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AFTER MIDNIGHT

LEARNED FROM LIFE

WATER BORN

Nighthawks and their habitats

Seven lessons in ministry

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BY JAMES MARTIN, SJ,

PETER M. JULIAN

M.DIV.’98, TH.M.’99

Nineteen freshmen, a coastal oceanographer, and an art historian study life by the sea in two great cities, Venice and Boston

BY MICHAEL BLANDING

GET THE FULL STORY, AT BCM ONLINE: • Read “Eagles: Where Have They

the McMullen Museum (pg. 41) •

Landed?” a post-graduate report on

Order Trust Among Strangers: Friendly

the Class of 2017 from the Career

Societies in Modern Britain, by Cooney

Center and the Office of Institutional

Family Assistant Professor of History Penelope Ismay, at a discount from the

Research, Planning, and Assessment (pg. 9) • Listen to the bells toll from

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Boston College Bookstore (pg. 42). also:

the Newton Campus’s Trinity Chapel (pg. 13) • Watch the inaugural Daniel

James Martin, SJ (pg. 28) • More on

• reader’s list: Books by alumni,

J. Harrington, SJ, Alumni Lecture, by

the Carrie Mae Weems exhibition from

faculty, and staff

. . . Alice was a guest at a formal dinner party when word came that invading German troops were close by, and she was advised to leave Belgium immediately . . .

—Letters, page 2

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End Notes

Class Notes

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Campus digest

From the McMullen Museum of Art

Alumni news and notes

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Risky business

Obituaries

Life insurance was a tough sell in the 18th century, on moral grounds

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Keyword: STEM Career fair draws student scientists, mathematicians

Against Pilgrimage A poem

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Good intentions

Mr. Mayor Game day with athletic director Martin Jarmond

A thousand ribbons bloom

Advancing Boston College

76 INQUIRING MINDS Changing jobs Why the wage gap between men and women grows

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13 Close-up

Teacher

Three steady voices

Advocate for the world’s deafblind Marianne Riggio ’75, M.Ed.’76

14 Brexit, et al.

Law School summit looks at challenges for U.S. business in Europe

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on the cover: From left, Heights staffers Jack Goldman ’20, Steven Everett ’20, Heidi Dong ’19, and Connor Murphy ’19 in the paper’s McElroy office, at around 1:00 a.m. Photograph by Peter M. Julian

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LETTERS

FALL 2018

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SHORE LINES

Re “The Write Time,” by Zachary Jason (Summer 2018): In A Writer’s Diary, Virginia Woolf notes, “As for my next book, I won’t write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.”

I thought of that quote when I read Mr. Jason’s piece. I was lucky enough to attend a Villa retreat in summer 2014. The faculty members in my cohort came to the Villa with minds heavy with such fruit.

We all needed time, but somehow that time seemed amplified by the beauty of York, Maine, good food, and conversation with intriguing and interested partners.

As Burt Howell says, cross-curricular collaborations arise from the casual spaces at the Villa (and, I’d add, through other Intersections endeavors, from the Civitas luncheons to mission trips to Nicaragua, and Halftime retreats alongside Boston College students).

The Villa not only allowed me to reach a writing goal (an essay a day) but also helped me consider ways to move forward in how I encourage Boston College undergraduate writers.

Eileen Donovan-Kranz ’84 Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts The writer is an associate professor of the practice of English.

ing a stronger faith community, Howard enabled many of us to be more clear and certain of our contributions to the Ignatian enterprise.

Tom McGuinness, P’01, ’04 Needham, Massachusetts The writer is a former director of University Counseling Services.

EMBODIED HOPE

Re “Body and Soul,” by Madeline Jarrett, M.Div.’18 (Summer 2018): I’ve been involved with the fi ld of disability studies for 25 years and have long doubted that academe would ever engage the realities of disability as anything other than abnormal, deviant, or tragic. Ms. Jarrett’s talk gave me hope for the efforts of colleagues across disciplines who have dedicated part of their research energies to considerations beyond stereotypes and toward the embodied realities of persons with disabilities.

The social constructions of disability— physical and attitudinal barriers—have been exposed, like those of race, sex, and gender, and found as vicious and sinful. Jarrett’s refusal to participate in the discourse about shame confounds the suspicions of being less-than that many internalize about themselves.

Mary Jo Iozzio Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

GRAY MATTERS

Re “Passages,” by Ben Birnbaum (Summer 2018): I had the good fortune to work with Howard Gray, SJ, on a number of projects when he was director of the Center for Ignatian Spirituality, and I had numerous other interactions with him on matters both personal and professional. I was always impressed with his capacity for listening to others, without judgement or impatience, and deeply comprehending their thoughts, feelings, and situations. He had the remarkable ability to bring individuals and groups to an understanding and appreciation of their spirituality. Never did he impose his beliefs or values. In shap-

The writer is a professor of moral theology at the School of Theology and Ministry.

PRIZED

Re “The Award Goes to . . . ,” by Zachary Jason (Summer 2018): I recall a dinner in Alice Bourneuf’s home when she talked about her experience in 1940 in Belgium, where she was doing research for her doctoral thesis on World War I debt repayments.

Alice was a guest at a formal dinner party when word came that invading German troops were close by, and she was advised to leave Belgium immediately to

avoid internment. There was no time to return to her lodging to pack, so, dressed in her evening gown, she and another American dinner guest were driven quickly to Spain, from where she got passage to the United States.

Writing a Ph.D. thesis was put off for nearly a decade, until, following her post-war work as Marshall Plan administrator in Norway, one of her professors suggested she write a thesis drawing on her Norwegian experience. The result, Norway: The Planned Revival, was published by Harvard University Press in 1958.

Frank McLaughlin WCAS’54, MA’57 West Roxbury, Massachusetts

religion but know with certainty that my youthful contacts with faith were formative in very important ways. There are some traits of behavior—skills in confl ct resolution, concern for the lives of others, appreciation for the life I live— that perhaps trace to encounters with Catholicism.

Boston College would be well advised to embrace alumni who have intentionally discarded affil ation with the Church in favor of secular humanism. Our voices do not tarnish the institution that nurtured our minds. Plurality of thought enhances the educational experience.

Robert M. Bent ’67 Greenfi ld, Massachusetts

The writer is associate professor of economics emeritus.

GAME ON

EQUITY INDEX

The Summer 2018 issue beautifully documents how so many associated with Boston College are working toward a more just, economically equitable society: College Bound’s pre-collegiate mentoring and skills-development for disadvantaged young people; the work of Dr. Amanda Parsons ’97 to assist Bronx residents in living longer, happier lives; Kay Lehman Schlozman’s explanation of extreme political and wealth inequality; the Eagle Intern Fellowship program’s support for students in need to participate in coveted internships. Please continue to include such coverage. Also, please pose critical questions regarding ways that we—and the University—continue to benefit from and thus perpetuate the vicious inequities of our economic system.

Riana Good, MAT’08 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Re “Club Minutes” (Summer 2018): With back-to-back divisional titles and invitations to three of the past four Collegiate Water Polo Association national championships, the men’s club water polo team is the powerhouse of the northeast. Last season, two team members—Colin Derdeyn ’19 (First Team) and Trevor Prince ’18 (Honorable Mention)—earned spots on the CWPA All-America Team.

The team bonds transcend the pool and even the campus. I’ve experienced this kin-

ship fi sthand, as teammates overwhelmed me with support and company during a recent serious hospitalization. Entering as a freshman, I worried I would struggle to fi d my place at Boston College. The team has become much more than my place; it is my family.

Hart Ayoob ’20 Half Moon Bay, California Amplifi ation: The sources for the fi e graphs accompanying “Unbalanced” by Kay Schlozman (Summer 2018, pg. 31) were mistakenly omitted. They are, Paul Krugman, New York Times, May 9, 2014 (on comparable pay); Josh Bivens, Economics Policy Institute Working Economics Blog, October 3, 2014 (family wealth); U.S. Department of Labor wage and hour division and bureau of labor statistics, and Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis, Economic Snapshot, Economic Policy Institute, July 1, 2015 (minimum wage); OECD Factbook 2014 (poverty gap); Catherine Rampell, New York Times Magazine, September 29, 2013 (merit aid).

BCM welcomes letters from readers.

Letters may be edited for length and clarity, and must be signed to be published. Our fax number is (617) 552–2441; our email address is bcm@bc.edu.

“Bravo!

. . . while this magnifi ent, hugely welcome chronicle is the story of Boston College, it is also a great and important American story expertly researched and superbly written. And, yes, what a feast of photographs!”

— David

McCullough, H’08

FOUNDING PRINCIPLES

Re “Forever Catholic?,” by William Bole (Spring 2018): This piece resonated loudly with me. As a youth, my involvement with the Church was familiar—altar server, weekly Mass attendance, confi mation— with each activity a puzzle, mysterious, structured mostly in Latin. All of it stimulated thought and wonder, and laid the foundation for the philosophical inquiry I carry on today.

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Career fair draws student scientists, mathematicians 10 Mr. Mayor

Game day with athletic director Martin Jarmond 13 Close-up

Three steady voices 14 Brexit, et al.

Law School summit looks at challenges for U.S. business in Europe 16 Assigned reading

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CAMPUS DIGEST

World War II on the Heights

Some 40 students from 23 states and fi e countries attended a “Hello, friend,” lunch in Gasson Hall 100. The gathering, organized by the Church in the 21st Century Center, revived a tradition established by the late William B. Neenan, SJ, long-time senior administrator, of hosting informal luncheons for students from regions west of the Mississippi. “I love Bostonians,” the Iowa native joked, “but there is a language barrier.” z The 26th annual Pops on the Heights Barbara and Jim Cleary Scholarship Gala raised more than $13 million for student scholarships. Among the evening’s performers were philosophy and political science major Molly Cahill ’20, who sang “Someday, Somewhere,” from West Side Story (one of a number of bows to composer Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday), and Lionel Richie, H’86. z Professor Marvin Kraus, who studies urban and transportation economics, finis ed 21st out of 105 players at the North American Scrabble Championship (intermediate division). His highest play involved the noun “zincate,” good for 110 points. z The psychology department announced the introduction of a neuroscience major; the fi st resulting BS degrees will be awarded to the Class of 2020. z Boston College ranked 16th nationally in a new U.S. News & World Report category, “Commitment to Undergraduate Teaching.” z The wooded knoll situated across Thomas More Drive from the Chestnut Hill

Reservoir and long fenced off is being developed into a public greenspace called the Pine Tree Preserve, in a joint partnership between the University and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, which owns the property. The four-acre pocket park will include paths, benches, and a small clearing at its center. z Michael Davidson, SJ, was appointed director of the Thea Bowman AHANA and Intercultural Center. He succeeds Ines Maturana Sendoya, who accepted a position at Wellesley College. z Four alumni joined the Board of Trustees: R. Nicholas Burns ’78, H’02, the Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; Jonathan M. Rather ’82, a general partner at the private equity fi m Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; Kendall Reid ’79, H’18, an award-winning documentary film producer; and Kevin Smart ’99, a managing director at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. z A snapshot of 9,377 undergraduates currently enrolled shows a student body that is 53 percent female, 33 percent AHANA, and 8 percent international. Economics has the most majors (1,227); Massachusetts accounts for the greatest number of students (2,414); outside the northeast, California leads with 619. z Nancy Netzer, director of the McMullen Museum and a professor of art history, was named a 2018 recipient of the Massachusetts Governor’s Award

o golden gherkin—On October 18, Invisible, by award-winning playwright Tena Stivicic, had its U.S. premiere at the Robsham Theater (after performances in Britain in 2011). The setting is “the land of rain” (London) and the complicated lives of immigrants from diverse places. In this dress rehearsal moment, friends share their disappointment with British pickles. Dustin Uher ’19 (left), as Anton, describes a fabled gherkin that speaks: of a map “in a language unknown” to a vault where “only the chosen ones can enter.” From his left are Jorge Borbolla ’21, Julianna Gerold ’21, and Nicole Hayes ’20.

Patricia Riggin, associate professor of the practice of theater, directed.

in the Humanities. Past recipients include surgeon and author Atul Gawande and state supreme court chief justice Margaret Marshall. z Therapy dogs Joe, Spencer, and Juno visited the O’Neill Library reading room in October to hang out with students. z Associate professor of history Cynthia Lynn Lyerly and Salem State University colleague Bethany Jay, Ph.D.’09, were awarded the American Historical Association’s 2018 James Harvey Robinson Prize for their 2016 book, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery. z The Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning named John R. “Jack” Miles its Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations. A recipient of both MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, Miles has written extensively on religion, politics, and culture in the New

image: Lee Pellegrini

York Times, the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his 1996 book, God: A Biography. His latest book, God in the Qur’an, is being published this fall. Miles is organizing the Center’s 2019 Corcoran Chair Conference, to be titled “Merciful God, Punitive God: Interdisciplinary Refle tion on Scriptural Warrants in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam,” scheduled for April 7–8. z The Athletics Department announced a fi eyear strategic plan aimed at student-athlete formation, competitive excellence for the University’s 31 varsity teams, enhanced facilities, and increased engagement with fans. Support will come from a $150 million campaign called “Greater Heights: The Campaign for Boston College Athletics,” launched September 27. z

The Boston College Urban Catholic Teacher Corps, a program that combines a two-year practicum in Boston Catholic schools with master’s training at the Lynch School of Education, is piloting UCTC Micronesia, a comparable program at Xavier High School, on the seven-squaremile island of Weno. z Arthur Lewbel, the Barbara A. and Patrick E. Roche Professor of Economics and an amateur juggler, has co-authored with engineer/ juggler Jack Kalvan a new book that describes the pair’s efforts to determine the greatest number of objects that can be juggled by one person at one time. The current record is 11 balls (Lewbel managed eight, “when I was younger”). Their calculations, published in When Balls Collide: Understanding the Skill of Juggling, sets the number at 15.

—Thomas Cooper

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Woodward and Elliott, in the Elliotts’ home on September 29.

Time it was

By Christopher Amenta A chance meeting in a diner yields a firsthand account of World War II on the Heights

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athleen Woodward ’83, JD’88, was at her neighborhood diner on Saturday, September 8, around noontime, a bit later than usual. It was the day of the Boston College–Holy Cross football game, and she brought up the topic with a gentleman wearing a maroon and gold cap. As a freshman in 1944, he’d played in a game against Holy Cross, he told her, two days before entering the Navy. She later learned his name: Joseph Elliott. He had returned to Boston College to complete an accelerated undergraduate education and earned his law degree in 1951.

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Woodward wanted to hear more about the war years on Chestnut Hill, and she thought readers of BCM would too. Three weeks later, she, Elliott, his wife, Betty, and a BCM reporter sat in the Elliotts’ dining room in a western suburb of Boston. They’d deemed the diner too noisy for this conversation.

Joseph Elliott of Belmont, Massachusetts, entered Boston College in 1944 at the age of 17. Almost two years earlier, the Heights student newspaper had dubbed the Class of 1942 the University’s fi st “war class.”

By May of 1942, fi e months after Pearl Harbor, many members had been called to active duty, “resulting in the absence of many familiar faces at graduation,” the paper reported. When Elliott arrived at Boston College, some veterans were already returning to campus.

At 17, Elliott felt in awe of those men.

“The people who’d actually been in the service and were back at BC, they were an inspiration,” he said. “They didn’t talk much about it. They were very much older.”

Like many undergraduates in those days, Elliott commuted from his parent’s house every morning with “two or three guys” from the neighborhood. Campus, Elliott said, seemed quiet then, sometimes even “somber.” Enrollment was around 300 (down from the 1,700 it had been in the fall of 1942); the more-than-decimated senior class numbered 33, according to the yearbook Sub Turri.

image: Frank Curran

“I was making new friends, but you’ve got to understand that there just weren’t that many people to see in those days,” he said. “An awful lot of guys were in the service.”

Elliott had been a three-sport athlete at Belmont High School—football, basketball, and baseball—but he did not consider himself talented enough to play in college.

“I don’t think I ever thought much about having the opportunity,” he said. “And if it hadn’t been for World War II, maybe I never would have.”

With a generation of young men overseas, he was scouted in an unexpected way. “A priest in my area put my name into consideration at BC,” he said.

“When I went to see them over there, they offered me a scholarship.”

who once walked a college campus, carefree and happy, who greeted each other every day in the cafeteria, the library and in the classrooms,” the Heights wrote.

“Everybody knew who was eligible for the draft,” Elliott said of the campus that year. “It was no secret and no surprise when you got it.”

His own draft notice came midsemester. He enlisted instead in the Navy, then applied for and received a deferment that enabled him to finish the football

Sunday afternoon, and I was in the Navy up in Romulus, New York, on Tuesday morning.”

timing spared elliott from combat, with the Japanese surrender announced in August. He trained, then spent nearly two years in the service in Florida and Texas, performing what he described as “routine offi e work.” In 1947, Elliott returned to Boston College on the G.I. Bill to fi d the campus transformed. Enrollment reached an all-time record that year—at 2,811—and Elliott had to try out for the squad he’d led two seasons ago. “They had a good team that year,” Elliott said.

“A lot of talent.” He didn’t make the cut.

Elliott pivoted. “I’d never had great marks,” he said, but he turned his attention to academics. “At least I knew boston college, like I could get an education, so I many universities and colchucked the football and leges during the war, was became a student.” operating on a speeded-up He was part of a class that schedule, admitting freshwent straight to law school men in waves, in June, after two years of undergraduSeptember, and sometimes ate work—a way to expedite in February. Elliott enrolled the careers of individuals a week after his high school who’d lost time to the war. graduation and joined a He made Dean’s List, passed football team that had been the Massachusetts bar exam, ranked eighth in the country and spent 35 years working two years earlier. Even warfor New England Telephone time college football “was before retiring. a helluva difference” from In 1944, Belmont High high school, he said. “The School’s yearbook, the Blue war sopped up some talent Print, now archived online, but not all of it.” contained a photo of each That fall the Heights graduate alongside a list of covered school dances accomplishments, a quote, a and Boston theater, pubreported pet peeve, and lic affairs, campus clubs, an ambition. The latter, for and sports. And the same Elliott, in winter 1945: “I played against the Cross on a Sunday afternoon Elliott, comprised two words: November 3 issue that and I was in the Navy . . . on Tuesday morning.”

Boston College. trumpeted Elliott’s two “You know something, I touchdown runs against surprised myself,” he said, Syracuse University also recalling the student he became. season. He ran tailback for the Eagles in printed a front-page update of the “Gold Was he proud of what he’d accomseven games. He scored nine touchdowns, Star Casualty Toll” of graduates and forplished on campus? including two in the fi ale against the mer students. At time of press, 70 had “Very,” Elliott said. “Very, very, very.” n College of the Holy Cross on November died. Another 17 were declared missing.

26 at Fenway Park, before a crowd of “Boston College has more than 4,550 of 30,000. “I played against the Cross on a her sons in the armed forces, . . . students Christopher Amenta is a Boston area writer.

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Cheryl Purnell ’15, a program associate at the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, with juniors Benjamin Posorske (biology) and Siyuan Wu (biochemistry).

Keyword: STEM

By Thomas Cooper Career fair draws student scientists, mathematicians

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oments before the doors opened to the Heights Room for the third annual STEM Career and Internship Fair (for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at 10:30 a.m., company representatives were setting their tables with complimentary USB chargers, M&Ms, and lip balm. Thirty-eight fi ms had reserved space, hailing from fi lds including pharmaceuticals (e.g., AstraZeneca, Fosun Pharma), healthcare (Boston Children’s Hospital, Commonwealth Care Alliance), computer sciences (Dell, Oracle America), and sustainability (Northstar

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Recycling, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center). Brightly colored banners and posters staked out their territories (“Code, explore, communicate,” read one from the software and consulting company Fast Enterprises, LLC; “We’re enabling the body to produce its own healing proteins to address unmet medical needs,” announced Moderna Therapeutics. The General Dynamics Mission Systems team brought a bright-yellow, three-foot-long replica of its SandShark, an autonomous underwater vehicle developed for the U.S. Navy. Systems engineer Patrice Joyce said

the company recruited at “schools like MIT, but we’re also going to liberal arts schools. We need well-rounded people; we’re looking for curiosity.”

The fair was begun in 2016, says the Career Center’s Lisa White, to support the growing number of undergraduates studying in STEM fi lds. Currently, 24 percent of Boston College students major in a STEM subject (the University considers earth and environmental sciences its E; an engineering department will launch soon after the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society moves into its new building in late 2021). Biology is the third most popular major, with 958 undergraduates; computer science and nursing are in the top 10. What’s more, jobs in STEM fi lds are multiplying—a 2017 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce anticipates STEM occupations will grow by 8.9 percent between 2014 and 2024, almost 40 percent faster than non-STEM jobs.

image: Peter M. Julian

On Wednesday, October 17, the aisles fil ed quickly, with students attired mostly in suits, blazers, white blouses, and buttondown shirts. Their smiles were bright, their handshakes brisk. They carried resumefil ed portfolios, and they spread out like so many treasure hunters. For some, their objectives for the morning were still taking shape. Jacob Fisher ’21, a biology major from Phoenix, Arizona, was searching for an internship, fi ld unknown. The one thing certain, he said, was “I don’t want to go back to Phoenix for the summer.”

William Hufnagle ’19, a computer science major, planned to speak with Meditech, Moderna, and General Dynamics. “My dad is a computer programmer; he looked at the lineup of companies and sent me a list of suggestions.” Hufnagle wore a dark suit with a crimson tie and carried a folder thick with resumes. “The last fair I attended,” an omnibus event held in Conte Forum in September, he said, “I only brought a half-dozen or so resumes, and I got crushed. This time I have about 30.”

At the Vertex Pharmaceuticals table, Ashley Jefferson ’05, MS’10, dressed in a dark blue suit (no tie), said he considered his conversations with students a “fi st interview, in a way.” As Vertex’s manager of early career and talent outreach, he spoke with an estimated 75 students about internships and fulltime positions over the fair’s three hours, trading company information packets and business cards for resumes, on which he would make quick notes about each student.

The majority of fi ms in attendance represented the obvious elements of STEM. But others, such as retailer TJX (its banner read: “redefini g traditional retail through technology”), made clear that STEM touches all industries. The two company representatives—actually, software engineers—talked up the company’s desire for software people who were “working with new languages,” in the words of TJX’s Andrew Maroney, a security solutions engineer. On another aisle, Gary St. Laurent, intern and professional development coordinator at the New England Aquarium (which promises real sharks), told students about research and public education opportunities.

Overall, 328 students, in almost equal numbers of women and men, swiped their

ID cards to gain entrance to the event.

Attendance peaked around noon, when classrooms emptied for lunch. Traffic in the aisles slowed as lines formed in front of tables and students paused to consult their maps and ponder next moves.

Although company representatives seemed not to hurry, and the conversations went back and forth (“It’s a two-way street,” said TJX’s Maroney; “we want to understand what students are looking for”), effi iency ruled. At the Boston Children’s Hospital table (internships and fulltime positions on offer), two recruiters fi lded questions from a line of students that held steady at fi e or six, and the conversations rarely ran longer than two minutes.

The event concluded at 1:30 p.m., by which time the aisles were mostly cleared of students (a few lingered in conversation with recruiters). Behind the Dana-

Farber Cancer Institute table, recruiter Megan Grzybowski stretched her back.

“I don’t have a voice anymore,” she said with a smile. Nearby, Adam Esposito ’14, a senior research associate at Moderna, was catching up with fellow 2014 classmate and member of the chemistry honors program Philip Lam, a scientific associate at Novartis. Students who visited the Moderna table, Esposito said, “represented a great spectrum of the hard sciences— a lot of biology, biochemistry, a couple of grad students, including a physics Ph.D. student.” A number of students had asked him for his one piece of advice. Esposito’s reply: “Network. It sounds corny, but when you apply online it’s often like a black hole.

There are keyword searches being done, and if they aren’t found on your resume, a human will never lay eyes on it. So, meet people and stay in touch.” n

Data file: Where are they now?

Within seven months of doffing their caps and gowns, 96 percent of the graduating Class of 2017 reported being employed, in graduate school, committed to volunteer service, or engaged in a fellowship (including the seven who received Fulbrights).

This is according to a survey released in August 2018 by the Office of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment and the Career Center. The tally represents an 80 percent response from graduates in 42 states and 32 countries.

Of the 73 percent of graduates currently employed: • The two largest cohorts work in healthcare (11 percent) or financial services (11 percent), followed by the computer software industry (8 percent), consulting (8 percent), and banking (7 percent).

• The high-tech provider Oracle hired 35 members of the class, the most of any employer, followed by the professional services firm Ernst and Young (26), Massachusetts General Hospital (23), Deloitte Consulting (22), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (22).

• Some 19 percent of the graduates of 2017 were offered a job before the start of their senior year; 61 percent received offers during their last year (22 percent in fall, 39 percent in spring); 18 percent were hired in the summer after Commencement, and 3 percent in the fall of 2017.

Of the 19 percent attending graduate school: • 61 percent are pursuing master’s degrees (with the most popular being in education, followed by STEM subjects, business, and the humanities) • 14 percent are in law school • 14 percent are in other doctoral programs (STEM comprising 50 percent, followed by degrees in education, dentistry, and veterinary science) • 9 percent are in medical school.

Among the 4 percent engaged in volunteer service: • The Jesuit Volunteer Corps leads other organizations with 28 graduates, followed by AmeriCorps (11), Peace Corps (8), and City Year (5).

—Zachary Jason

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Mr. Mayor

By Lydialyle Gibson Game day with athletic director Martin Jarmond

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ith his third cup of green tea in one hand and a fresh smile on his face, Martin Jarmond hops down from the golf cart that has sped him from Alumni Stadium to the spot where he likes to greet the earliest of early-arriving tailgaters on Lower Campus. “B.Y.O.E.—bring your own energy,” he chirps. Then the William V. Campbell Director of Athletics with just 17 months on the job takes a deep breath.

The gate opens, and cars clamor past, festooned with magnetic stickers of eagles in fl ght. “Good morning!” Jarmond shouts, trying to make eye contact with the faces behind every windshield. “Happy game day! Are you ready?”

It is a few minutes after 9:00 a.m. on the last Saturday in September. Kickoff for the Eagles’ football game against the Temple Owls is still three hours away, and Jarmond has been at the Heights for three hours already, rolling onto campus before sunrise to jog a few laps around the reservoir, as the predawn glow gave way to

sunshine and warmth and a busy running path. A quick shower and a change into a gleaming white Boston College pullover, and he was headed to a conference room in the stadium basement for the 7:30 a.m. meeting of police and fi e and parking officers rotating through their fi al pregame checks. Upstairs, in Jarmond’s glass-sided offi e suite overlooking the gridiron, caterers were setting up tables and chairs for the spread that he and a dozen or so guests would graze on as they watched the game later: tiny hamburgers, shrimp cocktail, steak fries, a cheese and fruit plate. And on every table, a small crystal dish fil ed with maroon and gold M&Ms. But now, joined by Wesley Ellison Stewart, development director for athletics, Jarmond is shouting energetic greetings into the swelling traffi . “We love you!” a woman’s voice calls back from somewhere inside a blue sedan.

Jarmond: “We love you too!”

A family of four in eagle-shaped hats

Jarmond on the sidelines with former Eagles wide receiver Shawn Dombrowski ‘87 and son Ryan Dombrowski ‘20, on September 29.

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marches by, pulling a wagon full of provisions. The parents of a Boston College baseball player stop to shake Jarmond’s hand (“Can I tell you how much excitement you’ve brought?”). Several undergraduate women saunter past in sweats, sipping Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. “Where’s mine?” Jarmond teases. “Sorry,” one woman answers. “You didn’t text us.”

At 38 years old, Jarmond is the youngest athletic director in a Power Five conference, and the fi st African-American AD in Boston College history. A North Carolina native, he was point guard and captain of UNC Wilmington’s basketball team, and he helped lead the Seahawks to their fi st NCAA tournament in 2000. He earned his MBA and master’s of sports administration at Ohio University, then came six years in Michigan State’s athletics department and another eight at Ohio State, where he worked his way up to become number two in the department, before coming to Chestnut Hill in the spring of 2017. Since Jarmond arrived on the Heights, the football team has cracked the Associated Press poll following a 10-year absence, the men’s basketball team had its fi st winning season after a drought almost that long, men’s hockey went 20–14–3, and women’s hockey won the Beanpot. At a fundraiser two nights before today’s football game, Jarmond had announced a fi e-year, $150 million capital campaign for athletics, the fi st of its kind for the University. “A donor once told me that as an AD you’re an evangelist,” Jarmond says. “You’re always selling winning, or you’re selling hope.” Right now, Jarmond is selling a little bit of both.

By 9:30, the streets and parking lots surrounding Conte Forum and Alumni Stadium are a humming topography of tents and banners and canvas chairs and miniature grills and folding tables piled with food and drink. Jarmond weaves through the crowd, shaking hands, sampling sweets (he cannot resist apple desserts, it turns out), exchanging small talk and stories and laughter, keeping moving.

“The mayor,” his coaches and teammates called him back at UNC Wilmington. He knew everybody and would talk to anyone.

Jarmond stops for a few brief but deep conversations with parents and athletes in other sports—skiing, swimming and div-

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The view from the AD’s suite as Boston College squares off against the Temple University Owls.

ing, the spirit groups. “Always make time for the parents,” he says. “They’re trusting you with their kid.” He drops by the women’s basketball tailgate, sinks a couple of cornhole tosses, banters with a few visiting high school players hanging out on the edges. “I just want to know, can you handle?” he ribs them. “Yep,” one squarejawed, diminutive point guard responds, looking straight at him. Jarmond rocks on his heels, then shoots back approvingly, “You’ve got some swagger. That’s good.”

Everywhere, fans greet him as a celebrity, eager to introduce him to their spouses, their children, their children’s spouses.

They want to shake his hand, touch his shoulder, make some kind of physical contact. An older man walks up and stands close, a story pouring out of him: He’s a Northeastern grad, but his wife worked at Boston College for decades.

She died a couple of years ago. He comes to the games to remember her. Elsewhere,

ESPN broadcaster Joe Tessitore ’93—who jumped on a last-minute fl ght to Boston when he got word that his son, John, a freshman kicker for the Eagles, would be starting today—sees Jarmond approaching his tailgate and pulls him in tight. “I love what you’re doing here,” he says. “I mean it. What you’re doing here is wonderful.”

It goes on like this for two hours. At one point, Jarmond ducks into a Conte Forum practice gym to spend a few minutes with a men’s basketball prospect, a blonde, reedy kid, slightly shy and impossibly young. Sitting courtside as a team practice thunders back and forth a few feet away, Jarmond talks with the high schooler’s father about maturity and playing style, and with his mother about job placement rates and coaches as teachers. “Any questions you have, you let me know,” he says, already hustling back out into the sunlight, where soon the football team, in ties and sportscoats, will emerge

from their 18-minute pregame Mass at St. Mary’s Chapel, to process with the marching band down Higgins Stairs toward the stadium: the Eagle Walk. Jarmond takes up a position midway down the stairs, to dap them as they walk by. The bell tower chimes. “It’ll be about four minutes now,” he says, and in four minutes, the players appear. Jarmond holds out his fi t, and one by one, they bump it with their own.

It already feels like a full day by noon, when the game kicks off. Jarmond is back in his offi e suite, now bustling with guests who stand chatting near the wall of windows. Jarmond’s wife, Jessica, who is a dentist, is there with their daughters, a three-year-old and a nine-month-old wearing matching maroon dresses and white-feather face paint. There’s an anxious energy in the room. The truth is, the Eagles need this game, especially after the previous weekend’s surprise loss to unranked Purdue—an early snag in what

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was predicted to be a very strong season, and a performance that a couple of tailgaters had groused at Jarmond about earlier. Among the answers he gave them was something he says again now: “Mind right, game right”—focus on what’s ahead. the first quarter doesn’t exactly calm nerves. The Eagles’ fi st possession ends in a touchdown, but Temple evens the score in the next series, and then a fumble on the kickoff return gives the Owls a second touchdown. Boston College answers, but misses the extra point. When Jarmond heads down to the sidelines after the fi st quarter for a pair of recognition ceremonies, the score is 14–13 Temple and the buoyant chatter in his offi e has mostly fallen quiet. He watches much of the second quarter from the turf, standing beside the team with former Eagle John Johnson ’17, now a safety for the Los Angeles Rams.

“Winning is contagious,” Johnson says, almost as if it were a prescription. Jarmond nods. But out on the fi ld, Temple is marching toward the end zone again. When a 20-yard pass puts the Owls at the 1-yard line and a fi al push drives the ball over the goal line, Jarmond has seen enough. “Let’s go,” he says, barreling back inside.

When he gets upstairs, though, he doesn’t return to his suite, but veers left, to an empty offi e down the hall. He shuts the door and rolls a chair over to the window.

It’s quiet in here, and the lights are off. For the fi st time all day, Jarmond stops vibrating; his attention is whole, hushed, undivided. With just under seven minutes left in the fi st half, the Eagles, six yards short of a fi st down, are about to punt again. The score is 21–13, Temple. “I always say this is so fragile,” Jarmond says. “A week ago, we were 3 and 0, and 23rd in the country.”

He’s talking about the game, and the season, but also about every game and season, and every sport. The slightest shifts can mean the difference between winning and losing. “Well,” he says, “we’ll see what we’re made of here.”

The punt lands deep. Temple’s quarterback connects on a long pass, and then another. But when he puts the ball in the air a third time, Eagles junior Hamp Cheevers comes down with an interception. Three plays later, star sophomore running back AJ Dillon fi ds a hole and

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races for 52 yards. Touchdown, Boston College.

The next four minutes and 25 seconds are a mad blur: a two-point conversion for the Eagles, and then another interception that turns into another Dillon touchdown (later an ankle injury would take him out of the game). Then with 20 seconds left in the half, the Eagles kick a fi ld goal.

Suddenly the score is 31–21, Boston College. “Like I said,” Jarmond says, rising to his feet, beaming again, and buzzing, “it’s just so fragile. Five minutes ago, it felt like the world is falling apart. Now it’s like new life.” He strides back to his suite where everybody is waiting. There is laughter and someone slaps him on the shoulder. “I might have to do some pushups at halftime,” Jarmond jokes, the stress falling away from him.

The second half winds to a slower, easier close. Jarmond spends a few minutes with William P. Leahy, SJ, in the President’s box. (“We have a great rela-

tionship—he’s somebody who will ask questions like, ‘How are you sleeping?’ Or, ‘How are you fi ding time for yourself?’”)

Jarmond stops by the visiting athletic director’s suite, where Betsy Kraft explains that her husband, Patrick, Temple’s AD, is sweating out the game on the sidelines. “I know how he feels,” Jarmond says.

Each team piles another 14 points on the score before the afternoon is over, and Temple makes another couple of runs at the lead—a blizzard of fi st downs early in the fourth quarter causes Jarmond some consternation—but the game never again feels much in danger. The fi al minutes fi d Jarmond leaning back in a tall spectator chair in his suite, his wife in a chair beside him, his arm around her shoulders.

When the game clock sinks to zero, it’s just past 4:00 p.m., and the sky is starting to dim. Jarmond looks away from the fi ld with a grin: “Never in doubt.” n Lydialyle Gibson is a Boston-based writer.

