Dean Morretta sent in the following note: “I live in Bedford, NY. Since 2008, my wife, Beth, and I have owned our own wine shop, Vintology, in Scarsdale. My twin sons are beginning college this year: One is going to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and the other to Boston College, Class of 2020. Our youngest child will be a sophomore in high school. Beth and I have been happily married since 1995!” • Catherine Del Buono writes: “My traveling video installation, Voices, was invited to show at the Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, OR, in July. Accompanied by a panel discussion, the project aims to bring awareness to the epidemic of domestic violence through the visual medium and by having a conversation with the community. Local NBC news affiliate KGW invited me and an advocate from the local domestic organization, Bradley Angle, to be on the 7 p.m. news segment to discuss the project.” More information about Catherine’s work can be found at voicesproject.info. • Ingrid Chiemi Schroffner, JD’95, is the assistant general counsel for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Her recent article, “Continuing the Journey of Seeking to Ensure Inclusivity,” was published in the summer 2016 issue of Dimensions, the EOHHS diversity newsletter. Ingrid, who has a background in unconscious bias training in the private sector and the Massachusetts legal community, is a faculty member of the EOHHS Mentoring, Aspiring Supervisors, Succession Planning (MasSP) program. In April, she presented for MasSP’s director track on “Best Practices to Ensure Inclusivity and Accessibility” with Jonathan O’Dell, assistive technology manager/ training specialist, EOHHS Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Ingrid is also working on the design and implementation of unintended bias trainings for the EOHHS agencies (e.g. Department of Public Health, Elder Affairs, Mental Health, etc.). To that end, in July she and Jonathan presented “Unintended and Unconscious Bias” to EOHHS trainers and diversity officers. Correspondent: Katie Boulos Gildea kbgildea@yahoo.com
1993 Happy fall, BC’93! We start off mourning the loss of Edmonds Hall (thanks, Dave Frankel, for the heads-up). It had a good run! It will be replaced by a new recreational center. • Congrats to the always kind, always with a smile Tim Barrett, who is now CFO at Pine Street Inn, a Boston homeless services agency where I bet many of you volunteered at some point during your BC years. No surprise Tim continues to do good like this, every single day. Tim has served as controller, real estate project director, and director of accounting over the past 11 years at Pine Street. Previously, he held financial positions at Volunteers of America–Massachusetts, Teradyne, Boston Scientific, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He did change things up and got his MBA at the other BC, Babson College. • I heard from Nick Arrigo, who earned his master’s in healthcare administration from USC earlier this 64
year. Nick got married in July 2015 and will be moving to Seattle before the end of the year. Nick, it was great to hear from you! • Jennifer Boyle Mehta is now counsel for Tucker Company Worldwide in Haddonfield, NJ. She received her BS in nursing from BC’s Connell School but went on to earn a JD in 2005. • Kaleen Morel Barbera, who was in the Carroll School of Management, also a marketing major like me, but in honors (not like me), lives in Naperville, IL, and is a managing partner with JAM Consulting Group, which specializes in professional coaching and training. Kaleen has two daughters: Sophia (11) and Sabrina (18), a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. • In the last issue, I wrote of Pat Tuohey hosting Pat Laundry, MBA’02, on his MLB ballpark tour. But apparently Pat Tuohey is also couch surfing with BC’93, as Dennis Schaeffer shared. Something about an Imposition Tour? Pat Tuohey has visited Patrick and Allison (Hughes) Goddard as well as the always fullof-hilarity Chris Yvars. • Nina Horan shared that Kim Annick Mitchell was selected by the Property Brothers to be the design lead on season 5 of HGTV’s Buying & Selling. For more on Kim’s work, see kaminteriordesign.com. • Erica LePore gave a shout-out to Dave Fromm’s new novel, The Duration, which several other BC’93ers have also read and loved. Sounds like a must-read; congrats, Dave! • Sean Russell married Lauren Fitzgerald in August at Lake Louise in Canada—with the most gorgeous scenery and wedding pictures I think I’ve ever seen! • I already shared on our Facebook group that the entire BC’93 Austin contingent—five