Boston College Annual Report 2017

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From the President

William P. Leahy, S.J.

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40 Under 40

Young Alumni Leaders

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From the Chair

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Year in Review

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Financial Report

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Statistical and Financial Highlights

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Board of Trustees

From the President

In a major address on Jesuit higher education at Santa Clara University in October 2000, Jesuit Superior General Peter-Hans Kolvenbach noted that while all modern universities have an obligation to enable “the worldly success” of their graduates, “the real measure of our Jesuit universities lies in who our students become.”

Fr. Kolvenbach was reminding his audience about the importance of combining academic excellence and character formation, long a goal of Jesuit education. Since they established their first school at Messina, Sicily, in 1548, Jesuit educators have sought to offer an academic and personal experience that integrates intellectual excellence, formation of character, and care for others.

According to the 1599 Ratio Studiorum, or “plan of studies,” which first formalized the structure and goals of Jesuit education, the ideal graduate of a Jesuit college was to have made “as much progress as possible in moral integrity and in liberal arts,” having “interiorize[d] the moral behavior worthy of a Christian.”

The education of laymen was recognized by Ignatius and his early companions as a particularly effective way of enhancing community life and making God more present in society. The Jesuit Constitutions, drafted by Ignatius and adopted in 1558, declare that the Society “endeavors to aid its neighbors not only by traveling through various parts of the world”—

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as in missionary endeavors—“but also by residing continually in certain places, as is the case with [Jesuit] houses and colleges.”

By 1551, only a few years after the college at Messina was founded, Juan de Polanco, S.J., who served as a key advisor to Ignatius and subsequent leaders of the Society, could write of students who “will in time emerge— some for preaching and the care of souls, others for the government of the land and the administration of justice, and others for other responsibilities. [And] their good formation in life and learning will benefit many others, with the fruit expanding more widely every day.”

Boston College’s 2017 Annual Report features brief profiles of 40 young alumni who meet Fr. Polanco’s expectations and hopes. Among other accomplishments, they have founded businesses and developed schools, launched innovations in technology and science, held influential positions in government and public service, and been honored for their achievements in the arts. In a way the early Jesuits understood well, the men and women recognized here are a leaven for good in society. They live the values and mission of Jesuit education in the 21st century in impressive ways.

William P. Leahy, S.J. President

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40 Under 40 Young Alumni Leaders

Richard Aberman ’07 MCAS Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer, WePay Redwood City, California influence: Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program

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Along with William Clerico ’07 (see page 6), Aberman launched WePay in 2008.

Established to enable groups to pool funds for such ventures as ski trips, bachelor parties, and group apartment rentals, WePay evolved into a payment processing company for online marketplaces and was recognized as one of the 500 fastest-growing private U.S. companies by Inc. magazine in 2015 and 2016. Aberman was named to the Silicon Valley 100 list by Business Insider in 2010 and was designated a 30 Under 30 Best Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek in 2011.

Clarissa Aljentera, M.A.’10 STM Senior Coordinator of Family Ministries, Archdiocese of Chicago Chicago, Illinois influences: Halftime retreat; Theology and Ministry faculty member Theresa O’Keefe

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A former journalist, Aljentera oversees programs and resources aimed at strengthening marriages and families. She previously coordinated adult faith formation and media resources for the archdiocese and also ministered to medical and law students at Northwestern University. The author of The Parish Guide to Social Media: How Social Networking Can Recharge Your Ministry (2013), she speaks internationally on faith and media and is the founder of the consulting firm Dispatching the Spirit, which advises on communications for faith communities.

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Kevin J. Allocca ’06 MCAS Head of Culture and Trends, YouTube New York City influences: Morrissey College faculty Lisa Cuklanz and John Michalczyk; Hello...Shovelhead!; the Heights

More than 400 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. Allocca analyzes the intersection of web video and global culture and manages trending content initiatives. Allocca helped create YouTube Rewind, a year-in-review program; YouTube Nation, a daily “greatest hits” video show; and YouTube Spotlight, a daily selection of popular videos. His 2011 TED Talk, “Why Videos Go Viral,” has been viewed more than two million times. He is the author of the forthcoming Videocracy: How YouTube is Changing the World (Bloomsbury Publishing).

Berke I. Bakay ’01 CSOM, M.S.’03 CSOM President and Chief Executive Officer, Kona Grill Scottsdale, Arizona influences: Carroll School faculty Alan Marcus, Elliott Smith, and Hassan Tehranian; investor Peter Lynch ’65, H’95

In 2012, Bakay was named president and CEO of Kona Grill, an award-winning restaurant chain with 46 locations in 23 states. He is the founder and managing director of BBS Capital Fund, a private equity firm that is Kona Grill’s largest shareholder. Bakay is also a board member of Pulcra Chemicals. In 2016, Bakay was part of an investment group that acquired Phoenix Rising FC, a professional soccer team in Phoenix, Arizona.

He is the club’s governor and principal owner.

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Robert E. Burke, M.D. ’03 MCAS Hospitalist, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Denver, Colorado influences: Morrissey College Honors Program faculty Mark O’Connor, Tim Duket, and Mary Joe Hughes; Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program

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Burke researches outcomes for older adults transitioning from hospital care to rehabilitation and nursing facilities. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Hartford Foundation, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He teaches medicine at the University of Colorado and is an associate editor of BMJ Quality and Safety, a peer-reviewed journal. He was awarded a 2017–18 Health and Aging Policy Fellowship. A graduate of Stanford Medical School, Burke did his internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Alexandra I. Carpenter ’16 MCAS U.S. Women’s National Hockey Team North Andover, Massachusetts influence: Director of Campus Ministry Fr. Anthony Penna

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A 2014 Olympic silver medalist, Carpenter was the first overall pick in the National Women’s Hockey League draft in 2016. She won the Patty Kazmaier Award as America’s top female hockey player in 2015 and was named an All-American three times and a Hockey East All-Star four times. Carpenter holds four gold medals from the International Ice Hockey Federation and won a gold and two silvers at the International Hockey Federation U18 World Championships. She earned a gold medal at the 2017 IIHF Women’s World Championship, where an American team that included six Eagles defeated Canada in the championship game.

William D. Clerico ’07 MCAS Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, WePay San Francisco, California influences: Carroll School faculty member John Gallaugher; Tech Trek West; Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program

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With Rich Aberman ’07 (see page 4), Clerico founded WePay, which processes payment transactions for online platforms. He is an angel investor and part-time partner at Y Combinator. Prior to WePay, Clerico was a technology investment banker at the global banking firm Jefferies. He was listed among 50 Inspirational Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017 by Entrepreneur magazine, and was recently profiled in Forbes magazine’s series “Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape.”

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Maurya A. Couvares ’06 MCAS Cofounder and Executive Director, ScriptEd Brooklyn, New York influence: Junior Year Abroad, Oxford

ScriptEd is a national nonprofit that teaches computer programming to students in underserved schools and prepares them through paid internships for technology careers. Before she developed ScriptEd, Couvares taught middle school for Teach for America and was coordinator of the pro bono practice group at the law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Recognized as a New York Business Journal Woman of Influence and a New York City Catalyst, she is an IgniteGood/Huffington Post Millennial Impact Fellow, and a speaker at TEDxNYED.

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Juma K. Crawford, j.d.’06 Executive Director, Lewis Family Foundation Cambridge, Massachusetts

A California native who also holds degrees from Amherst College and Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Crawford leads programs that aim to increase college graduation rates for residents of Boston’s Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan neighborhoods. He is the former executive director of Friends of the Children-Boston, a nonprofit that provides mentors for disadvantaged youth, and was a founding teacher at Dorchester’s Codman Academy Charter School, principal of the Community Charter School of Cambridge, and head of school at College Bound Dorchester. He was featured in Boston Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 in 2015.

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Katherine L. Davis ’10 CSON, M.S.’12 CSON Senior Vice President of Operations, Call9 Glastonbury, Connecticut influences: Chris Darcy, associate director of Campus Ministry; Connell School faculty member Cathy Read; BC EMS

A former clinical nurse and EMT, Davis joined Call9 in 2015. The technology startup improves care for nursing home patients and reduces unnecessary visits to emergency rooms by providing clinical staff who are connected, via Call9’s technology platform, to nursing homes and on-call emergency room doctors. Davis is the former president of the Greater New England Chapter of the International Association of Forensic Nurses.

