at Bowling Green State University. • The Council for Women of Boston College hosts private exhibitions and receptions at various locations across the country, and in April, CWBC member Joanne Caruso, JD’85, chaired the LA event, which was held at the Getty Center, featuring the exhibit Paris: Life & Luxury. • My niece Molly McAleer ’06 is writing for a new CBS sitcom, Two Broke Girls, which airs this fall. The show looks to be a good laugh! Molly is the daughter of Seana McAleer Ambulos ’85 and granddaughter of John J. McAleer ’45, MA’49.
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Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com Kathleen Gehring Carino writes: “Julie O’Brien Petrini and her husband, Chris, threw a festive party to celebrate a special birthday at their home in Framingham. Guests included Maura Crough Popp and Crystie Cassel Ciriello, who came up from New Jersey; Susan Bressi Hamilton, all the way from Long Island; and locals Andrea Burger Mandalinci, Carolyn Cullin Osbahr, Lisa Giannone Coconides, and me. Also in attendance were many of Julie’s family members who are BC alums: her father, John O’Brien ’51; sister Stephanie O’Brien Zawalich ’76; brother Brien O’Brien ’80; and nieces Brett O’Brien ’09, Alex O’Brien ’11, and Allison Zawalich ’12. • With sadness I report the passing of Carolyn Briglia of Waterbury, CT, and Wilton, NH, on December 20, 2010. Our sincere condolences are sent to Carolyn’s family. • In August, Bob Coyne, JD’86, joined Peck, Shaffer, a leading national public finance law firm, as a partner in the firm’s Denver office. Bob previously practiced public finance law for more than a decade in Colorado and earlier, in New York City. A rugby enthusiast, Bob played with BC’s club team while at the Heights and with the New York Rugby Club in the 1990s before moving to Colorado; he is still active with several clubs, including the Boulder Rugby Football Club and the PacLantic Rugby Football Club, a touring team that he organizes and manages.
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Correspondent: Carol A. McConnell bc84news@yahoo.com Greetings to all! It was an exceptionally hot summer in New Jersey. Here’s the latest news. • Judy Masterson Butler moved to Tucson, AZ, over two-and-a-half years ago and is currently working as a certified nurse midwife at a birth center there. Judy hasn’t heard from any of her CSON’84 gang in ages. In particular, she mentions Ann Gorman Gibbons, Suzanne Duval McCarran, Theresa Reinhart, and Justine Joyce Ryan. Judy and husband Eric have three children: Josh (26), who was planning to move to Boston in a few months; Maw (23), who was off to Africa to take kids on a service trip; and their
youngest, Andy, who just landed in Alaska for a summer fishing trip. • Gary Presto was inducted into Sigma Phi Omega, the National Gerontological Academic Honor and Professional Society, and into the UMass Boston’s honor program, Gamma Upsilon. This is part of Gary’s ongoing participation in the UMass Boston master’s in aging services management program. He is at the midpoint in the program and continues to juggle his studies with full-time day work at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston while providing primary care support for his widowed elderly parent. Gary writes that he is turning 49 and is back in school pursuing a master’s degree and carrying honors. He credits his success to his BC undergrad-instilled study habits, many mentors, and late study nights filled with stress-fighting ice cream—Edy’s Mint Chocolate Chip to be exact! • In partnership with the Athletics Department, the Council for Women of Boston College sponsors at least one women’s athletic event per season. Suzanne Troy Cole, a founding member of the council, co-chaired the women’s varsity lacrosse game and Meet and Greet sponsored by the council last April. In February, she also co-chaired the Eagle to Eagle program, which focuses on leadership skills and career advice for women student-athletes. • That’s all the news. What are you up to? Please write so I can share your news with our classmates. All the best!
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Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bwilson@hlmx.com In June, Maureen Ahern Peterson passed away, leaving her husband, Christopher, and daughters Kelsey and Hanna. Maureen graduated from Dennis-Yarmouth High School, Boston College and, in 1988, from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. A grateful recipient of heart and kidney transplants, she will forever be remembered for her wonderful sense of humor, unwavering optimism, brave resilience, and selfless dedication to her family and friends • In August, Sheila Daly, director of professional services at Conservation Services Group (CSG), was promoted to VP. Sheila joined CSG, a national energy service firm headquartered in Westborough, in May 2010; earlier, she held senior professional services positions with Softrax Corp. and eCredit.com. • In August 2010, Kevin ’80 and Cindy Hockenhull McCahill and children Matthew, Jack, and Julia moved from Medfield, MA, to Aptos, CA. Kevin is working for Granite Construction. • Laura and Ed Pla have been back for more than a year now from Zurich, where they had spent four years. Their kids, Stefan (16), Madeleine (14), and Nicole (14), have adjusted well to life in New Canaan, CT. Ed is with UBS, where he runs the FX Prime Brokerage business from Stamford. • Boston College Trustee PierreRichard Prosper is now a partner in the LA office of Arent Fox. Earlier, from 2001 to 2005, he served as the second US ambassador-atlarge for war crimes issues under President George W. Bush. • Keep those emails coming my way. If for any reason you do not get a reply www.bc.edu/alumni
to the email you send me, please resend it. The spam filter I have seems to lose some of my messages. Thanks and happy winter!
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Correspondent: Karen Broughton Boyarsky karen.boyarsky.86@bc.edu It was great to hear from Lee Morrissey, who is an English professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. He spent this past year in Galway as a Fulbright Scholar, researching and teaching in the English department at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He found no shortage of BC connections in Galway: visiting speakers, undergrads on their junior years abroad, and even a few fellow alums. He also spent a week on the famous Ring of Kerry, County Kerry, in the ancestral home of our classmate Maurice Collins. It is a fantastic location in the hometown of Daniel O’Connell, Caherdaniel (and it is available for rent). Maurice has more info at www.theauntshouse.com. The Collins family lives in Providence, where Maurice owns The Wild Colonial. • Rosie Dibernardo Catalano wrote in with an update. She had a long career in finance and was a VP for JPMorgan in the marketing and sales division in her last role before she became a stay-at-home mom for her family. Rosie married Bill back in 1991, and they will be celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary on September 14! They have three kids: twins Will and Mariella (12) and Sammy (9). All their children are hockey players and fans of BC hockey! They reside in New Jersey. • Many thanks for the great update from Julie McMahon Borge, who is married to Rick, lives in Newtown, PA, and has two children: Charlotte (14) and Elliot (11). Julie attended Mass College of Art after BC, graduating with a BFA in painting in 1994. She is currently exhibiting in five art galleries from Delaware to Massachusetts and is also busy through her website. • Jo-Anne Herina Jeffreys graduated from Seton Hall Law School in 1989 (with Tommy Bergwall) and later owned her own practice in Hoboken, NJ, specializing in elder law. She is now a permanent resident of Naples, FL, and still practices law part-time. She is married to Tim and mother to fiveyear-old TJ. • Julie Ambrose Allison has her own marketing/consulting business, bringing beauty products to market through QVC. She resides with husband Matt and daughter Isabella (14) in Princeton, NJ. Kristy Cardellio lives in Sarasota, FL, teaches Italian part-time at Eckerd College in Tampa, and is pursuing her master’s/doctoral degree in international communications. Kristy spent most of the first 10 years after graduation living in Florence, Italy, taking an 18-month break to get her master’s in Italian studies at NYU. These women all “reunioned” in Florence this past summer! I hope you had a wonderful trip!