Boston College Magazine, Winter 2023

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The CEO How CVS boss Karen Lynch ’84 became the most powerful woman in business.

ART MYSTERY The BC Law grad who helped to repatriate a looted ancient bust.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION Head Coach Earl Grant is rebuilding the men’s basketball program.

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The CEO

Under Construction

Since being named CVS Health’s chief executive two years ago, Karen Lynch ’84 has become the most powerful woman in business and set out to transform American health care.

How Head Coach Earl Grant is rebuilding the men’s basketball program.

By Daniel McGinn ’93 Photographs by Scott McIntyre

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By Lisa Liberty Becker Photographs by Billie Weiss

36 The Case of the Looted Bust BC Law alum Leila Amineddoleh is one of the world’s leading experts on plundered artworks. In 2018 she found herself in the middle of a mystery that stretched all the way from ancient Rome to an Austin, Texas, thrift shop … and that would go on to become one of the biggest art-world stories in memory.

By John Wolfson

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Rebuilding after Tragedy As we near the tenth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, married couple Patrick Downes ’05 and Jessica Kensky reflect on finding joy and meaning in the years after the horrific attack.

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Campus Digest

10 Moving the Church Forward For twenty years, BC’s Church in the 21st Century Center has worked to revitalize the Catholic tradition.

11 Obbligato!

The legendary Boston radio host Laura Carlo is fighting to keep classical music on the air.

12 A Pound of Kured

CLASS NOTES 14 Globetrotter Basketball took ex-Eagles star Sean Marshall ’07 around the world.

Now he’s in a hit new reality show.

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44 Alumni News and Notes 45 Class Notes 70 Advancing Boston College

Companions Program

The program is geared toward adult learners and provides opportunities to re-experience campus life.

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72 What I’ve Learned Barry Gallup ’69

73 Parting Shot

The new Boston College Law School dean on training lawyers to serve others and protect the rule of law.

18 Gangland In his first novel in a decade, Chuck Hogan ’89 takes readers into the Chicago underworld.

With her new business, Gilli Rozynek ’20 is bringing charcuterie to the masses.

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Really Remote Access Matthew Kirven ’24 took a frosty moment to register for spring classes while hiking in the Cadini di Misurina mountain range. His friend Max White ’24, meanwhile, tried to keep warm within their tent. The duo hiked more than one hundred miles across the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps on a two-week trip last November. Kirven admitted that November might not be the best time for a trek, but called it “an experience of a lifetime.”

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Conversation

RESPONSES FROM AMERICANS Our Fall 2022 interview with BC History Professor Heather Cox Richardson, whose newsletter Letters from an American has become a national phenomenon, generated plenty of buzz online. Dozens of readers shared praise and gratitude for Richardson’s teachings, just some of the more than two hundred users who reacted to the article when it was posted on BC’s Facebook page. Here’s a sampling of some of their comments.

INTERVIEW WITH AN AMERICAN John Wolfson’s interview with Heather Cox Richardson [Fall 2022] was an unexpected delight, especially her own realization that “the people who are keeping America alive are its marginalized peoples and its newcomers.” As a first-generation American, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and a practicing Catholic, I have experienced (on a few levels) what Ms. Richardson is communicating—that there’s always more to learn from each citizen. Failure to do so may promote irrevocable consequences for our great nation’s future.

Ivan Manuel Illan ’96 Los Angeles, California BCM Stories, A Contrast in Reality. Your article on Boomer Esiason’s son Gunnar Esiason ’13 [Fall 2022] and his ability to bring his story of cystic fibrosis to a heightened level of awareness was both an education and a comfort to your readers.

As a fellow BC grad ’74 and Dartmouth TDI MPH grad ’04, I was deeply moved by his story. In contrast the interview with Heather Cox Richardson was both superficial and tainted with her misinformation and biased descriptions. Her remarks about Adam Schiff and President Biden were analogous to a teenager blubbering over a teen idol in a teen magazine interview.

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Her letters have educated me and kept me informed.

There have been times when I stopped reading the newspaper and stopped watching the news, because the news of the politics of the day was so upsetting.

Heather Cox Richardson kept me informed in a way that I understood what was happening! I trust her completely to tell us truths.

There are too few out there who do this, and none as amazing as this woman!

Charlene Rose Gottlieb I really enjoyed this interview and it gave me much to think about on my morning walk.

Beth Cooley

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She is the best teacher ever!

I’ve learned more in a few years of FB posts than decades of schooling.

Absolutely deserving of every award she gets.”

Leigh Pickering

I look forward to her daily “letter” and have rarely missed it in the past 2+ years since I accidentally stumbled onto one on FB. Dr. Richardson is one of the most concise and sane writers in today’s America.

Ruth Rogers Hawkins She is a national treasure.

Christine Smith Her daily post is the first thing I read every day.

Not only are her letters so educational, but her clarity helps me stay informed and centered during these frustrating and divisive political times.

Deana Mahedy Fantastic historian who puts it all in understandable language. How I would love to be one of her students at Boston College. Too bad she wasn’t around when I was there—in 1984!!!

Peter Murphy She’s been a beacon of light and sensibility for so many of us!

Christina Sgambati Pickett Heather Cox Richardson has saved my sanity throughout all the craziness. I’m so grateful for her letters.

Thank you, Heather!

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natured moniker with my scientist Dad, he corrected it: The wedge is the actual simplest of tools. When I, in turn, relayed this to Father McGowan, he of course harrumphed it away with his characteristic moxie and inserted me in the very next exam as, you guessed it…The Hammer.

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BREATHTAKING

We should all be thankful for men like Gunnar Esiason ’13, who is working to change the focus of the pharmaceutical industry away from profits and toward saving the lives of those with rare diseases.

Insufficient funding for rare-disease research leaves patients with very few, if any, treatment options, as developing treatments for rare diseases is often not financially viable for companies. My classmate Paul Poth ’91 founded TargetCancer Foundation to quickly raise funds to support the most innovative and promising research into otherwise ignored rare cancers after he was diagnosed with the rare cancer cholangiocarcinoma. As said in the article, “if there’s one thing people with a rare disease don’t have, it’s time to waste.” While Paul did not live to see the progress that is being made, I am so happy Gunnar is in front advocating for all of us, so we are never faced with a lack of options for ourselves or our families in the future.

Alicemarie Hand ’91 Sherborn, Massachusetts

THE ODDS FATHER

I loved your Fall 2022 article “The Odds Father” about Father Richard McGowan, who by the way apparently hasn’t aged a day.

I took Statistics 101 with McGowan in 1990 as a CSOM sophomore and he was one of my all-time favorite professors—even as Stats helped spur me to make the leap to A&S and graduate with an English degree! We had tons of laughs with Father McGowan, both in class and on exams, where many of us had guest-starring “roles” as characters in his wildly tricky statistical scenarios. Father McGowan famously (and to great humorous effect) called me The Hammer—“the simplest of tools”— but when I shared this very good-

Love this—great person and professor.

Stats in the ’80s—I still remember [Fr. McGowan’s] “coffin nails” test questions.

As in-demand as he was, he was always available for his students.

Stephen Hudson via Facebook

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Keith Ake DEPUTY EDITOR

Lisa Weidenfeld STAFF WRITER

Elizabeth Clemente DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

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Caitlin Cunningham

MY SISTER’S KEEPER

I just started listening to [The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister] as an audiobook, which the author herself reads! It’s amazing.

Kyleigh Leddy is an excellent writer and her story is so personal and heartfelt. A really close look at the reality of mental illness. I highly recommend it.

Christine D’Entremont Mosher via Facebook The excerpt was outstanding. Looking forward to reading the book. Well done, Kyleigh!

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Rebuilding after Tragedy

As we near the tenth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, married couple Patrick Downes ’05 and Jessica Kensky reflect on finding joy and meaning in the years after the horrific attack.

BY LISA WEIDENFELD

The tenth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing looms this spring, and with it, Patrick Downes ‘05 and Jessica Kensky are facing down a tidal wave of media coverage— and their own complicated feelings about the date. The married couple were two of the faces the public got to know in the aftermath of the horrific event. On April 15, 2013, domestic terrorists set off homemade bombs at the marathon finish line, killing three people and grievously wounding hundreds of others, including Downes and Kensky. The newlyweds, who were cheering runners on, each became amputees, with Downes losing one leg, and Kensky ultimately losing both.

The years between then and now have been a vast ocean of surgery, physical therapy, and trying to figure out what their lives would look like. Today, there’s a sense of pride as they talk about their ability to continue in the careers they’d begun before the bombing—Downes is a therapist, and Kensky a nurse—but everything else about their lives is unimaginably different.

When the anniversary of the event has rolled around each year, it’s brought ambivalent feelings for them. Sometimes they’ve wanted to be at the race, cheering on the charity runners they support. And “sometimes we just want to get out of town and do something ourselves,” Downes said recently.

“I don’t really know what this time’s going to feel like yet.” Kensky agreed, describing how much the pain has lessened because they’re doing so much better now. And yet, there’s always going to be the memory of what couldn’t be. “There was this road that we weren’t able to take,” Kensky said. “No matter how hard we’ve tried to get back, our life is forever different.”

Of course, it really is worth reiterating how well they’re doing. Kensky is able to spend ten-hour nursing shifts standing in her prosthetic legs, something she says would have been “unthinkable” only a few years ago.

When Downes, who also uses a prosthetic, ran the marathon back in 2016, Kensky still couldn’t walk, and she went through so many surgeries over the years that she felt like an outlier even among bombing survivors.

Today, though, life’s quotidian joys, which photo: Kelly Davidson

had become impossible in the aftermath of the bombing, are folded back into the day-today for her. This past fall, she cooked a whole meal the night before Thanksgiving, served soup, and cleared the dishes. And Downes pointed out how freeing it was for Kensky to be able to casually wait in line for a coffee.

One of the more remarkable things about these two survivors is how much time they spend laughing. When I spoke with them in December, they were both quick to roll their eyes at the absurdity of some of the situations they’ve found themselves in, like when someone in an elevator asked Kensky, a double amputee, if her shoes were comfortable. Or the time they decided to rent a small boat for their anniversary, and got beached on a

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There was this road that we weren’t able to take. No matter how hard we’ve tried to get back, our life is forever different.” sandbar on the Cape. Kensky had her water legs on, so she climbed into the water to start pushing, while Downes tried to steer them free as passersby looked on. “I’m sure they’re just like, Why is the girl missing her legs below the knee trying to push this boat?” Kensky said, laughing. Eventually people came over to help, which revealed, of course, that Downes was also missing a leg, but everyone just helped free them without asking anything

about who they were. “I’m like, well, they’ve got a great story to tell at their cookout tonight,” Kensky said.

Not everyone has been so polite. Once, they were waiting in a security line at the airport, and a man, without even saying hello, bluntly asked if they’d met in rehab.

Downes said no, and chose not to engage further. Kids have been easier. They’re never trying to be voyeuristic, Downes pointed out—they’re just curious. That’s part of the reason the couple released a children’s book in 2018, Rescue and Jessica: A Life-Changing Friendship, about Kensky’s service dog. They have no plans at the moment to write a memoir about their experiences, but they love visiting schools to talk about the book with kids.

Their public stature also provided Downes with the platform to endow a scholarship called Boston College Strong. It was originally proposed as a one-off gift for a student in need, but four of Downes’s BC friends decided to take things to the next level, ultimately raising around $450,000, enough to permanently endow the scholarship. Every year for the past six years, the fund has given scholarships to students with disabilities, a cohort of students Downes called “extraordinary human beings who have been such a force for good on campus.”

Many recipients have gotten involved in advocacy for students with disabilities, hosting events and working with the undergraduate student council.

As this year’s marathon approaches, it’s a reminder that ten years is not just an anniversary—it’s not only an accumulation of years but of life itself, all building into a new version of who Downes and Kensky are, and who they will be in the years to come. A doctor once told Kensky when she was going through a rough period that it was possible the bombing could someday be just a footnote in their lives, and the idea has lingered with her, as hard as it sometimes is to imagine. “It’s an enormous part of our life,” she said. “But I think all this time has been trying to figure out how to make it a footnote, and figure out what else we’re going to fill in there, and have it be a part of me, and a part of us. But not all of us.” n w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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“Bloomsday” by the Numbers Nina Khagany ’24 (pictured below) capped Professor Joseph Nugent’s semester-long Ulysses class last fall by organizing a special Bloomsday event. The James Joyce classic, which takes place over the course of a single day, was read aloud in its entirety by Khagany, her classmates, and a variety of instructors as they raced across campus, powering through chapters along the way while sporting the iconic mustache and bowler of main character Leopold Bloom.

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BC Announces New Global Public Health Major

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Stickers reading “I’ve been Bloom’d” that were handed out.

Boston College will offer a new major in Global Public Health and the Common Good beginning in the Fall semester. The degree will expand on a popular course of study—one hundred students are already pursuing a minor or an independent degree in public health. The program, to be administered by the Connell School of Nursing in partnership with the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, will be led by its founding director, biology Professor Philip J. Landrigan. “In the aftermath of Covid,” Landrigan said, “we can all see that understanding how disease moves through populations is just incredibly important.”

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More Students Casting Ballots Are more students voting? The answer is a resounding “yes,” according to a new report from the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University.

Nationally, student participation in the 2020 election was a “stunning” 14 percent higher than in the 2016 election, according to the report, the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement. And Boston College was no exception. Over the last three presidential elections, not only did students register at higher rates in each election year, but the percentage of registered students who actually cast a ballot has been on a steady climb.

Unsurprisingly, those studying education and history voted at some of the highest rates. But who were the BC students most likely to vote? Those in majors related to public administration and social services.

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Campus News Biology Professor Philip J. Landrigan, MD,

CHARACTER SKETCH

Desmon and Derrick Lewis

was honored by The National Institute of Social Sciences in December with the Gold Honor Medal alongside astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab. Landrigan was recognized for his efforts to improve public health worldwide. He accepted the medal “on behalf of all the many friends and good colleagues with whom I have worked in public health.”

Yvonne McBarnett, former director of BC’s Montserrat Coalition, has been named the new director of the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center (BAIC). McBarnett came to BC in 2002 and worked in several roles over her years at the BAIC. Michael Davidson, SJ, who previously held the post, has been named the Montserrat Coalition’s new director.

George Mohler has been named the University’s inaugural Daniel J. Fitzgerald Professor in data science. Mohler comes to BC from Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, where he taught computer information. His research on data science and criminology has also been featured in several national and international news outlets, including the New York Times and TIME.

BC Law Professor Ingrid Hillinger was honored with the 2022 Excellence in Education Award by The National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges last fall. In 2013, Hillinger created The Ingrid Michelsen Hillinger Public Interest Legacy Fund, which has evolved into a $2.6 million endowment to fund BC law students’ summer internships in public interest law.

Graduate Student Life Director Carole Hughes was named a Pillar of the Profession by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators last fall for her thirty-five years of service to BC. The awards honor people who have held national leadership roles within the organization, and created a lasting impact on their institutions. photo: Lee Pellegrini

Twin brothers Desmon Lewis ’05 (at left) and Derrick Lewis ’06 established the Bronx Community Foundation in 2017 to improve life in the New York City borough where they grew up. They raised over $15 million for a two-year initiative to address needs exacerbated by the pandemic. Now they’re looking to the future. —Elizabeth Clemente

Desmon: We call ourselves products of philanthropy. The Bronx has one of the largest nonprofit communities in the country, and like many of our neighbors, we were molded by these organizations throughout our childhood, living in affordable housing, receiving food assistance, and getting healthcare from a local nonprofit hospital. When thinking about how to give back to the Bronx, we asked ourselves, what are some of the struggles our parents faced? One was that our family had to go to many nonprofits to get help.

Derrick: We knew Bronx nonprofits were doing great work already, but they needed more capital. If you’re solving a challenge in the East Bronx, that can also be a solution for a challenge in the West Bronx. We wanted to say, how do we scale that solution you’ve created to be used across the entirety of the borough?

Desmon: When the pandemic hit, we decided to use our resources to execute our vision in a time of most need. With the help of local organizations, we trained restaurants to cook millions of emergency meals and distributed them. We also created the Bronx Digital Equity Coalition to donate Wi-Fi and electronic devices that allowed people to work and learn remotely. We provided all kinds of resources, from funding work training for the formerly incarcerated, to facilitating meetings for affordable housing groups, to providing grants to small businesses and distributing PPE.

Derrick: Our Covid relief effort ended in 2022, but further illustrated the need for the work of our foundation. We have four pillars of focus: justice, economic security, health, and digital equity, and are passionate about building community power and generational wealth. We made a major stride toward that goal this year when we helped to launch The Bronx Cannabis Hub, which assists people convicted of a cannabis offense in obtaining recreational marijuana licenses, and educates the community about the industry. w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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Moving the Church Forward

For twenty years, BC’s Church in the 21st Century Center has worked to revitalize the Catholic tradition.

BY ALIX HACKETT

On January 6, 2002, Boston College Professor Thomas Groome was among the millions of Catholics around the world to read the shocking results of a Boston Globe investigation that exposed a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse within the Church, and efforts by the Archdiocese of Boston to cover it up. Not long after, Groome was one of about twenty-five people called into an emergency meeting by Boston College President William P. Leahy, SJ, to discuss the University’s response to the unfolding crisis.

Everyone in attendance was in agreement: Boston College could not stay silent. Instead, Groome recalled, “we decided to face it head-on.”

The result was the Church in the 21st Century Center, which recently celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Initially launched as a two-year program, C21’s mission was to serve as a catalyst for the renewal of the Catholic Church by publishing papers and hosting lectures and conferences exploring three main areas: roles and relationships within the Church, sexuality in the Catholic tradition, and handing on the faith to the next generation.

(The Catholic intellectual tradition was later added as a fourth area of focus.) No topic was off-limits. In the Center’s first year, speakers at C21-sponsored events discussed Catholic attitudes toward homosexuality and debated the role of women in the Church. The Center even invited the Globe reporters who uncovered the abuse scandal to appear on a panel.

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work, convening people, and having lots of hard conversations,” said Karen Kiefer ’82, who joined the C21 staff in 2008 and now serves as the organization’s director.

Early on, C21 directors took efforts to engage young people in the Center’s programming. For instance, in 2005, Director Tim

and parishes around the world.

In 2012, C21 expanded the concept into a seven-day celebration of faith on campus, known as Espresso Your Faith Week, featuring outdoor activities like “Cornhole with the Jesuits” as well as panel discussions and a candlelight mass.

C21’s audience has always

Muldoon ’92 launched Agape Latte, a monthly storytelling series in which speakers from the BC community shared their faith journeys with students over coffee. Now entirely student-led, Agape Latte remains one of the Center’s most popular offerings and has inspired similar programs in more than 150 schools

extended beyond the BC campus (its twice-yearly magazine C21 Resources has a mailing list of 180,000), but the coronavirus pandemic unexpectedly broadened its reach. In 2020, with the world under quarantine, Kiefer’s team created downloadable guides that allowed people to mimic the Center’s popular Faith

Feeds program—which brings local parishioners together for a meal and conversation—from the safety of home. “It just took off and suddenly people were downloading hundreds of thousands of these guides,” Kiefer recalled. “It taught us that there’s a real case for intimate conversation over Zoom.”

Since then, C21 has launched Pray It Forward, a fifteen-minute prayer session that attracts more than six hundred people via Zoom every Wednesday, and Breakfast with God, a weekly online faith program for children. It also continues its work to address the Church’s ongoing struggle to attract young people: Last year, C21’s Student Voices Project surveyed thousands of college students nationwide about their hopes for the Catholic Church, and shared the results with Pope Francis. The project, which included input from more than 550 BC students, was the perfect example of C21’s modernday approach to its twentyyear-old mission, Kiefer said.

“We try to look at the biggest challenges the Church is facing,” she said, “and meet them not just with conversations, programs, and publications but also with new ideas and innovations. Then we give it all back to the Church.”

As it enters its third decade, C21 plans to keep asking the big and challenging questions related to the Church, and to launch even more new initiatives that encourage young adults to connect with their local parishes. “As long as questions prevail, there’s still a need for the Church in the 21st Century,” said Groome. “Our work is far from finished.” n photo: Gary Wayne Gilbert

A number of classical stations across the country have been lost over the years to other formats in the quest for higher ratings and revenue. How does WCRB stay competitive?

Right now we are the only 24/7 classical music station in Boston. We’ve always kept an eye on other classical stations that would crop up and eventually leave, but even in later years when we became the only 24/7 in town, we had to look at all forty major stations in Boston as competition. What do we have that could entice someone who has no exposure to classical? How can we get some of them to listen?

You can’t sit by and say, “Oh, we’re classical. We don’t have to do that.” Oh, no. We are not only a classical music station. We are a broadcaster. We have to compete on the same level field as everybody else. So if there’s social media, we explore it. We have on-demand concerts; we have the ability for you to check every piece of music we’ve ever played; we have a free phone app. Anything that anybody else can do, we can do better.

Announcing styles have also changed. I didn’t care for the old style of stuffed-shirt announcing. And our program directors began to make the music more accessible. We started playing John Williams music scores because, guess what folks? That’s actually classical music.

Obbligato!

The legendary Boston radio host Laura Carlo is fighting to keep classical music on the air.

BY PATRICIA DELANEY

More than twenty years ago, Laura Carlo left an award-winning career in broadcast news to become the morning voice of classical music on radio station WCRB in Boston. For a time, she also hosted mornings for the World Classical Network, syndicated to sixteen U.S. cities, making her the most listened-to standalone female music announcer in America. Last fall, she was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

What’s it like to be a hall of famer? It’s just a lovely, lovely recognition that actually came out of the clear blue. They don’t tell you you’re in the running. They just announce they’ve chosen you.

How does it feel to know that you can help set the tone for a listener’s day? I love that and it’s something that I take seriously. My job is to make sure that you have a wonderful launch into your day.

You didn’t start out as a music announcer. I was working in news, and one day, the program director at CRB called me in and said, “I wanted to tell you that you get more fan mail than any of my DJs, and as of Thursday, you’re my new morning DJ.” And I swear my answer to him was, “You are on drugs.” And he said, “Really, Laura? Not, ‘thank you for thinking of me to do this?’” The two of us told this story at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

Yours is an impressive track record in an industry famous for stations changing not only formats, but also on-air talent. What’s your secret?

For the most part, I worked for stations that were small and family owned, where they got to know you. They gave you opportunities to try different things that you probably wouldn’t be allowed to do at the bigger stations. By being able to do so many different things, I made myself more valuable in the end.

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When you joined WCRB, it was a commercial station, but it has since been acquired by a public broadcaster, specifically the WGBH Educational Foundation. We were very grateful that GBH bought us because we were seconds away from being turned into a sports talk station. We would’ve been gone as a classical format, and that would have been a shame in a city we call the Hub of the Universe. Boston needed to have an arts and culture radio station, and GBH understood that, and saved us.

Yours is a musical household. Your husband is an opera singer? When we got married, he was doing a lot on Broadway. Then he sang with the Metropolitan Opera for seven seasons. I was living in Boston and he was subletting in New York City. We went back and forth with buses and trains for about ten years.

What other kinds of music does classical Laura like? I do like rap. I’m a hard rock girl and—don’t laugh—I also like heavy metal.

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Linden Lane BRIE “Pale and buttery with an earthy aroma.”

A Pound of Kured

DUCK PROSCIUTTO “A bit of variety for the non-pork eaters.”

With her new business, Gilli Rozynek ’20 is bringing charcuterie to the masses.

BY ELIZABETH CLEMENTE

Four years ago, Gilli Rozynek ’20 was studying abroad in Spain when she fell in love with charcuterie. “More than the product itself, I noticed a cultural element to it,” she said. “It would bring people together. They’d be sitting on the sidewalk having a glass of wine or beer, and a plate of ham.” It was a departure from the American tendency to rush around constantly, she said, and a custom she knew she wanted to carry home with her.

During her senior year, Rozynek came up with an idea: a shop called Kured where patrons could choose from a variety of ingredients, and staff members would build them charcuterie boxes to take out and enjoy.

That summer, she was accepted into SSC Venture Partners, a program created by BC alumni to help BC entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Rozynek learned about starting and running a company, and raised enough venture capital funding to open a store in Boston in 2021. Its success led to a second location in New York City eighteen months later. Rozynek hopes to eventually open stores nationwide and become what she called “the Chipotle of charcuterie.”

We asked her to create the perfect Kured charcuterie arrangement for us.

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CASTELVETRANO OLIVES “Very buttery compared to a Mediterranean or a kalamata olive.”

IBERICO CHORIZO “Pairs with 9 p.m. dinners and reminds me of my time in Spain.”

AGED MANCHEGO ”Pairs great with Cava and street art.”

TRUFFLE SALAMI “Truffled anything people are excited about.”

TRIPLE PLAY PARMESAN “Creamier than a traditional Parmesan.”

GENOA SALAMI “The rose format makes a beautiful presentation.”

DRUNKEN SHEEP CHEESE “Anything soaked in Merlot is good.”

INSIDE THE BOX Here’s what Gilli Rozynek recommends for an ideal charcuterie arrangement.

photos: Adam DeTour

CORNICHONS “People order these as ‘the little tiny pickles.’”

BLUE-CRUSTED GOAT CHEESE “The blue crust is cool because it’s only on the exterior—the inside is pure white.”

DRIED APRICOTS “Add a great pop of color to any board.”

FENNEL SALAMI “Genoa salami’s fun cousin.”

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Globetrotter

Basketball took ex-Eagles star Sean Marshall ’07 around the world. Now he’s in a hit new reality show.

BY ELIZABETH CLEMENTE

Sean Marshall ’07 is no stranger to performing for a crowd. The former co-captain of the Boston College basketball team played professionally for thirteen years across seven different countries, including Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and France. But last summer, it was someone else in his household that took a turn in the limelight. His wife, Brandi Marshall, starred on the Netflix reality series Selling the OC, a spinoff of the smash hit Selling Sunset. Both shows follow the flashy lives and careers of glamorous realtors at the luxury real estate firm The Oppenheim Group.

“My wife has always been there for me during my basketball career, taking pictures of me with fans and kind of standing back,” Marshall said. “Now, the roles are reversed.

I’m the person holding the camera in the back, and I love it.” Because the eight-episode series regularly showcases the personal lives of the realtors, Marshall appears in a few episodes, though you might need a sharp eye to spot him. “There’s a bunch of scenes that didn’t make the cut,” he said. “I’m kind of like the background guy.” He said his 14

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family is still adapting to being reality stars, and that the newfound attention has been a mixed bag. When the show premiered last August, Marshall said, Brandi and her costars suddenly found themselves being subjected to hateful online comments, messages, and memes.

But the benefits of appearing on the show have been significant. Marshall and his wife have amassed tens of thousands of Instagram followers, signed social media sponsorship deals, and received abundant red carpet invitations. The show has also helped Brandi connect with new real estate clients. “It takes a lot of courage to knock on a stranger’s door who has a $12 million house and ask them to sell,” Marshall said. “But now when they open the door they’re like, ‘I know you from somewhere.’”

The Marshalls first met each other as kids growing up in Rialto, California, then began dating as adults while Sean was on the overseas professional basketball circuit. A small forward, he played for nine pro teams in all before retiring in 2020. His professional playing days may be over, but he’s still

closely involved with the sport. He runs Pro’s Vision Training, a basketball skills development program that works with players age seven and up, which he cofounded with the NBA veteran Darren Collison. Marshall is particularly proud that a few recent Pro’s Vision alumni have been selected in the NBA draft, including the Orlando Magic’s Paolo Banchero and the Oklahoma City Thunder’s Chet Holmgren.

Marshall, who was also roommates at BC with the late Pete Frates ’07, continues to serve as general manager of the Team Challenge ALS basketball team, which competes annually in ESPN’s The Basketball Tournament. Marshall’s team hasn’t won the championship yet, but if it does, it plans to donate a portion of the $1 million prize to ALS research. Marshall said that the real goal of the team is to raise awareness of ALS in honor of Frates, who passed away from the disease three years ago at the age of thirtyfour. “I promised Pete before he died that as long as I could do this, that I would have this team,” Marshall said. “I made that promise, so I’m going to stick with it.” n

illustrations: Ryan Olbrysh (Marshall); Billy Penn/Luis Antonio Delgado (G.I. Joe, opposite)

How a BC alum ended up in G.I. Joe

Eagles in the News Timothy Broglio ’73 has been elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Broglio, who was ordained in 1977, has served since 2008 as archbishop of the Military Services of the United States, and also spent more than twenty years as a member of the Vatican diplomatic service. He began his three-year term late last year with a visit to Ukrainian military chaplains in Kyiv.

As VP of global publishing at Hasbro, Michael Kelly ’94 may never have imagined there’d be an opportunity to collaborate with his old Boston College Chorale buddy David Shapiro ’95, the chief medical officer at St. Francis Hospital in Connecticut. But when Shapiro became involved with the American College of Surgeons’ Stop the Bleed Campaign, which seeks to teach bystanders basic techniques to stem bleeding in the event of an accident, he reached out to Kelly with a creative idea: Why not integrate the campaign into a G.I. Joe comic? Kelly, whose company publishes the comic book, loved the idea, and now, in its three hundredth issue, readers can learn the three-step process from a “Dr. David Scott.” Shapiro said he was “joyfully surprised” to end up as a character in G.I. Joe—he may be the first BC alum to have the honor.

—Lisa Weidenfeld

QUICK Q&A

William B. Evans

The BC chief of police and a longtime marathoner.

You were Boston police commissioner during the marathon bombing. What are you thinking about as we near the tenth anniversary? The marathon is part of who we are. It felt like they had attacked part of us.

Boston came together so well after the tragedy, rallying behind one another and pulling through.

If health allows, will you run the marathon this year? All three of my children are running, and I’m hoping to run with them. This would be my twenty-fourth Boston Marathon, my sixtieth overall, and our first all together.

What’s your favorite part of the route? Coming down Heartbreak Hill has always felt like the turning point, and now that I’m at BC, seeing students in the crowd makes that stretch even more special. That’s a great feeling.

—John Shakespear photo: Caitlin Cunningham (Evans) illustrations: Joel Kimmel

Bijan Sabet ’91 officially became the next ambassador to the Czech Republic after his nomination was approved in December by the Senate. Sabet, a venture capitalist and BC trustee, cofounded the Boston firm Spark Capital and was an early investor in Twitter and Wayfair. More recently, he has focused on angel investments in green technologies and other climate-oriented companies. Sabet called himself “honored and grateful” to take on the challenge.

Jack Fleming ’91 has been named the new president and CEO of the Boston Athletic Association, which puts on the Boston Marathon.

Fleming has been with the BAA since 1992, and had been COO since 2017. Previously, he was the director of marketing and communications. He takes over the top job as the Marathon heads into its 127th race this spring. Fleming said he and the BAA are committed to finding “new and innovative ways we can lead and grow the sport.” w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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Linden Lane

BC Announces Launch of Companions Program

The program is geared toward adult learners and provides opportunities to re-experience campus life.

BY JACK DUNN

The University will launch a new yearlong immersive education program for adults seeking academic study, reflection, and the opportunity to consider the next chapter in their life’s journey. The program, called Boston College Companions, will provide a distinctive formative learning experience for fifteen to twenty individuals, called Fellows, when it begins in January 2024.

The Fellows will audit undergraduate and graduate courses across the University’s eight schools and colleges, and have access to campus offerings, including lectures, art exhibits, athletic events, and academic symposia. They will also have opportunities to meet with senior administrators, deans, and faculty, and will be paired with a faculty advisor to help them consider their future goals beyond the year in Chestnut Hill.

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meetings, and conversations with faculty, the larger campus community, and their peers,” said Provost and Dean of Faculties David Quigley. “This program is a powerful expression of Boston College’s commitment to formative education—in this case focusing on lifelong learning and dialogue.”

Boston College Companions builds on established adult-learning programs at other leading colleges and universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and Notre Dame, by offering distinctive components of Jesuit spirituality and pedagogy that focus on helping participants grow in discernment and sense of purpose. In addition to academic courses, weekly group discussions, guest lectures, and social gatherings, the program will provide opportunities for retreats, service learning, guided conversations, and spiritual direction, including a pilgrimage to Spain and Italy to learn more about the life of Jesuit founder St. Ignatius of Loyola, and an optional five-day silent retreat.

With an emphasis on building community

and lasting relationships, the Companions program will encourage individuals to share their life stories and engage with fellow participants in mutually enriching conversations that include reflecting on their lives and planning for a meaningful future. Fellows will also benefit from classroom interactions with current students, creating intergenerational dialogue that will enrich all members of the BC community.

“This new program is intended to assist adults who are entering the next phase of their lives and looking to renew themselves through coursework, reflection, and spiritual engagement, said Haub Vice President for University Mission and Ministry Jack Butler, SJ. “It combines the best of what Boston College offers as a Jesuit Catholic university committed to formative education, and makes it accessible to individuals searching for a transformative experience.”

More information about the Boston College Companions program is available at bc.edu/companions. n photo: Caitlin Cunningham

AS TOLD TO

Odette Lienau

The new Boston College Law School dean on training lawyers to serve others and protect the rule of law.

Just about every challenge we face in society today—from racial injustice to the fallout of the pandemic to climate change—is shaped by the law in some way. That puts the law, and therefore lawyers, at the center of these challenges, which in turn makes the way lawyers conceive of themselves in the world, and what they consider their ethical obligation to others to be, critically important. And that’s what makes BC Law School so unique—its ethic of service to others. It’s incredibly exciting for me to join an institution that has this commitment deeply built into its educational mission. You feel it here from the faculty, from the students, from the alumni. There’s a sense of community that is really palpable and really valuable to me, especially in this world that seems more unmoored than one would wish.

We don’t usually think of the U.S. as a country in which the rule of law is under threat, but recent events highlight the ways that the rule of law is dynamic: It’s always potentially strengthening and always potentially weakening. We cannot take for granted that it is a stable thing. Instead, it’s something that we have to always be vigilant about. But we also need to think about what we mean by “the rule of law.” In other countries— even in this country, potentially—people will use the idea of rule of law in a way that’s antithetical to the underlying principles of democracy and broader ethics. I grew up in Indonesia, which was an authoritarian regime. Authoritarian figures made the law, so the rule of law there meant something else entirely. And that just emphasizes how important this BC Law tradition of ethical lawyering really is.

My family and I are so happy to be joining this great institution. My husband, Aziz Rana, will join me in moving from Cornell to BC, to teach in both the law school and the political science department. We have been committed to building something together, and to moving where it works for both of us. That’s something I hope our students see and welcome: the importance of staying open to opportunities, and of embedding the meaning of a career within the meaning of a life, and possibly within a family, if that’s what they choose. That has been central to us, and we are thrilled to be at an institution that values this as well.

—As told to John Wolfson photo: Lee Pellegrini

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Gangland

In his first novel in a decade, Chuck Hogan ’89 takes readers into the Chicago underworld.

BY LISA WEIDENFELD

Chicago has long held a place in the popular imagination. This, after all, is the city of world-class food, hapless baseball teams, and a legendary comedy scene. But there may be no more enduring fascination with Chicago than the years when it served as a center for organized crime. From Al Capone’s brief and violent reign to John Dillinger’s final bloody showdown in an alley behind the Biograph Theater, the city’s gangsters have inspired an endless stream of books, movies, and television shows. The latest entry is Gangland, the new novel from Chuck Hogan ’89, which tells the story of someone a little less known to the rest of the country: Tony Accardo, the longest-serving mob boss in history. And notably, one who spent only one night in jail—or none at all, depending on which legend you believe.

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particularly Prince of Thieves, his saga of Charlestown bank robbers that was the basis for the film The Town, starring Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall. But in Gangland, Hogan travels to Chicago to tell the story of Accardo, revisiting a nigh-unbelievable actual moment in Accardo’s life: the night a group of unidentified people broke into his house and trashed it while he was in Florida, setting off a chain of retaliatory murders allegedly ordered by Accardo. “It’s just such an insanely transgressive and essentially suicidal act,” Hogan said. “That’s what drew me to it. It’s stranger than fiction that someone would break into, of all people, the mob boss’ house.”

Accardo, of course, is a reallife figure at the center of the

story, but Hogan chose as his protagonist the fictional character Nick Passero, known as Nicky Pins because of the bowling alley he runs. Nicky is middle management within the organization—ambitious, loyal, and eager to move up in the world, but also caught in a terrible bind with an aggressive FBI agent pushing him to betray Accardo. And what of the boss himself? The Accardo of Gangland is aging, paranoid, and fixated on maintaining power. “There’s something a little bit King Lear-ish about him,” Hogan said. “It’s a combination of ambition and just, this is who he is. To stop being who he is would be death.”

Hogan ratchets up the tension moment by moment as Nicky scrambles to hold onto his life and career. It’s a technique that will be familiar to anyone who’s read Hogan’s other books. “That’s my favorite kind of story,” he said. “I love stories about people who get into a no-win situation and how they deal with it. The fun thing about crime fiction is pushing that to the limit, to see someone really under stress and how they act, and how they try to navigate those waters.” There’s also the appeal of providing that entry point into a forbidden world. “It’s a glimpse into a subculture that most people romanticize,” Hogan said. “But it’s a very, very dangerous place to be.”

Gangland represents something of a homecoming for Hogan—it’s his first book in ten years after focusing on TV and film writing work, including the TV and novel versions of the vampire pandemic series The Strain, which he created with the acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro. The actual pandemic, the Covid one, as awful as it was, offered some time and space for Hogan to work on his new book, though he said he remained as trepidatious as ever about writing a novel, something he has always considered a “monumental undertaking” despite his successes. “I still think that every time I start one,” he admitted. Whatever his concerns, his return to the form has been wellreceived by critics. The New York Times, for instance, put Gangland on its list of the best crime fiction of 2022.

However daunting it may have felt to contemplate writing his first novel in a decade, Hogan was happy with the results on the other side. “It was wonderful to get back and do it,” he said. “I’m hoping to find some space and time to do it again.” n illustration: Helen Green

Dead Dad Club

BRIEFLY

On music and overcoming loss.

In the opening to her new audiobook Dead Dad Club, Katie Moulton ’08 gives an emotional monologue on the power of sound.

She imagines how she would craft a mixtape to send into space and teach aliens about life on Earth. “I would entice the unknown with some Prince,” she narrates. “I would let Nina Simone tell ‘em how we treat each other. And for me—for swampy river-town summers, for the collapsing space between joy and sorrow—I would spin Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.”

It’s a fitting introduction. The significance of sound runs throughout the memoir, which chronicles Moulton’s time working as a radio DJ and freelance music critic in Bloomington, Indiana, following the death of her father. He was a former record store manager and music lover who died after

The Freedom of Missing Out: Letting Go of Fear and Saying Yes to Life by Michael Rossman, SJ, STM ’17 We often feel pressure to say “yes” to everything that’s asked of us. Rossman advocates for making fewer, more meaningful commitments. “We wander through life, trying to do it all, all the time,” he writes. “The problem with that is, we may end up not doing anything that is really worth mentioning.”

Discover Her Art: Women Artists and Their Masterpieces

by Jean Leibowitz and Lisa LaBanca Rogers ’86 Too many classic art history books concentrate primarily on the works of male artists.

Rogers and Leibowitz offer a corrective for young readers with a book that showcases twenty-four women artists from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, complete with historical context about the artistic movements they were involved in.

Unruly Souls: The Digital Activism of Muslim and Christian Feminists by Kristin Peterson, BC assistant professor of communications Peterson examines how religious young people who don’t fit into their faith communities due to their sexuality, gender, or race use digital media to build kinship. The book explores how videos, podcasts, and tweets critiquing religious power structures have evolved into a form of protest against them, and can comfort those excluded by them.

a struggle with addiction when Moulton was seventeen. Moulton’s parents met in Bloomington as college students, and she moved there at age twenty-five to earn an MFA in fiction writing from Indiana University. The audiobook takes listeners through her coming-of-age in a place integral to her family’s history, and explores her processing of grief through music, particularly the sounds of Tom Petty.

Losing her father became the “central catastrophe” in both her life and her mother’s, Moulton said, and the book is about how they learned to live afterward.

But it touches on something bigger. Because everyone has some sort of invisible loss they carry through life, the emotions in Dead Dad Club transcend the specifics of readers’ lived experiences. It’s a concept that brings Moulton back to music. “If you’re standing at a concert, singing along shoulder to shoulder with strangers,” she said in an interview, “everyone’s having their particular emotional experience, but they’re also deeply connected to each other.”

—Elizabeth Clemente illustration: Joel Kimmel

Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports by Clayton Trutor MCGS ’18 In 1974, the Atlanta Constitution dubbed its home city “Loserville, U.S.A.” The jab reflected years of failure by the city’s pro sports teams. Trutor chronicles the triumphs and pitfalls of Atlanta’s first decade as a major league city, and explores how its public financing of stadiums became the blueprint for other cities.

—Elizabeth Clemente

WHAT I’M READING

Once Upon a River

by Diane Setterfield

This beautiful novel (by a former academic), set in the nineteenthcentury English countryside, is about a little girl who comes back to life after seemingly drowning in the Thames, and the mystery that unfolds around who exactly she is. It’s lyrically written with vivid characters, a compelling plot, and just the right touch of the fantastical.

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The CEO

Since being named CVS Health’s chief executive two years ago, Karen Lynch ’84 has become the most powerful woman in business and set out to transform American health care.

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the health insurance giant Aetna filed into the auditorium of their Hartford headquarters for a town hall meeting in 2015, they were expecting the usual fare: an upbeat talk about financial projections and strategy. But then Aetna’s new president, Karen Lynch ‘84, began speaking, and the meeting took a surprising turn.

Lynch, then fifty-one, had been named president of Aetna a few months earlier, having joined the company in 2012. Coworkers viewed her as warm and plainspoken, but also slightly guarded about her personal life. Even close colleagues said they knew little about her upbringing or personal history. That was about to change.

Lynch began with a story to illustrate why she was so passionate about health care. She described how she’d grown up on Cape Cod as the third of four children. Her parents’ relationship broke up when she was very young and her father disappeared, leaving her mom, Irene, a nurse who struggled with depression, as a single parent. In 1975, when Lynch was twelve, Irene took her own life, leaving the four children effectively orphaned. An aunt named Millie, who worked in a textile mill in Springfield, Massachusetts, took over raising the kids.

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During her speech, several thousand employees listened in stunned silence as Lynch explained how her mom’s life might have turned out differently if she’d had access to better medical treatment, or if there’d been less stigma and shame about getting help for depression. She then talked about how an insurance company like Aetna could play a role in reducing that stigma, increasing access to care, and helping people live with mental illness.

After she came off the stage, Lynch called her husband, Kevin. “I did it—I told them about my mom,” she said.

“How did they react?” he asked.

“They’re shocked, but it felt good to say it.”

For months afterward, Lynch heard from Aetna employees who wanted to share their own experiences involving mental illness, addiction, and chronic disease. “Everybody has a story,” Lynch said. “I learned that from opening up because I’ve gotten so, so many emails after that initial conversation….

The more we talk about it, the more people will feel comfortable getting access to treatment. Since then, I talk about it all the time. If it helps one person, then I think it’s a good thing.”

Lynch’s ability to deliver on her vision for expanding access to health care has only increased in the years since she began opening up about her family’s tragedy. In 2018, Aetna completed a $69 billion merger with the pharmacy giant CVS Health, forming a health care colossus, and in 2021, Lynch became its CEO. In 2021 the company had $292 billion in revenue, and today has over three hundred thousand employees and nearly ten thousand stores. CVS Health ranks fourth on the Fortune 500 list of America’s largest companies—and is the highest ranked U.S. company ever run by a female CEO. In 2021 and 2022, Fortune magazine placed Lynch in the top spot on its annual Most Powerful Women in Business ranking—a position that reflects, in part, how she wields her power to shape not only her company, but the world, in a positive way.

When Lynch spoke last fall at the Boston College Chief Executives Club, she explained that CVS Health’s ambition is to become a one-stop location to get people healthy: Its insurance arm helps people pay for care, its pharmacy provides medicine, while its in-store health care centers, which it calls MinuteClinics and HealthHUBs, treat patients. She then detailed CVS’s recently announced approximately $8 billion acquisition of Signify Health, which provides inhome care—Lynch’s first big deal as CEO. In a recent interview, Lynch elaborated on the company’s transformation.

“In year one, I’ve already changed the vision and changed the playbook,” she told me. “I’ve already set a goal to change how health care is delivered in this country.” With the world emerging from a multi-year pandemic in which millions of people relied on CVS for vaccinations and Covid tests, Lynch is determined for the company’s role in how Americans receive health care to grow even further.

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reinventing health care did not occur to the founders of CVS. Consumer Value Stores opened in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1963, primarily selling beauty products. A few years later the chain added pharmacies and renamed itself CVS. The company grew regionally through the 1970s and 1980s, but its ambitions changed in the mid-1990s under CEO Thomas Ryan. “Tom’s vision was to create a national branded pharmacy chain,” said David Dorman, former chairman of AT&T, who served on CVS’s board of directors from 2004 to 2022. Among the regional players CVS bought up to make that happen over the eleven years starting in 1997 were Revco, Arbor Drugs, and Longs.

Ryan, who began his career as a pharmacist, eventually began looking at ways CVS could expand into other health care sectors. By the mid-2000s, CVS had acquired the pharmacy benefits manager Caremark and begun a partnership with MinuteClinic, which ran in-store clinics staffed by nurse practitioners. When CEO Larry Merlo, also a former pharmacist, took charge of CVS in 2011, the company’s strategy to move beyond the simple drugstore model was well underway.

So how, exactly, does an orphan who relied on scholarships, student loans, resident assistant positions, and waitressing jobs to get through Boston College—and someone with no pharmaceutical training—become head of the world’s largest pharmacy chain, and top the Most Powerful Women in Business list?

To hear Lynch tell the story, credit goes to a wide cast of supporting characters. A high school teacher named Mr. Baltren, himself an active BC alum, urged her to apply.

“He was a big influence,” said Lynch, who was then known by her maiden name, Karen Rohan. She later discovered through the application process that she’d be awarded financial aid. In another high school class, a local accountant came in as a guest speaker and described how accounting provides a solid technical base for a range of business careers. Lynch, who was strong in math, thought to herself: “Why don’t I try that?”

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CVS by the Numbers 1963

The year Consumer Value Stores opened in Lowell, Massachusetts

2020

The year Karen Lynch was named CVS CEO

$292 billion

CVS’s revenue in 2021

300,000

The approximate number of CVS employees

10,000

The approximate number of CVS stores worldwide

4

CVS’s rank on the Fortune 500 List of America’s largest companies

1

Lynch’s ranking on Fortune’s 2021 and 2022 Most Powerful Women in Business lists

2.5 billion

The number of prescriptions CVS fills a year

1,100

The number of CVS’s MinuteClinic health care locations, across 36 states

930

The number of CVS’s HealthHUB health care locations, across 35 states

$8 billion

The price CVS paid for Signify Health, Lynch’s first acquisition as CEO

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Ernst & Whinney, the highly regarded public accounting firm. Lucey, who also entered accounting, said that in any setting, her former roommate’s determination set her apart.

“What Karen does is put all her energy where it’s going to make the most difference,” Lucey said, “and she’s really good at setting aside the things that might get in other people’s way, because she’s been through so much adversity.”

In her first years at Ernst & Whinney, Lynch attracted the attention of a senior partner who specialized in auditing insurance companies. “I was fortunate,” she said. “He took me from job to job.” Over the next few years, Lynch became an expert in the insurance industry, too.

At this point, in the late 1980s, there could easily have been an alternate version of the Karen Lynch story in which she remained a CPA and quietly worked her way toward a partnership and perhaps a leadership role at an accounting firm. But in 1989, Lynch stepped off that path when Millie—the aunt who’d raised her after her mother’s death—was diagnosed with cancer. Lynch moved to Ware, Massachusetts, to become Millie’s primary caretaker. “As I sat in the hospital room with my aunt, I didn’t know what questions to ask the doctor,” she recalled. “I didn’t know how to navigate the health care system. I was confused, like many people are when navigating the health care system.”

In addition to her mother’s suicide, experiencing her aunt’s long illness catalyzed Lynch’s vision for her career. “That really fueled my passion to say, we can make a change in America’s health care system,” she said. In 1991, Lynch took a job at Cigna, the Connecticut-based health insurance giant. A few months later, Millie passed away.

For the next eighteen years, Lynch navigated between jobs within Cigna—including roles in accounting, finance, and HR. Today many young people jump among companies frequently, but Lynch said she found plenty of opportunity without having to leave Cigna, which she called “a big company that invested in its talent.” She recalled: “It felt like I wasn’t working at the same company because I was in different businesses [and] doing a variety of different assignments.” By the early 2000s, she’d won a plum role running Cigna’s dental insurance business—her first time being personally responsible for a unit’s profit-and-loss statement, a developmental milestone that’s necessary for anyone who aspires to become a CEO. “From then on I was running P&L after P&L, and increasing my responsibilities,” she said.

Along the way, she picked up an MBA at Boston University, a move she’d made after consulting with a group she described as her “personal board of directors.”

When I remarked that having assembled an entire group of mentors while in her twenties and thirties illustrated the intention with which Lynch has plotted her career, she corrected me: Mentors were helpful, but her sponsors were photo: Eric Glenn/Shutterstock (left)

“What Karen does,” said Kathi Lucey, Lynch’s BC roommate, “is put all her energy where it’s going to make the most difference.”

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vital. Mentors give private advice and counseling, while sponsors publicly promote and advocate for a junior person to move into bigger roles. Management theorists increasingly support Lynch’s conviction that sponsorship is the more important career accelerant. “I didn’t get here alone— I got here through the help of many,” she said. “I talk about the importance of developing mentors, of having a personal board of directors, of making sure you have people who are sponsoring you.” Without that, she said, “you don’t get anywhere in corporate America.”

After a stop as president at Magellan, an Arizona-based health care management company where she worked from 2009 to 2012, Lynch was lured to Aetna by its then-CEO, Mark Bertolini, a colleague from her Cigna days. Aetna acquired the health care company Coventry in 2013, and Lynch was tasked with leading the integration. These kinds of assignments—the actual work of merging two companies together after a deal is signed—are notoriously challenging. Despite the triumphant headlines that mergers generate, the reality is that many eventually fail. The Coventry deal proved a success, however, and by 2015 Lynch had been named Aetna’s president.

It was the same year Lynch began startling colleagues by talking openly about her mother’s suicide. She attributes part of her new openness to the man she married that year.

She first met Kevin Lynch in the early eighties, when both were college students working summer jobs at the Hearth ‘n Kettle restaurant on Cape Cod. Their summer romance fizzled after Labor Day, but in the early 2000s, they reconnected. By then Kevin, a former health care executive, had an adult son who’d experienced mental illness, substance abuse problems, and incarceration. That experience led him to launch The Quell Foundation, a nonprofit that gives scholarships to students who are being treated for a diagnosed mental health condition or who have lost a parent, caregiver, or sibling to suicide. (One scholarship today is named after Karen’s mother.) “I think my opening up has a lot to do with my husband,” Lynch said. “He’s really been pushing on the stigma…and the benefits of authentic leadership.” Kevin said that for much of her career, Lynch worried that disclosing her personal tragedy might be perceived as a weakness, especially as a woman. But after her promotion to the Aetna presidency, he said, she decided the benefits of being vulnerable outweighed the risks. “She got that platform and, quite honestly, she was at a point in her career where divulging that information could not negatively impact her trajectory,” he recalled.

Following Aetna’s merger with CVS in 2018, the CVS board asked Lynch to continue running the Aetna division.

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expansive home in Falmouth on Cape Cod. It was the chairman of CVS’s board, and he was calling to let her know that the board had chosen her to become CEO when the current leader retired in February. Lynch put the call on speakerphone. Kevin mouthed: “Oh my God, you got it!”

Lynch recalled: “I was thrilled that after the culmination of a long career…it really is an opportunity for me to really have an impact on the health care system.”

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The company now fills some 2.5 billion prescriptions a year, giving it influence over drug prices. It insures more than one hundred million Americans, helping to determine copays and coverage levels. It’s played a key role in distributing the Covid-19 vaccine, making it an important player in the country’s ongoing response to the pandemic. Then there are the MinuteClinic (1,100 locations in thirty-six states) and HealthHUB (930 in thirty-five states) operations, which are moving CVS beyond its pharmacy roots by delivering hands-on health care such as diagnosing and treating everything from strep throat to diabetes and high blood pressure. To hear Lynch tell it, that piece of CVS’s business is only going to grow.

“What we’re trying to do is build that longitudinal relationship with the consumer,” she said, “and really put the consumer at the center of everything we do.”

Lynch has been candid that the next step in her strategy is to acquire primary care capabilities—that is, to buy a company employing full-fledged physicians. Last summer, CVS was rumored to have bid on One Medical, a nationwide group of tech-driven primary-care practices that was eventually purchased by Amazon for $3.9 billion. CVS may have been outbid for One Medical, but observers expect it to acquire a similar company sometime soon. The plan is to have its physicians offering appointments as early as 6 a.m. or on weekends, increasing access and convenience.

“It might seem strange to have a full-fledged MD in your neighborhood drugstore, for lack of a better term,” said Dorman, CVS’s former chairman, “but this is really sort of a playbook that was at least starting to be sketched out almost twenty years ago.”

Lynch said the company will also continue with its digital transformation. “We have to be a digital-first, tech-

forward company,” she said. She noted that the ability to use the CVS app to schedule a Covid test and display a QR code to confirm the appointment is just a glimpse of what’s to come. “Imagine how much data as a company we have,” she said. “I know when you visited CVS, I know when you got your vaccine, I know what insurance you have. I know when you went to the MinuteClinic. I have a lot of data to be able to connect with you to remind you it’s time for a physical…and then connect with you digitally and make that seamless.”

Much of Lynch’s day-to-day work involves energizing a sprawling workforce to make that vision a reality. Despite the status and visibility that come with her position, Lynch comes across as approachable and even disarming when compared with other CEOs. Laurie Havanec, who worked with Lynch at Aetna and is now CVS’s chief people officer, said Lynch schedules regular videoconference meet-andgreets with mid-level employees, and tends to begin them the same way: Hi, I’m Karen. You probably know me. I’m not going to talk a lot—I want to hear from you—so it’s going to be quiet if you don’t talk. I don’t just want to hear about what we’re doing great. I want to hear about what’s on your mind, and what we’re not doing, and where we’re letting you down. “People are really worried when they get the invite to these sessions, then they get there and everyone talks,” Havanec said. “Karen is very much about hearing directly from our colleagues, not through surveys but from their mouth to our ears. She’s a CEO that people very quickly are comfortable talking with, and that’s unusual. They’re not afraid of her.”

Although being CEO of a health care company during a global pandemic presents challenges, from her husband’s point of view, Lynch’s job seems in some ways easier than the roles she’d held while climbing the ladder. “Karen is more calm, relaxed, and focused now than I’ve seen her in eighteen years,” Kevin said. “She’s still up at 5 a.m., and she’s still doing everything that she’s always done. She’s just not being distracted by competing for another job.

She’s not waiting for somebody to help make decisions.

She makes decisions and moves on.”

When Lynch talks about her growing vision for CVS, there’s one statistic she refers to frequently: Before Covid19 hit, CVS’s MinuteClinics had done nine thousand telehealth psychiatric appointments. Since the pandemic hit, they’ve done nearly thirty million. It’s not a stretch to imagine that at least one of those appointments may have prevented a family from experiencing the kind of childhood tragedy that’s become the animating force in Lynch’s career.

That thought will keep her awakening at 5 a.m. and working every day to change the way America delivers health care. n Daniel McGinn ’93 is an executive editor of Harvard Business Review.

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Men’s Basketball Head Coach Earl Grant was crouched low on the sideline, watching his team run through a practice drill.

It was the day before a big matchup with Virginia Tech, and Assistant Coach Anthony Goins stood at midcourt, instructing the starters on how to defend the offenses of their ACC rival. Grant projected calm, saying little from his crouch as his players ran through the drill, a silver whistle held loosely in his mouth with white string dangling. Even Grant’s choice of attire was unassuming: gray long-sleeved tee, baggy black gym shorts, gray New Balance running shoes.

Hired in 2021 after a successful stint at the College of Charleston, Grant is used to rebuilding programs. Consider him a construction foreman. Last year, in his first season at Boston College, he led the Eagles to a 13–20 record, a losing campaign to be sure, but one that included hopeful signs of growth, including a 9–7 record at Conte Forum. Grant’s controlled intensity is sort of like the process of rebuilding a team. It creeps up on you. It happens slowly—you almost don’t notice the shift—then suddenly it’s there. In the second half of practice, he took his place on the court, running a boxout drill. “Go!” he called out, not screaming or yelling, more of an impassioned shouting. He shuffled quickly across the paint, demonstrating defensive positions for the zone.

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last season. The coach’s feedback emphasized the positive. He didn’t tell players what they were doing wrong but focused on what they needed to change or what they should do next. This is an important distinction. Even when Grant was giving commands, there was an evenness in his tone. “Prince, you need to get your hands up! Like this,” he said to freshman guard Prince Aligbe, who nodded and threw them up in the air. Sometimes all Grant did was give hand signals.

The atmosphere in practice matched Grant’s persona.

The players waited their turn, standing quietly at the baseline, spaced equally, relaxed and attentive. They offered each other soft words of encouragement as the team ran through its offensive sets.

This did not seem like a team that finished with a losing record last season and is facing its share of struggles this season. It looked like a team that knows it has a plan and is in it for the long haul, a team showing up every day, calmly taking its cue from Grant. The players were prepping for the intensity of the next day’s big Virginia Tech matchup, but back in his crouch, Grant projected calm and positivity.

“Here we go!” he said, clapping.

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ow in his second year at BC, Earl Grant has embarked on a much-needed overhaul of the men’s basketball program.

He’s using the blueprint he used during his seven seasons as head coach at the College of Charleston, where his teams showed marked progress. In Charleston, Grant took over a program in 2014 with a history of success that had recently stumbled, posting a losing record the previous season. The team bottomed out in Grant’s first season, going 9–24, but from there things took off. By his third season, the Cougars went 25–10. The year after that, Charleston went 26–8 and earned its first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in nearly twenty years. In all, Grant compiled a 127–89 record in Charleston, with three seasons of at least twenty wins.

A former standout Division II player at Georgia College, Grant was an assistant coach for fourteen years before taking over in Charleston, with stops at The Citadel, Winthrop, Wichita State, and Clemson. He saw different head coaching styles up close while serving as an assistant

under head coaches Pat Dennis, Ray Marshall, and Brad Burnell. From militant to hard-charging and intense to fun-loving, these styles swirled around in his head when he began his first head coaching stint. “My first two years as a head coach, I was like, Who am I? Am I that guy? Am I this guy?” Grant said. “I had to figure out what was most important to me.” Once he did, success quickly followed. In addition to being named the Colonial Athletic Association coach of the year in 2017, Grant sent three players from Charleston to the NBA. One of those players, Grant Riller, said he was amazed by his own improvement under Grant’s tutelage. “He’s really good at skill development. And something about his aura just demands respect,” said Riller, who is currently the second leading scorer for the Texas Legends in the NBA G League. Riller, who was part of Grant’s first recruiting class at the College of Charleston, said he still texts his former coach every year on his birthday.

In 2021, Grant was selected to lead a BC program that has had its share of ups and downs in recent years. In their three previous seasons, one of them Covid-shortened, the team had gone 14–17, 13–19, and 4–16 . Head coach Jim Christian was let go with a handful of games remaining during the dismal 2020–2021 campaign.

Boston College Deputy Director of Athletics JM Caparro was part of the search committee tasked with finding Christian’s successor. “We wanted someone who had success building a program,” Caparro said. One name jumped out.

“Grant built the College of Charleston program from the ground up in short order,” Caparro said, “and we had heard from many people how well he connects with the players.”

In Grant’s first season, the Eagles posted a 13–20 record, not quite the stuff of NCAA Final Fours but a definite improvement, with nine more wins than the previous season. To Grant, this was the first step on a long road.

“I’m here on purpose,” he said. “I came here to build a program, to try to get this program to a place we can all be proud of. We are in year two of the building project.”

As it happened, Grant’s hiring coincided with the announcement of a literal building project: the Hoag Basketball Pavilion, a huge state-of-the-art space attached directly to Conte Forum that will feature a 10,700-squarefoot practice facility in addition to nutrition and sports medicine spaces and new locker rooms. Ground broke on the pavilion in July 2022, and the project is scheduled to be w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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hen you talk to Earl Grant, there are certain phrases you’ll hear repeatedly. One is that humility precedes honor. There was more than enough humility the first half of BC’s current season. Injuries and sickness plagued the squad. Seven-foot senior center Quinten Post and junior guard DeMarr Langford Jr. were out at the beginning of the season with foot and ankle injuries. Then freshman guard Donald Hand Jr. played in only two games before going down for the season with a torn ACL. For his part, Prince Aligbe sprained his ankle and missed almost a month.

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The team managed to overcome the injuries for a time, getting out to a 5–2 start, but then BC lost four games in a row, including an embarrassing performance at home against the University of New Hampshire in which the Eagles shot just 38.5 percent from the floor and 13.6 percent from behind the three-point arc, along the way to a 74–71 loss in overtime. BC had not expected to lose to a lower-ranked opponent in the Big East, which is arguably a weaker conference than the ACC. After the game, Grant had a sit-down with his players.

“He told us, don’t be weary and we will reap the harvest,” Penha recalled. “Everything is big-picture with him.”

“I think we expected to be a little bit better than we were the first few months of our current season,” Grant acknowledged. “But adversity and setbacks and the disappointment and the failure are part of unbelievable growth.

My players, and our support staff—sometimes you don’t realize that humility precedes honor. Adversity and discomfort are the best way to grow.”

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next, and a victory was the kind of thing that could start to turn the season around. The players closed out practice with a scrimmage on the day before the game. Voices got louder, but never out of control. There was an air of respect among players and between players and coach. “Good poise,” Grant said as he watched.

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rant attributes his ability to stay even-keeled during challenging seasons in part to his faith. It doesn’t seem like an accident that he’s leading the men’s basketball program at a Jesuit institution. It’s virtually impossible to have a conversation with Grant where a Bible verse or two doesn’t nonchalantly work its way in, even if it’s not noted as such.

Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, called the Holy City due to its tolerance of all religions, Grant lived near an orphanage. He recalled his interactions with children who lived there as a religious experience. “My mother photos: Joe Sullivan (left); John Quackenbos (right, top and bottom)

would always let the kids from the orphanage—white, Black, Mexican—jump the fence and come to our house.

She would open the door and let them into our house, saying, ‘They’re OK. They just want a little snack or something.’ And I’d think, ‘What if they steal something? Why are they in the orphanage? Are they bad kids? What’s going on?’ But then I’d watch my mom’s spirit. Those are good kids. And I have never forgotten that.”

Grant spends many hours attending church services and reading the Bible. He belongs to multiple faith groups that meet in person or over Zoom, several of them groups of fellow coaches. But he doesn’t expect his players to share his zeal. “He doesn’t force religion on the team,” Penha said.

“All kids aren’t spiritual,” Grant said. “That’s what I’ve learned over the years. I’ve tried not to go in and say, ‘here’s a verse.’ If I tell you to find peace in the storm, we can talk about how to do that, but I’m not going to say, ‘here’s what this verse is.’” What he does expect is that he’ll be able to reach his players with his messages of enduring, and even embracing, the struggle in order to emerge from it. With a team that went under .500 last seaw i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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son and was going through another difficult campaign at the moment, it was an important concept.

Plenty of coaches use anger in an attempt to motivate.

Caparro has taken note of what Grant does differently.

When a player comes out of the game, Caparro said, “He’s not yelling at the kid. He’ll immediately go up and huddle with them and talk closely. He’s teaching that kid in that very moment.”

It’s an approach Grant brings to recruiting as well. “He would just talk to me about life, and about basketball,” said Aligbe, a four-star recruit from Minnesota who said the rapport with Grant during the recruiting process contributed to his final college choice. “He always wants guys who have that underdog feeling, who are going to come in and give it all they’ve got. He talks to us a lot about enjoying the process. It came down to how connected I felt.”

Grant acknowledged that the season hasn’t gone perfectly but said that unexpected blips are all part of the process. “I’ve seen all different kinds of seasons in twenty-three years of coaching,” he said, “years where you win fifteen in a row and years where you lose seven in a row, years where you get to the NCAA Tournament and years where you lose double the games that you win. I’ve seen everything.

“This is what I’ve learned from trying to build programs over the years: A storm comes before great success. I talked about that when I interviewed for this job, and it’s interesting that we are here now, kind of in the storm. And I knew it was coming. Maybe I didn’t know some of the injuries or setbacks, but when we are trying to build, we always experience some sort of storm before we get to that success. And that gives me peace, in the storm.” That’s what you’re going to get from Grant, no matter the win-loss tally. And there may be some small signs that the sun is peeking through the storm.

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onte Forum was buzzing on December 21 as BC tipped off against Virginia Tech, who sat at number twenty-one in the national rankings. The Eagles were hoping to start turning things around after the topsy-turvy beginning to the season and prove that they were on their way up. That was the plan, anyway. Virginia Tech came out hot, leading by as many as eight points early on and finishing the first half ahead by five. But BC clawed its way back in the second half, shooting 46 percent from the field, and tied the score as time ran out. In overtime, the Eagles got a second wind, outscoring Virginia Tech 11–6 and pulling off a huge 70–65 upset.

After the win, the BC players hollered and whipped towels around the locker room, and the head coach joined

“He always wants guys who have that underdog feeling, who are going to come in and give it all they’ve got.” in a bit of their dancing. But when it came time for the postgame press conference, the Grant persona had returned.

He sat stone-faced and returned to his usual principles. “It was a challenge,” he said. “It’s a long journey. I tell the guys all the time, no one win or loss is going to define us. The guys have been showing up day in and day out, not making any excuses. They have showed that they want to continue trying to build a program. Today was just the fruits of our hard labor starting to show.”

The win briefly pushed BC back over .500, but the Eagles went on to lose five of their next six games, many of them against tough ACC opponents. Just as BC seemed to be stumbling, however, the team once again found its footing, with convincing back-to-back wins against Notre Dame and Louisville. However the current campaign concludes for the Eagles, to Grant the plan has never been about just one season. And things appear to be continuing to come together. Grant has signed two four-star recruits for next season, center Jayden Hastings and point guard Fred Payne. Meanwhile, construction on the Hoag Pavilion is slated to be complete in July, meaning Grant will have a brand-new facility where he can continue his own construction project.

“I’m excited about the pursuit,” he said. “I’m excited about the young men who are here who are going to be part of that pursuit and also the young men we have signed for next year. Based on what I’ve seen, we are moving toward getting the program where it needs to be. We’re moving in the right direction.”

Take a short walk down a hallway from the basketball coaches’ offices and once you get past the scaffolding, bare drywall, and plaster dust, you can get a vision of the practice court taking shape. The men’s team that will use it is also under construction, with daily work leading toward an ultimate goal. n Lisa Liberty Becker is a magazine writer and the author of Net Prospect: The Courting Process of Women’s College Basketball Recruiting.

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The Case of the Looted Bust BC Law alum Leila Amineddoleh is one of the world’s leading experts on plundered artworks. In 2018 she found herself in the middle of a mystery that stretched all the way from ancient Rome to an Austin, Texas, thrift shop … and that would go on to become one of the biggest art-world stories in memory.

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so many others she’d taken. It was October 2018, and Leila Amineddoleh had just picked up the phone in her Manhattan law firm. The caller, a woman named Laura Young, from Austin, Texas, told her that she had a case for her, something that would be well worth her time.

As one of the world’s foremost attorneys specializing in the shadowy world of looted artwork, Amineddoleh LAW ’06 was used to these kinds of calls. She got them all the time, and experience had taught her that skepticism was the best approach. When she’d first started out and was hungry for work to keep her fledgling practice afloat, Amineddoleh couldn’t afford the luxury of such caution. She chased down every lead. Once, she’d eagerly investigated a client’s claims involving her personal art collection, only to discover that the woman suffered from mental illness and that the collection was made up of museum posters. Then there was the call from someone who suspected that he was the illegitimate grandson of Vincent van Gogh—his grandmother, he maintained, had been a lover of the legendary painter.

Today, though, Amineddoleh can afford to be selective.

She’s an internationally recognized authority on art law and cultural heritage, writes for leading publications, teaches classes at respected universities, and has won big cases for clients such as the governments of Greece and Italy. “I’ve reached a point in my career where I don’t really get carried away,” Amineddoleh said. “Unless someone can give me real evidence, really, really good proof that what they have is real and they’re not giving me some type of scam story, I’m just not going to be interested.” Still, Amineddoleh agreed on this day to hear Young out, primarily because she’d been referred by a professional acquaintance.

Young explained over the phone that she ran a business out of her home, buying undervalued items from thrift stores and reselling them online. A history major and art lover, Young said that she’d had success in the past identifying overlooked artworks, so when she spotted a bangedup marble bust listed for $34.99 in an Austin Goodwill, she sensed right away that it could be something special.

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Despite its rough shape, the bust struck her as similar in style to what was common during the days of the Roman Empire. So she bought it and hauled it home. Her research had since turned up evidence that the bust did, in fact, date back to ancient Rome. What concerned her, however, was something else from her sleuthing: that the piece might have been plundered during World War II and somehow brought to America. If that was the case, what did the law have to say about her rights to the bust?

By this time, Amineddoleh was desperate to get off the phone. The story struck her as wildly improbable, and she was in pain from a surgery she’d undergone the week photo: San Antonio Museum of Art

before. But just as Amineddoleh was about to concoct an excuse for hanging up, Young explained that her information had come from Sotheby’s, the famous auction house, which had done its own research on the piece after being contacted by Young. “When I heard Sotheby’s had provided this information, that’s when I knew it was real,” Amineddoleh said. “At that point I got super excited.”

Amineddoleh accepted the case, and when her work on it was at last completed three years later, the story of the mysterious bust would appear in publications around the world, and the lawyer would achieve a prominence she could scarcely have imagined when she’d walked away from a job at a respected firm years before and bet everything on herself.

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aura young spent six years working as a disability examiner for the Social Security Administration, a job she really did not enjoy, before transitioning full time in 2013 to her business of unearthing thrift-store treasures that she resells online. “I get to shop for a living and find really cool, weird things that make people happy,” she said.

Young, then, is no stranger to the thrill of rescuing an ordinary item from the shelves of a corner vintage shop, cleaning it up, and discovering that it’s actually quite valuable.

There were, for instance, the Chinese porcelain planters she’d bought before the start of the pandemic and posted online for $1,750…a price that ignited a bidding frenzy. “There was some pandemonium on eBay,” she said. “People were trying to buy them for more and more money. I’m like, What do I have here? It got me so nervous that I just pulled them off the site.” She held onto the planters until last fall, when she at last let them go for $20,000. “They were just sitting there in the dining room for, you know, four years,” she said.

By the time Young came upon the marble bust in her neighborhood Goodwill back in 2018, she had learned to trust her instincts. The man depicted in the bust had the impassive countenance and wavy, Greco-Roman hairstyle that she judged to be representative of works from ancient Rome. It was possible that the piece was simply a replica, but Young decided that it didn’t actually matter. “It could have been made yesterday and I would’ve been thrilled to buy it for $35,” Young said. “A carved marble bust that’s life-size, even if it’s brand-new, that’s potentially worth thousands of dollars.” Then again, there was always the possibility that the piece truly was thousands of years old.

So Young bought it, and enlisted a store employee to help get the fifty-two-pound bust safely seat-belted into her car.

Once home, Young began to research her new find. A quick “Roman marble bust” internet search turned up photos of pieces that looked a lot like the one she’d just bought, which confirmed what she already suspected but didn’t pro-

vide much else that was useful. Next, she submitted photos and a description of the bust on the websites of the big auction houses—Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams—which will research, for free, the provenance of a piece they might like to sell. “It’s an easy way to get expert eyes on it,” Young said.

Bonhams got back to Young first, confirming that the bust was definitely ancient Roman, but unable to tell her much else. A couple of days later, Sotheby’s responded.

“They tracked it down in museum records from Germany in the early 1930s,” Young said.

What she would eventually be able to piece together with the help of a Sotheby’s consultant named Jörg Deterling was that the bust was approximately two thousand years old, and may be a depiction of the Roman military commander Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus. The bust was purchased somewhere around 1833 by representatives of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, just one of the countless number of artworks he was purchasing from across Europe at the time as part of a frenzied effort to transform his country into a world-class arts mecca. Not content to simply acquire these works, Ludwig also commissioned the building of museums to house them. Among these grand new structures was the Pompejanum, which was constructed in the style of a villa found in ancient Pompeii, and which became the bust’s new home. And there the piece sat, year after year, until a bombing campaign during World War II left the museum, and much of its collection, in ruins. Some items in the museum survived the bombings, however.

What became of crucial importance to Young and Sotheby’s was determining whether the bust was still in the museum at the time of the bombings, or whether it had been deaccessioned, or sold off, prior to that. If it had been lawfully sold, then Young might well have a legal claim to it.

But if no records of a sale could be found, then it was likely that the piece had been looted from the museum after the bombings, and therefore remained the property of the government of Bavaria, which today is Germany’s largest state.

“At that point I was getting a little nervous,” Young said. She sent off emails to various agencies in Germany, hoping to untangle the mystery. When she finally heard back from someone with the relevant agency, the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens, and Lakes, the news was not promising. The bust had not been deaccessioned. “I realized I probably had a problem and I was probably going to need an attorney,” Young said. “But I didn’t know how I was going to track one down.”

Young started at the University of Texas, where her husband works as a research scientist, with an email to Stephennie Mulder, an associate professor of art history.

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These looted antiquities were at the center of Leila Amineddoleh’s legal defenses of Greece and Italy—cases that helped to establish that foreign governments have the right to intervene in attempts to sell plundered artworks in the US. At left is a bronze horse from the Geometric Period that was stolen from Greece. At right is a marble bust that was looted from the Basilica Emilia in the heart of the Roman Forum.

person: Leila Amineddoleh in New York. “Most people specialize in the law of one country or in repatriations of a limited set of artifacts,” Thompson said of her reasons for recommending Amineddoleh to Young. “But Leila‘s expertise is both deep and broad. Often, she has to research what the laws were in previous centuries in a number of countries an artifact passed through. And she’s managing to take all this heady intellectual analysis of the meaning of the law and actually apply it to cases.”

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ne wednesday last september, Leila Amineddoleh stood at a lectern in an exhibition space in the Salmagundi Club, a New York City center for fine arts that dates back to 1871, and prepared to address the fifty or so people who’d come out for her talk, titled “The Battle for Antiquities.”

Wearing a white dress and gold-colored headband, Amineddoleh began her presentation, which was organized by the venerable New York arts group the Coffee House Club, by clicking the remote control in her hand. A still from the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark filled the large screen to her right. “Indiana Jones,” she told her audience, “was a looter. He removed works from their homes and placed them in Western museums. And while doing so, Dr. Jones also destroyed ancient sites.”

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Amineddoleh delivers a lot of talks like this. She has a rare ability to explain complex laws in conversational language, and, more important, to help people who’ve never spent a moment contemplating the significance of cultural heritage understand exactly what’s lost when an age-old site is plundered of its treasures. And to illustrate this sad point, she has her choice of an endless selection of historical examples.

As early as the second century BC, the Greek author Polybius decried the Roman looting of Greek sanctuaries in Sicily, Amineddoleh told her audience as she continued with the presentation. Later, Cicero would prosecute the Roman mayor Gaius Verres for looting. And when Napoleon attempted to create a new Rome in Paris, he did so by plundering works all across Europe and North Africa.

Then there were the Nazis, who among their many other atrocities, looted on such a vast scale that an estimated 20 percent of all the art in Europe wound up displaced.

“The fear of looting has haunted people for centuries,” Amineddoleh said. “People in the ancient world were so concerned about it that some attempted to ward off wouldbe plunderers by placing curses on their property.” These hexes, though, would prove little deterrent to the thieves who, many centuries later, would steal mummified remains from Egypt and sell them to the collectors who hosted “unwrapping parties,” delighting gatherings in faraway countries by unwrapping the mummies. As a murmur of shocked disapproval spread through the audience at the photos: Dr. Christos Tsirogiannis (left); Sotheby’s (right)

mention of this indignity, Amineddoleh built up to her sweeping conclusion. “Heritage is extremely powerful,” she said. “It offers knowledge about our past and informs our future. It’s part of our collective memory and it represents our humanity. We have a profound responsibility to share our greatest human achievements, to protect and pass along the story of civilization to future generations.”

Amineddoleh was raised in a New Jersey home that overflowed with art. “My dad’s Iranian, and I grew up with beautiful Persian rugs and art in our home,” she said. “And my mom is Italian-American—another culture where art is so important—and she’s a painter.” Her upbringing ignited a lifelong passion for the visual arts, but Amineddoleh found her own creative expression in music. She began studying the piano at age four, and earned spending money while attending New York University by playing in a Washington Square Park restaurant.

At NYU, she majored in economics, with minors in music, philosophy, and chemistry, but realized by the time she’d graduated in 2002 that what she really wanted to pursue was law. “I loved thinking about equity and issues of justice and fairness and the meaning of life, but I also loved creative enterprises,” she said. Upon entering BC Law, in 2003, her plan was to become an intellectual property lawyer working for a publishing or music company, but then she read a book called Thieves of Baghdad. In it, Matthew Bogdanos, a Marine and New York City prosecutor, details his time running a unit charged with recovering the many thousands of culturally significant antiquities that were plundered from the Iraqi National Museum over two tumul-

tuous days in the spring of 2003. “After reading that, I was like, That’s what I want to do,” Amineddoleh said. “It was incredible. There was a role for lawyers in protecting culture.” Inspired, she conducted an independent study during her third year at the Law School, exploring the responsibilities that museums have to ensure they are not acquiring or accepting looted artworks, particularly antiquities.

As she prepared to graduate in 2006, Amineddoleh had identified the career path she wanted to follow. Actually finding that path, however, would take a few years. Just before turning twenty-five, she started out at the highly regarded New York intellectual property law firm Fitzpatrick, Cella.

The firm was doing a lot of work with pharmaceutical patents, she said, and thanks to her chemistry minor “I knew enough science to communicate with clients and understand cases. But my work was pharma, and I really, really didn’t like it.”

After three years at the firm, Amineddoleh left in 2009.

It was time, she’d decided, to begin merging her legal skills and her passion for the arts. She helped a friend’s sister, an aspiring fashion designer, trademark a logo, and negotiated contracts for a couple of emerging musical acts. In 2010 she joined a small law firm, then switched to another in 2012, all the while developing her art law specialty and her growing roster of clients. Eventually, she started to ask herself why she should be working for someone else when she was the one bringing in her clients. So in 2014, she and another lawyer founded their own firm. The beginning was rocky, “but by the second year, we made a small profit,” she said. Still, her law partner had three children to support, and “it just wasn’t working for him financially,” Amineddoleh said. “I understood.”

The partner left in 2016 but Amineddoleh, lacking his financial pressures—it would be another year before she and her husband Eduardo Diaz welcomed their daughter Cassandra—decided to continue building a niche practice on her own, catering to emerging artists and collectors.

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ow a solo practitioner, Amineddoleh was attending gallery shows and art events or giving lectures as many as five nights a week, trying “to meet anyone and everyone to get my name out there, to find work,” she said. “It’s an area where people have to really like their lawyers. Artists have this very emotional attachment to their work, and I think collectors do as well, so you really need to make those personal connections.”

But it was another of her strategies for finding clients, writing newspaper opinion pieces, that would lay the foundation for the first big break of Amineddoleh’s career.

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ancient Greek statues that were looted by the agents of a British Earl, who then fell on financial hard times and sold them to Britain in 1816. Impressed with the piece, Forbes asked Amineddoleh to write an expanded article on the subject, which ended up catching the attention of an official with the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Amineddoleh nurtured that connection, and when Greece found itself the subject of a most unusual lawsuit in 2018, she was the lawyer the country hired to defend itself. The case represented the first time that a foreign government had been sued in the United States over a matter involving antiquities—the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act typically provides immunity from such suits—and it would go on to help lay the foundation for an important legal precedent.

The dispute originated after Greece moved to prevent Sotheby’s from selling an item it believed had been plundered. The auction house eventually sued, arguing that Greece was attempting to engage in commerce, which would trigger an exception to the immunity act. “Our argument, obviously, was ‘No, there was nothing commercial about what Greece did,’” Amineddoleh said. “Greece is just protecting its cultural heritage by saying, Don’t sell our stolen stuff.” Sotheby’s countered that this action amounted to intervening in commerce.

It was a pivotal moment in Amineddoleh’s career. She walked into the courtroom by herself. Across from her were two partners and a handful of associates from “this very large, very well-known Wall Street law firm,” she said. “And then there was me on the other side.” The pressure, and the stakes, were incredible. A loss might establish the legal precedent that foreign governments could not sue to stop auction houses from selling looted art. “That was their goal,” Amineddoleh said of Sotheby’s. “They kind of want silence.”

When the ruling finally came down, it was a bitter disappointment. The judge found for Sotheby’s. “This sounds horrible—my mom was like, ‘Don’t ever tell anyone!’—but I cried,” Amineddoleh said. She felt like she’d failed. “This was a major opportunity. The United States is the country for setting law. This was a case of first impression. That’s the only way to describe it. New law was being made.”

Amineddoleh may have doubted herself for a moment, but her client never wavered. Greece approved of her legal arguments and believed that the decision had been a mistake. The case was appealed and this time Amineddoleh triumphed. It was the legal equivalent of a rout. “I love this decision,” she said. “Not just because we won, but it’s really interesting to see how the court treated cultural heritage.

It’s a big win for foreign governments and not just for Greece. I’ve written about this, I’ve thought about this so much…I mean, it was an obsession in my life for years.”

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the government of Italy hired her to defend a copycat suit from a New York gallery, filed after the initial loss in district court. That suit was eventually dismissed. “There have been three cases now involving foreign governments and I’ve represented two of the three governments,” she said. (Switzerland is the third.) “All three have failed. I can’t imagine there are going to be more of these actions, because now we have really strong precedent.”

Today, Amineddoleh & Associates has a team of four lawyers working with artists, collectors, museums, galleries, nonprofits, and governments. In addition to her legal work, Amineddoleh teaches art law classes at both NYU and Fordham University.

“She’s talented and she cares,” said Matthew Bogdanos, whose book Thieves of Baghdad so inspired Amineddoleh while at BC Law. As the head of the Antiquities Trafficking Unit in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Bogdanos has “asked for and received her assistance on a number of cases,” he said. It’s an honor when someone cites him as an inspiration, he noted, but what matters to him is what the person does with that spark. “To the extent that I can help or influence anyone in this field to act with integrity and commitment, the reward is their work—what are they doing with it?” he said. “And Leila appears to be well on her way to doing great things. She’s a trusted colleague.”

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American soldier. The museum is located in the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg, which was also home to American military installations after the war. To this day, however, no one knows exactly how the piece found its way to Austin.

Regardless, the bust was unquestionably the property of Bavaria, and what was left for Young and Amineddoleh was to negotiate the terms of its repatriation.

Sometimes in these situations, people will ask a government to pay market value for the return of an artwork, but Amineddoleh saw almost no chance that Germany would do so for a piece that it already owned—many governments refuse to pay anything at all for looted art. An effort to extract such a payment would inevitably involve an expensive legal fight, she counseled Young, and would most likely end in disappointment. “Our conversations at the beginning were about determining what was important to Laura,” Amineddoleh said. “What did she really want?” Young settled on requesting a finder’s fee, and that the piece be shown at a museum in Texas for one year before its return to Bavaria.

At that point, Amineddoleh began her discussions with government officials in Bavaria. These kinds of negotiations are hardly a sprint in the best of times, but thanks to the pandemic and a change in leadership at the Bavarian agency, they slowed to what felt to Young like an agonizing crawl. The months stretched into years, and all the while the bust sat in her home. Over time, it became less a piece of art than a house guest. Young and her husband named the bust Dennis, after a character in the television show It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. “I’ll be honest with you, I got emotionally attached to this bust,” Young said. Adding to the bond was Young’s awareness that her time with Dennis was limited. “It wasn’t like, ‘If I don’t sell him, I can keep him,’” she said. “This bust is not mine. He’s going to leave my house at some point.” And then there was the simple fact that “it’s a little stressful having something in your house that’s potentially worth more than the house.”

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It’s unrealistic to think that we’ll ever reach a point where looting ceases to be a problem, said Stephennie Mulder, the University of Texas associate professor who’s been following the bust’s story ever since Laura Young first contacted her for help. “The question then becomes one of how to work to mitigate harm and ensure that collectors can be

encouraged to operate ethically and with the least harm to local people,” Mulder said. Amineddoleh’s “model of creative yet equitable solutions to seemingly intractable heritage disputes is innovative and can show us a path forward.”

A few months after the agreement was signed, the San Antonio Museum of Art started making preparations for its temporary exhibition of the bust. “It was really important to me that the bust be displayed in Texas,” Young said.

“It hadn’t been seen by anyone for probably decades. It was probably just hidden in someone’s house.” Three staffers drove to Young’s home in Austin and took detailed photographs to record the condition of the piece. Then they brought in a large crate and moving blanket, boxed up the piece, and transported it to a van waiting to carry it to San Antonio. It was sad watching the van pull away, Young said, knowing that Dennis was in the back. “I’m assuming,” she said, “that they drove him very carefully.”

With the San Antonio display of the bust approaching, Amineddoleh broke the news of its remarkable discovery on her firm’s website. From there, stories appeared in nearly every major news outlet, from the New York Times, Washington Post, and TIME magazine to NBC, CBS, and NPR. Young was shocked, and not entirely pleased, to suddenly have become a media star. “I was literally having a panic attack on the phone with the Washington Post reporter!” she said. In May 2022, the museum kicked off its yearlong exhibition with a formal reception. It was there that Young and Amineddoleh met in person for the first time.

“It was almost like a family reunion,” Young said. “Leila was amazing through this whole process. It just couldn’t have gone any better.” The piece will be on display at the museum until May. It’s astonishing to consider how many things had to go just right in order for the bust to survive the museum bombing and then eventually find its way home. Imagine, Amineddoleh said, if someone without Young’s artistic savvy or guiding sense of ethics had purchased the piece. It’s entirely possible that it could have wound up adorning someone’s garden or hallway, its incredible story left untold. Or it could have ended up in the hands of someone who was willing to sell it illegally, despite knowing that it had been plundered. “We’re really lucky that she’s the person that bought it,” Amineddoleh said. “The fact that it ended up in that shop is amazing. The fact that Laura purchased it, the fact that she was so diligent, and the fact that she acted so ethically—the stars definitely aligned when it came to this object.”

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Class Notes // Alumni News & Notes

The AHANA Alumni Advisory Council: a Brief History A driving force for progress at the Heights and beyond.

Long before the official founding of the Boston College AHANA Alumni Advisory Council (AAAC) in 2014, luminaries like the late Keith A. Francis ’76, Kendall Reid ’79, H’18, Kevin Smart ’99, and a host of others were planting the seeds of this influential group at the Heights. Its roots extend to the Black Talent Program at BC, where folks like Tanji ’86, P’17, and Bob Marshall ’88, P’17, worked to build a home for marginalized and underserved Eagles.

Formally, however, the AAAC started with a 2013 summit that brought together leading lights of the Boston College African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian, and Native American (AHANA) alumni community. Their charter was simple: reconnect with alumni of color, engaging with them in a more personal manner. Moreover, they considered how to position AHANA alumni in rooms where decisions are made at BC, giving them a seat at the table and a forum for their voices to be heard.

“It was a really galvanizing time,” reflects Arnie Sookram ’91 on the summit. “We were inspired by this mission that we were drafting together. How do we engage with alumni of color, get folks to dedicate their time and resources, mentor alumni, and help them in their careers? It was about strengthening that fabric that BC has with its alumni of color.”

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number of AHANA members on the Board of Trustees has increased sevenfold, and they’ve generated a newfound commitment and excitement among AHANA alumni.

Beyond building influence at the University, the AAAC has become an invaluable resource for current students and alumni.

From educational and leadership programs to professional development opportunities and networking events, the council has fostered the personal and professional advancement of its constituents.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the AAAC created dynamic online programming to help fill in new social and communal gaps. The council hosted Zoom presentations with distinguished AHANA alumni on topics as varied as racial disparities pertaining to the pandemic, prayer services for Black History Month, and conversations regarding mental health in communities of color and supporting the empowerment of women of color.

On the programmatic side, RECONNECT remains the AAAC’s signature event.

Founded by Keith A. Francis in 2009, this weekend-long celebration on campus brings together graduates from the 1960s up to today. RECONNECT has become a profound homecoming for “a lot of alumni of color who felt like they hadn’t been invited back,” as founding AAAC member Juan Concepción, Esq., ’96, MEd’97, MBA’03, JD’03 says.

“That campus is home to so many memories and relationships. It’s a place where so many dreams began. People found

themselves at BC,” continues Concepción.

The third iteration of RECONNECT comes to the Heights in July 2024.

“We have a great history at BC, we’ve been contributing to this community, and we’ll continue to do so,” says Concepción.

And it’s true that everything the council does is grounded in a sense of belonging. “The AAAC is like a little house we’re building, and we hope people will continue to come back to it.”

Involved, Engaged, Inspired A cherished pillar of the Boston College Alumni Association’s programming, RECONNECT is an event specifically designed for AHANA alumni from all over the world to come home to the Heights for a weekend of celebrating their community and connecting to their alma mater.

The next chapter, RECONNECT III, is coming July 26–28, 2024. Visit bc.edu/reconnect for more.

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1952

Ann and Dick Tobin still have their residence in Orleans on Cape Cod. Recently, however, at the encouragement of their children, they have taken up a fall/winter residence in a senior living residence in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Surprisingly, after arriving at Fellowship Village, they met another BC alum, Charley McCarthy ’50. Class correspondent: George Cyr // cyriousone@aol.com

1953

Joseph Coffey was proud of the time he spent playing football for BC. Kind regards to other nonagenarians from his class.

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Bill Kenney (90) and his wife, Anne (89), are living in Huntington Beach, California, and are in good health. They enjoy having their daughter, five sons, 17 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren visit them frequently. Their daughter lives with them in an ADU and is their caregiver.

They are truly blessed. Class correspondent: John Ford // jrfeagle1@gmail.com

1955

Marie Kelleher, who served as her class correspondent for many years, has passed away. The class is deeply grateful for all of her efforts to keep them connected with each other and to BC.

1956

Tom Sheehan, in his 95th year, was named the Man of the Year for the yearly Founders Day in Saugus, held on the second Saturday of September every year, for his continuous writing on his favorite subject, Saugus. He also had his eighth Boston Globe Idea published and figures to have more articles published in that section of the newspaper. // Jack Ryan is a retired counselor from the California Department of Corrections, retired Diaconate, and is growing old gracefully in Northern California. Five children have given him 16 grandchildren and six greats. He still roots for the Sox, Bruins, and Celtics and continues in hope for BC sports. // Thomas Kennedy is honored (posthumously) with a display in the BC Veterans Lounge. CDR Kennedy had a distinguished career in the US Navy as a naval intelligence officer.

He received a master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School and was awarded the Bronze Star with a “V” Device. He passed away at 39 in 1973 due to complications resulting from exposure to Agent Orange. // Tom Sullivan is now retired. His wife of 62 years, Betty, passed on April 10, 2021.

He now resides in Plymouth and enjoys his children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren. // Jim Brosnahan has a memoir being published by Rowman & Littlefield next July. It is titled Justice on Trial: Courtroom Battles and Groundbreaking Cases. // Elizabeth Casey

passed away at Brooksby Village in Peabody. Following BC, she received a master’s in education from Tufts University and later spent over 30 years as an elementary school teacher in Bedford. She spent many summers on Cape Cod with friends from college and winter vacations skiing in New Hampshire.

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Liz Doyle Eckl is adjusting well to condo living in Reston, Virginia, and keeps busy with three book clubs, setting up a library for her parish, and lots of volunteer work while she awaits the arrival of her first great-grandchild.

She traveled to her native Rhode Island for a family wedding by the ocean in Narragansett and combined it with visits to several relatives and her sister. // Nancy Harvey Hunt is expecting her first great-grandchild thanks to her Marine grandson Matthew and his wife.

Congratulations! Class correspondent: Connie LeMaitre // lemaitre.cornelia@ gmail.com

1958

65th Reunion, June 2023 Marty Aronson, JD’58, is a trial lawyer and has written and published a courtroom genre page-turner entitled Full Courtroom Press, which takes place in Boston. // David Ojerholm sends greetings from Sydney, Australia. David has self-published An Ojerholm Family History—from Sweden to the USA and Australia and 10,000 Miles and Still Counting: An Autobiography. He’s now working on a more detailed account of his maternal Irish ancestors. David has made online friends with two BC classmates who he did not know well at BC but met up with at his 50th Reunion in 2008. All share a common bond having served with the US Marines immediately after graduation. // Wally Vaughan published a book, Challenge of the Wizard: Will Music Be Discovered?, for ages seven to 97. Claire and Wally celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary this November, yay! They are now in independent senior living at New Horizons, Marlborough. Class correspondent: Marian Bernardini DeLollis // mdelollis58@comcast.net w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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65th Reunion, June 2023 Marjorie George Vis is fine health-wise, moving slower but without a walker or cane. 2023 may be the year she moves to her cabin on Drummond Island on Lake Huron for the summer between trips to the Wisconsin cottage to be with family. // Jo Kirk Cleary thanks Patty Peck Schorr for her years of service to the members of the Class of 1958, Newton College of the Sacred Heart, and for her devotion to the institution itself. Her classmates knew that their education was very special, extraordinary in many ways. Their esteem for that education has increased in the years since. Thank you, Patty, for keeping the flame alive. // Betsey Dray Falvey of Wellesley died from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. A celebration of her life will take place in 2023. Judith Young Runnette was so sorry to learn of Betsey’s death.

She had such a good time with her at their last reunion. // Patty Peck Schorr encourages all her classmates to save the date for the 65th reunion, June 2–4, 2023. Plans will be forthcoming, and it promises to be a time of grateful remembrance and celebration. // Sue Fay Ryan’s twin granddaughters, seniors at Brown University, played their last game of volleyball for the Brown Bears. Sue watched from Florida on ESPN Plus. // Peg Keane Timpson enjoys her time as a docent at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem and as an avid bridge player. She looks forward to interesting travel in the months ahead. Class correspondent: Patty Peck Schorr // dschorr57@verizon.net

1959

Hon. Ed Reynolds continues to work in the law office and has time for hockey, skiing, golf, and 27 grandchildren. He traveled to Canada for the annual USA 80+ hockey game vs. Canada in Ontario. // Bea Rae Love celebrated her 60th wedding anniversary to LTC (ret.) Dana Love on September 9 at their home on the Isle of Palms, South Carolina. The celebration was given by their children, with 18 family members in attendance. // Nancy Jeanne Hunt Cowperthwait was born in Concord. She was a veteran and longtime resident of Mesa, Arizona. She was a founding member of St. Bridget’s 46

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Catholic Church. She was an active member of her church and community.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Bill. Class correspondent: William Appleyard // bill.appleyard@verizon.net

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KC (Karen) Conway Morrish lives in West Palm Beach with her husband, David, and volunteers with Guardian ad Litem and the Lord’s Place. She sees Pat Sweeney Sheehy and talks regularly to Meg Dealy Ackerman. Joan Coniglio O’Donnell has been in touch with KC’s daughter Cary Jackson as she and her husband are moving to Darien, Connecticut, where Cary lives with her husband and four children.

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Al Hyland is sorry to see the passing of so many classmates in the past few years. // John Eddy wishes all well and hopes that they are finding old age “not so bad.” // Tom O’Brien just had his third great-granddaughter born. // Missy NC’61 and Robert Rudman attended the SERRA International Conference in July, where they celebrated their 60th anniversary with a blessing by Cardinal Collins. In August, they flew to Toronto and then to Thunder Bay for a Viking cruise around the Great Lakes with their son, daughter-in-law, and her parents.

Robert is still volunteering on boards locally: Mercy Healthcare, Knights of Columbus, and the Diocesan Seminarian Fund Raiser. // Judy and Bob Winston received an honorary PhD from Judy’s alma mater, Merrimack College, for the decades of support of the recently named Winston School of Education. // J. Owen Todd, JD’60, is still practicing law at Todd & Weld. He no longer does trial work, just arbitrations, mediations, and preparing the young attorneys for appellate arguments. He also interviews candidates for positions with the firm.

Class correspondent: John R. McNealy // jmcnealy@juno.com

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Mary Annette (Nan) Anderson Coughlin, senior class president of the Newton Class of 1960, died on September 9,

2022. // Pat McCarthy Dorsey wrote that she and Berenice Hackett Davis, Mickey MacMillian, Carole Ward McNamara, and Carol Higgins O’Connor attended the wedding of Jeanne Hanrihan Connolly’s daughter, Anne, in Osterville. // Pat Winkler Browne led the fundraising efforts for the Carole Putnam, RSCJ, H’92, Fund to name a conference room in the McMullen Museum in her honor. Class correspondent: Patricia Winkler Browne // enworb1@verizon.net

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Hector Reichard has been elected to the board of trustees of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. He and Wanda, his wife, attended the class reunion with Gerry Hamel, Ed Karazin, John Carr, and others. He is a former attorney general for Puerto Rico and consul general for South Korea, and is actively practicing law. // Henry Quinlan was invited by Veterans for Peace to give the keynote address at Boston’s Faneuil Hall to stop the war in Ukraine and to promote peace. He has just published a book authored by himself and one of his granddaughters, So, You Think You Know Cape Cod. Class correspondent: John Ahearn // jjaeagle@hotmail.com

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Micky Matthews’s son Peter and family from Bavaria, Germany, visited her in Westerly, Rhode Island, for three weeks.

This prompted a Matthews family

reunion, including her four children (daughter Margot is a 1994 BC grad), her three brothers, and 12 grandchildren. // Joan Mullahy Riley, assisted by Jane Sheehan, celebrated the 60th reunion with a luncheon at Joan’s home for 20 classmates. It was a wonderful day of renewal of friendships and remembrance of those who have died.

Class correspondent: Missy Rudman // newtonmiz@aol.com

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Margot Cushing continues her work in leisure travel to worldwide destinations and Italy. Margot feels so good to connect with friends again.

1962

Joseph Roberts is an 88-year-old Korean War vet! He recently celebrated his 70th graduation year from Natick High School.

Two spouses, six grandchildren, and good health as a result of swimming laps, golf, tennis, and gardening for the past 65 years. His advice to the young, “Enjoy your youth!” // Ralph Surette has moved to a retirement home in Catonsville, Maryland, after 22 years of retirement on the eastern shore of Maryland. // Anthony J. (Tony) Agostinelli, MSW’62, is the author of The Legal Regulation of Social Work Practice, published by the National Association of Social Work (NASW).

Upon retiring from the faculty at Roger Williams University, he had been teaching in the social science, humanities, and music departments. // Double Eagle Michael E. Walker has passed away.

He was a member of Omicron Chi Epsilon, a national economics honor society.

After graduation, he joined the US Navy before working for Sun Oil for 35 years.

Condolences to his wife, Marcia, Michael, Scott, and families. // Sara (Sally) Manning Rooney expressed with sadness the loss of her husband, Bob Rooney ’61. Bob and Sally were married 60 years and had three children. Their home was in Kennebunk, Maine. // Frank Faggiano, founder of the BC baseball booster club, was honored (posthumously) for his outstanding service to the club. It will now be known as “The Frank Faggiano ’62 Diamond Club.” // Lee A. Heiler wrote to request a copy of Thomas

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O’Connor’s The Class of 1962 and proudly included some family accomplishments.

His grandson, Stephen, is enjoying employment at Fidelity Investments.

His older brother, Michael, is a plaintiff’s attorney. Their mom, Carol, received her master’s degree and is now a nurse practitioner in pediatric care. Class correspondent: Eileen Faggiano // efaggiano5@gmail.com

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Toni Lilly Roddy and Ellen Markey Thurmond joined Anne Crowley Kelly in Vermont for a road trip to Quebec City and Montreal, Canada, as well as sites in Vermont. They are already planning next year’s adventure. // Penny Kirk Whelan’s husband, Ed Scheideler, was finally able to take her to Ireland for her birthday, which he announced two years ago. They were hosted by Tim and Raphaelle Kirk (son and daughter-in-law), who now live in Dublin. As a surprise, their son and daughter-in-law Peter and Karen also arrived. They had a wonderful time enjoying Dublin Newgrange, up to Belfast and back to Dublin, a whirlwind trip of a lifetime. // Martha Armstrong especially enjoys visits with her kids and grandkids. She has also been co-leading a bereavement group each week. Even at this age, life is blessed and adventurous.

Class correspondent: Mary Ann Keyes // keyesma1@gmail.com

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60th Reunion, June 2023 Mary ’64 and Phil Landrigan are now in their fifth year back home in Boston, and Phil continues to teach at BC. The big

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new development is that they will launch a new major in Global Public Health starting in 2023. // Jim Norton won the Nantucket Triathlon swim, bike, run in his age group. Time was about twoand-a half hours, the first time an octogenarian finished it. Jim was accompanied to the finish line by son James ’90, grandson Ryan ’26, and a few other family members, in support of his strenuous and rare successful trek.

Bravo! // Bob Ferris was elected to the board of overseers of the Stanford University Hoover Institution. // Thomas David Granger passed away surrounded by his family at home in Naples, Florida, on October 18, 2022. Tom lived life to the fullest and held a constant curiosity of the world around him. He held a position abroad with Pfizer for over 25 years, living in India, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Peru, Costa Rica, and Egypt with his family. The family settled in Westport, Connecticut, where Tom worked for the Special Olympics before retiring. Once retired, he was able to pursue his love of history and earned a master’s degree from Yale in Egyptology.

He was an avid gardener, and each of their homes had a garden that reflected his joy of growing beautiful flowers and amazing vegetables. He was devoted to his wife, Ellen, of 52 years—the true love of his life and a constant source of strength. // Bob DeFelice retired after 55 years at Bentley University! Finally! // Sr. Mary P. Hogan is the oldest member of her entire family, working full time, and anticipating attending the 60th Reunion in June 2023. // Al Andrea, professor emeritus of medieval world history at the University of Vermont, was recently recognized for his academic w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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work by two universities. The University of the Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece, named him distinguished professor honoris causa. Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea, appointed him distinguished professor in its Academia Via Serica (Silk Road Academy). // Barbara Eugenia (Plociennik) Agostinelli has passed away. She was a resident of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

She grew up in West Roxbury with her parents and two sisters. She was married to Anthony J. (Tony) Agostinelli, MSW’62, for 52 years. They raised their four children in Providence before moving to Portsmouth in 1999. Class correspondent: Ed Rae // raebehan@verizon.net

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60th Reunion, June 2023 Delie Conley Flynn has done it again!

She gathered a group for lunch at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. In attendance were Carleen Testa McOsker, Katie McCarthy, and Carol Donovan Levis. // Carleen McOsker is as active as ever: she belongs to a rowing club and is out on the water most mornings.

Thinking of Carleen brought back memories of graduation weekend and the formal ball that was part of the activities. A vivid memory of the night was Carleen’s mother and father dancing the night away. They were like an island of happiness circling the ballroom and celebrating Carleen’s graduation. // Carol Donovan Levis has transformed a whole coterie of her friends into college football nuts. Her grandson, Will Levis, is starting quarterback for the University of Kentucky. Fun, if nerve-wracking, to watch—go Wildcats! // Dorothy Daly Voris relocated from Bethesda, Maryland, to New Canaan, Connecticut, to be near her daughter during her husband’s illness. He died this past fall. RIP. Class correspondent: Colette McCarty // colette.mccarty@gmail.com

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Alice Myers married Don Brown in 1968.

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and South America. Alice loves oil painting and volunteers teaching art to third graders. She enjoys kayaking in Monterey Bay and walking on the beach daily. She has kept in touch with a number of her PM classmates for 60 years now.

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John C. Hirsh, professor of English at Georgetown University, published his book Inventing Education: Georgetown Students and DC Youth Learn from Each Other, a description of his work over the past 33 years with the Sursum Corda tutoring program. // Len Conway enjoyed his transition from Marblehead to Highlands Ranch, Colorado, being close to his son, Michael, and daughter- in-law, Tricia, as well as his retirement from his law practice. // Dan Benson moved from his home in Southport, North Carolina, to a retirement community in Fernandina Beach, Florida. In July, he celebrated his 80th birthday. // John Whelan had a nice Facebook chat with Jordyn Jagolinzer, granddaughter of late classmate Bob Jagolinzer. Jordyn is now a reporter for WBZ-TV in Boston. John also had a catch-up lunch with another classmate, Tom Mulvoy, former editor of the Boston Globe. // Sandy ’65 and Lloyd Doughty headed west for their grandson’s wedding in Zion National Park, Utah. After going through Zion and Bryce, they headed to Florida for the winter. They both continue in good health and wish everyone well.

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Patricia Rice married George W. Hellmuth during the pandemic in a Nuptial Mass at the St. Louis Cathedral and streamed to friends around the world. Then, on October 1, they celebrated a wedding dinner dance. They spent October honeymooning in France.

In 1956, Patricia and George were each other’s first-ever date to his St. Louis Priory freshman dance. In May 2019, Patricia and George reconnected in Washington, where he had lived for decades. Patricia, a journalist for 50 years based in St. Louis, had a two-day magazine cover assignment for which she won a journalism award. Within five days, George had driven to St. Louis and within three weeks, proposed. // Carol Sorace Whalen hosted an 80th birthday luncheon for herself. It was exactly three months to the day before her actual birthday in November. Carol decided that a summer celebration would be much nicer weather-wise and easier for people to attend. She invited women from various stages of her life, including Kathy Wilson Conroy and Priscilla Lamb. // Louise Majewski DunleavyCasagrande died on February 13, 2022.

Sheila Lynch Thompson Flores wrote that Louise was her best friend at Newton, a friendship that lasted for 62 years.

Class correspondent: Priscilla Lamb // priscillawlamb@gmail.com

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Jack Dobbyn, JD’65, retired after 47 years as a professor at Villanova Law School. In his second career over the past 30 years, he has published six mystery/thriller novels with Oceanview Publishing, with the seventh novel to be released on August 1, 2023. // Prudence Darigan is requesting prayers for her husband, Jim, who passed away on October 22, 2022. // Jim Poor relocated to Chelmsford to be close to his family.

They have downsized to a condo and don’t use any lawn-mower or snowremoval tools. Class correspondent: Patricia Harte // patriciaharte@me.com

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Claudia Collins Daileader died on July 15, 2022, in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her husband, Philip Henry Daileader, died on September 28, 2022, also in Williamsburg.

The couple met at the first freshman mixer and married in 1966. Claudia started life in foster care before being adopted. Phil’s background was more stable, growing up in Bellerose Village, New York. Each came from a Catholic high school to BC. Claudia often said that every important blessing in her life originated from BC. Claudia practiced nursing for many years. She especially loved being a school nurse. Phil, a banker for several financial institutions of varying sizes, most enjoyed being a small-town banker. The couple had three children and five grandchildren. // Tim O’Leary has published his third novel, The Friends of Ed McGonagle. It’s a tale of politics, mystery, and murder centered on mobsters jockeying for control over casino gambling in Massachusetts. A fourth novel is expected in early 2023. // Arnold Gaber and his wife, Marsha, have five grandchildren and two married daughters.

They are retired in Monroe Township, New Jersey, in an active adult community. // Mary Ellen Gannon, RN, returned to Honduras with the VHC Medical Brigade in 2021 and has recently been able to organize a full surgical brigade serving at two hospitals in Comayagua.

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Catherine Beyer Hurst coordinated three courses in the Lifelong Learning

Collaborative (LLC) in Providence in 2022: a course on the first two seasons of the Peaky Blinders TV show (check it out if you haven’t watched it!), one on Frederick Law Olmsted, and one on how to be an LLC coordinator. She is also a member of the organization’s curriculum committee. // Patricia Sheehan Vanderpot’s husband, Maurice ’59, died on October 2. A memorial Mass was held for him in the Newton Chapel.

Pat and Maurice made their home in Quechee, Vermont. // Mary Pat Baxter’s family has endured a difficult last few years. In 2019, her 49-year-old son, Matthew, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After a rather harrowing surgery, he lived for 10 months. Still, Mary Pat is blessed to have five wonderful children and their spouses, as well as 17 grandchildren. Class correspondent: Catherine B. Hurst // catherine.b.hurst@ gmail.com

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Sr. Patricia James Sweeney, SSJ, received a PhD in literature from the University of Michigan and ran three large Catholic high schools in Massachusetts, including Cathedral High School in Springfield and St. Peter Marian in Worcester. She was very active in the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) as secretary and later as president of the executive committee of secondary school departments. As NCEA president in 1987, she addressed the late Pope St. John Paul II in New Orleans, Louisiana, on behalf of Catholic secondary school teachers. She passed away at 98 as the oldest living Sister of St. Joseph in her region. // Hon. John Businger is working with former Governor Mike Dukakis to connect North Station and South Station by rail. // Since 2001, Gregory Scime has been the artistic director of the Assisi Performing Arts Music Festival in Assisi, Italy. // Bill Welch retired after he received his 50-year award from the State Bar of Georgia. // Dr. Len Pietrafesa, MS’67, worked at the Weston Geophysical Observatory; completed a PhD in physics at the University of Washington; then became a professor, department head, and dean at North Carolina State University. He has graduated 30 MS students, 31 PhDs,

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and published 265 peer-reviewed scholarly papers. Len chaired the NOAA Science Advisory Board; the APLU Board on Oceans, Atmosphere & Climate; and has given written and oral testimony nine times before the US House and Senate. // Edward Scribner was elected director of the Homa Safaii Charitable Operating Foundation and continues as a director of the Asian American Civic Association. He still maintains an active but limited international tax consulting practice. // Jack Lambert and Cheri took their daughter’s family to the BC vs.

Wake Forest football game in WinstonSalem. Their two grandsons had fun in their BC caps and shirts! // Jim Day will be coming with his wife Judy ’68 to her 55th reunion in June. // Loren Miller (a widower who was getting married later that day), Paul Gerety with wife Michele ’68, Mary-Anne and Charles Benedict, and David Gay attended the Veterans Day Mass and Remembrance Ceremony.

It was good to catch up with Roger Croke and John Keenan at Alumni Stadium. Class correspondent: Charles and Mary-Anne Benedict // chasbenedict@aol.com

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Josie Higgins Rideg and Donna Shelton spent time traveling last summer and fall.

Having retired from teaching 15 years ago, Josie has more freedom for family visits. She started in Canada to celebrate 50th birthdays for her son and daughterin-law, which also gave her time with two of her grandchildren. Then, it was on to Costa Rica to visit the youngest daughter, her husband, and two more grandchildren. When she wrote in November, she was in Germany with another daughter’s family, including four more grandchildren, and was expecting to return to Brazil in December. // Donna Shelton was back in Eastern Europe twice, sightseeing countries she and Frank have come to enjoy, each time also including stops in Romania at the orphanage on the lower Danube that they provide American support for. // Anne Caswell Prior and Faith Brouillard Hughes met in late summer near their homes on Cape Cod to trade reading materials that they were enjoying. They started over brunch, then went on to a meeting with Anne’s garden club in Mashpee. Apparently, the speaker was w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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quite good; Faith decided to join and was looking forward to seeing Anne again for their December party and future monthly meetings. Next time, they are both going to have to share what their favorite flowers are.

Class correspondent: Adrienne Free // thefrees@cox.net

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55th Reunion, June 2023 Emily Hoffman earned her master’s at BC in 1968 and a PhD at UMass in 1975.

She retired from teaching at Western Michigan University in 2009 and lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. // Eddie Emanuelli is semi-retired and very happy with two children and five grandchildren!

He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s six years ago and is fighting it. He hopes to see everyone at Reunion! // Paul Murphy was a great guy, great friend, and smart as a whip! He served in Vietnam. // Sandy Spies’s high-rise condo was affected by Hurricane Ian. She is the treasurer on the condo board, so she has been very busy tracking the costs and payments of the extensive and expensive cleanup and rebuild. // LTC Karson Kosowski retired in 2001 from 34 years of federal government service. He has kept busy for the last 19 years by teaching a weekly Bible study to troubled adults. // Larry Maguire died on October 13, 2022. He carpooled to BC for four years with Paul Deschenes. Larry joined the Peace Corps about a year after graduation, training first for assignment in Libya. After retiring, he and his wife, Suki, bought a home in Falmouth where he resided until he passed. // Julie Richards taught high school math for 35 years, first in Hopkinton and then in Uxbridge. She also did copyediting part time for a book publishing company for 20 years. She retired from teaching in 2008 and has kept busy with hobbies and traveling. She lost her husband in 2018 to a fast-moving cancer. She has two children and five grandchildren, all who live close by and keep her busy. She lives in Hopedale and has a second home on Cape Cod. She would love to see/hear from former classmates. Class correspondent: Judith M. Day // jnjday@aol.com 50

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Linda Kooluris Dobbs has been asked to photograph the Canada Salsa & Bachata Congress. The latest issue of the magazine Acrylic Works 9 featured her portrait of Stephen Coxford, former chair of the Governing Council of The University of Western Ontario.

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Jim O’Reilly is completing his 57th textbook, The Law of Abortion & Reproductive Health, for Thomson Reuters West, and his 245th published article appears in the spring 2023 Real Estate Law Journal. He continues to teach MD and MPH students at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. // Jim Malone reports another year of 300+ rounds of golf in Virginia, Nantucket, and Ireland and teaching his federal tax practice and procedure class at the University of Virginia Law School. Jim and his wife of 48 years, Alice, are in Charlottesville eight months of the year and in Nantucket for four months, with a trip or two to Ireland. // Stephen R. Snodgrass is getting a book published in April 2023 by Rowman & Littlefield about the first wrongly convicted murderer, Joshua Kezer, who he, along with others at his firm, helped get released from prison. Class correspondent: James R. Littleton // jim.littleton@gmail.com

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Brenda Waters retired from being a perinatal/pediatric pathologist in 2016 and returned to school. She has been taking geology courses and is now working to get her second bachelor’s of science, in geology, at the University of Vermont. She plays lots of pickleball, hikes in the woods, and is generally very much enjoying retirement.

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Sue Bitting Keohan is now into her 10th year of retirement after 30 years teaching at Orleans Elementary School. She has enjoyed traveling with her husband, spending time with her six grandchildren and their families, tennis, gardening, volunteer work, and the beautiful beaches of Cape Cod. // William Kates

had colon cancer, with 12 chemotherapy treatments in 2021. He is in remission and is working part time again as a psychotherapist. // Jack Hanrahan published his first book, Traveling Freedom’s Road: A Guide to Exploring Our Civil Rights History. Book profits go to Montgomery’s Equal Justice Initiative and the Legal Aid Justice Center in Charlottesville, where Jack volunteers. // Michael Bickford lives in Vermont and Florida and some years ago, after careers in international finance and residential real estate development, became owner with a partner of a business called Block Engineering. He is married with two sons and six grandchildren. // Candace and Bob Bouley are retired and enjoying life on Daniel Island, South Carolina. They also have two BC grad families in their neighborhood and even more on the island. // Fr. James McCurry, OFM Conv., finished his 12-year term of office as Minister Provincial of the Franciscan Friars Conventual in the eastern US, eastern Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, and the Rio de Janeiro region of Brazil.

Class correspondent: Dennis Berry // dennisj.berry@gmail.com

1971

Thomas E. Cavellier passed away on January 13, 2022, in Columbus, Ohio.

Tom was born on May 24, 1949, in Newton. He graduated from BC with degrees in accounting and finance.

After graduation, Tom went to Officers Candidate School in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and served as a 1st Lt. (Artillery) in the Army from 1972 to 1975. Tom was a devout Christian, an avid animal lover, and a loyal Red Sox fan. Truly a man for others, Tom’s final gift was his organ donation to Lifeline of Ohio. At the time of his donation, he was able to help improve the lives of 24 people. // Christine Landrey Savage now lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, enjoying retirement.

For all the nursing school classmates from the Class of 1971, there is a monthly Zoom meeting as a way to stay connected. Contact Chris at csavage6@ jhu.edu to be included in the meetings. // Eileen McIntyre was proud to launch a groundbreaking lecture series for the Hingham Historical Society: “Native Homelands/Settler Colonialism,” featuring a world-class faculty and

representing 21st-century scholarship on this important topic. // Richard Simms is enjoying his seventh year of retirement from the practice of law and recently welcomed into the family his sixth grandchild. He is enjoying volunteer work, especially the town planning board. Class correspondent: James R. Macho // jmacho@mac.com

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Melissa Robbins completed chemotherapy and radiation treatment for triple-negative breast cancer. She is looking forward to resuming her five days a week at the Mystic YMCA, meeting friends for fun activities, and traveling near and far. She extends her sincere thanks to all her NCSH classmates who prayed unceasingly for successful outcomes. // Chris Moran completed the Jimmy Fund Half Marathon and is planning her first Polar Bear Plunge in 2023. // Jean McVoy Pratt and her husband, Don, have visited Don’s children and old friends in Aurora and Fort Collins, Colorado. After that, they spent Thanksgiving in San Diego with Jean’s sister, Pat McVoy Cousins NC’68.

Class correspondent: Melissa Robbins // melissarobbins49@gmail.com

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Simone (Breault) Kingsley has been retired for 10 years from teaching high school math in Bridgeport, New Haven, and Shelton, Connecticut, for 25 years.

She is very proud of her time spent at BC, giving her the best foot forward in her recovery from an accident which left three of her friends killed and another friend seriously hurt, as was she. Simone is married and has three children and seven grandchildren, ages 8–16. // Ruth Hensley had Alzheimer’s disease. She fell and fractured her pelvis. She went into hospice care. She died very respectfully and with dignity. She lived a really good, giving life. She loved being a social worker working with children and loved being a mom of two beautiful daughters. // Larry Edgar thought there was a good turnout at the class reunion last June.

The distances that some traveled to attend were impressive. Class correspondent: Lawrence G. Edgar // ledgar72@gmail.com

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Penny Price Nachtman is in “grandma heaven” as she enjoys her nine-monthold twin granddaughters. She gets to use those retired educator skills of reading, counting, singing, etc., on a weekly basis. // Agnes Acuff Hunsicker ’71 continued the tradition of Zoom mini-reunions with Judy Birmingham and Mary Coan. These lifetime friendships formed at Newton continue to add meaning and joy to our lives. Class correspondent: Nancy B. McKenzie // mckenzie20817@comcast.net

1973

50th Reunion, June 2023 Phil Doyle continues to own and manage a busy land planning, site design, and development business in Connecticut.

Phil and his wife, Betsy, reside on a small horse farm in the northwest hills of Connecticut with children grown, educated, and gainfully employed. Look Phil up if you are around Chatham during the summer. // Bill O’Reilly, MBA’73, is a Naples, Florida, full-time resident and Southwest Florida Realtor with John R. Wood Properties & Christie’s Real Estate International. // Tom Murphy got his knee replaced, so now he can continue to ski and play tennis and soccer. He still lives in Wellesley, his boys are 19 and 15, he still plays soccer for an Irish team in Brighton, and he still works for BC as assistant director, strategic sourcing. // Archbishop Timothy Broglio was elected president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops at the November 2022 Plenary Assembly. Class correspondents: Kathy Dennen Morris // kathymorris513@gmail.com; Mimi Reiley Vilord // mimivi@optonline.net

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Patti Luchetti has moved on from Middle Eastern dance to Eastern arts Qigong and Tai chi. // Joedy Malone Cahill, Laurie Day Fitzpatrick, Sharon Kuna Twedell, and Carla DeStefano had a mini-reunion on the Cape in September. They all lived together on South Street. // Linda Chatalian was appointed to the board of the Massachusetts Speech-Language Hearing Association as the state education advocacy leader. Class

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correspondent: Patricia McNabb Evans // patricia.mcnabb.evans@gmail.com

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Dorothy Donovan has retired from the Lowell Association for the Blind. She taught Braille and assistive technology to blind people for 26 years. Class correspondent: Beth Docktor Nolan // nolanschool@verizon.net

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Susan Bookshar joined the Better Business Bureau serving Greater Cleveland as director of business success even though she thought this would be a time for retirement. Susan’s biggest highlight was welcoming her beautiful grandson, Bennett Moreland Bookshar.