Michael Del Ponte ’05 MCAS Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Soma Water San Francisco, California

A social entrepreneur, Del Ponte develops and produces biodegradable water filters and carafes, contributing a portion of the profits to a nonprofit that supports sustainable water projects around the world. Before founding Soma in 2012, Del Ponte led marketing for the Facebook professional networking group BranchOut. For his work as founder and former CEO of Sparkseed, a nonprofit nurturer of young social entrepreneurs, Del Ponte received a 2010 Financial Times Social Innovation Award. He serves on the boards of the Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Mobilize.org. He holds a master’s degree from Yale in Christian social ethics.

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Christine Ann Denny ’05, M.S.’06 MCAS Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center New York City influences: Morrissey College faculty Thomas Seyfried and Marilee Ogren

Denny, who earned her doctorate at Columbia, is an assistant professor of clinical neurobiology. Her research centers on cognitive (such as Alzheimer’s disease) and neuropsychiatric (depression) disorders. The recipient of a five-year National Institutes of Health Early Independence Award and a two-year Brain and Behavior Research Foundation NARSAD Young Investigator Award, she is also a level-five research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene. Denny is cofounder of Aision Bio, a pharmaceutical startup focused on preventing mental illness.

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Partner, Sequoia Capital Menlo Park, California influences: James Erps, S.J., President William P. Leahy, S.J., Richard McGowan, S.J., and Thomas O’Malley, S.J.; CSOM Honors Program; Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program

At Sequoia, the venture capital firm that has funded AirBnB, Google, and WhatsApp, Dixon’s focus is on healthcare and enterprise technology. He sits on several corporate boards, including Clover Health, a Medicare Advantage health insurance plan; Airstrip, creator of mobile healthcare software; Health Catalyst, a healthcare analytics software company; and Implantable Provider Group, a surgical cost-management firm. Dixon also sits on the board of Percolate, a developer of software for global marketing whose customers include Timberland, General Electric, and MasterCard.

Jared Dudley ’07 MCAS Basketball player, Phoenix Suns Phoenix, Arizona

The ACC Player of the Year and a second-team All-American in his senior year, Dudley has played 10 seasons in the NBA for the Charlotte Bobcats, Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Washington Wizards, and is now a power forward with the Phoenix Suns. In the 2009–2010 season he achieved the NBA’s best three-point field goal percentage.

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Philip C. Dumontet ’09 CSOM Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dashed New York City influences: Carroll School assistant dean Ethan Sullivan; Tech Trek; Office of First Year Experience; the Heights

Since 2009, Dumontet has seen his delivery business grow to serve more than 800 restaurants in six cities, including Boston, Providence, and New Haven. His fleet of smart cars, bicycles, and scooters makes deliveries for Bertucci’s, PF Chang’s, Pinkberry, and others. In addition to meals, Dashed delivers such items as flowers, alcoholic beverages, and Christmas trees. Inc. magazine named Dashed the leading restaurant delivery service in the Northeast in 2014, and one of the fastest-growing companies in the country in 2015. Dumontet has written for the Washington Post, Entrepreneur, and Business Insider. He was featured in Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 list in 2016.

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Peter Frates ’07 MCAS Pete Frates Home Healthcare Initiative Beverly, Massachusetts influence: Baseball head coach Michael Gambino ’99

The 2007 captain of Boston College’s baseball team, Frates was diagnosed in 2012 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a terminal neurodegenerative disease. He is the inspiration for the Ice Bucket Challenge, the awareness campaign that in 2014 raised a record-breaking $220 million for ALS research. A team led by University of Massachusetts Medical School researchers, recipients of some of these funds, discovered a new ALS-related gene, a finding that could lead to therapies. For his fundraising and advocacy work, Frates received the Sports Illustrated Inspiration Award in 2014. He is also the recipient of the NCAA’s 2017 Inspiration Award.

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Patrick W. Grady ’04 CSOM Partner, Sequoia Capital Menlo Park, California influences: Carroll School faculty member Richard McGowan, S.J.; Carroll School Honors Program; Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program

In 2007, Grady joined Sequoia Capital, the 45-year-old Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for funding companies such as Apple, Cisco, Google, and Yahoo. He coleads Sequoia’s U.S. growth equity business. He sits on the boards of businessadvancing tech companies such as Zoom Video Communications, Okta, and Sumo Logic, and is a past board member of the marketing innovator Hubspot. Grady frequently appears on industry panels, and won the 2016 Churchill Club’s Top Tech Trends debate for his argument, “Data Is the New Oil.”

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Arar Han ’03 LSOE Principal, Sabot Family Companies Palo Alto, California influences: Lynch School Associate Dean John Cawthorne; Shaw Leadership Program

Han is cofounder and principal at Sabot Family Companies, among whose holdings is Alert-1, a provider of medical alerts and safety devices for home-dwelling seniors and their caregivers. As an undergraduate, Han was the coeditor of Asian American X: An Intersection of 21st Century Asian American Voices (University of Michigan Press, 2004), a book of essays about Asian American identity. She holds an MBA from Stanford.

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Burnell E. Holland III ’05 MCAS Deputy Director of Programs, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Washington, D.C. influences: Donald Brown, director of AHANA student programs; PULSE program

In 2016, Holland was appointed deputy director of programs at My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, an initiative inspired by President Barack Obama’s call upon public, private, and philanthropic sectors to create opportunities for the advancement of disadvantaged boys and young men of color. Holland previously served the D.C. Public Schools as deputy chief for the “Males of Color Initiative,” as chief of staff for its Office of Innovation and Research, and as manager of operations for its Office of Family and Public Engagement. He holds advanced degrees from Syracuse and Georgetown.

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Riggs Kubiak ’03 CSOM Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, Honest Buildings New York City influence: Avison Young principal Scott Jamieson ’88

Honest Buildings, which Kubiak founded in 2012, is a cloud-based project management and procurement platform that supports data-driven decision making for the commercial real estate sector. A rental real estate agent while he was an undergraduate, Kubiak worked in real estate investment banking before becoming head of sustainability at global real estate developer Tishman Speyer. Kubiak’s clients include Blackstone Group, Silverstein Properties, Durst Organization, JBG Companies, and Invesco. He contributes regularly to Entrepreneur, the Commercial Observer, and other publications in the real estate industry.

David S. LaMattina ’03 MCAS Director and Producer, Copper Pot Pictures New York City influences: Morrissey College faculty member John Michalczyk; Heights sports editor Michael Teevan ’01

Cofounder in 2007 of the media company Copper Pot Pictures, LaMattina produced the critically acclaimed I Am Big Bird, a biopic of puppeteer Caroll Spinney. His other films include La Gran Madre—a documentary, still in production, about Nora Sandingo, a Floridian who is legal guardian to hundreds of children of deportees—and Brownstones to Red Dirt, the story of eight children—four in New York and four in Sierra Leone— who become pen pals. His television work includes The Zoo, a show about the Bronx Zoo that has been picked up for a second season on Animal Planet.

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Oliver Lubin ’01 MCAS Chief Innovation Officer, thredUP San Francisco, California

A cofounder with James Reinhart ’01 (see page 15) of what is today the leading online consignment and thrift shop for women and children’s clothing, Lubin guided the architecture and development of the company’s innovative and consumer-friendly website from 2009 to 2016. As chief creative officer, he directed the company’s branding, marketing, website, packaging, and advertising; he now focuses on guiding thredUP’s long-term growth. Prior to the founding of thredUP, Lubin was a marketing technology manager for the Boston law firm Foley Hoag LLP.

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Maria Del Pilar Montilla ’00 MCAS TV Host, Producer, Actor Los Angeles, California influence: AHANA program

Montilla created, produces, and hosts the Emmy-winning music show Té Para Tres con Pili Montilla, in which she profiles Latin musicians as they share their stories and music.

She has been a host at MTV, MundoFox, and E!Latino. She appeared in the comedy 200 Cartas (2013) with Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Hamilton. Her other correspondent and producing credits include Univision’s Primer Impacto and the syndicated American Latino.

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Brownsville, Texas influences: Terrence Devino, S.J.; Kairos retreats; Junior Year Abroad, Australia; Arrupe International Mexico immersion program

Motyl was appointed principal and then president (2010) of Guadalupe Regional Middle School in Brownsville, Texas. Part of the Nativity Miguel Coalition of schools, the college-prep school is located in the high-poverty Rio Grande Valley and charges no tuition to the 80 sixth- through eighth-grade students that it serves. Motyl is also president of Brownsville’s Saint Joseph Academy and serves as a commissioner on the Housing Authority of the City of Brownsville. Motyl first visited Brownsville while on an under­graduate service trip. He holds advanced degrees from the University of Notre Dame.

