results of the BC–Maryland game. It is with sadness that Jennifer Lynch and I inform you that Peter passed from this world on April 13. Peter was a partner in a Needhambased CPA firm, and he also served as our class treasurer. At BC, Peter started on the golf team but quickly moved to rugby, and after graduation, he played for the Boston Rugby Football Club, traveling as far as South Africa in 1995 for a game. Peter coached his sons’ soccer and hockey teams and served as the treasurer of Parkway Soccer. He loved sports and supported BC athletics, often attending games with his father, Peter A. Kerr ’39, JD’50. Peter’s uncle, Msgr. George Kerr ’41, captained BC’s undefeated football team for Coach Frank Leahy and is in the College Football Hall of Fame. Peter is survived by his wife, Jodi, and sons Peter ’11 and Dillon, a student at St. Sebastian’s in Needham. Our hearts and prayers go out to Peter’s family. • Dear classmates, please forward your updates to me. May all good things find the path to your door.
1978 Correspondent: Julie Butler Evans JulieButlerEvans@gmail.com 7 Wellesley Drive New Canaan, CT 06840; 203-966-8580 Hi, classmates of the great ’78! I hope summer is treating you well! But you are all still awfully quiet out there…. • Claudia Haertel Peterson did send a brief e-mail but no follow-up with details (hint, hint, Claudia), so I am going to assume all is well. • How many of you are on Facebook? I have been “friended” by Debbie Boole Smelko and Mary Jo Glennon Goodhue, and of course my 8-A Mod-mates, but I am not having much luck tracking down some of you (cough, Jack Stapleton, cough, cough). Unlike Trix cereal, Facebook isn’t just for kids, so come aboard! Our demographic is heating up like a house on fire. • Whoa! Speaking of fires, Timothy “Tim” Stack has an abode in Santa Barbara, CA, and was within striking distance of the awful fires there recently. Blessedly, his family made it through unscathed, all puns intended. For the last few years, Tim has been an actorwriter-producer on the NBC comedy My Name Is Earl. • I must report with sadness that Virginia Lawton Duffett of Woburn died in April; our sympathies are with her family and friends. • I hope to be hearing from a few of you soon with any milestones you can muster!
1979 Correspondent: Stacey O’Rourke stacey82857@aol.com 1445 Commonwealth Avenue West Newton, MA 02465 What a spectacular evening! If you weren’t at the reunion, here’s who you missed: Mitchell Abrahams, Anne Kline Amato, Susan Linko ’81 and Leonard Bellavia, Kim Moskowitz Beretta, Samuel Betar, Richard Blatt, Joseph Bonito, Tracy (Burnett) ’80 and Scott Brown, George Bushnell, Larry Byron, Jack Callahan, Maureen Donohoe Callahan, Philip Carignan, Lynn Carlotto, Patricia Carroll, Sarah Peavey Carvalho, Sadie Aznavoorian Cheshire, Jess and Jane (McGlew) Collen, Bob Connors, Elizabeth Fay Corcoran, Kevin and Nancy (Ells) Cronin, William Danaher, Susan Liguori Davelman, Ellen Hashagan Desmond, Peter DiMaria, Elizabeth Gilligan DiPaolo MBA’88, Bill Diana, Frank and Deirdre (Bowen) Donnantuono, John Doyle, Joseph Drake MBA’95, James Driscoll, Richard Driscoll MA’82, Christine Eagan M.Ed.’83, Ellen Veith Elia, Peter Erickson Ph.D.’90, Robert Falciglia, Thomas Falkowski, Joseph Ferra, Elizabeth Fisher, Edward Flood, Claude Fontaine, Timothy Gaffney, Evangelos Geraniotis, Lester Gould, Gregg Guinta, Linda (Betros) Hankey, Debbie Puzinas Hoffman MBA’88, Daniel Holland, Patricia Burgh House, Jerald Howarth, James Hudner, Meredith Owens Hurley, Thomas Hyatt, Marie (Carson) Jezeski, Margaret (McCann) Kantrowitz, George Keches, Jo-Ann Tully Keegan MS’81, Annie Keller, Martin Kelly, Susan Hennessy Keown, Brian Kickham, John King MAT’08, Bob and Jaqueline (Davidson) Lapides, Richard and Kathleen (O’Neil) Larkin, Louis Latino, John JD/MBA’85 and Kathleen (McInnis) Lawler, Tracy Mazza Lucido, Scott ’77 and Jan (Hogarth) Maddern, John Martines, Ken MS’93 and Michelle (Maglaty) Mostello, Robert and Brenda (Guregian) Martin, John McCann, Edward McKenney, Dorothy McWeeney, Robert Migliaccio, Anne Mullany MA’82, Kevin Murphy, Michael Murphy, Nancy Twitchell Murphy, Edward Nabhan, Anne Nagle, John and Lorraine (D’Angelo) Nealon, Philip Neason, Barry Nearhos, Holly Loose Nelson, Joyce Nicholson, Susan Augenthaler and William O’Brien, Richard O’Hara, Kathleen O’Keefe, Kerry O’Mahony, Brian and Stacey (Shannon) O’Rourke, Gretchen (Dietze) ’81 and William Ohrenberger JD’82, Gerard Ottaviano, Terrie Perella, Diane Pietraskwww.bc.edu/alumni
iewicz, Patricia Stagliano Porreca, Alexander and Eileen (Morrissey) Pouch, Christine Breen Previtera JD’93, Steve Prostano, Janet Rene, Mark and Marie (Fitzgerald) Richardson, Mary Riordan MS’84, Michael and Janet (Harvey) Rogers MSW’84, Robert Schmitt, Suzanne Shaughnessy Shippee, James Simone, Nicolina Paglia Spinella, Nancy Iezman Stark, Elizabeth Novicki Stockman, Jane Sullivan-Murphy, Janet (Martin) Swallow, Mary Larkin ’80 and Jim Thomson, Robert Tiburzi, Anastasia Walsh, Patrick Walsh, Mary Jo Schlotman Watson, and Stephen Watson. • Our class had a lot to celebrate. With our Class Gift of $8,995,520, we broke all previous 30th reunion records. Further, the Class of 1979 Scholarship effort raised more than $55,000, and the class will fund two scholarships in the fall. Congratulations! We also reconnected and remembered our days at BC and managed to find Corcoran Commons (some of us for the first time). Members of the Class of ’79 in attendance seemed to realize how precious our connections to each other are. On that note, I am reminded of Class Notes. Many of you promised to write to me about your varied and interesting lives. I am holding you to those promises. • Special thanks to all the 30th Reunion Committee members; Boston College development, reunion, and alumni staffs; and the entire University for making our evening so special. • Lastly, there was an extremely annoying photographer present on reunion night. If anyone is interested in obtaining copies of Brian O’Rourke’s photos, please e-mail me, and I’ll get those pictures to you.
1980 Correspondent: Michele Nadeem nadeem007@aol.com Sunrise Harbor 1040 Seminole Drive, Unit 1151 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 Congratulations on all your achievements and on maintaining your youth, Class of 1980! I am so pleased that classmates are continuing to correspond regarding their lives, careers, and family accomplishments—and also about how they are continuing to remain young during their new half century! • Jill McGillen is issuing a new challenge for classmates turning 50: “Go back to school! It’s re-energizing to learn again!” Living in San Francisco, she graduated this spring with a master’s in educa-