Bentley University Magazine - Summer 2016

SUMMER 2016

175 Forest Street Waltham, MA 02452 USA

Green light for building projects | 4 Study and service meet in Ecuador | 7 Healthy lessons from alumnae CEOs | 10

THEN & NOW

Tracking CNN’s Dan Merica ’10 | 17

1969 2016

Planks kept faculty off the muddy ground at the first commencement on Bentley’s Waltham campus, while mortar boards were sent aloft by this year’s graduating seniors.

PHOTOS (TOP) COURTESY BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND (BOTTOM) TORY GERMAIN

The Business of Elections

THE

BETWEEN THE LINES If you’re casting around for a bright spot in the 2016 election season, consider this from the Pew Research Center. Surveyed in March, a full 85 percent of registered voters said they have given the current election “a lot of thought.” That refreshingly high level of interest hasn’t marked any election year since 1988.

This issue of Bentley Magazine arrives to spur your own thinking.

Our feature “Elections Inc.” examines the growing corporate mindset of campaigns, particularly where finance, marketing and data analytics are concerned. Another insider report comes courtesy of CNN’s Dan Merica ’10. Among the first journalists assigned to cover Democrat Hillary Clinton, he was in New Hampshire for candidate rallies held just before the state’s primary. Tag along.

Since March, some of us have been following another campaign of sorts. By early June, the votes were in. Bentley Magazine earned a silver award for publishing improvement in an annual competition sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Judges noted the publication’s “more sophisticated look … with a new focus on photography, graphics and design, with articulate writing.” We’re proud to share the news with readers, whose opinions matter most of all.

Stay well and stay in touch.

Susan Simpson Editor

CONTRIBUTORS

MEREDITH SHINER

SCOTT STANTIS

CHICAGO, ILL.

CHICAGO, ILL.

The journalist who wrote our cover story spent nearly a decade in Washington, D.C., covering national politics for Politico, Roll Call and Yahoo News, among others.

Interesting times, she says: “Well-financed individuals and groups have been able to leverage changes in the interpretation of the Constitution to significantly increase political influence and power.”

Politics, sports and pop culture are ripe for skewering by Scott Stantis, whose work appears on our cover and page 13.

The editorial cartoonist is on staff at the Chicago Tribune and produces the syndicated comic strip Prickly City.

His cartoons have run in Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and hundreds of other media outlets worldwide.

1917

LEGACY SOCIETY

What will your legacy be?

In high school, I fell in love with the market the way other kids loved sports.

But my mom has lupus, so I considered becoming a doctor.

Bentley showed me how to combine my interests, and I now have dreams of heading a biotech company that can save countless lives. I’m starting on Wall Street, interning as an analyst for Citi — and I can’t thank Lucia Meunier enough.

MARK MOSKOWITZ-DIAZ ’17 Economics–Finance and Liberal Studies Health and Industry concentration Bentley Trading Society founder Leo V. and S. Lucia Meunier Scholarship recipient

Lucia Meunier cherished Bentley like family. After her husband, Leo ’27, passed away, she created gift annuities to provide income for herself and future support for the Leo V. and S. Lucia Meunier Scholarship Fund.

Her final gift was a generous bequest, ensuring an impactful legacy.

Seniors got a jump on summer during the 18th annual Commencement Week trip to the Bahamas.

The 608 travelers — an all-time high — included (from left) Class of 2016 cabinet members Halle Prentice, Devin Koss, Anish Joshi, Kira Gale, Emmanuel Adediran, Emma Morse and Andrew Elsaid.

LEARN MORE | bentley.edu/bahamas2016

ABOVE PHOTO BY CHRIS CONTI

Your legacy. Bentley’s gratitude.

If you have included Bentley in your future plans, let us thank you with membership in The 1917 Legacy Society. Contact us today for more information.

Office of Gift Planning Liz Siladi (781.891.2475) or Kris Otto (781.891.2586) giftplanning@bentley.edu bentley.edu/giftplanning

Contents SUMMER 2016 2 | HERE SAY 3 | ON CAMPUS

COLUMNS

10 | Take Two: Hospital CEOs lead with care 12 | Inside Job: Scott Sheeser ’74 pursues a life in tune 33 | Next Stop: What to see, do, hear and eat in Chicago 35 | Family Matters: Carrigan clan finds a perfect fit

FEATURES 13 | Elections Inc. A report from the intersection of business and politics 17 | On the Campaign Trail with Dan Merica ’10 One day in the life of a CNN reporter 21 | Hello, Sunshine Alumni, faculty and others share their summertime plans 24 | Racing Blind The unstoppable Duane Farrar ’83 26 | C LASS NOTES

ON THE COVER: Illustration by Scott Stantis

PHOTO BY JASON COOPER/BAHAMAS VISUAL SERVICES

MAGAZINE Editor Susan Simpson Publisher Tiffany Smith Writers Ellen Foord Allyson Manchester Mary K. Pratt Meredith Shiner Jennifer Skuce-Spira Kristen Walsh Jennifer Marino Walters Creative Director Claire S. Anderson Art Direction & Design Carol Dirga Sara Jane Kaminski Staff Photographer Chris Conti Assistant Director Print & Production Judy Metz Project Manager Content & Communications Diane C. Kehoe

Executive Director Advancement Relations Leigh K. Gaspar Director Advancement Communications Michael S. Lynch Senior Assistant Directors Advancement Communications Caroline Cruise Kristin Livingston

President Gloria Cordes Larson Vice President for University Advancement William Torrey

HERE SAY I enjoyed reading the article about Gregory Adamian [page 11]. In 19561957, I was in my last year at the Bentley School of Accounting and Finance. ... Professor Adamian taught us business law. After a period of absence, [he] came to class on crutches. He explained that he was recovering from an auto accident in which his wife had been killed. Mr. Adamian asked the class if there was anyone who was driving in the vicinity of Harvard Square.

I responded that I lived in Somerville and could take him to his law office in Cambridge. … I would drive him there twice a week until such time as he was able to drive himself.

In the 1970s, we met again when [President] Adamian would come to the Greater Springfield area to meet with alumni and talk about the “new” Bentley College.

Ovid Flannery ’57 The article “Remembering Gregory H. Adamian” brought back so many memories, especially because I turned 80 on April 26, 2016. I attended in the days when he taught law along with Mr. Doyle and I also recall Mr. Sutherland.

I attended classes at Boston University, Northeastern University and Bryant & Stratton College along with many other courses and studies and seminars that were required in my financial services business. They all taught — and some taught very well. But Bentley was the only school that taught and cared. ...

With Bentley’s strength in my arsenal, I went on to be very successful in the financial services industry. In fact, around 1990, I gave a talk to professionals [on the Waltham campus]. I felt so honored. Truly an exciting time for me, going from a classroom to an auditorium at the same school and because you cared so much.

Frank P. Sateriale ’61 I wanted to send a quick note to tell you how much I enjoyed this edition of Bentley Magazine. Every story was so engaging. The feature on Greg Adamian was so informative and heartwarming. It was such a poignant picture of a man who made such an impact on the community.

I was also struck by the breadth of diversity across the issue, both in terms of topic and the people represented. From generational diversity presented in the story about the father and son graduating, to geographic diversity with the piece about study abroad, to the breadth of experiences presented by the alumni and honors students, every story revealed how diverse our community truly is. And, of course, I was thrilled to see the feature about the MLK Breakfast [page 4].

Thank you to you and all the writers and designers who made this edition possible. It was fantastic!

Katie Lampley ’96 Associate Program Director, Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Wonderful man who did amazing things. Honored to have known Dr. Gregory Adamian.

Shaune Conant ’89 I had him as a professor of commercial law. Loved his class.

Gordon Driscoll ’60 I enjoyed the issue. I liked the Madoff-related article [page 20] and the update on the Honors Program [page 6]. Chancellor Adamian was before I ever heard of Bentley, but it sounds like he was a wonderful leader and educator.

Andra Stam Taylor, P ’18 Incredible issue. Great president when I attended.

Pam Der Bogosian ’86

We welcome your feedback.

Send your compliments and critiques on the stories inside — or suggest one for the future.

MAGAZINE@BENTLEY.EDU || @BENTLEYU || @BENTLEYALUMNI || 781.891.2775 175 FOREST STREET, WALTHAM, MA 02452

Chief Marketing Officer Valerie Fox

Bentley Magazine is published by Bentley University, Waltham, Massachusetts, and distributed without charge to alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff and friends of the university. BENTLEY UNIVERSITY is one of the nation’s leading business schools, dedicated to preparing a new kind of business leader — one with the deep technical skills, broad global perspective, and high ethical standards required to make a difference in an ever-changing world.

70M7/16UM.MC.407.16

ON CAMPUS PEOPLE >> PROGRAMS >> EVENTS >> IDEAS

The popular one-week course Coastal Geology of Cape Cod recently put 18 students and two professors on the front line of climate change. They conducted fieldwork to study the area’s ecosystem and the relevant impacts of business decisions.

LEARN MORE bentley.edu/capetrip

PHOTO BY DAVID SZYMANSKI

ON CAMPUS >>

NEW SPACES TO GATHER, TEACH, LEARN

BY KRISTEN WALSH

MULTIPURPOSE ARENA Falcon pride runs strong in the Bentley community. Spring Day 2016, for example, hosted 3,350 current students — almost the entire residential population — mostly at outdoor activities on the football field. Such gatherings will gain a year-round, indoor home with construction of a 75,000-square-foot multipurpose arena, approved to proceed by trustees in late May. “The arena is our next step in bringing together Bentley faculty, staff, students and alumni, as well as the Greater Waltham community,” explains J. Andrew Shepardson, vice president for student affairs and dean of students. “Typically, we can do large-scale events only at the beginning and end of the academic year, given weather constraints and the Dana Center’s use for varsity and recreational athletics.”

Located on south campus, the arena will provide a first-ever home for the university’s Division I men’s hockey team. But its greatest strength is flexibility: Space can be configured for large- and small-scale concerts, academic lectures, career and activity fairs, and alumni programming. Budgeted at $45 million, the new building will be funded by a combination of private gifts and operating reserves. Construction is slated to start this fall and continue over 16 months.

4 | SUMMER 2016

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS Virtue in Flexibility: Designed to promote connection, the arena will be able to host events for 750 to 3,000-plus people. The entry will include a grand staircase to the upper lobby. A second-floor concourse will enable people to gather pre- and postgame or during intermission.

It’s a Goal: The Division I men’s hockey team will have home ice and the full range of amenities, for example, locker rooms for Falcon teams and visitors, equipment room, weight room and sports medicine center.

Community Fanfare: The venue will welcome the Waltham community in opportunities such as group skating and attending D-I hockey games.

Go for the Silver (and Green): The building will meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) silver certification requirements for sustainable design, construction and operations; features include a solar-panel roof, high-efficiency lighting and water-saving bathroom fixtures.

<< ON CAMPUS

JENNISON HALL An extreme makeover is underway for one of Bentley’s original buildings on the Waltham campus. Changes to the former “Classroom Building” — now Jennison Hall — will create a light-filled, dynamic environment for teaching and learning.

Features will include: n Classrooms with the latest technology,

designed to foster interaction among and between students and faculty; n Dedicated space for research and instru-

mentation to spur scientific investigation that complements class work; n Active-learning classrooms, or “collabora-

tories,” to support team-based inquiry using computer analysis and collaborative investigations; these supplement the more-traditional “wet” labs in the sciences and enhance traditional classrooms for business education; and n State-of-the-art multidisciplinary labs for

instruction in chemistry, physics, geology and biology.

ALL RENDERINGS COURTESY OF ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCES CAMBRIDGE

Other elements of the project are new offices for the Natural and Applied Sciences Department and a completely redesigned math lab, as well as administrative office space for Undergraduate and Graduate Student Academic Services and for Student Disability Services. Work began in late May and should wrap up in time for spring 2017 classes.

“Our graduates are finding exciting career opportunities in the business end of health care, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy, clean technology, and other industries focused on scientific and technological innovation,” says Rick Oches, professor and chair, Natural and Applied Sciences.

“Companies benefit from new hires with business expertise who are scientifically literate and able to communicate effectively with scientists and engineers.”

