hair than her dad, but that was to be expected. • Amy Roush Robertson has nearly 2-year-old boy and girl twins. She produces the California Coast Classic Bike Tour, which raises money for the Arthritis Foundation. • After nearly seven years at Google, Chris Woods has launched a CEO-consulting firm, Boston Bridge Partners, which funnels proceeds to programs that support disadvantaged innercity youth. Of particular focus is addressing the “digital divide”—the gulf between those who have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not. • Justin and Christine (Bugos) McDaniel report they are spending the summer in Kyoto, Japan, with children Henry (10) and Jane (6), in case anyone is over there and would like to get together! They usually live in Philadelphia. • Mike Atwood says he botched his sixth marathon—“what a slacker,” says the girl who hopes to somehow run seven long miles in August. Mike is finishing up HiStory of Santa Monica 2, which will be published by Aqueous Books in 2015. Atwoodwrites.com has information on the first HiStory of Santa Monica. Mike is also coaching high school and adult runners. Learn more at coachatwood .com. • Hugh Crean started Farecast, which was bought by Microsoft in 2008. He has been an entrepreneur in residence at VC firm General Catalyst Partners since late 2010, cooking up his next company, which just went public: Vhoto helps pull photos— still images—from video. So all that footage you shot on your mobile phone? You can now access the best photographic moments hidden within. Hugh also has a new son, Cole, who was 6 months old in April. • Sean Curran is the coproducer of the documentary film Best Kept Secret, which received a Peabody award in May. Congrats, Sean! • After 18 years with Robert Half, Laurie Bertolacci accepted a position as SVP of operations and client services with RightSourcing, a managed service provider servicing large hospital systems. Her team of more than 120 works with 250 facilities across the country, and she loves being back in health care. When Laurie isn’t traveling for work, she enjoys time with her 8-year-old daughter in San Francisco, where she has lived for 13 years. • We close with sad news for BC’93. R&B singer Little Joe Cook passed away in April at 91 years old! We should all be so lucky. You may remember that sweet man and many fun nights down at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge. Rest in peace, Joe. • Please remember to email me at laura@stripedshirt.com with your updates. I’m trying to get news from Roshini Rajkumar and Alina Cho for the next issue, both are up to super cool things. Bet you are too! Until next time, happy summer!
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1994 reunion year
class participation goal: 505 Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com I am writing this after having a fantastic weekend in Boston, full of good friends and familiar faces and reliving fond memories. Someone joked that we should have included where we live, our profession, and how many kids we have on our name tags to save some time. But, in all seriousness, it was terrific
to see so many of you with full, happy lives. Thanks to Facebook, we can continue to stay in touch and share photos from our crazy lives. I, for one, had a terrific time with my roommates Deb Nugent Lussier JD’99, Shireen Pesez Rhoades MEd’01, Liz O’Hearn Galvin, Lori MacDonald, and Erin Miller Spaulding, living it up in a hotel and reliving our days sharing space (and the mirror). What fun! Beth Coyle Alford and Josie Losada McMahon—you were missed! It was also a kick to see Mieka Driscoll Leonard and Tom Hurford—whom I went to high school with as well! That’s a lot of years! Many thanks to fellow classmates Naveen Ballem, Kelly Mulcahy Dolan, Kristin Keating, and Kimberly Kozemchak Paster, who served with me on the Reunion Engagement Committee. We had almost 400 classmates join the party, which was just terrific. Even better was the generosity with which our class responded to the reunion gift appeal. The Class of 1994 set the record for dollars raised. The record was $3.5 million, and our class raised over $4.3 million! Not only did we hit the participation goal and exceed the leadership-gift goal, but our class also broke a record that had stood for 12 years! Thanks to all of you who contributed to this outstanding effort. Special appreciation is also owed to the Reunion Gift Committee, co-chairs Leslie Everingham Burton, Brian