McNicholas Military Memorial
Archbishop McNicholas High School recognizes the service to our country that many of our graduates have given over the years. We enjoy our freedom because so many have made a sacrifice to protect us. Let us always remember to thank our active service men and women and our veterans who have given so much.
In 2008, a group of volunteers from the McNicholas community came together to turn a long-discussed concept into a reality. The idea was to honor all McNicholas alumni who have served in the Armed Forces, and to pay special tribute to five graduates who gave their lives in the line of duty. The McNicholas Memorial Committee was formed with members consisting of McNicholas alumni and family members of the deceased soldiers.
Over the next year and a half, the committee met regularly to share design ideas, source materials and contractors and raise all the necessary funds to complete the project. Dances were held, engraved brick pavers were sold and donations were requested to raise approximately $50,000 for the project. The memorial was dedicated on May 15, 2009 and honors Marty Mugavin ('65), Greg Iding ('65), Joe Berning ('69), Chuck Kiser ('85), and Nick Erdy ('02). Gwyn Bush and David Cooper ('78) spoke at the dedication.
Since that time, other improvements such as expanded landscaping, lighting, and benches have been added.
The Military Memorial Committee remains an active part of McNicholas High School with its new focus of providing scholarships for incoming freshmen. Anyone interested in joining the committee, please contact Jim Hay at (513) 236-7609 on jhay279786@aol.com.
If you know anyone who is not on our list, or have information that is missing from our list, please contact Shawn Young, Manager of Alumni Relations and Special Events, at 231-3500 x5850 or syoung@mcnhs.org with their information.
Robert J. Bare* - Air Force
Philip J. Bloom - Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force
John A. Blum - Navy
Robert Brockman - Army
David T. Celesti* - Marines
John L. Celesti* - Marines
James F. Coldiron - Army
John R. Couzins - Corporal, Army
Lawrence H. Dennedy* - Army
Norbert J. Doran - Coast Guard
Vincent R. Ehemann* - Navy Reserve
Thomas L. Eichhorn - Seaman 1st Class, Coast Guard
William D. Feldhues* - Air Force
Michael J. Flanigan - Lance Corporal Marines
Richard O. Fussner* - Army
Tom L. Habegger - Specialist 4th Class, Army Reserve
Michael G. Harms - ET2, Navy
William C. Hartlaub
Lawrence B. Hornschemeier* - Air Force
Timothy C. Johnson - Corporal, Marines
Ralph R. Kohlem - Army
Gerald E. Masterson - Captain, Army
John T. McTighe - Commander, Navy
Donald L. Murdock* - Air Force
John C. Nichols* - Army
Robert J. Nieberding - Air Force
Joseph C. Panko - Sergeant, Army
James E. Penker - US Coast Guard
Timothy L. Reed - Navy
Jeffrey E. Reeves - Army and Air Force
Patrick A. Reeves* - Army
Thomas A. Robinson - Army
William Bing Robinson - Staff Sergeant, Army
Edward Ruehlman - Lance Corporal, Marines
R. Michael Scully* - Navy
Guy H. Sherman - Private 1st Class, Army
William W. Stacey - Army
Peter F. Sterbling - Commander, Coast Guard
Patrick J. Swift - Air Force
Leo J. Wenstrup - Army
Paul Chip Werner
Ronald R. Wolf* - Specialist 4th Class, Army
Charles Zech
Richard Ahlrichs - Major, Army
Douglas Auxier - Captain Army National Guard
James A. Barker * - Army
William L. Barker
Robert M. Batchelor - Specialist 4th Class, Army
Dennis Belcuore - Army
Joseph C. Belcuore - Army
Joseph R. Berning* - Chief Warrant Officer, Army
