Home 2007
Last updated 12-28-2007

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Welcome to the NEW 
Bishop Borgess High School Alumni Website!!
-2007 Archive Home Page-

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Added 12-28-2007

Here's a cool picture sent to me by Mary (McCarty) Peters (82). 
Not sure of the year.

left to right ....Patti Monette 82, Cathy Commander 82, Pat Harrington 80, George Smedley 80, Betty Sawula 80, Dan Allen 81, Jane McCarty 80, Tim Kelly 80, and Mary McCarty 82

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Added 12-22-2007

Have a Safe and Joyful Holiday

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Added 12-03-2007
Class of 1985

CHECK OUT The 25 YEAR REUNION WEBSITE:
http://BishopBorgess1985.myevent.com

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Added 11-27-2007

Livonia's Coaches Corner wins title

From the Detroit News:
We've tallied up the votes for the #1 Metro Detroit Sports Bar and the winner is -- Coaches Corner in Livonia! They'll get the Mug Cup, some free advertising, and an in-house appearance by Terry Foster and the 97.1 street team. Congratulations to Coaches Corner and all of the finalists, the overwhelming response to this contest just goes to show that Detroit really is the best sports city!

Way to go Borgess Alumni for putting Coaches Corner over the Top. 

Congrates to Mike George and his Staff
From all the Alumni. 

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Added 11-25-2007

As always, last night was great. 
We had a huge turn out and I'm sure everybody had fun!
Mike George and his crew did a great job, THANKS!!!

If you've never been on this site make sure to fill out your profile on the Classmates Page. 
And if you took some pictures please email them to me and I'll post them.

Keep spreading the word about this site.

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Added 11-24-2007

10,000 hits!!!

We hit 10,000 hits today! and tonight we're going to party.
Looking forward to seeing everybody and getting some great pictures.

Everybody have FUN! tonight, and drink responsibly.

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Added 11-20-2007

1 Year Anniversary 
of 
bishopborgessalumni.com

bishopborgessalumni.com turns 1 today

I hope everybody's enjoying the site. 
I also hope the site has brought some long lost classmates back in touch with each other.

In the last year the site has gotten 9,824 visits,
15,408 pages viewed and 267 classmate profiles.

Thank You to all that have visited, put their profiles up and shared pictures.
Keep them coming!!!

Have a great Holiday and I hope to see you all on Saturday at Coaches.

Mark Hudy - 1979

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Added 11-15-2007

Vote for Coaches Corner

You've got until Nov. 26 
The top ten have been nominated and now it’s time to vote for the #1 Metro Detroit Sports Bar. On Nov. 29, the winner of the first Motown Pubdown will be announced and the winning establishment gets the Mug Cup, some free advertising, and an in-house appearance by Terry Foster and the 97.1 street team. 
You have until November 26 to cast your vote for the BEST. 

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Added 10-31-2007

We're just a few weeks from the All-Class Reunion
See the Reunion Page for info

We're just a little under 9,000 hits and 14,000 pages viewed!!!

FYI, the site will be 1 years old on November 15th,
Can we hit 10,000 by then????

Once again, classmates are coming to this site from all over! 
Here's a short list from just this last month.

Lisbon, Ohio
Banfield, Buenos Aires – (Argentina)
Marshfield, Wisconsin
Lexington, Kentucky
Jacksonville, Florida
Chicago, Illinois
Las Vegas, Nevada
Laguna Hills, California
Buena Park, California
Pompano Beach, Florida
Tolland, Connecticut
Portage, Indiana
Phoenix, Arizona
Janesville, Wisconsin
Greensboro, North Carolina
Schaumburg, Illinois
Bellwood, Pennsylvania
Douglassville, Pennsylvania
Abidjan – (Africa)
Spring, Texas
Beltsville, Maryland
East Haddam, Connecticut
Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv – (Israel)
Huntington, Indiana
Fort Mill, South Carolina
Bradenton, Florida
Boston, Massachusetts
San Antonio, Texas
Carlinville, Illinois
Vail, Colorado
New Port Richey, Florida
Montvale, New Jersey
Douglassville, Pennsylvania
Baldwinsville, New York
Darien, Illinois
Huntington, Indiana
Decatur, Georgia
Connersville, Indiana
Spring, Texas
Anaheim, California
Little Suamico, Wisconsin
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Cincinnati, Ohio
Langley, Washington
Cote D'Ivoire (Africa)
Hayward, California
Laguna Hills, California
Force, Pennsylvania
Lakeland, Florida
Dungarvan, Waterford (Ireland)
Mexico, Distrito Federal (Mexico)

That's quite a list!!!
Keep 'em coming.

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Added 10-21-2007

I've made some small changes to the Message Board. 
Hopefully making it a little more user friendly for everybody.

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Added 10-11-2007

6th Annual - All Class Reunion Info - UPDATE

WHEN: 
Date: 11/24/07 Time: 7:00 p.m. 

WHERE: 
Coach's Corner, 7 Mile & Farmington Rd Livonia, MI 

COST: 
There will be a $5 cover at the door and we'll be getting bracelets to show we paid.

