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after 27 years as Executive Director of Safe Haven of Waterbury, CT. Mary Lou Collins traveled to Thailand and Vietnam in January. Gale Pandiani O’Toole toured the Amalfi Coast of Italy this spring. I heard from Linda Marinelli Bollettino at Christmas with a card and long letter—had to ask for a score card to keep up with the details. She and husband Vincenzo split their time between home in East Caldwell, NJ and a family farm complete with garden, orchard, and new vineyard in Pennsylvania, where twin sister Carole Marinelli Auth visited last spring. She has 4 children, 5 grandchildren, and 2 grand-cats. Vincenzo just finished a first novel and is at work on a sequel. Linda ran into Susan Airoldi Kalloch while visiting her daughter in Massachusetts and realized as Susan shared some class news that she has not been receiving informational e-mails or Regis Today. If you know of anyone in a similar situation, encourage them to call the Alumni Office or register online at the Tower Talk site on Regis’s web site (registowertalk.net/ info). “Isn’t it fascinating to know how things turned out for us?” Linda wrote. “I am so grateful to be alive, happy, and healthy, and to realize that lots of friends continue to be so too.” Plans for our Reunion May 13–15, 2016, are developing. By May of 2016 the “new Maria Hall” will be ready with its single rooms and private baths; alumnae of that dorm may want to stay there and look out at the park-like “quad” where a parking lot used to be. Hope you got the first of a series of postcards about the Reunion in February. Watch for more. And something to ponder: now that we’re all septuagenarians, what surprises you most? Let me know.
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✒ Carolyn Sammartino Moran, 105
Kittredge Street, #1, Roslindale, MA 02131, 508-696-0931, cmoran6@ comcast.net ¶ Sympathy is extended to Barbara DiRusso on the passing of
her mother, Isabel DiRusso, on January 8 at age 99. Barbara had lovingly cared for her mother at home. We are saddened to learn of the passing of Priscilla Consodine of Chestnut Hill on July 14. I recall meeting her at the Brookline Library where she helped one of our daughters in a research project. In her quiet way, she was a very effective research librarian. Condolences to the family of S. Ann Ryan SND who entered eternal life on August 23. An English major, Ann was from W. Peabody, and was a member of Student Council, Sodality, Literati, and business manager of Hemetera. She entered the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1970. Ann studied in Germany on a fellowship, received her
MA from Weston School of Theology, and her PhD from Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. Her ministries included teaching at 3 high schools, serving as Campus Minister at Yale, Spiritual Director at St. Stephen Priory, Dover, and most recently as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Our Lady of the Elms, Chicopee. Friends Mary McLaughlin and Rachel Gustina Shea have fond memories of visiting Ann in W. Peabody. A former student says that Ann made a significant difference in her life, that s he was firm, but fair, and very caring. Mary also lost her roommate Mary Baker in September 2013. Mary Baker had been a Grey Nun of Montreal, and studied with us for a year at Regis. She later received her degree from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, and taught at St. Clement High School with Rachel while Mary worked at the elementary school. The death of Mary Baker has meant that Mary McLaughlin is now living alone for the first time. She recalled sharing her first apartment after Regis on Fairfield Street in the Back Bay with Mary Elinor Untiet Dagle, Judith Main Giuliano, Barbara Keller, and Rachel. Mary retired as a school administrator, and now volunteers at an interfaith food pantry in Quincy, and at the Jackson School in Newton, a K–6 school sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph. She finds these opportunities life-giving. Rachel retired from teaching 3 years ago, and has been involved in eldercare for 12 years, now working with a woman in Everett and others. Daughter Nora is now 30, and towers over her mother, taking after Rachel’s late husband Neil. Pam Carberry Mueller also entered a second career after teaching as a software quality engineer for IBM for 15 years, retiring last year. Both Pam’s and her husband’s mothers died within a short time of each other, and they have been maintaining their own home as well as those of their mothers, in St. Louis and Franklin, preparing one for sale. Frances Hogan is congratulated for being the recipient of the Catholic Lawyers Guild Honorable Joseph R. Nolan Award. Patricia O’Brien now lives in Laguna Beach, CA with her husband. We laughed as we spoke about the beautiful weather in California compared to the single-digit Boston days. Pat retired as Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Sciences at UCLA, and is now consulting. She and her husband just returned from a vacation in New Zealand, his homeland. Pat asked for many of you, and sends her best. Another O’Brien, Mary Jo Egan O’Brien lives in Swansea with her husband Jay whom she married 3 days after graduation. Their 2 boys and 7 girls are now ages 47 to 32, and they enjoy 22 grandchildren. While home with her own children, Mary Jo was
often asked if she would care for other children, and she developed this into an official childcare business. Daughters each have the first name Mary, and all but the oldest go by her second name. Sons are named Joseph. They knew son Jay had met the right match for the family when he married a woman named Mary Ann at age 42. Jay has a master’s degree from the JFK School at Harvard, and has developed a program for the parents of autistic children. This follows along the lines of his father Jay who taught special needs children. Their oldest daughter Mary started her own school, the Mastery School of Independent Learners in Fall River. Their daughter Clare, whose husband returned from the military in Hawaii, and their 2 children are temporarily living with Mary Jo. Mary Jo and Jay welcome their family with a “come on back” invitation, and their days are full and fulfilling as a result. From Portland, OR, Ann Hosinski Madden and husband Andy are also fortunate to enjoy grandchildren ages 15 to 5. Andy retired from the Portland Police, oldest daughter Laurie and husband Kent celebrated a winter wedding in Sun River, and third daughter Claire and husband Kemper are close by. Second daughter Katie has Down syndrome, and continues to be a ray of sunshine, participating in Special Olympics for 36 years, and was recently chosen to greet Governor Kulongoski at the Governor’s Gold Award Dinner. Recent travels for Ann include: Spain with her sister Clare; Ireland with Andy; South Bend, IN to visit her nearly 95-year-old mother who is a Regis ’40 classmate of Kathleen Lynch O’Donoghue’s mom, Mary Kerr Lynch; and Disneyland with Katie. One trip she plans on making is to our 50th. Please forward your class dues of $25 made out to Regis College Class of 1967 to Patricia Connearney Deveaux, 55 Clark Lane, Waltham, MA 02451. Contact Class Presidents Ellen Kearns ekearns@constangy.com or Mim Riley Flecca mflecca@yahoo.com who welcome your ideas about our 50th, and want to include you on email notices of upcoming gatherings. Please send information to Christina Duggan, Director of Alumni Relations and Donor Engagement at christina.duggan@ regiscollege.edu to help us locate “missing” classmates. Thank you to all who have contributed to the RegisFund, and I encourage the rest to please do so by June 30. If all goes well, George and I hope to finally be in our home at the above address. Let’s encourage each other to celebrate our 50th when we will lend each other listening ears, laughing lips, and caring hearts! ¶ From Mimi Bowler: In September I traveled to India (the second trip in a year), Nepal and Bangladesh with my husband, who was giving a series of lectures for the