is the founder of the Bank of Cape Cod, an eight-year-new commercial bank headquartered in Hyannis, with three locations (Hyannis, Falmouth, and Osterville) and a fourth slated to open midyear. As president and CEO, Tim has grown the bank to $225 million in total assets and 34 employees. His wife, Mary Catherine (Fitzpatrick) Telman owns and operates Captain John Whale Watching & Fishing Tours as well as Plymouth Harbor Fuel, both located in the heart of the historic Plymouth waterfront on Town Wharf. In operation since 1946, Captain John maintains one 110-foot and two 80-foot passenger vessels. Mary Catherine and Tim have been married for 26 years and live in Barnstable Village with their sons, Sam and Jack, who are currently a senior and sophomore at BC High School. • Please start thinking about joining us at our 30 year reunion next spring. More details will follow.
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1986
Correspondent: Leenie Kelley leeniekelley@hotmail.com I hope everyone is enjoying the summer and will soon be enjoying football season at the Heights. • I know this is a 50th birthday year for most of our classmates and would love to hear about your celebrations. If you have classmates in attendance, please share their names and details of your special events past, present, or future. • I got some exciting news from Mary Clare (Wodarski) ’88 and Bruce Cornelius of Westlake Village, CA, who celebrate their daughter Grace as a member of the next generation entering BC this fall—the Class of 2018! Bruce also celebrates the two-year anniversary of his company, MyFreeScoreNow. com, based in Los Angeles. Bruce and Mary Clare, congratulations, and I hope Grace loves BC! • I have been lucky enough to be at a few 50th celebrations so far this year. I did an annual “girls’ getaway” in Boca Raton, FL, with some BC friends: Sheila Hanrahan Dearing MEd’87, Kristin Yankee Mark, Beth Hoffman Driscoll MEd’87, Maryellen Lee McCarthy, and Ann Madden Thoms. We had a blast and nonstop laughs. • I also went to a surprise 50th birthday bash for Dave O’Connor in New Jersey—an amazing party hosted by his wife, Maureen. It was a total BC event with the usual suspects: Matt and Judi (von Feldt) Taylor, Tony Zarillo, Ron Murphy, Bob Duran, Chris Massaro, and Jim Walsh. It was a blowout, and a great time was had by all—lots of great stories, pictures, and memories of our days at BC were shared. It is amazing how young we all looked and even more amazing how gracefully we have all aged. It is so much fun to see everyone. I would love to hear about your events with our BC classmates, so write, mail, text, or phone them in to me! • I also heard from Kristin Steinkrauss Blount, who told me that she and her husband, John, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Some of their original BC wedding guests in attendance 25 years later were Maura McNamara Goodney, Diane Casey Boulanger, Linda Johnson Angelucci ’87, and Paul Scobie. Congratulations, Kristin and John—sounds like your party was a blast! • Well, keep the news coming, and I’ll see you in the fall at the Heights. Thanks again for all your messages. Go BC!
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1987
Correspondent: Lou Imbriano imbriano@bc.edu Happy summer, everyone! • My pal Catherine Stanton Schiff has decided to hand the baton off and asked me if I would tend to our class notes going forward. I hope I can live up to the legacy that Catherine is leaving behind. Catherine, on the behalf of the entire class, thank you for keeping us informed and in touch with each other over the past decades. We appreciate your dedication to the class. I am a rookie here, but I will try my best to keep to the Class of 87’s high standards! I am teaching sports marketing at BC and get to see the campus every fall. I post BC photos on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, so if you are active on any of those social media platforms, please connect with me. On Twitter and Instagram you can find me at @LouImbriano. If you are digitally inclined and want to connect with classmates more frequently, please send me your social media handles, and we can list them in this space to help you keep in touch with our classmates. That said, this space is a great opportunity to let everyone see what you are up to, so make sure you send me all the big announcements, little announcements, and everything in between. Everyone turns to these pages first because they want to know what’s going on in your life, so tell them! • Now on to the news: Tony and Patience Hailey Shutts have been married for 24 years and have three children, ages 16, 14, and 12. They live in Laguna Beach, CA. Patience recently started work as a certified forum facilitator. Also, since 1988 she’s been a liaison for high school students for BC in Orange County. • Brenda Wooding is an executive producer on a new series on PBS. It is an animated show for preschool children called Space Racers, and NASA is the science expert. Also, in June Brenda is moving from São Paulo, Brazil, where she has been living for two years, to Washington DC. • On April 21, Kim Murphy Barron ran the Boston Marathon for the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. Kim wants to give a shout-out to classmates Patrick Ard, Christine Capone Mulrooney, Maura Sweeney, Patricia Gormley Cartwright, and Dave and Sharon (McCarty) Fitzgerald for their support. Kim and husband Andrew ’87 also celebrated their 25th anniversary in April. • My first notes and I am already over the word limit. Please send me stuff!
