Africa. To date, he has completed visits to Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. He plans to go on to Malawi and says he prays for the brothers and sisters in West Africa enduring the Ebola crisis. • Liz Reyes and Kathy Raftus Wilder are excited about running past BC when they participate in the 2015 Boston Marathon in April! • Don Cannava, JD’93, was appointed by Florida Governor Rick Scott as a county court judge in late 2011, and last year, he was elected without opposition to a six-year term starting in January 2015. He currently presides over a county domestic violence division, Domestic Violence Criminal Court, and is cross-designated as a circuit court judge for purposes of conducting civil injunction hearings. • After 20 years in the Navy, Michael Monsour, MD, has retired from the service with the rank of commander. He and his family have relocated to Rhode Island, where he has accepted a position with a nephrology group in the Providence area. • As I prepare to head off to our annual BC girls’ weekend, I cannot help but look ahead to our reunion this spring! Book the babysitter and come for what promises to be a memorable weekend! Keep in touch, and I look forward to seeing you all very soon!
Missy Campbell Reid missybc90@comcast.net
1991 After about 15 years in the Boston area working in PR, Meghan Gross has moved to Pennington, NJ, with her daughter. Now a solo practitioner, Meghan hopes to open a boutique agency in the future. • Congratulations to Harry Patz, who has published his first novel, The Naive Guys: A Memoir of Friendship, Love and Tech in the Early 1990s (Gondolin Advisors, 2014). The novel is a coming-of-age story set in New York City in the early 1990s, and the main character is a BC graduate. • As part of the Class of 1990’s 25th reunion, Bob Capablo ’62, MA’74, PhD’90, will be hosting an RA reunion to benefit the Frank A. and Mary Grace Capalbo Scholarship Fund. Bob would like to locate as many former RAs from the Class of 1991 who were RAs in their junior year to attend this special event. Please contact John Kawczynski ’90 at jek@fwklaw.com for more information. • Teddy Errico was married to Sutton Schuler (Colorado State University) in Telluride, CO, on May 31. This made for a fun adventure at the September 27th football game. • Last year, Fred Bateman celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the technology-focused PR agency he founded in San Francisco in 2004—now with a second office in New York City! Also in 2014, the Bateman Group received The Holmes Report’s SABRE Award for PR Boutique Agency of the Year. • After a 23-year career with the U.S. Coast Guard, including a recent position on the staff of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Capitol Hill, George Kovatch was selected for a senior position with the Department of Homeland Security in Washington. George lives in northern Virginia with wife Kristy and children Caroline and Chase. • Margaret and Kevin Brady welcomed baby girl Maeve Dorothy on October 13. They recently relocated to Fairfield, CT, where Kevin is now VP of Spruce Hill Capital. He looks forward to reconnecting with good friends Matt True, Jeff Nelson, Paul Curtin, Kevin Molloy, Colette Piscitelli Sovak, and Pete Michalowski. • Tom
Giuffra was named, for the third consecutive year, one of the top 100 lawyers in the New York Metro area by Super Lawyers. He recently achieved the 16th million-dollar verdict of his career. • It is with great sadness that I write of the passing of three of our classmates. Eric Olson, of Ridgewood, NJ, passed on August 23, 2014. He leaves his wife, Angela (Ng), and two children, Andrew and Macrae. Joseph Indelicato, of New York City, also died last summer, on August 24. Jaime Orsini passed away in Puerto Rico in October leaving his wife and two sons. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all three of their families.
dozen classmates traveled to Houston for the funeral of TJ Martinez, SJ, ThM’07, who died on November 28. They were overwhelmed by the enormous impact that TJ had had on the entire city of Houston, his determination to transform the lives of the city’s poorest children through education, and his powerful service to the Jesuit order. It was said that TJ was the “essence of Jesuit,” and it moved many of them to tears. Fr. TJ “set the world on fire” through his mission to begin a Cristo Rey Jesuit preparatory high school, and his legacy will live on for years. Viva Cristo Rey!
