to me for the Fall issue about any and all goings on with you, family-wise, work-wise— or life-wise! Until then, good times.
1979 Correspondent: Stacey O’Rourke stacey82857@aol.com 1445 Commonwealth Avenue West Newton, MA 02465 “Summertime and the living is easy…” or so goes the song. The class correspondence, not so much. I did hear from Arthur Hassett, JD’82, who was elected president of the Plymouth County Bar Association. He practices in Brockton and also serves as a special assistant attorney general representing the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. • So maybe the time has come for me to hand over the mantle and let another interested soul take over for this mild-mannered reporter. Hmmm? Give it some thought. I’m a big believer in term limits. Thanks for all your support over the past five years!
1980
REUNION
2010
Correspondent: Michele Nadeem nadeem007@aol.com Sunrise Harbor 1040 Seminole Drive, Unit 1151 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 The Class of 1980 breaks all records! Our 30th Reunion Committee co-chairs, William J. Geary, Brien M. O’Brien, Richard P. Quinlan, MBA’84, JD’84 and Paul T. Vanderslice report: “Nearly 350 classmates celebrated the 30th anniversary of our graduation from Boston College…. Not only did we shatter the record for 30th reunion attendance by 150 people, but we also set an impressive new record for a 30th reunion gift: the Class of 1980 ended the year with 31 percent participation and a class gift of $10 million (breaking the existing 30th reunion record by more than $1 million)! We could not have met and exceeded our goals without all of you. We want to especially thank our great Reunion Committee of nearly 70 classmates, the 613 donors who participated in our class gift, and the 30 new $10,000+ Gasson-level donors—the most of any reunion class. We are also thrilled that the Class of 1980 Scholarship Challenge was met, and that Paul and Lynne Vanderslice and Lou and Tammy Taylor will be matching the class’s $25,000 scholarship. Three Class of 1980 Scholarships will be awarded to deserving students this fall, one for each decade since graduation. We can’t wait to do it again in five years, so please don’t let that much time go by before you reconnect with fellow classmates and with BC.” Classmates came from all over the nation—and many are now current and class of 2014 parents. Other groups represented were the football and rugby teams—including rugby team captain Eddie Barnes—and our fabulous reunion entertainment was our own Elliot Mouser Floating Blues Band (the Red House Band), with original members Chris Kelley, Pete Bosco, Brian Marra, and Ned Luboja ’81 all playing in top form. And it is reported that Bill
Leary and Tom McManus are offering free dance lessons to everyone. • Rosanne Scott Potter married Dave Beveridge in 2008. They live with their four children in Twinsburg, OH. Rosanne recently joined Eaton Corporation in capital markets and is the 2010 founding chairperson for the Cleveland Circle of Red (American Heart Association) and a member of the executive leadership team for NE Ohio GO RED. Louis Provenzano Jr. is the godfather of Rosanne’s son and recently attended the boy’s First Communion. • Mary-Beth Murray, MSW’94, has been working as a school adjustment counselor at Somerville High School for 15 years. She lives with her two sons in Newton. • Cindy (Pangione) Traverso lives in North Andover with her husband of 25 years. They have two children: Katie (23), a graduate of the Isenberg School of Management at UMass Amherst, works at Hanover Insurance, and Michael (19) is a freshman at Isenberg. Cindy and her two partners own two independent insurance agencies: MTM Insurance Associates in North Andover and MTM Brainerd Inc. in Billerica. • Georgina “Gina” Laidlaw Berger lives in Princeton, NJ, where she is deeply involved in the church. An empty nester, Gina has a son at boarding school, a daughter in college, and another child who works as a diver in the Caribbean. Gina helps many in her Spanish congregation, teaching ESL and conducting food and clothing drives. She’s also involved with a refugee settlement and in animal rescue work. • Janet (MacLellan) Amico reports that she and Elizabeth (Mustone) Clavell, Carol (Wamness) Pacella, Jo-Anne (Ciampi) Bourque, Lena Caravaggio Kestner, and Judy Cronin, along with two women from the Class of ’81, remain close friends. For years, this group had a “BC Club,” and Janet attended its monthly meetings even when she was living in Asia (1983– 1997). When she returned stateside permanently, her reentry into U.S. life was smoothed, thanks to having such dear friends. Janet writes that while the club now meets less frequently, “It’s a connection we seek out, and it’s lifelong. In the 30 years we’ve known one another, our BC Club members have witnessed life’s joys and sorrows together. I can count on each one of them to be there for me and vice versa.” Janet eloquently summarizes the feelings expressed by many of us attending the reunion. May we all take comfort in knowing that we have a lifelong connection with each other and for each other?
