Class NOTES
Beefsteak 2016
Xavier High School • January 15
An all-time record number of alumni—915—returned to 16th Street for unlimited beef and spirits at this year’s Beefsteak Dinner. Sons of Xavier in attendance represented nearly every Xavier class from 1951 through 2012.
at Two Toms Restaurant in Brooklyn on December 12, 2015. J.P. Stathis completed the 2015 New York City Marathon. 1997 Adam Lynch was promoted to Lieutenant in the Fire Department of New York, where he is currently assigned to Manhattan. 1998 Matt Baldassano and his creation, the Village Winery Club, were featured in a November 2015 profile in The New York Times. “The Winemaker of Avenue C,” as the Times dubbed Baldassano, makes a variety of wines in his 550-square-foot Alphabet City apartment. To learn more, visit villagewineryclub.nyc. 2000 John Khinda has enjoyed a busy, successful year. He became a member of SAG-AFTRA in March
2015 and released his latest acting reel, which can be viewed at www.johnkhinda.com/reel.php, in December. John celebrated his three-year wedding anniversary with his wife, Somsinee Rianwiriyakit, on January 7, then enjoyed the 2016 Beefsteak Dinner with more than 20 of his classmates on January 15. 2001 Philip Engel recently began working as a sales/operational manager for VANMOOF, an Amsterdam-based bicycle company. He is also still playing trombone with the Grand Street Community Band and the Funkrust Brass Band. Dr. Dominic Fareri began a tenuretrack position as an assistant professor in the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University in September 2015.
2004 Xavier faculty member Michael Mulé and his wife, Angie, visited Hong Kong and Cambodia in February 2016. Among the trip’s highlights were a few days in Angkor Wat and Phnom Penh, where Angie’s brother works with the U.S. Embassy. Liam O’Hara is a detective with the New York Police Department and captain of the NYPD Rugby Football Club. All Xavier alumni who are or were law enforcement officers, prosecutors, or judges and are interested in joining the Sons of Xavier in Law Enforcement (SOXLE) should contact him at loharanyc1@aol.com. Tom Palmieri graduated from Shippensburg University with a master’s degree in college counseling in May 2015. He is currently a mobile therapist with Pennsylvania Counseling Services, working with children who have intellectual disabilities and mental health diag
John Khinda ’00
Michael Mulé ’04 and family
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