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Thank you so much to those who sent in updates. If you have something to share with your classmates, please email me. Thank you! I hope to hear from you soon. • Colleen Bransfield wrote to congratulate Kate Miller, who married Patrick O’Brien in Chicago in August. The Class of 1992 was well represented at the celebration by Kristen Regan Cowles, Sandy Won, Daniel and Lisa (Purtell) Ennis MBA’01, Lisa Martineau Fitzgibbons, Margaret Gould Stewart, Mike and Elizabeth (Meola) Aaron, Matt Sheldon, Chris Surrichio, Fionnuala Keady Darwin, Leslie Sears Aldrich, and Colleen Bransfield. Hillary Leisten ’96 and Jim ’67 and Judy (Anderson) Day ’68 were also among the revelers. Proud pop, Loren R. Miller III ’67, and cousins Meg Hamilton ’95, Giles Miller ’00, Maria Abbott Miller ’00, Meg Hegarty Dean ’98, and Emily Miller Ciaglo ’99 represented the Miller family’s BC alums with pride! It was a beautiful party and tons of fun for all! • Pamela Murphy Merritt just started a new position as managing director of marketing and communications at Accenture Federal Services in northern Virginia. • John Keene has a new position at First Wind in Boston as senior regulatory counsel and director of ISO advocacy. John lives in Needham with wife Deborah and sons Brian and Michael. • Maureen Monahan was reelected vice chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party and continues to serve as the Midwest region vice chair representative of the Association of State Democratic Chairs within the DNC. Maureen lives in Omaha. • Deirdre Whelan Woytek moved to Westwood from Houston this past summer. She is now working as a judicial law clerk for the federal district court in Boston. One of the first things she did when she moved to Massachusetts was visit the BC campus! • Michael Maniscalco and Lucille Liem were married in 2002 and live in Washington DC with their two children, Benjamin and Lily. Lucille is an attorney in the Office of General Counsel at the Environmental Protection Agency, where her work focuses on interagency agreements and environmental research grants. Mike is COO of the Heartbeat International Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing implantable cardiovascular medical equipment and care to indigent patients worldwide. • Katie Hung Newsom’s Atlanta home was featured in the April 2014 issue of Traditional Home magazine. She worked with Boston-based interior designer Katie Turkel Rosenfeld ’90. Although they did not know each other at BC, they were happy to make the connection! • A
We start this update with great news! You may recall that Heather Cody Lamb needed a kidney transplant. She reports that she had a successful transplant in August and is doing great. She and her husband were part of a 20-person chain: He donated to a person in Virginia, and she received her kidney from a donor in South Carolina. Heather says: “It is amazing to have a renewed lease on life! I had no idea how much the quality of my life had degraded because I just kept pushing through, which I had to for my two young boys. I feel incredibly blessed. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers!” • And more happy, amazing news for BC’93: Jeanie Zmijewski Taddeo reports that she is a seven-year breast cancer survivor! She was diagnosed while pregnant with her twin girls, who are also happy and healthy, even though all three together received chemo treatments, and the girls were born at only 27 weeks. Congrats, Jeanie! • Jared Stinebeck completed his master’s in physician assistant studies from the University of Florida in August 2010. • Robert Berry lives in St. Louis with Kristina and their four children. He says: “I miss the guys from Chiswick Road! Go, Eagles!” • Jerome Dano joined Hunton & Williams as counsel in July 2014. His practice focuses on commercial real estate finance. • Cristina Yannucci reports that during a recent New York City gathering with Laina Braasch, Erin Ryan Lynch, and their BC’93 husbands, Tony Ginnetti and Michael Lynch, they were “graced” with the presence of people from the Mob Wives. Cristina says: “Much to our chagrin, due to the signing of waivers, we may be seen on an upcoming episode.” • David Tubman also had a reunion in New York City: He and his Vouté roommates Chris Uschak, Glen Moller, and Mike Battaglia met up in May for a weekend of laughs, BC memories, and a few unprintable stories (per Dave). • Stefanie Martinez was appointed by the governor of Nebraska as a county court judge. She is the first Latina appointed to the bench in the state and the only female judge in the district. • Roshini Rajkumar left her career in TV news in 2006 to move home to Minneapolis to start her own business. She is a communication coach, keynote speaker, radio host (CBS Minneapolis), and author of Communicate That! (Expert Publishers, 2010). She’s also the personal brand columnist for Twin Cities Business magazine and is frequently asked to contribute to media all over the country about powerful communication and executive presence. A proud personal moment was when she was
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