In Memoriam

In Memoriam

Alumni 2018-2019

Henry L. Williams ’06 was a Vietnam War U.S. Coast Guard veteran and a supervisor at Sikorsky Aircraft where he had been employed for 46 years. Henry loved fishing and truly enjoyed his job and work.
November 8, 2018 | Bridgeport, CT

Joan Crawford McCooey ’52 worked as a newspaper and magazine editor. She also worked as a proofreader at a law firm. Joan was a guardian ad litem, advocating for the rights of children.
October 28, 2018 | South Burlington, VT

Louise Hogan Garvey ’49 worked as a social worker for the State of Connecticut. She spent most of her life residing in Hamden, CT and lived in Branford, CT and Hilton Head, SC
October 27, 2018 | North Branford, CT

Virginia Selfors Murphy ’49 (Jinny) worked in advertising in Manhattan and taught ballroom dancing in the evenings with Arthur Murray, founder of the eponymous dancing schools, before returning to New Haven to teach Spanish and French in local area schools.
October 19, 2018 | Woodbridge, CT

Doris Savelle Breuler ’52 was a teacher at the former St. Mary’s High School in New Haven and later at Guilford High School where she was chairman of the English Department until her retirement.
October 16, 2018 | Northford, CT

Lorraine Rosadini DiGioia ’58 worked for the State of Connecticut as a Social Worker. After taking time off to raise six children, she later worked in real estate, retail, and finally at Blue Cross and Blue Shield in North Haven, where she retired in 1997, after twelve years.
October 15, 2018 | Wallingford, CT

Aleksandra L. "Sandra" Bzdyra '69 worked as a Program Manager for the State of Connecticut. And enjoyed traveling and looking after her family.
October 10, 2018 | Cheshire, CT

Herbert Wexler ’99 was an athlete, deep thinker, and business man. He created the medical billing software MicroEdge and established The Next Edge before becoming an international business consultant.
October 6, 2018 | Norwalk, CT

Audrey MacKenzie White ‘47 was married to the late Roderick B. White and lived in Bethany for 62 years.
October 3, 2018 | Bethany, CT

Alice Buskey Nealon ’56 was a dedicated teacher for the Bridgeport Public School System for 25 years, spending much of that time in 8th grade Language Arts at Blackham Elementary School before her retirement.
September 21, 2018 | Bridgeport, CT

Mary Shurter Cassidy '50 graduated from Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School following her time at Albertus and briefly worked at Electrol, Inc. before starting her family.
September 3, 2018 | Pompton Plains, NJ

Louis Sidera '99 served in the United States Marine Corps prior to attending Albertus and later went on to law school at Quinnipiac University.
August 26, 2018 | Northford, CT

Margaret O'Shaughnessy Heckler ‘53, former Ambassador to Ireland, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, eight-term Massachusetts Congresswoman (1967-1983), and recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Albertus in 1972. She was a political science major at Albertus and was the only woman in her Boston College Law School Class of 1956. In 1962 she became the first woman elected to the Massachusetts Governor's Council; she went on to become the first Massachusetts woman elected to Congress who did not succeed her husband. In 1967, she received the Albertus Alumna Association Award.
August 6, 2018 | Arlington, Virginia

Mary Carrall Tafermer '54 served as the local town clerk for 10 years, and was an avid gardener and passionate genealogist.
July 31, 2018 | Northfield, MA

Janice Sojka Rule '79 spent two years after graduation in Honduras as a member of the Peace Corps. She later obtained her teaching degree and taught for many years.
July 14, 2018 | Milford, CT

Phaedrea Rangazas Shively '60 came to America in 1949; she earned her master's degree in French Language and Literature through a joint program of Middlebury College and the Sorbonne-University of Paris.
July 3, 2018 | Santa Fe, NM

Josephine Foti '53 taught Italian and Latin for over 40 years, and become the school's head of foreign language. In 2013, she received the Archdiocesan St. Joseph Medal Award.
July 2, 2018 - Waterbury, CT

Relatives of Alumni and Members of the Albertus Community

Tyrone E. Newton, student in the professional and graduate studies program
November 8, 2018

Doreen Boyd-Jones, student in the professional and graduate studies program

Lois Paliwoda Mauro, mother of Jill Mauro Sweet ’86, grandmother of Ella Sweet – evening student
October 5, 2018

Megumi Yamamoto affiliate faculty member in the Department of Education.
October 3, 2018

Lorraine D. Cronin D.H.L. '06 received her Doctor of Humane Letters from Albertus Magnus College in 2006.
September 29,2018

Rev. Robert L. Beloin, chaplain of Saint Thomas more, the Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University for nearly 25 years, received an honorary Doct of Humane Letter from Albertus in 2017.
September 22, 2018

Dr. Lawrence J. DeNardis, associate professor of political science and department chair at Albertus from 1964 to 1979; former U.S. Congressman and president of University of New Haven from 1991 to 2004.
August 24, 2018

Giobanni Piero "Peter" Lanza Blua, taught sociology at Albertus in the mid-1950's.
August 12, 2018

Frederick Mancheski, a Trustee of Albertus Magnus College from 1986 to 1990. He received an honorary Doctor of Science from the College in 1994. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a degree in mechanical engineering, he moved to Chicago, then New York, where he joined McKinsey & Co. He fulfilled a dream of running his own company when he was hired, in 1963, by Echlin Manufacturing, a producer of automotive parts; within a few years he became president, chairman, and CEO. Under his leadership, Echlin became Echlin, Inc., an international Fortune 500 company. After retirement in 1997, he enabled Echlin headquarters to become the home of Connecticut Hospice, where he served as chairman.
August 1, 2018

Rosemary Twohill Fuhr, sister of Sr. Patricia Twohill, O.P., Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
July 19, 2018

Javen "Jay" Hailey, current student in the accelerated degree program.
July 9, 2018

Michael Angelini, brother of Dolores Angelini ‘56.
July 8, 2018