Boston College Magazine, Summer 2014 (Class Notes)

Table of Contents

50 Alumni News & Notes 52 Class Notes 1930s, 1940s 1950s 1960s

1970s 1980s 1990s

2000s 2010s Graduate schools

59 Alumni Profile: James Spillane, S.J., ’64, MA’68, MDiv’76 71 Alumni Profile: Claus Benjamin Freyinger ’00 73 Alumni Profile: Ashley McLaughlin Leen ’08 and Michael Leen ’08 76 Obituaries 78 Light the World Campaign News

news&notes Reunion Weekend 2014

May 30–June 1 by the numbers

5,000+

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Attendees

2009

1,597

Class with the largest attendance

Alumni and guests stayed on campus

(1,163 members)

212

6,357

Food served

alumni donors raised

800 pounds of hamburger 2,100 mini beef Wellingtons 98 dozen mini cheesecakes 480 pounds of shrimp

$55.5M

Photos uploaded to Instagram using #BCReunion

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in honor of reunion

Tweets sent using #BCReunion

For photos and a video recap of this memorable event, visit www.bc.edu/reunion.

SEPTEMBER

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note OCTOBER

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Pops on the Heights

Parents’ Weekend

Homecoming

Join the Boston Pops Orchestra for an unforgettable night in support of student scholarships.

An autumn tradition filled with activities for the entire family.

Alumni, parents, and families return to the Heights for a renewed tradition of football and fun.

Learn more or register for these and other Alumni Association events at www.bc.edu/forbc.

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Tech This Out As Boston College alumni continue to establish themselves as leaders in the business technology field, the Alumni Association is proud to support their efforts through its BC Technology Council.

Founded in 2001, the Tech Council provides networking, educational, and social opportunities for alumni, parents, and friends in the technology community. Chaired by William McKiernan ’78, John Gallant ’79, and Jeremiah Doyle ’87, P’15, the council features both an East and a West Coast branch and is composed of more than 1,400 members.

As more and more BC grads enter the tech industry, the council has responded to their needs by forming a Young Associates Group.

Benefiting alumni up to 20 years out, this group is focused on bridging the gap between experienced tech executives and young leaders in the field.

So whether you’re an established professional or an up-and-coming entrepreneur, the BC Tech Council is a great place to meet like-minded Eagles, improve your network, and learn from other BC grads.

Joining the council is simple. To learn more and sign up today, visit www.bc.edu/techcouncil.

Members of the Alumni Association Executive Committee, Ann Riley Finck ’66, H’14, P’93, ’95, ’96, ’06, ’08; Ilyitch Nahiely Tabora ’03, MSW ’05; Joy Haywood Moore ’81, H’10, associate vice president, BC Alumni Association; Michael Costello ’71, P’06, ’99; and Joanne Goggins NC’75, P’04, ’07, executive director, BC Alumni Association. (Not pictured: Grace Simmons Zuncic ’05)

Finck ’66 Named New Alumni Association President

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his June, Ann Riley After graduating from Finck ’66, H’14, was the Connell School of Nursappointed Boston ing, Finck began a 45-year College Alumni Association career as a nurse practiboard president, expanding tioner in the neurological on her impressive leaderintensive care unit of New ship roles with several BC York-Presbyterian Hospital/ alumni and affinity groups, Columbia University Mediincluding the Council for cal Center. She has been Women of Boston College recognized with numerous Ann Riley Finck ’66 and the Parents’ Leadership awards and distinctions Council. from her peers at both Boston College “I’m excited to help educate our and Columbia University. Most recentalumni about the many ways their ly, Finck received an honorary Doctor commitment to BC can enhance differ- of Nursing Science degree at Boston ent areas of the University,” says Finck. College’s 2014 Commencement.

“The Ignatian values we learned as When Finck isn’t caring for critistudents continue to be relevant in cally ill patients, she devotes her time our lives. There are endless opportuto the Boston College family and her nities for engagement, growth, and own—all five of her children are proud community at BC. ” Eagles. www.bc.edu/alumni

class notes Your participation matters.

1944 reunion year

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1949 reunion year

Correspondent: Gerard L. Kirby kirbyjerry143@gmail.com PO Box 1493 Duxbury, MA 02331; 781-934-0229

Correspondent: John J. Carney jjc1949@bc.edu 227 Savin Hill Avenue Dorchester, MA 02125; 617-825-8283

This is the issue in which I thought there would be heartening news of our 70th reunion; unfortunately, classes that graduated before 1954 were not included in any of the group luncheons this year, so my news is somewhat spare. But I have talked to Ed Thomas, who arrived a few weeks ago from a pleasant winter in Naples, FL, and is at his summer home on the Cape. And kind words as usual from Tino Spatola. Tino reminisced about how proud and pleased the late Bob Moore would have been with the progress his grandson John Moore has made with the New York Rangers. It really seems unfair that he can’t be there to see how so much of it all turned out. And apologies for referring to John as Bob’s son in the last column; John was of course Bob’s grandson. • Tom Hazlett and I try to keep in touch once a month or so. Tom lives in Centerville on the Cape, is well with just the usual aches and pains of us nonagenarians, and is now concentrating on his somewhat extended gardens. • And of course and unfortunately there is always some sad news: This time it is Jim O’Donnell, who passed away on January 4. Such a pleasant man, so well liked and respected. Jim you will remember, who wrote this column before I did, lived in Washington DC for a long while and then more recently in San Francisco.

Sincere condolences to Jim’s family. • Peace.

I am writing these notes from a sunny window overlooking one of the prettiest sites ever; there is a lovely rainbow reaching across the Neponset River to the Corita Kent gas tank with its lovely stripes of color reverberating in the waves. “Oh, Wilderness were paradise enow!” as legendary Persian poet Omar Khayyam would proclaim in verse. Back to reality, and hoping to organize a get-together in early October for the class as a tribute to our 65th anniversary, we are hoping that the Alumni Association will come through with an outstanding plan for a memorial Mass and luncheon in October. We, of course, also hope that we can have a good attendance at the event. I urge all to consider helping our classmates and their wives or widows by providing rides if necessary or other assistance for attendance at the event! • I had a nice chat with Al Cass a few days ago, and we talked of old times. (Who can forget the commanding voice of Fakhari Maloof in the sophomore logic course commanding: “Albert J. Cass, to the board, please!”) We talked of the local representative campaign that was won by Bob Quinn ’52 in 1958 and of the participation in that contest of our dear classmate John Brosnahan, JD’55, as well as yours truly. (Bob’s mother was president of the Holy Name Society, but I doubt that that fact ever entered into the thoughts of our Ward 13 neighbors in the contest, which Bob won by 55 votes!) • I also spoke to E. Paul Kelly, JD’60, about old times, and of course, about the fact that E. P.’s son is head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. • I spoke to Jake Emmons about the chances of our football team this year. Jake and his wife are really settled into the Florida lifestyle. • We had a small turnout of class people at Laetare Sunday, but the attendance of Joe Cotter all the way from Maine is truly to be noted. Joe is the epitome of loyalty to our dear ol’ alma mater and was the first layman to become a member of the Board of Trustees at Boston College. • We have reached the pinnacle of 65 years since graduation only by the strong and loyal leadership of men from our class who deserve note for their dedication, starting with our first president, John Driscoll, then Bill Harney, Bob Bidwell MBA’94, Joe Gillis, Jim McEttrick, John Prince MEd’51, Bill Cohan, Sahag Dakesian, Bill McCool, and our 50th-anniversary and current president, John McQuillan. In that vein, I should mention those who have received the prestigious William V. McKenney Alumni Award: Joseph Cotter, and our late classmates Joseph Dowd and Thomas H. O’Connor, MA’50, H’93.

We have also been blessed with the help of many other dedicated members, including Peter Rogerson; Ernie Ciampa; the late Billy Flaherty; Don McA’Nulty; Jack Waite MA’51; Paul McCarty, SJ; the late Fr. Bill Burckhart; and great late Catholic leader and Naval and

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1947

Correspondent: Richard J. Fitzgerald PO Box 171 North Falmouth, MA 02556; 508-563-6168

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1948

Correspondent: Timothy C. Buckley buckbirch@verizon.net 41 Birchwood Lane Lincoln, MA 01773 The classes of the 1940s annual Mass and luncheon will be held again this October.

The date and time can be obtained through the Alumni Association in mid-September.

All class members and widows and friends are invited to attend. You may enjoy a trip down memory lane by viewing our college pictures at this site: at.bc.edu/foreveryoung.

(To access, you must use a browser other than Internet Explorer.) Such a handsome crowd!

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Marine chaplain Fr. Charley McCoy (who was wounded in May 1967 in Vietnam). I’m sure I have left out many of you who have helped so much, but I can only hope you will trust my good intentions. In closing, remember AMDG. • Please send me information I can use in this column.

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1950

Correspondent: Bob Chandler bob.chandler1950@hotmail.com 43 Pine Hill Road Chelmsford, MA 01824; 978-449-9720

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NC 1950–53

Correspondent: Ann Fulton Coté NC’53 11 Prospect Street Winchester, MA 01890; 781-729-8512 I have no news to report except for the end of a horrendous winter! I continue to chase my 18-month-old twin granddaughters, who are now capable of running in different directions.

• You may be interested to know that the Newton College Alumnae Book Group is alive and well. We now meet on the Boston College campus. Over the summer we are reading Megan Marshall’s biography of Margaret Fuller. All are welcome. • Send news!

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1951

Correspondent: James Derba jjderba@aol.com Brookhaven at Lexington 1010 Waltham Street Lexington, MA 02421; 781-538-6502

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1952

Correspondent: Frank McGee fjamesmcgee@gmail.com 1952 Ocean Street Marshfield, MA 02050; 781-834-4690 Since my last note for this column, a longtime friend has passed away. Bob Quinn and I were born in the Savin Hill section of Dorchester, Saint Williams Parish, he on Auckland Street and I on Saxton Street. At Boston College High School, he excelled as a student and a football player. His enrollment at Boston College was delayed due to illness, and he came to the Heights in the Class of ’52, earning an AB with Greek honors. Upon graduation he was awarded a scholarship to Harvard Law School, where he excelled academically. Following law school, he could have gone with any one of the large Boston law firms, but he chose to return to his roots in Savin Hill, where he practiced law; in 1957, the citizens of Ward 13 elected him to

the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

He served in that legislative body until 1967, when he was elected speaker of the house. He was subsequently appointed to fill the vacant office of the attorney general and later won election to that office. After an unsuccessful run for governor in 1974, he left public life and lived in Milton for a number of years.

He and his wife, Claudina, later returned to his childhood home on Auckland Street in Savin Hill. After his public service, he was a founding partner in the law firm of Quinn & Morris. He was instrumental in the founding of UMass Boston and was also the author of the police education bill known by all police officers in the Commonwealth as the Quinn Bill. All who knew Bob would unanimously agree that he was one terrific guy, always cheerful and willing to lend a helping hand to anyone seeking his assistance. He truly reflected in his daily life the tradition of Boston College—service to others. I will always remember the great summer days that he, Frank Dooley, JD’55, and I spent at my family’s cottage in Marshfield. Please remember Bob, Claudina, and their family in your prayers.

ride to church, etc. As we talked, I found out that Paul is now online. After all these years.

It always was: email the class and call Paul Coughlin. I mentioned that I would share both his telephone number and his email with our classmates so if someone is in the area they might give him a call or offer a ride. His email address is pdcoughlin22@ gmail.com. • There is no Class of 1953 golf day planned for this year. Attendance was off a little bit last season, so the Golf Committee felt a year off might be beneficial. Class president Bob Willis has called a meeting of his “think tank” in June to discuss what our schedule should be for the months ahead.

When this is firmed up, we will get that information to our classmates.

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May 31 was a beautiful day on the BC campus, and the Cadigan Center, the new home of the Alumni Association, was the perfect place for our 60th reunion luncheon. Attending were Virginia O’Brien Cahill; Paul Canney and Paula Flanagan; Lorraine and Tom Cosgrove; Mary Jean and Jim Coughlin; Andrea Lane DeMars MS’85; Gert and Gene Doherty; Maureen Conway Ford; Francis Furtado; Patricia and Bill Kenney MA’5; Aurora and Jack Leydon; Rose and Lenny Matthews; Jane and Paul McGee; Nancy and Tom Murphy; Mary Healy Nackley; Alberta and Gerry Natoli; Kathy and Peter Nobile; Jack Parker CAES’79; Mary Elizabeth Shea MS’59; Ruth Dynan Sweeney MEd’57; Tom Warren; Bob Welts JD’57 and Pat Legere; June and Don Preskenis; Alice Logue Lawler with daughter Mary Alice Barrett; Claire and Leo Maguire with daughter Mary Redington ’85; Margaret Miley; Rocco Charlton; Joanne and John Collins; Patricia and John Clark; Ed Collins; Mario DiBiase; Ann Mary Dominick; Elaine and Dick Donahue; Joan Kennedy; Bob Kerwin; Evelyn and Billy Maguire; Lou Maloof; Veronica and Dick McCarthy; John McGrath and Neite Cruz; Janet and Paul McKenna; John Merna; Joan Nickell; Clare MEd’73 and Frank McLaughlin MA’57; Jim Woods, SJ, MAT’61, STB’62, H’13; Carolyn Ward ’07, MA’08; Charley Pelczarski; Mary and Murray Regan; Ed Smith; Jim Flynn MA’55; Ann M. Tierney MS’59; Lori and Lou Totino MBA’65; and Jane and John Ford MSW’61. • We have word that Fran Greehan, John O’Malley, and Paul Keough passed away. Paul graduated from the University of San Francisco Law School in 1959 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1961. His brother Ed was a member of the Class of 1959 and earned his MBA from the Carroll School in 1971. • Tom Murphy asked me how many living graduates there are from our class by school. After some work I have approximate numbers: Of 733 of us who graduated, about 340 survive— fewer than 175 from Arts and Sciences, fewer than 113 from the Carroll School, 53 from the Connell School and about 38 from the Evening School (now the Woods College of Advancing Studies). Lou Totino has arranged

1953

Correspondent: Jim Willwerth jammw19@verizon.net 19 Sheffield Way Westborough, MA 01581; 508-366-5400 Gerry and John McCauley celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary in April during their 1,500-mile drive home to Newport, RI, after a winter in Florida. A highlight along the way was attending services on Easter Sunday in Myrtle Beach, SC, where the parish church must celebrate Mass at the Palace Theatre due to the enormous attendance.

The celebrant was the bishop of Charleston, who admitted that it was a first for him. The McCauleys had a very busy weekend in May when three grandchildren all graduated from college on the same weekend—BC, Tufts, and Stonehill. Gerry went on to say that the other “news” is that the croquet mallet is polished and ready for action on the grass courts at the tennis courts of the Tennis Hall of Fame as soon as the wickets are in the ground. • Dick Horan reports that he is getting up to speed after a quintuple bypass surgery in March. Dick is a trustee associate at BC High as well as at Boston College. He also reported that he played golf and had lunch with Msgr. Paul Ryan in Naples in February. • Peg Burke Crawford reports that she has returned from her winter in Florida.

Isabella Butkiewicz is also back from Florida, and they are working on a plan to get their class together. We will keep you informed.

• Jim Wholly attended the Laetare Sunday Mass and brunch and reports that Fr. Jim Appleyard PhL’58, H’12; Mimi and Jack Costa; and he were the only representatives from our class. Jim also reported that he had talked with Paul Coughlin, who is still working in TV in Harwich. After playing telephone tag with Paul for a couple of days, I finally caught up with him. He told me he is in good health and as active in the community as he can be without wheels. He uses public transportation, and a few friends give him a

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1954 reunion year

class participation goal: 172 Correspondent: John Ford jrfeagle@verizon.net 45 Waterford Drive Worcester, MA 01602; 508-755-3615

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for our annual memorial Mass to be held in the Trinity Chapel on the Newton Campus at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 12. Brunch will follow in Barat House immediately after the Mass. If you have any questions about this event, please call Lou at 781-329-9612. Details will follow in the fall. • Last but not least, Lou and his team did a great job in raising the class gift. We led all anniversary classes with 52.2 percent participation, resulting in a gift of $195,745. At our 45th reunion we raised almost $4.4 million dollars, more than any class had raised to that time. This year, for its 45th reunion, the Class of 1969 raised almost $7 million, and another of the younger classes—the Class of 1964, celebrating its 50th reunion—raised over $14 million. How BC has changed!

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NC 1954 reunion year Correspondent: Mary Helen FitzGerald Daly 700 Laurel Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091; 847-251-3837 In an email, Mary Evans Babst from Geneva, Switzerland, told of the sudden death of her dear sister, Anne, in Montreal. We send our deepest sympathy to her, and please keep Mary and her family in your prayers. • When talking to Lucille Joy Becker, I found out that for over 16 years, she has been doing a halfhour radio show every Friday for the visually handicapped on station CRIX in Trumbull, CT. Lucille selects and reads articles and columns from the local newspaper. She concentrates on local arts, entertainment and TV reviews, and local news. She keeps her listeners up to date on local events that they otherwise might not know about. • Helen Badenhausen Danforth had a busy summer.

Several family and stepfamily members from around the United States, Egypt, and Australia visited her. She said she “more or less ran a B&B, plus lunch and dinner.” Helen practices piano a lot and played a joint recital with the music director of her church. They played individual pieces plus some four-hand works—two people at one piano. She noted this was fun, with interesting maneuvers on the bench. In May, she played in another concert and sang in the choir in an all-Fauré program. Helen also enjoys walking her dog and being part of two book clubs. • June was the 60th anniversary of our graduation from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, so there were some memories included in the news from classmates. Helen Badenhausen Danforth recalled our graduation: She had just gotten off crutches after having broken a leg, and, after receiving her degree from Archbishop Richard Cushing, had difficulty standing up, so he leaned over and helped her up. Helen loved Newton, and she and the other music majors had fun studying music together. Lucille Joy Becker wanted to go to a Sacred Heart college, and she “loved Newton after her first visit.” Maureen Cohalan Curry wrote that it was hard to believe 60 years had passed since our Newton graduation: “I really have nothing but wonderful memories— friends, special teachers (so smart), great courses. I especially loved the smallness. We got to know older and younger students— that was special.” Mary Evans Bapst chose to go to Newton after an unplanned visit

with a graduate from the first Newton class (1950), Hilda Carey, RSCJ, in Vermont. Hilda enthusiastically suggested Mary interview with the Dean Louise Keyes, RSCJ. The interview was successful, and she became a member of the Class of 1954. Mary said: “Newton and its results have accompanied me throughout my life. Caritas Christi urget nos.” • Have an enjoyable summer, and here’s to the Newton Class of 1954!

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1955

Correspondent: Marie Kelleher mrejo2001@gmail.com 12 Tappan Street Melrose, MA 02176; 781-665-2669 “Let’s have a party, a party…” The family of Dan McDonald gave him a unique 80th birthday party in the form of a bus tour! He was joined by his wife, his seven children, and their spouses on the bus, which took them first to his childhood neighborhood in Brighton and then on to BC—where Dan’s granddaughter Morgan greeted them at the Mods. Three of Dan’s children are also graduates of BC. And it was a complete surprise to George LeMaitre when a party bus pulled into his driveway to help him celebrate his 80th! Filled with his wife and family, the bus took George on a memory tour of his childhood in Lawrence and Methuen. Songs of the ’50s provided entertainment as they drove along. • “Nice voice”—so said Pope John Paul II—now Saint John Paul II—to Msgr. Frank Strahan when he sang a song for the him at the Vatican in the mid-1980s. There was a nice article about Msgr. Strahan, with a picture, in the April 24th edition of the Boston Herald. • Fr. Albert Stankard was given the St. Don Bosco Friend of Youth Award by the archdiocese for his service to middle school and high school youth. • Lynn Strovink-Daukas spent a few weeks in the Dominican Republic in February. • Bette and John Manning attended the retirement ceremony for their son, Col. Edward Manning, on March 21 at the World War I Memorial in Kansas City, MO. Col. Manning had a distinguished 30-year career

in the service of our country. • I am sad to report that George Malone died on March 1. He had a long career as a CPA, and he and his wife were very active in presenting marriage encounter weekends. Patricia Lavoie Grugnale’s husband, Nick, died after a long illness, and Ernest Caggiano’s wife also began her eternal life. May all who have died rest in peace and may God’s blessings bring comfort to their families. • Be prepared: In June 2015, we’ll celebrate our 60th reunion on Alumni Weekend!

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NC 1955

Correspondent: Jane Quigley Hone janeqhone@msn.com 207 Miro Place Port Washington, NY 11050; 516-627-0973 I spoke to Mary Jane Moyles Murray after seeing her son Fr. Gerald Murray reporting from Rome on EWTN, the worldwide Catholic TV network. He was one of four men commenting on the election of Pope Francis, and he was on EWTN again for the canonization of the two popes. Fr. Murray is the pastor of the Church of the Holy Family, which is the UN Parish on East 47th Street in New York City. I had spoken with him when he attended the funeral of Margaret Grace at St. Mary’s Church in Manhasset in February.

Mary Jane recently had lunch with Carra Quinlan Wetzel when Carra was visiting her grandchildren in the New York area. Mary Jane and her husband, Gerry, have three grandsons and a granddaughter, who live in Barrington, RI. • I attended a tea for Newton alumnae on April 27 at the home of Susan Pollock Kintner NC’64 in Port Washington.

There were 16 of us there from the tri-state area. Each of us gave a remembrance of our years at Newton and told of our jobs, families, travel, and present involvements. • I met up again with Mary Laird Flanagan before she and her husband, Bob, went to Nantucket for the summer. Five of our ten grandchildren are now in various colleges, including one at Boston College and one at Holy Cross.

JOIN OUR TEAM! The Flynn Fund at Boston College invites you to show our 750 student-athletes what teamwork is all about.

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1956

Correspondent: Steve Barry sdmjbarry@verizon.net 102 Brooksby Village Drive, Unit 304 Peabody, MA 01960; 978-587-3626 At our last BC Class of ’56 Committee meeting, it was decided that the class support the partnership of Boston College with Saint Columbkille School in Brighton with a donation of $1,000. The chairman of the board of trustees of St. Columbkille wrote to us: “I would like to thank the Class of 1956 Committee for your most generous gift of $1,000 to Boston College designated to Saint Columbkille Partnership School. I am proud and grateful for BC’s support for Catholic education in general and St. Columbkille in particular. The Class of 1956 continues to be a great model for all classes.” • Marie and I attended a presentation at the Boston College Club in April. Nicholas Burns ’78, H’02, a career diplomat who served under both Democratic and Republican presidents, spoke on “America’s Global Challenges,” giving a bipartisan view of foreign and security affairs and global trends in the 21st century. After his speech, he answered questions for half an hour. • Marie and I missed the Laetare Sunday Mass and breakfast, but Carolyn Kenney Foley emailed me that we had three tables. Fr. Leahy spoke, as the original speaker was ill. • Carolyn also reported that Kathy Gosselin Wingsted is in a long-term care facility in Falmouth. Her husband, Walter, also had a fall and required brain surgery, so their daughter Janet has been staying with him. • Bishop Frank Irwin has had knee replacement surgery. • We have had a number of deaths: Kenneth Coffey of Norwood in February; Edwin Cook of Quincy in January; Frank Fitzpatrick of Watertown, formerly of Newton and Hyannis Port, in January; Henry Harvey of Litchfield, CT, in January; Joseph Lo Piccolo of Brookline, formerly of Bennington, VT, in November 2013; and Joan Coleman Ward of Alpharetta, GA, formerly of Ho-HoKus, NJ, in December 2013. Please keep them and their families in your prayers.

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NC 1956

Correspondent: Patricia Leary Dowling sadmpl@gmail.com 39 Woodside Drive Milton, MA 02186; 617-696-0163

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1957

Visit www.bc.edu/flynnfund to give today.

Correspondent: Francis E. Lynch franko929@comcast.net 27 Arbutus Lane West Dennis, MA 02670

By having generous friends like you, they’ve already won.

The month of June was very welcome in New England after a brutal winter! On the first day of spring, Myles McCabe gave me a thoughtful telephone call. Myles, an old friend, a classmate, and a member of our class board, mentioned that he and his family 54 class notes

were headed to Vero Beach, FL, the following day for a month of R&R and also planned to take in Fort Myers. • There was a memorial Mass on May 1 for Joe Burke’s late wife, Katherine “Brenda” Burke, at Saint Elizabeth Seton Church in North Falmouth. Bill Tobin MBA’70, Frank Higgins, Jim Devlin, Frank Lynch, Pat Vacca, and Bob Huber MBA’65 attended this beautiful service. The music was so touching, and Joe delivered a magnificent homily about Brenda, their 5 daughters, and their 14 grandchildren. • On June 4, there was a class golf outing organized by Joe McMenimen at the Atlantic Country Club.