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Actor Brooklyn, New York influences: Morrissey College faculty member Scott Cummings; Junior Year Abroad, New Zealand

Pinkham performs in film, television, and onstage. He was nominated for Tony and Grammy awards for the lead role in the original Broadway cast of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (2013), and was nominated for Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for his work in the Broadway revival of The Heidi Chronicles (2015). His on-camera appearances include Mercy Street, The Get Down, The Comedian, The Good Wife, and Person of Interest. Pinkham received a 2012–2013 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship for young performers and artists. He is cofounder of a theater and performance program for children in Madagascar and holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

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Genevieve Frances Thiers Ratner ’00 MCAS Entrepreneur Chicago, Illinois influences: Morrissey College faculty Jeremiah McGrann and John Michalczyk; Robsham Theater productions

Ratner launched her first business, Sittercity.com, an online platform that matches customers with babysitting and caregiving services, in 2001. As an investor, she focuses on women-in-tech enterprises, including Brideside, Itsbyu, Zipfit, and Moxie Jean. One of her recent efforts is RISE, a progressive political organization she cofounded that aims to use technology to urge nonvoters to the polls. A professional soprano, Ratner is also the founder of OperaModa, which helps connect opera singers and organizations looking for performers. She and her companies have earned a White House Small Business Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (2006) and two appearances on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing private companies.

James G. Reinhart ’01 MCAS Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer, thredUP San Francisco, California influences: Morrissey College faculty member Jeffrey P. Johnson; Junior Year Abroad, Oxford

Together with his roommate Oliver Lubin ’01 (see page 13), Reinhart launched thredUP, a virtual consignment and thrift shop that buys and sells used clothing for women and children online. Reinhart also helped launch Pacific Collegiate School, a public charter school in Santa Cruz, California, and cofounded Beacon Education Network, an organization of college-prep charter schools. Reinhart holds an MPA and MBA from Harvard.

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Christina M. Bechhold Russ ’07 CSOM Cofounder and Managing Director, Empire Angels New York City influences: “Perspectives on Western Culture”; Carroll School faculty member Helen Frame Peters; the Heights

Empire Angels is a New York–based collaborative of young professionals who invest in early-stage technology startups. Also a principal at Samsung’s early-stage venture capital fund Samsung NEXT Ventures, Russ is a mentor to young entrepreneurs at the nonprofit Venture for America and serves as chair of Hope on a String, which offers music and performing arts education in Haiti. Russ is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal and a columnist for Inc. magazine. The New York Business Journal named her a 2016 Woman of Influence.

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Matthew T. Ryan ’07 MCAS Quarterback, Atlanta Falcons Atlanta, Georgia

Ryan led his team to the Super Bowl in the 2016 season, and was named the NFL MVP. He has played for the Falcons since the team drafted him as the NFL’s third overall pick in 2008. As a college quarterback, he led the Eagles to the Atlantic Coast Conference Division championship and was named ACC Player of the Year in 2007. That same year he received the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award and the Manning Award. In addition to his MVP title, in 2016 Ryan was Offensive Player of the Year and won the Bert Bell Award; he was named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2008. Boston College retired his No. 12 jersey in 2016.

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Sulaiman A. Sanni ’07 MCAS, M.S.’08 WCAS Chief Executive Officer, WeDidIt Brooklyn, New York influences: Football coaches Mike Siravo and Frank Spaziani; psychology department

Sanni was a treasury analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman and a sales and account manager for the Meltwater Group before cofounding WeDidIt in 2011. The online company offers fundraising tools and corporate coaching for nonprofits. Its clients include Amnesty International, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, NYC Coalition Against Hunger, LA Zoo, and Stupid Cancer. The company was named a Wall Street Journal Startup of the Year in 2013. Sanni won a walk-on football scholarship at Boston College and was featured on the cover of the November/December 2016 issue of Black Enterprise Magazine. i

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Elizabeth Susan Sattely ’00 MCAS, Ph.D.’07 Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Stanford, California influence: Morrissey College faculty member Amir H. Hoveyda

In addition to her faculty position, Sattely is a fellow at Stanford’s Institute of Chemistry, Engineering & Medicine for Human Health and an honorary adjunct staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Science. Her work focuses on the discovery and engineering of metabolic pathways that will lead to the development of molecules that can enhance human and plant health. She is the recipient of an NIH New Innovator Award, a Department of Energy Early Career Award, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Simons Faculty Scholar Award, and an American Association for the Advancement of Science Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences.

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Stafford W. Sheehan ’11 MCAS Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder, Catalytic Innovations Tiverton, Rhode Island influence: Morrissey College faculty member Dunwei Wang

An inventor and developer in the field of electrochemistry, Sheehan is president and CEO of Catalytic Innovations, a chemical engineering company that creates technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of chemical production. Sheehan was awarded a 2017 United Nations “Ideas4Change” award for achievement in sustainable development.

He was named one of Forbes magazine’s 2016 30 Under 30 for inventing an industrial material now used in electrolysis and renewable fuel production. He received Yale’s 2016 Richard Wolfgang Prize for best doctoral thesis in chemistry, and was a 2013 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting attendee.

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Stephen E. Spaulding, j.d.’09 Chief of Strategy and External Affairs, Common Cause Washington, D.C. influence: Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice editorship

Before taking his current post at Common Cause in May 2017, Spaulding spent a year as special counsel to the commissioner of the Federal Election Commission. He previously served for five years at Common Cause as legal director and senior policy counsel. He is the coauthor of the 2012 report “Bullies at the Ballot Box: Protecting the Freedom to Vote against Wrongful Challenges and Intimidation.” An expert on campaign finance and voting rights, Spaulding has appeared on CBS’s 60 Minutes, NPR’s All Things Considered, and other programs and is widely cited in print journals.

He holds an undergraduate degree from Haverford College.

Maria J. Stephan ’99 MCAS Senior Advisor, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Fellow, Atlantic Institute Washington, D.C. influences: Morrissey College faculty Donald Hafner and Michael Resler; Junior Year Abroad, France

Stephan is an expert on conflict prevention and nonviolent movements at USIP, which was established by Congress in 1984 to work on conflict mitigation abroad. She coleads the Future of Authoritarianism project at the Atlantic Council, an Atlantabased nonprofit that focuses on bridging cultures. As a lead foreign affairs officer in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, she concentrated on Afghanistan and Syria. She holds a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and is co­author of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia, 2011), which won the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Prize for best book published in political science.

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Brittney J. Sullivan ’09 CSON, M.S.’10 CSON Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts/ Eastern Cape, South Africa influences: Connell School faculty Catherine Read and Judith Vessey; the Honduras Education and Leadership Project; First Year Experience

A pediatric nurse practitioner, Sullivan focuses on global health and specializes in high-disease-burden areas with few resources. Her work has taken her to 23 countries.

In 2013–2014, she was a “nurse educator” to faculty at Mzuzu University, Malawi, as part of the Peace Corps/SEED Global Health Service Partnership. She was named a Future of Nursing Scholar by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation—one of 16 individuals selected nationwide. Her dissertation focused on treatment for individuals in South Africa with drug-resistant tuberculosis and HIV. She is currently the director of pediatric nursing for Seed Global Health and a fellow at Harvard Medical School, where she continues to study pediatric drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa and Peru.

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates influence: Comparative theology class

DHx is a growth-stage venture capital firm with a broad portfolio. Sweid was a consultant to biotech and pharmaceutical companies in the United States before returning to the Middle East to work in her family’s interior contracting business, which she helped to take public. In 2006, Sweid founded Zen Yoga, which now has studios in the Middle East and North Africa, and in 2015 she cofounded Leap Ventures, a growth-stage venture capital firm based in Beirut and Dubai. She has been named three times to the Arabian Business list of 100 Most Powerful Arab Women. She earned her MBA at MIT’s Sloan School.

Brett J. Thomas ’02 CSOM Cofounder and Partner, CAVU Venture Partners New York City influences: Dean of freshmen Sr. Mary Daniel O’Keefe; men’s tennis team

CAVU Venture Partners invests in smaller consumer-sector companies, particularly food and beverage brands such as Health-Ade Kombucha, Bai, and High Brew Coffee.

Thomas helped launch CAVU in 2015 after more than six years as a founder and managing member of the consumer startup investment firm Thematic Capital Partners.

Earlier, Thomas was a hedge fund manager at Scout Capital Management in New York City.

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Arivee Vargas Rozier-Byrd ’05 MCAS, j.d.’08 Director, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Boston, Massachusetts influences: Organization of Latin American Affairs; Oscar A. Romero Scholarship

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Prior to joining Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a global biotechnology company that specializes in creating medicines for difficult-to-treat diseases, Vargas Rozier-Byrd worked in business litigation for Jones Day and clerked for a federal appeals judge and district court judge. She is a trustee of the Boston Preparatory Charter Public School, a member of the Justice Leaders Committee for Discovering Justice, and a member of the 2014–2015 cohort of the Boston Bar Association’s Public Interest Leadership Program.

