qualities of dependability, service, patriotism, and leadership.

THE JOHN RICE AWARD: Given in memory of John Rice to an underclassman who has exhibited interest in politics, as well as demonstrating an understanding of the political process.

Justin Tavares ’21 PAIGE ANN CORRIGAN SCHOLARSHIP AWARD: Mrs. Corrigan was an inspiring teacher, loyal friend, and positive role model.

Her devotion to teaching and to the students highlighted her eight years as a faculty member.

Tajauhn Reid ’21 GHCEA AWARD: Each year the GHCEA (Greater Hartford Catholic Education Association), which represents the lay teachers at Northwest Catholic, East Catholic, St. Paul, and Sacred Heart High Schools, presents the Barbara Banville/David McCreesch Scholarship.

Jamirah Honaker ’21 CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS CONNECTICUT SCHOLAR: The Connecticut Scholars Committee is pleased to announce that the following student has been selected as one of the 2020 Connecticut Scholars. Harrison was chosen from an entry pool of the top juniors in Connecticut’s high schools.

Harrison Waterbury ’21

Keagan Ostop ’20

Sarah Monarca ’20 NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL UNITY AWARD: Is awarded to a Senior who has contributed to the development of greater understanding, unity, and school spirit throughout the Northwest Catholic Community.

Benjamin Lee ’20

See this video and others at youtube.com/c/NorthwestCatholicHighSchoolCT/.

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Senior Awards of Distinction Northwest Catholic celebrates in a special way and public manner students who have been selected for special recognition.

MaryCharlotte Barnes ’20

Declan Wlochowski ’20

Guy Ragland, Jr. ’20

Joseph Morganthaler ’20

Fr. Bradford Colton Faculty Honor Award

NWC Senior Peer Award

Dominican Sisters Faith and Character Award

Father Frascadore Award

This award is presented in honor of our founding principal Fr. Colton. This student has earned the admiration and respect of the faculty for their contribution to Northwest Catholic High School. The faculty, staff, and administration recognize this student for hard work both in and out of the classroom, dedication to scholarship and intellectual curiosity, and a commitment to the betterment of self, peers, and school.

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The student who receives this award is a stand out member of the senior class, as chosen by their peers in the graduating class. This student is true to the mission of Northwest Catholic High School, both in the classroom as well as in the greater community.

In the spirit of the Dominican Sisters of Peace, who were present at the founding of Northwest Catholic, recipients of this award must have exemplary discipline records, been actively involved in extra-curricular programs, and exemplify the five values of Northwest Catholic High School. This student has been an outstanding representative of Northwest Catholic at school and in the community. They have had a strong academic record, a responsible faith life, and excellent rapport with staff and students.

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This is our highest graduation honor. This award is named after past Northwest Catholic president, Father Henry C. Frascadore.

It is bestowed on a student who best exemplifies the following characteristics: intellectual curiosity, spiritual awarenenss, compassionate leadership, community focus, and is a whole person.

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Community Honors

Northwest Catholic is named #1 Catholic high school in Greater Hartford for the 3rd year in a row!

Quincy T. Harris ’19 of Windsor earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Along with completing his Eagle required community service project, he has also met all the requirements necessary to earn this rank – an achievement that less than 4% of all scouts will earn. For his Eagle Project, Quincy refurbished fencing and various structures at Windsor Veterans Memorial Cemetery.

Page Warren ’22 was a Semifinalist for the Mars 2020 “Name the Rover” contest. The suggested name, Abeona, and Page’s essay can be viewed at https://www.futureengineers.org/ nametherover/gallery/27427.

Keagan Ostop ’20 was awarded the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizens Certificate.

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Lauren Armstrong ’22 participated in the Louis J. Golden Student Leadership Conference and a 15-week Entrepreneurial Academy at Stanley Black & Decker. This academy is sponsored

by Junior Achievement, and the students work hand in hand with those from schools throughout the region and professionals from the company. Pictured here with Jeremy Race, Junior Achievement of CT CEO.

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Clubs Matter:

FRESHMAN DANCE

NEVER TOO OLD FOR GAMES:

LIGHT IT UP

Game Day at NWC

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STUDENTS REGISTERING FOR AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Halloween OCT MEANS HELPING AT NWC

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Christian J. Cash Thresher (NWC man and Veter advancement offi ans Colby cer) and Ron Fe rri (former NW C teacher).

NWC CELEBRATES VETERANS DAY WITH 1968 GRADUATE When John Mastro graduated from Northwest Catholic in 1968, he knew he would one day serve. After a year at university, that day came.

Mastro drove home the point that we must value our freedom.

He said we were so fortunate to be “masters of our own fate,” then charged his audience to go forth and be masters of their fate.

In 1970, John Mastro of Hartford enlisted in the U.S. Army, working for the Army Security Agency, the branch responsible for interception and analyzation of signals intelligence. Sgt. Mastro’s work was to help identify the location of enemy units and order battle information. After additional training, Mastro was assigned to the 7th Radio Research Field Station in Udorn, Thailand. While in Thailand, he worked with various civilian agencies that supported the military. And in May 1971, Sgt. John Mastro volunteered to go to Vietnam.

Today Mastro is involved with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, a program dedicated to the physical and emotional rehabilitation of disabled military service personnel and veterans. He is a life member of the 101st Airborne Division Association, and has served on their Board of Governors at the national level.

He is currently President of the Sentinel Chapter, an at-large chapter of the Association for 101st men and women who have served in Signal Intelligence units.

In Vietnam, Mastro was assigned to the 265th Radio Company/101st Airborne Division, and his duties included locating North Vietnamese Army units along the Ashau Valley and Demilitarized Zone. After serving in Vietnam, Mastro left for Fort Bragg to enter civilian life and the Army Reserves.

He attended college on the GI bill, then worked for Pratt and Whitney Aircraft for 30 years, his last position as a staff engineer on the F-22 Raptor program.

Congressman John B. Larson has announced the award of the following medals to Sgt. John Mastro for his service with the 101st Airborne Division during the Vietnam War in 1971: The Bronze Star for heroic achievement in ground combat, and The Air Medal for meritorious achievement while participating in aerial flight in support of ground combat forces.

Mastro’s message to the students of Northwest Catholic on Veterans Day was simple: “selflessness and being part of a greater purpose matters.” Mastro continued, “Among the many lessons taught at Northwest was doing the right thing in difficult times.”

Mastro shared how fortunate he was to have met men he called “heroes” – World War II veterans who were “humble men of the greatest generation.” From these men, some even from the famous “Band of Brothers,” and from his experience in the military, Mastro learned discipline and “how to do what had to be done regardless of self.” But the most important lesson Mastro learned in his years of service was to appreciate the United States.

The NWC community says the Pledge of Allegiance at the Annual Veteran’s Day assembly.

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Giving thanks is a top priority at Northwest.

Thanksgiving costumes come out every November at NWC.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

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Eh Hsee ’20 reflects on this year’s

ACTS immersion. ACTS stands for A Chance to Serve, and every year this special class of seniors spends five days preceding Thanksgiving volunteering in the community.

Jenelle Baldwin ’20 presents at NWC’s Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assembly.

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to the school community on the HILL trip to New Orleans, LA. HILL stands for Honors Institute for Leadership in Life.

The school community gathers for Convocation to honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Chinese New Year

Gingerbread Houses Decorating gingerbread houses has become a Freshman tradition!

Kaiwen (Kevin) Yao ’20

explains what the Lunar Ms. Shuyunn Lin, Chinese New Year celebration is like for millions of teacher and club advisor, children across the globe. presents at Convocation to help celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Students make paper lanterns during their free period.

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Students in the Chinese Club International students Kaiwen (Kevin) Yao ’20 gives Mr. Andrew Selig ’06, try their hand at calligraphy. help demonstrate the art of calligraphy.

Director of Admissions and International Programs, a lesson in Chinese calligraphy.

Mardi Gras

Students enjoy a Mardi Gras celebration.

Fat Tuesday means enjoying French cuisine before Lent begins.

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Sixty-five Seniors registered to vote during NWC’s annual voter registration drive.

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THE EARLY DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC

THINGS CHANGE, BUT SOME NEVER WILL

by Katherine Devito ’21

It was a Sunday afternoon (or maybe a Saturday… they all seem to blend together now), and I was in my bedroom.

Suddenly I heard a car horn… and then another… and another.

Now, living next to a highway, my neighborhood can get noisy, but never this loud. I looked out my window to investigate and saw a procession of cars with balloons and streamers and window decorations screaming “Happy Birthday” going down my street to a house with a young girl out front, jumping for joy. Each car turned near her house, the passengers waving and dropping off presents for her. There must have been forty cars in total. It was a sight to see, and it melted my heart.

It’s no secret that we are currently living in a very different world. Homeschool is our new norm. Birthday parties and other events are taking place on Zoom, or in drive-up parties, like with my neighbor. Nothing seems to be normal, and I’ve lately found myself wondering if things will ever be the same.

In a time like this, it is so easy to spiral into a hole of sadness and even self-pity. And yet, in times of tragedy and suffering, it seems to me that many people seem to become more compassionate and empathetic.

I’ve seen stories of celebrities donating millions of dollars to hospitals in need. Neighbors are making grocery runs for those most at risk. Doctors, nurses, and EMTs are risking their lives everyday in an effort to save ours. It’s amazing what we as a nation are capable of when faced with such a daunting hurdle to overcome. It almost saddens me that it takes a worldwide pandemic for people to realize that we need to help one another and be more loving towards our neighbors.

It has always been a Christian teaching, taught to us by Christ himself, that loving our neighbor means serving them and willing to sacrifice for their greater good. I think it’s safe to say that we are all “loving our neighbors” by sacrificing the things we love most today in order to secure health and wellness for the future. If only everyone saw it that way, what a wonderful world it would be…

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by Lauren Armstrong ’22 Switching to online school has been hard for everyone, not only at Northwest, but in many parts of the country and the world. The Northwest community has responded quickly and efficiently to be a role model for many different schools.

Not only did our academics thrive when we turned to online classes, but our clubs, student government, and sports have adapted as well.

Many clubs, including Future Leaders of America, Northwest News, and the Dramateurs have turned to hosting online meetings, to make sure students can stay involved in what they love and are passionate about.

Future Leaders of America had a meeting to talk about the response by the United States government in response to the coronavirus. Meetings for the Dramateurs have been keeping students interested with themes and guests, such as actress Laura Michelle Kelly, to help members learn about different aspects of theater and acting, both in a production and behind the scenes. Newspaper will still be providing content, now on the weekly, to keep the NWC community updated on what is happening both inside and outside the virtual classrooms.

The Student Council has been staying active, providing school-wide activities, such as the “Tik Tok’’ contest promoting school spirit and social distancing.

Along with clubs, spring sports teams, whose seasons have been cut short, have still been meeting and working together to stay in shape and active during stay-at-home orders The athletic department has also been holding weekly fitness contests between grades, staff, parents, and alumni.

The NWC community is coming together to stay strong and fight this virus one lion at a time by staying home, so that these activities can take place in school again soon.

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Canovi said that only a year ago most students thought vaping liquid didn’t include nicotine. Today, students are wiser. They’re aware that 99% of e-cigarettes in all their forms contain nicotine.

Canovi continued to teach: “Nicotine is a colorless, liquid alkaloid that is also used as an insecticide.” This disturbing point was not lost on the audience.

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American Lung Association Director of Advocacy Ruth Canovi presents on the dangers of vaping.

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by Jane Reardon, a pulmonary clinical nurse specialist, and Ruth Canovi, the director of advocacy at the American Lung Association in Connecticut, was about the dangers of vaping, and the students were listening.

Ms. Canovi’s slides helped the audience answer basic questions about e-cigarettes: what are they, why are they dangerous, and what can students do about it? She explained that e-cigarettes come in various shapes and with different names, but they’re ultimately the same and they’re always pernicious.

The big takeaway? There’s no such thing as harmless vaping.

Canovi said that only a year ago most students thought vaping liquid didn’t include nicotine. Today, students are wiser. They’re aware that 99% of e-cigarettes in all their forms contain nicotine. Canovi continued to teach: “Nicotine is a colorless, liquid alkaloid that is also used as an insecticide.”

This disturbing point was not lost on the audience.

Canovi also explained that vaping tanks, mods, and chemicals are manipulated to make them easier to smoke and easier to get addicted to. The diabolical element, according to Canovi, is that they target youth and they’re designed to hook their users. Canovi didn’t hold back — she said, “Phillip Morris and other tobacco manufacturers have never had the reputation of putting public health first. They’re also all designing their own e-cigarettes to get their cut of the market.”

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and even killing a few victims.

That’s when guest speaker Jane Reardon became most animated.

Nurse Reardon, who is also a tobacco control specialist, shared stories of cigarette addiction, referencing one patient who had been able to quit heroin, alcohol, and marijuana but still “cried at night for a cigarette.” Reardon also spoke of the state of “popcorn lung” patients she’s encountering at Connecticut hospitals and how terrifying these near-death experiences have been for those poisoned by vaping.

Canovi didn’t shy away from sharing gruesome photos of victims of e-cigarette battery fires, and she spoke of the skyrocketing number of visits of toddlers who’ve drank vaping fluid, mistaking it for juice. From “popcorn lung,” when an 18-year old’s lungs looked like an 80-year-old COPD patient, to the crippling chain of addiction, Canovi and Reardon shared statistics and stories.

After the powerful public service announcement, Northwest Catholic students were better informed. One student even raised her hand to ask the question, “What can we do?” And Ruth Canovi responded, “I’m glad you asked,” then gave sound advice about writing legislators and emailing her personally to join a task force to end vaping.

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Northwest Catholic culminated its month-long celebration of Black History Month with a compelling presentation on Brown v. Board of Education by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant.

The Honorable Vanessa L. Bryant for the District of Connecticut was the first African American woman appointed a federal judge in New England. After a successful law career in several Connecticut firms, Bryant was appointed United States District Judge in April 2007 by President George W. Bush.

The Honorable Judge Vanessa L. Bryant for the District of Connecticut pictured with Brandon Drummond ’20 and TeJandrio Bolton ’20 after her presentation to the school community on Brown v. Board of Education.

University of Georgia in 1961. She referenced the attempt at desegregating Boston Public Schools from 1974 through 1988, telling stories of her own experiences in the city during this turbulent time.

On February 24, 2020, Judge Bryant visited Northwest Catholic and addressed the entire student body and faculty. Her lecture included a sweeping look at the events leading to Brown v. Board “The Brown decision shattered life as we knew it,” said Judge of Ed., and illustrated how the personal and political intersect on Bryant before she took a turn in her remarks to talk about her many fronts. She began with brief synopses of the 13th, 14th, and own wrestling with bias, sharing a personal story from her youth 15th Amendments, pausing to explain where progress was made when she questioned whether a black woman and a white man and where it was stalled. She then went on to explain the 1896 should be a couple. The audience of teenagers chuckled with decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, which declared “separate but equal,” Judge Bryant as she painted a picture of herself as a 15-year-old and described how the decision fueled Jim Crow laws and smitten with the handsome man. Judge Bryant’s confession did reinforced segregation and inequality. not only make her relatable: it gave her a launching pad for Judge Bryant continued to weave a story of watershed Supreme a deeper discussion of what she called the “affinity paradigm,” Court cases that included Sweatt v. Painter in 1950, when our natural proclivity to associate with people like ourselves. separate was decided unequal for an African American law Judge Bryant challenged the paradigm, encouraging her audience school student who was relegated to study alone in a single to eschew “right fit,” “comfort zone” language. She encouraged classroom. Judge Bryant then walked the audience through the her young audience to question their assumptions about Brown decision made four years later in 1954, the same year Hartford, study the segregation of Connecticut schools, she was born. and challenge their own biases. Ultimately, Judge Bryant Careful to point out that each court decision challenging reminded the students, segregation neither put an end to institutional racism nor “You are not alone.” quelled a racist resistance, Judge Bryant still pressed on the point She said all kinds that courts have the power of moral suasion, or coaxing citizens of people have to honor its will. She spoke of precedent, using the metaphor implicit biases, and encouraged the students to examine of a brick wall with decisions building block-by-block for real their own. change, and she tied together the strings of law, history, and The Honorable Vanessa L. Bryant gave her audience a lot lived experience. to consider on that February morning, and the Northwest Judge Bryant spoke of Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Catholic community thanks Judge Bryant for her insightful Nine, who bravely desegregated Little Rock High School and inspiring words. in 1957, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who integrated the

“You are not alone.”

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Learning from the masters We were thrilled to have professional, Hartt School-trained percussionist Ed Fast lead a master class at NWC’s Big Band rehearsal!

Latin jazz percussionist, composer, arranger, educator, and bandleader Ed Fast leads a masterclass at NWC.

Fast leads the Ed Fast & Conga Bop ensemble, sits in with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, tours with Broadway shows, joins backup bands at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, and much more! How fortunate we were that Ed took time out of his busy schedule to work with our students.

HISTORIAN AND NORTHWEST CATHOLIC ALUMNA TELLS STORIES OF WOMEN'S ENSLAVEMENT Northwest Catholic alumna Kerri Lee Alexander ’10 confessed to her audience at her alma mater that a decade ago, when she sat in the same auditorium, she never dreamed that one day she would be the school’s honored speaker.

The brilliant and humble Alexander, today a PhD candidate at Howard University and an Education and Public History Fellow at the National Women’s History Museum, was both delighted and flattered to be at the podium, teaching, storytelling, and inspiring the young minds before her. including a formative experience working as a chaplain for victims of domestic violence.

After Alexander graduated from Northwest Catholic in 2010, she headed to Wagner College where she became a student leader and scholar.

After earning her Bachelors in Nonprofit Management and Arts Administration, she attended Princeton Theological Seminary, where she earned a Masters in Theology with a certificate in Black Church Studies. Soon after, she entered a PhDprogram at Howard University, and today is diving deep into the study of women’s enslavement with a projected completion date of 2021.

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Through her educational journey, Alexander became increasingly drawn to history. She told the students, “I surprised myself. I didn’t realize I was a such a history nerd!” Alexander explained how she became captivated by the rich, hidden stories of slaves and wanted to go beyond the cursory study of popular figures, albeit hugely important, like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. Alexander discovered a passion to unearth and share narratives, which is precisely what she did for Northwest Catholic’s students and faculty on the February morning.

In addition to her address to the entire Northwest Catholic community, Alexander spoke with a small group of students, helping them understand the circuitous route her career has taken, and illustrated the gifts she has gathered along the way, such as starting a leadership program at Wagner and being her college graduation speaker. Again and again, Alexander spoke of the opportunities afforded her.

