CONTENTS Stay Connected To keep up with general news and information about Portsmouth Abbey School, we encourage you to bookmark the www.portsmouthabbey.org website. If you are an alumnus/a, please visit and join our Alumni Community. Check our our listing of upcoming alumni events here on campus and around the country. And please remember to update your contact information on our Alumni Community pages where you can find out more about Reunion 2011, our Annual Golf Scholarship Tournament, and share news and search for fellow alumni around the world: www.portsmouthabbey.org/page/alumni.
Responsibility For the Shared Experience of Community Life by Headmaster James DeVecchi, Ph.D.
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Meet Portsmouth Abbey’s New Regents
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Report From the Monastic Renewal Program Office
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Faculty Notes
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Commencement 2011
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The State of College Admissions by Mary McDonald, Director of College Counseling
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Portsmouth Institute 2011: The Catholic Shakespeare? by James P. MacGuire ‘70, Director of Portsmouth Institute
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Annual West Point Ring Melt by Frederick Zilian, Ph. D., History Department
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Alumni Profiles: Robert Riera, Jr, ‘65; Matt D’Arrigo ‘90; Christian Vachon ‘95; Adam ‘95 and Jessy Berretto ‘96 Donaldson; Bernadette Pine Cizin ‘96; Lisa Hoffman Walker ‘02; Brendan Rok ‘03; Evan Piekara ‘03; Charlie Holmstrom ‘06; Katie Collins ‘08; Christopher Waterman ‘11; Philip Lozier Youngberg ‘11
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Interview with Kevin Morrissey by Michael Bonin, Ph. D., English Department Head
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The Third “R” and Christian Community Service by Blake Billings, Ph. D. ‘77, Director of Spiritual Life
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Appalachia Service Project Reflection by Therese Thomas, Christian Doctrine Department
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From the Office of Admissions
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The Performing Arts Department by Jay Bragan and Joshua Horsch, Performing Arts Department
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Parent Auction 2011 by Fran Cook, Director of Special Events
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From the Office of Development & Alumni Affairs by Anna Jones, Senior Development Officer
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Headmaster: Dr. James DeVecchi
Winter/Spring Athletics
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Assistant Headmaster for Development: Patrick J. Burke ‘86
Milestones 62
Editors: Kathy Heydt, Katherine Giblin Stark
In Memoriam
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Art Director: Kathy Heydt
Class Notes
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The Portsmouth Abbey Alumni Bulletin is published bi-annually for alumni, parents and friends by Portsmouth Abbey School, a Catholic Benedictine preparatory school for young men and women in Forms III-VI (grades 9-12) in Portsmouth, RI. If you have opinions or comments on the articles contained in our Bulletin, please email: communications@portsmouthabbey.org or write to the Office of Communications, Portsmouth Abbey School, 285 Cory’s Lane, Portsmouth, RI 02871 Please include your name and phone number. The editors reserve the right to edit articles for content, length, grammar, magazine style, and suitabilty to the mission of Portsmouth Abbey School.
Photography: Dom Joseph Byron, Jez Coulson, Nick DeLieto ‘13, Julia Driscoll, Andrea Hansen, Blake Jackson, Kate Whitney Lucey, Kevin Morrissey, Louis Walker Individual photos found in alumni profiles have been supplied courtesy of the respective alumni.
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