Christopher Silvestri took part in singing John Rutter’s Magnificat with his wife, Stephanie, and members of a New Jersey community choir, The Celebration Singers. He has been a member of the choir for the past six years. 2005 The Xavier Surf Club with Mike Petri ’02 and Mike Reinhardt ’07
Chris Riso recently earned his MBA at the Yale School of Management. He will be joining Deloitte in New York as a senior consultant in the strategy and operations practice. 2006
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Reid Sessa graduated from the University of Notre Dame with an MBA in corporate finance in May 2015. He started working for Bank of America the next month. Peter J. Woods recently graduated from New York University with a master’s degree in real estate. He is a real estate associate at JPMorgan Chase.
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Francis “Dom” Brockway recently returned from teaching English in Southern Thailand. Since arriving back in the States, he received his real estate license and is working for a major firm in Manhattan.
James Lavelle writes: “I am currently attending Marist College, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in history and adolescent education. I am the author of a forthcoming article that will be published by SUNY Plattsburgh on their History Digital Commons website and database. The article is entitled ‘The Role of Propaganda in Destabilizing the Directory and Securing Napoleon’s Power,’ which I recently presented at the Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honor Society) Upper New York State Regional Conference. I would like to thank Xavier history teachers James Costa ’02 and Patrick Mahon ’04 for continuously encouraging my study and passion for history during my time at Xavier. I would not have been able to achieve such a milestone this early on in my professional career without the skills that I built during my time in their classes.”
Christian Knoch currently works in advertising for Ogilvy & Mather and is a member of the 106th Rescue Wing, New York Air National Guard.
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John F. Whelan earned his law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in June 2015. He passed the New York State Bar Examination and was admitted to practice in New York State on February 3. He is an associate at Schlam, Stone & Dolan LLP.
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Rev. Nicholas Colalella celebrated his one-year anniversary as a priest in the Brooklyn Diocese on June 27. He has been studying Biblical languages at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, a Jesuit Institute. Colalella hopes to travel to the Holy Land at
Edward F. Wagner, III graduated from Dartmouth College in June. He was captain of the track and field team there and holds all-time number 3 honors in the 400-meter hurdles with 52.07, run at the Penn Relays in April 2014. John Chiaia is attending Mount Saint Mary College and recently completed his third year as a public relations and journalism major. He served as the junior class president this year and will be senior class secretary next year. Chiaia will return to work for his college’s Residence Life Office as a third-year senior resident assistant.
CPT Michael J. Chiaia, USA graduated from the Aviation Maintenance Officer’s Course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, and is assigned as the CHOPS (Chief of Operations) for the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade at Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii.
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Thomas J. Reilly is an assistant district attorney in Richmond County. He graduated from Fordham University School of Law in May 2015 and was admitted to the New York Bar in January.
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Mike Reinhardt owns and runs Locals Surf School in Rockaway. He hosted members of the Xavier Surf Club and their advisor, Mike Petri ’02, in May. Fr. Nicholas Colallela, second from right
the end of the summer to further his studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem while residing at the Jesuits’ Biblicum campus there.
2012 Last year, Domenic DeNiro was awarded the Tauck Scholarship from Lehigh University. As a result, he traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa, to work with Deloitte in their audit practice for a month. While in South Africa, he also went Great White Shark cage diving, rode an elephant, and paraglided off one of the country’s largest mountains. DeNiro will begin working with Deloitte full-time in their 30 Rockefeller Plaza office starting in September. Joseph Klein graduated from Marquette University, magna cum laude, in May with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. He earned a teaching assistantship from Marquette and will begin his master’s coursework in mechanical engineering this fall. Anthony Pucik recently graduated from Fordham University. He is currently working at ABC News Radio as an associate producer.
2015 Matthew Chan recently completed his first year of studies at St. John’s University. “It feels like it was yesterday when I walked down the aisle of St. Patrick’s Cathedral to receive my diploma,” he said. “I am so thankful for everything Xavier has taught me. Although I had to leave after four incredible years at Xavier, I knew I was prepared for college and for life. Xavier prepared me academically, physically, and spiritually.”