1975

Jayne Saperstein Mehne and her husband, Chris ’74, have moved to Upton. Shrewsbury will always be home to them, however, they are very excited for their next chapter at the newly developed Upton Ridge community. // Janette Racicot and Sheila Harrington are looking forward to attending BC football and hockey games together again this year. Jan’s daughter, Vittoria Buerschaper ’09, blessed her with a grandson, Luke. // Robert (Bob) J. Ainsworth, Jr., recently retired, has self-published on Amazon. His debut story, Conned, is about a murder on Nantucket Island that is motivated by frauds and scams. Bob lives in Marlborough with his wife, Pat Kavanagh. // Br. Paul Hannon recently completed 25 years at Msgr. Farrell High School on Staten Island. Br. Paul teaches business law, theology, and television production. // Floyd Armstrong is enjoying retirement. // Susan Speca Duval majored in French and is happy that her daughter is now living in Bordeaux with two grandchildren. // Nancy Lee Bailin has retired from full-time work as a nurse/ attorney. She is enjoying life in Naples, Florida, and coastal Maine, at home in Pine Point Beach with time spent at her new home in Kailua, Hawaii, where her son resides. Life is beachy with a mix of adult children and their spouses, five grandchildren, one great-grand, and w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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another on the way. She very much enjoyed living in DC; New Mexico; Indiana; Richmond, Virginia; and Boston and seeing the world. // Lesley Visser has been in touch with roommate Jeanne (Lescroart) Naylon, a successful financial planner in Buffalo who is crazy for the Buffalo Bills. She and husband Moe are dreaming of the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. Roommate Lori Long, an attorney in Marblehead, had a tough stretch with her backyard garden and was forced to put store-bought pumpkins in her pumpkin patch. Lesley spent Thanksgiving at the US Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. On the 50th anniversary of Title IX, she was invited by the State Department to speak to female journalists, students, athletes, and entrepreneurs. // Tom Kniffen continues to practice law, representing military veterans who seek benefits from the federal government. He was blessed with his first grandchild, Dalton Peter Kniffen, born to his son, Todd, and daughter-inlaw, Elsa. Class correspondent: Hellas M. Assad // hellasdamas@hotmail.com

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Cookie and Jim Gilliam are enjoying retirement in Chicago and South Carolina. Best parts of the COVID-19 pandemic were the long family visits in South Carolina, playing with grandkids while parents work! // Dee Brennan and Keith are relocating from Chicago to Connecticut. Dee retired from her career as executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System. // Jane Jarnis, retired from corporate law, and husband Jack love their adopted hometown of Duluth, Minnesota. Their pups truly enjoy the snow landing in October! // Amy Harmon Jones retired from banking in 2021 and is enjoying retirement with a new beau in Connecticut. // Marilyn and Jeff Huntsman are retired in Rhode Island, loving being an important part of their grandkids’ lives! // Ann Vernon loves her job as a New Canaan High School counselor. She says once she does retire, she hopes to continue college counseling. // Joanne Chouinard-Luth has had a multifaceted career as a dentist, public health professional, and a research nutritionist specializing in mitochondrial medicine. She is also on 52

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the board of advisors of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and an external advisor to the Center for Translational Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Class correspondent: Karen Foley Freeman // karenfoleyfreeman@gmail.com

1976

John Strollo is enjoying retirement with his wife, Janet ’77. He built a hot rod and a bike. They have four wonderful grandchildren aged six, five, four, and three. // Larry Hersh, MBA’76, and his wife, Kathy, volunteered for the American Red Cross in Florida, helping those displaced by Hurricane Ian. They worked 12-hour days for two weeks. // Ted Grant, publisher and president of Essex Media Group, has launched another new publication, Marblehead Weekly News. It’s the 10th EMG title. // Coral May Grout, MEd’76, was elected the national secretary of the American Legion Auxiliary at its annual national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

She has held numerous national chairmanships and is a past president of the Massachusetts American Legion Auxiliary. // Linda Deegan and her husband, Richard, have owned and operated Pirates’ Treasure House in Little River, South Carolina, for 23 years. It has been described by reporters as half art gallery, featuring Richard’s paintings and wood carvings, and half gift shop, featuring crafts created by Indonesian families. Class correspondent: Gerald B. Shea // gerbs54@hotmail.com

1977

Robert Sauer graduated with both SOM and A&S degrees and ended up a senior exec at a major IT company. He now lives in Northern California. He is still a practicing Jesuit, having attended a private Jesuit all-boys prep school for his high school days. // Ignacio Garrote and wife Ivonne have moved to Merida, in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, attracted by its sunny beaches, beautiful cenotes, and imposing Mayan ruins. // Ed LaRose recently celebrated 17 years as a judge on Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal in Tampa, Florida. In October, he celebrated five years as a permanent deacon for the Diocese of St. Petersburg. // Joseph Ramos, MD, has moved his home and job to the Stone Harbor, New Jersey, area. He still enjoys practicing anesthesiology, especially in this breathtaking shore location. // Lou Chrostowski had a great time seeing everyone at the class reunion—especially those that he hadn’t seen since graduation, like Anita DeLuca! He’s looking forward to the 50th and hope more classmates attend for what will be a fantastic reunion weekend as the class becomes Golden Eagles. Lou recently caught up with Mina Empoliti Wilson in Turks and Caicos, where he spends winters. Class correspondent: Nicholas Kydes // nicholaskydes@yahoo.com

1978

45th Reunion, October 2023 Lynne Spigelmire Viti’s fourth poetry

collection, The Walk to Cefalù, was published by University of WisconsinStevens Point’s Cornerstone Press in its Portage Poetry Series. // Elizabeth Hathaway, RSM, celebrated 60 years with the Sisters of Mercy on September 8, 2022. Class correspondent: Julie Butler // julesbutler33@gmail.com

1979

Steven Watson retired last year after a 40-year career as managing director at Bessemer Trust Company and most recently as national director of client advisory. First bucket-list item was to leave the work world behind and to walk the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain. He is now spending time with his wife, Lynn, in West Palm Beach and Nantucket. // James Powers has been living and practicing law in Orlando since 1985. He spent three years before law school making a living as a professional water skier at Cypress Gardens, Florida.

He appreciates his BC education more each year, and Boston remains his favorite city. // Sophia Brenner sends a big hello to her fellow Eagles. She is married to Michael J. Brenner, and their daughter Stephanie is a PhD candidate at Fordham in her dissertation year. She has three stepchildren and six grandchildren through marriage. She and Michael are happy, healthy, and grateful. // Kerry O’Mahony (Mahony) retired in May, got married in June, climbed in the Dolomite Mountains of Italy in July, and has been enjoying time off ever since. It was actually her second wedding to the same man. The first was a very small

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gathering during the pandemic in 2020. // James Curtin has been on quite a journey thus far these past 43 years.

He only hopes that most of the class makes it to the 50th reunion in 2029 to celebrate the journey together once again. // Fred Taylor, MBA’79, continues his 40-plus-year run on Wall Street as a portfolio manager for leveraged corporate debt. Both of his children were recently married and have wonderful careers going in the New York area.

Class correspondent: Peter J. Bagley // peter@peterbagley.com

1980

Thomas Siegert wrapped up his final Family Weekend in October. It started in 2006 and had an unbroken chain with kids overlapping. // Pete Roth now serves as president and CEO of Group Insurance Brokerage Concepts Inc., of Hingham. // Karen Pappas is excited to announce the launch of CareerMindful, her newest venture in the career-coaching space. // Peg O’Brien Bernhardt and her husband Ted Bernhardt ’76 of Concord are proud of their recent Boston College graduate, Harrison Bernhardt ’22. He joins his brother Chris Bernhardt ’17.

Peg and Ted have been managing Right at Home for the past 18 years, which provides in-home care to the elderly.

Peg recently received the Boston College Ignatius Medal with gratitude from BC for her leadership, generosity, and service to Boston College. Class correspondent: Michele Nadeem-Baker // michele.nadeem@gmail.com

1981

Pamela Greenberg retired from practice when she and her husband, Todd, moved to Atlanta. Europe awaits them for next May, which is a terrific way to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary!

Unfortunately, they opted out of an Egypt vacation with several friends because of her recent breast cancer diagnosis. She is fine, though, because it was caught very early. // Richard Farrelly, Richard Canning, Robert Panaro, and John Perry, the “Philly Boys,” gathered at the Heights for the BC v. Duke football game. Class correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee // classnotes@bc.edu

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1982

Joe Schreiber was executive producer for 3 Penny Films’s P.O.W.: Passing On Wisdom that premiered on American Public Television. The film commemorates the upcoming 50th anniversary of the return with honor of the Vietnam prisoners of war. Joe married Lisa Ravitz on June 27, 2021. // Patty ’81 and Brian Cummins are still in Fairfax, Virginia.

Patty retired after an outstanding teaching career but is as busy as ever.

Brian is transitioning to part-time work and may take the off-ramp next year.

They have three grandchildren: Aoife, Colin, and Finnegan—the boys born this year. // John Hall lived in five different cities over the past 18 years, but recently he and his wife, Janet, have moved back to Honolulu to be close to their three daughters, Jeanette ’10, Julianne ’13, and Joanna. Their son is residing in Charlotte, North Carolina. John is also proud to announce that his company, Your Kneaded Escape, has rolled out as a national franchise. // Diane and Mark Bronzo became grandparents on July 3, 2021, with the arrival of Evelyn Rae Bronzo, daughter of Mark and Meredith. // Richard Lindquist was appointed to the Alpha Sigma Nu board of directors for a six-year term. Alpha Sigma Nu is the honor society of Jesuit colleges and universities. // Edward B. Marianacci, MD, was recently awarded the Federman Teaching Award at Harvard Medical School. // Jocelyn Cosgrove Bresnahan continues to work as an adult nurse practitioner in a practice she shared with w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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married this year. Siobhan is very engaged in her coaching/facilitating work with executive women and has joined Chief.com as a core guide in addition to her own practice. // Dena Jacobsen Carlone and Ken Carlone hosted the Hillside B52s in Sagamore Beach. Attendees included Joanne Battibulli Bertsche, Joann Infante, Ann Considine Russo, Kathleen Woodward, and Siobhan Murphy. // Eric Goldstein, Jeff Rubin, and Steve McGlynn had a great time at the BC Club watching BC vs. Notre Dame. They are looking forward to seeing everyone, especially their South Street friends, next year at their 40th. Class correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko // cindybocko@hotmail.com

her husband, Dr. Stephen Bresnahan, who lost his life to brain cancer in 2019.

Jocelyn spends the majority of her time in the position of president and CEO of the Saint Rock Haiti Foundation. // Michael DiChiro was appointed by Chief Justice Paul Suttel of the Rhode Island Supreme Court to a full-time judicial position as magistrate at the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal. Class correspondent: Mary O’Brien // maryobrien14@comcast.net

1983

40th Reunion, October 2023 Brian Johnson and his wife, Laurie, split time between Kiawah Island, South Carolina, and New York City, where he has a role with the International Rescue Committee. His daughter, Meghan, is a recent graduate of Fordham University. // Mary Leahy ’83, MDiv’17, has been certified as a spiritual director and been ordained a priest with Roman Catholic Women Priests. Mary lives and works between Cambridge and Vineyard Haven. // Liz Barbera Suchy has been included in the 2023 edition of Best Lawyers in America. While on vacation in Sicily this summer with her husband Jack; her son Will ’21; her brother Bill ’92 and his wife, Natasha; Liz’s daughter, Chrissy ’14, got engaged to Michael Judd ’13. // Siobhan Murphy connected with BC friends through regular Zoom visits and text chats. Siobhan is also in touch with Valerie Newman, whose daughter 54

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1984

Karen K. Giuliano ’84, PhD’05, RN, MBA, is currently at UMass Amherst as a professor in the Institute of Applied Life Sciences and the Elaine Marieb College of Nursing. Karen is the inaugural co-director of the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation, alongside her engineering co-director, Dr. Frank Sup. // Devon Zwald ’15, news producer and newscaster at Georgia Public Broadcasting, interviewed Carol Engelhardt Herringer, professor and chair of the department of history at Georgia Southern University, on the significance of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. // Michael Grant has retired from the position of deputy

commissioner at Mass. DOC after 34-and-a-half years. He has taken a position with FHE Health out of Deerfield Beach, Florida. // Jay Hutchins is a member of the Boston College Varsity Club Hall Of Fame (soccer) and has been inducted into the State of Maine Sports Hall of Fame. He is the regional vice president of sales at Aflac Insurance Company. // Peter Di Pietro, MA’84, being fully retired, is now a philosopher full time, since any special interest engagement is a compromise to the integrity of the discipline. // Michael Sellers is in the process of writing a combination memoir/ cookbook, recalling his experience leaving a 20-year career as an NYC marketing exec to become an artisan bread baker and overcoming a divorce, home foreclosure, car engine failure, and a pandemic. // Michael Garry returned to the Heights for the Clemson game to celebrate Paul Greco’s 60th birthday at the tailgate with Henry King, Steve Gargano, Chris Fanning, Steve Kenney, and Jack Garahan, among others. // Richard Menard, MA’84, is semi-retired and fortunate to be living on Cape Cod, working part-time on software projects. // Paul DiFalco resides in South Burlington, Vermont, and is currently in his 25th year of teaching at Rice Memorial High School. // Catherine M. Reinhardt, PhD’84, recently moved to Buffalo, New York, to be near family.

She opened a private psychology practice. // Philip Huckins ’84, MAT’85, PhD’95, has recently completed a hospice volunteer training program offered by Home Healthcare, Hospice & Community Services of Keene, New Hampshire. Class correspondent: Carol A. McConnell // classnotes@bc.edu

1985

Vin Sylvia is training to run the 2023 Boston Marathon as a member of Dougie’s Team, raising funds for the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism.

Like Doug Sr., Vin is the father of a son with autism spectrum disorder. // Maria Leonard Olsen has a new book out, based on her podcast, Becoming Your Best Version. Maria is working remotely in Latin America for the rest of the year on her law and writing jobs. // David Parkyn, PhD’85, retired after 11 years as president of North Park

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University in Chicago in 2016. Since that time, he has taught on the graduate faculty in doctoral programs in higher education leadership at Georgetown, Immaculata, and Gwynedd Mercy universities. // Sue Spence Brosnan moved back to Scituate after 30 years.

She and her husband, RJ, retired after careers at Arthur Andersen, RSM, and other accounting-related positions. Class correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson // bww415@gmail.com

1986

Anne Gillespie retired from the Boston public school system, where she dedicated her career to children with special needs. Jean LoConte Metcalfe, Sue Barbrow O’Connell, Donna Collins Williams, Cathy Emello, Joan Palladino Palazzo, Jose Andrade, Rose Paladino Brown, Rita Troubolous Klapes, Teresa Harvey Jackson ’77, Aurienne Monty Dembitski ’82, Vivian Chu ’84, Joe Mullen ’84, Vilma Rodriguez-Andrade ’85, Dana Pantos Harris ’87, Heather McCauley ’87, Alan Tamayo ’87, Aileen Tamayo ’87, Chris King ’88, and Andrew Tamayo ’93 all joined Annie for a night of special tributes and dancing. // Eric Daniels, JD’86, was nominated by Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont to serve as a Superior Court judge. // Colleen Egleston Bonde and her family enjoyed a wonderful Commencement to celebrate the newest Eagle in the family—Caroline Bonde ’22. // Bill Marsan, Bob Keane, Jack McNeill,

and John “Clem” Lewis (along with a few of their sons) went on their annual college football fall getaway to Knoxville, Tennessee, for the Tennessee–Alabama game. The boys are planning a trip to West Point to see the Eagles take on Army next year. // Don Baptiste wrote The NICE Handbook, an easy read intended to help the people of the world be nicer to each other. // After graduation, Helen McDonough, MA’87, taught for 20 years in Massachusetts prisons, where she used her BC education to reach out to help all those men and women. She is 90 years old now and retired but with a great love to keep learning. Class correspondent: Leenie Kelley // leeniekelley@hotmail.com

1987

Jim McEleney is applying his experience as a former multi-unit franchisee as a consultant, matching aspiring business owners to proven business concepts in the franchise segment across many industries. // Lisa Aguilo-McCann, Maria Reichard-Uzdavinis, Ana S. Cámara-Philippi, Marie C. NaveiraMula, Rita Tamargo-Haeussler, Vionette Vissepo, Ileana JimenezWingle, and Ivelisse Iguina got together at Las Casitas at El Conquistador Resort in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, to celebrate their 35th-year reunion. // Jane Lueders and her family were forced to evacuate Kyiv, Ukraine, because of the war. Eight months later, they are living in Hannover, Germany, where Jane has found a new

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job in an international school. // Lorraine McGee has had a chiropractic practice in Andover for 30 years. She lives with her husband and son in North Reading. // Ann Marie Foustoukos became a visiting professor at UMass Lowell’s Solomont School of Nursing. // Rob DiGisi is entering his sixth year teaching sports management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He’s packaged his experience into his own sports management consulting firm, Iron Horse Marketing. // Sidney Staunton has a poetry chapbook out entitled Satellites. Currently, he enjoys reciting from it in poetry circles in southern Vermont. He’s about 85% done with his first contemporary historical fiction novel, Reawakening. // Frank Sarra was back on campus in September for the Rutgers football game. He also attended the Jacksonville, Florida social and Notre Dame game watch on November 19.

1988

35th Reunion, October 2023 Allison Giles’s middle son, Patrick Giles ’22, has an entry-level NHL contract with the Florida Panthers and is playing for their affiliate team, the Charlotte Checkers. // Celeste McMahon Shirvani completed a master of science in development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, England. // Bob Marshall recently received the Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award from the Office of the US President for his many contributions to helping support diverse small businesses and economic growth.

Honorees were acknowledged for their outstanding achievements and volunteerism having helped improve the lives of others. // Stephen Sayers published his fourth book, 100 Things To Do in Columbia MO Before You Die, as part of Reedy Press’s national best-selling travel series. // Steve Picazio sends greetings from the west coast of Florida. Hurricane Ian ruled out attending BC Parents Weekend with his sophomore daughter, Brooke. He managed to make it up two weekends later for Head of the Charles, where her four-person boat won BC rowing’s firstever medal. // Ginamarie Talford ’88, MA’90, celebrated the publication of her debut novel this fall. The Way of the w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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Patricia Rice NC’64 to George W. Hellmuth, 8/15/20 Veronica Jarek-Prinz ’84 to Tony Wisniewski Peter J. Glazer Esq. ’99 to Yokota D. Strong, 5/28/22 Kate Feeney ’02 to Dave Branda, 10/15/22 // Eagles in attendance: Dennis Allaire, Laura Geselbrecht Allaire, Kris Cary, Tim Corsi, Katie Horan Drevno, Meaghan Flaherty Dupuis, Brie Wesolek Fabela, Karleen Greene Fallon, Tim Fallon, Kristen Frank, Matt Gruber, Bethany Forcucci Haslam, Laura Howson, Kolleen Skoney Johnsen, Erin Murray Kelly, Dave McGowan, Sheila Miller, Kristen Minger, Ryan Mulderrig, Catherine Murray Murphy, Janelle Nanos, Jenna Nobles, Eric Patry, Maggie Jeary Patry, Alyssa Hale Prettyman, Erin Djerf Rodenhiser, Erin McNamara White, Jarret Wright, Erin Kelleher ’99, Bob Feeney ’75, Steve Carroll ’75, Peter Foley ’75, MaryJo and Paul Kelleher ’75, and Peter Lawlor ’75

Mairin Lee ’07 to Pierre Legrain, 5/25/22 // Eagles in attendance: Patricia Noonan, Emily Dendinger ’05, Carolina Ravassa, Jennifer Thibault, Katelyn Reabe Andree Ryan Elman ’07 to Stacy Kaczmarek Elman, 9/3/22 // Eagles in attendance: Dan Elman ’04, Amanda Ruddick Barone, Mike Trapanese ’07, Shaelyn ’09 and Daniel Bagley, Christine and Christian Sullivan ’06 , Kara Casey ’08, Patrick Walling ’06, Graham Welch, JD’17, Tyler Bates, Megan McCarthy, Tanya Lafuente, Nisha Desai, Meghan Wetherbee Ball, Melissa Waite, Bill Clerico, Katey Sullivan-Clerico, Sean Healy, Pat Watson, Kim Hirsch, Katherine Jones, Rich Aberman, Jeff Connolly, and Nick Deming

Katherine Walsh, Katie Dadarria ’09, and Richard Russo ’71 Anthony (“Tony”) Donatelli ’08 to Isabella Viecelli, 11/5/22 // Eagles in attendance: Dr. Stephanie Donatelli ’10, Dave Pulito, William (“Bo”) Pulito, Mike Gualtieri, Chris Malay, Tom DeFelice, Ari Peterson, Sean Carlesimo, and James Mudford

Lauren Russo ’08 to Alex Kieu, 9/3/22 // Eagles in attendance: Allison Evans,

Mary Taber ’08 to Derek McCarthy, 10/22/22 // Eagles in attendance: Thomas Walsh ’66, JD’74, Mary Downs NC’70, JD’74, Richard M. Taber, Jr. ’76, William Wright ’05, Catherine Clark Johnson, Timothy Johnson ’08, MBA’16, Colin Laughlin, Ainsley Jones McCowan, Abigail Hasebroock Mousel ’08, MAT’10, Luigi Pulice ’08, Christine Allen Spatcher ’08, Jillian Daly Viani ’08, MEd’09, Julia Walsh, Sarah Williams, Lauren

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Susanna Dawson Kipfer ’05 to Scotty Kipfer, 11/21/21 // Eagles in attendance: Cait Doran Kneitel

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Carfora Wright ’08, MA’09, Hadley Tormay ’20, and Brigid Hanczor ’24 Emily Waetjen ’08 to Chris Roberson, 5/15/22 // Eagles in attendance: Caitlin and Danny Meenan, Caity Connolly, Jenn Eng, and Jennifer ’90 and Jim Bleakley ’91 Ariel deBairos ’11 to Sean Robbins ’11, 10/2/21 // Eagles in attendance: Fr. William Tarraza, MDiv’16, THM’17, STL’23, Tedd Wimperis, Kevin Fagan, Andrea Zeytoonian ’10, and Sheila Chheda ’11

Anna Carey ’14, MS’18, Maggie Scollan, Alex Lorditch, Marie McGrath, Erin Curran, Lexi Gooodhue ’19, and JB Dowd ’86

Elise Uberti ’15 to Peter Donahue ’15, 10/22/22 Jill Lutz ’16 to Enrico Forlenza ’16, 9/2/22

Anna ’14 to William Burgess ’14, 10/29/21

Olivia Hershiser ’16 to Daniel Sundaram ’16, 9/17/22

Ellen Burr ’15 to Ben Oleniczak ’16, 10/8/22

Lauren to Paul Howard ’17, 6/26/22

Brittany Hazelton ’15 to Matthew Lyons ’15, 9/24/22

Katelyn Rodgers ’17 to Edward Lee III, 11/11/22 Whitney McDonald ’18 to David Hincks ’18, 9/17/22 // Eagles in attendance: Michael Davidson, S.J., MEd’11

Liz D’Onofrio, MA/MSW’14, to Roger Surprenant, 10/6/22

Catherine Meuse ’15 to Sean Sanford ’15, 8/6/22 // Eagles in attendance: Marian Maguire Meuse ’77, Kate McAuliffe Rogers, Lauren Miller, Abigail Collen, Jimmy Bujold, Chris Racine, Jeff Danielson, Dick Lucas, and Greg Malloy

Diana-Michelle Castro to Christoffer Iversen, 7/29/22

Elise Goodhue ’14 to Nick Campbell, 8/13/22 // Eagles in attendance: Amy Hick,

Annie Weber ’15 and James Lizzul ’09, 8/6/22

Rusty Handler, MBA’21, to Megan Cunningham, 5/28/22

Hannah Swaim ’14 to Daniel Griffiths ’14, 6/11/22

Cameron Currie ’18 to Elinor Loria, 9/3/22

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Greyhound—A Magickal Journey of Self-Discovery. Ginamarie penned this story to help anyone (ages 11 and up) who has been bullied or suffers the effects of anxiety, panic attacks, grief, or loss. Ginamarie lives along the Merrimack River near Newburyport with her greyhound, SweetP. Class correspondent: Robert K. Murray Jr. // murrman@aol.com

newly released Oh How a Mother Worries is a heartfelt message of love. It is an uplifting and encouraging guide to a happy, healthy, and faith-based life. // Tim Cooney reports that Cape Cod Cellars had a successful launch of their Nantucket Red products. Class correspondent: Andrea McGrath // andrea.e.mcgrath@gmail.com

has been busy with five grandsons and watching his son play football at Bentley University. // Alison Mosher Birmingham is still living in Dover with her husband, Stephen ’87. Alison sells real estate in the MetroWest as well as Boston areas.

The exciting news of the year is Alison and Stephen have an Eagle! Their youngest, Liza, is in the Class of 2026.

Her oldest daughter is a junior at Fairfield University. // Tony Fernandes was confirmed as the deputy assistant secretary for the Trade Policy and Negotiations Division at the US State Department. He celebrated his 25th year in the US Diplomatic Service with a promotion to the rank of minister counselor in the Senior Foreign Service. // Amy Allegrezza Donahue welcomed Mary Cooley for a fantastic week in Massachusetts and Maine. Mary is grateful that Amy adopted her daughter, Emma, for the summer while she did a theater program in Boston. // Karen Chieco ’90, JD’93, was humbled to receive the President’s Award for Excellence from the Connecticut Defense Lawyers Association. Her husband, David Chieco, attended the presentation. Just as fun and exciting, though, were all the BC Class of 1990 friends who stopped by their tailgate this year—Jeff Reilly, Mike Joyce, Mary Doherty, Missy Campbell Reid, Chrissy Conry Flynn, Rick and Suzy Iovanne, John Liesching, Deb Tian Verrier, Carlos Verrier, Greg Schwake, Jim Norton, Rich Graziano, and Amy Tamayo Quinlivan. They were able to tailgate with the next generation of Eagles: Trent Liesching ’23, David Chieco ’24, and Mary Kate Reilly ’26. // Missy Campbell Reid would like to publicly thank the Chiecos for introducing her daughters, Heather and Emily, to BC tailgating at the Homecoming game against Clemson. Not only did Dave Chieco serve as cook, but he also shared some “fun facts” about his time at BC and anecdotes that are legends in the making. Thank you, Karen and Dave, for your hospitality and for extending an invitation to the Class of 1990 to stop by next fall. Class correspondent: Missy Campbell Reid // missybc90@comcast.net

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1989

Anthony E. Varona ’89, JD’92, was named the ninth dean of the Seattle University School of Law. // Carolena Saccone is retired. // Michael O’Loughlin was appointed as an assistant clerk-magistrate in Suffolk County Superior Civil Court in Boston.

Michael, wife Marie, and daughter Margot O’Loughlin ’21 attended a football game at the University of Notre Dame to watch son Michael perform with the Irish Guard as part of the Notre Dame marching band. // Laura Kenda’s

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an insurance agency currently licensed in 30 states. Brendan recently formed Life After 65, LLC, to further address the specific needs of this unique population.

He is married and lives in Mason, Ohio. // Brian Drobnis retired from a family business that was sold back in May 2018.

He had been working there while he was in high school, even before he attended Boston College. After he retired, he and his wife, Kristen, bought a home in Naples, Florida. They still own a home on Cape Cod. // Chris DiOrio balances his solo practice with educating his kids (six and three) and does human rights and election rights advocacy in multiple states as well in death penalty and criminal justice reform in Uganda. Chris has also taken up distance running, having completed the Boston Marathon twice and the NYC Marathon. He runs to raise money for MGH’s Pediatric Cancer Clinic and Sandy Hook Promise. // Sheree Nuccio Winans was being recognized for 30 years of service to the Enfield Public Schools (Connecticut).

