Praying for Nurses and Medical Professionals with Fenwick Ties

The observation of National Nurses Week, celebrated May 6 – May 12, has extra-special meaning this year.

As is the case with many care-givers, the hard work of dedicated nurses often is taken for granted. Sometimes, it takes a health crisis such as the Coronavirus pandemic to bring these medical heroes into the spotlight.

Pictured above is alumna Julianne (Comiskey) Heinimann ’01, who works as a NICU nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She is one of at least 34 Friar alumni — women and men — who are registered nurses or nurse practitioners (see list below) across the United States: from Chicago, Oak Park, Downers Grove and Indiana to Washington (DC), Ohio, Arizona and San Francisco. (We know there are many more who are not in our system.)

Kathryn Meade, the mother of Fenwick senior Jack Meade (Lombard, IL), is one of at least nine parents working in the nursing field (see below). ” I had contracted COVID-19 from work,” shares Mrs. Meade, who has been a nurse since 1994, working as a NICU nurse for 22 years until recently becoming a Lactation Consultant. “Thankfully, I am on the mend and am humbled by the outpouring of love and support I received,” she says.

In observance if National Nurses Week, we want to publicly thank these moral servant-leaders for all that they do for their patients – especially by putting themselves and their families at risk during the COVID-19 crisis. You make us all proud to be fellow Friars!

Mary	Berkemeyer	’11	Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago	Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Monica	Bomben	’11	Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago	Registered Nurse, Neuro/Ortho
Allison	Borkovec	’07	Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston	Registered Nurse
Marco	Candido	’03	Independent	Registered Nurse
Katie	Dalton	’06	Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago	Registered Nurse
Jennifer	Dan	’08	Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago	Cardiac Cath Lab Nurse
Lauren Sarah	Dillon-Ellsworth Finan	’99 ’04	Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago	Nurse Nurse, neurointestinal and motility
Shannon Daniela	Flannery Giacalone	’14 ’07	Northwestern Memorial University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital	Registered Nurse Registered Nurse
Margaret	Grace	’13	Rush University Medical Center, Chicago	Registered Nurse
Sharon	Grandy	’01	Presence Health (Arizona)	Emergency Room, RN
Julianne Michelle	Comiskey-Heinimann Androwich- Horrigan	’01 ’05	Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago Northwestern Memorial	Registered Nurse (Neonatal ICU)
Dana	Jakoubek	’01	UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco	Kidney Transplant Nurse Practitioner
Bridget	Kern	’07	Rush University Medical Center, Chicago	Registered Nurse
Amy	Konopasek	’01	Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL	Registered Nurse Multidisciplinary Coordinator
Alexis Grace	Kozyra Lattner	’12 ’15	AMITA Health Cleveland Clinic	Registered Nurse Registered Nurse
Robert	Lewis	’71	Emory University Emergency Medicine, Atlanta	Nurse Practitioner
Anne	Loeffler	’06	Rush University Medical Center	Nurse Assistant 2
Mark	Manankil	’86	Advocate Healthcare/Good Samaritan Hospital, Downers Gtove, IL	Nurse/Psychiatry
Madalyn Molly	Mazur McHugh	’11 ’13	U. of Chicago Hospital – Stem Cell Transplant Unit MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.	Charge Nurse/ Floor Nurse Registered Nurse
Martin	Mikell	’86	Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee	Registered Nurse
Elissa	Mikol	’04	Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago	Pediatric Surgery, Nurse Practitioner
Kyle Nora	Morris Napleton	’97 ’15	Saint Mary’s Medical Center, Chicago Loyola Medical Center, Maywood	Registered Nurse ICU Nurse
Thomas	Papadakis	’01	Rush Oak Park Hospital	Registered Nurse, Emergency Department
Rachel Katherine	Koranda-Plant Racanelli	’00 ’08	Loyola Medical Center (Chicago) AMITA Health Medical Group	Registered Nurse Family Nurse Practitioner
Terri	Ferrera-Salinas	’09	Magnificat Family Medicine, Indianapolis	Registered Nurse
Pamela Andrew	Chase-Smith Straub	’97 ’87	Champaign, IL UnitedHealth Group, Ohio	RN Nurse Practitioner
Brittney	Woosley	’08	Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park, IL	Permanent Charge Nurse/RN