Delaney, Mark Denatale, and Lisa Doty Denatale, and members Brendan Cashman, Jay Colbath, Heather Dean, John Dessauer, Mark Gemma, John Houle, Kristin Keating, Bryan Locke, Susan Broughton Locke, Arun Mathur, Vivek Mehra, Kimberly Kozemchak Paster, Mike Price, John Renza, Scott Roy, Brian Saxton MA’95, Aimee Grmoljez Shanight, Amy Stratton, Shannon Doyle Taylor, Christian Teja, Eric Tennessen, Tim Thurber, Mark Voccola, and Robert Zdunczyk. • Now on to a few notes. Mark and Claudette (Bautista) McCarron wrote about what a wonderful time they had catching up with old friends. They weren’t sure what to expect but were pleasantly surprised to see familiar faces and to reunite with those they haven’t seen since graduation. It was great to see Mark’s former roommate Matt West and his wife, Stacy Wywra West, as well as other former Fitzpatrick people, including Dave Stevens, with wife Kerry Lyman Stevens ’95, and Gary Lynn, with wife Meagan Gardner Lynn ’95. The couple also reunited with Claudette’s former Hardey dorm mates Alaina Jose-Miller and her family, Mike McArdle, John Commisso and Karen Dempsey (who married each other), Amy Connell Waterbury, Jennifer Lein Signorini, Charlene GusmanRossback, Diane Paggioli, and Christine Leonard, JD’01. Here’s a link to the reunion experience Claudette wrote about: http:// wp.me/p2WMPt-k0. • I also heard from Roger McAvoy, who recently relocated back to Singapore from Hong Kong after almost eight years there. Roger has taken a new role with an FX electronic trading platform, called 360T, to help the company grow its institutional client base across the region, so they couldn’t get back for the reunion. Next time! • If you have a minute, drop me a line with stories of your reunion adventures. I want to hear about those brunches at Cityside and late nights at MA’s. 70 class notes
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1995
Correspondent: Kevin McKeon kmckeon@gmail.com I was pleased to hear from Dave Shapiro, my predecessor as class correspondent, who took up the baton from Megan Gurda Tran a number of years back. Dave was recently named chief of critical care at the Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT, and he is also the site director for the surgical residency. He is in a practice of more than 20 surgeons and was also recently named the president of the Northeast Chapter of the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dave says he loves his job—and adores his future-Eagle niece and nephew (son and daughter of his brother Jonathan Shapiro ’98). Dave resides in West Hartford.
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1996
Correspondent: Mike Hofman mhofman12@gmail.com Marc Leduc married Ashley Scibelli on May 30 on the beach in Falmouth. Matt Keswick, Marc’s roommate in college, served as the officiant, and Brian Woods did a reading. Marc and Ashley live in Boston. Marc is a partner in the business and finance practice group at Morgan Lewis, and Ashley works at the Boston Beer Company, which makes Sam Adams beer. Fun fact: Boston Beer donates a number of cases to every employee who gets married. Among our classmates and spouses who were able to help partake in that generosity were Christy and Matt Keswick; Maureen (Maloney) ’98, MA’02, and Chris Barnowski, Emily and Scott Freeman; and John Boyt. • A few weeks later, I caught up with Shane and Jim Roth, who are moving to Darien, CT, from New York with their sons, Nathan and Carter. On their last weekend in the city, they had friends over to watch the World Cup. The group included Vince Ponzo and his wife, Loretta Shing, and Crissy Hayes Callaghan and Andrew Fellingham with their son Bobby. I’m looking forward to seeing how Jim’s new commute affects his golf handicap.
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1997
Correspondent: Sabrina Bracco McCarthy sabrina.mccarthy@perseusbooks.com Chris and Crista (Pontilena) Vigeant welcomed their third child, Rachel Vivian, into the world on July 8, 2013. Rachel joins big brother Christopher (5), and big sister Anna (3). The family lives in Oakland, NJ. Chris recently earned his PMP certification and is a project manager at MetLife. Crista is a high school English and marketing teacher. • Tim Doyle recently published a novella, All Kinds of Places. The story revolves around a 38-year-old lifelong traveler who must return home to his native Washington DC and live a normal existence. A former reporter with Bloomberg and Forbes, Tim now works at