C LASS 20 OF 18 SE RE TS CORD P S age 26 Celebr aTion Photo credit: Matt Gadd '19 and Richard Gregor '19
2 IN THIS ISSUE President’s Notebook...... 4 Principal’s Corne r...... 6 The Spiritual Sid e ...... 8 Alumni Board Chai r ...... 10 News From Yo u ...... 12 ISSUE In Memoria m ...... 16 SUMMER 2018 Rocks In The Medi a ...... 18 ON THE COVER: Trinity’s storied history comes to life each May as another Class of 201 8 ...... 26 Trinity class leaves their legacy. Photo credit Gail Kamenish H’04 Alumni News...... 36 (NOTE: On the cover this past spring we would like to credit Signature Studios for their photo of our award-winning staff) The Legac y ...... 42 TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL ADVANCEMENT Campus News...... 46 Shamrock Sport s ...... 62 DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS Mr. James Torra H’12 Upcoming Event s ...... Back Page ADMISSIONS Mr. Bret Saxton ’05 ADMISSIONS ADMINISTRATIVE 12 18 ASSISTANT Mrs. Melanie Hughes DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS & COMMUNICATIONS Mr. Chris Toth ’06
ALUMNI RELATIONS ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Mrs. Carrie Joy
SOCIAL MEDIA LIAISON Mr. Joe Porter ’78
TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
PRESIDENT Dr. Robert J. Mullen ’77
VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT Mr. Jim Beckham ’86 32 DIRECTOR OF THE TRINITY ANNUAL FUND Mr. Brian Monell ’86
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF THE ANNUAL FUND Mrs. Michelle Walters H’17
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high school, forming men of faith THE LEADER IS DESIGNED BY LONNIE WALKER / WWW.PRIMOGRAPHICS.NET and men of character. 3 Class of 2018 k
Led by our principal Dan Zoeller , and guided by o their teachers, counselors and support staff, the Class o
of 2018 leaves Trinity after establishing several new b
academic records. e t
For the 13th consecutive year, we required every sen - o
ior to take the ACT as a graduation requirement. We n were one of the first schools in the Commonwealth to s
have this requirement. As of this writing, Assistant ’ Principal and Academic Dean Jeremy Jackson t
reports that their ACT composite score is the high - n
est in school history. e d
Remember, as trumpeted in the NCEA’s national Mo - i mentum newsmagazine, Trinity enrolls an academi - s
cally diverse class which represents Placement Test e scores across the entire spectrum. But as seen above, r
when they enroll at Trinity, excellent academic results p follow.
Our students take a series of pre-ACT predictive tests By Dr. Robert (Rob) J. Mullen ’77, President as underclassmen. Nearly every graduate met or ex - ceeded their predicted ACT score. A strong ACT score May they remember God’s Truth that they found in offers three benefits: (1) access to the college one these halls and the Wisdom that echoes clear. desires, (2) opportunities for scholarships, and (3) better preparation for the rigors of college-level study. Cheering Paul Diehl , director of the Advanced Program, While setting new academic records, our seniors led reports that more than 660 AP exams were the way in exhibiting scheduled to be taken; character and class at this is the most in athletic competitions, school history. The AP “Remember, as trumpeted in the on the field and in the exams are a way to gain stands. Our teams our college credit while taking NCEA’s national Momentum news - annually honored by the classes at Trinity. magazine, Trinity enrolls an academi - Kentucky High School cally diverse class which represents Athletic Association for College Guidance Coun - their sportsmanship selors Matt Manning Placement Test scores across the entire and our students and Allie Kerns report spectrum. When they enroll at Trinity, keep their cheers that the class received col - appropriate. lege merit scholarship of - excellent academic results follow.” fers totaling $35.6 Occasionally at ball - million, which is a new games, other schools’ school record. They were student cheering sections focus on one player and accepted at nearly 140 colleges and universities. hurl sarcastic remarks at him. I’m talking about more Acceptances were offered by such schools as Amherst than razzing a player during a play. I am referring to College, Boston University, Brown University, Dart - deliberate, organized cheers meant to demean an in - mouth College, New York University, Northeastern dividual. I saw this during the past basketball season. University, the University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University. If you attend our games, you will see Trinity teachers, administrators and staff members monitoring and, They were generous to charitable causes, performed when needed, correcting our students. Our guys are thousands of hours of community service, excelled in not perfect. They are teenagers. They can act in im - academic and athletic competitions, and participated pulsive and thoughtless ways. It is our job to point in religious offerings like the voluntary senior retreat. them in the right direction.
4 Service random drug and alcohol testing program for our Promoting and performing acts of charity are an students. By every measure, it has been a success. integral way we underscore Trinity’s mission for our The first year we tested 600 students; the second, students. It helps them see a world larger than their 800. This year we tested more than 1,000. Even own perspective. The list of activities and organiza - though we keep testing more students, the percentage tions our students have supported this past year is of positive results keeps declining. We are seeing less impressive: than three students out of a hundred testing positive. During the 2018-19 school year, we will test every Water with Blessings. Operation Smile. Special student at least once. Olympics. WaterStep. Children’s Hospital - Jarret’s Joy Cart. Community Catholic Center. The Pink- When a student tests positive, parents are immedi - White Game. The Rice Bowl. Beacon House. Junior ately made aware of the risky decisions their son is Olympics at the Kentucky School for the Blind. New making and school support is provided. Almost Directions Housing. Two Red Cross bloodmobiles. always parents are thankful to be made aware of their Kristy Love Foundation. Projects associated with son’s poor choices. If a student tests positive, retests Mayor Fischer’s Give-a-Day program including Mead - are mandated. Becoming a man of character means owview Cemetery cleanup. St. Joe’s Children’s Home. learning the importance of accountability. Nazareth Home. The James Graham Brown Cancer Center through the Rock the Heart lacrosse event. We hear frequently from students and parents that it Kentucky Humane Society. Wayside Christian Mis - really does help in peer situations to be able to say, “I sion. Little Sisters of the Poor. Project Warm. Blanket can’t. My school tests.” of Hope Society. St. Mary Center. YMCA Safe Place. Russell neighborhood cleanup. Abbey of Gethsemane Several other schools have adopted our policy. service project. Catholic Charities. Family Scholar House. Hand in Hand Ministries. St. Matthew’s Area With the concurrence of our faculty and staff, the Ministries. St. John’s Center. Kling Center. Wesley Trinity School Board adopted a pre-employment and House. Active Heroes. Habitat for Humanity. Trees random testing program for all employees. This was Louisville. Home of the Innocents. Hurricane relief done to be in solidarity with our students and to un - efforts in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas. derline the school’s stance against illegal drugs and abusive drinking. When you consider the community service require - ment fulfilled by all students, seniors involved in our To further set an example for our students, our most community service classes (serving at more than 30 recent annual CelebraTion benefit dinner and auction sites), activities led by our Green Cross Club and work was alcohol-free. It also happened to be the most of the St. Joseph of Arimathea Society, it is easy to see successful financially of the past five years. the positive impact our students are having. Please pray for us The school again supported the Catholic Education Foundation’s Salute to the Game luncheon. For the We ask your continued prayers as we strive to live third time, the school hosted Kentucky Right to Life’s out our mission: “Walk for Life.” The school provided event space for Crossroads Ministries, a partner of St. William We are a Catholic college-preparatory high Catholic Church; the school also provided space for school, forming men of faith and men of the church’s sister parish initiative in Nicaragua. character. The school also hosted the Marian Committee’s 66th annual Living Rosary.
Drug and alcohol testing We finished our third school year of randomly testing students for drug and alcohol use. As I have done the past two years, I am providing an update on our results.
Let me remind the reader that the testing program is one of more than 20 initiatives we have in drug and alcohol education, prevention and intervention. It was three years ago we stepped out from the crowd and showed special leadership by implementing a 5 The sum total of our choices r e Imagine you’re a fish, swimming in a pond. You can move forward and back, side to side, but never up n out of the water. If someone were standing beside the r pond, watching you, you’d have no idea they were o c
there. To you, that little pond is an entire universe.
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you out of the pond. You see that what you thought l was the entire world is only a small pool. You see a other ponds. Trees. The sky above. You realize you’re p
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So writes Blake Crouch in his best-seller Dark Matter, i
a novel I read over spring break. I like to read a good r science fiction thriller from time to time, and this p book’s mix of theoretical physics and alternate uni - verses had me hooked early and often.
The novel’s protagonist is a small college physics in - structor who has a wonderful wife and child but sometimes finds himself wondering “what if” he’d taken a more academic, focused path. He soon discov - By Daniel J. Zoeller H’07, Principal ers that in the multiverse, he did live such a life as well as an infinite number more, all based on the sum the course of their and others’ lives. On retreats this total of his choices. year, students repeatedly took chances by sharing and reaching out with their classmates. Some of this We’ve probably all daydreamed “what if’s” about our transferred into new friendships. Other students were lives. Certainly, the choices we make each day have inspired to volunteer their own time to lead retreats much larger repercussions than we know. I’m also a or get more involved in service work, all because of a big believer in the interconnectivity of our lives. I be - moment, a choice. lieve there are forces at work in this world we cannot see nor fully understand. In fact, scientists believe At the end of this year, several teachers retired from such interactive dark matter makes up nearly 80% of Trinity after many years of great work. Joe Bryant, the mass of matter in the universe. If you’re a cosmic Tom Dubay, and Dennis Lampley all dedicated their junkie, you probably know this matter is tied in with entire working careers to Trinity. What choice led black holes, white dwarfs, and other non-baryonic them here? How might their and thousands of stu - matter. In other words, there is a lot we don’t know dents’ lives been impacted if they’d gone down an - about our universe. other road?
What’s all this have to do with finishing out another All these unknowns we will never be able to fully ex - school year? I think it just lends credence to the idea plain. In our religious heritage, we can reconcile and we are doing God’s work at Trinity. Though we don’t calm our fears about how our lives unfold in faith. We see God’s hand, we can see the results. There are mys - believe there is a God that loves us, and even if we terious and beautiful forces working with us here at cannot fully explain our blessings and tragedies, we Trinity High School. believe there is a God outside the pond watching, for - giving, and urging us on. Sometimes those invisible forces manifest in a hunch. A teacher will pass by a student in class and detect Over the course of my life, one of the biggest lessons something isn’t quite right. Many times this year, I I’ve learned is simply to accept the limitations of what witnessed teachers and counselors making good I can know. As Crouch says in Dark Matter, “The most choices to intervene for a student’s well-being. beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” Working closely with parents, students were put back on the right path. Who knows where they’d be So, I conclude with a prayer of gratitude for another or are in that alternate universe where an adult year of intention and mystery in the life of Trinity turned a blind eye? High School. I’m blessed to be one small thread in a beautiful and unknowable tapestry of both choice Students too make choices every day which change and fate.
