Carmel Life Spring 2016

CARMEL lifeMount Carmel Alumni Magazine • Spring 2016

Simeon Rice '92 Presents the

GOLDEN FOOTBALL

CARMEL lifeMount Carmel Alumni Magazine • Spring 2016

ADMINISTRATION

PresidentFr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, O.Carm. '92

PrincipalJohn Stimler (H)

OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT

Vice President for Institutional AdvancementDavid Lenti (H)[email protected]

Director of Alumni RelationsCraig Ferguson '[email protected]

Director of Development and Planned GivingMichael Holland '[email protected]

Director of Annual GivingIan Secviar [email protected]

Administrative Assistant to the PresidentDenise [email protected]

Advancement Office Coordinator Megan [email protected]

MOUNT CARMEL HIGH SCHOOL6410 S. Dante AveChicago, IL 60637

CARMEL LIFE EDITORIAL OFFICE

Marketing SpecialistClaire [email protected]

Media SpecialistJim Easterhouse [email protected]

PhotographersHR ImagingOriflamme YearbookJim Easterhouse 2011Dontrell Brown 2016Austin O’Brien 2017Jake Polewaczyz 2016

CONTENTS

ALUMNI FEATURES02Simeon Rice '92 presents Golden Football28 Matt Taylor '57 Epitomizes Spirit of Giving 30 Dart '80 Named Catholic Lawyer of the Year

ADVANCEMENT UPDATE04 #BrownTuesday05 Young Alumni Making a Big Impact06 Scholarship Spotlight07 Donor Spotlight08 Class of 1970 Challenge09 The Future of Learning at Mount Carmel

STUDENT ACHEIVEMENT10 Ilic 2017 Selected to participate at ADL12 Illinois State Scholars13 Students Explore Bridge to Future14 Caravan Speech and Drama16 Class of 2016 17 Men of 6410

ATHLETIC UPDATE18 Signing Days20 Fall Sports Update22 Lawless Awards19 Alumni Athlete Update

ENROLLMENT24 View from the New Guy25 Duffner Family Legacy

ALUMNI26 Catching up with Erik Eck 200727 Caravan Connect32 A Ray of Hope34 Class Notes

CONTENTS

ALUMNI FEATURES02Simeon Rice '92 presents Golden Football28 Matt Taylor '57 Epitomizes Spirit of Giving 30 Dart '80 Named Catholic Lawyer of the Year

ADVANCEMENT UPDATE04 #BrownTuesday05 Young Alumni Making a Big Impact06 Scholarship Spotlight07 Donor Spotlight08 Class of 1970 Challenge09 The Future of Learning at Mount Carmel

STUDENT ACHEIVEMENT10 Ilic 2017 Selected to participate at ADL12 Illinois State Scholars13 Students Explore Bridge to Future14 Caravan Speech and Drama16 Class of 2016 17 Men of 6410

ATHLETIC UPDATE18 Signing Days20 Fall Sports Update22 Lawless Awards19 Alumni Athlete Update

ENROLLMENT24 View from the New Guy25 Duffner Family Legacy

ALUMNI26 Catching up with Erik Eck 200727 Caravan Connect32 A Ray of Hope34 Class Notes

Mount Carmel High School Community,As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ throughout this Easter sea-son, I am so conscious of the various ways that God blesses our school com-munity. As our campus buzzes with activity both day and night, I reflect on the countless individuals who enable that activity by their support for our mission as a Catholic, Carmelite school. I am humbled by the commitment of our parents, faculty, staff and coaches as they invest their time, talents and hard work in our students.

Hard work and sacrifice are synonymous with Mount Carmel. Recently, Sim-eon Rice '92, a Super Bowl champion and director of the 2015 film, Unsullied, returned to his alma mater and presented us with a Wilson Golden Football as part of the Super Bowl High School Honor Roll. Simeon shared how grate-ful he is for the lessons Mount Carmel taught him, especially to work hard and struggle in pursuit of your dreams. He learned those lessons well, and they have served him throughout his life, both in his NFL career and now in the film industry.

Working hard in the classroom is paying off for many of our current young men. Recently, two seniors, Javier Correa and Joshua Allen, were named as Posse Scholars, and awarded full academic scholarships to Cornell University

and the University of Wisconsin respectively. Two of their classmates, Jordan Richardson and Jaylin Hill, also will benefit from full academic scholarships as Chick Evans Scholars attending Ohio State and the University of Illinois. The senior class is well on its way to breaking our school record of over $15 million in college scholarships, which would represent a third consecutive record-breaking year for scholarships.

Recently, the Mount Carmel High School Alumni Association Board recognized several individuals whose hard work and dedication to Mount Carmel have made a lasting impact on our community. They will be honored at our Alumni Banquet on May 6th. Jim Finn (H) was named “Man of the Year.” The late Jim Deering '86, Bill Guide '89, Marty Hughes '66, Jack Keane '60, Melvin McCants '85, and Phil O’Reilly '44 were elected to the Hall of Fame. Jon Berry, John Mucha, Ron Spork, and Mary Stamler will become Honorary Alumni, and Tom Dart '80 will receive the Fr. Aquinas Colgan,O. Carm. Humanitarian Award. Like our students who have worked so hard and proudly represent Mount Carmel, these men and women are true examples that the Mount Carmel tradition of building character really does last a lifetime.

I invite you to enjoy this spring edition of Carmel Life as we reflect on and celebrate the many accomplishments of the Mount Carmel community. May Our Lady of Mount Carmel continue to bless and guide us all during this Easter season.

In Carmel,

Fr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, O.Carm. '92President

Dear

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Simeon Rice, a Super Bowl XXXVII champion with the Tampa Bay Bucca-neers and director of the 2015 film, Unsul-lied, honored the institution where he first excelled, not as a Pro Bowl defensive line-man, but as a high school student.

Rice returned to Mount Carmel High School and presented his alma mater with a Wilson Golden Football as part of the Super Bowl High School Honor Roll.

“It feels so good to be home,” said Rice, a 1992 Mount Carmel High School gradu-ate. “This is where it all began.”

The Super Bowl High School Honor Roll celebrates high schools and communities that have contributed to Super Bowl his-tory. This platform is designed to link the past 49 Super Bowls with this year’s 50th anniversary game and honor the players, head coaches, high schools and commu-nities who have positively impacted the game. The NFL and Wilson provided a golden football in honor of every player or head coach who was on an active roster for a Super Bowl team.

Fr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, O. Carm. '92 and teammate of Rice’s on the 1991 State Championship team, started the Super Bowl High School Honor Roll ceremony by recalling Rice’s willingness to continu-ally support Mount Carmel.

“When I was working at a school in LA, there was a particular student who was struggling. I called Simeon to speak to

this student, to hopefully encourage this student to improve. Without hesitation Simeon picked up the phone. This is a testament to the brotherhood of Mount Carmel. A brotherhood that all of the stu-dents and alumni are part of as Men of Carmel.”

Head Football Coach Frank Lenti followed and detailed Rice’s unparalleled work eth-ic and how he thrived in battling adversi-ty on and off of the football field. Before introducing Rice, Lenti portrayed how the Roseland native continued to evoke the characteristics he adapted at Mount Carmel through his college career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and in the NFL as a member of the Arizo-na Cardinals and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

In Rice’s address to the students and alum-ni including many from the 1991 State Championship team, he echoed Lenti’s sentiment,

“I’m wearing my Super Bowl ring today for the first time in my life. I wore it today because it’s symbolic of what we are. We are champions, especially here at Mount Carmel. When I played in the Super Bowl, I was representing Mount Carmel. I was there with a Mount Carmel mental-ity. I was playng at the highest level, and I always evaluated with a Mount Carmel perspective. No matter where I went in the world, the spirit of Mount Carmel was al-ways with me.”

GOLDEN FOOTBALL Simeon Rice '92 presents the

By Jim Easterhouse 2011

Wilson presented each high school with a golden football for each alum who made a Super Bowl appearance. Mount Carmel has the most in the state of Illinois with 5.

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Cover Story

Simeon Rice addresses the 2015 Caravan Football team. He stressed the impor-tance of struggling and working hard.

Simeon pictured with 1991 State Championship teammate and former Pittsburg Steeler’s tight end, Matt Cushing '92 (left), Coach Frank Lenti (cen-ter), and former Chicago Bear and current CFL quarterback/special teams player for the Edmon-ton Eskimos, Jordan Lynch 2009 (right).


The 2015-16 Men of Carmel Fund campaign got off to its best start in several years thanks to the generosity of alumni, parents, and friends of Mount Carmel. Quite a few of our loyal donors and many new ones as well took advantage of a new opportunity to make a difference this year. I am referring to Mount Carmel’s first ever partnership with #GivingTuesday, a global philanthropic movement. On Tuesday, Decem-ber 1, 2015, charities, families, businesses, com-munity centers, and students around the world came together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give to worthy caus-es. #BrownTuesday, as our day of giving was called, was an incredible success. Supporters of Mount Carmel were encouraged to spread the word to friends and family and make donations themselves through a series of emails and posts on social media. These marketing efforts were seen by thousands of Mount Carmel support-ers. Not only did we reach our goal of 116 on-line gifts that day, but also we raised more than $16,000 to support the Men of Carmel Fund.

As the primary source of funding for Mount Carmel High School’s areas of greatest need, the Men of Carmel Fund ensures that young men (regardless of financial circumstance) can continue to call 6410 S. Dante their home for generations to come. Each year, alumni, par-ents and friends of Mount Carmel High School unite to contribute more than a quarter of a million dollars to advance our mission of edu-cating young men to “Live with Zeal for God, for life and for learning.”

It may surprise you to learn that our very first online gift for #BrownTuesday was made by a

class of 1938 alumnus. Steven dePyssler enlist-ed in the U.S. Army in 1941 before Pearl Harbor was attacked. He is the only known American to have served in four wars, including World War II, Korean, French Indochina and Vietnam. His example of service and dedication to others did not end when he retired four decades later as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Rather, he works tirelessly in his new home state of Louisiana for veterans and their widows. This is one of many reasons why the Mount Carmel Alumni Asso-ciation honored him last year with the Fr. Aqui-nas Colgan, O.Carm. Humanitarian of the Year Award. We are proud of Col. dePyssler’s many accomplishments, and we are honored that he considers our Men of Carmel Fund worthy of his investment.

We are grateful for your support of our stu-dents through the Men of Carmel Fund. Your gifts directly impact our ability to offer a Cath-olic, Carmelite education to the young men of Chicagoland, regardless of their financial cir-cumstances. Together, we secure the future of Mount Carmel High School for generations to come.

If you are interested in making an investment in a young man’s future, please use the enclosed envelope to donate to the Men of Carmel Fund.

Leads the Way for the Men of Carmel Fund

#BrownTuesday

By Ian Secviar 2006

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Advancement

Patrick Joyce 2001 comes from a true Mount Carmel family. His grandfather graduated in the Class of 1939, his father graduated in the class of 1969, his broth-ers graduated from Mount Carmel, in-cluding his twin, Mike. In addition, he has numerous uncles and cousins who have walked the halls at 6410, including Frank and David Lenti.

Given their family history, it was no real surprise that Pat wanted to make an im-pact on the institution he loves.

“I am 33 and I just made a six figure gift to Mount Carmel. I asked myself the ques-tion, how can I have the greatest impact on Mount Carmel? I have been blessed to be part of a place that teaches boys how to become men and instills values and beliefs that teach us to focus on the important things in life – God, Family, and Community.”

Like many alumni, Pat was not in a po-sition to simply write a big check to the school.

Through his work at Northwestern Mu-

tual, Joyce was able to find a way to make his dream a reality and is hoping other alumni consider doing the same. As a healthy 33 year old, he was able to take out a life insurance policy on himself and make Mount Carmel the owner, payer and beneficiary. Depending on how long he lives, the gift will be worth more than $100,000, up to as much as $500,000. The policy costs $1500 per year, which Joyce sends to the school. The school then pays the policy, and he receives tax credit for his gift.

A life insurance policy is a tremendous opportunity that many of our alum-ni never think of. Currently, there are only a handful of life insurance policies known that are set up with the school as the beneficiary. Joyce is already looking to boost that number, as he has recruited friend and 2005 graduate Phil Caruso to create a similar policy.

These gifts, along with other planned giv-ing opportunities are set up to benfit the Mount Carmel Educational Foundation, which invests funds in order to ensure support for the school in perpetuity. The

Foundation donates to the school in or-der to help fund the difference between the cost of tuition and the actual cost of a Mount Carmel education.

“One reason I have chosen to make this gift is because of the impact Mount Car-mel has had on my life and the lives of so many Carmel men since its inception in 1900. I would not be the person I am to-day without MC and my family.” His gift will now impact generations of Mount Carmel students to come.

To explore whether a gift of life insur-ance is right for you, contact Michael Holland, Director of Development and Planned Giving, at [email protected] or 773.359.0485.

“I am 33 and I just made a six figure gift to Mount Carmel. I asked myself the question, how can I have the greatest impact on Mount Carmel? I have been blessed to be part of a place that teaches boys how to become men and instills values and beliefs that teach us to focus on the important things in life – God, Family, and Community.”

-Patrick Joyce 2001

Young alumni making a

BIG IMPACT... And you can too


The Promise Scholarship is truly unique among the various financial assis-tance provided to Mount Carmel students by alumni and parents of alumni. The brainchild of Mark Heaney '73 (father of Christopher 2008 and Michael 2011), the scholarship focuses on inspiring seniors to lead lives focused on giving back to oth-ers by subsidizing a portion of their final year at Mount Carmel.

The scholarship is directed not by a single benefactor, but by a committee of ded-icated alumni and honorary alumni in-cluding: faculty member Mark Antonietti '84, father of Dominic 2017 and Gino 2019; John Cap (H), father of Logan 2013; Jus-tin Esquivel 2007; Sean Patel 2000; Tom Penland (H), father of Eric 2004 and Luke 2010; Bryan Schroeder 2000; Mike Wilson 2000; and former Assistant Director of In-stitutional Advancement Pat Joyce 2001. Students are identified by the school ad-ministration and given application mate-rials during the course of their senior

year. Interviews are then scheduled with the applicant and the applicant’s parents by the Promise Scholarship Committee. Upon selection as a Promise Scholar, each senior makes the promise to remain active in the Mount Carmel community after graduation and to assist future students by paying back the amount he received at some point in the future.

David Nichols 2014 of South Holland credits the Promise Scholarship with making a significant impact in his life. He notes: “The Promise Scholarship helped me finish paying for high school at Mount Carmel. This allowed me to continue my education [. . .] on my way to earning a Di-vision 1 Basketball scholarship to attend the University at Albany. My parents will

not have to pay a dime for college and I will not need to take out any student loans and this scholarship played a large part in this.”

To learn more about how you can support the Promise Scholarship or endow your own scholarship to support Mount Carm-el students and their families, please con-tact Ian Secviar, Director of Annual Giv-ing, at 773-359-0426 or [email protected].

SCHOLARSHIP SPOTLIGHT:

The Promise ScholarshipBy Ian Secviar 2006

Pictured: David Nichols 2014 competing in his senior season with the Caravan Basket-ball team.

Advancement

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GIRSCH (H) PRESENTED WITH SAINT ALBERT AWARD AT 2016 GALA

The 2016 Caravan Gala was another great suc-cess for the Mount Carmel Educational Foun-dation, and for the Mount Carmel community who support this annual celebration. For the second year, the Saint Albert award was pre-sented to recognize individuals who have made exemplary contributions in the Mount Carmel community and beyond. The 2016 recipients are Robert and Julia Girsch.

Girsch was invited to join the Mount Carmel Educational Foundation’s Board of Trustees in the winter of 1987 by then-Principal Fr. Bob Carroll. At that time, his youngest son was at-tending Mount Carmel. Shortly after joining the Board of Trustees, Girsch was elected as President, an office he held for nearly 30 years.

In the late 1980’s, the Foundation’s portfolio had a market value of approximately $750,000 ver-sus today’s market value, which is approaching $9.0 million, an increase largely made possible by Grisch. As President, Girsch established a set of sound, long-term investment objectives, established asset allocation guidelines and pa-rameters, selected professional management to oversee a diversified portfolio of high quality securities, and restricted contributions to MC to a maximum of 5% annually. These principals survived the test of time and helped build the Foundation’s portfolio to what it is today. From its inception, the Foundation has raised more than $6.5 million in contributions primarily from the annual Big Event (now Caravan Gala), the McCarthy Match and other bequests, while it has donated more than $6 million back to the school.

Additionally, he assisted in securing a half mil-lion dollar grant to Mount Carmel for the pur-pose of purchasing equipment for the Graham Center’s computer lab. Girsch has been named

both an honorary alumnus and ‘Man of the Year’ by the Mount Carmel Alumni Associa-tion. His son, Matt, is a 1990 graduate, and his son Bob taught at MC for 9 years.

Girsch’s contributions to the school are critical to the future of the institution, as Saint Albert’s contributions laid the foundation for the Car-melite order. Saint Albert of Jerusalem, the Patron of the Carmelite Order, established the Rule by which Carmelites have lived through-out the world over the past 800 years. Because of his love and knowledge of Sacred Scripture, Albert is an example to Christians today--to live every moment of life out of the Word of God and Gospel values. He has been an inspiration to those in leadership roles because of his great wisdom and discernment. His Rule is filled with instructions that show great flexibility, open-ness and common sense. He carried out peace initiatives of international importance with rare prudence, firmness, and certitude. Because of his natural gift at listening, he is responsible for the great “human feel” to the Carmelite Rule.

It is out of this prophetic and leadership tra-dition that Mount Carmel High School has inspired nearly 15,000 young men to live with Zeal for God, for life, and for learning. Like Saint Albert, Mount Carmel graduates, parents and friends have profoundly impacted commu-nities around the world. This award is present-ed to Bob and Julia Girsch with the highest hon-or from Mount Carmel High School.

A full recap of the the Caravan Gala will appear in the next edition of Carmel Life.

The thirteenth annual dinner honoring the So-ciety of Saint Cyril was held on Thursday, Octo-ber 15, 2015 at the University Club of Chicago. As many of you know, the Carmelites established the Society of Saint Cyril to honor those bene-factors whose cumulative giving has reached substantial levels.

Alumni parents Charles and Eleanor Rear-don, Assistant Principal Maryhelen Matijevic, and friend of the school Jane Ehrenstrom were among those made new lifetime members. A special plaque was also presented to the par-ents of Kevin Hansen, Mike and Beth, in honor of their son’s generous giving while a member of the faculty.

