program in the San Francisco Bay Area. • Julie McGraw Brown is a research associate in the Department of Medicine, Science, and Society at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Her latest book, to be released in September by MIT Press, is Health and Medicine on Display: International Expositions in the United States, 1876–1904. Julie has taken time out to enjoy her first grandchild, who was born in March. • Anne Gallagher Murphy wrote: “It is so great to get together with our Newton classmates, and 10 of us did that in Florida. Pat Beck Klebba, Sue Coogan Stone, Pat McArdle Burns Shaw, Holley Hicok Schroeder, Janet Richmond Latour, Kathy Mahoney Guilmette, Liz Martin Dougherty, Betsy Baldwin Skudder, Marie Sullivan Gorham, and I began with lunch in Venice. Pat Shaw managed to wangle us a private room, which enabled us to talk and laugh as much as proper Newton girls could without drawing the wrath of nearby diners. Holley and Ron Schroeder invited us to their lovely home in Osprey the following night, and husbands Jim Stone, Bob Guilmette, Hugh Gorham, and Joe Murphy joined us and were really good sports. Next we all met for a ‘beach party’ on Crescent Beach. Special thanks to VV Martin, who sent my message to all in our class. Not only did we find Pat Shaw, but so many of you wrote to wish us well. We read and enjoyed every e-mail…. If anyone else thinks they may be in the area in February or March, please e-mail me at annemurphy1@cox.net. This is definitely an annual event! I would love to have been there as well, but I was in California with Judy Bertsch Ritter, Joanna Bertsch Yaukey, and Cathy Power Schibli. I had a quick visit with Kris Wildman Brennan and Joan Merrick Egan NC’61 as well, and who knows? Maybe we all will make it to Florida next year.” • Please send me news and get in touch with others in your area in preparation for our 50th in two years!
1963 Correspondent: Matthew J. McDonnell matthew.mcdonnell.esq@gmail.com 121 Shore Avenue Quincy, MA 02169; 617-479-1714 Most of our class members celebrated 50th high-school reunions this year. The largest feeder school to BC has been BC High, my alma mater, which hosted a two-day celebration on the weekend of May 16–17, to coincide with senior Commencement exercises. It was a memorable reunion. The Com-
mencement speaker was Mark Mulvoy ’64, former managing editor of Sports Illustrated who was sports editor of The Heights. He gave the finest Commencement address in my memory. Among BC’63 classmates in attendance were Fr. Vin Albano, Al Andrea, Bob Arbing, Rev. Jim Benson, Frank Carney, Jim Cradock, John Cuneo, Russ Dever, Bill Frongillo, Charlie Gaffney, John Golden, Tom Gosnell, Rich Gould, Bob Grazado MST’67, Bill Haley, Paul Hardiman, Paul Kelley, John Larkin, Mike Lydon MBA’70, Paul McDevitt, Matt McDonnell JD’66, Bob Melanson MBA’71, Bill Murphy, Jim Norton, Bob Parks JD’66, Bill Phelan, Tom Quirk, Ed Rae, Jack Roche, Bill Searson, Joe Sullivan, Brian Sullivan MA’65, and Carl Young JD’66. Also attending were other BC High classmates who went on to Boston College, including Dennis Corkery ’65; Fred DiSciullo ’64; George Doherty ’62, JD’66; D. Kerry Holland ’65, Ph.L.’66, MA’68; and Dan Polvere ’64. Congratulations to all our “Golden Jubilarians.” It won’t be that long before our college 50th! • I heard the sad news that Luke LaValle III, son of our classmate Luke LaValle, lost a two-year battle with lung cancer on December 31, 2008. Sincere sympathies from our class to Luke and his family. • I look forward to hearing from all of you!
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Correspondent: Colette Koechley McCarty ckm2@mindspring.com 106 Woodhue Lane Cary, NC 27518; 919-233-0563 The Boston-area Newton ’63ers had a lovely lunch at the BC Club on April 24. Page Renaghan ’91, daughter of Janice Magri Renaghan, is director of programs and events at BC Law School and helped to arrange the lunch; it pays to have friends in high places! Thank you, Page. Fourteen of our classmates attended: Mary Ann Droney Reynolds, CAES’89, Eleanor Whitney King, Delia Conley Flynn, Marj Dever Shea, Judy DeMarco, Marion Kelly Daley, Janice Magri Renaghan, Mary Ann Cole McLean, Carolyn McInerney McGrath, Susan Frisbee, Mary Jane Becherer Ferson, Joan Engel Sundstrom, Martha Meaney Cummings, and Carol Donovan Levis. Besides the fun of getting together, the group discussed the value of SWC and its impact on our lives and our continuing learning. They recalled Mother Quinlin’s comment: “These details won’t stay with you, but SWC will change the way you think and awaken in you a love of learning.” www.bc.edu/alumni
Amen. Susan Frisbee has retired from teaching English. She lives in Rockport. Susan was just back from her fourth trip to Costa Rica and had also spent two-and-a-half months in Australia—and she was in the Peace Corps. Wonderful! Martha Meaney Cummings is a school librarian for the Massachusetts Hospital School in Canton, a school for children with multiple disabilities. She has 10 grandchildren. Joan Engel Sundstrom’s career went from biochemistry to marketing manager for Battelle. She has retired after 30 years. Mary Jane Becherer Ferson recently spent two weeks in China on a comprehensive tour, during which she connected with a friend and former neighbor who now owns seven restaurants in China. Eleanor Whitney King lives in Rockport and has five married children. Two are married to Irishmen, so she visits Ireland regularly. • Maureen Meehan O’Leary visited Colette Koechly McCarty, Penny Brennan Conaway, and Carol Donovan Levis this past winter. • Plans are for another mini-reunion of Boston, Connecticut, and New York City-area classmates in early December in New York City to tour the Greco-Roman exhibits (SWC lives!) and have lunch. Please contact Carolyn McInerney McGrath at cfmcgrath@yahoo.com or Carol Levis at cdlevis@comcast.com. • A big thank you to Carol Levis, my ears and notebook at the lunch. Please forward your news to me at ckm2@mindspring.com.
1964 Correspondent: John Moynihan moynihan_john@hotmail.com 27 Rockland Street Swampscott, MA 01907 Congrats to Alice Buckley Brennan and her Reunion Committee. They really did a tremendous job. A reported 179 people partied at the dinner dance on Saturday night, and the special Mass for deceased members of the class celebrated by Michael Ford, SJ, was very moving. For an (almost) complete list of reunion attendees, please go to www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/BTN/ events/attendance.cgi?tmpl=attendance&event =2220388&sort=4. Further, 37 percent of our class members contributed to a Class Gift of $25,892,895, breaking all previous records for a 45th reunion gift in both sum and rate of participation! • In April, Nick Perna appeared on a broadcast of the NewsHour, discussing the state of the economy with Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post. Nick gave a guardedly optimistic view of the