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Roots and Responsibility The Generosity of Rob and Donna Manning Page 28

Rob ’84 and Donna ’85, ’91 Manning

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From Logan to LAX

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Andre Dubus III: Haverhill to Hollywood

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Killing Fields Survivors Tell Their Stories

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Introducing the Circle of Distinction

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Donor Report of Gifts 2011

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Winter 2011-2012 The UMass Lowell Alumni Magazine is published by: Office of Public Affairs University of Massachusetts Lowell One University Avenue Lowell, MA 01854 978-934-3223 Marylou_Hubbell@uml.edu Chancellor Martin T. Meehan Vice Chancellor of University Relations Patti McCafferty Vice Chancellor for Advancement Edward Chiu Director of Publications and Publisher Mary Lou Hubbell Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor of Advancement Diane Earl Executive Director of Alumni Relations Lily Mendez-Morgan Associate Director of Alumni Relations Heather Makrez

A Message From Chancellor Martin T. Meehan ’78 The college experience can be daunting to a student who is often living away from home for the first time, sometimes the first member of his or her family with a chance to pursue a degree. Financial assistance—which often represents a vote of confidence to a student, along with a connection to an alumnus or a friend of the University—can prove to be life-altering for scholarship recipients. In this issue of the UMass Lowell Magazine, you’ll learn about some of the people who give so much to our students, helping to provide the best education possible. We are deeply grateful to them— whether the gift is large or small. It all makes a difference. The generosity of our alumni and friends takes many forms: it may help fund a scholarship, purchase equipment for a lab, support an academic, research or outreach program or endow a teaching chair. Every day at the University, we are keenly focused on our students, preparing them to be work ready, life ready and world ready. But we simply cannot do it alone. We need you—alumni and friends of the University. The magazine also helps keep you up-to-date with the latest campus and alumni activities—and they are many. Browse these pages. Check out www.uml.edu. Or better yet, drop by the campus and see all the activity for yourself.

Communications Manager Nichole Carter Editor Sarah McAdams Staff Writers Edwin Aguirre Karen Angelo Geoffrey Douglas Bob Ellis Sheila Eppolito Jill Gambon Julia Gavin Christine Gillette Elizabeth James Jack McDonough Dave Perry Sandra Seitz

Marty Meehan ’78 Chancellor

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Jan. 6:

UMass Lowell Alumni Ice Skate @ Fenway Park

Jan. 28:

Delta Kappa Phi Reunion @ River Hawks vs. UMass Amherst hockey game, Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell

Jan. 28:

Sigma Phi Omicron Reunion @ River Hawks vs. UMass Amherst hockey game, Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell

Feb. 4-5: UMass Lowell in India Feb. 10: Third Annual Residence Life, Orientation Leader and SGA Reunion @ River Hawks vs. Merrimack hockey game, Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell Feb. 19: 10th Annual Wine Dinner @ Ricardo’s in Lowell

Please send address changes to: University of Massachusetts Lowell Office of University Advancement Southwick 250, One University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854-2882 alumni_office@uml.edu 978-934-2223 UMass Lowell is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action, Title IX, H/V, ADA 1990 Employer.

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Feb. 25: Engineering Alumni night @ River Hawks vs. Merrimack College, Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell Apr. 3:

Plastics Engineering Alumni and Friends dinner @ ANTEC Conference, Florida

May 25:

Commencement Eve Celebration, UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center

May 26:

40th & 50th Reunions, UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center

Civil War Book Club Alumni are invited to participate in “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War” —a five-part discussion series led by History Prof. Michael Pierson on Jan. 24, Feb. 21, March 20, April 3 and April 24. Registration: http://libguides.uml.edu/LTAI. Materials: Sara_marks@uml.edu.

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ALUMNI LIFE

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From Logan to LAX, From Safety to Security:

ALUMNI EVENTS

CLASS NOTES

IN MEMORIAM

Reflections of Operations Chief Steve Martin ’71

‘We Could Create Huge Changes’ Brewing Coffee, Saving Forests, Bettering Lives

Roots and Responsibility The Generosity of Rob and Donna Manning 14 17

LAB NOTES

Killing Fields Survivors Tell Their Stories

SPORTS UPDATE

University Teams up With Cambodian Students

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From Haverhill to Hollywood ‘A Happy Accident’ for Author and Professor Andre Dubus III

Face of Philanthropy Bob ’71 and Gail Ward: Saving Lives and Growing Grapes

Circle of Distinction

The Few, Whose Generosity Lights the Way

Donor Report of Gifts 2011

Editor’s Note

Please send comments to Editor Sarah McAdams at Sarah_McAdams@uml.edu. Submit class notes to: Class Notes Editor, Southwick 250, 1 University Ave., Lowell, MA 01854 or www.uml.edu/advancement/classnotes.

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Music studies major Miles Collins-Wooley lets loose during a master class featuring West African drumming and dance with Joh Camard.

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Students Help Shape U.S. Senate Debate UMass Lowell students participated in democracy in action at an Oct. 4 U.S. Senate Democratic primary debate on campus. Dozens of students played a role in the event—helping to shape the debate’s format, firing off questions as panelists, serving as timekeepers and ushers, participating in a Boston Herald focus group and suggesting questions via Facebook and Twitter. The debate, the first among Democratic Senate candidates, attracted a capacity crowd of nearly 1,000. Co-sponsored by the newly launched UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion, the UMass Lowell Political Science Club and the Boston Herald, the event attracted scores of local and national

media outlets and thousands of followers online. Participating candidates were Tom Conroy, Marisa DeFranco, Alan Khazei, Bob Massie, Herb Robinson, Elizabeth Warren and Setti Warren. Four students served as panelists, asking questions of the candidates who hope to challenge U.S. Sen. Scott Brown next year. Their questions probed both policy positions such as the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and more personal topics like how the candidates paid for college. The level of student involvement and the heavy use of social media will set a new standard for political debates, predicted Ryan Bounsy, a senior

political science major who participated in the Herald’s focus group of six UMass Lowell students and three faculty members. During the debate, focus group members shared their reactions with a Herald reporter and formulated a question, which was then posed to the candidates. “This is a perfect example of how an activity like a political debate can be a real learning experience for students that they cannot get in a classroom. As a result, this enriches their education at UMass Lowell and engages them in the community,” said Prof. Frank Talty, director of the Center for Public Opinion.

UMass Lowell students participated in the Senate debate in many ways — as panelists, focus group members and as timekeepers (above).

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Ourworld Ground has broken on South Campus for a new academic building that will be home to health and social sciences programs.

Prof. Regina Panasuk

REGINA PANASUK NAMED UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR

Major Projects Give UMass Lowell Campus an Exciting New Look The hammers were swinging all summer as two major projects—the construction of the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center (ETIC) on North Campus and the Health and Social Sciences Building (HSSB) on South—as well as myriad major renovations took shape. The ETIC will bring together world-renowned and next-generation research leaders to develop solutions to complex scientific challenges facing society today—energy, health, environment, communications Robert ’71 and Gail Ward tour the future Robert and security. The building will open in fall 2012. The Health and & Gail Ward Biomedical Materials Development Social Sciences Building will provide much needed additional in- Laboratory in the Emerging Technologies and structional space and faculty offices. The four-story atrium lobby, Innovation Center, currently under construction. with skylights and multiple gathering areas, will promote student and Read more about the Wards on page 36. faculty interactions. The building will open in spring 2013. Meanwhile, O’Leary Library on South Campus is being retooled as the O’Leary Library Learning Commons. The first floor will offer students a beautiful new resource: a Library Learning Commons with comfortable, relaxed learning spaces, the latest technology and software and access to the information and assistance they need to study, collaborate, conduct research and write papers. Starbucks, already open on the first floor, is a great new plus for students, faculty, staff and visitors. A University Crossing Steering Committee is considering options for renovations and uses of that facility at the corner of Pawtucket and Merrimack streets. The plan is that it will serve as a unifying hub with studentfocused activities and services. Other projects completed or nearly so include upgraded classrooms, residence spaces, faculty offices, labs and infrastructure improvements. 4

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Prof. Regina M. Panasuk of the Graduate School of Education, acclaimed by fellow faculty members and students alike for her outstanding service to UMass Lowell for nearly two decades, has been awarded the distinguished title of University Professor. Panasuk is “an exceptional professor … who works harder than could be reasonably expected of any individual because she loves her career and is dedicated to improving the quality of mathematics education for all,” says Anita Greenwood, interim dean of the Graduate School of Education. The appointment carries with it a stipend of $10,000, release from teaching one class each semester and the commitment to deliver a University Professor lecture, which, in this case, will take place during the spring 2012 semester. The three-year appointment, which runs through August of 2014, is the highest distinction bestowed on a UMass Lowell faculty member.

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The Poster Child

Kay Ryan, a former U.S. poet Laureate and winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, visited campus recently.

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING POET VISITS CAMPUS Poet Kay Ryan drew a crowd of approximately 200 for a reading recently and then kept them laughing. Ryan, a former U.S. poet Laureate and winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, read from her latest book, “The Best of It: New and Selected Poems.” “Kay is highly decorated but her poems are not,” said English Department faculty member Maggie Dietz in her introduction of the poet. She noted that Ryan’s poems have been compared to Fabergé eggs or Joseph

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Cornell boxes, “which is to say it’s a delight to open them and discover what’s inside.” Ryan took the podium declaring that after such a fine introduction she felt inspired to go write some more poems immediately. English Department Chair Tony Szczesiul said Ryan’s visit marked an important day for the department, which has grown significantly over the past two years and recently added a concentration in creative writing.

Legal Studies Professor Michael E. Jones—who has not only a J.D. from Miami University, but also an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania—is also an accomplished author, district court judge, globally ranked triathlete and painter. The last talent has brought his latest honor. Jones was selected to create the image that will serve as the official triathlon poster for the 2012 Olympics in London. His original painting will be made into posters and sold throughout the Olympic venue and at the USA Olympic Trials and national championship triathlon race. “It’s a pretty cool honor,” says Jones, who also had paintings selected for Olympic posters at the 2004 and 2008 games. The Pelham, N.H., native’s connection to the Olympics is deep. A teammate of Mark Spitz on the U.S. national swim team in the 1970s, Jones made it to the Olympic Trials in 1972. “Not all first dreams come true,” he says. “I’m completely happy with who I am and how things turned out. So many athletes live in the past. I respect and honor the past—but I don’t want to live in it. After all, I made the Olympic games, just in a different way.” The 2012 Olympics triathlon poster will be based on this painting by Prof. Michael E. Jones.

Weasels Have Problems, Too “The Weasel Problem” multimedia installation by Provincetown artists Zehra Kahn and Tim Winn was on exhibit in the University Gallery in October. Coordinated by the Art Department and sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, the non-profit University Gallery exhibits the work of regionally and nationally recognized professional artists.

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Ourworld UMass Lowell Named a Tree Campus USA UMass Lowell is New England’s first college to be designated an official Tree Campus USA by the Nebraska-based Arbor Day Foundation. Superintendent of Grounds Ryan McCaughey says the University meets five standards for tree care and community engagement: a campus tree advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, an annual budget for tree care, involvement in observing Arbor Day and a service-learning project aimed at engaging the student body.

FACULTY TOPS 500 This fall, UMass Lowell reached a new milestone, as the semester began with 503 faculty members, a record for the campus. Overall enrollments have increased by more than 30 percent in the past three years due to improved retention rates and an increased number of incoming students. The campus now has more than 14,000 students, including undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies levels. New faculty members have been recruited across disciplines to respond to these enrollment increases.

UMASS LOWELL ONLINE BREAKS RECORD UMass Lowell saw a record-breaking 18,558 online enrollments in the last academic year, up more than 10 percent over a year ago. Programs include fully online bachelor’s degrees in fields like liberal arts, psychology and information technology. Online graduate study options include 10 master’s degrees in areas like business administration and education, and a variety of certificates. Highly specialized 6

programs created in response to demand from employers and students are another hallmark of UMass Lowell’s online offerings and include new certificates in fields like network security, victim studies and sleep disorder treatment.

MBA PROGRAM AMONG BEST IN COUNTRY For the fifth year in a row, UMass Lowell’s Manning School of Business has been named one of the best business schools in the country by the Princeton Review. In its newly published book, “The Best 294 Business Schools: 2012 Edition,” the education services company recommends UMass Lowell as one of the top universities for earning a master’s of business administration. Enrollment in the University’s MBA program is up 17 percent this year, according to Prof. Gary Mucica, director of graduate programs at the Manning School. Contributing to that increase is the new full-time MBA program, which was introduced this semester, and the popularity of online courses.

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CHECK OUT THE NEW UML.EDU! After months of research, design iterations and rewriting, the new UMass Lowell website was launched this fall. Geared toward students, the color scheme is meant to convey the excitement and momentum of the campus. The overall design is much wider, providing more space to display content. It incorporates best practices for higher education websites, as well as recommendations from a web consultant. Visitors will notice streamlined navigation, including horizontal topic areas and pull down menus, flash landing pages with bigger pictures and video, and seamless incorporation of social media. Future improvements will include a mobile site, multiple languages and personalization. Let us know what you think at www.uml.edu/feedback/.

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Luring Tourists Underground SUBWAY CAMPAIGN FEATURES PROFESSOR MINKKINEN’S PHOTOS His photographs are displayed in galleries around the world—including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Musée d'Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland. But for Art Prof. Arno Minkkinen, displaying work in the Paris underground—on billboards throughout the city’s Metro stations—is a first. “The Finnish Tourist Board contacted me to ask if I would let them use my work in their efforts to boost tourism from France,” Minkkinen says. “This has been, by far, the most wonderful and unusual display of my work—to be able to promote my homeland in one of my favorite cities …wow! Magnifique!” The images—displayed in high-traffic metro stations and on billboards throughout the city—share the beauty of Finland with

minimal supporting text, letting the photographs tell the story. Closer to home, Minkkinen was recently selected as the University’s third recipient of the Nancy Donahue Endowed Professorship in the Arts, created by patrons Richard and Nancy Donahue to support the University’s music, art and theater programs by strengthening ties to local music, arts and theater communities. Minkkinen says he’s honored to be among previous Donahue scholars, Music Prof. Kay George Roberts and English Prof. Andre Dubus. “I am indeed honored, especially considering the first two Donahue scholars,” he says, adding that he’s using the position to create exciting community service applications.

UMASS LOWELL SCHOLAR WINS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Peace activist and UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar Leymah Gbowee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in October. “As UMass Lowell’s 2011 Greeley Peace Scholar, Gbowee contributed to our understanding of how deep and lasting conflicts can be

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resolved through peaceful means,” says Chancellor Marty Meehan. “During her participation earlier this year in the University’s International Women Leaders Summit, Gbowee inspired us with her courage and her unflagging commitment to peace and equality. As Nobel Peace Laureate, she will continue to mobilize and unite people.”

Get on the Bus! What better way to get high school students excited about the nursing profession than to give them hands-on experience? UMass Lowell nursing faculty is taking this idea on the road in the form of a 34foot bus that is home to two realistic mannequins— birthing mother “Noelle” and newborn “Hal.” By simulating functions of the human body such as breathing, crying, talking and assuming medical conditions, the high-tech mannequins offer students a fun and intriguing way to find out if the nursing profession is for them. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded the UMass Lowell Nursing Department a $298,990 grant for the “On the Move for Nursing’s Future” mobile simulation laboratory to reach out to diverse and underserved populations in the Merrimack Valley.

Arno Minkkinen’s work is shown in a Paris Metro station—one of many installations throughout the city.

“Despite the current down economy, the shortage of nurses is still expected to be significant as the population ages,” says nursing Prof. Jacqueline Dowling, the project’s lead manager. “With this mobile laboratory, we’re able to bring the technology into the community and have the students interact with the patient simulators in a way that will engage them.”

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Ourworld From Millworkers to Microchips: Lowell’s Journey to Geekhood By David Perry

Feeling geeky? Raise your geek flag high. You are not alone. Lowell, thanks in large part to UMass Lowell, is transcending its history of hard labor and blue-collar struggle. Brawn is being swapped for brains. In its annual Science and Engineering Indicators report, the U.S. National Science Foundation has dubbed greater Lowell the sixth “geekiest” city in the nation on a Top 20 list. The Mill City is lodged smack between Durham, N.C., and Washington, D.C. San Jose, Calif., in the Silicon Valley, tops the list. The study measures the percentage of a city’s workforce in occupations that require at least some technical knowledge or training, including at least a bachelor’s degree. The report, recently released in Forbes magazine, says 14.1 percent of the area’s workforce—16,580 workers— are employed at such technology companies as Kronos Inc., Jabil Circuit and Juniper Networks. The report includes Billerica and Chelmsford in the “Lowell area.” “I find it particularly interesting because Lowell has been traditionally viewed as a place filled with mills and industrial history,” says Robert Malloy, UMass Lowell professor and department chair of Plastics Engineering. “It’s a real indication of how much things have changed. We’ve gone from an untrained labor force to a work force that is much more innovative.” Long before it was known as UMass Lowell, the University was producing engineers and other brainy grads. Rich Miner, a partner in Google Ventures and co-founder of Android, earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science in 1986 and his master’s in 1989 from then-University of Lowell and his Ph.D. in 1997 from UMass Lowell. Even in the shadow of some of the best-known engineering and science schools, UMass Lowell was doing its part to produce workready geeks.

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“It’s been around for a while,” said Miner by phone from his Cambridge office. “It’s not new. You had technical companies like Mercury Computer Systems, Allied, Wang. What this sounds like is the recognition that there’s a super-bright, well-trained and very skilled student body and everybody should be recruiting them.” UMass Lowell is becoming even more deeply woven into the fabric of the city. It is considered a main feeder to the city’s workforce. With the University’s dedication to preparing work-ready graduates for life in the real world, it could get a lot geekier. “Having the University as a major player in the city’s development and energy certainly go hand in hand with the creative economy,” says Lowell City Manager Bernie Lynch. “I think of geeks as being creative people, big thinkers, people who embrace social media, new technologies. Geeky is good. Steve Jobs, Barack Obama and Bill Gates are the sort of names that come to mind. They are considered geeks, or were at one time. Which says some good things about geeks.” UMass Lowell’s part in meeting the future head-on is invested deeply in “nanotechnology, cutting-edge plastics, biodegradables and the like,” adds Lynch. “They’re forward-thinking things they are putting into the pipeline, and it is attracting people to the city.” Like the $70 million Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center rising on North Campus? “That’s the idea,” says Malloy. “But you know, I don’t think of our students as ‘geeks’ in the least. There are some schools known as centers for such things that might fit the geek tag. I guess the term implies hightech. I think of our students as scientists and engineers, people capable of understanding things and having an interest in things that not a lot of people understand. Our students may be smart, but they’re also ready to work in the mainstream, to work hard, to connect well with people.”

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LONGTIME LIBRARY DIRECTOR RETIRES

The End of an Era for NASA

UMass Lowell librarian Pat Noreau says that although much in her industry changed during her four decades at the University, one thing remains the same: “I’ve always felt that the most important thing for a reference librarian is to be good at customer service,” she says. Noreau would know. She joined the University in April 1970, when it was the Lowell Technological Institute. After the merger of Lowell State and Lowell Tech, she became the head of the unified serials department and subsequently was appointed head of technical services. She retired, as director, this summer. For all of her years here, Noreau focused on addressing the needs of her customers: students. But how she and her co-workers addressed those needs changed drastically over the years. For the first half of her tenure, the emphasis was on “how large your physical collection is—how many books and journals you have,” she

Edwin Aguirre, the science and technology writer in UMass Lowell’s Public Affairs Office, was in Cape Canaveral, Fla., when the space shuttle Atlantis embarked on its final 13-day mission with a picture-perfect launch this summer. Witnessed by hundreds of thousands of people gathered at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, as well as millions more glued to live TV and web broadcasts around the world, the launch marked the beginning of the end for America’s storied three-decades long space shuttle program. Atlantis’s primary objective was to deliver the shuttle payload to the crew of the orbiting International Space Station (ISS). The cargo includes a multi-purpose logistics module filled with spare parts and nearly five tons of supplies for the space station, as well as a pair of Android smartphones that UMass Lowell alumnus Mark Micire ’10 helped develop. The smartphones are designed to control a trio of miniature free-flying robots residing in the ISS. Forty seconds after it left the launch pad for the final time, Atlantis was gone, but people could still hear the shuttle’s rattling sound and follow the dark, curving shadow cast by its smoke trail on the cloud tops. “Squinting our eyes and craning our necks, we tried to catch one last glimpse of Atlantis in flight,” Aguirre says. “Soon afterward, people cheered, hugged, shook hands and highfived. Everyone had a big smile— Atlantis had just put on the most spectacular fireworks of the year, and we had a ringside seat to it!”

Photo: Edwin Aguirre/Imelda Joson

Staffer Covers Last Shuttle Mission

Newly retired Director of Libraries Pat Noreau enjoys a coffee at Starbucks, which recently opened in the space previously occupied by her office at O’Leary Library.

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says. That changed, however, with the advent of the digital world. Over the next decade, the library staff began building an online collection, with, for instance, the buying of robust, sophisticated databases. “Under Pat’s direction, the library developed one of the nation’s first online digital collections with the journal collection growing from 2,000 paper titles to more than 40,000 online titles,” says Interim Director Rosanna Kowalewski.

Prof. Emeritus Bodo Reinisch

PROFESSOR WINS PRESTIGIOUS PHYSICS PRIZE “It was like winning the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for the field of radio science!” That’s how Prof. Emeritus Bodo Reinisch of the Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department described the news that the International Union of Radio Science has chosen him to receive the prestigious Appleton Prize for “outstanding contributions to studies in ionospheric physics.” Reinisch, former director of UMass Lowell’s Center for Atmospheric Research, was cited for “revolutionizing radio sounding from ground and space.”

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Ourworld Lynda Barry Wows as Artist-in-Residence Renowned artist and writer Lynda Barry left her creative mark on campus as the fall 2011 Artist-inResidence for the UMass Lowell Center for Arts & Ideas. For the last several decades, Barry has shared her passion for art, writing and life through “Ernie Pook’s Comeek”— a cornerstone of the alternative comic world—and numerous graphic novels, books and, most recently, creativity workshops. “I’ve absolutely loved my time here at UMass Lowell and I’m jealous of everyone who gets to come here,” she says. “I would study here in a second, I would teach here in a second, it’s just an excellent place to be.” Barry’s stay at the University included teaching several master classes, one-on-one meetings with students and professors, a standing-room-only lecture and a workshop for students and professors.

A self-portrait by Lynda Barry

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Heather Jaffe practices her TV weather-forecasting skills in front of the “green screen” at the New England Cable News Network studio.

STUDENT, ALUM KEEP TABS ON NEW ENGLAND WEATHER On the afternoon of June 1, an outbreak of tornadoes with winds exceeding 135 miles per hour struck western Massachusetts. Residents in Springfield only had about 10 minutes’ warning that a powerful twister was approaching their city. The tornadoes—the strongest to hit New England since the 1953 twister in Worcester—killed four people and left hundreds more injured or homeless. Kristina Oakland, a 21year-old student in UMass Lowell’s Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department, was on her first day as a meteorology intern at the New England Cable News (NECN) studio in Newton when the tornadoes struck. “It was absolutely crazy!” she says. “I rushed the alerts from the National Weather Service to NECN meteorologist Matt Noyes for his live TV broadcast. I also answered the phone and took down information the viewers were sending in.

Watching the formation of the storms on the Doppler radar was amazing, but at the same time it was frightening to see the power of these tornadoes. I was one of the first to see pictures and videos from Springfield and neighboring towns before they were aired and I was speechless. It was a scary, exciting first day.” Also interning at NECN is Heather Jaffe, who graduated from UMass Lowell in May with a degree in atmospheric sciences. “I was in the studio two days after the tornadoes struck,” says Jaffe. “The aftermath was very devastating. Still, we are very fortunate we had such good coverage of these storms, giving people at least 10 minutes to take cover in their basements before the twisters touched down. This was my first experience dealing with tornadoes, and hopefully my last until I decide to go to the midwest to storm-chase!”

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MODEL U.N. TEAM WINS BIG IN TURKEY Preparation and commitment paid off for UMass Lowell students who competed in the Model United

Nations competition held in Antalya, Turkey, recently. The team members, drawn from the Dean Bergeron International Relations Club, won six awards— taking honors in more than half the committees they served on, and winning more awards and honorable mentions than any other school at the conference. “Being the only U.S. school was tough,” says the club’s faculty adviser, Jason Carter, adjunct professor

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of political science. “Our students had to work a bit harder to overcome the negative stereotypes others had. More than one student was asked, ‘Are you a typical American? You’re the first one I’ve ever met.’ So they found themselves explaining the diversity of American culture.” The UMass Lowell students faced 300 delegates from 20 other colleges and universities.

STUDENTS NAMED TRIPATHY FELLOWS Two Ph.D. candidates— Abhishek Kumar in physics and Jisun Im in chemistry— were each awarded the 2011 Tripathy Memorial Endowed Graduate Fellowship in recognition of their academic accomplishments and multidisciplinary research in the areas of materials science and polymer science. Each received a $6,500 research stipend for the summer. Kumar received his master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India, in 2005. His current investigation deals with the development of a highly sensitive optical sensor that uses organic fluorescent materials to detect trace amounts of explosives in the air.

UMass Lowell grad student Molly Clay, center, conducts diffraction experiments in a physics class at Lowell High School.

Students Make Waves in Lowell and Lawrence Schools Eileen Montbleau says she loves watching science come alive for her ninth grade students at Lowell High School—thanks to graduate students from UMass Lowell. “It’s great to see my students have the opportunity to be engaged in different lab activities that I don’t have the resources or expertise to provide,” says the science teacher, referring to the Vibes and Waves program. Since 2009, the program—which is funded by a five-year $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation—has connected UMass Lowell graduate students in science, math, education and engineering with high school teachers and students in the Lowell and Lawrence school districts. Vibes and Waves helps the grad students learn how to effectively communicate the nature and significance of their research to a diverse lay audience, and the high school students get a chance to hear about exciting university-level research they otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to. “Being in the classroom and working with high-school students is very fulfilling,” says Molly Clay, a chemical engineering graduate student. “And being a role model for them and opening up their eyes to new ideas and research is wonderful.” W I N T E R 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE

Student scene Team Massachusetts’ solar home finished fourth in the Affordability category, second in Energy Balance and fourth in Market Appeal in the U.S. Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon.

(Credit: Stefano Paltera/U.S. Department of Energy)

STUDENTS HELP SHARPEN SKATERS‘ SKILLS

Students’ Solar Home Places Ninth in National Contest Team Massachusetts—made up of energy engineering students from UMass Lowell and architecture students from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design—won ninth place in the U.S. Department of Energy’s biennial Solar Decathlon competition held in late September in Washington, D.C. The team beat 10 other collegiate teams from the United States, Canada, Belgium and China. “This is the best showing ever by any Massachusetts team, public or private, in the history of the Solar Decathlon,” says Engineering Dean John Ting. “I think we had one of the most livable, energy-efficient, thoughtfully designed and executed homes. As proof, I believe we were the first home to be sold to a private owner, with the proceeds going to help defray the institutional costs of this project.” A number of donors, sponsors and volunteers contributed materials and services to the project, including Epoch Homes, which fabricated the house at the company’s factory in Pembroke, N.H., and Saint-Gobain North America, a global company with more than 190,000 employees in 64 countries, which donated about 30 different products used in the construction of the team’s home. Other donors included Nordic Engineered Wood, Solectria Renewables, Sundrum Solar, Boott Hydropower and Enel Green Power North America. The team’s entry—designed to house a family of three and to be completely powered by the sun—finished fourth in the Affordability category, second in Energy Balance and fourth in Market Appeal (three of the 10 individual contests that formed the overall “decathlon”). Overall, the University of Maryland won first place, followed by Purdue University and Victoria University in New Zealand. “It was a dream project for us,” says Apurav Jain, who is pursuing a master’s degree in solar engineering and plans to set up his own solar energy company in India after graduation. “We received a lot of practical experience and knowledge on how to go about installing photovoltaic panels and designing our system to comply with the national electrical code, among other things. It helped us better understand the concepts we learned in the classroom.” Other members of the 2011 UMass Lowell team included Christopher Bradley, John Connor, Milo DiPaola, Erik Jordan, Srilakshmi Kurmana, Tim Lee, Abdelwahed Nabat, Kemmeng Peng, Raam Perumal, Matthew Polese, Julianne Rhoads,Walter Thomas and Anant Wadalkar. Their faculty adviser was Prof. Robert Parkin of mechanical engineering.

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By assessing the strength and power of 40 figure skaters at the Reggie Lewis Track Athletic Center in Boston, physical therapy and exercise physiology students applied classroom learning to the real world. “It allowed them to use the skills they learned in the classroom in a real work setting,” says Assoc. Prof. Cynthia Ferrara of exercise physiology, who serves on the Sports Medicine and Sports Science Committee for U.S. Figure Skating. Second-year doctor of physical therapy students

Celine DeMaggio, Connor Ryan and Heather Jones and senior exercise physiology students Molly Nowill and Greg Titus, along with Ferrara, tested each of the skater’s abilities using the standards set by U.S. Skating. “Screening skaters helped me put to use some of the tests that we performed in our exercise physiology labs,” says Nowill. “It was a positive experience that really helped me apply my knowledge of exercise physiology in a setting outside of classes.”

Standing, from left, second-year doctor of physical therapy students Celine DeMaggio, Connor Ryan, Heather Jones and senior exercise physiology students Molly Nowill and Greg Titus.

STUDENTS DEVELOP SMARTPHONE APPS Imagine a smartphone app that helps drivers find parking spots on the UMass Lowell campus. Or one that lets you look up the location of the University’s shuttle bus in real time. These are just some of the cool, user-friendly programs developed recently by students in a computer science graduate course taught by Assoc. Prof. Benyuan Liu. The “UML Parking Finder” was created by Peng Xia and Shan Lu while the “UML Shuttle Tracker” was developed by Jason Chan, I-Hsuan Lin and Xiawei Liu. The students worked with the dozen smartphones that Microsoft had awarded to Prof. Liu for his teaching and research. The award was made possible through the company’s international educational partnership program.

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Washington Internships Give Capital Gains Recent UMass Lowell graduate Jeanna McCarthy likens her summer internship in Washington, D.C., to a stint on the reality TV show “The Apprentice.” Quick-turnaround group projects and high-pressure presentations, complete with last-minute curveballs, gave McCarthy a taste of the real-world demands of the professional workplace, all crammed into a 10-week internship program. “I learned so much more than I ever thought I could in 10 weeks,” says McCarthy, who interned in the District of Columbia’s Office of Contracting and Procurement. “It was really rewarding.” McCarthy, an economics major, was participating in a program offered through the The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars (TWC), the largest program of its kind in the country. For more than 10 years, dozens of UMass Lowell students have taken part in TWC’s programs, earning up to 12 credits while working for government agencies, media outlets, nonprofits, law firms, lobbyists and private companies in and around the nation’s capital. In addition to doing internships at places like the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, the Washington Post and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, students take a class and participate in a leadership forum, which features guest lectures, tours and panel discussions with government, military and business leaders. They also complete a community en-

gagement project and prepare a final portfolio of all their work. Nicholas Bernardo, a senior English major, spent last spring semester writing scripts, editing videos, crafting press releases and sharpening his social media know-how at a TWC internship with RedEye, a boutique video production company in Alexandria, Va. He had previously done a communications internship at the Merrimack Valley Repertory Theatre, but wanted more experience to help him stand out in the job market. “I needed to give myself a competitive edge,” he says. “I thought, Nicholas Bernardo, third from left, with his brother, Patrick, a UMass Lowell freshman, his mother Cathleen Bernardo and grandfather, David Pelley, on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

if I can thrive in the nation’s capital, I can thrive anywhere.” Bernardo took a class called Power, Politics and Prose, during which he studied documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address and then visited related historic sites. Looking back, Bernardo says he gained confidence in his abilities during the fivemonth experience. “I was challenged to constantly think outside the box,” he says. “When I started, I hated public speaking. Now I can get up in front of a group of people. I feel like a different person.”

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FIRST STUDENT VETERANS SERVICES OFFICE OPENS ON CAMPUS For the first time, veterans studying at UMass Lowell will have a space on campus to go to for assistance and to call their own. The Student Veterans Services Office in McGauvran Hall has study space, a kitchenette and private areas for conversation. On one wall hangs a map of the world with pins showing where the veterans served.

It’s a place for student veterans to meet and get help with college life. Janine Wert, newly appointed director of Veterans Services, says that the veterans on campus and in classes—more than 600—can offer UMass Lowell unique insight. “These are students with different needs, but they have experiences that other students don’t have,” she says.

UMass Lowell ROTC founding colonel Walter Kelly, right, paid a visit to Lt. Col. Matthew McSwain on campus recently.

AIR FORCE ROTC NAMED BEST DETACHMENT IN REGION The Air Force ROTC on campus, Detachment #345— which celebrated its 60th birthday in 2011—has been named the best small detachment in the Northeast. The award is for a two-year record of achievement in several categories, including cadet activities, university relations and education. “I am so proud of this team and our cadets, and all that these extraordinary young people are doing on campus and around Lowell,” says Lt. Col. Matthew McSwain, Det. #345 commander, noting that enrollment is the highest in 12 years, with a jump of 59 percent in the past two years. A solemn Flag Retreat ceremony marked the 60th anniversary of Air Force ROTC Detachment 345 on campus, as alumni, cadets and guests gathered in memory and celebration. Among them was Col. Walter Kelly, founder of the University’s ROTC detachment 60 years ago.

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One of the Lab’s many carbon dioxide submillimeter-wave laser systems

Submillimeter-Wave Lab Awarded $23 Million In one of the largest single awards ever received by the University, UMass Lowell’s Submillimeter-Wave Technology Laboratory (STL) received a grant worth $23 million over five years from the U.S. Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center. “This grant is a continuation of our program to assist the government in acquiring and analyzing surveillance radar imagery,” says Physics Prof. Robert Giles, who directs the STL. “Our research is focused on using terahertz frequency sources and receivers to scale the Army’s millimeter-wave and microwave airborne radar systems.” For the past 30 years, the STL has been at the forefront of developing and applying technologies to help in military surveillance, homeland security, medical diagnostics and scientific and academic research. In 1979, then-STL director (now science adviser) Prof. Jerry Waldman recognized that emerging terahertz source/receiver technologies could be used to simulate the military’s sophisticated microwave radar systems in the laboratory. These simulations could then be used to obtain characteristic radar fingerprints of aircraft, ships, tanks, trucks and other tactical vehicles at low cost and very high accuracy. Such radar fingerprints are useful for quickly identifying whether an incoming object in the battlefield is a friend or foe. Since then, the STL has used its unique capabilities to fulfill radar measurement requests from Department of Defense agencies as well as defense-related laboratories and companies, including MIT Lincoln Lab, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin and Raytheon. STL’s efforts have also successfully spun-off to medical ap- STL Engineering Director Michael Coulombe works on plications, especially in detecting a solid-state, high-resolution Terahertz radar system. non-melanoma skin cancer.

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The Massachusetts Medical Device Development Center (M2D2), a business incubator at UMass Lowell, has eight medical device startups already in residence in its laboratory and office space. The incubator is the result of a $4 million renovation that has transformed 14,000 square feet of a former mill building into a state-ofthe-art facility for emerging companies. The University supports those companies with its expertise in engineering, business management, medical procedures, prototyping and clinical trials. M2D2 is a joint initiative of UMass Lowell and UMass Medical School in Worcester to help companies bridge the large gap between invention and production of new medical devices. Over the past decade, Massachusetts’ medical device exports have grown at more than twice the rate of the state’s overall exports. The industry employs nearly 25,000 workers in the Commonwealth and is responsible for creating more than 80,000 jobs in related industries, according to a recent study by the business consulting company Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration provided funding for the renovation project, which was managed by the UMass Building Authority. “This facility provides new opportunities for medical device startup companies,” says UMass Lowell Prof. Stephen McCarthy, co-director of M2D2. “The wet labs, together with expertise offered by engineering faculty, can help

entrepreneurs design cutting-edge products that doctors and clinicians will want to use.”

RESEARCHERS HELP STUDENTS BECOME ‘DATA SCIENTISTS’ The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a grant totaling $1.3 million to UMass Lowell and its partners to introduce young students to cyberlearning in the classroom and help prepare them for the deluge of data produced by modern science. “We’ll focus on training middle school and high school students to become ‘data scientists’ engaged in collecting, sharing and visualizing scientific data over the Internet,” says computer science Assoc. Prof. Fred Martin, the project’s principal investigator. The project’s core technology is an interactive web platform called the Internet System for Networked Sensor Experimentation, or iSENSE—which provides a shared repository of usercontributed classroom activities, such as tabletop science experiments, environmental analyses, engineering projects and surveys, together with the data generated by these activities. Asst. Prof. Michelle Scribner-MacLean of the Graduate School of Education is co-principal investigator for the project.

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Researchers to Develop Intelligent Humanlike Robots A team of researchers from UMass Lowell, the University of Michigan and Tufts University recently received a two-year grant of nearly $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to create intelligent robot systems that will navigate more like humans. For its part, UMass Lowell will receive nearly $409,000 for the project, with Computer Science Prof. Holly Yanco as principal investigator. “Our research will develop and evaluate an intelligent robot capable of being genuinely useful to a human and capable of natural dialog with a person about their shared navigation task,” says Yanco. “In particular, the robots will be able to ask for directions and clarifications to those directions.” The team’s work will be tested in two areas: robot wheelchairs and telepresence robots. Robotic wheelchairs help people move to their desired destinations while telepresence robots serve as virtual eyes and ears for a remote human operator as the robots navigate within an environment. Yanco says this research will create technologies for mobility assistance for people with disabilities in perception (blindness or low vision), cognition (developmental delay or dementia) or general frailty (old age).

Hugo, an augmented VGo Communications’ VGo telepresence robot, is driven remotely by a human operator (visible on Hugo's screen). A light-up LED necktie indicates the robot's current status.

$4.5 MILLION GRANT WILL IMPROVE EMPLOYEE HEALTH The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has committed $4.5 million to renew funding of the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace at UMass Lowell and the University of Connecticut. Originally funded in 2006 with a $5 million grant, the center is a collaborative research-to-practice program led by Prof. Laura Punnett of Work Environment at UMass Lowell. “Our work has made a substantial difference to the health of workers in nursing homes, correctional facilities and other businesses across New England,” says Punnett. “We’re very excited that NIOSH has awarded this funding so that we can expand our research to uncover the root causes of how the workplace may be influencing negative health behaviors.” For instance, the center is evaluating a program in a chain of more than 200 nursing homes that uses lift devices for residents to prevent back injuries and musculoskeletal disorders among aides and other caregivers. The team is measuring overall physical and mental health, employee retention, program costs and workers’ compensation claims.

TRACKING FLU EPIDEMICS VIA TWITTER Fever. Cough. Sore throat. Runny nose. Body aches and headache. Fatigue. These are some of the classic symptoms of the flu, a highly contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses. Seasonal flu epidemics result in about 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year. A team of researchers from UMass Lowell’s Computer Science Department, the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine and Scientific Systems Co. is now using online social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to help improve

the prediction of influenza levels within a population and keep track of its spread. “Studies have shown that preventive measures can be taken to contain the outbreak, provided early detection can be made,” says computer science Assoc. Prof. Benyuan Liu, a member of the team. Called the Social Network-Enabled Flu Trends, or SNEFT, the system uses a continuous data-collection framework that monitors all flu-related tweets. The team’s research is supported in part with a $200,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

“We consider Twitter users within the United States as ‘sensors’ and the collective message exchanges they post describing their flu symptoms as early indicators and robust predictors of flu activities,” says Liu.

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Labnotes NSF Grant Funds $1.3 Million Microscope A brand-new, state-of-the art microscope is further separating UMass Lowell from its peers. The Auriga focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM), manufactured by German optics leader Carl Zeiss, will greatly enhance the University’s research capabilities in the areas of nano materials and biological sciences. “This Zeiss FIB-SEM system can resolve details as tiny as one nanometer, or a billionth of a meter, and magnify views up to a million times,” says Earl Ada, Ph.D., who manages the Campus Materials Characterization Laboratory, where the microscope is located. “It offers the highest resolution in scanning electron microscopy today,” he says. “UMass Lowell is one of only a handful of educational institutions in the Northeast that has this advanced capability.” The purchase of the $1.3 million microscope was made possible by a $1.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The University shouldered the rest of the cost.

UMass Lowell’s brand-new Auriga focused ion-beam scanning electron microscope made by Carl Zeiss is located in the Materials Characterization Laboratory on North Campus.

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PROJECT FIGHTS ASTHMA UMass Lowell researchers and community health workers have won a round in the fight against childhood asthma, thanks to The Healthy Homes Program. Funded with grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the team recently released test results from its first two years of work to identify and eliminate asthma triggers in the home.

The findings? The team’s efforts prompted a significant drop in the number of times a child experienced wheezing, had an asthma attack or trouble breathing, or visited a doctor’s office or clinic for asthma problems. “I was pleasantly surprised by the positive results and measurable improvements,” says David Turcotte, the research professor who directs the

a goal of limiting worker exposures to toxic commercial disinfection formulations.

History Prof. Robert Forrant and Economics Prof. Carol McDonough: $10,000 from the Verizon Foundation to continue a UMass Lowell partnership grant to expand access to high-speed Internet access for underserved populations.

Biology Asst. Prof. Rick Hochberg: $598,976 from the National Science Foundation to study the biodiversity of the Cayman Islands, which has led to identification of a new species of worm.

Biology Asst. Prof. Jessica Garb: $294,656 from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to research how the venom of black widow spiders became so powerful.

Physics Prof. Silas Laycock: $56,707 grant by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to study X-ray binary star systems in IC 10, a dwarf irregular galaxy 2.2 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.

Asst. Prof. Nancy Goodyear of Clinical Laboratories and Nutritional Sciences: $20,000 from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute to evaluate disinfection in homes and hospitals, with

The Healthy Homes Program is reducing asthmatic episodes in children, allowing them to become more active.

Asst. Prof. Ramaswamy Nagarajan of Plastics Engineering: $20,000 from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute to test safer surfactants for laundry detergents.

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Healthy Homes Program. “These were significant changes.” Turcotte attributes the project’s success to its intensive, multivisit approach. Two-person teams—a community outreach worker and UMass Lowell researcher— visited each household to explain the study and conduct an environmental assessment. The team then arranged for necessary interventions, from instituting pest management to arranging for repairs, industrial cleaning or installation of hardwood floors in place of carpeting. Four or five home visits over a one-year period helped families maintain their efforts. More than 75 staff members of partner organizations have been trained on how to incorporate Healthy Homes knowledge and intervention during their own visits. In-home day care providers also received training. Partners include the Lowell Community Health Center, the Coalition for a Better Acre, Community Teamwork Inc., the Lowell Housing Authority and the Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership.

Physics Assoc. Prof. Viktor Podolskiy: $261,265 from the National Science Foundation to develop a new approach to camera imaging and focusing of light to improve resolution and eliminate the need for components like lenses and mirrors. Assoc. Prof. Daniel Schmidt of Plastics Engineering: $20,000 from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute to develop and test a safer formulation for adhesives based on plant oils and other nonhazardous ingredients. Chemical Engineering Asst. Prof. Seongkyu Yoon: $150,000 from the UMass President’s Office Science and Technology Initiatives Fund to create a biopharmaceutical process and quality consortium.

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By Geoffrey Douglas

Women’s Coach Makes Rowers of Middle-Schoolers, Wins Races Along the Way

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feel like I’ve spent my whole life preparing for this,” says Veronika Platzer. This from a woman who already, at 48, has prepared for, faced and surmounted more challenges than most of us will ever consider. Three-time NCAA discus champion. NCAA Female Track and Field Athlete of the Decade. World Cup rower. Coach of the U.S. Junior National rowing team. Coach of the NCAA National Champion University of Virginia Women’s Four rowers. Gold medalist—with UMass Lowell alumna Ginny LaFreniere ’81—in the 2010 FISA World Rowing Masters Regatta. And, for the past four years, head coach of the UMass Lowell Women’s Rowing Program. Still, it is something else altogether for which, she says, she has spent her life preparing. Last summer, if you ever happened to be out on the Merrimack River on a weekday morning, you might have seen an oversize, ungainly but nearly untippable, flat-bottom boat—they call it the Barge—packed with a crowd of 12- and 13-year-olds, laboring over their oars. This was Platzer’s brainchild: Year One of the UMass Lowell youth rowing program, designed to bring the basics of what Coach Platzer says too many still see as an “elitist sport” into the lives—and hearts—of the city’s middle-schoolers.

“It’s a hard sport to support,” she concedes. “It’s expensive, for one thing. And the communitymembers have every right to ask, ‘Just what is this doing for me?’ Well, I’m trying to create a community rowing center—both to teach the sport and to make it accessible—not just for NCAA athletes, but for everyone who wants to learn, for citizens of the world.” And so, working with Cheryl Saba, athletic director at the Ste. Jeanne d’Arc School, Platzer launched the new program at the end of the school year in June, drawing roughly 100 kids by summer’s end. The cost for the four-day program was $50 per student; David Cormier, president of the UMass Lowell men’s crew, served as coach. At the end of every week’s program, he told a reporter in July, he’d have several kids approach him to ask “if there was some highschool team or club they could join. Some of them even said they [wanted to] come back and row for UMass Lowell someday.” “Giving our athletes [like Cormier] responsibility for coaching is an important piece of the program,” says Platzer. “It instills in them a real love, and respect, for the sport. It teaches the importance of doing things with purpose. “I’ll tell you, I’m as proud of this program as I am of anything I’ve done with women’s crew.” That’s saying something—there’s a lot to be proud of when it comes to women’s crew.

A program that didn’t have enough rowers to fill an eight-woman boat when Platzer arrived four years ago (following a $1 million-dollar infusion of state funding for renovations to Bellegarde Boathouse in 2007, women’s crew last year made the move to varsity status), now boasts a Varsity Eight as well as a Varsity Four— fulfilling the NCAA standard—with a Novice Four to serve as a feeder for the future. At this fall’s 32nd annual Textile River Regatta—with 650 boats, the largest one-day rowing event in the United States—the Varsity Eight placed third, just 16 seconds behind the winning boat; in the women’s novice sculling division, firstyear student Erinn McLaughlin captured the program’s first-ever gold medal. The next challenge, as of press-time for this magazine, was to be the Head of the Charles regatta in Cambridge—with 56 events and more than 1,700 boats, among the largest and most prestigious in the world—to which UMass Lowell had been invited. “I don’t expect us to win anything this year,” Platzer conceded two weeks before Race Day. “We’re still in a building mode. But in two or three more years? Look for us to have a very real chance. “Stay tuned. We’re just getting warmed up.”

