DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY CLASS OF 1963

50TH CLASS REUNION OCTOBER 2013

Remember when...1963 Top World Events 

France and West Germany sign treaty of cooperation ending four centuries of conflict (Jan. 22).

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Pope John XXIII dies (June 3) and is succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.

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British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns in the wake of an affair with Christine Keeler, a teenage showgirl who was also involved with the Soviet naval attaché (June).

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Washington-to-Moscow "hot line" communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war (Aug. 30).

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Kenya achieves independence.

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There are 15,000 US military advisers in South Vietnam.

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32 independent African nations establish the Organization for African Unity.

Top U.S. Events 

Michael E. DeBakey implants artificial heart in human for first time at Houston hospital (April 21).

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US Supreme Court rules no locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools (June 17).

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"March on Washington," civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington, D.C.; Martin Luther King delivers "I have a dream" speech (Aug. 28).

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President Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Tex. Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President same day (Nov. 22). Lee Harvey Oswald, accused Kennedy assassin, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby (Nov. 24).

Statistics President: John F. Kennedy Vice President: Lyndon B. Johnson U.S. Population: 189,241,798 US GDP (1998 dollars): $617.4 billion Federal spending: $111.32 billion Unemployment: 5.5% Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.04 ($0.05 as of 1/7/63)

Remember when...1963 Sports World Series: LA Dodgers d. NY Yankees (4-0) NBA Championship: Boston d. LA Lakers (4-2) Stanley Cup: Toronto d. Detroit (4-1) Wimbledon: Women: Margaret Smith d. B.J. Moffitt (6-3 6-4) Men: Chuck McKinley d. F. Stolle (9-7 6-1 6-4) Kentucky Derby Champion: Chateaugay NCAA Basketball Championship: Loyola-IL d. Cincinnati (60-58 OT) NCAA Football Champions: Texas (11-0-0)

Entertainment Events 

Viewers tuned into NBC witness Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera – the first live telecast of a murder.

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“Beatlemania” hits the U.K. The Beatles, a British band composed of John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, take Britain by storm.

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The Rolling Stones emerge as the anti-Beatles, with an aggressive, blues-derived style.

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The French Chef with Julia Child debuts on educational television.

Pulitzer Prizes Fiction: The Reivers, William Faulkner Music: Piano Concerto No. 1, Samuel Barber Oscars awarded in 1963 Academy Award, Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia, Sam Spiegel, producer (Columbia) Nobel Prize for Literature: Giorgios Seferis (Seferiades) (Greece)

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James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Grammys awarded in 1963 Record of the Year: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Tony Bennett Album of the Year: The First Family, Vaughn Meader (Cadence) Song of the Year: "What Kind of Fool Am I," Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, songwriters

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E. E. Cummings, 73 Poems

Miss America: Jacquelyn Mayer (OH)

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Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique

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Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Thomas Pynchon, V

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John Rechy, City of Night

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Charles M. Schulz, Happiness is a Warm Puppy

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John Updike, The Centaur

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Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Movies 

Tom Jones, Lilies of the Field, America, America

Books

50th Class Reunion (1963) • St. Ann’s West was built • The Duquesne Dukes Basketball team played five home games in the newly constructed Civic Arena • Duquesne participated in the General Electric “College Bowl” television competition • The Student Congress was present again on campus after a year’s absence • The Duquesne Sports Hall of Fame was established to celebrate the 50th year of Duquesne basketball

Jazz at Duquesne: Reunion Reminiscences [Submitted in honor of Ray DeFade and the late Paul Hubinon, together with all of my valued classmates who participated in the formative years of jazz at Duquesne and share these memories!]

As a proud graduate of the university, and one only reluctantly accepting the fact that his 50th reunion will be celebrated in October, I find myself to be continually amazed by the progress of my alma mater in so many areas. Of personal interest has been the gradual transformation of the School of Music. Today’s multifaceted program with its legitimate national aspirations seems far removed from the largely regional school of my undergraduate years. One clearly positive development has been the extraordinary health of its jazz studies program. Certainly, Duquesne Alumni are familiar with references to the program itself, or to recent performances by its stellar faculty, students, or ensembles. Today, jazz studies on the Bluff can boast over a dozen distinguished faculty who in turn, have attracted enthusiastic and talented students from an ever expanding geographical area. That the inclusion in the curriculum of this purely “American” aspect of musical studies at Duquesne did not always receive the universal support that it enjoys today, is a story that bears a particular relevance for the graduating class of 1963. In fact, jazz studies did not exist at the university during my undergraduate years, and indications of growing student interest to the contrary, my recollection is that the administration of the School of Music in the early sixties was not unhappy with the status quo! I recall that students who professed an interest in jazz during those years were generally encouraged to limit such activities while on campus. Whether this reticence stemmed from a perception of the questionable origins of the art form, or whether it simply reflected a generally cautious approach to endorsing new areas of study, the absence of any reference to jazz or jazz related ensembles in the D.U. Year books of 1960 through 1962 would seem to support my assessment.

