Catholic Memorial Remembers Fallen Alums on 9/11 Anniversary

Thursday marked the 13th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury took the opportunity to remember two former students who were killed on that date.

Mark Bavis, Class of 1988, and John Brett Cahill, Class of 1962, were on United Airlines flight 175 when it struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center on 9/11, CM officials wrote in a memorial column on Wednesday.

Bavis was a hockey lover, and was named a Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic while at CM. He went on to play for Boston University and in 2000 was brought in as an assistant scout for the Los Angeles Kings for the National Hockey League. The Mark Bavis Leadership Foundation was subsequently established after his death in his memory, according to CM.

Cahill, of Wellesley, was 57 when he died, and was a former senior executive manager with Xerox. After graduating Catholic Memorial, he went on to graduate from Boston College with a BS in accounting, and later an MBA from Suffolk University, according to CM.

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