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eticulously curated and stretching along the long front lobby of Costello Athletic Center, the display of individual prowess is staggering. An Olympic silver medalist, a four-time Stanley Cup winner, All-Americans, record holders, outstanding student-athletes, even a father and son known for different sports in different eras.* The father, a baseball pitcher and batting champ from 1955 to 1959 named Leo A. Parent, put up numbers that still make UMass Lowell Athletic Director Dana Skinner smile. “Guy pitches 225 innings and strikes out 392.” He pauses. “Imagine that.” The son, Leo J. Parent, played basketball here from 1986 to 89, and was named Most Outstanding Player of the 1988 NCAA Division II Final Four. Skinner wants everyone to digest all of the individual accomplishments in the context of pride—they all happened at the place now called UMass Lowell. The “Soaring With Pride” display is intended to mend what Skinner calls “a disconnect,” thanks in part to the name changes over the years. From Lowell Technological Institute, to Lowell State College, the University of Lowell and UMass Lowell, each era is represented as a way of creating one brand. “We’ve come to understand that who we are is who we were,” says Skinner, quoting John Quincy Adams, from his U.S. Supreme Court argument in the “Amistad” case. And we have been good. Fairly amazing, in some cases. Consider the coaches. Hockey coach Bill Reilly took the team from frozen folly to three Division II national championships over the course of 22 seasons (1969-91). Logging 363 wins, he also oversaw the team’s transition to Division I and Hockey East. Meanwhile, Jim Stone’s tenure as baseball coach from 1966 to 2003 wasn’t just a matter of longevity. Stone also amassed an 801-393-7 record. Similarly, George Davis coached the University’s cross country/track and field team from 1970 to 2002. He led the 1991 men’s cross country team to a national title and during his tenure 78 All-Americans and 34 New England champions emerged from the ranks of Lowell’s teams.

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A W A R E N E S S Shannon Hlebichuk wasn’t just an outstanding field hockey player from 1994 to 1998, she was the University’s first-ever NCAA Massachusetts Woman of the Year in 1997-98. After coming back to coach, she led the River Hawks field hockey squad to national titles in 2005 and 2010. And sometimes it was the movers and shakers who broke through barriers. Denise Legault and Claire Chamberlain began and nurtured women’s sports at UMass Lowell (then Lowell State College), beginning in 1972 with volleyball, followed by basketball, tennis and softball. But with all of the accomplishment, there was also a question of identity. “I’ve been here 25 years now, and I’ve heard so many people talking about Lowell Tech, Lowell State, U of Lowell,” says Skinner. “And there was a disconnect between people from different eras. Our goal here in everything we do is to make the University a better place to be, and a better place to be from.” Four years ago, five alumni approached Skinner. Bob Boehm, Gary and Jim Hunt, Hank Brown and Skip Roper asked him to support a fund-raising campaign for a trophy case named for Jim Ciszek and Rusty Yarnall. Legends of Lowell sports, the pair were each longtime coaches at various incarnations of the University, as well as UMass Lowell Hall of Fame members. The trophy case was the seed from which grew the Soaring With Pride campaign. In addition to Costello, there are displays in the Tsongas Center and throughout other athletic buildings. It’s been a year since the displays were hung, and Skinner says he’s heard great feedback. “Sometimes, at sporting events, I see people standing in the corridor, looking at the photos and reading the captions—captivated by reading about the past,” he says. *So who are these folks? They are among the best to emerge from the University’s locker rooms. The Olympic silver medalist is Shelagh Donohue, who rowed here from 1984 to 1988, and earned the silver at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. The fourtime Stanley Cup winner is Craig MacTavish, who played hockey at Lowell from 1977 to 1979 before beginning a long pro career with the Boston Bruins. All-Americans are numerous, but they include Ruben Sanca, who ran cross country and track and field from 2005 to 2008. In addition to being a four-time AllAmerican, Sanca was a three-time New England champion. !

“OUR GOAL HERE IN EVERYTHING WE DO IS TO MAKE THE UNIVERSITY A BETTER PLACE TO BE, AND A BETTER PLACE TO BE FROM.” — Dana Skinner

Photos on Page 18 A. Elad Inbar ’04 B. Leo Parent Jr. ’89 C. Nicole Plante ’07 D. Leo Parent Sr. ’59 E. Joanna DaLuze ’06

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By David Perry

Photo: Bob Ellis

Field Hockey Standout Remains With UMass Lowell

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By Chris O’Donnell

Runners Collect Shoes for Third-World Countries

When UMass Lowell junior Steve Fitzsimmons cleaned out his closet earlier this summer, he was overwhelmed by the number of old running sneakers he found. He counted 26 pair from high school and his first two years of college. Fitzsimmons didn’t want to just throw them away. By a distance runner’s standards, they were tired, flat. But surely someone somewhere could use them. So he did a search online for donating used running shoes, and found a website called www.soles4souls.org. He was moved by the videos and photos. “There was one child who was wearing his mother’s shoes because those were the only shoes they had for the whole family,” Fitzsimmons says. The images stuck. The biology major thought about it more and did some math. He runs 85-90 miles in a typical week. The longevity of a pair running shoes is about 500 miles, so he figures anywhere between six to eight weeks, he needs a new pair. “And I’m just one of 20 to 30 athletes on the men’s [cross country] team,” Fitzsimmons says. The Methuen native factored in the 11 other women’s and men’s teams at UMass Lowell. The potential was overwhelming. Over the summer, Fitzsimmons brought the idea to Joan Lehoullier, UMass Lowell’s senior associate director of athletics who oversees the Athletic Department’s fundraising and community service efforts. Usually, Lehoullier is the one pitching the community service ideas to UMass Lowell’s athletes. “I’m always excited when a student-athlete comes to us with an idea for community service,” Lehoullier says, adding that she immediately registered the University as a drop location via the Soles4Souls website. Soon after, the collection boxes arrived. At the 2011 annual River Hawk Games on Sept. 11, Lehoullier introduced the effort to UMass Lowell’s 250-plus student-athletes: “A lot of kids came up to us right away and said it was a great idea,” she says. “Once you get them started, they’re on board. They’re all looking for a way to help.” Four days later, the on-campus boxes were overflowing with everything from Tevas to Bostonians to Nikes. Lehoullier and Fitzsimmons will pack them up and send them to one of the 10 Soles4Souls warehouses nationwide where they are cleaned and reconditioned. “It is something that is relatively easy and does a lot of good,” Fitzsimmons says. “These shoes are going to people in third-world countries, in crisis relief situations, people who have never owned a pair of shoes in their lives.” ! 20

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Sitting in a downtown Lowell caffeine emporium, Sammy Macy pushes her sunglasses up onto her long brown hair and takes a sip of her iced coffee. Though the 22-year-old is a new graduate of UMass Lowell, she says she’s doesn’t plan to stray far. Macy, recently named the nation’s top collegiate Division II female athlete, isn’t leaving the University or its field hockey team despite graduating with a 3.12 GPA in criminal justice last spring. The three-time first team All-American worked with the River Hawks as an assistant coach this past fall, after a summer of slinging ice cream at Dandelions in her native Tewksbury. Macy is the first-ever New England recipient of the DII female athlete award, “which makes it even more special,” says Athletic Director Dana Skinner. He credits Macy’s “exhilarating play during the team’s record-breaking 2011 season” with a large part in the River Hawks’ 24-0 record, but also believes the “level of excellence she sustained over four years” was hard-won, the result of great dedication. In February, she will begin a six-month stay in Australia to play field hockey with a team in Queensland. Macy says her rifle-like field hockey shot—one of collegiate field hockey’s most feared trajectories—was the result of years of playing softball and hockey. Her sharp, quick swing came from softball, while her stick-handling skill sprung from ice hockey. She sometimes played on three teams simultaneously, rendering her father a virtual taxi service.

Macy discovered field hockey as a high school freshman, shortly after she tired of soccer. Field hockey was, she says, “new and fun,” and allowed her to put to good use her strong sense of competition. At 5’9”, speed and reach are among her offensive weapons.

The 2005 Tewksbury High School graduate nearly didn’t become a River Hawk. She was set to follow her older brother, Brian, to Northeastern, where she would play field hockey with scholarship money, but she opted for UMass Lowell the March before classes began. She sensed she would want “more balance” in her collegiate life than she’d get at Northeastern. Her high school coach suggested she talk to Shannon Hlebichuk, who was all too happy to make Macy a River Hawk. “She’d come to some clinics I’d run, so I knew her a little bit,” says Hlebichuk. “Sammy is such a hard worker, but she also wanted a balance between her work, social and academic lives. We could offer that.” “I found the perfect balance here,” says Macy. “I am so glad I came.” !

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FROM LOGAN TO LAX

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ANDRE DUBUS III

FACE OF PHILANTHROPHY

KILLING FIELDS SURVIVORS

CIRCLE OF DISTINCTION

Accounting major Georgios Liakakis ’14 enjoys the unseasonably warm weather on North Campus this past fall.

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From Logan to LAX, From Safety to Security

By Geoffrey Douglas

Chief Operating Officer Steve Martin ’71 Reflects on a Changing World

n the evening of Jan. 23, 1982, World Airways Flight 30, a DC-10-30 on its way from Newark to Boston’s Logan Airport, skidded on an icy runway, broke apart and slid into the waters of Boston Harbor. Two passengers in the plane’s front row were thrown into the water. Their bodies were never recovered.

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ur yearly budget, for security and safety, is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, probably greater than for any other single airport in the U.S. It’s just a massive job.” — Steve Martin ’71

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Steve Martin ’71, working at the time for the Massachusetts Port Authority, was at Logan as part of the team that investigated the crash. The memory has stayed with him— and informed him— ever since: “It’s been like this little tape in my mind: ‘Did we do all that we could to prevent it?’ ‘What could we have done differently?’,” says Martin, today the chief operating officer at Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in charge of LAX and three other facilities. “The issue in those days was safety; in today’s world, it’s more geared to security. But the mindset stays with you: ‘Did we do this?’ ‘Did we do that?’ Have we done everything we can reasonably do?’” Martin, who’s been COO at LAWA since early 2008, is responsible for oversight of all the airports’ activities: security, administration, IT, budget, operations, maintenance, commercial development and more. LAX alone, he says (the world’s sixth-busiest airport, serving 59 million passengers a year) accounts for roughly 80 percent of his time. Of this, only 15 percent or so is devoted to issues of security. But it’s an incalculably critical 15 percent. “There’s a high cognizance of this airport as a high-profile potential target,” he says by phone from his office at LAX. “All the federal agencies have a footprint here—the TSA, the FBI, all those—plus the LAPD, the airport police and private security. More people get arrested here than you’d ever imagine. Our yearly budget, for security and safety, is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, probably greater than for any other single airport in the U.S. It’s just a massive job.” Before 9/11, Martin says, airport security was the provenance of airline contractors, and began and ended in one spot. No more. “Now the TSA is in charge, the airlines are participants, not leaders, in the security business, and the goal is a layered, continuous surveillance,” he says, adding that this is especially the case at major airports like LAX. The layers begin with checkpoints outside the airport, then continue inside with bombsniffing dogs, patrolling police and TSA agents, and finally the shoes-off, pockets-empty pre-

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gate security checks—all augmented by the watch-lists and intelligence gathering that go on out of sight, and the exhaustive, neverending background checks of everyone from pilots to baggage handlers and maintenance employees. “It’s an endless, daunting, expensive process,” Martin says. “The passengers, or most of them, are barely even aware of a lot of it.” Still, for all the sniffing shepherds, patrolling uniforms and sophisticated technology, in the end much of the job comes down to simple judgment calls, he says: “A passenger has a gun in his bag, or illegal drugs—is he a terrorist, a criminal or just a dumb kid? Is he truly a threat, or just a distraction? That’s a decision someone has to make.” One day several years ago, Martin recalls, airport security officers observed a passenger with a backpack acting oddly. They approached him. “I have a bomb in here,” he told them, and dropped the bag on the ground. “So what do you do then?” Martin asks. “Do you close the terminal? Do you close all nine terminals? Do you shut the whole airport down? Or is this guy just a distraction? That’s the call that trained people have to make.” In the end, Martin says, there was no bomb in the backpack, and the crisis was defused. But it might have gone a different way: “A lot of people, including a lot of law-enforcement people, get their adrenaline-rush from reacting to that sort of thing. You can’t be swayed by that. You’ve got to go with the skilled people, the ones with training, who stick with protocol—which [in that case] was to bring in a bomb-sniffing dog, then, if necessary, to get a robot-device to dispose of the thing.” For Martin, who brings to his job more than 25 years of airport and aviation leadership in both the public and private sectors, it isn’t so much the prospect of another 9/11, as the countless small things that go into preventing one, that keep him awake at night. “In the end, I guess what I worry about most is that,” he says, “if something were to happen, would I be able to look in the mirror and say I’d done everything I could have done, everything within reason, to keep those people safe?” “You can’t do it all—you can never do it all. You just aim to get better every day.” !

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Campus Gathers a Decade After 9/11 Memorial Honors Those Lost, Focuses on Unity

“UNITY ASKS US TO REBUILD AND REPAIR — REBUILD TRUST AND REPAIR RELATIONSHIPS ACROSS COMMUNITIES.” — Campus Minister Imogene Stulken

decade after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America claimed nearly 3,000 lives, UMass Lowell gathered to remember its own family members lost that day. In the first of a few events planned to mark the anniversary, Chancellor Marty Meehan and 120 students, family members and community officials rededicated Unity, the 9/11 memorial designed by a trio of UMass Lowell students. Set along the Riverwalk near Leitch Hall on East Campus and originally dedicated May 14, 2004, the circular stone sculpture was designed by UMass Lowell art students Gail Milligan and Rebekah Hermans of Lowell and Janet Wittlinger of Auburn, N.H. The disc-shaped Unity overlooks the Merrimack River and carries the names of seven UMass Lowell alumni and friends lost in the attacks in New York and Washington D.C.: Douglas Gowell ’71, of Methuen; Robert J. Hayes ’87, of Amesbury; Brian K. Kinney ’95, of Lowell; John Ogonowski ’72, of Dracut; Patrick Quigley, husband of Patricia Quigley ’86, of Wellesley; former student Jessica Sachs of Billerica, daughter of Stephen R. and Karen D. Sachs, both ’69; and Christopher Zarba of Hopkinton, who studied here in the 1970s.

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Christian Elwood, a senior finance student and resident of the Student Veterans Association, said the events of 9 /11 convinced him to join the Marine Corps. During the ceremony, he read the biography of Ogonowski, a Vietnam veteran and the captain of American Airline Flight 11, the first of the airliners to be plunged into the World Trade Center towers by terrorist hijackers. The day of the attacks was “many things to many people,” Meehan told the assembled. It was “a tragic day where Americans were brutally murdered, a call to arms and a turning point in American and world history. But above all, it will always be about the more than 3,000 Americans who were killed and the 30 families in the Merrimack Valley who lost a loved one that tragic day.” However, the Sept. 8 ceremony also served as a rededication to moving forward and mending fractured relationships. “How can we best honor their memory?” asked Imogene Stulken of the UMass Lowell Campus Ministry. “How might each of us commemorate this day with service? Unity asks us to rebuild and repair—rebuild trust and repair relationships across communities. Say to yourself when you visit, ‘to bring more peace to the world, I will…’ ” !

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Featurestory Raul Raudales sniffs arabica coffee beans as he and Richard Trubey (center) meet with Red Barn Coffee Roasters President Mark Verrochi to discuss the coffee drying process.

‘We Could Create Huge Changes’ Brewing Coffee, Saving Forests, Bettering Lives By Geoffrey Douglas

For Raul Raudales and Richard Trube, an engineer and a technical writer who met at UMass Lowell as students more than 20 years ago, world change begins with the modest coffee bean.

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heir story, like the story of the coffee they produce and the men and women who help to produce it, is a story in many parts: of innovation, technology, travel, teaching, research grants, and years and years of work. But it’s as simple in its essence as that little bean at the heart of your morning cup. It begins with a problem: throughout the countries of Central America, where much of the world’s best coffee is produced, roughly 6,500 hectares—16,000 acres—of forest are cut each year to supply firewood for the drying of coffee beans. “About three square centimeters,” as Richard Trube is fond of translating it, “for every cup we drink.” It has been this way, he says, for at least a century. So might there be a more efficient way? This was the question that Trube ’86 and Raudales, MS ’93 began to consider together as students—and have been working on answering for most of the last 17 years. Not long after they began, realizing they would need an entity through which to funnel their efforts, the pair created a non-profit, the Mesoamerican Development Institute, centered at UMass Lowell, to research new ways to dry the beans—and in the process, to create a more sustainable system. There were a lot experiments, and a lot of false starts. “We were in the talking stage,” concedes Trube, “for quite a long while.”

THE WORLD’S FIRST SOLAR COFFEE What they came up with, once the talking was done, was a hybrid dryer that converts discarded coffee bean-husks into fuel pellets; these in turn were burned with heat from solar panels to dry the beans just picked from trees. Then came the hard part: taking the new system to the source. The first piece of funding came from Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico. Since then, support has come from myriad sources: the Inter-American Foundation, the World Bank, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation, and—most recently—the National Science Foundation.

MDI’s new processing facility in Subirana, Yoro, Honduras. This will be the world’s first coffee processing center to be powered entirely with renewable energy.

MDI’s high-efficiency drying chamber in Costa Rica. MDI co-founder Raul Raudales is at left.

At this point, there is a dryer in place in a village in Honduras, where a cooperative of 150 farmers are sharing the coffee-production work. Once fully operational, there will no longer be a need to send the beans to remote locations—as far as 200 kilometers away in some cases, says Trube—to dry in processing centers. The differences this makes can be measured on a lot of scales: better coffee, fewer trees lost, lower costs to the farmer. “We could create huge changes,” Trube says. The changes are happening on a second front as well. A five-member consortium of university partners—UMass Lowell, UMass Amherst and universities in Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua—is enabling an exchange program of students and faculty, bringing the principles of sustainable development onto campuses on two continents. Already, says Trube, half a dozen engineering students and nearly as many faculty members have made the trip south, where they do their part in bringing the theories of solar energy come to life outside of the classroom. Meanwhile, the product that results—Café Solar—is coming north: Roasted at Red Barn Coffee Roasters in Upton, it is now brewed and sold in UMass Lowell dining halls, the only coffee brand on the market, as far as anyone knows, produced using industrial solar dryers. “This is a remarkable, incredibly rare opportunity,” says UMass Lowell Professor Emeritus William Moeller, an environmental engineer who has been working with Trube and Raudales for more than 10 years. “To be able to do all this, at the same time as you advance educational research and expand the prestige of the University— from an educator’s point of view, that’s about as good as it gets.” For Richard Trube and his Mesoamerican Development Institute partners, it’s barely the beginning: “We want to create a model, and to keep it growing, until the big companies, the big coffee-makers out there, come around to adopting the process. That’s the dream we’re working toward.” !

“TO BE ABLE TO DO ALL THIS, AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU ADVANCE EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND EXPAND THE PRESTIGE OF THE UNIVERSITY—FROM AN EDUCATOR’S POINT OF VIEW, THAT’S ABOUT AS GOOD AS IT GETS.” — William Moeller

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Roots and Responsibility The Generosity of Rob and Donna Manning

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obert Manning looked out over his audience at the Tsongas Center. It was a sea of black, swathed in mortarboards and gowns. As the crowd fanned out, there were parents, siblings and other relatives, friends and mentors. Manning dressed like the grads. He was one of them. He was different, too, of course. At 47, he’d just committed to a donation of more than $5 million toward the newly named Manning School of Business and toward construction of a new school of business building. He hopes to inspire others. Harvard has a long line of folks writing checks, he’ll tell you, but Manning fears too many others believe that “state schools” are taken care of by the state. “Far from it,” he says. The lifelong UMass Lowell booster and former chairman of the UMass Board of Trustees would like to spark a “pay it forward”-style trend benefitting state universities. He is an ardent fan of the energy and dedication Chancellor Marty Meehan has brought to UMass Lowell. And he married the former Donna Brown, who seemed destined to partner with Manning from the moment they met at Methuen High School. Growing up on a small farm in Methuen, Donna saw philanthropy before she knew it had a name. In his May 28 commencement speech to the largest class ever to graduate from UMass Lowell, Manning spoke as one of them. Manning ’84, knew exactly how they felt. He drove to Lowell from Methuen in 1981 in a car his parents had bought for him, not sure what to expect but ready to buckle down. He forged a steely determination to get everything he could from the college’s finance classes, earning a degree in business administration. Just for good measure, he added a minor in computer science. He did it all in three years. After graduating, he got a job analyzing speculative grade debt at MFS Investment Management in Boston. The company was noted for establishing the first mutual fund. It turned out to be a good match for Manning. Now, as CEO and chairman of the global money management firm, he oversees $224 billion in assets and 1,650 employees. Manning is among the most accomplished of the University’s graduates. Still, he wanted the Class of 2011 to know he had once been in their shoes. He assured them their accomplishments lay ahead, thanks to the preparation they got at UMass Lowell. They’re ready for life, he told them, for work, for the world. Preparation trumps luck, he told the Class of 2011 in a 14-minute commencement address: “You don’t need good luck. The people you are going to compete against need it.”

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PAYING IT FORWARD At home in Swampscott, Rob and Donna Manning and their black Labs, Rose and Willie, survey a very different scenario. From the dining room, the Atlantic Ocean is a reminder of how tides change, the water lapping at a seawall on the edge of the stunning property. Days earlier, Hurricane Irene tossed sea spray hard against the windows. “An amazing show,” says Manning of Irene’s bluster. “You couldn’t even see out there.” He waves a hand at the windows showcasing a widescreen view of his vast watery backyard neighbor. This morning, a lobster boat bobs in the sunshine along the jagged coast. Manning’s life in finance has made him no stranger to shaping order from chaos and calm from tension, though the seaside Swampscott house is for “getting away from” stress, he says. The well-equipped gym downstairs, the state-of-theart sound system and the movie area are designed as refuge for the couple. They’re up at 4:30 a.m. to exercise and usually in bed by 9:30. There’s little time or yearning for TV. To really get away, there’s a house in Bretton Woods, N.H., where Mt. Washington looms in the distance and ski trails beckon the Mannings, who are avid skiers and love to snowshoe. Donna Manning ’85, ’91 also received an honorary degree at commencement. Donna, who earned nursing and master’s of business administration degrees from UMass Lowell, has been an oncology nurse at Boston Medical Center for the past 27 years. She donates her salary to the hospital. The Mannings previously endowed scholarships for business and nursing students, but this runs deeper. Donna says they usually don’t like the fuss that surrounds philanthropy, but the notion that this donation might inspire others convinced them to shed anonymity. Married 25 years, the Mannings are bookends, a pair. Soulmates. It’s been that way since they went to high school together in Methuen. They’d seen each other in

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Donna ’85,’91 and Rob ’84 Manning each received honorary degrees at the University’s 2011 Commencement.

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Rob Manning spends his days at 500 Boylston Street in Boston, home to MFS Investment Management.

“MY PARENTS DIDN’T GO TO COLLEGE, BUT IT CLEARLY MEANT A LOT TO THEM THAT WE COULD GO, AND WE DECIDED AT THIS POINT IN LIFE TO PAY IT FORWARD.” — Donna Manning

passing, and in a class or two, but didn’t begin dating until they were seniors. That was 31 years ago. They’ve just never stopped. They are childless “by design,” he says. “Our lives are so intense, that to do the few things we do outside of work, we need time with each other. And we knew it would be this way.” Rob credits Donna with nudging him toward philanthropy. “She’d give away everything I have if I let her,” he says, smiling. Growing up, Donna only associated philanthropy with rich people. But she was part of it when she was 12, after the barn at the farm next to her parents’ farm burned to the ground. She and her dad loaded their pick-up truck with bales of hay. They drove them next door so the surviving animals could eat. She spent the better part of that summer bailing that hay with her dad. “I was surprised how easily he gave it away,” Donna says, since we would probably run out ourselves.” She remembers many such kind exchanges with neighbors. “It almost never involved money,” recalls Donna. “Apparently, I was rich back then.” Rob recalls one day a few years ago when he felt everything was good personally and professionally yet ... something was missing. “Rob’s parents and my parents made a lot of sacrifices to send us to school,” says Donna. “We appreciate that, and try to pass it on to help those who need it. My parents didn’t go to college, but it clearly meant a lot to them that we could go, and we decided at this point in life to pay it forward.” UMass Lowell offered quality of education at an affordable price, says Donna. “Financially, I was able to work and pay for college, semester to semester,” she says.

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‘WE HAVEN’T SEEN THE BEST OF ROB YET’ “I’ll tell you one thing,” says Kevin Perry, an adjunct professor of finance on and off from 1978 to 83. “There is no lacking for IQ points in that home.” Rob Manning walked into Perry’s class “genuinely interested in the material, to the point where he wanted not just to learn it, but to dominate it,” says Perry, who returned to Boston-based Loomis Sayles Co. L.P. as a money manager in 1983. “Listen,” he says, “Lowell is a place where working kids bust their asses trying to make something of themselves. I was pretty intolerant of people who were not there to learn. But Rob was exactly the kind of student you’d hope you’d have. It’s hard to look at someone and say, ‘He’s going to be CEO of a major financial company.’ But with Rob, you could think. ‘This is the kind of person with the ability to excel.’ He is still not arrogant in any way, but you could tell he was going to do something significant.” As with other former Rob Manning received a Circle of students, Perry stayed in Distinction award from Chancellor touch with Manning, at Marty Meehan, left, in October. one point living up the See related story on page 40. street in Swampscott. He got Manning the job interview at MFS. Perry imagines Manning will be active with his business school investment: “I think Rob is committed to what is going on in the classroom. Some major institutions treat their undergraduates atrociously. That is not acceptable to Rob. He looks at Lowell and sees enormous opportunity. He values people who are smart and can hit the ground running, and a faculty that is committed to active partnerships in the business world.” He pauses. “I think that, quite frankly, we haven’t seen the best of Rob yet.” FROM FOOTBALL TO FINANCE Until he arrived in Lowell, academics hadn’t been a centerpiece of Rob Manning’s life, as they had Donna’s. He’d been a high school jock, captain of the Methuen

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Rob Manning ’84 delivered the commencemnt address in 2011—the largest class ever to graduate from UMass Lowell.

High Rangers football team, playing middle linebacker and guard. He was popular and “didn’t have any interest in grades or where they could get me,” he says. “I had a lot of fun playing sports,” he explains. “But Donna was a good example for me.” Manning says he initially chose UMass Lowell “because I had a lot of friends here and it was close to home.” He had long been drawn to the world of finance, and quickly honed a focus on college academics. He was so driven he took eight to 10 classes a semester. The couple point to a foundation built from “extraordinary” role models. Rob’s parents, Dick and Dolores, worked hard, especially to make certain he made it to college. His father worked for 38 years at Raytheon Corp., earning his engineering degree at age 45, from Fitchburg State. Part of his career was spent working on the Patriot Missile project. Donna and her sisters were also first to attend college in their family. Her father, Frank, was a machinist. “They gave us values, including working for everything you had,” says Rob. “They taught us that work gives you a sense of pride, a feeling of being accomplished at something. And they taught us honesty and integrity. And they gave me the greatest gift in the world, an education. That’s what drives us toward UMass Lowell with philanthropy. We both lived at home, and we couldn’t afford to go just anywhere. It was up the street and it turned out to be an excellent school. “Most private universities are research-driven. The professors have to publish articles, and that’s what they’re worried about. At UMass Lowell, it’s always about the students. I had phenomenal professors who were handson. Every one of them truly cared about the students. They put their energy and passion into their teaching. It was amazing. And there was a lot of opportunity to meet with your professors one-on-one. It wasn’t a case of, well,

I guess I could ... they were there every time. They brought so much real-world experience into the classroom. There was just a culture of caring about students and being around when you needed them. I hope that still exists.”

‘ONE OF LIFE’S GREATEST GIFTS’ Manning’s soulmate helped him see what was missing. She always has. “Donna always puts everyone else’s needs before her own,” he says. “Part of what has driven our philosophy is her belief that helping others is something you do. I’ve been lucky enough to make good money. Some folks are born with a bad hand of cards and we have a responsibility to help. “Listen, I saw what UMass Lowell did for me. Affordability and accessibility are two of the greatest gifts students can have in an education, and an education is one of life’s greatest gifts. So I figured it was time to give back money to other people. I have all I need with Donna and we have all we need and more.” When word broke of the Mannings’ donation, the reaction was satisfying. “The outpouring of people, you just would not believe,” says Manning. “Not just people from UMass Lowell but from around the state. Emails, handwritten notes, conversations with people. It’s a case of trying to get individuals and groups to give back. That’s our challenge.” Rob Manning wanted to tell the graduates what they really got from UMass Lowell. “Not only did you learn the subject matter and pass the tests,” he told the Class of 2011, “you learned how to be great human beings.” Maybe they didn’t know it yet. Maybe he was the first to tell some of them that. But it’s clear Rob Manning believed in them. He was, at least that day, one of them. !

“I SAW WHAT UMASS LOWELL DID FOR ME. AFFORDABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY ARE TWO OF THE GREATEST GIFTS STUDENTS CAN HAVE IN AN EDUCATION, AND AN EDUCATION IS ONE OF LIFE’S GREATEST GIFTS. SO I FIGURED IT WAS TIME TO GIVE BACK MONEY TO OTHER PEOPLE.” — Rob Manning

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New Building for the Manning School: ‘The Critical Catalyst’

oughly 15 months from now, in the spring of 2013, ground will be broken on North Campus for what will be the third jewel in the University’s evolving crown of new construction: a new building to house the newly named Manning School of Business. The school will take its place adjacent to the also-new Emerging Technology and Innovation Center (ETIC), on the site of the present Eames Hall. The planned site, says Manning School of Business Dean Kathryn Carter, will enable business students and faculty—already located on North Campus—to continue working closely with those in science and engineering programs. The new building for the Manning School of Business will complement the ETIC and the new, $40 million Health and Social Sciences Building on South Campus, both of which broke ground in 2011—the first new academic buildings to arrive on campus in more than three decades. At 65,000 square feet, with a bold, tiered façade rising four stories overlooking University Avenue, its cost is estimated at $30 million, roughly a third of which will be raised from private sources, according to Steven Rogers, senior major gifts officer in the University’s Advancement Office. The single largest endowment, $5 million, is the result of a endowment from Robert and Donna Manning, both UMass Lowell graduates (see accompanying story), whose name the School will carry. Other major donors to the new building’s construction include Richard Grande ’72, senior vice president at Morgan Stanley; Kathleen Allen ’77, formerly vice president of Millipore Corp. and James Regan ’88, CEO of Digital Credit Union. As of mid-September, more than $1 million of private funding had been raised— in addition to the $5 million from the Mannings—with another $10-12 million being sought from the School’s alumni and friends. While the business school will carry the Manning name in recognition of the couple’s gift, the building itself—and very likely some of its features—will be named to recognize one or more other donors. “Its coming is long overdue,” says Morgan Stanley’s Grande, “and couldn’t possibly be more welcome. Along with other things, it’s likely to attract additional strong faculty, which in turn will attract better students. The result

of this, over time, I think will be predictable— a marked upgrade in the visibility, quality and culture of the business school, and of the University in general.” The Manning School’s dean is another who believes, like Grande, that the building will play an inestimable role in ushering in a new era: “The construction of an appropriate and competitive professional business school as a home to our activities is the catalyst that will visibly advance us,” says Carter. “We’ve been at a tipping point for a few years now—actively improving our faculty and student profile, developing new, relevant academic programs, expanding and deepening our corporate partnerships and adding experiential learning opportunities for our students. ” Even before the announcement of the Mannings’ gift, says Carter, the college—which has graduated more than 13,000 students in its 53 years and carries an annual enrollment of roughly 2,200—was already well into the process of a strategic realignment. At the undergraduate level, the School has increased its honors opportunities, expanded its study-abroad opportunities and added research scholarships—at the same time expanding and formalizing its students’ options for experiential learning. Undergraduate enrollment, as a whole, will remain stable; the freshman class will be slightly smaller and more selective. At the graduate level, a planned shift in student population—to be achieved through the addition of the master’s program in Innovation and Technological Entrepreneurship, the launch of the full-time, day MBA program and the fall 2012 kick-off of a master’s program in accounting—will result in a significant expansion of master’s level enrollment. Also, and most importantly, says Dean Carter: “We expect final approval of our Ph.D. in business administration, with concentrations in technology management, international business, finance, MIS and leadership. This program should launch within the next two years, with an entering class of nine full-time and nine part-time students.” This improved enrollment profile, the dean says, with its larger graduate enrollment and better-quality undergraduate population, “will

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Donna and Rob Manning visit with Kathryn Carter, center, dean of the Manning School of Business.

support our ongoing efforts to recruit highquality faculty and students and strengthen our research capabilities.” The new building will provide the features and spaces required for a competitive business school today. On its ground floor alone: a fully active trading room, enabling students and faculty to conduct real-time research on global companies, industries, economies and currencies; a business development center, located very visibly nearby, to serve as a hub for interactions and active group learning; as well as a home for a limited number of incubator companies. And anchoring it all, a coffee shop/meeting space, located within sight of both the trading room and the business center—allowing for collaboration, networking and socialization. “I believe the first floor of the new building will be an energetic destination space for many students and faculty on North Campus, perhaps the most vibrant space North Campus has ever seen,” says Carter. The upper floors will be no less impressive: office space for faculty, staff and graduate students; work space for undergraduates, classrooms and meeting spaces for faculty and students—as well as dedicated space for various student initiatives, such as the honors and study-abroad programs. “The new building,” says Carter, “will reflect and support our priorities for high-quality education and research, student and faculty interaction and interdisciplinary, experiential learning. I see it as the critical catalyst to propel us to excellence.” !

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Surprise Donor Gives Haitian Student the Opportunity of a Lifetime

ouchon Jean Amazan isn’t a gambler—he is, instead, a logical man of science. But even Amazan has to admit that the chance encounter 30,000 feet up in the air that changed the course of his life was an astounding stroke of luck. Amazan—the son of Haitian farmers—showed promise in math and science early on, catching the notice of private school instructors and one compassionate scientist —Prof. Bob Giles—from the United States. Giles joined his daughter as a chaperone on her youth group’s trip to Haiti in 2003, and was forever changed by what he saw. “Haiti is the poorest and most densely populated country in our part of the hemisphere,” says Giles, chairman of the Physics Department. “Aggravated by soil erosion, drought and famine, the country has been identified with fourth world status by the International Banking System.”

Haitian student Pouchon Jean Amazan, third from left, meets his benefactors Cumberland Farms Director George Haseotes, second from left, and Kristen Williams, right, who learned about Amazan during a plane ride with Prof. Bob Giles, far left.

Despite the brutal conditions, Giles saw possibility in the faces of the Haitian people, and set his mind to doing something to help. Amazan is but one of dozens of students Giles has supported—educationally and financially—since his life changing trip. Giles met Amazan through a network of American colleagues, travel companions and advisors in Haiti. He provided mentoring—and personal investment —for Amazan for five years before encouraging him to apply to the University to pursue a degree in physics. Amazan was accepted, but fell $8,000 short of the funds he’d need to attend. Enter Kristen Williams. Fresh from a cruise with her children with several stops in countries that struggle to meet basic needs, Williams, who was “disgusted by the contradictory overall excess and waste of food on board ship,” struck up a conversation with the man in the airplane seat next to her.

“We got to talking, and I realized I was sitting with a prestigious educator who was committed to training young people to change the world,” says Williams, who, along with husband George Haseotes, runs a charitable foundation committed to improving education. “My husband’s Greek immigrant family founded Cumberland Farms, and through generations of hard work and dedication, the company has enjoyed financial success,” says Williams. Cumberland Farms’ family founders are quintessential believers in and examples of, the power of hard work and education in realizing success. Out comes the checkbook. Williams was so moved by Giles’ story—and Amazan’s potential – that she wrote a check on the spot. Not for the praise the gift might earn—in fact, she is downright reticent when her generosity is touted. “My interest in philanthropy is in helping people who can affect real change in the world,” says Williams. “When Prof. Giles described the work he does, and the kind of improvements in basic human needs a man like Pouchon can make, it was a no-brainer for us to support the cause.” Amazan has settled in nicely at the University, and is excited about his future. He also was delighted to see snow for the first time, sharing the moment with his mother during one of the calls Giles encourages him to make on Gile’s phone. For Giles, helping dozens of students isn’t enough— he’s working on developing a University research program to further expand student and faculty involvement in Haiti. As for Williams, she continues her quiet, dogged pursuit of investing in causes and people like Pouchon who can use their minds to improve the world. “There’s something very exciting about helping students get excited about turning problems into solutions,” she says. !

“MY INTEREST IN PHILANTHROPY IS IN HELPING PEOPLE WHO CAN AFFECT REAL CHANGE IN THE WORLD.” —Kristen Williams

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From Haverhill to Hollywood: ‘A Happy Accident’ By David Perry

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Despite Best-sellers and Film Deals, Andre Dubus III Is Staying Put at UMass Lowell

n his youth, author and UMass Lowell English professor Andre Dubus III built his body into a fortress of muscle, blood and tissue. Relentlessly pumping weights and adhering to a strict diet, he carefully cultivated musculature to better proffer violence in the bars of Haverhill and Newburyport. He refined his technique in the boxing ring. The physical walls he erected hid a scared, bullied and abandoned young man, whose tale is spread across the pages of Dubus’ acclaimed memoir, “Townie.” It was in the world of letters that Dubus found his soul, his profession and his obsession. Now 52, still fit and looking much younger, Dubus has built words into a string of bestselling books. He calls his career a “happy accident.” In 2001, he became the University’s first Kerouac Writer-in-Residence. For the past seven years, he has shared his wisdom with classes of UMass Lowell students, last semester teaching a pair of Creative Writing classes that meet Tuesdays and Wednesdays. “I really love being around young people, and I love the Lowell scene,” Dubus says. “All kinds of students, including the kind of people I grew up with. I feel attuned here.” Despite a growing fame, a demanding schedule and overtures from other colleges and universities, he isn’t going anywhere soon.

BUILDING A LIFE While gradually building a literary career, Dubus also built a home. Literally. Not just any home, but a 6,700-square foot beauty, near which much of “Townie” took place. A mix of art and athleticism, the home he built with his own hands has proven roomy and sturdy enough to withstand games of football catch from the kitchen into the family room. Its dimensions may be palatial, but the huge living room with the dramatic stone fireplace is built for comfort.

Downstairs is where he writes, in a room five feet wide, six feet from floor to ceiling, 11 feet long and sound-proof. “The prison,” he says, chuckling. “It’s like a jail cell.” He sentences himself to write there, six days a week, “until my concentration starts to fade.” He is a proud Luddite, who writes in longhand. He answers emails from time to time, but laughs at the notion of riding the “digital train”: “Facebook? Twitter? Ha!” As Dubus—son of the celebrated short story writer Andre Dubus—has cultivated his career in the classrooms of UMass Lowell, fame and critical and popular acclaim have followed the release of each new book.

“I REALLY LOVE BEING AROUND YOUNG PEOPLE, AND I LOVE THE LOWELL SCENE. ALL KINDS OF STUDENTS, INCLUDING THE KIND OF PEOPLE I GREW UP WITH. I FEEL ATTUNED THERE.” And when Oprah Winfrey named Dubus’ “House of Sand and Fog” a selection of her book club, he became even more popular. He has been serenaded by other colleges and universities near and far to teach their prospective writers. The previous week, he says, stretching out his legs to prop the heel of a pointy boot on a coffee table, a Lone Star State university called waving a Texas-sized offer. Dubus is flattered but says he isn’t going anywhere: “I love it where I am now. UMass Lowell has been great to me.” He still can’t believe he made a career of this. He wasn’t trying, he says. His kids attend private school. The house is big, though hardly one that announces itself to the world. His name is big. But a fan of junkyard piano poet Tom Waits, Dubus treats writing like workaday labor. He strives to hang on to his blue-collar roots.

DEATH THREATS AND MOVIE DEALS In Haverhill, where Dubus grew up, “Townie” is known as “the book.” It is a naked recollection that the writer struggled to get right. He even

called old friends and family members to crosscheck details. When he did a book signing there, 600 people showed up. The author says “Townie” has spawned three basic reactions: “I can’t believe how perfectly you nailed this place!” is the most pleasant. “Then there’s ‘I don’t know what Haverhill you’re writing about,’ ” he says. “And the third: threats on my life.” The Haverhill Dubus writes about is one he’ll never forget. His roots are there, he explains, and they are excavated in “Townie,” which recounts in painstaking detail Dubus’ hardscrabble youth in 1970s Haverhill and Newburyport. A lot has changed since those days. When Dubus received Chancellor Marty Meehan’s Medal of Recognition during last May’s Commencement ceremony, he told students not to worry so much about “success.” He told them to find something unique about themselves and cultivate it—and then success will follow. It’s a formula that’s worked for him. “Townie” has been optioned for the silver screen by Gina Amoroso, co-producer of 2008’s “Revolutionary Road.” Amoroso also helped bring “Being John Malkovich” to the big screen in 1999. Dubus will write the script with a veteran English scriptwriter. “There’s just too much at stake for me not to be involved,” he says. “This is me, my family, my friends.” Son Austin is in his first semester at Miami University in Ohio, having left Dubus and his wife of 22 years, Fontaine, with Ariadne, 16, and Elias, 14. Fontaine is owner and director of The Dance Place, a studio in Newburyport where Ariadne dances. The boys are dedicated “and pretty damn good” baseball players, according to their father. In a room off the kitchen, Dubus has stacked hundreds of his father’s books in vertical piles, as if there are ghosts in the room. “I finally took them out of storage,” he says. “I thought I could give them away, but ...” He couldn’t. He will soon build shelves. !

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Face of Philanthropy By Geoffrey Douglas

Saving Lives and Growing Grapes Forty Years After Graduation, This Chemical Engineer is Still not Slowing Down

is dad was a truck salesman, his mother a psychiatric social worker. It was the late ’60s; there were three children in the house, and not much extra to go around. So when the time came to think about colleges, Bob Ward remembers, the decision pretty much made itself. “I think the tuition [at Lowell Tech] was something like $200 a semester,” he says. “Whatever it was, it was a bargain—which was the number-one factor in my mind.” He had a job on weekends, another in the summers. And the family lived in Reading, which made for a long commute. So between classes, studies, job-time and drive-time, there weren’t a lot of hours left in the week. “To be honest,” he says, “it was a drag sometimes.” Somehow, though, he found time to pursue two of his passions: the bass guitar (“when I probably should have been studying instead”) and a young Merrimack College student named Gail, who was studying to be a microbiologist. He graduated in the spring of 1971 with a degree in chemical engineering. He and Gail were married three weeks later. Only weeks after that, he began his first real-world job: at the Avco-Everett Research Laboratory in Everett, a division of the Avco Corp. It was the start of an extraordinary career, in a field—biomaterials—that was itself only then getting its start. He stayed until 1978. By the time he left, as director of research in Avco’s Medical Products Division, he had helped oversee the commercial development of a pioneer product: the intraaortic balloon pump, the world’s first, commercially available cardiac assistance device. Still in use today, it has been used worldwide on 3 million people, saving countless lives. Bob Ward had found his niche—and his next employer: Thoratec Laboratories in Berkeley, Calif., a start-up that designed, manufactured and sold products for heart-failure patients— and that had just completed financing for yet another pioneer product: the first commercial Ventricular Assistance Device (VAD), a mechanical invention used to replace the circulatory functioning of a failing heart. By the time he left Thoratec 10 years later—as president of its Biomaterials Division— the VAD was in full-scale commercial develop-

ment, well on its way to becoming the world’s most popular cardiac-assistance device. Today, Thoratec is a publicly traded, global corporation, with 1,100 employees and yearly revenues of more than $300 million.

MATTERS OF THE HEART Ward’s next career step was his boldest. In 1989, he founded Polymer Technology Group (PTG). For the next 19 years, as founder and CEO, Ward oversaw the Berkeley, Calif.-based company’s growth, guiding the application of PTG polymers and specialty chemicals for use across myriad specialties: in pacemakers, orthopedic implants, catheters, stents, implantable sensors and artificial hearts. Its early work in the development of contact lenses made from a mix of silicone-hydrogel polymers set the standard for such lenses worldwide—and made a fortune for the company. The world, of course, had taken notice. In the spring of 2008, PTG was acquired by the Dutch giant Royal DSM, a global life-sciences company with 22,000 employees and more than $6 billion in sales. Ward was asked to stay on as president and CEO of the newly formed DSM PTG. Yet another major move came at the start of 2011: the chairmanship of the PTG spin-off Emergence, founded in 2007 to provide inventors and entrepreneurs with both technical expertise and initial seed money to bring new medical products to market. It wasn’t long before the venture was proclaiming an early success. ExThera Medical Corp., a company within the Emergence incubator, announced early this summer the development of a new product, Seraph, for the treatment of sepsis (or blood poisoning). While other medical treatments for sepsis rely on antibiotics and are only partially successful, Seraph—based on a blood-cleansing process known as apheresis—aims to empower the body’s immune system to fight the disease. Early laboratory studies, Ward said when news of the breakthrough was first announced in June, “strongly suggest the likelihood that [Seraph] may become an effective treatment.” And so it is that, 40 years after earning his diploma as a bass-playing LTI commuter student, Ward has built a name for himself at the very top of his no-longer-new profession:

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“Bob Ward is without peer in manufacturing polymeric biomaterials for application in the hostile environment of the human body,” wrote James M. Anderson, a Case Western professor and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. But his contributions aren’t confined to the biomaterials field. The Wards recently committed nearly $1 million in support of University initiatives. When $2 million was gifted last year to UMass Lowell to create professorships in science and engineering—part of a $14 million anonymous gift to the UMass system from the sale of land on Nantucket—Bob was one of five alumni to put up the funds to match it, creating the $600,000 Robert and Gail Ward Endowed Professorship in Biomedical Materials Development. Gail was born on Nantucket, he says, “so that gives this gift special meaning.” He has also given $250,000 toward funding for the new Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center, creating the Robert and Gail Ward Biomedical Materials Laboratory, and another $100,000 to create an endowed scholarship fund for engineering students. “Support for public education is such an important priority,” he says. “Public universities are a critical antidote to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, something, I think, that’s getting worse as time passes. It’s really so important that anyone from anywhere who wants it has access to an education.” Meanwhile, as active as he is, Ward still finds time for the guitar, now as part of a group near his home. But his real passion these days— outside of scouting the life-science companies of tomorrow—is something else entirely: the growing of grapes for Syrah (or Shiraz) wine. “We bought a house and small vineyard, two years ago, in Orinda [Calif.], where we have about 70 vines,” he says. “Gail’s even more involved than I am—she’s taking courses in viticulture at Napa Valley State College. She good at it, being the microbiologist she is. For me, it’s kind of an extension of the beermaking I used to do as a kid. Just more involved, and a lot more expensive. “It’s fun, though. And this year looks like it’s going to be a great yield.” !

