FLASH TO THE 50TH! FOR TH S E T 5 N 0 E T V H E 0 H 5 T 5 0 0 5 E E V H E N T T S F O R Making an Impression in HOLLYWOOD JOSH ROBERT THOMPSON ’93 PG 4 3 FEATURES Making An Impression in Hollywood .................................... 4-9 STUDENT/FACULTY LIFE The Paduan is a publication of Padua Franciscan Padua Marketing Campaign Nets Multiple Awards ................ 10 High School Office for Institutional Advancement. Friar Club Dinner ................................................................. 11 EDITORS BOARD OF TRUSTEES New Soccer/Lacrosse Fields Under Construction .................. 12 Student News .................................................................. 14-15 Jerry Jindra ’70 Theodore J. Haag, O.F.M. Vice President for President Institutional Advancement Susan Huber ALUMNI NEWS Laurie Keco Grabowski ’89 Treasurer Assistant Director for Gerald R. Jindra ’70 A Message from The Class of ’86 Reunion Committee ........... 20 Institutional Advancement Secretary It Was September 1961 .................................................... 22-23 Rob Holz ’90 Genmarie Stiber Director of Alumni Affairs Vice Chairperson CALENDAR Lillian Gathers Martin K. Zanotti ’70 Director of Admissions Chairperson and Marketing Jerry Bleem, O.F.M. What’s Happening Through October 2011 ............................. 21 Cheryl Kuhn James A. Climer Administrative Assistant Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. ’71 SPORTS UPDATE DESIGN & LAYOUT James M. Dighero Nick DiGioia Sports Notables ............................................................... 24-25 427 Design, Akron, OH Ann-Marie DiPaolo ’86 Padua Coaches Announce Retirement ................................... 25 © 2011 Padua Franciscan Timothy Dobeck High School Phil Hogan, O.F.M. SOMETHIN’ BRUIN 6740 State Road Nick J. Iafigliola Parma, Ohio 44134 Gerald M. Koler ’86 440.845.2444 Update on Our Padua Grads ................................................. 27 PaduaFranciscan.com David J. Sibits ’68 John M. Veres PADUA ALUMNI: Update Information Sheet Name Class of Address City State Zip Home Phone: ( ) Work Phone: ( ) Fax: ( ) E-mail: College We are very Degree/Major interested in what you have College accomplished. Degree/Major Now you can Employment: Business/Position update your If married, spouse’s name: profile online! Names/ages of children: Do you have Somethin’ Bruin? Write your news here: Interested in participating in the Padua Alumni Assoc.? Yes, please send me an invitation to the next meeting SEND TO: Padua Franciscan Alumni Association, 6740 State Road, Parma, Ohio 44134 OR fax us at 440.845.5710 at any time, seven days a week, or go to PaduaFranciscan.com/alumni FEATURES FROM WHERE I SIT... Making An Impression in Hollywood .................................... 4-9 Once again, STUDENT/FACULTY LIFE ...we’ve come a long way – and a bright hopes and dreams, whose energy and future lies ahead! enthusiasm, whose dedication and the pages of commitment to Catholic and Franciscan this Paduan Padua Marketing Campaign Nets Multiple Awards ................ 10 I saw a greeting card recently. I education laid our sure foundation. are filled with Friar Club Dinner ................................................................. 11 believe it was a card to celebrate And from the moment that first school accounts of New Soccer/Lacrosse Fields Under Construction .................. 12 one’s graduation. On the front of the bell rang to begin the first class period persons who have been and are Student News .................................................................. 14-15 card was a drawing of Winnie the of our long history – and ever since a part of our rich heritage — describing Pooh and Piglet. Winnie the Pooh was then — faculty and staff and students, the ways in which Padua Franciscan staring intently at a line of footprints ALUMNI NEWS administrators and parents, families High School has provided opportunities, — and saying to Piglet: “They only tell and friends have continued to build has shaped lives, and has offered a you where you’ve been.” A Message from The Class of ’86 Reunion Committee ........... 20 on that foundation in countless ways, bright future. For that too is what our big and small. Through all those ef- anniversary is about: not just where It Was September 1961 .................................................... 22-23 We inaugurated our celebration of the forts which shaped curriculums and we have been but also and especially 50th Anniversary of Padua Franciscan clubs and athletic programs, which where we are going, not just the High School at the Bruin Benefit in CALENDAR shaped our tradition in the fine arts footprints but also the path that lies April. Certainly an important part of and our generosity in outreach and ahead — that bright and promising such an anniversary celebration is, What’s Happening Through October 2011 ............................. 