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Students Volunteer in and Around Boston During Annual Day of Service First-year students took part in their inaugural Emmanuel volunteer experience during the College’s 15th Annual Day of Service on September 7th. Nearly 430 students participated in the tradition, volunteering their time to Greater Boston area nonprofit organizations throughout the day for a total of 1,724 hours of service. Students spent time among 10 different service sites, which included the Franklin Park Zoo, the Greater Boston Food Bank, Community Servings, Cradles to Crayons, Muddy River Clean-Up, Marian Manor, St. Ambrose Family Shelter, St. Mary of the Angels Parish in Roxbury, Mission Grammar School, and the newly added site of ReVision Urban Farm, a small garden in Boston that provides fresh, affordable, locally grown produce to families in the city
“Serving the community is an important part of Emmanuel’s culture and tradition,” said Associate Director of Community Service and Service Learning Deirdre BradleyTurner. “Inviting new students to take part in a service event during Welcome Week is a wonderful way to welcome students to Emmanuel. It is an opportunity for new students to get involved, meet other students and see and serve one of Boston’s many neighborhoods.” ReVision Urban Farm was a new service site for the Annual Day of Service this year.
with limited incomes and transportation access. The Annual Day of Service introduced new students to some of the volunteer opportunities available to them at
Emmanuel and throughout Boston. The day also allowed for new students to get to know one another and bond with their new classmates through service.
In addition to the Day of Service, the College also held the annual Volunteer Fair on September 15th. The fair featured various organizations throughout the Greater Boston area. Students made connections with representatives from each organization and chose volunteer opportunities that proved the best fit for them.
Art Therapy Students, Faculty, Alum Volunteer at MFA Event for Military Families Emmanuel College Special Instructor of Art Emily Parsons, students Brittany Jordan ’11, Christine Aufiero ’11, Michaela Alexander ’11, and alumna Jennifer Walsh ’08 volunteered at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s (MFA) special event “Artist for a Day” on August 28th in an effort to reach out to families of U.S. armed forces service members. The event was in conjunction with the MFA’s Artful Adventures Program, which provides opportunities for children ages three and older to connect with art and culture through engagement with the museum’s collections, combining gallery exploration with an art-making activity. As part of the art activity, the Emmanuel volunteers guided children through the creative process, using the art lesson as a means of teaching participants how to communicate ideas and emotions through art. Children were provided sketchbooks to take
“Making art is relaxing and enjoyable, which in itself is therapeutic,” said Parsons, who herself has loved ones in the service. “This was a fun, low-key day for these families. Always having that feeling of uncertainty hanging over their heads makes it even more important for these families to have an outlet for expression and have an opportunity to enjoy some time together.”
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Although Anna Mary Bigelow Thompson was unable to attend her 75th class reunion in 2007, she was happy to visit the campus a year prior during registration week, and was so impressed with the expansion of the campus and the friendly students. Anna continues to enjoy the many cultural activities in Pittsburgh, Pa., attending concerts and gallery openings. She fondly remembers the wonderful years at Emmanuel College.
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2010-2011 Marks College’s Largest Undergraduate Enrollment in History This fall, Emmanuel welcomed the largest undergraduate enrollment in its 91-year history. Enrollment has more than tripled from 528 undergraduates in 2000 to 1,750 now currently enrolled for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Since the College became a coeducational four-year college in the fall of 2001, applications have risen dramatically as have our academic standards, making Emmanuel a school of first choice for an increasing number of high school graduates.
Emmanuel Squad Performs Well at Boston Area Model UN Conference Emmanuel College’s Model UN team had a great showing at the Boston Area Model UN (BarMUN) Conference during the weekend of September 30th-October 3rd, hosted by Boston University’s International Affairs Association. Three students won awards at the conclusion of the weekend-long conference; Jason Young ’12, Adam Campbell ’13 and Alec Simonette ’14. Along with winning Honorable Delegate for New France, Simonette also won the Lufthansa raffle, which includes a free trip to anywhere in Europe. The BarMUN Conference is a collegiate conference hosted each October by Boston University’s International Affairs Association. It
is a multi-disciplined, fast paced, and interactive simulation involving over 200 collegiate delegates and 100 staff members. “[It] is a great starting event for the members of the club, especially new members because of the smaller committee sizes, which allow more participation and hands-on experience in resolutions,” said Young. Additional Emmanuel participants included: Andrew Moyseowicz ’11, Micha Maalouf ’11, Nora Cashell ’14, Angela Anthony ’14, Andrew Young ’13, Jack Davidson ’14, Tim O’Sullivan ’14, Cesar Zayas ’14 and Chris Fitzpatrick ’13.
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Rita Sharry White attended reunion with her daughter this year. She participated in Sr. Janet’s 30th Anniversary Liturgy. She is the mother of M. Elizabeth White ’69 and the sister of Sr. Anne Rachel Sharry, SND ’66.
Miriam Fellow Best (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) has learned that she has ancestors in Ipswich, Mass. Marie Burns Gleason remains a Worcester, Mass., resident but has changed her abode in her native city. Sr. Catherine Owens, SND, also lives at Ipswich, MA. She continues to write extensively and uplifts us with her spiritual ministry. Rita Callan Schleker (Bloomfield, Conn.) lays claim to having nine great-grandchildren. Let us be aware of one another as the “Saints of ’41” go marching on into a new period of life!
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Catherine Nigro Guinee 15 Brewster Lane Acton, MA 01720-4252
Class of 1943 Clockwise from top left: Helen O’Keefe ’63 and her family enjoyed the Pawtucket Red Sox Game in August 2010; Kathryn Holland ’66 and Ann Gullion ’51 enjoyed the Brooklyn Cyclones Game in June 2010; Maureen McKenna Barton ’64, Claudette Begin ’70, Nancy Mahoney Cohen ’63, Jessica Jolly ’05 and Linda Hennessey ’90 celebrated in Oakland, Calif., in July 2010; Members of the Class of 1961 added their spirit and voices to the Emmanuel College Trolley in the 2010 Naples, Fla., St. Patrick’s Day Parade (Mary Devin ’61, Ann Mahon ’61, “The McNulty Girls” Kathleen Hart ’63 and Mary McMahon ’61 and Arlene Gilgan ’61).
Class of 1936
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu.
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We have been pleased to hear from some of our classmates, both near and far. Therese Senecal Bernique (Saintes, France) continues to visit her favorite Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. Martina Gugger Bursik (Faribault, Minn) has welcomed her seventh great-grandchild!
The class lost a dear and treasured friend when Father Joseph McGlone died unexpectedly last fall. Father said Mass several times for ’35 at 33 Hancock St. He was one of us!
With help from the College, I finally was able to reach Agnes Hanrahan Sweeney through her daughter, Anne Sweeney. I was thrilled to have Agnes call me. We had a long conversation recalling classmates and professors of our college days. Agnes was another of our Boston schoolteachers and is now living in Boston.
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We offer our condolences to the family of Barbara McNamara, who passed away on March 26th, 2009; M. Rita Fougere Manocchio, who went to God on October 2, 2008, and had moved permanently to Tempe, Ariz., in 1994; and Helen McEttrick Cogan, who died on November 23, 2008. May they rest in God’s love.
The late Martha Doherty Mooney’s daughter, Martha “Markey” Mooney Waltien ’70 and her husband Al Waltien, came for the long reunion weekend from Long Island, N.Y., and picked me up to go to Sister Janet’s gala on Thursday night. And it was indeed a gala...in a glass house on campus!
I am finally finishing my book about World War II and seeking a publisher. It has taken too long! Too many distractions, like...going aboard the USS Constitution when she got underway on August 27th. Present were over 100 Navy chief selectees, chosen throughout the country to complete their qualifying on Old Ironsides. I watched them climb the masts to the top...and come down...including women! And listened to them sing “Anchors Aweigh” as I have never heard it sung before. It was spectacular! Being there was certainly a great privilege for this alumna of ’35.
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SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Sr. Thérèse Gerard Kleh 30 Jeffreys Neck Road Ipswich, MA 01938-1308 kleh@SNDdeN.org or theresegerard.KLEH@ SNDdeN.org
Our class numerals led the procession into the Saturday evening liturgy on Alumni Weekend. I was sad to walk alone but glad to have 1935 represented. While waiting for the line to form, I visited with the late Mary O’Brien Donahue’s daughter, Jane Donahue Eberwein ’65, and her husband Bob. They come to every reunion from Birmingham, Mich., where the Doctors Eberwein are professors at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.
I had wonderful telephone conversations with classmates Dorothea Hoar at Eventide in Quincy, Mass., and with Sister Elisabeth McNamara at Holy Child Convent in Rye, N.Y.
Student volunteers assist students and their families during Move-in Weekend.
Class of 1939
Class of 1941
My daughter, Marilyn Anderson, came from New York to get me to the College for Saturday and to video at our Alumni dinner a performance of one of my character sketches from TV days.
home to continue to develop their sense of self-expression. More and more, art therapy is being recognized as an effective approach to helping military members and their families overcome psychological and emotional challenges. The form of expressive therapy is not simply cathartic, but aids in improving or maintaining mental health, fostering self-expression, enhancing coping skills and managing stress.
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Class of 1937
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Class of 1938
Frances-Marie Connaughton Mitchell 81 Emerson Road Wellesley Hills, MA 02481-3411
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Mary Leonard Murray and her daughter worked with members of the library staff to find a copy of the book “Logic and Epistemology” by Father Cotter. The library lent her the original copy she used when she was a student at the College, which she returned with a lovely note thanking the staff: “It (the book) has been revised several times since Fr. Cotter first wrote it, but it is still full of wisdom…your staff has been extremely helpful and courteous in making this available for me.”
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Class of 1955
Rose Cafasso Merenda 258 Negansett Avenue Warwick, RI 02888-3425 rosemerenda@earthlink.net
Ann Kelley Ryan 404 Country Way Scituate, MA 02066-2514 annkryan@verizon.net
Class of 1945
Dottie Navarro Geary has certainly kept up her Emmanuel ties. Her daughter, Marilyn Donovan, is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing at Emmanuel. Dottie is the proud grandmother of Marissa, a recent graduate of Boston University, who has been awarded a fellowship there leading to both a masters degree and doctorate in biochemistry.
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Class of 1946
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Alice McCarthy 3B Pond View Way Northborough, MA 01532-1500
Class of 1947
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Class of 1948
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Class of 1949
Joan Brennan Goodwin 134 Scott Circle Dedham, MA 02026-6416 joanted134@msn.com
Class of 1950
Lorraine Muse Crosby 93 Walnut Hill Road Newton Highlands, MA 02461 jmcrosby@comcast.net
Class of 1951
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Ann Blute Vogt 55 Mill Street Pembroke, MA 02359-3202 annlvogt@verizon.net In September 2010, the Class of 1951 gathered for a Memorial Mass and luncheon. Before Mass, there was a dedication of a statue, located in front of the library. The statue was a gift from the family of Jane Drohan Suleski. Classmates fondly remembered her and other dearly departed members of the class.
Members of the Class of 1955
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reach churches, a local temple and a senior housing site every month. She has delivered Meals-On-Wheels for her city since her retirement as a special education teacher for the Waltham Public Schools. Her teaching career spanned 38 years! Congratulations Charlotte!