Tracey L. Wigfield ’05 MCAS Creator, Producer, and Actor, Great News, NBC Television Los Angeles, California influence: Morrissey College faculty member Scott Cummings

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Along with Tina Fey, Wigfield won the 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the series finale of 30 Rock. She went on to become coexecutive producer and writer at The Mindy Project. Her sitcom Great News, in which she also acts, premiered in the spring of 2017. Wigfield got her start in television at CNN and The Late Show with David Letterman. She has written and performed with the Upright Citizens Brigade, an improvisational group cofounded by producer, actor, and writer Amy Poehler ’93.

Jeremy K. Zipple '00 MCAS, s.t.l.’14 stm Executive Editor, America Films at America Media New York City influences: Alicia Munnell, director, Center for Retirement Research; Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program; Liturgical Arts Group

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A writer, director, and producer of documentaries, Zipple explores themes of culture and religion through a Jesuit lens. At America Films, which is sponsored by the Society of Jesus in the United States, he oversees film and video production. Zipple field-produced two episodes of the critically acclaimed Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler for WGBH-TV, Boston, and he was a writer, producer, and director for National Geographic from 2007 to 2012. His work has appeared on PBS, National Geographic, Discovery, TLC, and other television channels.

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From the Chair It is my pleasure to share with you Boston College’s 2017 Annual Report, 40 Under 40: Young Alumni Leaders.

This year’s edition focuses on a standout group of young Boston College graduates who have already made their mark in the world, and who will doubtless go on to extraordinary achievements over the course of their lives.

Their success, and their role in addressing critical issues in society, makes clear the significance and power of a Boston College education.

This report also includes a review of Boston College highlights in FY 2017, the year following the conclusion of Light the World, our landmark $1.6 billion capital campaign, and a year in which the University, with feedback from the Board of Trustees, worked on developing a strategic plan that will carry the University through the next decade.

As I conclude my three-year term as the first nonalumnus to chair the Boston College Board of Trustees, I feel grateful to have served this university at such an extraordinary time. And I am proud to have enjoyed an association with a special community of faculty, staff, alumni, and students, and with a Jesuit, Catholic institution that pursues excellence in education and in service to the world.

john f. fish Chair, Boston College Board of Trustees

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Year in Review Academic Affairs The University conferred 2,232 undergraduate and 1,038 graduate degrees, including 122 doctorates, 253 law degrees, and 23 canonical degrees at Boston College’s 141st annual Commencement exercises on May 22. University President William P. Leahy, S.J., presented Commencement speaker and U.S. Senator Bob Casey Jr. with an honorary doctor of laws degree. Community activist Amy Guen, M.S.W. ’52; Tiffany Gueye ’00, Ph.D.’07, CEO of the nonprofit Building Educated Leaders for Life; television and film actor Chris O’Donnell ’92; and Leo B. Shea, M.M. ’60, a missioner and former vicar general of Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, also received honorary degrees. Geraldine Hines, an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, spoke at the Boston College Law School Commencement on May 26.

Fifteen students received Fulbright scholarships to pursue postbaccalaureate research or English teaching assistantships abroad in the 2017–18 academic year.

This year’s total placed Boston College 18th among U.S. research institutions in producing Fulbright scholars, and raised its total number of recipients within the past decade to 194. Biochemistry major Mattia Pizzagalli ’18 was awarded a 2017 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, considered the nation’s premier undergraduate honor in the sciences.

Gabelli Presidential Scholar Jesse Mu ’17 received a Churchill Scholarship— awarded to the most promising STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) students in the country—to support a year’s graduate study at the University of Cambridge. The Gabelli Presidential Scholars program, which combines an integrated honors curriculum with service learning and travel abroad, celebrated its 25th anniversary.

The School of Theology and Ministry (STM) named Thomas D. Stegman, S.J., its new dean. Stegman, an associate professor of New Testament and chair of STM’s ecclesiastical faculty, succeeds Mark Massa, S.J., who became director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life after serving as dean since 2010.

Boston College ranked 31st among national universities in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report survey. It improved to 20th among private universities on Kiplinger’s 2017 “Best College Values,” 22nd on Forbes’s “America’s Top Colleges” tally, and received an A on Forbes’s “Financial Grades” survey, which measures the fiscal soundness of some 900 four-year, private, not-for-profit colleges and universities.

Times Higher Education ranked Boston College 19th on a list of U.S. institutions that best prepare graduates for professional work.

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In the 2018 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings, Boston College Law School advanced four spots to 26th overall, the Connell School of Nursing rose two spots to 31st, and the Carroll School of Management moved up six places to 44th overall. The Law School also placed first among private U.S. law schools and third overall on a U.S. News & World Report list based on starting-salary-to-debt ratio, and 17th on National Law Journal’s “Top 50 Go-To Law Schools” list. The School of Social Work and Lynch School of Education graduate programs were not evaluated this year. Last year, they respectively ranked 10th and 23rd in the country.

Boston College was named fifth among the world’s universities—and first among Catholic institutions—in theology, divinity, and religious studies in the Londonbased educational information survey QS World University Rankings.

The year 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of the Lynch School-based Trends in International Math and Science Study (TIMSS), the longest-running international assessment of student achievement in math and science. “The Environment and Society” was the theme of the University’s annual Research Day in December.

Nathaniel Stinnett, J.D.’05, founder of the Environmental Voter Project, discussed low voter turnout among self-described supporters of environmental issues in a keynote address.

The Woods College of Advancing Studies Cybersecurity Policy & Governance program and the FBI organized the first Boston Conference on Cyber Security.

Boston College Vice Presidents (standing, from left): Beth E. McDermott, Vice President for Development; David P. Trainor, Vice President for Human Resources; John D. Burke, Financial Vice President and Treasurer; Kevin J. Shea, Vice President and Executive Assistant to the President; Daniel F. Bourque, Vice President for Facilities Management; Barbara Jones, Vice President for Student Affairs; Michael J. Bourque, Vice President for Information Technology; Thomas J. Keady, Vice President for Governmental and Community Affairs; Terrence P. Devino, S.J., Vice President and University Secretary; James J. Husson, Senior Vice President for University Advancement; (Seated): John T. Butler, S.J., Vice President for University Mission and Ministry; David Quigley, Provost and Dean of Faculties; Michael J. Lochhead, Executive Vice President; Kelli J. Armstrong, Vice President for Planning and Assessment

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Then-FBI director James Comey gave the keynote address at the March 8 event, which drew several hundred experts, industry leaders, and media representatives to the Boston College campus.

With support from the University’s Institute for the Liberal Arts, one group of Boston College undergraduates launched a new political science journal, Colloquium; another revived the undergraduate philosophy journal Dianoia after a three-year hiatus. On March 17, more than 25 international news outlets, from the New York Times to the New Delhi Times, reported on “Joycestick,” a student-developed digital humanities project that renders James Joyce’s Ulysses as a virtual-reality experience.

The Carroll School of Management’s Edmund H. Shea Jr. Center for Entrepreneurship and the Center for Social Innovation at the School of Social Work were selected as academic partners of the Forbes $1 Million Global Change the World Social Entrepreneurs Competition, which took place in Boston in October. Fifty-eight students graduated from the Carroll School’s 2016 inaugural Summer Management Catalyst Program, an intensive 10-week business course for nonmanagement majors.

Boston College Trustee Steve Pemberton ’89, H’15, vice president of diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer for Walgreens Boots Alliance, addressed the First Year Academic Convocation on September 8. All incoming freshmen were assigned to read Pemberton’s memoir, A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home.

For the fifth year in a row, economics was the most popular undergraduate concentration, with a record 1,282 majors. It was followed by finance (1,032), biology (888), political science (819), and communication (787).

Faculty Research and Awards Professor of Physics David Broido and colleagues from six universities received a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to develop new, cost-effective heat conductors. Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Laura O’Dwyer was awarded a $3.8 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study the effectiveness of a new mathematics curriculum for high school freshmen.

The NSF also presented five-year CAREER Award grants to Assistant Professors of Mathematics Ian Biringer and Dubi Kelmer.