LEARN MORE | bentley.edu/construction

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 5

ON CAMPUS >>

BENTLEY GRAD TEAM DEVELOPS AWARD-WINNING UX SOLUTION

Remaking School Lunch

BY ELLEN FOORD

School lunch. The words evoke a certain sense of nostalgia. For many children in the United States, school lunch means one thing above all else: the only guaranteed meal they will have in any 24-hour period. On average, 30 million low-income school children per day receive free or reduced-price meals through programs sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Despite that significant total, officials worried that errors related to the National School Lunch program’s paper-based application form were affecting eligibility decisions for some families. Enter the E.A.T. (Electronic Application Transformation) School Lunch UX Challenge, sponsored by the USDA in partnership with development platform DevPost.

The task of redesigning the lunch program application found an immediate taker in Alexander Tran, MSHFID ’16, then a candidate in the San Francisco satellite of the Human Factors in Information Design (HFID) program.

“As a young student, I received free and reduced-price lunch benefits. Here was a great opportunity to use my UX skills where it really matters,” he says. “I knew I could recruit other Bentley UX folks to help.”

Tran’s post in the Bentley HFID alumni Facebook group caught the eye of Cara Abel,

Cara Abel, MSHFID ’16

“ I taught in a low-income school in Costa Rica and saw firsthand the difference that good nutrition made in my students’ lives.”

6 | SUMMER 2016

MSHFID ’16. “The challenge allowed me to practice all that I’m learning about humancentered design for a social-good outcome.”

Such enthusiasm comes as no surprise to Bill Gribbons, who directs the HFID program.

“We attract people who have this sense of consciousness about making the world a better place,” says the professor of information design and corporate communication.

“That is what the tech community is looking for: employees with passion.”

The group — christened Team Lunchbox — took shape with the addition of recent alumni Miriam (Gerver) Donath, MSHFID ’13 and Andy Hollenhorst, MBA ’14, MSHFID ’15; along with Eric Famiglietti, lead engineer at Tettra; and Giselle Sperber, UX designer and analyst at Apple.

“We developed our concept through a comprehensive user-centered design process,” says Tran, who describes interviewing potential users and form experts, building

Alexander Tran, MSHFID ’16

“ Our education directly informed our research process and how we brought a strategic lens to building the application.”

prototypes, and testing them with as many people as possible.

They focused on a mobile-first prototype: Studies by the Pew Research Center show that a large majority of low-income populations often have only a mobile device for Internet services. They built the app with HTML, CSS, JS and PHP on Bootstrap and hosted it on GitHub. Logistics seemed likely to pose a challenge for the team. Tran and Sperber live in California and Donath in New York City, while the others are in Greater Boston.

Experience worked in their favor, however.

“In the HFID program, there are a lot of group projects,” explains Abel. “Often the groups are a mix of students who attend on campus and remotely.”

In the end, Team Lunchbox won the Popular Choice Award in a field of 44 projects developed by individuals, teams and large companies.

Miriam (Gerver) Donath, MSHFID ’13

“ This challenge appealed to me because my first master’s degree is in survey methodology, so online forms are interesting.”

Andy Hollenhorst, MBA ’14, MSHFID ’15

“ Team Lunchbox essentially got me the job of UX designer at Sallie Mae. I gained critical experience while performing a social good.”

PROJECT STORYBOARD COURTESY OF TEAM LUNCHBOX; GRAPHIC BY BIENVENU/SHUTTERSTOCK

<< ON CAMPUS

BUILDING BONDS IN ECUADOR

BY JENNIFER MARINO WALTERS THE VENTURE: A first-ever trip combining academic study, service­–learning and travel abroad.

Sixteen students in a Latin American history course taught by Professor Cyrus Veeser spent 10 days in the heart of the Mondaña community in Ecuador, deep in the Amazon rainforest.

THE ASSIGNMENT: Work alongside community members to build the foundation for doctors’ residences at a new health clinic.

THE ORGANIZERS: The Bentley Service–Learning Center, Cronin Office of International Education, History Department and ME to WE organization.

THE CULTURAL EXPLORATION: Students played soccer with local children; learned about chocolate making at a cacao farm; visited a women’s artisan group, learning about their livelihoods and having a quick lesson in bracelet weaving. They even sampled beetle larvae, a delicacy in Ecuador.

THE DEEP DIVE: Upon return, students did research connecting present-day Ecuador with topics covered in their history course. For example, freedom of the press, the health care system and the impact of falling oil prices on the government.

LEARN MORE | bentley.edu/ecuador PHOTOS TOP AND CENTER BOTTOM BY BRIA WILBUR, CENTER TOP BY RACHEL PALUMBO ’18, CENTER MIDDLE BY KARA GLIDDEN ’18

“ The work was tiring. We did a lot with our hands.

We were sweaty. But at the end of the day, thinking about how much of a difference we made there was very rewarding. This trip was definitely one of the best things I’ve done during my time at Bentley.”

Greeshma Rajeev ’16 | Major: Economics “ The cultural immersion experiences allowed us to fully live the reality of the natives in the Amazonian region.

We were able to interact and see what they go through on an everyday basis just to make a feasible living.

Coming from a low-income background, I was really able to relate to the people I was helping.”

Jackson Le ’19 | Major: Computer Information Systems “ To go to Ecuador and experience a new culture — yet see that the kids there are very similar to the kids I work with every day in my service–learning project at Bentley, an after-school program for low-income kids — was really eye opening. It’s confirmed what I want to do in the future: work for an international organization that brings resources to underdeveloped communities.”

Rachel Palumbo ’18 | Major: Creative Industries “ Every evening after a long day of work, we would come together to reflect and talk about the poverty we were seeing, about fair labor practices and about social issues that affected the people in the community we were helping ­— as well as all around the world.

My classmates and I really developed a close bond.”

Joey Milici ’17 | Major: Accountancy BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 7

UWIN a Win-Win

Program pairs female Bentley students with mentors at Loomis Sayles

BY JENNIFER MARINO WALTERS

L

ast year, Shannon O’Mara ran into some frustrating statistics in her role as vice president and associate director of credit research for Loomis, Sayles & Company. There had been a downturn in the number of women applying for entryand associate-level positions at the Bostonbased investment management firm.

“Looking at the last eight searches I had conducted, I realized that out of more than 800 candidates, only 18 percent were women,” says O’Mara, who helps oversee hiring and career development for the company’s credit research team.

STOCKING THE TALENT POOL To help bring the pool of young female talent into line with the firm’s senior analyst group — roughly 40 percent women — O’Mara and a team of colleagues went back to school.

Their message for college and university women: If you like finance, problem solving, writing and collaborating, investment management is a great career to consider.

They created a program — the Loomis Sayles Undergraduate Women’s Investment Network (UWIN) — that offers mentoring and internships in investment management to its female student participants. And their search for an academic partner led to Bentley.

O’Mara (r.) mentored Lauren Mariano ’17 8 | SUMMER 2016

“Our Bentley graduate hires have an impressive track record at Loomis, which reflects the school’s robust business and finance curriculum,” says O’Mara, whose team worked with Bentley’s MaryEllen Ryan, senior associate director of undergraduate career services, to launch UWIN in November 2015.

LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE The program welcomes female sophomores and juniors who have completed one accounting course and studied finance, business, economics or mathematics. In addition to meeting monthly, students and mentors gather as a group for two career-building workshops. The interns work in two rotations across different areas of Loomis Sayles, for maximum exposure to opportunities in the field.

BUILDING SKILLS Participants such as Cecilia Yabut ’17 have high praise for UWIN. She credits mentor Marianne Winkelman, director of global bond, emerging markets and

foreign exchange trading, with helping to strengthen her interviewing skills and building her confidence.

“It’s inspiring to get to know someone who has thrived in a male-dominated field,” says Yabut, who majors in Corporate Finance and Accounting, accompanied by a Liberal Studies major focused on Global Perspectives.

Finance major Christina Wu ’17 learned about the “buy” and “sell” sides of investment from her mentor, VP and Senior Research Analyst Greg Schantz. Investment management focuses on “managing portfolios and allocating money to invest,” she explains.

“Investment banking helps sell securities and assists companies with capital raising.”

The distinction is key for women considering a finance career.

“We’re not Wall Street,” says O’Mara.

“We work hard and markets can be stressful, but there’s a reasonable work–life balance in this industry and at Loomis.”

UWIN returns in September 2016 with 18 student and mentor pairs; six of the students will also serve as interns.

“ I realized that out of more than 800 candidates, only 18 percent were women.”

— S hannon O’Mara of Loomis, Sayles & Company

PHOTOS BY CHRIS CONTI

<< ON CAMPUS

Bentley earned the #10 spot in a national ranking by Bloomberg Businessweek focused on career outcomes.

The organization polled graduating seniors and corporate recruiters at 114 U.S. colleges and universities on four measures.

> EMPLOYER SURVEY (40 percent of score) Feedback from recruiters who hire large numbers of business graduates, on how well schools prepared students for jobs at their company. Bentley ranked #3 when respondents identified schools with innovative curricula and effective career services. > STUDENT SURVEY (35 percent)

Students’ own ratings of the campus, career services department, and faculty and administrators.

< < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < IN THE NEWS Fast Company Why 2016 Is The Year of The Hybrid Job MARCH 15, 2016 President Gloria Cordes Larson and Associate Vice President for University Career Services Susan Brennan discuss the rising call for employees with a mix of analytical and people skills, based on a job-market analysis conducted through Bentley’s PreparedU Project.

U.S. News & World Report These 3 Career Skills Will Make You Invaluable to Your Employer MARCH 23, 2016 Susan Brennan, associate vice president for university career services, highlights key skills in business development that give graduates a competitive advantage in today’s workplace.

Forbes The Evil Genius of Obamacare’s Millennial Mandate MARCH 28, 2016 Research by Professor of Economics Dhaval Dave analyzes costs and benefits of requiring employers to cover workers’ dependents until age 26.

> STARTING SALARY (15 percent)

Base compensation of seniors with jobs lined up after graduation, adjusted for salary variation across industries and regions; data came from the student surveys.

> INTERNSHIPS (10 percent)

Percentage of graduates who held at least one internship during college; also based on the student survey responses.

> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Huffington Post Business Students Hold the Future of Climate Change in Their Hands APRIL 1, 2016

National Public Radio Paying Students May Raise Test Scores, But The Lesson Is Not Over MAY 19, 2016

David Szymanski, associate professor, Natural and Applied Sciences, urges business schools to prepare students for leadership in addressing environmental concerns.

A story cites research by Associate Professor of Economics Jeff Livingston that examines the impact of incentives on student exam scores.

Fox Business The New College Education? A Fusion One

Boston Globe 9 Lessons So Anyone Can Go from Receptionist to CEO

APRIL 13, 2016

MAY 20, 2016

President Gloria Cordes Larson describes the value of an education that combines the study of business and the arts and sciences.

Commencement speaker Karen Kaplan, CEO of Hill Holliday, offers advice to Bentley’s Class of 2016 for success in any career.

Wall Street Journal CFOs with CPAs Skimp in Growth Industries

MarketWatch Why the Class of 2016 Has It Better Than Other Recent Grads

APRIL 21, 2016 An analysis of CFO performance cites a study co-authored by Rani Hoitash, the university’s Gibbons Research Professor of Accountancy.

JUNE 2, 2016 An analysis of the job market for new college graduates features Ashley Federico ’16 and Bentley’s Career Services department.

LEARN MORE | bentley.edu/newsroom/media-coverage

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 9

TAKE TWO >>

Leading with Care Surviving a heart attack. Beating cancer. Managing diabetes.

These outcomes are a reality for many in the United States, which devotes more of its GDP to health care than other nation in the world (17 percent according to the World Health Organization). Meet two women whose leadership of Boston-area hospitals includes keeping people healthy — and out of their emergency rooms.

INTERVIEW BY KRISTEN WALSH

ELLEN MOLONEY, MBA ’91

DEBORAH BITSOLI ’87

Interim President, Newton-Wellesley Hospital Newton, Massachusetts

President, Morton Hospital Taunton, Massachusetts

1,000 affiliated physicians

300 primary care doctors and physician specialists

This 30-year health care veteran has been instrumental in the design and planning of programs in areas such as cancer care, ambulatory care, women’s imaging and cardiovascular health

Her 25-plus years of health care experience includes overseeing hospital operations to improve patient and employee satisfaction, and managing multi-specialty physician practices.

10 | SUMMER 2016

PHOTOS BY CHRIS CONTI

<< TAKE TWO

How do challenges in the U.S. health care system affect your decision-making?

Deborah Bitsoli: One of the most significant issues is the rising cost of health care caused by variances in reimbursement rates to community-based hospitals versus larger health-system conglomerates. New regulations determine how — and how much — we are reimbursed for services. In addition, consumers are facing higher insurance costs.

