class notes selected to play on the Women’s National Under-18 Ice Hockey Team, which trains alongside the Women’s Olympic Team in Minnesota. Katie King, BC’s women’s hockey coach, also coaches U18. • Robin Antonellis’s two older daughters are at BC, and her third daughter is in middle school in Belmont. Robin says it was exciting moving her girls into BC dorms and going to football games. Robin leads Caritas Christi Health Care’s compensation and benefits functions at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. She sends greetings to classmates Kelly, Gayle, Lisa, Mark, Glenn, Megan, Alicia, Betsey, Maria, Janet, and Val. • Thank you and please write soon!
1985 Correspondent: Barbara Ward Wilson bwilson@hlmx.com 35 Meadowhill Drive Tiburon, CA 94920 Happy 25th reunion! • The law firm of Bagley & Taranto, of which Martha Bagley is cofounder, opened a new office in Boston’s North End. Martha is a trustee of East Boston Savings Bank. She speaks with Maria Malolepszy McCormack, Jennifer Tyrell Walter, Paul Cervizzi, and Greg Marenghi. • Marnie Armstrong Weiner is a partner at Jackson Lewis LLP. She lives in Stamford, CT, with husband Alex and daughters Valerie (15) and Ali (13). • Hillsides C–56 roommates got together in California in July. Pam Risio Ferraro, Rachel O’Hara Kurtyka, Mary Tyrrell Coughlin, Eileen Goerss Thornberry, and Lisa Hartunian Campbell met at Dan and Michelle (Barillo) McGillivray’s home. Jon and Rachel Kurtyka live in St. Davids, PA, and their son Mike is a freshman at BC. • Betsy Sullivan Brown received the first annual Dean Rita P. Kelleher Award from the Connell School of Nursing. Betsy is director of clinical services at Partners Harvard Medical International. • Carlotta and Tom Soviero hosted a summer weekend in August at their Falmouth house. Attendees included Maura Kelley and Chris Conforti, Kevin and Kathleen Fletcher Harrington, Tom Yates and Carol Schafer, Billy and Susan (Feeney) Sullivan, Jo Ann and Bob Foley MBA’91, Beezee and Tom Honan, John and Lisa Anthony Bellantonio, Janet and Randy Seidl, Sharon and Lonnie Quinn, Dan Keating, Cathy and Bob O’Brien, Chris Quincy, Sue ’86 and Jim Ferrera, Brendan Murphy ’84, Lynn Chandler Spirito, Alex and Marnie Armstrong Weiner, Chrissy ’91 and Steve Doucette, Phillip and Kathleen (Ferrigno) Stevens, Bill and Ann (Keohne) Barres, and Margarette and Dan Flynn. • Chris Canning was elected in April to his second term as president of the Village of Wilmette, IL. Chris recently opened his own law practice in Wilmette with his wife: Canning & Canning LLC. He recently spoke with Mike “The Mole” Doyle and Mike Gregory regarding their roommate Pete “Knees” Neronha, JD’89, who was nominated by President Obama to be the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island. • Mike King and his wife and three kids—14, 12, and 9—took a vacation to Boston and visited Ed Pla’s family on Martha’s Vineyard. Mike barbecues with John McKinney and family at his home in
Manhattan Beach, CA, and in August met up with Steve Tortolani and family. Mike is the managing partner of the law firm Hennelly & Grossfeld LLP. • In July, Bill “Willie” Slater hosted a guys group at the Double Eagle Club outside Columbus. He is married to Lisa Ridgway ’86 and lives in Kensington, MD. Willie is a first vice president at Merrill Lynch in DC. • Mark Lavoie, JD’88, runs his own law firm in Boston. He and wife Susan (Hildreth) have two kids and live in Marblehead. • Cathy and Bob Miller have five kids and live in Darien, CT. Bob is a bond broker in New York City. • Living only a mile from Willie is Dennis Kilcullen with wife Angie and four kids. Dennis is a sales director for VMware. • Phil and Robin (Minemier) Callahan live in Wilmette, IL. They have three daughters; the oldest is a freshman at BC. Phil heads client relations for a hedge fund. • Bob Horne lives in Winnetka, IL, with wife Kelly and three kids. Bob runs his own real estate firm. • Janet (a Notre Dame grad!) and Randy Seidl have four kids. The eldest, Philip, is a freshman at BC. Randy runs sales for North America for Sun Microsytems and lives in Wellesley. • Lindsay and Joe Duggan live in Darien and have four kids. Joe is chairman of DH Capital.
