Ch u ck Ho ga n ’ 8 9 John Safina is a middle-school principal in Fremont, NH. • Tamra Gormley is a family court judge in Versailles, KY. • Bob and Lynn Desautels Gallandt have three children: Madeleine (17), Alex (13), and Danielle (10). Lynn works part-time as a special education supervisor for National University. She keeps in touch with Andrea Stegerwald Sansonetti, Laurie Moran Light, and Lisa Girard Sparks and was reacquainted with Teresa Coppola Collins. • Robert Cianciulli is regional counsel for Hewlett-Packard in Murray Hill, NJ, and has a two-year-old daughter, Anna Grace. • I am sad to report that Patricia Lee DuffyStewart of Natick died in June 2009 after a 10-year battle with breast cancer. Patricia Lee left her husband, Michael Stewart, and children Emma and Dylan. • Karen Doyle lives in Scituate with husband Glenn and three children: Glenn Jr. (16), Patrick (14), and Colleen (12). • Patty Stone Colman sends a big hello to her roommates Beth Murray, Laura Semple Walsh, Sally Walker JD’88, Margy Corcoran Gundersen, Julie Porzio, Lisa Scibetta Allen, and Carol Blood Walker. • Leo Melanson lives in Newburyport with wife Karen and children Tyler (15) and Kelsey (16), and he works for Verizon. • Gregg Sweeney hosted a two-day summer reunion of Mods 33A and 33B on Cape Cod. Attending were Paul Battaglia, Kevin Beam, Mark Conway, Steve Herrick, Brendan Nolan, Jim Pier, Tim Rea, and Ray Serra. They spent a day fishing (caught one fish between nine guys), and then hacked their way through a round of golf. Unfortunately, Dan McGillivray and Ken Ryan couldn’t make it. They raised a few toasts to their late friend, Harry Ogrinc. • Mary Bevelock married David Pendergast in June. Attendees included Terry Violette, Mary Beth (Brobson) Gately, Phyllis Fleno, Tom Kelley MS’94, and Mary (Kelley) Cavanaugh. They were disappointed that Laura (Acosta) Powers couldn’t attend; she was on a trip to China with the Topsfield School Committee. Laura was elected to the Topsfield Board of Selectman. • Marie Oates and Betsy Sullivan Brown are active in the Council for Women of Boston College.
1986 Correspondent: Karen Broughton Boyarsky karen.boyarsky.86@bc.edu 130 Adirondack Drive East Greenwich, RI 02818 Mary Clare (Wodarski) ’88 and Bruce Cornelius recently celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary. They live in Calabasas, CA, with their three young daughters, Grace, Paige, and Eve. Bruce is chief marketing and revenue officer for CreditReport.com and is interested in meeting BC alumni who may be interested in management positions in organic SEO and e-mail marketing in the LA or Southern California area. You can contact Bruce at Bruce.Cornelius@creditreport.com. • I had an opportunity to visit Gretchen Papagoda Parisi last fall. She is president of Parisi Communications in Kennett Square, PA, where she lives with husband Ray and their two daughters, Laura and Anna. While visiting in New York, we had a chance to see Bob O’Leary. Bob is managing director of global advertising for Citigroup. He lives in Manhattan and travels
write and wrong eing an author isn’t the sort of profession for which you receive a degree and easily find work,” says crime novelist Chuck Hogan ’89. “You have to go it on your own and plug away.” That’s exactly what Hogan did, working in a video store in Chestnut Hill after graduation while writing his first book. Five long years later, The Standoff was published—and garnered widespread acclaim. Hogan has been in demand ever since. His fifth novel, Devils in Exile, hit bookstores on February 9. Another dark epic, Prince of Thieves, which won the 2004 Hammett Prize, was recently filmed Chuck Hogan’s crime novels have earned him for a fall release. critical acclaim and commercial success. The movie, titled The Town, is directed by and stars Ben Affleck, whom Hogan met on the Boston-based set. “The cast worked hard and they really liked the book,” he says. “It was cool to watch them shoot some of the scenes and to hear my characters’ names thrown around by real actors.” But as Hogan points out, such success does not come easily. “You have got to keep at it,” he says. “Especially when you’re starting out, it seems nearly impossible, but you need to keep writing and not give up.”
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Below, Hogan tackles another literary challenge:
what is the most satisfying moment in your professional life?
how have you changed since graduation?
Here’s hoping it is yet to come.
What makes you think I have?
in your personal life?
why did you decide to attend bc?
I know I’m supposed to say, “The births of my four beautiful children,” but their actual births, while miraculous, were also incredibly stressful. Let’s just say that I have four funny kids who make me laugh every day.
I had just started dating a girl who was still in high school, so commuting to BC seemed like a good idea at the time. Not the most well thought-out plan, but we’ve been married 15 years now, so score one for romance.
what is your best bc memory?
what is the secret to success?
Having a professor not only give me an “A” but also recommend me to his literary agent.
Sacrifice, humility, and obsession.
what is your next goal? It’s HUGE…and totally secret.
As a commuter for three years, I’d have to say the parking garage.
what is one thing everyone should do while at bc?
what would you do if you were bc president for a day?
Soak up the city.
Immediately invade BU.
where is your favorite spot on the heights?
for more q&a with chuck hogan, visit www.bc.edu/alumni/hogan.html.