1988 Correspondent: Rob Murray murrman@aol.com 421 Callingwood Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Tracey Linegar Taylor has retired from the Army Nurse Corps as a lieutenant colonel. Her last tour was as director of the Army’s psychiatric nursing course. Tracey lives in Springfield, VA, with her husband and three kids. Erin McLaughlin, MS’96, also has retired from active duty as a lieutenant colonel. Erin’s last job was head nurse of the inpatient psychiatry ward at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Today, both are contractors for the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. • There was a mini BC reunion on Broadway. Anne James-Noonan’s brother Brian plays Shrek on stage, and she arranged for Chris and Stacey (Savage) Constas, Donnamarie (Schmitt) Floyd, Maggie McGuire and husband Kurt Wallace, Ken and Claire (Tevnan) Edmondson, Karen Kelleher ’90, David Gabriel, Brian Sloan, and Mike McCarthy to see the show and go backstage to meet the cast. At least eight children were in tow! Missing were Laurie (Montalto) McGonigle, Christine (Conley) Palladino JD’93, Mary Ellen Chambers, and unfortunately, the organizers, who were stuck at home in Minneapolis. An annual women’s weekend also took place at Claire’s Wisconsin lake house last summer, with all in attendance. Mike McCarthy sent a further update about another mini-reunion in Chicago with Chris Constas, Ethan Scott Cooper, Matt Schemmel JD’91, Rob Cerny JD’92, Tim Pierce, Kevin Haggerty, and Darren Spangler. Details are hazy—it’s possible that museums were visited in addition to many jazz and blues clubs. A calmer fly-fishing excursion to the Pacific Northwest is on the books next. Dinner on me if you guys come to my place in Bend, OR! • Atticus and Kristie (Kobelski) Killough are pleased to announce the birth of their sixth son! Damian Jerome met his brothers on January 30. • Bob Rivers was named for inclusion in Naifeh and Smith’s The Best Lawyers in America for the area of family law. Bob has also been selected as one of Boston Magazine’s top 100 “Massachusetts Super Lawyers.” He’s a partner at Boston’s Lee & Levine. • Pat McMorran has accepted a new position at Proxy Governance as director of East Coast sales. He lives in North Attleboro with wife Jen and twins Avery and Zoe. Pat also caught up with North Carolina resident Melissa (White) Shaheen at their recent 25th high school reunion!
1989 Correspondent: Andrea McGrath andrea.e.mcgrath@gmail.com 207 Commonwealth Avenue, #3 Boston, MA 02108 I received quite a few updates this quarter, particularly from folks who haven’t written before. I encourage you to send a quick update via e-mail, or post news on the BC alumni online community: www.bc.edu/alumni/ association/community.html. Cheers! • Ken
Scott (kscott@bostontrust.com) wrote that he completed his MS in finance at BC. He is a SVP and portfolio manager with Boston Trust & Investment Management Co. in Boston. • Pete and Kim (Kauffman) Bates (pjbjr66@ att.net) have been married for 19 years this fall. They have three great kids: Andy (17), Tim (13), and Julia (8) whose schedules, with lacrosse games and soccer tournaments for all three, keep them busy. Kim has been teaching in Waterford, CT, for 17 years, and the family lives in Colchester. • Jamie Moore (jamie. moore@rcn.com) sent along a great update. He and Andrea Adam were married on a schooner off the coast of Cape Cod on June 6. They met three years ago to the day in New York City, where Andrea is executive director of the German University Alliance, and Jamie is BU professor, author, and humanist Elie Wiesel’s right-hand man in New York. BC grad Jim Curran, officiant Meg Curran’s husband, also attended the seaborne marriage, which was followed by celebrations in New York City and in Berlin, Andrea’s hometown. Jamie’s most recent return to campus was in April 2007, to cheer Andrea on as she sped down Comm. Ave. in her fifth marathon, and first in Boston. • Dan McConnell (dmcconnell@barknight.com) and his family have published a children’s book, The Legend of Barknight, a story of how dogs became our best friends. Find more at www.bark night.com. • Anne Littlefield (alittlefield@ goodwin.com) is one of 25 Shipman & Goodwin lawyers featured in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. • Sally Driscoll, a founding member of the Council for Women of Boston College, cochaired the women’s soccer and field hockey games sponsored by the council in September. Sally (sally@driscollagency.com) also wrote that the gals from D22–D23 (and others) gathered “off-site” at a local joint during Reunion Weekend. The group included Rebecca Doyle Wade, Nancy Fox, Deb Fitzpatrick, Gillian Fucigna, Katie Foley Graham, Layni Carmichael Ratcliffe, Patti Curran, Phyllis Murphy, Janet Russell Collins MEd’92, and Ellen Foley Fitzpatrick.
