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1958 Correspondent: David Rafferty bcbusa58@bc.edu 2296 Ashton Oakes Lane, No. 101 Stonebridge Country Club Naples, FL 34109; 239-596-0290 Jack Murray reports that he remains active doing per diem work at his pediatric office and working on the admissions committee at the UVM medical school. He also plays the trumpet in several bands in the Burlington area! • Bill McGurk finally came to the realization that winters on Prince Edward Island are no picnic, so he and Ann will now be spending the cold months in Sarasota. • After graduating in 1958, Tom Kurey went on to Penn State to receive his MS and PhD in physics. He is now enjoying retirement in Belleair, FL, after a 34year career with GE as a designer and developer of nuclear power systems and MRI equipment. Tom and Carol have four children, one of whom—a former Miss Wisconsin and a finalist in the Miss America pageant—is now the director of the Respect Life Office for the Archdiocese of Chicago. • Dotty Sollitto Hiltz, a longtime member of the Class Committee, keeps busy in Mashpee, volunteering for church and community organizations, including the BC Club of Cape Cod, and serving as president of the Catholic Women’s Club, and she still has time to spoil her eight grandchildren! • Frank Neelon, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, has been on the staff of Duke University Medical Center for more than 40 years, working in internal medicine and endocrinology. Frank, the editor of Stylus while at BC, was editor of the North Carolina Medical Journal from 1991 to 2001. • Joe Messina, MBA’65, MA’93, lives in Westwood and has 5 children and 13 grandchildren. He serves as an ordained deacon at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Norwood. • Joe Giardina is enjoying retirement, dividing his time between Mashnee Island on the Cape and Bonita Springs, FL. Joe is a very active member of our class, and he and Livinia can be seen at every class luncheon in Florida and on the Cape. • More than 84 classmates and spouses were in attendance at our annual class luncheon at the beautiful Wianno Club on the Cape. Fr. William McInnes ’44, MA’51, STL’58, did a masterful job as our keynote speaker. • Walter Weldon, JD’62, had a career as an attorney on the investment law staff of the Hanover Insurance Group. Now he and wife Barbara ’60 live in Framingham and are enjoying retirement.
nc 1958 Correspondent: Jo Cleary jocleary@comcast.net 27 Kingswood Road Auburndale, MA 02466; 617-332-6798 For some, a bonus from the rainy weather last summer was having time to write. We benefit now with your news. • Mary Denman O’Shea wrote that she “retired from government service sometime in the 1990s (U.S. Customs). I was on leave at the time the World Trade Center [fell]; my office was at 6 WTC….Since 1989, we have lived in the southern tier of
the Schohairie Valley…. We have our own fire tower, now a landmark. I live on 10 acres with one husband, two horses, three cats, four ducks, and one physically challenged German shepherd named Apollo. We have two children: Amy, who is writing a history of the canal system in New York State and is now on her third book, and Geoffrey, a professor of psychology at SUNY College at Oneonta. He has one son….As far as travel goes, now it’s limited to about three months every winter in the Sarasota area.” • Sue Lawrence Sharkey wrote, “We did escape to Aruba and Virgin Gorda in the spring, but our summer months are spent at home at the beach…entertaining friends and family most of the time.” • Good news from Lucy Reuter Dolan: “I am all recovered and feeling very well.” Lucy and Danny’s son Terry bought a small ranch in Wyoming. Their daughter Ann was married in July, and a granddaughter will be a senior at Vanderbilt this year. • From Austin, Shelley Carroll Opiela wrote: “You may remember that I wore an Ace bandage on my left knee through freshman year.” (Yes.) Shelley recently had a total knee replacement. Her three sons and their families came to help husband Alex during the course of her recuperation. Their daughter Anne Marie, in Switzerland, is working on a Mellon Foundation project at the University of Fribourg, to digitize medieval manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall. Interested scholars, visit www.cesg.unifr.ch/en. • Every summer, Maureen Ronan takes a three-day seminar in folk art at the Cahoon Museum in Cotuit. She recently took many pictures on Martha’s Vineyard, which she will use for her art projects during the winter months. • Keep in touch and let me know of changes in your addresses. Many thanks.
