Anthony Michael “Mike” Briana passed away suddenly in December 2022. Last summer, his family submitted an article to Boston College Magazine about his Habitat Golden Hammer award. He was excited to see the article in print. The year 2022 was a very good one for Mike, as he was blessed with two new great-grandsons and got to celebrate his 95th birthday with over 40 family members at his house in Falmouth.

On August 16, 2022, George Cyr lost his wife, Sheila, after almost 50 years of married bliss, an irreplaceable loss. However, the Lord provides, and over the years, not having children of their own, they became very close to their neighbors and their children. They became members of their family, celebrating marriages, births, and deaths. and one of their young men and his wife became close to George and his wife. George Cyr celebrated his 92nd birthday with a luncheon for this great young couple and their family.

Betty Hannon sends greetings from the San Francisco Bay Area. She’d love to host a gathering in Bel Marin Keys, just 20 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge and also very close to Sonoma County. She’s been blessed to live to such a great age and still do most of the things she loved when she was young, including lap swimming at the local Y. When it's a bit warmer, she’ll be swimming outside her house in the salt water. Join her to chat and catch up on life.

Cathy Hickey skipped two weeks of winter weather with her daughter, Naomi, and her family at her beautiful home in Puerto Rico, “Casa Naniki.” The week after, she met up with the intrepid Gail O’Donnell, then off to Albany where Naomi was being honored by the state senator for Women’s History Month. She is also being honored for her book, Not to Spoil the Ending But Everything’s Going To Be OK. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a wonderful read. Big hugs; she wishes everyone lived closer. • Norbert Michaud ’56, MA’57, and wife Edie have moved from Baltimore to Riderwood Senior Living in Silver Spring. They’re expecting two additional great-grandchildren and are excited their daughter is moving from Tampa to their area with her two children for a job. • Florence Gosselin has been retired from nursing since 1994, yet continues to stay active with volunteering in a local hospital system a few hours a week. She enjoys playing cards and bingo, being with other retirees, and always loves to hear from BC Eagle friends!

Bob Johnson turned 87 in January. He lives in Hyannis with his wife, Brenda, and retired from active portfolio research in a small cap mutual fund five years ago (finally). He retired from being the chairman of the HOA three years ago. Now he cuts grass and shovels snow. He is healthy, but his knees talk back to him; sometimes they yell. BC has made incredible progress over the years and is a crown jewel; hats off to everyone involved. • Jean Crowley is enjoying her family and afternoon naps in her retirement. She became a great-grandmother in August 2022, when her oldest grandchild had a baby girl, Odette. She splits her time between her daughter's home in Arlington, Virginia, and the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Jean is grateful she has stayed in touch with her classmate, Joan Keenan Barry, who remains her forever friend. • Larry Ruttman, JD’58, recently celebrated his 92nd birthday. He lives in Brookline with his wife of 59 years, Lois. He still practices some law but works full time at his second calling of writing. He has published two books and a short memoir entitled My Eighty-Two Year Love Affair with Fenway Park and has two more on the way out, one on classical music, Intimate Conversations: Face to Face with Matchless Musicians, and his memoir, Larry Ruttman, A Life Lived Backwards. His 2013 book, American Jews and America’s Game, was named the best baseball book in America for that year by Sports Collectors Digest. The book is also a cultural history of American Jews going back to the Depression. Larry was elected a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. His papers have been collected by the New England Genealogical and Historical Society and the Jewish Heritage Center and then were collated, indexed, detailed in proper order, and then published online. Larry’s podcast, Larry Ruttman, A Life Lived Backwards, One Man’s Life, is now in its third year. He will teach a course this summer at the Truro Center for the Arts entitled “Writing Your Own Memoir, A Path to a Brighter Future.” He intends to stay active indefinitely.

The year 2022 was a good one for James E. Butler and his wife, Maureen. In January, they traveled to Disney World to see their daughter Kerry sing in the Disney Broadway series at Epcot. She did three shows a night for a week. This was her third time performing at Epcot. They returned to Disney World in February to the Wide World of Sports, where their granddaughter, Emily Smith, was a cheerleader for Scarsdale High School in a competition. For the first time, the school won in their division. In April, James was lucky to celebrate his 91st birthday. Yikes! Before COVID, their daughter Kerry was performing in the Broadway musical Beetlejuice, which had to close but reopened in 2022, and she rejoined the cast in her role as Barbara. They are currently in Venice, Florida, living the American dream, enjoying life, and playing tennis three days a week. Stay healthy everyone, keep punchin’. • Bob Paquette retired from dental practice in 2007. He lives in Florida between November and May and on Prince Edward Island, Canada, May to November. He is awaiting his seventh great-grandchild. • Jane Steinthal is sending love to all ’59ers! A year and a half ago, Jack experienced a stroke! Physically he is good, but their lives have changed. Grandchild #10, Hannah, graduated with honors from NYU in 2022 and is applying to med school. Daisy will graduate from Georgetown SFS and Henry from Lafayette. Only four more to go! All 30 Steinthals were in Texas for Courtney Kent’s wedding to Brian Stephenson; only 14 more to go! She feels very blessed to have a large, ever-growing family that is healthy as they carve their careers and future. Friends are dear to her heart.

Jim Reilly reports all’s well in Cohasset. He is enjoying retirement in good health, which is a blessing at this age. He enjoys golf, book group, and social events at Hatherly Country Club in North Scituate. He is happy to have his three kids and five grandchildren who come by frequently, especially in the summer. He is also happy to report he has been elected president of Cohasset’s OLD GOATS, a group of 40 retired Cohasset gentlemen from all walks of life. • Paul J. Rigazio has been retired for over 25 years after a successful financial career. He recently moved to a condo and is enjoying life with his wife of 54 years. He just returned from a weekend of skiing at Wildcat in New Hampshire, surrounded by three granddaughters and two daughters. He also enjoys being Abe Lincoln in his daughter's third grade class in Andover. He is active in the town and the local Knights of Columbus council. God Bless BC. • Gerald Finnegan, S.J., is a senior priest here at St. Ignatius and would enjoy hearing from anyone from his time. He graduated from BC in 1960 and 1961. He also graduated from Boston College High School in 1954.

