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’81 TOM POSSERT recently spent six weeks in India starting up some school projects and helping build a school in a poor village. His website is: www.schools4schoolsindia.org. ’82 V. BRADLEY DOYLE celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary with wife Lisa in June. Their 20-year-old daughter Brittany is a student at Miami University, while 18-year-old Andrea is at the University of Cincinnati. ’83 JOHN PALAZZOLO is director of marketing and sales for Adphos North America, Inc., which provides drying solutions to the graphic arts and industrial marketplaces. He also was recently elected President of CCCA—Chrestos Ministries, a ministry to incarcerated, elderly and sick individuals. The vision of the ministry is to change the world through expressing the goodness (Chrestos) of God and encouraging those we serve into a relationship with Jesus. ’83 KEN BOEHME received the Defense Superior Service Medal from the U.S. Army in September. His citation reads in part, “Colonel Boehme’s sustained clear vision, superior leadership and exhaustive efforts resulted in numerous significant achievements that will have lasting impact on the United States’ relations with its allies and global partners.”
The class of 2005 returned to St. X for its five-year class reunion over the Christmas holidays.
’89 BRIAN BESANCENEY has been named senior vice president, Walt Disney World Public Affairs and Worldwide Government and Industry Relations. Besanceney will oversee all media relations, internal communications and community relations for Walt Disney World Resorts, as well as all government and industry relations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts worldwide. Additionally, Besanceney will retain the responsibilities of his previous position as vice president, Public Affairs for Business Development, overseeing all public affairs efforts for business development at existing parks and resorts businesses and new projects. He joined Disney in 2009 after serving as deputy chief of staff for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. ’89 BRENDAN RHOADS was re-elected as President of St. Patrick’s Division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
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’91 BRIAN REDDEN joined the Cincinnati law firm of Buechner Haffer Meyers & Koenig Co., L.P.A., where he will continue to practice employment law, business litigation and professional sports law. ’95 DAN REITZ was named an Ohio Rising Star for 2011 by Super Lawyers magazine (after receiving similar honors in 2005, 2009 and 2010). Ohio Rising Stars are chosen by their peers as being among the top up-and-coming lawyers in the state of Ohio. Only 2.5 percent of Ohio attorneys receive this honor each year. Dan is a commercial real estate partner at the law firm of Graydon Head in Cincinnati. ’98 BRIAN AUGUSTINE an associate attorney for Roetzel and Andress in the company’s Cincinnati office, was admitted to the Kentucky Bar. His practice is focused on litigation, including transportation, construction, retail, commercial disputes, products liability and insurance.
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’00 BOB HAGLAGE has been modeling in New York City for the past few years after college (Ohio State ‘05) and just signed with an agency in Beijing and in Taipei. He will be modeling in Beijing for two months and Taipei for three and returns to New York on March 1, just in time to come to Cincinnati to be a groomsman in Dave Menninger’s (’00) wedding.
Tom Possert (’81) poses with some of the students learning in a school he helped build in India.
’00 BRIAN GRAWE graduated from medical school at the University of Cincinnati in 2008 and is now a thirdyear orthopedic surgery resident at University Hospital. ’01 CRAIG NEIHEISEL received his J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in May 2010. He recently started as an associate in the intellectual property department of Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he focuses his practice on patent infringement litigation. He resides in Chicago with his wife, Amy. ’08 SCOTT BOYLE will be a leader this summer for ND Vision, a series of summer conferences for high school students at the University of Notre Dame. Participants find the opportunity through one of these conferences to recognize their gifts and understand how God is calling them in their lives. ND Vision is open to all high school students entering grades 9 to 12 in the fall of 2011, or graduating in the spring of 2011. Throughout the week at ND Vision, participants explore God’s call for them to live fully and faithfully through dynamic largegroup experiences, reflective small group time, profound liturgies and excellent music. The program is led by Notre Dame students. Participants get to experience student life by eating in the dining halls, staying in the dorms and enjoying the campus. For more information, contact Scott at sboyle2@ nd.edu or 513-505-1966. ’09 JOE KONERMAN will participate in the 2011 Journey of Hope bicycle ride benefitting Push America. The 64-day trek begins in San Francisco and ends in Washington D.C. Follow his progress this summer or make a donation at http://secure.pushamerica.org/ josephkonerman.
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