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Ed McCarthy is enjoying retirement in Florida and Chautauqua Lake, N.Y., and was at this year’s Xavier lunch at Naples, Fla.
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Ronald Lofaro, Ph.D., retired in 2012 from his associate professorship position at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. He had retired from 27 years of government service (FAA) in 2004, so he is actually able to enjoy Gulf Coast living now. Classmates Rick Mink, former faculty member Larry Pesce and Ed Sullivan had dinner on May 6 to bid auf wiedersehen to former faculty member Hank Woehling. Hank is moving to the west coast of Florida, about 10 miles from Venice.
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Wilbur Ross was honored by the St. George’s Society of New York, a British charity, at the organization’s annual dinner dance.
1956 Joseph Basta writes that all is well with the Basta family including eight grandchildren; four boys and four girls. Tom Schmitt and wife Hedi are still in their Park Slope brownstone after 42 years. 4.
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Rescheduled due to the storms of February, Celebrate Xavier was no less gala when it was held on April 10. 1. Dennis Muentes ’14. 2. Jennifer Kennedy-Orlando, Mark Orlando, Ian Lennard P’17, John Piccard ’88 P’17. 3. Thomas Bruno ’06, Zachary Tesoriero ’07, Will Fallon ’07. 4. Xavier President Jack Raslowsky, Patrick Bisogno P’16, Bob Robotti ’71 5. Kevin McVeigh P’14 ’17, Dennis Klejna ’64. 6. Barry Cherwin, Auctioneer.
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Tom Kennedy is enjoying friends and family while fishing in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
Thomas Conniff, Esq., received a Doctor of Laws degree honoris causa from St. Francis College in Brooklyn for 43 years of service as outside counsel to the College. One week later Tom and his wife, Margaret, celebrated 50 years of marriage with a mass in the Student Chapel at Xavier, accompanied by their four children and 10 grandchildren. Tom and Margaret were engaged in the Student Chapel on Holy Saturday, 1963.
1949 Frank R. Reilly took first place in the 2014 Chesapeake Whistle and Whittle Contest held in Timonium, Md., in April.
1950 Joseph Brostek prepared the 100 Year History of St. Andrew Avellino Parish in Flushing, N.Y. ,where he has lived for more than 40 years. It is the home parish of many priests, laypersons and a very large number of Xavier families. The Centennial History can be viewed online at standrewavellinorcchurch.org. Paul Rollins is keeping in touch with Harry Hill and Bill Kane. All three are looking forward to their 60th Holy Cross Reunion. 30.
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Rev. Robert E. Lauder is in his 30th year of teaching philosophy at St. John’s University, Jamaica, N.Y. His book Pope Francis’ Spirituality and Our Story has just been published by Resurrection Press, 2014 Totowa, N.J.
1953 John Spizziri and his wife, Alexandra, are expecting their sixth grandchild.
1959 Thomas Sullivan recently traveled to Goa, India, where he saw the preserved body of St. Francis Xavier in Bon Jesu Church.
1960 John O’Brien has retired from private orthopedic practice in February 2013 and was named “Distinguished Physician of 2013” by St. Francis Hospital and Medical Staff, Hartford, Conn.
1961 Rev. John J. Piderit, S.J., was appointed Vicar for Administration and Moderator of the Curia for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Thomas Russo, Esq., works as general counsel at AIG as head of the Global Legal, Compliance, Regulatory and Government Affairs group. His legal department recently won an Outstanding Legal Department Award by the New York Law Journal.
1962 William A. Fife, P.E. was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Metropolitan Section with the 2014 Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year Award on June 19 at their