Regina Sullivan Hunter 32 Stubtoe Lane Sudbury, MA 01776-1658 kn29j31c9p10@verizon.net
Class of 1953
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Class of 1954
Barbara A. Raftery 151 Wolcott Road Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3132 Congratulations to Charlotte Smith, who received the highly respected Cheverus Award from Cardinal O’Malley at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on November 22, 2009. The award, with its medal that bears the image of Bishop Cheverus, was established in 2008. Charlotte was one of 133 recipients who received the medal on the feast of Christ the King. The Pilot described the recipients as “those who quietly and humbly build Christ’s kingdom in this world” (11/27/09 issue). Charlotte has been a Eucharistic Minister for many years, and currently makes 10 plus communion calls weekly to private homes, and monthly to three nursing homes. She has been active in her parish as a member of the Legion of Mary, as a supporter of its monthly drawing, and as a money counter. Charlotte has also participated in pro-life efforts. Most notably, she has been in charge of the sale of carnations at her parish on Mothers’ Day weekend for 23 years. This event benefits Framingham Birthright. In addition to her Church-related commitments, Charlotte helps ensure that the Council on Aging newsletters
Sister Mary E. Ward, FMM (formerly Sister Mary of St. Edmund of Canterbury) is currently in the Cherry Hill Nursing Home in North Providence, R.I. She continues her ministry there by arranging prayer services for the other residents. If you would like to send a card to Sister Mary, please address it to her at 399 Fruit Hill Avenue, North Providence, RI 02911-2842. The Sisters will ensure that she receives the mail. Sister Mary had a long teaching career, including assignments in Liberia and Ghana in West Africa as well as the United States. It is with sadness that we report the death of our classmate: Noreen Kane McCarthy. We wish to extend our sincere condolences to her family. We also wish to extend our sympathies to classmates who recently lost their husbands: Eleanor Kilduff Howard (husband, John); Carol McInnis White (husband, Brendan); and Marian Connor (husband, Bill Schreiber). We were so sorry to learn that Charles Kraus Jr., the eldest son of Agatha Sicari Kraus and her husband Chuck, died unexpectedly in October 2009, leaving his wife and two daughters. My sincere thanks to Kay Fennessy McGill for her frequent help with these class notes. Kay is enjoying some exciting travel experiences and would like to hear from anyone interested in joining her. Please write! We look forward to hearing your news!!!
Although Kathy Fairbanks has not pursued any recent travel, she keeps herself very busy. Kathy continues as the volunteer librarian at the Archeological Society. Kathy is still involved in the soon-to-be-completed translation (from French) of the works of Charles de Foucauld. Marie Deignan Dempsey is expecting her 14th grandchild, joining nine girls and four boys. This happy group spends much of their summer visiting Marie at the Cape. Marie reports that “along with Bob’s two children and two grandchildren, there are lots of festive occasions.” Marie, who never seems to lose her get-up-and-go, continues to travel, especially to the Bahamas as well as playing golf frequently. Marie is currently involved in a very intense bridge course. Our ’55 lunch group continues and we hope to see as many of our classmates as possible joining us. If you would like to receive future notifications please contact Ann Kelley Ryan. The 55th Anniversary Reunion was enjoyed tremendously by the enthusiastic (if modest) number attending. Rosemary Donohue Reiss and her husband Paul and Marguerite Donlon Boucher and her husband John traveled from New York and New Jersey, respectively, to attend. All attending were in awe of the vibrant Emmanuel campus. Elizabeth “Betty” Marley passed away on December 30, 2009.
Class of 1956
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Joan Mailloux Paille 113 Church Street South Easton, MA 02375-1580 jtpaille@aol.com Teedy Farrell Sheehan writes that she continues to enjoy living on the Cape. She was delighted to participate in the volunteer hours of the 90K Emmanuel alumni program, and thinks “the results were awesome.” Having recovered from a knee replacement,
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Alumni Classnotes she is back to her favorite hobby, gardening. Our sympathies and prayers go to the family of Joyce McCaffrey McGath who passed away last spring. Eleanor Mahoney Harrington went on a three-week trip to Greece with her 12-yearold grandsons sixth grade field trip. She added that her senior high school class went to Canobie Lake Park and they thought that was special. Eleanor and her husband Bill celebrated their 50th anniversary recently before the Greece trip and had a small family party, with the addition of two members of the wedding party, one of whom was Anne Kelleher Sweeney. The Class of 1956 wishes to extend prayers and sympathy to Josephine Napolitano Parrella and her family on the loss of her daughter, Rosanne M. Sullivan, of Nashua, N.H.
Class of 1957
Irene Dillen Griffin 280 Liberty Street Braintree, MA 02184-6030 igrif@beld.net
McCarthy III of Hermosa, Calif., and their children Hallie and Justin. May she rest in peace. Mary Lou Maney Cahalane had happy news to report. In celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary, Mary Lou, her husband Bill, their three children, son-in-law and two grandchildren took a family trip to Ireland in July. They spent a week in Cobh Co., Cork, where Mary Lou’s nine first cousins and their families hosted an anniversary gathering. They then stayed a week on Bere Island in Bantry Bay where her mother and her father’s mother were born. They visited two first cousins and many other relatives in Ireland. With her strong interest in genealogy, Mary Lou was pleased to spend time at the newly opened Bere Island Heritage Centre and worked on family genealogy. Congratulations to the Cahalanes. I am sure there are many more anniversaries being celebrated among our classmates. Let us know about these events!
Class of 1960
Mary Sheehan Butler 1005 Central Avenue Holland, MI 49423-5269 butlerme@hotmail.com
Class of 1958
Joan Cannon Murphy 11 Lilac Circle Wellesley, MA 02482-4569 In May 2010, Marie McClintock Barry participated on a panel at Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C., on the topic of social justice. Fellow panelists were a Methodist layman and a rabbi of the Reform tradition. Marie received her master’s degree in theology in 2008 from the Washington Theological Union, a Roman Catholic graduate school of theology and ministry.
Class of 1959
Phyllis McManus Hayes 3 Oak Road Canton, MA 02021-2624 tphayes2@verizon.com Sadly, I must report that two of our classmates have gone home to God. Rosemary Caulfield, Esq. died on July 8th in Peterborough, N.H. from complications of a stroke. Rosemary is survived by her son, Joseph, his wife Kathy, her grandaughter Lilith and her husband Ryan Keough and their son Seth. Rosemary was buried from her home parish in South Boston. Julie Kelly Halligan died on July 23rd in Connecticut. Julie is survived by her husband Dr. Thomas Halligan and children Kelly and James Gerbo of Newtown, Conn., and their children Nicholas, Alexander and Matthew; Kathleen and Michael Hanahoe of Eden Prairie, Minn., and their children Caitlin, Erin and Ryan; Timothy and Karen Halligan of Rocky Hill, Conn., his daughter Sarah and their son Timothy Jr; Thomas and Pamela Halligan III of Monroe, Conn., and their daughter Kathryn and Colleen and Edward
Ellen Donoghue Stern and her husband Bob live in Rye, N.Y., where they enjoy bridge (Bob), classical music, good food and wine, friends and family. Ellen practices law two days a week at Legal Services in White Plains, N.Y., helping people avoid losing their homes.
Class of 1961
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Maureen McKenna Horn 50 Fairway Circle Natick, MA 01760-2563 maureenhorn1@verizon.net Diane Dondale Raymond. At press time, she was planning to travel with an old friend to Spain, where she would visit Madrid, Granada, and Seville. They would use almost every mode of transportation and end up on side trips to Morocco and Lisbon. After receiving a master’s degree at the University of Geneva and earning an M.B.A. from Boston University, Anne M. Hackett worked for IBM for 30 years. After retiring, she moved back to her family home in Melrose, where she enjoys volunteer work. Ongoing projects are the maintenance of her church’s exterior gardens and participating in Arise, a Biblical-based, faith-sharing group. Recently, as a member of the Melrose mayor’s Veterans Services Advisory Board, she organized the dedication of a memorial to a heroic World War II pilot. The events of the commemoration day are expected to be shown on CNN. Hilda Iglesias Morrill is the founder/editor of www.BostonGardens.com, a website devoted to upcoming horticultural events,
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Maureen Keating McCaffrey visited friends in Botswana and went on a safari in Botswana, Zambia and Cape Town, South Africa. She and Ron celebrated their special birthdays in Provence with old friends. They continue to enjoy their jobs – Maureen, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker in Needham, Mass., and Ron, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Maureen McKenna Horn still volunteers as the librarian for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. She spent most of the summer teaching English as a second language to young professionals who came to Boston for intense training. As this report was going to press, she was looking forward to traveling by rail from Prague to Vienna and on to Budapest. Rosemary Walker enjoys her many trips to Los Angeles, Calif. The best occurred this Labor Day weekend, when she attended the wedding of her son David Kleiler Jr. and Boriana Gregorova, a native of Bulgaria. The event, held in Eagle Rock, attracted an international guest list.
Class of 1962
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Class of 1963
Catherine Berlinghieri Rossi 50 Webster Street Arlington, MA 02474-3318 caterossi@aol.com
Paula White Cashman and her husband Ray celebrated their 40th anniversary with a trip to Aruba. They also welcomed their fourth grandchild in August 2009. We are happily enjoying our retirement!
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seasonal chores and observations, gardening articles, monthly drawings and more. A 20-year member of the Garden Writers Association, Hilda recently returned from the organization’s annual symposium in Dallas, Texas.
Following the death of her husband, Lou Baer, in 2002, Ann Donnelly, who is a retired court reporter for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, decided to make St. Petersburg, Fla., her permanent residence. She is currently a member of two book clubs, an active member of Business and Professional Women (BPW), the Tiger Bay Club, and a volunteer two days a week at an autism unit at the local high school. She also serves as secretary of the condo association where she lives.
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Representatives of the Class of 1965 together at 2010 Alumni Weekend
Class of 1964
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University School of Medicine and is the founding director of both the school’s mass spectrometry resource and its cardiovascular proteomics center. In addition to being an esteemed member of the alumni communities of Emmanuel, MIT and Georgetown, she is also the recipient of a 2009 award at the College. Cathy is also an alumna of Archbishop Williams High School. In October 2010, Cathy was honored in the Archbishop Williams’ Academic Hall of Fame.
Class of 1965
Anne Toye P.O. Box 1017 Newburyport, MA 01950-6017 aetpsi@aol.com
Class of 1966
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Joan Hurley Black 950 Regency Square, #225 Vero Beach, FL 32967-1817 casablacka@earthlink.net It is with sadness that we report that our fellow Emmanuel classmate, Mary Sapienza, died peacefully on August 27, 2010, at Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering an unexpected brain aneurysm. She will be missed. Mary and Cindy Jobin, her lifelong friend and partner of 43 years, consistently stayed in touch with Emmanuel classmates Ellen Lawler Ugi and Eileen Mawn. They affectionately called themselves “The Four Seasons” because each of them had a birthday in a different season of the year, and they would faithfully get together to celebrate their birthdays.