21 service, which shaped us as a school future that is before us because of like Winnie the Pooh and Piglet, looking for young men and shaped us again where we have been and who we have at the line of Padua’s footprints and as a school that also welcomed young been together these past fifty years. SPORTS UPDATE considering where we have been. We women, which shaped who we are and We will continue to build together — take the time in this jubilee year to what we do in mission and ministry — build relationships, build hopes and Sports Notables ............................................................... 24-25 reflect upon our past, to be mindful so we have become that community of dreams, and build a community of of our history and our heritage, to Padua Coaches Announce Retirement ................................... 25 holiness and learning which is known holiness and learning for many years, remember the events and the persons, as the Padua Franciscan family. for many generations to come. over many years, that brought us SOMETHIN’ BRUIN to our present day. It is a good and It is this building up of a community As you read in these pages (and else- worthwhile thing to make this memory, that is, I believe, at the heart of our where) about the events planned for Update on Our Padua Grads ................................................. 27 for it is those events and those persons celebration of this anniversary year. the coming year, I truly hope that you which have shaped Padua Franciscan We look at footprints — the footprints will be a part of those events as much High School — not only as an institution of those who have gone before us, who as you are able. Come and be with us but also as a community. have led the way, who have shared our in this special time. Perhaps you are lives. We remember and celebrate and frequently in touch with the Padua When Padua Franciscan opened its give thanks to God for those persons, community and a part of our activities doors in the fall of 1961, it opened its those relationships, those lasting lessons — or perhaps it has been awhile since doors to a building only half completed. learned, those values and ideals that you have visited the school or awhile That image, to me, is a striking one — make us who we are today. It is my since we have heard from you. Please and a meaningful one. From the begin- hope that it is precisely this that we continue to let us know where you are ning, Padua Franciscan was “a work hold in our minds and hearts, that and what you have been doing. You in progress.” Eventually the architects we treasure and cherish, that we lift too have helped to make us who we and contractors and construction up with joy and gratitude — not only are today. Please join us as we celebrate workers completed hallways and class- in this jubilee time but every day and together — renewing, strengthening, rooms and offices that are the physi- always. For whether one graduated at and deepening those fifty years of cal place known as Padua Franciscan that first commencement in 1965 or relationships that have made us the High School. But you and I know that most recently as the Class of 2011, it Padua Franciscan family. Padua Franciscan is more than just is those relationships, those life-lessons, bricks and mortar. Well before that those values and ideals that are of With prayers for blessings of peace first day of school, well before the first enduring worth and that we take with and everything good — shovel of dirt was turned, there were us and hold onto for our continued those who had a vision – those whose growth and good. Fr. Theodore J. Haag, O.F.M., President 3 ever underestimate the power of old-time radio, late night TV, or midnight monster movies. For Josh Robert Thompson ’93, these early broadcasting influences gave rise to an entire career in showbiz as, in his words, “a professional schizophrenic” extending his multiple personas throughout radio, television, video games, and at a theatre near you. 4 Josh is at once a comedian, actor, impressionist, and extraordinary voice artist, perhaps best recognized as Craig Ferguson’s robot sidekick, Geoff Peterson, on The Late Late Show (CBS). “I watched a lot of late night talk shows when I was a kid, particularly Johnny Carson,” Josh said. “So to now be Craig’s robotic Ed MacMahon is a huge honor.” As a voice actor, Josh lends his skills as a celebrity impressionist to episodes of FOX’s Family Guy, American Dad, and The Cleveland Show, while also appearing in major video game titles like Final Fantasy XIII, the Call of Duty series, and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. Due to his uncanny abilities as a mimic, Josh can slide effortlessly from sounding like Robert De Niro to Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matthew McConaughey to Morgan Freeman, and beyond. Josh does it so well, in fact, that he regularly gets called upon to replace major movie stars’ dialogue in LEFT: Josh in the a process called ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement). studio, photo: Josh “When an actor is not available and a movie studio needs to Robert Thompson fix a line or replace a swear word, they call in people like me,” ABOVE AND COVER: Josh explains.