class notes also worked tirelessly for us. Sadly, Carolyn’s husband, Gerry, became seriously ill, and she had to pull back. Gerry died on February 9. I know you join me in sending our condolences to Carolyn and her family. • As I called around North Carolina for the reunion, I got to chat with several old friends. Alma “Anna” Fortin Wong lives in Asheville, which is a wonderful place to be—in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains—and full of interesting things to do, among them visiting the Highlands Brewing Company, owned by the Wongs. Anna will not be with us for Reunion but sends her best. • Ann McCabe Rives is also a Tar Heel: She is thinking of coming to the reunion if all her old buddies will also be there, so make your plans Katie, Norma, Claire, and Susie! • Connie Schepp Cahill has decided to return to northern Virginia after a few years in North Carolina. She will not be able to attend the reunion: She’s booked on a great tour of the Adriatic. There are few places Connie hasn’t visited; she’d win the globe-trotter prize, hands down! • Nancy Waeber Gleiman, MEd’79, is planning to be with us and will do a nostalgic trip around Newport as well. • I’m looking forward to catching up in person!
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Correspondent: John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com 27 Rockland Street Swampscott, MA 01907 Pat and Dan Bergeron fly a home-built airplane. Pat did the riveting. They’ve flown 57,000 miles, to 22 states. Dan retired from the Army in 1989 after 25 years of active service and subsequently spent 15 years as a school administrator. • Sandra Staffier Curtin traveled to Australia for a month to visit daughter Alison and especially granddaughter Quinn. • Bill Maffie, previously listed as deceased, has found new life with his brandnew red 2013 Corvette. • Penny Whalen Counter met up with roommate Sally Murphy Chadam, who was in Boston for six months while husband John was doing a sabbatical at MIT. • Bart Connelly has been living in Rocky River, OH, for 43 years. He still
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works part-time for the city’s building department. • Ray Bilodeau continues to practice law in Worcester. • Roger Kirwan was inducted into the Xavier High School Hall of Fame, in New York City, for his philanthropy. He has also been generous to BC, endowing a scholarship. • Ken Calabria, MEd’84, has been teaching religious studies for 14 years at Bishop Guertin High in Nashua, NH. Next school year, he will have a new role as parttime assistant campus minister. • Richard Corbett, now retired from Morgan Stanley, is teaching three economics classes at Alamo Community College in Texas. • Liam Craig, son of Betty and the late Bill Craig, MSP’75, appeared at Boston’s Paramount Center in a production of The Servant of Two Masters. In attendance were the families Sawicki, DiMase MEd’66, Smith, Moynihan, and of course Betty. Unfortunately, Winter Storm Nemo prevented Mike Costello and Mike Ford, SJ, MDiv’75, from attending and forced Joan Rapp to postpone her “39th” birthday party, scheduled for the same day. • Mike Ford was in charge of moving the Jesuits from St. Mary’s Hall, which will be renovated over the next two years. Resident members of the Jesuit community have relocated down the street to 2000 Commonwealth Ave. for the interim. • I recently took a stroll through Stokes Hall, BC’s new home for the humanities, named for our classmate and BC Trustee Pat Stokes and his wife. The building, built in the classic English Collegiate Gothic style, features 36 classrooms, the honors library, and a new dining facility. • Ed Cinella died on January 14 after a long illness. A loyal Republican, he served on the Melrose Board of Aldermen from 1979 to 1995. • Are you registered on the BC alumni portal? To update your contact information or to submit news for class notes, log on at http://portal.bc.edu.
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Correspondent: Priscilla Weinlandt Lamb priscillawlamb@gmail.com 125 Elizabeth Road New Rochelle, NY 10804; 914-636-0214
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Maybe no news is good news, but it certainly makes for a dull read. Up to you. I look forward to hearing from you for the next issue! Please note my new email address.
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Correspondent: Patricia McNulty Harte patriciaharte@me.com 83 Church Street, No. 1 Winchester, MA 01890; 781-729-1187 Our best wishes to Kathy McVarish Sullivan on her recent marriage to Bill Carpenter. Kathy and Bill are living in Plymouth. • Bruce Gormley emailed with news that his son, Ross, is in his last year at Wesleyan, and his daughter, Maurade, is a physician’s assistant in pediatric oncology at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. • We offer our sympathy to the families of our classmates who have died in the past few months: Jane Grainger Daly, Karen Holland, Sandra Maria Cravedi Imprescia, Jan Tonderys, and James Whelan.
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Correspondent: Linda Mason Crimmins mason65@bc.edu 3902 MacGregor Drive Columbia, SC 29206 Greetings from beautiful Costa Rica, where I am visiting my son Mike ’90 and his family, who recently relocated here from Colorado. • Sheila Sullivan Wilson’s daughter Courtney and family brightened Sheila’s holidays by moving to Millbrook, NY, after having spent the past three years in London. Courtney and Ian established a foundation, called Give Way to Freedom, that funds projects that counter human trafficking in Thailand, Kenya, and the United States. • Bobbi Lorch Gettelman has two new grandchildren, giving her a total of six. Bobbi has moved half-time to Sun Valley and travels to Argentina twice a year. A childhood friend of hers saved all of their correspondence during our Newton years. Bobbi says, “They are evocative of a different life,” and she had forgotten how much she had learned from all her classmates. • Margaret Schmitt Schmidt retired from a 20-year real-estate career and celebrated with a trip to southern Africa, including Cape Town and Johannesburg/ Soweto, a three-day safari, and a luxury train ride to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Ever the travelers, she and her husband went on a Rhône River cruise last spring and spent time with expat friends who retired to Provence. More recently, they took in Iowa, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Prayers to Margaret, who, almost as a postscript, reported that her cancer has returned as bone cancer, and she is back in chemo. But she says she is “still netting out in the plus column.” • Donna Cianelli is doing great in her new home in Somerville with her amazingly sharp and sweet mother. Donna connected Mary Hoogland Noone and Nancy Philpott Cook, who were vacationing in the same area, and they reunited after 27 years. Nancy and Mary spent an interesting day that included participation in an emergency-