Of course, the teachers at Northwest Catholic who knew Kerri Lee Alexander as a student and Dramateur are not surprised at her many successes. She was always extraordinary.

Yet, during her busy morning at Northwest, the modest and grateful Alexander rarely used the word “I.” She spoke of doors being opened and paths laid before her, and her entire lecture was about brave survivors of slavery. She never

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even suggested “look at me.” She only said “listen to them” as she wove together heartwrenching tales of slave narratives that her audience undoubtedly had not heard before.

Alexander spoke of slaves such as Ona Judge and Margaret Garner, including family members’ names and details of their escape that brought these brave women back to life. Alexander talked of women slaves’ suffering and sacrifices, without whitewashing the brutality. Alexander was animated, accessible, and honest.

Although Alexander is a scholar of the most bleak and brutal stories from American history, she remains full of light. From her enthusiasm for working today with “the most amazing women at National Women’s History Museum” to her enjoyment of teaching her first section of undergraduates in the course “African American Women to 1865,” Alexander radiates hope and happiness. When she asked the students in the small group to share their career dreams, she nodded with affirmation, repeating,

“We need you.

The world needs you.”

And like so many alumni visitors before her, Kerri Lee Alexander told the intimate group of soon-to-be fellow alumni, “Call me if I can ever do anything for you. You know we’re family, don’t you?”

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Scott Cullen ’95 helped organize and raise funds for the trip to New Orleans. Cullen was a member of the first HILL class at Northwest Catholic. Cullen said,

“HILL remains the single most important educational experience of my life.”

Flynn McGinnis ’22 and Senator Kamala Harris.

HILL students playing a game.

HILL alum Maureen Murphy ’98,

Brandon Drummond ’20 and Governor Ned Lamont.

(Honors Institute for Leadership in Life) heads to New Orleans for a service and educational immersion trip combining history, social justice, and the environment. Northwest’s HILL class is a selective, intensive, faith-based interdisciplinary seminar that educates students to analyze contemporary social issues in a critical and multi-faceted manner.

HILL students gather for a photo in New Orleans. The trip included visiting key sites in civil rights history, such as the location where Homer Plessy was arrested, setting in motion the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, and sites of climate change, such as the New Orleans levees, wetlands, and bayou, which are under threat from rising sea levels.

who also organized, raised funds, and chaperoned the trip to New Orleans, and MaryCharlotte Barnes ’20.

HILL students watch street musicians in New Orleans.

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by Justin DeFina ’20 The HILL class had an unbelievable opportunity to visit New Orleans, thanks to the contributions of two alumni, Scott Cullen ’95 and Maureen Murphy ’98. All year in HILL, we’ve been taking some of the most difficult issues facing the country and breaking them down, trying to find solutions to things such as gun violence, global warming, and mental health, to name a few. In New Orleans, we were able to see these problems firsthand.

New Orleans has been a battleground for these hot-button issues, but also is home to one of the most unique cultures in the country.

While there, we were not only able to better understand the situations facing the people of New Orleans, but also enjoy the incredible atmosphere, food, and culture.

A few short minutes after we arrived at the hotel, we met with former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and talked extensively about past and present problems in the city, such as Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, and the removal of Confederate Monuments.

This, combined with visits with the Army Corps of Engineers to learn about the infrastructure of the city, and police officer Imani Ruffins to learn about her experience with criminal justice and law enforcement in the African American community, contributed to an incredible experience outside of a traditional classroom setting.

On top of that, we were able to experience the complex culture through many different musical experiences from actual performances to bands playing in the streets. We were also given the opportunity to serve, going out and delivering food to people who were homeless. This, along with a mass on Sunday morning at Saint Augustine Church, in which people danced, sang, and enjoyed time together as a community, helped us see things like our faith from a whole different perspective.

But for me, the most powerful moment was on our tour of the bayou. We were traveling by boat down a river and rounded a corner where we were able to see large smoke stacks in the distance.

It turned out that the bayou was being drilled for natural gas, and we were traveling on a man-made river that was built in order to get the equipment into the bayou.

These types of experiences, which allowed us to see in person the dangers posed to our environment, were incredibly eye-opening, and I think I speak for the class when I say that we are so thankful for the opportunity that was given to us. It served to not only immerse us in real world problems and a culture unlike our own, but also to bring us closer together as a class.

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LARRY 2.0 ON THE ROAD

by Justin DeFina ’20

In March, the Northwest Catholic “Iron Lions” competed in the FIRST Robotics Competition of the season and did not disappoint. After winning the Best Rookie Award at one of our two events last year, we had a lot of work to do, and Larry 2.0, our robot, lived up to the high expectations.

Larry 2.0 combined a simple and efficient mechanism to shoot balls and score points with a robust climbing arm to pull itself onto a bar at the end of each game.

However, the area in which it was most dominant was the autonomous section, in which we had to rely on previously created code to run our robot, and could not touch any controls. The number of points our robot scored ranked us 5th in autonomous points.

This proved to be valuable, as we were able to make it to the playoffs in our first event of the year.

Arguably more impressive was how we hardly had to make any repairs on the robot during the competition, something very uncommon for even the best teams.

Iron Lions Robotics Team at the FIRST Robotics Competition in Waterbury, CT.

Emily McKenna ’21 (center) with her sister Alexandra ’13 and mother.

Robotics is all about overcoming adversity, from failed ideas to catastrophic malfunctions; however, I’m glad to have gotten the chance to work with some very resilient engineers. There’s no doubt that whatever comes next, the Iron Lions and Larry 2.0 will be ready.

Allison Tessaman ’20, Aidan Whitsitt ’22, Justin Defina ’20, and Mark Ruddat ’20

MARCH FOR LIFE Director of Campus Ministry Chris Haddad, Sophia Boudreaux ’20, Rebekah Aldrich ’23, Brady Ladouceur ’23, Julia Kumik ’23, and Hannah Kalamarides ’22.

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NWC Science Teacher Mr. Patrick Smith gives Communion at our monthly Mass.

Students are always involved with the Masses, from the music to the readings to the gifts and more. Aidan Mahoney ’22 presents.

Every month the school community comes together to celebrate the Eucharist.

Religion and Spanish Teacher and Director of Liturgy Mrs. Kristina Gillespie at our Advent Prayer Service.

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Fr. Lawrence Bock at our Junior Investiture Mass.

Christmas is always a special time at Northwest Catholic. The choir performs.

This year’s Mass of the Holy Spirit with Bishop Juan Miguel Betancourt presiding.

Ash Wednesday at NWC.

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Fr. Edmund O’Brien helps NWC celebrate Mass during Catholic Schools Week.

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Class of 2023 Retreat

ACTS senior Matthew Querfeld ’20 gives his reflections.

ACTS senior Madison Theriault ’20 holds cell phones.

Freshmen return to campus after a day of bonding and reflection.

THE CLASS OF 2023 GATHERS TO LISTEN TO TESTIMONIALS FROM THE SENIORS.

Senior ACTS student Alessandra Good ’20 presents to the Class of 2023.

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Kairos Students Learn to Lead Now more than ever, NWC students are in need of a lived experience of Catholic Christian Community rooted in the pillars of our spiritual traditions: shared prayer, Eucharist, reconciliation, spiritual reflection, and community rooted in the Gospel.

A Northwest Catholic education should include a growing sense of connection to God and a lived experience of how a faith community can function to support a student’s faith and desire to serve.Sustaining a lived faith takes intentional practice, opportunitiesfor spiritual growth, and a community that supports all of these. In light of the Northwest Catholic Mission, we seek to develop leaders who faithfully serve God and others. NWC Kairos will facilitate this important work.

Kairos is a Catholic Christian high school retreat program that was established in Jesuit secondary schools in the 1980s. Rooted in the model of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Kairos retreat proceeds from the understanding that God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit can be encountered in word, sacrament, prayer, and community. The spirituality of Kairos is incarnational and grounded in the Ignatian First Principle and Foundation that “we are created to praise, revere, and serve God our Lord.”

The retreat is fashioned in the peer ministry model led by competent and trained adult and student leaders. The Kairos Retreat in 2018 has become a national model in Catholic high schools, and is now supported in best practice publications by the Jesuit Secondary Network and Ascension Press.

pment o l e v e d ship “Leader element.” is a core

Kairos gives students in a Catholic high school setting a shared language and context for developing the best habits of the Christian life. The retreat is not limited to practicing Catholics or Christian students, but it is grounded in Catholic Christian Theology and spiritual practices.

Leadership development is a core element of this retreat model, and so it will begin with a core group of adult and student leaders who then pass on the retreat to future leaders as a gift.

We initiated Kairos at Northwest Catholic in the 2019–2020 academic year. We began by creating a core team of adult and student leaders who experienced the retreat, and then went on to share it with the community. It is our hope that the Kairos program will begin to bear tremendous fruits of faith in our community, and become a core part of our graduate profile and capstone experience.

Hayden Neubert ’20 and Keagan Ostop ’20 on the school’s first Kairos retreat.

The school community offers a blessing for the first group of students heading on the school’s Kairos retreat.

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#GOODWORKS Halloween

Halloween means more than costumes and candy at Northwest Catholic

Halloween festivities began in early October at Northwest Catholic. Senior class advisor Sara Avery and the senior steering committee put the parts of a Halloween-to-remember in motion by first organizing a collection of more than 100 costumes for children with need. Then, they planned an all-out Halloween party for students at Trinity Academy of Hartford.

On October 30, seniors were released from their afternoon classes to turn both school gymnasiums into Halloween-themed party zones. Students decked in costumes set up tables along the perimeter of the Stosuy Gym, and welcomed Trinity Academy students to decorate Halloween bags, get fake tattoos, and collect goodies at every stop. And if that weren’t enough fun, the seniors in the Johnson Gym painted the young students’ sweet faces while others played basketball and spikeball with their guests. The children ran off their energy — a perfect pastime the day before Halloween — and the seniors did too.

Even as high school seniors stand on the edge of adulthood, it’s clear they haven’t left childhood far behind. The seniors at Northwest Catholic laughed and played and probably snuck a little candy for themselves. It was hard to tell who was having more fun at Northwest Catholic this Halloween, the seniors or their young guests. What was certain is that Northwest Catholic turned Halloween into a celebration for others, and that always feels right.

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Benefits Students in Tanzania

Students at Divine Mercy Girls Seminary in Bukoba, Tanzania show off the bracelets they received from Northwest Catholic’s Global Awareness Club.

Students in the Global Awareness Club spearheaded two projects to benefit the students at Divine Mercy Girls Seminary in Bukoba, Tanzania.

Through a “Bracelet Drive,” club members raised money and made bracelets for the young women at Divine Mercy, a boarding school that educates girls who otherwise would not have the opportunity to attend school.

After receiving the proceeds from the bracelet sale along with the handmade bracelets, the students returned as thanks photos of themselves enjoying the gifts. The monetary donation helped the girls buy new uniforms, and there were enough bracelets for every student.

Lifelong friend of Sophia Boudreaux ’20 of Bloomfield and Divine Mercy administrator Sister Pudentiana said, “The girls were so happy to get the bracelets!”

Boudreaux said, “I found out that they needed money for new uniforms and wanted to do whatever I could to help.

I knew that Global Awareness would be a good way to help, and we came up with the idea of the bracelet drive.”

She continued, “I’m so glad that it worked so well and am so grateful to everyone who helped.”

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#GOODWORKS Global Awareness Club

Students keep doing #Goodworks right through the Lockdown

Mateo Moran ’21 and his father, owner of Madd Capp Games, drove from home to home, delivering lion puzzles to all of Northwest Catholic’s teachers. Pictured with Chair of Visual Arts Ms. Celina Marquis ’08.

Gabriel Landi ’20 and his sister Aubrey ’21 volunteered over spring break at iCare, assisting the company’s IT department. They also bought supplies and made personal protective face shields for the nursing homes’ staffs. Gabe and Aubrey made close to 100 shields using zip ties, clear binder dividers, hair elastics, and plastic hanger straps.

The Boudreaux Family makes cards for the elderly in nursing homes.

James Travers ’21 and Luke Wilson ’21 volunteered at Freshplace, organizing food and helping stock the shelves of their food pantry.

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Caroline Rutenberg ’20 organized donations at Foodshare.

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NWC HOSTS SEMI-ANNUAL

Blood Drive

Last fall, the NWC Student Council hosted its semi-annual blood drive, where the American Red Cross collected 39 units from NWC students and staff members.

Following the successful drive, Student Council Moderator Lori DeCrescenzo had this to say: “The Community Service Commissioners showed an incredible sense of leadership and ownership of the event. They, along with the other members of the Community Service Committee...

“...are wonderful examples of the best our NWC students can be: community focused and compassionate leaders.”

Following the drive, Danielle Huntington, Account Representative of Donor Recruitment and Outreach Connecticut, said, “I say this every year, but Northwest Catholic’s students are just a joy to work with each and every year for the blood drive.”

Huntington continued, “It is truly such a pleasure each time we visit Northwest Catholic.”

Members of the Sewing Club, Victoria Laing ’22 and Sara Nguyen ’22, show off the beanies they sewed for those in need.

Student Council’s Community Service Commissioners smile for a photo in at the school’s November blood drive.

Students load the school van full of toys collected by the Freshman Christmas Toy Drive.

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IN THE ARTS

Dancing at Lughnasa AT NORTHWEST CATHOLIC

MaryCharlotte Barnes ’20 and Katherine Dudley ’20

The cast of Dancing at Lughnasa.

The NWC Dramateurs presented their fall play, Dancing at Lughnasa, last November.

Dancing at Lughnasa is a memory play told by an adult Michael Evans, reflecting on his childhood spent in a cottage with his mother and four aunts in County Donegal, Ireland. Throughout the play, Michael reflects on two major events from the summer he was seven: the return of his elderly Uncle Jack, a priest, and the reappearance of his father, Gerry Evans. Michael watches the five women of the Mundy family grapple with the unknown, set against the time of year of the Irish pagan festival Lughnasa, which contrasts with their staunch Catholic faith.

William Kasheta ’21 and Christopher Jean Gilles ’22

As the show is set in the fictional town of Ballybeg, the Dramateurs spent months honing their Irish brogues and exploring the deep fabric of Irish family life. In addition to the actors portraying the family members, an eight-person Druid ensemble represented Ireland itself — the deeply rooted connection with the land and how it informs the lives of the people there.

Director and Choreographer Kate Morran said, “The Dramateurs studied the history of paganism and Irish sacred sites in order to bring authenticity to the sense of place.” Morran continued, “The set is an amorphous combination of a kitchen at center stage and an environment of monolith standing stones around the perimeter.” Morran explained, “The concept is that the Druids represent a deep spiritual connection between family members. And as an ensemble, the actors are staged to help call in Michael’s memory as he narrates.”

Producer and Director Sara Avery said, “Dancing at Lughnasa explores the connection between old and new, memory and fact, expectation and reality, and the fierce love of a family on the brink of change.” Morran added, “It has been wonderful to see the progression of these young actors as they dig deep into themes of family, faith, and the human condition.”

Jordan Pita ’20

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IN THE ARTS Christmas Concert

Christmas Concert

All the musicians join together for Handel’s Messiah.

NWC Concert Band at the Christmas Concert.

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Chamber Choir performs Christmas carols.

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IN THE ARTS

Arts Showcase

Students at the Performing Arts Showcase last winter.

Keagan Ostop ’20 and Jordan Pita ’20

Aubrey Landi ’21

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IN THE ARTS Arts in the Pandemic Era

ARTS IN THE

Pandemic Era

How do you solve a problem like a pandemic?

by Sara Avery, Director of Performing Arts It’s a difficult time to be an arts educator. Theater is a small community – we take care of each other and rely on each other to get things done.

Big stars on Broadway are not very far removed from their small-town community theater roots. Every cool educational experience brought to the Dramateurs has come from “this person, who knows this person, connecting us with this other person who happens to be the lighting designer for Disney’s Frozen.”

Or something like that.

Every musical done here in the past two decades has relied on professional musicians to fill out the parts in the orchestra that we don’t have students to play. We pay them about ¼ of what they are worth – maybe less. And they do it because in the arts community, we take care of our own.

So what happens when an entire industry comes to a standstill? Unlike many other industries that are finding creative ways to make it by in the COVID era, the most creative industry of them all is the one that will probably have the longest road back to any normalcy. Putting on shows costs money – not just for the fancy sets and costumes, but for the

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PEOPLE. For every dance step performed, there is a choreographer who came up with it. For every spotlight, there is a lighting designer who figured out where it should go.

The arts industry works like an iceberg. You see the performers on Broadway floating above the surface, but the number of jobs that lurk out of view – under the water – represent an astonishing amount of skilled labor. And all of them are currently unemployed.

Here at Northwest, we found a way to keep the hills alive by filming selections from what would have been The Sound of Music. It began with us using an online recording software called Soundtrap. We were able to virtually collaborate in the “studio,” so that if one student laid down a track over the instrumental music, the next student could hear that student’s voice when they went to record their parts. After lots of back and forth, and a ton of editing, the final tracks were ready to be sent out to the kids involved.

From there, some students met in person to film the video portion at a safe distance.

We met three different times at Kasheta Farms in South Windsor to film selections from The Sound of Music, including “Do Re Mi,” “So Long Farewell,” and “Sixteen Going on Seventeen.”

Katherine Dudley ’20, Kate Morran, William Kasheta ’21, Erin Conway ’20, and Sara Avery at Kasheta Farms during the filming of The Sound of Music.

Students lip synced to their own vocals that had already been perfected via Soundtrap, and then the video and audio were edited together. In the case of things filmed from home, the same premise worked. Students lip synced to their own track into their cameras and then sent the finished films back, where they were cobbled together into a movie.

It’s been a wonderful thing to see our work in a new light. But as the Dramateurs know, theater is meant to be ephemeral. Every time we put on a show, it’s supposed to be different because our audience is a part of the experience. One night will be different from the next night, and the next night will be different again. Theater is a conversation – your applause and your laughter are part of what keeps us going. We miss it – we miss you.

So while we wait for this industry to finally come back in the way we know and love, think of all of the different ways the arts impact your life. And when the curtain finally rises on live, in-person theater again, we hope we can count on you to make it a sell-out.

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Getting through meant getting creative

by Celina Marquis ’08, Director of Fine Arts, and Charlotte Adams Brooks, Art Teacher As working artists and art educators, two phrases we hear a lot from our students are “I’m not creative” and “I can’t draw.” Our job in the art room is to show how everyone is capable of creativity. We give them the tools to help open their minds to possibilities, to lean into the fear of uncertainty, and to translate their ideas into visual art. This was all put to the test when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived.

