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charge of picking up all of the dinner checks. He is also a junior partner to his brother Jim’s business, Power Plumbing, in South Texas. Marty and his wife, former Budleigh dorm mother, Shelly, have one daughter Rozlind, who is well graduated and out in the working world. While in school, Roz had the chance to intern at Fashion Week in New York with an assist from Joanne Petruzzo O’Malley ’79, who still has contacts in the fashion world left over from her days working with Valentino. Joanne has four sons and the oldest, Luke, just left for his freshman year of college. I just moved my recruiting practice to my den and feel damn happy about the eight-second commute from my kitchen to my office. My oldest daughter has just given birth to our third grandson, Reid William Dominy, to go along with Ayden Glenn (4) and Mason Fraser (2). My other daughter, Aubrey, and son, John, are both out of college and off the dole. Michael Villanova, along with his wife Maura, are still the proud parents of three girls. His oldest, Anna, is a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire while his younger two are high-school age. Mark Brisbois ’77 recently moved from Dallas to Houston and he joined most of the above mentioned crowd at a Pink Ribbon fundraiser in the Houston theater district earlier this year with his new friend Rebecca…and as my contemporaries from the late ’70s will attest, Mark is rarely without a pretty friend, and he ain’t changed! And yes, Mark is still at his playing weight, just ask him, he will show you! The above mentioned classmates were also teammates on some of Coach Mike Vendetti’s New England Football Conference Championship teams of the midto late-70s. Their playing days were best summed up like this…Nichols won more than a few games back then and walking off the field after one of these wins Tom would be thinking, “Well, we won, and I am sure it was because of me…”; Marty would be thinking, “Well, we won, let’s play again, double or nothing…”; I would be thinking, “Glad
that’s over, where’s the cafeteria…”; Bill would be thinking, “Why don’t they ever let me play?”…and finally, Mike (who took the films for Coach Mike) and was stationed halfway up the hill enjoying his sixth cocktail since the opening kickoff, would be thinking, “Man, I sure hope there is film in this camera or Coach is gonna be pissed!”
1983 Class Scribe | Michael Donehey 508-376-5469 (phone) 509 376-5043 (fax) mdonehey@live.com F ro m t h e C l a s s S c r i b e … Most of us will be having our 30th year high school reunions this fall—hard to believe time has passed by so quickly. Mike Geller is both a fellow high school and Nichols alum and he sent me a note about a recent Budleigh gathering. It seems that Martin J. Kelly III ’82 celebrated his birthday of 50 years this summer. Attending with Mike were Eric Nystrom, Leon Bousquet, Tom Baker III, and Jeff Cole ’81. I’m sure a good time was had by all. Mike Freitas, husband of Linda (Dufault) ’82 had his annual fundraising golf event in July, and as always some Nichols friends made the trip. Fellow O’Neil alums Kevin Hayden and David Pearson were on hand to help support Mike’s endeavor—the promise of extra drink tickets didn’t hurt. Hopefully using the same tactics next year, Mike can get Phillip Hernberg, James Gleason ’84 and William Comaskey ’81 to make a showing. I had joined Facebook a short while ago and was surprise to see so many alums from the early ’80s on board. It’s been fun catching up with everyone and you can link to the Nichols page to receive current event updates. While I was cleaning my office, I happened to notice I somehow have three copies of the 1982 Ledger yearbook. If anybody is interested in the extra two let me know and I will mail them out to you. I hope everyone has a great and safe fall season.
1984 Class Scribe | Rose (Cummings) Mamakos 3 Woodland Ave. Kingston, RI 02364-1029 mamcraz@comcast.net F ro m t h e C l a s s S c r i b e … Hello everyone, I have recently volunteered to take on the role as the class scribe. Please contact me with any of your updates. You can also find me and other alumni on Facebook which is a great way to reconnect with friends from the Nichols days—come come and join the community! To give you an update on myself, I have been married for 16 years and have two boys ages 14 and 12. I am very involved in my town’s school system, PTO, and am a special education advocate. I also am the treasurer for our town’s soccer league. I am looking forward to hearing from you! On a serious note, in the last Nichols College Magazine we learned of the passing of the wife of fellow alumnus Lou “Chip” Testa, and we as a community would like to express our sincere condolences to him and his family. Stephen Neffinger is co-founder, vice president and treasurer of Med Exchange International Inc., which buys and sells radiology and imaging equipment from hospitals, MRI centers, veterinarians, brokers, and leasing companies throughout the world. Congratulations to Stephen who celebrated his 25-year marriage to his wife, Janet, with a trip to Mexico! Janet and Stephen have three children; their youngest, Megan, has just graduated from high school. Mary (Meyer) Kilburn reports she is married to a wonderful man (Dan), she has two great kids, Joe (19) and Kate (16), two dogs, a happy home, and a job that she loves. She is a recruiter for a homecare company. Life is good! There are nine of us from Nichols who still get together every year. Ladies weekend away is something we look forward to all year. The best part is it’s like we never left the dorm every time we get back together! Lynda (Shilinsky) Ganem, Valerie (Cote) Housser, u
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