1959 Correspondent: George Holland bmw0324@msn.com 244 Hawthorne Street Malden, MA 02148; 781-321-4217 Jim Marrinan, MSW’61, writes that he and Cynthia have become grandparents for the first time. Their daughter Jane ’97 gave birth to George James Clarence Cumisky in London on July 2, which is also Jim’s birthday. Congratulations! • I also heard from John Peterson, who continues to teach philosophy full-time at the University of Rhode Island. • Bob Latkany, who wrote these notes for over 20 years, continues to work as chairman of Shoff Darby Companies, Inc. He also referees a full schedule of basketball in the winter season. • John Dempsey tells me that he is still working as a technical writer at the Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. • Tom Tanous, MEd’63, who was coeditor of The Heights in our senior year, has retired as an assistant principal at Beverly High School. • George Kelley has retired after a long career with the IRS and is living in Virginia. • I am pleased to report that Bill Appleyard has resumed his normal activities after undergoing coronary bypass surgery shortly after Reunion Weekend. • We send our condolences to the families of the following classmates who recently passed away: John C. Farley of Winthrop on December 27, 2008, and in 2009, Marion R. Kirley of
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Winthrop on January 4, Robert F. Leonard of Somerville on May 28, William F. McGonagle of Hyde Park on May 9, and Anne P. Whelan of Lynn on May 27. • Please help us defray the costs of our 50th reunion by sending your class dues of $50 (BC Class of ’59) to Alumni House, 825 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02458.
nc 1959 Correspondent: Maryjane Mulvanity Casey pattyoneill@juno.com 75 Savoy Road Needham, MA 02492; 781-400-5405 The marriage of Ellen Martinsen, daughter of Ann Baker Martinsen, and Corey Hendricksen of Newburyport at the West Mountain Inn in Arlington, VT, on August 29 was a great and joyous occasion. They were married under a maple tree in a meadow at 5 p.m. on a rainy day. The rain stopped in time for the outdoor ceremony, and just as they said their vows, the sun came out. It was magic. Ellen, who just completed her PhD in biology at the University of Vermont, is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. Corey is a photographer. Among the guests at the wedding were Patty O’Neill and her sister, Nancy O’Neill NC’61, MA’67.
1960 Correspondent: Joseph R. Carty jrcarty1@gmail.com 253 River Street Norwell, MA 02061 Now that the fall events for our 50th anniversary have been celebrated, we can look forward to the activities that spring will bring: reunion events in Naples, FL, March 11–17; Laetare Sunday, March 14; Golden Eagles at the senior champagne toast, May 20; Commencement (with participation of the Class of 1960), May 24; a golf outing at the Charles River Country Club, June 3; and Reunion Weekend, June 4–6. This will be a great time, so come and enjoy, as you have only one 50th to celebrate! The committee has sent each member of the class an events packet—please review. We need you to participate! • Tom Cunnally recalls Robert Kennedy’s Commencement address, imploring us to ask not “why?” but “why not?” and to try to do what others may think is impossible. BC gave us that inspiration and the Jesuit education to do the impossible and to be successful in our lives. • Jim O’Brien will be honored by Challenge Unlimited at Ironstone Farm as its “Spirit of Giving” honoree on November 21 at the Andover Country Club. The event will celebrate Jim’s generosity and his important work with the Special Olympics and Ironstone Farm, which serves children with disabilities. • Mary Anne and Charles Hayes have five grandchildren. They enjoy traveling, especially by cruise ship. • Tom “Soupy” Campbell retired from GM in 2000 and remains in upstate New York. Two grandchildren live with his son in Northbridge. He and his wife celebrated their 50th in 2006. • The twelfth annual BC KT Invitation Golf Tournament was held in Williamstown. Among the gentlemen participating in this