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ublic universities are a critical antidote to the concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, something, I think, that’s getting worse and worse as time passes. It’s really so important that anyone from anywhere who wants it has access to an education. So whatever I’m able to do toward that goal, I’m happy to try to do.” — Bob Ward ’71

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KILLING FIELDS SURVIVORS TELL THEIR STORIES By Sarah McAdams

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Raymond Kong, left, and Sidney Tang helped paint a mural depicting Cambodian history at the Bartlett Middle School in Lowell.

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UMass Lowell Educators Team Up With Cambodian Students and Their Families for StoryCorps Project

eorge Tang was 5-years-old when Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot launched his brutal “cleansing campaign” in Cambodia in the 1970s. For the next five years, the young Tang watched as the world around him crumbled—as death camps, starvation, executions and mass graves became everyday sights. In that time, an estimated 2 million Cambodian people died, about a quarter of the country’s population; among them many members of Tang’s own family. Now a 43-year-old accountant living in Lowell, Tang says the painful memories will never leave him: “I saw people lying down and get shot. You could see people get hacked in the head with an axe. You could see dead bodies—and they smell terrible. You’d see people being whaled, maybe 20 or 100. I saw people killed—I saw it with my own eyes.” Tang’s teenage son, Sidney—who was named after a character in the film “The Killing Fields”—heard about this for the first time while sitting in a room on UMass Lowell’s South Campus. He nervously asked his father more questions about the Khmer Rouge, about where he grew up, about family members he never met. As the elder Tang recounted the gripping stories from his past, understanding dawned in his son’s eyes. This is why you are the way you are, he seemed to think. And it’s why, more than anything, George wants Sidney to understand this about the United States: “This is heaven for you. You’re lucky to be born here. Be a productive citizen.” The Tangs were invited to campus by Pat Fontaine, an assistant professor of history education in the University’s Graduate School of Education. Fontaine was talking to a friend one day when the latter, a literary specialist at the Bartlett Middle School in Lowell, mentioned that she was worried about a particular group of Cambodian students. “She said, ‘This is really bothering me … It looks like these eighth-graders are joining gangs,’ recalls Fontaine. “She said that after talking to them, it was clear that the main reason was that they lacked a certain identity. “They were born here, and their parents and grandparents haven’t told them anything

about their heritage— The group had the students read especially the time durthe memoir “First They Killed my ing Pol Pot’s reign.” Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers” by Loung Ung, and view Thus, the kids were portions of films like “New Year Baby,” turning to gangs for a “Monkey Dance” and “The Killing sense of belonging and Fields.” shared heritage, she says. “My students, for the most part, A light bulb went didn’t know anything about Cambooff in Fontaine’s head— dia—and for many of them, this was and a short while later their first time teaching,” says Fontaine. “I plan to follow three she applied for a UMass Lowell service-learning of the Cambodian students “So they learned just as much as the Bartlett students.” grant to work with through high school, Cambodian children mentoring them and helping Julie Mangan, who graduated in in the Bartlett School, May and is now teaching in Chelmsthem script their lives.” helping them underford, says the experience taught her a — Pat Fontaine stand their history. lot about considering the cultural During the resulting after-school program, perspective of one’s students. Fontaine asked the middle-school students if “This was the first time I realized it’s important any of their relatives had experienced the to consider the students’ personal history,” she horrors of that time (“the majority said ‘yes,’ ” says. “When you keep that in mind, you can the professor says) —and whether they would see them become more interested.” be willing to share their stories with the class. Following the 10-week program, the entire Three of the Bartlett students’ parents agreed group of 12 students, with the help of a Bartlett to do so; Tang was one of them. School art teacher, created a mural of remembrance depicting Cambodian history and heritage. It occurred to Fontaine that interviews with these survivors might make great additions to That mural hangs in the middle school’s entrance StoryCorps, one of the largest oral history hall today. projects in the world. The stories—which The program is over, but Fontaine says her millions of people listen to every week on connection the young students is not. NPR’s Morning Edition—are archived in the “I plan to follow three of the Cambodian American Folklife Center at the Library of students through high school,” she says, “menCongress in Washington, D.C. toring them and helping them script their lives.” And so earlier this year, Fontaine and a Each of the students is close to people in team of her graduate students spent a Sunday gangs, Fontaine says—whether a family member morning on campus, recording interviews with or good friend—and she wants to help ensure three men who had lived through the killing they don’t follow suit. fields in Cambodia. Bartlett students each helped “I see enormous potential—they’re so funny interview his or her own father. and so bright,” she says. “They each touched The recordings are now archived in my heart.” Washington, D.C. Her biggest hope is that they each eventually attend college—ideally UMass Lowell, and she MIDDLE SCHOOL AND GRAD plans to give each a scholarship if and when STUDENTS TEACH ONE ANOTHER that day comes. The after-school program that bore the The prospect sounds good to her young StoryCorps interviews began when 12 Bartlett friend Raymond Kong. students in grades five through eight volunteered “Going to a great college—that was always to participate because, Fontaine says, “they just my dream,” says Kong, now a freshman at wanted to learn about their country.” The professor, along with a handful of her Lowell High School. “My future is yet to be graduate students who were hoping to teach discovered … the world holds a lot of opportusecondary history upon graduation, met with nities.” !

the students in 10 afternoon sessions to teach them about Cambodia—its geography, historical sites, cultural customs and political history.

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Circle of Distinction award recipients, top row from left: Gururaj “Desh” and Jaishree Deshpande, Charles Hoff ’66, John Kennedy ’70, George Leahey (accepting on behalf of his mother, Mary Jo Leahey ’37), Mark Saab ’81, Gail and Robert ’71 Ward; bottom row, from left: Vice Chancellor of Advancement Edward Chiu, Chancellor Marty Meehan ’78, Executive Vice Chancellor Jacqueline Moloney ’75, Robert Manning ’84, Deb and James Dandeneau ’80. Not present: Josephine Hoff, Donna Manning ’85, ’91, David Pernick ’41, Elisia Saab and Roy Zuckerberg ’58.

Circle of Distinction The Few, Whose Generosity Lights the Way

t is a rare thing, in this era of trilliondollar deficits, default threats and mortgage foreclosures, to hear talk of new economic frontiers. Which makes the news celebrated here in October that much more remarkable. Today, four years into the chancellorship of Marty Meehan—and thanks in good part to his efforts—there are nearly a dozen high-level benefactors. In fact, fundraising has grown by 84 percent—gifts and pledges have grown by $7 million since 2007, from $8.2 million to $15.2 million. Ten of the men and women responsible for much of that growth were honored on Oct. 27 at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center. During the Chancellor’s inaugural Leadership Society reception, all 10—whose collective support of the University exceeds $35 million— were formally welcomed into the University’s newly minted Circle of Distinction, a society of top benefactors who have made generous contributions over their lifetimes. 40

The support of these 10 donors, much of it recent, has resulted in the creation of many hundreds of scholarships, endowments, professorships and infrastructure improvements—which in turn have directly touched the lives of UMass Lowell students, and will continue to do so for decades to come. “The generosity of these few men and women has literally transformed the University,” says UMass Lowell Vice Chancellor for Advancement Edward Chiu. “On the strength of their gifts, we are able to achieve goals that will take us to the next level. Their impact on our students, through the scholarships, facilities, professorships and faculty chairs they have endowed, is almost beyond measure.” Perhaps the most recent arrivals to the group have been Robert and Donna Manning, whose gift toward the creation of a new home for the University’s business school is outlined in the cover story of this issue. Other outstanding examples of support, some of them nearly as recent, have likewise added to the University skyline.

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These include gifts by alumni John Kennedy ’70, Bob Ward ’71 and Mark Saab ’81 and his wife Elisia, earlier this year, to finance parts of the University’s new, $70 million Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center (ETIC), slated to open in the fall of 2012. The Saabs are responsible also for the creation of an endowed professorship in green plastics, gifted to the University in 2008. A second gift, received the same year from James Dandeneau ’80—another of the 10—likewise endows a green-plastics professorship. Ward, in addition to his support for the ETIC construction, was also the source of a gift in 2010 to create a professorship in biochemistry. (He, like the Mannings, is the subject of a separate story in this issue.) The gifts from other members of the 10, though less visible from the air or roadside, are every bit as critical to the University’s longterm future—and to the future of the larger world. The contributions, for instance, of David Pernick ’41, endow a Plastics professorship; provide scholarships to students in both man-

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1 Vice Chancellor of University Advancement Edward Chiu presents David Pernick ’41 with a Circle of Distinction Award. 2 Students thank donors during the Chancellor’s Leadership Society Reception, during which benefactors who have made generous contributions over their lifetimes were inducted into the Circle of Distinction. 3 Chancellor Marty Meehan ’78 presents Roy Zuckerberg ’58 with a Circle of Distinction Award.

4 Members of the Circle of Distinction who are graduates the Francis College of Engineering: Robert ’71 and Gail Ward, Mark Saab ’81, and Deborah and James ’80 Dandeneau. 5 Robert Manning ’84, Professor Emeritus and Founder of the School of Management Stuart Mandell ’11, Charles Hoff ’66, John Pulichino ’67, and Dean of the Manning School of Business Kathryn Carter ’78.

6 Chancellor Marty Meehan ’78 presents Jaishree and Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande with the Circle of Distinction Award. 7 Kennedy Family Merit Scholarship recipients Courtney James (l) and Michael Staub (r) with John Kennedy ’70. 8 A Circle of Distinction ice scuplture, surrounded by honorees’ awards, served as a centerpiece.

agement and plastics; and fund the continuing exchange of doctoral students and faculty, between UMass Lowell and the plastics program of an Israeli university. Roy Zuckerberg ’58 has helped fund the recruitment of exceptional out-of-state students; endowed the Zuckerberg Chair in Leadership, rewarding faculty and staff for outstanding leadership in their departments; and supported the Assistive Technology Program within the Department of Electrical Engineering. The name Charlie Hoff ’66 might be familiar to more students at the University than that of

any other of the 10. Hoff, over the past 20-plus years, has been responsible for scholarship funds for at least 551 UMass Lowell students—many he and members of his family have met with personally—as well as aid to other UMass campuses. The numbers continue to grow. Gururaj (“Desh”) Deshpande, the only one of the 10 not an alumnus, is unique as a benefactor in other ways as well. A native of India, he has donated to support the advancement of business and technology in his country, including a large gift to help UMass Lowell to advance collaboration between United States and Indian engineering

students, and support grants to promote entrepreneurship in the Merrimack Valley. Mary Jo Leahey* ’37, the only one among the 10 who could compete with Charlie Hoff for name recognition among current students, was a legend among those with a longer history here. She has supported scholarships for local high school student-musicians at a yearly, week-long residential summer band camp on the UMass Lowell campus. The camp, headed by Deb Huber, associate director of University bands, has been a summer highpoint for many hundreds of area youngsters since its founding 16 years ago. !

*Note: As the magazine went to press, the University received the sad news that Mary Jo Leahey ’37

died at her home in Florida. Look for a profile on Mary Jo in the next issue.

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Legacy of Giving Luncheon First-ever Event Brought Together Students and Their Benefactors

1 Dean of the Francis College of Engineering John Ting, Thomas ’64 and Josephine Hughes, Aruna Vedula, Tonita McKone, Professor and Dean Emeritus Krishna Vedula and Francis McKone ’56. 2 Director of the MBA Program Gary Mucica ’71 (middle) with Gary and Sally Mucica Endowed Scholarship recipients Vanessa Kent (l) and Brianna Mahoney (r).

3 Carole Barrett, Sarah Treacy, recipient of the Margaret Holland Barrett Teaching Scholarship, and Edward “Ned” Barrett ’58. 4 Recipient of the PL ’80 Plastics Engineering Endowed Scholarship Ezequiel Ortiz with James Dandeneau ’80. 5 John Pulichino ’67, with Alyssa Brooks, recipient of the John V. Pulichino Scholarship.

6 6 Arakelian Endowed Scholarship recipient Jacqueline Bradley, with Bruce Arakelian ’82 and Dean of the School of Health & Environment Shortie McKinney. 7 Charles Hoff ‘66, with student recipients of the Charles J. Hoff Scholarship.

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ALUMNI EVENTS

CLASS NOTES

IN MEMORIAM

The Unpretentious Playwright Jack Neary ’73—who’s published 34 plays—works on his newest script at the Starbucks on South Campus. Read more about Neary on Page 48.

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Fall Festival 2011

Alumni Reconnect During Weekend Celebration

1 Alpha Sigma Tau alumnae at Fall Festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fraternity and Sorority Reunion. 2 Chatting at the Fraternity and Sorority Reunion are, from left, Richard Lockhart '67 and Mary and Walter '59 Dawson.

3 3 Racers meet at the Jennifer's Run starting line. 4 Track team athletes Craig Bennett and Evan White with Chancellor Marty Meehan after Jenniferâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5k Run.

5 Kappa Delta Phi alumnae at the Fraternity and Sorority Reunion. 6 Omicron Pi alumni at the Fraternity and Sorority Reunion.

7 Meeting up at the Student Leadership Reunion at Fall Festival are, from left, Monica Leureat, Jemica Cropperpam, Sade Jean-Jacques, Marck Clerveau, Marie Aka, Ike Iloputaise, Foffi Selom Egbeto, Ariane Egbeto and Amy Liss. 8 Delta Kappa Phi alumni, from left, John Tardelli '64, '70, George Dixon '69, Yena and Bernie '56 Shapiro. 44

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1 1 The 50th Reunion alumni of classes of 1961 from Lowell Tech and Lowell State march in commencement, from left: Leonard Bennett, LTI; William Moylan, LTI; Hubert Bonfili, LTI; Sandra Harvey, LTI; JoAnne Connolly, LSC; Charles Mitsakos, LSC; Sally Trice, LSC and Barbara Kinnaird, LSC. 2 A team of Plastics Engineering Alumni, faculty and current undergraduate students participated in the annual New Hampshire “Reach the Beach” relay race, with help from sponsor Synventure Molding Solutions of Peabody. Top row, from left: Asst. Prof. Meg Sobkowicz-Kline; Jonathan Wilk ’03; Rob Duncan, student; Jim Biggins ’03; Stephanie Dubay ’05; Prof. Robert Malloy ’79; Prof. David Kazmer; Brian Beaudoin, senior. Bottom row, from left: Melissa Siopes ’03; Melissa Egan ’03; Bill Siopes ’03; Cristina King ’03.

3 Children's Hospital Boston Director of Radiation Safety William (Rusty) Lorenzen '90 and a group from UMass Lowell were invited to observe a “Longwood Thunder” counterterrorism exercise, held by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston in October. Front row, from left: students Thuquynn Dinh, Alexandra Robinson and Erin Sole and UMass Lowell Asst. Radiation Safety Officer and Laser Safety Officer Steven Snay. Back row, from left: Student SuHan Kim, radiological science faculty Mark Tries and Clayton French, Lorenzen and students Warnie (Sonny) Gick and Thompson Joe. 4 Atlas Venture Partner Peter Barrett '74, third from left, who spoke to a chemistry class on campus, with, from left, College of Sciences Assoc. Dean Fred Martin, Provost Ahmed Abdelal, Chemistry Department Chair James Whitten, Vice Provost for Research Julie Chen and Dean of Sciences Robert Tamarin.

5 From left, Ken Pickering, David Vario, Larry Acquarulo ’81 and Tony Listro ’88, ’89 enjoy the 2nd Annual Plastics Golf Tournament at Connecticut National Golf Club. 6 Turnout was great for the First Annual Sigma Phi Omicron Golf Tournament at Merrimack Valley Golf Course in Methuen. W I N T E R 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE

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1 Scott Huennekens, CEO of Volcano Corp., wears the UMass Lowell corporate rowing shirt for his hike up Mount Fuji in Japan with a friend. 2 Getting caught up at the Delta Kappa Phi Reunion are, from left, Walt Brown ’69, Jim Denuccio ’69 and Dave Healy ’69. 3 Jose Pino ’08 and Jineyda Tapia ’06 relax at the Young Alumni Professionals River Walk at Salvatore’s in Lawrence.

4 Participating in the Rowing Alumni Day at the Bellegarde Boathouse are, from left, David Cormier ’12, Hengky Susanto ’04, Brian Legg ’07, Robby Walters ’10, Robert Pitkin ’04, Bridget Mahoney ’13, Katrina Walthers ’11 and Denny Wirth, current doctoral student and captain of men’s team. 5 Rowing Alumni Day supporters, from left, Catherine Curran ’84, Karen Scammell ’85 and Steve Curran ’82.

6 Sitting in the Alumni Rowing Day coach’s launch boat, from left, are Bob Bowles ’67, Chad Moore ’97, and Asst. Coach Leigh Eubanks. 7 Field hockey alumnae enjoy a Sunset Social at the Bellegarde Boathouse, from left: Sara Hohenberger ’06, Asst. Coach Chelsey Feole, Lizzy Ales ’11 and Erin Stewart ’01. 8 Linda Carpenter '90 and Larry Ardito '69 at the Ninth Annual Wine & Dine at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

9 9 Attending the Ninth Annual Wine & Dine are, from left, Mary Anne Durand, J.P. Durand, Stacey Hubbard '91, Dana Hubbard, Beth Doyle and Matthew Hubbard. 10 Al Peterson ’55 throws out first pitch at the Annual Alumni Night at the Lowell Spinners game. 46

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DON FINEGOLD writes that, in 1953, he was the first graduate of the Leather Engineering program and that he has many fond memories of the school. He hopes to attend the next reunion. 1963 Ron Lafond played third base for the Wilmington (N.C.) Port City Pirates slow-pitch softball team that won the 2011 championship in the 65-69 age group division at the National Senior Games in Houston, Texas.

1964 Two recipes from Ann Fox Chandonnet’s cookbook, “Gold Rush Grub” (University of Alaska Press), have been selected for inclusion in a Parks Canada smart phone app for the Chilkoot trail site. The recipes are for Sourdough Starter and Sourdough Flapjacks. Parks Canada has been compiling phone apps about that country’s food and heritage for all its national historical sites. George Perrone conducted concerts and lectured in Spain and St. Petersburg, Russia, throughout the 1990s and part of the present

decade. In 1994, he was the first American to conduct the new Russian National Anthem at the Palace of Peter The Great in St. Petersburg and, in 2011, he was inducted into the ItalianAmerican Hall of Fame. With George in the photo is his son, Alexander, a musician and basketball player at Loomis-Chaffee School, who accompanied his father on trips to Russia and Spain.

Marilyn Pinschmidt has moved to North Carolina where husband Bob is employed by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She moved her piano studio to the area and is very active in local music groups. One of her high school students won first place recently in the Chapel Hill Music Teachers Association piano auditions, playing Kabalevsky and Liszt. In December 2010, Marilyn brought Netherlands concert pianist Misha Fomin to a Raleigh venue. She also is active in local book clubs and occasionally does freelance writing. She says she would enjoy hearing from former classmates.

earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering at Lowell Tech.

1971 A piece by Vince Bennett has been included as one chapter in the book, “Young Scientist Journeys.” The book is the first of a trilogy written for those aged 12 to 20 who are inspired to pursue careers in science or to use science in other careers. Vince’s chapter details his journey from an engineer focused on improving the papermaking process to one viewing life as a process focused on improving his corner of the world by making every interaction positive. Vince is now semi-retired and focused on consulting and contract engineering.

1966 Carol Baldwin is entering her 42nd year of teaching elementary music in Vernon, Conn., and says she thoroughly enjoys every day with the kids and her colleagues. She was named the Vernon Teacher of the Year in 1985, received Connecticut's Celebration of Excellence Award in 1986 and was included in Who's Who Among America's Teachers in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

1967 Donna Lane Nelson's latest novel, her sixth, is “Murder in Argeles: A Third Culture Kid Mystery.”

1970 Richard J. Lynch retired this past summer as executive vice president for Enterprise-Wide Strategic Technology Initiatives at Verizon Communications Inc. after 39 years of service at Verizon and its predecessor companies. He had

Mark Cocozza and his wife Susan (Scanlon) ’69 visited the Stanley Cup in the home of their neighbor, Boston Bruins’ player Zdeno Chara, after the Bruins 2010/2011 season. Betty Yokell, director of Performing Arts for Fall River public schools, has retired after completing a 40-year career. Husband Louis, a music teacher in the city, retired at the same time and the two say they will keep busy traveling and dabbling in digital photography. Betty also will continue to put her French horn to good use as a member of the Fall River Symphony Orchestra.

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Inspired by Catastrophe, Today She Makes Music for Peace Opportunity, as we all know, sometimes comes in unlikely guises. But few unlikelier than the one it took for Gael Berberick ’80 in the spring of 1995. She was living with her husband and their four children in Fort Sill, Okla., where her husband had then been stationed for two years. It was the day after the Oklahoma City bombing; she was on her way to a sing-along at her daughter’s school. “I didn’t have a song to sing,” she recently told a reporter in Rhode Island, “but all of a sudden this beautiful song just came [to me].” She wrote down its beginning in the car on the way to the school, the following four verses later at home. The next day, “Hope for Peace” was performed at St. John of God’s Parish in Fort Sill, where she worked as a church musician. Not long after, it started airing on local radio—and is still heard regularly on stations throughout the Midwest. The song earned her $3,500, which she donated to a scholarship fund for the children of some of the bombing victims. It was the first of many such songs Berberick would publish, though she had been involved with sacred music for years—beginning as a young girl in Marshfield, singing and playing the guitar for her local parish. Writing songs, though, had begun later for her: inspired by the day, in 1989 in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, when she’d discovered liturgical music. “It was the most uplifting music I had ever heard in the Catholic Church,” she would remember later. [From that moment on] I wanted to write music for the Church.” And so she did. Not long after, she began composing songs and sending them off to liturgical publishers; but until “Hope for Peace,” none would see the light of day. The rejection letters, though, are long behind her now. As of early this year, Berberick had published more than 50 songs with liturgical- music publishers—including the recent “Mass of the New Covenant,” co-written with Barney Walker, which was introduced in Catholic parishes beginning in November. “You don’t make a living doing this kind of work,” says Berberick, who is orchestra director at Tiverton High School in Rhode Island. “You have to have some higher calling—a vocation.”

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By Sheila Eppolito

Actresses, from left, Sheriden Thomas, Ellen Colton and Cheryl McMahon perform Jack Neary’s “The Porch” at the Stoneham Theatre.

Jack Neary: The Unpretentious Playwright of Lowell Precisely at 9 a.m.—the appointed meeting time—actor, director and playwright Jack Neary ’73 is outside the River View Diner, checking his phone to make sure I haven’t canceled or gotten lost. Signature Red Sox hat perched atop an engaging Irish mug, his handshake reveals a bit of shyness. Without looking at the menu—it’s clear he’s been here before—he orders up an omelet. I do, too, but I skip the home fries, explaining that I’m trying to “behave.” He tells me he’s behaving, too, by skipping the bacon. I tell him I’m awestruck—this man has published 34 plays, in addition to his storied career directing, acting and serving as artistic director of the summer theater programs at Mount Holyoke and Northampton’s New Century Theatre, which he co-founded at Smith College. His work has been widely produced; perhaps his best-known work, “Jerry Finnegan’s Sister,” was performed all over the country, played in Paris and toured France. “To Forgive, Divine,” professionally introduced at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre, was purchased for film by Walt Disney Pictures. I confess that I’ve read every available excerpt online. “Jesus Christ!” he responds. “Seriously?” This reaction is indicative of a special kind of Irishman. The antithesis of the often typecast Lucky Charms rogue, Neary is a man who won’t—for a single minute—get too full of himself. “My great uncle was right off the boat from Ireland. I remember him sitting with

my uncle at the table, going on about how he was hit by ‘the very first automobile ever driven in Ireland!’ He goes on and on with the story, and my uncle is just looking at him straight in the eye. At the end of the story, my uncle simply says, ‘That is a lie.’ ” His favorite playwrights include Neil Simon, whom he describes as a master at creating characters who ring true, and are funny. They aren’t forced—they feel real, and absent the phony sitcom laugh tracks. Neary strives for the same in his characters, mining his own truth to present fully formed, fallible people. The inspiration for “The Porch” came from none other than his own mother and her two porch-sitting friends. “I know what to give actors, I know how to sell an audience,” he says. He’s not making empty boasts. “The Porch” earned wide critical acclaim. Dick Flavin, Emmy-award winning author and humorist said, “ ‘The Porch’ is everything theatre should be. It is endearing, drop-dead funny, heartbreaking and, in the end, triumphant. I left the theater thinking to myself, gee, I wish I'd written that." Perhaps more importantly, audiences loved it—68 of the 72 performances at the Stoneham Theater ended with standing ovations. “But standing O’s are easier to get these days,” Neary cautions. “You know, the lights go up, and people stand up to leave, then one person claps and everyone sort of joins in.” But for all his success as a playwright, Neary’s art has a deeper foundation. “I spent

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many years acting and directing, so I have a good sense of what will work,” he says. In fact, Neary was 35 before he wrote his first play, “First Night.” A member of the Dramatists Guild, the Actor’s Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild, he recently had a role in Ben Affleck’s Boston-based movie “The Town” and auditioned for the role of Alice Ward’s husband in “The Fighter.” Earlier roles include both Felix and Oscar in “The Odd Couple,” Clarence in the musical “A Wonderful Life,” Amos in “Chicago” and Maurice in “Beauty and the Beast.” On network television, he has appeared in “Spenser: For Hire” and, more recently, on “Law and Order” and Showtime’s series “Brotherhood.” He also directed Cindy Williams from TV's “Laverne and Shirley” in 2009 in his play “Kong’s Night Out” at the Meadow Brook Theatre in Michigan. As far as the writing process goes, Neary says, “I often begin with an idea about a play with a particular actor in mind—‘First Night’ started with a role I knew would be perfect for Maryann Plunkett.” Plunkett—a Tony-Award winning actress who attended Lowell State with Neary— very nearly played the role off-Broadway in 1994, but had to bow out when she learned she was expecting. “First Night” was first produced professionally at the MRT. So, what’s next for this man of many talents? Two things: children’s plays, and a book proposal. “Lately, I’ve been writing a lot of stuff for kids—a lot of parodies of classic stories,” Neary says. He’s also forayed into another creative outlet: developing a book proposal for Jeanne Stawiecki, a remarkable woman who has completed marathons and climbed the highest peak on every continent—including Everest on her third try. And he has high hopes for his most recent play, “Auld Lang Syne,” a two-character comedy that is currently being considered by an Emmy Award-winning TV star and a Tony Award-winning actress. Oh yeah, and then there’s the summer musical theater program he’d like to create for Lowell. While many would rest upon such accomplishments—boast about them, even—Neary isn’t that guy. !

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1972 Michael Paloian, an instructor at UMass Lowell, is a recognized expert in plastics part design. His vascular imaging device, VeinViewer, which won the 2011 Medical Design Excellence Award, uses near-infrared light and other patented technologies to project a real-time digital image of patient vasculature directly onto the surface of the skin.

1976 Ted Stokes has published a book about entrepreneurship.

1977 Pervez Qureshi has been named president and chief executive officer of Epicor Software Corporation, an international business with customers in 150 countries. Pervez had been president and CEO of Activant Solutions from 2006 until that company and Epicor were combined. He brings to his new post more than 20 years of management experience in the software and technology industry.

Susan Laite Tansey is an elementary music teacher in Wareham, where her duties include classroom music for grades 1-5 as well as directing the chorus and two bands. Susan also participates in local chorus and woodwind ensembles.

1980 Joseph Carelli, executive vice president for commercial lending at Citizens Bank, has been named president, heading up the bank’s New Hampshire and Vermont operations. Barbara Balch Packales recently became technology chair for the North Carolina Music Educators Association. She continues to participate as a board member of both the TI:MENC Chapter and of the National Association for Music Education Society for General Music. Her current assignment is at Olds Elementary School in Raleigh, teaching K-5 music and technology integration.

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1978 Jerry Colella, vice president and COO of MKS Instruments, joined other senior management of MKS in ringing the NASDAQ opening bell on June 15, 2011 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the company. Jerry also serves as a member of the Manning School of Business Advisory Board. Gale Pemberton was remarried in March 2011, to Robert Knowles, a retired teacher from Michigan. Her grandson, Joseph Beagley, is a freshman at UMass Lowell.

Bonnie Comley, and husband Stewart Lane, recently visited campus to attend the Chancellor’s Leadership Society reception at the UMass Lowell Inn & Conference Center.

1986 Michael McGovern has been vice president of Information Technology at the Cambridge Trust Company for the last eight and a half years. He has been in the IT field for more than 25 years.

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DARLA HANLEY ’86, dean of the Professional Education Division at Berklee College of Music in Boston, has been elected to the Jazz Education Network board of directors. This national organization is in its third year and replaces the former International Jazz Educators Association. 1987 Stephen Russell is a senior talent acquisition manager for CVS Caremark Corp., a Fortune 25, $100 billion healthcare company with more than 200,000 employees and 7,200 stores across the United States. He manages national recruiting efforts to identify, attract and secure top business, healthcare and retail professionals. Steve, the son of Richard Russell, ’61, began his career with Citizens Financial Group and Fidelity Investments. He lives in East Providence, R.I., with his wife, Rosa, and their children Zachary, Christopher and Monica.

1989 Rich Cusolito, vice president of Sales, North America for Technicolor, has been named a director of business development for Pelican Products, a manufacturer of high-performance protective case solutions and advanced portable LED lighting systems. Rich brings more than 15 years of business development, sales and customer relationship management experience to his new post.

1992 Susan Dirks ’92, ’95 is coowner of North Shore Nurse Practitioners LLC, which provides mental health services.

1993 Tina Santos has been named vice president for patient care and chief nursing officer at Heywood Hospital in Gardner. Prior to this appointment, Tina was director of adult and in-patient services at Lowell General Hospital.

Dante Varrasso has been named head coach of the varsity wrestling team at McQuaid Jesuit High School, a private Catholic college preparatory school in Brighton, N.Y. Dante, who has taught history at McQuaid Jesuit High since 2004, also coached wrestling at various other levels during that time.

1996 After a 13-year career in financial services, Steve DeSimone began classes this fall at Bentley University to pursue a Ph.D. in accounting. Steve has also been teaching a Financial Accounting course at UMass Lowell since January 2010. Cheryl J. Henry is chief branding officer and senior vice president of Ruth's Hospitality Group Inc. (RHGI), the company that owns the Ruth's Chris Steak House, Mitchell's Fish Market, Mitchell's Steakhouse and Cameron's Steakhouse. Cheryl is responsible for developing and executing the company’s marketing and branding strategy, enhancing existing sales initiatives and developing new revenue centers for all RHGI brands. Prior to joining the RHGI team, Cheryl was the chief of staff for the mayor of Orlando, where she was instrumental in the development of $1.2 billion in downtown entertain-

ment venues, including a performing arts center and new arena.

1997 Adam Miloro has been named a vice president of Longfellow Advisors, a Boston-based retirement plan consulting and advisory firm. Adam previously had served as a senior consultant and has written for the Employee Benefit Plan Review. He recently was granted the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards. CFP is the industry’s top designation for financial planners.

1998 Jodie Minahan is the senior placement specialist for the Youth Villages Intercept Intensive In-Home services program in Woburn and throughout Middlesex County. The organization helps children with emotional, behavioral and mental health issues and their families. Jodie now lives in Haverhill.

2003 Kate Hanson Foster has had her first book of poems, “Mid Drift,” published by Loom Press of Lowell. The compilation of 38 poems reflects the drama of family life and other subjects she observed while growing up in Andover and,

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Classnotes later, while attending UMass Lowell. Kate holds a master of fine arts degree from the Bennington Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Rosalind Gendreau and her wife, Nicole, celebrated the birth of their daughter, Dillon May, last July 9.

2004 Amy Berdos, who spent the last 15 years in the Norton Public School system—first as an elementary school teacher and most recently as K-12 director of Curriculum and Instruction—has been appointed assistant superintendent of Foxboro Public Schools. Amy, who topped a field of 34 applicants for the position, holds a doctorate in Leadership in Schooling from UMass Lowell. She also earned a degree in architecture and building construction from Texas A&M and considered working on Boston’s Big Dig project before her love of math, science and children pointed her toward the teaching profession. Ali Bogdan has joined Avison Young, a commercial real estate company in Boston, as a brokerage assistant, a post in which she leads various marketing projects and supports the company’s suburban brokerage team. She came to Avison Young from Noble Wealth Management, an independent financial planning firm.

2005 Isa Cann is a director, website designer and website video producer at Media Architects, which serves clients in the New England area.

Greg Maloney, an SRT major, has been working in Los Angeles as technical music supervisor for Oscar-nominated film composer Danny Elfman for the past three years. His most recent project was “IRIS,” a new Cirque du Soleil show that will be featured at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Greg is currently working with Elfman on the film scores to “Hunger Games” and “Men in Black 3.” Beth Odian graduated cum laude from Marquette University Law School in May 2011. Following graduation, she accepted a temporary position clerking for federal magistrate judges William Callahan and Patricia Gorence in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Her clerkship ended in November. Although she does not currently have job plans following the conclusion of her clerkship, she is excited to begin the next stage of her career. A native of Wenham, Beth graduated magna cum laude from UMass Lowell in 2005 with a degree in business. While at UMass Lowell, she was a member and two-year captain of the women’s varsity soccer team.

2006 Mandy Whittier Breton was married in July 2010 to Jeremie Breton. She is working toward a master's degree in elementary education at Salem State University and expects to graduate in May 2012. Cam Preciado, who earned his degree in graphic arts, is using the talent acquired in that discipline to provide free design work for nonprofit humanitarian organizations. His first “customer” was Living Continued on Page 52

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The Odd Couple: Sharing a Home and a Marriage, From Different Sides of the Fence To all those who lament the incivility of our society, who bemoan that we’ve grown too polarized as a people to any longer see past the differences between us—there is a living, breathing rebuttal: Dwight Robson and Lena Robinson, husband and wife. Robson ’93 and Robinson ’92 are the James Carville and Mary Matalin of Massachusetts politics, but without the fanfare. She’s a consultant to Republicans, he to Democrats; her values run to low taxes and small government, his are rooted in more help for the little guy. He wrote a check last fall to the Deval Patrick campaign; she canceled it out with a bigger one to Charlie Baker. When it comes to politics, they don’t agree on much. And yet. And yet they’ve been together since they met at ULowell—where she was as left-wing as he was (“of the ACLU card-carrying persuasion”) until she read Ayn Rand. They have two children together, share a home on the North Shore, and only rarely give way to screams. ("Occasionally I lose my cool,” she told a reporter last fall. “Dwight really doesn't.") They made it through last year’s election by agreeing on no lawn signs. But there are moments. There are flash points. Mitt Romney is one. ("Dwight has a personal thing with that," Robinson told the reporter.) Al Sharpton is another. (“Don't even go there,” she said to her husband; “he’s kryptonite to me.”) And he’s never been happy with her membership in the NRA. Still, there is common ground—which is something they work hard to stress. She is friends with Shannon O'Brien, former Democratic candidate for governor; he’s worked on behalf of charter schools, which have strong Republican backing. "I never did see things in black and white," he said last year. "Democrat, good; Republican, bad—I don't see politics [that way]." So the next curmudgeon you come across, arguing that we’re too divided to get past our differences, or that Congress is too partisan to ever get anything done? Send him out to Marblehead to take a lesson from Lena and Dwight. ! –G.D.

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From a Teenager’s Passion to a Lifetime Career It began as a volunteer summer job, more than 30 years ago. She was 15, a highschool student with an interest in science. But somehow, the job never ended. “It just kept on expanding,” says UMass Lowell Education Asst. Prof. Michelle Scribner-MacLean ’87, ’90, ’99 of her relationship with Boston’s Museum of Science. “I just kept going back—working different jobs, at the front desk, in the library, just about everywhere you could work. I finally did leave to teach elementary school—but I came back to work in the summers.” Over the years, her jobs there grew more diverse, and more responsible: “I did the research for my master’s degree in the butterfly lab. There I was, with the keys to collections of butterflies going back to the 1800s. There’s almost no way to describe the things I learned.” Recently, the museum produced a video, “The Heart of the Museum,” which profiles four people whose lives have been touched by their exposure to it. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who grew up in Medford, was one of the four; another was Scribner-MacLean. “It was a real honor,” she says, “to be able to talk about how important, how truly special, the place has been for me.” ! –G.D.

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Classnotes Waters Center of Hope in Lowell, which needed new logo and design work when it changed its name from “ministry” to “center.” Cam and his fiancée have launched Christian Hill Studios, a graphic arts and apparel business.

2007 Marine 1st Lt. Matthew White, of East Bridgewater, who earned his degree in sound recording technology, returned from Afghanistan this past summer after deploying with the 8th Engineering Support Battalion as a battery communications officer.

Salem’s Derby Wharf to New York City this past summer along with more than three dozen members of SCIP, the Park Service’s Student Career Intake Program. The program gave the Massachusetts participants an opportunity to bond with other SCIP students from New York and Baltimore. Saoran, who had been in the program for three years, is the first SCIP student from Lowell to secure a permanent position with the Park Service.

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2010 Ryan Cahill has graduated from the U.S. Navy Officer Training Command in Newport, R.I., and was commissioned with the rank of ensign.

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Matt says he’s going to stay in the Marine Reserves and is looking for a job in the audio visual, audio engineering or television fields. Meanwhile, he says he’s trying to become adjusted to civilian life.

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Alum Stars in Microsoft Video In a new video produced by Microsoft, Mark Micire, who received his doctorate in computer science from UMass Lowell, demonstrates how his DREAM controller can command a swarm of robots by using his fingertips. Computer Science Prof. Holly Yanco and her Robotics Lab are also featured in the video.

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2008 Amanda Coffey, a board-certified physician assistant, has joined the Amherst (N.H.) Family Practice. Amanda is affiliated with Foundation Medical Partners and is on the staff at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. After earning her bachelor of science degree summa cum laude from UMass Lowell, she earned a master’s in physician assistant studies at the Manchester campus of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

2009 Saoran Roeuth, an administrative support assistant at the National Park Service in Lowell, sailed aboard the Friendship of Salem, a replica of a 1796 cargo ship, from

Pair Win First Place in National Design Contest Adam McLaughlin and Jordan Tye met as middleschool students at the University’s summer Design Camp. Nearly a decade later, the pair were part of a team that won first place in a national design contest. The recent graduates— both working as teaching assistants at the University as they each pursue their master’s in mechanical engineering— took top honors in the recent Design for Direct Digital Manufacturing Competition, beating 11 other schools from across the country. Their entry (created along with current students Lisabet Sizer and Mark Damplo) was a custom forearm handgrip that allows people using crutches to comfortably and effortlessly control an iPod while walking. “With such a large number of crutches sold, if this product could reach even just a small

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fraction of crutch users, the product would still make a huge positive impact on the lives of people with physical disabilities,” says McLaughlin.

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Fear and Fulfillment By Sheila Eppolito

At 6-years-old, huddled in an attic apartment in Vienne, Isere in German-occupied France, Marguerite Waldron ’89 was terrified. She sat in darkness—strict curfews meant lights out at an early hour—and heard the clicking of German soldiers’ boots as they marched down her cobblestone street. She hoped they weren’t coming for her—they knocked at the door of her neighbor instead. Today, life is much different for Waldron, but a part of her never forgets. After putting her husband through MIT and her three children through college (one at UMass Lowell) she cast around for something for herself. “When the children were grown, I had the luxury of more introspection,” says Waldron. She’d always been interested in painting and, at the urging of a friend, took a class at the DeCordova Museum. Following that, she began lessons with Lowell art instructor Ann Schecter, and she was on her way. She enrolled in the University’s art program at 50, and her official love affair with art began. “I love abstract expressionism—it is an active kind of communication; the person viewing it has their own personal, individual reaction to it,” she says. She doesn’t like art that is simple, or too literal. “I don’t like pretty little pictures,” says Waldron. Her canvases are typically filled with vibrant colors, and often contain images of ladders and doors, a throwback to her fearful childhood. “I think the ladders may represent trying to get out—a means of escape, and the doors evoke fear of who might be behind them,” she says. After graduation, Waldron exhibited work at the Kingston Gallery in Boston before moving to York, Maine. Recently, in a moment of serendipity, her daughter, Nicole, invited her to a wine tasting and art exhibit at The Clown in York. After surveying the featured artist’s work, Waldron felt a renewed confidence in her own abilities, and approached the Clown’s manager, Monique Meadows. “I asked her if she would consider showing my work, and she asked what kind of medium I use,” recalls Waldron. “When I told her I paint abstract, she nearly jumped out of her skin! She said ‘I love abstract!’ ” And a friendship was born.

“Ajmer” by Marguente Waldon

“I visited Marguerite’s studio, and I imagine I felt the way Alfred Stieglitz did upon discovering Georgia O’Keeffe,” Meadows says. “I was absolutely blown away with the quality and quantity of her work—I wanted to yell at her and say ‘Where have you been? ’ ” A showing of 28 of Waldron’s pieces soon followed, with critical acclaim and sales. But selling her work isn’t a huge motivator for Waldron. She says, “If a work sells, so be it. If it doesn’t, I get to have it back, and look at it on my wall.” She credits Meadows’ enthusiastic reaction with a new commitment to her work. “She has reenergized me to continue to work—I value her friendship enormously,” she says. !

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Harish Hande Wins ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’ Harish Hande, who earned a master’s degree in renewable energy engineering in 1998 and a doctorate in mechanical engineering (with a concentration in energy) in 2000, was chosen to receive the 2011 prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award. The co-founder and managing director of Solar Electric Light Company (SELLCO) India was recognized for his “passionate and pragmatic efforts to build a social enterprise that brings customized, affordable, and sustainable electricity to India’s vast rural population, encouraging the poor to become asset creators.” SELCO has pioneered access to solar electricity for rural families living below India’s poverty line through a combination of customized home-lighting systems and innovative financing. The annual Magsaysay award—widely considered to be Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize—is named in honor of the former Philippine president who died in a plane crash in 1957. Awardees receive a cash prize of $50,000. ! –E.A.

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In memoriam

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Leo King, Remembered: a Legacy of Caring

Marianne Heimburg Knowlton: Teacher, Writer, Artist

Leo King, who died this fall at the age of 81, was a man who touched lives. And, nearly as often, changed them. The memories that trailed his nearly 30 years as dean of students—beginning at Lowell Tech in 1967, finally retiring from UMass Lowell in 1996—are vivid. “He was definitely pro-student,” remembers Ellen Duggan, who served as his assistant dean for years, then took over upon his retirement. “He was absolutely devoted [to them].” “A 24-hour policeman, a 24-hour chaplain, and 24-hour friend of the students,” said Larry Martin, who was dean of admissions through much of King’s tenure, to a reporter earlier this year. “He had the hardest job in the University, without question.” A former student, writing from Florida, remembers a crisis 30 years ago: “I asked your secretary for five minutes with you to explain a problem. You gave me an hour. You extended a hand, and held me accountable. You made an impact on my life, an impact I am still [feeling] today. I thank God for you.” Today’s Dean of Students, Larry Siegel, who says he came to UMass Lowell in large part because of King, remembers the phone calls he made to arrange student loans, or credit at the bookstore for a student who couldn’t afford his texts, or a proper graduation ceremony for a prison inmate who’d completed his coursework through the mail. At least once, says Siegel, he remembers King taking out his wallet to give a student money for food. “Hundreds of students owe their college degrees to him. He would spend a lot of his time meeting with [those] who felt they were at dead ends – whether it was personal, academic or financial. He really felt like they were his kids. He used to refer to them like that.” Donations in Leo’s memory can be made to the Leo F. King Scholarship Endowment Fund. Checks, payable to UMass Lowell, can be sent to the Office of University Advancement, One University Avenue, Southwick Hall 250, Attn: Kristen Walsh.

Marianne Heimburg Knowlton, who taught English at the University for 35 years, was a devoted student of the artistic and the literary. “She sought out places her favorite authors knew and loved in order to know the writers better,” says Martha McGowan, a retired English professor and longtime friend. “I have photos she took of one of Jane Austen’s homes, and of a café Hemingway frequented in Spain.” Knowlton’s family—including former husband Ted, daughters Polly and Liza and son Larry (another son, Kned, predeceased her) recently held a memorial service for her following her death at 81. “Whether deeply immersed in a popular pageturner or a dog-eared classic, my mother was perhaps happiest when surrounded by stacks of beloved books,” says Polly. Knowlton found common ground with students in challenging the status quos of the ’60s and ’70s. “Students flocked to enroll in her course, The Modern Lyric, where Joni Mitchell and James Taylor songs were played and discussed in their cultural contexts,” says Polly.

