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Correspondent: Michele Nadeem nadeem007@aol.com Sunrise Harbor 1040 Seminole Drive, Unit 1151 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 In October 2010, Michael Bodson was elected COO of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC). He will also serve as president and COO of DTCC’s U.S.-regulated subsidiaries and as a member of the company’s board of directors. Mike joined DTCC in 2007 from Morgan Stanley, where he had held a number of senior management positions for over 20 years. • Last November, Paul Deninger joined Evercore Partners’ investment banking business as a senior managing director. Based in Boston and San Francisco, Paul will focus on advising companies in the technology and clean technology sectors. • Andrew Glincher, former managing partner of the Boston office of law firm Nixon Peabody LLP, recently became the new CEO and managing partner of the entire firm. In his new post, he also continues to represent the firm’s business and real estate clients. Andrew is a native of Boston and earned his JD from the Northeastern University School of Law. • Rob McCarthy is an elected member of the Saugus Republican Town Committee and has been active in local politics for a number of years. After graduating from BC, he obtained a JD from New England Law in Boston and completed a stint in the U.S. Marine Corps, departing with the rank of major. Currently, Rob operates a small law practice in Saugus, where he lives with his wife and three children. • Chris Simmons wrote to inform us of the tragic death of Dick Jennings in November 2010. Chris writes that Dick “was returning home from picking out a Christmas tree with his family when he lost control of his SUV. He died instantly from the accident. Miraculously, no other family members were seriously injured. For some of us this is the first ‘close to home’ tragedy of our class. The circumstances surrounding Dick’s death are particularly shocking and remind us all of our own mortality and the importance of family and friends in our lives. We are all very lucky to have shared our lives with Dick at BC and in the years since graduation. Please keep Dick and his family in your thoughts and prayers. Dick is survived by his wife, Lisa, and their three children: Meghan, Emily, and Tommy.” be
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Correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee amckee81@aol.com 1128 Brandon Road Virginia Beach, VA 23451; 757-428-0861 Although it was great to hear from Mike Thomas, unfortunately he had very sad news to pass along regarding two of our classmates. Mike’s friend and roommate, John Gancer, passed away last February. He
lived in River Forest, IL, and is survived by his wife, Sue, and four children. He is greatly missed by his roommates, Brian Landry, Chris Burke, Bill Rosemeyer ’80, and David Downey ’82. Mike’s grammar school, high-school, and college friend and classmate Susan (Sullivan) Gates passed away in May. Susan was the cousin of Tom and Karen (Brennan) Byrne. She lived in Cazenovia, NY, and is survived by her husband, Christopher, and four children. On a much happier note, Mike reports that his oldest son is a junior at BC. • Brian O’Connell is enjoying continued success with his company, Asterisk Animation. Asterisk did the animation work for Little Pim, a set of DVDs starring a panda that teaches foreign languages to preschoolers. The project was featured on the Today show this past fall. • Our condolences to Suzanne Murphy McDonough, who lost her husband, Dick (Bentley College ’81), to a brain tumor in 2005. Suzanne lives in Chelmsford with her two children, Brendan (17) and Kelly (14). Suzanne is an RN in NewtonWellesley Hospital’s surgical center. Previously she had worked for over 20 years in pediatric critical care, first at Yale-New Haven and then at Children’s Hospital Boston. • Jylanne (Smith) Dunne, a senior VP with Fidelity Investments in Boston, chaired the Council for Women of Boston College’s Preparing for the Journey program last September. The program is geared to junior and senior women undergraduates and focuses on career and life skills. Beth (Reiss) Barbagallo, who works at L’Oreal USA in New York City, will succeed Meg (McGrory) Kelleher as chair of the Marketing and Communications Committee for the CWBC. Meg is also a senior VP at Fidelity Investments in Boston. • Bob Shea recently changed firms and is now a partner with Hinckley, Allen & Snyder in Boston, where he practices litigation and labor and employment law. Bob’s oldest of three daughters, Molly, is a sophomore at BC. • Congratulations to Ed Fogarty, who is the latest winner of the now infamous Animal Cup! The gang gathered for the annual golfing weekend in connection with the BC football game at Duke, where Greg Clower’s daughter Courtney is a freshman. Courtney and her friends were evidently quite impressed with her father’s friends’two restaurant renditions of the BC fight song, which they claim were “legendary.” We can only hope that they’ll sing it at our 30th, which will be here before we know it. It will take place the weekend of June 3–5—start making plans to be there! be
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Correspondent: Mary O’Brien maryobrien14@comcast.net 14 Myrtlebank Avenue Dorchester, MA 02124-5304 Gabriella “Gaby” Clapp-Milley is the proud mom of seven-year-old Alexander, a secondgrader, and five-year-old Isabel. The children are bilingual in English and Spanish and are incredible athletes: Alex plays ice hockey, and Isabel plays tennis. Gaby, who worked 17 class notes
on Wall Street for 17-plus years, is now focusing her efforts on working on sustainability for the town of Princeton and is particularly interested in the schools. Gaby married a self-described Yankee from Reading. They met in New York in 1998 through a mutual friend who used to do triathlons with her. Gaby did a lot of triathlons pre-kids and completed two Ironmans. It was great training for the endurance required to chase kids and keep them entertained! Her husband, Jonathan Milley, is with an energy company based in Princeton and is now working on some wind projects in Massachusetts. When Gaby moved to Princeton in January 2005 and became pregnant with Isabel, she was surprised to meet up with Kathleen O’Brien DiBiase, one of the nurses in her OB/GYN practice. Kathleen supported Gaby during her entire pregnancy. • Last September, Walter J. Sullivan Jr., JD’88, joined the Boston office of Preti Flaherty, where he practices with the labor and employment and the legislative, regulatory, and government services groups. • Bill Buccella was named president of Northern Trust Bank of Massachusetts in October 2010. Bill also serves as chairman of the New England Center for the Performing Arts and sits on the advisory board of the New England Center for Children. • Joan C. Geary ’81 sent me a lovely note in remembrance of her lifelong best friend, Maureen Muckian of Lynn. Maureen passed away in January 2010 after a long and courageous battle with leukemia. While a student at BC Maureen worked in the theology department. After graduation, she was the director of event services at the Seaport World Trade Center for over 22 years, and she was also a part-time instructor at Northeastern University. Joan is grateful that Maureen will be remembered for her friendship, generosity, and kindness to so many. • The family of Bruce Rovner wrote to share that Bruce passed away suddenly in July 2009. Bruce was a CPA who worked as a CFO in the health-care industry. He grew up in Malden and prior to his passing, lived in Peabody. The Class of 1982 extends our sympathy to both Maureen’s and Bruce’s families on their losses. be
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Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com 71 Hood Road Tewksbury, MA 01876; 978-851-6119 In September 2010, North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue appointed Sharon Tracey Barrett of Asheville to the Domestic Violence Commission. Sharon, who earned her JD from Georgetown University, is a district court judge for Buncombe County. • Randi (Strom) Fay wrote: “I received my DVM from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in 1988 and practiced small-animal medicine in Minnesota and Wisconsin until 2004. I married John Fay ’84 in 1983, and we have three children: Kristin (26), Kevin (23), and Kyle (20). In 2004, a series of hand injuries ended my vet medicine career, so I started a second career in music. My production company, Emerald