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Correspondent: Suzanne Harte suzanneharte@yahoo.com Congratulations to Hunter and Meredith (Roberts) Larson, who welcomed their first child, son Vaughn William Larson, on June 29, 2012. The family resides in Chesapeake, VA. Hunter continues to work for Accenture in Jersey City, where he is an IT development senior manager, while Meredith is a digital product manager with American Funds in Norfolk. • Meredith (Millet) Rosen welcomed twins Roxanne Nola and Rex Charles into the world on October 5, 2012. They were baptized in the historic San Rafael Mission church in January. Kelly (Millet) Cook is godmother to Roxanne. Meredith lives in San Rafael, CA, where she and her husband own a musical instruments store, Bananas at Large. She continues to work in the financial services industry at Bedell Frazier Investment Counselling, where she was recently promoted to COO.
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class participation goal: 645 Correspondent: Toni Ann Kruse kruseta@gmail.com Kelly Castriotta, MA’08, married Keith Bergin at Our Lady of Angels Church in Brooklyn on October 6, 2012. In attendance were Brennan (Greef) Blair, Jay Pollack, Anna Sheehy, and Jamie Mazareas. Kelly is now a senior claims examiner with Arch Insurance Group in Chicago. • Bryan Buffinton and wife Amanda welcomed a little boy, Bennett Scott, on February 11, 2013. • Samantha (Samora) Bowman joined the Army before graduation and was deployed to Baghdad as a civil affairs specialist attached to the 1st Cavalry Division in
2004–2005. She was commissioned in 2007 and is now a captain in the Army Reserve, working with a psychological operations group that deploys soldiers to Afghanistan. She and her husband, Matt Bowman, who were married in 2009, welcomed a baby boy, Isaac, on November 6, 2011. • James, MBA’11, and Kathleen Ceglarski Burns welcomed a son, Kieran Mark, on June 27, 2011. The family lives in South Boston and is doing great. • Alice and Andrew Charland welcomed daughter Eloise Kathleen on February 8, 2011, in Boston. • Brooke Bateman received her PhD in zoology and tropical ecology from James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. She is now a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Wisconsin– Madison. • Amanda Dumas and Todd Sanderson were married at Willowdale Estate in Topsfield on July 27. Eagles in attendance included best man and brother of the groom Eric Sanderson ’08 with fiancée Kristin Stobo ’10, groomsman Darren Perconte, Denise Ahern, Sean Collier JD’10, John and Diana (DiBacco) Doroghazi, Brenda Healy, Timothy Kearns, David Lincoln MA’05, Tara Malbasa, Jennifer (Worsham) Miskelly MEd’04, and Brian Peterik ’02. The newlyweds are both pediatricians currently working in Pittsburgh. • Elizabeth Cook married Robert Peyton on April 14, 2012, at the University Club of New York. Classmates in attendance included Brian and Erin (Cronin) Coole, Megan Reilly, and Theresa Wardon. Other BC alumni there to celebrate included Chris Cleary ’02, Alison (Peer) Forelli ’95, and Clara Mayoral ’83. The couple honeymooned in French Polynesia and currently live in Greenwich, CT. • Michael ’02 and Abigail (Mulligan) Keane, MSW’05, welcomed a son, Eamon Mulligan Keane, on March 21, 2011. Eamon and big brother Finnegan are best friends, and Mom and Dad are thrilled with their happy, full home. • Patrick Sullivan and Elizabeth Ketels were married on June 16, 2012, at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. A celebration of their marriage was followed by a reception at the Four Seasons Georgetown. Co-officiating the ceremony was John Howard, SJ. Stephen Sullivan ’07, JD’12, was best man. Others in attendance included JJ and Kristine (Lock) Jonas; Andrew Chun; Erin and Eamonn
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Aiken; Erica (Hayman) MA’06 and Kevin Meme; Janet Gorgone ’02; Kathryn Mueller ’05, MS’06; Julie Smith MBA’11; and Chris Gorgone ’71. Patrick and Elizabeth met during business school at the University of Pennsylvania. Patrick is a VP covering the health-care sector for GMT Capital, and Elizabeth is a private wealth advisor at Goldman Sachs. The couple honeymooned in Hawaii, Tahiti, and Bora-Bora and now reside in New York City.
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2004
class participation goal: 515 Correspondent: Alexandra “Allie” Weiskopf allieweiskopf@gmail.com Paul ’05 and Shannon (Langan) Tomaszewski are proud to announce the birth of a baby girl, Audrey Elizabeth, on January 4 in New Haven, CT, at Yale–New Haven Hospital, where Dad is completing his orthopedic surgery residency. She joins her big brother, Henry. • Brad and Shannon Gherty Anderson are thrilled with the birth of their first child, Asher Edward, on November 4, 2012. Shannon left private practice at Briggs and Morgan and is now practicing merchandising and marketing law at Target Corporation, based in Minneapolis. • Kristyl Berckes married Christopher John “CJ” Asakiewicz on October 21, 2012, at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Seton Hall University in South Orange, NJ. The reception was held at The Manor in West Orange. The couple met while they were students at Seton Hall Law School during a summer study program in Leuven, Belgium. Kristyl is now practicing family law at Lyons & Associates in Somerville, NJ. The wedding party included classmates Domenica Ricciardi, Moneer Masih-Tehrani, Amanda Fraga, and Katherine Kennedy Reinemund. Other Eagles in attendance included Ronald Shields ’72, Courtney McKinney, Linsey McCombs, Joni Swarts, Emily Leary Webber, Tanya Kilabuk Gaul, Bairam Rizai, and Conrad Cascadden ’03. The couple spent their honeymoon in Greece and currently reside in Raritan, NJ. • On October 6, Joseph Ballard married Caitlin Kelly at the Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown, KY. The wedding party included Jason Buttorf, Michael Lucarelli MS’05, and Michael Smith JD’07. Other alumni celebrating included Don Wojnar MEd’04, Sef Ghanem, Sarah (Mahler) Ghanem, Stas Haciski ’03, and Liana Popkin ’05. Chris Burke, MBA’12, and Emily Kearns, MA’05, were scheduled to attend, but were unable to do so as a result of weather-related travel problems. The couple live in Bardstown, where Joe is an assistant commonwealth attorney.
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2005
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class participation goal: 675 Correspondent: Joe Bowden joe.bowden@gmail.com Correspondent: Justin Barrasso jbarrasso@gmail.com