It was a great time for all those who teed up.

• The class board lunch meeting was held on June 6 at the Common Market in North Quincy. Agenda items included plans for upcoming events: our very popular lobsterand clambake at Paul Mahoney’s Garden Center in Falmouth on August 5, and a fall football event, BC vs. Maine, on Saturday, September 20. • Earlier this year, the Carroll School of Management climbed into the top five of the best undergraduate business schools in the country, placing fourth, according to new rankings by Bloomberg Businessweek. The best of the best! • Dick Michaud emailed me with his best regards and advised that he and his wife, Nancy, recently celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. His family is still growing, with great-grandchildren coming along. They live in Greensboro, NC. Dick reminds me that he and Bill Donlan, MA’60, were roommates freshman year. • Marty Dunn was in touch with Bill Donlan and his wife in Ireland via Skype at a BC High class luncheon in May. Jim Devlin related to me that 19 classmates had the opportunity of talking to Bill, and he obviously seemed very happy after having suffered a massive stroke several years ago.

Marty did a great job making things happen.

• The class extends its sincere sympathies to the families of Donald Connors, on the death of his wife, Margaret, on May 3 in Duxbury; Jack Dwyer, on the death of his wife, Mary Anne (O’Connor), on May 2 in Lexington; and Dominic Emello, on the passing of his wife, Rita McGrath Emello, in Belmont on April 15.

We also send condolences to the families of the classmates we have recently lost: Robert Libertini, a Double Eagle, on March 26 in Sudbury; Joseph Lyons, of Milton and Cotuit, on January 11; and William Sullivan, MA’67, of North Fort Myers, FL, on March 3, 2014. • Your continued prayers are requested for Bill Donlan, Dotty and George Hennessy, Kathy and Paul O’Leary, Lorrette Hurley and Bob Tiernan MS’59, and Jim and Betty (Scanlon) Turley. • Kindly remit your class dues of $25 to Bill Tobin, 181 Central Street, Holliston, MA 01746. Keep your loyalty alive for the great Class of 1957!

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NC 1957

Correspondent: Connie Weldon LeMaitre lemaitre.cornelia@gmail.com I had counted on a Boston-area classmates’ lunch this week to provide lots of news.

Unfortunately, we had to postpone the lunch by a month, and my deadline will be long gone for this column by the time we gather.

However, Joan Hanlon Curley did report

in on a Newton College luncheon at the Port Royal Beach Club in Naples, FL, where she joined 30 Newton alumnae from the area during the winter season. Joan claims to have been the most senior member of the gathering, which included the late Diz O’Connell’s younger sister. Yes, we are often the most senior persons at gatherings now, but perhaps it has its advantages on occasion!

This season boasted lots of graduations for us as grandparents, friends, or relatives.

Ellie Pope Clem mentions her two college graduates this year, one preparing to enter the seminary after a year with Youth Apostles and the other planning to teach autistic children.

How proud Ellie must be! Liz Doyle Eckl was off to an out-of-town college graduation also, as so many of you may be lucky enough to enjoy. Nancy Harvey Hunt had a magna cum laude high school graduate in Texas, and I had an upstate New York college graduate—she’s moving to New York City; any offspring we can introduce her to? • Some sad news from Ireland: Elaine Conley Banahan’s husband, Percy, passed away in March after a difficult year. They had been married over 50 years, spending their life together on their horse farm in Ireland with their four children (two now live in Kentucky and two in Ireland). • Barbara Lowe Eckel, MSW’59, reported that she called Elaine to extend her condolences and had a good conversation. Elaine, Barbara, and I were among the six freshmen in Stuart under Mother White’s watchful eye back in 1953. Amazing to think we have known each other for over 60 years and are still connected! Those friendships are so precious and were so intense in our lovely little college, which I suspect influenced us immensely.

Unfortunately, I have lost Barbara’s attachment of “India News” and will have to keep us in suspense until I find it in the great unknown of the Internet. Presume she had a once-in-a-lifetime trip to tell us about! • Please send me any new or updated email addresses so we can also all stay in touch in real time.

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Correspondent: David Rafferty bcbusa58@bc.edu 2296 Ashton Oaks Lane, No. 101 Stonebridge Country Club Naples, FL 34109; 239-596-0290 Classmates seen at the recent BC Distinguished Volunteer Tribute Awards Dinner held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza were Tony ’59 and Bea Busa, Barbara Cuneo O’Connell, Maggy Molloy Vasaturo, Dick Simons, Mike Daley, Bill Ryan, and Sheldon Daly. Elaine Cummins (Daniel Cummins’s wife) was the guide for the Class of 1959 tour and reception at the McMullen Museum. Those attending were Roland and Joan LaChance, Claudette and Jack Shea, Kathleen and John Moriarty, Mary and Tom Mahoney, Paul and Moira (Feeley) Lyons, Dave and Eileen Teahan Quigley, John ’55 and Barbara Cuneo O’Connell, Patty and Brian O’Riordan, Carol Brady Vigliano, and Peter ’54 and Maggie Molloy Vasaturo. Barbara Cuneo O’Connell made the arrangements for the wonderful reception at the Fulton Hall atrium. • I heard that Dick Simons, Mike Daley, Bill McLaughlin, and their significant www.bc.edu/alumni

others really enjoyed their recent trip to Spain.

• Prayers of the class go out to the families of the following classmates who recently passed away: Don Hughes of Newark, OH; Richard McCafferty, PhL’58, of Los Gatos, CA; Joe O’Donnell of Mashpee and Silver Spring, MD; Mary Murphy Shields of Marco Island, FL; Gerald Rourke MS’60, MBA’66, of Cary, NC; Estelle Tetreault of Riverside, RI; and Mitchell Rice of Sugarloaf, PA. • If I hadn’t received feedback from Joan LaChance and Bea Busa, I would have little to report. Please write or call; I’d love to hear from you! • Don’t forget your class dues. Please send $25 to our class treasurer Jack “Mucca” McDevitt at 28 Cedar Road, Medford, MA 02556.

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Correspondent: Rosemary Stuart Dwyer rosemarysdwyer@yahoo.com This past winter, Zach Galvin, son of Edward, LLB’64, and Audrey Nolan Galvin, was honored in a story on the evening show Chronicle. In gratitude for his healing from stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnosed 17 years ago, Zach designated Febuary 26 “Yahoo Day” by doing random acts of kindness for unsuspecting people and in honor of all the unknown people who had contributed to his recovery. By the second year, students and family had joined in his “Yahoo Day” celebration; by the third year, more students, friends, and family were doing amazing random acts of kindness; and by year 16, “Yahoo Day” had spread around the world.

They celebrated in Japan, China, Australia, Canada, in several countries in Europe, and all around the United States. This year there were more than 350 celebrants doing random acts of kindness for people they didn’t know and posting their stories on Facebook, even from Africa. From day one of his return to good health, Zach has worked tirelessly for the Jimmy Fund and Dana-Farber Cancer Hospital by walking the Boston Marathon with “Zach’s Pack” 16 times and raising more than $500,000. This is truly an inspiration for all of us to perform acts of kindness daily.

• We extend our deep sympathy to Joseph and Muriel “Jo” Wieczynski on the death of their daughter Mary Furnivall on March 12 in California at age 45. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Mary began her career with Habitat for Humanity in Georgia.

In 1991, she became its international partner in Guatemala, where she lived in remote areas, overseeing the building of more than 100 homes for the poor. In 1997, she received an MS in public health at the Rollins School of Emory University and joined Population Services International, dedicated to bringing health care to developing countries. She served as consultant to many governments in efforts to combat AIDS and various subtropical diseases in Africa and in other nations, and worked to educate people about the dangers of infection. Her work undoubtedly directly saved many lives, and the ripple effects of her efforts have rescued untold thousands from fatal diseases. In 2003, Mary married David Furnivall in Limuru, Kenya. The couple built their home on lands owned by David’s family and in 2012 adopted Justin, an orphaned baby.

Soon thereafter, Mary was diagnosed with

cancer. She is survived also by her parents and three brothers. A ceremony commemorating Mary’s life and work will be held in Kenya at a later date. • I have been working on plans for the next AASH National Conference, which will be held in Boston (and Newton) next year, April 9–12. This extraordinary event will not return to this area in our lifetime, so mark your calendars and plan to join Sacred Heart alumnae and RSCJ from around the United States in this celebration. Registration information will be sent via Esprit de Coeur and the Call to Conference magazines, which will arrive in late fall. It is for this reason that I am stepping down as class correspondent. With thanks to our former agents MJ Eagan English MEd’59, Sheila Hurley Canty, and Jo Kirk Cleary and to our class “biographers” Eileen Mullin and Mickey Cunningham Wetzel, I am grateful to Patty Peck Schorr for offering to continue on to keep us connected—no surprise, as Patty is always so giving! Patty would like to share this duty, so please offer your help by contacting her or sending your news to me at the above email address and I will forward it to her. Many thanks and all the best for a restful summer.

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reunion year class participation goal: 320 Co-correspondent: George Holland bmw0324@msn.com 244 Hawthorne Street Malden, MA 02148; 781-321-4217 Co-correspondent: Robert Latkany latkanyr@shoffdarby.com 203-354-6200 George Holland, MS’61, reports that the 55th reunion dinner was a great success: “More than 60 classmates and spouses were in attendance. Reunion chair Peter McLaughlin announced a reunion gift to Boston College of over $3.6 million, with a participation rate of 44.8 percent—including $1.1 million in legacy commitment. There is still time to contribute to the class gift. Marilyn and I were at a congenial table with Peter, Dave Breen, Spencer Tobin, and Paul Andrews.” • Bob Latkany reports: “I received a late Christmas holiday letter from Jane and Jack Flynn from Sewanee, TN. The Flynns purchased a home in Naples, FL, and, on the drive home last year, they swung down to Miami and visited art galleries and the Holocaust Museum. They loved the special exhibit of Zimbabwean stone sculpture at the Fairchild Gardens and also the fine Norton Museum in Palm Beach. Later in March, they flew to San Francisco to see their grandkids, Chloe and Philip, perform in Guys and Dolls.

After going to Madison, WI, they went north along the shores of Lake Michigan to the Upper Peninsula and then to charming Mackinac Island, which they toured in a horse-drawn carriage (no cars on the island). They capped it off with a sumptuous lunch at the luxurious Grand Hotel, which was designed by Dorothy Draper and its current president, Carleton Varney. It is famous for the rocking chairs on the longest hotel porch in the country. They almost replicated one of my favorite trips— circling Lake Michigan and seeing Sleeping Bear Dunes, and, as you turn into Indiana, you hit Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and

climb Mount Baldy. But the highlight of their travels was a trip to Marathon, Greece, where daughter Rebecca’s father-in-law had his 80th birthday party. After the Greek festivities, they flew to Copenhagen and took a 10-day cruise to St. Petersburg, Russia, and on the return trip, they saw Helsinki, Stockholm, and Tallinn.”

• Bob Latkany also reports meeting up with Jack McAullife ’60 in May at the Brooklyn Prep Alumni Association Dinner, where they were the only BC grads from their era. Bob continues: “Jack Flynn and John Wissler ’57, MBA’72, were the only Prep grads in my four years at the Heights. This year our honorary alumnus was Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who said the Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church near Xavier High School. We had 450 at the dinner in Xavier High School, and it was a blast.” • George Holland remembers with sadness “a number of active classmates who have recently passed away. Arthur Kaplan, who was our class treasurer, died on May 7. Carl Burgess, former pitcher on the BC baseball team, passed away on April 29. Patricia Manning Whalen, widow of our late classmate Tom Whalen, MBA’68, passed away on October 28, 2013. Both Pat and Tom were key members of our 50th Class Reunion Committee. Nursing school classmate and former Connell School faculty member Priscilla Almeida, MS’67, passed away on April 16 in Florida after a lengthy illness. Arthur Sullivan passed away on March 4. Our condolences to his wife, Carmi, and his family. • Our condolences go also to Paul Shea on the passing of his son Paul ’95 in April, and to Burt Abel on the loss of his daughter Carolynn McDonald, who died on April 23. Rose Corcoran, wife of our classmate Joe Corcoran, H’09, passed away on April 26.

Classmates who attended the 50th reunion at Joe’s home on the Cape will recall what a gracious hostess Rose was as she showed us around her home. We all offer our sympathy to Joe and his children.”

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NC 1959 reunion year Correspondents: Maryjane Mulvanity Casey and Patty O’Neill pattyoneill@verizon.net 75 Savoy Road Needham, MA 02492; 781-400-5405 From The Well to Facebook, from handwritten notes to text messaging, from the “885” to CNN, from Ted Williams to “Big Papi,” 55 years have passed. While the 21st century bears scant resemblance to the eve of the “New Frontier,” some things remain: friendship, faith, and Caritas Christi urget nos. And the vibrant and vivacious Newton Class of 1959 much enjoyed our 55th reunion. Everyone thought it was a mistake and that we were really the Class of ’69! We began with a potluck dinner on Friday night in one of the hospitality rooms at Stayer Hall, the residence where several classmates were staying. Jack and Helen Craig Lynch and David and Dottie Bohen Graham had ferried up from Block Island. Marie Doelger O’Brien had driven up to New Jersey from Baltimore and carpooled with Joan Coniglio O’Donnell for the trip to Newton. Bill and Sue Sughrue Carrington—who are still playing tennis in Forest Hills, NY—and Karen Mullin Winter were also staying in the dorms. Locals Mary Jane Mulvanity Casey, Janet Chute, Janet 56 class notes

Phillips Connelly, Bob and Mary Kelley McNamara, Peter and Honey Good McLaughlin, and Patty O’Neill also joined the Friday night group. • On Saturday morning, there was a panel discussion with representatives from the four reunion classes.

Janet Chute ably represented our class, and Catherine Cornille moderated the discussion, whose topics invoked engaging women in interreligious dialogues. A delightful garden party luncheon followed. • Saturday evening’s dinner in Barat House was a festive affair.

It began with Sue Sughrue Carrington’s inspirational toast. Joining us were Bill and Bonnie Walsh Stoloski, from Maine, and Jane Whitty, who had recently moved to Salem.

Janet Phillips Connelly and Honey missed the dinner; Janet was celebrating husband Jack’s 80th birthday, and Honey was at the BC Class of ’59 reunion with Peter. Honey and Peter were taking off the next day for Rome and a cruise on the Adriatic. The weekend concluded with a Mass, celebrated by Walter Conlan, SJ, MDiv’76, followed by brunch, and classmates departed with few tears and promises of future get-togethers. • There had been at least two pre-reunions. Sue and Bill Carrington met with Jack and Jane Gillespie Steinthal, Farley and Barbara Johnson Moran, and John and Sheilah Lane Malafronte for a fabulous dinner at Jubilee, which Sue described as an “in” French restaurant in Manhattan. Sheilah and John continue to produce fresh vegetables at their farm in East Hampton for soup kitchens.

Earlier in March, Janet Chartier O’Hanley had a dinner at her home in Naples, FL, for wintering classmates Al and Sandy Sestito Pistocchi, Bill and Bonnie Stoloski, Karen Winter, Jack and Helen Lynch, and Patty O’Neill. Our prayers are with Janet and her daughters Marianna and Anne, who have been suffering serious health issues. Sandy and Al attended their granddaughter’s graduation from Wake Forest.

• Many classmates missed the reunions owing to conflicts with weddings, graduations, First Communions, and travel. Glenna LaSalle Keene had three First Communions: one in San Francisco, where four grandchilden attend Sacred Heart schools, another in Cohasset, and a third at home in Strafford, PA. Joan Haggarty Eggers had the graduation of twin grandchildren, both of whom will be attending the University of Minnesota—so Karen Winter can look forward to visits from Joan. Dolores Seeman Royston was attending her oldest granddaughter’s graduation in Washington. Stephanie Landry Barineau had a double conflict: Her granddaughter Dana was graduating from high school, and her daughter Stephanie got married the next day. Gini Little Waterman-Casey also missed the event. She reports that she and Bob have a great church community in Centerville on Cape Cod and that they volunteer each week at Cape Cod Hospital in the transport office. On the Friday of Reunion, Sue Macksoud Wooten had the honor of being a reader at the ordination of Chris Micale, a young man from Woodstock, VT—who was the first priest in that diocese to be ordained in 106 years. Margit Serenyi had a conflict in New York City, and Mary Pat Curran Naud was on a trip to London. All send prayers, thanks for our blessings, good wishes, and love. We seemed to have reached a consensus that we will try for a 57 1/2–year reunion at a time when there are not so many graduations and First Communions.

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Correspondent: John R. McNealy jmcnealy@juno.com 109 Kimball Rd. Rindge NH 03461; 603-899-2844 Yes, there will be a 55th reunion next year! To that end, an ad hoc committee has already come together to begin the planning process. Our tentative plan calls for an October 15 luncheon at the former cardinal’s residence on the Brighton campus and the opportunity to visit the new Cadigan Alumni Center, for those who have not yet been there. The St. Patrick’s week celebration in Naples, FL, was such a success last time that we will reconvene in March this coming year, a good excuse for us nonsnowbirds to see how the other half lives. Then from May 29 to May 31, we will be participating as an anniversary class during the Alumni Weekend festivities. Please speak up now if you have any thoughts or suggestions on how to make the reunion as great a success as our 50th. Feel free to contact Joe Carty (jrcarty1@ gmail.com) or me. • Now if I can stress only one thought, please, each and every one of you, go to the newly revised (yes, our options have recently changed) alumni community website at bc.edu/ community to be sure that your address, phone number, and email are up to date. Otherwise you may miss out on the fun. And let me just slip in the commercial here: Vin Failla is cheerfully collecting class dues of $50 to help support our upcoming activities. Please remit to 1960 Class Dues, c/o Vin Failla, 60 Pigeon Lane, Waltham, MA 02452. • On a sad note, we must report the deaths of Lawrence Donovan on January 7 and of retired Army Lt. Col. Ed Kelleher on February 15. Our condolences to both their families. • In news from the class, our distinguished classmate Robert Morrissey was the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree at this year’s Commencement.

A founder of the law firm of Morrissey, Hawkins and Lynch, Bob has chaired the University’s Investment and Endowment Committee since 1981 and has had a large hand in the growth of BC’s endowment from $18 million to $2 billion. He and his wife, Alyce, live in Belmont and have raised five children, all BC graduates. • Fred O’Neill has finally quit the foggy shores of Duxbury in order to join the growing number of New Hampshire–based grads. Fred now lives in North Woodstock, close by the slopes of Loon Mountain, where he can be found regularly during the winter months. • Cape Cod resident Jeff Davis has given up the retired life and recently joined the firm of J.P. Morgan. • And finally, word comes from Down East that Roseanna Dawson Gagne can still be found in the classrooms of Portland, ME. • Keep those cards and letters coming. Sláinte!

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Correspondent: Sally O’Connell Healy kmhealy@cox.net 4061 Cape Cole Boulevard Punta Gorda, FL 33955 Our 55th reunion will be held in June 2015. BC has already started making plans, and we have been invited to join a planning session with

the BC Class of 1960. What would you like to do? Should it be two or three days; should we join with BC Friday night; and where would you like the dinner to be held? Will you plan to come? Would you be willing to co-chair the Reunion Committee and/or work on it?

Please get back to Carole Ward McNamara or me with all ideas. We will have an informal meeting this summer. • The Southwest Florida gals had a great season: a symphony series in Naples, gatherings with visiting classmates, the Sacred Heart luncheon, the BC Mass and brunch, and a lovely Newton luncheon hosted by Marie Craigin Wilson NC’63.

Berenice Davis Blessing, Brenda Koehler Laundry, Eleanor Coppola Brown, Carole Ward McNamara, and I were introduced as the last pre-SWC (Study of Western Culture) class. Our class had the best representation at each gathering. • Boston alums recently attended the Newton reception hosted by BC, with Carole Ward McNamara, Pat McCarthy Dorsey, and Moira Donnelly Gault attending.

Moira and husband Barry were just back from a visit to London. Carole and Pat will head to New Orleans for their yearly gathering with Elaine Holland Early, Betsy DeLone Balas, Kathy McDermott Kelsh, and other friends.

• Mickey Mahon MacMillan has moved to Osterville, within walking distance of the town. She just finished a four-day Amerian Contract Bridge League masters’ tournament.

• Bill and Dot Radics McKeon are planning a fall cruise from Southhampton through the British Isles and northern Europe, ending in Montreal. • The AMASC convention will be in Scottsdale, AZ, in November. This is the international Association of Alumnae & Alumni of the Sacred Heart (AASH). Several classmates are considering attending. The next AASH national convention will be in Boston in April 2015. Check the website for information on both at aashnet.org. • Enjoy the rest of the summer!

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Correspondent: John Ahearn jjaeagle@hotmail.com 872 Massachusetts Avenue #407 Cambridge, MA 02139 Among those who attended this year’s Mass for the Class of 1961 were John Ahearn; Richard Barrett; Paula Fitzgerald Bloomquist; Paul Brennan MBA’66; John Carr; James Collins MBA’72; Margaret Ryan Collins; Veronica McLoud Dort MA’64, MTS’96; George Downey; Nancy Hebert Drago MBA’72; Kevin Fitzpatrick MBA’64; Richard Glasheen; Jack Joyce MBA’70; Bob Kenny; Patricia Taylor Keaney; Mary Ann DiMario Landry; Barbara Power Madden MS’73; Judy Czarnecki McCusker; Patty Booth McDonnell; Ann Wasilauskas Mulligan; David Oberhauser; Ed O’Connor; Virginia O’Neil; James Russell; Robert Sullivan; and Mary Turbini MEd’68.

Before the Mass and dinner, we were treated to a tour of the McMullen Museum with Nancy Joyce, who has volunteered there for many years—this was her last tour before retiring.

Her husband, Jack, also has served at the museum. • After graduation from the Lynch School, John Altieri taught in Norwalk, CT, for 38 years. He was active in the Connecticut AFT, where he served as president for 21 www.bc.edu/alumni

years and, for 14 years after his retirement, as executive secretary. He was also VP of the Teachers AFL-CIO Union, and he has received numerous awards, including the Senator Chris Dodd Award for outstanding service. He completed his MA from Fairfield University. • After participating in the ROTC program and graduating from BC, Lt. Col. Edward Bell served in Vietnam in 1967–68 and 1972–73 and also completed tours in Germany during his 25 years of service. His last duty assignment was in 1979 in the Washington DC area, and he retired in 1986.

He received an MA from Eastern Kentucky University and also attended the U.S. Army War College. He and his wife, Ann, have four children (each holds a graduate degree—EdD, PhD, MA, and JD), and they continue to take full advantage of the many activities and events continually evolving in the DC area.

• Shortly after graduation, Albert Doherty moved to Colorado, where he worked in the first hotels in Vail. He left to attend a hotel school in Switzerland and, after working and skiing there, moved to California. He and his wife, Hildegard, started two restaurants called Fatapple’s, one in Berkeley and the other in El Cerrito. After 45 years, Albert retired. He enjoys reading and pencil drawing. • Dick Doyle received an award from the Knights of Columbus for his service in New Hampshire.

He and his wife, Kathleen, have run a food pantry in Londonderry for the past 25 years.

Dick is retired after working for UPS in industrial engineering. The Doyles have three kids and nine grandchildren. After ROTC, Dick served in the army, traveling to 47 states. He likes to travel; among his favorite destinations are Mexico and Peru.

• After BC, John Higgins went to BU Law School. He spent 47 years with the National Labor Relations Board and retired as general counsel. John was appointed to the board by three different presidents. He has taught— and still teaches—at Catholic University Law School, and he is also active with his parish as a Boy Scout master. John and his wife, Frances, have 3 children and 11 grandchildren.

Frances is a high school teacher. • Pat Taylor Keaney taught in Illinois before leaving to raise her four children. She earned an MA from Cambridge College and then went back to teach fourth graders in Millis. After her husband died, she retired to Hampton Beach.

Her volunteer activities include work with the St. Vincent de Paul Society, a food pantry, and a soup kitchen, and she enjoys spending time with her four grandchildren. • Mary Ann DiMario Landry began her career in elementary education as a first-grade teacher in Rhode Island and Maryland. She took a sabbatical to raise her children and earned an MA from Rhode Island College. She then founded a childcare nursery school in a nursing home. This led to an evolution into an intergenerational program in Providence.

She had four children, two of whom went to BC, and nine grandchildren. Her volunteer activities include work with historic homes, the Providence Preservation Society, and the Italian American Historical Society of Rhode Island. Mary Ann is currently working on her family genealogy.

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Correspondent: Missy Clancy Rudman newtonmiz@aol.com 1428 Primrose Lane Franklin, TN 37064 Patsy Keating wrote that she, Juliana Fazakerly Gilheany, and Susie Harding O’Connor joined other Newton grads at a tea on Long Island during the winter. They learned from the alumnae (Classes of 1958 to 1975) at the event about the diverse activities and accomplishments of Newton women. There were expressions of praise and gratitude to “those stimulating Mothers” as well as the lay teachers who taught at Newton College. • Betty Hitchins Wilson took her 7-month-old grandson, Mason, to Easter Mass, “which lasts two hours in Jamaica…. He behaved like an angel,” she writes. Betty now has six grandchildren. She and her husband were then going to Barbados for their twin grandsons’ First Communion. • News came from Paula Keane Teeling in March; she was then packing for her trip to Dublin and Galway, Ireland, to visit cousins. She said things in Manchester, VT, were good.

Dan and Betsy (Eads) Thomas visited them recently. Paula sees Janet Miele occasionally, especially at Falmouth on Cape Cod. • Duane and Ellen MacDonald Carbone hosted 17 for Easter dinner! They have what my husband calls “a family compound,” with children and grands close by—lucky them! Ellen was looking forward to garden work after a hard, cold, snowy winter. • My husband, Bob ’60, and I were in Ireland for a week in March visiting cousins and sightseeing. We learned that Abbeyleix—the sister city of Franklin, TN, where we live—in central Ireland is where many of the hooked rugs were made that were on the Titanic. Our Sierra Club here, along with the Knights of Columbus, had a dinner and auction for the Nashville Diocese Seminarian Fund, with 550 people attending. It was a great success. • Thank you to those who sent me such great news! Hope you all have a safe summer.

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Correspondents: Frank and Eileen (Trish) Faggiano frank@faggianoconsulting.com 33 Gleason Road Reading, MA 01867; 781-944-0720 A congratulatory shout-out goes to Tom and Jean Marie Egan Cull. Catholic Charities of Ventura County honored them with the Partners in Service Award for their outreach programs on behalf of the St. Jude’s Catholic community. • Olivia Carreiro Oliveira and her son Stephen traveled from her home in Hampton, VA, to China. In Beijing, they met her son Francis, who was there on a business trip. With his knowledge of the country, the three of them visited both famous and ordinary sights. They found that the Chinese people they met—both friends of Francis and those they encountered while walking on the street—were gracious and helpful, and climbing the Great Wall was an

amazing experience. In addition to Stephen and Francis, Olivia has another son, Henry, who lives in Fall River, and a daughter, JoAnn, in Alexandria, VA. Olivia added that she thought our 50th reunion was great, and she was so glad she was able to attend. • On their 50th wedding anniversary, Barbara and Jack Murray, MBA’70, gathered with children Michelle ’87, MSW’90; John ’88; and Steve ’91 in Portsmouth, NH, for dinner and an overnight stay. The next day they gathered at Michelle’s home in Hampton, NH, to continue the celebration with their five grandchildren. As Jack said, “It doesn’t get much better than that.” • Paul McNamara, JD’75, just completed a three-year term as president of the Charitable Irish Foundation, an organization that has existed for more than 275 years and is dedicated to giving a helping hand to newly arrived Irish immigrants. Paul also had the good fortune of meeting two presidents of Ireland, President Michael D. Higgins and former president Mary McAleese. • Rosemary (Thomas) ’65 and Jack MacKinnon, along with Paul McNamara, Joyce Francis McDevitt, and Frank Faggiano, attended BC’s annual Distinguished Volunteer Tribute Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in June. Jerry York ’67, MEd’70, CAES’73, was awarded the John P. Curley 1913 Award for his great leadership on and off the ice. Honored also were Patricia Randolph Williams ’77, Vincent J. Quealy Jr. ’75, and John Fish, P’13. • In May, Jim O’Connor went on his 50th pilgrimage to Lourdes with the Order of Malta, which included 7,000 Knights and Dames from all over the world.

Members of the Order of Malta are dedicated to helping the sick and the poor. During the Lourdes pilgrimage, the grand master of the order, His Most Eminent Highness Fra’ Matthew Festing, bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of Malta on Jim before the Knights and Dames. This is the highest award granted by the order for exceptional and extraordinary service to the sick and the poor and administrative matters. • We look forward to hearing from you.

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Correspondent: Mary Ann Brennan Keyes makmad@comcast.net 26 Ridgewood Crossing Hingham, MA 02043

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Correspondent: Matthew J. McDonnell matthew.mcdonnell.esq@gmail.com 121 Shore Avenue Quincy, MA 02169; 617-479-1714 The spirit of our 50th still runneth over on St. Patrick’s Day in Naples, FL! Our class had another great showing at the Friday night preparade party and at the parade as well as at the post-parade luncheon! Overall, the BC contingent, including those from the Class of ’64, this year’s 50th anniversary class, was the largest ever! Those who attended— most with their spouses, and in no particular 58 class notes

order—included Bob and Mary (Twomey) Sheffield, Jim Norton, Bruce Ryan, Ed Lynch, Jack Greeley, Steve Mozzer, Bill Fitzpatrick, Guy Garon, John Flanagan ’64, Ed Rae, Doug MacQuarrie, Ed O’Brien, Gene Durgin, Brian Sullivan MA’65, Jack Hayes, Paul Hebert, Tom McCabe, and Bill Murphy. Tom McCabe reports that the weather was perfect: 81 degrees and sunny, with a mild breeze! • I heard from Mike Neri that he and Tim Sullivan, JD’66, are planning a Chorale reunion on August 9, 2014, and are trying to get the word out to Glee Club and Chorale members from the years 1960 to 1965. They plan to meet in their old rehearsal room on the top floor of Lyons Hall and revive all their ancient instruments for a huge fun retro concert. Sounds like a hoot! • I am sorry to report the death of John Raybould of Billerica on September 29, 2013. I last met John and his wife, Kathleen, at our 50th reunion dinner-dance, and they thoroughly enjoyed the evening. John spent his career as an insurance company underwriter. Besides Kathleen, John leaves his daughter, Kristen, and his son, Michael.

John and I were part of a group of classmates who had lunch almost every day together in the Lyons Hall cafeteria. Who can forget the endless games of table soccer/football with salt and pepper shakers for goal posts, and a match book for a ball?! Other brown-baggers included Rich McLeod, Bob McLeod, Peter Brady, Jack Rowley, John Flaherty, and Dick Santos. The group still tries to get together annually for dinner, usually somewhere in mid-state Massachusetts. A few years ago, Rich and Jane McLeod were gracious enough to host a golfing weekend for the group at their Falmouth home. A most memorable time! • Sadly, Richard Lavin, of Shallotte, NC, died on February 1. He was a retired business owner. He leaves his wife, Marsha, and nine children. • A point of personal privilege: Our grandson, Matt McDonnell, the oldest of our nine grandchildren, just graduated from Loyola University–Maryland (not BC, but Jesuit nonetheless) the first member of his generation in our family to attend college. His parents, Matt ’90 and Theresa ’89, are beaming! Matt’s sister, Sabrina, not to be outdone, is graduating this month from Newman Academy and is planning to attend Brandeis in the fall. The other seven grandchildren range in age from 4 to 7 and have a long way to go! • Let me hear from you!

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Correspondent: Colette Koechley McCarty ckm2@mindspring.com 106 Woodhue Lane Cary, NC 27518; 919-233-0563 While other classes were meeting in Chestnut Hill, six intrepid NC’63 friends were exploring the wonders of Paris. Maureen Meehan O’Leary, Carol Donovan Levis, Penny Brennan Conaway, Sheila Mahony, Colette Koechley McCarty, and Barbara Jones NC’62 were enjoying the City of Light and, perhaps mostly, each other’s company. Sr. Quinlan would be pleased to note that in our week’s stay we saw the Cluny Museum, the Musée d’Orsay, the Louvre, the Pompidou Center, the Orangerie, and Notre Dame, and we took a van to Giverny to see Monet’s

house and gardens (in full bloom!). Nightly dinners were full of great food and wine, memories, and laughs. Fun, fun, fun. • Those lucky classmates who live near BC were able to attend a three-part lecture series this spring, offered by the Boston College Alumni Association and featuring professors prominent in their fields. There was a lecture on musical theater, one on music, and one on art. Delia Conley Flynn, MEd’70, and Carol Donovan Levis attended and loved them. I am not sure if these programs will be offered again, but what a nice way to meet up with friends! Wish I didn’t live so far away. • Carol Donovan Levis and her husband, John ’63, attended the BC scholarship dinner, where they met the recipients of our Newton College Class of 1963 Scholarship. They are Sasha Brown, Class of ’15, a sociology major (Sasha graduated from Newton Country Day School) and Cora Ives, Class of ’17, a math and physics major (and a graduate of Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart, Lake Forest, IL). Carol says that the young women were very impressive and happy to receive our scholarships. We did good work, ladies! • Carolyn McInerney McGrath has a busy life: She’s just welcomed her 10th grandchild. Her three children live close by in Connecticut.

She sees Sue Moynahan Spain, Sharon Leahy Mahar, and Maureen Lambert Roxe often and is in touch with Maureen Kane Allman, Barbara Mozino Seegul, and Pat Lyster Vitty.

This winter, she saw Marie Craigin Wilson in Naples, FL. • Marie Craigin Wilson hosted a luncheon for 26 Newton College alumnae at the Port Royal Club in Naples. Attendees came from Classes 1957 to 1974. Representing our class was Margot White. • Delia Conley Flynn is a docent at the McMullen Museum of Art at BC. She recently led a tour of the photography exhibit “Paris Night & Day: Photography Between the Wars” for the NC’64 alumnae group. • Kathleen Hughes, RSCJ, will be the keynote speaker for the AASH convention in Scottsdale, AZ, in November.

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n the 50 years since Fr. James Spillane graduated from Boston College, he has taught in Jamaica, Iraq, Colombia, Indonesia, Italy, India, and Tanzania; published over a dozen books, most of them written in Indonesian; founded the Tourism Research Center in Yogyakarta, Indonesia— and that’s just a sampling of his accomplishments.

“I thought I’d teach math at BC High my whole life,” Spillane remembers.

Things turned out a little differently.

“Working in the developing world opens up incredible opportunities to do things you wouldn’t get to do elsewhere.

If you’re willing to jump in and teach a Economist and educator James Spillane, S.J., course, start a program, solve a recently returned to the Heights for his problem, you can, and you learn and 50th reunion. grow in the process,” he explains.

Over three decades as a professor at Indonesia’s Sanata Dharma University, Spillane became an expert on Indonesia’s economy and promoted tourism as an engine of economic development—which led to an invitation to launch a tourism and hospitality management program at St. Augustine University of Tanzania, where he is now dean of business administration. what is your next goal?

I’m enjoying the challenge of developing Tanzanian tourism professionals. Tourism is a fledgling industry in Tanzania, but it has real potential to be a great economic boon for the country. I’m also looking forward to publishing a book, The Spirituality of Hospitality.

what would you do if you were bc president for a day?

I would hold a workshop inspired by Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning in which I asked students, faculty, and staff, “Where do you find meaning in life?”

For more of our interview with James Spillane, visit www.bc.edu/alumniprofiles.

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class participation goal: 503 Correspondent: John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com 27 Rockland Street Swampscott, MA 01907 The 50th reunion was a blast, with 319 classmates in attendance. Special thanks go to Alice Buckley Brennan and her creative committee, and let’s not forget the BC Alumni Association staff as well as Mother Nature, who blessed us with perfect weather. The “Travel Award” for coming the furthest distance went to Jim Spillane, SJ, MA’68, MDiv’76, who is back at the Catholic university in Mwanza, Tanzania, on the shores of Lake Victoria. He recently got a three-year renewal of his contract teaching tourism. • While celebrating our 50th was about as much as most of us could handle, Mike Ford, SJ, MDiv’75, has something else to feel proud of: The Holy Cross Class of 1989, as their class gift for their 25th reunion, donated and dedicated a plaza on the Holy Cross campus to Mike, who had been a chaplain at the college for over 20 years. The dedication read: “FORD PATIO: In honor of Fr. Michael Ford, SJ, Chaplain, Adviser, Friend, College

of the Holy Cross, 1983–2004. Dedicated by the Class of 1989 on the occasion of their 25th Reunion, May 31, 2014. AMDG.” The Mass and dedication of Ford Patio was on the Saturday afternoon of reunion week. Mike then hustled back to Chestnut Hill for our reunion dinner that evening. • Most of the classmates made a special effort to tour Stokes Hall, BC’s spectacular new addition named for benefactor Pat Stokes. What most didn’t realize was that the building was recently honored with the 2014 Palladio Award for New Design and Construction. Palladio Awards honor buildings that show outstanding achievement in traditional design. This is the fifth award for Stokes Hall. By the way, Pat will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of New York City’s Xavier High School in November 2014. He will be the second of our classmates to be so honored, as Roger Kirwan was inducted into that Jesuit school’s Hall of Fame in 2012. • Joe De Natale has retired from his medical practice in Pittsfield, ME, and now runs a 72acre farm and orchard. His wife, a former U.S. Ski Team member, is an artist and has her gallery in a room in their barn. One of his sons recently made a video of Joe’s experiences in Vietnam. It can be viewed on YouTube under the title “Quang Tri 1970–1971.” • Fred and www.bc.edu/alumni

Linda (Maier) O’Hara are both retired but continue to be called upon by former clients to take up the slack periodically. In retirement, Linda has been teaching citizenship classes to immigrants studying for their naturalization exams and teaching English as a Second Language classes in Oak Ridge, TN. Both Fred and Linda continue to be active in the Oak Ridge Playhouse and the Society for Technical Communication. • J. Ronald Collins has retired from teaching business at the University of Prince Edward Island. Ron got his PhD from UMass Amherst. He did extensive teaching and consulting in numerous countries during his career. • Worcester attorney Raymond Bilodeau died in summer 2013 following a long illness.

After BC, he went to the University of Chicago Law School, did an assignment in Africa with the Peace Corps, and began a rather unique law practice. He referred to himself as the “doit-yourself lawyer.” He would do, and charge for, what only lawyers could do, and he would teach his clients to do whatever else was needed. • George Callahan died in November 2013 of liver cancer. George spent his career as a math teacher at Medfield High School, where he was also the golf coach for 20 years, collecting two state championships.

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NC 1964 reunion year Correspondent: Priscilla Weinlandt Lamb priscillawlamb@gmail.com 125 Elizabeth Road New Rochelle, NY 10804; 914-636-0214 Be forewarned. This is the “eat your heart out” write-up for all you non-attendees of the 50th reunion. More than 50 of us returned to celebrate. It was, in a word—well, actually, no one word can describe it. I heard comments from “fabulous” to “wonderful” to “I wish I could have gone to more events.” I think that Sheila Donohue Boes summed it up best: “We certainly went to school with one great group of women! The weekend exceeded my expectations. I am so glad that I went.”

It began at BC with the Class of 1964 (BC and Newton) 50th Reunion Golden Eagle Investiture, where BC President William P. Leahy, SJ, presented us with our gold Newton pins. BC did a wonderful job of organizing the Newton events, two lovely dinners, our class picture taken on the steps in the old library, and a garden party luncheon, perfect weather included, all on the Newton campus. After the luncheon, there was a panel discussion, “Newton and the Last 50 Years.” Panelists included Jill Schoemer Hunter, currently mayor of Saratoga, CA, discussing her lifelong involvement in politics; Regina McDonnell Hayes, sharing her experience of her career in publishing, first as president and publisher of Viking Children’s Books for 30 years, and now as editor-at-large at Viking; and Sue Roy Patten, speaking about the value of, and everpresent need for, volunteer work. We are still going strong, as evidenced by the responses to the questionnaires, chronicling our lives during the past 50 years. The “biography book” put together from this survey is a testament to the accomplishments, diversity, ongoing love of learning, and continued participation in volunteer activities, all of which reveal the strengths of the women of the Class of 1964, then and now. It’s also a good read! Kathy Wilson Conroy spoke on behalf of Newton at the investiture ceremony, and her remarks were the ones that captured the audience’s attention in McElroy Commons that morning.

The BC alumni were quick to praise her as well. I can’t print the entire speech here but here are some highlights: “Fifty-three years ago, at the end of freshman year at Newton, I sat in the cafeteria, in Stuart, on a Sunday morning at brunch. Tables at the back were blocked off, presumably for some VIPs. One among us reported that it was a reunion class, attending Mass, soon to take those tables. Sure enough, in came a group of women, some with husbands, heading for those very tables.

We scrutinized them as only smug 18-yearolds can, and said: ‘Well, the men aren’t too bad, but those women—they’re such hags!’

That was the Newton Class of 1954—back for their 10th reunion! Well, here we are at our 50th—from the college I often name all in one as Newton College of the Sacred Heartwhich-is-no-more. We are now under the BC umbrella. Thank you, BC alumni office, for providing Gail Darnell to work with us, and for being so supportive in every way. Our class gift, which will provide scholarship assistance to this decade’s BC students, is a token of our gratitude for your keeping the Newton flame

burning these many years. It has been an interesting half-century, hasn’t it? We started college when Nixon and Kennedy were vying for the presidency. By the time we graduated, John Kennedy had been assassinated, the Beatles had landed in New York, Betty Friedan had written The Feminine Mystique, and SNCC, CORE, the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were kicking off Freedom Summer. As I anticipate the joys of this weekend—the catching up with friends I haven’t seen in years—I realize that describing my college as Newton College of the Sacred Heart-which-is-no-more is all wrong. Newton is here, in this room, with BC and all of us, in our memories of the religious women who told us to read Betty Friedan but who didn’t need Betty Friedan to show us that women could be strong and smart. Yes, here we are! By the grace of God, the ingenuity of medical science, the good fortune of our being from when and where we were and having the education we did, here we are! The men? They still aren’t so bad, and the women…? There’s not a hag among us! May it still be so in 10 or 20 or even 30 more years!” Well, Kathy is also the force behind this reunion. Without her perseverance, it would never have become the celebration it did. She said that she’s a “reunion junkie,” and to that I say, thank goodness, and thanks, Kathy. Now who wants to organize the 55th?

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Correspondent: Patricia McNulty Harte patriciaharte@me.com 83 Church Street, No. 1 Winchester, MA 01890; 781-729-1187 At the pre-Commencement dinner at BC, we (my husband, Neal Harte, and I) sat with Jane and John Guthrie, MBA’67, who live in Medfield. We also saw Ellen and Frank Previte and Neil Sullivan at the dinner. Sarah Ann and Jim Mahoney were not in attendance because they were in Spain with the patrons of the McMullen Museum. Mary Margaret and John Griffin were in Florida, and I did not see Jack ’62 and Rosemary Thomas MacKinnon. • An email from Jeff Somers, who has been involved with the Neenan Society, wrote of the death of our classmate Bob DelSignore in March. Jeff learned this when he sent Bob an email about the Neenan Society, and Bob’s wife, Cheryl, wrote back with the sad news.

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Correspondent: Linda Mason Crimmins mason65@bc.edu 3902 MacGregor Drive Columbia, SC 29206 Mary Hoogland Noon announces the birth of her seventh grandchild, Patrick James Noon, on February 19. • On a visit to Vero Beach, FL, to visit her sister, MaryLou Comerford Murphy ran into Kathy Heffernan. MaryLou lives on Kauai in the winter and on Bainbridge Island, WA, the rest of the year. MaryLou and her husband, Andy ’64, attended his 50th BC 60 class notes

reunion this year. • Jack and Susan Gehrke Hastings spend half the year in Florida and the other half in Grosse Pointe, MI. Sue had heart surgery last year. Her recovery was so swift she was back on the golf course in six weeks! Sue enjoys spending time with her five grandkids and with her 97-year-old mother.

She is in touch by email with her former roommate Bobbi Lorch Gettelman. • Nancy Philpott Cook is always busy! In May she stayed in three different houses plus spent a week in her timeshare, in two different states, with overlapping house guests from three continents! She had better rest up, because Mary Hoogland Noon expects her to play tennis soon! • Joan Wienk Gallagher was brave enough to chaperone her 10-yearold niece’s Chinese immersion class trip to China! Immediately following this trip, Joan began her graduation tour, ranging from a heart-tugging kindergarten promotion to a pride-prompting University of Michigan School of Engineering graduation. • Angie McDonnell Larimer reports that she and Tom are both in excellent health and enjoying life.

Angie wound up her 34th tax season in April and intends to “die in the saddle.” She and Tom have visited grandchildren (and their parents) in San Jose and Seattle since the end of tax season. “Life is good” sums up Angie’s news. • Gretchen Monagan Sterling, MEd’70, and husband Bill ’65 visited Lee and Mary (Thilman) Hasselbring in Sarasota, FL, where they have retired. Mary and Lee have lived all over the world but spent significant time in Bermuda and England, where they both taught. • And we have great news from Cathie Lugar! She is a one-year stroke survivor, and, with courage, determination, and hard work, she continues on the road to recovery. She said she was working on her Spanish and reading up on soccer in preparation for the World Cup in Brazil in June. She is planning on attending our 50th next year; I hope you are too! • Karen Kinnealey has posed an interesting question for all of us, and I would love it if you would send me your answers.

Who was our graduation speaker?

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Correspondent: Catherine Beyer Hurst catherine.b.hurst@gmail.com 333 Atwells Avenue, #211 Providence, RI 02903 Twelve classmates recently gathered in Wellesley for lunch, so I have news to share! Jon and Mary Clarissa Donahue Stearns welcomed their first grandchild, James Domenic, this past November. James and his parents (Sam and Laura) live in Cambridge. Mary has just retired as division chief, Surface Transportation Human Factors Division, Volpe National Transportation

Systems Center, and is now a part-time consultant. Most recently, she led a Volpe team conducting research on transportation issues associated with older individuals for the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. The study found that older vehicle operators tend to self-regulate by compensating for ageassociated deficits. But some male operators may continue to operate beyond their capabilities, while some female operators may withdraw from vehicle operation prematurely.

• Judy McCluskey Flood recently retired from her job as a guidance counselor. She lives in Lowell and is the proud grandmother of twins—a boy and a girl. • Susi Marion Cooney is still working as a real estate broker in Greater Lowell. She has four daughters and seven grandchildren who add “lots of fun” to her life. • Dorie Norton Weintraub recently moved from Boston to Chestnut Hill, across from the new Wegmans. She is still enjoying her work as an architect. Dorie and Buzz have four grandchildren—two on each coast. They all gather at the Weintraubs’ Cape Cod house at Christmas and the Fourth of July. • Ros Moore is enjoying a two-day work week, seeing granddaughters who live nearby, and traveling up and down the East Coast to visit family in South Carolina and Washington DC. “I am grateful for health and friends,” she says. • Kathy Byron Kahr, MSW’68, has a new granddaughter: Madlyn Kahr was born to Kathy’s son Tony ’04 and his wife, Annie (Walsh) ’05, in August 2013. • Louise Mazyck Woodruff reports that her latest book read was The Stationery Box

by Janice Blessington Kenny, and her latest trip was a long weekend in New York City with daughters Mary Elizabeth and Anne— “dinners, tours, and lots of chatting and laughing,” Louise says. At press time, Louise and Jim were planning a return to Michigan for his reunion and visits with family. • Sandra Puerini Del Sesto is working as a consultant for the Educational Development Center in Waltham, developing curriculum, webinars, and online courses in behavioral health. She has had the opportunity to visit 44 states in her work as a trainer. Also attending the luncheon were Kathy Brosnan Dixon, Marilyn Bohrer Dewar, Jane Cass O’Leary, and Catherine Beyer Hurst.

at the wake of Mary Costello Connell in West Roxbury. Mary was originally from Roslindale but lived in Hyde Park. She earned her MS from UMass Boston in 1997 and spent almost her whole career in geriatric care, retiring in 2011. The class extends its condolences to Mary’s daughters—Alicia, Teresa, and Sheila—and their spouses and children.

• Also retiring soon is Maryann Mahoney McGovern, who is a professor of nursing at Salem State University. • The class extends its condolences to Carol Fiorentino Maloney, MS’73, on the passing of her husband, Ed Maloney Jr. ’71. Carol specializes in pediatrics with the Marlboro Medical Group and lives in Southborough. Their children—Michael, Kate, and Margaret—are in our prayers. • We had a nice email from Jack Gannon.

He and his wife, Patricia Feraco Gannon, live in Hillsdale, NJ. Pat is the educational director of Hillsdale United Nursery School.

• In March, Jack Lambert caught up with Jim Peters, who stopped by to visit when driving through North Carolina on his way home to Connecticut. They played golf at Sea Trail Plantation, where Jack lives, and were joined by fellow resident Mike Jerome. Missing the round was George Currivan, who also lives there but was vacationing in Cabo and California. “A good time was had by all,” writes Jack. • Dick Kane wrote with news of his BC roommate Rev. Fred Cournoyer. Fred, who spent many years ministering to the poor in Honduras, is now back in Holyoke.

He will preside at Dick’s youngest daughter’s wedding in November on Bald Head Island some 30 years after he baptized her. • We had lunch in March with David Gay, JD’70, and his wife, Trisha (Marshall) NC’68, while on Hutchinson Island, FL. Trisha is retired from the Taunton school system, but David still maintains his law firm in Taunton, although they have relocated to Bourne, on Cape Cod. • Tom Azar passed away in February. Tom was a philosophy major at BC. Originally from New Bedford, he was living in Swansea at the time of his death. The class extends its condolences to his family and friends. • Jack Keating writes that he and his wife, Pat, spoke with Judy and Jack Boyle and Roberta “Bert” and Tony Caraluzzi at the BC–Red Sox game in February. Jack is retired from the Fairfield County school system, and Tony is retired from the family supermarket business. • Your

correspondents, Charles, MBA’70, and MaryAnn (Woodward) Benedict, are grandparents once again. Celia Ann Pagliano was born in March to our daughter Annmarie and her husband, Jeff. The Paglianos live in Brooklyn.

Celia joins her sisters, Rosemary and Margot.

• The class has planned a Duckboat/Fenway Park tour in September and a Boston-toBermuda cruise in early June 2015. Join in the fun!

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Correspondent: M. Adrienne Tarr Free thefrees@cox.net 3627 Great Laurel Lane Fairfax, VA 22033-1212; 703-709-0896 How have another three months flown by? I still substitute teach; currently it’s full-time for a friend on leave since February. As I write, I still have another four weeks to go thanks to our snowy winter. It’s been a busy four months; teaching English to middle school special education students is not my natural niche. We get along, weathering all the required state testing, and I am even learning more than I ever knew about literature. • Keeping up with everyone has been even more of a challenge, but there is news from South America! Josie Higgins Rideg enjoyed hosting her eight grandchildren for Easter at her home in São Paulo. They were visiting from Chile, Holland, and the suburban hills near her. She likes her retirement, especially avoiding the long commute to her school job in the city. Now she teaches English skills to young women seeking receptionist jobs.

Otherwise, she is compiling her parents’ wartime letters—now covering more than 579 pages. She also knits and gardens. Josie was anticipating the cooler weather of fall and winter just as we headed into the warmth of our late spring and summer. She was also considering escaping Brazil during the World Cup hubbub. • As I write, Anne Caswell Prior is visiting for several days outside Chicago with her former roommate Louise Tully Wallace. They hadn’t seen each other in several years, so Anne was looking forward to reconnecting. • Also, Maria Metzler Johnson

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Correspondents: Charles and Mary-Anne Benedict chasbenedict@aol.com 84 Rockland Place Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464 Doug Cabral, editor of the Martha’s Vineyard Times for 28 years and an owner for 23 of those years, has retired as of May 1. Doug joined the Times in 1986, and he and his wife, Molly, bought the paper in 1991. Doug had worked at the Vineyard Gazette from 1972 until 1980. We wish Doug and Molly the best as they sail into the Vineyard sunset!

• Also retired as of May 1 is Maureen Shea McCann, who chaired the practical nursing program at the Blue Hills Regional School.

Your correspondents saw Maureen as well as Cindy Rae Butters and Mary-Lou Downey Logue (all of the Connell School of Nursing),

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has been traveling. It’s her second trip to the Baltimore area from Texas this year to see her newest grandson. Husband Calvin had meetings in Washington, making it easy to tag along. She and I, with spouses, had a pleasant brunch, catching up on family news.

• Mary Lou Hinchey-Clemons has moved to a Detroit suburb from Maryland to be nearer family (read: “grandson”). Her son is in the Coast Guard there. She’s not sure if it will be a permanent move or not, but she welcomes classmates coming to that area. • So, what’s up with the rest of you? This weekend, BC celebrates its 2014 reunions. Hard to believe our last gathering was two years ago. I hope you’ll send news before I have to compose another column because we really do want to hear from everyone. The Prayer Net is still active, if you know a need for our prayers. For now, take care and God bless.

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Correspondent: Judith Anderson Day jnjday@aol.com The Brentwood 323 11500 San Vicente Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90049 Greetings, classmates. Glad tidings arrived in our Class of 1968 mailbag from Chip Auker.

He and his wife, Jane, proudly welcomed their son Matthew ’14 into the ranks of BC alumni on his graduation this past May. Their daughter Emily is also at BC, and the Aukers will celebrate her graduation with a return visit to the Heights next year. Heartiest congratulations to all the Auker Eagles! • Lawrene (Cormier) Rafferty was honored this past spring by the Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut with the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing.

Lawrene works in the intensive nurse Visiting Nurse Family Care program for first-time mothers and their babies throughout the region, providing education and support in such areas as nutrition and infant development for at-risk moms. Lawrene and her husband, Mike, live in Old Saybrook, CT. • Summer wanes, the chestnut trees will soon be turning, another autumn returning to our beloved Heights. Time for cheering on our football team. Go, Eagles!

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Correspondent: Jane Sullivan Burke janeburke17@gmail.com As you sit reading this column, can you remember 50 years ago, September 1964, when our class assembled outside Stuart to have an “official” class picture taken? Lots of madras, headbands, and nervous smiles.

Believe it or not, as many of you can attest, a black-and-white copy of this occasion still exists. The photo has traveled from Santa Fe to Napa and presently is stored outside Washington DC awaiting the next destination for a NC’68 gathering. • I just heard from Marge Gaynor Palmer, who has three granddaughters, all born within 13 months of one another. Marge plans to be in New York in

late October to attend her 50th reunion from White Plains High School. • Some of you might have followed on Facebook Jean Sullivan’s 10week trek to Australia, New Zealand, and Bali in early 2014. In Sydney, she climbed to the top of the Harbor Bridge—and she was the oldest in her group of nine by some 40 years.

They ascended at sunset and descended in darkness, with headlamps for illumination.

Jean went alone throughout and occasionally hopped on day bus tours. On the North Island of New Zealand, she boarded a coach filled with 20-year-olds from all over the world. On the run down the 90-mile beach, the driver invited everyone to come to the front of the bus to sing her national anthem. Jean reports that the German kids sang “Germanically,” the Scots charmed everyone with their lovely, lilting verses, and the Russian girl could not get past the first verse on account of her tears. Before beginning, Jean told her fellow bus riders how, in the bar where she worked, at closing time the Aussie, Kiwi, and Yank sailors linked arms and hopped on furniture to beat out the Kate Smith rendition of “God Bless America.” As she led the group in the same rendition, Jean could tell from their smiles that they meant what they sang. In conclusion, Jean writes that she loves how travel has the power to bring us all together.

Marzetti; Dan Meehan JD’72; Greg Murphy; Hobart Nichols; Ken Nolan; Jim O’Reilly; Susan Budassi Sheehy PhD’10; and Mike Sullivan. • I regret to announce the passing of Mike Sartori in February. Sympathy goes to his wife of 41 years, Linda, and his two daughters, Christina and Alicia. Mike worked as an analyst and manager for the State of Connecticut in the Energy Division and in the Office of the State Comptroller. After retiring, he and his wife moved to Cape Cod, where Mike became active with the Democratic Town Committee. • I also regret to report the passing of Mike McGinty on January 21. Mike received his MBA from Boston University. He worked at Sheraton International Corporate Headquarters in Boston, leaving to become director of training at the Sheraton Boston Hotel. Mike was also a former adjutant professor at BU, where he taught a popular freshman accounting course.

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Sadly, I report that Kathy Curry, JD’73, passed away on May 14. She is survived by her brother, his family, and a close friend, Jay Burke. Kathy was a former district attorney, and she practiced law privately for over 30 years in Boston, sharing law offices with her brother. Joan Libucha, whom we knew as Sr. Joan Libucha while at Newton, passed away on March 22. She was the widow of Domenic DiMeglio. After Newton, Joan received a BS in nursing from Rhode Island College. She worked at Rhode Island Hospital for 27 years and, prior to that, she taught in various schools in the Fall River, MA, area. Their names and those of 10 others from our class were read at the Sunday Mass during Reunion Weekend. • The reunion weekend was terrific!

You would have been proud to meet and speak with Catherine Cornille, the BC professor who holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair in Western Culture. She is also the head of the Theology Department. On Saturday morning, she moderated a well-attended panel, “Women and Interreligious Dialogue.” Catherine was concerned about how the panel would go, but she was assured that Newton College alumnae would talk, and they did. Believe it or not, I sat on the panel and represented our class. At the luncheon following the panel, Catherine and I sat together. She is a native of Belgium and so interesting. She travels the world lecturing.

We can be proud that she represents Newton College. Dinner on Saturday night brought a few of us together. I passed out books by several of our class authors that evening. Lyn Peterson-Friberg, Deborah Madison Nolan, Winifred Loving, and Patricia Szarek Aburdene were represented! Julie Lombardi Goulet and Noreen Weaver Shawcross discovered they have homes within walking distance of each other in Narragansett Bay. Julie’s husband, Gerry, joined us. At the Harvard graduation that week, Gerry was a grand marshal. Their son Andrew, also a Harvard graduate, lives in Los Angeles and works in visual marketing for Buddha Jones. Julie’s other son, Morgan,

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reunion year class participation goal: 390 Correspondent: James R. Littleton jim.littleton@gmail.com 39 Dale Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 It was great to see many of you at our 45th reunion celebration. Don and Mary (Mulvoy) Lofty were in from Cincinnati, and George ’68 and Myrna (Cohen) Thurnher came up from Woodbridge, VA. The Gold Key Society was represented by Mike Barry, Tony DelGrosso, and Mike Sullivan. Roger Pelissier was there to take pictures and to pass out pictures from previous reunions. Judge George O’Toole took time from his busy schedule to attend, as did Jim O’Reilly, author and law professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Law, and fellow attorney Bob McCorry came up from Pawtucket, RI. I had a nice chat with Bob Wise, who is president and CEO of Hunterdon Health Care in Flemington, NJ, and with Phil Langsdorf, who is retired and living in Wayland. It was also nice to see former roommates Dan Boudreau and Dan Ciullo sharing memories. Greg Murphy and wife Mary attended. Greg is off on a second career selling real estate on Cape Cod. It was good to see loyal BC sports fans Pat Daly, JD’73, and Joe Marzetti, MBA’71, in attendance, as well as Greg Gormican, who is at work with Gormican & Ayers PC in Wellesley. • Marty Gavin, MBA’74, reported to those in attendance the great job that our class did in making reunion gifts to BC. Many thanks to the following classmates who worked on the Class of ’69 Reunion Gift Committee: co-chairs John Buehler, Dan Denihan, and Geoff Boisi, and committee members Bill Carney; Mary Gabel Costello NC’69, MEd’72; Pat Daly; John Esposito; Marty Gavin; Bob Graf; Jim Littleton; Joe 62 class notes

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practices law in Richmond, VA. He and his wife, Aziza, have a son, also named Morgan.

Their meeting is truly a love story. While crossing the street in Queens, NY, one day, Morgan was hit by a car and seriously injured.

After a lengthy recuperation, he went back to thank the doctors for their help and decided to invite Aziza, one of his doctors, for a drink. The rest is history. Julie and Gerry are planning to drive cross country, and I hope to see them when they pass through Akron. Julie was a big help during the reunion planning. The weekend concluded with a Mass on Sunday followed by a lovely brunch on the lawn between Stuart and Barat. The weather was spectacular. Those of us who attended the dinner are already planning the 50th.

• Jackie Everett Bonafide could not attend the reunion because she was exhibiting her nature photographs during the month of June at the Belknap Mill in Laconia, NH. Some of her photographs are in permanent collections in various locations throughout New Hampshire. She also sells notecards. • Carol Romano Tuohey was in Boston visiting her son Vinnie so we caught up, too. She recently finished another stint working for the Maryland legislature. • After Newton, Paula Schlick began her career working in international education but went on to work in the food industry for 26 years. She began at General Foods, now Kraft Foods. She lives in Danbury, CT, close to her brother. She spends time in Florida and enjoys life with her friend Jack. • Cara Finnegan Groman, MBA’74, and her husband are the proud grandparents of Amelia, who was born in May to daughter Madeline and her husband.

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Correspondent: Dennis Razz Berry mazzrazz1@aol.com Hi, gang! I started the day picking up my son and daughter-in-law (both ’04) at the conclusion of their 10th reunion celebration.

Being on campus and watching so many alumni of all ages packing cars and exchanging parting remarks, I couldn’t help but think that, as their reunion year closed, ours is opening.

Hard to believe but now we, the Class of 1970, are the 45th reunion class. Are we really old enough for that? Too early to know what will be happening but, over the next year, we’ll be celebrating that milestone. I do look forward to seeing many of you; and be aware I’m shameless about grabbing news for this column. • There have been and will certainly continue to be news of retirements. This time, it came from Ed Gillis, for the last 22 years the director of admissions at the University of Miami. Ed has had several contacts with BC over the years and, as a former BC pitcher, enjoyed throwing out the first pitch when BC went south to play Miami this year. I understand he made it all the way to home plate; more than that he didn’t say. Many happy years of retirement, Ed! • Still active after all these years is Quincy attorney Dennis “Mike” Ryan, who sent along a note to bring me up to speed on his career and family. He has been practicing in that city for a number of years while living in nearby Milton with his wife, Ann. Mike is especially proud of his three children—Kerrie, Dennis Jr., and Katie—

and six grandchildren. • Earlier this year, we lost another classmate with the passing of David Wessling, who died in a care center on Cape Cod in January. David is survived by his mother and seven brothers and sisters, including a twin. He will certainly be missed.

• Please keep your favorite columnist in mind over the next few months, and remember: All reunions are made even better by your being there. Don’t wait until five years hence—now is the time to renew old friendships and make some new ones. See you ’round the campus!

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Correspondent: Fran Dubrowski dubrowski@aol.com I’ll start with some personal news. I recently launched a nonprofit project, Honoring the Future, to harness the power of art to educate and engage the public on climate change. (Art lovers, visit our website, www. honoringthefuture.org, and enjoy!) We sponsored a program at the BC Arts Festival, where I was gratified to see so many classmates show up to support our effort—and offer news!

• DC–based classmates can expect to see more of Barbara Coveney Harkins now that her daughter lives in Washington. • Liz Scannell Burke is enjoying summering at her newly built—and very lovely—cottage on Prince Edward Island. • Patti Bruni Keefe seems as energetic as ever—no small feat, given lots of traveling to keep up with her far-flung family.

Katie O’Shea McGillicuddy, now retired, takes classes at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (no papers, no exams!) and serves on its governing board. The institute encompasses a small troupe of Shakespeare Players, who produced As You Like It, with Katie in the role of Celia. Andrea Moore Johnson saw the production and can attest to Katie’s newly discovered acting skills— once she returns from her trip to Italy. • Jane McMahon says “Hola, amigas, all is well” from sunny San Miguel, where she enjoys watching hummingbirds, visiting the vegetable market, and entertaining family and friends when she is not teaching English at an impoverished school outside town. • Julie McCarthy and husband Jerry are enjoying retirement. Julie has time for serious exercise, Jerry is learning to play the guitar and speak Portuguese, and they recently toured the Azores, a prelude to their next adventure. • Justine Meehan Carr, chief medical officer for Steward Health Care in Boston, writes that she concluded 10 years of service on the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a federal HHS advisory committee, to free up time for family and travel. She and husband Dan traveled to Florence on business, then to Trinity College in Dublin to visit daughter Becky and her son, 4-year-old Eamonn, “a real Irish lad with an authentic little brogue!” This year, they hope to visit their son, who is a consultant in Hong Kong. With offspring in widespread corners of the globe, they are thrilled daughter Nora lives in Boston! • Please pray for Barbara Coveney Harkins’s mom and Marcia McGrath Abbo’s husband, Bobby, both of whom passed away— and for Marcia, who is showing great grace amidst one of life’s most daunting challenges, the loss of a beloved spouse. www.bc.edu/alumni

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Correspondent: James R. Macho jmacho71@bc.edu

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Correspondent: Melissa Robbins melrob49@sbcglobal.net

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Correspondent: Lawrence Edgar ledgar72@gmail.com I’ve had two recent reminders of one of my fondest memories of BC: the great winning streak of the ’68–’69 Eagles basketball team and the game that was the highlight of that streak. One was that Coach Bob Cousy, H’14, received an honorary degree at this year’s Commencement. The other was a meeting I had with ex-NBA great Spencer Haywood.

In January 1969, Spencer, who had just led the United States to a gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics, came to Roberts Center with a heavily favored University of Detroit team. The cheers were deafening as BC not only scored an upset win, but was ahead by 28 points when Coach Cousy pulled his starting team from the game! • I haven’t had much correspondence this quarter, but I did hear from Norman Spitzig. Norm is the chief operating officer of the BallenIsles Country Club near Palm Beach, FL. He’s also a published author, with two books to his credit, and a consultant to other country club managers. • I had my annual birthday call from Orange County money manager John Coll, MBA’74, who told me that he and his wife, Marilyn, took a safari trip to South Africa last year. • My condolences to the family of Thomas Mullen, who passed away in Florida in April. Thomas spent his career in the aviation industry. For 15 years, he worked on Air Force 2 at Andrews Air Force Base. In addition, he worked for several airlines.

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Correspondent: Nancy Brouillard McKenzie newton885@bc.edu Our column has sad news. Please keep in our prayers Maureen Curry Lesuer, who passed away in January. Maureen’s husband, Robert, and her children, Specialist Bennett Lesuer of Fort Stewart, GA, and Martha Lesuer, of Plymouth, survive her. Following our graduation, Maureen earned an MBA from Pace University. She had worked for many years at AT&T, where she was director of finance. After retiring from AT&T to raise her family, Maureen gave time and energy to local charities, including the Wellesley Service League, Rosie’s Place, and other local shelters.

• How about taking a moment to contact a classmate, say hello, and share some news?

Take care.

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1973

Correspondent: Patricia DiPillo perseus813@aol.com It was just a year ago that the Class of 1973 reconnected for our 40th reunion. Hopefully, the Class of 1974 enjoyed a similar and fun experience. Members of the Class of 1973, please have an equally enjoyable and fun summer, and jot down some things you would like to remember from those good times, along with milestones and cherished memories, and send them to me! We want to hear from you!

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Correspondent: Kate Novak Vick kate@vick.net As I write this, it seems hard to believe it has been a full year since our 40th reunion. I am pleased to say, I feel I am still benefiting from the reconnections made that weekend and, as a result, I have some fun news to share. • I recently reconnected with Francesca Casciaro, who now has a second home with her fiancé, Larry, near me in Litchfield County (CT). She is busy building a small library and landscaping her new home. In May, she and Larry traveled to Germany to pick up a new sports car. They drove around the country, and then went on to Barcelona for a friend’s wedding on the Costa Brava. On the more serious side, Francesca continues her New York City–based practice in cognitive therapy, which has been thriving for 28 years. • In other exciting news, Anne Rafferty Crowley just wrapped up a four-year term on her local school board and recently won the Democratic nomination for the Pennsylvania State House’s 167th District, which is in eastern Chester County, outside Philadelphia. She is very busy with her campaign, but Anne and her husband, Jim, recently got to join their son Matt in Minnesota for his MBA graduation. • Peggy Publicover Kring’s retirement from the Duval County (FL) School System last October was short-lived. She’s just accepted a position with the Florida Bureau of School Improvement, where she’ll be part of a team of specialists working with public schools in northeast Florida on their school improvement efforts. • Judith Chimenti reports that her son, Matthew, was just inducted into the National Honor Society and the World Language National Honor Society. Matthew is a junior at St. John’s Prep in Danvers, so Judy is deep in the college-touring business. Judy laments: “I am so old to be doing this stage—but alas, my kid is the joy of my life.” • Speaking of being too old, I think Mary Doherty Ellroy, MBA’78, is much too young to have welcomed her sixth grandchild earlier this year. But Mary stays young designing and advising on toys and games. Her new game, What the Face, will be launching at Target in August. • Now don’t forget to let me know what you are up to, and, if you pass through Litchfield County, be in touch!

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reunion year class participation goal: 480 Correspondent: Patricia McNabb Evans patricia.mcnabb.evans@gmail.com Thanks for all the news! • Maureen Curtis Cooper is in her 33rd year of working in pediatric emergency at Boston Medical Center and still loves it. She is the 2014 national chair of the Academy of Emergency Nursing, an organization that was founded to provide vision and leadership in this field and to recognize emergency nurses who have made enduring, substantial contributions to their profession. • In my opinion, Cheryl McEnaney has one of the most fascinating work lives possible: In addition to her longtime duties handling Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records in North America, she has taken on label directorship of two U.S.–based independent record labels, White Swan Records and Evergreene Music. She also manages the Bogotá-based band Sidestepper. Cheryl writes that there are never enough hours in the day, but life is never dull, and she loves it and has no plans to retire. • Best wishes to Eileen Barrett on her marriage last summer to Elissa Dennis.

Eileen earned her PhD in English from BC in 1987 and has been a professor at California State University, East Bay, since then. The wedding was on the 98th birthday of Eileen’s mother-in-law, who was the matron of honor.

The couple has established the Oakland to East Bay Scholarship for low-income students from the area. Among the wedding guests were Janet Caruso Howley ’73 and her family.

• Diane Gangi George surprised classmate and friend Tom Condon at Villanova when Tom spoke at that university’s School of Law. Most of us remember Diane twirling baton and Tom playing football for BC. Diane is a director in the Office of Musical Activities at Villanova, volunteers as the lieutenant governor of the Mid-Atlantic District AAU, and chairs their scholarship committee. She lives in Pennsylvania. Tom, who resides in Kentucky, is a well-known agent for NFL players and spoke about law opportunities in his field. • John and Maureen (Galvin) McCafferty are both in new roles in education. Maureen is vice principal at Mount Alvernia in Newton, where she has taught fourth grade for many years, and John is the CFO/business manager of the Hillside School in Marlborough. • After living in Weston for nearly 20 years and having successful careers, Barbara Drohan-Ballard and husband Jim have retired and moved to Williamsburg and now enjoy traveling.

Barbara has an MBA from Babson and is a CPA, and Jim is an attorney and also a CPA. Daughter Elizabeth graduated from Southern Law Center in Baton Rouge and is a law clerk in Louisiana. We enjoyed catching up at our reunion. • Speaking of Reunion, we had a great time! If you join the “Boston College Class of 1974” Facebook page you can see pictures/posts about the weekend. From the crowded dance floor, it looked like a success.

The turnout for our class party was just over 200—very nice! • Thanks to Chet Labedz, PhD’07, for sending a picture of five of the nine “Crusaders” from Canisius High who came to BC in 1970. At Reunion 64 class notes

were Phil Perna, Dennis McCleary, Dave Berryman, John Osborn, and Chet. The party-goers missed Chet and Ann (Hoffman) Franczyk, Mike Jackson, Ron Weiss JD’77, and Marty Moleski, SJ, ’73. • Thanks to the Social Committee members (a very fun group!) and to the classmates who volunteered to serve on the Gift Committee.

With the class’s support, they raised over $8 million—amazing! Congratulations to longtime co-chairs Bob Cooney and Paul O’Connor, and to Mary Cura, Lenny DeLuca JD’77, Vincent Gianatasio, Kathleen Owens Glynn, James Kelliher, Martin Kofman, Tom Mahoney, Joseph Mahler, Chris Mehne JD’77, Margot Morrell NC’74, Michael Puzo JD’77, Patricia Webber Sheridan, and Chris Tomecek. I am out of space—more updates next time!

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NC 1974 reunion year Correspondent: Beth Docktor Nolan beth.docktor.nolan@bc.edu Our 40th reunion has come and gone, but the memories and the class notes will linger on, due not only to your participation, but also because of Patty Devlin-Driskel! Patty kindly volunteered to transcribe the notebook of handwritten news on her 19-hour return trip to California. Patty commented: “I have to say that some of the handwriting was very difficult to read and, as the night went on, the info became briefer and briefer. I will keep you posted on the Facebook page. I will be in contact with Margot Morrell and Catherine Meyer Tracy on that.” • Beginning our reunion news, in our own words, Martha Taricano Brooks reports that she has lived in Sidney, ME, for the last 29 years and teaches Spanish at the high-school level. Her husband was a high school administrator for 25 years, and their sons Rob and Dave are also teachers. Martha writes: “I’m looking forward to retiring in June and being able to visit my sons whenever I like.” • Mercy (Mercedes) Gil Jimenez lived in Broward County, FL, for 33 years. She retired from teaching two years ago and is presently living in North Bethesda, MD, with her husband, Manuel.

She writes: “I like to travel and visit the two grandchildren, three sons, and two wonderful daughters-in-law still living in Florida. In my spare time, I’m enjoying hiking, reading, and volunteering at church.” • Maria Gavaller de Schwede met her husband at Babson when they were getting their MBAs. They’ve traveled throughout the United States, lived in Venezuela for six years, and been owners of a sign franchise, Fastsigns, in Needham for 15 years. They have two daughters. • Patty Devlin-Driskel writes: “I headed for California in September 1974, meeting my husband of 36 years the third day I was there. I’ve been fortunate to live in the beautiful community of Santa Barbara and continue my career as a design professional, working for more than two decades in branding and packaging, and for the past four years, I have served as president of the Santa Barbara Chapter of AIGA. My husband, Dana, is a professor in media studies at UC Santa Barbara. We have two daughters: Jean Marie (Indiana University, 2012) and Julianna (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 2013). Retirement is a long way

off for me—weddings to pay for and lots of future packages to design.” • Finally, Brigid Coles Guttmacher emailed news notes in December, but unfortunately they were not received. Brigid writes: “I am trying to be better about staying in touch. It seems the older I get, the more I seem to be recalling people and places (doesn’t that sound like a song?).

We are still in Washington DC and muddling along—it seems impossible that we graduated 40 years ago! I have recently (in December 2013) closed my private practice in mental health counseling—I worked for hospice for years, went out on my own, and then decided it was time for another grand adventure. Part of that adventure will be spending time in the Boston area with our soon-to-be 1-year-old grandson (and his parents) and my 96-yearold mother-in-law. My husband, Alan, is still at the National Institutes of Health, and our son is working in the restaurant biz. Brigid attended the reunion luncheon, then ran the half marathon in Vermont with her daughter Kathleen.” • More reunion news to follow!

Our 40th reunion was most successful and a lot of fun!

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1975

Correspondent: Hellas M. Assad hellasdamas@hotmail.com Congratulations to Vinnie Quealy, who was one of four individuals honored at BC’s Distinguished Volunteer Tribute Awards Dinner held at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston in June. He received the highest honor bestowed by the Alumni Association, the William V. McKenney Award, which recognizes a BC graduate whose outstanding service to a chosen profession, community, or cause reflects honor on the University.

Vinnie has worked tirelessly over the course of the past 39 years as a volunteer and donor.

He has remained an active member of the BC Wall Street Council and as co-chair of his 25th, 30th, and now 40th Reunion Gift Committees, and he also volunteers time to the Legacy of Leadership program. In 2006, he was nominated to serve on the board of directors of the BC Alumni Association and in 2009 served as a member of its Executive Committee. In May 2014, Vinnie completed his term as president of the BC Alumni Board of Directors. He has enjoyed a 34-year career in commercial banking, first joining Bank of Boston in 1980, and serving today as an executive in BNY Mellon’s Global Client Group. Vinnie and his wife, Joanie, reside in Scituate and are the proud parents of Tim ’06, Kerry ’07, and Mike ’10. Classmates attending this celebratory evening included Bill ’74 and Kathie Cantwell McCarthy, Jayne Saperstein Mehne with daughter Julie ’05, and yours truly. • Judy Bowman celebrated her 20th year in business as a business protocol consultant. She has a new business protocol column in the Boston Herald every Tuesday. Check it out! Her second book, How to Stand Apart @ Work: Transforming Fine to Fabulous!, has just been released and is currently in bookstores. Judy has moved back to Massachusetts and is living in Plymouth.

• Michael McDermott, MA’89, is in his 38th year working in the Watertown Public Schools as a teacher and administrator, loving his

work, and not planning to retire any time soon. He has always had the travel bug, enjoying trips to other parts of the world, and for the past five years he has made the journey to France to volunteer at Lourdes Shrine during the month of August. Of course, he can’t cross the Atlantic without stopping in Ireland to visit his family, and Rome is also among his favorite destinations. Mike would like to give a shout-out to his Lyons Hall Table Six friends and to all former members of the Chorale. • I’m looking forward to hearing from you with any news and updates!

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Correspondent: Mary Stevens McDermott mary.mcdermott@cox.net

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1976

Correspondent: Gerald B. Shea gerbs54@hotmail.com Clem Taylor, who won a Peabody Award in 2013 for “Joy in the Congo” on 60 Minutes, passed away last March due to pancreatic cancer. He resided in Montclair, NJ. He is survived by his wife, Hilary, and a son and daughter, Adrian and Lila. R.I.P. • Gail Mosman Murphy worked for several years at the Campion Center, the Jesuit retirement home in Weston, and then for Epoch Senior Living, also in Weston, as life enrichment director for the last seven years. She recently retired and plans to travel and play golf.

Congratulations, Gail! • Alan Collette, of Olathe, KS, was ordained by his church for prison ministry, assisting inmates to successfully re-enter society after serving time at the federal prison in Leavenworth.

Life Connections, as the program is named, claims to reduce the recidivism rate from 80 percent to about 20 percent. Alan welcomed his first grandchild, Isabella, last May and reports that his daughter Lena, baby, and Dad are all doing well. Congratulations! • As one who struggled with childhood obesity, Susan Cushing, of Pocasset, decided to share her story and recently published Fat No More! The Book of Hope for Losing Weight. She is touring libraries as a guest speaker in support of her book, which discusses her path and ultimate success in losing, and keeping off, 85 pounds.

Congratulations! • Twelve BC Athletics teams earned top marks from the NCAA for ranking within the top 10 percent in the Academic Progress Rate (APR). Ten of the teams earned perfect scores. Seven women’s teams and five men’s teams were cited, augmenting our alma mater’s already august academic reputation.

• Susan LaRocco has received a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at the University of Jordan in Amman for the academic year 2014–15. She has been teaching nursing at Curry College since 2003. • In March, Joseph Eagan opened the newly renovated and expanded Olney Library of Montgomery County (MD) Public Libraries, where he is the library manager. He writes: “Our enthusiastic staff of 29 persons provides 21st-century library services to a diverse community of avid library customers. Since earning my www.bc.edu/alumni

MLS degree from Simmons College, I have pursued a rewarding career in librarianship, working in three public library systems over the past 37 years. I’ve been an active member of both the Maryland Library Association and the American Library Association, serving on the latter’s executive board from 2008 to 2011. Last year, I married my longtime partner, James Cooke, after marriage equality was approved by Maryland voters. I am very proud of the accomplishments of my nieces, Arielle Eagan ’10, MSW’12, and Kara Eagan, a current student in the Class of ’15. They are the daughters of my brother Robert Eagan ’72. • Here’s wishing all a healthy and happy summer and fall. God bless!

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Correspondent: Nicholas Kydes nicholaskydes@yahoo.com Patricia Smith Jay has relocated closer to Boston and has been continuing her work as a physician with Visions Healthcare in Wellesley and Dedham. Her daughter Lacey Jay ’12 has been living in Los Angeles. A film studies major at BC, she has met career success in the business world. • Jennifer Lynch had an opportunity to visit with Robin Christiano Ryan in Seattle. Robin has been fighting a slow and difficult battle with breast cancer, but she is very glad to have survived and spends every weekend watching her 16-year-old son play hockey.

She’s working part-time, doing corporate training and career counseling. Jennifer is involved with a BC student group focused on promoting university endowment divestment from fossil-fuel stocks. The student effort extends to many other college campuses.

The group hopes to have BC become the first Jesuit university to take a lead in this effort to combat global warming. The mother of three children, one still in college, Jennifer reports there is still hope—no one has gone to graduate school yet, and BC does have some nice choices! • Diego Grinberg-Funes was in Boston recently for his youngest child’s college graduation. Alas, it was not at BC, but as his daughter was majoring in acting, Emerson was the college of choice! Lauren Grinberg-Funes will be moving to LA. Diego lives on Lake Champlain in Plattsburg, NY, and has a urology practice there. He is an adjunct faculty member at SUNY Upstate Medical School and was recently asked to be a reviewer for the Office of Professional Conduct for the State of New York. We think Diego will make a great Dr. Welby when Lauren writes and stars in her first TV series. • Dennis Anastos was spotted on campus when he went to BC to give a tribute to economics professor Frank McLaughlin ’54, MA’57, who was retiring after 52 years of service. Dennis is a resident of Wilton, CT, and president of Highgate Partners. He and his wife, Terri, are the parents of two teenage sons. • Tony Guarente has retired after 35 years teaching in the Belmont public school system. Tony taught math and science at the middle-school level and coached cross-country track. He and his wife and 21-year-old son live in Wakefield and enjoy going to BC hockey games and to Cape Cod. Tony keeps in touch with Peter Hallisey; Peter, we’d love to hear from you too!

• December 2013 found Leeann McGonagle Alberts, Andrea Micek, and Rev. Cynthia A. Frado ’76 gathered for Christmas cheer at Andrea’s home in Thompson Hill, CT. Leeann and her husband, Brian, reside in Falls Church, VA. Leeann finally retired from government contract law and is volunteering her legal abilities to the Fairfax County VA Disability Committee. Andrea is the owner of Three Oak Companion Services, which specializes in helping people build a safe and secure future. Her daughter, Katherine, graduated from Pomfret School in May and has decided not to follow her mother’s footsteps by going to BC; she will attend the University of Alabama. Cindy and husband James are currently living in Amherst.

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1978

Correspondent: Julie Butler julesbutler33@gmail.com It’s summer, and it seems things are still rather quiet for my fellow ’78ers. Let’s heat things up, people! Please send me info/ scoop/comings/goings/whateverings for the next class notes. OK? Here’s an example of something, and, again, it has to do with me— which is a bore—so if you want to read about another member of the class, please shoot me an email. OK, said example: I am moving from Connecticut, where I have lived for 99 percent of my 58 years, out to Jackson Hole, WY, at the end of July. My nest will be empty for the first time in 31 years, and I think it might look better with the Teton Range as a backdrop. Right? I am leaving my job as the managing editor of the New Canaan Advertiser but will still be with the company from afar as the editor of 14 to 15 special sections. I may also decide to reinvent myself as a ski bum.

Who knows? • Also moving on to better things is my Mod 8A mate Joyce Gallagher Sullivan, who just started a new gig as director of development communications, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Division of Development and the Jimmy Fund. And Anthony Campo (Dr. Anthony Campo, by the way) also moved recently—from Southampton, NY, to Palm Beach, FL, to assume a position as medical director at Caron Renaissance Ocean Drive.

Anthony is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology after graduating from St. George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies.

Congrats to Joyce and Anthony! • More big news came in about Bill Oates, who in March joined the Massachusetts state government as commonwealth CIO, working to promote the strategic use of technology for business gain across the commonwealth. Previously CIO for the city of Boston, Bill helped establish the city’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, which is now a globally recognized model for civic innovation. • And finally, Barbara Snow Bryant, of Lakeview, announced that her daughter Elizabeth Zembruski ’06 married Marc de St. Maurice ’01 in April in St. Ignatius Church at BC. • Enjoy your collective summers, everyone. And do something so devilish and delicious that you will want to share it with the rest of us in the fall notes!

• PS: Thank you to the above-mentioned classmates for sending news!

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1979

reunion year class participation goal: 550 Correspondent: Peter J. Bagley peter@peterbagley.com Thanks to all alumni who celebrated the 35thyear anniversary of the Class of 1979. • There were a number of alumni children graduating from BC this year, including twins Meghan ’14 and Tim Fay ’14, children of Jane Hauber ’80 and Ed Fay, JD’82. • In other news: Frank Rider and his wife, Keverly, live with their children, Destiny (17) and Stephen (13), in Raleigh, NC. Since 2006, Frank has worked in dozens of states to strengthen their systems of care for children and youth in difficult circumstances.

He is a technical assistance coordinator for SAMHSA, HUD, and other federal programs for the American Institutes for Research in Washington DC. Frank’s daughter will be applying to BC for the Class of 2018. • Two BC families celebrated together when Alessandra ’08, daughter of Mike Preziosi and his wife, Lorraine Comollo ’81, married William Michener ’08, JD’11, son of James ’74 and Mary (Costigan) Michener ’74 on August 11, 2012. Appropriately, the wedding took place in St. Ignatius Church on the BC campus. Our best wishes go out to both families. • If you have friends from the Class of ’79 who are not on Facebook, but whom you contact regularly, please let us know: Help us update their addresses and keep them apprised of what is going on. Log in at Boston College Class of 1979 on Facebook. • Have a great summer, and please forward to me your news.

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1980

Correspondent: Michele Nadeem michele.nadeem@gmail.com Sawsan Ahmed Galal is now an innkeeper in Beckley, WV, where she owns and operates the Ambrosia Inn at Beckley. Also a chef, Sawsan trained in French classical and international cuisines with a concentration in baking. If you are in the area, stop by and savor her signature Ambrosia Inn French toast casserole, which was featured in the December 2012/ January 2013 issue of WV South magazine. • I was also happy to hear from Steve Johnson, who writes: “Our son, Emmett, just finished a wonderful sophomore year at BC, living on ‘Co Road’ and competing on the swim team.

Our daughter, Michaela, graduated from Holy Cross and works at Dana-Farber in Boston. As a result, my wife, Cathleen (O’Connell) ’81, and I spend many happy days back in Boston and on campus. We live in Garden City, NY. I am in my 25th year at Time Warner Inc. as VP of tax and wonder at times where the years have gone!”

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1981

Correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee amckee81@aol.com Domenic D’Intino lives in Hollis, NH, with his wife, Karen, son Matthew, and daughter 66 class notes

Danielle. Matt will be a senior at BC this fall and plans to live in the Mods (yes, the Mods live on!). Danielle is a high school junior. Domenic works for Wells Fargo as an automation engineer. He recently spent time with his BC roommate Tony Gray at their Cape house, which they’ve owned since graduation.

They installed hardwood floors and replaced the roof, lamenting that their roommate Rob Wilson ducked out on helping with the projects! Domenic extends a shout-out to their other Mod 3A mates: Scott Holmes, Tony Mattioli, and John Mannebach! • Brendan O’Rourke is a partner and co-chair of the litigation department at Proskauer in New York City. His practice focuses on intellectual property, sports, and entertainment law.

Ninety percent of his cases are in federal court. Despite this interesting work, he prefers spending time with his wife, Kathryn, and three children. Brendan enjoys golf and tennis and going on vacation: “I’m really good at vacation, hahaha!” Brendan clearly has kept perspective despite the pressures of a very high-level legal career (my words, not his!). Brendan, George McGoldrick, and Ellen Redmond Farrell all have children attending Villanova. Ellen’s son Pat is a member of the basketball team. The Wildcats had a great run this past season! • Michael Connolly’s daughter Caroline, Class of 2015, and Cara Lucke, Class of 2016, daughter of John and Daryl (Dimeola) Lucke, are members of the BC Women’s Lacrosse Club. They made it to the finals of the NCAA National Championship D-I club tournament here in Virginia Beach (my backyard!). Unfortunately, the Eagles lost to No. 1–seeded Pitt, 12–11, in a hard-fought nail-biter. On the road to the finals, they knocked off second-seeded Florida, Ohio State, and last year’s runnerup, UC Santa Barbara. Congratulations to the lady lax players—they did us all proud!

• Bettina Pels-Wetzel is delighted to report that her daughter Brittney graduated from BC’s College of Arts and Sciences his year!

Bettina writes that attending Commencement brought back many wonderful memories, and her daughter loved her four years at the Heights. Bettina’s son graduated from Lehigh in 2009 and earned an MBA in health-care management from Union. Both children live and work in Manhattan. • In closing, we extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of our classmate Wayne Harris, of Uxbridge, who passed away in January.

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1982

Correspondent: Mary O’Brien maryobrien14@comcast.net Daniel Crawford, aka “Bono,” lives in San Francisco, where he is the EVP and general counsel of Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, a national commercial insurance brokerage. Each December, Bono, Doug Virtue ’81, and Dave Canepa travel to Jupiter, FL, where they relive their BC Mod scene. The Jupiter trips are supervised by Gay Chadbourne Canepa ’81, Pam Virtue, and Bono’s fiancée, Laurie D’Angelo. Dan is the proud parent of Peter, a senior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and Matt, who is pursuing a career in professional golf. • Paula Dempsey Roth caught up with classmate Marie Fiascone

Gerardo at the Senior Legacy Breakfast during BC’s Commencement. Paula’s son Steve ’14, a CSOM graduate and fourth-generation Eagle, is dating Marie’s daughter Mary ’14, a CSON graduate and third-generation Eagle. Paula and her husband, Marty, plan to do a lot of traveling to the Mid-Atlantic states to visit Steve, who will be living in New Jersey. Their daughter Julia is a sophomore engineering major and equestrian at Virginia Tech. • Marguerite Dorn, JD’85, has launched a consulting firm dedicated to women’s success: mmdorn consulting offers in-house training to business and educational institutions and mentor-coaching to individuals.

Marguerite speaks often before women’s groups, and recently she participated in a career panel for BC undergraduates, where she was pleased to talk to many bright and successful rising young professionals! • In May, Elisa Speranza was elected to the board of directors of employeeowned Fortune 500 company CH2M HILL, a global leader in consulting, design, designbuild, operations, and program management for government, civil, industrial, and energy clients. She has been with the firm since 2001.

She’s based in Denver and New Orleans but still roots for the Red Sox! • Sharon Meagher was recently appointed dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Widener University in Chester, PA. She previously worked at the University of Scranton in numerous leadership and faculty positions since 1989, most recently serving as the founding chairperson of the Department of Latin American Studies and Women’s Studies as well as a professor of philosophy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy and sociology from BC and her doctorate in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, now Stony Brook University. • Deepest sympathy to the family of Glenn Driscoll of Raleigh, NC, who passed away on January 20.

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1983

Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com Gina Bough Sisti’s daughter, Christina, a sophomore at the Ursuline School, won the championship title for the 2013 New York State Singles Championship for the NYSPHSAA (New York State Public High School Athletic Association) for girls’ tennis. Gina’s son, Andrew, a senior at Fordham Prep, graduated in the spring and will attend Bowdoin College in the fall. Gina is still working as a licensed associate real estate broker at Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty in Scarsdale, NY. You can contact her at gina.sisti@juliabfee.com.

• I’m still catching up with a backlog of notes.

From Stephanie Napoli Perreault: “Last spring, several friends got together to kick off the 30th reunion weekend at a dinner hosted by Ernie and Kathy (Darragh) Herrman at Post 390 in Boston. Those present included Joe and Barbara (Braun) Beek, Tricia Timmons Besse, Jimmy and Susan (Karavish) Rupple, Janet Asprelli Crino, Ray and Kathy (Tierney) Gallager, Cathy Fantuzzi, Kim and Joy (Ibraham) Donohue, Mark ’84 and Stephanie (Napoli) Perreault, and Mark and Michelle (Conde) Kolier. Joy and Kim Donohue’s son graduated from BC in 2013, and Janet Asprelli Crino and Stephanie and Mark Perreault have daughters who will graduate from BC in 2014!” • Jim Worth writes:

“My family and I enjoyed catching up with Rob Rowe ’84 at dinner near Rob’s home in New Jersey as we made our way to Cape May from Boston.” • Tim Haskins is in his 28th year of teaching English at Groveton High School in northern New Hampshire. He has coached varsity girls’ basketball for the past seven years after having been a junior varsity and assistant coach for many years. • From Julie Devlin Olivier: “It was great to see so many classmates at the 2013 reunion! I recently visited with several Hillside roommates—Donna Macek Dircks, Cathy Tomlinson Earnhardt, Jeannie Ferguson Congdon, and Luisa Frey. I am currently a community college professor teaching mathematics and business. I also coach the Westford Academy varsity girls’ lacrosse team. My husband, Jim, and I live in Westford and have two children who are in college: Tim is at the University of Notre Dame, and Kathryn is at Babson College.” • Marianne Lucas Lescher, PhD’98, was named Administrator of the Year in her district in Chandler, AZ. This is Marianne’s second time receiving this honor—she is the only principal in Arizona’s Kyrene School District to have received this twice! Marianne is the principal of the Kyrene Traditional Academy.

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1984 reunion year

class participation goal: 670 Correspondent: Carol A. McConnell bc84news@yahoo.com Greetings, classmates! Here’s the news! • Melissa Baker is currently teaching second grade in the Dover-Sherborn public schools—and she teaches across the hall from Laurette Ulrich ’86, MEd’90! Melissa has had a few of our classmates’ children as students in her 23 years in Dover. She and her husband live in Franklin and have two children: Christopher attends Bishop Feehan High School, and Lindsey is a BC Eagle, Class of 2017. The past year has brought Melissa to several reunions, including freshman orientations and Parents’ Weekend at BC, with Mary Ellen Quigley Breen and her son James, who is also a member of the Class of 2017. Melissa writes: “It feels like we were just moving Lindsey and James onto Upper Campus, and in a couple of weeks, we will be unpacking them again! Lindsey and James, who are both in the Honors Program, explain their lifelong relationship as ‘god-cousins.’”

Mary Ellen and husband Mike ’78 are Lindsey’s godparents and live in Hillsdale, NJ. They have a younger son, Patrick. Mary Ellen works fulltime as a geriatric care specialist. She is thrilled to find that the BC-NJ shuttle is still operating.

• Daniel and Lauren (Soranno) Abraham live in Portsmouth, RI, and have two sons, ages 24 and 21. Dan is a VP in commercial insurance sales with HUB International, and Lauren is head of lower school at St. Michael’s Country Day School in Newport, RI. • Mary Louise Vitelli hopes all enjoyed the reunion and was sorry she could not attend, as she was in Islamabad, Pakistan, until the following Saturday. After living and working as an energy and mining lawyer in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the past 10 years, and based in Dubai for the last three, Mary Louise has relocated to the United States. Along with a partner, she has created a TV show, Stanistan, which has been chosen for a pilot by NBCUniversal. She and her BC www.bc.edu/alumni

roommate—and award-winning filmmaker— Maureen Ryan, are co-executive producers.

They hope to go to series, so casting and location scouting are now underway. The premise is the workings of the U.S. government’s diplomatic and development dynamics in a fictitious South Asian country, presented as drama with comedic undertones! • Forty golfers, including 36 of our classmates, played in the 29th annual Green Plaid Tournament (commonly known as the GPI Tournament) at Newton Commonwealth on Thursday and Friday before our reunion weekend. Ed Murphy won the tournament last year, in Bar Harbor, ME, and was responsible for planning this year’s tournament. Congratulations to this year’s GPI winner, Pat Noone! Participants included John Clavin, Tony Benoit, Greg Strakosch, Jack Garrahan, Chris Lynch, Tom LaFrance, Mark Mayock, John Peterson, and many more. Terrific weather and fun led up to the reunion event on Saturday night. Thirty-six golfers stayed in the Mods for two nights, bringing back memories for many. Everyone was well behaved! • John Heineman had a great time at our 30th reunion, catching up with classmates he had not seen in years, including Sergio Guillen and his wife, Flor; reminiscing with Brian McCann and Mickey Corso, MA’90, about their Thriller days; dancing with Veronica Jarek-Prinz; and enjoying catching up with Gail (Driscoll) Burati and Robin (Wilson) Downing, whom he also had not seen in years. All looked fabulous! John is a VP with Fidelity Investments. He and his wife, Liesa, have enjoyed living in Rhode Island for the last 15 years. The oldest of their three sons, Luke, just finished his freshman year at BC. • Well done, Class of 1984! Write soon. Keep the news coming!

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1985

Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bww415@gmail.com Hello! I do hope everyone is having a great summer. We are coming up on another reunion year for our class, yippee! It is shocking how quickly time goes by. • Julianne Paolino Palumbo recently published her first book, Into Your Light (Flutter Press), a poetry chapbook about raising teenagers. A few years ago, Julianne retired from her law practice after 17 years and turned to creative writing. She writes YA novels, short stories, and poetry and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Julianne lives in Rhode Island with her husband, Ted, a gastroenterologist, and their three children, Teddy (20), Marina (18), and Christien (15).

When she is not writing, Julianne coaches teens in writing. • Vilma Rodriguez-Andrade, MEd’94, and her husband, Jose Ricardo Andrade ’86, are proud to announce the graduation of their son, Ricardo Nicholas Andrade, from BC’s School of Arts and Sciences. Ricky graduated in May with a degree in economics. Vilma received her CAGS in 2006 and is currently a reading resource specialist for the Brockton Public Schools and a visiting lecturer at Bridgewater State University.

Jose is founder and president of Andrade Brothers Inc. Their daughter, Claudia Andrade, graduated from Loyola University in 2009; she currently works at Boston Medical Center as an application analyst and resides in the greater Boston area. • Tim Telman (Babson MBA’91) enjoys living on Cape Cod with his family. He

is the founder of the Bank of Cape Cod, an eight-year-new commercial bank headquartered in Hyannis, with three locations (Hyannis, Falmouth, and Osterville) and a fourth slated to open midyear. As president and CEO, Tim has grown the bank to $225 million in total assets and 34 employees. His wife, Mary Catherine (Fitzpatrick) Telman owns and operates Captain John Whale Watching & Fishing Tours as well as Plymouth Harbor Fuel, both located in the heart of the historic Plymouth waterfront on Town Wharf. In operation since 1946, Captain John maintains one 110-foot and two 80-foot passenger vessels. Mary Catherine and Tim have been married for 26 years and live in Barnstable Village with their sons, Sam and Jack, who are currently a senior and sophomore at BC High School. • Please start thinking about joining us at our 30 year reunion next spring. More details will follow.

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1986

Correspondent: Leenie Kelley leeniekelley@hotmail.com I hope everyone is enjoying the summer and will soon be enjoying football season at the Heights. • I know this is a 50th birthday year for most of our classmates and would love to hear about your celebrations. If you have classmates in attendance, please share their names and details of your special events past, present, or future. • I got some exciting news from Mary Clare (Wodarski) ’88 and Bruce Cornelius of Westlake Village, CA, who celebrate their daughter Grace as a member of the next generation entering BC this fall—the Class of 2018! Bruce also celebrates the two-year anniversary of his company, MyFreeScoreNow. com, based in Los Angeles. Bruce and Mary Clare, congratulations, and I hope Grace loves BC! • I have been lucky enough to be at a few 50th celebrations so far this year. I did an annual “girls’ getaway” in Boca Raton, FL, with some BC friends: Sheila Hanrahan Dearing MEd’87, Kristin Yankee Mark, Beth Hoffman Driscoll MEd’87, Maryellen Lee McCarthy, and Ann Madden Thoms. We had a blast and nonstop laughs. • I also went to a surprise 50th birthday bash for Dave O’Connor in New Jersey—an amazing party hosted by his wife, Maureen. It was a total BC event with the usual suspects: Matt and Judi (von Feldt) Taylor, Tony Zarillo, Ron Murphy, Bob Duran, Chris Massaro, and Jim Walsh. It was a blowout, and a great time was had by all—lots of great stories, pictures, and memories of our days at BC were shared.

It is amazing how young we all looked and even more amazing how gracefully we have all aged. It is so much fun to see everyone. I would love to hear about your events with our BC classmates, so write, mail, text, or phone them in to me! • I also heard from Kristin Steinkrauss Blount, who told me that she and her husband, John, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Some of their original BC wedding guests in attendance 25 years later were Maura McNamara Goodney, Diane Casey Boulanger, Linda Johnson Angelucci ’87, and Paul Scobie. Congratulations, Kristin and John—sounds like your party was a blast! • Well, keep the news coming, and I’ll see you in the fall at the Heights. Thanks again for all your messages. Go BC!

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1987

Correspondent: Lou Imbriano imbriano@bc.edu Happy summer, everyone! • My pal Catherine Stanton Schiff has decided to hand the baton off and asked me if I would tend to our class notes going forward. I hope I can live up to the legacy that Catherine is leaving behind.

Catherine, on the behalf of the entire class, thank you for keeping us informed and in touch with each other over the past decades.

We appreciate your dedication to the class. I am a rookie here, but I will try my best to keep to the Class of 87’s high standards! I am teaching sports marketing at BC and get to see the campus every fall. I post BC photos on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, so if you are active on any of those social media platforms, please connect with me. On Twitter and Instagram you can find me at @LouImbriano. If you are digitally inclined and want to connect with classmates more frequently, please send me your social media handles, and we can list them in this space to help you keep in touch with our classmates. That said, this space is a great opportunity to let everyone see what you are up to, so make sure you send me all the big announcements, little announcements, and everything in between. Everyone turns to these pages first because they want to know what’s going on in your life, so tell them! • Now on to the news: Tony and Patience Hailey Shutts have been married for 24 years and have three children, ages 16, 14, and 12. They live in Laguna Beach, CA. Patience recently started work as a certified forum facilitator. Also, since 1988 she’s been a liaison for high school students for BC in Orange County. • Brenda Wooding is an executive producer on a new series on PBS. It is an animated show for preschool children called Space Racers, and NASA is the science expert. Also, in June Brenda is moving from São Paulo, Brazil, where she has been living for two years, to Washington DC. • On April 21, Kim Murphy Barron ran the Boston Marathon for the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism.

Kim wants to give a shout-out to classmates Patrick Ard, Christine Capone Mulrooney, Maura Sweeney, Patricia Gormley Cartwright, and Dave and Sharon (McCarty) Fitzgerald for their support. Kim and husband Andrew ’87 also celebrated their 25th anniversary in April.

• My first notes and I am already over the word limit. Please send me stuff!

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1988

Correspondent: Rob Murray murrman@aol.com The worst thing about this job is having to report on the loss of a classmate. The Class of 1988 lost one of its unofficial “mayors” on May 11, when Robert Aube passed away after a threeyear battle with cancer. Married for 19 years to wife Elizabeth and father to three sons and a daughter, “BobbyObby” will be greatly missed by everyone he met. He graduated from BC magna cum laude with a degree in physics and attended New England College of Optometry before returning to Rocky Hill, CT, to begin his award-winning practice, Visual Perceptions.

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A dedicated coach and die-hard Red Sox fan, Bobby was also a 25-year BC football season ticket holder. It would be great if those who knew Bobby best at BC could share some stories with me for the next issue. • Thankfully, I have joyous news to report as well. David Rice, wife Hallie, and 2-year-old Connor were blessed with the arrival of a new baby, Leah, on February 9. All are healthy and happy. • Megan Flynn checked in with a great update. Married with one son and enjoying a career as a public librarian, she is quite proud to be the classmate closest to BC—at least geographically. The family’s 1886 Victorian home is located in Newton, not far from the bus route she and many others “enjoyed” 30 years ago on the great schlep to main campus! Megan insists it’s a great place to live, except perhaps when there is a football game. • Finally, Debi Talbot King, our class chair for the Neenan Society (which recognizes multi-year donations) is thrilled to report that 632 classmates (31.2 percent) made a donation in 2013! While not on pace with our contemporaries at Holy Cross or Notre Dame (hint!), it’s a great improvement on the 22.5 percent in 2012. Debi made a great point that individual $100 contributions added up to $1.3 million last year, so every dollar counts!

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1989 reunion year

class participation goal: 670 Correspondent: Andrea McGrath andrea.e.mcgrath@gmail.com Wow! Wow! Wow! What an incredible reunion weekend! So many classmates and their families came to the Heights. Last count from the alumni office was 587 attending!

They were psyched! I hope everyone has had a chance to recover from the 72-hour talk fest.

Was anyone else exhausted (out of practice) from all that talking accompanied by too little sleep? Clearly, I substituted that exercise for the true exercise of getting up on Saturday morning for the 5K run! With absolutely too many individual stories to share from our amazing reunion, I thought I’d let the 5K results (shout-out to Kevin Elwood for sharing) speak to how awesome the class remains. Two of the top three finishers, and four of the top six, were Class of ’89. The winner was Joe Gydus, MBA’95, in 18:45; coming in third was Kevin Elwood; fourth, Howard Bunta; and sixth, Mark Langone). Sweet! (The link, for online viewers, is here: http://racewire. com/live_results.php?id=4130#5K). I thought everyone looked amazing, although I did have someone tell me, “Hey—if this is what 50 looks like, we’re good!” and I thought “50”? Slow down! Anyway, I would love to be continuing to fill this column each quarter with all the amazing stories and updates I heard during Reunion Weekend, so please do remember to keep sending them in! When you get the magazine in the mail, think to send me a note!

• To close, I will say that I definitely received some interesting questions over the course of the past year leading to the reunion. Answers include: yes, on-campus housing is available, but not with pets, and you cannot ask to be in a different building from your old boyfriend; no, Doug Flutie ’85 will not be returning to take credit for all our applications in ’84; no, we will not be returning to the Eagle’s Nest and be surrounded by the smell of fries; yes, the name

tags will have larger print this reunion so you can actually see the names; no, you do not need to RSVP to the dive bar on Friday night and no, you don’t need waterproof shoes; yes, there is a rain plan for the tent, and I think there will be heaters on site; and yes, the caterers will still be students who remember ‘college pours’!

• Closing with one individual update, as he posted on all forms of BC’89 media, being so sad to miss the reunion: Anthony Boomer Dell (boomerdell@gmail.com), capturing what I think was a shared sentiment heard all weekend, wrote in to say how much he loves hearing how people are doing, what they are up to, and generally staying connected with the community of friends and family from BC’89.

I’ll include more details from him—and more individual updates—next quarter! Congrats to all on a great weekend!

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1990

Correspondent: Missy Campbell Reid missybc90@comcast.net Thank you, Steve Dolce, for sharing a guys’ weekend to follow up my girls’ weekend submission; we are already working on our next girls’ get-together. If you have these annual outings, trips, reunions, let us know!

We enjoy reading about all the fun and perhaps others will be inspired to plan their own BC escapes. Friends since freshman year and residents of Cushing 2nd got together for their annual guys’ weekend event. This year, it was in New York City to watch the Final Four of March Madness. Matt Murphy, who is a corporate controller for Boston Beer Company in Boston, was making sure everyone did their best to try all the Sam Adams products that weekend, which was not very difficult!

Matt and wife Jen have two children and live in Hingham. Double Eagle John Ventola, JD’94, is a partner at Choate Hall & Stewart in Boston and has been at the firm for 18 years. He is a finance and restructuring attorney. He and his wife, Elaine, JD’94, have two daughters and live in Marblehead. Steve Dolce is a partner and portfolio manager at Philadelphia International Advisors in Philadelphia’s Center City. Steve covers the international energy and commodity stocks.

He and his wife, Frances, have two boys and live in Chadds Ford. Steve would love to see any classmates if they happen to be in his neck of the woods. Jim Petrie is a senior VP of U.S. rates, sales, and financing at HSBC Securities in New York City. Jim and his wife, Holly, have three girls and live in Westfield, NJ. Jay Rooney, (from Duchesne, but an honorary member of Cushing) is a principal at MIK Fund Solutions in New York City. Jay focuses on consulting hedge-fund start-ups and prime brokerage sides of the alternative investment space. Jay and his wife, Tara, have two daughters and live in Wilton, CT. Rounding out the Cushing 2nd “boys” is Sean Sheehan, who works for Albany Gastroenterology Consultants. Sean received his medical degree from the College of Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University, completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Yale–New Haven Hospital, and completed his gastroenterology fellowship at Yale School of Medicine. Sean and his wife, Tina, have a son and two daughters and live in Slingerlands,

NY. Their son, Aidan, just received his acceptance letter to BC for the Class of 2018! Congratulations! • In other news, Troy Clarkson continues his commitment to public service, currently serving as the town manager in Hanover. He has held both elected and appointed positions in local government for more than 20 years. He continues to share his observations on the human condition in his newspaper column, Troy’s Take, which appears weekly in the Falmouth Enterprise. His first book, Succanessett Snapshot: The People and Places that Make Falmouth a Community, was released this spring. His musings are available on the Web at www.capecodtoday. com/blogs/falmouth.

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1991

Correspondent: Peggy Morin Bruno pegmb@comcast.net Tom Holland’s fifth book, Swim, Bike, Run, Eat: The Complete Guide to Fueling Your Triathlon, was recently published by Fair Winds Press. His previous books include The Marathon Method, The 12-Week Triathlete, and Beat the Gym. Tom is the CEO and founder of TeamHolland LLC, a fitness consulting company based in Darien, CT. One of his current projects is working with Nautilus Inc. and their Bowflex brand as a strategic consultant, and he will be doing his 22nd Ironman triathlon in August. Check him out at www.teamholland.com. • Judy Hafner recently started her own lobbying and government relations firm, Vantage Point Strategies, in Washington DC. Her firm advises public and private sector clients in the defense, homeland security, cybersecurity, and energy industries looking to shape policy and federal budgets.

• Kim LaBarbiera-Paschall sends greetings from London. She is pleased to have been elected co-president, with Jamie McDevitt ’97, of the Boston College Alumni UK group. If any of you BC grads are in London, check out their Facebook page, titled “Boston College Alumni UK.” Kim and her husband are having a wonderful time in London and were planning to attend the queen’s birthday party in June! • Mark “Bull” Kennedy is currently living in Cleveland and will be sending along a more detailed update soon. • I hope you are all having a fabulous summer and spending time with your BC friends! Send along updates of where everyone is and what they’re up to. I’d love to hear from you!

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1992

Correspondent: Katie Boulos Gildea kbgildea@yahoo.com Thank you so much to those who sent in updates. If you have something to share with your classmates, please send me an email.

Thank you! I hope to hear from you soon.

• Roseann Maikis wrote in with an update about her former roommates, who recently had their annual reunion. At least two of the roommates have been getting together every year since graduation. The friends pick a different location each year, and all who are able to go spend the weekend eating www.bc.edu/alumni

good food, talking, and having a great time!

This year the roommates met up in New York City. Caroline Croley lives in Cincinnati and works in health-care publishing. Since graduation, she has been traveling all over the world, most recently to South Africa and Hawaii. Kelly Concannon Cicchino lives in Kennett Square, PA, with her husband, Steve, MBA’01, and four children. Kelly teaches third grade. Judith Daly Keneally lives in New Rochelle, NY. She and her husband, Kevin, have two daughters: Clare (11) and Anne (8). Judith teaches middle-school math.

Gina Hager-Moitoso lives in Duxbury with her husband, Mark Moitoso ’92. Gina has just completed her ninth marathon. She also keeps busy teaching Pilates and raising their three children. Carrie Hebert Rao lives in Chapel Hill, NC, and is a practicing dermatologist. She and her husband, Sunil, have four daughters: Maya (15), Lily (13), Ava (10), and Gracie (7). Roseann Maikis lives in Nashville, where she is a laparoscopic and fertility surgeon. She and her husband, Rob, have a 4-year-old son named Jordan. • John Doran and his wife, Amanda, are happy to announce the arrival of their twins, Sara Margaret and Thomas John (“Little Johnny”), born on April 4. John and Amanda live in Needham. John is a partner with the law firm Littler Mendelson PC in Providence and Boston. In November, John met up with many former classmates in New York City to watch the BC men’s basketball team play at Madison Square Garden. The group included Jon-Paul Lapointe, Caroline Ward, Jim Singer, Chris Novello, Matt McGovern, Roy Jimenez, Chris Gildea, Rob Munoz, Chris Fleissner, Tom Wilcox, and several other 1992 classmates. • It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of our classmate Deborah O’Connell on February 17. The Class of 1992 would like to extend its deepest sympathies and prayers to her family.

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1993

Correspondent: Laura Beck laurabeckcahoon@gmail.com Summer marks one year since our amazing reunion. How does time fly so fast? Hope you are all geared up for something fun.

My family will be in Falmouth for a week in August around the Falmouth Road Race, which I’ll be running for the first time.

Seven miles may not seem like much to most of you, but this will be my “marathon,” and quite an accomplishment if I can do it.

Let me know if you’ll be in Falmouth too!

• I keep up with Gary Gulman’s awesome career through Facebook. He was hilarious on Late Night with Seth Meyers in late April.

Gary, keep us posted on the Facebook page of where you’ll be when. I’m there if you come to Austin! Allison Hughes Goddard reminded us that three of our classmates have been on Late Night with Seth Meyers since its debut: Amy Poehler, Craig Finn (with his band The Hold Steady), and Gary. • Jim Panettiere, who is senior finance manager at Nuance Communications, and wife Kristina welcomed their first child, Eve Elizabeth, on April 25. • Kim ’04 and Dan Walsh welcomed their third daughter, Mackenzie Leigh, on April 21. Dan reports she already has more

hair than her dad, but that was to be expected.

• Amy Roush Robertson has nearly 2-year-old boy and girl twins. She produces the California Coast Classic Bike Tour, which raises money for the Arthritis Foundation. • After nearly seven years at Google, Chris Woods has launched a CEO-consulting firm, Boston Bridge Partners, which funnels proceeds to programs that support disadvantaged innercity youth. Of particular focus is addressing the “digital divide”—the gulf between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not. • Justin and Christine (Bugos) McDaniel report they are spending the summer in Kyoto, Japan, with children Henry (10) and Jane (6), in case anyone is over there and would like to get together! They usually live in Philadelphia.

• Mike Atwood says he botched his sixth marathon—“what a slacker,” says the girl who hopes to somehow run seven long miles in August. Mike is finishing up HiStory of Santa Monica 2, which will be published by Aqueous Books in 2015. Atwoodwrites.com has information on the first HiStory of Santa Monica. Mike is also coaching high school and adult runners. Learn more at coachatwood .com. • Hugh Crean started Farecast, which was bought by Microsoft in 2008. He has been an entrepreneur in residence at VC firm General Catalyst Partners since late 2010, cooking up his next company, which just went public: Vhoto helps pull photos— still images—from video. So all that footage you shot on your mobile phone? You can now access the best photographic moments hidden within. Hugh also has a new son, Cole, who was 6 months old in April. • Sean Curran is the coproducer of the documentary film Best Kept Secret, which received a Peabody award in May. Congrats, Sean! • After 18 years with Robert Half, Laurie Bertolacci accepted a position as SVP of operations and client services with RightSourcing, a managed service provider servicing large hospital systems. Her team of more than 120 works with 250 facilities across the country, and she loves being back in health care. When Laurie isn’t traveling for work, she enjoys time with her 8-year-old daughter in San Francisco, where she has lived for 13 years. • We close with sad news for BC’93. R&B singer Little Joe Cook passed away in April at 91 years old!

We should all be so lucky. You may remember that sweet man and many fun nights down at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge. Rest in peace, Joe. • Please remember to email me at laura@stripedshirt.com with your updates. I’m trying to get news from Roshini Rajkumar and Alina Cho for the next issue, both are up to super cool things. Bet you are too! Until next time, happy summer!

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1994 reunion year

class participation goal: 505 Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com I am writing this after having a fantastic weekend in Boston, full of good friends and familiar faces and reliving fond memories.

Someone joked that we should have included where we live, our profession, and how many kids we have on our name tags to save some time. But, in all seriousness, it was terrific

to see so many of you with full, happy lives.

Thanks to Facebook, we can continue to stay in touch and share photos from our crazy lives. I, for one, had a terrific time with my roommates Deb Nugent Lussier JD’99, Shireen Pesez Rhoades MEd’01, Liz O’Hearn Galvin, Lori MacDonald, and Erin Miller Spaulding, living it up in a hotel and reliving our days sharing space (and the mirror). What fun! Beth Coyle Alford and Josie Losada McMahon—you were missed! It was also a kick to see Mieka Driscoll Leonard and Tom Hurford—whom I went to high school with as well! That’s a lot of years! Many thanks to fellow classmates Naveen Ballem, Kelly Mulcahy Dolan, Kristin Keating, and Kimberly Kozemchak Paster, who served with me on the Reunion Engagement Committee.

We had almost 400 classmates join the party, which was just terrific. Even better was the generosity with which our class responded to the reunion gift appeal. The Class of 1994 set the record for dollars raised. The record was $3.5 million, and our class raised over $4.3 million! Not only did we hit the participation goal and exceed the leadership-gift goal, but our class also broke a record that had stood for 12 years! Thanks to all of you who contributed to this outstanding effort. Special appreciation is also owed to the Reunion Gift Committee, co-chairs Leslie Everingham Burton, Brian Delaney, Mark Denatale, and Lisa Doty Denatale, and members Brendan Cashman, Jay Colbath, Heather Dean, John Dessauer, Mark Gemma, John Houle, Kristin Keating, Bryan Locke, Susan Broughton Locke, Arun Mathur, Vivek Mehra, Kimberly Kozemchak Paster, Mike Price, John Renza, Scott Roy, Brian Saxton MA’95, Aimee Grmoljez Shanight, Amy Stratton, Shannon Doyle Taylor, Christian Teja, Eric Tennessen, Tim Thurber, Mark Voccola, and Robert Zdunczyk. • Now on to a few notes. Mark and Claudette (Bautista) McCarron wrote about what a wonderful time they had catching up with old friends. They weren’t sure what to expect but were pleasantly surprised to see familiar faces and to reunite with those they haven’t seen since graduation. It was great to see Mark’s former roommate Matt West and his wife, Stacy Wywra West, as well as other former Fitzpatrick people, including Dave Stevens, with wife Kerry Lyman Stevens ’95, and Gary Lynn, with wife Meagan Gardner Lynn ’95. The couple also reunited with Claudette’s former Hardey dorm mates Alaina Jose-Miller and her family, Mike McArdle, John Commisso and Karen Dempsey (who married each other), Amy Connell Waterbury, Jennifer Lein Signorini, Charlene GusmanRossback, Diane Paggioli, and Christine Leonard, JD’01. Here’s a link to the reunion experience Claudette wrote about: http:// wp.me/p2WMPt-k0. • I also heard from Roger McAvoy, who recently relocated back to Singapore from Hong Kong after almost eight years there. Roger has taken a new role with an FX electronic trading platform, called 360T, to help the company grow its institutional client base across the region, so they couldn’t get back for the reunion. Next time! • If you have a minute, drop me a line with stories of your reunion adventures. I want to hear about those brunches at Cityside and late nights at MA’s.

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1995

Correspondent: Kevin McKeon kmckeon@gmail.com I was pleased to hear from Dave Shapiro, my predecessor as class correspondent, who took up the baton from Megan Gurda Tran a number of years back. Dave was recently named chief of critical care at the Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT, and he is also the site director for the surgical residency. He is in a practice of more than 20 surgeons and was also recently named the president of the Northeast Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dave says he loves his job—and adores his future-Eagle niece and nephew (son and daughter of his brother Jonathan Shapiro ’98). Dave resides in West Hartford.

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1996

Correspondent: Mike Hofman mhofman12@gmail.com Marc Leduc married Ashley Scibelli on May 30 on the beach in Falmouth. Matt Keswick, Marc’s roommate in college, served as the officiant, and Brian Woods did a reading.

Marc and Ashley live in Boston. Marc is a partner in the business and finance practice group at Morgan Lewis, and Ashley works at the Boston Beer Company, which makes Sam Adams beer. Fun fact: Boston Beer donates a number of cases to every employee who gets married. Among our classmates and spouses who were able to help partake in that generosity were Christy and Matt Keswick; Maureen (Maloney) ’98, MA’02, and Chris Barnowski, Emily and Scott Freeman; and John Boyt. • A few weeks later, I caught up with Shane and Jim Roth, who are moving to Darien, CT, from New York with their sons, Nathan and Carter. On their last weekend in the city, they had friends over to watch the World Cup. The group included Vince Ponzo and his wife, Loretta Shing, and Crissy Hayes Callaghan and Andrew Fellingham with their son Bobby.

I’m looking forward to seeing how Jim’s new commute affects his golf handicap.

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1997

Correspondent: Sabrina Bracco McCarthy sabrina.mccarthy@perseusbooks.com Chris and Crista (Pontilena) Vigeant welcomed their third child, Rachel Vivian, into the world on July 8, 2013. Rachel joins big brother Christopher (5), and big sister Anna (3). The family lives in Oakland, NJ. Chris recently earned his PMP certification and is a project manager at MetLife. Crista is a high school English and marketing teacher.

• Tim Doyle recently published a novella, All Kinds of Places. The story revolves around a 38-year-old lifelong traveler who must return home to his native Washington DC and live a normal existence. A former reporter with Bloomberg and Forbes, Tim now works at

Discovery Communications as senior director of corporate affairs and communications.

He lives in Chevy Chase, MD, with wife Marla, stepsons Matteo (10) and Luca (8), and daughter Romy (2).

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1998

Correspondent: Mistie P. Lucht hohudson@yahoo.com Michelle Bata and Michael Bachelor welcomed a new addition to their family, daughter Margaret Anne, on August 8, 2013. They live in Worcester, where Michelle is an associate dean at Clark University, and Michael is a scientist with MatTek Corporation. • Singersongwriter Courtney Leigh Heins was honored with an IMEA Award for Country Song of the Year at the 2013 IMEA Awards last November in Ashland, KY. Her single “Bright Blue World” from the album of the same name was also featured in July’s Music Connection magazine. Courtney’s music has been heard on numerous TV networks, including WE, Bravo, and the Discovery Channel, and she has performed at the Sundance Film Festival, the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, and SXSW. • Frank Stamos, CTO of Student Nation, the Boston-based start-up he cofounded with Ari Kalos last autumn, was profiled in the Boston Herald in February.

The company offers college students a new social app that bills itself as “the Facebook for this generation, sprinkled with a touch of Google and a dash of Groupon.” The free app is exclusively for students and aims to bring them together through real-time engagement and entertainment, including the latest videos and music, while offering discounts and incentives from area businesses. It also provides access to news from BC’s website; photo galleries; and event listings with realtime directions and ticket purchasing, as well as the ability to see which of your friends are going. • In May, Dan Collins joined Avison Young, a commercial real estate services firm, as senior VP in its Boston office, where he will focus on landlord and tenant representation in the Downtown Boston office market. Dan, a member of the varsity team while at BC, played football with the Dallas Cowboys and also with Rhein Fire, Düsseldorf, Germany’s NFL Europe team. He is active with the Life Is Good Kids Foundation, which partners with professionals and specialists working to help children overcome poverty, violence, and illness, and in 2013, the Boston Business Journal named him a “40 Under 40” honoree, recognizing his achievements both professionally and philanthropically. • I had a “tough” spring: My husband, Nathan, and I participated in Chicago’s Tough Mudder race, a 10-mile run interspersed with 20 obstacles.