Nick Moriarty and his wife of 57 years, Janet, are enjoying a winter reprieve in St. Martin in the Caribbean. They moved back to Massachusetts in December to Southgate at Shrewsbury to be close to family. God is good. • Jane Cunniffe survived the pandemic with no problems. She continues to learn more about painting and spends time helping friends understand their medical problems and medications. She visits Boston twice a year to renew her accent. She is happy to be 89 and still on her own.

The A&S Class of 1962 included the first Geology majors. They numbered less than a dozen. Joe McKniffe is wondering if anyone is still out there? • Stephen McKenna has finally "thrown in the towel" after more than 45 years of practicing law in New York and the Washington, D.C. area, so he can spend more time at his beachfront home on the Outer Banks of North Carolina in a little town named Duck. That's right, Duck. Most fortunately, his son, Matthew ’92, a surgeon, and his beautiful bride, Patty ’92, live right nearby so they get to spend some precious family time with them and their three children. • Life continues onward for Kathleen Beaton. • Ronald Dyer, the founder of the Falmouth Veterans Collaborative, spoke recently about the volunteer work he continues to do as commander of the DAV and quartermaster of the VFW. • Bill Novelline is survived by his wife Eileen and sons Tom, Brian, and Andrew. He died soon after his daughter Tricia died. Bill graduated with a degree in economics and was the manager of the BC baseball team, traveling two years with the team for the College World Series. He founded Abbot Financial Management, which he managed with his son Andrew. Bill’s friends loved to spend time with him. He was loyal, generous, kind, always with a story to tell. He loved his BC. Condolences to Eileen and family. • John "Jack" MacKinnon called to chat. When asked if he had any grandchildren at BC, he responded, one senior, two sophomores, and one graduate student. There is also a freshman at BC High. Jack is looking forward to traveling to Lourdes for a week with his son Kevin. • Eileen Faggiano enjoys visiting with her first great-grandchild, Isla Grace. She is a happy baby, which helps parents Lauren and Steve manage their work schedules. • Ronald Campanelli, known to his friends as Ron, has passed away. He focused on studies and played hockey at BC. After graduation, he served in the US Marine Corps and graduated from Suffolk Law School. His successful career was spent working in the family business, Campanelli Companies. Ron leaves his wife, Mary Margaret, and family of four daughters, their husbands, and grandchildren. His classmates offer their condolences.

Fran(cie) Lamey Ludwig, "rewired" science teacher, is now co-chair of the Boston Catholic Climate Movement. After the recent death of her beloved husband of 50 years, she is slowly returning to political advocacy and engagement in Laudato Si' work, including actions against banks that fund fossil fuel projects. Her greatest joys are her four grandchildren and their parents. • Jim Cunningham retired to Vero Beach, Florida. He has four grandchildren. His granddaughter graduated from Duke with honors and his grandson is applying to BC. His daughter retired as a detective with Suffolk County Police. He is active in VA after serving with the 25th infantry in Vietnam. • In March, Jim Norton attended the BC High reception, followed by the BC alumni gathering at Boston Beer Garden and the St. Patrick's Day parade in Naples, Florida, with legendary college football coach Lou Holtz as the parade Grand Marshall. Fr. Leahy celebrated Mass the next day, followed by brunch. A bustling, busy, maroon-and-gold BC social week. • Wayne Budd was featured in a fascinating TV football film, Lou Montgomery: A Legacy Restored. Lou Montgomery ’41 was BC’s first Black football player. He passed away aged 72 and his number, #21, was retired. He was also a Hall of Fame inductee.

Working with the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health and the Government of Norway, Marshall Hoffman and his public relations company, Hoffman & Hoffman Worldwide, announced new global pledges of $32 billion to provide medical services for mothers, children under five, and adolescents. The funding will be used to recover health and social services lost to Covid-19. The funding announcement reached 1 billion globally, via radio, TV, print, Internet and social media. • Dan J. Tannacito is professor emeritus at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he taught and directed graduate programs for 36 years. He published two books in 2022: Autoethnographic Perspectives on Multilingual Lives (IGI Global) and his memoir and family history, In My Life (Outskirts Press). Dan resides with his wife, Sumon, and lab in Salem, Oregon. • Paul Sullivan is retired and living in the On Top of the World Retirement Community in Ocala, Florida, enjoying life with his wife of 58 years, Donna. He also enjoys golf, guitar, banjo, ukulele, writing, and just chilling. • Helen and Lester MacLaughlin have their first great-grandchild, Bo MacLaughlin, born on February 14, 2022.

Ed Barry looks forward to being able to talk with his BC friends. It has been such a long time. • John Feeney and his wife, Laura, had their first grandchild, a girl, in September, thanks to their elder son and his wife. They are hoping for similar luck from their younger son, a BC 2011 grad. In 2013, John retired as an ambassador from the Foreign Service. Laura was recently appointed to Secretary Blinken's advisory board. They split their time between homes in Washington, DC, and Boston, Virginia. They still travel abroad on occasion. Wherever they are, John agonizes over BC sports successes and failures. • Patricia and Neal Harte were at the Laetare Sunday Mass in Naples. They joined classmate Jeff and his wife, Mary Somers. Later in March, they were joined by Jim and his wife, Sarah Ann Mahoney, and the three couples had dinner together. Frank Previte was at a BC Trustee meeting that weekend. This is Patricia’s first time writing not as the 1965 class correspondent. She hopes classmates will continue to send correspondence to BC.

Richard E. Chiozzi has been honored by the National Financial Planning Association as a final nominee to receive the prestigious P. Fain Kemp, Jr., Lifetime Achievement Award for 2022, the highest individual award for lifetime achievement granted by the profession. • Jane McDonough is going to Ireland to celebrate her 80th birthday! • Joe “JX” Meehan is retired and living in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Nothing much to report. His four grandsons are now in elementary or pre-K. His daughter, Meghan ’00, has two sons, James (six) and Cooper (four). They both attend St Cassian School in Montclair, New Jersey. Joe’s son, Joe III, lives in Pound Ridge, New York. His two sons are Alrik (seven) and Eskil (five).