Nicholas L. Berning - First Lieutenant, Army
John T. Blackwelder - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Gene R. Blom - Navy
Stephen W. Bloom - Sergeant, Army Reserves
Dennis R. Bloom* - Sergeant, Air Force
Daniel L. Breitenbach - Colonel, Army
Herb F. Brettl - Aviation Electrician 3rd Class, Navy
James A. Briede - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Barry W. Brown - Army
William J. Brummer* - Army
John E. Burwell - Army National Guard
Walter J. Carney - Marines
Nellie Harness Coakley
Paul J. Coates - 1st Lieutenant, Army
James T. Crane - Petty Officer 2nd Class, Navy
Philip L. Crane - Specialist 4th Class, Army
Dennis E. Crowley* - Marines
James R. Custer - Air Force
William Deimling - Sergeant, Army
Gregory G. Deimling - Sergeant, Air Force
Michael D. Ducheny - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Richard J. Dumont - Private 1st Class, Marines
Roland J. Dumont* - Corporal, Marines
Robert L. Ewers - Navy
Emmett M. Ey - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Phillip C. Finn - 1st Lieutenant, Army
Joseph E. Foley* - Coast Guard
William G. Fox - Army
Gary J. Freemal - Master Sergeant, Air Force
Thomas F. Fucito - Air Force
Thomas R. Germann - Specialist 5th Class, Army
Greg J. Grant - Marines
Norbert G. Grant - Sergeant, Air Force
Peter J. Grant - Marines
James E. Grassinger - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Charles Q. Grueninger*
Robert Guenther - Specialist 4th Class, Army
Michael J. Hardisty - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Thomas Hay - Sergeant, Army
Jerome L. Hirschauer - Sergeant, Army
William M. Hornsby* - Navy
Daniel J. Hornschemeier - DT2, Navy
Paul C. Hornschemeier - MM3, Navy
James W. Hosking* - Army
Barry F. Hurlburt - Specialist 5th Class
Gregory T. Iding* - Specialist 4th Class, Army
Kenneth J. Ingram* - Army
George Kamphaus - Army
Thomas W. Kanis - Lieutenant Colonel
John J. Kennedy - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Robert E. Kettman* - Lance Corporal, Marines
Stephen A. Kohrman - Army
Craig R. Landers - Sergeant 1st Class, Army National Guard
Thomas A. Lind - Petty Officer 2nd Class, Navy
Robert H. Loretz - Machinist Mate 2nd Class, Navy
Terry P. Madama - 3rd Class Petty Officer, Navy Reserve
William Tim Magee III
Daniel A Magee * - Lieutenant Colonel, Army
Stephen J. Marshall - Marines
Lawrence G. Martin - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Gary L. Marx - Navy
Carl M. Mattes - Illustrator Draftsman Third Class, Navy
John A. Mattes - Petty Officer 2nd Class, Navy
J. Kenneth Moorhead - Specialist 5th Class, Army
Martin M. Mugavin* - Specialist 4th Class, Army
M. Eileen Murray
Thomas E. Murray - 1st Lieutenant, Army
Robert S. Ober - Navy
Kenneth W. Ohmer* - Specialist 5th Class, Army
John M. O'Brien - Navy
Gregory M. Powell - Navy
Donald Quehl - Specialist 5th Class, Army
Robert W. Quehl*
William P. Reeves - Sergeant, Army
Cecil E. Replogle - Air Force
John F. Rolsen - Colonel, Air Force
Rodney J. Rom
Ronald W. Rosselot - 1st Lieutenant, Army
Joseph B. Roth - Sergeant, Marines
James A. Schlosser - Navy
Richard M. Schmidt - Damage Control 2nd Class, US Coast Guard
William R. Selzer - Navy
Gary A. Shaffer
Walter Shaffer - Air Force
Mark E. Sherman - 1st Lieutenant, Army
Robert T. Smith - Marines
R. Michael Smyth - Captain, Army
Gregory P. Steible - Sergeant, Army
Philip R. Sterbling - Colonel, Army
Richard J. Strasinger* - Air Force
Joseph Hank Szanti - Specialist 5th Class, Army
James H. Thompson - Lieutenant Colonel, Army
