from the CIA—he served two years with the DC/IG and six years at IMF. His legal career began at BU Law School and ran to the JAG Corps, including Vietnam, Nazi-hunting, and the Inspector General’s Office, working with IG Bill Hitz. His children followed in their dad’s footsteps—son Michael into the Marine Corps, including service in Afghanistan, and daughter Kathleen into law in New York. Dick is devoted to two major hobbies: triathlons and motorcycle touring. He is also providing hospice support, primarily for veterans. • Honor us with your presence for our 45th.
nc 1966 NC 1966 REUNION 2011 Correspondent: Catherine Beyer Hurst catherine.b.hurst@gmail.com 4204 Silent Wing Santa Fe, NM 87507; 505-474-3162 Put this on your calendars now: our 45th reunion will take place June 3–5, 2011! More information will follow—and you can also join the Newton ’66 Facebook page for more frequent updates. • Gail Lavin Reardon reports that both her daughters became mothers last year, making Gail a grandmother of Kai and Amelia. Gail lives in Boston’s Back Bay, where she runs a business she started 18 years ago, a gap-year consulting service called Taking Off. You can read more about it at www.takingoff. net. • Condolences are offered to the family of Marguerite Nolan Donovan, who died of breast cancer on July 10. Maggie and husband Ed settled in Harwich Port after their marriage, and their three children—Edward, Kate, and Liz—were all born there. Her obituary reports that Maggie became a vital member of the Harwich community, serving as longtime president of the Harwich Junior Theatre. She also chaired the board of trustees of the Brooks Free Library for several years and led the efforts to rebuild the library—and the renovated and expanded building won a preservation award for the town. In the late 1980s, Maggie returned to school and earned a master’s in early childhood education from Wheelock. She taught first grade on the Cape for many years and worked with Harvard’s Project Zero to build fruitful connections between children, teachers, and academics. For this work, and for her own workshops on progressive curriculum development, she traveled to Cuba and Peru and throughout the United States. The obituary concludes: “She was dedicated to family, community, education, and social justice.” In December, Maggie wrote me her last Christmas card, saying, “I have been struggling with a reoccurrence of breast cancer for several years. My world is very small and quiet, but I find joy in the beauty of the Cape and in family and friends.” Maggie, I’ll miss you.
1967 Correspondents: Charles and Mary-Anne Benedict chasbenedict@aol.com 84 Rockland Place Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464 Dick McHugh ’56 writes of meeting Joe Chanda in Melbourne, FL. Joe, a dermatologist,
has been practicing medicine in Melbourne for over 20 years. He is a graduate of Xavier High School in New Jersey and Georgetown Medical School (1971). • Jack Lambert writes that he and Cheri have been living at Sea Trail Plantation in Sunset Beach, NC, for the past eight years. While at one of their social events (TGIF at the owner’s pavilion), they met MaryAlice and Mike Jerome; more recently, they also met Paula and George Currivan. Although they did not really know each other at BC, they wound up living in the same neighborhood. Mike and Jack now play golf together on Saturdays. Small world. • I recently ran into Bill Connolly (William M., A&S) at the gym and Joe Cappadona, MSW’75, in Braintree. Joe owns and manages the Meineke muffler shop at the South Shore Plaza. • In August, we attended the wedding of Catherine O’Leary ’03, MEd’08, on Cape Cod. She is the daughter of our classmate Joe O’Leary, JD’70, and Carolyn Brady O’Leary NC’68. Catherine married Kyle Milbier, the nephew of classmate Dennis Griffin. • Last, I am sorry to report, we have lost two of our classmates. Robert Thomas “Tom” Kleinknecht died on February 13 in Naples, FL. Tom was a realtor in the Naples area. Originally from Oradell, NJ, he was an economics major at BC. The class extends its condolences to Tom’s family and friends. Also, Angela Fiore Cosgrove died of a massive coronary and stroke in April. Angela was widowed and had adult children. She was originally from Winchester but was living in Chelmsford at the time of her death. The class offers its condolences to her family and many friends.