Hospitals are also tasked with balancing the need to keep people healthy and increase volume. We’re focused on prevention and wellness — doing everything possible to keep patients out of the hospital. Outpatient department volumes are going up, while inpatient volumes are going down. Hospitals can only survive and grow if they regularly review and assess patient demand for specific service lines and adapt accordingly. Examples are diagnostic imaging and ancillary testing services, innovative surgical services, or programmatic enhancements like weight management or diabetes education.

Ellen Moloney: We’re fortunate to live in a country where health care is How can we better accessible. But new technologies and manage populations pharmaceuticals can drive up cost. with chronic disease, for example, so that And with intense pressure to reduce people don’t end up the cost of health care and declining in the emergency reimbursement, hospitals are under the microscope and must operate as department or admitted to the hospital? efficiently and effectively as possible.

—Ellen Moloney That leads to difficult choices about offering services that are an important part of our mission, such as psychiatry and behavioral health care, but which are reimbursed at such a low rate that it often results in a financial loss for the hospital.

With that in mind, we are focused on population health management.

We work closely with primary care physicians to better manage patients with chronic disease so they don’t end up in the emergency department or being admitted to the hospital. This strategy allows us to reduce costs and still provide very high-quality care.

What are your approaches and priorities as a leader?

EM: Never forget where you came from. I started out as a medical technologist in the laboratory and worked my way up within health care organizations. I’ve never forgotten what it feels like to be that staff member.

Leading is about building trust and building relationships. That’s done by being a good communicator — especially a good listener — being accessible and following our mission. We have a “greeter” program at Newton-Wellesley where senior managers serve as greeters at hospital entrances twice a month. For me, it’s a great chance to connect with patients and their families, to hear what we’re doing well and what we’re not doing so well. It’s also a great opportunity to get out there and talk to physicians and other staff members. It’s about visibility and accessibility. Having a calm and steady demeanor, and being prepared, are also important.

DB: One of my personal priorities is instilling a culture of patient quality and safety among frontline staff across all disciplines. At Morton Hospital, we encourage staff to maintain a “questioning attitude,” meaning we want them to pay attention to every detail when it comes to providing patient care, and feel empowered to speak up if something doesn’t feel right.

Just as important is investing in and supporting your workforce: Give them the tools and information needed to do their job,

and to do it well. I try to take time to recognize my team for their hard work. It’s one of the most important things you can do to grow your organization.

How have you come so far as a woman in a leadership position?

DB: I think believing in myself and taking advantage of every opportunity to learn is what brought me to where I am now. I started my career in health care at a young age, working in various departments and learning from others by asking questions. In doing so, I was able to greatly expand my health care knowledge and management skills.

I’ve never felt any limitations to what I could do. I believe if you have the passion, skills and qualifications needed, you can do anything you desire to do.

EM: I’ve “grown up” in hospitals and health care, where a large majority of employees are women. I’ve been fortunate to work with female leaders who have been successful. In the Boston area there are some phenomenal female leaders doing great things; that speaks volumes.

Within our health system, there are terrific leaders, female and male, who We want staff to are always willing to take the time to pay attention help other leaders grow and be sucto every detail when it comes to providing cessful. I’ve learned to be comfortable patient care, and with being uncomfortable and to not feel empowered to be afraid to fail.

speak up if something doesn’t feel right.

—Deborah Bitsoli

How has a business education informed your career?

DB: Having already worked in support roles in health care, I needed tools and knowledge from a business perspective. The classroom environment and approach to learning at Bentley taught me problem solving skills and how to work well with teams, especially with regard to written and verbal communication.

It also advanced my understanding of organizational development.

This foundation was invaluable as I pursued my career goals.

EM: I have a bachelor’s degree in biology, so when I enrolled in the Bentley MBA program I was a sponge. I hadn’t been exposed to some of the things I was learning, like marketing and management. I remember an effective speaking course that prepared me well for positions I’d hold in the future, regarding how to be ready to speak on the spot. The professor had a deck of index cards with various topics noted on each.

Students would have to randomly choose a card and give a two-minute talk on that particular topic. It was very uncomfortable — I’m certainly not an extrovert — but it was the best class. It really helped when I was sitting in a meeting and thinking about how to respond to someone.

What should the general public better understand about health care?

EM: It’s great that people have access to health insurance. But it’s important for them to be informed about their specific plan because sometimes they are surprised by its conditions, such as a co-pay or high deductible that may require out-of-pocket expenses.

DB: It’s important to understand the value of preventive care and establishing a relationship with a primary care physician. This can ensure that you’re up to date on recommended tests and screenings based on your age and level of health. If you don’t have a primary care doctor, make it your commitment to find one.

LEARN MORE | bentley.edu/leadingwithcare BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 11

INSIDE JOB >>

A Life in Tune Scott Sheeser ’74 started down his musical career path while an Accounting major at Bentley. The Falcon’s Nest Coffeehouse, which he co-founded as a sophomore, drew well-known musicians and sizeable audiences to campus. Today he owns a piano service and restoration business: Enchanted Mountain Music LLC, based in Olean, N.Y. The lifelong music lover also plays five-string banjo, guitar, upright bass and hammered dulcimer with a variety of musicians and bands.

Opening Notes I was intrigued by music from an early age. It was musicians performing at The Falcon’s Nest that inspired me to pick up the guitar and banjo. After Bentley, I worked briefly for my father’s accounting firm. I wanted to work in the music field and, shortly after leaving the firm, I bought a piano-tuning business. I knew virtually nothing about the trade and spent every spare minute learning.

Two-Part Harmony The service part of my business involves tuning, concert preparation, regulating and repairing pianos. The second part, restoration, entails taking the piano completely apart and reassembling it with new or rebuilt parts. I work alone and the process takes months to complete. It’s a costly investment, but restoration can increase the value of a fine instrument by two or three times. It’s not unusual for me to work on concert pianos worth $100,000 or more.

Striking Gold I’m a Registered Piano Technician member in the Piano Technicians Guild. Registered technicians are examined in every phase of piano technology. They are the gold standard in the piano service industry.

Many performance contracts require using a Registered Piano Technician to prepare the concert instrument. I’ve worked with many, many artists over the years, from Bruce Springsteen to piano soloists to symphony orchestras.

In the Key of Business Bentley was a great experience. Accounting requires patience and meticulous attention to detail. My work requires the same. Being self-employed in a business with an artistic component can be demanding and calls for a great amount of discipline. I’m in my office by six-thirty in the morning and on the road or in my shop until four or five p.m.

Sheeser prepares a Steinway concert grand for a performance by an internationally known pianist. Pictured in the 1972 Vale yearbook with coffeehouse founding member Fred Dal Ponte ’73 (far left) and other Falcon's Nest principals: “I’m the one in the middle in the plaid shirt holding what is obviously not a coffee!”

Grand Achievement One career highlight was restoring a 9-foot Steinway concert grand piano from the Victorian era. Many of its parts were missing; there was no soundboard, strings or bridges. It took five months and was one of the hardest projects I’ve ever done. This piano ended up at a prestigious international performing arts center and was eventually purchased by a concert pianist from Canada. It’s very rewarding: taking something that looked like it could go into a landfill to the concert stage. Hearing how beautiful it sounds in the hands of an artist is icing on the cake.

As told to Mary K. Pratt

12 | SUMMER 2016

PHOTOS BY PATRICIA COLOSIMO AND COURTESY OF BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

<< FEATURES

Elections Inc.

Although most voters like to think about national elections through the prisms of ideology and partisanship, American politics in the modern era has become a big business.

BY MEREDITH SHINER Illustration by Scott Stantis BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 13

FEATURES >>

In 2012, the last presidential $6 billion was funneled into White House and Congress — and outside groups bent on in Washington.

14 | SUMMER 2016

2012

2008

2004

2000

EXPLOSION OF BIG MONEY The meteoric rise of big money in politics traces back to 2010 and a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the court ruled that political giving is a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. The decision effectively lifted many limits on political giving by corporations, imposed through the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.

In the years that followed, outside groups — political organizations not directly affiliated with candidates or parties — proliferated both in number and amount of money contributed. Funds flooded the political landscape, which voters saw in the form of television and radio advertising, mailers and even an increased number of candidates running in party primaries for the Senate, House of Representatives and White House.

Another Supreme Court ruling, two months after Citizens United, cemented the way for organizations known as super PACs: independent, expenditure-only political action committees that can raise unlimited funds from corporations or individuals, as long as they do not directly coordinate with candidates’ official campaigns. With one wealthy person or family now able to contribute millions to a single campaign — sometimes without even disclosing their identity — a growing number of politicians have the resources to run without needing to raise money from small donors.

The result has been a free-market boom for politics, with more candidates able to pay for more consultants, political professionals, Dollars in pollsters and staff.

Presidential Elections ROI WITH A DIFFERENCE Pre- and PostNate Turnbull, MBA ’00 sees a clear differCitizens United ence in how money operates in politics now.

Campaign spending has Before joining CONNECT—San Diego as vice increased overall, president of public policy, the Democrat was with a higher a finance assistant on John Kerry’s 2004 proportion of presidential campaign and a finance director dollars spent for the Northeast during President Barack independently Obama’s first campaign, in 2008. by political “My time in fundraising was before action committees Citizens United. We operated much more on and other hard-money mechanics in ’04, ’06 and ’08,” outside groups. he says, referring to money that candidates $.5B received in disclosed and limited amounts n Candidate via official campaigns or party organizations.

Dollars “What’s interesting from a theoretical point of view is the attention put on the fundraising n Outside Group horse race — on how much money is spent, Dollars versus where it comes from or how effectively it’s allocated.”

CITIZENS UNITED RULING

Turnbull hits on a dynamic that Gulati COMPILED BY JEFF GULATI WITH DATA FROM THE CENTER FOR RESPONSIVE underscores as a key caveat in the politics-asPOLITICS AND FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

1996

So says data from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. And totals for 2016 could be much greater.

The campaign of Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, for example, told multiple media outlets it would need to raise $2 billion to have any chance at electing the former first lady and secretary of state as president. One-time Republican Party favorite Jeb Bush and his allied groups raised more than $155 million only to compete in three states’ primaries, according to FEC data.

The size and scope of fundraising, along with the panoply of groups and campaigns that spend the money, asks a pressing question. To what extent do donors, staff and candidates expect campaigns to operate like the businesses they are? That is, with metrics to prove that donors — political investors — are getting a return on their dollars; with systems that ensure economic efficiency demanded of other multibillion-dollar entities, like Fortune 500 companies; and $2B with greater transparency about where the money comes from and where it goes.

For Bentley alumni involved in politics and professors who teach about the topic, the comparison between campaigns and companies, especially startups, is clear. So is the need to $1.5B evolve in terms of industry best practices.

“Election campaigns are a series of startup firms … startups that need a lot of labor to run effectively,” says Jeff Gulati, an associate professor of political science who researches Congress, campaigns and elections. “That may $1B mean outsourcing things like vendors and pollsters, or investing in analytics, campaign finance operations and people who understand the new digital landscape.”

<< FEATURES

election cycle, more than federal races — for the — by candidates, parties influencing policy outcomes business model: Even though there’s more money in the system than ever before, accountability from those running the organizations and demand for a return on investment by donors have not grown proportionately.

“A CEO is not going to be happy with poor results [from his or her company]. But politics is different for these multimillionaires who are giving,” says Gulati. “It’s like a hobby … they’re not looking all the time at return on investment.”

He compares the situation to owning a sports team. “Before a certain point, they don’t make a lot of money in ownership; it just brings a sense of prestige. So in a sense, [political donations] are vanity projects and [donors] want to be part of the game.”

the country’s 5,000 registered outside political groups spend more on operations and salaries than on candidates or causes.

“That is a bigger conversation: Why do [donors] actually give money when much of it goes to overhead? The finance consultant takes 10 percent off the top, which is lunacy,” says Turnbull, the former finance staffer. He allows that when the percentage came off checks of $2,000, the one-time federal maximum in hard donations per individual per cycle, “you probably earned it. That’s completely different from there being a million-dollar donor and you’re taking $100,000 for two hours’ work. The real pot of gold is [working for] super PACs, where the level of governance or oversight that the donors put in is so minimal.”

LESSONS FROM THE C-SUITE There are some firms seeking to change the game regarding how campaigns are set up, managed, operated and accounted for — tasks that used to fall to in-house political staffers with little to no business background.

