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School Holds “Great Savio Reunion”
By Fr. Mike Mendl
An estimated 450 former students and faculty of St. Dominic Savio
HS and Savio Prep in East Boston, Massachusetts, showed up for the
Great Savio Reunion on Saturday night, March 10.
The SDBs operated Dom Savio from 1958 to 1993. A group of alumni
set up Savio Prep a couple of years later and ran it until 2007.
There were even a few alumni of Don Bosco Trade School, which
preceded Dom Savio at the site (1946-1955) before relocating to
downtown Boston.
The reunion, held at what is now the Salesian Boys & Girls Club
of East Boston, was planned by alumni Steve Fielding and Fr. John
Nazzaro, SDB, both of the Class of 1972.
Steve is now the program director of the Boys & Girls Club, and
Fr. John is executive director as well as director of the local
community of four SDBs who serve at the Club.
The alumni and staff spent most of the four hours of the evening
sharing news of families and careers, reminiscing about school days,
and asking about some of the Salesians they’d known. Many of them
voiced their deep appreciation for what the Salesians and other
faculty had taught them, and not only in an academic sense.
If there had been a prize for the participant who traveled the
farthest to get to the Great Reunion, the winner, hands down, would
have been former SDB cleric Pat Whalen, who came all the way from
Brisbane, Australia, to meet some of his former students and other
friends.
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