Phil Schiller ’ 82 in Tokyo. His talk was on the policies and practices that have allowed the United States to achieve high generic utilization. The trip was especially enjoyable because Richard’s youngest son, Christopher, accompanied him. • Anna Bamonte Torrance was appointed to serve on the board of directors of SharpVisions, Inc. Anna is an attorney practicing health-care law. After BC, she earned her law degree from the Pittsburgh School of Law in 1987. • Don Halloran is president of Southern Folger Detention Equipment Company in San Antonio. Don’s company manufactures, services, and installs detention equipment for prisons, jails, and detention facilities worldwide. The company recently completed a three-year project of rebuilding locking devices at Alcatraz for the National Park Services. To read more, go to www.nps .gov and type in Don’s name. • Joseph H. Baldiga, JD’87, was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for 2010 in the field of bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law. Joe is a partner at Mirick O’Connell and chairs the firm’s creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, and reorganization group. • Please keep the news coming!
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Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bwilson@hlmx.com 35 Meadowhill Drive Tiburon, CA 94920 Wow, our 25th reunion! I hope many of our classmates will be able to attend Reunion Weekend on June 4–6. • Sharon Bessette Bradley, Cathy Eagan Johnston, JulieAnn Kulas Waclawski, Kathy Moody Cornell, and some of their family members had a long overdue get-together at the BC–Wake Forest football game on September 26, 2009. They had a lot to catch up on and had a great time chatting and watching a fabulous game. • Jeanne d’Oliveira Buckley, Terry Sibilia Kais, and Barbara Nassaney Joseph were able to sneak away for a fun girls weekend in January. Terry, now a seven-year breast cancer survivor, is living in Fairfield, CT, with husband Joe; girls Natalie (13) and Grace (10); and their dog, Bailey. After 25 years, she has finally decided to go back to school in the health-care field. Jeanne is living in Wakefield with husband Joe and two kids, Lily (11) and Peter (9). After spending two years teaching in Oman with her family, she is back in the States teaching pre-school students in Melrose. Barbara is living in Newton Centre with husband Andrew; girls, Westly (11) and Victoria (9); and their dog, Lucky. After spending over 20 years in the software localization industry, she is looking for her next interesting career. Barbara is currently tutoring math, while her husband is starting a new company, TenMarks Education. When they’re not in Newton, you can find them at their second house in Vermont, skiing at Mt. Snow. • Jim Dunford is a series manager for American Experience, PBS’s longest-running,most-watched history series. Two of his kids are in college: son James is at Loyola and daughter Kara is at George Washington. • Kathleen Concheri Ciaramello was promoted to VP, East Region
the fruits of technology s Apple’s senior vice president for worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller ’82 knows how technology can inspire people, which was the case for him at Boston College. A native of Newton, Massachusetts, Schiller entered the Heights with a passion for marine biology, but he found new inspiration in BC’s core curriculum and electives, discovering what would become an enduring interest in computer science. “In the computer programming class I took at BC, we started out working with punch cards and eventually moved on to line printers,” says Schiller. “We were introduced to the basics of programming in C, Pascal, Phil Schiller credits Boston College for much of Assembly, and Machine code. It gave his success at Apple. me the confidence to be flexible and adapt quickly to emerging technologies in my own career.” After positions as a systems analyst and information technology manager, Schiller joined Apple in 1987 and transitioned into marketing roles. He says it was an on-thejob learning experience, but what made it easier—and continues to keep marketing exciting—are the products themselves, whether it is Apple’s now ubiquitous iPod or the newly introduced iPad. “In many ways, Boston College and Apple are similar,” says Schiller. “Both sit at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, creating an environment where people are encouraged to learn, grow, and innovate.”
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Below, Schiller discusses more about his work and his alma mater: what is your best bc memory?
what was your first job?
Attending the 2008 Frozen Four in Denver with my family and watching men’s hockey win a national championship. The best moment of that weekend was the service that was held for the players and their families the morning before the final. It was a remarkable experience to be with a team at that moment, when athletics, education, and spirituality all came together.
My first job out of school was as a lab technician at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, colocated in Massachusetts General Hospital. After that, I moved into Mass. General to work as a programmer/analyst. That was a great job—it provided me with the freedom to program interesting SAS analyses on large patient datasets on the hospital’s mainframe and to maintain outpatient databases on a VAX minicomputer.
where is your favorite spot on the heights? I enjoyed a number of places: studying in Bapst Library, partying when bands came to play in the basement of Lyons, learning computer programming in Gasson, creating art in the studio on Newton Campus, and cheering at basketball games in the old Roberts Center.
what was your favorite bc class? My favorites were the great electives. I took fascinating classes such as “Physical Oceanography,” “Exploration Geophysics,” and “Advanced Computer Programming.” Not only did I enjoy these classes, but they also helped me to develop an ability to learn new fields of study quickly, which has been a tremendous asset throughout my career.
to read the profile of phil schiller online, visit www.bc.edu/alumni/schiller.html.