Bruce Nilson ’08 is a vice president at one: Red Curve Solutions offers financial and operational support to GOP campaigns at the House, Senate and presidential levels. That includes managing treasury and accounting, FEC compliance, donor tracking, operations from payroll to expense oversight, and even the wind-down process when a campaign ends (win or lose).

“We’re taking best practices of Fortune 500 companies and implementing them in short-shelf-life campaigns,” says Nilson, a Republican who worked on Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

“Because the cost of getting the books wrong could be the end of your campaign or send you to jail.

“Everybody is making money in politics, but no one is running campaigns like a business: the systems, the tools, the terminology,” he continues. “I’m passionate about this because I think that government and politics should be run like a business and people should not get rich [working on campaigns]. Where else do you have a startup that goes from $0 to $50 million overnight, hires hundreds of employees and then shuts down after a year?”

For his part, Turnbull worries that, absent campaign finance limits and other controls, the level of accountability to donors will not be brought into check for some time.

Like the housing and tech booms of years past, the politics boom has winners and losers. Some of those profiting most are political consultants, who can bill clients for a litany of services that have become much easier post-Citizens United. Reports such as one from the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity suggest that, lacking rules or regulations, many of

THE ANALYTICS REVOLUTION Like the modern company, the modern political campaign is embracing analytics to make decisions and measure results. In 2012, the Obama campaign added staffers with roles more common to Silicon Valley than Pennsylvania Avenue: chief scientist, director of modeling, director of digital analytics.

The chief scientist post went to Rayid Ghani. For his former employer — management consulting firm Accenture — he had studied consumer habits to help corporations anticipate their future behavior. He did much the same for the Obama campaign: building analytics tools to help identify voting patterns.

Many of the 2016 election candidates seem to be following the same model. Ted Cruz, for example, linked his win in the Iowa caucuses to microtargeting research efforts by his team of data analysts, according to an article in Bloomberg Politics. When the team discovered that 60 voters could be swayed by a candidate in favor of ending a state ban on fireworks sales, the Cruz campaign developed a position on the topic and let those voters know.

Gulati, who has studied the impact of data and media on elections, frames analytics as a modern way to bolster the longtime building blocks of politics: relationships and connections with supporters and prospective voters.

“The purpose of using analytics is to more efficiently allocate resources to the more traditional enterprises of a campaign,” he says. “The data that campaigns collect from your and my interaction on social media and the Internet is primarily a tool to identify people, with the goal of getting them to attend a local meet-and-greet.”

There’s been a recent move away from compiling files on voters based largely on their history at the polls or political engagement online.

Campaigns are using information collected about people’s general BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 15

FEATURES >>

“ Politics is not much different [from business] at a granular level.

Campaigns and elected officials need people who know business, who can budget as accountants, who are operational and strategic thinkers. Elected officials often turn to people in business for their professional expertise and insight.” — Christopher Burgoyne ’07 Résumé includes: Special assistant to U.S. Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.); operations manager, Charlie Baker for Governor (Mass.)

Now: Director of Political and Government Affairs, American Hotel and Lodging Association LEARN MORE | Other alumni and faculty with expertise in politics are featured at bentley.edu/electionsinc.

behavior on the Internet. The intent: create a personality profile that might help shape what sort of ads or messages would appeal to someone who bought, say, Ray Ban sunglasses. Analytics can also help identify specific audiences for specific messages, not unlike how a company might choose to advertise on a particular television station, knowing that its desired demographic would be tuning in and attracted to the advertised product or service.

A Pew study from 2014 reported that an average 16 percent of registered voters follow the accounts of politicians or political parties via social networking sites. Among 18- to 29-year-olds, the figure was 24 percent.

According to Pew, the average among all voters rose 10 percentage points from the previous midterm election, in 2010. The most significant increase in social media engagement with politicians was in the 30- to 49-yearold demographic, where 21 percent of voters in 2014 followed political accounts, up from 6 percent.

Another key finding of the Pew poll: 35 percent of registered voters SOCIAL STUDIES To an increasing degree, campaigns are finding that ads on television and who followed candidates or officeholders on social media said doing so radio — however well targeted — are less impactful than they once were. made them “feel more personally connected to a politician or group.”

Social media has emerged as an essential tool for reaching large numbers Personal connection helps companies sell products and campaigns of potential voters where they live: on the Internet. sell candidates.

Just like companies, candidates and their campaigns have to develop An honors capstone project by John Bishop ’16 examined the effect and sell a brand. The “consumers” are prospective voters and the metric of social media on political campaigns. His interviews with social media of success is engagement, both on social media platforms and in real life managers for politicians showed that all considered the current election at the ballot box and on the campaign trail. year an aberration in terms of using social media effectively to gain voters.

Observes Gulati: “Campaigns use social media to reach people in the “But while they see social media as an anomaly, I see it as a potential two constituencies who pay attention to new dawn of political campaigning,” says social media — candidates’ supporters and Bishop, who just started working as a data Social Media Use in National Elections the news media.” analyst for Fidelity Investments. “Social Figures are for political races in 2014, from a survey At its most basic level, social media is an media allows news to travel faster than ever conducted the same year by Pew Research Center. extension of everyday human relationships, before and creates a forum for discussion which are at the core of any successful busithat is larger than ever before. In this day Percentage of registered Percentage of Americans who voters who used their cellphone followed political figures on social ness. Campaigns must work to know their and age, a low-key social media presence to follow political figures — media and found the content target audience, interact with its members may be enough to derail a campaign.” up from 13% in 2010 “mostly interesting and relevant” and build a network — online and in person.

If candidates want to succeed in the current This is particularly important at the federal political arena, they have to start thinking like companies. level, as candidates need to reach millions of “In a company, everyone’s goal is to make people in efficient and market-penetrating ways. enough money to keep your business in Now more than ever, candidates and good shape, pay your employees and make a elected officials use Facebook, Twitter, profit,” says Paige Johnson ’15, who managed Instagram and Snapchat to handle that events and operations for Marco Rubio’s outreach and interaction. Those are where presidential campaign. “It’s similar on a cama growing number of people get their inforpaign. If you don’t have the money to pay mation about candidates. your staff, the candidate’s travel, venue rentals Though the 30-plus demographic still for events, signage and so on, you will fail.” relies primarily on cable television news, The Public Policy and Business Studies over one-third of 18- to 29-year-olds say major finds her background in marketing and social media is the most helpful source for finance an asset in her new job: raising funds learning about the 2016 presidential for New Hampshire congressional candidate election, according to a January survey by Rich Ashooh. “As much as I dreaded [the Percentage of registered Percentage of Americans who Pew Research Center. (Even if they’re simply courses] GB 112 and 212, the things I learned voters who got campaign news said being among the first to on their cellphone and also learn political news was a “major following the Twitter conversations between are a lot more helpful in setting up a finance encouraged others to vote or reason” they followed political plan than I could have imagined.” @HillaryClinton and @realDonaldTrump.) support a particular candidate figures — up from 22% in 2010 16 | SUMMER 2016

<< FEATURES

ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

with Dan Merica '10 of CNN

Four hours’ sleep in a nondescript motel room. Meals grabbed on the run. Hours logged in airports and miles in rental cars. A head cold that never quite goes away. They all signal one thing to political reporter Dan Merica ’10: dream job.

The former Global Studies major

with a passion for politics landed at CNN shortly after graduation. After a stint as a news assistant that included covering stories about religion, he was tapped in 2013 to follow prospective presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. The plum assignment got even sweeter with her official entry to the race, in April 2015.

Bentley Magazine caught up with Merica in New Hampshire, at rallies in

Manchester and Nashua on the eve of the state’s first-in-the-nation primary.

Photography by Chris Conti BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 17

FEATURES >>

FEBRUARY 8, 2016 The day before the New Hampshire primary

Here, Dan Merica narrates a day trip behind the campaign curtain.

10:30 a.m.

SpringHill Suites

11:10 a.m.

Bridge Café

MANCHESTER, N.H.

MANCHESTER, N.H.

I’ve been up since about 5:30 to read about what’s going on in the world and have a little personal time. This bag has my camera gear and, of course, laptop. It’s always been key for me to know where everything is at all times. At this point I had not been home in 90 days.

Smoothies are the perfect road food. This one — the Green “Monstah” — gets its color from kale. Staying healthy on the road … it’s a challenge. One of my best life hacks is joining the YMCA. They’re everywhere and a workout is a great way to fill an hour.

11:38 a.m.

Manchester Community College MANCHESTER, N.H.

Before the rally, I check in with Jeff Zeleny, CNN’s TV correspondent covering Hillary Clinton. Our team also includes Jeff’s producer and a photojournalist. We all contribute to each other’s reports.

I record Clinton’s speech on my phone, from where I’m sitting. A big part of the job is listening to the speech, taking notes, then going back to review and write a story. Or, in the moment, emailing CNN to let them know “she said this new thing” or “she commented on this story.”

1:11 p.m. I was assigned to cover Clinton at the end of 2013.

Few news outlets had someone on her that early. This has been very helpful because we’ve gotten to know more of the key people to talk to.

Twitter is a great platform for getting your reporting, and the network’s reporting, out there and being part of the conversation. It’s also valuable for news gathering. I follow other people who cover Clinton and learn about topics they pursue.

18 | SUMMER 2016

1:48 p.m. On the rope line, which separates candidates from everyone else at the rally, it’s all about framing a question to spur a reaction. The day before, Bill Clinton had ridiculed Sanders for saying that anyone who doesn't agree with him is a tool of the establishment. So I asked, “Are you surprised by how your comment yesterday was taken?” which gives him an opportunity to explain himself. I followed up with, “They’re calling you an attack dog.”

<< FEATURES

4:59 p.m.

Puritan Backroom

3:05 p.m. As the campaign has gone on, we’re traveling differently. There’s a private plane now that takes the press around, so we go from plane to bus to event. During the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, we spent a lot of time in cars … this was a messy, sloppy day of perilous driving.

MANCHESTER, N.H.

New Hampshire is unique in having a number of restaurants with a political history. This one is owned by a Democratic operative, so it’s popular with Democrats but Republican candidates also visit. It’s famous for chicken tenders, which I ordered, and mudslides, which I did not.

9:05 p.m.

Alvirine High School NASHUA, N.H.

At the second rally, the guy talking to me is Alex Sietz-Wald, a reporter for MSNBC and a good friend. On my other side is Ken Thomas, with the Associated Press.

At events there’s always a designated area for the press — and some campaigns are pretty restrictive about where the press can go. The Clinton campaign, for the most part, lets us walk around wherever and talk to voters.

The term for our job is “embed” … as in being embedded with the campaign. Every network has an embed, so you see the same people all the time. We’ve grown close, traveling the country together for more than a year. Reporting can be competitive, because you certainly want to get your story out there. But it’s not as competitive as most people would think.

9:15 p.m. Part of my job is to get video of the day. We try to film almost everything, because you never know what’s going to happen. Here I’m filming the Clintons greeting voters, taking selfies.

These moments of personal interaction are telling, I think: They say something about who the candidate is.

LEARN MORE | bentley.edu/danmerica

9:49 p.m. The candidate is gone, the show is over and it quiets down pretty quickly. I’m typing out my notes or sending them out to the network. The story I wrote about the Manchester rally was posted online the same day. What I write varies greatly: I can write three stories in a day or no stories.

The job is exhilarating and exactly what I’ve wanted to do for a long time. But it can be lonely. There are these quiet moments on your own, when you put everything together before disconnecting for the day, before things start all over again tomorrow.

PARTY LIKE IT’S 1917!

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS November 7

Athens, Greece

November 11 London, England January 7

Los Angeles, California

January 10

San Francisco, California

January 11

Seattle, Washington

February 28

Palm Beach, Florida

March 2

Miami, Florida

In the coming months,

March 3

San Juan, Puerto Rico

President Gloria Cordes Larson will

March 13

Denver, Colorado

travel near and far to commemorate

March 14

Chicago, Illinois

March 16

Washington, DC

the schedule of events and save the date

April 19

West Hartford, Connecticut

for a celebration 100 years in the making.

April 20

New York, New York

Bentley’s centennial. Be sure to review

For the most up to date information about centennial events, visit bentley.edu/100/events

20 | SUMMER 2016

PHOTO COURTESY OF BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES

<< FEATURES

A children’s camp in Maine will see the return of three Class of 2014 alumnae.

Hello, Sunshine

What does summer look like for a typical member of the Bentley community?

