Deacon Stephen J Byers - Class of 1971

In addition to serving his home parish of St. Bonaventure in Glenshaw, Deacon Stephen J. Byers, facilitates the Diocese of Pittsburgh's Marriage Preparation Program, which is the primary focus of his diaconate ministry. Since his ordination in June 1999, Steve has interacted with approximately 4,000 engaged couples at 120 of the program's four-week sessions. In addition, he chairs the Diocesan Natural Family Planning Committee.

Steve's perspective on marriage comes primarily from his lived experience as a husband and father. He and his wife, Anita, will celebrate their 33rd anniversary in September. For more than 10 years prior to Steve becoming a deacon, they worked together in marriage preparation on the parish level. Their offspring, Chris, 29, and Sara, 26, are young professionals, living on their own but close enough to home for laundry visits or mom's cooking.

A 1975 journalism graduate of Duquesne University, Steve worked as a newspaper reporter and editor in western Pennsylvania and West Virginia for 17 years, including a five-year stint at The Pittsburgh Press before its demise in 1992. Following eight years at Technology Publishing Company on the South Side, he joined the staff of the University of Pittsburgh, where he is now director of the Office of Academic Affairs for the Health Sciences.

Steve has participated on the BLS Alumni Association Board in recent years, and, although he's ashamed to admit that he has long forgotten more Latin and Greek than he ever learned in high school, for some reason, he can still conjugate the Latin verb "to be" (sum, es, est…), thanks to the relentless freshman-year drilling of Fr. Richard Colgan, SJ.

K. Barry Wentland, D.O. - Class of 1973

Born November 30, 1955 to Norma and Daniel Wentland, He was named Kevin Barry after an Irish patriot but never used the name Kevin. It was always Barry then Wents (with a few special names used by his wonderful, big sister, Karyn). Barry attended grade school at St. Cyril of Alexandria in Brighton Heights. He then started at the Bishop's Latin School in 1969 on Larimer Ave., and graduated with the final class in Southside in 1973.

Barry received a BS in Biology from Allegheny College in 1977. He met his wife Megan at Allegheny and just celebrated their 30th anniversary. They have two sons, Conor and Cale. Barry worked at Mercy Hospital after college before being accepted to medical school. Megan and eight month old Conor headed to Missouri with him for four years at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. Cale was born in Missouri. Dr Wentland received a D.O. degree in 1987.

His family then settled in York, PA for residency in Family Practice followed by private practice in family medicine. barry couldn't avoid the Jesuit influence to teach and has enjoyed training Family Practice residents and coaching youth baseball. Two years ago, Barry changed focus to concentrate on Geriatric medicine and now works primarily in nursing homes.

Mr. Mike Clark - TV News Anchor - WTAE

Mike Clark is a 1985 graduate of St. John's University in New York. Before coming to Pittsburgh, he worked for WLIG-TV in Long Island, N.Y., WEVU-TV in Fort Myers, Fla., WMTW-TV in Portland, Maine, and WSYX-TV in Columbus, Ohio.

Clark is married with four children and serves as an assistant coach for their soccer, baseball and basketball teams.

His work as a news anchor, reporter and writer has been recognized for its excellence by numerous organizations, including the Emmys, the Golden Quill, National Headliner's Award, and the Associated Press.

Clark is proud to have anchored several Emmy Award-winning newscasts for Channel 4 Action News, including two that captured "Best Newscast." He was also honored for field-anchoring Channel 4 Action News' Emmy Award-winning continuing coverage of the crash of United Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, and the rescue of nine miners at Quecreek in July 2002. He has also been cited for his distinguished coverage of the life and the death of Pope John Paul II. Mike field anchored WTAE-TV's live coverage from Rome, Italy of Pope John Paul II's funeral in 2005. He anchored our live reports of Pope John Paul II's visits to St. Louis in 1999, and to New York and Baltimore in 1995. When Pope Benedict XVI made his historic first visit to Washington D-C, Mike again field anchored our coverage from the White House and other locations in out nation's capital.

Mike received the Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl Flame of Hope Award at the 2009 Caritas Awards from Catholic Charities. Clark received the Bill Burns Award for Excellence in Journalism at the 33rd Art Rooney Awards in 2006, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from LaRoche College in 2004. In 2003, he received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the New York Institute of Technology for his 20 years reporting and anchoring the news. And he received the 2002 Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Fraternal Societies of Greater Pittsburgh. Clark also received a Cardinal Fulton Sheen Television Award in New York City for his series of reports on the Chimbote Mission in Peru in 2000.

One of Pittsburgh's most sought-after guest speakers, Clark is a proud community ambassador for WTAE-TV, serving on several charity boards and as a volunteer for many local nonprofit organizations. He is a member of Catholic Charities' Executive Board of Directors, and is a board member emeritus at the DePaul School for Hearing and Speech. Mike is a member of The Chimbote Foundation, and the Forest Hills/Churchill Baseball Association. He has volunteered his time for the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Genesis of Pittsburgh, The Western PA School for the Deaf, UPMC McKeesport Hospital Foundation, the ALS Association, the Greater Pittsburgh YMCA, the Arthritis Foundation, the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council, the Salvation Army/Project Bundle-Up, St. Vincent DePaul Society, Allegheny County's Senior Companion Program, the Sisters of Divine Providence, the Sisters of Saint Basil and the Sisters of Saint Francis. During the school year, you can find him reading to students throughout western Pennsylvania and delivering motivational speeches.

Mike serves as an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Duquesne University and served as an instructor for LaRoche College's Challenge Program. He also offers color commentary on Fox Sports Radio broadcasts of the University of Pittsburgh Women's Basketball games, and he writes a monthly column on parenting and youth sports for the Pittsburgh Sports Report and KidSport Magazine.