1946 Norm McHugh and his wife, Genie, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Sept. 10.
1947 Bob Fairbanks and his wife, Pat, recently became great-grandparents for the first time. They're comfortable with their new names, but still cannot cope with their daughter Betsy being a grandmother. Father Tim and his wife, Megan, are both Santa Clara grads, but there is still solid hope that young Joshua will succeed in the future.
1953 Tony Sanchez-Corea* and his wife, Lucille, were honored by St. Patrick's Seminary at their Four Pillars Gala in September in recognition for their service to the Bay Area's Catholic community. / Noted biologist Peter Raven* received the Medal of Excellenece from the U.S. National Arboretum. Now 78 and president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden, he has also been a driving force behind Flora of North America, a monumental effort to document and describe the wild plants of the United States, Canada and Greenland. Sixteen of the 30 volumes have been completed.
1959 Historian John Freeman* spoke with Chronicle reporter Carl Nolte on the origin of San Francisco's street names.
1962 Edward Daneri is the head chaplain of the county hospital in El Paso and dean of the Law Department of a local Hispanic college.
1963 Tom Brandi was named to the 2014 list of Top Ten Lawyers for Northern California for the second consecutive year. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Tom has been in the Top 100 every year since the inception of Super Lawyers, and this is his third appearance in the Top Ten. / George Magill received a gold medal for a first-place finish in the July 13 Napa Valley Inline Marathon. His firm, Magill Industries, is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with a major plastics manufacturer to manufacture and market the Rodaway Fishing Rod Wall Rack and Carrier. / Richard Mangan writes this about the summer Genesis: "You folks sure ruined a beautiful mid-summer evening in Missoula, Montana. After moving my Black Angus cows to a new pasture and having dinner, I settled back on the patio with a cold brew and the latest issue of Genesis. It didn't take too long before I came across the article about my old classmate Paul Medlin. Paul and I also went through Forestry School together at Humboldt State. After we graduated in 1968, the draft awaited us, and Paul told me all about the program for college grads to enter Officer Candidate School. Paul was sent off to the Infantry School in Georgia, and I went to the Artillery School in Oklahoma. Just two months after getting commissioned as a second lieutenant, a week before Christmas in 1969, I found out that Paul had died in Vietnam. The dark cloud that hung over our Christmas came back last night again after reading the article, but then all of the good memories of SI and Humboldt State with Paul also returned. Thank you for a great tribute to a long-lost friend."
1965 Bill Kovacich is retiring from education after 45 years of service to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the last 11 as principal of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Daly City. Bill will continue to work as a volunteer at OLPH in both development and as producer/director of the school plays.
1969 Chronicle columnist Carl Nolte interviewed historian John Martini* on the "not-so-good-old days" of San Francisco. / Ed McGuirk retired after 38 years as a teacher. He taught English in Spain before moving to New York, where he met a fellow teacher, Allison; the two married and lived in Brooklyn with their daughter, Kelly, before moving back to San Francisco. Ed taught at St. Brendan's for one year before teaching archaeology and ancient history in a middle school in Oakley. Their son, Chris, was born in Concord. Upon his retirement, a former student (and an altar boy at his wedding) did a tribute video for him. Search for "Mr. McGuirk and His Story" to see the clip.
1970 Frank Dunnigan* hosted a book-signing event at SI in August for his new tome, Growing Up in San Francisco's Western Neighborhoods: Boomer Memories from Kezar Stadium to Zim's Hamburgers (below). He also wrote an essay, published in Outsidelands.org, about dress codes in Catholic high schools in the 1960s and 1970s in San Francisco. / Michael Kearney has recently retired as an assistant chief in the San Francisco Fire Department after a 37-year career. Other 1970 SI graduates who were also members of the SFFD include Kevin Bouey, Paul Fuhrman, Gary Gautier, Marty Grealish, Mark Groshong, Dick Gutierrez, Joe Hallisy, Steve Hart, Jim Isola, Micky Lavelle, Brian Rabbitt, Bill Rapp and Dave Tracey.
1974 John Stiegeler and daughter Georgina '16 traveled to Brazil to support the USA during the recent World Cup. Upon return, both attended the viewing party outside City Hall and were interviewed live by KCBS.
