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addition to this new full-time position, Mark owns the GEICO local office franchise for Eastern Connecticut, all of Rhode Island, and Southeastern Massachusetts.
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Kevin Dick Moroz is working on starting a new business in the emergency medical alert field for the elderly. He says that technology is evolving and making life easier for the elderly is their mission. He is traveling a lot and spending time with his daughter, who is about to be seven. Kevin O’Connor celebrated his 25th wedding anniversary with his wife, Richelle Dupont, in June. They are living happily in Littleton with their two children. Meghan is a junior at Central Catholic and looking at college. Eamon is very excited to be joining the class of 2019 at the Prep. He’ll be the third generation in his family to attend St. John’s as his grandfather, George O’Connor, was a member of the class of 1957. Daniel Connolly has been named the new dean of the Portland State University’s School of Business. “I am delighted that Dan has accepted the dean position in our School of Business Administration,” said Sona Andrews, Portland State’s provost and vice president for academic affairs, in a news release. “Dan’s experience as a university administrator, a faculty member and in private industry will contribute to the continued growth and reputation of our high quality faculty, staff and students.” Dan’s academic expertise is in hospitality management and information technology strategy. He holds a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech, an M.B.A. from American University and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University. Most recently, he was the dean of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver. He previously served on faculty at Cornell, Michigan State, Virginia Tech and Concord College. He also worked for eight years in information systems for Marriott International.
and general counsel for the Financial Services Institute, a trade association representing independent financial services firms and financial advisors. Dave leads the organization’s lobbying and other advocacy efforts before state and federal legislators, the Securities and Exchange Commission, FINRA and other regulatory bodies. He reports that the transition to Virginia has gone smoothly. At the beginning of March, John Cushing moved his legal practice to the Boston office of Goulston & Storrs, an Am Law 200 firm. At G&S, John will continue to counsel entrepreneurs and emerging growth and mature companies on corporate and securities law, including business planning, entity selection and formation, private equity and venture capital financing, joint ventures and strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity securities, technology licensing, SEC compliance, corporate governance, recapitalizations and general corporate matters. John has represented clients such as Annie’s, Inc. in connection with its IPO, and EnerNOC, Inc. in connection with certain of its international acquisitions. John and his wife, Kathy, live in Lynnfield with their two daughters, Kristina and Natasha. Both girls attend Lynnfield High School, where Kristina is a junior playing volleyball and tennis and working on her college search, and Natasha is a freshman playing volleyball and lacrosse.
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Marc Goulding defended his doctoral dissertation in 2012 in the department of history at New York University. He is currently re-editing the manuscript, “Vanguards of the New Africa: Black Radical Networks and AntiImperialism in the 1930s,” for submission to a publisher. He is an assistant professor in the department of history and geography at the University of Central Oklahoma. He teaches courses in U.S. history, African
Diaspora history, world and global history, as well as graduate courses in areas such as historiography. He serves as the undergraduate history advisor and the department’s core curriculum coordinator. Last spring, he was elected into the editorial collective of the Radical History Review, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Duke University Press. Michael Lewis attended the SJP alumni gathering at the Soho House in New York, and reports that he loved every minute of it. He says, “I reconnected with fellow Class of ’86 alum James Delorey, and I ‘set the record straight’ that James was not the instigator in Mrs. Kornachuk’s freshman English class, and that it had been a nearby heckler all along. I also met Kevin Collins, SJP’s new Chief Advancement Officer, and forgave him for his BC High alumni status. I met Brian O’Leary ’75 and was thrilled to hear about his efforts to promote continued focus on diversity at the Prep, since I graduated at a time when there wasn’t so much of that. I met a number of impressive younger fellow alumni while at the event that I look forward to keeping in touch with: Matt, John, DJ, Jeff, and Vish, who shares a common work experience with me at Ernst and Young. I wish them all continued luck and hope to see them at the next NYC events. And finally, I thank Nate Richardson ’89, who I got to meet briefly and who was our generous host, and Nibal in Alumni Relations.”
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George Delaney and his wife, Kara, were joined by Karen and Mike Panos ’89 for a trip to Houston in December to visit with Houston Texan’s head coach Bill O’Brien and take in a game. Eric Pentinnen and Todd Wright also attended the game. The reunion continued at the University of Texas in Austin, where Todd is the strength and conditioning coach with the group attending a basketball game. George and Kara are delighted that their son, Jackson, will be a sixth grader in the Prep’s new middle school in September, continuing the family legacy. After more than 14 years as editor of the Marblehead Reporter, Kris Olson
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Michael Muller recently took on a new role as vice president of sales at Apollo Education Group, responsible for leading a national team focused on selling employee training solutions to the Fortune 500 market. He still resides in Georgetown with his wife, Trishia, and two daughters.
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In the summer of 2013, Dave Bellaire and his wife of nearly 15 years, Sara, moved with their two children, Lindsey, 11, and Jack, 6, from Marietta, Georgia, to Northern Virginia. Dave serves as executive vice president
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L to r: Mike Panos ’89, Eric Penttinen ’88, Houston Texans head coach Bill O’Brien ’88, and George Delaney ’88 in Houston after the Texans-Jaguars game in December.