SOCIETY of SAINT CYRIL Donor Spotlight By Michael Holland '98

Congratulations again to all our new and ad-vancing members of the Society of St. Cyril! Next year’s dinner will be held on Thursday, October 6, 2016.

Honoree Ms. Jane Ehrenstrom

Honorees Mr. and Mrs. Michael and Beth Hansen

Honoree Ms. Maryhelen Matijevic (H)

Honorees Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Elearnor Readron (AP)


CLASS OF 1970CHALLENGE

The sacrifices that parents make to send their sons to Mount Carmel is talked about often around campus. The appre-ciation of the financial, time and talent commitments that parents make every day can be seen from students, faculty and staff alike. For many Mount Carmel students, the true understanding of their parents’ efforts comes well after their days at 6410 S. Dante. As they grow and ma-ture, and see more and more of the true benefits of the Mount Carmel experience, alumni become more grateful of the gifts they received along the way.

Jim Nelson '70 is no different. He recog-nizes the sacrifices his parents made to send him and his four brothers, Thomas '64, John '72, Terrence '73, and Patrick '75, through Mount Carmel. He cherishes the camaraderie, the hard work, the fun and

the enduring friendships that defined the Mount Carmel experience for him and his brothers. After moving away from Chi-cago, Jim was not very connected to MC – maybe a game or two over the years, or responding to a student caller during the phonathon. But throughout his career, he always knew what the education he re-ceived did for him.

This fall, Jim wanted to honor his parents, Bud and Kay Nelson, and make an im-pact at Mount Carmel. In conversations with the school, Jim decided the best way to make a splash, and build excitement among classmates, was to issue a chal-lenge to the Class of 1970 – for each gift made by a member of the class to fund renovations in the main school building, Jim would match - dollar for dollar - up to $25,000.

To say the class accepted the challenge would be an understatement. Not only was all $25,000 of challenge money raised, but the total class giving currently stands at more than $108,000 since the challenge was issued! Gifts came in all sizes, and the challenge encouraged some who had nev-

er given to get involved. These funds are critical to the work that was done to up-grade the electrical systems and network capacity on campus.

Mount Carmel is a special place, and those who have experienced the strug-gle to become a man know that they did not struggle alone. It is the support of so many others that pushes each of us to find success. Jim and the class of 1970 recog-nized the help they received and now have made a gift that will enable students now and into the future to have a better learn-ing environment.

The class challenge was a great way to reconnect with old classmates while working toward an important goal. Oth-er classes have taken notice, and the next class challenge will kick off soon.

Pictured: From the 1970 yearbook, students exiting the main building.

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Advancement

The newly upgraded classroom – Room 104 – now features a touch screen television, an additional 72 inch monitor, and a ceil-ing-mounted projection device. However, the most immediately obvious difference from other classrooms may be the absence of traditional desks.

The upgraded classroom illustrates the way Mount Carmel plans to change the remain-ing classrooms of the main building during the next three summers of renovation work. The prototype room allows teachers the op-portunity to test how the more flexible fur-nishing and more powerful technology can enhance instruction in each subject area. Since the school previously upgraded its science and technology wing, with the con-struction of the Graham Center and McCa-rthy wing, these classrooms will be used pri-marily by English, Social Studies, Theology, Mathematics, and Language Classes.

The redesigned interior of Room 104 is sleek, like something out of the future. Entire walls, which are white, can be written on with dry erase marker. There are numerous charging stations for the students’ electronics that may be used in the classroom. There are no smart boards (“a thing of the past” accordingly to Mr. Chris Goolsby, MCHS Assistant Princi-pal for Technology), as the smart TV’s have taken their place. The room features a variety of seating options, including stand-up work stations and rolling tables and chairs, instead of the traditional desks.

One of the goals in building this room is to see how it changes the learning atmosphere. With all of the new technology and a new set up to the physical aspect of the room, it’s a big change here at MC. According to teacher and educational journalist Mark Phillips, “The physical structure of a classroom is a criti-cal variable in affecting student morale and learning” (Edutopia.org, A Place for Learning: The Physical Environment of Classrooms http://www.edutopia.org).

As this prototype is tested by faculty and stu-dents, the administration will decide what features should be incorporated in the other main building classrooms. That work will begin with the third floor and eventually working its way down back to the first floor. By the start of the 2019 school year, all of Mount Carmel’s original classrooms will be upgraded and include smart technology.

Pictured (top): Neil Novosel 2016 and Anthony Thompson 2016 work on math problems by using the ceiling mounted projector and writable walls. (Center) Gabe Nunley 2017, Max Vandeveld 2018, McCauley Kilbane 2016, and Dillon Hoey 2017 project their work from their devices on one of two LED screens in the smart classroom. (Bot-tom) McCauley Kilbane 2016, Jaylen Anderson 2017, Denilson Pena 2016 and Dillon Hoey 2017 work on a group project using the moveable desks and chairs that furnish the smart room.

THE FUTURE OF LEARNING AT MOUNT CARMEL


By Jack Lockard 2016

Ilic 2017 Selected to particpate in ADL Youth Leadership Mission

Mount Carmel High School Junior Brani-mir Ilic, of the Hegewisch neighborhood on Chicago’s southeast side, was among a diverse group of students from across the country chosen to participate in the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) 18th Annual Grosfeld Family National Youth Leadership Mission. The ex-perience teaches students how to apply lessons learned from the Holocaust to their own lives and lead the fight against bigotry and hate in their respective communities.

The mission, which took place from Sunday, November 15, 2015 to Wednesday, Novem-ber 18, 2015 in Washington, D.C., involved 132 high school students from Chicago, Atlanta, Connecticut, Denver, Florida, St. Louis, New Orleans, New York City, New England, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Los Angeles and Washing-ton, D.C. Ilic and seven other Chicago students were selected for their extraordinary leader-ship qualities and demonstration of interest in issues of diversity.

Ilic, an honor student at Mount Carmel, partic-ipates in Model UN, Latin Club, Speech Team, History Club, and Young Politicians, and com-petes for the Caravan Rugby and Golf teams. Ilic first heard about this opportunity through Director of Student Engagement and Latin Club moderator, Mr. Sean Sweany.

“It’s a huge honor for Branimir to be chosen for this opportunity,” commented Sweany, who en-couraged Ilic to apply based on his involvement in school activities and political interests.

For his part, Ilic gained a great deal from his participation in the conference, including practical advice such as “leaders need to have a strong voice and oratory skills.” But he also brings home a new found appreciation of per-severance.

“The speakers we heard from failed many times, but had they quit, they never would have accomplished their goals. I learned that you should never give up. The stories they shared motivate me to try to use these skills at Mount Carmel. ”

One speaker Ilic was particularly motivated by was Jonathan A. Greenblatt, ADL CEO, and co-founder of Ethos Water. Ilic had the oppor-tunity to interview Greenblatt and asked him what advice he has for students in the Young Politicians Club and Entrepreneurs Club at Mount Carmel who want to pursue careers in those fields. Greenblatt’s reply: “Take risks, be an intern, and try something new. You can’t play the game without getting on the field.”

Greenblatt also addressed the entire group of students about how influential they can be in making change in their own communities.

“It is critically important to be able to equip young people with the ability to not only un-derstand issues of bias, bigotry and racism, es-pecially given the past year’s troubling events across the country, but to equip them to be able to directly respond,” said Greenblatt. “The goal of the youth leadership mission is as relevant as ever today, and over the years, students have become so incredibly inspired to effect change in their own schools and neighborhoods upon returning from the trip. The mission really gets them thinking about combating hate in a really positive way.”

The centerpiece of the mission was at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, where students learned about the persecution of Jews and oth-er minorities during World War II, and exam-ined contemporary issues of extremism, bigotry and genocide. The students also engaged in dis-cussions about how they can fight prejudice in their own communities.

During breakout sessions conducted by ADL’s A World of Difference Institute facilitators, students shared their personal experiences with bullying, hatred and discrimination, and discussed how the lessons of the Holocaust can be applied today. Other notable presenters included Nesse Go-din, a survivor of a Lithuanian ghetto, the Stuff-hof concentration camp, four labor camps, and a death march, and Marione Ingram, a Holo-caust survivor, civil rights activist and author.

The students also attended ADL’s 20th annu-al “In Concert Against Hate” on November 16 at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., where heroes in the fight against hate and intolerance were honored.

Founded in 1996 by ADL’s Greater Chicago/Upper Midwest Regional Office, the Youth Leadership Mission became a national pro-gram in 1998, building on the success of pre-vious programs in preparing students as role models against bigotry, prejudice and hate. It is generously sponsored by The Grosfeld Family Foundation.

By Claire Spakowski

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Student Achievement

Pictured counterclockwise from top: Ilic at the Washington Monument; Ilic with his ADL group all representatives from Chicago and ADL CEO and Ethos Water co-founder, Jonathan A. Greenblatt (center); Ilic outside of the Lincoln Memorial.


Mount Carmel High School President Fr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, O.Carm., and Prin-cipal John Stimler are proud to announce that 14 Mount Carmel High School stu-dents from the graduating class of 2016 have been recognized as Illinois State Scholars.

The Illinois Student Assistance Commis-sion (ISAC), the state agency committed to helping make college accessible and af-fordable for Illinois families, bestows this prestigious recognition to top Illinois high school students annually. This year, over 18,000 elite honorees join the other top state students honored for their academic achievements since the designation was first introduced in 1958.

Illinois State Scholars represent approxi-mately the top ten percent of high school seniors, hailing from 671 different high schools across the state. Selection is based

on SAT, ACT or Prairie State Achievement Exam scores, and/or class rank at the end

of the junior year. High school guidance counselors work with ISAC to determine the winners.

“Each of these 14 State Scholars should be very proud of this excellent academ-ic achievement,” said Mr. John Stimler. “Mount Carmel congratulates them on this honor as well as the families and edu-cators that helped prepare them and sup-port their academic efforts.”

“At Mount Carmel we are proud to build young men of character and these 14 stu-dents certainly exemplify that,” added Fr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, O.Carm. “This honor is a reflection of the hard work and dedica-tion these students show in the classroom every day.”

13% of Mount Carmel students reside in Indiana, and therefore are not eligible to be considered as Illinois State Schol-ars. However, the performance of many of these students is on a par with the Illi-nois residents who have been named, and Mount Carmel applauds their hard work.

ILLINOIS STATE SCHOLARSMount Carmel Announces 14

By Jim Easterhouse 2011

Joshua AllenDontrell Brown

Kyle DietzBrendan Jacobs

Brendan KellyCraig Lee

Michael MilavickasNeil Novosel

Nnamdi OkabuonyeGavin Quintero

Michael RedmondMatthew Robinson

Scott TobinVincent Zarate

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Student Achievement

The University of Chicago has been known for excellence in education for more than 120 years. The opportunity to experience this prestige extends to excellent local high school juniors and seniors who may apply for the University of Chicago Bridge Program. The program challenges high school students through college level courses before actually enrolling at a university.

Two Mount Carmel seniors, Javier Correa and Vincent Zarate, are among those who have the opportunity to study at the University of Chi-cago each week through this program.

Being selected for the program was no easy task. Mount Carmel Assistant Principal of Curriculum and Instruction Ms. Maryhelen Matijevic is in charge of the nomination pro-cess for Mount Carmel students. Initially four seniors were nominated, and eventually that number was reduced to two. After the final de-cision was made, Correa and Zarate picked out their classes and officially enrolled.

High school students in the Bridge program must meet certain standards, such as having already completed all required high school courses in the curriculum they will study at the U of C, and maintaining at least a ‘B’ in the college class.

Like Mount Carmel, the U of C is on a trimes-ter schedule. For his second trimester course, Correa chose a class in astronomy. While he did not know a lot about this class at the time of our interview, he was pleased with his expe-rience in the biology class he took in the fall

trimester. “The class itself was not difficult, but a lot of information is thrown at you.” Correa spent many late nights working hard in order to have success.

Zarate has taken a humanities class both tri-mesters. Although he admits the classes are difficult, he realizes that they will help him tre-mendously in the near future, “They prepare you for college and let you get a taste of what the rigor will be like.”

Another aspect of the program that Correa has enjoyed is the flexibility and independence. “Professors are always available during office hours and that is a good way to get to know them better or receive help on an assignment.” He feels that all students are given whatever they need in order to succeed, making the col-lege course a bit easier for high school seniors.

While Zarate admits that the jump from high school to college is considerable, he feels it is molding him into a more self-reliant student. “It’s crucial to take a lot of notes, because of all the independence that is given.”

Both of these students have high praise for the Bridge program, and appreciate how it has helped open doors to other opportunities. While Zarate still is sorting his college choices, they currently include Boston University and Vassar College.

Correa is the recipient of a Posse Foundation Scholarship, which will enable him to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on a full scholarship. “Some of my success can be directly linked to this (Bridge) program, so I’m definitely glad I did it.”

Pictured: Correa (left) and Zarate (rght) at the gates to University of Chicago’s main campus.

Students explore bridge to future with


By Jake Gurgevich 2016

CARAVAN SPEECH AND DRAMABy Mr. Dennis Brumirski

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Student Achievement

This year the Caravan continued to expand in the arts. The Caravan Speech and Drama Team, started last year by faculty member Dennis Brumir-ski, offers students a variety of opportunities to com-pete in Illinois High School Association sponsored tournaments in a variety of events ranging from public presentation of original works, to the perfor-mance of dramatic and humorous selections taken from drama, poetry and short fiction. The Caravan Speech Team ended the 2014-15 school year with a trip to the state finals for junior Justin Fekete (a sophomore at the time), and an 8th place finish in the IHSA state finals for Group Interpreta-tion. Still, the year ended with only eight students in participation. This year the activity has exploded and so far forty-seven young men have represented Mount Carmel at Speech Tournaments all through-out the Chicagoland Area. “It’s a great opportunity to compete even if sports are not your thing,” said sophomore Aidan Varela, who in his second year of competitive speech has placed at varsity tournaments seven different times.

“I feel like speech is making me well-rounded as a student and citizen,” said junior Dominic Antonietti, who is also a standout on the Caravan football team with his Humorous Duet Acting partner, sophomore Zac Styka.

According to senior Emmanuel Reid, “Because speech is co-curricular, students have an opportu-nity to compete for their school while at the same

time developing essential presentation, organiza-tion, interpretation, research, and writing skills.” Reid has shattered the school record for number of individual points scored in a season, number of final round placements and number of tournaments won. Accomplishments such as these have been easy to spot this year. The team typically competes at tournaments against 22-32 other schools. These tournaments completely fill the larger public high schools which play host. All of the teams at these tournaments have had speech programs for more than a decade if not for several. Yet, the Caravan continue to place in the top five as a team at these tournaments despite the fact that their IHSA sanctioned speech program has been in existence for less than two years. To end the year they placed at five consecutive tournaments, produced seven tournament champions, over one hundred individual events placed in a final round, and two students placed at the state competition in February 2016: Emmanuel Reid 2016 placed 3rd in Oratorical and Justin Fekete 2017 placed 6th in Im-promptu.

At a speech tournament, students compete in up to two of the fourteen individual events. Structured in much the same manner as gymnastics or track, speech team offers students a chance to succeed as individuals while at the same time contributing to an overall team score. The events range from pure acting and oral interpretation categories, to the presentation of speeches and skits written by stu-dents, to events which more closely emulate debate that require students to answer questions on cur-rent events. Students advance through preliminary rounds and, if they do well enough, advance through elimination rounds to a final round.

The Caravan Speech team is part of a yearlong pro-gram called Caravan Speech and Drama which is

sponsored by Dennis Brumirski, Lorenzo Nunez and Moises Pacheco. Together they offer a fall musical, speech team, group interpretation team and a spring comedy. All the performing and visual arts offerings at MC will combine their efforts this spring in the 2nd annual Spring Arts Showcase, where guests will be able to see some of what speech team has accom-plished along with a whole host of other offerings from art classes, band and choir and drama.

Parent support is critical to the success of any school program. With the development of the arts at Mount Carmel came the start of the newest parent council, the CARAVAN ARTS COUNCIL. Find out more ways you can support the arts by visiting www.mchs.org/ArtsCouncil.


Pictured (Left) Emmanuel Reid and Justin Fekete after the state competition. (Top) Aidan Varela performaing at Mount Carmel ‘s Winter Arts Showcase in December.

CARAVAN ARTS COUNCIL

Scholarship: Posse ScholarshipUniversity: Cornell College, Ithaca, NYHometown: Woodlawn, ChicagoExtracurricular Activities: Cross Country and Bridge Program at University of Chicago.How has Mount Carmel influ-enced you as a student? “Mount Carmel has molded me into a well rounded student.”

Scholarship: Posse ScholarshipUniversity: University of Wiscon-sin-MadisonHometown: Woodlawn, ChicagoExtracurricular Activities: National Honors Society and FootballWhat is the most important thing you have learned at Mount Carmel? “Mount Carmel chal-lenges you and prepares you for real life.”

Scholarship: Chick Evans Schol-arshipUniversity: The University of OhioHometown: Pullman, ChicagoExtracurricular Activities: Caravan LacrosseWhat lessons have you learned that will help you adapt to college life? “I think being around different kinds of people and going to this school where there are students from more than 100 different zip

codes has helped me communicate effectively, be respectful, and network. I think those lessons that I’ve learned from Mount Carmel will translate into my career at Ohio State.”

CLASS OF 2016

JOSHUA ALLAN JAVIER CORREA

JALEN HILL

Mount Carmel is proud to highlight six students who have received full-ride scholarships to colleges and uni-versities throughout the country. Read more about these students and the prestigious institutions they will be attending in the fall.

Scholarship: Chick Evans Schol-arshipUniversity: University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignHometown: Calumet Heights, ChicagoExtracurricular Activities: Cara-van BowlingWhat are you looking forward to in the next four years? “I’m looking forward to the responsi-bility of being away from home. I

have really enjoyed my four years here and have learned how to grow and become a man and be independent.”

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Scholarship: Chancelor Scholar-shipUniversity: Vanderbilt UniversityHometown: South Holland, ChicagoExtracurricular Activities: Student Council, Basketball, Roots, Vol-leyball, Disaster Relief Club, Flo Chicago and NHS. How did your involvement in extracurricular activities prepare you for the next four years at

Vanderbilt? “This scholarship is awarded to students who are devoted to leadership and diversity. Mount Carmel allowed me to explore many clubs and sports that help me to work on those skills.”

