class notes Group in the Milwaukee area. In 2001, he earned his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where he also received the annual Faculty Fiction Award. He graduated from Marquette University Law School in 2003. John is a member of the board of managers for the YMCA Camp Minikani and a board member of the Charles E. Kubly Foundation. • Charlie Rego is a senior corporate counsel at Underwriters Laboratories Inc. based in Chicago. Charlie earned his MBA from the University of Notre Dame in 2008. be
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Correspondent: Sandy Chen Dekoschak sdekoschak@gmail.com Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler was the speaker at Harvard University’s Senior Class Day, addressing those about to graduate and their families on May 25, the day before Harvard’s commencement. Amy currently stars in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, and she also appeared in the 2004 comedy Mean Girls. Congratulations, Amy, on all your successes! You’ve made BC and Burlington folks proud! Who knew choir with Mrs. Stulz would make you a star?! • Newton Mayor Setti Warren has announced that he will seek the Democratic nomination to challenge Senator Scott Brown, JD’85, for reelection next year. Setti served as a special assistant in the Office of Cabinet Affairs in the Clinton administration, as an aide to Senator John Kerry, JD’76, and as the New England regional director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Setti and his wife, Tassy, have a daughter, Abigail. • Christopher Woods was recently promoted to head of brand advertising at Google (UK) from head of financial services industry and of the Boston office. As part of Google’s Global Leader Rotation program, Chris will work in London for the rest of the year to help lead Google’s growth in the UK market. • Nicole Choiniere-Kroeker is the school librarian at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, VA. She was recently honored as the 2011 Potomac Region School Librarian of the Year by the Virginia Educational Media Association. She is now a candidate for the state award in November. be
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Correspondent: Nancy E. Drane nancydrane@aol.com Hello, everyone. I hope you are all enjoying the summer months and taking some time to rejuvenate and regroup. Here is some inspiration for all of us as we approach our (gulp!) 40th birthdays! Deb and Damon Cartelli, Rupal (Patel) and David Poltack, and Carrie and Brian Johnson all celebrated Damon’s 40th birthday on a catamaran in the British Virgin Islands. It was an amazing and memorable trip sans their six children (in total). Damon and Deb have a daughter, Brynn (8), and a son, Jack (5); David and Rupal have a daughter, Caitlin (8), and a son, Andrew (3); and Brian and Carrie have two
daughters, Reese (8) and Emerson (5). • Back in the States, Jeffrey Liguori, JD’97, who is married to Kim (Cartelli) Liguori, Damon’s sister, could not make the trip as they were home enjoying their four-month-old little boy, Anthony Robert. This was the group’s second self-guided bareback catamaran trip to the BVI and surely not their last. • Fernando Pinguelo, JD’97, spoke on Foxnews.com LIVE with host Kimberly Guilfolye about the recent data breach at Epsilon. Fernando, who co-authored “Epsilon Breach: Small Businesses Who Get ‘Hacked’ Must Act—Now,” (Bloomberg Law Reports, 2011) with Bradford Muller, discussed data breach notification laws enacted by the government. • Brian McKevitt received an Alumni Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Alumni Association in honor of distinguished teaching in the classroom. The award was presented during UNO’s Faculty Honors Convocation and breakfast in April. Brian is an assistant professor in UNO’s Department of Psychology. • Jennifer Wesely received tenure and was promoted to associate professor at the University of North Florida in 2009. In fall 2010, Jennifer was a foster parent for a 13-year-old girl. • Thanks for the news, everyone. Keep sending in those notes for future columns! be
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Correspondent: Kevin McKeon kmckeon@gmail.com We would like to welcome to this column Kevin McKeon, who joins us as our new correspondent for the Class of 1995. Please write to him at the above address with news you’d like to share. Kevin replaces Jay Verzosa MA’08, whom we heartily thank for his excellent service in this role during the past few years. • In other news, we heard from David Shapiro—who also served as your class correspondent a few years back. David, a physician in Hartford, CT, recently appeared in the documentary film The Sweetest Land about violence in urban America. You can view the trailer on YouTube at www.youtube. com/watch?v=A1LOyerVCP8. • In May, Brian Kelly joined Mercer, where he will head workforce metrics and analytics across the firm’s Talent & Rewards business. The company provides consulting, outsourcing, and investment services. Brian also serves as co-chairman of the Institute of Human Resources Workforce Planning and Analytics Working Group and vice chairman of the Society of Human Resource Professionals workforce metrics taskforce. He resides in the Greater Philadelphia area. be
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Correspondent: Sabrina Bracco McCarthy sabrina.mccarthy@perseusbooks.com 21 class notes
Dave and Krista (Kelley) Gauthier welcomed their second child, Katy Josephine, on February 21. The happy family, including proud big sister Lia (3), is living in Washington DC, where Dave works as an aerospace engineer, and Krista runs her own business, Crafted Elegance, specializing in holiday home decor. • Alissa Almeida married Ricardo Cruz in Rhode Island on May 27. Ricardo recently graduated from Boston University’s medical school. Many BC alumni were present at the wedding, including Crista (Pontilena) Vigeant, Stephanie (Budd) Kryzak, Meghan (Rull) Cusick, Patty (Navarrete) Ortega, Julie (Buendo) Donovan MSW’00, Kevin Mitchell, Athena (Lymberopoulos) ’98 and Spiros Giannaros, Tony Cella, Keith Vivona, Michael “Chevy” Chevalier, and Matt Kelly. The happy couple honeymooned in Mexico. • Patrick and Erin (O’Connor) Kent welcomed daughter Nora Quinn to their family on May 11. Both Nora and mom are doing fine. • This summer, Kimberly (Bowers) Caprio began a one-year surgical fellowship in breast oncology at the Yale–New Haven Hospital. She writes: “The 11-year journey is finally over! I will be graduating from my residency in surgery at the New Jersey Medical School (where I received my MD in 2004) on June 16. Becoming a surgeon was one of the best decisions of my life, and although I feel (as I did in 1997 when I graduated from BC) that I am again leaving home, there are many adventures ahead.” She is looking forward to moving back to Connecticut, “and being so much closer to Chestnut Hill.” be
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Correspondent: Mistie P. Lucht hohudson@yahoo.com Kristin (Connelly) Whiting is happy to announce that she and her husband, Brian, welcomed with love their first baby, Brian Christopher Whiting Jr. (they are calling the baby Christopher), on February 13. All are doing very well—and sleeping through the night! • In April, Christopher Capobianco joined Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, as senior director of project management in the global education department. After graduating from BC, Christopher served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya and earned a master’s of international affairs from Columbia University. He has worked with the DSB International School and the Akanksha Foundation, both in Mumbai, and as a program manager at Asphalt Green in New York City; most recently he served as an early childhood development consultant for UNICEF. He resides in Brooklyn with his wife and two young daughters. • Also in April, Rodrigo Soto joined the investment management firm Eaton Vance Corp. as VP, institutional business development. He is based in Seattle, covering the western United States and Canadian territories. Rodrigo, who began his career at State Street Bank & Trust, was most recently head of institutional sales in the western United States at State Street Global Advisors. • I am sad to report that Michael B. Coon of Burlington, formerly of Milton,