After she retired from her position teaching art to K-8 students at St. Gerard Majella School in Kirkwood, Missouri, Barbara Volk, CSJ, MEd’67, trained to become a docent at the St. Louis Art Museum and tours with visitors, helping them to really look at and enjoy the fantastic works in the collection. She continues to spend time at Nazareth Living Center in South County, St. Louis, working to give them creative ways to express their feelings with one another and others through art. • Bob Zimmerman died after a valiant battle with esophageal cancer. He had contracted polio as a child but never let it stop him. He worked for IBM for 30 years in Buffalo and the Bay Area. Bob owned and ran a wine and cheese shop. Bob is survived by his wife of over 30 years, Karen.

Ken Hackett ’68, HON’06, published The Vatican Code: American Diplomacy in the Time of Francis. This is a memoir of his four years serving as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See during the exciting early years of the Francis papacy. Previously, Ken served as CEO and president of Catholic Relief Services. Last year, BC asked Ken to speak at the Church in the 21st Century Center. After forty years working within some of the world's worst tragedies, Ken and Joan are enjoying serene retirement on Amelia Island, Florida. • Bill Fitzgerald, Steve McCarthy, John Manganelli, Greg Sullivan, and their wives gathered for their traditional annual reunion in Nashville over St Patrick's Day weekend. Despite chilly temperatures and some sprinkles, their merriment included following the Jameson bagpiper from tavern to tavern on lower Broadway Street to celebrate the "green." The culmination of their fun four-night stay was listening to and singing along with Irish music at the famous McNamara's Irish Pub. • Joanne Calore Turco and her husband still reside in Wakefield, and their children (Al and Cathy) and their families are nearby as well. Her daughter, Catherine Turco, an economic sociologist at MIT, just wrote a book, Harvard Square: A Love Story (Columbia University Press). Those of you who wandered to Cambridge during your years on the Heights might enjoy reading this look at how changes in marketplaces like Harvard Square (or any local downtown or Main Street) affect us. • Bill Plunkert and his wife of 49 years, Donna, have moved from the Washington, DC, area to a place called Reedville, Virginia, by the Chesapeake Bay. Although Bill continues much of his spiritual direction work remotely, he now spends more time "on the Rivah" both figuratively and literally—no boats, just kayaks. • Valerie Sowinski Wood went to London and Paris last September. Both were wonderful, but Paris is très magnifique! After 16 years, she retired from MGH in December. She is bored staying home, so she’s looking for a part-time job. She had back surgery in March and is hoping to be more mobile. She is also planning a family vacation this summer, possibly a cruise.

Shane Murphy and his wife recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They retired seven years ago and are living in the Ft. Mill, South Carolina, area. They enjoy time with their nine grandchildren, five of whom live in the area as well. • Bitsy Vogel Graham and Tim Graham recently passed the third anniversary of their kidney transplant where Bitsy gave Tim a kidney. Both are doing well and are very grateful. • Chuck Klemballa is retired and loving life—living in NYC and traveling with his wife JoAnn. They have 10 grandkids between them and all are within an hour of Manhattan. 50th anniversary weekend was awesome. It had been 50 years, and seeing some old classmates felt like it was a lot closer than that. • James Cronin has published a new book, Fragile Victory: The Making and Unmaking of Liberal Order (Yale University Press, 2023). • Michael Barry was married to Dee Shippelhute on September 17, 2022. Michael lives in Chatham with his wife. Michael is volunteering at the Council on Aging and is semi-retired, still representing estate planning clients from his years of law practice in Framingham. His first wife, Pat Barry, passed away in 2000 after they moved to the Cape in 2017. • Jim O'Reilly completed his 43rd year of teaching medicine and law students at the University of Cincinnati. • James J. Foley ’69, JD’74, retired after forty-seven years as an assistant clerk-magistrate in the Massachusetts court system. His book about the police, A Blue Life, An Inside Look at Policing, was just published.

Bob Begiebing, professor emeritus of English at Southern New Hampshire University, reports that his 10th book has been published by LSU Press. The book joins several others books, two documentary films, a play, a television series, and a conference held at the University of Texas, Austin, in acknowledging the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth in 1923 and in reassessing his body of work. • Lou Milkowski is happily enjoying retirement with his wife, Gloria, but is far from inactive. He is a commissioner in Beverly Hills and chairs the Rent Stabilization Commission. He is also a board member of the Beverly Hills Active Group, which provides activities for the mature population. He is watching and hoping to see continued improvement in BC sports. • Jan Geist Krause Greene's second novel was released in February, the same month as her ninth grandchild was born. Publisher's Weekly’s Book Life described The Space Between Dark and Light as "a time-crossed climate fiction story as thrilling as it is urgently relevant." Kirkus Reviews calls it "an uplifting call to action" and says, "there is no doubting the power of the message conveyed." • After almost 40 years, Steven Galipeau retired last year as executive director of Coldwater Counseling Center, a nonprofit in Studio City. He remains on the board at this time and still has a small private practice. Last year, Lisa Heimann, daughter of Steven’s roommate of Fred Heimann, for two years at BC, retired after many years on the board of directors. • Ed Murray and wife Mary finally downsized from their house in Everett. They moved north to the Riverside section of Haverhill, which is quiet, near everything they need, and surrounded by golf courses. Mary is thrilled to be only five minutes from their daughter, Mary-Liz, in Georgetown. Ed is still tending to some long term clients but slowing down. • Richard Habecker is still kicking. He is a re-educated architect and still working though fighting off the yokes of aging. Work is mostly pharmaceutical labs these days. He went to the 50th Reunion this past summer. He keeps in touch with Tom Turick, a former roomie, and the family of Bob Fiorentino, another former roomie. Richard will be attending some hockey games this year. Wow, has any other sport become twice as fast as it was in ’70?  He still skates and swims distance.....keeps the mind going! He is living the dream in Natick.