Scholarship: Next Generation Service Corp. University: Arizona State Hometown: Beverly, ChicagoExtracurricular Activities: Illi-nois State Scholars, Football and Volleyball.How has Mount Carmel pre-pared you for the responsibil-ities of this scholarship? “This scholarship is leadership based. Being at Mount Carmel exposed

me to a diverse range of leaders and learn what different types of leaders need to do.”

JORDAN RICHARDSON

MICHAEL REDMONDNMANDI OKABUONYE

Student Achievement

Through his avid participation and advocation, junior Emmanuel Ter-rell (Chicago, Humboldt Park) has been an active member in the pro-gression of My Block, My Hood, My City, a non-profit organization that educates inner city high school stu-dents about Chicago through expe-riential learning.

“It gives the kids that participate so many opportunities,” said Terrell, a member of the Art Club, Creative Writing Club, Caravan Wrestling and Rugby at Mount Carmel.

As stated on their website, My Block, My Hood, My City aims to “provide underprivileged youth with an awareness of the world and opportunities beyond their neighborhood.” In doing so, My Block, My Hood, My City takes stu-dents on one day, explorative trips through distinct Chicago neigh-borhoods. As part of the “Explor-ers Program,” these trips incorpo-rate workshops and speeches from professionals in fields pertaining to student interests.

Since Terrell’s first exploration in 2014, he has seen My Block, My Hood, My City and its students grow.

“A lot more people have joined the explora-tions,” said Terrell. “They become more inter-ested in the city. Knowing how they were be-fore, they’ve changed dramatically and they’ve stopped giving into the street mentality and have gotten out there to learn about different things and different neighborhoods.”

Terrell has been involved with My Block, My Hood, My City even before its inception. Jah-mal Cole, who founded the nonprofit, men-tored Terrell on his writing and invited him to experience experimental explorations. Due to

Terrell’s continued support, Cole included the junior student on ABC 7 Chicago’s Windy City Live this fall when he was interviewed about My Block, My Hood, My City.

After Cole mentioned that Terrell was the Youth Advocate of My Block, My Hood, My City, the student was asked about how the pro-gram has impacted him.

As he continues to experience My Block, My Hood, My City, Terrell credits the “diversity of Mount Carmel” for extending his exploration of Chicago neighborhoods. “I’ve been to a lot of different neighborhoods with students who go here. You get to learn where the coolest places are to visit.”

Find more Men of 6410 profiles by following Mount Carmel High School on Instagram! @Mount_Carmel_HS #MenOf6410 #WeAreMC

MEN OF 6410Four Mount Carmel students reached the pin-nacle of their Boys Scout careers by achieving the rank of Eagle Scout (from left to right): se-niors Jake Polewaczyk (Steger, IL), Kenny Koval (Midway, Chicago), David “D.J.” Demy (Chicago, Beverly), Matthew McKay (Chicago, West Lawn),

Sophomore Anthony Morales of Whiting, In-diana recently returned from Rome as part of Mount Carmel’s Travel Abroad program. The highlight of the trip for Morales was seeing the Pope at the Vatican on Easter Sunday.

The Pasciak brothers (Charlie pictured left and Zack at right) are from the Bridgeport neigh-borhood and graduated from Santa Lucia. They are both involved in the Classics Club. Charlie, a junior, plays golf and Zack, a sophomore, runs cross country.

Every day, students from 110 zip codes and more than 200 grammar schools travel to 64th and Dante, each one with thier own story and backgorund. Get to know the Men of 6410.

Amir Hardeman is a sophomore and aspiring photographer at Mount Carmel. You may have seen this Avalon Park resident photographing alumni events already. His talents don’t stop be-hind the lense; Amir is also part of the Caravan Speech and Drama team and CBN.

“I think it broadens your perspective,” Terrell recalled. “What we learn on the trips helps us become more active learners.”


SIGNING DAYS

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Congratulations to the student-athletes who signed national letters of intent to top university athletic programs during the 2015-2016 school year.

BASEBALLJeremy Houston - Indiana UniversityAJ Lewis - University of MissouriConnor Spear - St. Joseph’s College

WRESTLINGJake Tucker - Michigan State

BASKETBALLNick Chambers - North Central CollegeChristian Peevy - University of the Incarnate WordJake Rhode - Elmhurst College

SOCCERGrant Peebles - Florida Memorial University

FOOTBALLAnthony Thompson - Northern Illinois UniversitySteven Wirtel - Iowa State UniversityChris Accetto - Wisconsin Lutheran CollegeMatt Robinson - University of ChicagoTyler Egan - North Central CollegeMatt McKay - Augustana CollegeAnthony Ries - Arizona Western UniversityAndrew Guerra - Wisconsin PlattevilleMark Mudd - Missouri Southern StateLaVelle Houston - Missouri Southern StateKevin Kurasz - University of DaytonAvery Saffold - Amherst CollegeStudent Manager Henry Lansing - St. Norbert College

Athletic Achievement

SUMMER CAMP 2016

REGISTER AT: WWW.MCHS.ORG/SUMMERCAMP

Civil Rights June 13-16Computer Science June 13-16Greek & Roman Mythology June 13-16Chicago Architecture June 20-23Music Industry Workshop June 20-23Football June 13-16Baseball June 20-23Basketball June 20-23Soccer June 27-30Wrestling July 11-14Golf July 25-28

Since 1900 Mount Carmel has prepared young men of all learning levels and inter-ests to attend the nation’s top universities. Learn and train with the Caravan this sum-mer and join a 116-year tradition of academ-ic and athletic excellence.


WHERE ARE THEY NOW

JORDAN LYNCH 2006HIGH SCHOOL: Quarterback for the Caravan.COLLEGE: Led the Huskies to the 2013 Orange Bowl; 2013 Heisman Finalist Northern Illi-noisPROFESSIONAL: 2015 Grey Cup Champion with the Edmonton Eskimos (scored the winning touchdown).

ENOCH SMITH 2014HIGH SCHOOL: Two-time foot-ball state champion in 2012-2013 while at Mount CarmelCOLLEGE: Sophomore member of the Michigan State Spartans, and Big Ten Champion.

JOHN MALLEE '87HIGH SCHOOL: Member of the Caravan Baseball team. PROFESSIONAL: Coached Na-tional League Wild Card Cham-pion; Coached in the National League Championship SeriesCURRENT: Mount Carmel Fa-ther to son John Mallee Jr. ‘17Hitting Coach to the Chicago Cubs.

MARK ANTONIETTI '84HIGH SCHOOL: All-State and All-American his senior year; Won the Lawless award for foot-ball and wrestling his senior year; Football scholar athlete of the year by the USA Today. CURRENT: Catholic League Hall of Fame class of 2016; Mount Carmel English and Mandarin teacher. Father to current stu-dents Dominic 2017 and Gino 2019

BASEBALLJeremy Houston - Indiana UniversityAJ Lewis - University of MissouriConnor Spear - St. Joseph’s College

WRESTLINGJake Tucker - Michigan State

BASKETBALLNick Chambers - North Central CollegeChristian Peevy - University of the Incarnate WordJake Rhode - Elmhurst College

SOCCERGrant Peebles - Florida Memorial University

FOOTBALLAnthony Thompson - Northern Illinois UniversitySteven Wirtel - Iowa State UniversityChris Accetto - Wisconsin Lutheran CollegeMatt Robinson - University of ChicagoTyler Egan - North Central CollegeMatt McKay - Augustana CollegeAnthony Ries - Arizona Western UniversityAndrew Guerra - Wisconsin PlattevilleMark Mudd - Missouri Southern StateLaVelle Houston - Missouri Southern StateKevin Kurasz - University of DaytonAvery Saffold - Amherst CollegeStudent Manager Henry Lansing - St. Norbert College

Every August brings with it excitement and prom-ise as the new school year gets underway. The Soc-cer and Football teams ran drills and refined their offensive and defensive schemes, while the Cross Country team fought the heat and humidity as they improved their long distance times. The golf team pursued improvement in their personal best scores, and the hockey team suited up for a lengthy season in a new home arena. So began the 2015 athletic year at Mount Carmel, and the fall sports teams provided many highlights.

Coach Tony Godinez found his soccer program to be in excellent shape as the freshman team cruised through their tough schedule with notable wins over Marist, Loyola and Brother Rice. The frosh were crowned Catholic League Champs. The sophomores followed suit, and capped off a successful season with a CCL Championship as well. The Varsity was ranked by area newspapers as they climbed into the spotlight with huge wins over Washington, Provi-dence and Brother Rice. They completed the Tri-fecta, and were named Varsity CCL Champs. Coach Godinez was named the Tony Lawless Award winner as Outstanding Coach of the Year in the CCL, and se-nior defenseman, Scott Tobin, was given the Lawless Award as Outstanding Player of the Year, and was selected as an All-State Player. The Caravan charged forward into the post season, and won the IHSA Regional over Benet Academy by a score of 1 – 0 in

penalty kicks. Their season ended in a hard-fought Sectional contest in which they came up short, losing to Kennedy High School, also in penalty kicks 1 - 0. Coach Godinez is to be congratulated for orchestrat-ing the growth and development of the players in his program, and for the professionalism and expertise that earned him the prestigious Lawless Award.

The Cross Country team continued to grow under the guidance of longtime head coach Dan Burke. Coach Burke worked tirelessly with a promising group of long distance runners, led by seniors Bren-dan Jacobs and Connor Fagan. Both Jacobs and Fa-gan qualified for the Sectional, but neither was able to advance. Coach Burke looks forward to bringing back a significant core of runners next fall.

Second-year head coach Phil McGovern, along with his assistant, Chuck Blasgen, had much senior talent to work with in 2015. Luke Hayes, Brendan Kelly, TJ Pomponi, Kevin Breakey, and Connor Spear regular-ly posted scores that kept the Caravan competitive all year. Freshman Abdel Raoul provided much hope for the future, as he consistently scored well in varsi-ty and JV tournament play. At the Homewood-Floss-moor Freshman/Sophomore Invitational, Raoul tal-lied the best score by a freshman player. Luke Hayes earned a trip to the state finals by a strong score of an 88 in Sectional competition. Although he wasn’t among the top finishers, Hayes brought recognition to himself and the Mount Carmel Golf Program.

FALL SPORTS UPDATE

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By Sue Doheny

Caravan Golf team members Luke Hayes ‘16 and Abdel Raoul ‘19 warming up for IHSA Sectionals. (Top) Caravan Football after their record 14th Prep Bowl title.


The opening of an ice arena in Beverly/Morgan Park brought with it the opportunity for Caravan Hockey to make a new home. Coach Craig Ferguson anticipated that 2015 – 2016 would be somewhat of a rebuilding year for the hock-ey program. In his first year as head coach, Ferguson saw a host of talented freshmen join the program. The varsity was anchored by Cary Anderson and Tom Peters, who hoped to spark a winning season for their senior year. The Caravan fought through a hard Catholic League schedule. The fu-ture is bright as Coach Ferguson sees a young group of JV players making their way to the ice next season.

The 2015 Varsity Football Caravan was led by Coach Frank Lenti, his unparalleled coaching staff, and a group of seniors who were disappointed by the 2014 season. Although they lost in the state semi-finals, the losses suffered at the hands of their CCL Blue opponents were almost too much to bear for the players who have grown to respect and revere the ri-valry among teams in the Blue. This year’s team was on a mission to avenge those losses, and make it clear that last season’s conference record was an anomaly.

The team hit the right starting note, as they beat Marist 21 - 14 in their season opener at Soldier Field. A huge crowd on both sides made for an exciting atmosphere on the Lake-front. The Caravan was happy to come away with a win over a talented Marist team who eventually ended their season in the 8A Championship game.

The team rolled ahead, and notched wins over Morgan Park, DeLaSalle, and 2 Blue opponents: Providence and St. Rita. In week 6, the Caravan fell to the Brother Rice Cru-saders. The team rebounded with a big win on Carey Field against Leo, and then a forfeit win over Hales Franciscan. The final game of the regular season saw the Caravan travel to Wilmette to take on Loyola, who was eager to avenge their loss to the Caravan in 2014. And avenge it they did, taking it to the Caravan with a final score of 49 – 21. The Ramblers then powered their way to the 8A State Championship game against Marist, where they proved they were by far the best team in the state in 2015.

A 7 – 2 record, coupled with a lack of opponents’ play-off points due to the Hales forfeit, set up a rough road to DeKalb for the Caravan. They defeated Glenbard North in the first round of the 7A State Playoffs, which set up a showdown at Glenbard West, the #1 overall seed in 7A. The atmosphere was electric on a crisp Saturday afternoon in early November. The coaches had formulated a great game plan to neutralize GW’s star running back who was hailed as an offensive machine. The game was like a tug of war be-tween two titans; the ball changed possessions many times, with no one able to score. Unbelievably, the score remained 0 – 0 through 3 quarters. In the 4th, Glenbard West broke the stalemate, and went ahead 7 – 0, which became the final score. A shell-shocked Mount Carmel team then prepared to enter the Prep Bowl playoffs, hoping to keep playing until the day after Thanksgiving.

After a bye, the Caravan met St. Rita again, and were able to get past them a second time. There would be no return trip to Soldier Field for the Prep Bowl: a scheduling conflict left the 2015 Prep Bowl without a home. Fortunately for MC, Gately Stadium was the selected site, and the Caravan rolled to a 49 – 15 win over Curie to claim the Prep Bowl crown for the 16th time in school history. The taste of victory was especially sweet on our home turf, and has set the table for another successful season in 2016.


Caravan Soccer team after their regional championship win.

Caravan Cross Country team warming up before a race.

The Caravan Hockey team getting ready to play Brother Rice.

LawLess awardsSince 1976 the Chicago Catholic League has presented the Tony Lawless award to the year’s most outstanding coaches and stu-dent-athletes in each sport. The award is named after Fenwick great Tony Lawless. The standards of excellence Tony Lawless set for each of his athletes live on at Fenwick today and for many years to come. Coach Lawless built a strong athletic program at Fenwick. Lawless coached the Friars basketball team to a national Catholic championship, and as a football coach, Coach Lawless compiled an overall record of 180 wins, 47 losses. His dedication and hard work to promote the Chicago Catholic League is unpar-alleled. This year the Caravan has been blessed with several Lawless award winners in a variety of sports, and the year is not over!

KADING

GODINEZ AND TOBIN

FLAHERTY AND PEEVY

Soccer Lawless Award Winners: Coach Antonio Godinez & Senior Scott Tobin

The Mount Carmel soccer program captured the Chicago Catholic League South Championship and for the first time in several years, the soccer team captured the Regional Championship. Tobin was also selected as an Illinois All-State player.

Wrestling Lawless Award Winner: Coach John Kading

The Wrestling team continued their dominance of the Chicago Catholic League with their sixth straight championship. This year the Catholic League expansion meant that state powerhouses Marmion and Montini joined an already strong league. That did not stop the Caravan from maintaining their control of the tour-nament. Wrestling took 3rd in state at the team duals and Tucker took first in his weight class, 152lbs, at individual state competition. 10 Caravan wrestlers placed in the top 6 at the individual state wrestling tournament.

Basketball Lawless Award Winners: Coach Mike Flaherty & Senior Christian Peevy

The Basketball team defeated Seton Academy to win the Chicago Catholic League South and earned a third place seed in the Catholic League Tournament. Coach Flaherty earned his 750th win this season. Senior Christian Peevy recently signed a national letter of intent to play basketball at University of the Incarnate Word.


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New Nike gear is now available in the spirit shop!

Artwork by Henry Lansing 2016Carmel Life Spring 2016 • page 23

View from the New Guy

Hi there! I’m Matt Hawk, the newest addition to the Enrollment Office. This is my first year working in the Enrollment Office with Bill Nolan and Phil Segroves. I didn’t graduate from Carmel, and neither did anyone in my family. I’m not even from Chicago, so I hadn’t heard of Mount Carmel before I moved here. I first applied to work at Mount Carmel in the spring of 2014 as an English or Theology teacher, but because there ultimately weren’t any openings in either the English or Theology departments, so I wasn’t hired. However, in the spring of 2015 I was again looking for new employment, with limited success. In fact, I had just about given up hope on finding a new position when I got a phone call from Fr. Tony. He had heard through a mutual friend that I was looking for work, so he called me to get me to come in and talk about how I might get involved at Mount Carmel. After a few more meetings with him, John Haggerty and John Stimler, I was offered a posi-tion in the Enrollment Office, which I graciously ac-cepted. I was honored and really quite touched that Mount Carmel would go out of its way to welcome me to its staff.

I have absolutely loved working here at Mount Carmel. One of my favorite things is the variety of the work and the vast opportunities one has to get involved in all aspects of the community. There’s never a dull moment working in the Enrollment Of-fice. With their jocularity and eternal optimism, Bill

Nolan and Phil Segroves make the office an exciting and encouraging work place. And our responsibilities change as often

as the seasons do. In the fall, we spend our time vis-iting grammar schools all over the Chicagoland area, telling students and their families about the exciting opportunities a Mount Carmel education will afford them. It’s a grueling schedule; you have to be in the office at 7:30am and then have to work an open house that goes until 8:00pm. We host three open houses in the fall and early winter so that students and fam-ilies can come and see what makes Mount Carmel such a special place. This year, we welcomed over 300 students for Shadow Days so they could see what a day in the life of a Mount Carmel student looks like. In the winter, we make many phone calls and write handwritten notes encouraging students to take our Entrance Exam in January. We collab-orate regularly with Claire Spakowski and Jim Eas-terhouse in the Marketing Office to develop creative ways to reach out to prospective students through email and social media marketing platforms. And once the test has come and gone, we continue to fol-low up with families, ensuring that they’ll be ready to register and enroll at Mount Carmel come spring-time. We sit down with these families individual-ly, listen to their concerns and walk them through the registration and enrollment processes. It takes unending time and energy to build these relation-ships with prospective students and families, but it’s life-giving work. Though I’m still learning the job, I’m honored to help show people the many benefits of a Mount Carmel education.