However, a chance examination of the 1963 edition of l’espirit du duc served to remind me of events which occurred during that year which in retrospect, surely played a pivotal role in the unqualified endorsement that the program enjoys today. The university’s plans for the fiftieth anniversary class prompted an examination of my copy of that volume. Carefully preserved between pages 60 and 61 (which proudly displayed a photograph of the “D.U. Jazz Band!”) was a copy of the March 1, 1963 campus newspaper, the Duke. The first page of the paper carries the headline, “Villanova Hails Jazz Band.” The article and picture which follow describe the unprecedented success of the ensemble in a national competition, judged by several of the most important professionals in the field, including bandleader Stan Kenton and Bill Cass, then the New York editor of Downbeat magazine! The national recognition capped a year in which the band, which had yet to be sanctioned by the School of Music, competed under the name of its two student leaders, Paul Hubinon and Ray DeFade. The ensemble practiced off campus and financed its own trips to the competitions in which it participated.

The national recognition, together with the resultant honors and offers to appear, did seem to have a positive effect upon the D.U. administration, however. The identification of the ensemble as the D.U. Jazz Band in the 1963 Yearbook was perhaps the first tentative step. Soon thereafter, the ensemble was encouraged to perform at the New York World’s Fair incorporating the university’s name; and the Duquesne Jazz Ensemble would continue to compete successfully throughout the sixties, gradually gaining legitimacy, first as an endorsed extracurricular student activity and with the hiring of full-time faculty in the early seventies, as a university sponsored program.

6/22/2013 by Robert F. Schmalz, Ph.D. After graduating from Duquesne in 1963, Schmalz completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology, in 1966 and 1971 respectively, at the University of Pittsburgh. He taught music history and applied trombone at the University of Louisiana—Lafayette, retiring as Girard Chair in Music and University Honor Professor. He continues to teach as an adjunct at several local universities and remains professionally active as a trombonist in the Pittsburgh area.

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s):

Connie Spoharski Bacha B.Ed Secondary Bus. Ed 1963

Most Memorable Class:

M.Ed Secondary Ed. 1966 Office Practice with Dr. Bernadine Myers

My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family:

Dr. Morice Walking up and down the hills from Canevin Hall to Rockwall Hall for accounting. Also meeting wonderful classmates and still keeping in touch with them. Being a member and the President of Pi Omega Pi National Business Education Fraternity.

Traveling, spending time with my family, volunteering, after retirement—working with NAEP (testing for the National Association for Educational Progress) Husband, John, is a retired Verizon employee and enjoys classic cars Son: Dr. John J. Bacha, a general surgeon in Palm City, Florida, married with one daughter Son: Dr. Jason Bacha, a pediatrician, and wife working in Mbeya, Tanzania, Africa

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

A retired Bus. Ed. Teacher. Taught 35 years in the Chartiers Valley School District Both sons are medical doctors. John, a surgeon, his wife is a dentist. Jason, a pediatrician, his wife is also a pediatrician. Having four doctors in the family...God is good!

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class:

Theresa Gallagher Balog BSN Nursing Public Health Nursing

My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Alice Feehan Friendships

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Sing with Sweet Adelines Chorus (Barbershop Harmony)

1 Daughter (Megan Hendricks), 1 Son (Paul), 2 Granddaughters My family; Professional Awards: the first endowed professorship in the Penn State University School of Nursing; being named a Penn State Achieving Woman; Sigma Theta Tau Award for Excellence in Nursing Education

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s):

Robert S. Barker B.A. (1963); J.D. (1966); M.A. (1974)

Most Memorable Class:

(Answers below are based on my undergraduate years, 1959-1963) “Government and Politics of the U.S.S.R.” taught by Dr. Robert E. Beranek

My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

It’s a tie between Dr. Joseph R. Morice and Dr. Robert E. Beranek There are too many to list. The most exhilarating experiences were as a member of Duquesne’s many tournament-winning debate teams — bringing the trophies home to the Bluff. Intercollegiate Debate (Team Captain, 1962-63); SGA (1960-61; 1963); Young Democrats (Chairman, 1961-62) (NOTE: I am no longer a Democrat); Red Masquers (minor roles only)

I am grateful to have been able to combine two major interests: law and teaching, and to write and speak in English and Spanish, on Constitutional Law, throughout the Western Hemisphere. Mary Lou Fitzgerald and I were married in 1971, in the Duquesne Chapel. We have two daughters, Maureen and Margaret (“Peggy”), both of whom earned their undergraduate and law degrees at Duquesne. We have one granddaughter and six grandsons. I will leave that for others to decide. Whatever my accomplishments may have been, I owe them largely to the help and kindness of others — my wife, my parents, teachers, coaches, friends, colleagues, and — not least — the Holy Ghost Fathers.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Frances May Corso B.Ed Botanical Anatomy Dr. Helene Miller and Mr. Maurice (History Prof) One year, a group of us volunteered to dance with the Tamburitzans as the finale of the Pittsburgh Folk Festival at the Syria Mosque. Rehearsals and performance were great! The only organization that I recall being a member of was the Medical Student Group.

