INSIDE: ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09

What’s your most vivid memory from Northwest Catholic?

Who “were” you at NWC?

Who “ are” you now?

When you hear the words “Northwest Catholic,” what’s the first word that comes to mind?

A Peek into Where NWC Alumni Have “Gone,” Personally, Professionally, and Geographically letter from the Principal/Chief Administrator

Dear Friends,

Although every issue of Logos includes some stories about alumni, we have decided this time to make alums the main focus – hence, the collection of brief profiles that makes up our cover story. While this is just a tiny sampling of our alumni, it is so exciting and gratifying to see the “places you’ve gone” and the things you’ve done.

This is also the issue that includes our annual report for 2008-09, and we are pleased and proud to tell you that, for the seventh year in a row, we have exceeded the $1-million mark in donations to Northwest Catholic! In a year of such incredible financial uncertainty, this is truly remarkable, and we are grateful and humbled by your support. We also know that many of you have endured reversals recently that have challenged you, and we want you to know that we pray for you as you deal with these situations.

With your generous support, we have been able to provide more than $1.2 million in financial aid, renovate five more classrooms with “SMART” technology, renovate the music room and fitness center, purchase a second after-school activity bus, upgrade our technology infrastructure with new servers and an additional T1 line, and maintain our excellent educational program by improving the curriculum and underwriting professional development for our faculty and staff. Thank you to all of you who helped make these things happen.

The mission of Northwest Catholic – to “foster in young people a faith that gives meaning and direction to life, to challenge and guide them in the pursuit of academic excellence, and to instill within them a spirit of service to God and others” -- is being carried out today in the context of 21st century social and educational issues. It’s a mission that’s as important today as it was 49 years ago, when the first freshman class walked through our doors. The successes of NWC alums serve as a beacon to today’s students as they face ever-challenging career and ethical choices. In person and in spirit, you all provide hope and encouragement to the students we work with today.

This year, we are focusing on using our gifts to serve others and honoring the priests of the Archdiocese who serve us all so well. Please visit us when you can to see and feel the community as it exists today and to reminisce about your own high school days.

Thank you for all of your support and know that we pray for you all. We wish you the very best in the new year!

Sincerely,

Margaret Williamson Principal/Chief Administrator

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LOGOS

The Greek word or logos (pronounced lo-gaas) is defined as “word” or “meaning.” St. John’s Gospel opens: “In the beginning was Logos (the Word), and Logos was with God, and Logos was God.” The phrase “Word (Logos) of God,” found in John 1:1 and elsewhere, shows God’s desire and ability to “speak” to the human. The Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the Springs (the founding Order of Northwest Catholic) have been noted for their effective ability to preach the word. The mission of the Dominicans is to provide intellectual formation, social communication, and service through word and action. Our publication, Logos, conveys our mission and values through this medium of the word. Logos is published three times a year by the Communications Department of Northwest Catholic High School. Please send comments or suggestions to:

Michelle M. Murphy Director of Communications Northwest Catholic High School 29 Wampanoag Drive West Hartford, CT 06117 860.236.4221 x133 [email protected]

Editor: Michelle M. Murphy

Principal/Chief Administrator: Margaret Williamson

Photography: ArtRich Photography, Mark Dodd, Jane Leary, Michelle Murphy, NWC archives, NOWECA (Northwest Catholic yearbook), Jennifer Puskarz, Thomas Steen Design: GO media Departments Contributors: Jordan Barnes ’99, Theresa Becker ’76, Butler Family, Catholic Charities, Jei Cho ’10, Joseph Cote ’95, Catherine Foley Bodak- Gyovai ’65, Harold Drabkin ’68, John Flannery ’79, Nico Greco 36 NEWS FROM 29 WAMPANOAG ’10, Gerardo Heredia ’96, Patricia Juda, Marian Kindstrom ’85, Katie Krikawa ’10, Michael Lenz ’91, Richard Luddy, Ph.D., Kelsey Marakovits ’10, Eddie Martucci, Ph.D. ’00, Kim 44 SPORTS NEWS McElaney ’72, Brenna Milbier ’04, Irene O’Connor ’85, Miriam O’Leary, M.D. ’95, Jason Randazzo ’98, Michael Rogers, S.J. ’98, Rebecca Blais Sanda ’90, David Santos ’85, Kate Schuppe ’11, Tchaka Shepherd, M.D. ’90, Mary Swetcky, Megan Tracey ’85, 46 ALUMNI NEWS Jessica Galanos Wallace ’97, Meghan Terrion Whitehouse ’03, Patrick Williamson ’99, Floyd Wilson

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t’s been an enormously popular graduation gift for nearly 20 years: i Oh, the Places You’ll Go, the modern Dr. Seuss classic, has sold millions of copies–including 300,000 every Spring–since it was published in January 1990.

Its message of excited encouragement for people embody the amazing array of places that Northwest on the threshold of the rest of their lives is especially Catholic people have “gone,” personally, professionally, bittersweet considering that this was Dr. Seuss’s last and geographically. Of course, this is by no means an book before his death. exhaustive, or even adequately representative, overview of the paths our alums have taken since graduation. Like all of his works, this one has a signature refrain–“Will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed. (98.75% But it’s a start. Over the next several years, and guaranteed.)”–that reinforces the book’s inspirational especially as Northwest Catholic’s 50th anniversary theme. It could also be considered the thread that gets closer, we will tell as many stories as we can of other connects the lives of the 15 Northwest Catholic alums alumni, here in these pages and on our web site (www. profiled on these pages. northwestcatholic.org). Please, tell us yours! Send info to Michelle M. Murphy, Director of Communications Selected randomly from the 7,500 or so people who ([email protected]). have graduated from NWC since 1965, these alums

4 • LOGOS THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC For these profiles, we asked each person to respond to the same five questions:

What’s your most vivid memory from Northwest catholic? Who are” you Who “were” now? ? you at NWc When you hear the words Northwest catholic,” what’s the first word that comes to mind?

Here’s what they said:

Catherine Foley Bodak-Gyovai, M.D. ’65 is a pediatric After teaching at Temple neurologist at the A.I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware, as University Medical School well as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Thomas Jefferson for 15 years and then at the School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She has 70 scientific and University of Pittsburgh medical publications. She and her husband, Levente Bodak-Gyovai, School of Medicine for 13 DMD, a former professor at Penn’s School of Dental Medicine, live years, she assumed her current in Media, PA, where he has a dental practice. position at Jefferson Medical Catherine Foley Bodak-Gyovai, M.D. ’65 School. Catherine is the oldest of five girls – her sisters areVirginia Foley ’68, Elizabeth Foley Emile ’70, Patricia Foley Seremet ’71, and “I have been an academic child neurologist for my entire career, Elenore Foley Sonski ’75, who’s married to Alex Sonski ’74 – and enjoy teaching medical students and residents, as well as taking and was involved in a typical array of activities at NWC: yearbook, care of children with brain disorders. My work is truly an honor, a newspaper, school plays. She graduated from Rosemont College in challenge and a privilege. I can’t imagine doing anything else. 1969 and from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1974. She did a four-year pediatric residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, where she was the Chief “Will you succeed? Yes, you will Resident. She also completed three years of neurology residency at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. indeed. (98.75% guaranteed.)”

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I am married to the love of my life. When I met him, he was a who solidified my interest in biology. I’ve lost track of many, but widower with two adult sons; now we have seven grandchildren, the hope they are doing well.” youngest of whom is six months old. We are active in our parish, and contact: [email protected] enjoy traveling, dancing, whitewater rafting, and kayaking. If we live another 50 years, we will just about have enough time to complete everything on our list of things we plan to do. I believe my NWC homeroom produced at least two other pediatricians – Matthew Frank, a child neurologist like me, and Marilyn Bacon, a neonatologist. Our homeroom teacher was a tiny From the 1970s... little nun who taught Algebra II, Geometry, Trig – she was always smiling and was a bundle of energy. I can see her face, but her name eludes me. John L. Flannery, Jr. ’79 was this Fall named the President and I have several vivid memories of NWC: Sr. Veritas making us CEO of GE India, responsible for GE’s overall operations in the kneel down to be sure our skirts touched the floor; my surprise at country (GE has 15,000 employees in India). Before that, he had being voted most likely to succeed; the day we all lost our innocence been the CEO of GE Capital for the Asia Pacific region. He has when they announced on the loudspeaker in Sr. Mary Gilbert’s worked for General Electric his entire career. French class that President Kennedy had been shot, and then sent us A graduate of Fairfield University, John earned an MBA all home early; the prom with the Ebb Tide theme and making the from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. gym (sort of) look like an undersea realm–the ’Little Mermaid’ had He grew up in West Hartford, the youngest of three children not yet been invented. (his older sisters did not attend NWC), but spent most of his The one word that comes to mind? Fun! Socially and adult life in Wilton, CT, where he still has a home. He and his academically. In junior year, I was sent from Northwest to Chicago wife, Tracy, also have a house on Nantucket. In January, they as the CT high school representative to the Atomic Energy Young will move with their 16-year-old son Tim from Tokyo to New Scientist Conference – the first time I had ever been on a plane.” Delhi, India; their daughter, Morgan, 20, and son Matthew, 19, attend Colgate University. John said Matthew was named contact: [email protected] after his close friend Matthew Brazel ’79, who passed away from cancer some years after graduation. “I travel a lot; I have had the good fortune to visit over 40 different countries for work or pleasure, and just this week I was in Harold J. Drabkin, Ph.D. New Delhi, Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, and Tokyo – all in 5 days! ’68 is a Senior Scientific Curator of Mouse Genome Informatics Strangely, the first thing I thought of when asked about my most at The Jackson Laboratory in vivid memory is when we went on ’strike’ my senior year. We were Bar Harbor, ME. He is an expert protesting some perceived slight that I cannot remember, and we in nucleic acid biochemistry all agreed we would not enter the building as usual. So there we and molecular biology, and is a were – a couple hundred of us standing in the parking lot milling curator for the Gene Ontology around, a few of the more organized ones with signs. However, Project and the Protein Ontology the school cracked down, and I think by 8:15 we were all back in Project in the Mouse Genome school. Probably none of us went on to become union organizers. Database. He writes frequently in The first word that pops into my about Northwest is ’diversity,’ professional journals and speaks and it really has impacted my life. When I was at NWC, we had often at scientific conferences kids from several towns as well as very different socioeconomic and about genetics and the Mouse ethnic backgrounds. But everyone got along well, and I realized then Genome project. that people with many differences can not only have fun together After NWC, Harold went to the but also learn from each other because of those differences. I think University of Hartford, where he one of the reasons I have been so comfortable overseas in some earned a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. Harold J. Drabkin, Ph.D. ’68 in Chemistry in 1972. He also earned a Ph.D. in Biology from Wesleyan University in 1977. He also spent many years as a research scientist in the Biology department at MIT. “I’m from Hartford, and I was an only child. I attended St. Michael’s elementary school. At NWC, I was involved in the newspaper. In addition to my work in curation at MGI, I have a strong commitment to distance learning, and teach through that venue (Editor’s note: he’s been teaching biology and genetics through The Charter Oak State College in New Britain, CT since 2000). When I think about Northwest Catholic, I think of people. I think of Ron Ferri; of Sr. James Marie; and of Sr. Veronica Welch,

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Kim McElaney ’72 is the Director of the Chaplains’ Office at the College of the Holy Cross, her alma mater, where she has worked for 25 years. She also worked for four years as an Assistant Chaplain at Fairfield University and holds a Master’s of Divinity from the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, MA. Marian Kindstrom ’85 Kim grew up in West Hartford, and her four sisters – Meg McElaney Woolley ’73, Ann McElaney-Johnson ’75, Jane McElaney Peterson ’77, and Julie McElaney-Gorman ’83 to sing in the choir, something she still does today. followed her to Northwest Catholic. Her NWC connections include her brother-in-law Bruce Woolley ’72 and her nephew Marian moved to Sweden the day after her NWC graduation; Jack Peterson ’12. In high school, she was involved in the glee her aunt Britta helped her find a job there as a nurse’s aide in a club, some of the musicals, French Club, and Student Council, for convalescent home. Over the ensuing years, she became certified as which she was Secretary her senior year. a networking and computer technician, and also earned her Masters in Caring Sciences degree from the University of Borås. Today, she “I was an avid basketball fan at lives in a small town on the outskirts of Gothenburg, Sweden, with Northwest, along with just about her son Daniel, 13. Her older son, Robin, 22, lives nearby and is every other student, and I loved the studying to become a nurse. In addition to her involvement with her sense of school spirit that was so community choir, Marian said she enjoys traveling, photography, evident all four years. It’s impossible and snorkeling, and is in the process of obtaining her motorcycle to single out the ’most vivid’ memory driver’s license. from high school – so many of my memories remain vivid and rich. I “After NWC graduation, I was planning to stay here for about made wonderful friends, and I still half a year to figure out what I wanted to do next. I started working, recall the many parties, ’hanging out’ got the hang of the language, made some friends, fell in love, and on Drury Lane and Sheep Hill Drive, decided to stay a little while longer. It was great being independent! snow days, Friendly’s after basketball After some months I got a new job in a restaurant, fell in love again, games, and so many other fun social got an apartment, and time just flew by. occasions. It was at Northwest that My most vivid memory of NWC is of my friends – sitting in the I first fell in love, and at Northwest cafeteria and having a good time; that’s what I remember most. The where I first experienced the death first word I think of? Art class. I loved of a friend’s parent. I remember art class – and choir, of course! with deep gratitude and admiration I am looking forward to the next the teachers I had, especially Paul reunion. I am actually planning my Reardon, Mike Miscio, Dan Carney, vacation around it, so I can come Mrs. Slattery, and, of course, Sr. over and meet up with old friends.” Doris Regan. It was at NWC that I first came to know how much I loved contact: mariankindstrom@ studying literature. hotmail.com I also find it impossible to come up with a single word that I associate with NWC. They were golden years – some of the best of my life.” contact: [email protected] David Santos ’85 is the Country Manager for Euler Hermes Turkey, a credit insurance company that’s a subsidiary of From the 1980s... the German insurance company Allianz. David grew up in West Hartford, in a large family with Marian Kindstrom ’85 is the school nurse at Fuxerna School, a strong Northwest Catholic ties: kindergarten-gr. 9 elementary school of 500 students in Lilla Edet, His brothers Richard ’82 (now a Sweden. Born in Hartford Hospital, she grew up in West Hartford Deacon and the Chairman of the – her parents, Lennart and Leila, still live in town – and had one NWC Religion Department), older brother, who now lives in Manaus, Brazil. At NWC, she loved Michael ’83, and Brian ’84 were David Santos ’85

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all ahead of him in school, and his sister Katie Santos Hawkom on weekends. She was awarded an academic scholarship and ’88 was three years younger. His parents, Richard and Kathy, were earned a degree in International Relations from Boston University extremely active at NWC, and helped to get Saturday Night Live and an MBA from the University of Chicago. After graduating off the ground in the early 1980s. David’s youngest brothers, Dan from BU, she moved to Prague, Czech Republic, for her first job, and Tim, went to high school in Needham, MA, after his parents thus beginning a career that has taken her from Prague, to San moved there in the late 1980s. Sadly, Mrs. Santos passed away in Francisco, to Hong Kong, and to Singapore – with extra stops back February 2006. in San Francisco and traveling throughout Asia, Europe and Africa in between. David graduated from Providence College in 1989 with a Finance degree and then earned an MBA at UConn in 1991. Keen for a “My most vivid memory of Northwest is a funny one from my career in international business, he studied Spanish and was hired cross country running days. There were several girls on the team to start the Chilean operation of a small credit reporting company, – including Colleen Porch ’91 and Heather Porch Rutkowski Veritas Credit Corp. That was the start of a 20-plus-year career ’90 – who were really strong runners. I was never very good at that’s taken him from Chile, to Mexico City, to Belgium, and now x-country, but my team made it to the State Championships. We to Turkey. He and his wife Susana live in Istanbul with their sons arrived to the finals very late, and we did not have a chance to walk Nicolas, 10, Tomas, 8, Martin, 6, Benjamin, 2, and David German, the route before the race. I said to my coach, ’How will I know 3 months. where to go?’ He said, ’Don’t worry, you’ll be somewhere in the middle so just follow the people in front of you.’ “My plan was to go to Chile for 2 years and return to the US. My mother feared that I would meet a Chilean girl and never return, Well, during the race I got so far behind – we are talking dead last but I of course assured her that would never happen. It was during – that there was nobody to follow, and I got lost! I wandered out of my fourth year in Chile that I married my Chilean girlfriend, the woods and ended up on a hill overlooking the finish line and Susana Correa Vial. never actually finished the race. Colleen and Heather finished in the top 3. But everyone was so very nice to me on the bus ride back. The highlight of my NWC sports career was beating Xavier in They were really a nice group of girls. In hindsight, it was a good football 24-0 under the lights in Middletown, CT on a Friday night experience to fail at something in a very public way. It taught me during my Senior year. I will never forget the sense of energy we all humility and how to be graceful in a difficult situation. felt on the bus ride to the game. Alan Keney ’85, our star middle linebacker and center, sat at the back of the bus and blasted out ’Eye When I hear NWC, the first word I think of is values.” of the Tiger’ on the ride over, and we played the game of our lives. contact: [email protected] When I think back to NWC the first word that pops into my mind is community. I see the names of alumni and former classmates, the names of the people I grew up with, who are still participating in this community, and it really makes me feel proud to be a part of it.” contact: [email protected] Tchaka Shepherd, M.D. ’90 is a trauma surgeon and the Director of the Trauma/ Critical Care Division at St. Francis Medical Center in Southeast Los Angeles, CA. A Hartford native, he was an only child who immersed himself in life at Northwest Catholic. He was on the track and football teams, he joined the Spanish Club and several class committees, and he was in the Rebecca Blais Sanda ’90 ACTS class. He earned a B.S. lives in Singapore with her degree in Biology at Morehouse husband, Chris, and their College in Atlanta and his four-year-old son Michael. She medical degree at Meharry is the Senior Director of Global Medical College in Nashville. Customer Programs for Oracle After six years of training in Corp, with responsibility for general surgery in Southern the ASEAN countries. She California, he came back East to grew up in a single-parent complete a trauma/critical care home in Southwick, MA, and fellowship at the Shock Trauma ran track and cross country Center in Baltimore, MD. while at NWC. She also Today, Tchaka lives in worked at times in the school Redondo Beach, CA, with his library to help cover her tuition wife Latrice and their year-old Tchaka Shepherd, M.D. ’90 costs and had a job waitressing twins, Nyla and Noah.

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“During my matriculation at NWC, I was a young man searching Joseph Cote ’95 lives for answers regarding the complexity of African-American life in in Portland, OR, where America. It occasionally led to interesting and intriguing situations. he is the Vice President The Northwest community was an integral part of my growth of Ticket Sales for the and development, and for that I will always be grateful. Portland Beavers (a Triple-A baseball team) and the I am currently living in California because unfortunately we are Portland Timbers (a 2011 one of the nation’s leaders when it comes to gang-related violent MLS expansion franchise). crimes. I am involved in several violence-intervention programs in He grew up in Windsor, CT, the hopes of stemming the current tide of excessive teen violence. but moved to Enfield just My most vivid memory of NWC? This may surprise many, but before junior year at NWC. it’s Patricia Juda. She challenged me to be better than I ever thought He was on the school paper I could be. She challenged me to seek excellence, and that I can for a year and was a member never repay. of the National Honor Society. Joe went to the University of The first word that pops into my mind when I hear Northwest South Carolina, where he earned Catholic? Home. The Northwest community will be forever a part a B.S. in Sport and Entertainment of my extended family.” Management. After graduation, he Joseph Cote ’95 contact: [email protected] worked at Madison Square Garden (in CT) and the Columbus (OH) Blue Jackets (NHL) before moving to Portland two years ago. “My most vivid memory of NWC is the weekly vocabulary test in Mr. Reardon’s freshman Honors English class. And the word that comes to mind when I think of NWC is proud. I am proud to be a NWC graduate.” contact: [email protected]

Miriam O’Leary, M.D. ’95 is a head and neck surgeon and assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology Gerardo M. Heredia ’96 has been teaching elementary school – Head & Neck Surgery at Tufts for the past 13 years, and is currently the Dean of Students at West Medical Center in Boston. She Middle School in Hartford. He and his sister, Rocio Heredia ’98, grew up in Granby, CT, the grew up in Hartford. He was part of Northwest Catholic’s “BEST” oldest of three girls; her sisters program as a freshman and again as a senior, when he was one of Niamh ’99 and Keara ’00 were its leaders. He also played on NWC’s soccer team and helped out a few years behind her at NWC. with the basketball team. Gerardo earned his B.S. in Elementary She was extremely involved with Education and his Master’s in Special Education from Central the Dramateurs, participating in Connecticut State University. He intends to begin an Ed. D. in the Fall and Spring play every year, Educational Leadership in Summer 2010. He and his wife, Sara and she also played soccer and ran Cianfaglione Heredia ’96, live in South Windsor with their outdoor track. Miriam earned her daughter, Ella Grace, 3, and their son Gerardo Attilio, 2; they are Miriam O’Leary, M.D. ’95 undergraduate degree in 1999 expecting their third child in April. from Rosemont College, where she majored in biochemistry and minored in theater, and her medical degree in 2003 from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. After a five-year residency in Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery at Boston University, she went to the University of Miami for a one-year fellowship in Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery and Microvascular Reconstruction. “My most vivid memory of Northwest Catholic is the diversity of the student population, which was greater than the diversity in my hometown and even in my college class. I think that this was excellent preparation for living and working in the real world.” contact: [email protected]

Gerardo M. Heredia ’96

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“There are so many things that I recall about NWC, like Mrs. me to this day, because so often I have found that I have had to trust Juda’s reading class; or Mr. Abbott’s typing class, which helped that God is with me, even in the toughest or most challenging of me throughout college; our trips with the basketball team; Mr. times. I remember looking out at the happy, hopeful, and nervous Callahan checking uniforms and earrings; Mrs. Van Brocklin’s faces of my classmates reading that passage as the light poured in Geometry class (it was the best). John Mirabello was (and still is) through the grand stained glass windows of the Cathedral, and one of the biggest role models in my life. feeling grateful for what my time at Northwest had meant, as well as hopeful for what lay ahead. But the best memory is of Mr. Reardon and his way of teaching – he was so animated, and he made it easy to listen and If there is one word which pops into my mind when I hear the learn from him. He was a strong, strict, but fair role model for me. words Northwest Catholic, it is home. It is that place from which I needed him to stay on track, not only with English class but with I come, it is a place of origin for me, and my time there serves as life overall. a foundation for my life today. It comes out in my own life as a high school teacher, whether it is in hounding my students to use I am Northwest Catholic’s #1 fan. Without NWC, my life would proper grammar (thanks to Mrs. Juda), using Anselm’s proof for be completely different. Everyone is there with their heart. Going God’s existence as an exercise of prayer (thanks to Mr. Woodford), to NWC was a blessing for my family; without NWC, my wife knowing what constitutes a decent cigar (thanks to Mr. Reardon), and I wouldn’t be! I hope that one day my own children can attend consistently asking the questions about the relationship of faith NWC.” to our public life (thanks to Mr. Tressler), or being animated and contact: [email protected] perhaps a little crazy in my teaching style (thanks to Mr. Kelly). Northwest is home for me because it really has shaped who I now am in so many ways, and that is something I am grateful for. “ contact: [email protected] Michael J. Rogers, S.J. ’98 is a Religion teacher at Boston College High School, where he also is in charge of Freshman Orientation; occasionally directs drama productions; and coaches the tennis team. At the end of this school year, he will leave BC High to study theology – the last step in his preparation for ordination as a Jesuit priest. A native of Wethersfield, Mike was the first in his family Jordan Barnes ’99 is the to come to NWC: his brother, Fran ’04 followed him, and his Photo Director at Seventeen sister hopes to join the Class of ’14. During high school, Mike was Magazine in New York City (but involved in the poetry club, mock trial, and drama; on the tennis is often on the road, especially team; and was copy editor of the yearbook. in Los Angeles for photo He earned a B.A. in shoots). A graduate of Central Philosophy from The Connecticut State University, College of the Holy where she earned a Bachelor’s Cross, where his vocation degree in Communication, was kindled. He entered she has also worked at O, The the Society of Jesus in Oprah Magazine and at InStyle August 2002, taught and magazine. She grew up in did missionary work, and West Hartford, and has many earned a Master’s degree in ties to NWC, including her Philosophy from St. Louis mother, Sharon, a member University in 2007. He also of the Administration staff studied at the University from 1985-2001, and her of Central America in El brother Loryn ’97. She was Salvador during the Summer on the basketball, track, of 2005, when he was working and swim teams, and was with the Jesuits in the also involved with the Salvadoran countryside. He drama club. Throughout Jordan Barnes ’99 is on track to be ordained in college, Jordan worked for 2013. Art Rich photography and also operated as an independent photographer; an internship at “I have so many good and The Oprah Magazine during her last semester of college was the happy memories of NWC. springboard to her career. One that sticks out, probably because of where I find myself “Although it took a few years to find the perfect part of NYC, in life, is organizing the prayer I have found my home in Harlem. My neighborhood has such a service for graduation and then terrific sense of community and I am fortunate to live near amazing reading the call of the prophet churches and landmarks, including the Apollo Theatre. Michael J. Rogers, S.J. ’98 Jeremiah at Graduation at the My most vivid memories of NWC include attending basketball cathedral. This verse sticks with games, Mr. Carney’s English class, ’walking tacos’ in the cafeteria,

10 • LOGOS THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC C over story and learning how to develop my first photos in the darkroom – would land. Other memories include late football practices, being Northwest is where I truly fell in love with photography. exhausted, but still running full defense; and Chili-cheese dogs with ridged potato chips. The one word that comes to mind when I hear Northwest Catholic? Friends. I have lived with four different Northwest The first word that pops into my mind when I hear Northwest Catholic graduates, worked at different magazines with NWC Catholic is ’green,’ which is not very creative. Another is ’unfair’ graduates, and have seen ten different Northwest Catholic – as in, NWC accelerated its development as soon as I left – the graduates get married. I have a diverse and well-rounded group of additions to the building, new fields, new gym. It barely looks the friends from NWC that combined could do your taxes, represent same! But I still like the old dark school.” you in a court of law, manage your finances, write your advertising Contact: [email protected] campaign, educate your children, act in a play, write a novel and more – I am so lucky to have met each and every one of them. I am proud to have gone to NWC and am truly grateful for the friends I made there. They will forever be a part of my life, and I consider them family.”