As an outsider who has worked at other schools in St. Louis, South Bend, Baton Rouge, and Chicago, I can honestly say I’ve never felt more included in a more tightly knit community than I have at Mount Carmel. Whether you’re a freshman, transfer stu-dent, or new hire, you’re part of the Caravan from day one. Numerous people go out of their way to make you feel included. As a new member of the Caravan, I am well-attuned to the many blessings and advantages of being part of the Caravan. I thank all the many students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents who have welcomed me to Mount Carmel. I look forward to continue working with you all to welcome and work with new additions to the Mount Carmel community, even as I come to better appre-ciate the many blessings Mount Carmel has to offer.

By Matthew Hawk

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Enrollment Update

By Richard Duffner '52

The legacy began 91 years ago on a September morning when Gordon H. Duffner Sr. began his freshman year at Mount Carmel High School. During his tenure at Carmel, he participated in football, track and swimming. He lettered in all three sports. He also was a phantom author for the Oriflamme. His real name was not revealed until his senior year when the Oriflamme was published. Upon graduation in June of 1928, he went on to Valparaiso Universi-ty followed by a career in sales. With his graduation, the legacy had been set for future generations.

It would be some 20 years before the first member of the second generation would arrive at Mount Carmel. Gordon H Duffner, Jr. arrived in September of 1947. He too participated in the sport of swimming, lettering his sophomore, junior and senior years. He also distin-guished himself academically. He went on to a career in engineering holding twelve U.S. patents. Most notable in his career was the development of the “radar range” a microwave oven for the Amana Refrigeration Co. of Amana, Iowa.

Gordon H. Jr. was followed by his broth-er Richard in September of 1948. Rich-ard participated in football, swimming and track, lettering in all three sports in his junior and senior years. Richard

was an average student who was a mem-ber of several student organizations. He went on to Loyola University of Chicago where he lettered in track, swimming and golf earning a degree in accounting and an MBA in Finance. This would lead to a career in accounting and Fi-nance. He would later form his own Real Estate Appraisal company from which he finally retired in 2012.

It would be eleven years before the next legacy member would arrive on Carm-el’s doorstep. It would be round-a-bout. Thomas M. Duffner would start out at Mount Carmel Niagra before arriving at 6410 S Dante Ave. for his junior and se-nior years. He participated in intramu-ral sports while concentrating on aca-demic and religious activities. He would eventually be ordained Deacon in the Catholic church.

After another pause of 9 years, the final second generation legacy member Den-nis J. Duffner arrived at Mount Carmel to begin his freshman year. He was an above average student. He participated in intramural activities and other social programs while at Mount Carmel. He would not go on to higher education but rather concentrated on the new emerging field of technology. It was only discovered after he passed away that he had a humorous side. His son Robert discovered that Dennis was author of a web site called “Duffy’s Rant.” This was a side totally unknown to the family.

Steven R. Duffner, son of Richard, marked the start of the third generation at Mount Carmel when he entered his freshman year in 1972, graduating in 1976. He played varsity football and par-ticipated in other school activities. He went on to Northern Illinois University and graduated with a degree in Art. He is currently working in the graphic art world at “Discover Card.”

The fourth generation would come upon the scene in the year 1996 when Richard’s grandson, John Duffner would enter his freshman year at Mount Carmel. He too participated in sports mostly at the intramural level. John went on to Purdue University and grad-uated in 2004. His field of concentration was Computer Technology.

The most current member of the Duff-ner legacy is Jordan Mikolajewski, Rich-ard’s grandson. Jordan entered Mount Carmel in 2011. He played baseball all four years and was a member of the recent State 4A Runner-Up Team in 2015. In addition, he was a manager for both the varsity basketball and football teams. Jordan is currently a freshman at Iowa Wesleyan University in Mount Pleasant, Iowa where he is also a mem-ber of the IW Tigers baseball team.

Do you know a legacy student that is inter-ested in joining the Caravan? Visit mchs.org/Legacy to send us his information.

Duffner Family Legacy

Gordon H. Duffner Sr. '28 Gordon H. Duffner, Jr. '51 Richard Duffner '52

John Duffner 2000

Dennis J. Duffner '70

Steven R. Duffner '76

Thomas M. Duffner '61

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Catching up with

Eric Eck 2007When did you know you were going to at-tend Mount Carmel?

Growing up the son of an alumni (John Eck ‘77), I spent many weekends at Gate-ly Stadium. Watching championship af-ter championship, it became clear that Mount Carmel was the pinnacle of high school football. I wanted to be part of that tradition. When it came time to choose high schools I knew where MC stood from an athletic perspective, but it was actually the academics that cemented my decision to join the Mount Carmel family. As much as I loved football, I knew it would be my success in the classroom that would dic-tate my future. After speaking with Coach Segroves and shadowing, I learned that my entrance exam score could allow me to enter directly into the sophomore level track and the ability to take classes at the University of Chicago during my senior year. This was an exciting opportunity that absolutely no other school could offer. Meeting with Coach Frank and hearing about the long list of alumni who transformed their athletic and academic abilities into impressive careers across all fields made my decision very easy.

What was your four year experience like at Mount Carmel and what activities were you involved in?

When I decided to go to Mount Carmel, I knew I wasn’t choosing the easiest option. Every day I commuted past other closer high schools. I woke up earlier and got home later than students at those schools did, but I loved the challenge. I felt that this was what separated me from those that I had previously gone to school with. It was this motivation that instilled my early work ethic and an understanding that dedication and discipline are keys to achieving your maximum potential. Balancing academics and athletics was a challenge that I embraced and it has set the base for success in my career. While attending Mount Carmel, I was a captain and 4-year member of the Football and Scholastic-bowl teams. I also was in the National Honor Society, Student Govern-ment, Latin, and Math Club in addition to being a Rector on Kairos. My involvement in these activities provided me valuable experiences working with a diverse group of students that has come to define Mount Carmel.

How did Mount Carmel prepare you for life?

Throughout my education, I have reflect-ed back upon the things I achieved at Mount Carmel, where for the first time I was pushed to accomplish things that I never thought I could. These learning experiences shaped the person that I

have become and often I find myself fall-ing back on lessons I learned both in the classroom and on the field. Overcoming complacency and working hard every day, step-by-step, to reach the long-term goals that you have set. Even today, I find my-self persevering through difficult trials by simply rejoicing in the fact that at least I don’t have to run sprints at Jackson Park after I’m done studying. To this day some of my best friends are the very same peo-ple I bled and sweated with out there as we worked together for a common goal. For that I am grateful.

Who were your favorite teachers and classes?

In my time at Mount Carmel, I had the pleasure of being taught by many teach-ers who focused not only their respective class topics, but on ingraining valuable lessons designed to remain with us for a lifetime. So many of my teachers had a strong impact on who I have become. Mrs. Whitaker, Mr. Sobucki, Doc Berry, Coach

Stay in touch with the Caravan! Our Lady of Mount Carmel watches over and protects our Caravan community. You can do your part in keeping one another connected and close. Update your Alumni Profile by visiting www.MCHS.org/login, enter your username and password and click “My Profile” at the top of the page to update your information. Never logged in before? Click “First Time Login” to setup your profile. In turn, Mount Carmel will send you a scapular to keep the brown and white pride alive all across the globe.page 26

By Craig Ferguson '79

Alumni Update

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The President’s Caravan Council, a group of about 20 alumni from the classes of 1992 to present that work to serve the school, created an initiative called Caravan Connect in order to help students find summer employment to help them and their families offset the cost of attending Mount Carmel.

Thank you to the follow-ing companies who have provided employment for our students through Caravan Connect:

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• Moneterrey Security• S3, Inc.• Finn Landscaping• Ridge Country Club• Cork & Kerry• A10 Restaurant• Haggerty Auto Group• Jones & Cleary Roof-

ing/Sheet Metal

(Top) The Caravan Council partnered with the Alumni Association to provide career counciling to seniors during Career Day this fall. (Bottom) Students ap-ply for jobs at the Caravan Council’s Job Fair this winter.

If you are interested in particpating in Caravan Connect, contact Director of Devel-opment and Planned Giving Michael Holland '98 at [email protected].

Ehrenstrom and Coach Antonietti really come to mind. Coach Antonietti was such a motivating force for me while I was at-tending MC. His role as both my position coach as well as my English teacher (my worst subject) never allowed me to take my foot off the pedal. Considering his personal success both academically and athletically, he was someone you knew had walked the walk and was not some-one you wanted to let down. His role, along with Coach Frank’s tutelage taught me to set the bar high and to hold myself accountable. One of the staple-points con-veyed throughout my MC education both on and off the field was to always be grate-ful for the people that put you in the posi-tion to be successful. To that end, I thank my loving parents and family for all their sacrifices, my teachers and coaches for having the faith to provide me opportuni-ties, and to over 100 years of MC alumni who are the reason this place is so special.

What are you currently doing?

As far as my continued education goes, I received a dual Bachelor’s degree in Mo-lecular - Cellular Biology and Chemistry from the University of Illinois Cham-paign-Urbana. I then completed a Mas-ter’s degree in Biomedical Sciences at Dominican University and assisted in teaching the program for two years. Cur-rently, I am finishing up my first year of Medical School at A.T. Still University in Arizona. Next year, I will begin my clinical rotations in Brooklyn, New York in addi-tion to completing research publications at both the Hospital for Special Surgery and Lutheran Health Center. I intend on completing a surgical residency following graduation in 2019. Wish me luck.

Taylor empitomizes spirit, generosity of famed class of

By Matt McKay 2016

Like the rest of his classmates, Matt Taylor '57 expected to receive his Mount Carmel diploma at graduation on June 6, 1957. But when he opened the diploma cover, it was empty. Like more than one Carmel guy over the years, he realized he had no one to blame but himself - he had failed a class - in Theology, of all subjects. So rather than sulk, he did what had to be done - he went to summer school to earn his last credit. When he finally finished the work and stopped by the school office to ask for his diploma, he was told it would be sent to his house. For some reason, it never was.

While some might have been resentful, Taylor remembers his years at Mount Carmel, and the friendships he formed, with nothing but appreciation and gratitude. Although the last few years have been marked by a series of health setbacks, he approaches each day with the deep faith and upbeat attitude that has endeared him to his many classmates and friends.

Looking back, Taylor is quick to point out that his greatest accomplishment in life was marrying his wife, Nancy, whom he met

when both had jobs at the Congress Hotel. Together, they raised a family, pursued careers, and invested in their parish and neighborhood.

But many years ago, Taylor recognized a growing desire to serve the poor, so he approached the leadership of the St. Vincent DePaul Society in his parish to volunteer. To his surprise, the group of mostly older men turned him away, stating that the then mid-dle-aged Taylor was “too young.” Although he felt angry at the rejection, on his way home Taylor noticed a sign for the Beverly-Morgan Park Food Pantry. He decided to call the pastor of the sponsoring church, and ended up volunteering there for more than 30 years, including many years as director of the program.

For many years, Taylor has been instrumen-tal in supporting Mount Carmel’s annual Thanksgiving food drive, supplying boxes and personally driving the truck transport-ing the donated food to the pantry.

For Taylor, one of the most rewarding parts of his ministry at the food pantry has been helping senior citizens who frequently run

short. “I particularly enjoyed giving the elderly people meats and proteins, because they are on a fixed income and they can’t afford things like that.”

Taylor knows he never would have attended Mount Carmel if it weren’t for reading about the Caravan’s frequent visits to the Prep Bowl at Soldier Field, or the “Mount Carmel High School” sign that Taylor and his grammar school friends saw while riding the train on their way downtown.

But luckily they did, and Taylor and five other graduates of St. Peter and Paul Grammar School attended Mount Carmel and became part of what Bill Nolan calls “the greatest class (ever) to come through Mount Carmel.”

The class of '57 has seven members in the Mount Carmel Hall of Fame, includ-ing Taylor. The elite group includes Fr. Dave Dillon, who served Mount Carmel as President from 1974 to 1980 and is currently a member of the Board of Directors; long time staff member, coach and statistician Frank

Alumni Update

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Kiszka; as well as Ed Kosteck, Jim O’Donnell, Tom Huizenga, and Bernard McGinn. Along with boasting the most Hall of Fame members from any year, the class takes pride in donat-ing the most money to the Alumni Ad Book. The class also has made it a practice of pur-chasing a brick in the Prayer Garden for each deceased classmate.

Taylor may have walked out of his gradu-ation ceremony without a diploma, but he never lost contact with his classmates. He cur-rently is a part of an email list that includes 97 members of the class who regularly keep in touch, sending each other pictures, videos, or messages.

Along with that email connection, many members of the class get together every October for a reunion. The group gathers for Mass at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Darien, at which their classmate Fr. Dave Dillon, presides. Following Mass the class goes out for lunch at Carriage Green Golf Course. According to Taylor, “We can get together so much because we can afford it.

Lunch only costs us $20.”

Long after their group left 6410 S. Dante, Taylor’s classmate and friend Jim O’Donnell still remembered that Taylor had never received his diploma. So fifty years later, in 2007, O’Donnell arranged to get Taylor’s diploma signed by the current president and principal. It was one more small sign of the bond between classmates that has lasted for more than 60 years. But before O’Donnell and the guys presented the long-overdue diploma, they made sure to check one detail: that it was dated June 6, 1957.

(This article first appeared online in the Mount Carmel Caravan on January 27, 2016. Visit MCCaravan.org for more student work.)

Taylor in his 1957 Senior Yearbook photo.


Dart

Dart '80 Named CATHOLIC LAWYER OF THE YEAR

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By Jack Lockard 2016

Alumni Update

In his current role as Cook County Sheriff, Tom Dart, a 1980 graduate of Mount Carmel, can’t always make his kids’ soccer games or chess matches. Even when he does, as soon as they’re completed he usually must head back to his home office for another two or three hours of work.

Dart attributes at least part of that selfless com-mitment to the work ethic he developed at MC. Like so may others, he still remembers the mot-to that hung on the wall of the Student Center, and now also is displayed in the new Commons: “If you care to struggle and work hard, you will leave a (better) man.”

Dart recently was honored with the 2015 Cath-olic Lawyer of the Year award, which he called “a great honor,” as well as “a reminder that I am still a lawyer.” The award is given annually to a Chicago lawyer “who has brought Christ to the world through the practice of law.”

For Dart, his entire life, including his experienc-es growing up in a Catholic household, going to a Catholic high school and Catholic colleges, has led to this award. “It’s a cumulative effect, always having a Catholic presence in my life.”

There’s no question that Dart’s job as Cook County Sheriff is a very demanding one, one which easily could challenge one’s faith in hu-manity. For that reason, Dart tries to keep his faith in mind, and his priorities in order.

With over 7,000 employees and almost 12,000 inmates under his jurisdiction, and responsi-bility for law enforcement in the second largest county in all of the United States, “One of the hardest things to do is staying focused on the bigger picture.” For Dart, that “bigger picture” involves his commitment to social justice.

For example, he is committed to helping the lowest income areas in the county to become better, safer areas to live in, like the suburb of Robbins, Illinois. Dart became aware that the high crime, low income area had over 250 un-tested rape kits and other major problems in the police department. In response, over the last two years he assigned sheriff deputies to take over policing for that community, and now is confident that Robbins is “slowly starting to bounce back.”

While tackling challenges such as that may seem daunting, Dart is encouraged by those days when he can see some progress on his so-cial justice agenda. For example, he points to programs he has established that seek to help inmates in Cook County correctional facilities become better people. “It’s rewarding to see the work that I have done affecting people in a good way.”

Some who are concerned about the relation-ship between church and state might question a public figure such as Dart who is unapologet-ic about the role his faith plays in fulfilling his responsibilities as an elected official.

However, the truth is that the term “separation of Church and State” is not found anywhere in the Constitution. In fact, the First Amendment guarantees three rights: 1) that “citizens are free to embrace or reject a faith; 2) that any support for religion - financial or physical - must be vol-untary; and 3) that all religions are equal in the eyes of the law with no special preference or favoritism.”

Dart recognizes the separation (of Church and State) that concerns many. But he also believes that “it’s not a bad thing” to be able to draw strength and direction from his faith.

Thirty-six years ago, a group of young men ac-cepted their diplomas and set out to make their mark on the world. Like so many others, Tom Dart continues to “struggle and work” at mak-ing that world a better place.

(This article was published originally in the Mount Carmel Caravan on-line newspaper on January 22, 2016)

Dart in his 1980 yearbook photo.

MAN OF THE YEARJames Finn (H)

HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEARTom Dart '80

HALL OF FAMEJim Deering '86

William Guide '89Martin Hughes '66

Jack Keane '60Melvin McCants '85Phillip O’Reilly '44

HONORARY ALUMNIJon Berry

John MuchaRon Spork

Mary Stamler

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Arthur Ray Jr. is a 2007 graduate of Mount Carmel, and is arguably one of the finest offensive linemen every produced by the school’s illustrious football program, ranking right up there with the immortals like Sylvester Lulinski, Robbie Krutilla and Ziggy Czarobski.

He was a two year starter for Mount Carmel Coach Frank Len-ti, helping the Caravan to a combined record of 25-3, including back-to-back trips to the state finals. Arthur anchored an offen-sive line that helped the Caravan average 222.2 rushing yards and 30.5 points per game en route to a 12-2 record in 2006. He was a first team all-stater, and as a senior he was recognized in Illinois and nationally as among the top college prospects.

Only two months after signing a National Letter of Intent with Michigan State University in February 2007, Arthur began che-motherapy to treat a cancerous tumor, located on his left leg near the calf. After recovering from successful surgery to remove the cancerous tumor, he enrolled at MSU in spring 2008 but had to leave due to an infection in his leg. He underwent a total of nine surgeries and spent two years on crutches. He finally was cleared by doctors for conditioning in January 2011.

He regained his health and currently has been in remission for over eight years. Arthur was named the winner of the 2011 Discover Orange Bowl/Football Writers Association of Amer-ica Courage Award, and was the recipient of Michigan State’s “Biggie” Munn Award for most inspirational player. He played in three games for the Spartans in 2011. He graduated in 2012, and to continue his career, he transferred to Fort Lewis College in Colorado, and played there for two seasons. In May 2015 he had a tryout with the Miami Dolphins, and with that experience

under his belt, began in earnest to formulate plans for a career that involved sports.

“When I was in high school, I noticed that specialized camps existed for skill position players, where young players received hands on, one-on-one training from former athletes and coach-es. Thinking back, I knew as a lineman it would have been great at age 15 or 16 to have received that type of specialized training. I knew I possessed the knowledge and skills to become a private offensive line coach, and I realized that it was exactly what I needed to be doing,” states Ray.