Class of 1967
Marcia Grandone Powers 501 Lexington Street, #31 Waltham, MA 02452-3036 marpow541@verizon.net Janit Romayko was awarded a Master of Arts in liberal studies with a concentration in the arts from Wesleyan University on May 23, 2010. She had a showing of three of her watercolor portraits at the Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan along with four of her student colleagues. After retiring as a colonel in the Marine Corps and working as a government contractor for many years, Mary Jane Driscoll Harris has taken up a third career, storytelling. She is a member of the St. Augustine, Fla., Tale Tellers and the Garden State Storytellers League in New Jersey. Mary Jane tells many tales and writes some of her own. She has told stories in Florida theaters and for community groups, schools and libraries. Mary Jane reports that of all the things she’s done, this is definitely the most fun. Patricia Mahoney Leach writes, “Our classmate, Ellen Ryder, passed away last July after a long struggle with cancer...I for one miss her intelligence, sense of humor and friendship very much.”
Catherine Costello is a professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at Boston
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Class of 1955
Rose Cafasso Merenda 258 Negansett Avenue Warwick, RI 02888-3425 rosemerenda@earthlink.net
Ann Kelley Ryan 404 Country Way Scituate, MA 02066-2514 annkryan@verizon.net
Class of 1945
Dottie Navarro Geary has certainly kept up her Emmanuel ties. Her daughter, Marilyn Donovan, is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing at Emmanuel. Dottie is the proud grandmother of Marissa, a recent graduate of Boston University, who has been awarded a fellowship there leading to both a masters degree and doctorate in biochemistry.
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Class of 1946
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Alice McCarthy 3B Pond View Way Northborough, MA 01532-1500
Class of 1947
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Class of 1948
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Class of 1949
Joan Brennan Goodwin 134 Scott Circle Dedham, MA 02026-6416 joanted134@msn.com
Class of 1950
Lorraine Muse Crosby 93 Walnut Hill Road Newton Highlands, MA 02461 jmcrosby@comcast.net
Class of 1951
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Ann Blute Vogt 55 Mill Street Pembroke, MA 02359-3202 annlvogt@verizon.net In September 2010, the Class of 1951 gathered for a Memorial Mass and luncheon. Before Mass, there was a dedication of a statue, located in front of the library. The statue was a gift from the family of Jane Drohan Suleski. Classmates fondly remembered her and other dearly departed members of the class.
Members of the Class of 1955
Class of 1952
reach churches, a local temple and a senior housing site every month. She has delivered Meals-On-Wheels for her city since her retirement as a special education teacher for the Waltham Public Schools. Her teaching career spanned 38 years! Congratulations Charlotte!
Regina Sullivan Hunter 32 Stubtoe Lane Sudbury, MA 01776-1658 kn29j31c9p10@verizon.net
Class of 1953
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Class of 1954
Barbara A. Raftery 151 Wolcott Road Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3132 Congratulations to Charlotte Smith, who received the highly respected Cheverus Award from Cardinal O’Malley at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on November 22, 2009. The award, with its medal that bears the image of Bishop Cheverus, was established in 2008. Charlotte was one of 133 recipients who received the medal on the feast of Christ the King. The Pilot described the recipients as “those who quietly and humbly build Christ’s kingdom in this world” (11/27/09 issue). Charlotte has been a Eucharistic Minister for many years, and currently makes 10 plus communion calls weekly to private homes, and monthly to three nursing homes. She has been active in her parish as a member of the Legion of Mary, as a supporter of its monthly drawing, and as a money counter. Charlotte has also participated in pro-life efforts. Most notably, she has been in charge of the sale of carnations at her parish on Mothers’ Day weekend for 23 years. This event benefits Framingham Birthright. In addition to her Church-related commitments, Charlotte helps ensure that the Council on Aging newsletters
Sister Mary E. Ward, FMM (formerly Sister Mary of St. Edmund of Canterbury) is currently in the Cherry Hill Nursing Home in North Providence, R.I. She continues her ministry there by arranging prayer services for the other residents. If you would like to send a card to Sister Mary, please address it to her at 399 Fruit Hill Avenue, North Providence, RI 02911-2842. The Sisters will ensure that she receives the mail. Sister Mary had a long teaching career, including assignments in Liberia and Ghana in West Africa as well as the United States. It is with sadness that we report the death of our classmate: Noreen Kane McCarthy. We wish to extend our sincere condolences to her family. We also wish to extend our sympathies to classmates who recently lost their husbands: Eleanor Kilduff Howard (husband, John); Carol McInnis White (husband, Brendan); and Marian Connor (husband, Bill Schreiber). We were so sorry to learn that Charles Kraus Jr., the eldest son of Agatha Sicari Kraus and her husband Chuck, died unexpectedly in October 2009, leaving his wife and two daughters. My sincere thanks to Kay Fennessy McGill for her frequent help with these class notes. Kay is enjoying some exciting travel experiences and would like to hear from anyone interested in joining her. Please write! We look forward to hearing your news!!!
Although Kathy Fairbanks has not pursued any recent travel, she keeps herself very busy. Kathy continues as the volunteer librarian at the Archeological Society. Kathy is still involved in the soon-to-be-completed translation (from French) of the works of Charles de Foucauld. Marie Deignan Dempsey is expecting her 14th grandchild, joining nine girls and four boys. This happy group spends much of their summer visiting Marie at the Cape. Marie reports that “along with Bob’s two children and two grandchildren, there are lots of festive occasions.” Marie, who never seems to lose her get-up-and-go, continues to travel, especially to the Bahamas as well as playing golf frequently. Marie is currently involved in a very intense bridge course. Our ’55 lunch group continues and we hope to see as many of our classmates as possible joining us. If you would like to receive future notifications please contact Ann Kelley Ryan. The 55th Anniversary Reunion was enjoyed tremendously by the enthusiastic (if modest) number attending. Rosemary Donohue Reiss and her husband Paul and Marguerite Donlon Boucher and her husband John traveled from New York and New Jersey, respectively, to attend. All attending were in awe of the vibrant Emmanuel campus. Elizabeth “Betty” Marley passed away on December 30, 2009.
Class of 1956
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Joan Mailloux Paille 113 Church Street South Easton, MA 02375-1580 jtpaille@aol.com Teedy Farrell Sheehan writes that she continues to enjoy living on the Cape. She was delighted to participate in the volunteer hours of the 90K Emmanuel alumni program, and thinks “the results were awesome.” Having recovered from a knee replacement,
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Alumni Classnotes she is back to her favorite hobby, gardening. Our sympathies and prayers go to the family of Joyce McCaffrey McGath who passed away last spring. Eleanor Mahoney Harrington went on a three-week trip to Greece with her 12-yearold grandsons sixth grade field trip. She added that her senior high school class went to Canobie Lake Park and they thought that was special. Eleanor and her husband Bill celebrated their 50th anniversary recently before the Greece trip and had a small family party, with the addition of two members of the wedding party, one of whom was Anne Kelleher Sweeney. The Class of 1956 wishes to extend prayers and sympathy to Josephine Napolitano Parrella and her family on the loss of her daughter, Rosanne M. Sullivan, of Nashua, N.H.
Class of 1957
Irene Dillen Griffin 280 Liberty Street Braintree, MA 02184-6030 igrif@beld.net
McCarthy III of Hermosa, Calif., and their children Hallie and Justin. May she rest in peace. Mary Lou Maney Cahalane had happy news to report. In celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary, Mary Lou, her husband Bill, their three children, son-in-law and two grandchildren took a family trip to Ireland in July. They spent a week in Cobh Co., Cork, where Mary Lou’s nine first cousins and their families hosted an anniversary gathering. They then stayed a week on Bere Island in Bantry Bay where her mother and her father’s mother were born. They visited two first cousins and many other relatives in Ireland. With her strong interest in genealogy, Mary Lou was pleased to spend time at the newly opened Bere Island Heritage Centre and worked on family genealogy. Congratulations to the Cahalanes. I am sure there are many more anniversaries being celebrated among our classmates. Let us know about these events!
Class of 1960
Mary Sheehan Butler 1005 Central Avenue Holland, MI 49423-5269 butlerme@hotmail.com
Class of 1958
Joan Cannon Murphy 11 Lilac Circle Wellesley, MA 02482-4569 In May 2010, Marie McClintock Barry participated on a panel at Temple Sinai in Washington, D.C., on the topic of social justice. Fellow panelists were a Methodist layman and a rabbi of the Reform tradition. Marie received her master’s degree in theology in 2008 from the Washington Theological Union, a Roman Catholic graduate school of theology and ministry.
Class of 1959
Phyllis McManus Hayes 3 Oak Road Canton, MA 02021-2624 tphayes2@verizon.com Sadly, I must report that two of our classmates have gone home to God. Rosemary Caulfield, Esq. died on July 8th in Peterborough, N.H. from complications of a stroke. Rosemary is survived by her son, Joseph, his wife Kathy, her grandaughter Lilith and her husband Ryan Keough and their son Seth. Rosemary was buried from her home parish in South Boston. Julie Kelly Halligan died on July 23rd in Connecticut. Julie is survived by her husband Dr. Thomas Halligan and children Kelly and James Gerbo of Newtown, Conn., and their children Nicholas, Alexander and Matthew; Kathleen and Michael Hanahoe of Eden Prairie, Minn., and their children Caitlin, Erin and Ryan; Timothy and Karen Halligan of Rocky Hill, Conn., his daughter Sarah and their son Timothy Jr; Thomas and Pamela Halligan III of Monroe, Conn., and their daughter Kathryn and Colleen and Edward
Ellen Donoghue Stern and her husband Bob live in Rye, N.Y., where they enjoy bridge (Bob), classical music, good food and wine, friends and family. Ellen practices law two days a week at Legal Services in White Plains, N.Y., helping people avoid losing their homes.
Class of 1961
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Maureen McKenna Horn 50 Fairway Circle Natick, MA 01760-2563 maureenhorn1@verizon.net Diane Dondale Raymond. At press time, she was planning to travel with an old friend to Spain, where she would visit Madrid, Granada, and Seville. They would use almost every mode of transportation and end up on side trips to Morocco and Lisbon. After receiving a master’s degree at the University of Geneva and earning an M.B.A. from Boston University, Anne M. Hackett worked for IBM for 30 years. After retiring, she moved back to her family home in Melrose, where she enjoys volunteer work. Ongoing projects are the maintenance of her church’s exterior gardens and participating in Arise, a Biblical-based, faith-sharing group. Recently, as a member of the Melrose mayor’s Veterans Services Advisory Board, she organized the dedication of a memorial to a heroic World War II pilot. The events of the commemoration day are expected to be shown on CNN. Hilda Iglesias Morrill is the founder/editor of www.BostonGardens.com, a website devoted to upcoming horticultural events,
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Maureen Keating McCaffrey visited friends in Botswana and went on a safari in Botswana, Zambia and Cape Town, South Africa. She and Ron celebrated their special birthdays in Provence with old friends. They continue to enjoy their jobs – Maureen, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker in Needham, Mass., and Ron, a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Maureen McKenna Horn still volunteers as the librarian for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. She spent most of the summer teaching English as a second language to young professionals who came to Boston for intense training. As this report was going to press, she was looking forward to traveling by rail from Prague to Vienna and on to Budapest. Rosemary Walker enjoys her many trips to Los Angeles, Calif. The best occurred this Labor Day weekend, when she attended the wedding of her son David Kleiler Jr. and Boriana Gregorova, a native of Bulgaria. The event, held in Eagle Rock, attracted an international guest list.
