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NEWS & NOTES

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The Alumni Association Board of Directors is thrilled to pilot Alumni2Alumni Mentoring. Our Eagles always tell us how passionate they are about giving back to BC in this way.”

— Joy Haywood Moore ’81, H’10 Associate Vice President for Alumni Relations

Mentoring Matchups A New Program for Alumni by Alumni

Alumni2 Alumni mentoring

▪ Mentors have 10+ years of professional experience ▪ Mentees have graduated within the past five years ▪ Partnerships will focus on personalized guidance to reach individual career goals

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he right career guidance makes all the difference. So who better to advise ambitious Eagles than BC alumni who’ve already made their aspirations a reality?

That’s why the Boston College Alumni Association is creating Alumni2Alumni Mentoring, which will match graduates of the past five years with alumni who have more than 10 years of experience in their respective fields.

The program will launch in March with 80 pairs of mentors and mentees embarking on a one-year partnership.

Tailored career conversations will take place in person, or through online tools, such as Skype.

The first participants are eager to get started. Says one mentee, “It is important to have a mentor, but it’s not easy to find the right one. I’m grateful that BCAA is providing this opportunity.”

Recent graduates working in health care, national defense, and the technology sector have expressed a strong interest in the program. Meanwhile, mentors in business and finance, communications, and education are in demand, reflecting some of most popular majors at the Heights.

Once the pilot program is complete, there are plans to expand this unique service. To join the next mentoring cohort, email alumni2alumni@bc.edu.

▶Looking for more career resources? Visit bc.edu/alumnicareers.

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1948 Correspondent: Timothy C. Buckley buckbirch@verizon.net 41 Birchwood Lane Lincoln, MA 01773

CLASS NOTES

1949 PROFILES

p. 71 Dean Bell ’98 p. 73 Ryan Littman-Quinn ’09 p. 75 Karen Schreiner ’08, MA’10 ADVANCING BOSTON COLLEGE

p. 78 Five Things You Should Know

UPCOMING

EVENTS

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

▶ March 26 Laetare Sunday ▶ April 1–30 Global Days of Service ▶ April 7 Distinguished Volunteer Awards Dinner ▶ April 18 Wall Street Council Tribute Dinner ▶ June 2–4 Reunion Weekend

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

1950 Correspondent: Bob Chandler bob.chandler1950@hotmail.com 43 Pine Hill Road Chelmsford, MA 01824; 978-449-9720

NC 1950–1953 65TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

I am writing these notes on the first evening of standard time and one day prior to the national election. Let us hope that the darkest days of the year we will experience more light than heat. • We express condolences and prayers to Alice Ann “Mousie” O’Brien Clifton NC’53 on the death of her husband, Peter, on August 3.

Peter came onto our scene this past fall and was a vital member of our social life. For me, Peter was a lifelong friend.

Correspondent: Ann Fulton Coté NC’53 171 Swanton Street, No. 79 Winchester, MA 01890; 781-729-8512

1951 Many thanks to Mel Jacobs for sharing his story for this issue! Mel served in World War II, leaving Roxbury Memorial High School in 1944 at age 17 to enlist. Upon his return to the United States in 1947, he was accepted at BC as a freshman. He married in 1951 and has three children— one of whom, Peter ’76, is a BC alumnus— eight grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren. Mel worked in the heavy construction and highway paving business, retiring from Jacor Inc. in 1999. He then moved from his longtime home in Sharon to Naples, FL, where he now resides.

Boston College Alumni Association classnotes@bc.edu Cadigan Alumni Center 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

1952 65TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

It is with sadness that I note the passing of our classmate Dick McLaughlin on November 9, 2016, at the Indian River

Medical Center in Vero Beach, FL. A Mass was celebrated at the Holy Cross Catholic Church in Vero Beach. Dick is survived by his wife, Marilyn; four children; and seven grandchildren. Dick served his country as a first lieutenant in the Air Force. He retired from the Travelers Insurance Co. after 35 years of service as an executive VP. • I would also like to note that Rev. Hugh O’Regan passed away on September 4. He was a devoted member of our class who celebrated Mass each year at our annual class meeting. Please pray for our deceased classmates and their survivors. • Speaking of our class meeting, I was unable to attend the one in October. However, I received a report from my sister, Regina, who did attend as the widow of Tom McElroy. She was one of 12 wives of deceased class members who gathered at that time: They found that their invitation to the Mass and breakfast renewed a close bond with our class. • On a personal note, after trying to report news of classmates over the year, I would add here that I am writing this in November. In December, I am going to have heart surgery at the Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk, VA. Correspondent: Frank McGee fjamesmcgee@gmail.com 3 Webster Square #314 Marshfield, MA 02050; 781-834-4690

1953 On Sunday morning, November 6, 24 classmates and their significant others met at Trinity Chapel on the Newton Campus for BC’s annual alumni memorial Mass.

Casey Beaumier, SJ, STL’05, PhD’13, was the presider, Eleanor and Salvatore Venezia did the presentation of the gifts, and their daughter Angela Venezia ’92 served as Eucharistic minister. The Class of 1953 met separately after Mass for brunch at Barat House. Classmates and guests were met by alumni staff and directed to the dining area.

Dick Horan formally welcomed everyone and asked them to join him in prayer, in the absence of our classmate Joe Appleyard, SJ, PhL’58, H’12, who had been scheduled to do the honors. After a few more words of introduction, Dick directed folks to the brunch. Each table was set up with orange juice, fresh fruit cups, and a basket of muffins and pastries, and diners enjoyed a smorgasbord that included scrambled eggs with peppers and onions, home-fried potatoes with onions, bacon, sausages, yogurt, granola, bagels, and Belgian waffles with berries and cream. The guests took their seats: One table comprised Joseph Byrne, who was dining with our surprise guest, Maureen Sullivan ’79; Dick Horan, whose wife, Joan, was not able to join us that day; and Sal Venezia with Eleanor and Angela. At another table Gerry and John McCauley were joined by Jim Willwerth, who was dining with his daughter Anne Schmitt ’85, and Katherine and Fred Conroy JD’56. Jean and Paul Murray were spotted having a serious discussion about BC football with Maureen and Joe Tower, 51

with a little help from Fred Good MBA’62 and Bob McCarthy. Across the room, Mimi (Iantosca) MS’59 and John Costa held a deep discussion with Priscilla and Dennis Cronin, the late Bob Willis’s daughter Karen ’79, and Francis Ward MBA’70. When there was a break in the activity, and with a little encouragement from Katherine Conroy, Gerry McCauley agreed to tell a few of her/ our favorite stories. Some were new, some we may have heard before, but they all got a good laugh. Gerry’s other bit of “news” was that the croquet mallet is polished and ready for action when they are back in Florida, which she hoped would be in a couple of weeks. Dick Horan reported that Msgr. Paul Ryan has given up most of his part-time jobs and is now in residence at Regina Cleri, the retirement home for priests from the Boston area. Dick also announced that he and Joan will be selling all their property, with the exception of their home on Cape Cod, and moving into a retirement village very soon. Paul Murray reported to the troops that our classmate Francis O’Sullivan had died on October 31 at the VA hospital in Bedford after a short illness. • I talked with Paul Coughlin in November. He is still doing his TV program but has cut back a little. When we spoke, his biggest news was that he was planning to go to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with his daughters. • I also had a note from Tom Smith, who lives in Canton, GA. Tom was getting ready to retire in December; he began his career at age 15 at Fenway Park, and ended as a photo lab technician at Walgreens at age 85. “Have to find another way to stay out of trouble,” he writes. • That’s all the news for now. We sent notes to all our classmates but fewer than 50 answered. Maybe we will get more next time.

Correspondent: Jim Willwerth jammw19@aol.com 19 Sheffield Way Westborough, MA 01581; 508-366-5400

1954 We held our annual memorial Mass and brunch on Sunday, October 30. In attendance were Fr. Paul MacDonald, Fr. John Wallace, Ed Collins, Jim Flynn MA’55, John Cummings, Ed Smith, Jack Leydon, Rocco Charlton, Jack Parker CAES’79, Ray MacPherson, Mary Jean and Jim Coughlin, Charley Pelczarski and Carolyn Ward, Clare (Carr) MEd’73 and Frank McLaughlin MA’57, Sue Andrews (widow of Tom Andrews), Mary McCourt (widow of Gerard McCourt), Bob Welts JD’57 and Pat Legere, and John Ford MSW’61. Alumni Association chaplain Fr. Skip Conlan ’71, MDiv’76, assisted by Fr. Wallace and Fr. MacDonald, were the celebrants. The gathering keeps getting smaller, but as people were leaving several said to me, “Let’s do this again next year!” Some of our classmates walked with canes, others were visibly slowed by age and infirmity, but all were still trucking, a testament to their fortitude. • At the suggestion of Jim Coughlin, Lou Totino, MBA’65, is 52

considering the possibility of a luncheon in the spring. If you have any suggestions, please call Lou at 781-329-9612. • Since our last issue, I have learned of the passing of several of our classmates, including Robert Neville, in December 2015; and in 2016, William Tiernan, in January; John Shannon MA’60, in February; Alice Logue Lawler, in May; and Francis Proctor MSW’61, in July. • I heard from Lou Maloof. He and his wife, Carole, remain active in the cultural life of Cape Cod and for Lou, occasionally on the New York City stage. Carole was soloing in several musical events in the fall, and Lou was once again performing in the twoperson play Love Letters for the benefit of the UN Refugee Agency.

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

NC 1954 Delma Sala Fleming reported that the 100-year celebration of the foundation of the Ponce (PR) Convent of the Sacred Heart was a great success. Nearly 400 persons from the island and mainland United States attended. Delma was a member of the planning committee.

She also wrote a book remembering her days as a boarder. Any profits from the book will go to the scholarship fund. Delma’s Thanksgiving plans included a “come home” celebration. All her children and grandchildren arrived for a “wonderful and awesome” weekend that included “pool time, delicious dinners, and family sharing time until the wee hours.” • It was an exciting time in the Chicago area in October with the Cubs winning the World Series for the first time in 108 years. The Daly’s daughter, Ann, flew in from London with three tickets for the first game at Wrigley Field. It was a fun evening of baseball. My only other World Series experience was in 1945 when the Cubs were in the World Series (71 years ago). • Helen Ward Sperry Mannix in a phone call told me about her granddaughter’s wedding in the fall on Nantucket. Many in the family attended. • I have had nice phone chats with Lucille Joy Becker in Trumbull, CT. • Please send news so we keep connected with our classmates.

Correspondent: Mary Helen FitzGerald Daly 700 Laurel Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091; 847-251-3837

1955 It is always a delight to find a message from a classmate in my email. Robert Simmler wrote that after he graduated from BC, he attended Georgetown Law School. Two years ago he retired after a career in law that spanned 50 years. • Mary Rose McCarty Griffin would like to send many thanks to all her nursing school classmates for their prayers and support during her recent illness. She says her nursing classmates are the best people she has ever known. •

It was reported in America magazine that Sean Callahan, son of Joan Sexton Callahan and her late husband, Bill, has been named the next president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services. • Travelogue alert: Stephanie Coffey Cooper-Clarke is about to embark on another of her wonderful trips. She has been revisiting places that were her destinations when she was a stewardess with Pan Am. Read all about it in our next column. • A bit of trivia: The Immaculate Conception Church in the South End, scene of our baccalaureate, is being turned into apartments. • Sad news has arrived from Rancho Murieta, CA. Gabrielle Martel went home to her permanent home with God on August 20. Gaby had an extensive career in nursing administration, serving first at Johns Hopkins University and then as director of nursing at Chicago University and Northwestern University. She was very active in professional organizations, serving as president of the Metropolitan Business and Professional Women’s Club of Chicago and as chairman of the Program Committee of the Directors Council, Chicago District, of the Illinois Nurses Association. Gaby also was president of the American Society for Hospital Nursing Administrators of the American Hospital Association. An avid golfer and a breast cancer survivor, Gaby started one of the first Rally for a Cure golf tournaments. Her obituary, which appeared in the August 26 Sacramento Bee, refers to her joie de vivre, which found her traveling and involved in volunteer work. Please remember her in your prayers. I extend sympathy to her lifelong friend Alicerae Hanley; her sister-in-law, Ann Martel; and her nine nieces and nephews.

Correspondent: Marie Kelleher mrejo2001@yahoo.com 12 Tappan Street Melrose, MA 02176; 781-665-2669

NC 1955 Correspondent: Jane Quigley Hone janeqhone@msn.com 207 Miro Place Port Washington, NY 11050; 516-627-0973

1956 Let me introduce myself to you as the new class correspondent for the Class of ’56, relieving Steve Barry, MBA’70, after his many years of reporting our class news. I am Joe DiSalvo, residing at 47 Dix Road Extension in Woburn, phone 781-933-5994; please get in touch if you wish to share news for our column. • After our successful get-together at the Cadigan Alumni Center to celebrate our 60th class reunion, some of us joined several members of the Class of ’57 and journeyed to Ireland for the Georgia Tech game. My friend Nancy Barbera and I were joined by Judy and Charlie Laverty, with other family members; Carolyn Kenney Foley and friend Claire Hogarty; Marge Callahan; Leo ’58 and Claire (Hoban) McCormack; and Peter Colleary and his daughter. As well as visiting Dublin we

enjoyed side trips to Galway and Belfast, where we took in the fantastic Titanic museum. • At our last committee meeting of the year, we received an early Christmas present when Carolyn Kenney Foley advised us that she would stay on as class leader for another year. Hooray!

Correspondent: Joseph DiSalvo ginjo52@aol.com 47 Dix Road Extension Woburn, MA 01801; 781-933-5994

NC 1956 Correspondent: Patricia Leary Dowling sadmpl@gmail.com 39 Woodside Drive Milton, MA 02186; 617-696-0163

1957 60TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Hi, classmates! Here we are in November getting ready to celebrate our 60th reunion June 2–4, 2017! • I heard from Fran Forde Plude. Her article, titled “A Listening Church: Communications and Collegiality in the Age of Francis,” appeared in the April 4–11 issue of the Jesuit weekly, America. • Many thanks to the “Bills”— Bill Tobin MBA’70, Bill McQueeney, and Bill Cunningham—for their work on the event that was held at the Cadigan Alumni Center in September. It was an afternoon of great food, fun, and friendship. • William Cullinane writes: “Bev and I have been blessed with good health and great children: Two graduated from Boston College and one from UMass. Once again we will be traveling to visit with our son, who is a U.S. diplomat, and his family.” William and Bev live in Chatham, where they are involved in a number of activities. • Louis Marcou, JD’61, an attorney with a law practice in Maine, has been in Smiths Beach in Victoria, Australia, working on a case.

He says he does not expect to get back to Maine for a while yet. Lucky Lou—it’s now summer Down Under! • Remember, please send class dues to Bill Tobin at 181 Central Street, Holliston, MA 01746—and send news to me at the address below.

Correspondent: Norma DeFeo Cacciamani altonorma@gmail.com 135 Franklin Street Arlington, MA 02474; 781-648-6784

NC 1957 60TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

After several false starts, we local Newton “girls” got together in Chestnut Hill for a fall lunch; it was the first time ever we went coed and included spouses, a great addition to the spirit of the gathering. For those on our email grouping, this is old news, as we sent along the picture of Frank and Lucille (Saccone) Giovino, Paul JD’66 and Cathy (Connolly) Beatty, George ’55

and Connie (Weldon) LeMaitre, Carol McCurdy Regenauer, Nancy Bowdring, and Carol Ann Burke Ryan. Vinnie Murray Burns had hoped to come from Maine but decided the three-hour drive for lunch a bit much. Vinnie and husband Vin are busy trying to sell two houses in Wayne and moving into their barn house. They still work to support Sustain Wayne (sustainwayne.org), a nonprofit that fosters “connections around local food, energy conservation, community building, and the arts.” Check it out! Lucille and Frank just sold their house (more quickly than anticipated!), moving to temporary quarters as they plan the next step, like many of us. Nancy Bowdring is also working to scale back from a large house after the passing of her brother last year, a house they shared for many years. • Peg McMurrer Haberlin passed on a compliment from Florida when she received the group picture saying we all looked so well (considering)!

Thanks, Peg, now send some news—and sunshine. Barbara Lowe Eckel, MSW’59, chimed in and hopes to make it to Reunion in June, always so loyal from distant Atlanta.

• Liz Doyle Eckl writes that she had a little break after all the paperwork and hard days after husband Chris’s sudden death in June 2016 “by taking a trip to Quebec City with my two sisters touring the city, which none had seen before and just loved. I even used a little of my almost forgotten French. We all want to go back.” Liz and Ellie Pope Clem plan to resume their occasional lunch dates that both enjoyed so much. • Now for the sad news. Diane Russell McDonough writes: “My husband, Barry, JD’57, died on October 11 of a runaway kidney infection— quite a shock. We knew he wasn’t feeling great but had no idea he was as sick as he was. Three of our children live nearby so I’m doing OK. In the meantime, I am awash in paperwork, but I hope to make the next luncheon.” Earlier in the summer, Kate McCann Benson lost her husband, Bill, MS’59, and thanks you all for your prayers when we mentioned in this column that Bill was very sick. She is fortunate to be in an assisted-living residence and near her daughter’s family in Hanover, NH. Three other children and many grandchildren also boost her spirits. We send our prayers and sympathy to several classmates who lost dear ones in 2016. • Mark on your calendars our 60th reunion celebration the first weekend in June. BC goes to great lengths to make it a meaningful time for Newton alumnae—but this only works if many of us show up to be together for those wonderful memories and reconnections. No details yet but save the dates: June 2–4; it’s a busy season, but try to attend. • BC has reactivated the Newton College Scholarship, originally created to serve children of Newton alumnae eligible for financial aid. Because children of Newton grads are no longer of college age, these scholarship monies are now available to graduates of Sacred Heart network schools, with a secondary preference to other Catholic high school graduates. The hope is that Newton alumnae contributors to BC will consider supporting the Newton College Scholarship

Fund and its legacy; we can be proud that the Newton College name will continue for years to come, helping students with much-needed financial aid. • Help update our class list; many addresses and email addresses are outdated as we have moved around. (In fact, I just had Barbara King Hennessy’s email returned. Does anyone have an updated one?) Please send me or BC any changes.

Correspondent: Connie Weldon LeMaitre lemaitre.cornelia@gmail.com

1958 Tempus does fugit when we’re having fun! Seems like just yesterday we were celebrating our 50th reunion, and here we are, looking ahead to our 60th in less than two years. (Sadly we have lost many classmates since our 50th back in 2008.) I was looking for the address of a classmate recently and relied, as usual, on our Golden Eagles yearbook—my first reference for all things BC ’58. It reminded me of the grand success of our 50th reunion, and that it’s time, once again, to thank all those folks on the committees and the editorial staff who made that reunion such a memorable event. If you have any special memories of our 50th reunion, send them along to me, and I’ll share them in our next column. • The inaugural exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections; Manuscripts for Pleasure & Piety, was applauded from all corners of the cultural world, and our class had a special treat when classmate Janice Judge Fox served as our docent for our recent tour. In the group were Tony ’59 and Bea Capraro Busa, Paul Maney, Pat Brine O’Riordan, Carol Brady Vigliano, Eileen Teahan Quigley, Barbara Cuneo O’Connell, Joan Downing Lachance, and Peter ’54 and Maggie Molloy Vasaturo. The museum organizes and presents innovative, multidisciplinary exhibitions and serves as a dynamic educational resource for the University as well as the community at large. If you have not been to the museum in its new location on the Brighton campus, try to fit a visit into your schedule. The Daley Family Gallery, named for Janet and Michael Daley, is on the second floor, and the Monan Gallery, named for J. Donald Monan, SJ, H’96, is on the third floor. A visit to the McMullen Museum is one of the events planned for our 60th reunion in 2018. If you have a suggestion for other events at our 60th reunion, send it along, and the committee will consider it. • I appreciated hearing from Bill McGovern, who still enjoys reading about our classmates. • Mary Bryson also called, and our usual fall lunch has turned into a holiday brunch with Maggie Vasaturo and sometimes Dotty Tully, MA’65. Mary still keeps up her volunteer work and now has time to catch up on poetry classes. • I understand that the Pops on the Heights scholarship gala in September was outstanding; Bea and Tony Busa attended and were able to say a quick hello to Elaine and Dan Cummins. • In 53

closing, Jack McDevitt and I want to thank you for sending in your dues—you still have time to send $25 if you have not already done so. It is hard to believe we have been doing this for almost 60 years and look back at all the events we have subsidized, but only with your help! Jack’s address is still 28 Cedar Road, Medford, MA 02155.

Correspondent: Joan Downing Lachance joanchnc@comcast.net 62 Nicod Street Arlington, MA 02476; 781-646-7029

NC 1958 The big news for this column seems to be the enthusiastic commemoration of our 80th birthdays! We celebrate them with gratitude, and remember in our prayers those we miss who have gone before us to join the communion of saints. • Sue Fay Ryan celebrated her birthday in July with a family reunion in North Palm Beach, FL. Her daughters Joy and Fay ’89 came from Tallahassee and Tampa to join her sons Nick ’85 and Tony ’87, who live nearby.

After the weekend, Sue’s family met with administrators from the University of South Florida to lunch with the first recipient of the Thaddeus Broward Ryan Endowed Memorial Scholarship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. The award is named for Sue’s son, Thad, who died in an accident after earning a Graduate Certificate with honors in that field. Thad’s mentor, Paul Dosal, a noted author and scholar of Cuban history, was present. The award, which will continue in perpetuity, brings comfort to the Ryan family, knowing that it will help other outstanding students pursue their studies in the discipline where Thad showed boundless devotion. • In October, Mary Azzara Archdeacon was treated to a birthday party by her children. Her daughter came from Arizona for the occasion. In November, Mary Keating McKell’s daughters hosted a brunch for her 80th. Mary Azzara Archdeacon’s cousin Fran married Mary Keating McKell’s brother Chris, and they were present with their two children. Mary Azzara Archdeacon says she feels blessed to be a part of Mary Keating McKell’s family.

They have been friends since they were 9 years old. • On November 3, nine classmates met for the quarterly Les Girls luncheon in Wellesley. All were amazed to realize that many will be reaching 80th birthdays and that our 60th reunion is only two years away. They all felt blessed to be able to continue to meet and discuss children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, books, and politics. All agreed they did not look so bad for octogenarians! Sheila Hurley Canty continues to bring the group together. Beth Duffy Legare and Susie Kennedy Baxter took their usual drive from Rhode Island to Wellesley to enjoy lunch with classmates Rosemary Stuart Dwyer, M.J. Eagan English MEd’59, Jo Kirk Cleary, Maureen O’Donnell Kent, and Audrey Nolan Galvin, as well as our international adopted classmate, Yuri, who returns soon to Tokyo for a reunion with her sixth-grade Sacred Heart classmates. • My daughter Margaret 54

hinted she was planning a surprise for my birthday. The surprise leaked out, and in December I will be treated to a yoga retreat in Belize. Recently, my husband, Dave, and I traveled to Fort Benning, GA, where proud grandpa pinned airborne wings on grandson Tim, who had just graduated from jump school and was heading for duty with the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, NC. • Our class is 44 strong. I have email addresses for 31. For the remaining 13, even if you don’t hear from me but you read this column, please contact me any time with your news. Let’s hear from everyone as we approach our 60th!

Correspondent: Patty Peck Schorr dschorr57@verizon.net

1959 Peter Murphy recently retired as the first ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta in the Principality of Monaco after nine years of service; he had established the diplomatic mission in Monaco in 2010.

Prior to this, Peter had retired after 32 years of U.S. diplomatic service with the State Department. He and his wife are still living in beautiful Monaco, where he works for Boyarkin & Partners, a Russian venture capital firm with offices in London, Munich, Moscow, and Monaco. • In 2016, Peter McLaughlin completed his eighth year as chair of the board of the Saint Columbkille Partnership School, a pre-K-to-8 elementary school in Brighton. He will continue to serve on the board as chair of the Development Committee. In close collaboration with BC, the school has increased enrollment from 140 to 450 over the past 10 years and has become a model for Catholic elementary education and a laboratory school for the Lynch School of Education. Peter further reports that his oldest 3 grandchildren (of a total 12) are attending Boston College, Amherst College, and Bucknell University.

• Bill Carnes, MBA’65, and his wife live in Canton. They are very proud of grandson Sean Carnes ’16, who graduated from the Carroll School of Management in May and is now employed by Citibank in New York City. • My old buddy Alan Miller lives in Birmingham, MI. After BC, he had a fine career in the NFL, playing with Oakland and New England. He is now an attorney, representing numerous race car teams and drivers. • Pierre Henry and his wife live in Bridgewater, NH, where Pierre has been teaching downhill skiing for the past 13 years—since his retirement in 2003. He is very proud of his BC education. • Paul Andrews lives in Woburn and is currently director of professional development and government services with the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents. • Cynthia and Jim Marrinan, MSW’61, live in Rockville, MD. This is Jim’s seventh year as chair of the Mansfield Kaseman Health Clinic, which helps people who do not have health insurance. The family is very excited that their oldest daughter, Anne (45), had her first child on April 30—a son, Finley.

Congratulations! Her husband, Phil Martin, from New Zealand, is a yacht captain.

Daughter Jane ’97 and her husband, Nick Cumisky, an Englishman, live in London.

They have two kids: George (7) and Margo (3). Jane is very close to her five BC suite mates, one of whom is Michelle DeSena Rosenbauer ’97, who also lives in London.

• I tried to contact Billy Fawcett in Coto de Caya, CA; I left a message, and his wife, Carol, called me back the next day to say that Billy had passed away on November 15, 2015. Did that take me for a loop. He and Carol were married 54 years. They had a great life together, most of which was on the West Coast near Mission Viejo. They had five grandkids and a great-granddaughter.

Billy was extremely well-liked by all who knew him. He was a great tennis player and coach. We spent three months together at the Balsams Resort in Dixville, NH, just after graduation. He was the tennis pro, and he got me and my cousin, Joe Kassar from Brooklyn, our first jobs as cocktail waiters.

We had a blast together for the entire three months. Billy and Carol had three kids: Suzanne, whose son, Jake, is a sophomore at UCLA on a baseball scholarship; Sandra, who has three children—Logan, Tyler, and Crystal—and a granddaughter, Lauryn (5); and Bill Jr., an attorney, who lives in Maryland and has a daughter, Meghan, who graduated from Colby last May and now works at Brigham & Women’s Research Center. Please remember Billy Fawcett in your prayers.

Correspondent: Robert Latkany latkanyr@shoffdarby.com 203-354-6200

NC 1959 Kudos to Dolores Seeman Royston, who was recently honored as volunteer of the month at the Father McKenna Center for the homeless in DC, where she manages the “post office” and telephone booth (this according to an unnamed source).

• Stephanie Landry Barineau writes with news of her family and grandchildren: Her granddaughter Ellen Barineau was married in October to Austin Jackson with family attending from Kansas, Denver, and LA. Husband Bill’s Parkinson’s has acted up, so he has enrolled in and is enjoying a boxing class designed for Parkinson’s patients. Stephanie, who appreciates our prayers, is continuing her volunteer work at Birthright, Martha’s Kitchen, and St. Martha’s choir. She adds: “God willing and the creek don’t rise, we’ll be together on our 60th.” • Nancy Maslen Burkholder was looking forward to a North Sea cruise from Denmark to Russia, with highlights to include Estonia, Finland, and St. Petersburg. • Ellie Carr Hanlon reports that 2016 was an exciting year for the Hanlon granddaughters: Elizabeth, their oldest, studied for a year in Beijing and is now employed there for another year, and Kelly (18) sailed with her dad in a race from Newport, RI, to Bermuda in June.

Ellie’s grandsons are scattered across the country, attending the University of Colorado, George Washington University, Manhattanville College, and Boston College,

and the youngest is a freshman at Fordham Prep. Ellie and Bill are well and count their blessings.

Correspondent: Maryjane Mulvanity Casey 75 Savoy Road Needham, MA 02492; 781-400-5405 Correspondent: Patty O’Neill pattyoneill@verizon.net

1960 Not too much to report this time. It seems as if most class members are still in hibernation. • I did hear from Tom Kelly, who is still enjoying life in the higher elevations of Vail, CO. • At the other end of the weather spectrum, Paul Donlan checked in from the warmer climes of Naples, FL, where he is already looking forward to the local St. Patrick’s Day Parade—it always draws a large delegation of BC alums! Paul claims he is finally shooting his age on the golf course. Most of us wish we could do the same. • I had a chance to chat with several classmates at a recent social event that included Bob Winston, Jane Shea Sullivan, Gene Connors, and Grace McLaughlin Carty. • A small group of Double Eagles, including Allan McLean, Ralph Scally, Jim Reilly, and me, gathered for a luncheon in Southie with a contingent of other BC High classmates to mark 60 years since our high school graduation and to tell outrageous stories of our lives’ successes. Nothing I can recount here, though. • Fellow Granite Stater Jack Falvey is still going full speed and was teaching a course in marketing planning at the Heights in the fall. • Fr. Leo Shea has completed a well-deserved celebration of his golden anniversary as a priest and Maryknoll missionary, a celebration that stretched from Westport (in County Mayo) and County Limerick in Ireland to his alma mater, St. John’s Prep, in Danvers. Fr. Leo celebrated his Jubilee Mass there on October 23, surrounded by a large throng of family and other well-wishers, including his longtime friends Charles Dufour, archbishop emeritus of Kingston, Jamaica, and Msgr. Gregory Ramkissoon, MA’81, MA’82, founder of Mustard Seed Communities. The Class of 1960 was well represented. • We know there are many more of you out there—and we need to hear from you! • Sláinte.

Correspondent: John R. McNealy jmcnealy@juno.com 109 Kimball Road Rindge, NH 03461; 603-899-2844

NC 1960 Thanks in large measure to the efforts of Pat Winkler Browne, the Newton College Scholarship Fund has been reactivated.

Established in 1983 by alumnae of Newton College of the Sacred Heart, the scholarship was originally intended to support sons and daughters of Newton alumnae enrolled at BC and meeting the eligibility requirements for financial aid. Because very few, if any, alumnae have college-age children, the scholarship will now support eligible graduates of Sacred Heart network schools,

with a secondary preference to other Catholic high school graduates. BC provided an attorney to write the document with special attention to meet IRS scrutiny so that future contributions to the fund would be tax deductible. This scholarship will continue to honor the legacy of Newton College alumnae.

If you are intending to make a contribution to BC online, choose “Other” and then type in “Newton College Scholarship Fund.”

If you have questions, call BC at 617-5521085. Kudos to Pat, who has worked for this unrelentingly over the years. • We have sad news of the death of Janet Neville Flanagan, who died in October. Janet was the wife of the late William Flanagan, the mother of Brian and Julie, and grandmother of five.

She lived in Quincy. Blanche Hunnewell kept in touch with Janet, who had been in her wedding party.

Correspondent: Sally O’Connell Healy kmhealy@cox.net 4061 Cape Cole Boulevard Punta Gorda, FL 33955

1961 Bill Curtin majored in economics at BC and after a stint in the Marines, went to Portia Law School nights and later New England School of Law. After earning his JD, he worked for Royal Globe Insurance Company in civil litigation, retiring after 40 years; he is presently doing consulting work. Like many of our classmates, Bill plays a lot of golf. He and his wife, Monica, have two children—Colleen and Sean ’96— and five grandchildren. • John G. Donovan graduated with a major in distribution management and then entered the Coast Guard Officer Candidate School program, where he served 4 years’ active duty and 21 years in the Reserve. In 1966 he began a 35-year career at Gillette, serving as a manager in transportation and product distribution for both North America and Europe. Now retired, he lives in Townsend.

John has a son and two daughters. He has been active in the Reserve Officers Association and Retired Military, the Rod and Gun Club, and the Outdoor Association. • Bob Edwards majored in accounting and was recruited while at BC by IBM, where he became a systems engineer. He later worked for 10 years at Gorton’s Seafood, another 10 as VP of systems for Security National Bank, and another 10 at Financial Securities.

In the latter part of his career, Bob went into consulting and marketing digital cameras and processors and also taught computer skills at North Shore Community College. He is still working as a program administrator, tutoring at Mass Rehab and on a federally funded program to help older individuals get back into the workforce.

He has also taught Sunday school and has been an active member of the Lions Club in Magnolia. Recent travels have taken him to Alaska, Hawaii, many parts of the western United States, and most recently, Argentina and Chile. Bob and his wife, Honora “Noni,” have two daughters. • Lois Lane Carroll, MS’88, went right from

nursing school to working at Boston City Hospital for two years. Later she earned her master’s in nursing from BC and worked as a family nurse practitioner. Much of her life was spent in New Hampshire: She worked for the Manchester Public Health Department, at a boarding school, and for a practice at Concord Hospital in Hillsboro.

Lois has been married for 53 years to Brian, a physician. They and their six children all volunteered for a month at a hospital in St. Lucia, and Lois has also gone with the Rotary club to Honduras as part of a medical team of volunteers. She has done a lot of traveling, visiting her daughter in Africa when she was there in the Peace Corps, as well as her sister in Singapore.

Lois also had a time-share in Ireland for 25 years and traveled in Italy and France.

In retirement, she continues her service with the Lower Cape Outreach Council.

Looking back at her time at BC, she described it in one word: “Wonderful!” • Another Connell School of Nursing alumna, Ann Wasilauskas Mulligan, happily reports that her granddaughter Maggie Mulligan is the co-captain of the UMass Amherst women’s basketball team. • James Lawler majored in marketing and was in the ROTC program at BC. He served his first 2 years in the Army in Hawaii, retiring 21 years later as a lieutenant colonel. He moved to Maine, where he worked as a buyer for Bath Iron Works. After retiring, he began a new career as a licensed social worker, working with mentally challenged young men. He has been active in the Knights of Columbus, All Saints Church. He is an avid golfer and exercises regularly. He and his wife, June, have two daughters: Kelly and Shannon. • Maureen Nagle Banks began her studies on the nursing school’s Newbury Street campus and was a member of the first class to finish at the school’s new facility on the Chestnut Hill campus. She taught for 9 years at MGH, earned her master’s in nursing from BU, and then spent 13 years as director of inpatient nursing at DanaFarber. After a few years as a consultant, she was an administrator at Bridgewater State Hospital and then director for state mental health in the Massachusetts state prisons.

In the latter years of her career, she served nine years as director at the Norwell Visiting Nurses Association and Hospice. Presently she does part-time hospice work. Maureen and her husband, James, have five children and seven grandchildren. Recent travel has taken her to Vietnam and to Cairo, Egypt.

Maureen reports that many of her classmates have been in contact with one another over the years. She gets together from time to time with Nancy Magri Dubin, Anne Manning Ackerman, and Ann McHale.

The last time many of our nursing school alumnae were all together was at our 50th reunion. Among those attending were Rita Ailinger, Elena Pelusi Bean, Pat Bedard Triggs, Nancy Magri Dubin, Pat Harrigan Hutchinson, Kay Sullivan McLoughlin, Maureen O’Neill Looney, Barbara Power Madden MS’73, Anne Manning Ackerman, Ann McHale, Chris Murphy Mayor, Mary Sullivan Greenfield, Barbara O’Keefe Watkins, Anne Dugan Cotter, Lois Lane 55

Carroll, Claire Lawton, Madeline Druzdis Venis, Elizabeth Davitt Weed, Judy Barden, Sara Welch Haynes, Ann Wasilauskas Mulligan, Ellen Wedgeworth Ryan, and Rosemary Welch Otis.

Correspondent: John Ahearn jjaeagle@hotmail.com 872 Massachusetts Avenue #407 Cambridge, MA 02139

NC 1961 We have learned from Kathy Dwyer Clarke that Margo Dineen Muccia died in October from a recurrence of cancer. Margo was our class president for many years and then student government president our last year. So many have remembered and commented on her infectious smile and laugh. We’ve also learned that Kathleen “K.C.” Denton Doelle died last spring. Our prayers go out to their families. May Margo and K.C. rest in peace. • Please keep Patsy Keating in your prayers as she battles cancer. Juliana Fazakerly Gilheany and Kathy Hall Hunter have been visiting her. • A few more notes on our 55th reunion last June: In Mary Sue Flanagan’s words, “it was truly an enlightening time for us.” And I think Faith Mead Bertrand also put it well: “Great weekend and one that puts us ‘on track’ for the 60th—what an amazing class!

I told Jerry on our way home on Saturday night that there wasn’t one group that I wouldn’t have loved to have been seated with for dinner. It’s perhaps not unique, but it certainly is extremely rare for a group of women (or men) celebrating their 55th to feel so close, so excited to see one another.”

Brigid O’Sullivan Sheehan wrote: “It was special for me to see Cathy Chester Dingell, whom I had not seen since my wedding.

She and her Newton College roommate Gay Landrigan Clasby have remained close friends, and seeing them together really brought back memories of the days in Duchesne.” We also received notes from Ellie Maher Collins, Betty Hitchins Wilson, Judy Thompson Collins, Gloria Novella De Urruela, Joan Barry McCarthy, Gay Kreutzer Vachris, Cathy Hafey Swenson, Carol McGee Gardenier, Sissy Kane Sullivan, and Nancy Gain Gonzalez-Mujica, who were saddened that they could not attend the reunion because of family commitments. They sent their best and wanted to be remembered to all. • Gail Giere Collins and husband Frank ’59 hosted a minireunion at their lovely home on the Cape; a great time was had by all. • Bob ’60 and I visited with Duane and Ellen (MacDonald) Carbone in Beverly before our journey back to Tennessee in August.

Correspondent: Missy Clancy Rudman newtonmiz@aol.com 1428 Primrose Lane Franklin, TN 37064

1962 55TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Joseph Dolan reported that he retired in 2001 after almost 30 years in business and 56

has spent considerable time working on his bucket list by traveling to over 50 countries.

Two of the highlights were a visit to China and Tibet, with a trek to Mt. Everest base camp at 17,000-plus feet in 2007, and a 10-day bike trip in Croatia in 2014. He was planning a two-week volunteer trip this past spring to Costa Rica with his daughter and 14-year-old granddaughter. We’d love to hear a follow-up on that trip. Joe still keeps in touch with a few classmates, but all are pretty spread out and seem to keep pretty busy. He extends his best to all. • From Paul Horrigan: “I am taking your lead to report the death of one of our classmates, Double Eagle Hugh Mahoney. Hugh died in May after suffering a debilitating bout with cancer. After graduation in 1962, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a captain for four years. He then worked for M&M Mars candy company for his entire career until retiring about 10 years ago. Hugh was a fine athlete at BC High and a son of South Boston. He retired to Venice, FL, and also had a summer home in Truro.

It was there that he connected with his many friends from BC High. He was particularly close to our classmate George Gormley.”

Our condolences to Hugh’s wife, Wilhamena “Willie.” • Our condolences also to the family of John Leydon, a proud U.S. Air Force vet who enrolled at BC after serving four years during the Korean War. John leaves his wife, Mary; 4 children; 12 grandchildren; and 1 great-grandchild. • Sadly we also note the passing of Beatrice Moynihan Colleary, Charles Duddy MEd’64, Peter Feeney, Albert Harrington, Robert Kiernan, Richard Lafreniere, and Ann Lynch. Please keep their families in your prayers. • It’s the beginning of November, and as we walk around the campus, we see many changes: Edmond’s Hall has been demolished, a new recreation facility—replacing the old Rec Plex—as well as a field house are planned for that site. More Hall, onetime home to BC Law School, was also razed and replaced by the recently opened residence hall at 2150 Commonwealth Avenue. Another major change is the relocation of the McMullen Museum of Art, from Devlin Hall to the Brighton campus. • As we move closer to Reunion Weekend in June, let us know if your contact information has changed. • Join us in prayer for classmates who are ill.

Perhaps you know of someone who would appreciate a card or note. Wishing you good health and happy, peaceful days. Please, please let us hear from you!

Correspondents: Frank and Eileen “Trish” Faggiano frank@faggianoconsulting.com 33 Gleason Road Reading, MA 01867; 781-944-0720

NC 1962 55TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Judy Davin Knotts has published a new book, The Principal’s Chair: Who Sits There Matters, A Secret of School Success, written for aspiring school heads, novice heads, or those

moving to new schools. Judy also has a new website: judithdknotts.com. • Agi Tsu Pao is an active member of her choir. Her four daughters live in San Francisco; Chicago; Portland, OR; and New Mexico—where her two grandchildren live. • Mary “Mazy” O’Connor Sears wrote that she and Ron and their two children and six grandchildren are all doing well. Her granddaughter Annie, however, underwent a “liver transplant at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia two years ago, and after enduring many, many ups and downs, had a very serious, complicated surgery on her new liver in July.

The operation was performed by a team of doctors who travel throughout the world doing surgeries that are basically one of a kind. So far the surgery has been a success, for which we are all eternally grateful as you can only imagine!” • Ellen Markey Thurmond bumped into John ’62, MS’66, and Nancy (Edmondson) Hogan, MA’95, at a bridge tournament in Newton while Nancy was there from California visiting children. • Bobbi Schroetter Speck wrote: “We had our second annual roommates’ reunion in September! Sally McManamy Baker and Maureen Slattery were high school friends at Sacred Heart in Montreal, and Rosemary O’Connell and I attended Marymount 5th Avenue in New York. At Newton it was Sally and Rosemary and Maureen and I. In senior year we were in the bookend rooms on the first floor of Duchesne West. Last year we recreated the Duchesne experience by taking rooms at either end of a New York block for a reunion weekend. In September Maureen hosted us all at her home in Hudson, Quebec, near Montreal! We’ve had brilliant times together and expect this to carry on. It’s amazing how we can pick up where we had left off so many years ago!” • We’ve had a great team calling classmates to get our directory updated for our 55th reunion, and many of them have had the same experience talking to classmates. Many thanks to Mary Martha Pallotta Llewellyn, Cora LePorin, Susan Wall Harris, Betty Eigo Golden, Peggy Bailey Lamontagne, VV Martin, Edwina Lynch McCarthy, Ellen Markey Thurmond, Jackie Gegan Mooney, Mary Jane Moran MacLean, and Maura O’Neill Overlan for their help in this process. • Jackie Gegan Mooney was able to connect Kathy Gately Shanaphy with Barbara Lynch Dilatush, who were not aware that they both live in Vero Beach! • I had a nice phone visit with Barbara Bowman Yanity, who lives in Blue Bell, PA, and Judy Doyle Barnes, who lives in Haddon Heights, NJ, and hopes to come to the reunion. • Betty Eigo Golden caught up with Shannon “Ann” O’Connor Fairbanks, who wrote: “I celebrated my 75th birthday in June with my six grandchildren, ages 7 to 14; their four parents; and a wonderful widower who has come into my life following the tragic death of my husband of 50 years, nearly four years ago. Life is blessed!” • I just heard from Judy Pizzarello Bishop, who is as busy as ever.

While working for NPR in Miami, she was responsible for reporting on anything to do with the arts, which involved interviewing lots of interesting, well-known people. After that she decided to take acting classes and is

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presently doing short plays and ads, hoping to include in her now lengthy résumé voiceovers for advertisements as well. • I just heard from Bobbi Schroetter Speck that Monica Shaughnessy Hayden passed away on November 20. Bobbi and then Rosemary O’Connell and Mary Jane Moran MacLean had some lovely recollections of Monica. She was “smart as a whip, opinionated, funny, and devoted to her husband and family, and she enjoyed a good drink and her Camels.” Bobbi and Monica had spent 16 years together in school. Monica’s husband, Goff, passed away a few years ago. Monica is survived by her six stepchildren and their families. • Please let us know if you have any changes in your contact information.

Correspondent: Mary Ann Brennan Keyes keyesma1@gmail.com 26 Ridgewood Crossing Hingham, MA 02043

1963 Save the date: Our 55th reunion is slated for June 2018. At a meeting in September, class president Tom McCabe announced the members of the Reunion Steering Committee: John Golden, Paul Hardiman, Carol (Donovan) NC’63 and John Levis, Jim Norton, and Ed Rae. Others who have signed on include Paul Daley, Dave Kelley, Doug MacQuarrie, and Tom Ryan. Other upcoming events include pre- and post-St. Patrick’s Day Parade events in Naples, FL, in March; a special event at the McMullen Museum of Art—and maybe a toast to Tam o’ Shanter’s ghost, with Joe Quinn and Dick Gould presiding? • Wayne Budd, H’13, is very proud of his daughter Kimberly, who was confirmed last August as an associate justice on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Wayne, a former BC Trustee, is now senior counsel at Goodwin, where he had served as a partner in the 1990s; during that decade he was also appointed associate U.S. attorney general by President George H.W. Bush and a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission by President Clinton. A past president of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers Association, Wayne made history in 1979 as the first African-American to serve as president of the Massachusetts Bar Association. • Jack Frost? For Bob Paul, never! Bob winters in Ronda, Spain, and summers in McLean, VA. Retired from White & Case, where he was a senior partner, he still practices locally. Bob was general counsel during President Reagan’s second term, and a member of the Federal Trade Commission.

He writes: “After about 30 Far East trips, romance disappears; I now want to stay home.” • In May, a number of our classmates convened for a gabfest at Lewis Grille in Norwood. The group included Bob Arbing, Jim Autio, Frank Carney, Russ Dever, Bill Haley, Mike Lydon MBA’70, Bob Melanson MBA’71, Jim Norton, Bob Parks JD’66, Ed Rae, Carl Young JD’66. Dave Kelley, proprietor, hosted. • Charlene (Smith) NC’65 and Bill Betourney celebrated their 50th anniversary— continents apart! Charlene’s dream: a Rhine 58

River cruise with her daughter and two granddaughters—an itinerary, graciously blessed by Bill, from Florida! • We send get-well wishes to Bruce Ryan, victim of an accident late last year, who is experiencing a temporary setback. Jack Greeley assured me that Bruce is looking strong already. • Toni St. Germain, MS’86, is a retired nurse practitioner. Widowed since April 2014, she divides her time between New Castle, NH, and Naples, FL. She writes that she feels fortunate to be “healthy and very active with wonderful children and grandchildren.” • Finally, we celebrate the arts: In November, George Perreault’s fourth book, Bodark County, was published by Grayson Books.

It is a collection of poems told in the voices of characters living in West Texas. Our Santa Clara poet, Bill Costley, has published four single-poem booklets, including most recently “O’Hara@Lunch” and “Trumpolini.” Read them at poems-for-all. com. And in September, the ribbon-cutting at the new McMullen Museum of Art was savored by Bob Reardon MS’66, Ed Rae, and John Levis. The reception was lavish, and the galleries are exquisite. A must-visit site! Lastly, and sadly, our Pawtucket artist, Jack Hurley, passed away last February.

After retiring from a long career at the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, Jack pursued his muse, opening a painting studio. • Classmates, send narratives, news. Please and thank you.

Correspondent: Ed Rae raebehan@verizon.net 209 Winter Street Westwood, MA 02090

NC 1963 I’ll tell you what: If you want to plan a super minireunion, ask Marj Dever Shea, Maureen Lambert Roxe, and Carol Donovan Levis to head it up! To celebrate the opening of the new McMullen Museum of Art on the BC campus, they put together a gathering to see the opening exhibit, Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections, followed by luncheon at The Cottage in Chestnut Hill. Delia Conley Flynn, MEd’70, docent extraordinaire, led the group. Delie had been a docent at BC for a few years and used her experience and expertise to make the tour really memorable. The luncheon following the tour was great fun and finished with a flourish with another 75th birthday cake with the legend “Those were the days, my friends” iced on the top. Too true! Attending were, besides the hostesses, Anne Gallagher Southwood, Carol Singleton Dockery, Delia Conley Flynn, Carol Flynn, Joan Engel Sundstrom, Judy DeMarco, Katie McCarthy, Martha Meaney Cummings, Mary Jane Becherer Ferson, Susan McAuliffe Brown, Jane Graham, Jo Egan Maguire MA’72, Susan Frisbee, Maura McCarthy Parnin, and Donna Moran Robbins. With spirit like this I think it is safe to say that NC’63 is going to be up for our 55th! • Maureen Lambert Roxe, by the way, has joined the growing group of “housing downers.” Luckily they found another place in Darien, CT, their home for the last 44

years. Maureen has just completed a “high performance driving school” course in Lime Rock: It was a Mother’s Day present! Way to go, family! (Maureen does say that perhaps she’s not as comfy to ride with as she once was!) • Katie McCarthy has retired after a career spent teaching kindergarten; she is enjoying it. She also likes the get-togethers with her best buds (BFFs?) Carleen Testa McOsker, Ann McCabe Rives, Claire McMahon Clair, Wilma Sullivan, and Norma LaSalle. Carleen, by the way, is an avid biker and kayaker. (I’m impressed that she is limber enough to exit a kayak—not a pretty sight when I last tried.) She also spends time visiting her children in Maine, Colorado, and Hawaii. • Donna Moran Robbins continues her clinical psychology practice in Boston, working with emotionally disturbed children.

• Jane Graham is still working as a counselor and is deeply involved in “lineage groups,” principally with the DAR and its older cousin, the DAC (Daughters of the American Colonists). She serves on a statewide committee for the DAR. Jane has even been a Revolutionary War re-enactor; she has now passed the baton (or musket?) to her daughter. Jane teaches American history in Sudbury: Wouldn’t you love to sit in?

Correspondent: Colette Koechley McCarty colette.mccarty@gmail.com 1512 Arboretum Trace Cary, NC 27518; 919-233-0563

1964 I was privileged to spend Veterans Day at BC’s Veterans Remembrance Mass and ceremony, which started with a marvelous Mass at St. Ignatius followed by a ceremony in front of the BC Veterans Memorial on Bapst Library lawn. The memorial lists BC grads who were killed in each war since World War I; under Vietnam are the names of classmates Herbert Dilger, James Dooley, Daniel Kellett, Thomas Morris, and Frederick Rauscher. It should be noted that the co-chair of the committee responsible for building the wall was Paul Lufkin. At the end of the ceremony, each veteran in attendance was presented with a lapel pin showing the flag of the United States and a BC flag, with the word “Veteran” beneath.

If you are a veteran you can get one by contacting Jean Chisser, MA’91, at the alumni office. • Joe DeNatale has moved on after running a farm and fruit orchard for several years. Joe writes: “The winters and farm work got a little too much for these bones. We moved to a small town in northeast Texas and live on a 52-acre pine farm. I guess you call it downsizing.

If y’all are in northeast Texas on Route 59, stop by at 1074 County Road. My phone is 903-756-8028; email josephfdenatalemd@ yahoo.com.” Joe and wife Terri have two sons: One is a car designer, and the other is a marketing analyst for Hannafords.

• In November, Steve Duffy came from Vegas to spend the weekend of the UConn game at my house. As usual he insisted on a full dose of “Eagleness,” starting with the hockey game at Harvard on Friday

night. We were joined at the football game by Dick DiMase, MEd’66, and Ed Sawicki and for dinner by Joan Rapp. • Andrea Jakatavich Cordwell writes: “My BC roommates and I had a wonderful reunion in October hosted by Judy Harty Foley and her husband, Frank ’63. Judy lives in Connecticut; Betty Baylock Giacobbe, in Illinois near Chicago; Jackie Garro Fett, in St. Louis; Joan Langan Banovic, in Hawaii; and I, in Massachusetts. Lots of laughs, day trips, reminiscing, and sharing. We were most grateful for our mobility and that we have remained such good friends despite the time and distances that separate us.”

• I received a note from Frank Accisano, who spent freshman year with us as the roommate of Chuck Sullivan, JD’67, in Fenwick. Frank is now an attorney in Freehold, NJ. • As I write this in November, the Broadway musical The Great Comet of 1812 has opened to rave reviews from the New York critics. The musical was created

by Bob Bent’s son-in-law Dave Malloy. • Frank “The King” Richichi died on August 8, 2016, after a period of declining health.

At BC he played basketball under Coach Bob Cousy, H’14. Frank was a resident of Pleasant Valley, NY, for over 40 years before moving to Bellingham in 2009 to be closer to his family. He was a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch in Poughkeepsie for many years, retiring several years ago. He leaves his wife, Mary Ann, and three children.

Correspondent: John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com 27 Rockland Street Swampscott, MA 01907

NC 1964 Once again, I have the sorrowful task of reporting the death of another one of our classmates, Charlene Palladino. I only recently learned, through BC’s website, of her death three-and-a-half years ago. She died unexpectedly on March 21, 2013, in Melrose. She was working as an academic specialist in Italian at Northeastern University in Boston. Charlene received her master’s degree in sociology from Tufts; her master’s in Italian from the University of Florence, Italy; and her PhD in romance languages and literature (Italian and advanced Latin) from Harvard. In the early 1990s, she received a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Endicott College, and she worked for several years as a registered nurse. Before Northeastern, Charlene’s career encompassed many positions teaching Italian at schools in the Boston area. These included the Peabody School in Cambridge; Newbury College in Brookline; North Shore Community College in Beverly; Garland Junior College; and the Revere Public Schools as well as adult education programs in the Boston area.

She was an Italian translator for several hospitals and also worked as an interpreter on guided bus tours in Boston. I know you all join me in sending our condolences to her twin sister and our classmate, Marlene Palladino Ross, and Marlene’s husband and

children. • I submitted this column to BC as close as possible to the deadline, hoping that someone would send me some upbeat news that I could share with you. I haven’t heard from anyone—perhaps next time?

Correspondent: Priscilla Weinlandt Lamb priscillawlamb@gmail.com 125 Elizabeth Road New Rochelle, NY 10804; 914-636-0214

1965 Mary Jane McLaughlin Angelone sent an email about a 50th reunion on Cape Cod. Some former dorm mates at 1750 Beacon Street came together to celebrate their time at BC. The conversation flowed as Mary Jane, Maddie Zollo Pope MA’81, Peggy Madore Tieri, Sandy Murphy Doughty, Suzanne Trudeau Balestro, and Ursula Gumula St. Amand gathered at the home of Paulette MacMillan Lapadula. For some it was the first meeting in over 50 years.

During the course of the weekend, they sang a rousing revised rendition of “For Boston,” and topics of conversation ranged from their old curfews and dress code to families and health-care directives. Alex Messina Broderick ’67 and Kathy McVarish Carpenter, who live in the area, joined them for part of the celebratory reunion. • With sadness we have lost several classmates since the last issue: Allen Dalton, George Fitzgibbons, Robert Kelly, and Catherine Devine Maher. To their families we offer our prayers and sympathy.

Correspondent: Patricia McNulty Harte patriciaharte@me.com 83 Church Street, No. 1 Winchester, MA 01890; 781-729-1187

NC 1965 Paul and Libby Miller Fitzgerald’s twin grandchildren have started college, one at UVA and the other at the University of Georgia. Libby is doing a bit of mentoring to help high school students get into college when they are the first in their family to do so, and working with a group called Kids’ Haven to help children deal with the grief of losing a parent. Her public piano project, Hill City Keys, just completed a third successful year. Libby sends love to all with a wish for continued good health and happiness. • Jim and Eileen Glynn Carr are now splitting their time between Toledo, OH, and Williamstown, MA. Their four daughters are on the East Coast (in Philadelphia; Warwick, NY; Needham; and Williamstown), so they decided to move closer to them and their 10 grandchildren. Eileen retired from the University of Toledo, where she had been a literacy professor for 30 years. She founded UThink, an online educational program that offers Reading and TESOL endorsements for teachers through Heidelberg University in Ohio. Jim is still a sitting federal judge in Toledo. He works a lot online, and they return to Toledo monthly for sentencings and cases

as needed. Eileen welcomes visitors to her home in Williamstown. Let me know if you would like her phone number. • Congratulations to Judy Violick and her husband, Larry, who both achieved the level of grand master in bridge! This past year, they enjoyed a trip to Mendocino, a cruise through the Inside Passage in Alaska, a week in Denali, a couple of weeks in northern Italy, and several trips to the East Coast. • Your writer recently returned from a wonderful riverboat cruise from Paris to Prague. I recalled some of those SWC lessons as we studied the architecture and history on the Rhine and Moselle Rivers and enjoyed the castles and churches along the way. • Good news! The Newton Scholarship has been reactivated after being dormant for many years. The scholarship had benefited the children of Newton graduates, but it seems that all the children are now past college age.

With legal help, the terms have been changed so that the scholarship will now benefit eligible graduates of Sacred Heart network schools, with a secondary preference to other Catholic high school graduates. Pat Winkler Browne NC’60 delivered the good news, and she hopes all our classes will consider supporting the Newton Scholarship Fund when making a contribution to BC. BC continues to support the Newton College of the Sacred Heart legacy. We are proud that our name will continue for years to come. • We send our heartfelt condolences to Angie McDonnell Larimer on the loss of her brother, Bob. • Don’t forget to check out our class Facebook page, Newton College of the Sacred Heart 1965!

Correspondent: Linda Mason Crimmins mason65@bc.edu 3902 MacGregor Drive Columbia, SC 29206

1966 Many of us who attended our 50th reunion in June are still reflecting on that profound experience. Here is an example of one of our classmates, Ed Flynn, and his response to that memorable event. This also reflects our ongoing honor and respect for our veteran classmates, particularly those who lost their lives in service to our country. Ed attended Reunion with his wife, a University of Tulsa alumna. He writes: “It was an outstanding weekend!

The highlight of the weekend for me, as a Vietnam veteran and retired naval aviator, was the breakfast reception and ceremony at the BC Veterans Memorial on the Bapst Library lawn. The Veterans Memorial is a wonderful tribute to BC alumni who gave their lives in the line of military duty to our country. As well as the physical memorial on which the names and class years of our veterans are inscribed, BC maintains a database on a website that contains a page for each veteran and is very easy to navigate.

Since the reunion I have spent some time scrolling through the Vietnam-era pages on the website and am somewhat disappointed by what I found. Although the inclusion of a 59

remembrance is very easy to do (I submitted a remembrance for classmate and friend Tom Lufkin), in most cases there are no remembrances posted from BC friends and classmates.” For those who aren’t aware of the website, it is bc.edu/bcvan, where you can add comments, photos, and data that may be missing from individual home pages. Ed concludes: “When our generation flies west, there will be few left who could add personal notes to the pages on the website. Our fallen friends certainly deserve that this be done.” • Mike Manning was in touch to let us know that our classmate and friend Gil Sullivan has been battling kidney disease and undergoing dialysis treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Mike and Gil appreciate your prayers as Gil powers through the uncertain and lengthy wait time for a possible donor. Please feel free to be in touch with them (gil@gil65.com). • In October classmate Caren O’Brien Bonner, of Duxbury and Bonita Springs, FL, lost her beloved husband, Bob, after 49 years of marriage. We send our sincere condolences to their family and friends.

Correspondent: Diane Connor dconnor14@comcast.net

NC 1966 Richard and Dina (Cockerill) Burke rode out Hurricane Matthew in October at their home on Skidaway Island, GA. Richard wrote a humorous, biblical-themed account of their experience from which I’ve excerpted here. “And the mayor came, and the county commissioner came, and the governor came, all saying: ‘Behold now, Dina and Richard, turn aside, flee to high ground, and tarry there while God’s vengeance passeth Skidaway. Think not yourselves above the laws of God, State, and Nature. Get in your car, head west, and look not back, not even in thy mirror.

Richard was good: He wished to heed well the counsel of those wise men duly elected to protect the citizenry and promote the common good. But Dina was firm, saying: ‘Nay, we shall abide in our own bed this night.’” Dina fell asleep with a good book; Richard stayed awake tracking the storm and calculating possible damage. But all turned out well for them. “In the event, the storm was severe, the winds did howl, whole trees and mighty limbs came crashing down, but the storm surge on Skidaway was modest.” The Burkes’ house was not harmed; they lost two small trees but none of the huge live oaks that surround their house lost as much as a limb, although thousands of trees were lost on Skidaway.

• Eileen O’Dea Kelleher reports that she continues to live in Nova Scotia, on the Bay of Fundy. “I enjoy substitute teaching and a variety of volunteer activities. My favorite travels are to the United States to visit my three children and seven grandchildren, and to Newfoundland to spend time with my generation of my family.” • Sheila McIntire Barry recently retired from her job as a psychology professor at Washington College and is enjoying this new phase in 60

her life. She volunteers with veterans in Baltimore and is also very involved with her six grandsons, who all live near her in Chestertown, MD. Her biggest lifestyle change in the past few years has been dealing with Jim’s advancing Parkinson’s disease. The Barrys built a small one-story home on their property, and their daughter and family moved into the Barrys’ former house. Sheila reports that it’s been great for all of them! • Condolences are offered to the family of Nancy Parkhurst Kling, who died of pancreatic cancer on September 2 in Kennebunkport, ME. Her obituary touched on the highlights of a well-lived life. Nancy and her husband, David, met when they were both working as analysts at the CIA in Washington DC. Then they moved to New York, where Nancy worked as a country risk economist for Chase Manhattan Bank.

In 1973 they moved to London, where Nancy volunteered at a local hospital and completed a Cordon Bleu course. Daughter Allison was born in London in 1977, and their second child, Andrew, was born in Winnetka, IL, where they moved in 1980.

In Winnetka Nancy became an active volunteer, supporting the Winnetka Public Schools and co-chairing major fundraising events for Chicago Youth Centers. After David retired in 2003, they moved to Kennebunkport, where Nancy volunteered for the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust as well as the local library and garden club. She was a voracious reader (in two book clubs), an excellent cook, a skilled needlepointer and knitter, and a dynamite crossword puzzle doer (the Sunday Times puzzle in ink with no lookups). The obituary concludes: “She will be remembered for her intelligence, a wonderful sense of humor and sharp wit, her generosity and loyalty to friends, and her love of family, and for always making life more fun and enjoyable for everyone around her.”

Correspondent: Catherine Beyer Hurst catherine.b.hurst@gmail.com 333 Atwells Avenue, #211 Providence, RI 02903

1967 50TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Len Doherty, MBA’71, writes from Ridgefield, CT, where he has lived for the past eight years. He is still engaged in executive recruiting, now focusing on a staffing coach role. His wife, Mary Ellen, has coauthored her second book, Nurses After War. • Fred Faherty, Bill Kitley, Pat Hogan, Ralph DeSena, Pater Gately, Joe Kiely, and Doug Miller got together at the BC vs. NC State game in Raleigh and thoroughly enjoyed the weekend with each other! • Walt Mahoney and his wife, Binx, traveled to Tahiti with Dave Register and his wife, Adele (Mailhot) NC’67, and cruised the islands on a Windstar ship. The Mahoneys were planning to host Christmas with their children and grandkids in St. Petersburg, FL. The Registers were heading to Virginia Beach and Chesapeake to be

with their son, Michael, and his family. • Marty Kane just completed a collaboration on a newly released book on the storied and raucous history of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston. Marty is the former president of RLISYS Practice Solutions, a leading electronic medical records company.

Marty is the father of Jamie Kane Voccola ’96 and Christopher Kane ’99. • Sadly we report the passing of three classmates: Judith Marchese Barta, Cheryl Douglass, and William McKenna. Judith and Cheryl were grad nurses, and Bill was a marketing major, originally from Rhode Island, but living in Hilton Head Island, SC, when he passed away in August. The class extends condolences to their families and friends.

We now have approximately 200 classmates who have passed away since graduation.

That is another reason we hope all will make a sincere effort to come to our 50th reunion. We only get one chance at it! • An update on housing for Reunion Weekend (June 2–4): Are you planning to stay at a local hotel? Visit bc.edu/reunion for local hotels and reduced rates. Details regarding campus housing will be available in March. There is a major Class of ’67 event scheduled for Friday evening, June 2. This is a very special event, just for us: a buffet dinner at Corcoran Commons, followed by a great show, titled “Oh, What a Night,” at Robsham Theater, featuring the group Under the Streetlamps, whose members were in the cast of the hit Broadway show Jersey Boys. Come and enjoy! See you there!

Correspondents: Charles and Mary-Anne Benedict chasbenedict@aol.com 84 Rockland Place Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464

NC 1967 50TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Can it be? Only a bit more than three months until we gather to celebrate—and I mean celebrate—the golden anniversary of our graduation. Yes, it is that big number 50! We graduated on June 4, so it will be a full 50 years. You should have received a call, an email, or other mailing(s) with a lot of the details. Your committee has been working since the end of last summer with the staff at BC to make these very special days for us. And if you haven’t heard anything, please get in touch with me immediately (see my contact info below). Otherwise, we hope to see a good number of you at one or more of the events, beginning midday Friday, June 2, through the last one on Sunday, June 4. There were a couple of ladies whom we seemed to have lost contact with over the years, but who are now back on the mailing list and eager to reconnect, so we are expecting a good turnout. • To add to the news that we published in the last issue about Paula Lyons, it seems that the Martha’s Vineyard Times finds her newsworthy as well. An article in the October 12, 2016, issue describes her life accomplishments,

starting with a connection to her senior thesis! Paula’s latest honor was to be inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in October, joining only 127 men and women who have previously received the honor. This well-deserved accolade was in recognition of her experience in investigative reporting and consumer advocacy as a broadcast journalist. The article also details other stories from her extensive career. Paula’s final comment provides a fitting summary to this tribute: “I love my life. I’m the luckiest person in the world. I had work that I loved all my life, opportunities to grow and change, and an extremely happy personal life. So to be recognized like this is icing on the cake.”

• Classmate connections don’t happen only at reunions, however. Over the years I have seen Donna Shelton a few times, since we both live in Northern Virginia.

In “retirement,” Donna is a Junior Girl Scout leader for a granddaughter’s troop at a school in my neighborhood. Knowing about my part-time work with the Office of Elections in our county, back in October, when the girls needed an introduction to the process of voting and getting elected, Donna asked if I could help. I had the pleasure of talking with eight girls on some of my favorite topics. We shared stories and questions, and I got to see their enthusiasm as we approached the presidential election in 2016. • If you can’t get in touch with news to share before the next columns are due in mid-February, please send it to me anyway. It doesn’t have to be momentous; many of our fellow classmates have said they just like to reconnect. I will take whatever messages you want to share— news and prayer requests—to the reunion in June even if you can’t come back to Boston. There will be lots of time for sharing then and in future columns. • Keep in touch, and watch for an early spring.

Correspondent: M. Adrienne Tarr Free thefrees@cox.net 3627 Great Laurel Lane Fairfax, VA 22033-1212; 703-709-0896

1968 Greetings, friends. • We recently received a lovely message from Harvey Bernier. He and his wife, Karen, have retired to their home in the idyllic mountains of Mexico along Lake Chapala, an area rumored to have the second-best climate in the world. He and Karen are very involved as volunteers in the Tepehua Community Center, serving the many needs of the Mexican and indigenous mixed peoples.