Brenda Atwood Pinardi: Portrait of Generosity

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Moonchild by Brenda Atwood Pinardi

Every once in a while, a teacher comes along who changes lives. From all accounts, Brenda Atwood Pinardi was one of these. Pinardi was a fixture in the Art Department—as both professor and chair—for 35 years before her death in 2011. Pinardi and her husband. Enrico (Henry), an art instructor at Rhode Island College, each went beyond the traditional role of teacher, and became—to a lucky Prof. Rudolph Deanin: group—more like parents. Doug Bell, a former student of Plastics Hall of Fame Henry’s, describes spending time at the couple’s Hyde Prof. Rudolph Deanin of UMass Park home: Lowell’s Plastics Engineering “A few of us would visit them for the weekend, and in Department died on Aug. 7 in return for yard work, Brenda would prepare wonderful Lowell. He was 90. meals for us. We’d stay up until all hours working on our A member of the Plastics Hall of Fame and artwork in their studios. My father died in the ’80s, and I a fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, the turned to Henry. Then my mother died a few years later, longtime Westford resident taught at the University and I turned to Brenda. Since then, I have considered for 41 years, until his retirement in 2008 at age 87. them my parents. He authored more than 300 technical papers and Former Art Dept. colleague Jim Coates remembers 12 books and held 36 patents. Pinardi as a mentor: “Brenda was chair when I was “Rudy’s greatest accomplishment was establishing hired. She was extraordinarily generous with her time the Plastics Engineering Graduate Program, which has and showed genuine patience and compassion. elevated the status of the department and has attract- I’ve often described her as the glue that held the ed graduate students from around the world,” says department together.” department chair Prof. Robert Malloy. “He served as For former student Jay Kamins, Brenda’s voice is a the program’s coordinator throughout his academic powerful memory. “Whenever I think of Brenda, it’s career. He will be missed by all.” her voice that first comes rushing back—her tone was “I still remember when I applied for the M.S./Ph.D. buoyant, relaxed and accepting,” he says. program in Plastics Engineering, Dr. Deanin provided “Last week, I spent some time in her old studio, me with all the necessary information promptly via seeing everything as she left it a year before. Collections email or via letter typed using his favorite typewriter,” of every sort filled the room—including playful assemsays former student Rahul Panchal. “When I met him blages of shells, old dolls, and unusual objects found from for the first time, I was amazed that at 80+ he was so years of hunting with Henry. On her desk, CDs of Elvis, active, prompt, polite and down-to-earth.” The Doors, Bob Dylan. Off to the side, brushes are lined Donations in Rudy’s memory can be made to the up, well cleaned and ready to go,” he says. Professor Rudolph Deanin Blending and CompoundColleagues and former students honored Atwood ing Laboratory Fund. Checks, payable to UMass Pinardi at two recent exhibits, both of which benefited Lowell, can be sent to the Office of University the Brenda Atwood Pinardi Scholarship. ! Advancement, One University Avenue, Southwick Hall 250, Attn: Kristen Walsh. W I N T E R 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2 UMASS LOWELL MAGAZINE

In memoriam

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Russ Willingham ’06: Died Serving the Public Russell Willingham Jr. used to work multiple security shifts at a hospital on weekends to make his UMass Lowell dream come true. While also holding down a job as an RA on the ninth floor of Fox Hall, he wanted desperately to earn a criminal justice degree. And he did, in 2006. But it was the dangerous profession he loved that claimed his life. Willingham, 28, died in the line of duty on July 30, during a shift with the Winston-Salem (N.C.) police department. Willingham was responding to a call regarding a possible drunk driver when he crashed into a tree and became trapped in his patrol car. A native of Framingham, Willingham is survived by his wife, Courtney, in addition to his parents, two brothers and a sister. “The first time I met him, he was the resident advisor in Fox Hall, and I was director of Fox Hall,” recalls Nicholas Piscitello, associate director of Parking and Transportation for the University. “He was an easygoing guy, but very passionate about criminal justice. He really wanted to be an officer.”

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Catherine Goodwin ’43: Drawing Life Out of Gravestones and Old Canvasses Lowell was her life, and her lifelong love. She was rooted in its present, but made of herself—above all other things—a curator of its past. When Catherine Goodwin ’43 died, in June at the age of 89, she took with her a knowledge and intimacy with the city that may never be seen again. “She always struck me as someone who straddled two worlds,” says Richard Howe, a local attorney and blogger who, sadly but willingly, will now carry on the tradition of leading the cemetery walking tours that Goodwin made her calling for nearly 30 years. “She was a very modern person, with one foot squarely in the 21st century, but so immersed in the history of the city, it’s as if she had her other foot planted firmly in the 19th.” She was a researcher, historian and scholar of all things Lowell. Beginning in the mid1970s and continuing until near to the end of her life, she choreographed exhibits at the city’s museums and galleries that put the city’s

past—its artists, mill workers, silversmiths, city fathers, the clothes they wore, the fabrics, china and portraits they crafted—vividly and memorably on display. Her cemetery tours, beginning in the early ’80s and informed by her exhaustive and loving research, revivified, for thousands of today’s residents, the longdead men and women who made the city what it is. Her 1992 book, “Mourning Glory: The Story of the Lowell Cemetery,” brought many of these figures to the page. “She always found the human connection,” says Irene Finneral, office manager of the Lowell Cemetery, “and translated the stories in a way her audience could feel.”

Deceased YEAR*

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1922 1922 1922 1922 1923 1923 1923 1923 1924 1924 1924 1924 1927 1927 1927 1928 1928 1928 1929 1929 1929 1929 1931 1931 1932 1933 1933 1935 1936 1936 1937 1937 1937 1938 1939 1940 1940 1941 1941 1941 1942

Gertrude Kenney Buckley Julia Canty Lillian Cohen Dorothy Griffin Evans Leon Davieau Helen Powell Dorsey Earl Hoffman Henry Macher Charles Bachelder Samuel Burger Winthrop Cody Eleanor Costello Mary Lynch Fisher Mary Lenihan Fairbanks David Currier Edna Berry Learned Thomas Connor Paul Fasig Marion Bustead Howard Paul Evans Patrick Hetherman Fred Kennerley David Taft Ruth McKeon Kierstead John Meehan Marie Powers Mildred Shanahan Faustina Hall Dorr Edna Steele Rittershaus Loretta Gorman Francis Barbara Thompson Havercamp Clinton Grossman Mary Jo Leahey Dorothy Welch Breen Estanislao Ocoma Helen Fiske Alice Foye Phyllis Pidgeon Colucci D. Ethel Cleary Sidney Saltsman Ellen Tierney O'Toole

1942 1942 1942 1943 1943 1945 1946 1946 1947 1948 1949 1949 1949 1950 1950 1950 1950 1950 1950 1950 1951 1951 1951 1952 1952 1952 1953 1953 1953 1954 1954 1954 1954 1954 1954 1955 1955 1955 1957 1957 1957

Irene Lidwin Josephine Peary Sankus Janet Kenney Duffy William Haggerty Jr Catherine Hill Goodwin Margaret Morgan Cunniff Allen Sideman Robert Bent Kalman Kobrin M. Dorgan Parker Downing Charles Sheehan Seymour Lash Joseph Weldon Robert Sloan Angela Orlando Russotto Richard Fifield Charles Squire George Spicer Norman Brunelle Morris Socransky Paul Cushman John Knight Harold MacLean Charles Mack Margaret Peters Smith Lucinda Silk Michael Dielendick Charles Flamand Donald Nichols Harry Woessner Lloyd Whitney Jr Joseph Iannazzi Charles Sturm David Austin Margaret Thomas Doyle Ellen Lyons Martin Barbara Slavin Axon Terry Husson Kadir Sultana Poulios Daoulas Lewis Miller

1958 1958 1958 1958 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1962 1962 1962 1963 1963 1964 1964 1965 1965 1965 1965 1965 1966 1967 1967 1968 1969 1969 1969 1969 1970 1970 1970 1970 1970 1971 1971 1972 1972 1972 1972 1973

Mona Griffin Thomas Stanton Elizabeth Haggerty Gunnery Sherman Spiegel Catherine Lee Kimball Emile Genest Rene Gaillardetz Edward Anderson Shalaby Shalaby William Hadley Charles Como Kenneth Jacobs David Preston James Rice James Nicosia Jr Carlton Clark Jr Raymond Lord Jr Ronald Lareau Donald Beede Wayne Liptak Robert Twigg Carl Pitasi Lois Choquette Sergi Janice Thiel Leahy Sandra Dlugosz Boileau Neil Vallencourt Joyce Scherer George Zinkus Walter Jones Frederick Matthes Jr John Bielat Jr Donald Samowski Francis Sevigny Yu Wang Judith Ozdemirer Robert Moran Gary Federici James Fiore Peter Mazur James Pelletier Robert Coleman

1973 1973 1973 1973 1973 1974 1975 1975 1975 1975 1975 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1977 1977 1978 1978 1978 1978 1978 1978 1979 1979 1979 1979 1979 1979 1979 1979 1980 1981 1982 1982 1982 1982 1983 1983

John Crosby Jr Arthur Driscoll Miles Robinson Jr William Gallagher Frederick Greathead Bruce Cecere William Pelosi Thomas Toner Bruce Fitzpatrick George Vetter Douglas Jenkins Fred Heselton Jacob Eyssi William Gallagher Douglas Abbott Henry Croteau Helen Sable Irving Anderson Karen Zaccardi Nancei Radicchi Paul Cavanaugh Robert Dwyer Pauline Michaud Michael Savastano Stanley Haney Vivian Moores David Phinney Catherine Evans LeClaire Patricia Blake Fuller Robert Roche John Johnston Kin-Chan Chen Peter Gagne Karen Page Edwin Zale Jr Gary Richard Catherine Privitera Gerald Halstead James McCaffrey Petra Grant Kivikoski William Cooper

1983 1983 1984 1984 1984 1985 1986 1986 1987 1989 1990 1991 1991 1992 1992 1993 1993 1994 1994 1994 1994 1994 1995 1996 1996 1996 1998 1999 2000 2000 2000 2002 2002 2003 2006 2006 2008

Daniel Ryan Michael Ackerman James Patton Jr Jenifer Thomas Anthony Cavalieri Mark Krawczyk David Flaherty Monique Ledoux Hines Patricia Jacques Joseph Vincent Thomas Gleason Karen Lacasse Francis Trowbridge Monica McGuire Ruth Saltman Frederick Wheeler James Winter Gordon Feltman William Peacock Michael Szufnarowski David Birchenough James Leonard Jr Edward Lavigne Burton Coburn Marc Couture Alexander d'Arbeloff Mary Dunn Charles Waldner Paul Becker Richard Orto James Smith Mary Gillis Sheri Nilsen Joanne Lindmark Charles Panek Russell Willingham Jr Kim Forte Rudolph Deanin Brenda Pinardi Leo King

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DONOR REPORT of GIFTS 2011

Thank you for providing the support that gives so much meaning to every aspect of campus life at UMass Lowell.

2011

REPORT of GIFTS

Chancellor’s Leadership Society Giving with Purpose: UMass Lowell Launches New Philanthropic Recognition This year marks the launch of revised giving clubs at UMass Lowell. The Chancellor’s Leadership Society is a distinguished group of donors who, year after year, provide vital support to the University with annual gifts of $1,000. This year, UMass Lowell also welcomes the inaugural members of the Circle of Distinction, comprised of top benefactors who have made generous contributions over their lifetimes. Within the Chancellor’s Leadership Society, there are the following recognition levels: Francis Cabot Lowell Circle $100,000 or more Benefactors Circle $50,000-$99,999 Fellows Circle $25,000-$49,999 Innovators Circle $10,000-$24,999

Additional Recognition Levels

No matter the size, your gift truly makes a difference and allows UMass Lowell to maintain its position among the nation's leading universities. The following levels recognize the loyal support of all UMass Lowell donors.

Principals Circle $5,000-$9,999 Patrons Circle $2,500-$4,999

Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Recognizes graduates of the last 10 years who give $500-$999

Sponsors Circle $1,000-$2,499 Benefits Members of the Chancellor’s Leadership Society receive numerous benefits based upon their giving levels. Among them are invitations to exclusive events; VIP receptions; insider updates from University leaders; special gifts of gratitude; books signed by faculty or alumni authors; complimentary tickets to certain events, including athletics; listing and recognition in University publications; acknowledgment at campus events and more.

Partners Level $500-$999 Associates Level $250-$499 Century Level $100-$249 Friends Level $1-$99

A Message to our Readers We make every effort to accurately list all donors. If we made an error with your name or listing, please call the Office of University Advancement at (978) 934-2223 and we’ll correct our records. This report includes those who made a gift between July 1, 2010 and June 30, 2011. Thank you for your generosity and commitment to the University.

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chancellor’s leadership society Transform the Future

Leave your legacy to UMass Lowell The new UMass Lowell Legacy Society recognizes donors who support UMass Lowell through bequests, gift annuities, life insurance policies, retirement plans and other estate intentions. Discover how a legacy gift can benefit you and UMass Lowell in ways you may not have considered possible.

UMass Lowell Circle of Distinction

The Circle of Distinction recognizes top benefactors who have made generous contributions over their lifetimes. James ’80 and Deb Dandeneau Gururaj and Jaishree Deshpande Charles ’66 and Josephine Hoff John F. Kennedy ‘70 Mary Jo Leahey ‘37 (Deceased) Robert ’84 and Donna ’85 Manning David Pernick ‘41 Mark ’81 and Elisia Saab Robert ’71 and Gail Ward Roy Zuckerberg ‘58 FRANCIS CABOT LOWELL CIRCLE ($100,000+)

Howard R. Berke Boston Scientific Corporation James V. Dandeneau '80 Gururaj Deshpande Jaishree Deshpande Charles J. Hoff '66 Josephine Hoff Cheryl V. Katen '66 Paul C. Katen '64 John F. Kennedy '70 Konarka Technologies Ernest P. Liporto '62 Irene Liporto Lucy Gregory Henderson Trust Motorola Foundation Elisia Saab Mark A. Saab '81 Loddy Weisberg '53 (Deceased) Arthur S. Zamanakos Roy J. Zuckerberg '58

BENEFACTORS CIRCLE ($50,000-$99,999)

ARAMARK Corporation Arburg, Inc. Harry F. Bean (Deceased) Nancy L. Donahue Richard K. Donahue, Esq. Mark Ian Gelfand Eamonn P. Hobbs '80 L. Donald LaTorre '59 Gloria LaTorre Arjun Malhotra Leo J. Montagna '70 David Pernick '41

FELLOWS CIRCLE ($25,000-$49,999)

Anonymous John Alden Mary Alden '60 Kathleen B. Allen '77 Analog Devices, Incorporated Aldo Crugnola Datacolor Inc. Joseph C. Day '66 Thomas A. Huff '49 (Deceased) IUCEE Consortium Kistler Instrumental Corp. Mary Jo Leahey '37 Donna M. Manning '85 Robert J. Manning '84 Gary M. Mucica '71 Alexander Ogonowski

INNOVATORS CIRCLE ($10,000-$24,999)

Anonymous William C. Blake '73 Clairmont P. Carter Kathryn M. Carter ‘78 Cynthia Chamberas George Chamberas Comcast Corp. Thomas M. Costello Arthur T. Demoulas Extreme Networks Corp. ExxonMobil Foundation Mark V. Forziati '78 May Futrell Joseph C. Gandolfo '66 Richard L. Grande '72 International Wire and Cable Symposium

To join the UMass Lowell Legacy Society or for more information on estate planning, contact Carolyn Flynn in the Office of Gift Planning at (877) 775-1992 or Carolyn_Flynn@uml.edu.

UMass Lowell Legacy Society

Dean Bergeron Alice Brockway ‘99 Claire Chamberlain Jeffrey Cosiol ‘67 Paul DesCoteaux ‘51 Alan Desrochers ‘72 James Dillahunty ‘67 Steven Dudek ‘74 Linda FitzPatrick ‘68 Karen Fung ‘03 May Futrell Howard Gorlin ‘58 Arthur Hillson ‘42

Kronos Inc. Massachusetts International Academy Francis L. McKone '56 Joey L. Mead Martin T. Meehan '78 Ellen Murphy Meehan Microsoft Corporation Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Foundation Edward J. Moloney, Esq. Jacqueline F. Moloney '75 Mary Jane Nehring Diane C. O'Connor '84 Thomas C. O'Connor '77 William T. O'Shea '69 Richard A. Pierro Jr. '83 Marie C. Profio John V. Pulichino '67 Kary Robertson '76 Bernard Shapiro '56 Diana Shapiro Solectria Renewables Theodore Edson Parker Foundation Thomas Chamberas Runners’ Memorial Scholarship Fund Aruna Vedula Krishna M. Vedula

PRINCIPALS CIRCLE ($5,000-$9,999)

Anonymous Ahmed T. Abdelal Lawrence A. Acquarulo Jr. '81 Bruce Z. Arakelian '82 Sandhya Balasubramanian '05 Carole Barrett Edward J. Barrett '58 Carol F. Barry '96 Mary R. Bedell '81 Russell D. Bedell '81 Boott Hydropower, Inc.

Gertrude Hirsch ‘42 Allan Hobson ‘70 David Holmstrom John Kennedy ‘70 Fang Lai David Lear ‘79 Louise Levingston ‘46 Irene & Ernest Liporto ‘62 Alan Litman ‘70 Gary Madison ‘90 Clyde Magaw Ada & Stuart Mandell Ellen Mellen

Fleurette L. Boutin Elizabeth M. Brackett '84 Joseph M. Brice '81 John Chemaly Linda Chemaly Mark J. Cocozza '71 Susan M. Cocozza '69 Gerald G. Colella '78 Joyce Colella '77 DCP Midstream Partners, LP Carol Duncan George L. Duncan DuPont (E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.) Dynisco Inc. Eastern Salt Company Inc. Enterprise Bank and Trust Company Linda R. FitzPatrick '68 Stephen A. Fossey '78 General Electric Foundation Goodrich Corporation Albelee Haque '89 Eric J. Helliwell '88 Swanee Hunt Independent University Alumni Association at Lowell Joseph P. Donahue Charitable Foundation Trust Mitchell E. Kertzman Jayant Kumar Shalin Liu L.L. Bean Inc. Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation Lowell General Hospital Lowell Sun Charities, Inc. Gary M. Madison '90 Ashwin Mehta Merck Company Foundation Millipore Corporation Keith J. Motley Ramaswamy Nagarajan '98

Arthur Miller ‘51 Marion Muskiewicz ‘91 Darlene O’Donnell ‘85 Dorayne Passler ‘75 David Pernick ‘41 Marie Profio William Roberts Ted Rothschild Andrew Routsis ‘83 Bonnie Shepard Douglas Tammelin ‘98 Laurence Walsh ‘56

Barry W. Perry '68 Raytheon Company Red Mill Graphics William G. Rhodes III '82 RI Consultants, LLC Johanna Bohan Riley Sheila A. Riley-Callahan '80 Brian Rist '77 Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts Robert K. Sheridan Jean Sheridan Joan Sparrow Summer Star Foundation for Nature, Art, and Humanity SunDrum Solar, LLC University of Massachusetts Boston Kendall Wallace Scott D. Waugh '90 David Wegman Kristen E. Williams

PATRONS CIRCLE ($2,500-$4,999)

Anonymous BAE Systems Battles Foundation Kristine A. Beaudette '74 Louis D. Beaudette '74 Behrakis Foundation Paul A. Bessette '73 Boston Sim Inc. Ronald R. Boudreau '75 Bushong Industrials, Incorporated Robert M. Bushong '67 Robert A. Caruso '93 Julie Chen Edward Chiu Choon-Bo Choe '94 Nina M. Coppens Paul C. Coppens

Francis C. Corcoran Michael Costello Day Pitney LLP. Robert F. Davis '60 Stephen B. Driscoll '66 Thomas W. Giants '61 Susan A. Goodwin Anita M. Greenwood '84 Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC Hearthstone Homes, LLC S. Braxton Hinchey Aloke Jain Ehud D. Laska '75 Robert D. Lefort '83 Lowell Bank Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank Amaresh Mahapatra Charlotte Mandell Caroline M. McAndrews '84 Melisenda McDonald Metabolix Inc. Thomas F. McGrail Jr. '78 George Michaels ‘79 Middlesex Community College Massachusetts David P. Myers '76 Subhalakshmi Nagarajan '08 Next Specialty Resins, Inc. Nypro Inc. Jack D. O'Connor Therese M. O'Connor Michael J. Orroth '92 Peg Palmer '73 Susan J. Pasquale '75 Chetan N. Patel '81 John H. Pearson Jr. Robert Peirent '84 William C. Penney Jr. '75 William J. Perciballi '86 Kevin J. Perry '74 Albert C. Peterson '55 Demetrius P. Rizos '91

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Susan P. Rizos Rubbermaid Inc. Michael T. Ryan '74 Daniel J. Sandman Carmen Joseph Scarpa SMC, Ltd. Miriam D. Smith '57 Source Production & Equipment Co. Inc. Ellen L. St. Cyr '82 Kevin F. St. Cyr '80 Alexandra S. Tayebi '94 Amad Tayebi Susan Tripathy Gerard E. Vitti '69 Carole Ward '62 Wellington Management Company Mark A. Yates '80

SPONSORS CIRCLE ($1,000-$2,499)

A. Routsis Associates, Inc. Prakash R. Ajmera '80 Jason Allen Frank P. Arcury '72 Lawrence J. Ardito '69 AT&T Inc. Autodesk Inc. William T. Babcock '81 Peter A. Baglioni '70 Robert B. Barnett '71 Sandra C. Barnett '72 James E. Barrett Linda A. Barrington '04 David M. Basile '76 Robin H. Begley Leonard Bennett '61 Dean J. Bergeron Joseph J. Blonski '78 Sara M. Bogosian Vas Bogosian Meg Bond Mark Bonifacio '87 Patricia M. Bonifacio '90 Robert E. Boudreau Jr. '79 Craig S. Brown '00 Hank Brown '67 H. James Brown Jr. '70 Rob Budd Rosie Budd Steven M. Burke '84 Emily D. Byrne '02 James T. Canning Linda C. Carpenter '89 Carris Plastics Kathryn M. Carter '78 John J. Catallozzi '64 Jeng-i Chen '89 George P. Cheney '68 Commodore Builders, Inc. Community Counselling Service Co., LLC Louis B. Coiro '82 Brian L. Connell '76 Suzanne Lane Conrad '81 Steven S. Cottrell '66 Debra Darby Roger E. Darois '75 John C. Davis Davol, Inc. Richard N. Dawson '77 Mary Elizabeth DeMallie Ann Shanahan Delfuoco Joyce G. Denning Alan A. Desrochers '72 Amit N. Dharia '86 Kerry F. Donohoe '95 Donald F. Doyle Kathleen M. Doyle '77 William R. Doyle '77 Douglas Russell, Inc. Robert F. Dudley III '74 Daniel Durkin '83

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Stephanie Durkin Wayne Eaton '65 Edison International Entec Polymers, LLC Entergy Corporation Everett Mills Real Estate Federal Carpet Deborah Ellen Finch '03 H. W. Flood Robert Forrant Foster Corporation William C. Fothergill III '71 Duane E. Fox '71 Linda E. Fox '02 Jeffrey J. Gallant '82 Doris K. Gayzagian '71 Kathleen C. Geary '78 William C. Geary III '80 John D. Geraci '97 Frank S. Gerry '75 Donald P. Gill '75 Timothy Goodell Robert W. Goodnow Jr. '79 James J. Goudouros '84 Dana M. Granville '75 Steven Grossman Haartz Corporation Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. Hanser Gardner Publications Peter J. Harrison '77 Margaret M. Ogonowski Hatch William Hatch Debbie I. Hauser '79 Bill Heffron Greg Herenda Richard J. Hoeske '66 Kenneth W. Horton '79 Jan Chan Huang Mary Lou Hubbell '85 Graham A. Hughes '65 Marie F. Hurd '75 Ann Marie Hurley '82 Timothy A. Hutchison '92 Illinois Tool Works, Inc. International Medical Industries, Inc. James P. Jajuga Jajuga Associates Inc. Jamesco Development Inc. Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union Donna L. Jenkins, RN '78 Victor E. Johnson '89 Alan G. Johnston '72 Lillian A. Johnston '96 Russell Karl John D. Kattar '82 David O. Kazmer Joseph J. Kekejian Catherine A. Kendrick Kilkenny Pub Patricia Koczera Robert G. Kunzendorf Chang-Shu Linus Kuo '02 Joseph V. Lacoste '83 Fang Lai David J. Laurello '81 Peter Laursen, MD George B. Leahey Richard Lemoine '96 William Lemos Arnold S. Lerner Maureen A. Lerner Lowell Fruit Co. Inc. Mark D. Lozier '73 Carlos N. Lukac '71 Lutheran Church of the Redeemer Foundation Ellen M. Malloy '80 Robert A. Malloy '79 Stuart L. Mandell Ada Mandell(Deceased) Paul F. Marion '76 Sutiyao Marturunkakul '93

Thomas C. McAvinew '63 Patricia A. McCafferty Matthew P. McCafferty III '79 Stephen P. McCarthy Daniel J. McCormick '83 Donny McCoy David P. McGrath Jr. '98 Suzanne L. McHendry '65 Walter J. McHendry '64 Terrance P. McMahon '90 Jeffrey E. Mead '78 Deepak H. Mehta '93 Roland R. Meijer '82 Karen Devereaux Melillo '78 Robert M. Melillo '73 Marjorie R. Miller '67 Pascal Miller '91 Alex Moschella '03 Richard J. Musgrave, Esq. '88 James J. Nason '80 Richard J. Neal Jr., DMD '80 Thomas P. Nerney New England Rubber and Plastic Group Inc. Rosemary E. Noon Patricia Noreau Steven R. Normandin Alfred L. Nuttall '65 Marie A. O'Connor '52 Stephen A. Orroth '66 Over-Thirty Baseball, Inc. Marianne Paley Nadel Robert F. Penfield '80 Melissa M. Pennell Stephen A. Pennell Robert Perris '68 Geoffry Phillips-McEnany Scott Pierce Donald E. Pierson Patrese Obrien Pierson '05 Laura J. Pollard '89 RF Walsh Collaborative Partners Francis A. Reed '80 Andrew Routsis '83 Carol A. Royal '80 Gerald E. Royer '71 RTP Company Rubber Division American Chemical Society Michael F. Rubner '82 Anthony L. Sagona Nicholas Sannella Karen L. Scammell '85 Nick R. Schott Patrick Scollin '01 Edward W. Sheehan '90 Laurence Siegel Judith Sizer Nancy F. Sizer Dana K. Skinner Keith A. Sommer '73 Specialty Materials, Inc. Sports Zone Inc. Satchit B. Srinivasan '92 Alfred A. Stadnicki '71 Steven L. Starkey '79 Theresa M. Starkey Kathryn T. Sullivan '80 Patricia A. Sullivan-Talty '78 Jack F. Swartz '72 Francis T. Talty '77 Robert H. Tamarin TESco Associates, Inc. Roger E. Temple '80 John C. Thibault Shirley G. Thomson Garrett S. Thurston '90 Lisa M. Thurston '96 John Ting Transystems Corporation Tyco Electronics Foundation U.S. Charitable Gift Trust

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Joseph L. Vaillancourt '90 Michele L. Vercellin Jonathan J. Vitello '79 Wei-Dong Wang '87 Watermark Environmental, Inc. Waters Corporation Steven E. Weisfeldt '88 Deborah Anne White Martin Wolf Peter A. Woog '64 Yang Yang '88 Charles B. Yestramski '76 Joanne L. Yestramski '76 YPS, LLC Victor J. Zelny '87

GOLD SPONSORS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Robert Backofen '03 Mary Cotter-Lemoine '10 Jennifer A. Desa '02 Bon-cheol Ku '05 Maria A. Millett '10 Robert W. Montgomery III '03 Mital Madhusudan Parikh '01

donor listing by class 1941

1948

Benefactors Circle ($50,000-$99,999) David Pernick

Century ($100-$249) Ethel J. Doherty Steven S. Marder Alvin Rothman Helen M. Smith

Partners ($500-$999) Frank J. Symosek Century ($100-$249) Alice B. Jezak Friends ($1-$99) Sidney I. Saltsman Number of Class Donors: 4 Total Class Gift: $50,725.00

1942 Century ($100-$249) Arthur L. Hillson Gertrude L. Hirsch Alice G. Kiernan

ALUMNI

Friends ($1-$99) John A. Murphy P. Andrea Walsh Number of Class Donors: 5 Total Class Gift: $460.00

1936

1943

Century ($100-$249) Mark Markarian

Century ($100-$249) Muriel F. Landers

Friends ($1-$99) Rita J. O'Neill Number of Class Donors: 2 Total Class Gift: $130.00

Friends ($1-$99) Rita Aronoff Teresa Collier R. George Hochschild Bruno Petricek Number of Class Donors: 5 Total Class Gift: $200.00

1937 Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Mary Jo Leahey (Deceased) Friends ($1-$99) F. Thelma Blakeman Irene M. L'Herault Number of Class Donors: 3 Total Class Gift: $25,060.00

1939 Century ($100-$249) Janet A. Ratcliffe Friends ($1-$99) Margaret A. Allen Mary D. LaBay Number of Class Donors: 3 Total Class Gift: $200.00

1940 Associates ($250-$499) Eleanor M. Priestley Century ($100-$249) Mary C. Laganas Friends ($1-$99) Rudolph W. Meuser Dorothy Shapiro Number of Class Donors: 4 Total Class Gift: $410.00

1944 Shirley E. Bennett Milton J. Jay Mary A. Rodger Number of Class Donors: 3 Total Class Gift: $135.00

Friends ($1-$99) Gertrude M. Bailey Patricia C. Gill Number of Class Donors: 6 Total Class Gift: $522.00

1949 Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Thomas A. Huff (Deceased) Associates ($250-$499) Ida G. Simpson Century ($100-$249) Robert D. Brassil Friends ($1-$99) Mary S. Bassett Patricia C. Drummey Richard L. Hallett Jacqueline A. Markham Walter Schwarz Number of Class Donors: 8 Total Class Gift: $33,713.12

1950 Partners ($500-$999) Manuel D. Feldman Associates ($250-$499) Julius I. Fox Century ($100-$249) Alfred W. Canova Sumner B. Goldman

Century ($100-$249) Isaac L. Cohen Charlotte P. Johnson Number of Class Donors: 2 Total Class Gift: $300.00

Friends ($1-$99) Michael M. Besso Warren D. Douglas Arthur D. Levinson June E. Nickless Marie E. Pekarski Alphonse M. Tatarunis Marcia A. Tatarunis (Deceased) Number of Class Donors: 11 Total Class Gift: $1,267.00

1946

1951

Friends ($1-$99) Rose Demasi Number of Class Donors: 1 Total Class Gift: $25.00

Associates ($250-$499) Arthur P. Miller

1945

1947 Century ($100-$249) Joseph H. Rosenbaum Friends ($1-$99) John J. Bernard M. Marie Doleva Stanley L. Helfgott Number of Class Donors: 4 Total Class Gift: $235.00

Century ($100-$249) Frederick B. Bischoff Joseph J. Ducharme Theresa A. Fenton Paul C. Girouard Barbara M. Lemiesz Edward S. Morris Frank T. Reilly Mary L. Rock Friends ($1-$99) Hildreth Aldrich Nancy N. Cook Leonard I. Gilman

donor listing by class Gerard W. Hirschhorn Arnold M. Horwitch M. Nancy Keeffe Elizabeth M. McAvinnue Janet D. McCarthy Frances M. McDonald Peter M. Rowe Katherine H. Seidenberg Priscilla Teixeira Eugene C. Winter Number of Class Donors: 22 Total Class Gift: $1,725.00

1952 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Marie A. O'Connor Associates ($250-$499) Mary L. Kelley George E. Membrino Century ($100-$249) Miriam Kassel Denis M. McNulty Edward Mettler Janet C. Reinhart Vito J. Selvaggio Friends ($1-$99) Donald W. Aldrich Joan N. Beumel Edward S. Byrne Arthur W. Claridge Barbara J. Green Virginia W. Jackson George B. Jordan Christine M. Lamontagne Parker W. Longbottom Marlene M. McKinstry Ursula K. Nania Janet Smith Parsons Donald J. Schaaf Patricia L. Turner Number of Class Donors: 22 Total Class Gift: $2,740.00

1953 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) Loddy Weisberg (Deceased) Partners ($500-$999) Joseph P. Flannery Century ($100-$249) Harry J. Demas Donald E. Finegold Rita Z. Mehos Mildred A. Mulno James A. Nelligan Vasiliki Selvaggio Earl Sidelinker Ann M. Sousa John V. Walsh Friends ($1-$99) Stanley Berger Elizabeth A. Connolly Anne M. Deurell Donald D. Dooley Harvey M. Fishman Gerald R. Hamel Mary P. Keaney Constance R. Lanseigne-Case, EdD Edson S. MacKenzie Helen K. Maurice Manuel M. Rocha

William H. Uster Elaine K. Whittaker Melvin Wiener Number of Class Donors: 25 Total Class Gift: $127,337.53

1954 Partners ($500-$999) Stephen E. Adler Charles P. Riley Jr. Century ($100-$249) Daniel L. Brier Nancy C. Scire Abram Weiser Friends ($1-$99) Robert T. Cassidy Ronald A. Cohen Charlotte Dehning Melvin W. Ettenson Joan M. Francis Thomas F. Garvey Jerome H. Gilmore Martina Grover Charles J. Higgins Herbert J. Hodus Paul D. Horgan Doris D. Kelley Melvin C. Kleeman Tristan A. Laurion R. Wayne Legge Rosemary A. Macklin Mary R. Mansur Christine E. Marocco Raymond P. Pecci Charles A. Smith Number of Class Donors: 25 Total Class Gift: $2,554.00

1955 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Albert C. Peterson Partners ($500-$999) Donald W. Frazee, USAF, Ret. Henry J. Powell Associates ($250-$499) Patricia Fuller Century ($100-$249) J. Joel Berger Ellen F. Burton John W. Chapin Joan L. Cinq-Mars George E. Lanciault Friends ($1-$99) Dorothy A. Clark Daniel F. Crean Claire M. Cyr Dorothy C. Downing Carol L. Folkins Nancy G. Garvey Ann M. Grady Lorraine M. Kalil Betty L. Mann Allen C. Marcus Raymond A. Moissonnier Iris Phillips Robert E. Wagner Number of Class Donors: 22 Total Class Gift: $5,045.00

1956 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Francis L. McKone Bernard Shapiro

A Lesson in Giving: Alumna From Class of 1953 Cherished Teaching

Associates ($250-$499) Cornelia A. McIntosh Century ($100-$249) Clementine F. Alexis Gildo V. DiLoreto William F. Frei Gerald T. Gallagher Jane E. Gallagher Frederick W. Obear Francis A. Raudelunas Raymond P. Sharkey Lora A. Sheridan Laurence B. Walsh Eugene F. Welch Jr. Shirley R. Wilkinson Friends ($1-$99) Richard B. Aldrich, USAF, Ret. Mary B. Colarusso Marguerite A. Devine Nancy M. Dowe Frank A. Durant (Deceased) Regis Fanaras Barbara F. Fitzgerald M. Lois Hosmer Patricia A. Howe Richard L. Peckham Ann R. St. Cyr Jean Stockton Number of Class Donors: 27 Total Class Gift: $32,666.00

1957 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Miriam D. Smith Associates ($250-$499) Pauline Dyer-Cole Raymond A. Masse Century ($100-$249) Ann G. Anstiss Terry Husson Kadir (Deceased) Allen J. Killeen Sr. Nancy A. Leclair Jo Van Der Linden Friends ($1-$99) Joseph J. Bellemore Nancy A. Bloom Ruth C. DeMartinis-Zabierek Elaine C. Dever Beatrice M. DiLavore Janet M. Donahue John T. Finnegan Ann V. Gardella Janice Gosselin Joan F. Halpin John C. Higby Mary Priscilla Higby Alice E. Jones Martha A. Leahy Evelyn M. Smith William C. Terris Roy J. Zabierek Number of Class Donors: 25 Total Class Gift: $4,950.00

Yearbook photo of Loddy Weisberg ’53

Loddy Weisberg ’53 created a legacy at UMass Lowell this year when she left a surprise gift to the University. Unbeknownst to the University, Weisberg, who died in 2010, remembered her alma mater (then called the State Teachers College at Lowell) in her estate with a generous gift. The funds created the “Loddy Weisberg ’53 Memorial Endowed Scholarship Fund” to support students in the Graduate School of Education.

“Mrs. Weisberg’s gift is the largest single gift that the Graduate School of Education has received,” says Anita Greenwood, dean of the Graduate School of Education. “With the increasing cost of education, her scholarship will be of real benefit each year to an exemplary student who is beginning a student teaching practicum in one of Lowell’s elementary schools.” Weisberg retired from the Wilmington Public School system and had resided in Hyannis.

1958 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) Roy J. Zuckerberg Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Edward J. Barrett Partners ($500-$999) Barbara H. Krysiak Associates ($250-$499) Leo P. Devarenne Gerard I. Savarese Century ($100-$249) Karla D. Conway Raymond F. Dunn James T. Giles Ernest Glantz Toby Hodes Richard A. Labrie Athena G. Letsou James E. Murray Carol J. Neville Harold F. Neville Jr. J. Leon Poirier Bruce W. Sharp Edward R. Sheldon Dolores L. Smith Kathryn C. Tymorek Friends ($1-$99) Merlene L. Bennett Irene C. Bourne Theodore B. Brother Frank G. Cagliuso W. Preston Cooper Paul A. Couture Richard T. Devito Marguerite M. Dorsey Jo Ann M. Elder Arnold Forsch M. Richard Girouard Anne M. Guzzo Deborah M. Harlan

Catherine F. Menzie Clyde L. Paulauskas Paula M. Petrone Paul R. Roussel Earl F. Starr Jr. Paul H. Sutherland Claire M. Vervaert-Lemieux Albert J. Weil David L. Wood Number of Class Donors: 42 Total Class Gift: $337,175.00

1959 Benefactors Circle ($50,000-$99,999) L. Donald LaTorre Partners ($500-$999) Frederick P. Poznick Sr. Associates ($250-$499) Walter F. Dawson, Esq. Joseph F. Dixon Victor M. Forsley Century ($100-$249) Ronald Vincent Canova Paul D. Finnegan Rosemarie Giovino Sheila M. Hardy Gertrude L. Kelleher Robert H. Leclair Paul R. Lemieux Richard Papoojian Lyman E. Pevey Jr. Martin H. Sokol Frederick A. Szmit H. Eugenia Thomas Harry K. Thomas Friends ($1-$99) Vito L. Augusta Sr. James W. Bell Sandra Y. Burne Cornelius A. Cunningham Jr. Lawrence R. DeBenedictis George F. Dillon Jr.

Joanna C. Doykos Eleanor A. Durant Richard Carl Freeman Gilbert P. Gagnon Carole A. Marcotte June M. McGrath Joseph V. Petrone (Deceased) Carol Pineau Frederick F. Seymour Jr. Forrest R. Stickney Jr. George P. Trearchis James C. Weatherbee Beverly A. Wiggins Kathleen Wilson Mary E. Wood Number of Class Donors: 39 Total Class Gift: $53,775.00

1960 Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Mary Alden Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Robert F. Davis Partners ($500-$999) Hiram E. Connell Associates ($250-$499) Barbara B. Allen Gunnar M. Reslow Anne M. Sheeran Century ($100-$249) Ronald A. Burba Brendan F. Cassidy Charles N. Darling Jeanne T. Dunn Patricia H. Joyce Roger L. Marchand Sandra A. McDermott George E. Oehler Helen C. Picanso Harriet E. Pugh John P. Riley

2011

REPORT of GIFTS

donor listing by class Partners ($500-$999) Thomas P. Burke Roger W. Gagne Jr. Raymond A. Galloni James E. Hunt Jr.

One for the Books “A library is the heart and soul of a university. That’s why we chose the gift we did.”—Cheryl Katen ’66

Associates ($250-$499) Carolyn J. Lumenello Century ($100-$249) William A. Beresford Jacqueline Frost-Young Kenneth J. Gucwa Edward B. Kaplan Ronald H. Lafond William F. Lipchitz Katherine J. Manousos William W. Mull Roger L. Paradis Michael C. Parnarouskis Edward J. Roberts Robert A. St. Denis Theresa A. Vail

The Katen Learning Commons at the Lydon Library was dedicated Oct. 28, 2011. Paul Katen ’64 cuts the ribbon at the dedication ceremony. Pictured with him, from left: Vice Chancellor of Advancement Edward Chiu, Retired Director of Libraries Patricia Noreau, Chancellor Martin Meehan ‘78, Paul Katen ‘64, Executive Vice Chancellor Jacqueline Moloney ‘75, Vice Chancellor of Administration & Finance Joanne Yestramski ‘76 and Provost Ahmed Abdelal (missing: Cheryl Katen ’66).

As students at Lowell Tech some 50 years ago, Paul and Cheryl Katen of Oregon fondly remember their studies at the Lydon Library and their ensuing love story. After marriage, their locally fostered passions for science and technology took the couple far, both having ambitious and successful careers. Now in retirement, they decided to return a favor to their alma mater through a generous donation to UMass Lowell. Thanks to their contribution of almost $240,000—the largest gift ever to the University Friends ($1-$99) Ellen R. Busch Lee R. Caron Glen D. Chambers Gerald Grasso Louis D. Masiello Mary J. McCaffrey Patricia L. O'Neill Henry A. Pellerin Mary E. Phelps Paul A. Robinson Francis R. Sheehan Sylvia L. Starkie Frederic W. Turcotte Jr. Jane M. White Frank R. Zichelle Number of Class Donors: 32 Total Class Gift: $41,346.00

1961 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Thomas W. Giants Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Leonard Bennett

U N I V E R S I T Y

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Partners ($500-$999) Hubert F. Bonfili, MD Jo Anne Connolly John B. Connolly George L. Duggan Jr. Sandra J. Harvey Margaret E. Hayes Barbara J. Kinnaird Allan M. Lurvey Associates ($250-$499) Angelo P. DeBenedictis Forest J. Dostaler James J. Heenan Jr. Richard A. Maloon Thomas V. Marcella Charles L. Mitsakos Century ($100-$249) Patricia D. Berry Rosemary Costello Pauline P. Gallagher Elaine Gallo Ethel S. Healy Judith A. Hersey Anna R. Hingston Kenneth P. Joncas M A S S A C H U S E T T S

libraries—the Katen Learning Commons opened this fall on the second floor of the Lydon Library. The reconstructed facility is a redesign of library space that dynamically engages students and actively encourages learning outside the classroom with 21st century equipment that fits today’s learning styles. The Katen’s gift also provides students and faculty in the sciences and engineering with valuable online database resources to support learning and research in the advancing digital age.

