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Alumni on the AirAlso Inside:

Richard Serino ’71, FEMA’s Deputy

CMTv turns 20

On the cOver: Kevin Nelson ’84 is a senior producer at CatholicTV, a network based out of Watertown, MA. Though it’s been on air since 1955, CatholicTV’s programs are very 2010: they’re available in several languages on iTunes, YouTube and as podcasts.

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOL

Paul E. Sheff ’62 President

Douglas Zack Director of Advancement

David Erwin ’96, P’13 Director of Annual Giving and Alumni Relations

Daniel Chisholm ’03 Assistant Director of the Annual Fund

Patricia Walsh Director of Database Management and Stewardship

Joe Mcgonegal Director of Communications and Editor, CM Magazine

CM Magazine is a publication of Catholic Memorial School, a college pre-paratory school for young men, grades 7-12. It is published three times a year by the Christian brothers Institute of Massachusetts, under the direction of Mr. Paul E. Sheff ’62, President.

CORRESPONDENCE POLICy Letters and correspondence are encouraged.

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OOne of my first orders of business as president in the fall of 2008 was to turn on the television in my office.

No, it wasn’t for watching “Regis and Kelly” at work. It was because I realized, only a few days into my first school year, how crucial to the daily lives of our student body CMTv had become. It was how they began their days. I wanted it to begin mine as well.

When I was graduated from CM, I had acquired a very valuable asset through my experiences in public speaking. Like thousands of graduates since, I have benefited by the academic rigor and aplomb that the forensics program required of me. In the two years since my return here, I’ve learned that there are a variety of activities, classes and programs that demand just as much of our students today and create in them even stronger public speakers and thinkers.

Forensics, technology, CMTv and interna-tional programs, to name a few, do just that.

Alumni like those profiled in this issue—Fred King ’64, brian Leary ’73, Kevin Nelson ’84—pursued careers in broadcasting and jour-nalism well before CMTv gave them a jumping

FrOm the President

off point to do so. but in the past two decades, our alumni who have undergone the demands of that program often arrive in college better equipped than their peers in journalism, communications and broadcasting programs.

In the coming year, you will hear a lot about a new vision for Catholic Memorial in the years ahead, one that emerged after talking with Catholic Memorial’s various stakeholders and with an eye toward our existing strengths and values. Aspects of this vision, which at its heart embraces public speaking and globalism, will begin to roll out this fall, with full imple-mentation expected within the next three years.

In future issues of this magazine, I will have more to say about our vision. but for now my focus is on the Class of 2010 who have just become the 50th graduating class to com-mence—or begin—their journeys as alumni. We are confident they will make us proud for what they do and how they do it. They carry within them the common values that nearly 10,000 of their predecessors share, and their words echoed through Holy Name Church on May 27th just as strongly as ever: “Live Jesus in our hearts forever.”

Paul e. sheff ’62, President

8 Boston Public: Three alums who make WGBH run

10Profile: Paul Carroll ’79

11Celebrating CMTV’s 20th Season

132010 Commencement: Award winners, Graduation speeches

36Catching up with: Richard Serino ’71, Deputy FEMA Chief

37Upcoming Events

dePartmentsFaculty/staff milestones ............. 18the Year in athletics ...................20Baker street Bits .........................24class notes ..................................26in memoriam ...............................34

C AT H O L I C M E M O R I A L M AG A Z I N E summer 2010

Features

On Air: 2 Anchormen: MIkE DUNNE ’70 & BRIAN LEARy ’73Two retired anchors who spent a combined forty years in front of the camera look back and recall some favorite memories.

4Radio Waves: FRED kING ’64 & AL MORGANTI ’71Fans know and trust their voices, whether they be authorities on the Philadelphia Flyers or all things Springfield.

6The Producers: A.J. LEWIS ’95 & kEVIN NELSON ’84The Emmy Awards have looked kindly down on the careers of these two alumni whose careers in broadcasting on both coasts continue today.

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ANCHORMEN

Brian Leary ’73 anchored the Channel 5 evening news in Boston for six years. Above, Leary pictured with co-anchor Heather Kahn.

Michael Dunne ’70 in December 1983, serving as anchor of WNCT news in Greenville, North Carolina.

Bbrian Leary ’73 and Mike Dunne ’70 spent a combined 39 years in front of a camera as news anchors, delivering breaking news, weather, sports, feature stories and investi-gative reports to viewers who grew increas-ingly hungry for up-to-date news through the 1980s and 1990s.

Remarkably for this business, both alumni got out of the spotlight on their terms and when they wanted, to begin new careers in related fields. For Dunne, that was communications; for Leary, law.

Thirty years after their first broadcasts, both alumni look back fondly on their careers as anchormen.

“The 80s and early 90s were the glory days of local Tv,” says brian Leary, who is now a partner at McCarter and English, LLP, in boston. “News stations were flush with

money, pure in journalistic thought and willing to invest a considerable amount of time in reporters not just being on the air, but in shifting the public debate.”

Leary got his start in broadcasting at the College of the Holy Cross radio station before he started calling games for a local station. “Then a very experienced broad-caster—bob gallagher—at the Worcester station where I had a part-time job as a dj, got ill, and I got the call. One thing led to another, and within a year, I was the backup to Marv Albert on the NbC game of the week,” he recalls.

When he got the call to do his first game of the week, an NCAA tournament game between St. Joseph’s and La Salle, it went into overtime, which meant all the other broadcasts switched to Leary’s game, and

his “color man”—doing the commentary, had to step out. He was 23 years old, and the only voice on a national sports broad-cast. Leary was hooked.

After landing a job at WCvb in 1980 and doing sports there for three years, Leary remembered his other passion: the law. “I thought, I was only 25, and if I don’t go now I will never go back.”

Returning to Harvard Law School, Leary worked at Channel 5 nights and studied all day. “It was a screwy schedule,” he admits.

but returning to Channel 5 full-time after graduating, Leary found a perfect way to blend journalism and the law. One way was to invite Harvard law professor Arthur Miller on air on Monday nights to discuss legal questions viewers had.

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“They were all kinds of things,” Leary recalls. “Someone griping about their divorce, some zoning issue, or some criminal matter. The result of branding the series was that we elevated their [Channel 5] profile as someone people could call for help.”

After serving as weekend sports anchor, general assignment reporter, and legal com-mentator, Leary spent the last six years on camera as the early evening news anchor. becoming a household name in boston, he was thought of as trustworthy and vigilant, as everyman’s anchorman. He reported on the Cuban health care system, the Japanese education system, and the apparitions at Fatima. In 1996, his report on corrupt court-appointed lawyers, “Who’s guarding the guardians?” exposed the abusive billing practice of guardians of mentally-retarded citizens. It won Leary a Peabody Award.

The best part of being an anchor, accord-ing to Leary, was “not just being the face of a story, but getting a call that was worth digging through, and tracking down bad people doing bad things.”

In between reports like that, Leary had brushes with fame: watching an NCAA game with bill Clinton, interviewing Mikhail gorbachev, playing golf with Arnold Palmer.

For Michael Dunne ’70, being a news anchor got him the same access to news-makers: interviewing Dr. Jehan Sadat, barbara bush, Al gore and Coretta Scott King.

“bob Dole told me I asked too many questions,” Dunne recalls fondly.

Dunne’s first job in broadcasting was writing news for WEEI, shortly after finish-ing his studies at Emerson College. but when that station went on strike, he got a job with WRKO, doing metro traffic.

Dunne’s college sweetheart got a job in greenville, North Carolina, so he followed her there in 1982. In greeenville, he began working on television, first on WNCT and then WCTI, where he became the weekend anchor and then morning news anchor.

Mike Dunne ’70 with his wife, reporter Amy Katcher, at the Chattanooga station, WTVC, where Dunne last anchored.

Neither position suited him at the time, and the itinerant Dunne ventured from news jobs in virginia to Kansas, then back to Tennessee. In December, 1987, he settled in Chattanooga at WTvC—Channel 9, and in 1989 he was named their weekend anchor.

“The best job is being a weekend anchor,” says Dunne, “because you get to anchor and you get to report. For me, it was a labor of love.”

“For years, my job was to write the show and oversee the entire weekend opera-tion,” Dunne says. “It was the best job.”

Aside from interviewing famous politi-cians and other local or national celebrities, Dunne’s favorite memories are of tense moments in the newsroom made intense by deadlines. Working as a reporter for Channel 12 in North Carolina when the Marine base in beirut was attacked, Dunne headed south to Cherry Point, where he boarded the plane of Marines who would replace those killed. “What stands out in my mind is the look on their faces, going to assume the duties that their dead brothers had assumed before them,” Dunne recalls.

Covering Hurricane Hugo in September, 1989 for Channel 9 was equally powerful. “We drove through the night to North Carolina to reach it, and in the midst of a storm, we were doing a live shot, and a tree

limb came flying through the air at us. If it was a few seconds faster, it would have taken us out.”

When he returned to Chattanooga, the entire newsroom stood and applauded Dunne and his crew. “Hearing your peers applaud you, it really didn’t have much to do with the hurricane even. It was pretty special,” he says.

Dunne, now the communications officer for the mayor’s office in Chattanooga, got out of the anchoring business for much the same reason that Leary did: the demand for quantity—the 24-hour news cycle—forced networks to sacrifice quality reporting.

“There’s an insatiable need for news now, and my concern is that the accuracy of news is sometimes sacrificed for availability of news,” says Dunne. “you need to be able to trust your news sources.”

Speaking to students at Notre Dame High School in Chattanooga recently, Dunne recalled how much a CM education influ-ences the passion for the truth and for justice that being a reporter and anchor requires. “be smart. Read. Understand history,” he tells students. “For this generation, you need to understand at least as far back as [Ronald] Reagan’s world…and you need a passion for reading, learning, and to under-stand—it doesn’t always pay well!” ✥

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I“I can’t imagine anything better than cov-ering a game that you were probably going to rush home from work to watch—and getting paid to do it,” says Al Morganti ’71, who has covered the Philadelphia Flyers and NHL Hockey for three decades.

Whether writing for Philadelphia news-papers, reporting rinkside for ESPN, or being the voice of Flyers fans’ commutes on the radio, Morganti has become an authority on all things hockey in what he calls “a better NHL town than boston.”

Don’t get him wrong—boston is dear to his heart. but Morganti had to leave beloved boston to get a job after bU, where he reported on Coach Jack Parker ’64 in his first years on the bench.

During the bruins-Flyers battle in the Stanley Cup chase this spring, Morganti,

whose fans listen to him every day on the highest-rated sports show in Philly (WIP 610 AM), reflected on the cities’ differences.

“Philly fans and boston fans are equally passionate. The only difference I see in Philly fans is the famous ‘boo’ mentality,” Morganti says. “Although some Philly fans complain about the reputation, I think they wear it as a badge of honor, and they love the attention. It makes them part of the story. The Red Sox might have a nation of fans, but Philly fans of all sports have the biggest reputation in the country.”

As part of the Morning Drive radio team at WIP, Morganti gets up at 3:40am each day during the season. Appearing on Comcast Sports Net on game nights and as a national analyst for Comcast, Morganti is the go-to man on both pre-game and post-game broad-casts. “I usually get home around midnight, then start again the next morning,” he says.

Morganti got that work ethic as a writer, producing several columns a week covering the Miami Dolphins, then the Atlanta Flames for the Constitution, and finally the Flyers for the Inquirer. In 1992, ESPN hired Morganti to do analysis for ESPN’s Hockey Night, where he has also penned his share of commentary for the web.

“While I was at CM, an English teacher, Mr. Collins, encouraged me to develop writing skills. If

you can’t add or subtract, it’s a pretty good skill to develop,” Morganti jokes.

And though he loves being on the radio every morning, interviewing and befriending legends, Morganti has developed a passion for writing. “For some reason there is still a sense of gravity to the written word,” he told one interviewer, “which has not been accorded the broadcast airwaves.”

“The biggest worry about sports cover-age these days is that the leagues and teams are so involved with the networks, that objec-tive stories will be squashed,” Morganti says, adding, “on the other hand, I think the inter-net allows for excessive and mindless babble with no basis in any sort of fact!”

Though he too dreamed of being in the NHL as a CM student, he admits that his scouting report would have been “small but slow.” These days, he’s gotten pleasure out of coaching youth hockey and watch-ing his daughter Taylor play division one field hockey for West Chester University.

Morganti’s advice to those who dream of an NHL career is simple. “When I speak to young hockey players,” he says, “I tell them that their one responsibility to the sport is to be a nice person, and once they are off the ice to get rid of any arrogance. A whole lot of great players paved the way for hockey players to be viewed as the most respectful of all athletes, and there is a responsibility to carry on that tradition.”

Up the dial from Morganti on the morning commute, and a couple hundred miles north, is Fred King ’64, the “voice of western Mass,” on AM 1250.

One of the first reporting jobs for Al Morganti '71 was covering BU Hockey and fellow alum Jack Parker '63. Here, a reporter interviews him before the annual Philly.com Wing Bowl.