Activities—advising and establishing Academic Challenge in my Salem High School and the County Bowl. Also being Faculty Advisor for Science Club and National Honor Society. Following retirement, I have dedicated my time to a prison ministry with death row prisoners.

Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

I also enjoy reading and cross stitch and working in our family Gift Shop. Active in several church organizations and secretary of our Township Council of Church and Community. My husband David and I ran our Gift Shop together until we closed this year. Now we both spend time visiting prisoners in 5 state prisons. I suppose being recognized by the senior class at the High School where I taught 31 years as “Teacher of the Year” - only the 4th to be named to this honor (at the time, others since). Previously recognized by the administration as a Jennings Foundation Scholar.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden):

Carol Titus Day

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.A.

Most Memorable Class:

Dr. Sam Hazo—all of his classes Fr. Van Kamm—psychology

My Favorite Professor:

Dr. Hazo and Fr. Van Kamm

Please share a special memory from your

Sled riding down the hill from Canevin Hall on cafeteria trays

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Sorority

student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Yoga instructor for over 40 years; German instructor at Pitt; Stress management consultant for Pittsburgh corporations

Share something about your family:

I have 3 children: Jenny in California, Brad in Connecticut, and Mike in Hoboken. My husband, Charlie, and I love to golf and ski.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Professionally, I published a book and numerous articles in Elle and Seventeen on yoga. Personally, I still treasure the spiritual education I received at Duquesne.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Carol DeMare B.A. Journalism Public Speaking Ass’t Professor of Philosophy, Michael Strasser Gabbing with friends in Assumption Hall, DU basketball games, Greek activities, fun with friends at Milt’s Tavern

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Working on the “Duquesne Duke” student newspaper and WDUQ radio station; Sigma Phi Delta (Alpha Phi) sorority

What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Hiking and mountain climbing, knitting and crocheting, tap dancing, yoga, several hours a week in a fitness program Married for a brief time; no children Greatest achievement—a nearly 50 year career in Journalism, including work as a reporter on three newspapers. I retired at the end of 2011 after 40 years on the Albany (NY) Times Union. The Albany County Bar Assn. created an award in my honor —in recognition of my coverage of legal and criminal courses at the College of St. Rose while working on the paper. I also made guest appearances over the years on radio and television shows.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Leo J Fallon BS Pharmacy Pharmacognosy Dr. Arnold Neva Years going to the grotto behind Old Main

ROTC Rifle Club

Golf

Being married to Pat for 25 years, daughter Candy owns “Talk of the Town Farm” in Caribou Maine, son Lee PhD in English literature— teacher in Cleveland, Ohio President of the Florida Pharmacy Association Year 2006-2007; Florida Pharmacy Association Pharmacist of the Year 2009; Florida Pharmacy Association Mentor of the Year 2009; Manager of the Walmart Health and Wellness Division; Pharmacy of the Year of the Eastern Business Unit (1,550 stores) ranked the number two Walmart Pharmacy dept. in the United States (2010); Pres. of the Vero Beach Shrine Club (1993); Member of the Florida Board of Pharmacy (2011-2015); MBA University of Miami Coral Gables Florida (1976); PhD University of Miami Coral Gables Florida International Economics (1984); Nursing home administrator Executive Director of two life care retirement communities (1984-1990.)

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Michael T. Fialko BA ’63 MA ‘65 Psychology Rev. Leonard Bushinski Living in the old houses on Bluff St. (St. Joseph’s Hall)

Professor Walter Burroughs of the Language Dept. was the leader of a travel club to which I belonged. We did trips to Europe, Mexico and South America.

I am still traveling and I have a travel group here in Albany. We do two trips a year. In January we went to Guatemala and in Sept.-Oct. we will be going to France. I am single. I am still alive!