DETAILS:
Please pass the word to other classmates. Hope to see you there! Thanks!

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Added 10-01-2007

7,800 HITS and 216 classmate profiles!!

BishopBorgessAlumni.com just reached 7,800 this weekend along with 216 Classmate profiles.

Classmates are coming to this site from all over! 
Here's a short list from just this last month.

Classmates are coming to this site from all over! 
Here's a short list from just this last month.

Manistee, Michigan
Pensacola, Florida
Houston, Texas
Utica, Michigan
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Linden, North Carolina
Windsor, Ontario
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon (Mexico)
Toronto, Ontario
East Liverpool, Ohio
West Bloomfield, Michigan
Davison, Michigan
Ypsilanti, Michigan
Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
Commerce Township, Michigan

Keep spreading the word.

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Added 09-09-2007

Class of 1987 REUNION, 
THIS Saturday!!!!

September 15, 2007 7:00PM - September 16, 2007 1:00AM

Livonia Marriott
6 Mile and 275
Livonia, MI

Please email Teresa Tabel at borgess87@hotmail.com for more information.

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Added 09-05-2007

Class of 1977 REUNION, 
THIS Saturday!!!!
Bishop Borgess High School
Class of 1977
September 8, 2007
George Murphy's, Livonia
Kathy Harning, (248) 685-8747 or harningk@yahoo.com

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Added 09-02-2007

ALL CATHOLIC SCHOOL ALUMNI REUNION, 
THIS Friday!!!!

St Damian Catholic Church is hosting a first 
"all Catholic School Alumni Reunion" on 
Friday, September 7th, starting at 7 PM 
located at 30055 Joy Road, 
between Middlebelt and Merriman. 

This event is for ALL Catholic school alumni (grade and high school, graduates or not)for all the Catholic Schools in the area! (West Detroit, Redford, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Westland, Livonia, Farmington, Garden City,etc) Tell All your friends, wear your school colors!

watch www.stdamian.com for more info!

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Added 08-25-2007

Looking for Pictures!!

I'm looking for pictures from the Class of 1982 Informal 25 Year Reunion 
at the Coach's Corner.

I was there and a lot of people told me they were going to email some to me and I haven't seen any yet.

email them to: admin@bishopborgessalumni.com

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Added 08-07-2007

Check this site of that I found on the web

Offical Website for the Reunion for the "First Five Graduating Classes" of Bishop Borgess High School, of Redford, Michigan 
The Classes of 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1974

click on the Borgess crest to visit the site

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Added 08-05-2007
6,000 HITS!!

BishopBorgessAlumni.com just reached 6,000 this weekend along with 9,500 pages viewed.

Classmates are coming to this site from all over! 
Here's a short list of from just this last month.

Los Angeles, California
Irons, Michigan
Aliso Viejo, California
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Novato, California
Seattle, Washington
Cincinnati, Ohio
Spring Lake, Michigan
Huntersville, North Carolina
San Antonio, Texas
Plainfield, Illinois
Battle Creek, Michigan
Columbus, Ohio
Creswell, Oregon
Sugar Land, Texas
Winston Salem, North Carolina
Secaucus, New Jersey
Pleasant Ridge, Michigan
and of course the Detroit Area!!!

Keep spreading the word.

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Added 07-28-2007

TONIGHT!!!!

Class of 1982 - Informal 25 Year Reunion 
at the Coach's Corner

Information on the Reunion Page.

Have FUN!!!!!
&
Be Safe

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Added 07-24-2007

Class of 1982 - Informal 25 Year Reunion - 
This Weekend - July 28th at the Coach's Corner
Information on the Reunion Page

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Added 07-22-2007

Here's a Picture of me and Michael Lee Smith of STARZ at the Token Lounge back in March singing 
their Top 40 Hit Cherry Baby.

 

Check Out Some of thier Old and New Videos on YouTube

During the Seventies when disco and punk were the rage, only a handful of bands were daring enough to play hard rock and heavy metal music. "You could almost count those bands on one hand," said Starz lead guitarist Richie Ranno. "They were Aerosmith, KISS, Queen, Ted Nugent, Starz and Angel. We kept the flame alive between the original hard rock groups and heavy metal today." 

All together Starz recorded four studio albums, Starz, Violation, Attention Shoppers, and Colesium Rock and gathered critical acclaim with their ability to mesh the smooth with the hard. "We loved pop melodies," admitted Ranno in retrospect, "and we also loved heavy guitars. We liked to combine hooks with a harder edge. Our singer Michael Lee Smith had a great sense of melody. In the course of four albums, we only used orchestrations or keyboards once, preferring to mix heavy rock productions with melodic overtones." 