If anyone stopped by the art room last year on a pre-pandemic day, they would have seen students everywhere, working on projects ranging from oil paintings to ceramics. Considering the number of students who choose to spend not only their class time but their free time as well in this space each day, we’d say the students have an attachment to the art room.

We, too, thrive on the art room’s atmosphere, and it has become a second home for many of us at Northwest Catholic. Music, laughter, a cacophony of overlapping voices recounting events from the weekend or bemoaning a failed test, all while we try to keep our students’ attention by singing our sentences; this is the productive noise of creativity in this second home.

When students ran out of art supplies during the lockdown, they got creative with household items.

View the NWC 2020 Virtual Art Show at youtube.com/c/NorthwestCatholicHighSchoolCT/

Suddenly in March we all transitioned from our relatively normal lives to socially distanced ones. Closing the doors to the art room that Friday afternoon was the first of many surreal moments. Students and teachers alike retreated to their homes, and we optimistically anticipated returning in two weeks. Half-finished canvases sat on drying racks, clay prayer boxes were left to hibernate in plastic bags, and palettes with fresh paint waited patiently for their artists to pick them back up again. None of us anticipated completing the rest of the school year from our homes, and now it became our responsibility to cultivate a creative space virtually.

and provide the opportunity to embrace the unexpected. When the pandemic came, educators all over the world scrambled to translate their curriculum into a virtual setting. Many of us stepped out of our comfort zones, and we all made mistakes along the way, but we were successful at Northwest Catholic because we fully accepted the challenge of trying something new.

When we began virtual school, our goals beyond teaching our subjects were to maintain the teacher-studentpeer connection, an open-minded learning environment, projects tailored to the needs and interests of our students, and a curriculum where everyone has the chance to add their own ideas. Many of our art students Left behind in the art room was a went home without any supplies and life-size cardboard cutout of the others had borrowed materials which painter Bob Ross that would greet quickly ran out. Because of this, our (sometimes terrify) and inspire lessons and projects changed to students while they worked. Bob accommodate the use of everyday Ross believed there are no mistakes, household materials, tools, recycled just happy accidents. At Northwest items, etc. Rather than completing Catholic, we believe that mistakes show growth, are evidence of learning, clay projects, plaster masks, and

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IN THE ARTS Virtual Art Show

During the quarantine, NWC art students participated in the “recreation challenge,” originally called the “Getty Challenge” by its creators at the Getty Museum.

People young and old around the world took part in it.

calligraphy in Crafts, students explored art recreation, made color wheels with objects found at home, and virtually collaborated in groups to design and make original game boards. Extra credit projects were posted to the art room Instagram to keep students busy and thinking creatively. Some of the projects aimed to get their family members involved as well.

Introduction to Visual Art, Drawing and Painting, Design and Sculpture, Honors Portfolio, and AP Art & Design all had the opportunity to take part in the “Covid Creative” challenge where each day came with a new one-word drawing prompt. How students chose to respond was up to them. For many, this small daily habit became part of an ongoing visual journal and creative outlet. Even in a socially distanced format, our students showed their

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creativity and ability to adapt to their rapidly changing world.

As the weeks went by and it became clear that the school year would come to a close virtually, many end-of-year activities were cancelled.

We were heartbroken for our seniors who didn’t get the experiences they had been promised for the last four years.

One of those annual events was the art show, when students from every class showcase to family and friends their work from the semester. The art wing typically becomes packed with people, food, and music. You can feel a sense of accomplishment in the air, mixed with the relief that summer is near. We converted this communal experience as best we could into a virtual one by creating an online art show. Combining the artwork they had completed at the beginning of

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the semester with what they had accomplished at home, we still got the chance to celebrate our students’ hard work, dedication, and creativity.

Everyone is capable of living a creative life when we change our internal dialogue from “I can’t draw” to a more open concept of experiencing everyday as an opportunity to embrace our fears, consider different perspectives, and try new approaches. The ongoing effects of this pandemic, along with many other recent events in this country, have helped emphasize how crucial a creative world is to progress. Through creativity, we can learn from our mistakes, listen to one another, embody the truth that we’re in this together, and ultimately grow as one.

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The Sound of Music Cast

includes Local Elementary Students In recent years, the Dramateurs delighted audiences with The Little Mermaid, Into the Woods, and Godspell. What was different this past year, besides the stage performances being cancelled at the last minute, was the cast. Young children from the community rounded out the crew of The Sound of Music and made NWC’s spring musical even more special.

During rehearsals, Performing Arts Chair Sara Avery said, "We are especially excited this year to welcome students from four different West Hartford schools: Smith, Webster Hill, Wolcott, and St. Timothy’s.”

“Our little actors,” as Avery affectionately called them, joined the cast in the roles of the youngest Von Trapp children. Avery said the high school students enjoyed working with the children, adding, “Our cast spans from age 18 down to our youngest, who is 6!”

Directors Sara Avery and Kate Morran chose The Sound of Music this year for several reasons, one being they knew they had the perfect combination of actors to make it soar. Avery also said it was time for the Dramateurs to perform a piece by Rodgers and Hammerstein. “Believe it or not, in my 17 years at Northwest Catholic, this was my first Rodgers and Hammerstein.” She was also quick to add that The Sound of Music remains topical and relevant, even considering its age. “And the music! You can’t beat it!”

Wolcott Elementary 1st graders Penny and Anna shared the role of Gretl pictured on the Rice Auditorium stage before rehearsals were halted.

The Cast of The Sound of Music at Kasheta Farms.

Videos from the performance can be found at: www.youtube.com/c/NorthwestCatholicHighSchoolCT/

MaryCharlotte Barnes ’20, Jordan Pita ’20, and Gabriel Landi ’20 perform No Way to Stop It.

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A MESSAGE FROM ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

Amid this year’s uncertainty, anxiety, and fear, one thing is certain: It’s a great day to be a Lion!

Athletics have a way of bringing people together, and that has proven true again throughout the pandemic. At NWC we have school leaders who live out the mission of Northwest and who put the students’ well being as the first priority day in and day out. We have learned that in the face of adversity, we run toward it, not shy away in fear. We have come to know that we can only control how we react to a situation. We have learned to be patient with one another and to forgive one another. We have also learned to be patient with ourselves. We have learned to value the small but most important moments in life. But most notably, we have learned that no matter how much work is put into a task, and no matter how many hours and sweat are put into a plan, God always has a bigger plan.

I am so proud of our student-athletes for how they have handled themselves in all types of circumstances since last March, proving they can step up as leaders. I am proud of our coaches for giving our student-athletes an example they can model. We at Northwest Catholic are grateful for the support from our families for our student-athletes and for our school. Northwest Catholic Athletics stand firm during challenging times, holding tight to our mission and continuing to move forward as one.

SEASON HIGHLIGHTS

ASHLEY MARA ’08

We look forward to exciting times ahead for our student-athletes this year and cannot wait for the NWC community to be a part of the journey! Go Lions!

Fall 2019

BOYS SOCCER

FOOTBALL

Record: 6-7-4

Record: 6-4 Head Coach: Michael Lenz ’91 Seniors: Nicholas DeFranzo ’20,

Skye Dolce ’20, Mishikinakwa Froman ’20, Jonathan Heiden ’20, Shaun McNamara ’20, Dominick Mealha ’20, Nicholas Micari ’20, Connor Rich ’20, Isaac Riley ’20, Samuel Stiles ’20, Evan Thompson ’20 Captains: Skye Dolce ’20,

Head Coach: Terry Philip, Sr. Seniors: Brenden Bellinger ’20, Luke Bello ’20, John Cashman ’20, Andrew Colliton ’20, Thomas Dao’20, Lorenzo Garcia ’20, Harrison Sawka ’20, Jack Smolenski ’20, Paul Verner ’20 Captains: Brenden Bellinger ’20,

Declan Ferrell ’21, Lorenzo Garcia ’20 MVP: Lorenzo Garcia ’20

Shaun McNamara ’20, Connor Rich ’20, Isaac Riley ’20, Evan Thompson ’20

All-Conference:

MVP: Skye Dolce ’20

John Cashman ’20, Lorenzo Garcia ’20

Coach’s Award:

Declan Ferrell ’21

All-Conference: Skye Dolce ’20,

Shaun McNamara ’20, Dominick Mealha ’20, Connor Rich ’20, Isaac Riley ’20, Evan Thompson ’20 All-State: Isaac Riley ’20

 Dominick Mealha ’20

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 Jack Smolenski ’20

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ATHLETICS

Seniors: Myia Chappell ’20,

CHEERLEADING

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Head Coach: Courtney Ramos

Record: 18-5

Seniors: Denae Douglas ’20, Kateri Fitzsimons ’20

Head Coach: Jenniqua Bailey ’10

MVP: Audrey Bonk ’21 Coach’s Award:

Captains: Denae Douglas ’20,

Sarah Monarca ’20

Kateri Fitzsimons ’20

Seniors: Erin Carucci ’20, Caroline Rutenberg ’20, Nora Staunton ’20

MVP: Kymani Campbell ’21

Captains: Erin Carucci ’20,

Coach’s Award:

Caroline Rutenberg ’20, Nora Staunton ’20

Sarah Monarca ’20 Captains: Audrey Bonk ’21, Myia Chappell ’20, Sarah Monarca ’20

Kateri Fitzsimons ’20

All-Conference: Erin Carucci ’20,

Brianna Lebrun ’22

 Kalyssa Muniz ’20

GIRLS SOCCER

BOYS ICE HOCKEY

Record: 11-6-3

Record: 8-13-1

Head Coach: Shelbie Carr

Head Coach: Daniel Melanson ’93

Seniors: Sophia Boudreaux ’20,

Seniors: Robert Brosmith ’20, Luke Gfeller ’20, John Gunsalus ’20, John Lewis IV ’20, Nathan Loitz ’20, Samuel Patterson ’20, Cameron Porter ’20, Branden Waitt ’20

Alessandra Good ’20, Mu Kue ’20, Kalyssa Muniz ’20, Nina Singer ’20 Captains: Kalyssa Muniz ’20,

 Sarah Monarca ’20

Julia Nicholas ’21, Nina Singer ’20 MVP: Nina Singer ’20 Coach’s Award: Haley Troy ’21 All-Conference: Julia Nicholas ’21

FIELD HOCKEY Record: 13-5 Head Coach: William Mullady Seniors: Erin Conway ’20, Taylor Griffith ’20, Grace Gunsalus ’20, Katherine Hurley ’20, Isabel Mortillaro ’20, Hayden Neubert ’20, Keagan Ostop ’20, Asha Patel ’20, Caroline Sisk ’20, Sydney Taylor ’20, Catherine Wilcox ’20 Captains: Isabel Mortillaro ’20,

Maeve Mullen ’21, Sydney Taylor ’20 MVP: Sydney Taylor ’20 Coach’s Award:

BOYS CROSS COUNTRY Record: 1-6 Head Coach: Cory Carlson Seniors: Dante Caruso ’20, Trevor

Lindberg ’20, Matthew Querfeld ’20, Declan Wlochowski ’20 Captains: Matthew Querfeld ’20,

Declan Wlochowski ’20 MVP: Noah Winters ’21 Coach’s Award:

Justin Tavares ’21

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY Record: 1-6

Isabel Mortillaro ’20

Head Coach: Cory Carlson

All-Conference: Sarah Lamberty ’21,

Seniors: Gabriella Alexander ’20, Caroline Bennett ’20, Carly Drusedum ’20, Melania Gluch ’20, Delaney Marshall ’20

Maeve Mullen ’21, Sydney Taylor ’20 All-State: Sydney Taylor ’20

VOLLEYBALL Record: 4-16 Head Coach: Kerry August

 NWC Cheerleaders

Winter 2019–2020 BOYS BASKETBALL Record: 20-4

Captains: Luke Gfeller ’20,

Nathan Loitz ’20, Griffin Macary ’21, Connor Melanson ’21, Cameron Porter ’20 All-Conference: Connor

Melanson ’21, Noah Melanson ’23 All-State: Connor Melanson ’21,

Noah Melanson ’23

Head Coach: John Mirabello Seniors: Landell Green ’20, Angus McDonald ’20, Selwyn Paul ’20, Guy Ragland, Jr. ’20 Captain: Guy Ragland, Jr. ’20 All-Conference: Matthew

Curtis ’22, Guy Ragland, Jr. ’20 All-State: Matthew Curtis ’22,

Guy Ragland, Jr. ’20

 John Lewis ’20

Captains: Carly Drusedum ’20,

Melania Gluch ’20 MVP: Alina Cote ’23 Coach’s Award:

 Landell Greene ’20

Melania Gluch ’20

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GIRLS ICE HOCKEY Record: 7-11-1 Head Coach: John Alissi Seniors: Andalena Chancio ’20,

Brianna McDermott ’20, Scarlett Miller ’20 Captains: Andalena Chancio ’20, Brianna McDermott ’20, Scarlett Miller ’20 All-Conference: Andalena Chancio ’20, Riley Esposito ’22

SWIMMING

 NWC Swim Team

Record: 1-11

Cheerleading

Head Coach: Tammi Haynes

In the 2020 competition season, the

Senior: Reed Jones ’20

NWC Cheerleaders finished in First Place

Captains: Reed Jones ’20,

at the CCC Cheerleading Conference for the

Charlene Lam ’21

second year in a row. The cheerleaders also

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rounded out the season with a 9th place finish at the CIAC State Cheerleading Competition.

Head Coach: Cory Carlson

This was the team’s first year ever competing in

Seniors: Brandon Drummond ’20, Lorenzo Garcia ’20, Matthew Querfeld ’20

the co-ed division. Other top accomplishments

Captains: Brandon Drummond ’20,

never had an All-State cheerleader prior to

Lorenzo Garcia ’20, Matthew Querfeld ’20

Kymani. Congratulations, NWC Cheerleaders!

include Kymani Campbell ’21 making both the All-Conference and All-State team. NWC has

GIRLS INDOOR TRACK Head Coach: Cory Carlson Senior: Kelci-Brooke Goodison ’20 Captains: Eleanor Barrett ’22, Kelci-Brooke Goodison ’20, Elizabeth LeBlanc ’22

CHEERLEADING Head Coach: Courtney Ramos Seniors: Gabriella Alexander ’20,

Denae Douglas ’20, Kateri Fitzsimons ’20 Captains: Gabriella Alexander ’20, Denae Douglas ’20, Kateri Fitzsimons ’20

 The Belly of the Beast cheers on the Lions into the State Tournament!

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ATHLETICS

NWC HEADS TO STATES For the first time in years Northwest Catholic sent three fall sports teams to their respective State Tournaments. Boys soccer, girls soccer, and field hockey entered the Class S State Tournaments last November.

The boys soccer team played a fierce game in the first round, losing 2-1 in overtime to Cromwell. With their best record in years and their first run at the State Tournament in five, NWC boys soccer, with a record of 6-7-4, had a lot to be proud of, including the news that their coach, Terry Phillips, a 20-year veteran coach at Northwest, was named CCC West Coach of the Year.

Girls soccer advanced to the second round after beating Bolton 8-0, and to the third after beating Portland 7-2.

In the Quarterfinals Northwest triumphed again, this time over Coginchaug. But in the Semifinals, Northwest met their match and lost a hard-fought game to Old Lyme.

The NWC Lions finished their season with a 11-6-3 record.

The NWC field hockey team advanced to the second round after beating New Fairfield 2-1, but lost in the Quarterfinals to

Immaculate High School in Danbury.

The Lions were proud of their 13-5 record.

Northwest Catholic football also enjoyed a stand-out season, celebrating their best record since 2014 with 6 wins, 4 losses.

Northwest Catholic celebrated a very successful fall sports season with a community potluck and recognition awards last November. Boys soccer, girls soccer, field hockey, football, cheerleading, and volleyball, the NWC team to have made

the greatest turnaround mid-season, gathered as a community to honor the seniors, thank the coaches, break bread, and celebrate the great tradition and spirit of athletics at NWC.

Thanks to the NWC Athletics Booster Club Northwest Catholic hosted another week of competitions UNDER THE LIGHTS! On Friday, September 20 the entire Northwest Catholic community, including alumni and children, were invited to the culminating event: FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS! The Lions faced Plainville on the football field, and the rowdy crowd cheered them on. There was music, food trucks, a NWC Spirit Store sale, s’mores, and much more. Thank you again to the NWC Booster Club and all who supported this spectacular event!

UNDER THE LIGHTS

 Alumnus Ryan Vaughn ’08 gave his children

front row seats at Friday Night Lights!

 The Pep Band gets the crowd going.  The Belly of the Beast UNDER THE LIGHTS!

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BOOSTER CLUB HOSTS TRIVIA NIGHT

FALL SPORTS AWARDS

 Senior Captains take the stage at Fall Sports Awards.

 Lorenzo Garcia ’20

 Evan Thompson ’20

NWC Provides Training for Student-Athletes Today, with 26 teams, 47 state championships, and 82% of its student body playing at least one sport, Northwest Catholic continues to be part of the Catholic high school tradition of top-notch athletics.

What’s different today in the land of high school sports is a deeper awareness of the roles of training and wellness for young athletes. Youth sports and their occasional rogue training practices, misinformation, and disregard for psychological health have left some young athletes sidelined.

Northwest Catholic is combating these trends with a carefully designed program to support the whole athlete. At NWC, off-season training regiments, strength and conditioning complements, nutrition education, and sports psychology sessions are helping the school’s athletes perform at their peak.

Exercise physiologist and strength and conditioning coach Emil Johnson and Northwest Catholic AD Ashley Mara ’08 team-up to provide expanded services for student-athletes.

Programs include off-season training regiments, strength and conditioning complements, nutrition education, and sports psychology sessions.

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Emil Johnson, exercise physiologist and strength and conditioning coach, has partnered with Northwest Catholic to offer services to round out an already robust athletics program. Johnson, now managing the Sports Performance Department for the GoodLife Fitness Program at Hartford Health Care, is an expert in strength and conditioning, nutrition, and sports psychology, according to NWC Athletic Director Ashley Mara ’08. And Mara is delighted to have Johnson and his staff on-ground at Northwest Catholic working with their student-athletes.

Under Mara’s supervision, Emil Johnson and HHC colleague Evan Gross, former Division I Sports Performance Coach at Army and Central Connecticut State University, are providing strength and conditioning training for both teams and individuals. They are also offering sports psychology sessions which guide athletes on goal setting, stress reduction, and performance strategies. In addition, Mara, Johnson, and Gross are offering sessions on nutrition for students through both advisory periods during the school day and at scheduled times after school. Mara, a former Division I athlete and conditioning coach, said, Johnson “understands the importance of wellness.” Mara continued, “He teaches our athletes tactics to get through obstacles.” She concluded, “I met Johnson when we were both working at Yale, and I know firsthand Johnson’s qualifications and success stories. NWC is lucky to have him working with our athletes.”