According to the Fenwick database, another 225 people (including alumni) have listed either “medicine” as their business/industry or “nursing” or “physician” as their profession. They are:

Donald	Adeli
Andrew	Agos	’84
Thomas	Akers	’48
Allen	Aksamit	’73
Timothy	Aksamit	’77
Kris	Alden	’87
William	Alvarez	’76
Patrick	Anderson	’69
Michael	Angarone	’89
Ndudi	Aniemeka
Prasant	Atluri	’89
Angelo	Babbo	’85
Richard	Balsamo	’70
James	Banich	’89
Joseph	Barta	’79
Salvatore	Battaglia	’91
Frank	Belmonte	’90
Pasquale	Benedetto	’68
Emily	Bersnak	’98
Daniel	Bethencourt	’71
Michael	Bezouska	’87
Bernard	Binder	’70
Richard	Bone	’66
Austin	Boyle	’71
Jeffrey	Branch
William	Brander
Joseph	Bremer
Tierney	Brennan	’06
Thomas	Brown	’75
Thomas	Burke	’49
Gerald	Cahill	’74
John	Cahill	’72
Dennis	Cappitelli	’62
Carla	Carpenter
William	Chronister	’10
Dennis	Chubinski	’69
Steven	Chudik
Mark	Chyna	’85
John	Cieply	’63
Christopher	Clardy
Matthew	Co	’99
J. Lawrence	Cogan	’62
Daniel	Collins	’63
Michael	Collins	’67
Roger	Collins	’72
Concannon	James	’75
Sara	Connolly	’08
Hailey	Corwin	’08
Joseph	Coscino	’83
Phillip	Cozzi	’79
Kevin	Cullinane	’74
James	Dan	’70
Anthony	DeOrio	’63
Joseph	DeOrio	’91
Erica	Dixon	’99
James	Doherty	’85
Peter	Doris	’62
David	Dvorak	’82
William	Egan	’58
Michael	Farhi	’79
Anthony	Fasanella	’89
Garrett	Fitzgerald	’99
Ryan	Fitzgerald	’04
Angel	Galvez
George	Geis
W. Peter	Geis	‘60
Anton	Giger	’69
Charles	Giger	’74
Thomas	Gonwa	’67
Peter	Grant	’89
John	Grayhack	’76
Stephen	Grill	’69
Eugene	Grochowski	’65
Jason	Gruss	’93
Paul	Gruszka	’78
Calvin	Hall
David	Hanson	’82
Clarence	Hart	’55
Thomas	Hawkins	’61
Frank	Hieber	’45
Charles	Hillig	’58
John	Hobbs
William	Hopkinson	’70
Peter	Hrabski	’82
Jeffrey	Huml	’75
Rafid	Hussein	’87
Donald	Imbur	’61
Rolando	Izquierdo	’89
Robert	Janda	’75
Raymond	Janevicius
Jonathan	Javors	’71
Christopher	Jelinek	’76
Donald	Kamm	’60
Andrew	Kazaniwsky	’70
Zenon	Kecala
Matthew	Kelleher
Michael	Kelleher	’75
Joseph	Kerwin	’49
John	Kirk	’62
Patrick	Kirk	’77
Mark	Klein	’69
Iliana	Klouda	’98
Kenneth	Koeneman	’84
Stanley	Kovak
Bruce	Krawisz	’70
John	Krcmarik	’88
John	Kussmann	’74
Krystle	Kutak	’08
Labotka	Richard	’68
Michael	Lambert
Charles	Lawler
John F.	Lee	’60
John M.	Lee	’73
Jeffrey	Leef
Terrence	Lerner
Thomas	Lescher	’61
Robert	Lewis	’71
Alan	Licup	’95
Gary	Lipinski	’71
John	Lockrem	’65
Ronald	Lorenzini	’53
Timothy	Lubenow
Francis	Madda	’64
Rudolph	Maier	’56
Daniel	Maloney	’89
Erin	Mangano	’07
Robert	March	’74
Andrea	Markham
Thomas	Marr	’60
Michael	Martin	’73
Christopher	Masi
