’05, Megha Jain-Desai ’05, Cate (Larrabee) Murray ’05, and Shwan Ziad. Alumni in attendance included Vincent Cavalier, Iris Das ’05, Matthew Kossack, Patrick O’Donnell ’03, David Roy, Tyler Stewart, and Erich Werner. The couple met at BC in 2003, when Elizabeth convinced JD to carry a futon across campus during a thunderstorm. They returned to Gasson Hall in 2011 for JD’s proposal. • Thomas Majoch married Meredith Lufkin on September 30, 2012, in Watertown. Alumni in attendance included John Crouse, Ben Lavallee, Laura and Kevin Sabo, Karen Zelenka, and Jeff Marston ’01. • Claire (Simonetti) ’03, MA’05, and Ben Ostrander welcomed their new son, Frank Joseph, on June 10, 2012.
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2005
class participation goal: 675 Correspondent: Joe Bowden joe.bowden@gmail.com Correspondent: Justin Barrasso jbarrasso@gmail.com Daniel and Katie (Den Uyl) Zolnierz welcomed Nathan William Zolnierz into the world on May 17, 2012. Katie will complete her MBA at BC in May 2013, and Dan is a graduate of Babson College ’05, MBA’11. The family resides in Cambridge. • Gina Damico celebrated the September release of her second young adult novel, Scorch, the sequel to her debut novel, Croak, which appeared earlier in 2012. Both were published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and will be followed by a third book in fall 2013.
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2006
class participation goal: 650 Correspondent: Cristina Conciatori conciato@bc.edu In June, Margaret Nuzzolese will complete a year working at BC as the assistant director for the Center for Student Formation. She oversees the Halftime retreats and other undergraduate programs encouraging students to think about how their talents and dreams match the world’s deepest needs. Prior to returning to BC, she volunteered and worked full-time for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps International Programs. “It is great to be back at the Heights!” she says. • Matt Collier married Shannon Clarkin of Barrington, RI, on September 29 in Providence. Shannon is a Providence College graduate and a speechlanguage pathologist. The couple live in Emerald Isle, NC. Matt, an AH-1W pilot stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, returned in May from a six-month deployment to Okinawa, Japan. Eagles in the wedding party were bridesmaid Megan (Collier) Reilly ’00; best man Sean Collier ’03, JD’10; and groomsmen Timothy Dehaut; Jack Hempling; Brian Maier; and Andrew Vasile. Other Eagles in attendance included Leigh D’Ambra, Betsy Davis, Alex Gray, John Ruggieri MS’86, Peg Ruggieri ’78, Dan Ryan ’05, and Shannon Stump. Ronald Tacelli, SJ, ’69, MDiv’82, and Paul McNellis, SJ, PhD’93,
assisted at the Mass. • Liz Byron, a sixth-grade special education teacher in Allston, will participate next spring in the Marathon de Sables, a 156-mile “ultra-marathon” through the Sahara Desert. Considered the toughest foot race on the planet, the Marathon de Sables is the equivalent of six consecutive marathons in six days, over rocks and sand, in scorching temperatures. Liz is taking on this challenge to raise funds to buy laptop computers for the students in her class at Gardner Pilot Academy, a public school in Boston that serves primarily low-income families. Liz, who majored in elementary education and studio art at BC, is also coteaching a graduate course, Instruction of Students with Special Needs and Diverse Learners, in the Lynch School of Education.
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2007
class participation goal: 720 Correspondent: Lauren Faherty Bagnell lauren.faherty@gmail.com On July 21, Ty Hall, MBA’08, and Katherine Poutsiaka ’08 were married in Boston. Katie writes that they “had a fantastic wedding filled with lots of Boston College pride, including tables named after BC buildings, eagle caketoppers, a visit from Baldwin himself, and of course an appearance of the famous Alumni Stadium hat that Ty’s father notoriously wore to every football game—and not to mention the huge number of BC alumni in attendance!” Katie and Ty are happy to say they “found each other at BC,” and they still stay closely connected to the University by volunteering at BC Science Night and at the BC football mentoring program, respectively. They also hold season tickets for football and basketball, and they try to make it to at least a couple of hockey games each season. The Halls currently reside in Somerville. • In September 2012, Dong-Joo Lee received his commission as an ensign in the Inactive Reserve of the U.S. Navy JAG Corps. • Stephanie St. Martin has been asked by The Boston Globe to be their official pet blogger. In her weekly blog, Pet Chatter, she’ll give advice and tips about all kinds of pets—not just dogs and cats! And, she says, you may see a picture or two of Bailey, her pet rabbit—“maybe sporting his Superfan shirt!” • Patrick Scranton is now a secondyear MBA student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business—but he’s still a loyal Eagle! He writes: “It turns out that there is a very large contingency of BC grads who are also getting their MBAs at Duke. Our current group of BC Fuquans (as we like to call ourselves) totals 13, and is the second-largest group from an undergrad institution (Duke undergrads are the largest). Our BC Fuquan group routinely meets for BC football game watches. We had a great turnout at our BC– Notre Dame game watch this year. Although we are current Duke students, we will only ever root for our BC Eagles!” To view a great photo of the group in their BC regalia, log on to the BC alumni online community at www. bc.edu/alumni/association/community.html. www.bc.edu/alumni
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2008
reunion year class participation goal: 1,000 Correspondent: Maura Tierney mauraktierney@gmail.com Andrew Steinhafel married Allison Doyle on August 11, 2012, at St. Sebastian’s Church in Milwaukee. A few Eagles made the trip to celebrate: Chris Boniakowski, Marc Brouillette ’09, Sagar Gondalia, Timothy O’Brien, and Carl DiMarzio ’09. Allison works as a strategic project manager for Boloco restaurants in Boston, and Andrew is VP of engineering at PowerInbox in Cambridge. • Congrats to Chanel Min and Edward Jeung, who were married on December 2, 2012, in Woodland Park, NJ. The couple celebrated with fellow BC alumni Esther Jeung ’13, Lindsay Kim, Eric Shim, Emily Kim, Jae Young Chang, Linda Lee, Daniel Chung, Joshua Fan, Benedict Song ’07, Sarah Huang ’09, David Hyunsuk Kim, Joanne Wu, James Lee, and Joanne Hallare.
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2009
class participation goal: 660 Correspondent: Timothy Bates tbates86@gmail.com Katie Carey and classmate Hannah Ames have spent the last three years establishing a nonprofit in Tanzania: The Glorious Orphanage is an orphans care facility in Arusha, where 85 children attend school and receive meals, medical attention, and other care each day. Katie writes: “Hannah started the nonprofit in 2010 after meeting a local Tanzanian couple who were feeding street kids and orphans out of their unfinished home. I then personally spent six months living there and feel so blessed for having done so. Ironically, Hannah and I are now both working in Atlanta: Hannah is a financial analyst at GE Energy, and I work in community connections at Coca-Cola/ The Coca-Cola Foundation.” • In September, Anthony DeMaio was promoted from account executive to associate director in O’Neill Associates’ federal relations practice. Anthony had earlier worked in property management and sales in Boston’s real estate market, and he has also been employed in teaching, educational technology administration, and higher education procurement. At BC, Anthony majored in political science, and during his junior year, he visited Kuwait to study Middle Eastern relations and the politics of oil production in the Persian Gulf. He is also involved in several nonprofit organizations, particularly in his hometown of Natick. He resides in Washington DC.
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2010
class participation goal: 610 Correspondent: Bridget K. Sweeney bridget.k.sweeney@gmail.com