to the arrival of their 12th grandchild. • Lois and Dick McArdle are enjoying the many BC get-togethers, between the BC alumni club in Naples and the Class of ’58 events. They are happy that their eldest daughter, Ellen ’79, has moved back to Boston, and two of their grandchildren are attending Dartmouth, where their father received his MBA from the Tuck School of Business. • Dick McArdle and Dick Hartigan have formed a Naples BC’58 lunch club. The group meets once a month, and all ’58ers are welcome. Attendees at the first luncheon were Dick Hartigan, Dick McArdle, Jack and Jackie Kudzma, Bob Pickette, Dick Shea, Jim Quinn, and yours truly. • Rita Nolan, MA’60, has retired from Stony Brook University and moved to the environs of Southampton. She expects to complete her memoir there under the guidance of longtime mentor and friend Bob Halloran ’56. • Tom Lynch attended the Class of ’58 luncheon in Bonita Springs, FL, in March and was pleased to be reacquainted with Joe Gabis and Tom Lane, DEd’88, whom he first met as a freshman on the football field many years ago. • I need to hear from you; please let me know what is going on in your lives! And don’t forget your class dues: Please send $25 to our class treasurer, Jack “Mucca” McDevitt, at 28 Cedar Road, Medford, MA 02556.
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Correspondent: Rosemary Stuart Dwyer rosemarysdwyer@yahoo.com Imbued with a giving heart, Kate Glutting Arcand has for a long time cared for hospice patients. She continues her volunteering at the local hospital and soup kitchen in Portland, ME. She is happy to report that her son Ted and his wife, Laura, have adopted a daughter, Stephanie, who is 8 years old and a “sweetheart.” • Judith Young Runnette has recovered from a foot operation in January that immobilized her for several weeks, keeping her from traveling, which she loves. Her trips have included visits to her son and grandson in California and to Florida and Vermont to spend time with her daughters. She also traveled to Tanzania last year with Helen McLachlan Smith. They are now planning to travel to St. Petersburg and Moscow or to Morocco this year. Quite the adventurers! • Jane Dick O’Kieffe has retired from doing medical research at Walter Reed Medical Center. Her husband, Donald, continues there in spite of endless new demands that electronic medical records impose. Their lives are busy with their son’s and daughter’s four children in the local area and their new grandchild who lives in Hong Kong. Jane and Donald try to visit there once or twice a year. This winter they spent 10 days skiing with the whole family in Aspen, and they look forward to 1-year-old Charley taking to the slopes in another year or two. Jane also keeps her days filled with a book club, a Bible class, and a women’s club in Washington DC, where a continuous series of stimulating lectures and tours provide perspectives on the daily world known as “Inside the Beltway.” • Patty Peck Schorr has lived a truly Sacred Heart life, having served as teacher and administrator at Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart in Princeton, NJ, from 1984 to 2004 and as a trustee of Princeton Academy of the
Sacred Heart, a K–8 all-boys school. For the last six years, she has been the board chair of the Village Charter School in Trenton, NJ. The faculty at Newton certainly inspired her with an educational calling! Life on the home front also keeps her busy, with 12 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. She and Dave celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary last year in Hawaii. The last time Dave was there was during the attack on Pearl Harbor, where his father was stationed. • Thanks to these classmates who responded to the request for news. We are hoping to hear from the rest of you. Patty Peck Schorr has offered to share the class correspondent’s duty. If you would be willing to help, please let me know, and I will notify her. • Hope the spring will bring you much happiness!