of us—got together to see stand-up comedian Gary Gulman when he was here. You are truly talented, Gary, and make me laugh every time, but remember, there is no more Uber in Austin. So fun to also see Michelle Peckham Decker, Jennifer Bologna Grogono, and Brian and Erin (McGee) Tuohy! • I’ll close this time with some of your Edmonds memories. That so many of you remember your room number all these years later is impressive! Alyssa Kimmel Bailkin, MEd’00, reminded me that Edmonds residents could watch the football games from their rooms. Dave Tubman’s nextdoor Edmonds neighbor, Laurie (Opozda) ’92, became his wife! He and Julie Fish Eubanks both mentioned pumpkin tosses, and Seth Karm reminded us of the “Quiet Floor.” Pete Hogan, MBA/JD’98, lived in Edmonds for two years, but he was the only one of us to live in the Mods after we graduated! • Chris Conti moved his daughter into Newton this fall and is sad she’ll never experience Edmonds—and likely happy she won’t ever have Pete Hogan as her RA! • Until next time, BC’93! Keep the updates and memories coming. I love them all! Correspondent: Laura Beck laurabeckcahoon@gmail.com
1994 Thanks to those of you who responded to BC’s request for information. Please keep those notes coming! • Brenda Crudo Milouchev wrote that she is entering her fourth year as the youth and family minister of St. George’s-by-the-River Episcopal Church in Rumson, NJ. Brenda and her husband of 18 years, Toma, have three children: Andon (11),
Armand (8) and Andreana (6). They had an adventurous summer, traveling cross-country from New Jersey to Yellowstone National Park, stopping along the way at the Louisville Slugger Museum, the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the OZ Museum in Kansas, Mount Rushmore, and the Mitchell Corn Palace, before going on to visit BC classmate Jennifer Cantore Eichorn in Chicago and Jennifer Burkart Pohlmann ’95 in Morgantown, WV. What a trip! • Alfonso Chavez is focused these days on judicial accountability efforts on both the local and federal level. He lives in Los Angeles. • John ’92 and Jennifer (Andrews) Hayes live in Albany, NY. They recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary by taking their kids, Emma ’20 and Jack, to London and Paris. They are thrilled that their daughter has joined the BC community. Go, Eagles! • James Maloney, MBA’03, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, is an engineer deployed in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, as officer in charge of Task Force Power. He will be returning home to Upton soon to his wife, Leanne, and kids—Brandon, who will be starting college in the fall, and Maria, who will be a sophomore in high school. Thank you for your service and sacrifice, James. • Finally, congratulations go to Team BC+1, who finished their 3,000-mile race in 6 days, 13 hours! The team, including coach Bob Willix, Jeff Caulway, Mark DeNatale, and Matt Pumo, raised over $150,000 for Zamela, a not-forprofit organization focused on supporting in-need youth athletes (www.zamelayouth. org). See their Facebook page, BC+1, for more about their incredible race and effort! Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com
1995 Lisa Nickerson is a multiple-industry award winner, a sought-after speaker, and a devotee of professional and community service. She and her company, Nickerson PR, aim to help organizations drive social change and improve the communities in which they live and work, and they were voted Banker & Tradesman’s Best PR agency of 2013, 2014, and 2015. This year, the Nickerson team adopted KeepSmilin4Abbie, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about and preventing anaphylaxis. Nickerson also completed a brand refresh for KeepSmilin4Abbie and created a website to help inform others of this lifethreatening disease. • Jim Fanning and his wife, Polly Lagana ’96, recently relocated to Zurich with their three boys, Griffin, Jake, and Declan. Jim has been with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for over five years, leading the enterprise sales business in New York, and he is now the AWS country manager for Switzerland. • Jason and Tina (MacAllister) Epstein recently moved to Potomac, MD, with their children, Sam (9), Miles (7), and Allister (4). Jason is the new PGA director of athletics at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda. Tina continues to work for Appellation Ventures representing Esser Wines. They all are excited to be living in the DC area! • Jen Egan Siler relocated her family from Maryland to Tampa in 2012 to escape winter weather and spend more time on the beach. After 11