Men to be honored at Hall of Fame banquet |
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Friday, 17 October 2008 01:00 |
TOLEDO—The 15th Annual St. Francis de Sales High School Hall of Fame Banquet begins at 6 p.m. Oct. 23 at the school.
Several men will be honored as Greg Fretti serves as the master of ceremonies.
The following people and teams are to be honored:
Larry Moreland ’61
Mr. Moreland played basketball at St. Francis and was a member of the team that earned Sectional Champ and District Finalist titles. He led the team in scoring (321 points) and rebounding (12.8/game) his senior year. He enlisted in the Air Force, where he was an Atlas “F” ICBM Missile electrician in the 556th Strategic Missile Squadron, played three years for the Air Force Base team, and was the MVP of that team his final year.
After receiving an honorable discharge in 1965, Mr. Moreland returned to Toledo and worked at L-O-F Glass Company, Dana Corporation and Chrysler, before making a career in the Toledo Police Division. He retired from the TPD after 27 years at the rank of sergeant. While there, he worked many different assignments from Foot Patrol to Internal Affairs. Mr. Moreland also spent 34 years as a high school basketball referee in northwest Ohio.
He is married to the former Mary Helen Johnson, and they are parents of two daughters and two grandchildren. The Morelands are both retired and enjoy traveling and going to festivals, concerts, plays, movies and sporting events.
Brian Burns ’85
Mr. Burns was a three-year starter on the football team, a two-year starter on the baseball team and he played Knight hockey. He earned eight varsity letters, and produced the following statistics:
• He scored three touchdowns in one game (receiving touchdowns)
• He kicked the winning field goal in the 1983 State Championship game against North Canton Hoover.
• He was named to the All-City team his junior and senior years.
• His baseball team had a 63-6-1 record and was City Champs his junior and senior year, and the team posted a 30-2 record his senior year.
• He was named an All-City catcher his junior and senior years and was named to the All-District team his senior year.
• The Hockey Knights advanced to the State Final Four his senior year.
Mr. Burns was a two-year starter on the Harvard football team, and was a member of the Ivy League Championship team.
Tom Takats ’92
Mr. Takats earned seven varsity letters at St. Francis (three in football, two in basketball and two in baseball). He was a member of the varsity basketball teams that won the City Championship in 1991 and 1992, and a member of the 1989 varsity baseball team that won the City Championship.
On the baseball team, he led the team in all offensive categories, earned All-City and All-District honors, and was elected to play in the Northwest Ohio All-Star Basketball Classic during his senior season.
He went to UT on a baseball grant and earned four varsity letters as a first baseman.
As a Knight football team member his junior year, he threw for 300 yards and three touchdowns as the quarterback and intercepted six passes as a defensive back, returning one of them 80 yards for a touchdown.
1998 Swim Team State Champions
The 1997-98 Knight Swimming and Diving Team was District, Regional and State Champion. Team captains were Eric DiSalle and John Carroll. The team was coached by Chris Woolford.
The Golden Knight Award
This honor is awarded annually to an alumnus who has realized success in his career or who, by reason of his involvement and service, has made a significant impact on the community at large. This person must have graduated at least 10 years ago, and should serve as a model of the standards the school wishes to impart to current students.
The Golden Knight Award will be awarded to Thomas Goutierre ’58, and will be awarded posthumously to Keith Dressel ’89 and Kevin Granata ’80.
Directly out of high school, Mr. Dressel worked in loss prevention at Value City stores. While attending college, he worked at the GM Powertrain Plant in Toledo. He was appointed to the Toledo Police Department Dec. 10, 1993. His final call was Feb. 21, 2007. He was working as an undercover officer in the vice/narcotics unit when he was shot and killed. He is survived by his parents, Michael and Larraine Dressel; his wife, Danielle; son, Noah; step-daughter, Sydney; sister, Jennifer; and brother, Neil.