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ATHLETICS

COLLEGE SIGNINGS Northwest Catholic sent 14 student-athletes to play at the collegiate level.

John Lewis ’20

Ashley Harding ’20

Mitchell Lacrosse

Springfield Soccer

Brenden Bellinger ’20

Erin Carucci ’20

John Cashman ’20

Mu Kue ’20

Salve Regina Soccer

Springfield Basketball

John Carroll Soccer

Springfield Soccer

Lorenzo Garcia ’20

Brandon Waits ’20

Taylor Griffith ’20

Guy Ragland, Jr. ’20

Central Connecticut Track & Field

Elms Baseball

University of Saint Joseph Tennis

Cornell Basketball

Nora Staunton ’20

Evan Clark ’20

Allison Tessman ’20 headed

Nina Singer ’20 is playing

Endicott Lacrosse

St. Olaf Baseball

to Bryant University to play Division I softball. Pictured here with her parents Karen and Jim Tessman.

Division I soccer at Bryant University. Pictured here with her parents Heather and Brian Singer.

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2019 INDUCTEES TO THE

Athletic Hall of Fame

 Athletic Director Ashley Mara ’08, Christopher Bruff ’03, Sarah Griffin Casper ’96, Trevonn Coleman ’92, Amy Griffin Buzzell ’97, Kevin Francis Sarr ’79, Former NWC Principal Margaret R. Williamson, Former NWC President Christian J. Cashman.

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with his wife, MaryBeth, and together they have two grown children, Joseph and Maclean.

Kevin Francis Sarr ’79

Trevonn Coleman ’92

Kevin was a star football and baseball player at Northwest Catholic. He was the captain of both teams his senior year and was named MVP in baseball.

During the fall of his senior year, Kevin was named All-Conference, All-Courant, and All-State in football. After graduating from NWC, he went on to play football for Wesleyan University where he earned a Letter Award and was elected captain his senior year. Kevin was also a member of Wesleyan’s Old Methodist Rugby Club where he was also named captain two years in a row. After graduating from Wesleyan in 1983, Kevin continued his sports career playing for the Hartford Wanderers Rugby Football Club, then Merivale New Zealand Rugby Football Club, and eventually joined New Mexico Brujos Rugby Club where he played until 1997. Today Kevin is the President of Division 8 Resources. He lives in Westbrook

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Trevonn is a Northwest Catholic two-sport standout athlete. He played football and ran track during his career at NWC. Trevonn was named captain and MVP of both teams his senior year. He was named AllConference and All-Courant Honorable Mention for football in 1990 and 1991 and was named All-Conference in track for three years in a row. Trevonn was named All-State in 1991 for shot-put and javelin and in 1992 for shot-put, javelin, and 4×100.

After graduating from NWC, Trevonn went on to play football at Montgomery Junior College, then for Western Connecticut State University. After graduating from WCSU, Trevonn continued his sports career coaching. He helped coach both Bloomfield High School’s football team and track team to four State Championships. Trevonn moved on to help coach football at New Britain High School for four

years, leading the team to three State Championships. Trevonn has been on the football coaching staff at Northwest Catholic now for six years. Today Trevonn also works for Hands On Hartford and lives in South Windsor with his wife, Jennifer, and sons, Isaiah and Elias.

Sarah Griffin Casper ’96

Although Sarah was an incredible three-season athlete at Northwest Catholic, playing soccer, basketball, and running track, it was on the court where she really made a name for herself. Sarah was captain of her basketball team for three years, two of which she earned the title MVP. She won the Coach’s Award in 1995 and 1996 and was named All-Academic Basketball, All-Conference, and All-Courant. Sarah scored 1,000 points for the Indians and helped lead the team to the State Championship in 1996. NWC were Conference Champions 1993 and 1996 and played in State Championship Semi-finals or Finals every year of high school. Sarah went on to study

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at the University of Connecticut where she played intramural basketball. Her team won the East Coast Championship (Sarah was named MVP), and she and her teammates traveled to California to compete in the Nationals. After UConn, Sarah went on to earn a Master’s at the University of Rhode Island.

After finishing her studies, Sarah’s sports career continued as she coached basketball at E.O. Smith High School. Today she coaches for the Cromwell Rebels Travel Basketball and Cromwell Parks and Recreation. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and lives in Cromwell with her husband, Christopher, and children, Abigail and Samantha.

Amy Griffin Buzzell ’97

Amy was a remarkable three-sport athlete at Northwest Catholic.

She ran cross country, track, and played basketball. Amy was named captain and MVP of the cross country team for three years and earned the same titles for the basketball and track teams her senior year. Amy was named All-Conference in both

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cross country and basketball all four years and All-Conference for track for her last two years.

Amy was All-State and All-New England in cross country and won the 1996 Class SS Meet. The same year she placed 11th in the New England Championships.

As fast as she was on the cross country course, she was lighting up the basketball court, winning tournaments, such as the Bristol Eastern Christmas Tourney and Doc Hurley Classic. In 1997 she held the school and state threepoint record. Amy went on to run Division I cross country and track at Fordham University. She earned an academic and athletic scholarship to attend Fordham and always placed in the top five.

After college, Amy participated in local triathlons, ran the Hartford Half Marathon, and is currently a member of the Glastonbury River Runners. Today Amy works for Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center Foundation. She lives in

Glastonbury with her husband, Ryan, and children, Connor and Avery.

Christopher Bruff ’03

Christopher played both soccer and basketball at Northwest Catholic. He was named AllConference and All-Courant during his junior and senior years and was named both captain and MVP in his final season with the Indians. Chris was honored Best of the Best Boys Basketball 2003, All-State by the New Haven Register 2003, CIAC Class M All-State 2002, CIAC Class L All-State 2003, Northeast Conference Tournament MVP 2002, CIAC Class M Tournament MVP 2002, CIAC Class M State Champion 2000 and 2002, and CIAC Class L State Champion 2003. Chris went on to play D1 basketball at the University of Maine.

After graduating in 2007, Chris went on to earn a Master’s in Elementary Education at Lesley

University. Today Chris teaches 4th grade in Lexington, MA, coaches at Lexington High School, and runs the not-forprofit Books and Hoops, which partners literacy and basketball.

Chris lives in Andover, MA with his wife, Kimberly, and their children, Jack and Michaela.

Margaret R. Williamson

Margie has been awarded Honorary Member of the NWC Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame!

She is currently the principal at St. Mary’s School in Simsbury.

A former VP for Academics, Principal and Acting President at Northwest Catholic, Margie began her career teaching French.

Margie earned her BA and MA in French and her Sixth Year Degree in Educational Administration from the University of Connecticut. Margie has been very active in educational organizations and committees, such as the Connecticut Association of Catholic

Secondary School Presidents, Principals and Superintendents and the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. She is currently a member of the Commission of Independent Schools, a division of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NCEA Catholic Secondary Education Award and Archdiocesan Distinguished Catholic School Administrator Award. Last year, under her leadership, St. Mary’s School received the Blue-Ribbon Award for Excellence in Education from the US Department of Education. Margie is the mother of three Northwest Catholic graduates, Meghan Lawson ’03, Kate ’08, and Patrick ’99.

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our Fields  Nancy Gfeller ’22 was named to First Team

 Nolan Heffelfinger ’22 was named one of

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this years Junior Olympics National Qualifiers for Region 6!

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Deacon Gary Bockweg ’65 delivers a homily at St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill.

Bockweg ’65 is approaching his 15th anniversary as a deacon for the Archdiocese of Washington D.C. along with the 7th anniversary of his retirement from a long career with the Federal Judiciary. Gary serves the parish of St. Joseph’s on Capitol Hill, and volunteers at the Washington Tribunal where he represents petitioners and respondents in annulment cases.

He’s thankful for the variety of special service opportunities that are open to him as a deacon, like baptizing babies, presiding at weddings, offering communion in the local nursing home, and assisting at televised Masses for the house-bound broadcast from the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. He also remains involved in, and recommends we get involved in, many Churchbased activities, such as helping those in need, feeding the hungry, working for justice and peace, promoting the truth, and spreading the Good News.

 Gary

Gary began college in 1965, married in 1966, and began a career in IT at Travelers while attending evening college at the University of Hartford.

He eventually earned his BS from Northeastern University, then his JD from Boston University School of Law. He and his wife have four daughters and six grandchildren.

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Ed Boudreau ’69, DO, FAAEM is finishing 43 years of clinical practice as an emergency physician. He lives in Dublin, Ohio with his wife, Susan.

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Christie ’68, State Representative from Hartford, VT, was recently interviewed on NPR’s New England News Collaborative.

Reporter John Dankosky tweeted Christie’s answer to a question about whether he would be someone to help bring people back together. Christie’s answer: “That’s my job.”  Kevin

Creamer ’68 earned his BA in History and JD from Fordham University. He retired from UPS in 2005 and lives in Milton, GA.

 Jose

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 Louise Lagueux Concodello ’69

is in her 7th term on the Marlborough Board of Education in Marlborough, CT. After serving for 24 years, she was asked to serve another four-year term. She has also been an appointed member on the Parks & Recreation Commission for 24 years, the Nature Trails & Sidewalk Commission for 14 years, the Lake Advisory Commission for 14 years, and this year was appointed to the town’s Charter Revision Commission. Louise and her husband, Joe Concodello, a 1969 graduate of South Catholic High School, have been married for 47 years and have two sons and three granddaughters.

Bernard Dowd ’69 headed to Saint Michael’s College after Northwest Catholic, and earned a BA in English in 1973, then an MA in English from the University of Hartford in 1977. Bernard graduated from Quest’s Leadership Greater Hartford Program in 1991, and earned an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2010.

Today Bernard is retired and lives in Niantic, CT.

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A LIFE OF SERVICE: Dr. Elaine Blondin Mello ’65

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Bill Eckert ’65, Executive

Director of the Bay Area Homeless Services in Baytown, TX, with staff members Trish Maiden (L) and Shuntera Franklin (R) and the sock donation they received from Northwest Catholic. Last year alone the shelter served 350 men, women, children, and intact families for extended stays.

Susan Fay-Wilcox ’68 went

to Elizabeth Seton College after Northwest Catholic, then earned her BS and MA from the University of Connecticut. She later earned a second MA from the University of Louisville.

Susan is a consultant to school districts in the Louisville area for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with a focus on autism spectrum disorders. She has three children and eight grandchildren.

Molly Rees Gavin ’67

recently retired as President of Connecticut Community Care, an organization she served for over 44 years. Molly wrote, “I came to CCC’s predecessor, the SAIL (Strengthened Assistance for Independent Living) Project at the North Central Area Agency on Aging in 1976, a 26-year-old ‘kid’ wanting to change the world.

Thanks to decades of stellar board, corporator and staff dedication, we have, in fact, done just that. Every single night over 9,000 clients and their families are resting a little easier because CCC is in their lives.”

founded the non-profit social service and adoption agency, A Better World, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For two decades, A Better World has helped more than one hundred children find forever homes, and countless others along with their parents have been supported throughout the community. Ned and Kathy Collagen Wentworth, both of NWC’s Class of 1965, have partnered with A Better World, and NWC alumni Tom Hickey ’78 and Kevin Budds ’69 are on the Board of Directors along with alumni parent Kevin Dowd.

This year Elaine also performed the wedding ceremony for NWC alumnus and her former student, Michael Morgan ’79, to Trevor Reynolds. Elaine wrote, “What a thrill it was for me as Michael’s senior religion teacher and later friend to be part of his seaside wedding complete with a flashmob!”

A special message from a daughter Following in his father’s footsteps, my father, Timothy F. Kelliher Jr. ’65, became a Hartford firefighter.

My father married the love of his life, Jeanne Kelliher, in 1971, and they’ve been married 49 years. Together they had four children, all public servants. His son, Timothy P. Kelliher, became a fourth generation Hartford firefighter and recently retired as a lieutenant. His oldest daughter, Mary Beth, is a high school teacher, and his other two daughters are police officers — Kate recently finished her 20th year and is a detective in Newington, and I, Bridget, recently retired from the Wethersfield Police Department. My dad has two sons-in-law who are public servants as well, one also recently retired from the Hartford Fire Department as a lieutenant, and the other is a detective with the Newington Police Department.

My father retired in 1993 as a captain with the Hartford Fire Department, but his greatest legacy is the love and care he takes of his 10 grandchildren.

Barbara Roohr-Karas ’68

earned her BS in Early Childhood Education from Southern Connecticut State University and her MA in Special Education from Saint Joseph College, now the University of Saint Joseph. Barbara retired in 2013 after 38 years of teaching in Bloomfield. Today Barbara lives in Windsor and is enjoying traveling, family time, volunteering, and crafts.

My dad often reminisces about his days at Northwest and looks back fondly on his experiences there. Of course he was influenced by his family to lead a life of service, but we know that his education at Northwest Catholic and his relationships with his teachers led him to a life of service. My father raised us all as Catholics and can often be heard reciting Bible verses and parables to his children and grandchildren, always reminding us to see Christ in everyone.

Thanks for the opportunity to allow me to express the pride we have for my father and the opportunity for him to connect with his former classmates.

Linda Andrew Starr ’66 u

graduated from the University of Saint Joseph with a BA in Elementary Education. She taught first grade for several years after college, but spent most of her career working as an education writer and editor at Weekly Reader, McGraw Hill, and EducationWorld.com. Linda is now retired from editing, but she

directs several bridge games a week at her local duplicate bridge club in East Granby, CT. She’s an avid bridge player, a mediocre golfer, and a newly enthusiastic pickleball player. Linda has four wonderful children, three fabulous daughtersin-law, and eight (so far) beautiful grandchildren.

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2012. Michael and his wife of 43 years, Cynthia Chamberland, live in Edgartown, MA and have two sons and two grandsons.

Albin ’72 is the owner of Café Louise LLC in West Hartford, which she established 27 years ago. Café Louise caters and provides retail “good to go.” After graduating from Northwest Catholic, Louise earned a BA in French Literature from Trinity College in Hartford.  Louise

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Reflections on a Journalist’s Beginnings

by Trey Foerster ’70 Trey Foerster ’70 recently retired,

marking a career of 50 years in journalism and publishing.

He started his journalism journey at Northwest Catholic, where he was a staff member of Northwest Passages and The Writer, and co-founder of Organ with Dennis Danaher ’70 (Fran Frobel ’70 also worked on it.) Trey currently has a local news site, is President of the Rotary Club of Waupaca, avidly pursues photography, and is active in Citizens’ Climate Lobby.

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Christina Lutzen ’70 is

retired and living in Florida.

Bev Huntington ’71 was an executive assistant in Boston for 25 years, recently retired, moved back to West Hartford, and now works part-time in the Business Office at NWC. Gina Diana ’72 was a professional musician in Cape Cod for over 35 years, and now lives in Florida where she still performs.

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I wrote some stuff for Passages, can’t remember what. Sr. Jane was the moderator. I was also on the staff of The Writer.

Miss Dione was the moderator.

She was a great mentor for me, and the group of writers was very supportive.

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The most important foundation for journalism that I received at Northwest Catholic was instruction in philosophy and theology. These areas of study gave me my compass, so I always knew and understood where true North was. Existentialism was big then, and we read Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus as well as the documents of Vatican II. Thomas Merton’s The Seven Story Mountain was required reading.

I was active in the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and served a year as its president.

I worked for the Milwaukee Journal for eight years including as publisher of the Wisconsin State Farmer. I retired as Vice President of Publishing and Sales with JP Media LLC. It’s kind of amazing. I entered journalism during the Free Speech Movement and retired as the Cancel Speech Movement dawned. I always challenged authority in my career, something which started at Northwest Catholic. It served me well.

In the ’60s and ’70s, the Civil Rights Movement had me reading Dutchman and The Slave

by LeRoi Jones, Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon, Soul On Ice and Post-Prison Writings and Speeches by Eldridge Cleaver, Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale, and Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.

The protests of the ’60s and ’70s wanted to achieve racial assimilation and integration with equality of opportunity and justice. It sought not to use race as a divider of society.

At Northwest, I had a reputation as a “radical” and a “free thinker.”

The Writer 1970 staff photo taken under snow flurries. Trey Foerster is in the back right atop a snow pile. Members also included Reggie Steperd, Patty Quinn, Bill Curry, Margie Croteau, Joe Cezus, Nancy Hemond, Mary Chamberland, Joe Mendes, Tom Boscarino, Ellen Brassil, and Meg Lahey. Moderator Miss Dionne is in the second row far left.

I went west to Wisconsin, graduated from Marquette University in 1974 with a BA in Journalism, then north to a village of about 1,000 to take a position with a hobby publisher, Krause Publications.

Twelve years later, my wife, Mary, and I purchased two rural weekly newspapers, added other titles, and eventually sold the business to the Milwaukee Journal. During those 22 years,

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Both photos were submitted by Phil Janiszewski ’73 — his own contributions to The Writer during the Trey Foerster ’70 era.

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A 50-year Friendship

by Bev Casciano Huntington ’71

Guitar made by Phil Janiszewski ’73.  Phil

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is retired and making guitars in his basement workshop. He has made 29 electric guitars and 3 electric bass guitars.

Diane Lisevick ’71 graduated  Judie Saunders ’72, Gina Casciano Diana ’72, Bev Casciano

Huntington ’71, and Betty Ann Baumert Miller ’71.

After NWC, Betty Ann graduated from Mount Ida and eventually went on to the University of New Hampshire, earning a degree in Business.

She and her husband, Doug, settled in rural New Hampshire. Being advocates for the environment, they built an energy-efficient home and have aimed to live a sustainable life, including raising much of their own food. After 15 years in several administrative capacities at Dartmouth College, Betty Ann became a freelancer, supporting some amazing people working to better the world. Betty Ann still lives in New Hampshire and is now semi-retired. Her daughter, Emily, is a nurse in Vermont.

After NWC, Judie graduated from Bay Path College, then went on to Central Connecticut State University and earned a degree in Accounting. Working her way from CPA to Partner, most of her career has been at Filomeno & Co, a West Hartford firm that recently became part of Marcum LLP. In addition to her busy career, Judie has volunteered at the Noah Webster House, served as Co-Chair at Interval House, was President of the West Hartford Chamber of Commerce, and served on

the Board of the American Heart Association. She lives in West Hartford.

After NWC, Gina went to the Hartford Conservatory of Music and graduated with a degree in Classical Piano with a minor in Voice.