A well-deserved recognition for a devoted and exceptional teacher!

Class correspondent: Peggy Morin Bruno // pegmb@comcast.net

1992

Dr. Roxanne Baxter Mendrinos has published The Spiritual Wisdom of Bishop Gerasimos through the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. // Mike Cavaco recently retired from the US Army after 28 years of active service. Mike served as an aviation officer in various roles and

retired in the rank of chief warrant officer five at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. He is married to Emily Masse and has twin 15-year-old sons, Thomas and Steven. They reside in Huntsville, Alabama. // Douglas Murphy sadly lost his son Jack Murphy on August 2, 2022.

Jack was struck by lightning while on a wilderness first responder training course in Wyoming. Jack’s oldest sister, Anna, is currently rowing for BC and in the Class of 2025. Jack attended BC High School and had two grandparents who are also BC graduates. The Murphy family continues to appreciate all the love and support from the larger BC community.

They have created the Jack Murphy Wilderness Education Foundation to honor their son. // Tanya Fitzpatrick has edited two books on quality of life among cancer survivors since her retirement from McGill University Department of Oncology. She is now editing a new book on centenarians and cognitive health. // Kevin Williams is an English professor living and working in Nagoya, Japan, for 25-plus years. He has three kids in college. // Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner co-chaired and spoke on “The Narrative the Statistics Tell: How Historic and Implicit Bias Can Create Unique Hurdles for Minority and Woman-Owned Businesses” at a webinar. Ingrid was also named as part of the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly “Circle of Excellence” for its Top Women of Law event in 2022. Class correspondent: Katie Boulos Gildea // kbgildea@yahoo.com

1994

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Ned Thompson is now working for Tassat, an IT start-up based out of NYC, after almost 20 years in financial services working for Bank of America and Santander Bank. // Emilios Milios is a licensed realtor affiliated with Coldwell Banker Realty in Boston. He has been practicing real estate in Massachusetts since 2005. Before then, Emilios owned and operated his real estate company in Thessaloniki, Greece. // John Houle’s first novel, The King-Makers of Providence, has been published and will be available in March 2023. Class correspondent: Nancy E. Drane // nancydrane@aol.com

1993

30th Reunion, October 2023 Molly Kenah Beams, Alison McDonald Link, Meghan McGrann, Maeve O’Meara, Jenn Williams Riley, and Ellen Seo celebrated their 50th birthdays together in beautiful Napa. They had dinner at Martin Gobbee’s restaurant, and Ali Link was guest bartender for the evening. These women try to get together every two years somewhere fabulous—next up Tahiti! // Amy Donovan Milligan is doing great and resides on the North Shore with her husband and son. During her free time, she volunteers at the Warren Anatomical Museum and welcomes fellow alum to say hi and get a personal tour!

Class correspondent: Laura Beck // laurabeckcahoon@gmail.com

COURTESY OF KEVIN WILLIAMS ’92

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COURTESY OF GEORGE VAN GRIEKEN PhD’95

1995

Sharon Kucia was named vice president of steward development for The Papal Foundation. The Papal Foundation supports the Holy Father’s priorities to serve the poor in developing nations around the world, providing more than $200 million in grants since its founding in 1988. // Br. George Van Grieken, FSC, PhD’95, splits his time between Rome and California, serving as the secretary coordinator for Lasallian Research and Resources at the order’s Casa Generalizia in Rome and director of the Lasallian Resource Center in Napa. // Kellie Bresnehan MEd’95, has committed her adult career to education. After teaching at Brockton High School for four years, she began raising her family in Duxbury.

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Terri Trespicio published her first book, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You (Atria/Simon & Schuster), based on the success of her 2015 TEDx talk, “Stop Searching for Your Passion.” She lives in Manhattan.

Class correspondent: Kevin McKeon // kmckeon@gmail.com

1996

Mike Hofman was awarded the Courage Award for his work with the NYC Anti-Violence Project. Classmates toasting Mike included Loretta Shing, John Dempsey, Julie Allen Holbrook, Rachel Clough, Molly Thilman Smith, Matt Keswick, Cristin Callaghan, Andrew Fellingham, Suzanne Geden, Megan Storz Pagliaro, Bill Lyons, and Tom Adams. // Laurie Aurelia Cerveny was appointed to the management committee of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as managing partner of industries and strategic initiatives. Laurie is an accomplished M&A and securities

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practitioner. // Melissa Mullen brought her roommates back together for the Reunion last June. The best part was finding out that she knows of at least seven fellow classmates who also have a son or daughter who started as a first year this past fall at BC!

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Erin is also writing cozy mysteries for adults under the name Mina Allan. // Matt Landry relaunched The Second Row, his marketing communications and PR consultancy, to focus on working with clients in the mental health and wellness space. // Marc Krug, MBA’97, has been promoted to group president of Cross Country Healthcare, a leading provider of healthcare solutions to healthcare clients in the US. // David Wacks, MA’97, has been a professor of Spanish at the University of Oregon since 2003, where he serves as department head of Romance languages. He blogs on his current research and teaching at davidwacks.uoregon.edu. He lives in Eugene, Oregon, with his partner, Katharine Gallagher; two teenagers; and their cat, Pincho. // J. Randall Tarasuk released his first book, Lighting Beyond Edison: Brilliant Residential Lighting Techniques on the Age of LEDs. // Frank Gallucci has spent the last five years representing local communities in the national opioid litigation. His work has included being counsel for three bellwether clients against manufacturers, distributors, and retail pharmacies.

On September 3, Frank and his wife, Michelle, welcomed their second daughter, Josephine. // Rose Vidal and Darren Gorski bought their first house!

They are excited to celebrate the BC graduation of their first daughter, Kayla, in spring 2023. // Chad Vanacore joined CapitalOne as managing director of investment research. As an active Eagles fan, he also yearns to see a return to three-sport glory for BC in football, basketball, and hockey! Class correspondent: Margo Gillespie // margogillespie@gmail.com

1998

25th Reunion, June 2023 Jessica O’Leary has joined start-up 76Bio as vice president, corporate development. She and her husband, Todd Allen, recently bought a home in Cambridge, and their nine-year-old twins are very happy to be living so close to school and their friends. // Laura Walsh Giesecke left UChicago IMPACT to work for the Brophy Community Foundation in Phoenix, Arizona. Guided by Jesuit principles, its mission is to ensure that

Arizona K-12 students with verified financial need can afford a quality private school education. // R. Ward Holder, PhD’98, published Calvin and the Christian Tradition: Scripture, Memory, and the Western Mind with Cambridge University Press. He also gave a lecture at the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life on his research and conclusions. // Juv Marchisio, MBA’98, was promoted to senior director of brand marketing for the At Home Meals Business Unit of B&G Foods, Inc. Class correspondent: Mistie Lucht // hohudson@yahoo.com

1999

Brian Barrio, entering his fourth year as director of athletics at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, was appointed to a four-year term on the NCAA’s Division I Council. // Christian Baird had a great time at the Boston College event in Dallas. He connected with several other alumni and met some classmates for the first time. // Remembering Dan Burke—it’s been over a year since his passing in July 2021 from brain cancer, glioblastoma. Too young with a young family. Prayers for his family and his soul. Requiescat in pace. // John McGowan recently returned to his roots and relocated to Boxford with his wife and two sons. He continues to run a busy custom remodeling and building business, now serving the Massachusetts North Shore and Merrimack Valley. Since returning, he has connected with many fellow alumni, including brother Matt McGowan ’97, who lives in Haverhill, as well as rowing teammates Dan Beaton ’98, Eric Schenker ’96, Jonathan Mitchell ’95, Tom Cahill ’98, and MJ Curry ’01. Class correspondent: Emily Wildfire // emily_ wildfire@tjx.com

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Kelly Mulligan entered her third year of pursuing her doctorate of education at the University of Bridgeport. Her dissertation topic will involve preservice science teachers and their understanding and application to classroom lessons on the nature of science.

2000

Brendan Monahan was promoted to head, US crisis management and resilience at Novartis. His first book, Strategic Corporate Crisis Management: Building an Unconquerable Organization, will be published by Routledge Taylor Francis. // Tom Gallagher retired from the Air Force Reserves as a lieutenant colonel after a 22-year career that encompassed active duty service in the US Navy, where he was a P-3C Mission and aircraft commander, T-1A instructor pilot, and US Air Force Reserve C-5 command pilot. He is currently living in Connecticut and flying as an MD-11 pilot for FedEx Express. // Rafael Castillo, MD recently pivoted from healthcare and is now working as a Salesforce consultant/ engineer. He and his wife moved from Hanover, Pennsylvania, to the North County area of San Diego, California. // Robert Welton was recently promoted to deputy chief medical examiner at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. // Jeff Whelpley successfully executed a buyback of his company, GetHuman, from VC investors. He now fully owns the small, profitable company that helps consumers get the edge over companies when dealing with customer service problems. // In addition to leading a pre-conference session at the Learning Forward Conference, Afrika Afeni Mills, MEd’00, recorded a TED-Ed Talk in January and will facilitate a session at SXSW EDU. Class correspondent: Kate Pescatore // katepescatore@hotmail.com

2001

Alyson Mathews has joined Bond, Schoeneck & King’s labor and employment practice in its Garden City, New York, office as a member (partner) of the firm. // Marisa Glaser Goudy has just wrapped up the second successful season of her podcast, KnotWork Storytelling. She’s calling on everything she learned in the Irish studies department to develop a show that explores the myths and folklore of Ireland. // Mark Monahan is currently living in New York City and working at the hedge fund Hidden Lake. He is married to Teresa Lin. // Tim Wesley is living on the North Side of Chicago and

Juan Alexander Concepción, Esq., ’96, MEd’97, MBA’03, JD’03 This quadruple Eagle says the people are what makes BC special.

A three-and-a-half-hour drive, the journey from Washington Heights, NYC, to Boston College isn’t particularly long or arduous. But coming from a predominantly Latino, lowincome neighborhood, the transition couldn’t have been much sharper for Juan Concepción.

“BC was a shock in many ways. I met many people who hadn’t experienced life the way I had,” he recalls.

Feeling alienated at first, Juan found a home in Lyons 301, where the Black Studies program (since renamed African and African Diaspora Studies) was housed. “It was my little piece of New York,” says Juan, “a place where I didn’t feel the need to explain myself.” He credits mentors such as founding program director Amanda V. Houston, assistant director Dr. Sandra Sandiford, and professors Derrick Evans, Dr. Karen Miller, and Dr. Frank Taylor for reassuring him that his perspective was important. Administrators like Dan Bunch and Howard Singer, as well as Jesuits like Fathers Neenan, Himes, Monan, Dinneen, Donovan, Barth, and Leahy also provided Juan indispensable guidance. “They valued me at a time when I wasn’t sure society valued people like me that much,” he says.

Four degrees later, it goes without saying that Concepción found his place at BC. Today, he stands out among Eagles for his service on the Board of Trustees, as a co-founder of the AHANA Alumni Advisory Council, and for his overall commitment to advancing the University. Concepción also remains a tireless advocate for social justice, serving on the board of directors of Lawyers for Civil Rights and helping raise over $30M for the New Commonwealth Fund to combat systemic racism in Massachusetts.

“My grandmother showed me the joy of giving—the beautiful thing that happens inside when you give something other people need. When I think back to her and the people of BC who did so much for me, it inspires me to do the same for others. How could I not give back? How could I not help BC do what it did for me for the next generation of students who just really need a break?

“Considering the things I went without growing up, no one could have convinced that young boy that the next chapter of his life would be as sweet as it has been. I owe that to so many people at the University—they are my BC.”

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How could I not give back? How could I not help BC do what it did for me for the next generation of students who just really need a break?”

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working on his dissertation on Gerard Manley Hopkins and the impact of his poems and writings on education theory.

He has been teaching high school and coaching in Catholic schools his entire career and is father to wonderful daughters Francesca (11) and Josephine (9). // Dr. Meghan Blueberry McCarthy was named vice president and chief community health officer for PeaceHealth, a 10-hospital healthcare system in the Pacific Northwest. // Thomas Gaukin recently started working at Princeton University as their new manager of capital planning and analytics. // Shaheer Mustafa ’01, MSW’02, was selected as one of 15 leaders from across the county for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Children and Family Fellowship. In 2016, Shaheer became president and CEO of HopeWell—a nonprofit social services agency that provides comprehensive foster care services and targeted support for families, adults with disabilities, children who are experiencing foster care, and young adults who are “aging out” of the foster care system. Class correspondent: Sandi Birkeland Kanne // bc01classnotes@ gmail.com

2002

Janie Ho is a deputy editor of growth and audience development at the New York Daily News. A former analyst at LinkedIn, she runs the BC Tech and Communications Alumni group on LinkedIn. She’d love to hear from former Eagles. // In September, Joe Hellrung

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accepted a position as the vice president of legal for Grayshift Technologies. // Sandra Mejia has been promoted to principal at Boyden Executive Search.

Based in Miami, Sandra has more than 13 years of experience in the executive search industry. Class correspondent: Suzanne Harte // suzanneharte@yahoo.com

2003

20th Reunion, October 2023 AJ Walker has joined Greystone, a leading national commercial real estate finance firm, as a managing director in Chicago, Illinois. AJ also recently took over the hockey director role for the Chicago Stallions, a leading Tier 2 youth hockey organization in Chicago. // Jonathan Giftos, MD, was appointed assistant commissioner, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

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Kelly Kroll Lockwood ’04, MA’06, was recently named the assistant vice president of community standards and accommodation services at Southern New Hampshire University. She and her husband, Jim, also welcomed twin boys, Robert Laurence (“Robbie”) and Theodore Jack (“Teddy”) in April 2022. // Class of 2004 roommates/alumni traveled to Greece together to celebrate

their 40th birthdays. 10 days in Mykonos and Santorini with Mike Early and wife Kristen, James Ensign (Ox) and wife Sheilah, Amy Morrow Grucela and Patrick Grucela, Emilie (Winterton) Schlitt and husband Erich, Andrew Malachowski and wife Bridget, and Jessica Seaver Thompson and Adam Thompson. Class correspondent: Allie Weiskopf // allieweiskopf@gmail.com

PMC 2004

Kellie Tessier Madigan has joined the State House news service team. It feels great to work for such an honest company, and she thanks Pine Manor College for the communication skills they helped her develop to be successful!

2005

Katie Den Uyl Zolnierz ’05, MBA’13, relocated to London in August 2020 with her family and is working in the field of ESG and corporate disclosure. Katie would be interested in connecting with other alumni based in London. // Kevin Licthenberg has opened a law firm in Chicago, HeflerLichtenberg, practicing in elder law, guardianship for adults with disabilities, probate, and adoptions. // Hugh T. Galligan ’05, MEd’06, EdD’18, has been named the 2022–2023 High School Principal of the Year by the Massachusetts School Administrators

Association. Hugh is the principal of Norwood High School. He was recognized by the MSAA this summer in Plymouth and by the National Association of Secondary Schools Principals in Washington, DC, this November. Hugh lives with his wife, Meg ’05, and their kids, Hugh and Tommy, in Dedham. // Greg Tarca joined the board of trustees of Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, a Catholic Jesuit middle school serving low-income families of diverse races, ethnicities, and faiths. Class correspondents: Joe Bowden // joe.bowden@gmail.com; Justin Barrasso // jbarrasso@gmail.com

PMC 2005

Nicole Boatswain Harrell received her doctoral degree in developmental education. She would like to thank her professors, colleagues, and friends at Pine Manor College for providing her with a foundation and the encouragement that allows her to thrive.

Jeni Hansen ’00 with her grandmother and mentor Vanilla Beane by her side at Commencement in 2000.

Jeni Hansen ’00 Granddaughter of DC’s “Hat Lady” reflects on what her grandmother taught her about passion, purpose, and people.

With an entrepreneurial spirit and connection to her clients, the iconic Washington, DC, milliner Vanilla Beane inspired many—particularly her granddaughter, Jeni Hansen ’00.

“Whenever I would visit her store, I closely observed everything she did,” remembers Hansen. “I was always struck by the incredible passion my grandmother had for her business and her clients—and, of course, her hats.”

Beane started designing hats in the 1950s while she worked as an elevator operator.

She opened her store, Bené Millinary, in 1979, upon retirement. Over the years, Beane’s hats have appeared on a U.S. postage service stamp and in Smithsonian collections. In 1975 she was inducted into the National Association of Fashion and Accessory Designers Hall of Fame. Civil Rights icon Dorothy Height is Beane’s most notable client, although hundreds of people have donned Beane’s designs to church and to events such as Royal Ascot.

For more than four decades, Beane worked an impressive six days a week in her shop.

Like her grandmother, Hansen also has an affinity for community. “I love feeling connected; I have a natural interest in people,” she says.

It’s a thread she has woven throughout her life, from being a tour guide at Boston College, to her post-graduate involvement with the Council for Women of Boston College and the BCAA Board of Directors, to her career in marketing, public relations, and consulting. People have always been her passion—so much so that during her sophomore year, her friends called her “Switchboard” because she was a resource to them for on-campus news and events.

Hansen learned to combine hard work and the wearing of many hats, as her grandmother did, by volunteering on boards and commissions, including being appointed to the ABC Board by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser. Over the years, Hansen loved receiving phone calls from her grandmother. “She was always proud of me, but she would also ask, ‘Are you working hard?’ She was big on encouraging people, and she encouraged me to do the best and the most for my clients and community.”

In October 2022, Beane died at the age of 103. Since then, Hansen has reflected often on her grandmother’s true legacy. “She inspired me to be the self-reliant woman I am today. Through her life’s work, she helped people look good and feel good. I can only work to do the same.”

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2006

Steve Scalzi spent his summer as the head coach of the Phoenix Suns in the NBA2K23 Las Vegas Summer League.

Scalzi defeated his former roommate, Jared Dudley ’07, in a head-to-head match-up vs. Dudley’s Dallas Mavericks. // Vernon Araujo is now the director of philanthropy and community relations for Alpine Securities USVI, a financial securities firm. In this position, he is now able to positively impact dozens

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I was always struck by the incredible passion my grandmother had for her business and her clients—and, of course, her hats.”

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development at Verizon Communications where he handles mergers, acquisitions, and other strategic projects. // Kathryn Jors Horton, Melissa McGrath, and Sarah Murphy-Holroyd reunited for a trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to celebrate 18 years of friendship. // Emily Waetjen was promoted to vice president of commercial contracting at Alight Solutions in April 2022. Class correspondent: Maura Tierney Murphy // mauraktierney@gmail.com

2009

Vicente DyReyes was promoted to VP, New Ventures at Nextbite, a leading food-technology company based out of Denver, Colorado. Class correspondent: Timothy Bates // tbates86@gmail.com

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of NGOs in the US Virgin Islands. // Chike Ibeabuchi was named unit chief of the New York County District Attorney’s Housing and Tenant Protection Unit. Chike has been at the office for more than a decade. Class correspondent: Cristina Conciatori // cristina.conciatori@gmail.com

2010

2007

Colleen Daley and Yassine Assouki celebrated their marriage in November 2021 with an in-person wedding in Rabat, Morocco. Colleen served in Peace Corps Morocco after graduating from BC. Class correspondent: Lauren Faherty Bagnell // lauren.faherty@gmail.com

2008

15th Reunion, October 2023 Fr. Isaiah Marie Hofmann, CFR, was ordained to the priesthood in Yonkers, New York. In attendance were classmates Pat O’Brien; Pete Land; Colm Willis; Brett Bertucio; and Lindsay Wilcox; and Fr. Rob Van Alstyne ’08, PhD’28, S.J.; Fr. Ron Tacelli, ’69, MDiv’82, S.J.; and Fr. Paul McNellis, PhD’93, S.J., from the BC Jesuit community. Former faculty member Fr. Robert Imbelli also made the trip.

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wife, Rebecca, are living in Hingham with their three sons, George (five), Seamus (three), and Tommy (one).

Michael is actively involved with the BC Real Estate Council and the Corcoran Center and works in commercial real estate capital markets for Newmark. // Rich Rosario survived the COVID-19 pandemic and emerged with doubleboosted social anxiety, 20 extra pounds, and a new job as a creative director at NYC agency DEFINITION 6. He decided that having a partner-in-survival would be good for future global crises, so he got married. Rich, his survival partner, Erin, and their Pomeranian guard dog, Newman, now live in Jersey City, New Jersey. // Kurt Rever was recently promoted to director of corporate

Philip G. Day, MA’10, was named associate director of education in the department of family medicine and community health at UMass Chan Medical School. // Rev. Sandra Dorsainvil completed a training program at Central Seminary in Kansas City, Kansas, focusing on the training of conflict transformation trainers. // Lauren Haumesser has published her first book with the University of North Carolina Press. The Democratic Collapse explores how conservative politicians used gender and race to divide the country in the run-up to the American Civil War. // Paul Curley, MBA’10, and Danielle Curley moved to Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. // Eric R. Weiss, MEd’10,

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Ed.D., has recently accepted a position as associate project director at UMass Boston in the Center of Science and Mathematics in Context (COSMIC).

2011

Jasmine Howard began her two-year term as the president of the Junior League of Boston. // Diana C. Nearhos started a new job as communications and marketing coordinator at the UConn School of Law. She spent the previous decade working in sports journalism, most recently covering the Tampa Bay Lightning for The Tampa Bay Times. // Katie L. Bessette graduated with a PhD from the clinical psychology program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She began her postdoctoral T32 fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. // Daniel J. Berkowitz has rejoined Aronberg Goldgehn as a member, focusing his practice in insurance coverage litigation and analysis as well as business litigation.

2012

Claudia Christensen García completed her MSc in ecosystem services through the Technical University of Dresden/IHI Zittau. She participated in the European Natural Forest School, the Schellerhau Nature Conservation Training, and carried out an internship for the city forest of Gera. // Marilyn Tencza, DED’12, retired from public education after 33 years. She is the new principal at Notre Dame Academy in Worcester. // Nick Miller made partner in the investment management group at Seward & Kissel LLP in New York City.

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Theology. // Oliver Goodrich, MEd’13, was hired as the director of the Rachel Lord Center for Religious & Spiritual Life at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. // Sarah Connell Sanders, MEd’13, is the co-author of Small Teaching K-8, recently published by Jossey-Bass. Class correspondent: Bryanna Mahony Robertson // bryanna.mahony@gmail.com

2014

Rebecca Card Angelson was named Congressman Bob Latta’s (OH-05) chief of staff in September 2022. Previously, Rebecca served as Congressman Latta’s deputy chief of staff, as communications director for former Congresswoman Susan W. Brooks (IN-05), and as a communications staffer on the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce. // After eight years of living in San Francisco, Chris Truglio is excited to be back on the East Coast with his wife and to join his fellow Eagles in NYC! // Natalie Young Mohammad, MSN’14, was awarded the American Association of Nurse Practitioner (AANP) State Award for Excellence. She is the former president of the Association of Southeast Minnesota Nurse Practitioners (ASMNP). She actively practices at Mayo Clinic in Community Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Care. // Justin Casanova-Davis was awarded the International City/County Management Association’s Early Career Leadership Award. The award is presented annually to one individual worldwide, nominated by their peers. It recognizes an early-career local government professional who has demonstrated leadership, competency, and commitment to local government as a profession. Justin was selected by the

2015

Rachel Broderick welcomed a new golden retriever puppy, Tom, into her family. Both reside in the Seaport in Boston. // Taylor Burgart adopted a rescue mixed-breed puppy named Dude.

Both reside in Denver, Colorado. // Eugenia Neri Mini got married in Mexico City. After the honeymoon, she and her husband moved to London where she began her master’s in organizational psychology. She has started an Instagram account to share things she’s learning in the area. Follow along at @ eurekamoments__! // Amir Reza was elected to the University of Maine Board of Visitors in 2022 and looks forward to serving his other alma mater. // Julie Bacon Arsenault has been promoted to director of engineering at The Washington Post. Leading the development teams that power the media giant’s articles, live news, homepage, marketing campaigns, internal employee tools, and more, Julie’s work is at the intersection of engineering, product, and design. // Jourdan Jackson completed a master’s degree in higher education and student affairs at the University of San Francisco.

He started a new role at UCSF as an EAOP coordinator. Class correspondent: Victoria Mariconti // victoria.mariconti@ gmail.com

2016

Addison Witzel, MA’16, has been promoted to assistant director of student conduct at the University of Oklahoma.

2017

2013

10th Reunion, June 2023 Brennan Carley has been working for British pop singer Dua Lipa as the US editor and culture director of her free weekly newsletter, Service95. He’s also been the editorial lead on the first two seasons of Dua’s new podcast, Dua Lipa: At Your Service. // Patricia Clark, MTS’13, THM’19, completed her doctorate of ministry in transformational leadership at Boston University School of

Norfolk Select Board as the town administrator and began his new role in September.

