Loyola Magazine Spring 2020

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OHN LAWRENCE “LARRY” DONOGHUE ’37 HAS ALWAYS LIVED LIFE TO THE FULLEST—–even during his Loyola days. Despite the long train commute to Dumbach Hall from his home on the city’s South Side, he was an honor student who ran track; played baseball, basketball and football; and participated in a dizzying array of extracurricular activities, including the Camera Club, the Dance A Cen tenaria Committee, the Debate Team, n Cele k n ow n bratio a s “ L au n: Joh Dramatics, the Missions Collections rie” to with fa nL his frie mily an n d s , c e aw r e n c e “ L d Gerald friends Club, the Torch Club and even the arr y ” D lebrate , includ T. Don onogh d his 1 oghue ing (s ta Dr. Ed 0 0 th b ue ’37 cheerleading squad. ’69 an mund n d ir thday in (cente g, l-r): d Kevin R . Don r) in Feb s ons L o F g . r uar y 2 , h D aw r e n ue ’62 onogh His post-Loyola years were 019 ce M . D an d Th ue ’72 oma s J onogh and ne ue Jr. ’6 . Dono p equally impressive. He earned two ghue ’6 hews 7, 8 engineering degrees; inspected B-26 retirement in 2015 at the age of 96. twin-engine bombers as a stress analyst Larry Donoghue in 1937 Today, this Rambler centenarian is still living large for Martin Aircraft during WWII; and at the age of 101. served as a naval lieutenant, junior “My short-term memory isn’t what it used to be, and I joke grade, as well as an engineering officer in a fighter squadron that Connie and I should be wearing name tags in case we forget aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid in WWII. While he raised each other’s names,” he says with a chuckle. “But we are happy and five children with his wife, Connie, he worked on the original enjoying life, including our five children, our nine grandchildren planning for the development of O’Hare Airport and launched and our eight great-grandchildren!” 4 a successful engineering firm, which he led for 55 years until his

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memory of their daughter, Elizabeth Ann Marie Shriver. In November 2017, the couple established the initiative’s final grant: the Liddy Shriver Early Career Research Award. Designed to engender dialogue and promote collaboration between award recipients and their colleagues from around the world, the annual award recognizes accomplished early-career scientists working in the sarcoma field. Awardees receive a $50,000 grant to fund further sarcoma research and an invitation to lecture at the Connective Tissue Oncology Society’s annual meeting.

Beverly and Bruce Shriver Sr. ‘58

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Joseph M. O’Callaghan Sr. is now semiretired and living in Naples, Florida, after practicing law for 50 years.

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Martin J. Lane received the Mayfair Veterans Committee’s Vietnam Veteran award in November 2018. He is the coauthor of a book about the late Loyola University Professor Emeritus of Chemistry Dr. Carl Moore. Lane and his coauthor, Denise Hall, were students of Dr. Moore. In Fall 2019, Lane celebrated his 50th work anniversary at Loyola University, where he continues to work part-time. He also serves as a Loyola Academy ambassador, greeting visitors to our campus on Thursdays. Barry W. McCarthy, PhD, collaborated with his wife, Emily J. McCarthy, on the book, Finding Your Sexual Voice, published in November 2018. A professor of psychology at American University, he received the Masters and Johnson

award for lifetime contributions to the field of sexuality in 2016. John J. Oelerich published The Off Season: National League 1953–54, a book of baseball poetry, in Summer 2019. Oelerich and his wife of 49 years have held season tickets to the Cubs since 1981.

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James R. Voss, president of JVI Inc., was awarded the Precast Concrete Institute’s Medal of Honor in March 2016. He is the first supplier member and one of only 50 people to receive the award since the institute’s founding in 1954.

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Thomas M. Lera was the recipient of the American Philatelic Society’s 2019 Luff Award for Distinguished Philatelic Research. Among his many accomplishments, Lera was recognized for establishing the Smithsonian National Postal Museum as the world’s foremost center for philatelic continued on page 8

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