at Sebeta Special Needs teachers college outside Addis Ababa. Three of the 57 in his training group are BC grads—the most represented college! • Lynn Carlotto has taken a new position with SMG Canada in Kingston, Ont., as general manager of the 7,000-seat Rogers K-Rock Centre, located on Lake Ontario. She has been in the arena management industry for most of her career, most recently with Live Nation prior to this “move” over the border (she is telecommuting). Before her Canadian venture, Lynn ran the Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, CT, and the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, CT. Lynn lives in Glastonbury with her husband, Bill Block, who has been by her side throughout her hectic and demanding entertainment industry career. • Mike Murphy is celebrating 25 years as VP and cofounder of the Viti MercedesBenz dealership of Tiverton, RI. Mike resides in Boston and stills plays golf with his Xaverian Brothers High School classmates each year. • Shout-out to my BC’79 classmates and high school alumni Douglas Bagley, Joseph Chicarello, Mike Grieco, Larry Giangregorio, and Joseph Travaglini! • On a sad note, on behalf of the Class of 1979, we send prayers and condolences to Mary Beth Mosher Grimm and her family. Her dad, Giles E. Mosher Jr. ’55, passed away in February. Giles was a BC graduate and served as a Trustee for over 40 years. Many of us remember him as the former president and CEO of BayBank and as a true “man for others” at Boston College. • Please join our Facebook page: BC Class of 1979. • Have a great autumn, and please forward to me your news.
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1980
Correspondent: Michele Nadeem michele.nadeem@gmail.com
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1981
Correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee amckee81@aol.com After 28 years as an insurance defense lawyer, Michael Kamp’s nomination by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy ’77, JD’80, to be a judge of the Connecticut Superior Court was approved by the legislature in March. Michael sits in a criminal court in New Haven. Although the learning curve has been steep, Michael reports that he enjoys his new job. His daughter, Abby, graduated from George Washington University in May and is in Brazil on a Fulbright Scholarship. His son, Rees, is in high school. • Jim Shea has been in Charlotte for over 20 years. He works with the digital design and branding agency BURKE as chief relationship officer. Jim recently finished producing an animation video for one of his favorite clients: BC! You may have seen University Advancement’s “You Are BC,” a short piece that was featured in the BC Alumni Association’s online e-newsletter, Alumni Connections, this past summer and also appeared in the online Giving Impact Report. Jim keeps up regularly with his Mod 39-A roomies Bob Shea, Dan Arkins, George Schaumann, and Jim Pitt, who is a music acquisition director for Conan O’Brien in LA.
• Cindy Mollo also lives in LA and is a film editor. She recently worked on Broken City, starring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe. • Kudos to Rob Goddu, who completed the Connecticut Challenge, a grueling two-day, 185mile bike ride through the hills of Connecticut, last summer. Rob rode to honor those who have battled cancer and was greeted at the finish line by survivors who included, among others, his wife, Renee, and our classmate Scott Sidell. • Four of our classmates who met as freshmen 36(!) years ago in Chestnut Hill had a minireunion in Boston in August: Anne Aisenberg is a nurse in pediatric practice; Debra Polhamus Seeto is an elementary-school speech pathologist; Susan Small works in a Boston law firm; and Kathleen Harrison Webb has owned HomeWork Solutions, a nanny tax services firm, for more than 20 years. They had a great time catching up, trading pictures, and engaging in “Do you remember when…” • J.T. Fucigna’s middle child, John Thomas, is a freshman at BC. J.T. recently joined the New York City office of the Man Group, a Londonbased hedge fund. • Congratulations to Col. David Clark, who retired from the Army in September and was honored at a ceremony in the Pentagon Hall of Heroes! • I close remembering a dear friend to many of our classmates, Margaret Corie Darby ’82, who lost her long battle with cancer in June. As Lisa Corvese wrote, “Her energy, tenacity, and positive spirit have been a role model for us all.” We will miss you, Margaret, and your passion for BC!
