MISSION STATEMENT The aim of Portsmouth Abbey School is to help young men and women grow in knowledge and grace. Grounded in the Catholic faith and 1,500-year-old Benedictine intellectual tradition, the School fosters: Reverence for God and the human person Respect for learning and order Responsibility for the shared experience of community life
BOARD OF REGENTS Right Rev. Dom Matthew Stark, O.S.B. Chancellor, Abbot Emeritus and Prior Portsmouth, RI Mr. W. Christopher Behnke ’81 P ’12 ’15 ’19 Chairman Chicago, IL Dom Joseph Byron, O.S.B. Portsmouth, RI Mr. Creighton O. Condon ’74 P ’07 ’10 Jamestown, RI Sr. Suzanne Cooke, R.S.C.J. Washington, D.C. Dom Francis Crowley, O.S.B. Portsmouth, RI Mrs. Kathleen Cunningham P ’08,’09 ’11 ’14 Dedham, MA Mr. Peter Ferry ’75, P ’16, ‘17 Republic of Singapore Mrs. Frances Fisher P ’15 San Francisco, CA Dr. Timothy P. Flanigan ’75 P ’06 ’09 ’11 ’19 Tiverton, RI Mr. Peter S. Forker ’69 Chicago, IL
Mr. Patrick Gallagher ’81 P ’15 Providence, RI Mrs. Margaret S. Healey P ’91 New Vernon, NJ Mr. Denis Hector ’70 Miami, FL Dr. Gregory Hornig ’68 P’ 01 Prairie Village, KS Rev. Dom Damian Kearney, O.S.B. ’45 Portsmouth, RI Mr. Peter Kennedy ’64 P ’07 ’08 ’15 Big Horn, WY Mr. William Keogh ’78 P ’13 Litchfield, CT Dr. Mary Beth Klee P ’04 Hanover, NH Ms. Devin McShane P ’09 ’11 Providence, RI Rev. Dom Gregory Mohrman, O.S.B. St. Louis, MO Mr. Philip V. Moyles, Jr. ’82 Annual Fund Chair Rye, NY
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett O’Connell P ’16 ’17 Co-Chairs, Parents’ Association Stowe, VT Mr. Shane O’Neil ‘65 Bedford, MA Mr. John Perreira P ’05 Portsmouth, RI Mr. Peter J. Romatowski ’68 McLean, VA Mr. Rowan G.P. Taylor P ’13 ’17 ’18 New Canaan, CT Mr. William Winterer ’87 Boston, MA
Emeritus Flanigan R
Mr. Peter Purchase, NY
’41 P ’75 ’83 GP ’06 ’09 ’11
Thanks for keeping the faith! Portsmouth Abbey School thanks the hundreds of generous alumni, parents, grandparents, parents of alumni, faculty, staff and friends who came together to philanthropically support the School through the 2015-16 Annual Fund and set a new record this year of $1.63 million. Your gifts helped young men and women grow in knowledge and grace by supporting them in the classroom, on the playing fields and stage, and in our eight residential houses. Each year, your support of the Annual Fund strengthens the School and demonstrates that a group of committed people can make a difference. On behalf of every student, teacher and monk, thank you!
Mr. Thomas Healey ’60 P ’91 New Vernon, NJ Mr. William Howenstein R ’52 P ’87 GP ’10 Grosse Pointe Farms, MI Barnet Phillips, IV ’66
P O RT S M O U T H A BB E Y S C H O O l A N N UA L F U N D
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Front cover: Andrea Petronello Marone ’02 (left) and Cara Gontarz Hume ’99 have forged a lasting relationship, both in their demanding and successful careers at GE and in their busy family lives, since they were students at Portsmouth Abbey School. Read the story of an extraordinary mentorship on page 26. Photo by Ashley Brown
Special thanks to all of our volunteers, including class agents, reunion committee members, members of the Alumni Leadership Council and Parents’ Association volunteers, whose dedication to the School made this achievement possible.