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CM on the AM dial: Two alums on the airwaves every day

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Now the morning show host at WARE in Palmer, King has spent forty years in broad-casting, from working as weekend sports anchor at WWLP-Channel 22 to spinning top-40 hits on WHyN in Springfield. For over a decade, he covered Red Sox spring train-ing as a news reporter.

“From the time I was a kid, my friends always kidded me—they said, ‘you’re the only one I know who knew exactly what he wanted to do and did it.’ My hero is [WTIC morning host] bob Steele in Hartford, who was on the air till he was 92. If I can do the same, I’ll do the same.”

Perched in front of three computer moni-tors during the six a.m. morning shift these days, King generates quality local radio, the kind that’s been lost nationwide as conglom-erates bought out small markets and syndi-cated canned radio to larger markets. King plays “because” by the Dave Clark Five, then talks about his memories of the beatles coming to America, then talks live on the phone with a sponsor—Allan Farm Stand.

“They’ve been selling fresh for over a century,” King says to his co-host, “it’s such a quality place, and of course the cider donuts Dale and I got there last weekend were amazing.”

King has patriarchal white eye-brows and coiffed white hair, and he holds a 64-ounce barrel-like cup of coffee in one hand and clicks a pen a dozen times between on-air sen-tences with the other. He studies newspapers, press releases, and copy he’s written while Otis Day or Little Richard appease listener requests.

Sometimes, King just reads the paper to his listeners. “Feral cats in Holyoke!” And: “I’ve got these birth-days, I don’t know if I’m going to get to them…Tony Danza is 59…”

“The biggest secret is just doing it over and over and over again,” King says of broadcasting. “And Tv is a lot harder work than radio. I’d go out at night to cover three or four high school games, while taping the Celtics and Sox back at the station. Then you have an hour to go through miles of tape, and late scores are coming in. It’s tough.”

“For weekend sports, they’d give me nine minutes, and that’s a long time to fill and keep them interested. I’d take a 15-minute break for some Chunky soup can and barely make it till 11.”

but King wouldn’t shape his career any other way. For over two decades now, he’s been a regular weekly voice on the radio, doing the morning show at WARE and subbing in at Worcester and Hartford stations. As a local celebrity, he’s gotten good at selling ad time for his station, while

becoming a respected voice in the commu-nity. Each year, he’s most proud of his work broadcasting Holyoke’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

“The biggest compliment I ever got in the radio business,” King recalls, “was a young woman coming up to me, while I was bowling in a league one night. She said my husband is dying of cancer, but for the hours you’re on in the morning he laughs, and he forgets about that.”

“For me…when people say this work isn’t important, I tell them that. I was really touched by that, that you can put a smile out there and help people forget about their problems for a while.” ✥

Fred King '64 distributes his charm over the airwaves for Springfield commuters every morning.

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TThe first Emmy Award that A.J. Lewis ’95 has received was for “behind the Lyrics,” a documentary series he produced for KHIZ Tv in Los Angeles.

“Producing it reminded me a lot of CMTv,” says Lewis, “where you take a project from its inception to its completion. It was the first Tv series I ever created and edited myself. It was kind of thrilling.”

Although he majored in public policy, Lewis retained his love for producing at Harvard, where he worked as executive pro-ducer for the “Crimson Edition” show. After a year abroad, Lewis settled in L.A., where he began working for fellow boston native David Kelley, who produced “Ally Mcbeal” and “boston Public.”

Lewis started attending UCLA’s film school at night. “I took a course called ‘Shootout,’ which is about the inevitable

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THE PRODUCERS

conflict in production, taught by variety editor [Peter bart] and Peter gruber, and they were looking for a producer in the program who could launch that series. I was the only one who was on a Tv track, so I helped them launch ‘Shootout’ for AMC.”

While doing “Shootout” for five seasons, Lewis co-founded Attention Span Media, a social media studio that specializes in mobile and online content. It’s his own version of CMTv on Wilshire boulevard. His production credits now include “gSN Live” for the game Show Network, “Shatner’s Raw Nerve” for the biography Channel, and “Sunday Morning Shootout” for AMC.

One recent credit Lewis is proud of is “Dorm Life,” a viral web-series that currently stands as the all-time viewed series on Hulu. “We created, produced, and directed it. We partnered with Hulu and MySpace to distrib-ute it. We’ve finished season 2 and are in talks on season 3,” he said.

Currently, there are several other project possibilities on Lewis’s desk, some that are too nascent to be discussed. For example,

“Up your Alley,” a celebrity bowling show, that’s been tabled for now. “It’s not dead, but it’s a matter of convincing a future buyer now. We’re looking at MTv-U,” he said.

“One of the things I worked on recently was Johnny Weir’s show on Sundance, ‘be good Johnny Weir,’” Lewis said. “He had never worked on a red carpet before. I got to produce him at the Independent Spirit Awards, where he was a commentator. He’s a celebrity, so he’s allowed to walk the red carpet, so we had a lot more flexibility.”

On a typical day, however, Lewis is field-ing possible projects, or at work on any stage of production, from pitching to net-works to finalizing scripts. “The hardest part is pitching,” he said. “Selling is hard. Everyone in a room is trying to find a reason to say ‘no.’ It’s a town based on fear. you have to convince executives who hear hun-dreds of pitches a week that you have the ability to produce a show better than anyone in town.”

back in boston, Kevin Nelson '84, a twice-nominated Emmy contender, watches “Lost” and “American Idol” like the rest of us, but during the day he is a senior pro-ducer for CatholicTv, a non-profit television station based in Watertown that is over a half century old.

Nelson came to CatholicTv in 1996 after beginning a career in radio, and has worked his way up there to senior producer, earning credits on shows like “The Heart of Prayer,” “This is the Day” and “Catholic Destinations.” He is the regular face on the Catholic Newsbreak on the station and hosts weekly shows or specials as well.

For “Catholic Destinations,” Nelson gets to travel and report on holy sites, churches and events across the country and world, from the basilica of St. Therese in Lisieux, France to the mission in San Juan, California.

Kevin Nelson '84, a producer at CatholicTV in Boston, reading the "Newsbreak" during an afternoon broadcast. His latest production credit is a new show entitled "The Way of Beauty."

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“The idea was to do thirteen episodes a season, but I was never going to keep to that,” he said, “it was hard to keep it going. I want to continue doing more [episodes]. And even though I haven’t had any new ones in a few months, people come up and say ‘I love to see those different places.’”

Nelson’s career in broadcasting began as a student at Stonehill College. “I caught the bug there…a friend of mine got me on the radio station, and I did it the last couple of years,” he said. “I liked to be able to bring something to people, whether it be through music or deejaying, or news or information. It was a way to make people’s lives a little more entertaining.”

Nelson got his start in television at Canton’s cable access station, and after college, he did stints spinning records at WQRC and Mix 98.5 and reporting weather for WEEI.

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broadcasting in College:young alumni take their love of broadcasting a step farther

A.J. Lewis, pictured above at the Oscars, is no stranger to award shows. In 2007, he won the Los Angeles Arts and Culture/History Emmy for his show "Behind the Lyrics," produced for KHIZ.

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mike dermody ’07Reporter, WOLV, University of Michigan

“I’m majoring in communications with a focus on broadcast jour-nalism. Starting freshman year, I helped on sports and Tv shows for WOLv Tv. We were able to do hockey games live, and I was sideline reporter for a little bit, which was fun. Last year I started working for the big Ten network. They let local students studying broadcast journalism broadcast sport events.”

vince montalbano ’07Video Technician, Notre Dame Athletics and NDTV, University of Notre Dame

“I did NDTv for a little while, but I’ve also worked on filming and editing the games and practices for Notre Dame’s football team and men’s and women’s basketball teams. Doing games, it was great getting to see the players, and they start to recognize you too as you spend a lot of time with them. We did highlights, and coaches’ game tape for reviewing, cataloguing everything and attaching it to play scripts we had in the system.”

Brian murphy ’09Anchor, Wake Forest TV, Wake Forest University

“It’s a lot of fun, and a great experience. I had a chance to meet both Chris Paul and Rick Reilly on the set of ESPN’s ‘Homecoming,’ and Wake Tv has had a growing partnership with ESPNU: Campus Connection.”

Peter saroufim ’05Former Anchor, University of Miami’s NewsVision

“I directed a film in college called the Caper Chronicles, and I’m still pursuing that as a Tv show in Los Angeles. I have a production company in LA now called Pros and Cons Studios.”

angelo todesca ’07

Channel 9, Stonehill College

“My major is communications with a journalism minor. I worked at FOX 25 last summer as assistant sports intern with producer Jason bramble, who taught me everything I needed to know about local Tv. I covered Sunday Red Sox games and Celtics playoff games. This summer, I’m working as a video intern for the Falmouth Commodores.”

tim van cisin ’05Digital Media Coordinator, Loyolagreyhounds.com, Loyola University (MD)

“While getting my master’s degree, I did the production, set up and directed lacrosse, basketball, and soccer games, which were streamed on the Loyola website. We stream games, do highlights and a weekly coaches’ show. We’re also trying to bring highlight packages together for agents and teams abroad.”

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As WgbH’s most beloved

characters, respected programs

and award-winning documen-

taries make their way into pop

culture, three CM alumni work

behind the scenes to make it all

happen.

One creates it, one decides how it

will be consumed, and one makes

sure it’s financed.

On the creative end is Peter Lyons ’89. After he graduated from the University of vermont in 1993, Lyons spent a year wind-surfing in Oregon’s Columbia River gorge and skiing at Jackson Hole before returning to boston to direct Community boating’s sailing program. After a few years, the creative genes in him—he comes from a family of designers—returned and Lyons began study-ing at Mass College of Art.

“It felt natural to me,” he says. “I had been in design all my life.”

In 2000, Lyons got a job as a junior designer at WgbH, working on “ZOOM,” developing educational materials and sets. In the past decade, Lyons’s design credits have expanded to include “Fetch,” “Martha Speaks,” “Design Squad” and “Frontline.”

“I’d always wanted to work at gbH,” says Lyons. “It’s a great boston institution with a history of strong design.”

Working on a design team that functions as an agency within WgbH, Lyons works with producers to generate concepts for charac-ters, logos, or supplemental curricular mate-rials. For “Martha Speaks,” for example, Lyons created an instructional book for the buddies program. “These are resources for teachers to make their lives easier,” he says.

On a typical day this summer, Lyons is working on the logo, color palette, and ani-mation for a new program, “Loop,” a kids’ show with environmental themes that will start on the web. Lyons is also managing the web design for the WgbH production “The Wounded Platoon,” a documentary film. And once a week, Lyons sits down with an artist to plan what will appear on WgbH’s digital mural which hangs over the Mass Pike.

“What excites me most about this place is working on the widest range of things,” says Lyons, “from kids shows that are fun and light to ‘Frontline.’ It’s wonderful to have that range in your day.”

Though his work is remarkably well-received, he acknowledges that sometimes, it’s not. “you can’t be overly sensitive,” he says. “There are times when we completely miss the mark, and that’s part of the process. you have to be comfortable with failure—if you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your-self. And when it happens, that’s where I really start learning a lot.”

Lyons still windsurfs—and with his wife Kimberly’s permission, he’ll continue to design and plan another lifelong dream: to windsurf across the Atlantic Ocean.

A good graphic design team needs a good brand director, and that’s where Peter Panagopoulos ’89 comes in. Working alongside his old CM classmate at WgbH, Panagopoulos helps an executive producer who comes to him with an idea for a show figure out which media will suit the idea best.

Will the new children’s show character debut on a “mommy blog,” on the web, as an iPhone app or on iTunesU? Panagopoulos studies the market and works with the design team to figure that out.

“I always loved the creative field, but I thought this was an exciting field to get into,” says Panagopoulos, “using video, audio and writing to introduce new technolo-gies to people.”

Panagopoulos went to boston University with an interest in marketing and “never skewed from it.” In his time there and beyond, he worked accounts for Hill Holiday, Dentsu, Arnold, Arnold Worldwide and bbDO. His clients included gillette, Polaroid, Citibank and Campbells. As some of the work brought him to New york, he studied there for an MbA at Fordham.

“It was high production,” Panagopoulos says of working with big-name firms. “We would buy media…we had Superbowl spots where we would literally drop it off on the

bOSTON PUbLICFinance, branding & design at WgbH

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Designing iPhone apps, phoning “mommy bloggers� and watching Facebook “upticks� are all in a day's work for Peter Panagopoulos ’89.

morning of.” Panagopoulos recalls a member of his team expensing a jaywalking ticket after rushing to get an ad to press, and sneak-ing out at 8pm on good Friday to attend service before heading back to work.

In 2000, while a senior brand manager at Stride Rite, he heard about an opening at WgbH and applied.

“Here, I have a marketing team, and we operate like an in-house agency,” he says. Figuring out what social media campaigns they will employ for “Curious george,” for instance, was one recent project. They sent new episodes to “mommy bloggers” who hold viewing parties, conduct focus groups in economically diverse areas, and watch for upticks in local markets.

