class notes O’Neill, and I attended, along with several other friends. Mickey toasted our class and the friendships that have survived the years. She especially mentioned Darrlyn Powers Danahy, Gaby Gyorky Mackey, and other classmates no longer with us. • In June, the Elmhurst alumnae hosted a luncheon at the Dunes Club in Narragansett, RI. Our ’60 Rhode Island contingent attended, including Ferna Ronci Rourke, Rosemary Roche Hobson, Brenda, Berenice, and me. We met up with Beth Duffy NC’68 and Newton grads from other years. • In July, Berenice, Brenda, Blanche, Jeanne, and I attended an AASH meeting on the Cape to plan for the AASH Eastern Regional meeting there in September. A number of Newton grads of different years were there. The incoming national AASH president, Alice Burns, a Manhattanville graduate, is a neighbor of Blanche’s. • August brought the Sacred Heart party to Carnegie Abbey in Portsmouth, RI, hosted by Newton Country Day School. Brenda, Berenice, Rosemary, and I were there. We learned that two Olympic medalists were Sacred Heart alumnae, one from Stone Ridge and one from 91st St. • Julie O’Neill has been driving back and forth to Rye, NY, to visit her daughter and her granddaughters Catherine and Grace, who turned six and four in August. • I just received the sad news of the death of our classmate Ursula Kent Lanigan on August 19 after a long illness. She is survived by daughter Heather, son C. Kent, brother Billy Kent, and other relatives. Her sister, Maggie Luciano, had died this past July. A number of our classmates were at Ursula’s wake and funeral, and our Ginny Scully Benzak did one of the readings at the service. • Do write and tell me of your summer adventures. Things have been quiet here as I recover from a total knee replacement. Dee Demers Ferdon had a hip replacement, and we keep tabs on each other. All the best to you from your bionic correspondent, Sally O’Connell Healy.
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Correspondent: John Ahearn jjaeagle@hotmail.com 872 Massachusetts Avenue #407 Cambridge, MA 02139 The annual Class of 1961 Mass and dinner was held in St. Mary’s Chapel and Gasson Hall in June. Among those attending were John Ahearn MA’66, Agnes and Richard Barrett, Alice (Buckley) ’64 and Paul Brennan MBA’66, Beth Cannon, Margaret Ryan Collins, Patricia and John Carr, Nancy Bonazzoli Connelly, Marion and Philip Donahue, Veronica McLoud Dort MTS’96, Gail Ann and George Downey, Carol and Kevin Fitzpatrick MBA’64, Richard Glasheen, Patricia and John Greene, Patricia Taylor Keaney, Barbara (Sweeney) NC’65 and Robert Kenny, Maryann Dimario Landry, Barbara Madden MS’73, Florence and John McNamara, Patricia Booth McDonnell, Ann Wasilauskas Mulligan, Louise and David Oberhauser, John O’Neill MBA’70, Virginia O’Neil, Bernard Shea, Elizabeth Smiarowski, and Jack Sutton. • Be sure to watch Antiques Roadshow on PBS in January: our own Ed
O’Connor was selected from 900 people to appear on the show to have his items appraised! • Carol and Peter Barry are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary! Their two children went to BC and married women from BC, and their nest of Eagles now includes four grandchildren. Peter is proud to be a part of the BC legacy, with three generations of graduates. Peter spent his career in the investment business—the last 14 years with Bear Stearns as a senior managing director in the research department. Now he is enjoying retirement, sailing around Long Island Sound and playing golf. • We sadly report the death of John Amabile in April. John received an honorable mention as an All-American quarterback. A New Jersey native, John started his career as a math teacher and head football coach at two Jersey City high schools. In recent years, he was also a scout for the New York Giants. He is survived by Suzanne, his wife of 50 years; two sons; and a daughter. • Jim Zyntell—another Double Eagle from BC High—retired from Blue Cross Blue Shield after 45 years. • Paul Murphy went into the army after graduation and then worked at companies that would eventually form American Mutual, retiring after 45 years. He lived for some years in Lynnfield, where he was active as a volunteer in community affairs on the Capital Outlay Committee, in children’s sports, and with the Senior Center. He now resides in New Hampshire and Florida.