Alumnus is new director of undergraduate admission Boston College has named Grant Gosselin ’97, MA’02, director of undergraduate admission. Before occupying his new office in Devlin Hall on July 23, he served the previous four years as vice president of enrollment and dean of admission and student aid at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.

Gosselin Throughout his undergraduate years at Boston College, the former finance major worked in the Office of Undergraduate Admission, leading prospective students on campus tours. He returned to the office in 1999, as senior assistant director of undergraduate admission and then associate director of marketing and international admission, and earned his master’s in higher education. From 2006 to 2014 he served as Babson College’s dean of admission and, from 2012 to 2014, as its first vice president of enrollment.

When Gosselin, a native of South Hampton, New Hampshire (pop. 800), applied to Boston College in 1993, he was one of 13,112 applicants, from whom the University accepted 47 percent. In choosing the current freshman class (the Class of 2022), he notes, Boston College accepted 27 percent from among 31,123 applicants. “Between the emphasis on rankings, the market crash of 2008, and the rapid development of technology, the number of considerations students and their families make and the number of schools they apply to keeps growing,” Gosselin says. “The center point of our decisions will continue to be the students, and how we can best help them navigate the introspective, emotional, critical process of applying to college.”

Gosselin succeeds John L. Mahoney Jr. ’79, director of undergraduate admission since 1990, who was named vice provost for enrollment management in August.

—Zachary Jason

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The B bell and its new striker. Defunct interior strikers can be seen in the two upper bells.

CLOSE-UP: THREE STEADY VOICES IN THE FALL OF 1961, SOME 13 YEARS before the property would be sold to Boston College, the Newton College of the Sacred Heart placed an order with the I.T. Verdin Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, for a three-bell carillon, as part of the college’s soon-to-be Chapel of the Most Blessed Trinity. A handwritten order detailed the particulars, including “a 31½” dia, 704 lb., ‘B’ note bell; 25”, 341 lb., ‘D sharp’ bell, and a 21 ½”, 220 lb., ‘F sharp’

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bell.” The cost of this B major chord was $5,583 (or $46,000 today). Cast in the Netherlands, the bronze bells were installed in the chapel’s 69-foot-tall tower the next spring. The Latin inscription on the largest (the B) translates as, “To the glory of the most holy Trinity/The Father is Love/The Society of Janet Stuart Jointly [dedicated this]/At the Newton College of the Sacred Heart,” according to associate classics professor Kendra Eshleman.

How often the bells chimed or what peal they played is unknown (the bells did not swing but were struck by electrically driven clappers located inside them). At some point lost to history, they fell silent.

Last summer, Boston College’s facilities department undertook a restoration of the rusted-out chiming system. “It gets a lot of weather up there,” says University electrician Kevin Simard, the man tasked with replacing the electrical controls.

Removing the old strikers risked damaging the bells, so they were left in place, and new ones, fabricated in Belgium, were designed to strike the exterior of the bells. The new clappers are cast-iron discs that resemble oversized hockey pucks (the one for the B bell weighs approximately 70 pounds). The clappers, which were installed by New Vibrations Audio & Video of Morrisdale, Pennsylvania, are activated by an electromagnetic system attached to the support beam above each bell. An electrical impulse sent from a ground-level control box propels the concussion. The impulse lasts just a few microseconds, after which the springloaded clapper returns to the open position. The disc travels barely one quarter of an inch, but the sound can be felt on the ground.

The carillon was returned to action on July 27, and the bells now toll every 15 minutes from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. At 15 minutes after the hour, the system sounds two notes, adding two more at each subsequent 15-minute stage until culminating on the hour with a complete eight-note peal (it has been called a modified Westminster peal; a proper Westminster, as played by the bells in Gasson Tower, requires four bells). At the top of the hour, the large bell also strikes the time.

A casual survey of passersby—freshmen mostly, and law students—suggests the bells have blended easily into the regular campus hum, like a slight stir in the air. But a few who paused to consider their sounds from a sidewalk opposite the tower in late October echoed the sentiments of a young woman living in Hardey House, a hundred yards from the chapel.

“I know they’re there,” she said. “I enjoy them; I find them soothing. And, in the morning, I’m like, ok, time to get up.”

—Thomas Cooper

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from left: Giuseppe Mazziotti, assistant professor of intellectual property law at Trinity College Dublin, Ros Lynch, and Allie Renison.

Brexit, et al.

By Jeri Zeder Law School summit looks at challenges for U.S. business in Europe

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.S. businesses with assets in patents and other intellectual property (IP) face a shifting legal landscape in Europe, especially these days. To help keep IP lawyers up to date, Boston College Law School’s Program on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PIE) joined forces with the Boston-based global fi m Ropes & Gray to offer the “European IP Summit,” a conference held at the law school in early October and attended by 100 lawyers and law students. Uncertainties raised by Brexit, by recent European initiatives to protect personal data, and by the prospect

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of a European Unified Patent Court were taken up by speakers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Canada, and the United States, including a senior member of the Unified Patent Court drafting committee; the European Patent Offi e attaché to the United States; and the director of copyright and enforcement at the U.K. Intellectual Property Offi e.

“The purpose of the summit was to facilitate a conversation about the changing technological and legal landscape in Europe,” said Regina Sam Penti, counsel at Ropes & Gray’s IP Transactions Group

and an organizer of the event. “We hope these conversations will help U.S. companies that have signifi ant economic interests in Europe understand how best to secure powerful and useful intellectual property rights.”

In his welcoming remarks, Law School dean Vincent Rougeau set the context. “We are living in a quickly evolving period in terms of innovation, how businesses are started and grow, how capital fl ws, how the benefits of business and innovation are distributed, and how multinational fi ms react to nation-state changes to regulations and taxes,” he said. Multinational business systems have not undercut the relevance of nation-states, Rougeau said, but they have “created challenges,” as have innovations in areas such as “surveillance, big data, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, regulatory arbitrage, and the mobility of labor, capital, and especially digitally based business.”

A key challenge in Europe is Brexit, the

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U.K.’s nationwide vote in June 2016 to leave the European Union by March 29, 2019, at 11:00 p.m. (U.K. time). Casting Brexit, in his introductory remarks, as change but not complete disintegration, the Hon. F. Scott Kieff, former commissioner (2013–17) of the U.S. International Trade Commission and now a law professor at George Washington University, called for cool heads: “My hope is that a little bit of calm and professionalism can help us all.”

It was a good segue into the fi st panel discussion, “Considering IP in Europe after Brexit: Options, Priorities, and Strategies for Global Business,” where unhappiness with Brexit was voiced, but constructive discussion prevailed.

Moderator James R. Myers, general counsel at Tristar Products, Inc., a company that sells kitchen equipment in the United States, Asia, South America, and Europe, spoke for many when he admitted, “With respect to Brexit and IP, I’d say I’m confused and bewildered.” And until Brexit happens, the panel made clear, the only certainty will be uncertainty. An audience member asked whether the U.K. government had plans to issue any guidance to businesses pending Brexit, and the answer from Ros Lynch, of the U.K.’s Intellectual Property Offi e, was no. Myers noted that the legal unknowns are already costly for his client, factoring in the expenses of time in consultation and deliberation. If the E.U. and the U.K. fail to come to terms on Brexit by March, he asked, “What do we do as an American business trying to export into Europe?”

Panelist Allie Renison, head of Europe and Trade Policy at the U.K.’s Institute of Directors (a kind of national Chamber of Commerce), responded that a failure to reach agreement is likely to be disruptive for registered and unregistered design rights (which protect the look of a product) and for trademarks (which protect the logo), both of which are secured through E.U. legislation at present. But, she said, such an impasse is unlikely to affect patents (which confer the exclusive right to manufacture, use, and sell a specific product), because patents in the U.K. and Europe are granted through the European Patent Offi e (EPO), and that is a nonE.U. institution.

patents may not be affected by Brexit, but Europe’s patent regime can nevertheless be costly and uncertain for businesses. As matters stand now, the EPO issues an applicant a “bundle” of patents, which must be separately validated in the individual E.U. countries. A business seeking to enforce a patent against infringement must do so in each country where infringement is occurring. So, a patent that is validated in Germany can be rejected in France; the Italian court might fi d infringement, but the Spanish court may not. There is currently no single court that can harmonize the procedural and substantive laws that govern patents in Europe. But one is being planned.

In a session on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the unitary patent, Kevin Mooney, chair of the rules and procedures committee for the proposed court, and Edward J. Kelly, a partner at Ropes & Gray whose practice focuses on intellectual property transactions, explained how the UPC will address this state of affairs.

The UPC, Mooney said, will enable “the patentee to enforce his patent through a simple system in 26 countries, with the same procedure in every single court.”

When the judge drops the gavel, as Kelly put it, the decision will be effective across multiple European states. After 50 years of discussion and planning, the court faces one fi al hurdle before it can start: a decision from the German constitutional court

as to its constitutionality in that country.

No one knows when the German court will rule.

Created along with the UPC will be a unitary patent that will be valid and enforceable across most of Europe.

Unitary patents will be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the court and will exist under the auspices of the European Union.

The value of the unitary patent to the E.U.’s gross domestic product is thought to be in the trillions of dollars.

“This would be a huge market,” said Boston College associate professor of law David Olson, “and would make the E.U. a strategic alternative to enforcement in the United States for multinational companies doing business globally.”

Olson is the faculty founder of Boston College Law’s PIE program, which was launched in October of 2017. In its fi st year, PIE has hosted or co-hosted a panel on the role of law in an innovation economy, a symposium on entrepreneurship and sports law, a seminar on entrepreneurship in privacy and security, a session on mobile apps, and a session on women in innovation and creativity.

On Day Two of the October summit, dual-qualified U.S. and European patent attorneys led a full-morning, “hands-on” workshop for U.S. companies seeking patents overseas. n Jeri Zeder is a writer in the Boston area.

Health-wise Dr. Philip Landrigan ’63, a pediatrician and epidemiologist, has been appointed professor of biology and named founding director of Boston College’s Global Public Health program. While working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the 1970s, Landrigan helped build the case for children’s health against leaded gasoline. Later, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, he led the effort to monitor the health of more than 20,000 Landrigan survivors of 9/11. The program at Boston College will establish a new undergraduate minor and focus research on the health impacts of environmental pollution. Landrigan will also serve as director of the newly created Global Observatory on Pollution and Health, which, in partnership with Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health and the United Nations Environment agency, will track and analyze pollution worldwide and serve as a clearinghouse for related research.

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Assigned reading SOCY 1096 Aging and Society

COURSE:

Leisureville: Adventures in a World Without Children, by Andrew Blechman (2008)

By Sara Moorman COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is a course in the social science core that introduces students to social gerontology, a field that has existed since about 1900. As I’m sure is the case in many core classes, any of the topics I cover could easily expand to fill a semester. I teach a unit on the historically new phenomenon called the “predictable life course,” a departure, in the developed world, at least, from the days when birth and death happened far more capriciously. Included also are units on health, medicine, and long-term care; cognitive impairment; retirement; and the benefits of older age (self-esteem peaks, for example). I give students a glimpse into many realms in the hope that they will find one so compelling they can’t let go of it: A broad array of careers touch on issues of aging, both in and beyond healthcare, and there is a need for passionate and compassionate minds in them. But the lessons I teach also serve students who will never take another such class: Put money in your 401(k) when a job offers you one. Know the difference between Mom forgetting her keys and Mom forgetting what her keys are for. Make physical exercise a lifelong practice.

I offer this syllabus with the caveat that although there are many excellent readings and films in gerontology, only some intersect with where 18–22-yearolds are, developmentally. College students simply don’t relate to the feelings that the new smile lines and sore muscles of middle age bring on, for example.

Many alumni might enjoy a book such as This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism (2016), by Ashton Applewhite, but I don’t use it in class.

REQUIRED READING

Much of what I assign for reading does not come from books. The Atlantic magazine regularly includes long-form journalism on age and aging. Notable pieces from the last few years include “When Are You Really an Adult?” by Julie Beck (January 2016), “How the Midlife Crisis Came to

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Belluck’s February 26, 2012, New York Times piece, “Life, with Dementia,” set in a penitentiary, will keep you up at night.

“Prisoners,” Belluck writes, “appear more prone to dementia than the general population,” and the symptoms of dementia are especially diffi ult to manage among confi ed persons. As for the best source of information on individual retirement fi ances and Social Security policy, that is a website produced by our own Boston College Center for Retirement Research (crr.bc.edu). Now, for books:

Be,” by Pamela Druckerman (May 2018), and “Unequal Until the End,” by Corey Abramson (April 2015). Other outlets run great pieces from time to time, such as the Toronto Star’s November 28, 2014, feature “The Wanderers,” by Amy Dempsey, about the “most high-risk behavior associated with dementia . . . getting lost.” Pam

Journalist Blechman explores age-restricted retirement communities, focusing on The Villages (population 115,000), a 32-squaremile gated community of golf-cart paths, ponds, and multi-unit residences centered in Sumter County, Florida. He demonstrates how such residences are fun, and kind of wild (dorm residents can relate), but he also shows how the business models of many retirement communities result in displacement of local poor persons, environmental degradation, and racial and other forms of discrimination. The book raises questions about what Americans deserve in retirement and what retirees owe to younger generations.

Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer’s, by Thomas DeBaggio (2002) Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in 1997 at age 57, Thomas DeBaggio, a writer of gardening books, sought to compose his memoir before he was no longer able. The fi st-person dementia autobiography is a new genre of nonfi tion, and in my opinion DeBaggio’s is the best. It is a painful, diffi ult read.

DeBaggio is aware of precisely what he is losing, and the speed at which he is losing it, and he mourns every loss: Toward the end of the book he writes, “I must now wait for the silence to engulf me and take me to the place where there is no memory left.” He describes disorientation and hallucinations in a way that people further along in the illness are no longer able to, a point of view that loved ones long to comprehend. (“I had an overwhelming feeling I was in an unfamiliar place, although I recognized my house. Everything was disappearing around me, sliding into the earth. . . . It was then the tears came and I choked on them.”) As the book progresses, his writing becomes less grammatical and less complex, and he ceases to develop ideas in full before switching topics. DeBaggio died of the disease in 2011.

Finding Life in the Land of Alzheimer’s: One Daughter’s Hopeful Story, by Lauren Kessler (2007) Books and films on aging do tend to focus on Alzheimer’s. Other seniorhealth issues, such as falls and Medicare reform—although subjected to intensive research—don’t get nearly as much attention in the popular press. But the fact is that the number of people with dementia worldwide is doubling every 20 years, and most of my students know someone with the disease. Kessler, who calls herself an “immersion reporter,” takes a job in the dementia unit of a nursing home in an effort to atone for her disengagement while her mother was dying from the disorder. For minimum wage, she is expected to bathe, dress, and feed a dozen residents in the span of an hour. Kessler conveys the tenuous, vulnerable position of the poorlyeducated women who mostly do this work, and the emotional and sensory distress they experience when they deliver intimate

care, such as toileting. At the same time, her book, originally titled Dancing with Rose (for one notably restless resident), highlights the individuality of the residents, the possibility for warm relationships, and the joy of “waltzing to a 4/4 beat.”

Eternity Soup: Inside the Quest to End Aging, by Greg Critser (2010) The late Greg Critser, who wrote about medicine and health for the Los Angeles Times and the New Yorker, explored the weird world of antiaging products and the science behind them. Well, there is some valid science: For instance, a 20 to 50 percent reduction in caloric intake, without malnutrition (don’t try this at home), can extend life. But who wants to be cold all the time and eat half a sweet potato for dinner? Still, the antiaging cause has its zealots, and they have their elixirs: testosterone cream, thyroid extract, powdered antioxidants. The Food and Drug Administration notes on its website that “for most claims made in the labeling of dietary supplements, the law does not require the manufacturer or seller to prove to FDA’s satisfaction that the claim is accurate or truthful before it appears on the product.” It’s the Wild West out there.

REQUIRED VIEWING

Alive Inside (2014; 99 minutes), directed

by Michael Rossato-Bennett This fil , a Sundance Audience Award– winner, is an astonishing documentary about the power of music to stir memory.

Dan Cohen, a social worker and founder of the Music & Memory project in and around New York City, gives iPods and headsets to people with dementia, loaded with the music they once loved. And their faces and minds light up. For example, a man named Henry who has been unresponsive for weeks listens and almost instantly raises his head and opens his eyes wide; asked for his favorites, he comes up with band leader Cab Calloway and sings scat. If a pharmaceutical was this

effective, Cohen says, we’d consider it a miracle drug. Neurologist Oliver Sacks supplies commentary (The philosopher Kant called music “the quickening art,” he says). Yes, this is an uplifting film about Alzheimer’s disease.

Andrew Jenks, Room 335 (2006; 90 minutes), directed by Andrew Jenks New York University undergraduate Andrew Jenks moved into a Florida assisted living facility for a month in 2005, when he was 19. Initially, he planned to seat residents in front of a camera and conduct life-history interviews, asking somber, direct questions about joy and regret. But he quickly gets sucked into their daily routines—the Hawaiian shirts, bingo games, watching Jeopardy. He decides to “become better friends” with the people he’s already met. And the movie comes alive.

Age of Champions (2011; 70 minutes), directed by Christopher Rufo This is an excellent documentary about very old adults who train hard to compete athletically at the National Senior Games held in 2009 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Tigerettes basketball players out of Baton Rouge (repeat champions in the women’s 65+ division) have a team hairstylist and a reputation for playing rough. Earl Blassingame, a shot, discus, hammer, and javelin hurler in the 85–89 age range, chases the distances logged by fellow Texan Adolph Hoffman and offers, “Everybody wants to win, right?” Students are surprised by such possibilities in latelife, but they relate.

Sara Moorman is an associate professor of sociology with a joint appointment in Boston College’s Institute on Aging.

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Study rooms on the northwest corner of the Thomas More Apartments, Monday, September 24, 1:07 a.m.

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midnight nighthawks and their habitats

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icardo Martins supervises the custodial department’s third shift, 71 employees who work through the night, 11:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. He says you can find students in almost every academic building on campus after midnight. They are studying, mostly, but also practicing music, polishing dance routines, rehearsing presentations.

The custodians and students “work around each other,” says Martins. “We hold off on a room if they seem busy, and if they pull apart a classroom—to practice some dance, say—they put it back before they leave.” Student numbers dwindle after three o’clock. “If they stay later than that,” Martins says, “it’s usually with their heads down on the table.” The night shift takes many forms on campus. University photographer Peter Julian, a self-described early bird, captured the following scenes during the opening weeks of the fall semester.

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BCPD FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 From its base in Maloney Hall, the Boston College Police Department patrols the night. Clockwise, from top: Officer Anthony Cadogan checks a facilities building on the Hammond Pond Parkway Campus; dispatcher Cody Weber passes a bank of screens that monitor University public spaces; Cadogan surveys the grounds of the McMullen Museum of Art; and he checks in with security officer Christopher Kelly at the front desk of O’Neill Library, which stays open all night, except on Friday and Saturday.

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Nachtmusik THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 The trombone section and a singer from BC bOp! polish “Come Fly with Me” in a subterranean band practice room in Conte Forum until 1:00 a.m. Bottom photo, clockwise, from left: Nathanael Victor ‘20 (vocalist), Audra Kingsley ’22, Curtis Flannery ’20, Erin McCormack ’22, and Brian Mailhot ’20.

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Third shift WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Members of the custodial staff’s night crew work Sunday through Friday preparing academic buildings (Stokes Hall, in this case) and other facilities for another day. Clockwise, from above: Savas Savvidis in Stokes South; John Forbes (piloting the polishing machine), and John Tapley; Katty Alarcon in Stokes North; Tapley in the breezeway between the Stokeses.

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The physicist MONDAY, OCTOBER 1 In the Higgins Hall 031 laboratory of assistant professor Ilija Zeljkovic, Ph.D. student He Zhao calibrates the scanning tunneling microscope prior to an overnight experiment on superconductivity.

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On air WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, AND THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 At WZBC, the student-run radio station located in McElroy Commons 107, DJs Nick Sucre ’19 (above and top left) and Josh Mentzer ’19 host a show called Aquamarine Midnight from 1:00 to 2:00 a.m.

The Thursday playlist included “Poem Symphonique,” by the Ligeti Quartet and “The Raid,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.

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On deadline MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 The Heights staff puts the week’s issue to bed at their McElroy Commons 113 office on a hard deadline of 2:00 a.m. Clockwise from left at around 1:00 a.m.: Copy editor Abby Hunt ’21 and news editor Jack Goldman ’20; editor-in-chief Connor Murphy ’19 (in hall), creative director Steven Everett ’20, and investigative editor Heidi Dong ’19 (through doorway); layout editor Madison Mariani ’20 (in foreground).

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Bakers’ hours TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Dining Services bakers fire up the ovens in the McElroy Commons kitchens at 3:00 a.m. to produce, among other items, nearly 1,000 croissants and more than 2,000 cookies and brownies for the dining halls that will start serving at 7:15 a.m. Clockwise, from above: Clinton Durant; John Amichetti (in ball cap), head baker William Coakley, and Swostismita Behera; David Young (with whisk) and Behera (with cakes).

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Call waiting FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 The 75-member all-student, all-volunteer Boston College EMS provides emergency care across campus, 24 hours a day from its base in Maloney Hall 444. Clockwise, from middle left: The EMT crew of Danielle Rinaldi ’21 (left), John Esposito ’20, and Caitlin Ruane ’19 depart Maloney for their service vehicle; they check supplies in the vehicle around 12:35 a.m.; Esposito and Rinaldi play cards—their shift ends at 2:00; Rinaldi prepares to store a practice dummy.

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learned from life ❧

seven lessons in ministry

by james martin, sj

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n summer 2008, the University’s Institute for Religious Education joined with the Weston Jesuit School of Theology (founded in 1922) to create the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (STM), with civil and ecclesiastical degrees leading to lay and ordained ministries. The school currently offers eight degree programs to some 400 men and women. On September 20, STM marked its 10th anniversary with a Mass at St. Ignatius Church—University President William P. Leahy, SJ, presided; Timothy Kesicki, SJ, president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, delivered the homily. That evening, before a packed audience in Robsham Theater, New York Times best-selling author James Martin, SJ, delivered the inaugural Daniel J. Harrington, SJ, Lecture— named for the late STM professor and author of 60 books of Biblical scholarship:

of all the jesuits i’ve known over the last 30 years, there are a few I would consider saints or, at very least, saintly: John Donohue, an editor and writer who worked for decades at America magazine; Bob Gilroy, a Jesuit artist and spiritual director; Daniel Berrigan, the peace activist and poet; and Cardinal Avery Dulles, the great American theologian. But there is only one for whom I think we could legitimately open an offi ial Vatican “cause” for canonization. I’m talking about Daniel J. Harrington, SJ. There is an old Jesuit expression: “Street angel, house devil.”

As you might guess, it refers to Jesuits about whom people in our colleges and universities, high schools, parishes, and retreat houses say, “Oh, he’s so wonderful”—when those who live with that Jesuit may think otherwise. But as far as I saw, Dan was always kind, patient, and prayerful. And so: holy.

Dan taught “Introduction to the New Testament” (NT 101) at Weston Jesuit School of Theology, when I was a student there in the late 1990s. His course instilled in me an abid-

ing fascination with the New Testament; a lasting affini y for the historical-critical method (and, by the way, I’ve never understood how anyone could have a problem with wanting to understand the books of the Bible in the context in which they were written); and, most of all, a deeper love for Jesus.

Listening to Dan talk about the Gospels was like listening to one of the evangelists—Mark, if I had to choose. Based not only on his vast learning, but also, thanks to his role as the longtime editor of the scholarly journal New Testament Abstracts, where he read and reviewed every important book to come out on the topic, Dan’s knowledge of the New Testament was, in the English-speaking world, nearly unparalleled—which was at fi st surprising to me because he was so mild-mannered, the opposite of what one might expect of a world-renowned academic.

He was also tremendously pastoral. At the beginning of my time at Weston Jesuit in 1995, I got carpal tunnel syndrome. It came upon me suddenly, the result of a year of almost straight writing and typing at America magazine, where I had spent the previous year in what Jesuits call Regency, the two-year, full-time period between First Studies and Theology, part of the decade-long process of formation. The condition was very painful. Only a few months after being missioned to study at Weston, I could neither take notes nor write papers. I had a hard time understanding what I was supposed to do. And an even harder time understanding what God was doing.

I went to my faculty advisor, Meg Guider, OSF (she’s now an associate professor of missiology at STM), who was car-

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ing and helpful. She said, sensibly, “Why don’t you ask your professors if you can take your tests orally?”

The fi st professor I asked was Dan. I climbed the creaky staircase of the old Weston Jesuit administration building, at 3 Phillips Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and there he was in his offi e, hard at work. Today, with some age and experience, I might be more detached, because we all have physical limitations, but at the time I was embarrassed. Here I was a relatively young man about to tell this older man that I couldn’t do something easy—type. What’s more, there was Dan at his computer typing away.

After I sat down, I explained my situation and asked if it would be okay if I took my tests for his class orally. And Dan said, “Of course you can. But I’ll miss reading your papers.”

Only a few months after being missioned to study at Weston, I could neither take notes nor write papers. I had a hard time understanding what I was supposed to do.

And an even harder time understanding what God was doing.

It may seem strange to say, but that was one of the kindest things that anyone’s ever said to me. I thought it was a very pastoral thing to say, even if it wasn’t true. But, over the years, I’ve realized that Dan probably wasn’t lying. That wasn’t in his nature and, more to the point, I think that Dan, in his humility, really did enjoy reading our papers.

This lecture is about ministry, but I hope that you’ll see that I’ve already been talking about ministry when I describe Dan, whose way of ministering to others was characterized by careful preparation, diligent work, and compassion. To that end, let me share a few more stories, some from Dan, some from my own life, to illustrate the seven most helpful lessons on ministering I’ve learned as a Jesuit. lesson 1: You can’t know everything.

In Dan’s NT 101 class, a student once asked a memorable question about one of Jesus’s miracles. The student stood up, which was a surprise. No one stood in class to ask a question. He said, “Fr. Harrington, with what we know about Jesus’s identity as the Second Person of the Trinity, and his relationship to the Father and the Spirit, and the hypostatic union of his two natures, when he is performing this particular miracle, what is going through his mind in terms of his self-conception as the Son of God?” And Dan said, “We have no idea.”

When it comes to ministry, you won’t know everything.

You study hard, you take your work seriously, and you give yourself fully to your ministry. But you know that you’re not going to be able to answer every question, solve every problem, meet every ministerial challenge—or, for scholars, know everything about your fi ld. In pastoral ministry, you may not know what to say to someone who has lost a job, contracted an illness, or had a death in the family. It’s important to take pastoral counseling courses, as I did at Weston, to learn the “best practices” for accompanying people, but you can’t know what to say or do at every turn.

That’s when you are called to remember who called you to ministry: God. And, more to the point, God put you there in front of the person in need—not Pope Francis, not Mother Teresa, not Jean Vanier, not Helen Prejean, CSJ, not Dan Harrington. And not a know-it-all either. God put you in this place at this time before this person, which means God wants you there, with all your strengths and weaknesses. Trust that. lesson 2: You can’t do everything.

From 1992 to 1994, I worked with the Jesuit Refugee Service in Kenya. My assignment was helping East African refugees start small businesses to support themselves and their families. We sponsored dozens of income-generating activities, from a Ugandan women’s tailoring group, to a Rwandese bakery, to two Ethiopian restaurants, both named The Blue Nile. In time, we opened a small shop in Nairobi to market refugee-made handicrafts. It was the most enjoyable and fulfilli g ministry I’ve ever had. But after a while, I started to burn out. I was helping to run the shop and oversee the small businesses, visiting refugees at their homes in the slums, helping them to deal with health problems, landlord problems, legal problems, fear, hunger, depression, loneliness.

One day I said to my spiritual director, a Jesuit named George Drury [’45, MA’46, MS’49], “I don’t know how I can do all of this!” And he responded, “Who says you have to do it all?” And I said, “Well, it’s what Jesus would do. He’d help all these people.” And George said, “Well, maybe, but I have news for you: You’re not Jesus.”

Here we need to remember something about Jesus’s ministry: Jesus didn’t cure everyone in Galilee and Judea. In his public ministry, Jesus dealt with the people in front of him, as we are to do. That doesn’t mean you don’t work for structural change. But it does mean that you can’t do everything. lesson 3: You can do some things.

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York, and on September 13 I made my way down to a place called Chelsea Piers, on the West Side, where rescue operations were being staged. I ran into a police offi er who asked me, “Do you want to go down there?” I said, “Yes,” and suddenly I was headed to Ground Zero. In the backseat of the car with me was a psychologist, and I said to him, “Do you have any advice?” He replied, “Have you ever dealt with trauma victims?” And I said, “No,” somewhat terrifie . And he said, “Just listen.”

When we arrived at Ground Zero, the police offi er wished us good luck. We got out of the car and there was the scene familiar to most Americans from the news reports: the

Notice how after Jesus proclaims his

asked me to speak, and I started off by saying that I didn’t know everything about LGBTQ ministry, something that was made abundantly clear to me over the course of the weekend. I found myself having to learn new language, a new tone, and a new appreciation for their lives. My experience can be summed up as my telling them, “God loves you,” and them saying, “Yeah, we know!”

During the IgnatianQ conference, the confession that I was still learning seemed to make the students more open to teaching me. At one point in my talk, I mentioned “transgenderism,” and a hand shot up. “Father, I’m not an ism,” said the student. “Okay,” I said, “What should I say, ‘transgender experience’?” They snapped their fi gers appreciatively. You can always learn something new.

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lesson 5: You can’t be liked by everyone.

of Nazareth praise him; then they turn

Building a Bridge was essentially an invitation to dialogue and prayer and an encouragement for the institutional Church to treat LGBTQ Catholics with “respect, compassion, and sensitivity,” three virtues mentioned by the Catechism of the Catholic Church in dealing with “homosexual persons.” At the same time, the book invited the LGBTQ Catholic community to treat the institutional Church with those virtues, even though, I should point out, the onus is on the Church to reach out to the LGBTQ person, because it is the Church that has made LGBTQ people feel marginalized, not the other way around.

I thought the book—which was just 160 pages—was pretty mild. It was rooted in the Gospels, based on the catechism, and had the approval of my Jesuit provincial, as well as the encouragement of the Jesuit superior general, and the endorsement of several cardinals, archbishops, and bishops.

But I underestimated the strong reactions, both positive and negative.

To be clear, the vast majority of Catholics, both the hierarchy and the people in the pews, welcomed the book.

And at fi st it was the positive reactions that astounded me.

One of the early talks I gave was in Boston, at St. Cecilia Church in the Back Bay, which has a fl urishing LGBTQ ministry. The talk was scheduled for a weekday night; I had just spoken at the parish a few months before and figu ed that attendance would be low. But some 700 people turned out, it was standing-room-only, and I signed books for three hours. Afterward people burst into tears, hugged me, and told me their stories—LGBTQ Catholics and their parents and grandparents.

The strong negative reactions also caught me by surprise.

A few days after the book was published, I started to get attacked on far-right religious websites by commentators who called me, and I quote, “heretic,” “apostate,” “sodomite,” “homosexualist,” “fairy,” “pansy,” “false priest,”

on him, try to drive him away. But he “passes through their midst.” Once, on retreat, I asked Jesus, “How were you able to do this?” And the answer I heard in prayer was, “Must everyone like you?” ruined towers, the smoldering buildings, the ash, the paper, the debris. It was, as you can imagine, overwhelming.

Someone said, “The morgue is over there.” I knew myself well enough, and knew my limitations well enough, to know that I couldn’t work in the morgue. I couldn’t do that. So I stood there on the papers and the ash and tried to think of what I could do. And I realized I could minister to the fi efigh ers and EMTs and policemen. I could listen to them. Let them grieve. Accompany them. I would have been paralyzed if I’d thought I had to do everything at Ground Zero. Instead, I did what I could: the ministry of presence, as we used to say at Weston. Along with my Jesuit brothers, I worked there for several days and then weeks. lesson 4: You can always learn something new.

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Last year I wrote a book called Building a Bridge, about how the Church can more compassionately reach out to LGBTQ people. A few months after the book was published, I was invited to the 2018 “IgnatianQ” conference at Loyola University Maryland. It is an annual gathering of student representatives from the LGBTQ groups at all 28 U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities. The conference organizers had 32

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“wolf in sheep’s clothing” and “heresiarch.” Then came attacks from Catholic commentators and columnists and a few bishops, including one bishop in a diocese not far from here who, halfway through his critique in the diocesan newspaper, admitted that he hadn’t read my book.

Several talks I had been invited to give were cancelled: by the Theological College of the Catholic University of America; by CAFOD (Catholic Agency for Overseas Development), the U.K. equivalent of Catholic Relief Services; by the Order of the Holy Sepulcher; and by a Catholic parish in New Jersey. Each of these talks was cancelled because of online petitions and telephone campaigns targeting the sponsoring parish or group. And each talk was scheduled to focus on the 2014 book that preceded Building a Bridge, which was a life of Christ entitled Jesus: A Pilgrimage.

Then came pushback from the other side. Cardinal Blase Cupich [H’15], the archbishop of Chicago, invited me to give two lectures during Holy Week at Holy Name Cathedral; and other cardinals and bishops spoke up to endorse the book and offer invitations. In August of 2018, at the Vatican’s invitation, I gave a talk at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin. The Vatican proposed my topic and the title (“Showing Welcome and Respect in Our Parishes to LGBTQ People and Their Families”) and vetted and approved the text. But partially in response to that talk, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former Vatican nuncio to the United States, denounced me for “corrupt[ing] youth,” in a letter published in Rome as the World Meeting neared an end—the same letter in which he more famously accused the pope of covering up clerical sexual abuse.

What does all of that have to do with ministry? Just this: Remember the story of the “Rejection at Nazareth” in the Gospels (Mark 6:1–6; Matthew 13:54–58; and Luke 4:16–30)? Notice how Jesus is treated after he proclaims his identity as the Messiah. Initially, the people of Nazareth, his hometown, praise him; then they turn on him, try to drive him away, and make ready to throw him off a cliff. But he “passes through their midst.” Once when I was on retreat, I asked Jesus, “How were you able to do this? I certainly couldn’t stand up before people who I think would reject me.” And the answer I heard in prayer was, “Must everyone like you?”

Simply because you face opposition in ministry doesn’t mean you’re doing the right thing. As my novice director used to say, “If people disagree with you, it may just mean that you’re wrong.” But if you are ministering in Jesus’s name, you will inevitably face opposition and perhaps even persecution.

What can keep you going? First, the knowledge that Jesus went through this too. Second, the trust that if you’re doing the right thing, Jesus is with you. Third, some good

old-fashioned Jesuit “detachment” or “indifference,” to use the words of St. Ignatius Loyola, the Jesuit founder (another way of speaking about an interior freedom). Whenever I see attacks on myself that are clearly cruel and not at all constructive, I repeat a helpful mantra: “Who cares?” Freeing yourself of the need to be liked will free you for “life in the Spirit,” as Dan liked to say. lesson 6: You can be like Jesus.

In my 30 years as a Jesuit I’ve met hundreds, maybe thousands of people who minister in Jesus’s name—scholars and writers and editors, pastors and pastoral associates, bishops and priests, sisters and brothers, spiritual directors and counselors, social justice activists and peacemakers, college and university administrators, high school presidents and teachers, and on and on. And, very occasionally, among these people I notice something. A few of them are cruel. Not often but enough that it registers. They’re shorttempered with their staff, denigrate others, and are, to use a word that needs to be recovered in our theological vocabulary, mean.

There are always excuses. Everyone who is mean has an excuse: exhaustion, stress, overwork. And, in those cases, I remember Dan Harrington: always busy, probably tired, and yet always kind. I’ve started to think of Christian ministry in terms of what might be called the “asceticism of kindness.”

I’m not saying I always achieve that goal—ask anyone who knows me—but it’s a good goal nonetheless. lesson 7: You were called by God into this ministry.

These are diffi ult times in the Church. Historically diffi ult. And it can be hard to be a Catholic, let alone minister as one. But remember: At your baptism God called you into the Church by name. And in your ministry God made a further call. When things get tough for me, I think of Peter and Andrew, and James and John, and Mary Magdalene, and all those disciples Jesus called at the beginning of his ministry in Galilee—the “Galilean Springtime.” After the Resurrection, and the Ascension, when Jesus’s time on earth was over, these people faced tremendous diffi ulties, even martyrdom.

And I’m sure that, at the worst times, they thought back to the original call, by the shores of the Sea of Galilee, and remembered who called them. n James Martin, SJ, M.Div.’98, Th.M.’99, is a Jesuit priest, editor at large of America magazine, consultor to the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication and the author of many books, including Jesus: A Pilgrimage (2014); The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life (2010); and Building a Bridge (2017). His talk on September 20 may be viewed in full via Full Story, at bc.edu/bcm.

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The clash on the shore captures the persistent danger that has ever plagued the city called La Serenissima (loosely, her serene highness)—the fear that the water might one day swallow the city again. This past October, Venice Marathon runners contended with ankle-deep water as they slogged through the streets, just one instance of the “acqua alta” (high water) that inundates the city some 50 times a year.

The water levels can rise by as much as fi e feet, sending shopkeepers scrambling to keep canals from floo ing their stores and tourists sloshing across the Piazza San Marco in their wellies.

“Venice is just the perfect example of how inspiring the environment can be to a city, but also how challenging,” says coastal oceanographer Gail Kineke, a professor in the University’s earth and environmental sciences department.

While Venice might have gotten an earlier taste than most cities of water’s unrelenting physics, a projected sea-level rise of anywhere from two to fi e feet over the next century means more cities will follow. “Every coastal city is going to face those same challenges,” Kineke says, “and those challenges will emerge in commerce and architecture, and whatever makes the soul of the city what it is.”

Leone and Kineke teach a pair of conjoined courses under the overarching title “Living on the Water.” Students who sign up for Kineke’s “Coasts, Development, and Sea Level Change from Venice to Boston” must enroll simultaneously in Leone’s “Venetian Art, Architecture, and the Environment” and vice versa. The classes meet separately— Leone’s in the morning and Kineke’s in the afternoon, on Tuesdays and Thursdays—but on four evenings a semester the students gather with both professors, for a “refle tion session” that may introduce a guest speaker. There are also fi ld trips.

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cifi ally for 19 freshmen in total, as part of the Enduring Questions series that the University launched during its renewal of the Core Curriculum in 2015. This fall, 19 Enduring Questions pairings were offered by professors in economics, law, education, and theater, to name a few.

They included “Finding the Animal” and “How Animals Made the World,” taught by associate professors Robert Stanton (English) and Zachary Matus (history), respectively, their question being, “What is a human, and who is an animal?” Biologist Michelle Meyer and theologian Jeffrey Cooley’s courses were both titled “In the Beginning,” and the questions on the table were, “Where did we come from, how did the world come to be?” The aim of such tandem investigations is to draw fi st-year students into intellectual explorations that take them beyond the classroom—to foster intellectual growth as well as a maturing citizenship around “subjects crucial to the human experience,” in the words of the program’s founding document.

That sea-level rise is a crucial subject is apparent. One need look no further than the “bomb cyclone”—the tidal surge coupled with a nor’easter that hit downtown Boston this past January, leaving dumpsters fl ating down streets and cars frozen in several feet of ice, in the city’s worst floo ing in history. Or the storm surge in the coastal Carolinas in September from Hurricane Florence, which, combined with as much as 36 inches of rain, left areas floo ed for more than two weeks.

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y any right, venice shouldn’t have been a city at all—never mind one of humankind’s “masterpiece[s],” as UNESCO declared in 1987.

It started as an archipelago of marshy islands in a lagoon off the Italian coast, protected from the sea by a narrow spit of barrier islands. The area’s first settlers around 400 ce were refugees fleeing the invasions of Germanic tribes after the fall of the Roman Empire, who rightly surmised that the barbarians wouldn’t swim across the lagoon for such thin spoils.

“From the beginning, the environment shaped Venice’s history,” Leone says. The residents’ fi st challenge was to create solid ground out of a marshy muck, which gave early Venetians a sense of purpose and identity. “In order to create the land, they had to create a sense of community different from the other cities forming at the time,” she says. “From the eighth to the 18th centuries, Venetians thought of themselves as being very unique, and different from the rest of the Italian peninsula.” As the city grew, its inhabitants cut down thousands of trees across the sea in Istria, in modernday Croatia, bringing them home and driving their trunks like piles into the marshy earth; overtop was layered Istrian marble to form the foundations for small islands.

Leone’s own love affair with Venice started one year out

of college, when she interned at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection museum, situated on the Grand Canal. Since arriving at Boston College in 2001, she has taught courses on the Italian Renaissance and Baroque. In 2016, she introduced a course devoted to Venetian art and architecture.

When the Core Renewal Committee was looking for topics for Enduring Questions courses, Leone attended an event to match up potential faculty partners. “It was like speed dating for teaching,” she says. As soon as she heard Kineke say she studied coastal oceanography, “I made a beeline for her.” For her part, Kineke has studied estuaries and coastal sediment transport from San Francisco Bay to the Amazon River. In 2002, she participated in a project in

the Adriatic to look at how sediment from rivers travelled along the Italian coast, called the Po and Apennine Sediment Transport and Accumulation project. “It had the best acronym—PASTA,” Kineke says.

In effect, the two professors were looking at the same area from different directions. “Professor Leone was looking at Venice as located on the northeast coast of Italy, I was thinking of Venice as being on the northwest coast of the Adriatic Sea,” Kineke told the assembled class of freshmen during their fi st meeting in September. That wasn’t the only difference in their viewpoints, Kineke admitted. While Leone dealt in the subjective language of cultural expression and brushstrokes, Kineke has focused on the hard science of wave formations and climate patterns.

“We are just sort of this oddball pair,” Kineke told the students. “But we found some way to make it work, and we both learned a lot.” Connecting the two disciplines, she said, is an emphasis on place—and how we make sense of the places we are in. “How do the natural processes impact where we live and the structures we might build?” Kineke asked. “And then how do we respond to the changing environment—one of the greatest challenges of which is sea-level rise?”

From the beginning, the Venetians struggled against the sea, even as the sea would come to be their lifeblood. “There was a constant need to maintain the city,” Leone lectured in class in September. Houses were built up with heavy brick and stone, which were less sensitive to water than wood, and seawalls were erected to protect against the waves and divert sediment away from the lagoon—a measure necessary to ensure access to ships. At the same time, the heavy buildings and lack of natural soil replenishment caused the city to sink over time.

Venice’s coastal location made it a main pass-through point for religious pilgrims to the Holy Land, and eventually a jumping off point for the Silk Road to the East. The city became a shipbuilding nation, its inhabitants setting sail to trade with, and eventually to conquer parts of, the eastern Mediterranean, bringing home infl ences from the Arab world.

“The earliest Islamic pieces in Venice were spoglia,” Leone told the class in another sestop: Consulting a satellite map before heading to Nauset Beach. bottom: The return climb.

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sion—that is, spoils of war that were repurposed for a Christian context; for example, an enameled glass bowl used to hold holy water. By the mid-14th century, Venetians were creating their own glass and metalwork designs based on Islamic practices— sometimes covering pieces in pseudo-Arabic inscriptions—for export throughout Europe.

As the city became richer, it plowed its wealth into monumental churches and—its crowning artistic achievement—Renaissance paintings, in which the sea also played a major role.

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Gardner was a fan of the Floating City, spending every other summer in a palazzo on the Grand Canal—and she brought back her own spoglia, including the Venetian stone medallions set into the inner walls of the museum courtyard.

Gardner was living in this palatial home when she opened it in 1903 as a museum. “My desk is right where her bedroom was,” says Molly Phelps ’14, a cataloguer and administrator who is giving the class a special tour. Phelps leads the way up stone stairways to the Veronese room, named for the Venetian Renaissance artist Paolo Veronese (1528–88). “All of the works in this room are connected to Venice in some way,” Phelps says, pointing out the opulent leather wall coverings and lace borders meant to convey the luxury goods of Venice’s Golden Age. The real attraction, however, is on the ceiling—an enormous, 12-foot square painting by Veronese’s studio titled The Coronation of Hebe. It depicts a lush cloudscape, with gods ascending into the sky in colorful robes to welcome Zeus’s daughter, the goddess of youth. “This is an excellent 38

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The fact that these paintings are here is because of Venice’s relationship to the sea, says Leone. During the Renaissance in Rome and Florence, the epitome of an artist’s talent was his ability to draw directly onto the surface of walls or ceilings—hence the beautiful frescoes by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel. In Venice, however, the ever-present moisture from the watery environment caused paint applied directly to walls to crack within a few years.

So instead, Venetian artists adopted a new technique, paint-

in their wake. “The natural system will accommodate it if it ing with oil on the canvas that was readily available from can,” Kineke says. sailmakers.

While they’d looked at pictures of the Outer Cape in That practice changed the course of Western art, making class, says Wisconsin native Christopher Rizzo ’22, that was the use of color and the texture of brush strokes the main no substitute for seeing it in person—”how the beach had signatures of an artist rather than drawn lines. “They creevolved, how the lagoon behind the barrier had fil ed in, and ated a tradition in which the individual hand of the artist how it had been breached by nor’easters.” can be seen through the way they paint,” Leone says. Those That dynamic action stood in contrast to the more builtcanvases also had the virtue of being portable, and so in up area of the Cape near Falmouth, where Kineke has lived addition to filli g the walls of Venetian churches and social for the last 16 years and where the class went next. There, halls, the great paintings of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, and the beach is fi ed by jetties and seawalls, and houses are built Carpaccio made their way across Europe—and some evenon stilts in an effort to survive the ocean’s desire to punch tually to America. holes in the coast. As Kineke explained in class, the size of After admiring the paintings, the students are set loose to waves during a storm surge are directly related to the speed select a work of art relating to Venice that they will analyze of the winds and the depth of the body of water out of which on their own. “I live for this,” enthuses Katherine Jeszenszky they grow. As sea-level rises, and as climate change causes ’22. She chose The Birth of Caterina Cornaro, a 16th-century storms to become more powerful, the size of storm surges work of oil on a maple panel by an anonymous artist. A slight increases, and the damage worsens in vulnerable populated 16 x 20 inches, it is populated by upward of a hundred fi areas on the coast. ures—including nymphs, children, pets, ladies-in-waiting, a For Venice, it’s not nor’easters that threaten the coast Moorish prince, and a Native American chieftain. “Usually,” in winter, but the Sirocco, a dry wind that blows up the sea she says of the works the class has been studying, “there is an from North Africa, and the Bura, a strong wind from the underlying meaning to be uncovered by the viewer. With this east that zooms down from the cold mountains of Croatia— piece, there seems to be more than one story at play, and my both of which push sea water northwestward toward the senses are almost overwhelmed.” city. Sergio Fagherazzi should know—he grew up on Lido, The art in the Gardner Museum is not the only thing the narrow barrier island (population 20,000) that separates Boston has in common with Venice. Boston also reached its the Venetian lagoon from the Adriatic. Now a professor prominence through maritime trade, when its clipper ships of marine geology at Boston University, he told students sailed to the Far East in the early 1800s. Boston, like Venice, during a refle tion session in October about fi ding stormis built on landfill—i cluding the Back Bay neighborhood tossed trees washed up on the beach, carried down from riva few blocks east of where Mrs. Gardner’s museum stands. ers further north. As Venetians created jetties and seawalls And like Venice, Boston is protected by a barrier island of to protect the lagoon from sedimentation, Lido’s beach sorts—the long arm of Cape Cod. eroded and storms surged through the channel into the The class visited Cape Cod on a brilliantly sunny Saturday lagoon, or washed over the island entirely. in September, to see the prisThe fi st major warning was in 1966, tine 40 miles of outer beach when the core when, in an unprecedented acqua alta, the set aside as the Cape Cod water rose more than six feet, causing National Seashore in 1961. renewal committee catastrophic floo ing throughout the city.

“It could never happen was looking for “Venetians knew about sea-level rise in the today—it was a real gift,” 1960s,” Fagherazzi said. “That is why we Kineke says. Just because topics for enduring were more advanced in understanding the the coastline is unspoiled, questions courses, tragedy of the shoreline.” however, doesn’t mean it Venice’s current response to the threat has stayed put. The beach leone attended of sea-level rise is a proposal called MOSE, is constantly vying with the which stands for Modulo Sperimentale ocean, as winter storms born an event to match Elettromeccanico (and also evokes Moses’s by strong northeast winds up potential faculty biblical parting of the Red Sea). Put simply, slam into the dunes, someit would consist of a massive underwater times creating breaks in the partners. “it was jetty—constructed as a series of hollow shore that last for years. like speed dating for plates—that could be raised to completely Eventually the breaks heal, block the channel entering the lagoon in or they migrate down the teaching,” she says. the event of a storm surge. Partially combeach as the sand reforms fa l l 20 18 v bcm

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has always been interested in architecpleted, the project, which has ture and rural development, and paralready cost more than $5.7 ticipating in the course about Venice billion, was supposed to be has given her a deeper awareness of the implemented in 2011—but issues facing her own archipelago. “We after a series of complicatake a lot of things for granted,” she says. tions, including fouling of “It opened my mind to being more aware the hinges by mussels and of my surroundings and the relationship other sea life, it is planned for we have to our environment.” She is operation in 2022. “They are thinking about a career in planning and still waiting for funding from development. the government,” Fagherazzi Whether or not any of these fi st-year sighed. students choose art history or environEven if MOSE is implemental science as their path, Kineke and mented, however, the project Leone hope that the experience causes may not be adequate to save them to look differently at their relationthe city as sea level continship—and responsibility—to the enviues to rise. New emphasis is ronment, wherever they end up living. being placed on restoration of “An element opposes another element,” engraving by “The Enduring Questions we were trythe marshes along the edges Venetian-born Andrea Zucchi (1679–1740). ing to answer, are really, How do humans of the lagoon, which have hisaffect the environment, and How does torically served as a natural the environment impact humans,” says Kineke, “both in buffer, absorbing water from storm surges and reducing the indirect ways like art and architecture and direct ways like, if overall size of flood . As scientists and engineers confront we want to live here, we have to build differently.” the full force of sea-level rise around the world, they will Although it’s not discussed in class, the environment have to consider a range of solutions that go beyond building of the Enduring Questions courses, with their intensive bigger walls, Kineke says.

Tuesdays and Thursdays and occasional evenings and excur“Building big seawalls will protect what’s behind them, sions, has an effect on the students. “The chemistry of the so you save the house, but you completely lose the beach,” class is different,” says Kineke. “With all of them being she says. And once the beach is gone, waves strike with more freshmen, they are all in the same place, and it’s clear power, putting buildings, roads, and property at greater risk, they got to know each other as a group very early. When I especially as sea level rises. Accommodating the ocean’s come into class, they are usually quite animated,” she says. destructive force in coming decades will require working “They’re talking across the room, and everyone is in on the with natural processes as much as against them. “The way conversation. I believe they are more willing to speak up in Venice developed was so tightly coupled to the kind of enviclass because they are more comfortable with each other as ronment it has; and the environmental problems it is facing a community.” Students share her observation. “We know today are directly coupled to the choice of how it developed,” each other better, and I think we all know how we think,” Kineke says. “Understanding that as it relates to Venice can says Rizzo. “We all hang out together to get work done, and help make those connections as they relate to other coastit’s really nice,” puts in Leah Gerrish, who hails from southlines too.” west of Boston.

Though Christopher Rizzo is still planning on being As a fi al project, Kineke asks students to consider how a history and classics major, he’s been surprised at how cities should respond to sea-level rise, looking at specifi fascinating he’s found the scientific aspects. “My grandexamples, from Venice to Boston—while Leone asks what parents live in North Carolina on Ocracoke Island, so the makes Venice even worth saving. “Venice is something that coastal geology and how that’s been changing is really shouldn’t exist,” Leone says: a cultural and artistic jewel creapplicable to them,” he says. The subject matter has hit even ated out of the sea. “You could think of it as overcoming the closer to home for Magisha Thohir ’22, who is from Jakarta, challenge of nature or, better yet, working with what nature Indonesia. Like Venice, her city has been sinking, due to has presented,” she says, to build a place that expresses “the fresh water pumped out of the earth from private wells. heights of humanity’s creative and intellectual capabilities.” n “Our coastline has signifi antly started to erode,” she says.

“People have lost their homes—primarily fis ermen, but I know it’s something that could affect me in the future.”

Boston-based writer Michael Blanding’s most recent book is The Map A student in the Carroll School of Management, Thohir Thief (2014).

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A poem 44 Good intentions

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This print, half of a diptych titled Blocked 1, is from a series called All the Boys (2016).

It is one of 124 works of photography, video, and mixed media in the museum's current show Carrie Mae Weems: Strategies of Engagement. The 30-year retrospective of this U.S. artist, whom the New York Times has called “perhaps our best contemporary photographer,” runs through December 13. Blocked 1 uses pigment ink and a silkscreened panel on gesso board (31.4 x 25.4 inches).

image: © 2016 Carrie Mae Weems. Artwork courtesy Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

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In this 1865 scene from the Illustrated London News, a "hard frost" begets personal catastrophes.

RISKY BUSINESS

By Penelope Ismay Life insurance was a tough sell in the 18th century, on moral grounds

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For one thing, assigning a monetary value to lives was thought to be distasteful and potentially dangerous, a possible “incitement to fraud and murder, and . . . [a] conflation of the sacred sphere of human life with the profane operations of the marketplace,” as economic historian Geoffrey Clark puts it. In most places in continental Europe, life insurance was outlawed (the exception being in parts of Italy, where it was highly regulated).

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form of speculation rather than an act of prudence. Britons, for example, had since the late 17th century shown a strong propensity to gamble on any circumstance that contained an element of chance. Life insurance policies were most commonly taken out in this period on the life of a third party, as a bet between the insurer and the purchaser, not as a way to provide for the family upon one’s death. Attesting to the close association of gambling and insurance, the first British regulation of insurance in 1774 was commonly referred to as the Gambling Act. The law attempted to reduce the opportunities for insurance speculation by requiring that a policyholder have a financial interest in what was being insured, whether it was a commodity or a human life.

And while tables that predicted life expectancy and mortality had been around since the 17th century, insurance companies, well into the late 18th century, did not depend on them when valuing lives and setting premiums. As historian of science Lorraine Daston notes, life insurance companies themselves had an “anti-

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statistical” bias. Rather than seeing the tables as measuring the chance that something would happen, they saw them as measures of the expectation that something should happen, given the divinely ordained organization of the universe. The mathematicians who produced early life tables in fact assumed that death rates were naturally constant at any age between adolescence and middle age.

Within these ages, if one person died before another, the reason was thought to be moral and spiritual, not medical or biological.

Even after insurance companies began to use life tables, they did not rely exclusively on them when setting premiums. The Society for Equitable Assurances on Lives and Survivorships, founded in Britain in 1762, provides a helpful illustration. When taking on new lives, its agents viewed the age and health of the candidate as important, but set premiums primarily on the basis of character assessments. When significant moral risks were discovered, such as heavy drinking or regular defaults on debt repayment, a candidate might be refused. For risks of a less serious nature, a surcharge above what the life tables suggested for the age and health of the candidate would be added to the premium. Voyagers to the West Indies, for instance, were assessed an additional five percent.

The acceptance of actuarial science required a new way of seeing, both conceptually and culturally, and those whose business it was to see in an actuarial way did not always feel comfortable or safe doing so. Instead, they would “modify the exact calculations of mathematics by those of prudence,” as a French firm—an emulator of the Equitable—advertised. As Daston writes, it would take “new beliefs and new values, not just the availability of new techniques, to make mathematically based life insurance attractive to buyers and sellers.”

Scholars disagree on the nature of and process through which these new values and beliefs emerged. But the fact remains that they would not be in place for customers of life insurance—generally from the upper classes—until the beginning of the 19th century, more than 100 years after the initial development of reliable data on mortality rates. the upper classes and the companies that served them were not alone in their initial anti-statistical stance. Throughout the late 18th century, laborers who formed mutual aid clubs called friendly societies shared the distrust of actuarial predictions.

Friendly societies such as the Odd Fellows (begun as a convivial club in Manchester, England) turned to mutual aid in the 1810s, offering members relief during sickness and a stipend upon death.

More than six million workers in Britain would belong to such societies by the end of the 19th century. Like their upper-class counterparts, members of friendly societies saw moral health as the most reliable predictor of longevity. Because they only admitted morally healthy people to their groups, they charged everyone the same membership fee regardless of age. In the 1850s, when a British government actuary claimed that friendly societies would go bankrupt if they did not use life tables in setting their fees, the societies resisted. To the actuary, more members meant more liabilities; to the societies, the very growth and development of their brotherhoods guaranteed prosperity and a greater number of brothers on whom a fellow could call in time of need.

By the end of the 19th century, decades after the upper classes

had shown a change in attitude, many friendly societies came around to trusting actuaries and their strange assortment of numbers. But they did not give up their commitment to brotherhood.

They continued to modify “the exact calculations of mathematics” in accordance with the less exact but quite robust values of benevolence. n Penelope Ismay is the Cooney Family Assistant Professor in Boston College’s history department. Her essay was drawn and adapted from her book Trust Among Strangers: Friendly Societies in Modern Britain (copyright © 2018, Penelope Ismay) by permission of Cambridge University Press. The book may be ordered at a discount from the Boston College Bookstore via Full Story at bcm.bc.edu.

Against Pilgrimage

By Moira Linehan After “Lightenings,” in Seeing Things Seamus Heaney

For years the story about the monks at Clonmacnoise in my head in Heaney’s words, though from their annals, the monks all at prayers inside the oratory, cold damp rock walls, Old Testament longings become their own, antiphonal responses ever coming back from beyond the Shannon beyond their walls. Setting for the ship that arrives in the air above them, as real a presence as its anchor catching on the railing before the altar, the abbot telling the brothers they must free it to free the sailor who’d shinnied down its ancient rope or surely he would drown in this world here below.

And so, that anchor freed, the story of the sailor climbing back out of the marvellous as he had known it. Heaney’s telling of it, the marvelous I’ve carried all these years. How many other ruins have I visited not to know better? Yet when there is no altar, no railing, no freed ship a speck sailing away above the Shannon, I leave the circle of the tour, walk out of the tumbled gray rock ruins.

For I’d come believing, if Heaney’s tale were entry into the marvelous, then how much more so the very place where it was set. Ever the call of pilgrimage. Ever its antiphonal response: now return home. As seeking the more than marvelous, ever a way to lose the marvelous I already hold.

Moira Linehan, CAES’79, is the author of the poetry collection Incarnate Grace (2015).

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Outside the entrance to Bapst Library on the Friday of Parents’ Weekend, September 28.

GOOD INTENTIONS

By Anna Marie Murphy A thousand ribbons bloom

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he ribbons began appearing, tied to the wrought iron fence in front of Bapst Library, on September 23, the Sunday before Parents' Weekend. They were mostly two feet long (before knotting), and they’d started out in a cardboard box on a small outdoor table equipped with black felt-tip markers. “Express your prayers,” invited a sign provided by the staff of the Church in the 21st Century Center (Campus Ministry was a cosponsor of the project). By mid-October, when it was time for the ribbons to come down, they numbered 1,300, and looked surprisingly fresh for having endured several days of soaking rain.

There were buoyant prayers (“I am thankful to be able to receive such a great education and ask the big questions”) and sorrowful ones. Three young men, the oldest 21, were named with no further identification than a recent date of death or jersey number (“keep N____B____ in your arms”; “rest easy #32”); hometown friends of undergraduates, most likely, one had succumbed to cancer, another on the football field, and the third had taken his life, according to local papers.

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Some students signed their prayers with full name and class year, as if presenting credentials and God was an Eagle. And because Parents' Weekend was involved, the prayers were multigenerational and flowed both ways. “For my super awesome family ♥.” “For my children and grandchildren.” Grandparents made many appearances: “For my Babcia” (Polish grandmother), “For Pappou ♥” (Greek grandfather). A prayer penned in Chinese characters was delivered by BCM to Sing-chen Lydia Chiang, associate professor of Chinese, for translation: “Stay strong, Ama (Granny) and Popo (Grandma)!! To Dad, Mom, and Elder Brother: Thank you and I love you all.”

“Words are the window to expression,” read one ribbon in thick black ink, and it seems that a few parents and their college-age children found in the streamers a means to communicate with one another. “I have thanks + gratitude for a son better than I deserve or could have hoped for!” “I love you mom. Please take care of yourself. Be happy.” “You are already strong, just believe in yourself.”

More samples follow.

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University life Please Lord guide & watch over D____ each & every day! (LSATs) ◆ That I will be able to make studying in the U.S. and BC a worthwhile experience ◆ For my upcoming exams + that I may keep my resolutions ◆ To see a Duke game ◆ Bless all of the hard-working students here ◆ For everyone at Boston College to know they are never alone ♥ ◆ For all teachers ◆ For my exam Wednesday ◆ BC class of 2022 ◆ New friends in a new place ◆ Good family’s weekend ◆ I hope A____ doesn’t get conjunctivitis this semester ◆ For my family and study partners THANK YOU You’re always here for me ◆ I wish to get straight-As in Fall Semester ◆ I pray that my friends and I find our vocational and spiritual callings ◆ Blessings for the class of 2019 ◆ For a great senior year ◆ For the next steps and getting a fulfilling job ◆ Happy family … All by myself … Gratefulness For myself I pray to become more adjusted to BC ◆ Believe in myself and my own strength ◆ For me & everyone: Grow up intellectually, socially, spiritually ◆ To be straight. More than anything I wish I weren’t gay ◆ I want to be the best version of myself + help others do the same ◆ To get good grades, to meet great people, and be genuinely happy ◆ Dear God, I pray that A____ will give me his heart ♥ ◆ Get a job here + find someone I love :) ◆ For my heart may someday I find my ‘someone’ ◆ I pray to fully recover from my eating disorder ◆ I pray to achieve peace of mind and contentment in this confusing world! ◆ Trying to be a nicer person to everyone around me ◆ Sorting out my life a little Church, state, world I pray for a return to holiness in our generation, for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious

life ◆ For revival in the Church ◆ For Pope Francis, for unity, for an end to abortion, the death penalty, and hate, for peace in our hearts ◆ Peace for Nicaragua ◆ For those affected by the hurricanes in the Carolinas and those affected by genocide ◆ Libre Puerto Rico ◆ Prayers for the 9/11 victims ◆ For the Stoneman Douglas victims ◆ For our country to come together ◆ Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, that she finds strength and courage ◆ For the Kavanaugh Family ◆ For all women of the world, that they may have justice + safety ◆ For members of our armed forces and first responders, that God may keep them safe in their work ◆ Let this country do the right thing ◆ For family – friends + world peace ◆ Safe journeys Thank you and please Thank you God for everything!!! Please watch over our family, especially M____ ◆ I am thankful for good friends & the opportunities I have ◆ Thank you God for the blessing of family and health. Please continue to watch over us and guide us ◆ For my dad in thanksgiving for his support—That all young men grow up to be strong, rational people ◆ Please help our girl during this transition and help her shine her light. Please ◆ Thanks for the blessings of our elders + our parents ◆ Please pray for those affected by depression and anxiety ◆ Still unemployed, please, an internship, please ◆ In gratitude for all that I have, and that I do not yet know ♥ For my dad ♥ ♥ For my dad ♥ Summa For the future new ◆ For everything + everyone ◆ For my loved ones, for those who feel lost, for all who are hurting, for love and charity, for happiness & fulfillment ◆ I pray for all those who need it. ◆ That everything at the end will be okay ◆ For whoever ends up reading this :) n

Gianna Russi ’22 (center), with parents Rick and Sonia, on September 28.

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NEWS & NOTES 182,000 alumni around the globe

DEAR BOSTON COLLEGE

ALUMNI COMMUNITY

It’s

a tremendous privilege for me to return to the Heights after beginning my journey here nearly 16 years ago. Starting in BC Athletics and then transitioning to University Advancement, I had the pleasure of getting to know many of you in my work with alumni affinity and chapter programs, as well as various reunion committees. As your new associate vice president for alumni relations, I look forward to continuing the great work of Joy Haywood Moore ’81, H’10, who is now interim vice president for student affairs.

Along with the BC Alumni Association Board of Directors—and our many committed volunteers—we are here to create engaging programs that bring Eagles together all across the world. We continuously strive to ensure that all alumni have a lifelong meaningful relationship with the University.

You are an extraordinary alumni community, and you are vital to your alma mater’s success. When you further your engagement with BC—as volunteers and donors— you make a direct and lasting impact on both current students and future generations of Eagles.

I look forward to getting to know many of you at events all across the globe. For the most up-to-date information on the Alumni Association, ways to get involved, and programs near you, please visit bc.edu/alumni.

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I wish you and your family the warmest and happiest of holiday seasons!

LEAH M. DECOSTA Associate Vice President, Alumni Relations

Learn more about the Alumni Association at bc.edu/alumni.

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CLASS NOTES Profile 57 Bill Plunkert ’68

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Reaching For Greatness

1940 We revive the column for the great Class of 1940 for this issue to extend all best wishes to Robert McGovern, who turned 100 on September 18! Bob earned his BA in management from BC, where he also played baseball and where, according to Sub Turri, his fastball was “the deciding factor in many BC victories.” Bob married in 1944, and he and his wife, Charlotte, had four children.

He is a retired real estate director for the Boston Redevelopment Authority. We wish all happiness to Bob as he joins the very special ranks of centenarian!

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EVENTS Learn more or register for these and other events at www.bc.edu/forbc.

Check often for upcoming chapter, class, and affinity-group activities.

December 8 Winter Wonderland

December 15 Wreaths Across America

Thank you to Karen McKenna Roche ’88 for contributing to our column for this issue! In August, Karen enjoyed a chance meeting—“in a Roche Bros., of all places,” she writes—with James Calabrese. Jim entered BC with the Class of 1945, but returned to graduate in 1948 after serving in the military during World War II. Now 97 years old, he lives on his own in Stoughton.

Karen writes: “He was telling me how when he was at BC there were only four buildings.

Sadly, he lost his wife of 73 years on July 9, but there he was, grocery shopping and driving a car! Incredible.” • It would be lovely to hear from other classmates too. Do take a moment to send a note or email.

Correspondent: Timothy C. Buckley buckbirch@aol.com 41 Birchwood Lane Lincoln, MA 01773

1949 70TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Boston College Alumni Association classnotes@bc.edu Cadigan Alumni Center 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

1950 In March, Robert Tracy (Harvard, PhD’60), professor emeritus of English and Celtic studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and his wife, Rebecca (Radcliffe, 1956; Sonoma State, MA’78), were honored by that university’s English department, Institute for European Studies, and Celtic Studies Program, along with San Francisco’s Irish Literary and Historical Society, at a reception to celebrate their contributions, individually and as a couple, to the study of Irish literature and history on the Pacific coast. The Institute for European Studies announced a drive to endow an annual Tracy

Lecture series that would bring a scholar of Irish material to Berkeley to speak. Robert, with his colleague the late Brendan O Hehir, taught the English department’s first course in 1973, covering the Táin, the Finn cycle, and other 8th-to-10th-century works in the Irish language in the first semester, and then shifting to Irish writers, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, who wrote in English, and exploring themes common to ancient and modern Irish literature in the second semester. Robert is a founding member of the current undergraduate Celtic studies program, from which a number of students have entered BC’s graduate Irish studies program. He is also a founding member of the western regional chapter of the American Committee for Irish Studies.

Becky is active with the Irish Literary and Historical Society and served as VP for seven years. • Robert Parker, of Nutley, NJ, is working on his 21st book, The Art of Seeing. He writes: “It’s a portfolio of my best photographs that I’ve exhibited across New Jersey; a facing page describes why the image caught my eye and what makes it successful.” He is now hoping to find an interested publisher instead of selfpublishing. • Writing in July, John Linnehan, MEd’51, reports that he and his life partner, Martina, plan to participate in the August “Lest We Forget” demonstration at the Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in St. Marys, GA, in remembrance of the 73rd atomic bombing of Hiroshima. From Trident to Life Campaign in the Southeast is one of the sponsors. John lives in Gainesville, FL. Boston College Alumni Association classnotes@bc.edu Cadigan Alumni Center 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

NC 1950-1953 Word has come of the death of Eugenie “Mimi” O’Hagan NC’51 in May. Only a few years ago I wrote of the beautiful tribute accorded Mimi at the Associated Alumnae/ Alumni of the Sacred Heart conference here in Boston. Mimi used the skills honed in her PR career to support her charitable work, especially the school in Ethiopia that became the cause of her life. Please remember Mimi in your prayers. • I talked with Dorothy Dienhart Rotolo NC’53 recently, who reports that she and her husband, Joe, have moved from Florida to Colorado to be near their daughter. Dorothy now joins the expats in our classes on the subject of “Transition 101.” But she says she is uplifted (and I don’t mean “ski-lifted”) by the gorgeous mountain view outside her window. • I am writing these notes on August 12 and hoping you enjoy the rest of the summer.

Correspondent: Ann Fulton Coté NC’53 171 Swanton Street, No. 79 Winchester, MA 01890; 781-729-8512 47

1951 Boston College Alumni Association classnotes@bc.edu Cadigan Alumni Center 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

1952 Steve Bravman ’83, son of Sumner Bravman, let us know that his father passed away in June. Sumner was a U.S. Navy veteran and after graduation pursued a career in the U.S. Department of Education. • My son Frank has just finished a two-year assignment for Credit Suisse and is now on assignment in Raleigh, NC, building the presence of the bank in that state. Son Patrick continues as a Navy SEAL, now with 13 years of service.

Son Robert and his wife have just completed their first 92-minute movie and will enter it in the Sundance Film Festival coming up in Colorado. His wife is a very talented film producer. I am recovering from heart surgery, and recovery is going well.

Correspondent: Frank McGee fjamesmcgee@gmail.com 3 Webster Square #314 Marshfield, MA 02050; 781-834-4690

1953 Sadly, the Class of ’53 has lost James Queenan, JD’58, of Worcester, who passed away on July 9. Jim graduated from BC with a major in accounting and a minor in philosophy and then, in the wake of the Korean conflict, with the draft still in effect, joined the U.S. Army.

Stationed at Fort Totten on Long Island, he later joked that he “protected New York City against communist invasion by way of Long Island Sound.” He returned to Boston, earned his JD from BC Law, and for many years practiced law with Bowditch & Dewey as a partner in estate planning, trials, corporate law, and bankruptcy. In 1986 he was appointed a federal bankruptcy judge. Jim served as an editor of the Massachusetts Law Quarterly, and was the coauthor and coeditor of a multivolume treatise on Chapter 11 reorganization. He also wrote a memoir, Looking Back: A Story of a Judge and His Family. Jim taught law at Suffolk Law School, Western New England Law School, and the College of the Holy Cross, and he was also actively involved in his local and business community as a director of the Mass. Bar Association and a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the Mass. Commission on Judicial Conduct. Jim leaves his wife, Helen; children Anne, Mary Beth, James, Stephen, and Arthur ’90; and eight grandchildren.

Correspondent: Jim Willwerth jammw19@aol.com 19 Sheffield Way Westborough, MA 01581; 508-366-5400

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May 31–June 2, 2019 I spoke to Jim Flynn, MA’55, who was a history major at BC and then went on to 48

what he describes as a long and wonderful career as a history professor at Holy Cross. Jim is teaching a course this fall, titled A Cultural History of Russia, at the Worcester Institute for Senior Education at Assumption College. For the past several years Jim has been a volunteer docent at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton. If you have never been to this wonderful museum it is well worth a visit, as my wife and I have discovered on several occasions. • I decided to interview myself and let you know how the John Ford, MSW’61, family spends their time. First on our list is having our 5-yearold great-granddaughter, Adrianna, spend an overnight with us on weekends. So much fun and so tiring. Recently I completed an assignment, at the request of the Worcester city manager, seeking solutions for housing chronically mentally ill adult homeless people. The prime problem is finding a sufficient supply of housing at affordable prices. I am involved as well in negotiating the merger of two organizations that support persons with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities. This has been an exacting effort, but it has gone well. My wife, Jane, at age 75, continues to work as an assistant to the director of worship for the Diocese of Worcester and as a standardized patient at UMass Medical School. The standardized patient program is designed to train medical students in effective ways to interview patients. • I spoke with Joan Kennedy, who is fighting back from serious medical issues. Joan says that she is making progress and hopes to be able do more over the next few months. Meanwhile she is at home. • Please see the obituaries section at the back of the magazine for notices of classmates who recently passed away. • That is all for now. To meet the needs of the magazine, our columns are prepared well in advance. Thus, I am finishing this column on a hot, muggy early-August afternoon.

Thank God for air-conditioning!

Correspondent: John Ford jrfeagle1@gmail.com 45 Waterford Drive Worcester, MA 01602; 508-755-3615

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May 31–June 2, 2019 An email from Mary Evans Bapst in Switzerland, written in the midst of a threeweek, 90-degree heat wave in Geneva, told of her family’s reunion in Montreal in July—during a Canadian heat wave. Fifty-six people attended, ages 5 to 88, of whom 47 were direct descendants of Mary’s parents, and 9 were spouses. The group gathered at the farm of Mary’s niece. They came from Geneva, Brussels, Boston, Cape Cod, Washington DC, Tampa, Minneapolis, Boulder, and Tucson. “A wonderful occasion to see how genetics work—many photos revealed that several cousins looked like siblings,” Mary writes. They enjoyed “excellent food, fine music, and fun and games for the kids. The logistics were deftly handled and lovingly shared, a truly heartwarming event.” A repeat performance

is already planned for 2022. • The Dalys held their annual family reunion in Wilmette in August, not quite as large as Mary’s, but a most enjoyable gathering of family. Our daughter, Ann, flew in from London to add an international flavor to the party. • Maureen Cohalan Curry called with news that all is well with her, and she was enjoying summer visits from her family. • I hope there will be more news for the next issue so that we can keep connected.

Correspondent: Mary Helen FitzGerald Daly 700 Laurel Avenue Wilmette, IL 60091; 847-251-3837

1955 My column for this issue contains the sad news that a classmate has left his earthly home to begin his eternal life in the City of God. • George LeMaitre died on July 19.

An Army veteran, George was described as a father, surgeon, entrepreneur, and author. George was the founder of LeMaitre Vascular, a Burlington-based, publicly traded vascular device company, and held many medical patents. In addition, he was a clinical instructor at Tufts Medical School and had previously served as chief of surgery at Lawrence General Hospital and as president of the medical staff at Holy Family Hospital. George authored five books and numerous medical articles and was a frequent lecturer on both medical and nonmedical topics. George leaves his wife of 57 years, Connie (Weldon) NC’57, and five children. • Stephanie Coffey Cooper-Clarke has sent the sad news that her husband, John, has made the journey from this life to his eternal home with God on May 1.

John was a prominent defense litigation and environmental attorney. A patron of the arts, John was devoted to the Landmark Society of Western New York, the Eastman School of Music and Friends of Eastman Opera, and the Glimmerglass Opera, where he was an emeritus board member. He also served on the board of the National Women’s Hall of Fame and was a mentor in the Lawyers for Learning program. • Please keep George and Stephanie and their families in your prayers.

• I want to wish all a Christmas season filled with many blessings, and may they sustain you through 2019.

Correspondent: Marie Kelleher mrejo2001@yahoo.com 12 Tappan Street Melrose, MA 02176; 781-665-2669

NC 1955 Correspondent: Jane Quigley Hone

janeqhone@msn.com 207 Miro Place Port Washington, NY 11050; 516-627-0973

1956 I’m happy to inform all our classmates of the opening of Barnstable Brewing in Hyannis, which is operated by Ann Connor, our former BC class coordinator, and her husband, Peter, MS’08. Stop by and wish

them luck! • Marge Callahan Cammarota traveled to Vietnam this past season and also went skiing in Alta, UT! • We were so sorry to hear of the death of Janet and Jack Leonard’s son Christopher. • We also sadly report the passing of Bob Caffrey on July 31 at his home in Manchester, CT. • Dick and Louise (Burke) Toland are now residents of Fox Hill in Westwood, just steps away from their former home. • Carolyn Kenney Foley reports that she, along with Connie Regolino MEd’61, Louise Burke Toland, Margie Murphy, Marge Callahan Cammarota, and Jean Riley Roche, visited Mary Lou Sheehan Brown in Nahant. Margie Murphy had a shoulder replacement and is doing well.

• Carol Hines Gleason is now residing at the Whitcomb House in Milford and recently enjoyed a visit from Claire Hoban McCormack, Carol Rock Dobbyn MS’58, Margie Murphy, and Carolyn Kenney Foley and her friend Claire Hogarty! • Tom Sheehan reports that he has published two more books, for a new total of 34, and has had another four accepted!

Correspondent: Joseph DiSalvo disalvoja4747@gmail.com 47 Dix Road Extension Woburn, MA 01801; 781-933-5994

NC 1956 Thank you to Elizabeth “Hunsie” Dempsey Loomis, who keeps our column alive this issue with “news of a happy happening.”

Hunsie writes: “Some time ago, Shirley Starrs McKenna proffered an invitation to anyone who was ‘still traveling’ to let her know if they were planning to visit Dublin. Tony and I decided we would finally attend the Dublin Horse Show. Thus, this past week we met for a lovely dinner and a delightful visit with Shirley and her wonderful husband. We reviewed old days at Newton, roommates, etc.; the where, what, and how of our children; current events; and much more. Our husbands enjoyed the visit as well—a very special evening!”

Correspondent: Cathy Brennan Hickey cbhickey7@gmail.com 914-834-6907

1957 This past summer, Anita and Joe Mirabile, Gayle and Paul McAdams, and Annette (Collins) ’58 and Vic Popeo enjoyed a wonderful, sunny afternoon cruising on Cape Cod Bay on a lobster cruise boat out of Dennis Harbor. Jo writes: “We dined on delicious lobster rolls and shared wonderful conversations with good friends. Hope all is well with classmates and remember, as we used to say at the Heights: ‘Keep the faith.’”

• Ann and John “Jake” Lyons are enjoying the good life living in Norwood. They have three children and six grandchildren. Jake taught at Catholic Memorial High School in West Roxbury for 31 years and also spent time coaching at the school. He and Ann spend much time traveling to Ireland, where they have a large number of relatives. But it was during a stay in Sorrento, Italy, that they

were reunited—50 years after graduating from BC—with Jane and Dick O’Brien and Ginny and Bob Hanlon, who happened to be traveling with a BC class trip! “A small world it is indeed!” writes Dick, who reports on the reunion. Dick and Jane are living a fulfilled life by the ocean in Cohasset. They have four children, including two BC graduates: Kristen ’89 and Carolyn ’90. Dick spent 16 years in the school equipment and computer games industry, then switched gears and has spent the last 35 years in the food brokerage business. Ginny and Bob Hanlon are enjoying their favorite retirement spot in Revere Beach. After teaching in the North Shore area, Bob has spent the last 15 years since retirement teaching and working with county jail inmates to help them achieve their high school diploma. Ginny and Bob have five children, including two BC graduates—Christopher ’84 and Jennifer ’86—as well as 10 grandchildren.

“A few more Eagles are bound to appear in the future!” Dick writes. • Speaking of grandchildren, Ralph Morris, CAES’68, and his wife, Jeanne O’Neill ’62, are happy to announce the birth of their 21st grandchild, Lucian James, on July 21! He is the seventh child of Tim and Sarah Morris of New Bedford. • Editor’s note: With this column, Norma DeFeo Cacciamani lays down her quill. We are grateful to Norma for serving as class correspondent over the past three years and thank her for all her good work on behalf of BC and the Class of 1957. We now seek a new correspondent: If you would like to join our team of scribes, reporting news of your classmates for this column, please contact Betsy McLain, Class Notes editor, at classnotes@bc.edu.

Boston College Alumni Association classnotes@bc.edu Cadigan Alumni Center 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

NC 1957 Diane Russell McDonough reports on a recent trip to New York City with family members to see the Vatican exhibit of old papal vestments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. All were handmade, often by sisters of religious orders, extraordinarily beautiful and in excellent condition, some over 200 years old. Diane also visited the 9/11 Memorial and was able to locate the name of Michelle McGarty Madden’s son, which was engraved on the railing encircling the memorial. Richard Madden was on the 100th floor of the South Tower when the building was hit. Our condolences are ongoing to Michelle for such a terrible loss. • Carol McCurdy Regenauer spent a lovely week in June visiting Jan Black Rohan McKillop and husband Jim in Hilton Head, SC, at their lovely new house (made to accommodate their joint 14 children and way too many grandchildren for Carol to count!). Carol and Jan played the game “Remember the Newton Days,” including rules such as being in your own room by 10 p.m.; 1 a.m. curfew on Saturdays; eating food after midnight at a dinner-dance the

night before Baccalaureate Sunday; and finally, getting dispensations. (We local alumnae will try for our annual Boston lunch in the fall and come up then with lots of significant wonderful memories.) • Ellie Pope Clem writes from her new habitat in Charlottesville, where she and husband Dave are settling in. Summer featured the perennial visit of their grandson James from England, a visit cohosted by their son Michael, who lives nearby and treated James to a week on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. • My own sad news (for those of you not on our Newton group email) is the loss of my dear husband of 57 years, George ’55. We had moved into a local senior community just 10 months earlier, which he enjoyed, but unfortunately, he fell into continuing decline. So many of you have gone through the loss of a spouse, so please relay any thoughts. George always loved the “Newton girls” and never missed an NC 1957 reunion! Our five children, extended family, colleagues, and community have lost a vibrant light. (We both grew up in the local area, and George was buried from the church we were married in and where I was baptized—truly hometown kids!)

Correspondent: Connie Weldon LeMaitre lemaitre.cornelia@gmail.com

1958 Kudos to our 1958 Class Committee for putting together our 60th reunion luncheon in Gasson Hall: Bea Capraro Busa, Mike Daley, Sheldon Daly, Dottie Sollitto Hiltz, Joan Downing Lachance, Barbara Cuneo O’Connell, and Pat Brine O’Riordan. • Once again, our reunion, like the incredible hors d’oeuvres we were served, was out of this world. Coming back to Gasson 100 is always special, and 97 joined in the festivities in June. Carol and Tom Kurey flew in from New York—on a plane and not on Tom’s signature BC flapping-Eagle headgear. (We need to preserve that headgear for as long as the class prevails.) Also joining us were Cathy and John Rooney, Mary Ann and Bob Moll, Maureen and George Olesen, Elaine and Dan Cummins, Tom Hassey, and Pat Stafford McKee. Looking through the looking glass you noticed Paul and Moira (Feeley) Lyons, Betty Sweeney Minassian, Vincent and Elizabeth (Cook) DiMilla, Kathy Whalen Kenney, Joan Ward Hurley, James ’57 and Cecilia (Canniff) Doherty, Sylvia Cadorette, John ’55 and Barbara (Cuneo) O’Connell, Pat Brine O’Riordan, and Mary McMahon O’Toole as well as Mary Griffin Lehmann, Eleanor Lyons McCabe, Patricia McGuire Taupier, and Diane Eckland Van Parys ’80. Tom and Carol Kurey were among our physics majors and spouses: Jean and Paul Kellen, Roseleen and Anthony Dello Russo, Tom Fitzgerald with daughter Linda ’81, Charles Gallagher MS’60, Mary and John Kane MBA’65, and Bill Doherty. Tom Fitzgerald gave a short history of the physics group and recognized their longtime friend and member of the boys’ club, Johanna Pallotta. The accolades for Johanna were well deserved. I will list the rest of the attendees in the next issues. It was great to see Father 49

Leahy, who spent some time socializing with all of us and later celebrated a Mass for the entire group of reunion participants. It was very moving to view the range of classes, from 1958 to 2017. • Bill McGovern sends his best since he was unable to attend Reunion.

• I also heard from Emile Thibault, who now lives in Florida and has his own realty business. • Marian Bernardini DeLollis found the answer to the question that had been debated in the hospitality suite: In what year was the BC Eagle painted purple

by Holy Cross students? Using the memoir A Time to Keep, by Richard J.J. O’Connor of our class, and the BC University Libraries site, she came up with the answer: In October 1954, the bronze eagle sculpture, which had resided since early in the 20th century on the Brookline estate of Larz and Isabel Anderson, was donated to BC

by Isabel’s longtime private secretary, who had received it from her estate after Isabel died. Just before the BC–Holy Cross game that fall, Holy Cross students decided to paint the eagle purple. While they were climbing a ladder placed against the pedestal and splashing purple paint, a BC student happened by and roused his dorm mates (and Fr. Adelmann ’37, H’85), and they took on the crowd. They all ended up at the police station. The Holy Cross students paid the penalty of scrubbing down our golden eagle. Removed for restoration in 1993, the sculpture was replaced by an exact replica, which shines today atop its pink granite pedestal. If you can identify the BC students who saved our eagle, please let me know, and we will recognize them in our next column! • Keep all our classmates in your prayers.

Correspondent: Joan Downing Lachance joanchnc@comcast.net 62 Nicod Street Arlington, MA 02476; 781-646-7029

NC 1958 June 2 and 3 were special days for the Newton College Class of ’58 as many gathered for our 60th reunion. Julie Saver Reusch expressed regrets, but a first communion, an 8-year-old’s birthday, and a high school graduation took precedence.

Mary Azzara Archdeacon’s plans to come were changed when the sudden illness of her daughter Vickie required her presence.

• While we missed those unable to come, many met on Saturday and enjoyed a luncheon at Seasons 52, reveling in each other’s company as if we had just bounded out of class together. Our group included Gail McDonough Sullivan, Susie Kennedy Baxter, Carol Healey Hanley, Jo Kirk Cleary, Carol Higgins Reeve, Peggy Keane Timpson, Mary Keating McKell, Beth Duffy Legare, M.J. Eagan English MEd’59, Rhoda Ackerson Weyr, Rosemary Stuart Dwyer, Sheila Hurley Canty, Mickey Cunningham Wetzel, and Patty Peck Schorr. Many husbands joined us and had as much fun as we did. “Seems like yesterday” was frequently heard, and all expressed gratitude to our alma mater, to the religious and lay faculty, and to our good friends of 60 years. • Rhoda Ackerson 50

Weyr thanks all who made it happen. It was only the second reunion she had been able to attend, and she doesn’t plan to wait so long for the next one! Special thanks to Bill and Jo (Kirk) Cleary, whose efforts and special touches made the event memorable.

• On Sunday, the Mass of remembrance was celebrated in Trinity Chapel for all reunion classes, and the names of deceased classmates were read aloud. May they rest in peace. Those from Newton ’58 included Leonor Salcedo de Barreto, Ursula Gahan Boyle, Ann Figge Brawley, Ann Clausmeyer, Mary Catherine Corbett, Madeline Day Cuzzone, Moira Mahoney Kelly, Martha Dwyer Laurance, Ann Power, Judith Goodnow Prus, Genevieve Keating Riley, Maureen Ronan, Brenda McLachlan Scranton, Helen McLachlan Smith, Sandra Thomson, Veronica Brown Volk, Barbara Welch MA’61, and Judith Carey Zesiger.

Following the Mass, we enjoyed the Newton College reunion brunch under a tent near Barat House, mingling with the Classes of ’63, ’68, and ’73. • John and Sheila (Hurley) Canty were planning to leave on September 6 for two weeks in the Azores.

Sheila was looking forward to meeting with Les Girls on September 20 at the Wellesley College Club. • In August, Judith Young Runnette attended the Westport Country Playhouse; visited the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts, an outdoor music venue in Westport; went to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the Berkshires; and spent a week in Traverse City, MI. • Congratulations to Sue Fay Ryan, whose new book, Never Trust a Teacher: Fight to Make Things Right!, received a silver medal in the how-to/self-help category in a competition sponsored by the Florida Association of Publishers and Authors.

Entries were submitted from all over North America. • Dave and Patty (Peck) Schorr; daughter Margaret and her husband, Hal; and grandson Philip traveled to Ireland in August to visit relatives in Ardfert, County Kerry, and to play golf at the Old Head and in Tralee.

Correspondent: Patty Peck Schorr dschorr57@verizon.net

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May 31–June 2, 2019 I had a sad but good phone visit with Peter Macione, of Burlington, who lost his wife of 54 years, Paula, to a heart attack on June 13.

Paula was a Regis College grad who went on to earn her master’s in education from Boston State College. She taught chemistry and biology for 39 years at Burlington High School, where Pete also taught (English) until he retired in 1999. Their son, Justin (Providence College; master’s degree, St. Thomas University), is director of football communications for the New Orleans Saints. Justin met his wife, Michelle, in New Orleans, and they have two kids, Andrew (11) and Lindlee (4). Justin sports a 2010 Super Bowl ring from the Saints’ win over

Indy in Miami. The kids are very special to their grandparents and will miss their grandma. Paula and Pete loved spending winters at their home in St. Augustine, FL. • John Barry McGrath was my teammate and close friend for our four years at BC, and we stayed in touch for the nearly 60 years since graduation until his sudden death on April 29. All 12 members of BC’s first NCAA basketball team were alive as 2018 began.

But now we’ve lost Barry, and just days later George Bigelow ’58 passed away. I received emails from Barry weekly for the last 10 years. I saw him in San Diego at the 1988 and 1998 Super Bowls and in Miami with the gang from legendary Herbie’s Bar of Worcester in 1989. • Tom Tierney sent news of classmate Bill Carnes, MBA’65, who died on January 23 after struggles with health problems. He died with his family by his side. He leaves his wife, Ann, and children Mary Keable, of Rhode Island, and Bill Jr., Jack, and Susan, all of Massachusetts. He also leaves several grandkids, including BC alums Sean Carnes ’16 and Lauren Carnes ’18. A retired colonel in the U.S. Army, Bill taught in the Boston public schools. He attended the BC Veterans Remembrance Mass every November and was also a longtime season ticket holder at BC hockey games. • Please keep all our classmates in your prayers.

Correspondent: Robert Latkany latkanyr@shoffdarby.com 203-354-6200

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May 31–June 2, 2019 Jim and Joan (Haggarty) Eggers have made a major lifetime change with a leap into senior living at The Vi at The Glen and are enjoying the easy, active life. They are only a half mile from their old home in Glenview, IL, so they remain in their old neighborhood but now with old and new friends. They sold their second home in South Carolina a few years ago but continue to visit there in the winter. • Stephanie Landry Barineau reports that daughter Stephanie and her husband are moving to Colorado Springs, and although they are looking forward to snow, skiing, and hiking, mother Stephanie loves the snowless South. Her eldest granddaughter, Nicole, is planning a wedding in 2019 in Austin, close enough to Houston that Stephanie’s husband, Bill, who contends with Parkinson’s and kidney disease, might be able to attend. • Yours truly, Patty O’Neill, keeps traveling: I followed up my 80th birthday present to myself—a trip to Antarctica in February—with a trip to the Central Highlands of Peru in June. As I write, a trip to Morocco is planned for September. • Janet Chartier O’Hanley reports that her daughter Marianna has become a serious photographer. • Dottie Bohen Graham checked in but offered no news, so all must be well. • On a glorious mid-August afternoon, several classmates gathered on Cape Cod for lunch at the Hyannis Yacht Club. Needless to say, we did not lack for topics of conversation! Among the familiar

faces were Nancy Maslen Burkholder, Pat Sweeney Sheehy, Joan Coniglio O’Donnell, Joanne O’Connor Hynek, Janet Chute, Maryjane Mulvanity Casey, and Patty O’Neill.

Gini Little Waterman-Casey organized the successful minireunion. Joan and husband Larry were at the end of their annual threeweek vacation in Wellfleet. Gini is resident on the Cape; Joanne, Maryjane, and Pat summer on the Cape. Janet, the class youngster, still 79 at least for a few weeks, came from Boston, Nancy from Westport, and Patty from Middletown, RI, where she spends her summers. Conversation centered on grandchildren (Nancy had recently enjoyed a granddaughter’s wedding at Holy Cross), health, and politics; amazingly we were all on the same side of the page—’nuff said. • Jack and Helen (Craig) Lynch are both well and spent most of the summer on Block Island, where until last year they had a summer home. Winter finds them in Alexandria, VA, and the Bay Area in California. • We report with sadness the loss of John Lawlor, husband of the late Kathleen (Kingston), MA’63, in May. A Dublin, Ireland, native, John earned a doctorate in geology from BU, where he was a scholar-athlete. He was a gifted rugby player and hammer thrower and led the Irish team in the Rome 1960 Olympics and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Following that, he had a very successful career as an explorer geologist. John had many scholarly interests and enjoyed comparing various translations

of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. John and Kathleen were enthusiastic participants in all our reunions and other alumnae activities.

We shall miss them!

Correspondent: Maryjane Mulvanity Casey 100 Rosemary Way, Apt. 330 Needham, MA 02494; 781-444-1583 Correspondent: Patty O’Neill pattyoneill@verizon.net

1960 Our thanks to those who responded to the recent email from the Alumni Association.

• In June, Bob Rudman chaired the 76th annual Serra International Convention in support of religious vocations. He also continues as a chair of the Children’s Kindness Network (for the prevention of bullying of young children). He and his wife, Missy (Clancy) NC’61, had recently returned from a Viking river cruise in Europe. Missy, by the way, is the class correspondent for Newton College ’61. • Classmate and BC Law School alum Robert Capobianco, JD’63, now resides in Naples, FL (“’60 South”), with his wife, Jeanne, after 52 years of practicing law. He tells us life is good! • Foxboro resident and Double Eagle Tom Cunnally recently celebrated the 65th anniversary of his BC High graduation.

Could he be our oldest classmate? • Charlestown’s own Jim Sullivan was inducted into the Providence Gridiron Club’s Hall

of Fame. Jim came to BC on a football scholarship and went on to work as a high school teacher and coach in Rhode Island.

• And speaking of honors, Crab Orchard Review and Southern Illinois University Press awarded our favorite poet, Brendan Galvin, the 2016 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry award for his 18th collection, Egg Island Almanac. • There wouldn’t be as much to report this time were it not for Edie Cackowski Witherell. She reports that the BC women from the 1750 Beacon Street dorm have continued to stay in touch and gather together throughout the year. There were 14 attending the spring luncheon at the Marriott, including Jean Belval DeCastro, Louise Aubuchon O’Hanley MEd’76; Gerri Amore Karle, Karen Moynihan Patria, Donna Skehan Robinson, Louise Boyle Swiniarski PhD’76, and, of course, Edie, along with seven others from various classes. Many of the group accepted Jean’s gracious invitation to spend a few days at her home on Lake Winnipesaukee in July. Plans are now under way for their annual Christmas luncheon in December.

In June Edie and her husband, Bill, spent three weeks in France, splitting their time between Provence, Normandy, and Paris.

A perfect vacation for a retired French teacher! And Karen Moynihan Patria and her husband, Lou, are just back from a trip to exotic ports in Thailand, Singapore, and China. • As usual, I spent the summer in Nova Scotia before heading south to New

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Correspondent: John R. McNealy jmcnealy@juno.com 109 Kimball Road Rindge, NH 03461; 603-899-2844

NC 1960 Hope “the year of the strong” (80th birthday year, per Nan Anderson Coughlin) is going well for all our classmates. • Eleanor Coppola Brown, visiting from Michigan, with Berenice Hackett Davis’s able help, organized a “Class of ’60 is 80” luncheon in June in Hingham. Eleanor, Berenice, Pat McCarthy Dorsey, Carole Ward McNamara, Elaine Holland Early, Moira Donnelly Gault, Mary Harrington, Julie O’Neill, Mickey Mahon MacMillan, Blanche Hunnewell, Lita Capobianco Mainelli, Brenda Koehler Laundry, Jeanne Hanrihan Connolly, and I all had a wonderful time reminiscing and catching up. A number of classmates had previous commitments, and several couldn’t be reached, but it was a grand party. • Several days later, Jeanne Hanrihan Connolly was feted by her daughters at a lovely tea on the Cape. Along with Newton College friends, there were Newton Country Day School friends, plus other friends and neighbors. • Kate Ellis Donovan is enjoying settling into Cape Cod living. Kate, an architect, has been actively working on the addition to and the remodeling of her house, formerly the home of two aunts. She has wonderful memories of summertime vacations there, complete with sailing.

Kate is enjoying new pursuits like playing pickleball, and she has found lots to do at her local yacht club, plus the joy of walking along the shore, making new friends, and renewing old friendships. • If you haven’t had a chance to read the Spring 2018 C21 Resources (a publication of BC’s Church in the 21st Century Center), the issue focuses on “The Gift of Friends,” and it is a wonderful compilation of articles by diverse authors on many aspects of friendship. I especially enjoyed “Grace and the Fragility of Friendship.” It’s available online at bc.edu/church21. • Come September, most of us will have been friends for 62 years, plus or minus. • Have a lovely fall and do send news. We would love to have news of seldom-heard-from classmates.

Correspondent: Sally O’Connell Healy kmhealy@cox.net 4061 Cape Cole Boulevard Punta Gorda, FL 33955

1961 Here’s an update from David Bilodeau, who majored in economics at BC. After serving in the U.S. Navy, he worked for 29 years as a software developer for Leeds and Northrup.

One of his goals was to retire at 55, which he did, and he has been very happily retired since. Dave and his wife, Joan, are homebodies. They have enjoyed Florida’s east coast for 15 winters. Dave is active in his parish, St. John Bosco, where he is a 52

longtime altar server. • Loretta Conde Bento graduated from BC’s Connell School of Nursing and later worked at Salem Hospital and Brigham and Women’s. Her specialty was IV infusion. Now retired, Loretta, a widow, volunteers at her church. • Phillip Bistany majored in business management at BC and after graduation was drafted into the U.S. Army. Phil has spent his career as an insurance adjustor and for the past 35 years has owned his own company. Previously, he spent many years with Hartford Insurance working on malpractice adjustment for legal and medical cases; his work took him throughout New England. Phil is active at St. Anthony Church in Woburn.

He and his wife, Barbara, have two grown daughters. • David Melville, who was our class correspondent for many years, passed away on February 19. His obituary describes him as a loving family man, devoted to his wife, Joan (Angino), and their five children; chairman and founder of the WinterWyman Companies; philanthropist; golfer; social activist; METCO parent; Marine aviator; Double Eagle; Red Sox fan; and Brigham’s frappe lover. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a helicopter pilot, retiring as a captain. Dave is known as a person who embodied the Ignatian way of life.

Correspondent: John Ahearn jjaeagle@hotmail.com 872 Massachusetts Avenue #407 Cambridge, MA 02139

NC 1961 Correspondent: Missy Clancy Rudman

newtonmiz@aol.com 1428 Primrose Lane Franklin, TN 37064

1962 Life is good for Robert King. Next time you see him, ask about his grandkids. He tells us he enjoys bragging about them! • In the Spring 2018 issue, we reported that John “Jack” Murray, MBA’70, had spinal surgery in January. He wrote recently to say that in June he had a heart attack but wants to assure us that with PT and diet changes, “so far so good.” He and wife Barbara are looking forward to a peaceful visit to their beach house. He answered our query in the last issue about who is still wearing our class ring. Jack says he never wore his: It was much too heavy on his finger, so he sold it during the gold boom several years ago as no one else wished to have it. • Another story, from Ronald Reilly, is titled “Why I Stopped Wearing My BC’62 Ring.” After graduation, Ron enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. As he describes it, one nice winter day while stationed at Port Austin AFS in Michigan he made a snowball and threw it.

The ring fit loosely on his right hand due to an injury to his left hand. You guessed it!

When he threw the snowball, his ring also went sailing into the snow. Fortunately, he found it and put it in a jewelry box, never to be worn again. He still has it and says he may wear it at the next BC function. That

may put him in a class of six we know of who are still wearing their BC rings! • On a beautiful day in June, William Lundregan, JD’67, hosted a luncheon for a gathering of Eagles. It was attended by Bonnie Davis, a friend to many in attendance. Guests were happy to meet Bonnie’s son Adam and his family, who had come from California to visit. • Much has occurred for the William Novelline family. Bill and wife Eileen took a cruise to Portugal and said it was a great experience. They loved the port wine! Their granddaughter won four state swimming championships in Illinois, setting two new records, and their grandson participated in an Outward Bound outdoor living experience. Two of their grandsons were on district championship teams in Little League. And now Bill and Eileen are planning a cruise through the South Pacific.

Some Eagles are on the move! • Marilyn and Laurence Sanford moved to Florida this past summer. Their home is in a new homeowners community with a swimming pool, weekly lawn mowing service, and an Arnold Palmer–designed golf course down the street. Larry reports that he is in the most densely populated military retiree county in the country (Brevard). He has joined the Military Officers Association of America and the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and is checking out the local VFWs and the American Legion.

He has also joined two book/author groups.

This is all in just one month. We couldn’t help smiling when he said he missed Market Basket pricing. Larry and Marilyn miss New England but are happy to be close to family.

As Larry says: “One door closes and another opens.” • Samuel Fardy will be moving to Pocasset after the house he is having built is completed. Sam continues to work and play in the BC bands. • Condolences to the family of Donald Even, of Burke, VA, who died on May 16. Donald spent 29 years with the Army Ordnance Corps and was a Vietnam War veteran, receiving for his service the Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Meritorious Service Medal. • Many thanks to those who sent us news. Call or email if you’ve lost touch with a classmate and would like to rekindle a friendship. • Wishing you all good health and happiness. Remember we would really love to hear from you.

Correspondents: Frank and Eileen Corazzini Faggiano efaggiano5@gmail.com frank@faggianoconsulting.com 2400 Beacon Street, Apt. 503 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; 617-383-5230

NC 1962 Once again Barbara Jones attended the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference in July and raved about every aspect of the event. From there she and two friends traveled through the Canadian Rockies. • Jackie Gegan Mooney, along with sons David and Kevin, is carrying on the vision of her late son, Paul, as directors of the Cystic Dreams Fund, an allvolunteer fund providing financial support to individuals impacted by the enormous

costs incurred as cystic patients. Many of these expenses are transplant-related, and one of their goals is to educate people on the importance of organ donation. You can read more about their work at cysticdreamsfund. com. • Anna Gallagher Murphy had a wonderful summer of travel. After a scenic river cruise from Amsterdam to Basel with Joe, she went off with her daughter and her family on a 16-day safari in South Africa.

Anna gave me a blow-by-blow with such enthusiasm and said it was the best trip she has ever taken. • Cora Le Porin’s family reunion this year will be in Kansas City, where there is a family wedding, rather than in New York, where some classmates get a chance to see her each year. • While recently in New York and Connecticut, I had lunch with Carolyn Dursi, as we prepared for our 60th high school reunion, and dinner with Mary Lynn Fleming Liverzani and Marsha Whelan. It is so good to catch up with old friends, and I can report that age isn’t slowing anyone down a bit. Mary Lynn is always busy with grandchildren and lots of friends, Marsha has the energy to babysit for a family with four children, and Carolyn is a world traveler. Mary Lynn reports that the last time she called Judy Pizzarello Bishop, she found her in London. Judy was never one to let the grass grow underfoot! • I was driving an old friend back to Boston and realized when I picked her up that she lived in a condo community with Kitsy Cavanaugh Fogarty and Tink O’Connor Neubert NC’65. I had a quick visit with Tink; although we had gone to the same grammar school, high school, and college, we had not seen each other in probably 50 years! Unfortunately, Kitsy wasn’t home.

• Pat Beck Klebba and her husband were on the road all summer because their golf course in Florida was closed for repair.

After a trip to Prague and Bohemia, they spent two weeks with family in Chicago and also visited Kris Wildman Brennan.

They continued their travels later in the summer, first to South Carolina to see Janet Richmond Latour and then to The Villages and Orlando in Florida. • Anne Crowley Kelly is really enjoying her new home in Burlington, VT. While visiting Cathy Power Schibli at her summer home in Waitsfield, we connected with Anne and had a lovely lunch in Winooski! Vermont is so lovely in the summer. • Maryelene Ryan Dailey is a summer neighbor in Hull to my next-door neighbor in Hingham. Not having grown up in the Boston area, I could not understand why you would move 20 minutes away in the summer as my neighbor does. But having been there and seeing the ocean and beach at their front doors, I see it really is a different world and a great place for children and now grandchildren. • Sending greetings and blessings for a healthy, happy fall!

Correspondent: Mary Ann Brennan Keyes keyesma1@gmail.com 26 Ridgewood Crossing Hingham, MA 02043

1963 What a career! Revere native Bill Gavin joined the FBI in 1967, beginning a 28-year career with the organization. He served in multiple states, becoming assistant director of the Denver Inspection Division in 1982, and later as assistant director in charge of the New York office, where he had earlier directed the investigation of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He also managed foreign counterintelligence and international terrorism investigations, ensuring that foreign and domestic threats were identified, evaluated, and investigated. After retiring, Bill went on to apply his talents in the health-care industry and security services.

In 2002, he formed the Gavin Group, working with 50 former FBI agents whose mission was to audit (over eight years) 191 of the 195 Catholic dioceses nationwide to determine compliance with a new policy for protection of children and young people. Bill continues to share his expertise in frequent appearances on the Fox Business Network and CNN. • Good news: Frank Duffy, in Maine, happily says his cancer is dormant.

He thanks all classmates who sent him well-wishes, which he highly appreciated.