“Every show starts with a need,” he says. “For example, a study from the [National Science Foundation] comes out that says there’s not enough math based shows…I help with some platform ideas…and now one show we have, we want to address parent apprehensions for teaching math to their kids. So we research to figure out what perceptions are. All of our shows have evalu-ations and studies.”

Another show—“Engineer your Life�—has started as a Facebook campaign and website, designed to get girls more inter-ested in engineering. Panagopoulos and his team get analytics from vocus, Nielsen, live events and website impressions before com-mitting to expand a project. He uses words like “uptick,” “deliverables,” and “dynamic” with some frequency.

Regardless of what medium in which a show begins, Panagopoulos knows that to engage kids, it needs characters and good storytelling. “you still need a narrator and you still need characters that kids can latch on to,” he says.

Still, it is his job to study and figure out how kids will learn in the coming years and how a station like WgbH—which is not out to profit from that—can best cater to them. “There’s a movement towards curation,” he says, “where yes, you have youTube, but a [station like] gbH Science could become a hub”—to filter and distribute the most valu-able and worthwhile programming from which kids learn best.

At WgbH, Neil Kelleher ’79 is the money.

because no matter how much design and branding goes on at WgbH, it can’t survive without underwriting. Joining WgbH in January 2010 after a meteoric career in adver-tising, Kelleher is now a sales manager for the station, selling as much as $500,000 in advertising a month.

but always with a caveat. “That was this month,” he says. “Next month, I don’t know.”

The ’79 grad prepped a year before playing football for Maine. He then studied for a business degree at UMass before working his way up the ladder at WHDH in boston to local sales manager. Later, he served as director of sales for boston’s ESPN Radio affiliate.

Needless to say, Kelleher’s got a competitive streak, one that public radio and Tv is now finding useful in a shrink-ing and competitive market.

As sales manager at boston’s NbC affiliate in the 1990s, Kelleher oversaw ad sales that reached $141 million annually. During the “Seinfeld” finale in 1998, Kelleher sold a 30-second spot for $150,000. “back in the day, we were riding high,” he says. “The Olympics, ‘Friends,’ ‘ER,’ the Superbowl…boston was a top ten market.”

but times changed, with television ad sales in boston shrinking by fifty percent this decade. People meters and sample sizing replaced the old sweep books. “The money hasn’t disappeared,” Kelleher says. “It’s just gone in different directions. And people are advertising in more efficient ways.”

Kelleher appreciates the change of pace at WgbH—with a lot less political advertising or car lease deals.

“It’s a different kind of client we’re going after here, but the business model is the same. I have two radio and two Tv sta-tions, and I’ll raise rates as we go uphill and go down as we go down. but you also work under different guidelines on public sta-tions,” he says.

Though he enjoys working in sales, Kelleher acknowledges that it’s not for everyone. “you don’t have to sit at a desk all day,” he says, “but it’s competitive. you’ve got to be able to take the pressure and take a ‘no’ when you’re in sales. but it’s a great job, and it’s a lot of fun, especially when you succeed.” ✥

Above: Peter Lyons ’89 at his desk at WGBH, considering logos for a new show called “Loop� while testing web-designs for the Frontline documentary “The Wounded Platoon.�

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In the spring of 1984, while

working for WMRE at its Fenway

Park studio, Paul Carroll ’79

got asked to produce a few

30-second radio ads for a brand

new sports station in town: the

New England Sports Network.

He obliged.

Two years later, in August 1986, he got fired. “I was making $13,000 a year and my salary was deemed too steep,” he recalls.

One of his last tasks was to return the old promo tapes he’d done for NESN down the hall to their offices. “I walked into busi-ness manager’s office, and said ‘here are your tapes, I just got fired,’ and he said, ‘that’s too bad.’” When he saw the manager an hour later in Kenmore Square, he pulled Carroll aside and offered him a job.

Sitting in bob Whitelaw’s office at NESN the following day, Carroll recalls: “His exact words to me were ‘what do you know about Tv?’ I said ‘nothing.’ He said, ‘good.’”

Twenty-four years later, Carroll knows a thing or two about television. After two decades as statistician for NESN’s Red Sox

An encyclopedia in waiting:

Paul Carroll ’79, NESN’s stats man

and bruins broadcasts, Caroll is now the archi-vist-in-residence at the station, in charge of the station’s vast and valuable tape library. A dream job for most sports fans, Caroll comes to work every day with all of boston’s best, worst and forgot-ten sports memories at his fingertips.

“They didn’t have a chair for me to sit in,” Carroll says of working his first Red Sox game. “I sat on a step ladder in the control room and watched the Sox play the Tigers, and my head was spinning.”

For the first few years, he was making dubs and working in master control. Then his big break came with the high school Superbowls in December, 1989.

“NESN didn’t have anybody who could figure out stats and numbers for the games,” Carroll recalls. “Well, since fresh-man year at CM, I had been collecting bubble gum cards—when you’re 12, what is there to do but memorize and absorb them? I was this encyclopedia in waiting.”

In the process, Carroll had become an encyclopedia. Spend five minutes with the man and you know you’re in the presence of a great statistician.

“The producer of the Superbowl games said, ‘come with me to Foxboro, I want you to sit in the truck and write down facts on index cards and hand them to the associ-ate producer,’” says Caroll. “Three weeks later…he says, ‘how would you like to be statistician for the bruins games?’”

From January, 1990 until April, 2004 Carroll did just that—for bruins and Sox

games, before taking on a job at Sportsdesk for a year, then becoming NESN’s first tape librarian in 2005.

In the five years since, Carroll has fit snugly into a 400-square foot room on the second floor of NESN headquarters in Watertown along with a few thousand mem-ories. Lining ten aisles of shelves are individ-ual game tapes of bruins, Sox, Celtics, and Patriots, as well as other team tapes and NESN programs.

As the archivist in residence, Carroll will pull tapes on demand for NESN’s broadcast-ers, cue it up, and sign it out to their show. In the meantime, he’s working on digitiz-ing and archiving on servers every minute of tape from the station’s past 26 years.

“In 1984, none of our sports stuff was on computer—it was just handwritten books,” he says. “We didn’t start using computers till 1998, so 1984 to 1996 highlights are in handwritten form.”

On a typical day this spring, a producer or assistant came by looking for footage from the last Pittsburgh/bruins series. Another asks, “Do you have any Fred Lynn?”

Carroll replies, “Is he okay?”

“yeah,” the producer says, “he’s on the show today.”

They wait while Carroll searches the com-puter, his head, or a combination of both before retrieving the tape. In the mean-time, he works on the long-term project of knowing everything.

“When Carl yastrzemski was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1989,” says Carroll while retrieving a tape, “somehow we got five 1-hr reels of highlights from Tv-38: b-roll and interviews. yesterday I finally logged tapes four and five. It took us 20 years to log it.” ✥

On Air:

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Chris Masterson ’10 woke up

in Walpole each morning this

year, ate breakfast and came

in to school, usually arriving at

7:00. As the most skilled senior

for CMTv’s broadcast crew,

Masterson was one of those stu-

dents who put the keys into the

school’s ignition each morning.

If his job that morning was on the videonics MX Pro mixer, Masterson would open two Macbook Pro laptops and connect them to several remote hardrives and a Mackie vLC 12-channel soundboard. by 7:30, he’d have all the day’s clips in one folder on one laptop—called “Daily Show.” by that point, a dozen students would be in place, doing mic checks, lighting, titles, directing, and anchoring.

At 7:35, the practice show. Timing all the clips and live spots into one 12-minute broad-cast. “If you’re the video mixer and you do anything wrong, everyone notices,” said Masterson. At 7:55, the bell, and the show would go live. At 8:10, Masterson headed to first period class.

It’s quite clear that, twenty years after the first broadcasts of CMTv, a lot has changed about CM’s humble little closed-cir-cuit Tv station.

After a couple thousand broadcasts, several technology upgrades and countless memorable moments, CMTv has become a cherished and integral part of every young man’s experience as a Knight.

viewed at another way, CMTv is a criti-cal part of the school’s messaging to outside

audiences. CMTv productions now include commemorative DvDs, feature films and webisodes with thousands of viewers each year. Prospective students, visiting as “Knights for a Day,” find in the homeroom broadcast their first taste of the CM commu-nity’s wit and charm.

In the fall of 1991, brother Jeff Oxx was managing the school bookstore when a few students approached him and asked about reading the announcements on air instead of on the PA system. The school had had “Channel 1” for a few years, a daily broad-cast produced in New york City by and for students.

Though brother Oxx knew nothing about Tv, he knew how to validate student inter-ests. “I told them they could store stuff in the bookstore,” he recalled. “I noticed the teacher’s room (room 10) was not being used. So I got letters at Staples—‘CMTv’—and put them on the teacher’s room door,” he recalls.

Oxx made a curtain for a backdrop and painted some cardboard set designs. He

even put a “CMTv” magnet on his Ford Taurus for the roving news team.

Principal Tony Polito was supportive, and within a year, the students claimed the room as their own.

Dan Martin ’92 was one of them. “We had no equipment,” Martin recalled. “brother Oxx found a very creative way to obtain it…he did all the food shopping for the brother’s house back then, and miracu-lously, after each trip to the supermarket,

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A. J. Lewis '95 and Sarkis Sarkis ’95.

Tom Kelly ’93 and Bill O'Brien ’93.

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PLUGGED IN:

EARLy MEMORIES

OF CMTV“It was absolutely humble

beginnings. brother Cavet

bought our first camcorder

— with his own money.”

– A.J. Lewis ’95

“visiting brian Leary at Channel

5 was memorable. He gave us

a tour of the studio and we got

to interview him for a segment

that we aired on CMTv shortly

thereafter.” – Dan Martin ’92

“brian Donahue ‘94 was the

consummate professional

anchor, and I covered sports.

A.J. Lewis was the director. I

was consistently amazed at his

ability to produce a program

that we could all be proud of.”

–Sean Healy ’94

Av equipment would appear in our ‘studio.’ I recall that several of the brothers lost weight during those first few months.”

borrowing a vCR each day from the library to play their first pre-recorded broadcasts, the students had no editing

equipment, so they’d do a hundred takes on the camcorder before committing to a broadcast.

In 1991, A.J. Lewis ’95 was a freshman. “It was time consuming and labor inten-sive,” he said. “We taught ourselves. It was the kind of hands on training you’d expect in an undergrad broadcasting course.”

Although many of the first broadcasts are buried in the archives or in vHS heaven, they shared much in common with broad-casts today: reports of sports, events, clubs, teacher and student profiles. And yes, sketch comedy.

“I remember doing a winter sports segment that included a quick roundup of each team,” Martin recalled. “I’d do inter-views with coaches and players. but I inten-tionally wore the most god-awful, bright, multi-colored striped shirt. As I was intro-ducing each team, we created a crazy gimmick to go along with it. For example, when it came time for the wrestling team, they panned to me playing with large rubber WWF wrestling dolls at the desk, or when it came time for the swim team someone off-camera threw a large fish and a bucket of water at me.”

Despite all the hard news reporting, there have been plenty of rubber dolls and fake fish in the twenty years since. but growing CMTv in depth and width became a priority from the first season and remains a goal today.

“At first, each show took a month,” said brother Oxx, “and the idea became to have a homeroom and have it live, every day, in the fall of 1993.”

“brother Oxx gave us the freedom to be as creative as possible,” said Sean Healy ’94, “while always reminding us that we were representing CM, and that the content of the programs should be representative of what CM stands for.”

The early producers of CMTv also knew they were helping to write and preserve CM history.

“I’ll never forget those goose-bump moments, stepping onto the ice—and parquet—of the historic boston garden to shoot a post-championship pig-pile celebra-tion,” Lewis recalled. “The only thing better was hearing the cheers echo down the hallway the next morning as we all watched and relived those moments together on CMTv.”

“CMTv was an experience that I will never forget, and I am glad to see that it’s contin-ued to grow,” Healy said. “I can only imagine what great things they are doing today.”

In 2006, the studio was refurbished, and in the years since, the program has taken on a decidedly professional air under the advising of bill Hahn. Tech-savvy directors make the talented anchors and reporters look and sound even better. Each quarter, every student has a project to work on, the industrious ones take on two or more, pro-ducing commemorative DvDs on champion-ship sports teams or even feature films. “As adviser, I always get credit for the amazing work in the studio,� says moderator bill Hahn, who advised the studio through 2010. “but what makes that class so special is that it is so student-driven. They made me look so good, and I was always so grateful to them for that!�

“The CMTv newsroom is a microcosm of CM itself,” said former faculty member Matt buckley, who co-advised the studio with Mr. Hahn for two years. “Few people see its inner-workings and understand that it is truly student driven and sustained. The older, experienced students know it is their respon-sibility to train and mentor the younger students.”

As Chris Masterson ’10 graduated this spring, a new crop of ambitious reporters, tech-heads, and producers lined up to audi-tion for the coveted homeroom spots this fall.

“It’s a good group of seniors this year,” said Masterson. “but I definitely think that next year’s crew will be strong. They’re ready for it.” ✥

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COMMENCEMENT REMARKSPauL e. sheFF ’62, President

Two months ago I returned to a book I had not read since leaving CM in May, 1962. It was a book we were advised to avoid, actually, one we had been prohibited from reading. So naturally, we were drawn to it. I wouldn’t say the book shaped our thinking, but it cer-tainly did capture our voice. The book was The Catcher in the Rye.

