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Correspondent: George Holland bmw0324@msn.com 244 Hawthorne Street Malden, MA 02148; 781-321-4217 The class mourns the loss of Phillip J. Doherty, who passed away on June 8. Phil had been chief of cardiology at Milton Hospital for many years. He was a great supporter of Boston College. We offer condolences to his wife, Patricia (Fountain) Doherty, and his four children. • We are also saddened by the passing of Mary (Watts) Donovan on July 28. Mary had been an English teacher in Swampscott and Chelmsford for more than 35 years. • We also offer our condolences to the families of William A. McCarthy, who passed away on November 16, 2010, in North Port, FL, and Ruth (O’Toole) Wickers of Milton, who passed away on June 14, 2011.
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Correspondents: Maryjane Mulvanity Casey and Patty O’Neill pattyoneill@verizon.net 75 Savoy Road Needham, MA 02492; 781-400-5405 After nearly 50 years as Lowell residents, Dan and Joanne O’Connor Hynek are now city dwellers in Cambridge. They love their new home and its proximity to Boston. • Congratulations to Peter ’59 and Honey Good McLaughlin, who recently celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. We wish them many more happy years together! • Janet Chute is home recovering from a hip replacement. I hope you are well on the mend now, Janet! • Please pray for Kathleen Kingston Lawlor, MA’63, who is ill. We all wish her a complete recovery. • Bill and Sue Sughrue Carrington spent two weeks at Boston College this past summer taking a course on the Old Testament. The teacher was Sue’s cousin Richard Clifford, SJ, MA’60, STL’67. Their digs were in a dorm. Sue thought the vacation “should be a revelation! (pun intended)— even though Revelation is in the New Testament.” • I (Maryjane Mulvanity Casey) am delighted to announce the addition of a grandson to our family circle. Dylan Douglas Casey is the adopted baby of my son Mike and his wife, Lisa. He is a great joy to us all! • Warmest wishes for joyous holidays! Thanks for the recent news updates, and please continue to help fill our column.
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Correspondent: Joseph R. Carty jrcarty1@gmail.com 253 River Street Norwell, MA 02061
I have received notice that three of our classmates passed away recently. They are Richard Driscoll of Brookline; Paul F. Judge of Salisbury, MD; and Michael Walsh of Alexandria, VA. • The class had two events in the past year in the Boston area. To keep you apprised of future get-togethers, coming up is the annual Christmas Chorale event in early December, which includes a class get-together and a dinner at nearby Barat House. Everyone is welcome! Also, a dinner at Barat House is planned for late April. Both events are generally well attended. To help the planning committees, please let the Alumni Association or me know of your interest in attending. • A group of nurses spent a few days with Grace McLaughlin Carty at her Cape Cod home. Attending were Mary Donovan Gilligan, Jane Schattle Cosmo, Martha Cadigan Sullivan MS’63, and Pat Hall Van Derpool. They had a great time in a lovely atmosphere! • I heard from John Thompson, who writes that he spent the summer recovering from a knee replacement operation, with a stay in a nursing home, followed by outpatient physical therapy, “all the while swallowing pills as if they were candy. I wanted to keep the medical contacts busy this summer! I continue to volunteer with local organizations, including publishing their newsletters, conducting classes in Wii Bowling—snapping pictures both still and video—and serving on the Braintree committee for the September 11 memorial ceremony. On the cheerful side, last week my son-in-law Michael returned from Afghanistan to Camp Lejeune, NC, from where he will transfer to Miramar Air Station, north of San Diego.”
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Correspondent: Sally O’Connell Healy kmhealy@cox.net 4061 Cape Cole Boulevard Punta Gorda, FL 33955 My charm bracelet sports three bridesmaid charms from weddings of Newton classmates in 1961, among them one from John and Kathy McDermott Kelsh’s wedding and one from Bill and Dot Radics McKeon’s. We are blessed in that many classmates have been married for 50 years! Gene and Peggy Massman Freeman, who live in Prairie Village, KS, celebrated their 50th anniversary on a family trip, complete with chase cars, following their sons Tom and Paul canoeing in the AuSable River Canoe Marathon, a 126-mile trip from Grayling to Oscoda, MI— all chronicled on their website, Redemption Tour. On the first weekend, their 5 children and spouses and 16 grandchildren gathered to toast Peggy and Gene. John ’60 and Carole Ward McNamara will celebrate their 50th anniversary in November, and I know there are others—if you let me know, I will mention them. • Bud and Brenda Horrigan Kowalski were married in 1960, as were Rick and Stella Clark O’Shea. The O’Sheas, who live on Long Island, celebrated their 50th by spending a week in New York City. They have five children and eight grandchildren. This past summer, Stella saw Norah McGinity www.bc.edu/alumni
Frei in Point Lookout, NY, where Marie Settembrini Kelly and her husband also live. Norah lives in California, as do five of her seven children. • Don and Mickey Mahon MacMillan live on Cape Cod, where they still “cherish and challenge each other.” They have 13 grandchildren. Mickey skis, kayaks, plays paddle tennis, and golfs. She and her daughter Jennifer won their golf club championship this year. Mickey and Don are bridge masters and teach duplicate bridge, sometimes on cruise ships. They love to travel and recently toured national parks in the Southwest. • Nan Anderson Coughlin is a volunteer for The Hospitality and Information Service (THIS) in Washington. THIS facilitates the transition of newly arrived diplomats to the DC area. Nan has a BC legacy family that includes daughter Mary Coughlin Miller, MSW’87, and Mary’s son Brian, Class of ’15. Brian’s twin sister, Sara, started Colby in September, and sister Jessie, a junior at Loyola in Baltimore, plans to take a spring semester in New Zealand. Nan’s son Dan has six-year-old twin girls. Dan and his sister Brenda live in New York City. Laura and her family are in DC. • John and Carole Ward McNamara have four grandsons on hockey scholarships, two at Colgate and one at Holy Cross, where another was accepted for next year. • Judy Cagney, RSCJ, left Newton with Pat Cannon to attend Barat College, where Judy later became president. She now does social work in New York City. • Kevin and I had two nifty boat rides this year: a riverboat cruise on the Elbe in Germany and a cruise around Manhattan Island. • BC sent out a wonderful thank-you postcard that pictured our classmates Judy Cagney, Alex Armstrong McCoy, Anne Canniff Boyle, Cathy Donahoe Smith, Stella Clark O’Shea, Lita Capobianco Mainelli, Lennie Coniglio De Csepel, Joan DiMenna Dahlen, Pat Beattie McDonald, Patsy Annunziata, and Mary Elisabeth Brusch Field. On the reverse is the lovely picture from our yearbook of Sue Thornton sitting on the grass, reading. Ironically, the caption is “Thanks for keeping Newton College alive at BC.” • The all Sacred Heart schools luncheon for the west coast of Florida will be held in Bonita Beach on February 25. BC is helping Newton alumnae plan a luncheon for the Naples area in early March. Let us know if you will be visiting the area at that time and would like an invitation to either or both. • Please keep in touch.
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Correspondent: John Ahearn jjaeagle@hotmail.com 872 Massachusetts Avenue #407 Cambridge, MA 02139 I am honored to be your new class correspondent, following in the footsteps of Dave and Joan Angino Melville and John Rossetti. • We graduated with 1,050 people from all the schools at BC. Of those, 220 are known to have passed away. Of those remaining, 200 attended our 50th reunion; with their guests there were 330. Our class gift was $1.3 million, with a record 56 percent of the class contributing! In a panel discussion, “The Way We Were,” Jack Joyce, MBA’70,