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1993 Correspondent: Sandy Chen sandy93@bc.edu 1 Aberdeen Way, Unit 117 Cambridge, MA 02138
1994 Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com 226 E. Nelson Avenue Alexandria, VA 22301; 703-548-2396 Hello, everyone, and happy spring. As I am writing this, our reunion is just a few months away. Pretty unbelievable that 15 years have passed since we left the Heights, and what an eventful 15 years it has been for many of us, with marriages, children, important professional accomplishments, and much more. It will be wonderful to share all this news when we gather together. Speaking of which, here is some of that news. • Michael J. McLaughlin has become a partner at Lerner & Holmes, a boutique Boston real estate law firm. He joined the firm in 2005, and his practice focuses on complex real estate and general business transactions throughout the United States. Michael lives in Lincoln with wife Beth and their three sons: Charlie, Connor, and Brian. • Mike and Maura Spellman Kieran welcomed their second child, Meredith Dorothy, on November 20, 2008. She joins big brother Liam (2). They live on Long Island. • Brian and Jeanne Broussard Ballinger welcomed their first son, Calvin Kenneth, on November 7, 2007. They are living in Austin, TX, and enjoying their now 14-month-old! • Finally, save the date for our 15th (gulp…) reunion weekend, May 28–31! Visit www. bc.edu/reunion for all the latest information.
1995 Correspondent: Enrico Jay Verzosa bc95.classnotes@gmail.com Le Moyne College Panasci Chapel 1419 Salt Springs Road Syracuse, NY 13214 Hello, my friends! We’ve got lots of updates this time around, thanks to Facebook! • After all these years, I got a message from Ann LeDang Sheehan! Annie might have a better memory of this, but we must have met that first week of school, working at
O’Neill together. Annie works as a sales executive at Gartner Group, and she and her husband have a 16-month-old baby and their own wine business. • Other news comes from Matt Chapuran, who is now the general manager at Stoneham Theatre in Stoneham. • Luke O’Connell is now a director of development at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He lives in Bloomfield, NJ, with his wife, Cara, and daughter Isabelle. • Alexandra Zilberman Curtis sent news that Lynette (Gatti) Donnelly, M.Ed.’96, had a baby girl, Meghan Claire Donnelly, on February 6, 2009. Congratulations to Lynette and her family! • Carolyn Zarillo Viola and her husband, Steve, welcomed their daughter, Ava Rose, into the world on November 13, 2008. Best blessings! • Todd and Nicki (Battaglia) Garman celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary this past August. They have “three awesome kids” and live in Granville, OH, where Nicki is a preschool teacher and Todd is a youth pastor at a Vineyard church. Todd is pursuing a master’s degree in clinical counseling at Ashland Theological Seminary and is counseling clients at a practice in Columbus, OH. • Erik Tratnyek sent in his first update since graduation. He and his wife, Tina, welcomed their second son, Gus, on January 14, 2009. Gus joins big brother Finn (3). Erik and Tina live in Wenham, and Erik works in sales at SignalDemand. Erik is also pursuing an MBA at UNC–Chapel Hill. • Emily Hancock married Jonathan Rose last August.
1996 Correspondent: Mike Hofman mhofman@inc.com 517 E. 13th Street, No. 20 New York, NY 10009; 212-673-3065 Former roommates Julie (Allen) Holbrook and Mariessa (Longo) Theodorou both had baby boys recently. Julie and her husband, Josh, who live in Beverly, welcomed Miles Henry on December 22, 2008. Miles joins his spirited big sister, Ellie, in the Holbrook household. The family spent some quality time with Julie’s dad in Florida in February. Meanwhile, Mariessa and her husband, Jim, who live in Franklin, welcomed their son, Matthew Saverio, on March 11. Matthew joins big brother Christopher. • Collin and Erin (Bergin) Earnst, with daughter Mary Clare (6) and son Liam (4), have been living in Foxboro for the past five years. Collin started the Haselton Group, a communications consulting firm with expertise in the education arena, in 2007. Erin is working as an educational consultant, mostly training teachers on effective use of technology in the classroom. “My office is about three miles from home, which is a nice change from the commute to Boston every day,” he writes. Collin is also still performing regularly with the band Magnus (the successor to Headcase), with Bob Jones, Joel Vengco, Jack Tully, Tim Murphy ’92, Brian Nolan ’92, Laura
Luke O’Connell is now a director of development at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her bridesmaids were classmates Karen (Crincoli) Begelfer, Carolyn Zarillo Viola, and Jennifer Crawford. Mike Hofman ’96 also made the trip for the Napa Valley wedding. Emily left law firm life in DC in 2005 and moved to San Francisco to work as a senior legal director at Yahoo!, where she handles U.S. law enforcement and global child safety matters. • I’ve heard from many others, including Ali Ganim McCoole, Laura Cronin, Jeannie Delacruz-Madritch, Brendan Hickey, Kevin Wong, Sergio Munda, and Nicole Metz-Vazquez. Check out the Boston College ’95 group on Facebook, and the BC alumni online community at www.bc.edu/alumni/association/community. html. • Keep on sending your updates and stories! 27 class notes
Druan ’01, and Jenni Mather ’00, MA’05, JD’08. • Ed Barnaby writes that he and his wife, Hannah, met up with Ed’s former roommate Kevin Sun and his wife, Clara, and Eric and Theresa (McGovern) Zighera in California recently. Ed, Hannah, and their daughters, Olivia and Lucy, also have plans to visit Tracy and Jeff Ferranti and their sons, Matthew and Carter. • Finally, I caught up with Kara Emerson over a bottle of pinot grigio recently. She and husband Bryan Glover live in WinstonSalem, NC, where she is chief resident and in her fourth year of the general psychiatry program at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Kara will start a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry soon. She and Bryan, who is a doctor of