I won’t recap the entire novel, except to say it is about a young man who is flunking out of prep school, and not for the first time. The young man’s name is Holden Caufield, and his problem—or at least one of them—is that he feels the world is made up of phonies.

After I finished the book, I got to thinking: is there a single novel that would have the same effect on young people today as The Catcher in the Rye had on me and my classmates? The more I asked around, the more I came to realize that the world has changed so much since I was graduated from CM that my question was perhaps irrelevant. Not because you, the Class of 2010, are not reading. you are. but in general, you are not reading novels. you are reading

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christOPher cOnLeYQUINCyMassachusetts Maritime AcademyComputer Science Medal

michaeL LarOcqueROSLINDALEUniversity of Massachusetts – AmherstArt Medal

WiLLiam F. dOnOvanJAMAICA PLAINDuke UniversityOutstanding Senior Athlete Award

Jin-hOung KimSEOUL, SOUTH KOREAUniversity of Southern Californiabrother Joseph g. McKenna, C.F.C. general Excellence Award

Jin hOung Kim ’10vaLedictOrian

To my fellow classmates: we have made it! We are graduating!

Congratulations, not only to us for achiev-ing excellence in academics, athletics and the arts, but also “congratulations” to the faculty and staff of CM and to our friends and families. Our success is their success as well, because they have given us the freedom to dare, the courage to excel, and the belief that we can achieve our best.

After years of education, we realize that this is just the beginning.

The future is open to all of us. When we leave here, we will be faced with serious decisions about what we want to do with our lives. We are the future leaders, teach-ers, businessmen, CEO’s, fathers and much more.

We will find our passion and pursue it. We will leave our mark on this world and relent-lessly pursue our dreams and goals.

Three years ago I took an incredible risk. I chose to leave my home and all of my friends, my family, and my school in order to travel seven thousand miles to a city I had never been to before called ‘boston.’

I came to CM as one of a handful of inter-national students. I hardly knew the lan-guage and I missed the sights and sounds of home. It was an incredibly difficult thing to do. It involved enormous risk.

And yet, to my great relief I discovered that the teachers at CM could be very patient

COMMENCEMENT REMARKS

JOnathan LOttSTOUgHTONUniversity of vermontEnglish Medal

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Veteran math teacher Joe Perfetti gets a standing ovation from the Class of 2010 as President Paul Sheff '62 honors him for his thirty-eight years of service.

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michaeL emBLetOnWEST ROXbURyMcgill UniversitySocial Studies Medal

BradFOrd JOnesHOLbROOKSyracuse Universitybrother Arthur A. Loftus, C.F.C. Leadership Award

danieL haLeYWEyMOUTHCollege of the Holy Crossbrother Cornelius P. Ryan, C.F.C. general Excellence AwardRonald S. Perry Scholar-Athlete Award

Graduation Awards

dan haLeY ’10saLutatOrian

What is it that makes this class, Catholic Memorial’s class of 2010, special? I will tell you what I have seen.

CM was as welcoming a place as I could have ever wished for. Many will hear Catholic Memorial called “a home away from home,” but most of you here under-stand how true this is. Maybe it is the hour long drive in the morning, the teachers who spend the time to get to know us, the lasting friendships made over the years. Maybe it’s the many successful sports teams and clubs, or any of the numerous service activities throughout the year; maybe it is the various struggles and successes any high school student encounters…A person knows that he has experienced something special when all he has to do is close his eyes, and those memories of the people and events, all the emotion and characters, come rushing back.

That is how CM has been for me, and I am very confident I am not the only one.

Amongst us is a group of the most intel-ligent and talented men I have met in my life. but having smarts and skills is not nearly enough, and so we persevered for more. Our character invariably manifests itself in our demeanor of poise and class. Through the qualities of sportsmanship, generosity, service, and respect, we have achieved great honors, but more importantly achieved as caring and compassionate human beings.

Students of Catholic Memorial are a rare breed. CM is a place where no one is merely cOnnOr LYnch

MILTONHofstra UniversityJournalism/Writing Award

JOhn macKieDEDHAMU.S. ArmyTheology Medal

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more awards on the next page

Veteran math teacher Joe Perfetti gets a standing ovation from the Class of 2010 as President Paul Sheff '62 honors him for his thirty-eight years of service.

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sean steinBergWEST ROXbURygettysburg CollegeMusic Medal

sung-eun ParKSEOUL, SOUTH KOREANew york Universitybrother E. John Sheehan, C.F.C. Stewardship Award

Brendan macnaBBMANSFIELDCarnegie Mellon UniversityWorld Language Medal

what comes to you electronically, through digital communications and on social networking sites.

Incredibly, just ten years ago, when you were eight years old, social networking sites did not exist. No Facebook, no Twitter, no MySpace. but between your eighth and your eighteenth birthdays, 175 such sites were developed in the United States alone.

you, the class of 2010, are living in a very different world, not just from your parents, but from everyone who pre-ceded you! In fact, some experts argue that digital communication and social networking will change your world just as dramatically as the introduc-tion of movable type printing changed the world for those living in the 15th century.

So you are living in exciting times. but I think I need to point out certain aspects of it that should concern you.

The first is that while communi-cation in the digital age has indeed opened up your world, making com-munication across state, national and international boundaries possible, it has also narrowed your world.

The second aspect is that while elec-tronic devices have further democ-ratized communications, just as the invention of movable type printing did five centuries ago, it has also put com-munication in the hands of sources who are not always trustworthy.

Third and finally, the communica-tion style that is typical of digital com-munication and social networking has already been shown to make the whole process of learning and evaluating information more difficult.

So why am I using your com-mencement to talk about digital

PauL sheFF, President continued from page 13

more graduation photos and coverage: www.catholicmemorial.org

communication? because I find myself in circumstances similar to Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye. Like Holden, I imagine myself standing at the edge of a cliff watching kids playing in a field of rye. They are running toward a cliff they do not see. I want to catch them before they fall. Well, I am not going to catch you, but I’ll offer you some advice.

First, understand that the world made available through digital commu-nication and social networking is not the world in its entirety. What sepa-rates human beings from other forms of life is that we are able to empathize. That’s a big world. It simply means we have the capacity to understand and share another person’s feelings. This cannot be done virtually. It can only be done if we are present to another person--physically present--as when we perform community service, or walk in the fight against breast cancer, or join our voices with our brothers and sisters in community liturgies.

Second, be on guard about the validity of the information you receive. And third, know that the format for electronic communication privileges brevity over depth. The world is far too complicated to be captured in 140 characters, or a single paragraph. So just as you should be skeptical about the source of the information you receive, be skeptical about anything that is reported in a single paragraph or reduced to a “top ten” list. black or white, red state or blue state, what’s hot and what’s not--none of this quite captures the world as it is—at least not from my perspective.

I wish you well as you leave Catholic Memorial and continue your journey down the digital highway. The world needs Catholic Memorial men to model what it means to be appropriately skeptical, genuinely present to others, and willing to share the fellowship they have received. Safe travels, and live Jesus in our hearts forever. ✥

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when I was shy or lacked the words to express myself properly. And I also learned that students at CM could be very generous and accepting--not only to students from different zip codes, but also to those, like me, from different time zones.

I learned that when we step outside of our comfort level, when we venture boldly, we grow as human beings, and sometimes we even find a ‘home away from home.’

The journey before us will be long. Let’s make sure that we take time out to laugh, to smile, and to relax. The number of prizes we win or the amount of money we make, in the final analysis, is irrelevant. We should strive to love, and be loved, to laugh always, and to remember that it is all right to cry a little bit every now and then.

Over the past four years, we have matured into young men we are today with a passion for our future. With the help of those who care for us, we are ready to take on the world. ✥

a number. The essence of CM is wrapped up in its students and alumni. To appreci-ate the significance, all we have to do is look around us.

I wish to all my classmates the ability to dream the brightest futures. Whatever endeavors we may embark upon, we will find success because it is part of the nature of who we are. CM has helped to shape us so that we will strive in the coming years to follow the words of Pope John XXII, “Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

That is what makes Catholic Memorial’s class of 2010 what it truly is: extraordi-nary. As always, live Jesus in our hearts forever. ✥

Kevin veritYHyDE PARKSalem State CollegeStephen R. Power Community Service Award

PatricK simasWEST ROXbURyCollege of the Holy Crossblessed Edmund Ignatius Rice, C.F.C. Founder’s Award

christOPher mastersOnWALPOLEHarvard Universitybrother William A. Hennessey, C.F.C. Forensics Award

Jin hOung Kim, vaLedictOrian continued from page 14

dan haLeY, saLutatOrian continued from page 15

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The great mathematician Archimedes said, “give me a lever long enough, and a fulcrum, and I shall move the world.” As a colleague, friend and of course a teacher, Mr. Joe Perfetti has done much to move the world at CM. This spring, he retired after thirty-eight years in the classroom.

“Mr. P.” has taught thousands of students and affected every one of them in his years as an honorary Knight. And he’s the ubiquitous Cal Ripken of CM faculty’s infield, making everyone feel good with his charm and wit.

A Philadelphia native, Mr. P. earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from villanova in 1968, and his master’s degree from the University of Kansas in 1970. He began his career at CM in the fall of ’72, teach-ing in the mathematics department. His recent assignments have been at the 11th and 12th grades where he has taught AP Calculus,

Discrete Math Honors, and Math Analysis Honors. He has also been the Math Club Moderator.

“Joe is much more than the sum of these details,” said CM President Paul Sheff ’62. “Anyone who has been in school life for any length of time knows that the very soul of a school rests in the hands of its “elders,” i.e., men and women who have given their lives to the school and the welfare of the students who have been in their charge. Joe is in this group. While it will be relatively easy to find another math teacher, one does not replace Joe Perfetti and people like him who have so clearly shaped our school and who have had such a positive effect on our boys.

Sean Kelley ’79, president of The Principal Consulting in South Plainfield, NJ, told Mr. Sheff that “Mr. Perfetti was the best teacher I ever had.”

“Mr. P. definitely helped me a lot and was a really nice guy,” said Sebastian Courtney ’08 (WPI ’12). “Other teachers sometimes had a hard time teaching to all levels in a class but Mr. Perfetti seemed to be fine with it.”

“What most impressed me about Mr. Perfetti was his breadth of expertise,” said Matt Dewey ’07. “He would regularly come to our English class to talk to Mr. Catano and after learning what we were studying he would not only reference the author, but he would usually quote a passage from the novel.”

“I am a long-time member of the Joe Perfetti Fan Club,” Jim blue, chair and CEO of The bostonian group and member of the CM board of Directors said. “He is an incredible teacher and made a big differ-

ence in my school life at CM and beyond.”

“As a teacher, Mr. Perfetti was the perfect combination of intellectual college profes-sor and approachable, caring family man,” said John yered ’84, now a math teacher at Concord-Carlisle High School. “He was always the consummate professional and a class act. He was an excellent role model for the young men he instructed. As early as my sophomore year he mentioned to me the idea of pursuing math at the college level, which I did, earning both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in the subject. Joe was extremely knowledgeable in his field –not just in the material he was teaching but in higher level math topics as well, and he reg-ularly conveyed his enthusiasm for these topics. It made you, as a student, excited and eager to study them at some point.”

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notesMoving the world: Mr. Perfetti’s legacy in the classroom

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“I have tried to model much of my own calculus teaching style after Joe’s. In fact 26 years later, I still have my AP Calculus notebooks. When I first started my career as a mathematics educator, Joe was again very generous with his time and talent, meeting with me to share ideas and mate-rials. I consider myself very fortunate to have met such a fine man and dedicated educator.”

“Thankfully, for the Catholic Memorial community, Mr. Perfetti chose teaching

as his career,” said Mr. Perfetti’s depart-ment chair and colleague Tom beatty ’68. “As good a teacher as he is, I would say that he is even a better person. In 38 years I cannot remember a negative thing that anyone had to say about Mr. Perfetti. From my very first day of teaching at CM to the present, he has been an inspiration to me through his passion for mathematics and his passion for teaching.” ✥

“I was on a bunch of stations all over New England. It was fun,” he said.

In 1996, though, Nelson got a chance to work at CatholicTv, and he used the oppor-tunity as well to return to school and study ministry at St. John’s Seminary.

“It was a great way to be able to still be in the media, but to also provide minis-try and be active with my faith, and try to expand that to other people’s faith,” he said.

“The biggest thing, too, when I’m out, because we have a couple events during the year, viewers come up and say that they’re very appreciative, and say thanks for giving us the news. That makes it really special for me,” said Nelson.

This spring, Nelson was at work produc-ing “The Way of beauty,” a show about art and the Catholic tradition. “We’re working with an artist, an iconographer, who came to us with an interest in doing a series…it’s a great way to educate people about the beauty of art and how it can lead to a more spiritual life.”