1981 Correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee amckee81@aol.com 1128 Brandon Road Virginia Beach, VA 23451; 757-428-0861 Norman White has been working at SuperMedia for the past eight years and was recently promoted to business operations manager, running the Search Marketing Services division in Waltham. His daughter Angela will attend UConn this fall. Norman still has BC season tickets for football and basketball, attending games with fellow classmate Bill Harmuth. Norman has sung the national anthem four times at BC basketball games. He says it’s a bit of a departure from his regular singing gig www.bc.edu/alumni
as lead singer of the classic hard rock cover band Time Warp, a gig he’s had for the past 10 years (see www.timewarprocks.com). • Bill Stephanos is another proud dad. His son Greg graduated from Baylor University last spring and will attend the University of Texas Dental School in the fall. Bill lives in Houston with wife Claudia and their three children, Greg (21), Jenna (9), and Brooke (6). • Brian O’Connell and Asterisk Animation continue their success. Asterisk recently created 25 minutes of animation for David Grubin’s latest film, The Buddha. • Patty Cummins, MA’83, was named Middle-School Teacher of the Year in the Diocese of Arlington Catholic Schools in Virginia, where she teaches Spanish. Patty’s second daughter, Deedee, graduated in May from Emmanuel College with a degree in psychology: counseling and health. Patty and Brian ’82 still live in Northern Virginia but travel to the Boston area on a regular basis to visit family. • Barbara Baran, business development officer at the Holyoke Credit Union, received the 2010 Henry A. Fifield Award for Voluntary Service from the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce. Barbara is presidentelect of the Holyoke Rotary Club, clerk and a director of Girls Inc., and a director of the Greater Holyoke YMCA. She is also involved in leadership positions with projects for the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society. Barbara and husband Fred reside in Holyoke and have three daughters. • It was great to reconnect at a tailgate before the BC– UVA football game last fall with Henry Thomas, who lives in Baltimore. The youngest of Henry’s three daughters, Annie, will be in her second year at UVA this fall and is a talented midfielder on their women’s lacrosse team. • My oldest child, Alli, graduated from UVA this past spring with a master’s from the McIntire School of Commerce, and she is headed to San Francisco to work for the consulting firm Bain & Company.
1982 Correspondent: Mary O’Brien maryalycia.obrien.82@bc.edu 14 Myrtlebank Avenue Dorchester, MA 02124-5304 Following the earthquake, John Hurley spent several weeks in Haiti for the U.S. Treasury Department. He was assessing the impact on the Haitian economy, particularly the financial sector and the government budget. He was able to follow the BC hockey team’s road to the Hockey East Championship on the Internet. • Debbie (Wood) Gray’s son Nathaniel has completed his freshman year at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, where he’s majoring in fire science with a focus on arson investigation and criminal justice. Deb and husband Donald are starting to look at colleges again with a recent BC Eagle Eye tour with their high-school junior daughter, Emily, and sophomore daughter, Abby—who are both interested in BC or another Jesuit college. Their son Ian (7) is in first grade and enjoys karate and baseball. Deb has been working in the medical software field since BC; she currently works for a niche infection control/ critical care software company as the Northeast regional manager. Deb recently had