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Class Notes
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Sean Knowles (SFS 2004) successfully defended his Master’s Thesis in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western University on St. Patrick’s Day. He will be employed with Babcock Power in Wooster, MA. Only 20% of his graduating classmates from Case were hired in their chosen career field. He is excited about his opportunity.
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Was recently named Director of the Undergraduate Marketing Program at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. My second book, Marketing for Financial Advisors, written with two other Wharton professors, was published in July. I reside in Philadelphia with my wife Michelle and two children.
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Will Bonney and his wife had a baby on June 23rd. His name is Nikhil William Bonney and he was born 7 lbs 5 oz! We are all doing great and enjoying some time off before I start my new job at CHOP.
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Jeff and Liz Schlaudecker announced the birth of their second child, Jane Elizabeth, who was born on June 11. She weighted 8 lbs and 3 oz.
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Rob carded his first hole-in-one on June 4 at Shennecossett Golf Course in Connecticut.
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Jeff Walter recently started his public service career when he was elected to the Village of Elburn, Illinois, Board of Trustees. Elburn is a western suburb of Chicago of over 5000 people. The election was held on April 7 with 7 candidates running for 3 open seats. Jeff, his wife Carrie and their two children, Kaitlyn and Jeffrey II, have been residents of Elburn since 2006 and are enjoying being much closer to Toledo then they were while living in Texas. Jeff's full time job is as a Release Manager at Health Care Service Corporation and Carrie is a Realtor for First Choice GMAC Real Estate. Since being in Illinois the Walter family has enjoyed each 4th of July on fellow class of '78 alum Mike Buczkowski's front porch watching the patriotic parade of Mike's Village, Hinsdale, go by.
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Buy MURDER ON 15/501 at Lulu.Com
Larry Rochelle
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Fearrington Village author Larry Rochelle’s Murder On 15/501 sets his latest Palmer Morel thriller in the bucolic, rolling hills near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Here the winding highway 15/501 provides entrance into the villages of Fearrington and Deerington, two communities with opposing viewpoints on life. Fearrington is a quiet, up-scale older community of forests, deer and croquet. Deerington presents a huge contrast with up-scale condos built with Route 66 motels in mind: each “motel” has garish colors, neon lights and loud music during the daylight hours. And, at night, Deerington becomes one party animal with dancing, romancing and a Las Vegas spirit.
Out of these contrasts evolves an intricate murder scheme to bring Deerington Village down. And in its place, the Old Testament God will rule and Chapel Hill folks will learn to Love America Again.
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Bob Gospodarek is going to be the new CEO of St. Charles Mercy Hospital. Bob is a 1977 grad. He starts his new position May 1st.
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Keith A. Blanchard (1990) has accepted a new position in Fairbanks, AK. He is now the general manager of 3 locally owned and operated funeral homes and 1 cemetery. He and his family have been in Fairbanks going on 3 years. His wife Amanda is employed as Developement Director and Event Coordinator with the Catholic Schools of Fairbanks. keith is also an assistant Football Coach for the Monroe Catholic Rams. Their son Nick, 11 and daughter Caroline, 8 attend the only Catholic school there in Fairbanks. The next closest Catholic School is 360 miles away in Anchorage.