Class of 1962
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Class of 1963
Catherine Berlinghieri Rossi 50 Webster Street Arlington, MA 02474-3318 caterossi@aol.com
Paula White Cashman and her husband Ray celebrated their 40th anniversary with a trip to Aruba. They also welcomed their fourth grandchild in August 2009. We are happily enjoying our retirement!
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seasonal chores and observations, gardening articles, monthly drawings and more. A 20-year member of the Garden Writers Association, Hilda recently returned from the organization’s annual symposium in Dallas, Texas.
Following the death of her husband, Lou Baer, in 2002, Ann Donnelly, who is a retired court reporter for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, decided to make St. Petersburg, Fla., her permanent residence. She is currently a member of two book clubs, an active member of Business and Professional Women (BPW), the Tiger Bay Club, and a volunteer two days a week at an autism unit at the local high school. She also serves as secretary of the condo association where she lives.
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Representatives of the Class of 1965 together at 2010 Alumni Weekend
Class of 1964
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The Class of 1960
University School of Medicine and is the founding director of both the school’s mass spectrometry resource and its cardiovascular proteomics center. In addition to being an esteemed member of the alumni communities of Emmanuel, MIT and Georgetown, she is also the recipient of a 2009 award at the College. Cathy is also an alumna of Archbishop Williams High School. In October 2010, Cathy was honored in the Archbishop Williams’ Academic Hall of Fame.
Class of 1965
Anne Toye P.O. Box 1017 Newburyport, MA 01950-6017 aetpsi@aol.com
Class of 1966
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Joan Hurley Black 950 Regency Square, #225 Vero Beach, FL 32967-1817 casablacka@earthlink.net It is with sadness that we report that our fellow Emmanuel classmate, Mary Sapienza, died peacefully on August 27, 2010, at Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering an unexpected brain aneurysm. She will be missed. Mary and Cindy Jobin, her lifelong friend and partner of 43 years, consistently stayed in touch with Emmanuel classmates Ellen Lawler Ugi and Eileen Mawn. They affectionately called themselves “The Four Seasons” because each of them had a birthday in a different season of the year, and they would faithfully get together to celebrate their birthdays.
Class of 1967
Marcia Grandone Powers 501 Lexington Street, #31 Waltham, MA 02452-3036 marpow541@verizon.net Janit Romayko was awarded a Master of Arts in liberal studies with a concentration in the arts from Wesleyan University on May 23, 2010. She had a showing of three of her watercolor portraits at the Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan along with four of her student colleagues. After retiring as a colonel in the Marine Corps and working as a government contractor for many years, Mary Jane Driscoll Harris has taken up a third career, storytelling. She is a member of the St. Augustine, Fla., Tale Tellers and the Garden State Storytellers League in New Jersey. Mary Jane tells many tales and writes some of her own. She has told stories in Florida theaters and for community groups, schools and libraries. Mary Jane reports that of all the things she’s done, this is definitely the most fun. Patricia Mahoney Leach writes, “Our classmate, Ellen Ryder, passed away last July after a long struggle with cancer...I for one miss her intelligence, sense of humor and friendship very much.”
Catherine Costello is a professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at Boston
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Class of 1975
Diane Fava D’Errico’s son Keith M. Golden, M.D., Department of Cardiology, was voted “Fellow of the Year” by the residents of University of North Carolina Medical Center. His mother is very, very, proud. Diane also became one of Jenny’s Heroes on October 2, 2008. Jenny’s Heroes is a charitable foundation started by former talk-show host Jenny Jones that awards people who present the best ideas in how to make a difference in their surrounding community. Diane received a grant of $9,000 to provide backpacks, school supplies, coats and boots for children at six domestic violence shelters in Rhode Island.
More than 50 members of the Class of 1975 attended events during Reunion Weekend 2010, with many classmates staying overnight in Julie Hall. Highlights included a Friday night concert on campus, the anniversary Mass for Sr. Janet Eisner’s 30 years as president and our class dinner on Saturday evening. I enjoyed catching up with old friends and pass on some of the details gathered.
Elizabeth Sullivan Cimini 133 Pawtuxet Avenue Cranston, RI 02905-4030 shrimpymam@hotmail.com
Another proud mother is Elizabeth Sullivan Cimini, whose youngest daughter, Loretta, received her Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of Rhode Island on May 22, 2010. She is also very proud to announce that her daughter Maria won her race in the September 14th Democratic Primary in Rhode Island. Since no Republican is running, that means Maria will be representing District 7 (Providence) in the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
Class of 1969
Patricia Klaus Keating 56 Oaks Road Framingham, MA 01702-5938 jkpk@rcn.com
Class of 1970
Valerie B. Gigliotti 235 Park Drive, #32 Boston, MA 02115-4721 Kathleen Toomey Cole retired in June 2010 from Rye Elementary School in Rye, N.H., where she taught Grades 2, 2/3, 3 and 4 during her 40-year career. During the school’s Memorial Day assembly, staff, students, former students and friends honored Kathleen by dedicating an inscribed granite bench to commemorate her 40 years of teaching. Kathleen, her husband, Bob, and their yellow lab dog Caleb, will spend winters in The Villages, Fla., and summers in New Hampshire. Kathleen “Kathee” McCormack, Sara “Sally” O’Connell Pezanko, Judith “Judy” Power Despres and Mary Cournoyer Beddes, celebrated their 60th birthdays at Kathee’s summer home in Wells, Maine. The ladies celebrate together in Maine every year and for their 60th they invited their respective spouses to join in on the festivities. Happy birthday to all the members of the Class of 1970 and remember, 60 is the new 40!
Class of 1971
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Susan Cooney Murphy 569 Annaquatucket Road North Kingstown, RI 02852-5601 rid23560@ride.ri.net Susan Cooney Murphy hosted a gathering of “Emmas” in late June 2010 at her beach house in Narragansett, R.I. After the wonderful weekend together laughing, talking
Alumni Classnotes Janet Downey-Foley lives in Belmont with her husband Jack of 25 years and three daughters: 22, 19 and 15. She is a nurse practioner and works for the Lexington Public Schools. She spends her summers in Harwich Port, Mass., which is her home town.
Marie Campagna Franklin 29 Trowbridge Avenue Newtonville, MA 02460-2222 camfrank@comcast.net
Members of the Class of 1970 and remembering, Rosemary Hanrahan Maher reached out to Lucille Boulanger and discovered that she had died of liver cancer on March 15, 2010, in Deland, Fla. She had had a life filled with adventure serving four years in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, Africa, and working as a teacher, massage therapist and chiropractor. We will long remember her great wit and spirit.
Class of 1972
Ann Marie Keegan 185 S. Cobble Hill Road Warwick, RI 02886-9336 amkeegan50@verizon.net Flávia Soares Moura retired after 34 years as a high school guidance counselor, a career which began in the Bilingual Program in the Somerville Public Schools, followed by a tenure in the Cambridge Public Schools, and the last 17 years at the American School in Portugal. Last June, her daughter Bianca was awarded a master’s degree with honors in landscape architecture from the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. Bianca was married in July. Kathleen Downey Ingley was recently honored in the Academic Hall of Fame at Archbishop Williams High School for excellence in her field.
Class of 1973
Noreen Diamond Burdett 23 N. Hill Avenue Needham, MA 02492-1221 ndiamondbu@yahoo.com Christine “Chris” Sumpter Hyland is now executive director of Life Circle Alliances (LCA), a nonprofit in Fairfax County, Va. LCA is about “Independence for Life” for older adults and adults with disabilities. Carl and Chris’ oldest daughter, Megan, received her Master of Education from the College of William and Mary and is a school guidance counselor in Loudoun County, Va. Austin is completing his degree at George Mason University and works in IT security. Gracie received her Master of Education in
May from James Madison University and now works as a Disability Specialist at the University of Minnesota. Caitlin is in her second year at the School of Architecture at Virginia Tech. Mary Tucker Donovan lives nearby and is coaching Chris on her role as Mother of the Bride, as two of Mary’s children married last year. Laureen Burke Fuller retired after 35 years with the Billerica school system. She taught English to grades 3-5 at John F. Kennedy School and grades 6 and 7 at Cyril D. Locke Middle School. Her son, Justin, is a funds account manager with John Hancock in Boston, while her other son, Brendon, is captain of a 150-foot private yacht based in the Bahamas. Her husband, Phil, is a resident of Norseman Maritime Charters doing research in Alaska.
Class of 1974
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Grace Siegel DeGregorio would love to hear from all of her friends from her Emmanuel days! For almost 33 years Grace has lived in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her husband Edmonde is a lawyer, their son Anthony (21) is a junior music major and son Joe (almost 20) is a sophomore communications major. Both sons are currently at the University of Dayton. For the past 13 years, Grace has been an editor/writer for Living Magazines, a monthly, community-based publication. She works from home which is fabulous for her! She and her husband do a lot of volunteer work at their church, their sons’ former high school (St. Xavier), and for a peer support group “Reach Out to Grieving Parents.” As a family, they love to travel to their timeshare condo in Longboat Key, Fla., every summer. Grace says, “We are blessed.”
Class of 1982
Mary E. Donlan 161 Quai de Valmy Paris, France 75010 medonlan@yahoo.com Daniel Robert Helkey, Class of 2013, son of Martha Murawski Helkey ’82 and Roger Helkey of Santa Barbara, Calif., has returned to Emmanuel as a sophomore majoring in biostatistics. Daniel, an Eagle Scout, is excited about attending Emmanuel, living in Boston down the road from Fenway Park, and being involved in intramural sports, especially ultimate frisbee. Daniel has three brothers, Christopher and Benjamin who are attending Bishop Garcia Diego High School in Santa Barbara and Matthew who is homeschooled.
