Blakefield Magazine | Spring 2018

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Class Notes 1949

Rev. G. Harry Hock, SJ, is celebrating his 65th year as a Jesuit Priest.

1960

1970

Michael Stershic recently announced that he will be retiring at the end of 2018 as President of Discover Lehigh Valley after fourteen years leading the organization.

1973

Jim “Snuffy” Smith was inducted into the Baltimore Catholic League Hall of Fame in May as a contributor.

1965

Thomas Koliss has retired from teaching after 45 years. From 1976–89, he taught at Loyola High School. From 1994 to 2018, he taught at Newark High School in Delaware. Among the courses he taught were AP, AB, & BC Calculus and Multi-Variable Calculus. He currently resides in Wilmington, DE, with his wife, Carolyn Becker, and their three dogs and six cats.

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1983

Brian Distance continues to star in several Hollywood roles including NCIS: New Orleans as NOPD Sergeant Gordon. He will also be co-starring in the new feature film Green Book with Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, as well as the new Beats by Dre commercial with Liza Koshy.

1985 Paul Tiburzi was elected Chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee, Baltimore’s premier business advocacy organization, in April 2018. Paul is a Partner at the DLA Piper Law Firm. Read his Op-Ed in The Baltimore Sun here.

1981

Kenny Johnson was inducted into the Baltimore Catholic League Hall of Fame in May as a player.

Michael Coady, Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Co-director of the Heart & Vascular Institute, was recently featured by Stamford Health.

1998

Pete Daub, Tim Goetzinger, Rick Hearn, and Dan Kraning celebrated their 20th reunion from Blakefield this year. Pictured here is their graduation photo above a photo they took at the reunion.

Matthew Masaschi has been a Coast Guard Reservist since 2007, serving as a Public Affairs specialRead the article here. ist since 2010. After working at Zenmar as an outside sale rep for industrial tools and equipment for almost 10 years, he resigned in December 2016 and

moved to California with his family to work full time with the Coast Guard. He recently won a few Coast Guardwide awards from photos and videos he produced over the past year deployed to Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria. He was recognized in the Coast Guard’s Reservist Magazine. Read the article here. He is pictured with fellow Don, Brookes Evans ’98, with whom he did a tour (coincidentally) aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Eagle in 2015 and 2016. Brookes has been in the Coast Guard since 1998.

2002

Chris Clunie was named Director of Athletics at Davidson College in May.


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