class notes week of waterskiing, zip-lining, tennis, swimming, theater, and more! My eldest daughter, Elizabeth, is working for both the Red Sox and the City of Boston in the Mayor’s Office. She is keeping busy postgraduation and has been able to experience many incredible opportunities over the past year. I think one of the highlights was the 100th anniversary celebration at Fenway Park. She thoroughly enjoyed being able to attend Opening Day this year. While she has worked at Fenway Park since high school, she was always in class on each Opening Day! • Let’s have our next column be about you! Please email me with updates and news.
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1983
reunion year class participation goal: 651 Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com Peter Rockett was elected president of FEI Boston (Financial Executives International), an association of senior financial professionals. The Boston chapter, with close to 900 members, is the largest of FEI’s 87 worldwide chapters. Peter was also a finalist for the Boston Business Journal’s CFO of the Year Award in the nonprofit category. A record 60 people were nominated this year, and he was one of four finalists in that category. • With sadness, I report the passing of Ann Adorn of Walpole on September 15, 2011. • Please take a few minutes to send us an update—your submission counts!
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1984
Correspondent: Carol A. McConnell bc84news@yahoo.com Greetings! • News from Jim and Lori (Berrini) Byman: In August 2011, Jim and two of his four children climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Jim made the expedition with daughter Molly ’13, then a junior at BC, and son James, a sophomore
at Providence College. Molly, the motivating force behind the climb, was spending the semester studying abroad in Tanzania. After six grueling days, they reached the summit and were rewarded with the most beautiful and well-earned sunrise of their lives! Lori happily stayed behind with daughters Laura (14) and Lindsay (8). • Last June, Tony Skarupa threw a 50th-birthday celebration for his wife, Penny (Sinert). Classmates traveled to the event from all over the country: Monica (Flaherty) Delattre came in from Minnesota with daughter Brennan, Class of ’16; Alicia (Flynn) Cotter and Nancy (Waters) Reynolds drove in with their husbands from New Jersey; Elaine (Krehley) Hay came in from Connecticut; Kim (Leddy) Rannalli and her husband flew in from Rhode Island; and Lisa (Wilson) Huffman traveled from California. Penny writes that it was a great night and so special to have everyone together. Tony and Penny’s daughter Haley is a freshman at BC and plays on the women’s hockey team, and Kim’s daughter Alexandra is a senior this year, also at BC. • Rich Kelly is VP of risk management services at Seafax Inc. He and wife Melissa ’86 live on Cape Elizabeth, ME, and they celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in September. Their daughter Caroline is a freshman at BC in the Lynch School of Education, and son Andrew is a high school sophomore. • It is with great sadness that I inform you of the passing of our classmate Christina M. Gin-Nielson on January 16, 2012. Christina is survived by her husband, Christian, and children Scott and Lauren. Christina’s roommate Judy Garnier writes that a memorial service was held on January 21, and several classmates attended. In addition to Judy, they included Pamela Gheysen, Margaret Reynolds O’Connor, with husband Mike; Joe Butera with his wife; Mary-Beth Wenger Elliot; Paul Karpinski; John Callahan; and Michael Banks with his wife. Judy writes that Christina would have enjoyed the small get-together after the service, as everyone was seated at the same table. There was a mix of sadness and laughter as they reminisced about their times with Christina. Christina will be truly missed by all who knew her kind spirit and generosity. • Please write soon!
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1985
Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bww415@gmail.com In May, Stephen Cartier received Warren Wilson College’s Faculty Teaching Excellence award as the outstanding teacher of the year. He was nominated by the students and selected by his peers to receive the award. Stephen resides in Asheville, NC, with his wife, Pamela, and four children. • Also in May, Thomas McMorran received his doctorate in education leadership, management, and policy from Seton Hall University. Currently head of school at Joel Barlow High School in Redding, CT, Thomas was named the 2012 Connecticut High School Principal of the Year by the Connecticut Association of Schools. • In July, Bernie Coccia was named EVP and partner of Science Branding Communications, a medical science communications agency. Bernie spent the last 10 years as a senior executive for leading global advertising agencies Draftfcb Healthcare and the CDM Group. • I really enjoyed reading the Summer 2012 issue of Boston College Magazine, which arrived two days after I dropped my oldest son at college in New York City, 3,000 miles from home. The cover story detailed the wonderful orientation program that BC offers to all freshmen and their parents. The three-day orientation program in June stresses to the students and their parents that college is about producing intellectuals, not about finding a job. Orientation at BC has come a very long way since the fall of 1981, when we were dropped at Newton Campus and Upper Campus and wherever else we lived for our freshman year! • Send me a note if you can—everyone enjoys reading about the Class of 1985!
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1986
Correspondent: Leenie Kelley leeniekelley@hotmail.com Hi, everyone! I hope you had an awesome summer! The weather was great, and I had a lot of chances to reconnect with BC classmates at beaches, golf courses, and restaurant/bars. This job is fun and a great way to reconnect with old friends. • I heard from Helen McCullough-Duzy; she is doing great as a doctor with her own women’s health practice in three different locations in Delaware. She sounds super busy, but I hope she can break away for a BC game or BC event soon. Helen, the whole gang can’t wait to see you! • Stephen Bolger was recently named chief operating officer of Pagamo, a holding company, which owns Chateau Lynch-Bages in Bordeaux as well as other wine properties in Bordeaux, Chateauneuf-du-Pape, and Languedoc; joint ventures in Portugal and Australia; and high-end wine tourism assets in Bordeaux, including the Relais and Chateaux Cordeillan Bages. Stephen remains CEO and co-owner (with the Cazes family, owners of Pagamo) of Crushpad Bordeaux, the custom winemaking facility where any wine amateur,