C.G. Toby	Mathias	’64
Joseph	Mayer	’73
Michael	McDonald	’66
Dawn	McGee
Edwin	McGee, Jr.
Eugene	McEnery	’49
Patrick	McGrath	’70
Allen	McLean	’57
William	McMahon	’72
Joseph	Mejia
Cesar	Menendez
Perry	Menini	’87
Albert	Mensah	’82
Edward	Meyer	’63
Philip	Militello	’60
John	Mitchell
Joseph	Monaco	’64
Paul	Montalbano	’84
Juan	Montoya	’87
Michael	Moore	’69
Thomas	Moore	’68
Silvio	Morales	’82
Joseph	Moretti	’59
Thomas	Morris
G. Martin	Mullen
John	Murdoch
Walter	Myalls	’52
Brynn	Nahlik	’03
Thomas	Neglia	’64
Kenneth	Nelson	’75
Brian	Neri	’94
Russ	Nockels
Robert	Nonn	’83
Steven	Novotny	’87
Michael	O’Donoghue	’89
Thomas	O’Meara	’66
Thomas	Ocheltree	’62
Ralph	Pagano	’65
Vivek Deming	Patel Payne	’01
Harold	Pelzer	’65
David	Pezen	’81
David	Pollitz	’04
Richard	Prinz	’64
David	Rainiero	’84
R. Andrew	Rauh
Nicholas	Recchia	’77
Salvatore	Reda	’59
John	Rigali	’68
Raymond	Rojas	’78
Victor	Romano	’76
Dennis	Ryan	’94
Ralph	Dennis	’69
Gregory	Salomon	’83
Kenneth	Sanders	’65
John	Santiago	’88
William	Santoro	’49
John	Saran	’70
George	Sassu	’74
Scelzo	Frederick	’62
Richard	Schulz	’83
Luke	Sewall
John	Showel	’57
John	Sikorski	’69
Sammy	Sinno	’01
Michael	Smith
Nicholas	Speziale	’82
Sean	Sreniawski	’96
George	Stanis	’67
Ronald	Stefani	’52
Cameron	Stock	’96
Dominic	Tedesco	’74
Diane	Tentler
Giuseppe	Toia	’05
Jay	Tonne	’58
James	Trauth	’79
Frank	Valentino	’62
Richard	Vazquez	’62
Thomas	Veeser	’67
Paul	Vietzen	’91
Romuald	Warakomski	’77
Edward	Ward	’85
Keith	Weiler	’90
Lia	Wendeln	’99
John	White	’70
Joseph	White	’63
William	White	’65
Jeffrey	Winterfield	’92
Donald	Woznica	’70
Liam	Yore	’89
Adil	Zarif	’90
Michael	Zielinski	’90

Please note that Fenwick’s database is only as accurate as the data it’s “fed,” so if you know of other alumni nurses who are not on this list, please email us at communications@fenwickfriars.com. (We apologize in advance for any inadvertent omissions.)

We’d also like to give a “shout out to Fenwick parents and other friends of Fenwick who serve our communities as nurses, including:

• Jennifer Davis (Fenwick mother)
• Claribel Delatorre (Fenwick mother)
• Nakia McAdoo (Fenwick mother)
• Kathryn Meade (Fenwick mother)
• Kitty Monty (Fenwick School Nurse)
• Donna Pape (Fenwick School Nurse)
• Karen Rudnick (former Fenwick School Nurse)
• Jana Schejbal (Fenwick mother)
• Michele Shaar (Fenwick mother)
• Leslie Shearer-Meretsky (Fenwick mother)
• Julie Westerman (Fenwick mother)
• Carol Woerter (mother of Fr. Dennis Woerter ’86)

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE!