class notes Class of 1959 was well represented with two tables of classmates. • We send our condolences to the family of Mary (Demeo) McGoldrick, who passed away on March 18 of this year. Mary taught elementary school in Honolulu. She is survived by her husband, Harold McGoldrick Jr., son Harold, and daughters Malia McGoldrick and Brenna Cregge of Hawaii. • Dana and Bea Rae Love’s son John died on June 4 due to the apparent rejection of a bilateral lung transplant. Our hearts go out to the Love family at this very sad time. • We also send our condolences to the family of Richard T. Whelan of Windham, NH, who passed away on April 13. be
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Correspondents: Maryjane Mulvanity Casey and Patty O’Neill pattyoneill@verizon.net 75 Savoy Road Needham, MA 02492; 781-400-5405 In February, our NC’59 “snowbirds” gathered at Bill and Bonnie (Walsh) Stoloski’s Naples, FL, home for a delightful dinner party. Included were Janet Chartier O’Hanley, Al and Sandy (Sestito) Pistocchi, and Jack and Jane (Gillespie) Steinthal. There was much animated conversation that evening, we’re sure! • At our May tea at Alumni House, Patty O’Neill and Nancy Maslin Burkholder were seen enjoying the afternoon festivities with other Newtonites. • Ellie Carr Hanlon reports that she has had a very busy and exciting year. She and husband Bill celebrated his 75th birthday with a Caribbean cruise in February and then in April went to the Riviera Maya with their entire family—their three children with their spouses, five grandsons, and two granddaughters—a great early celebration for their 50th wedding anniversary in August. Ellie’s eldest granddaughter, Elizabeth, is headed to Tulane. • KC Conway Morrish enjoyed a great reunion at Sacred Heart in Greenwich with several Newton ’59 classmates. Jack and Jane Steinthal hosted a dinner attended by Meg Dealy Ackerman, Sheila Lane Malafronte, and Sue Sughrue Carrington and their husbands. Sheila’s son was about to get married. Meg and Jane have many grandchildren, and Sue has two “fairly new” grandsons. KC continues to enjoy her work with the Guardian ad Litem for Children Program in Florida and has taken up bridge. She was looking forward to seeing Meg in Marion, MA, and Pat Sweeney Sheehy on Cape Cod on her trip from Florida to Maine for the summer. • Janet Chartier O’Hanley’s move from Rhode Island to Naples, FL, has been a spectacular success. She writes: “I love the blue sky and the sunny weather and spend most days outdoors. ... My new home is wonderful and very Floridian.” She swims several times a day in her enclosed pool with a lanai or in the Gulf of Mexico. The garden around the pool sounds like a tropical paradise with a confetti lantana that attracts all types of butterflies; many varieties of fruit trees and palm trees; and bougainvilleas, birds of paradise, and other flowering plants. “I am so happy I made the move to Naples,” she writes. “It’s peaceful and beautiful. I feel very blessed.” • Joan Coniglio O’Donnell has
been busy caring for her grandchildren. She chauffeured her three grandsons in Needham to various activities while her son Tony, a tax lawyer for a biotech company in Rockland, and daughter-in-law Luisa went to California for a long weekend. Another son, Chris, lives in Wellesley and works at the Framingham Heart Study. His wife, Kim, teaches biology at Wellesley College. Their eldest daughter, Lindsey, is a sophomore at Holy Cross; Adrienne, a very good field hockey player, will go to Bowdoin in September; and Kylie is in the sixth grade. Joan’s daughter, Carrie, lives in Stamford, CT, and has a textbook marketing and production business. Carrie and her husband, Dave Gurney, have two sons: Matt, a junior at Franklin & Marshall, and Stephen, who will enter Loyola in New Orleans this fall. Joan’s third son, Jeffrey, a social worker, and his wife, Antoinette, live in Baltimore with their three children: Ailish, Kyra, and Conor. Joan and Larry spend much time with their three Vietnamese foster sons and their families, who live near them. Joan remains active, despite having Parkinson’s, and continues to play tennis. • We also have sad news to report. Our classmate Alice (Cooke) Crowley died on April 3 in Durham, NH. She was a talented and vivacious class member and will be greatly missed. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to her family. • Any recent news updates from our class would be most welcome! be
