1969 classmates Suzi Hosdon MacDaniels, Susan Alford, Margo Colbert Keegan, Barbara Hellmuth, Kate Burke Walsh and Patti Helmuth.
1965 Liduine van Houten currently lives in
Leuven, Belgium. She works as diabetic educator nurse of pediatrics at the university hospital “Gasthuisberg” of Leuven. She has a daughter and a son and several grandchildren.
a nine-year-old daughter, Mary Starlyn Street, whom they adore. Michele is a National Board Certified teacher and her husband is a Major in the US Army. They have been stationed in Korea where Marta has visited them twice. Michele has two daughters, Mary Olivia, age 4, and Gabrielle Esther, 5 months.
1966 In addition to her full-time work at Northern
1969 The Class of 1969 celebrated their 40 Reunion
Virginia Community College, Dr. Carol Pender Sinwell is teaching graduate classes in education for the University of Virgina.
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on Saturday October 3, 2009 at Holy Child. To hear what you missed, contact Suzi Hodson MacDaniels at suzimacd3@aol.com.
1967 1970 Beatriz Castro de Buello and her husband, Congratulations to Nancy Forbes Ephraim, Marcos, live in Necochea, Argentina. They have five children and one grandson, named Tomas, and another grandchild on the way. All of Beatriz’s children live in Buenos Aires. Ming Ivory reports some fun news: James Wood, of The New Yorker, thought her entry in the NPR “ThreeMinute Fiction Contest” was worth a mention on air in the contest update. Click “Listen Now” at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story. php?storyId=106524920.
1968 Marta Alonso Street has been teaching
elementary school for 25 years. The last five years she has been a resource teacher for the Gifted Program in Savannah, Georgia. Marta and her husband, Kevin, have two children, Michael and Michele. Michael is with the K-9 Unit in the Chatham County Sheriff ’s Dept. He has 22
professionalism in Dentistry. Her youngest child, Meghan, graduated from Dickinson College in May. Kathy Worland Hamm’s oldest son, a graduate of St. John’s College, Annapolis, was married this past spring. Her third son is currently attending Harvard, along with Tricia Bates Bardenwerper’s son. Please send your email to Margot Culotta-Norton at mmctooth@ aol.com. She is trying to get everyone’s email address for invitations to an upcoming reunion.
who received the Distinguished Alumna of the Year award. After receiving this award on the evening of June 3, 2009, Nancy addressed the Class of 2009 as they were inducted into the Alumnae Association.
1971 Mary Anne Melo Conley had two
graduations this past May. Her daughter, Katherine, graduated cum laude from Loyola University, New Orleans and Maggie, her youngest, graduated from Georgetown Visitation and is headed to Loyola, New Orleans in the fall. Her son, Tim, is engaged to be married in January, 2010. Margot Culotta-Norton was the recipient of the Sterling V. Mead Award from the DC Dental Society this past June. This is the highest award the society presents for distinguished service, leadership and
1973 Lisa Kruppa Funk and her husband,
Ken, are volunteers with Operation Welcome Home Maryland. OWHMD is an all-volunteer organization started in 2007, whose goal is to make sure the troops returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait receive the welcome home they deserve when they arrive at BWI Marshall Airport. Lisa and Ken are Team Leaders, coordinating some of the welcome home events. Visit the Web site, www.owhmd.org, for more information and to see pictures from welcome home events. Martha Moran and her husband, George Meyer, live in New Jersey during the week while working in New York City. Martha is a client manager on one of HP’s biggest accounts. On the weekends, they live in a farmhouse near Albany, New York. Martha would love to connect with old friends from Holy Child on Facebook.
1974 Michele P. Rost has attended a Felician Sisters convent for seventeen years and was recently inducted into the Felician Associates.
The Laughter Club: Margie Walker Matthews ’72, Maggie Ryan ’72, Tina Johnson Brenneman’72, Rosemarie Patane Dupy ’72, Suzi Norris Montes de Oca ’74, Alicia Ryan Kara ’74 and Amy Ryan Rued ’72.
