roles has led to successes of Tajik women’s nongovernmental organizations. • Miguel Galvez and Deckard Sorensen’s startup company, NBD Nanotechnologies, has been selected as one of 125 finalists in this year’s MassChallenge, a competition that awards promising entrepreneurs world-class mentorship, free office space, and access to funding and media. • Please continue to submit updates through the alumni portal!
carroll school gsomdean@bc.edu Fulton Hall, Room 315 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Bart Joannes Welten, MBA’85, and wife Pauline recently moved from the Netherlands to Singapore, where Bart is now CFO of DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals. The company is a joint venture between DSM NV (Netherlands) and Sinochem (China), with operations worldwide. • Joseph Padula, MBA’98, was among the winners of Providence Business News’s annual 40 Under Forty competition, which honors young professionals who are committed to making a difference through career and community involvement. Joseph is EVP of commercial insurance sales and management at Gencorp Insurance in East Greenwich, RI. • Gregory Chin, MS’04, is now a managing director in the Boston office of Duff & Phelps, an independent financial advisory and investment banking firm, in its due diligence practice. Greg, a CPA, joined Duff & Phelps in July from the Boston office of FTI Consulting, where he also provided due diligence services.
connell school nursing.alums@bc.edu Cushing Hall, Room 201 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 In October, Elizabeth Burgess Dowdell, MS’87, was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. Elizabeth, who is an associate professor at Villanova University College of Nursing, was applauded for her leadership in nursing and her advocacy for vulnerable children; her research interests include the interrelationships among various forms of electronic aggression such as cyberbullying and sexting. Elizabeth is an alumna of Vanderbilt University and holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
gsas bcaacomm@bc.edu McGuinn Hall, Room 221-A Chestnut Hill, MA 02467; 617-552-3265 In September, novelist, playwright, and shortstory writer Bob Begeibing, MA’70, appeared at Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH, to celebrate the rerelease of his historical novel, The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin (University Press of New England). The story of the first murder in Exeter, the book is part of a trilogy set in New England, and it has now been optioned for a film. Bob is a professor emeritus at Southern New Hampshire University, where he was the
founding director of the Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction Program. He now looks forward to the publication of a new book based on the life and work of painter J.M.W. Turner, scheduled to appear next spring. • Brahm Callahan, MA’09, wine director at Boston’s Grill 23 & Bar, was crowned the first winner of the Antinori Sommelier Challenge, presented by Sommelier Journal at Bar Boulud in New York City in August—and in September, Brahm married Sally Howard in Rhode Island.
law school Vicki Sanders sandervi@bc.edu 885 Centre Street Newton, MA 02459 Class Notes for Law School alumni are published in the BC Law Magazine. Please forward all submissions to Vicki Sanders at the above address.
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gssw gsswalumni@bc.edu McGuinn Hall, Room 123 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Samuel Martin, MSW’96, was appointed executive director of Worcester Youth Center in Massachusetts. Samuel was previously senior program manager at Commonwealth Corporation in Boston, where he provided policy and program guidance to support the Workforce Investment Act Youth Program. He also served as director of community services and founded a youth development program at the Whittier Street Health Center in Roxbury. Samuel is a board member of the Massachusetts Network of Foster Care Alumni. • Pat Cawley, MSW’82, has been named Social Worker of the Year for 2012 by the Miami chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Since 1997, Pat has held various positions, including chief operating officer and clinical director, at Camillus House and Camillus Health Concern in Miami. She established the Camillus Life Center (now the Camillus House Institute of Social and Personal Adjustment), as a state-licensed residential treatment program for people who are homeless and suffer from a mental illness and/or an addiction. The Massachusetts native now plans to return home to join Duffy Health Center on Cape Cod. • One of GSSW’s globe-trotting alumni is Colleen Fitzgerald, MSW’11, who is a psychosocial program manager with International Medical Corps in Libya. As a GSSW student in the Global Practice concentration, Colleen did her final semester internship with International Medical Corps in Jordan in the community mental health program. Read an interview with Colleen about her life in Libya, the country’s mental health needs, and how Libyan children have been affected by the conflict at http:// bit.ly/M1irKY. • GSSW wishes all the best to Dick Rowland, associate professor, and Regina O’Grady-LeShane, associate dean of academic and student services, as they retire after 20 and 27 years, respectively. We thank them for their many contributions to GSSW and the social work profession!
bcaacomm@bc.edu Campion Hall, Room 106 Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Michelle Sterk Barrett, MA’96, is the new director of the Donelan Office of CommunityBased Learning at the College of the Holy Cross. Michelle has served in a number of roles in academic administration throughout her career, including as assistant director of BC’s PULSE Program for Service Learning from 1999 to 2008. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Villanova University and is currently completing her doctorate in higher education administration from UMass Boston. • In July 2011, Tara Mahoney, MA’05, married John Copeland, MA’05. Both earned degrees from the Lynch School in counseling psychology. Tara works part-time for South Shore Mental Health in Quincy and has a private practice in Braintree, and John works at MCI-Framingham, where he is the lead clinician on a new mental health unit in the prison.
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wcas Correspondent: Jane T. Crimlisk ’74 janecrimlisk@yahoo.com 37 Leominster Road Dedham, MA 02026; 781-326-0290 William Sylvester Noonan ’84 has authored a new book, This Is Not Your Father’s Democratic Party. It is described as “a lively and humorous historical analysis of the Democratic Party as told by a lifelong liberal with close ties to the Kennedy family.” William is also the author, with Robert Huber, of Forever Young: My Friendship with John F. Kennedy, Jr. (Viking, 2006). • I met Annette E. Dietel ’63 at St. John Chrysostom after Mass on the eve of the Assumption. We plan to get together later this fall.
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