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Anthony L. Gannon B.A., MBA ’72 Graduate Statistical Analysis Grad. Business Faculty Fun “mixers” at commissioners cottage, S. Park; Designing prizewinning float for Homecoming; Winning 2nd prize at Greek Sing; Days in Canevin Cafeteria Member of Pershing Rifles military/social fraternity; have maintained some life-long friendships with folks I met while at Duquesne

My wife and I have traveled as a hobby throughout our marriage. Favorite places: Paris, Venice, Rome and the Caribbean I met my wife, Joanne, at Duquesne—where she worked as secretary for the VP of Student Affairs. We have been happily married for almost 50 years, have 2 children and 4 beautiful granddaughters. During my career, I have held senior financial management positions in four separate industries, but my wife and family have always been first and foremost.

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden):

Mary Jane Mondrick Gatti

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.Ed

Most Memorable Class:

Father Bushinski “Marriage and the Family”

My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Cheerleading at the N.I.T. in NYC at Madison Square Garden 1962

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

D.U. Cheerleader Sigma Phi Delta Sorority

student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Volunteer dance teacher (10 years)

Share something about your family:

4 children, 10 grandchildren

Chorus director (5 years)

What do you consider your A strong family that gets along well greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Share something about your family:

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Geoffrey J. Gill, Sr. B.S. Business Administration (majored in Commerce) Economics Class—Always appreciated a professor who was not Keynesian Can’t remember professors that much… Still remember the old fire truck we purchased thru Pershing Rifles...which had one tank with which we loaded up with draught beer

Belonged to Pershing Rifles Military (and social) Fraternity

First and foremost my grandkids are important, still like to travel despite extensive travel in former job, play golf, gardening, attend baseball, football, basketball and hockey games. Work extensively on genealogy on all sides of family. Own and manage beachside condos in North Myrtle Beach (at Crescent Shores and Ashworth) Have been happily married to my wife Elaine for 46 years & we have three very successful sons who all graduated from Duquesne (one did his undergraduate at St. Vincent) and 8 grandchildren. My wife Elaine was born in Puerto Rico where we visit annually. Also visit family (mother’s side) in Nova Scotia and the rest of Canada—annually Worked as an international sales manager for the Wolman Division of Koppers (later changing hands to Beazer, Hickson Timber Products, Arch Chemicals Inc., and Lonza). Spent 43 years with the same division working to franchise timber impregnation plants and broaden the International markets for pressure treated timber.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Kathleen (Kathy) Donahue Haver B.S. in Nursing Zoology with Dr. Lu Mrs. Donovan Nursing at Mercy Hospital. Mixers with Sororities and Fraternities. Canevin Caf.

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Alpha Tau Delta, Beta Chi Beta Sorority, Carnival, Greek Sing

What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Pediatric Nursing in various areas, Lady of Charity—St. Bernadette Parish, Monroeville, PA. Married to Joe Haver (B.S. Pharmacy ’65), 4 children; 10 grandchildren M.S. in Nursing of Children degree—Univ of Pgh., Associate to the Sisters of St. Joseph, Nursing children in various capacities Wife, Mother, Grandmother

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s):

Christine Frances (Ladesic) Heck B.S. Education

Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

US History Dr. Morice—US History Eating lunch at sorority table Canevin Hall—working on Carnival shows where I met my husband in 1961

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Tau Delta Tau Sorority, going to Duke’s Basketball games

What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Gardening, skiing, tapestry, rug hooking, going to symphony and Pirate baseball for many years, also taught Religious education at my church for many years My husband and son are both lawyers. My husband in Pittsburgh, and son in Los Angeles, California My greatest achievement is my son and family and being here to celebrate my 50th year celebration at Duquesne after surviving a bout with cancer.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Claudia Kessler Hinnebusch B.S. Biology Saturday English poetry class with Foster Provost Dr. Julius Greenstein Being a part of the Red Masquers—taking part in plays and play production with some great people and the memorable Sam Mehli

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Red Masquers, Student Court

What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Singing in a community choir

Husband Tom retired UCLA professor of African Languages and Linguistics; I’m retired from UCLA Clinical Microbiology lab Winning the American Society of Microbiology’s 2010 ScheragoRubin Award for excellence as a bench-level technologist. This involved teaching many post-doctoral students, many of whom who have gone on to do great things in Microbiology.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor:

Michael Hogan B.S. Business Administration

Please share a special memory from your

The brutal winter winds over the bluff and the instant relief of warmth as one entered a classroom building.

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

The men’s basketball teams and games against Oscar Robinson and the University of Cincinnati, the Stith Brothers and Freddie Crawford from St. Bonaventure, Art Hyman and Jeff Mullens at Duke, Hubie White and Wally Jones from Villanova and all games against Pitt.

What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Those organizations, like Scouting, that have given me an opportunity to give back for all that I have received. Also, Toastmasters gave me the opportunity to develop speaking skills that have given my career

Share something about your family:

I went to undergraduate school at Duquesne, my wife went to graduate school and my son both undergraduate and graduate

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Although there has been challenges in doing so, maintaining my Christian values and ethics that were fostered at Duquesne in my business and private life.