• Bill McKenney, MBA’73, enumerates the McKenneys who were headed to BC this fall: his daughter Laura McKenney Barry, for her master’s in health-care administration, and grandniece Eleanor McKenney, to the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

Bill’s storied family started with William V. McKenney ’15, namesake of BC’s highest alumni award. Bill’s father, Joe McKenney ’27, MA’33, H’83, was a quarterback and captain of BC’s football team, later served for several years as head coach, and in 1970 was inducted into the BC Varsity Club Hall of Fame. • Dave Collins, of Queensbury, NY, is organizing the first Veterans Day Parade in neighboring Glens Falls. Dave will be marching in a Doughboy uniform, commemorating the centennial anniversary of the end of World War I. • Birmingham, AL, physician Peter Lodewick is the author of A Diabetic Doctor Looks at Diabetes: His and Yours and coauthor of The Diabetic Man: A Guide to Health and Success in All Areas of Your Life. Peter earned his MD from Boston University School of Medicine and became an internist and diabetes specialist.

He reports that he is currently working with an antiaging breast milk product that prevents and reverses diabetes, obesity, and dementia—even Alzheimer’s—and that may also help protect the heart, the nervous system, joints, and skin. • Class President Tom McCabe presided at our 55th Reunion Committee meeting in May and thanked all who went on to make our grand, joyful reunion in June such a success. Attending were Paul Daley, Bill Gavin, Paul Hardiman, Joe Horan, Ann Hurley, John Levis, Doug MacQuarrie, Jim Norton, Ed O’Donoghue, and Ed Rae. • From Fairfield, CT, Bill Redgate boasts blessings: He is enjoying retirement with his 17 grandchildren! • Tim Sullivan, JD’66, of Pittsfield, recalled the University Chorale USO tour of Germany and Western Europe

in summer 1961. Tim was an officer, accompanist, and a member of the singing group; he also co-chaired the Chorale reunions in 2014 and 2016. • Pam Prime, of Alameda, CA, created another spiritual direction training program, this time for the Stockton Diocese in conjunction with the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley. Now retired, Pam is enjoying her seven grandchildren, continuing with spiritual direction and grief ministry, and traveling with her husband, with a trip to Morocco among recent destinations. • Shout-out: What’s up with our ’63ers?

Correspondent: Ed Rae raebehan@verizon.net 209 Winter Street Westwood, MA 02090

NC 1963 First of all, thanks and congratulations to our wonderful 55th reunion chairs Marj Dever Shea, Carol Donovan Levis, and Jo Egan Maguire MA’72 and to their committee. It was simply the best!

About 37 of us gathered for two days of reconnecting, laughing, sharing good and not so good news, and just plain enjoying each other. • It started with the Saturday symposium on friendship, which was held in what we think of as Putnam Library. The topic took fire as classmates recalled their lifelong friendships and the differences these friendships made. It became clear that Newton itself and the Sacred Heart order created a “holding environment” where friendship began and then, through lifetimes, flourished. It was a place where the needs of a friend were met by Newton friends or by one special friend. One aspect of this highlighted the strong bonds forged by day students: They became close friends by sharing their experiences while carpooling to school, by hanging out together at Stuart, and by getting together at campus events. Marj Dever Shea, Janice Magri Renaghan, Judy DeMarco, and Kathy Galvin talked about how this mutual support made a difference in their college experience. After a lovely lunch under the tent, we dispersed to get ready for dinner. • The dinner, held in Putnam, was truly joyous, with folks hardly able to stay seated: bouncing up to chat with friends at other tables and loath to leave conversations begun. I thought perhaps I should just list the attendees but then thought that two stories I heard better illustrated the feel of the event. • Annie Laurie Kenedy MacEvitt told the amazing story of the 10 years she and her husband and their two children lived on a sailboat in Polynesia. The story of their long sail from Baja California to their destination (days without radio contact) was heartstopping to the landlubbers among us. The children were home (boat) schooled. What an adventure! It is hardly imaginable to the suburban moms most of us were. • And now the second story I would like to pass on: When Joan Engel Sundstrom’s third child was born there were immediate concerns for the baby’s survival. Joan called her mentor and dearest friend at Newton, Mother Frances Cunningham, to ask for 53

prayers. Mother Cunningham woke the nuns (it was late), who went to the chapel and prayed through the night for Tina’s survival. The next morning it became clear that Tina would make it. After she was able to leave the hospital, the Sundstroms brought her to Newton to thank the nuns who prayed her through the night. Tina survived and thrived. • At the Mass at Trinity Chapel Sunday morning the names of 24 of our classmates who have died were read. May they rest in peace. • For those of us wanting to continue to bask in the warmth of our reunion, we have Margie Reiley Maguire’s wonderful pictures, which she shared online. Thank you, Margie! • This past August, for the third year, those on or near Cape Cod gathered for a Newton lunch. This year Judy DeMarco made the arrangements at the Hyannis Yacht Club. In addition to Judy, lucky attendees were Carol Donovan Levis, Carolyn McInerney McGrath, Marj Dever Shea, Delia Conley Flynn MEd’70, Janice Magri Renaghan, Jo Egan Maguire, Joan Engel Sundstrom, Kathy Galvin, Marie Craigin Wilson, Martha Meaney Cummings, Mary Jane Becherer Ferson, and Maureen Kane Allman. I know it was a wonderful time.

• Alma “Anna” Fortin Wong’s husband, Oscar, and daughter Leah Wong Ashburn (UNC ’92) were featured in the Carolina Alumni Review. Leah has taken over running the family business, Highland Brewing Company, in Asheville, NC. • Do you know that you can send news items to me through the BCAA website? Well, the very first to do so was Ann Didden: Thank you, Ann! After a career in teaching, Ann has returned to West Virginia to be closer to family. Ann is a cat fancier and is involved with organizations whose aim is to protect felines. • Remember to let me know your news. It helps us to stay connected.

Correspondent: Colette Koechley McCarty colette.mccarty@gmail.com 212 Carolina Meadows Villas Chapel Hill, NC 27517; 919-240-7005

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May 31–June 2, 2019 Michael Ford, SJ, MDiv’75, celebrated his 50th anniversary as a Jesuit on July 31. (Somehow when a novice he was able to talk his way out of Shadow Brook to attend Arthur Crandall’s August wedding, and get a car for the hour’s drive up U.S. Route 7 to Rutland, VT. He always had a gift of gab.) • Joe Radzik and his wife, Valerie, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a weeklong gathering on the Outer Banks with their family: sons Joe, Mark, Chris, and John; daughtersin-law Meg, Liz, Corinne, and Amanda; and 10 grandchildren. Joe and Valerie live in Falmouth. They are 30-year football season ticket holders and enjoy going to the games with Jack Gallagher, Jim Garrity, and Vin Fournier. • Ann (Carty) Thrailkill reports that she will be going back to BC next year for her granddaughter’s graduation from the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. Ann writes: “She is the third generation to graduate from 54

BC, as my daughter (her mom) graduated in 1989.” Ann is still working as a nurse practitioner at the VA hospital in Palo Alto, CA. • Claire and Bob Callen visited Judy and me at our Swampscott manse for some North Shore fare of lobster and berries. The Callens recently moved to Park Ridge, NJ, to be closer to kids and grandchildren. • Ed Cardillo writes: “In the winter I commute between Massachusetts and Naples, FL. I guess you would call me a snowbird. I love golfing, paddleboarding, snorkeling, and walking. I am active in the Southwest Florida Chapter of the BC Alumni Association and regularly attend its events. I’m also a math coach in the Collier (FL) school system and a substitute teacher in the Reading (MA) school system.

I always have pride in my Boston College retired community and carry the BC banner in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Naples. I love classic cars and fixing them with my son in Wiscasset, ME. I share my time with my companion partner, Maria Caruso, and my two sons, Michael and Edward.” A Double Golden Eagle, Ed invites fellow BC High and Boston College classmates to contact him at bronx1942@ yahoo.com. • Jim Whittaker sent this note: “Recently Kathi and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary with a July trip to Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, visiting family and old friends and eating lobster! We continue to thrive in the Pacific Northwest and enjoy family camping and our two grandchildren.

My research in children’s mental health continues, and this fall we plan to travel to Porto, Portugal, and to Rome for presentations at professional conferences.”

• Jim Spillane, SJ, MA’68, MDiv’76, who serves as a dean in a Catholic college in Tanzania, reports that he recently visited his former posting in Indonesia. • Joan Rapp had successful shoulder surgery recently.

“It was quickly back in shape for people to cry on,” she quipped. • This past August, I enjoyed a session of a summer camp for adults, specializing in choral singing. It was part of the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy (think a southern Tanglewood). Wintergreen is located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and in the winter is a ski resort. We sang “Ode to Joy” from Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with a full symphony orchestra and joined a large chorus with “campers” coming from all over the country to participate. Luckily, we had a large contingent from the Richmond Symphony Chorus to lead us through this complicated piece. Great fun!

Correspondent: John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com 27 Rockland Street Swampscott, MA 01907

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O’Connor Josephs, Ann Williams Cully, Kathy McCarty Gruber, Carol Odenbach McCarthy, Elizabeth “Lish” Collins MEd’71, and Nancy Hilsinger Finley. Nancy was the only one I had trouble identifying—knew the face but not the name. Alice cleared that up. Turns out Nancy was Alice’s roommate sophomore year, then left Newton after two years. I don’t think that was the reason! In trying to figure out who took the photo, I remembered that I actually had a copy, except that Louise Majewski DunleavyCasagrande is in mine, and Ann Williams Cully is not. Mystery solved. Two photos, two photographers. Not exactly Agatha Christie, more like Nancy Drew. • In other news from Alice, her new book, Hidden Treasure: How to Break Free of Five Patterns That Hide Your True Self, was a National Indie Excellence Award winner in the personal growth category. It was also recognized by the Body, Mind, and Spirit Book Awards as a finalist in two categories, spiritual psychology and selfhelp. Congratulations, Alice! • Kay Raleigh DiFrancesca got in touch from San Diego to say that she really envies the East Coast crowd who get to “catch up,” from time to time, at lunch. Well, Peter and Judy (Ernst) Tortora have just moved to San Diego from Greenwich, CT, so it looks like Kay and Judy will be having their own catch-up lunches on the West Coast. Kay is busy showing Judy around the city and said that she’s really enjoying being able to “hang out” with Judy and Peter and their son and daughter-in-law.

• Carol Sorace Whalen describes Sicily as a special place for her. She traveled there this past summer with her son Marc, visiting her grandfather’s town for the second time, and said that she “might just go back again!” • In closing, a funny observation from Debra Winger on coping with an aging face: “Give away the mirrors in your house, one with every birthday. By the time you reach the right age, you have just one little mirror over your bathroom sink to make sure you don’t have any green in your teeth.”

Correspondent: Priscilla Weinlandt Lamb priscillawlamb@gmail.com 125 Elizabeth Road New Rochelle, NY 10804; 914-636-0214

1965 Rosemary Thomas MacKinnon notified me that our class lost our nursing school classmate Marthea “Marty” Willett Murphy, MS’78 (known as William Mary, CSJ, when we were students) in June. • I hope everyone had an enjoyable summer. It would be wonderful if you could take a moment and send me an update to be included in our column.

Correspondent: Patricia McNulty Harte patriciaharte@me.com 83 Church Street, No. 1 Winchester, MA 01890; 781-729-1187

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Alice McDowell sent me a photo, taken on the Cape in 1961 just after our freshman year. Talk about memories! Sitting on the beach, besides Alice and me, are Alice

It is with sadness that I pass along the news of the passing of Margaret “Midge” Schmitt Schmidt on June 18. Midge lived life to the fullest and earned the title of our class’s cruise queen. She and her husband, Arno,

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traveled the world, often enjoying several cruises a year. Condolences to Arno and to Midge’s family. • Barbara “Bobbi” Lorch Gettelman recalled a time in her senior year when she fell asleep after a date and woke up at 4:30 a.m. She decided she would just show up and own up, so she rang the doorbell, and within five seconds one of her three roommates opened the door and whispered: “Run!” Her roommate had been waiting for her return, hidden all night. It was a successful maneuver, and Bobbi still treasures her partner in crime—you know who you are! Bobbi also completed her first rope/zip-line “adventure” with the company owned by her favorite boy (her son, now a middle-aged man). With his aid, she completed the torturous ropes and enjoyed the rest of the zip lines. • Libby Miller Fitzgerald enjoyed a fabulous trip to the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, which she described as “an incredibly beautiful country” with a long, interesting history.

Libby keeps busy with pickleball, tennis, biking, and seeing her grandchildren whenever she can. • Sending condolences and love to Marianne Pizzuto Haggerty on the passing of her sister, Louise Pizzuto Holland NC’66. • Lisa Pustorino Edmiston has offered two vinyls of the Newtones to anyone who would like them. Lisa found the records while cleaning out her home of 44 years in anticipation of a temporary move to an apartment. Search for her on Facebook.

• Catherine Lugar, in my humble opinion, wins the class’s Determination Award. Ever since she suffered a debilitating stroke, she has worked tirelessly to recover. Although she has now suffered a sprained knee, she is intent on getting back on track to more recovery. You go, Cathy! • Be sure to join our group, Newton College of the Sacred Heart 1965, on Facebook. Marti Schickel Ibrahim posted a great piece from the New York Post on our own Huyot twins—Marilise Huyot Flusser and Suzanne Huyot Matthau.

Did you know they lived in the Carlyle Hotel for 18 years while their father was the manager and president of the Carlyle?

They are actually memorialized in the bar’s whimsical murals created by Ludwig Bemelmans, the author and illustrator of Madeline. Check out this interesting article.

• Happy 75th birthday to most of us, and happy 50th anniversary to many! • Until next time…

Correspondent: Linda Mason Crimmins mason65@bc.edu 3902 MacGregor Drive Columbia, SC 29206

1966 We heard that Jim McCarthy was recognized by the Ignatian Volunteer Corps, New England, with the 2018 Madonna Della Strada Award for his eight years of service at Casserly House in inner-city Boston.

The Jesuit-based award honors lives that “reflect the Ignatian values of direct service to the poor and of working and educating for a more just society.” Congratulations, Jim! • We also heard from Joseph Meehan, who is now retired and living in Fort Lee,

NJ, with his children and grandchildren living in Manhattan and in New Jersey. Joe has recently been in touch by phone with classmates Jim Miles MBA’69, Charlie Babin MBA’73, and Paul Delaney as well as Ned Ferrarone ’67, MBA’70. It’s great when classmates keep in touch! • Nursing school alumna Jane (Coughlin) McDonough let us know about her trip last summer to Phoenix, to California, and then on to Oregon to see her son. Happy trails, Jane!

• Anthony Bent, MAT’69, DEd’93, checked in from Wellesley, describing BC as the guiding force in his long career in pre-K–12 public education. Tony taught for several years, then became superintendent of schools in Shrewsbury for 15 years. He says he’s “flunking retirement” because he loves his work as a facilitator of social leadership seminars and as a consultant to leadership teams and school boards. And although he’s not active in alumni affairs, BC remains deep in his heart.

Correspondent: Diane Connor dconnor14@comcast.net

NC’65. Her obituary in the Darien Times says that Louise “was a woman who lived her life as the gift God meant it to be. She was devoted to her husband and sons, who cherished and adored her. Louise’s kindness and generosity of spirit brought comfort and solace to those in need, while her smile, energy, and irreverent sense of humor brought happiness and joy to all those around her. … Louise was a deacon at the Congregational Church and very active in community Bible study. She was an active woman with a wide variety of hobbies and interests, including gardening; reading; and playing bridge, tennis, and golf. Her greatest joys, however, came from the simple things: long walks at Irwin Park or on Cisco Beach with her beloved husband; her family gatherings with her sons, daughters-inlaw, and grandchildren; and being in the company of her friends.”

Correspondent: Catherine Beyer Hurst catherine.b.hurst@gmail.com 333 Atwells Avenue, #211 Providence, RI 02903

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Twenty-five members of our class got together on the Newton Campus in June for our 52nd reunion! This year’s discussion topics included social media and other communications, technology, health and learning year to year, senior finances, friendships as we age, and spirituality in our 70s. Lots of hugs and smiles, lots of spirited discussion, and excellent food sustained us as we filled the entire first floor of the old library building in the Duchesne circle.

Special thanks to Judy McCluskey Flood, who led the Planning Committee. • Terry Ancona Orueta reports: “Even though I have lived in Europe for over 40 years, I am fortunate to still be in touch with Newton classmates. Facebook has been great! I visited my brother in Florida last December and stopped in New York on the way. I spent a wonderful day in the city with Margie Barritt and Sue Larkin. Ostensibly, we were searching for my father’s birthplace (no longer there), but we spent the day catching up on our lives and enjoying one another’s company. Thank you for a memorable day, friends!” • Ann Silber Geneva lives in Durrus, a village in West Cork, Ireland. She reports that she enjoys “winter excursions to beautiful Essaouira in Morocco. Before this, I lived in England for 20 years and then Italy for 7 years. Now I am selling my lovely Irish farmhouse, but I can’t decide where to go next (somewhere warmer!). I had thought of returning to my beloved New Mexico, but I think I’ve been away from the United States for so long I would no longer recognize it.

Earlier this year I took a long cruise down the Nile, which was fascinating. I must admit I love being retired from academia and publishing—something I never thought I would.” • Condolences are offered to the family of Louise Pizzuto Holland, who died of a brain hemorrhage in May. Louise is survived by Mike, her husband of 52 years, and their 6 sons and 16 grandchildren, and her sister, Marianne Pizzuto Haggerty,

In July, the annual BC university advancement reception was held on Martha’s Vineyard at the home of the Carrolls (of the Carroll School of Management fame). It was attended by our own Bob St. Germain and his wife, Mary, who were there as both guests and neighbors. Also attending was special guest Associate Professor Luke Jorgensen, assistant chair of BC’s theatre department; Fr. Leahy was unable to attend this year. • Richard E. “Dick” Powers passed away in May in Manchester, NH, his hometown. Dick was a marketing major at BC and a member of the football team. The class extends it sincere condolences to Dick’s family and friends. • In June, there was a 50th reunion of an Army OCS class at Fort Belvoir. There were 42 classmates (OCS) who returned to attend from an original class of 60. Those from BC included Chuck McCann, Blake Murray, Ken McDonnell, and Bob Wilde. It was 50 years to the day of the reunion, June 14. • Also in June, your correspondents took a trip to Italy and Ireland. The first leg included Rome, Florence, and Venice. Then on to Ireland to visit our oldest daughter and her family (including three of our six grandchildren) who live, work, and go to school there. It was grand, and we highly recommend it to all!

Correspondents: Charles and Mary-Anne Benedict chasbenedict@aol.com 84 Rockland Place Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464

NC 1967 In late July, Boston College sent an email request for news to all Newton alumnae for whom they have email addresses. (If you didn’t respond then, pass along your news now! If you didn’t get the email, let me know, and I will get you reconnected.

See my contact info below.) • I was thrilled 55

to hear from Nan Adams Mabon about her annual family jaunt to San Cassiano in Italy, where they hike in the Dolomites with friends—something they have been doing now for close to 20 years. This year they were especially looking to break away from the summer heat in London, which has been their home for 26 years. The family also keeps an apartment in Brooklyn so that they can visit with family here in the States. That is what made it possible for Nan to attend part of last year’s class reunion. • Seems Marcie Cormier Clarke truly enjoys digging into the past. She has been working on her 55th high school reunion for this year. At the same time she has been researching the history of her hometown of New Britain, CT, which she is finding fascinating. • And sadly I have to add another name to the list of those in NC’67 who have passed away: Nancy Scheiderbauer Mahoney died in late May in Wilmington, DE. She leaves behind her husband, Daniel; two married children; and six grandchildren. After Newton, Nancy took her French degrees and returned to Delaware, where she taught French and headed the foreign language department at Wilmington Friends School until retirement. She was active in her church and community through numerous outreach and service activities. She enjoyed traveling, playing tennis, hiking, skiing, fly-fishing, and gardening. When I reported her death through the BC alumni online community, I can’t tell you the long list of warm memories that flooded into my email box about Nancy.

She had actively served Newton and her classmates in so many ways—as a first friend for an international student and in the student government, in French club, and on the class football team, to name a few.

The messages came from the Philippines, Brazil, and more than another 15 alumnae here in the United States, from Maine to Florida, Massachusetts to California, with others scattered in the Midwest and the South. (Yes, our class is spread all over, but our remembrances from 50-plus years ago in Boston are still strong.) Nancy will be missed. Our condolences go out to her family. • ’Tis all for now. Please keep in touch when you can, even in the midst of the busy holiday season, which is about when you will read this. God bless!

Correspondent: M. Adrienne Tarr Free thefrees@cox.net 3627 Great Laurel Lane Fairfax, VA 22033-1212; 703-709-0896

newest of Eagles; we gathered to worship at the alumni Mass. And wow, did we ever raise the rooftops in celebration at our class party on Saturday night! We laughed and hugged and even shed a tear or two with our dear, lifelong friends. We felt like carefree teenagers again as we posed with utter silliness in the highly popular photo booth.

We were filled with delight as we shared the night with some fellow classmates whom we hadn’t seen in 50 years. And we danced, and we danced, and we danced! During this weekend of reunion and renewal, the years melted away as we were all whisked back to our shining youthful days at the Heights, those magical years way back when. • Like all of us, I was so busy socializing, talking, and laughing with friends that I completely left my correspondent’s hat behind. However, our class treasure of a historian, Bill McDonald, has heroically captured most of the festivities in his remarkable BC’68 class blog, proudrefrain. org. On this wonderful site, you’ll read our stories, see heaps of photos, and view very fun videos of the entire reunion weekend.

In addition, Bill has been posting extensive stories of our years at the Heights. These postings include memories of our dorm and day-hop days, our sporting events, the war and the draft, women’s issues, food fights, and so much more. Treat yourself to these special memoirs and perhaps share a thought or two. • Now along with all these 50th reunion events, many of us are also sharing another giant milestone, our 50th wedding anniversary celebrations!

A half-century ago, youthful weddings following college graduations were not that uncommon, and many of us followed that cultural norm. Camille Given Goodwin and her husband, David ’63, celebrated their 50th with a party hosted by their daughters.

BC’68 classmates attending included Maria Conte Paccione, Carl Patturelli, and Isabel Rogers Belcher. The Goodwins’ daughter Michelle ’91 is married to John Keenan ’90.

Congratulations! • And alas, with sadness, we finish with our sincere condolences to the families of James Vincent “J.V.” Hoskinson, of Salem, who died in April, and Richard Moriarty, of Mashpee, who died in June. • God bless.

Correspondent: Judith Anderson Day jnjday@aol.com The Brentwood 323 11500 San Vicente Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90049

around the special gifts we were given as freshmen in 1964 by St. Madeleine Sophie, which included a personal relationship with God, respect for intellectual values, a social awareness, love of community, and personal growth. She carefully pointed out that we didn’t necessarily receive all the gifts nor in the same degree as our classmates.

Almost all in attendance volunteered a life lesson taught by an RSCJ while in college that remains important today. Others spoke of the many RSCJ acts of kindness still remembered. Humorously, Pat Wolf regaled the crowd with her college tales, including her attempts to teach Mothers Husson and Quinlan how to drive her 1966 Mustang convertible: “Step on it, Mary!” After Fran ended her insightful conversation with “awomen,” everyone left thinking she had much to be grateful for and with many ideas to ponder going forward. • Along with some brave spouses and other family members, approximately 70 alumnae dined and danced on the lawn next to Stuart Saturday evening. There it was announced that through the generous contributions of our class, the Newton College Class of 1968 Scholarship had been funded. Look for more news on this memorable class gift in the months ahead. • At Sunday’s memorial Mass, the names of 12 deceased classmates were read, including that of Susan Emery MacKay, who died in February. Sue had been active in her Granby, CT, community, serving on the Board of Education for nearly 10 years and in leadership positions with the Newcomers’ Club and the Women’s Investment Club. She was also a certified Master Gardener. • Thanks to you all, I have a lot of individual and personal news to be shared in future columns; however, in closing one feels it is worthwhile to mention a common refrain heard throughout our reunion and most especially as we bid our farewells: How can we keep these connections going? Is it possible to have an NC’68 social media presence? When can we gather again? Owing to Marcy McPhee Kenah’s diligent work and other updates over the weekend, our class contact information is current. Using all that information, let’s see how we can remain connected going forward.

Correspondent: Jane Sullivan Burke janeburke17@gmail.com

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Greetings, friends. • We new Golden Eagles absolutely rocked! What a grand and glorious 50th anniversary celebration! This was a weekend that our fantastic Class of 1968 will cherish forever! Our Golden Eagle investiture celebration was particularly poignant as we remembered all our classmates, past and present, particularly those who were represented by their families. We joyously feasted at the New England clambake with our dearest pals; we gathered as veterans; we gathered as nurses; we gathered as “seasoned” alums with the

One cannot adequately express the very positive special feelings so many from the class experienced at our 50th reunion in June. From the commencement of activities on Friday through brunch on Sunday, the moments were filled with much laughter, several shared memories, and more than one poke in the ribs followed by “Who is that?!” A particular highlight was the Saturday morning conversation led by Lynny de la Chapelle Doherty’s sister, former Newton College Dean Fran de la Chapelle, RSCJ. Fran directed her remarks

Bob Wise recently retired after 27 years as president and CEO of Hunterdon Healthcare System in Flemington, NJ. Since 1991, Bob saw the organization’s revenues increase dramatically to more than $250 million with more than 2,500 employees.

In addition to leading Hunterdon, Bob has been active in his community as a member of the Flemington Rotary and as board chairman of Raritan Valley Community College. Bob and his wife of 47 years, Vicki, plan to remain in their western New Jersey home and spend more

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time with their three daughters and two grandchildren. • I am sorry to announce the recent deaths of three of our classmates.

Larry Daniels, of Merrimack, NH, passed away peacefully on April 1. Larry had a full four-year scholarship to play football for the Eagles. He was employed by Guaranty Fund Management Services for 23 years as a claims manager. Sympathy goes to his wife, Debbie; his daughters Amy and Chrissy; and his five grandchildren. • Jim Haight passed away on April 20 in Arlington. Jim taught for 40 years in Somerville’s junior and senior high schools. • Clare Murphy, MEd’70, of Yarmouth Port and Newton, passed away on May 14. Clare was a teacher in Brockton from 1970 to 2005. • Please take the time to write or email me about what is new with you. This spring will be the 50th anniversary of our graduation from Boston College. I look forward to seeing many of you at our Golden Reunion!

Correspondent: James R. Littleton jim.littleton@gmail.com 39 Dale Street Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

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May 31–June 2, 2019 Many thanks to Patricia Pratt Moriarty, of Wellesley, for sharing news for this issue!

Patricia writes: “George ’69 and I just celebrated our 49th wedding anniversary.

We are both retired from very satisfying, wonderful careers. I was an elementary school teacher for 36 years, and George was with the Federal Court in Boston. Our children and grandchildren are the centers of our universe and the source of constant pride and joy. They range in age from 16 to 2 (2-year-olds Charlotte and George—our own Royal Family!—were born two months apart on opposite coasts). While not all our children live nearby, we make sure to visit San Francisco and Washington DC on a regular basis. We are looking forward to a family vacation on the coast of Maine and in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in August. We (14 of us) will all gather at our daughter Tara’s house for Christmas. When not spending time with children or dealing with various medical issues and the necessary doctors’ appointments, we indulge in travel adventures. We’ve enjoyed many interesting trips to five continents! In November we will embark on a cruise from Bangkok to Sydney through the South Pacific with stops in many exotic spots. We are blessed to be surrounded by family and friends!” • And speaking of travel, I hope you will be able to return to Newton for our Golden Reunion (yes, it’s been 50 years since our graduation!) next year.

Mark your calendars for Reunion Weekend, May 31–June 2. And meanwhile, please stay in touch and let me know what you are doing. I’d love to hear from you!

Correspondent: Mary Gabel Costello mgc1029@aol.com 4088 Meadowcreek Lane Copley, OH 44321

“BC gave me confidence to take risks. I’ve drawn quite heavily on that throughout my career.”

BILL PLUNKERT ’68

OCCUPATION: Ignatian Spiritual Director

The Eagle Behind the Billion-Dollar Spy

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dolf Tolkachev was a hero who gave his life for a cause—to do maximum damage to the Soviets—and when the USSR ultimately fell, I believe that he played a significant role,” says former CIA agent Bill Plunkert. A senior engineer in Soviet weapons development, Tolkachev had access to highly sensitive, incredibly damaging information, and for a number of years in the late 1970s and 1980s, he delivered that intelligence to his Moscow handler, Plunkert.

Plunkert’s stories of evading KGB surveillance to meet with the unassuming man who would provide what Plunkert calls “the most important cache of information ever received by the CIA” are chronicled in David E. Hoffman’s The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal. Why “billion-dollar?” Because, explains Plunkert, Tolkachev’s intelligence saved the U.S. billions of dollars in our own Cold War weapons programs.

Plunkert’s CIA career makes a great story—with an unusual turn. He retired from the CIA to teach religion at a Catholic high school. He felt his calling deepen and made the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola, eventually studying to become an Ignatian spiritual director.

He’d been happy at the CIA, he says, but it was time to be of service. “It’s ‘men and women for others,’ right?

“Now I have the privilege of walking with others on their spiritual journeys,” he says.

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The Class of ’70 turns 70! It’s truly a momentous year for our class, the year in which most of us hit this milestone.

Celebrating this special birthday in style were Don Therrien, John Nash, Phil Cody, and Greg Miller, who with their spouses spent a week in Bermuda. Most of that group plus Mike Mingolelli, Paul Mahoney, Norm Cavellaro, and Eddie Vozzella also enjoyed some springtime celebration and kept up a long-standing tradition with a golf weekend on the Cape. • A cruise from Athens to Venice marked a 70th birthday celebration for Bill Conti, JD’73, and Dick Costa and their wives.

Bill, who continues to labor in the practice of law, has taken on another partner in his firm of Conti, Levy & Salerno. • As for your favorite columnist, I chose the occasion of my 70th birthday to leave the working world. I retired on June 1 as the corporate secretary and director of licensing of the National Fire Protection Association, a large Quincy-based nonprofit, where I worked for 37-plus years.

So far, retirement is great! • Peter Nolan, a friend of mine since grade school, was featured in the Spring issue of Boston College Magazine for his later-in-life hobby of building museum-quality ship replicas.

He has become one of the best-known artisans in the country in this craft. Look it up if you still have the issue. • Suellen Aderholdt Nelson sent along a note that she has been a physician’s assistant for over 35 years and is currently working part-time in a dermatology practice in Fishkill and Poughkeepsie, NY. In her spare time, Suellen is an active charity knitter, library volunteer, and lay minister. • Joe Fitzpatrick’s son Matt ’93 has published his first novel, Crosshairs: A Justin McGee Mystery, a Boston crime story with a back-cover endorsement from noted author William Martin. It’s available on Amazon. • Unfortunately, I have to note the passing of a couple of classmates earlier this year: Stephen Pickul, of Centerville, passed away in March. Steve was a realtor on the Cape and an avid fisherman. He was also a Master Gardener. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ellen St. George, and children Timothy and Sarah Ann. • Neal Tully, who was also a 1973 BC Law classmate of mine, passed away in May. Neal was a well-respected trial lawyer in Boston with a renowned focus in the area of eminent domain. He leaves his wife, Lissa; children Katie Avalos, George Tully, and Beth Tully; and five grandchildren. In perhaps the most touching end note I have ever seen, the Tully family requested that you celebrate Neal by “reading a good book, calling a friend, enjoying a glass of scotch, and taking a walk on the sunny side of the street.” What a wonderful way to be remembered. • As I write, at this time 50 years ago we were starting our junior year and rounding out the tumultuous year of 1968. Has there ever been another one like it? We cannot relive those days, but we can remember and in doing so begin to think about our 50th reunion to be held May 29–31, 2020. Do plan to be there. Much more information to come.

Correspondent: Dennis Razz Berry mazzrazz1@aol.com

I write with sadness to report that our beloved classmate Marcia McGrath Abbo passed away. She died peacefully and quietly in her apartment in Washington DC, surrounded by family, who now take solace in knowing her battle with ALS is over. Marcia had a talent—rare in today’s world—of making you feel, when you spoke to her, as though you were the only person in her world. I will miss the twinkle in her eye, the sparkle in her smile, and the steady joy, calm, and purpose she always radiated. So many classmates were close to her—I invite those writing tributes to share them in this column. And thanks to Joan O’Callaghan, Kerry Kilcullen Carter, and Jane Garvey Reilly for sending this news! • Jane also sends news of Philippe de Lacoste, who is doing well and remembers his political science students fondly.

Jane recalls: “Some of us became poli sci majors just to be in his class—I know I did!” • Kathy O’Mara Fanning, MEd’76, had the inspiration to invite some Bostonarea classmates to celebrate the year the Class of 1970 turned 70 with a “Double 70s” birthday celebration. Kate O’Shea McGillicuddy helped spread the word, and soon the invitation traveled well beyond Boston—at least as far as Rita Houlihan in New York City, Kathy Sheehan in Washington DC, and Liz Scannell Burke in Prince Edward Island. As I write, a goodly number of classmates are planning to travel to Sudbury on September 29 for a milestone party. Sadly, I cannot join them. (I had already committed to cohost a reunion of my first legal colleagues in DC on that very date.) But I eagerly await news! • Harriet Mullaney celebrated the Big 70 in February in the Bay Area, where she saw Kathie Meier. Kathie is doing well after surgery and treatments last year for endometrial cancer. She and her beloved Bernese mountain dogs provide animalassisted therapy work through the Marin Humane Society’s SHARE program, which Kathie has been part of for 20 years. They also work with Jumping for Joy, an agility program that pairs autistic children with therapy dogs—the children learn to run the dogs on an agility course! In April, Harriet traveled to New Mexico and Scottsdale, AZ, where she visited Kathy Kearney and her cousin Paula Mullaney Murray NC’64.

Kathy retired in November after 25 years with Altour Travel, and has channeled her formidable energies into volunteering with St. Vincent de Paul’s food kitchen, which serves 250 people at its noon meal. She also is active with the Duet organization, which matches people with those needing rides to medical appointments, grocery shopping, etc. When not traveling, Harriet continues her work on immigration issues with the American Friends Service Committee’s Coloradans for Immigrant Rights program and the Denver Metro Sanctuary Coalition.

She looks forward to gardening season each year to provide balance to this work. • Lastly, I had the pleasure of spending time on Martha’s Vineyard this past summer

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I thank them for those lovely visits!

Correspondent: Fran Dubrowski fdubrowski@gmail.com

1971 Correspondent: James R. Macho jmacho71@bc.edu

NC 1971 As we approach the end of summer, I am pleased to bring you news from a couple of classmates. • Eileen McIntyre shared that she is excitedly awaiting the birth of her first grandchild in late November, but in the meantime, she will be taking a break in September from her board work with four community-based organizations in Hingham to tour Budapest, Prague, and Vienna with her husband, Roy Harris. • Pat Meek McDougall is living in Coventry, CT. Now retired from UnitedHealthcare, she enjoys volunteering at a nonprofit greenhouse where developmentally challenged adults are trained and employed.