She moved to Cape Cod where she was a professional musician for over 35 years while raising a son, Anthony, and doing part-time work as a medical transcriber.

Gina now lives in Florida and continues to perform.

After NWC, Bev went to Tunxis Community College and earned her Associates.

She and her husband, Dana, moved to the Boston area where she took a job at Thomson Reuters and worked her way to be a C-Level Executive Assistant.

Recently retired, Bev moved back to West Hartford and now works part-time in NWC’s Business Office.

She has two sons who live in Boston.

The four of us grew up together in an idyllic cul-de-sac in West Hartford.

We all went to NWC, and although life took us in very different directions, we thankfully stay in touch and get together at least once a year.

from the University Connecticut in 1975 with a BA in French and Secondary Education. Diane went on to become a Vice President at Sentinel Financial Services Inc. and the Director of Alumni Relations at the New England Culinary Institute. Today she lives in Moretown, VT. Robert Leeds ’73 headed to

Providence College after NWC, earning his BA in 1977. He then earned an MS from Troy State University in 1985 before attending the Marine Corps War College.

Rob worked for the U.S. Navy from 1978 to 2005 when he retired as a Captain (O-6).

He was a Commanding Officer for the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron TWO (VQ-2) in Rota, Spain. Today he is a part-time baseball scout for the Pittsburgh Pirates and lives in Warrenton, VA.

Northwest Catholic, then to the US Navy Reserve where he became a Hospital Corpsman (Active Duty 1972 –74, Active Reserve 1974 –78). While in the Reserves, Jim earned his BA in Chemistry from Butler University, then went on to Indiana University School of Medicine for his MD. After a residency at the Methodist Hospital of Indiana and a fellowship at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Jim began a long career in medicine, working at institutions such as Diabetes and Endocrinology Associates, Eli Lilly & Company, Marian University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and today as a Medical Consultant at Bigfoot Biomedical in Milpitas, CA. Jim also served on the Board of Directors of the American Diabetes Association Indiana Affiliate, was a Diabetes Camp Medical Director, served on the Board of Directors of Indiana State JDRF, and today is the President-Elect of the JDRF. Jim is married with three children and three granddaughters, and he is an avid cyclist.

Mara ’72, Commissioner of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference/NCAA Division II, has recently been appointed as Commissioner of the Collegiate Sprint Football League, and ascended to 1st Vice President of the Division II Conference Commissioners Association.

Dan was recently published as a representative of the D2 CCA in the publication for the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

 Dan

Malone ’71 headed to Manhattanville College after

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An Artist in Ireland attorney Denise Dowdell, also a librarian in Rhode Island.

The four of them met for months to set the groundwork for CORI.

Ida D. McGhee ’74 and Governor Gina Raimondo of RI.  Ida D. McGhee ’74 was recently honored with the 2020 Library Champion Award from the Rhode Island Library Association.

This award is given to an individual who most successfully advances the cause of libraries on a local, regional, or statewide basis through work to support libraries and library awareness.

Ida accepted the award on behalf of the founders of Cornucopia of Rhode Island: A Library Community of Color (CORI) and its members. CORI was established when Ida retired from the Hartford Public Library as manager of the Library on Wheels Department and relocated from Connecticut to Rhode Island in the summer of 2004. She met with Dr. Michael Havener, the past dean of the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. He enlisted the help of Ida, Dr. Donna Gilton, a professor with the program, and

From left to right: Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress and CORI Founders: Attorney Denise Dowdell, Dr. Donna Gilton, and Ida D. McGhee ’74.

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In September 2005, CORI went live with a gathering at URI’s University Club to formally introduce the organization. CORI continues to recruit librarians of color to the profession, to mentor, to present diverse programs, to be of support to the library community, and to enhance diversity not only in Rhode Island, but also throughout the nation.

by Brian Palm ’76 To make ends meet while in college, I sold my art and worked at a number of jobs: builder’s laborer, house painter, gardener, factory worker in Boland’s Mills, film extra, newspaper and magazine illustrator, photographer, barman, farm laborer, van driver, and many others. I was well known in my local neighborhood as the American Artist, always painting beside the canal or taking photographs of the local characters. I became part of a community and immersed myself in it as a way to battle my homesickness and to give myself a sense of belonging.

I guess it worked because I’m still here more than 40 years later.

Ever since I was a kid I had fooled around on an old harmonica my mother bought me at a flea market. As the years went by, I taught myself to knock a tune or two out of it, and when I got to Dublin, I began to play with guitarists who taught me the fundamentals of music theory. About a year or two after I left college, I occasionally began to play music on the streets of Dublin to make my food and rent money, and on one particularly lean Christmas Eve, my pal and I went out to ‘busk’ in order to get a Christmas dinner of sausages, bread, and cheese.

My reputation as a harmonica player grew, and I was soon getting offers to play professionally. I played in dozens of bands until I met the singer Mary Stokes, who has been my partner ever since, and who I am proud to say I am happily married to.

Steve Theaker ’70 in his VW Beetle. Steve said, “The ’56 and ’57 oval window bugs don’t see much road time… no seat belts!”  Stephen

Theaker ’70

headed to the University of Connecticut after NWC, earning a BS in Accounting in 1974, then a JD from Western New England University’s School of Law in 1982. Steve is the father of two, a CPA, attorney, radio show host, antiques purveyor, entrepreneur, vintage oval VW Beetle enthusiast, music festival emcee, tinkerer, thespian, foodie, gardener, and wanderer betwixt Glastonbury, CT and Chester Springs, PA.

Brian Palm as a member of the NWC football team in 1973. “I played in the famous game against Xavier, still talked about as the greatest game in the history of West Hartford, CT!”

Brian Palm ’76 has been working as a professional artist since 1977 and as a professional musician since 1983. Brian attended the Hartford Art School of the University of Hartford and was an honors graduate of the National College of Art and Design of Dublin, Ireland. His work can be found at dukestreetgallery.ie and saatchiart.com/brianpalm.

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Brian Palm ’76 during a recent visit to Northwest Catholic. From left: Jane Leary, Brian Palm ’76, Christian J. Cashman, Patricia Walsh.

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Christopher also has an MA in Human Services Counseling Marriage and Family from Liberty University. Christopher was a Federal Law Enforcement Agent for the United States Department of Homeland Security, and a Specialized Skills and Tactics Instructor for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

He and his wife have six children, four girls and two boys, and he is a Disabled-Combat Veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

 Gisela

Romasanta Ortolaza ’81

from Hartford and her sister Gale Romasanta Dressler ’92 from Scottsdale, AZ stopped by to tour their alma mater.

Heather Attianese Popella ’89

Alix ’84 with his wife, Noelle, and daughters, Cate, Claire, and Caroline, at BeanZ & Co., a coffee café in Avon, CT that they co-founded in December 2018. BeanZ & Co.’s mission is to employ an inclusive workforce with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities, doing its part to reduce the 80% national unemployment rate for those with IDD. Tim and Noelle encourage other employers to follow their lead!

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development cultural workers through the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies. Before moving to Cambridge, Luis was a City Councilor in his hometown of Hartford from 2008 until 2012, serving as Minority Leader for the Working Families Party.

Julie Schiffer Climer ’89

earned her BS from the University of Maryland and an MA in Education Administration from Trinity College. Today she lives in Holliston, MA with her husband, Tom, and their four children, Brendan, Brian, Melanie, and Anita.

Patricia Keightley Dabney ’84

 Luis

Edgardo Cotto ’85

lives in Cambridge, MA with his wife, Mercedes, and their 12 year old son, Angel. His daughter, Alexandra, lives with her husband in Leicester, UK. Luis works for the Mass Cultural Council, managing their Cultural Districts Initiative. As Program Manager, he also co-chairs a national network of community

earned her BA in History from Providence College and an MA in Special Education with a teaching certificate from St. Joseph College, now the University of St. Joseph.

Patricia is a special education teacher and lives in West Hartford.

Christopher Demanski ’89

earned his Associates in Criminal Justice from Tunxis Community College and his BS in Business Management and Economics/ Investigations Management from the State University of New York.

 Wilder Leavitt ’82 studied aerospace engineering at Syracuse University, enrolled in USAF ROTC, and graduated with a BS as a commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, USAF. He served seven years of active duty as a USAF Aircraft/ Munitions Maintenance Officer, then earned an MS in Management from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, and became a management consultant with Coopers and Lybrand. Wilder earned his JD from the American University Washington College of Law, and worked as a patent attorney at Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, then as an environmental attorney at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. He has worked as a sole law practitioner since 2004, and has volunteered as an EMT/ Paramedic with the Bethesda Chevy Chase Rescue Squad since 2005.

Wilder lives with his wife, Mary, in Bethesda, MD.

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graduated from Boston College in 1993 with a BA in Psychology and Concentration in Management.

She worked as Agency Manager at Great American Insurance from 1993 to 1996, as Underwriter/ Marketing Manager at Chubb Insurance Companies from 1996 to 2003, and as Vice President/ Office Manager at Commercial Flooring Concepts, Inc. from 2003 to today. Heather lives in East Granby.

Twambly ’83 earned both his BA in International Studies and Political Science and MA in International Affairs from American University. He is currently a faculty instructor in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA.

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McKone IV ’96 (son of Tom McKone III ’68) was recently awarded 2020 North Florida PGA West Central Chapter Golf Professional of the Year.

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 Daniel Avery ’97, Northwest Catholic’s Director of Choral Studies and Computer Science teacher, recently created a brandnew C64 video game. Psytronik Software is producing the game, a prequel to the legendary classic release Miner 2049er. Produced with permission and support from the original game author Bill Hogue, the game reproduces the look and feel of the original one. Miner 2019er features 14 all-new levels along with ports of three Colecovision exclusive levels.

The game also introduces several new elements such as hidden items, bonus levels, and speed medals.

And you don’t need a Commodore 64 to play the game: you can easily download an emulator for any computer to play it!

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.”

Daniel Quinn ’91 University

of Connecticut ’95 BSME and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ’99 MSME graduate, Dan is now at Pratt & Whitney (Associate Director Engineer). He currently has a daughter – Emily Quinn ’22 and a son, Joseph Quinn ’24 at NWC.

Graham ’98, lives with her husband, Roger, and their daughter, Claire, in Stillwater, OK, where she was recently granted tenure in the History Department at Oklahoma State University.

Emily earned her BA in English Literature at Smith College in 2002, and an MA (2004) and PhD in Medieval History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 2009. Her research focuses on religious reform networks and political patronage in the late medieval Western Mediterranean.

She’s a regular presenter at international conferences in medieval studies.  Emily

 Jesse White ’97 and NWC Math Teacher Claudia Hart ’74 organized a group of Northwest alums who ran the Virtual Hartford Marathon in 2020.

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Sherwood ’94 is a publicist at the New York Public Library. Prior to this, he worked on the communications team at a policy think tank. Before moving to NYC in 2008, Rob spent several years in radio, including seven years at WTIC 1080 AM in CT. He was the afternoon show producer for Bruce Stevens and Colin McEnroe, Sportstalk producer for Joe D’Ambrosio, Kevin Nathan, and the late Arnold Dean, Saturday Morning Show producer for Stan Simpson, and a UConn Radio Network producer.

Robert graduated with his Associates from Mitchell College and his BA in Communications from the University of Cincinnati. Robert and his wife, Christine Lee, live in New York City.

 Robert

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Northwest Catholic’s First Exchange Student

by Ignacio Niveiro ’93

I haven’t been back to the States, but there is not a year where I don’t promise I will someday return and spend time there again. I live in Spain, and if I remember it correctly, I was the first exchange student ever at Northwest Catholic, or at least that was what I was told, and I am tempted to believe it because I was the popular attraction for many students who wanted to know things about Europe in general and Spain in particular. I remember being in the cafeteria surrounded by a group of sophomores and juniors who wanted to learn new things about my culture, and I also remember being told my accent was cute.

I attended NWC in 1993, studying my senior year there. I remember many of the people I met there and my time at NWC with fondness.

I am sure everything at Northwest Catholic is different now, but I have fond memories of the cafeteria, the chemistry lab, the teachers, and the students. I keep my signed copy of the NOWECA Yearbook and a football signed by many teammates.

If I hadn’t become a parent, I would have most likely visited the US by now.

The surroundings were as beautiful as nature can get. I remember Bloomfield well — we don’t have forests like those in Spain! When my kids are a bit older, I’ll return.

I want to see those forests again, and have an ice cream at Baskin & Robbins if it’s still there!

It’s interesting to note that I ended up making a living as a freelance EnglishSpanish translator, and that is partly thanks to the English I learned at Northwest!

So I am thankful for the year I spent at Northwest Catholic, the things I learned, the experiences I lived, and the fun I had. I remember there was a large Spanish speaking population there, among Puerto Ricans and people of Hispanic descent.

I learned a lot about new cultures and ethnicities, and I really loved it. I mingled with everyone, and everyone was great to me. I particularly remember with fondness going to some out-of-school activities that helped me become a better person, such as helping those in need in some Hartford youth centers. Many of them spoke Spanish, so it was fun to exchange words in European Spanish and American Spanish.

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Ignacio Niveiro ’93 is the proud father of two boys, ages 5 and 1, and has been working as an English-Spanish translator for the last 10 years, in part because of the English he learned while an exchange student at Northwest Catholic!

Today I live in Talavera de la Reina, Toledo, Spain, the same place where I have lived most of my life. I currently work as a translator, which allows me to spend a lot of time with my two sons, Pablo and Mateo, ages 5 and 1. I am spending my life with a beautiful woman named Beatriz whom I am lucky to have at my side.

When I returned to Spain, there was no social media, phone calls were expensive, and letters were slow and cumbersome, so it was difficult to stay in touch. But I do remember many people with fondness, although most might have forgotten me. I’d like to say hi to everybody I met during my year at Northwest Catholic. All of them made my life better. If someone wants to contact me or just say hello, I promise I’ll respond and be extremely pleased to! My email address is inive@yahoo.com.

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Alums Return for Accepted Students Night 2020 Devin Walsh ’06, Chris Bruff ’03, Emily Grandell ’16, and Caitlin O’Sullivan ’15 returned to their alma mater to talk with the accepted Class of 2024 and their families. The alums reminisced about their days at Northwest and explained what it means to be part of the Northwest Family.

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their television show, which will air on cable and streaming in Canada received her first feature film credit and New Zealand. as a VFX Production Manager for the Disney film, The One and Only “Sara Avery really helped me push Ivan. She’s been a Production my passion for theatre at NWC, Manager at Moving Picture and when I told her I wanted to Company in Montreal for over a “go to university for film, she put year, and is now the acting Central me in contact with her network Production Manager, overseeing to talk to people about that path. the production staff on all of their I told her that one day I was projects. Caitlin did not initially going to work with Mr. Spielberg. study VFX, but she sees the film My success is affirmation of industry moving toward the what being a Dramateur, having adoption of utilizing the artistry that love, foundation, and and innovative talent to push new support, meant to me, and what boundaries in storytelling. She is it developed and prepared me very proud to be in this industry to do with my career. Mama D here and now, and thankful for the (Sara Avery) was instrumental in opportunities, education, and growth helping me drive towards my goal. it has provided her. She continues That’s sappy, but it’s true.” to work on new, undisclosed projects with MPC, and in her spare time, she works with a non-profit arts collective in Montreal, Never Apart. In the past two years they’ve produced two documentaries and are wrapping up the 5th season of 4/5 Com mon Se nse Med 70% Ro ia tten Tom atoes 2.5/5 R olling S tone “This he artfelt ad aptation circus co is part medy, p art anim drama, a a l rights nd combina part escape cape r, a tion tha t should book's m attract th any fans, e as well a – Sandie s familie Angulo s.”

Chen Caitlin Gilbert ’05 recently

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Devin Walsh ’06

Emily Grandell ’16

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disorders, mindfulness, and life transitions. She is currently a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Reflections Counseling and Consulting Services, LLC in Wethersfield and lives in Newington, CT. Michelle and her husband welcomed a son last June. She wrote, “We are full of so much joy to see him grow and learn each day. He’s such a happy, curious, and fun little boy, and currently learning how to walk!

Keating McKeon ’08 defended

 Chris

Thomas Hayes ’01

has been working professionally as a TV, film, and stage actor since his time at Northwest Catholic and Berea College. He’s acted on shows such as Vampire Diaries and Teen Wolf, and he has also been working with Sesame Street as a puppeteer since 2015. Chris is the Muppet performer for Hoots the Owl, along with the occasional monsters, honkers, and chickens!

At the start of 2020, Sesame Street finished their 51st season, which will come out in November on HBO. Chris lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife, Greta, and their son.

his PhD in Classical Philology at Harvard University. He is currently a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s Department of the Classics, teaching two classes this fall.

He has recently had an article published in American Journal of Philology, entitled “Barbarians at the Gate: Herodotus, Bisotun, and a Persian Punishment in Egypt.”

He is proud that his years-long journey began here at Northwest in Mr. Swanson’s Latin class!

Prescott ’08 (left) and Jesse White ’97 reconnected

 Chris

Triompo Marais ’06

earned her BA in Psychology from Salve Regina University in 2010 and her MA in Marriage and Family Therapy from Central Connecticut State University in 2015. Michelle specializes in perinatal mood and anxiety

Danielle graduated from Fordham University in 2004, and has been working in casting unscripted television throughout her career.

She lives in Westchester, NY with her husband Bret and two children, Parker, age 7, and Reese, age 4, – her “proudest accomplishments!”

 Danielle

Gervais Puchir ’00

is the Executive Vice President of Casting & Talent at ITV America, and earned three back-to-back Emmys in 2018, 2019, and 2020

 Sarah

D’Addabbo Rocco ’06

earned her BS in Mathematics from Trinity College in 2010 and her JD from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2013. Today she is an attorney at Conway Stoughton LLC in Hartford and lives in Avon.

Justin Sider ’01 is currently

 Shaundricka

at Northwest Catholic.

 Michelle

for Outstanding Casting for a Reality Program for the Netflix hit Queer Eye. In addition to Queer Eye, Gervais’s casting credits include ABC’s Wife Swap, CBS’ Love Island, Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen and The Four, History’s Pawn Stars, Alone, and Forged in Fire, TLC’s Four Weddings, FYI’s Tiny House Nation, and others. She’s discovered talent for Fox, Netflix, CBS, OWN, History, A&E, HGTV, Discovery, MTV, and others.

Ranel ’03

Esq, MSW earned her BS in Organizational Communication from Southern Connecticut State University, her MSW from the University of Connecticut, and her JD from the North Carolina Central University School of Law. Today she is the Director of Student Policy and Title IX Coordinator at KIPP DC, a public charter school in the District of Columbia and the second largest school system in DC. It remains the highest performing PreK-12 public school in the District.