Some of their activities include helping to provide education, free meals, and a free dental clinic, as well as building a maternity clinic for the local people. Classes are offered in computer skills, sewing, and English. Several Rotary clubs in the United States and Canada, as well as many friends worldwide, have been most generous in their support of this community outreach, both financially and in donating free labor and expertise. Providing support for the

homes of the poorest has been especially important during the rainy season. Harvey says that there are many people like themselves, who have retired and have been fortunate in life, who are looking for opportunities to give back. He considers his involvement with the local Tepehua organization to be immensely rewarding as well as providing them the opportunity to meet so many interesting and good folk from all over the world. This work is such a shining example of our Jesuit ideal of becoming “men and women for others.” • Tomorrow, Jim ’67 and I will return to Cabo San Lucas to frolic in the sun with our pals Mike and Lawrene (Cormier) Rafferty. In September, the “Raffs” and the Days had a super-fun, laugh-filled adventure on the Emerald Isle. All was grand except for the last three minutes of the BC football game.

• Our class has lost another friend: Billy Power, of West Roxbury, passed away suddenly in August. Billy was another of our loyal contingent of BC High classmates.

He was my friend since we were babies.

To all his family we offer our sincerest condolences.

Correspondent: Judith Anderson Day jnjday@aol.com The Brentwood 323 11500 San Vicente Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90049

NC 1968 Wow! Wow! Kudos and huge thanks to Barbara “Bowie” Farrell McTiernan and Linda Cavaliere Burke for hosting 33 classmates of Newton ’68 in Jacksonville, FL, two weeks to the day after Hurricane Matthew stormed through the area. Both Barbara and Linda worked diligently for several months, and all assembled agreed that they did an outstanding job. For example, despite having been evacuated for more than four days and losing a car and her garage, Barbara, assisted ably by Linda, entertained all the attendees at a delicious dinner in her lovely home on Saturday evening. Linda invited several golfers, including four husbands of classmates, to a round of golf at her beautiful club, which had just reopened after the hurricane that had downed over 60 trees on the course.

Most classmates took the opportunity to visit and explore St. Augustine, where more than 25 toured the highlights of the city on a tram. On a beautiful Saturday, several went kayaking while others participated in water aerobics. The spa located on the grounds had lots of Newton visitors too. • Mary Beth Dereniuk DuMouchel traveled from East Greenwich, RI, where she served as a trustee of the local library, including a term as president of the board. Mary Beth is a master gardener and loves to visit her daughter in Massachusetts, another daughter in DC, and a son in California.

• Lucy Winter Sherman has relocated to Chestnut Hill, where she continues to play tennis at a club in Brookline she joined shortly after graduation. Also these days, Lucy loves singing with a musical group.

Katie O’Connor Gawlick (of Chicago) flew

in on Saturday just in time for us to share in her 70th birthday celebration and the Cubs advancement to the World Series with the victory over the LA Dodgers. • Mary Catherine Costello Chute came to Reunion for the first time in 38 years. A Rhode Island resident, Mary Catherine is now retired; at one time she and another woman had the distinction of being the youngest women bank branch managers in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mary Catherine has two daughters in New York City: One attends NYU Law School, and the other teaches math and science at a charter school in Harlem. Unfortunately, before Saturday night’s dinner, Marge Smith Mitchell fell and broke her wrist. But Marge Gaynor Palmer was able to lend her a brace for the airplane ride home, having just recovered from her own broken wrist.

• Lastly, in the small-world, six-degrees-ofseparation category, both Carolyn Brady O’Leary and Anne Mulligan Hartmere have sons who recently relocated from Massachusetts and New York, respectively, to Evergreen, CO, with their families. Now Carolyn’s and Anne’s granddaughters are in the same school and grade in Evergreen.

Imagine what fun Grandparents’ Day will be! • Please stay tuned for lots more news from the Jacksonville reunion in the next issue of the magazine.

Correspondent: Jane Sullivan Burke janeburke17@gmail.com

1969 University of Cincinnati professor emeritus Jim O’Reilly has just published his 51st textbook, When Products Kill, analyzing fatal accident risks, and remedies. • Susan Budassi Sheehy, PhD’10, was recently an associate professor at the Graduate School of Nursing, Uniformed Services University of the Health Services, Department of Defense, in Bethesda, MD. While there, working as a volunteer in the Wounded Warriors Program, she discovered that the wounded veterans population she met relied on one another and on their professional medical providers for support and encouragement to keep them motivated during their ongoing recoveries.

Sue came up with an idea to provide additional support and motivation for these soldiers when they transition to their home communities. Combining her lifelong love of sports, 50 years of rooting for BC sports teams, and her commitment to veterans, she devised a program that would put all three areas of interest together in a way that would benefit the veterans, BC athletes, and her alma mater: Called the Collegiate Warrior Athlete Initiative, the 12-week program matches veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with BC student-athletes. Sue approached the Connell School of Nursing and the athletics department with her ideas and was invited to join the Connell School as a visiting scholar to implement the program. Sue wrote the grant request that was necessary to fund the program. BC athletes volunteer to work one-on-one with the veterans while 61

they work out, and a complete wellness program is also included in the initiative.

The program has been hugely successful, and the hope is that it can be replicated at other universities to reach veterans all over America. Nine warrior participants and their student-athlete workout buddies were honored at halftime at the BC vs.

Clemson football game in October. • Dan Meehan, JD’72, sent me the sad news of the passing of our classmate Carroll Delaney on September 26. Carroll made his home in New York City and spent weekends and vacations at his home in Bristol, RI, where he retired in 2010.

Carroll started his career interning with former Treasury Secretary Bill Simon, on the U.S. government bond desk at Salomon Brothers. He joined Carroll McEntee & McGinley, a boutique firm specializing in government markets, and rose to become its president and CEO. Carroll was widely regarded as an expert on interest rates. He authored a commentary on the markets and was frequently quoted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Sympathy goes to his wife of 46 years, Pamela, and to his son, Carroll. • I hope you are enjoying your winter. Please take the time to let me know what is new with you.

Correspondent: James R. Littleton jim.littleton@gmail.com 39 Dale Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

NC 1969 Condolences are offered to Pam DeLeo Delaney on the recent death of her husband, Carroll ’69, on September 26, 2016. Pam and Carroll met during their high school years in Rhode Island and were married for 46 years. Attending services from our class were Ana Perez Camayd, Vince and Carol Romano Tuohey, Jill Hendrickson Daly, Bob and Polly Glynn Kerrigan, and Mary Carroll Linder. On a happier note for Pam, in August her son, Carroll III, graduated from the International Yacht Restoration School in Bristol, RI. A recent article in Yankee magazine described the program. Carroll loves working on boats, and Bristol is the worldwide center for yacht fabrications. • We have some new grandchildren to report: Carol Romano Tuohey’s son Vincent is the proud father of Clementine Olivia, new baby sister to her older brother, Seamus.

She was born on September 14, 2016. And Jill Hendrickson Daly’s daughter is the proud mother of son number two, Trevor Fox, born on November 4, 2016. He joins older brother Will at home. • Sue Davies Maurer’s son Scott was married to Robin on a beautiful October day in Arizona. The extended family traveled from Connecticut to share in the celebration. • Winnie “Oyoko” Loving announces the publication of her third children’s book, Jeepney Love: A Children’s Story. The story was inspired by a trip Winnie and her family took to Manila in 2015. It tells of two jeepneys (jeep-like public utility vehicles popular in the Philippines) that become great friends 62

after almost having an accident. The book is available on Amazon; if you would like an autographed copy, please contact Winnie at oyoko_vi@yahoo.com.

Correspondent: Mary Gabel Costello mgc1029@aol.com 4088 Meadowcreek Lane Copley, OH 44321

1970 Hi, gang. While I do have some passings to note this time, I certainly want to start with births; that would be, of course, the births of grandchildren! News came in this time from Ed and Joanne (Sullivan) Marut of Winnetka, IL. Within the last year or so, the Maruts have been blessed with three new arrivals: Grandson Billy was born to daughter Kathryn ’03 and her husband, Steve, and twin granddaughters, Mimi and Kate, were born to son Ed and his wife, Liz. Best wishes to the entire Marut clan! • I heard from another of our nurses, Brianne Fitzgerald, who reports that she has 14 grandchildren of her own, and she is also still working full-time, primarily treating addiction patients. Last May, Brianne had an adventure. She took five weeks off and walked solo the entire 500 miles of the Camino Francés, the pilgrimage road from Saint-Jean-de-Pied-de-Port in France to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Quite an achievement! • As has become too much a part of this column, I want to give a final note to several classmates whom we shall not see again.

Katherine Keane passed away in July from kidney disease. Kathy had a long and successful career as a teacher and administrator in the Stratford, CT, school system; her last post was testing and data collection coordinator for the district. She was an avid golfer, winning a number of local championships, and of all things, an accomplished poker player. She is survived by a brother and sister and several nieces and nephews. • Another of our classmates who spent much of his life around the golf links but has made his last drive is Peter Dalton, of Swampscott. Peter passed away in June, leaving his wife, Irene; daughters Meaghan, Kathryn, and Kelly; and seven grandchildren. His career took him from the BC golf team, to coaching, a successful amateur playing career, and sales and management positions with several golf-related companies. He was also the founder and CEO of ProQuip USA, a provider of golf outerwear. • Dorothy Hoyle Kelley passed away in June on her 68th birthday at her home in Scripps Ranch, CA. She leaves her husband, Kevin; children Sean, Kristen, and Gregory; and her mother, Margaret. Dorothy and Kevin were married shortly after we graduated and moved often for the next several years during Kevin’s Marine Corps career. After his retirement they lived in Virginia Beach, VA, before moving to San Diego in the mid-1990s. In each location, Dorothy held leadership positions in nursing with a focus on trauma care. • Condolences from the class are extended to family and

friends of each of these classmates.

They will be missed.

Correspondent: Dennis Razz Berry mazzrazz1@aol.com

NC 1970 This will be an abbreviated column as I have pneumonia (and the abbreviated energy that goes with it). But there is plenty of good news to share—even on my end. I am thrilled to have found a “specialty compounding” pharmacy that can make individually customized prescription medications, including ones that are free of gluten or other fillers celiac patients must avoid. So at long last I have access again to the world of antibiotics— and just in time! (I may well be the world’s one happy pneumonia patient!) • Also at long last, Patti Bruni Keefe and husband John, JD’74, have sold their beloved house in Sherborn. We will miss its spacious rooms and beautiful garden as a gathering place at reunion times but congratulate the Keefes on achieving a long-term goal. Patti reports their new home is “a good, big downsize. We are happy and considerably less stressed. We love to stay in touch with classmates and welcome friendly faces calling at our door.” Their new address is 71 Adams Street, Medfield, MA 02052.

And in other news, they are enormously proud that their son Joey will be ordained a priest on April 29, 2017, in Rome! • Jane Garvey Reilly visited Washington DC recently for a family reunion—and provided an excuse for Marcia McGrath Abbo, Kathy Sheehan, Jane, and me to share a leisurely Sunday brunch at an outdoor café reliving old times, celebrating the new, and enjoying the warmth of friendships that go back almost five decades. Jane keeps her energy levels up—and she is bursting with energy—by teaching physical education to school children at least three days a week. Kathy is making a remarkable recovery from her recent ankle surgery, and Marcia was getting ready to pack up to head to Florida for the winter. • And another piece of good news that has been well worth waiting for: Pat Winkler Browne NC’60 reports that the terms of the Newton Scholarship— established by Newton graduates when Newton became part of Boston College to provide financial aid to children of Newton alumni—have now been legally amended (to account for the fact that there are no more children of Newton graduates of college age). In short, the scholarship is no longer dormant. It is now available to eligible graduates of Sacred Heart network schools, with a secondary preference to other Catholic high school graduates.

Alumnae can support the Newton Scholarship Fund by designating their contribution to BC as a gift to the Newton Scholarship. • Best wishes to all for much more good news in the coming season!

Correspondent: Fran Dubrowski dubrowski@aol.com

1971 Brian Yates is the dean—and the longest consecutively serving member—of the Newton City Council (formerly Board of Aldermen). • George Stanley retired from the USPS in April and then joined his wife of one year, Jean, in Caloocan, the Philippines. Unfortunately, he had to return home to Hamden, CT, without her as she awaits her visa. He writes: “I hope all my old friends are well. You and BC go wherever I go. Thank you for your kind friendship to me.” • Dave LaHaise and his wife, Linda, are now permanent residents of the Sunshine State and have moved to their home in Vero Beach. Dave is active in the health-care technology outsourcing marketplace in the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions for CareTech Solutions. He and Linda are the proud parents of eight children—including BC alum Eric ’03— and seven grandchildren. They enjoy travels to Austin, Boston, and New Hampshire to visit with family and friends.

Correspondent: James R. Macho jmacho71@bc.edu

NC 1971 Happy 2017 to all! Hopefully, your holidays were happy, and the brave are weathering the winter here in the North while others have flown with the Canada geese to warmer climes. However, let’s not forget our classmates who have chosen to live full-time in places that rarely see snow.

No matter where you are while reading this column, I wish you a happy, healthy new year. • Since our reunion in June, I have followed up with a couple of people who couldn’t attend. Kate Foley and I met Donna Perazzini Gwozdz for lunch in nearby Norwich, CT. Donna shared serious and comical stories from the last 45 years, which included a career in elementary school teaching. I had brought photos from some of our freshman year Junior Weekend experiences, which Donna was pleased to add to her scrapbook. Kate organized our drive to Stamford to meet Jane Maguire.

We had lunch at a quiet spot called Chez Vous. Jane is a retired attorney (as of June 2016) living on Long Island and enjoying traveling near and far. We talked nonstop for two-and-a-half hours. As our luncheon ended, we vowed to meet up again in the spring. • Facebook has also helped our class stay connected. Here are some tidbits I have garnered from social media: Jean McVoy Pratt passed through Mystic, CT, on her way to visit relatives in Massachusetts and had dinner at the Oyster Club, just 10 minutes from my house. As a matter of fact, my husband and I had dinner there ourselves on November 10, which was the 41st anniversary of our first date.

In addition to her travels to New England this past year, Jean has been to Nashville and Williamsburg and also Missouri and Colorado. Marie Robey Wood has also been traveling. She and her son John loved their trip to Machu Picchu in October. Martha Kendrick, another Facebook friend, enjoys

a productive, family-filled life in Chevy Chase, MD. Her newest love is her 15-month-old granddaughter. • Eileen McIntyre has been busy interviewing veterans as part of the national StoryCorps project. Their oral histories will join a collection of over 60,000 stories at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. You can read more about Eileen’s work in a November 3, 2016, Boston Globe article by Johanna Seltz. • Please email me any information you would like shared. In the meantime, enjoy whatever gives you a sense of pleasure and accomplishment, and please remain committed to staying in touch with your NCSH classmates. It really is rewarding and just plain fun.

Correspondent: Melissa Robbins melrob49@sbcglobal.net

1972 45TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

I hope this finds some of you making plans to attend our class reunion on campus, June 2–4. • I received several messages after my last column was published. Thanks to everyone who wrote!

• Tom Borgia, dean of the West Virginia University School of Dentistry, wrote to advise me that there’s at least one dentist in our class whose name I omitted in the Summer issue: Joe Flanagan has a practice in Waldoboro, ME. Joe, Tom, and Bill Broas—who’s retired in Williamsburg, VA—shared an apartment while they attended Georgetown Dental School. • Fred Flynn wrote about his latest fundraiser for his charity, the Susan D. Flynn Oncology Nursing Fellowship Program, created in memory of his late wife. Fred and his son, Matthew ’13, played seven rounds of golf (126 holes) in one day and raised $50,000 in the process. The charity provides fellowships for numerous nursing students, including some from BC, each year. • Pat McGovern, who’s still a vascular surgeon near his home in Bayonne, NJ, reports that he attended the BC–Georgia Tech game in Ireland along with his entire family: wife Patty, and sons P.J., who teaches Mandarin Chinese at St. Peter’s Prep; Chris, who’s a Wall Street investment banker; and Michael ’09, who was a consultant at Deloitte and is now a grad student at Harvard. • John Saputo wrote that he owns two Anheuser Busch beer distributorships, one near his home in Sarasota, FL, and one in Ohio. He’s also a retired Marine Corps colonel, who was in combat twice—once as recently as 2004!

John and his wife have four daughters and seven grandchildren. • Alan Kreczko reports that he has retired from his job as general counsel at The Hartford insurance company and was nominated by President Obama to the IRS Oversight Board in 2015. He recently took a fly-fishing trip to Montana with classmate Bill Ingellis and met Newburgh, NY, attorney Joe Catania there. He’s in touch with Dave Auth, who’s CEO of Connor Homes, Robert

Huard, who works in the U.S. Defense Department, and Brian Houston, who’s retired in Portland, ME. Correspondent: Lawrence Edgar ledgar72@gmail.com

NC 1972 45TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Congratulations to Lisa Kirby Greissing, chair of the Eastern Regional Conference of the Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart (AASH), and Rhonda Raffi Meegan NC’75, AASH eastern regional director, for making the wellattended November meeting, a true sharing of our Sacred Heart spirit. • Kathy Hickey Barrie and Margie Cangemi Sullivan are now planning our 45th reunion. Please take a moment to update your personal information (email, telephone number, and address) so they can keep us abreast of 45th reunion news. • Susan Martell Buffone took a few moments from her around-the-world trip with National Geographic to send news. She was visiting 11 countries and seeing sites from Machu Picchu to the Taj Mahal to Petra and points in between. “The trip of a lifetime. The guides are all world-class explorers who have made amazing discoveries in their own right. I am having a fantastic time,” she writes. • Mike and Shelly (Noone) Connolly announce the birth of their fifth and newest grandchild, Bennett, son of Peter and Meghan (Connolly) Towne ’07.

Shelly is really enjoying the political scene in New Hampshire at the state and local levels—her town has a population of about 2,000. She has attended candidate nights for those running for state legislature seats and loves running into those candidates at church, grocery stores, and on the street.

• Meg Barres Alonso and Mario ’72 just left for their St. Petersburg, FL, home, where they live half-time. Mario has retired. A permanent move to Florida may occur in the future, but the pull of grandkids in Pennsylvania makes it impossible until they move to Florida too. Meg also reported: “Otherwise nothing new except the quest to both become poker pros.” • Vance Bonner is loving life and finishing her second book on her posture and alignment work, the Vance Stance, in Bend, OR. She teaches classes in her home studio, helping people find the causes of pain, and removing them.

“I give great credit to my Sacred Heart education for teaching me how to think and to look at a problem from a different perspective,” writes Vance. She credits classes in philosophy, art, and English as forming the basis for her seminal intuitive leap to discovering that the cause of pain was not that we had been “designed wrong,” as others had insisted. She also realized that we had been using our bodies incorrectly, and that we are standing behind the line of gravity, not in its flow, causing poor posture and compression, which causes pain. Vance spends late spring and summer in Dickerson, MD, and would love to hear 63

from all her friends. • Along with my plea for news, please start preparing to attend our 45th reunion.

Correspondent: Nancy Brouillard McKenzie newton885@bc.edu

1973 As the new year has begun, let this be a reminder to get in touch or stay in touch with former classmates! I received the following note from Raymond Keough on just this topic: “I have been teaching English now for 30 years at Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School in Fall River. I also teach ESL at CCRI, and I teach for the English department at Fitchburg State University. I would love to reconnect with any of my teammates from the BC lacrosse team (Division I) from the early years of the program.” Interested classmates may find Ray at 401-743-3561 or 12 Hilary Avenue, Cumberland, RI 02864.

• In November, attorney Paul Moore, JD’76, was nominated as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy; he will be inducted in a ceremony in Washington DC in March. Paul is a partner at Duane Morris, where he focuses his practice on business reorganization, bankruptcy law and litigation, and loan workouts. Also a frequent author and lecturer on bankruptcy and loan workout matters, he has been repeatedly recognized as a Super Lawyer in Boston magazine and named one of Corporate Counsel magazine’s Best Lawyers.

Correspondent: Patricia DiPillo perseus813@aol.com

NC 1973 Slow news season! I heard from just three of you. • Joan Stuckey Mitchell checked in from the Netherlands, where she and husband Tom have been living since October while

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Tom is on sabbatical from Carnegie Mellon University to do research at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Meanwhile, Joan has been trying to learn Dutch while traveling around by foot, bike, bus, and train. • Liz Canavan reported that “life is wonderful!” She works at MassMutual as chief of staff for the head of technology, loves her job, and has no retirement plans. She has three children: Her oldest, John, just received his doctorate from UNC Chapel Hill and is now teaching at the University of Richmond; Tim, a web developer, and his wife, Kerin, live in Tampa with their first child, who was born in April; and daughter KC, who also works at MassMutual, is married with a twoyear-old. Liz is thoroughly enjoying the role of Nana, and she would like to reconnect with Newton classmates on Facebook. Friend her! • Mary Doherty Ellroy, MBA’78, sees no retirement soon either. She is still busy inventing toys and games. Her game Great States is in its 17th year of publication and still going strong! • By the time you read this most of us will be on Medicare! For our next column, I am hoping many of you will share with us all how we spent our 65th birthdays!

Hard to believe!

Correspondent: Kate Novak Vick kate@vick.net

1974 Hi, everyone! I hope you are well. • I received a great note from Chad Glenn, who wrote after reading the item about Tom deVries in our Summer column. Retiring after 33 years with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Chad and his wife have been packing up to downsize and do some traveling. In the process, they came across some photos Tom had sent Chad of a hiking trip they had made in the 1980s. (If you have “old” pictures you’d like to share with the class, please consider posting them on the Class of 1974 Facebook page. It’s a “closed site” just for classmates.) Thanks, Chad!

• Several members of our class traveled to Dublin for the BC football game in September. Despite the outcome, it sounds like it was a great time. Mary O’Connell Grant, MS’76, made the trip with several friends and family members and shared that it was a wonderful time, and everyone truly felt the “We Are BC” spirit! Ken and Jo (Ursini) Krantz met Lance Stuart for lunch at the Guinness Storehouse and a tour during that trip. They had a great visit. • I hope you have a chance to visit the McMullen Museum in its beautiful new location on the Brighton campus. In the atrium is a stunning 127-yearold stained glass triptych by American artist John La Farge. This piece was donated to the museum by our classmate William Vareika and his wife, Alison, who are also the parents of two BC grads. • Jan Kerpchar Trifero met up with classmate Debbie Branigan Liebner, who lives in Albuquerque, and also fellow Connecticutite Nancy Holt Pastore, who is a Greenwich real estate agent. Jan continues to work on films and TV series such as The Blind Side and The Blacklist. She was planning to travel to Paris with her daughter. • I am sorry to report the

June passing of Charles “Chuck” Piekarski.

