Virginia (Ginny) Thompson ’44, Administrative Secretary for Heads of School Charles Hamblen. Sr. and Joseph Levanto, 1974 -1986, passed away on January 15. Ginny and her sister Miriam ’42, who passed away February 2, 2014, enjoyed attending the annual Jubilee Reunion events hosted by the NFA Alumni Association, and she often commented on how she treasured the time she spent at NFA as the secretary to the Head of School.
1941 Marian Hagen Arico Hedwig Bartnicki Brown Natalie Wheeler Fournier Elaine Lawrence Heinrich Helen Kapuscik Mierzejewski Mary Yerrington Moran Shirley Beit Redish 1942 Catherine Fellows Eastwood 1943 Rosalie Franzone Banas Julia Ukleja Brostek Vincent Ciliano Antoinette Cellucci Gosky Stanley Israelite 1944 Mildred Lawrence Bode Helene Yuhas Gift Caesa Lebuis Virginia Thompson 1945 James Kaminske Robert Kenerson Cecilia Carpenter Koestler 1946 Edward Freeman Jane Sweeney 1947 Bobby Barnette Ann Hill Bordeau Carmela Denovellis Delesio Arthur Leone John Morosky Marjorie Rice Rousseau Grace Brown Sterry Mary Brown Waterman Ernest Yohe 1948 William Boyd Frank Zagaski
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1949 John Alfieri Dorothy Brown Collins Helen Kopko Connelly Enez Tremontozzi King Thelma Blinderman Lorinsky Roland McKeon 1950 Robert Bassett Michael Diodato Ernestine Panciera Magowan James Mileski Shirley Lewis Mock Estelle Smith Scott 1951 Theresa Belliveau Gauvin Alden Holdridge Claribel Johnson Doris Yohe Leffingwell Elizabeth Peltier Parsons Patricia Levarge Welch
1952 Georgia Sturgis Bliven Patricia Lee Pappagallo 1953 Phyllis Waldrop Gorton 1954 Jeanne Trudeau Coady Norman Grabowski Richard Kalinowski Thomas Phalen 1955 Dorothy Grady DeBartolo Jean Holdridge Goheen Rocco Iannacci Robert Longo Lewis Randall 1957 Claudia Dembrowski Graves Patricia Mizger Gwiazdowski Charles Leone Leo Paradis
1958 David Blanchard Kenneth Krodel Robert Muttart 1959 Sonya Skindzier 1960 Daniel O’Connell Gary Wise 1961 Kenneth Allard Gary Benoit John Sebastian 1962 Cheryl Blais Dakota Chapman Sharon Watrous Mingo 1963 Julian Dzialo George Ruffo
Michael Diodato ‘50 passed away unexpectedly February 6. Mike joined the U.S. Navy during the Korean War and was honorably discharged in 1959. He retired as Captain of the Naval Submarine Base New London-Groton Fire Department after a 30 year career. He then worked as a bank security officer at New England Savings Bank and as a campus safety officer at NFA, retiring in September 2005. Mike is survived by his wife Patricia Harris Diodato ’55, son Jeffrey and his wife Kathleen Hall Diodato ’78, and two grandsons Christopher ’02 and Nicholas Diodato ’09.