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JOHN WALKER continues to serve his parish as lector, cantor, minister of care, and bereavement minister.
JOHN “JACK” POWERS was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) during halftime at the St. John’s-Fordham basketball game in December. He was one of five figures honored during the 2014 MSG Holiday Festival presented by Advanced Auto Parts.
1961
RICHARD CURTIN, a retired executive vice president of Southwest Research Institute, published Trails of Deception (CreateSpace, 2013), a murder mystery set in the Red Rock Canyon country of southeast Utah. It is the third book in the Manny Rivera Mystery Series.
1964
DOUGLAS NICHOLAS published The Demon (Simon and Schuster, 2014), a short story prequel to his historical fiction saga Something Red (2012) that mixes history, fantasy and legend. STEPHEN TOTH published Dobro Roots: A Photo Tour of Prewar Wood Body Dobros (Centerstream Publications, 2014), which is the first and most definitive work devoted solely to the Dobro guitars produced by John Dopyera. KAM YUEN, D.C., published Delete Stress and Pain on the Spot (Motivational Press, 2015), which explains his groundbreaking Yuen Method in a step-by-step program for those looking for long-term solutions for chronic pain and stress. The No. 1 international best-seller is available on Amazon.com.
1965
JOHN FITZPATRICK, Ph.D., is very proud of his son, Christopher, who is the current president of the Richmond County Bar Association in Staten Island.
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WALTER OLSEWSKI marked his 200th coaching victory as swimming coach at Manhattan College on Jan. 31.
LAWRENCE CANDARELLI was among eight deacons who were ordained at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in June. VINCENT MALIGNO, Ph.D., reports, “On my birthday, April 26, the New York Yankees honored me as the veteran of the game for my service in Vietnam. I am making a movie Looking For God.”
1973
DANIEL FRARE, an educator at Tenafly Middle School, was selected the 2014-15 Bergen County Teacher of the Year. DENNIS FENTON, Ph.D., owner and CEO of Fenton and Associates, a biotechnology consulting firm, was named to Portola Pharmaceuticals’ board of directors.
1974
BARRY BIGGAR joined the finance practice for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in New York City. “Pillsbury has world class aviation and transportation finance teams in addition to a global finance practice, and I’m thrilled to be joining such a strong 1970 group,” he said in a recent press release. SR. LOUISE BULLIS, M.M., celebrated her 70th “I look forward to collaborating with anniversary as a Maryknoll Sister. She entered the order in 1945, when she received Pillsbury’s team in New York, London, her religious name of Sr. M. Raymond Gerard, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Asia.” and made her first profession of vows three years later. After an illustrious teaching 1975 career in Honolulu and Maui, she returned JIM LAURIA joined Mazzei Injector Company, to Maryknoll in 2007 and organized LLC, a manufacturer of injection systems major events for the congregation’s 100th and fluid processing solutions, as vice anniversary in 2012. president of sales and marketing. According STEVEN CHAPRA, Ph.D., FASCE, received to the press release, “Mazzei is fortunate the 2015 Horner Award from the American to have found someone with an extraordiSociety of Civil Engineers for his co-written nary command of the technical, sales and paper “Parsimonious Model for Assessing marketing, and financial aspects of the Nutrient Impacts on Periphyton-dominated business, and his enthusiasm and energy Streams,” for its valuable contribution to are unmatched.” the environmental engineering profession. ROBERT MCGINNIS, an independent 1977 director of Home Loan Servicing Solutions, VITO LOGUIDICE, M.D., practices with Ltd., is the new nonexecutive chairman of Coordinated Health, a leading acute-care the board of directors. McGinnis also serves hospital network in Pennsylvania and New as the chairman of the nominating and Jersey. Certified by the American Board of corporate governance committee and is a Orthopaedic Surgery and the American member of the audient committee and the Board of Spine Surgery, he is an innovator compensation committee of the board. in the field of spinal surgery, most recently in the area of kyphoplasty procedures, which is a minimally invasive procedure 1971 for the treatment of vertebral compression WILLIAM OWENS, former congressman, fractures related to osteoporosis. was appointed to the Arrow Financial JOHN PETCHONKA is celebrating his 10th Corporation Board of Directors, as well as year as owner of Ridgefield Glass, a fulla director of Arrow’s lead subsidiary bank, service, custom design glass retailer for Glens Falls National Trust Company.