He reports that the Elite Linemen Academy opened in Septem-ber, 2015, and since then has been training both offensive and defensive linemen. The facility is located on 3139 w 111th Street, right in the heart of Mount Greenwood. A native south-sider, Ray feels a sense of responsibility to give back and share the things that have made his football career, and his remarkable life, such a success and inspiration.

He is the son of Arthur Ray Sr. and Adrian Ray. On his arm he has a tattoo that summarizes what his outlook has been in the face of truly extraordinary adversity. It is a message from Second Corinthians, which concludes with the line:

“For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

A Ray of Hope

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By Jim Civik '64

Follow Athur Ray on Twitter@ARayofHope

Alumni Update

A Ray of Hope

Pictured: (top) Arthur Ray in 2007 on the Caravan Football Team. (Bottom) Arthur Ray in 2015 with Fr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, O.Carm. '92 receiving the Man in the ArenaAward at the annual Salute to the Champions luncheon.

Congratulations to the 2016

Salute to the Champions Honorees!

MAN IN THE ARENAJohn Dankert '61

Sean Dillon '99

Nick Iaciancio '86

Denny McLain '62

Arthur Ray 2007

John Rogers '83

Ray Shipanik '61

Tom Ulrich '66

ALSO RECOGNIZING THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF:

1990 Hockey State Champions

1990 Football State Champions


By Jim Civik '64

Class of 1945Send your notes to:Joe Piette5630 W. 158th St. #301Oak Forest, IL [email protected]

Here we are in 2016 and a Happy, Healthy New Year to all. Just think, we have made it thru 70 years after leaving those hallowed halls of Carmel. Since these Notes are for the spring edition of Carmel Life please note that the 2016 Alumni Banquet will be held at Mount Carmel on Friday May 6th. The catering people have done a very good job the last several years and the space available in the Gym is more than ad-equate. Do not worry there is plenty of space for parking. I did not make the Banquet last year but, I plan to make every effort to be there on May 6th.

Our local group of members of the Class of 1945 met for lunch on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. The target date usually was in Septem-ber but, due to Bob Knoerzer having replace-ment Knee Surgery followed be more Surgery we delayed the lunch date so that Bob, could be with us. Attending were Fr. Bill Sheridan, John Tumpich, Bob Knoerzer, Mario Ortigara, Packey Butler, Gene HErman, Vince Giamma-rio, Tom King, Vic Gonzalez, and Joe Piette. Bob was so overwhelmed by the turnout that he picked up the tab. Our plan is to meet again in April in advance of the Alumni Banquet if you would like to attend the April luncheon and you are not one of the regulars give me a call or an Email and I will put you on my call list. I must mention that we meet for lunch at Country House in Alsip. Tom King drives down from Hinsdale to be with us. Country House Catering provides the meals for Mount Carmel during the school year and they also cater the Banquet.

I hope you read the “Flags of Mount Carmel” feature on page 10 in the Fall – 2015 edition of Carmel Life. A very good description of the WWII battle of Iwo Jima covers the loss of two Mount Carmel alumni one of which was Rob-ert Otton, our classmate. I remember Bob as he and I were in several classes together during our junior year.

Another item in the same edition of Carm-el Life was the Class of 1944 Notes. I reached out to Fr. Robert Leonhardt with an Email and heard back from him. Of course, his column should be of interest to his classmates who have shared a table with our class at the Ban-quet in recent years.

The Mount Carmel Caravan will continue roll-ing. On Saturday morning January 9, 2016, 220 young men took the entrance examination for the Class of 2020.

Simeon Rice, Class of 1991 and NFL star re-turned to Mount Carmel Friday January 15,

2016 and addressed the student body speaking about his 12 year football career at Carmel, the University of Illinois and the NFL. The pur-pose of the visit was to present to the Caravan Trophy Case the recently awarded Gold Foot-ball which the NFL awarded to all participants in previous Super Bowls as part of Super Bowl 50. Simeon stated that he knew the perfect spot for the Trophy was at 6410 S. Dante be-cause that was the spring board to his success-ful life in football

With no additional news, please remember in your Prayers all of our deceased Classmates and the Carmelites who made all of us into “Men of Carmel”. Until the next time, as Mi-chael Conrad always said on Hill Street Blues. “ Be Careful out there.”

Class of 1947Send your notes to:John E. Munnelly Col, USA (Ret) 8556 Colony LaneKalamazoo, MI 49009 [email protected]

We graduated sixty-nine years ago. How can one summarize life experiences beginning with Mount Carmel graduation that many years ago? As a surviving class recorder I use fleeting opportunities to interview classmates at alumni reunions.

Mount Carmel reunions are well-attended by enthusiastic alumni energetically singing The Carmel fight song: “thirty - yards - twenty-yards - ten yards, touchdown – Victory!” Middle aged and aging alumni alike recall the school spirit and words of our school song. Mount Carmel graduates demonstrate unique lifetime loyalty and affection for our school. Alas, active mem-bership of the class of 1947 is diminishing.

Following entry into the Army following grad-uation I lost touch with classmates and neigh-bors. During 33-years in regular Army service, Mount Carmel became a fading memory. Af-ter military retirement I began a business ca-reer and employment in Michigan. Noticing that our class narrative no longer appeared in Carmel Life I volunteered to write annual Class Notes. Renewal of acquaintances with classmates enliven class reunions. Classmate interviews provide great opportunities to write updates.

Fortunately, a timely one page handwritten life summary from our classmate Fred Mueller, ar-rived for inclusion in this issue. Fred joined our class (1944) fromQuigley. After graduation from Mount Carmel Fred Mueller entered the Navy serving from 1947 through 1949. Following Navy service Fred attended Southern Illinois University (1949-51. His ed-ucation was interrupted by the Korean War.) Recalled to active naval service, Fred served until separation in 1954 when he returned to Southern Illinois University to complete his

education.

Now a widower, Fred lost his wife, Dolores in 2008. They have two sons and two daughters. Fred’s sons now run the Iowa centered busi-ness described below. His daughters live in the Chicago area.

Entering the business world following gradua-tion from SIU Fred advanced in management holding successively responsible positions with E.J. Beach (Now Brach Co).

A feature article in the 2015 Convention issue of the “Iowa Grocer” magazine entitled “Muel-ler Yugae Associates, Celebrating 40 Years of Family” expresses Fred’s success.

In 1975 Fred Mueller, a Divisional Manager for E.J. Brach & Sons, was faced with the pros-pect of unemployment when the company was acquired by American Home Products. This one turn of events set in motion the cre-ation of Mueller Yurgae Associates, a family owned-and-operated company that has pros-pered and grown from a five-employee start-up to a major Midwest brokerage. Today MYA employs 170 and serves customers in 12 states.”

Fred adds: “Sons, Dan and Bob took over at $34 million. We did $460 million last year. Now we own seventeen companies in the Midwest market.” Well done, Fred.

I hope to continue to write vignettes of interest about classmates for inclusion in Class Notes. We are all now in our eighties. Each of us has significant memories and achievements to share. Please jot down those memories, your story. Email or postal mail your thoughts to be shared with classmates and other Carmelites. It’s ok to brag a little.

Respectfully, JEM

Class of 1948Send your notes toMartin Cosgrove 0N 717 Concord LaneWinfield IL [email protected]

Bill Lemm emailed me that he is selling his house in Arkansas and moving to Willow Falls Illinois to be nearer to his children. James Hearne died in May 2015. Jim received the Bronze Star Medal during the Korean con-flict. He was married to Joan and they had five children. He lived in Palos Heights, Illinois and came to Carmel with a group from St. Felicitas. Larry Mausen wrote me that he had thought that he, Jim Jackson and Hearne were the last of his eleven classmates from St. Felicitas at Carmel that survived. Gene Barry, Dave Grif-fins, John Alvarez, Joe Hendron, Bill Rolff, Ron Reitz and Joe Cronin have died but I am not sure if Norm Favorite is still alive.

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Class Notes

Larry Glielmi died May 22, 2015. Living in Mo-kena Illinois, he was the husband of Dorthea and the father of eleven, grandfather of 22 and great grandfather of 2. He was a veteran of the Korean War and founder of the Youth Service Bureau in Calumet Park. Bob Slobig died 6/8/2015. Bob attended Carmel with our class for the first two years but in his sophomore year was one of those selected for a scholarship to the Fournier Technical Institute in Lemont. He came to Carmel from Home-wood. In 1950 he joined the Air Force for a four year tour. He obtained a degree in Accounting at Loyola and married Martha .The father of eight, he relocated to Cedarsburg Wisconsin with Doerr Electric and eventually became CEO where he oversaw the sale of the compa-ny and relocation of its employees. I have tried to keep track of our class but it has gotten away from me. Our average age is now 85, too young for World War II, just right for Korea and a little old for Viet Nam, although Chuck Tighe died in Viet Nam. Of the class, I have addresses of 89 Classmates possibly still living, 126 deceased and 37 never located. I have contact with Barney Nolan, Dick Seaman, Gene McMahon, Bernie Rossbach, Bill Lemm, Pat Kirk, Tom Madden, Fred Tetreault, Bob Dunne, Terry Yeager and Biff Creagan. Still here maybe: If any of you guys are dead or moved to Florida, let me know. Olinda Bacce-ga (Indiana), Leon Benetier (California), Larry Blaeser (Arizona), Fred Bramanti (Arizona), Richard Brennan (Illinois), Bill Brown (Chica-go), Lane Buck (Illinois), Gene Carreras (Illi-nois), Robert Coale (Illinois), Tom Cox (Illinois), John Danhoff (Illinois), Jim Delaney (Texas), Pat Doherty (Indiana), Bill Drury (Illinois), Dan Dutton (California), Frank Edgeworth (Florida),Tom Egan (Florida), Norm Favorite (Wisconsin), Roy Fisher (Florida), Deacon Joe Gates (Wisconsin), Don Goggin (California), Fran Gorman (Illinois), Bob Gorski (Illinois), Matt Gross (Illinois), George Habernicht (Illi-nois), Robert Hanmore (Mississippi), Jim Ho-donicky (Illinois), Robert Howell (Michigan), John Jaeger (Illinois), Pat King (Florida), John Kovarik (Florida), Robert Kwapick (Illinois), Bill Lorden (Illinois) , Henry Mangen (Michigan), Frank Manno (Illinois), Bill Martin (Illinois), Bill Mathieu (Illinois),Gene MCarthy (Texas), John Mohar (Georgia), John Moran (Illinois), Joe Morrison (Illinois), James Murphy (Illinois), Barney Nolan (Illinois), Tom O’Donnel (Colora-do), John Pasco (California), Charles Pratscher (Michigan), Pete Quinn (Nevada), Dan Ray-mond (Illinois), William Rector (Illinois), James Roche (Illinois), Bernard Russo (Illinois), Don-ald Sass (Florida), Donald Sorcie (Texas), James Sullivan (Illinois), Edward Swanson (Colora-do), Bill Sweeney (Florida), Bill Taffe (Illinois), Fred Tetreault (Illinois), Paul Tufo (California), Phil Van Reeth (Illinois), Harold Weatherford (Illinois), John Williams (Illinois), Harry Wil-liams (Indiana), Henrie Wingels (Illinois), Steve Wisniewski (Illinois), Robert Wojciechowski, (Illinois), and Mel Zoller (Iowa).

Class of 1950Send your notes to:Bill Morrison19615 Cambridge DriveMokena, IL. [email protected]

Happy New Year to all of you. It is with deep regret that I inform you of the passing of two of our classmates last June, Charles L. Cotter and John J. Mahoney. Charles was married to Nan-cy and the father of Paul and Mary Babroff. He was a manufacturing representative for August Associates in Venice, Florida and while semi-retired he held the same job with Wausau Tile while living in Newman, Georgia. John J. Mahoney was a 1954 graduate of Notre Dame and was married to Shirley and the fa-ther of Denise, Karen and Matthew, who grad-uated from Mount Carmel in 1990. John was a graphic artist and resided in Chicago.

In my fall 2015 column I mentioned that I re-ceived a letter from one of our classmates but couldn’t find it when I submitted the column. I found it. It was a very complimentary letter from Dick Jackson, AKA John Richard Jackson, who lives in New Buffalo, MI. He and his wife Carol enjoyed the description of my trips in Europe because they had gone on some of the same trips. Dick also mentioned some infor-mation about Bill Murphy and Paul Niquette and wanted me to say hello to Eric Gross. Since I did a tour of Ireland last spring I have not made any trips since but I’m thinking of going to Spain, especially Barcelona, the city every-body raves about. Maybe I could learn some of the Spanish I learned at Mount Carmel.

I hope all of you are coming to the Alumni Banquet at the Cacciatore Center on Friday, May 6, 2016. I look forward to seeing all of you again.

Class of 1952Send your notes to:Fran [email protected]

From Fran HoulihanCurrently, my address has changed to 3430 Garlands Lane, Barrington Illinois 60010. In regards to my family situation, I’ve been mar-ried 56 years with 10 grands and 3 greats. In-volved in a variety of different initiatives, all of which are non-paying (that’s a hint, Craig). Probably my biggest effort is with Good Shep-herd here in Barrington, which is a great hos-pital. Going to Utah and still attempting to ski - it’s not so pretty anymore, not that it ever was. Still trying to keep involved in some fashion with Mount Carmel. I keep up regular corre-spondence with Fr. Dick Rolewicz who is now back in Seoul, Korea after having two knees re-placed in Chicago. With Rolewicz, as you may know, he had a recent visit with Pope Francis - that’s a big thing! As you may all know, we have lost a classmate Father Dan Carroll re-cently. Our prayers are with his family.

From Richard DuffnerThis last June (2105) the eighth member of the Duffner legacy ( my grandson Jordan Mikola-jewski) graduated from Mount Carmel. The Legacy began in September 1924 with the en-rollment of G.H. Duffner, Sr. as a freshman at MC. He was followed by my brother GH, Jr. ( 1951), myself ( 1952), My brother Thomas (1961), my brother Dennis (1970), my son Steven (1976}, my grandson John (2000). Hopefully there will be more to follow.

Also, from the class of '52, the Rev. Richard S, Rolowicz, a Maryknoll missionary stationed in Seoul Korea had the opportunity to meet Pope Frances on August 14, 2014 in Seoul Korea. I have forwarded a picture of that meeting to the school for publication in Carmel Life. As for myself, I’m relaxing in Plainfield, Illinois en-joying life on the quiet side.

From Walt AhernI still live in the Village of Inverness, IL next to Barrington. My wife Kathy passed away ten years ago. We had a great marriage, and I really miss her dearly, but life goes on. My family of six married children and eighteen grandchil-dren keep me busy. A son and daughter live in Barrington, two other sons reside in Lake Bluff and Sleepy Hollow, IL, and then a daughter in Grand Rapids and another one moving to Palm Beach this Spring.

Ten of the grandchildren have already grad-uated from college and mostly live in Down-town Chicago or New York City. The others are still in college, three in high school. All my children are best friends as are the grand-children. This makes me very happy. The re-cent birth of my first greatgrandchild, Holden Ahern, has brought joy to the whole family. I spend too much time on Facebook, Instagram, etc. keeping up with all their activities. I also keep up with my good friend and '52 classmate Don Petritis.

My friend Judy Larson, also widowed, and I are planning to winter vacation this year in Phoenix and Palm Desert. I always bring her to Mount Carmel events. In recent years I have stepped-up my contributions to Mount Carmel and was very proud to be entered into the Society of St. Cyril in 2014. Mount Carmel got me off to a good start in life, and I have a strong feeling of obligation to “pay-back” Mount Carmel and plan to continue my “step-up” indefinitely. Be-sides, it makes me feel good. From Neil GlynnNeil lives in the Beverly area of Chicago and has been there for many years. He has been in the insurance business with New York Life al-most his entire business career. He has ran 66 marathons and is planning to run in the Chi-cago and New York Marathons this year! He is very involved in the Beverly Improvement Society, which involves many interests. He is planning on attending the Carmel Alumni Banquet in May.

On a personal note, Neil’s wife had a signifi-cant stroke in 2014 and is on the way to recov-ery. Neal is in Florida for a time taking care of


his wife and trying to play some tennis.

From Cal NiquetteFr. Richard Rolewicz M.M. '52, a Maryknoll Missionary for 50 years spent this past sum-mer and early fall at Maryknoll in Maryknoll N.Y. getting his body back in shape after 50 years in Korea and China. He had to see many Doctors and a lot of procedures concerning old prostrate cancer problems, ankle prob-lems, etc. ending up with surgical replacement of both knees. When they replaced his knees, he was 3/4 of an inch taller with the straighten-ing of the “bow-legged” condition of his legs. Quite a comprehensive overhaul! In his early years in Korea, he worked in orphanages and parishes in the Cheong Ju Diocese of Korea. He was Pastor of the Yong Jong Parish which is made up of several islands in the Yellow Sea. In his later years, he was able to obtain a Chinese Visa to teach English at Yanban Agricultural College in Jinlin Province of China. He was in-volved in building a new Church to replace the old Church which the Chinese confiscated for government offices. The Government stopped issuing him Visas. They lost interest in having a 70 year old English teacher!

At any rate, on his return trip to South Korea, he was stopping to visit his Brother Paul '65 and his family in White Hall, Michigan. This allowed me to gather a few friends on short no-tice to visit him at his brother’s home in White Hall. Dick Duffner '52, Pat Noonan '52, John Manning, and myself, Cal Niquette '52, made our way to White Hall on Saturday October 24th. His brother Paul '65 and his wife Joan did a great job of hosting us. We had an absolutely wonderful day together going over past years at Mount Carmel some years ago. We all have changed a tad physically but I think we could pick us out of the 1952 yearbook. The faces remain pretty much the same but other parts of our anatomy have moved around a bit. You might recall that Richard Rolewiz was award-ed the first Fr. Aquinas, O.Carm. Humanitari-an Award for his missionary work in Korea and China. Hopefully we can squeeze in more “get togethers” in the future.

From Richard Paul Weed I’m a widower as my wife Euphemia Mar-garet Mary Reilly passed in 2003. I retired in 2007 after 25 1/2 years as Education Counselor in Navy’s Voluntary Ed Program called Navy College. All at NavSta Rota, Spain. I reside in Georgetown TX but spend most time out of U.S. or w/ sons in Fairfield or Monterey CA. I occasionally get to Chicago area, but always check scores for Sox, Blackhawks and Bulls. Still prefer (Chicago>St Louis>Arizona) Cardi-nals in NFL. “Feeling the Bern” for 2016.