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class participation goal: 320 Co-correspondent: George Holland bmw0324@msn.com 244 Hawthorne Street Malden, MA 02148; 781-321-4217 Co-correspondent: Robert Latkany latkanyr@shoffdarby.com 203-354-6200 I received sad news from John W. Fitzgerald of the death of Joseph Hayward on December 3, 2013. Joe and his wife, Brenda, lived in Milford, PA. They had a son, two daughters, and four grandkids. Joe retired as director of group insurance from Prudential. Joe and John grew up in the projects of Southie and attended BC High and BC together. One of Joe’s daughters got married in California, and John and Tina Fitzgerald (Regis ’63), who celebrate their 50th anniversary in June, hosted Joe and Brenda at their home of 33 years in Walnut Creek, CA. Joe had previously attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey. John and Tina have five kids—Tina, Sean, Sheila, Danielle, and Francesca—and six grandkids. The great thing is that they all live within a 50-mile radius. John retired in 2001. • I just attended my 47th-straight Super Bowl. The weather was 49 degrees at kickoff. The game was terrible, but the hoopla was great! Paul McCartney was sitting in a box 10 rows behind us. If the game had been a day later or three days later, it would have been a disaster; I am suggesting to Commissioner Goodell to not award the Super Bowl to any northern city that does not have a domed stadium. Also, in December, I went to the Barclays Center in beautiful downtown Brooklyn to see the Eagles play VCU. My son Bobby and his three oldest kids—Brian, Amanda, and Lukie—were with us. Sitting across from us were Judge Al Naclerio ’71 and his daughter Michele ’09, who is a speech pathologist in Westchester County. Al and his wife, Susan, live in White Plains, NY, and their son Stephen ’05 lives and works in Boston. Teammate John Magee was named BC’s representative for the Class of 2014 for the annual Men’s Basketball Legends Class. The Legends were honored at this year’s ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament brunch held on March 15 in the Guilford Ballroom of the Sheraton Four Seasons Hotel in Greensboro, NC. Some of the others honored this year 56 class notes
were Dave Bing, Tree Rollins, John Lucas, and Pat Garrity. Congrats to Jack from his fellow Class of 1959 alums for this great honor. • Reunion news: On Friday, May 30, there will be a dinner for all classes, a Taste of Boston, for $50 per person. On Saturday, May 31, there will be cocktails and dinner—the Class of 1959 55th Anniversary Party—in Gasson 100 at 6 p.m., also at $50 per person. Dorm rooms in Stayer Hall (where we were for the 50th) will be available.
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NC 1959 reunion year Correspondents: Maryjane Mulvanity Casey and Patty O’Neill pattyoneill@verizon.net 75 Savoy Road Needham, MA 02492; 781-400-5405 We have a very peripatetic class. Yours truly (Patty O’Neill) spent a month in Ethiopia this winter visiting 12th-century Orthodox Christian rock churches chiseled into the ground, drinking coffee with traditional tribe people in their mud-wattle, thatched-roofed huts in the far southwest, and, of course, adding to her bird list, now standing at 6,250-plus species. Helen Craig Lynch, Sue Macksoud Wooten, Dolores Seeman Royston, and Lois O’Donahgue McKenna recently returned from Paris and are now off on another adventure, heading to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where they will explore the environs while enjoying the balmy climate. And Dan and Joanne O’Connor Hynek celebrated Dan’s 80th birthday with a trip to Poland and also traveled to Florida to visit Carmen Casellas DeMoss in The Villages; to Toronto and Austin to visit daughters; and to Savannah, GA, to visit a sister. • Several of our classmates are in Florida, either as sunbirds or as permanent residents: Janet Chartier O’Hanley, Sandy Sestito Pistocchi, Bonnie Walsh Stoloski, Karen Mullin Winter, Helen Craig Lynch (whose husband, Jack, has a part-time law-teaching gig), Maryjane Mulvanity Casey, and Patty O’Neill are all spending at least a few weeks in Naples; and Pat Sweeney Sheehy and KC Conway Morrish are on the east coast. • Stephanie Landry Barineau reports that her husband, Bill, is progressing well after his stroke a year ago, with thanks for prayers and the help of her children, two of whom live in the Houston area and a third who lives in Florida but gets to Houston often. • Jane Gillespie Steinthal, who reports a great recovery from a fractured hip and a surgery, is grateful for the prayers of friends and family. She has visited with John and Sheila (Lane) Malafronte and Bob and Meg (Dealy) Ackerman and also stays in touch with Barbara Johnson Moran, Sandy Sestito Pistocchi, and Joan Coniglio O’Donnell. • Janet Franz Egan continues to ride and goes to Virginia to fox hunt—but now in second field instead of first. She is looking forward to our 55th reunion and is thinking about having a class party again at her home in Annisquam—a good reason to come to Reunion. And yes, all of us vibrant, smart Newton grads who have made it well into our 70s need to show up at Newton for the reunion, not only to renew our friendships, but also to show our alumnae just how youthful and full of life we all are. We hope to see you in May! Reunion dates are