Associate Professor of Psychology Liane Young, who studies the psychology and neuroscience of moral judgment, received the 2017 Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformational Early Career Contributions from the Association for Psychological Science. The Foundation for Social and Personality Psychology and SAGE Publications also named her a SAGE Young Scholar. Associate Professor of Sociology Sara Moorman was a winner of the National Institutes of Health–sponsored 2016 Matilda White Riley Early Stage Investigator Honors competition. Professor of Physics Krzysztof Kempa was elected a 2016 Fellow of the American Physical Society. Kay Lehman Schlozman, the J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political

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Science, won the American Political Science Association’s Samuel J. Eldersveld Career Achievement Award.

Erika Sabbath, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work, was named coprincipal investigator of the $1.6 million, five-year Partners Employee Research Database & Study at the Center for Work, Health, and Well-Being at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dean Hashimoto, an associate professor at the Law School, is leading the Partners HealthCare team on the project, which aims to analyze workplace conditions in hospitals and clinics.

Founders Professor of Law Mary Sarah Bilder won the James C. Bradford Prize for Biography for her book Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention, which also won the Bancroft Prize in 2016. Stanton Wortham, the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Lynch School of Education, received the 2016 Edward Sapir Book Prize for Discourse Analysis beyond the Speech Event. Associate Professor of History Ling Zhang’s The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128 received the American Society for Environmental History’s 2017 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best book on environmental history.

The American Academy of Nursing bestowed its highest honor on Connell School of Nursing Professor Ann Wolbert Burgess, designating her a “Living Legend.”

Burgess was also the featured speaker at the University’s 16th annual Veterans Remembrance Ceremony. Darlene MacIsaac Hinojosa ’86, a nurse practitioner and Army Nurse Corps colonel, received the Connell School’s Kelleher Award for her excellence in nurse leadership.

President Leahy and Newton Mayor Setti Warren ’93 announced Economic Growth for All, a collaborative effort that will sponsor partnerships among faculty, residents, and city officials leading to the development of programs and policies that will improve economic opportunity and mobility for the city’s estimated 89,000 residents.

Lynch School of Education Professor G. Michael Barnett helmed an NSF-funded STEM workshop that brought high school students from China and Boston together on campus for two weeks in the summer of 2016. The workshop was the first international partnership for the Lynch School’s College Bound program, a precollegiate STEM enrichment course for Boston Public School students.

Eleven faculty were promoted to full professor and 17 to associate professor with tenure.

Jesuit, Catholic Mission Newly appointed School of Theology and Ministry Dean Thomas Stegman, S.J., Joseph Costantino, S.J., pastor of St. Ignatius Church, and James Gartland, S.J., rector of the St. Peter Faber Jesuit Community, traveled to Rome in October to serve as

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boston college deans (standing, from left): Thomas B. Wall, University Librarian; Susan Gennaro, Connell School of Nursing; Gautam N. Yadama, School of Social Work; James P. Burns, I.V.D., Woods College of Advancing Studies; Andrew C. Boynton, Carroll School of Management; Thomas D. Stegman, S.J., School of Theology and Ministry; (Seated): Stanton Wortham, Lynch School of Education; Gregory A. Kalscheur, S.J., Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences; Vincent D. Rougeau, Law School

delegates to the 36th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus. More than 200 Jesuits from around the world convened in Rome, where they elected Arturo Sosa, S.J., of Venezuela, as the Society’s 31st superior general.

Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry, Office of the President, Institute for the Liberal Arts, and Theology Department cosponsored and hosted the IberoAmerican Conference of Theology February 6–10. Some 40 theologians from Latin America, the Iberian Peninsula, and the United States gathered to discuss the legacy of liberation theology and ways for the Church to advance Pope Francis’s vision of a “poor Church for the poor.”

Ten recent STM graduates were among 29 Jesuits ordained to the priesthood in the United States, Canada, and Haiti this spring. All were part of the St. Peter Faber Jesuit Community.

Thirty-five faculty members from across the University reflected on their roles in the Jesuit mission of higher education at the Villa faculty writing retreat in Maine, organized by the University Mission and Ministry’s Intersections program in August.

On September 8, the Church in the 21st Century Center welcomed Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles as its 2016 Episcopal Visitor. The archbishop spoke at an afternoon lecture on “Immigration, National Identity, and Catholic Conscience.”

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Actor Chris O’Donnell ’92 opened the 10th anniversary season of the Agape Latte series in Robsham Theater on September 29. O’Donnell spoke to a full house of students about faith, family, and career. The popular monthly forum for informal student discussions of faith is cosponsored by Campus Ministry and C21, which launched the program in 2006. C21 has since inspired, advised, and helped launch Agape Latte programs at more than 40 colleges and universities as well as two parishes and two secondary schools.

The Barbara and Patrick Roche Center for Catholic Education hosted the first National Summit on Catholic Schools and Hispanic Families in September, bringing school leaders, researchers, clergy, and philanthropists to Boston College to examine how Catholic schools can better serve Hispanic students and their families. In January, the Woods College of Advancing Studies partnered with Catholic Extension to host the U.S.-Latin American Sisters Exchange Program, a leadership training program for Latin American women religious.

Casey Beaumier, S.J., director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (IAJS), was named director of Loyola House, a new student residence for men considering a life in the Jesuit order. In May, IAJS launched the Portal to Jesuit Studies— a “Jesuit Google,” in Beaumier’s description—that provides free online access to foundational scholarly work in the field of Jesuit Studies.

executive committee of the board of trustees (standing, from left): Steven M. Barry, John R. Egan, Susan Martinelli Shea, Peter K. Markell, Michaela Murphy Hoag, Joseph L. Hooley III, John M. Connors Jr., Charles I. Clough Jr. (seated): Patrick T. Stokes, John F. Fish, William P. Leahy, S.J.

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Athletics In April, University President William P. Leahy, S.J., named Martin Jarmond the next William V. Campbell Director of Athletics. Jarmond, 37, who was most recently deputy director of athletics at The Ohio State University, replaced Brad Bates, who had served as athletic director since 2012.

Eleven of the University’s athletic programs recorded perfect multiyear Academic Progress Reports, according to the NCAA. Boston College’s student-athlete academic record ranked third in the nation among Division I Football Subdivision colleges and universities.

During an Eagles home game in November, the Athletics Department retired the No. 12 jersey that belonged to Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan ’07, and the No. 40 jersey of Luke Kuechly ’12, now a linebacker for the Carolina Panthers. The Eagles football team finished 7–6 after beating Maryland 36–30 in the 2016 Quick Lane Bowl.

Women’s basketball guard Kelly Hughes ’17 set the Eagles’ record for most three-pointers in a career, with 322. Erika Reineke ’17 was named to the U.S. National Sailing Team and received her second New England InterCollegiate Sailing Association Sailor of the Year award. On April 30, Tatiana Cortez ’17—the women’s softball team’s all-time home run record holder—hit a two-run, walk-off home run to defeat North Carolina State 7–6. She dedicated the game to her father, Ronny, a Houston police officer who was hospitalized with gunshot wounds he had suffered two months earlier in the line of duty.

In May, the men’s freshman 8+ rowing team won its first American Collegiate Rowing Association championship. The women’s lacrosse team finished the year 17–7 and advanced to the Final Four for the first time, but lost 16–13 in the national championship game to the undefeated University of Maryland. In February, the women’s ice hockey team won its seventh Beanpot title, defeating Northeastern University 2–1.

The men’s baseball team finished the regular season with an 8–7 victory over Notre Dame on May 20 in the last game ever at Shea Field, the team’s home since 1961.

The baseball and softball teams will move to the Brighton Campus, where a recreation field, a softball field, and a 1,000 seat stadium are slated to open in 2018. The University plans to build an athletics field house—which will include indoor, yearround practice facilities—adjacent to Alumni Stadium on Shea Field.

Arts After 23 years in Devlin Hall on Middle Campus, the McMullen Museum moved to its new, recently renovated home at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue on the Brighton Campus. The museum opened the doors to its 30,000-foot gallery, exhibition, and meeting space in September with Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston

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Collections, an exhibition presented in collaboration with Harvard University’s Houghton Library and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The McMullen’s springtime show, Rafael Soriano: The Artist as Mystic, a retrospective of the Cuban painter, garnered praise from local media and international art publications.

In December, the Boston College Libraries published the Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, a digital assembly of over 330 recordings compiled by Connolly, a well-known fiddle player who was the Sullivan Artist in Residence at the John J. Burns Library from 2004–2015. Kevin Barry, an Irish writer whose novel Beatlebone won the Goldsmiths Prize, was the 2016–2017 Burns Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies.

The Theatre department and the Robsham Theater Arts Center staged a season of plays focused on the theme of gender parity. Award-winning playwright and arts educator Sheri Wilner, the 2016–2017 J. Donald Monan, S.J., Professor in Theater Arts, taught a course, Contemporary Female Playwrights, and advised the department’s spring production of her play Kingdom City.

