Reunion Challenge

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 2013 Reunion Class Challenge Results 

 

Each year at St. Bonaventure, classes celebrating five-year anniversaries participate in a Reunion Challenge as part of the University’s annual Bonaventure Fund program. The Reunion Challenge is a special fundraising initiative that involves only those alumni who are celebrating honored class anniversaries during the current fiscal year.

During the Reunion Challenge, each class sets class giving and participation goals, which are geared toward supporting the unrestricted Bonaventure Fund. Volunteers from each class are recruited to sign letters, contact classmates encouraging them to make a gift to the challenge, and also to invite them to Reunion Weekend.  

The Reunion Challenge promotes friendly competition among the anniversary classes as alumni from each class band together to achieve their goals. Reunion is a great time for alumni to increase their gift or, for those who have never given before, the perfect time to make that first gift. Reunion year graduates are asked to make a “stretch” gift, a gift that is larger than they would normally consider, in honor of their reunion.


A list of class goals and class chairs is outlined below:

 

 

CLASS

CLASS GOAL

CLASS CHAIRS

1953

$40,000

Francis Gilroy, Chair,

Committee Members: Michael Duffy, Peter Fennell, Eugene Ferraro,
Donald Hickey & Richard Murphy

1958

$115,080

  Richard Attea & John Bradt

1963

$26,925

Brian Maher, Brian McRedmond, Joseph Pastore, Thomas Nientimp,
Jim Boland, Carl Tobin, Gene Dellapietra & Joel Cote

1968

$71,770

Arthur Roberts & Dennis Sheehan

1973

$47,440

Eleonora Brittenham, William Greene, Robert Mantilia & Connie Whitton

1978

$72,220

Anne Pusateri, Charles Hurley, Mark Kenville, Patrick Sweeney
Maureen Butler & Robert Kane

1983

$69,415

Edward Downes, Lawrence Furey, Denise Annette Romand &
Steven Bunce

1988

$81,830

Steven Gerard Barry, Colette Christine Dow, Patty Ann Hamblen,
Michael Fossaceca & Kevin & Mary Patwell

1993

$11,270

Ian & Ann Marie Mortimer  & Hans Auer

1998

$14,110

Rob DeFazio, Paola Haenn & Brendan McDaniels

2003

$3,900

Kathryn Malik, Kate Mannion, Michael Petix & Alicia Blodgett

2008    

$1,515

Rachelle Hoeflshcweiger & Daniel Nuhfer



If you would like to serve on your class Reunion Committee, please contact Julie Briggs Cunningham, director of Annual Giving Programs, at jcunning@sbu.edu or by phone at (716) 375-2301; or Joe Flanagan, director of Alumni Services, at jflan@sbu.edu, or by phone at (716) 375-2375.