Brenna Milbier ’04 lives in Tangier, Morocco, where she From the 2000s... is a first-grade teacher at the American School of Tangier, a preK-12 school where most students are Moroccan, though Eddie Martucci, Ph.D. ’00 is a Senior Analyst at PureTech the other students come from Ventures, a venture creation firm in Boston that specializes in all over the world. A native creating new biotechnology companies to address major unmet of West Hartford, she is the medical needs. A native of West Hartford, Eddie played football youngest of four children, but and baseball for all four years at NWC, serving as Captain of both the only one to attend NWC. teams when he was a senior. He also sang in the Concert Choir and During high school, she was was active in student government. He was the Salutatorian of his a member of Freshman Contacts, class. His siblings – AJ Martucci ’05 and Melissa Martucci ’11 – worked with special-needs children who played Brenna Milbier ’04 followed him to NWC. After earning a B.S. in Biochemistry from soccer, and was on the tennis team all four years. Providence College, he continued his education at Yale University, As a senior, she was a Tri-Captain and the MVP. where he earned a M.Phil in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Brenna majored in Early Childhood Education and Psychology and his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He lives at the University of Vermont. During college, she studied abroad in Norwood, MA, with his wife, Diana, and their children Dante, in Stockholm, Sweden, and became extremely interested in 3, and Gianni, 6 months old. international education systems; a recruiting firm found her a “One of my favorite memories of NWC was making a pressurized teaching job in Morocco immediately after she graduated. ’cannon’ in Mr. (now Dr.) Luddy’s physics lab, where we got to “Tangier is located on the northwestern tip of Africa and is shoot a tennis ball from the side of the building over the football within sight of southern Spain and Gibraltar. A short distance from bleachers. Just so the administration doesn’t get mad, he did make the city, there are amazing beaches that extend along the Atlantic us calculate all of the correct Newtonian forces and predict where it and Mediterranean coasts. The people of Tangier have traditionally accepted a mixture of backgrounds and beliefs, and that is what drew me to them and their culture. Since coming here, I’ve traveled all around Africa and Europe, including Barcelona, where I visited Sarah Driscoll ’04, who is teaching English as a second language there. My most vivid, exciting and nerve-wracking memory of NWC is of an event that took place during the first few weeks of school – the Freshman Shoe Dance. All of the senior boys threw their shoes into the center of the cafeteria and each freshman girl had to pick a shoe. The boy who owned the shoe you picked became your dance partner. It was quite an interesting introduction to high school! The first words that come to mind when I hear NWC are Mrs. Juda and ’The Raven.’ “ Contact: [email protected]

Eddie Martucci, Ph.D. ’00

THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC FA L L 2 0 0 9 • 11 very June, as soon as school gets out, Northwest Catholic students, faculty, and staff scatter in every direction, in pursuit of all kinds of adventures. This yearE was no exception. Here’s a small sampling of the “who, what, and where” of the things NWC people did during the Summer of 2009.

Kate Schuppe ’11 ing. During a visit to a temple, we learned the traditional way of praying by rinsing our hands and mouth, and then bowing Where I went: Tokyo, Hakkone, Ilyama City, Gifu, Hiroshima, after making a prayer. Over the next several days, we visited and Kyoto, Japan. Hakkone, where we climbed part of Mount Fuji and experi- enced the hot springs that flowed directly from the mountain When I went: Jul. 19-Aug. 1, 2009 into our guest house and Ilyama City, where we stayed with Why I went: I went to Japan as a part of the “People to People a Japanese family, slept on traditional tatami mats, made our Student Ambassador Programs.” We traveled to many different own chopsticks, danced at a Japanese festival, and saw rice fields cities to learn about Japanese his- everywhere we went. We then took the bullet train to Hiro- tory, to experience Japanese cul- shima, which reduced the travel time to two hours versus the ture firsthand, and to develop an six it would have taken to drive there. At Hiroshima, we were appreciation for a new culture. stunned to walk through the Peace Park, and astonished to find Who I went with: 38 high no hostility toward Americans in a city so affected by our at- school students, 4 adult leaders, tack on them. We saw the remains of the Atomic Bomb Dome, and a Japanese delegation man- which was the most intact building after the bombing. Everyone ager from the People to People was quite moved as we left Hiroshima. Our last stop was Kyoto, program. Japan’s former capital. It was a trip I will always remember. What I did while I was there: After our 13-hour flight to Japan, Richard Luddy, Ph.D., NWC Science teacher we landed in Tokyo. The next day, we visited the Government Where I went: Geneva, Switzerland, the home of the European Building, where we presented Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the LHC (Large a small gift during a welcoming Hadron Collider), which is the newest superconducting supercol- ceremony. Later, we visited an lider for particle research in the world, seven times more energet- anime studio where we recorded ic than any earlier collider. The LHC machine itself is more than voiceovers for a short animation 27 kilometers in circumference. Thousands of physicists from all sequence. Over the next few days, over the world work there or are working on experiments being we saw the Emperor’s Palace, tested there. CERN and the LHC straddle the border between shopped at a large mall (where we Geneva, Switzerland and France. were surprised to see many Ameri- Kate Schuppe ’11 can movies playing), and caught When I went: June 27-July 5, 2009. part of the eclipse that occurred that morn-

12 • LOGOS THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC Why I went: I was invited to give a talk on my cur- rent Physics research about the detailed structure of protons at the 13th In- ternational Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, which is also known as the Blois Con- ference. (Editor’s Note: Dr. Luddy was one of only a few Americans invited to speak at this conference.) Katie Krikawa ’10 and Kelsey Marakovits ’10 Who I went with: I flew there by myself, but in Ge- Why we went: In addition to helping get us in shape, we par- neva I met several of my ticipated in crew over the summer because we thoroughly enjoy collaborators and many it! We were also fortunate enough to participate in the college other physicists whom I coaches camp that was held at our boathouse. For one week, know from other work. we would row from 9-3 under the supervision of college crew What I did while I was coaches who were able to assess our abilities and give us indi- there: The conference vidual attention on how we could most improve. agenda was packed for the whole Richard Luddy, Ph.D. Who we went with: Rowers from high school teams all over week. Each day we listened to talks and Connecticut. exchanged ideas about them from about 8am-6pm. On Tuesday and Thursday we didn’t finish until 8:30pm. We met Best thing about it: The opportunity to make new friends. The in the “Council Chamber,” a large conference room much like rowers are a completely different group of people than the ones the United Nations. Everyone had a microphone and a headset, we know from school. We’re all tied together through our love and above us on the side of the hall were 6 glass rooms where of the sport. different translators could sit and work. We could select from one of six languages to hear the speaker. Most of the speakers were able to speak English fairly well. Nico Greco ’10 My presentation was on Tuesday morning, and I admit to being rather nervous while listening to the talk before mine. Where I went: I ran a number of I imagined falling down on my face while walking up to the races this past Summer, one of which podium. When I got up there, it felt like I was talking to a class was the GE 5k Road Race, which at Northwest Catholic! My talk was very well received and was benefits the Petit Family Foundation referenced by many speakers during the rest of the week. It was founded by Dr. William Petit, Jr. fun and exciting. The race had a number of sponsors, including GE and NBC Connecticut On Wednesday evening, we took a dinner cruise on Lake TV. Geneva to a small town in France called Yvoire. It was built in around 1360. Many of the original buildings including the When I went: We lined up at church are still standing. 9am on Saturday, July 18, 2009. There were about 3,000 runners, Best thing about the trip: The whole experience was very ex- including Dr. Petit. citing, from chatting with famous physicists to ordering all my meals in French. The morning of my arrival before the confer- Why I went: I knew I needed to Nico Greco ’10 ence started, I walked around a small part of the 27 km path. run some races last Summer to know There were fields with miles of grapevines surrounding the site, what kind of shape I was in and to be able to predict where I and mountains in almost all directions. It was a great experience. would be at the start of NWC’s cross country season. I also knew this race was for a good cause, so I decided to just hop right in and go. Katie Krikawa ’10 & Kelsey Marakovits ’10 Who I went with: My Dad came with me to the race; he’s always been there to support me in every race. I ran into some friendly competition with two recent graduates from Farming- Where we went: This summer we rowed on the Connecticut ton High School and Berlin High School. River. We are part of a Riverfront Recapture crew team, and this was to help keep us in shape and help us improve our technique What I did while I was there: When I first got to the race, I and times for the Fall rowing season. You could consider this did my regular warm-up, stretched, and stood at the line and our “preseason” or “summer league,” as many Northwest sports have. heard a few words from Dr. Petit before the gun went off. I fin- ished the race in 16:37, wearing my heavy training shoes – 5th When we went: Three days a week, two hours a day, for two months. place overall. I was also the top High School finisher.

THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC FA L L 2 0 0 9 • 13 Patrick Williamson ’99 I went to Guang Hwa Mun at the end of July. I went there to meet up with my old friend, who goes to school in Pennsylvania but also came home to Korea for the Sum- mer. It is my favorite place to just walk around. We walked around the park that was just made there, took pictures, and had dinner. I also went to Go-Sung, which Patrick Williamson ’99 is near the South Sea of Korea. It NWC Assistant Track Coach was at the end of August, a week before I left Korea to come back to Where I went: Lake Placid, NY for Ironman Lake Placid the US. I went there with my three When I went: The race was on July 26, 2009, but I was of my cousins. We camped in the there for about 3 days before and 3 days after mountain Seol-ak on the first day and sailed on a yacht next two days. Why I went: To do a triathlon. This was my third at- I love to fish, so my oldest cousin tempt at an Ironman and the second one I completed – and I fished for eight hours straight you are required to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and almost every night, from 8pm-4am. then run 26.2 miles, all within 17 hours. I think this was the greatest experi- Jei Cho ’10 Who I went with: Margie & Brian Williamson, Bryan ence I had last Summer. Spinelli ’99, MaryKate Sitarz ’99, Meg Williamson ’03, Caro- lyn Spalluto ’08, Kate Williamson ’08. Floyd Wilson, NWC Custodian What I did while I was there: The race started in Mirror Lake at 7am during a downpour, and you had until midnight to finish. I finished at 10:44.58 PM (15 hours, 44 minutes, 58 seconds). It was great having my friends and family there with me, both competing (Bryan) and volunteering at a run aid station (everyone else). Best thing about it: Registering again for next year. I will com- pete in Ironman Lake Placid 2010 to raise money for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in Ashford, CT, which was founded by Paul Newman to provide a summer camp experience to children age 7-15 who suffer from chronic or life-threatening illnesses. The camp serves over 1,000 children over 9 weeks each Summer Floyd Wilson and his siblings and upwards of 10,000 children through the Hospital Outreach Where I went: Selma, Alabama Program and weekend programs year-round. It is the flagship camp of The Hole in the Wall Gang Association, which has 10 camps When I went: July 2009 worldwide that serve similar populations. The camp is free for all Why I went: I went to attend the Spencer Family Reunion, which attendees and operates solely through private and corporate dona- is held every other year in a different location around the country. tions. It costs $2,500 to send one camper for one week. My goal is Who I went with: I drove to Alabama with my wife and four chil- to pay for ten children to attend camp by raising $25,000 in Ironman dren, plus my five sisters from the Hartford area. There were about sponsorships over the next year. (See www.holeinthewallgang.org 300 of our relatives at the reunion, including my two brothers who and www.teamholeinthewall.org/netcommunity/LakePlacid2010 to live down there. follow my fundraising efforts or to make a donation.) What I did while I was there: We had three days of activities with the reunion. Thursday was the hospitality day – when people ar- Jei Cho ’10 rived, checked in, and got settled. On Friday, there was a big family NWC International Students Program picnic on the Spencer family plantation. Everyone at the reunion went to that. That night, people would take little side trips or just Where I went: Seoul, South Korea visit with one another. We did more of the same during the day on Saturday. Saturday night was the big sit-down banquet. That was Why I went: I went home to spend the Summer with my family beautiful. It was at the George Wallace State Community College, after attending NWC for my junior year. in a big dining room. There were speeches, and singing or dancing When I went: I left CT for Korea the day after school got out in from the people with talent, and it was also when we voted on where June. I came back to CT in August to live with Brendan Lemp ’10 we will have the next reunion. It’s going to be in Texas in 2011. and his parents in West Hartford – my new host family. Best thing about the trip: My favorite thing is motoring there. Who I went with: I traveled home alone. That’s my thing. I love driving down, through Virginia, and Geor- gia, sightseeing, enjoying the ride along the way. And of course I What I did while I was there: I had a really, really great time in also love being with all my family, seeing who comes each year, vis- Korea, but at the same time I was wishing I was back in the US, as iting with them. We have been having these reunions for 16 or 17 well. I went to so many places this Summer with friends, family, years now, and every person doesn’t come to every one of them, so and some foreign friends who I met two years ago when I was going I always like to see the people I might have missed at the last one. to school in Texas.

14 • LOGOS THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC NWC Legacy – A handful of the 26 alums and their Class of ’09 children

he star-studded Class of 2009 graduated from Northwest Catholic High T School on Wednesday, June 3, in a moving ceremony held in the beautiful Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford.

Archbishop Henry Mansell presided over the 45th com- mencement, which featured an address by Maria Elena Lagomasino ’66, the chief executive officer of GenSpring Family Offices, a premier wealth management firm based in Florida. A prominent executive in the banking industry, Maria and her family fled Castro’s Cuba when she was 11 years old, settling in West Hartford, where Maria’s mother worked for a while as a Spanish teacher at NWC. Maria earned a bachelor’s degree from Manhattanville College, a master’s degree from Columbia University, and an MBA from Fordham University. She serves on a number of corporate boards, including the Boards of Avon Prod- ucts, Inc. and Lincoln Center Theater. She is also a Trustee on the Board of the National Geographic Society. The valedictory and salutatory addresses were delivered by Nicole Boucher ’09 of Hartford and Kristen Bachteler ’09 of West Hartford, respectively.

THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC FA L L 2 0 0 9 • 15 Bachteler, the daughter of James and Noreen Bachteler, participated in a wide range of activities at NWC, ranging from Mock Trial, Empty Bowls, and Northwest Passages to field hockey, basketball, and the West Hartford teen orga- nization, “The Grounds.” She was also active in St. Brigid Church, where she taught CCD, and volunteered for Tabor House and the Blair Manor Nursing Home. She is a fresh- man at the University of Notre Dame. Almost half (42%) of the college-bound students in the Class of ’09 are continuing their education at private in- Boucher, the daughter of James and Kristen Boucher, was stitutions, while 31% are attending Catholic colleges or known as much for her community service at NWC as for universities, and 27% are enrolled in public institutions. her academic achievement. A member of the school’s Con- Last year’s college acceptances included Tufts, Vander- nectiKids tutoring program and “Thursdays in the City” bilt, Boston College, and UConn, to name just a few. For student-mentoring program, she was also extremely active a complete list of the colleges in her church, Immanuel Congregational, and participated and universities to which the in a forum on inner-city poverty issues sponsored by Mount graduates were accepted, visit Holyoke College. She is majoring in biochemistry at Brown www.northwestcatholic.org/ University. academics.

CLASS OF ’09 BY THE NUMBERS Graduates 132 College-Bound Grads 98% Grads’ Hometowns 23 Grads with Alumni Parents 26 Honors Graduates 60 (32 with honors, 28 with highest honors) National Merit Finalist 1 (Boucher) National Merit Commended Students 7 National Achievement Scholarship Program 2 Division 1 Athletes 5 College scholarships and financial aid $1 million

16 • LOGOS THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC ANN UAL REPORT 2008-09

THANK YOU. ADVANCEMENT REPORT

Statement of Operating Activities An unaudited statement of revenues and expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009

REVENUES epnsesx e

Operations: Operations: Tuition and Fees $6,548,993 Administration $1,422,218 Assessments $118,300 Instruction $4,350,889 Subsidies from Archdiocese $206,923 Library/Media $116,149 Athletic Income $23,855 Plant $674,139 Support Service Income $200,231 Athletics Expenses $632,128 Other Operating Income $448,485 Support Services $234,794 Subtotal $7,546,787 Depreciation $203,507 5% 1% 4% Other Expenditures & Capital17% Reserves $325,135 2% Advancement: 3% Development $857,135 Total Expenses $7,958,959 8% Internal Fundraising $122,408 Subtotal $979,543

Total Revenues $8,526,330 Expenses Revenue

Revenue 5% 1% 1% 4% 17% 11% 8% 2% 3%

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8% 2% 1% 0% 1% 11% Tuition and Fees 2% 1% Administration 5% Assessments Instruction 2% 0% Subsidies from Archdiocese Library/Media 2% 1% 8% Plant Athletic Income 51% Athletics 1% Support Service Income Tuition and Fees AdministrationSupport Services Asssessments InstructionDepreciation Other Operating Income Subsidies from 78% Archdiocese Library/Media Athletic Income Plant Other Operating Expenditures Support Service Income 51% Development Athletics Other Operating Income Support ServicesDevelopment Development Depreciation Internal Fundraising Internal Fundraising Other OperatingInternal Expenditures Fundraising 78% Development Internal Fundraising

Northwest Catholic High School Advancement Report for fiscal year ending June 30, 2009

Northwest Catholic Fund Capital Endowment Total 6% 2% 4% 29% Alumni $200,454 $103,718 $16,919 $321,091 Alumni 11% Current Parents $98,295 $32,066 $390 $130,751 Current Parents Alumni Parents Alumni Parents $55,562 $19,300 $8,265 $83,127 Foundations & Organizations Foundations and Organizations $155,084 $86,150 $2,000 $243,234 Magazine Drive Friends & Faculty Friends and Faculty $97,032 $3,990 $26,840 $127,862 6% 6% 2% Golf Tournament 4% Magazine Drive $61,107 $61,107 Saturday Night Live 29% Alumni 12% Gifts in Kind Golf Tournament $48,080 11% $48,080 22% Current Parents Saturday Night Live $61,831 $61,831 8%Alumni Parents Subtotal $777,445 $245,224 6% 2%$54,414 $1,077,083 Foundations & Organizations 4% Magazine Drive Gifts In Kind $23,309 $1,500 $24,80929% Friends & Faculty 6% Alumni 11% TOTAL $800,754 $246,724 $54,414 $1,101,892 Current Parents Golf Tournament Alumni Parents Saturday Night Live Foundations & 12%Organizations Gifts in Kind 22% Magazine Drive This listing reflects gifts received between July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009. Friends8% & Faculty 6% Golf Tournament Saturday Night Live 12% Gifts in Kind 22% 8%

18 • ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09 NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL Hig t hligh s, 2008-09

A cademic Accolades • 1 student named National Merit Finalist; 7 students named National Merit Commended students; 2 students named National Achievement Participants • 25 students named Advanced Placement Scholars – the most in school history • 70 students inducted into the National Honor Society • Students took 230 Advanced Placement examinations • SAT scores remain at their highest level in 30 years. N ew Technology and Improved Facilities • More SMARTBoards were added, bringing to 18 the number of classrooms with this technology. • Naviance, an on-line college- and career-planning tool, was introduced. • The floors in the Johnson and Stosuy Gymnasiums were refinished. • An improved emergency lighting system was installed throughout the building. • New ceilings and lights were installed in the hallway between Campus Ministry and cafeteria. • The Fitness Center was refurbished with new floor mats and new, gently used cardio and strengthening equipment. • The guidance office and guidance conference room were renovated and updated with fresh paint, new carpeting and updated furnishings. • The Music Room was completely renovated and new instrument storage lockers were installed. • Two new servers and an additional T-1 computer line were added. Fine and Performing Arts Awards • The NWC jazz ensembles competed in the 41st Annual Berklee Jazz Festival in January 2009, and took home several awards: the Thursday Night Jazz Band received 5th place (out of 16 bands); the Jazz Combo also came in 5th (out of 16 combos), and the Jazz Singers came in 6th (out of 16 choirs) in the Vocal Jazz II division. John Fitzpatrick ’11 (Bass Trombone) and Jordan Greenberg ’11 (Acoustic Bass and Vocal Alto) earned “Outstanding Soloist” awards. In its Berklee debut, the Monday Night Jazz Band placed 6th out of 16 in the non-competitive division. • In April 2009, NWC musicians traveled to Orlando to compete in Festival Disney, where the Women’s Choir, Concert Choir, and Honors Wind Ensemble all earned “Excellent” ratings. The Thursday Night Jazz Band got an excellent rating and was named class AA champions. • In May 2009, the NWC Chamber Choir and Concert Band competed in the “Music in the Parks” competition in Massachusetts. The Chamber Choir earned an excellent rating. The Concert Band earned a superior rating and was named “Best Overall Concert Band.” A thletic Accomplishments • Two new sports added: Girls’ Golf and Unified Sports Msois i n Statement Volleyball, bringing total number of NWC teams to 44 Northwest Catholic High School is a • Football, Boys’ Basketball, and Girls’ Tennis won Conference Championships coeducational, college preparatory school • 203 students named to the Northwest Conference All- whose mission is to foster in young people a Academic team • 65 students were named All-Conference faith that gives meaning and direction to life, • 26 students were chosen for All-State teams to challenge and guide them in the pursuit of • Five Division I athletes in Class of ’09 academic excellence, and to instill within them • NWC awarded third place in prestigious CIAC-Sponsored Michael’s Cup competition for “exemplary” athletics a spirit of service to God and others. program