Charles J. Keenan Jr. Nancy C. Melia William P. Moylan Paul B. O'Sullivan Dorothy R. Riley Richard J. Russell Charles S. Santagati Jr. Jeanne Seaquist Robert S. Smith Sally J. Trice Claire P. Watterson Friends ($1-$99) Francis P. Delaney Noreen O. Grady Daniel A. Hubecky Robert P. Lamprey Herbert J. Nelson Jr. Joyce E. Nison Esko J. Nopanen Walter J. O'Connor Judith A. Reilly Raymond L. Rosatone Deanna M. Szymczak John M. Vervaert Number of Class Donors: 47 Total Class Gift: $14,825.00 L O W E L L

1962 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) Ernest P. Liporto Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Carole Ward Associates ($250-$499) Richard J. Dauksys Century ($100-$249) Carol A. Buchanan Carol M. Collins Joseph Colombo Georgia D. Dodge Judith I. Fisher James J. Galleshaw Francis Georges Pauline M. Golec Stephen L. Kaplan Richard J. Rodgers Virginia Ann Sheehan Joseph P. Smith Joseph F. Trepanier Jr. Jean C. Wilson

Friends ($1-$99) Kathryn A. Aletto Nancy E. Begley Christine Cruickshank Robert W. Etter John C. Haggis Ruth A. Hassett Gilbert J. Hulme Marie A. Izzi Patricia M. Kelley Raymond H. Lambert Anne M. Meservey Joel L. Newberg Janice M. Oberti Margaret Ogden Nancy G. Vartabedian Philip J. Veneziano Ellen-Marie Winson Number of Class Donors: 34 Total Class Gift: $255,307.00

1963 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Thomas C. McAvinew

Friends ($1-$99) James E. Anastos Robert J. Bernier Jr. Ellen M. Blackwell Rose M. Browning Richard J. Cacciapouti Diane S. Carroll Beverly A. Darwent Edward J. Davis Serge R. Dery Maureen F. DiPalma Andrew T. Dudek Ann M. Dziadose Daniel B. Dzioba David J. Gleneck Gail E. Gordon Edward M. Harris Robert D. Hookway David G. Hopwood Barbara J. Manseau Hamer Margaret M. Martin Carole R. McDonough Geneva M. Molloy Joan M. Morrison David E. Preston (Deceased) Richard A. Profio Linda Queller Maureen A. Roberts Raymond N. Vachon Ronald R. Volungus Joseph F. Zmuda Number of Class Donors: 49 Total Class Gift: $6,127.00

1964 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) Paul C. Katen Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) John J. Catallozzi Walter J. McHendry Peter A. Woog Partners ($500-$999) G. Stuart Pearce Associates ($250-$499) Walter Brunner Norbert B. Lavigne Century ($100-$249) William H. Barnes Thomas N. Basile Richard J. Campiola Ralph W. Cook III John S. Haley

donor listing by class David E. Humphrey Ronald F. Morales Marie P. Sweeney Robert E. Wheaton Friends ($1-$99) Jonathan A. Aldrich Coula Barakitis John J. Blouin Elaine Conner Mary L. Cullinan Jeremy G. Dain Richard G. Donovan Mary Jane Farley Thomas D. Flynn Arlene M. Friel Eileen C. Gleason Paul J. Grace Leo G. Grondine Marie M. Habib Marcia J. Harlfinger Joyce F. Hashem David V. Healy Kathleen B. Hogan Phyllis A. Irvin Arthur C. Lowell John J. Maguire Jr. Emile O. Montminy Thor E. Peckel Jr. Marilyn T. Pinschmidt David R. Sarre Timothy P. Shea Jr. Judith R. Simone Michael C. Sokolowski C. Douglas Stagnaro Diane B. Stetson Christine H. Themeles Harvey A. Wiseberg Number of Class Donors: 48 Total Class Gift: $248,895.99

1965 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Wayne Eaton Graham A. Hughes Suzanne L. McHendry Alfred L. Nuttall Partners ($500-$999) Kyle F. Pero Associates ($250-$499) Dana B. Anderson George A. Bednarz George B. Inglis Jr. Century ($100-$249) Russi N. Dastur Jane M. Duffley Janice G. Gaboriault Sheila V. Harrington Patricia Lippitt Chester F. Milensky Richard G. Mousseau Paul A. Schneider Robert A. Simpson Donald R. Susla Friends ($1-$99) Jerome I. Barancik Joseph C. Barbagallo Julia A. Bessett Virginia A. Borst Paul J. Carroll Melville W. Clarke Raymond J. Croteau Jr. John P. Dagdigian David E. Dickinson Mary E. Donovan Thomas P. Donovan Richard A. Falke Henry L. Fredette Joanne E. Grant Harry L. Hodgkins

Mary C. Law Philip J. MacSweeney Andrew S. Miller Joanne R. Morrow John R. Nazzaro Frances A. Nowak Nancy A. Nugent-Harley William S. O'Neil George R. Ostlund David P. Piligian Joseph F. Radice James C. Smith Richard F. Testa Sr. Sharon L. White Number of Class Donors: 47 Total Class Gift: $8,495.00

1966 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) Charles J. Hoff Cheryl V. Katen Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Joseph C. Day Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Joseph C. Gandolfo Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Stephen B. Driscoll Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Steven S. Cottrell Richard J. Hoeske Stephen A. Orroth Partners ($500-$999) Charles R. Cordeau Karen M. Walsh Associates ($250-$499) Lloyd J. Donnelly Louis K. Mansur Century ($100-$249) David V. Anderson Emilee J. Blanchet Edward L. Cornwall Jr. Leo R. Creegan Richard B. Denning Rita P. Georges Hilde J. Gilman Francis J. Hainey Gerald M. Lydon James J. O'Brien John C. Rodda Francis E. Souza Penelope A. Zwieker Friends ($1-$99) Gerhard T. Anderson Bruce W. Andrews Kathleen A. Breen Laurence F. Brundrett Jr. Norman R. Brunelle Edward J. Christopher Jr. Peter D. Cooney Harold T. Deane John M. Donaldson Jr. Leda M. Drouin Susan I. Evans Paul W. Fernald Robert K. Girling Pamela A. Hatton Mary E. Hayes Carol Hirsch Richard A. Hylan Sr. Joseph H. Kolakowski Maureen McCarthy Carla M. McCoy Thomas R. Moore Lewin E. Nyman Alexander A. Olsen

Frank L. Pioli Penelope Poirier Jacqueline M. Randazza William M. Reis Mary Ann Sarris Richard J. Savard Donna M. Shanahan Marlene F. Stiles William C. Szekely Sheila A. Vernon Albert E. Walker Jr. Thomas D. Whittaker Carol A. Wickens Number of Class Donors: 61 Total Class Gift: $417,592.35

1967 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) John V. Pulichino Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Anonymous Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Robert M. Bushong Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Hank Brown Marjorie R. Miller Partners ($500-$999) John F. Silveria Associates ($250-$499) James J. Healy Christina B. McGuirk Keith E. Reno Century ($100-$249) Robert J. Bowles Barbara A. Delehanty Robert R. Gilman John A. Hill III Edward F. Kittredge Jacqueline J. Kudron Paul Laquerre Sr. Joan M. Leyland Joseph W. Mulherin III Paul A. Rainey Kenneth A. Shilinsky Frank B. Smalarz David H. Smith Russell E. Stocek Anthony M. Swierzbin Jack C. Thibeault Mary A. Tighe Mulherin Stanley J. Wozniak Friends ($1-$99) David P. Brzezinski Miriam J. Buckley Joseph H. Cartwright Albert L. Choquette Louis Cincotta Wallace H. Cooledge Jr. Joanne M. Cudihy Kathleen T. Desilets Louise-Andree Erbe Marcia Falke Rosemarie J. Folk Diane M. Frechette Roy A. Fyfe Maureen R. Haley Michael G. Hanauer Margaret A. Hassey Jean E. Jacoppi Leonard H. Karnow Janeann Kay James J. Kirkiles Patricia A. Lapointe Russell MacLeod Flora E. Manning Marilyn L. Mercier

John R. Moore Joseph K. Mulcahy Stephen P. Petrie Dolores B. Rainey Harry W. Rice Robert C. Rogers Jr. Carol A. Sandoval-Houston Henry D. Shapiro Suzanne R. Skea Dorothy L. Smith Brian D. Sougnez Joan E. Spencer Bernard D. Vaillette Joan Van Horn William L. Wacks Kenneth R. Walker John W. Walkinshaw Amelia H. Wright Number of Class Donors: 69 Total Class Gift: $30,330.00

1968 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Linda R. FitzPatrick Barry W. Perry Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) George P. Cheney Robert Perris Partners ($500-$999) Brenda J. Costello Ferdinand J. Diaferio Jr. Raymond A. Shepard Associates ($250-$499) Penny A. Berube Winfield S. Hancock Michelle E. Healy Michael J. Lalli Lee R. Minardi Joseph C. Moynihan Richard F. Picanso, USAF, Ret. Thomas S. Tycz Century ($100-$249) Joseph J. Bean Jr. Lawrence J. Bonczar Anthony J. Bruzzese Eric J. Chaisson Daniel F. Crowley Kathleen A. Desmarais John D. Donovan Dennis J. Doyle Joseph A. Gianotti Stanice E. Gibbs-Mancuso Merle R. Green Julius D. Jones Stephen J. Larkin Samuel S. Lin Robert K. Lyle Jr. Robert T. Nadeau Jean F. Nelson George J. Ouellette Jr. William J. Selawsky Olivia Sintros Sandra J. Wheaton-Ryan Jin B. Yoon Friends ($1-$99) Norman J. Allard William C. Allen Susan L. Barrett Ellen M. Barry Kenneth W. Bassett Joseph M. Bokser Janine E. Bowes Maureen A. Buckley Madeline M. Calcagno Robert Carcich Gertrude M. Carey Michael G. Casey William E. Chamberlain

Denise A. Coffey David B. Collins Marcia L. Cutlip Peter F. Czupryna Kenneth G. Desilets Daniel R. Evans Jr. John C. Golec Karen M. Golec Cheryl A. Guernsey Catherine M. Hanson Randall L. Hanson Linda A. Healy Stephen B. Helfant Richard W. Hildebrand Charles R. Hill James A. Justice Cheryl E. Lindsay John Maher Frank J. Malabarba Bruce C. Martin Amleto Martocchia Joseph J. McMahon Lynne M. McSheehy Anthony U. Messa Donna S. Michael William F. Moloney Jr. Dianne M. Moran Josephine M. Napolitano John R. Nardini Barbara R. Naroian Paul R. Niemi Andrew B. Noel Jr. Margaret S. Ochs Arnold J. Piellucci Jr. Phyllis D. Poor Syed A. Rashid Mary J. Reis Robert D. Shultz Robert R. Swistak Julia P. Taylor Richard A. Trenck Steven B. Veno Norma K. Waring McGranaghan James R. Wittine David R. Zwicker Number of Class Donors: 95 Total Class Gift: $22,391.00

1969 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) William T. O'Shea Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Susan M. Cocozza Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Gerard E. Vitti Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Lawrence J. Ardito Partners ($500-$999) James A. Denuccio Richard A. Kenney Associates ($250-$499) James M. Matheson Joseph H. Rodgers Century ($100-$249) Michael F. Barnoski Ellen M. Bowles Martha A. Brennan Walter L. Brown Carole F. Callahan John J. Callahan III Everett W. Coonan Jr. Mary J. Creegan Paul Glassman Joan B. Haviland Robert A. Hederman William R. Henry

Gary S. Hunt Gaile T. Jenkins Michael G. Kizner Stephen F. Lange Linda R. Messia William J. Montbleau Peter J. Olsta Lillian T. Pearsall Charles F. Puglisi Philip M. Ricciardiello Rosemary Sullivan Friends ($1-$99) M. Kathleen Adgate Paul L. Adrien Claude R. Bessette Thomas F. Bowlen Joseph S. Boziuk Dennis J. Brandt Linda E. Bryan Kathleen A. Callagy Kathleen D. Casey Mary E. Cavanar Maureen M. Chamberlain Dennis J. Cotter Patricia A. Del Llano Dennis R. Desmarais George A. Dietzler Paul F. Doherty Donald R. Duffy Marilyn A. Farina Ruth A. Faucher Edward S. Gass William J. Gill Judith A. Gosbee Allen G. Grew David J. Healy Richard M. Hirtle Barbara A. Hutchinson Kenneth M. Inamorati Katharine A. LaBranche Susan J. Lagace Susan M. Larson Rita J. Lichoulas Diane M. Loughran Kathleen M. Maher Natalie Wojcik Marek Leo F. McCue Jr. Joseph E. McKenney Frank S. Merrifield John E. Pearson Ronald J. Peterson Joanne M. Ralls Donna M. Sadof Roxanne L. Savinelli Robert D. Sedgwick Lawrence A. Shuhy Robert G. Simoneau David R. Sullivan Neil Vallencourt (Deceased) Richard S. Vangel William White Richard P. Wiik Number of Class Donors: 81 Total Class Gift: $35,740.00

1970 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) John F. Kennedy Benefactors Circle ($50,000-$99,999) Leo J. Montagna Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Peter A. Baglioni H. James Brown Jr. Partners ($500-$999) Robert N. Gingue Rodger F. Martin Jr. Charles Joseph O'Neil Associates ($250-$499) John N. Caruso

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James T. Davies Anthony J. Iarrapino Corinne M. Kelliher Robert A. LaBrecque Robert J. Marseglia Alfred P. Olson Dennis J. Sheehan

Fang-Jen Tuan Phyllis M. White Sharon M. Wilson Margaret Zoto Number of Class Donors: 93 Total Class Gift: $348,482.70

1971

Century ($100-$249) Norman V. Beaudette Mark A. Boldrighini Roger H. Brown Pauline A. Carroll Kathleen M. Clark William J. Conole Jr. James T. Donovan Marjorie E. Henkin Alan P. Johnson David C. Kennedy Paul R. Loconto Kathleen E. MacDonald Paul H. McKinstry Richard P. Morse Jr. Richard W. O'Brien Richard A. O'Neil Christopher J. Pentheny Bodo W. Reinisch Richard R. Roy Richard H. Scheel Sabra L. Scheel Edith B. Soley Robert E. White

Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Gary M. Mucica Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Mark J. Cocozza Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Robert B. Barnett William C. Fothergill III Duane E. Fox Doris K. Gayzagian Carlos N. Lukac Gerald E. Royer Alfred A. Stadnicki

Friends ($1-$99) Forrest E. Badmington Donna J. Bakios Cicale Rosemaria A. Beaudette Richard R. Berube Robert D. Binovi, USAF, Ret. Robert C. Bowen Judith Breslin Carol A. Burkett Jonna M. Burns Robert V. Casciani Mark S. Corbett Susan Currier David F. Delorey Jr. Dennis G. Di Gangi Gerald A. Dragon Eileen T. Earle Virginia F. Early Raymond D. Fischlein Jr. Dana R. Frankel Gerald N. Goldberg David P. Gooch Paul E. Heartquist Angela J. Hutchinson Michael A. Hyde Stephen F. Johnson Jarvis M. Kilgore III Virginia M. Kirwin Lorraine D. Kovacs Margaret Legal Cheryl A. Leone James Madenjian Jr. Paul E. Matys Michael F. McNamara Joann Menzia Richard A. Mungo Angela S. Papandreou Pamela E. Parkinson Robert T. Pasky Shirley Ann Pelletier William J. Pimley Jr. Janet S. Pinard William A. Polin Roy V. Richard II Ann Rivanis Leon B. Rothman Stephen F. Royal Charles R. Scoggins Jr. James F. Scully Joseph B. Selva Nicholas F. Siviglia Jr. Steven F. Tigar

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Associates ($250-$499) Laurence A. Cate Gerard Charles Dismukes Robert E. Giencke Paul G. Gilbert Veronica P. Gliniak Robert P. Kinsman William H. Lynch Thomas F. Malone Timothy M. McMahon James D. Nolan JoAnn M. Nolan Glenda D. Ouellette George F. Perry Mark S. Strum Century ($100-$249) Wayne O. Aruda Raymond A. Champi Kenneth H. Classon Sharon L. Cushing Richard B. Davis Denyse C. Densmore Lidia M. Desrochers Carol V. Drapeau James Drew Patricia T. Ferrin Joseph V. Garelli Jr. Sandra A. Houde Ara A. Jeknavorian Stephen L. Kelley Philip Tat Y Kwok Stephen A. Madison Wayne D. Moore Deborah A. O'Brien Daniel E. O'Neill Josephine A. Paolino John G. Radner Kenneth C. Roscoe Rachel Sagwitz David J. Shea Beverly A. Stone George H. Townsend Deborah M. Walsh Diane S. Yee Friends ($1-$99) Marianne Beauregard Vincent B. Bennett Jr. Peter C. Bixby Bruce W. Blaschke Patricia M. Callahan Sheila M. Callahan Robert E. Early Clark L. Grendol Ann M. Gross William B. Harrington Donald Hasselman Raymond L. Hebert M A S S A C H U S E T T S

donor listing by class Nancy E. Hillner Joanne M. Kelleher John T. Krowchun Jr. Joseph A. Leon Jr. Jeffrey S. Lunde Charles T. Maguire Mary E. Marsh Sandra M. Mastas Maureen L. McCue Patricia R. McDonnell Donna M. Michitson Kathleen J. Moynihan Frederick J. Nohelty Jr. Sandra F. Olejarz Margaret R. Orlando David C. Raia Jay Rizzetto Carl J. Rondina Marcus A. Samale Sr. Aline C. Sanz Richard R. Sasseville Suzanne M. Trudel Russell L. Varney Charles J. Vergados Number of Class Donors: 87 Total Class Gift: $64,808.00

1972 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Richard L. Grande Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Frank P. Arcury Sandra C. Barnett Alan A. Desrochers Alan G. Johnston Jack F. Swartz Partners ($500-$999) Walter S. Kuklinski Michael D. Paloian Associates ($250-$499) Joanne P. Bushong Charles R. Collins Jr. William H. Fossey Jr. George B. Fowle Lloyd H. George Donald G. MacLean Geoffrey K. Mitchell Noel T. Vander Century ($100-$249) G.Raymond Ahrens Jack B. Allston Joel Aroyo Victor W. Baur Stephen R. Byrnes Sr. Robert P. Dickey, USAF Rosemary E. Eaton Paul E. Falman Paul M. Faynor John R. Geoffroy David W. Houde, USAF Kenneth E. Johnson Shakeh A. Johnson Alan F. Jones Michael S. Kaplan Michael R. Moran Mary R. Paris Anne Hurton Patriquin Iris C. Shea Maura J. Sheehan Robert William Simoneau Franklin D. Stabile Kevin J. Stewart Peter H. Tsaffaras, JD Shirley M. Zebroski Friends ($1-$99) Kathleen M. Akashian Pranav P. Antani L O W E L L

Barry T. Aubrey John D. Barry Alison Bernard Melanie P. Buccola Dennis A. Calderone Ronald J. Cannistraro James F. Chastney Karen Elaine Cintolo Roberta A. Conte, RN Richard C. Delaney Jr. Joseph R. Depetrillo William Ewers Sr. Christine S. Farris Thomas K. Follett Robert L. Geddes Paula S. Gendron Stanley C. George Paul D. Giguere Paul F. Gillis Ellen M. Goggin Elaine G. Hall, RN Monique W. Healy David B. Holt Herve E. Houde Steven P. Ivas Judith A. Junker Theresa Koukias David J. Kowalski Harry M. Leonard Jr. Robert M. Luke Jr. Arthur L. Major Patrick T. McCartin Rosemary E. Mercier Jane K. Mingolelli Patricia T. Moysenko Peter P. Novello Stephen M. Papik Martha I. Pedone Sharon L. Pellerin Bruce R. Pivero Dennis M. Prebensen Donald V. Rosato Charles E. Serpa John M. Sheehan Jeffrey J. Sougnez Richard R. St. Jean Patricia M. Whiting Nicholas A. Young Number of Class Donors: 91 Total Class Gift: $26,230.00

1973 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) William C. Blake Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Paul A. Bessette Peg Palmer Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Mark D. Lozier Robert M. Melillo Keith A. Sommer Partners ($500-$999) Thaddeus J. Dudziak Robert D. Kearin Associates ($250-$499) Charles R. Cullen Dale H. Hall Paul H. Hamel James W. Lawson Howard W. Martin Jr. Stanley M. Nalepa Paul P. St. Pierre Ellen M. Stokinger, RN Century ($100-$249) Steven E. Antos Stephen A. Bolduc Neil S. Crimins Sr.

Kenneth R. Ferron Edward M. Flaherty Michael F. Gionfriddo Jr. Lee W. Hodson Jean D. LaCroix Donald E. Labbe Linda L. Lockwood Mark H. Mortensen Donald G. Patch Arthur C. Sacco Ann M. Scannell Arthur K. Smith Michael W. Ward Friends ($1-$99) Arthur F. Bopp Jr. Kathleen M. Boudreau Hedwige A. Brown Kenneth A. Brown Charlotte T. Browne James R. Buja John B. Campbell Richard P. Caruso Peter F. Cornetta Stanley F. Cwalinski Jr. John J. D'Agata Jr. Elaine M. Daminakis Louise A. Deignan John J. DiNapoli Michael F. Dilorenzo Janet Doherty Barbara N. Dunsford Gary L. Ewing Janet A. Fahey Teresa F. Frye Ronald L. Fuccillo Kathleen M. Galvin Iva Gardner William A. Gendron Jill Gidge Jane M. Gilmore Brenda M. Grassello Frederick J. Haley Jr. Ernest M. Johnson Denise M. Kane Vikram C. Kapasi Alan W. Keagy Judith A. Kelley William C. Kerrigan Paula King Joseph R. Lanthier Victor H. Legault Alan E. Lewis Robert Lussier John J. Lynch Jr. John Barry Mahoney Gerald R. Marsella Jean L. Matthes Joann M. Miller Robert M. Minarik Sandra K. Musgrave Maureen A. Newton Robert G. Nichols Anne K. O'Connor Peter C. Oberg Deborah A. Olson Elizabeth F. Papik David A. Paradis Joseph A. Pepin Linda E. Perigny Brian P. Richards David F. Rideout Thomas C. Sargent Sr. Ellen M. Selfridge Steven Shea Stephen E. Slomski Francis J. Smith Richard R. Stevenson John M. Tarpey Jr. Carolyn M. Vieira Edward W. Vitiello Jr. Robert Yee Stuart A. Young Joseph J. Zabik Number of Class Donors: 101 Total Class Gift: $37,343.00

1974 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Kristine A. Beaudette Louis D. Beaudette Kevin J. Perry Michael T. Ryan Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Robert F. Dudley III Partners ($500-$999) Dean W. Broga Jeannie Sargent Judge James L. Roberts Marc L. Sandler Thomas J. Sharkey Associates ($250-$499) Alice C. Coughlin Arthur W. Iworsley Susan E. Stemporzewski Century ($100-$249) Denise Aggott James D. Calore John A. Casali Peter P. Czajkowski Patricia A. Duff Mary Ann Durkin, RN Richard A. Enos Frederick C. Esposito Kevin L. Giovanetti Bruce W. Gordon Donald N. Holmes Thomas F. Jenkins Joseph P. Kelly Douglas H. King Peter A. Krumsiek Michael E. Madden (Deceased) Richard A. Madej Martha L. Miller George W. Paradis Thomas H. Pendergast III Raymond J. Pineau Christine M. Raymond Brad J. Roberts Kathleen M. Robinson Eugene J. Rogers Kevin N. Ross Louis D. Tacito Betty A. Themeles Thomas S. Yip Friends ($1-$99) Emily R. Adler Stephen M. Alexander Joan M. Arcand Peter V. Barrett Deborah D. Beaudoin Judith R. Beaudry Mark B. Berry Kenneth A. Bishop Richard T. Boisjoly Stephen M. Bolognese John E. Bukala Donna M. Burns Florence A. Calore Robert G. Cameron Barbara A. Campbell Alan R. Carlson David E. Cate Jr. Frank E. Clapp III Ann M. Clark Christine M. Cohen George B. Cudd Jr. Edith S. Daley Timothy F. Desmond J. Edward Eliades Brenda M. Floria Richard H. Francis Mark R. Frye

donor listing by class Gerald B. Gauthier Paul A. Giansiracusa Donald L. Goodick Jr. Paula Grady Peter F. Grelle Dean P. Gulezian Glenn R. Hearn Robert E. Howe Jr. Octavio Hurtado Louis P. Jacques Marilyn P. Jewett Lewis T. Karabatsos Diane Kaye Donna M. Kilgore Gary S. Klein Pauline Ladebauche William E. Lekas Edward T. Lessard Anne M. Lynch, RN Kathleen M. MacDonald Rose A. Magliozzi James A. Mahon James G. Mamonas Martha A. Mangan Kevin P. McArdle Kathleen A. McNamara Modur L. Mohan John J. Moloney III Alan S. Mosier Beth G. Mosier David E. Newton Thomas L. O'Donnell Richard E. Osberg Sr. Patricia A. Parow Allan B. Percy Elizabeth A. Quigley Charles C. Ripley III William F. Sarro William S. Scanzani Jacqueline A. Smith Claire P. Stecchi Joann Y. Stevens Holly L. Sykes Spyros A. Traiforos Paul N. Turco Eileen M. Williamson, RN Joan R. Willis Carol C. Wilson Frederick J. Zelonis Number of Class Donors: 118 Total Class Gift: $21,327.00

1975 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Jacqueline F. Moloney Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Ronald R. Boudreau Ehud D. Laska Susan J. Pasquale William C. Penney Jr. Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Roger E. Darois Frank S. Gerry Donald P. Gill Dana M. Granville Marie F. Hurd Partners ($500-$999) David P. Evangelista James N. Lepage Associates ($250-$499) Barbara M. Maloney Hanna Nye Brian T. Phillips Donna M. Sunderland Robert F. Vaillancourt Raymond J. Veno Century ($100-$249) William E. Barnhart

Richard E. Barry Gail L. Burnett Gregory G. Bush William T. Carroll Jeffrey L. Chaffee Lauren M. Chaney George M. Chory Thomas O. Conte Maryann Coravos Peter R. Cowley Karen M. Fierley, RN Deborah A. Giokas Thomas E. Gorman Susan Houde Brian Hurley Michael T. Keller Richard C. Laflesh Michael R. Lane Francis S. Lazgin Rita M. Macomber Harold G. Macomber III James B. McGrath Marianne E. Messina Alleyn W. Parkinson Fred T. Perlstadt Barbara M. Saunders Gary R. Southard Susan J. Southard Brian C. Tower Friends ($1-$99) Mohammed R. Afshari Robert R. Andrews Nicholas A. Artimovich II Jane B. Austin Robert J. Bastien Normand H. Belanger Robert F. Bibeau Martha F. Boisclair Ronald J. Calkins Peter A. Carbone Lorna E. Clarke Anne J. Clough Lois Anne Collins David F. Consalvo William F. Crowley Harry T. Culberson II James P. Culhane Gerald T. Cushing Jr. John C. Dawson Christine A. Delolio Patricia A. Dube Jane L. Dufault Gary F. Fadden Nicholas G. Fountas Richard E. Gannon David H. George Rosemary Giacalone Stephen E. Girard Edmund J. Hajjar Catherine A. Hanley Patrick L. Hearn Margaret M. Hendriks Robert W. Hilton Thomas R. Horan Michael J. Horrigan Allan P. Jussaume Burton H. Koske Karen A. Kycia Leona E. Latorre Joseph A. Leprohon William A. Liberis Vasilios Limberopoulos George J. Mailloux Kevin F. McGrath Maureen C. McHugh Daniel C. McLemore Gerald P. Miller Maryjane Mitchell Maureen Mulryan Maureen P. Niven Michael J. O'Malley Marietta M. Paquette Roger J. Paquette Dorayne L. Passler Frank E. Payson Karen J. Pezdek

Michael L. Picariello Mary Ann Piemonte Anna V. Pratt Cheryl R. Rashid Daniel P. Robichaud Joseph A. Rodricks Robert D. Rose Dennis G. Rosene Cathy L. Rumery Paul A. Saia Karen E. Salis Robert E. Sargent John P. Silvia Jr. Jeffrey R. Simone Stanley R. Smith Carole A. Stoney June A. Szymaszek Gail C. Tangard Richard H. Therrien Laurence E. Tighe Jr. Stephen H. Tolman Susan P. Turcotte Gavriel Joyce A. Vecchiarelli George A. Veves Robert A. Vigeant Robert T. Wade Karen Walton Number of Class Donors: 131 Total Class Gift: $32,810.50

1976 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Kary Robertson Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) David P. Myers Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) David M. Basile Brian L. Connell Paul F. Marion Joanne L. Yestramski Charles B. Yestramski Partners ($500-$999) Marygail Jaggers Eric J. Schindwolf Associates ($250-$499) Brett Z. Blaisdell Henry W. Garzia Paul Kelly Heung Wing Li Michael J. Morin Darlene Kolodziej Steffen Stephanie D. Turner Century ($100-$249) Dorothy E. Aste Richard F. Bates Heidi Blais Michael J. Budge Bernard R. Buteau William I. Calhoun David R. Carchedi Joanne Doherty Gilbert C. Donatelli Sr. Robert G. Egbers Stephen O. Fabri Paul E. Fillo Robert M. Fuller Richard R. Gabree Jr. Tai-Deh T. Hsu Stuart E. Jeans Hector E. Marchand Jr. David W. McInerney Charles H. Miller John E. Miniter Jr. Peter K. Ng David R. Paolino John P. Petrowicz David Pietras Paul A. Rey

Jeanne A. Spann Jean E. Wood Friends ($1-$99) John J. Amato Sharon Y. Baker Thomas H. Bartram Judy Berger Julian P. Bielawski Kurt D. Boisjolie A. Paul Bourgeois Maryann E. Brady Wayne R. Braverman Pauline A. Brazil James P. Burns Jr. Robert Burrows Raymond R. Bursey John T. Butler Lawrence E. Caprari Kevin J. Carmody Mark B. Caron Phyllis J. Cate William E. Chetwynd Thaddeus J. Choinski Nicholas Ciambella Jr. James D. Cossaboom Michael J. Crowley Maureen A. Daher Thomas D. Driscoll Marc P. Dubreuil Richard C. Dyson James J. Evans Maryann P. Fitzhugh Kathleen M. Flynn James R. Fraser Jr. Arthur L. Gaudette Robert Gelles William A. George Paul A. Gold Thomas C. Goodale William B. Gordon Andrea E. Grande James F. Hallet Janice P. Hannah Darrell L. Hill Arthur G. Hunt Mary Ann Jaynes Alan J. Kapinos John T. King Jr Sheila Lynn Kirschbaum Thomas J. Krafton Barbara L. Labelle Thomas Laird Mark S. Lammi Henry B. Landry Jr. Brian W. Leary Albert J. Lepage Robert W. Lombard Jr. Edmund H. Lord James B. Lynch William E. Lysik Kathleen E. Mackinnon Joanne H. McCraw John R. McCutcheon James M. McDonough Francis T. McLaughlin Debra L. Meredith James M. Meredith Dale Marie Merrill, Esq. Brian M. Mulloy Jacqueline J. Nee Catherine A. O'Neil Richard R. Paradis Pravinchandra M. Patel Elizabeth M. Pesce Cecile M. Provencher Bryan C. Ruffenach Richard L. Rush Kevin D. Senders Alan P. Stevens Judy A. Timko Antonio L. Toscano James F. VanBever James G. Vergados Joanne Warburton Richard J. Whalen Jr. Dennis M. Winn

James J. Yankauskas Woon-Shing Yeung John Zajac David T. Zelonis Number of Class Donors: 129 Total Class Gift: $35,436.00

1977 Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Kathleen B. Allen Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Thomas C. O'Connor Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Joyce Colella Brian Rist Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Richard N. Dawson Kathleen M. Doyle William R. Doyle Peter J. Harrison Francis T. Talty Partners ($500-$999) Thomas B. Brigham Joseph W. Donahue William F. Haley III William N. Hellmuth Dick J. Liberty George N. Tsapatsaris Associates ($250-$499) Janet L. Benvenuti Pamela M. Blotcky William G. Hanley Janet C. Johnson Henry A. Kozlowski Mary Jane Levasseur Jon K. Tapply Century ($100-$249) Gregory A. Auchter Thomas Bezigian Mary L. Cahalane Nunzio M. Cavallaro Stephen L. Cerand William H. Cormier Michael J. Darche Barry M. Donahue Donald R. Ensign Richard F. Ferris Barbara A. Flowers Peter M. Ghiloni Melinda G. Goodick Edward M. Hanrahan Gerald A. Lagro Paul J. Lake Michael T. Languirand Roger L. Lapointe Myron G. Matras Kevin H. McCarthy Robert C. McNamara Frederick J. McOsker Sandra C. Naddif Jerome A. Pepin Elaine A. Pietras Kevin G. Plummer Richard H. Quaglia Marcia A. Rodriguez William J. Sapone, Esq. Elizabeth M. Townsend Thomas J. Vaughn Lise A. Wilson David C. Woodin Friends ($1-$99) Gina L. Balestracci Patricia A. Brazee Thomas L. Brogan Jr. Kathleen M. Brooker

Debora Carrison David O. Chase Stephen W. Connolly Robert J. Cook Ronald F. Cote Catherine J. Crawford Michael P. Dabransky Jr. Brian J. Fitzgerald Francis J. Flynn Jr. David C. Follweiler Michele R. Fournier Richard A. Frusciante Joseph A. Gagnon Jr. Joel Gordon Mark R. Hargreaves Barbara B. Helfrick Carol A. Hildebrand William W. Houghton Susan W. Juhola John F. Kade John F. Leak Peter C. Lecam Jim Limperis James F. Linnehan Jr., Esq. William R. Livingston Lynne Maniscalco Maryanne R. Maus Paul E. Maus Susan J. McPhillips Gerard M. Miller Mark A. Morse Deborah M. Mousley Donald G. Munro Jeffrey J. O'Brien Joseph R. Palermo Mario N. Palmeri Michael A. Pelletier Peter F. Perri Daniel G. Peters Gary H. Rust Carl J. Schweizer Edward C. Soomre Bruce D. Stacy Karen M. Streeter Maureen Sullivan Berry, RN Joseph J. Tremblay Susanne Uzdavinis Carlos E. Vega Ronald F. Viola Mark W. Wall Robert G. Wallace Elizabeth A. Watson Bryan J. White Ann Marie Wilk Barbara Wilkins Steven F. Williams Rhonda E. Zambernardi Number of Class Donors: 116 Total Class Gift: $64,105.70

1978 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Anonymous Mark V. Forziati Martin T. Meehan Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Gerald G. Colella Stephen A. Fossey Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Thomas F. McGrail Jr. Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Joseph J. Blonski Kathryn M. Carter Kathleen C. Geary Donna L. Jenkins, RN Jeffrey E. Mead Karen Devereaux Melillo Patricia A. Sullivan Talty Partners ($500-$999) Humphrey W. Chow

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William E. Haskell III Barry J. Yeadon

Stewart K. Jackson Susan Jussaume Paul C. Kennington Michael M. Kmon Karen H. LeBlanc Raymond W. Lenox Richard J. Lesiczka Robert B. Mackle Jeffrey T. Mader Donna M. Mailloux Johnny A. Martin, USAF Anita Massie Brent A. Maynard Douglas S. McCracken Diane L. McLeod Andrew J. McSpiritt Dennis A. Morrison Kathleen F. Nassif Kenneth M. Noonan Anastasia Papadopoulos Sandra C. Parris Sharon T. Perry Richard A. Piela Richard A. Pineau Janice E. Quigley Richard E. Quinn Jr. Robert W. Racicot Timothy L. Regan James D. Ringwood Jr. Daniel L. Robertson Laurie Sealund Daniel Siu Lori A. Sousa Donna Chaff Specian Melody C. Tarbox Michael J. Taylor Joanne M. Tedesco Marilyn J. Thies Andrew P. Timbie Maureen J. Travis Dennis G. Unger Stephen Venuti Maureen A. Willey Gunars V. Zagars Number of Class Donors: 137 Total Class Gift: $73,191.53

Associates ($250-$499) Richard F. Brostowin Paul V. Crimi Matthew J. Doyle Beth I. Graham Estella L. Keefer Martha F. Kuklinski Leon A. Lafreniere Jr. Ellen Michaud-Martins Judith S. Post Century ($100-$249) Frank J. Cavaleri Anthony G. Chory Lynda L. Colson-Hendrick Gary S. Connor, USAF Richard E. Deubert Kenneth J. Dooley Paul J. Fortier Louise G. Griffin Gary T. Hammond Gregory K. Haynes Richard A. Jackson Sharon Kimball Norman R. Lombardi William F. Moloney Steven M. Morrissey Allen S. Mowatt Jean Mroszczyk Richard L. Musacchio Kevin J. Nohelty John S. Panny Anthony D. Pedi Donald K. Plummer Joseph M. Regan Jr. Robert W. Ryan Deborah L. Schneider Robert M. Sullivan William G. Sullivan Jr. Paul W. Tuminowski Friends ($1-$99) Joan L. Aggott Barbara Anagnostos Ellen D. Andre Thomas J. Antell Paul P. Banacos Christine Barbas Kathleen H. Bell Viola Berberian Donna Berger Cindy Bielawski Sandra A. Bindas Kenneth R. Boisvert Marianne Bond Richard H. Bostiga Susan A. Bosworth Gary J. Bowden Joyce L. Bowker Ronald E. Brennan Frances W. Brooks, RN William F. Burke Jr. John C. Cassidy Evangeline B. Cathcart Ellen M. Chambers Anthony J. Chaves Jr. Karen H. Clements Lorna E. Dimeo Rita C. Donoghue William J. Dooan George J. Doyle Sid T. Eng Robert L. Evans Elizabeth A. Fichera Patricia A. Fisher Marc V. Fournier Brian D. Goguen John M. Griffin Scott P. Hansberry Lynn C. Herron John A. Hudson Joan C. Hurton

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Linda M. Corr Leonard Ellis Renee E. Gagne-LeClair Deborah J. Geary Marc P. Gendreau Edward B. Hanfling Nancy A. Hanratty, DMD Paul J. Imbergamo Barbara R. Jezak Wayne P. Johnson James A. Jonas Richard R. Kew William H. Kinner II Janet P. Koza Margaret Lombardi Alan L. Maranian Joan F. McGrath Gary A. Melville Thomas A. O'Connor Timothy A. Paddock Cinthia L. Rudasill Susan P. Runowicz Brian A. Scappaticci Ronald L. Schneider Diane E. Smith David A. Turcotte Nicholas M. Vadala Fred J. Wergeles

Century ($100-$249) Bradley M. Anderson Barry Ashar Richard J. Bahou Francine Black Nicholas J. Bonanno Richard J. Cleary Jr. Dennis W. Colbert Anthony J. Colella Lee Connor

Friends ($1-$99) Paul D. Anderson Ronald F. Aprile Carol A. Archambault Michele M. Bangma William S. Bannister David S. Barrett Ronald T. Bator Debby A. Biagiotti Paul R. Bibeau David C. Bisbee Michelle H. Boie William W. Brooke Mark E. Bucci Frederick S. Cabral Brian C. Cahill Pamela Capeless Sharon A. Carlisle Ellen L. Carter Deborah J. Cassidy Joseph S. Chiang Michael J. Chory Jr. Linn A. Chuck Deborah A. Cole Noreen J. Conlon Jeffrey P. Connell Maurizio Contini Jean M. Cull Conrad G. Dampolo Russell T. Davis Michael R. Ditroia William F. Donaghey Jr. George J. Ead Francis P. Faticanti Leonard A. Ficaro John J. Fitzgerald Frank J. Flemming Allan P. Fournier Richard V. Gagnon Mark N. Gaulin Kenneth L. Georgevits Mary L. Golouski James D. Gray John D. Greene Peter Gugliotta Bonnie L. Haley John A. Heald Barbara A. Hogan Robert M. Japp George L. Jussaume Richard F. Kaerwer Jr. Nancy A. Kelly Linda M. Kilbride David J. Kricker Mary R. LaMarca Sandra J. Lakin Donna M. Lamontagne

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1979 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Robert E. Boudreau Jr. Robert W. Goodnow Jr. Debbie I. Hauser Kenneth W. Horton Robert A. Malloy Matthew P. McCafferty III Steven L. Starkey Jonathan J. Vitello Partners ($500-$999) Robert H. Giles Ching-Tai Lue Walter F. Miller Stephen J. Sala Associates ($250-$499) David R. Constant Susan Jean Gordon David J. Martins Stephen B. Scannell Glenn W. Stewart Alan T. Wang Fred T. Willett Jr.

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donor listing by class Chung Lee Mary F. Levasseur Stanley M. Liffmann Jerry Loew Jack Luskin Daniel V. Lynch Rosamond E. Malatesta Eileen P. Malloy Maria F. Maranto Judith K. Martinoli Evelyn M. McCann Catherine M. McDonagh Susan D. McLoughlin Bonnie J. McSpiritt George C. Michaels Rita L. Mikaelian Mary F. Miskell Patricia L. Molan Daniel E. Morgan Maryanne D. Mungovan Richard G. Nelson Patricia A. Nickles Eileen L. O'Donnell Henry J. O'Donnell Tavit K. O'Hanian Anthony S. Orifice John E. Pacini Dean C. Poirier Glen A. Pyburn Peter E. Richards Michael A. Roberts Margaret C. Roeger Jeffrey B. Rondeau Kenneth R. Rousseau Michael J. Ryan Philip D. Scalvini Jr. James M. Sheehan Mary E. Skovholt Maura A. Slattery Kathleen A. Treleaven Raymond J. Tremblay Patricia A. Valente Evanthea Vlahakis John B. Wholey Jr. Christopher L. Winslow Roberta F. Woelfel Joan B. Wood Number of Class Donors: 159 Total Class Gift: $23,568.54

1980 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) James V. Dandeneau Benefactors Circle ($50,000-$99,999) Eamonn P. Hobbs Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Sheila A. Riley-Callahan Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Kevin F. St. Cyr Mark A. Yates Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Prakash R. Ajmera William C. Geary III Ellen M. Malloy James J. Nason Richard J. Neal Jr., DMD Robert F. Penfield Francis A. Reed Carol A. Royal Kathryn T. Sullivan Roger E. Temple Partners ($500-$999) Anthony G. Coelho Patricia A. Giles Mary E. Godwin George I. Hanna Steven J. Maggio Timothy J. Pariseau

Steven F. Tello Sheila M. Welch Associates ($250-$499) Marilyn J. Bowman George G. Bryant Christopher M. Byrnes David G. Clancy Gregory D. Eley David V. Gorky Michael C. Heath Roy L. Humphreys Alan P. Larson Bruce R. Moore Stephen F. Smith Century ($100-$249) Richard W. Allen Gail D. Atherton Robert Bassett David E. Bertrand, USAF Roland J. Blanchette Arthur S. Digiovine Dennis J. Doherty Elizabeth A. Donato Patricia A. Dorfman Steven Falabella Norman E. Fowler Benjamin P. Gregson William D. Hall Karen J. James John F. Koza Stephen J. Krenitsky Roger W. Kylberg Laura J. Laflamme Joseph D. Lafreniere, Esq. Richard S. Leary Andrew J. Light Diane Mahoney Richard P. McCoy James A. Miraldi Sean J. Moran Stephen M. Mulvey Margaret M. Musso, RN Thomas B. Peeler Carol L. Pietryk Steven C. Roberto Matthew J. Scannell Steven M. Serabian Robert G. Speirs III Kathleen M. Sullivan Richard A. Sweeney James E. Tarpinian Philip A. Tessier Janet L. Veves Shio-Chuan Wang Richard E. Ware Friends ($1-$99) Dennis J. Ashe Sylvia Barbas Michael R. Baris Robert F. Berlo John G. Bernier Roland E. Boucher Jr. David R. Brecken Deborah A. Bresnahan Timothy J. Callahan Glenn M. Cannavo Wayne J. Currier Susan A. Desa Erin A. Descoteaux Brian F. Doyle Mary E. Doyle Roger C. Duhamel Paul A. Duncanson Paul H. Eaton Edward J. Ficarra Mary A. Flavin Scott M. Fraser Elaine M. Fugere Kimberly R. Geiger Raymond P. Gendron Jr. James M. Gregorich Richard O. Griffin

Philip E. Harcourt Renee L. Hembrough Eugene Hendriks Henry F. Kahnhauser John Kubat Robert G. Kurker Philippe J. Lavallee Barbara Stefani Levitt Richard J. Lowe Joseph R. Lyons Jr. Steven E. Maguire Mary L. Marcella Jack J. McCaughey Frances Medaglia Gertrude M. Miller Millard C. Mitchell Jr. Joseph J. Monaco Elin W. Neiterman James R. Newcomb Pamela S. O'Donnell David W. O'Leary Robert L. Paquin Mark C. Parlee Ellen J. Pendleton Normand G. Plouffe Sr. Patricia A. Pomerleau Eileen Raymond-Casey Robin M. Redmond Diana M. Renison John D. Reynolds James J. Schommer Peter D. Stark Steven W. Symes Anthony J. Tamis David C. Tonry David P. Travis Judith G. Twiggs Ana Maria Vas Concelos Carol M. White Sheryl L. Wright Paul A. Yankowskas Number of Class Donors: 141 Total Class Gift: $194,790.43

1981 Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) Mark A. Saab Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Lawrence A. Acquarulo Jr. Mary R. Bedell Russell D. Bedell Joseph M. Brice Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Chetan N. Patel Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) William T. Babcock Suzanne Lane Conrad David J. Laurello Associates ($250-$499) Eric B. Andersen Mary M. Arnold John C. Babicz Brian M. Cardinal Susan M. Clancy David W. Heffernan John W. Mavroides Robert L. Miskell Edward L. O'Neil Steven W. Potter Century ($100-$249) Anonymous Ronald L. Armstrong Elizabeth M. Cannon Mark F. Carbrey Christopher M. Collins Terry A. Faxon Martin Grubner Joseph F. Hogan Jr.

donor listing by class Virginia C. Janeiro Lafreniere Brenda M. Jong Roxanne Karter Henry R. King Valerie Lynne King Joan Koesterherm Ruthann LaBay Richard J. Laflamme Thelma T. Laste Norman P. Michaud Jr. Susan R. Musacchio Marc L. Nadeau Thomas F. Nazzaro Tinhtan V. Nguyen Michael H. Ossing Konstantinos I. Papathomas Donna M. Pappalardo Jeffrey V. Parks Thomas C. Philbrook John R. Ramsey William A. Rewinski Robert A. Scarpone Michael F. Tubridy Deborah A. Valley Daniel L. Viens David E. Wilson Friends ($1-$99) Roberta M. Abodeely Steven J. Archambault Leo E. Barron Christopher J. Belanger Richard W. Bernklow Timothy J. Blackwell Joanne V. Botos Thomas J. Bradley Erasmo J. Brenes Susan M. Brigham Mark P. Bryer, MD John B. Coalter Jeremiah J. Cole Jr. Timothy J. Cremin Mariann D'Amore-Gibson, RN Daniel A. Danecki Robert W. Demarco David E. Dickelman Diana Doucette Paula C. Driscoll De-Paula Eliopoulos Balich Cynthia L. Fallon Mark H. Farris Marcy H. Ferretti Thomas M. Fitzgibbons Joan E. Gale John P. Greelis Karen I. Hager John J. Hall Michael J. Hanninen Barbara Herbert Patrick J. Horan Thomas W. Kane Roberta E. Keane Joseph F. Knight III Valerie J. L. Krulic Karen A. Lackey Georgiana Lafortune David R. Lemoine David T. Lynch Jr. Craig W. MacPhee Rita L. Matton Michael V. McCoy Robert D. McGrath Jr. Annemarie McKee Peter R. McManus Douglas A. Miller Stephen G. O'Brien Martha A. Paulson Raymond J. Pellerin Lumania M. Pereira John D. Pollock James G. Popeo Michael J. Quinn Patricia M. Quinn Judith M. Ringersen Frank J. Saglime Jr. Mary T. Silva Sharon A. Silverman

Michael W. Sitar Jr. Kathleen M. Stewart Gregory T. Sydney Leo B. Towle John L. Vitali Melanie M. Weeks Christopher J. Wentworth Eric D. Whitaker Number of Class Donors: 120 Total Class Gift: $314,144.77

1982 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Bruce Z. Arakelian William G. Rhodes III Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Ellen L. St. Cyr Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Louis B. Coiro Jeffrey J. Gallant Ann Marie Hurley John D. Kattar Roland R. Meijer Michael F. Rubner Partners ($500-$999) Elaine Chabot David A. Janeczek Mark A. Zecco Associates ($250-$499) Frank T. Kos Joanne M. Mavroides Stephen Moses William A. Robertson Ronald J. Strauss Julie L. Streeter Penny M. Winter Nuttall Century ($100-$249) Stephen C. Anderson, MD Thomas A. Belmonte Vincent A. Bourgault Richard Collopy Jr. Thomas M. Cunneen Kathleen R. Delaney Steven G. Esposito Barbara H. Fortier George R. Havrilla Kathleen M. Johnson Jonathan D. Mast Michael J. McGuire Janet M. Mulligan Thomas J. O'Rourke Michael S. Papa Andrew L. Pendleton James A. Polcari Gerardo Rocha Galicia Jane L. Savignano Stephen J. Savignano Mariann Sayer Beverly A. Schultz Mark E. Shamon Kerry R. Smith Mark A. Stabile Richard Velez Leslie J. Whiting-Poitras Friends ($1-$99) John K. Amerkanian Sandra J. Balkus Alfred J. Baraby Jr. Lydia Y. Barrett Eleanor J. Benedix Dorothy M. Boisvert Dohn A. Bowden James W. Brennan Leonard R. Budd William M. Carkin David Charette Elaine M. Consalvo

Tina Cummings Henry A. Daneault John James DeRosa Steven J. Dellorusso Cecile E. Demers David A. Diamantopoulos Nicholas V. Dileo Jr. Michael J. Domenicucci Elizabeth J. Donaghey William J. Donovan Constance M. Fleck Cristina L. Gaines Richard D. Galatas Marshall B. Garrison George Gauthier Celeste M. Gobeille Michael G. Guttadauro Susan L. Herring Mary O. Hudson Phyllis Katz Brenda L. Keating Laurie M. Kennedy-Malone Maureen A. Kenyon George Lamonica Joseph W. Landry Scott R. Landry Christopher Laterza Denise B. Lavigne-Ryan Joyce A. Leahy Dana M. Littlefield John Richard Lonks, MD Paul Martakos James A. McKay Karen A. McManimon Susan E. McNamara Theodore A. Messier Joanne M. Miele, RN Maria A. Montesalvo Sean K. Murray Marcia M. Neumiller Louise M. Noftle Jule M. O'Donnell Michael J. O'Neil Cherian S. Oommen James R. Patullo David L. Peters Julie A. Petersen Brian G. Porter Susan E. Porter Patricia A. Powers Donald B. Richardson Jr. Norman E. Roberts Patricia J. Roberts Deborah M. Rosati Douglas J. Ross Stephen Samaras Steven A. Schultz Christopher V. Selvaggio Kathleen M. Shea Richard W. Silveria David J. Stack Mark A. Stephens Richard J. Sullivan Sara J. Tackson Victoria L. Tidman Dennis G. Tobin Ruth E. Wierenga Charles E. Woodin Jr. Joann Wynkoop Number of Class Donors: 127 Total Class Gift: $36,359.82

1983 Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Richard A. Pierro Jr. Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Robert D. Lefort Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Daniel Durkin Joseph V. Lacoste Daniel J. McCormick Andrew Routsis

