class notes grandmother of twins born to her daughter and son-in-law, Eileen and Dave Feder. Tom and Maggie were born at 3-plus pounds each and rapidly gained weight before being sent home. Remarkable. Ann and David’s son Matt is a busy eighth-grader. He skateboards and skis. Ann retired from AIG and is delighted she can spend time with her grandchildren. • Pat Saling is well in Chapel Hill, NC. She has lived in the same house since the early 1980s and has been married to Keith since the 1970s. In 2003 she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, so she retired from her clinical research position at Duke. Keith and daughter Claire gifted pottery lessons to Pat, which begat a new career in pottery; she displays her work at a few local galleries and is preparing to launch a Web site, www.PatriciaSaling.com. • Lawrence ’75, MA’78, PhD’87, and Judy McCarthy Kennedy now live in Scranton, PA, where Lawrence is a history professor at the University of Scranton. Judy earned her MA in English from the University of Scranton and taught college writing. She retired last year and is now a busy volunteer. Son Patrick ’99 is a senior editor/writer in alumni marketing and communications at BU, and Paul ’02 is a lawyer at Cornell & Gollub. • I missed connecting with Jude Chimenti here in the mountains; she was working and skiing at Attitash, where she has a home, while I was inundated with appointments. More on Jude next time. • Thanks for the updates and remember, I am fallible, so if I commit a sin of omission, it is just that, and it will be rectified! Promise. • Have a great summer!
1974 Correspondent: Patricia McNabb Evans patricia.mcnabb.evans@gmail.com 35 Stratton Lane Foxborough, MA 02035 Hi, everyone! I hope that 2010 has been a good year for you and your family so far! • This is shaping up to be a great year for Jim and me and our family: we will have our first wedding in October, when our eldest son marries a wonderful young woman, and we will have our final, and fourth, college graduation when our youngest graduates in May! Whew! Please send me some news of what’s happening with you this year. • Congratulations
go to James Hanrahan, JD’77, who was named managing partner at Bowditch & Dewey, LLP, in January, assuming responsibility for setting the firm’s strategic direction and guiding its continued growth. Among his many other professional responsibilities, Jim, a Framingham resident, is a director, and serves on the Executive Committee, of the South Middlesex Opportunity Council, and he is president and chair of the Corporation for Sponsored Ministries of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston. • I received a nice note from Carla DeStefano Godfrey about a great get-together she and several other classmates and friends had in the fall in Rhode Island. Joining Carla, who lives in Barrington, were her roommates from South Street: Sharon Kuna Twedell from St. Louis, Laurie Day Fitzpatrick from Chicago, and Joedi Malone Cahill from Suffield, CT. Patti Colella Armstrong ’75 met up with them, too. Thanks, Carla! • I would like to extend the class’s sympathies to the families and friends of Marilyn A. Barba of Mirror Lake, NH, and Joseph A. McNally of Mililani, HI. Both classmates passed away in 2009. • Take care, and please be in touch.
nc 1974 Correspondent: Beth Docktor Nolan beth.docktor.nolan@bc.edu 693 Boston Post Road Weston, MA 02493 Maureen O’Halloran, RSCJ, JD’90, recently concluded a seven-year term as provincial treasurer and CFO of the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S. Province at the society’s national headquarters in St. Louis.
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Correspondent: Hellas M. Assad hellasdamas@hotmail.com 149 Lincoln Street Norwood, MA 02062; 781-769-9542 Hello, everyone! • As we head into the reunion homestretch, our class, as of February 26, has 280 donors, which is about 15.5 percent of the class. Our goal is 695 donors. We are hoping that everyone in the class will consider making a gift of any size by May 31. Giving is easy.
Please visit www.bc.edu/give. • Classmate Kevin Short has released a CD of Irish songs titled Cotter’s Tunes, which is available through www.cotterstunes.com as either a CD or a download. All profits from the sale of Cotter’s Tunes will go to fund the college education of the three children of Kevin’s law-school classmate John Cotter of Buffalo, NY, who died from a sudden heart attack in late 2008. • In fall 2009, Gerard Lorusso was elected chairman of Norwood Hospital’s board of trustees. Gerard, who holds a law degree from New England School of Law, is president and CEO of Lorusso Corporation in Plainville. The company manufactures construction materials and is the principal partner of Edgewood Development Company, which develops real estate. In addition, he serves on the board of the Hockomock YMCA and has been a trustee of Xaverian Brothers High School, his alma mater. Gerard and his wife, Leslie, have five children and live in Wrentham. • Mary Suzanne Devine Conway, MSW’77, PhD’08, is a new member of the Council for Women of Boston College. In March, Suzy participated as a host in the Take a Student to Work program, a council-sponsored program in which a council member hosts a group of students at her place of business. • Classmates have enjoyed getting together for prereunion events, including the BC–Clemson basketball game watch at Alumni House and the BC–BU SunLife Frozen Fenway hockey game held at Fenway Park. Among the revelers were Laurie Nichols Cochran, Vinny Quealy, Kathie McCarthy, Nancy O’Connor McCleary, Scottie Reid, Fran Rush, Candy Kelley-McLaughlin ’76, Sally Hanke Lynch, Sheila Harrington, Steve Turner, Mark Riley, and Peter McNamara ’76. My apologies to anyone I missed at the jam-packed Boylston St. pre- and post-game party! • Congratulations to Mary E. Kane, who was recently promoted to head of structured products research at Citi Global Markets. For the past six years, Mary has ranked first or second in Institutional Investor’s All-America Fixed Income Research poll for consumer ABS. • On a somber note, William L. Ruane Jr. of Belmont passed away on November 5, 2009. Bill graduated from Belmont High, where he excelled in football and baseball and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame. He received an athletic scholarship from BC, played on the baseball team, and was named MVP of the Greater Boston Baseball League. For over 20 years, Bill was the chief deputy clerk at the John J. Moakley Courthouse in Boston. Our sincere condolences to his wife, Kathleen, and his children, Allison, Mathew, and Kristen. • Take care and I hope to see you at Reunion Weekend, June 4–6.
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Correspondent: Mary Stevens McDermott mary.mcdermott@cox.net 56 Deer Meadow Lane Chatham, MA 02633; 508-945-2477
1976 Correspondent: Gerald B. Shea gerbs54@hotmail.com 25 Elmore Street Newton Centre, MA 02459 15 class notes