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ADs mini tRATion School Board, 2008-09 Matthew Fitzsimons Margaret Williamson Richard Callahan John Cusson BS Finance; M Ed Education BA French; MA French; BA History; MS Education BA English; MA Literature; Administration; MA Pastoral Sixth Year, Educational Leadership Vice Principal and Certificate of Advanced Study, Mr. Robert O’Hara, AP, CP Ministry Principal Dean of Students Administration and Supervision Chair President Academic Dean Mr. William Harris, AP, CP fcla u ty Vice Chair Daniel Avery ’97 Valerie Doucette Joan Keating-McKeon Helga Phillips Mr. Scott Bennett ’88 BM Music BA German; BA English; MA BA English; MA English Literature; BA Psychology; MA Library Science Fine and Performing Arts English ABD English Language and Director of Library Mr. Philip Bonee ’72, CP English Linguistics; JD, Law and Media Services Sara Demos Avery English Mr. Kenneth Boudreau BA Theatre Arts; BS Ed English Yvonne Ellis-Rousseau Stanley Piorkowski Director of Theater; English BA Foreign Languages; MA Fran Laffin BA Chemistry; MA Education Rev. Joseph Crowley International Affairs BA History; MA Pastoral Ministry Mathematics Ana Barrett World Languages Religion Mrs. Kerry Kearns Curry BS Spanish; MA Spanish World Languages, Chair Paul Fitzpatrick Richard Luddy, Ph.D. Jennifer Puskarz ’77, AP BA History; MA Public Policy BS Physics; MS Physics; PhD Physics BA History; MA Secondary Nita Beeman Mr. Daniel Filomeno, AP, CP Social Studies, Chair Science Education BA History and Anthropology; Social Studies MA History Scott Fletcher Nancy Martin Mr. Matthew Fitzsimons, ex BS Geology; MA Science Education BA Spanish Jeffrey Przech ’92 oficio Danielle Belliveau Science World Languages BA English BS Biology Mr. Brendan Fox, Jr. English Science Mary Jo Foran Matthew Martorelli ’03 BA English; 30 Hours, School BA Sociology Elizabeth Quinn Mrs. Christine Golic, AP, CP Teresa Giegel Bournique ’84 Counseling Academic Advisor/ BA English; MA Special Education BA Religious Studies Guidance International Students Program Guidance Dr. Tracy Brennan Graham, Religion, Campus Ministry Coordinator AP, CP Christopher Gallagher Joshua Reese ’95 Beth Casey Boyle ’96 BA English Rosemary McNally BA History; MA History BS Psychology; MA Teaching Mr. Kevin Grenham, ’78 English BA Religious Studies Social Studies; Director of I.T. Coordinator Religion, Chair Athletics Mr. Thomas Kearney ’74 Kristina Gillespie Madonna Burke BA Spanish; MA Spanish Deborah Metzler Deacon Richard Santos ’82 BA Religion; MA Pastoral Ministry/ Mr. Scott Mansolillo, CP Religion, World Languages, and BA Economics; MA Education BA Religious Studies Youth Ministry; 30+ Credits, Campus Ministry Mathematics Religious Studies Mr. John Mirabello, ex oficio Religious Education Religion Sandra Murray Hayes ’85 John Mirabello James Shugrue Mrs. Laurie Paternoster, CP BS Business Management; MA BA Psychology; MA Social Studies BS Mathematics; Fifth-Year Cory Carlson Library Science; MA Educational Education Certificate, Math Mr. Jonathan Reed ’94 BA Sociology; MA History Technology Physical Education and Health Mathematics Social Studies Assistant Librarian Jennifer Montoney Katy Sibley Roger Clapper ’72 William Tressler Claudia Hart ’78 BS Biological Sciences BA Spanish BS Accounting BA History; MA American History BA American Studies; MA Science World Languages Permanent Substitute Religion and Social Studies Education Virginia Murphy Raymond Sinclair Timothy Crowley Mathematics Chair Terri Turley BA Biology; MS Marine BM Music, BA Music Education BS Health Education; BS Education Barbara Fanning Iorillo ’69 Environment Education Fine and Performing Arts MS Science Education Mathematics BA Spanish; MA Hispanic and Science, Chair Science Kerri Smith Italian Studies Michael Tyler ’73 Robert Nasta, D.M.S. BA English; BFA Acting Catherine Curran World Languages BS Business Economics; BA Music; MA Music; DMA English BA Mathematics; MA Mathematics MA Social Work Patricia Juda (Doctorate of Music Arts) Mathematics Deacon Jeffrey Sutherland Guidance BA English and History; MS Fine and Performing Arts BS Chemical Engineering; BSC Mark Dodd Reading Marisa Varney Elizabeth Lynch Oates ’94 Management Studies BS Biology; MBA English, Chair BS Math Education BA Art History; MS Art Education Science Science Mathematics Kara Kulpa Fine and Performing Arts, Chair Ronald Swanson Allison Donnelly BA English; MA English David Woodford Joyce O’Rourke BA Latin and Education; MA BS Math English BA English; MA Education BS Physical Education; MS School Classics Mathematics Religion, Fine and Performing Guidance Counseling Social Studies and World Arts Director of Guidance Languages

saft f su pPORTstaff Miriam Abate Lisa Huston Michelle M. Murphy Pat Allen Robert Pace Finance Assistant Administrative Assistant to the Director of Communications Food Service Head Custodian President Marilyn Adamo, R.N. Lynn Prendergast Slobodan Bogdan Luke Ralston III B.S.N., N.C.S.N. Maryann Lacouture Guidance Assistant Maintenance Custodian School Nurse Admissions Assistant James Natale Epifanio Gonzales Tammy Rhodes Nancy Scully Bannon ’73 Jane Leary Sports Information Director Custodian Food Service Director of Admissions Director of Constituent Relations Richard Puskarz Vincent Grant Angel Rivera Susan Coffey Brimmer ’66 Debra LeBel Director of Finance Custodian Custodian Administrative Assistant Advancement Assistant Katie Rose Marcos Herrera Jan Sheehan Rev. Joseph Crowley Daniel Martinez ’06 Administrative Assistant to the Custodian Food Service Chaplain Assistant Athletics Information Principal Director June Mullen Cindy Todd Cindy Fusco Thomas Steen Food Service Food Service Assistant Director of Admissions Sister Ann Moore, CND Director of Advancement Teacher Consultant Kim Mehern Floyd Wilson Colleen Harrison Colby Thresher Food Service Custodian Secretary to the Vice Principal Advancement Officer 20 • ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09 NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL fderoun s’ circle

The Founders’ Circle comprises donors who display exceptional interest in the advancement of the school by virtue of their gifts of $1,000 or more. It recognizes the financial stewardship that many members of our community play in supporting the school’s operating and capital needs. Their generosity serves as an inspiration and is most appreciated.

Legacy Society $100,000+ and pioneered the development of the growth and progression of our school and These donors have an unwavering belief Northwest Catholic Endowment Fund. inspire others to invest in its future. in the vision and future of Northwest As a result, the school grew tremendously, Green & White Circle $2,500-$4,999 Catholic. Gifts given in this society are and today’s students continue to enjoy the Every fan of Northwest Catholic knows usually allocated for capital improvements fruits of these programs. that green and white are as popular and or endowed scholarships. Many of these Rev. Colton Society $10,000-$24,999 as ubiquitous now as they were in 1961, generous gifts originated from thoughtful During his time at Northwest Catholic, when they made their debut as our school estate planning or a special bequest. Rev. Bradford Colton, the first principal, colors. Presidents’ Circle $50,000-$99,999 was an exemplary leader, educator and Dominican Society $1,000-$2,499 Presidents’ Circle members demonstrate mentor to many students. He lived the In 1961, eight Dominican Sisters of St. exceptional generosity, faith in our vision, mission of our school with humbling Mary of the Springs devoted their time and a strong commitment to the mission grace and dedicated his life to educating and energy to educating the young minds and values of our school. others. of Northwest Catholic students. Their Rev. Frascadore Society $25,000- 1961 Society $5,000-$9,999 guidance provided the foundation for the $49,999 Northwest Catholic opened its doors in growth and development of the student As the school’s first president, Rev. Henry 1961. Gifts from the members of this body. C. Frascadore initiated the Annual Fund society make a notable impact on the

Presidents’ Circle Philip M. Bonee ’72 and Valerie Bonee James L. Hudak ’82 and Maria A. Hudak ($50,000+ ) Peter and Mary Bourdon Edward S. Jason ’71 and Mary Jason Paul and Mary Cancellarini Charitable Trust Thomas and Letha Kunkel Foundation for the Advancement of Franklyn Chang ’86 and Sandy Chang Jean Lam Catholic Schools Cherish The Children Foundation, Inc. Matthew Lynch and Susan Banks William and Alice Mortensen Foundation Commercial Floor Covering Gail W. McCue Michael P. Danziger Russell Morrisett ’73 and Mary Morrisett Rev. Frascadore Society Gail and Jack Hughes Joseph E. Navin, Jr. ’69 and Suzanne Dumont ($25,000+ ) Carol B. Hunt Navin ’78 William and Janet Miller Joe and Joyce O’Rourke FIP Construction, Inc. Mary E. Navin Jack and Liza Quinn Hartford Courant Foundation Michael and Laurie Paternoster Ron and Marie Sanacore Anne F. Satriano † The Reynolds Charitable Foundation, Inc. Michael J. Sisk ’85 and Patricia Sisk Most Rev. Peter A. Rosazza Colby and Anita Thresher Rev. Colton Society Michael D. Shangraw ’76 and Barbara Shangraw James R. Turner ’74 and Janice K. Turner ($10,000+ ) St. Ann’s Church Frank and Kim Waltman Mark D. Breen ’68 and Sundae Breen Don and Jean Wilson Timothy H. Callahan ’68 and Meg Callahan Dominican Society Catholic Charities, Inc. Green & White Circle ($1,000+ ) Giuliano and Edith DiFrancesco ($2,500+ ) Anonymous Bill and Becky Fenoglio Anonymous Leandre and Josiane Adifon Frank E. Genovese ’65 and Susan Genovese Theresa Notte Becker ’76 and Clinton Becker Michael and Chiara Armetta Edward E. Guillet ’69 Rick and Diane Beckerman M. Catherine Donohue Barnhart ’72 and Carol Dupuis Haylon ’80 and Michael Haylon Ken and Judy Boudreau Gary Barnhart Thomas Kelly Jr. ’82 and Kimberly Kelly Duane Bouligny ’90 and Nancy Bouligny Beth Collins Barton ’70 and Michael Barton Kevin and Marilyn Lathrop Luis J. De Ocejo ’69 and Anne De Ocejo Edward D. Boudreau, Jr. ’69 and The John G. Martin Foundation Rosemary Navin Dowd ’73 and Cornelius Dowd Susan K. Boudreau Dick and Denise Shima Mark Drusedum and Molly Knorr John J. Bracken, III ’66 and Sherri L. Bracken Daniel Sisk ’90 and Julie Sisk Walter J. Dyber † Joseph Buda and Linda Moran-Buda Ellen Fox Spalluto ’77 and Joseph Spalluto Jack and Mary Facey Lucien and Denise Cance Ralph E. Wentworth ’65 and Richard J. Fairbrother ’70 and Virginia C. Gail Davis Cardwell ’73 and David Cardwell Kathleen Collagan Wentworth ’65 Fairbrother William and Karen Carew John L. Flannery, Jr. ’79 and Tracy Flannery Phil and Anne Carpenter 1961 Society Kevin W. Grenham ’78 and Beth Grenham Jon and Eileen Case ($5,000+ ) Christopher Harkins ’66 and Susan Harkins John Chapman and Lorri C. Marquez Laura Connelly Allen ’65 and Richard M. Allen Craig M. Hudak ’79 and Judith A. Hudak Michael T. Cobb ’77 and Susan Q. Cobb

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George Colli, III ’73 and Catherine Finley Colli ’72 Chris and Gail Johnson Mike and Alexis Pariano William B. Collins ’68 and Sally Collins Mildred C. Kay Pete Peterson ’82 and Theresa Peterson Allan and Judy Connal Kelly and Kathy Kearney Maureen Glynn Powers ’69 and John F. Powers Kevin and Kate Conway John F. Kearns III ’75 and Connie Roher-Kearns Betsy and John Quinn Kathy and Wes Cooper Phil and Kim Keck Michele and Joseph Quinn and Family Stephen and Xi Corcoran Robert A. Keefe ’74 and Cynthia L. Keefe Kevin M. Quinn ’80 and Nancy Quinn Ed and Jean Cowles Barbara and Tom Keenan Jonathan Reed ’94 George B. Curry ’77 and Kerry Kearns Curry ’77 Phil and Susan Kelly Josephine E. Rovaldi Roger A. Cyr ’77 Ken and Camille Kilgore John and Kim Shea Morris and Kathleen Davenport David and Cheryl Kozak John and Mary Shukie John M. DeAngelis ’72 and Patricia DeAngelis Steven and Diane Krupa Rich and Francine Sider Tom and Lucie Di Bella Terrence T. Lescoe ’72 and Norine N. Lescoe Tom and Kerry Spignesi Kevin and Cathy Dowd Gail Dionizio Lonczewski ’71 and Thomas and Tina Steen Thomas Driscoll and Patricia Teufel-Driscoll Loren Lonczewski Sabin and Beverley Streeter Owen and Joan Eagan Jack and Kathy Looney Scott and Ann Strid John Farley and Claudia Triggs Dennis and Mary Lubozynski Ron Swanson Dan and Franca Filomeno John F. Luby ’69 and Carolynn B. Luby Patrick and Martha Terrion William J. Fiocchetta ’72 and Patricia A. Fiocchetta Geraldine A. Luksic ’69 Joseph G. Tompkins Rev. Henry C. Frascadore Marie De Maio Mansolillo ’82 and Richard P. Tonino ’69 and Ellen Postlewaite Thomas Freund and Diane Mineck Scott Mansolillo Daniel G. Troy ’70 and Kathleen A. Troy Gregory and Laura Garger Dan and Mary Ellen Martin John P. Tuohy ’65 and Mary Boucher Tuohy ’66 Myles and Tracy Gibbons May, Bonee & Walsh Tim Venora ’81 and Laurie B. Venora Tom and Marilyn Gilbert Dennis and Debbie McCormack Paul and Susan Vignati John and Barbara Ginnetti Merritt and Maggie McDonough Luke Walsh ’91 and Caitlin A. Walsh Louis and MaryAnn Godbout Bob and Jody McGoldrick Bill and Pat Walsh Mike and Chris Golic Cynthia Michaud-Innarelli John and Cori-Lynn Webber Keith and Sandra Gollenberg Karen Rodgers Miller ’81 and Peter K. Miller David and Mary-Liz Williams Jo-Anne K. Graham ’71 William D. Molloy, Sr. Margie and Brian Williamson Neville J. Graham and Tracy E. Brennan Graham Jeff and Maribeth Mortillaro Oz and Kirsten Griebel Robert J. Mulready ’65 and Susan M. Mulready Bill and Teresa Harris Ed and Kathy Murphy † = Deceased Claudia A. Hart ’78 Steve and Linda Myott Mark L. Hudak ’71 and Bonnie B. Hudak Bob and Rosanne O’Hara Terry and Glynis Huffman Liam and Jo O’Leary Chris and Tanya Hug David and Laurene Oleasz

Young Alumni Founders’ Circle

To encourage and cultivate major gifts from its newest alumni, Northwest Catholic has established the Young Alumni Founders’ Circle Society. The Founders’ Circle has long been the province of generous donors of $1,000 or more, but the YAFC gives young alums the opportunity to participate in this elite group with a smaller annual gift, based on how many years they have been out of school. The members of the Young alumni Founders’ Circle are invited to the annual Founders’ Circle appreciation dinner.

The contribution structure for young alums is the following:

For the Classes of   Contribution Amount 2003-08 $100 2001-02 $150 1998-00 $250 1996-97 $300 1994-95 $500

The Young Alumni Founders’ Circle members for 2008-09 are:

Andrew S. Molloy ’95 Joshua Reese ’95 Elizabeth Lynch Oates ’94 John Scurlock ’06 Christopher J. Bruff ’03 hilary J. Scurlock ’03 Amanda Miser Reese ’02

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Alumni giving totals in each class are reported in three ways. Participation rates indicate the number of donors in relation to the number of “active” members, i.e. alumni with deliverable addresses. Total Class Contribution reflects gifts made to the Northwest Catholic Fund, along with gifts for capital or endowment purposes. The Northwest Catholic Fund total represents gifts to that fund, which are vital to our operations and help to fulfill our mission. Clso as f 1965 Sheila Navin Armour Marie A. Osborn John Collins III Gary R. Battiston Judith Merritt Rowean Louise Lagueux Concodello 25% Participation (50 of 199) John J. Bracken, III Ross M. Salonia Ann Marie Faucher Corona $32,859 Total Class Contribution Susan Coffey Brimmer Susan Wolfe Seigars Luis J. De Ocejo $17,359 Northwest Catholic Fund Ann Cameron Robert J. Slusarz Anne Ryan Degnan Armando L. Casals Sarah Sprogell Alfred J. Del Ciampo Anonymous Robert J. Christopher Charleen Parent Taylor Dennis M. Dobruck Laura Connelly Allen Nancy Dillon Cocchiola Margaret McCormack Urban T. J. Donohue Marilyn Bacon Anne Pettit Conway Stephen R. Urban David A. Downes Carol Dalton Beach Linda Goulet Curro Nicholas S. Walsh Joan Moriarty Ellis Gary L. Bockweg Kevin Dempsey Debra Dittman Warner Theresa Troiano Emery Kathleen Klimas Bourn Marilynn Grant Dempsey Patricia A. Welch Nancy Tuohy Frobel Deborah Buckley Patricia Mulkeen Droney Susan K. Gray Kenneth J. Cahill Vincent J. Ferlini C LASsOF 1968 Edward E. Guillet Kenneth Carpenter Marie Scully Gray Ted Horton, Jr. Robert Cascone Elizabeth Zabel Greif 18% Participation (31 of 176) William J. Keenan Isabel Bohannon Cummings Christopher Harkins $49,035 Total Class Contribution J. David Kennedy Peter A. Curran Sharon T. Healy $23,435 Northwest Catholic Fund Linda Whalen Kocha Constance Sidor Dice Mark J. Honiberg Rene J. Lopez Charles Drury Jane Henahan House Jill Carangelo Ailleo John F. Luby Clare McGuinness Drury John E. Jordan Albert A. Bosco Geraldine A. Luksic Gilberta E. Boucher Kenneth J. Kelly Mark D. Breen Michael J. McGuire Brendan A. Durkin Eugene E. Madara Timothy H. Callahan Monica Slusarz McKerracher William R. Eckert III Joan Buckley Matson Karen Anderson Cichon Daniel Montano Stephen J. Ellis Donald T. McCue William B. Collins Charles D. Mulkeen Gail Doherty Foss Mary Lisa Dowd McGinley Mary Ellen Sullivan Connors Robert J. Mulshine L. Matthew Frank Susan Whalen McKeown Kathleen B. Curry Thomas Murray Robert Gallivan Karen Lagan McNamara Terence J. Donovan Joseph E. Navin, Jr. Frank E. Genovese Connie Merritt Michelle Richard DuChemin Alexander Pezzulo Norma F. Ingram Eric M. Meyer Ned Dunn Stephen J. Pitura Timothy F. Kelliher, Jr. Margaret Burns Morrison Rita Hickey Ford Maureen Glynn Powers Catherine Zunner Kennelly Richard N. Riscassi Kathleen Kelly Anne Burke Reiser William J. Kerin Paula Tapogna Sadlon Vincent H. Kraft Janet Crowley Sackbauer Albert A. Lavoie Elizabeth Mirkin Seifel Anne M. Lagan Dorothy McCormick Shalev Patricia Patry Le Brun Margaret Linehan Skahill Paul Larochelle Lenore Kelly Stebbins James J. Leary III Jane Carangelo Slagle Ronald A. Letkiewicz Catherine Peck Tamburro Linda Raymond MacDonald Michael J. Steeves John N. Mastro John G. Tamburro Kathleen Adams Mashl Jo Anne Keating Thorpe David H. Miller, Jr. Richard P. Tonino Jennifer Horton Mazur Mary Boucher Tuohy Ellie Plukas-Smith Diane Bessette Toscano James J. McGill Mary Campise Zdrojowy Louise Blais Pyers Marguerite Lenge Weaver Claire Monahan McNamara Kathleen Moriarty Ramont Timothy J. Weir Robert J. Mulready C LASsOf 1967 Mary Jordan Sanford Everett Pelkey Miguel Satut C LASsOf 1970 Joyce Corbin Roy 18% Participation (28 of 155) John Tully Jerome Salmon $3,035 Total Class Contribution Janet Tonucci Waters 18% Participation (28 of 155) William V. Shages Jr. $3,035 Northwest Catholic Fund James C. Weaver $8,115 Total Class Contribution Dennis M. Spurr Dean Willis $5,615 Northwest Catholic Fund Susan Edmunds Staecker Kathryn I. Burk Mamella Murphy Wontka Ron Stakem Dennis T. Cardello Richard Wontka Anonymous Janice McCutcheon Stelljes James F. Danaher Thomas J. Zajac Roberta L. Allison John P. Tuohy James P. Donnelly Diane Bachta Zalewski Beth Collins Barton Thomas J. Wall John A. Dowd Linda Giuca Zemmel Linda Borawski Noreen McNamara Waller Joanne Warner Fyfe Thomas D. Callahan Kathleen Collagan Wentworth Molly Rees Gavin C LASsOf 1969 Mary E. Chamberland Ralph E. Wentworth Carroll J. Grant Ellen Fenton D’Angelo 22% Participation (42 of 188) Elizabeth Burke Wieland Patricia A. Hamilton Marcel L. D’Auteuil $34,210 Total Class Contribution George S. Ziewacz Laura Franco Jeppesen Lorrie D. Devine Charles J. Keefe $20,460 Northwest Catholic Fund Maureen Meaney Dietze C LASsOf 1966 Sally Calafiore Keefe Richard J. Fairbrother Thomas C. Kerrigan Anonymous Trey Foerster 23% Participation (37 of 158) Richard W. Lamb Jim Bagnall J. Michael Halloran $6,470 Total Class Contribution Elizabeth Stumpf Lankarge Edward D. Boudreau, Jr. Barbara Parutka Maffett $5,470 Northwest Catholic Fund Albert P. Lenge Robert J. Brassil Liza Dunlay Marecek Michael J. Loftus Greg Burns Ellen Maguire Martinelli Donald Armour Martha Smith Murphy Susan L. Carpenter James V. Martinelli Joanne Riordan Collins