Carl Mike Vaught - Pharmacy Specialist 5th Class, Army
John E. Weaver
Charles Wenstrup - Coast Guard
Raymond S. Wilkin - Navy
Edward H. Wolf - Navy
Robert A. Yeager - Specialist 4th Class, Army
Ronald T. Young - Navy
William C. Barnett - Corporal, Marines
Edward T. Bishop* - Army
Matthew J. Calahan - Specialist, Army
Mary Ann Cline
Jeffrey M. Coleman - Colonel, Air Force
Steve W. Coleman* - Master Sergeant, Air Force
David F. Cooper - Chief Warrant Officer 5, Army
Gregory D. Delev - 2nd Lieutenant, Army National Guard
Elizabeth Lennertz Damico - Captain, Air Force
Lawrence E. Davis - Army
Joseph M. Deimling - Army
Suzanne C. Diemler - Air Force
Mark D. Doppes - Corporal , Army
Joseph C. Doppes - Sergeant, Air Force
Charles R. Edmonson - Petty Officer 1st Class, Navy
Douglas E. Fields - Sergeant
David M. Flaherty - Navy
Leonard A. Geshan - Captain, Navy
Leo F. Gorman - Captain, Army
James D. Hay - Marines
Richard T. Hilton* - Navy
Paul R. Kaucher Jr. - Specialist 4th Class, Army
James R. Kasselmann - Lieutenant Colonel, Marines
Charles J. Quehl - Navy
Marilyn Macpherson Rodriguez - Master Sergeant
Joseph S. Malloni - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
James J. McNamara - Captain, Marines
Gordon J. Miller - Lieutenant Colonel, Air Force / Reserves
William L. Molitor - Sergeant 1st Class, Army
Shawn T. O'Brien - Marines
Stephan J. Schoettelkotte* - Technical Sergeant, Air Force / Reserves
Alfred E. Smith - Army
Rebecca Toomey Smith - Major, Army
Dennis F. Snodgrass - Master Sergeant, Air Force
Thomas A. Volz - Technical Sergeant, Air National Guard
David A. Wilson - Captain, Marines
Michael C. Young - Navy
Christina L. Young* - Specialist 4th Class, Army
James Alley - Air Force
Brian P. Bauer - Army
Brian P. Baurichter - Senior Airman, Air Force
Mark B. Buelsing - Captain, Army National Guard
Christopher M. Burt - Army National Guard
Jeffrey R. Burt - Army National Guard
Timothy P. Burt - Master Sergeant, Air National Guard
Troy S. Burt - Air National Guard
Joseph A. Busse*
William J. Butler - Colonel, Army
Mark R. Carnes - Master Sergeant, Air Force
Gary S. Carr - Sergeant, Army National Guard
Mark D. Colley - Staff Sergeant, Army
Timothy A. Colonel - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
David H. Crowe - Senior Airman, Air Force
Walter C. Daniels - Colonel, Air Force
Michael D. Delev - 1st Lieutenant, Army National Guard
Tonia Celesti Drummond - Army
Michael A. Ellison - Corporal , Marines
Eric N. Esz - Marines
Kevin L. Green - Captain, Army
Christopher M. Green - Army
Timothy L. Hoeflich - Sergeant, Army National Guard
Michael J. Kasselmann - Captain, Marines
Wayne Scott Kelley - Marines
Charles A. Kiser* - Staff Sergeant, Army
Chris M. Kruse - E-5 Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Jeffrey Lawrence - Army National Guard
Deborah Sweeney Mercado - Lance Corporal, Marines/Army Reserves
Douglas M. Miller - Lieutenant Colonel, Army
David L. Nash* - Navy
William T. Nolan* - Army
Wesley D. Palmer-Lasky - Colonel, Air Force
Michael E. Panko - Colonel, Army
Daniel B. Pewther - Sergeant
Paul W. Placke - Corporal, Marines
Daniel L. Proffitt - Sergeant, Air Force
John J. Redmond - Sergeant, Marines
George A. Spaeth - Sergeant, Army National Guard
David A. Sunberg - Captain, Army
Brian C. Weyer - Sergeant, Army
Mark Williams - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Daniel L. Zahumensky - Lieutenant Commander, Navy
Bryan N. Blackburn - Lieutenant Jr. Grade, Navy
John A. Bush - 1st Lieutenant, Army National Guard