The award for greatest distance travelled goes to Maura Hagan, who came from Boulder, Colo., Maureen Kelly, who traveled from San Francisco, Calif., and Pat McCarthy, who lives in Virginia. Maura writes: “It was great to be back in Boston and reconnect with the wonderful women that graduated with us.” Maura works as deputy director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and also reports that her daughter, Taylor Forbes, graduated from Emmanuel with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2004. Lucy Flynn, who attended a Saturday afternoon reception with her husband George O’Toole, is vice-president of global marketing at Raytheon. Joan Kenney, who works at Cape Cod Hospital reports “absolutely loving living fulltime on Cape Cod,” where she is developing a new passion in artistic painting. Kathleen Creegan Damaskos, Maureen Farrell and Sheila Gilligan, were joined by Gwen Oesterle Thakur, who ran in the 5K road race during the weekend and was also a reunion committee member. Ann Marie Martineau writes: “I think the Class of 75 is aging gracefully; I dare say we’re almost mature!” Ann Marie, a social worker, is clinical director in the Inpatient Psychiatric Unit at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., and says she is enjoying raising her 13-year-old daughter whom she adopted from the Ukraine. Karen Hume Baptiste shared photos of her gorgeous new granddaughter Isla Jane, and enjoyed the weekend with classmates Karen Cooney Burke, Celeste Vezina, Susanne DiLiddo Campagna (whose son Daniel ’07, performed at reunion with his a cappella singing group Fermata Town), Anna Mantgiaris Rapp, Cheryl Bumpus Daily, Ronalee Keenan Crocker, Martha Gavrey LoPorto, Susan Lantagne Schranz, Maureen McLelland Lovejoy, Denise Cynkus Leslie, Gail McCarthy Graziano and Marie Campagna Franklin. I was happy to share with classmates my recent career change after 24 years on staff of The Boston Globe. I am now enjoying a new venture as a full-time professor of communication at Lasell College in Newton, Mass. Gwyn Oesterle Thakur, who did a great deal to help with reunion planning and outreach, recently launched a new website, www.conventioncenterplace.com. Whether you are an exhibitor, attendee or business traveler Gwyn advertises that this website will help you with your booth and travel planning. Check it out. Gwyn’s daughter,
Representatives of the Class of 1985 who is now living in Boston, visited the Convention Center City part of the site and could not believe how helpful it was to find things she was looking for. Enjoy! Classmates, please continue to send me your news!
Class of 1976
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd -5th!!! Eileen Devlin MacPherson 57 Lincoln Woods Road Waltham, MA 02451-1431 Carmella “Cammy” Morteo currently serves as the campus minister at Marian High School in Framingham, Mass., and teaches theology and Latin. Isabella Findeisen Casser is currently living in New Jersey with her husband Michael. She is working part time at Michael’s medical office, that is, when she is not knitting, playing mahjong and just generally enjoying life. Her daughter Alexandra is a junior at Rutgers University and her son Elliot will be going to high school next year. You can find Isabella on Facebook or at izzyb@optonline.net.
Class of 1977
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Linda Jarman Sadin married Wayne Sadin in 1983. They were both employed in financial services when they first met. Both relocated their jobs to Dallas, Texas, South Bend, Ind., Lansing, Mich., and finally to Houston, Texas, where they have lived since 1998. They have a daughter, Emily, and two large rescue dogs. Emily is 15, in the 10th grade and is currently organizing a fundraiser to benefit the Houston Humane Society for the displaced pets from Hurricane Ike.
Class of 1978
Kim A. Cronin 35 Hillside Road Lincoln, MA 01773-4106 lanna909@aol.com
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In February, Network Health published the following news release about Marilyn McManus McCourt’s newest appointment: Network Health announced the appointment of Marilyn McCourt as Director of Integrated Care Management. Marilyn will lead Network Health’s integrated care management efforts including medical, behavioral health, and social care management to coordinate member care and ensure high-quality health care and outcomes. Marilyn is Network Health’s first director of integrated care, a newly created position. Network Health has always used an integrated care management model; however, Network Health created the position to formalize the next evolution of its integrated care management model approach. “Marilyn has a proven track record of successfully launching and sustaining health
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programs that best serve and improve the health of vulnerable populations,” said Mary McKendry, Senior Director, Clinical Affairs for Network Health. “Network Health and its members will greatly benefit from Marilyn”s experience in streamlining integrated care management strategies to ensure our members get the highest quality health care possible.” Marilyn previously served as program manager for health programs at Tufts Health Plan, where she successfully managed several disease-management and wellness programs, including annual vaccination campaigns and disease-prevention initiatives. Prior to working at Tufts Health Plan, Marilyn served as a business unit leader for the utilization review team at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. In this role, she managed the health plan’s utilization review team to ensure that the plan met its provider and member needs and complied with contractual obligations.
By day, Barbara Curtin Graceffa creates web pages for UMass Boston’s McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies. After hours, she uses her design talents in other ways -- she owns and operates a part-time interior decorating business, “Secretary of the Interior.” Her latest client is the Boston Marathon. The Boston Athletic Association (BAA), the folks who put on the Boston Marathon, has commissioned Barbara to make two commemorative quilts celebrating their sister marathon in Ohme, Japan. In 1966, when Japanese-U.S. relations were
still strained following WWII, an Englishspeaking Japanese reporter reached out to the organizers of the Boston Marathon offering to sponsor two U.S. athletes to travel to Japan to run in the Ohme race. Not only did the BAA accept their offer but they also agreed to sponsor two Japanese marathoners in Boston. Forty-four years later, the reciprocal relationship continues; a delegation of Japanese reporters and officials from the Ohme race were in Boston again in April 2010 to cheer on their runners in the Boston Marathon and a representative from each group was given a quilt designed and sewed by Barbara. The quilts incorporate sport shorts, T-shirts, silk marathon ties and embroidered patches from both races as well as Japanese fabrics from table linens, handkerchiefs, and batiks previously gifted to members of the board of directors of the Boston Athletic Association. Each patchwork wall-hanging is approximately 36x72 inches in size. Barbara has won blue ribbons for her quilts in the past and is honored to be associated with this international gift of goodwill. The quilts were presented to the Japanese during a private ceremony during marathon weekend in April. It is expected that at least one of the quilts will hang in the City Hall in Ohme.
Class of 1983
Sandra Capriulo Strong 9 Arlington Street Woburn, MA 01801-5743 sandra.strong@rcn.com Aggie Schoenfeld Ketchen and her husband Scott say hello and would like to announce
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Class of 1979
Margaret M. Benz 28 Elizabeth Road Narragansett, RI 02882-5219 mpbenz@gmail.com The much-anticipated novel Lipstick in Afghanistan, written by Emmanuel College alumna Roberta Gately and published by Simon & Schuster, will be available in bookstores on November 9, 2010. Ms. Gately will be making an author appearance at the Borders Bookstore located at 511 Boylston Street, Boston, on November 10th, at 7:00 p.m. For more information and a synopsis about Roberta’s first novel, please visit www.robertagately.com/index.htm Maureen McHallam McGonagle, a special education teacher at Sharon High School, lives in Foxboro, Mass., with her husband, John, a partner with the accounting firm, Livingston and Haynes, PC, located in Wellesley, Mass., and her son, John Patrick, who attends Foxborough High School. Her daughter, Kathleen, who lives in Brighton, Mass, is a marketing manager for Mix1. Maureen recently became a grandmother. Emelia Catherine was born on July 2, 2009. She resides in Phoenix, Ariz., with her parents, Jen and Doug. In May, Maureen began a master’s program in education at Bridgewater State College, nearly 31 years after graduating from Emmanuel. Maureen says, “It’s never too late!!!”
Class of 1980
Jayne LaCarrubba Mazzaglia 14 West Parish Road Haverhill, MA 01832-1197 jayne_mazzaglia@bd.com
Class of 1981
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd -5th!!! Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Andrea Payos retired from the Treasury Department as an office manager. Prayers for all of my former friends and professors.
Celebrate! Get ready to share a glass of champagne with friends, run or walk a 5K to benefit scholarship programs and stay up late in Julie Hall – it’s time to return to Emmanuel and celebrate! Stay tuned for more details on Alumni Weekend throughout the year!
Engage! Can’t wait to reconnect with your classmates? You don’t have to. Call (617) 735-9828 and ask about special volunteer opportunities before Alumni Weekend.
Give! You will have numerous opportunities over the next year to join your classmates in making a special impact on Emmanuel and our students. You can also make your gift today by visiting www.emmmanuel.edu and following the “Support” link on the homepage.
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Alumni Classnotes Alumni Event & Regional Club Calendar November: Washington D.C. Regional Alumni Club Reception on November 16th at the University Club 37th Annual Emmanuel College Invitational Basketball Tournament on November 20th in the Jean Yawkey Center Gymnasium Tea and Talk at the home of Anastasia Kirby Lundquist ’35 on November 21st in Auburndale, Mass.
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that they are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. Their daughter Julie is in Bangor, Maine, studying accounting. Their 18-yearold son Dave is currently a senior in high school and is looking into some colleges this year. Dave’s basketball team also won the state championship.
Class of 1984
Kathleen L. Keough 266 Grove Street, #6 Northampton, MA 01060-3680 kkeough19@comcast.net Lisa M. Taleghani 11 Cheever Street Revere, MA 02151-5008 Donna Purnell aka “Alexanderia the Great” performed Houdini’s famous “Milk Can Escape” at the Boston Greenfest this past August on the main stage at Boston City Hall Plaza. For more information about her tremendous feat, go to Alexanderia’s website: http://ow.ly/2rtbA. Melinda Simari Troensegaard has been living in Manchester, Mass., with her husband Kindon and daughter Vittoria, 15. Besides family, she keeps busy walking their Siberian huskies and volunteering at the town library.
Class of 1985
President’s Society Donor Reception on December 1st on Emmanuel’s campus
Kathryn T. Bowler Vitali 5996 Wescott Hills Way Alexandria, VA 22315-4746
Cape Cod Regional Alumni Club Christmas Party on December 9th at the Daniel Webster Inn Sandwich, Mass.
AnnMarie Murphy Nagelin is currently an instructor of anatomy and physiology at Quincy College. She is also doing research in the Islet Transplantation Group at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.
Class of 1986
R.I. Regional Alumni Club Brunch on December 12th Western Mass. Regional Alumni Club Reception and Holiday Lights Tour on December 12th
January- February:
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Margaret Dillon-Cecil 7445 Yellowstone Boulevard, 3G Rego Park, NY 11374-5301 pcecil793@hotmail.com
Founder’s Week at the College January 31st - February 4th
Kathleen Pfeiffer is an associate professor of English at Oakland University. She is the editor of Waldo Frank’s novel Holiday and the author of Race Passing and American Individualism.
South Shore Regional Alumni Club Brunch, TBD
Class of 1987
March: St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 12th in Naples, Fla. Nouwen Society Lecture on March 26 on Emmanuel’s campus
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Catherine Hakim ’71 Lecture on March 31st on Emmanuel’s campus Monthly Masses are held on the third Thursday of each month at noon in the Emmanuel College Chapel Cape Cod Regional Alumni Club meetings and activities are monthly. Be in touch with President Rosemarie Brutnell ’61 for additional information: (508) 398-9284
Ann-Marie R. Hart 14 Strawberry Hill Road Acton, MA 01720-5707 AMHart@comcast.net Jacquelyn Buck Kelley 241 Plymouth Street East Bridgewater, MA 02333-1918 porcupinespalette@hotmail.com
Class of 1988
Christine Busi DeGiacomo 10 Drummond Road Stoneham, MA 02180-2121 Stephanie Medeiros Wasserman 68 Birchtree Drive Westwood, MA 02090-2404 swasserman@verizon.net Colleen Brennan and her husband Jay are proud to announce the birth of their son, Harrison Brennan Wamester. Harry was born on February 20, 2008, and has a two-year-old brother, Charlie.
Class of 1989
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400.
Class of 1990
Note, this is only a selection of events. To view the full calendar, register for an event or to find more information, visit www.emmanuel.edu and click on“Alumni & Friends,” then “News & Events.”
