McNamara Ohman, MSW’80, is president of Friends Or Relatives With Autism & Related Disabilities (FORWARD) and is developing a housing community on Cape Cod for adults with autism and developmental disabilities. • Adrianne Cady, MSW’76, retired in August as a clinical social worker at Hope Hospice in Ft. Myers, FL. • Lynn Huber, MSW’07, STM’07, is senior clinical manager for North Shore Counseling Center in Beverly and a guest lecturer of abnormal psychology at Endicott College. Lynn developed a presentation, “Inside the Mind of a Self-Injurer,” to educate clinicians on the emotional, biochemical, and addictive aspects of self-injury and to give a new perspective on treatment focusing on harm reduction and therapeutic alliance. • Tara Earls Larrison, MSW’93, was honored at the 2014 Council on Social Work Education’s annual program meeting, where her article, “Does Social Work Have a Signature Pedagogy?” in the Journal of Social Work Education, was recognized as the Best Conceptual Article for the year. Tara is a clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. • Joe Pickering Jr., MSW’65, retired as CEO of Community Health and Counseling Services, one of Maine’s largest home health and mental health services; he has continued his advocacy work in mental health as a board member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Maine. • Clairejanice McConnell, MSW’76, retired from the Massachusetts Department of Children & Families after 45 years of service. • Suki Hanfling, MSW’73, is a clinical social worker/therapist in Waltham. She is a recipient of the first New England/ New York American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Sex Therapy as a Therapist, Teacher, and Supervisor. Suki also received the McLean Hospital Social Work Service Award given to the social worker who has made the greatest contribution to social work practice. • Alice McCarter, MSW’97, is celebrating 25 years at New Communities Services, a nonprofit corporation in Cambridge that manages affordable housing and Windsor House Adult Day Health programs. Alice leads a support group for caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease. • In September the School of Social Work became the first Boston College school to have a blog! We invite you to check out Innovate@BCSocialWork, an interactive space for those committed to social justice: http://bit.ly/1myO5HN.
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lynch school Edie Black-Scherer, MA’96, recently published her debut novel, The Price of Fame (Birdie Cracker Book, 2014). After earning her
master’s in higher education administration, Edie worked as an educator and director in university management and health care before turning to creative writing. She lives outside Boston with her husband and two sons. • Kelly Clark, MEd’08, is an autism strand specialist for a public K–8 school in Boston. She and husband Brian married in 2011 and have a daughter, Brenna (2). • Jeff Colucci, PhD’79, earned his doctorate in psychology and has devoted his career to helping children with special needs, first at the Franciscan Hospital for Children and currently as codirector of the Triumph Center in Reading. He and his wife, Nancy, a special education administrator, have two grown daughters, Laura and Elizabeth, who live in New York City and Brussels, respectively. • In October, the late Michael Collins, MEd’72, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field in Louisville, KY. Michael led education programs for children who are deafblind at the Perkins School for the Blind for 30 years. He also launched Hilton/Perkins International to expand deafblind education in the developing world and cofounded the National Coalition on Deafblindness. Michael died in 2008. • Marcia Dumaresq, MEd’65, has moved from teaching to farming, helping her son Dave in the community-supported agriculture program. Also, in her parish, she has moved from religious education to bereavement outreach. • After six years working in alumni affairs and development in higher ed—at Harvard, Tufts, and MIT—in 2013, Shane Dunn, MA’10, joined Excel Academy Charter Schools in East Boston as the managing director of strategic growth and development. • Jake Haugevik, MEd’12, is in his fifth year at Nativity Preparatory School in Boston— where he works alongside Richard Wisgirda ’08, MEd’11; Erin McGowan MEd’12; and Daniel Roy MEd’06. • Ingrid Herrera-Yee, MA’97, was voted the 2014 Massachusetts National Guard Spouse of the Year. She works to champion mental health issues that affect service members and their families and has been a keynote speaker on Capitol Hill and across the country in this effort. • Kate McCluskey, MEd’13, teaches seventh grade at the Churchill School and Center in New York City. She says she’s loving her time at Churchill, which has a special focus on helping students with language-based learning disabilities. • Tong Shen, MA’14, earned her degree in educational psychology and is considering a doctoral program related to psychometrics. • Ashley Shinay, MA’08, returned to the undergrad admissions field as an associate dean of admissions at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME.
Correspondent: Marianne Lucas Lescher mariannelescher@yahoo.com
stm Greg, MA’07, and Maura (Proulx) Carpinello, MA’07, and son Andrew (2) welcomed a new addition to their family, Dominic Thomas, on November 16, 2013. • Sr. Margaret Kerry, MA’14, gave a presentation to the Daughters of St. Paul on the vocation and mission of the laity from Rerum Novarum to Evangelii Guadium. • Monique Cerundolo, MA’10, has published Seasons of Grief and Hope,
(CreateSpace, 2013), which is an exploration of the process of grief through the arts of quilting and poetry. • Melissa Lesieur, MA’12, is now teaching religion at St. Bernard’s Central Catholic High School in Fitchburg. • Kathy Simisky, MA’08, just returned from a wonderful pilgrimage to the Holy Land with the Archdiocese of Boston. • Angela Siegel, MA’14, is currently teaching theology at Archbishop Williams High School in Braintree. • Sandra Dorsainvil, MA’10, cofacilitated and co-led a civil rights pilgrimage to several states in the South in September 2014. The pilgrims encountered Sarah Collins Rudolph, survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham in 1963, and Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson, survivor of Bloody Sunday of the Selma march in March 1965. • Jim Goeke, SJ, MEd’90, is now the assistant director of novices at the Jesuit Novitiate for the U.S. Central and Southern Province. • Daniel Walters, OSB, MA’84, is presently the prior and vocation director at Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham. • Dave Hinchen has been the New England regional director of the Ignatian Volunteer Corps since 2010. During that time, IVC has grown to 31 men and women serving in Boston, Worcester, Providence, and the surrounding communities. IVC recruits men and women 50 years of age and older to a 10-month commitment of service to nonprofits and spiritual reflection in the Jesuit tradition.
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wcas John Lacey ’64, MEd’66, reports that he and eight of his classmates attended the celebration of Golden Eagles during Reunion Weekend 2014. The group included John Coleman, John Curran, Mary Short Finneran, Jean Murray Finnerty, Elynor Hartley Harrington, Dorothy O’Brien, Jane Sheehan Smith, and Gerald Stewart. I hope that the WCAS Class of 1965 will have even more members in attendance on its Reunion Weekend in May! • I met Marie McLaughlin O’Brien ’74 at the Massachusetts Citizens for Life dinner. Marie is doing well. • In November, I was at the Cardinal Cushing Award Celebration, sponsored by the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle and established by Richard Cardinal Cushing in 1958. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh ’10 was one of the three honorees. During his 16 years as a state representative, Marty established himself as a leader on job creation and economic development as well as on substance abuse and public construction recovery issues. Also a cofounder and former board member of the Neighborhood House Public Charter School, he has been an advocate for strong public schools. Congratulations, Mayor Walsh! • Lisa Day ’97 has been voted president of the Woods College of Advancing Studies Alumni Association, which is now an affinity group. Congratulations, Lisa!
Correspondent: Jane T. Crimlisk ’74 janecrimlisk@yahoo.com 37 Leominster Road Dedham, MA 02026; 781-326-0290
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