She also takes advantage of courses offered through the Center for Learning in Retirement at UConn, where she recently joined the executive board. In addition, Pat and her husband, Bill, are looking forward to an exciting vacation adventure in Ecuador and the Galápagos. Adding even more fun to life is time spent with their 15-yearold granddaughter. Retirement definitely agrees with Pat. • In May, Kate Foley and I were able to share a delightful lunch in Milford, CT, with Jane Maguire just before she took off on yet another trip, this time with her two sisters. • After three scorching July weeks in Idaho, I returned to the Connecticut shore to welcome four sets of relatives from Syracuse, NY, to cool off in Long Island Sound. The fun never stopped, with the gang ranging in age from 3 to 72.

We even managed to squeeze in a bridal shower right in the middle of it all. • Here’s hoping everyone enjoyed the summer.

Remember to email me all your news.

Correspondent: Melissa Robbins melrob49@sbcglobal.net

1972 This is the 45th anniversary of my column.

Thanks for reading all these years. • This has been a rough year for some institutions that have long been renowned among BC students. The Cleveland Circle site that housed The Tam and Mary Ann’s is slated for demolition, and Marian High School in Framingham has closed. Marian was best known for producing BC Varsity Club Hall of Famers Fred Willis ’71 and Peter Cronan ’77. It also produced some outstanding members of our class: John Haggerty was a researcher at Yale Medical School and a professor at Quinnipiac University and the University of New Haven before passing away in 2013. Mike Cornely is still practicing law in Miami, where he specializes in the defense of police officers. Larry Glynn,

whose father was chair of the BC accounting department while we were students, has been practicing law in Tucson. Tom Hession, of Wrentham, was a senior VP at the Bank of Boston. Robert Pruyn, of Framingham, was a librarian in that city. Jim Condon is an attorney with the MBTA. • I got a message from Art Browne correcting my use of the word “retired” for him. He describes himself as “fully occupied” with consulting projects and with his 12 grandkids. • I also heard from Kevin Greeley, who is retired in Woburn after a career as an accountant with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.

At press time, he was planning his second trip to Europe this year. • John Saputo wrote from Longboat Key, FL, where he manages two of his several beer distributorships. He retired from the Marine Corps after 32 years of active and reserve duty, during which he received the Bronze Star with V for valor and the Defense Meritorious Service Medal.

John and his wife have four daughters and seven grandkids. • Stephen Baron retired as a professor of political science at SUNY Oswego. He and his wife have two daughters who are living in Israel, and they’re “packing up the house in anticipation of following them.” • Elizabeth Gaquin, of West Roxbury, is a librarian at St. Joe’s in Needham. She has two children, Heather ’05 and John.

Her husband, Jerry Bello ’67, MEd’72, passed away last year. Elizabeth would like to reconnect with classmates. • I heard from Maureen Morrissey Carey about the reunion that she and her friends from Kirkwood Hall on South Street had this year on Cape Cod. It was the 18th time they’ve had such an event. Others present were Susan Knapik Brown, who was a teacher in Grafton; Carol Lombardi Nonis, of Narragansett, RI, who was a speech pathologist; Joanne Dyer, of Cheshire, CT, who was a nurse; Kathy Godfrey McDermott, who was a health-care administrator in Monroe, CT; Mary Jayko Newton, a retired teacher who now lives in Atlanta; Patty McGowan Maxwell, who was a speech pathologist in Lakewood, CO; Jacquie Bachand Hurley, who was a nurse with the Cranston, RI, public schools and now lives in Beverly; and Barbara Smith Costigan, who was a wellness coordinator in Missouri before moving to Bozeman, MT. Maureen, who was a nurse, lives in Hingham. • Condolences to the families of those we’ve lost recently: Arthur Hennessey served in the Air Force in Vietnam and received a Purple Heart. He was later cofounder and CFO of American Capital Energy in his native Lawrence. Linda Quinlan Gasper was a newspaper reporter and also a mother of four and grandmother of nine.

Correspondent: Lawrence Edgar ledgar72@gmail.com

NC 1972 The family of Laura Richardson, who passed away in May, wishes to thank her classmates and friends for their thoughts and prayers.

John ’72 and Grace (Regan) Conway from Albany, Anne Brescia from Boston, Mary Pat Shea Czajkowski from Dallas, Lisa Kirby Greissing, Carolyn McInerney, and I attended

Laura’s memorial liturgy. It was held at Laura’s school, the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, in Bethesda, MD. • On June 18, the Food & Dining section of the Boston Globe featured Mary-Catherine Deibel as, for many years, the “unofficial mayor of Harvard Square.” Google “getting salty deibel” to read the entire article about Mary-Catherine’s love of the Cambridge and Boston restaurant scene. • Kathy Connor reports that summer at Tanglewood had a Newton flavor with Margi Cangemi Sullivan, Carolyn Isaak, and Ellen Conway Morse visiting her in June.

They attended a matinee performance of Audra McDonald, when rain and the concert coincided. Fearlessly, all wore slickers, sat lined up in their lawn chairs, and braved Mother Nature. In July, Suzy Berry Slattery reached out to Kathy when she and a group of her friends were going to Tanglewood. For the past few years, both Suzy and Kathy have met for lunch, and this year they got together on the terrace of The Mount, Edith Wharton’s home in Lenox. Coincidentally, both Suzy and Kathy were going to the same Saturday performance at Tanglewood—West Side Story with the Boston Symphony Orchestra—and they managed to find each other at that packed performance. As Kathy says: “And as all who are reading this know, it is amazing how conversations just pick up where they left off!” • After retiring from her copywriting job, Cathy Cyr Dowling “really has the hang of it now.” Daughter Suzy is married with two young children. After receiving multiple acceptances to top-rated schools, Suzy just started at the University of Maine Law School. She and her husband are committed to living in Maine, and she eventually wants to work in Augusta. Daughter Mamie was married in September 2017. Both daughters are not too far from each other in Maine.

Regarding husband Steve, Cathy writes that he “is as retired as anyone can be who reads the want ads daily!” • In July, Laurie Loughlin was in Philadelphia for the wedding of Lloyd and Jane Donovan de Vries’s son Karl to Jane Kaplan. Karl is breaking news editor for CNN Politics.

Correspondent: Nancy Brouillard McKenzie newton885@bc.edu

1973 Just because there are pumpkins and Halloween decorations in stores doesn’t mean summer is over. At least I’m not putting the beach chairs and suntan lotion away just yet. Students are also slowly making their way back to Boston though, and those heading to the Heights share a long tradition. It seems like yesterday for those of us who graduated in ’73, but we’re still young enough to have fun. Just look at what I got to prove it from Dave Freitag: “In March, four athletes from the Class of ’73 did battle on the golf course here in Naples, FL. Harvey Bennett and John “Gump” McGarry challenged Tom Anstett and me. The hoopsters showed our superior athleticism, while the hockey players were gracious hosts. We shared plenty of bogeys, a few pints, and some good laughs from nearly 50 years ago when we lived in CLX,

then Kostka.” • It’s hard to believe almost 50 years have passed since we spent time together. Where did it go? • Well, there is more to come, so stay tuned! Let’s hear how others have passed the time all those years.

Correspondent: Patricia DiPillo perseus813@aol.com

NC 1973 This is our first column for the NC Class of ’73! We would like to take this opportunity to thank Kate Novak Vick for her five-plus years as our class correspondent. And she would like to thank everyone for sharing their stories during her tenure. Kate felt it was a great way to stay in touch with everyone. She had a summer filled with trips to Captiva; Cape Cod; Ocean Grove, NJ; East Hampton; and Muskoka, Ontario. Several of these trips included Barbara Gangemi Burns. • Newly retired, Mimi Reiley Vilord and Kathy Dennen Morris agreed to co-anchor our column at our 45th reunion. Speaking of which, the Saturday-afternoon discussion about SWC was informative for all who attended. According to Kathy McDonough Hinderhofer, there was a consensus that our studies are still relevant today, especially considering current global events. The concepts presented by our many professors throughout this two-year, daily course has proven invaluable in our understanding of world history and cultures. The idea of giving back and volunteering are important to us, and several participants spoke of their active involvement in politics, government, and community service. • It was great to see and catch up with the women (and a few brave men) who attended the Saturday dinner. The weather cooperated, and we enjoyed a special evening filled with reminiscing, laughter, and music. Susan Jaquet acted as our emcee, passing the mic and encouraging each of us to share a bit about our current lives. • On Sunday, all the classes gathered to celebrate a memorial Mass in the chapel. This was followed by a delicious brunch, concluding a wonderful weekend filled with friendship and nostalgia. • Marilyn Kenney Shaw shared that she and some classmates have met annually for the last five years in Plymouth. They, along with their husbands, meet at Debby Lucier Kolodziej’s house. Sadly, Debby’s husband passed a year and a half ago, but she is still able to find and create joy for her family and friends. Overlooking the ocean, each woman received a massage. The rest of the weekend was filled with cooking, dining, and laughter. Via FaceTime, they were able to connect with Christine Richards Beauchamp and Karen Gaudreau Fiorile. A girls-only weekend is planned for this upcoming March in Venice, FL • Any and all news would be gratefully appreciated! Please contact us at the email addresses noted below.

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May 31–June 2, 2019 Thank you to all who responded to the Alumni Association’s email request for news. • After working for many years to protect the environment, first for a decade seasonally for the U.S. Department of the Interior at the Cape Cod National Seashore, later as a liaison between the Mass. Secretary of State’s office and what is now the Cape Cod Commission, and then 13 years at the Mass. Executive Office of Environmental Affairs, Jack Clarke, MA’76, is now in his 25th year at Mass Audubon as director of public policy and government relations for one of the oldest and largest state conservation organizations in the Northeast. Jack and his wife, Fara Courtney, reside in Gloucester. Thank you, Jack! • This year Cheryl McEnaney is celebrating 20 years of managing Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label in North America. Living in LA, she also continues to work with independent artists and labels, including Opium Moon, which debuted on NPR’s All Songs Considered in July. In Cheryl’s words: “Music is life!” • Best wishes to David McKeon and Maureen Desmond, of Auburn, NY, who were married in April.

Classmate Phil Perna was in attendance.

Congratulations! • Jim and I and our family are all doing well. We became grandparents for the sixth time in June when our daughter Andrea ’07 and son-in-law Zach Zoia ’08 had their second baby, a sweet girl.

• Take care and please send me some of your good news.

Correspondent: Patricia McNabb Evans patricia.mcnabb.evans@gmail.com

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May 31–June 2, 2019 Every time Boston College Magazine comes out, I open it to see what news there is from Newton ’74. Alas, much to my chagrin, I often find there is no news, which is not a surprise to me because as class correspondent, I did not have news to submit. Thanks to Kathleen O’Brien Tracy and Marion Flynn, there is some news in this issue! • Kathleen, who lives in Windsor, CT, decided to heed the call for more educators and more female voices in government by running for state representative in Connecticut’s 60th District. Unfortunately, Kathleen lost in the Democratic primary in August. This was her first run for public office after retiring from a 39-year career in public education and caring for her mother for four years. • Marion Flynn, who lives in Evanston, IL, writes: “I lead a complicated life! One aspect is my service to the Women’s Ordination Conference, where I am a longtime member and board member. Lots of women called to the priesthood, like me, have chosen to move to a more accepting denomination. My call seems to have been to serve a local parish with lots of families who work hard to stay 60

in the church. It is not an easy path!” Thank you, Kathleen and Marion, for your news!

Correspondent: Beth Docktor Nolan beth.docktor.nolan@bc.edu

1975 Greetings, classmates! • Michael and Mary Rose (Noonan) Delaney are thrilled to announce their newest family additions.

Their son and his wife welcomed triplet boys, born at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on May 18. They are now blessed with nine grandchildren. Mary Rose retired from teaching two years ago to become a full-time “Grammy” to her sweethearts!

• Judith Bowman continues to lead her successful professional presence and business protocol consulting business. The founder and president of Protocol Consultants International, she is also executive director of the National Civility Foundation. On the foundation’s recommendation, a Day of Civility was launched at the Mass. State House in 2016, and the following year at the opening ceremonies of the Thanksgiving Day Parade in Plymouth, Governor Charlie Baker officially proclaimed a Massachusetts Day of Civility—a day when “every person in every family, every company, everywhere in the state performs a random act of kindness.” Currently Judy is spearheading a new initiative with the Boston public schools, focusing on the importance of civility through training, education, and certification. They hope this will serve as a pilot program to be implemented throughout the country. • Carole Magazu Mega was thrilled to host a gathering of her five nieces and their families visiting from Atlanta and Oregon. They spent an enjoyable and funfilled time on Cape Cod. Her nieces include BC grads Laura Magazu Clary ’94, Nicole Magazu Granger MS’06, and Jessica Magazu MA’03. Carole and her husband, Doug, just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. • Please feel free to share any updates and events with us. We look forward to hearing from you! • Best wishes to all for peace, love, joy, and happiness this holiday season!

Correspondent: Hellas M. Assad hellasdamas@hotmail.com

NC 1975 I hope the summer into fall transition was a good one for you all. • We start with some wonderful news from Mary Stevens McDermott, who kept our class notes column afloat for so many years.

In February, Mary received a kidney after being on the kidney transplant waiting list for five years. In her words, she is “good, happy—it’s miraculous.” Mary sends her thanks and appreciation to classmates for their prayers and support over these years, something she believes made the difference in her outcome. We had a chance to catch up on a nice long phone call and covered everything from her improving health, new routines, kids, and creative pursuits to hurricanes, bugs, and Florida summers! We could have talked for another hour at least

but finished up so that Mary could get downtown to see an art exhibition at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham, where she is on the board. Continued good health as you navigate the months ahead, Mary. • Mary Ellen Quirk sent news of a fun July potluck picnic in Rowayton, CT, when Posey Holland Griffin was visiting from Iowa.

Posey and Mary Ellen got together with Beth Reifers, Ann Vernon, Enid Hatton, Kim Lucchesi Marshall, Mary Beth Simpkins Wells, Mary McDonough Young, Susanne McNamara Woods, Anne McCormick Hubbard, and Monica Dursi Cimina. Mary Ellen wrote: “We had a great time catching up! Anne hosted us at the Rowayton Yacht Club, and we all contributed food and drink. Needless to say, there was more than enough for everyone. It is amazing the bond that truly exists between all of us no matter the time or distance.” Posey added her thanks to everyone for driving from near and far to make this reunion happen during her visit. Mary Beth brought fun sunglasses for all; Mary regaled them with plans for some exciting trips coming up; and Beth and Monica took lots of pictures. Sounds like wonderful memories were shared and some new ones made. Posey summed it up best: “How lucky are we to have one another.” • Posey also had the chance to have lunch with Jackie Regan McSwiggan, MEd’76, in New Jersey near the waterfront.

Jackie had just returned from a fabulous trip to Italy, so she had lots of good stories to share. • Thanks for sharing your news with our classmates. Let’s keep in touch with each other, and let me know what is happening with you!

Correspondent: Karen Foley Freeman karenfoleyfreeman@gmail.com

1976 David Murphy died peacefully of natural causes in late May at his home in Pittsfield, where he was a prominent lawyer. As a past president of the Berkshire Bar Association, Dave also served on local boards and commissions and was active in numerous community charities. Throughout his life Dave enjoyed a range of athletic endeavors, beginning at Pittsfield High School when he was captain of the ice hockey team. He went on to master hiking and mountaineering and was a member of the Adirondack 46ers, climbers who have reached the summit of all 46 major mountains of that range. He also ran in four major marathons, and his most recent passion was golf. Dave earned his BA in political science from BC and his law degree from New England School of Law. He is survived by his children, Katie, Daniel, and Matthew, as well as several siblings. • Michael Brosnan has published a poetry collection, The Sovereignty of the Accidental (Harbor Mountain Press). Irish poet Eamon Grennan praised it as “an impressive, deeply satisfying debut.” Michael’s BC degrees were in English and education. He resides in Exeter, NH. Congratulations! • Twenty-five years after her late father, Frederick Noone ’51, graduated from BC, so did our own Cynthia Noone Rubera. Now, another 25 years later,

Fred’s grandson James Rubera ’01 graduated from BC. That’s a lot of memories of the Heights! • Kathleen Murphy checked off an item on her bucket list when she traveled to gorgeous New Zealand, a nation with 4 million–plus people and an estimated 30 million sheep! Also, she made this writer happy by attending the annual Independence Day BBQ. Kathy was a charter member (goalie) of the women’s hockey team. Now a national powerhouse, the BC women’s hockey team has come a long way! • Carla Talento Lepke writes that it was an exciting year for the Lepke family: All three of their children got married in 2018! • Joe Vallely would like to give a shout-out to his daughter Clare ’17, a Connell School of Nursing alumna, who was returning in August from her JVC experience in Milwaukee, where she was providing health care to people living on the margins. Joe writes: “Having been a JVCer myself, I am so touched by her willingness to take on this challenge and seek God in the lives of the forgotten. The future of BC is in great hands with young women like her. The legacy lives on. Go, Eagles!” • Here’s wishing all a healthy and happy autumn. God bless!

Correspondent: Gerald B. Shea gerbs54@hotmail.com

1977 Correspondent: Nicholas Kydes nicholaskydes@yahoo.com

1978 Happy autumn, all! • I heard only a few words about Reunion Weekend. John Discenza and Joyce Gallagher Sullivan returned to campus for the events, and both said they had a nice time, but the turnout was low. If others attended and would like to send news or offer shout-outs regarding the celebration or MIA classmates, zip anything and everything over to my inbox, please! • Sadly, this short column ends with the news that two more of our own passed on in May of this year: Stephen Poelaert, of Milton and Duxbury, and Domenic Trano, of Lexington. God rest their souls. • If you have not already, please take a minute to send an update on your personal or professional life for this column. Thank you, and I really hope to hear from you.

Correspondent: Julie Butler julesbutler33@gmail.com

1979 40TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Mark Lewis, of New Orleans, reports that after 10 years of leading the Louisiana Technology Council and helping Louisiana greatly improve in technology employment, he left to join the business management and consulting firm Simmons & White (now called Communiqué) as a principal partner; he later became managing director,

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and he is now president and full owner of Communiqué. Mark moderates five CEO roundtables across the state while also coaching and consulting with executives and entrepreneurs on growth and prosperity.

He has also written a book, Give a Damn!

Individually We Make a Difference, Collectively We Change the World, which discusses challenges facing both society and business and how attitude can make a difference.

Mark has appeared on several national radio talk shows, including the Frankie Boyer Radio Show and the Ed Tyll Show, and for the past 10 years, has appeared on 4WWL’s monthly program Digital Gumbo, which provides news of technology advancements and helps promote local technology companies throughout the region. Mark has three children from a previous marriage, and since marrying wife Elizabeth five years ago, has become a stepfather to four more. • At Commencement in May, Boston College awarded documentary film producer Kendall Reid an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree “for her contributions to the world of film and our understanding of the struggle for racial and gender equality in America.”

Her documentaries Journey of the AfricanAmerican Athlete, celebrating the pioneering achievements of blacks in all sports, and Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sports, tracing the history of American women and their fight for equality in athletics, both won Peabody Awards. She has also created films that have linked sports and race, including documentaries

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about Boston Celtics great Bill Russell, the 1968 Detroit Tigers, and O.J. Simpson.

• Classmate Frank Roach Rider writes: “When my daughter was about to be born in 1996 I had my name legally changed, as an aesthetic birthday present to her, [from Francis “Frank” Gerard Roach] to Frank Roach Rider, and that is how it came to be that my daughter’s name is Destiny Lea Rider instead of Destiny Roach.” Frank is a human services financing specialist at the American Institutes for Research in Raleigh, NC, working with the National Resource Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention and the National Center on Safe and Supportive Learning Environments.

Correspondent: Peter J. Bagley peter@peterbagley.com

1980 It is exciting to hear how many of our classmates are continuing to succeed and fully embrace life. • Dan Conway, of San Diego, reports that “60 is the new 40,” as proven by him and fellow Eagles this past summer at their BCOC (Boston College Ocean City) War at the Shore. It’s rumored that the Jersey Shore will never be the same. Hosted by our own Mike Mayock of NFL Network fame, this was the fifth annual get-together of former teammates and roommates, including Jeff Dziama, Mark Roopenian, John Schmeding, Tom Carr, Greg Cantone, Mike Hartigan, Jim Sweeney, Dan, and BC underclassmen John Loughery ’82, Doug Guyer ’83, and Joe Nash ’82. The group also get together every fall at the Heights for a football game and Greg Cantone’s fabulous tailgate behind the Rec Center. “Our stories continue to be embellished!” Dan says. He, like many classmates, is now a grandfather. • Jeffrey O’Hara, writes that he and his wife celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary and are blessed with four children, who are doing very well. The O’Haras live in Illinois. • In May, Regina Mon O’Connor, MA’03, of Auburndale, was awarded an honorary doctorate of public administration from Anna Maria College in Paxton for her years of providing mission experiences to youth, young adults, adults, and families in addition to her work for the Sisters of St. Anne as director of social concerns. • John Carabatsos reminds us via one of his daily posts on our class Facebook page of Pope John Paul II’s visit our senior year. Those of us lucky enough to experience his enigmatic smiles and waves in the rain that day were forever touched. This visit sparked Amelia Vitacco Duggan to remember another memorable visit during our time when President Jimmy Carter came to campus our freshman year. There were throngs of us there to greet him. “I fought hard to get into Roberts Center for that visit. He was the first president I got to see in real life,” she said. • Mary Menna Darveau, of Sudbury, took her family on a trip to Italy to celebrate her oldest daughter’s graduation from college—just before she entered the real world and started her job at the TJX 62

Corp. “Through Facebook, I saw that fellow classmate Peg O’Brien Bernhardt was in some of the same cities, but unfortunately, we were never in the same city on the same day. It would have been great to have been able to get together in Italy!” Mary writes. • Stu Austin is serving as the associate pastor at New Hope Presbyterian Church in Fort Myers, FL. He and his wife, Ethelanne, are approaching retirement and will remain there. Their only son, Sean, died in a car accident in Kansas City, MO, in 2017. • In closing, let’s remember those classmates who need our support. Marianne Anzuoni Supino is currently on dialysis and writes in the hope that help may be found. You can read her story and learn how to help on the Caring Bridge website. • Thank you to all who have been writing in. I look forward to continuing to hear how you help prove that 60 is the new 40!

Correspondent: Michele Nadeem michele.nadeem@gmail.com

1981 Jennifer Fahey Blake writes: “Our classmate, Anne Cronin Kelley, passed away on January 26 after a long battle with ovarian cancer. She is sorely missed by her husband, Jerry, as well as her siblings, nieces and nephews, cousins, and extended family. One of her nieces wrote of Anne: ‘Her indelible influence on her nieces’ and nephews’ lives—as well as the lives of her grandnieces, whom she loved so dearly—will be one of her most enduring legacies.’ Her influence on her friends from BC and many colleagues is another of her enduring legacies. She will not be forgotten.” Our sincere condolences to Anne’s family and friends. • Kudos to Dave Clark, who participated in the ninth annual Run to Home Base at Fenway again this past July. The event raised over $1,750,000 to support veterans and their families!

Dave finished the 9K event 52nd overall and 7th in his age group, with a time of 38:31 (a 6:54-minute-mile pace!). He says it was a good tune-up for the Army 10miler in October in DC. Dave is a technical advisor, foreign intelligence for the Army, and lives in Alexandria, VA. • Thanks once again to Greg Clower, who hosted the sixth annual BC Alumni Golf Outing at the Philadelphia Country Club. The event raises funds to enhance activities and programs of the BC Alumni Association’s Philadelphia Chapter and helps to provide financial assistance to BC students from the Philadelphia region. • Following the retirement of VP for Student Affairs Barb Jones this summer, Joy Haywood Moore, associate VP of alumni relations, was named interim VP of student affairs. Joy has been credited with successfully leading the BC Alumni Association in its outreach to its 182,000 members and increasing engagement, and she also directed BC’s 142nd Commencement exercises in May. Prior to returning to BC in 2011, Joy led the Archer School in Los Angeles and Dana Hall School in Wellesley before becoming the interim head of the Oprah Winfrey

Academy for Girls in South Africa. She was awarded an honorary degree from BC in 2010. Congratulations, Joy! • I welcome any news from our classmates. Please write!

Correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee amckee81@aol.com

1982 James DiFilippo earned his doctorate in comparative literature in French and Spanish from the University of Connecticut in 2015. For the past three years, he has been applying his PhD to his professional practice in education at two elementary schools in West Virginia, where he teaches students in grades 3, 4, and 5. • Jim and Rhonda (Hershman) Jermyn have raised three daughters: Brittany, Kyle, and Cori.

Brittany is an account executive with Philadelphia magazine (a sister publication of Boston magazine) and is getting married in Pennsylvania in October, the same month that Rhonda and Jim will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary! Kyle is teaching in the Westwood public schools, and Cori will begin her freshman year in college in fall 2018. Rhonda is working part-time for the Southeastern Regional Technical Institute, where she supports recruitment and admissions for the adult programs in Easton.

• For the last 25 years, Louis and Donna (Duffy) Di Lillo have lived in Beverly, where they brought up their daughters, Annie and Katherine. Annie is living in the East Village and is a designer for Selman Design in Manhattan. Katherine graduated from Central Saint Martins College in London this past July and is currently a member of the United Kingdom Youth Company Theatre.

• Please continue to send updates about yourselves, your children, your careers, and fun in your retirement!

Correspondent: Mary O’Brien maryobrien14@comcast.net

1983 Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com

1984 35TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Greetings, classmates! Here’s the news. • Philip Cate Huckins, MAT’85, PhD’95, has just published a book of poetry, Granite’s Voice: Poems of New Hampshire, which is available on Amazon. • Vittoria Pellegrino Petruzziello and her husband, Fausto, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary on September 5. They have three children: Alexia is entering an MBA program at Bentley University, Giovanni is a junior at Quinnipiac University, and Maximillian is a senior at North Haven High School.

In October 2017, Vittoria and her husband launched their hybrid concierge medical practice, CareMedica Elite, as an adjunct to their multi-office family practice and internal medicine practice in the New Haven, CT, area. Their LaserMedica Dermacenters

practice just celebrated 10 years in antiaging and nonablative skin rejuvenation procedures for patients and clients throughout Connecticut. • Susan Tirrell Moore and husband John have enjoyed living in Franklin for the last 25 years. Susan has held numerous corporate positions and is now at CVS Health. Recently, John retired as a local police chief and opened a law office in their town. He also teaches at a local college.

They have two children: Kevin graduated from medical school and matched to Mass.

General for his residency, and Kristin is working in the corporate world and always looks forward to her next vacation. This past spring Susan had a great BC dinner reunion with fellow classmates Lillian Boyle McLendon, Mary Borrelli, Nancy Raso Duggan, Nancy Difillipo Pantazopoulos, and Carolyn Gaucher Benson. Susan writes all are doing well, and it was wonderful to catch up on personal, professional, and family status. • Jim Dwyer continues teaching at William & Mary, where he is a chaired professor of law. His most recent book, Liberal Child Welfare Policy and Its Destruction of Black Lives, was just released.

His wife, Katya, has just started a pediatric residency, so in the coming years Jim will happily devote himself primarily to caring for their children, Evan (5) and Tatiana (4). • Lisa Kaufmann has been working in human services since graduation. She has found her niche as a mother and Montessori teacher in a lovely school. She relocated back to South Florida, where she has raised her daughter, Ingrid, who is in her last year of college. In her spare time, Lisa enjoys cooking, reading, writing, and hanging out with family and friends. Lisa keeps in touch with Mary Power Chapman, Veronica Hetland Buckman, and the “blonde” Lisa Kauffman (now Tharp)!

Lisa would love to hear from the folks of Keyes South! • Mike Garry dropped off a new Eaglet, daughter Moira, Class of 2022, at the Heights on August 22. He writes that he then went on to Cape Cod to play in the prestigious Eagle Cup with fellow alums, including Henry King, Tom Nunan MEd’90, Vittorio Pavia, Paul Greco, Steve Gargano, and John Gill and wannabe alums Tom “Bucky” Bockhorst, Jackson Bockhorst, and Bob Schufreider. • Thanks, classmates!

Write again soon!

Correspondent: Carol A. McConnell bc1984notes@optimum.net

1985 I hope everyone is having a great fall season!

• Congratulations to Maria Leonard Olsen on the publication of her book 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 2018), ranked No. 1 in the mid-life management category the week it was released. I read the book and found it both well-written and a very reflective read. I recommend it. • Mei-Tai Yee has lived in northern New Jersey for 12 years after spending 12 very happy years in LA. She works for Prudential Financial in an executive communications and media relations position. She keeps in touch with

her roommates Gloria Haines Yennaco, who lives in New Hampshire; Lauren Gagliano-Vavra, in Pompano Beach, FL; Renee Castro Buffington, in Arnold, MD; Melissa Morton Joy, in Meriden, CT (all four are Connell School of Nursing grads), and Karen Reardon, who works for the Shubert Organization in New York City and lives in Matawan, NJ. • Sad news: In June, Lynne Johnson passed away. Lynne worked in the financial services industry and lived in Newton with her husband, Bill Howland, and their two Maltese, Bentley and Lilly. • Not a lot of news this quarter, so here are a few recollections of Boston and the world beyond campus during our years at BC: In 1980, President Carter signed legislation establishing the Boston African American National Historic Site, which includes the oldest black church in America and other historic sites of the Black Heritage Trail in Boston. In 1982 the television program Cheers started broadcasting; set in that very famous Boston bar where everyone knew your name, it ran on NBC until 1993. As nearly everyone has a cell phone now, it is hard to believe that it was in 1983 that Motorola introduced the first mobile phones to the United States, and Microsoft released the word processing program Word, followed in 1985 by the first version of Microsoft Windows. In a category now long gone, in 1984 Boston magazine voted Videosmith the best video store, and in 1985, the magazine named Jim Rice the best Red Sox player of the year, Larry Bird and Kevin McHale the best Celtics players, Ray Bourque the best Bruins player, and linebacker Steve Nelson the best Patriots player. Hopefully those names of great professional athletes bring back some fond memories. We all know that Doug Flutie was the best college player of 1985! • Please send me your news!

Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bww415@gmail.com

1986 I hope everyone is happy, and I want to thank everyone who wrote in to share their interesting lives with our classmates. I really appreciate it, and keep the emails coming—I will include anything you submit. • Gina Mix Beck is truly “living her dream” and shared her story with us.

Gina and her husband always dreamed of living in France for a year, and now they are managing to squeak out several months since an entire year was not going to be a reality with their full life of kids and work after their recent move from New Orleans to Greenville, SC. Gina writes: “We are experiencing more than we could imagine, learning so much about French history and culture as well as the differences and likenesses to opinions about our changing worlds, and meeting the most amazing people who have offered their time and their homes to us, embracing our passion to absorb as much as we can while we are here. What a gift! I know that my time at BC was the impetus for my ability to dream big and pursue and am thankful every day!”

Gina, what an epic adventure, and love to

hear that BC is what spurred you to dream big and fulfill your dreams—keep us posted on your next adventure! • Colleen Egleston Bonde wrote that her daughter Caroline is a freshman this fall in the Carroll School of Management, Class of 2022! Awesome news and good luck to Caroline—hope you love BC, make lifelong friends, and have all your dreams come true. Congratulations to all our classmates with current, past, and future Eagles; BC is lucky to get them all. • Great news also came from Elaine Ambrose Swyryn, who was recently named associate head of school for the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Congrats, Elaine! • David Macaione wrote that last year he relocated to Scottsdale, AZ, to become head of legal and business affairs for Pure Flix Entertainment and Pure Flix Digital. The movie and TV studio, in conjunction with Paramount Pictures, recently released Same Kind of Different as Me, starring Renée Zellweger and Greg Kinnear. This fall, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott’s classic family novel, Little Women, Pure Flix will release a modern-day retelling of the story featuring Lea Thompson. David, congratulations on your promotion, and we wish you continued success in the entertainment business. Your job sounds fascinating—hope you get to meet lots of Hollywood stars; bring them along to our next reunion in 2021! • Thanks again to everyone who wrote in, and please, everyone, send me the “scoops” and I am happy to include them; we love hearing about all our classmates’ adventures. I truly hope everyone is “living the dream.” Go, Eagles, and keep smiling!

Correspondent: Leenie Kelley leeniekelley@hotmail.com

1987 Correspondent: Lou Imbriano louis.imbriano@bc.edu

1988 It’s once every five years that I get to ruminate about returning to BC for a reunion, and this sixth return visit to the Heights for the Class of ’88 didn’t disappoint in renewing a bond with friends, classmates, and a place we called home for four years. For me, and I suspect everyone not living in the Boston area, a BC reunion is also a mini-vacation to a city we only get to visit every five years. Arriving by car this time, I was struck by the same radio stations that still play Boston’s greatest hits.

Not only Boston the city, but Boston the band. Mary Ann walking away prompted an immediate tour of Cleveland Circle to establish that Mary Ann’s is still there. And yes, Newton residents, the Quonset Hut somehow still exists as well. • Once again, our class was housed in a new dorm. Not “new” as in it wasn’t there in 1988, but new in that it wasn’t there five years ago.

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all of the supplies needed for a proper BC reunion took even longer (I hope the University appreciates our class gift of $827 in recycling returns). My friends and I, sensing that a table for 25 on a Friday night in Brighton might be an issue, brought in food. The “wow’s” we got from hall strollers told us we made the right choice. • Saturday brought some classic Boston rain clouds, but it didn’t stop us from hitting the bookstore and marveling at the splendor that is the BC campus. The real fun, though, was the main Saturday-night party. It was held in the Rat, and our class did our best to party like it was 11 years before 1999. I got the shock of my postgraduate life when I passed a TV in the entryway playing a video of the fall 1987 Airband competition. There on full display was your class correspondent performing as one of the Supremes (the award-winning Supremes, not the actual female Supremes).

I need to send a special thank-you to Sue Mahanor for her thoughtful gift of a DVD copy of the entire show. Sue, all I need from you now is where to send the therapy bills....

• I’m grateful to have reconnected with everyone I got to see at our reunion, sad to miss treasured friends who couldn’t make it, and eager to relay all of our journeys for another five years. I’ll resume reporting news of classmates in our next issue.

Correspondent: Rob Murray murrman@aol.com

1989 30TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Reflective of summer travel and vacations, we have a few updates this quarter. Get ready for more to come with our 30th reunion approaching (too soon) in May 2019. Let’s get conversations going now! Share an update soon! • Greg Schulte (gregorywschulte@ yahoo.com) was recently named CFO of InfuSystem Holdings Inc. in Madison Heights, MI, where he will be working for InfuSystem’s CEO and former BC baseball pitcher Rich DiIorio ’96. Greg also recently attended the BC Commencement ceremonies in May to watch his stepson Ryan Borchetta ’18 graduate from the Carroll School of Management. Ryan has taken a position with Deloitte’s consulting practice in New York City starting this summer. • Sandra Higgins’s (sandrahiggins13@gmail. com) new venture, OROPA, an eco-friendly gift shop and café in Duxbury, won the Wicked Local No. 1 gift shop in Duxbury for the second year in a row. Sandra is off to a great start! If you are on the South Shore, do stop by!

Correspondent: Andrea McGrath andrea.e.mcgrath@gmail.com

1990 Hello, classmates! I hope you all had a fantastic summer. Happy birthday to all who turn 50 this year! Thank you to all of you who have submitted notes this go-around.