Working with charismatic co-hosts like Father Robert Reed and Jay Fadden, Nelson’s goal is to expand CatholicTv’s reach, both on the web and on the air-waves. The station has live streaming on its website—of far more than just Mass and the Rosary—as well as social media compo-nents and apps. The station lobbies cable providers, such as DirectTv and Comcast, to give them a piece of the airwaves.

“It’s a continuous struggle,” Nelson said, “to grow, and get into different markets, and be in more places nationwide…but we’re getting better at it.” ✥

THE PRODUCERS, continued from page 7

in other news:

✒ daniel James reilly, was born to Megan Reilly, CM Spanish teacher. He was born Wednesday, May 12th at 2:45 p.m., and weighed in at 9 lbs. 2 oz. & 21 inches. Mom, Dad, Jack & Danny are all doing very well.

✒ cOngratuLatiOns to the following faculty and staff who completed milestones in their service to CM this year.

5 Years: sue sullivan, thomas Francis

10 Years: douglas atkins, Ken Burke, harold carey ’95, William hahn, ann murphy

15 Years: Brother anthony cavet, cFc

25 Years: denis tobin, mary concannon, dr. michael dempsey ’75

35 Years: celia susi

40 Years: Paul capodilupo ’67

✒ FareWeLL . . . The CM Community also bids farewell to the following individuals who have served CM well in their time with us: William hahn, mingxing Li, John mazza ’98 and Joe Perfetti.

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lfallThe Knights finished the season 5-5, with wins over Lynn Classical, Haverhill, Hartford (vT), Longmeadow, and Plymouth South. The team exhibited an admirable effort in coming back against a strong Xaverian squad and heading off bC High in the 48th annual Turkey bowl. – Coach Alex Campea

GolfEarning the school’s first state champion-ship in golf this season, senior co-captain Joe Harney led the Knights in every matchup all season.

A Catholic Conference Champion and boston Herald and boston globe All-Scholastic, Harney won the state championship at blackstone Country Club on November 2 by just two strokes after an ambitious nine-hole streak where he sunk five birdies.

Closing the regular season with a 7-5-1 record, the team had consistently good performances all season from Marc Hetnik, brian Keeley and Kevin verity.

Underclassmen, including Tim boyle, Nick boyle, Nate Schaffer, Dave Consigli, brian Dalzell, gino Laruso, and bobby Lawler, showed a lot of talent and I look to them to continue to improve in the coming seasons. – Coach John Palermo ’79

SoccerCapturing its first division one state cham-pionship last fall, the CM Soccer program came of age as a result of several years of hard work of many soccer players who helped build the program up.

From the beginning of the season, senior co-captains Will Donovan, Kevin butler, and Connor Askins were determined to return to a South Sectional Championship as they had in their freshman year. Coming into the

croSS countyFifty-two years into its history, CM Cross Country is still running strong.

And this season, the Knights made their school proud in defending their home-turf for the 50th running of the Catholic Memorial Invitational. On that day, Ed Colvin ’10 came in 6th place, running the meet in 5th place with a time of 16:07, ahead of a record field of over 1,500 runners.

The team’s senior captain, Colvin would lead the team in all of its duel meets as well, earning 1st place honors against bC High, St. John’s Prep, and Malden Catholic. Colvin would go on to place 6th in the Division II State Meet at Franklin Park, before com-peting well at the All-State competition on November 21.

The team showed a lot of underclass talent as well this season, with impressive perfor-mances by Ryan Reid ’13, John Delano ’12, Matt Engel ’12 and Tom Lester ’12. Seniors Lance Murray and Andrew Fanikos showed much improvement in each varsity race through the season. – Coach Tom Beatty ’68

footballThe Catholic Memorial football team put in three months of hard work this fall with a tough schedule and the usual competi-tive Catholic Conference foes. Thanks to the efforts of our team captains—this team was always ready to compete against top-20 teams all season long.

Senior captains Lorenzo Warren, Donald bland and garrett Fitzgerald demonstrated capable leadership throughout the season, along with junior co-captain John gorman.

On the defensive line, Dan brooks, Mike Larocque, bernie O’Donnell, John Filippides, and Shanes Smith, among others, all made solid contributions throughout the season. Offensively, the Knights were strong behind the talents of seniors Keshaudas Spence, Joe McCarthy, and Chinedu Chukwu.

postseason with the most wins ever and a record of 12-3-3, the team entered the tour-nament as a #7-seed.

Thanks to the hard work of the senior cap-tains, along with leadership from seniors Hamadi Cantave, Frank Wheeler-Larusso, and Sean Steinberg, the team defeated Weymouth, greater New bedford, King Philip, and finally brockton to accomplish its goal of another South Sectional title.

beyond that, the team fought overtime elimination threats in facing down an unde-feated Lexington squad for the EMass Championship and finally defeating an undefeated 16-time state champ Ludlow for the state title. Thanks to the efforts of these seniors and their classmates—David Damiano, Alex Flores, David Falco, Jerry Desroses, Colin Hackett and Nick Coppola—this season was one I’ll never forget.

With a talented underclass corps of players, CM Soccer will continue to be a force to reckon with in the years to come. – Coach John Finn ’89

baSketballIt was poise and class that brought the bas-ketball team through yet another strong regular season and kept them strong into the posteason. The Knights posted a 15-5 record in the regular season, culminating in a Catholic Conference championship after defeating St. John’s Prep in one of their final games.

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❄winterThe team had big conference wins over Xaverian, bC High, and Malden Catholic as well as non-conference wins over Lincoln Sudbury, brockton, and a win over Franklin to close out the regular season. They also vied against Tiverton and La Salle of Rhode Island, winning both contests.

In the postseason, the team came into the Division 1 South tournament seeded 7th. They held off West Roxbury before losing to the #2-seed Newton North on their home turf. Regardless, the team finished the season with a 12-game win streak.

Senior captains Dan brooks and Kyle Lawrence led the team offensively, and Michael DeRoma was a positive presence on and off the court. The team got big help from underclassmen Matt Droney ’12, Matt goreham ’11, Armani Reeves ’12, and Dan Powers ’12. – Coach Denis Tobin

HockeyThe CM hockey team set out to accom-plish a number of goals this season and came near to reaching all of them. They won the school’s 21st Catholic Conference Championship with an 6-1-1 record. They earned a #1-seed for a fifth straight year in the MIAA Division 1A tournament after fin-ishing the regular season with a 14-5-1 record. And they made it to boston garden on March 14 to compete for a state champion-ship. In that game, they played to their best abilities and put themselves in position, both defensively and offensively, to win.

The team was led by co-captain Derek Colucci ’10, who also led the team in points with 19 goals and 17 assists, and co-captain Troy Starrett ’10, who earned 13 goals and 14 assists. Seniors T.J. O’brien, David Lazaro, Marc Hetnick, vinny Repucci and brian besinger contributed greatly to the team’s performance throughout the season, with both besinger and and Repucci coming up big in the tournament.

In goal, junior Tommy Knox kept CM com-petitive and in each game until the very end, with outstanding play against a strong Hingham squad in the Super-8 finals, a shutout against Austin Prep in the semis, and over a 90% save percentage. – Coach Bill Hanson

SwimminGWith regular season wins over boston Latin Academy, O’bryant High School, East boston and Malden Catholic, this year’s team had a lot to be proud of. Finishing 4th at the Catholic Conference Championships on February 6, the team was led by Ryan Clifford ‘11, John Mackie ‘10, Dominic Montalbano ‘11 and Matthew Farrell ‘11 who came in 4th place in the 200-yd. medley relay and 5th place in the 200-yd. free relay. At sectionals a week later, the four finished 9th in the 200-yd freestyle relay and 10th in the medley relay.

At Sectionals, Farrell placed 34th in the indi-vidual medley, Montalbano 19th in the 100-yd butterfly, and Clifford 19th and Mackie 26th in the 50-yd freestyle event. At each meet, these gentlemen continued to show improvement in each individual and relay event.

At the MIAA Division I State Meet, held at Harvard on February 19, the relay team of Mackie ‘10, Farrell ‘11, Montalbano ‘11 and Clifford ‘11 once again showed poise and improvement, earning a 12th place finish in the 200-yd. freestyle relay and 19th place in the 200-yd. medley relay. – Coach Chris Boyle

trackThe indoor track team proved itself versa-tile in both track and field events through-out the regular season and deep into the postseason.

After a series of dual meets to start the season, Donovan Henry ’12 competed for a first-place finish at the Auerbach Freshman/Sophomore meet on January 2 in the 300-meter event. At the State Relays on January 16, the 1600-meter sprint medley team of Ed Colvin ’10, Lance Murray ’10, brendan McMahon ’12 and Dennis Muldoon ’12 earned a respectable time of 3:57. Also placing at that meet were the shotput relay team of Tim McLaughlin ’10, Joe Isaksen ’11, and Connor griffin ’12, along with the high jump relay team of Chinedu Chukwu ’10, Ryan Malone ’12, and Justin Holmes ’10.

Senior captain Ed Colvin geared up for a strong postseason run in the 2-mile event, beginning at the Elite Meet on January 31

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Tspringwhere he ran 9:34, placing 5th. Two weeks later, he’d win the Catholic Conference Championship in the event, along with Justin Holmes ‘10 who won the long jump, and Donovan Henry ‘12 who won the 300-meter event. Chinedu Chukwu ‘10 came in 2nd in the 55-meter dash. Chukwu, Holmes, Henry and Curtis West ‘12 came in 2nd place in the 4x200-meter event.

At States, Colvin and Henry would earn 4th and 5th place spots in their events, and at All-States, the two would run personal bests again, coming in 6th and 7th places, respec-tively. The postseason continued with the New England Championships, where Colvin ran to an 8th place finish (9:28) and Henry ran the 7th best time in New England (36.13 seconds). – Coach Tom beatty

wreStlinGThe wrestling team continued its winning ways this year, with grapplers in all weight classes and all grades continuing to improve on their individual and team performances.

With a regular season record of 15-7 and a respectable showing in the state tourna-ment, this team had a lot to be proud of. The team began the season with wins over Cambridge, Josiah Quincy, and Newton North. League wins over Xaverian, Malden Catholic, and a final regular season win over bC High electrified the team.

At the Metro Sectional Tournament on February 13, Ricardo vieux ‘11 won first place (119-lbs.). Others placing included Rich broderick ‘11 (2nd, 189-lbs.), P.J. Ishige ‘11 (3rd place, 112-lbs.), Joe Warren ‘10 (3rd place, 135-lbs.), Francis Hawley (5th place, 160-lbs.) and Joe Kain (6th place, 152-lbs.)

At States, vieux, broderick, Ishige and Warren would compete soundly. With improvement next year, all wrestlers on the team will give CM a competitive edge and even better performances. – Coach Matthew Fay

baSeballThe baseball team finished the regular season on May 28 with a win over brockton. This win was the fifteenth consecutive one for the Knights who closed out the season with a 17-3 record and a number one seed headed into the tournament. In the tour-nament, the team defeated Mansfield, barnstable and Franklin before succumbing to Xaverian, 4-0, on June 12 in a 12-inning duel for the South Sectional title.

The team was strong on the mound behind John gorman ’11, Matt goreham ’11 and Joe McCarthy ’10. McCarthy pitched a no-hitter against Newton North on April 24, and gorman helped clinch the Catholic Conference title with a 3-hitter against Xaverian on May 12. The team went an extra inning for the win three times against con-ference opponents, beating bC High twice and Xaverian once in the eighth. Overall, the team could count on its pitchers for seven solid innings in many games.

Offensively, the team could count on solid batting from one through nine on the roster, including Nick barker ’11, Paul DiRamio ‘11, Paul Fahey ’11, and Shane O’Leary ’12, and deft base-stealing from John Mildner ’12 and brian besinger ’10. With strong talent and some breaks along the way, the team has a positive mindset and came into each game ready to play.

Named to All-Conference team were John gorman ’11, Matt goreham ’11, Joe McCarthy ’10, John Mildner ’10 and Nick barker ’11. gorman was named the League MvP.

Team captains besinger, goreham and gorman showed leadership and poise throughout the season and into the postsea-son. – Coach Hal Carey '95

lacroSSeThe lacrosse team finished the regular season with a 12-8 schedule, coming on strong with three wins at the end in which they scored a total of thirty-nine goals.

Despite a challenging schedule against conference opponents, the team finished second in the conference after rallying for wins over bC High and Malden Catholic. The team also made the finals of the Chowda Cup With five of their losses decided by fewer than two goals, the team deserves credit for playing strong all four quarters. In the tournament, CM won a hard fought battle at Norwood, winning 10-9 in overtime before losing to #1 seeded Hingham in the next round.

Miles McCarthy ’12 in goal, named boston globe player of the week, deserved a lot of credit for keeping the team in the game. His twenty-six saves in the Malden Catholic matchup preserved the win for CM. Strong defense by Marc Hetnik '11, Chris Stathopoulos '11 and Chris Moriarty '11 also helped the team maintain control late in games.