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1988
Correspondent: Rob Murray murrman@aol.com The worst thing about this job is having to report on the loss of a classmate. The Class of 1988 lost one of its unofficial “mayors” on May 11, when Robert Aube passed away after a threeyear battle with cancer. Married for 19 years to wife Elizabeth and father to three sons and a daughter, “BobbyObby” will be greatly missed by everyone he met. He graduated from BC magna cum laude with a degree in physics and attended New England College of Optometry before returning to Rocky Hill, CT, to begin his award-winning practice, Visual Perceptions. 68 class notes
A dedicated coach and die-hard Red Sox fan, Bobby was also a 25-year BC football season ticket holder. It would be great if those who knew Bobby best at BC could share some stories with me for the next issue. • Thankfully, I have joyous news to report as well. David Rice, wife Hallie, and 2-year-old Connor were blessed with the arrival of a new baby, Leah, on February 9. All are healthy and happy. • Megan Flynn checked in with a great update. Married with one son and enjoying a career as a public librarian, she is quite proud to be the classmate closest to BC—at least geographically. The family’s 1886 Victorian home is located in Newton, not far from the bus route she and many others “enjoyed” 30 years ago on the great schlep to main campus! Megan insists it’s a great place to live, except perhaps when there is a football game. • Finally, Debi Talbot King, our class chair for the Neenan Society (which recognizes multi-year donations) is thrilled to report that 632 classmates (31.2 percent) made a donation in 2013! While not on pace with our contemporaries at Holy Cross or Notre Dame (hint!), it’s a great improvement on the 22.5 percent in 2012. Debi made a great point that individual $100 contributions added up to $1.3 million last year, so every dollar counts!
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1989 reunion year
class participation goal: 670 Correspondent: Andrea McGrath andrea.e.mcgrath@gmail.com Wow! Wow! Wow! What an incredible reunion weekend! So many classmates and their families came to the Heights. Last count from the alumni office was 587 attending! They were psyched! I hope everyone has had a chance to recover from the 72-hour talk fest. Was anyone else exhausted (out of practice) from all that talking accompanied by too little sleep? Clearly, I substituted that exercise for the true exercise of getting up on Saturday morning for the 5K run! With absolutely too many individual stories to share from our amazing reunion, I thought I’d let the 5K results (shout-out to Kevin Elwood for sharing) speak to how awesome the class remains. Two of the top three finishers, and four of the top six, were Class of ’89. The winner was Joe Gydus, MBA’95, in 18:45; coming in third was Kevin Elwood; fourth, Howard Bunta; and sixth, Mark Langone). Sweet! (The link, for online viewers, is here: http://racewire. com/live_results.php?id=4130#5K). I thought everyone looked amazing, although I did have someone tell me, “Hey—if this is what 50 looks like, we’re good!” and I thought “50”? Slow down! Anyway, I would love to be continuing to fill this column each quarter with all the amazing stories and updates I heard during Reunion Weekend, so please do remember to keep sending them in! When you get the magazine in the mail, think to send me a note! • To close, I will say that I definitely received some interesting questions over the course of the past year leading to the reunion. Answers include: yes, on-campus housing is available, but not with pets, and you cannot ask to be in a different building from your old boyfriend; no, Doug Flutie ’85 will not be returning to take credit for all our applications in ’84; no, we will not be returning to the Eagle’s Nest and be surrounded by the smell of fries; yes, the name