Hello everyone,

Nice gathering of our class today at the Pool and Yacht Club.

We had a “Bakers Dozen” show up today and we were seated in the same room as the St. Thomas Academy class of 63 guys. Always fun to visit with these guys.

50 degrees, sunny, no snow or ice as we watched the Mississippi river go bye.

One of our classmates, Ed Kurhajetz joined us today. Ed just moved back to the Twin cities after many years living in Milwaukee. Hope you join the group frequently going forward Ed.

Just before I left home today to attend the lunch I got a call informing me of an upcoming tribute that CDH will be bestowing on one of our class mates. Tom Schwartz has been selected to receive the prestigious Bishop Cretin award from CDH in 2024.

Joe Schufman has already got some info on the class website about Tom’s honor.   Click on the link below to see more on this terrific news.————-Congrats to Tom from your fellow members of the class of 63.

https://cretinclassof1963.org/2023/12/14/1977/https://cretinclassof1963.org/2023/12/14/1977/

You may recall that another member of the class of 63 received the Bishop Cretin award a couple of years back. Steve Nachtsheim received the award in October of 2021.

Classmates Tom and Steve are now in a very special club!

Hope all of you have a great Christmas and a Happy and Healthy 2024.

Tom Troskey

Next class of 63 lunch is Thursday January 11^th—-Mark your calendar.

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Rob Bollinger, VP of Development for CDH, made a trip to Dallas to see some Cretin/CDH graduates, including Tom Schwartz and Terry Bacigalupo. He sent the following note to us, which has some great photos and great news! Tom Schwartz will be receiving the Bishop Cretin Award for 2024! We anticipate more details as we get closer to the event (in Oct 2024). Congratulations Tom from all your classmates!

Here is the message Rob sent to us —

Seasons greetings from CDH!  Steve Walsh and I returned from our trip to Dallas last night and it was a great trip.  We had a very good time with Tom and Terry, with dinner and then attending the MAVERICKS vs. LAKERS game on Tuesday evening (courtesy of tickets by Mav’s assistant coach Sean Sweeney, CDH Class of 2002).  Joining us for dinner and the game was Jarvis Archibald, CDH Class of 1993 and a member of the 1993 RAIDERS State Championship Basketball team.

As I mentioned to Joe, we let Tom know that he has been selected to receive the 2024 BISHOP CRETIN AWARD, and he said he will be here to accept the award at the CDH Community Awards Dinner at the Saint Paul Hotel on Monday, October 21st.  Should be a great event!

Take care and keep in touch, and please pass along the pictures below to your Class of ’63 classmates…enjoy the Holidays!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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Rob

 Rob Bollinger, Vice President of Advancement
rbollinger@c-dh.org  •  651-696-3343  • 218-368-6926 (c)
Cretin-Derham Hall  •  550 South Albert Street St. Paul, MN 55116  •  651-690-2443