Shaundricka is also the PresidentElect of the J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association, Inc., which is a specialty bar association in Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties, Maryland with over 500 members.

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an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma.

He earned his BA in English and Philosophy from the University of Connecticut and his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia, then his PhD in English Literature from Yale University. Before accepting a position in the English Department at the University of Oklahoma, Justin was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He also worked as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University and as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University.

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Barnes ’16 is beginning her graduate work in Judaism and Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World at the University of Oxford.

Emma has also been awarded a Clarendon Scholarship, a full tuition scholarship to assist academically outstanding graduate students at the University of Oxford.

Elizabeth Conway Chatterjee ’11

Owen Eagan ’14 earned

graduated with a BA in Psychology from the Catholic University of America, and with an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Today Elizabeth is a Senior Digital Strategy Consultant at IBM in Boston, MA.

his BA in Government from Georgetown University, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in May 2018. His Senior Honors Thesis at Georgetown was awarded Honors with Distinction. He is currently a JD Candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center.

 Emma

 Alisha Collazo ’14 graduated with a BA in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross in 2018. She has earned her FINRA Certifications in Security Industry Essentials, Series 66 and Series 7, and today is a Financial Solutions Advisor at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, living in Windsor, CT.

 Rosalind

Gilbert ’10

graduated from High Point University with a degree in Strategic Communications and today works in digital marketing in Boston, MA.

 Lauren Bellizzi ’14 graduated from the Honors Program at the University of Connecticut with a degree in Diagnostic Genetic Sciences in 2018, then earned an MS in Health Care Genetics from UConn last summer. She works as a Molecular Technologist at Sema4 in NYC.

’17 and Jonathan Heiden ’20 in front of the

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Colliton ’16

graduated from Simmons University, magna cum laude, with a BSN degree in May 2020.

In June, she completed her NCLEX nursing boards, and is now a Registered Nurse licensed in Massachusetts. She works as an RN at East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.

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hydroponic garden they built in Haiti.

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Institute of Technology where he played Division 3 lacrosse.

When his season was cancelled in mid-March, his team was ranked 19th nationally in Division III Men’s Lacrosse. Connor was also honored as a Scholar All-American from the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

Herron ’16 graduated cum laude from Boston College in May 2020 with a BS in Psychology with a Biology Minor.

Abby is also a member of the Nu Rho Psi Honor Society.

 Abigail

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 Dr. Dionne May ’11 and Dr. Bob Moreau ’83, both

Allie Lamari ’11 graduated from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) in May 2019 with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree. She is now a second year Obstetrics/ Gynecology Resident in Ohio.

Allie is engaged to be married to a fellow LECOM medical school graduate, Dr. Joshua Longinow.

 Dr.

Murphy ’16 was awarded an Honorable Mention for 2020 Maverik Men’s Lacrosse Division III Media All-Americans

by Inside Lacrosse. Connor is a 2020 graduate of the Stevens

Kim Kleszczynski ’11 and Sarah Kosha ’15 discovered their

 Michael Laffin ’11 with his mother, Cathleen Fox Laffin ’77, and brother, Stephen Laffin ’16 at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia in August 2019. The Laffins gathered for Michael’s graduation as a tank commander from Marines Tank school.

Riley ’15 recently accepted a full time associate position at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, a Big 4 Accounting Firm, in Boston, MA. Elijah will finish his MBA in December 2020.

 Elijah

 Connor

World!

Northwest Catholic connection while working as Graduate Hall Directors for the University of Rhode Island as they both pursue their Masters Degrees in Human Development & Family Studies with concentrations in College Student Personnel.

Northwest alums and both dentists, at a conference on dentistry.

Katherine on left, Kristen on right.  Twins

Katherine Marti ’14 and Kristen Marti ’14 both

An outpouring of love at the Andrew Ohana Foundation Fundraiser in January 2020.

graduated in May 2020 from the University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy with Doctor of Pharmacy degrees. Katie is currently a PGY1 pharmacy resident at Baystate Medical Center, and Kristen is a PGY1 pharmacy resident at Hartford Hospital.

Andrew passed away from leukemia in 2018. Andrew’s brother Adam Sorrentino ’16 was joined by alums Bridget Murphy ’18, Connor Murphy ’16, Emily Grandell ’16, Abby Oostendorp ’16, Kerry Ferrell ’16, Alex Kamansky ’19, Declan Ferrell ’21, and Matthew Deneen ’21 along with many more NWC past and current students and their families for this special event.

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Curran Bennett ’04 and Patrick Bennett married in October in Denver, CO. Several NWC alums, ranging from 1965 to 2012, gathered for the wedding.

Dillon Meehan ’12, Michelle Bruyette Melander ’73, Kevin Meehan ’72, Kate Curran Hunter ’00, mother of the bride Lisa Meehan Curran ’71, Kelly Curran Bennett ’04, Megan Bonney ’04, Liz Ryan Glidden ’04, Russell Williams ’03 and Peter Curran ’65.

 Kelly

Chavarro-Casas ’06 and Rosa Fernandez Chavarro were married June 20, 2020, and the wedding was officiated by Deacon Rich Santos ’82, religion teacher at Northwest Catholic. Deacon Richard Santos ’82 (Officiant), Renee Roberts Santos ’81, Steve Lake ’06 (Best Man), Ramón Chávarro-Casas ’06 (Groom), Rosa Fernández (Bride), and Isabel Chávarro ’09 (Maid of Honor).

 Liam

Cronin ’07 and Julie Weaver Cronin and were married October 12, 2019 at St. Patrick St. Anthony Church in Hartford with a reception at Union Station.

In attendance: Jim Weaver ’68, Bill Keenan ’69, Christopher Knortz ’07, Margaret Malloy ’07, Siobhan Whitney ’07, Sarah Clark ’07, Taylor Knortz ’08, Daniel Martinez ’06, Molly Spolarich ’07, Noreen Weaver Shawcross ’65, Vin Kraft ’68, Terry Donovan ’68, Marg Lenge Weaver ’69, Sean Cronin ’88, Katy Cronin (NWC Teacher), Matthew Cronin ’81, Kerry Cronin ’83, Liam Cronin ’07, Julie Weaver (Cronin), Bob Barrett ’68, Liz Stumph Lankarge ’67, Joe Meny ’68, Al Lenge ’67, Tom Cullen ’68, Donna Dowd Cullen ’68, Lynn Grant Dempsey ’66, Kevin Dempsey ’66, Dick Tonino ’69, Madeline Cronin Ahmed ’05, and Katherine Dyson ’05.

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Frazier-Bowens ’09 and Allen Bowens were married February 7, 2020 in Columbia, SC. Janae graduated with her BA in Broadcast Journalism from Elon University and today is the Digital Director for Senator Tim Scott. She and her husband live in Arlington, VA.

 Janae

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Morgan ’79 was married to Trevor Reynolds on October 26, 2019 at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, CT.

 Michael

ings Vaughn ’06 and Alaina Tosatti Vaughn ’06 were married November 2, 2019. In attendance: Mike Bourdon ’07, Neville Graham ’06, Brittany Huffman Burrow ’09, Elise Tosatti ’04, Maria Carpenter Bertran ’04, Kate Masciocchi Scurlock ’06, Hope Vaughn ’15, Ashley Huffman Kelley ’06, Ryan Vaughn ’08, Tanner Vaughn ’12; Back Row: Tom Heslin ’06, Anthony Mascolo ’06, Peter Bourdon ’05, John Scurlock ’06, Devin Walsh ’06, Tyler Gualtieri ’06, Michael Miller ’06. Not pictured: Molly Grew Browne ’06.

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 JK

Williamson ’99 and Irene Lassman were married July 20, 2019 at St. Margaret Mary Church in South Windsor followed by a reception at Yard Goats Stadium in Hartford. In attendance: Back Row: Mark Albrecht ’98, Bryan Spinelli ’99 (groomsman), Chris Delphia ’99 (best man), Nancy Bannon ’73, Dan Luddy ’03 (groomsman), Patrick Skahill ’02 (groomsman), Middle Row: Margaret Williamson, Past President of NWC, Kathy Saunders Fitzgerald ’69, Kate Williamson ’08 (bridesmaid), Debbie George Albrecht ’99, Christine Saunders Hart ’76, Judi Saunders ’72, Loren Griffin Dickey ’99, Beth Casey Boyle ’96, Brian Avery ’02, Adam Gooley ’02, Katie Rose, past parent/Registrar, Alexandra Delphia Wittner ’02, Jennifer Montoney, CP/Dean of Students, Front Row: Irene Williamson (Bride), Meghan Williamson ’03 (bridesmaid), Patrick Williamson ’99 (groom).  Patrick

Sherwood ’94 and Christine Lee were married in Elizabeth Park in Hartford. The Best Man was Rick Pappalardo ’94.

 Robert

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babies Meara kiley cleckler Deuel Stephens

Ethan Larsen

 Meghan

Kiley Cleckler ’07

and her husband, Blake, welcomed their third child, Meara Kiley Cleckler on May 28, 2020.

Pictured with her brothers, Cason and Conan.

Adeline Griffin Tim Griffin ’76 is the proud grandfather to Adeline Griffin, born November 3, 2019 to his middle son, Tim, and his wife, Abby.

 Kevin Larsen ’02 and his wife, Nicole, gave birth to their second child on June 12, 2020.

Ethan joins big sister, Autumn. Welcome to the world, Ethan!

Luna Rose & Vera Wren Maisano

 Krystal Wiggins Stephens ’03 and her husband, Deuel, welcomed son, Deuel, in March 2020. Krystal works as an office manager for Howard Law LLP, and her husband Deuel works for Newark Public Schools and as a Head Coach of Deep End Aquatics Swim Club.

Jack Tracey

Graham Francis Kennedy  Adamo Maisano ’04 and his wife, Megan, welcomed identical twin girls, Luna Rose and Vera Wren, on June 5, 2019. “Hello, Instant Family!”

Oliver Michael Mangene  Deirdre

 Megan

Lemp Tracey ’04 and her husband

Matt welcomed a son, Jack.

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Graham Kennedy ’07

and husband, Shane, welcomed Graham Francis Kennedy on September 11, 2019. The Kennedys live in Norwell, MA where Deirdre is a special education teacher.

Ozark Mangene ’03 and her husband, Matt, welcomed their fourth child, Oliver Michael, on July 7, 2020.

 Jacquilynn

 Andrew

Velazquez ’05

and his wife Holly Fredrickson, welcomed their second daughter, Rosalie Elizabeth Velazquez, on August 16, 2019.

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CLASS OF 1989 CELEBRATES 30 YEARS!

ALUMS GATHER AT THE BOSTON RECEPTION! Alana Macchi ’08, Alison O’Connor ’08, Mr. Dick Callahan, Tito Gautier ’08, and Amanda Owens Perrotti ’08.

Back row: Francis Burnett, John Griffith, Derrill Tomlinson, Kirsten Longley, Kenya Butler, Bronzell Dinkens, Siegfried Lisischeff, Mike Couloute. Front row: Evelyn Roman, Jennifer Harper Keen, Mickey Meunier, Elizabeth Sgueglia Branconnier, Sharese Bowen, Paul Quinn, Stacy Asuncion McBride, and Jennifer Snyder.

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Alumni Return to NWC

Kirsten Longley, Mickey Meunier, Stacy Asuncion McBride, Jennifer Snyder and Jennifer Harper Keen.

Delroy Ross ’01, Kate Malloy ’11, Chris Prescott ’08, Sarah Gillespie ’13, and Hope Vaughn ’15.

Andrew Wendorff ’19, Elena Murphy ’19, Jacob Beaudin ’19, and Michael Stamm ’19.

Meghan Shea ’19, Clare Doyle ’19, and Hannah Dunlavey ’19.

CLASS OF 1999 CELEBRATES 20 YEARS! Chris Armetta ’14, Ana Colliton ’14, Owen Eagen ’14, Caroline Caleota ’14, Chris Gosselin ’14.

Stephanie Simpson ’02 Justin Mathew ’19, Matthew Shea ’19, James Sabia ’19, and Thomas Miller ’19.

Jeanna Lubozynski ’99, Mary Beth Slavin Reiss ’99, and Lissa Johnson ’99.

Aaron Belletsky ’18, Carter Horton ’18, Ethan Cheffer ’19, Matthew Bordiere ’19, and Patrick Walsh ’19.

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Kerri Lee Alexander ’10

Lexi Smolenski ’19 and Meghan O’Shea ’19

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MARTIN FOUNDATION

IMPACTS Northwest Catholic is deeply grateful for the generous support for our classroom technology projects that The John G. Martin Foundation provided over a three-year period. Classrooms have been upgraded with projection and audio equipment allowing every teacher to provide interactive instruction using a variety of technological hardware – iPads, Apple TVs, convertible tablet laptops – and educational software. Such an infrastructure allows for collaborative remote instruction with all students, regardless of physical location.

In addition, teachers are participating in professional development using interactive, instructional software.

Also, external DVD drives were purchased to support the required laptops for the successful implementation of the mobile classroom template. We have increased the diversity of subjects and the number of teachers using each classroom, making the mobile template and projection standard particularly critical to delivering a uniform instructional experience. We thank the Martin Foundation for making these critical updates possible.

 English Teacher Lori DeCrescenzo uses the new projector in her room made possible by the John G. Martin Foundation Grant.

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ADVANCEMENT NEWS Founders’ Circle Dinner

Thank you, Founders’ Circle “Moreover, God is able to make every grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you may have an abundance for every good work.” ~2 Corinthians 9:8 “Every Good Work” was our school theme last year, and we thank every one of our Founders’ Circle donors for being supporters of every good work of ours at Northwest Catholic. Their support made an immediate difference in the daily lives of our students.

The Northwest Catholic Founders’ Circle has broken historical giving records for the last two fiscal years. Their generosity has made it possible to increase scholarship and financial assistance by $250,000 for deserving families. Through both restricted and matching gifts, we have been able to execute a three-year school-wide technology infrastructure upgrade. Thanks to a major bequest from the Damuth Foundation, our endowment and cash reserves have grown. We thank all our donors for their transformational support.

Northwest Catholic High School continues to lead in our region as a Catholic school of excellence. We continue to send our graduates to the finest colleges and universities in the United States. Our graduates have distinguished themselves as public servants, leaders of industry, government and non-profit institutions.

As we approach our 60th Anniversary, we enter our next decade with passion, zeal, and a vision that we believe honors the spirit of our founders. Northwest Catholic’s NWC Vision 2021, a comprehensive strategic and master plan, is the boldest case statement in the school’s storied history. In order to maintain the transformational mission of Northwest Catholic, our plan seeks to insure, form, and enhance the future of Northwest Catholic and support the Catholic education of the whole person.

We hope and pray that the Founders of Northwest Catholic will continue to join us in this great call and invite others to the table.

An investment in Northwest Catholic not only supports our deserving young men and women, but it insures faith-filled leaders of integrity that will transform our world for decades to come.

We thank the members of the Founders’ Circle of Northwest Catholic.

 Dr. Brendan Fox and his daughter Ellen Fox Spalluto ’77 at the

 2016 Grace Academy graduate and Northwest Catholic graduate of

Annual Founders’ Circle Dinner.

the Class of 2020, Mu Kue, addresses members of the Founders’ Circle.

 Social Studies Teacher Joseph Ohlheiser ’05 was presented the

 Tajauhn Reid ’21, a 2017 Covenant Prep graduate, discusses the value

Dr. Michael S. Griffin Teaching Chair Award at the Founders’ Circle Dinner.

Pictured with his brother Nicholas ’05 and parents, Barbara and Patrick.

of a Northwest Catholic education.

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The Excellence in Teaching Award alternates between the Rev. Henry Frascadore Award and the Dr. Michael S. Griffin Award.

Previous recipients of the Rev. Henry Frascadore Award are: 1998

Claudia Hart ’78

2000

John Mirabello

2002

Jim Shugrue

2004

Patti Juda

2006

Joyce O’Rourke

2008

Kristina Gillespie

2010

Nita Vitaliano

2012

Deborah Metzler

2014

Helga Phillips

2016

Timothy Crowley

2018

Betsy Quinn

K 10Winners Raffle !

Congratulations to the 2019 $10K Raffle!

Northwest Catholic Grandparent Elizabeth Tysh holds her $10,000 check!

Previous recipients of the Dr. Michael S. Griffin Award are: 2007

Ron Swanson

2009

Ana Barrett

2011

Elizabeth Lynch McCarthy ’94

2013

Beth Casey Boyle ’96

2015

Joan Keating-McKeon

2017

William Tressler

2019

Joseph Ohlheiser ’05

FIRST PRIZE | $10,000 Elizabeth Tysh, NWC Grandparent

SECOND PRIZE | $2,500 Loretta Martin, Former Office Manager Peter Martin's wife

THIRD PRIZE | $1,000 Karen Russo, NWC Parent Our sincere thanks to the $10K Raffle Committee, Committee Chair Mary Clark, and all who supported the raffle. All proceeds of the raffle support the educational and financial aid programs that distinguish Northwest Catholic.

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ADVANCEMENT NEWS Tribute to Paul Reardon

A Tribute to Paul Reardon

by Bob Moreau ’85

“A genuine and passionate man, an amazing mentor, and a class-act.”

 Current and former Northwest Catholic faculty and staff

gathered during the installation of the Paul A. Reardon Bench.

These are common examples of what many of my classmates would say when asked to describe Mr. Paul Reardon.

My experiences began during my sophomore year at Northwest Catholic, as my older sisters both recommended I take his English literature course. This class was, by far, my favorite during my four years at Northwest.

I especially enjoyed Mr. Reardon’s animated but eloquent way of reading a poem or short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. I remember his reading of The Raven, which ultimately hooked me on Poe’s work resulting in my purchasing many of this author's work during that year. Mr. Reardon's passion for teaching was seen daily during these lessons, and I believe his enthusiasm gave me a new perspective and appreciation for much of the literature we studied.

Since my family lived less than two miles from the Reardon's home, he would offer to drive me home on occasion. Driving in the front seat of his beloved mid-1970s Volkswagon Beetle was a treat. He would also listen to my perspective on life as well as my initial plans for a career (dentistry) and encourage me to pursue these goals no matter what hurdles stand in my way. He heard excitement in my voice and I still remember to this day his statement: “I can tell you will become a great dentist some day.”

 Ms. Jane Reardon, Paul’s widow, and their daughter

Elizabeth Reardon ’92 were overcome with emotion during Ms. Joan Keating-McKeon’s tribute.

