Saint Martin's Alumnus: HS 1951

Family: Wife, Rosemary "Roney"; children, Margaret Mary Fritz, Timothy D.

Education: Saint Martin's HS 1951; bachelor's from University of Notre Dame 1955; U.S. Army '56- '58.

Professional Background: Vice President, general manager and president of Mallon Motors Inc., which became Mallon Ford Inc.

Boards/Volunteer Activities: Past Chairman, Saint Martin's Board of Trustees, Past president, National Automobile Dealers Association. Current chairman, National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation. Past chairman of the St. Joseph Hospital and Health Care Center Board of Trustees, Tacoma. Past president of the Rotary Club of Tacoma, Tacoma Better Business Bureau and United Way of Pierce County.

Passion in Life: Motivating people for great causes.

Hobbies: Working to promote and foster the automotive industry and my community.

Why Saint Martin's?: I was raised in Catholic parishes staffed by Saint Martin's monks (Visitation and Holy Rosary in Tacoma), so I got to know a number of them, and then my brother Tom went to Saint Martin's for high school, so it was just natural for me to follow him.

Favorite Saint Martin's Program or Personality: I was always impressed by the humility and spirit of the Benedictine monks, and got to know many of them really well. There are 10-15 of them (now deceased) that really stand out in my mind, but especially Frs. Michael and Leonard ("Mother Leonard") Feeney (HS principal), and Frs. Martin and Jerome Toner. Fr Martin Toner was the most distinguished looking and acting man I have ever known in my life, and his brother, Jerome, was just 180 degrees opposite. (Note: Fr. Leonard was a very prominent academic in the labor movement before and after WWII; appointed by President Truman as one of two "labor" delegates to the Geneva Convention.) "Fr. Leonard still owes me the $5 I bet him that Eisenhower would get the Republican nomination for president in 1952. Fr. Jerome insisted that it would be Taft. I won! I'll have to collect in Heaven!

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