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reunion year class participation goal: 648 Correspondent: Paul L. Cantello paul.cantello@verizon.net Can you believe it has been 20 years since we graduated from BC? Where has the time gone? Please mark your calendar for Reunion Weekend this June 1–3 at BC. We are looking for people to participate in all ways possible, from leadership donations and volunteers on the Class Gift Committee for the capital campaign to Reunion Weekend volunteers. Please contact Peter Boston at peter.boston@bc.edu for more information. Come celebrate the good things life has brought us and reconnect with lost friends. We look forward to seeing you there! • Bob and Colleen (Odlum) Magri welcomed their first child, Amanda, into the world in July 2011. Colleen is a VP and project manager at Bank of America, and she loves being a new mom! She’s looking forward to seeing everyone at the reunion in the spring.
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class participation goal: 436 Correspondent: Sandy Chen Dekoschak sdekoschak@gmail.com Raffi Bandazian is now a sales associate at Bandazian & Holden in Richmond, VA. He writes: “In 2007, I left my job as a technical trainer for Williams Lea working on-site at Goldman Sachs. I moved back to my hometown of Richmond, began working in my father’s real-estate company, Bandazian & Holden … and received my real-estate license in 2009.” The company focuses on residential, commercial, property management, and business brokerage. • Kathleen Haley recently accepted a position at McCormick in Baltimore as director of global branding and communications, a newly created position. The job also meant a move from New York City to Baltimore. Kathleen says she’s “looking forward to meeting other local BC alumni in the Charm City!” • Thomas Burton, JD’96, was named a 2011 “Massachusetts Super Lawyer” by New England Super Lawyers and Boston magazine. He is a partner in the Boston office of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, where he is a member of the corporate and securities section and chair of the energy and clean technology practice.
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class participation goal: 352 Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com Hello, everyone. Please remember to send your news my way! • Last year, Mark McCarron joined McCabe Capital Managers as VP and chief investment strategist. The company provides investment management, manager selection and monitoring, asset
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judge on FOX’s “MasterChef” reality competition series, Joe Bastianich describes himself as “a restaurateur, a winemaker, an author, sometimes a television personality, a rocker, and a runner”—and above all, a lover and ambassador of Italian culture. Bastianich’s parents opened their first restaurant in Queens, N.Y., when he was 4 years old. A few years later, they launched Felidia in Manhattan, which made his chef mother Lidia a star. “I did everything—washing dishes, cleaning the sidewalk—there’s no glamour growing up in the restaurant business. My parents wanted me to do anything except follow in their footsteps,” he recalls. The first in his family to go to college, Joe Bastianich, in front of his Manhattan Bastianich was drawn to BC’s beautiful restaurant Del Posto, is building a culinary campus, Jesuit values, and liberal arts empire founded on his Italian heritage. focus. “I wanted to be a thinker, not a waiter,” he says. So he majored in philosophy and political science and spent a few years trading bonds on Wall Street after graduation. It didn’t take. Bastianich returned to his roots and has found fame in food. “Now I’m rooting for my own kids to do anything but go into the business,” Bastianich laughs.
what has been the most satisfying moment in your professional life?
what is one thing everyone should do while at bc?
Opening my first restaurant, Becco, on my own, stands out. Others include bottling the first vintage at Bastianich Winery in Italy and Bel Posto getting four stars in a New York Times review—the first Italian restaurant to do so.
Spend a day in Bapst Library reading some of their historical volumes.
in your personal life? My kids are always highlights in my life. Also, I recently completed the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. I’ve done other triathlons, but Kona is special.
what is your next goal? I’m going to do a marathon at the base camp of Mount Everest, which should be pretty interesting. I’m also planning on summiting one of the big peaks.
what is the secret to success? Have a passion. Love what you do and make money doing it.
how have you changed since graduation? I think that people evolve in life. People are kind of like sculptures, and everything they experience shapes, impacts, and polishes the marble.
what was the best meal at the bc dining hall? There was a sandwich shop in McElroy Commons that made a turkey and bacon sandwich on a Kaiser roll with lettuce, tomato, maybe pickles, and onion.
what would you do if you were bc president for a day? I’d mandate that every student would have to grow one thing that they ate.
for more of our interview with joe bastianich, including a special spring recipe, go to www.bc.edu/alumniprofiles