On offense, the team could regularly count on players like Christian Durham ‘11, Austin bannister ’12, Kevin McCarthy ’11, Nico Panepinto '13, Kevin bletzer '14, Mikey Panepinto '14, Kevin butler ’10 and Frank

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ruGbyThanks to a dedicated team, the CM Rugby program continued strong this season. With a tough schedule against some of the best programs in the state, this year’s squad had a lot to be proud of.

The team fought hard against conference foes and non-conference opponents like brookline, Lincoln Sudbury and Cambridge. Our best game was against Malden Catholic, where we lost by a try (seven points).

Captains Tom byrne ’11, Kyle MacNeill ’10, bernie O’Donnell ’10 and Dennis Weir ’10 helped the team stay focused and enthusi-astic during good times and bad. Forwards brian Ziniti ’10 and Jonathan Schneider ’11 left it all on the field, as did backs Dan Daniluk and Pascal Dalusma. With a solid roster of young men willing to step up into leadership roles next season, this team looks to remain strong. – Coach Patrick Murphy ’05

tenniSThe tennis team showed a lot of heart this spring, showing flexibility when the weather or schedules caused havoc. Thanks to cap-tains Sam Abi-Esber ’11, John dePierro ’10 and Elliot Simmons-Uvin ’11 for their efforts and to everyone for maintaining poise and class on both the Jv and varsity squads. – Coach Leo Peltier ’91

Wheeler-Larusso ’10. Team captains butler, Wheeler-Larusso, Hetnik, and Durham kept the team positive and focused heading into the playoffs.

First team all-conference players included Frank Wheeler-Larusso ’10, Kevin butler ’10, and Christian Durham ’11. Second team all-conference players were Miles McCarthy ’13, Dimitri Claude ’12, and Marc Hetnik ’11.

both Coach Tom Ryan and I were honored to receive the title of Catholic Conference coaches of the year.

We also had the following team awards: MvP: Kevin butler and Frank Wheeler-Larusso; Unsung Hero: Chris Ryan '12; Coaches Award: Thomas Stanton '12; Most Improved Player: Zack O'brien '14. – Coach Brain Scott

trackAfter two strong seasons of cross country and track, the spring track and field squad came together for an impressive regular and postseason performance. The team showed both strength in events and depth, coming in 3rd place in the Catholic Conference and earning state and all-state recognition.

On the track side, Donovan Henry ’12 (200m), Chinedu Chukwu ’10 (100m), and Ed Colvin ’10 (2-mile) were regular first place finish-ers all season in the dual meets. The three earned All-Conference standing by finish-ing first at the Conference Championships on May 22. Also named All-Conference were the relay team of Chukwu, Henry, Justin Holmes '10 and Curtis West '12, who went undefeated all season and also came in first place at the MSTCA State Relay Championships and the Catholic Conference Championships meet. At States on May 28, the relay team came in 1st place, as did Henry in the dash, while Colvin '10 came in 4th in the 2-mile. At All-States on June 5, Henry came in 2nd, the relay team 3rd, and Colvin 9th. At New Englands on June 12, Henry came in 2nd place.

Field events were strong this season thanks to Joe Isaksen ’11 (javelin), Ryan Malone ’11 (high jump/triple jump), Shane Smith ’10 (shotput) and Tim McLaughlin ’10 (shotput).

Also contributing strong performances to the team this season were Lorenzo Warren ’10, Ryan Reid ’13, Curtis West ’12, Josh Charles ’12, Owen Carrel ’11, Will Earl ’12, brinston Facey ’12, Joe DeLuca ’12, Dennis Muldoon ’12, and Mike Techiera ’11. – Coach Tom Beatty '68

VolleyballThis season, the volleyball team fielded players who had determination, patience and a willingness to work. Their efforts were rewarded, although the scoreboard didn’t always show it. Team captains Sean Sweeney ’11 and Chris bastarache ’10 showed outstanding leadership qualities.

The team held its ground against some of the best squads in the state and defeated a perennially strong Millis team on CM’s home ground on April 27. Thanks to dedi-cated underclassmen like Pat Curtis, Sean Sweeney, greg Dubois, Denzel gonzales, Danny Kim, Mike McCarthy, Chuck Nkwantah, Dominic Schiarizzi, and bryan Sweeney, the prospects are good for contin-ued improvement next season. – Coach Shawn Cusson

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Smarter Classrooms: The Class of 2010’s senior class gift will enhance technology at CM

When the Senior Parent gift Committee met in early September of last year they agreed that improving technology was an important part of the CM learning expe-rience. The class set an aggressive goal of $40,000 - enough to outfit every class-room in Donahue Hall with a SMARTboard.

Thanks to the hard work of the com-mittee the Class of 2010 exceeded their mark and installation of the interactive white boards took place over the summer months. Now, our middle school stu-dents and faculty will be able to experi-ence learning in a whole new way. The objective of the senior class gift is to show appreciation to Catholic Memorial and to leave an enduring legacy for future CM Knights. This year’s gift will have lasting impact on teaching and learning for years to come.

Student leaders attend MGH "The One Hundred" honorees ceremony

Catholic Memorial students joined the world's best cancer researchers, doctors and specialists at Mass general Hospital on May 5 in being named as the top 100 advo-cates in the fight against cancer.

Nine CM students joined President Paul Sheff '62 and Director of Religious Education and Campus Ministry brian Scott at a cer-emony at MgH's headquarters in boston, where this year's "The One Hundred" were announced.

Catholic Memorial School is being honored by MgH for its "High School Challenge," a program formed in 2009 after five years of involvement in the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against breast Cancer Walk, held annually in October. After seeing how many students were moved to action by the Making Strides

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Walk, CM issued a challenge to all other high schools in Massachusetts to match its fund-raising and participation efforts.

The result: more than twenty schools responded to the challenge, raising nearly $100,000.

"Our whole association of fighting against breast cancer, and cancer in general, fits well with our school motto: 'Conquer evil by doing good,'" said Sheff. "Cancer is an evil and we can do much to join together in the fight against it."

Mass general's Dr. Daniel Haber addressed this year's award recipients at the ceremony and invited them to join him at the Westin boston on June 2.

"your compassion makes such a pro-found difference in the lives of our patients and families," Haber said. "I want to con-gratulate and thank all of the honorees who are truly remarkable."

Mr. Steven Lang, co-chair of this year's The One Hundred event, also praised this year's honorees. "I thank each of you...we

want the world to know the great work that goes on here," he said.

Fellow recipients of the 2010 The One Hundred award include Senator Edward Kennedy, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Stand up to Cancer, and Shonda Schilling, among others.

The student leaders who attended the announcement reflected on how far CM has come in an effort that began with just a few students in 2006 and now involves thou-sands of students.

"This is something that's bigger than all of us," said Jhovani vonleh '12. "being part of The One Hundred now is one way to come together with all who have contrib-uted to the cause."

Matthew Farrell '11, who has participated in the Walk since 7th grade, opined on its significance to everyone in the CM commu-nity. "People do this year after year because they want to. Seeing this here today, it's great to see where our money goes and that it really does make a difference."

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Chamber Ensemble performs at Catholic Schools Foundation Gala

boston Public Library’s Reading Room became the latest venue for Catholic Memorial’s Chamber Ensemble, a group which has already performed live in Faneuil Hall’s great Hall and the Copley Marriott ballroom this year.

At the 20th Annual Catholic Schools Foundation Inner City Scholarship Foundation Dinner, held at the bPL on April 10, ensemble members Kyung Tae Park ’12, Sung Eun Park ’10, Kyu Jong Choi ’11 and Matt young ’15 performed for over a thousand guests, supporters and dignitaries.

Also present were Sean Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of boston, who gave the benediction, event chairman Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, Mary Richardson, co-anchor of WCvb’s Chronicle, and Peter Lynch, vice chairman of Fidelity Management and Research Company, who was the evening’s honoree.

CM President Paul Sheff ’62 attended the event with CM’s admissions direc-tor, John Mazza, advancement director Doug Zack, chief financial officer Michael Mullaney and teachers Ellen Eberly and Ann Murphy.

"They were magnificent, and in a mag-nificent setting," said Sheff of the ensem-ble’s performance. They comported themselves really well and they played great."

Student Leaders attend MGH

Chamber Ensemble

Edmund on Film: Connor Lynch’s “Legacy”

Connor Lynch ’10 first heard of blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice as a seventh grader in CM’s Middle School Program, and he passed by Edmund’s portrait on the wall thousands of times in the following six years.

but it wasn’t until the tail end of Lynch’s career at CM that both he and Edmund were brought together for a very special occasion, on a night at CM where the biggest expert in the room on all things Edmund was Connor himself.

On May 12, CMTv premiered Lynch’s inde-pendent study in film, “Legacy: The Faces of Edmund Rice.” The second feature film produced by CMTv in recent years, Lynch directed the movie, with billy Ferrara ’10 and Mike Carroll ’11 sharing production credits.

The film follows the three students as they travel the northeast, from West Roxbury to Rhode Island to New york City, tracing the roots of Edmund Rice’s influence in America. but the film takes a unique approach: Edmund Rice’s “legacy” is shown through that of students at Edmund Rice Christian brothers schools.

“They’re the stars of it,” Lynch explained. “It’s through their eyes that we see things.”

Lynch was most influenced by students at All Hallows School in the bronx, where brother Anthony bechner, CFC (former CM faculty member) spoke of the mission of the Christian brothers as he sees it.

“Throughout these kids lives, they’re sur-rounded by violence or poverty, but they still come to All Hallows, still want to learn, and

still want to go out and make a difference,” Lynch said.

Lynch dedicated the movie to his mother, who, despite having gone through surgery in recent months, encouraged Lynch to persist in the mammoth task of directing the film.

CMTv adviser William Hahn spoke of Lynch’s willingness to take on a subject very few other students could tackle. “Connor did an awesome job,” Hahn said. “And a lot of people were moved by the spirit that is Edmund Rice. Connor stepped up to this project, ran with it and saw it through.”

Kevin Tobin ’08 (Northeastern ’13), who directed CMTv’s first feature film, “Far From Home” (2008), praised Lynch’s unique vision.

“Not only did it shed light on the similari-ties of distant institutions,” Tobin said, “but also gave the audience an opportunity to take a step into the life of kids at schools like CM, bH, and All Hallows. Using unique camera angles and a well-written narration, Connor molded the interviews and raw footage into a complete, careful and structurally-sound doc-umentary short.”

Lynch, who will pursue broadcasting at Hofstra University in the fall, is a member of CM’s music program as well as its forensics team. His former work for CMTv included a three-episode sitcom based on “The Office."

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boston” this season, covering five theaters in boston. This is his 29th season doing so.

Paul iantosca currently resides in Needham and Chilmark, MA. He wants to be semi re-tired, he says, but he loves the work. Paul currently still owns and operates the real estate company known as The Arborview Companies in Jamaica Plain. He has two sons, 28 and 31, and a daughter, 25. He attributes some of his success to the great education he received at CM. He values all the alumni that he constantly meets in his everyday life. “It is an honor to be a CM graduate,” he says. “I will be at the reunion to see all my buddies.”

mike dunne ‘70 recently completed the Leadership Chattanooga Program, where he was selected as class speaker for graduation. He has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and was recently honored for his Discount Drug Program by NACo--the National Association of Counties.

1971tom mcLaughlin is now living in Texas.

1972arthur dowd says hi to all his classmates.

1974tom Keane continues to write columns for the boston globe Magazine. A recent Per-spective column he wrote questioned re-cent decisions by the boston’s City Council

been with me for a thousand years,” to be precise, busalacchi began coaching at CM in 1977. As a goaltender coach for the Knights, busalacchi’s legacy speaks for itself: 17 state championships, 21 Catholic Conference Championships, and 6 national championships.

arthur F. good recently began working at glacial Energy as a business development manager.

Bernie monbouquette met with and cheered on the CM Forensics team in Omaha, Nebraska over Memorial Day weekend. Coach Rob Croteau ‘93, assistant coach Steve Murphy ‘75 and the team were there to compete in the National Catholic Forensic League grand Tournament.

Paul Wickman writes to say, “I don’t remember a whole lot about those years [at CM]. I guess I wasn’t a very memorable person! I lived in San Diego since 1969, except for a 1.5-year stint overseas. I finally graduated from college in 1977. I’m moving to Maui later this year.”

John F. sugden, Jr. is proud to report that his daughter, Taylor, got married on April 17th in Puerto Rico.

1967robert clark is the new general manager this season for the Falmouth Commodores in the Cape Cod baseball League.

1968On May 11, New york Times best Selling Author William martin ‘68 published “City of Dreams,” his ninth novel and the fourth of the Peter Fallon series, which began with “back bay” and continued through “Har-vard yard” and “The Lost Constitution.”

1970 ☞ REUNION yEAR

gregory haugh retired from the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department in April, 2009, though he is still working as Director of Security for “broadway Across America -

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1962Pat curtin is the owner of Old School boat School on Lake Winnipesauke.

1964Paul Woods recently published “When you Can’t See The Trees For The Wood” c. 2009). It is available through Amazon.com, or email prwhandson@yahoo.com for a copy.

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John F. Buckley retired from State Street Corporation and is now working in the park-way area as a real estate agent.

