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In Memory

Tony Lucarelli ‘92 has been promoted from Public Relations Specialist to Senior Adult Services Librarian - Business Services at the Fountaindale Public Library in Bolingbrook. He has been employed at the library for two and a half years and successfully crafted and ran the library's $48.6 million February 2008 referendum campaign for issuing library building bonds. He currently resides in Darien.

Kristina Castellano Sandrock ‘97 sang at the White House in December, 2008. Te group she performs with, the Canterbury Carollers, performed for an hour and a half for an audience of Presidential appointees and their families. Te group has performed at the White House on several occasions and were the only group from Illinois to perform in 2008. Kristina is currently working on her masters degree in music education at Northwestern University, which she will complete in June 2010, and she lives in Elmhurst, IL with her husband, Cory Sandrock.

Joe Foran ’06 caddied in the pro am at the BMW Championship. One pro and three amateurs golf the day before the actual tournament in an event benefiting the Chick Evans foundation. Joe caddied for the CEO of BMW and was in the group with Tiger Woods.

Donald J. Dalton '61, of Naperville,

husband of Helen (nee Zarko); father of Thomas (Dawn) Dalton; and grandfather of Eva, Mia, Abby and Liam, passed away on November 2, 2009.

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In July of 1969, while enjoying his day off, Don dove off a houseboat and changed his life forever. He hit a waterlogged wooden cable reel that had been discarded by a tugboat and was lurking about 3 ft. under the surface. At that instant, Don was permanently paralyzed from the neck down. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life sulking over what could have been. He decided to go forward and to learn as much as he could about computers and technology for the disabled. With the help of a counselor from the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services, Don was able to overcome his disability as it related to working and getting on with his life. Over the past 17 years, he has become an internationally recognized Assistive technology expert. In May of 2002 he was invited to China by a group of medical professionals to assist in teaching them about assistive technology for their newly developing national rehabilitation system. Don was the President of Assistive Technologies, Inc. He and his associates have been featured in a 4000 word story about his company on the front page of the Wall Street journal. He was a member of the board of directors for Chicago's "Joni and friends" area ministry. Don's personal "bottom line" is that of seeing as many people with disabilities "whistling while we work" as he so strongly professes. To this end, he "put his money where his mouth is" to do everything within his realm to create employment opportunities. He worked one-on-one in the trenches directly with his disabled clients. He and his wife Helen gave of themselves in many ways to support their company during difficult times, thus keeping the hope alive. Stories about Don have appeared in Wired Magazine, on CNN, NBC, Fox, the USA Network, Cranes Chicago Business, Chicago Sun-Times, DuPage Financial, and Chicago Tribune. He was the Illinois State 1994 winner of the Blue-chip Enterprise Initiative Award, sponsored by the United States Chamber of Commerce, Nation's Business Magazine and Connecticut Mutual Insurance Co. Don was also nominated for the Emerging Entrepreneur Award by the DuPage Area Association in 1994 and 1995. Last year, he and his company were individually nominated for New Freedom Awards.

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