6 7 Something in the air e d
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us and him.” Again, there is just something in the s air. Our most recent graduating seniors expressed much the same sort of heart-felt melancholy as they e were leaving. They felt that same spirit. h t
Father Steinhauser , our founder, knew that same spirit as well. I, for one, heard him express his love for what was going on here in our earliest days. For him the founding of this school and its successful first few years was a matter of the heart. By Reverend David Zettel ’58, Chaplain At our most recent Emerald Society brunch in early May, our graduates from over 50 years ago were still composed that song from his heart. speaking of their fond memories of their formative experience here and of their ongoing loyalty to Do not tell me that God is not alive and active with Trinity. his love and mercy in the hearts of all of us here All of these people are who try sincerely to live motivated and energized “In this believing, faith-based, Catholic out our mission, the faith by that same “something school family there is clear evidence, as and character formation in the air” that permeates of our students in the our lives together here in I see it, of God’s Holy Spirit and His tradition of American this school community. influence. Our 250 employees are Catholic education. In this believing, faith- based, Catholic school imbued with it and are committed to And so, it is in that spirit family there is clear passing it on to our students.” of cooperation, of willing - evidence, as I see it, of ness, of collaboration and God’s Holy Spirit and professional team effort, His influence. Our 250 always open to the influ - employees are imbued with it and are committed to ence of God’s Holy Spirit, that we continue to succeed passing it on to our students. and grow. For this we are eternally grateful. For this reason we continually celebrate that special Dr. Dave Hazelip , our second head of school, often “something in the air” that moves and urges us spoke of TrinIty as a “happy place with such a good ever forward. We are blessed. spirit.” He, the author of our alma mater, knew it and
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8 Being green is not just a school color at Trinity While our students learn about the church’s teachings on environmental stewardship and study ecological issues, we strive to turn lessons into action. “Sustainability” is a hot buzz word these days. Concerns over carbon footprints and arguments over climate change make this a prime time to pay attention to Trinity’s impact on the environment while setting a good example for students. Our initiatives fall into several categories:
Heating, cooling and lighting We burn a lot of energy heating, cooling and lighting our buildings. Energy audits assist in finding solutions that produce the kinds of results we need. Fortunately we have been able to reign in our consumption using several techniques: n Our boilers and cooling units are very new. A new chiller was installed in 2017. Extensive upgrades and new installations over the past decade have increased the efficiency of our equipment. n Centralized thermostat controls allow us to automatically control the units during periods of use and non-use. n We have replaced light fixtures, bulbs and ballasts with energy-efficient products.
Materials We incorporate the latest energy-smart materials in new construction and replacement of old. Some examples of materials we have used that assist in our effort: n Most all roofs are covered with light-colored materials that work best in warm or cold weather. Insulation is added when new roofs are installed, which also increases energy efficiency. n Windows, whether those used in new construction or those that are part of our multi-year replacement program, are energy-efficient with the best ratings possible. n Low-flow commodes are used in new construction and in the remodeling projects of the bathrooms in the existing classroom buildings.
Recycling With 1,500 people on campus each day, it stands to reason that we produce a lot of “stuff” each day. Our recycling efforts have been in place a long time and more are added each year. n The student-led Environmental Club collects white paper each week from classrooms and offices and takes it to a campus recycling collection center where it is picked up by an outside partner. Offices have paper collection centers where contents are eventually shredded for recycling. We recycle cardboard and receive reductions in our waste collection charges for doing so. n Computers and related equipment are collected by a recycling partner and disposed of properly. n Theology and science department faculty members collect used coffee grinds in the faculty and staff lounge, using them in compost piles. n Rigid styrofoam is collected by science faculty members, who take it to a local recycling center. n Teachers bring used batteries to a dedicated bin in the faculty lounge. They are tested and those still usable are available for re-use by faculty, with the rest delivered to a recycling center. n Along with recycling efforts, we are trying to reduce the amount of paper used by moving to as many paperless transactions as possible.
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11 Let your brother alumni know what’s happening in your life. Submit your “News From You” ,
u items to Alumni Relations & Communications Director Chris Toth 06 via email at toth@trinity - rocks.com, fax at 502-899-2052 or mail at: Trinity High School, Attn: Chris Toth,
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of Jefferson County Property 1970 Valuation Administrator. John is m Class Ambassadors: a former Jefferson County PVA
o Jerry Ditsler - [email protected] and is in his 31st year as a real
r Glenn Edelen - [email protected] estate appraiser in the Greater Tom Gliessner - [email protected] Louisville market area. He has
F Phil Kayrouz - [email protected]
served on the Waterfront Devel - Dave McCarthy - [email protected] opment Corporation Board of s Tim McDaniel - [email protected] Directors and the Jefferson Pat Meehan - [email protected] County Board of Assessment
w Dennis Price - [email protected] Appeals and holds the presti - gious SRA designation from the e George Martin retired last Appraisal Institute. John and his year from ESCO Manufacturing wife Shellie (SHA '86) are the N Inc. (Tampa, FL) after 35 years proud parents of John, Jr. ’14, as Materials Manager. George is Charlotte (SHA ’14) and Patrick currently enjoying retirement (Ballard ’17). The election is No - in New Port Richey, FL. You vember 2018. can reach George at gdb9903@ outlook.com. 1987 Class Ambassadors: Ken Blake - [email protected] 1980 Matt Elder - [email protected] Darrin Holland - [email protected] Class Ambassadors: Bruce Lindsey - [email protected] Steve Davis - [email protected] George Martin Tim Poole - [email protected] Bill Fust - [email protected] Jack Horn - [email protected] Emmett C. Ramser was named Pete Kazunas - [email protected] chief administrative officer at John King - [email protected] Norton’s Children’s Hospital in January. In his role, Ramser will Jeff Frazier , left, is once again oversee all facets of the hospital’s training for another Ironman operations and work diligently to Louisville competition this fall. ensure that children throughout This is his tenth competition. Kentucky and Southern Indiana have access to specialty care. He also will oversee operations of Norton Children’s Medical Center in northeastern Jefferson County. The appointment 1982 came following a national search. Class Ambassadors: “I’m honored to join Norton Children’s Hospital in this Tim Culver – [email protected] capacity,” Ramser said. “The health and well-being of Bill Hodapp - [email protected] our children is so important to this community, and I Stuart Monohan - [email protected] look forward to working with our patients, families Larry Osting - [email protected] and staff to ensure we always provide the best possible care.” John May , top right, past-president of the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors and the Kentucky Ramser and his wife Barbara are the proud parents of Association of Realtors, filed for election to the office Daniel ’15, Matthew ’18 and Andrew ’21.
12 1999 2006 N Class Ambassadors: Class Ambassadors: e
Mike Arledge - [email protected] Andrew Abell - [email protected] w Matt Barry - [email protected] Adam Ernst - [email protected] Pat Barry - [email protected] Chris Horn - [email protected] Jacob Dallenbach - [email protected] Marty Nash - [email protected] s
Will Fischer - [email protected] Kyle Saylor - [email protected] Troy Montgomery - [email protected] F
Andy Neuner - [email protected] James Kusak was named Director of Operations for r
Richard Plouffe - [email protected] Men’s Soccer at the University of o Josh Plummer - [email protected] Louisville in May. Following a Brad Steller - [email protected] successful playing career at Trinity m Will Zurkuhlen - [email protected] and Centre College, James coached
at Hendrix College (AR) and Centre Richard Plouffe, Jr. before taking over as head coach Y and his wife Sara, right, of Bluffton College (OH) for two o welcomed Henry Boyd seasons prior to making the move to the world on May 22. back home (right). u Baby Henry and mom are both doing great, as Kale (2) is enjoying 2014 being a big brother! Class Ambassadors: Richard is Trinity’s Mark Hines - [email protected] head rugby coach. Charlie Tancula - [email protected]
Lee University senior Nick Eckert was awarded the 2003 2018 Zeno C. Tharp Award during the Class Ambassadors: university’s Honors Chapel in April. Ryan Capito - [email protected] Established in 1955, this annual award John Dean - [email protected] is given to a Lee senior who shows the Keith Duffy - [email protected] greatest promise of making a signifi - Alex Germano - [email protected] cant contribution to the Church. Nick Dan Meade - [email protected] graduated summa cum laude in May Ryan Miranda - [email protected] from the university after majoring in Cole Nunier - [email protected] intercultural studies with a minor in Andrew Porter - [email protected] biology. Jon Shore - [email protected] Throughout his collegiate studies Rob Oakley , right, was recently hired as the Chief Nick traveled to many foreign lands Operations Officer for Home Instead Sen - on mission trips. “I plan to use my training in inter - ior Care in Louisville. Rob will lead the cultural studies and my medical education to operations team that delivers home care bring holistic healing and the hope of the Gospel services to keep clients in their home to the most underserved and least engaged parts instead of long term care facilities. He of the world,” said Eckert. is looking forward to this opportunity, and the challenge to improve people's Blake Merkley graduated from lives in the Louisville community. Bellarmine University in May and Rob is pictured with his wife Amanda, recently began working in the market - son Shelton (3) and daughter Magnolia (1). ing department at Merkley-Kendrick You can reach Rob at [email protected]. Jewelers in St. Matthews. Each year Merkley-Kendrick donates a watch to the graduating member of the senior class Wes Felts and his wife Tiffany who earns the Business Award. welcomed Blake William to the world on June 1 (left)! Pictured is Brian Merkley ’91 presenting the award to Riley Davidson ’18 . You can contact Blake at [email protected]. 13 2014 cont. u Sean Melican is a member
o of the Somnio Capital Solutions team, a Private Y
Wealth Advisory Practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Sean is cur - m rently a financial planning
o assistant and will be
r graduating from the University of Louisville F this fall. You can reach
him at [email protected]. s Trinity is 2016 w a Catholic, Class Ambassadors: e Michael Chan - [email protected] college-preparatory Justin Karem - [email protected] N Michael Hiestand - [email protected] high school, Jake Woosley - [email protected] Tommy McConville - [email protected] forming men of faith Jorge Rojas-Ortega contin - ues to study at the University and men of Southern California. Aside from his studies, Jorge runs of character. an organization called Novus Think Tank where they recently hosted an event called The Giving Games. Aside from the fun and intrigue of the concept, the organization donates $10 for each attendee to one of four philanthropies. The organization also developed a retreat program centered around Jorge’s and his colleagues’ experi - ences at senior retreat and similar experiences.
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14 Where do YOU read The Leader?
LEFT: Shamrocks enjoying The Leader in Lake Como, Italy. Pic - tured L to R: Steve Kiper ‘76, Perry Thacker ‘76, Bob Sheehan ‘77 and Fr. Ron Domhoff .
BELOW: Judge David Stosberg ’64 read The Leader atop Sugarloaf Mountain in Brazil.
RIGHT: David Irigoyen ’77 read The Leader in the George W. Bush Oval Office in Dallas, TX.
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15 May the Souls of the Faithful departed, through the Mercy of God, Rest in Peace.
Doris M. Adams, grandmother of Stephen ’04 and Randall Harmon Fisher, Sr., father of Randall Fischer II ’75 m Chris ’08 Abell William "Bill" E. Fox Sr., grandfather of T.J. ’07 and Sam ’10 a Carol Rae Haas Albers, mother-in-law of Charles Schoen - Fox and Eric Martin ’08 i bachler, Sr. ’80, Jim Beckham ’86 and Sean Willenbrink
r ’96; grandmother of Charles, Jr. ’01 and Judith M. Francis H’90, wife of Jesse Francis ’63, mother of Casey ’07 Schoenbachler Jesse "J.J." ’93 and Chad ’94 Francis o Paul Amburgey, father of Paul E. Amburgey ’78 Helen "Jean" Fultz, mother of John Jr. ’74, Jeffery ’80 and Carl ’81 Fultz; grandmother of Kurtis Fultz ’09
m Helen "Kathy" Catherine Baskett, mother of Robert E. Baskett ’97 Clara Gene Dumstorf Gruneisen, mother of Kevin
e Gruneisen ’77; aunt of Matt ’85, Andy ’82, and Jamie ’91 Brother Bob Baxter, OFM, (Trinity senior retreat program) Dumstorf; grandmother of Daniel ’14 and Ben ’17 Smith
M Arthur Albert Guepe, grandfather of Ryan Miller ’20 Mark Joseph Bayens ’74, father of Craig Bayens ’99, father- in-law of Jeff Faust ’99; brother-in-law of Fred J. Kunz III ’75 and James R. Kunz ’89 Louise Elliott Hall, mother of Greg Hall ’89 n
I Barbara Mudd Bellucci, wife of Tony Bellucci ’64; mother of Richard "Dick" O. Hays, father-in-law of Doug Williams ’82; Michael Bellucci ’00 grandfather of Luke Williams ’17
J. David Beneke, grandfather of John Burkley ’11 James E. Hemmer, Jr ’89, son of James E. Hemmer, Sr. ’62
Robert "Jerry" Gerald Blocker, father of Bob ’81 and Steve Edward "Ned" Hickey, father of Tom ’79 and Michael ’83 ’84 Blocker Hickey
Donald Joseph Breit ’73, father of Alex Breit ’10 Sara Marie Milliner Higdon, mother Ernest D., Jr. ’76 and Gene ’85 Higdon David J. Brown ’71 Glenda Joyce Hill, mother-in-law of Dave Aberli ’75 Eugene D. "Gene" Burns, Sr., father of Dale ’77 and Robert ’80 Burns; grandfather of Dale Burns, Jr. ’07 Patricia Ann Hobbs, grandmother of Wesley ’07 and Scott ’10 Hobbs Anne Cecil (Lepping) Burnstein, mother of Mattthew ’89 and David ’96 Burnstein; sister of Robert ’64 and Joe ’68 Eric A. Hughes, father of Bert ’97, Derrick ’99 and Nash ’02 Lepping Hughes
Charlotte Alexander Buster, grandmother of Patrick Buster Joseph Daniel Jackson, father of Jeremy Jackson H’14 ’20 (Trinity faculty)
Pete Paul Castagno, Jr., father of Tim ’73, Phil ’75, Larry ’78 Charles "Harry" Jarboe, father of Jeff R. Jarboe ’71 and Bob ’81 Castagno; grandfather of Jack Castagno ’21 John B. Johnson II ’73 Mary Rita Chesher, mother of Thomas J. Chesher ’70 William Burleigh Kaster, Sr., grandfather of Shane Kaster Carl "C.L." Cissna Jr. ’66 ’00
James W. (Jim) Cobb ’70, brother of George "Skip" Cobb Mary Ann Kayse, mother of Donald Joe ’75, Mark ’76 and ’66; brother-in-law of Wayne Kraus ’85 David ’77 Kayse; grandmother of Joe ’97 and Kevin ’05 Kayse Kenneth Robert Combs, father of Dr. Ken Combs ’77; brother of David ’63, Jim ’63 and Thomas E. ’68 Combs; Kathleen Doris Krawczyk, mother of John Krawczyk ’89 brother-in-law of Elfie Combs (cafeteria staff); uncle of Michael Combs ’72, Jimmy York ’79, Kevin Combs ’80, Robert Anthony Lage ’64, father of Anthony Lage ’90 David York ’82, Brian Combs ’98; great-uncle to Sean ’03 and Andy ’08 Lynch and Eric Weining ’03 and Steven York Don Lattis, father of Alex Lattis ’10 ’15 Robert E. Lega ’64 Shirley Ann Barker Conn, mother of Reggie ’68, Terry ’79 and David ’79 Conn; grandmother of Edward Conn ’92 James Michael “Mike” Lewis ’68, father of Scott ’87 and Matthew ’02 Lewis; uncle of David Lewis ’95 (deceased); Charles Lee “Chic” Davis ’63, father of Charles Lee Davis grandfather of Samuel Lewis ’20 ’89 Charles Lickteig, father of Gregory ’96 Lickteig Robert Henry Edelen III, former Trinity faculty Marian Leahy Lord, mother of Greg Lord ’69 (deceased); James A. Ferriell, Jr. ’60 mother-in-law of Lenny Wiseman ’69; grandmother of Justin Wiseman ’96 16 Theresa Ann McKinley, mother of Trey ’02 and Nick ’07 Dorothy “Dot” Strobel, mother of Rick Strobel ’82 I McKinley n Helen M. Suhre (former Trinity cafeteria staff), mother of Ronald Edwin Monks, grandfather of Brady Monks ’22 Charlie Suhre ’63; grandmother of Stephen Suhre ’84 M
Ethel Mae Morris, mother-in-law of Keith Gramig ’81 Robert "Bob" L. Sullivan ’67, father of Andy ’91 and Danny
’99 Sullivan e Theodore Benjamin "Ted" Morrison, father of Tyler Morri -
son ’99 Margaret Ann “Peggy” Tierney, mother of Mark ’85 and m Christopher ’88 Tierney, grandmother of Mark Tierney ’16 Mary Ann Mudd, mother of Kevin M. Mudd ’78
Suzanne Short Turney, founding member of Mama Rocks; o Dr. Robert Edward Murray ’61 mother of Chris ’78, Todd ’81 and Scott ’84 Turney r Thomas M. Murray III ’72 John Wagner, father of Casey ’01 and Dylan ’03 Wagner i
Kathleen Marie (Daly) Osterman, mother-in-law of Andy Vera "Christine" Walker, grandmother of Eric ’04 and Sam a Thurman ’89 ’04 Krebs m Angela Jo Phillips, sister of Anthony ’84, Brian ’87 and Joyce Livers Weaver, mother of John “Bert” Weaver ’69 Chris ’89 Phillips; aunt of Harrison Coffman ’10, Adam ’17 and Kyle ’19 Phillips Erwin "Lee" Webb, grandfather of Adam Webb ’05
“Katie Lou” Phillips, mother of Bruce Phillips ’72 Mary Jane Weiter, mother of Martin Weiter ’71
Eugene Steven "Gene" Rhodes, former Trinity faculty Dalyn Cheri' Whidby, sister of Ian ’13 and Evan ’13 Cox
Mary Rose Riddell, grandmother of Kyle Riddell ’04 and Frank David Wiedmar, brother of Keith Wiedmar (former Jacob Gardner ’97 Trinity faculty)
Bob Roggenkamp, Sr., father of Robert Jr. ’91 Jo (Jefferies) Wilhelm, wife of Carl V. Wilhelm ’60 (deceased), Barry ’94 and Brian ’96 Roggenkamp Jacob Tyler Wilson, Jr., son of Jacob Wilson, Sr. ’09 Peggy E. "Huff" Rueff, mother of Richard ’81 and Paul ’82 Rueff Ann Carroll Farmer Wise, mother of Mark ’78 and Jeff ’80 Wise Eddie Marie Howard Sanders, grandmother of Sean Bell ’09 Lois Eileen Briick Woock H’03, mother of Roger ’66, Tim ’69, Daniel ’71, Stephen ’72, Robert ’73, Doug ’76 and Kevin Michael Bernard Schwab ’77 ’77 Woock; grandmother of Chris ’97, David ’99, and John ’01 Woock Alice Ryan Scott, grandmother of Henry Monohan ’20 Anna Lea Wyatt, mother of Steve Wyatt ’76 Betty Whelan Seay, grandmother of Gabe Schmitt ’15
Dennis H. Secuskie, father-in-law of Patrick Norris ’94 (Trinity staff); grandfather of Hunter ’19 and Drew ’21 Norris
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a i u e r t d g e s s s - s Saxton t Fulfilling all of the job duties of a high school athletic director is a tall order, but difficulties that may be major R to most are minute to Saxton. He rarely gets frustrated on the job, and instead feels constantly fueled by the joy o his job brings. He says this is particularly true when he witnesses “a player, coach or Trinity team demonstrate continuous growth and improvement in their efforts to reach individual and team goals. There is no more real c
joy than what is felt in a post-game winning locker room or at a season ending banquet for a team that has k achieved success.” s
At the end of the day, Saxton says his job is to provide leadership that ensures the athletic programs operate according to the school’s mission to prep students for college as well as “form Men of Faith and Men of Charac - I ter.” When this takes place, Saxton believes the success that transcends wins and losses has been achieved. n His desire is for every Trinity athlete to look back at his four years and feel good about his growth as a person.
T To further progress this reality, Saxton says getting more adults involved in high school sports makes a greater impact overall. h
“High school athletics remains a very, very strong vehicle in which to drive personal growth and development e
in young people,” he says. “The reality is that many school systems and many states are facing shortages of coaches and officials. I am so happy when I see adults, young or old, decide to give back and agree to coach at M the high school level, officiate at the high school level or just volunteer to help at high school events. If I had a magic wand (or maybe a leprechaun to help) I would encourage even more adults to get involved in high school e sports. They will not regret it. They will make a difference.” VT d i a Cooper Winrich ’18 Recognized in The Record
One of Trinity’s newest alums Cooper Winrich ’18 was recognized in The Record on April 5 for winning the district National Speech and Debate Championship in March at Centre College. Cooper will represent Kentucky in the national tournament in Ft. Lauderdale, FL this summer.
