Salesianum Veterans

Service, Sacrifice, Legacy 
We honor those Salesianum alumni who answered the call to serve, living out the values of faith, leadership, and brotherhood through honorable service to our nation.

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Mission Statement

To create a Salesianum Veteran’s Committee, as part of the Alumni Association, that will recognize and honor those many Salesianum alumni, both living and deceased, who honorably served in the US military.

Rationale & Purpose

We believe there is a large number of living alumni veterans and a larger number of deceased alumni veterans. This committee would help make alumni veterans and deceased alumni veterans’ families feel closer to the school and be valued parts of the school community.

Goals & Priorities

  • Create and populate a database to gather information on living and deceased alumni veterans. 
  • Honor and publicize the achievements of veteran alumni including creating a virtual wall of honor for all alumni veterans, living and deceased. 
  • Seek an area in the school that could display memorabilia from alumni veterans. 
  • Create and help execute activities and events that enhance camaraderie among alumni veterans, such as a Veterans Day mass at the school and a Memorial Day ceremony. 
  • Assist with the unveiling of the outdoor Killed in Action memorial.
  • If possible and practical, provide support to individual alumni veterans and gold star families of alumni veterans. Recognize and support alumni who are serving on active duty.
  • Fully support the goals of the Alumni Association 

Saluting Our Veterans

Video Presentation

Current Members of the Veterans Association

List of 12 items.

  • Stephen Bart ’08

  • Rodney Baumert ’64

  • Jim Burke '64, Chair

  • Mick Devlin ’02

  • Guy Gravino '97

  • Jack Holloway ’64

  • Sam Kalb ’76

  • William Knightly ’68

  • Chris Leonard ’01

  • John Riley ’64

  • Denny Skirvin '65

  • Frank Vavala ’65

Salesianum Alumni Wall of Honor

  • Fr. William J. Keech, OSFS ’43

    Technical Sergeant William J. Keech was drafted into the U.S. Army in April of 1945. He was inducted at Fort Meade, MD and was transferred by train to Ft. McClellan, AL for basic training as an infantryman.
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  • 1st Lt. Charles J. Noonan ’34

    First Lieutenant Charles J. Noonan, Class of 1934, served in the U.S. Army from 1940-1948. Noonan was a 1st lieutenant in the 29th Division’s 116th Regiment, the famed “Stonewall Brigade” that led the assault on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
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  • 1st Lt. James A. Burke ’64

    First Lieutenant James A. Burke entered active military service in 1969. 1LT Burke served as an infantry training officer in the US Army.
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  • Capt. John S. Riley ’64

    Captain John S. Riley was commissioned a 2nd LT through Infantry OCS, Ft. Benning, GA, in March of 1970. He received a branch transfer to Armor and was assigned as a weapons instructor to Ft. Knox, KY.
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  • CW3 Patrick "Mick" Devlin ’02

    Widener Army ROTC 2002-2004. May 5th, 2004 enlisted USMC, Parris Island graduated August 2002. Meritorious Promotion to Lance Corporal. Class Commander, Field Radio Operator (MOS 0621) School 29 Palms, CA.
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  • Fr. Thomas Lawless, OSFS '07

    Fr. Thomas Lawless, OSFS was a legendary principal at Salesianum and a member of the first four-year graduating class in the school’s history in 1907. Among his achievements as principal was moving the school from the original property at 8th and West to our current location.
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  • Fr. William J. Hultberg, Jr., OSFS ’49

    Fr. William Hultberg had extensive military service with both the Navy and the Army. At the end of the Korean conflict he was drafted into the army as an enlisted man serving 18 months in Japan and was discharged in 1955.
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  • MSgt. Jeff Alberts ’96

    Master Sergeant Alberts enlisted in the United States Army in 1997. Upon completion of Initial Entry Training and the Basic Airborne Course he was assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, NC.
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  • Lt. Cmdr. Donald C DeLisi, Jr. DMD ’88

    Lieutenant Commander Donald C DeLisi, Jr. DMD ‘88 is a board certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, was commissioned a Navy Lieutenant in 2004. He served as a fleet dental surgeon with the Carl Vinson Strike Group during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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  • Lt. Cmdr. James J. Connell '57

    Lieutenant Commander James J. Connell graduated Salesianum School in 1957. He then graduated from the United States Naval Academy with the Class of 1961 and proceeded into the flight training program, qualifying in the A-4 Skyhawk light attack aircraft.
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  • Maj. Gen. Albert J. Madora ’64

    Major General Albert J. Madora (Jim) graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1968. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army and served 34 years on active duty before retiring in 2002.
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  • PFC Guido R. Schiavi ’44

    Drafted in January of 1945 and sent to Ft. Dix in NJ for shots.  Took troop train to Camp Croft in South Carolina for thirteen weeks of basic training.  War in Europe ended.
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  • SFC Stephen K. Bart ’08

    Sergeant First Class Stephen Bart has been a member of the Delaware Army National Guard since 2009. Bart graduated Salesianum in 2008 and was a member of the wrestling team.
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  • SGM Jason McDowell ’96

    Sergeant Major Jason N. McDowell enlisted in the US Army immediately after graduation in 1996 as an Infantryman.
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