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| In Memoriam September 11, 2001
The mass celebrated at our 2006 Reunion will remember our
following classmates.
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Class of 1982
Terence Manning
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A
Knack for Persuasion
Every
sunny day last summer, Terence Manning would take his two daughters, Mairead,
3, and Trinity, 1, to the beach down the street from their home in Point
Lookout, on Long Island. "They'd go for hours," said his wife, Megan. "He would
put Mairead on a throne and make a sand
castle around her. And he would try to get Trinity to put her toes in
the water. They loved it."
Mr. Manning, 37, used his prodigious energies to make everything an
adventure: skiing in the Alps, proposing to his wife under the Eiffel
Tower, going cross-country with her on a motorcycle, or persuading his
brothers to run the New York City Marathon with him ‹ and crossing the
finish line holding hands.
"He could do anything he put his mind to," his wife said.
"He could build a house if he decided to. He'd been a trader his
entire career, but then he decided he wanted to do computer consulting,
learned how, and made the change."
That career change at ARC Partners led him, finally, to a conference
Sept. 11 at the
World
Trade
Center
. "His life was full of laughter and adventure," his wife
said. "He left us with no regrets."
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 17, 2001.
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Class of 1980
Farrell Lynch
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Strivers,
Like Their Parents
Whatever their achievements, the Lynch boys were products of their
upbringing. The children of Irish immigrants, Sean P. Lynch and his
brother Farrell P. Lynch were strivers like their parents.
"They never forgot where they were from," said their sister,
Ellen Lynch. Growing up in a family of seven in a two-bedroom house ("all
the boys slept in the attic," she said) they were a tight-knit
group, and as adults with families, they often gathered in that same
house, where their parents still live, for traditional Irish breakfasts.
The brothers both worked at Cantor Fitzgerald; Sean Lynch was an
interest rate options broker and Farrell Lynch, who had worked there
long enough to be around for the 1993 bombing, was a partner.
Farrell Lynch lived on Long Island with his wife, Eileen, and daughters
Katie, 13, Meghan, 11, and Annie, 7. The couple met as sophomores in
high school, and they were looking forward to their 15th anniversary
this month. Farrell Lynch also looked forward to a day when he could
retire and coach high school basketball, said his wife. "He wanted
to get into coaching one day, that was his dream. Simple, but that's
what he wanted," she said.
Sean Lynch, 36, lived in Morristown, N.J., with his wife, Lori, and
daughters Mary, 3, and Grace, 17 months. "He was a very thoughtful
person," said his wife. "He was already saying to Mary, 'Be
kind to your sister; always treat people well.' "
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 24, 2001.
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Class of 1976
Kevin Donnelly
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Fun Is the Beach
Fire may have provided Lt. Kevin Donnelly of Ladder Company 3 with his
livelihood, but what he loved was water.
Born under the hot July sun, he got a job as a lifeguard at the town
pool in Wantagh, while still a teenager on Long Island, said his mother,
Cecilia. As an adult, he found any excuse to head for the water, even
when some other task beckoned.
"He kept a bathing suit, a towel and goggles in his car at all
times, just in case," said his longtime companion, Mary Coughlin,
"and in the summer, he'd add two beach chairs, a towel and a
bathing suit for me."
The two of them might be driving along, on their way to Home Depot or
some other store to run errands. And Lieutenant Donnelly, 43, would turn
to her, and say: "You know what? We can do this another time. Let's
go to the beach."
He was not persnickety about his beaches, though he preferred those on
the ocean. He was hoping to become a lifeguard again, on some Long
Island strand. North Shore, South Shore. "He wouldn't have cared
what beach he ended up on," Ms. Coughlin said, "as long as it
was on the sand and near the water."
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on November 23, 2001.
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Class of 1975
Patrick O'Keefe (Attended St Pius for Freshman year,
Homeroom 102)
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Patrick O'Keefe, 44, of Oakdale, New York, a firefighter with the New
York Fire Department.
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Class of 1968
David Grimner
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Diamonds Just for Her
David Grimner was always quick to get a laugh, or
at least try. "You could be in any mood whatsoever, and he'd just
tell a joke and you'd be automatically better," said his son David
Patrick Grimner, 17. "Sometimes it wouldn't even be funny, but
you'd laugh just because of the way he laughed at it."
Mr. Grimner, 51 and a vice president at Marsh & McLennan, had
studied to be a priest and remained religious throughout his life. A
member of his parish's council and a eucharistic minister, he never
missed a Sunday Mass at Curé of Ars Church in Merrick, N.Y.
He knew it was hard on his wife, Judith Ann, when she returned to
graduate school in 1998 to earn a master's degree in education.
"You've got to stop putting this much pressure on yourself,"
he said. She responded, "But you always told me to do my
best."
In May 2000, after Mrs. Grimner graduated, her husband took her out for
a candlelight dinner and gave her a gift. "He had been saving for
these brand-new golf clubs that he really wanted," she said.
"Instead of buying them, he bought me a diamond bracelet."
Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on September
8, 2002.
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