We asked. You answered. Here’s a snapshot of your anything-but-typical plans

➵

PHOTO COURTESY OF EMILY HAMLIN ’14

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 21

I’m interning at Nest (a Google company) working on the People Operations (HR) team out in San Francisco.

Samuel Lerner ’17 Management

David Szymanski and Rich Oches

Climbing Machu Picchu.

Jenna Forstrom ’08

Travel for Work + Play Every May, we teach the field intensive course Coastal Geology of Cape Cod. Students learn surveying techniques and other field methods to explore the geological history of Cape Cod and understand the powerful forces shaping the area today. We spend long days in the field constructing beach profiles and analyzing sediments to compare coastal processes in different settings.

Headquartered in the evenings at the Even’tide Motel in Wellfleet, Mass. — complete with a makeshift field classroom and laboratory — the group travels up and down the Cape over the course of the week. By observing and measuring coastal erosion directly, students develop a new appreciation for sustainable development in this rapidly changing environment.

Rich Oches and David Szymanski Geology Professors, Natural and Applied Sciences

22 | SUMMER 2016

I plan to study abroad at Al Akhawayn University in Morocco. I’m looking forward to taking Arabic classes and experiencing a new culture!

Fiona Smith ’19 Information Systems Audit and Control I’ll spend four weeks in Kigali, Rwanda, working with statisticians from the National Statistics Institute of Rwanda.

This work follows extensive experience analyzing living standards data in Vietnam and Senegal. The objective is to conduct applied research with local statisticians, notably in issues related to measures of poverty and in small area estimation of quantities such as poverty rates.

Dominique Haughton Professor, Mathematical Sciences

I’ll be traveling quite a bit for my work with Macy’s events, but my most exciting trip of the summer is to Block Island to celebrate the marriage of Megan Hill ’10 and Jim McKennedy ’10! We all studied abroad together during our Bentley years and I’m thrilled to venture east to celebrate their love and embarrass them a bit by promoting it in the Bentley Mag. :) Mariela Spillari ’10

We’ll be on an epic trip to three different islands in Hawaii starting on Labor Day weekend!

Taylor Grant ’12 and Sarah Schott ’14

Because I work on campus, I couldn’t study abroad for a semester. But this summer I’ll study and intern in the United Kingdom through Bentley’s London Internship Program.

Vicky Wu ’18 Information Design and Corporate Communication

I’m planning to travel to Alaska with my parents and siblings.

Inderpreet Kalra, MBA ’10

I’m very excited to be traveling to Colorado with my family.

We’ll hike and hang out with one of my Bentley roommates!

Class of 1994 and we’re still listening to music, enjoying BBQs and having fun together.

Can’t wait!

Danielle (Harris) LoPiccolo ’94

PHOTOS AND GRAPHICS: SAN FRANCISCO BY TANARCH/SHUTTERSTOCK; RWANDA MAP BY DMITRY KAMINSKY/SHUTTERSTOCK; MACHU PICCHU BY CHRISTIAN VINCES/SHUTTERSTOCK; PROFESSORS AT CAPE COD BY DAVID SZYMANSKI/BENTLEY; SPICE MARKET BY ADISA/SHUTTERSTOCK; LONDON BY SILOTO/SHUTTERSTOCK

Bentley taught me to give back.

Jay Toporoff ’78

<< FEATURES

My partner and I will finalize our adoption of two boys.

Travis Anthony, MBA ’13 We’re getting married!

Benjamin Shou ’09 and Mai Phung ’09

Bound for Service For the past 15 years I have been involved in America’s Camp, a free summer camp for children who lost a parent on 9/11. It has been an amazing ride. I have personally watched these kids come out on the other side of a horrific tragedy in a most positive and healing way. I now have an amazing opportunity to try to make magic once again: This summer, I’ll direct a summer camp called Sea Stars North, for the kids from Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Bentley taught me to give back. While in Waltham I participated in many fundraising efforts, dancea-thons, service days and more ... I learned that we all have a responsibility to make a difference.

Jay Toporoff ’78

PHOTOS AND GRAPHICS: HANDS BY KONSTANTINCHRISTIAN/SHUTTERSTOCK; CLOCKTOWER KISS BY BENJAMIN SHOU; FAMILY PORTRAIT BY TRAVIS ANTHONY; BOOK BY AFRICA STUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCK; HOLA BY WILDFLOWERET/SHUTTERSTOCK; LOBSTER BY ALIAKSEI_7799/SHUTTERSTOCK

I’ll be going to teach at the American School of Quito in Ecuador.

Jeff Francois ’90 I’m headed to Costa Rica for 10 days of service. I’ll be a project leader, helping to facilitate community service for the designated host village.

Living with a homestay family will improve my Spanish language skills and let me experience firsthand an intimate snapshot of rural family life.

Mackenzie Schneider ’19 Marketing and Liberal Studies Over Labor Day weekend I’ll be heading to Camp Sunshine with Kaylee Ruel ’14 and Sydney Southern ’14 to volunteer for four days! Camp Sunshine is a retreat in Casco, Maine, for children with lifethreatening illnesses and their families. This is our second year going and we are so excited.

Emily Hamlin ’14

Music, Marriage + More!

Newport Folk Festival: A tradition with my folk, it’s a relaxed weekend of incredible, intimate concerts, cooling off with a Del’s lemonade, making friends under the tent, dancing in the dirt, and catching sweeping red sunsets on the water before you head home.

Kristin Livingston Senior Assistant Director, Advancement Communications Hoping to get in at least one traditional lobster dinner before the season is over!

Cindy Lacey ’83

I am fascinated by what is coming out of neuroscience these days, so I have added Eliezer J. Sternberg’s Neurologic: The Brain’s Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior to an already long list of books on this topic. My partner, Michele, and I recently spent seven months in Portugal, so I plan to read The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel (author of Life of Pi). And I am eager to read Jhumpa Lahiri’s first work of nonfiction, In Other Words.

Wiley Davi Professor, English and Media Studies

How are you spending your summer?

Traveling the world? Getting hitched?

Hanging with Bentley friends?

Let us know: magazine@bentley.edu

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 23

Racing Blind

BY TIFFANY SMITH Photography by Chris Conti Last September, a sailing team out of Boston called the Wind Whisperers won an international championship regatta. They competed against groups from around the world, battling 6-foot waves, 20-knot winds and near-constant seasickness. The only twist: This was the 2015 Blind Sailing World & International Championship. Meet helmsman Duane Farrar ’83.

“ We were getting tossed around in a huge mess of waves.

It was just like being in a washing machine.”

— On conditions during the 2015 championship regatta

<< FEATURES

D

uane Farrar knew all along that he would go blind. Like his mother, he has retinitis pigmentosa, a rare disease that causes retinal degeneration. He also has a neurological condition called trigeminal neuralgia, which causes excruciating electric nerve pain down the left side of his face. Farrar was declared legally blind in November 1989 at age 28.

His philosophy then, as now: “I can do anything. It just takes a little longer.”

To wit: The native of Unionville, Conn., played high school football before heading to Bentley for associate’s and bachelor’s degrees in Management and Computer Information Systems, respectively. That’s along with being an editor for the Inferno student newspaper (precursor to The Vanguard) and playing intramural floor hockey and softball. Post-college, he worked for years as a programmer at AT&T and then in custom applications development for a software consulting company. Then the 2001 dot-com crash dimmed job prospects for him and many others in the tech industry.

SURFACING A PASSION The setback was temporary, as Farrar focused instead on his talent for competitive sports. He learned to ski and joined the Board of Directors at Ski for Light, a nonprofit that teaches cross country skiing to visually impaired adults. He was then introduced to SailBlind, which does the same thing for sailing.

“I learned the basics of sailing and the following weekend they needed a last-minute person to fill in during a blind sailing regatta,” he says. “I was steering a sailboat in Boston Harbor on a crazy, windy day without a clue of what I was doing. And loving every second.”

He’s been racing ever since.

In addition to SailBlind, Farrar races with Community Boating in Boston, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth. The two live in Watertown with 9-year-old twin daughters, Camilla and Iris.

“Being middle aged and having twins is a handful,” says the stay-at-home dad.

“Being middle aged, having twins and being blind is definitely a handful.”

PULLING TOGETHER Teams usually consist of four people: two blind sailors, one handling the helm and one the main sail; and two sighted guides, one who trims the foresail and one who can help only by speaking. Their role is to communicate what they see to their blind boat mates.

“I feel the boat,” says Farrar. “I feel the wind on my skin and concentrate on how the helm feels in my hand. Even when people are shouting and crazy things are happening, I stay focused on my guide and on steering. Sailing is a mental game.”

It’s also an exercise in teamwork — a skill that Farrar says he developed in college.

“The foundation in managing people and projects that I got at Bentley made it possible to go out and work in a team environment.”

This penchant for collaboration has taken Farrar to Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. He has been working with students to develop an autonomous blind sailing system: sensors and cameras that use GPS and WiFi to share things like sail trim and wind direction.

“The challenge is finding the right interface,” he says. “How do you see a wind puff on the water and translate it with technology?”

THE WHISPERERS SCREAM For now, Farrar is doing pretty well with the current system. The Wind Whisperers won the 2015 Blind Sailing World & International Championship on Lake Michigan in Chicago. His teammates were fellow blind sailor Amy Bower and sighted guides Solomon Marini and Denis Bell.

“There were 6-foot waves and almost everyone was green with motion sickness,” he recalls. “Due to the strong winds, our boat lifted several feet out of the water and we basically surfed a wave down the course, screaming like banshees. It was one of the most amazing sailing experiences I’ve ever had.”

LEARN MORE | Check out the documentary that Farrar appears in, called Sense the Wind (sensethewind.com).

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 25

Stylish Turnout . . .

Nearly 600 alumni and guests returned to Bentley for Reunion Weekend (June 3 to 5) and more than $1.4M was raised ­— now that’s something to celebrate!

CLASS NOTES

<< CLASS NOTES

1971 John (Jack) DeCourcy, P ’01, Andover, Mass., received the Citizens Who Care Award from the Rotary Club of Andover for his volunteer work with the Professional Center for Handicapped Children.

1977 The Boston Business Journal recognized Joe DiLorenzo, P ’09, ’12, Humarock, Mass., with the F. Gorham Brigham Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award for “creating a meaningful legacy in the local finance profession.”

1979 Bob Allen, Bangor, Maine, has been named to Barron’s “Top 1,200 Advisors” list for the fifth year in a row; he ranks No. 2 in his home state.

1980 Joe Ottaviano, Georgetown, Texas, has joined Asset Planning Corporation of Knoxville, Tenn., as vice president.

1982

35th Reunion June 2 to 4, 2017 David Flynn, Glastonbury, Conn., has expanded his financial advisory firm, Glastonbury Retirement Advisors LLC, by adding Shane Hassett, P ’18 as a registered representative.

Former Sun Newspapers editor Brian Gleason ’86, Port Charlotte, Fla., is co-recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing, for pieces that “demanded truth and change after the deadly assault of an inmate by corrections officers.”

Jane McCahon, Chicago, Ill., was promoted to senior vice president of corporate relations and corporate secretary for Telephone and Data Systems Inc.

1983 The Boy Scouts of America honored Martin Connors Jr., MST ’90, Leominster, Mass., with its Distinguished Citizen Award.

James Erdekian, Wayland, Mass., is a tax partner at Feeley & Driscoll PC. He writes: “Effective May 1, F&D will be combining with BDO, USA — a great opportunity for Bentley grads!”

1984 Nichols College has elected Thomas Lodge, MST, P ’04, Hopkinton, Mass., to its Board of Trustees.

1985 John Dennis, Concord, N.H.; Brian Price, Natick, Mass.; Dan Madden, Franklin, Mass.; and Steve Flynn ’84, MBA ’91, Canton, Mass., met up in Park City, Utah, in March.

The CamRock Network of Camden and Rockland, Maine, hosted a lecture by Marianne Masters, Round Pond, Maine; the alumna addressed income tax issues for small businesses.

1986 Anita Bille, Lincoln, R.I., president and CEO of Legal

It was a mini-reunion for Delta Omega alumnae at Disney’s Hilton Head Island Resort: Sue (McManus) Rayford ’80; Gayle (Nix) Oulighan ’80; Robin Kelley ’80; Debra (Voke) O’Sullivan ’80; Maureen (Waters) Mara ’80, MST ’94; Anne Bernstein ’83; and Judy (Mulvee) Dincecco ’80.

