On August 3, John Curley married his one and only, Karey Brau, in a ceremony at the Spring Valley Country Club in Sharon. Wedding guests included Chuck Mondora (who is an attorney in New Jersey), Ryan Jones (who works in Hollywood as a TV producer), Matt FitzSimons (who recently started a new position with Starcom MediaVest Group in Illinois), and former roommate Andrew Grillo (who lives in Sydney, Australia, and works at State Street Global Advisors). John is a special-needs teacher in Walpole and also works part-time at Fenway Park. He can still quote every line from the movie Groundhog Day. • Elizabeth “Biz” LaRose, MEd’06, and her husband, Phil Oates, also brought a bundle of joy into the world: their baby, Ellen Cecilia. Biz teaches at the Tobin Montessori School in Cambridge. • After working in New York City at a financial software company for four years, Courtney Rose attended Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, earning her MBA, with a focus on marketing, in 2011. She then joined GE Capital’s Experienced Commercial Leadership Program. Courtney has had rotations in commercial real estate and lending/leasing. Currently on a rotation in retail finance with TJX in Framingham, she has spent time in Argentina and South Africa and will be going to Europe next winter. She lives in Brookline. • This fall, Sara Ann Mehltretter Drury began her second year as the Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN. Her husband, Jeff, is a visiting assistant professor at Wabash for the 2012–2013 academic year. • Jesse Hochkeppel graduated from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in May and is now working as an anesthesiology resident at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. • Peter and Katherine (AnsonChapman) Mans are proud to announce the birth of a baby girl, Jane Marie, on May 18 in Lebanon, NH. • On September 7 in Conte Forum, Maria Cicero, MA’07, was inducted into BC’s Varsity Club Hall of Fame for her accomplishments in crosscountry and track and field. Maria was a four-time All-American and a four-time All–Big East selection. She holds the BC record for the 10,000-meter event, and she is the only Eagle to lead BC in three regionals, earning All-Northeast Region three times in cross-country. She also broke the 16-year-old 5,000-meter record by 11 seconds, which is now second in the Eagles’ record books.
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2006
class participation goal: 650 Correspondent: Cristina Conciatori conciato@bc.edu Danielle Curtis is happy to announce her marriage to Kevin Parrington on November 5, 2011, at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Atlanta. BC alumni in attendance included best man Howard Parrington ’03, maid of honor Katie Chiarantona, and bridesmaids Erin Hutton and Karen Galvin. The couple met at Emory University School of Law, from which they both graduated in 2009. They live in Atlanta, where Danielle is a commercial litigation associate at Bryan Cave, and Kevin
DAVID LEVY ’06
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ave Levy ’06 is passionate about Boston College and eager to see his generation play a major role in its future. An energetic ambassador and tireless volunteer for the BC Alumni Association, Levy serves on its board of directors and as a Boston chapter leader, and he has recently taken on a new role as co-chair of the BC GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade) Leadership Council. “Boston College is still a young university with only greater things ahead,” says Levy, a social media expert with the Newton, Mass., public relations firm SHIFT Communications. “I want to be part of that growth.”
BC Gold Leadership Council Co-chair Dave Levy hopes to deepen the relationship between young alumni and Boston College.
what has been the most satisfying moment in your professional life?
what do you look forward to each day?
While living in Washington, D.C., I presented at the World Bank on the role mobile phones can play during an emergency or crisis.
BC football—all year round. Even in February, if someone mentions taking a road trip to Los Angeles when the Eagles play USC, it makes my day.
how much can you sing of the bc fight song? Both verses, for which I have my roommates, the Dropkick Murphys, and the University Chorale to thank.
what was your first job? Summer jobs on golf courses and driving ranges—there are a lot of similarities to my profession in public relations.
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is an assistant regional counsel at the Social Security Administration, Office of the General Counsel. • Stacey Greci was married to Joel Gibson on March 25 in Brooklyn. Classmates in attendance were Christopher and Courtney (Hopkins) Carter, Courtney Hunt, and Zoe Schmitter. Stacey works as a sommelier at Corkbuzz Wine Studio in New York City, and the couple reside in Brooklyn. • Cristina Velocci and Jesse Hochkeppel ’05 were married on June 9 in Syosset, NY. Bridesmaids included Maggie McQuade and Rebecca Yu, and groomsmen included Omer Tanvir ’05, Jay O’Meara ’05, David Newton ’05, and Darrel Swann ’05. Other Eagles in attendance included Kevin Allocca, Jean Blosser, Matthew Porcelli, Manny Morelli, Sylvia Hechema, Meghan Newton ’05, and Eric Stein ’05. • Steve Rountos married Shannon Colley on June 2 in Danbury, CT. Eagles in the wedding party included Mike Parker, Derek Scott MEd’10, and Jared Carroll. Other BC alumni included Chris Maimone and Chris Yu. • On July 22, outside the Log Cabin by Mt. Tom State Reservation in Holyoke, Alexis Tirella married Adam VanDerBeek ’08. BC alumni in the wedding party included bridesmaid Laura Brenninkmeyer and groomsmen www.bc.edu/alumni
Maximilian Martinez ’08, Terence Tirella ’04, and Charles Tirella, Class of ’13, and Alexis’s mother, Linda Tirella ’74, and Adam’s father, David VanDerBeek joined in the celebration. The VanDerBeeks live in Brookline with their nine-month-old son Desmond Francis, a future Eagle! • Christine Smith received an Emmy for her work as a producer for The Dr. Oz Show at the Daytime Emmy Awards in Hollywood in June. Christine has been working in the TV industry since graduation. • Also in June, Kevin Galligan was promoted from senior analyst to associate director at the Roseview Group, a private real estate investment and advisory firm based in Boston. Kevin was a senior analyst at Anglo Irish Bank before joining the Roseview Group in 2010. • Maura Winston is working as a law clerk for Kathleen Kerrigan ’85, who was sworn in as a U.S. Tax Court judge in Washington DC in June.
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2007
class participation goal: 720 Correspondent: Lauren Faherty Bagnell lauren.faherty@gmail.com