Madigan and her husband have sold their Scarborough, ME, house and relocated to Hilton Head, SC. They will be spending a few months in Maine every summer. After a foot of snow before Thanksgiving, I can’t say I blame them. • The next column will be written in February; let me know about your holidays and winter travels. Thanks, everyone, for the helping hands!
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class participation goal: 445 Correspondent: Patricia McNabb Evans patricia.mcnabb.evans@gmail.com Happy new year, Class of ’74! I hope 2012 brings you and your loved ones much happiness! • Frank Pomposelli is now the head of surgery at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton. Frank, a Harvard Medical School professor, also served as chief of vascular and endovascular surgery and chief of cardiovascular surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is a past president of the New England Society for Vascular Surgery. • I received a note from Robert Harnden, who would love to hear from other members of his freshman cafeteria breakfast group. • Congratulations to Chris Levy, an executive officer at OMNIGroup’s ICON International, who was named senior VP in September. Chris also continues to serve in his position of chief credit officer. He and his wife, Theresa McBride Levy, reside in Westport, CT, and recently celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary. • Congratulations also go out to Warren Woods on being recognized in the “best of” issue of Cape Cod Magazine as the Cape and the Islands’ outstanding orthodontist. Warren and his family make their home in Sandwich. • So, although there’s not much news for this issue, it’s all good! Take care and please drop me an email!
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Correspondent: Beth Docktor Nolan beth.docktor.nolan@bc.edu
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class participation goal: 400 Correspondent: Hellas M. Assad hellasdamas@hotmail.com Hello, everyone! • Last October, Christina (Steiner) Shea was appointed to the board of directors for NatureBridge, the largest residential environmental education partner of the National Park Service. She recently retired from her role as EVP for external relations at General Mills and president of the General Mills Foundation. • Judy Bowman feels blessed to be living on a ranch in Harmony, RI, with wildlife, cattle, horses, and three dogs. Her son Bowman (Bo) is a sophomore at St. Anselm College, studying criminal justice. Her husband, Jay Forgue, is running for a Rhode Island
Senate seat. Judy continues her business of 19 years, Protocol Consultants International. She is a syndicated columnist in Korea and China through the prestigious Noblesse magazine. • Maryanne Padien, who is now chief of staff for Massachusetts Senator Spilka; Laurie (Nichols) Cochran, executive director, nonprofits, at CCA For Social Good; Cynthia Feldmann, an independent board member; and Maureen (Durbin) Cronin ’76, a teacher at Harry Lee Cole School— all formerly best of friends and senior-year roommates in an apartment on Mount Hood Rd.—have discovered a social networking tool that keeps them in text contact as a group: GROUPME. They stay better connected, informed, and current about each other. Cynthia writes: “We are glad to be back in the loop!” • Thank you for keeping in touch, and I look forward to receiving more emails for the next issue of Boston College Magazine.
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Correspondent: Mary Stevens McDermott mary.mcdermott@cox.net I have the very sad duty to tell you of the loss of our very dear and faithful classmate Kathy O’Connor Murphy in November. She faced her illness for a long time with hope and dignity. The last time we spoke, she made me laugh, remembering the Sunday night that she and I raced to get back to Newton from a trip to the Gardner Museum because the word was that there was steak for dinner. We ran down Centre St. from the T. Maybe some of you remember that night, when steak mysteriously appeared in the form of calf’s liver! We laughed our heads off with stories of our time in that cafeteria. I loved Kathy from the first minute I met her and know so many of you did. Our sweet Donna Stimpson has kept us informed and shown the love we Newton women exemplify. We should be so grateful to have each other. Kathy was a longtime elementary school teacher, and those little ones were lucky to have her in their lives. Kathy leaves her husband and daughter in Sandwich. Please pray for their strength and courage. • I have little other news (where are you all?). Over Veterans Day weekend, the Ladies of the Lake became the Ladies of the Mountain when Cyndee Crowe Frere hosted us at her Snow Goose Inn in Dover, VT. Liz Mahoney Flaherty, Louise Paul Morin, Nancy Coughlin Ferraro MEd’77, and I said we were going to hike, but, man, it snowed hard right after we arrived, so we were forced to tuck in around the fire and unwind. Cyndee served us a delicious fresh tomato soup. Nancy, Louise, and Liz all have engaged children, so weddings were on the yak list. We spent Saturday shopping at the Manchester outlets and dining. All day, we kept thinking that it wasn’t the same without Lisa Antonelli DellaPorta (aka the Itinerant Shopper), who had to stay home nursing a bad back. Sunday morning, Liz and I packed up and drove to Virginia, where I spent most of the next week before making a few East Coast stops on my way home. • Please send me some news—happy or sad, we are in this world together! Stay close to each other, and pray for peace. www.bc.edu/alumni
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class participation goal: 499 Correspondent: Gerald B. Shea gerbs54@hotmail.com Marian (Wu) and Robert Howie, MA’77, have been busy with weddings and all that that entails. Their oldest daughter, Elizabeth, graduated from Syracuse in 2004 and married in 2010. Their younger daughter, Alexandra, graduated from NYU in 2006 and married in 2011. Their son, John, graduated from BC in 2011 and works in New York City. Now for some quiet time! • Chicago has been home for the last 20 years to Christopher Joyce, who was sorry he missed our 35th reunion. Hey, the 40th will soon be here! • Much appreciated at this address was a missive from Larry Haag thanking moi for over 140 columns through the years. Wonder if Larry still has the fedora he sported during Commencement week that long-ago May! He is proud of his two grown children: Lauren graduated from Connecticut College in 2005, and Brendan graduated from BC in 2007. Larry resides in New York City and Sag Harbor, Long Island. • Charles “Chuck” Sheehan resides in Bethesda, MD, and serves on the EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board. • Paul X. Hayes and wife Valerie saw their youngest, Katie, graduate last spring from the University of Georgia, where she’s now attending grad school. He maintains a small plantation in Fort Valley, GA. • Well, that’s all for now. Keep in touch, puh-leeze! God bless!
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reunion year class participation goal: 565 Correspondent: Nicholas Kydes nicholaskydes@yahoo.com Fellow classmates of 1977, can you believe it, our 35th class reunion is almost here! You can get all of the necessary Class of 1977 reunion information at www.bc.edu/alumni/ association/classes/reunion.html. After you access the website, click on “Classes,” then on “Class of 1977” to get details of the reunion activities. The primary weekend of activities is June 1–3. The Class of 1977 Saturday evening event will be held at the former cardinal’s residence on Commonwealth Ave., opposite St. Thomas More Hall. BC purchased the cardinal’s residence within the last decade and is in the process of converting the facilities into offices and classrooms. The residence has a beautiful patio and other pleasant structural features that will help to make the event very enjoyable—reminiscent of our 5th and 20th reunions, which were held at O’Connell House on Upper Campus. We have already signed up our favorite DJ, Jay Harney, and we’ve developed multiple activities on campus. Housing will be available on campus; BC will be sending out information about reservations in the near future. • Betty Klein-Gillen has relocated back home to Long Island. She is currently the clinical informatics specialist in the corporate IT department at the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System. Her daughter