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Newly inducted Notre Dame High School Knights of Honor pose recently with Holy Cross James Branigan, the school’s president. Seated from left are Gail Bellucci, Dr. Thomas Sweeney, Brother James, Joseph Faughnan and Dr. James Hogan. Standing from left are Arthur Bellucci, Wayne Pacelle, Dr. Richard Garvey, Thomas Lehrman and Mary and Muhammad Saleh. (Photo submitted)
WEST HAVEN – Two medical doctors, a prominent alumnus in Washington, D.C., a long-time civil servant, three faculty members, three loyal friends and a former principal made up the list of 11 inductees at Notre Dame High School’s 25th annual Knights of Honor Dinner on Nov. 6 at Yale Commons in New Haven.
The Knights of Honor Dinner was established in 1986 as a way to pay tribute to and preserve the memory of individuals who have brought distinction to Notre Dame High School as alumni, faculty and loyal friends.
Notre Dame honors men and women who have, in their own way, made a contribution to the school community or have lived the ideals of the school’s code.
Inducted this year were Gail Bellucci of North Haven, director of campus ministry; her husband, Arthur Bellucci, ’72, of North Haven, retired school choral director; Joseph Faughnan, ’64, of West Haven, United States Marshal for the District of Connecticut; Dr. Richard Garvey, ’66, of Milford, general surgeon at Bridgeport Hospital; and Dr. James Hogan ’58, of Oakland, Calif., professor emeritus at McGill University in Montreal.
Also, Thomas Lehrman of New York City, CEO of the Boliven Corp.; Wayne Pacelle, ’83, of Washington, D.C., president of the Humane Society of the United States; Muhammad and Mary Saleh of Woodbridge, past leaders of the Notre Dame Parents Association; and Dr. Thomas Sweeney, ’65, of Hamden, vascular surgeon for the Connecticut Vascular Surgery Center, P.C.
Holy Cross Brother Donatus Schmitz, Notre Dame’s second principal, was inducted posthumously.
Archbishop Henry J. Mansell celebrated a Mass for Knights of Honor inductees, their families and the Notre Dame community on Nov. 5 in the school’s gymnasium.
With the eleven 2010 inductees, 193 people have now been inducted as a Notre Dame Knights of Honor since the dinner’s inception in 1986.
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