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Kathleen W. Meaney Barbara Blanchfield Carpenter Roberta O’Brien Stimpson Dennis R. Robinson Jose A. Mendes Catherine Finley Colli Michael F. Tyler Susan E. Shea Sandra Dittman Mendes Jean Popp Collins James J. Sivo Carol Perkins Morton Joan Sennett Compagna C LASsOf 1974 Lynn A. Smith James L. Mulshine Catherine Lawyer Corbett Mary Quish Smullen Marilyn Kammann Murray John M. DeAngelis 22% Participation (32 of 147) Elenore Foley Sonski E. Flynn O’Keefe Susan Devine Dick $7,393 Total Class Contribution Kathleen Glynn Tremblay Patricia J. O’Neil Mary Lou Tuohy Duffy $6,305 Northwest Catholic Fund Sandra Corthouts Petruccelli Marcella Hart Esler C LASsOf 1976 Bud Poliquin William J. Fiocchetta Robert Boland Thomas M. Sheridan Joseph R. Fleming Judith Young Burt 17% Participation (21 of 123) Michael J. Slusarz Herve A. Gelinas Catherine Pszonowsky Col $12,235 Total Class Participation Daniel G. Troy Kevin P. Gherard Joyce Manfredi Cowles $11,285 Northwest Catholic Fund Mark Hagarty Anita Dal Ponte C LASsOf 1971 Lucinda A. Harris Michele Freda Davis Robertina Saltibus Analo Gary Jachym Ann Marie O’Neil Davoren Theresa Notte Becker 19% Participation (33 of 170) Joanne Rees Kaczor Thomas F. Davoren III Thomas W. Donohue $11,590 Total Class Contribution Brian T. Keefe Cynthia Killian Dodd David R. Dupuis $5,765 Northwest Catholic Fund Kathleen Tracey LaChance Gerard L. Donohue Thomas H. Fenton Terrence T. Lescoe Robert F. Eilers Jr. Paula Frothingham-Franco Anonymous Karla D’Onofrio Ludwig Judith Preston Francis Susan Lynch Galeota Elaine Davis Charette Richard K. Malone Patricia Zito Frey Noreen Holmes Giannini Frances De Vito Ciotto Daniel B. Mara Susan E. Grimes John W. Heslin Janet Gray Connelly Ellen McKone-Stafford Scott Guilmartin Patrice Preston Heslin Deborah A. Donatelli John J. Montano Bruce R. Jachym Ellen Guillet Kelleher Thomas G. Dudeck Maureen A. O’Brien Robert A. Keefe Deborah Samolyk MacMillan James F. Duffy Christopher J. Perigard Dominick M. Leva Lincoln Maguire Barry Emswiler James M. Sarr Christine Gherard Loeb Gerard P. Mullane Walter H. Ghent Catherine Barrett Schackner James Mangan Patti Larkins Nenna Christine A. Gibson Jerome V. Schierberl Ida D. McGhee Jean Lambertson Nowak Jo-Anne K. Graham Jean M. Sennett Dennis P. McMahon Gloria Maradie Reddy Robert J. Griffin Robert E. Shangraw Michael A. O’Brien Michael D. Shangraw Mary Bellizzi Halloran Margaret Redden Sitarz Christine A. Palm Maura Hennessy Shaw Mark L. Hudak Ann V. Vitale Kathleen Beatty Palma John T. Simoneau Amy Hughes Patrick Walsh Victor Pileika Mark J. Smith Edward S. Jason Jacqueline Lapenta Wasta Andrew F. Resnisky Mary Rice Sternberg Paul C. Kelly Irene Piccione Resnisky Jane Lennox C LASsOf 1973 Alex Sonski C LASsOf 1977 Mary Elizabeth Summers Loffa Robert Strano Gail Dionizio Lonczewski 20% Participation (26 of 128) James R. Turner 21% Participation (36 of 171) Joan Andrew Luddy $13,324 Total Class Contribution Patricia McGuire Wenrich $16,926 Total Class Contribution Brian M. McGuire $2,575 Northwest Catholic Fund Laureen Apuzzo Wood $15,158 Northwest Catholic Fund Terence J. McGuire, III Catherine Russell Wright Robert Molloy Tim Bourret Mark W. Boya Mary G. Morley Bradford M. Brimmer C LASsOf 1975 Diane Brighenti Peter J. Murphy Tim Bye Mary Malloy Brotman Margaret Fleming Newcomb Gail Davis Cardwell 19% Participation (25 of 134) John F. Buckley, Jr. Thomas J. O’Brien George Colli, III $5,068 Total Class Contribution Elizabeth Hemond Cannone Jamie Dernbach Potkai Eugene P. Cronin $4,068 Northwest Catholic Fund Michael T. Cobb Susanne Russell Beth Curry George B. Curry Mary Quinn Spillane Karen Mastrandrea DeBari Richard J. Cobb Kerry Kearns Curry Barbara Beck Stiles Margaret M. Derby Theresa Desjardins Cobb Roger A. Cyr Joseph J. Tedone Rosemary Navin Dowd Sheri Williams Connelly Michael P. Deneen Anne Troiano Wargo Laurier Fillion Kathleen Curry Denise Bouvier Desmarais Sylvie Veilleux Fillion Joseph J. Darman Gary S. Discenza C LASsOf 1972 Kenneth Goroshko Cristina Creamer Downes Nancy Tuttle Discenza Elizabeth Roemke Graves Melanie Wentworth Dumont Debora Metcalfe Doucette 24% Participation (40 of 170) Michael Klimas Kenneth M. Fleming William F. Dougherty $12,820 Total Class Contribution Robert G. Leeds Robert A. Giuliano Timothy Egan $10,320 Northwest Catholic Fund Anthony Mascolo Catherine E. Gobes Carl D. Frobel Susan Hickey McCabe Jacqueline Bisson Gustafson Elisa Craemer Genovese Anonymous Timothy J. McGuire Vladimir Kalas Anthony Giusani Mary Lou T. Angelastro Russell Morrisett John F. Kearns III Roseann Pauroso Gomez M. Catherine Donohue Barnhart Maureen Fitzgerald Norton Maureen A. Keefe Tracey Young Horner Anne Acquaotta Biancamano Kathleen M. O’Connor Carolyn Hughes LaMonaca Kevin Hughes Philip J. Bieluch Patricia Hart Poole Terry Caruso Michalman Vicki Shangraw Kvedar Janet Lynch Black Christopher R. Saunders Michelle Maglaty Mostello Cathleen Fox Laffin Philip M. Bonee Susan Shay Donald O’Connor Nancy Davis Mainelli Albert J. Callahan Judith Brennan Oulundsen Michael P. McGoldrick

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Mark C. Molloy Katherine Rodgers Katzman Lee Ann La Porte Harper 11% Participation (13 of 121) Neil F. Murray Andrew E. Kearns Joan Casimir Harrigan $1,468 Total Class Contribution Diane Berube Purcell Maura McNally Kearns Suzanne Wise King $535 Northwest Catholic Fund J. Thaddeus Rice Veronica H. Kulig Loretta Lizotte-Sharkey Michael S. Riley Deborah Belch Lyon Charles J. Melanson Michael E. Alquist Margaret Brimmer Rollins Robert J. Melanson Karen Rodgers Miller Terry Giegel Bournique Lisa Scapellati Michael P. Morgan Kathleen (KC) Connors O’Brien Clara Neptin Brown Sally E. Scully Mary C. Muccio Holly O’Brien Stauber Paul Cullina Ellen Fox Spalluto Kathleen Ohlheiser Murray Diane Sisk Tretton Patricia E. K. Dabney Judith R. Tracey Nancy Sinsigalli Nardone David B. Van Schaack Maura Travers Douglas Daniel Venora David G. Pastula Tim Venora Judith Jackson Maura Walsh-O’Brien Meg McKenna Piccione Betsy Lawyer Volg Donald Kane Thomas Rodgers Marlene Facey McGunigle C LASsOf 1978 John F. Schiffer C LASsOf 1982 Martha Deneen McKeon James T. Scully Donald J. Melanson 16% Participation (26 of 162) Ann Flaherty Steinle 13% Participation (22 of 170) James K. O’Brien $8,268 Total Class Contribution Peter B. Vaphiades $17,485 Total Class Contribution Margaret Mulshine Timoney $8,135 Northwest Catholic Fund Diane Mangan Venora $6,185 Northwest Catholic Fund C LASsOf 1985 Tom Bisson C LASsOf 1980 Paul R. Amato Caroline Chesnut Blair Michael Bednarz 12% Participation (16 of 139) Timothy J. Canfield 20% Participation (26 of 133) Thomas M. Brewer $3,970 Total Class Contribution Anne Dante Carroll $23,695 Total Class Contribution Susan Pastula D’Anna $1,470 Northwest Catholic Fund Mary Brennan Centrella $22,595 Northwest Catholic Fund Elizabeth Dougherty Davis Andrew S. Clarke Sharon Royce Dempsey Michael H. Barnes Angela R. Coco Charles G. Andrew Catherine O’Toole Denton Amy Di Pippo Connors Kevin M. Deneen Mark J. Antoniak Carrie E. Doyle Margaret Donnelly William C. Doran Jr. Elizabeth Clifford Beisel Margaret A. Eagan Ellen Rodgers Fox Mark J. Fernandes Donald M. Bisson Peter Gobes Robert J. Hanks Kevin W. Grenham Deirdre Walsh Crowell Patrice Landers Grish Sandra Murray Hayes Claudia A. Hart James E. Dakin Sean W. Hayes Julie Shea Holt Anne O’Connor Hutchins William R. Denton James L. Hudak Eileen Walsh Neubert Robert B. Kay Bridget Cassell Dunn Kerry Casey Kelley Kathleen Shima O’Brien Ellen McGuire Kelly Alfred B. Grady, Jr. Thomas Kelly Jr. Christopher N. O’Connor Arthur B. Landry III John Gunning Wilder J. Leavitt Delroy Patterson James P. Lester Theresa Morse Hatzikostas Susan Shimkus Lemkuil David M. Poirot Kevin McHugh Carol Dupuis Haylon Joe Liss Robert Quinn, Jr. Jean Donnelly Molloy Joan M. Hijeck Marie De Maio Mansolillo Michael J. Sisk Michael F. Morris Barbara Lennon Hooper Jenny Notte Yvette M. Standberry Suzanne Dumont Navin Robert E. Hyatt Nora E. O’Brien † Leah Stroman Kathleen Lennon Newman Joan Janiszewski Karas Catherine O’Toole Denton Royd Vassiljev James B. O’Toole Elizabeth Rodgers Lomedico Pete Peterson Maryann Sheehan Schuppe Lisa Sumpter Lowe Rosanne Craemer Shea C LASsOf 1986 Catherine Landers Shires Colleen Brewer Moore Katherine C. Thomas Sarah Hagearty Nalbantian C LASsOf 1983 11% Participation (13 of 119) Kevin A. Wholey Mark Pace $6,325 Total Class Contribution Ellen Dalton Patterson 11% Participation (16 of 152) $1,075 Northwest Catholic Fund C LASsOf 1979 Tracy E. Peggins $2,105 Total Class Contribution Kevin M. Quinn $1,705 Northwest Catholic Fund Lisa Guillet Abrams 23% Participation (30 of 133) William J. Scully John T. Berry $9,403 Total Class Contribution Cynthia L. Sullivan Anne Barasanti-Dzialo Franklyn Chang $9,245 Northwest Catholic Fund Kevin J. Walsh Edward M. Connors Leslie DeMaio Costello Kerry M. Cronin Ann Marie Dube Nancy Nakhoul Aniolek C LASsOf 1981 Patrick J. Cullina Jennifer Schiffer Freeh William C. Balcezak John E. Donnelly Libby B. Gray Sharon Tracey Barrett 12% Participation (19 of 158) Lee A. Dowden Harlynn Jackson Paul E. Bisson $5,625 Total Class Contribution Timothy G. Flanagan Sheila L. Kristofak Timothy J. Brimmer $2,025 Northwest Catholic Fund Thomas P. Hilliard Kathryn Van Bramer Palmer Barbara Hill Coffey Lenora Hogan-Harris Katherine A. Schave Joe Coleman Linda Rusconi Andrew Matthew R. Marafino Rosemarie Liss Sughrue Catherine A. Curis Maria Marafino Bateas G. Thomas Marshall Scott C. Thresher Rev. Shawn Daly Rob Bouvier Robert McNally Christopher D. Deneen Michele Cavanagh Burris John Peterson C LASsOf 1987 Frances Giuliano DiFiore Ronald C. Clarke Carol Quinn Toomey Patrick J. Downes Mary Clark Connell Maureen Townsend 8% Participation (8 of 104) John L. Flannery, Jr. Eileen Brennan Deneen Mark E. Twambly $608 Total Class Contribution Robert J. Hilliard Robert D. Deneen $525 Northwest Catholic Fund Craig M. Hudak Susan Silvester Duncan C LASsOf 1984 Thomas Daly Cecil D. Hudson Margaret Verrengia Hallinan Margaret Deneen MacDonald Michele Lattanzi Paul NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09 • 25 aun l m i HONORROll of donors

Elizabeth Korner Ritchie Ryan Attianese Chantel Ford Andrew C. Stanton Mark D. Stevenson Tim Dunn Danielle Johnson Krystal M. Wiggins Lynne Chesner Torbeck James L. Flaherty Meghan Williamson Rachel Ginnetti Tressy C LASsOf 1999 Richard L. Tressy C LASsOf 1993 C LASsOf 2004 Kathleen Willey 11% Participation (12 of 112) 2% Participation (1 of 61) $1,085 Total Class Contribution 7% Participation (8 of 124) C LASsOf 1988 $10 Total Class Contribution $1,085 Northwest Catholic Fund $205 Total Class Contribution $10 Northwest Catholic Fund $205 Northwest Catholic Fund 11% Participation (13 of 117) Kathleen Kennelly Breitenwischer $1,660 Total Class Contribution Robert P. Coelho Kelly A. Carpenter Molly K. Andruszkiewicz $1,160 Northwest Catholic Fund Jill Carpenter Devor Michael Boratko C LASsOf 1994 Michelle M. Dube Sarah E. Driscoll Kevin W. Baker Joseph A. Fulliero Julian Harrigan Scott Bennett 10% Participation (7 of 73) Niamh J. O’Leary Virginia M. Lathrop Daniel P. Cavanagh $2,450 Total Class Contribution Mary Beth Slavin Reiss Neil Mascolo James P. Cullen $1,875 Northwest Catholic Fund Justin R. Smith Brenna Milbier Linda Krein Cullen Amanda L. Vacca-Bartley Harrison R. Paine Rachel Fumia Elise Guidobono Garbeck Nigel P. Williams Katherine Santos Hawkom Alicia ZuWallack Graves Patrick Williamson C LASsOf 2005 Juandalyn Calhoun Heslop Elizabeth Lynch Oates Susan Poirier Zybert Alison Brewer Jamin Jonathan Reed 1% Participation (2 of 165) Elizabeth Guertin Regan Jeffrey Soto C LASsOf 2000 $45 Total Class Contribution Jennifer Samolyk Byron J. Thresher $45 Northwest Catholic Fund Christine Shank John R. Wilson 2% Participation (2 of 104) Michelle L. Thresher $110 Total Class Contribution Geoffrey K. Lewis William F. Urban C LASsOf 1995 $110 Northwest Catholic Fund Nick Lorenzo 10% Participation (7 of 74) C LASsOf 1989 Jason Ball C LASsOf 2006 $1,370 Total Class Participation Elizabeth M. Stafford 5% Participation (3 of 64) $390 Northwest Catholic Fund 2% Participation (3 of 147) $300 Total Class Contribution C LASsOf 2001 $135 Total Class Contribution $300 Northwest Catholic Fund Scott Cullen $135 Northwest Catholic Fund Bridget Eukers 5% Participation (5 of 100) Julie Schiffer Climer David P. Marceau $220 Total Class Contribution William T. Bissell Dorian Long Andrew S. Molloy $170 Northwest Catholic Fund Rachel Driscoll Amy A. Powers Dr. Miriam O’Leary John Scurlock Joshua Reese Jason Bannock C LASsOf 1990 John B. Shukie Cara E. McNamara C LASsOf 2007 Delroy A. Ross, Jr. 15% Participation (8 of 53) C LASsOf 1996 Justin A. Sider 1% Participation (2 of 134) $18,412 Total Class Contribution Christine Willey $20 Total Class Contribution $18,412 Northwest Catholic Fund 6% Participation (4 of 66) $20 Northwest Catholic Fund $403 Total Class Participation C LASsOf 2002 Jimmie D. Blackwood $403 Northwest Catholic Fund Anonymous Duane Bouligny 5% Participation (6 of 125) Hamilton Brown Elizabeth Cenci $975 Total Class Contribution C LASsOf 2008 Patrick Corkum Sr. $475 Northwest Catholic Fund Sean N. Cronin 2% Participation (7 of 174) Jerry Facey George Oprica Kathleen Socha Anonymous $160 Total Class Contribution Maribeth Hilliard Hager $160 Northwest Catholic Fund Elizabeth Gies Schuck Kate Johnson Daniel Sisk C LASsOf 1997 Joseph M. Navin Amanda Miser Reese Kelsey Cahalan 9% Participation (7 of 79) Kevin Leuenberger C LASsOf 1991 Jeffrey M. Slomski $710 Total Class Participation Sarah Tyman Adam Mortillaro 7% Participation (3 of 45) $300 Northwest Catholic Fund Hannah L. Pelton $1,100 Total Class Contribution C LASsOf 2003 Benjamin Pluta $1,100 Northwest Catholic Fund Daniel Avery Kristin Sullivan Amy L. Griffin 8% Participation (10 of 123) Kate Williamson Lauren Shukie McHugh Silvia Santos Lopes $435 Total Class Contribution Jennifer Guertin Shockley Kyla McMahon $385 Northwest Catholic Fund Luke Walsh Amaris Mendez † = Deceased Matthew Skahill Ari J. Barnett C LASsOf 1992 Danielle L. Watt Christopher J. Bruff Allyson E. Colvin 4% Participation (3 of 78) C LASsOf 1998 Matthew Cronin $140 Total Class Contribution Dennis M. Durao $140 Northwest Catholic Fund 2% Participation (2 of 107) Hilary J. Scurlock $75 Total Class Contribution Joshua M. Sider $75 Northwest Catholic Fund

26 • ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09 NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL c urRENTPARENTHONORROll of donors

Northwest Catholic is fortunate to receive considerable financial support each year from the parents of our students. Recognizing that tuition alone does not cover the cost of a child’s education, many parents choose to make a gift to the Northwest Catholic Fund that helps subsidize the difference between the actual cost and the tuition. These important gifts make it possible for us to maintain a reasonable tuition relative to other private schools. Additionally, parents support Northwest Catholic through other gifts to endowment and capital projects. We are indeed grateful to these parents for the investment they have made in enhancing the educational experience we are able to provide to our students. Parents contributed $105,640 to the Northwest Catholic Fund, with total parent giving amounting to $203,100.

Rev. Colton Society ($10,000 +) Mansolillo Michael S. Riley ’77 and Gail Riley Mark C. Molloy ’77 Dan and Mary Ellen Martin Kerry G. Ruiz and Carissa A. Fusco and Jean Donnelly Molloy ’78 Giuliano and Edith DiFrancesco Merritt and Maggie McDonough Jeff and Mary Scobee Chris and Pamela Moore Kevin and Marilyn Lathrop Cynthia Michaud-Innarelli Donald and Jolene Shevchuk John and Abigail Moore Ellen Fox Spalluto ’77 and Joseph Jeff and Maribeth Mortillaro Michael F. Tyler ’73 Richard and Liz Morris Spalluto Ed and Kathy Murphy Thomas and Marisa Varney Kathleen Ohlheiser Murray ’79 1961 Society ($5,000 + ) Bob and Rosanne O’Hara Mario P. Vicki and Paul Murray David and Laurene Oleasz Betsy Lawyer Volg ’81 and Kenneth Volg Paul and Karen Nista Philip M. Bonee ’72 and Valerie Bonee Tom and Kerry Spignesi Greg and Dee Waybright Walter and Brenda Nuhfer Peter and Mary Bourdon Scott and Ann Strid Bob and Denise Winland James B. O’Toole ’78 and Margaret Gail and Jack Hughes Patrick and Martha Terrion Guangzhi Xing O’Toole Michael and Laurie Paternoster Paul and Susan Vignati Michael and Lisa Young Iver Peterson and Shelley O’Brien Green & White Circle John and Cori-Lynn Webber Deb and Paul Picciano Sponsors ($100 + ) Michael and Mary Rosano ($2,500 + ) Benefactors ($500 + ) Joe and Teresa Anquillare Maryann Sheehan Schuppe ’78 and Anonymous Robert and Ria Battaglia Louis and Christine Auletta Walter Schuppe Theresa Notte Becker ’76 and Clinton Mark W. Boya ’77 and Teresa Boya James and Noreen Bachteler Joungsoon Huh and Hyun Tack Shin Becker Paul and Mary Butler Michael and Elizabeth Barrachina Robert and Ann Siegel Rick and Diane Beckerman Bob and Linda Crawford Peter Boorman and Lyn Connery David and Kelly Skalski Mark Drusedum and Molly Knorr Michael and Lauri Dahlem Tom and Annmarie Butler Richard Stevens and Marina Rodriguez Thomas and Letha Kunkel Kamlesh and Usha Faldu John and Whitney Christina Virginia A. Stuart-Watt Matthew Lynch and Susan Banks Catherine E. Gobes ’75 and Alfred Tom and E.J. Conlin Karen Coole Tracey Gail W. McCue Masciocchi Sheri Williams Connelly ’75 and Kevin David B. Van Schaack ’81 and Amanda Jack and Liza Quinn Margaret Verrengia Hallinan ’81 Connelly Van Schaack Frank and Kim Waltman and James Hallinan Timothy and MaryAnn Corey John and Maureen Vaughn Phil and Lori Hopkins Don and Lynn Desiderato Brian and Marie West Dominican Society ($1,000 + ) Rich and Patty Hunter Lawrence and Alicia D’Orsi George and Maureen Wine Anonymous Linda B. Krikawa Susan Silvester Duncan ’81 and James John and Sheila Yorio Leandre and Josiane Adifon Marc and Mary Leuenberger Duncan Anniversary ($50 + ) Michael and Chiara Armetta Peter and Isabella Marandino Steve and Cindy Farrell Joseph Buda and Linda Moran-Buda Peter and Laurie Schwartz Leif and Nancy Fellinger Joanne and Cezary Ambrozej Lucien and Denise Cance John and Kim Shea John and Katherine Fitzpatrick Dawn M. Anderson William and Karen Carew Tom and Marlene Tartaro Boris and Rocio Garcia Nancy and Marino Boccuzzi Jon and Eileen Case Michael and Jean Wagner Dan and Virginia Gilmour Ken and Carol Boin John Chapman and Lorri C. Marquez Susan M. Wiskowski Paul and Betty Ann Grady James and Kristen Boucher William B. Collins ’68 and Sally Collins Michael and Paula Greenberg Lorin K. Bryant-Hardy Allan and Judy Connal Patrons ($250 + ) Cynthia M. Gworek Ren and Patty Cicero Kevin and Kate Conway Harris and Theresa Aisevbonaye Alicia M. Healey Christopher D. Deneen ’79 and George Curry ’77 and Kerry Kearns Gail and Ray Baker William and Susan Healey Eileen Brennan Deneen ’81 Curry ’77 Terry Giegel Bournique ’84 and Glenn Christopher and Cheryl Italia William R. Denton ’80 and Morris and Kathleen Davenport Bournique Donald Johnson and Martha Lilja- Catherine O’Toole Denton ’82 Tom and Lucie Di Bella Thomas and Nancy Byrne Johnson Gene and Jill Denver Kevin and Cathy Dowd Elizabeth Hemond Cannone ’77 and Andrew E. Kearns ’79 and Maura Robert and Louise Dornfried John Farley and Claudia Triggs John Cannone McNally Kearns ’79 Manuel and Susana Duarte Dan and Franca Filomeno Michael P. Deneen ’77 and Jennifer John and Patricia King George and Colleen Foster-Bey Thomas Freund and Diane Mineck Deneen Bob and Kathy Kinley Steve and Dori Grimshaw Gregory and Laura Garger Denise Bouvier Desmarais ’77 and Peter and Linda Kosha Jeffrey and Jean Hagen Tom and Marilyn Gilbert Thomas Desmarais Wayne and Pamela Kowalczyk Michael and Claudia Janusko Mike and Chris Golic Tom and Madelyn Filomeno Arthur and Maria Kucharz Fabio and Nancy Jimenez Keith and Sandra Gollenberg John W. Heslin ’76 and Patrice Preston Alan Lake and Anne E. Pidano James and Ellen Juliano Neville J. Graham and Tracy E. Brennan Heslin ’76 Dan and Gina LaPorte Elaine J. King Graham Kyung Eun Jin and Jung Yul Park Patrick and Suzanne Lemp Cathleen Fox Laffin ’77 and Fran Laffin Bill and Teresa Harris John and Vanessa Kapral Donna P. Lorenzo Joseph and Kim Lamari Terry and Glynis Huffman Ina and Rohimi Katkar Daniel Lynch ’78 & Amy Randall Lynch Rickie S. Lassiter Chris and Tanya Hug Robert and Michelle Kuhlberg ’78 Marie E. Lattiebudier Kelly and Kathy Kearney Shawn and Patty Meehan Joseph Marakovits Cyril T. Marshall Ken and Camille Kilgore John and Nhung Nocera James and Kathy McCormack Anthony and Valerie Massaro David and Cheryl Kozak James and Joanne Papillo Michael P. McGoldrick ’77 and Marilyn Michael and Diane McAndrews Jack and Kathy Looney Russell and Susan Pelton McGoldrick Robert and Judith McGowan Marie De Maio Mansolillo ’82 and Scott Suzanne Baran Piacentini James and Caryl Mitsch Marianne and Scott McKenzie

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William and Joan Noll Donors Paul and Joan Hijeck Laura and Jeffrey Rode Delroy Patterson ’85 and Paulette Simon Andrew and Renee Kelly Edward and Irene Rybka Ian and Deborah Allison Ron and Maureen Pepin Andrea E. Lombard Michael and Nancy Smith Richard and Melanie Beaule Rick and Patricia Poirier David and Eileen McCormick Jamillia S. Stewart Joseph Bonfatto and Corinne Kapp MaryAnne B. Steadman Timothy J. McGuire ’73 and Susan Joseph A. Whalen Joseph and Regina Domingo George Tuite and Cynthia Dressler McGuire Flor M. Zurita James and Maria Grappone Tad and Linda Winterbottom Bob and Elizabeth Paine Brian and Arlene Harris Jeffrey and Deborah Yao Jim and Pat Peterson

AUN L M IPARENTHONORROll of donors

Parents of alumni continue to support Northwest Catholic as they see the value of the education borne out in their sons’ and daughters’ successes. This year, Alumni Parents gave $56,460 to the Northwest Catholic Fund, while their overall giving to all funds amounted to $71,710. We are deeply grateful for their ongoing support of the school.

