class Christine Hyland Phillips’s son Matt is
up with Anne. I had the opportunity to visit with Paula Webster Sennett and her family at the end of the summer for a weekend garden tour in Peterborough, NH. We were inspired by these spectacular amateur and professionally designed gardens. Paula and her family vacationed for a week in Rome, Italy last October. Her boys, Will and Thomas, are both active in the robotics program at their middle school. Paula enjoys country living and continues renovation projects on her 19th century home. She is also quite the farmer! Her gentlewoman’s farm boasts a perennial garden, organic vegetable garden, and 8 egg-laying hens. Who would’ve imagined! ¶ Ginny Corey Nelson is a Corporate Training Consultant working for Unum Insurance Company. She has been married to Scott Nelson for almost 25 years and they have a son who is a sophomore in college. ¶ As for me, Annamaria Cobuccio Paone, I continue to work for a small biotech company developing oncology drugs. I have two sons in college and a daughter who is a freshman in high school. I look forward to hearing from you for the fall issue!
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✒ Liz Higgins Fitzgerald, 69 Cleveland
Hill Road, Brookline, NH 03033, 603673-8754, slfitzgerald@charter.net ✒ Kym Johnson Miele, 31 Randall Street, Greenville, RI 02828, 401-949-2828, Kymbori@aol.com ¶ We begin this column on a sad note. Lynda Sorgi Wrenn’s
father passed away in September. We offer our sympathies to her and her family. ¶ We have found Facebook to be a very useful tool in gathering information for our class notes. Please feel free to join our page: RegisClassof88. ¶ I, Kym Johnson Miele, am writing this column surrounded by 2-plus feet of snow. Let’s go back to some warmer times. In August, Anne Maneikis and Mary Kate Smedile and family met the Red Sox mascot Wally. Christine Rhoades Travers is a Mortgage Loan Consultant at Salem Five Mortgage Company. Jenn Kelley Drain and Mindy Seifert caught up over lunch one day. Angela Mazzeo Johanson’s son met Dustin Pedroia at Fenway. Ryan was chosen to spray paint home plate and he got a game ball. Amy Buckley Meyer is starting a new job at Sodexo at DeSales University as the Catering Administer. Ros Powers-Kessel and Ken celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. Ros is still in Plymouth, working part-time for the GAP and running her 3 kids around to hockey, basketball, music lessons, etc. She said that Sarah Wolcott Abramson has just started working in the Boston Public Schools running a Robotics program that she implements in various Boston Public Schools. ¶ Steph Palermo is living in Georgia and has written a
book, The Only Way is Up. She also has a radio show and is a Public Speaker. Just Steph provides engaging and motivational speaking services for corporate and public events. Steph’s crew has over 20 years of experience in entertainment, film, television, and live event hosting. They deliver professional and entertaining content for sales conferences, awards ceremonies, team building, and corporate meetings as well as festivals, concerts, and fundraisers. Steph has “single-handedly” managed a home and family while on a path to physical, spiritual, emotional, and intellectual well-being. She delivers a knock-out performance through humor about the everyday struggle that resides in each of us. Through personal trials, she came to understand that only through significant changes in these four aspects could she experience peace. Engage your crowd with Steph’s wit and charm to boost donations or create memorable experiences that last.¶ Pamela Egan-Walsh lives on the Cape with her husband, a USMM Captain, and her three boys, ages 17, 11, and 7. She has started a new position as a Reading Intervention Specialist on the Cape. ¶ Karen O’Brien Rondeau and Dave have sent their oldest son, Liam, to college at NYU. Karen is going back to school to obtain her master’s. ¶ Karla Robertson McCarron and family are still living in Quincy. Her son, Coleman, is a junior at Boston University and daughter, Riley, is a sophomore at Quincy High. Karla received her master’s in Advertising from Boston University in 2010 and is still working at City of Boston Credit Union as the VP of Marketing. ¶ Lynda Sorgi Wrenn is living in Pittsburgh. She earned her master’s in Teaching, but did work in Advertising. She and her husband have 4 kids and she is very active with their schools. Lynda is now running for a seat on the city’s school board. We wish her the best of luck! ¶ Rachel Hitchcock Gulen was recently in Turkey. She and her husband celebrated their 19th anniversary. ¶ Mary Bunnell Faulkner and Steven sent their two oldest boys back to college, with all the food necessities. Mary was also spotted at various Red Sox games this year. ¶ Chris Cavagnaro Kelley is currently the Principal of the Lynch Elementary School in the Winchester Public Schools. She is also an Adjunct Professor at American International College. ¶ Kate Covell Costello works at RPM Associates and Mentor Corporation. ¶ At the end of the fall season, Debi Brooks Puchovsky, Courtney Fenney Deschenes, Mary Ellen Kelley, Heidi Michitsch, Marianne Ritchie McMorrow and Anne Maneikis all hiked Mt. Monadnock. ¶ Anne Maneikis reported on Mary Ellen Kelley’s annual Christmas party with Marianne Ritchie McMorrow, Anne Maneikis, Maureen Foley Holland,
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anxiously awaiting acceptance letters for college next year. Her oldest son is now a sophomore at Villanova and her daughter is a freshman in high school. Kimberly Crane Daly will be celebrating her 16th wedding anniversary in May with husband Jim. They have three children: Patrick, Christina, and Catherine. This summer Patrick will be participating in a Junior Olympics regatta hosted by their yacht club in Camden, ME. Kim will be busy working on a committee and running all the promotions, sponsorships, and media relations for this. ¶ Carol Flynn, Deb Falvey, Marsha Slayton, Debby Wright, Nancy Finnell, Kathy Bourke and Jane Zeytoonian report that, this small nursing group meets for dinner every-other month and the tradition lives on after all these years! A note to alumni of the nursing program: the President’s health lecture series is a good way for nurses to get free contact hours towards license renewal. The info is available from the President’s office. Check it out: regiscollege.edu/about/pres-lectureseries.cfm. ¶ Katie FitzGerald McCully has had a busy year teaching, coaching and competing. In 2014 her Nauset High school girls swim team won the South Central MA State Sectional Title and her Nauset High School girls Cross Country team won the Eastern MA title. She was inducted into the MA swim coaches hall of Fame in April. Her son James entered Nauset as a freshman and was on the varsity soccer team. In addition, Katie traveled to Edmonton Canada for the World Aquathlon championships and placed 3rd in the world in the 45–49 year old age group. She also did the National Aquathlon championships held in Oklahoma and placed first in her age group and 3rd overall for all women. She continues to be an ocean lifeguard at Nauset Beach on the Cape and competed at the Lifeguard Nationals in Virginia Beach this past summer. Katie is getting married this July (on the beach!) to Christopher Novak, a clinical pharmacist that she met through the Cape Cod Athletic Club. Chris is an ironman triathlete. The couple is set to compete in NH this August in the grueling “Timberman” half ironman. ¶ Anne Musominari Gayima, her husband, 4 children, and a cat have lived in Olney, MD for the last 7 years. Three of her teenagers are in college and her youngest son is a junior in high school. Anne works for Thomson Reuters in Rockville, MD as a product support representative out of their Knowledge Solutions Department in Rockville. Life is fast-paced with 4 teenagers, work, and caring for her sweet mother-in-law who has dementia. ¶ Petra Malone Fallon, Kimberly Crane Daly and Annamaria Cobuccio Paone hope to visit to D.C. in the fall to catch
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