ClassNotes From the Archives In the interest of sharing treasures from Assumptions archives, we came across this photo. Can you identify the
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year/era, the students in the photo, and the group or event? E-mail the editor at twatkins@assumption.edu
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’50 Gerard Brault wrote “A History of Our Lady of Victory Parish,” celebrating the State College, PA church’s centennial (1908–2008). His wife, Jeanne, assisted with a collection of parishioners’ anecdotes. The publication can be viewed on the parish’s Web site www.ourladyof victory.com.
’51 John Guy LaPlante writes, “Here I am, a 50plus volunteer in the Peace Corps (working in Chernihiv, Ukraine) — in fact, I am facing age 80 in April. I am more than half way through my 27 months of service. Every day I am alarmed by the severe and worsening economic woes at home. Every day the same question hits me. ‘Why don’t you—the laid off, the broke or nearly broke, the foreclosed, the weary and dis-
couraged, the early retired—consider joining the Peace Corps?’ It would not work for everybody, but if you have skills and are energetic, it may be a terrific solution for you.” He can be reached at johnguylaplante@yahoo.com.
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Roger Tousignant celebrated his 52nd year in the real estate business in 2008. He operated his own business in Gardner for most of his career and now works for Liberty Way. He has sold more than 2,300 houses during his long, distinguished career as a real estate agent.
’62 CLASS AGENT Tim Cooney (cooney38@charter.net)
William Broderick was honored in March at Bayonne High School’s “A Night of A Thousand Stars” fundraiser. He is a physical education teacher and tennis coach at the school. Bill and wife Ellen reside in Bayonne, NJ.
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Sr. Margaret Leonard, LSA, CE’64, HD’08, director of Project HOPE in Roxbury, was featured on the NBC’s TODAy show on February 3. Sr. Margaret has directed Project HOPE, a non-profit program that helps families move up and out of homelessness, for 26 years. (See Winter 2008 issue.)
’65 CLASS AGENT Charlie Aleksiewicz (caleksie@bancroftschool.org)
Bob Gray’s financial planning and advisory business, Smith Barney’s The Gray Group, was recognized in the September issue of Research Magazine as on of its top-ranked advisor teams in America, one of just 30 full service teams selected from more than 7,000 screened nationwide. Bob has been a financial advisor with Smith Barney for 27 years and a member of Assumption’s Board of Trustees for 17 years.
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