Trinity KUNA Delegation Saluted in The Record
The Record saluted Trinity’s Kentucky United Nations Assembly (KUNA) delegation on April 6 for their work at this year’s KUNA conference. The group received a “delegation of excellence” designation.
Individual award winners were: Nick Thevenin (outstanding advocate) and Jared Roberts (outstanding ambassador). The resolution written and presented by Cían Callahan, Matt Gadd and Brandon Chou representing South Africa passed. KUNA ECHO Features
Enjoy these wonderful features by Trinity students featured in The ECHO . You can keep up to date at www.trinityecho.com.
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r C Nearly 40 years after the British invasion, there was another band invasion. Not the Beatles or Rolling Stones. This was Off the Record , a band started by Trinity teacher Mr. Dick Wunderlin in 2006 at the school’s Battle of the Bands.
The Battle of the Bands was an event held annually in Trinity’s cafeteria, featuring student bands in friendly competition. 19 “I saw in the Trinity ECHO that (Trinity English teacher) Jason Daniel played guitar, and I asked him about
a starting a faculty band,” Wunderlin said. i At the Battle of the Bands, Off the Record played only four songs, but it sparked attention. The original band d was composed of Wunderlin, Daniel, Mr. Michael Price and Mr. Steve Eastman . As with many bands,
e members have come and gone during the past 13 years. Other members have included Ms. Jenna Gonzales and Mr. Rob Seng . M
Off the Record has gigged in many places — Bluegrass Brewing Company, Gerstle’s Place, Woodhaven Country Club, Captain’s Quarters, Wicks Pizza, O’Shea’s Irish Pub, Norton Commons Amphitheater, and private parties. e Wunderlin has been the driving force behind the band, scheduling events and allowing the group to practice at his house. h
T “We play anywhere with a good crowd about four to six times a year,” drummer Mr. Brian Monell , director of Trinity’s annual fund, said. n
I Monell, Class of ’86, is the newest member of Off the Record and has always had a passion for drums, starting in his freshman year at Trinity, and was involved with many bands. s “I come from a musical family. My dad played the trombone and was in the choir at church,” Monell said. k Monell loves music and the way it allows him to be creative. “You gotta lay down the beat,” he said. c Daniel plays lead guitar in the band and also shares vocals with lead vocalist Mrs. Amy Cuenca . Daniel first o focused on guitar when he was 18. “When I was 18 my mom gave me a guitar she never played, and I started there,” Daniel said. He joined his first band at 24 and has been in and out of many bands since. R
After receiving a guitar from his cousin, Wunderlin’s interest in the instrument began because “it was the cool thing to do.”
With four to six shows a year, the group practices in his backyard up to six times for each show.
Off the Record, which also features Mr. Rob William s on bass, plays a little bit of everything from Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” to Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer.” In their last performance, they played 50 different songs for all ages.
“We play what the crowd likes,” Monell said.
Off the Record has always had Trinity connections and an ongoing passion for performing. “I have enjoyed the band because it is people I hang out with at Trinity. It is fun with people you know,” Wunderlin said. “It is cool being in a band, seeing people clap and sing.”
Daniel said, “I love music. It’s like a lan - guage that everyone will know without rules, and it brings people together.”
Off the Record — Mr. Brian Monell ’86, Mr. Jason Daniel (Trinity English Dept.), Ms. Amy Cuenca (Wife of Trinity Spanish Teacher Mr. Carlos Cuenca), Mr. Dick Wunderlin (Trinity Math Department), Mr. Rob Williams
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to follow his passion. A good number developed a passion to teach, and what better k place to teach than the place where that desire began? s
Three of many Trinity grads who have returned to their alma mater were inter -
viewed. I n Everyone knows schools change over the years. Class of 1975 alum and current Trinity teacher Mr. Mike
Chancellor said the school has changed a great deal since he went there as a student. One of the biggest T changes is the facilities. h Chancellor said, “The campus has changed so much in general. It looks more like a college out there.” Despite the physical changes the school has undergone, Chancellor said, one part of the school will remain the e
same. “The student-teacher bond will never change. That’s what makes Trinity.” M
Chancellor said another thing that hasn’t changed is the dress code. He said, “I’ve been wearing this same thing for lord knows how many years. Shirt, tie, dress shoes — how much simpler could it get?” e d Chancellor believes teaching has an important purpose. “I came back here to teach so I could give back to Trin -
ity what they gave to me,” he said. i a Chancellor emphasized the memories he has from his time as a student at Trinity. One favorite memory was winning the baseball regional.
“I have endless stories,” Chancellor said. “That’s what makes Trinity so great. These truly are the best four years of your life.”
Class of 1987 grad and current Trinity teacher Mr. John Baldwin also has a favorite moment from his time as a student.
He said, “January of 1987. It was my senior retreat. It really opened my eyes and changed the way I looked at things.”
Baldwin recalls another huge difference from his time as a student to that as a teacher. “Phones. Back when I went here, we had one phone for 1,200 students. Nowadays, everyone is walking around with a phone in their hands,” Baldwin said.
Advice he would give to today’s students? “Study hard and save your money.”
Looking back at his time as a student, Baldwin is amazed at the progress the school has made, especially in technology.
“Computers have made access to information so easy. Don’t take it for granted. Our advancements in technology amaze me to this day,” Baldwin said.
Class of 2005 alum and current Trinity teacher Mr. Mitch Greenwell said the biggest change from his experience as a student is block scheduling.
He said, “When I went here, we had eight classes a day, compared to today’s four.”
Greenwell said he has great memories from his time as a Trinity student: “My freshman year was the first year for the House system. So that was cool. But my favorite moment from high school was Battle of the Bands, even though we didn’t win. Also, senior dress-up day was pretty fun because we dressed up as the Beastie Boys.”
continued on next page 21 Academics, athletics, retreats, senior events. All of these make Trinity a place for learning and memories — and a place where many over the decades have wanted to come back to teach.
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Bob Edelen Will be Missed By Michael Lindenberg ’89, Contributing Writer
The autumn I was 16 brought me in touch with a book that
soon had me ensorcelled. It was William Peter Blatty’s 1971 B
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k ered the book amid the pile of paperbacks available for reading in the back of Bob Edelen’s third-floor classroom s were the heavier issues beneath all the horror and
hooplah. Here in Father Karris, the book’s protagonist, I was a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and Jesuit priest who n was just realizing he had lost his own faith just as fate was
putting him face-to-face with proof of the physical reality of the Devil, and of Evil. T I had tried to get my dad to read it. It’s about God, I told him! But he rejected out of hand the notion that a h horror flick made famous for its scene involving contact between a possessed little girl and a crucifix could in
e fact be worth his time. He was a realist.
I was not. And neither, it turned out, was my new English teacher. M
Bob Edelen was in his early 60s, and boiled over with enthusiasm for so many things; it was hard not to e leave his class with your head swirling. I can’t recall if I convinced him to read The Exorcist, though I am
d certain I tried. Maybe he did, and like The Lord of the Rings, which he eventually dipped into just to see why
I was so enthralled, saw less in it than I did. i
aIt didn’t matter. What counted was he took my interests seriously, and encouraged me to take books – all books – seriously.
I had already begun to think maybe I wanted to be a writer, though I had never met one. I had been scribbling away in my room for a few years, but to little effect. What I found out about my new teacher was that he was in love with writing. And it was intoxicating.
“Friend,” he would say to me, and to many others, in class on any given day, “When you get to college your professors will only care about one thing: ‘What have you read? Which books? Which writers?’”
22 That was definitely what I wanted to hear. There were plenty of things I was counting on them not to be R interested in, such as my grades in physics or Spanish. In fact, a certain diminutive nun who taught honors o chemistry once told me she looked at me and wept over my wasted potential. True story. c
But in other classes, in English, in Eugene Eckert’s fabulous history courses, and later, when I found nourish - k ment in Tony Lococo’s outstanding journalism classes and as part of the ECHO staff, it was a different story.
Trinity put me in touch with the forces within myself longing to break out of ordinary expectations. s
But none of this happened with as much force, with as much soul-lifting power, as in the two full years I spent in I the Independent Studies Program with Bob. n
My mind rolls back over the decades to remember those times, and to look anew at the teenager I was. I marvel T at the mix of ingredients that had been assembled by Trinity, from the coaches that worked with me to the teachers that inspired me to the students who befriended me, and by the parents who sacrificed so much to pay h my tuition. e
There in that school, in that classroom especially, I had friends who were also moved by some of the same cur - rents stirring beneath the sluggish waters of our half-formed brains. Rob Weber, whom I’ll probably embarrass M by mentioning in this piece, was the gentlest soul I’d yet encountered. Named after Robert Kennedy and Martin
Luther King, he was obsessed with writing, too, though his tastes and capacities were different, perhaps deeper, e than mine. (They still are, as his wife and kids could tell you.) d
As a young person, Rob fell under the spell of the mystical monk Thomas Merton, a favorite of mine many years i later, while I was soldiering through Dostoevsky, Robert Penn Warren, Steinbeck, Cervantes and, without suc - a cess, the as-yet indecipherable William Faulkner.
Edelen would have us boys sit in small groups, and turn a tape recorder on and discuss whatever we had been reading. Sometimes this was material out of his beloved anthology – “Roberts on Writing about Literature” – and sometimes it was the books we had chosen for ourselves to read among the stacks in the back.
An honors class, there were plenty of students who were far less focused on the literature and more on the path the class put them onto whatever collegiate track they were bent on, but that didn’t matter. Edelen’s gift was to encourage, without directly saying so, all of us to put down some of our guards and let the magic of the literature work its effect on us.
I never did meet in college a professor who greeted me on the first day by asking, “What have you read?” as I had been so often promised. But I did meet a man in his 70s who would become one of the great mentors of my early career as a journalist. His name was Bob, too, and he led for years a workshop for groups of executives, of judges, or pregnant teenagers, of social workers – you name it – through a weekend or a day of intense reading. Great literature, he would teach, could change your lives, no matter how great or how small those lives are when you encounter the work.
Long before I knew Bob Schulman, I had been taught a similar lesson along with brothers at Trinity by Bob Edelen.
Edelen made me want to write, because he taught me it was a valuable thing to do no matter the career I settled into later. Other mentors, Tony Lococo and Schulman among them, helped me direct those energies toward journalism, which after more than 25 years, has turned into a lucrative and productive career. Boy, the things I have seen.