I didn’t have one although I believe the accounting professors were second to none. There were a number of professors that after attending their lectures I asked myself, where did Duquesne get

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years:

Dorothy Sharak Houston B.S.N. (1963), M.S. Ed. (1981), M.S.N. (1994) and Business certificate With 3 degrees, there were too many to remember Miss Alice Feehan, Nursing instructor There was a very strict dress code as a clinical student nurse (hair off collar, etc.). One week after St. Patrick’s Day, our instructor, Miss Feehan, came down the hall with bright green hair!! She thought she had used a hair color that would wash out… it did after 2 weeks! She was quite a shocking figure in a crisp, starched and ironed, white uniform. She put a smile on quite a few patients’ faces and her students

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Beta Chi Beta Sorority

What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family:

I love to travel and have been fortunate to visit many countries, including Germany, Canada, France, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Spain, and Africa, Bahamas, and many parts of America.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

My education at Duquesne prepared me well for my career as a nurse, for over 44 years. I have worked in labor and delivery, medsurgery, and orthopedics as a nurse, in service education director, and nursing instructor. In the last 33 years at UPMC Shadyside, I taught almost 2000 students.

I married in my 20s and had 1 step-son who is now 40 years old. I’ve had a foster child in India (Anthony) and a young girl in Guatemala

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden):

John Jarzynka

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.S. Pharmacy

Most Memorable Class:

Pharmaceutical Math

My Favorite Professor:

Dean John Adams

Please share a special memory from your

The greatest event of my life! Meeting my lovely wife Patricia Steinmetz

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Beta Pi Sigma Fraternity; playing all fraternity sports

Owning my own business (University Pharmacy) in Pittsburgh and since retiring, volunteering for various organizations in Reno My wife Patricia (Steinmetz) and I have 2 wonderful children and 2 grandchildren. We all do many things together. Being a very successful pharmacist and having a wonderful family.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden):

Patricia (Steinmetz) Jarzynka

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.S. Pharmacy

Most Memorable Class:

Physical Chemistry

My Favorite Professor:

Dr. Mitchell Borke

Please share a special memory from your

Life in Assumption Hall...sneaking out the window after bed check

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

American Pharmaceutical Association

student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

My career as a pharmacist. At the age of 72, I still work time and love what I do.

Share something about your family:

I have been blessed with 2 lovely children, Linda and J.J. who live here in Reno and are a very important part of my life.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Meeting my future husband at Duquesne and sharing a lifetime of memories with him.

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Carolyn Liotta Jindracek B.S. Education US History with Mr. Morice Professor DeFelice Writing and performing “What’s My Line” in Spanish conversation class with Elaine Mazza and Marlene Palamone

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

None. I was a commuter and worked through college. Was a member of PSEA.

What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Singing in Church Choir and Community chorus. Boating with my late husband. Gardening. I was married and have stepchildren. My husband died in 1995. I am close with my grandchildren and enjoy spending time with them. Teaching mathematics at the secondary level for 25 years. Six years in Pittsburgh and 19 years in New Jersey.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class:

Anne Hess Jupinko B.A. Sociology All the Theology electives I took in 1963 after the beginning of

My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Father Charles Fenner C.S.Sp. The many philosophical discussions over beer at Milt’s Tavern. Also Sunday morning Mass in the chapel. Oh, yes, and the classes!

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

I was a social worker with troubled teenagers for 28 years, with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Columbus, Ohio. I visited the Good Shepherd Motherhouse in Angers, France. I also worked for seven years with Franklin County (OH) Children Services. I am active on parish council and too many church committees. I enjoy camping, cooking gourmet meals, and helping disadvantaged families repair

Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Son Stephan Jupinko, born 12/2/66 Since 1994, I have coordinated and directed a parish program to assist disadvantaged families in southern Ohio with home repairs, utilizing a work camp approach. Called The Appalachian Project, funded by selling shares of “stock,” we take 50 high school and college youth and 25 adults to Scioto County in the southern part of our diocese each June. Over 340 youths have participated through the past 20 years.

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Marsha Lynne (Neekuntz) Lastoka B.S. in Business Administration Theology, Business Law, Logic, Ethics Father Schenning, the elder of the two Buschinski Brothers The above was showing by cat-like dancing movements to teach us! (Alley Cat). Another was Father Schenning in the Family.

We enjoyed the Basketball Games and going to the Dugout to eat. Also playing cards (poker with 5’s and 10’s wild!) with Herb Marshall a dear friend.