Partners ($500-$999) Steven R. Geyster Robert P. Gregoire Bruce C. Plummer Ali Rafieymehr Stevi A. Shapiro Wellington, USAF Donald G. Veino II James F. Walsh Associates ($250-$499) Steven A. Arnold Michael J. Barry Richard H. Binder Mark P. Braconnier Meredith A. Larson John B. Lavelle Carol Ann Lee David A. McLaughlin Century ($100-$249) Gail F. Beaudoin Joseph R. Bernard Jr., USMC John A. Bettano Eileen A. Brady Richard D. Breen Jr. Peter W. Bretschneider Russell A. Brierley Douglas W. Burgess Jane Cantillon Raymond W. Carroll III David J. Caterino Ronald J. Chiappini Wayne S. Clark Charles R. Dicenzo Joy Fogg-Reynolds Paul N. Gianes Gary R. Guillemette Robert M. Hand Darlene D. Jarvis Douglas R. Knapp John Konovalchick III Paul J. Liesman Michael P. Loranger Edith L. Lordan Leo A. Martin III Ramzi B. Murad Peter J. Rock Christopher Sakorafos Jeffrey O. Santer Richard F. Schmidt Jr. Robert E. Shaughnessy Jr. Curt D. Smolinsky Michael P. Sousa Jr. William J. Squires Jr. Richard E. St. Germain Theresa L. Steele William G. Vaillancourt Martina Antoinette Witts Gene V. Zylkuski Friends ($1-$99) George J. Alexandropoulos Maureen B. Amigo Thomas A. Bannister Kim D. Bass James C. Bean Maurice J. Bechard Judith b. Beeten Paul M. Belonga Robert J. Blacker Jr. Patricia A. Blais Michael S. Boguszewski Charles Bolianites Doreen Boyd John F. Burke Diane T. Casavant Suzanne Cashman Constance M. Catania Bernard F. Clancy Marion E. Clark Everett N. Cole III Kathleen H. Conway Patricia M. Corkery Margaret Cowburn

Stephen J. Cranney Candace C. Crowell Suzanne A. Curran David W. Damron Esther Davenport Clifford S. Davis III Lisa E. Demeo Steven DiSalvo Michael D. Dicicco Stephen P. Dolan Janet Doucet Claude G. Dozois Scott D. Entwistle George C. Falcos Carolyn R. Faria Timothy P. Fitzgerald John F. Fleming Jr. Mary A. Foley Cynthia A. Gatto Sharon A. George Clifford T. Gormley Heidi A. Greenlaw Sharam Hakimi James L. Harrison Bruce R. Hickox, RN Michael T. Hogan Susan E. Hogan Linda A. Hottel Charles L. Howe Ronald M. Jay Celia E. Joly Barselou George H. Kopps Kenneth R. Koziol Richard L. Labbe Dale M. Labossiere Robert E. Lenehan Jr. Claire N. Liston, RN Fusco Luigi David P. MacWilliams Marina A. Mackie Robert M. Manlick Joseph Marcangelo Marybeth E. Marcotte Deborah McAdams Dennis R. McBrine Stephen B. McCarthy Robert G. McInerney Suzanne M. McLean Robin L. Milinazzo Martha E. Moore Jeanne A. Morrison Mary Ellen Nangle Gay E. Neilson Deborah K. O'Connor Karen A. Parkins Susan L. Patnaude, RN Lisa Powis Carl S. Prestia John M. Quinn Diane S. Ravanis Maria B. Rosa Peter J. Ryan Linda Ryan-Nicklas Maryann Sager Arthur A. Salani Jr. Catherine M. Saxon Mary-Jane Smyth, RN Charlotte M. Stewart Paul D. Tatarka David J. Taylor Edward I. Tillinghast Robin Ann Toof Denise J. Torpey Roger L. Tougas Elaine F. Turano Dwayne R. Turmelle, USAF Linda L. Wiebold David F. Willey Joseph G. Willwerth Arline M. Wood Alison M. Yankowskas Donald L. Yurt Lynda R. Zarrow Number of Class Donors: 166 Total Class Gift: $34,508.58

1984 Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Robert J. Manning Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Diane C. O'Connor Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Elizabeth M. Brackett Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Anita M. Greenwood Caroline M. McAndrews Robert Peirent Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Steven M. Burke James J. Goudouros Partners ($500-$999) John A. Paganetti Marian G. Williams Associates ($250-$499) Norman R. Eisenmann Jr. Elizabeth A. Forsley Beth C. Haskell Thomas P. Kirwin Karen J. Longo Mark A. Phaneuf Jeanne E. Sisneros James D. Skerry Paul J. Slaney Veronika I. Szabo Century ($100-$249) David J. Allard Anthony F. Aluia Andrea S. Batchelder, Esq. Kenneth Robert Bate Ann H. Bischoff Paulo L. Botelho Damian F. Brennan Lisa A. Brothers Nancy E. Burns Lesley D. Byrne Michael J. Densmore Cheryl A. Drewes Wraye P. Dugundji Diane M. Elko Michael R. Erickson Katherine E. Fiamingo Kenneth E. Fitzgerald Ann Marie Giovino Mario A. Godbout John S. Hill Ronald J. Jabba Michael A. Jankowski David A. Jarvis Stephen S. Keaney Steven H. Leitch David R. Lessard Steven T. Morais George H. Popp Helen H. Robbio David J. Schultz Paula M. Shwab Suzanne I. Stuart Michael D. Sullivan Craig S. Traverso Patricia A. Wheeler-Shea Friends ($1-$99) Richard W. Atkinson Robert Gerald Atkinson Jr. Patricia S. Baker James P. Barrett David R. Beati Neil D. Becker Gary S. Bell Elizabeth A. Bellomo Denise J. Brugnoli

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David L. Cail Gregg S. Cannavo Susan M. Carney Michael C. Casaceli Marie A. Catalano Maylee H. Chou Janice Clarke John J. Cleary III Douglas J. Consentino Robert F. Crawford James M. Curran Laura E. Daly Brenda B. Dean John R. Devereaux Nancy T. Dow Barbara M. Escott Anthony J. Forgetta Stephen A. Goulet Judy D. Graham Esip John E. Gregg Beth E. Halaby Diane C. Hodgson Paula J. Hogan Peter J. Howe Gerald S. Jannetti Brenda Anne Jennings Robert Thomas Julian Dennis S. Kallelis Lee R. Kariger John J. King Mary Jane Lane Mark A. Lanza David W. Loehle Mary K. Logan Claire C. Lomme Robert A. Lomme Jr. Susan J. Lundin Dale L. Macy David J. Mansur Michael A. McCormick Jr. Kevin J. McElhinney Patricia R. Melanson Christina M. Middlebrook Betty Millin Robin J. Milotte, RN Daniel J. O'Connor Sandra J. O'Dea Judith A. Omobono Lisa Panagopoulos Lee H. Panas Kevin J. Pickett R. Bradley Potts Andrew P. Powell Susan E. Quinn Nancy A. Quintela, RN Anthony T. Racca K. Rajasekharan Robert J. Romano William E. Sager Susan J. Smith Jay G. Soucy Edward J. Spang Cheryl A. Stanton Matthew E. Stanton Joseph D. Stecchi Lee E. Stefanik Chris M. Sugar Michael J. Taylor Marianne E. Terlizzi Phu P. Tran James E. Trask Kyle A. Turschman Bonnie L. Ventullo Tien-Chich Wang Lauren Roche Wolf Number of Class Donors: 139 Total Class Gift: $71,406.20

1985 Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Donna M. Manning Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Mary Lou Hubbell Karen L. Scammell

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Partners ($500-$999) Irene M. Haley Joseph F. Hennessey Jr. Kevin C. Mairs Eric D. Peterson Charles C. Poirier Jr. Associates ($250-$499) Katherine K. Gendron Stephen J. Gendron Scott A. Kaplan Frederick M. Mellish Philip J. Puglisi Richard J. Quigley Marilyn J. Ricciardi Theresa M. Richards Robert C. Richards Jr. John J. Ryan, MD Eric W. Schott Christina L. Swider Douglas P. Wilkins Century ($100-$249) Richard J. Alukonis Glen P. Aukstikalnis Robert P. Billet Michelle Bitzer Susan B. Cassidy Vincent D. Chase Kevin J. Coghlan Erik P. Doherty Robert A. Donnelly Jr. Joseph P. Dufour Jr. David L. Ferro Robert A. Finn John M. Fisher Jeffery M. Fuller Bartholomew J. Galvin Susan M. Grassi Joan M. Hildebrandt-Scionti Edward B. Kizer Sharon B. Lamb Tara M. Lane Susan M. Laroche Steven R. Larochelle John J. LeBlanc Carl Maib Deborah M. Mandel John R. Mandel Alexander J. McGovern Ann Murphy John F. Nelson Elaine D. O'Malley Michael J. O'Malley Dennis M. Olsen Michael L. Parody Michael P. Piazza Steven W. Pierro Alicia A. Rawnsley Linda J. Reilly Dianne Lee Riehl Paula J. Rygh Debra M. Sanford Neal E. Sanford Lynne M. Sullivan Dennisses Valdes Jean H. Wernicki Jane E. Williams Elena T. Yee Friends ($1-$99) Frances M. Allen Timothy J. Allen Sandra J. Anderson-Ansara Gayle E. Audy Anne M. Barton Judith A. Bessette Patricia O. Bossi Anthony C. Boucher David M. Bruno Noreen T. Cady-Heckler Thomas S. Cameron Jr. Michael L. Carbone Patricia A. Cavanaugh Robert A. Ciampa M A S S A C H U S E T T S

donor listing by class John D. Cicalis Scott L. Cowburn Laura M. Dauphinais Robert C. Dean Jr. Michele J. Dickerson Mark J. Dickinson Kathy H. Downey Patricia A. Drooff Linda A. Dulong Peter N. Eldridge Robert M. Ennis Lynne Faust Thomas J. Fedak Mark E. Fitzgerald Donald J. Frydryk Rosemary C. Gelman Michael G. Gibbons Frances K. Gray Francis X. Harrison David E. Jarosz Ann-Marie Jordan Gregory F. Judge Patricia K. Kelly Paul R. Laferriere Robin C. Lamoureaux Thomas M. Lemire Donald F. Little Cheryl E. Livsey Marie L. Looby Lawrence J. MacDonald Robert J. McArthur Michael W. McNally Cheryl L. Moran James F. Murray Mark A. Neslusan Stephen J. O'Keefe Joseph Ogonowski Gregory S. Passler Carolyn L. Pilanen John D. Prohaska Manohar K. Raheja Elie E. Rahme Peter A. Richardson David R. Richburg Scott F. Richmond Mary Saunders Linda J. Scalzi Jill L. Schluter Robert A. Silverman Dennis N. Simpson Maryanne B. Smith Kevin D. Spicer Mary R. Sudol Marjorie Thibodeau James F. Toohey Carol D. Wallace M. Scott Wells Kevin D. Whiteside Carolyn J. Willis Rick J. Wilson Number of Class Donors: 141 Total Class Gift: $51,950.00

1986 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) William J. Perciballi Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Amit N. Dharia Partners ($500-$999) George E. Chabot Jr. Darla S. Hanley Jeffrey A. Hanley Associates ($250-$499) Harry S. Bushe Wesley S. Coombs James A. Everett-Wilson Paul M. Kendrigan Glenn P. Morgan James B. Powers Denise H. Robichaud Karla M. Sorenson Vincent R. Titone L O W E L L

Century ($100-$249) Daniel J. Barrett Jr. John J. Bechard Peter F. Blottman Steven J. Bowen Morgan J. Brady III Patrick J. Buckley Margery E. Burgess James J. Cassidy Richard J. Coles Daniel J. Craig Elizabeth M. Cryan James F. Cullen Janet Doong Duane D. Dunn Christopher C. George Stephen J. Hanley Edward R. Harrington Francesca A. Harrington Diana F. Keaney Edward Madigan Leo D. Maguire Barbara A. Mayer Paul A. Morrison Jr. Susan M. Mount Terence D. O'Hagan Kelly A. San George Edward R. Sanchez Jr. John J. Spinello Lori J. Spinney Sandra A. Sullivan Fred W. Sunderland Jr. Susan D. Varley Eric A. Walters John J. Waugh Michael P. Whalen Show-Mean S. Wu Friends ($1-$99) James H. Alton II Anmarie E. Anderson James V. Arsenault Peter Arsenault Sheila E. Battle Michael D. Berube Karen S. Bibeau Jeffrey A. Blanchard Joseph F. Boughan Karen M. Brown Harold C. Buckingham III Kerri A. Bull Mark P. Chandler David J. Chandonnet Sebastian Chiaramida Martin D. Conley Paul D. Conley Jr. Sandra Creamer, RN Adrian F. Crowe Sarah G. Dagher Carl S. Desalvo Robert F. Driscoll Darlene S. Fertitta Marc G. Gagnon Kathryn M. Gallucci William F. Gately Allen Gee Stephen P. Gillis Deborah Godinez Kathleen Mary Grace Judith M. Gramigna Mark P. Griffin Gregory P. Hamilton Mark D. Hamilton Steven N. Harrison Ernest W. Henry Kelly A. Horan-Fucci Catherine A. Houston Karen A. Keisling Craig G. Kevghas Theodore J. Kubacki Chui-Han Lam Diane E. Leveillee Richard Liberace Donna J. Liffers Paul B. Linnehan

Diane M. Loehle John W. Malachowski Renata S. Manomaitis William J. McCann Gail M. McGowan Susan E. McLellan Timothy A. McManus Gabriela M. McNally Gary R. Meehan Kathleen S. Millerick Philip N. Montague David B. Ninesling Jr. Carol A. O'Leary, RN April F. Pattavina Katherine T. Pinard Gregg J. Praetz M. Mia Primeaux Dorothy A. Quinn Mary C. Quinn John N. Rabias Daniel J. Roche Everett J. Roscoe Collette C. Russell Kathleen Schaeffer Burkhard K. Schwillinski Lauren M. Seeley Carl Shapiro Andrew J. Sheehan John F. Shields Jr. David F. Silva Scott D. Spence Linda A. Stuke Paula A. Sullivan Arthur V. Tonini Anna R. Vergados Anthony Vitale Jr. Mary C. Whitney Diana L. Willcutt Brian W. Wirzbicki Paul Yee Linda M. Zani Fotios G. Zotos Number of Class Donors: 138 Total Class Gift: $15,951.86

1987 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Mark Bonifacio Wei-Dong Wang Victor J. Zelny Partners ($500-$999) Michelle A. Bucceri-Hawes Kenneth F. Gys Associates ($250-$499) Joseph J. Carnese Donna M. Millette Steven A. Millette Steven G. Richter Joseph L. Robichaud Chi-Cherng Tang Mark A. Webb Century ($100-$249) Michelle J. Baker David R. Bloom Ronald P. Brochu Stephen A. Brossi Steven L. Cariglio Guey-Rong K. Chen Mark De Angelis Tripty Dhar Clark P. Donahue Laura B. Dyer Kathleen E. Erickson David A. Garvin Anthony Grande Marta C. Gulezian David J. Hickey Jr. Gregg R. Hunter Lucy M. Kimball Patty Ann Krajewski Uraiwan P. Labadini

Dianne C. MacDonald Lisa J. Mauro Hamid R. Monsef Stephen J. Murphy Eric B. Nemes Lisa J. Nodwell Jorma A. Peltola Sr. Jean L. Phoenix Mark A. Ratcliffe Caroline Rider Michael G. Rider Saurin J. Shah Noel J. Tessier Eric J. Tobin Edwin P. Valis Jr. John L. White Thomas A. Wilson Friends ($1-$99) John R. Allan Joseph Aluia Jane D. Anderson Mark C. Bedrosian Robert J. Bell Jr. Julie Bezoet de Bie John M. Bibeau Stephen T. Butler Gale A. Cahoon, RN Jerome F. Carr Dean P. Chaffe Patricia A. Chaney Brian A. Chipman Timothy P. Collins Robert W. Cooke Patricia M. Covelle Holly A. Cushing Wendy Sue Dagle Steven R. Danielson Paul A. Davis Richard DiSalvo Sean C. Dolan Michael E. Dowling Steven J. Dungan Jared P. Eaton Wayne G. Fisher Raymond L. Fournier Martin W. Fraser Satenig R. Ghazarian Scott J. Giordano Rosemary G. Goyette Bruce G. Hall Robert R. Hardesty John F. Healey Kenneth J. Hickey Cole L. Howard Robert A. Hudon Peter J. Iannazzi Brian C. Kenny Mary Ann Kitrosser Rita E. Kosmin Joseph P. Lane Linda E. Lawrence Melissa Liakas Carol J. Loftus James J. Marcello Michelle A. Marino William J. Marshall Marialena Maughan Richard Clark McHugh Jr. D. Scott Moore Monroe Moore Gregory James Morose Robert C. Morse V Daniel S. Noonan Sandra L. Novak Kara L. Papazian Henry J. Parente Bruce B. Pastorini Charles R. Pelton Stacey A. Peters Thomas J. Pickett Donald A. Ploof Andrew G. Proulx Paula J. Puglia Nicolino S. Quinci Daniel J. Raymond Scott W. Relihan

donor listing by class Ellen J. Roane Gregory J. Sands Andrew N. Scribner-MacLean Michelle Scribner-MacLean, EdD Kathleen M. SelfridgeBythrow Kerri L. Senzapaura Harriet Shanzer Mark S. Sivazlian Susan M. St. Pierre Eric V. Stanley Debra J. Stanzione Louis R. Steriti Maria A. Stuart Darcie Z. Sunnerberg James E. Ternullo Karen Marie Ternullo Thea M. Tully Marc A. Vachon Christine M. Vasiliadis Michael F. Ward Douglas A. Yates Number of Class Donors: 137 Total Class Gift: $14,627.99

1988 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Eric J. Helliwell Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Richard J. Musgrave, Esq. Steven E. Weisfeldt Yang Yang Partners ($500-$999) James J. Barry David R. Clark Robert W. Lavoie Martin J. Schedlbauer Associates ($250-$499) Joongwoo Ahn Donna M. Bibber Carol Cahalane Coombs Paul A. Nazzaro MaryEllen Robert George F. Sennott Jr. Scott R. Slomba Century ($100-$249) Kimberley A. Brinkman Kathleen A. Bush-Dutton Gene Anthony Cardarelli Gloria J. Cater James G. Chopas Michael W. Colafrancesco Victoria M. Conley Gavin S. Cummings Shelagh Donohoe Daniel D. Doolan Sr. James F. Dunn Matthew W. Eddy Linda H. Elliott Edward N. Ferguson Erin M. Ferrick Sally A. Flores Christine C. Gravelle Elizabeth Haartz Amy J. Hoey Suzette L. Jefferson Gary R. Lacroix Kin Wing Li Robert C. Licare Anonymous Anthony E. Listro Kathleen A. Lyons Lisa Maib Brian W. McInerney Greg A. Natola Stephen Peterson James F. Regan Mary F. Regan Steven P. Reichard

Stephen W. Robertshaw Louis A. Sacco Mark A. Sampson De Yang Song Mary L. Springer Robert F. Sullivan Martha J. Sybert Pamela A. Tranbarger Friends ($1-$99) Lynne G. Afrow Doreen M. Alongi Joanne M. Antonelli Susan G. Badger David V. Baker George L. Blackwell Leo M. Bobek Martin R. Bodley Carolyn Boisselle Theresa L. Brassard Rhonda Brassil Susan E. Breen Mark D. Charbonneau Thomas D. Coe Tammie M. Corbin Gregory P. Croteau John J. DeSantis Scott M. Didonato James P. Diluca Jr. Laurie A. Eno Jeannine M. Fanikos Carole J. Fili Gregory D. Freiter Mark A. Fuller Andrew J. Garber James J. Hajj William A. Herenda Laurie Jane Heskett John C. Higgins Thomas A. Kilcoyne Michael P. Lavallee Catherine M. Lehan Madeline M. Lyne Leslie A. MacDonald Brian J. Mahoney Christopher G. Malcolm Christopher J. Martino Jack K. Maserejian Lauria L. McCabe Brian P. McDonald Timothy J. McGaughey Anita M. Moeller Thomas P. Morahan Chandrika Narayan Jonathan M. Noone Robert E. Normandy Barbara A. Nyder Peter V. O'Connell Judith C. Oleks Haniel Olivera Lisa M. Ollenborger Jeffrey O. Ouellet Sheila M. Pariseau Russell M. Peirce III Anne M. Pendleton Keith A. Pequeno Joseph F. Petrie Jr. Andrew I. Pinard Martha L. Rapoza Yadollah M. Rezaee Michael J. Ryder Robert J. Sacchiero Paula B. Scotland Robert W. Sharkey Craig E. Smith Evan A. Sparages Mark A. Spinale John M. Sullivan James R. Sullivan Jr. Bruce K. Wachtmann Jeffrey M. Walsh Meryl E. Widman Wendy A. Wilton Kimberly A. Yap Number of Class Donors: 130 Total Class Gift: $23,663.30

1989 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Albelee Haque Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Linda C. Carpenter Jeng-i Chen Victor E. Johnson Laura J. Pollard Partners ($500-$999) Robert M. O'Connell Roger D. Pannell Associates ($250-$499) Andrew R. Boyce Thomas V. Buonopane Michael L. Fahey Victor G. Gagnon Robert Manning Rebekah A. McKie Robert D. McSweeney Jeffery A. Parsons Century ($100-$249) Christopher Alibozek Karen Allen Rory G. Bens Daniel B. Brosnan Jr. Michael F. Brown Barbara K. Bruno Christine M. Byam Mitchell A. Callahan Jennifer S. Catizone Tammy L. Concannon Lawrence R. Cook James C. Davis John W. Gallagher Brian D. Gustems Vardhani S. Harpanahalli William J. Hart Lois G. Haslam Mark A. Hastbacka Scott R. Henion Thomas J. Hoey James A. Jolliffe Bruce G. Joncas Stephen H. Joyce Dennis P. Keough David A. Lane Anthony A. Laurentano Jr., Esq. Craig A. Mauch Edward McCahill Paul C. Michali Thomas F. O'Connell John J. Pelletier John T. Piemontese Mark D. Quinn Anne T. Shepard Susan C. Shields Mary F. Sullivan Friends ($1-$99) Eric W. Abelquist Ghassan A. Abou Ezzi Richard J. Abraham Caroline M. Barrett Robert E. Bertolino Jr. Robert Bicknell Diane B. Carr Stephen A. Clinard Linda J. Coe William J. Conway III Donna M. Delehanty Kathleen P. Didonato Nancy Disalvo Stephen M. Drescher John P. Duffy Michael A. Fantasia Patrick J. Foley Kerry A. Gagnon Kevin F. Gallagher

Robert C. Gibbs Lisa C. Gordon Philip D. Greco Terence M. Griffin Mark S. Griffith Tracy G. Haley Antoinette T. Iacobo Karen J. Jacques Timothy John Jozokos Laurie L. Kelley Jill M. Keough Ken Kleiner William L. Knight Jr. Barbara L. Kreaseck Cynthia A. Ladino Albert A. Lafleur Jr. Larissa Lang Patricia A. Langill Paula J. Mahoney Martin G. Manley Anthony J. McCook Susan M. McFarland Vineet Mehta Lynn M. Montisanti Jennifer L. Morrell Brian A. Movalli Edward J. Murphy Laura C. Myers Paul J. Neenan David E. Nichols Patricia A. O'Donnell Thomas Piccoli Brian W. Pierro Anne F. Polaski Edward J. Powers Jeffrey M. Raimondi Patricia A. Reidy Anthony J. Romano Robert A. Seney Kevin R. Soucy Michael Thomas Spellman Nikitas Splagounias Lisa M. Sullivan Kevin L. Swindon John J. Thomsen Kimberly A. Turner Kenneth R. Wagner Jr. William S. Wahlstrom Graham J. Wells Polly J. Wilson William J. Wolfendale Dorothy M. Woodbridge Number of Class Donors: 122 Total Class Gift: $23,394.00

1990 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Gary M. Madison Scott D. Waugh Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Patricia M. Bonifacio Terrance P. McMahon Edward W. Sheehan Garrett S. Thurston Joseph L. Vaillancourt Partners ($500-$999) George F. Mercuri Lynne A. Samuelson George F. Strom Associates ($250-$499) Michael G. Casale Dianne G. Cazeca Sophia C. Cigliano Leahey Patricia C. Holdsworth Century ($100-$249) Lisa J. Arakelian Eugene F. Balerna Jr. Gregg E. Bonheur Anthony J. Camoscio Wayne E. Carlson

Ana M. Clark Vipul B. Dave Kenneth E. Dow Terrie Lynn Enis Elizabeth A. Faxon Arthur A. Frost Carol A. Gamble Donna Hanson John C. Kiezulas Marton A. Kozma Suzanne M. Lamoureaux Michael P. Lisi Karen E. Miedema William H. Pultar Jr. Christopher D. Ross Michael J. Scott Timothy P. Sipsey Barbara S. Sundstrom Vickie A. Turcotte Edward G. Weingartner Friends ($1-$99) Paul A. Ansara Anne Atherley Diane R. Barrett Danielle D. Bodley Gina M. Boisvert Joanne Bolianites Paula F. Bradbard Kevin F. Cafferty David S. Call John J. Callahan Joyce V. Caras David Tapley Carbonneau Kathleen A. Chaffee Anna Maria Chicoine Bert E. Corey Michael J. Coulombe Leanna Coviello Karen M. Daniels Parashar B. Dave Janice M. DeHart Michele M. DeMartinis Guy B. Demartinis Michael A. DiPoto Jack H. Duffy Muriel L. Dyas-Sciotto Stephen T. English Pamela L. Fairbrother Dianne Fasano Richard D. Fellows Jr., USAF Lynne M. Fish Kurt R. Frampton Lois E. Gentry Melissa A. Gray Steven A. Gray Sandra C. Gulezian Dianne H. Gustowski Karen Harrington Christopher W. Hastings Mike R. Howard Scott M. Jones Merrill M. Kashiwabara James L. Kirkpatrick William J. Kozack Paul E. Krueger Pamela K. Kurkul Martha L. Lafrance Maurice P. Lefort John E. Longan Janet M. Matsubara Lynne M. Mattedi-Regan Deanna P. McCollum Joyce T. McKenna Choodamani Mohan Kerri-Lynn M. Montgomery Kim A. Mosley Thomas G. Murphy Joseph S. Nasuti Michael P. O'Connell Pamela Cote Pakey Janine T. Parks Christopher Pine Bradford A. Quenneville Timothee C. Rodrique Nathaniel R. Schwartz Stephen J. Sheehy

David E. Shipman James M. Spinney Jr. Jennifer A. Swindon Rhonda M. Torcoletti Jason Phu Tran Elizabeth M. Travaglini Katherine B. Valenziano David F. Vatalaro Robyn C. Vernick Heidy L. Voigt Gretchen S. Voit David B. Weisberg Nina E. Wolfendale Ann M. Wollrath Leslie A. Yauckoes Number of Class Donors: 119 Total Class Gift: $26,777.00

1991 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Demetrius P. Rizos Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Pascal Miller Partners ($500-$999) Stacey T. Hubbard Stephen F. Murphy Vera M. Ossen Deborah A. Riley Lisa A. Rucks William C. Stark Associates ($250-$499) Anthony A. Braga Britta J. Dean Heather C. Frye Suzanne A. Gamache Patricia M. Keefe Century ($100-$249) Richard A. Aggott Jr. Deborah M. Aubrey Kathylyn T. Barnhill Nicole A. Caraviello David F. Catania Carol D. Delbridge Michael J. Dickinson Debra A. Dunham Diane M. Elmer Richard H. Ferrino Laurie-Ann Flaherty Paula M. Foley Kevin J. Gauthier Rene L. Gibson Jason P. Gurney Barbara Hemingway Eileen Herlihy John R. Hughes Jr. Dulcey L. Lacroix John R. Laferriere Mary F. Maxwell Ashish K. Mithal Gregory A. Parke Richard L. Prenoveau James L. Salemme Maria J. Spitzak Paul J. Stephenson Jane L. Sutton Dean W. Turcotte Eric K. Williams Friends ($1-$99) Kevin R. Adolph John P. Au Kathleen Aylward Robert C. Beagan David B. Belley Wendy G. Bibeau James M. Bing Dorian Boardman Deborah L. Booth John Bumstead

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REPORT of GIFTS

donor listing by class

A Word of Thanks

Allison Fidler, a junior in

– Allison Fidler ’13, Plastics Engineering major and Commonwealth Scholar

the Plastics Engineering program, is president of the local student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. She represented UMass Lowell last fall at the first USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.

Emily P. Cambray Paul J. Chanley Mark A. Chaves Marilyn R. Claise Mary E. Cole Luis A. Colon Emily A. Cournoyer Michael Cournoyer Christopher Cramton McCharles A. Craven David A. Crockford Robert A. Curtin Lisa-Ann DeNeill David N. DelVecchio Judith Dickerman-Nelson Dan E. Doherty Harli M. Dollinger Laurin M. Downing Christine K. Drevitch June E. Evans Paul S. Faria Kristin J. Fox Robert M. Hall Jr. James P. Herlihy Stephanie A. Howard Charles H. Kelley Kenneth J. Kelly Kathy L. Korman Diane L. Laferriere Jeffrey B. Lander Jennifer M. Lane William A. Ledder Robert J. Letteri Christopher Mark Lies Jodie L. Lucci Mark P. MacNeil Thomas M. Maguire Selina J. Makofsky Timothy J. Malloy Susan D. Markin Dianne G. Marsden Jeanne S. Masterman Peter J. Mathisen Carolynn B. McCarthy Donald W. McClory Christine M. McGrath Dorothy J. McLeod Scott A. Merrill David J. Merullo Heather M. Mihaich

U N I V E R S I T Y

“As a recipient of both University and family endowed scholarships, I know first-hand what it feels like to be awarded with a scholarship, and it’s amazing how even a little support goes a long way. The support that donors provide, whether it be monetary or simply their involvement with the University, does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.”

Recipient of: John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Carol Barry Endowed Scholarship James Dandeneau Endowed Scholarship Dean’s Scholarship University Independent Alumni Association

Daniel S. Minehan Vincent F. Moise Jr. Brenda L. Monahan Joann Moriarty-Baron Tracy L. Mucher Christopher J. Murphy Stephen R. O'Malley Michele D. Odryna John G. Peznola Scott A. Pizzo Gerald H. Powers Jr. Charles F. Ravagni John E. Regan James A. Ricoy Jr. Rita M. Rouvalis John P. Ryan Marwan B. Sabbouh Matthew A. Sepe Kristen W. Shirley Joseph S. Smith James F. St. Pierre Michael T. Staniec James J. Sullivan Cynthia Szabady Ann M. Thibaud Leo J. Tometich Marc M. Torrisi, Esq. John R. Tyson George J. Vasiliades Robert C. Walter Fred T. Willett Catherine L. Williams Paul D. Wilson Ross A. Wilson Number of Class Donors: 137 Total Class Gift: $15,247.50

1992 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Michael J. Orroth Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Timothy A. Hutchison Satchit B. Srinivasan Partners ($500-$999) Jeffrey T. Doyle Ho-Seon Jin O F

M A S S A C H U S E T T S

Jun-Young Lee Martha Mayo Associates ($250-$499) Steven W. Fisk David W. Kennedy III Patricia Trela Ramakrishnan Venugopal Century ($100-$249) Jeffrey F. Aronis Teresa R. Barous Ruth E. Barzyk Steven L. Buckley Gregory L. Carter Sean M. Collins Lisa Dana Joanne Desmarais George P. Elenbaas Paul J. Enis Michael A. Faria Roseanne Foley David M. Gatti Robert A. Gonynor Peter S. Haslam RonnieAnn R. Hughes James E. Kelsey Xiaoming Lee Jian Lou Peter M. McGinn Joseph K. Medici Stephen M. Miu Lisa A. O'Donnell Richard C. Peck Janis E. Raguin Robert J. Raimondi Millicent F. Rothman Heather McLean Rozen Elizabeth A. Sheehan Alice M. Sogomonian Adrienne St. John Robert M. Welton Thomas M. Wheeler John R. Zappala Jr. Friends ($1-$99) Cynthia A. Arrasin Patricia Atwell Robert W. Aylward Sr. L O W E L L

Jeanne L. Azarovitz Pamela L. Bannister Judith A. Barnes-Long Kathleen J. Barrett Brenda J. Bond Sanjay H. Boolani Neil E. Boudreau Daniel R. Boudreault John W. Boullie Andrew A. Bragg Brian D. Campbell Christine E. Carignan Michael Castriotta Donna M. Clark Lynn R. Cody Maura J. Conley Richard M. Conley George M. Correia Daniel W. Cronin Stephen J. Curtis Darrel A. Davidow Tina M. Downey Mary Ann Egan Daniel J. Ferguson Helen T. Fitzgerald Margaret E. Fitzgerald Michael G. Fokas Edward J. Gardiner Linda B. Gardiner Jean E. Gramling Christopher M. Green Cathy A. Greenspan Ray J. Greenup Steven P. Griffin Susan L. Grinblatas Gregory C. Haggis Clinton F. Hollis Michelle Hooper Wendy T. Hopkins Fei Hu Linda M. Hurley John S. Johnson Vivek S. Kakaria Brian M. Kelleher Andrew R. Kelley Victoria S. Kinsman Richard B. Knowles Ruth M. Ladd Laura Lamarre-Anderson Marc L. Larochelle Jerilyn M. Latini Richard E. Latini Karen E. Leonard Charlene P. Levesque William P. Lovely Jr. Erika A. Lowrey Anne M. Manning Joan Matheny Jodie A. McManmon Lisa A. Mitchell Deborah P. Moscoso Brian B. Muise Melissa C. O'Meara Brian P. Parath Karen S. Pearson Denise P. Perrin Andrea M. Pierce Margaret E. Poverchuk Minna A. Rannikko Kevin J. Regan Thomas M. Regan Bob E. Rice Jr. Thomas E. Richardson Jr. Rajiv H. Saraiya Lynn E. Scannell-Laursen David J. Seltz Mark A. Sheehan Linda G. Smith Carol A. Tatarinowicz Steven C. Veilleux Rose M. Veith Elizabeth A. Weathers Thurman B. Wenzl Cheryl L. Zaino Number of Class Donors: 132 Total Class Gift: $16,250.60

1993 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Robert A. Caruso Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Sutiyao Marturunkakul Deepak H. Mehta Partners ($500-$999) Makam S. Chetan Ru-jong Jeng Margaret M. Quinn Associates ($250-$499) Richard G. Abbadessa Robert M. Dankese Jr. Scott A. Meehan Kathleen J. Skinner Century ($100-$249) Paula E. Alexander Mary L. Beaudry Paul D. Brinkman Alan R. Canova, USAF Brian D. Carlson Christopher D. Cotton Karen L. Dawson Patrick A. Diette Diane D. Dubois Scott E. Fiore Fadi Abou Ghanem Kimberly A. Halloran Lee A. Hutchinson Judith M. Jonk Paul M. Joseph Jr. John E. Kemnitzer II Richard H. Labbe James J. Mandile Ray E. Martin Jr. Paul F. Matthews Robert J. Morelli Jr. William J. Murphy Jr. Michael Murray Amberish A. Nagarkatti Keith E. Neal Esther M. Pearson Robert S. Sheehan Richard A. Sutton Marianne E. Vail Kerri G. Westburg Gang Yue Friends ($1-$99) Cathy A. Abbot Hooshmand S. Afshar Jacquelyn M. Ayotte Douglas A. Bajgot Gerard A. Bergeron John P. Boyea Doreen E. Bray Ferdinando Bruno Mark J. Buliszak Richard H. Burton Jr. Anees H. Buxamusa Brendan J. Cahill Catherine M. Calder Arthur A. Chabot Gary Comins Paul S. Couture John C. Crawford Timothy Cunningham Alecia T. Cyprian Christopher D. Cyr Robert W. Dunakin Jr. Charles D. Fleury Lynn Hall Duane A. Hanna Paul J. Holland Yuming Huang Mary Ellen Iorio Nicole Jambard Orpha James Mark L. Jarek

Gregory S. Lamarre Anderson Donald A. Langlois Steven M. Lapinskas Mark E. Lindenfelzer Michael W. Lombardi John E. Macaluso Nancy A. Mann Rayna E. Merryfield Michael G. Monahan Joseph F. Morrissey Susan E. Mullaney Depankar Neogi Mary P. Nolan Shaun E. O'Brien John R. O'Neil Normand R. Paquette Tristaan Petullo Stella M. Pierce Mark P. Pittella William T. Ralston Irene M. Reagan Patricia A. Sarcione William J. Serwatka Dorothy J. Small Lori E. Spooner-Porter Carol A. St. Germain John M. Sweeny Hoang V. Thai Kathleen C. Tiberii, RN William Paul Tobey Jonathan A. Toomey Elizabeth A. Turner Katherine Walsh Mary E. West Nancy L. Witherell Suzanne E. Young Susan A. Youngblood Donna Zouzas Number of Class Donors: 109 Total Class Gift: $15,269.95

1994 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Choon-Bo Choe Alexandra S. Tayebi Partners ($500-$999) Jason D. Cronin Woohong Kim Edward Marootian Jr. Lynn M. Winston Associates ($250-$499) Shyam Prakash Attavar Martha K. Chapman Christopher P. Geggis Ngo Van Phan Susan J. Veligor Century ($100-$249) Charles E. Arsenault Todd M. Bazemore Todd B. Boyle David P. Cameron Thomas A. Cardone Christopher P. Carroll William J. Casagrande Eva-Maria U. Chase Stanley D. Chin Robert Cosmo Ciccariello Linda M. Crochetiere James C. Freed Garrett P. Gardner Jeri D. Gillin Michael D. Hatfield Brenda J. Hite Catherine A. (Kate) Kelley Augustin F. Lanteigne Michael Laquidara Michael G. McGrath Dianne M. Ruggiero Leo J. Ryan Steven T. Swartz Jeffrey A. Torone

donor listing by class Arthur J. Veves Ruixia Yue

1995

Friends ($1-$99) Richard C. Anderson Jyothi Arvind Doris E. Barrett Cheryl M. Becotte Anne Marie Bourque William J. Carey III Beth A. Carney Sandra M. Carriker Berty J. Chennankara William M. Chepolis Daniel C. Clarkson Anne-Marie Cromwick Julie Beth Curran David A. Curtis Maureen A. Dalton Mutasim Mahdi Elfahal Leonard S. Emmons Kathleen A. Fahey Michael Patrick Fitzgerald Anthony Florindi Geoffrey R. Flynn Elise A. Franklin Ajay M. Gajria Kevin H. Gibson Jane R. Ginsburg Keith A. Glasser Betsy E. Goldenberg John D. Hally Diane M. Harihar Marie Jean Harris Leo J. Hart Chad L. Hawkins Jonathan Ayers Howard Michael C. Kelly John M. Lauria Gerard B. Leary Anastasia Leondis Fangzhi Li Eric J. Longo Catherine Lospennato Craig A. McAnaugh Karen S. McCall Shelly Cyr McGee Mary C. McMackin Thomas Mead Robert G. Molinari Jr. Keith S. Morgan Marianne B. Moriarty Richard A. Moynihan Dana J. Munn Paula A. Murphy Peter M. Murphy Barbara C. Muzykewicz Denise Adams Olney Anthony P. Pamelia Dana Truitt Patek Dean R. Pawlowski Matthew N. Persing David B. Pinkney Henry M. Polan Susan E. Powers RoseMaria Redman Sharon L. Remillard Robert M. Riotto Nancy A. Roberts Gregory A. Rushton Debra L. Shank Daniel P. Shea Jane B. Siebecker Colin C. Spence Matthew Mark Staffier Louie L. Tonry Mark E. Torre Anne M. Trischitta Maureen C. Walden Nicholas D. Warren Sandra E. Wellinghoff Daniel J. Weygand James E. Windheuser Dariusz Bogdan Wisniewski Number of Class Donors: 117 Total Class Gift: $16,588.00

Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Kerry F. Donohoe Partners ($500-$999) Harry D. Crowther Associates ($250-$499) Richard J. Donahue Richard M. Guenard Panos Tokadjian Century ($100-$249) Brian W. Andriolo Kerry D. Angus, JD Gary P. Barbin Ellen Barkhuff James W. Beaudry Mark R. Beauregard Richard M. Braga Paul L. Combs Lisa Coto Donald S. Delikat Renee M. Duchemin Brenda I. Evans Stephen B. Halmkin Eva G. Heifetz Steven M. Kumiega Jeanne M. McCoy George M. Michalakis Anthony R. Mineo Jerry Charles Neistadt David J. Pappalardo Kouma Sinn Joanne C. Talty David R. Timberlake Katherine Tyndall Stacey B. Weston Friends ($1-$99) Leomary J. Bader Christopher A. Baker Glenn A. Berger Andrew S. Blatus Paula M. Borgasano Christopher R. Bourque Billie Jo Bowler Jeffrey M. Cappiello Patricia M. Clark-Nowoswiat Robin A. Desmond Kevin S. Eaton Patricia E. Fallon Andrew Farrell Maren C. Forsyth Michele K. Fox Holly R. Gilbert Karen J. Good Edward L. Hajduk Timothy N. Johnson Richard A. Kealey Dorothy N. Keyworth Timothy P. Largy Michael S. Lastrina Carlton W. Lincoln III Nicholas L. Linsky Patricia J. Lipman Dennis J. Lucia Jr. Joseph March John A. Matson Arnaldo Mejias Jr. David Mooshian Michael G. Morgan Faye K. Moyer Peter W. Mullin David W. Murphy Vivek Amrutlal Naik Suzana Nascimento Daniel T. O'Grady Janet A. Olowojoba John Onyejekwe Piyush N. Patel David E. Patnaude Bradley T. Reghitto

Michael H. Reinhardt Thomas W. Rimmer Joan S. Sackman Carol A. Sarno John W. Seale III Judy W. Seidewand Daphne L. Serwatka Laurie A. Smith Sherryl K. Stonebraker Deborah Trachtenberg Karl W. Wajda Gregory R. Walsh Mary J. Welch James L. Zwynenburg Number of Class Donors: 87 Total Class Gift: $7,855.00

1996 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Carol F. Barry Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Lillian A. Johnston Richard Lemoine Lisa M. Thurston Associates ($250-$499) Sheila S. Bushe Dong W. Cheong Patricia L. Fontaine Mark M. Freeman Victor J. Gangi Charmaine P. Hickey Century ($100-$249) Raymond Bastarache Adriel J. Edwards Alexander G. Gee Neil G. Goulding Matthew W. Harris Mary Ann E Hibino Lisa Marchand-Ciriello Marty J. Martinez Timothy J. Mustone Brent D. Oakleaf Kathleen J. Olsen Keh-Cherng Sheu M. Jeannie Tremblay Friends ($1-$99) Jose G. Annunziato Barbara A. Baker Jennifer Benesh Peter A. Benoit Julie Nolet Berthiaume Ravindra Prakash Bhalla Sanjiv M. Bhatt Virginia A. Boucher M.Patricia Bullis Maureen Burke Brenda Busta Patricia E. Caffrey Christopher J. Carter Kathy Ann Cellamare Jennifer A. Clarke-Burke Joan A. Conde-Bevers Leslie Davis Steven M. DeSimone Alan W. Dewhirst Sr. Bijal H. Doshi Steven Eramo William J. Gallant Raymond P. Galloni Linda M. Gilbreth Robert P. Gillis Lisa M. Gorrow Denise M. Guignard Jennifer M. Hale Lela Boykins Hall Jane E. Henebury DeWayne E. Howell Robert Huerta Patricia M. Iannucci Cynthia Wedekind Jacobs

Jason G. Knowles Eileen M. LaBrecque, USAF Richard V. Lates Suzanne Liacos-Dix Eric S. Lohrey Shannon M. Lucia Peter J. MacKinnon Joan M. Marriott Marybeth Mathson Leslie A. Miller Ronald Monsini Jeffrey D. Nicoll Eleanora M. Paciulan Christopher J. Palmer Gayl Pizzano Shawn C. Reynolds Douglas M. Schromm Jeffrey S. Schwartz Craig R. Schwarze Prachuab Soonthornprapuet David W. Stockbower Steve K. Thibeault James Williams Number of Class Donors: 80 Total Class Gift: $14,315.36

1997 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) John D. Geraci Partners ($500-$999) Hoke V. Bullard III Richard Hoffmann Joyce McLaughlin Associates ($250-$499) XinLi Jiang Brian C. MacLean Chad C. Moore Meredith M. Stephens Century ($100-$249) James S. Borodawka David Thomas Burns Daniel J. Callahan Michael J. Corvino Robert M. Costello Dianne M. Deveau Katherine G. Doulamis James P. Francis Mary C. Geary Phillip W. Gibson Monty C. Grob Nathan J. Kutt Joseph F. Lutkevich Raghunath Othayoth Nambiar N. Dana Nelson Teresa T. O'Kane Brian Scanlan Michael Peter Sireci Katherine R. Weeks Jane E. Worthley Michaela W. Wyman-Colombo Friends ($1-$99) Linas Alinskas Dael Angelico-Hart Karla R. Armenti William M. Beard Jr. Alicia W. Bunnell Barbara Burri Conway C. Campbell Edward B. Campbell Monica D. Campbell Patricia L. Coffey George E. Coulouras David C. Coviello Karen Deterra Jeremy R. Dziadosz Albert L. Ericsson Christine L. Finney Michael B. Fligg David C. Flynn Umesh C. Gandhi

Alexandra GonzalezAnnunziato Joan Z. Graham Margaret A. Howard Ying Jiang Prasad V. Joshi James B. Kingsbury Christian T. Langlois David M. Letizio Nicole G. Little Jean P. MacDougall-Tattan Ryan J. McDonough Donna J. McDougall Edward R. Michaud Caroline Mojica Joseph John Monahan Jr. Michael L. Mudge Yany Nhean Arthur H. O'Brien Suvita Gajanan Prabhu Gary O. Quebbeman Bradley O. Rambarran Jeremy D. Rosson Carolyn Schwartz Jagdish P. Shah Candace T. Stone Christine A. Suratt Heather M. Taskovics Angela K. Vermette Christine L. Weeks Bartlett Wetherbee Mary B. Wittenhagen Hongwen Zhang Number of Class Donors: 80 Total Class Gift: $9,198.00

1998 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Ramaswamy Nagarajan Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) David P. McGrath Jr. Partners ($500-$999) Eric R. Correnti Associates ($250-$499) Samuel R. Divine Arthur T. Wallace Century ($100-$249) Chulsung Bae Albert S. Iarossi Ryan J. Kearney Kaori S. Kelts Andrei A. Kostousov Matthew R. Lashmit Shubhang Mishra Dawn L. Mushkin Ted M. Nunes Anthony J. Skliutas Jr. Christian D. Smialek Hung-Ming J. Wu Friends ($1-$99) Ryan T. Beal Brion H. Berghaus Dorothy M. Burke Vincenzo Casasanta John L. Daniels Joanna M. DelMonaco Kristy A. Dickinson Kerry L. Dudley John Dunlevy Leonard G. Evans Heather M. Farrand Sarah E. Fligg Gretchen M. Fodor Anne Marie P. Gallant Siva R. Ghatti Andrew Griffin Stephen R. Hemman Monsy M. Jacob