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Correspondent: Missy Clancy Rudman newtonmiz@aol.com 1428 Primrose Lane Franklin, TN 37064 Newton ’61 continues to send aid to our classmate Judy Vollbrecht, RSCJ, a missionary sister at a teachers’ college in Verrettes, Haiti. You can write to her at Judy Vollbrecht, Haiti, c/o Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108. • Gail Giere Collins writes that she received a newspaper article from Alice Dresser Pusateri. The author, Craig Wilson, wrote that at a dinner party, all the women around the table had gone to Newton College and were talking about the dress code in 1966 and the rule that there was “no knitting in class.” Gail says, “I always knit in class.” • Juliana Fazakerly Gilheany has retired from teaching U.S. history at Manhattan College in Riverdale in the Bronx and is now teaching in the Schools of Continuing and Professional Studies at Fordham Lincoln Center and NYU. She writes: “I am teaching Great Court Cases in American History with emphasis on… recent Supreme Court decisions such as Citizens United, the Affordable Care case, and the Arizona immigration case. If anyone has expertise in those areas, I would love to hear from them.” • In July, Duane and Ellen (MacDonald) Carbone hosted us at their lovely Beverly home as Bob and I returned from Maine. Mary Sue Flanagan visited us for a few days on her Atlantic coast sojourn, and while she was here, Linda Gray MacKay MA’04, Janet Miele, Paula Keane Teeling, Gail Giere Collins, and Mary Nolan Calise came to our house in Popponesset for 9 class notes
lunch. Needless to say, we did a lot of catching up. And in August, Bob ’59 and Alo Coleman Riley, Frank ’59 and Gail Giere Collins, Tom and Mary Calise, and Janet Miele came for our annual BC–NC minireunion. We were all delighted to see Alo looking so well. • Christmas is approaching, and we wish blessings to you and your families.
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Correspondents: Frank and Eileen (Trish) Faggiano frank@faggianoconsulting.com 33 Gleason Road Reading, MA 01867; 781-944-0720 Congratulations to Charlie Driscoll, who will be inducted into Medford High School’s Mustang Hall of Fame for hockey in November. This marks the fourth time Charlie has been inducted into a high school hall of fame during his long coaching career. He is currently an assistant hockey coach at Reading High School. • We continue to receive positive feedback from classmates regarding our 50th reunion. Jim Lynch wrote that he and wife Eileen were “stunned by the beauty of the Upper Campus” and were thrilled they made the trip from Maryland. For the record, we raised $2.63 million for our class gift and exceeded our goal of 19 Gasson Society donors with a total of 20. The Class had a 53 percent class participation rate, ranking right up there with other top Golden Eagle classes. • I spoke with Jimmy DeMarco, a founding partner in the Irvine, CA, law firm Jackson DeMarco Tidus. Upon graduating from Georgetown Law, Jim entered the Marine Corps and served for a year in Vietnam, where he represented the Corps of Engineers. He was disappointed he didn’t make the reunion, as he wanted to see his longtime ROTC buddy Ron Campanelli and his dorm friend Jim Fitzpatrick from Brooklyn. • Tom Cinella retired from Lee (MA) High School, where he taught math and coached the girls’ basketball team to six state championships. • After graduation, BC football player John Digiambattista worked for Raytheon as a project manager and then moved to the West Coast, where he completed graduate work at Pepperdine and worked for a number of electronic companies in the Anaheim area. • Jack Boyle retired from his insurance business in Cleveland in 2000 and started a new career as VP for business affairs and finance at Cleveland State University. Jack is credited with not only playing a key role in the transformational redesign of the Cleveland State University campus, but also helping to guide the financing of this huge project. He is now a senior fellow at the university’s Levin College of Urban Affairs. Jack and wife Mary have 4 children and 12 grandchildren. • John Eagar and his family have lived on the shore of Lake Keowee, Oconee County, SC, since May 2006. They are six miles from Clemson University and attend all BC football and baseball games played there. John emailed to let us know that Tom Gosselin ’63, who had been his freshman and sophomore roommate, passed away this past June. • We’re looking forward to “seeing you around campus.” Take care and remember, we’d love to hear from you.