Crocheting, making rosaries for the missions. But the most special day of my life—can’t pick just one—but my family—husband and children. I have no regrets in my life choices. Four times with child, three living—Michael, David and Sandra. I am the heart, Denny is the head, and we are part of the Mystical Church in our home. We will celebrate our 50th, August 3rd. Being called to spend my life in marriage as wife, mother, grandmother to three beautiful ones (Brittany, Taylor Marie and Connor Wade Ewing). The girls are studying and have met their future mates—I’ll have 2 more! Also I was called to the OCTJS—my other call from God. Amen. I was also called to be a Catechist for the First Holy Communion class—five years in the Byzantine Catholic Rite! God gives many gifts and joy on our path to Him!

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden):

Maggi Kane Luca

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.Ed English

Most Memorable Class:

Chaucer

My Favorite Professor:

Mr. Boettcher

Please share a special memory from your

Carnival

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Sigma Lambda Phi

Democratic politics

Ray and I met at Duquesne, have three sons, married 50 years

Appointed head of the Fairfax County Board of Elections

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden):

Barbara Kozlowski Lutz

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.S. Nursing

Most Memorable Class:

Nursing

My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Life in the dorm...Assumption Hall

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Sigma Phi Delta

student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

In my earlier years, when my children were growing up, I was active in school, church and swim club activities, as well as counseling students to facilitate completion of their programs.

Share something about your family:

Married to Joseph J. Lutz for 42 years—deceased in 2004.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

I have 2 children , Timothy and Brenda, and 2 grandchildren, Kyle and Kelsey. A great family that I am proud of. Took post-graduate courses and have Permanent Teaching Certification in NY. I have taught NAs, PNs, and RNs in New York and Pennsylvania.

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Fred Martich B.S. Biology and Chemistry Dr. Sillman’s Organic Evolution Dr. Sillman Met my wife of 50 years in my sophomore year

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Public health, building paper/balsa model airplanes, scouting

Joanie (Zaharewicz—N’62) and I raised five kids who are gainfully employed, married, and paying taxes Marrying Joanie, raising five kids, and co-authoring Ready to Go: The History and Contributions of US Public Health Advisors (2008). This book is a partial history of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from the Public Health Advisor perspective.

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Rebecca Stone McCue B.A. Psychology Political Science—All of them! Harold Webb My best memory is the friendliness of everyone and the supportiveness and caring of the professors. Also, being one of the founding members of Tau Delta Tau and all of the wonderful sorority sisters. The very best memory — sharing an apartment in East Liberty with 4 other Duquesne students. Other than Tau Delta Tau activities, I had no time to other organizations as my commute from Mt. Lebanon by bus and a long walk in addition to working 3-6 days a week at Palmer’s restaurant kept me very busy. Volunteer work with the Army thrift shop, Norwalk Ct. Newcomers club, Girl Scouts, Wilton Ct. public school system, Southern Connecticut Figure Skating Club, taking accounting courses at Sacred Hearth University, ice dancing, gardening, skiing, assisting at the family silk screen business, working in the gardens at Wee Burn Country Club Cliff and I will be married for 50 years this coming February. We have two married daughters, Kathy and Matt in Colorado and Carol and Andy and five beautiful smart incredible grandchildren ages 17-7, SiRaising two children and helping with the family silkscreen business. Being debt free by age 60. Living a fairly balanced life.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden):

Dorothy Obel Miller

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.A. Journalism

Most Memorable Class:

News Reporting and Writing—Ed Gregory

My Favorite Professor:

Robert Berenak

Please share a special memory from your

Interviewing Gov. Lawrence on “Youth Wants to Know” as part of journalism class

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Young Democrats, Duke

Libraries, preservation of Civil War battlefields

Married for 48 years to Ed—Retired Global IT Manager for Chevron; three daughters, 5 grandchildren—have lived all over the world Information Officer—Stop Measles Campaign, Los Angeles County; Named Volunteer of the Year, Texas State Library, 1985

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Carol Morgan (Nee Mamula) English, Arts 1963 Shakespeare Mr. Preston The kindness of the Dean of Women and Father Monroney, Dean School Arts & Sciences, my advisor Foster Provost.

Intercollegiate Conference on Government

Painting, sculpture, community activist, actress on stage and film, free lance articles

Everything I am proud of I am indebted for to my grandmother. She educated me and was a pivotal person in my life Winning the largest civil rights action in history in my lawsuit against the government. Winning the lawsuit confirmed my feelings of being qualified for a writer position in government. At the time I faced sex discrimination when I was unjustly banned from being hired by the State Department, I had an MA degree in English from Maryland University and a BA degree in English from Duquesne. I’d published articles in magazines, including the Reader’s Digest. I was a high salaried writer for the Labor Department. Winning the suit gave me the recognition I deserved but could not find in the State Department. As a result, I now live in an elegant townhouse and was able to retire at age 65 to do sculpture, painting, acting, and voice study.

