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October
2003 edition of The
Grapevine Online
Class
Notes / Calendar of Events / Links
to Stories / Prior
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Class
notes
Ann
Marie (Popielarz) and Deo Read welcomed their son, Deo
W. Read IV, on September 23, 2003 at 10:58a.m. He weighed
in at 9 pounds 13 ounces and 22 inches long. Parents and baby
are doing fine.
Christopher
Smith, '99, finished his STB magna cum laude at the Gregorian
University in Rome amidst Ambrosian masses and ordinations
up and down the Italian peninsula just in time for a summer
of work at Prince of Peace Church in Greenville, South Carolina
where he served as MC for the consecration of the new church
there, and yes, there was plenty of chrism and incense in
the true Schmitty fashion! He returns for his acolyte year
at the Pontifical Roman Major Seminary at St John Lateran
for the Diocese of Charleston, SC as the only American in
the Pope's seminary. After twelve days of parish missions
among the drug addicts and young people of the Roman borgata
(well prepared after a year of work with ex-prostitutes!),
he goes back to school for his STL in dogma, hoping to make
it through to a summer studying at the Institut Catholique
in Paris and the University of Navarra in Spain and diaconal
ordination at the Lateran in October 2004. A failed attempt
to detach himself from the Old South to visit the Alma Mater
(sorry Caroline, Michelle and Lisa) means that y'all will
just have to make it over to the Eternal City! A presto! merrydelval@yahoo.com
John
Halisky ('04) and Leah Slinger ('01) have gotten engaged.
Very exciting.
Jim and Valerie (Kelly) Clark are expecting their second
on January 20th, and they think it's a GIRL!!! Also, Jim is
now the Director of Admissions at Seton Home Study School,
and Valerie has recently become a Real Estate Agent, working
for Century 21 in Front Royal. She would love to help out
any alumni that are interested in coming back to the Front
Royal area, or any of the 100's that are already living in
town.
Alumnus
Jim "Van Halen" Garner recently married.
In attendance were some of his old Christendom buddies, including,
but not limited to, Irishman Bob O'Connell, Paul Grego,
little runaway Michael Del Sittnick, and former recording
artist/singer/songwriter Dan "You've got those angel
eyes" Miller. That's Jim on the left, sans
beard. And below that one is Bob O'Connell tickling the ivories,
playing and signing the ever favorite Irish classic O Danny
Boy. And finally, below, Bob, Paul Grego, and Mike "Hats
off to Larry" Sittnick pose for cameraman Dan Miller
before returning to the wonderfully enjoyable reception.
Congrats
to Jim and his new bride!
On
September 27th, bright and early, Claire Jensen '03, Anne
Marie Jensen (dropout) and Heather Tansey '03 ran (loose
definition of the word) in the Celtic Classic 5K in Pennsylvannia.
No one was injured.
Mark
Rohlena ('00) just learned that he passed the Colorado
Bar Exam and is set to be sworn in as a practicing Colorado
attorney this month. Though he's been working since August
at Holland & Hart, it has been with the fear of the bar
results looming in the background. Talk about a relief!! Stop
by for a glass of champagne if you are in town in the near
future!
Chris
Lane ('03) now works in Manassas, as Administrative Coordinator
for Team Providence of Keller Williams Realty, under Mr. Mike
Bergida (who has a daughter in this year's freshman class
at Christendom). He is enjoying his job, and he is looking
into future graduate studies. He is also very happy to be
rooming with Greg Settducati (phonetically....you remember)
in Centreville. Feel free to contact Chris clane1775@yahoo.com
if you have any real estate needs in and around Northern VA
and the Shenandoah valley.
Tony
and Julie (Timmerman) Bodoh were blessed with their first
beautiful baby girl, Katrina Bernadette, on Friday, August
29th at 7:53 PM. Although she arrived four weeks before her
due date, she weighed in at 5 lbs 10 oz and was 17 1/2 inches
long (she gets her height from her mommy). Her namesake is
St. Catherine of Sienna, as Katrina visited the site of her
tomb in Rome this past March. All three are transitioning
well. Tony is currently a project manager for a marketing
firm and is an adjunct instructor in the business department
at Aquinas College in Nashville, TN. Julie is working in the
Cardiac Cath/Electrophysiology Lab at Vanderbilt University
Medical Center. To translate-she assists in the insertions
of Pacemakers and Internal Cardiac Defibrillators. Please
feel free to contact us at tjbodoh@yahoo.com,
as mommy appreciates mail while at home with Katrina.
At
the end of August Lori Omann (AA '03) began a new job
as a school secretary and school nurse at her home parish's
Catholic School, called Mary, Queen of Peace. It is keeping
her very busy because it is the beginning of the school year
and a lot is going on, and also just because she is new. She
still has a lot to learn, but it is going really well! She
is finally beginning to settle in after a month of school.