Former BC basketball player Vince Costello would like to honor Boston Celtic greats Bob Cousy and Bill Russell by naming a local thoroughfare after them. He shared his idea on the Dan Rea Nightside radio show. He was joined by Boston Globe sports reporter Bob Ryan, who enthusiastically supported the idea. Vinnie suggested the perfect spot would be the Mass Pike from Boston and Worcester. He is hopeful government officials will make this happen. • Jim Riordan has been keeping busy in retirement. He and wife Alice recently visited England, Scotland, and Wales. He is also a regular essay contributor to Newday, Long Island’s main newspaper. He also attended his 55th reunion at Chaminade high school. He recently celebrated his 50th wedding anniversary with Alice, who has received many honors for her painting and sculpture work. • Jim “Rocco" Centorino received the Outstanding Educator Award from UChicago in 2021. He and his wife, Susan, moved to Cambria, California, where he released his 10th music album in 2022, titled Notes on a Triangle, a 35+ year project. The title piece is based on the mathematical and geometrical proportions of the 3-4-5 right triangle and golden mean. It can be seen at his website www.centorino.com. He spends his time composing and enjoying the beautiful sunsets with his wife. • As of January, Don Weber started a two-year transition to retirement after a 20-year career at Edward Jones. It has been a fabulous ride, and he is looking forward to more travel. • Rosalie Dance, MA’71, completed a PhD at University of Maryland 26 years ago while teaching at Georgetown University and doing teacher training assignments in Africa for the Peace Corps. In 1998, Rosalie left Georgetown to join the mathematics department at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). In 2010, she retired from UVI. Then she worked as a mentor for high school math teachers for Math for America and directed the Tensor-SUMMA grant program at the Mathematical Association of America until 2021. • Atmosphere Press has released The Weber House, a young adult mystery by Mark Lance. Set in a mysterious house in a run-down town on the Maine seacoast, 13-year-old newcomer Nichole Kelly is befriended by another outcast, a classmate fiercely proud of her Native American heritage. The girls team up to search for a legendary treasure. But this is no game. Someone else is watching their every move. The girls think they are hunters. In fact, they are the prey. • Chris and Kevin Fee hosted a lively dinner reception in Bonita Springs, Florida, including Denise and Steve Fogarty, Maureen and Larry Lawler, Renee and Jim Lozier, and Dave Amborski—a great night of memories. Next year, they hope to be joined by more ’71 classmates living or wintering in Southwest Florida.

Ron Hood, Esq., is retiring from the practice of law. He was a trial attorney with the IRS for 25 years and retired in 2002. For the past 20 years, he had a solo law practice on Cape Cod representing clients with criminal and civil issues with the IRS. His original class was 1968, but after his sophomore year, he enlisted in the US Army for three years. He and his wife, Xiaoni, have three children and two grandchildren. He hopes to hear from his friends from the Class of 1968 at ronhood.esq@gmail.com. • There was another class reunion on campus last year when four classmates met to attend the BC-Clemson game and tour the facilities. Ed Prisco of Charlotte, North Carolina, has retired twice, once as a newspaper executive and once as a football coach. He continues to coach basketball. Roger Egan of Morristown, New Jersey, is the retired CEO of Marsh and McLennan. Kevin Begley of Cincinnati is a retired CPA. Joe Waters of St. Louis is a retired corporate executive. Roger, Kevin, and Joe are all active members of corporate boards. Ed and Joe are former BC football players. Condolences to friends and family of Coleman Szely, who was the voice of BC basketball on WVBC and later a CPA in Dumont, New Jersey. • Bill Kelly’s daughter, Meredith Kelly ’10, gave birth to his first grandchild. Meredith and the baby are doing well.

Mary Ellen and Joe Fitzpatrick ’70 look forward to Commencement when their granddaughter Kailee Anne Fitzpatrick will be the 13th member of their family to graduate from BC. Kailee will join her cousin Lizzie Splaine, also a member of the class of 2023. The family chain of BC graduates started with Dr. Patrick J. Mogan ’40. It includes, among others, Kailee’s father, Matthew S. Fitzpatrick ’93, and Lizzie’s father and mother, Jenny ’90 and Neal Splaine ’90. • Stephen Black met Barbara Flaherty at BC, and they’ve been married for 47 years. They have three wonderful sons, Matthew, Andrew, and Keith, and two adorable grandkids. He has enjoyed his career in dentistry where he practiced for 37 years before retiring and working part time at Bristol Community College. Barbara taught for over 20 years before retiring from Stonehill College. They are currently living the life in Bridgewater, traveling and playing with their grandkids! • Lynn Kelly retired after 29 years as a national certified school nurse (NCSN). She spends summers in Ireland with her daughter and family. Lyn lives in the same town as her son and daughter-in-law. • Joseph E. Steffano, MBA’73, and his wife, Carole, have been blessed with two great-grandchildren. Their oldest grandson, Joseph Steffano III, and his wife, Audrey, had a baby boy, Henry Joseph, in 2021 and a baby girl, Sofia Claire, in 2022. • Jim Schlesinger is trying to locate former 9A roommates Mike Walkenstein and Lou Difrancesco. Please get in touch; Jim wants to catch up! • Katherine McCarthy was awarded The Rita P. Kelleher Alumni Leadership Award from the Connell School of Nursing on June 4, 2022, for her work in elevating the level of professional school nursing in Massachusetts. She is also a founding member of the Massachusetts School Nurse Research Network.

