1955 Correspondent: Marie Kelleher mjk55@bc.edu 12 Tappan Street Melrose, MA 02176; 781-665-2669 Christmas cards are a welcome source of news. Ruth Heffernan Marsh, daughter of Tim and the late Marie Considine Heffernan, MS’58, sent word that she is spending a year in Denmark with her family. • The annual letter from Walt and Barbara (Wincklhofer) Wright was enclosed in a lovely card created by their daughter Mary Alice. It was beautiful. • Mary Shaughnessy Sharp did a lot of traveling in 2008. First was a family trip to Hawaii; later she visited Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. • On February 1, Msgr. Francis V. Strahan celebrated 50 years in the priesthood with a beautiful Mass and ceremony. Vin Matteucci was there and sent word that many dignitaries, including Cardinal O’Malley, were present. Msgr. Strahan received citations from the Massachusetts House and Senate and the City of Framingham. • Nick and Pat (Lavoie) Grugnale met with Gail McGuire, John and Mary Rose (McCarty) Griffin, as well as Rich and Barbara Dennis Lund in Florida in February. • Sadly, our class has seen three classmates—John Riley, Paul Lane, and Owen Meegan—as well as our beloved teacher, Stanley Bezuszka, SJ, ’39, MA’40, MS’42, make their way back home to begin their eternal lives. John spent many years as a professor at the University of Puerto Rico; he retired in 1984. Paul, a chemist, was still working as president of Luster-On Products, a manufacturing company he had founded. Owen had a long career as a patent attorney. He also devoted much of his life not only to his family but also to filling the Jesuit mission of service to others and to his church. His service included the Boy Scouts and Friends Forever, which seeks peace in Northern Ireland through teenagers. • May peace come to the families of our classmates as they experience the loss of these loved ones.
nc 1955 Correspondent: Jane Quigley Hone janeqhone@msn.com 425 Nassau Avenue Manhasset, NY 11030; 516-627-0973 Sr. Yasuko Ohashi wrote that she is working as a counselor at the Convent of the Sacred
Heart in Tokyo and is also engaged in a counselor training program for adults. She sometimes gets to see Kuniko Shiobara Hara, since Kuniko lives quite near the convent. Yasuko’s mother also lives nearby, so she visits her every day. Her mother, who just celebrated her 100th birthday, is in good health and lives alone. • Pat Leclaire Mitchell spent Christmas with her daughter Maria and her family in Vermont. Pat says she keeps in touch with Nadia Wolanyk Deychakiwsky by e-mail. Nadia is still watching over her parents, who are over 100 and live independently nearby in Cleveland. • Mary Chisholm Sullivan, who has moved to Marion, keeps busy with her family and many grandchildren. • Joan Costello Barbary reports that her throat cancer has left her unable to speak, so her computer has become her lifeline. Joan says her life is good on the ocean in Scituate, and her six children and their offspring keep her and her husband, Bob, hopping with lots of visits and attendance at athletic events. • After 50 years living in three successively larger homes in Manhasset, NY, with a growing family, Frank and Jane Quigley Hone planned to leave their empty nest this spring to move to a condo in a retirement community in nearby Port Washington. They will circulate their new mail address after they have moved, but the e-mail address will remain the same.
1956 Correspondent: Steve Barry sdmjbarry@verizon.net 200 Ledgewood Drive, Unit 406 Stoneham, MA 02180-3622; 781-435-1352 Bob Eagle, M.Ed.’60, had the Four Aces and the Mills Brothers in concert on Valentine’s Day. His Reagle Players will present three Jerry Herman musicals this summer: Hello, Dolly; Mame; and La Cage aux Folles. • Dan ’55 and Carolyn Kenney Foley were at the Alumni Day of Reflection at the Campion Center, Weston, in December. Alumni Chaplain William McInnes, SJ, ’44, MA’51, who has been recovering there, came in to greet friends. In January, Fr. McInnes received the Bellarmine Medal of Honor from Fairfield University, where he served as president from 1964 to 1973 during the war protests and demonstrations. He also oversaw the admittance of women to the full-time undergraduate program in 1970. • We had 50 classmates and friends at Mass and brunch before the BC University Chorale www.bc.edu/alumni
Christmas concert. Mary and Jerry Sullivan brought Fr. McInnes, who concelebrated Mass with Fr. Ray Helmick, brother of my wife, Marie, MS’55. During brunch, we sat with Charlie and Jean (Riley) Roche, Joan and Joe Danieli, and Maire and Jim McLaughlin, who were greeted by a student who was a former altar girl at their church in Rye, NH. Carolyn announced at the brunch that Ann Connor, who did such a superb job on our 50th reunion with Jim Costa ’03, has been promoted to senior associate director for all classes. The class presented Ann with a BC tote bag in recognition of her efforts. • Tom Sheehan has published From the Quickening (Pocol Press), a collection of short stories. The author of 12 books, Tom has won the Georges Simenon Award for Fiction and a 2006 IPPY (Independent Publishers) Award. • The three children of Dottie and Joe Reagan, MS’59, have run a total of 82 marathons. In November, Joe and Dottie came from Saratoga, CA, to cheer them on in the New York City Marathon. The family celebrated the three medals at one of New York’s finest steak houses. Joe and Dottie also stopped in Boston, where Kathy and Leo Power, MA’64, MBA’72, hosted them at dinner with Jean and John McDonnell and Peggy and Bill Plansky. • Bishop Frank Irwin, MSW’70, lost two sisters in 2008, and his brother, Judge John Irwin ’52, JD’57, died on Christmas Day 2008. Jack Leonard reports that Dick Toland’s sister Janet O’Shea died in December. Dick has lost two other siblings in the past 18 months. Please pray for classmates and their families who have suffered illnesses, deaths, and economic problems. • Thanks to all who sent news! Read more in BC’s online community class notes: www.bc.edu/alumni/ association/community.html.
nc 1956 Correspondent: Patricia Leary Dowling pandsdowling@comcast.net 39 Woodside Drive Milton, MA 02186; 617-696-0163
1957 Correspondent: Francis E. Lynch flynch@maritime.edu 27 Arbutus Lane West Dennis, MA 02670 The class’s annual greenhouse reception at Paul Mahoney’s Garden Center in Winchester was held on February 7, with 53 classmates