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dent and group executive of Mercer’s investment businesses. He joined Mercer in 2006 after holding a number of executive positions at Fidelity Investments. • Joanne Caruso, JD’86, hosted a cooking class followed by dinner for members and associate members of the Council for Women of Boston College at Sur La Table in Los Angeles on September 29. The council is dedicated to furthering the role of alumnae as leaders and active participants in the University. • Condolences to the family of Janice Rizzo Haigh, who passed away on July 3, 2007.
While there, the Morris family attended a legacy reception hosted by the Alumni Association featuring William P. Leahy, SJ. • Ana G. Mendez is currently working in Turkey. She owns a company that deals with international commerce, working in the areas of finance, business consulting, and commodities such as petroleum products, cement, and scrap rails. Ana will soon be publishing her first novel titled “Coming Back to Life.” Her son just started college this year. • Tom Nunan, M.Ed.’90, writes to report the success of the Kevin J. Conway
Joanne Caruso ’82, JD’86, hosted a cooking class followed by dinner for members of the Council for Women of Boston College in Los Angeles.
1983 Correspondent: Cynthia J. Bocko cindybocko@hotmail.com 71 Hood Road Tewksbury, MA 01876; 978-851-6119 Ann Johnson Fienman shares this news: “My husband, Don ’79, and I are surprised to find ourselves ‘empty nesters’ this fall. Our daughter Rose is a senior at Loyola University New Orleans, and her sister, Joyce, is a freshman at USC in Los Angeles. Hard to believe both our children are in college—it doesn’t seem that long ago that we were students ourselves!” • Victor Crawford was appointed senior vice president of Worldwide Operations and System Transformation at the Pepsi Bottling Group. Victor is responsible for the company’s go-to-market strategy, manufacturing and warehouse operations, global revenue management, and information technology.
1984 Correspondent: Carol A. McConnell bc84news@yahoo.com PO Box 628 Belmar, NJ 07719 Greetings to all! I hope your holidays were happy! • On August 29, 28 years after our first arrival at BC, Jeanne Dotterweich Morris helped move her eldest daughter, Julia ’12, not only to BC but also into Jeanne’s former freshman dorm, Duchesne East, third floor.
’84 Scholarship Fund, currently providing financial assistance to a deserving student in memory of our classmate Kevin Conway. In addition to the financial support provided by classmates, since 1992 many from the Class of 1984 have gathered every five years with the Conway family to rekindle connections and to celebrate Kevin’s life. Those from ’84 who have attended the memorial Masses and dinners include Tracy Bascetta, Beth (Higgins) and Tony Benoit, Lisa MolloBlum, Marc Craig, Laura Fitzpatrick-Nager, Tom Foristall, Steve Gargano, Karen Izzi Bristing, Margaret Leyden Holda, Catherine Keyes, Colleen Herlihy and Henry King, Mary Moran, Tom and Nancy (Pegoli) Nunan, Nancy (Devine) and Vittorio Pavia, Larry Priola, Greg Swenson, Robin (Sardagnola) and Steve Beaudette, Jane (Wetterling) Clifford, Cristen (Carter) and Tom Forrester, Eileen (McCarthy) ’85 and Chris Gardner, Mike Garry, John Gill, George Lyman, Susan Malkin, Mike Rolfes, and Anthony Sciaraffa. • Last September, Talbots named Susan Walsh senior vice president of stores for its J. Jill Brand. Prior to joining Talbots, Sue spent nearly 13 years at WilliamsSonoma, where she rose to vice president of stores for Pottery Barn. Currently a resident of Dallas, she will be relocating to the Boston area. • SUNY Cortland has appointed Andrea LaChance chair of the Childhood/Early Childhood Education Department in the School of Education. • Karen Rohan is a new member of the Council for Women of Boston College. The council is dedicated to furthering the role of alumnae as leaders and active participants in the University. • Thank you for all the news. Please write soon! 23 class notes
1985 Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bwilson@hlmx.com 35 Meadowhill Drive Tiburon, CA 94920 Nicole (Smit) MS’91 and Bill Marcinkiewicz live in Natick with their kids, Kyle (17), Sarah (15), and Alex (12). Craig and Tricia McHugh Russ live in Hingham with daughters Emily (15) and Hannah (13). • Doug and Maureen Murphy Olsen live in Needham with daughters Maggie (14) and Anya (11). Maureen owns a media buying and consulting company, Momentum Media. She recently attended a performance of the University Chorale’s Carmina Burana at Trinity Chapel on the Newton Campus. Daughter Anya sang with the Chorale as a member of the children’s chorus. It brought Maureen back to her days in the Chorale. Nicole, Tricia, and Maureen send out a “hello” to their old 35-B roomies: Carol Blood Walker, Sarah Alley Lavalette, and Carrie Barr Miller. • Virginia McCormack of Wells, ME, Laurie (Zamparelli) Marcello of Saco, ME, and Ann Murray of California write for the parenting Website RaisingMaine.com and the monthly magazine Raising Maine. Virginia is a life coach and owns her own consulting business, MomsForJoy; Ann is a former TV anchor, writer, speaker, and documentary filmmaker; and Laurie works in radio, is a freelance writer, and owns her own online parenting magazine, GabMagOnline.com. • Mark and Carolyn (Conigliaro) Ferrara live in Stonington, CT, with their daughters Madeline (11), Olivia (8), and Grace (6). After working for MEDITECH for many years, Carolyn took six years off to enjoy her little girls. Now that her youngest is in first grade, Carolyn returned to her career as an MIS physician liaison manager at the William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich, CT. She hopes that at least one of her girls will attend BC! • After practicing law with her father for 14 years, Martha Bagley has opened a new law practice in Salem, Bagley & Taranto, PC, with BC grad Thomas J. Taranto ’75. They specialize in matrimonial law and civil litigation. • Chris ’87 and Anne (Willwerth) Schmitt celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in September 2008. They were married in Trinity Chapel on the Newton Campus, with Fr. Robert “Too Tall Bob” Braunreuther ’58, STB’66, doing the honors. Their wedding colors were maroon and gold, and the band that played at the reception had to learn the BC fight song to get the gig—all true!