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Julie Nolet Berthiaume 16 Glines Street Haverhill, MA 01830-6550 jpberthiaume@hotmail.com The Daley Family attended the dedication of the Maureen Murphy Wilkens Science Center on September 24, 2009. Thanks to the generosity of Mary Beth Daley-Grey’s wonderful parents, C. Michael and Janet Daley, The Daley Family Classroom is also a new addition to Emmanuel College.
Class of 1991
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd – 5th!!! Julie P. Reyburn 790 11th Avenue, #34G
Alumni Classnotes Danielle DiGiovanni and David Kempe were married on May 15, 2010, at Saint Ann’s Church in Peabody, Mass. They recently participated in the Emmanuel College 5K with five other members of the Kempe family, including Martha Glavin Kempe ’73 and Jacqueline Kempe, Class of 2014.
New York, NY 10019-3512
Class of 1992
Kathryn Begley 7530 12th Avenue NW Seattle, WA 98117-4147 kbegley@hotmail.com Karen Zraket Pappalardo 298A Hampshire Road Methuen, MA 01844-1119 kpappalardo2@verizon.net
Ashley Nigro was recently promoted to the position of personnel security specialist for the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Protective Service, Immigration Customs and Enforcement, Boston Regional Office. This position involves conducting background investigations in order to render work suitability decisions for contractors seeking employment opportunities within New England federal activities. As a recent recipient of the Department of Homeland Security 2008 Fiscal Year Achievement Award, Ashley is currently attending Suffolk University studying for a master’s degree in crime and justice studies.
Class of 1993
Rhonda Cook Haller 10 Londonderry Lane Derry, NH 03038-5118 rlhaller@comcast.net Denise Simpson hopes that all of her classmates are doing well. She would love to hear from you and catch up.You can reach her through e-mail at neceyboo@hotmail.com.
Class of 1994
Tara O’Brien Cordeiro 73 Alice Street North Dartmouth, MA 02747-1915 tobrien1972@comcast.net
Class of 1995
Eileen Miller Crean 15 Springhill Avenue, #2 Bridgewater, MA 02324-2526 Aine Mairead Cryst 36 Nahant Street Wakefield, MA 01880-33052 acryts@yahoo.com
Class of 1996
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Gina DeVivo Brassaw 198 S. Park Street Willimantic, CT 06226-3634 gina.devivo.brassaw@uconn.edu Andrea DeFeo Dotterer and her husband Jesse welcomed a son, Nicholas, on February 5, 2008. Plans to relocate to Atlanta, Ga., are underway! Gina DeVivo Brassaw and her husband welcomed their second child, Isabella Kathleen Brassaw, in March 2009 and recently moved into the home that they renovated in Willimantic, Conn., Gina continues to work at the University of Connecticut as a senior program advisor in the Community Outreach Office. Chrissa Sarhanis-Kaselis, her husband John, and daughter Sophia welcomed the newest member of their family, Demi Christina on December 23, 2007. Sophia, who started preschool in September, loves being a big sister. Chrissa is currently an at-home mom enjoying every minute spent with her little girls.
Class of 1997
Melissa Tremblay Brimmer 12 Lexington Street Stoneham, MA 02180-2319 mjtremblay24@hotmail.com Kelli Chapin Kennedy 84 Loring Avenue Whitman, MA 02382-1024 kkennedy1231@gmail.com Elizabeth A. Motte 10 Boxford Terrace, #2 West Roxbury, MA 02132-2610 Heather Maxwell Mook received her Masters of Education from Wheelock College and will be teaching in the Boston Public Schools this year. Congratulations to Melissa Tremblay Brimmer and her husband Matt on the birth of their beautiful daughter, Ellie.
Class of 1998
Paulita Velazquez Fernandez 18538 N. 114th Lane Surprise, AZ 85374-6975 elvisp@bluesuede.com Rebecca Consentino Hains 9 Beckett Street Peabody, MA 01960-6046 rebecca@hains.net Alison Ward Nyhan 208 South Street Concord, NH 03301-2774
Members of the Class of 2005, Emmanuel’s first coed class Mandy L. Price 1513 E. Mobile Lane Phoenix, AZ 85040-2396 jaleh23@hotmail.com
Class of 1999
Andrea Pappalardo Rossi 23 MacArthur Road Plainville, CT 06062-2420 mooshu71@aol.com Nancy Megna Whipple is happy to announce the birth of her son, Alexander John! He was born on June 29, 2009 at 8:49 p.m. He weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces and was 21 inches long! He is growing in leaps and bounds!
Class of 2000
2010, she began working at Corsair Solutions, Inc. in Newburyport, Mass., as the human resources generalist.
Class of 2004
Amanda Fontaine 6 Westminster Avenue Haverhill, MA 01830-2702 Afontaine16@yahoo.com Allison M. Fraske 68 Medford Street, #3 Medford, MA 02155-6524 allisonfraske@gmail.com Keri-Rose Harkins 13403 Bellingham Drive Tampa, FL 33625-4064 keriroseharkins@yahoo.com
Hilary K. Oak Hiers 35 Walnut Hill Road Goffstown, NH 03045-2346 hroody@yahoo.com
Martha E. Zamirski married her Emmanuel sweetheart, Christopher G. Kloko, in the fall of 2010! Congratulations Martha and Chris!
Jennifer Murray has been working for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. for the past six years. She and Conor Rooney of Northern Ireland were married October 10, 2010 in the Emmanuel College Chapel. Many Emmanuel College alumni were in attendance including her aunt and godmother, M. Andrea Todesca Ryan ’66.
Aliece Weller Dutson 3 Heritage Hill Dedham, MA 02026-6206 welleral@gmail.com
Class of 2001
Class of 2005
Amy Meridith Hopping, her husband, and their three children moved in April 2010 into their new home at 43 Hillcrest Drive, Stafford, VA 22556.
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd – 5th!!! Sarah Jackson Consentino 7 Central Square, Apt. 501 Lynn, MA 1901-1344 sarahmcjackson@gmail.com
As a first-year master’s student in English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Eliza Kane presented a paper for the Sociology of Literature panel at the April 2009 Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif.
Class of 2002
Joycelin Tremblay completed her master’s degree in pastoral ministry from Boston College. In August, she started a new job as the campus minister for faith and justice initiatives at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
Christina Sullivan McCarthy 12 B Beach Street Millbury, MA 01527-1904 christinaleighsullivan@yahoo.com Kristin Lampros Balutis and her husband, Paul, welcomed their daughter, Anya Eleni, on July 30, 2010. Anya weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces. and was 20 1/2 inches long. Kristin and Paul also just celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary on September 24. Nicole Grenon Samson was married to Grant Samson on May 1, 2010, in Portland, Maine. Nicole and Grant have relocated to Seattle, Wash., for Grant’s job. Sarah Sullivan Komar married Ben Komar on September 18, 2010. The wedding ceremony was held at King’s Chapel in Boston. Reception was at the Omni Parker House in the rooftop ballroom. Former roommate Danielle Robert was a bridesmaid and attendants were Jennifer Murray, Maggie Brice, Chris Pecora, Jolie Condon ’07, Crystal Chappel ’08 and Liz Tompson ’05.
Class of 2003
Maryann T. Ziemba 12 Thompson Road Braintree, MA 02184-4303 mtziemba@hotmail.com Christina Kacmar has received a second degree from Emmanuel, a Master of Science in human resource management. In September
Rebecca Glaser married Matthew O’Dette on August 13, 2010 in Gloucester, Mass. Jessica deSousa married Matthew Kouyoumjian on July 25, 2009 in Nahant, Mass.
Class of 2006
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Laura K. Mason 10 Garfield Avenue Palmyra, NJ 08065-1309 eclaura06@yahoo.com
In May of 2009, Michelle Davidson (now Davidson-Schapiro) received her Master of Arts in teaching degree from Smith College, in Northampton, Mass. In August of 2009, Michelle was married to Becky Schapiro. The couple lives in Northampton, where Michelle works at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Becky is a paralegal at an immigration law firm.
Class of 2007
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Alyson Trank graduated with a bachelor’s degree in global studies. She is becoming a surface warfare officer for the United States Navy at Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I. After graduation she will travel to Virginia Beach to begin her career.
Class of 2008
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Jennifer Walsh is attending the graduate program in art therapy at Lesley University. She looks forward to advancing in the field and learning more skills to help those in need of expressive therapies. She goes on to say, “This was all made possible by my study at Emmanuel College. Thanks EC!”
Class of 2009
Caitlin M. Santacroce 80 Castle Hill Road Pawcatuck, CT 06379-1987 caitlinsantacroce@gmail.com Caitlin Santacroce works at Harvard University in their Undergraduate Development Office and is excited to connect with classmates with their news and information! Congratulations to Daniel Levin, who married the love of his life at Fenway Park in August 2010. Several classmates were in attendance at the nuptials.
Class of 2010
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400.
Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact us at (617) 975-9400.
Alumni Association Board Executive Officers President Susan Pelleriti Cleary ’79 Vice President Judith “Judy” Chadwick LeBlanc ’64 Treasurer Michael Valanzola ’07 Secretary Serghino Rene ’05 Directors-At-Large Margaret “Peggy” Benz ’79 Anne “Maggie” Brutnell ’89 Judith “Judy” Ansara Campbell ’71 Lenore Merullo DelVecchio ’84 Clara Firmani-Musto ’81 Nicole DeMaria Grace ’93 Elizabeth “Betty” Cox Gravelle ’64 Kristi Dailey Heffron ’94 Joan Glidden McGrath ’60 Christopher “Chris” Mulvey ’06 Gerard “Jerry” Sloan ’05 Gwyn Oesterle Thakur ’75 Anne Toye ’65 Suzanne Wenz ’94
Call for Nominees! Do you or one of your classmates want to reconnect with the College? We are currently seeking nominees for the Alumni Association Board and are always looking for new individuals to contribute to the growth of the College. Help plan events, participate in regional clubs and work with current students. For more information, contact: The Office of Development and Alumni Relations at alumni@emmanuel.edu or at (617) 975-9400. Nominations due by January 2011 Kay Moriarty O’Dwyer Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Fund Emmanuel College 400 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 (617) 264-7688 odwyer@emmanuel.edu
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Alumni Classnotes Alumni Event & Regional Club Calendar November: Washington D.C. Regional Alumni Club Reception on November 16th at the University Club 37th Annual Emmanuel College Invitational Basketball Tournament on November 20th in the Jean Yawkey Center Gymnasium Tea and Talk at the home of Anastasia Kirby Lundquist ’35 on November 21st in Auburndale, Mass.
December:
that they are celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. Their daughter Julie is in Bangor, Maine, studying accounting. Their 18-yearold son Dave is currently a senior in high school and is looking into some colleges this year. Dave’s basketball team also won the state championship.
Class of 1984
Kathleen L. Keough 266 Grove Street, #6 Northampton, MA 01060-3680 kkeough19@comcast.net Lisa M. Taleghani 11 Cheever Street Revere, MA 02151-5008 Donna Purnell aka “Alexanderia the Great” performed Houdini’s famous “Milk Can Escape” at the Boston Greenfest this past August on the main stage at Boston City Hall Plaza. For more information about her tremendous feat, go to Alexanderia’s website: http://ow.ly/2rtbA. Melinda Simari Troensegaard has been living in Manchester, Mass., with her husband Kindon and daughter Vittoria, 15. Besides family, she keeps busy walking their Siberian huskies and volunteering at the town library.