Search Solutions LLC, announces the firm’s 20th anniversary, which takes place in August. “I am both proud and excited!” she writes.

1987

30th Reunion June 2 to 4, 2017 Jamie Grady, Pittsburgh, Penn., was appointed executive director of the Community Arts Center in Williamsport.

Tufts Medical Center announced that Kristine (Ingalls) Hanscom, MST ’97, Danvers, Mass., has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer.

The New England Water Works Association has appointed Stephen Ryan, Canton, Mass., to the post of executive director.

Building materials firm CRH has tapped William Teuber Jr., MST, West Newton, Mass., to serve on its board as a non-executive director.

The alumnus is vice chairman at EMC Corporation.

1989 Diana Franchitto, MBA ’97, Foxboro, Mass., has been named president and CEO of HopeHealth.

1990 Kristine Martel, MBA ’95, North Reading, Mass., has been appointed vice president of human resources for Tufts Health Plan.

1991 Clarus Ventures LLC welcomed Robert DeBenedetto, MST, P ’10, Pleasanton, Calif., as a venture partner.

In April, more than 100 Bentley students and alumni, including five founding members, celebrated the 25th anniversary of Delta Kappa Epsilon; the Bentley chapter was established on April 28, 1991.

Linda Karaian, Hanover, Mass. began working at Boston University as a category manager for site services.

Delphi Automotive PLC announced the appointment of Joseph Massaro, Boxford, Mass., as chief financial officer and senior vice president.

Gary R. Smith, Portland, Maine, attained the professional designations of Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC) and Certified Financial Planning Professional (CFP). He also has changed his company’s name from New England Retirement Advisors to WealthSmith Financial Planning.

Suzi Mouradian, Belmont, Mass., has been the owner of Mouradian Jewelry in Boston since 1992.

Howe, Riley & Howe welcomed Alison Perrella, MST, Bedford, N.H., as a managing partner.

1993 Nick Camelio, Watertown, Mass., was promoted to chief talent officer at Demandware.

1994 David Pietrewicz, MST ’95, Auburn, Mass., was named chief of staff in the Office of the Vice Chairman for KPMG LLP. Jay Rice, MBA, Wilmington, Mass., has formed Thinking Chat, an artificial intelligence chat feature for sales sites.

1995 The Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC) appointed Steven Giannotti, Orlando, Fla., as senior vice president.

1996

1992

Alicia (Wible) Amaral, MSA, Somerville, Mass., has joined BDO as a director in Valuation and Business Analytics.

Brian Higgins, Quincy, Mass., has joined Salesforce as a director of customer success.

Toni (Dorazio) Cannalonga, North Reading, Mass.; Michelle (Moran) O’Connor, MST ’03, North Reading, Mass.; and Kara (Hickey) Tucker ’01 raised

25th Reunion June 2 to 4, 2017

Continued on page 30 BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 27

Reunion Weekend

28 | SUMMER 2016

June 3 to 5

bentley.edu/reunionweekend

PHOTOS BY BRIAN SMITH/TWIN LENS MEDIA AND SANDRA COSTELLO/LOVE DAYS PHOTOGRAPHY

<< CLASS NOTES

Save the Date

June 2 to 4, 2017

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 29

CLASS NOTES >> 1996 continued $52,000 for brain cancer research via the FitRev Games. The event took place at Fit Revolution studio, which O’Connor owns with husband Gregory.

Ken Distel, Avon, Conn., has logged several professional achievements. He was named president-elect for Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc.; elected to the Board of Directors for the American Association of Managing General Agents; and appointed area vice president of his family business, Joseph Distel & Co. Inc. The company has been acquired by Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Joshua Hollander, Silver Spring, Md., joined CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield as a program consultant.

Evan Labell, Londonderry, N.H., was promoted to sergeant first class in the U.S. Army Reserve. Upon returning from Kuwait, he will serve as sergeant for the 3rd Platoon, 716th Engineer Company, located in Attleboro, Mass.

1997

20th Reunion June 2 to 4, 2017 The Food and Drug Administration invited Merlyn Griffiths, MBA, Greensboro, N.C., to present at a workshop on water pipe smoking. She is an associate professor of marketing at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

A feature story on LinkedIn highlighted Stephanie (Shuler) Walsh ’02, Halifax, Mass., for volunteering as a medical coordinator with the American Red Cross at the Boston Marathon.

30 | SUMMER 2016

1998 PDR Certified Public Accountants welcomed Paul Costantino, MST, Revere, Mass., as a principal of the firm.

Baker Newman Noyes promoted Stanley Rose, MST, Pownal, Maine, to the post of director.

Bob Ward, MBA, Swampscott, Mass., has joined the Advisory Board of Merriman Capital Inc.

1999

Highland Capital Partners appointed Jessica (Healey) Pelletier, MST ’02, Andover, Mass., as chief financial officer.

2001 Michael Crotty, Wrentham, Mass., joined Girard Financial Group as a partner.

Kara (Hickey) Tucker, Reading, Mass.,Toni (Dorazio) Cannalonga ’96 and Michelle (Moran) O’Connor ’96, MST ’03 raised $52,000 for brain cancer research via the FitRev Games, held at O’Connor’s fitness studio, Fit Revolution.

CSP Inc. has hired Ismail “Izzy” Azeri, Franklin, Mass., as an independent director.

2002

2000

Jared Antista and his wife, Paula, Londonderry, N.H., welcomed William Walter into the world on February 9, 2016. Siblings Cecilia and Wesley are excited.

Bridget (Fahey) Armstrong and husband Jim, Bridgewater, Mass., welcomed son James, born on October 3, 2015. He joins big sister Summer.

Athenahealth has tapped Guilda Hilaire, Hyde Park, Mass., as manager of marketing automation.

Jennifer (Bunce) Hogencamp, Mansfield, Mass., was promoted to partner at BlumShapiro.

Paul Muccio, Quincy, Mass., has been named to the Board of Directors for South Shore Young Professionals.

Angela Nuss, Braintree, Mass. received the Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Braintree Rotary Club for exemplifying its motto: “Service Above Self.”

15th Reunion June 2 to 4, 2017

The U.S. Air Force promoted Michael J. Schmidt, MBA ’95, Bellbrook, Ohio, from colonel to brigadier general on January 1, 2016. He is program executive officer for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Special Operations Forces at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

“We never remembered to send a birth announcement!” write Theresa (Ferlazzo) and Joe Marcello. “Our son, Joseph Anthony III, is now 2 years old and loves his Patriots gear — despite living in Manhattan.”

2004

Jean Joseph, MST ’15 and Meredith Aherne were married on May 22, 2015, at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Mass.

Rebecca (Lariviere) and Brian Applegate, Boulder, Colo., said hello to daughter Berkleigh on September 21, 2014.

Rick Scherer, Hopkinton, Mass., was named among “Top 200 Mortgage Originators in America for 2015,” a list compiled by Mortgage Executive magazine.

Steve McDowell, Durham, Conn., was promoted to director of financial aid services for the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system.

2003

The executive team at ContextMedia has elevated Eric Olson, Oak Park, Ill., to vice president, Member Experience and Operations.

Soleil (Valliere) and Robert Charbonnier, Natick, Mass., are proud parents of Maven Colette, born on February 25, 2016.

Denise (Ford) Del Monaco, MSFP ’04 and husband Stephen, Braintree, Mass., announce the birth of daughter Elyse Harper on November 23, 2015. She joins siblings Connor Ford and Owen Alexander.

Codeship welcomed Jack Drew, MBA ’06, Newmarket, N.H., as vice president of sales.

Courtney (Cogswell) Lombardo, Billerica, Mass., and husband Barry N. Jr. welcomed Barry Nicholas III on February 27, 2016.

2005 Karen (Suydam) Bair, MBA ’09 and husband Kevin welcomed Pascale Rose on August 31, 2015. She joins siblings Isabella and Michael.

Co-founder and CEO of Gelato Fiasco, Joshua Davis, Topsham, Maine, was named the Mainebiz Small Company Business Leader of the Year for 2016.

Jason Kohari, San Francisco, Calif., has been promoted to associate group manager, Interactive Marketing, at Genentech.

Gloria Shum, Boston, Mass., and Tyson Tran were married on August 2, 2015. They celebrated with bridesmaid Bena Tam ’04 and 10 other alumni.

Christopher Tardif and Ra Un were married on August 22, 2015, in Mattapoisett, Mass.

Falcons attending included Lei (Caparanga) Amarra, MSF ’06; Jessica Gioglio; Greg Lacasse; and Brian Scott.

2006 Stephen Costa and Quentara (Johnson) ’07, MSFP ’08, North Andover, Mass., welcomed daughter Elizabeth Ann on July 13, 2015.

Chris DeRosa, Medford, Mass., was promoted to senior manager in the tax practice at Baker Newman Noyes.

First Republic Bank welcomed Kevin Kidd, San Francisco, Calif., as enterprise compliance technology manager.

Yelena Tsvaygenbaum, Somerville, Mass. joined Murtha Cullina LLP, as a member of the Business and Finance Department and the Real Estate and Affordable Housing practice groups.

Tao “Tony” Wu, MSA, MST ’14, Lake Forest, Calif., is now working as director of international tax at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

<< CLASS NOTES

2007

Giovanni (Holman) and John Pearson, Milford, Conn., welcomed Ava London on March 18, 2016.

Rebecca Acorn, MST, Bedford, N.H., was promoted to supervising senior in the Tax practice at Baker Newman Noyes.

Quentara (Johnson) Costa, MSFP ’08 and husband Stephen ’06, North Andover, Mass., welcomed daughter Elizabeth Ann on July 13, 2015.

Kate (Polito) Pierce and husband Steven, Grand Rapids, Mich., welcomed son David on December 4, 2015.

10th Reunion June 2 to 4, 2017

Werner Krings, MSFP, Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany, is now sales director, Executive Education, at the Henley Business School.

Blake Reynolds, Marlborough, Mass., was promoted to manager, Real Estate and Facilities, for The Brattle Group.

2008 Kara Armbruster and Drake Peabody ‘09 were married on August 22, 2015, at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville,

Conn. The 32 fellow Falcons on the guest list included bridesmaids Anne Culver, Rebecca Baird, MSA ’09 and Katherine (Bimmler) Manoogian, as well as groomsmen Eric Chaves ’09, MSA ’11 and Kyle McAndrew ’09.

Dan Berlin, MBA, MSHFID, Waltham, Mass., was promoted to vice president, Experience Research, at Mad*Pow design agency.

Members of his team include two fellow MSHFID grads and an intern in the Human Factors program.

Derek DuBois, MSA ’09 and Marissa Echtenkamp ’11 were married August 15, 2015, on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. The Falcon contingent included groomsmen Jack Badavas; Owen Barrett; Mike Crepeau, MSF ’09; and Mike Delaney.

Meaghan Munroe, Cambridge, Mass., married Kevin Gravina at the Mountain Top Inn in Chittenden, Va., on May 24, 2015. Attendees included Sam (Robbins) Evans, maid of honor; Cody Aguirre Clearwater, officiant; Dan Munroe ’05; and Sean McEwan ’05.

Corey (McFadden), MSA ’09 and Brandon Millette, Charlotte, N.C., welcomed Averie Skye on April 6, 2016.

The family is very excited.

Yvener Petit, Roslindale, Mass., has earned a master’s degree from the University of Virginia and a CPA license, as well as advanced his career within Ernst & Young. This fall he heads to U.C. Berkeley for his MBA. Cat Porfert and Chris Pierson said “I do” on October 10, 2015, in Dover, Mass.

Bernadette Trenholm, maid of honor; Lauren Langell ’09, bridesmaid; and 21 fellow Falcons joined in the occasion.

SPOTLIGHT: ALEX ESPOSITO ’09, MBA ’10

BY ALLYSON MANCHESTER

As legions of beachgoers know, securing your place in the sun can be anything but relaxing. Some can thank Alex Esposito ’09, MBA ’10 for an option that avoids heavy traffic, limited parking and hauling gear over long distances.

The former Economics-Finance major launched The Free Ride in 2011, to transport locals and visitors among various beaches in the Hamptons, N.Y. The service has since expanded to hotspots in California, Florida and New Jersey.

“It’s a win-win scenario,” says Esposito, a Hamptons native himself. The company’s electric cars, wrapped with

advertising banners, pick up people in designated coverage areas. No money required: Operating funds come from paid advertisers such as JetBlue, Vita Coco and Vineyard Vines. The host city may also contribute to costs.