We love to hear what you are doing! • P.J. McNealy has been an adjunct professor in 64

the Carroll School of Management for the past 12 spring semesters, teaching a class on the influence of technology on the business models of media companies in the movie, TV, print, video/mobile gaming, and music industries. After nearly 20 years in market research and on Wall Street, P.J. created his own consulting firm eight years ago and has been working with both large companies and startups. P.J. and his wife, Rosemary Reilly (Wesleyan ’89) have two children, Jack (14) and Emma (12), and have been residing in Natick for the past 13 years after spending a decade in Palo Alto, CA. Rosemary is a partner in the corporate practice at Wilmer Hale in Boston. The McNealys have an awesome fall tailgate in Merkert (aka Roberts Center) and anyone is welcomed to stop by. They are the first spot on the grass closest to the circle by the ticket office entrance. They are called the RR Rowdies, as all are ticket holders from section RR and comprise a range of alumni, including Jack McNealy ’60, Ken Carty ’88, Michael Corcoran ’86, Pompeo Derubeis MBA’00, the Collen family (Jess ’79, Jane (McGlew) ’79, and children), Paul Howard ’17, and Alexis Raymond MS’17. • Brian Moriarty’s oldest son, Connor, started at BC this fall as a member of the Class of 2022. Brian is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. • Gael Beriro reunited with fellow BC ruggers at the 50th anniversary of the BCRFC last May for a great celebration and reunion catching up with old teammates and fellow ruggers from different years. Congrats to Coach Ken on an extraordinary career-volunteer milestone! Gael recently caught up with Gretchen Libby in Portland, ME, and then Margaret Moraskie in the Florida Keys. Both are doing terrific in careers, family, and life.

Gael would like to wish fellow classmates who cross the half-century mark this year a happy birthday and hopes to see everyone soon! • Joanne Belasco is celebrating the second anniversary of her web-based law firm, Windhorse Legal, PLLC. She practices estate planning as well as elder, business, nonprofit, trademark, equine, and animal law. She draws on skills and experience from her time as a staff attorney for the Boston Police Department and editor in chief of law enforcement publications for Quinlan Publishing as well as her years as both a horse and nonprofit professional. She is also the president of Tapestry Institute, an organization that she has worked with since 1998. They help people reconnect to nature, and all the programs are operated within an indigenous worldview. Joanne now lives in Colorado, having lived in the West since 2001. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with her horses, many of whom are mustangs.

• Troy Clarkson recently published his second book, Out of the Woods: 365 Ways to Not Be a Dung Beetle. The book offers an original inspirational quote each day for a year and tells the inspirational story of his journey “out of the woods.” After recently concluding 25 years in public service, Troy launched Clarkson Consulting, a full-service consultancy offering services in mediation and arbitration, government and regulatory

affairs, and strategic communications. • Paula and Paul Day are excited for their daughter, Catherine, who is a BC freshman majoring in Russian. Catherine is a thirdgeneration Eagle, as two of her grandparents also graduated from BC. The Days reside in Dallas with their younger daughter, Gabrielle. Paul is a sales executive for Dell EMC, and Paula is a VP with AlexPartners.

• Kevin Mahoney writes that classmate Sean Gavin lost a courageous battle with cancer on June 15, 2018. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.

Correspondent: Missy Campbell Reid missybc90@comcast.net

1991 Sadly, I must begin our class notes with the passing of another classmate. Michael Marino, “Coach,” died at Union Hospital on August 9 after a lengthy illness.

Classmates attended the services at St. Mary’s Church in Lynn. Coach will be remembered for his amazing friendship to all he met. • Robyn Houston Bean is a partner at Houston Insurance in Braintree, along with her father, David Houston Jr. ’68. Robyn lives in Braintree with husband John, daughter Olivia (25), son Jake (21), and their new puppy, Ruby. Sadly Robyn lost her middle son, Nick, three years ago at the age of 20 due to substance use disorder. In his memory, they created the Sun Will Rise Foundation, which provides support to Braintree, Quincy, Weymouth, and surrounding Massachusetts towns for issues regarding substance use disorder. The organization had their annual fundraiser, the BeanStock Music Festival, in July. The festival remembers the life of Nick and others who have been lost to substance use disorder and celebrates those in recovery. • Kim LaBarbiera-Paschall and her husband accepted another two- to five-year diplomatic post, this time in Brussels, Belgium! She writes: “We look forward to hearing from any Eagles living in or traveling to Brussels to come out and grab some wonderful Belgian beer and frites with us!” • Dave and Deborah (Reich) Sullivan will be celebrating 20 years of wedded bliss this July. They live in Oxford and are proud parents to Ally and Mega, the cutest cats on the planet. Also celebrating 20 years of marriage is Laura Raftery (Class of 1990, but she should have been with us, she just graduated in three years instead of four!) and her husband, David Blake. Both couples are happy, healthy, and living the dream. Aileen Reilly McGrath happens to be godmother to Laura’s two beautiful daughters, Kiera (15) and Erin (12), both of whom are talented dancers. • Laura Lasher Foxx is currently the principal of Broad Brook Elementary School in Connecticut and is faithfully guiding the next generation of young minds. She and her husband, John, live in Enfield, CT, and are doing great. • Phil Grondin married his sweetheart, Marianne Delorey, in an island wedding with perfect weather in Falmouth, ME. Roommates Paul Knaysi, John Di Bartolo MS’93, and Mike Regnell were happy to attend along with fellow BC alums Julia Covino and

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Michelle Verzillo Carpenter. • Rick Hampson married Julie Wineman near their home in Rochester, MI. In attendance from BC 1991 were Steve McCool, Artie Del Negro, Doug Lally, Ray Gooley, Matt Renola, Chris Keyes, Will Foley, Mark Dennehy, Chris Lugossy, and Jeff Barden. Rick’s daughter Katie was the maid of honor, and his son Andrew was the best man. The wedding was truly an epic celebration. Rick is the state president of Citizens Bank in Michigan. He has been in banking for the past 23 years—since business school. • And to end with more happy news: At least three of our classmates have sent their children off to be members of BC’s Class of 2022! Congratulations to Matthew (son of Sheila Duggan Kettlewell); Cooper (son of Kari Cadwallader Schmitz); and Jack (son of Troy MS’99 and Elizabeth Renick Bracher MA’95, PhD’04)!

Correspondent: Peggy Morin Bruno pegmb@comcast.net

1992 Hi, everyone! Thanks so much to those who sent in their recent news. I would love to hear from the rest of you! Please send me your updates so I can share them with your classmates. Thank you. • Ann Cronin Romano writes that after many years of writing and submitting to editors, she has published her debut children’s picture book, Before You Sleep: A Bedtime Book of Gratitude. The book was slated to be published by Page Street Kids in October.

Ann is thrilled that her English degree is serving her so well. She and her husband, Jack Romano, reside in Hopedale with their three children: Olivia (17), Lily (15), and Nicholas (13). Jack is a partner in the accounting firm of Morneau and Blanchette in Framingham. • JJ Conners, PhD’94, lives in Jacksonville, FL, with his wife, Sarah, and their three daughters, ages 16, 14, and 12. JJ is a commercial real estate developer and started his own company, Chestnut Hill Investments, in 2006. • Rolando Albuja sent in the following news: “I work as a project controls specialist at Northeastern University in the facilities division. I work on various university capital projects, improving and expanding NEU’s many campuses. I have been at Northeastern since October 2017 and have enjoyed my time there. My loyalty is still with BC though!” • James Miller wrote in with the sad news of the passing of our beloved classmate Mary Flatley, MAT’93, on May 15. Mary lived in Millis and was a loved and respected member of the English department at Holliston High School for 20 years, teaching AP English literature. She was a mentor and friend to her students both past and present and spoke of them often with great pride. Mary was always the life of the party and made everyone smile with her quick wit and inimitable laugh.

She had a great love of books and passed that love on to her nieces and nephews, giving each of them a carefully chosen book every Christmas. Mary loved cooking, baking Thanksgiving pies, and spending time with her beloved dog, Phil. She was 66

an avid fan of the Boston Red Sox and the Buffalo Bills. The Class of 1992 would like to extend its deepest sympathies and prayers to her family.

Correspondent: Katie Boulos Gildea kbgildea@yahoo.com

1993 What a reunion! Many of us did our best to enjoy every minute, closing down Cityside or MA’s each night. Good thing on Mary Ann’s, a last hurrah. It was sold to a developer—for $1.5 million. What? The whole weekend was so much fun. Amazing job, Christina Galmiche Sliwa, herding all us cats! I had what I consider an “emotional hangover” for days after, let down it was all over. And then to hear the sad news of losing classmate Sean Kelly; it makes me write: no matter what happens in your career, with your family, your friends, you were—are!—part of something special, you matter, you are loved. Somedays we need to be reminded of that. Someday, it might make the difference. OK, sermon over. Now, back to the 25th fun. I met a couple who work in LA and told me all about their lives, which I, of course, forgot, so please write in and share! Seeing Martin Gobbee was a highlight, as was chatting with Brian Willer.

But Willer, and Mark Solitro, you guys don’t own the market on gray hair anymore. The guys in our class: silver foxes. I’m looking at you, Tom Burton, JD’96, and Tim Barrett!

So great to see Anne Trenkle Schaefer, Beth Ahmuty Silveria MEd’94, Michelle Wright Bucaria, and Maureen Mulcahy Surber ’92 together (with Beth McBride DiLauri too)! Ann Boyle Nagel and Patricia “Pokey” Chatham Bolton MEd’96, you were missed.

Chatting with John Martyn, Scott Burke, and Ray Alvarez was like moving back into Keyes. Bob Luiso, you are amazing, delaying your honeymoon to be part of Reunion! My Walsh 221 8-man were all there, other than Jenn Koenig Breen (next time!). I’m sorry I didn’t get to chat with you, Treseanne, MA’97, PhD’15, and Pete Ainsworth! I also missed seeing Sal Tollis, JD’00. I loved seeing Josh and Tess (Kopoulos) Mower, who reminded me of OA fun the summer before senior year. Jenn Williams Riley, MBA’98, MSW’98, still has that amazing ability to make you feel like the most important person in the room. Victor Ianno too, but with that extra “Vic” spice added in! I love that Andy Tamayo had a time capsule he and Chris Conti opened for the 25th. Oh, my, to laughing with Tara DiMilia Dai, Lisa Ferrari Dunn, Dan Walsh, and Danielle Sardella Gosselin til 2 a.m. on Friday! Linda Murphy, asking about my Mom’s Polish cat, your memory is amazing! I only saw Christian Coleman Liakos far across the tent, and wish I got to remind him of how we moved his whole room out in front of Keyes. The Big Men of BC got together for a photo, Gary Gulman, Jim Panettiere, and Mike Atwood.

Atwood seemed to be among the few of us who actually took pictures! Next time, the BC 5K needs a better BC’93 showing.

We had Pete Sakalowsky running fast, and Ironman Michele Campisi crushing it.

Ned Roseberry had a respectable showing, but I ran slow as a Golden Eagle. I know there are lots of other runners in our class, the Res got a lot of action that weekend from Roshini Rajkumar, as well as Doug Schobel trying to keep up with Shannon O’Callaghan, MA’99. Seeing you two as well as Tom “Rusty” Thein, Mike Greene, and Mazen Yacoub all together again, and having time with you all—my heart was full! We even got a quick sighting of Bill Meehan (and Brad Ewald). I’d pay money to see Linus Ozaeta and Steve Tate. You don’t know it, Tater, but your wisdom is frequent in my family, each time pizza crust is nearly abandoned, we channel you, saying, “The crust is the dessert, man!” I loved seeing Grace O’Malley Ebaugh, still with the same smile that lights up a room! And your posse of strong women, all together, with Sophia Germanides-Dryer, Heather Ryan Morrissey MEd’97, Daniela Bellitta-ONeill MA’94, Karina Alberto Adourian, Kristin Mangels Murphy, Angie Bengzon Hazard, and Kelly Kane. Great to catch up with many of our Mikes: Mike Garnsey, Mike Curran, Mike Burke, Mike Panos MEd’97, Mike Bertoncini, Mike McAuliffe, Mike Pouliot, Mike Venturelli, and the heart of our class: Mike Fee. These moments, being together, even if only one weekend every five years, are so precious. • Some other updates I received: Elissa Mizzone Testa became an administrative law judge for the State of New Jersey. She is married with three teenagers: John, Vivian, and Madeline. • Erin Hurley Smith wrote: “Fr. Neenan would be happy to know the girls from Iowa he nicknamed the ‘Dynamic Duo from Des Moines’ are back together.” Erin and Kelly Johnson Eastin are on the same senior leadership team at ChildServe, a specialty pediatric healthcare organization. • And we will end with amazing news that Jeanie Zmijewski Taddeo shared: “I am officially 10 years cancer free! I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at week 16 of my pregnancy with my twin daughters. They are 10 years old, and we all are doing great!” • To all, whether you came to the 25th or not, remember our four years at the Heights was something precious, and you mean a great deal to a great many. Keep in touch and let us know what you are up to!

Correspondent: Laura Beck laurabeckcahoon@gmail.com

1994 25TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Ann Lassotovitch Flaherty, Christian Vanderslice, and Katy Wadlow Burt sailed the Newport-to-Bermuda race in June. They said that while they may not have won the race, they definitely won the after-party!

That’s some BC pride right there! • Trevor Wright’s son Noah is a freshman at the Heights! Are there any other classmates who have kids at BC? It’s hard to believe we’re at the next generation already! • After spending 11 years in the Newton public schools as a classroom teacher and assistant principal, Tiffany Back, MEd’99, is excited

to let everyone know that she is changing districts and taking on a new role: principal of the Greenwood Elementary School in Wakefield! Congratulations, Tiffany. • Lisa Tulimieri Thibodeaux and her husband have been happily married for 23 years. Their children are now adults (which is just crazy for them to believe) and leading very happy lives! Their daughter, Gabriella (22), has been a very successful hair stylist for a few years and recently left the nest for her own apartment, thankfully not too far from her parents. Their son, Kyle (20), has continued his academic life and hockey career, after two years of junior hockey, at Endicott College where he is now a sophomore. Kyle is on his way to becoming a high school math teacher. Lisa and her husband are empty nesters and while they miss seeing their kids daily, they’re thrilled that they get to watch them grow and follow their dreams! They are starting to travel a little bit now that they have more time and look forward to finding new places to spend long weekends. They both work for their family business in Connecticut, where Lisa is VP of finance and HR, and her husband is a senior account manager covering New York City and Connecticut, which means tons of travel.

Lisa recently spent a night in New York City visiting a couple of her BC roomies, Jennifer Wasik and Nancy Drake Kessler. They had a fantastic time and, Lisa reports, it was like no time had passed—except bedtime came a lot earlier than it used to! • Thanks for the notes, and please keep them coming. Big year ahead for us: 25 years!

Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com

1995 Correspondent: Kevin McKeon kmckeon@gmail.com

1996 It was an eventful summer for Nicolette Manahan, who, with her husband, two children, and a dog, moved to Denver in August. Nicolette writes that they are all very excited as they are having a new home built and are looking forward to a slower pace and more family time! • Hope you have all had a wonderful summer! Please write and share your adventures!

Correspondent: Mike Hofman mhofman12@gmail.com

1997 Here is the latest news! • Rich Corner and his wife, Nicolle, have been married since 2006 and have four children: Billy, Ava, Emily, and Abbie are heavily involved in school and play soccer—there may be a future Eagle among them. The Corners reside in Northern Virginia, where Rich is still on active duty in the U.S. Army. In June, he graduated from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, PA, and is now stationed at Fort Belvoir in Virginia. Dan and Carolyn (Cloutier) Brace, Eric Dohr, and Cathy Finnerty Caputo all live nearby. The “Quad”

(Rich, Dan Brace, Jesse Peterson, and Keith Duffy) remain in touch and even had a Quad reunion at the BC vs. UVA game last year. • Congratulations to Kevin Dooley Kent (Vanderbilt University Law School 2000), a partner at Conrad O’Brien in Philadelphia, who was recognized as a “2018 Law Firm Innovator” by The Legal Intelligencer. This accolade was for Kevin’s work at the firm as a leader in developing and regularly using alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). The Legal has recognized attorneys who are “on the cutting edge of the profession.”

As clients look to redefine their billing arrangements with their legal providers, Kevin has been on the forefront of proposing alternative fee arrangements and finding creative solutions that both fit the clients’ wishes and fulfill the firm’s needs. Kevin’s practice focuses on advising clients nationally on risk management in high-legal exposure industries. He represents companies in matters involving civil fraud, fiduciary liability, director and officer liability, professional malpractice, government civil enforcement actions, government audits, employment litigation, and internal investigations. • It’s been 21 years since we were at the Heights! Email me and give the class your update!

Correspondent: Margo Rivera Gillespie margogillespie@gmail.com

1998 Well, what an awesome time we had at our 20th reunion! I hope you all thought so.

It was such an uplifting, supportive, and happy environment. Thank you, wonderful friends and classmates, for coming together to celebrate each other. • Janice Kelly Savage was recently promoted to department administrator at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City.

Janice will be the chief administrator for both the department of physiology and cellular biophysics and the department of pharmacology. She will be working with her chairman, Andrew Marks, MD, to oversee the day-to-day financial, research, and academic operations of the departments. • Nathan Womack has run his own IT company for the past 10 years and successfully launched his garlic-infused olive oil in the Colorado region—it is sold in 57 stores in addition to a handful of local stores and restaurants. The product is called Look Out Here I Come and is also available online. Nathan lives in Boulder. He was planning a trek in Nepal to the base camp of Mount Everest in October. • On a Sunday in June, Bill MEd’99 and Tricia (Landry) Wallace MEd’00 and their three children hosted a gathering of BC friends, most of whom had been unable to attend the formal 20th class reunion a few weeks earlier. Rich and Aimee (Moitz) Fiorito and their three children; Lisa Hart Moore MEd’99 and her son; Chris DeAngelis and his wife and son; and Laura Bryant and her wife and son, met for a BBQ and day of catching-up. Many of the friends had not seen each other in nearly 10 years, and none of the kids had met before. • John Ingoglia attended the reunion

and had a great time! His wife, Shirley, was able to experience Boston for the first time.

She thought everyone in our class was so nice and the campus so beautiful.

Correspondent: Mistie P. Lucht hohudson@yahoo.com

1999 20TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Hey, Class of 1999. Hope you’re having a great fall and are getting ready for our 20th reunion in June! Stay tuned for more details in our next issue. I haven’t heard from many of you; hope the next couple months will bring some content for this column. • Jennifer Rezendes Methot and her husband, Luke, just welcomed their second child, Mason Daniel. His 3-year-old sister, Vivian, is over the moon. The Methots live in Fairfax, VA. • In May, attorney Kevin Fay was promoted to partner at the law firm of Eckert Seamans. Located in the firm’s Philadelphia office, he concentrates his practice in complex civil litigation including medical malpractice as well as product liability and commercial litigation. Kevin earned his JD, summa cum laude, from New England Law in 2007. • Enjoy the cool weather, and stay in touch.

Correspondent: Matt Colleran bc1999classnotes@hotmail.com Correspondent: Emily Wildfire ewildfire@hotmail.com

2000 Happy fall, Class of 2000! I am excited to say that I have some impressive and exciting news to share with you. • Wynndell Bishop, MBA’07, was a 2018 Distinguished Volunteer Award recipient, receiving the John J. Griffin, Sr., ’35, H’72, Alumni Association Award. Congratulations, Wynndell! • Heather Ward is among nine federal government officials participating in the Mike Mansfield Fellowship program in Japan this year. Heather is an international cooperation specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development. For the next year, Heather will be placed in various Japanese government agencies and ministries in Tokyo. • In March, Danielle Porcelli Bianchi, JD’03, was selected to be an assistant chief of staff for II Marine Expeditionary Force (II MEF). Representing one-third of the U.S. Marine Corps’ operating forces, II MEF is representative of the largest and most powerful Marine AirGround Task Force. Danielle is responsible for force preservation. She is now living at the beach on the Crystal Coast of North Carolina. • Johanna Liparini Oliver enjoyed spending a few weeks this summer, like every summer, with the family of husband Jason (son of Bill Oliver ’74) in Hull. Her three sons, Matthew (7), James (5), and Drew (2), love going out on the lobster boat with Grandpa! • Jennifer Brennan Letourneau, MEd’08, was recently named the math department head at Newton 67

North High School. Also, her son, Collin Brennan, graduated with a degree in finance and a mathematics minor from Providence College. • Michael and Kendra (Johnson) Winters, MA’02, welcomed a son, Thomas, on November 23, 2017. • Craig Marinho and his wife, TaraLynn, welcomed their second daughter, Evelyn Leia, in December. Evelyn joins big sister Vivia Rose. Also, Craig was recently named partner at the law firm of Peterson Bradford Burkwitz. • Christine Dziadul-Ferramosca and her husband, Frank, welcomed their second child, Joseph Edward, on May 9.

He joins his proud big sister Natalie (2).

The family lives in Rockville Centre, NY. • Cleo Bertrand Maranski and her husband, Martin, welcomed their son, George Walter, on March 16. The family lives in Nanuet, NY. • Callie Marie Murphy, the daughter of Richard and Kaitlen (McGillivray) Murphy, was baptized at St. Ignatius Church at BC on June 9. Big brothers Jack and James were previously baptized there, though the family lives in Los Angeles. Diana Steele ’83 is godmother and aunt to Kaitlen. Born premature at only 24 weeks, Callie is a true miracle baby who has overcome so many odds to turn one year old on July 14! • As always, thank you for sharing your news with the rest of the Class of 2000. Looking forward to hearing from all of you in 2019.

Correspondent: Kate Pescatore katepescatore@hotmail.com

2001 Greetings, classmates! We’re wrapping up 2018 with a few announcements from our Class of 2001 crew. • John and Lauren (Hill) Kowaleski welcomed their fourth child, Finn Declan, on February 27, 2017. Caitlin (7), Maggie (6), and Aidan (2) were thrilled to add another boy to the mix. The Kowaleskis live in Needham. • Kate Rado (a.k.a.

“Tuesday” from Hello…Shovelhead!) writes: “In May, I evicted yet another squatter from my womb, an adorable baby girl my husband, Eric, and I named Maybelle Violet Rado Warzecha. She is happy, healthy, and chill. We’ve entrusted her care to her older sister, Coralie (6), who is doing quite well at the job. We pay her in jelly beans, as requested. I’m continuing my work as a voice-over artist and have begun a side gig as a stand-up comic. I’m hilarious, you guys.” • Gregory Hagin recently finished his MBA at Wharton; opened a Philadelphia office for CCS Fundraising, where he is a partner and managing director; and was recognized as one of Philadelphia’s 40 under 40 by the Philadelphia Business Journal. Greg also serves on the board of Fairmount Park Conservancy and teaches three classes as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. • Keep those updates coming, and enjoy the holidays with your loved ones. See you in 2019!

Correspondent: Sandi Birkeland Kanne bc01classnotes@gmail.com 68

2002 Congratulations to Margaret Felice, MA’12, who wrote 2019: A Book of Grace-Filled Days (Loyola Press, 2018). This daily devotional includes a Scripture passage and reflection for each day, beginning on December 2, 2018, and continuing through the end of 2019. It is available at LoyolaPress.com and on Amazon. • In September 2017, Cryssa Byers Andersen became a licensed marriage and family therapist and has since started her own private practice in Newport Beach, CA. • Congratulations to Brad and Liz (Henry) Martin, who welcomed their third child, Filippa Lenore, in March. “Flip” is adored by her older brother Anders (2) and big sister Corie (4). The family of five has been living on the North Shore of Chicago for the past four years. • Timur Pakay is now associate director of executive education at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, overseeing corporate partnerships and designing new executive programs for a variety of industries.

Correspondent: Suzanne Harte suzanneharte@yahoo.com

2003 Roy, MEd’04, and Jillian (DeGuiseppe) Lee, MEd’04, welcomed their fourth child, Reece Cronin, on July 10, 2017. He joins his twin sisters, Eliana Marie and Samara Joy (8), and his brother, Kai Ronald (4). The newest addition was baptized on January 21, 2018.

In attendance was Reece’s godfather, Francis Sweeney, and Kai’s godmother, Caitlin McGrail, MEd’06. The family resides in Sayville, NY. • Parents Greg and Beth (Milewski) Goodman and big sister Abby welcomed Jack Gregory on October 18, 2017. The family resides in Scotch Plains, NJ. Greg is a certified trial attorney at Palmisano & Goodman in Woodbridge, NJ. Beth is an assistant professor of pediatrics and pediatric clerkship director at Rutgers-RWJ Medical School in New Brunswick. • Amy Cramer married Rajat Ghoshal in Saratoga Springs, NY, where the couple reside. Eagles in attendance from the Class of 2003 included Kaitlin Ryder Swett MS’04, Erin Jochum Roberts, Kate McMahon, Kate Follin Qualls, Meg Frisbee Schwanhausser, Krista Jarmas Aslanian, Maryclare Magee Gildea, Megan Healy Fahy, Danny Resnick, and Michael Sano. Design elements were lettered by Megan Fahy Calligraphy.

Correspondent: ToniAnn Kruse kruseta@gmail.com

2004 15TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Josyl Barchue and his wife welcomed Noah Stanley on July 9. Also, Josyl joined UnitedHealth Group as corporate counsel.

• Michelle Maroto and Adam Draeger welcomed their first child, Maya Ross Draeger Maroto, on July 6. • Damien LaRock

received a PhD in special education with a focus on intellectual disabilities and autism from Teachers College, Columbia University, in May. His convocation ceremony was attended by family and friends, including Cindy Uh. Damien continues to work as a special education teacher at P.S. 148, a public community school in East Elmhurst, Queens, as he pursues research in the field.

• Jim and Kelly (Kroll) Lockwood, MA’06, welcomed their first child, Abigail Grace, in December 2017.

Correspondent: Alexandra “Allie” Weiskopf allieweiskopf@gmail.com

2005 Madeline Long married Joshua Weinstein on June 16 in Washington DC. Eagles in the bridal party included Shana Rabinowich Ashar MA’12, Ashley Coutu, Heather Gatnarek, and Amaris Kinne, all of whom first met in Duchesne West in 2001 and later were roommates in Rubenstein D42. Other Eagles in attendance were Amar Ashar, Krista D’Agostino, Emily Dendinger, and Emma Stanton ’06. The father of the bride, G. Thomas Long, JD’73, is a graduate of BC Law School. • John Curley and Andrew Grillo completed an odyssey together when they recently made a trip to Saved by the Max on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, CA. The pop-up diner is based around their all-time favorite television show, Saved by the Bell.

The former BC roommates—who lived together sophomore year in Walsh, junior year off-campus on Kirkwood, and senior year in Rubenstein—found out firsthand what it is like to eat inside an episode of Saved by the Bell. After opening with the AC Sliders, which were said to be absolutely charming, and an order of Mr. Belding’s Fries, John ordered the Preppy Pastrami, and Andrew enjoyed the Kelly Kapowski.

The two shared the Hey, Hey, Hey glutenfree pie for dessert. The trip served as a reminder that John and Andrew will remain “friends forever.”

Correspondent: Joe Bowden joe.bowden@gmail.com Correspondent: Justin Barrasso jbarrasso@gmail.com

2006 John Noel Dussel is a board-certified general surgeon and has recently completed a surgical fellowship specializing in vascular surgery at the University of Connecticut/ Hartford Hospital. In August he joined the surgical practice of Pacific Vascular Specialists in Portland, OR, and he and his wife, Adrienne Bingham, and their twin sons, Ben and James, relocated to Portland this summer. • Dan and Anne (Schoellerman) Cagney welcomed their first child on March 28. His name is Leo Richard.

Dan and Anne can’t wait for him to get to visit the Heights! • Holly and Red Fabbri welcomed a daughter, Mia, on April 17. The whole Fabbri clan, including big sister Zoe, are happy and healthy. • Cristina Conciatori has been named a Microsoft Innovative

Educator for the second year in a row. This in an honor that goes to teachers who are leading the way in innovative teaching.

Correspondent: Cristina Conciatori conciato@bc.edu

2007 Mike and Caitlin (Watras) Craparo welcomed their daughter, Evelyn Ivy, into the world on October 20. Their two-year-old son, Jack, has been an amazing big brother.

The family lives in New Jersey; Caitlin works in corporate affairs for Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Mike teaches high school economics and government and coaches tennis. • On November 29, James MS’10 and Lauren (Crowne) Judge welcomed their second child, George Arthur. Big brother Seamus is thrilled to gain a brother and best friend. • Megan Connelly and Tyler Gaffney ’06 recently married at the Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, FL, Megan’s hometown. Fellow Eagles in the bridal party included Bill Clerico and Luke Howe ’06 and Megan’s college roommates Katey Sullivan-Clerico and Whitnie Low Narcisse.

Many Eagles attended the wedding, including Richard Aberman, Tyler Bates, Nick Deming, Ryan Galligan ’06, Emlen Page MSW’14, Chris Pizzo ’06, Lauren Reliford, and Jill Shadek as well as Tyler’s father, Tim Gaffney ’79; Doug Welsh ’77; and John ’79 and Lorraine (D’Angelo) Nealon ’79. Megan and Tyler live in San Francisco, where Megan works for Saks Fifth Avenue as the area marketing director for San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Hawaii, and Tyler has his own business, Entrepid Partners, helping tech startups accelerate growth. • In June, Graham Gullans and Christina Bechold Russ celebrated six years as cofounders and managing directors of Empire Angels, their New York–based fund and angel group that invests in early-stage companies with a focus on supporting young entrepreneurs. They’re excited to expand the group internationally and close their second fund this fall.

Correspondent: Lauren Faherty Bagnell lauren.faherty@gmail.com

2008 Congratulations to Kate Balch, who married Kevin O’Neill in Rye, NY, on July 14.

Members of the BC community in attendance included Frances Fontaine Chedid, Caroline Buhr, Michael Fabbri, Megan Lynch, Patrick Ryan, Laura Murphy, Cynthia Vanegas ’01, Taylor Sele ’06, Krista Tietjen ’12, Steven Tesoro ’09, Jason ’09 and Casey (Barry) Holdych ’09, Reilly Corbett Heine ’13, John ’76 and Denise (Walter) Mara ’76, Christopher O’Brien, and John Finney. • Michael Contreras and Sandra Caicedo were married on April 7 at the Four Seasons Miami with many fellow 2008 Eagles in attendance. During their honeymoon they had the honor of meeting Pope Francis at an audience in Rome, where he blessed their new marriage.

• Lara Kinne married Mark Dickas on April 27 in Washington DC, where the

couple reside. Members of the wedding party included maid of honor Lindsay Williams and sister of the bride Madonna Amaris Kinne ’05. • Michael Sinacore is now a legislative assistant for the Office of Senator Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska) after having served over five years in the House of Representatives. • Lindsay (Winget) Schlegel’s first book, Don’t Forget to Say Thank You: And Other Parenting Lessons That Brought Me Closer to God, was published in August by Ave Maria Press. In it, Lindsay reexamines phrases she says to her kids (over and over again) and hears them rather from the voice of God, and reflects on several of her BC experiences. Lindsay resides in New Jersey with her husband and their four kids. • In May, Meghan Hart received her MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business. She now works at Universal Studios Hollywood as the associate manager on the integrated marketing strategy team. • After spending the past nine months in England, where her husband was stationed with the U.S. Navy, Pamela Herrera Brazil has started a master’s program in language and literacy at Midwestern State University, with a specialization in becoming a reading specialist. • We also welcomed several future Eagles this past year! Steven and Christina (Kearney) DiSegna welcomed their daughter, Alexandra Maria, on October 8, 2017. In April 2018, Peter and Danielle (Kidd) Muenzfeld welcomed twins Caroline and Henry. They join older sister Elizabeth and are watched over

by Margot Trevino Rosson and Amanda Del Balso Cantwell who are, respectively, the children’s godmothers, and Ryan Kidd ’11, who is the godfather of both children.

• Chris and Eileen (Cavanaugh) Maza welcomed a daughter, Meghan, in January.

• Many thanks to all for sending in their news—your summer updates will be continued in the Winter issue!

Correspondent: Maura Tierney Murphy mauraktierney@gmail.com

2009 10TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Caitlin Tweedy married Joseph Van Manen (Ohio State University ’09) on July 6 on Long Island, NY. Caitin writes: “The ceremony was attended by many family members and friends, and it was a joyous day!”

Correspondent: Timothy Bates tbates86@gmail.com

2010 Lauren Haumesser recently earned her PhD in history from UVA and is currently working on editing her dissertation on masculinity, conservatism, and the Democratic Party, 1856–1861, for publication as a book. • Jefferson Neblett and Scott Lauber have partnered with a group of investors to form a fund, 20 South Partners, dedicated to acquiring and subsequently operating a medium-sized

business in the U.S. Jeff and Scott are entrepreneurs at heart and are excited about the journey ahead! • Thomas and Claire (Schoen) Sharkey welcomed their first child, Eveline Marian, born on June 14 in New York City. Eveline is already outfitted with BC Eagles clothing, books, and a stuffedtoy Baldwin and is excited to visit campus for the first time this fall. • Andrew Keener earned his PhD in English this year at Northwestern University, where he studied Shakespeare, Renaissance drama, and the history of books. This fall, he joined Santa Clara University as assistant professor of English. • Nathalie Gonzalez married Seth Nicoletti on June 16 in Glen Cove, NY. Dana LaCava, MEd’11, and Brian Jacek were in the bridal party. Also in attendance were fellow alums Jordan Schultz, Freddy Aguilera, Nadia Lazo, Toni Mione, and Sebastian Amaya. • John and Louise (Ward) Belton welcomed a new cat into their household in mid-June. The new parents are “pawsitively” in love with their playful bundle of joy, Baldwin Belton! • Catherine Castillo earned a PhD in applied medical statistics from the University of Manchester (UK) in July, and in September she joined the National Health Service as a senior information analyst. At the end of June, Catherine attended a BC alumni event for the first time hosted in London, and she is looking forward to the next one!

Correspondent: Bridget K. Sweeney bridget.k.sweeney@gmail.com

2011 Correspondent: Brittany Lynch Pruitt brittanymichele8@gmail.com

2012 After a two-year battle, Brittany Sobieraj is cancer free and celebrates by returning to Boston College as the assistant director of compliance and financial aid for the athletics department. • Andrew DiChiara received his PhD in biological chemistry from MIT this spring. He just started a new position as a senior scientist at AbbVie in Worcester. He hopes to use his education to make a difference in understanding and treating disease biology.