Please keep his wife, Nancy; twin daughters, Laura and Sarah; and extended family in your prayers. Chuck had a long career with the IRS and eventually was the senior IT manager in DC before retiring. • Our family is doing well and continues to grow! Our newest addition, James Gregory, was born in August to his proud parents: our daughter Andrea Evans Zoia ’07 and her husband, Zach ’08. It’s a good life! • Take care; have a happy, healthy, and peaceful 2017; and please consider sharing some of your news!

Correspondent: Patricia McNabb Evans patricia.mcnabb.evans@gmail.com

NC 1974 Correspondent: Beth Docktor Nolan beth.docktor.nolan@bc.edu

1975 Hi, everyone! After 23 years of working in the business world, Terence McSweeney retired and became an English and social studies middle school teacher, which he has enjoyed for the past 20 years. In 2006 he was named the Connecticut Association of Schools Middle School Teacher of the Year and in 2007, the Windsor Teacher of the Year, going on to be a state semifinalist. He also holds a master’s degree in elementary education. Terence and his wife, Joyce (Gomes) ’76, recently celebrated their 40th anniversary. Their son, Adam, runs his own marketing firm, and their daughter, Cara ’13, will be graduating from law school this year. • Blake Godbout’s most recent BC-related activities include supporting the fantastic efforts of McMullen Museum Director Nancy Netzer. Blake writes: “Our new museum is testament to the incredible growth of our University.” Also, together with Jay Greenberg ’08, he started the BC men’s squash booster group. Over the past three seasons, they have contributed financial and strategic assistance; stay tuned for more news on this great BC club sport.

• In September, Pat Casey MEd’81, Julie McGovern, yours truly, and 50 additional supporters attended a fundraiser at Doyle’s in Jamaica Plain for the Sister Mary Hart Children’s Program. Julie is the executive director of this after-school program and summer camp serving the children of Roxbury. Sr. Mary, who received an honorary degree from BC in 2010, established the program over 30 years ago. A Good Shepherd sister, she passionately believed that all children should have an equal opportunity to succeed and that education leveled the playing field. The program is grateful to the Boston College Campus Ministry program 4Boston for the wonderful student volunteers who help carry on Sr. Mary’s legacy. • This concludes the Winter issue of the BC Class of ’75 column. Please don’t hesitate to send in any news, updates, milestones, etc. • Wishing you all peace, joy, and good health in the new year!

Correspondent: Hellas M. Assad hellasdamas@hotmail.com

NC 1975 It was great to hear from Kathy HughesMorris. She and her husband, Bob Morris ’74, live in Concord and are, in Kathy’s words, “typical empty nesters, with three kids living in Massachusetts, LA, and Vermont, and completely enjoying life as grandparents to grandson Dylan.” Kathy recently retired from her decorating business, and Bob, after retiring from the corporate world, is an adjunct professor in BC’s Carroll School of Management.

Travel, family time at their home in Maine, and winter months in Charleston, SC, keep them on the go. “It’s all good!” Kathy writes. • Joanne “Jo” Chouinard-Luth sent a wonderful update. After 30 years as a dentist in Chicago, she retired, moved back east, and is now a nutritionist and chef!

Along the way, she completed an MS in nutrition at Columbia’s Institute of Human Nutrition in 2011, and she just finished training as a full-fledged chef at New York Institute of Culinary Education, receiving the Top Toque award by faculty vote. She specializes in mitochondrial medicine research and mitigation of chronic disease with lifestyle change. As a big omega-3 fan, she develops recipes for the home cook with that emphasis. Jo writes that she “married John Luth, my College of the Holy Cross sweetheart, about 42 years after our first date, having not seen him for almost 38 of those years. Hence Joanne ChouinardLuth! I have three stepchildren: Avery and Martha (13-year-old twins) and Hamilton (20).” Jo runs a charitable foundation in their names, focusing on fitness and nutrition projects, and enjoys competing in Latin and swing dance. Brava, Jo! • We were saddened to learn of the death of Frances “Francie” Anhut on October 24 after a 16month battle with lung cancer. We extend our deepest sympathies to her family and friends. Shortly before Francie’s passing, the Community College of Denver Foundation created the Francie Anhut Scholarship to recognize her tireless efforts in support of student scholarships. • Congratulations to Deirdre “Dee” Brennan, executive director of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS)! Dee was the 2016 recipient of the Illinois Library Association’s Atkinson Memorial/Demco Award, which “recognizes an individual, group, program, or institution for sustained activity and contributions having a lasting impact on librarianship.” • In June, Gina Lopez was named secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in her native Philippines. Gina returned to Manila after her freshman year at Newton and at 18, embarked on a 20-year journey as a yoga missionary. Returning to Manila, she joined the ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation, where she had served as chair before her DENR appointment—a fascinating life story! • Thanks to the efforts of Pat Winkler Browne NC’60, the Newton Scholarship Fund has been reactivated; you can now direct your contribution there when you make a donation to BC. Originally created for the benefit of children of Newton

College graduates who were eligible for financial aid, it has been restructured so it is now available to eligible graduates of Sacred Heart network schools, with a secondary preference to other Catholic high school graduates. The Newton Scholarship will continue to honor our legacy, and recipients will be given a history of Newton and the Sacred Heart nuns who established it. We hope you will consider supporting this scholarship for years to come. • I look forward to hearing your news!

Correspondent: Karen Foley Freeman karenfoleyfreeman@gmail.com

1976 It was great to hear that so many of us had a blast at Reunion last June, among them Joseph Nowlan, Rosemary Mead Trompeter, and Henry Johnson. • When last heard from, Robert Rusak had retired after 40 years in the corporate world. Last summer, he and his wife relocated from Mountain Lakes, NJ, to historical and beautiful Charleston, SC. He’s looking forward to dealing with far less snow! Their New Jersey ties are still strong, and they will continue to summer at their beach house on Long Beach Island. • Yet another loss! Anne Marie Paolella Ferris passed away last August at home in Glastonbury, CT, after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Born in New Haven, Anne lived in Glastonbury for the past 40 years. A graduate of Sacred Heart Academy, she received her BA in sociology, magna cum laude, from BC. Anne is survived by her husband, Michael ’74, and three sons—Peter, Jonathan, and Daniel—as well as a sister, three brothers, and eight grandchildren. • Say a prayer for our ill classmates! Here’s hoping the ’76ers have a great winter. God bless!

Correspondent: Gerald B. Shea gerbs54@hotmail.com

1977 40TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Karen Grace-Baker, of Los Angeles, writes: “We are almost full-fledged empty nesters.”

She and her husband, Richard Baker (Stanford ’77, Harvard/MIT ’84), have two daughters: Lauren (Stanford ’13) is now attending Wharton, and Rachel is at Yale.

Karen manages her own college consulting business, Right College Choice, where she helps students (and their anxious parents) navigate the college application and admissions process. She also teaches an online course for aspiring college counselors and independent educational consultants for UCLA; volunteers with college access and professional organizations; and does pro bono work with students who otherwise would not be able to afford her services. She and Richard have been traveling internationally, and anticipate more adventures in the future. While they don’t often get back to New England, Karen hopes to attend Reunion 2017 and to see her classmates

from the Lynch School of Education as well as former BTP classmates. • Speaking of Reunion, Jennifer Lynch sends this special message regarding our 40th: “If you would like to see what we are doing for our reunion, follow the Facebook page that was established for our class. Feel free to post photos (even from yes…40-plus years ago), and please forward the link to your roommate(s) and friends.” • Joe Gargiulo has already been in touch with classmates: He recently got together with Dennis and Barbara (Lawrence) Asselin, Patti and Frank Nemia, Jane (Malloy) ’76 and Marty Corry, and Paul Cahill JD’81 in Mashpee on Cape Cod, where the group enjoyed a little golf, boating, and great meals! Joe lives in Fairfax, VA. • And back in November 2015, Beth Furman, of Wellesley, and her very close BC classmates celebrated 42 years of friendship at the Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY. They had a wonderful weekend of celebration, with lots of laughs, hiking, golfing, spa pampering, good food, and dancing! The attendees of the extraordinary celebration were Katy Harrison Ostroff MSW’83, of Leominster; Rita D’Agostino Petrossian, of Sands Point Beach, NY; Mary Cullum Obermayer, of Wilton CT; Lynne Douglas McGillicuddy, of Columbia, MD; Kathleen Devlin MEd’82, of Drake Island, ME, and Stow; Joan Lanigan Strauss, of Newburyport; Loretta Leoni Summers, of Hinsdale, IL; Maureen Hogan Vaughan, of Fort Lauderdale, FL, and Rye, NH; Barbara Schell Rowan, of Fishkill, NY; Linda Dowling Almeida MA’79, of Clifton, NJ; Karen Agresti of Newton and Falmouth; Gina Lambert, of Brightwaters, NY; and Debbie Keyes Tagliaferri. The ladies felt very fortunate to have Maureen teach them a private yoga class! • Jeffrey Wolf has been employed by Progress Software as a technical support engineer for the past year. He earned his master’s in software engineering in 2011 from Brandeis University. His daughter, Elissa, a graduate of Penn State, earned a master’s degree in education from UMass Boston and is now a seventh-grade science teacher in Needham.

She lives with husband Josh and daughter Kaia in Natick. Jeffrey’s son Jason graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a business degree. He lives in Reston, VA, and works for the Freeman Company. Son Gregory graduated from Ithaca College and works for Game Creek Video. The Wolfs live in West Roxbury. • May all good things find the path to your door!

Correspondent: Nicholas Kydes nicholaskydes@yahoo.com

1978 Correspondent: Julie Butler julesbutler33@gmail.com

1979 I hope all are doing well. • It was great to see ’79ers in Ireland cheering on our Eagles football team in early September. I got to 65

hang out in the lounge with Brian Kickham, Douglas Bagley, Larry Giangregorio, Mike Grieco, Joe Chicarello, Mike and Cindy (Difiore) Hickey, Jane (Hauber) ’80 and Ed Fay JD’82, Peter Martino, and Joe Travaglini. • Bill Duggan and his wife, Amelia (Vitacco) ’80, also made the trip to Ireland. Daughters Haley and Molly are BC sophomores and are members of the Screaming Eagles Marching Band; they played at the game as well as in and around Dublin at places such as Trinity College and Malahide Castle. The girls are triplets, and their sister, Katie (a student at Princeton), also made the trip. • Ken Pierce lives on Cape Elizabeth, ME, with his wife, Kathleen (O’Connor) ’80. Their second son, Matty ’16, graduated from BC in May and is working as a media coordinator at Partners & Simons in Boston. Ken has served as president of the BC Alumni Association.

He is a partner at the law firm Monaghan Leahy in Portland. • Brenda Hamlet has a new job as an adjunct professor of writing in the English department at Rutgers.

She writes: “My eldest son, Oliver, is a specialist in geriatric medicine at Middlesex Hospital in London. He and his wife, Naomi, recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary. My youngest son, Julian, is an actor with several London– based theater companies. We celebrate Christmas in Oxford and summers in New Jersey—and anything we can in between.” • Kerry O’Mahony is currently doing staffing for a classified division of an aerospace engineering company that designs spy satellites and space telescopes.

An avid traveler and mountain climber, she climbed the Swiss Bernese Alps in 2015 and hopes to ascend Mont Blanc this year with her Japanese partner, Toshi.

• Peter and Wendy (Jones) Kuda are the proud parents of Matthew, their BC Eagle, who is a sophomore studying computer science, playing men’s club volleyball, and loving BC; their daughter, Kimberly, who is studying nursing at Northeastern; and their oldest son, PJ, who is a musician and waiter in New York City. Wendy is teaching mathematics in Andover and enjoys sharing her enthusiasm with middle-school kids. She stays in touch with Lori Gagne Pendleton, who lives in Old Saybrook, CT, and Rosemary Rossi ’80, in San Francisco. • As for me, I have been working at a high school educational start-up, the Commonwealth Leadership Institute, working with high school students from across eastern Massachusetts, and providing an after-school entrepreneurship class that concludes with the “Shark Bowl” competition which we launched in September. • Please join our Facebook page: Boston College Class of 1979. • Have a great winter, and send me some news!

Correspondent: Peter J. Bagley peter@peterbagley.com

1980 Our class continues to give a strong showing at home and away football games, hosting fabulous tailgates that Fr. 66

Hanrahan would be proud of! His legacy lives on at Class of 1980 pre- and postgame fetes hosted by Mary Larkin as well as Mary Menna Darveau. Any others out there? I suspect that our class spirit must be represented at more than two tailgates!

Let me know if you’ve also been a tailgate host and have tales to share! • Ann Grace Wallace’s work nearly made it to the White House. Ann was chosen by vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine’s wife, Anne Holton, as her personal fashion coach and stylist for the campaign. Our classmate Ann met Governor Kaine’s wife in 2005 while working as a personal shopper in Richmond, VA; they started working together during the Kaine gubernatorial race. Ann has since moved back to Boston and works with clients locally and remotely.

• Sawsan Ahmed Galal reports that after living in West Virginia for 20 years, she has recently moved back to Massachusetts— more specifically, Rockport. She purchased a B&B there, named the Sally Webster Inn, so if you’re ever in the area…! It was last reported here that Sawsan owned and operated an inn in Beckley, WV. After BC she attended culinary school, earning an additional degree. “I enjoy the chefinnkeeper’s life and am always looking forward to my guests’ arrival,” she writes.

• Philanthropist Rob Griffin chaired the Boston Children’s Hospital Foundation gala.

Classmates John and Nancy (D’Alfonso) Frates attended, witnessing son Pete ’07 receive the first annual Corey Griffin Humanitarian Award. Entertainment included Jay Leno and The Spinners. The award is named on behalf of Rob’s late son, Corey ’10, who tragically passed away in a diving accident in Nantucket in 2014.

• Classmates, this is a request for your updates for our class notes. Please share what you have been doing lately! Are you retiring? Founding a new venture? Running away to another country? Please let me know so I can report it in our column!

Correspondent: Michele Nadeem michele.nadeem@gmail.com

1981 Congratulations to Chris Foy, MBA’86, who was named 2016 Man of the Year by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society! Led

by Chris’s wife, Noel (Pini) MA’85; Frank and Marie (Krowicki) O’Connor; John “Bags” Battaglia MBA’92; and Dan Jones, among others, Team Foy raised an amazing $211,000 during the 10-week fundraising period. Chris and five other determined Man and Woman of the Year candidates crushed the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s $450,000 goal by raising a staggering $611,000 (a Massachusetts chapter record!). Funds support research for blood cancers and assist families in need. Team Foy also won a Mission Award, which goes to the candidate who best raises awareness for treatments and related initiatives, especially the Donor Bank Registry. Our best wishes to Chris, his family, and the rest of his team for Chris’s continued good health and generous

spirit! • If you have a child applying to law school anytime soon, consider enlisting the help of our classmate Anne Richard.

After earning her law degree from Yale Law School and practicing law in both the public and the private sectors, Anne served as dean of admissions at three toptier law schools—University of Virginia School of Law (my alma mater!), George Washington University Law School, and George Mason University School of Law. Anne now has her own consulting firm, AMRichard Prelaw and Educational Consulting, in Alexandria, VA, and is able to share a wealth of knowledge and experience with those considering law school. • Congratulations to John Graham, who was named president of Speedo USA in October! John has had a long and successful career in the sports apparel industry. He began his career at Nike, was senior VP of commerce for EastonBell Sports, and then senior VP of sales for surf and snowboarding apparel brand Quicksilver. The Animal Cuppers appear excited for the opportunity to don Speedos at their next gathering in Johnny G’s honor.

I generally enjoy receiving photos from that group, but I may have to pass on that one! • I am sorry to report that Martha Ries passed away in Prien, Germany, in May while undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer.

Martha was VP of intellectual property management at the Boeing Company. She is survived by her husband, David Day; two children, Lauren and Ryan Day; and her mother, Mary Thomson Ries. Among many other accomplishments, Martha was a member of the varsity field hockey team at BC, served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Seattle, earned her JD from St. Louis University with cum laude distinction, clerked for the Missouri Supreme Court, was a partner at the Seattle law firm Bogle & Gates before joining Boeing in 1997, and founded the organization Seattle Women in International Business. She is greatly missed by many. Our sincere condolences to Martha’s family and friends.

Correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee amckee81@aol.com

1982 35TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Elizabeth Boyle Eckel shared that she brought her son, a high school senior in Rhode Island, on a tour of BC. The visit brought back so many wonderful memories.

Her son loved BC and hopes to be an Eagle in the Class of 2021. • This past summer, Judy Whidden Durkin, Diana “Dee” Vanvliet Feirstein, Patty Gallacher Montague, and Annette Waskiewicz MacLeod gathered for a weekend on Cape Cod. Everyone is married with children. They all enjoyed catching up on old times and sharing stories of their families. Everyone was surprised at how the years have flown by and how easy it was to catch up with one another right where they had left off. Annette and Judy reside in Massachusetts; Dee, in New York; and

Patty, in New Jersey. Judy and her family traveled to the BC football season opener in Dublin as part of the BC alumni trip on Labor Day weekend. Although the team lost, they had a great time exploring Ireland and seeing so many fellow alumni. Judy is still working at Raytheon, after 34 years, as the VP of financial planning and analysis.

• Rob Eberle shared that Elizabeth Burns Kirby passed away peacefully on July 6 after a long illness. Liz lived in Hingham with her husband of 30 years, Paul Kirby. They had four sons: Maximillian, of Manhattan; Ian and Evan, both of West Palm Beach; and Samuel, of Hingham. Donations in Liz’s memory may be made to the Burns Library at Boston College. We send our deepest sympathy to Liz’s husband and children.

Correspondent: Mary O’Brien maryobrien14@comcast.net

1983 In November, Edward Hanley and his middle daughter, Luciana, launched AIR FORT on Kickstarter. The two joined forces last year, after Luciana graduated from San Diego State University, to create the most unique new fort for kids to hit the market; this one inflates in less than 30 seconds with use of an ordinary household fan. Ed and his wife, Rainey, have been married 31 years. Their two other daughters, Rose ’11 and Ariana ’16, have been working in Boston since graduating from BC. Needless to say, Ed and Rainey make frequent trips to Boston from their home in San Diego to visit their daughters. • Curt Dobrowolski Allen, son of Charlene “Chellie” Allen and Peter Dobrowolski, of Hardwick, is a freshman in the Carroll School of Management. • Richard Downey recently joined the board of the Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress. The organization provides support for individuals with Down syndrome and their families and creates and influences legislation affecting people with this and other disabilities.

Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com

1984 Greetings, classmates! Here’s the news I have received. • Bernadette Diaz and her husband, Mark Trinka, live in Oak Park, IL, and have four children. Their oldest, Luke, graduated in May from Bowdoin, where their daughter Tess is now a junior.

Daughter Maya is a freshman at BC, and their youngest, Mark, is in eighth grade.

Bernadette teaches reading to Chicago Public School first-graders who are struggling readers. She writes that having a freshman at BC brought her into contact with her former BC tennis teammate Julie Sheridan Ricciardi. Julie has a daughter who is a freshman at BC and a son who is a junior there. Bernadette has been in contact with Dan Cahill, whose daughter is also a freshman at BC. Bernadette writes that while visiting her daughter in Boston, she also enjoyed seeing her

former roommate Anne Stingle. • We also heard from Michael Nurse, who lives in Williamsville, NY, with his wife, Julie, and their family. He writes that he enjoyed the summer in Western New York. Mike is VP and general manager of WKBW-TV, an ABC affiliate in Buffalo. He serves on the New York State Broadcasters Association board and has lobbied on Capitol Hill.

Mike’s oldest daughter is attending RIT in Rochester; Mike says she didn’t want to go to college in Boston! He and Julie also have 17-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, who keep them hopping. The boy is severely autistic, and the family is active in his care and in raising funds for his special school. Mike reports that they are still Sox fans trapped in Yankee country! • Thanks for the news.

As many of you know, I send out mass emailings, as does BC, requesting news and updates from classmates. Hope you will respond so we can keep our 1984 column filled! I’m looking forward to hearing from you soon!

Correspondent: Carol A. McConnell bc1984notes@optimum.net

1985 The Hillside C-56 roommates got together in Southern California this past summer.

Pam Risio Ferraro, Rachel O’Hara Kurtyka, Mary Tyrrell Coughlin, and Eileen Goerss Thornberry were hosted by Shelly Barillo McGillivray (and her husband, Dan McGillivray) and Lisa Hartunian Campbell.

They had a blast—hiking, swimming, sightseeing, and talking, talking, talking! • Martha Bagley traveled to Dublin with her brother Pete ’79 for the BC football game and had a great time despite the game loss. • Doug Guyer ’83 was nice to share that outside Philly, in Wayne, PA, a group of BC guys play hockey every Saturday morning, led by ’85er Larry Schwartz.

Larry is a managing partner in a gypsum quarry in the Dominican Republic, though he’s based out of Wayne. He and his wife, Tracey (Campbell), have three children.

• Terry and Sharon (Staley) Richardson’s son, Michael ’13, married Sarah Catherine Haines ’13 in October in Florence, AL. Another BC couple! They had a wonderful time celebrating the big event with lots of family and friends, including David ’82 and Angela (Quinn) Crispi and Bill and Lauren (Garrity) Fotos. Terry is a VP at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Sharon continues to teach preschool in Hopkinton.

• Joe Ailinger, MA’90, is proud to share that his daughter is attending Roger Williams University on a presidential scholarship and is majoring in psychology. Joe is VP of media relations at BNY Mellon in Boston.

He also serves on the board of Bay Cove Human Services, a nonprofit that helps people who face the lifelong challenges of developmental disabilities, aging, mental illness, and drug and alcohol addiction. • Bob and Theresa (Francis) Rahikka, MA’87, celebrated their 10th anniversary with a trip to Europe. • Theresa Luca Gilbert was asked by her son, Michael, to join a Tanzania service trip through his high

school in Vermont. It turned out that the faculty leader of the group was fellow BC alumna Maggie O’Hara-Swanke ’83. All four members of the Gilbert family joined the trip to Tanzania. They volunteered in a village and went on safari, where lions were two feet from their vehicle. Theresa looks forward to participating in another service trip to Tanzania with Maggie. • I’m very sorry to share that Charles “Chip” Flaherty, of Hingham, passed away unexpectedly in April. He leaves his wife and two children. • Please continue to send along your notes. I do hope 2017 is a good year for everyone.

Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bww415@gmail.com

1986 Just a couple of emails this quarter—and thanks so much to those who wrote! Please update me on yourself and your friends next quarter. I love hearing the news first! • Yes, you guessed it, I will also update you on myself and my friends and our adventures in Ireland. I had an awesome opportunity to go to Ireland to golf and cheer on our BC Eagles last August. Although BC lost to Georgia Tech in the final seconds of the game, we still had a blast because win or lose we love our Eagles! My travel gang was the usual suspects: Matthew Taylor, Dave O’Connor, Terry O’Brien O’Connor ’83, Bobby Duran, Ron Murphy, Chris Massaro, and John ’87 and Lizanne (Tague) Kenney. As you would guess from this lineup, an epic time was had by all! The trip was wonderful from start to finish: You can’t imagine how amazing the golf was (not many lost balls and nonstop laughs); also, unbelievably great weather with no rain, beyond friendly people, constant party atmosphere, spectacular scenery, awesome pubs every two feet, and the best french fries ever! The Irish sure know what to do with the white potato, and they know how to have a good time all the time! While we were there, we saw some other BC alumni and ’86 classmates at a pub (shocker!) and some at a BC Mass in Dublin: Tom Bergwall, Mikey Murphy Hoag, Pete Clifford, Rosemary Scardaville, Kathy McCabe, Pete Caride, Kristi Lagerstrom Flaherty, Mike and Sheilah (Munsell) McCauley, Ellie and Kevin Kenny, and Rob Gonzalez ’87. I hope I didn’t miss anyone—if so I apologize. Let me know, and I will include your name in our next column. Thanks to Tom and Kevin, who organized a minireunion at a fun pub, but Kevin did not make it because he was hanging out with football Eagle No. 98, Jack Kenny ’18—his son! We all agreed that this was a cool reason to miss hanging out with ’86ers in a Dublin bar. • Congrats to the BC Eagles football team—bowl-bound after a roller-coaster season! Shout-out to all BC fall sports and congrats to all the athletes on their many outstanding seasons. • Back on this side of the big pond, it was great to hear from Mary Meehan McMahon. A theology major while at BC, Mary is now enjoying teaching that subject at Presentation of Mary Academy in Methuen. She lives in Bedford, NH. • Also educators, Peter Collins and his 67

wife of 29 years, Teresa (Coppola) ’85, live in Danvers. Their son Jared ’12 is in his second year at Northeastern Law School. Younger son Ethan graduated from WPI last May and is employed at Consigli Construction. Peter is celebrating his eighth year of teaching middle school in Saugus after 15 years as a PGA professional, and Teresa is in her 31st year as a teacher, currently her 20th year in Danvers. “Anybody ready to retire?” Peter inquires. • I hope everyone is doing well and “living the dream”—please write in with any news you’d like to see in our column.

At the reunion, I got some suggestions for our column: in addition to updates on career or vacation destinations, notes on what our children are doing now, who has children at BC now, and which ’86 Eagles still hang out together. These are just a few ideas. Also, I am happy to continue doing class notes but if anyone wants to do it, I am happy to pass the baton to some new blood—just let me know. I really appreciate all the emails, positive feedback, and suggestions. Stay connected and send in those emails. Have a great three months, and go BC! Correspondent: Leenie Kelley leeniekelley@hotmail.com

1987 30TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

I hope everyone had the happiest of holidays and that 2017 is off to a positive start. • It’s the Winter issue, so let’s start with a note from a classmate who lives in a warm climate. We heard from Timothy Beneski, who’s teaching at Honoka’a High and Intermediate School on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has lived with his wife and their four sons for five years. Aloha, Timothy, and thanks for the note and giving us some warm thoughts. • We also heard from Missie Bertolino Bankes, giving us the 411 about her family hosting a Boston College Global Day of Service. BC grads and their families and friends provided a day of service at the Community Giving Tree in Middleton. Missie; her husband, Chip; and their kids, Peter and Jennie, also hosted their second Children’s Food Drive through Cor Unum Meal Center in Lawrence. And in December, they hosted their second toy drive for children who would otherwise have nothing at Christmas. Please contact Missie if you would like to get involved. She can be reached at 617-281-0522. Thanks for your generosity, Missie. • Moving back to the warmth of Miami: Nina de la Sierra Murphy is elated that her oldest daughter, Marissa, is graduating from BC in May, but regrets that will most likely prevent her from making the reunion in June (more on the reunion below). Nina will still be back on campus often because her son, Nic, is a sophomore at BC. She is also hopeful that her other daughter, Alina, who is now in the college application process, will complete the hat trick and become her third Eagle.

If anyone is in the Miami area, Nina would love to hear from you. • Also keeping it all in the BC family, Meg Pechilio Mackey felt 68

inspired to write since her son, Nicholas, is now a freshman, Class of 2020; she was excited to attend orientation with him.

Meg, husband Tom, and their three sons now reside in Keswick, VA, but spend the summers in Falmouth. Meg is also looking forward to Reunion! She just saw her BC roommate Denise Ricciardi at a get-together in New Jersey. See you at the reunion, ladies.

• Yes, it is the Class of ’87’s reunion year.

Can you believe it? Thirty years! It would be great to see everyone and catch up. Save the dates! Reunion Weekend is June 2–4.

You can register online at bc.edu/alumni/ events/reunion. I hope to see you there! • Mary O’Neill writes that she is also looking forward to Reunion. Now living in Atlanta, she moved to Georgia to work for Coca-Cola and stayed. Mary has a passion for yoga and Thai massage and is now certified to teach yoga. • A big congrats to Barry Mitchell, who is now a managing director at UBS. Nice work, Barry! • Finally, and on a very sad note: Our classmate Jerry Toomey passed away, in his sleep, on October 14. Jerry made many people smile and laugh during our times at BC, and his knack for doing so will be missed by many. Rest in peace, Jerry.

Correspondent: Lou Imbriano louis.imbriano@bc.edu

1988 Sorry to report just one report to report. I do have an observation though: My inbox tends to get busy when BC sports teams do well and cool off when they aren’t so hot.

Surely if our teams can keep at it, so can we! • Thanks to José María Domínguez for keeping us alive this quarter! He reports that he, Gustavo Higuerey, Harry Sloate, Ted Holguin, Raja Chatani, Juan Carlos Uribe, and Vicente Pastor Valero ’87 gathered in Spain in June to celebrate a milestone: their 50th birthdays! They made a pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela and the shrine of the Apostle St. James—300 kilometers over four days, starting by bike in the city of León. “We then had a chance to relax for three days in Madrid, where we enjoyed some of the best eating and drinking. Unfortunately, many other classmates couldn’t make it! We can send pictures!” he writes.

Correspondent: Rob Murray murrman@aol.com

1989 I hope everyone enjoyed a great holiday season! More great updates this quarter, helped by our Alumni Association email to all. Let’s keep up the great news sharing in 2017! • Karen Gately Herrick (karenherrick@remax.net), a residential broker with RE/MAX, was fortunate to attend the RE/MAX European Convention in Rome in the fall, while husband Stephen ’85 celebrated his first anniversary with fast-growing L-3 as an optics division program business manager. Their daughter Madeleine (16) spent two weeks in Rouen, France, with her host family last April and

is now deep into the college search process.

Karen and her family have lived in Reading since 1996. • Jim Flaherty (jim@cmbs.com) has been elected to the board of the Golden Gate Yacht Club, defenders of the 35th America’s Cup. He would love to see you in Bermuda this June for the next America’s Cup. • John Calvert (john.calvert@nm.com) writes that he and classmate Terry Link completed an overnight hike to the top of Mount Lafayette on the last day that the camping huts were open in 2016. They were rewarded with amazing weather, views, and a full range of nature’s fall palette, making them wonder why they didn’t do this while at BC. • Patti Reynolds DePhillips (pattidephillips@gmail.com) and husband Chris are happy to report that their son, Timmy, is a freshman in the Carroll School of Management, Class of 2020. • John Taylor (john.taylor.e@gmail.com) writes to say that he and Steve Zubricki met up at a BC event in Boston in October, and then he saw his BC roommate John Lema at St. Mary’s in Beverly. Clearly, BC is everywhere!

• Paul Anzuoni (paulanzo@aol.com) is working at Supino Insurance in Malden.

Paul asked us to pray for his sister Marianne Anzuoni Supino ’80, a kidney-transplant survivor, who has been diagnosed with brain cancer. Our thoughts are with Paul and his family. • And on a sad note, our classmate Richard Ling, of Highlands Ranch, CO, passed away on May 4, 2016.

Correspondent: Andrea McGrath andrea.e.mcgrath@gmail.com

1990 Annie O’Connor, her husband, Lloyd Chapin, and their three sons live in Larchmont, NY. Annie has been at home full-time raising her children for about 15 years. During that time, she’s been an active volunteer and soccer coach, and now she has taken on a part-time position at a hospital in New York City. Annie has developed a passion for tennis and was planning to travel with her team to California for the USTA League National Championships in Indian Wells. Annie’s eldest son, Connor, began his freshman year at the College of William and Mary (after declining offers from both parents’ alma maters!). Second son Aidan may follow in the Jesuit tradition, as he is a sophomore at Fordham Prep in the Bronx.

Third son Matthew is in seventh grade. BC memories are alive and well: Annie lives two houses away from one of her Hillside C-42 suite mates, Laura Livaccari! • In November, Kelly Donovan joined KPMG as a managing director in the Risk ConsultingForensic Advisory Services, Investigations, and Disputes service network. Based in New York City, she focuses on the growing need for investigative, compliance, and monitoring services for state and local government and private sector clients. Kelly, who holds a JD from the Catholic University of America, most recently served as New York State’s executive deputy attorney general, supervising the criminal division’s five main bureaus. Prior to that, she served

as counsel to the Moreland Commission on Public Corruption. • Dawn Wall Silvestri is proud to share that her daughter, Paige, is a member of the Class of 2020 in the Carroll School of Management! • Thank you for your news!

Correspondent: Missy Campbell Reid missybc90@comcast.net

1991 I hope this finds you all happy and healthy in the new year! Wishing you peace, love, and joy in 2017! • Congratulations to Candi Nichols Carter, who just took over as executive producer of ABC’s The View in New York City. Her family recently moved to Montclair, NJ, after living in Chicago for 20 years. Candi has been married for 18 years and has two children: Her son (13) has special needs, which has been a focus for her since he was born. Her daughter (7) started running track like her mom; maybe one day she’ll run at BC too! • David Lucey is currently VP of human resources at Epsilon, a global marketing company just outside Boston, where he manages recruiting and campus recruiting. The company employs dozens of BC alums across their 70 offices! David has spent almost 25 years in recruiting/HR, and would be happy to assist any alums (or their families) with career advice. He writes: “I can also confirm that Tom Logan still cannot hit a curveball.”

David and his wife have a 14-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, David IV, and live north of Boston. You can connect with David at david.lucey@epsilon.com. • C. Dale Young’s fourth book of poetry, The Halo, was published in March 2016 by Four Way Books in New York. Dale continues to practice medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area and to teach in Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers.

Correspondent: Peggy Morin Bruno pegmb@comcast.net

1992 25TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Hi, everyone! Thanks so much to those who sent in their recent news. I would love to hear from the rest of you! Please send me your updates so I can share them with your classmates. Thank you. • Can you believe our 25th reunion will be in June? I hope many of you are making plans to attend the reunion and catch up with former classmates. It is always a great time, and despite the passage of time, it is easy and fun to reconnect with old friends. The reunion will take place June 2–4. • Some members of the Class of 1992 made the trip to Ireland to watch the Eagles take on Georgia Tech in September. Among them were Jon-Paul LaPointe, Tom and Maria (Signorella) Wilcox, John Doran, Caroline Ward, Caroline Croley, and Michelle McNeil Simpson. Even though it was a tough loss, everyone had a great time in Dublin!

• Also in September, Phil Guttilla was elected to the Greater Phoenix Chamber

of Commerce’s board of directors. Phil is a shareholder and vice chair of the corporate and transactional practice group at the national law firm Polsinelli. He focuses his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, capital formation, VC and private equity fund formation, and business transactions. He is also a CPA and a chartered financial analyst. • The BC vs. Clemson football game in October also drew a number of our classmates, including Jim Cramer, John Doran, Tom and Maria (Signorella) Wilcox, Tony Munchak MS’96, Chris Gildea, Matt McGovern, Roy Jimenez, Michelle (Villiotte) MS’96 and Mark Walker, Chris Novello, Kristine Hyde, and Caroline Ward. • In October, Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner, JD’95, moderated a program titled “Cross-Cultural Competency: Stop Bumping into Boundaries and Start Building Bridges” at the Boston Bar Association. The slant was toward global cross-cultural interaction for international, immigration, and employment law.

Ingrid is the assistant general counsel for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. • It was a minireunion for former freshman floor mates of Fitzpatrick, a first, in September.

Roy Jimenez, Chris Gildea, and John Battaglia, JD’97, came from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, respectively, to attend a Ravens game in Baltimore. • We are sad to hear of the passing of our classmate Peter Walsh. Peter died in August in St. Cloud, FL, where he was working as a teacher. We send our condolences to Peter’s family and friends.

Correspondent: Katie Boulos Gildea kbgildea@yahoo.com

1993 Happy winter, everyone! Or it will be by the time this issue is out. Here is the latest news from our classmates. • JP Plunkett wrote that he’s in his first full year of heading up a commercial real estate brokerage firm he founded, Red Dome. Boston-based and focused but also closing deals in Northern California and on Long Island, Red Dome sells, leases, and consults on office, industrial, and retail properties. JP has two kiddos: Patrick, in fifth grade, and Paige, in second. Follow him on Twitter at @jpplunkett. • I had seen beautiful pictures of Roshini Rajkumar’s wedding thanks to John Ladd and Sharon Grazioso Katz, so I was excited to get the update from Roshini directly. She married James Fulton on July 30. Her brother, Roshan ’95, was her “man of honor”; John Ladd walked her down the aisle; and Laura Iavicoli and Sharon Grazioso Katz stood up for her. The wedding was held in the rooftop garden of WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. • Andrea Camelio Waldt is a registered nurse navigator contracted with a large pharmaceutical company to provide oncology nurse navigation to their employees as well as their beneficiaries who are affected by a cancer diagnosis. She started this program and built it to what it is today. She is also a licensed realtor in

Maryland and says her ability to provide a listening ear, care and understanding, knowledge, and attention to detail serves her well in both careers. She has two children— Madeline (12) and Sara (7)—and has been married to native Marylander Patrick Waldt for 15 years. They live in Abington. Andrea would love to hear from classmates: email her at andrea.waldt@cbmove.com. • Colleen Freeman recently accepted a position as a regional business development director at FTI Consulting, a global business advisory firm. Over the past decade, Colleen has established herself as a trusted eDiscovery expert in the legal field; many of her longtime clients are Fortune 100 companies and Am Law 200 law firms. In January 2016 she was selected as president of the ACEDS New England Chapter. ACEDS is the first legal organization in the country to offer a specialized certification in electronic discovery. In her spare time, Colleen also serves as VP of the local chapter of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, where she helps raise money for families in need, donates scholarships for students, supports our soldiers and their families, and gives back to the local community. • Glenn Foley is being inducted into the Camden County, NJ, Sports Hall of Fame as a reflection of his six seasons in the NFL and his great career at the Heights—including finishing fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting as a senior in 1993. We all remember him leading the team to our revenge win over then undefeated Notre Dame the year after the painful road trip to the blowout. • As I still boast of (slowly) running my first half-marathon last January, Sara Runnels let me know that she and John Lee both competed in and survived Ironman Lake Placid in July. Sara says it’s always been on her bucket list, and John encouraged her to make it a reality. Sara writes: “John and I were science geeks at BC and went on to be classmates at Tufts Dental School as well.

John is currently a practicing periodontist in Atlanta, where he lives with his wife and three children. I am an oral surgeon practicing just west of Boston, where I live with my husband and daughter.” They both completed 140 miles and the six-month training. Wow! Congrats to you both! • Joe Perschy, MBA’06, completed zero miles, but made the BC’93 Facebook group dig into our memories for some smiles, as he sent a chain of fun notes about who lived where and with whom in Hardey-Cushing freshman year. This started while Joe was bonding with Scott MacKay, Kathleen McManus, and Marjie Beaton-Kane. I love all the comments, memories, and names, and was impressed but almost scared by the amazing memory of Jared Bierylo. • Now, for our next issue, let’s focus on the better Newton dorm, Keyes North/South! Until then, BC’93! Here’s to #kindness #inclusion and #goodness in America.

Correspondent: Laura Beck laurabeckcahoon@gmail.com 69

1994 Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com

1995 After running her event production business in St. Louis for 15 years, Josie Gonzalez Littlepage decided to celebrate by completing her MBA from Webster University. She juggles the business, her daughters—Cooper (12) and Lucie (10)— and her husband, and is starting to see other BC graduates at events that are now being planned in St. Louis.

Correspondent: Kevin McKeon kmckeon@gmail.com

1996 Correspondent: Mike Hofman mhofman12@gmail.com

1997 20TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

It’s time for our 20th reunion!

Unbelievable. I hope everyone is gearing up to come back for Reunion Weekend, June 2–4. It’s an amazing chance to see old friends and check out how campus has changed. Please book your tickets now if you have not already. • Julie Tucker Rollauer is currently the head of industry, CPG advertisers, at Google, where she has spent the last decade as a sales leader. She hosted the BC Technology and Entrepreneurship Council at Google in New York City for the fall session, titled “Women in Tech, New York City.” Julie served as the host and a panelist among other female Eagles in the tech industry. She and her husband, Tom Rollauer, also traveled to Ireland with their children, Megan (7) and Brendan (5), for the BC–Georgia Tech football game in Dublin.

The Rollauers reside in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ. • Kimberly Bowers Caprio is a surgeon at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, specializing in breast surgical oncology. She lives in Farmington with her husband, Angelo, and son Mason (9)—BC Class of 2028?!

She is looking forward to Reunion and writes: “Any Eagles in the area, feel free to reach out for coffee, game watch, questions about being a surgeon, anything!” • In July, Nathan Johnson, MA’99, was asked to give the invocation at a session of the Republican National Convention in his hometown of Cleveland. Nathan lives with his wife, Camille (Thompson), and their five children in Euclid, OH. Correspondent: Sabrina Bracco McCarthy sabrina.mccarthy@perseusbooks.com

1998 DJ MacAloon recently celebrated his 10th year with his company as well as his 8th wedding anniversary. DJ took an end-of70

summer vacation in Pentwater, MI, with his family. He has one girl in kindergarten and another in preschool. • In October, I chaired the Hinsdale Humane Society’s Howl-o-ween Ball gala, and the lovely Ereka Vetrini was our event emcee. Ereka raised a record total of funds to save the lives of more animals! I am the Hinsdale Humane Society Ambassadors’ chair and social media, marketing, and events chair.

And in my spare time, I am the PTO president for my girls’ elementary school, serve on the executive board for Hinsdale Junior Woman’s Club, and have started painting again!

Correspondent: Mistie P. Lucht hohudson@yahoo.com

their second baby girl to their family!

Olivia Faye was born on August 5, 2016, and joins big sister Abigail, who turned 2 on July 29. The McNeeley family lives in Natick. • Thank you, as always, to those classmates who submitted news. Please don’t forget to send your latest news. You can always email it to me or post it on the BC alumni online community. If you haven’t had a chance, please check out the online community. There, you can write your own in-depth announcement and even post a picture.

Correspondent: Kate Pescatore katepescatore@hotmail.com

1999

Happy new year, classmates! Just a couple of notes to share this time. • Kevin McCartney and his wife, Kerry, welcomed daughter Claire on April 9. She joins big brothers Quinn (5) and Jack (2) at home in Baltimore. • John and Christine (Judware) Cope are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth Ann, on September 23. • William “Mufasa” Blackmer and his wife, Mary, welcomed their second daughter, Rosalie, to the world on October 18. Rosalie joins big sister Lena. • Congratulations to Steve Ross and his wife, Melissa, on the birth of their first child, Ryan James, on October 30.

The new parents and baby boy are doing great! • In September, Tim Brady became a partner at the law firm Gallagher Sharp in Detroit, where he focuses his practice on first- and third-party auto negligence and PIP litigation. Tim, who holds a JD from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, joined the firm as an associate in 2015. He also serves as a case evaluator for the circuit courts of Macomb and Wayne Counties. Tim was named a 2016 Michigan Super Lawyers Rising Star. • Theodore Markos is pursuing further studies in the field of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics. He is 1 of 18 licensed dentists selected to enroll in the inaugural class of the residency program at the Georgia School of Orthodontics in Atlanta. The newly accredited program will “educate dentists to be proficient in the clinical specialty of orthodontics while providing affordable care to the underserved population.” • Keep soaring, Eagles! I look forward to many more announcements this year!

Correspondent: Sandi Birkeland Kanne bc01classnotes@gmail.com

New babies abound! Dave Belford and his wife, Megan, welcomed their second daughter, Mary John “Johnnie,” on September 30. Johnnie joins big sister Rose in their Chevy Chase, MD, home. • Brian and Joanna (Ortbals) Cleary, of Fairfax, VA, welcomed their third child, Jack Colligan, on July 1, 2016. • Mark and Sarah (Martin) Pitlyk welcomed their fourth child, Stephen Ignatius, on December 1, 2015. Stephen joins big brothers Tommy (7) and Jack (5) and big sister Rosie (3). Sarah is an attorney at RUNNYMEDE law group in St. Louis.

Correspondent: Matt Colleran bc1999classnotes@hotmail.com Correspondent: Emily Wildfire ewildfire@hotmail.com

2000 Happy new year, Class of 2000! • In August 2016, Lucy Hale accepted a position with the National Audubon Society as director of the Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas. Prior to this, Lucy was director of school programs at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, which she helped open in 2012.

If you are in the DFW, head on down to the Audubon Center to visit; she’d love to say hello and give you a tour! • James McMahon was named 2016 Forty Under 40 by NJBIZ, which recognizes “rising stars of the New Jersey business community.” • In August, Mindy Glassy Webster and Shannon Sharpe celebrated their 20th anniversary as roommates and best friends by taking a road trip from LA to San Francisco and Sonoma. They laughed just as loudly as they did freshman year in college. Believe me, after living across the hall from them, I can attest that these two ladies had a great time together right from the beginning! • Last summer, Kristen Lucke Meritt and her husband, Jaime, and Jennifer Ranta Ross and her husband, Rob, celebrated their 10-year wedding anniversaries with a double vow renewal in Las Vegas. In addition to Elvis, fellow Eagles Megan Johns, Julia Suprock, and Megan McGuire also took part in the festivities! • Sarah Stiglmeier McNeeley and her husband, Paul, have welcomed

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2002 15TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Congratulations to Craig ’08, MA’13, and Elizabeth (Borge) Noyes, who welcomed their first child, Abigail, on May 8, 2016.

