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’59 Fr. Claude Grenache, A.A. celebrated 50 years as an Assumptionist priest during a May ceremony at the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Among the guests were several of his classmates from the College and Assumption Prep. Fr. Claude serves as superior and director of the residence program at the Assumptionist Center in Brighton.
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’70 Michael Kelly was named the 2016 University of Ottawa Alumnus of the Year for his contribution to business education in Canada. He is the first business school dean in Canada to be responsible for the naming of two business schools including Ottawa’s Telfer School of Management, where he was dean for 10 years, and the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Laurier University where he is currently dean. He was also recently named national spokesperson on Innovation for Canada’s high-tech industry association CATA Alliance.
’71 Coworkers of the late Jim Hanley, former dean of the College of Dental Medicine at the University of New England (UNE), have named an endowed scholarship fund in his honor. e James B. Hanley’s Dean Scholarship for Emerging
’66 Stephen Trimby regrets he was unable to attend the 50th reunion in June, as he had committed to accompanying a friend to the Sanctuary of Lourdes in France, where he offered prayers and lit a candle in the Grotto for all members the Class of ’66.
’68 Lionel Lamoureux and Marc Lamoureux, owners of Lamoureux Ford of East Brookfield, have been awarded Ford Motor Company’s 2015 President’s Award. e award honors dealerships that have excelled in automotive retailing in 2015 by providing exceptional customer sales and service satisfaction.
Leaders will provide scholarship support for dental students in perpetuity at UNE. Frank McNulty has retired aer nearly 40 years of working for the federal government in Washington, DC, and in the San Francisco area. He has relocated from California to the Boston area.
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e Honorable Edward M. Neafsey, a retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge, gave the address at Assumption’s Honors Convocation in April.
’75 omas Leary is the United States Consulate General in St. Petersburg, Russia. A Worcester native, he has served in foreign affairs positions in Ankara, Copenhagen, Freetown, Islamabad, Lima, London, Madrid, Moscow, and Sierra Leone. omas earned master’s degrees from Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University. He and wife Rachel Norniella have two children, Sarah and Tom.
christine cannon marcks ’77 lillywhite Award recipient Prudential retirement President Christine Cannon Marcks ’77 has received the 2015 Lillywhite Award, which honors people for extraordinary lifetime contributions to Americans’ economic security. Marcks “has been an active party to improving the state of knowledge” of retirement planning and financial literacy, said dallas Salisbury, president emeritus of the Employee Benefit research institute (EBri), in Washington, dC, which sponsors the award. She joined Prudential in 2007 after executive roles at ing group and Aetna inc., as well as a stint as an international economist with the U.S. Treasury department. during her tenure, Prudential “has been an extra innovator in the nature of financial education efforts” both for participants and the general public, Salisbury said. Prudential “has helped people readily understand the impact of building savings over time.” in addition to her role with Prudential, Marcks is a member of the board of trustees of both EBri and the greater Hartford YMCA. Established by EBri in 1992, the Lillywhite Award is named for ray Lillywhite, a pioneer in the pension investment field who spent more than 55 years in the industry. Previous recipients include pioneers and pillars of the financial services and investments industries.
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