Reported by Elizabeth Layton Wheaton (some of you will remember her as one of our English teachers):
 
P.J. Dalla Santa was born on April 28, 1930.  He died on April 28, 2009, in Lakeland, FL.
 
"P.J. Dalla Santa taught English and Drama at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School.  He and I retired from teaching in 1982 and maintained contact through daily e-mails until he died April 28. It was his 79th birthday! He will always be remembered for the plays he produced. DAMN YANKEES was one of his first.  He attended Mass every Friday and reported always that he had included me in those prayers.  He was cremated, according to his directions, and his ashes were spread over the Gulf of Mexico."
 
For the Class of '61, he'll always be remembered, by those in the cast and those in the audience, for the wonderful productions of The Diary of Anne Frank, No Time For Sergeants', and Oklahoma.