• Ashley Hopkins married Michael Park on April 28 at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. The bridal party included the bride’s sisters Courtney Hopkins Carter ’06; Brooke Hopkins ’14, MS’17; and Brittany Hopkins ’18, and friends Jed Roper ’09, Katie Duthaler, Maggie Duthaler, and Kimberly Lauber. The bride’s parents met in the Plex; her father, Charles Hopkins ’75, JD’79, is a BC alum. The couple reside in Greenwich Village. • Shea Clark and Felisha Patel met freshman year living in Keyes. Shea proposed while they were walking along the reservoir over Thanksgiving in 2016, and on May 12, 2018, they were married at the Boston Marriott Newton. • Max and Annie (Orlowski) McGuire welcomed their first baby, Max Joseph McGuire Jr., into the world on January 15. • On August 4, 69

Laura Paige, MA’13, married George Hakimeh ’13, MSF’17, MBA’18, in downtown Boston. The two met in biology lab in Higgins Hall in 2010. The wedding was officiated by longtime BC professor Richard McGowan, SJ, MDiv’83, and the wedding party consisted of several BC alumni, including Brittany Bercovitz Martellaro, Taylor Licolli ’13, Ryan Jong ’13, and Michael Calo ’13, with many more alumni in attendance. Laura recently completed her doctorate in cognitive psychology from Brandeis University, and George is an employee at BC. • Megan Rauch married Jared Griffard at the Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Knoxville, TN, on April 14. She was escorted down the aisle by her dad, Charles Rauch ’77. Classmates Peter Brown and Rachele Reis as well as Chelsea Rosenbauer ’13 and Thomas Nelson ’76 were in attendance. In August, Megan began her PhD in education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. • Matthew and Hannah (Leary) Vigliotta were married in October 2012. The couple had their first child, Luke, in November 2013; their second child, Monica, in November 2015; and their third child, Kieran, in 2017. • Ashley Kellam and John Cordo ’10 were married on September 15 in Connecticut, surrounded by nearly 40 BC Eagles from classes spanning decades and including their parents, Joe and Terry (Wasiuk) Cordo ’79 and Brett ’81 and Sherrill (Burger) Kellam ’81; siblings Stephen Cordo ’07, Michael Cordo ’10, and Emily Kellam ’15; and bridal party members Doug Bradford ’10, MS’12; David Hasebroock ’10; Anthony Luppino ’10; Kathryn Roulett; Grace Lin; and Charlotte Radcliffe. • Emily Mendes and Ricky Sawyer ’10 were married in Rhode Island on August 18. Their bridal party included Marianna Driscoll Keegan, Kat Brandenburg, Mary Kathryn Downer, Hillary Marshall, Megan Patterson, Riley Sullivan, Tim Haladyna ’10, Steve Twomey ’10, and Chris Gibson ’10.

Correspondent: Riley Sullivan sullivan.rile y.o@gmail.com

2013 Hannah Camilleri and Hampton Hughes ’12 were married on July 21 in Rochester, MN. BC alumni in their bridal party included Andrea Bollom, Greta Wiessner, Hanna Heycke, Emmett Cleary ’12, Ryan Quigley ’12, Sean Flaherty ’12, Mary Breen Lynch ’12, and Chris Camilleri ’07. The couple live in Minneapolis.

Correspondent: Bryanna Mahony Robertson bryanna.mahony@gmail.com

2014 5TH REUNION

May 31–June 2, 2019 Brandon Short traveled to Port Isabel Detention Center on the Texas-Mexico border to offer pro bono legal services to asylum-seeking parents who had been separated from their children. • Katie 70

Cutting summited Mount Kilimanjaro in July 2018. • Lily Yu has been switching career fields since graduation in 2014. She is currently a paralegal and is enjoying the legal field. She reports that for now, law school is out of the question, but she is off to a great start! • Elizabeth Nimmons began a PhD in the sociology program at the University of Texas at Austin. • In July, Jess Shapiro started a new job as assistant director of the Campus Center at Ithaca College, where she had previously worked as a residence director and honors academic assistant. • Conor Morris reports that Chris Hughes has a new job and is moving back to Boston! Chris will be a regular on campus for football game days and is looking forward to his alumni access at the Plex. • Congratulations to Meghan Conley and Charlie Cifrino, who were married on August 4 in Osterville!

Class of 2014 attendees included Jackie Young, Claire Blohm, Moira Barry, Kara O’Connell, Kelly McNelis, Alex Pautler, Ryan McLoughlin, Brendan Connor, Connor McKelvey, Michael Kennedy, Lukas Schmied MS’15, Stephen Helfrich, Brandon Hartz, and Heather Planchon, MEd’16. • Congratulations also to Patrick Angiolillo, who married Megan Reuter on June 23!

The couple live in Stamford, CT. Correspondent: Jenn Howard howardjlk@gmail.com

2015 Eddie Odio married Megan Ritchie ’16 on August 11 in a ceremony at the Church of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Numerous Eagles were in attendance, including Christopher Andersen, Danny Rubin ’14, John Cain Carney, Matthew Consalvo, Daniel Foster, and Christine Murphy as well as Megan’s classmates from the Class of 2016: Leah Cosgrove, Ashlynn Fields, Lizzie Predmore, Gillian Aiston, Ryan Cooney, Danielle Gaudette, Emily Harvey, Maggie Mullins, Felicia Pellegrini, Steve Perpiglia, Matty Pierce, Molly Shine, and Kim Sontag.

Correspondent: Victoria Mariconti victoria.mariconti@gmail.com

2016 We begin with news from the Big Apple, where several of our Class of ’16 Eagles have landed! Anyone else settled in the New York area? Please send in a note for our next issue! • Estelle Autissier, who was a biology major at BC, is now pursuing her doctorate in nursing practice at Columbia University. She writes: “I’ve also come to love New York City and spend my free time walking in Central Park and taking advantage of great sales at the Gap.” • Kelly Sennott reports she is living in a beautiful apartment in the West Village with her best friend, Lydia Ahern: “Whenever we’re not at work, we enjoy binge-watching history documentaries on Netflix and spontaneously booking trips to Norway to see Shawn Mendes in concert (yes, really)! I am enjoying my job as a wealth management analyst at UBS but am

looking forward to the next chapter in life and am currently applying to law schools.”

• Also enjoying a trip to Scandinavia was New York City resident Nick Cote. Nick enjoyed a “life-changing journey” with classmate Jon Mauro through Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden, where they met fellow Eagle Hanna McQueen—and where “we had zero meatballs,” Nick reports. • Brady Conley, MA’17, and his wife, Emily Barry, attended both high school and Boston College together, and this past June, they got married! Emily recently completed her first year of study at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, and Brady teaches history at Archbishop Stepinac High School in Westchester. “But don’t worry—we’ll never forget our Boston roots,” they assure us. • And from the “other coast,” John Ahn writes: “Wow. What a year in LA. Show business is tough, but I’ve got my good friends to back me up. My old BC pals from the Class of 2016 Alex Cory and Sean Gleason moved to LA with the acting bug. We’ve got nothing but dreams and each other. We can’t wait to find out what’s next for us!” • On July 26, Ethan and Kellie (Murray) Penny welcomed daughter Caleigh Rose into the world. The Pennys live in Fort Hood, TX, where Kellie is a registered nurse, and Ethan serves as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army.

Correspondent: Abby Regan reganab@bc.edu

2017 Megan McCordic is currently an MD candidate at New York Medical College.

In her first year, her classes include Foundations of Clinical Medicine, Histology, and Anatomy. In the classroom environment, she’ll be working with both dummies and cadavers, and she’ll have a chance to interact with standardized patients in a simulation center. She’s one of seven BC Eagles in her class. Megan is unsure of what kind of doctor she wants to be, but she’s considering emergency medicine or sports medicine (shout-out to the Plex for making her realize she loves that stuff), or pediatrics. • Bridgid Lawlor is working in New York City as a health-care public relations professional for Chandler Chicco Agency, a PR firm under Syneos Health. She started out as a graduate trainee in a nine-month leadership development program and now works in account management and drives brand PR for three large biopharmaceutical companies and an oncology healthcare foundation. She also volunteers on a national marketing committee for Community Health Initiative with Theresa Rager. Bridgid lives with fellow BC Eagles Madison Tannenbaum and Molly Shields.

This past summer she traveled to Greece with her sister, KerryAnn Lawlor ’18, and in May she attended the wedding of classmate Tony Scordino, MA’91! • In June, several BC alumni graduated from their yearlong service program with City Year Boston AmeriCorps. They worked in Boston public schools to help students achieve better

attendance and more positive behavior, improve English and math skills, and stay on track to graduate from high school. The group included our classmates Stanley Marczyk, who served at the Mildred Avenue K–8 School in Mattapan; Dana Niland, at Hennigan K–8 School in Jamaica Plain; Alex Mukherjee, at the Tobin K–8 School in Roxbury; and Aerin Marshall, at the Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, as well as Paul Sherban ’16, who was at English High School in Jamaica Plain.

Correspondent: Joshua Beauregard Joshuab136@g mail.com

2018 The Class of 2018 is still settling into postgraduate life, but I’m very happy to say the BC reunions are already starting!

I spent a weekend in Montauk with Daniel Macchio, Ian Smith, Alexandria Debasitis, Spiro Spyrou, Andrew Demick, and Brianna Smith, while our friends and classmates Phyllis Immitti and John Howard are preparing to attend the University of Pennsylvania Dental School and Villanova Law School, respectively, this fall. • Also, our warmest congratulations to Megan O’Donnell on her marriage to David Chittenden (Boston University ’18), on September 7 in Uxbridge!

Correspondent: Lizzie Lolis elizabethslolis@gmail.com

BC SOCIAL WORK Correspondent: Elizabeth Abbott Wenger gsswalumni@bc.edu; lizabbott@gmail.com

CARROLL SCHOOL Correspondent: John Clifford clifford.jr@gmail.com

CONNELL SCHOOL Correspondent: Katy Phillips katyelphillips@gmail.com

LAW SCHOOL Class Notes for Law School alumni are published in the BC Law Magazine. Please forward all submissions to Vicki Sanders at the address below.

Vicki Sanders sandervi@bc.edu 885 Centre Street Newton, MA 02459

LYNCH SCHOOL Greetings from Arizona! For those of you who are not in Boston at this time of year, don’t you just long for those quintessential markers of the fall season that you only find in New England? The incredible foliage, the apple picking, and the changes in the air? In Arizona, we don’t really have a fall, so I just

make believe I’m back in Boston! Here are a few updates that I am happy to share with you. • Jonathan Schick, MEd’99, is proud to announce the opening of the third office of his consulting firm, GOAL Consulting Group, in New York City. GOAL Consulting is a national firm committed to the success of nonprofit organizations, associations, schools, and government agencies. Jonathan is the author of The Nonprofit Secret: The Six Principles of Successful Board/ CEO Partnerships. Way to go, Jonathan! • Brianna Murphy, MEd’14, recently started her second term as faculty representative to the board of trustees of the Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School in Marlborough. She has been a history teacher at the school since 2012. • I hope that reading the interesting information and accomplishments of your colleagues and peers will inspire you to share some tidbits with us for the next issue!

Correspondent: Marianne Lucas Lescher malescher@aol.com

MORRISSEY SCHOOL Priscilla Paton, PhD’79, is a new author!

Her book, Where Privacy Dies, the first volume of her Twin Cities Mystery series, was published in August by Coffeetown Press. Priscilla writes: “It’s an entertaining departure from my past academic writings.

My husband and I picked up the mystery habit from Professor John McAleer and his work on Rex Stout.” Priscilla lives in Northfield, MN. • And in July, Cristóbal Serran-Pagan’s new book, Saint John of the Cross: His Prophetic Mysticism in the Historical Context of Sixteenth-Century Spain, was published by Pacem in Terris Press. A holistic study of the Carmelite saint San Juan de la Cruz, the book also includes a brief history of contemplation and action in the Christian mystical tradition and an assessment of the San Juanist legacy for today’s world. Cristobal, MA’95, a native of Spain, spent almost three

decades in the U.S. doing research on the Spanish mystics and Thomas Merton. He earned his PhD in religious studies from BU and is now an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA. • Correspondent: Leslie Poole Petit lpoolepetit@gmail.com

STM School of Theology & Ministry

stmalum@bc.edu 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3800

WCAS It is always enjoyable receiving mail that is not a bill. At the end of May, I received a letter from Pamela Bomhard Bretschneider ’75, PhD’98, who shared some exciting news: A book that she has been working on for 10 years, a biography of the “matriarch of dental hygiene,” Dr. Esther M. Wilkins, was released in July. Titled The Esther M. Wilkins Story as Told by Her Friends: An Authorized Biography, the book is published

by Wolters-Kluwer Health/Lippincott.

Pamela is beginning a book-signing tour.

She states that Dr. Wilkins was a close personal friend and always encouraged her “ever to excel.” Pamela retired as director of institutional research at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS). She is currently a visiting associate professor at Framingham State University, where she teaches graduate research, and a visiting assistant professor at MCPHS, where she teaches undergraduate research. Pamela resides in Holliston with her husband, Andy.

Correspondent: Jane T. Crimlisk ’74 crimliskp@gmail.com 37 Leominster Road Dedham, MA 02026; 781-326-0290

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OBITUARIES boston college alumni deaths

Charles F. Barrett ’52, LLD’55, of Canton on June 27, 2018.

Ralph A. Vigeant ’55 of Marlborough on September 3, 2018.

Sumner M. Bravman ’52 of Silver Spring, MD, on June 22, 2018.

Bernard J. Beaumont ’56 of St. Augustine, FL, on October 11, 2016.

John J. Casey ’52 of Wells, ME, on July 20, 2018.

James D. Bryant ’56 of Wolfeboro, NH, on August 24, 2018.

William P. Colbert ’52 of Chelmsford on August 24, 2018.

Robert J. Caffrey ’56 of Manchester, CT, on July 31, 2018.

Joseph F. Gately ’59 of Westbrook, ME, formerly of Bolton, CT, on July 9, 2018.

Dorothy Sauer Greenler, MA’52, of Manchester, NH, on June 22, 2018.

Marjorie Callahan Cammarota ’56 of Rockville, MD, on August 29, 2018.

James F. Healy ’59 of West Dennis on September 4, 2018.

Raymond L. McCarron ’52 of Arlington on August 25, 2018.

Joseph L. Desmond Jr. ’56 of Nahant on August 30, 2018.

John F. Sullivan ’59 of Marshfield on September 2, 2018.

Joseph F. Paulson ’48 of Wilmington, DE, on July 11, 2018.

Mary Frances Penny Moran NC’52 of Shrewsbury on September 2, 2018.

Richard A. Gagliardi ’56 of Branford, CT, on July 2, 2018.

Roger J. Sullivan ’59 of Bel Air, MD, on September 11, 2018.

Joseph S. Antonetti ’49 of Palm Harbor, FL, on September 10, 2018.

James F. Moroney ’52 of Mashpee on August 2, 2018.

Margaret M. Heckler, JD’56, H’81, of Arlington, VA, on August 6, 2018.

Sandra Pobuda Tibbetts ’59 of Aurora, CO, on March 1, 2016.

John J. Downing ’49 of Needham on August 17, 2018.

John H. O’Neil ’52 of Old Orchard Beach, ME, on September 12, 2018.

Anne LeBonte Shea ’56 of Palm Desert, CA, on August 24, 2018.

James J. Walsh ’59 of Billerica on February 7, 2018.

Ira E. Mogul ’49 of Naples, FL, on September 1, 2018.

Mary Heanue Welch NC’52 of Littleton on August 4, 2018.

Bruno E. Bagnaschi ’57 of Avon, CT, on June 28, 2018.

1960s

1950s

Marion Ruggles Anderson WCAS’53, MEd’79, of Chelmsford on May 10, 2018.

Joseph P. Capuchino ’57, MSW’59, of Manchester, NH, on September 15, 2018.

Gloria Ann Palumbo Carritte, MS’60, of Lynn on September 18, 2018.

Edwin D. Condon ’57 of Hingham on May 1, 2018.

Paul W. Child Jr., MA’60, of St. Paul, MN, on August 20, 2018.

John F. Harrington ’57, MA’69, of Quincy on August 12, 2018.

Denis R. Como, SJ, MA’60, STB’67, of Weston on August 14, 2018.

Marie Clogher Malaro, Esq., JD’57, of Centreville, MD, on July 16, 2018.

Robert A. Connelly ’60 of Rochester on August 23, 2018.

James J. McGowan ’57 of Boston on August 31, 2018.

Leona Rousseau Dolloff ’60 of Hudson, NH, on January 4, 2018.

J. Peter Murphy ’57 of Roswell, GA, on March 19, 2018.

James J. Murphy Jr. ’60 of Stow on July 5, 2018.

Robert G. Valway ’57 of Londonderry, NH, on August 18, 2018.

Kathleen Goodhue Schirf ’60, MS’69, of Sudbury on July 17, 2018.

David W. Walsh, Esq., JD’53, of Medford on August 26, 2018.

Theresa McGrath Welch WCAS’57 of Marshfield on February 17, 2018.

Edward Michael Sullivan ’60 of Indialantic, FL, on June 11, 2018.

Claire Kirk NC’50 of Rockport on July 16, 2018.

Mary E. Casey Acton, MEd’54, of Framingham on September 8, 2018.

Rita Murphy Bleakney, MEd’58, of Weymouth on July 17, 2018.

Robert J. Usseglio ’60 of Fort Worth, TX, on September 18, 2018.

Francis L. McCarthy ’50 of Nahant on September 1, 2018.

Benedict W. Lancisi ’54 of Kenner, LA, on July 21, 2018.

Paul T. Corbett ’58 of Hampton, NH, on August 14, 2018.

Marie L. Ahearn, MA’61, of Marion on March 6, 2016.

James W. O’Neil ’50 of Braintree on August 8, 2018.

Francis N. Gros Louis ’54 of Leesburg, VA, on January 31, 2018.

Ann Aikens Crowley ’58 of Ashland on September 11, 2018.

Richard J. Barrett ’61 of Milton on August 14, 2018.

Alfred J. Tighe Jr., Esq., ’50 of Rockville, MD, on September 16, 2018.

David E. Namet, Esq., ’54, JD’57, of Swampscott on September 11, 2018.

John B. Deady, Esq., ’58, JD’61, of Needham on August 2, 2018.

Arthur J. Breault Jr., Esq., ’61 of Athens, GA, on August 16, 2018.

Irene Stowell Newton ’54 of Westford on August 9, 2018.

John C. Kelleher ’58, MBA’70, of Brewster on August 5, 2018.

Thomas B. Concannon ’61 of Newton on July 28, 2018.

James Robertson Alvord ’55 of New Milford, CT, on September 7, 2018.

Frederick J. Lewis ’58 of Ledyard, CT, on August 24, 2018.

John G. Donovan ’61 of Townsend on July 4, 2018.

George W. Elliott ’55 of Portsmouth, NH, on August 28, 2018.

Veronica Whalen Matheson ’58 of Poughkeepsie, NY, on August 28, 2018.

Edward D. Hurley Jr. ’61 of Simsbury, CT, on May 25, 2018.

1940s Joseph F. Nates ’44 of Taunton on September 17, 2018.

John J. Daunt, Esq., JD’47, of Sarasota, FL, on August 5, 2018.

John B. Fitzpatrick Jr. ’47, MEd’55, of Haverhill on July 10, 2018.

Joseph F. McNally ’48 of Alexandria, VA, on July 4, 2018.

Cyrus W. Bassett ’50 of Jericho, VT, on September 7, 2018.

Albert M. Belton ’50 of Arlington, VA, on August 10, 2018.

Martha Flynn Campbell, MSW’50, of Weymouth in July 2018.

Walter F. DeLorey ’50 of Osterville on July 11, 2018.

Joanne Frances Flynn Dutra NC’50 of Kittery, ME, on September 19, 2018.

Armand L. Fortunato ’50, MHA’56, CAES’60, of Beverly on August 2, 2018.

Gerald C. Uniacke ’50 of West Grove, PA, on July 30, 2018.

Leonard S. Ceglarski ’51 of Duxbury on December 16, 2017.

William S. Dalton ’51 of New Port Richey, FL, on May 19, 2017.

John G. Cornellier, PhL’53, of Keene, NH, on August 13, 2018.

Joseph A. Lynch ’53 of Norwalk, CT, on July 1, 2018.

Richard Murphy ’53 of Tampa, FL, on August 15, 2018.

James F. Queenan Jr. ’53, JD’58, of Worcester on July 9, 2018.

Alice Higgins Slattery NC’53, MEd’80, DEd’89, of Framingham on August 29, 2018.

James F. Chambliss Jr. ’59 of Hendersonville, NC, on June 30, 2018.

Joyce Wireback DeLuca ’59 of Barrington, RI, on August 4, 2018.

James W. Deadder, STL’51, of Boston on July 23, 2018.

Edward P. Fitzgerald, Esq., ’55 of North Quincy on September 21, 2018.

Michael J. DeFrancesco ’51 of Edison, NJ, on July 16, 2018.

Albert B. Gallant ’55 of Norfolk on July 1, 2018.

Edward M. Murray ’58 of Whiting, NJ, on June 4, 2018.

Ronald W. Barney WCAS’62 of Framingham on September 19, 2018.

Francis J. Gorman Jr. ’51 of Wellesley on July 17, 2018.

Joseph A. Greci, MSW’55, of South Bend, IN, on September 5, 2018.

Rene J. Pinault, Esq., ’58, JD’61, of East Sandwich on June 19, 2018.

William H. Cummings ’62 of Bellingham on July 6, 2018.

John F. Holland ’51 of Jupiter, FL, on October 30, 2017.

George D. LeMaitre ’55 of Andover on July 19, 2018.

Philip J. Ryan, Esq., JD’58, of Tampa, FL, on August 11, 2018.

Robert Brown Davis WCAS’62 of Beverly on August 9, 2018.

Robert G. Noble Sr. ’51 of Quincy on August 7, 2018.

Robert E. Manning ’55 of Quincy on July 18, 2018.

John Joseph Bilafer, JD’59, of Arlington on July 10, 2018.

Thomas A. Manion, MBA’62, of De Pere, WI, on June 26, 2018.

John E. Whelton, Esq., ’51, JD’54, of Easton on July 23, 2018.

Frank A. Toscano ’55 of Worcester on September 6, 2018.

Bill W. Brown ’59 of Newport, RI, and Boxford on September 9, 2018.

Kevin G. O’Connell, SJ, ’62, MA’63, of Weston on January 21, 2016.

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Paul V. McLaughlin ’58 of Pelham, NH, on September 9, 2018.

John F. Kavanagh ’61 of Grantham, NH, on August 8, 2018.

Katherine Lumaghi Clifford NC’63 of Rye Beach, NH, on November 7, 2016.

Velia T. DiCesare WCAS’63 of Readville on July 25, 2018.

Eugene W. Boehne, MSW’64, of Wales on February 7, 2018.

Gerald S. Cournoyer, Esq., ’64, JD’67, of Hudson on July 1, 2018.

Francis J. Daly ’64 of Baton Rouge, LA, on July 3, 2018.

Terrance A. Frechette ’64 of Weston on September 7, 2018.

Susan M. Madden NC’64 of Westwood on August 29, 2018.

Noreen Wall Hogan ’68 of Salisbury on August 8, 2018.

Ronald C. Lawson, MEd’76, of Montpelier, VT, on August 22, 2018.

Rosemarie Rivero WCAS’84 of Galloway, NJ, on July 22, 2018.

Emil F. Knorr, MA’68, of Ocala, FL, on August 7, 2018.

John J. Sullivan ’76 of Palisades Park, NJ, on September 18, 2018.

Mildred G. Matasso, MA’68, of North Andover on August 18, 2018.

D. A. Garnett ’77 of Boston on June 29, 2018.

Heather A. MacDonald, MSW’85, of Worcester on June 25, 2018.

James E. Mooney ’68 of Pittsburgh, PA, on November 6, 2016.

Kathleen Gilmartin Ranelli ’78 of San Francisco, CA, on January 23, 2018.

James J. Kudla ’69 of Hampton, NH, on September 17, 2018.

Pauline M. Lombardo, MA’69, of Arlington on March 20, 2018.

John P. Majenski Jr. WCAS’69 of Dorchester on May 13, 2018.

Loretta L. Warren-Barnes, MSW’86, of Lunenburg on September 11, 2018 Jane D. Roderick ’89, MSW’96, of Marion on July 13, 2018.

Joseph V. Amaru ’79 of Bethel, CT, on July 21, 2018.

1990s

Lawrence R. Byron III ’79 of Woburn on March 19, 2018.

Michael J. Marino Jr. ’91 of Lynn on August 9, 2018.

Betsy John, MSW’79, of Monmouth, ME, on June 9, 2018.

Julie Bowen, MDiv’93, of Xenia, OH, on March 3, 2017.

William M. O’Brien ’64 of Marshfield on August 9, 2018.

Gregory F. McGinty ’69 of Briarcliff Manor, NY, and Manchester, VT, on September 2, 2018.

Richard T. Piaseczynski ’64 of Stoneham on August 5, 2018.

Jeanne Fanelli Vallimont NC’69 of Union City, PA, on July 4, 2018.

1980s

David C. Shinney ’64 of Boston, formerly of Gloucester and Melrose, on August 22, 2018.

1970s

Daniel F. Finn, MBA’80, of Carver on August 10, 2018.

Karen Ann Maguire, MS’97, of Myrtle Beach, SC, on July 27, 2018.

Marcia McGrath Abbo NC’70 of Washington DC, on August 1, 2018.

Thomas J. Petit, Esq., ’81 of Austin, TX, on September 6, 2018.

Patrick S. Chu ’98 of Weehawken, NJ, on July 28, 2018.

Arthur R. Douglas, MBA’70, of San Diego, CA, on July 21, 2018.

Paul Thomas Barnicle ’82 of Winthrop on August 10, 2018.

Janet Kimbell Nesmith Morano, MEd’70, of Chelmsford on July 14, 2018.

Christopher K. Lawford, Esq., JD’83, of Vancouver, BC, Canada, on September 4, 2018.

Mathew R. Hand ’98 of Pacific Palisades, CA, on July 18, 2018.

John J. Sullivan Jr. ’70 of Wollaston on August 7, 2018.

Brian A. Joyce, Esq., ’84 of Westport on September 27, 2018.

Kara A. Williams, MA’01, of Akron, OH, on July 6, 2018.

Joan Marie Cronin, SND, MA’71, of Worcester on August 30, 2018.

Julie Wojtkowski Laurence ’84 of Manchester, VT, on July 20, 2018.

Elizabeth Tuominen ’07 of Easton on July 27, 2018.

Richard J. Bullwinkle WCAS’65 of Waltham on June 28, 2018.

Nicholas J. Cafarelli III ’65, MA’69, of Minneapolis, MN, on November 8, 2017.

Gerard J. Dullea ’65 of Bloomsburg, PA, on July 29, 2018.

Kathleen Curran Garvey ’65 of Weymouth on July 25, 2018.

Harry J. Harrington Jr. ’65 of Spring, TX, on July 8, 2018.

Elizabeth Murphy Hunt, MSW’65, of Westfield on October 7, 2018.

Vincent E. Marier ’65 of Saint Paul, MN, on July 15, 2018.

Edward M. McGovern ’65 of Lexington on July 31, 2018.

Paul E. Mullen ’65, MA’67, of West Wareham on July 26, 2018.

Patricia Egberg Mercaitis ’71 of Brewster on September 7, 2018.

BOSTON COLLEGE COMMUNITY DEATHS

Gordon G. Asack ’72, MBA’74, of Yarmouth Port and Brockton on July 24, 2018.

Paula Forgét ’81, of Norwood, manager of the facilities business service center since 1974, on October 24, 2018. She is survived by her daughter, Brianna ’13.

Margaret Schmitt Schmidt NC’65 of Asbury, NJ, on June 18, 2018.

Bradford J. Powell, Esq., JD’72, of New Canaan, CT, on July 10, 2018.

James M. Sullivan Sr. ’65 of Potomac, MD, on September 1, 2018.

Ronald J. Kolodziej ’73 of Plymouth on April 28, 2017.

Thomas M. Trevisani Jr. ’65 of East Falmouth, formerly of Arlington, on July 11, 2018.

Paul Richard Darcy WCAS’74 of Shrewsbury on September 6, 2018.

John H. L’Heureux ’66 of Uncasville, CT, on July 4, 2018.

Adrienne Marie Mack, SND, MA’67, of Worcester on June 22, 2018.

Robert G. Murphy ’67 of Holliston on May 12, 2018.

2000s

William Paul Krant ’71 of San Antonio, TX, on September 14, 2018.

Patricia M. Clifford, MSW’72, of Scarborough, ME, on September 3, 2018.

George B. Leahey, Esq., JD’66, of Tewksbury on August 15, 2018.

Bruce David Wickersham, Esq., JD’96, of Dedham on August 27, 2018.

Timothy F. Gens, Esq., ’71, JD’75, of Weston on September 10, 2018.

Marthea Willett Murphy ’65, MS’78, of Canton on June 27, 2018.

James J. Dean, Esq., JD’66, of Belmar, NJ, on June 22, 2018.

Maura O’Donnell-McCarthy ’79 of Mentor, OH, on July 8, 2018.

Joseph W. Ferris ’74 of West Roxbury on September 19, 2018.

Carol Taylor Laflamme ’74 of Whitinsville on August 13, 2018.

Gail Kaler Leslie ’75 of Milton on July 5, 2018.

Rena Anna Lamparska, of Cambridge, professor of Italian from 1983 to 2012, on October 16, 2018, at age 89. She is survived by her son John O. Lamparski.

Michael Williams, of Somerville, plumber in facilities since 1987, on October 25, 2018. He is survived by his wife, Charlene.

Correction: In our Spring ’18 issue, we listed James W. Hurley ’89 in this column; it was in fact, his father, James W. Hurley ’58, who died on December 5, 2017. We regret the error.

Edward W. Lyden ’75 of Katy, TX on August 6, 2018.

Ralph W. Macdonald WCAS’75 of Brockton on August 14, 2018.

Richard T. Carroll ’68 of New Canaan, CT, on July 20, 2018.

Jeffrey L. Circe, STM’76, of Lakeland, FL, on September 11, 2018.

Robert J. Crowley, MBA’68, of Boston on September 12, 2018.

John Paul de Bernardo, Esq., ’76 of Charlotte, NC, on September 11, 2018.

The “Obituaries” section is compiled from national listings as well as from notifications submitted by friends and family of alumni. It consists of names of those whose deaths have been reported to us since the previous issue of Boston College Magazine. Please send information on deceased alumni to Advancement Information Systems, Cadigan Alumni Center, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 or to infoserv@bc.edu.

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By Erick Trickey Why the wage gap between men and women grows

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s economics professor Claudia Olivetti wrote in her Ph.D. thesis at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001, “The pattern of married women’s work hours over the life cycle has changed substantially.” (She was drawing comparisons by gender using figu es from the 1970s and 1990s.) Since then, her research has focused repeatedly on women and work: how U.S. improvements in maternal health between 1930 and 1960 contributed to women’s expanding participation in labor markets (Journal of Political Economy, 2016); how the growth in service industries was also key (Annual Review of Economics, 2016); and how a range of behaviors—from changing jobs to getting married— help to explain the increasing differences between women’s and men’s earnings over the life course (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers, NBER, 2017).

In 1980, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, women earned, on average, 64 percent of what men did. The ratio has since improved for women—who realized almost 80 percent of men’s wages in 2016. A recent study by Olivetti and colleagues at Harvard University, Wellesley College, and the University of Oslo sought explanations for the shortfall that survives.

Working with information from the 2000 U.S. Census long form (distributed to one in six households) and from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Employer–Household Dynamics program (LEHD), they analyzed data that profi ed some 1.18 million individuals in large metropolitan areas of 23 states, from 1995 to 2008. Combining the two data sets—the LEHD provided details submitted by private employers—allowed the team, for the fi st time, to match individuals with their places of employment and to study the earnings differentials among them by gender, age, education, and other factors within shared work environments, rather than in an agglomerated labor force. This enabled the researchers to ask more granular questions. For instance, they could see that men switched to higher-paying employers (and to higher-paying jobs with the same employer) more often than women did. To what extent, if any, was the gender-wage gap tied to that fact? And what might the explanation be?

They reported their results through the NBER website and in

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an article titled “The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap,” published in the American Economic Review in May 2017. Among 25-yearold college graduates, they found, women lagged men in earnings by only 10 percent. But by the time they turned 39, the gap had widened, to 43 percent. A “considerable part” of the widening happened during long-term job stays, and the authors posit “nonlinear” (i.e., unequal) payment practices as a probable cause. But nearly 30 percent of the gap owed to the greater frequency with which men changed jobs for better work and pay. And most of the gap—about 80 percent of it—developed between ages 26 and 32, “the time when people start planning for or are having children,” says Olivetti.

Did marital status contribute to compensation inequality? The researchers found the “earnings path” for married and nonmarried men to be “very similar.” And, although they reported an earnings gap of 15.6 percent between single women and single men in their early thirties, the gap did not grow much beyond that. “The widening of the wage gap,” they write, is “almost entirely . . . driven” by a lower rate of growth “among married women.” What’s more, this widening is “particularly strong” when both members of a couple are college graduates and there are children in the home.

The researchers studied noncollege graduates, as well, and report some differences. A smaller gap developed between female and male high school graduates during the same years (from about 15 percent to 27.2 percent). Among women and men lacking a high school degree, the gap grew least (4.3 percentage points), but the authors note that for this group the gap at the outset was greater (23.4 percent).

Olivetti, who is also a research associate at the NBER, says that her next step will be to construct a “large and extraordinary” data set with funding from the National Science Foundation. It will “follow couples across time,” she says, tracking their wages “through their marriage’s trajectory, as they have children, say, or encounter a health shock such as an elderly parent who needs care. We want to continue exploring the interaction between what it takes to have a career and what it takes to have a family.” n Erick Trickey is a Boston-based writer.

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Riggio, inside the museum of the Perkins School for the Blind.

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By Zachary Jason Advocate for the world’s deafblind Marianne Riggio ’75, M.Ed.’76

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In high school, Marianne Riggio, a Weston, Massachusetts, native, volunteered at the now-defunct Fernald State School for the developmentally disabled, and gravitated toward the children whom others seemed “most scared off by”—those who had both visual and hearing impairment. “The challenge of communicating spoke to me,” she says. Concentrating in special education, Riggio earned her BA and MA at the Lynch School of Education, which had created the country’s fi st deafblind teacher preparation program, in response to the 1964–65 rubella epidemic that left some 14,500 U.S. children deaf or blind. She is currently director of the internationally focused Educational Leadership Program at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, where Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan, whom Keller called Teacher, studied.

“There is no ‘normal’ deafblind learner,” says Riggio. “Every one communicates differently,” whether through Braille, fi gerspelling, or body movement. “And when you take the time to fi d the right sensory stimulation, it’s thrilling. Their whole demeanor changes.” “Children with visual impairment often enjoy playing with light and shadows,” she says. “Join them.”

Interact with them continually in ways that “may or may not use words.” Deafblind learners’ perceptions “only extend as far

as their fi gertips,” says Riggio. And so, to understand the world, they need more than “materials on a desk.” They must help get the materials “from the cupboard” and then return them, to learn that “things exist even if they are not in their hands.”

Before 1975, only one in fi e disabled children in the United States attended public school, and many state laws excluded deafblind children. Riggio began her career in 1976, one year after the federal Education for All Handicapped Children Act mandated equal access. Over the last 37 years at Perkins, she’s helped develop standards for educators of the deafblind— training hundreds of teachers in 20 states, from New Hampshire to California; assessing classrooms (introducing patchworked flo r surfaces, for instance, to defi e activity areas); and publishing eight fi st-of-a-kind handbooks, including, in 1999, Remarkable Conversations: A Guide to Developing Meaningful Communication with Children and Young Adults Who Are Deafblind (with specialist Barbara Miles).

Riggio became a founding member of Perkins’s international outreach project in 1989, when programs for children with visual impairment and multiple disabilities served only an estimated 250 children outside the United States. The Perkins project alone now serves 61,500 children globally.

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