Rev. Colton Society ($10,000 +) Liam and Jo O’Leary Jack and Peggy Sitarz Mike and Alexis Pariano Michael and Penelope Tosatti Carol Dupuis Haylon ’80 and Michael Haylon Betsy and John Quinn Michael F. Tyler ’73 Dick and Denise Shima Michele and Joseph Quinn Thomas and Marisa Varney Ellen Fox Spalluto ’77 and Joseph Spalluto Josephine E. Rovaldi Richard and Mary Beth Walsh Ralph E. Wentworth ’65 and John and Mary Shukie William W. Walsh Kathleen Collagan Wentworth ’65 Rich and Francine Sider Tom and Kerry Spignesi Sponsors ($100 + ) 1961 Society ($5,000.00 + ) Patrick and Martha Terrion Anonymous Peter and Mary Bourdon Paul and Susan Vignati Louis and Christine Auletta William and Janet Miller Bill and Pat Walsh Wayne and Ann Marie Ayotte Mary E. Navin Margie and Brian Williamson Marilyn A. Bacon ’65 and James M. Vaughan William F. Baker Benefactors ($500 + ) Green & White Circle ($2,500 + ) Petra Beatty Anonymous Harry and Lynda Attianese Frank and Sheila Beneski Walter J. Dyber † Mark W. Boya ’77 and Teresa Boya Deborah Berry Jack and Mary Facey Catherine E. Gobes ’75 and Alfred Masciocchi Ed and Mildred Blaschinski Edward S. Jason ’71 and Mary Jason Stephen and Jane Granato John and Ellen Brett Joseph E. Navin ’69 and Michael and Linda Griffin Terry and Charo Brock Suzanne Dumont Navin ’78 Scott Guilmartin ’74 Roger and Carol Carrier Joe and Joyce O’Rourke Laurie Kennedy Alan and Faith Casey Ron and Marie Sanacore Catherine Zunner Kennelly ’65 and Sean Kennelly Paula Casey Colby and Anita Thresher James J. Leary III ’65 and Jane Leary Mark and Maureen Cenci Marc and Mary Leuenberger Allen and Janice Chin Dominican Society ($1,000 + ) Frank and Joann Martorelli Robert and Mildred Cleary Anthony Mascolo ’73 and Nathalie Mascolo George and Elaine Dalton Beth Collins Barton ’70 and Michael Barton Mark and Nancy Ricciardelli William and Judith Dowden Phil and Anne Carpenter Mike and Margaret Schiffer Steve and Barbara Eukers Kevin and Kate Conway Peter and Laurie Schwartz Brendan and Maureen Fox Kathy and Wes Cooper Susan M. Wiskowski Roland and Marie Francoeur Ed and Jean Cowles William and Mary Galligan George Curry ’77 and Kerry Kearns Curry ’77 Patrons ($250 + ) Boris and Rocio Garcia John M. DeAngelis ’72 and Patricia DeAngelis Robert A. Giuliano ’75 and Cathy Giuliano Thomas Driscoll and Patricia Teufel-Driscoll Anonymous John and Maria Guedes Owen and Joan Eagan Richard Berry Jr. Steve and Kathy Hansen Dan and Franca Filomeno Dick and Kathy Callahan Kathleen W. Hart John and Barbara Ginnetti Kenneth Carpenter ’65 and Frank and Mary Fran Hennessy Louis and MaryAnn Godbout Barbara Blanchfield Carpenter ’72 Bob and Pat Hilliard Mike and Chris Golic Anne Dante Carroll ’78 and James Carroll Eileen S. Horan Neville J. Graham and Tracy E. Brennan Graham Bill and Doris Davis Steve and Paulette Jameson Oz and Kirsten Griebel Michael P. Deneen ’77 and Jennifer Deneen Alois and Ellen Kallfelz Terry and Glynis Huffman Denise Bouvier Desmarais ’77 and Joan Keating-McKeon and Michael McKeon Chris and Gail Johnson Thomas Desmarais Alan Lake and Anne E. Pidano Phil and Susan Kelly Tom and Madelyn Filomeno Dan and Gina LaPorte Steven and Diane Krupa John W. Heslin ’76 and Patrice Preston Heslin ’76 Rick and Fay Lenz Dennis and Mary Lubozynski William and Eileen Lichtenfels Donna P. Lorenzo Bob and Jody McGoldrick Al and Helga Phillips Nicholas Lorenzo William D. Molloy, Sr. Michael S. Riley ’77 and Gail Riley Jack and Elaine Lyons Ed and Kathy Murphy Mike and Mary-Ellen Rogers Tom and Bernie Malloy Steve and Linda Myott Ray and Carol Sisk Joseph Marakovits

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James and Kathy McCormack Elizabeth and Douglas Maus Robert and Maryann Giovino James and Caryl Mitsch Ellen McKone-Stafford ’72 and Jeffrey Stafford Joanne Gleason Daniel Montano ’69 Al and Ethel Melanson Leonora Goroshko Alpha and Gloria Nicholson Leonard and Mary Melanson Walter and Mary Hampton Virginia O’Brien Paul and Carol Mortensen Frederick and Yolande Hesketh Arthur and Marion O’Donnell Nicholas Notte, Sr. Stephen and Evelyn Hudak Russell Ohlheiser Alcides and Maria Ortiz Glenn and Gloria Knierim Tom and Julia Parker Louis and Linda Pellino Frank M. Kulig Frank and Alice Pinney Ralph and Cruger Phillips Catherine La Penta Bill and Rosemary Powers Elizabeth M. Plumley James and Marion Lavoie Paul and Jane Reardon Barbara K. Pulito Wendell and Valda Lawrence Corrie Sadler John and Catherine Quinn Beverly A. Lemonious William and Louise Sanders R. Craig and Yvonne Robinson Richard and Stephanie Leonard Carol and Loren Schave Paul and Brenda Rohan George and Mary Lester Bob and Janet Schultz Mark and Helene Schmidt Patricia A. Liner John and Marcia Shaughnessy Bob and Janice Shangraw Joan Andrew Luddy ’71 and Richard Luddy Margaret Redden Sitarz ’72 and Robert E. Sitarz Harriet P. Shea Thomas Malone Margaret Linehan Skahill ’66 and John F. Skahill Herb and Elizabeth Shepardson John and Dorothy Marks Peter and Doreen Slomski Paul and Jeanine Simoneau James V. Martinelli ’70 and Ed and Lib Spinella Kenneth and JoAnn Smith Ellen Maguire Martinelli ’70 Janet Stone and Michael J. Selissen Carol Stevenson Mary Ellen Massicotte Tim and Gerry Sullivan Howard and Suzanne Travers Earlington and Ann Matthews Karen Coole Tracey Kathleen Glynn Tremblay ’75 and Lorna McFarlane Jim and Dorothy Tuohy Thomas Tremblay Ida D. McGhee ’74 John and Maureen Vaughn Bert and Ruth Williams Gregory and Mary McMahon Roger J. Williams Donors John and Mary Mengual Terry Caruso Michalman ’75 and Roger Anonymous Anniversary ($50 + ) Michalman Sergey and Margarita Arzumanov William and Rosemarie Miskavitch Anonymous Todd and Elizabeth Bell Daniel E. Molloy David and Marie Allabaugh Anne Acquaotta Biancamano ’72 Jose L. Morales Peter and Karen Avery John L. Bonee Donna B. Morrison Jim and Cecile Baker Ed and Brenda Boudreau William and Diane Ortiz Helen Batayte Clarence and Irene Bourret Lila C. Pitek Lucille Bellizzi Leroy and Hope Bruff Neil and Faith Quagliaroli James and Kristen Boucher Barbara T. Bullard John and Anna Riccio Robert and Colette Bouvier Robert and Doris Burke Bernard and Joanne Rooney Mark and Diane Caron Warren and Diane Cardone Mario and Elaine Rubino Kevin and Deirdre Cavanagh Timothy and Maureen Coleman Ed and Peggy Samolyk Ren and Patty Cicero Benito and Sylvia Crispino David and Lorraine Schoenwolff Maureen H. Connors James and Mary Cronin Edward and Teresa Sieczek Kathryn Craemer Timothy and Rosemarie Cronin Julie A. Smith Thomas and Aline Cronin Frank and Diane D’Addabbo Richard and Phyllis Smith Timothy and Mary Curran Henry and Theresa Davis Michael and Elaine Sponzo Beverly M. Curry Josephine F. DeAngelis Ward and Violet Strange Larry and Joan Delphia Anna M. Dennison Anthony and Frances Vacca Christopher D. Deneen ’79 and Marguerite W. Dionizio † Jennifer L. White Eileen Brennan Deneen ’81 Cristina Creamer Downes ’75 and Donald and Glenda Wilkerson Catherine M. Grimes William Downes Ray and Cathy Williams Edward and Doris Guillet Yolande P. Dumont Joe and Cindy Wilusz J. Michael Halloran ’70 and Bette W. Egan Vaughn and Mary Young Mary Bellizzi Halloran ’71 Dale and Margaret Evans Joan Casimir Harrigan ’81 Don and Joanne Fenton Steve and Susan Kristofak Maria C. Ferreira † = Deceased Deryl and Antoria Marrow Laurier Fillion ’73

NWCnor Do s Respond to Archdiocesan Matching Gift Incentive In the Spring of 2009, the Archdiocese of Hartford made shaky economy – while others who had already given for the an irresistible offer to its Catholic schools: If a school could 2008-09 fund year made additional donations, knowing that exceed its own goal for its 2008-09 annual fund, the Archdio- those dollars would go that much further via the match. cese would provide $0.50 for every dollar above that target. In the end, the Northwest Catholic Fund came in Furthermore, the Archdiocese stipulated that the matching $78,015.20 above goal, which yielded an extra $39,007.60 in funds would be earmarked exclusively for tuition assistance at money that was available for financial aid. “We are so grateful that school. to our donors who stretched a bit further last year with their The goal for last year’s Northwest Catholic Fund was gifts, enabling us to capitalize on this unique opportunity from $720,000. NWC donors responded quickly and generously to the Archdiocese,” said Advancement Officer Colby Thresher. the Archdiocesan challenge. Some people gave even more than they had the year before – a remarkable thing, considering the NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09 • 29 fnd rie s HONORROll of donors

Friends are generous individuals and organizations who do not fall into one of the other donor categories. Friends donated $56,917 to the Northwest Catholic Fund, while overall giving to all funds amounted to $90,647.

Rev. Frascadore Society ($25,000 + ) Mildred C. Kay Robert M. Mittica Joseph F. Reilly Golf Tournament Patrick and Karen Murphy Anne F. Satriano † James Nolan Benefactors ($500 + ) Nancy D. Sullivan Rev. Colton Society ($10,000 + ) Bill and Deborah Brewer Bill and Becky Fenoglio Anniversary ($50 + ) Phil and Kim Heck Rev. Eugene M. Kilbride Nellie A. Agostino 1961 Society ($5,000 + ) Donald and Ilse Nigro Maureen H. Connors Michael P. Danziger Donald and Murva Deneen Carol B. Hunt Patrons ($250 + ) The Reynolds Charitable Foundation, Inc. Donors Robert J. Daly Most Rev. Peter A. Rosazza Marino and Maria Carducci Don and Jean Wilson Sponsors ($100 + ) Richard and Judie Goldenthal Joseph and Maureen Hallisey Green & White Circle ($2,500 + ) Anonymous Ann E. Rosetta Marilyn L. Brewer Ken and Judy Boudreau Mary P. Sanady Martin and Elevene Bryant Jean Lam John and Carole Clark Crisanne M. Colgan † = Deceased Dominican Society ($1,000 + ) Alice H. Kelsey Stephen and Xi Corcoran Skip and Sally McGurkin Rev. Henry C. Frascadore Frank and Ann Mirabello

fcla u ty & staff honor roll of donors

The Northwest Catholic faculty, supported by administrators and staff, devote their time and energy to students’ intellectual, social, psychological, and spiritual development. As the core members of the school’s learning community, the faculty is dedicated to the maintenance of a stimulating and enriching educational environment. While that dedication is most obvious in their attention and concern for students, it also appears in the generosity with which faculty and staff support the school’s mission.

Anonymous Sandra Murray Hayes ’85 and Bob Hayes Richard and Ann-Mary Puskarz Marilyn Adamo Lisa Huston Betsy and John Quinn Daniel J. Avery ’97 and Sara D. Avery Pat and Mike Juda Joshua Reese ’95 and Nita Beeman Joan Keating-McKeon and Michael McKeon Amanda Miser Reese ’02 Teresa Giegel Bournique ’84 and Glenn Bournique Fran Laffin and Cathleen Fox Laffin ’77 Katy M. Sibley Susan Coffey Brimmer ’66 Jane Leary and James J. Leary III ’65 Thomas and Tina Steen Dick and Kathy Callahan Debra J. LeBel Ron Swanson Catherine and Tim Curran Richard Luddy and Joan Andrew Luddy ’71 Colby and Anita Thresher John and Regina Cusson Rosemary and David McNally Bill and Deanna Tressler Mark Dodd and Cynthia Killian Dodd ’74 John and Isabella Mirabello Michael F. Tyler ’73 Matt and Sarah Fitzsimons Sister Ann M. Moore Marisa and Thomas Varney Scott and Andrea Fletcher Elizabeth Lynch Oates ’94 and Patrick Oates Margie and Brian Williamson Mary Jo and Thomas Foran Joyce and Joe O’Rourke Dave and Amy Woodford Kristi and Jerry Gillespie Helga and Al Phillips Claudia A. Hart ’78 Lynn and John Prendergast

gif i ts in k nd

In addition to cash gifts, Northwest Catholic received generous contributions of useful goods and services that fulfill specific capital or operational needs. If a gift in kind is accepted by Northwest Catholic, it is the donor’s responsibility to determine value, and it must be a gift that brings clear budget relief to the school. Acoustics, Inc. Peter and Debra D’Amato Navin Bros. Food Services The Barrieau & O’Toole Co. Michael O. Eagan ’74 and Sauce Restaurant Bloomfield Discount Liquors Geralyn Tuohy Eagan ’74 Selig Ford Calcutta India Corp. FIP Construction, Inc. Commercial Floor Covering Lebon Press, Inc.

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Rev. Lawrence Bock Scholarship Rev. Frascadore Teaching Chair Patricia Mittica Scholarship Nita Beeman James Nolan Robert M. Mittica Rev. Lawrence Bock Oz and Kirsten Griebel Maurice and Phyllis Guillet Scholarship Russell Morrisett Scholarship William and Janet Miller Joshua M. Sider ’03 Paul E. Bisson ’79 and Kristen Bisson Russell Morrisett Justin A. Sider ’01 Edward E. Guillet ’69 Rich and Francine Sider Jacqueline Bisson Gustafson ’75 and David J. Catherine Malloy Pintavalle Gustafson Scholarship Ellen McKone-Stafford ’72 and Family Paige Ann Corrigan Memorial Kathleen W. Hart Scholarship Regina Guilmartin Memorial Scholarship Tom and Bernie Malloy Marilyn Adamo Scott Guilmartin ’74 Daniel J. Avery ’97 and Sara D. Avery Rev. John T. and Mary G. Shugrue Dick and Kathy Callahan Scholarship Stephen Lennox ’69 Memorial Scholarship Claudia A. Hart ’78 Anne F. Satriano † Joan Keating-McKeon and Michael McKeon Susan K. Gray ’69 Joan Andrew Luddy ’71 and Richard Luddy Jane Lennox ’71 Sister Ann M. Moore Elizabeth Lynch Oates ’94 and Patrick Oates Ellen McGuire Williams Memorial † = Deceased Joe and Joyce O’Rourke Scholarship Betsy and John Quinn Carol and Loren Schave Brian M. McGuire ’71 Ron Swanson Margie and Brian Williamson Dave and Amy Woodford matching gift companies

Many businesses and corporations will match the amount of a donation from one of their employees, increasing the value of the donor’s gift dramatically. The companies listed here matched donations that Northwest Catholic received from our constituents – alumni, parents, friends, and alumni parents. Please check with your employer to see if they, like the companies identified below, will match your donations to Northwest Catholic.

Aetna Foundation Lone Pine Capital LLC Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. American Nuclear Insurers Macy’s, Inc. The GE Foundation Babson Capital Microsoft Corporation UBS Realty Investors, LLC Bank of America - West Hartford Branch MMC Matching Gifts Programs United Technologies Bristol-Myers Squibb Northrop Grumman Foundation United Technologies Political Action Committee Chubb & Son Pfizer Foundation UNUM Provident Corp. Fidelity Foundation Prudential Foundation UPS Foundation, Inc General Re Corporation Reader’s Digest Foundation W.K. Kellogg Foundation Goldman Sachs Educational St. Paul Travelers Foundation Wachovia Foundation Hartford Insurance Group Stanley Works Wells Fargo Foundation LandAmerica Foundation Steelcase Foundation

Busies n s es, foundations & Organizations

Gifts in this category subsidize our financial aid program or fund specific programs or capital projects. This past year, a total of $240,107 was raised from this group. We are grateful for their support of our mission. Paul and Mary Cancellarini Charitable Trust Hartford Foundation for Public Giving CAS/CIAC The John G. Martin Foundation Catholic Charities, Inc. May, Bonee & Walsh Cherish The Children Foundation, Inc. William & Alice Mortensen Foundation Foundation for the Advancement of Catholic Schools Joseph F. Reilly Golf Tournament Golf For Good, Inc. St. Ann’s Church Hartford Courant Foundation Target Northwest Catholic is grateful for the many years of generosity from Hometown Marketing, a West Hartford-based custom publishing, advertising, and marketing firm owned by Tom Hickey ’78.

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Those honored through these gifts will be remembered perpetually in our prayers, especially during Mass. May the light of their memory illuminate our paths every day.

In Memory of Robert Bagnall ’66 In Memory of William A. Neptin Joanne Gleason Richard and Judie Goldenthal Jim Bagnall ’69 Clara Neptin Brown ’84 The Goldman Family Kathleen W. Hart William and Hilda Gough In Memory of Nora E. O’Brien ’82 Michael, Mary, Kate and Sean Halloran In Memory of Peter Beneski ’86 Owen and Joan Eagan Todd and Theresa Hansen Frank and Sheila Beneski Alois and Ellen Kallfelz Eleanor M. Hellner Kerry Casey Kelley ’82 The Hickey Family In Memory of Janet Dubey Berry John J. Houlihan, Jr., Esq. In Memory of Thomas Pellino ’77 Marianne Downie, Jonathan Housum Britton Raymond and Sally Allen Housum and Chauncey Housum Ed and Susan Autuori Family Louis and Linda Pellino Kevin Hughes ’77 Richard Berry, Jr. Robert and Lynn Huguet Virginia M. Coracci Dorothy Ianzito Leslie DeMaio Costello ’86 In Memory of Catherine Malloy Pintavalle Tracy Jacot Kathryn Craemer Bruce and Merle Kaplan Richard and Aida Cyphers Kathleen W. Hart Tom and Bernie Malloy Leslie, Paul and Rachel Korus Paul B. Dubey Josephine and Joseph Mascolo Elizabeth Hollow In Memory of Joseph F. Reilly Michael and Diane McAndrews Maria Librio Judge Judith G. McDonough Lynn, Melissa and Chip (Kohn) Wood Joseph F. Reilly Golf Tournament Bob and Joanne McGoldrick Tori Langen Gregory and Mary McMahon Alfred L. Nardini In Memory of Catherine R. Rodgers Lucy Miano Sabin and Beverley Streeter Edward and Valerie Michaels Katherine Rodgers Katzman ’79 Joseph G. Tompkins Ann and Greg Mittelman Thomas Rodgers ’79 John and Mimi Warwick Mary Ellen, Kelsey and Jonathan Mix Mark and Hope Wigmore Margaret Mullarkey Jim and Barbara Woods In Memory of Michael F. Romano ’77 Joseph and Anne Murphy Mark and Eileen Baldwin Kelly Murphy In Memory of John J. Burke Harry and Brenda Bellucci John and Lynn Nickles Lisa M. Fitzgerald Dave Bergen Eric D. Norfeldt School Richard and Margaret Duggan Gordon and Karen Binkhorst Eric D. Norfeldt School PTO Northwest Catholic Cheer Fund Paul and Virginia Blanch Tom and Julia Parker Debra and Douglas Senn Walter and Vivian Brooks David and Arlene Parmelee Sandra Senn John and Sally Budds Louis and Victoria Piscatelli James M. Quinn Marino and Maria Carducci Barbara Pons Peter and Marie Carr QT Nu Group R. Leslie Childs & Percy and Lillian Stone Jennie Cassarino Lil and John Reilly Jean Cassarino-Roberts Michael S. Riley ’77 and Gail Riley Janet Stone and Michael J. Selissen Cheryl Chase, Stuart Bear, Dara and Ross Dyer Roisman & McClure, P.C. and Landon Chase Freeman Maryann Romano In Memory of Margaret Clarke Nunzio and Joan Chelli Nichola E. Rubinow and Family Donna and Bradford Russell Northwest Catholic Cheer Fund Aileen Cosgrove Joe and Mary Cosgrove Clem and Ellen Sayers Kevin and Joan Coughlin Sue and Mort Shechtman In Memory of Peggy Guillet Bob and Paula Cournoyer Natalina Speranza Ellen McKone-Stafford ’72 and Family Frank and Diane D’Addabbo Ed and Lib Spinella Sharon Dalton Holly O’Brien Stauber ’81 In Memory of Dr. William Hart Janet Dandley George Tomljanovic Bill and Doris Davis U/13 Girls West Hartford Premier Soccer Team Claudia A. Hart ’78 Steve and Angela Delaney Marguerite and Glen Tracy & Family Michael and Lorinda DiDonato Lori and David Warchol In Memory of V. Chester Hickey Gary and Nancy Discenza Brian and Joan Warnken Susan Hickey McCabe ’73 Michael and Nella D’Onofrio Joseph and Carol Waxman Charlie and Jane Driscoll Matthew and Nancy Wemple In Memory of Thomas Hill ’65 Ginny McKinley Edelson West Hartford Youth Soccer Association and Liz McKinley Gordon Rohe L. Winchell Barbara Hill Coffey ’79 Lisa and David Ellovich Lyn, Melissa and Chip (Kohn) Wood Kathleen W. Hart Arthur and Mary Epstein and Family Stephen and Denise Woodruff Gregory and Leigh Farber Jeffrey and Debra Wrubel In Memory of Lois Juda The Farrah Family Joan Keating-McKeon and Michael McKeon Gary and Darlene Filip In Memory of Jack Rovaldi John and Anne Foley Josephine E. Rovaldi Jesse Fritz In Memory of George Lescarbeau ’66 Albert Galante Kathleen W. Hart Peter and Patricia Gibbon

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The 32nd annual NWC golf tournament was another resounding success. Under picture-perfect skies, alumni, parents, and friends enjoyed a wonderful day of golf and camaraderie for a great cause. The net profits of $23,083.73 went to the Northwest Catholic Fund, earmarked for tuition assistance (see inside back cover).

