Out of his and his wife’s inability to find resources “designed to take healthy couples and lead them more deeply into a shared encounter with Christ,” Chris Stravitsch decided to help fill that need. He is a co-founder of the St. John Paul II Foundation, offering “formation and education in the areas of life and family,” and its “Together in Holiness” program, dedicated to “forming spouses so that they can form their families.”

It has been my good luck to know Paul Totah, longtime communications director and much else at St. Ignatius Prep, for all of my near 35 years as a chancery grunt. When I heard that he was retiring I checked in with him and was glad to hear that he is not coming to a stop, just taking his foot off the gas a bit.

Margo Wright will retire as principal of St. Robert School, San Bruno in just a few weeks. She has served seven years in the post.

Linda Kinkade has been a Catholic school educator for 35 years, 31 at St. Patrick School in Larkspur. Her path at St. Pat’s started with her teaching third grade, then teaching sixth and eighth grade. She later became a math specialist and assistant principal and then principal. Linda will retire at end of this school year.

Mary Ghisolfo has been a Catholic elementary school educator for 43 years, 37 at San Francisco’s Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires from where she will retire as principal at end of this school year.