NEWS NOTES
REVEREND ANTHONY JANTON ‘69 MET WITH POPE FRANCIS AND DURING THEIR CONVERSATION, HE PRESENTED POPE FRANCIS WITH A HAT FROM LA SALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL.
JAKE BARRETT ’69 was re-elected to his second two-year term as a District City Councilor in Syracuse, NY. Jake has firmly earned his nickname of “Landslide” by trouncing his challenger by 39 votes (1st term was 13) as each vote count was 3,200 votes cast.
CAPT MICHAEL J. DOUGHERTY, USN (RET.) ’69 retired in October of 2013 after forty years in Naval Aviation (twenty-nine Military and eleven Civilian). He is now the owner of Hudson Consulting, LLC and focusing on Foreign Military Sales and Organizational Management. PHILIP GRANDE ’69 formed Avalon House Lifting, LLC after 40+ years in Engineering/Supply Chain with Scott Paper Company and SCA (Swedish Forrest Products Company). He is renovating homes at the Jersey Shore one family at a time post-Sandy. PHILLIP HELLER ’69 is restoring a steel sailboat and hopes to sail to Bermuda durning the summer of 2015.
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REVEREND ANTHONY JANTON ’69, AFSC concelebrated Mass with Pope Francis at the Domus Santae Martha in the Vatican on January 20, 2014. Domus Santae Martha is the residence for Vatican officials where the Pope chose to live rather than the papal apartments. After the Mass, Father Janton met with Pope Francis and during their conversation, he presented Pope Francis with a hat from La Salle College High School. GRANT MacAVOY ’69 was inducted into “The Walk of Fame” on the Avenue of the Arts in Philadelphia. JOSEPH PASCUZZO, DO ’69 is partner and recent acting CFO, Hematology/Oncology Group, the largest private practice oncology group in California. MIKE SHEEHAN ’69 celebrated his 40th year of employment with General Electric in February 2014. BILL WASYLENKO ’69 is now into his fifth year compiling the history of the 100 seasons of La Salle football. To get onto his email list, contact Bill at explorerfb@gmail.com.