Sil Orlando, MSW’74, has retired after 52 years working in child welfare and mental health in Montreal, New York, and Los Angeles. His last 23 years were spent serving as the CEO of Optimist Youth Homes and Family Services in Los Angeles. • Rosemary Collins Weiss recently retired after 17 years teaching special education students with learning disabilities. She had a long career teaching in many different placements: general education, Head Start, and even working as a governess for three years. She felt so prepared to teach after a BC education. Rosemary's husband, Terry, is an administrator for a private school in Fairfield, Iowa. Their only son, Thomas, is a paleoclimatologist at the University of Galway, in Ireland. • Robert Harnden is happy to announce the adoption of four sons, the marriage of his number three son, and the birth of twins, which now means he celebrates four sons, eight grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He would like to give a shout out to the Catholic Pentecostal people, especially Patrick, who befriended him. • This is Dave Hinchen, MDiv’74,’s 13th year as director of Ignatian Volunteer Corps (IVC) New England. IVC is a great opportunity for women and men, 50 years of age and better, to commit to a year of service and spiritual reflection. They have 53 volunteers in New England this year, many with BC connections. In October, IVC sponsored a 30-day pilgrimage following the steps of St. Ignatius from Loyola to Manresa. Dave and his wife, Karen, were among the "pilgrims" who successfully walked the 300+ mile Ignatian Camino. • Kathy McGinty-Dunn was in Cambridge last August to attend a "Short Course on Nuclear Energy in a Low-Carbon Future.” Sponsored by MIT's School of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Clean Air Task Force, an environmental advocacy group, the course featured presentations from faculty and industry experts addressing issues around the use of nuclear energy to reduce carbon emissions. Kathy is the senior aide to the chair of the Maryland House Environment Committee in Annapolis. • Zane Robinson Wolf, MS’74, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN, is Dean Emerita School of Nursing and Health Sciences and Professor, La Salle University; member of the St. Christopher’s Quality and Patient Safety Committee; board member of the Barbara Bates Center for Study of History in Nursing; and editor, International Journal for Human Caring since 1999. Her recent book is titled Breaching safe nursing practice: Case studies of failures omission, commission, and crimes.

Mark Frey retired this year, following a 35-year career in healthcare. Following retirement, Mark traveled to Krakow, Poland, to assist Ukrainian refugees. He is now CEO of GlobalHeart, a charity focused on relief efforts to assist refugees. Mark also crews for the Los Angeles Maritime Institute and has been background acting in film, TV, and commercials. His eldest is a second-year student at Santa Monica City College, and his youngest is finishing up her senior year at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. • Tom Anderson, MA’75, had his short story “Custodian” published on December 21 in the Cambridge-based literary magazine, Pangyrus. The editors tagged the story with “devil,” “eden,” “pandemic,” and “work". He also had two punk folk EP releases in 2022, which are streaming on all the streaming services: Girl from Osaka, released in December 2022, and General Ledger of Lunatics, released May 2022. • Shawn Sheehy’s wife of 28 years, Caroline Rocha Sheehy ’22, graduated from Boston College in August 2022, and the family is proud of her. They moved to Newton on July 1, 2022, near the BC Law School campus. Shawn also established a probate estate law practice in Newton. • After 35 years in the Orlando, Florida area, Joe Zornik moved to Ormond Beach, Florida, last July with wife Pamela and two dogs, only a few minutes from the beach. Their four children and five grandchildren all live in the Orlando area, except for one son, who has been in Atlanta for four years with Deloitte. • After much research, Vincent Quealy completed and self-published his new book, Reflections of an Irish Grandson: A story of Grandmother Bridget (Meade) Quealy and the Meade family of Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland. It tells the story of Bridget's early life in Ireland at a time when Britain still ruled that country very harshly and recounts the courage of Meade brothers who served courageously in the Mid Clare Brigade during the Irish War of Independence.  • Tom Cannon's youngest son Robert graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University and Officer Training School and now is a lieutenant in the US Marines.

After BC, Paul McElligot received a doctorate in chemistry and an MBA. He worked in the chemical industry, first as a chemist, and rose to research director for over 15 years. He resides in Arizona with his family. He was the CEO of a small company and has taught college for 30 years. He will be retiring in a year and looks forward to trying something new. • Michael Brosnan’s latest book of poetry, Adrift, was just published by Grayson Books. It's available wherever books are sold. • Doris Pholeric Gruel and her husband Larry have enjoyed retirement in Melbourne, Florida. They love being an important part of their grandchildren's lives. They are having fun exploring the Space Coast of Florida. • Kay Dong, MS’76, has been retired since October 2019, downsized and moved to Marina Bay, Quincy, in November 2021. Kay was the only Korean student in 1974, but now sees that there are many Korean students, including a few Korean faculty members! Kay remembers the beautiful campus at that time, it’s still beautiful whenever she drives by!

Mary Morin Zajac recently narrated an audiobook called Jeans on a Beach Day: A Book for the Beautiful Woman Hiding Her Legs. It is a book about a disease called lipedema, which affects 10–11 percent of women worldwide. Mary was honored to be chosen to narrate this book by Susan O'Hara. • Penninah Kanzi wishes to share gratitude to God for still feeling great and blessed. • Cat Sanders Lamkin saw Kamau Burton ’17, the son of her roommate LaVern Mosley Burton, perform with his band, JUICE. Kamau is affectionately known as Cat’s “nephew” and calls her Aunt Cat. The band, formed in Kamau’s freshman year, stopped in Charleston. The Burtons have visited yearly since 1997. • Karen Grace-Baker was recently awarded the Distinguished Instructor Award from the UCLA Extension College counseling department. This award is conferred to less than 2 percent of instructors and recognizes exceptional service and contributions to the UCLA program, students, and the organization. She is consistently rated as one of the highest-rated instructors with extensive knowledge of admissions and the counseling field, with her main area of focus in working with first-generation students. Not planning on a major windstorm and rain to add to her previous plans for necessary repairs to her Nashville, Tennessee home, Laurie Loughlin stepped up to resolve several challenges. A tree split and severed all the wires to her home. After a tree surgeon removed the tree, she had a plan to get her power back: Laurie chased power company trucks. All is well now.