Few of those things have carried the punch that arrived with last month’s news that Bob’s wife Suzie had died. She had been ill for many years, and I had last visited her a few months ago at the Providence nursing home where they had moved about a year ago. She was blind, and frail, but chipper. And still completely in love with Bob, lying in his bed across the suite.
Bob himself had been suffering from Parkinson’s for years, and it had become hard to understand his language. But he was still full of things to share, and wanted to know what I had been reading, what I had been writing. continued on next page 23 Whether I was happy. How my father was. How my friends that he remembered from high school were. a
i Next came news that he had died, too. Precisely a month after Suzie. I wasn’t surprised. Ever since the day he met Suzie as a grieving widow in the parish where he was the pastor, they had grown closer and closer. d
e He was one of the priests who left the priesthood after seeking permission from the Pope. He had been granted the permission, on the condition that he no longer perform any priestly duties in public. He told me over the years, long after I had graduated, that he never stopped thinking of himself as a priest, and he would say Mass M
just for himself and Suzie from time to time.
e He never did lose his faith, the best I could tell. In his later years, before he was seriously ill, he had turned back to great spiritual writers and had begun laboring over the biographies of great popes. He was convinced that h God is love, and that all the other works of the Church were mere trappings designed to help men and women
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By the time Pope Francis came along, he had a disciple in New Albany who had been preaching his message for n
I many years.
s Love. It was so evident in later years as I got to know him as an adult. Suzie had been a widow who had turned to her priest for comfort. Over time, their feelings grew deeper and they eventually married. Bob told me long k after that what had haunted him most as a priest – and he loved being a priest – was loneliness. When he met
c Suzie, he realized just how lonely he had been.
o He and Suzie lived in a house over in Floyd Knobs, where big dogs roamed and where Bob would invite comers of all ages and abilities to come test their tennis skills. Most left with a respect for the English and power he R brought to bear. I know I never won a set against him.
Later on, they moved into a little two-bedroom condo over in New Albany, above the fast-moving Silver Creek, and shared that home with a succession of little white dogs. Step into that house any time over the years and the love for each other, for that dog, and for their visitors too was so pronounced it could take your breath away.
As they grew older and older, they would sit in their chairs next to each other and hold hands while watching TV. It’s how all people should age, if they were so lucky.
It’s a mystery, how the impact of a teacher burrows so deeply into some of his or her students. Henry Adams once wrote that the power of a great teacher is impossible to measure, because the impacts one student feels are spread to others he or she meets, and then those affected impact someone else down the line. All through history.
Adams also wrote from his own time as a professor that only one student in 10 took polish.
One of the saving graces of my life was that I was the one in 10 for Bob Edelen. I know Bob affected me power - fully. I suspect his influence has been behind my commitment to writing and to ideas and to books over my life, and when I’m still and reflective, I can see how that in turn has had impact on others, on siblings, friends, nieces, nephews, and younger writers, in my life.
Bob was so full of knowledge and enthusiasm. He had studied film in New York and religion in Washington, D.C. He knew tennis and books and movies and music. His command of opera was intense. I still have on my Spotify play list the single piece of classical music that penetrated my rock-and-roll-obsessed brain as a teenager … Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” a gift by way of cassette my senior year.
From Bob, of course.
Michael Lindenberger is an award-winning newspaper and magazine writer who got his start as a writer and editorial page editor at the ECHO while a student at Trinity High School. He’s a former state correspon - dent for The Courier-Journal, a graduate of U of L’s law school, and a 2013 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. He currently serves as a member of the editorial Board at The Dallas Morning News, where he is editorial writer, columnist and the paper’s former Washington correspondent for business. 24 LEFT: Robert Johnson ’80 and wife Laura read The Leader at Masai Mara Reserve in East Kenya.
ABOVE: 1971 alumni Mo Price, Charlie Herold and Dave Gower read The Leader at Saint Andrew South in Punta Gorda, FL.
LEFT: Timothy “Tank” Duckwall ’98 didn’t have to travel far to read The Leader! It fits right in with the décor of his garage!
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s s Trinity Salutes Class of 2018 This year’s seniors applied to a diverse selection of a schools throughout the country. College acceptances l What the Trinity Class of 2018 did in the classroom were offered by such schools as Amherst College,
C and outside our halls continues the remarkable tradi - Boston University, Brown University, Dartmouth tion of well-rounded academic achievements and College, Duke University, New York University, makes us proud. Northeastern University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, the University of Notre Dame, Vander - These are just a few their accomplishments: bilt University and Yale University. They also • 282 members of the Class of 2018 qualified for numerous National Merit Scholarships. • Awarded more than $35.6 million in scholarships • Accepted at 138 colleges and universities across the For the 13th consecutive year we required every country senior to take the ACT as a graduation require - • 100 percent of the class took the ACT ment. We were one of the first schools in the Com - • Student took 665 AP exams which is the most in monwealth to have this requirement. The Class of school history 2018’s composite ACT score is the highest in school • 7 recognized by the National Merit Corporation history which is a terrific accomplishment when • 98 percent will be entering college this fall considering who makes up our student body. Those • 95 percent participated in a Christian Awakening familiar with Trinity know we enroll the largest and Senior Retreat most academically diverse student body of any • 11 Governor’s Scholars participants private school in the region. Our seniors’ achievement is cause for celebration. • 67 recipients of the four-year Shamrock Award • 66 members of the National Honor Society “The Class of 2018 will certainly go down in history • 59 members of the National Beta Club as one of our most memorable,” said Trinity Principal • Performed more than 27,000 service hours over Mr. Dan Zoeller H ’07 . “As a class, they broke a four years record for the highest ACT composite score, including • More than 150 community agencies supported by a perfect score by one senior, were part of another the school record Advanced Placement testing year, boasted • Collected over $46,000 in monetary donations twelve students who were recognized by the National through service projects Merit Corporation, and earned over $35.6 million in • Team State Championships in football and track college scholarships to over 138 different universities and field and colleges. Our academic teams that had their best • Individual State Championships in swimming and years in recent memory: Quick Recall finished at the Track and Field top of our region; our Speech and Debate and Future • State Championship placement in Archery, Business Leaders teams won unprecedented honors Basketball, Bass Fishing, Golf, Ice Hockey, locally and even nationally; our students took Swimming, Tennis and Wrestling. home top awards at the Kentucky United Nations • Approximately 35 Trinity student-athletes Assembly. This was also a tremendously giving group, announced their intentions and made commitments donating their time and treasure. They challenged us to continue their playing days in college. to support more community efforts, carried out over • 3 Coaches were named Kentucky Coach of the Year 27,000 hours of community service and collected and 1 was named National Coach of the Year over $68,000 in donations through their service • 45 Academic First Team All-State and 51 Academic projects. We are going to miss dearly the Class of Honorable Mention All-State student-athletes 2018.” continued on next page 26 C Our students take a series of pre-ACT tests as under - giving some very pointed and passionate words classmen. These tests produce a predicted ACT of wisdom. Additionally, Alumni Association Chair l score. Nearly 100 percent of the class met or exceeded Joey Klausing ’97 addressed the class and a their predicted ACT score. A strong ACT score offers encouraged them to continue their strong connection s three benefits: (1) access to the college one desires; to Trinity via the Alumni Association. (2) opportunities for scholarships; and (3) better s
preparation for the rigors of college-level study. One of the highlights of the morning was FLIK team
20 18 o member Bailey Jones being named an Honorary
Mr. Paul Diehl , director of the Advanced Program, Alumnus of the Class of 2018. Each year, the senior f reports that 665 Advanced Placement (AP) exams class gives the award to a faculty or staff member or
were scheduled, which is the highest in school his - friend of Trinity who is not a graduate for his/her 2 tory. The AP exams are a way to gain college credit contributions to the life of the school. Senior Class while taking classes at Trinity. Officer Alex Wilson introduced Mr. Jones and pre - 0
sented to him a framed certificate. Mr. Jones, who is 1 Members of the Class of 2018 join a brotherhood that diagnosed with Down Syndrome, could not have been numbers nearly 16,000. Our newest brother alumni more touched or proud by the class making him one 8 received their diplomas at the annual commencement of their own. exercises on Sunday, May 20, at Bellarmine Univer - sity. Other milestone moments of Baccalaureate weekend were the conferring of the Honor Alumnus Award to At the Senior Breakfast held in Alumni Hall on Dr. Glenn Blincoe ’73 and the Trinity Peace Medal Friday, May 18, seniors and their fathers enjoyed a to Ms. Karina Barrillas . wonderful breakfast and each other’s company. Sponsored by the Alumni Association, Senior Break - fast is the graduating class’ official welcome into the Alumni Association. Director of Students Joe Hen - We Salute the Class of 2018. ning H’06 addressed the Class of 2018 a final time, Trinity Forever!
27 2018 Honor Alumnus Award Presented to 8 Dr. Glenn Blincoe ’73 1 Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education,
0 Fellow of the American College of Dentistry and the International College of Dentistry, and a member of 2
the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.
