This book was a collaborative effort thanks to our classmates at Holy Name of Jesus Grammar School
and Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco. The following Riordan 1958 classmates
deserve special thanks for their significant contribution to this book:
Terence Quinlan • Richard Canas • Barry Sullivan • Arthur Curtis • Maurice Lafayette • Noel Murray
Our thanks also go out to those who generously shared their stories with us:
Holy Name Grammar School:
Timothy Carmody (’61) • Michael Chapman (’54) • Norma Haller (’54) • Nancy Koch (’54) • William Nocetti (’54) • Bonnie Pischoff (’54)
Archbishop Riordan High School:
William Andrick (’58) • Dennis Beyma (’58) • Raymon Calderaro (’58) • Robert Connelly (’59) • Dennis Creedon (’58) • Thomas Dekker (’58) • John Galten (’59) • Gerald Hipps (’58) • Robert Joyce (’59) • Richard Kirby (’58) • Ronald Macaluso (’58) • Warren McCausland (’58) • Guido Mori-Prange (’58) • Paul Scannell (’58) • David Sereni (’58) • David Shrieve (’59) • Reno Taini (’59) • Richard Thall (’58)
We are also indebted to Archbishop Riordan High School for the generous access to their archives, but most importantly, for their discipline, education and opportunities to stumble along the way, to pick ourselves up, to learn from our mistakes, to excel in so many ways in preparing us to do our best on the paths we took down the road.
My personal thanks and love to my wife and editor, Susan Quinlan.