years with her previous company, Jen started working for Kforce in May 2015 and just got promoted to director of sales enablement and proposal services. Jen and her husband, Ed, have a daughter, Izzi, who’s in third grade. • Allison Hardiman Renna, MEd’00, completed the Lake Placid Ironman Triathlon in under 13 hours this past summer. She was supported by many people, including sons Michael and Jack, daughter Kaylee, and husband Matt MBA’06. Out of 2,300 participants, Allie came in 765th overall and 26th in her division. Way to go! Correspondent: Kevin McKeon kmckeon@gmail.com
1996 It was great to see so many familiar faces at our 20th reunion party in June under a tent on Bapst Lawn. Kathy Day organized the event and did a terrific job. • The first people I saw were Mike Cappiello and his wife, Maura Cappiello Hazelton, who live in New Jersey and have three daughters. Mike just completed an MBA, which he is happy about although he joked that studying for finals at our age takes some perseverance. • John Nash, Scott Tower, Sean Lynch, Jamie Cesarano, Brian Campbell, and Jay Zavislak were in a little cluster making fun of each other; it was really satisfying to hear that their jokes haven’t changed very much. • It was great to see all the different paths people have taken. Matt Keis is a venture capitalist in Boston. Justice Smith is an academic coach for the football program at Arizona State. Sha-Sha Shiau works in TV and film in New York City. Bryan Payne founded a recruiting company in Atlanta. Ryan Harper is a comedy writer in New Orleans. Roxanne Valentino, forever the Golden Girl, is a neurologist in Nashville. John Andrews is CEO of a tech company in Boston. Juan Concepcion, MEd’97, MBA/ JD’03, an attorney, serves on BC’s Board of Trustees. • We retold Negril spring break stories with John Dempsey, John Boyt, Tom Adams, Julie Allen Holbrook, Suzanne Geden, Loretta Shing, Matt Keswick, Molly Thilman Smith, Megan Storz Pagliaro, and Daphne Smith Gaudet. Sean Greene teased me (nicely!) for not always writing class notes. Scott Knox and I laughed about living in Jamaica Plain as roommates after school. Lee Fitzpatrick, Nina Jung, and I reminisced about meeting on Newton Campus in fall 1992. Meena Popat LaRonde graciously took a photo of Jay Reichle, Bill Lyons, and me. Loretta, Bill, Suzanne, Matt Keswick, and I ended the night at Mary Ann’s, which still smells the same. A bunch of other classmates were scattered around the bar, along with alumni from other classes and even some current grad students. • It was a fun weekend and a reminder of how fortunate we were to go to a school with a strong sense of community and continuity, even if there are now a few new buildings in the middle of the Dustbowl, and the Mods all seemed to have been renumbered. See you all in five years, if not sooner! Correspondent: Mike Hofman mhofman12@gmail.com
1997 20TH REUNION June 2–4, 2017
Holly Schwartz Pomraning recently left the Wisconsin Department of Justice to take a position as an in-house attorney at Great Lakes Higher Education. Husband Michael works at Trustwave as a director of engineering. Holly and Michael welcomed their fifth child, Thomas Otto, on November 2, 2014. He joins siblings Geoffrey (15), James (13), William (8), and Katherine (6). The Pomranings live in Madison, WI. Correspondent: Sabrina Bracco McCarthy sabrina.mccarthy@perseusbooks.com
1998 In November 2015, Paulette Tucciarone Cazares and husband Jeremy (Notre Dame ’98) welcomed their fourth child, Corina Tucciarone Cazares. Paulette is a commander in the Navy and was able to enjoy the Navy’s new extended maternity leave. She is now back at work at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, where she is a psychiatrist and associate director of Women’s Mental Health. Jeremy is in his eighth year as group manager for Avanade Inc. • After eight years at Drake University in Des Moines, where he led the university in a successful $200 million comprehensive campaign, Paul Secord, MEd’98, was recruited for the position of VP of university relations at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX, a liberal arts university with an exciting new president. He, wife Deborah, and their children— Charlotte (11) and Patrick (8)—moved to Georgetown (north of Austin) to embark on the next chapter in their lives. • On May 15, 2015, Colleen McGuire married her best friend, Joe DePasquale (Wentworth ’97). Their daughter, Charlotte Mary, was their beautiful flower girl, and they celebrated the day among family and friends at Mirbeau Inn in Plymouth. On November 3, 2015, they welcomed their second child, Connor Joseph “CJ,” into this world. In February, Colleen accepted a new role as chief of staff for Go to Market Operations at EMC’s Primary Storage group. She’s been with the company for nine years, and this promotion was presented to her during her maternity leave. She says she could not have taken on the role if it weren’t for her supportive husband, who was recently promoted to VP of operations at ColoSpace. At the same time, Colleen and Joe sold two homes and spent the year building their dream home in Foxboro. • Last year, Geoffrey Gamble graduated from the University of California, San Diego, with a PhD in computer science. He says his years of studying comp-sci with great professors at BC set him up perfectly to achieve this goal. • Joshua Sullivan and his wife celebrated the birth of their daughter, Lilli, on September 19, 2015. They live in Framingham with their four children. Joshua opened a law firm, Sullivan & Young, in downtown Boston this past spring. • Ellen Jackman and Trevor Uprichard were married in August 2014 in Trevor’s native Northern Ireland. They met
while working in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2012. Ellen recently became a deputy district attorney for San Bernardino County, CA. • Ken and Beth (Rodenhauser) DuBuque, MBA’04, welcomed their second son, Ryan Francis, on August 6, 2015. Ryan joins big brother Logan (3). Beth and her family live in Charlestown, and she is VP of marketing at Fidelity Investments. • Shane and Renee (Biancardi) Pierce welcomed a healthy baby boy, their third child, to their family on May 6, 2016. Correspondent: Mistie P. Lucht hohudson@yahoo.com
1999 Correspondent: Matt Colleran bc1999classnotes@hotmail.com Correspondent: Emily Wildfire ewildfire@hotmail.com
2000 I have so much wonderful news to share this time. It always amazes me to learn about the exciting accomplishments and life events that are happening with our classmates. • Jeffrey Robinson reports that life is wonderful and adventurous in Alaska. He is a partner in the law firm Ashburn & Mason in Anchorage, where he litigates commercial real estate disputes and runs an active trial practice. Jeffrey and his wife, Hanley Smith Robinson, have two girls, Bridget (3) and Maggie (1). Jeffrey welcomes all inquiries from fellow BC classmates wishing to travel through the great far north! • Jim Kim is a commercial realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Blake, Realtors, in his hometown of Albany, NY. He specializes in helping business owners and landlords buy, sell, and lease commercial real estate properties. He also runs two successful online companies focused on helping people protect their financial and physical health. In his spare time, Jim is a volunteer with Junior Achievement and the Albany County Medical Reserve Corps. • Timothy Nolan has received the Family Wealth Advisor designation from Morgan Stanley. This designation allows him to focus on intergenerational estate and financial planning along with the transfer of wealth from one generation to the next. • James “Buzz” Winchester was recently named director of in-house counsel for the Quikrete Companies based in Atlanta. Buzz is a graduate of DePaul Law School and spent a decade working as an attorney in the Chicago area before moving home to Atlanta. • Patrick Purcell is now SVP of sales and business development at Bostonbased Dirty Water Media. In this role, Pat is at the helm of some major plans for growth and development for the emerging new media company. • Maureen Dowling Pollack returned to BC over the summer and toured our beautiful campus with her husband and two daughters. She says she could not believe how much has changed—and while she was impressed by the new buildings and campus development, her girls could not believe that there was a Dunkin’ Donuts on campus! • 65