Tracey Wigfield ’05, an Emmy-winning television producer and writer for shows such as 30 Rock, won the Arts Council Alumni Award for distinguished achievement. Professor of the Practice of Studio Art Andrew Tavarelli received the 2016 Faculty Arts Award.

Student Life Two new student residence halls—the five-floor, 490-bed St. Thomas More Apartments at 2150 Commonwealth Avenue, and a 17-floor former apartment building designed to house 540 students at 2000 Commonwealth Avenue—opened for fall-semester occupancy. Both residences feature common spaces for socializing, study, and reflection.

Steven Guerrero ’18 was awarded the Archbishop Oscar A. Romero Scholarship in recognition of his academic achievement and leadership in the Latino community.

Miriam George ’18 won the Benigno and Corazon Aquino Scholarship, which honors academic excellence and service to the Asian-American community. Akosua Opokua-Achampong ’18, a double major in English and communication with a minor in African and African diaspora studies, was this year’s recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship. Opokua-Achampong and Christina “TT” King ’18 became the first female ticket to be elected undergraduate student government president and executive vice president, respectively.

Lauren Wedell ’17, a summa cum laude graduate of the Carroll School of Management Honors Program, won the 2017 Edward H. Finnegan, S.J., Award, given each year to a graduating senior who best exemplifies Boston College’s motto “Ever to Excel.”

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More than 700 students turned out for the inaugural Careerfest on September 7, which offered introductions to the Career Center’s resources and staff. The following week, a record-breaking 2,000 students attended the annual Fall Career & Internship Fair at Conte Forum on September 12.

The Division of Mission and Ministry reports that 2,376 students took part in sponsored retreats such as 48 Hours, Halftime, and Kairos. In 2016–2017, 2,106 students participated in service programs including 4Boston, in which students volunteer four hours each week; BCBigs, which works with Big Brother/Big Sister programs; and the Appalachia Volunteers Program. Mission and Ministry conducted 17 international service trips, which drew 315 participants.

Management The Board of Trustees announced a 3.6 percent increase in tuition, fees, and room and board for undergraduates in 2017–2018, bringing total annual costs to $68,043. Trustees also approved a 5.8 percent increase in need-based financial aid for undergraduates, which will rise to $120.5 million.

In November, President Leahy announced the restructuring of the University’s communications and marketing efforts, bringing together the offices of News and Public Affairs and Marketing Communications in a new entity, the Office of University Communications. Associate Vice President for University Communications Jack Dunn was appointed director of the new office.

Beth E. McDermott, Boston College’s associate vice president for development since 2014, was named vice president for development, and Kevin Shea, executive assistant to the president since 2006, was appointed vice president and executive assistant to the president. Rory Browne was named director of the Academic Advising Center and an associate dean of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. Melinda Stoops, an associate vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Framingham State University, was named associate vice president for Student Affairs.

Forbes ranked Boston College 16 on its list of “America’s Best Midsize Employers,” and Town and Country named Bapst Library one of “America’s Most Beautiful College Libraries.” Sixty-eight University staff members were among diploma recipients at Commencement 2017, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fields from business administration to mental health counseling and information technology.

Responding to the executive order suspending entry to the United States by refugees and citizens of seven Middle Eastern and African countries, President Leahy, S.J., Executive Vice President Michael Lochhead, and Provost David Quigley cosigned a January 29 message to the Boston College community stating their opposition to the order and pledging to assist any affected community members.

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University Advancement Boston College raised more than $143 million in FY 2017, the second largest annual total in the University’s history, surpassed only in FY 2015, when receipts reached $155 million.

An alumni luncheon with George Mitchell, retired U.S. Senate majority leader and Northern Ireland peace broker, a joint Boston College-Georgia Tech faculty symposium, and the inaugural gathering of the Boston College Chief Executives Club Global Forum were among highlights of the week leading up to Boston College’s football season opener in Dublin, Ireland, on September 3, 2016. Organized by University Athletics, Advancement, the Alumni Association, the Provost’s Office, and Boston College’s Irish Institute, among others, the festivities culminated with the Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium, where more than 6,000 alumni, trustees, students, parents, and friends turned out to watch the Eagles face off against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (who won the game 17–14).

On September 29, more than 350 Boston College benefactors gathered under a cathedral tent on the lawn behind the McMullen Museum for the Light the World Campaign Gala Finale, celebrating the success of the University’s record-breaking $1.605-billion capital campaign, which ended the previous May. Speakers included University President William P. Leahy, S.J., and campaign cochairs William J. Geary ’80, Kathleen McGillycuddy NC ’71, and Charles Clough ’64. On the following evening, Maureen and David O’Connor ’86 and Kim Gassett-Schiller and Philip Schiller ’82 cochaired the 2016 Pops on the Heights: The Barbara and Jim Cleary Scholarship Gala. The September 30 event raised a record-breaking $9 million toward financial aid for Pops Scholars.

Construction began on a 244,000-square-foot student athletic and fitness facility on the former site of Edmond’s Hall on St. Thomas More Road. Slated to open in summer 2019, the center will be named in honor of the Connell family, in recognition of a $50 million Light the World campaign gift from Trustee Associate Margot Connell, H’09, widow of the late William F. Connell ’59, a longtime Boston College trustee and benefactor, and the namesake of the School of Nursing.

The second annual Council for Women of Boston College Colloquium focused on “Women in Washington: Political Leadership Today,” and featured a conversation between then-Democratic National Committee Interim Chair Donna Brazile and former Republican presidential advisor Mary Matalin on October 6 in Robsham Theater.

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns ’78, H’02, whose career in international diplomacy has spanned four presidential administrations, was the featured speaker at Laetare Sunday, the Alumni Association’s oldest tradition. President Leahy presented Ambassador Burns with the prestigious Ignatian Award, which honors individuals who live out the mission of “men and women for others.”

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The Shaw Society—which comprises donors who have made legacy gifts to the University—welcomed 57 new members, bringing the total to more than 2,830.

On April 21, Jeffrey Immelt, H’10, chairman and CEO of General Electric, received the President’s Medal for Excellence at the 29th Annual Wall Street Council Tribute Dinner, which raised $2.1 million for the Wall Street Council Scholarship Fund. The fund supports students in the Gabelli Presidential Scholars Program.

In July, more than 600 AHANA alumni, family, and friends returned to campus to attend RECONNECT II, a four-day celebration of the University’s AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American alumni community. At the event, Dan Bunch ’79, MSW’81, received the inaugural Keith A. Francis ’76 Inspiration Award, which honors the late University trustee who started RECONNECT in 2009.

At the Distinguished Volunteers Awards Dinner on April 7, the Alumni Association presented the William V. McKenney Award, its highest honor, to Dallas Mayor Michael S. Rawlings ’76, and the James F. Cleary ’50, H’93, Masters Award to T. J. Maloney ’75. Patricia A. Foley Cummins ’81, MA’83, and Brian J. Cummins ’82 were honored with the John J. Griffin Sr. ’35 Alumni Association Award, and AHANA Alumni Advisory Council member Arivee Vargas Rozier-Byrd ’05, JD’08, received the Philip J. Callan Sr. ’25 Young Alumni Award. Kathleen R. Ewell ’16 and Taylor J. Zografakis ’16 accepted the James F. Stanton ’42 Senior Class Gift Award, and Patricia A. Moores ’85 was the 2017 recipient of the John P. Curley 1913 Award.

j. donald monan, s.j.

Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J., the 24th president of Boston College, and University chancellor since 1996, died on March 18 at the Campion Health Center in Weston, Massachusetts. He was 92.

The longest-serving president in the history of Boston College—1972 to 1996—Monan is credited with leading the University out of a deep financial crisis and guiding it to national prominence. “Fr. Monan devoted more than four decades of his life to Boston College, playing a decisive role in its reorganization and increased recognition in American higher education,” said his successor, William P. Leahy, S.J. “He has left a lasting legacy.”

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Financial Report Boston College posted strong financial results in fiscal 2017. Double-digit investment returns, successful fundraising, and student enrollments that exceeded budgeted expectations resulted in a $279 million increase in the University’s net assets.

In January, the University completed a successful long-term debt offering, issued at attractive fixed rates, which met with strong investor demand. A combination of taxable and tax-exempt bonds, this issue will refund existing higher­­-rate debt, and provide $245 million in new funds for key campus construction.

fiscal 2017 financial results As noted above, Boston College’s net assets in fiscal 2017 grew by $279 million, to nearly $3.3 billion—a 9 percent increase over the previous year. Strong market performance and fundraising were key drivers of this rise. Positive investment return helped offset the increase in the University’s debt, keeping the primary liquidity ratio flat at 1.8 times coverage in fiscal 2017. (See “Expendable Resources to Debt” chart on page 37.)