“Building our own brand without taking away from our sponsors is a balancing act,” he admits. “We’ve stuck with

From left, alumnus Alex Esposito; Brian Powell, lead, East Coast operations; and James Mirras, company co-founder

PHOTO BY THE FREE RIDE INC.

a straightforward, memorable name, and then try to get people excited and talking about the service on their social networks.”

Lately, Esposito and co-founder James Mirras are looking beyond sand and sea. “Our concept, applied to a downtown, is greener and more efficient than traditional options,” he says of being

tapped by San Diego to grow a downtown circulator shuttle.

Also new: an app developed with fellow alumnus Jared Circosta ’09.

“We worked on it for 18 months,” says Esposito.

“If you’re in one of our coverage areas, you can just pull up The Free Ride app and catch a lift.”

CLASS NOTES >>

David Tubis and Kim White ’09 were married on August 15, 2015, in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Seventeen alumni attended the festivities and the happy couple is living in Long Island City.

Paul Turner, MSHFID, Cornelius, N.C., had an essay, “My Two Months of Seasonal Work at an Amazon Fulfillment Center” published on thebillfold.com.

2009 John Apuzzo and Abigail DeMusis ’10 were married on August 15, 2015 in Guilford, Conn. Many Falcons joined the celebration, including bridesmaid Kaitlyn (Johnson) Thompson ’10, best man Chris Apuzzo ’11 and groomsman Ben Sutton.

Nicole Darvirris married Noah Jay Piper II in Lowell, Mass., on August 25, 2015.

The couple celebrated with family and friends at receptions in Cambridge and Conyers, Ga. Samantha Feinberg, MBA ’10 and Jason Raynor were married September 5, 2015,

on Lake George in New York.

They celebrated with 27 fellow alumni.

Jamie Fu, MBA ’15 and Phillip Chu, MSF ’10 exchanged vows on October 10, 2015, at Le Meridien Hotel in Cambridge, Mass.

The 19 Falcons attending included bridal party members Jacky Fu ’10, Melissa Wu ’11, Tina (Lin) Huber and Winette (Yee) Vo. Justine Lathrop and David Soares were married on August 8, 2015, at Flag Hill Winery in Lee, N.H. Falcons attending were Matthew Border, MBA ’13; Adam Greenson; Devin Hilton; Tara Holzman; Jessica Kane, MBA ’10, MST ’11; Michael Botaish ’10; Erica Maccini, MST ’11; Stephen Paradis ’08; and Jaclyn (Lathrop) Smith ’06. The couple resides in Norwood, Mass.

Andrew Lynch, Pawtucket, R.I., was promoted to director of finance for the Global Heavy Vehicle Off-Road business at Sensata.

Mary Mustard, MBA ’10, Waltham, Mass., has become a shareholder of Meketa Investment Group.

Cusumano, MBA ’12; and Chuck Torrisi, MBA ’11.

The couple recently bought a home in Wilmington.

Michelle Matthies and Phil DiSciullo were married on August 15, 2015, in Milford, Conn.

Drake Peabody and Kara Armbruster ’08 were married on August 22, 2015, at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville, Conn. The 32 fellow Falcons on the guest list included bridesmaids Anne Culver ’08, Rebecca Baird ’08, MSA and Katherine (Bimmler) Manoogian ’08, along with groomsmen Eric Chaves, MSA ’11 and Kyle McAndrew.

Wyatt Couture, South Hadley, Mass., writes of starting “a booming energy efficiency contracting business, American Installations, in 2013 with my brothers and mother. We have performed several thousand home assessments and projects on residential homes.”

2011

Kim White and David Tubis ’08 were married on August 15, 2015, in Oyster Bay, N.Y., in the company of 17 alumni.

They make their home in Long Island City.

2010 Jim Buckley, MBA ’11 and Katie O’Brien were married on September 26, 2015, at St. Adelaide Church in Peabody, Mass. More than 50 fellow Falcons joined the celebration, including the groom’s former Bentley roommates: Rob Bondy, MBA ’14; Todd DeAngelo, MBA ’12; Jason

Abigail DeMusis and John Apuzzo ’09 were married on August 15, 2015, in Guilford, Conn. The many fellow alumni attending included bridesmaid Kaitlyn (Johnson) Thompson, best man Chris Apuzzo ’11 and groomsman Ben Sutton ’09.

Michael Fischer, Norwood, Mass. has been named an associate of Brown Brothers Harriman.

Raj Kochhar married George Orphanides on March 12, 2016, in Queens, N.Y., surrounded by family and friends including Christine Varriale ’11. They have taken the combined surname “Korpan.”

Sam Awa, MST and his wife, Colleen, Clifton Park, N.Y., welcomed Amaka Annina on February 29, 2016.

Marissa Echtenkamp and Derek DuBois ’08, MSA ’09 were married on August 15, 2015, on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. The Falcon contingent included groomsmen Jack Badavas ’08, Owen Barrett ’08, Mike Crepeau ’08, MSF ’09 and Mike Delaney ’08.

Kristina Jellen, MST ’12 and Darren Agarwal were married on April 16, 2016, on Cape Cod. Falcons attending included Beth Adler ’12; Elizabeth Bergstrom; Christa Grippo; Katie Jackowski; Alex Nocella ’12; Danielle Onuschak ’10, MBA/ MST ’13; Rick Patsos; Jeanie Tang ’10, MST; and Mark Tremblay.

Continued on page 34

SPOTLIGHT: BEN SHOHAM ’16 Graduating senior Ben Shoham received the inaugural Alumni Association Achievement Award, newly created by the Global Alumni Board. He was honored for embodying the award’s four pillars: to ignite, improve, include and inspire the Bentley community. Over four years, his contributions included leadership in Delta Sigma Pi and the Student Alumni Leadership Council, as well as in the role of Admissions Fellow.

The former Information Design and Corporate Communication major has “the perfect blend of responsibility, integrity and compassion,” says Maria DiLorenzo, director of the Center for Alumni, Parents and Friends. “He’s a natural leader who inspires others to do their best.”

32 | SUMMER 2016

SAVE THE DATE

bentley.edu/homecoming

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEN SHOHAM ’16

NEXT STOP:

CHICAGO

Michael Simoneau ’13 (at the wheel) and former Bentley roommates on Lake Koshkonong, just north of the Illinois border.

Blowing into this Midwest city? Locals advise on what to see, do, hear and eat.

MICHAEL SIMONEAU ’13 | For a fall getaway, you can go in two directions. Head through Indiana into southern Michigan and visit towns along the east side of Lake Michigan. Along the way, stop at the Indiana Dunes — a great place to go hiking. Opting for the opposite direction, into Wisconsin, you can catch Big Ten football at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, or go to Lake Geneva and walk a portion of its 22-mile shoreline path.

JESSICA KACMAR ’07 | Chicago is home to many different types of large music festivals: Lollapalooza, Riot Fest, Pitchfork, Windy City LakeShake, North Coast … and the list goes on. Imagine enjoying a great mix of bands from local groups to big-name headliners, with the impressive skyline as your backdrop. Or, listen to your favorite band in a park nestled in one of Chicago’s neighborhoods.

MARTHA PERRY ’10 | Explore a street festival, like the Old Town Art Fair in June and the Taste of River North in August.

You can drink, listen to music and sample favorite restaurants from the neighborhood!

J.J. JOSEPH ’07 | My best planned day for out-of-town friends would be taking the Chicago Architectural Boat Tour, which goes up and down the Chicago River and provides a wealth of knowledge about the city. Then we’d walk the Magnificent Mile (Michigan Ave.) which is full of shops and restaurants; find the closest Garrett’s popcorn shop; and hop on the red line train to Wrigley Field to either catch a Cubs day game or visit some of the many local bars that make up “Wrigleyville.”

HOWIE SCHNUER ’90 | You’ve got to get some deep-dish pizza at Lou Malnati’s.

Stay at the Intercontinental and swim in the pool that was in the movie Cocoon, ride the brand-new giant Ferris wheel at Navy Pier and take the Willis Tower (Sears Tower) elevator to the Skydeck for spectacular views of the city.

PHOTOS (TOP) COURTESY OF MICHAEL SIMONEAU ’13 AND (SKYLINE) JESSICA KACMAR ’07

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 33

CLASS NOTES >> 2011 continued

SPOTLIGHT: PAULINE (CALLENDER) HAN ’91

BY ALLYSON MANCHESTER

When Pauline Callender watched The Little Mermaid in her dorm room at Bentley, she was not thinking about professional opportunities at The Walt Disney Company.

Today Pauline Han knows the media and entertainment giant in countless ways — and 20 years’ work at the company has not dimmed the Disney magic.

Currently, as vice president and controller for Disney Consumer Products, Han oversees work with licensees, publishers and retailers who create and sell toys, apparel, books and more across thousands of categories. No small task: Disney is the largest merchandise licensor in the world.

Han joined the company as a CPA for rotating accounting projects.

“It was a fantastic experience,” says the former Accountancy major, who credits Bentley for providing a solid foundation in business. She went on to roles at Walt Disney Studios and Corporate.

Business travel in Asia, Latin America and elsewhere keeps Han engaged; so do diverse opportunities. For example, as controller for stage plays, Han attended rehearsals and productions on international stages.

She has sat in on a recording session for a lullaby CD, made appearances at the ESPY Awards, worked on merchandise licensing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and participated in soft openings for Disney Cruise Line and Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, Calif.

“The company culture embraces creativity, a global mindset, technology and diversity,” she says, noting her ability to voice opinions and have “a meaningful impact on the organization.”

This being Disney, the workday can have lighter moments. Han recalls a lunchtime when filming was underway for Pirates of the Caribbean.

“Going through the cafeteria line next to several pirates in full costume and makeup — that will certainly catch you off guard.”

Rachel Graham, Foster, R.I., writes, “I’m working in the User Experience Center at Bentley, on my way to being a Double Falcon in the HFID program!”

Mike Haggerty Jr., Guilford, Conn., is a junior partner for Haggerty Financial Partners, a group within UBS. He received the Certified Financial Planner designation in December 2015.

2012

5th Reunion June 2 to 4, 2017 Coleman Anderson, MBA ’14 and Erin O’Connell ’13, MBA ’14 were married on September 26, 2015, at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Mass.

Kristina Georgieva, MSF and Viktor Vasilev, MSF were married on August 23, 2014, in Gloucester, Mass.

Brian Bramswig, Pleasantville, N.Y., is now an inside sales manager at HomeAdvisor in New York City.

Mike Cormier, Bangor, Maine, has joined UBS Financial Services as a financial adviser.

Evan Honeyman, MBA ’14, Southington, Conn., has been promoted to director of business development at TicketNetwork.

Sjoerd Hoogendoorn, Zwijndrecht, Netherlands, has joined consulting firm Capgemini Netherlands.

Emily Roy, New York, N.Y., has been promoted to senior account executive at Prosek Partners.

2014 Erin O’Connell, MBA ’14, and Coleman Anderson ’12, MBA ’14, were married on September 26, 2015, at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, Mass. The wedding party included bridesmaid Amanda Perrotti and groomsman Yash Agarwal.

Many Bentley friends celebrated the upcoming wedding of Despina Hatzipetrou. The bridal shower was held at the Seaport Hotel in Boston and included guests Chelsea Aranjo; Jenna (Michelle) Cavicchia; Olivia DiLorenzo; Katherine (Moran) Kelley; Betsy Nally; Kelley O’Brion; Alissa Palatiello; Jackie Sullivan, MBA ’16; Alexis Terra and Jessica Tokarz.

Alison Miller, MBA, Acton, Mass., was promoted to senior human resources analyst at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Joaquin Lacayo, Managua, Nicaragua, is a project developer in real estate development on the emerald coast of San Juan del Sur.

Kristen Sloan, MSA ’15, Simsbury, Conn., ran the 2016 Boston Marathon, raising funds on behalf of Boston Medical Center.

Alysha Malik, MBA ’13, New York, N.Y., and Radhika Bansil ’13, North Brunswick, N.J., and have started RADICHE, an “online living room” that aims to connect people and brands, and inspire collaboration.

2015

Molly (Sloan) Renzullo, MBA and husband Steven, Cambridge, Mass., welcomed Lyon Raymond on December 10, 2015.

2013 Radhika Bansil, North Brunswick, N.J., and Alysha Malik ’12, MBA, New York, N.Y., have started RADICHE, an

34 | SUMMER 2016

“online living room” that aims to connect people and brands, and inspire collaboration.

