L is a Ca lise Si gn or i ’ 90 in Holden. • Jennifer Lodowsky Buyak is an associate at the Law Office of Frank Prokos. She and husband Jeff, MS’02, welcomed their baby girl, Abigail, in January. Abigail joins brother Jeffrey Buyak Jr. (5). • Christopher and Michelle Theberge Fonseca welcomed their second child, Eden Nicole, on January 6. She joins her big sister Faith Elizabeth (3). • Ted Murphy (pen name T.M. Murphy) wrote a new book for kids called Saving Santa’s Seals (Leapfrog Press), which will be released this fall! You can read all about it on his website, http://capecod writer.com. Ted also does school visits, for all the teachers out there. • Dan and Michelle (Siegel) Briody are both published authors. Michelle’s first book, Sixteen Weeks to Your Dream Business: A Weekly Planner for Entrepreneurial Women (McGraw Hill), appeared last year, and she is now giving talks to promote it as well as teaching “Dream Business” seminars. Dan, a journalist, has appeared on radio and TV programs, including the Today show, discussing and promoting his two books: The Iron Triangle: Inside the Secret World of the Carlyle Group (Wiley, 2003) and The Halliburton Agenda: The Politics of Oil and Money (Wiley, 2004). • Alexandra Gianinno joined the Initiatives Committee of the Council for Women of Boston College. • Tom Nalen has been inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Hall of Fame. One of the greatest offensive lineman in BC football as well as in NFL history, Tom started every game in his last three years at BC and earned Associated Press All-America third-team honors, All-Big East second-team honors, and ECAC first-team accolades in 1993. Tom spent his entire 15-year professional career with the Denver Broncos, where he started 188 of the 194 games in which he played—the most for an offensive lineman in Broncos history.
1994 Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com 226 E. Nelson Avenue Alexandria, VA 22301; 703-548-2396 I just got back from a beautiful weekend in Boston at our 15th reunion. The campus looks beautiful, as do all of you! Really, I kept overhearing, “You haven’t changed a bit.” I guess we are all aging well. It was wonderful to see so many classmates with their families at the Festival on the Green and then later at the evening event. I wasn’t
the budget czar s Boston’s “budget czar,” the term applied by the Boston Business Journal, Lisa Calise Signori ’90, tries to blend the calculating nature of a number cruncher with the empathetic inclination of a public servant—a practice she first honed at Boston College. The economics major learned to balance courses such as “Econometric Methods,” which covered the complex concepts of multicollinearity and heteroskedasticity, with her participation in PULSE, the service learning program that allowed her to work for Greater Boston Legal Services, which provides free legal assistance to low-income residents. That focus on detail and duty has aided Lisa Calise Signori manages the Calise Signori in her role as Boston’s first City of Boston’s $2.4-billion budget. director of Administration and Finance, which, in layman’s terms, translates to being the COO and CFO for the City of Boston. Considered one of Mayor Thomas Menino’s closest aides and a member of his finance team for 14 years, Calise Signori oversees an operating budget of $2.4 billion and more than 750 employees, while negotiating the twin pressures of reduced resources and expanding needs. She says the recent financial downturn, while challenging, “allows us to think more creatively than we might have in order to make government more efficient while still giving residents the services they expect. Whatever resources and budget obligations we have, we will make it work.”
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Below, Calise Signori sums up her thoughts: what is the most satisfying moment in your professional life? Being named to my current position in July 2007.
what is your best bc memory?
why did you decide to attend bc? It seemed like BC would give me a great university experience—since it had the reputation for combining strong academics with a terrific social scene.
Sitting in the Dust Bowl with friends.
what is the secret to success?
what is one thing everyone should do while at bc?
Success to me is working hard, enjoying life, and being grateful for the small things.
Go to a concert to hear the Acoustics. I never would have gone out to hear an a cappella group, but a friend insisted I go and they were fantastic!
where is your favorite spot on the heights?
what was your favorite bc activity? Going to basketball games—they were always so competitive.
what is something your friends don’t know about you? That I really love mornings.
Definitely the rotunda in Gasson Hall. I would get such an overpowering feeling standing there with the magnificent marble statue in front of me, the light coming down from above, and all those beautiful murals surrounding me on the walls.
what was your favorite bc class? “Econometric Methods,” along with my PULSE courses.
for more q&a with lisa calise signori, visit www.bc.edu/alumni/calisesignori.html.