Jay S. Jankauskas David E. Jillson Lynda A. Kaylor, RN Joan M. Kelly John P. Lahoud Katherine Lee Lewis James M. Lubsen Karen Y. Manherz Karen M. Martin Ryan D. McNeal Jeffrey M. Miller Roberta C. Morris Ivan G. Most Jennifer C. Mueller John M. Nicholson Kathleen Paone Christopher P. Richard Peter M. Richards Michael J. Rodgers Erin Ryan Cosmo V. Sabatino Louis R. Saccocea Donald P. Saletnik Kenneth J. Sayler David Spengler Christopher J. Sullivan David A. Williamson Randi L. Wineinger Lea S. Woodward Susan M. de Mari Number of Class Donors: 65 Total Class Gift: $10,716.00

1999 Partners ($500-$999) Wiera T. Malozemoff Travis A. Tucker Associates ($250-$499) Thomas E. Janzen Century ($100-$249) Stephen R. Aste Constantinos D. Doulamis Marybeth McGinn Maureen A. McNamara Anne K. McWilliams Mark A. Miller Hang Thi My Nguyen Friends ($1-$99) Clinton J. Anderson Kevin D. Ankiewicz Robert L. Antonellis Suzanne Bakhos James K. Booker Christopher J. Brodeur Linda S. Bryant Elaine S. Bukowiecki Terry W. Burton John C. Cadotte Jr. Clynton L. Caines Jay F. Celona Susan F. Clarke Allison C. Cunha Andrea E. Daniels Vicki J. Delle Donne John R. Dunn Michael T. Eaton Susan Ann Egan Amr Medhat El-Basiony Heidi L. Elsinger Patience Fiattor Juanita K. Fischer Gregory Fulgione Bethany L. Gentleman Susanne M. Harris Robert K. Hawkes Maureen K. Hilfinger Philip Lewis Janes Nicholas P. Julian Philip Todd Jurgeleit Joseph M. Karasha Rebecca Lee

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Casey Lerner Maria-Dawn R. Linsley Gregg Amos Matthew John T. McCann Sharon McCarthy Kerin McLoughlin John W. McNamara David George Miles Sophy Mueller Kevin M. Redman Stephen J. Richard George Sousa Henry Sullivan Jo Anne Thorlin Nancy H. Wile Scott J. Young Number of Class Donors: 59 Total Class Gift: $4,150.00

Dennis A. Villanueva Edward F. Vo Christopher J. White Francis A. Wilson Peter Martin Ziegler Number of Class Donors: 60 Total Class Gift: $6,578.00

2001 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Patrick Scollin Partners ($500-$999) Mital Madhusudan Parikh Associates ($250-$499) Patricia A. Sheridan

2000

Century ($100-$249) Prudence B. Ardito Pamela A. Barry Mark A. Elgart Stephen C. Kapantais Eyal Leib Aaron R. Osowiecki Richard K. Peterson Michael J. Poirier Francis James Raymond Heidi Schreuder-Gibson Wei Tang Hsien-Jen Tien

Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Craig S. Brown Partners ($500-$999) Matthew J. Ciampaglia Christopher P. Rennix Associates ($250-$499) Craig M. Gava Hsiao-Hsing Lo David C. May Deirdra Murphy Jiewen Wang Century ($100-$249) Kevin P. Burke Christine E. Collins John Cully Pamela P. DiNapoli Anthony A. Gasbarro Philip J. O'Neil Stephen Pazdziorko Friends ($1-$99) Donald Ackerman Olawale A. Akinwale Christine J. Anderson Steven E. Arnold Andrew J. Bazinet Nina F. Benkley Kenneth R. Berard Michell Bosch Michael P. Broderick Susan M. Bujnowski Matthew Saverio Carlone Dennis Coffey Manuela Cooperman Carlos Eddy Coral-Gomez William Alexander De Marco Patrick J. Drane Usha Dwarakanath Anthony E. Eadie Michael Patrick Fitzmaurice Carla M. Giordano Nicki Suzanne Girouard William D. Goodhue Patrick E. Hoffman Juqi Huo Vinh-Loc T. Huynh Surbhi Kaushik Brian C. LaBrec David Harry Lence Patricia M. McNamara Shannon A. Meehan Loretta S. Montgomery Michelle Sybil Morgan Kevin B. O'Malley Paula Pelletier (Riggan) Theresa M. Reich Martha Shelton Jeffrey S. Skowronek Gail P. Sprangers Paul F. Stone Hima Bindu Tummala

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Friends ($1-$99) Deborah A. Adler Irma Betty Allen Virginia Simonds Barry Kerri L. Brooks Nicholas Carso Jennifer L. Conroy Amit K. Dani Scott Dickinson Amy Lynn Everitt Tara N. Fay Olga S. Forrest Cheryl A. Hatch Karen E. Hokanson, EdD Jaime A. Hussey Rafal Jablonka Leanne E. Lavoie John M. Lyons Virginia Mangolds Erin A. McLaughlin Sherry L. Milnes Susan M. Minott Ahmed H. Nur John O'Brien Jennifer Ossen Marla E. Perez Luan C. Pham Sandra Alexandrin Quintal Raidu S. Rayasam William C. Rideout Denise Roach Andrew K. Roberts Susan A. Rubel Eileen Marie Sousa Thomas D. Stammberger Eugene Tikh Jennifer L. York Christopher M. Zullo Number of Class Donors: 52 Total Class Gift: $5,115.01

2002 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Emily D. Byrne Linda E. Fox Chang-Shu Linus Kuo Partners ($500-$999) Jennifer A. Desa M A S S A C H U S E T T S

donor listing by class Associates ($250-$499) Kerri L. Johnston David C. Vincent Century ($100-$249) Mary M. Aruda Geetha Datari Daniel L. Fontas Carol J. Hodapp Patricia M. Kelsey Kevin W. Kotyluk Lois A. Noonan Annette M. Parsons Thomas R. Rouleau Judith L. Tuori Constance Vanne Friends ($1-$99) Kareem S. Abu-Zahra Ali Ashter Matthew D. Bartos Soumyaroop Bhattacharya Ann Bratton Dale E. Brown Linda Sue Bruenjes Margaret Burke Lisa M. Chandonnet Catherine M. Cooper Mary C. Coppinger-Fraser Aarti D'Souza Kathleen V. DeFillippo Donna M. Demaria Jill L. Drury Alisa G. Druzba James P. Elliott William A. Fyfe Paulette M. Ghassibi Neil C. Holt John B. Hoskins Robert S. Isaacs Saritkumar Kommineni Ming Lee Don R. Leonard Joseph E. Lisi Christine Megan Lord Thomas J. McAtamney Marc Philip Menovich Eileen Mills Brian T. Nelson Tuyen T. Nguyen Richard J. Nihan Priyanka Pillai Christos Protonotarios David H. Reed Brian Paul Roy Mary Q. Seaver Briana M. Sullivan Jaimee Lyn Swiderski Ian Anthony Underwood Rui Wang Gunther R. Wellenstein Paul T. Zacharia Number of Class Donors: 61 Total Class Gift: $7,231.09

2003 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Anonymous Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Deborah Ellen Finch Alex Moschella Partners ($500-$999) Robert Backofen Robert W. Montgomery III Associates ($250-$499) Mark J. Concannon Jr. Patrick A. Nsumei

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Century ($100-$249) Andre P. Gorgenyi Darryl K. Green Colleen Janeiro Kathryn Lee Stephen Little Tammy B. Millette Rahul S. Patel Stephen W. Slonina Daniel M. Smith Bernard A. Woesten Friends ($1-$99) Kwangseog Ahn Robert E. Armata Richard A. Bickford Jessica Bouchard Gregory A. Boyne Niamh Brady Danielle C. Callahan Christopher P. Capano Linda Clarke-Pounder Linda Clower Jessica A. Cogswell David Bigelow Cohen Eugenie Collins Mary T. Corsetto Michael Joseph Deasy Kathryn M. Delaney Mary Desimone Melissa Jane Egan Cristina Carmela Emphasis Nathan T. Eng Karen S. Fung Regina G. Galat-skey Scott E. Greeb Garrett D. Greenwood Robert W. Hanlon Jeffrey Ryan Hodgkins Michael H. Irving Rachael R. Kenney Donald A. Kilgour William Andrew Kolbe Elizabeth Faith Kotyla Chris Nicholas Kuncho Craig M. LaBrecque Christopher D. Lane Julie Ann Lawlor Antoinette F. Ledger Hao Q. Liang Dawn M. Marchand (Ames) Sean P. McGuigan Eliates Mercedat Joydeep Mukherjee Michael Musgnug Chetan P. Nirkhe Debra O'Connor Ritvaliisa Ojanen Jamie Ellen Pouliot Evangelos Poulopoulos Joshua J. Reed Julie Simon Michael J. Stuer Lisa V. Suglia Daniel Sweet Tuyen A. Truong Jeffrey Richard Turpel Denise M. Walsh Melissa A. Wilkinson Number of Class Donors: 73 Total Class Gift: $11,883.85

2004 Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Linda A. Barrington Associates ($250-$499) Rashana N. Bennett Heath D. Mckay John R. Ouellette Century ($100-$249) Jason J. Beaudet Laura E. Bresnahan Sean R. Daudelin

Michael S. Donelan Daniel D. Fariello Laura H. Frye Dan Lausten Margarita Zapata-Turcotte John F. Zrembski Friends ($1-$99) Pamela Ames Brendan M. BaranekOlmstead Daniel J. Barrett Joseph Basto Patrick J. Brannon Frank T. Buono Juan C. Cardona Paulino M. Carteiro Robert Joseph Casey Anuja Chaudhary Christopher John Collins Donald Eugene Crim Nancy A. Daigle Keith Phillip DeAmbrose Daniel Ferry Barbara Foley David Girouard Kristen E. Gleason Jillian R. Gorman John W. Harmon Deborah Kasabian William P. Kotsifas Brian Lankiewicz Francis Liang Kimberly A. Loiselle Sivhour Ly Martha J. Marsden Enkeleda Nakuci Glenn A. Nardini Vinay K. Ningala Laurence John O'Brien Allison Elaine O'Neill Santo J. Pirri Jason M. Poor Alycia Y. Ravenscroft Seth Rosenberger Jason N. Sackos William Harold Simon Suzette Danielle Spitzer Shaun P. Sullivan Malida Suong Michael Antony Testa Michelle Dubois Todd Jon D. Victorine Joseph Zahka Number of Class Donors: 58 Total Class Gift: $4,530.50

2005 Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Sandhya Balasubramanian Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Patrese Obrien Pierson Partners ($500-$999) Bon-cheol Ku Associates ($250-$499) Martin E. Lorrey Christopher L. Paige Nancy Pitkin Century ($100-$249) Steven M. Chaves Emily Irene Davis Geraldine Deyermond James S. Gleason James Lemieux Mary-Jane T. Mastrovich Sean Patrick McKenna Linda S. Noss John J. Porell Andrea Beth Reed

Pawan Kumar Roy Flaubert Tchantchou Shivashankar R. Vangala Friends ($1-$99) Mohammad A. Aleem Janine Baldi Daniel S. Berube Jessica Z. Bielawski Adam R. Boudreau Charlotte Ann Cardullo Vincent A. Carter Karrie Pui-King Chan-Lam John Crocker Stephanie Phyllis Dubay Philippa C. Dunn Ann Bromberg Ewalt John C. Gachuki Gladys Graciela Gomez Sushma Gottumukkala Scott D. Gould Margaret F. Hansberry Kristen E. Horndahl Stephen P. Johnston Gary M. Judd Kimberly A. Knesek Naomie Laime Phillipe Andres Loher Richard Loomis Roger H. Luce Tracy Anne Luther Patrick M. MacDonald Evelyn Martinez John McPartlan Adele Miller Peter John Murphy Robin L. Murray Katherine Nardoni Pamela R. Nedbalek Sean Ryan O'Melia Curtis A. Page Raymond M. Pendleton Robert M. Ricci Jr. Johnny Roche Steven E. Sharky Jason Ronald Stamp Michael Stepchinski Mark Sullivan Tam T. Tran William Francis Trelegan Craig Trumm Bobby G. Tugbiyele Maria Christine Twyon Jason M. Vallee Brenda C. Van der Beek Marie J. Voltaire Ming Wei Sharen E. Wheatley Majors Derek S. Winchester Kevin Michael Yonge Number of Class Donors: 74 Total Class Gift: $11,996.80

2006 Associates ($250-$499) Seongcheol Kim Heather A. Kirwin Century ($100-$249) Amit Asthana Kim Brandvold Charles E. Gobron Tracey Klein Cara Lambert Heather Madeleine Makrez Kleanthes Maloutas Michael T. McAuliffe Kevin John Noa Amy C. Osenar Mark J. Pandolfo Friends ($1-$99) Gregory John Anderson Yovani Baez

donor listing by class Susan Baker Elise Bennett Paul W. Berthiaume Darren R. Brown Andrew Livingston Chanler Joseph R. Charlebois Domenico Ciccone Bradford J. Cote Jason John Davis Leonard Doherty Vickie L. Duguay Georges Enow William Fennell Anupam Gohel Howie C. Goodell Chad E. Gosselin Bradley W. Hansen Sarah E. Hodgdon Shu-Feng Hsieh Eika Hunt Hevelt Jacques Leah Kennedy Shanna D. Kornachuk Vijay Jawahar Kudchadkar Sarah C. LaLiberte M. Kim Lindley-Soucy Wen Lu Matthew W. MacDonald Craig Joseph MacKenzie Joel P. Marchand Tina A. McCarthy Michael Whitfield Moretti Paul Nutter Jennifer Oquendo Michelle M. Orloff Robert D. Parr Igor Pavlov James Clarence Payne Stephen George Pernaw William M. Phelan Jeanne G. Ralls David J. Rapisarda Gail A. Richards Tara Sherman Harsha Sheshanna Sallyann Shumilla Elizabeth A. Smith Lisa J. Thornhill Frank Tiano Buntha Un Heather Ann Valley Robyn Wright Sung-hwan Yoon Catherine Ann Yu Number of Class Donors: 69 Total Class Gift: $3,722.00

2007 Associates ($250-$499) Frank Edward Andrews Century ($100-$249) Candace Balbo Victoria Rose Denoon Sharyn H. Hardy - Gallagher Roxane J. Howe Ryan Johnson Anthony Laudadio Brian C. Legg Joan C. Lehoullier Oved B. Lourie Janelle Parechanian Dianna L. Petrusky Scott William Slabaugh Friends ($1-$99) Daniel R. Allen Kristi Lynn Andrews Conor M. Baldwin Karen K. Barcal Anthony B. Beatrice Thomas Edward Boyle Tory Antawn Bunn Mark T. Carson Carol Ellen Chisolm

Sharon Marie Connolly Clint Cooper Melissa E. Crow Luis Cubillos Matthew J. Cullen Joanna L. DaLuze Munjal M. Desai Sean P. Garballey Charles Golub Robert Graziano Melissa Hatanaka Daniel Robert Hazen Shilpa Hegde Cynthia A. Kahrman Mary E. Kazanjian Megan Elizabeth Keating Sharon Lynn Lawrence Ryan Y. Leger Catherine C. Leonard Megan E. Lewis Shanshan Lin Manuel A. Madera Emily M. Makrez Matthew Marchand Mannarino Ana Maria Marin Casey A Maxwell Grace A. Megna Yahayra Y. Michel Josselyn P. Mroz Nina Nazarian Irene M. Nikonchuk Nicole M. Orlando Matthew Pagos Rex Keola Chen Parker Stephen E. Parsons Hiren R. Patel Daniel N. Paton Orlando M. Pena Stacy L. Penna James Richard Pierce Diego Pinheiro Michelle Yvonne Powers Julianne M. Rowan Walter J. Sacco Stephen Saia Leo V. Sciarappa Jennifer Lynn Sheppard Joan M. Short Nelson Jonathan Sosa Laurie Stanton Gerard Tannetta Anitha Vallamsetla Cindy Yaping Wang Yanping Wang Christopher R. Wiggin Number of Class Donors: 77 Total Class Gift: $4,214.00

2008 Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Subhalakshmi Nagarajan Associates ($250-$499) Anita J. Chieh Meridith MacKnight Century ($100-$249) Michael R. Asebrook Robert L. Breckenridge Joel Matthew Clabeaux Cynthia Davies Cunha Robert E. Dion Roger Howard Ellis Michael N. Gagnon Jennifer Ellen GonzalezZugasti Michael R. Gore Jason M. Gustin Randy Kulik Terry Wahl Robertson Friends ($1-$99) Martha Ashe Rebecca Ruth Audette

Damon A. Berry Daniel Kingsley Blizard Ashley Elizabeth Boltrushek Megan Brady Stephen Carrozza James Pang Chan Hee Sung Choi Jennifer M. Cole Leslie Cyle Conway John R. Coppola Corin D'Allessandro David R. Daniel William Robert DiBuono Erin M. Doherty Ryan Donovan Michelle Rose Dryden Joseph Patrick Durning Sharon L. Ellis Jacqueline A. Fallon Karen E. Frenn Judith Gabriel David Bryan Green Raul E. Guerra Steven D. Hachey Darius R. Hazard Stephen L. Holstrom Jeffrey John Howlett Evan Robert Huff Meghan B. Ierardi Moiz Shamsuddin Jafferji Xiaolu Jing Kejal Vimal Kaji Bhuvana S. Kaushik James Gregory Lamoureux Joseph A. Lattke Joseph Charles Lemp Eleni Liakakis Niyom Lue Larry Lumbreras Kadie M. Migliarese John Randall Morgan Michelle Mucciaccio Lauren Murray Susan J. Noyes Shawn O'Brien Ciaran Nomi O'Donovan Brian John Putnam Martha Ann Quigley Sherlyn Gbellay Roberts Anthony Sinopoli Richard Andrew Smith Robert James Smith Shannon C. Smith Julie St Onge Nicholas Joseph Stotik Sreelatha Subramanian Matthew Christopher Topalian Douglas J. Tranghese Colleen Ann Tully Linda Jean Vice-Hisey Sarah Elizabeth Westerdale Therese Anne Willette Frederick C. Williams Patrick Wilson Thomas Yahoub Zhijun Yu Number of Class Donors: 83 Total Class Gift: $8,399.00

2009 Associates ($250-$499) Ruth Chandler GilbertWhitner Marco Tambini Century ($100-$249) Kyle Mark Anderson Philip J. Caruso Kevin Charles Donnelly Erik R. Gitschier Tara Hughes Matthew Robert Killam Sharon Kosteva Chris K. Murugami Timothy L. Richardson Jr.

Sergio H. Sanchez Yingrui Shang Timothy D. Sullivan Friends ($1-$99) John P. Allen Juli A. Burger Patricia A. Burke Sean M. Carmody Lily Chung Michael B. Cooke Christina Ann Da Lomba Amanda L. Dalton Abbey Elizabeth Denaro Angelia Rose Dodge Matthew R. Dubois Timothy Joseph Duffy Robert J. Fernandez Kimberly Q. Foley Michael A. Frye Deniz Semih Gifford Matthew William Glick Sastry Jonnalagadda Mithun N. Kamath Jessica Kathleen Karl John Kelliher Michael A. Leo Rosa M. Lococo Troy Lundstrom Diane Patrick Lyon Daniel J. Macgilvray Recairdo Demetrius Mangrum Glenn Martin Sunil Kumar Marwaha David G. McCarthy Krystal Marie McPhillips Norman Phillip Morin Amy Elizabeth Musgrave Adam Raj Nelson Son Hong Nguyen Michele Pagliarulo Tara M. Pannese Paul Stephen Petrucci Chunhak Phay Colleen Patricia Phelan Rithea Pheng Elizabeth Marie Plantz Maxo Rene Jenelle Aidan Ries Kyle Schermerhorn Amy Schweighardt Anuj Atul Shah Ronald Shannon Andrew Richard Sheehan Thomas M. Sniezek Henry Yiu Yon So Michele Allison Sperry Patrizia Boschetti Stadler Michael Tabakoulias Craig R. Thomas Jeannine Mary Velazquez Donna Vieweg Stephanie M. Walker Michael P. Walsh Bruce William Weeks William Edward West Joshua Lee Wiczer Robert David Williams Kevin C. Yang Number of Class Donors: 78 Total Class Gift: $3,892.00

2010 Partners ($500-$999) Mary Cotter-Lemoine Maria A. Millett Century ($100-$249) Jeremy R. Badessa Christopher Joseph Cirone Andrea Marie Collins Christopher Forgione Amanda Hall Benjamin Scott Holmstrom Carter John Hutton

Ryan P. McCluskey Stephen G. O'Brien J. Michael O'Connor Nhut Minh Phan Jody Elizabeth Roper Glenn Arthur Rowe Samuel S. San Nicholas Charles Schaus Emery Brook Sears Cynthia Lynn Wagner David Karl Waltz Paul Matthew Worthington Friends ($1-$99) Scott E. Albrecht Isac Bafti Patrick J. Bean Saro Bedian Samar A. Belgacem Erich Andrew Benedix Amy J. Bergeron Gregory James Brown Jennifer Lynn Campbell Stephanie B. Carroll Paola Sybille Claude Tracy Conneely James Ashley Daigle Jason Christopher DeDonato Laura Dickerson Michael Charles Dolan Robert P. Donald Jacob Edmund-Acquah Nicholas Eng Chayenne Espinal Valerie J. Fernald Oliver Jean Fernandes Malcolm Forsman Andrew Warren Galeucia Patrick James Garrity Cynthia A. Geldart Elizabeth Kathryn Gilmore Guthrie W. Gordon Dana E. Grant Aniket Nandkumar Gurav Catherine Dean Hamilton Zebunnesa A. Hassan Nancy J. Hausherr Shaun Paul Hentchel Kylie K. Hirl Sarah Kizer Hobson Ana S. Huffstetler Nancy E. Imbriano Humza S. Jafferji Carlos Juan Seung Wook Kim Vattha Thanh Kim Andrew J. Knox Kevin A. Kordis Steve M. Koutalakis Collen E. Krueree Kyle J. Langlois Vivian Sophine Lasnier Sean Lemieux Rebecca Jane Lord Kenny Ly Edward T. Martel John Marzec Joseph R. McGrath Thomas Scott Medeiros Partha P. Mishra Sayed M. Mizan Thomas Francis Mullins Maureen S. Murray Michael Brian Neagle Priscilla S. Nelson Bao Tran Nguyen Aura Nocivelli Justin Dominic Oliver Dixit A. Patel Brian A. Pena Michael Robert Pietrantonio Jeremiah Frederick Pyle Dawn Joyce Reidy Jillian Claire Reilly Benjamin William Salley Nicole Danielle Sambursky Sara Jean Schloth

Brian P. Scott Thomas Joseph Screnci Christopher Brendon Seferlis Sahir Shakir Arthur Albert Sherman Edward P. Simmonds Daniel Szarejko Christopher Ray Tate Jonathan A. Taylor Charlie D. Thoren Joseph J. Tolland Le T. Truong Micah John Twombly Nestor Vazquez-deJesus Rajesh Pudukkoodi Velandy Kristen Walsh Number of Class Donors: 110 Total Class Gift: $6,012.00

2011 Associates ($250-$499) Ethan Handwerker Century ($100-$249) Ryan Michael Bouldin Nicholas J. Bouras Brendan Tulman Livingston Jean L. Robinson Matthew Eric Schneider Friends ($1-$99) Anna A. Aguilar Lenin R. Alberto Elizabeth Grace Ales Marie Ann Almodovar Joshua G. Anthony Jared Adam Arnofsky Angelee Marie Banda James Berger Melissa L. Bernier Jahmaal Ahmed Box Megan Elizabeth Burdt Sean D. Burns Sean M. Burns Anna Kin Chan Naomi Joyce Christianson Katelyn M. Collins Christopher James Compton Debra M. Conlon Scott A. Craven Carl Joseph D'Agostino John Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Amico Joshua E. Dallal Michael Joseph Dellogono Sophia Isabel Deno Juliana L. DiMarzio Thomas Henry Dowdle III Liam Timothy Driscoll Adam John Dunbar Samuel J. Dyas Samuel Robert Erickson Laura Elisabeth Fickenwirth Thomas Walter Fitzsimmons Rebecca Elizabeth Flynn Cassidy Violet Ford Timothy A. French Mark Timothy Garcia Njeri Gathura Stephen A. Giardini Deepankar Goyal Michael J. Greaney Jaime Hadley Jason A. Hebert Timothy John Hire Andrew John Hudson Gregory Jankuj James K. Jean Conchetta Jenifer Brittany Kadra Sarann Kong Wen Long Kuang Lianna Sachiyo Kushi Sean M. Landers Jenna Marie Lapachinski Phillip Dinh Le

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David P. LeBlanc Steven Joseph Leblanc John Lippiello Kayleigh Elizabeth MacLean Samantha Nicole Macy Geoffrey Goodworth Magee Kevin C. Maigatter Benjamin Hayes Martin Katherine Louise Massey Heather M. McAtamney Eric J. McCann Daniel Joseph McNamara Gabrielle Ann Medeiros Ella Marie Merullo James Michaels Morgan L. Milardo Charles W. Miller Michael Mizzoni Sindhura Mogulla Amanda G. Murray Kila Consilia Ngambong John W. Noble Rutwik Mineshbhai Patel Stephen Edward Pereira Catherine Rose Petrone Michael Keith Pruett Thavalong Prum Maryann Pulliam Donathan Emmanuel Edgard Raymond Michael R. Reid Jessica Hiette Saad Constance Morgan Sophie Schere Amy Schweighardt Joseph Timothy Sheahan Kristen Marie Tabacco Dumrongpow Tabtippawon Dan X. Tang Kyle J. Thompson Daniel Mark Titus Jaclyn Roberta Toner Jonathan Samuel Treibick Brian Michael Trischitta Joshua Turner Le M. Van Tuan D. Vu Heidi Marie Wright-Singer Number of Class Donors: 107 Total Class Gift: $2,634.42 *In the spirit of philanthropy, the class of 2011 and the Student Government Association made an additional donation to UMass Lowell on behalf of each member of the graduating class.

FACULTY AND STAFF Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) Aldo Crugnola Gary M. Mucica Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Anonymous Clairmont P. Carter Kathryn M. Carter Thomas M. Costello May Futrell Joey L. Mead Martin T. Meehan Jacqueline F. Moloney Kary Robertson Bernard Shapiro Diana Shapiro Aruna Vedula Krishna M. Vedula Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Anonymous

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Ahmed T. Abdelal Carol F. Barry Jayant Kumar Ashwin Mehta Johanna Bohan Riley Sheila A. Riley-Callahan Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Anonymous Sandhya Balasubramanian Julie Chen Edward Chiu Stephen B. Driscoll Anita M. Greenwood Charlotte Mandell Melisenda McDonald Ramaswamy Nagarajan Daniel J. Sandman Amad Tayebi Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Linda A. Barrington Dean J. Bergeron Sara M. Bogosian Meg Bond Emily D. Byrne James T. Canning John J. Catallozzi George P. Cheney Nina M. Coppens Paul C. Coppens John C. Davis Joyce G. Denning Kerry F. Donohoe Deborah Ellen Finch H. W. Flood Robert Forrant Susan A. Goodwin Steven Grossman Greg Herenda S. Braxton Hinchey Jan Chan Huang Mary Lou Hubbell Ann Marie Hurley Russell Karl David O. Kazmer Catherine A. Kendrick Robert G. Kunzendorf Fang Lai Richard Lemoine Robert A. Malloy Patricia A. McCafferty Stephen P. McCarthy Jeffrey E. Mead Patricia Noreau Stephen A. Orroth Melissa M. Pennell Stephen A. Pennell Geoffry Phillips-McEnany Donald E. Pierson Nick R. Schott Patrick Scollin Laurence Siegel Dana K. Skinner Robert H. Tamarin John Ting Michele L. Vercellin Deborah Anne White Joanne L. Yestramski

faculty and staff Fred Martin Martha Mayo Joyce McLaughlin Karen Devereaux Melillo Vera M. Ossen Kay Roberts Steven N. Rogers Walter Schier Richard Siegel Matthew V. Smith Anthony E. Szczesiul Stacy Agee Szczesiul Francis T. Talty Patricia A. Sullivan Talty Steven F. Tello Marian G. Williams Richard S. Zera Associates ($250-$499) Frank Edward Andrews F. Susan Bennett Moiz Bhindarwala Randolph Brashears Alease S. Bruce Ginger P. Burke George E. Chabot, Jr. Long Y. Chiang Anita J. Chieh James W. Coates Jr. Britta J. Dean Ellen C. Duggan Patricia L. Fontaine Robert R. Gamache Suzanne A. Gamache Jehanne-Marie Gavarini Robert H. Giles Gena R. Greher Demetra Gys David Hadley Charmaine P. Hickey Kerri L. Johnston Ralph Jordan Rita V. Kelleher David Kriebel Lila A. Lorrey Martin E. Lorrey Stephen Moses Anne Mulvey Deirdra Murphy Patrick A. Nsumei John R. Ouellette Nancy Pitkin Jean L. Pyle Margaret M. Quinn Paula M. Rayman Susan M. Reece Kathleen F. Shannon Thomas B. Shea Jay W. Simmons James A. Sullivan Thomas Taylor Anh Tran Patricia Trela Lauren A. Turner Holly A. Yanco Patricia A. Yates Xiaoqi Zhang

Partners ($500-$999) Robert B. Barnett Charles Byrne Elaine A. Dalton Kathleen M. Doyle John J. Giarusso Robert R. Gower James F. Hall Jr. Stacey T. Hubbard Jeannie Sargent Judge Richard A. Kenney Sarah Kuhn Donald Lampron Stuart L. Mandell Paul F. Marion

Century ($100-$249) Lisa M. Abdallah Craig Armiento William W. Bannister Pamela A. Barry Gail F. Beaudoin Mary L. Beaudry Oneida Blagg Ryan Michael Bouldin Daniel B. Brosnan Jr. Christopher Carlsmith Pauline A. Carroll Michael J. Carter Peter J. Casey Liana Cheney Sean M. Collins Mary M. Connelly

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Victoria Rose Denoon James Drew Ruth Dubey Jr. Patricia A. Duff Raymond F. Dunn Diane H. Earl Brenda I. Evans Susan Faraji James Forest Stuart Freedman Laura H. Frye Monica Galizzi Gary D. Gardner Christine Gillette Pauline M. Golec Jennifer Gonzalez-Zugasti Matthew W. Gordon Darryl K. Green Louise G. Griffin Claire Hoffman Hall Sharyn H. Hardy-Gallagher Richard Harvey Jesse M. Heines Diane K. Hewitt Jacqueline Hodgdon Susan Houde George I. Kachen Minjeong Kim Valerie Lynne King Linda H. Kistler Rachel M. Laquidara Jason S. Lawrence Joan C. Lehoullier Donald G. Leitch Athena G. Letsou Lian Li Loren Lidsky Heather Madeleine Makrez Lisa Marchand-Ciriello David J. Martins Ellen Michaud-Martins Mary-Jane T. Mastrovich Terrence J. McCarthy Jr. Sean Patrick McKenna Shortie McKinney Katherine C. Merrill Tammy B. Millette Arno R. Minkkinen Avalon Nick Minton Mark H. Mortensen Philip Moss William Moylan J. Michael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Steven H. O'Riordan Nese Orbey Giampiero Pecelli Claudine Perreault Kanti Prasad Laura M. Prudden Sharon Quigley James Mark Reimer Bodo W. Reinisch Mary E. Robbins Jean L. Robinson Eugene J. Rogers David Rondeau Beth Rubenstein Carol Salter Daniel Schmidt Yingrui Shang Gail Sheehy Susan A. Spellissy Ursula Steele Joanne C. Talty Flaubert Tchantchou M. Jeannie Tremblay David A. Turcotte Katherine Tyndall Shivashankar R. Vangala Joseph Walsh Arthur C. Watterson Jr. Eugene F. Welch Jr. Joyce White Thomas A. Wilson Martina Antoinette Witts Lynn Wong

Jane E. Worthley Michaela W. Wyman-Colombo Eunsang Yoon Margarita Zapata-Turcotte Friends ($1-$99) Deina Abdelkader Kareem S. Abu-Zahra Benjamin Adoo Gregory Aftandilian Elizabeth B. Ambe Tosun Aricanli Lenore Azaroff Judith A. Barnes-Long Diane M. Barrus Lisa Barry Kimberly Bilawchuk Ann Marie Bird Leo M. Bobek Judith Boccia Kenneth R. Boisvert Patricia O. Bossi Dohn A. Bowden Ann Bratton Doreen E. Bray Carol Brown Gilbert J. Brown Janet Burke Danielle C. Callahan Charles F. Caroll Paulino M. Carteiro Lindsay Casavant Robert Joseph Casey Claire Chamberlain Cindy Chen Ashok L. Cholli Kyungseok Choo Patricia L. Coffey Maria M. Conley Richard M. Conley Peter F. Cornetta Michael J. Coulombe Karen M. Daniels Judith Davidson Guy B. Demartinis Lucille DeRoeck Nancy A. Desjardins Robin A. Desmond Khanh Dinh Elizabeth J. Donaghey Elaine Kathleen Donnelly Erin Doyon Claude G. Dozois Patrick J. Drane Stephen M. Drescher Steven M. Driscoll Jill L. Drury William Dubie Kerry L. Dudley Mary N. Duell Philippa C. Dunn Raymond F. Dunn James J. Egan Melissa Jane Egan Sheila Eppolito Steven Eramo Daniel Ferry John J. Fitzgerald Michele K. Fox Xinwen Fu Patricia J. Gallagher Mahdi Garelnabi Bethany L. Gentleman Kristen E. Gleason Mary E. Gleason Betsy E. Goldenberg Robert Grantham Jose L. Guerrero Ronald G. Guilmette Edward L. Hajduk Beth E. Halaby Catherine Dean Hamilton Catherine A. Hanley Elizabeth Harriman Jacqueline A. Hawk Ronald L. Heckman

Mark E. Hines Jerome L. Hojnacki Shu-Feng Hsieh Samantha June Hudson Cheryl Hugus Karen A. Humphrey-Johnson Eika Hunt Anna Isaak-Ross Seth Izen Cynthia Wedekind Jacobs David E. Jillson Brenda Jochums Slez Stephen P. Johnston George Joseph Ekaterini Karipidis Erin Keene-Crouse Elaine Keough Alexander Kheifets Byungki Kim Sheila Lynn Kirschbaum Ken Kleiner Kimberly A. Knesek Margaret Knight Elizabeth Faith Kotyla Lianna Sachiyo Kushi Pauline Ladebauche Diane Laderoute John P. Lahoud Robert J. Lechner Jacqueline Ledoux William E. Lekas Mary F. Levasseur Haim Levkowitz Frederick Lewis Jonathan Liebowitz Benyuan Liu Jill Lohmeier Xuejun Lu Jack Luskin Daniel P. Lutz Patricia Lyon John Barry Mahoney Elaine Major Virginia Maki Joel P. Marchand Bridget M. Marshall Theresa M. McDonald Lily Mendez-Morgan Wallace Millner Karin Tusinski E. Miofsky Elizabeth Adrienne Mohan William F. Moloney Jr. Ravi Montenegro Maria A. Montesalvo James Moran Joann Moriarty-Baron Karen Morin Gregory James Morose Martin Moser Karen Mullins Kathleen A. Mulvihill Lois A. Nangle Chandrika Narayan Julie L. Nash James H. Nehring Gerard P. Nelson Tuyen T. Nguyen Paul R. Niemi Suzanne Nobrega Paul Nutter Arnold L. O'Brien Caitlin J. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien Alexander A. Olsen John Ormonde Michele Pagliarulo Maria Panagakis Lisa Panagopoulos Janet Paton April F. Pattavina Miki M. Patterson Stephen P. Petrie James Richard Pierce Janet M. Pohl Phyllis A. Procter Christos Protonotarios

friends Cynthia Puleo Susan Ralls Thomas M. Regan Vickie M. Reyes Bonnie Anderson Rising Struan R. Robertson Gregory A. Rushton Vanntha Sann Janet M. Sawyer Michelle Scribner-MacLean, EdD Sandra Seitz Nancy G. Selleck Harriet Shanzer Mengyan Shen Shellie R. Simons Nancy Sireen Stuart Smith Linda Southworth Colin C. Spence Bruce D. Stacy Imogene A. Stulken Joyce A. Sullivan Shaun P. Sullivan Gail C. Tangard Paula J. Telesco Michael Antony Testa Karen Thomas Robin Ann Toof Colin L. Trelegan Rhoda R. Trietsch David A. Turcotte Susan P. Turcotte Gavriel Katherine Tyndall Phitsamay Uy Audrey A. Veiga Jon D. Victorine Donna Vieweg Evanthea Vlahakis Karen Volis John W. Walkinshaw Kristen Walsh Jie Wang Yanping Wang Susan C. Wartman Arthur C. Watterson Jr. Ming Wei Danielle White James E. Whitten Jenifer Whitten-Woodring Eileen M. Williamson Susan B. Winning John C. Wooding Robyn Wright Sung-hwan Yoon Javier Edgardo Zapanta Total Donors: 403 Total Support: $326,814.43

FRIENDS OF THE UNIVERSITY Francis Cabot Lowell Circle ($100,000+) Howard R. Berke Gururaj Deshpande Josephine Hoff Irene Liporto Arthur S. Zamanakos

Principals Circle ($5,000-$9,999) Carole Barrett Fleurette L. Boutin John Chemaly George L. Duncan Swanee Hunt Mitchell E. Kertzman Shalin Liu Edward J. Moloney, Esq. Keith J. Motley Joan Sparrow Kendall Wallace Kristen E. Williams Patrons Circle ($2,500-$4,999) Francis C. Corcoran Michael Costello Aloke Jain Amaresh Mahapatra Jack D. O'Connor Therese M. O'Connor John H. Pearson Jr Susan P. Rizos Carmen Joseph Scarpa Robert K. Sheridan Susan Tripathy Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Jason Allen James E. Barrett Robin H. Begley Rob Budd Debra Darby Mary Elizabeth DeMallie Ann Shanahan Delfuoco Joyce G. Denning Donald F. Doyle Timothy Goodell Bill Heffron Joseph J. Kekejian George B. Leahey William Lemos Arnold S. Lerner Maureen A. Lerner Donny McCoy Thomas P. Nerney Rosemary E. Noon Marianne Paley Nadel Scott Pierce Anthony L. Sagona Nicholas Sannella Judith Sizer Nancy F. Sizer Theresa M. Starkey John C. Thibault Shirley G. Thomson Deborah Anne White Martin Wolf

Innovators Circle ($10,000-$24,999) Cynthia Chamberas Arthur T. Demoulas Mary Jane Nehring Marie C. Profio

Associates ($250-$499) Peter G. Arnold F. Susan Bennett Roger Breslin Elizabeth M. Cavicchi Ann Marie Clark David Comeau Jeffrey W. Cowles Bradley Davis Don DiPietro William J. Dowe Jr. Susan Garratta Maureen R. Gervais Rashid Kadir Robert S. Karam Rita V. Kelleher James F. Kistler Leonard L. Lopes Meridith MacKnight Janet L. Moore John F. Moynihan

Paulette L. Mulligan Laurie S. Nehring Stephen Nicoloro Bradley J. Orchard John J. Post Barbara Powell Larry Price Louis Stylos, DMD Terry Sullivan Donna Sutherland Peggy Sutherland Elise Wolf Century ($100-$249) Cathy Accomando Debbie Aleksa Glenn B. Anderson Ben Anthony Francis R. Ardita Margaret Arrigo David W. Avison Douglas Barrington Sheila Rose Barter Martha P. Bean Patricia A. Bean Silvia Strong Bennet Eleanor Beshears John Beshears John Beshears Pankaj Bhatia Eleanor A. Bissell Peggy Bouchard Ryan Michael Bouldin Margaret Burhoe Paul D. Calvert Gary G. Campbell Amy Cannon Edward F. Capraro Lucille A. Capraro Theodore Carey Daniel Chambers Dennis Chenette Flavia Cigliano Donald C. Clark Laura Clay Walter Cochran-Bond J. Stephen Collins Michaela Colombo Dyanne Connelly Tosi Lorene Connolly Steve Coravos Charles J. Cristello Jonathan Crockett Suzzanne Cromwell Gabrielle Crueger James P. Cullen Edgar Cyrus Dean Dartey Ramana Dhara Kerry Donohue

Carol Dwyer Debra D. Easton Irene M. Egan Robert A. Enos Scott Fankhouser Nancy Ferrer Tonya Fisher Christopher Forgione Gil Frechette Ellen Freeman Lisa Gauthier James V. Gerraughty Vassilios Giavis Robert Goodhue Mary Frances Gorman Deb Grossman Jason M. Gustin Thomas Haas Claire Hoffman Hall Robert L. Hampel Charles F. Henderson Arthur Hennessey Leslie Morin Hennessey John Hobbs Richard P. Howe Glen Hoyle Gerald D. Iandoli Martha L. Iarrapino Judith E. Izen Mico Kaufman Priscilla G. Kelley William Kelly Christopher Keys Miriam Klein Virginia LaFreniere James C. Lane Earle R. Laste (Deceased) Stephen F. Lavoie Steve Lavoie William Lavoie Louis K. Leung Marie Antoinette Lewis Ralph Loosigian Thalia Loosigian Jeremiah C. Lynch III George D. MacDougall Bonnie J. MacWhinneyCramer Christopher Magay Gay B. Mahder Michael R. Malo Caroline W. Marvin Mary T. Mazza Paul McCarthy Terrence J. McCarthy Jr. Carolyn McCreary Lori & Brian McDermott Thomas P. McGuill Adrian Mendoza Carol M. Mento

Saumil N. Merchant Larry Michaud Lisa Mooney Robert T. Morse Jr. Paul W. Mucica Michael Murray Lisa Nehring Pamela Nehring Steven Neri Michael C. Nickerson Eugene M. Novak Jr. Ann M. O'Connell Ann M. O'Donnell Karen M. Pacheco Budhinath Padhy Corliss M. Paolino Dan Parkhurst Cathy Pearlman Joan M. Petros David E. Pinsky J. Arthur Poitras Sashi Dhar Poudel Kathleen Boshar Reynolds Peter Q. Rich Gerry Riley Avery Rimer Neville Rivet James Robertson Suzanne H. Rodgers Joel Ross Mark Rouleau Martha Rounds Marc F. Salsman Professor Dominick Sama Albert P. Scheiner Carl W. Schmidt The Silva Family Hal Sizer Daryl Stanko Edward B. Stevens Katharine Suchmann Charles J. Sullivan Jane Sullivan Joyce A. Sullivan Caprice Tarbox Margot C. Thomas Luanne E. Thorndyke R.J. Tolan Mary Trahn Patricia A. Tyra David P. Valley Mary D. Vassel Robert M. Waitt Victoria Therese Wall Michael Wallin Joseph Walsh Arthur C. Watterson Jr. Drew Weber Terase Weisinger Renee Welch

Pedal Power Makes Miles of Difference

Benefactors Circle ($50,000-$99,999) Harry F. Bean (Deceased) Nancy L. Donahue Richard K. Donahue, Esq. Mark Ian Gelfand Arjun Malhotra Fellows Circle ($25,000-$49,999) John Alden Anonymous Individuals Alexander Ogonowski

Partners ($500-$999) Patricia Almon Kim Barkyoumb Kelly Blair Alexandre Blumstein Rita Blumstein Jake Carr John H. Costello Jr. Robert R. Gower Barbara Hazen Glidden Charles Hendricks Richard P. Herman Kevin Holmstrom Michelle M. Holmstrom Young-Gi Kim Brian W. Leahey Taek Seung Lee Ada Mandell (Deceased) Mary H.B. McCarthy Joyce McDaniel Susan Mitchell Michael J. Opre John Owen Carole Pearce Mary Jane Powell Robin Ruhwedel David J. Sebeny Diane M. Shanahan Lura Smith Dorothy F. Sullivan Bernard Swartz Mildred Swartz Stacy Agee Szczesiul Elaine Zouzas Thibault Christopher Warren Sandra A. Wilson Grace E. Wolf

James Nehring, Assistant professor, Graduate School of Education

Inspired by the love and sacrifice of three very important women in his life, each of whom provided long-term care for loved ones, Prof. James Nehring of the Graduate School of Education bicycled across the United States to help establish the Mary, Joan and Nancy Scholarship for Courage and Compassion. In the name of Mary, his mother; Joan, his mother-in-law; and Nancy, his good friend, Nehring completed the last part of his 4,000-mile bike ride this past summer to endow a scholarship for first-generation UMass Lowell students who aspire to become teachers. Along the way, he checked in with

faculty, family and friends. His greetings from Glasgow, Mont., read: “All is well at the end of day seven on the road. I had a tailwind all the way through North Dakota and averaged over 100 miles a day. Headwind first two days in Montana and I’m averaging 60!” Thanks to the contributions of so many donors—the power of one making a tremendous collective difference—Nehring surpassed his $25,000 fundraising goal. Please visit the UMass Lowell website if you wish to see this vital scholarship grow for aspiring teachers: www.uml.edu/advancement/maryjoannancy. 19

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John L. Wernicki Pam White Jane F. Wilson Mary Winants Paul Matthew Worthington Kenneth Wynne Margarita Zapata-Turcotte Friends ($1-$99) Nurradin H. Abdo Mary C. Albert Eunice Alberts Baptiste Amar Jeffrey D. Anderson Leeann Atkinson Janet Axelrod Dorothy C. Ayer Robert Arthur Belanger Janet Benn Cecile L. Berube Rod Berube Laura Beshears Lydia H. Blanchard James Blatchford John R. Bohannon Mario Lennon Boiardi Marylou Bolduc Sandra Boulay Linda Bracco Mary V. Brady Margaret Britton Deborah J. Brossi Carol Brown Janet Burke David Butz Philip A. Cahill Dick Cameron James J. Capua Erica Carbone Danielle Marie Carkin Julie Carr Lindsay Casavant Michael F. Cassandra Harry Chan A. Chase Ashok L. Cholli Roberta Churchill Steven R. Cloutier Dennis Coffey Mary Coffey Merrill Cohen Judith D. Coletta Daphne A. Cooke Sarah Cornwell Shawn Cortes Barbara J. Courchaine Lynn V. Courtney Adele Cukor Jeff M. Cukor Barbara Curtin John T. Daggett Jr. Daniel Dalton Deborah Dandeneau Frances Daneault Dorothy M. Dash Vipal B. Dave Kimberly S. Davis Betty-Jane Day Joseph De Renzis Jennifer De Zutter Jerry De Zutter John M. DeAngelis Matthew Dean Michael Joseph Deasy John Anthony Enrico Del Ponte Debra J. Demartino Christine Deschene Pradeep Dhal Elisa Di Bari John Dion Karen G. Dirocco Destiny L. Dumont Philippa C. Dunn Rabeh Elleithy Elizabeth A. Enaire Sheila Eppolito