1975 Six SI grads organized this October's Columbus Day Parade including four from the class of 1975: Columbus Day Celebration President Tony Passanisi, Vice President Frank Billante and Co-Chairs Jim Fanucchi and John Warda. Also on the committee are John Parente '67 and Steve Leveroni '69. Look for more on these men in the winter edition.
1978 Darren Cde Baca* and his son, Brett '10*, have started the OneHitAway Foundation to spread awareness regarding ways to recover from brain injuries, especially concussions, which plagued Brett during his time playing football at Trinity College. They both came to SI in September where they spoke at a conference for parents and students regarding brain health and nutrition. Look for more on both men in the winter edition.
1982 Gino Cerchiai is proud to report that his wife, Shawn Brennan, founded a new company, Plenty Pops, which makes delicious, nutritious, organic fruit and vegetable frozen pops, hand-crafted in small batches with no added sugar, unhealthy sweeteners and no artificial ingredients. Check out her site at plentypops.com.
1984 John Bertken, after spending 13 years helping build the reputation and traditions at Stuart Hall High School as teacher, coach and athletic director, has moved back to South Korea with his wife, Jin Hee, to serve as the boys' dean and director of the Boarding and Summer Global Camp at the Korea International School on the beautiful island of Jeju. / Mike Johnstone* appeared in I Almost Got Away With It on the Discovery Channel.
1985 Tony Gnecco* will be inducted this Nov. 8 into the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Hall of Fame for his track and field prowess. In his time at Harvey Mudd College, he was a two-time SoCal Intercollegiate Athletic Conference track and field champion, competing in the 4x400 relay, and a two-time All-American.
1986 Tim Reardon* (left) will serve as SI's third alumni director starting Nov. 1, stepping into the impressive program built by both Jim Dekker '68 and John Ring, who is stepping down as SI alumni director to return to his law practice after eight years on the job. Look for more on John in the next edition of Genesis.
1993 John Regalia*, head football coach at SI, saw his program featured on CNBC for the use of Riddell's new helmet sensors that measure impact and that can help coaches and trainers provide parents and athletes with information concerning the possibility of concussions.
1995 William Olinger married Jen Salerno Aug. 16 in Sacramento. Groomsmen included Bill's brother, Bobby '97, and classmates John Dasher, Bob Gilham and Jeff Tarantino.
1996 Rob Marcaletti* will serve as the interim varsity boys' basketball coach for SI given the promotion of Tim Reardon '86 as SI's new Alumni Director.
1998 Chris Roth, father to Ashley, was recently elected the president of the Willow Glen Neighborhood Association and re-elected vice chair of the 15-member San Jose Library and Early Education Commission. He is involved in his local community and plans to run for a seat on the San Jose City Council (District 6) beginning next year.
2000 Leah Pimentel*, a strong supporter of the Homeless Prenatal Program, started Project Mom and hosted an August Baby Shower to share wisdom, lessons on the art of motherhood and provide 40 expectant mothers with resources that otherwise would have been out of their reach.
2002 Carter Phelps* has launched a campaign to honor Barry Bonds. / Andrew Tedesco*, while working in Freetown, Sierra Leone, as the country director of two IPA (Innovations for Poverty Action) offices, led the evacuation of the Monrovia, Liberia, office and the recall of all staff in Sierra Leone due to the Ebola epidemic.
2003 Amanda Candace Ow wed Mathew David Hibson June 27 at Our Lady of the Wayside in Portola Valley. Amanda's sister, Monica '07, was the maid of honor and her proud dad is Dr. Jonathan Ow, Pharm. D. '73.
2004 David Darling is an infantry company commander who finished his second tour in Afghanistan and is currently residing at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs. His two nieces, Marie '16 and Sarah Paul '17, attend SI, while his nephew, Matthew Paul, is a freshman at Archbishop Riordan High School. / At St. Cecilia's Aug. 2, Kristyn Gherardi, daughter of Jim '74 and Terry and sister of Jeff '02 (whose wife is Amy Dumont Gherardi '02), married Neill Bassi, son of Mike '67 and Christy, brother of Maria '02, and nephew of Marte '69 and Matt '84. Neill and his best man, Dan, attended SI before transferring to Georgetown Prep. The matron of honor was Caitlin La Joie Wilson '03.