At St. Francis, Mr. Granata participated in athletics, drama, chess and debate. He started college at John Carroll University, then transferred to The Ohio State University, where he received degrees in electrical engineering and physics. He later earned a master’s degree in physics from Purdue University and was employed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Maryland.
He completed his Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Ohio State in 1993. He joined the University of Virginia in 1997 as an associate professor in the Medical College and director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory.
He moved to Virginia Tech in January 2003, as director of the Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Lab. At the time of his death, Mr. Granata was a full professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., and an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
He died on April 16, 2007, at Virginia Tech while attempting to save others during the massacre there. He locked students in his office so they would be safe, then went looking for others to protect.
He is survived by his wife, Linda, and their children Alex, Eric and Ellen. He died as he had lived — doing what he thought was right and helping others. He believed we have a duty to help our fellow man, and he practiced this belief in the way he lived his life and how he died.
Mr. Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska, lived and worked in Afghanistan for 10 years while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer, a Fulbright Fellow and executive director of the Fulbright Foundation. Throughout his time in Afghanistan, he also coached the Afghan National Basketball team.
He has made presentations on topics as diverse as Afghanistan, regional conflicts, education development, global terrorism, U.S. foreign policy and Third World development, and gave more than 2,000 presentations and interviews in the first 10 months after 9/11.
Mr. Gouttierre has testified on topics related to Afghanistan, U.S.-Pakistani relations, international terrorism and human rights before hearings of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations. He has also testified on Afghanistan and human rights issues in hearings before committees of the British Parliament, the French National Assembly, the Norwegian Storting and the U.N. Select Committee on Human Rights.
Since 1986, he has served on the U.S.-Russian (formerly Soviet) Task Force (Dartmouth Conference) on Regional Conflicts. He reads, speaks and writes Afghan Persian (Dari), Iranian Persian (Farsi), and Tajikistani Persian; he has also studied Arabic, French, German, Latin, Russian and Spanish.
At the University of Nebraska at Omaha, he and his associates have obtained grants and contracts in excess of $80 million. Through one series of grants awarded by USAID between 1986 and 1994, the Center for Afghan Studies assisted Afghans in delivering education to more than 130,000 Afghan children in refugee camps in Pakistan and 1,300 sites inside war-torn Afghanistan. In another series of grants, the Center trained teachers and printed the textbooks needed by the Afghans to reopen their schools after decades of war had culminated in the fall of the Taliban.
Service Award
This is presented to a non-graduate of St. Francis de Sales High School who, through his generosity, involvement and service, has made a significant impact on the school. The Service Award is presented to Richard Eastop.
A senior associate consultant with Noel-Levitz, Mr. Eastop recently retired from the position of vice president for enrollment services at The University of Toledo.
During his career, Mr. Eastop directed the university’s 80 percent increase in undergraduate enrollment, making The University of Toledo the fastest growing university in the state at the time and moving UT from the 10th to the fourth largest public institution in Ohio.
Mr. Eastop also led the university to the nation’s “Top 33” list of colleges and universities enrolling National Merit Scholars. During his tenure he established the university’s first minority outreach and community college recruitment programs, and developed and implemented the first structured freshman orientation and advising program.
Mr. Eastop is the father of Craig Eastop, a 1990 graduate of St. Francis, and a past president of the St. Francis de Sales Brisson Association. He has used his expertise in helping St. Francis develop its recruitment/enrollment plan for the school.
Upon his retirement, his university honored him for his distinguished service by granting him emeritus status. Mr. Eastop holds an Master of Science degree in higher education from Bowling Green State University where he began his career in admissions.
Since his early retirement, Mr. Eastop splits his time between an expanded group of Noel-Levitz partner colleges, serving in various emeritus roles for his institution and visiting his three adult children, five grandchildren and family, all residing in western states. His wife, Jeanne, is an assistant professor of nursing at The University of Toledo Medical College.
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