class notes officer in the NYPD, keeping all of us New York City Eagles safe. • Donato Infante, MA’11, is continuing his studies for the Catholic priesthood at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. • Claire Hunt recently launched a BC’09 book club in New York City and is actively recruiting new members; if interested contact Claire at huntcl@bc.edu.
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class participation goal: 622 Correspondent: Bridget K. Sweeney bridget.k.sweeney@gmail.com Some of our classmates have returned to Boston from New York City. Katie Dean accepted a new position as an account executive at Business Wire and began work on December 1, and Kevin Alexanderson returned to Boston in January after leaving JPMorgan Chase to take an associate position at Sapient Corp. • Matt Gelman was serving last year in an AmeriCorps program, where he recruited over 50 new volunteer mentors to his host sites program, created new partnerships with various stakeholders, and helped 15 high school seniors from the Boston Public Schools complete their applications and continue on to higher education. He now works at his host site, the Hyde Square Task Force in Jamaica Plain, as the full-time Youth Literacy Theater program coordinator. In this role, he works directly with at-risk teens and trains them to run after-school programming with a literacy and theater focus to engage younger children. • After completing a year in Turkey as a Fulbright fellow, Josh Idaszak is living in Madrid and working as an English teacher and tutor at Colegio Hélicon in Valdemoro. • Daniel Kenny has been serving in the Peace Corps in Panama, teaching English to primary school children. He originally had lived with a community of indigenous Indians and while there, initiated a water sanitation project. He returned to the United States in October 2011 after finishing his commitment. • Grant Salzano and Alexandria Martindale (Stonehill ’10) were married on October 8, 2011, at BC’s Alumni House in Newton, with Joseph Gravellese serving as best man. Grant and Alex were thrilled to be able to celebrate their marriage at Boston College! They now reside in Middletown, CT. • Please keep sending me updates! Parents, you are more than welcome to send info on your 2010 grads as well!
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class participation goal: 656 Correspondent: Brittany Lynch brittanymichele8@gmail.com A number of our classmates have joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest and will be performing a year of service, working with various groups and organizations across the northwestern United States and in Alaska. Headed to Omak, WA, are Shannon Murphy, to serve with Okanogan Behavioral HealthCare, and Cassandra Bell, to work with
the Paschal Sherman Indian School. Also in Washington are Lauren Fish, with L’Arche Spokane in Spokane; Elizabeth Haney, with Upper Valley MEND in Wenatchee; and Clare Garvey, with Food Lifeline, and Matthew Driscoll, with El Centro de la Raza, both in Seattle. Those serving in Alaska are Kelly Connolly, with the Sitka Tribe of Alaska in Sitka; and in Anchorage, Lauren Sposa, with the Red Cross, and Sarah Brewster, with the Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association. Assigned to serve for a year in Oregon are Lauren Waski, with El Programa Hispano– Project UNICA in Gresham; and Amie Harris, with Rose Haven, and Kelsey Alexander, with Pathfinders, both in Portland. William Small and Christina Rogers are completing their year of service in Montana: William is with WMMMH in Missoula and Christina is with Family Support Network in Billings. • In other news, Michael Morton is attending St. Louis University School of Law in Missouri. • In May, Lauren Blodgett was awarded a J. William Fulbright scholarship and will study for a year in Austria at the University of Innsbruck. Lauren will focus her studies on the global implications of U.S. non-participation in the International Criminal Court and will also teach English to Austrian students.
City and has two children. • Julie Menendez ’98, MBA’01, has made the Boston Business Journal’s 14th annual list of “40 Under 40.” The list comprises individuals whom BBJ considers to be “among the Bay State’s movers and shakers” in the innovation and nonprofit communities. • After 10 years as an analyst at Thomas Weisel Partners, Jim Breen, MBA’99, joined William Blair & Company in 2010 as a communication services analyst. He has been recognized several times in recent years by the Wall Street Journal’s “Best on the Street”—which ranked him the No. 2 stock-picker for 2010 in Internet/computer services—and the Financial Times/StarMine’s “World’s Top Analysts” listing. Jim, who holds a BS in civil engineering from Tufts University, also worked as a civil engineer at Modern Continental Construction Company and as a high-yield, fixed-income analyst at BancBoston Robertson Stephens. • Last year, Christopher Barrile, MS’02, was appointed EVP for finance and administration and CFO of EBI Consulting, a national provider of environmental and sustainability consulting services. He has worked for many years in the fields of finance, operations, and executive management and was previously VP of supply chain management for EMD Millipore.
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classnotes@bc.edu Fulton Hall, Room 315 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Kathy Olberg Sternbach, MBA’86, established Sternbach Consulting in July 2011, following her retirement from Mercer Health & Benefits. She consults on health and human services to state, county, and local governments. • Richard Albert, MBA’89, was recently promoted to VP, international business development, at American Express in Singapore. In his new role, Richard will be responsible for leading the company’s business development activities (mergers and acquisitions and strategic partnerships) throughout the Asia– Pacific region. • Since 2006, David Read, MBA’89, has served on the board of East Coast Greenway Alliance, a project intended to link urban, suburban, and rural settings for bicycling and other non-motorized forms of transportation between the Canadian border and Key West. When completed, the Greenway will be a collection of connected rail trails, canal towpaths, and other linear parks that will span the entire Eastern Seaboard. David works in the health-care industry and views trails, and the exercise they can provide, as a wonderful way to help prevent and combat heart disease, diabetes, child obesity, and some cancers. Currently chief administrator of medical oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, he has also served as the administrative director of cardiology at MGH and as COO for the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. You may email David at dave@ readfamilyhome.com. • In October, Dani Nadel, MBA’94, joined Scholastic Corp., the global children’s publishing, education, and media company, as chief digital marketing officer for Scholastic Book Clubs and e-commerce. She was previously president of Publicis Modem, a New York–based fullservice digital agency. Dani lives in New York 25 25 class class notes notes
nursing.alums@bc.edu Cushing Hall, Room 201 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 In October, Jeanne Watson Driscoll, MS’75, received the Beverly Koerner Outstanding Alumni Award for Education in Nursing from the University of Connecticut’s School of Nursing. Jeanne, who earned her PhD from UConn in 2004, is president and owner of JWD Associates Inc. and a member of the Mica Collaborative in Wellesley. She is a psychiatric mental health clinical nurse specialist and provides psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for women who experience mood or anxiety disorders through the childbearing years. She is the coauthor, with Cheryl Tatano Beck, of Postpartum Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Clinicians’ Guide, which was awarded Book of the Year in 2006 by the American Journal of Nursing. She has also produced numerous publications and videos on postpartum research and was recently appointed to the President’s Advisory Council of Postpartum Support, International. • Also in October, Anne Berger, PhD’05, accepted a position at Covenant Health Systems in Massachusetts as VP of quality improvement and safety. Anne is responsible for overseeing quality and performance improvement, patient safety, risk management, and corporate compliance activities at the system level. • Lynda Tyer-Viola, PhD’05, was promoted to associate professor, nursing, by the board of trustees at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston. Lynda is one of only five professionals to receive this distinction.
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