2006 Victoria Giampaoli received her doctorate of veterinary medicine from the University of Illinois on May 16. She was accepted into a 1-year small animal medicine and surgery rotating internship at Southern California Veterinary Specialty Hospital in Irvine. / Jeremiah Nevin* represented Ireland in the Lacrosse World Games.
2007 Molly McGrath* was featured in Regard Magazine both for her fashion sense and in an interview about her work for the Fox Sports 1 Network.
2008 Kathryn Barulich* (right) celebrated the centennial of St. Ignatius Church with an art exhibition that invites those walking by the church to sit, reflect and tweet about the importance of the church. Her exhibit opened July 26. / Reed Campbell is currently touring the country playing a principal role on the First Broadway National Tour of Nice Work If You Can Get It. He is playing Cookie, a role for which Michael McGrath won the Tony Award in 2013. He comes to Folsom between March 6 and 8. / Abigail Colyer styled opera singer Patricia Racette for the cover and features of the Metropolitan Opera's Opera News Magazine's September 2014 issue. / Kayla McDow married David Schaefer June 21 at St. Francis Assisi Church at Lake Tahoe. Kayla's sister, Chelsea, was maid of honor and Nick Osborne '08 was best man with a myriad of Wildcats as bridesmaids and groomsmen, including Travis McDow '12. Dave first saw his future classmate, Kayla, in the summer of 2004 and they met in their sophomore religion class in August of 2005. Their first kiss was on 12/7/06 and love declared the summer of 2007 with her final yes on 12/21/12.
2010 Lauren Murray began her two-year commitment at Loyola Marymount University's PLACE Corps (Partners in Los Angeles Catholic Education) where she will be teaching full time in LA and earning her master's in education as well as her teaching credential.
2011 Zac Schuller* was recruited to play football at the University of Oregon.
2012 Greg Davis*, who rows for Cornell, was part of the USA Men's 8 Under 23 team that competed at the world championships in Varese, Italy. He helped the U.S. win the bronze medal July 27.
2014 Carly Bell* was named a lacrosse All-American. She was also pictured in the Chronicle with teammates Linsay Bettinger '14 and Alexandra Robertson '14 at the CPMC San Francisco Debutante Ball. The piece also listed SI's other debutantes, including Caroline Bertain '14, Mackenzie Dowling '14 and Kristina Hillhouse '14. / Reilley May* was named to the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association/Speedo All-American team. He helped St. Ignatius to the Central Coast Section Division II semis last fall in water polo. He also played for Sleepy Hollow Aquatics, competing on the 18-under team that took 18th in the platinum bracket of the championship division during this summer's Junior Olympics. / Liam Mihelich* earned the rank of Eagle Scout in Troop 343 by leading a project at the SF Family House, which houses the families of patients treated at the pediatric oncology ward of UCSF. He led his team in repainting three bathrooms and replacing the shower heads with new ones that had extendable hoses. He is now studying at the University of Alabama. / Jordan Phan* and Justin Azar '15* were praised for their volunteer work by The Family House, which featured both boys on their website and in their volunteer spotlight for bringing their unique talents to help children with serious illnesses treated at UCSF's Children's Hospital.
2015 SI students performed at the Fillmore Street Jazz Festival earlier this summer and received a shout-out from the San Francisco Chronicle. Performers included Matt and Chris Jereza '16*, Stephanie Woodford '17* and Samantha Shen '15*. / Julia Tognotti* was featured on ABC7 for her work gathering clothing and toiletries for deportees who are dropped off in Nogales, Mexico, where they are cared for by the Kino Border Initiative, where Rev. Peter Neeley, S.J. '67, ministers to migrant men and women. Julia also received a regional Jefferson Award and was featured on KPIX in September for her generosity and initiative. (She is pictured above with CBS5's Sharon Chin.) She says she was inspired to do the work after watching a documentary in her Spanish class (taught by Joe Bommarito) on undocumented children seeking refuge in the U.S.
2018 George Doty* was celebrated by Catholic San Francisco for his work helping four members of an Afghan family who left their country only a week after receiving legal refugee status from the U.S.; they had landed in the U.S. with only the clothes on their backs.