Richard Dankanis ’95 is owner of Dank Brothers Construction. He and his wife Meredith live in Havertown with their daughter Ryan Elisabeth and their new son Cooper John who was born in May. Justin DiDomenico ’95 is President of Building Blocks Behavior Consultation, Inc., an agency that provides services to children with autism. He is also an adjunct professor teaching graduate students at Saint Joseph’s University. He and his wife Leanne live in Swedesboro, N.J. Robert Gerhardt ’95 has posted the first photographs from his new photo reportage “Brooklyn Masjid” on his website. The photographs document all the aspects of the community center and the mosque, from prayer times, to the school that is run on the weekends, to following the various sport groups for the children and the various children’s activities. This year-long photo documentary will be updated throughout the year on his website. Brendan Marzano ’95 is employed as a sales representative for Republic Services, Inc., a leader in the Waste and Recycling Removal world. He, his wife Julie and their daughter Nadia live in Springfield. Christopher Pohlig ’95 is a superintendent for the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. He recently finished a multi-use stadium for Loyola University in Baltimore. He lives in Maryland with his wife Mary and children Ian, 7 and Guinevere, 4. Maj. James Tobin ’96 has been in the Air Force for 10 years and was recently appointed to a program called the AFPAK Hands Program. He will assist the AFG government build an acquisition program. Daniel Annarelli ’97 is the History Department Chair at Loyola Preparatory High School in Los Angeles, Calif., where he teaches AP European and World History and is also the JV Baseball coach. In July, he was the tour guide for a group of students traveling throughout Italy. Philip Doherty ’97 and James McCafferty ’97 recently purchased McCloskey’s Tavern on Cricket Avenue in Ardmore. McCloskey’s, the oldest Irish Pub on the Main Line, features live music on Friday nights and Quizzo on Saturday nights hosted by Ed Scanlon ’96.
American Childhood Gone, Well, Wrong which is published by Harper Perennial. Justin Pizzi ’97, a reporter and producer for NBC 10 in Philadelphia, won an Emmy at the 2010 MidAtlantic Emmy Awards in the category of “Human Interest Program/Special” for his segment “Be a 10 in 10 Weeks.”
Matthew Faber ’00 was recently married and lives in West Chester, Ohio. He is pursuing a law degree at Northern Kentucky University and will graduate in 2011.
Dr. Sean Waldron ’97 recently finished his residency in orthopedic surgery at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He is currently working on a one-year fellowship in pediatric orthopedic surgery at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital which concludes in July 2011. He has accepted a faculty position as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, La., which will start in the fall of 2011.
Joseph Mirarchi ’00, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 and received an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Drexel University in 2007. He worked as a legal and jack-of-all-trades librarian for Penn and the Free Library of Philadelphia before starting law school at Rutgers University (Camden). He is a Staff Editor of the Rutgers Law Journal and will graduate in 2012.
Steven Walsh ’97 has been named the men’s and women’s cross country/track coach at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.
Christopher Ryan, S.J. ’00 moved to Worcester, Mass., in August 2009 to teach at the Nativity School of Worcester. He’s in the second of three years in this assignment as a Jesuit regent; he currently teaches junior high religion, social studies and Spanish. Last April, he completed the Boston Marathon in under three hours. He has been a Jesuit for six years, having entered the Society just after graduating from Dartmouth College in 2004.
Brian Conley ’98 has been named the new Head Rowing Coach at Lehigh University. Howard Brown ’99, Will Dennis ’01 and Liz McDonald (MMA ’01), all Cape and Sword alums, starred in the comedy production “Everybody Loves Opal” at the Montgomery Theatre in the fall. The show was directed by Tony Braithwaite ’89 with assistant director Patrick Dooley ’10, also a Cape and Sword alum. Also, Brown recently starred as boxing champ Jack Dempsey in the play “Molumby’s Millions” at the Centre Theatre in Norristown. Anthony Giampetro ’87 was also part of the cast. Brian Callahan ’99 won an Emmy Award as producer of the best morning newscast in Washington, D.C. for his work on WRC-TV’s “News4 Today.” Joseph Kadlec, Esq. ’99 is an associate in the Corporate Practice Group and also assists the Securities Litigation Practice Group at WilmerHale, a law firm in Washington, D.C. In both his corporate practice and securities litigation work, Joe represents clients with regard to accounting and auditing compliance standards involving the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board as well as domestic and international registration requirements. Christopher Panna ’99 is now teaching at the International School of Port of Spain in Trinidad & Tobago after three years living in Paraguay.
2000s Francis Cattie ’00 graduated from Penn State University with a B.A. in Crime Law and Justice. He is currently employed with Lower Moreland Township as a police officer.
Lt. Timothy Donahue ’97 (Battalion surgeon), Maj. Thomas McAvoy ’96 (Civil Affairs Officer), and Capt. Colin Graham ’02 (Logistics Officer) were forward deployed with 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, an infantry battalion from Camp Pendleton, CA, to Garmsir District, Helmand Province in support of Operation Enduring Freedom from April - November 2010. (Picture) Jason Mulgrew ’97, who writes a popular blog “Everything Is Wrong With Me: 30, Bipolar and Hungry” with more than 200 million hits since its inception and was named one of People magazine’s “50 Hottest Bachelors in 2005,” has released a book Everything is Wrong With Me: A Memoir Of An
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Memorial Day weekend city to shore ride has grown to include over 80 riders drawn from students, alumni and friends of the Prep. (Picture)
Michael Day ’00 and John McConnell ’00 received the San Miguel Febres Cordero award from San Miguel School of Camden for their continuing support of the school through their annual XBA bike ride. The
Michael Barker ’01 was named to the Board of Directors for The Center for Autism, the oldest autism treatment facility in the country. Ned DelGuercio ’01, Robert Duff ’06 and Mike Nucci ’06 were selected to represent the USA at the World Rowing Championships in New Zealand. Ned was coxswain of the men’s 8, Robert was a member of the men’s lightweight 8 and Mike was a member of the men’s lightweight pair without coxswain. Justin Hopkins ’02 returned to Philadelphia after finishing two successful opera engagements in Europe. The production of Macbeth with Le Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels was named Best Production of the Year in Europe by Opernwelt, a leading German opera magazine. Justin has been contracted with Opera Company of Philadelphia to sing Friar Laurence in their production of Romeo et Juliette. The production will take place in February, 2011 at the Academy of Music. Edward Keels ’02 is the owner of Loose Leaf Concepts, an advertising agency doing everything from branding and logo creation to marketing materials and website design. Ed works with a variety of clients, locally, nationally and even globally. He got his start working at Alta Communications, now The Karma Agency, a top public relations firm in Philadelphia. John Cooper ’03, a high school math teacher in North Carolina, was selected Teacher of the Month. He and his fiancé Holly will be getting married in December, 2011. John Infanti ’03 who works as a producer at WPXI, the NBC affiliate in Pittsburgh, received an Emmy award at the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards in September in the category of “Outstanding Spot News Reporting” for his coverage of the G 20 Protests last fall in Pittsburgh. He was recognized earlier this year for this work when he received the Edward R. Murrow award for “Breaking News Coverage.”
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