f Recognized by his peers with multiple Louisville Magazine Top Dentist awards, Glenn teamed with o
Dr. David Shutt ’79 to grow his practice to Blincoe & Shutt in St. Matthews, serving a broad spectrum of s patients. Glenn was also instrumental in creating the
s Richard L. Miller Endowed Scholarship for the Uni - versity of Louisville School of Dentistry and still a serves on the School of Dentistry Alumni Board. l
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C Perhaps the most impressive facet of Glenn’s career Each spring, the Trinity High School Alumni Associa - comes from his stewardship. For years, Glenn and his tion recognizes a brother alumnus as the year’s Honor family have donated their time and money to travel to Alumnus. The award is presented to a Trinity gradu - Central America to provide dental care at no cost for ate who is committed to living his life based on Gospel those living in poverty. While active in this endeavor, values; is a recognized leader in his community Glenn was appointed as a board member for Open and/or chosen career; and who values his Trinity edu - Door Ministries, serving the needs of the poor in cation and remains loyal to his alma mater. Guatemala. Glenn is also the founding board member for the Michael Quinlan Brain Tumor Foundation. A member of the Trinity Class of 1973, Dr. Glenn Blincoe has been selected as the recipient of the Glenn has served on our three major volunteer 2018 Honor Alumnus Award. boards: The Trinity School Board, the Trinity High School Foundation Board, and the Alumni Associa - To say that Glenn is a living example of what faith, tion Board of Directors. He has served as a decade character and service to others is all about is an un - chair for the Annual Fund Appeal, on various Hall of derstatement. Glenn has used his God-given abilities Fame committees, on the alumni retreat committee, to continuously better himself in the areas of mind, and has been an organizer of his class reunions. A body and spirit, and has shared these abilities with creator of the 1974 Endowed Class Scholarship, Glenn others from all over the world, bettering their lives. and his wife, Joan, are pillars upon which service to Trinity is embodied. Joan was instrumental in the de - Glenn came to Trinity in the fall of 1969 from Our velopment of the Shamrock Moms group and was Lady of Lourdes school in St. Matthews. Glenn partic - also named Volunteer-of-the-Year at Trinity. The ipated in multiple activities at Trinity, serving as the Blincoe family has been a long-time donor to Trinity President of the National Honor Society his senior who earmark donations to assist students who other - year. Glenn was also awarded the prestigious Faculty wise could not afford to go on Senior Retreat, this de - Award his senior year. spite the fact the retreat program began after Glenn’s time at Trinity. Upon graduation from Trinity, Glenn attended the University of Louisville, graduating from the School of The Blincoes are members of Ascension Parish in Dentistry in 1979. At Louisville, Glenn was heavily in - Louisville. Glenn and his “Rock,” Joan, have been volved in student government. He was elected class married 32 years and are proud parents to Gregg president or vice president of the dental school each ’08 and Scott ’12 . year as a student. Glenn also served as a member of the search committee for the new dean of the School Having Glenn Blincoe as a member of the Trinity of Dentistry. Family has made our school community a better place. He is the epitome of what the Trinity Honor Glenn began a practice of general dentistry in St. Alumnus Award represents. Matthews in 1979. Continuing his involvement with the Louisville Dental Society, Glenn served as presi - Trinity President Dr. Rob Mullen ’77 and Trinity dent of the society in 1990. Additionally, Glenn is a Alumni Association Chair Joey Klausing ’97 member of the Kentucky Dental Association and presented the Honor Alumnus Award to Dr. Glenn American Dental Association, an alumnus of the L.D. Blincoe (above left). 28 2018 Trinity Peace Medal Presented to Karina Barillas C l
For more than four decades, the Trinity High School Karina was featured in the 2013 Leo Weekly’s People a community has awarded the Trinity Peace Medal. Issue and in the March 2014 Today’s Woman maga - s zine. In 2015, she was awarded the Alden Fellowship The award recognizes a deserving individual or group by the Community Foundation of Louisville to attend s
for efforts that promote peacemaking, justice-building Duke University and earn her Executive Certificate in and service to others. Mr. Klaus Mittelsten H’92 , Nonprofit Leadership. In October of 2016, Karina was o
who at the time was chair of Trinity’s Foreign Lan - awarded the Toward Award on Service and Advocacy f guage Department, initiated the award, along with by Presentation Academy. In April 2017, she was
then-Trinity principal Rev. Thomas Duerr H’92 . given the University of Louisville Community Spirit 2 Recent recipients have included Roy Germano ’98 , Award by the College of Arts and Sciences. The Span - Ph.D., the Little Sisters of the Poor, Sister Mary An - ish newspaper, Al Dia en America , named Karina as 0
gela Shaughnessy, and Mayor Greg Fischer ’76. one of the three Most Outstanding Latinas in 1 Louisville. Most recently, in April of this year, the The 2018 Trinity Peace Medal was awarded to Ms. Community Foundation of Louisville named Karina 8 Karina Barillas. one of the thirteen “Forces of Good” in our commu - nity, honoring her work by featuring her on a Karina Barillas is a native of Guatemala. Through a billboard. Fulbright scholarship in 1996, Karina earned her B.A. in Liberal Studies, with minors in English, psychology Karina is the proud mother of Ali (Trinity Class of and education from the University of Louisville. She 2022) and Fatimah. She loves to dance salsa, sing, received her Masters in Education with a concentra - garden and cook in her spare time. tion in Counseling Psychology from the University of Louisville in 2002. She began working with women’s Karina is an outstanding example of someone who issues as president of the International Students Or - has honored the dignity of all people throughout her ganization at the University of Louisville in 2000. professional career. Her concern for the less fortunate and marginalized has been a hallmark of her career. Karina worked for eight years advocating, accompa - Through her years of dedication to education, advo - nying and supporting Latina victims and survivors of cacy and empowerment, Karina has touched and en - domestic violence and sexual assault at the Center for riched the lives of many. Karina is more than Women and Families. For three years she was the co- deserving of another award. host of the first Spanish-language television show in Kentucky, Amigos en Louisville, a social, informa - Trinity is proud and honored to bestow the 2018 tional and educational program. The National Con - Peace Medal to Ms. Karina Barillas. Trinity President ference for Community and Justice awarded her their Dr. Robert Mullen ’77 and Mr. Tom Dubay Peace Maker Humanitarian Award in 2004. Karina H’94 presented the award (below). was featured in Louisville Magazine’s 2004 edition as one of twelve “women to watch.” She was named “one of the twenty-five most influential Hispanics in Photo credit: Gail Kamenish H’04 Louisville” by the Spanish newspaper Hoy en las Americas.
In 2006, Karina was awarded the Arte Sana National Latina Advocate Award for her work with victims and survivors of sexual assault.
Karina is one of the co-founders and currently works as the Executive Director for La Casita Center, a Com - munity of Latinx Hospitality. Unique to the state of Kentucky, the center enhances the well-being of Louisville’s Latino community through education, empowerment, advocacy, and wellness. La Casita works intentionally to build a thriving community based on mutual support and respect.
29 Class of 2018 Has 89 Legacies 8 Eighty-nine members of the Class of 2018 have a father, stepfather and/or grandfather who are Trinity alumni. 1 One of the best compliments Trinity can receive is when an alumnus’ son or grandson chooses to attend our high school. 0
2 FATHER / STEP-FATHER GRANDFATHER
2018 GRADUATE Jeremy Walker Allen Steven Lloyd Allen '84 Norbert C. Nopper '59 f Jesse Gray Allgeier Mark G. Allgeier '88
o Andrew Joseph Arnold Richard J. Arnold, Jr. '86 Richard J. Arnold '64 (Deceased) Nathaniel David Barker William Gregory Barker '63
s William Harrison Barney John E. Barney '83
s Nicholas Randolph Bohn Joseph P. Bohn Sr. '87 Theodore Daniel Brainer Kenneth M. Brainer '84
a Lawrence Cash Brainer Kenneth M. Brainer '84 l Eric Sabastian Brian Joseph Scott Brian '83
C Lukas Michael Brown Michael Douglas Brotzge '78 Spencer Thomas Brown Dennis Peter Brown '93 Trent Joseph Brown Eric David Brown '82 Robert Earl Burt Robert E. Burt, Jr. '91 Michael Ryan Ciacio Leo J. Ciacio '87 (Deceased) Connor McKay Conti Marvin Scott Conti '81 Jackson Matthew Crane Matthew W. Crane '87 Brennan Victor Dahlgren Clinton Stewart Payne '85 Riley Nicholas Davidson John Gregory Davidson '81 Carter Anthony DeWitt Michael E. DeWitt, Jr. '83 Michael Edward DeWitt, Sr. '60 Christian Bailey English Robert C. English '80 Robert Maxwell Farmer Robert Thomas Liter '59 Mark Francis Fehder Stephen Douglas Fehder '77 Garrett Scott Fischer Scott Alan Fischer '88 Christopher Anthony Mueller '61 Trevor Douglas Ford Mark W. Hines '63 (Deceased) Patrick Joseph Furlong Thomas Patrick Furlong '85 Eddie L. Turpen, Jr. '60 Lakin Joseph Genter Richard Bradley Gentner '88 Thomas Matthew Glazier, Jr. T. Matthew Glazier, Sr. '88 William Harrison Graft Richard Anthony Graft '67 (Deceased) Ryan Martin Greer Martin David Greer '79 William Layne Harrison John Killian Harrsion '89 John Alexander Henritz Charles Gregory Henritz '73 Aaron William Higdon Steven Edward Higdon '81 Jonathon Harris Hughes Richard Andrew Hughes '85 Lee Nelson Hurst Charles Jude Hurst '72 Benjamin Estep Jones William Anthony Perry '61 Bryce Paul Jones Brian Kevin Jones '87 Payton Thomas Jones Thomas M. Jones '83 Samuel Robert Lynch Christopher Joseph Lynch '85 Johnathon David Mattingly David Lee Mattingly '88 Michael Joseph McCalpin Joseph Jolly Elder III '57 (Deceased) Spencer Davis Metts David A. Metts '92 Joshua Reidling Metzmeier Gerald L. Metzmeier '90 Maxwell Bernard Meyer Gerald Michael Meyer '89 Gerald Lee Meyer '57 Hunter Luke Monohan Stephen O'Farrell Monohan '60 (Deceased) Austin Michael Murphy Tom Thomas, III '66 (Deceased) Jared Michael Nason Phillip Terry Johnson '65 Eli Anthony Noltemeyer Joseph Anthony Stuedle '58 Jacob Lee Nutt David Lee Nutt '85 Matthew Alexander Osborn Colin Edward Osborn '81 Davis Patrick Oyler Daniel M. Oyler '84 30 2018 GRADUATE cont. FATHER / STEP-FATHER cont. GRANDFATHER cont. C
Paul Vincent Passanisi Vincent Joseph Passanisi '81 l Matthew Robert Pfeifer Michael Robert Pfeifer '85 a
Nicholas Chase Pomerleau Thomas Shane Pomerleau '88 s Matthew Gannon Ramser Emmett Charles Ramser '87 s Zachary Thomas Raque Anthony Todd Raque '87
Samuel Pfeiffer Roof Raymond Lee Pfeiffer, Jr. '59 o Sam Conley Roth Robert W. Roth '88
Gregory Joseph Russell Christopher J. Russell '87 John Morris Russell '62 f
Jack Meyer Scaglione James Douglas Helm '65 Trevor Edward Schmidt Brian Edward Schmidt '86 Charles Edward Schmidt '61 2
Kyle Patrick Sears Charles E. Sears '83 0 William Henry Seay Hugh David Weber '57
Logan Patrick Segeleon Jason R. Segeleon '89 1 Caden Alexander Sekelsky Brian Alan Pearce '85 8 Samuel Alexander Sheehan Matthew Britton Sheehan '86 Gerald Sheehan '57 David Xander Shelby Don Alan Shelby '89 Samuel Robert Sherman Robert Anthony Sherman '87 Richard Joseph Sherman '57 Grayson Loftland Shuck Gregory C. Shuck '89 Colby Michael Smith Mark Robert Smith '81 David Amen-Ra Spalding David A. Spalding '86 Jacob Tyler Staley Christopher William Staley '97 Donald Edwin Staley '65 Michael Lee Stinson Amos Lee Stinson '75 Douglas Allen Stough Douglas Allen Stough '80 Patrick Thomas Sullivan Thomas George Miller '62 Douglas Wayne Timmering Shawn W. Timmering '85 Christopher Alex Towles Donald Allen Towles '82 Jacob Ryan Travelstead Sean Raymond Travelstead '86 Edward Boswell Trentham Edward Mattison Trentham '84 Christopher George Troutman David Michael Troutman '85 Ryan Michael Troutman David Michael Troutman '85 Trevor Christopher Warren Todd C. Warren '91 Andrew Lang Warren Brad S. Warren '88 Matthew Joseph Watson Michael Deters Watson '80 Joseph Rene Havill '58 Adam Scott Weining Scott J. Weining '79 Lucas Andrew Wheatley Joseph Leo Wheatley '75 Nathan Elliot Wiggins Denis C. Wiggins '86 Ken Elliott '60 Zachary Brian Williams Todd Jeffery Williams '93 Matthew Ross Woodall Wayne Ross Woodall '68 (Deceased) Charles William Young Daniel Joseph Young '81
THE PATH TO GREATNESS From the opening day orientation to graduation night, the Trinity experience is unlike any other!