1966Jack Busalacchi retired this year from his coaching duties for CM’s hockey program. Although Coach Hanson declares “Jack’s

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and wondered aloud about its right to exist. The following week, he wrote a column in support of Cape Wind.

1975 ☞ REUNION yEAR

michael mcshane is currently employed at boch Honda in Norwood.

“It was a tough four years in some ways and a fantastic four years in other ways,” writes Bill hommel. “but all and all an accomplish-ment that has led to many more.”

Patrick Fahey is currently an FAA Air Traffic Manager in Rhode Island. He is married with three children: Alison, a 2007 bC grad now on a Fulbright Scholarship in Amman, Jordan; Laura, a 2009 Holy Cross grad work-ing in DC, and Matthew, a student at UvM.

1976tim murphy writes to say, “It’s been quite a journey since CM: six years in Africa with Peace Corps Zaire, famine relief work in Ethiopia with CARE International, and then further adventures in various parts of Africa and Asia. Somehow I managed to marry an amazing woman. After a stint work-ing in DC for the Federal government, I transferred to Seattle, started a family and now follow my passions as an avid climber, kayaker and sailor. I feel blessed to be alive and try to give back through volunteering. CM had a profound influence on my quest to learn and grow on this cosmic voyage we are all on.”

1985 ☞ REUNION yEAR

Brian F. Keane, President of SmartPower, was recently awarded the Clean Air Excel-lence Award by the US Environmental Pro-tection Agency (EPA). The award recognizes SmartPower’s America’s greenest Campus challenge, an echo boomer energy efficiency campaign. Launched in April 2009, America’s greenest Campus took only a few months to become the largest campus initiative of its kind. Over 20,000 students, faculty, and alumni at over 460 schools participated, cutting their collective carbon output by 19 million pounds. Keane is also a regular con-tributor to The Huffington Post — his regular opinion columns can be viewed at www.huffingtonpost.com/keane

William t. mcnichols served as a postal worker for twenty years after getting out of the U.S. Marine Corps. He now lives in Norton with his wife, Michele and his two sons, Mike and Sean.

Leo raneri is currently vice President of global Distribution Support for Pyramis global Advisors, the institutional asset management arm of Fidelity Investments. Leo and his wife Juliane have two sons: Anthony, 13, and Nicholas, 9, and live in North Attleboro.

John Prendergast recently caught up with the alumni office. He’s been married to Diane (Cataldo) of Saugus for the past 22 years. They have a 19 year-old daughter who is following in her father’s footsteps at Mass Maritime Academy, where she is a 4th-class cadet studying marine engineering. Presently, John serves as director of maintenance and asset management for MATEP, a co-generation power facility for the Longwood Medical Area in boston.

1978“I just retired from the MbTA after a 23-year career,” writes richard gribaudo ’78. “I caught up with Rich Cronin and Marty Crowley for lunch at Doyle’s a few weeks back.”

1980 ☞ REUNION yEAR

“I am celebrating my 20th year in educa-tion,” writes michael ariel. “After graduate school at bU, I became an elementary art teacher. I transferred to the high school level after seven years and have been there since. In 1993, I began teaching at the New Hampshire Institute of Art and remain there as adjunct photo faculty member. I’ve been married for 22 years with two great kids.”

1982Joe O’Keefe, s.J. will complete a two-year teaching stint at Loyola High School in Los Angeles where he has been missioned since professing vows as a Jesuit in 2008. He will begin Theology studies – the final stage before Ordination to the Priesthood - at the Jesuit School of Theology at berkeley, California in fall of 2010.

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1993mark hohmann lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he is the business manager of St. Francis High School. He earned a Master’s degree in Ministry and business Manage-ment, and married Julie Webb in 2008.

1994robert shea celebrated five years with Fidelity Investments this May. He had his 10-yr. boston College reunion last summer. If anyone from the class of ‘94 is still the area, he says, feel free to get in touch with him.

1985 ☞ REUNION yEAR

mike concannon has enjoyed watching alumni Michael Collins and garrett Noonan take part in postseason play with the ver-non vipers hockey franchise in vernon, bC.

1986 U.S. Senator Scott brown announced on May 19 that Jerry mcdermott will run his boston office.

Peter Pappas has been running Harrison Re-frigeration in Roslindale since 1997. He was

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recently interviewed by Roslindale village Main Street, and had this to say about why he keeps a “retro” look to his business’s logos: “My father has always liked old things, whether it was the old pickup truck that we used to do deliver our appliances or the value he saw in the construction of an old refrigerator. Let’s face it, old things are just built better. That’s part of my father’s character as an immigrant who started with nothing – he built his business on hard work and good quality. That still defines how we operate today.”

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matthew smith and his wife Amy are expecting twins this year in addition to their two boys--Cam, 5, and Connor, 1. Matthew recently purchased the Canton Sportsplex and boston Jr. Terriers Hockey Club along with fellow alum Kevin O’Sullivan ‘89.

1991michael isberg graduated from the boston Conservatory with a Master’s Degree in Music Education on May 14, 2010.

Bill galvin recently left his post with the Suf-folk County District Attorney’s office after thirteen years to open his own law practice in boston.

1992On May 29, Representative mike rush earned his Juris Doctorate degree from Southern New England College of Law.

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tim van cisin received his Master’s degree in teaching from Loyola University (MD) this May. During his time at Loyola, Tim served as the digital media coordinator for Loyola Athletics.

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anthony straughn was one of eight stu-dents at bridgewater State College to be inducted into the Hall of black Achievers on February 27. At bridgewater, Straughn has served as a resident assistant, treasurer and president of the Afro-Am Society, and vice president of Men Integrated in brotherhood. He was also a senator and vice president of the Student government Association and vice president of the Pre-Law Association. Straughn studied criminal justice and hopes to attend law school.

matt sullivan had a great time and experi-ence coaching football and rugby this year at CM with classmate Pat murphy.

2006chris donald is studying sociology at Pikev-ille College in Pikeville, Ky where he is enter-ing his senior year. Chris is playing for the bears in the Division I Mid South conference of the NAIA.

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Kieran Joyce and his finance, Nancy Walsh, will marry in August, 2010.

1997Brother Jason Ford, c.F.c. returned from eleven months with the Christian brothers in South America this spring. He served for sixth months in Cochabamba, bolivia and five months in Lima, Peru. brother Ford will begin administrative duties this summer at Archbishop Curley-Notre Dame High School in Miami.

Joe Walsh received the John E. Fenton, Jr. Public Service Award from Suffolk University this spring. The award is given to a Suffolk University law student who demonstrates academic achievement and an exceptional commitment to public service law as a career. Joe was also honored for his service to community by the Allston board of Trade in May, an organization where he has served as treasurer.

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After playing in goal for Northern Michi-gan University through 2007, Bill Zaniboni played for teams in both the Cen-tral Hockey League and Interna-tional Hockey League. Currently, bill is playing for the Mississippi Surge in the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL), where he was awarded goaltender of the year and named to the all first-team during the 2009-2010 regular season. bill also serves as a goaltending coach for Hockey beauties, a company dedicated to helping the “beauties” of the hockey world learn and improve upon their game. His website:

www.hockeybeauties.com.

2003douglas eberly was one of twenty-five members of the U.S. Coast guard accepted to flight school. He will begin training this fall in Pensacola, FL.

2004William desimone graduated from Curry College in 2009 with a major in criminol-ogy and is hoping to get a job in that field as a probation officer.

Peter imhof is currently working as an EMT Paramedic throughout the boston area.

In between Red Sox home games, Jeff ma-thieu works as Parks Auditor for Aramark, Inc. at Fenway Park.

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2006a.J. macquarrie, a student at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, is joining a classmate in forming a new business ven-ture called Urban vendor, which will market health-food snacks in vending machines across Nova Scotia.

2007thomas egan is continuing his studies at the University of vermont, but last fall he spent the semester in Florence, Italy in a junior semester abroad program.

Ostap nalysnyk, a third year student at Northeastern University majoring in Inter-national Affairs, is another great CM story in the making. After a year at Curry College, he got his transcript in order and headed to Northeastern, where he’s studying inter-national affairs with a minor in business. In his spare time, he celebrates his Ukranian heritage at events in boston and helps man-age the CM Alumni presence on Facebook. This summer, Ostap heads to Turkey and Syria for a summer study program. “I want want to learn more about the relation-ship between these two countries and the West,” he writes.

daniel Palladino is currently a junior at Merrimack College.

2008Alums (above, l-r) nick galvin ’08, Julian colarusso ’08, Frank W heeler-Larusso ’10 and mark anderson ’10 get ready to watch the Super-8 Finals at the garden in March.

mike collins and teammate garrett noonan ’09 were on the championship vernon vipers team that won the RbC Cup in May. Noonan scored in the final game.

Bob Flaherty (photo at right) has survived his second year at virginia Military Insti-tute. He is studying history when not doing pullups with the U.S. Marines. He credits his swim coaches, Coach boyle and Coach Murray, with keeping him in shape through high school.

matthew Jagelski just finished his sopho-more year at Northeastern, where he’s currently on Co-op with boston Scientific, working as a mechanical engineer in R&D. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of Sigma Alpha Lambda Engineering Honor Society.

conor mcWain has finished his second year at Iona College. He’ll be studying abroad in Australia this coming fall.

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robert creaven and dan gibson recently dropped by CM to chat with Mr. Chisholm (at right).

2009Ken andrea just finished his first year at Fitchburg State University, where he is studying biology. He is playing on the lacrosse club team and next year will service as a program specialist for the Department of Residence Life at Aubu-chon Hall.

After his first year at University of North Carolina, dino cauteruccio is working in the charitable foundation office at South Shore Hospital this summer.

carlo macdonald is with the infantry Marine is stationed in Camp Lejeune, NC as a part of 1st battalion, 8th Marines. He

leaves for Afghanistan between the end of Au-gust and the beginning of September.

Josh rosario is enjoying his first year at Fisher College in boston, where he is studying computer science.

Alumni, please share your news with us – jobs, weddings, births, relocations. visit www.CatholicMemorial.org, click on “Update your information.”

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giddens rateau performing as Tha Capital g, joined Sakeena on stage in opening for Sam Adams at Amherst’s Mullins Center Arena on April 30 as part of the sold-out “Stoolapalooza” event. giddens performed his latest release, “Amherst State of Mind,” which celebrates life at UMass-Amherst.

Kevin tobin recently produced a film called “Derelict,” which explored themes of economic excess and hedonism in America. Tobin is a sophomore studying film at Northeastern University.

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C A T H O L I C M E M O R I A L

CATHOLIC MEMORIAL CLASSES OF ’65, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’00, ’05

REUNION 2010 saturdaY, June 12, 2010

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[1] Over 220 people returned for the 2010 Reunion and were treated to a traditional New England Clambake. [2] CM alums from The Lone Star State: Art McDevitt '65 (Flower Mound, TX), Claude Hyppolite, Jr. '85 (Humble, TX), Richard Kasparian '80 (Willow Park, TX) [3] Brendan Bosse '05 and Matt Sullivan '05 [4] Former Faculty joining us at the Reunion: Jim O'Connor, Fr. Rick Beaulieu, Gerry Fortin, Dan Burke, Ed McElaney '62, Phil Genatossio '64 [5] Bob Wade '80 and his wife, Ashlyn, Charlie Galligan '80, Joe Nelson '80 [6] Matthew Horne '00 with his wife, Elizabeth [7] Members of the Class of '05 gather before Mass. [8] The Class of '65 which had the highest reunion attendance. [9] The Class of '85-25th Reunion which had the furthest traveled alum - Dr. Michael Concannon (Coldstream, British Columbia) and closest traveled, John O'Leary (Spring Valley Rd. West Roxbury). More photos at www.CatholicMemorial.org.

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Parents

david J. abdou, sr., father of William D. Abdou ’78 and Richard J. Abdou ’80. April 2, 2010.

robert alterio, father of Dino R. Alterio ’89 and John R. Alterio ’91. May 17, 2010.

Jeanette t. (dePhilippo) Bernardo, mother of Ray E. bernardo ’71 and Joseph A. bernardo ’71. May 7, 2010.

Patrick J. callaghan, father of Daavid J. Callaghan ’87. May 20, 2010.

Lena (catania) cammarata, mother of Patrick J. Cammarata ’61. April 25, 2010.

marie c. (mason) cocuzzo, mother of Ronald A. Cocuzzo ’65. March 10, 2010.

albert v. colman, Jr., father of Stephen M. Colman ’81. May 23, 2010.

Leo corcoran, father of John F. Corcoran ’71. April 12, 2010.

anna marie (dougherty) cronin, mother of Robert F. Cronin ’76. April 11, 2010.

anthony J. derosa, sr., father of Thomas DeRosa ’80. February 18, 2010.

alfineo a. diFava, father of John DiFava ’69, former board member. May 19, 2010.

irene m. Fitzgerald, mother of Kevin Fitzgerald '77 and Keith Fitzgerald '77. May 9, 2010

david s. Fraine, father of Edward F. Fraine ’84, Patrick Fraine ’87 and Christopher J. Fraine ’90. March 17, 2010.

richard g. glebus, father of Daniel W. glebus ’99. March 29, 2010.

