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Boston College Alumni Association classnotes@bc.edu Boston College Alumni Center 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Congratulations and best wishes to centenarians Grayce and Clarence Dwyer ’35, who celebrated 71 years of marriage this past Valentine’s Day! Grayce and Clarence are residents of Madison, NJ, where they still live in their own home, although they now require some help from aides to get around. Clarence, a former accountant for construction companies, grew up in Southie. He served as an altar boy at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, attended a Catholic high school, and considered studying for the priesthood before entering Boston College. Grayce grew up in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn and worked as a secretary in the guidance office at a Catholic high school. The Dwyers have 4 children, 17 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren. • We are greatly saddened to report that the Class of ’35 has lost Walter Sullivan, who died on St. Patrick’s Day. Walter’s daughter, Marie (Sullivan) Cox writes: “Is there such a thing as a Quadruple Eagle? If so, Walter Sullivan would qualify: he was a 1931 graduate of BC High School, and he earned a BA in 1935, an MA in history in 1940, and a JD in 1947 from Boston College. He often regaled us with fond memories of his years at BC, where he made lifelong friends: Ed Sullivan ’35; Dan Holland ’35, JD’44; and Jim McDonough ’35, H’77, to name but a few. As an undergraduate, Walter sang in the glee club and was a trumpeter in the BC marching band. For many decades, he had season tickets on the 50-yard line in Alumni Stadium, where we three children accompanied him on many a football Saturday and where, much later, his grandchildren Doug Sullivan ’90 and Jeanne Cox Connon ’91 would visit him and Katie (his wife, our
mother) at halftime. My two brothers were also BC grads: Bob ’63, JD’66, and Dick ’71. Walter was a former teacher in the Framingham School system, a Navy veteran of World War II, and a retired attorney, who often attributed much of his success to his education at Boston College, a school he dearly loved. He’ll be raised up ‘On Eagles’ Wings’ on March 22 as we bid him a final farewell.”
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Correspondent: William M. Hogan Jr. Brookhaven, A-305 Lexington, MA 02421; 781-863-1998 On April 14, your correspondent, Bill Hogan, enjoyed a very special celebration of his 100th birthday. In a happy coincidence, Fenway Park also marked its centennial during the same week, and Bill was invited to throw out the first ball for the Red Sox game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday afternoon. Bill’s entire family—his children, William M. Hogan III ’63, Katheryn Mullaney NC’68, Leigh Paul Hogan JD’81, and Linda O’Connor, as well as his 13 grandchildren and 18 greatgrandchildren—were all there to cheer him on. Congratulations and all best wishes, Bill!
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Correspondent: John D. Donovan jddboppa@graber.org 12 Wessonville Way Westborough, MA 01581; 508-366-4782 Greetings once again. Lucky us! • Unfortunately, the only class news we have is the death of Joseph Sammartino, MEd’40, of Scituate on January 12. Joe was always an active man in our college days, in the Navy, and in the business world. The New England Kiwanis and the Greater Boston and Scituate business worlds will miss him—as will we. Our
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sympathy and prayers are extended to his family. • This sad news is not just the loss of Joe but the gradual loss of our memories. Let’s test this loss. Try to think back some 74 years to the spring semester of our junior class year in 1938. OK? Question 1: What was the name of the lovely girl who agreed to be your date at our Class of 1939 junior prom at the Statler Hotel in Boston? Question 2: What was the name of the Jesuit philosopher who challenged your intelligence in the oral exam that year—questions regarding logic, epistemology, ontology, and cosmology? Good luck! I tried but flunked. My answer was “I dunno.” I hope you did better. Of course we are sometimes better in math. All of our 16 Class of ’39 survivors are still hanging around enjoying their ages of 49 or 59. Wait a minute, mea culpa, I just made a reversenumbers mistake regarding age. Excuse me, but this mistake will bring back happy memories of our middle-age years. • Peace.
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Correspondent: Sherman Rogan 34 Oak Street Reading, MA 01867
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Correspondent: John M. Callahan 3 Preacher Road Milton, MA 02186; 617-698-2082 Greetings to all my classmates of 1941. As I write this column, I can’t help but remark that we have almost made it through a snowfree winter here in the Boston area. So let’s move on in good cheer to an early spring and welcome the season of baseball. Let’s hope the Red Sox have a good year and that 2012 brings the team much success. • Wishing the Class of 1941 peace, good health, and God’s continued blessings. AMDG.
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Correspondent: John C. Fitzgerald johnfitz85@verizon.net 22 Joyce Road Hyde Park, MA 02136-3807; 617-364-2309 Hello out there. Is anyone listening? I have zero news, good or bad, from classmates. However, the Alumni Office sent sad news. Our classmate Fr. Richard O’Halloran passed away this past November in Los Banos, CA. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Fr. Richard entered St. John’s Seminary and was ordained in 1951 in Rome. After serving in the Boston Archdiocese into the 1960s, he requested and was granted a transfer to the Diocese of Monterey, CA, to be near his seriously ill mother. He ended up staying there. He will be remembered in our memorial