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Correspondent: Joseph R. Carty jrcarty1@gmail.com 253 River Street Norwell, MA 02061 A few classmates have moved on in their journey among us: Henry McCarthy of Wakefield and Rockport passed away in April; he had lost his wife, Dee, in September 2010. Earlier this year, we also lost Paul Neary of Hyannis, Jim Rush of West Roxbury, and James O’Donnell of Dover, NH, and Mary Helen Johnson Terrell of Lincoln passed away in November 2010. • Although retired, Fr. Leo Shea, has been appointed to head the 100th anniversary celebration of the Maryknoll. He is responsible for the full event. • Some interesting information for you: as of September 2010, Boston College enrollment totaled 14,720, with 9,100 undergraduate students, 4,900 graduate and professional students, and 720 undergraduates in the Woods College of Advancing Studies. • Pauline LeBlanc Doherty has spent many hours editing and invested much time and effort to complete a DVD of last year’s class event in to Naples, FL. We thank her for her wonderful work on this project! • Dick Toran, who is a veterinarian, took an extended trip to Vail. Sandra and Tom Kelly accompanied the Torans for part of the skiing vacation. • Coley Foley MBA’70, Pauline LeBlanc Doherty, and Bobby O’Leary reported that Florida’s weather was better this year compared with that of the past few years. • John Remondi is the No. 3 employee at Fidelity. He is also a trustee of Cathedral High School, where he was instrumental in fundraising for the school’s new gymnasium. • Last winter, Fred O’Neill and his wife skied at Loon Mountain 9 class notes
and also at Telluride, CO, with their son Brian, who lives in the area. • Charlie Petrie is living near his family in Cary, NC. • Sheila and Real Roy have started a new business, Boston Consignment, in Needham Heights, just off Route 128. They are doing well. • H. Jeffrey Davis has come out of retirement. He is joining his son at Morgan Stanley as a VP. Last month, Jeff, Real Roy, and Fr. Bianton had lunch together in Rhode Island. • Hope you’re having a great summer! be
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Correspondent: Sally O’Connell Healy kmhealy@cox.net 218 Corey Lane Middletown, RI; 491-862-7338 Berenice Hackett Davis, Brenda Koehler Laundry, Blanche Hunnewell, and I attended the AASH National Conference in Miami in April. The biggest thrill for us was meeting up with our classmate Ann Taylor, RSCJ. We had a wonderful reunion and celebrated at the “Evening Under the Stars” at Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart. Ann was headmistress of Carrollton for 20 years. She now heads the commission on goals for the U.S. Province of the Society of the Sacred Heart, overseeing the various Sacred Heart schools. We hope to catch her on her next trip to the Boston area and have a class get-together. • Mary Lou Foster Ryan, MSW’85, has retired from social work but keeps very busy as development coordinator of the Rhode Island Horticultural Society (RIHS) and as its newsletter editor. She has also attained her Master Gardener certificate from the University of Rhode Island. Husband Maury is director of the RIHS. He still organizes the Rhode Island spring flower show and both a spring and a fall beer fest. Mary Lou helps with all these endeavors and is also an involved grandmother with her two-year-old grandsons Logan (Hillary’s child) and Liam (son of Sara ’90), who live in Rhode Island. • Debbie Fitzgerald Bourke passes along greetings from Grosse Pointe. She and her husband have 11 grandchildren, the eldest of whom will enter college in the fall. • Dick and Pat Winkler Browne were in Boston in April for the BC Distinguished Volunteer Tribute Dinner hosted by University President William P. Leahy, SJ. • Berenice Davis stopped in the DC area en route to Rhode Island and had lunch with Grace Tamm Escudero, whose five daughters and grandchildren visit her regularly. • Before we left Punta Gorda, Kev and I had dinner with Paul and Gaby Gyorky Mackey. Gaby is in treatment, but keeps busy and is in good spirits. • John and Kathy McDermott Kelsh are planning to attend a family gathering at a château in the Loire valley this summer. The Kelshes welcomed twin granddaughters in April: Margaret Eileen and Ella Tobin Rogers. • Berenice Davis has twin grandsons, Blanche Hunnewell has triplet grandsons, and I have triplet granddaughters. If you have multiple-birth children or grandchildren and would like them mentioned in the newsletter, let me know. • Every day at 3 p.m. EST, Sacred Heart alumnae are encouraged to say a prayer for each other and on first Fridays