1967
Marcia Grandone Powers
501 Lexington Street, #31 Waltham, MA 02452-3036 marpow541@verizon.net
Diane Viera Giggey retired from teaching French and Spanish in June 2008. Her two daughters married shortly thereafter. One granddaughter was born last year and lives in Portland, Oregon, with her parents. Her other daughter lives in San Mateo, California.
Nancy Petriello Barile ’90, M.Ed. ’93 Offers Weekly “Classroom Solutions” For National Blog
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ell, you can now add national blogger to the impressive résumé of Nancy Petriello Barile ’90, M.Ed. ’93. Throughout the 2010–2011 academic year, the acclaimed Revere High School English teacher wrote for Scholastic, Inc.’s “Classroom Solutions” blog, an online resource center for teaching tips and strategies for pre-K through grade 12 educators. Barile was one of five teachers who wrote for the blog. She was selected amongst a nationwide pool of a 1,000 elementary and secondary teachers. “Scholastic is a wonderful organization that provides fantastic opportunities for teachers and students,” said Barile, who wrote for the site’s grade 9–12 section. “I was thrilled to be a part of it.” A glance at her credentials immediately speaks to her qualifications for offering advice to colleagues around the country. During her 16-year tenure at Revere High School her exceptional ability to motivate students has earned her praise worthy of few educators in the U.S. In 2006, she was awarded one of six Bob Costas Grants for the Teaching of Writing from the College Board, a recognition that garnered her a selection to the National Commission on Writing. In 2007, USA Today named her one of 20 accomplished teachers nationwide, leading to discussions with Oprah Winfrey regarding Barile’s interest in expanding Winfrey’s South African educational program. As part of her blogging duties, wrote one entry per week throughout the school year, complementing her write-ups with digital photos and video. She included helpful hints for readers, discussions on lesson plans, classroom strategies, book reviews and anything else pertinent to the high school classroom setting or topics the bloggers were especially passionate about. “Teachers always want to know about approaches and strategies that work and which ones do not, as well as books people recommend,” said Barile, who is currently pursuing an Ed.D. at Northeastern University. “I kept in mind what helps teachers and addressed things that I wish were there when I first started out as a teacher.”
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Phyllis A. Riley McDonough writes: “The past year was a time for me to meet up with several of my Emmanuel friends. In April 2010, my husband, Jim, and I visited Melvina Najamy Strijdonk and her husband, Alfons, in Tucson, Arizona, at the same time that Constance Lamontagne Ries and husband, Charlie, were visiting. We had a fun time seeing the sights. In late October, Jim and I were in Washington, D.C., to cheer on our daughter and son-inlaw as they ran the Marine Corps Marathon. While in the area, we had a mini-reunion at Connie’s house with Madeline Accolla Andera and husband, Ed, Mary Rita Sullivan Beyer and husband, Richard, and Elizabeth Bullman Mariani. In November, Jim and I had lunch with Mary Quinn Kenney and Jim.” Carol O’Neil continues her primary
care practice as the medical director at the Greater Roslindale Medical and Dental Center in Roslindale, Massachusetts. She was selected for the second time in a row by Boston Magazine as one of the top family doctors in the region. Carol’s lifelong Catholic school upbringing left her with the conviction that “to whom much is given, much is expected.”
1968
Elizabeth Sullivan Cimini
133 Pawtuxet Avenue Cranston, RI 02905-4030 shrimpymam@hotmail.com
1969
Patricia Klaus Keating
56 Oaks Road Framingham, MA 01702-5938 jkpk@rcn.com
1970
Valerie B. Gigliotti
235 Park Drive, #32 Boston, MA 02115-4721
1971 reunion Susan Cooney Murphy
569 Annaquatucket Road North Kingstown, RI 02852-5601 rid23560@ride.ri.net
Twelve members of the Class of 1971 gathered in New York City on December 4, 2010, to celebrate the holidays and more than 40 years of friendship with an off-Broadway show and dinner in SoHo. Joining in the festivities were Susan Cooney Murphy, Marie
Mancuso Cromwell, Rosemary Hanrahan Maher, Sally Dunn, Carol Makowski, Nancy DiNardo, Patty Mojcher Sidlovsky, Mary Martin Fredericks, Mary Kathryn Harrity, Elizabeth Murphy Wirth, Leslie Perry Blank and Catherine Carr.
1972
Ann Marie Keegan
185 S. Cobble Hill Road Warwick, RI 02886-9336 amkeegan50@verizon.net
Susan Cimino Graceffa writes: “I am both amazed and amused that I have come full-circle to my original career, teaching music! I’m enjoying teaching music appreciation to middle-school students at St. Agatha School in Milton, Massachusetts. I also substitute frequently at a Montessori school. Peter, my husband, owns a real estate business in Quincy, Massachusetts. My daughter, Maria, 35 years old, received an M.Ed. from Columbia University last May and is a psychotherapist in New York City. Tom, my 23-yearold son, recently received a bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology from Bridgewater State University and is a personal trainer at Bayshore Athletic Club in Braintree, Massachusetts. Like everyone else, we eagerly await the end of the recession!”
1973
Noreen Diamond Burdett
23 N. Hill Avenue Needham, MA 02492-1221 ndiamondbu@yahoo.com
1974
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1975
Marie Campagna Franklin
29 Trowbridge Avenue Newtonville, MA 02460-2222 camfrank@comcast.net
1976 reunion
Eileen Devlin MacPherson
57 Lincoln Woods Road Waltham, MA 02451-1431