1976 Cathy Rolle Ambrogi is working in the
NICU at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. Her daughter just graduated from nursing school and will be working in the NICU at Fairfax. Her son is studying engineering at UMBC. Fiona D’Agostino has moved to a home with her own pier right on the Magothy River near Annapolis. Her business, Fiona’s Cakes, is thriving. Maura Fox is living in Glens Falls, New York. Her daughter, Kaitlin, is on her way home from Park City, Utah, where she has been for the last two years and will be going to Vermont Law School. Maura spends her summers busy with her perennial garden or in the Adirondacks at her family’s place on Long Lake. Jane Rosinski Grenier now heads up custom solution ideation at Conde Nast Digital, developing marketing programs for advertisers that appear on the company’s Web sites, from Epicurious to Style to Glamour.com and TeenVogue.com. She and her husband continue to enjoy their second home in the Ardeche. Claire Richardson graduated in June with a Master’s in Pastoral Studies (MAPS) from Seattle University’s School of Theology and Ministry. Claire interned at St. Christopher’s Hospice in London, and plans to focus on educational and spiritual aspects of endof-life care. To pay off her student loans, Claire will continue to provide media training to private and government clients in Alaska. Suzanne Stinson received a promotion at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is now the Chief Contracting Officer for two Institutes, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute on Aging. She oversees a staff of ten who negotiate and award medical research contracts on behalf of NIH. Suzie’s daughter,
Mary Hornish Kempf ’s surprise 50th birthday party on July 4, 2009. with 1976 classmates Teresa McGrane James (l) and Suzie Stinson (r).
Johanna ’06, is going into her senior year at Catholic University of America as a nursing major. Her son, Patrick, will be starting his freshman year at University of Maryland’s Scholars Program as a biology major this fall. Suzie encourages her classmates to join Facebook, as a growing number of the Class of 1976 have.
1977 Donna Thome Boehlert lives in Raleigh,
North Carolina with her husband, Charley, and two sons, Isaak and Julien. Isaak will be a sophomore in high school and Julian will be a 6th grader. Donna is a jewelry designer and her creations can be seen at www.isajul.com. Shana Gaultney Elliott is still living in Atlanta, Georgia, practicing dentistry and raising her three daughters who are 21, 17 and 13. Shana and her husband, Richard, celebrated their 27th wedding anniversary in April. Donna and Shana enjoyed a reunion at Lake Oconee, Georgia last year. Lynora “Muffin” Amorosi Lynham lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland with her husband, John; she is a real estate agent. She keeps busy with her two daughters, Mimi and Lilly, who are both avid tennis players. Tina (Mary) Arrigo Sito has just moved back to Maryland with her husband and 12-year-old twins. Mary would love to hear from classmates. Her email is tinasito@yahoo.com.
1978 Janet Canfield lives in Atlanta, Georgia and is a Chef Instructor at the Art Institute of Atlanta. She came home to visit her mother in July and spent an evening of fun with Pam Hain Kelly and Patricia Boland Jones.
Anne-Marie Barry’s ’81 daughters, Charlotte and Victoria, in front of the Acropolis.
1980 Christine Finch Oleynick lives in Weston,
Connecticut with her husband and eight-year-old twin boys. Christine has started her own jewelry design business called Gold Finch Designs.
1981 Anne-Marie Basdekas Barry, her husband
Bert and daughters Charlotte and Victoria just returned from a trip to London and Greece. Of particular interest were celebrations around the opening of the new Acropolis Museum in Athens. First, Anne-Marie and the girls stopped in London, to view the Parthenon Gallery at the British Museum, home of the famous Elgin Marbles, taken from the Acropolis years ago. Then, they traveled on to see the rest of the Parthenon sculptures in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In addition, they were able to attend Romeo and Juliet at the new Globe Theatre in London, as well as a production in an ancient Roman ampitheatre at the foot of the Acropolis.
1982 Colleen McCullough Laughlin and
her husband, Joe, live in Lake Forest, Illinois. They have five children: Connor, age 20, Meaghan, age 18, Patrick, age 17, Ryan, age 16, and Joey, age 14.
1983 After living in Baltimore for 15 years, Kate
Barden Sampogna and her husband relocated to Broadlands, Virgina, where he is 23