The University’s endowment fund grew by $205 million to $2.4 billion. This increase included investment gains of $281 million and contributions of $34 million, offset by net endowment support for operations of $110 million. The portfolio return on the endowment fund was 13.4 percent. The Boston College endowment, which has consistently generated competitive returns, has produced an annualized return of 9.1 percent over the past five years. The endowment portfolio remains well diversified, with 51 percent in domestic and international equities, 8 percent in fixed-income securities, and 41 percent invested in alternative strategies including absolute return funds, private equity funds, and real asset funds.

Gross plant assets increased nearly $78 million in fiscal 2017, as the University opened two new undergraduate residence halls: the 490-bed Thomas More Apartments (located on the site of the former St. Thomas More Hall on Commonwealth Avenue) and the renovated 540-bed Reservoir Apartments at 2000 Commonwealth Avenue. Both opened for occupancy in fall 2016.

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Construction began on a new recreational complex on the former site of Edmond's Hall, and an athletics field house adjacent to Alumni Stadium. While undertaking these and other major projects, the University invested more than $17 million to renew, renovate, and enhance its existing infrastructure in fiscal 2017. The generosity of our donors, coupled with funding from the new debt issuance, was instrumental in moving these projects forward.

The University’s conservative fiscal planning and disciplined expense control has consistently produced positive operating results, yielding annual budget surpluses.

Fiscal 2017 was no exception, with stronger-than-expected undergraduate enrollments leading to overall revenue growth of 5 percent. In addition, the University saved on expenses in many areas of the operating budget, most notably in the self-insured medical benefit expense, utilities, and other general expenses.

conclusion Boston College has been fortunate to attract some of the most academically competitive students seeking admission to private universities. The continued engagement of our alumni, parents, and donor community has enabled us to realize the visions of our previous strategic plans. As the University determines the investments it will need to undertake and implement its new strategic objectives, it is clear that our ability to finance the plan requires continued success in attracting gifted students, ongoing philanthropic support from our donor community, and significant growth in our financial resources. The results for fiscal year ending May 31 are an indication that the University is capable of achieving its highest goals.

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Statistical and Financial Highlights Statistics

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

9,480

9,396

9,499

9,479

9,583

Full-time Equivalent Enrollment Undergraduate Graduate/professional Total full-time equivalent enrollment

3,940

3,820

3,780

3,832

3,837

13,420

13,216

13,279

13,311

13,420

Full-time Employees Faculty

761

758

786

805

821

Staff

2,316

2,347

2,405

2,442

2,495

Total full-time employees

3,077

3,105

3,191

3,247

3,316

Chestnut Hill campus

5,700,398

5,700,405

5,626,309

5,559,948

5,559,313

Newton campus/other

1,625,000

1,625,000

1,635,415

1,642,124

1,703,975

Total gross square feet

7,325,398

7,325,405

7,261,724

7,202,072

7,263,288

$3,636,770

$4,094,586

$4,270,271

$4,203,498

$4,693,723

Campus Facilities (gross square feet)

Financial (fiscal years ending May 31) In thousands of dollars Statement of Financial Position Total assets

(1,192,358)

(1,192,291) (1,403,395)

$2,669,363

$2,890,580

$3,077,913

$3,011,207 $3,290,328

$1,981,350

$2,198,282

$2,345,989

$2,195,665 $2,400,474

15,145

15,403

20,135

18,211

18,501

274,821

247,280

152,307

(97,401)

281,664

Land and improvements

$244,983

$248,987

$260,310

$282,570

$287,091

Buildings (including capital lease and purchase option)

1,221,825

1,242,168

1,354,550

1,428,570

1,576,848

Total liabilities

(967,407)

Total net assets

(1,204,006)

Endowment and Similar Funds Net assets Investment income Realized and unrealized investment gains and (losses), net

Physical Plant

Equipment

205,604

218,615 229,853 237,260 246,883

Library books/rare book and art collections

191,352

200,727

210,158

220,830

231,796

37,849

91,708

82,542

154,382

58,702

Physical plant, gross

1,901,613

2,002,205

2,137,413

2,323,612

2,401,320

Accumulated depreciation and amortization

(703,483)

(808,024)

(863,693)

Plant under construction

Physical plant, net

(753,054)

$1,198,130

$1,249,151

$1,329,389

(912,611)

$1,459,919 $1,488,709

Statement of Activities Total operating revenues, net

$671,057

$702,714

$733,069

$761,378

$798,968

Total operating expenses

670,940

702,592

732,942

761,246

798,831

Total non-operating activity

270,396

221,095

187,206

(66,838)

278,984

$150,932

$157,121

$165,062

$173,550

$179,763

10,166

9,892

9,637

9,948

10,096

7,777

6,636

6,277

4,993

2,442

$168,875

$173,649

$180,976

188,491

$192,301

Student Aid University scholarships, fellowships, and prizes Federal/state programs (including Pell grants) Student loans granted by the University Total student aid

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Operating and Nonoperating Revenues*

OTHER

1.4%

realized and unrealized investment gains, net 22.1%

TUITION AND FEES, GROSS 48.6% PRIVATE GIFTS

9.6%

INVESTMENT INCOME, net

.5%

sponsored RESEARCH, GRANTS, AND FINANCIAL AID 4.5%

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES, GROSS 13.3% * Exclude Other Gains (or losses)

expenses

instruction 31.5%

.5%

public service

AUXILIARY ENTERPRISES 18.0% student AID † 18.6%

academic support

7.3%

RESEARCH

4.4%

student services

6.7%

general administration 13.0%

† Includes federal portion of College Work Study expenses and excludes Pell

growth in net assets

expendable resources to debt 2,000 1,800 1,600

3,000

1,400

2,500

1,200

millions $

millions $

3,500

2,000 1,500

1,000 800 600

1,000

400

500

200

0

0 FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017

FY2013 FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017

real

spendable cash & investments

inflationary

bonds payable at par

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Board of Trustees officers

CHARLES I. CLOUGH JR.

KATHLEEN POWERS HALEY

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Clough Capital Partners, LP Boston, Massachusetts

Manager Snows Hill Management LLC Wellesley, Massachusetts

JOHN M. CONNORS JR.

CHRISTIAN W. E. HAUB

Chairman The Connors Family Office Boston, Massachusetts

President and Chairman Emil Capital Partners, LLC Greenwich, Connecticut

ROBERT J. COONEY

DANIEL S. HENDRICKSON, S.J.

Partner Cooney & Conway Chicago, Illinois

President Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska

PAUL R. COULSON

MICHAELA MURPHY HOAG

President and Chairman Ardagh Group London, United Kingdom

Founder and Chair Part the Cloud Atherton, California

Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer of Fundamental Equity Goldman Sachs Asset Management New York, New York

CLAUDIA HENAO de la CRUZ

JOSEPH L. HOOLEY III

Past Chair Centro Mater Foundation Key Biscayne, Florida

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer State Street Corporation Boston, Massachusetts

DRAKE G. BEHRAKIS

MICHAEL H. DEVLIN II

KATHLEEN FLATLEY IX

President and Chief Executive Officer Marwick Associates Lexington, Massachusetts

Managing Director Curragh Capital Partners, LLC New York, New York

Wellesley, Massachusetts

PATRICIA LYNOTT BONAN

JOHN R. EGAN

Managing Director (Ret.) JPMorgan Chase & Co. Potomac, Maryland

Managing Partner Carruth Management, LLC Westborough, Massachusetts

CATHY M. BRIENZA

MICHAEL E. ENGH, S.J.

Partner (Ret.) WallerSutton 2000, LP and Waller-Sutton Media Partners, LP New York, New York

President Santa Clara University Santa Clara, California

KAREN IZZI BRISTING

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Suffolk Construction Company Boston, Massachusetts

2016–2017 CHAIR

John F. Fish VICE CHAIR

Peter K. Markell SECRETARY

Susan Martinelli Shea PRESIDENT

William P. Leahy, S.J.

trustees 2016–2017 STEVEN M. BARRY

Owner Equinox Equestrian Center Sun Valley, California JOHN E. BUEHLER JR.

Senior Advisor (Ret.) Ares Management, L.P. Mill Valley, California PATRICK CARNEY

Chairman Emeritus Claremont Companies Bridgewater, Massachusetts DARCEL D. CLARK

District Attorney Bronx County District Attorney’s Office Bronx, New York

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ROBERT L. KEANE, S.J.

