nc 1974 Correspondent: Beth Docktor Nolan beth.docktor.nolan@bc.edu 693 Boston Post Road Weston, MA 02493 Mark your calendars—our 35th class reunion weekend is scheduled for Thursday, May 28, through Sunday, May 31. The Saturday evening reunion class party will be a particularly memorable one, since a bevy of classmates, including Trish Keough Almquist, Susan Sullivan Sullivan, Moira Ryan Dougherty, Beth Docktor Nolan, Kathy Renda Flaherty MAT’79, Maureen O’Halloran JD’90, and of course, Julie Hirschberg Nuzzo, began planning for the party in October! • News from the October planning meeting included the following: Susan Sullivan is a grandmother! Her daughter Erin’s son Wesley (1) is now the love of Susan’s life! Daughter Kelly just received a doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Virginia Medical Center. Susan and husband Dan split their time between Newport and Vero Beach, FL. Susan returned to sailing last summer; she hadn’t really sailed since the Newton College sailing team made the nationals (this is news to me!). Moira Dougherty is now an empty nester; daughter Maggie lives in Boston and works at BC, and Mike, also in Boston, is with John Hancock. Moira and husband Kevin have a cottage on Prince Edward Island and spend a good deal of the summer there. Kevin has begun to retire, so Moira has begun to cut back a bit on volunteering; however, her commitment remains with A Place to Turn, a MetroWest food pantry. Two of Trish Almquist’s daughters live in Boston: Meredith Almquist Giannotti ’01, who got married in 2001; and Jenny. Daughter Rachel lives in Manhattan and works for Time Out New York. Trish enjoyed a great visit on the Cape with Julie Nuzzo last summer. Kathy Flaherty, Susan Sullivan, Kathy DeMello McClaskey, Maureen O’Halloran, and Moira Dougherty have “irregular” gettogethers, most recently at Kathy Flaherty’s place in Falmouth. • Write or e-mail me your news, and remember to save the weekend of May 28 for our 35th reunion.
1975 Correspondent: Hellas M. Assad hellasdamas@hotmail.com 149 Lincoln Street Norwood, MA 02062; 781-769-9542
Hello, classmates! • Congratulations to Tom Nash on his appointment as president of the Surface Inspection Systems Division of the Cognex Corporation. He joined Cognex after serving as vice president of operations and marketing for BTU International, a global supplier of thermal processing and automation systems for electronics, semiconductor, and solar equipment markets. Earlier, he was president of CIMCIS Ltd., a start-up software company. • Christine Simon Bezreh is a substitute teacher in the Needham Public Schools and also works on educational projects teaching about the Arab world. Her husband, Jim, a radiologist at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, is president of the Massachusetts Radiological Society and has also been named a fellow of the American College of Radiology. Their son Michael, a UMass Amherst graduate, is a full-time student at Simmons College School of Social Work. Son Matt, a graduate of Noble and Greenough, is a freshman at Bowdoin. Log on to Facebook to chat with Christine. • News for this edition was slim. Please send in news of yourselves, your families, or your BC friends. It’s always great to hear your thoughts. Take care.
nc 1975 Correspondent: Mary Stevens McDermott mary.mcdermott@cox.net 56 Deer Meadow Lane Chatham, MA 02633; 508-945-2477 The Council for Women of Boston College has recently announced two new committee leaders from Newton College ’75: Patricia (Coppola) McCormack is the new chair of the Membership Committee, and Jo Ann (Hilliard) Holland is the new vice chair of the Membership Committee. The council is dedicated to furthering the role of alumnae as leaders and active participants in the University. Also, Jo Ann and husband Mark Holland ’71 cochaired Boston College’s 2008 Parents’ Weekend. They are the parents of Mark, Class of 2010.
after a long and valiant fight against T-cell lymphoma. Brian worked for Shell Oil for 29 years and was set to run its laboratories in Nigeria when the cancer was detected. He endured the painful and lengthy treatments without bitterness or complaints, which his wife, Teresa “Tess” (Posch), attributes to his love of God and family, and attained remission after seven months. In early 2008, he was named Shell’s global discipline lead for biostratigraphy. Alas, he relapsed in April 2008. The Society for Sedimentary Geology named him an honorary member and posthumously, its North American Micropaleontology Section added his name to an award: The Jones-O’Neill Student Award. Brian loved visiting BC and saw his daughter Gwyneth ’07 graduate. She and her brothers, Matthew and Timothy, also survive him. Rest in peace! • The talented Donald Lombardi of Lombardi & Son Masonry in Manchester-by-the-Sea was issued U.S. patent #7,434,521 covering a “Mason’s Adjustable Chimney-Platform Arrangement,” and is hard at work on a further patent application. More info on this new invention can be had at lombardimasonry@gmail.com. Congratulations, Don! • Gary Boettigheimer expressed interest in contacting old friends, so all should seriously consider logging onto BC’s on-line community. It makes it easier to reach out and touch someone with whom you’ve lost touch. • A new murder mystery novel, his first, was recently published by Joseph Nowlan. Titled Media Blitz (Oak Tree Press, 2008), it is available in bookstores and online. Joe is an associate editor for Industrial Distribution magazine, published by Reed Elsevier Inc. of Waltham. For many moons, Joe worked for the Pilot. Congratulations and good luck, Joe! • Here’s wishing all a happy and healthy 2009! God bless!
1977 Correspondent: Nicholas Kydes nicholaskydes@yahoo.com 8 Newtown Terrace Norwalk, CT 06851; 203-829-9122
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Again, some sad news leads off. Brian O’Neill died on June 26, 2008, at age 53,
Greetings, members of the great ’78. You have all been conspicuously quiet since the
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