We had so much fun! I also ran a halfmarathon in Chicago and continue to take boxing classes. My iPhone app, Playground Pointers, continues to do well despite my only having time to work late evenings after the kids are in bed.

Claus Benjamin Freyinger ’00

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laus Benjamin Freyinger’s architectural collaborative, Los Angeles Design Group, LLC (The LADG), is not your average practice.

Deeply interested in the properties of diverse materials, intrigued by history and by craft, Freyinger and his business partner, Andrew Holder, describe their work as “drawing on history to craft unexpected solutions to conventional problems.” Recent inspirations have included 1950s-era ice packs, which informed the design of a luxury retail space constrained by odd angles and obstructions, and Albrecht Dürer’s concept for a perspective drawing machine, which guided the remodel Claus Benjamin Freyinger sees the work of his of a shoe store. award-winning architectural firm, The LADG, The firm was recently awarded the as contributing to a “longer history of ideas.”

2014 Architectural League of New York Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Established in 1981, the prize recognizes exemplary and provocative work by young practitioners. This is the first time a Boston College graduate has received the award. what is one thing everyone should do while at bc?

Goof up! BC is a special environment where you can take risks, and get the help and support you need, in a way that is not always possible later in life.

what is the secret to success?

Luck, and the ability to identify and capitalize on those fleeting moments when opportunities open up.

For more of our interview with Claus Benjamin Freyinger, visit www.bc.edu/alumniprofiles.

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1999

reunion year class participation goal: 560 Correspondent: Matt Colleran bc1999classnotes@hotmail.com Correspondent: Emily Wildfire ewildfire@hotmail.com Hey, Class of 1999! It was great to see so many of you at our reunion. We had a strong turnout on Friday night at the Tavern on the Square (formerly known as the Kells).

On Saturday night, the Eagle’s Nest was transformed into a nice bar/lounge with a DJ and a great representation of members of the Class of ’99. I had a chance to catch up with many people I hadn’t seen in a while, which was really great. Pat Neville started his reunion weekend by running the “Tough Mudder” twice in the same day at Mount Snow before heading to the Class of ’99 party. Gerard O’Shea and his wife, Julie, made the trip up from New York City and were seen closing the bar on Friday night.

Lee Mita, Jodie Neville, Jeannine McGregor Ryan, and Kaitlin Mulcahy MA’02, were all www.bc.edu/alumni

tearing up the dance floor. Lee and her husband, Mike ’01, welcomed their fourth child, Suzie, into the world in May. Lenny Scarola, Matt Bonavita, and Damian Paletta were in attendance, catching up with Mike Sheehan and his fiancée, Jennifer Permatteo.

Congratulations to Mary Catherine Savard (now Dr. Savard), who received her doctorate from Harvard on our Reunion Weekend! It was a great weekend. I am looking forward to seeing more people this fall at a football game. Also, start preparing for our 20th in June 2019! • In other news, Colleen McGee married Dan Brown ’94 at St. Vincent de Paul Church in San Francisco on May 26, 2013, with a reception following at the Flood Mansion. The song list was inspired by Who’s on First, circa 1999. Representing Dan’s Class of ’94 were Ernie Palazzolo, Eric Tennessen, Dan Hayes, Ally Resha Hayes, Pete Lynch, Mark Loftus, Joe Healey, Paul Colone, Jen Helin Colone, Chuck Fortin, Jay Colbath, Chris MBA’06 and Sarah (Bradshaw) Wise, and Christian Teja. Other BC alumni in attendance included Sarah Rees Carroll ’93, Jenny Henderson Sullivan ’95, and Lindsay Field. Colleen and Dan are also proud to announce the arrival of their first child, Ryan James Brown, on February

25. • I am very sorry to report that Brian Lynch passed away suddenly in his home in Houston in May. He is survived by his wife, Anna. Brian attended business school at the University of Texas at Austin with Ryan Foley, Jeff Tusa, and Nicole Rasmussen.

Services were held near his hometown of White Plains, NY. In attendance were fellow BC alumni Mark Del Priore, Laurel (Zinn) Turner, Pete Daniels, Tom McGovern, Matt O’Leary, Den McMahon ’98, Hercules Grigos, Kathryn Sweeney, Jeff Sikaitis, Tim Nest, and Ryan Foley.

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2000

Correspondent: Kate Pescatore katepescatore@hotmail.com Well, it’s hard to believe, but we are now officially a reunion class once again. Next May will mark the 15th anniversary of our graduation. Where did that time go? Please keep in mind that Reunion Weekend is May 29–31, 2015. • Liam Timmons, MBA’10, was recently nominated for the 2014 Investment News 40 Under 40 Award and was interviewed

by The Suit magazine in an article in the July 2014 edition. Timmons Wealth Management, an investment advisory firm founded and run

by Liam, recently won the Comcast Regional Innovations 4 Entrepreneurs Competition for best improved customer service via new technology implementation. The company focuses on helping clients navigate the complex world of investing and financial planning in a commission-free environment.

• Mike ’05 and Stephanie Ridge Murray welcomed their first son, Jack Ridge Murray, into the world on July 19, 2013. They reside in Portsmouth, NH, where Steph just left her career as an education consultant to be a full-time mom. • Brendan and Catherine (Lacson) McVay welcomed a new addition to their family, Maisie Eve, on March 11, 2014.

Her big brothers, Max (3) and Miles (1), just love having a baby sister! The family lives in Westwood. • Arianne and Hugh O’Kane announce the birth of their third child, Anna Scarlett, on April 29. Anna joins big brothers Hugh (4) and Jack (2). • In October 2013, Kevin Boland and Kerrie Caulfield-Boland, along with big brothers Kyle (6) and Kevin Patrick (3), welcomed a new addition to their family, Kayla Eileen. “Everyone is enjoying the pink frenzy that has taken over our home!” writes Kerrie. The family resides in Denville, NJ. • I hope that everyone is enjoying the summer. Just think: It’s almost football season. Thanks, as always, for sending your news!!

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2001

Correspondent: Sandi (Birkeland) Kanne bc01classnotes@gmail.com Happy summertime, classmates! • congratulations to Gretchen Cooper Athas on her new role as principal and comanager of Campus2CareerTransition Services, a career coaching and transition services firm. Gretchen earned a BA in elementary education and human development from

BC and an MEd in higher education from Loyola University Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her husband and 1-year-old daughter. • Lorena Campozano, JD’04, married Aris Giannakakis, MBA’12, on May 4 at St. Ignatius of Loyola in Chestnut Hill. BC alums in attendance included Shanon Connor MEd’06; Vanessa Rodrigues Samuels; Jameel Moore; Adriana Garzon Rojas ’00, JD’05; Marielys Divanne ’98; William Tsagas MBA’12; and Deanna Larkin JD’04. The happy newlyweds are currently busy planning their second wedding, which will be held in Athens, Greece—Aris’s native country—in August. • Dan and Morgan (Brady) Degan welcomed a daughter, Riley Hope, into their family on December 26, 2013. Big brothers Brady (5) and Hudson (2) are very excited. • Danny and Shelley Ventura Colontrelle welcomed a new baby boy on January 24: Luca Daniel joins big brother Dylan (4) and big sister Camilla (2). They live in Vero Beach, FL. • Renee Pitts Moran and her husband, Joe (a UNH alum), are new parents to daughter Stella Reese, born on April 2. • Tim and Lisa (Miller) Doherty welcomed their second son, Miller James, born on April 3. He joins big brother Kellen (3). • I’d like to offer personal congratulations to one of my BC besties, Jim Gillespie, and his wife, Joelene, who are now a party of six.

Brendan Charles joined the Gillespie family on April 25 and was welcomed home by big siblings Owen (5), Claire (4), and Ryan (2). This class notes correspondent is super excited to have a friend’s child to whom she can actually refer as “BC baby” for the rest of his life. One fun fact: Jim and I were part of a close-knit Western Cultural Traditions class during freshman year at BC, taught

by John W. Howard, SJ, ’59. Many of the 14 members of this class have stayed in touch over the years, and, by my last count, we have 22 “Fr. Howard babies” among us! • Erin and Mike Teevan and their son, Holden—a future Eagle, they hope!—live in New York City. Mike is VP of public relations for the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. He writes: “I still draw on many experiences from writing for The Heights and being helped by the media relations staff of BC Athletics, including Chris Cameron and the wonderful Dick Kelley ’87, MA’89. I was so proud when the BC basketball team won at top-ranked Syracuse in DK’s memory.”

• Now football season is upon us. Happy tailgating, and keep those updates coming!

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2002

Correspondent: Suzanne Harte suzanneharte@yahoo.com Brian and Martha (Plante) Frydl are happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Marie Seraphine, on St. Patrick’s Day. The couple reside in the suburbs of Washington DC. • Congratulations to Brent and Liz (Babinski) Baker, whose first child, Tessa Katherine, was born on January 3. Tessa’s middle name is especially for Liz’s sister, Katie Babinski Thompson ’05. The Bakers reside in Waltham.

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2003

Correspondent: ToniAnn Kruse kruseta@gmail.com Marites Maramba Espiritu and Steve Brian Cordova were married on June 15, 2013, at the Immaculate Conception Chapel at Mount Saint Mary Academy in Watchung, NJ. The bridal party included Jessica Muriel, Charlene Biala Irineo, Joseph Irineo, David Dundas, Rufus Caine, Didier Sylvain ’04, and Sabian Cheong ’02. Other BC alumni in attendance were Giannina Gutierrez Biala; Joi Branch; Gerry Caba; Siti Cheng Eschrich; Leila Mondejar Keeler; Olga Kleinman MS’04; Barry Connolly; Cynthia White LaColla; German Lopez; Peter Markovics; Edwin Perez; Martine Remy; Raul Reyes; Yesenia Mejia Saulino; Kyle Ingram ’01; Cynthie Cheung ’02; Dan Cho ’02; Alina Enggist ’02; Brad Bateman ’02; Traci Gomes ’02; the bride’s cousin Erik Gutierrez ’02; Ricky Ho ’02; Vincent Lake ’01; Isabel Shen ’02; Cindy Song ’02; Chun-Wei Yi ’02; Filmon Hagheray ’04; Gabriela Fullon ’05, MEd’06; Kay Martinez ’05; Eric Rodriguez ’05; and Bernard Baffoe ’06. The bride’s cousin Vanessa Maramba ’14 and Robert McGill, JD’05, were also in attendance. The couple is also happy to announce the birth of their daughter, Josephine Ailey Espiritu Cordova, on April 18, 2014. • Brad Swift, MS’04, and Jennifer Bonynge ’05 were married in Newport, RI, on September 1, 2013. The wedding party included Caitlin Swift ’08, Carolyn Rock ’05, Karen Carlucci Freni ’05, Tom Smith MEd’06, and Joel Wacek MS’11. Other Eagles in attendance included Penny McElhenny ’68; Nick Priselac ’01; Alicia Fasi Priselac ’01; John Tetreault; Keith Normant ’04; Katie Meehan ’04; Camille Asher Berriochoa ’05; Amy Cebulski ’05, MS’10; AJ Nary ’05, MBA’11; Kari Cushing-Nary ’05; Megan Krauss Kelson ’05, MS’06; Taylor Lehmann MBA’10; and Ryan MBA’12 and Shannon (Phillips) Desrosiers PhD’11. Brad and Jennifer reside in Newton, and both work at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston. • Tommy Egan and Meghan Irrgang were married on January 25 at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Atlanta, GA. The nuptials were followed by a reception at the Cherokee Town Club. BC classmates in attendance included Kathryn Marut Birch, Kathleen Heffernan, Tim Connell JD’13, James Dolce, Liv Clarke Dolce, Timothy Fletcher, Ashley Fletcher, Tim Kelleher, and Kate Schriver.

Other Eagles in attendance were Catherine English ’02, Jed Dolce ’05, Katie Lemek MSW’14, John ’72 and Grace Regan Conway NC’72, James ’71 and Mary Ellen Devlin McGuire ’72, and Tom Brown ’72. The couple reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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2004

reunion year class participation goal: 650 Correspondent: Alexandra “Allie” Weiskopf allieweiskopf@gmail.com Tyler Hollinger and Christian Keiber’s film Trust Me, I’m a Lifeguard debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. Tyler and Christian both starred in the film. • Corey Strader and

Jonathan Defreese-Weber were married on April 6 at the Historic Rice Mill in downtown Charleston, SC. They currently reside in Brookline. Bridesmaids included Diane Cotter Hagerty and Lucy Gabor, MSW’11. Other 2004 alumni in attendance included Meridith Andrews MEd’05, Jean Del Vecchio Handley MEd’05, Cailin Papszycki, and Kristen Ricchi. The couple will honeymoon in Italy in September. • David and Jennifer (Curcio) Della Penna are happy to announce the newest member of their family, Lia Rose, born on March 12. Big brother Joseph (2) loves having a little sister. • Kristi Palmsten received her doctor of science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in March 2013. The Society for Epidemiologic Research awarded Kristi the 2013 Abraham Lilienfeld Student Prize, which recognizes excellence in student research. After graduating, Kristi relocated to San Diego and is researching medication safety during pregnancy as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego.

• Brandon Barford writes: “I am excited to announce that this past February, I cofounded a new independent policy research firm, Beacon Policy Advisors LLC, in Washington DC. The Beacon team advises a select group of top-tier institutional investment firms. I wanted to thank all of my BC friends for their support during the planning of this endeavor!” • Jim and Mary (Healy) Cristiano announce the birth of a baby boy, Joseph Michael, on October 22, 2013. The family resides in Swampscott with their dog, Flutie.

• William Lorenzo married Lisa Zanzarella at the Inn at Kelly’s Ford in Remington, VA, on September 21, 2013. The wedding party included classmates Didier Sylvain and Tom Marchitelli. Other Eagles in attendance included Scott Carol, Ryan Donovan, and Jessica Jamison. The couple spent their honeymoon in Saint Lucia and now reside in Ashburn, VA. William is an information security engineer in the strategy and consulting group at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Arlington, VA. Lisa graduated from the University of Mary Washington with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, specializing in human resources and talent acquisition.

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2005

class participation goal: 570 Correspondent: Joe Bowden joe.bowden@gmail.com Correspondent: Justin Barrasso jbarrasso@gmail.com In January, Laura Kenyon published her first novel, Desperately Ever After, which she describes as “One part Sex and the City, two parts Desperate Housewives, and three parts Brothers Grimm.”

Laura is an award-winning journalist, and her stories and articles have appeared in Kiwi Magazine, Westchester Magazine, Just Labs, Serendipity, and the Improper Bostonian, as well as in newspapers and at PrickoftheSpindle. com. She resides in Connecticut with her husband and their silver Labrador retriever. • Daniel Pritchard married fellow Boston College alumnus Katherine Evans ’07 in 2011, and the two purchased their first home, in Medford, last year. A published poet and critic, Daniel is the founding editor of The Critical Flame, an

Ashley McLaughlin Leen ’08 and Michael Leen ’08

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hough she realized it only dimly at the time, Ashley Leen’s life changed course the summer of her freshman year.

Traveling to the Dominican Republic on a service immersion trip, she saw a kind of poverty she had never experienced growing up in Minnesota. “I wanted to understand people who lived very different lives,” she says. “I wanted to live from their perspective, in some way.”

Her boyfriend Michael Leen, now her husband, had a similar realization the following year in Swaziland. “I felt a deep stirring within me to live and work with the poor,” says Michael. At BC and after graduation, the couple volunteered in Maryknoll Lay missioners Ashley and Michael many settings, continuing to feel a pull to Leen are living and working in Mwanza, Tanzania. work with underprivileged populations, perhaps overseas.

In January, Ashley and Michael arrived in Mwanza, Tanzania, where they will live for three and a half years as Maryknoll lay missioners. Their goal is to live and work among the poor as Jesus did. what has been the most satisfying moment in your professional life?

Taking the risk of leaving two very comfortable professions and moving to East Africa to live and work with the poor and marginalized.

first time, we are taking each day in stride and focusing on the present moment. Life in Tanzania brings many challenges, so there is plenty to worry about today.

what is your next goal?

how much can you sing of the bc fight song?

What makes this time in our life especially unique is that there is no next goal. For the

We have trained the birds of Tanzania to chirp the tune of “For Boston.”

For more of our interview with Ashley and Michael, visit www.bc.edu/alumniprofiles. online book-review journal, and works as the marketing and publicity director for Boston Review Magazine. • Michael (Brad) Swift ’03, MS’04, and Jennifer Bonynge were married in Newport, RI, on September 1, 2013. The wedding party included Caitlin Swift ’08; Carolyn Rock; Karen (Carlucci) Freni; Tom Smith ’03, MEd’06; and Joel Wacek ’03, MS/MBA’11. Eagles in attendance included Penny McElhenny ’68, Nick ’01 and Alicia (Fasi) Priselac ’01, John Tetreault ’03, Keith Normant ’04, Katie Meehan ’04, Camille (Asher) Berriochoa, Amy Cebulski MS’10, AJ Nary MBA’11, Kari Cushing-Nary, Megan (Krauss) Kelson MS’06, Taylor Lehmann MBA’10, Shannon (Phillips) Desrosiers PhD’11, and Ryan Desrosiers MBA’12. • Lauren Marra married Joe Swiderski in October 2013 in Baltimore at a venue inspired by one of their first dates, the B&O Railroad Museum. The couple celebrated in the company of many BC alumni, including Kyle Marra ’12, Maria (Schweitzer) Tatham, Callie Kozlak ’04, Annie (Walsh) Kahr, Renee Ledoux, Paul Lechtenberg, Kelly Damm, Joe Previtera, August Pabst, Bill Busacker, Amaris Kinne, and 14 other Eagles.

Lauren works in philanthropy as a strategy and evaluation consultant to institutional, family, and corporate foundations. The couple honeymooned in Argentina and reside in www.bc.edu/alumni

Washington DC. • Michelle Reddy will be starting a PhD program at Stanford University this fall after four years in France where, as an assistant dean, she launched the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. Michelle was previously based at the Mediation Support Unit at the UN Office for West Africa, in Dakar, Senegal, after receiving two master’s degrees from Columbia University. She says she is very grateful to BC’s political science and French departments! • In between a winter of skating with his wife at Frog Pond and watching Lord of the Rings marathons, John Curley teaches special education at Walpole High and oversees the school’s Best Buddies program. He and college roommate Andrew Grillo—who has returned to the States after living in Sydney, Australia— recently rendezvoused in the Big Apple, where they took in a Broadway production of Guys and Dolls. • After graduating from the prestigious Marymount School of New York, Brooklyn-born Caitlin Nolan proudly brought her talents to BC before earning her law degree at the Fordham School of Law. Caitlin now resides in New York City, where she works as an attorney. • A finance major at BC, Matt Taylor is now married and the proud father of a beautiful daughter. He teaches math at Winchester High School and still contributes to BC’s media relations department

during hockey and basketball season at Conte Forum. Matt was a dedicated employee and friend to the late, legendary Dick Kelley ’87, MA’89, who passed away this past February after a battle with ALS. • Whenever sports are mentioned, naturally the discussion turns to T.K. Skenderian. The former Fenway employee, who was a communication major at BC, is putting his degree to good use as the Boston Athletic Association’s marketing and sponsorship manager. T.K. created the free Boston Marathon World Run app, allowing people across the universe to virtually run the Boston Marathon.

• Dennis Sullivan is busy with his wife and two daughters, whom he envisions as future scholarship student-athletes in the BC Class of 2032. Fondly known on campus as “D-Money,” the product of Cleveland is now a firefighter in Somerville. Dennis reports that he still looks simply outstanding in a pair of cowboy boots. • Congratulations are in order for Marine Corps veteran Michael Petit, who graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business. He originally applied to the program while serving overseas in Afghanistan, and a satellite phone was used to conduct his interview.

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2006

class participation goal: 620 Correspondent: Cristina Conciatori conciato@bc.edu Brian Kelly married Jessie Pellegri on January 3 in Boston. The wedding party included classmates Tony Coppola, Craig Dorsett, Patrick Forcelli, and Matthew Putorti, and fellow residents of Mod 23A. Other Eagles in attendance included Katie Onka Dorsett MA’07, Pauline Khamo, Kaytlin Lapsa, Jaime Lugas, Erin O’Brien, and John Sauter. Brian is currently stationed at Fort Hood in Texas, where he is a JAG. • Michael ’04 and Melissa Fortunato Slomienski announce the birth of their first child, William Francis, on February 27. They live in Essex Fells, NJ. • On March 8, E. Peter Alvarez married Marisa Mir Falone (Bentley University ’07) at Tupper Manor in Beverly. BC alumni in attendance included Trevor ’05 and Arivee (Vargas) Rozier-Byrd ’05, JD’08; Chantal Tate-Grande; Lindsay M. Morton; Kendra Clark; Jason Lilly; Adrian Rossello-Cornier; Olanrewaju Anam; Max Magao ’09; and A. Cooper Anderson JD’14. • On August 2, 2013, Chantal Tate married Eric Grande at Tribeca 360 in New York City. BC alumni in attendance included Joseph Carline ’01; Trevor ’05 and Arivee (Vargas) RozierByrd; Joanne Saglimbeni Castellano ’05; Devin Morris ’05; Diana Isern; Carla Breton ’05; Lindsay M. Morton; Kendra Clark; E. Peter Alvarez; Alicia Henson; Alexandra Angrand; Meakara Bou ’07; Marisa Ramirez ’07; Erika O’Bannon ’07; Jennifer Lambert ’07; Dorice Moise ’07; Milord Mirville ’08, MA’11; and Julian Rossello-Cornier ’08. • Pauline Khamo married Eric Budd on May 25 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. BC alumni in attendance from the Class of 2006 included maid of honor Kaytlin Lapsa as well as Tina Corea and Tony DiMeo, Katie and Craig Dorsett, Brian Kelly, Jessica Palumbo JD’10, Matthew Putorti, and Stephanie Locatelli Quaranta.

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2007

class participation goal: 640 Correspondent: Lauren Faherty Bagnell lauren.faherty@gmail.com

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2008

class participation goal: 675 Correspondent: Maura Tierney mauraktierney@gmail.com

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2009 reunion year

class participation goal: 1,000 Correspondent: Timothy Bates tbates86@gmail.com

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2010

class participation goal: 675 Correspondent: Bridget K. Sweeney bridget.k.sweeney@gmail.com

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2011

class participation goal: 600 Correspondent: Brittany Lynch brittanymichele8@gmail.com Eric Nam was headed for a job at Deloitte Consulting after graduation. Instead, he won a spot on Star Audition: Birth of a Great Star, Korea’s version of American Idol. Eric came in fifth in the competition, which launched his career in the exploding genre of Korean pop, often known as K-pop. He has just released a new music video, “Ooh Ooh,” which you can find on YouTube. • Two of our classmates, Laura Ann Keller and Isiuwa Jacqueline Mabatah, are spending eight weeks this summer as members of the 2014 Summer Associate class at the law firm of Wiggin and Dana. The group consists of six law students who will participate in the firm’s summer program, working on a variety of assignments across practice areas and taking part in various social and public service events. They also had the opportunity to participate in the firm’s Mock Trial, which was held in June at Yale Law School. Laura Ann, who earned her BA in communication from BC, attends the University of Connecticut School of Law. Isiuwa was a history major at BC and now attends Georgetown University Law Center.

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2012

class participation goal: 525 Correspondent: Riley Sullivan sullivan.riley.o@gmail.com Tim Cruz graduated from Ranger School at Fort Benning, GA, with the 3-14 class. After 74 class notes

becoming qualified as a Ranger, he began Airborne School at Fort Benning, and, upon completing that, he reported to his base at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. • Ashley Kellam is an assistant account executive at Weber Shandwick and has been living in New York City since graduation. Ally Redmond also lives in New York City and works for Mindshare as an assistant buyer for national broadcast.

Ally lives with Chloe Kivestu, who works as an assistant account executive at Ketchum, and Jasmine Mansouri, a corporate banking analyst for TD Bank. Kate Lowell also has lived in New York City since graduation and works as a film publicity assistant for 42West. • Bobby Banahan lives in Chicago and is a brand activation manager at Beam Inc., working with shopper and experimental marketing for Maker’s Mark and small-batch bourbons. • Sammy Cohen lives in Boston and is a junior partner at Retail Concepts.

She recently worked to bring Boltwell, a new concept in emergency preparedness, to market.