Abigail has already acquired many BC outfits to wear throughout the football and hockey seasons. • On August 22, Heightsmen virtuoso Paul Fadakar married Katie Elliott at Harrington Farm in Princeton, MA. A convocation of Eagles

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joined the crooner and his gorgeous bride, including best man Justin Hallberg; groomsmen Daniel Hershel MA’04, Stephen Pagano, David Van Saun, Andrew McWeeney, Daniel Portnov, and Patrick Mooney; and guests Ryan and Danielle (Beare) Thompson, Kerry (Whalen) ’04 and Raymond Beattie, Robert McCarthy, Elsa Falkenburger, Bradley Lamers, Michael Jirout, and Nicole Polizzi Portnov ’07. Paul sang a raucous rendition of “Raspberry Beret” before serenading Katie with “All Night Long.” • Congratulations to Dana Aprea McCormick and her husband, Michael, who welcomed baby number three on May 29, 2016. It was a boy! His name is Brandon Michael. Big sisters Ryann (5) and Reagan (2) are very excited about their new little brother.

Correspondent: Suzanne Harte suzanneharte@yahoo.com

I’m a competitive person. In running, you’re always trying to challenge your worst adversary: yourself.”

—Dean Bell

2003 Isabelle Boone married Nick George in Rangeley, ME, on September 24, 2016.

The Class of 2003 was represented by Molly Brown, Brennan Greef Blair, Erica Fontes, Cristin Frederick, Lisa Borelli Flynn, Amanda Frank Gregg, Naitnaphit Limlamai, Maureen Sonn Martin (with husband Chris ’02), Johnny McCabe, Anna Sheehy, and Sharon Wang. Isabelle and Nick will continue to reside in LA, where she is in human resources at Thomson Reuters, and he is a TV producer. • Ashley “AC” Bradley and a team of remarkable storytellers have brought to life the story of an ordinary boy who discovers the extraordinary in Trollhunters. The show premiered on Netflix in December. • On September 21, 2016, Kevin Swatt, MS’04, and his family welcomed their second child, Patrick Edward. Big sister Olivia is enjoying her new “big sis” status. The Swatt family resides in Falls Church, VA. • Katie Reagan married Trevor Szymanski on September 23, 2016, in their hometown of Grosse Pointe, MI. Their immediate family was in attendance. • Greg and Beth (Milewski) Goodman welcomed their first baby, Abigail Mae, on April 20, 2016. The family resides in Scotch Plains, NJ. Greg is a certified trial attorney at Palmisano & Goodman in Woodbridge, and Beth is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Rutgers-RWJ Medical School in New Brunswick.

Correspondent: ToniAnn Kruse kruseta@gmail.com

2004 Brian Ferrasci-O’Malley married Vanessa Hunsberger on July 9, 2016, in Ferndale, WA. The couple were surrounded by fellow Eagles Tanner Hatch, Victor Perez Labiosa, and Matthew Magnuson. Brian and Vanessa live in Washington DC, where Brian is an attorney-advisor at the Department of the Interior. • Justin and Jenn (Donovan) Lutz welcomed their first child, Evelyn Marie, on August 21, 2016. The family lives in Concord. • Phil and Brianne (Moskovitz)

Marathon Man

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ew runners contemplate, let Dean alone complete, what’s known as the World Marathon Majors—six of the world’s largest, hardest marathons run in a year. » Began running: 2010 Dean Bell is among that elite group, finishing Boston, Berlin, Chicago, » First marathon: 2011 London, New York City, and Tokyo » Completed World Marathons in 2016.

Marathon Majors: 2016 He’s also the partner in charge of U.S. accounting advisory services for KPMG and the father of two young children—a busy life in which to fit marathon training and logistics.

Bell is not a lifelong runner. He picked up the sport at 35 to challenge himself. “I got a runner’s high,” he recalls. “So I ran farther the next day.” He kept setting new goals—a half marathon, a full marathon— and soon the majors.

Running is great stress relief from his demanding role at KPMG, Bell explains. “There’s nothing better to ease stress than getting up at 4:45 a.m. and running five miles,” he insists. “Growing up, I loved math and business, and dreamed of carrying a briefcase and riding the Metro-North into New York City,” he recalls. “I love what I do, but this is a good balance.”

His Boston Marathon run raised funds for BC’s Campus School, an expression of Bell’s commitment to the University and its mission.

“I wanted to support something that enhanced kids’ lives,” says Bell.

“The Campus School embodies BC’s motto Ever to Excel, which I try to live and impart to my own kids.”

His next goal? “In 2017, I’m going to break the three-hour mark,” he says.

Bell ’98

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Baxa welcomed their daughter, Rayleigh Nicole, on November 8, 2016. Older brother Skyler loves doting on his baby sister. • David and Melissa (Barrett) Thomas welcomed a baby boy, Robert James, on August 19, 2016.

Robert was excited to arrive just in time to cheer on the Eagles at Alumni Stadium! • Patrick, MAT’07, and Amy (Morrow) Grucela welcomed their son, Matthew Duke, into the world on May 21, 2016. Matthew joins big sister Emma (2). • In September, Robert Harper was named a 2016 Super Lawyers Rising Star in the New York metro area.

Robert, who earned his JD from Hofstra University School of Law, is an associate at Farrell Fritz, where he focuses his practice on trust and estate-related litigation. He resides in Garden City, NY. Correspondent: Alexandra “Allie” Weiskopf allieweiskopf@gmail.com

City, where the groom is an attorney, and the bride is a New York City public school teacher. • October 1 marked the release of the first book by Wes Hazard. Published by Adams Media, Questions for Terrible People is a humor book consisting of 250 questions designed to show just which kind of awful you and your friends are. It’s guaranteed to make you laugh and to question your ethics.

Wes, a writer, storyteller, and comedian, is a regular performer in Boston venues as well as at the Boston Comedy Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival.

Correspondent: Cristina Conciatori conciato@bc.edu

2005

In the past year, Tanesha Wright graduated from New England Law Boston and passed the Massachusetts bar. She also gave birth to a daughter, Alora Loans. • Sam Kim has started a new chapter in his life to chase a childhood dream—the Olympics. He has moved to Seoul to join the coaching staff of the South Korean men’s and women’s national ice hockey teams in preparation for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics in South Korea. • Last August, Dong Joo Lee, a U.S. Navy judge advocate, transferred from his defense counsel position in Norfolk, VA, to the Washington DC area to start working as a war crimes prosecutor at the Office of the Chief Prosecutor, Office of Military Commissions. • Dosh Whye has been working in the biomedical research field for the past nine years. He currently is a lab manager at Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. In addition, Dosh is enrolled in the Business Communication and the Strategic Management graduate certificate programs at Harvard Extension School. He resides in Brighton. • Last spring, Adam Micheletti was named president of the Lincoln Stars hockey team in Lincoln, NE. He previously served as senior director of hockey operations for the U.S. Hockey League. He and his wife, Rachel (Orlowski), are excited about their next adventure! • Jessica (Biscup) Perkovic and her husband, Zvonimir, welcomed a baby boy, named Luka, in September. • Cameron and Emily (Bowen) Hosmer and big sister Janie welcomed future Eagle Samantha Anne into the world on September 25. • Frances (Macias-Phillips) Oney and her husband welcomed their daughter, Grace Frances, on June 1, 2016. The Oneys reside in Rocklin, CA. • Mike ’05 and Anna (Cembrola) Sangalang were married at BC’s Trinity Chapel in 2010. Their first child, Maia Katherine, was born in March 2014, and in September 2016 they welcomed their son, Daniel Michael, into the world. Anna works in development at Harvard University, and Mike manages digital communications for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.

The Sangalangs live in Norwood.

Correspondent: Lauren Faherty Bagnell lauren.faherty@gmail.com

Eugene Raux and his wife, Kasandra Gonzalez, announce the birth of their first child, Aisling Grace. Eugene currently works for the Social Security Administration. • In September, Andrew Logan and Todd Ching created the MBTA Excuse Generator (mbtaexcuses.com), which is a parody of the T’s marquees and Twitter account. The Excuse Generator went viral and was featured in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and the Boston Metro and on WBZ TV. • Kristen Baum Xeller opened her own direct primary care medical practice in June, moving away from a traditional, hospital-owned medical practice. • Tara Shanes-Hernandez, MEd’07, organizes the Westchester Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk in New York in memory of her wonderful mom, Gigi, who passed away over seven years ago. Since Tara founded the initial walk in 2010, she has helped raise over $2.3 million for pancreatic cancer research through the Lustgarten Foundation, with every dollar raised going to benefit the cause. The next walk will take place on April 23 at Playland in Rye, NY. • Chris Russo and his wife, Ashley Lott, welcomed daughter Margaret Lott Russo to their family. She joins her big sister, Elise Lott Russo. The family happily resides in Ridgewood, NJ. Correspondent: Joe Bowden joe.bowden@gmail.com Correspondent: Justin Barrasso jbarrasso@gmail.com

2006 Matthew Porcelli and Jodie Pfau were married at Our Lady of Lourdes in Massapequa Park, NY, on June 25. The wedding party included Kristen Pfau Fedak ’09, sister of the bride, and Manny Morelli.

Members of two generations of BC alumni were in attendance, including Kevin ’81 and Beverly (Rowe) Pfau ’83, parents of the bride; Katie Cisto; Derek Fedak ’09; John Gonet ’82; Christine Gottshall; Jeffrey LaBroad MEd’07; Robinson Murphy MA’08; and Brady Smith. The couple reside in New York 72

2007 10TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

2008 Correspondent: Maura Tierney Murphy mauraktierney@gmail.com

2009 After leaving Boston College, Jose Rodriguez went on to earn a master’s degree in social work at Fordham University. Currently working as a psychotherapist at Montefiore Health System in New York City, he is also enrolled in a part-time MBA program in health-care administration at Baruch College, anticipating graduation in 2019.

• Phil Dumontet was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list this year for turning his company, Dashed, into the largest independent food delivery service in the Northeast. Also, in November, Phil ran his 10th marathon, the TCS New York City Marathon, achieving a new personal best time of 2:56:38. • Ryan Littman-Quinn has started a new position at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Global Health as director of innovation and sustainable development. He will be based in Botswana for three more years, and he will be traveling extensively, consulting in health innovations (with a focus on eye health and Peek Vision technologies) and sustainable development initiatives related to urban and landscape design. • Matt Porter has moved back to the Boston area after seven years away and is now helping to promote public service as the new communications officer for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. • Victoria “Ning” Chen and Andrew Bianco were married on October 8, 2016, in Bluemont, VA. They met on the men’s crew team their freshman year at BC, with Andrew a rower and Ning a coxswain. Three of their teammates—Chris Dowling, Matt Kleber, and John Murtagh— served as groomsmen. They celebrated with about two dozen fellow Eagles and even named their tables after campus landmarks. The Biancos live in Arlington, VA. • Also last autumn, on October 29, Young Moon married Matthew Saretsky (Harvard 2007) in a beautiful ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center. Eagles in attendance—and tearing it up on the dance floor—included bridesmaids Kristen Hysell and Krystle DaSilva MS’10 as well as Lindsey Hampshire, Sean Korb, Fred Alcober, Brendan Boyce ’07, and Cristina Lopez ’07. The couple met in law school at Northwestern University and now reside in Chicago.

Correspondent: Timothy Bates tbates86@gmail.com

2010 Katie Venables married Ryan Zumwalt on September 10, 2016. Caitlin Kline, Sara Loudon MS’11, Ashley Hogan, and Nancy Zimmer were bridesmaids. Will Bartlett and Matt Venables ’06 were groomsmen,

Tom Campo officiated the wedding, and Tyler Joosten did a reading. • Kristin Sementelli and Michael Troy met at Boston College—and were married on September 24, 2016. Their beautiful wedding was held at the Glen Manor House in Portsmouth, RI. Correspondent: Bridget K. Sweeney bridget.k.sweeney@gmail.com

2011 John Glynn will be a Peace Corps volunteer in the Galápagos Islands starting this spring. • Isabel Protasowicki started working at adidas AG and is now located in Nuremberg, Germany. • Evan Waters has relocated to Amsterdam, where he is now director of growth for Naspers. • Inés Spinnato and Andrew Zarrilli were married on May 28, 2016, at Sant Pau Recinte Modernista in Barcelona, Spain. They were joined by their incredible BC friends who have known the couple since they began dating during their freshman year.

• Michael and Christine (Donahue) Sickler welcomed the birth of their daughter, Margaretta Anne “Molly,” in September.

Molly joins older brothers Jack (3) and Christopher (1).

Correspondent: Brittany Lynch brittanymichele8@gmail.com

2012 5TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017

Emily O’Brien and Matthew Tyksinski (Holy Cross ’11) tied the knot at St. Pius X Church in Fairfield, CT, on August 12, 2016. The bridal party included Megan Krakowiak MA’15, Katherine Misgen Nowicki, Rebeccah Stevens, and Matthew Driscoll ’11. Many other Eagles were in attendance, including the mother of the bride, Florence (Palmieri) O’Brien ’83 and her BC’83 roommates Kelly (O’Brien) Maffei, Gail Dilger, Pamela Callanan, and Lori (Zimmer) Underwood.

• Kristen House married Zachary Jason ’11 in Boston on October 1. The wedding party included Hilary Chassé; Brendan Fitzgibbons ’11; John Glynn ’11; Jason Goode ’11; David Kete ’11, JD’14; Darren Ranck; Ana Lopez Shalla; and Michael Shea ’11, JD’16. The couple have since moved to Indonesia, where they are training a pride of mountain lions to run for U.S. Senate. (This is from Zak, whom you may recognize as the author of many wonderful stories in this magazine!) • And in career news: Also in October, Matthew McCluney accepted a new job as senior campus planner at California State University, Monterey Bay! Correspondent: Riley Sullivan sullivan.riley.o@gmail.com

2013

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Building health partnerships that really make a difference is so fulfilling—there’s nothing I’d rather be doing.”

—Ryan Littman-Quinn

Healthy Pursuits

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uring his senior year, Ryan Ryan Littman-Quinn cold-called Click Diagnostics, a start-up developing mobile health applications, and offered to volun» Major: Marketing teer—if they’d send him abroad when an opportunity arose. The » Minor: Philosophy and Massachusetts native found himself graphic design in Botswana not long after. » Lives: Gaborone, Botswana His first project was a three-month collaboration with the BotswanaUPenn Partnership using telemedicine to diagnose dermatological conditions. In areas where health care is sparse, telemedicine enables diagnosis and treatment through mobile phones.

Ryan explored several other uses for the technology during that time. “Penn got another grant,” he says, “and I was back for a year.

And then we landed a big grant and started hiring and growing.”

He is now charged with fostering mobile health innovation and sustainable development at Penn’s Center for Global Health. Based in Botswana, he will focus on improving care in several countries by developing long-term programs and fostering public-private partnerships between ministries of health, universities, corporations, and other stakeholders.

He’s fallen in love with Botswana, though he misses snow. He hikes, camps, rock climbs frequently, and commutes to his office at the University of Botswana by bike. “The people are so hospitable. Kids call me Uncle Ryan when I walk my dog,” he says.

Recalling his time at the Heights, Ryan remembers, “I learned to really appreciate self-reflection and the Jesuit mission on my Kairos retreat. I wrote my future self a letter, hoping I’d be happy, inspired, and stimulated by my work—and I am definitely all of those things.”

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Melanie Courtemanche, MEd’14, and John Amichetti celebrated their wedding in 73

October in Leominster. The two met in Keyes Hall during their freshman year.

Several fellow alumni were in attendance.

• Lauren DeGennaro is in her second year at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. She is also director of the Cornell-Southside Healthy Pet Clinic, an outreach program designed to provide vaccinations and preventatives for pets belonging to families requiring financial assistance. • Jovalin Dedaj, JD’16, writes that he passed the New York bar exam this past October and is now back in New York, working as an associate at a law firm.

• Kevin Kelly and Natalie Sileno, JD’16, were married on September 10 on Long Island. Many BC friends and family were there to celebrate! • In November, Charissa Jones completed her first marathon, running in the TCS New York City Marathon. She raised over $5,500 for the Melanoma Research Foundation in honor of her grandmother, Joan Arnow, well over the initial $3,000 goal she set back in June.

Her blog #Run4Joanie documented her journey throughout her training. • Matthew Parra writes that he, Mark Byrne, Zachary Crosser, and Alexis Schneider ’14 are living together in Boston. They recently hosted their first annual Halloween party, “Friendsween,” celebrating along with other members of the Classes of 2013 and 2014.

Correspondent: Bryanna Mahony Robertson bryanna.mahony@gmail.com

2014 Ayman Bodair recently returned from a short-term medical mission trip to Haiti to facilitate recovery among the victims of Hurricane Matthew. The experience resonated with him, and now he is planning to join Médecins Sans Frontiéres (Doctors Without Borders), after he receives his MD from Drexel University next year, in order to continue to contribute to public health. • Last summer, Walsh 305 residents Paul Weinand, John Corbett, Sam Eaton, Nick Caira, Josh Lue, Blake Chapman, Sean Fanning, Shawn-Michael Rodriguez, and Michael Izzo reunited to hike Mount Washington in New Hampshire. This follows their August 2015 reunion to hike Mount Elbert in Colorado. • Also last summer, Olivia Natale was one of 60 artists selected to decorate a piano in the ongoing public art piece, Play Me, I’m Yours.

Originating in the UK, the project now tours cities around the world, calling local artists and community groups to use their design talents on the many donated pianos.

Olivia earned her BA in studio art, with a minor in music, from BC; this will be her first public-art project. The pianos were on playable display throughout downtown Boston and select neighborhoods last fall.

Check out the Street Pianos website at streetpianos.com/boston2016.

Correspondent: Jenn Howard howardjlk@gmail.com 74

2015 Since graduation, Chris Paterno has started his own band: Originally a solo project, the seven-piece eponymous band was formed when the Philadelphia Freedoms invited Chris to play at the prematch block party at the Villanova Pavilion. Chris—lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist—brought on several fellow musicians; the band performed in local shows throughout the summer and fall, including a set at the first-ever SustainPHL in Chris’s hometown, Philadelphia. They have released four songs, and their EP, The Chris Paterno Band, came out in September.

Correspondent: Victoria Mariconti victoria.mariconti@gmail.com

2016 In September, Michelle Kornack was selected by Citizens Bank for its Early Career Development program in commercial banking. Michelle, who majored in economics and mathematics at BC, joined 19 other recent college grads in the yearlong training program, which involves classroom instruction and credit analysis writing.

Correspondent: Abby Regan reganab@bc.edu

bc social work Correspondent: Elizabeth Abbott Wenger gsswalumni@bc.edu; lizabbott@gmail.com

carroll school Correspondent: John Clifford clifford.jr@gmail.com

connell school In November, Anne Harvey Gross, MS’90, was named senior VP for patient care services and chief nursing officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She joined Dana-Farber in 2002 after 12 years at Cambridge Health Alliance as the nursing leader in oncology and medical specialties.

Among her most recent accomplishments, she has overseen the creation of a residency program to train research nurses at DanaFarber; she hopes to continue developing programs to advance the practice of oncology nursing in her new role. A Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, she is also an author, reviewer, and regular contributor to the oncology nursing literature. She has frequently served as principal investigator on cancer care studies; her research focuses on advancing nursing practice and interdisciplinary teamwork. She is currently the principal investigator for the Zarkin Program for Staff Renewal and Rejuvenation, a program designed to reduce stress and promote renewal

and rejuvenation for clinical nurses at work.

Correspondent: Katy Phillips katyelphillips@gmail.com

law school Class Notes for Law School alumni are published in the BC Law Magazine.

Please forward all submissions to Vicki Sanders at the address below.

Vicki Sanders sandervi@bc.edu 885 Centre Street Newton, MA 02459

lynch school On July 16, 2016, Shane Dunn, MA’10, married Elizabeth Bernardi ’04 (Presidential Scholars Program) in Ithaca, NY. Eagles in attendance were Brendan ’04 and Becky (Simmons) Russell ’04, Timothy (Carraher) Carwinski ’04, and Rachel Garcia MEd’12.

Shane and Elizabeth met in Boston five years ago after being introduced by one of Shane’s college friends who happens to be married to Elizabeth’s cousin. Shane, a graduate of the Lynch School’s Higher Education Administration program and a Cornell University alumnus, works to advocate for more public charter schools in Massachusetts, and Elizabeth, who holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, is director of business strategy at Liberty Mutual in Boston. The couple live in South Boston. • Meredith LaPierre, MA’16, joined Phillips Exeter Academy as associate director of The Exeter Fund. Meredith lives in Brentwood, NH. Correspondent: Marianne Lucas Lescher malescher@aol.com

morrissey school Seiko Kawakami Mieczkowski, MA’66, has published A Tie Between People: Advanced Japanese Reader (Outskirts Press, 2016), a book designed for English-speaking students who want Japanese lessons beyond the introductory level. The book is based on her two decades of classroom teaching at Eisenhower College and Binghamton University. In May 2016, Seiko visited Japan, where she interviewed former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone for a book project. • Also a writer, Mary Rakow, PhD’82, has published her second novel: This Is Why I Came (Counterpoint) appeared in December 2015 to outstanding reviews in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Ploughshares, and Harvard Divinity Bulletin, among other publications.

Mary’s PhD is in church history, and she also holds a master’s degree from Harvard Divinity School. • Sr. Anne Marie Stevenson, PhD’76, has served four terms in province leadership for the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and currently is the director of communications for the Congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

My students understand that equity doesn’t mean everyone gets the same thing. It means everyone gets what they need.”

stm Chrysostom Exaltacion, SJ, STL’16, lives in Taipei, where he is a new faculty member of Fu Ren Faculty of Theology. He writes: “It is a great challenge for me, especially when teaching theology in a language that is not my own: Chinese. As a Filipino Jesuit missionary to Taiwan, I feel a great responsibility in helping our Chinese Church to be more attuned to the signs of the times—to be attentive to the present needs of our Chinese brothers and sisters.