Rob Steeg, JD’78, continues to practice real estate law in New Orleans and is co-managing partner of a firm. He is the former chair of the City Planning Commission of New Orleans and is presently a commissioner there. Most recently, he has welcomed his first grandchild, Amelia, into the family. • Lynne Spigelmire Viti, PhD’78, JD’84, has been appointed the first poet laureate of Westwood. Her term will run through June 2025. • Larry Ehren, MDiv’78, completed his master of divinity at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 1978. After many years of professional lay ministry in the Roman Catholic Church, he was received and ordained in the Episcopal Church in the last ten years. He recently completed his doctor of ministry degree in Christian spirituality at Virginia Theological Seminary, one of the oldest and largest Episcopal seminaries. He is grateful for the foundation that the Society of Jesus and Weston provided him. • Kevin Donovan had an eventful year. In late 2022, he and his wife of 41 years retired from the English department at Middle Tennessee State University after 33 years there and moved to Tacoma, Washington, to be close to their grandchildren. His book on King Lear, for the series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition, has just been published. • Bruce Fador reminds his classmates that the 45th Reunion is coming up this fall and is scheduled for the weekend of October 27–29, 2023. The 45th doesn't get the attention that a 50th would get but nonetheless, if you are able to attend that would be great! The football game that weekend is against the UConn Huskies so at a minimum, everyone can brush up on their tailgating skills. • Heidi Dunn Meadows worked in the cardiac care unit for 25 years. She became a community advocate for youth, developing a community service program and winning a citywide award. She created the Prevention Campaign to teach healthy habits to fourth graders, utilizing her book, The Adventures of George the Germ, and inviting medical professionals to give advice. • Thomas Heimbach retired to “of counsel” status with Flamm Walton Heimbach in Allentown, Pennsylvania, as of January 1, 2023. • Gerry Flaherty retired from Chevron recently after a 36-year career with assignments in Australia, Thailand, Nigeria, Angola, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Indonesia, as well as Alaska and California. He and his wife, Linda, are now located on the shore of Lake Tahoe, in Stateline, Nevada. They recently completed a two-week trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal, reaching an elevation of 17,600 feet. He hopes to hear from BC friends soon!

Priscilla Paton, PhD’79, has a third book being published in her Twin Cities Mystery series featuring Detectives Erik Jansson and Deb Metzger: When the House Burns, a "smart page turner" with sex, death, and real estate, was released by Coffeetown Press on February 14, 2023. • Stephen Watson joined the increasing number of classmates in retirement. Following a 40-year career as a managing director and national director of client services at Bessemer Trust Company, Steve and his wife, Lynn, spend their summers on Nantucket and winters in West Palm Beach. First bucket list item for Steve was walking the ancient 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain in 2021. • Jim Sano has recently released his fifth novel and the fourth in the Father Tom series, Self Portrait. His Catholic novels have now received fifteen book awards and have been endorsed by several archdioceses for adult faith programs. He and his wife, Joanne, celebrated their 36th anniversary and still live in Medfield. • Pedro Carrasquillo has retired after 39 years of high school teaching and now spends his time in Florida and Massachusetts. • Frank Roach Rider will retire in 2024 as senior human services financing specialist at the American Institutes for Research. He has provided technical assistance to federally funded grantees developing mental health programs for children, youth, and families in 40+ states since 2006. Frank joined AIR's national team after managing human service programs in Arizona for 25 years. Living in Greensboro, Frank and his wife are proud of their two children, Destiny and Stephen. • Ben Wolf, JD’79, retired in 2022 after working at the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois for 38 years, including serving as the legal director from 2016 to 2021. • Betsy Nedeau Millane announces that her historical fiction book, Sixty Blades of Grass, based on her family's work in the Dutch underground during WWII, will be published in June. Mod 33 roomies Betsy, Nancy Stark, Sarah Carvalho, and Tracy Lucido celebrated the wedding of Tracy's son, Jonathan, in Newport, Rhode Island in June 2022. Betsy was featured in the Wall Street Journal newsletter, Women In. Betsy sells real estate with Gibson Sotheby's in MetroWest Boston. • Brenda Fields has sad news that her dear friend and roommate at BC from 1976 to 1979, Sue Ellen Acinapuro Commender, passed away on Monday, March 6. She fought a valiant fight with cancer and passed away at her home in Larchmont, New York, surrounded by her family. Brenda has such fond memories of great times with Sue Ellen at BC and beyond. She will be missed.

Debbie Russell Gallant retired as president of sales for a large national franchise, now resides in Naples, Florida, and has a boutique real estate office. She travels to Europe with her retired architect husband and a group of 10 women each year. This year's trip is to Positano, Puglia, and Sardinia. • Jacqueline Jones has worked with Shapiro Plastic Surgery and Skin Klinic in Paradise Valley, Arizona, for 20 years, specializing in advanced laser and skin rejuvenation for face and body. • Mark Young is enjoying retirement; summers on the Connecticut shore boating and golfing and winters in Texas, north of Dallas, spending time with his two grandchildren.

Robert Nolan retired from orthopedic surgery/sports last year after a career in private practice in Connecticut, Denver, and Lexington, Kentucky, and moved to the hometown of his wife of 35 years. They are now happily living in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, with their 30-year-old daughter nearby—life is so good! • Glen Turner, senior vice president, parted ways with Merrill Lynch in October 2020 to assume the role of managing director and partner at Eagle Harbor Advisors in Boca Raton, Florida. Partnering with Kestra Private Wealth Services and Fidelity, Eagle Harbor Advisors is a specialty Wealth Management firm that assists high net worth individuals, families, and small group professional associations with asset management, tailored retirement plans, and generational tax management. • Ed Kornack officially retired from dentistry two years ago and sold his practice in Norwood after 35 years. At the same time, he was promoted to deputy fire chief of the Dover Fire Department and is entering his 33rd year there.