Sure hope you and yours are well and enjoying life. Pray for Pope Francis. Peace.

From Bob ZahorikI am glad to see Fran got his old job back writ-ing this column. He was in the Marines for four years and never got rank, so feeling like he’s above his 1952 classmates with the news

(ha-ha) updates empowers him. Howie Fagan’s wife Nancy passed last week and they had the services at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Darien on Sunday. We saw Carmel alum in all ages and sizes. It was another great experience of the bond that comes with going to school there. A nice lift.

Most of our class is 81 now and don’t circulate as much, so I don’t have much, if any, contact with our classmates. Living in Deerfield I do see a fair amount that went to Carmel in Mun-delein. They have the same pride in their expe-rience as we do. Its nice to see.

I hope all my classmates have good health and hang around for awhile and that I catch up with some of them as we move on.

From Ray KellyOur Class of 1952 is becoming smaller with each passing season, but I am pleased that you are well and still attending to the 1952 current events/recent histories.

As the years have accumulated, reaction time has slowed and consequently, my wife elsie and I did not renew our Vail ski passes this year for heavenly Lake Tahoe and we have abandoned our yearly ski trips to Austria. Something to do with caution and survival. We are blessed with a lot of Mountain snow, which should help the drought problems in California.

We will continue our domestic and interna-tional travels as well as our trips to Chicago which we dearly enjoy. Good luck to you and our 1952 classmates and have a grand 2016.

From Barney Keating It is wonderful once again to say hello to my classmates. Where have 63 years gone? Mar-ried to my wife Kay for 55 years, 3 children, 9 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild.

I spent my life in education and retired in 1992 as a principal. During those years I was an IHSA official in baseball and basketball and a few football games tossed in. I have lived in Downers Grove for 54 years belonging to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Darien. At our church I have attended the funerals of many of our Carmelite teachers, the last being Bill Durkin.In closing, I wish all of you the best of health and blessings of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. I am proud to be in the Class of 1952. Please keep in your prayers Fr. Dan Carroll and Jack Daly who passed away before the holidays.

From George BoddyI’m currently living in Carey, IL. I have seven children and 21 grand children, and they all live in Illinois. I retired from the State of Illi-nois. I am involved with a group called Voices of Harmony, which is a choral group. I have sung in Carnegie Hall and this summer will be singing at Howard University. All of my children are also involved in singing. I am a Eucharistic minister at my church and I enjoy

playing cards three days a week.

Class of 1953Send your notes to:Jim [email protected]

Hello to the Class of '53. As usual, I haven’t heard from many of you so the news will be pretty sparse.

We had a '53 Guys lunch in the fall. It was good to catch up on how everyone was doing. We usually have these lunches two to three times a year. If you are interested in joining us send me an e-mail and I will put you on the list.

I received my annual Christmas greetings from Jerry Usalis. He is now an official volunteer do-cent aboard the USS Midway Museum. Since Jerry was a career naval officer and pilot flying off carriers, it brings back some fond memo-ries of his service days.

I recently came across an old newspaper ar-ticle written about the Catholic League 1952 championship game when we beat St. George 35-0. It is fun to see the names of the Caravan players and the description of the game. Do you remember the famous O’Sullivan to Bom-ba end around pass to Sheehy or Frank Pinn busting through the St. George line. Other names - Reynolds, Riddle, O’Donnell, Usalis, Lovino and others offer flashbacks to the good old days. If any of you are interested in seeing this article send me an e-mail and I will mail a copy to you.

That’s all the news for now. Drop me a line when you get time.

God Bless,Jim Kane

Class of 1955Send your notes to:Bob Fattore10600 S. BellChicago, IL [email protected]

Happy New year Gentlemen,Hope all is good with my classmates and you’re getting through the winter in good shape. Ap-parently, not much is going on in your lives judging by the lack of class notes received for this edition of Carmel Life. Consequently, there’s not much to report for this writing, but unfortunately there is sad news to report. Our classmate Murray Yager passed away January 4, 2016. Our thoughts and prayers are with his sons John and Michael and grandson Bran-don. I have always enjoyed talking to Murray when he attended the Alumni Banquet and relayed some of the “behind the scenes” stage happenings. He was a very interesting and tal-ented guy.

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new with you, I’m going to tell you what’s hap-pening in my life. Aside from enjoying life with my wife Jackie (Loretto Academy) our 5 kids, 14 grandchildren and 2 great-grandsons, I’m a Thoroughbred Racehorse owner. It all started in 1995 while I was working at the Metropol-itan Water Reclamation District, a few guys who I would meet for lunch thought it would be fun to “claim” a horse or two, and the sto-ry continues today. We race at Arlington Park Racecourse, Hawthorne Racecourse and Indi-ana Grande Casino and Racecourse. I’ll give you the names of the 5 horses who are current-ly running if you get out to the track or go to an OTB facility where you can place your bet, or just watch the race. The names are: Arman-do’s Star, Flashdance Road, Robinsilverbadge, Chief Robin, and Rip Roarin’ Ritchie. I really enjoy the aspects of the business and have a couple of partners that make it a lot of fun. Very exhilarating to say the least. Our trainer is Mark Cristel. Now I’m not advocating betting on horses, but just in case you’re at the track, you may want to keep an eye out for them.

One more thing I might add is if you’re plan-ning on attending the Alumni banquet on Fri-day, May 6th, buy your tickets early so we can get tables assigned for our class, so we can sit together. That’s it for now guys. Please send me some notes so I can give you some interesting “stuff” to read.

I’m including my correct email: [email protected] in the letter because it’s been show-ing an incorrect email address in previous col-umns. Take care,Bob Fattore Class of 55

Class of 1956Send your notes to:Bob Keeley10532 S. BellChicago, IL [email protected]

Morning after the Iowa Caucuses & weeks be-fore the St. Patrick’s Sout’ Side Parade. Breaking News! Our 60th Reunion date is May 6, first Friday. We look for sixty (60) 1956ers to gather at school at 10:00 a.m. for Mass, tour & a peak into a class, and then lunch with a chance to talk and enjoy our newly refurbish-ing Mount Carmel. Those who wish may also attend the “All-class” reunion that evening at the Cacciatore Center.

I ran into St. Bride’s oldest living graduates: Tom Burton, Jerry O’Connor, Jim Kaufmann and Norb Murray (MC 54) at Ron (Leo guy) Durbin’s funeral at St. Raphael’s in Naperville. Ron’s wife Mary Ellen reminded us that five MC guys can almost equal one Leo guy. Hum-bly, we demurred in our comments.

MC Alumni Director Craig Ferguson has scheduled a monthly series of ‘older-than the-class-of-66’ alumni luncheons (that’s us, lads!) at MC’s Kiszka (kish’-kah) Suite. Info? [email protected]

This Just In!!..... Headlines you may have missed: “Miraculous Jackson Brothers Save Illinois Central Railroad.” Dan Jackson just revealed (shhhh!) to me that their dad (HR at the IC) engineered the saving of the IC each summer & many Christmases by hiring his two sons----Dick, class of 50 and our Dan---- to do major stop gap duties: “gandy dancing” (repairing/replacing the rails in the hot sun); washing oil soaked rags in the old sout’ subur-ban engine house; selling tickets at 12th Street Station, and even working as a conductor. De-Paul U grad Dan is gran’pop of 12. Goodwife, retired flight attendant, Teresa & he travel the country visiting their young’ns. Dan says ‘Hi!’ to his Philip Neri & Bride’s buds, esp. his old NW Mutual insurance provider Dick Walthers (MC '51), as well as Bob LaMontagne and the above listed “Four Tops.”

French Horn virtuoso Mike Dwyer (Columba-nus), now finishing remodeling his new home in New Lennox, recounted that in our senior, spring semester, he was tasked with sched-uling our MC Band every single Wednesday for a concert; & so he DID into almost every girls’ high school on the planet. Our director Mr. Tom Fabish wondered aloud something like, “Holy spit, Lad! What in the good Lord’s name have you done?” Also, Sr. Principal at Loretta Academy Woodlawn warned Mike to “play only classical music.” I.e., none of that sinful pop or ‘rock n roll’! Mike had to tell Mr. Fabish; this after our great director had taught us all the ‘pop’ music known to mankind. Our Assistant Director George Quinlan was lead trumpet at the old Chez Paree, so we were pret-ty well up on the pop music of the day. Oops! One of our Band members was then caught by a nun ‘making out’ in the hall after the con-cert with a Maria HS freshie. Fabish, Quin-lan and Mike got us through that incredible concert season! Yes, Mike was the Band’s best ever “scheduling secretary.” After 4 years in the Army over the Berlin Wall and Missile Crisis, Mike used his G.I. Bill to get his AA, BA and MA in business and Accounting and has been married to his Denise for over 50 years.

Our other French Horn player in our band, Roddy MacDonald, Indianapolis, called to say that he has percussion instruments to donate to the band, i.e., Pipe Band drums as well as regular snares. He grew up on Longwood & 117th, south of the Walgreen estate, married his girl from Roseland; has a daughter who is a physician living and working now in Kenya after 2 years in Uganda. His wife babysits for the grand kids one of whom is a budding hock-ey player. Rod has been playing the bagpipes for 65+ years and was his Indianapolis band’s Pipe Major.

Track relay & cross country guy, Tom Boland, remembers his MCHS upper-class heroes Wayne Talcott, Jim Surane, and Bill Drew. Tom sang in the Paulist Choir at Old St. Mary’s. To-day he owns Hansa Toys. Google Hansa Toys North America for the most beautiful furry & feathered, life sized animals and mini toys you will ever see. Tom sells across the world; I caught him just back from a sales trip to Ger-

many. Immaculate Conception parish, known as “I-C” at 87th and Commercial, schooled Jim Ciresi before Mount Carmel. After gradua-tion, he augmented his DePaul U classwork with his iron worker apprenticeship in Gary’s mills and the U.S Post Office while earning his BA in Accounting plus his CPA. He completed his education in the Finance Corps of Uncle Sam’s Army. Jim’s mosaic of life has taken him twice to Rome (where he ran into Don Draku-lich teaching 16 inch softball to kids at a U.S. Air Force Base) and so far, to 33 countries. In 2015 Jim & Kitty settled into a condo overlook-ing Lake Michigan in Port Washington WI. They have 3 daughters who out-sing both the McGuire Sisters & the Supremes. He keeps in touch with '56’s Carl Zencka.

1956 Real Awards: for MCHS news-gathering goes to Dennis Kasper for working at MCHS on alumni information updating and encour-aging participation in alumni events, and “MCHS Band Angel” for the last three years goes to Teri & Tom Grojean for their generous financial support of the MCHS Band.

Reaching Out. MCHS’s Music Director Mois-es Pacheco and members of the newly formed MCHS Arts Council, namely Art Teachers Julie Chappetto & Matt McGuire & Speech Club/Theatre Director Dennis Brumirski, are looking for all ARTS Resources you may have to offer. We are plucking our heart strings for the “Save Our Shrine” parishioners of the old St. Clara’s Church (Our 1956 Graduation Site), a City Architectural Landmark, for their cam-paign to raise funds after their church’s Octo-ber 2015 fire.

Dennis Kasper, Dennis Panozzo, Bill Miller, and Tom Rooney ask that you gents please send in updated emails, addresses & cell #s of classmates you are in touch with to our alumni office to help update our 1956 list.

And finally, “The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: a 60th Caravan reunion; our yout’ & aging friends; Of cabbag-es—and kings!” So, see you 10:00 a.m. Friday, May 6 for our 60th Reunion. Bob Keeley (cell) 773-255-7523 email: [email protected].

Class of 1957Send your notes to:Matt Taylor9551 S. Damen AvenueChicago, IL [email protected]

Thanks to Fr. Tony Mazurkiewicz, O.Carm. '92 on his years of leadership at Mount Carmel and best wishes to his future endeavors.

Congratulations to Marty Hughes '66, brother of our classmate Ralph Hughes, on his election to the Mount Carmel Hall of Fame at this year’s Alumni banquet.


Our yearly luncheon was held in November at the Carriage Green Country Club. Matt Kulu-sic handled all the details. In attendance were Frank Bugos, John McDonnell, Jim Dunlavy, Bill Nebel, Bob Glynn, Jim Riedle (came in from Tennesee), Ken Jackson, Fr. Dave Dillon, Tom McFar-land, Joe O’Gallagher, Charley Drumm, Gene Orchowski, Joe O’Connor, Terry Ahearn, Neil Fitzmaurice, Ed Lyons and Jim Martin.

Ed Kosteck and his wife Kathy, spent time with a group from the Church in Michigan that they attend in the summer. They toured Europe with a stop at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal.

Fr. Dave Dillon, O.Carm. is a busy retired priest. He assists each weekend by offering two Saturday/Sunday Masses at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bensenville. Every other week, he also hears Confessions on Saturday at St. Charles Borromeo. Every Monday he offers the 8:30 Mass at St. Alexander Parish in Villa Park. Every Tuesdays he offers a Mass at 2:30 P.M. at Chateaau Center Nursing home in Wil-lowbrook for the residents. One day a week he also celebrates our Morning Mass for our Carmelite Community in which I live here in Darien. He also visits patients at Mercy Hospi-tal and Rush Hospital in Chicago.

Received this e-mail from Al Asherman in Kansas. After working and living (with my wife of 52 years) in San Diego CA for over 50 years we picked up and moved (last year) to Shawnee Kansas, which is just outside of Kan-sas City MO. To put it very mildly amongst many things, it’s been a cultural shock which I still haven’t gotten over, but I’m trying at adapt to the KS lifestyle/ways. Who moves from sun-ny/easy Calif to wide open KS, we did mainly because my son/daughter and grandkids live here and my wife wanted a change of lifestyle and to be closer to family. Enough said.

Received this e-mail from Jay Olejniczak in North Carolina. Published this book last year. To Be A Soldier: A Selective American Mili-tary History, printed by Xlibris and available on Amazon.com. Covers a lot history from the Revolutionary War through Gulf War 1, with a focus on West Point but not exclusively. Lots of less well known incidents and heroes. Jay’s wife Sylvia is an author of book on West Point and childrens books.

Received this e-mail from Tony Matz in Arizo-na. My hobby of ocean fishing has somehow turned into a business. I now have 4 fishing boats in San Carlos Mexico, on the Sea of Cor-tez (Gulf of California). At least I can fish for free.

Received this e-mail from Dave Fetyko. I will be slowing done my travels. Trip in 2016 to Bal-tic countries and St. Petersburg, Russia took its toll on the knees. Hobbling around now with two bad knees since June, but at least during February I’m doing the hobbling at Fort My-ers Beach/Bonita Springs. Meniscus tear in

left knee was taken care of in October. Right knee replacement (bone-on-bone; no carti-lage left) scheduled for early April. Left knee replacement may follow that in a few months. Great fun getting older as most class members know. Hope to be getting around for our 60th reunion, and maybe even sooner for my 55th college reunion.

Received this e-mail from Jim Martin. On Feb. 5 we will be closing on the sale of our Lemont townhome, and making an interim move to our condo in Venice, Florida. We’ll be there untill late fall when our newly purchased con-do in Madison, Wisconsin, is ready. We’ll send you our Wisconsin address and phone number at that time. We’re looking forward to living close to our grandsons and enjoying the activi-ties of a college town. Our cell phone numbers and email addresses remain the same. Keep in touch.

Do you know where these classmates are? If so, please contact me. James Arcieri, John Carey, Thomas Carlisle, John Dolan, Kenneth Dugan, James Kirby, Joseph Leigh, Richard Mc Laughlin and Thomas Uthe.

We regret the passing of Hon. Bernard McGinn, who was a retired Judge of the Dis-trict Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska, and Edward Barry who was retired from the Trea-sury Dept. of Northern Trust.

And finally, my wife Nancy and I were to cele-brate our 50th anniversary in September. We had rented a home in the Lake Geneva, WI, area and were going to celebrate with family and friends, some coming in from California, Wisconsin, New York, Florida, North Carolina, London (the one in England) and of course, In-diana. Well the Friday night that we were going to party, I was in Little Company of Mary Hos-pital. So entering the back door of the hospital, about 30 to 35 friends and family showed up in my room and we sang and laughed. About 9PM, everyone left to go to Joseph’s Restaurant in Mount Greenwood to celebrate and I waited for an ambulance to take me to University of Chicago Hospital. It showed up around 10PM. I really know how to celebrate, don’t I. Some-body showed up with a huge cake which we shared with the staff at Little Company and diners at Joseph’s. See you at the Alumni Banquet on the first Fri-day in May.

Class of 1962Send your note to:Frank [email protected]

What can be said about a Hoosier from Mun-ster, Indiana? Mike Blake was a forward on MC’s varsity basketball team; he was also a backup outfielder on MC’s 1962 Catholic League Championship Baseball team. After graduation from MCHS, he attended Loras College and received his degree in communi-cations.

He immediately took a job with a TV station in Evansville, Indiana with the idea of getting ex-perience and moving on. He never left Evans-ville. As opportunities opened up he continued to progress. He ultimately became the top TV sports announcer in Evansville and all South-ern Indiana…the Joe Buck of Indiana. He was also the play by play voice of the University of Evansville Purple Aces basketball team.

He traveled with the team to every away game, except one. On December 13, 1977 Mike had made other plans, and was going to meet the team in Tennessee, where they were to play the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.

On December 13, 1977, a Douglas DC-3 car-rying the University of Evansville basketball team, lost control and crashed shortly after lift-off. Everybody on board that flight perished…coaches, players, administrators. Except, Mike Blake, because of another commitment. Did somebody “Higher Up” have other plans for Mike; or did Our Lady of Mount Carmel come through again,and protect one of her boys? Mike has since been inducted into the Indi-ana Basketball Hall of Fame. Way to go Mike. You were blessed with a Broadcaster voice; and Father Austin and Howie Fagan would be so proud of you…as we all are.

Hey has anyone run into Bob Lucid or Jim Helsdingen? The “Boys” from St Sabina have given up the round ball, basketball. Both have retired, and now have taken up another ball, golf. Their scores are suspect, however, espe-cially when they are recording all their own scores! Hey, you guys, mulligans do count! Jim still lives in the Chicago area, and does period-ic commercials. I remember seeing him on a CTA bus commercial years ago. Bob is hiding out in Dowagic, MI. with his petite wife of 51 years.