Any Alumni in the area are encouraged to contact Keith and his family. 907-388-8461
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Arabian Knights’86 Classmates meet in Qatar In December, Class of ’86 alumni Ryan Marshall and Jay Updegraff met for breakfast at The Four Seasons Hotel, in Doha, Qatar, located on the Arabian Gulf in the Middle East. How did these two Knights end up halfway around the world in the same place at the same time, you ask? It all started when Jay, an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel currently deployed to the Middle East, received his 2008 Annual Fund Brochure. Jay noticed the picture of Ryan on one of the pages of the brochure. On a whim he e-mailed Ryan to see if he had seen the photo. Jay mentioned that he was currently deployed to Qatar. In a stroke of incredible timing, Jay received an e-mail back in five minutes from Ryan stating that he had indeed seen the brochure, and that he would be in Doha, the capital city of Qatar in four days, on business for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., the global investment firm where Ryan works. The two graduates, who had not seen each other in fifteen years, arranged to meet for breakfast, and on December 16th enjoyed an hour-long reunion where they reminisced about playing JV baseball for Coach “Ernie” Albright, suffering through Fr. O’Neill’s Calculus class “I have forgotten more math than you will ever know Mr. Marshall” , and enduring the summer heat of two-a-day football practices under Coach “Crazy Legs” Cromwell which paid dividends in the form of the 1984 Division I Ohio State Football Championship. Ryan and his wife Mary have recently returned to New York City after a stint in San Francisco. Ryan is currently a Managing Director for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Fixed Income. Mary, a Director at Credit Suisse, recently started law school in the evenings. Jay and his wife Becky recently returned to Medford, NJ where Jay is stationed at McGuire AFB. Jay is currently halfway through a four-month deployment serving as the Chief, Mobility Operations at the Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar. Becky volunteers at St. Mary of the Lakes parochial school and is busy overseeing the activities of their kids, Daniel, age 12, and Catherine, age 8. Jay and Ryan plan to get together again upon Jay’s return to the States in New York City along with their families.
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Andy Walko (SFS 1998) accepted a new position in Washington, DC with Mantech a company specializing in national security. He is working with Homeland Security in the area of nuclear detection services. His wife, Sharyl Byram, recently earned her Ph.D is Aero Space Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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Jake Beham (2005) graduated in December from OSU with a 3.97 gpa with a double major in accounting and finance. He started OSU with enough credits due to his AP classes at SFS to qualify him as a sophomore.
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Archie Heinl started a software company called Double A Solutions in 2003. They build software products and customer web-based applications, and have a web-based CRM (http://www.360LeadManager.com) that was released this year. He notes that the user can import leads from spreadsheets (any sources), track leads, run real-time reports, e-mail blast leads, get directions (Google maps) and maintain a schedule. “It’s great for sales managers to be able to monitor leads and sales employees. Archie invites inquires at
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Patrick Kenney '79 and his nephew KC Kenney ’01 ran in the New York City Marathon in November. This was KC’s first marathon, but Patrick has been running for nine years, and this was his best time.
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Gary Johnson returned to his alma mater to address a group of Knights interested in a career in Engineering. Gary works for Arcadis in Akron, OH. The current students also learned that Gary does announcing for football and basketball games at Akron St. Vincent/St. Mary High School, where LeBron James attended high school.
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Jeff is still Drag Racing all over the Mid-West. he has a 77 Chevy Malibu (same car he drove to SFS) anda 72 Ford Pinto
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Brian Dunne (Class of 2001) ran the Las Vegas Marathon on December 7, 2008. Brian finished with a time of 3:23:06, placing 221st out of 3517 finishers.
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Jay is currently deployed to Southwest Asia, serving as the Chief, Mobility Operations in the U.S. Central Comand's Combined Air Operations Center. His duties include leading the 45 man team that is responsible for the command, control and execution of all cargo and air refueling missions in Iraq, Kuwait, Afganistan, and the Horn of Africa in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom. In a typical day the Air Mobility Division, in which Jay works, executes over 140 airlift and 40 air refueling missions per day. The Air Mobility Division also plans and executes all the air evacuation movement of patients on US Air Force airrcraft in the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility. Jay and his wife Becky are currently stationed at McGuire AFB, in New Jersey. Their son Daniel and daughter Catherine just celebrated their 12th and 8th birthdays respectively.
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In September, I moved to Charlotte, N.C. and am working for HR XCEL, a human resources outsourcing firm. At HR XCEL, I am a benefits administrator. Prior to moving to North Carolina, I completed my MBA at the University of Toledo.
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Patrick Ryan (93), wife Jennifer, and daughter Abigail (2) welcomed a baby boy, William Patrick, to the family on Aug 25, 2008. Family is doing great, and enjoying the Fall leaves changing color here in Virginia. Patrick celebrated his 10-yr anniversary at Newport News Shipbuilding this year. He is lead engineer for external fluid dynamics for all aircraft carriers and submarines designed and built by Newport News.
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