Frances t. (shurick) godin, mother of Raymond J. godin ’80. March 19, 2010.

mary “connie” donato heim, mother of Richard J. Heim ’82 and Eric D. Heim ’89 and grand-mother of Andrew P. Heim ’08. March 25, 2010.

John e. howard, Jr., father of John E. Howard III ’74, Joseph F. Howard ’75 and Stephen g. Howard ’78. March 13, 2010.

Kathleen e. (galewski) hurld, mother of brian M. Hurld ’05. April 12, 2010.

James F. Keane, sr., father of James F. Keane, Jr. ’88. May 27, 2010.

edward J. Kennefick, father of Denis Kennefick ’80 and Kevin S. Kennefick ’81. May 17, 2010.

John m. King, sr., father of John M. King ’69. March 20, 2010.

quindino F. Landolphi, father of Mark Landolphi ’81 and great uncle of John E. Mazza ’98, David L. Mazza ’99 and Peter N. Mazza ’00. April 8, 2010.

Kenneth F. Levie, father of Kenneth F. Levie, Jr. ’81, Douglas Levie ’83, brian Levie ’86, Eric Levie ’90 and Darren Levie ’96. April 8, 2010.

mary a. (murphy) maloney, mother of Thomas P. Maloney ’73 and Robert P. Maloney ’77. March 8, 2010.

robert F. maher, Jr., father of Daniel J. Maher ’92. April 25, 2010.

Paul a. marchione, father of Paul g. Marchione ’76. March 4, 2010.

helen F. (curtin) mcdonnell, mother of brian P. McDonnell ’85. May 7, 2010.

colman J. mcdonough, father of John P. McDonough ’77. April 4, 2010.

Paul J. O’Leary, father of Paul J. O’Leary ’69 and Thomas F. O’Leary ’74. April 11, 2010.

nicholas Pappas, father of Peter C. Pappas ’86. April 8, 2010.

John Puleio, father of Joseph N. Puleio ’74. May 28, 2010.

Louise m. (molignano) Purtell, mother of Edward g. Purtell ’76 and William C. Purtell ’80. May 27, 2010.

mary e. (connors) regan, mother of John J. Regan ’74. April 2010.

William F. roake, father of Michael A. Roake ’74 and brian F. Roake ’77. March 12, 2010.

geraldine roth, mother of Robert E. Roth, Jr. ’73. April 10, 2010.

carmela c. (ciccarello) sansons, mother of Robert L. Sansons ’85. March 26, 2010.

Olga s. sawayer, mother of bruce J. Sawayer ’74. May 11, 2010.

robert h. scott, father of Robert H. Scott, Jr. ’81. April 10, 2010.

Frederick J. seely, father of gerald J. Seely ’66 and Peter F. Seely ’76 and grandfather of Mark g. Seely ’94. May 3, 2010.

John F. sharpe, sr., father of James Sharpe ’67. March 8, 2010.

donald r. smythe, father of Lawrence K. Smythe ’81. March 11, 2010.

elizabeth L. Bouchard Popp-spellman, mother of Kenneth J. Popp ’81 and John F. Popp ’86. April 26, 2010.

helen e. (mcnamara) stewart, mother of William J. Stewart III ’68. March 25, 2010.

elizabeth h. (grosser) stier, mother of Thomas R. baird ’73. March 27, 2010.

Lawrence B. stier, sr., father of Thomas R. baird ’73. March 1, 2010.

constance v. (russell) tonner, mother of Robert g. Tonner ’64, Michael F. Tonner ’67 and Richard L. Tonner ’71. March 8, 2010.

reLatives & Friends

Leon r. Bloomstein, father of Richard bloomstein, faculty member. March 26, 2010.

Betty June (heuton) Buchanan, grandmother of John A. guerrero ’14. March 21, 2010.

John t. Burke, grandfather of Dylan b. O’brien ’14. April 2010.

genevieve (campbell) curran, grandmother of Craig R. Curran ’97 (deceased). March 22, 2010.

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catherine e. (dalton) Flaherty, grandmother of Joseph A. Tedesco ’12 and John A. Tedesco ’13. April 12, 2010.

John Flaherty, Jr., brother of Matthew J. Flaherty ’12. May 24, 2010.

mary (mccarthy) heavey, wife of Michael J. Heavey ’70. March 24, 2010.

William F. hubbard, grandfather of Joseph P. Hubbard ’04 and great grandfather of Ryan S. Hubbard ’11. May 9, 2010.

John v. Kane, sr., grandfather of Andrew P. Murphy ’05 and brian T. Murphy ’09 and father-in-law of Steven J. Murphy ’73. March 9, 2010.

Julia P. (gumbin) Kectic, grand-mother of brian E. McDonough ’05. April 26, 2010.

albert r. Kiser, father-in-law of John J. Finn ’89, faculty member. May 25, 2010.

stephen h. O’meara, grandfa-ther of Nolan M. Nee ’12. April 23, 2010.

Florence M. (McMillan) Pender, grandmother of Jonathan S. Huether ’11 and mother-in-law of John S. Huether ’82. March 14, 2010.

carmela m. (dentato) rosata, grandmother of bryan b. Rosata ’07 and Jeffrey D. Rosata ’12. May 24, 2010.

Kathleen P. (moclaire) scales, grandmother of Sean T. Scales ’14. April 19, 2010.

Barbara e. (howard) schmidt, grandmother of Joseph J. Schmidt ’00. May 11, 2010.

helen e. stewart, grandmother of Scott M. McDonald ’89. March 25, 2010.

sophia (toufanidis) tiglianidis, grandmother of Konstantinos Tiglianidis ’02. March 14, 2010.

albert J. todesca, sr., grandfa-ther of Albert J. Todesca III ’03 and John D. Federico ’11. May 18, 2010.

erin mcgrath Woolley, sister of Kyle Woolley, former faculty member. March 16, 2010.

Kathleen m. Wright, sister of Edward M. Wright ’65 (deceased) and Richard H. Wright ’71. April 5, 2010.

We rememBer

John F. Cooney ’78 April 1, 2010

John F. cooney ’78, brother of Leo P. Cooney ’80 and Michael A. Cooney ’94. A West Roxbury native, John Cooney was an active member of the community in his years here. He played on the intramu-ral basketball team, the intramural street hockey team and the intramural football team.

Joseph Francis Howard ’75 April 17, 2010

Joseph Francis howard ’75, brother of John E. Howard ’74 and Stephen g. Howard ’78. Joseph Howard was a West Roxbury native who was very active in athletics in his time at CM, playing on the varsity football team for four seasons and running indoor and outdoor track for three seasons. He also played intramural basketball and softball, and was on the ski and bowling clubs, student government, NHS, and prom committee.

brendan J. Sullivan ’68 April 6, 2010

A native of West Roxbury, Brendan sullivan was active member of his class, serving as vice president in his sopho-more and junior years. He was also a member of the glee club, the Edmundians, Challenge, the Talisman, Legion of Mary, the library staff and the Radio Club.

Michael D. braun ’66 November 26, 2009

Michael braun, brother of Paul W. braun ’65 (deceased), was born and raised in Dorchester. After CM, he enlisted in the Marines and was a vietnam War veteran decorated with a bronze Star and Navy Commendation. "He never forgot his years at CM and the life lessons he learned there," said his wife Karen.

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how’s your first year on the job in dc going?It’s been great, a real thrill. It’s something I never expected in my wildest dreams, but it’s a great opportunity to serve the country, serve the president, and serve the people.

What does the job entail?I’ve had the opportunity to visit all ten of FEMA’s regions in the country, and talk to not only directors but employees as well—in their desks, garages and cubicles. That’s been really satisfying, getting a sense of the organization.

What’s been the most pleasant surprise about working in the federal government?It wasn’t really a surprise, but the people in the organization are absolutely fabu-lous. The dedication they put in and the hours they work…a lot of our disaster assis-tance employees will respond by going into another city or town for six months, and working 14-16 hour days there. A lot of them are currently in Tennessee.

What about living in dc?Well, I’m a boston kid, born and raised in Dorchester…but being in DC is a great opportunity.

What’s been the biggest challenge for you and for Fema in the past six months?The biggest challenge is always just making sure we’re ready for the next disaster and having the oppor-tunity to be able to respond and help folks in their time of need.

Being chief of Boston ems must have helped you prepare for this job. Definitely. boston’s a good sized city, and dealing with people there and going into thousands of emer-gencies over the years was good preparation. Whether doing this at the local, state or federal level, we’re all one team, regardless of whether I’m here or in boston for the water [crisis], or Tennessee

during the floods, or Oklahoma for the torna-dos… During the Haiti crisis, I was working 16 hour days for 3 weeks. but on the flip side, I worked the blizzard of ‘78, which was 24 hours, 7 days a week. The city of boston was definitely good preparation for coming to the federal government.

it’s been a year of flooding—everywhere, hasn’t it? Well, flooding is our number one disaster around the country, whether in Tennessee, Rhode Island, or New Hampshire…we have twenty-three open joint field offices. We’re busy all over.

What’s the biggest misconception americans have about Fema?People expect FEMA to come in and fix everything. but FEMA’s just a part of the team. We reach out to private businesses…engaging them as part of a team, and engag-ing faith-based communities to be part of the team too. because they know everyone locally better than anyone else, and our job is to support the locals. Tip O’Neill said that all politics are local. All disasters are local as well. Emergency management looks at the

public as an asset—for example, if you can help a neighbor shovel out during a snow-storm, that’s one less person that emergency response needs to take care of.

have you had the opportunity to rib President Obama about the red sox being better than the White sox?Not yet. I’ve met with him a couple of times, and the interactions I’ve had have been great. I do enough bashing of yankee fans around here [at FEMA].

give us an idea of a typical day in your calendar.On Monday, I was supposed to be in Connecticut to visit the New England Disaster Training Center, but was here, having to deal with issues. Then I had a mission support meeting, then a brief-ing from National geospatial-Intelligence Agency, on support to the oil spill in the gulf coast. Then I gave a talk to the federal flood plain managers, followed by a listening session, followed by a meeting on work force development.

Then I had my weekly senior staff meet-ings, briefings on Tennessee, then met with the vice Minister for Energy for Chile, doing some agreements with him on emergency earthquake/tsunami issues. Finally, we had the fiscal 2012-2016 budget review dinner with [Homeland Secretary Janet] Napolitano. Then home to DuPont Circle.

What role did cm play for you in deciding to pursue this line of work?CM helped launch my career in this. In the 70s, CM had “independent study,” where you’d spend the last year of high school studying what you wanted to. Initially, I worked on cardiology and heart attacks, and got a job working in Mass general as an orderly, just moving patients around. ben Hopkins and Chris Jackson were in charge of that. It was a different time back then, and they gave you the opportunity to try something, which was great. ✥

Catching up with Richard Serino ’71, Deputy Administrator, FEMA

August 16: Physicals due for all fall sports candidates

August 23: Fall sports begin

August 31 - September 1: Freshman Orientation program

September 2: Opening Faculty Meeting

September 7-9: Orientations and mini-schedules

September 10: First full day of classes

September 10: varsity football home opener v. Lynn Classical, 7pm

September 23: Olympic Day

September 27: 24th annual Catholic Memorial golf Tournament

October 3: Making Strides Walk against breast cancer

Upcoming Events

Steve berte ’98

David buckley ’99

Tom Caulfield ’67

bill Crowley ’65

Dennis Driscoll

Dave Erwin ’96, P’13

John geraci ’88

bill Hanson

Jack Harney P’10

Chris Jackson

John Mansfield ’64

Tom Meagher

Ann Murphy P’03, ’05, ’08

brendan Murphy ’03

John Palermo ’79

Mark vautour ’97

Doug Zack

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Dear Friends,

Our golf tournament takes on a special meaning this year. The 24th Annual Catholic Memorial golf Tournament, this year honoring Mr. Joe Perfetti, is an opportunity for the entire CM community to recognize one of our faculty members who retired in June 2010 after 38 years of teaching.

We invite you to join us and Joe for this unique occasion at the Catholic Memorial golf Tournament. Proceeds from the tournament, as well as gifts in made in honor of Joe, will continue to benefit scholarships at Catholic Memorial.

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State and National titles for Forensics Team

Sophomore Jhovani vonleh earned a national title in the category of declamation on May 29, and seven of his teammates made the final rounds at the National Catholic Forensic League grand Tournament in Omaha, NE.

The team sent a record number of competitors--seventeen young men in all--to the tournament. On June 12, four students also traveled to compete in the National Forensic League tournament in Kansas City. There, Chris Masterson ’10 made it to the semifinal rounds, and Pat Simas ’10 made it to the quarterfinals.

The team earned The Founders’ Award at the NCFL tournament, given to the top five of the 500 teams at the tournament based on their top three entries.

Earlier in the season, four students were crowned state champions as well, making this a historic year for CM forensics on another front. Those students were John Allaire ’13 (declamation), Joe botsch ’11 (radio broadcasting), Chris Masterson ’10 (original oratory) and Pat Simas ’10 (dramatic interpretation).