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1982
Correspondent: Mary O’Brien maryobrien14@comcast.net In August, Julie Rao Martin moved her daughter Samantha into Kostka Hall, on BC’s Upper Campus, to pursue her dreams. Samantha will major in premed and minor in Spanish. Julie wrote that Samantha hopes to continue her interests in music and art in her “free time.” Julie is the president and founder of Create-A-Stir Inc. You can learn more about her business at www.create-astir.com. • Last June, Kathy Kasper Luppy joined the board of Crossroads for Kids, a nonprofit organization that helps at-risk Boston-area youth develop their full potential through summer camp and college access and year-round leadership programming. Kathy, who is a VP and senior relationship manager at the investment management firm Eaton Vance, also serves on the board of the Friends of Waltham Senior Citizens and as a member of the Council for Women of Boston College and for the past 17 years, she has sponsored the Jimmy Fund by riding for the Pan-Mass Challenge. She resides in Waltham with her husband and their son. • As a second-grade teacher, I thoroughly enjoy my email subscription to classmate Paul Reynolds’s “FableVision” newsletter. There are always great teaching ideas and a fun poster illustrated by his twin brother, Peter Reynolds, each month. Check out the website to learn more at www.fablevision.com. You won’t be disappointed. • Condolences to the family of Matthew Walsh of Houston, who passed away on May 28. Our prayers are with you during this time. 70 class notes
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1983
Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com Thanks for your overwhelming response to my request for email updates. Any news that doesn’t appear in this column due to space limitations will be published in the next issue. Thanks for understanding! • Angel Alsina has been in Tampa since 1996, currently as the head liver-transplant surgeon and a surgical director at Tampa General Hospital. His daughter Alexa is a high school senior and plans on applying to BC. At Reunion, Angel caught up with John DiBenedetto, Dan Ostertag, biology friends Kelly McLaughlin and his sister Amy McLaughlin-Hatch, Rich Considine, and Michael and Maga (Vicente) McDonald. He also saw his childhood friend Lissa Bragan-Potts and her husband, Tom. Angel extends an open invitation to any BC friends passing his way • Paul Michienzie, JD’86, writes that his son Matthew will be a freshman at BC this fall, A&S Class of 2017! • Teresa Toto-Moriarty was published this year in the Clinical Social Work Journal. She has an MSW and a PhD in clinical social work from NYU and in the fall started an adjunct position in the School of Social Work at Simmons College. Her husband, Brian Moriarty, is a patent attorney in Concord; he planned to expand his office to Boston in the fall. Their daughter, Emma, is a senior at Boston College and is excited to be living in the Mods for her final year. • Rick Galeazzo writes: “I am doing great out here in Northern California. Job is still going very well and seeing great growth in business in the States. Just had a great vacation back in Boston and then had a fun Canada cruise for my mom’s 80th birthday! My five boys are doing well. My third just graduated from high school and is starting college at EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ.” • Gina Bough Sisti is married and living in Westchester; she is still a real estate agent at Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty in Scarsdale. She has two teenagers: a senior at Fordham Prep in the Bronx and a sophomore at the Ursuline School in New Rochelle; hopefully, one will become a BC Eagle one day! • Anne DeVera Utterback writes: “Liz Dehen Artaiz and I spent an amazing week in England and Ireland in May, visiting with Kathleen Lucas Cardinal. Kathy; her husband, Chris; and their three sons have been living in Weybridge, England, since August 2012. We spent three great days seeing the sights of London; then all three of us hopped on a plane to Ireland, where we spent three ‘craic’filled days and nights with my Irish cousins in West Cork. It was a wonderful time for us Roncalli girls to reconnect with each other in some spectacularly beautiful places.”
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1984 reunion year
class participation goal: 670 Correspondent: Carol A. McConnell bc84news@yahoo.com Greetings! Here’s the news. • Kevin Cain, JD’87, joined classmate Brian O’Connell, JD’87,