1990 Correspondent: Kara Corso Nelson bc90news@cox.net 67 Sea Island Glastonbury, CT 06033; 860-647-9200 Mark Harrington continues to practice law in Houston. His firm focuses on immigration cases for foreign-born researchers and scientists at U.S. universities and high-tech companies. In June, Mark was appointed chairman of the State Bar of Texas Committee on Laws Relating to Immigration and Naturalization. • SwiftKnowledge LLC, a global provider of Web-based business intelligence software, has appointed Matthew Connon to the newly created position of VP of channels and business development. • John Harrington, MBA’99, MS’03, is now director of the sales, endowments, and foundations group in the Distribution team at Turner Investment Partners. John is based in Wellesley. Previously, he was VP, sales and marketing, consultant relations at Acadian Asset Management LLC. • Tracy Marino
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produced the documentary film Happiness Is, which is now being distributed independently. For the project, the filmmakers traveled from coast to coast, speaking with all sorts of Americans about how they pursue happiness, including Alan Graham of Mobile Loaves & Fishes, who puts his Christianity into action to feed the homeless; the Dalai Lama; authors Dan Millman and Gretchen Rubin; musicians Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp; along with comics, philanthropists, scholars, and everyday people. You can learn more about the film at www.happinessisthemovie.com. Tracy is also kicking off a grassroots tour, where each screening shares the profits with a charitable group. • Colleen and Michael Kavney have doubled their pleasure in welcoming twins into this world. On July 1, Katherine “Katie” Cecelia was born at 4:52 p.m., and only a few seconds later, her brother, Michael Daniel, burst onto the scene. The Kavney family lives in Georgia.
1991 Correspondent: Peggy Morin Bruno pegmb@comcast.net 2 High Hill Road Canton, CT 06019 Lots of news—so let’s get to it! • Pay attention, Boston residents! Michael Flaherty is running for mayor of Boston! Many of our fellow BC alumni are working on his campaign. We wish Michael the very best of luck! • Congratulations to Dan and Tara Henwood Butzbaugh, who welcomed son Benjamin Daniel in February. Benjamin’s maternal grandfather, David Henwood ’58, is very proud of his 10th grandchild. Tara and her family live in Manhattan. She works part-time for Whitney Partners, a financial executive recruiting firm, and Dan is an insurance linked securities broker with GFI Group Inc. • The girls of Hillsides 43-D—Kelly Biby Morales, Christine Pokoly Redfern, Katie Bresnahan Ragan, Lena Kim Christinger, and Tara Butzbaugh—after seven years of searching, have finally found their sixth roommate, Sonia Araujo. She is living in Seville, Spain, with her husband and two children, Lorenzo and Marianna. Sonia works for Hedonai, Spain. Katie celebrated her 40th birthday in Chatham with the girls this summer. She and husband John Ragan, MS’93, live in Westborough. Lena moved to Oberwil, Switzerland, with husband Hans and their two children, Jack and Lindsey. Christine lives in Steamboat Springs, CO, with husband Neill and their three children, Margaret, Mack, and George. Kelly lives in Long Beach, CA, with husband Victor and their two daughters, Kiara and Luna, and works for the Long Beach school system. • Sue Ramsey joined the BC University Advancement staff as director of gift planning, after having worked in a similar role at Mass. General Hospital, where she had been for 14 years. Sue, husband John, and sons Jack (6) and Charlie (4) visited with Nancy Thomson-Cantu and her family during their annual visit to the United States. Nancy lives in Spain with husband Peter, twin daughters Lauren and Alessandra (9), and son Gavin (6). Nancy and Peter founded Thomson Bike Tours (www.thomsonbiketours .com), which runs performance bike trips in Europe—primarily in France, Spain, and Italy.