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2013

class participation goal: 575 Correspondent: Bryanna Mahony bryanna.mahony@gmail.com In May, Hanna Heycke was promoted to account executive at Schneider Associates, a Boston-based marketing and public relations firm, where she will continue work with clients in the public affairs and corporate, education, and nonprofit practice areas. In her new position, she is responsible for day-to-day client management, media and community outreach, and social media content creation.

Hanna is a native of Ashland, OR, and earned her BC degree in political science. • Former BC football star Ryan Quigley finished his first season as a punter for the Jets last year, but it was an act of charity, rather than a move on the field, that recently garnered him attention: When Jets quarterback Michael Vick offered $10,000 for Ryan’s No. 1 jersey, Ryan accepted and, although he is not yet assured a long-term career with the NFL, he requested that the funds be donated to Teen Angel of North Myrtle Beach, SC, a nonprofit that was started by Ryan’s former high school to support homeless teenagers, and to the Boys and Girls Club of New York. Ryan is now about to begin his second season with the NFL.

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2014

class participation goal: 600 Boston College Alumni Association classnotes@bc.edu Congratulations, Class of 2014, on your graduation, and welcome to the Boston College alumni family! We look forward to hearing from you as you head out to new destinations and pursue new adventures.

Share your news in Class Notes! Email your submission to us at classnotes@bc.edu, or post it on the BC alumni online community at bc.edu/community—where you can also include a picture, if you wish. • We are seeking a correspondent to represent your

class in these pages. If you would like to serve in this role, reporting news of the Class of 2014, please contact us at classnotes@bc.edu.

carroll school Correspondent: John Clifford clifford.jr@gmail.com John Christian Amport, MBA’10, officially opened Overshores Brewing Co. for business on May 1 in East Haven, CT. The business plan was a finalist in both the 2008–2009 BCVC and the 2009 CGSOM MPIII Business Plan competitions. • Adam Stafford, MBA’10, is pleased to report that his product team at GrowthCloud, in Arlington, VA, has reached a milestone 12 months in the making with the recent release of GrowthCloud 2.0. • Twelve BC and CGSOM alumni have been participating in a team-based fitness challenge created and led by Matt Marino ’01, MBA’10.

To date, Demo Challenge participants have run the equivalent of five-plus coast-to-coast crossings of the United States (16,000 miles) over 3,500 workouts, which are shared on social media. The BC team has accounted for 36 percent of the total volume. • In May, Ed Harris, MBA’09, joined the Valley Forge Tourism and Convention Board as VP of marketing and communications. The nonprofit organization is devoted to spurring tourism throughout Montgomery County, PA. Ed was previously a marketing director at eBay and earlier led marketing teams and oversaw branding at Destination Maternity Corp., Under Armour, Timberland, and Converse. He is also an adjunct marketing professor at St. Joseph’s University and serves as a board member of Bike and Build, a nonprofit organization that uses crosscountry cycling trips to raise awareness for affordable housing.

connell school Correspondent: Katy Phillips katyelphillips@gmail.com

gsas Correspondent: Leslie Poole Petit lpoolepetit@gmail.com

gssw Correspondent: Elizabeth Abbott Wenger gsswalumni@bc.edu; lizabbott@gmail.com Congratulations to the GSSW Class of 2014!

I look forward to sharing news of your accomplishments with fellow alumni as you begin your careers as social workers. • Kitaho Kato, MSW’04, is currently serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia. She is a task force leader for the LGBT Task Force, has conducted trainings on attachment theory for new clinicians, and has provided guidance to the National Psychology Center as they move forward to regulate psychological services in Mongolia. • Hugo Kamya, MSW’89, received the “Greatest Contribution to Social Work Education Award” from the National Association of

Social Workers—Massachusetts chapter. • In February, Andrew Kang, JD’97, MSW’10, was featured in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly in an article about his journey from being a litigator to becoming a therapist in order to help other attorneys manage the stress that they can experience. • Several alumni and students in New York City got together in March for informal networking. Watch the BC Social Work Facebook page (www. facebook.com/bcgssw) and join the LinkedIn group (www.bc.edu/gsswlinkedin) to hear about future events! Also, if you would like to receive our school e-newsletter and e-vites, please send your email address to infoserv@bc.edu.

law school Vicki Sanders

sandervi@bc.edu 885 Centre Street Newton, MA 02459 Class notes for Law School alumni are published in the BC Law Magazine. Please forward all submissions to Vicki Sanders at the above address.

lynch school Correspondent: Marianne Lucas Lescher mariannelescher@yahoo.com Here’s hoping you have all had some time to rest this summer. I have a few notes to share with you from our colleagues and friends. • In March, Andrew Conry-Murray, MEd’95, published his first novel, Wasteland Blues.

He and wife Clare Conry-Murray, MEd’95, recently moved to Philadelphia so Clare could take a position as assistant professor of psychology at St. Joseph’s University.

They have two children, ages 8 and 12. • Stephen Kapulka, MEd’97, writes that in the fall, after 17 years in the classroom as a teacher, he became an assistant principal at the Hanover (MA) Middle School, which serves students in grades 5 through 8. He is also coordinator of the STEM curriculum.

Our congratulations to both Andrew and Stephen on their accomplishments. • Lastly, a note regarding an incredible Lynch College of Education professor, Dr. Peter Airasian, who was a mentor and collaborator to so many of us in the graduate programs at BC. Dr. Airasian’s death in April leaves all of us saddened. We send our thoughts and prayers to his family.

stm School of Theology and Ministry stmalum@bc.edu 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3800 Sr. Karla Marie Kaelin, MEd’93, is celebrating 50 years as an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph. She earned her master’s degree in religious education from Boston College in 1993. The Louisville, KY, native has served in Kentucky and Missouri, and since 2013 she has been the director of religious education at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in Louisville.

• Fr. John Predmore, MDiv’05, a Jesuit priest www.bc.edu/alumni

of the New England Province serves as pastor of the English-speaking Latin-rite Catholics in Jordan, in the Jerusalem diocese. On his blog, Fr. Predmore recaps the visit of Pope Francis to Jordan: http://predmoresj. blogspot.com/2014/05/recap-of-popes-visitto-jordan.html. • In May, John W. Padberg, SJ, a former president (1975–1985) of the Weston School of Theology, received an honorary degree from the College of the Holy Cross at its 168th commencement exercises. • Mark and Sara (Janecko) Milone, MDiv’09, joyfully announce the birth of their second daughter, Mary Rose, on April 1, 2014. She joins big sister Madeleine. • Congratulations to all STM alumni who were ordained to the priesthood this past spring: Christopher Johnson, SJ, MDiv’14; Robert Murphy, SJ, STL’14; Mario Powell, SJ, ’03, MDiv’14; Michael Rozier, SJ, STL’14; Samuel Sawyer, SJ, ’00, MDiv’14; Paul Shelton, SJ, STL’14; Thomas Simisky, SJ, MA’01, ThM’14; Nathan Wendt, SJ, STL’14; David Verghese, CSsR, MDiv’12; and Matthew Janeczko, OFMCap, STL’14.

wcas Correspondent: Jane T. Crimlisk ’74 janecrimlisk@yahoo.com 37 Leominster Road Dedham, MA 02026; 781-326-0290 Reunion weekend was fabulous! I spent a significant amount of time with Bill ’74 and Kathy (Cantwell) McCarthy ’75. At the Sunday jazz brunch, I met several Woods College graduates who were celebrating their anniversary as the latest Golden Eagles, including Jean and John Lacey ’64, MEd’66; William and Jane Sheehan Smith ’64; and Jean Murray Finnerty ’64. • It was a nice surprise to receive a note from Fr. Woods ’54, MAT’61, STB’62, H’13, who writes that he spent two days at the Cranwell resort in Lenox with alumni who were members of the first class he taught there back in 1955; the property was then Cranwell Prep, a Jesuit school, which closed in 1975. Fr. Woods began his tenure at Cranwell when he took over the classes previously taught by J.J. McLaughlin ’55, who had been reassigned to Cheverus High. (J.J. is the creator of The McLaughlin Group, the public affairs program that has now been airing for more than 25 years). This past spring, 70 percent of the students who were in Fr. Woods’s classes at Cranwell—in algebra, English composition and literature, and communication—gathered to celebrate their classes together 59 years ago and their graduation from Cranwell 55 years ago, and also to remember deceased class members at a memorial Mass. • Prayers and condolences are extended to John Boyle ’69 and the Boyle family on the sudden death of Mary Boyle, who I know was a good wife and a loving mother, as well as to the family of Eileen Duffin ’62, who recently passed away. May Mary and Eileen both rest in peace.

obituaries boston college alumni deaths

1930s

Allan V. DeMarco ’38 of Largo, FL, on May 8, 2014.

1940s Francis X. Mahoney ’42, MEd’54, of Malden, formerly of Chelsea, on May 17, 2014.

John C. Caldwell ’43 of Torrington, CT, on April 7, 2014.

Norman E. Kane ’43 of Farmington, ME, on April 25, 2014.

Raymond W. Sisk, Esq., ’43, JD’48, of Scituate on May 26, 2014.

Paul R. Dunn ’44 of Peabody on April 6, 2014.

Anne Furey Owings WCAS’46, MEd’67, of South Pasadena, FL, formerly of Walpole, on May 7, 2014.

Loretta Helfrich Fowler, MSW’47, of Redding, CA, on May 18, 2014.

Barbara Foote Larson, MA’47, of Brooksville, ME, formerly of Beverly, on May 5, 2014.

Richard J. Barry ’49 of Glen Rock, NJ, on May 10, 2014.

Edward W. Crowley ’51 of Woburn on March 27, 2014.

Patrick J. Stanton ’55, MBA’66, of Gloucester on May 24, 2014.

Raymond I. DeCoux ’51 of Clinton, formerly of Tewksbury, on May 2, 2014.

Richard P. Bepko, Esq., JD’56, of Shelton, CT, formerly of Bridgeport, CT, on April 21, 2014.

Robert L. Gagnon ’51 of Lowell on May 27, 2014.

John J. Giuffrida ’56 of Laconia, NH, on June 8, 2014.

Charles E. Hagan ’51 of Borrego Springs, CA, on April 2, 2014.

William A. MacNeill ’56, MA’60, of Scituate on May 27, 2014.

John Patrick Joyce ’51, MA’54, of Somerville on May 12, 2014.

Charles P. Mooney Sr. ’56 of Hingham on March 28, 2014.

Robert J. Kaler ’51 of Milton on January 16, 2014.

Allan J. McGrath ’51 of Winthrop on July 3, 2013.

James E. Murphy Jr. ’56 of West Newton on January 30, 2012.

Katherine M. Cameron, MEd’57, of Chelmsford on May 8, 2014.

John J. O’Malley Jr. ’51, MA’52, of Fredericksburg, TX, on February 27, 2014.

Clifford J. Cawley, JD’57, of East Providence, RI, on April 19, 2014.

John M. Burke ’52 of Potomac, MD, on March 30, 2014.

Rita B. McGrath Emello ’57 of Belmont on April 15, 2014.

Francis L. Carroll ’52, MBA’61, of Flat Rock, NC, on June 6, 2014.

Timothy L. Horrigan, Esq., ’57, JD’61, of Minot, formerly of Milton, on May 11, 2014.

Stephen J. Casey ’52 of Belmont on May 23, 2014.

Edward Matta ’52 of Brockton on April 8, 2014.

Hugh F. McCarthy ’52 of Gloucester and Marco Island, FL, on April 8, 2014.

Robert V. Libertini ’57 of Sudbury on March 26, 2014.

John F. Brosnan, MEd’58, of Holyoke on May 25, 2014.

Robert L. Delaney ’58, MS’60, of Duck Key, FL, on April 10, 2014.

Kenneth J. McIntire ’52 of Randolph on May 10, 2014.

Paul J. Dmytryck ’58 of Litchfield, CT, on May 7, 2014.

Theodore R. Slifer ’52 of Weimar, CA, on April 28, 2014.

Joanne M. Donahue ’58, MS’66, of Marlborough on April 19, 2014.

Theodore C. McCarthy ’49 of Novato, CA, on May 18, 2014.

Edward F. Fahey ’53 of Manchester, CT, on May 11, 2014.

Daniel K. Kehoe ’58 of Duxbury on April 18, 2014.

Robert F. Murphy ’49 of Harwich on April 22, 2014.

Marion G. Kiernan ’54 of Verona, NJ, on November 29, 2013.

1950s

Eugene F. Lawlor III ’54 of Farmington, CT, on March 22, 2014.

Charles J. Lyons ’58 of Rockland, formerly of Dorchester, on April 25, 2014.

Garrett J. Cullen, Esq., ’49, JD’56, of Cocoa Beach, FL, formerly of Needham, on February 16, 2014.

Richard Finn Burke ’50 of Hingham on April 1, 2014.

William J. Fogarty ’50 of Melrose on April 25, 2014.

Francis X. Kennedy ’50, MA’52, of Quincy, formerly of Dorchester, on April 9, 2014.

William M. O’Neill ’50 of Littleton on April 26, 2014.

James J. Stapleton ’50 of Winter Park, FL, on May 24, 2014.

Paul K. Tucker ’50 of Manchester, CT, on April 12, 2014.

Manuel J. Mello ’54, MSW’58, of Peabody on March 21, 2014.

Eugene G. Seems, Esq., JD’54, of Pennington, NJ, on April 10, 2014.

Lawrence L. Brown ’55 of Walpole, formerly of Norwood, on January 22, 2014.

Donald Gracey, Esq., JD’55, of Rochester, NY, formerly of Longmeadow, on May 1, 2014.

David R. Marquis ’55 of Andover on June 7, 2014.

James F. Waldron, Esq., ’50, JD’58, of Haverhill on April 18, 2014.

Edward J. Neville Jr. ’55 of Rye, NH, formerly of Wellesley Hills, on April 3, 2014.

Theodore F. Zagaeski ’50 of Lexington on April 6, 2014.

Jean Mullen O’Farrell ’55 of Annapolis, MD, on June 8, 2014.

Catherine Carroll McDonald ’58 of Beverly on May 26, 2014.

Timothy F. Moran ’58 of Nahant on April 13, 2014.

H. Raymond Powers, STL’58, of East Wallingford, VT, on March 8, 2014.

1960s Sally Heffernan Anderson NC’60 of Scottsdale, AZ, on May 3, 2014.

Horace M. Besecker Jr., MSW’60, of Lexington on August 31, 2013.

William L. Burns ’60 of Chelmsford on April 12, 2014.

Barbara E. Gregory, MEd’60, of Chicopee on April 2, 2014.

John P. Keegan ’60 of Nashua, NH, on May 16, 2014.

John D. Lyons Jr. ’60 of South Yarmouth and Naples, FL, on May 23, 2014.

Glenda Cotter Miller ’60 of Fairhaven on May 26, 2014.

Linda McGann O’Callaghan NC’60 of Burlington, formerly of Winchester, on May 21, 2014.

Mary Brannan Driscoll Roy WCAS’60 of Port Richey, FL, formerly of Tewksbury, on March 7, 2014.

Alfred W. Sweenie ’60 of Braintree on April 11, 2014.

Edmund G. Buckley ’61, MSW’63, of Waterford, MI, on March 23, 2014.

Kevin J. Collins ’61 of Billerica, formerly of Allston, on February 7, 2014.

Michael Cooney, MBA’61, of Wakefield, RI, on May 21, 2014.

Nathalie Omilnowicz Fleming ’61 of Mattapoisett on April 25, 2014.

Robert J. Macolini ’61 of Arundel, ME, on March 29, 2014.

Edward S. Scullane Jr. ’61, MA’67, of Wellesley Hills on April 23, 2014.

Philip M. St. Germain, Esq., ’61, JD’65, of Naples, FL, and New Castle, CT, on April 23, 2014.

Norman J. Barry ’62 of Southgate, KY, on June 13, 2014.

James C. Donovan ’62 of Marshfield on May 23, 2014.

Anne Clasby Toomey ’58 of Danvers on April 9, 2014.

Eileen P. Duffin WCAS’62 of Dorchester on December 1, 2013.

Priscilla C. Almeida ’59, MS’67, of Marblehead, formerly of Lynn, on April 16, 2014.

Margaret Frances Loftus, SND, ’62 of Ipswich on May 21, 2014.

Karl J. Burgess ’59 of Aquinnah on April 29, 2014.

Annette Catania Mosher ’62 of Brussels, Belgium, formerly of Boston on April 26, 2014.

Arthur F. Kaplan ’59 of Milton on May 7, 2014.

Maura Smith Burke NC’63 of Nashua, NH, on May 30, 2014.

Edward G. Tobin WCAS’59 of Needham on April 26, 2014.

Thomas Henry Kanaly, MAT’63, of New Bern, NC, on May 21, 2014.

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Raymond P. Bilodeau, Esq., ’64 of Worcester on July 25, 2013.

Brian A. Brooks ’64 of Charlestown on May 10, 2014.

Walworth Johnson Jr. ’64 of Dover, NH, on March 22, 2014.

Arthur P. Lothrop Jr. ’64, MAT’66, of Fall River on June 8, 2014.

Ann Merrill Norwood, MEd’69, of New Smyrna Beach, FL, on June 9, 2014.

Michael J. Stone ’69 of Rock Creek, OH, on May 2, 2014.

1970s

Joseph A. Bousquet II ’65 of New Smyrna Beach, FL, on May 1, 2014.

Michael J. O’Donnell ’70, MBA’77 of Wesley Chapel, FL, on May 7, 2014.

William T. Doyle Jr. ’65 of West Roxbury on May 8, 2014.

Georgeann F. Abbanat, Esq., JD’71, of Winchester on May 3, 2014.

Bruce D. Gormley ’65 of Shelton, CT, on April 9, 2014.

Raymond C. Beattie Jr. ’71 of Longmeadow on May 12, 2014.

Barbara A. Sullivan ’65 of Quincy on February 26, 2013.

Richard T. Egan, Esq., JD’71, of San Diego, CA, on April 26, 2014.

Ernest L. Ansara Jr. ’66, MBA’74, of San Clemente, CA, on October 22, 2013.

Edward W. Maloney Jr. ’71 of Southborough on December 10, 2013.

John P. Cronin, MSW ’66, of Fall River on April 28, 2014.

Thomas P. Coursey, Esq., JD’72, of Wellesley on May 15, 2014.

Owen J. Flannery Sr. ’66 of San Francisco, CA, formerly of Winthrop, on April 20, 2014.

Thomas A. Mullen ’72 of Riverview, FL, on April 5, 2014.

John P. Griffin Jr. ’66 of Bennington, VT, on April 10, 2014.

Byron Geoffrey Tosi ’66 of Lutherville, MD, on May 23, 2014.

Mary E. Costello Connell ’67 of Hyde Park on April 24, 2014.

Edward J. Guilfoyle Jr. ’67 of Weymouth, formerly of Braintree, on May 25, 2014.

Michael B. McGinty ’67 of Boston on January 21, 2014.

Richard P. Brophey ’68 of Pepperell, formerly of West Roxbury, on June 7, 2014.

Timothy J. Connor ’85 of Glenside, PA, on April 20, 2014.

Mary McGreevy, SSND, MEd’92, of Phoenix, AZ, on February 20, 2014.

Louise M. Weis ’86 of Pittsburgh, PA, on March 25, 2014.

Philip M. Cooper ’87 of Dedham, formerly of Newton, on April 26, 2014.

Ann Murray Paige ’87 of Davis, CA, formerly of Portland, ME, on March 16, 2014.

Paul T. Shea ’95 of Holliston on April 18, 2014.

2000s Kathleen M. Carney, MS’00, of Jamaica Plain on March 22, 2014.

Robert W. Aube Jr. ’88 of Rocky Hill, CT, on May 11, 2014.

Joseph M. Jose, MBA’01, of Boston on March 14, 2014.

Gregory R. King, MA’88, of West Roxbury on April 18, 2014.

Ryan S. Read ’02 of Austin, TX, on March 28, 2014.

Alice Jeghelian, PhD ’71, of Bradenton, Florida, special assistant to the president and director of professional development from 1969 to 1994, on June 21, 2014, at age 85.

She is survived by her brother, Leo Jeghelian; sister, Jaye Howes; nieces Lisa von Wendt and Susan Jeghelian; nephew, Leo S. Jeghelian; and great-nieces and great-nephews Elliott, Isabella, Francesca, Sarah, Peter, and Samuel.

Ruben Pope, Esq., JD’74, of Cleveland, OH, on April 10, 2014.

Jerome Westerman, MBA’74, of Peabody on January 19, 2014.

Alice E. Collins, MEd’75, CAES’80, of Milton on December 3, 2012.

Alphonse J. Fazio ’76 of Sewickley, PA, on June 19, 2014.

Adrian C. Taylor ’76 of Montclair, NJ, on March 21, 2014.

William Joseph Celestino, MAT’78, of Santa Ana, CA, on April 10, 2014.

Kathleen M. Curry, Esq., NC’69, JD’73, of Boston, on May 14, 2014.

Peter S. Scoba, MBA’90, of Franklin on June 11, 2014.

Colin T. Steele ’73 of North Andover on May 22, 2014.

Vincent P. Cote ’68 of Bangor, ME, on May 8, 2014.

Brian M. Page ’68 of Somerset on May 30, 2014.

Robert M. Hagearty ’84 of Boston on May 28, 2014.

boston college community deaths

Christina A. Cavallari ’78 of Easthampton on May 30, 2014.

Laurie Psyck O’Leary ’68 of Manchester-by-the-Sea on April 17, 2014.

1990s

Kathleen M. Healy Maxon ’73 of Belchertown on March 24, 2014.

Mary E. Correa ’68 of Katonah, NY, on May 9, 2014.

Richard J. Mirabile ’68 of Hingham on April 28, 2014.

Michael J. DeMaria III ’83 of Simsbury, CT, on June 17, 2014.

Andrew Ralph Gustafson, Esq., JD’78, of Townsend, on May 22, 2014.

1980s Kathleen Ryan Noonan ’80 of Andover, NJ, on April 29, 2014.

Janice Sprague Johnson, MEd’69, of Windsor, VT, on May 27, 2014.

Jennifer L. Andrews ’81 of Thetford Center, VT, on April 26, 2014.

James A. Martin III ’69 of Atlanta, GA, on April 24, 2014.

Richard S. Tyrell ’81 of Winthrop on May 10, 2014.

Joseph F. Krebs ’44, MA’49, of Peabody, professor of mathematics from 1949 to 1993, on June 24, 2014, at age 91.

He is survived by his nieces Joni Chandler, Karen DiBlasi, and Denise Dill-Hurley; nephews William Bateman, George Campbell, and John Campbell; and many great- and greatgreat nieces and nephews.

William B. Neenan, SJ, H’08, of Chestnut Hill, vice president and special assistant to the president since 1998; academic vice president and dean of faculties from 1987 to 1998; dean of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences from 1980 to 1987; and Gasson Professor of economics from 1979 to 1980; on June 25, 2014, at age 85. He is survived by his stepmother, Margaret Braunger Neenan; sister, Mary Jo Warnke; and brother, Peter Neenan.

The “Obituaries” section is compiled from national listings as well as from notifications submitted by friends and family of alumni. It consists of names of those whose deaths have been reported to us since the previous issue of Boston College Magazine. Please send information on deceased alumni to Advancement Information Systems, Cadigan Alumni Center, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 or to infoserv@bc.edu.

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Game Changer The Making of a Boston College Student-Athlete

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What impact did your BC scholarship have on your college choice?

the stats-driven world of today’s athletics culture, it’s easy to be consumed with individual goals, milestones, and successes.

For men’s basketball star Lonnie Jackson ’15, however, joining the BC community has shown him that being “men and women for others” applies both on and off the court.

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How has your time at BC shaped you?

I’ve had so many positives on and off the court—and look forward to coach Jim Christian’s leadership and our upcoming season.

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If it weren’t for the scholarship I received from Boston College*, I likely wouldn’t be at the Heights. Boston College provides excellent academics and the chance to compete in the best basketball conference in the country.

There are very few schools that offer that combination, so I’m eternally grateful for my scholarship.

Support BC student-athletes at www.bc.edu/athleticsgiving. * The William S. McKiernan '78 Family Scholarship for Men's Basketball

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Alumni, parents, and friends provide crucial support for the University to compete against other ACC schools in those key areas. BC has consistently been a leader in

endowment fundraising, but unrestricted annual gifts to athletics can be a determining factor for on-field success in the ACC. Below is how BC stacked up in 2012-13 against select ACC peers in annual athletics fundraising and their standing in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, which honors institutions maintaining a broad-based program and achieving success in many sports, both men’s and women’s.

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Those with a perfect rating included three men’s teams— golf, outdoor track and field, and skiing—and seven women’s teams—cross country, ice hockey, lacrosse, swimming and diving, indoor track and field, outdoor track and field, and volleyball. Also honored were men’s indoor track and field and football, both of which finished in the top 10 percent.

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