Alumni Notes
1960s
The St. Pius X High School Class of 1960 recently presented a plaque to SPX placed at the base of the statue of St. Joesph at the center of the campus quad. The effort was organized by Joe Abbin ’60.
The plaque reads:
St. Joseph, Husband of Mary, Guardian of Jesus
This statue was a gift of the 1951 class of St. Joseph’s College on the Rio Grande, which occupied this campus from 1950 to 1966. Renamed the University of Albuquerque, that school operated until 1986. In 1988 this campus became the home of St. Pius X High School.
This plaque is presented by the St. Pius X class of 1960, the first graduating class, in the year of St. Joseph, 2021.
“We Will always be Number One”
1980s
Randall Roybal ’84 has retired. He was the Executive Director and General Counsel of the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission and worked for the agency since 1998. Roybal earned his law degree from Notre Dame in 1991.
2000s
U.S. Navy Lt. Alix Membreno ’09, represented the U.S. as a member of the All-Armed Forces women’s basketball team during the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) International Basketball Tournament. The U.S. defeated France on Dec. 4, 2021, to claim the championship title at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization facility in Mons, Belgium, where teams representing NATO countries competed. Membreno, from Queens, N.Y., is an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter pilot assigned to the “Wolfpack” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 75. Membreno played basketball at the U.S. Naval Academy from 2010 to 2014. At SPX she won two state titles in basketball, two in javelin and one in discus. She was named the 2009 Albuquerque Journal Female Athlete of the Year.
2020s
Dominic Sais ’21, a defensive back for Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, was named to the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Academic Honor Roll for the Fall 2021 semester. Sais, a computer science major, appeared in eight games, including three as a starter at cornerback. He totaled 24 tackles, including 16 solo, with one fumble recovery, two pass breakups and an interception. The PAC Academic Honor Roll recognizes student-athletes on varsity sports teams who have earned a grade-point average of 3.6 or higher on a 4.0 scale during their semester of competition. Case Western Reserve finished 2021 with a 6-4 overall record, marking the team’s sixth-consecutive winning campaign.