Sue Ryan is currently the executive director of the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence. In her spare time, she writes short stories. Sue is very happy to share that she recently self-published a collection of fictional little stories on Amazon. The book is called Just a Glimpse. As the title suggests, the stories provide a brief glance at the power of relationship, connection, loss, and love. All the stories were written with the hope that they are entertaining. Hello to the Class of ’82! • Linda Ekizian often thinks about her BC experience and continues to value the friendships and lessons learned. • Charles D’Atri can't believe it's been 41 years since graduation this May! It's his and Jan Colby ’83’s 25th anniversary this year, and they’re going to celebrate with an extended trip to Italy. There's been great expansion in Charles’s business buying music rights. They’ve got a nice Datrisongs playlist on YouTube, from Dr. Hook's "Sharing The Night" to "Stardust." • Susan K. Plante, MS’82, is still working full time as an APRN at the same group she joined in 2002 in North Easton. Although the name has changed three times—now LifeStance Health—she finds the work exciting and rewarding. Dealing with all the technology has been a challenge, as she grew up on a manual typewriter, but she's adapting and not quite ready for retirement.

Amy Tate Berenson, MBA’83, is looking forward to the CGSOM Reunion in October! She has been living on the North Shore of Boston since graduation. As a certified career and life coach, Amy enjoys helping those who wish to find a career better aligned with who they are and what they believe in (like she did)! It is very satisfying work. She does lots of sailing and skiing, even fun part-time work in Jackson, Wyoming, visiting her son. She is friends with Deb De Sherbinin, and looking forward to seeing Bob Niswander and Dave Clarkson (all CGSOM Class of ’83) in the fall at the 40th Reunion. Would love to see others as well! • Six years ago, Joan Stein Harris accomplished her goal of opening her own geriatric care management practice in the Greater Boston Area. After 40 years working as a social worker specializing in older adults and as a private consultant, the expert team at Symphony Care Management is able to serve as advocates, long term planners, placement experts and care coordination navigators supporting older adults and their families to their goal of living their best lives. • Jeanne Hunter Zarrilli received her MA in spirituality from Loyola Chicago in May 2022, and a month later, on June 30, 2022, welcomed her first grandchild, Leo Charlie Fusco. His middle name is for his great-grandfather, Charles William Hunter ’51, MA’53. • Gerry Nowosacki, MSW’83, retired from 45 years as a social worker for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and elder care. He is still working as a varsity boys’ basketball assistant coach in Shrewsbury and is proud of a recent player, John West, pitching for Boston College. • Tony Sullivan, John Almy, Dan Nova, Bill "Soup" Campbell, Pete Hoban, and Charlie McCann got together to celebrate Bill Campbell's retirement.

Juliette Dacey Fay’s seventh novel comes out in April 2023 from HarperCollins. The Half Of It is the story of a woman reflecting on the most impactful night of her life—and reuniting with the man involved after 40 years apart. Juliette and her husband Tom Fay ’83 live in Wayland, where Tom’s role on the Select Board has him eating breakfast with half the town, and Juliette can often be found in her garden up to her elbows in dirt. • Richard Stefanacci was recently named chief medical officer of TauRx Pharmaceuticals as they pursue regulatory approval of their oral treatment for Alzheimer's disease. • Mod 30A roommates Janet Barth Maxwell, Betsy Fenton Hargreaves, Ellen Cook, Suzanne Troy Cole, Maria Pistorino Keroack, Lisa Ciccolini Strain, Kara Grady Boudreau ’89, and Joanie Cahalane Flaherty gathered at the Clemson football game in October to cheer on the Eagles surrounded by family and friends. After 40 years of friendship, the connections made freshman year on the third floor of Claver Hall have lasted a lifetime. • Virginia Saunders Pflueger received an award in November of 2022 for star performer of Ohio’s Hospice, which is the largest not-for-profit hospice group in Ohio for her work in chaplaincy among the Amish and English communities of Holmes County, Ohio. Saunders Pflueger is completing her 12th year as hospice chaplain in this community, following pastoral ministry, family ministries, and chaplain ministries since her graduation in the masters of divinity program. • Dr. Philip Cate Huckins ’84, MAT’85, PhD’95, has completed the end of life doula professional certificate program at the University of Vermont's Robert Larner College of Medicine. • Jim Fallon ’84, MS’86, recently retired, resides in Bradenton, Florida, and will spend summers in the White Mountains working on his tree farm and traveling.

Congratulations to Cathy Savage-Eysie for joining the BC Alumni Board. The Board’s mandate is to strengthen relationships among the more than 200,000 Eagles worldwide. Cathy lives in Medfield and has two children attending BC. • Mary Beth Ogulewicz was appointed as an Associate Justice of the District Court in Massachusetts by Governor Baker in August 2022. Mary Beth was formerly a prosecutor in the Northwest District Attorney and the Hampden County District Attorney's Office where she prosecuted child abuse, sexual assault, and homicide cases. She returned to school midlife to earn a masters in social work and practiced mental health law. Mary Beth worked at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health as a yoga and mindfulness teacher in Stockbridge and taught mindfulness to high-stress professionals around the country, focusing on law enforcement, legal professionals, and law students. She and Robert Sacco ’84 have four grown children who have launched into the world. • Very sad to share that George Cooley passed away in October 2022. George retired from the MBTA after 23 years of service and was living in Tarpon Springs, Florida since 2021. • Maria Leonard Olsen is remotely working as an attorney, writing, and podcasting. Her next book covers the unintended consequences of DNA testing. She regularly contributes articles to AARP's The Ethel, Authority Magazine, and other publications. Her Becoming Your Best Version podcast is available on eight platforms. Check out her TEDx Talk, “Turning Life's Challenges into a Force for Good,” as well as her e-books on self-care and other topics at MariaLeonardOlsen.com. • Jean-Charles Dibbs has retired after working 37 years at Shutts & Bowen, Miami’s oldest law firm. He’s living and splitting his time between Miami and Europe. • Janice Lavoie graduated from the University of Virginia with an acute care NP post-master’s certificate in 2022. She previously graduated from George Washington University in May 2016 with a primary care NP certificate. She is working as a urology NP at Sentara Health in Woodbridge, Virginia. • Matthew Sullivan retired in August 2022 after 31 years of teaching and educational leadership in England, Wales, Thailand, India, and Singapore. He is now settled in his ancient cottage in rural Suffolk, UK, and is involved in school governance, prison education, charitable fundraising, academic research, writing, sailing, gardening, and church activities. His three sons are in Edinburgh, Manchester, and Bath, and he now has an empty nest for the first time in 27 years! • Tanya Mason is in her 38th year of teaching in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. She and her husband celebrated 36 years together. They have four sons, one of whom was a dissertation fellow at Boston College and now has his PhD. Their other three sons are happily employed in Maryland. One is married with three children, and they all keep grandma and grandpa busy. Tanya misses her former roommate, Antonia, very much and wants her to submit a note. • Theresa Rahikka recently retired from the Department of Defense after 22 years of service as a mathematician.