How about Jay Dillon. He graduated from the Xavier University, married his high school sweetheart, and raised three beautiful daugh-ters…let’s hope they look like their mother. But Jay Dillon’s name is better known in the hand-ball circles, where he and his doubles partner won the 1975 Indiana State Handball Champi-onship. He went on to win 5 National Outdoor Handball Championships from 1984-1988 in Ohio. Where was he when we needed him at MCHS…oh, he was playing Lightweight bas-ketball. He has since retired from GM after 32 years. St Felicitas would be proud!

I have been informed, through the grapevine, that another 1962 MCHS grad, married a ten-nis jock. Not only, Mike O’Leary’s wife, but Bill Brown’s wife, Mary Kay. I also hear that when the wife’s play their respective husbands, it is not a pretty picture.

And on a sad note, John O’Shea died in ear-ly November, 2015. He was a highly successful business man in leasing and in real estate. It’s interesting how one remembers certain things about certain classmates. He was a good guy, a fun guy, and seemed to be always smiling.

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And as crazy as it sounds, he sat behind Mike O’Leary for most of his Carmel career. God Bless. And John, clear the way for the rest of us, big guy!

And on a personal note, my older brother Richard (Dick Frasor) died in late November, 2015. He was in the Class of 1951. He was the reason all the Frasor brothers went to MCHS. He was All State in football at MCHS, played football at ND, and was a US Marine. A tough act to follow, but a terrific guy. He will be missed, terribly!

And you guys, don’t ever forget, Our Lady of Mount Carmel continues to take care of her boys regardless of their age.

Class of 1963Send you notes to:Jim McHugh28870 Forest Lake LaneGreen Oaks, IL [email protected]

Thank you, boys, for your overwhelming sup-port of Mount Carmel. Figure just released identify the class of '63 as the most generous of all Mount Carmel classes for the 2014-2015 fis-cal year. As a group, we contributed more than $681,000 during the year – a whopping 86% higher than the second place class ('66). Twen-ty-four '63 classmates contributed.

Thank you, as well, for your terrific response to my Carmel-Life email request. All sorts of news to share ...

George Jankovich reports from Madison, Wis-consin, that he and Sue became grandparents for the second time. The same is true for the Desmonds. Bill’s son, Bill ('98) is the recent fa-ther to William Duke Desmond (yes, that’s the boy’s real middle name). Little Duke expects a little brother, soon. Tom and Lani Tyrell loved their hiking tour of Wales last summer, but the flights were ag-ony. (Amen to that!) Future travel, they decid-ed, would be behind the wheel of their Jeep. First stop was South Bend for the Georgia Tech game, followed by The Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Fame and Ralphy’s House (A Christmas Story) in Cleveland. The Tyrells were New Years Eve dinner guests of Tom and Carole McDermott when the second Tom discovered that they all lived in Manhattan (again, as a result of my email request). The Tyrells expect their third grandson soon.

Dan Boyle was watching the Harlem Globe-trotters at the Allstate Arena with fiancé, Me-lissa when he got my email. The couple met on “Our Time,” and are planning a June wedding. Said Dan, “I feel like the luckiest guy alive!”

Last Fall, my wife, Lynn, and I dined with Jim and Laurie Peacher in Sonoma, California. Although Jim and I have been email pals for many years, it was only the second time I’d seen him since graduation. Jim is a remarkably talented painter and is a featured artist at a

Woodland, California, gallery this Spring. He was assigned an 80-foot wall to fill and, as he put it, he was “busting my butt” to complete enough new paintings. Jim’s “Lion” painting is the promotional centerpiece for a production of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by the Woodland Opera House next year.

Retired architect Ralph Rangel was unim-pressed with Denver’s architecture, but he loved the Italian food. At the airport coming home, a young boy noticed Ralph’s Mount Carmel cap and blurted out, “that’s where I’m going!” Replied Ralph, “You’ve made a fine choice!” Let’s hope the young man has half the fun at Carmel that Ralph did.

Bill McGowan serves on Mount Carmel’s Planned Giving committee. Writes Bill, “If ev-ery Carmel grad could leave a modest portion of their estate to go to our school, we ‘d guaran-tee the future of Mount Carmel to perpetuity.” We both urge you to contact Mike Holland at the Mount Carmel Development Office (773 324-1020, ext. 285). (Bill’s doing a great job with our class!)

Speaking of grandchildren, Jim and Lynn Cu-sack expect their fifth in June. The entire fam-ily gathered at their Western Springs home for Christmas. Jim and Lynn have been married 44 years. Jim enjoyed a recent '63 reunion lunch at Bourbon Street with Duke Desmond, Bob Kuenn,Tom Werner, Joe Cate, Jerry Lyons, Bob Sheahan and Ralph Rangel. Said Jim, “We all had fun reminiscing about our times at Carm-el, our kids and wives and medical conditions! “Renaldo Paredes discovered that Bill Burke lives near him in Evanston by reading this column. (Do I get a finder’s fee?) They shared memories of Mount Carmel over coffee one morning recently. Renaldo is anxious to stay in touch with former classmates. Contact him at [email protected].

Mike Smith moved permanently to Sarasota a couple of years ago, where, he said, “I met and married a wonderful woman.” The new-lyweds travel extensively – recently to Europe, with trips to China and Africa planned next. Mike recently ran a half-marathon with his 23 year old daughter, a brand new Colorado State graduate. Dad and daughter have run all over the world, including an eight-day event in Ec-uador. Mike maintains his passion for running and working. He’s completed 72 marathons and ultra marathons, and continues the con-sulting practice he began 30 years ago.

Many of you responded with heartfelt sadness to the news of Fr. Jordan’s death last November. Said Bill Boucek, “He told us we were all tem-ples of the Holy Spirit but that he was build-ing a cathedral.” Terry Nolan recalls Fr. Jordan patrolling 64th Street wearing a Cook County Deputy Sheriff’s badge on his Carmelite robes accompanied by two big German Shepherds. “He seemed to be disciplinarian to the whole neighborhood!” The most popular response was the unforgettable, “The quickest way to get to the promised land is by crossing the Jor-

dan.” God bless you, Father Jordan, you helped to make us men.

Class of 1965Send your notes to:Terry [email protected]

There have been a lot of contacts and gather-ings since the Fall of 2015 to report. The sad news is that one of our own, Dan Sheridan passed away on Dec. 1, 2015. And the memo-rial in September for Jim Brady, who died on March 17, was well attended by his classmates, his military friends, and his St. Ailbe Parish friends. May they, and all of our 1965 class-mates who have died, rest in peace!

I hope these Class Notes make sense! I’ve been drinking and enjoying the holidays. I hav-en’t drank for a long time, which is good, no jail!! A lot of my recent experiences lead me to say that our class of 1965 has to be the most unique class that Mount Carmel has ever had. The closeness of our classmates is unbeliev-able. We have many to thank (including Terry Stadler) for holding this together. When I talk to other schools and other classes, there is no comparison. Well, to get started, when my wife, Nancy Po-tocki, died there must have been thirty of our classmates that reached out to me, including Bob Kieta and his wife who were there to help me. I saw Dennis Radowski at Dan Sheridan’s wake. He is living in Hammond and unfortu-nately lost his wife but still has a great family backing him up. I have to say that the singing of Danny Boy at Dan Sheridan’s wake was very emotional. Kathy, Dan’s ex-wife, did a great job, just as she did singing with Nancy Lucas at our 50th Reunion Mass on May 1. And when Nan-cy Lucas died, a bunch of us made it to either the wake or the funeral. Never realized how close our MC Family was. Need to ask Bill Howell about his feeling of Bob Munos, from Mendel! Ha!!

Lee Ryan had another hip replacement and is doing well in California. Frank O’Rourke (the “good looking one” as he identifies himself and my good friend) is doing well in Wiscon-sin along with his grandchildren and adopted children. Mike (Chico) Rogan is staying with me for the Christmas Holidays, with a horde of women chasing him! That just kills me! He still lives in Florida. Jerry Lulinski is retired and lives with his wife Marge in Munster, In-diana. He works out at the same place as I do and lets me know about his hunting and fishing exploits, as well as the exploits of his grandchildren. Ray Sarnowski is doing well in Valrico, Florida and took on a part time job to fill in his idle time. He keeps busy with a grandchild but always has time to talk about Mount Carmel exploits. Dick Sellers is the ‘Badest and Toughest’ man I have ever met. He attended Howie Fagan’s “Man in the Are-na” at Hawthorne Race Track. Coach Howie Fagan looked as if he could still kick my tail. Thank God for Dick Sellers’ wife, Jeanie, for


keeping him in line. Dick showed me a pic-ture of his granddaughter How beautiful and athletic but will not date until Dick OK’s the poor young man! I think she might be about 30 years old when that happens.

Thanks for all of you who have come to our (al-most) monthly gatherings at the Cork & Kerry Pub on Western. We are proud to report that anywhere from 10 to 20 guys show up for the pints, pizza, and most importantly, the sto-ries. Keep looking at your e-mails from Terry Stadler for our next gathering or another 1965 event.

We are very happy to receive your notes, phone calls and e-mails. Just two to report that we were most happy to receive: one from Matt Koswenda and one from Tim Czarnecki. Matt enjoys having his 3 kids around “always.” To-gether they take care of 3 houses, 4 boats and 3 acres on the Black River. We wonder if he would ever like some ‘fishin’ buddies??!! Tim reports that he and his wife will be married 50 years soon in 2016. He told how quickly things can change: one week after our high school graduation in 1965, he was in boot camp on his way to VietNam (& 2 tours). He didn’t think that he would ever get to go to Carmel with us, but Fr. Ben was too persuasive.

Terry has received 25 completed Class of 1965 surveys, so far. He e-mailed them to our 143 classmates in October or November, for whom we have an e-mail address. That’s a 17% re-sponse rate: good, but not great! If you haven’t responded to Terry with your completed sur-vey, yet, please do so now!

Most of us, the class of 1965, still live in Illinois and Indiana (no surprise). But, then, besides Frank Jachim in Wales, UK, our classmates live around the country in 18 other states, from Florida (with 9 guys) to California (with 8 guys). If you ever get curious about if and who might live in your same state or near you, just contact Terry Stadler ([email protected]) for their names and contact information.

Finally, with the sad (and considering it “vic-torious” according to Hyman Johnson because how great a life that Jordan lived,) news of the passing of Fr. Jordan Rooney on Nov. 20, 2015, thirteen of us contributed to a Class of 1965 written memorial to this great priest and disciplinarian. Some guys (Bill Spitzig, Frank O’Rourke, and Jack Moran) related significant and transformational experiences with Fr. Jor-dan in the halls of Mount Carmel. Those ex-periences (haircuts to a baptism to episodes of turning boys into men”) have stayed with them for 50 years. Others (Alan Young & Bill Klees) simply stated that he was a “great role mod-el” or that “we need more of his kind today.” Ed Kulzer stated that he wouldn’t have come to Carmel, if it wasn’t for Fr. Jordan talking to his father. Others (Joe Walsh) mentioned how they met him while in the military. Terry add-ed that he married him and his wife in 1968. May he have rest!

Class of 1966Send your notes to:Rich [email protected]

Fellow 1966 Men of Carmel,

Welcome to our 50th Anniversary Year. Hope you are all doing well as you read our inaugural column in the Class Notes. At first, I was a little hesitant to take on this assignment. However, I decided to move ahead given the encourage-ment of my fellow Reunion Committee Mem-bers and assurances from Marty Hughes that if I could not come up with anything to write about, I could use the creative writing skills I learned in Mr. Townsend’s class to “just make something up.”

Reunion Planning First, we have an outstanding Reunion Plan-ning Committee. We have been meeting monthly at Carmel since October to plan our Reunion which will be held on Friday May 6, 2016 at 64th and Dante. Our Committee con-sists of our Class President Bill Sconza, Class Treasurer Ron Thomas, Dave Byrne, Jim Cre-min, Marty Hughes, Jim Judson, Jack Leonard, Bob Moody, Wally Piskorski, Dick Post, and Denis Sura and me. Alumni Director Craig Ferguson '79 has been guiding us along the way.

Our class will be honored as part of the Annu-al Alumni Banquet. Prior to the banquet, we are also planning to have a separate agenda for our class on that day on campus consisting of a tour of the school, memorial Mass, and cock-tail hour. The Mass will be celebrated by Car-melite Fr. Richard Lewis '72, who is the brother of our classmate John Lewis. Spouses are wel-come to attend. Classmates should be receiv-ing a flyer in the mail soon containing all of the details. If you do not receive the flyer, please let me know and we will get one sent to you.

Finally, please encourage any classmates you are in contact with to attend. We already have close to 30 who have indicated they are com-ing! It would be great if we could double that number before the next time we send you an update.

Memories and Other Notable Items:We lost two of our memorable Carmelite priests, Father Jordan, to whom our 1966 year-book was dedicated, and Father Blaine (aka “The Spider”) in the past year. I am sure we all have recollections of the time we spent with and lessons learned with them during our years at Carmel. Keep them in your prayers.

Some memories from our classmates are as follows:John Newton recalls a poignant and dramatic home room occasion involving Fr. Jordan: “One of my class of honors homeroom students, the infamous and (stalwart) DOC (Dennis O’Con-nor), had just attempted and apparently suc-ceeded in averting discipline from the home-

room teacher. Father Jordan, towering over Doc was called in to take over. Doc protested that “this time, Father Jordan, I am really in-nocent.” Jordan stalwart, in order to save face. Doc asked, “Can I turn the other cheek?” Jordan then obliged. With the whole room following left and right (the) continuing faceoff sudden-ly stopped. “Is this what it means to be a good Christian?” Doc asked. Both men and the whole room silently cried. It continues to be a struggle.” Wally Piskorski remembers, “Whenever Fr. Blaine is mentioned, one unusual memory comes to mind. I believe from our first days as freshmen, we, at least I, viewed Fr Blaine as a laid back, mild mannered soul. One af-ternoon in Biology class, (freshman or sopho-more year?), during an exam I almost jumped out of my seat when an object went flying by my ear at high speed and ‘exploded’ upon hitting the back of Jack Price’s seat. The pro-jectile was a piece of chalk launched by Fr Blaine. We didn’t know what had happened until, after looking up from our test papers, Fr. Blaine calmly but sternly said something like “Mr. Price keep your eyes on your own pa-per”. I think our characterizations of Fr. Blaine changed from then on! We will have much to celebrate this year. In addition to our reunion, our class has been especially honored by the Alumni Association and Mount Carmel Foundation. Both Marty Hughes and Tom Ulrich have been recognized.

Marty Hughes will be inducted into the Mount Carmel High School Hall of Fame on the day of our reunion. Marty has had a successful business career and currently is Chairman and CEO of HUB International Limited. In return, his wife, Julie, and he have been very generous to Carmel over the years both with their time and financial stewardship.

Tom Ulrich, was recently honored at the annu-al “Salute to the Champions” on December 5 at Hawthorne Race track. Several of us attend-ed and shared memories with Tom and his wife, Linda. We were “blown away” by Tom’s record as a swimmer while he was at Carmel and Southern Illinois University. Some of his records still stand unbroken to this day! Tom also is a renowned wildlife photographer and author. “Google” his name and check out his work. He is looking forward to seeing you all at our reunion in May.

Congratulations Marty and Tom! Your fellow classmates are proud of you.

Denis Sura, Bill Sconza, and Ron Thomas talk-ed to Mr. Howie Fagan at the “Salute to the Champions.” He sends his best regards and thanks for cheering the heavyweights on to a 26-2 record in 1966.The Committee plans to “honor” Jim Judson as the winner of the “Oldest Father Award” or perhaps we should call it “Most Mature Fa-ther.” Jim lives in Minneapolis and his daugh-ter, Jasmine, was born on November 16, 2007 when he was a “young man” of 59. According

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to Jim, she is now eight years old and turning into quite a “princess.” Jim relates that he is of-ten asked if he is the “grandfather” at school events. One of his daughter’s girlfriends said, “That’s weird” when Jim told her that he was Jasmine’s father. Finally, one day, Jasmine asked Jim’s wife, “Why did you marry such an old guy?”…. I’m sure the answer was because he was a graduate of Mount Carmel High School! Jim plans to attend the reunion in May.

Dennis Sura organized a lunch with some of our committee members for Ron Thomas to lunch at “Piccolo Mundo” near the Winder-mere Hotel in Hyde Park. The Windermere generated some memories and stories of for-mal dances held there during our time. We celebrated Ron’s retirement. He recently sold a produce business he owned in Hyde Park. He has plenty to keep him busy since he has been currently catching up on all of the Star Wars pictures with his grandchildren in preparation for the new release. However, all of us really believe that he is preparing to get a job at the George Lucas Museum which is expected to be built in Grant Park.

Rick Asch has notified us that he is coming to the reunion and is anxious to challenge “one and all” to some rounds of golf. Maybe Bill Sconza will challenge him since he coached his daughter’s high school golf team in Griffith, IN!

Rich Stupka is retired from the nuclear weap-ons business and living in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Check out his newly restored '58 Ed-sel Pacer on his Facebook page. According to Rich, the restoration was “a 12 year headache!”

Anyone missing a 1966 class ring? The Alumni Office received a recent inquiry from a person saying she found a 1966 Class Ring in her attic with the initials GAK. Could this possibly have been a former “steady” girlfriend? All kidding aside. This is “for real.” Contact Craig Fergu-son at the Alumni Office if you want to claim it.

Dave Cuthbert is retired and living in Escondi-do, CA. Dave had two interesting careers with the US Navy and the San Diego Zoo. You can catch-up with him in May as he plans to attend the reunion.

Talked to Tom Wiltzius. He is retired and living in Chicago. Jim Cremin is rounding up Tom his classmates from Our Lady Gate of Heaven classmates from Jeffrey Manor to attend the reunion. They alone represented about 5% of our graduating class.

Talked with fellow classmates Rick Johnson, Tighe Reardon, Terry Hotchkiss at last year’s Alumni Banquet. Looking forward to seeing them at our reunion in May.

To my surprise when I contacted Jerry Fergu-son he was on his boat in the Atlantic. I am sure he must have learned his maritime skills on Lake Michigan as part of the Mount Carm-el “Sailing Team.” Jerry has been “bicoastal” since leaving Carmel, having lived on the West

Coast before settling recently in North Caroli-na. He hopes to attend the reunion in May.

