February, 1977 - CROSSROADS - Page Ten
AUMNI NEWS AUMNI
NEWS ALUHNI NEWS
1«99 - Thank you, William Abbalicchio, great-
grandson of William .1. Abbalicchio, for your letter of
December :i0, telling us lhat Mr. Abbalicchio, though 96
years of age, lives alone, keeps house and cooks, attends
daily Mass and visits those not so blessed as he. His
address is Coral Ridge Towers South, Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida, and 1 am sure he would like to hear from some
of the other Abbey alumni.
’,36 - Our deepest sympathy to Francis Ileazel Jr.,
whose father died on January 18 in Asheville. Mr.
Heazel was for many years a loyal friend and benefactor
of the College and we shall miss his wise counsel.
’50 -- Rcrnard Curran is with IBM and lives in Chap-
paqua. New York.
’51 - William Danco is with General Electric in
Roanoke, Virginia.
’54 -- Manuel Bias is an attorney in Burbank,
California, and expects to be practicing before the
Supreme D)url. He still plays tennis. Carroll Thomas
has been appointed Corporate Vice President of
American lYedit Corporation in Charlotte.
’55 - Frank Miroshas his own medical supply business
in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Bill Frain has been named
.senior account representative for the fabrics division of
Exxon Chemicals, U.S.A., and will be working with
major accounts in the carpel industry. He and Pal live
in Atlanta, where Bill is treasurer of Riverwood High
.School Music Association, a Sunday School teacher, and
a member of the Atlanta Men’s Lawn Tennis
Association.
’57 -- ,A1 Taglieri is with Universal Oil Products
Company at their World Headquarters in Des Plaines,
Illinois.
’58 -- En joyed the note on the Christmas card from Joe
llerrity. He is a Major in the Army and is with the Joint
U.S. Military Advisory Group in Bangkok, Thailand. He
and Becky have two children, Luann, sixteen, and
David, eleven, and they are at Homestead AFB in
Miami. In October 1977 they will be stationed at FI.
Gordon, Georgia, for their terminal assignment, and Joe
will retire in August 1979.
’60 - Frank .Schafstedde is with IBM in Raleigh.
’62 - Flynn Warren is completing the Ph.D. in Phar
macy and will go to Saudi Arabia as a drug information
specialist. Let us hear the details, Flynn.
’63 - Father .lames has received word from Brenda
Gillespie lliisemann lhat her husband, Dick, has been
promoted to Major in the USAF. They are stationed in
Wiesbaden, Germany, and have two children. Bo and
Mary Margaret.
'65 - Nancy Cunningham completed graduate studies
at Emory University and is now a Certified Respiratory
Therapist and a Certified Anesthetist at Grady Hospital
in Atlanta. Frank Dowgwilla is Executive Officer of the
USS Blueback (SS-581) homeported in Hawaii, but he
and Yoko will move to San Diego in March for a period of
at least three years. Congratulations to Tommy Dunn on
liis promotion to Assistant Vice President and Associate
Legal Counsel of The Northwestern Bank in North
Wilkesboro. N.C., where he and Mary Lou and their
three children Jay, Michael, and Holly, live.
I’ongralulalions to Eileen and Bill Falckon the arrival of
McFerrin Justin on August 14 (Jack Hanahan just told
me about this). Harvey Gregory has received the
Mas'er’s degree after a year of school at Ft. Lee,
Virginia. He and Pat have moved to Rock Island, Illinois
where he will be utilizing his newly acquired knowledge.
’66 - Joseph O’Connell is with the State Department in
Washington after spending 4V4 years in Brazil. He and
his wife Stella and Joe III, five, and Andres, 19 months,
live in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Donald Dufaux
received the Doctor of Philosophy in commencement
exercises at St. Louis University on May 8. His
dissertation: “Personal Responsibility in Problem-
Solving Counseling Groups: A Comparative Study of
Two Methods and Locus of Control.” Congratulations!
’67 “ Barbara and Kerry Mahon and Kerry, Jr. have
moved to Nashua, New Hampshire, and live in the
country. Greg Wessel is credit manager and has
responsibility for Sunset Magazine and Sunset Books.
He and Karen have a contemporary townhouse con
dominium in a planned community in Foster City, just
south of San Francisco. Edward McGarry is in the real
estate-insurance business in Tucson, Arizona. He is
married and has one child. Tom Brennan is with Xerox
in Marietta, Georgia, and hires college students for
Xerox in Georgia. Thank you, Mrs. Shanley, for your
letter giving us information on your son John Shanley.
He received his Master’s degree from the University of
Maryland in Sociology while teaching at the University,
and then went on to receive the Master’s in Urban
Planning from Catholic University in June, 1975. While
at Catholic U he worked for a consulting firm in
Belhesda, Maryland and taught at night at Maryland
University. He and Susan Kofanty were married August
2, 1975, who is in her second year of Law School at
Catholic U. John is working in the Community and
Development Administration for Prince Georges
County, Maryland and attending Law School at night at
the University of Baltimore. Congratulations, John,
and you and Susan have our best wishes.
’68 - Denis Deane is assistant principal of an
elementary school in Bedford, Virginia. Bob Pogachnik
is with Nationwide Insurance Co. and lives in
Gainesville, Florida. Enjoyed the letter from Julio
Nolla, which he wrote when he sent in his pledge to the
Centennial Fund Campaign. He graduated from the
School of Law of the Inter-American University and has
been practicing law since mid-1974 with San Juan Legal
Services, Inc., which is associated with the National
Legal Aid for Defenders Association engaged in
providing legal assistance to the indigent.