1986 Correspondent: Karen Broughton Boyarsky karen.boyarsky.86@bc.edu 130 Adirondack Drive East Greenwich, RI 02818 Thanks to all who responded to the request for updates from the Class of ’86. It was great to hear from some old friends! • Audrey Vallen Nee participated in the San Francisco Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in July. She walked 39.3 miles over two days! She raised over $7,000 from fabulous friends, family, coworkers, and BC alums to help fight this disease— and only got one blister. It was a great experience. • Paul McDermott writes, “This summer I relocated to Washington, DC, from Nairobi, Kenya, where I’d lived and worked as a democracy officer and development program manager in East Africa since 1998, to join the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Development Leadership Initiative (DLI) as a midcareer foreign service officer. While on home leave in mid-July, I visited the Chestnut Hill Campus as a hometown diplomat (a USAID initiative to publicize taxpayer-funded overseas humanitarian and development assistance programs) to participate in the AHANA Reconnect career advisory events. There I met alumni and freshmen students interested in international issues. My wife, Samia Awori McDermott, and kids Jermain (15), Kathleen (13), Sheila (12), and Terese (2) will remain in Washington next year while I serve an unaccompanied tour in Afghanistan on a provincial reconstruction team.” • Kirsten Rounds is the mom of two college students and the administrative director for the emergency medicine physicians at Rhode Island Hospital, Miriam Hospital, and Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. • Tara Mullins Piskator has been living in northern Italy (in Lumignano, near Vicenza) for four years with her husband, Gene (West Point ’88), and two children, Conor (9) and Annie Cate
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(5). She works as a U.S. Army civilian, training staff in a child development center. Prior to settling there, they moved around with the Army for 18 years, living in exotic locations like Dayton, OH; Fort Leavenworth, KS; Fort Knox, KY; and Washington DC. Tara writes: “We’ve been enjoying some traveling (Ireland, Hungary, Germany, France, Austria, and around Italy) but should do more.” • Hello to Jamie Sullivan, an attorney in Hartford, CT, who reports that he ran the Boston Marathon wearing a BC shirt and loved going through campus to the roar of the BC students! While in Boston, he visited with old friend Nelson Dupere and his wife and daughter. Nelson is an avid triathlete. Bruce sends his best to both of you!
1987 Correspondent: Catherine Stanton Schiff catherine87@bc.edu 894 Liberty Street Braintree, MA 02184 I hope this finds you all well. I heard from many of you this time—thank you! • Andrew Fee moved from Nantucket to Athens, GA, with wife Donna and children Alexander (5) and Charlotte (3). He left the restaurant industry to start a custom handmade furniture business, Confidential Furniture. He’s kept in touch with Joe McGlinchey, Chris Harding, Phil Menna, Steve Welch, and Nancy Novo through Facebook. • Kathryn O’Sullivan e-mailed that she recently served as executive producer of the independent thriller The Fugue, which had its Washington DC premiere in July. It began screening at film festivals in the fall and is available at www.indieflix.com. • In July, Jim McEleney relocated from London to Pune, India, to be CEO of BNY Mellon (India). He had many Class of ’87 visitors during his three years in London and hopes to have the same experience while in India. • Ann Supple Massey is celebrating the fact that her business, Rouge Cosmetics (www.rouge.com) in Salem, was just awarded a “Best of Boston” from Boston Magazine. She also had dinner over the summer with classmates Meghan Balsom, Traci Beratis Cappellini, Kristin Clough Canty, and Karen Power McNamara MA’95. • Colleen McFadden Jason e-mailed after a recent trip to Boston with her family. They had dinner with Ron and Mary Beth Hirsch Arigo and their kids while in town. In May, she traveled to Deborah Garcia Carey’s home in Connecticut for a weekend with Barbara Barry Gendron, Jane Trombly, Kristin Duff Schlageter, Mary Beth Hirsch Arigo, and Cindy Pierce Marret. • Dan and Linda Czyryca Shea and their three kids hosted a party for Tom ’83 and Terry (Sullivan) Montminy, who are moving to Minneapolis with their three kids. Attending were Joe and Monica (Geary) Steeves MS’89 with their four kids; Jack and Lauren (Haynes) Concannon with their four kids; Chris JD’92 and Mary (Ronan) Kelley with their three kids; Jeanne Higgins; Jerry Toomey; Meg (Nann) Hayden and her family; and Tom and Judy (Vogtle) Varney. Everyone was looking forward to tailgating at the Heights in the fall, and many were planning to meet up at the BC–ND game in October. • Thanks to all who took the time to write! Happy 2010!