FEATURES Journeys in Medicine .............................................................. 4 STUDENT/FACULTY LIFE The Paduan is a publication of Padua Franciscan High School Office for Institutional Advancement. A Reflection of My First 43 Years at Padua .............................. 9 The Sacred Heart Province Connection .................................. 12 Editors board of trustees Jerry Jindra ’70, Theodore J. Haag, O.F.M. giving Vice President for President Our Thanks to the Members of the Friar Club ....................... 14 Institutional Advancement Susan Huber Laurie Keco Grabowski ’89, Treasurer Associate Director for Gerald R. Jindra ’70 SPORTS notables Institutional Advancement Secretary Browns Players Visit Bruins’ Practice .................................... 15 Rob Holz ’90, Genmarie Stiber Director of Alumni Affairs Vice Chairperson Lillian Gathers, Martin K. Zanotti ’70 CALENDAR Director of Admissions Chairperson What’s Happening Through June 2010 ................................. 18 and Marketing Jerry Bleem, O.F.M. Cheryl Kuhn, Paul D. Cantwell Administrative Assistant James A. Climer ALUMNI NEWS Michael F. Cusato, O.F.M. ’71 Design & Layout Reawakening the Ancient with The Rose Ensemble ............... 16 Nick DiGioia Padua Franciscan High School Hall of Fame ......................... 19 427 Design Ann-Marie DiPaolo ’86 Preparing for Padua’s Golden Anniversary ............................. 20 © 2009 Padua Franciscan Timothy Dobeck The Russian Connection ....................................................... 22 High School Phil Hogan, O.F.M. 6740 State Road Nick J. Iafigliola Parma, Ohio 44134 SOMETHIN’ BRUIN 440.845.2444 Gerald M. Koler ’86 www.PaduaFranciscan.com Robert C. Sieg, O.F.M. ’66 Update on Our Padua Grads ................................................. 23 John M. 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FEATURES …after all is said and done (and sage advice seemingly to O.F.M., the Provincial Minister of our the contrary), it might not be such a bad thing to repeat Sacred Heart Province, shares some Journeys in Medicine .............................................................. 4 history. reflections on that Province and on STUDENT/FACULTY LIFE As is my normal routine, I was reading over the vari- Padua Franciscan High School — ous articles that make up this issue of The Paduan and the relationship between them A Reflection of My First 43 Years at Padua .............................. 9 and gathering some ideas as to what I might write over many years and through many The Sacred Heart Province Connection .................................. 12 about in this regular column. I was especially aware individuals. Mr. Larry Pizon, a mem- of a number of items in these pages which had some ber of Padua Franciscan’s faculty giving reference to our history — particularly as we look for- from its earliest years, shares his memories ward to and begin to plan the fiftieth anniversary of of who we have been and what we have done in the forty- Our Thanks to the Members of the Friar Club ....................... 14 Padua Franciscan High School which will take place three years of his experience in the life of this community in 2011. There are also articles here which offer us the opportuni- SPORTS notables As I was reading those various pieces, a rather familiar ty to consider our progress — the invitation of the future but somewhat vaguely-remembered adage about his- and the call to move ever forward. Dr. Joe Hanna ’79 and Browns Players Visit Bruins’ Practice .................................... 15 tory and those who are “condemned to repeat it” kept Dr. Maria Ramundo reflect on their experience of the coming to mind. I thought that that might hold some practice and the art of medicine. While ever-changing CALENDAR promise as a good place to start — so I decided to try to technology continues to be a major influence, count- less other insights and experiences also challenge them What’s Happening Through June 2010 ................................. 18 find out exactly what that saying was. In my research I discovered that that particular maxim is found in the every day to renew their commitment to be and to do the best in that practice and that art. And they bring to ALUMNI NEWS work of philosopher and essayist George Santayana — in his first volume of The Life of Reason. There he us the benefit of that experience and insight and com- mitment — particularly for the good of our students in Reawakening the Ancient with The Rose Ensemble ............... 16 writes: Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness… When experience is not retained… Padua Franciscan’s most recent innovative and creative Padua Franciscan High School Hall of Fame ......................... 19 program: MedTrack®. Preparing for Padua’s Golden Anniversary ............................. 20 infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. All this serves to confirm for me the valuable insight of The Russian Connection ....................................................... 22 I have to admit that, when I first found this passage, George Santayana: Those who cannot remember the SOMETHIN’ BRUIN I was a bit disappointed. The source to which I had past are condemned to repeat it. Yes! Let us indeed turned noted that this familiar saying had undergone remember our past! It is good and necessary, now and Update on Our Padua Grads ................................................. 23 a number of alterations since first coming from the pen in the coming months, to remember and to celebrate our of George Santayana — a variety of authors taking the experience of fifty years — experience that has shaped original thought and adapting it just enough to fit their and formed us and taught us many important lessons own particular situation and convey their own particular as the community of Padua Franciscan High School. And perspective. And I realized that it was probably one of because we have had and have remembered those experi- those variations which had been floating around in my ences, have learned and treasured those lessons, we will foggy memory and had at first appealed to me. But now, not stay in that past, condemned to repeat it. For we are when I was able to see some of the context and was able no longer, nor will we ever again, be infants. We will make to read the actual sentence of Santayana which ex- true progress, continuing to grow and move forward. We pressed his real thought and served as the basis for all will hold in our memories and in our wills the courage those revisions and modifications, it lost its attraction. and the insight, the inspiration and the commitment, the It didn’t hold the same interest; it didn’t appear to offer creativity and the dedication of those who were a part of me the same inspiration for which I had been hoping. It that past — for that is our history and that is our legacy. seemed I’d have to look somewhere else to get the jump- We will surely not repeat our past. But we will gladly start I need to begin this column. claim that history and repeat what has been entrusted to us! In our own day we — each of us and together as the But Santayana wouldn’t let me go. He kept coming back to Padua Franciscan community — now will seek new expe- me. Not what others said he said but what he really said. riences, learn new lessons and practice new things as we And it began to dawn on me, to make more sense. Those strive in every opportunity and with every effort to re- who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat spond to the needs and challenges of our time and place. it. Santayana speaks not about history but about the past. Progress begins with remembering. If we don’t remem- Together we praise God for our past and thank God for our ber our past, if we don’t hold onto our experience, we will history. We pray for God’s blessings on our future — our indeed always be infants. If we don’t lay claim to who we progress and our growth — God’s blessings of peace and have been and what we have done — allowing it to everything good! serve as the foundation, to teach us, and to shape who we will be and what we will do — then there will be no growth, no moving forward. In this issue of The Paduan, a number of articles offer the opportunity to remember our past. Father Bill Spencer, Fr. Theodore J. Haag, O.F.M., President 3 features Journeys in Medicine The Metamorphosis Dr. Maria Ramundo: of Dr. Joe Hanna ’79 An Educator at Heart Though he is the son of In an interesting twist a physician, Joe Hanna of fate, Dr. Maria planned to be anything Ramundo – physi- but a doctor. After gradu- cian, wife, and parent ating Padua, Joe enrolled – wanted to be a school in the new biomedical teacher growing up. engineering program Two decades later she at the Case Institute of is fulfilling that dream Technology, the first of not in a traditional its kind in the country.