career with the Boston Gas Company and was a pioneer in the development of alternative forms of energy. • On May 25, I attended the funeral of Bill Cullen, SJ, MA’59, STL’66; John Cafferty and Jack Leydon were also there. Bill and I were high-school classmates, and I had the privilege of visiting with him at the Jesuit retirement home in Weston about a month before he died. • Lenny Matthews told me that his elementary-school classmate and our BC classmate Bob McGrath, JD’61, has passed on as well. Bob was a Triple Eagle and an outstanding domestic relations lawyer. Our band is getting smaller. • In May we had a class get-together at the Wayside Inn. Attending were Veronica and Dick McCarthy; Virginia O’Brien Cahill; Elizabeth Gallagher and Roger Breton; Ray MacPherson; Lori and Lou Totino MBA’65; Claire and Leo Maguire; Mary Healy Nackley; Margaret (Molloy) ’58 and Pete Vasaturo; Tom Lane; Nancy and John Moreschi; Pat (Quigley) MEd’58 and the late Ed Kodzis; Mary Jean and Jim Coughlin; Mary and Murray Regan; Mary and John Curtin JD’57, H’91; Lorraine and Tom Cosgrove; Kathy and Peter Nobile; Nancy and George Seaver; Janet and Paul McKenna; Tom O’Connell; Joan Kennedy; Mario DiBiase; Martha (Leonard) MEd’60 and Ed Trask; Jim Flynn MA’55; Ruth Dynan Sweeney MEd’57; Ann Mary Dominick; Ann Como Green; Bob Carr MSW’61; and Jane and John Ford MSW’61. • Jim Coughlin sent along a newspaper clip about the annual Gerard McCourt golf tournament that raised $24,000 to benefit children with special needs. How fitting it is that this annual event honors our classmate who was such a special person himself. • I spoke with Frank Sheehan, MEd’58, recently. Frank and Connie are living at White Horse Beach and were looking forward to dinner with Alice and Phil Grant. • Our next event will be the memorial Mass on Sunday, November 14, in the Trinity Chapel on the Newton Campus. Brunch will follow the Mass, and our classmate Jim Woods, SJ, MAT’61, STB’62, will be the celebrant. If you would like more information, feel free to call Lou Totino at 781-329-9612. • Finally, the class officers have decided to drop the annual hockey game event due to diminishing attendance. Fewer and fewer of us enjoy driving in the dark.
nc 1954 Correspondent: Mary Helen FitzGerald Daly 700 Laurel Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091; 847-251-3837 In the Summer issue, Delma Sala Fleming said she was planning a dive to explore the wreck of the RMS Rhone, which sank in 1867, in the British Virgin Islands. Delma e-mailed me a report of her family’s summer adventure. The weather cooperated, and the expedition was a great success, enjoyed by all her children and grandchildren. Pictures showed the well-preserved Rhone, which was built in 1867, on the quiet bottom of the sea off Salt Island. An added surprise during the trip was finding a great spot for lobstering: in two days, many large lobsters were caught! • I’ve had phone chats with Dorothy Dienhart Rotolo NC’53 and Lucille Joy Becker. We ex-
changed news of friends and activities. Lucille and Jim celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in August—congratulations and best wishes to the Beckers! • The Fourth of July was special this year for Maureen Cohalan Curry. The “Curry Clan” gathered in Bristol, RI, to celebrate the holiday and the christening of Tabitha Curry, Maureen’s youngest grandchild. A great time was had by all. Maureen also tells of a phone call from Joan Baxter Fogarty. Joan was visiting family in Newport. • Please send news to share with classmates so we can keep connected!