nc 1967 Correspondent: M. Adrienne Tarr Free thefrees@cox.net 3627 Great Laurel Lane Fairfax, VA 22033-1212; 703-709-0896 I’d like to first thank those who responded to my late summer e-mail request for news. If you didn’t get an e-mail, it means I don’t have your address. Please send it so you can be included in other class communications from me. If you use only USPS, I can work with that too if you let me know. • Nancy Scheiderbauer Mahoney reported in from her home in Delaware. Retired after teaching French for 15 years at Wilmington Friends School, she now works with her husband in his consulting business. She has five “grands” in Washington DC and near Pittsburgh, and her mother lives in Florida, so she does a lot of traveling. When at home, she enjoys gardening, playing tennis, reading, cooking, and tutoring underserved children. To add to her fun, she is learning a new language. • Josie Higgins Rideg wants all to know that she is another of us grandmothers— number eight was born last March. She retired from her job at the Chapel School in São Paulo three years ago and is enjoying life, gardening, reading, knitting, swimming, and walking. Her family is very international: One daughter is married to an Austro-German, and her son is married to a southern Brazilian. They all live in São Paulo. Her youngest daughter married a Spaniard and lives in Chile, so their children are Chilean. The family safely weathered the earthquake in that country www.bc.edu/alumni
last spring just before the birth of their second daughter, and in July, the whole family gathered in São Paulo for the baby’s baptism. Josie loved having everyone together for this special occasion. Josie will not be held down and hopes to make a trip up our way for our next reunion. • For those who saw the monthly publication On Wall Street, did you recognize Kathleen Doran Hegenbart on the cover? And to anyone who was at a Cole Haan store in mid-May, could you pick out my youngest daughter and me in two shots in their collages? (I don’t really expect anyone would have since the pictures were taken 30 years ago! But it was fun for us to see them used.) • Many recent messages told of travels taken. Watch for these reports next time. Until then, remember to keep your contact information current, and please send news as it happens as well as prayer requests for the Prayer Net. • Let’s pray for “less winter” this season! God bless.
1968 Correspondent: Judith Anderson Day jnjday@aol.com The Brentwood 323 11500 San Vicente Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90049 Greetings, classmates! • Kevin O’Kane has published a new book, titled Omaha, dramatizing the dangers to privacy, the public infrastructure, and national security posed by today’s highly interconnected electronic culture. It is available in e-book format at http://omahadave.com. Kevin is a professor of computer science at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, but he spends his summers in Hyannis. • In June, in celebration of the 25th AIDS Walk Boston, the AIDS Action Committee honored 25 individuals who have made invaluable contributions to the fight against AIDS. Richard Giglio was recognized for his service as walk coordinator from 1986 to 1990, when he worked with the walk director and hundreds of volunteers to raise $6.5 million for AIDS care and services. He singles this out as the proudest accomplishment of his life. Richard is a real estate consultant in Boston. • We all extend our sincere sympathy to the family of Ed McManus of Natick, who passed away in April. • Ed McDonald continues his acting career, playing Fr. Flanagan in the 2010 film The Sinatra Club. Ed is a litigation partner in the New York office of the international law firm Dechert LLP. We all loved our favorite class thespian’s performance of himself in the Oscarnominated film Goodfellas. In fact, Ed was recently recognized by Film Comment magazine for the No. 3 performance all-time of someone playing himself. Rated above Ed were only the Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night and Fred Dalton Thompson in Marie. • Joe Gannon, JD’72, a member of the Governors Club in Chapel Hill, NC, recently chose a unique way to select teams for a golf challenge: Big Ten alumni vs. ACC alumni. Forty golfers competed in a four-ball match play format, with the ACC besting the Big Ten! This has since become an annual event. Local charities shared in the proceeds,