Craig A. Comello - Marines
Jason D. Curfiss - Marines
Eric Dean - Marines
Matthew F. Durkin - Captain, Air Force
Joseph M. Ewers - Colonel, Army
Mary M. Fenker
Benjamin E. Gates - Petty Officer 1st Class, Navy
Ryan D. Hausterman - Sergeant, Army
Jeffrey J. Hilts - Marines
Timothy J. Horn - Captain, Army
Ann Robinson Houck* - 1st Lieutenant, Army
Michael S. Kelly - Major, Air Force
Vincent D. Koenigsknecht - Lieutenant, Navy
Michael W. Land - Chief, Navy
Matthew A. Martinez - Marines
Marie Corbett Mills - Specialist, Army
Andrew W. Moehring - Army
Stephan M. Pazienza - Captain, Marines
Joshua A. Robinson - Specialist 1st Class, Army
Joseph J. Roth - Captain, Air Force
John R. Staats - Marines
Matthew F. Steelman - Airman 1st Class, Air Force
Alison Prall Thompson - Captain, Army
Randal K. Wagner - Boatswain 3rd Class, Coast Guard
David J. Wagner - Captain, Army
Lisa M. Young - National Guard
Derek A. Archer - Corporal, Marines
Susan G. Arshonsky - Ensign, Navy
Jeremy A. Boeh - Private, Army
Steven E. Bosse Jr. - Air Force
Patrick T. Bouley - Marines
Benjamin J. Breitenbach - Navy
Alex T. Brokaw - Corporal, Marines
Charlene S. Cartwright - Specialist , Army
Hollie M. Colony - Sergeant, Army
David P. Cramer - Specialist, Army
Ryan T. Danehe - Navy
Nicholas Erdy* - Lance Corporal, Marines
James G. Falls III - Captain
Christopher P. Foti - Air Force
Christopher A. Gavieres - Navy
Bradley M. Giesting* - Private 1st Class, Army
Timothy J. Hennika - Airman 1st Class, Air Force
Geoffrey B. Hensley - Navy
Jeffrey M. Hoenie - Air Force
Mitchell T. Horn - Army
Edward A. Hutchinson - Private 1st Class, Army
Amanda L. Kissel - Airman 1st Class, Air Force
Steven B. Kominsky - Army
Brendon L. Lake - E4SrA, Air Force
Allison M. LeMaster - Army
Ryan M. Mathews - E-5 Staff Sergeant, Air National Guard
Matthew E. Meibers - E-5, Navy
Benjamin T. Menner - Sergeant, Army
Chadwick M. Miller - Air Force
Dustin B.A. Moss - Army
Brian J. Murphy - Sergeant, Army
Daniel R. O'Brien - Sergeant, Army
Julie Corbett Oliver - Sergeant, Army
Colleen S. Ormond - Senior Airman, Air Force
Sharon Wegman Owen - Captain, Army
Anthony R. Pastura - Private 1st Class, Marines
Paul R. Petsche - Specialist, Army National Guard
Rachel E. Piening - Sergeant, Army National Guard
Jonathan J. Plummer - Private 1st Class, Army
Daniel M. Rasfeld - 1st Lieutenant, Air Force
Erin M. Ritter - Army
Matthew R. Rolfes - Army
Andrew X. Rombach - Lance Corporal, Marines
Andrew J. Rothmeeler - Captain, Army
Andrew J. Schloemer - 2nd Lieutenant, Air Force
Eric R. Schmidt - Staff Sergeant, Air Force
Alexander L. Schreiner
Benjamin A. Singer - Private 1st Class, Army
Nathan S. Skeen - Navy
Zachary W. Stultz* - Marines
Jennifer A. Wagner - Captain, Army
Joseph T. Wambaugh - 2nd Lieutenant, Army National Guard
Michael T. Westlund - Marines
Sean P. Williams - Sergeant
Erica S. Woodruff - Specialist, Marines
Jessica M. Zeller - E5 Corpsman, Navy
Jeffrey D. Archer - Army National Guard
Paul G. Conrady - 2nd Lieutenant, Air Force
Brandon A. Engred - Army
John V. Ehemann - 2nd Lieutenant, ROTC - National Guard
Ryan D. Constable - Corporal, Marines
Elliot O. Higgins - Air Force Academy
Theodore J. Mayer - 2nd Lieutenant, ROTC-National Guard
Cheyenne Meyer - Navy
Matthew P. Quitter - Air Force
Patrick L. McKinnis
Elizabeth A. Rumple - Navy
Michael S. Staderman - 2nd Lieutenant, Air Force
Jacob A. Vaughn - Navy
Jacob S. Willenbrink - Senior Airman, Alaska Air National Guard
Kevin L. Williams - Private 1st Class, Marines
* denotes deceased alumni