1955 Correspondent: Marie Kelleher mjk55@bc.edu 12 Tappan Street Melrose, MA 02176; 781-665-2669 Looking back and looking forward: Back in the 1950s, many of us were involved in annual shows. While watching CatholicTV last summer, I couldn’t help wondering if we could have a trip back to the past by having a small show after our 60th reunion luncheon. The program I was watching was Going My Way, and the guest singer was our Fr. Bert Stankard. He reported he enjoys performing as Bing Crosby, so he changed into Bing-like attire and proceeded to sing. Many of us already know of Bruno Ciani’s delightful performance as George M. Cohan. Perhaps we can build on this for some enjoyable entertainment. Watching CatholicTV also gives me the opportunity to hear Msgr. Frank Strahan sing, if only briefly, because he occasionally is the celebrant of the televised Mass. I enjoy hearing his beautiful voice as well as the messages imparted in his excellent homilies. No matter where you live, you can check out CatholicTV on the Internet, iPod, and Facebook. • Lynn Strovink Daukas reports she is making progress in her genealogy search and hopes to go to Lithuania in the near future. • Joan Gospodarek Lett had a visit from daughter Kathy and her family this past summer. Her granddaughter took her annual trapeze lesson. Joan volunteers at her local food pantry. • Dick Renehan has once again been named one of America’s Best Lawyers in commercial litigation. • At the end of each academic year, the BC faculty has an awards ceremony. This year, BC Associate Professor Emeritus Jean O’Neil, MS’63, received an award for service from the University. At BC, in addition to teaching, Jean was active in the English as a Second Language program. She has now come out of retirement to tutor students in the program as they prepare for the licensing exam, and with her help, they are successful. She has given 40 years of service to BC. • Walt Bankowski joined his son Peter and his daughter Jennifer in eternal life on June 30. Walt retired as a commander in the Navy after 26 years of service. He volunteered in his parish as a lector and Eucharistic minister, and he performed in many of the parish’s theatrical productions. He was also a docent on the USS Wisconsin for several years. Sadly, the brother of his wife, Jan, went home to God two days before Walt died. • On August 18, we also lost Joe Harringtion. Joe was an attorney and served as chairman of the www.bc.edu/alumni
St. Thomas More Red Mass Committee for the Diocese of Fall River for many years. • As I send sympathy and prayers to the families of Walt and Joe, I am reminded that Karl Rahner, the distinguished Jesuit theologian, told us that those who went before us are still members of our spiritual family, and those who love one another never say goodbye for the last time.
nc 1955 Correspondent: Jane Quigley Hone janeqhone@msn.com 207 Miro Place Port Washington, NY 11050; 516-627-0973
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Correspondent: Steve Barry sdmjbarry@verizon.net 102 Brooksby Village Drive, Unit 304 Peabody, MA 01960; 978-587-3626 Our harbor cruise was a success, with close to 70 on the boat and at the luncheon at BC High afterward. The BC High president spoke briefly and mentioned that Frank Furey had received the St. Ignatius Award, the highest honor given to a BC High graduate. Carol Hines Gleason arranged the cruise with UMass Boston, and Jack Leonard set up the luncheon. Carol was reminiscing with Art Reilly’s wife, Mimi, who had worked for Fr. W. Seavey Joyce ’37, MA’40, former University president, while we were still at BC. • Bea ’62 and Peter Colleary met Joan and Dan Mitchell at a Mass and communion breakfast in Naples, FL, in March. • Charles D’Entremont mentioned that he had seen me while he was having coffee with his brother Craig at Brooksby Village, but I had disappeared before he connected the name and face. • Jim McLaughlin says he is back competing at croquet and running again. • Owen Lynch, JD’59, was presented with the first annual Bill Connell ’59 award given by St. Mary’s of Lynn. • In May, Joe Reagan, MS’59, was the featured speaker at BC’s Magde Physics Colloquium on the subject, “Severe Space Weather Effects on the Earth.” The invitation came when he met Professor Michael Naughton, chair of the physics department, at a Technology Council event sponsored by BC on the West Coast. Classmates and close friends Leo Power MA’64, MBA’72; Bill Plansky; and John McDonnell attended the talk with their wives and joined Joe and his wife at a dinner hosted by Professor Naughton following the event. • Ernie Caponi, who started with us but had to drop out and graduated with the Class of 1958, has published a book, Arthur and Rose: the Caponi/Mosca Union, October 21, 1915: In Search of My Italian Roots. In it, he describes his research in Massachusetts, on Ellis Island, and in Italy and his efforts to put together the story of how his father came from Italy, met his mother here, married her, and raised a family. The Burns and O’Neill Libraries have copies of the book. • Dick Toland e-mailed news of the death of Charlie Sanphy. Charlie commuted from Lynn with Jack Kennedy and others. Please keep Charlie and all classmates and families in your prayers. • Thanks to all who