’69 - John Benito is an attorney in Tampa, Florida, in
the same firm with Jimmy Caltagirone and Glenn
Brown. Dennis DeRock is credit manager with Kay
Jewelers in Atlanta and lives in Stone Mountain,
Georgia. Richard Frick is with State Farm Insurance
Co. and he and his wife Angela and their two children
live in Rockville, Maryland. Phillip Maisano is with
Equitable Life Insurance Co. and lives in Montvale, New
Jersey.
’70 - John T. Farrell is in his third year of work on his
Ph.D. and is a Teaching Fellow at the University of
Delaware. Patricia Martin Holleman teaches in the
Charlotte school system.
’71 - Don Anderson operates a hotel and motel supply
company in Daytona Beach, Florida, where he and
Vickie live. Paul Poschmann teaches and coaches
tennis and soccer in Splitrock School in Syosset, New
York. Tim Martin stopped by for a visit on January 4.
He had just returned from two years in the Navy in
Naples, Italy, and was on his way to Pensacola, where he
will be for three months, and then three years in the
Pentagon. He is a CTO-2 in the Navy and is thinking of
making it a career. Tim told me that George Coombs is
teaching in Philadelphia and taught for two years in
Hong Kong. Chris Holland is working in Atlanta. Let us
hear the details, Chris. Congratulations to Ellie and
Brent Jaquet on the arrival of Betsey Ann on December
28. They have two other children, Kelly and Jonathan.
’72 - Jeff Kamm is working for the Washington Coca-
Cola Bottlers and he and Kathi live in Silver Spring,
Maryland. They spent a year in Australia and would like
to return.
’73 ~ Terry Ellison is Assistant Superintendent of
Public Works for the City of Waynesboro, Virginia,
where he and Kay live. James Bowen visited the Abbey
the early part of January. He is a senior dental student
at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. Had an
interesting letter from Tony Sessa dated December 7,
1976, reading in part: “I’m on my way to New Zealand.
I’m part of a six-man crew sailing a single-masted 46’
sloop to Wanguan, N.Z. (home port). The journey is
expected to take nine months to complete. We sail from
Daytona December 13 from which we go to the West
Indies. Our itinerary puts us in the Panama Canal Zone
in late February or early March. From there we follow
the spring and summer across the Pacific.” Be sure to
write when you return, Tony. Tony Yeung, holder of the
Archbishop Paul Yu-Pin scholarship during his Abbey.
career and a magna cum laude B.S. graduate in
Chemistry, has published an article “Structural Dif
ferences between A-Paremyosin and B-Paramyosin of
Mercenaria mercenaria” with R.W. Cowgill in
Biochemistry 15, 4654-9 (1976). He is currently enrolled
in the Ph.D. program in Biochemistry in VPI.
’74 - It was good to see David Bowers when he stopped
by on his way back to Loyola of New Orleans Law School
from the Christmas break. We welcome Harry
Creemers as Director of Public Relations and Alumni at
the Abbey, who began working with us on January 10.
Congratulations to Grace DiSanto who won third prize in
The Arts Journal 1976 National Poetry Competition.
’76 - Gregory Hollingshead has been appointed an
Administrative Assistant to Congressman Skip Bafalis
of Florida, beginning in January, and he and June have
moved to Washington. Congratulations, and let us have
your new address. Congratulations to Bruce Milburn,
who, at the first quarter at Hohnemann Medical School
in Philadelphia, finished in the top 10 percent in
Biochemistry, the upper one-third in Histology, and
right in the middle with Gross Anatomy. Thanks for all
the good things you say about the education you received
at the Abbey, Bruce. It’s good to hear! James Michael
Lineberger is attending the Reformed Theological
Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi, where he is in his first
year of study toward the master of divinity degree. He is
a four-year veteran of the Air Force.
It was great talking to so many alumni during the
Phon-a-thon, and you have our heartfelt thanks for your
fantastic response and support.
IN MEMORIAM
Francis X. Dunn, Class of 1931
Abbey hosts second annual Cheerleader Clinic
Belmont Abbey College
January 14-16 hosted its second
annual Cheerleader Clinic.
A total of 110 girls attended
the clinic in which 14 schools
were represented. Denisa
Riley, the clinic director, ter
med the clinic a success.
“I think everything went very
well this year. The interest was
much greater than last year. I
was really pleased with the
interest that was shown and the
amount of things that were
covered,” commented Ms.
Riley.
Dayna Witherspoon of the
Wilson Jr. High Varsity squad
was voted the Most' Valuable
Cheerleader. Sarah Walters
finished second and Susan
Lavinder finished third in the
MVC voting.
Wilson Jr. High Varsity won
the Most Valuable Squad
award. Cherryville Jr. High
finished second and Ashley Jr.
High finished third in the
voting.
The most spirited Squad was
the Kings Mountain High School
squad. Quail Hollow Jr. High
finished second and Township
Three School finished third in
that category.
The combined squads got the
opportunity to display their new
skills during the half-time of the
Belmont Abbey-Oglethorpe
basketball game.
“Right now, we are checking
into the possibility of having a
summer cheerleader camp,”
said Ms. Riley. “It all depends
on how much response to the
idea that we have.”
The Belmont Abbey
cheerleaders were the in
structors in the clinic.