Fillings, Root Canals, Cleanings? Rick Johnson and Cesar Madlang are dentists. Rick practic-es in Chicago and Cesar practices in Colorado. The only appointments slots available are on May 6, 2016 at Mount Carmel.

Haven’t things changed since 1966? The year-book talks about Mr. Iosue teaching the “intri-cacies of the slide rule” and weekends spent “climbing the Prudential Building!”

IOU’s ? We found several outstanding “IOU’S” signed by fellow classmates for the bookstore and the cafeteria found in the belongings of Brother John and Father Tom. We will “square the books” in May. You know who you are!

Can you remember how many German swear words you learned from Father Tom?

If Senator Bernie Sanders from Maine had more hair wouldn’t he resemble Mr. Mike O’Connor?

Did you know that St. Clara Church where we held our graduation ceremony was purchased, renovated, and renamed St. Gelasius? Then it burned down in October, 2015.

Hope to see you in May and continue to send me any memories, career updates, etc. for fu-ture editions of the 1966 Class Notes

Class of 1976Send your notes to:Mike [email protected]

To all you 76ers, I hope you had a great year in 2015 and I wish you the best of health and happiness in 2016. A week before this past Christmas Coach Tina of the Mount Carmel water polo team along with Athletic Director Dan LaCount resur-rected the old timers alumni water polo game. They also honored our state championship team (our 40th year) before and after the game with food, drinks, cake and gifts to all alums in attendance. We had a good showing of mem-bers from our championship team, along with alums from the very first year of water polo at Mount Carmel (1968) through 1978. Our old coach Dan Murphy (who is still an internation-al masters swimming champion) flew in from North Carolina and at 73 years old, was clearly in better shape than almost all the kids/men that he previously coached. From our champi-onship team there was: Brian Coffou (wearing his old letter sweater), my Co-Captain Mike Blake, Gus Robledo, Carl Signeri, John Dilu-ia, Marty Plys, Gene Munin, Roger Usher & myself. Surprisingly it was a very close game. We had outstanding performances from John Heaney (74), Cornelius Rogers (73), Coach Dan Murphy (60), John Urbanik (75). Also in atten-dance were Art Gray (68), Mike Kearney (68), Bill O’Hara (69), George Toomey (71), Pat Blake

(74), Ed DiLuia (74) and Dan Blake (75). The game started out with Murphy, Rogers, He-aney, Segneri, Coffou, Robledo & Munin in the water, with Blake and Vlamis as the coaches. How they all played the entire game is beyond me. At halftime John “Jocko” Urbanik suited up and went in to help protect the goal. After 3 periods the alums were down 10 to 8. So...Blake and I borrowed some suits and jumped in the water for the 4th quarter. We had some outstanding saves by Carl Signeri and John Ur-banik that helped shut out the MC Varsity in the 4th quarter. John Heaney who is 60 plus years old, won 2 of 3 swim offs! Blake and I worked the old magic and mustered up 2 goals to tie the game. It was determined that since we had guys ranging from their late 50’s to ear-ly 70’s...we would not play any over time. Final score: Alumni wins 10 to 10. Thanks again to Coach Tina, Dan LaCount, Frank Lenti and Fa-ther Tony for making this event possible. The alums have already started training and will be ready for next years game. I have a little bad news, as we lost one of our classmates last year...Garland Dildy passed away and another classmate is very sick, Norm Perino. Please keep them and their families in your prayers. I still see and/or talk to Joe Tum-pich, John Calvano (who is retired and spend-ing time in Arizona), Tim Tumpane (who be-came a grandfather), Mike Smith, Ray Cullen (who has a couple of grand kids), Al Gruber (still a dentist in So. Holland), John Jovanovich (another grandpa down in Florida), Chris Mc-Grath, Steve Sieracki, Phil McGrath, John Ros-ner (saw him at a jersey retirement at UIC of Curtis Granderson...John’s son was a baseball teammate with Curtis) , Tim Mayher (still in Northern CA but always visits me when in Chicago), Bob Stephanites (saw Bob at his Moms wake...she was very good to us back in high school) and Tom Durkin (recently moved out near me in Palos Park). I know where some of the following guys are or were, the last time I spoke with them: Mike Bournholdt (LA)Steve Duffner (AZ)Jim Myjack (KY)Andre Swoope (SC) Dan Ochylski (IA)Mike McKinley (GA) Steve Lisewski (Palos Park)Mike Coghlan (DeKalb)Ken Maglia (Tinley Park) As for me...my tuition paying days are over! My son Michael lives in LA and is an aspiring ac-tor (you may have seen him on “New Girl” on FOX or some ATT commercials or some Taco Bell commercials and he also is the Director of Marketing for Modify Watch), my daughter Kelsey spent a year as a city planner in Wil-liston, ND and another 6 months in Denver working for the U S Department of Wildlife and my youngest Stephanie, just finished ear-ly from the U of I and will begin a career with The Private Bank in Chicago, after a 6 week va-cation abroad. Denise is still writing software and I’m still slinging power sports. I do get to


attend almost all of the football games, some baseball games and an occasional basketball game, wrestling meet or hockey game. Please drop me an e-mail and let me know how you are doing and I will gladly report it here in these class notes. It will be our 40th anniver-sary since graduating from Mount Carmel and I’m hoping for a big turn out at the banquet this year. I also want to thank you all for your support during a difficult time last January 2015, when my Dad passed away. The support that Mount Carmel showed was very much ap-preciated. Once again, I hope you all have a fantastic 2016 and please keep in touch. Mike “V man” Vlamis

Class of 1983Send your notes to:Chuck [email protected] Greetings to the Class of '83I hope this edition finds your family and you well. 2016 is going to be a great year. For those of you wondering, I am still in the mortgage in-dustry. I have now been with Pacor Mortgage for 4+ years. It is a little different working for a company vs. owning your own company, but I am very happy here. Pacor Mortgage is dialed in, and they make getting mortgages for my customers pretty painless. I appreciate those of you who have sought my assistance.

I am also, in the event planning business. I have been running ChiTown Event Planners for a few years now, and have done many events for Mount Carmel Alumni. I even em-ploy Johnny LeRose '84 from time to time as a great DJ. I haven’t had the opportunity to use Mike (Novi) Novickas '81 yet, as our event schedules have not coincided, but I would al-ways recommend Novi as well. Our primary caterer is Richard Mosior '82 who does a won-derful job and is really reasonable. If any oth-er Alumni have businesses which are mutually beneficial, please contact me.

This summer I went to the Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Tour with Rich (Lew Man) Lewis '83 and Kevin (Beaver) Regan '83. Rich and I were celebrating our 20th Anniversary of our last Dead show, and although many years have passed, not much else changed. Although we took a wrong turn walking out of Soldier Field, and it cost us at least an additional 2 miles on our walk. I’m so old; I couldn’t walk for a day or so. This getting old stuff sure is for the birds. I can’t wait until I start getting young again.

I wanted to congratulate our classmate John-ny (Jolly) Rogers for his award at Salute to the Champions. It was well deserved, and I wish more of us could have been there to show our support.

I received a note from Tommy (House) Powers

'83 who is doing well. He just wanted to say hello to everyone.

Dan (Wally) Walsh '83 writes:Chuck. It would be great to see classmates. I am going to get with Matt Walsh '83 and find out what events are well attended. My kids, Daniel, Hannah and Kyle had sporting events on dates of MC sponsored events. Daniel is a senior and done with football. He played on Libertyville HS and his last game was in the state final. Had MC won in the playoffs, they would have played LHS.

As for me, I have lived in Lake Forest for 17 years. I have been in the investment business since 1989 and have owned Tree City Invest-ments, Inc. since 1991. I am also a partner in a food company; Kelsey-Ds, Inc. We manu-facture and sell a line of giardinera and muf-faletta. We are in most local grocery stores, Mariano’s, Sunset, Woodman’s, and are the product serves at US Cellular field. Partner in a specialty cookie company The Frosted Baker, Inc. We design and manufacture handmade cookies for catalog companies, corporations, and retail outlets. We did a QVC show last Xmas and are now a regular vendor for them. Partner in a restaurant in Highwood, IL. Scot-ty’s on Sheridan. Work and chasing kids pretty much takes most of my time. I travel for kicks. I celebrated my 50th b-day by fighting in 2015 Chicago Golden Gloves finals. No Chuck, I ha-ven’t grown up. I lost the fight but won the day by laughing about participating. Matt Walsh and some other MC grads were there for the laughs. Otherwise, life is good and I hope my classmates can say the same. As I said, my cal-endar is opening up so I am planning on catch-ing up with the class.

I have to admit, Matt showed me pictures of Wally after that fight, and it confirms how old we are, but I have to take my hat off to Dan for giving it a go. I often think about challenging myself to get off the couch and walk around the block. He went way above and beyond with that fight. Speaking of Matt Walsh, are you aware his son’s Bobby '10 and Matt '13 are volleyball studs playing all over the world. They attend Lewis University and Ball State respectively. I think Ball State will be at Lewis in April. It is great to see a game played at that level, and I’m glad they both know they got their volleyball skills from their elders playing at the VFW hall. Maybe we should challenge then in a beer game. Those two against about 20 of us…we’d still lose.

I know some of you know Mark Holder '83 recently had a bout with the “Big C.” I am so happy to get this note from him:

Chuck, hope all is well with you. 2015 was an interesting year.

Ashley (Akron) and Taylor (Valdosta State) continued with volleyball this year. Ashley finishing her last season of volleyball. She is staying for a fifth year to complete her Masters Degree. Taylor is in her 3rd year at VSU and is

a Chemistry Major. She hopes to go to Phar-macy school after her undergrad.

My son Brent was a captain and senior on the Marist football team this year. Marist opened up against MC at Soldier’s field and they fin-ished playing at NIU .They made a nice run in the playoffs to make it to the state champi-onship game. Not bad for a team that many felt would not make the playoffs due to their schedule.

My son made a number of visits to various schools the past few months and will be go-ing to Princeton to play ball and attend class-es. Just waiting for the official letter from the school.

My wife Natalie is still teaching at Marist, currently not coaching volleyball at this time. Maybe in the future? Not sure yet. I know she misses it after 14 years at McAuley and starting the girls program at Marist for another 11 years.

For me, being diagnosed with colon cancer was something I didn’t anticipate. For being 50 last year, I felt great and was always working out with my son so this was a suprise. Luck-ily, this was caught early on and as I write I am cancer free. All tests came back negative, including my genetic blood mapping tests and my recent CAT scan. I want to thank everyone from MC that sent their wishes,texts, emails, phone calls, etc before, during and after my surgery. You definitely look at life differently having gone through something like this. All I can say is that I gained alot of strength from other families that have gone through situa-tions like this and I just kept telling myself to stay positive and strong. I couldn’t have done it without everyone’s support and the great doctors that I had on my team. Hope to see you soon- take care.

Well I can’t explain how excited I was to get the note from Wally and Mark. I would really like to hear from a lot more of you. We had such a great class, and those friendships will last for-ever. So drop a note or send me an email, and I will be sure to include you in the next issue. I am going to make every effort to get to the ban-quet this year. Let me know if you want tickets or need to place an ad in the book.Chuck Toland '83

Class of 1984Send your notes to:John [email protected]

Greetings class of '84, I hope this note finds you all well. Most of you are turning 50 years old this year, or maybe some of you late last year. I had a fun party a few weeks back celebrating the half century mark and it was great. Although I had to be in bed by 8pm. Sound familiar? If not, it will soon.

Things have been pretty quiet as far as hearing from our classmates. I “talk” with a few of you

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on that strange new website called “facebook”. If we’re not connected, then let’s connect!

Much thanks to my former locker partner Pat Mcgrath '84 and his awesome wife Anne and their son Ian for helping me serve at the car-ing hands soup kitchen. The McGrath’s are pretty much regulars at this point. I also see my workmate John Lockie '84 here at LincolnWay Community Bank. In case you forgot, John does commercial lending and I help folks with the residential side purchasing and refinanc-ing homes, townhomes, condos etc…with 2 in college I could really use your business. I’m licensed in all 50 states as a mortgage broker. I promise I’ll treat you with HONESTY, the same way I treat all of my clients. Call me any-time at 708-466-6273.

My classnotes column will be short this time around. I wish all of you a healthy and happy 2016. Blessings to you and your families.

John LeRose '84

Class of 1987Send your notes to:Roberto “Junior” [email protected]

Big congrats to Rodney Perry who just recent-ly graduated from Thomas Lee Cooley Law School.

John Bentley just celebrated his 20th year an-niversary being married to his beautiful wife Michelle.

Bill Nolan has been working hard on recruit-ing young men into coming to Mount Carmel. At this year’s entrance exam 220 young men participated in taking the test.

That’s all the news I have for our classmates. Send your news that you want to share to me your pal and classmate Junior Guerra. WE ARE MC!!!

Class of 2006Send your notes:Ian Secviar6410 S. Dante Chicago, IL [email protected]

I hope everyone in the Class of 2006 is doing well and is in good health. It is hard to believe that this spring will mark the 10th anniversary of our graduation from Mount Carmel High School. Time has sure flown by. As the Direc-tor of Annual Giving, I get to see firsthand the great things that are happening here at Mount Carmel. From our wonderful student body to all the positive changes that are happening to our campus, it’s amazing to see the growth of our great school. I hope that we will have a strong turnout at the Alumni Banquet on May 6. Come see for yourself all that is happening here, reconnect with classmates and enjoy a night of celebration that only a Man of MC

could understand. To purchase banquet tick-ets online go to www.mchs.org/alumnibanquet or contact me at [email protected] or 773-324-1020 X226. I look forward to seeing our class well represented.

Class of 2007Send your notes to:Patrick McGarry6410 S. Dante Ave.Chicago, IL [email protected]

Hello, Class of 2007! As some of you may know, I have returned to Mount Carmel as a faculty member - teaching Sophomore and Ju-nior Theology. The 2015-16 school year marks my second year, and with each passing day, I still can’t believe that they let me do this. Let me tell you, it feels strange to be on this side of the desk, and I have a newfound appreciation for the teachers who put up with our antics. I wish I could say my life is pretty different than when we were all last together, but the major-ity of my days are still spent at 6410. However, it has been 9 years, so I do have a few updates for you:

Doc Berry will be receiving Honorary Alumni status at this year’s Alumni Banquet May 6. I have already reserved a table, and it would mean the world to Doc if some Latin scholars from his most trying period in his career were there to cheer him on. I’d love to get a whole table, so if you’re interested, please contact me.

In preparation for our 10 year reunion next year, I’d like to get some feedback about maybe doing our own thing. If you’d like to help plan the gathering, please let me know.

Lastly, this column is meant to keep us all in touch. Did you get married? Move out of state? Land your dream job? If you’d like to share what you’re doing now, please email me. We can also use this to to reminisce if updates are low - so if you just remembered something funny that you haven’t thought about in the last 9 years and want to share it, send it on over. I’m sure other members of our class, and the overall Mount Carmel community, would be very excited to hear what you’re doing. Until next time, I wish you all the best - Pat McGarry

Class of 2011Send your notes to:Jim [email protected]

For those keeping score at home, it has been five years since the Class of 2011 received our diplomas at Rockefeller Chapel. To some, it seems like a lifetime since we walked the halls of 6410 S. Dante, and since some of us were able to fit in the brown polos we once donned daily. Ultimately, it hasn’t been that long since we Waded in the Water together and cara-vanned our raggedy cars down Vincennes Avenue, among other streets. I’m reminded of that regularly as the Media Specialist at Mount

Carmel. The same goes for Dan Haggerty, who is back at Mount Carmel as an English teach-er. After graduating from St. Norbert College in May, Dan returned to Mount Carmel as a member of the faculty. Dan currently teach-es English 2 for sophomores, as well as AP English 3 for juniors. This fall, Dan served as an assistant coach on the sophomore football team.

Kevin Kosiewicz graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in finance and marketing. He is working as a business analyst for Deloitte Consulting in their strategy and operations practice. Kevin is in a two year rotational program that allows him to get diverse experiences across various industries and service lines. His interests in-clude fitness, non profits, international trav-eling, and one day he hopes to own his own restaurant.

Vince Morgan graduated from Pomona Col-lege last May with a degree in Biology. Vince is currently working as a research technician with the divisions of Rheumatology and Pul-monary & Critical Care medicine at North-western University in Chicago. Vince will be entering medical school in the fall with the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medi-cine as a leading contender.

Sean Burke currently works for a construc-tion company in Pittsburgh, PA. Sean and his girlfriend gave birth to their baby girl Evelyn on November 24th, 2015. Evelyn was 7lbs 11oz. Sean is hardly home but is always representing the brown and white!

Jaime Manriquez is currently a senior finish-ing up his bachelor’s degree in marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Jaime is the president of The Model United Nations at Illinois - Chicago and is preparing to compete in New York at the New York University Model United Nations Conference.

Pat Fahey graduated from the University of Dayton in May 2015 with a double major in economics and finance. Pat is currently work-ing at FactSet Research Systems, a financial data and software company located in down-town Chicago, as a consultant.

Ryan Fitzpatrick is currently working as a Me-chanical Engineer in Chicago. Ryan designs and analyzes piping system for nuclear power plants after graduating from the Illinois Insti-tute of Technology in May of 2015.


In MeMorIuMDavid Abramoske '79

Michael Arana '70Martin Barrett '69

Jerome Binkowski '60James Bulger '44

Brendan Burke 2012James Callahan '66

John Carney '36Joseph Catuara '28Daniel Coffey '53Robet Dean '47Vincent Dee '58Jim Deering '86

Robert Delaney '53Vincent Dimayo '66Daniel Drumm '66

Capt. Gerald Dunne '59

Thomas Earth '60Gibson Fagan '75Howie Fagan '51

Richard Frasor '51Frank Gatto '58

Chris Gutekanst '40Roger Hartman '66Edward Hessler '44

Paul Jeselskis '61Bernard Kirk '33

Francis Klabough '58Richard Klix '45Archie Lang '38

Albert Loichinger '82Paul Matz '51

Mike McDivitt '59William McEnery '60

Jerry McGee '53Leo McGrillen '58

Terrence Nelson '73Joseph O’Connor '37

John O’Shea '62John Patrick '57John Piech '53

Fr. Jordan Rooney, O.Carm.James Russell '50

Daniel Sheridan '65Jon Szostak '61

Joseph VanTuyle '75Theodore Weber '41

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