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reunion. I am sure there is some news, any news, that you can share with the rest of us. Job or career changes? New homes? Any accomplishments, big or small? Don’t be shy. Maybe you have run into another classmate? I have: Alan Quartucci! I was at our local high school’s fall musical recently, and at intermission, there ambling up the aisle was Alan, looking not a day over, say, 25. His nephew was in the show, and he said his nephew is a friend of my daughter’s! Small world! Alan is living in New York City and Florida. • Eileen Carney sent me an e-mail with news of her children. Son William is a freshman at UMass, where he participates in the IMPACT! community service program and is in Commonwealth College, the university’s honors program. Daughter Elena is a junior in high school. Eileen reports that she is in the midst of a career change and is now a bona fide accountant. Nice going! • Going looking for Jay Pingeton is Karen Gavin ’79, who lived in the mods in 1978. I don’t think I have his e-mail address, so, Jay, if you are reading this, please contact me, and I can put you two kids together! • Glenn Kaplinsky is an attorney in private practice in New Jersey and is due to get his doctorate in May from Drew University. The Ph.D.-to-be has had a varied career, including stints in the Navy serving with the Marines (Ooh-rah!), as a newspaperman, and as a high-school history teacher! “I am also preparing my son for Boston College, 15 years down the line... wonder what tuition will be then?” Glenn says. • I say “thank you” to the above for getting in touch. • My piece of news is that I am officially a published author. My book, featuring a collection of first-person parenting columns that I have been writing for the past four years, is Parenting from the Trenches: Anecdotes from the Front Lines of Child Rearing. If you’d like more information, please e-mail me at the address above. • So, it’s a new year, folks; drop a line or two, if for no other reason than to say “hi!”
1979 Correspondent: Stacey O’Rourke stacey82857@aol.com 1445 Commonwealth Avenue West Newton, MA 02465 Sheri (Pfizenmayer) DeGray married her high-school sweetheart in 1981. She lives in Rockville Centre, NY. Her daughter majors in communication at BC and will graduate this year. Sheri’s husband is a commercial
photographer in Manhattan, and Shari is his studio manager. Besides running and completing the New York City Marathon in 2004, Shari dedicates volunteer energies to the Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged, the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island, and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York. • James Curtin has resided in Walpole for the past 19 years with wife Cheryl and daughter Jamie. Jamie entered her sophomore year at Bentley last fall. James has been with the Boston Development Group, a real estate development group located in Newton Centre, for the past 23 years. He reports that he recently got together with fellow classmates Julius Sciarra, Stephan Papazian, Kenneth Naumes, and James Merrigan. Thomas Pope and James Leonard couldn’t make that get-together, but they all plan to stay in touch and cheer on the Eagles at football, basketball, and hockey games. • Lisa Caruso Jantzen has been living in Manhattan for the past 20 years. She has been married for 10 years and has a daughter, Emma (9), and a Havanese named Scooter. Lisa is a buyer for the Doneger Group. She spends summers in South Hampton and visits her family on the Cape as often as possible. • Rebecca Dawson Marks works at NBC Universal as an executive vice president in communications and PR. She oversees talent relations, the page program, and photography. In January, she marked her 25th anniversary with NBC. She says she owes her success to Dr. Fishman (department chair at the time) at BC. Robin’s husband, Rick, is a Sox/Celtics fan. Her daughter Dempsey (17) hopes to attend BC. Robin stays in touch with her roommate Kris Palazola, who lives in New Jersey and has four
’78, live in Acton. Lisa is a special ed consultant, and John is CFO of a start-up in Wellesley. The DiBartolomeos have three children. Their oldest is a pharmaceutical representative for Eli Lilly. Their daughter, a junior at BC, is currently in Australia for the semester, and their youngest is a senior in high school. • Phil Neason reports that he owns his own company in Moraga, CA, called WindRiver Energy, which develops and finances wind-power projects in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Phil is divorced with three children. The eldest is at the University of Pennsylvania, and his twin daughters plan to attend BC. • Kathy O’Keefe has been living on the Cape since 2003. She left California after 18 years and is working as a paralegal. Kathy has two children in college. She still keeps in touch with Laura (Jefferys) Christopherson, Julie O’Donnell Wright, and Kate Limanek Sheeline on an annual basis. • I’ve reached my word limit, and I beg the indulgence of those I have not yet included. I promise I will get in each entry by our 30th! Thanks again for all your help.
1980 Correspondent: Michele Nadeem nadeem007@aol.com Sunrise Harbor 1040 Seminole Drive, Unit 1151 Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 Hello, BC Class of 1980! • Classmates continue celebrating turning 50! Thank you for your reports. I send out a challenge to you moving forward into our next decade: Create new reasons to celebrate and to prove
Rebecca Dawson Marks ’79 celebrates her 25th anniversary with NBC Universal, where she is executive vice president in communications and PR. beautiful daughters. • Brenda Hamlet has lived in Oxford, England, for the past 21 years and has been busy raising two sons and pursuing a career in media and related industries. Oliver, Brenda’s oldest, earned a medical degree with honors from Barts in London and is now a junior doctor at the Royal College in London. Julian, her second son, received a BA with honors in drama from Bristol University and is currently touring in the show Jumping the Shark. • Lisa George DiBartolomeo writes, “OMG, 30 years???” Lisa and her husband, John 21 class notes
that we are still young Eagles at heart! Please send me your thoughts on ways to take on this challenge and how you are living it. • Bonnie (Morris) Manche reports from Bergen County, NJ, that she’s working as a school nurse in a large high school there and loves it. She had worked in Boston, then in an ICU in Manhattan. Falling in love, she married, moved to New Jersey, and worked as a head nurse while pursuing her master’s in public administration at NYU, concentrating in hospital administration. Her two children are in college. • Patricia Phalen,