Players Margaret Verrengia Hallinan ’81 Todd Sadler Sponr so s Chuck Harding ’71 Emil Sapere Jim Abbott Bill Hardy Greg Sapere Josh Austin Dinner ($5,000) Jed Hayes ’73 Bill Scully ’70 Jim Baio Karen Herbert Sally Scully ’77 Navin Brothers Food Services, Inc. Kevin Baker ’88 John Heslin ’76 George Scurlock Mary-Anne Francoeur Baldassarre ’78 Glynis Huffman TJ Selig ’77 Cart ($3,000) Kathy Dunn Bassett ’79 Terry Huffman Herb Shepardson Diane Beckerman Wentworth-DeAngelis Insurance Barbara Karsky Tip Simmons Rick Beckerman Tom Kearney ’74 Dave Spalluto John Begley ’81 Martin Kearns Ellen Spalluto ’77 Diamond ($2,000) Scott Bennett ’88 Mike Kennedy Joe Spalluto The Huffman Family Dave Berry Mike Klimas ’73 Bob Strano ’74 Shepard Steel Company, Inc. John Berry ’86 Chip Kohn Scott Strid Rick Berry Jr. Fran Laffin Andy Sullivan Rick Berry III ’83 Platinum ($1,000) Charlie Larson Steve Sztaba Tom Bisson ’78 Apostle Laske Maureen Walsh ’65 Kevin W. Baker ’88 Eileen Buell Garrett Lasnier Pat Walsh ’72 FIP Construction, Inc Lenny Burke ’72 Dominic Lopreato Brian Williamson Future Benefits, Inc. Cindy Hesketh Calitri ’81 Dan Lynch ’78 Jeff Yao General Casualty Jim Cantey John Lynch ’72 Henry Yazdzik May, Bonee & Walsh Bill Carew Jay Maffe Liz Ziecky QBE Regional Insurance Bob Chamerda Linc Maguire ’76 Phil Coco Julio Maisonet Gold ($500) George Colli III ’73 Raffle & Marie De Maio Mansolillo ’82 George Colli IV Silent Auction Contributors Anonymous Frank Marroco Allan Connal P.F. Kelly Company Matt Martorelli ’03 BK and Co. Ed Connors ’83 Venora Electrical Service Eric Marziali Ed and Jean Cowles Joe Copasso Anthony Mascolo ’73 John Cusson Sam Cusano Green ($300) Valerie Massaro Franca Filomeno Pete D’Amato Dennis McCormack Madelyn Filomeno Aztec Equipment Jordy D’Angelis ’72 Tim McGeary Betty Ann Grady Barrieau Oil Company, Inc. Jeanne Danielson Mark McGoldrick ’78 Hair by Israel, LLC Elizabeth Collins Barton ’70 Leslie DeMaio Costello ’86 Rev. John W. McHugh Hot Tomatoes Future Fitness Sport Pat Delaney Kevin McHugh ’78 Jane Leary Herb’s Sports Shop Kevin Deneen ’78 Tracey Mencio Marie Mansolillo Kevin McHugh ’78 Mike Deneen ’77 Mary Dunn Miner ’79 Anthony and Valerie Massaro Select Medical Judy Devokaitis Peter Mirabello May, Bonee & Walsh Sinatro Agency One, LLC Insurance Bill Doran ’78 Randy Molloy ’65 Max Downtown Brenda Dowling Bobbi Moran Mark Murnane ’88 White ($125) Shawn Dreyer Matt Morgan Michelle Murphy Jim Duncan Art Rich Photography Mike Morris ’78 Partners In Mission Bob Evans Edward Connors Ins. Agcy. Mark Murnane ’88 NWC Pep Shop Joe Ferolano Dillon Mailing Bureau, Inc. Noreen Murnane John Quinn Joe Ferolano, Sr. Lyons Service Corp. Joe Navin ’69 Reliable Auto Tire Company Dan Filomeno O’Malley, Deneen, Leary, Messina & Joseph Navin Gail Riley Tom Filomeno Oswecki Ed Nebry Dennis Robinson Ed Fitzsimons Press Check, LLC Joe O’Rourke SteenoSports Memorabilia, LLC Matt Fitzsimons St. Ann’s Church Evelyn Osowski Sherri Thompson Brendan Fox St. Thomas the Apostle School Peggy O’Toole Union Street Tavern Ellen Rodgers Fox ’85 Wachovia Securities, LLC Jim O’Toole ’78 Pat Walsh Maureen Fox Victor Pileika ’74 Greg Fox Jim Quinn Gifts In Kind Tom Furniss John Quinn, Jr. ’98 Bob Gigliotti ’73 Bloomfield Discount Liquors John Quinn, Jr. ’74 Marilyn Gilbert Lebon Press, Inc. Josh Reese ’95 Tom Gilbert ’79 Navin Bros. Food Service Doc Resnisky ’74 Leslie Grande Selig Ford Skip Roosevelt ’65 Mary Lou Greenfield Dean Rustic Kevin Grenham ’78 Richard Rustic

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Saturday Night Live, the Silver Anniversary edition, was a sparkling success! Parents, alumni, and friends filled the silver-and black-bedecked halls of NWC on Nov. 22, 2008 – the 25th anniversary of this signature fundraiser. The net proceeds of $36,444.59 were particularly remarkable against the backdrop of the shaky economy.

Room Sponsors Kevin and Kate Conway Rosemary and David McNally Bob and Linda Crawford Shawn and Patty Meehan Cowdery, Ecker & Murphy Robert and Lauren Crory John and Abigail Moore F. A. Hesketh & Associates, Inc. Michael and Lauri Dahlem Jeff and Maribeth Mortillaro Highland Capital Brokerage Don and Lynn Desiderato Ed and Kathy Murphy Horizon Financial Advisors Giuliano and Edith DiFrancesco Tom and Michelle Murphy May, Bonee & Walsh Robert and Louise Dornfried Paul and Karen Nista Mike and Mike in the Morning Kevin and Cathy Dowd Walter and Brenda Nuhfer Molloy Funeral Home Mark Drusedum and Molly Knorr Robert and Lynn O’Connell SteenoSports Memorabilia, LLC Kamlesh and Usha Faldu Janet and Richard O’Donnell Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C. Steve and Cindy Farrell Liam and Jo O’Leary Leif and Nancy Fellinger David and Laurene Oleasz Advertisers Tom and Madelyn Filomeno James and Joanne Papillo Church of the Holy Spirit Matthew and Sarah Fitzsimons Michael and Laurie Paternoster Corpus Christi Church Thomas Freund and Diane Mineck Scott C. Pearsall, CTANG Duncaster Tom and Marilyn Gilbert Russell and Susan Pelton House of Flora Flower Market, LLC Dan and Virginia Gilmour Ron and Maureen Pepin Rainbow Graphics Keith and Sandra Gollenberg Jim and Pat Peterson Riley Lumber Maureen Davis Grabowski ’77 and Chester Al and Helga Phillips Sacred Heart Church Grabowski Rayette Ramoya Saint Joseph College Paul and Betty Ann Grady Gail and Michael Riley ’77 St. Bernard Church Neville J. Graham and Tracy E. Brennan Graham Laura and Jeffrey Rode St. Mary’s Church Charles and Leslie Grande Kerry Ruiz and Carissa Fusco St. Mary’s School Oz and Kirsten Griebel William and Louise Sanders St. Thomas the Apostle School Margaret Verrengia Hallinan ’81 and James Antoinette P. Savard St. Timothy Middle School Hallinan Mark and Lynette Scapellati The Church of St. Timothy Bill and Teresa Harris Walter and Maria Schawiak Venora Electrical Service William and Susan Healey Maryann Sheehan Schuppe ’78 and Walter Wentworth-DeAngelis Insurance Thomas Hickey ’78 and Shevon Sweeney Hickey Schuppe West Hartford Police Officers Association ’79 Peter and Laurie Schwartz Phil and Lori Hopkins Jeff and Mary Scobee Patrons Terry and Glynis Huffman John and Kim Shea Gail and Jack Hughes Marc and Sheila Sherer Harris and Theresa Aisevbonaye Rich and Patty Hunter Thomas and Mary Sitaro Joe and Teresa Anquillare Christopher and Cheryl Italia Joseph Spalluto and Marc and Patty Austin Pat and Mike Juda Ellen Fox Spalluto ’77 James and Noreen Bachteler Joan Keating-McKeon and Michael McKeon Tom and Kerry Spignesi Jim and Nancy Bannon Bob and Anne Kelly Michael and Bonnie Stephens Michael and Elizabeth Barrachina Mike and Rita Kennedy Scott and Ann Strid Beth Collins Barton ’70 and Ken and Camille Kilgore Virginia A. Stuart-Watt Michael Barton Bob and Kathy Kinley Wayne and Coreen Sumple Robert and Ria Battaglia David and Noreen Knortz Patrick and Sherri Thompson Theresa Notte Becker ’76 and Clinton Becker David and Cheryl Kozak Colby and Anita Thresher John F. Begley ’81 and Linda Krikawa Ed and Mary Turbert Mary Beth Begley Robert and Michelle Kuhlberg John and Maureen Vaughn Nancy and Marino Boccuzzi Tom and Letha Kunkel Michael and Patricia Visintainer Peter and Ellen Bompane Alan Lake and Anne E. Pidano Betsy Lawyer Volg ’81 and Peter Boorman and Lyn Connery Kara Cunningham Langan ’81 and Kevin Langan Kenneth Volg Peter and Mary Bourdon Dan and Gina LaPorte Jim and Suzanne Walsh Mark W. Boya ’77 and Teresa Boya James J. Leary III ’65 and Jane Leary Bill and Pat Walsh Joseph Buda and Linda Moran-Buda Patrick and Suzanne Lemp Greg and Dee Waybright Peter and Louisa Budarz Marc and Mary Leuenberger John and Cori-Lynn Webber Paul and Mary Butler Jack and Kathy Looney Margie and Brian Williamson Tom and Annmarie Butler Carlos and Stella Lopez Bob and Denise Winland Elizabeth Hemond Cannone ’77 and John Donna P. Lorenzo Tad and Linda Winterbottom Cannone Matthew Lynch and Susan Banks Susan M. Wiskowski John Chapman and Isabella and Peter Marandino Andrew L. Wizner and Lorri C. Marquez Michael and Diane McAndrews Sheila M. Houlihan Paul and Carol Ciotto Gail W. McCue Henry and Evyonne Yazdzik William B. Collins ’68 and Timothy McDonnell ’86 and Michael and Lisa Young Sally Collins Laura Ginnetti McDonnell ’86 Allan and Judy Connal Merritt and Maggie McDonough

34 • ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09 NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL E nDOWEDANDAnnual Scholarships

Over the past two decades, alumni parents and friends have chosen to honor an individual or family while helping students in financial need by funding an endowed scholarship. A portion of the annual earnings ensures that needy students can take advantage of the educational opportunity available at Northwest Catholic. Endowed scholarship funds are essential to ensuring an economically diverse school community and are a critical component in NWC’s tradition of supporting financially needy students. Endowed scholarships may be initiated with a gift of $25,000. Annual scholarships may be established with a gift of $5,000 or more, provided it is the donor’s intent to make a long-term commitment.

Endowed Annual

Rev. Lawrence R. Bock Scholarship Timothy and Meg Callahan Scholarship Rev. Bradford Colton Scholarship Cancellerini Trust Scholarship Paige Ann Corrigan Memorial Scholarship Foundation for the Advancement of Catholic Schools Carol Cunningham Family Scholarship William R. Fenoglio Foundation Scholarship Daly Family Scholarship Greater Hartford Catholic Educators Association The Maurice and Phyllis Guillet Scholarship Dr. William Hart Scholarship Regina Guilmartin Scholarship Hartford Courant Foundation Scholarship Stephen Lennox Scholarship Hartford Inner-City Scholarship McKiernan Scholarship Haylon Scholarship Patricia Mittica Scholarship Robert Kay Memorial Scholarship Russell Morrisett Scholarship Mahoney Scholarship Salvatore Piacente Scholarship Matthew 25 Scholarship Catherine Pintaville Scholarship NWC Faculty & Staff Financial Aid Scholarship R.A. Roncari Family Retreat Ministry Carmelo Romano Scholarship Rev. John T. Shugrue and Mary G. Shugrue Scholarship Sanchez Scholarship Trina Sullivan Scholarship St. Ann’s Scholarship Bruce Torrell Scholarship Ellen McGuire Williams Memorial Scholarship

p laNNEDgiving at northwestC ATHOlic

The Heritage Society recognizes as members those alumni, parents and friends of Northwest Catholic who make a planned gift to the School. Planned gifts include a provision in a will or trust; naming Northwest Catholic as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy, pension, profit-sharing, IRA or 401(k) plan; establishing a Charitable Gift Annuity (see below) or Charitable Remainder Trust. These gifts allow individuals to make an ultimate statement of commitment and will define future educational opportunities for deserving students.

Charitable Gift Annuities

With an irrevocable gift of cash or securities of at least $10,000 to Northwest Catholic, a donor can: • lock in a high annual fixed rate of return for life; • benefit from a healthy charitable deduction; • reduce capital gains taxes, if it is a gift of appreciated securities; and • make a difference for Northwest Catholic!

Gift Annuity Rates Paid Annually to a Donor for Life

Age 70: 6.5% Age 75: 7.1% Age 80: 8.0% Age 85: 9.5%

For more information about The Heritage Society, charitable gift annuities, or other options for planned giving, please contact Colby Thresher, Advancement Officer, at 860.236.4221, x156 or [email protected].

NORTHWEST CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL REPORT, 2008-09 • 35 new s frOM29 wamp Welcome Class of 2013! The Class of ’13, Plus 19 Transfer Students, Join the NWC Community

The 2009-10 school year opened with 651 stu- dents among the four grades at NWC, including 171 freshmen and 19 transfer students. Margaret Williamson began her tenth year as Principal, and this year has also added the title of Chief Admin- istrator. West Hartford is home to the most freshmen (40 students), with Bloomfield (18 students) and Windsor (16 students) ranking next. In keeping with recent trends, the freshman class includes siblings of many current or former NWC students; indeed, 39% of the Class of ’13 (67 students) are NWC siblings. Furthermore, 25 students have a parent who graduated from Northwest Catholic. (From left) Freshmen Brendan Thompson, Connor Krikawa, Alejandro Tobon, When the freshmen arrived on Wed., Sep. 2, Christopher Thomas, and Arnoldo Ballestas congregate in the school lobby they were greeted by more than 100 members of while waiting for the first day of high school to begin. the Class of ’10 who had volunteered as “Fresh- man Contacts,” the group that helps ease new students’ transition into NWC life. These seniors helped the freshmen navigate the corridors, fiddle with lockers, decipher class schedules, and enjoy a cookout in the school courtyard. A week later, the seniors hosted (and attended) the Freshman Dance, which had a huge turnout and featured such NWC traditions as the “Shoe Dance.” This year’s student body also includes 19 stu- dents who transferred in to the sophomore and junior classes. Eleven of these students are part of NWC’s year-old international students program. There are now 14 students who have matriculated at Northwest Catholic but who hail from other countries, including South Korea, China, Spain, Alecia Dulaire ’13 (left) and Lindsay Grace Quinn ’10, a member of the Fresh- Germany, and Brazil. Dombrosky ’13 get to know one another man Contact group, offers a personalized before an opening-day presentation in NWC welcome to her brother, Charlie the Rice Auditorium. Quinn ’13.

Some members of the Freshman Contacts group, which returned to school early to help with freshman orientation.

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N WC Students Excel on National Exams Dozens of Northwest Catholic students Students, which means they were among with Distinction (students earned an distinguished themselves on a range of the highest scoring students who took the average grade of 3.5 on all AP Exams national standardized tests during the past PSAT exam. taken, and a grade of 3 or higher on five several months: or more of the tests); AP Scholar with Honor (students earned an average grade of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and a grade of 3 or higher on four or more of the exams); and AP Scholar (students who receive scores of 3 or higher on three or more AP Exams). Three students were named AP Scholars with Distinction; six were named AP Scholars with Honor; and 16 were named AP Scholars. The com- plete list of students and their home- towns appears on the NWC web site: www.northwestcatholic.org/academics. • Joel Adifon ’10 was named an Outstand- ing Participant in the National Achieve- • Michael Deneen ’10, the son of Jenni- ment Scholarship Program conducted by fer and Michael Deneen ’77 of Windsor, the National Merit Scholarship Corpora- was named a National Merit Semifinalist tion. based on the PSAT exam he took in Octo- • Kelsey Vega ’10 earned Honorable ber 2008. Fewer than 1% of the 1.5 mil- Mention in the National Hispanic lion students who took that test achieved Recognition Program administered by scores this high. He will now continue the College Board. in the competition for a National Merit scholarship, which will be announced in • Twenty-five students – the highest num- Spring 2010. ber in school history – were named AP Scholars for 2009, based on exceptional Alexis Dahlem ’10, Caroline Garger ’10, • achievement on Advanced Placement Ex- Luke Pelton ’10, and Emily Peters ’10 ams taken in May 2009. AP Scholars earn were named National Merit Commended one of three designations: AP Scholar

P lans for Celebrating NWC’s Golden Jubilee Are Under Way Incredible as it may seem, Northwest Catholic will soon • Traditional NWC events – like Saturday Night Live or the Golf have a big birthday: In September 2011, it will turn 50 Tournament – will have a special 50th anniversary spin that year. years old! Plans for celebrating this important milestone are • Memorabilia – including photos, news clippings, scrapbooks, already under way. plaques, etc. – were pulled off school shelves, out of closets and drawers, and from every nook and cranny of NWC over the Sum- In June 2009, Principal Margaret Williamson and Advancement Of- mer of 2009. Supervised by Director of Communications Michelle ficer Colby Thresher invited a number of people from different constitu- Murphy, volunteers sorted, catalogued, and organized the material encies – current and alumni parents, faculty, staff, and alums – to con- by decade and topic, and then packed it up for safe, off-site storage. vene for an initial brainstorming session. Over a light supper, this core The 50th Anniversary Committee will refer to the material via a group talked about some of the ways Northwest Catholic might celebrate thorough inventory of the contents that’s kept on a shared network the half-century mark. drive at NWC. Videos, powerpoints, and gallery displays are among Though nothing has been set in stone, the 50th Anniversary Steering the multimedia options being considered for the yearlong anniver- Committee decided on some broad parameters: sary celebration. • The 50th anniversary celebration will begin in September 2011, • A festive Anniversary Gala will be held in March 2012 to which probably with an Anniversary Liturgy, and will continue through every member of the NWC community will be invited. June 2012. • An anniversary-specific logo and slogan are in the works. • Only a few extra anniversary-specific events will be added to the Volunteers are needed and welcome to help make this yearlong celebra- school calendar during that year, in the interest of keeping the ac- tion a success! To make suggestions, to volunteer, or for more informa- tivities manageable and memorable. NWC will that year also be go- tion altogether, contact Principal Margaret Williamson (mwilliamson@ ing through the New England Association of Schools and Colleges nwcath.org) or send a message to a special e-mail address established for (NEASC) reaccreditation process, which occurs only once a decade, this purpose: [email protected]. so it will be a particularly busy time.

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N WC Welcomes New Teachers and Coaches Some new (and some familiar) faces embarked upon a variety of teaching and coaching positions in September 2009.

On the Academic side: … and on the Athletics side: Sr. Angela Marie Castellani, F.S.E., joined the Religion Depart- Matt Cronin ’03 returns to the Boys’ Lacrosse Program as an ment. A native of Italy, Sr. Angela holds a diploma in accounting Assistant Varsity Coach after working successfully with the JV pro- and computers from a technical school in Perugia, Italy, as well as a gram last year. Coach Cronin played lacrosse for Mount Ida College law degree and a Master’s in Legal Professions from the University before returning to complete his degree at Central Connecticut State of Perugia, and a Master’s in Moral Theology from Holy Apostles University. He works as a Special Needs Assistant at Whiting Lane College and Seminary in Cromwell. A member of the Franciscan School in West Hartford. Sisters of the Eucharist community in Meriden, through which she Cara DeAngelis ’05 returns to the NWC Girls’ Lacrosse program teaches religious ed to teenagers, she previously worked in insurance as an Assistant to Coach Bill Mullady. She has also previously been and sales (in Italy) – and she was a soccer coach! Sr. Angela teaches an assistant for NWC’s Field Hockey team. She is completing her three sections of Freshman Religion. studies at St. Joseph College. Monica Kirschmann is the new- Bob Hartman is the new est member of our English Depart- Freshman Football Coach. A ment. She earned her Bachelor’s 1966 graduate of Southern degree in English (with an Econom- Connecticut State University, ics minor), summa cum laude, Phi Hartman lettered in Lacrosse Beta Kappa, from Fordham Univer- and Swimming for the Owls. sity, and her Master’s in Humani- He has been assistant football ties from the University of Chicago. coach at Hall High School in Monica comes to NWC from Para- West Hartford and assistant mus Catholic High School in New swimming coach at Trinity Jersey, where she has been teaching College. Currently, Hartman English since September 2006. She is a CPR/First Aid instructor also served as the school’s Assistant for the Farmington Chapter Director of Communications. She of the American Red Cross. teaches Freshman and Sophomore English. Brendan Jasper ’08 and Dean Spence ’08 have become Fran Laffin, a part-time Religion Sr. Angela Marie Castellani and Mrs. Monica Kirschmann joined the NWC faculty in September 2009. Assistant Football Coaches, teacher at NWC since 1987, joins the filling in gaps left by former full-time faculty this Fall. Fran will also Assistant Coaches Sean Ring ’99, Matt Restivo, and Jeff Soto be working part-time as an Advancement Officer, helping to further ’94, who had to step aside due to increased career demands. Jasper the NWC mission. A graduate of St. Michael’s College (BA, Histo- was an Assistant Track Coach in 2008-09 under Head Coach Jeff ry) and Saint Joseph College (MA, Pastoral Ministry), Fran recently Przech ’92. As students, Jasper and Spence helped the Indians cap- retired from Catholic Charities, where he had been the Director of ture several consecutive Nutmeg League Championships. Spence, a Residential Services for the past 21 years. He and his wife Cathleen quarterback, was named All-State as a Senior. Jasper and Spence are Fox Laffin ’77 have three sons: Michael ’11, Matthew ’13, and students at UConn’s West Hartford branch. Stephen, a student at St. Timothy Middle School. Bill Mullady ’66 is the new head coach of the Field Hockey team. Deacon Richard Santos ’82 is the new Chair of the Religion (He will continue to serve as the Head Coach of the Girls’ Lacrosse Department. A graduate of Holy Apostles College and Seminary, team, as well.) In the past, Mullady had been an Assistant Field Deacon Santos has been teaching Religion at NWC since 2000. A Hockey Coach. He is a Physical Education teacher in Hartford’s veteran of the NWC track team himself, he has been an assistant Learning Corridor. His assistants will include his daughter, Marci track coach, is the moderator of the Film Club, and began “Theol- Mullady, a special ed teacher and Girls’ Lacrosse coach in the Wind- ogy on Pizza,” an extracurricular activity through which students sor Public School System. and some faculty discuss topics related to faith or the Church over pizza at Bertucci’s. He and his wife Renee Roberts Santos ’81 fre- Dianna Soucier ’08 is an assistant Field Hockey coach, work- quently chaperone the prom. ing with the Junior Varsity team. Soucier was a standout athlete at NWC: She was a member of the most successful Girls’ Lacrosse team in school history (15 wins in ’08, a school record, and the top spot in the Div. II CIAC State Tournament), and she was also the first-ever NWC Field Hockey player to be named First Team All-State. She is a Nursing student at St. Joseph College.