Brothers Lucky and Krassi Popov, Chelmsford, Mass., launched Veloxity in 2013 with two friends from high school.

The team recently installed its charging kiosks on the campus of UMass Lowell.

2016 Drew Blaney, MST, Portland, Maine, was promoted to manager in the Tax practice at Baker Newman Noyes.

Noah Lynn, MSBA has joined Eduventures Inc. as a quantitative research analyst.

PHOTO COURTESY OF PAULINE HAN ’91

<< FAMILY << CLASS MATTERS NOTES

A Perfect Fit Identical twins Ryan ’08 and Brendan ’08 Carrigan were born for business. Mom Cindy and dad Joe, both Bentley Class of 1980 accounting grads, were their enthusiastic cultivators.

“We were learning about cash flows and sales when we were really young,” explains Ryan. “It was never a question of what we were going to study at college … it was which aspect of business will we study?”

Today, their collective Bentley degrees are serving them well. Cindy, Joe and Brendan run a shoe store that draws generations of loyal customers, while Ryan is a portfolio analyst at Fidelity Investments. Both boys were Finance majors.

The family story started 40 years ago this August, when Joe Carrigan and Cindy Swartz met during freshman orientation.

“I knew I was going to marry him,” she recalls, laughing. “I definitely pursued him. I used to ask the RAs to let me sneak presents into his room.”

Joe pipes in, “She essentially stalked me until I finally gave in.”

Cindy doesn’t protest: “My mom always said you have to chase them until they catch you.”

Their business partnership is a more recent affair. They inherited ownership of The Barn Family Shoe Store in 2015 upon the death of Karen Stives, a one-time Olympian whose father founded the company in 1948; Joe joined The Barn in 1991 and had been general manager for nearly 20 years. Brendan came aboard in 2012, choosing the family business over a law career. Cindy left a corporate accounting career to manage the business office in 2013.

While similar competitors are closing around New England, the PHOTOS BY CHRIS CONTI

Carrigan team is on solid footing thanks to a legacy of personalized customer service and high-end products. The Barn occupies 30,000 square feet in two buildings in the suburb of West Newton, Mass., and employs 40 people.

Ryan applauds his parents’ skills as business owners — and as husband and wife. “It’s a pairing that works so well. He’s good at big picture, she’s really good at detail.”

Brendan agrees: “They’re closer now than ever. It’s a privilege to see their marriage continuing to grow in front of me.”

Each family member has a formal title on paper, but it’s all hands on deck seven days a week.

“I’m wearing every hat in the business and really enjoying it,” says Cindy, whose father attended Bentley, but left to serve in World War II. While Ryan is removed from everyday goings-on, his family — wife Alicia (Donnelly) ’08, MSA ’09 and baby daughter Catherine Mary — does enjoy some company perks.

“Catherine is very spoiled,” he says. “She can have whatever shoes she wants.”

As told to Jennifer Skuce-Spira. The Carrigans, from left: Brendan and fiancée Katie Kurty, Joe, Cindy (Swartz), 1-year-old Catherine Mary and parents Alicia (Donnelly) and Ryan.

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 35

CLASS NOTES >>

Save the Date

A relay race from Hull to Provincetown, Mass., brought Class of 2014 Falcons together in May: Mark Adamiak; Jenny Brown; Katie Fisher; Lisa Giorgetti; Stephanie Kos; Cat Maclang, MST ’15; Stacey Raap; Scott Roy; and Kevin Sparacino ’13, MST; along with Owen Kasser ’11.

In Memoriam 1937

Jack R. Younger

1939

Joseph J. Iovanna

1940

Frank A. Morrison

1941

Clifford A. Normandy Nicholas A. Pepe

1942

Howard A. Bailey

1943

Nils F. Johnson Samuel Sweet

1947

Maurice Mayo, P ’81,

Trustee Emeritus Donald S. Woodbury

1957

James C. Bowdring Kenneth A. Hutchins

Edward E. Hebert Wayne T. Olson

1967

1982

1950

1958

1970

1983

Evelyn T. Metcalf

1951

Simone Cyr Erminio J. DiBattista Robert W. Donegan Herbert R. Mercier Jr.

1952

Helen R. Queenan Robert H. York, P ’77

1953

Joseph L. Abcunas Robert F. Denvir Jr.

Ceasar T. Anquillare John Bowman Cole ’47, P ’73, Former Professor and Chair, Accountancy

Department Louis M. Ruggiero Arthur R. Tilley

1954

1948

Stanley E. Moraski Donald H. Nickerson William E. Ryan

Joseph P. Maguire

1949

Carlton A. Caron William Machado

36 | SUMMER 2016

John J. Lombara

1955

Anthony A. Daltorio Roger P. Gaudette

1956

George Menez

1959

David L. Galvin Roger C. Mann John A. Norton George P. Scobie

Roland Bourque Harold E. Doherty

1971

Daniel Conwell

1972

1961

Ellis Curtis Smith

Francis J. Dowd, P ’98 Robert E. Laferriere William A. Miller

1962

1974

Richard D. Hammersley

1963

Gordon E. Marquis

1964

Thomas J. Dowd Roger H. Smith, P ’88

1965

John B. Gately Donald Sewell

1966

Sidney W. Lebewohl, MST ’82 Clifford R. Sagner

Frederick A. Beebe Mario A. Covalucci Timothy F. Sullivan Jr.

1975

Edward P. Cournoyer Robert L. Sewall, MSA Louis J. DiCecca

1984

Daniel G. Lavigueur

1989

Theresa M. Sorensen

1990

Vincent S. Bonfilio

1993

Brian L. Bjurling

1999

Michael R. Pedroli

2007

Gary A. Bagley David L. Randall

Rebecca A. Kostick

1976

Matthew A. Giaquinto

2020

William E. Halmkin, MSA

1979

Friends of Bentley

1981

Thomas J. Casey Jr., Former Staff Member,

Purchasing Department

John R. Chalfin Richard D. Loconte James D. Dennis Susan Douglas

Weddings

1.

2.

4.

3.

4.

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 37

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

38 | SUMMER 2016

12.

13.

14.

1. Marissa Echtenkamp ’11 and Derek DuBois ’08, MSA ’09

2. Cat Porfert ’08 and Chris Pierson

3. Nicole Darvirris ’09 and Noah Jay Piper II

4 . Michelle Matthies ’10 and Phil DiSciullo ’10

5. Kara Armbruster ’08 and Drake Peabody ’09 6. Kim White ’09 and David Tubis ’08

7. Meaghan Munroe ’08 and Kevin Gravina 8. Ra Un ’05 and Christopher Tardif ’05 9. Coleman Anderson ’12, MBA ’14 and Erin O’Connell ’13, MBA ’14 10. Justine Lathrop ’09 and Davis Soares ’09 11. John Apuzzo ’09 and Abigail DeMusis ’10 12. Samantha Feinberg ’09, MBA ’10 and Jason Raynor, ’09 13.

Ray Kochhar ’10 and George Orphanides 14. Jean Joseph, MST ’15 and Meredith Aherne 15. Jamie Fu ’09, MBA ’15 and Phillip Chu ’09, MSF ’10 16. Viktor Vasilev, MSF ’12 and Kristina Georgieva, MSF ’12 17. Jim Buckley ’10, MBA ’11 and Katie O’Brien

18. Gloria Shum ’05 and Tyson Tran

15.

16.

17.

18.

BENTLEY MAGAZINE | 39

CLASS NOTES >>

Future Falcons

1.

3.

6.

7.

4.

5.

8.

9.

10.

12.

1. Pascale Rose, child of Kevin and Karen (Suydam) Bair ’05, MBA ’09 2. Elizabeth Ann, child of Quentara (Johnson) ’07, MSFP ’08 and Stephen Costa ’06 3. Joseph Anthony III, child of Theresa (Ferlazzo) ’03 and Joe Marcello ’03 4. Amaka Annina, child of Colleen and Sam Awa, MST ’11 5. Lyon Raymond, child of Steven and Molly (Sloan) Renzullo, MBA ’12 6. David, child of Steven and Kate (Polito) Pierce ’07 7. Maven Collette, child of Soleil (Valliere) ’03 and Robert Charbonnier ’03 8. Ava London, child of Giovanni (Holman) ’07 and John Pearson ’07 9. Averie Skye, child of Corey (McFadden) ’08, MSA ’09 and Brandon Millette ’08 10. Elyse Harper, child of Stephen and Denise (Ford) Del Monaco ’03, MSFP ’04 11. Berkleigh, child of Rebecca (Lariviere) ’04 and Brian Applegate ’04 12. William Walter, child of Paula and Jared Antista ’02

11.

40 | SUMMER 2016

2.

THE

BETWEEN THE LINES If you’re casting around for a bright spot in the 2016 election season, consider this from the Pew Research Center. Surveyed in March, a full 85 percent of registered voters said they have given the current election “a lot of thought.” That refreshingly high level of interest hasn’t marked any election year since 1988.

This issue of Bentley Magazine arrives to spur your own thinking.

Our feature “Elections Inc.” examines the growing corporate mindset of campaigns, particularly where finance, marketing and data analytics are concerned. Another insider report comes courtesy of CNN’s Dan Merica ’10. Among the first journalists assigned to cover Democrat Hillary Clinton, he was in New Hampshire for candidate rallies held just before the state’s primary. Tag along.

Since March, some of us have been following another campaign of sorts. By early June, the votes were in. Bentley Magazine earned a silver award for publishing improvement in an annual competition sponsored by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). Judges noted the publication’s “more sophisticated look … with a new focus on photography, graphics and design, with articulate writing.” We’re proud to share the news with readers, whose opinions matter most of all.

Stay well and stay in touch.

Susan Simpson Editor

CONTRIBUTORS

MEREDITH SHINER

SCOTT STANTIS

CHICAGO, ILL.

CHICAGO, ILL.

The journalist who wrote our cover story spent nearly a decade in Washington, D.C., covering national politics for Politico, Roll Call and Yahoo News, among others.

Interesting times, she says: “Well-financed individuals and groups have been able to leverage changes in the interpretation of the Constitution to significantly increase political influence and power.”

Politics, sports and pop culture are ripe for skewering by Scott Stantis, whose work appears on our cover and page 13.

The editorial cartoonist is on staff at the Chicago Tribune and produces the syndicated comic strip Prickly City.

His cartoons have run in Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and hundreds of other media outlets worldwide.

1917

LEGACY SOCIETY

What will your legacy be?

In high school, I fell in love with the market the way other kids loved sports.

But my mom has lupus, so I considered becoming a doctor.

Bentley showed me how to combine my interests, and I now have dreams of heading a biotech company that can save countless lives. I’m starting on Wall Street, interning as an analyst for Citi — and I can’t thank Lucia Meunier enough.

MARK MOSKOWITZ-DIAZ ’17 Economics–Finance and Liberal Studies Health and Industry concentration Bentley Trading Society founder Leo V. and S. Lucia Meunier Scholarship recipient

Lucia Meunier cherished Bentley like family. After her husband, Leo ’27, passed away, she created gift annuities to provide income for herself and future support for the Leo V. and S. Lucia Meunier Scholarship Fund.

Her final gift was a generous bequest, ensuring an impactful legacy.

Seniors got a jump on summer during the 18th annual Commencement Week trip to the Bahamas.

The 608 travelers — an all-time high — included (from left) Class of 2016 cabinet members Halle Prentice, Devin Koss, Anish Joshi, Kira Gale, Emmanuel Adediran, Emma Morse and Andrew Elsaid.

LEARN MORE | bentley.edu/bahamas2016

ABOVE PHOTO BY CHRIS CONTI

Your legacy. Bentley’s gratitude.

If you have included Bentley in your future plans, let us thank you with membership in The 1917 Legacy Society. Contact us today for more information.

Office of Gift Planning Liz Siladi (781.891.2475) or Kris Otto (781.891.2586) giftplanning@bentley.edu bentley.edu/giftplanning

SUMMER 2016

175 Forest Street Waltham, MA 02452 USA

Green light for building projects | 4 Study and service meet in Ecuador | 7 Healthy lessons from alumnae CEOs | 10

THEN & NOW

Tracking CNN’s Dan Merica ’10 | 17

1969 2016

Planks kept faculty off the muddy ground at the first commencement on Bentley’s Waltham campus, while mortar boards were sent aloft by this year’s graduating seniors.

PHOTOS (TOP) COURTESY BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND (BOTTOM) TORY GERMAIN

The Business of Elections