Rector Boston College Jesuit Community Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts ALFRED F. KELLY JR.

Chief Executive Officer Visa New York, New York WILLIAM P. LEAHY, S.J.

President Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

JOHN F. FISH

PETER S. LYNCH

Vice Chairman Fidelity Management & Research Company Boston, Massachusetts

MARIO J. GABELLI

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer GAMCO Investors, Inc. Rye, New York

MATTHEW F. MALONE, S.J.

President and Editor in Chief America Media New York, New York

WILLIAM J. GEARY

General Partner Flare Capital Partners Boston, Massachusetts

T. J. MALONEY

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lincolnshire Management, Inc. New York, New York

SUSAN McMANAMA GIANINNO

Chairman, Publicis North America New York, New York

PETER K. MARKELL

Executive Vice President of Administration and Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Somerville, Massachusetts

DAVID T. GRIFFITH

President and Chief Executive Officer M. Griffith Investment Services, Inc. New Hartford, New York

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CARMINE A. MARTIGNETTI

RALPH C. STAYER

JUAN A. CONCEPCIÓN

President and Co-Owner Martignetti Companies Taunton, Massachusetts

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) Johnsonville Sausage, LLC Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin

Director of Policy and HR Compliance MassDOT/MBTA Boston, Massachusetts

DAVID M. McAULIFFE

PAT STOKES

MARGOT C. CONNELL

Managing Director of Investment Banking (Ret.) J.P. Morgan Jupiter, Florida

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. Maryland Heights, Missouri

Chair and Member of the Advisory Board Connell Limited Partnership Boston, Massachusetts

ELIZABETH W. VANDERSLICE

Founder and Principal Cross Ridge Capital, LLC New Canaan, Connecticut

KATHLEEN M. McGILLYCUDDY

Executive Vice President (Ret.) FleetBoston Financial West Newton, Massachusetts WILLIAM S. McKIERNAN

President WSM Capital, LLC Los Gatos, California JOHN C. MORRISSEY III

Managing Director Shea Ventures Walnut, California DAVID P. O’CONNOR

Private Investor and Managing Partner High Rise Capital Partners, LLC Westfield, New Jersey STEPHEN J. PEMBERTON

Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion Chief Diversity Officer Walgreens Boots Alliance Chicago, Illinois FRANK E. PREVITE

Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer EBI Consulting Burlington, Massachusetts NAVYN DATOO SALEM

Founder and CEO Edesia N. Kingstown, Rhode Island REV. NICHOLAS A. SANNELLA

Pastor Immaculate Conception Parish Lowell, Massachusetts PHILIP W. SCHILLER

Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Apple Inc. Cupertino, California SUSAN MARTINELLI SHEA

Founder and President Dancing with the Students Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

President and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) Wired Digital, Inc. New York, New York DAVID C. WEINSTEIN

Chief of Administration (Ret.) Fidelity Investments Newton, Massachusetts MICHAEL D. WHITE

Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) DIRECTV Osterville, Massachusetts

trustee associates 2016–2017 MARY JANE VOUTÉ ARRIGONI

Greenwich, Connecticut PETER W. BELL

Senior Advisor Highland Capital Partners Palo Alto, California ERICK BERRELLEZA, S.J.

Ph.D. Candidate Boston University Boston, Massachusetts GEOFFREY T. BOISI

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Roundtable Investment Partners LLC New York, New York MATTHEW J. BOTICA

Partner Winston & Strawn LLP Chicago, Illinois WAYNE A. BUDD

Senior Counsel Goodwin Procter LLP Boston, Massachusetts CHRISTOPHER A. CALDERÓN, S.J.

LaFarge Jesuit Community Cambridge, Massachusetts

KATHLEEN A. CORBET

JOSEPH E. CORCORAN

Chairman Corcoran Jennison Companies Boston, Massachusetts LEO J. CORCORAN

President Autumn Development Company, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts ROBERT F. COTTER

President (Ret.) Kerzner International Hollywood Beach, Florida BRIAN E. DALEY, S.J.

Huisking Professor of Theology University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana ROBERT M. DEVLIN

Chairman Curragh Capital Partners, LLC New York, New York FRANCIS A. DOYLE

President and Chief Executive Officer Connell Limited Partnership Boston, Massachusetts CYNTHIA LEE EGAN

President of Retirement Plan Services (Ret.) T. Rowe Price Baltimore, Maryland EMILIA M. FANJUL

Boston College Parent Palm Beach, Florida JOHN F. FARRELL JR.

Greenwich, Connecticut YEN-TSAI FENG

Roy E. Larsen Librarian (Ret.) Harvard College Lexington, Massachusetts JANICE GIPSON

Beverly Hills, California

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MARY J. STEELE GUILFOILE

R. MICHAEL MURRAY JR.

THOMAS J. RATTIGAN

Chairman MG Advisors, Inc. Norwalk, Connecticut

Director Emeritus McKinsey & Company, Inc. Chicago, Illinois

Sarasota, Florida

PAUL F. HARMAN, S.J.

ROBERT J. MURRAY

Vice President for Mission College of the Holy Cross Worcester, Massachusetts

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) New England Business Service, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts

JOHN L. HARRINGTON

THERESE E. MYERS

Chairman of the Board Yawkey Foundation Dedham, Massachusetts

Chief Executive Officer Bouquet Multimedia, LLC Oxnard, California

RICHARD T. HORAN SR.

BRIEN M. O’BRIEN

President (Ret.) Hughes Oil Company, Inc. Newton, Massachusetts

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Port Capital, LLC Chicago, Illinois

RICHARD A. JALKUT

THOMAS P. O’NEILL III

Chief Executive Officer TPx Communications Los Angeles, California

Chief Executive Officer O’Neill and Associates Boston, Massachusetts

MICHAEL D. JONES

BRIAN G. PAULSON, S.J.

Chief Operating Officer (Ret.) PBS Chevy Chase, Maryland

Provincial of the Chicago-Detroit Province The Society of Jesus Chicago, Illinois

EDMUND F. KELLY

SALLY ENGELHARD PINGREE

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) Liberty Mutual Group Boston, Massachusetts

Director and Vice Chairman Engelhard Hanovia, Inc. Washington, DC

ROBERT K. KRAFT

PAULA D. POLITO

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer The Kraft Group Foxborough, Massachusetts

Client Strategy Officer and Group Managing Director UBS Wealth Management Americas Weehawken, New Jersey

JOHN L. LaMATTINA

Senior Partner PureTech Ventures Boston, Massachusetts DOUGLAS W. MARCOUILLER, S.J.

Assistente Regionale Curia Generalizia della Compagnia di Gesù Rome, Italy JOHN A. McNEICE JR.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) The Colonial Group, Inc. Canton, Massachusetts ROBERT J. MORRISSEY

Senior Partner Morrissey, Hawkins & Lynch Boston, Massachusetts JOHN V. MURPHY

Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer (Ret.) Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts

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R. ROBERT POPEO

THOMAS F. RYAN JR.

Private Investor (Ret.) Boston, Massachusetts RANDALL P. SEIDL

Chief Executive Officer Revenue Acceleration, Top Talent Recruiting Wellesley, Massachusetts JOHN J. SHEA, S.J.

Director of Campus Ministry Chaplain for Lincoln Center Fordham University New York, New York MARIANNE D. SHORT

Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer UnitedHealth Group Minnetonka, Minnesota JOSEPH E. SIMMONS, S.J.

Jesuit Community Boston, Massachusetts SYLVIA Q. SIMMONS

President (Ret.) American Student Assistance Corp.

Roslindale, Massachusetts ROBERT L. SULLIVAN

International Practice Director (Ret.) Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Siasconset, Massachusetts RICHARD F. SYRON

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts THOMAS A. VANDERSLICE

Osterville, Massachusetts

Chairman and President Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC Boston, Massachusetts

JEFFREY P. von ARX, S.J.

JOHN J. POWERS

VINCENT A. WASIK

Managing Director Goldman Sachs & Company New York, New York

Cofounder and Principal MCG Global, LLC Stratford, Connecticut

RICHARD F. POWERS III

BENAREE P. WILEY

Advisory Director (Ret.) Morgan Stanley Boston, Massachusetts

President and Chief Executive Officer (Emeritus) The Partnership, Inc. Brookline, Massachusetts

PIERRE-RICHARD PROSPER

JEREMY K. ZIPPLE, S.J.

Counsel Arent Fox LLP Los Angeles, California

Executive Editor America Media New York, New York

NICHOLAS S. RASHFORD, S.J.

Professor St. Joseph’s University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Superior LaFarge Jesuit Community Cambridge, Massachusetts

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