And teaching theology to our Chinese priests, nuns, and dedicated is one way of being part of the formation of the Chinese Church. Thanks to the BC education I had, I have the chance to apply what I learned from the STM—to make theology speak to every Christian in a language that they can understand, relate to, and apply in their daily life. Ad majorem Dei gloriam!”

School of Theology & Ministry stmalum@bc.edu 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3800

wcas Rita Pikrou Moraitakis ’93 writes that one of the best things she has done in her life was to attend Boston College, because each student is encouraged to become a person who can make a contribution to society. Rita became a stockbroker. She and her husband have a brokerage company called Nuntius Hellenic Securities, based in Athens, Greece. Offices have been opened in other countries, and they hope to expand further.

Rita is the mother of two children, ages 20 and 12. Her older son is studying finance at Bocconi University in Milan, and Rita, her husband, and their younger son live in Athens. • In October, I was one of 16 who went on a Marian Pilgrimage to Fatima in Portugal, Compostela in Spain, and Lourdes in France. Highlights of the trip included visiting the Church of the Holy Miracle and the place where St. Anthony of Padua was born and baptized; meeting the elderly niece of Sr. Lucy in Fatima; and attending Mass at the Cathedral of St. James in Santiago de Compostela, at the chapel of the birthplace of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and at the grotto in Lourdes where Our Lady appeared to St. Bernadette. • All alumni of the Woods College are invited to share any news by sending me an email or a note.

Correspondent: Jane T. Crimlisk ’74 jtcrim24@gmail.com 37 Leominster Road Dedham, MA 02026; 781-326-0290

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internationally. This is Sr. Anne’s second term (2008–2016) in this ministry; she earlier served as director (1993–2000). • May you all have a blessed and healthy new year! Go Eagles!

Correspondent: Leslie Poole Petit lpoolepetit@gmail.com

—Karen Schreiner

Teaching Moments

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aren Schreiner believes that Karen education has a major role in creating social justice. And the Schreiner ’08, MA’10 Lynch School of Education graduate is turning that ideal into a reality. » Grew up: Rockland At Aspire Monarch Academy— County, N.Y. a charter school in Oakland, Calif., with a 95-percent Latino population— » Lives: Oakland, Calif.

Schreiner is a second-grade teacher » Loves: Bicycling, traveling, making an impact beyond the teaching classroom. She has helped develop a curriculum designed to strengthen students’ social and emotional skills, sharpen their sense of fairness and justice, and challenge them to create change in their communities.

Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, recently named her one of five winners of its biennial award for excellence in teaching, calling her “an anti-bias educator with a firm and vocal commitment to racial equality.” The award comes with support to further disseminate her work.

For Schreiner, that’s an important step toward her goal of publishing this curriculum. “I’m passionate about teaching with a social justice focus,” she says. “Educating children in this way from a young age helps them become people who will take an active stance against injustice all of their lives.”

Schreiner served with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) at Super Stars Literacy in Oakland after graduate school. JVC volunteers dedicate themselves to living simply in a spiritually supportive community, working with people who live on the margins of society.

“The Jesuit mission of service has been really inspirational to me,” she explains. “I’m grateful to BC for giving me such a strong formative experience that led me to this work.”

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OBITUARIES boston college alumni deaths

1930s

Thomas Donald Robinson ’30, MA’32, of Reading, formerly of Belmont, on December 6, 2016.

John J. Lynch Jr. ’50 of Medford on October 21, 2016.

John J. Pecoraro Sr. ’55 of Yarmouth Port on October 22, 2016.

Marguerite Gannon, SND, MEd’60, of Ipswich on November 20, 2016.

Joseph H. McLaughlin ’50 of Hanover on October 30, 2016.

Albert F. Perrault, MA’55, of Lawrence, formerly of Methuen, on November 18, 2016.

Rosemary Maraventano McCook NC’60 of Oldsmar, FL, on November 3, 2016.

John J. O’Brien ’50 of Milton on November 5, 2016.

Francis E. Babineau ’51 of Norfolk, VA, on July 29, 2016.

Michael A. Zirpolo ’55 of San Diego, CA, on June 8, 2015.

Francis J. McCune ’60 of Franklin, NC, on December 6, 2016.

James G. Meade Jr. ’60, MBA’68, of Chatham on October 20, 2016.

Paul V. Bossi ’51 of Orleans on October 25, 2016.

Joseph L. Marcille ’56 of Bow, NH, on October 5, 2016.

Francis M. Connolly ’51 of Norwood on November 2, 2016.

Joseph F. Russell Jr. ’56, MA’64, of Needham on November 25, 2016.

Robert D. Blute Sr. ’43 of Shrewsbury on October 25, 2016.

William C. Conway, Esq., ’51 of Fort Lauderdale, FL, on September 23, 2016.

Robert Berube ’57 of Stillwater, MN, on November 27, 2016.

Frank E. Hill Jr. ’43, MEd’50, of Framingham on November 30, 2016.

Harvey J. Evans WCAS’51 of Newton on April 12, 2016.

Francis X. Guilfoyle, MSW’57, of Sparta, WI, on November 2, 2016.

John W. Blute ’44 of New York, NY, on March 2, 2015.

John E. Hegarty ’51 of Tampa, FL, on November 5, 2016.

Barry R. McDonough, Esq., JD’57, of Needham on October 11, 2016.

Joseph J. Sullivan ’44 of Wareham on October 11, 2016.

Gerard F. Lane, Esq., ’51, JD’59, of Hingham on October 13, 2016.

George L. Drury, SJ, ’45, MA’46, MS’49, of Weston on September 27, 2016.

Robert E. McCarthy ’51 of Northford, CT, on November 11, 2016.

William M. Ambrose ’58 of Duxbury on December 4, 2016.

Raymond J. Falvey ’61 of Holliston on November 14, 2016.

John D. Brady ’58 of Nashville, TN, formerly of Jacksonville, FL, on November 8, 2016.

Robert J. Hazelton ’61 of South Hamilton on June 2, 2016.

Paul J. McManus ’37 of Boston on October 16, 2016.

1940s

Domenic A. Conca ’46 of Randolph on November 29, 2016.

John A. Lynch ’46 of North Falmouth on October 27, 2016.

Harvey Reid ’47 of North Bellmore, NY, on June 21, 2016.

Clifford J. Ross, Esq., ’47, JD’54, of Manchester, NH, on October 7, 2016.

Joseph T. Laffey ’48 of South Kingston, RI, on September 26, 2016.

William P. Melville ’48 of Needham on December 10, 2016.

Edward L. Richmond, Esq., ’48, MA’49, JD’59, of Brookline on October 21, 2016.

William F. Clancy Jr. ’49 of Melbourne, FL, on October 29, 2016.

Alice G. Dowd ’49, MS’58, of North Scituate on May 14, 2015.

Irene Marie Hache, RCE, MA’49, of Framingham on November 3, 2016.

Albert F. Hanwell ’49, MSW’51, of Milton, Cotuit, and West Palm Beach, FL, on October 3, 2016.

Paul F. McNamara ’51 of Waltham on October 18, 2016.

David R. Thornton, Esq., ’51 of Westwood on August 25, 2015.

Joseph Brennan, SJ, STL’58, of Weston on November 11, 2015.

Giles E. Threadgold ’51 of Falmouth on December 18, 2016.

William E. Clegg Jr. ’58 of Bangor, ME, on July 23, 2015.

John J. Faherty ’52 of Hagerstown, MD, on November 24, 2016.

James J. Kelly WCAS’58 of Needham on November 1, 2016.

Kenneth B. Gordon ’52 of Framingham on October 4, 2016.

Mary Conway Haley ’52, MS’67, of Hudson on October 30, 2016.

Marie C. Martin WCAS’52 of Nahant on February 19, 2016.

Richard W. McLaughlin ’52 of Vero Beach, FL, and Eastham on November 9, 2016.

Robert E. Smith ’52 of Danvers on October 15, 2016.

George A. Vanasse, MS’52, of Chelmsford on November 27, 2016.

Edward T. Bigham, Esq., JD’53, of Weston on December 3, 2016.

Arthur W. Nichols, Esq., JD’58, of Rancho Palos Verdes Estates, CA, formerly of Worcester, on November 14, 2016.

Denise Kirby Quinn NC’58 of McLean, VA, and Middletown, RI, on October 24, 2016.

George J. Smith ’58 of Humarock and West Roxbury on August 20, 2015.

David J. Breen ’59 of West Roxbury on November 19, 2016.

William F. Fawcett ’59 of Coto De Caza, CA, on November 15, 2015.

John E. Erwin ’53 of Overland Park, KS, on October 28, 2016.

George T. Kelley, Esq., ’59 of Leesburg, VA, on September 23, 2016.

William F. Hennessey, Esq., ’49, JD’52, of Seattle, WA, on November 20, 2016.

Francis X. O’Sullivan ’53 of Concord on October 31, 2016.

Herbert A. Peterson ’59 of Westwood on October 9, 2016.

E. Paul Kelly, Esq., ’49, JD’60, of Saco, ME, on December 2, 2016.

Francis A. Tanner ’53 of North Kingstown, RI, on October 10, 2016.

Robert M. Scanlan ’59 of Westwood on October 31, 2016.

1950s

Julia Boghosian ’50, MEd’57, of Medford on June 24, 2016.

Edward P. Brady ’50 of Norwood on November 28, 2016.

Edward S. Casey ’50 of Braintree, formerly of Milton, on November 9, 2016.

Frank Del Bosco ’50 of Eustis, FL, on August 13, 2016.

Edward F. Harrigan ’50 of North Haven, CT, on November 17, 2016.

John D. King ’50 of Danvers on November 11, 2016.

Daniel J. Looney Jr., Esq., ’50 of West Bridgewater on November 3, 2015.

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Michael A. Carpinella ’54, MBA’61, of Chelmsford on November 13, 2016.

Joseph A. Jones ’54 of Topsfield on October 15, 2016.

Raymond F. Lamore, MEd’54, of Hope, RI, on August 3, 2016.

Frederick J. Brannan Jr. ’55 of Belmont on December 7, 2016.

Teresa Mouid Kellermann ’55, MEd’62, of Dartmouth on November 3, 2016.

Raymond L. Landers ’55 of Wakefield on October 17, 2016.

Carol Brouillard McGeary ’55 of Manassas, VA, on November 7, 2016.

Lawrence J. O’Toole, SJ, MS’55, STL’59, of Weston on December 3, 2016.

1960s James R. Browne ’60 of Milton in November 2016.

Bernadette Mary Crowley, SP, ’60, MS’62 of Holyoke on June 7, 2015.

Thomas J. Cummings, Esq., ’60 of Sudbury on October 5, 2016.

James J. Driscoll Jr. ’60 of Upper St. Clair, PA, formerly of Milton, on November 22, 2016.

Janet Neville Flanagan NC’60 of Quincy on October 15, 2016.

William H. Friary Jr. ’60 of Pinellas Park, FL, on November 10, 2016.

Paul A. Messer, SJ, ’60, MA’66, STB’68, of Weston on October 18, 2016.

Paul J. Sheedy ’60, MSW’62, of West Bridgewater on October 27, 2016.

Elliot R. Aronson, Esq., JD’61, of Andover on April 11, 2015.

Kathleen Denton Doelle NC’61 of Port Huron, MI, on May 14, 2016.

Patricia Keating NC’61 of New Milford, CT, on November 22, 2016.

Margaret Dineen Muccia NC’61 of Greenwich, CT, and Hobe Sound, FL, on October 18, 2016.

Ronald F. Newburg, Esq., JD’61, of Marblehead on October 9, 2016.

Edward P. Ricupero ’61 of Stoneham on November 16, 2016.

Catherine D. Tobin, MEd’61, MA’69, of Newton on November 1, 2016.

William D. Donovan ’62 of St. Petersburg, FL, formerly of Framingham, on November 3, 2016.

William J. Furtado ’62 of Lawton, OK, on October 26, 2016.

Monica Shaughnessy Hayden NC’62 of Neponsit, NY, on November 20, 2016.

Paul A. Hurd ’62 of Holliston on December 1, 2016.

John F. Leydon ’62 of Pembroke on August 16, 2016.

Kevin J. Roche, MA’62, of Quincy on October 29, 2016.

Murray G. Shocket, Esq., JD’62, of Palm Beach, FL, formerly of Newton, on April 10, 2016.

William J. Bowles ’63 of Swedesboro, NJ, on October 29, 2016.

John R. Hurley ’63 of Gloucester on February 21, 2016.

Paul J. Jobin, MA’63, of Keene, NH, on December 3, 2016.

Kathleen C. Lucitt, IHM, PhD’63, of Sequim, WA, on September 23, 2016.

Jean B. Malenfant, MBA’63, of Topsfield on September 11, 2016.

William J. Mannix Jr. ’63, MSW’65, of Wareham and Crystal River, FL, on December 5, 2016.

Charles T. Marcou WCAS’63 of Swampscott on November 8, 2016.

Edward F. Norberg III ’63 of Winchester on October 2, 2016.

Gabrielle Marie Petitpas, SUSC, MEd’63, of Somerville on January 20, 2015.

George C. McMenimen Jr. WCAS’70 of Plymouth, NH, on May 13, 2016.

1980s

Gerald J. Donovan, MEd’71, of Peabody on May 7, 2016.

Eileen L. McCooey ’80 of Ridgefield Park, NJ, on October 25, 2016.

John W. Lasher, MSW’71, of Bath, OH, on October 21, 2016.

Pamela Iovine Richards ’80 of North Reading on October 19, 2015.

George F. Madaus, DEd’64, of Needham on December 18, 2016.

Anthony F. Marino, MA’71, of Providence, RI, on November 29, 2016.

Jo-Ann Nelson King Whalen ’81 of Louisa, VA, on November 4, 2016.

Phillip D. McNamara, MSW’64, of Shrewsbury, formerly of Clinton, on November 2, 2016.

John G. Currier ’72 of Edwardsville, IL, on November 23, 2016.

A. James Rinella ’63 of Weymouth on November 28, 2016.

Joseph V. Tessier ’63 of Punta Gorda, FL, on September 18, 2016.

Nelson G. Ross, Esq., JD’64, of Hingham on October 27, 2016.

Cynthia Couch Hopkins ’65 of Roseville, CA, on September 24, 2016.

Kenneth D. Kerr, Esq., JD’65, of Brewster and Hingham on December 5, 2016.

Elizabeth Kennedy La Grua, MEd’65, of Staunton, VA, on October 25, 2016.

Patricia Sullivan Sheriff ’65 of Raleigh, NC, on November 18, 2016.

Madelaine St. Amand, MSW’65, of Andover on May 31, 2016.

Gladys C. Robinson, MS’72, of Raynham on October 10, 2016.

Wylie C. Rudolph, MPH’72, of Raynham on October 9, 2016.

Julian M. Shlager, PhD’72, of Bedford, NH, on October 23, 2016.

Robert J. Collier ’73 of Newtown, CT, on September 27, 2016.

Vincentia Goeb, DC, MEd’73, of Emmitsburg, MD, on November 29, 2016.

Cecilia Griffin Milbier ’73 of Harwich Port, formerly of West Hartford, CT, on October 13, 2016.

Patricia Collins Curtin ’66 of Northborough on December 8, 2016.

Anne E. Nevins-Monteiro NC’73 of Bridgeport, CT, on November 9, 2016.

Dorothy L. Ferrari ’66 of Framingham on October 18, 2016.

Harry A. Pierce, Esq., JD’73, of Newton on November 17, 2016.

Paul V. McCarthy ’66 of Brockton on November 30, 2016.

Philip L. Clark ’74 of North Falmouth on September 28, 2016.

Mary Ellen Herlihy Powers ’66 of Marquette, MI, on December 5, 2016.

James C. Hall ’74 of New Orleans, LA, on October 15, 2016.

Brian C. Slowey, MST’66, of Lompoc, CA, on September 17, 2016.

Frances Anhut NC’75 of Boulder, CO, on October 24, 2016.

Laurence E. Thomson ’66 of Richmond, VT, on September 24, 2016.

William S. Oshima, MBA’75, of Las Vegas, NM, on September 24, 2016.

Paul R. Kenney, MBA’67, of Woburn on August 17, 2015.

Robert J. Smith, MBA’75, of Fort Orange, FL, formerly of Wilmington, on November 25, 2016.

Thomas L. Sexton, Esq., MBA’67, of Belmont on October 10, 2016.

John C. Auth ’68 of Amherst on October 26, 2016.

Betty Jane Blanchet DePriest, MEd’68, of Bedford on November 9, 2016.

John J. Short, MA’68, of Palm Springs, CA, formerly of Green Bay, WI, on October 2, 2016.

Mary B. Toland, MSW’68, of Washington DC on November 16, 2016.

Carroll J. Delaney Jr. ’69 of Bristol, RI, on September 26, 2016.

Gerard D. Fox, MBA’69, of Sturbridge on September 23, 2016.

Joseph L. Kuharich Jr. ’69 of Litchfield, CT, on November 13, 2016.

George F. Ziezulewicz, MEd’69, of Killingworth, CT, on October 11, 2016.

1970s

Robert B. Carkin, MBA’70, of Dedham on November 23, 2016.

Alan P. Hilton ’70 of Tampa, FL, on December 5, 2016.

Dorothy Hoyle Kelley ’70 of San Diego, CA, on June 9, 2016.

Arthur Magnaghi Jr., MBA’70, of Brattleboro, VT, on November 8, 2016.

Michael B. Altobelli ’76 of Lake Worth, FL, formerly of Lexington, on January 13, 2016.

Joyce A. Arlington ’76 of Dennis Port on September 22, 2016.

Judith Harvey Hayes ’76 of Bradford on November 23, 2016.

Leroy L. Kelly WCAS’76, MA’81, of Holliston on June 15, 2016.

Robert S. Pomerance, Esq., JD’76, of Chevy Chase, MD, on June 23, 2016.

Karl D. Ackerman Jr. ’77 of Charlottesville, VA, on October 24, 2016.

John Anthony Campo, MBA’77, of Tuscaloosa, AL, on September 30, 2016.

Beth Morley Dean ’77 of Dover on July 20, 2016.

Amy Lear ’77 of Friday Harbor, WA, on March 7, 2016.

Brian J. P. Murdoch ’77 of Vineyard Haven on October 16, 2016.

Kathleen M. O’Day, Esq., JD’77, of Arlington, VA, on November 28, 2016.

Fran Moira Singer, MEd’77, of Maynard on September 26, 2016.

Stanley William Kowalczyk Jr., MS’78, of Medford on November 20, 2016.

Claudia S. Harrison, MBA’82, of Ojai, CA, on October 29, 2016.

Jeanne Lahiff, Esq., ’82 of Jersey City, NJ, in September 2016.

Peter Anthony Mirabile ’88 of Delray Beach, FL, formerly of Chelsea, NY, on October 7, 2016.

Kevin M. Viola ’88 of Longwood, FL, on September 26, 2016.

Elizabeth Mills Beaulac, MSW’89, of Woodbridge, VA, on October 1, 2016.

Alphine Carnes Kleeman, MEd’89, of Kennebunk, ME, on August 12, 2015.

1990s

Barbara L. Yadao-Petti, Esq., JD’82, of Kapolei, HI, on November 6, 2016.

Virginia Ann Huser, CDP, MEd’94, of San Antonio, TX, on November 29, 2016.

Laurence J. Packenham, Esq., MBA’85, of Bedford on April 15, 2015.

John Paul Consolo, MSW’96, of Rutland on October 19, 2016.

Maryann Lanning Monheimer WCAS’86, MEd’88, of Watertown on November 26, 2016.

2000s

Roland T. Y. Tang, MBA’87, of Franklin on October 14, 2016.

Jeremiah J. Toomey Jr. ’87 of Hingham on October 14, 2016.

Sirdeaner L. Walker ’87 of Springfield on October 5, 2016.

Andrew Hurley ’88 of Madison, NJ, on October 10, 2016.

Carlos Hickey ’01 of Chicopee on November 20, 2016.

2010s

Maxwell Trent Holloway ’12 of Lutz, FL, on October 27, 2016.

Kiara L. Kharpertian, PhD’16, of Malden in July 2016.

Correction: Michael Tatosian ’03 was mistakenly listed in this column in the Fall issue. It was in fact Michael’s father, Misak Tatosian, who passed away last year. We apologize for the error.

BOSTON COLLEGE COMMUNITY DEATHS Gail Darnell, of Hanover, administrator in the Office of Alumni Relations since 1994, on December 3, 2016, at age 65. She is survived by her husband, Thomas E. Norton, Jr. ’69; daughter Lyndsay Norton; mother Eleanore Darnell; and brother, Dan A. Darnell.

Albert F. Hanwell ’49, MSW’51, of Milton, faculty member in the Graduate School of Social Work since 1962, assistant dean from 1985 to 1992, associate dean from 1992 to 2000, on October 3, 2016. He is survived by his sons Neil, Kevin ’87, and John J. Hanwell, SJ, ’78, ThM’91; and daughter Theresa.

George Madaus, DEd’64, of Needham, professor in the Lynch School of Education from 1966 to 2004, Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy emeritus since 2004, and cofounder of Boston College’s Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, on December 18, 2016, at age 82. He is survived by his wife, Anne ’57; sons George ’85 and Joseph ’88, MA’91; daughters Mary C. Corcoran ’82, MEd’84, Sarah A. Tierney ’84, Martha M. Gowetski ’86, and Eileen P. Keane ’91, MA’91; brothers William and Edward, MSW’75; and 15 grandchildren.

Marie T. McHugh, of Wellesley, assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 1975 to 1980, associate dean from 1980 to 1989, and senior associate dean from 1989 to 1999, on November 28, 2016, at age 85. She is survived by her husband, Richard Kenney; children Cathy Engstrom, Janet Kelly, Edward McHugh ’82, and Ellen McHugh; step-children Catherine Kenney Morrison, Richard Kenney, Mary Beth Kenney Sweet, Terence Kenneth, and Anne Kenney Utley; sister Eileen Mullin; and grandchildren and step-grandchildren.

William J. Richardson, SJ, of Weston, professor of philosophy from 1981 to 2007, on December 10, 2016, at age 96. He is survived by his many Jesuit brothers.

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

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It’s not just alumni who give for BC. Last year, 30 percent of all gifts to the University came from Boston College parents committed to enhancing the education of all BC students.

More than 600 BC faculty and staff made a gift as well—an impressive show of support from those who know the University best.

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