The kids are really great! They always like to wave and smile
when the walk by her office. It makes her realize how much
she wanted to be an elementary teacher. She'll be going college
for that next January. Now the nurse title of the job, that
is something else! The first 2 weeks of school she saw more
bloody noses than she had seen in her life. It was pretty
insane, kids coming in left and right and she only had 1 bed
and 1 chair in there! But it is finally settling down a little,
thank goodness! Their new priest, Father Moriarty, is wonderful!
He is a TAC Grad and his brother Paul Moriarty, graduated
from Christendom. So they are very blessed to have him at
their parish and school! Things are going well in Minnesota,
getting very cold though! She misses everyone dearly and is
very excited to see everyone at Homecoming next weekend! Everyone
better be ready to dance it up, says she.
Though
God has His reasons that Andrew and Julie (Fox) Fier (both
of 2001) have been unable to have children, He has blessed
Julie with the wonderful opportunity to work as a full time
nanny for two adorable little girls, named Katie (3 years
old) and Sarah (8 months old). There is a cute picture of
the girls to the left. Please keep them always in your prayers
as they strive to live out God’s will for them. Thanks!
Caroline
E. Pollock's ('03)
job with the pagans has really pushed her to the limit and
so she is in desperate need of a new job. CCD is really interesting
especially since one of the girls keeps trying to get her
to admit that the Church will allow abortion in a particular
situation. Her special cross for the year! She also has a
shiny, but beat up red sports car for free.
Gerry
Zapiain ('85) is trying to sell a great digital camera
Canon Sureshot S400 that he and his wife Csilla recently purchased.
He had a minor accident using it on vacation and they decided
that they don't need it any longer (Gerry is in the hospital).
To the right is the last photo that he took so that you have
some idea about the great picture quality (5x Zoom, 4 megapixels).
Pearse
Marschner (02), while good at using the Arabic letters
on the keyboard which spell frequently
recurring words like "prevaricating western press"
and "NGOs buggering out", is still otherwise quite
inexpert in the matter of typing in this foreign script. He
finds solace from this maladriotness of finger in the sweet
out of doors. The weather has been Edenic in Baghdad
for the last few weeks. Mid-80s and sunny with a slight cooling
in the evenings is eminently conducive to long walks through
the orange groves and date palm orchards or along the reeds
and rushes of the Tigris with a certain prospective conquest
for Christ. While not drowning in honey, he nonetheless highly
reccomends the quality of a day which aborns with one's
hotel being bombed. One richly lives the remainder of the
day in which one has, by 7AM, already ducked the broad-stroke
of the reaper's scythe! Long as the Emmylou Harris Signature
Giibson is unhurt by any falling debris, he is well. And indeed,
Al Hamdu Lillah, he is alive and pickin'.
And
here are October's Alumni Happy Birthdays........
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Erica E. Quest 10/1
Mary Fifer 10/2
Steven Vander Woude 10/2
Lisa F. Hartley 10/2
Mary E. Cummo 10/2
Jamie N. Sutherland 10/2
Ellie Sheble 10/4
Martha S. Cheng 10/4
Christine Lyons 10/5
Francis J. Corey 10/5
Jennifer N. Brechin 10/6
Kristina M. Mirus 10/6
David E. McBee 10/7
Miriam A. Lademan 10/7
Mark W. Wallacavage 10/7
Stephanie Weaver 10/7
Andrew J. O'Neill 10/7
Colby L. Storck 10/7
Bethany A. Sargis 10/7
Gretchen M. Bowes 10/8
Raymond F. Hain 10/8
Sarah A. Webster 10/8
Mollie M. Charba 10/9
Monica M. Curran 10/9
Anne-Louise M. Coulson 10/9
John P. Meng 10/9
Christopher P. Young 10/10
Colleen M. McMahon 10/10
Joseph J. Kopeck 10/11
Peter E. Chojnowski 10/13
Karen M. Boyne 10/13
James L. Clark 10/13
Helen M. Alexander 10/13
Michele McKinnon 10/13
Anna M. Hatke 10/13
Tempest Johnson 10/13
John S. Rader 10/14
Rose M. deCaen 10/14
Deborah Triggs 10/15
Sister Teresa Diaz 10/15
Robert Pennefather 10/16
Amanda McFadden 10/16
Jeff E. Coleman 10/16
Peter P. Whelan 10/16
Maribeth Kuznia 10/16
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Laura H. Clark 10/17
Bennett T. Ellis 10/17
Michelle M. Hoeper 10/17
Laina J. Hudson 10/17
Katherine M. Wathen 10/17
Theodore C. Schwalm 10/18
Winifred R. Ehlinger 10/18
Katherine E. Palladino 10/18
Alfred L. White 10/19
Peter Westhoff 10/19
Janet Purdy 10/19
Matthew R. Dittert 10/19
Rev.