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8 any cost. This is not balance. It is not character or find common ground for a solution to an issue both compassion. passionate about. 1 Don’t get me wrong. I have strong opinions on many Trinity has spent the last four years and the 61 years 0 topics and I am not reluctant to voice them. However, before you were here investing in young men like
2 I am working hard to not make any conversation on you because we find great value in you. We see great a topic an us vs. them confrontation. Taking a stand potential in you. And we love you. As you move on f for something doesn’t have to mean I am against we hope you have the serenity to accept the things something else. Too often those with opposing views you cannot change, the courage to change the things o
are more concerned with telling the other person why you can, and the wisdom to know the difference
s they are wrong instead of persuading them why we with character, compassion and caring for all you may be right. We end up with everyone talking at the encounter. s same time trying to be the loudest voice in the room.
a We are not going anywhere so if you find yourself in
l I learned a long time ago if everyone is talking, no need of a little more guidance in these areas next one is listening. This is your third Henningism. If year, or ten years from now, don’t hesitate to ask for a C everyone is talking, no one is listening. Listening little more investment on our part. And if you believe does not always lead to a resolution, at least not in our mission, don't hesitate to give back to it with immediately, but I’ve found if people are at least your time and treasure. God Bless the Class of 2018. willing to listen to each other they often find they Trinity Forever.
“Listening does not always lead to a resolution, at least not immediately, but I’ve found if people are at least willing to listen to each other they often find they are not as far apart as they think making it easier to find common ground for a solution to an issue both passionate about.” Joe Henning
34 Trinity Alumni, Are You... Linked
Trinity Alumni LinkedIn Group Support brother alumni businesses! Search for a Trinity alum to provide services – plumbing, engineering, architecture, accounting and many more. Do you need a new roof and want to hire a roofer you can trust? Join the Trinity Alumni Group on LinkedIn.com and search for Trinity alumni who are roofers. LinkedIn is a free social networking group for business professionals.
The Trinity High School Alumni Group on LinkedIn.com, which has more than 1,175 members, serves as a forum for Trinity alumni to network, reconnect, post job openings and resumes, search for alumni in particular elds and engage in social media conversation.
How do you join? If you already are a LinkedIn member, search for the Trinity High School Alumni Group or go to http://is.gd/KQMcU9 and request to join the group. If you are not a LinkedIn member, you must register with the site, which is free to join. Start at LinkedIn.com and create your professional pro le. After doing so, search for the Trinity High School Alumni Group or go to: http://is.gd/KQMcU9 and request to join the group.
Link up with your brother alumni in the Trinity Alumni LinkedIn group!
Questions about your statement? Have questions about your latest statement from Trinity? Want to know the balance of your contribution? Contact Brian Monell ,86 at (502) 736-2160 or [email protected]
35 Sixth-Annual Emerald Society Brunch s More than 120 alumni attended this year’s Emerald Society Brunch held at Trinity on May 12. The event honors
w alumni who have reached the 50-year mark since graduating from Trinity. This year, the classes of 1957-68 were honored. e 1957-1968 The brunch began with fellowship and reminiscing. Alumni shared stories, photographs and memories and even N
spent time in the Trinity Archives with archivist Barbara Mullen . i While enjoying a looping slide show presentation of Trinity’s campus renaissance from “then and now,” all
n enjoyed a brunch provided by United Catering ( Michael Nusbaum ’08 and David Beatty ’05 ).
Trinity President Dr. Rob Mullen ’77 gave a “state-of-the-school” address to update the most loyal Rocks on m the wonderful happenings at Trinity present day. Additionally, Trinity recently obtained audio interviews from
u Trinity Giants including Tom Allen, Paul Davin, Dave Hazelip and Tony Heitzman – whose interviews
l included topics such as – Trinity spirit – to the “March” after beating Saint X, educational atmosphere and the drive to excel – all from Trinity’s first days. A A moving and memorable day was had by all. Next year we look forward to welcoming the Class of 1969 !
Photo credit: Robert Lewis ’20
2012 Alumnus Named to Rising 25 2012 alumnus Stephen Anderson was named as one of Front Office Sports Rising 25 in the sports industry as a member of the 2018 class. Anderson currently serves as the Part - nership Activation Coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings franchise. The group is a recog - nized group of individuals who have achieved at a very high level early in their careers.
Anderson served as a student-manager for the basketball team at Trinity, including being a part of the school’s first-ever state championship in 2012 before graduating from the Kelly School of Business at Indiana University. Pictured are Stephen and his wife, Arielle. Good job! 36 1965 Alums Continue Bond A l
Members of the class of 1965 have continued to live out Trinity’s “Brothers for Life” motto. The group meets for u lunch quarterly to connect, reminisce and enjoy each other’s company. In May they met at Captains Quarters. m Pictured from left to right are David Mudd, Frank Radmacher, Tom Bohnert, Doug Helm, Kenny Krebs, Phil Pogue, and Mike Roppel. n i
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Keeping it in the Family
The “Zehnder” family roots grow deep in the Trinity Tradition.
Dr. Tom Zehnder (Dr. Z) graduated from Trinity in 1963. After graduating from college, he returned to Trinity where he taught for 44 years until his retirement in 2016. Since retiring, Dr. Z can continue to be seen in the hallways on any given day as a substitute teacher.
Little did Dr. Z know in 1963 that many other future family members would also walk the halls of Trinity. Two generations of the Zehnder family have graduated 14 young men from Trinity with hopes that the third generation will soon follow in the Trinity Tradition.
Did you think Dr. Z will still be walking the hallways??!!
Alumni Association Hosts Second Annual Easter Egg Hunt
Rain could not stop our fun, or dozens of families and their children on March 24 as the Easter Bunny visited Trinity. For the second year, the Alumni Board of Directors and their Events Committee put on the Trinity Family Easter Egg Hunt – this year in Alumni Hall – as visitors were able to take photos with the Easter Bunny, win door prizes, enjoy coffee and donuts, and take part in an egg hunt. This serves as a great opportunity for friends and family of Trinity with young children to stay connected to their alma mater. Thanks to our sponsors Insuramax, Zach Berry Law and Republic Bank for working with the Alumni Board to put on a greaT day!
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book with Oxford University Press called Outsourcing Welfare . i The book is about the roughly 500 billion dollars that immi - n grants send to family members and friends in their home countries each year. Immigrants send at least three times
m more money to poor countries than the world's richest nations donate in the form of aid. The value of this money can't be un - u derstated. It's what millions of poor families use to buy food, l pay for healthcare and medicine, pay rent, and educate their children. The book is based on research he has done over the A years in Mexico and Central America, and on survey data collected in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
Dr. Germano’s second project is a podcast he launched in March called "Other Side with Roy Germano." The podcast features interviews with authors and innovative thinkers about social and political issues like immigration, race, technology, the environment, and foreign policy. And as a shout out to Louisville, Dr. Germano did an interview with an author who wrote an excellent book about the history of American whiskey.
You can learn more about both the book and the podcast at http://www.roygermano.com
Edelen, Jacovino and Combs Fondly Remembered
The Trinity community lost three former teachers during the second semester. Each made a tremendous impact on students during their teaching ministry at Trinity.
Bob Edelen passed away in early spring just a month after his beloved wife Susie died. Bob was a much-appre - ciated English teacher for nearly twenty years at Trinity. Alumni sent many heart-felt remembrances of him.
Michael Lindenberger ’89 wrote a tribute about him for the ECHO that is reprinted in this issue on page 22.
Vanessa Jacovino passed away in late winter. She spent many years teaching English at Trinity and moderat - ing the Speech and Debate team. Colleagues remember her as passionate and full of energy. Students knew she was their advocate all the while expecting them to work and succeed.
Ken Combs passed away in April. He was an admired teacher and coach for his 17 years at Trinity. His care for students was evident; his runners won numerous state titles in cross-country. He is the godfather of road running in Louisville, having been instrumental in starting the Derby Festival’s Mini-marathon and Marathon. He was inducted into our Hall of Fame in 1993.
May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
38 Trinity Class Reunions in 2018 A l
The bonds that form at Trinity can last a lifetime, and reunions are a perfect chance to reconnect with u classmates, faculty and the school itself. m Congratulations to the Trinity classes of 1958, 63, 68, 73, 78, 83, 88, 93, 98, 2003, 08 and 2013 . Your class will celebrate a reunion in 2017. n Committees are still planning reunion weekends. Feel free to contact anyone on your reunion committee or
Chris Toth ’06 (Director of Alumni Relations & Communications) with questions. i
N Stay tuned to your mailbox and email for updates on registration information for your reunion!
1958 – 60th Reunion e w n September 14 -Trinity Football vs. Naperville Central n September 15 – Dinner at Big Springs s 1963 – 55th Reunion n September 14 -Trinity Football vs. Naperville Central n September 15 – Cocktail Party at the Manhattan Project
1968 – 50th Reunion n Details are being finalized for a weekend in late October. Be on the lookout for the exact date and details in your mailbox in the coming weeks.
1973 – 45th Reunion n July 27 – Golf and stag night n July 28 – Dinner at the Volz home
1978 – 40th Reunion n September 7 – Trinity Football vs. Male and stag night
1983 – 35th Reunion n October 19 – Trinity Football vs. Ballard and stag night n October 20 – TBD as details and venues are being finalized
1988 – 30th Reunion n October 19 – Trinity Football vs. Ballard and stag night n October 20 – TBD as details and venues are being finalized
1993 – 25th Reunion n Details are being finalized for a weekend in late October. Be on the lookout for the exact date and details in your mailbox in the coming weeks.