Their success has been documented in the historical chapters of hard rock and heavy metal. In Kerrang's critical listing of the 100 greatest heavy metal albums of all time, Starz was listed at #94, with Violation at #84. In a similar poll in Hit Parader magazine, Violation was listed at #82. Starz's greatest asset was their live performance and until a chance meeting between Metal Blade's founder and Starz guitarist Richie Ranno, one of rock's greatest secrets was buried in the archives. At the height of their career, Starz released a special "radio only" live record intended for broadcast, bot not liscenced for sale. It was called Live In Louisville and only a scant 2,000 copies were pressed. It was heralded by Kerrang as the greatest live record never released! 
  "One day" Richie said, "out of the blue, I got a letter from Brian Slagel, who wrote that he was a big Starz fan and was interested in re-releasing the Starz albums for the first time on CD. He asked if I owned the liscenses to any of the records, and I told him I had the rights to the live record." Starz Live In Action is a combination of the famous Live In Louisville performance recorded in 1978 with another concert taped in Cleveland in 1977. Together it is over sixty-five minutes of classic Starz music, covering songs from all four studio albums and the famous "Waitin On You/Colesium Rock" medley which includes a clever collection of the greatest rock guitar riffs of all time. 

"We always considered ourselves a live band," Richie confessed. "In fact, we toured with Peter Frampton in major halls before we even had any product to sell! We felt confident that we could get any audience up on their feet and got encores wherever we played." This same spirit is captured on Starz Live In Action. If you are a Starz fan, this special recording is a must for your collection. If you are unaware of this great band, consider these thoughts. Many of the Eighties most successful bands were influenced by Starz, from Cinderella and Poison to Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe. Tom Keifer said the first concert he ever went to was a Starz show... "They really kicked ass," he remembered. Jon Bon Jovi met guitarist Richie Ranno backstage at a Bon Jovi concert in New Jersey and took the time to tell 30,000 screaming fans that when he was young, he looked up to Starz. 
They were the band he imitated when practicing in the garage. In Jon's words, 
"What ever your dreams may be, always shoot for the Starz!" 

"BE THERE AT THE TOKEN ON SEPT. 15th IT WILL BE A GREAT SHOW!!!!"

The Class of ’82 is hosting an informal get together July 28th 2007 at Coach’s Corner 8:00 pm-?? (We have classmates who find it difficult to travel to Michigan in November, as they are coming from Japan, Connecticut etc., so we came up with a summer plan) 

Contact Information

Cathy (Komender) Henderson   cathyh1213@comcast.net
Michelle Houska                      mhouska111@aol.com
Marcus Grandon                      marcusgrandon@mac.com

This event is for ALL Catholic school alumni (grade and high school, graduates or not)for all the Catholic Schools in the area! (West Detroit, Redford, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Westland, Livonia, Farmington, Garden City,etc) Tell All your friends, wear your school colors! 

The class of ’77 will be having their 30th on Saturday, September 8, 2007.  It will be held at George Murphy’s on 7 Mile in Livonia. 
For more info, contact Pat Horgan at dhorgan@twmi.rr.com.

I'm looking for the name and contact information for the company that was putting together the DVD of the Borgess Farewell.
Please send me a email.

admin@bishopborgessalumni.com

Thanks!

December 30, 2006, age 73. Peacefully at home in Bloomfield Hills. Loving son of the late John J. and Agnes A. Dear brother of Evelyn P. Stockman (Ken), Joan A. Kline (Jim) and the late Bernard C. Wyzgoski and Lorraine G. Sullivan. Also survived by 17 nieces and nephews. Family will receive friends Thursday 2-9 p.m. at A. J. Desmond & Sons Funeral Home, 2600 Crooks Road (between Maple & Big Beaver). Rosary service Thursday 7 p.m. Funeral Mass Friday 11 a.m. at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, 32340 Pierce, Beverly Hills. Visitation at church begins at 10 a.m. Rite of Committal Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Memorial tributes to Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 1230 Washington Blvd., Detroit, MI 48226. View obituary and share memories at www.DesmondFuneralHome.com 

 
Five years is too long to wait between class reunions, said Bishop Borgess alumna Jane McCarty Browne.

She and classmates from the Catholic Redford high school decided five years ago to reunite annually.

Nearly 500 alumni met at Coach's Corner on Nov. 25. 

The party is always held there the Saturday after Thanksgiving, when people are in town to visit with family and friends.

"By having an 'all-grade' reunion, you can see all your old friends, not just the ones from your class," said Browne, a member of the class of 1980. "We recently lost a fellow classmate, Mike McGarry, a Detroit firefighter, class of 1980, and it makes you realize how short life is. He came to the reunion last year and if not for this party, I would not have seen him but I'm so glad I did."

In its first year, the party attracted about 40 people, but it has grown to more than 10 times that size, said Mike George, owner of Coach's Corner.

He set up a large tent in the parking lot to accommodate the crowd, which enjoyed the 60-degree temperatures.

"Borgess was a pretty big school. It always was a very tight-knit group of people," said George, a member of the class of 1978. George sees some former classmates at his restaurant, but he looks forward to catching up with others during the annual affair.

Since the school closed in spring 2005, the past two reunions have been extremely popular, said Livonia resident Debbie Smedley Chrzasz, who graduated in 1979.

"It's really nice to see everybody at least once a year," she said. 
 

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