Carroll L. Oubre 10/20
Amber M. Meza 10/20
Candice L. Meza 10/20
Catherine M. Sullivan 10/20
Brian Blaney 10/21
Guy G. Smith 10/21
Rebecca T. Kunasz 10/21
Michael D. Blaney 10/21
Kathryn A. Foley 10/21
Patrick J. Scanlon 10/21
Robert H. McAlister 10/22
Fiona C. Kolbe 10/22
Meghan J. Doran 10/22
Anna M. Pride 10/23
Elizabeth E. Fifield 10/23
Joshua P. Petersen 10/24
Jill A. Pogue 10/26
Sister Laura E. Nieves 10/26
Francois T. Flippen 10/27
Brenda M. Suprenant 10/27
Anne Horiuchi 10/28
Elmer Woltering 10/28
Benoit C. Flippen 10/28
Gregory R. Settducati 10/28
Susan A. Erwin 10/28
Michelle G. Barry 10/28
Mark C. Arnold 10/29
Patrick C. Weinert 10/29
Harold V. Welch 10/29
Brendan T. Fitzgerald 10/29
Christina C. Francani 10/30
Daniel P. Whalen 10/30
Brian W. Jurkowski 10/31
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Calendar
of events
October
11, 2003: Homecoming (Click here
to print out registration form)
February
21, 2004: Alumni Network Career Mentoring Reception
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Press
Releases and Campus News: http://www.christendom.edu/news/releases.shtml
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Stories
Look
Who's Coming to Homecoming...as of October 3rd...4:27pm.
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Akers
Matthew
Akers Jan
Almeter Mary Claire
Anderson Megan
Bauer Guy
Bauer Nancy
Belleville Bit
Belleville Peter
Blackmer Michael
Blum Kathleen
Blum Chris
Bodoh Greg
Bodoh Michelle
Bowes Gretchen
Bowes John
Briggs Doug
Briggs Nancy
Brock Mark
Callaghan Ryan
Callaghan Katherine
Cervantes Torey
Cervantes Joseph
Clark Kevin
Clark Laura
Costello Greg
Costello Emily
Crane Anita
Cuddeback John
Cuddeback Sofia
Dodd Gloria
Dodd Ennis
Echaniz John
Echaniz Sharon
Eidem Ted
Eidem Emily
Ellis Mary Beth
Ellis Bennett
Erwin Susan
Fer Theresa
Fisher Theresa
Fisher Ben
Flippen Doug
Flippen Maureen
Fontaine Stacey
Gaffney Brendan
Gaffney MaryAnn
Goodman Cathy
Goodman Don
Hans Joe
Hatke Ben
Hatke Anna
Henderson Laura
Hepler Clint
Hepler Andria
Hibl Kristy
Higby Ducky
Hinkell William
Hinkell Catherine
Hofbauer Buena
Hofbauer John
Jackson C. Alan
Jalsevac Paul
Janaro Walter
Jensen Ann Marie
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Jensen
Claire
Kelly Jim
Kelly Ellen
Kirchner Lisa
Kish Elizabeth
Kosten Sue
Kosten Tom
Krieger Kathryn
Lee Marcia
Lee Robyn
Lombardi Alyssa
Luckey William
Lundberg Bjorn
Lyons Bevlin
Lyons Joe
Marmalejo Nick
Massett Louis
McFadden Amanda
McFadden Mike
McFadden Jessica
McFadden Chris
McFadden Tom
McGuire Brendan
McGuirk Mike
McMahon Kate
McMahon Colleen
McNeely Meg
Meza Amber
Meza Candice
Miller Dan
Miller Deb
Mitchell Joe
O'Brien Maria
O'Brien John
O'Herron Joe
O'Herron Rebecca
Omann Lori
Patryn Bruce
Patryn Mary
Petersen Josh
Philbin Joan
Philbin Bill
Pierce Matthew
Pierce Theresa
Pollock Caroline
Reyes Stephanie
Reyes Jonathan
Rice Greg
Sargis Bethany
Scanlon Pat
Schafer John Paul
Schwerdt Mark
Shunk Anita
Shunk Chuck
Siegmund Marianne
Spring Sherry
Steenson Friend of
Steenson Erin
Storey Steve
Syski Emily
Tansey Heather
VanderWoude Chris
Weber Dane
Webster Sarah
Zepeda Therese
Zepeda Tom
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