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class dues of $25 should be remitted to Bill Tobin, 181 Central St., Holliston, MA 01746. • Best wishes for a healthy and happy new year.
nc 1957 Correspondent: Connie Weldon LeMaitre lemaitre.cornelia@gmail.com Correspondent: Connie Hanley Smith cosmith35@hotmail.com Since the Fall issue of Boston College Magazine, a few news items have reached us. • Ellie Pope Clem writes that their son Joe, a Navy psychiatrist, has been deployed a second time for service in Iraq and serves with a Marine battalion. Our prayers are with him and for his safe return. His children in Virginia will see much of their grandparents during his absence. Ellie also tells us that after Annie Marshall Mahoney’s husband died, Annie returned to Illinois to live. Sadly, her daughter’s husband died only a few weeks later. Now, they both live in Illinois, where her daughter’s son George goes to an excellent school for special-needs children. Annie is doing a fine job of helping her grandchild get off to school and being there in the afternoon while his mother, Morgan, is still at work. • In September, Paul, JD’66, and Cathy Connolly Beatty visited Tim and Connie Hanley Smith in Waccabuc en route to see their daughters Sarah and Elizabeth and their families in New York. • Liz Doyle Eckl writes that she and Chris had a spectacular trip to Alaska, sponsored by the Notre Dame travel group, in August. (No, they didn’t see Sarah Palin. Yes, they did see “the bridge to nowhere.” Liz relates that it really is exactly that.) Liz, along with many of us, also sends greetings to Mary Ann Morley Bernhard. • Connie Weldon LeMaitre is very proud of her husband’s recent accolade: George LeMaitre ’55 was among 30 practitioners with Excellence in Best Practices in Medicine mentioned in the Massachusetts Medical Law Report in October. He is the founder of LeMaitre Vascular, Inc., an international company, now public. Since Connie is an officer of the company, our humble Newton Class of ’57 has “gone global”! • Happy new year, everyone, and please keep us up to date!
1958 Correspondent: David Rafferty 2296 Ashton Oakes Lane, No. 101 Stonebridge Country Club Naples, FL 34109; 239-596-0290
The jazz brunch on November 9 was a huge success and a fitting finish to the 17-month celebration of our 50th anniversary. The Nursing School was represented by 10 classmates: Carol (Brady) Vigliano, Elizabeth (Cook) Di Milla, Barbara (Cuneo) O’Connell, Moira (Feeley) Lyons, Kathleen (McDonnell) Miller, Patricia (McGuire) Taupier, Mary (McMahon) O’Toole, Eileen (Teahan) Quigley, Kathleen (Whalen) Kenny, and Patricia (Brine) O’Riordan. Yearbooks were distributed at the brunch; if you paid for a yearbook but did not receive one, please contact the Alumni Association at 617-552-4700 or e-mail alumni.comments@bc.edu. The yearbook staff thanks all those who contributed to make our 2008 Golden Eagles yearbook a success. • Barbara and Dick Nolan announced the birth of their third great-grandchild in Limerick, Ireland. They are planning a cruise in the Mediterranean in the spring. Dick continues his volunteer work at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth and gets on the road cycling at every opportunity. • Francis Lydon reported that he and wife Mary traveled over 6,000 miles from Waikiki, HI, to attend our reunion. They really enjoyed touching base with the Molls, the Rooneys, the Hartigans, and the Sheas—old buddies from way back. • Paul Hutter reports that he had a great time at the reunion, and he is back playing golf now that his hip has been repaired. • As a part of our class’s 50th anniversary gift, Dick McArdle and his wife have established the Richard and Lois McArdle Fund for Accounting Excellence at Boston College. • Paul Lucy has been living in Kittery Point, ME, for the past 16 years after stints in Connecticut, Indiana, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, and Canada. Paul still owns a Sir Speedy franchise, a printing and graphic design company that he purchased “on retirement” in 1993. • Condolences of the class go out to the families of the following classmates who recently passed away: Harutune Mikaelian of Aleppo, Syria; Walter Davis of Marshfield; and Richard O’Meara of Milton. • When reporting the death of Victor Monette in the last issue, I did not realize that he was Victor E. Monette, CSC, who had served his Catholic ministry since 1960. Over the years, he had been a teacher at Notre Dame High School in West Haven, CT; a treasurer in the finance offices of Pius XII Agency in Chester, NY; a teacher and director of the Notre Dame International School in Rome, Italy; and a student financial advisor at St. Edward’s University in Austin, TX. Bro. Victor was the roommate of John Ahern at BC. • Please send your $25 class dues to Jack McDevitt at 28 Cedar Road, Medford, MA 02155. 9 class notes
nc 1958 Correspondent: Jo Cleary jocleary@comcast.net 27 Kingswood Road Auburndale, MA 02466; 617-332-6798 Summer and early fall 2008 saw several of our classmates traveling abroad. Dave and Patty Peck Schorr accompanied Archbishop Edwin O’Brien of Baltimore on a nine-day pilgrimage to Rome in June. Kate Glutting Arcand, Beth Duffy Legare, Mary Keating McKell, and Mary Azzara Archdeacon visited Princeton, NJ, to celebrate Patty and Dave’s 50th wedding anniversary. “A summer of renewal, beginning with our 50th,” Patty wrote. • In September, Rome was also the destination of MJ Eagan English, M.Ed.’59, to see her sister-in-law and her husband. She visited Castel Gondolfo and saw Pope Benedict. MJ wrote, “Wonderful—the whole papal audience and beforehand, people sitting in the town square waiting for ‘the moment’ to begin.” Downtown Rome at night added excitement, and an evening at the Austrian embassy included a concert. • Sue Fay Ryan was in Guatemala last summer for four weeks of intensive Spanish language study. • Judy Young Runnette, Jane Dick O’Kieffe, and Judy Goodnow Prus spent several days in midsummer in Darien, CT, with Helen McLachlan Smith. Later in the summer, Judy R. and Helen visited with Jane in Chevy Chase, MD, where they were joined by George and Mary Cahill Leyland. • In Washington DC, Leonor Salcedo Barreto recently sustained a broken femur; she hoped to be fully recovered by early December. She was visited by the summer travelers—Jane, Judy R., and Helen—when they were touring the capital. • Evelyn Chiao Yuan visits San Francisco often to see her son, daughter, and two granddaughters. • In October, Jo Englert Wieczynski and her husband traveled to Mexico and visited Copper Canyon. Their sons, Alan coming from Wales and Daniel from Atlanta, were expected to join them at home in Florida two weeks later. • Carol Healey Hanley now has three generations of BC grads in her family. Her granddaughter Gretchen is a freshman. Beth Duffy Legare’s granddaughter Elizabeth Susan Legare ’91 is also an alumna and lived in Hardey. • Eileen Mullin writes: “What a pleasure it was to work on the BC 50th Yearbook Committee. The welcome I received from the other committee members, the BCAA staff, and during reunion weekend, the University administration was heartfelt and warm. It was a tribute to Newton more