I’m fortunate to still be able to speak with his family and share many of the memories involving Mr. Reardon I had while at NWC. I was elated when I heard about the “Reardon Bench,” which was placed just outside his classroom windows on the school's front lawn. The dedication of this seat could not have gone to a more deserving, caring individual. It's almost ironic, since I cannot remember any time during class or during 3rd year homeroom that I saw him sit down!

I truly believe that we all meet people throughout our lives that help make a difference by their actions, words of wisdom, etc. For me, and plenty of my classmates, Mr. Reardon was one of those people.

There will always be a special place in my heart for the Reardon family for sharing this kind man for the many years of teaching and mentoring at our high school.

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 Mr. Reardon was a beloved English teacher at

Northwest Catholic. He taught English for 36 years, retired from NWC in 2003, and passed away in 2009.

Last fall this bench was placed in his honor outside his classroom windows.

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Celebrate Northwest!

During this important annual fundraising event, old and new friends gathered for an exciting evening of fellowship.

On this special February evening, Northwest Catholic was transformed into a variety of venues — a wine bar, a dessert café, and a silent and live auction room. Author, Northwest Catholic Parent, and Auctioneer Steve Rushin delighted the audience, helping to drive up bids, all for Northwest Catholic students.

South Catholic Continues Its Traditions!

Northwest Catholic is pleased to honor the legacy of South Catholic High School and welcomes its loyal community to gather at 29 Wampanoag Drive for an annual celebration. At last year’s celebration, the Northwest Catholic Big Band provided the entertainment. NWC and former SCHS faculty member Fran Laffin (SCHS ‘70) welcomes your questions and can be reached at flaffin@nwcath.org or 860-236-4221 x160.

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Music Scholarship Endowed at NWC with $150,000 Gift Last January Northwest Catholic endowed their longstanding Damuth Music Scholarship fund with a generous gift of $150,000 from the Dr. R. Lee Damuth and Adeline J. Damuth Foundation.

Since 2014, incoming freshmen who are both stellar students and stand-out musicians have had the opportunity to win a Damuth Music Scholarship. Each year approximately five freshmen are granted the $2,000 per year scholarship for all four years they attend Northwest Catholic.

Those who receive the scholarship have already shown outstanding dedication to music in addition to academic success. To continue to receive the yearly scholarship,

they must maintain an A average in an honors-level ensemble class and maintain an overall 3.0 GPA. Recipients also must play in a jazz group (instrument-dependent) and take a music theory class during their high school career. Northwest Catholic’s promise to educate the whole person includes a top-of-class fine and performing arts curriculum along with extensive co-curricular arts opportunities.

Northwest Catholic is grateful for this generous gift of $150,000 from the Dr. R. Lee and Adeline J. Damuth Foundation, which will continue to give access to deserving students and strengthen the outstanding music program at the school.

NORTHWEST CATHOLIC ALUMNA NAMED

New Director of Advancement Northwest Catholic was pleased to announce that Ms. Beth Casey Boyle ’96 is the school’s new Director of Advancement.

After a comprehensive, national search, the Advancement Search Committee comprised of current board members, school administration, and alumni unanimously selected Ms. Boyle to become the school’s new Director of Advancement.

Ms. Boyle began her career at Northwest Catholic in 2005 as the Director of Technology. In 2017, Boyle was appointed Director of Alumni LEADS, a new initiative that combined the school’s existing leadership program with alumni outreach and mentorship. A year later Boyle transitioned full time to the Advancement Office and became the school’s first Director of Alumni.

 Ms. Beth Casey Boyle ’96 is Northwest

Catholic’s Director of Advancement.

As a graduate of Northwest Catholic, Boyle enjoys a long history with the school. As a scholar athlete and graduate of NWC’s signature HILL Program, Boyle has travelled internationally with many students and has spearheaded a new HILL 2.0 initiative to expand immersion learning through HILL alumni outreach. She has already connected with thousands of fellow graduates in her various roles leading to this appointment, and she has collaborated with parents, teachers, and students over the past 15 years. Her connections to the NWC community are deep and meaningful.

After executing several new alumni initiatives at Northwest Catholic and reinvigorating the school’s alumni network, it is clear that she is the right person to lead the Advancement Office into the new decade, which will include the school’s 60th anniversary and execution of a newly minted NWC Vision 2021 Strategic and Master Plan.

Former NWC President Christian J. Cashman had this to say regarding Boyle’s appointment: “With faith, humility, determination, and good will, Boyle has worked on so many strategic projects and with countless constituents at Northwest Catholic. She is a warm and welcoming representative of the school who gives of herself and is wholly committed to the NWC mission. I am confident that Beth is exactly the sort of leader and ambassador Northwest Catholic needs in this next phase of our development. Beth’s energy, focus, professionalism, and tenacity will allow her to clearly articulate the value proposition of Northwest Catholic to the wider community. I know the NWC family will enthusiastically embrace Beth Boyle in this vital role!”

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FACS Recipients Show their Gratitude The Foundation for the Advancement of Catholic Schools awards deserving Northwest Catholic students essential tuition assistance every year.

“Northwest Catholic is not only my school: it’s a place I like to call my second home.”

Eh K’lu ’23

Emily ’21

“This scholarship has given me the opportunity to attend a great college preparatory school, and it has shown me that my future is very bright.”

Jehyvic ’22

“I am so thankful that I have been provided with the chance to receive an education like this.”

Miranda ’23

“FACS has given me opportunities that not everyone will receive.

It is a blessing.”

“Religion, academics, and extracurriculars at NWC helped define me.

All of these areas help people of all backgrounds and ethnicities develop as people with morals, who are self-sufficient students who will become successful adults.”

Dominick ’20

“The diversity at Northwest has taught me that everyone has different backgrounds but ultimately we are all children of God.” Julia ’22

“Going to Northwest Catholic has deepened my faith and helped me to grow with God.” Sam ’23

ANNUAL

GRANDPARENTS DAY Northwest Catholic’s Annual Grandparents Day looked very different last spring. Because of the pandemic, grandparents across the country tuned in from home to watch the special Mass held in their honor.

 Joan Polking, grandmother of Avery Polking ’22 and Reese Polking ’23.

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ADVANCEMENT NEWS You Decide

You Decide Make a gift to a fund that is special to you.

MORE WAYS TO GIVE

THE FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE AND GIFT CLUBS The Founders’ Circle is made up of donors who display exceptional interest in the advancement of NWC by virtue of their gifts of $1,000 or more.

Their generosity serves as an inspiration.

Every year members of the Founders’ Circle are invited to a special dinner to thank them for their support of NWC.

In addition to sending a check or donating online, you may give in the following ways:

• United Way • Securities and Mutual Funds • Bequest by Will or Trust • Life Income Gift • Real and Personal Property • Matching Gifts

Founders’ Circle Gift Clubs • Legacy Society $100,000+ • Presidents’ Society $50,000 - $99,999 • Rev. Frascadore Society $25,000 - $49,999 • Rev. Colton Society $10,000 - $24,999 • Archbishop’s Society $5,000 - $9,999 • Green & White Society $2,500 -$4,999 • Dominican Order Society $1,000 - $2,499

Make your next gift at northwestcatholic.org/giveonline.

NWC community gives

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to the annual fund!

In 1958 the Archdiocese of Hartford purchased 30 acres of land on Wampanoag Drive, West Hartford wit an eye to future development. Two years later the Most Rev. Henry J. O’Brien, D.D., Archbishop of Hartford ADVANCEMENT NEWS announced that a high school would be built on this tract of land to serve the students in the surroundin parishes. On September 24, 1961, the Most Rev. John F. Hackett, D.D., officiated at the formal dedication o Northwest Catholic High School. Eight members of the order of Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Spring were among the first faculty. The first class graduated in June 1965. The Rev. Bradford Colton was principa from 1961-68 and guided the school during its founding years. He was succeeded by Rev. William F. O’Keef in 1968 and Sr. Doris Regan, O.P., in 1977. In 1985 Rev. Henry C. Frascadore was named the first president o Northwest Catholic. Dr. Michael S. Griffin, Mrs. Margaret Williamson, Mr. Matthew Fitzsimons, and Mr. Davi C. Eustis, Jr. have led the charge since then. In 2017 Christian J. Cashman was appointed President and Hea 50TH REUNION of School. The shield of Northwest Catholic features a torch (an image of enlightenment and knowledge Saturday, June 12, 2021 and a cross (representing our Catholic identity and spiritual mission), superimposed upon an open book — Wampanoag Country Club symbol of education and learning. This shield, which has its roots in the shield of the Dominican Sisters of S Mary of the Springs, captures the stability, strength and discernment that are the hallmarks of the academi and spiritual mission of Northwest Catholic High School. The light of God’s help directs our study so that w recognize truth as it really is, in His light.

In 1958 the Archdiocese of Hartford purchased 30 acres of land on Wampanoag Drive, West Hartford wit 50TH REUNION an eye to future development. Two years later the Most Rev. Henry J. O’Brien, D.D., Archbishop of Hartford announced that a high school would be built onSeptember this tract of to serve the students in the surroundin Saturday, 18,land 2021 Wampanoag Club parishes. On September 24, 1961, the Most Rev. JohnCountry F. Hackett, D.D., officiated at the formal dedication o Northwest Catholic High School. Eight members of the order of Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Spring were among the first faculty. The first class graduated in June 1965. The Rev. Bradford Colton was principa from 1961-68 and guided the school during its founding years. He was succeeded by Rev. William F. O’Keef in 1968 and Sr. Doris Regan, O.P., in 1977. In 1985 Rev. Henry C. Frascadore was named the first president o Northwest Catholic. Dr. Michael S. Griffin, Mrs. Margaret Williamson, Mr. Matthew Fitzsimons, and Mr. Davi C. Eustis, Jr. have led the charge since then. In 2017 Christian J. Cashman was appointed President and Hea of School. The shield of Northwest Catholic features a torch (an image of enlightenment and knowledge and a cross (representing Catholic identity and spiritual upon an open book — Mrs. Joyce O’Rourke,our Director of School Counseling, and mission), Mrs. Betsysuperimposed Quinn, School Counselor, together dedicated years of service to which Northwest Catholic before retiring June.

Please join symbol of education and 70 learning.

This shield, has its roots in the shield ofin the Dominican Sisters of S usthe in thanking O'Rourke Mrs. Quinn for their incredible service Mary of Springs,Mrs. captures the and stability, strength and discernment that to areNWC. the hallmarks of the academi and spiritual mission of Northwest Catholic High School. The light of God’s help directs our study so that w recognize truth as it really is, in His light.

Upcoming Reunions The Class of 1970

The Class of 1971

25+ Years of Service

Joyce O’Rourke began her career at NWC in 1976 as a PE teacher and girls basketball coach. She served in both capacities before assuming the role of Director of School Counseling. She is a respected member of the Founders’ Circle and was the recipient of the Fr. Henry Frascadore Teaching Chair Award in 2006. She is also a proud alumni parent of son Daniel ’01 and Timothy ’03. We are deeply grateful to Mrs. O’Rourke for her faithful leadership, expertise, compassion, and NWC spirit.

Mrs. Betsy Quinn began at NWC as an English teacher in 1994 and later served as a School Counselor. In her 26 years of service to NWC, Mrs. Quinn always put students first and helped everyone in her midst see what truly matters. Mrs. Quinn was the recipient of the Fr. Henry Frascadore Teaching Chair Award in 2018 and is the proud alumni parent of John ’98 and Jennie ’03.

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Leaders: Northwest Students, Teachers, Parents, and Alumni Current N WC Paren t Steve Rushin was the auctioneer at las Steve Rushin is the t year’s Celebrate No author of the guide rthwest! , Pool Cool; the trave Journey Into the Soul logue, Road Swing: of America’s Sports; On e Fan’s th e essay collection, Th the novel, The Pint e Caddie Was a Reind Man; the who-know eer ; s-w hat-kind-of-book, Th of Baseball as Told Th e 34-Ton Bat: The Sto rough Bobbleheads, ry Cr acker Jacks, Jockstrap Other Strange and Un s, Eye Black, and 37 forgettable Objects; 5 and the memoirs, Sti Nights in White Ca ng-Ray Af ternoons an stle. d

Daniel Murphy ’05 graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2009 and earned his MA in Journalism from Northwestern University in 2011. He worked as a reporter in Maryland, Hawaii, Indiana and Michigan and currently works for ESPN’s investigative reporting team covering offthe-field issues in the sports world. Dan co-authored his first book with John Barr last year. Start by Believing tells the story of the brave women who finally stopped former Olympic doctor Larry Nassar and exposed the system that enabled him to become one of the sports world’s most notorious criminals.

Dan lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Meredith, and his dog, Miles Davis.

dership. She was embodied ser vant lea o wh r yea t las a ior others. She brought son ’20 was a sen Kelci-Brooke Goodi , learned, and grew all while helping and serving ul, aware of herself reflected ight, thoughtf a NWC student who in students her age. Br nd fou en oft t s always mindful of no is t y tha her, Kelci-Brooke wa to nt rta wisdom and intensit po im is at s that challenged aid to stand up for wh reat last year on theme ret e on and others, and unafr n tha re mo ng with und her. She spoke at nesty and openness alo the needs of those aro comfortable. Her ho get to and her er ed ord ne in in le se ab mfort compassion for tho at gre r students to get unco he d ate str ser vice initiatives illu her many community nt leadership. commitment to ser va

Claudia Hart ’78 has been a servant leader as a teacher at Northwest Catholic for 33 years – 46 years of servant leadership if you count all the way back to her freshman year! This list of Claudia’s gifts to NWC is incomplete but provides a sample of the kind of leader she is. Claudia is currently the Chair of the Math Department, co-moderator of the Math Team, advisor to Global Awareness, organizer of the NWC Alumni Hartford Marathon Team, leader of Manna Meals, champion of the Cheer Fund, and participates in many other volunteer activities at school and in her community. Claudia is the first person to respond whenever anyone needs anything. She is a faculty member who exemplifies servant leadership.

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In 1958 the Archdiocese of Hartford purchased 30 acres of land on Wampanoag Drive, West Hartford with an eye to future development. Two years later the Most Rev. Henry J. O’Brien, D.D., Archbishop of Hartford, announced that a high school would be built on this tract of land to serve the students in the surrounding parishes. On September 24, 1961, the Most Rev. John F. Hackett, D.D., officiated at the formal dedication of Northwest Catholic High School. Eight members of the order of Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs were among the first faculty. The first class graduated in June 1965. The Rev. Bradford Colton was principal from 1961-68 and guided the school during its founding years. He was succeeded by Rev. William F. O’Keefe in 1968 and Sr. Doris Regan, O.P., in 1977. In 1985 Rev. Henry C. Frascadore was named the first president of Northwest Catholic. Dr. Michael S. Griffin, Mrs. Margaret Williamson, Mr. Matthew Fitzsimons, and Mr. David C. Eustis, Jr. have led the charge since then. In 2017 Christian J. Cashman was appointed President and Head of School. The shield of Northwest Catholic features a torch (an image of enlightenment and knowledge) and a cross (representing our Catholic identity and spiritual mission), superimposed upon an open book — a symbol of education and learning. This shield, which has its roots in the shield of the Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs, captures the stability, strength and discernment that are the hallmarks of the academic and spiritual mission of Northwest Catholic High School. The light of God’s help directs our study so that we recognize truth as it really is, in His light.

In Memoriam

Dr. Richard Fairbrother ’70

William F. Baker, Jr.

William F. Baker, Jr., former staff member of the Northwest Catholic Athletic Department; father of Kevin Baker ’88.

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Jack Phelan (John J.) ’72

R. Nelson “Oz” Griebel

Dr. Richard Fairbrother ’70, member of the Northwest Catholic Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame; brother of John Fairbrother ’67; brother-in-law to Kathleen Curry ’75.

R. Nelson “Oz” Griebel, former NWC board member and board chair, father of Chris Griebel ’03, Paul Griebel ’05, and Stephanie Griebel ’08.

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Jack Phelan (John J.) ’72, member of the Northwest Catholic Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame; brother of the late Kenneth Phelan ’69.

IN MEMORIAM

ALUMNI Ryan Attianese ’92, brother of Aaron Attianese ’88, Heather Attianese Popella ’89, and Leanne Attianese ’91; uncle of Taylor Popella ’21 and Brooke Popella ’23.

Nicole Betancourt ’98, sister of Adam Betancourt ’02.

Marcia Milligan Bezrutczyk ’70, sister of Susan Milligan Szymaszek ’71, Donald Milligan ’77, Mark Milligan ’81, and Laurie Milligan O’Brien ’87.

John James Bond ’65, husband of Monica Calluzzo Bond ’65.

Eric “Rick” Bourbeau ’80, brother of Marc Bourbeau ’83 and Denise Bourbeau MacKinnon ’86.

Sandra Marie Brooks ’80, sister of Neville Brooks ’78 and Sharon Brooks ’83.

Joseph Michael Emswiler ’65, brother of Mary Emswiler ’68 and Barry Emswiler ’71.

Dr. Richard Fairbrother ’70, member of the Northwest Catholic Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame; brother of John Fairbrother ’67; brother-in-law to Kathleen Curry ’75.

Judith Folia ’77, sister of Marybeth Folia ’75, Carl Folia ’79, Patty Folia Carnright ’81, and Scott Folia ’83.

John Michael Gallagher, member of the Class of ’70, husband of Gay Tyler Gallagher ’70; father of Christopher Gallagher, former NWC staff member.

Michael J. Molloy ’73, brother of Randy Molloy ’65, Patricia Molloy Teich ’70, and Mark Molloy ’77; brother-in-law of Jean Marie Donnelly Molloy ’78; uncle of Maura Riley ’85, Dan Riley ’86, Christopher Molloy ’95, Jennifer Molloy Dinardo ’98, Margaret Molloy ’07, and Katherine Molloy ’11.

Robert J. Mulready ’65.

Jack Phelan (John J.) ’72, member of the Northwest Catholic Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame; brother of the late Kenneth Phelan ’69.

Anne C. Pickering Power ’79, sister of Mary Pickering ’77, Nora Pickering Dlugos ’80, and Robert Pickering ’84.

Daniel J. Schaal ’69, brother of Joyce Schaal Miller ’67.

Sheila (McMahon) Verre ’76, sister of Dennis McMahon ’74, Thomas McMahon ’75, and Eileen McMahon Peterson ’81.

CURRENT & ALUMNI FRIENDS & FAMILY

Robert John Colliton, grandfather of Ana Colliton ’14, Christina Colliton ’16, and Andrew Colliton ’20.

Mathilde Wadelton Connal, grandmother of Caroline Connal ’12, Alexander Connal ’14, Luke Connal ’19, and Madeline Connal, member of the Class of ’21.