1998- 20th Reunion n October 12 – Mass and tour at Trinity, then stag night n October 13 – Bus trip to Keeneland
2003 – 15th Reunion n Plans are still being finalized continued on page 40 39 Trinity Class Reunions in 2019 cont. s
2008 – 10th Reunion w n September 21 – Trinity Football vs. Jeffersontown, then stag night e n September 22 – A day of racing at Churchill Downs N
2013- 5th Reunion i n Plans are still being finalized for an evening in September. We will attend a Trinity Football game then have a
n stag night in Saint Matthews. m
u We look forward to seeing Everyone! l A
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We will follow up to verify the accuracy of the changes.
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Trinity Forever!
40 Congratulations Ray Spalding ’15! 2018 NBA Draft Y T I N I R T E L L I V S I U O L S A L L A D 41 Two Long-Time Trinity Educa - e y tors Retire and Leave a Legacy g c a s
a Two Trinity educators who have spent a combined 90 years at Trinity retired at the end of this school year. s e g Dennis Lampley and Tom Dubay called Trinity High School home for 47 and 43 years, respectively. Both e m
had long and storied careers, and the impact they each
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by Tom know firsthand how special these gentlemen t h are. a d T Their legacies will continue to live on through the n lives they touched over the years and, I’m happy to say, through the lives of future Trinity students thanks u
to a pair of scholarships that have been created in o their names. f
The Dennis Lampley H’92 Leadership Scholarship will be given to a student with financial need who exhibits By Jim Beckham ’86 an immense passion for Trinity. The recipient will be Vice President for Development someone who treats others with respect and strives to excel in all that he chooses to do. • William P. Bradford II H’03 Endowed Scholarship • Joe Demling ’68 Memorial Scholarship The Tom Dubay H’94 Young Visionaries Scholarship • Father Thomas Duerr H’92 Memorial Scholarship is also a need-based scholarship and will be given to a • Joe Fowler ‘71 ‘Spirit of Trinity’ Memorial rising junior or senior who has demonstrated an under - Scholarship standing of the challenges as well as the personal impli - • Coach Jim Kennedy H’93 Scholarship cations of the social teachings of the Catholic Church. • Klaus Mittelsten H’92 Scholarship • Father Albert Moore Memorial Scholarship Both of these scholarships were created to honor the • Rich Rostel H’93 Memorial Scholarship passion and contributions both men made to Trinity. • Father Ted Sans H’05 Scholarship There are additional scholarships that have been cre - • Thomas M. Sheehan Memorial Scholarship ated over the years to honor faculty and staff members who gave their time and talent to Trinity. All were in - If you are interested in making a contribution to one strumental in shaping lives and to the success of the of these funds or any existing scholarships or want to school. begin the process of creating a new one, contact Jim Beckham ’86 at (502) 736-2100 or beckham@ The scholarships are: trinityrocks.com.
You can make your gift to the Trinity Annual Fund by logging on to Trinity’s website! Go to trinityrocks.com and click on “Make a Gift.” Follow the instructions from there and you’re set. Thanks for your generous support!
42 Scholarships Help Keep a Trinity Education Accessible T h Each year, hundreds of Trinity families benefit from the generosity of those who help create and/or support endowed scholarships overseen by the Trinity High School Foundation. Funds generated by these scholarships e are part of financial aid distributions that totaled more than $3.1 million for the 2018-19 school year.
Contributions can be made to any of these funds in honor or memory of someone. For additional information, L contact Jim Beckham ’86 at (502)736-2100. e
Active Financial Aid Scholarships Father Gregory A. Klaas Endowed Scholarship Fund g Alumni Board Scholarship James Kmetz ’84 Memorial Scholarship a Jim Adams Memorial Scholarship LaFollette Family Scholarship Greg Lamb Memorial Scholarship Brian Allen ’86 Memorial Scholarship c Fred S. Allen III ’79 Memorial Scholarship Dennis J. Liebert ’60 Memorial Scholarship Leonard Arentsen Leadership Scholarship E. Ollie Mershon Memorial Scholarship y Rich Arnold Memorial Scholarship Thomas Michael Miranda Memorial Scholarship Steve Bauer Class of 1972 Memorial Scholarship Klaus Mittelsten Scholarships John Brasch Memorial Scholarship* Father Albert Moore Memorial Scholarship Brewer Family Memorial Scholarship Mark ’75 and Sandra Mueller Scholarship Brohman Family “Catholic Education Tradition” Scholarship Brian Anthony Muth ’03 Memorial Scholarship Gregory H. Brown Endowed Scholarship * Sandy Newman Memorial Scholarship J. Edward and Douglas E. Brown Memorial Scholarship David Patenaude Class of 1984 Memorial Scholarship Spencer Joseph Byrnes ’09 Scholarship* David Power ’89 Trinity Experience Scholarship Joe Caldwell ’88 Memorial Scholarship Ribar Family Scholarship Castagno Family Scholarship Robert Whitney Robbins ’03 Memorial Scholarship Kevin Blair Chitwood ’85 Memorial Scholarship* Mark Roberts Memorial Scholarship Class of 1957 Memorial Scholarship John T. “Butch” Roney ’61 Memorial Scholarship Class of 1958 Memorial Scholarship Rich Rostel Memorial Scholarship Class of 1959 Memorial Scholarship Father Ted Sans Scholarship Class of 1961 Memorial Scholarship Daniel J. Schnurr ’78 Memorial Scholarship Class of 1962 Memorial Scholarship Shamrock Moms Scholarships Class of 1964 Memorial Scholarship Tyler Short ’05 Memorial Scholarship Class of 1965 Memorial Scholarship Marvin and Sarah Simpson Memorial Scholarship Class of 1973 Endowed Scholarship Smith-Hudson Scholarship Class of 1974 Scholarship Fund Stallings Family Memorial Scholarship Class of 1976 Endowed Scholarship Stegner Family Scholarship Fund Class of 1978 Endowed Scholarship Jimmy Stein Memorial Scholarship Class of 1981 Endowed Scholarship Thompson Family Scholarship Class of 1982 Endowed Scholarship Trinity High School Foundation Trustees Scholarship Class of 1985 Endowed Scholarship Trinity Man of Character Scholarship Class of 1995 Memorial Scholarship Betty Volz Memorial Scholarship John Cristofoli Memorial Scholarship Fund Andy Wagner ’03 Memorial Scholarship Dockter Family Scholarship Wally and Willie Speech Scholarship Dreisbach Family Scholarship Wells Family Scholarship Father Thomas Duerr Memorial Scholarship The West End School Scholarship by Catherine G. and Michael Ryan Durbin ’05 Memorial Scholarship James U. Smith III* Tyler English ’12 Memorial Scholarship Wilson Leadership Scholarship in Support of the Arts Charles Marius Fearneyhough, Jr. ’70 Memorial Scholarship Sgt. David Wimberg ’99 Memorial Scholarship Flaget Alumni Association Scholarship Matthew G. Woolley ’95 Memorial Scholarship Brown Forman Diversity Scholarship The Joe Fowler “Spirit of Trinity” Memorial Scholarship* Under Development The Jeffrey D. Frazier Scholarship* Class of 1960 Memorial Scholarship Luke '12 and Chris ’14 Gaynor Scholarship Class of 1963 Memorial Scholarship John Graf Memorial Scholarship Class of 1969 Memorial Scholarship John (Jack) R. Guthrie ’58 Journalism Scholarship Class of 1970 Memorial Scholarship John B. Harris ’76 Scholarship* Class of 1979 Endowed Scholarship Joseph H. Hayden, Jr. ’60 Memorial Scholarship Class of 1987 Endowed Scholarship Stephen T. Hines ’74 Memorial Scholarship Class of 1991 Endowed Scholarship Bruce Hoard Memorial Scholarship Class of 2001 Endowed Scholarship Michael P. Hourigan ’81 Memorial Scholarship William P. Bradford II H’03 Endowed Scholarship Betty & Shelly Isaacs Scholarship The Tom Dubay Scholarship Kane Family Scholarship Dennis “Denny” Cardwell ’60 Memorial Scholarship Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly Memorial Scholarship Dennis Lampley H’94 Leadership Scholarship Most Reverend Thomas C. Kelly, O.P. Merit Scholarship Gene Eckert ’62 Memorial Scholarship Other “Yet-to-be” Named Scholarships Coach Jim Kennedy Scholarship Fund 43 * Denotes inaugural award in 2018-19 y Support Your Alumni!
c Answering the Call!
a Student Phonathon Raises g Record Amount! e Dante House wins Ice Cream Party L
The student phonathon was a huge success, rais - e ing over $41,000 in pledges over ten evenings. A
h total of 259 students participated and secured The support of all alumni is essential to further over 340 pledges.
T the brotherhood of the school. As young alumni—those who have graduated in the last 15 The Student Phonathon has become a marquee event for the House System with the goal of rais - years—you represent the future of Trinity. The ing funds for the Trinity Annual Fund. Each legacy of Trinity lives through you. House has its own call night, and the House with Alumni who graduated between 2002 and 2017 the most participants wins a food reward. This year, Dante won an Ice Cream Party! are invited to join an influential group of young, vibrant leaders who are helping to provide the During the phonathon, students reach out to Trinity experience to future generations of Trinity alumni, friends and family to help raise Shamrocks. This group is called the Young funds for tuition assistance and update contact Alumni Shamrock Society. Beginning in 2017, information. alumni who make an annual gift of $250 prior to or during their 15th reunion will be included in Thank you to all students and volunteers who this important giving society. participated!
Members of the Young Alumni Shamrock Society will receive the following benefits: • A Young Alumni Shamrock Society lapel pin • Invitations to young alumni related events • Recognition in the Leader Magazine and The 2018-19 Trinity Annual Fund Annual Report • Invitation to Opening Mass Your support of the Trinity Annual Fund helps to • Two complimentary tickets to the 1953 Society open the doors of opportunity by providing the Dinner held during Pride Week. experience of a Trinity education. Without it, For more information, contact Brian Monell ’86 at many families would not be able to send their (502) 736-2160 or [email protected] sons to Trinity. ALL gifts make a difference. The only gift too small is no gift at all! There are not enough words to Three Easy Ways To Give express how grateful we are to those 1. Go online to trinityrocks.com and click on who supported the 2017-18 “Make a Gift.” Trinity Annual Fund . 2. Contact Sandy at [email protected] Your generosity helps provide to donate using a credit card or virtual check accessibility to more than 40% of our (EFT). families who have a demonstrated need. 3. Return the envelope provided in each edition of The Leader. When you share your blessings, you open doors of opportunity. On behalf Support a Trinity education. Provide the Trinity of all who benefit from your experience. Invest in a young man’s future. financial support, THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
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