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Newsweek, December, 2007

Brother Peter Bonventre was an assistant principal at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn in the years its most notable alumnus, Rudy Giuliani, studied there. Nearly 50 years on, Brother Peter is a guidance counselor at the school, and was happy to see our Suzanne Smalley in the course of reporting this week’s cover. “He remembered Rudy fondly, taking care to mention Rudy played Santa Claus in a school assembly—it was a big honor to be chosen to play Santa as a senior,” Suzanne says. “In 1960, the school paper’s Personalities section ran an item noting that Giuliani was known for ‘many things, like holding the presidency of 126 [homeroom], founding Loughlin’s Opera Society, bothering Long Island Rail Road passengers, being the highest batter in 1960 softball...

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