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Rosemary McNally, the longtime chair of NWC’s Religion Depart- ment, received a standing ovation at the end of the schoolwide Ascen- sion Thursday Mass in May 2009, in recognition of her 28 years of service to the school. Mrs. McNally began her career here in September 1973, took a hiatus from teaching in the late 1970s, but returned to NWC in 1983 and became Religion chair in the Fall of 1985. This past Spring, she announced her plans to retire. Along with the gratitude of the NWC community, she also ac- cepted a bouquet of roses!

Kevin and Cathy Dowd (left), parents of Ryan Dowd ’09 and Erin Dowd ’12, joined Principal Margaret Williamson and other guests for Rev. Joseph Crowley’s blessing and dedication of five newly renovated classrooms in September 2009. The Dowds were among other Class of ’09 par- ents who made contributions to the Senior Parents’ Legacy Gift, which funded the renovations and installation of SMARTboards. NWC now has 18 classrooms equipped with SMARTBoards.

T heresa Notte Becker ’76 Joins Northwest Catholic School Board Insurance executive Theresa Notte Terry and her husband Clint have two Becker ’76 of Farmington, CT, joined children, Matthew ’11 and Mary ’13. They the Northwest Catholic School Board in are parishioners of St. Patrick Church in September 2009. A graduate of Bowdoin Farmington, where Terry is a CCD teacher College, from which she earned a Bachelor’s and has volunteered for the House of Bread. degree in Math, she currently works at Gen- “I am honored to be part of the Board,” eral Re-New England Asset Management, she said. “I will strive to make a meaningful Inc., where she is responsible for new busi- contribution to the continued success of our ness development and marketing strategy wonderful school.” for the firm’s insurance company investment capabilities. She began her career at General Reinsurance Corp. in 1980.

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• Dr. Michael Griffin,who worked at North- Coach Carlson’s 11th season as the team’s Connecticut Convention Center. west Catholic from 1979-2005, who has pitching coach. • NWC Athletic Director Josh Reese ’95, been named Principal of Holyoke Catholic • The NWC Athletics Program, which who has earned the designation Certified High School in Holyoke, MA. He assumed won a third-place cup (SS classification) in Athletic Administrator (CAA) from the Na- his new position on July 1, 2009. A gradu- the prestigious Michael’s Cup competition tional Interscholastic Athletic Administra- ate of Providence College, Dr. Griffin earned sponsored by the Connecticut Interscholas- tors Association (NIAAA). According to the a Master’s degree in religious studies from tic Athletic Conference (CIAC). The award NIAAA, the voluntary certification process Saint Joseph College in West Hartford and recognizes NWC’s “exemplary” athletics included a comprehensive written exam as a Ph.D. in educational administration from program achievements during the 2008-09 well as an evaluation of Reese’s educational UConn. He started his NWC as a teacher school year. In its award letter, the CIAC background, experience, and professional in 1979, and ultimately served as President stated that “exemplary” is defined as “athlet- contributions. “Josh is one of an elite group for nine years, before becoming a teacher and ic participation, academic success, equitable of interscholastic athletic administrators na- the Director of Development and Planning opportunities, trained and professional per- tionwide to attain this level of professional- at Sacred Heart Academy in Hamden. His sonnel, chemical-free programs and environ- ism,” the group said. daughters Sarah Griffin Casper ’96 and ment, athletic achievement, and a clear sense Amy Griffin ’97 are active NWC alumnae. • Brendan Lemp ’10, who recently won two of sportsmanship marked by high ethical prestigious golf tournaments outside school: • Patrick Dornfried ’10, Fanol Prevalla ’10, and moral standards.” the RI Golf Association Junior Champion- and NWC Baseball Coach Cory Carlson, • Ellen Fox Spalluto ’77 and her husband ship, held in August 2009 at the Metacomet all of whom competed on the Berlin, CT Joe Spalluto, her parents Dr. Brendan and Country Club in East Providence, RI, and American Legion baseball team during the Maureen Fox, and her daughters Maureen the Future Collegians World Tour New Eng- Summer of 2009. Finishing the season with Spalluto ’06, Carolyn Spalluto ’08, and land Open, held in October at Newport (RI) a 34-8 record (the best Summer record in the Caitlin Spalluto ’12, who co-chaired the National. history of Berlin baseball), the team won the 20th annual “Miracles” Gala in September Zone 3 Title, State Championship, North- • Joan Keating-McKeon, NWC English 2009 for the benefit of St. Francis Hospital teacher, who earned her CT Professional Cer- east Regional, and traveled to Fargo, ND, for and Medical Center. This year’s gala was the American Legion World Series. This was tification (the highest tier of teaching certifi- the largest one ever, with 1,300 guests at the cation in CT) during the Summer of 2009.

M atthew 25 Scholarship Program Expands to Support Eight NWC Students Eight NWC students – two from each grade – have been desig- nated “Matthew 25 Scholars” for the 2009-10 school year, thanks to the generosity of six new sponsors who have agreed to participate in the unique scholarship program. The Matthew 25 program, a joint effort between Northwest Catho- lic and Catholic Charities of Hartford, was established in 2001 to help promising, underserved Hartford students get a better education than they might have access to otherwise. Candidates must demonstrate ac- ademic ability and financial need and must have strong family support. The program is premised on the Gospel passage from Matthew 25: “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me.” The scholarship applies to tuition, uniforms, books, and fees. The donor/sponsor pays 40% of the total, Northwest Catholic pays 40%, and the student’s family is responsible for the other 20%. The sponsors also agree to serve as mentors to the recipients. In addition to the tuition assistance and the mentoring, Matthew 25 Scholars and their families receive additional support and advocacy from Catholic Charities. This holistic approach is designed to foster self-esteem and independent achievement as well as educational and social success. P aula Mann-Agnew, Director of Programs for Catholic Ashley Combs ’05, one of the first Matthew 25 Scholars, was in- Charities, congratulates Matthew 25 Scholars Ashley vited to be a guest speaker in May 2009 at Catholic Charities’ “Help Combs ’05 (left) and Sheena Harrigan ’08. and Hope” fundraising breakfast in Hartford, which spotlighted the Matthew 25 program. with me throughout my college experience and that I will carry with “The lessons I learned as a member of the program – the importance me through the rest of my life,” said Combs, a May 2009 graduate of building community and lending a hand to those in need, as well as of UConn. “I will put these lessons and attitudes to use through my the importance of obtaining an education – are lessons that I carried continued work in my community.”

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N WC is First Catholic School in CT to Offer Unified Sports The visiting students filed into the John- Unified Sports, according to a story that ap- From March through May, the IEA/NWC son Gym in March 2009, quiet and looking peared in The Catholic Transcript, but only volleyball teams met each Wednesday at slightly uncertain about what would come one of those schools – NWC – is non-public. NWC, learning volleyball techniques and next. The NWC students, equally uncertain “It is a very unique arrangement, and the rules. One week, they traveled to Branford, and with volleyballs tucked into the crooks only one of its kind in the state,” said Bob CT for a Unified Sports volleyball tourna- of their arms, shyly greeted the kids from the Deasy, assistant director of Unified Sports ment – a highlight of the season. And on the Intensive Education Academy (IEA), a pri- for the Connecticut Association of Schools last day of the program, the students shared vate school for special-needs students located (CAS), who told the newspaper that the pizza and soda following an awards ceremo- on N. Main Street near Bishop’s Corner in IEA/NWC program had been in the works ny, when each IEA student received an hon- West Hartford. for three years. “There are a lot of logistics orary NWC varsity letter. And so began the very first Unified Sports that need to be worked out.” “Not only does this program allow for an program at Northwest Catholic – indeed, NWC and IEA collaborated on transpor- excellent learning experience, it directly co- the first and only Unified Sports program at tation, facilities, and supervision, includ- incides with the mission of Northwest Cath- any Catholic school in the state. Founded in ing the need for on-site medical personnel. olic,” said Athletic Director Joshua Reese 1989 by Special Olympics, Unified Sports is a Rounding up NWC students to volunteer ’95. “This is a fantastic opportunity for our nationwide program through which students for the weekly sessions was the easy part, school and a great addition to our commu- with disabilities are partnered with equal according to NWC Principal Margaret Wil- nity. We look forward to continuing it next numbers of students without disabilities to liamson. “Our students like to help, and they Spring.” learn and compete in sports. In Connecticut, are realizing that all kids, no matter what 1,600 students in 130 schools participate in their abilities, are just kids,” she said.

O n the last day of the season, IEA and NWC students pose for a team photo with a thank-you poster created by Ryan McCarthy, a student at IEA.

Five members of the NWC Volleyball team volunteered with WFSB-TV morning news anchor Irene O’Connor ’85 at a September 2009 fundraiser benefiting St. Agnes Home in West Hartford. The team also donated a basket of good- ies worth $150 to the event. The players who participated are (from left) Alyssa Reaves ’13, Alana Seldon ’13, Maggie Gauthier ’12, Emily Kapral ’12, and Logan Lawson ’12.

THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC FA L L 2 0 0 9 • 41 news from 29 wamp Class of ’10 Parents to Give Senior Patio a Facelift Fundraising is under way, and construction will begin in the Spring. Current parent Sherri Thompson, Senior Patio Project ad- visor to the NWC Advancement Department, stated that gifts of all sizes would be welcome and appreciated. “We truly want every- one to feel a part of this, and we would love for the Class of ’10 parents to be the first in NWC history with 100% participation in the Senior Parent Legacy Gift,” she said. On-line gifts may be made by visiting www.northwestcatholic.org and clicking on the “Give to NWC” button on the home page. The goal is for the seniors and their parents to be able to enjoy the new space during graduation-related festivities in June 2010!

NWC Senior Patio “Before” The privilege of using the “senior patio” – the space just outside the glassed wall of the Navin Cafeteria – has always been one of the great rites of passage at Northwest Catho- lic. No matter the weather, it seems, rising seniors migrate out to “their” space just as soon as they’re allowed. Like anything that’s well-loved, the patio is looking a bit tired …after all, it is 48 years old. This special space clearly needs a “facelift” – and with the help of the parents of the Class of ’10, the Senior Patio will get it. For the past three years, the parents of NWC seniors have given generously toward a “Senior Parent Legacy Gift” to the school. Those funds have gone toward class- room renovations (see photo on p. 39). This year, the pro- ceeds will go toward refurbishing the patio with designer- type concrete, landscaping, sitting walls, and benches and planters encircling the space.

T wo NWC Students Become Eagle Scouts Francis Butler ’11 and Ryan includes memorial bricks (sold for Kirk ’10 became Eagle Scouts – the $30 each) that were engraved with highest possible rank in Boy Scout- the names of parishioners. ing – during the Summer of 2009. Ryan Kirk, the son of Edward An Eagle Scout must complete at and Cheryl Kirk of Windsor, is a least 21 merit badges and organize member of Troop 203 based at First a major service project that benefits Church in Windsor. He has been his church, community, or other or- a Scout since he was six years old. ganization. Only a small fraction of An avid outdoorsman, he’s attend- Scouts achieve this distinction. ed High Adventure trips to Camp Francis Butler, the son of Thomas Pupukea in Hawaii and canoe trips and Annemarie Butler of Enfield, down the Connecticut River and belongs to Troop 2000 of St. Ber- the Delaware River Water Gap. nard Parish in Enfield. For his Ea- For his Eagle project, Ryan led gle Project, he created a Memorial a crew of scouts to build a walking Prayer Garden at St. Bernard’s. The path from First Church down to the Parish cleaned and fixed the statue Farmington River. In addition to of Mary, while Francis (and his crew his Eagle rank, Ryan has also earned of volunteers) constructed a 5’ X 15’ a bronze Palm, given to Scouts who brick walkway and a 12’ diameter earned at least five merit badges Francis Butler stands in the new memorial prayer garden at garden. Donors contributed mate- beyond the required number. St. Bernard’s parish in Enfield, which was the service project rials and expertise. The walkway he completed on the way to becoming an Eagle Scout.

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from the desk of First on their own… First as a team… Tom Bourdon ’10 – who has verbally The Girls’ Tennis team hung its first banner joshua reese ’95 committed to playing baseball for the Boston ever in the Johnson Gymnasium, securing the last College Eagles – was the first Junior in school conference championship in Northwest Conference history to be named to the Connecticut High Girls’ Tennis history with a 13-3 record, and School Coaches Association All-State first team. advanced to the Quarterfinals of the CIAC Girls’ He was also selected to the All-Conference team Tennis State Tournament. The Softball program for the third straight year – another school first. became the first team since 1998 to qualify for the Brendan Lemp ’10 was the medalist – i.e., he CIAC Girls’ Softball Tournament. came in first – in the final Northwest Conference The first Girls’ Golf team in school history Golf Championship en route to securing his had a very respectable second-place finish in the spot in the New England Championships, after Northwest Conference, with an 8-7 record. firing a scorching 75 in the CIAC Division IV Northwest Catholic became the first Catholic Golf Championship. Mary Frailey ’10 and school in Connecticut to launch a Unified Devon Soucier ’10 were tapped as first team Sports program, by partnering with the Intensive A stormy New England Spring and record members of the Girls’ Lacrosse All-State team. Education Academy (IEA), a high school for rainfall could not dampen the spirits Two Boys’ Outdoor Track relay teams – the 4x800 special-needs teenagers on N. Main St. in West of a talented group of NWC athletes (John Whiting ’09, Brian Poirier ’12, Dan Hartford. Each Wednesday afternoon, a group of determined to succeed in Spring 2009. Huehner ’10, and Nico Greco ’10) and the 4x100 athletes from IEA traveled here to the Johnson (Alden Jasper ’10, Trenton Jackson ’10, Ryan Gym to play volleyball with a team of NWC First things first… Siegel ’10, and Eric Kennedy ’10) – set school volunteer athletes. records for their events. Also first in the record With the end of the Spring season came the It goes without saying that being first in the books is the Girls’ 4x800 relay team (Meghan end of the Northwest Conference, which has now world of athletics is a big deal. In Spring 2009, Feeney ’10, Elizabeth Allen ’12, Christine Smith dissolved – but the first year of the new CCC is “first” was the watchword for the entire Northwest ’10, and Andrea Dombek ’09), who set a school right around the corner. I will be first in line Catholic athletics program. record, as well. watching our young people compete.

B f oys’ gOl Coach Scott Fletcher’s Boys’ Golf squad remained one of the best in the State, finishing the year with a 20-3-2 record. Captain Matt Collins ’09 (MVP) and Brendan Lemp ’10 (Coaches Award; New England Championship Qualifier; Northwest Conference Tournament Medalist) made First Team All-State. Next year seems equally promising with the return of Chris Sherer ’11, Patrick Nista ’11, Brian Butler ’12, Tyler Huffman ’12, Alex Phibbs ’12, and Ryan Strid ’12. G f irls’ gOl In its inaugural season, under the direction Brendan Lemp ’10 of Moderator Matthew Martorelli ’03 and completed the final season of the Northwest paced by Captain Mary Beckerman ’10 Conference with a 9-7 record, highlighted (MVP), the Girls’ Golf team finished the by several remarkable performances. On the season with an 8-7 record, second in the Boys’ side, school records were established in Northwest Conference. With the starting Mary Beckerman ’10 the 4x800 (Tri-Captain John Whiting ’09, five – Beckerman, plus Caroline Connal Conference in 200m and Long Jump). After Brian Poirier ’12, Dan Huehner ’10, and ’12, Caroline Davenport ’12, Samantha his record-breaking performance in the Nico Greco ’10, who was All-Conference Russon ’12, and Hannah Shea ’12 (Coaches 4x800, Greco was an All-State finisher in the in the 3200m and 1600m), as well as the Award) – returning next year, the future looks 3200m. 4x100 (Alden Jasper ’10 – Coaches Award, very bright. The Girls performed equally well. The All-Conference in 300 Hurdles; Tri-Captain dominant 4x800 relay team (Meghan Trenton Jackson ’10 – MVP, All-Conference uO tDOORTrack Feeney ’10, Elizabeth Allen ’12 (Coaches in 100m and 200m; Ryan Siegel ’10; and Award), Christine Smith ’10, and Quad- Under the leadership of Head Coach Jeff Tri-Captain Eric Kennedy ’10 – All- Przech ’92, the Boys’ and Girls’ Track team Captain Andi Dombek ’09) crushed the

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Kayleigh Donnelly ’09. Coach Mullady cited the strength and composure of first-time goalie Dana Crory ’11 (Coaches Award), who filled in nicely when longtime goalkeeper Bridget Daly ’10 was injured early in the preseason. Returning players Erika Duenas ’10, Haley Heslin ’10, Chelsea Mencio ’10, Maureen Mitsch ’10, Julia Mansolillo ’11, Haley Massie ’11, and Grace Hallinan ’12 promise a bright future in the years to come. Head Coach Chris Gallagher’s young and inexperienced group missed the State playoffs by just one game – no small feat, considering that most of the Boys’ Lacrosse regular-season opponents qualified for their respective State Tournaments, and most of NWC’s games Alden Jasper ’10 were lost by just one goal. Leading a group of talented athletes were Co-Captains Kevin school record en route to their respective All- Boya ’09 and Sean Murphy ’09 (Second Team State selections. All-State; MVP), joined by Will Grady ’09, Andi Dombek ’09 Jack Heslin ’09, Jack Olson ’09, and Jake This group was also named All-Conference Quarterfinals of the Class S CIAC State Spignesi ’09. Coach Gallagher will rely heavily in the 4x400m relay. Quad-Captain Kelsey Tournament. Tri-Captains Garrett Hickey on the efforts of returning stars Jack Hayes Marakovits ’10 (MVP) is the latest in a ’09 (Coaches Award) and Dillon Desiderato ’10 (Coaches Award), James Hallinan ’10, long line of talented throwers, while Quad- ’09 led a successful group of Seniors, rounded Drew Orsini ’10, Kevin O’Toole ’10, Ben Captain Nia Harris ’10, Quad-Captain Kylie out by Ryan Dowd ’09, Ryan Foster ’09, Van Schaack ’10, Matthew Visintainer ’10, Steadman ’09 and Codie Landsman ’09 and Lester Primus ’09. The solid returning Timothy Waltman ’10, Michael Laffin ’11, added much-needed experience. nucleus of Zack Boorman ’10, Nick Calitri Taylor Waybright ’11, and Tanner Vaughn ’12. ’10, Patrick Dornfried ’10, Jason Moore ’10, Lacros s e Jon Moore ’10, Fanol Prevalla ’10, Ryan Bbal ase l Thompson ’10, and Matt D’Orsi ’11 could Head Coach Bill Mullady ’66 took the have the “local nine” making noise for years to helm of this program from his daughter Jill Consistency has been the theme since Head come. Mullady (Girls’ Lacrosse Head Coach – Post Coach Cory Carlson took over the baseball program in 2004; for instance, the NWC University). Despite losing a number of Sobal ft l talented seniors last year, First Team All-State team has qualified for the State Tournament every year since this year’s Seniors were Selections Mary Frailey ’10 (MVP) and Often the “forgotten group” of NWC Freshmen. Leading the way: Tom Bourdon Devon Soucier ’10 led this year’s crew to a athletes, Head Coach Liz Sankar’s Softball ’10, the first Junior in school history to make 10-5-1 record, making it to the Quarterfinals squad committed themselves to excellence First Team All-State, ushered the club to its of the Division II CIAC Girls’ Lacrosse State and began preparing last Fall for their Spring 14-8 finish. All-Conference selections Andy Tournament. Seniors who made their mark 2009 season. Captain and Coaches Award Beaule ’10 (most pitching wins) and Tri- on the program included Tory Mansolillo winner Caroline Leuenberger ’09 and Nina Captain and MVP Patrick Tanguay ’09 were ’09 (Co-Captain; Second Team All-State), Varney ’09 (MVP; All-Conference) led the vital contributors as the team made it to the Lizzie Winland ’09, and goal-scoring machine dedicated team to its first appearance in the

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NWC Alumni athletes: where are they now?

