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tion in instructional technology. As an organizational trainer and consultant, Jill saw the need for blending learning with technology. “I am eager to face my next generation and ready to teach the 20–30-year-old generation,” Jill says. She is the president of Next Turn. • Mary DeMaranville, a teacher of English and an adolescent life coach, was recently named the department chair of English at Wahconah High School in the Berkshires, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Her oldest, Conor O’Malley, is entering his junior year at BC and Kiernan his junior year in high school. Mary’s roommate Diane DeGiacomo lives nearby, and they belong to the same book club. Another roommate, Peggy O’Neill, teaches at Columbia. • Philip E. McNulty has been director of the Milton Public Library for six years and just completed managing a $13.4-million library renovation/addition dedicated on April 5. He and wife Amy celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary in July and have boy/girl twins entering their junior year at Westwood High. • Lynne Fredericks Casey was one of my floormates in Cheverus freshman year. Lynne married John Casey ’78 in August 2008 in Marblehead. Between the two families, BC was well represented at their wedding: John’s mother, Katherine Cronin Casey ’50; brother Joe Casey ’77; and sisterin-law Debra Goodwin Casey ’77; and Lynne’s brother George Fredericks ’72 and nephew Chris Gilmore ’05. The newlyweds live in Stratford, CT. • Where are the rest of you freshman-year Cheverus ladies? Please let me know about your lives. • As unemployment continues to skyrocket, I am further encouraging all the Class of 1980 to network with our alumni during this tenuous global economy. If you haven’t reached out, please consider giving it the old college try and assist fellow Eagles by helping them network or even find job opportunities, when possible. • I’m looking forward to hearing from you.
1981 Correspondent: Alison Mitchell McKee amckee81@aol.com 1128 Brandon Road Virginia Beach, VA 23451; 757-428-0861 Mary Butler reported on her gang. Liz Botti Manocha lives in Manhattan, has a son in third grade, and volunteers a lot. Also in Manhattan with a son in third grade, Maryellen O’Brien McCooey has left the television busi-
ness and now works part-time for a nonprofit. Jane Alberding McCarthy lives in Winnetka, IL, and has three children, the oldest at Dartmouth. Ellen Whelan Shaughnessy lives in Manchester. Her oldest daughter is a BC graduate, and her son is a sophomore Eagle. • Margaret Murphy Burton lives in Wilmette, IL, and has two children. After 20 years in the radio industry, she now sells real estate. Pam Perkins Kipp lives in Newburyport and has three kids. She recently left Moody’s after 15 years. Michele Arrix Whelan also has three kids. Her daughter attends Villanova and her son is at Hamilton. Kim Schlotman Bantle lives in LA with her three children. Kim, Jane, and Mary vacationed with their families on Nantucket last summer. Kathy McNamara Pitsor, a health-care industry consultant, lives in Iowa and has two sons. Rhea Flannery Fleckenstein lives in Newburgh, NY, and has two children. Mary Butler and her husband, Donald Fraser, live in Brooklyn Heights, NY, and have a 14-year-old daughter. Donald practices law with his father. Mary is vice president, sales, for CBS Radio and is “the oldest person in my office!” • Jack Clancy is the proud father of a junior in BC’s nursing program. Jack is a contractor and the foundation treasurer for Hatch Mill in Marshfield, which is on the State Register of Historical Places. This vertical blade mill is the last of its kind and produced over 1,000 ships from the North River. Contact Jack at JLClancy27@aol.com for more information. • Barbara Kasowitz Allen works at the Eden Autism Services Foundation in Princeton, NJ, which kicked off its $7-million Nurturing Today, Embracing Tomorrow capital campaign last spring. She and Fred are “empty nesters,” having sent their second daughter off to college. • Bob Johnson is a vice president and principal analyst for IDG Connect, an online media company in the Boston area. He collects BC football items from the top 50 victories, bowls, and Notre Dame games. Bob and Leone live in Wellesley with their two children. • Turning 50 has not slowed all of us! Mike Sinsky ran the 113th Boston Marathon in April, finishing in 3:27! He celebrated with Dan Arkins, Bernie Husser, Frank O’Connor, John Schlosstein, and Bob Shea. Mike is an attorney in the county prosecutor’s office in Seattle, where he lives with wife Mary and their three daughters.
Last year, Ed Spellman of Dorchester became Braintree’s first director of municipal finance. Ed, past president and executive board member of the New England States Government Finance Officers Association, had served as Dedham’s treasurer, as Milton’s town accountant, and as East Bridgewater’s and later Newton’s treasurer/tax collector. I taught Ed’s two oldest daughters, Erin and Jacqueline, in second grade when I was at Saint Brendan’s. • Mark and Cheryl (Collucci) Milano live in West Haven, CT, where their four sons graduated from Notre Dame High School. All have attended or are attending BC: Daniel ’06, Peter ’09, and twins Matthew and Gregory, Class of 2011. They have season football tickets and spend fall weekends at BC tailgating with the guys. The Milano family has become a Boston College “six pack.” • Mark Clausen wonders where his former roommates Bob Melendy, John Marcelynas, Dave Paliotti, and Bruce Musler are hiding. Mark’s been able to keep tabs with Brian “Kosch” and Christine “Boz” (Boswell) Koscher, who live in Simsbury, CT. Their oldest daughter attends BC. Mark has worked for MIT, Fidelity, GTE, and General Dynamics during the last quarter century. In 1991, Mark married Jo and settled in Norton. They have two children, Michael (16) and Caitlyn (14), who attend Bishop Feehan High School. Mark visits BC often for football or basketball games, alumni events, or opportunities to speak to undergrads as part of the BC’s Communications Career Night each February. He and Jo have organized the MARJO Fundraising Golf Tourney every summer for the past 20 years in memory of Mark’s dad—Paul Clausen ’55, MA’58—to raise research money to find ways to cure leukemia at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital’s Gilliland Laboratory. • Dan ’80 and Kathleen (O’Brien) DiBiase celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary recently. They live in Dayton, NJ, with their three children, AJ, Rob, and Colleen. AJ attends the University of Delaware. Kathleen, a nurse, works as an assistant nurse manager in New Brunswick. • The class of 1982 extends their deepest sympathy to the family of Joanna Natsis of Ipswich, who passed away on May 29, 2008.
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Correspondent: Mary O’Brien maryalycia.obrien.82@bc.edu 14 Myrtlebank Avenue Dorchester, MA 02124-5304
Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com 71 Hood Road Tewksbury, MA 01876; 978-851-6119
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