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Peter N. Ersland Anna Fadden Araya Anita Fast Brenda Finch Pam Forsythe Dana W. Fox Kathleen Franzese William Frawley Russell Gaudiana Rosalind Gendreau Barbara M. Gibbons Aubrey L. Gikas Rihana Teresa Glavin Susan M. Golini Gladys Graciela Gomez Bernice Gonzalez Cathi Gosine Bryan Gosselin Anne Grallert Dorcas C. Grigg-Saito Jaime Hadley Kit Harbison Barbara J. Hardesty Brian Harris Marjorie D. Harvey Sharon Hatch Thelma L. Hayward Darius R. Hazard Kerry Heelon Darlene R. Hemstreet Caroline B. Henriques Lorin Hill Sally Le Ho Declan Hobbs Lillian C. Jacobs Michael Jarvis Joseph F. Jelson Brenda Jochums Slez Derek M. Jones Dawn C. Jubinville Ann P. Kazer Brian Keating Maureen Kelley Ellen Kemp Diane A. Kemsley Arnold M. Kerzner Claire Knox Chris F. Koenig Jonathan Kozol Adam Kramschuster Karen A. Kravchuk Judith Kurland Allison Lamey Julie Lankiewicz Maryann V. Lavallee Jeffrey LeClair Mary Val Leahy Denise I. Legault Sharon Levy Jason Lewis Anita Rose Lipsett Natalie Loaiza Mary Macy Meryl Mandell Marshall P. Marice M.C. Martel Paula S. McCarron Claire E. McCarthy William J. McCarthy JoAnne McClendon Eileen McDonald Richard J. McDonald Lori McKiel Robert J. McMahon II Maxine McMartin Edward J. McNeil Rhonda Meisel Joseph J. Micalizzi Shari Elizabeth Miles Andrew S. Miller Wallace Millner Richard C. Minesinger Ellen Mintzner Gloria Miranda Colleen Montemarano Lorinda Morimoto Jen Morse

Mabel N. Morse Margaret A. Murray Mal Murthy Charles Muwonge Amanda Nehring Katherine Nehring Nicole Nickerson Deborah G. Niles Mary Jo Nispel Pam Nourse David E. Nowoswiat Ellen J. O'Brien John J. O'Brien John S. O'Brien James F. O'Donnell Jr. Jamie O'Hearn Susan Okuhara Deborah Osofsky Ann M. Page Cynthia Wilson Paolillo Linda D. Paquette Mary H. Paquette Jennifer Abbott Park Andrew K. Parke Vicky Parks Edward Perreault Janice L. Perry David C. Petersen William T. Phelan Joanne Pijoan Monica Pilman Roberta L. Pinta Jennifer Plourde Terri Poirier Mark D. Pudvelis Jennifer Pujo Peter D. Quigley Chad Rabinovitz Sumana Ramachandrappa Natti Rao Tamara Record Paulette M. RenaultCaragianes Arthur J. Richard Clare Ringwall Ana M. Rodriguez Ann Roellke Davor Roglic Sheila M. Rourke Heather L. Rousseau Rebecca Rudeen Nick Russo Alex Ruthmann Anne M. Ruthmann Melinda A. Ryan Amy Elizabeth Saba-Farmer Laurie Sabol Elizabeth Santagati Teresa Santomango Danielle L. Savoie Loretta E. Scalfani Kendall Schieding Linda Schymik Corey Sciuto Chris Augusta Scott Kristin Seed Carolyn A. Sellars Shailesh P. Shah Linda Shea Raymond Siegelman Darlene M. Silva Judith E. Smith Matthew B. Smith Stuart Smith Stephen Smulski Meg Sobkowicz Kline Roger Somers Gertrude G. Soucy Robyn Souza Kylie Speirs Susan Hicks Spurlock Margaret St. Peter Robert Michael Stack Janice M. Stecchi Imogene A. Stulken Maura Sullivan Terrence Sullivan

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parents Heidi Taber Hagos Teffera Phyllis V. Terrey Jamie A. Tessler Craig R. Thomas Shanna Rose Thompson Melvin Scott Thomson Mary Tiseo Elizabeth Traubert Mary I. Travers Robert Travis Linda J. Twohig Kenneth Udas Stephen G. Vaitones Klara Vajda Jairo Vargas Hugh Vartanian Domonique Andre Walcott George D. Walsh Donna A. Warren Emily M. Welch Barbara A. Whitcomb Lezli A. Whitehouse Samantha Whitney Mike Whitten Stanley W. Wisnioski Jr. Gary Wnek Paul Wolf Sarah Wolf Janet Woodward Norm MJ Zarella Joan L. Zink Kevin Richard Zipps Tomasina Zirpolo Patrick van Rooyen Total Donors: 606 Total Support: $1,903,498.07

PARENTS Sponsors Circle ($1,000-$2,499) Rosie Budd Joseph J. Kekejian Patricia Koczera Peter Laursen, MD Partners ($500-$999) Kelly Blair Cathy Corbacio Julie Ferreira Robert H. Giles Associates ($250-$499) Arthur M. Ales Melissa Barnes Anita J. Chieh Mary Clark Linda Hampton Suzanne Hughes Sheryl Jendrock William J. Lewis Lorraine Stone Century ($100-$249) Al Abraham Kevin Albrecht Margery Anderson Corinne Andrade Terry Andrews James Auld Charles R. Bruderer Marilyn Bruderer Lyda Budrys Debbie Burke Randy Burke Paul Burstein Steven M. Chaves Donna Cook Henry Cook Lise Corriveau Kevin Crowley Kelly Curry Helenita S. Hamer Joe DaSilva Eric Darling

Margaret B. Darling Robert A. Dickson Louis Divers Rebecca Douglass Kathleen Lewis Dresser Bruce Dyas David C. Eklund John Emanouil Anne Enaire David M. Fischer Arnold Fonseca Anne Ford Richard Forgione Ellen Furlong Desiree Fyler Jack Geissert David S. Gillies Susan J. Grant Shelley Grove David T. Hansbury Janice Healy Mary Herring Lisa Hines Linda Howse Lynn Huff Sophann Im Rebecca Jani Robert Jess Susan Jones Monica Joyce Thomas E. Kane William F. Kent Donna Killam Steve King Michael LaBonte Denise LaPlante Phyllis Lanciani David Lavoie Xiu Lee Nancy Lobdell Theresa Losanno Ted Lovett James Martin Anita Mashiter Ian Mashiter Linda McCann Linda McGrath Tricia McIntire Sylvie Moriarty Colleen Morris Allan Morrissey Robin Mosgrove Anne Mulhern Jim Muntz Jacqueline Murphy Theresa Nearhos Peggy Nicoloro Stephen O'Brien Maria O'Halloran Jennifer O'Neil Paul Painten Susan Parviainen Sharon Pitts Virgilio Ramos Gonzalez Joseph Regan Stephen Riley Christopher Ring Sr. Judy Robinson Susan Rogers Gale Rossie Richard Russo Rajiv Sharma Douglas L. Sheadel Mary Sheehan Sandra Shreve Carolyn Sniezek Bala Sridhar Margart Stein Andrea Sullivan Brian Summers Gary Sutherland Patricia M. Sylvestre Charles E. Sylvestre Jr. Kon Tan Patricia Tawa Hagos Tesfera Kathy Tighe

Maryann Trask Merrilyn Trubiano Bill Tuttle Cheri Valentine Rammohan Vangapalli Edward Viera Ernest Von Holten Michelle Walker Debra L. Walsh Kevin Walther Catherine Walton Bill White Victoria Wilcox Maryanne Wilson Michael Zlotnik Friends ($1-$99) Michael Abruzzese Russell Ackroyd Paula Acquaviva Tomasz Adach Greg Adamian OLawale Adeyemi William Aiken Kathy Airoldi Bonnie Akerley Rodah Al-Taweel Mikell Ales Kathleen Ali David R. Allen Diane Allen Jeff Allen Andrea Almquist Erin Altobello Miguel Alvarez Gail Amabile Joanna Amado Barbara G. Anderson Mark Anderson Michele Anderson Russell Anderson Mary Annicchiarico Bryan Aponte Marie Araujo Dave Armstrong Richard Armstrong Scott Arn Bob Arnold Sherry Arnold Cindy Arsenault Terri Arsenault Karen Askins Akuvi Ayeh Robin Babcock Tudor Babiuc Ida Babroudi Radjinder Badhan Dawn Baez Sally Bailey-Gates Patricia Bailin Elaine Balas Joseph Balchunas Kathy Barniak Wendy Baron Colleen Barrett Barbara Barrington Mike Barrington James Barton Colleen E. Basch Nancy Bass Linda A. Bassett Debbie Bastian Peggy Batchelder Robert W. Beauchamp Nikki Beauvais Diana Bechara Richard Bedard Orsonne Begon Andrea Beland Amy Bellinghieri Thomas Bennett John Berardi Timothy Berger Jayne Bernier Robert Betts Laurie J. Bibby Stella Billiri

parents Bonnie Biocchi Ellen J. Bissaillon Calvin Bivins Jeanne Blackstone Patricia A. Blais Reginald Blanchard J. Mark Boeing Kelly Bohaker Jeffrey Boisvert Yola Boland Jacquelyn Bonarrigo Jennifer Bongiorno Donna Bonkowski Jerrold Bonn Judy Booman Jane Boris Barbara Boudreau Frederique Boulanger Sandra Boulay Cynthia Boundy Deborah Boutiette Lisa G. Bozzella Lynne Brady Walter Braunschweiger Leon Breckenridge Mike Brennan Timothy Bresnahan Marsha Bretton Christina Brooks William Brooks Cynthia Brown Frances Brown Brendalyn V. Browne Bob Bruce Linda M. Bryant Barbara Bryer Regina Buckley Paul J. Budra Vitale Bulgakova Kerri A. Bull Debra A. Burbank Susan Burke Lynne Burns Rosemarie Buxton Rhea Mae Cabrera Jane Cahill Debbie Caisse Carol Calabro Kevin Calver James Camasso Christine Campaniello Edward J. Campbell Leila Candelario Robert Canova Anthony Caprio Ellen Capua Mark Caramanica Andrea Carey Gail Carey Gino Carlucci Karen Caron Jane Carpenito Linda Carrabino Cheryl Carrigan Lois Carroll Maureen Carroll Vincent Carusi Francine Caruso Dan Cash Beth Cebula Nancy Center John Chaber Dawn M. Chabot Kathleen Chalmers Monica Chamberlain Deborah Champagne Anna Kin Chan Kin Chan Synodia Chapeta Joann Chausee Priscilla Chaves Ly Chen Cathi Cherry-Liston Sanghamitra Chowdhury Arthur Chung Susan Churchill Donna Ciancetta

Robin Ciccone Sal Citta Sharon Clabeaux Karen Clapper Audrey Clark Dawn Clark Donna Clark Pamela Clark Wendy Clark Michael Clay Linda Cobleigh Joao Coelho Michelle Coffey Deborah A. Cole Gina Cole Nancy Cole Susan Cole Philomena M. Comeau Grace Conklin Mary Connell Nancy Connolly Angie Connors Arlene Connors Gary Conrad Frank Convertino Karen L. Conway Leona Cook Michelle Cook Ellen Corfield Andre Coriolan Sue Cormier MaryAnn Cornwell Catherine Coronella Sarah Correia Mary Jean Costa Maureen Costantino Mary Costanzo Kathy Costello George Albert Cote Nancy A. Cote Jeannie Coushaine Susan S. Craven Michelle Crawford Daniel Crocker Lillian Cronin John Cunniff Andrew Currie Lauren Curry Wieslawa Cwieka Judy D'Olympia Jim Daly Vivian Dano Afua Danso Jeanne Danton Christopher P. David Maureen Davis Marcio Ramos De Melo Ronald DeFoe Elizabeth DeMarco Diane DePari Karen DeSantis John Deady Chris Decker Kristine M. Decker Nancy Decker Janice M. Deiorio Barbara Delaney Sheri R. Dellogono Joyce Demande Maurizio Demari Kathy Denehy Brian Denis Judy Derobertis Kathleen Descoteaux Asma Desravines Deanna Devine BJ Devlin Lynn Dewhirst Doreen DiBari Sal DiBlasi Anthony DiGiovanni Carol DiMaio Rich DiMare Karen J. DiNardi Denise DiTonno Anette Dimeco Thieu Dinh

Carmen Dinulescu Michelle Divoll Ann Doherty Kevin Doherty Terry Doherty Michael Donnelly Daniel Joseph Donoghue Robin Donoghue Maria Donohue Kathleen Donovan Nancy Donovan Dawn Dooley Robert C. Dooley Marsha Dorris Sompong Johnsmith Douangchith Jim Doucette Belinda D. Dowdle Margaret Downes Kevin Downing Barbara A. Downs Debbie Driscoll Linda Duchak Joanne Duffy Frances Dukich Francis Dukich Ellen Dupuis Priscilla Durand Samantha Durant Donna Duva Steven F. Duva Susan Dwyer William Dwyer Linda Early Joseph Ebiware Diane Eliopoulous Bill Elwell Scott Entwistle Joel Erickson Nancy Espinola Kathy Evans Mary Ellen Evans Cheryll Evers David Eycleshymer Alan FInch Sheila M. Fabiano Francesco Facendola Liz Fahey William Fallon Susan Farrell William F. Farrell Terry Favulli Elaine Fecteau Janet Fedyk Robert V. Feeley Bill Ferguson Marc Fidler Michael P. Fineberg John J. Fionda Joe Fiorante Anthony Fiore Joanne Fish Luanne Flood Karen Flynn Muire Flynn Douglas W. Fogerty Michael Foley Walter Foley Robin Follansbee Claire Forand Beth Foster Vicki Fotis Diane Fournier Carl Fowler Donna J. Franey Tracy Frechette Timothy A. French Ellen Fresh Kathy Frey Jan Fulton Mahesh Gadgil Helga Galanos Kim Gamble Hong Gao Arlene Gardino Christopher Garrahan Kathryn Gavin

Cathy Gavriel Donna Gay Marc Gendron Sandra L. George San Giampapa Karen Gibbons Eileen Giddings Mary Gilbride Michael Gillespie Katherine Gillis Richard A. Gilstrap Michael B. Gleason Melvin Glover Lois A. Goldstein Josefina Gonzalez Steven Gordon Mark J. Gorham Donna C. Goulet Kevin G. Graham Stephanie Granville Pandora Gray Laurie Green Michiko Greeno Joseph Gresci Jeff Griffin Patricia Griffin Christine Griggs Susan Guidi Nancy Guptill Linda Guruge Joseph Gyasi Steven Hadder Roy E. Haight Jr. Valerie Hajj Tammy Hamilton Kim Hampson Jennifer Hancock Heather J. Hanley Lorraine G. Hanley Patricia Harrington Rita Harrington Shawn Harrington Nancy Hart Tricia Hartigan AnnMarie Hartmann Anis Hassan Helen Hayes Thomas R. Haynes Venture Hazard Brian Heglin Lisa Hickey Joe Higgins Anne High Douglas W. Hillman Thay Hoac Carla J. Hoctor Gardner Hodson Christine Hoffman Laura Hoffman Richard Hogaboom Linda Hollis Ross Holmstrom Julie Hopkins Henry Houde Joan Houghton Lynn Houskeeper Mik Hun Catherine Hunt Trisha Huntley Denise J. Hurt Donald Hurt Rudolph Hypolite Deborah Iannuzzo Patricia Illsley Sal Imbornone Chovy C. In Kyoji Inashima Toshiko Inashima Sharifun Islam Jane Isokungas George Iszlai Karen Iszlai Fatumete Jaiteh Michelle Jelley Kevin Johnson Melissa Johnson Robert Johnson

Benjamin Jones Kathleen Jones Debbie Jordan Joyce Josephson Dawn C. Jubinville Allison Juers Karen Kane Donna Karapatsas Marion Kaskiewicz Donna Katsoudas Barbara Kellegrew Carole Kemper James Kennedy Nano Kenneway John Keogh Lisa Keough Lynette Khirallah Rebecca Kibett Patricia Kiefner Carol Kilbride Paul Kilduff Kathy Kinnon Susan Kirk Sheila Lynn Kirschbaum Josef Kish Sheila Kish Christopher A. Knowles Mary Knowles Kendall Victoria Knox Sandra L. Knox Michele Koch Bill Kolbe Julie Kondon Jukka Konola Tanya Kopec Lynda Koplove Viviane Korbani Phyllis Kordas Karoline Korslund Theodore M. Kostandin Pamela Kostka Franceen M. Kotzur Ann Kourmanopoulos Barbara Koziol Sheldon Kramer Heather Kundzicz Joshua Kwapong Yzonne Kwende Debbie Lacouciere Marcy Lajiness Kathleen Lalli Cathy Lally Cheuk Lam Brandt Lambert Rita Lambracht Ann Lampes-Kourmanopoulos Samuel Lamptey Leo Landry Barbara S. Langathianos Jessica Langdale Nancy Lange William F. Langen Carmela Langford Susan Langlin Paula Lanson John Laraia Martha Larson Deborah A. Lash Pam Lavoie Charles Lawrence Dorothy LeBlanc Mary LeBlanc Roberta LeBlanc Terry LeBrun Stephanie Leber Lisa Leblanc Arthur Lee Eileen Lee Dawn Lefrancois Judy Lehane Mike Lemay Kathy Lemire Debra J. Letendre Marcia Levine Ronald Lewis Johanna D. Liander Cindi Limerick

Baldassare Liuzza Robert LoPreste Antonetta Lococo Kim Loder Patty Logue Daniel Lopez Jean Lucas Kevin Luke Donna M. Lussier Jennifer Lussier Patricia J. Lynch Richard Lynch Janet MacDonald Sharon MacEachern Michelle MacInnis Susan Macchia Karen Mackey Tom Mackey Michelle Macneil Joanne Magee Kristine Maginnis Cynthia Maguire Jane Maher Maria Maillet Lucille Maitland Sam Malignaggi Kathleen Malo Gertrud Malsbury Catherine M. Mandel Ann Marie Manning Karen F. Manning Laurian Marchand Allan Marcus Daniel Marinone Loraine Marinone Julie Marlowe Lisa Marquis Monte F. Marrocco John Marsh Debra D. Martell Gary Martin Lynn Martin Roger W. Martin Joe Mathers Michael Mathews Antonio D. Matias Sandra Matranga Kathleen McArthur Sharon McBride Colleen McCall Christopher McCarthy Denise McCarthy Doreen McCarthy Linda McCarthy Catherine McClenahen Mary McColgan Mary McColgan Michelle McDermott Carole McDonough Doreen McElroy Sandra McFeeters Robert P. McGann TJ McGill Denise McGinley Donna McGinnity Alan McGlew Jean M. McGonagle Bob McGowan Michelle McGrath Marshall McGuerty Susan McGuire Martha A. McGurl Kevin McInerney Vicki McIsaac Karen McLaughlin Terese McLaughlin Joanne McNamara Albert McNeill Pam McPherson Paula McPhillips Judith Medeiros Patrick Melly Sandra Melville Ellen Mendes Eva Mendola Charlotte Menninger John G. Mensah

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Field Hockey Team Celebration The University’s national champion field hockey team celebrated its victory this summer at the first Sunset Social at the Bellegarde Boathouse on the Merrimack River. The celebration raised $10,000, a total matched by an anonymous donor, for scholarships and support of the field hockey program. The Sunset Social will be

Susan Merhi Marc Meunier Elizabeth Michaud Walter Michaud Joanne Migliarese Ted Migliarese Thomas Miller Laurel Miranda Scott Mitchell Dante Mitrano Tiffany Modeste Donna J. Mofford Diane Mohler Maureen Moisson Janet Monaghan Alan J. Monico Sandra Montanze Doris Montoya Sheri Moore Diane Moran Stephanie A. Moran John Morrissey Lisa Moscone Ardini Siavash Mostafavi Gail Moulton Ryszard Mudrewicz Jaria Mugalu Elizabeth Murphy Timothy Murphy William Murray Nancy Muñoz Veronica Nagle Said Naili Sharon Nappi Anh Nguyen Judith Nicholson Ann Nickerson Joanne M. Nickerson Phil Niddrie Claire Niles Raymond Noel Robert Noel Elizabeth Nonis Nancy Norris Barbara Northam Janet T. Norton Bridget O'Brien Carol O'Connell Cheryl O'Connell Kim O'Connell

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an annual event, with a different River Hawks team benefiting each year. Following the team’s victory, Coach Shannon Hlebichuk was named DII National Coach of the Year for the fourth time in nine years at UMass Lowell.

Kimberly O'Connell Doreen O'Connor Kenneth O'Donnell Lindsay O'Donovan Cindy O'Grady Tracy O'Neil Elaine O'Toole Louise M. OConnell Susan Ober Regina Odryna Donna Ogonowski Marcia Olson Renee Olson Susan Orr Elizabeth Otto Magaly Pagan Dawn Paige Soo Paik Kruti Pandya Racheal Pantely Paul Paone Valerie Paonessa Phyllis Papa Diane Paquette Dale Parechanian John Parent Linda M. Parker-Tuxbury Alka Parwani Edward Pasco Kathy Patacchiola Jyoti Patel Jeanne Patterson John Pedranti Suzanne Pelich Valerie Pennington Elizabeth Pepicelli Mercene Perry Robert Perry Wendy Perry Edward Peter Lynn Peters Donna Peterson Allison Pfosi Giup Pham Bette Phillos Jacklyn Phipps Sherwin L. Piedad Carol Pietravalle John Pigeon Joanna Pijoan

Cindy Pilla Donna Pimentel Joan Plummer Sharon Polleck Jennifer Poore Marie Porteus John Powell Karen Power Roberta Pozniak Amelia Prestigiovanni Valerie Previte Jean Star Prieto Elaine Pugliese Cheryl J. Quimby Linda Quinn Noreen Rackauskas Gail Radville Barbara Rafuse Nancy Rahilly Paul Raison Janet Ramani Sivasubra Ranjit Agnes Rawski Kenneth Rea Judith Read Robert Reagan Don Rebello Debra Recka Maureen Reddington Karen Reed Michael Reed Emily Rees Eva Regan Sarah Regan Lois Reible Sharon Renstrom Brenda Resse Cynthia Ressijac Cathy Rheaume Stephen Rice Arthur J. Richard Elaine Richard Margeret Richard Tracy Riley Janette Rioux Roberta Rivera Sandra Rivetts Dorothy Robbins Jeannine Robbins Karen Robichaud

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Laura Roche Ana-Marie Rodriguez Caroline Rogers Steve Roller Judy Romano Reyna Rosario Lois Rosenthal Toni P. Ross Evelyn Rossin Saide Rouhana Glenn Rouleau Deborah Rousseaux Julie Roux Roger Royer Adrian Ruch Vincent Rucinski Donna Ruddock Susan Russell Angelo Joseph Russo Margaret Russo Debbie Ryan Heidrun Ryan Anne Rydjeski Elaine Saad Patti Sabatino Judy Salois Beth Salsman Yasmine Salvador Karen Salvato Lisa Salvucci Wayne Samuels Dana Samuelson Joel Sanderson Natalie Sandore Samuel Sandoval Lisa Sapier Lynda Saracusa Sandra Savage Wayne Sawlivich Kurt Schaefer Mary Ellen Schaefer Jacqueline Schartner Daniele Schere Lawrence Schmitt Sherri Schneider Kathleen Schofield Gerlinda Schottenhamel Brad Schuerman Mary Schwartz Jeff Scott

Julia Scott Debra Scrocca Paula Seaburg Lauren Seaver John Sech Carol Seco Charlene Senechal Laurie Serafin Zigmas Sermuksnis Carolyn Serra Susan Sexton Leyla Sezen Akhtar Shafiq Janet Shea Linda Sheahan Donald E. Sheak Marie Sheehan Terry A. Shepherd Karen J. Sherry Carol Shrader Richard Shulik Fareed Siddiqui Rose Sidhom Jean Silk Joseph Silva Susan Silva Cathy Silvestrone Laurie J. Simko Karen S. Simmons Valeri Sinclair Mike Sirois Dorothy Skelley Joan Skowronek Deborah Smith Pamela Snow Patricia Soares Terry Soares Lisa A. Soldi Debra J. Soly Gerald Sorge Renee Soucy June Soundara Diane Souza Susan Souza Deborah Sprague Mabel Sridhar Linda Stanley Bonnie Stanton Charlene M. Stark Robert Stark

Denise Stec Jean Stevenson Maryann Stickney Joanne Stiglich Patrick William Stoney Diane Stubeda-Kingman Paula Sullivan Anita H. Sung Alena Surowiec Carol Sutton Amirehsan Tabrizi Donna Tarantino Kerry Tea Patricia Teehan Suneeta Tembulkar Gwenn Terrill David Donald Theisen Debra Thibodeau Tatiana Thomas Cynthia Thompson Lauren Thompson Sheila Thurman Renee Ann Tiches Victoria L. Tidman Patricia Tilley Cynthia Tipton Gayle Tisei Gary Tishue Ling Tiv Lucia Tobierre Patricia Tolan Patricia Toner Elaine Tonks Diane Toolin Kirsten Torossian Katherine Tourtellot Gabrielle Tovar Thuong Tran Linda Tsinidis Emmanuela I. Udokwu Therese Vallario Mark Vallon Olivio Vallorani Susan VanWormer Francisca Vasquez Geraldine Vatan Cynthia Vatter Judy Velleca Brenda Vermette Donna Verolla Deborah Vespo Lucia Vidal Donna Vigneau Eugene A. Villare Jeanne R. Villare Diane Vlatas Steven Vogt Kathy Wagner Robert M. Wakelin Heather Walker Gerri Walkley David Wall Laura Wall Kathleen Walsh Lisa Walsh Michael P. Walsh Alice Walters Carol B. Wang Loise Wangoe Linda Wareham Henry Warren Debbie Waybright Carolyn L. Weaver Deborah Webster Roy E. Webster Maria Welsh Anne Werbicki Robert Werner Jerry Wernicki Sandy West Sharon West Verne Westgate Marianne S. Wharram Nancy Whilton Ellen White

students Kerry White Nancy White Won-suk O. White Michael Whittaker Sharon Wholey Cathy Wilkinson Christine Wilkinson Mary Williams Maynard Williams Robert Willis Joyce Willson Jean M. Wilson Joanne Wilson Fran Witham Stacey Wonson Siyuan Yang Donna Yates Wajih Yazbeck Ann Yeo Rosemarie Yorston Wayne Zanchi Maya Zapata Lise Zapatka Total Donors: 1089 Total Support: $55,125.21

STUDENTS Partners ($500-$999) Abhishek Kumar Maria A. Millett Associates ($250-$499) Steven Kinney Century ($100-$249) Nicholas J. Bouras Brendan Tulman Livingston Kayla Anne MacDonald Craig Patrick Reid Jody Elizabeth Roper Matthew Eric Schneider Friends ($1-$99) Wondimu Yenealem Abeje Tanya M. Abourizk Jesse Anthony Ackah Anna A. Aguilar Nana O. Agyeman Lenin R. Alberto Nicholas Alexandropoulos Marie Ann Almodovar Wanessa Reis Alvares Maghda Amrani Ursula J. Anderson Joshua G. Anthony Jared Adam Arnofsky Priscilla Asencio Amanda Tommie Baldwin Angelee Marie Banda Nicholas Barrett Benjamin Eric Beermann James Berger Margarida Bernardo Melissa L. Bernier Joshua Marcel Bodah Michael Bombardi Danielle R. Bourgeois Jahmaal Ahmed Box Anthony Albert Brossi Thomas Edward Buckley Amy Elizabeth Budge Megan Elizabeth Burdt Sean D. Burns Sean M. Burns Juan Bustamante Bonnie Butterworth Julie Buzzotta Andrew Scott Canata Nicholas Charles Cannata Carlos R. Cardenas Timothy J. Casaletto Anne Marie Catalfamo Datda D. Chanthavysouk

corporations Christopher Chao Jasiela E. Chaves Sokmeas Chea Sochet Chhen Naomi Joyce Christianson Alexander James Codyer Jacqueline Coleman Katelyn M. Collins Christopher James Compton Debra M. Conlon Thomas Murphy Conlon Laura B. Coral Christopher Francis Corcoran Ryan Edward Costantino Scott A. Craven Anthony Joseph Cucinotta Samantha Cziria Carl Joseph D'Agostino John D'Amico Joshua E. Dallal Elizabeth Jean Day Derek Michael DeVito Michael Joseph Dellogono Sophia Isabel Deno Birhanu Yilma Dererei Nicholas Stephen DiBlasi Juliana L. DiMarzio Laura Dickerson Robert P. Donald Ryan Kevin Dooley Ben John Doucette Thomas Henry Dowdle III Liam Timothy Driscoll Darwin Noe Dubon Jessica Megan Dumais Sara Dunaj Adam John Dunbar Samuel J. Dyas Nikolaos George Eleftheriadis Samuel Robert Erickson Meghan Elizabeth Esposito Joseph D. Fanning Caitlyn M. Farren Michael Christopher Feole Breanna Jeanne Ferguson Laura Elisabeth Fickenwirth Ann Fitzgerald Rebecca Elizabeth Flynn Cassidy Violet Ford Benjamin Albert Franzese Megan Rebecca Freeman Leia B. Friedman Susan R. Frish Ryan Taylor Gallagher Jacob H. Galloway Mark Timothy Garcia Njeri Gathura Marshall C. Gaye Michael Gee Victor Giacobbe Stephen A. Giardini Andrew James Goderre Matthew Martin Godfrey Alex Goldstein William D. Gonzalez Guthrie W. Gordon Julie Ann Gowdy Deepankar Goyal Brendon Thomas Grabowski Michael J. Greaney Erica L. Groleau Brian Richard Hall Jonathan Steven Harvey Lauren Catherine Healy Jason A. Hebert Andrew William Heffernan Amelia Jane Hersee Timothy John Hire Kate Elizabeth Hoffman Ianna Hondros-McCarthy Andrew John Hudson Charlotte M. Hyland Idelsy Johanna Infante Kimberly Marie Jade Gregory Jankuj James K. Jean

Pascale Jean-Jacques Conchetta Jenifer Derek Robert Johnson Kate Johnson Sara Jane Jones Alourdes F. Joseph George Kabia Brittany Kadra Khalid Kanane Trinayan Kashyap Joseph C. Kelley Meghan B. Kilcommons Kyung-Hoon Kim William P. Kirk Timothy James Koehn Sarann Kong Paula Korng Brad Krivelow Wen Long Kuang Joshua D. LaPlante Leon Deepak Lackiram Sean M. Landers Jenna Marie Lapachinski Tinuviel Marie Lathrop Phillip Dinh Le David P. LeBlanc Steven Joseph Leblanc Rich Lee Stephen Tony Lefebvre Emily Dianne Legere Anthony M. Leo-Mayes Michael Isaac Levine Eleni Liakakis Jessica M. Lindroth Jennifer Lindsay Michael O. Linehan John Lippiello Brittni Leigh Liyanage Hansel D. Lopez Itzel Lopez-Pantoja Robert E. Lowe Anthony Luciano Colleen Nicole Lynch William J. Ma Kayleigh Elizabeth MacLean Geoffrey Goodworth Magee Charles Sharif Mahdy Kevin C. Maigatter Mario Peter Marchesi Margaret Deanna Maron Amanda J. Marquis Benjamin Hayes Martin Janielle L. Martin Felix L. Martinez Katherine Louise Massey Heather M. McAtamney Eric J. McCann Joseph Francis McCarthy Sean McCarthy Jeffrey Michael McGrath Michael Dallas McLaughlin Daniel Joseph McNamara Gabrielle Ann Medeiros Ankit Nikhil Mehta Andrew J. Mendonca Ella Marie Merullo Bridget Higgins Mettler James Michaels Jessica Ann Michaud Morgan L. Milardo Amanda Jane Milinazzo Charles W. Miller Michael Mizzoni Sindhura Mogulla Elizabeth Adrienne Mohan Leslie-Ann Montano Katharine Louise Moran Zachary S. Morris Tyler Damon Morrow Michael J. Mosher Amanda G. Murray Cory R. Murray Kila Consilia Ngambong Adam P. Nichols John W. Noble Christopher George Nonis

Suleiman H. Nuseibeh Kristina Marie Oakland Christopher B. Odryna Christopher Chinedu Ojatabu Ivan Dario Osorio Monica S. Parks Rutwik Mineshbhai Patel Stephen Edward Pereira Jessica Christine Perry Catherine Rose Petrone Aaron Petruccelli Ethan Narin Phung Jessica Marie Plante Thomas J. Plasse Michael Keith Pruett Thavalong Prum Maryann Pulliam Leandro Jose Quezada Heather Quigley Ezekiel Edward Radik Lauren Ann Raimondi Paul Bezjak Ratner Lucie E. Rawlins Donathan Emmanuel Edgard Raymond Michael R. Reid Jillian Claire Reilly Melissa Valerie Rigueur Leonardo R. Rodriguez Tiffanie Amanda Roper Tyler Zachary Ross Daniel John Rossin David Rousseaux Jessica Hiette Saad Stephen John Sanborn Rajan Santhamoorthy Alexandra Rose Schechter Constance Morgan Sophie Schere Patrick Davis Schwartz Thomas Joseph Screnci Althea May Sellars Nicholas Daniel Sermuksnis Theodore Heustis Serozynsky Joseph Timothy Sheahan Jason Adam Skeldon Christopher R. Slater Charlene Powers Smith Shaun Tyler Smith Ben L. Smyrlian Brian Pen Sok Tola Nthonie Sok Sasha Michelle Sosa Erica P. Spada Erik S. Spracklin Kerri Delaney Staruk Daniel Robert Sullivan Donald J. Sutton Heather S. Sweeney Alyssa C. Swett Kristen Marie Tabacco Dumrongpow Tabtippawon Dan X. Tang Taylor Matthew Terrio Kyle J. Thompson Charlie D. Thoren Alexsandra M. Thorne Brian James Timmons Daniel Mark Titus Jaclyn Roberta Toner Ryan Joseph Toolin William Bradford Torrey Nhut Tran Thu Kim Tran Jonathan Samuel Treibick Brian Michael Trischitta Joshua Turner Jessica L. Underwood Samnang Uth Jhony Alexander Valencia Le M. Van Gregory Arthur Vellante Tuan D. Vu Katrina L. Walther Brad M. Warren Tia Elizabeth Warren

Alumnus Norm Bazin returned to the ice this year at UMass Lowell to take the helm of the River Hawks as the sixth head coach in the hockey programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history. Cailey Sara Watson Michael Migwi Waweru Annie Lin Weng Lauren Marie Wetzonis Emily Rose Wiseheart Heidi Marie Wright-Singer Samuel Jacob Zeigler Xiangwei Zhuo Total Donors: 313 Total Support: $4,622.09

CORPORATIONS

A Vintage Rose A. Routsis Associates, Inc. API ARAMARK Corporation AREVA NP Inc. AT&T INC. Advanced Polymers Inc. Aetna Foundation, Incorporated Akzo Nobel Inc. Ambit Research American Institute of Steel Construction American Leistritz Extruder Corporation Analog Devices, Incorporated Anita's Design, Inc. AptarGroup Charitable Foundation Arburg, Inc. Associated Polymer Labs, Inc. AstraZeneca Autodesk Inc. Automatic Data Processing Foundation Automation Plus Avery Dennison Corporation BAE Systems BASF Corporation BP America BSC Companies, Inc. Bank of America Bank of America Baxter International Inc. Bay State Driving Academy Benjamin Moore & Company Blanchard Law Office, P.C. Boeing Company Boott Hydropower, Inc. Boston Scientific Corporation Boston Sim Inc. Brier & Brier

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Incorporated Bushong Industrials, Incorporated C. R. Bard Foundation, Incorporated C. R. Bard, Incorporated CBS Technology Group, LLC Carris Plastics Chevron Phillips Chemical Company Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Cisco Systems, Inc. Citizens Financial Group, Inc. Comcast Corp. Commencement Photos Inc. Commodore Builders, Inc. Community Counselling Service Co., LLC Computer Associates International, Inc. Constellation Energy Group Foundation, Inc. Cooper Surgical Covidien DCP Midstream Partners, LP DMRL, Inc. DMSE, Inc. Datacolor Inc. David A. Beckerman Foundation Inc. Davol Incorporated Day Pitney LLP. Dell Inc. Delta Sales of Amherst, Inc. Demoulas Foundation Douglas Russell, Inc. Dow Chemical Company Foundation DuPont (E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.) Dynisco Inc. Eastern Salt Company Inc. Eli Lilly and Company Embroidery Loft Emerson Electric Company Encirca Inc. Energy Consumers Alliance of New England Entec Polymers, LLC Entergy Corporation Enterprise Bank and Trust Company Equifax

2011

REPORT of GIFTS

Everett Mills Real Estate Exponent, Inc. Extreme Networks Corp. Farrell Design Communications LLC Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, LLC Federal Carpet Ferrini Productions, Inc. Fidelity Foundation Finch & Sons Flor Del Monte Day Care Forbo Solutions LLC Foster Corporation Frontier Capital Management Company Funding Factory GEI Consultants, Inc. Gale Associates Gallagher & Cavanaugh, LLP General Dynamics Corporation General Electric Foundation Gleason Insurance Agency Gloucester Engineering Goodrich Corporation Great State Beverages Inc. Green Technology Associates Inc. Gregor Electric Inc. Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC Haartz Corporation Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C. Hansberry CPA & Consulting, Incorporated Hanser Gardner Publications Harbor Electrical Contractors, Inc. Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. Hearthstone Homes, LLC Hoch Superstar Productions Hoffman Concrete Construction LLC Honey Tree, Inc. Iceberg Seafood Co. Inc. Illinois Tool Works Foundation Illinois Tool Works, Inc. In The Batter's Box Northeast Baseball Injectronics Insurance Services Office, Inc International Business Machines International Foundation International Medical Industries Inc. Invensys Ipsos Operations US, Inc. Ivas Environmental JC Lane & Assoc. Security Specialist Jajuga Associates Inc. Jeanne D'Arc Credit Union John Deere Foundation John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Contribution Johnson String Instrument, Inc Joseph P. Donahue Charitable Foundation Trust Juniper Networks KC Prescision Machining, Inc. Kilkenny Pub, Inc. Kimball Farm, Inc. Kistler Instrumental Corp. Konarka Technologies Kronos Inc. L.L. Bean Inc. LIRA, Inc. LaFortune & LaFortune

Law Office of Richard P. Howe LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. Leahy Painting Lenovo Linden Photonics, Inc. Lockheed Martin Corporation Foundation Lowell Bank Lowell Five Cent Savings Bank Lowell Fruit Co. Inc. Lowell Spinners Lowell Sun Charities, Inc. MFS Investment Management Matrix Technologies Corp. Merck Company Foundation Merrimack Valley Distributing Co. Metabolix Inc. Microsoft Microsoft Corporation Microtest Properties, LLC Millipore Corporation Morgan-Worcester, Inc. Motorola Foundation Music Arts Alive NSTAR Foundation Nathan Sallop Insurance Agency, Inc. National Grid New England Arts Group New England Rubber and Plastic Group Inc. Newell Rubbermaid Inc. Next Specialty Resins, Inc. Northeast Clinics, Inc. Northeast Utilities Northeast Utilities Service Company Northeastern Section A.N.S., Inc. Nypro Inc. OLYMPUS NDT Oracle Corporation PPD Tech, LLC Parker-Hannifin Corporation Parker-Hannifin Foundation Philips Medical Systems Pirozzi & Associates, Inc. Plasma and Polymer Science Playground Partnership Northeast, Inc. Pro AV Systems Pro Clean Service, Co. Procter & Gamble Fund Proton Marketing Group, LLC Publix Super Markets Charities, Inc. Putnam Investments, Inc. QinetiQ North America Inc. RF Walsh Collaborative Partners RI Consultants, LLC RTP Company Raytheon Company Red Hat Red Mill Graphics Reebok Human Rights Foundation Reebok International Renaissance Administration LLC Roberto Landscaping, Incorporated Rubber Division American Chemical Society SMC, Ltd. Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts Sax and Associates, Inc. School Clinical & Consulting Services Seaboard Products Co. Silva Associates Inc. Solectria Renewables

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in honor of

Summer Star Foundation for Nature, Art, and Humanity Swanee Hunt Family Foundation Teleflex Foundation The Boston Foundation The Gendler Family Foundation The Thibault Foundation Theodore Edson Parker Foundation Verizon Foundation

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OTHER ORGANIZATIONS

In Memory Of Douglas A. Ravenelle Priscilla G. Kelley Gertrude G. Soucy

foundations and organizations Source Production & Equipment Co. Inc. Specialty Extrusion Inc. Specialty Materials, Inc. Sports Zone Inc. Stafford Engineering, Inc. State Street Foundation Stephen E. Slomski Associates Subaru of Milford SunDrum Solar, LLC Superior Controls, Inc. TESco Associates, Inc. Taj Engineering Talty and Talty, P.C. Telesolv Consulting LLC Texas Instruments Foundation The Durkin Company Tigar Refrigeraton Co Total Package Professional Coaching Transystems Corporation Trinity E.M.S., Incorporated Tyco Electronics Foundation Tyler Munroe Landscape Contractor, Inc. U.S. Charitable Gift Trust USAA Property and Casualty Insurance Unilever United States, Inc. United Technologies Corporation Uptime Services Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. Warnaco Foundation Watermark Environmental, Inc. Waters Corporation Wellington Management Company Wells Fargo Woburn Electrical School Wolverine World Wide Foundation YPS, LLC Zero-D Products, Inc.

FOUNDATIONS

Alden Family Foundation, Inc. Battles Foundation Behrakis Foundation Community Foundation of North Central Massachusetts D'Youville Foundation Deshpande Family Foundation Dominion Foundation Eastern Bank Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation FM Global Foundation Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund Jamesco Development Inc. Kennedy Family Foundation Klarman Family Foundation Lubrizol Foundation Lutheran Church of the Redeemer Foundation Marty Meehan Educational Foundation, Inc. MetLife Foundation Middlesex Community College Massachusetts Millipore Foundation Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Foundation Novartis US Foundation Pfizer Foundation Volunteer Program Plymouth Rock Foundation Prudential Foundation Richard K. & Nancy L. Donahue Saint-Gobain Corporation Foundation L O W E L L

Andover Police Patrolmen's Union Bonifacio Consulting Services Delegation du Quebec a Boston Edison International First Church Unitarian Friends of Pat Haddad Graduate Student Association Granite State Basketball Association IUCEE Consortium Independent University Alumni Association at Lowell International Wire and Cable Symposium Karen Kennedy Insurance Agency Inc. Loddy Weisberg Estate Loder Mechanical Services Lowell Community Health Center Lowell General Hospital Lowell Police Superior Officers Association Lucy Gregory Henderson Trust Massachusetts International Academy National String Project Consortium New Balance Boston Newton Beijing Jingshan School Over-Thirty Baseball, Inc. PTG Silicones, Inc. Peeler Plastics Consultants LLC South Shore Cardiology, P.C. Tewksbury Congregational Church The Murphy Committee Thomas Chamberas Runners' Memorial Scholarship Fund United Way of Greater Nashua University of Massachusetts Boston VFW Post 662

IN MEMORY OF In Memory Of Albert Lefebvre Priscilla G. Kelley In Memory Of Alexandria Zamanakos Arthur S. Zamanakos In Memory Of Kathryn J. Bernard '81 Suzanne Lane Conrad In Memory Of Bernice Scott Claire E. McCarthy In Memory Of Betty DeMallie Mary Elizabeth DeMallie In Memory Of Bob Boehme Mary Elizabeth DeMallie

In Memory Of Alanson W. Bowden Jr. '50 Judith D. Coletta In Memory Of Stephen P. DeMallie '49 Mary Elizabeth DeMallie In Memory Of Richard H. Donovan '88 Jean Star Prieto

In Memory Of Jacqueline Hayes Dowe '56 William J. Dowe Jr. In Memory Of Juliette Menard Gertrude G. Soucy In Memory Of Germaine Landry Priscilla G. Kelley In Memory Of Albert C. Lefebvre Gertrude G. Soucy In Memory Of Mary Anne Alexander Suzanne Lane Conrad In Memory Of Mary Frances McCarthy Claire E. McCarthy In Memory Of Frank W. Miller Jr. '67 Marjorie R. Miller In Memory Of Mary Jane Nehring Gay B. Mahder In Memory Of Evelyn L. Rich '36 Peter Q. Rich In Memory Of Allie Scruggs Karen Walton In Memory Of Sr. Marie Lefebvre, P.M. Priscilla G. Kelley In Memory Of Susan Hoffman Martha P. Bean Eleanor A. Bissell Ann Bratton Janet Burke Betsy E. Goldenberg Diane A. Kemsley JoAnne McClendon Sheila M. Rourke Suzanne M. Trudel Katherine Tyndall Jane E. Worthley In Memory Of Randall W. Swartz Mildred Swartz In Memory Of Francesca Tillona Marianne B. Moriarty In Memory Of Lori A. Weeden '00 Mary Winants

In Honor Of Dean of Students Office Adam John Dunbar In Honor Of Dr. Mark Hines Sara Jean Schloth In Honor Of Dr. Michael Graves Sara Jean Schloth In Honor Of Dr. Susan O'Sullivan Barbara A. Baker Kathylyn T. Barnhill Marylou Bolduc Kathleen M. Doyle Susan M. Laroche Joann Moriarty-Baron Deirdra Murphy Janet Paton Raymond Siegelman Janice M. Stecchi Joyce White In Honor Of Robert E. Innis Leslie-Ann Montano In Honor Of Stuart L. Mandell Toby Hodes In Honor Of Cornelius W. Martin '82 Benjamin Hayes Martin In Honor Of Sandra E. Martin '83 Benjamin Hayes Martin In Honor Of Juliette N. Rooney-Varga Sara Dunaj In Honor Of Jonathan Silverman Nicholas Alexandropoulos Amy Elizabeth Budge Gregory Arthur Vellante In Honor Of Stephen J. Collins Katelyn M. Collins In Honor Of Celeste Therese Tremblay '72 Melissa L. Bernier Naomi Joyce Christianson Jason A. Hebert Kayleigh Elizabeth MacLean Ella Marie Merullo Catherine Rose Petrone

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