Megan Shaughnessy ’08. • Kathleen Corcoran-Jones married Walter Jones at St. Ignatius Church on St. Patrick’s Day. The couple reside in Wellesley, where they opened Barber Walter’s barbershop, lounge, and apothecary in December! • Dennis Goulet and his wife, Delaney, welcomed a daughter, Estelle Rose, on July 30, 2018. They have moved back to their home state of Washington, where both are physicians with the Everett Clinic, Denny in OB-GYN, and Delaney in internal medicine. • Patrick and Sarah (Mares) Healey, MEd’08, welcomed the birth of their daughter Cora Adelyn in August 2018. They live in Malta, where Patrick is posted as a foreign service officer with the Department of State, and Sarah works as a teacher. • Dan and Frances (Macias-Phillips) Oney welcomed their second daughter on August 7, 2018. “Vivian is a happy baby and brings us all so much joy, especially her big sister Grace!” Frances reports. The family lives in Rocklin, CA. • Stephanie St. Martin, MA’10, has been published again! You can find her latest chapter in The Handmaid’s Tale and Philosophy. This is the fourth time she has contributed to works popularizing philosophy; her essays also appear in The Red Sox and Philosophy, The Rolling Stones and Philosophy, and What Philosophy Can Tell You About Your Lover. • In June 2018, Christina Bechhold Russ and Graham Gullans celebrated six years as cofounders and managing directors of Empire Angels, their New York–based fund and angel group that invests in early-stage companies, with a focus on supporting young entrepreneurs. They are now looking forward to expanding the group internationally and closing their second fund this fall. Correspondent: Lauren Faherty Bagnell lauren.faherty@gmail.com
2008 Davis Fields and Kira Valenta recently married at Clos LaChance winery in San Martin, CA. They were joined by fellow Eagles including best man Jim Fields ’10 and groomsman Alex Lopez. Wedding guests included Maddie Carson, Rom Celli, and Scott Utterson ’07. Davis and Kira live in Mountain View, where Davis is a PM manager at Facebook and Kira is a policy analyst at the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. • Kelly (Treseler) Golden, MA’10, recently completed her PhD in higher education leadership from UMass Boston. For her dissertation, she studied the experiences of undergraduate women in college and how these influenced their gender role performances. Kelly and her husband, David, were married in 2015 and live in North Andover with their Boston terrier, Teddy. • Karen Schreiner, MA’10, received the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching. She recently participated in the Aspiring Principals Program through New Leaders, a national educational organization that prepares education leaders to deliver breakthrough results in America’s highest-need schools. Now a new leader herself, at the beginning of the 2018–2019 school year 58
she joined Think College Now Elementary School in Oakland, CA, as assistant principal. • On July 20, 2018, Craig Lewin successfully completed a swim across the Catalina Channel in 11:02:33 hours. The Catalina Channel is a little more than 20 miles at its shortest distance, spanning from Santa Catalina Island to the coast of California. One of the things that helped Craig conquer this challenge was the support of fellow Eagles Joe Maloy, MS’10, and Rob Keely ’05, who jumped into the water to swim alongside Craig as pace swimmers. • Nicole Benevenia graduated from Yale Divinity School with her MA in religion and literature in 2015. She worked in arts event coordination at Yale for two years and is now campus minister for service opportunities at Merrimack College. Nicole married Nathan Bourne on June 16, 2018, in Portsmouth, NH. BC alumni in attendance included Jessica Humphries, Gregory and Ruth (Spangler) Herrle, Kat (Wakeham) Barnes ’07, Megan Wheeler ’09, Meg Stapleton Smith ’13, Nicholas Benevenia ’14, and Mark Benevenia ’82. Nicole was thrilled to see many of you at Reunion— though it was far too brief! Correspondent: Maura Tierney Murphy mauraktierney@gmail.com
2009 10TH REUNION
May 31–June 2, 2019 Adrienne Calotta, MEd’10, and Benjamin Kocarnik were married on September 2, 2018, in Wyckoff, NJ. Fellow BC alumni Daniel Cagen, Malak Yusuf-Mirochnick, Deepika Agrawal, and Lauren Kraics McKay as well as the bride’s parents, Gregory ’79 and Anita (Meluso) Calotta ’80, and several other relatives were in attendance. The newlyweds live in Watertown. Adrienne teaches high school Spanish at ActonBoxborough Regional High School in Acton, and Ben works as a data analyst at Juniper Networks in Westford. Correspondent: Timothy Bates tbates86@gmail.com
2010 Spencer and Dianne (Bacsik) Sydorko, MEd’13, welcomed their first child, Lincoln Francis, on July 10, 2018. Mom, Dad, and Baby Linc are all happy and healthy. • Megan Maloney and Jesús Arreola were married on November 10 in their hometown of Austin, TX. They were surrounded by friends and family as they said “I do” at St. John Neumann Catholic Church, where they had originally met 16 years ago. Several of Megan’s fellow Eagles were in attendance, including her freshman year roommate, Sarah Wiewel, and several representatives from her Keyes, Lake Street, and Rubenstein years. Jessica Chu and Katherine Sheehan also stood alongside her at the altar as her bridesmaids. • Danielle Corea married Arthur Smith on July 7, 2018, in Morristown, NJ. Fellow Eagles in the bridal party included Tina Corea ’06,
Claire Corea ’14, Nicole DellaRocco, Oksana Nekoz, and Vittoria Macadino MEd’11. Danielle works for Catholic Relief Services, and Arthur is completing his PhD in economics at Boston University. The couple reside in Boston. • Congratulations are also in order for William Ferguson, MS’11, and Michelle Lynch, who were married on September 15, 2018, on Cape Cod. William grew up in Weston, and Michelle is originally from Medfield. The couple met in South Boston in 2014 and now reside in Weymouth. William is a principal at Link Ventures in Cambridge, and Michelle works for PanAgora Asset Management in Boston. Many Boston College alumni from multiple generations were in attendance at the wedding. The wedding party included Kevin Distaso, Matthew Reardon MBA’15, John Lynch ’09, and Laura Ainsley Ferguson ’11. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson are thankful for the love and support of their family and friends and are glad to be a part of the Boston College community. Correspondent: Bridget K. Sweeney bridget.k.sweeney@gmail.com
2011 Nicholas Foster and Lindsey Cardoza were married in Trinity Chapel on October 20, 2018. At BC, Nicholas was a member and president of the University Chorale, and he asked John Finney and select members of the chorale to perform at their wedding. A small subset of the chorale, called the Chamber Singers of the University Chorale of Boston College, performed a mini concert and sang for the Mass. • Jack Neary is helping to launch Canary Cold Brew, which is a subscription service for canned coldbrew coffee, in January. The hope for this company is that it will be the most convenient way to drink cold brew at home. Jack would love to hear from classmates who try it; email him at canarycoldbrew.com. Correspondent: Brittany Lynch Pruitt brittanymichele8@gmail.com
2012 Lauren Malishchak, Kevin McGovern, and Micheal Adondakis all graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine this past May, along with Nick Spetko ’14. Lauren and Nick are completing residencies in internal medicine, Mike in radiology, and Kevin in general surgery, and all but Kevin remain in the Boston area. Correspondent: Riley Sullivan sullivan.riley.o@gmail.com
2013 Congratulations to Evan and Christine Sanderson-Movius, who were married on October 6, 2018, at Sugarloaf Mountain, MD. The couple met in Boston during rehearsals for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 2013. They now live in Washington DC. Both are software engineers, Christine at the Washington Post, and Evan at Politico. Many Boston College alumni