CLASS NOTES

A Pitch for a Purpose

Sonya Yee Coleman ’86 (right), Arlington, Mass., is the executive director of Stop Handgun Violence. In June 2022, she attended an event and panel discussion at Fenway Park, hosted by the Red Sox Foundation in response to the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas. Coleman met U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Rachael Rollins (left) as well as survivor and former U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords. “The following day,” she writes, “we were invited on the field with Gabby to throw out the first pitch of the game, which was dedicated to Wear Orange in June, gun violence awareness month.”

1982

Michael F. Carignan retired after spending the last 18 years with the County of San Mateo, Calif., most recently as financial services manager in the Human Resources department. He and his husband, James Seyda, have moved from San Francisco to Portland, Ore., to begin the next chapter of their journey together.

1984

Janine Danielson, Arlington, Mass., was named among seven Women to Watch by the Massachusetts Society of CPAs, in the Experienced Leader category. Presented at the group’s 2022 Women’s Leadership Summit, the awards honor recipients’ significant contributions to the accounting profession, to their own organizations and communities, and to developing other women as leaders. Danielson is a CPA, partner and managing director of outsourced management accounting, at LitmanGerson Associates.

1984

Mark Freeman, MSF ’88, MST ’93, Danvers, Mass., has opened Mark A Freeman Counseling LLC; he is a licensed mental health counselor in Mass. and N.H.

1986

Loretta D. Keane, MST, West Roxbury, Mass., was elected a trustee of Eversource Energy. She has been appointed vice chair of the board’s Audit Committee and as a member of the Finance Committee. Keane is CFO of Arcadia Solutions.

1988

35th Reunion

Ricardo Perez has resided on the Dutch island of St. Maarten in the Caribbean for 32 years. In 2010, he became general manager of the Oyster Bay Beach Resort and the Coral Beach Club. The alumnus and two partners founded SXM Padel Club in December 2021, the first such club on the island. Padel is a mix of tennis and squash, usually played in doubles on a court enclosed by glass and metallic mesh.

1990

In October 2022, David Yoskowitz, Corpus Christi, Texas, was named executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The new post builds on his 16 years at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi and its Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.

1992

Andrew P. Lawendowski, Charlton, Mass., was elected partner at Morrison Mahoney in October 2022. While wellversed in all areas of professional malpractice and general liability, the alumnus focuses on dental and medical malpractice. He represents doctors, dentists, specialty care practitioners and other health care professionals in professional liability matters throughout state and federal courts, and regularly represents dentists before the state licensing board.

Tony Remington, Covington, Ky., won the 2022 C-Suite Awards, presented by the Cincinnati Business Courier. He was recognized in the Chief Executive Officer category in the Greater Cincinnati area. The alumnus is CEO and co-founder of Gravity Diagnostics, a state-of-the-art, CAPaccredited and CLIA-certified laboratory. Licensed in all 50 states, it provides innovative diagnostic testing in toxicology, pharmacogenetics, infectious and upper respiratory diseases, blood and COVID-19. Read more about Remington’s achievements and Gravity’s impact at bentley.edu/ news/2020-vision

1995

Jess (Demoy) Hennessey, Hudson, Mass., shares that she is co-owner of 3 Media Web, an award-winning website design and digital marketing agency that works with growing organizations to design, develop and promote websites on the WordPress platform. The alumna is the company’s CEO.

1996

Monique D. (Young) Jefferson, Brooklyn, N.Y., was recognized as an HR Notable Leader 2022 by Crain’s New York Business. The alumna is the chief people officer at The Community Preservation Corporation, a leading nonprofit affordable housing and community revitalization finance company. Jefferson runs programs, policies and initiatives to advance the organization’s people, passion and growth-centric culture.