Class NOTES
1990
Andrew Garcia recently began working as the project executive for the final cap and closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island.
ther was John C. Lynch, Sr. ’31. Two of his brothers, my great-uncles Ed Lynch ’32 and Tom Lynch ’41, also graduated from Xavier. We skipped a generation, then we had my cousin Kevin Lynch ’89, his brother Brian Lynch ’93, and me. Five out of the six Lynches also went to Jesuit colleges: John (Fordham), Ed (Fordham), Kevin (Boston College), Brian (Fairfield, Fordham for his master’s), and myself (Fairfield). The Lynches were based in Park Slope, and my great-grandfather, who emigrated from Ireland, was the captain in the local NYPD Precinct. My grandfather, John C. Lynch, graduated during the Depression. My grandfather was the oldest child, and the value of education had been ingrained into the family’s heads. My great-grandfather, also named Ed, was able to send my grandfather to Xavier and Fordham University, so he in turn helped pay or paid for my great-uncles to attend Xavier and for Ed to attend Fordham University. My grandfather was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Navy and worked as a purchaser during World War II. The Navy sent him to take classes at Harvard and eventually at Fordham. His regular career was in marketing/advertising for the American Tobacco Company.”
Matthew Schwimer recently completed his MBA at the University of Maryland. He has four children and is active in the Boy Scouts as well as his church, Our Lady of Lourdes, in Dunedin, Florida.
John Shea and his wife, Bridget, bought a home in the Old Bridge area of New Jersey. They and their dog, Maple, are excited about the next chapter of life in a new state and town.
Francis Creighton is president and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association. In the fall, he testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection about the importance of the credit reporting system and securing consumers’ credit data. Ray Lustig is a professor of music at Juilliard. Last September, he presented a concert performance of Semmelweis, an opera he wrote, at the National Arts Club. 1993 CDR Christian Lee, USCG was inducted into the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Athletic Hall of Fame in October 2017. Lee played football and baseball and ran track at the Academy, where he was named the most outstanding senior athlete in 1997. He and his wife, Heather, live in Silver Spring, Maryland with their children Kinsey, Brendan, and Sophie. 1994
1995 John Fernandez is vice president of revenue marketing at Contently. He was recently honored as one of Direct Marketing News’ 40 Under 40. 1997 About 20 members of the Class of 1997 gathered at Forlini’s (93 Baxter Street at Canal Street) in Little Italy on Thanksgiving Eve, as they have for the past 17 years. All members of the Class of ’97 are invited. Lt. Adam Lynch, FDNY was honored as one of The Irish Echo’s 2017 First Responders of the Year. He is also part of a proud family of Sons of Xavier. He wrote: “My grandfa-
Stephen Stabile is a Senior Vice President at Merrill Lynch. He began his MBA at the MIT Sloan School of Management in September 2017. 2000 Dr. Benzon Dy has been appointed professor of endocrine surgery at the Mayo Clinic. He graduated from Georgetown Medical School in 2008, completed his residency at the Mayo Clinic, then did a fellowship in endocrine surgery there as well as a fellowship in advanced head and neck oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 2001 Hans Augustave lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and works at
BLUR as a digital video producer. BLUR, which will launch this spring, is a “messaging and mobile gaming app that rewards users for doing what they do every day.” Augustave also runs his own DJ company and plays frequently all over the East Coast, including the Hamptons during the summer. Kieran Wilhelm is marking 10 years with the FDNY in Ladder 6 in Chinatown. 2002 James Dowdell, FDNY served as the keynote speaker at the New York Police and Fire Widows’ and Children’s Benefit Fund Gala on November 1. His father, Kevin Dowdell P’01 ’02†, was a firefighter who perished on September 11, 2001. Last summer, the New York Daily News highlighted the younger Dowdell after he bravely descended a 200-foot elevator shaft at a Brooklyn Con Edison plant to rescue four men.
’90
Francis Creighton
’93
Christian Lee
2003 Segun Akande starred as Obina in The Homecoming Queen, a world premiere production at the Atlantic Theater Company, this winter. His other recent acting credits include stints on ABC’s Quantico and Netflix’s Burning Sands. Akande, a graduate of Duke University, lives with his wife, Lucy. MAJ David Del CuadroZimmerman, USA graduated from Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science with an MS in Operations Research and the School of International and Public Affairs with an MPA in Economic Policy Management.
’03
Segun Akande
Rich Greco has been promoted to group design director at Droga5. 2005 After serving six years in the United States Marine Corps, Steven Elman moved back to Virginia Beach and is currently supporting the Marine Corps Intelligence Schools as the Deputy General Military Intelligence Subject Matter Expert. Steven and his wife, Heather, have a 15-month-old daughter named Kaylah Rose.
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