class notes nine countries in Eastern Europe over two weeks, covering 7,000 kilometers. Ric raised money for three different charities. Check out the website at: www.7000kmtogo.com. • Save the date! Yes, believe it or not, it has been 20 years since we all graduated! So save the date now: our 20th reunion will take place on June 3–5. It should be a fabulous weekend to reunite, reconnect, and rejoice! See you there!
1992 Correspondent: Paul L. Cantello paul.cantello@verizon.net 37 Sylvester Avenue Hawthorne, NJ 07506 Mod 1-A celebrated an early 40th birthday for all the girls in Scottsdale, AZ. Malena Amato Eggleston, Erin Graefe Dorton, Michelle Korn Mulshine, Tina Castellano Burns, Caroline Mendoza Horrigan, and Kelly Noreen Nast spent a long weekend going to the spa, shopping, and eating out. Malena lives in Woodside, CA, with husband John and sons Gabe and Liam. Malena studied ophthalmology at Stanford and is currently a surgeon in the San Francisco area. Erin lives in Chevy Chase, MD, and works as a lobbyist at Prime Policy Group. She and husband Patrick have two daughters, Lily and Eliza, and a son, Logan. Michelle lives in Greenwich, CT, with husband Chris and has two sons, Ryan and Collin, and one daughter, Leila. She is a stay-at-home mom. Tina is also a stay-athome mom, with sons Will, Christopher, and Collin, and is married to Dave Burns ’91. Caroline lives up the road from Tina in Potomac, MD; she is married to Keith Horrigan and has three daughters: Maddie, Emma, and Lila. She also stays home full-time. And finally, Kelly made the trip from Minneapolis, where she works for Best Buy. She is married to Tom Nast, and they have two daughters, Brooke and Caroline. The girls have decided to make Scottsdale a winter tradition each February! • Joshua, JD’95, and Ingrid Schroffner Goodman, JD’95, welcomed twins to their family on August 12: Ari Kai (whose name means “ocean”) and Annika Keiko (whose name means “child of blessing, grace, and luck”). The twins join their older brother, Jacob Keitaro (3). • Katie LaManna was named to the 2009 Hartford Business Journal’s “40 Under Forty” list, which honors individuals for their hard work and accomplishments in their profession. She is a partner and chair of the corporate trust practice group at the law firm Shipman & Goodwin. Katie works in the firm’s Hartford office and resides in South Glastonbury.
1993 Correspondent: Sandy Chen Dekoschak sdekoschak@gmail.com 2043 Hawley Road Ashfield, MA 01330 Joy Olaes Surprenant is the founder of Catching Joy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that organizes hands-on community service projects for young children and their families
to let them feel the joy of volunteering and giving and to inspire them to make a difference. Catching Joy kids sing at nursing homes, join in charity walks, form cheering stations, run lemonade stands, organize clothing/toy drives, and make cards for others. They link up with various nonprofits, including Birthday Wishes, the Pine Street Inn, the National Marine Life Center, Reach Out and Read, the YMCA, Cradles to Crayons, the Franklin Park Zoo, the Walk for Hunger, the Kidney Foundation, and the Avon Breast Cancer Walk. For more information, visit www.catchingjoy.org or contact Joy at joy@ catchingjoy.org. • Bethzaida Sanabria-Vega was nominated by Governor Deval Patrick to be a judge at the Holyoke District Court in July, and she was confirmed in August. Bethzaida has been a sole practitioner in Springfield for 10 years, working on a variety of criminal and civil matters. A former assistant district attorney in Hampden County, Bethzaida holds a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law. • In April, Jeanie Taddeo was featured in a story on NBC10 in Philadelphia. Jeanie, an eighth-grade Spanish teacher, was pregnant with twins when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Read about Jeanie, now healthy and happy, and her “miracle babies” at www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/health/ Mother-of-a-Miracle-91003214.html.
1994 Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com 226 E. Nelson Avenue Alexandria, VA 22301; 703-548-2396 Hello! I hope everyone had a wonderful summer and is now enjoying the football season. I know you’re all busy, but do take a moment to send news of professional accomplishments (a promotion, perhaps?), personal triumphs (think marathon), exotic trips (Bali, anyone?), and expanding families (extra points for twins). We are all waiting! • Jeremy and Gina La Porta Roller joyfully welcomed daughter Sylvia Pearl to the family on January 11. Sylvie joins big brother Henry (7) and big sister Amelia (4). They live in Seattle, where Gina is a literacy coach for the Seattle Public Schools, and Jeremy is an attorney at Yarmuth Wilsdon Calfo. • Keith ’92, JD’95, and Mei Yee (Lee) Higgins were happy to welcome the arrival of a little girl, Katherine Elizabeth, on July 28. Big brother Jack loves having a little sister join the family, who live in the Worcester area. Keith is an attorney, and Mei Yee works at Berkshire Blanket. • Jay Wu, MST’96, is one of eight up-and-coming artists whose work was shown in the Attleboro Arts Museum’s exhibit, 8 Visions. Jay displayed eight oil paintings, all an attempt to offer homage to the ordinary objects and places that are special to him. Jay has a master’s degree in fine arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. • Andres Benach helped law firm Duane Morris receive recognition in the Chambers USA survey of the American legal profession this year. • Finally, Ann Lassotovitch Flaherty got the nursing education of a lifetime when her three-year-old son became critically ill 21 class notes
with an aggressive, cancer-like immune disorder, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. He was successfully treated with a bone-marrow transplant from his older brother at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Ann says her BC nursing education was extremely helpful when she nursed him through the illness, the transplant, and a yearlong recovery. Her son is now in kindergarten and is doing very well, which is wonderful news!
1995 Correspondent: Enrico Jay Verzosa bc95.classnotes@gmail.com Le Moyne College Panasci Chapel 1419 Salt Springs Road Syracuse, NY 13214 Beth (O’Leary) Anish, MA’97, recently left Quinsigamond Community College to accept a new position. Beth writes, “After years of teaching part-time as an adjunct while my kids were young, I have been hired as an assistant professor of English, a full-time, tenure-track position, at the Community College of Rhode Island. This position allows me to do what I love for a career while still being with my kids summers and when they get off the school bus every day!” • Gail (Cooney) Dombeck is director of nursing and oversees the wound care team at Cedar Crest Nursing & Rehabilitation Centre in Cranston, RI. In June, she passed the National Alliance of Wound Care examination to become Wound Care Certified (WCC). Gail, who earned her BS in nursing from the Connell School, has been employed for 15 years at Cedar Crest. She lives in Warwick with her husband and two children. • This past summer, Julia Rafferty was appointed to the editorial advisory board of imPACT Times, the Greater Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies publication that provides news and resources to the entrepreneurial, life sciences, and investment communities. Julia, who earned her JD from Villanova University School of Law, is an attorney with Stradley Ronon, where she is a member of the firm’s litigation and life sciences practice groups.
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Correspondent: Mike Hofman mhofman@inc.com 517 E. 13th Street, No. 20 New York, NY 10009; 212-673-3065 Christopher Barnowski married Maureen Maloney ’98, MEd’02, in Falmouth on June 26. Christopher Giglia, John Boyt, and Brian Sullivan were groomsmen, and Carrie and John Giuliano, Marc Leduc, Brian Woods, Dave and Amy (Schoeffield) Telep, Tracey (Gilroy) Giglia, Helene (Benedict) Mastin, John Kaney Dempsey, and Brigid Tobin ’97 were among the guests. Christy and Matt Keswick were also there, with their son Anderson and Christy’s parents. As previously reported, the little guy was born on April 21. • Kenneth and Jennifer Berryman