Ed Shahady
Class of 1960
Medical Director of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Diabetes Master Clinician Program.

 

Fairmont native Dr. Ed Shahady has spent his professional career in the field of medical education.

 

A 1960 graduate of Wheeling Jesuit, Dr. Shahady also is a graduate of the West Virginia School of Medicine in 1964. Dr. Shahady’s leadership in medicine began in 1965 when he

was drafted and became a Naval medical officer attached to a Marine combat battalion in Vietnam.  Read More  

Jim Dissen

Class of 1963
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development with Triana Energy, LLC

 

Jim Dissen, class of 1963 is the senior vice president of corporate development with Triana Energy, LLC in Charleston, W.Va.

 

The Wheeling Jesuit alumnus came to the University from Pittsburgh. Following graduation,

he enlisted in the Army and was trained as a special agent in counter intelligence during the Cold War. During his service in the Army, he obtained a MBA from Xavier University

attending classes in the evenings and on weekends. In the early 1970s, after his honorable discharge from the Army, Dissen began his professional career, working in the oil and gas industry in the Pittsburgh and Uniontown, Pa. markets and at the same time began his legal studies at Duquense University, School of Law, Evening Division. He earned his juris

doctorate from Duquesne. Later he transferred to the Charleston area and has remained there. Dissen was promoted through the management ranks with in the company and successor organizations to his current position of senior vice president. Read More  

John Aluise, Ph.D.
Class of 1964
Marketing Services, Human Resources and Corporate Administration

 

John Aluise, Ph.D. worked for 35 years in the private and public sectors serving in

 managerial roles in marketing services, human resources and corporate administration.

 He held faculty positions at three state universities, a private college, a community hospital and an academic medical center. As an organizational consultant he has worked with more than 50 organizations, primarily in the health care field, throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.   He has presented to national and regional audiences and has published extensively in the healthcare management literature. Read More  

 

Patricia Weitzel-O'Neill

Class of 1969

Executive Director

Center for Catholic Education,

Boston College Lynch School of Education

 

Patricia Weitzel-O'Neill took over as the executive director of the

Center for Catholic Education at Boston College's Lynch School of Education.

 

An experienced educator and Catholic schools administrator, Weitzel-O'Neill assumed her role in July, where she will lead a center

dedicated to preparing leaders for all levels of Catholic education and to researching and developing solutions to the critical challenges facing Catholic schools, colleges and universities. Read More  

 

Bill Cecil

Class of 1971

Senior Vice President for Sales

CBS Television in New York City

Class of 1971 member Bill Cecil serves as senior vice president for sales at CBS Television in New York City. His professional career has span four decades since his graduation from Wheeling Jesuit University all within the advertising industry.

The last 33 years have been spent at the CBS Television Network in various senior management positions. Cecil joined CBS in 1977 as director of Sales

Proposals for the television network. His responsibilities included all advertising pricing on the CBS network. He was promoted to vice president of Sales Planning in 1982. In this new position, Cecil oversaw all approvals for advertising purchased in primetime, sports, daytime and late night. Read More

 

George E. (Ged) Young, Jr.

Class of 1972

Director of East Coast Affiliate Relations

CBS Television Network

 

George E. (Ged) Young, Jr. '72 has spend nearly three decades in

senior positions at the network level of the television broadcast

industry. He currently holds the title of director of East Coast Affiliate Relations for the CBS Television Network in New York. Read More  

 

Tim Murphy

Class of 1974

Congressman, 18th District of Pennsylvania

United States House of Representatives

In January 2009 Congressman Tim Murphy began serving his fourth term in Congress representing the 18th District of Pennsylvania, encompassing the South Hills of Pittsburgh and portions of Washington and Westmoreland counties.

Congressman Murphy relies on his three decades as a child

psychologist to advocate for meaningful reforms in the U.S. healthcare system. As one of

only a handful of members of Congress with a background in healthcare, he is co-chair of the 21st Century Healthcare Caucus, Mental Health Caucus, GOP Doctor's Caucus and Men's Health Caucus, giving him a platform to educate other members of Congress and the public

on ways to make healthcare more affordable and accessible for all families. Read More

 

John Beilein

Class of 1975

Head Coach of Men's Basketball

University of Michigan

 

On April 3, 2007 John Beilein became the 16th head coach in the

history of the University of Michigan Men's Basketball program. Having spent all 18 years of his Division I coaching career as a head coach, Beilein has produced success at every stop and is considered to be

one of the best tactical basketball minds in the country.

 

A proven winner throughout his career, Beilein has won 597 career games, placing him in the top 20 in victories among active Division I head coaches. He has compiled 27 winning seasons and put together 15 20-win campaigns. Beilein is the only active coach in the collegiate ranks to record a 20-win season at four different levels--junior college,

NAIA, NCAA Division II and NCAA Division I. Read More 

Marilou (Gross) Doughty

Class of 1977

Deputy Director of Child Protective Service Agency for Montgomery County, PA

 

Marilou (Gross) Doughty ’77 has been breaking down barriers since her freshman year at Wheeling Jesuit.

 

The deputy director of Child Protective Service Agency for Montgomery County (Pa.) is one of the first females to hold a top administrative position in Pennsylvania Public Child Welfare Systems.

 

One of the first independent majors at Wheeling Jesuit, Doughty started as a psychology major and helped design a major for juvenile justice/social work from the University’s offerings in sociology and psychology. Read More 

 

Vera Barton-Caro

Class of 1982

RN, MSN, FNP-BC

 

Vera Barton-Caro, class of 1982, is a nurse practitioner / nurse manager for Richard F. Terry MD, Inc., a full service cardiology

practice and heart failure clinic in Wheeling, W.Va.

 

Ms. Barton-Caro recently was inducted as president of The American Association of Heart Failure Nurses (AAHFN) at the organization’ s

annual scientific meeting in Orlando, Florida. The AAHFN is a specialty organization dedicated to advancing nursing education, clinical practice and research to improve heart failure patient outcomes. Heart failure is the group’ s exclusive interest and passion and is dedicated to set the standards for heart failure nursing care. Read More

 

Maureen (Loftus) Hogel

Class of 1982

Chief Operating Officer

Duquesne Light Co.

Maureen Hogel is the first woman to serve as chief operating officer of Pittsburgh-based Duquesne Light Co. in the utility provider's 130-year history.

Hogel joined the company as an empoyment lawyer in 1996 and has logged a number of achievements since then, including having led the negotiations team that closed the $3 billion merger between Duquesne Light and the Australia-based Macquarie Consortium in 2007. Read More 

 

Richard A. (Dick) Riley, Jr.

Class of 1984

Professor of Public Accounting

West Virginia University

 

Richard A. (Dick) Riley, Jr. '84 is a Louis F. Tanner Distinguished Professor of Public Accounting at West Virginia University. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners named him the 2008

Educator of the Year and in 2009, the American Acounting

Association recognized his groundbreaking work in fraud and

forensic accounting education with the Innovaction in Accounting Education Award. Read More

 

Katie Torpey

Class of 1991

Movie and televisions writer and director, author

 

Katie Torpey is a WGA, award- winning screenwriter with a master's from UCLA Film School. She has worked in television and film for numerous studios and networks including FOX, Disney, ABC, Saban

and Universal. She has been a TV staff writer, sold several screen

plays and has written and rewritten scripts for many A-list Hollywood production companies. Read More