After completing a stellar career on the Albertus Magnus Women’s Basketball team (during which she reached the 1,000-point plateau), Candace Young ’03 now works as a social worker at Capitol Prep High School in Hartford. She is also the Assistant Athletic Director and Class of ’09 Members of Boys’ Tennis Team Assistant Girls’ Basketball Coach at the CIAC Class M State Tournament since 1998. school. Pitching sensation Lauren Backhaus ’11 The Girls’ Tennis team joined the Johnson (All-Conference) kept the team within reach Gym “Banner Party” this year: Head Coach Stan Keith Kwasnik ’08 – the Gatorade of every contest. Returning players include Piorkowski’s talented team captured the first Player of the Year in 2008, the first NWC standouts Sharon Grimshaw ’11 and Melissa team league championship in school history. golfer to earn that distinction – won the Martucci ’11, and expectations for the 2010 The team posted a 13-3 record, advancing to the New Britain City Golf Championship at season are high. Quarterfinals of the CIAC Class S Tournament the Stanley Golf Course in June 2009, while winning the final Girls’ Tennis regular- shooting a combined score of 149 in a season title of the Northwest Conference. highly competitive field. Leading the group were Co-Captains Maura Eagan ’09 and Emily Schwartz ’09, along with Devin Walsh ’06, a neuroscience/ Kathleen Baldassarre ’09 (State Tournament chemistry pre-med major at Bowdoin Doubles Qualifier; All-Conference), Caitlin College, was named to the NESCAC Erickson ’09, and Mikka Tracey ’09 (Coaches Conference All-Academic Football team Award; State Tournament Doubles Qualifier). for Fall 2008. He played for the Polar Emily Olszewski ’10 (Team MVP; All- Bears as a defensive lineman again this Conference; State Tournament Individual Fall. Qualifier) and her sister Lizzie Olszewski ’11 Kevin Eagan ’08 – who helped the (State Tournament Doubles Qualifier) provided Indians to three consecutive Nutmeg a talented attack. Gabby Marandino ’10 (State Conference championships, the first in Tournament Doubles Qualifier) and Emily school history – has taken his talents to McDonough ’10 are among the standouts from Endicott College. As a freshman, Eagan led this talented group who will be returning next season. the team in tackles (99), including 12.5 for a loss. The 245-pound rookie finished the year sixth in tackles in the New England Football Conference and was named All- Conference. Nina Varney ’09 A two-sport standout at NWC, Greg Peterson ’08 is now playing lacrosse Tnnse i at the College of the Holy Cross. The Crusaders freshman was named to the An extremely competitive schedule against the Patriot League’s Academic Honor Roll for talent-loaded Northwest Conference, combined 2009, which requires a 3.2 grade-point with several key injuries, was the story of the average during the semester in which the Boys’ Tennis team in the Spring of ’09. Head sport is played. Coach Tim Crowley’s squad featured a gifted group led by Co-Captain Richard Jakiel ’09 Shannon Morales ’08, a standout and Co-Captain Joseph McAndrews ’10, who player on the NWC Girls’ Soccer team, was injured most of the season after advancing is now playing for the Chargers at the far into the State Tournament in 2008. Jimmy University of New Haven. Here at NWC, Williams ’09 (MVP) and Connor Deneen ’10 she was named All-Conference three (Coaches Award) had tremendous individual times, and All-State as a senior. She was success. Coach Crowley remains optimistic for also an All-Conference selection in indoor the future, with returning standouts Ameet track during her freshman year at NWC. Katkar ’10 and Lucas Tyler ’10 bouncing back to lead next year’s team. Emily Schwartz ’09

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1960s Vermont’s Long Trail in cooperation with Chris Homa ’86 has been married to his the VT Department of Forests, Parks and wife, Wendy, for 16 years. They live outside Aurea Henry Collins ’67 lives in Wheaton, Recreation, U.S. Forest Service, National Ft. Lauderdale, FL, with their daughter, IL, with her husband of 38 years. They have Park Service, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Bailey. He says that most of his career has four children and four grandchildren. She is and private landowners. She wrote a chapter been in retail management, but “my favorite an artist whose favorite medium is pottery. in A Century in the Mountains –Celebrating position is as a coach to a girls’ travel 12& Louise Blais Pyers ’68 and her husband Vermont’s Long Trail. The book is available under fast pitch softball team. We went to the Don celebrated their 39th wedding through the group’s web site. Pony national tournament in Texas last year. My daughter plays multiple positions, and my anniversary on Sept. 26, 2009. Their son Patricia Sullivan ’77 and her husband wife coaches as well.” Matt lives in Wallingford, where he works Paul DiGangi relocated to Kona, HI in in the information technology field, and November 2008 to establish the Hawaii Jon Stevenson ’87 lives in Redwood City, their daughter Kelly lives in New Haven, branch of Cetacean Society International – CA, with his wife Christina and their children, where she manages the Book Trader Café, an CSI Hawaii www.csiwhalesalive.org, a non- a four-year-old daughter and one-year-old son. independent bookstore. Louise is the founder profit group. Her son, Brian Patrick Sullivan, Jon works at Cisco Systems. and Executive Director of the Connecticut married Marisa Esposito in Newport, RI, in Elizabeth Dumas Hilgart ’88 is a Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement July 2009. Patricia expects to earn a M.Ed. Logistics Analyst for Invenergy LLC, a (CABLE), an interdisciplinary research and from Capella University in December 2009. education collaborative made up of police leading clean energy company in Chicago professionals and citizens to address issues Tracey Johnson Stanley ’79 has been IL. Elizabeth manages the MET tower related to mental health (www.cableweb.org). working in the Registrar’s Office at Wesleyan installation/maintenance crews. She and her In October, Louise spoke at the International University for the past 12 years. Her son Trey husband Frank live in Lombard, IL. James is a freshman at the Storrs campus of Association of Chiefs of Police Conference Meg Hennessy Knight ’89 and her University of Connecticut. in Denver about effective police responses to husband Tom live in Washington, D.C. with people with mental illness. 1980s their sons John, Teddy, Finian, and Cormac. They spent the summer in RI, where they saw 1970s Holly O’Brien Stauber ’81 Liz Gies Schuck ’90, Ken Gies ’89, Matt Capt. Robert Leeds ’73, U.S. Navy recently completed her second half- Hennessy ’88, Maura Hennessy Shaw ’76, (Retired), is working for the Navy again – this marathon in Philadelphia. She lives and Mark Hennessy ’77. time as a civilian. He is the resource sponsor with her husband and two daughters in s for the Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial Blue Bell, PA. 1990 Vehicle at the Pentagon. Kathleen Murray Burna ’82 lives in Amaris E. Matos Delgado ’94 and her Terry Caruso Michalman ’75 reports Chicago with her husband Dave and their husband Angel live in New Britain with their that she’s been happily married for almost 35 daughter, Amy Yuyuan, adopted from China three children: Tatiana, 8, Abigail, 5, and years. She and her husband Roger have four in November 2008. Christian, 2. Amaris has been working as an Administrative Medical Assistant at CT children: Jennifer Allen (and her husband Anne E. Murray ’84 lives in Salem, OR, Children’s Medical Center for the past 10 Michael), Stacey Blanchette (and her husband with her children, Madeleine, 15, and Samuel, years. Jim), Robert Michalman (and his wife 14. Anne spent a year at the University of Jennifer), and Karen Michalman Wabrek Portland; a year abroad in Salzburg, Austria; Jennifer Boudreau Djang ’96 and her ’00 (and her husband Jon). They also have and earned a BA in Political Science at husband Robert welcomed their first child, seven grandchildren, ranging in age from 1 Southern CT State University in 1988, while Mia Leigh, on March 6, 2008. They live in year to 10 years old. She and her husband still working full time for the then-Speaker of the Cheshire, CT. live in Bloomfield, where they own Caruso’s House in the CT Assembly. She earned her Matthew Skahill ’97 and his wife, Auto Body Service. J.D. from Willamette University College of Maureen T. Coghlan, live in Cherry Hill, NJ. Law in 1993. She is the Northwest Director of Susan Shea ’75 is the Director of Conser- Matthew is an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Government Affairs for Bristol-Myers Squibb vation for the Green Mountain Club (www. Department of Justice in New Jersey. greenmountainclub.org), a group that is Company. Lenny Cossette ’98 and Sarah Ceisielski dedicated to maintaining and protecting were married on Sept. 26, 2009, at the Villa Borghese in Wappingers Falls, NY. They honeymooned in Aruba. Lenny works as a Plant Operations Manager in Peekskill, NY, while Sarah works for Liberty Travel in Manhattan. Kelly Carpenter ’99 and her fiancé, Jeremy Osterling, plan a July 23, 2010, wedding. They both teach in the Hartford Public School System. Amy Delligan Ferrer ’99 and her husband Join the NWC Alumni group on Facebook – 924 members strong already! Safhe are expecting their first child in

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Four members of the Class of ’85 (plus nine kids!) held an impromptu reunion in July 2009, when they gathered at the Rhode Island home of Theresa Parker Colantuono ’85: (from left) Mary Gobes ’85, and her four children; Ellen Dupuis Dudek ’85; Colantuono and her three children; and Megan Tracey ’85 and her two children. “We were back in Boston for Summer vacation, and we got together while I was there,” said Tracey, a pediatric nurse practitioner who lives in Oakland, CA, and works with children with congenital heart disease. “We all had a great time reconnecting, and the kids played like they had known each other forever.”

February 2010. The couple lives in Bristol, Hilary Scurlock ’03 lives in Los Angeles, Nick Lorenzo ’05 graduated magna CT, and Amy is an assistant buyer for Bob’s where she is pursuing a Master’s degree in cum laude from the University of Hartford Stores. Specialized Journalism at the University of with a degree in Architectural Engineering Southern California. She was awarded USC’s Technology. He plans to pursue a Master’s s 2000 Annenberg Fellowship. degree in Architecture at the University of Hartford. Keara O’Leary ’00 teaches Social Studies Lashonde Beasley ’04 graduated from at Conard High School in West Hartford, Columbia University with an M.S. in Social Brianna Jordan ’05 was named to the CT. Work in May 2009. dean’s list at Providence College for the Spring 2009 semester. Gavin Wentworth ’00 became engaged to Amy Grinsfelder ’04 lives in New York Tiffany Antipoff in August 2009. Gavin is the City, where she works for Mayor Michael John Scurlock ’06 was named to the head of marketing at Wentworth- DeAngelis Bloomberg in the Office of Contract Services. Spring 2009 Dean’s List at Bentley University, Insurance in Farmington, CT, and also where he is a finance major. Danielle Lawrence-Montague ’04 coaches youth football in West Hartford. graduated from the University of Hartford Caitlin Regan ’06 was named to the The couple plans a June 2010 wedding. with a degree in Gender Studies. She Spring 2009 Dean’s List in the College of Melissa Delligan Bambery ’01 married is pursuing a Master’s in Marriage and Nursing and Health at the University of her college sweetheart, Ryan Bambery, on Family Counseling at Central Connecticut Vermont, where she is majoring in Athletic May 9, 2009. They both work at MetLife State University. She also volunteers at the Training Education. and recently bought their first home in Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Service. Meghan Kiley ’07 was named to the West Hartford. Elizabeth Chase ’05 is working on a Dean’s List at Connecticut College for the Robert Doughty ’01 lives in Seattle, where special studies degree in emergency services, Spring 2009 semester. he is a flight test engineer on Boeing’s new focusing on paramedicine and fire science, Travis Lynch ’08 was also named to the 747-S airplane. After NWC, he took a year at CCSU. She was recently named a Field Connecticut College Dean’s List for Spring off, attended UConn for a year, and then Training Officer at Newington Volunteer 2009. transferred to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Ambulance, where she works as an EMT- where he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Intermediate and was Probationary Member Kate Williamson ’08 was named to the Engineering in 2006. of the Year in 2008. She also volunteers Spring 2009 Dean’s List at Saint Joseph’s University, where she is an elementary and Delroy Ross ’01 and his wife Jenn are the as an EMT for the Kensington Volunteer special education major. proud parents of a baby girl, Maya Joy Ross, Fire Department. who was born on Sept. 20, 2009.

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Weddings With Rev. Edward Moran officiating, Surrounded by many of his fellow coaches, Jessica Galanos ’97 married Joseph Michael assistant NWC football coach Michael Lenz Wallace on Sept. 26, 2008 at St. Augustine’s ’91 married Jenn Adams on May 23, 2009, Church in Hartford, CT. The wedding party at St. Mary’s Church in Simsbury. They cele- included Nicholanna Halladay Prince ’97 brated during a reception at The Pond House and Sandra Felicissimo Gomes ’96. Af- in Elizabeth Park, where guests included ter NWC, Jessica earned three degrees from Thanh Truong ’92, the co-best man, as well UConn: a BA (double major in sociology and as Head Coach Michael Tyler ’73 and assis- political science) in 2000, a Master’s in Pub- tant coaches Scott Rapport, Matt Martorelli lic Administration in 2002, and a Sixth Year ’03, and Jeff Soto ’94. Mike is an English degree in Educational Psychology in 2007. teacher at Simsbury High School, and Jenn is a “College came a lot easier for me because Medicare compliance officer at Connecticare. of Honors English with Mrs. Juda,” Jessica said. She works as a school counselor for the Southington Board of Ed. Her husband, who Greg & Meghan Terrion Whitehouse ’03 holds a BA in Finance from UConn, works as a bank examiner for the State of CT. Meg Terrion ’03 and Greg Whitehouse, who met at UConn, were married on July 18, 2009, at Star of the Sea Church in York Beach, Maine. The event was a real NWC affair: The wedding party included her sib- lings, Jill Terrion ’01 and Ted Terrion ’10, and the guests included classmates Hilary Scurlock ’03, Meghan Williamson ’03, Ka- tie Thorner ’03, and Maura McHale ’03, as well as many others from a range of years: Maureen Spalluto ’06, Carolyn Spalluto ’08, Caitlin Spalluto ’12, and their mom, Ellen Fox Spalluto ’77; Michael Laffin ’11, Matthew Laffin ’13, NWC Religion teacher Fran Laffin, and Cathleen Fox Laffin ’77; Mara Case ’11; and Jack Murphy ’10. Af- ter a honeymoon in Italy, the couple settled in Marlborough, MA, where Meg works as a manager at Nordstrom and Greg is an analyst Joseph & Jessica Galanos Wallace ’97 for Boston Biomedical Consultants. Jenn & Michael Lenz ’91

T homas Hill ’65 Honored on 40th Anniversary of Death in Vietnam

On June 9, 2009 – 40 years to the day that Thomas Hill ’65 lost his life while serving his country in Vietnam – his family and friends gathered at his childhood alma mater for a ceremony in his honor. Led by an Honor Guard from the West Hartford Fire Depart- ment, members of Boy Scout Troop #75 presented the colors as Hill’s mother, Helen, and sister, Barbara Hill Coffey ’79, entered the gym at St. Brigid School, from which Thomas Hill graduated in 1961. After first-graders sang “God Bless America,” state Rep. David McCluskey presented a Connecticut state flag to Mrs. Hill, along with a citation from West Hartford Mayor Scott Slifka. Gov. Jodi Rell and U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman sent letters that were read aloud during the ceremony. M embers of the NWC community who attended the ceremony In addition, U.S. Rep. John Larson sent two American flags that in honor of Thomas Hill included (from left) Principal Margaret had flown over the U.S. Capitol building. Mrs. Hill donated one of Williamson, retired faculty member Ron Ferri, Mrs. Hill, retired these flags to St. Brigid and the other to Northwest Catholic; this is Athletic Director Walter Stosuy, Barbara Hill Coffey, and retired the flag that now flies outside the school. Athletic Director Charlie Larson.

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Baby Love

Patricia Juda, chair of Northwest Catholic’s English Department, was thrilled to welcome her first grandchild this past Summer. Michael Joseph Juda, the son of Robert and Angela Juda, was born on June 16, 2009, tipping the scales at 10lbs., 3oz. and 21 inches long! The family lives in Stratford, CT.

Quilty & Robert Fleury Caroline Casey

Caroline Elizabeth Casey, born Mar. 12, Irene O’Connor ’85, morning anchor 2009, is the first child of Maureen Rogan on WFSB-Channel 3, and her husband Casey and Brian Casey ’94. Maureen is an Matt Fleury, the CEO of the Connecti- occupational therapist for Hartford Hos- cut Science Center, welcomed twin sons pital and Brian is a senior claims specialist on Apr. 27, 2009: Quilty John Fleury for the Liberty Mutual Group. The fam- (left) and Robert Gordon Fleury, each ily lives in West Hartford, and when baby of whom weighed in at just under 5lbs Caroline was baptized at The Church of – despite being several weeks early. The St. Timothy, several Northwest Catholic family lives in Hartford. alums were there to celebrate, including godmother Beth Casey Boyle ’96, NWC’s Director of Information Technology; Michael Juda Chris Molloy ’95; and Jason Lambert ’95.

Jason Randazzo ’98 Honored for Heroism in the Line of Duty

a Medal of Honor from the Greensboro “Putting your life on the line is be- Police Department in May 2009 for yond any words than I can express,” heroism in the line of duty. Greensboro Police Chief Tim Bellamy Randazzo, a five-year veteran of the told the Greensboro News-Record. “It police department, was credited with speaks to the commitment these of- saving the life of a fellow officer who’d ficers have for their jobs and for their been struck by a car and then shot by fellow officers.” fleeing bank robbers. According to After graduating from NWC, Ran- the honor citation, Randazzo and an- dazzo moved on to Guilford College in other officer chased the two suspects in Greensboro, where he played football their vehicles during rush-hour traffic, all four years. He earned his Bachelor’s trying to impede their progress while degree in Sports Management, with a protecting hundreds of citizens around concentration in business, in 2003. them. He and his wife Kendra, who have Gunfire broke out, and after one been married for three years, live in of the officers was wounded and left High Point. She works for the Guilford Kendra and Jason Randazzo ’98 in the middle of the road, Randazzo County Schools as a third-grade teach- Jason P. Randazzo ’98, a police pulled his colleague to safety even er, where Randazzo has started a buddy officer in Greensboro, NC, was awarded while dodging a hail of bullets himself. lunch program on his days off.

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When Walter J. Dyber passed away on June 2, 2009, at the Dish, which creates optical illusions in gems from their interior age of 91, the world lost a fascinating and vibrant man – oval shapes. He has drilled into tiny gems with a diameter of In Tribute: and Northwest Catholic lost one of its most thoughtful and only 1 millimeter. generous benefactors. Michael sells his intricately and artistically cut stones to fine Walter Dyber, Thanks to his largesse, NWC’s student-artists create pottery, jewelers across the U.S. and Canada, as well as to such museums paintings, photographs, and more in the Dyber Art Studio, a as the Smithsonian Institution, the Harvard Museum of Natural 1918-2009 bright and airy space that was added to the Northwest Catholic History, and the Gemological Institute of America Museum. campus in 2001. It is part of the Breen Center for the Arts. His stones have been exhibited at the Boston Museum of Ironically, Dyber was not himself an artist; the son of Science and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Polish immigrants, he played semi-professional football for a among others. time, and then spent his career working for Pratt & Whitney It was for other, future “Michaels” that Walter Dyber decided and MacDermid, Inc. His interest in improving NWC’s arts to invest in the arts program at Northwest Catholic, according resources stemmed from the high school experience of his son, to Colby Thresher, the NWC Advancement Officer who Michael Dyber ’66, who’d been fascinated by the arts – and helped to define the parameters of Dyber’s extremely generous especially sculpture – since he was nine years old. donation. “Walt said, ’I hope that my gift will help in providing During the early years at Northwest Catholic, however, the expanded facilities that encourage potential artists at an age well Fine Arts Department was a mere shadow of its future self, and before college, as that was not the case when Michael was a that hampered the development of incipient artists like Michael. student in the mid ’60s,’” Thresher recalled. Michael Dyber blossomed at New England College in In addition to Michael and his wife Sena, Walter Dyber is Henniker, NH. Today, he is a world-renowned and award- also survived by his son Jim and his wife Elizabeth; grandsons winning master gem cutter who’s worked out of his own studio Ken Dyber and Nicholas Dyber; three sisters; and many nieces in New Hampshire for more than 30 years (www.dyber.net). and nephews. He was predeceased by two wives, Beatrice and Walter Dyber Among other things, he’s known for inventing the Dyber Optic Carolyn, as well as his parents, a brother, and a sister.

In Memoriam Northwest Catholic extends its prayers and sympathies to the families of members of our community who have passed away as of September 2009.

Alun m i John Heslin ’09, and Haley Heslin ’10, as well as Richard Boorjian, Jr., father of Neil Boorjian ’98 and many friends and other family members, including her John Boorjian ’01 James S. Kovolski ’70 passed away on July 14, 2009, cousins Patricia Heslin Olsen ’65 and Susan Heslin after a courageous two-year battle with Lyme disease. Quish ’73. Kevin F. Brumett, husband of Stephanie Fellingham He was 57 years old. Jim retired from CIGNA in 2005 Brunmett ’98 after 29 years, but had remained a consultant to the Cu rRENTfAMilies company until his death. For the past five years he had Margaret “Peg” Dionizio, mother of A. James (Jim) also owned and operated the popular West Hartford Richard Joseph Bowen, III, grandfather of Hannah Dionizio, Jr ’65, Peggy Dionizio Arseneaux ’66, and Center ice cream shop “’59ers,” named for his beloved Pelton ’08 and Luke Pelton ’10 Gail Dionizio Lonczewski ’71 and aunt of Geraldine ’59 Chevy. The son of the late John and Jeanette Luksic ’69 Kovolski, Jim is survived by his wife, Lynn Hickey Marie Douglas, grandmother of John Healey ’10 and Kovolski ’72, his daughter Kristen, his son Jason and Meghan Healey ’13 M. Francis “Mac” McGuire, father of Tom McGuire daughter-in-law Rachel, and his brothers Jack, Peter, ’67, Bette McGuire Ellis ’69, and Kevin McGuire ’67, and Bill, and their wives. He is also survived by his in- John Drusedum, grandfather of Megan Drusedum ’09 father-in law of Nancy Tantalo McGuire ’68, uncle of laws, Brian Hickey ’73, Tim Hickey ’77, Tom Hickey and Erin Drusedum ’11 Stephen Blanchfield ’69 and Barbara Blanchfield ’78, Shevon Sweeney Hickey ’79, and Craig Hickey Carpenter ’72, and great uncle of Kelly Carpenter ’99 Peggy Little, grandmother of Molly McCormack ’07, ’83, and his nephew Garrett Hickey ’09, as well as and Jill Carpenter Devor ’99 Meghan McCormack ’08, and Kathleen McCormack other nieces and nephews. ’12 Isabel Nates Nates, grandmother of Ramon Chavarro Joanne Heslin Laverty, Esq. ’70, passed away on ’06 and Isabel Chavarro ’09 Louise B. Nista, great-grandmother of Patrick Nista ’11 September 7, 2009. She had just turned 57 years Aidan O’Leary, uncle of Miriam O’Leary ’95, Niamh old. A lifelong resident of the Hartford area, she Mattie Simon, grandmother of Sequoya Patterson ’10 O’Leary ’99, and Keara O’Leary ’00 was the daughter of Mary Mazurek Heslin, former and Corrine Patterson ’13 Commissioner of Consumer Protection for the State of Robert Walsh, father of Monica Walsh Swanson ’93 Connecticut and former Deputy Mayor for the City of Eleanor Mary Peters, aunt of Paul Sullivan ’90 and Hartford, and the late Attorney Thomas Patrick Heslin. cousin of Brittany Massaro ’07 and AJ Massaro ’12 Alice Morrin, sister-in-law of Nicholas Faenza ’74 A UConn graduate, Joanne worked for American Airlines as a Reservation Supervisor before returning to Michael “Mayor Mike” Peters, uncle of Paul Sullivan Thomas C. Stakem, father of Ron Stakem ’65 and school at Western New England College of Law. She ’90 and cousin of Brittany Massaro ’07 and AJ father-in-law of Elizabeth Hickey Stakem ’65 practiced law for 16 years, and according to her family, Massaro ’12 she cherished the opportunity to help people when Ams d ini tRATion, Faculty and Staff they needed it most. In addition to her mother, she is Alun m i fAMilies survived by her husband of 30 years, John P. Laverty, Robert Smith, uncle of NWC English and Dance Sr., and their children John P. Laverty, Jr. and Julie James L. Baker, father-in-law of Carol Dupuis ’80, teacher Kerri Smith M. Laverty ’03. She is also survived by her siblings, grandfather of Annie Haylon ’03 and Lisa Haylon ’06 Mary Ellen Heslin Taub ’72, Thomas Heslin ’73, John J. Burke, father of NWC Religion teacher and John Heslin ’76, and their families, including Herman Bercowetz, grandfather of Dana Bercowetz Madonna Burke Tracey Preston Heslin ’76, Thomas Heslin ’06, ’06 and Michael Bercowetz’08

50 • LOGOS THE MAGAZINE OF NORTHWEST CATHOLIC N WC Golf Tournament – June ’09 The weather could not have been better on Mon., June 1, 2009 – the day of the 32nd annual Northwest Catholic Golf Tournament. Under strikingly blue skies, dozens of alumni, parents, and friends returned to Wampanoag Country Club to share a day of golf and camaraderie. In addition to the traditional 18-hole event in the af- ternoon, several dozen women played 9 holes in a morning round, and enjoyed a special Ladies’ Luncheon afterward. The event yielded a total of $23,083.73 in net profits, which went to the Northwest Catholic Fund, earmarked for tuition assistance. For a slideshow of the day’s festivities, visit www.northwestcatholic.org/alumni. NONPROFIT ORG Northwest Catholic High School U.S. POSTAGE 29 Wampanoag Drive PAID West Hartford, CT 06117 HARTFORD, CT PERMIT NO. 246

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Don’t Miss This Year’s Fun! Save the Date: May 1, 2010

The NWC Grand Reunion for All Classes Ending in 5 or 0

Come back to campus for a New England clambake under a festive white tent. Watch your mailbox for information, visit www. northwestcatholic.org/alumni for details, and send your preferred e-mail address to Jane Leary ([email protected]) to be kept in the loop about who’s coming, who’s “lost,” and more specifics about the event.