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Anna M. O’Leska B.A. Liberal Arts and M.S. Education

I loved living in the dorm (St. Ann’s). It was a whole new education in itself.

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

I have traveled most of the world and speak fluent French in many countries, if not English.

My sister, Mary Jane, also graduated from Duquesne and remained active at the University throughout her lifetime. She enjoyed travel as well and spoke foreign languages in several of the countries that she visited. We have cousins who are also alumni of Duquesne. Upon graduation from Duquesne, I sailed to Europe and studied abroad (France) for 2 years at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University in Aix-en-Provence. I became fluent in the French language and worked in Paris for a few years for an American company. (I began by studying French at Duquesne).

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Margaret Ondovchik Nerone B.S. Nursing Anatomy and Physiology Father Moroney The friendship and support of my 13 peers in my nursing class.

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Teaching CCD; Doing massage therapy on family and close friends; Working at WPIC

My husband and I have three married children and eleven grandchildren, all of whom are loving, supportive and a joy to be with. My greatest achievement is being able to see the humor, maneuver through and cope with the “small” daily life issues and crises.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Erma Rusignuolo Och B.A. Psychology Psychology Classes Fr. Hogan (Psych. Dept.) Serving as President of Sigma Phi Delta Sorority Singing in school revues Sorority

Music, reading (2 book clubs), yoga, spent several years ballroom dancing, cooking and dining out

One son—43 years old. 4 grandchildren—2 boys, 15 and 16, and 2 girls, 9 and 4 Masters degree in Counseling completed in 1983—20 years after B.A. Setting up a private practice and working as a psychotherapist for 20 years

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years:

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family:

William G. Ott B.A. Journalism and Philosophy minor Freshman English Mr. Smith who taught make-up English Freshman Orientation—Duquesne had an open door policy for Veterans and I enrolled. When I went to a freshman orientation gathering, I was told I had to wear a beanie and do other things for orientation. At first I thought that maybe I had made a mistake in returning to school. Then, Benny Benequista came to the podium and told all Vets to forget the freshman nonsense and meet with him after the program. Senior—For the back to school issue of the Duquesne Duke, I interviewed Father McAnulty, University President. It was the lead story and hardly a word was changed. The Duquesne University Veterans Association

I am an amateur sports enthusiast. Always having had an interest in history, especially the Civil War, I am currently a member of the “Civil War Round Table of Pittsburgh.” I am also active in Osher Lifelong Learning at Carnegie Mellon University where I facilitate a writing class. My wife, Janet and I, worked hard and have received a great deal of pleasure in raising our six children and helping them through college and advanced degrees.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class:

Robert Polinsky B.S. Accounting Frank Ebberts Law Class. Professor showed how uneducated I was and taught me valuable life lessons. He was very well respected by my cousins before me.

My Favorite Professor:

Effective Communications Instructor and my senior year adviser, Dr. Semour. His words to me as I received my degree were, nice to see you up here! The 1962 NIT Semi-Finals at Old Madison Square. Duquesne hit their first five shots for a 10-0. It was a great thrill to be at the Old Garden. Sadly we were outscored by more than ten the rest of the game.

Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family: What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

The earning of tuition was my most important activity at Duquesne. The U.S. Post Office, Liberty Baking Co., Churchill Valley Golf Course, snow shoveling, grass cutting were some of the many tools but especially my mom and dad. Following the Men’s Varsity Basketball team and being a season ticket holder for many seasons rank high on my list. I long for the glory days of any Duquesne activity. The Law School grads who belong to the PA County Courts are held in high esteem. My mother entered Duquesne in 1927 and completed two years. My mother’s family had twelve siblings and the first born became a Holy Ghost (Spiritan) priest. My younger sister is also a Duquesne Alum as well as many cousins on both family sides. My family. Wife, Mary, an IUP grad and retired teacher, son, Rob, a PSU alum: daughters, Cathy, a Swarthmore grad, and Carolyn, a GW and Catholic Univ. grad are more achievements than this Duquesne grad could ever hope for.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class:

Patricia (Patti) Pieper Sabena B.S. Marketing; M.A. Psychology Ethics: the closest I ever came to debating, systematically, the questions of right and wrong, good and evil, justice and crime, virtue

My Favorite Professor:

Dr. Bernadine Meyer who, by her warm professionalism, never indicated or evidenced that gender would stand in my way in the business world, which it never has. The laughter and camaraderie of rehearsing and performing at Carnival in Alpha Phi Omicron/Alpha Epsilon shows: Satan’s Place, Once Upon a Pagoda, and Something Savage.

Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Alpha Phi Omicron (treasurer, president); Epsilon Eta Phi (president); Beta Gamma Sigma. Rooting for the Duquesne Dukes at home and away.

