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Class Reunion we had this year! There were many people, who wore many hats, so that we could all enjoy the fun we had. First, I want to thank Liz Fitzgerald for the Facebook page. It is still active at: RegisClassof88@ groups.facebook.com. Please continue to visit this page and add to it. ¶ Now about our Reunion—40 classmates attended and 9 were from out of state. The classmates travelling the furthest were: Dr. Karen Lewis Moynihan from CA, Rachel Gulen from TX, Michelle Gray Bird from FL, and Amy Buckley from PA. We had one of the biggest turn-outs of attendance in quite awhile! Our Regis Fund (previously known as the Annual Fund) raised $2,815 for our class gift. The weather was absolutely beautiful the entire weekend! If you did not attend this Reunion, try to attend our 30th Reunion. ¶ And now for the rest of the news. Kathleen Forrest Regan, our new Class President, sent her 9-year-old Michael to 4th grade at Derby Academy in Hingham. Kathleen has been promoted to Manager and will start to build a team of licensed brokers for various lines of insurance. She still resides in Marshfield. ¶ Patricia Condon Barton’s 12-year-old Erin started 7th grade. Patty and Doug celebrated their 14th anniversary this summer. Patty has just started her 26th year at Salem Public schools. ¶ Liz Higgins Fitzgerald sent her two 12-year-olds off to 7th grade. Liz has a new job, where she has moved to the position of Community Impact for the United Way. She and Steve celebrated their 20th anniversary. Liz is also one of our new Class Reporters—so send her lots of info!
1989
25th Reunion ✒Maria Alpers Henehan, paulhenehan @verizon.net ¶ Hello, Regis Girls! As difficult as this is to believe, our 25th Reunion takes place May 16-18, 2014. Yikes! Get that one on the calendar, and book your perm ASAP! Just a little 80s humor, but you get the point: Call the Regis girls and come to the Reunion! More information to come as the event gets closer, but you can also check the Regis website for up-to-date information. ¶ Congratulations to Kim DeVito on the purchase of her new home in Fort Myers, FL. She writes, “It is hard to believe that David and I have been together 17 years, and this is our first home…we are so excited!” She also mentioned that she had “lots of laughs walking down memory lane” with Laura Kopp Nuttall, Kristine Gomes, and KrisAnn Donofrio Stancombe on a recent trip home. This summer JoEllen Caffrey McGinnity spent 2 weeks touring the Mediterranean with her husband, Tom, and son, Michael. She mentioned that Michael started his freshman year at Arlington Catholic
with Erin Murphy Piggott’s son, Matt. ¶ Kathleen Fleming has been working at New York Magazine since March. ¶ Nancy Antonellis D’Amato started a cake business: Beyond Bows Custom Cakes. She reports this is “still a small at-home business, but it’s a blast and gives me a different kind of creative outlet. One that is a far cry from writing mathematics curriculum!” Check her out on Facebook: www.facebook. com/pages/Beyond-Bows-CustomCakes/120775378114283?ref=hl Kathy Nawn Conrad is in her 6th year of teaching 4th grade in Tewksbury, MA. She and her husband, Michael, are celebrating their 23rd anniversary at the end of Sept. with a trip to Disney. Congratulations! ¶ Mary Regan Thakur is also heading to Disney after winning a 4-day trip for 2 from the Loren and Wally Show on WROR. Any chance you could help me pick some lottery numbers? ¶ Sue Casey received her Masters of Public Administration from Suffolk U. Congratulations! Mary, Kristen Dolder Wenger, Andrea Ohnemus, and Anne-Marie Kerrigan Caruso were all at Sue’s graduation celebration. Sue took some time over the summer to travel to Greece and Italy. Kristen’s oldest started high school this year, and she continues to homeschool her younger 2 sons. ¶ Gail Parkins Grant and her family made an 11-hour road trip from Toronto to Farmington, ME, to visit Karol Maybury Macintosh and her family. Both report it was a wonderful Reunion with lots of laughs, great food, hiking, and long talks. After a sad departure, Gail and her family cheered themselves up with a stop at the Ben and Jerry’s factory in Vermont and some shopping in New York. Karol teaches in the Psychology Department at the U of Maine and chairs the national committee on Adolescent Girls for the American Psychological Association. ¶ It is with great sadness that I report the death of our classmate, Nancy Flaherty Gustin. Nancy passed away on May 12, 2013 leaving behind her husband and 4 children. Please remember her family in your prayers. ¶ Great news, Tracey Lee was recently promoted to Recruiting & Marketing Director at Wellesley Financial Group, where she has been employed for 15 years. It seems only right that the 1st College Recruiting event she attended was at Regis. She’s been to several since and has yet to meet such motivated candidates...job well done!
1991
✒Rosemary A. Hughes, rosemary hughes@aol.com ✒Maria Rodriguez, malbri@verizon.net ✒Catherine Froio nobskama@gmail.com ¶ It has been great to reconnect with so many of you on Facebook and see into your
post-Regis lives. How wonderful and magical they each have become. Much love to you all, I look forward to seeing you soon on campus, on Facebook, or bumping into each other in aisle 4 of Stop and Shop! ¶ Lisa Spadafora Thompson writes that she is still living in Medfield with her hubby, John, and their two kids Matt, 11, who just started middle school, and Ella, 8, going on 18. Lisa wrote, “Spend a lot of weekends on soccer fields. Recently we sold my former firm, Monitor Group, to Deloitte Consulting. So I’m now a partner at Deloitte and really loving it. Huge compared to Monitor and Strategic Pricing Group before it, but a wonderfully small feel—great people, great culture and love how I’m able to reinvent myself there. We recently found out my father-in-law (whom I adore) has stage 4 lung cancer. So we’re hoping and praying he’s with us for a few more years with a good quality of life. A constant reminder how quickly time goes by and how we really need to spend every day grateful for what we have and being with the ones we love.” ¶ Sarah Giammarino moved into a big, old house this summer, and is loving it! Still living in Haverhill. Her mom also moved in with her and they are enjoying having her. ¶ Adrienne Hammel is working as one of the Executive Producers on Sara’s Weeknight Meals with Sara Moulton for PBS, which was nominated this year for 2 James Beard awards. They didn’t win, but did enjoy a delicious meal in NYC and took home a fun bag of culinary swag. Adrienne also teamed up with The Sneaky Chef cookbook author, Missy Chase Lapine, on some fun YouTube videos. Adrienne writes that the biggest production in her life was recently launching her son Will into kindergarten. He loves it and is also quite the little soccer player and knock-knock joke teller. Time flies, but life is good!
1996
✒Jody M. Michalski, teacherjmm@ aol.com ¶ Huge congratulations to Kristin Hodgdon DeFrancisco who became principal of Hardy Elementary School in Arlington this fall after teaching there for several years. In an article published in the Arlington Advocate on May 30, Kristin was quoted as saying, “I feel very lucky to have been entrusted with the Hardy School, its staff, its children and their families. It is with great excitement and pleasure that I look forward to the very valuable and important work as the principal of Hardy School.” Good luck in this new role Kristin; they are very lucky to have such an experienced and enthusiastic leader! ¶ Kathy Tomasini McCall completed her 1st sprint triathlon (1/3 of a mile ocean swim, 15 mile bike ride, 3.1