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October 2003 Print edition of The Grapevine Online 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. 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). 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. 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 And here are October's Alumni Happy Birthdays........
October 11, 2003: Homecoming February
21, 2004: Alumni Network Career Mentoring Reception Look Who's Coming to Homecoming...as of October 3rd.
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