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Kimberley Zakka is an aspiring academic pediatrician with special interests in the application of data science and artificial intelligence to improve pediatric patient outcomes. Since graduating from BC, she has earned both a degree in medicine from the American University of Beirut and a postgraduate MSc from Imperial College London. // Robert Harding has passed the Michigan bar exam and joined the law firm of Miller Johnson in Grand Rapids. // Matty Phelps (he/him) w i n t e r 20 23 v bcm

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2019

Mei Huang went on vacation with fellow Class of 2019 grads Mariam and Astride! // Patrick Curtin ’19, WCAS, MHA, FACHE, of Harwich Port has earned the status of fellow from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Fellow status represents achievement of the highest standard of professional development in the healthcare administration field.

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2020

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lives in Denver, Colorado, and recently did drag for the first time! // Alexander Menzies was elected to a second term on the Narragansett School Committee, where he will serve as the vice chair. He was also recognized by the state Board of Education and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for successfully completing the Rhode Island Association of School Committees’ Leadership Academy. Class correspondent: Joshua Beauregard // joshf94@charter.net

2018

5th Reunion, June 2023 Alexa Villareal was invited into the Recording Academy (the Grammys) in their 2022 class as a professional member and pop membership committee member.

Stephanie Martin-Lecky sends her best wishes to her fellow alumni who are exhibiting and modeling resilience in the teaching profession. She is still teaching and will continue to enact change and be resilient. // Anne Vera Cruz began her new role as assistant dean for curriculum in diversity, inclusive teaching, and learning in the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University. // Zach Somers works in Boston as an associate at Suffolk Technologies. Zach also helps run the BOOST program, an annual accelerator program. // Caroline O’Brien received the Yawkey Award for Teaching Excellence in October 2022. Caroline teaches K2 at Saint John Paul II Catholic Academy in Dorchester Lower Mills. She will receive her master’s in education from Emmanuel College in the spring of 2023.

French at the University of Southern California, right after her graduation.

She is now the youngest professor at USC, which leads students to confusion and to funny anecdotes sometimes, but she is enjoying the ride and is very grateful to Boston College!

2022

Linda Jones is among the first Peace Corps volunteers to return to overseas service since the agency’s unprecedented global evacuation in March 2020. She will serve as a youth in development volunteer in Morocco.

2021

Rania Ben Amor, MA’21, is honored to be appointed as full-time lecturer of

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Class Notes // Baby Eagles

Andrea ’01 and Franklin Medina, Andrew Thomas, 8/24/22

Justin Galacki ’06 and Laurel Daly, Grayson, 7/20/22

Jen Thomasch Applegate ’10 and Ben Applegate ’10, Declan James, 6/21/22

Ryan ’03 and Talia Broz, Claire Joy, 10/24/22

Stephanie St. Martin Slate ’07, MA’10, and Richard Slate, Jeremy John, 1/20/22

Chelsea Dostaler Joyce ’12 and Jayson Joyce ’12, Calliope Vita, 5/8/22

Annie ’05 and Gabriel Karreth, Gabriel, 3/1/22

Megan McCarthy ’07 and Tim Shearer, Violet Cindy, 10/7/2022

Lisa ’12 and Nick Freihofer, Cameron, 6/17/22

Greg ’05 and Lauren Tarca, Avery Elisabeth, 9/30/22

Meg Wesp Roessner ’07 and Paul Roessner ’07, Joseph Gregory, 1/9/22

Jooyeon Koo ’12 and Benjamin Reedy ’11, Louisa

Christina Vetre Salazar ’06 and Jorge Salazar, Javier Gael, 9/12/22

Jenn Eng San Filippo ’08, Beau William, 10/8/21

Dave Levy ’06 and Liz Adams Levy ’05, Theodore “Teddy” David, 6/29/22

Ryan Karlsgodt ’08 and Sarah Dawe, Archer James, 8/19/22

Courtney Alpaugh Simmons ’13 and Andrew Simmons ’09, Jane Elizabeth, 10/1/22

Alyssa Lau Kelly ’06 and Colin Kelly, Maeve Caroline, 4/30/22

Lauren Carfora Wright ’08, MA’09, and William Wright ’05, Elizabeth Anne, 7/8/22

Matt ’06 and Jodie Porcelli, Caleb Joseph, 3/19/22

Rachel Weinstein Pflum ’09 and Christopher Pflum, Madeline Rae, 9/27/22

Alyson ’06 and Andrew Smith ’06, JD’16, Quinn Elizabeth, 3/9/22

Giovanni ’10 and Alyssa D’Onza, Giulia Delice, 10/4/22

COURTESY OF MEGAN MCCARTHY ’07

COURTESY OF RYAN KARLSGODT ’08

COURTESY OF MEG ROESSNER ’07

COURTESY OF CHELSEA JOYCE ’12

COURTESY OF JENN SAN FILIPPO ’08

COURTESY OF JOOYEON KOO ’12

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Rebecca Card Angelson ’14 and Alexander Angelson, Amelia Joy, 5/9/22 Brittany ’15 and David Taranto ’16, MEd ’17, Zoe, 5/29/22

COURTESY OF COURTNEY SIMMONS ’13

COURTESY OF REBECCA ANGELSON ’14

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1930s

Harold Turner, JD’37 Edith Micky Clark ’39

1940s

Agnes Cox Carson, MSSW’41 Marion Staber PMC’42 Joy Hanson PMC’43 John Connelly ’44 Helen Higgins PMC’44 Joseph Panetta ’44 Adelaide “Del” Wean PMC’44 Paul Paget ’45, MSW’49 Betsy Zollner PMC’45 Clare Wheeler Sias PMC’46 Betsy Dustman PMC’47 Mary Thomas PMC’47 Al DeVito ’48 Milt Fingerman ’48 Frederick Maguire ’48 Emil Walcek, MS’48 Arthur Healey ’49 Tony Struzziero ’49, MEd’52

1950s

Cameron Beers ’50 Bill Canty ’50, MS’52 Mark Devane ’50 Thomas Gleason ’50, MA’56 Richard Glossa ’50 Edith Haughton, MSW’50 William Armstrong ’51 Marion “Mimi” Baldwin PMC’51 Ellicott Bradfield PMC ’51 Edmund Collins ’51 Francis Daily ’51 William Dennis ’51 Joan Foxwell PMC’51 Allen Freedman ’51 Kenneth Gray ’51 Robert Mcdonald ’51, MA’68 Grace Morse Mordarski ’51 Vincent Plansky ’51 Paul Curran ’52 John Dillon ’52 Robert McCoy ’52 Mary Daily Neylon, MA’52 David Norton ’52 John Preston, MA’52 Catherine Rawson PMC’52 John Votolato ’52 Genevieve Bashour, MSSW’53 Joseph Coffey ’53 Ernest “Cris” Criscuoli ’53 William Flanagan ’53 68

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John Glennon ’53, MA’54 Anthony Gomes ’53 Ann Marshall ’53 Robert O’Donnell ’53 Edward “Ted” O’Rourke ’53 John Butchko ’54 Gretchen Clarke PMC’54 John Cummings ’54 Ann O’Malley Dominick ’54 John Doucette ’54 Joseph Evangelista ’54 William Kenney ’54, MA’56 Thomas Matthews Jr. ’54 John Shaughnessy ’54 Robert Shepardson, MSW’54 Bob Welts ’54, JD’57 Frank Ahearn ’55 John Devaney ’55 Lawrence Flynn, MEd’55 Jacqueline Dursin Gannon ’55 Marie Kelleher ’55, MS’69 Joan Labonte, MEd’55 Nancy Lawton ’55 Patricia Leclaire Mitchell NC’55 Rosemary O’Connor, MEd’55 Jean O’Neil ’55, MS’63 Nicholas Raffaelly ’55 Alfred Roberge ’55 Anne Keville Siderius PMC’55 Paul Yelle ’55 Demetra Apostolou PMC’56 Philip Cain ’56 Augustus Camelio ’56 William Carr ’56 Elizabeth Casey ’56 Joseph Connors ’56 William Cunningham, MA’56 Chris DeSisto ’56 Bernard Doherty ’56 Neil Dunn ’56, MS’58 Richard Fitzpatrick ’56 Dorothy Flood ’56 John Hanrahan ’56, MA’59 Richard Lincoln ’56 John Low ’56 Thomas McLoughlin ’56 Anna Oda ’56 John O’Donnell ’56 Joan O’Reilly ’56 Miriam “Mimi” Stahler PMC’56 Frederick Ablondi ’57 Sue Botzow PMC ’57 William Carr ’57 James Cartier ’57 Tom Flahive ’57 Don Hallisey ’57

Patricia O’Connor Halpin ’57 Bill Jones ’57 John Keefe ’57 Kerin O’Brien Lyons ’57 George Nawn ’57 Pat Blanchard Sabatini NC’57 Edith Carey Wierzbinski ’57 Jack Ahern ’58 Richard Barrett ’58 Louis Ennis ’58, MA’60, MBA’71 Betsey Dray Falvey NC’58 Charles Goglia LLB’58 Peter Guilmette ’58 Patricia Hannon Hurley NC’58 Leo Lennox ’58 Alexander Lowrie ’58 Bill McLaughlin ’58 Virginia Meeks ’58 Thomas O’Donnell ’58 Bob Pickette ’58 Eleanor Stenson ’58 Bart Wassmansdorf ’58 Harold Brunault, JD’59 William Burke ’59 Paul Cloonan ’59 Nancy Hunt Cowperthwait ’59 Carmen Casellas Demoss NC’59 Marcia Hutchinson PMC’59 Charlie Lynch ’59 Jay Mahoney ’59 Lucille Iovino Marshall ’59 John O’Connor ’59 Marie Campbell O’Neil ’59 Ralph Pasquerella ’59 John Reino ’59 Nancy Hagen Spaulding PMC’59 Anthony Stein ’59 Bob Stewart ’59 Maurice Vanderpot ’59, ’62, MA’63

1960s

Mary “Nan” Anderson Coughlin NC’60 James Daly ’60 Timothy Daly ’60 Robert Donnelly ’60 Roy Federer ’60 Virginia Fettig, MEd’60 Rita Sarro Hindman ’60 Mary Mazzola ’60 Enda McArdle, MEd’60 John McGonigle ’60, MEd’76 Martina O’Tool, MEd’60 Molly Peckham PMC’60 Mary Regan ’60 Raymond Stewart ’60

Veronica Dort McLoud ’61, MA’64, MTS’96 Harmon Harvey, MSW’61 Thomas Heffernan ’61 Robert Kilbane ’61 Donald King ’61 Richard Norton ’61 John O’Connor ’61 Pierce Quinlan ’61 Robert Robertory, JD’61 Jane Anderson Strunk ’61 Richard Tellier ’61 David Blomberg ’62 Anne Bolte ’62 Ron Campanelli ’62 John Connors, JD’62 Henry Hooton ’62 David Zampese ’62 Ruth Beaudoin ’63, MEd’88 David Crotty, MA’63 Paul Faraca ’63 Judy McLaughlin Kelly ’63 Thomas Lynch ’63 Charles Mullen ’63 Eleanor Murphy ’63 George Nassar, JD’63 Mary Puzon, MA’63 Richard Sambuchi ’63 John Shields ’63 Jack Sweet ’63 Mary Burkot, MEd’64 Deborah McKay Dowd NC’64 Terence Farrell, JD’64 David Joyce ’64 Jim Majeskey ’64 Joan Manion ’64 Francis Natale ’64 Bennet O’Neil ’64 Robert Regan ’64, JD’67 Joanne Bergeron Riordan ’64 Joseph Sweeney ’64 Howard Alperin, JD’65 George Anthony ’65 Joann Frazetti Anthony ’65 Raymond Blanchard, JD’65 Virginia O’Hara Bowker ’65 Joseph De Ambrose, JD’65 Mark Driscoll ’65 Manuel Fimbres, MSW’65 Catherine Graziano, MS’65 William Hoye ’65 Laurianne Michaud, MEd’65 Alice Murdoch ’65 Ray Piontek ’65 Paul Ross ’65 James Bryan ’66

Philip Daileader ’66 Dom D’Ambruoso ’66 Joseph DeNucci ’66 Phillip Dyer ’66 Bernardine Hughes ’66 Roger O’Connor ’66 Paul Ross ’66 Russell Shillaber, JD’66 Carol Dailey ’67 Gary Dascoli ’67 John Finn ’67 William Hubert ’67 Kathleen Kelly ’67 John Kime ’67 Michael Loughran ’67 Joseph McKiernan, MA’67 Philip Murray ’67 Gerry Prunier, JD’67 Patricia Sweeney, MA’67 John Ward ’67 John Barry ’68 Robert Fuchs ’68 Bill Kennedy ’68 James Cummins ’69 Howard Diwinsky ’69 Joe Egan ’69 Rosemarie Downing Mello, MSW’69 Martin Powers ’69 George Smith ’69 Marie Tougas, MA’69 Bill Waters ’69

1970s

Paul Creeden ’70 Gordon Ivanoski, MA’70 Barbara Lahage, MA’70 James Ledwell ’70 Ann Lynch, MA’70 Joseph O’Brien ’70 Carol Read NC’70 Alan Sendker ’70 Marguerite Shultz, MEd’70 Michael Sullivan ’70 Adele Gordon Trested, MEd’70 Arackal Devasia, PhD’71 Richard Ferrone, JD’71 Ann Gardiner ’71 James Houle ’71 Kevin Fitzpatrick ’72 Judith Hanlon, MSSW’72 John Mayer, MPH’72 Leonard Nickerson, MA’72 Katherine Prince ’72, MA’90 Robert Scott ’72 Celia Sirois ’72

Bob Staab ’72 Kevin Timmons ’72 James Waite ’72 Joseph Walsh ’72, JD’75 Paula McIntire Gauvin ’73 Leo McGuirk, PhD’73 Ann Fox Miller, JD’73 James Turner ’73 Katherine Tyrrell ’73 Marie Foutres ’74 Sonia Goldsmith, MEd’74 Bernadette Harrod ’74 Tina Kaplan, MEd’74 Rosemary Mylod, MEd’74 Joseph Travia ’74 William MacLachlan ’75 Catherine Murray ’75, MEd’83 Wendy Parker ’75 Neal Ann Werner PMC’75 Wendy Wolfberg PMC’75 Lillian Balch, MSW’76 Eduardo Lopez ’76 Michael McEneaney, JD’76 Cora McGuire, MEd’76 Robert Riordan ’76 Lawrence Rogers ’76 Mark Rollo, MSW’76 Dorothy Macomber, MEd’77 Paul McCourt ’77 Kathy Mitchell ’77 Michael Olinits ’77 Tatha Wiley ’77 Michael Broderick ’78 Peter Connolly ’78 Suzanne Astolfi Darrah ’78 David Fisher DEd’78 Sharlee Galdahl PMC’78 Patricia Gillen ’78 Chrysostom Brennan, MEd’79 Paul Higgins ’79 Anna Iatridis ’79 Ellen Robison ’79

1980s

Mary Ginetty Humby, MEd’80 Ann Kendall, JD’80 Jerome McArdle ’80 John McCague, MS’80 Madeleine Schuman, MEd’80 Sherrill Burger Kellam ’81 Armand Menegay ’81 Marybeth Abreu Michaelson ’81 Michelle Tero ’81 Philip Arena ’82 Edward Chobit ’82 Brian Collins ’82

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Gene Farrell ’82 Richard Sasso ’82 Robert Sheridan ’82 Joseph Vidulich, JD’82 Anthony Chiaramonte, PhD’83 Marie Riley, PhD’83 Ann Boland, MSW’84 Leigh Buntin Johnson, MA’84 Donald Pierce ’84 William Bauser, MA’85 George Cooley ’85 Catherine Healy ’85 Donna Lis Kennedy, MSW’85 Joseph Massaro ’85 Marilyn Paget ’85 Mary Brooks, MTS’86 Paula Connolly, MSW’86 Margaret Hafey ’86 Robert Lavoie, CAES’86 Edward Salmon, MDiv’86 Ana Avila ’87 James Cote ’87, JD’90 Mary Oldmixon ’87 Gail Portine ’87 Christopher Tzianabos ’87 Lauri Klein, MSW’88 Ruth DeNardis, MEd’89 James Hilton, PhD’89 Kathleen McCarthy ’89 Patrick Nash ’89

1990s

Brad Canavan ’90 Dolores Demulling, MA’90 Chris Tobler ’90 Christopher Willis ’90

Susan Legare ’91 Kenneth Krzewick ’92, MS’98 Tyler Barth, MBA’93 John Carpenter ’93 Tricia Legere ’93, MEd’94 Stephen Faberman, JD’94 John Foley ’94 Christopher Smith ’94 John Sweeney ’94 Philip Bromwell ’95 Carolyn Kirk Beal ’96 David Jagolinzer ’96 Karen Bouffard, MEd’97 Jeanmarie Skahan, MEd’97 Kate Cloherty PMC’98 Peter Fernandez ’98 Robin Drayer, MA’98, MA’02

2000s

James Gibson ’00 James Power ’00 Alison Setterberg ’00 Pamela Washburn, MEd’00 Phyllis Mitchell ’01 Nicole Babcock ’02 Sarah Debbink Langenkamp ’02 Tara Dixon ’02 William Kanzer, MBA’02 Katherine Morgan, JD’03 Chuck Colbert, STL’05 Maureen Skehill, MS’08

2010s

Jane Mieczkowski ’11 Mark Peters, MSW’15

COMMUNITY DEATHS Gabor Kalman, of Brookline, on December 12, 2022.

He was Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Physics Department and taught from 1970 to 2018.

Robert Mauro, of Weston, on October 31, 2022. He was director, Global Leadership Institute from 2014 to 2022 and director, The Irish Institute from 2011 to 2014.

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Class Notes // Advancing Boston College

Finding Their Purpose

Three key questions drive BC student formation and create leaders who are ready to change the world.

Friends of Marne Sullivan ’23 tell her she talks a lot with her hands. Her track and field teammates often ask her to be the “aux person,” the one who chooses what music is played in the locker room.

Yet casual acquaintances of this engaging communications major might not realize how unlikely both of these things are, considering Marne was born deaf.

A cochlear implant helps Marne hear music, her professors’ lectures, and the blast of a starting gun. Years of audiologist visits and therapy taught her to speak. Boston College helped Marne find her voice.

As part of Eagles for Equality, BC Athletics’s diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, Marne is developing a subcommittee to build an inclusive environment for student-athletes with disabilities. Her goal is to destigmatize this group of her peers by spreading awareness and making campus more accessible.

“As Boston College student-athletes, we are more than runners on a track and people in the classroom. It’s more of a holistic experience,” Marne says. “At BC

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we are ‘Eagles for others,’ and I believe that reflects the work that I’ve been doing.”

Her disability aside, Marne is a lot like many of her classmates. Each year, thousands of Eagles come to the Heights not only to obtain a top-tier education, but also to learn valuable life lessons that inspire their personal journey.

“BC really prides itself on creating students who are socially conscious, care about the world around them, and realize that the world is much bigger than themselves,” says Lubens Benjamin ’23.

Through his own involvement, Lubens has had ample opportunities to figure out his path. He is UGBC president, has taken spring break service trips, led Kairos retreats, and regularly volunteers with the BC Bigs program as a mentor to youths in Boston, which he says is “an excellent way to take those gifts and teachings I’ve learned at BC and pass it on to someone much younger than me, who I can see a lot of myself in.”

Jesuit, Catholic education calls upon students to be attentive, reflective, and loving. Woven into the fabric of reflection

at Boston College are “three key questions” that Eagles regularly contemplate during their four years at the Heights: What brings you joy? What are you good at? Who does the world need you to be?

Developed by the late Rev. Michael J. Himes, a widely respected Catholic theologian and beloved BC faculty member for almost three decades, the questions are also the foundation of Halftime, a weekendlong, off-campus retreat offered by the Division of Mission and Ministry’s Center for Student Formation. Many students participating in Halftime utilize the time away from their devices and campus obligations to contemplate a major or career path. Often, they figure out ways they can use their talents and desires to make a true difference in the world.

“What the world needs me to be is a role model and advocate for young athletes with disabilities so they know that anything is possible,” Marne says. n

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BC really prides itself on creating students who are socially conscious, care about the world around them, and realize that the world is much bigger than themselves.”

As we approach the annual BC Giving Day on March 30–31, Boston College invites all alumni, parents, and friends to consider What does BC need me to be? and support the life-changing formational experiences that only the Heights can offer.

On Giving Day last year, 4,000-plus donors contributed more than $1.6 million to a wide range of BC causes, from scholarships and academics to service, athletics, student organizations, and much more. These crucial

—Lubens Benjamin ’23

funds will propel countless BC initiatives into the future.

As always, we are grateful for their commitment.

What does BC need me to be? bc.edu/givingday

Marne Sullivan ’23 | Lubens Benjamin ’23 Photos by Michael Manning

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Elementary School in Swampscott, where I went myself. I was there only one year, but it was a great year.

A coach is a coach. When I started as an assistant at BC in 1972, I coached the defensive line. Everyone laughs about that because I played receiver and tight end and I was always on offense. But that’s where the opportunity was, and Head Coach Joe Yukica felt that a coach is a coach. He was right. It’s not really about positions, it’s about people. You learn about the game of football. Coaching defense helped prepare me to become a head coach.

You can’t predict a Heisman. I got to know Doug Flutie very well during the recruitment process. Can I tell you that I knew he was going to win the Heisman Trophy? No. But I could see that he was a great competitor, a great leader, and he was a team player. Those are things that young people either have or they don’t have.

WHAT I’VE LEARNED

Barry Gallup ’69 For more than forty years, Barry Gallup was synonymous with Boston College football.

A star player, Gallup graduated with a number of BC receiving records, then served for eighteen years as an assistant coach with the team. He departed in 1991 to become head coach at Northeastern University, but returned to BC in 2000 and spent the next twenty-two years as director of football operations and, eventually, senior associate athletic director.

He retired last July.

—John Wolfson Go ahead and branch out a little. It was very unusual to play two sports, but my first two years at BC, I played basketball in addition to football. Bob Cousy, the Celtics star, was the basketball coach. He was here for six years, and BC went to a tournament in five of them—three NIT tournaments and two NCAA tournaments. Back then, freshmen weren’t eligible for the varsity team, so I played on the freshman team. Coach Cousy was great to me, and he saved me a spot on the varsity team the next year. We went to the Elite Eight in the 1967 NCAA tournament. I can’t say I played a lot, but I was on the team that went to the Elite Eight. It was a thrill just being a part of it. I still keep in touch with Coach. He’s ninety-four years 72

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old, and every year except the Covid year, we’ve gone out to visit him at his home in Worcester.

Play the long game. After I graduated from BC, the Patriots offered me a contract to play in the old AFL but I turned it down.

Pro football wasn’t like it is today, in salary or opportunities. The AFL and the NFL had not merged yet into the modern NFL. They weren’t even sure that the AFL was going to survive. I decided I wanted some stability. It was a good decision. I have no regrets about that.

Sometimes the short game’s okay, too. I spent a year as a teacher after BC, at the Hadley

Actually, you can go home again. I was the head coach of the Northeastern football team from 1991 to 1999. We played BC that final year, and after the game, I walked across the field to shake hands with BC’s coach, Tom O’Brien. Tom says, “Barry, I want to talk to you about coming back to BC.” It was good timing. I came back to BC in 2000. My wife Victoria and I had three young children at the time, and the position gave me more security. Victoria—we met at BC when she was working with the basketball program—asked if I really wanted to give up coaching. I said, “it’s not that I want to give up coaching. I want more time to be with you and our family.”

Rivalries make the heart grow fonder. Our youngest son, Barry, played football at Notre Dame. He returned kickoffs for them during his junior year right here in Alumni Stadium.

People would ask me, “Who are you rooting for?” I would say, “I have a job and I’m rooting for BC, but I hope my son does well.” My wife would answer very quickly, “I’m rooting for Barry Gallup, Jr.” Every once in a while, things will just work out. My experience at BC was everything I hoped it would be, and even more, as a student, an athlete, and an employee. I met my wife here. I worked for nine head football coaches, raised a wonderful family, and made great memories here. n

photos: Lee Pellegrini (Gallup); Drue Wolfe/Courtesy of Drake Athletics (Parting Shot)

Parting Shot

Can you dig it?

After traveling to frosty Iowa in December for the National Invitational Volleyball Championship Finals, the BC women’s volleyball team won its first-ever postseason title, smashing Drake University three sets to one. The victory was the capper to a record-breaking season for the Eagles, who blasted their way to a 10–0 start and won twenty-four games overall, the most in program history. Immediately after hoisting the trophy, the team hopped on a plane to dash back to Boston and finish taking finals.

—Lisa Weidenfeld

What does s the world need from BC? What does BC need from Z you?

On BC Giving Day, join your fellow alumni and support the life-changing experiences that only the Heights can offer.

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