Robert F. Connelly, Jr., brother of Laura Connelly Allen ’65.

William T. Connors, Jr., “Bill”, father of Daniel Connors ’79, Kathleen Connors O’Brien ’81, and Anne Connors Catillo ’84.

Christopher Ralph Cote, uncle of Madison Cote ’19 and Alina Cote ’23.

Tim Cronin, father of Kerry Cronin ’83 and Sean Cronin ’90; grandfather of Madeline Cronin ’05 and Liam Cronin ’07.

Bernard J. Daily, grandfather of Jack Daily ’21.

Thelma Pauline Dalene, great-grandmother of Tyler Dalene ’22.

Bronius Aleksandravicius, father of Paul Aleksandravicius ’78.

Elaine Kilty Dalton, mother of Kathleen Dalton ’77, Brian Dalton ’82, Michael Dalton ’85, and Jennifer Dalton Antonia ’86.

Chester Augustowski, father of David Augustowski ’05 and Jeffrey Augustowski ’16.

Frederick Dannhauser, father-in-law of Missy Conlon Dannhauser ’80.

Vivian Countryman Bailey, mother of Lawrence Bailey ’85 and Robert Bailey ’87.

Rita Marie (Picard) Desjardins, mother of James Desjardins ’73, Terry Desjardins Cobb ’75, Irene Desjardins Galligan ’78, and Diane Desjardins’83; mother-in-law of Richard Cobb ’75.

Christopher James Baldwin, uncle of Jordan Baldwin ’19 and Jenelle Baldwin ’20; brother-inlaw of Natasha Alexander Baldwin ’90.

Armand E. Desmarais, grandfather of Nicholas Desmarais ’06, Gregory Desmarais ’08, and Emily Desmarais ’12; father-in-law of Denise Bouvier Desmarais ’77.

Kathleen Marie “Kathy”Gorman ’66, sister of James Gorman ’72; sister-in-law of Barbara Desjardins Gorman ’72.

James Edward Baldwin, grandfather of Jordan Baldwin ’19 and Jenelle Baldwin ’20; father-inlaw of Natasha Alexander Baldwin ’90.

Margaret Lawton Harveston ’66, sister of Philip Lawton ’65; aunt of Philip Lawton ’93 and Elizabeth Lawton Bartels ’97.

Dr. John V. Bassano, father of John Bassano ’79, Cathy Bassano Pearce ’80, and Matthew Bassano ’83.

Leonard J. Lefevre ’66, brother of Donna Lefevre Bailey-Gates ’69; brother-in-law of Christopher Bailey-Gates ’69.

Sheila Beneski, mother of Timothy Beneski ’83 and the late Peter Beneski ’86.

Thomas Desmarais, husband of Denise Bouvier Desmarais ’77; father of Nicholas Desmarais ’06, Gregory Desmarais ’08, and Emily Desmarais ’12; brother-in-law of Valerie Bouvier Sabella ’75 and Robert Bouvier ’81.

Jacqueline Marie Benson, mother of Kelsey Benson Fitzsimmons ’00 and the late Kyle Benson ’01.

Philomena “Phil” (Legge) Discenza, grandmother of Francesca Discenza ’19 and Luke Discenza ’21.

Dennis L. Bracci, grandfather of Colin Laing ’15 and Victoria Laing ’22.

James (Jim) R. Dumont, husband of Melanie Wentworth Dumont ’75.

George Camp, grandfather of George Camp ’18.

Yolande P. Dumont, mother of Suzanne Dumont Navin ’78, Pete Dumont ’87, and the late Michael Dumont ’76; grandmother of Joe-Matt Navin ’02, Patrick Navin, member of the Class of ’08, and J.P. Dumont ’20.

Whitney Douglas Maus ’04.

James McDonald ’73.

Mary Melanson, mother of Len Melanson ’90.

Rev. Thomas Richard Mitchell ’71, former NWC faculty member; brother of Patricia Mitchell Brown ’74, Mary Mitchell Millstein ’78, Matthew Mitchell ’82, and Michael Mitchell ’85.

Marian Lois Chrosniak (née Blais), mother of Thomas Chrosniak ’69, Cherie Chrosniak Dolgin ’70, and Jeanne Chrosniak Madden ’72.

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Barbara Wechsler Fleming, mother of Lindsay Stewart Bertellotti ’03, Kaytee Stewart ’05, and Treb Stewart ’07.

MaryEllen Fox, sister-in-law of Chuck Harding ’71.

Gertrude Gerety, mother of Kathleen Gerety ’69 and Justine Gerety ’71.

Catherine Gibson, grandmother of Colby Lancaster ’21.

Stephen Bradley Goddard, father of Taegan Goddard ’84 and Bradley Goddard ’86.

Margaret Diane Gorman, daughter of Brian Gorman ’77.

Mary Ann (Dinovellis) Balkun Gorsline, mother of Dr. Stephen Balkun ’74; grandmother of Mark Balkun ’03, Stephen Balkun ’05, and Nicholas Balkun ’08.

Russell J. Gostyla, father of Heather Gostyla Fusick ’05 and Ashley Gostyla Skerry ’08; brother of Nancy Gostyla ’70; father-in-law of Kevin Fusick ’05.

R. Nelson “Oz” Griebel, former NWC board member and board chair, father of Chris Griebel ’03, Paul Griebel ’05, and Stephanie Griebel ’08.

Daniel Guilmartin, son of J. Scott Guilmartin ’74; brother of Joe Guilmartin ’03.

JoAnne (Ruglio) Gulino, grandmother of James Italia ’10, Nicholas Italia ’12, Lauren Italia ’16, and Louis Dillon ’17.

Catherine “Cathy” Harrison–Tomlinson, mother of Derrill Tomlinson ’89.

Louise Toole Healey, grandmother of Emily Mowel ’12.

Kathryn (Sheerin) Holmes, mother of Tim Holmes ’73, Noreen Holmes Giannini ’76, and Patrick Holmes ’86.

Elizabeth Louise (McNamara) Hughes, mother of Joseph “Chip” Hughes ’69, Amy Hughes ’71, and Mary Lisa Hughes Schaller ’72; grandmother of Raisa Koch, member of the Class of ’14.

Martha Catherine (Finley) Kane, mother of Northwest Catholic faculty member Julia Murphy, Donald Kane ’84, Timothy Kane ’86, and Geoff Kane, member of the Class of ’92; sister of Sara Finley Rosenbecker ’66, and Katy Finley Colli ’72; sister-in-law of George Colli ’73, aunt of Carrie Doyle ’82, Sara Doyle Connolly ’83, and William Kane ’87.

Glenn E. Knierim, father of Glenn (Chip) Knierim ’71, Lynne Knierim Donahue ’80, and Paul Knierim ’83.

Ann Maureen (Vaughn) Murphy, grandmother of Kate Murphy Sullivan ’07, Jack Murphy ’10 and Thomas Murphy ’12; mother-in-law of Michelle Murphy, former NWC staff member.

Angelo ‘Sonny’ Anthony Nista, Jr., grandfather of Patrick Nista ’11 and Christopher Nista ’15.

Teresa M. Neubert, grandmother of Sarah Neubert ’16 and Hayden Neubert ’20; mother-in-law of Eileen Walsh Neubert ’85.

George Alvin Lazarus, father of Annie Lazarus ’81.

Tim O’Boyle, uncle of Brian Pepin ’09, Bridget Pepin ’14, Jenny Loveland ’19, and Alena Loveland ’22.

Anna-Mae Maglaty, mother of Joseph Maglaty ’73 and Michelle Maglaty Mostello ’75.

Sister Fay F. O’Brien, aunt of Bob O’Brien ’80, KC O’Brien ’81, Tom O’Brien ’81, Jim O’Brien ’84, and Michael O’Brien ’88.

Patricia “Patsy” Maguire, mother of Ellen Maguire Martinelli ’70, John Maguire ’72, Gerrilin Maguire Haynes ’75, Lincoln Maguire ’76, and Tricia Maguire McVeety ’88; mother-in-law of James Martinelli ’70; grandmother of Dan Martinelli ’07.

Patricia Ann (Grady) O’Brien, mother-in-law of Maura Walsh-O’Brien ’77; grandmother of Rose O’Brien ’14.

Marie (Cacase) Maradie, mother of Joan Maradie ’72, Donna Maradie ’73, and Gloria Maradie Reddy ’76.

Lorraine Ferland Marquez, grandmother of Keith Chapman ’11 and Peter Chapman ’16.

John Joseph Mastrandrea, father of Karen Mastrandrea DeBari ’73.

Susan (Hunt) Matarazzo, mother of Jean Matarazzo Crispino ’77 and grandmother of Mac Crispino ’13.

Wayne Mark Antony Mongomery May, father of Dalila May ’07, Dionne May ’11, and Kalyani Essue, member of the Class of ’11.

Gail Ann Winship McCue, mother of Michael McCue ’04 and Ryan McCue ’10.

Mary Sellman McIntosh, grandmother of Chris Banville ’10.

Edward J. Janiszewski, father of Chip Janiszewski ’73, Phil Janiszewski ’73, Tom Janiszewski ’77, Joan Janiszewski Karas ’80, Mary Janiszewski Pellino ’81, and Ellen Janiszewski ’83.

Margaret (Rode) Clapis Merriman, grandmother of Matthew Clapis ’09 and Margaret Clapis ’10.

Rickford Lenox John, grandfather of Myles John ’21 and Mya John ’24.

Maria Teresa Mira, mother of Helder Mira ’93.

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Jay Mullarkey, father of James Mullarkey ’22.

Carole Marie Messina, grandmother of Thomas Miller ’19 and Molly Miller ’21.

Owen Molloy, brother of Andrew Molloy ’95 and Maeve Molloy ’06.

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Chester “Chet” Paul Omichinski, grandfather of John-Paul Omichinski ’01, Zach Omichinski ’08, and Anya Omichinski ’13.

Deacon James Papillo, father of Stephanie Papillo ’09.

Dr. James E. Patti, grandfather of Gabriella Giannone ’15 and Anthony Giannone ’17.

Nora Elizabeth (Collins) Pickering, mother of Mary Pickering ’77, Nora Pickering Dlugos ’80, Robert Pickering ’84, and the late Anne Pickering Power ’79.

Cornelius T. Quagliaroli, grandfather of Hope Quagliaroli ’97 and Carl Quagliaroli ’03.

Wayne A. Randall, grandfather of Caroline Gill ’16 and Brendan Gill ’17.

Adam Joseph Rice, grandfather of Zac Rice ’14, Kyle Rice ’17, and Luke Rice ’22.

Maureen Elaine (Lynch) Richardson, mother of Megan Richardson ’04; aunt of Dana Bercowetz ’06, Michael Bercowetz ’08, and Rachel Bercowetz ’14.

Daryl F. Ross, uncle of Patrick Williamson ’99, Meghan Williamson Lawson ’03, and Kate Williamson ’08; brother-in-law of Margaret Williamson, past Administrator.

Helena (Fogarty) Sarr, mother of William Sarr ’71, James Sarr ’72, Kevin Sarr ’79, and Mary Sarr ’80.

George Alexander Scott, grandfather of Samantha Scott ’19.

IN MEMORIAM

Edith Drapel Rutstein Shapiro, grandmother of Catherine Rutstein, member of the Class of ’17 and Caroline Rutstein, member of the Class of ’19.

Rosemary Ann (Sasseen) Shea, former NWC Board Member; mother of Susan Shea ’75, Kathleen Shea ’78, Margaret Shea Turner ’79, Christina Shea ’81, Rosemary Shea-Cobb ’83, Michael Shea ’85, Maura Shea Crowley ’88, and Julie Shea Crocker ’94.

Avery Elizabeth Siggia, sister of Liddy Siggia and Shayne Siggia, members of the Class of ’19.

Patrick I. Singer, son of Ed Singer ’76.

Antonino “Tony” Sorrentino, grandfather of Adam Sorrentino ’16.

Gregory M. Stakem, brother of Ronald Stakem ’65 and Mary Lynn Stakem Kelly ’76; brother-in-law of Elizabeth Hickey Stakem ’65.

James (Jimmy) Staunton, grandfather of Nora Staunton ’20 and John (Boomer) Staunton ’24.

Kathleen (McDermott) Staunton, grandmother of Nora Staunton ’20 and John (Boomer)Staunton ’24.

Daniel Joseph Sullivan, father of Brydie Sullivan ’93.

Martha Pittman Tavares, grandmother of Justin Tavares ’21.

Pete Thomas, father of Patricia Thomas ’72, Kathy Thomas ’78, and Elizabeth Thomas ’81.

Grace Tonucci, mother of Jeanne Tonucci Kelly ’65, Janet Tonucci Waters ’68, and Rick Tonucci ’71.

Howard Joseph Travers, father of Katherine Travers ’76 and Maura Travers Douglas ’84; grandfather of James Travers ’21.

Gail Hobert Tyler, mother of NWC faculty member Michael Tyler ’73, Gay Tyler Gallagher ’70, Kathleen Tyler ’71, Grant Tyler Jr. ’72, Marie Tyler Wiley ’77, Daniel Tyler ’83, Matthew Tyler ’84, and the late Patrick Tyler ’76; grandmother of Nathan Tyler ’08, Lucas Tyler ’10, Jessica Tyler ’12, Owen Tyler ’15 and former NWC faculty member Christopher Gallagher; mother-in-law of the late John Gallagher, member of the Class of ’70.

Barbara Salina, mother-in-law of Susan Salina, former NWC staff member.

Marcia Wells, sister of Margaret McCormack Urban ’67 and Christopher McCormack ’68; sister-in-law of Steve Urban ’67.

Rev. Randall Blackhall, uncle of Stephen Blanchfield ’69, Mary Lee Blanchfield Geary ’71, Barbara Blanchfield Carpenter ’72, Kelly Carpenter Habif ’99, Jill Carpenter Devor ’99.

Marilyn White, grandmother of Patrick Conway ’15, Molly Conway ’18, and Erin Conway ’20.

Jennie (Maurello) Zambrello, mother of Philip Zambrello ’66, Tom Zambrello ’68, MaryAlice Zambrello Carlozzi ’70, and Joanne Zambrello ’72; mother-in-law of Diane Benoit Zambrello ’67.

CURRENT & FORMER FACULTY, STAFF, ADMINISTRATION

John Joseph Sauer Sr., father-in-law of John Cusson, former Northwest Catholic Academic Dean.

FRIENDS Salvatore “Sal” J. Amenta, father of Patricia Carbray, father-in-law of Rick Cabray, NWC supporters.

Josephine (Riordan) Carbray, mother of Rick Carbray, mother-in-law of Patricia Carbray, NWC supporters.

Linda Tiano Coppola Jonathan Davis Mimi (MaryEllen Daily) Lynch Jim McNulty

William F. Baker, Jr., former staff member of the Northwest Catholic Athletic Department; father of Kevin Baker ’88.

Ruth Barton, sister of Ana Barrett, NWC faculty member.

Leo Monahan, grandfather of Patrick Smith, NWC Faculty member.

Gladys (Owsianko) Puskarz, grandmother of Jennifer Puskarz Skitromo, former NWC faculty member.

Claire A. (Elwood) Trifari, mother of Terri-Ann Trifari Sands ’81, Edmund Trifari ’82, and John Trifari ’85; grandmother of Abbie Sands ’09, James Sands ’10, Ryan Sands ’15, Michael Sands ’18, Nicholas Trifari ’17, and Tyler Trifari ’18.

Northwest Catholic extends its prayers and sympathies to the families of those in our community who passed away during the 2019–20 school year. Please send newspaper obituaries to Jane Leary at jleary@nwcath.org, and please notify mscudder@nwcath.org of any error or omissions. Thank you.

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THE 1961 SOCIETY

Northwest Catholic faces our second half century with justified enthusiasm. The history of its first 50 years of accomplishments is exceptional. Graduates of our school have achieved notable success and leadership in education, religious life, business, military service, law, medicine, and other fields.

They have also given back generously to support their school’s mission. The 1961 Society is established to encourage future support of Northwest Catholic through planned gifts to increase endowment. This effort assures a continued strong financial future

and allows us to provide financial aid to deserving students, as well as keeping future costs of a Northwest Catholic education as manageable as possible.

Below is a list of current members of the society. We would be pleased to learn of others who may have made this provision, or are considering it. Please contact Beth Casey Boyle ’96, Director of Advancement, at 860-236-4221, ext. 132 or bboyle@nwcath.org. You can also inform us directly at NorthwestCatholic.org/The1961SocietyEnrollment.

MEMBERS OF THE 1961 SOCIETY Theresa Notte Becker ’76 and Clint Becker (AP) Drs. Catherine Foley Bodak-Gyovai ’65 and Levente Bodak-Gyovai Phil Bonee ’72 and Valerie Bonee (AP) +Clarence Bourret (AP) Timothy F. Bourret ’73 +Maureen Dennehy (Former Faculty) Rev. Henry C. Frascadore (Former President) Karen L. Fritsche (Friend)

GEORGE ZIEWACZ ’65 My father, John T. Ziewacz, was raised in Poland.

Because of his father’s service in World War I and POW experience in Siberia, my grandfather suffered posttraumatic stress syndrome. He abandoned his family, leaving them in poverty.

My father didn’t receive much formal education.

During the Depression, he worked in a bakery as an apprentice, and during his free time, he studied books about history, literature, and philosophy in the town’s library. He sought educational experiences, such as an accounting course he took, which was sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church.

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+Francine M. Sider (AP) Dennis P. Sullivan (AP) +William C. Sullivan (Friend) Ronald E. Swanson (Faculty) +Elizabeth P. Sweeney (Friend) Colby and Anita Thresher (AP) George Ziewacsz + Denotes Deceased

Frank Genovese ’65 and Susan Genovese +Rev. Leonard T. Goode (Friend) Kevin Grenham ’78 and Beth Grenham (AP) +Martha Johnson (Friend) Philip F. and Susan Kelly (AP) (GP) Jean Lam (Friend) William Murphy ’67 and Katherine Murphy Jane Z. Reardon (AP) (Former Faculty Spouse) +Anne F. Satriano (Friend)

My father valued education very much. He wanted his children to receive the best education possible.

He worked very hard to pay for our schooling at Northwest Catholic. He used to say that he would provide the opportunity and we four siblings must provide the effort to become the best people for society.

In light the my father’s history, I am bequeathing my estate to the John T. Ziewacz Sr. Scholarship Fund.

This fund is to help deserving students who otherwise could not afford the expense of an education at Northwest Catholic High School. The fund is designated to support students in need who are immigrants, children of immigrants, or minorities.

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