Class of 1985
President’s Society Donor Reception on December 1st on Emmanuel’s campus
Kathryn T. Bowler Vitali 5996 Wescott Hills Way Alexandria, VA 22315-4746
Cape Cod Regional Alumni Club Christmas Party on December 9th at the Daniel Webster Inn Sandwich, Mass.
AnnMarie Murphy Nagelin is currently an instructor of anatomy and physiology at Quincy College. She is also doing research in the Islet Transplantation Group at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston.
Class of 1986
R.I. Regional Alumni Club Brunch on December 12th Western Mass. Regional Alumni Club Reception and Holiday Lights Tour on December 12th
January- February:
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Margaret Dillon-Cecil 7445 Yellowstone Boulevard, 3G Rego Park, NY 11374-5301 pcecil793@hotmail.com
Founder’s Week at the College January 31st - February 4th
Kathleen Pfeiffer is an associate professor of English at Oakland University. She is the editor of Waldo Frank’s novel Holiday and the author of Race Passing and American Individualism.
South Shore Regional Alumni Club Brunch, TBD
Class of 1987
March: St. Patrick’s Day Parade on March 12th in Naples, Fla. Nouwen Society Lecture on March 26 on Emmanuel’s campus
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Catherine Hakim ’71 Lecture on March 31st on Emmanuel’s campus Monthly Masses are held on the third Thursday of each month at noon in the Emmanuel College Chapel Cape Cod Regional Alumni Club meetings and activities are monthly. Be in touch with President Rosemarie Brutnell ’61 for additional information: (508) 398-9284
Ann-Marie R. Hart 14 Strawberry Hill Road Acton, MA 01720-5707 AMHart@comcast.net Jacquelyn Buck Kelley 241 Plymouth Street East Bridgewater, MA 02333-1918 porcupinespalette@hotmail.com
Class of 1988
Christine Busi DeGiacomo 10 Drummond Road Stoneham, MA 02180-2121 Stephanie Medeiros Wasserman 68 Birchtree Drive Westwood, MA 02090-2404 swasserman@verizon.net Colleen Brennan and her husband Jay are proud to announce the birth of their son, Harrison Brennan Wamester. Harry was born on February 20, 2008, and has a two-year-old brother, Charlie.
Class of 1989
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400.
Class of 1990
Note, this is only a selection of events. To view the full calendar, register for an event or to find more information, visit www.emmanuel.edu and click on“Alumni & Friends,” then “News & Events.”
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Julie Nolet Berthiaume 16 Glines Street Haverhill, MA 01830-6550 jpberthiaume@hotmail.com The Daley Family attended the dedication of the Maureen Murphy Wilkens Science Center on September 24, 2009. Thanks to the generosity of Mary Beth Daley-Grey’s wonderful parents, C. Michael and Janet Daley, The Daley Family Classroom is also a new addition to Emmanuel College.
Class of 1991
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd – 5th!!! Julie P. Reyburn 790 11th Avenue, #34G
Alumni Classnotes Danielle DiGiovanni and David Kempe were married on May 15, 2010, at Saint Ann’s Church in Peabody, Mass. They recently participated in the Emmanuel College 5K with five other members of the Kempe family, including Martha Glavin Kempe ’73 and Jacqueline Kempe, Class of 2014.
New York, NY 10019-3512
Class of 1992
Kathryn Begley 7530 12th Avenue NW Seattle, WA 98117-4147 kbegley@hotmail.com Karen Zraket Pappalardo 298A Hampshire Road Methuen, MA 01844-1119 kpappalardo2@verizon.net
Ashley Nigro was recently promoted to the position of personnel security specialist for the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Protective Service, Immigration Customs and Enforcement, Boston Regional Office. This position involves conducting background investigations in order to render work suitability decisions for contractors seeking employment opportunities within New England federal activities. As a recent recipient of the Department of Homeland Security 2008 Fiscal Year Achievement Award, Ashley is currently attending Suffolk University studying for a master’s degree in crime and justice studies.
Class of 1993
Rhonda Cook Haller 10 Londonderry Lane Derry, NH 03038-5118 rlhaller@comcast.net Denise Simpson hopes that all of her classmates are doing well. She would love to hear from you and catch up.You can reach her through e-mail at neceyboo@hotmail.com.
Class of 1994
Tara O’Brien Cordeiro 73 Alice Street North Dartmouth, MA 02747-1915 tobrien1972@comcast.net
Class of 1995
Eileen Miller Crean 15 Springhill Avenue, #2 Bridgewater, MA 02324-2526 Aine Mairead Cryst 36 Nahant Street Wakefield, MA 01880-33052 acryts@yahoo.com
Class of 1996
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Gina DeVivo Brassaw 198 S. Park Street Willimantic, CT 06226-3634 gina.devivo.brassaw@uconn.edu Andrea DeFeo Dotterer and her husband Jesse welcomed a son, Nicholas, on February 5, 2008. Plans to relocate to Atlanta, Ga., are underway! Gina DeVivo Brassaw and her husband welcomed their second child, Isabella Kathleen Brassaw, in March 2009 and recently moved into the home that they renovated in Willimantic, Conn., Gina continues to work at the University of Connecticut as a senior program advisor in the Community Outreach Office. Chrissa Sarhanis-Kaselis, her husband John, and daughter Sophia welcomed the newest member of their family, Demi Christina on December 23, 2007. Sophia, who started preschool in September, loves being a big sister. Chrissa is currently an at-home mom enjoying every minute spent with her little girls.
Class of 1997
Melissa Tremblay Brimmer 12 Lexington Street Stoneham, MA 02180-2319 mjtremblay24@hotmail.com Kelli Chapin Kennedy 84 Loring Avenue Whitman, MA 02382-1024 kkennedy1231@gmail.com Elizabeth A. Motte 10 Boxford Terrace, #2 West Roxbury, MA 02132-2610 Heather Maxwell Mook received her Masters of Education from Wheelock College and will be teaching in the Boston Public Schools this year. Congratulations to Melissa Tremblay Brimmer and her husband Matt on the birth of their beautiful daughter, Ellie.
Class of 1998
Paulita Velazquez Fernandez 18538 N. 114th Lane Surprise, AZ 85374-6975 elvisp@bluesuede.com Rebecca Consentino Hains 9 Beckett Street Peabody, MA 01960-6046 rebecca@hains.net Alison Ward Nyhan 208 South Street Concord, NH 03301-2774
Members of the Class of 2005, Emmanuel’s first coed class Mandy L. Price 1513 E. Mobile Lane Phoenix, AZ 85040-2396 jaleh23@hotmail.com
Class of 1999
Andrea Pappalardo Rossi 23 MacArthur Road Plainville, CT 06062-2420 mooshu71@aol.com Nancy Megna Whipple is happy to announce the birth of her son, Alexander John! He was born on June 29, 2009 at 8:49 p.m. He weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces and was 21 inches long! He is growing in leaps and bounds!
Class of 2000
2010, she began working at Corsair Solutions, Inc. in Newburyport, Mass., as the human resources generalist.
Class of 2004
Amanda Fontaine 6 Westminster Avenue Haverhill, MA 01830-2702 Afontaine16@yahoo.com Allison M. Fraske 68 Medford Street, #3 Medford, MA 02155-6524 allisonfraske@gmail.com Keri-Rose Harkins 13403 Bellingham Drive Tampa, FL 33625-4064 keriroseharkins@yahoo.com
Hilary K. Oak Hiers 35 Walnut Hill Road Goffstown, NH 03045-2346 hroody@yahoo.com
Martha E. Zamirski married her Emmanuel sweetheart, Christopher G. Kloko, in the fall of 2010! Congratulations Martha and Chris!
Jennifer Murray has been working for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. for the past six years. She and Conor Rooney of Northern Ireland were married October 10, 2010 in the Emmanuel College Chapel. Many Emmanuel College alumni were in attendance including her aunt and godmother, M. Andrea Todesca Ryan ’66.
Aliece Weller Dutson 3 Heritage Hill Dedham, MA 02026-6206 welleral@gmail.com
Class of 2001
Class of 2005
Amy Meridith Hopping, her husband, and their three children moved in April 2010 into their new home at 43 Hillcrest Drive, Stafford, VA 22556.
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd – 5th!!! Sarah Jackson Consentino 7 Central Square, Apt. 501 Lynn, MA 1901-1344 sarahmcjackson@gmail.com
As a first-year master’s student in English at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Eliza Kane presented a paper for the Sociology of Literature panel at the April 2009 Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif.
Class of 2002
Joycelin Tremblay completed her master’s degree in pastoral ministry from Boston College. In August, she started a new job as the campus minister for faith and justice initiatives at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
Christina Sullivan McCarthy 12 B Beach Street Millbury, MA 01527-1904 christinaleighsullivan@yahoo.com Kristin Lampros Balutis and her husband, Paul, welcomed their daughter, Anya Eleni, on July 30, 2010. Anya weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces. and was 20 1/2 inches long. Kristin and Paul also just celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary on September 24. Nicole Grenon Samson was married to Grant Samson on May 1, 2010, in Portland, Maine. Nicole and Grant have relocated to Seattle, Wash., for Grant’s job. Sarah Sullivan Komar married Ben Komar on September 18, 2010. The wedding ceremony was held at King’s Chapel in Boston. Reception was at the Omni Parker House in the rooftop ballroom. Former roommate Danielle Robert was a bridesmaid and attendants were Jennifer Murray, Maggie Brice, Chris Pecora, Jolie Condon ’07, Crystal Chappel ’08 and Liz Tompson ’05.
Class of 2003
Maryann T. Ziemba 12 Thompson Road Braintree, MA 02184-4303 mtziemba@hotmail.com Christina Kacmar has received a second degree from Emmanuel, a Master of Science in human resource management. In September
Rebecca Glaser married Matthew O’Dette on August 13, 2010 in Gloucester, Mass. Jessica deSousa married Matthew Kouyoumjian on July 25, 2009 in Nahant, Mass.
Class of 2006
SAVE THE DATE: The 2011 Reunion is June 3rd - 5th!!! Laura K. Mason 10 Garfield Avenue Palmyra, NJ 08065-1309 eclaura06@yahoo.com
In May of 2009, Michelle Davidson (now Davidson-Schapiro) received her Master of Arts in teaching degree from Smith College, in Northampton, Mass. In August of 2009, Michelle was married to Becky Schapiro. The couple lives in Northampton, where Michelle works at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Becky is a paralegal at an immigration law firm.
Class of 2007
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Alyson Trank graduated with a bachelor’s degree in global studies. She is becoming a surface warfare officer for the United States Navy at Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I. After graduation she will travel to Virginia Beach to begin her career.
Class of 2008
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400. Jennifer Walsh is attending the graduate program in art therapy at Lesley University. She looks forward to advancing in the field and learning more skills to help those in need of expressive therapies. She goes on to say, “This was all made possible by my study at Emmanuel College. Thanks EC!”
