The school may be closed but the spirit is still strong. The first graduating class of the former Cardinal Mooney High School will gather July 13 and 14 to reconnect and reminisce. A two-day event will include a tour of the school, as it is today, and a reception for classmates only at the Brook House.
Father Tom Valenti (Mooney ’67) will celebrate a Memorial Mass remembering the lives of deceased classmates and faculty at St. Lawrence Church, Greece. Finally, a celebration dinner with special entertainment will be held at the Plantation Party House.
Expected faculty members include long-time coach Ed Nietopski and the first vice-principle, Sister Edwina Baker, who celebrated her 100th birthday last summer.
Facing the daunting task of locating and cultivating classmates, the committee turned to today’s technology. All but a handful of the 339 graduates were located. Email updates and surveys were generated to help with planning and to gather information for reunion projects. Registration has begun and over 100 classmates plus their guests are expected. After the reunion, any funds remaining unspent will be contributed to Hope Hall School on Buffalo Road for “at-risk” or “educationally stranded” children.
Serving on the Reunion Committee formed in February 2015 are Barbara Koer-ner Vermeire (North Carolina), Michele Guider Griffin, Mary Ellen Kunz, Yvonne Sippel (Indiana), Anne Studley Hilbert, Carol Meloni, Tom O’Neil, Joanna Cavuto Messina, Dan Kavanaugh (California), Joan Carrol Ugino and Sharon Raemon Westbrook. Jeffrey Williams (Los Angeles), Mary Breya Stanley (Syracuse), Patricia Gramlich Picarreto and Roger “Buzz” Cox provide special help.
For more information, visit the Class website at www.MooneyHSClassof66Reunion.org or contact the committee at MooneyReunion66@gmail.com.
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