had a beautiful, and rain-free, wedding day. Joining the couple in paradise were 25 family members and close friends. BC’07 Eagles in attendance were Katie Murphy and Jen Mahoney. After a brief stay at the Atlantis, Meg and Brad went on to Disney World to complete their magical honeymoon. Upon returning home to Manalapan, NJ, they immediately expanded their family by adopting two kittens, Brooks and Belle. • Jessica Dickinson and Dan Diorio were married on July 6 at Holy Ghost Church in Denver. Classmates in attendance included Ginna Binford, Schuyler Fabian, Kate Kirby, Mike Korb, Brittany Lonero, Adam and Rachel (Orlowski) Micheletti, Caitlin MurphyKennelly, Brendan O’Kane, Lauren Peiffer, Kristin Rooney, Alex Theissen, and John Walsh. The couple reside in Washington DC, where Jessica works in commercial real estate brokerage for HFF, and Dan is in government relations for EnerNOC. • Nicole Amon and Scott Utterson were married on May 4 at St. Monica’s Catholic Church in Santa Monica, CA, followed by a reception at the Bel-Air Bay Club. Classmates in the wedding party included Lauren (Onis) Bellmare, Andrea (Valdes) Jenny, Jeff Huelskamp, David Henry, and Dave Cubeta. Other Eagles in attendance included Nadine Resha, Sarah Naegele, Allison Pistone, Allison (O’Malley) Speer, Kaitlyn Rose MA’08, Cristina Joy MA’12, Evan Turner ’06, Paul Launie ’06, Matthew Pontes ’06, Whitney “Laurel” Johannesson, Lindsay Ganz, Anthony DeMarco, Danielle Rivas ’08, Davis Fields ’08, and Lauren Sommer ’08, MSW’09. • Chris Carroll, MEd’08, and Lyndsay Butler were married on July 20 in Annandale, NJ. Fellow Eagles in attendance included Nick Keough MEd’08, John Archibald MSW’10, Winson Liu, Dan Prior, Tom Sweeney, and groomsman Tom Duncan. Chris’s dad, Steve Carroll ’75, and his BC’75 classmates—Bill Clare, Bob Feeney, Peter Foley, Paul and Mary Jo (Dow) Kelleher, and Peter Lawlor—also tore it up on the dance floor. Chris and Lyndsay reside in Westfield, NJ. Chris teaches U.S. history at Chatham High School, and Lyndsay teaches third grade in Warren Township.
Your participation matters.
2008
class participation goal: 675 Correspondent: Maura Tierney mauraktierney@gmail.com
Your participation matters.
2009
reunion year class participation goal: 1,000 Correspondent: Timothy Bates tbates86@gmail.com Entrepreneur Phil Dumontet, the CEO of Dashed, a Boston-based food-delivery service, was recently profiled in Inc. magazine, which ranked Dashed as the seventh-fastestgrowing private company in Massachusetts. Phil started his company in 2009, right after graduating from BC, with little more than a mountain bike and a plastic food container, making deliveries for a local Italian restaurant. Since then, he has expanded the service to Providence, Philadelphia, Hoboken, and Baltimore—and more than
Michael Motyl ’01
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ichael Motyl ’01 is passionate about the value of Catholic education. “I was lucky to grow up in a family where education was taken very seriously, and to have received an education that focused on my spiritual and personal development,” he says. Motyl is the president of Guadalupe Regional Middle School (GRMS), a tuitionfree college preparatory school in the border city of Brownsville, Texas. The school, which is jointly sponsored by the Marist Brothers of the Schools, the Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, and the Congregation of Christian Brothers, is dedicated to offer- Michael Motyl ’01 outside the Guadalupe ing a challenging Catholic education to Regional Middle School where he serves as president. families who cannot afford to pay tuition. “We are determined to break the cycle of poverty for our students, most of whom will be the first in their families to attend college. With the right environment and opportunities, these kids can do anything; I see that every day.” “At GRMS, we work very hard on faith formation and spiritual discernment as well as academics, and on supporting students so that they are successful in high school, college, and beyond,” says Motyl. “I like to say that we have two main goals for our students: college and heaven.” what has been the most satisfying moment in your personal life?
where is your favorite spot at the heights?
I married my wonderful wife a year ago. That’s pretty hard to top.
There are so many. I love St. Mary’s Chapel especially; it’s such a peaceful, spiritual place.
To read more about Michael Motyl, visit www.bc.edu/alumniprofiles.
500 restaurants—and he is now planning to expand to Connecticut. • Annette Romero and Valerie Paraiso ’10 are co-teaching the duallanguage program for first grade at McKinley Elementary School in Revere. Annette writes: “We are both fluent in Spanish, and we’re really excited to pilot this program and see the benefits of it. Our school has many Englishlanguage learners who come from a very low-income area, so this program will hopefully help them excel academically, intellectually, and verbally in both languages.”
Your participation matters.
2010
class participation goal: 675 Correspondent: Bridget K. Sweeney bridget.k.sweeney@gmail.com Chris Ndikumana is currently a full-time cohort MBA student at the University of Texas at Dallas concentrating in finance with an expected graduation in December. He spent the summer as an Operations Analyst Development Program intern at JPMorgan Chase in Dallas. • In June, Kyra Shekitka was promoted to associate buyer at TJX www.bc.edu/alumni
Companies, where she has worked since August 2010. She recently returned from a two-month assignment in the UK, working with the TJX Europe e-commerce team. • Stafford Oliver received his master’s from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in November 2012 and accepted a position with the United Nations Association Scotland (UNAS) as an English language teacher at Trinity College Kandy in Sri Lanka. Founded in 1872 as an all-boys school by the Church of England, Trinity continues to celebrate a Christian heritage and offers instruction in three languages to its 3,100 students, who come from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. • I am pleased to announce the marriage of Michael Reer, JD’13, and MarieClaire Bartmess. The couple met during their undergraduate years at BC. Michael studied political science and U.S. history as an undergrad and then went on to BC Law School. While at BC, he was editor in chief of the Observer. Marie-Claire studied physics and was a member of the Swing Kids before transferring after her sophomore year to Texas A&M, where she studied environmental design. The couple married on August 10 in the bride’s hometown of Austin at St. Mary Cathedral and honeymooned in Scotland.