Class of 2009
Caitlin M. Santacroce 80 Castle Hill Road Pawcatuck, CT 06379-1987 caitlinsantacroce@gmail.com Caitlin Santacroce works at Harvard University in their Undergraduate Development Office and is excited to connect with classmates with their news and information! Congratulations to Daniel Levin, who married the love of his life at Fenway Park in August 2010. Several classmates were in attendance at the nuptials.
Class of 2010
Send news to the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 400 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115 or e-mail alumni@emmanuel.edu. Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact the College at (617) 975-9400.
Would you like to be your Class Correspondent? To sign up or ask questions contact us at (617) 975-9400.
Alumni Association Board Executive Officers President Susan Pelleriti Cleary ’79 Vice President Judith “Judy” Chadwick LeBlanc ’64 Treasurer Michael Valanzola ’07 Secretary Serghino Rene ’05 Directors-At-Large Margaret “Peggy” Benz ’79 Anne “Maggie” Brutnell ’89 Judith “Judy” Ansara Campbell ’71 Lenore Merullo DelVecchio ’84 Clara Firmani-Musto ’81 Nicole DeMaria Grace ’93 Elizabeth “Betty” Cox Gravelle ’64 Kristi Dailey Heffron ’94 Joan Glidden McGrath ’60 Christopher “Chris” Mulvey ’06 Gerard “Jerry” Sloan ’05 Gwyn Oesterle Thakur ’75 Anne Toye ’65 Suzanne Wenz ’94
Call for Nominees! Do you or one of your classmates want to reconnect with the College? We are currently seeking nominees for the Alumni Association Board and are always looking for new individuals to contribute to the growth of the College. Help plan events, participate in regional clubs and work with current students. For more information, contact: The Office of Development and Alumni Relations at alumni@emmanuel.edu or at (617) 975-9400. Nominations due by January 2011 Kay Moriarty O’Dwyer Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Fund Emmanuel College 400 The Fenway Boston, MA 02115 (617) 264-7688 odwyer@emmanuel.edu
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campus news
In Memoriam
Popular Campus Safety Officer Gets Set for Fourth Military Deployment
We pray for the following alumni who passed away or were remembered at a Memorial Mass in the Emmanuel College Chapel from July 2009-September 2010. 1930s Margaret McCullough Buckley ’32 Elizabeth Bolton Roque ’37 Margaret McCarthy Driver ’38 Louise Keenan ’38 Rosemary A. McLaughlin Robotham ’38 Barbara Benson ’39 Vivian Burns McBurney ’39
1940s
Clare Stanton Nash ’40 Sister Catherine Twomey, SND ’40 Kathleen Ryan Dacey ’41 Eleanor Gately O’Neill Farrell ’41 Myra Roberts Fillion ’42 Barbara McNamara ’41 Marion Flaherty ’42 M. Patricia Sparkes Mackin ’42 Marie Hines Murray ’42 Emma Martin Devaney ’43 Constance Dowling Dwyer ’43 Elizabeth “Bette” Phalen Keating ’43 Dorothy McDonald McNulty ’43 June Hill Miller ’44 Sister Marie Carmel White, SND ’44 Eleanor Mahler Boyle ’45 Nona Rohan Mahoney ’45 Patricia Raftus MacAskill ’45 Mabel L. Waggett ’45 Margaret “Peg” McGaffigan ’45 Mary Cusack Perry ’45 Janet Smith Bank ’46 Mary Gaughan Ferrell ’46 Patricia Doherty Koch ’46 Josephine Phillips Kelly ’46 June Heffernan Kidney-Yeomans ’46 S. Corlyse Hazard Laporte ’46 Mary Elizabeth Martin DeLorey ’47 Jeanne McDonald Downes ’47 Anne M. “Annie” Groden ’47 Barbara McIntyre Hunt ’47 Eileen Kearns ’47 Margaret C. Salmon ’47 Miriam O’Connell Santilli ’47 Sister Catherine St. Alice Ball, SND ’48 Mary Corcoran ’48 Marie Schneider Dolan ’48 Mary Louise Perry Gallant ’48 Ruth Doyle Johnson ’48 Geraldine Cochran Maher ’48
Catherine Sennott Mahoney ’48 Mary Alice Whalen McNamara ’48 Dorothy Coleman Rademaker ’48 Sarah W. Rollins ’48 Elizabeth Joyce Larivee Tivnan ’48 Kathleen O’Shea Boylan ’49 Sister Mary Elizabeth Broderick, SND ’49 Monica J. Cotter ’49 Isabelle G. Finn ’49 Mary E. Kelley ’49 Jean Dowd Lynch ’49 Elizabeth Hurley Rogan ’49 Sylvia Morrissey Yunits ’49
1950s
Eleanor McCarthy Myers ’50 Nancy Slattery Clifford ’52 Mary “Polly” Donovan Costello ’52 Joan Powers Curtin ’52 Mary Harnedy ’52 Margaret C. “Peggy” O’Connell ’52 Janet Cull Venti ’52 Ruth McCann Anketell ’53 Patricia McGonagle Norton ’53 Mary Louise Cloherty Young ’53 Noreen Kane McCarthy ’54 Carol Vaughan Fletcher Morrison ’54 Elizabeth A. Marley ’55 Sister Cecilia Julie Anderson, SND ’56 M. Marie Kiely Boyle ’56 Sr. Martina J. Flaherty, SND ’56 Ann-Marie Connors Tague ’56 Lillian Berestecky Juzukonis ’57 Joyce McCaffrey McGrath ’57 Mary Begley Rice ’57 Sheila Burns Shannon ’57 Sister Helen Thomasina Sheehan, SND ’57 Sister Julienne Sullivan, SND ’57 June Comeau Fahey ’58 Rosemary Liberty Caulfield ’59 Helen Rose Fuller Corbett ’59 Sister Paula Marie Farrah, SND ’59 Julie Kelly Halligan ’59
1960s
Rita Moniz Devarakonda ’60 Paulette St. Germain Farris ’60 Nancy Dean McDougall ’61
Margaret G. Sheil ’61 Sister St. Winifred Flynn, SND ’62 Sister Mary Patricia Hernon, SND ’62 Priscilla Mullen Riley’ 62 Maybeth Fandel Sonn ’63 Helen McGoey Gavin ’63 Viola Pappalardo Bowden ’64 Patricia Donovan St. Cyr ’64 Carol A. Desmond ’65 Lucia Capodilupo ’66 Mary L. Sapienza ’66 Carol Alix ’67 Mary Duran Sarver ’69
1970s
Mary Ellen Phanney Anton ’70 Kathleen M. Berry ’70 Reverend Thomas D. Conway ’70 The Honorable Eileen P. Fennessy ’70 Barbara Chesley Fleming ’70 Lucille M. Boulanger ’71 Patricia Ann Canty-Wyatt ’71 Sister Agnes Gertrude Grassini, SND ’71 Juliet Lemelin ’71 Dorothy McDonald ’71 Lee Alexander ’72 Louise Danylowitz Smith ’72 Virginia McGowan Dorr ’74 Maria Giovinco Radzik ’74 Claire M. Manning ’75 Geraldine Gibbons Potter ’75 Mary Frankhouser Spring ’77 Nancyann Smith Gilbert ’78
1980s
Maria Ciccia ’82 Sister Anne Sheridan C.S.J. ’85 Joan Baruffaldi ’86 Marya Panzica ’87 Sandra Recupero Ferrara ’87
1990s
Jessica Napolitano ’97 Michael Bender ’99
2000s
Maurice Joseph Albert Hache ’02 Tracy Milillio ’09 Catelyn A. Duffy ’11
Emmanuel College Campus Safety Officer Andrews “Andy” Kyere is preparing for what will be his fourth military tour. He will officially leave for Iraq in January, but is now involved in specialized training for his next deployment. Kyere has been with the United States Army Reserves for the past 11 years as a combat lifesaver. He also serves as a non-commissioned officer in the Patient Administration department.
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Kyere previously served tours in Bosnia, Kosovo and most recently
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Iraq. While serving in Iraq, he was honored for his service with a Bronze Star medal, one of the highest military awards that a U.S. military soldier can receive. This award is based on individual actions during a soldier’s tour. “I don’t care about the awards. I just care about saving lives,” said CONTINUED ON PAGE 12
Left, President Sister Janet Eisner, SND addresses the Convocation crowd as keynote speaker Beth Murphy looks on. Right, members of the Class of 2011 show off their class banner.
Director/Author Discusses Afghanistan Documentary at Convocation CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Sister Janet Eisner, SND informed the audience about the history of convocations, which serve to remind colleges of their missions at the start of the academic year. She said that Emmanuel has stayed true to its mission “to educate students in a dynamic learning community rooted in the liberal arts and sciences and shaped by strong ethical values and a Catholic intellectual tradition,” since the earliest years of the College. Sister Janet continued by recognizing the Emmanuel students, class by class. She encouraged members of the senior class to continue making Boston their extended classroom, juniors to continue experiencing the real world through internships, study abroad and community service, the sophomore class representatives to remain focused as they declare their allegiance to a particular area of study, and the freshmen to begin to make an imprint on Emmanuel. “When you first came to Emmanuel
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“Growing up, I always wanted to be an officer and a gentleman,” said Kyere about joining the U.S. Army. “I have cousins that are in the military and I asked them about their experiences. After I talked to them and thought about it more, I knew that joining the military was something that I wanted to do.”
in 2007 you planned to make Boston your extended classroom,” Sister Janet said to the senior class. “You still have your senior year to fulfill those plans. Have you been to the Museum of Fine Arts lately? The Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum? The Boston Symphony? This year may you appreciate even more the Emmanuel education with a program that builds both character and career.” Murphy began her remarks by reminiscing of the days when she was “just a little girl with big ideas” in her college years. Those big ideas were what led her on the road to her career as a filmmaker. Murphy explained that prior to becoming a filmmaker she worked as a journalist and was often upset by how much information she was forced to leave out of each story. She began her own production company where she could make documentaries to tell the stories of people around the world. “Almost every unnerving thing that could possibly happen to you when
traveling has happened to me, but taking the rough road has truly been a small price to pay to get to meet the people I met along the way,” Murphy said of her travels while shooting documentaries. “People who want to make life easier for others who have drawn the ‘proverbial short straw’ in life.” Murphy explained that success in life and following your dreams is all about taking small steps toward what we believe. She referenced the summer reading selection, Three Cups of Tea, acknowledging one man’s ability to make a huge difference. “Never underestimate how much you continue to not know,” she said. “While we all still have so much to learn, we also have so much to do. If you want to make a difference today, you already have the power to do that.” Murphy told the story of the two women featured in her documentary “Beyond Belief.” She explained that
the hardships of being a widow in Afghanistan are unimaginably worse than that of being a widow in the United States, which is why the two women who lost their husbands in the attacks on September 11th created a foundation to help. The foundation gives Afghan widows the basic tools needed to achieve a measure of independence and care for themselves and their children. She closed her remarks by reminding students to take advantage of the opportunity they have at their fingertips to get a great college education. Murphy emphasized that the education the students have and will continue to receive at Emmanuel is something that other people in the world only dream of, especially those Afghan widows fighting for an education for their own children. “Despite their differences,” Murphy said of the Afghan widows, “we all have the same basis for our big ideas; security, health, happiness and education.”
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