During the week of February 18 -25, President Steve Schad and Brandon Spaeth '11 visited the Gulf Coast of Florida to visit with alumni from Roger Bacon and Our Lady of the Angels. There are 480 alumni that live in Florida and 280 of those alumni live between Tampa and Naples. From individual meetings to Spartan socials every night, they were able to meet with over 50 alums.
See below to follow their weeklong journey and who they met!
Monday - February 19th - Sarasota
- Dr. Eric Bostick '72, Mary Jo (Rais) Hase ‘69 OLA, Cathy (Nurre) Stegeman ‘63 OLA, Betty (Eppinghoff) Lehn ‘57 OLA, & Andrea Anderson ‘00
Tuesday - February 20th - Tampa
- Mike Misleh, Tom Bennett ‘74 & Dave Kamphaus ‘74
Wednesday - February 21st - Punta Gorda
- Dan Westerbeck '62, Dave Meyer ‘63, Nancy (Henninger) Meyer ‘66 OLA, Pete Wessel ‘78, Gene Wessel ‘72, Mark Westendorf ‘78, George Mayer ‘74, Mark Kalb ‘74, Doug Roll ‘80 & Mark Asbach ‘80
Thursday - February 22nd - Naples
- David Clark '70, Kevin Bien '80, Jim Collins '62, Theresa (Wolke) Johnson ‘59 OLA, Robert Staab '62, John Duritsch '60, Nancy (Becker) Duritsch '59 OLA, John Harmeyer '69, Kay (Kempe) Huss '66 OLA, Cindi (Strittholt) Bedinghaus '71, Joe Kempe '70, Katie (Carter) Kempe '80, Joe Frey '58, Rich Harmeyer '57, Thomas Joseph '73, Kathy (Auer) Joseph '73 OLA & Terry Roberts '73 OLA,
Friday - February 23rd - Fort Myers
- Wayne Carucci '71, Bill Rice ‘79, Josie (Speed) Rice '79 OLA, Julie Rice ‘09, Matt Reed ‘02, Steve Roth ‘75, Joanna Auciello ‘90 & Jane (Brueggeman) Robinson ‘72!
- See the reaction video below from Mr. Schad and Mr. Spaeth when they watched Reese Reilly '26 win the State Championship in the 100M Breaststroke all the way from Florida!
Saturday - February 24th - Sarasota
- Monte Moon '56, Mary Jo (Rais) Hase ‘69 OLA, Betty (Eppinghoff) Lehn ‘57 OLA, Andrea Anderson ‘00, Guy Engelbert '72, Joe Balzer '72, Tom Wiegele '80, Tom Feichtner '73, Josh Hausfeld '02, David Gullette '89, Kim (Schappacher) Gullette '90, Wayne Carucci '71, Doug Timpe '67 & David Tobergte '67
Sunday - February 25th - Lakewood Ranch
- Mr. Schad & Mr. Spaeth capped off their week by attending mass at Our Lady of the Angels