Traveling dozens and dozens of times to Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Australia/New Zealand for work and for play. Heading to Southern India and Sri Lanka in February 2014.

Share something about your family:

My 1st husband died young. Our kids (Matt 46, Nichole 38, Ingrid & Kristin, 35) raise our eight grandkids. 1988 blessed me in marriage to Dan Ahern, a wonderful man, father, and Grampy.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Self-employed since 1965 conducting qualitative research worldwide. Elected 3 times president of QRCA professional association. Grateful to have my passion so early and enduring.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation? Share something about your family:

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Robert Frederich Schmalz B.S. Music; Ph.D. Historical Musicology (Pitt) Brass Ensemble/Music History Prof. Matthew (Matty) Shiner; Profs. Hunter & Snow Our student organized Hubinon/DeFade Jazz ensemble, which unofficially represented Duquesne in winning national collegiate competitions at Notre Dame and Villanova in 1963, in retrospect proved instrumental in D.U.’s establishment of the stellar Jazz Studies program now offered at the university! I was proud to represent Duquesne as a member of the varsity tennis team in 1962 and 1963. I later returned to coach the team for a year, while pursuing my graduate studies at Pitt.

Tennis has remained a lifelong avocation, together with sailing and water sports in general. I continue to annoy my wife by collecting antique Volvos and wooden boats. I continue to perform as a professional musician. My son, Erik, is a graduate of both the Oberlin and Cincinnati Conservatories of Music. A Grammy nominated, internationally active specialist in the performance of the music of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, he has 9 CDs to his credit. His wife Leah is the principal legal counsel for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment. They reside in Canton, CT. I’ve been blessed in so many ways, not the least of which would be a wonderful marriage (47 years!) and my talented son an daughter-inlaw. I’m proud too of a successful academic career, culminating with titles including University Honor Professor and Girard Endowed Chair in Music at the University of Louisiana...and most proud too, of the achievements of so many of my students.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your Duquesne years:

Mary Catherine Moore Sclafani B.A. English American History at 8 A.M.! Mrs. Parker, English First person I met was Bob Slobodnik. He was 6’11”, I was 4’11”! My first on campus job was typing scripts in the little theatre. The typewriter (remember them?) had no letters on the keys! Dorm life was a blast! I made lifelong friends.

What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Residence Council (Assumption Hall)

Raising our family, teaching, traveling

Share something about your family:

Lenny and I will be married 50 years in May. He made many trips to Pittsburgh over my four years at DU. We have three adult children and six grandchildren.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

I am most proud of my family. My husband, a Deacon, and I have written and presented numerous retreats, both for married couples and individuals. What a blessing!

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden): Duquesne Degree(s): Most Memorable Class: My Favorite Professor: Please share a special memory from your

Daniel C. Schmidt Muchnok B.A. Secondary Education; MBA Business Management Psychology Dr. Zlody Tamburitzan 6 week trip to Europe

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Tamburitzans

Playing Ethnic music for weddings, picnics and national conventions

Share something about your family:

We had 3 sons and lived in Luxembourg, Europe for some time while they were school age. Presently we have 9 grandchildren. We are enjoying all our children since they have settled in Pittsburgh.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Happy, health, marriage, and children

My Story 1963 Thru Today Name (including maiden):

Vincent Spagnola

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.S. Accounting

Most Memorable Class:

Advanced Business Statistics

My Favorite Professor:

Dr. George Matlin

Please share a special memory from your

I dreaded taking Eng Lit. I took it with Dr. Mitchell. He was an excellent prof. I learned to enjoy reading and now am an avid reader.

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Beta Alpha Phi (Honorary Business Fraternity)

student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Reading and took an active interest in my son’s activities as my wife also did in our daughters’ activities.

Share something about your family:

I’m married with 3 children and 1 grandson.

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Everyone in our family is a college graduate. Our oldest daughter is a CPA and controller, our 2nd daughter has a master’s degree and teaches 3rd grade, and our son is completing his 2nd year of his internship to become a medical doctor.

My Story 1963 Thru Today

Name (including maiden):

Louis E. Wagner, Sr.

Duquesne Degree(s):

B.S. Business (Evening student)

Most Memorable Class:

History

My Favorite Professor:

Ionatta

Please share a special memory from your

Graduation

Duquesne years: What athletic or student organizations were most important to you as a

Veterans

student? What activities or hobbies have held a special place in your life since graduation?

Heinz History Center contributor; Collector of Kentucky rifles and Civil War items

Share something about your family:

Two sons: Louis E. Wagner Jr. 1986 Duquesne Graduate, School of Law

What do you consider your greatest achievement (i.e., family, personal, career)?

Family & U.S. Navy, Korean War; Retired, safety engineer for the Duquesne Light Co.

Thomas C. Wagner, Real Estate