Caroline Long McKinnon is in her 10th year as faculty at the Augusta University College of Nursing and was recently appointed to serve as the director of the Psych-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) program. • Michael Hickey, MDiv’86, after having had his latest book, Holy Silence, published by Hamilton Books in 2022, is now working on finalizing a new book titled Rising Light. The new release will be focused on the resurrection of the body. Rising Light should be available in bookstores the last quarter of 2023. • Lisa LaBanca Rogers, MA’86, is excited to share her upcoming picture books: Beautiful Noise: The Music of John Cage, publishes in October (Random House Kids); Ronald Reagan: A Little Golden Book Biography, publishes in November (Random House Kids); and Woody's Words: Woodrow Wilson Rawls and Where the Red Fern Grows will be out in 2025 (Astra/Calkins Creek). Her poem has been chosen to title the anthology If I Could Choose a Best Day: Poems of Possibility (Candlewick Press, 2025). • Peter Collins and Teresa Coppola Collins ’85 are overjoyed to announce the birth of our first grandchild, Edward "Eddie" Britt Collins on August 1, 2022. Eddie's parents Jennifer Yoo ’12 and Jared Collins ’12 are over the moon. • Teri Anderholm retired from her investment compliance career and bought an inn in Bar Harbor, Maine, with her husband, Jeffrey Anderholm. The inn was sold in 2018. Teri has written her debut memoir, Inn Mates: An Innkeeper's Memoir, which she plans to publish in 2023.

Paul McLaughlin was recently promoted to commander of the Boston Police Homicide Unit. Paul has spent 34 years with the department, working mostly in investigative positions in drug enforcement, intelligence, and homicide. In his current role, Paul oversees all death investigations, fatal accidents, cold cases, and the fugitive unit. Paul and his wife, Paula ’88, recently celebrated their 34th wedding anniversary. They have three children and three grandchildren. • Jere Shea was recently honored to be appointed director of the Massachusetts Film Office. After appearing with fellow Eagle Matt Del Negro ’94 and Kevin Bacon in City On A Hill (Showtime), Jere is thrilled to return to public service, working to promote and support film and television production in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Eagle filmmakers seeking a great place to produce their movie or TV show can email him at jerome.shea@mass.gov. • After graduating from BC, Diane Pintabone earned a master's degree in Classics at U. Colorado at Boulder and then went on to study at USC, where she earned a PhD in classical philology in 1998. For a few years, she taught as a lecturer/adjunct at various colleges/universities (Scripps, Cal State Long Beach, USC). Since the 2000–2001 academic year, she has taught Latin at Westridge School for Girls in Pasadena. • Brian Cardoza, JD’87, was recently elected to the National Board of Directors of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) and to the position of director of California ABOTA. He is also the president-elect of ABOTA California Coast Chapter. ABOTA is an invitation-only national trial attorney organization devoted to the preservation of the civil jury system. • Ro LaFleur Bach got together with Cheverus buddies Ann Gallo, Jamie Smida, Ingrid Van Zon Borwick, and Sue Shey Dvonch at Ingrid's home in the Berkshires in January. It was so amazing to see everyone and to catch up! Ro's daughter, Allison, now works at BC as a social media marketing specialist for the Department of Residential Life and is enrolled in BC's master's program in higher education. Greetings to the many great friends from Class of ’87! • Alicia Dvoskin Moya, JD’87, joined the Southern California office of PlayCore, a national company building healthy communities through recreation and play, as service center manager for Southern California and Nevada. She was previously founder and vice president of business operations for a general contractor specializing in playground construction and residential remodeling.

Inspired by their work with people with disabilities, Paula McLaughlin recently took on the role of chief advancement officer at the House of Possibilities on the campus of Stonehill College. • Bob Rivers has been nominated to serve on the Massachusetts State Committee of the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL). Bob is a fellow of the ACTL as well as the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). He practices family law at Lee & Rivers LLP in Boston.

Megan Carroll Himmer married her husband, Alan, a fellow Phillips Academy classmate, during the pandemic in a small chapel near their home on Lake Winnipesaukee in NH. Megan continues her arts law practice and enjoys participating in ballroom dance competitions in Boston. They each have two adult children. She is open to BC friends connecting on Facebook or LinkedIn. • Christina Schipani lives in South Hampton, New Hampshire. She and her husband, Ron, have a 16-year-old daughter who is well on her way to the Olympics for swimming, having competed and scored in the top of her age group in Junior Nationals. • After being out of school for 31 years, Brenda Davis Morano went back and earned her MSN-Ed at Curry College! • Lori Mann Brightman recently traveled to San Antonio to visit with Eleanor Phelps. They are hoping to reconnect with classmates this summer, possibly at a girls weekend! • Kathleen Zinzer McCarthy passed away on December 2, 2022, after a five-year valiant battle with colon cancer. Even after 96 chemo and radiation treatments, she never allowed cancer to define her. She leaves behind her soul mate of 19 years, husband Brett, and her 3 teenage children. Her funeral Mass was celebrated on December 9, 2022 (55th birthday). Her mother, Elizabeth Reagan Zinzer, was a BC 1963 graduate, and her grandfather, James Reagan ’30, JD’36, was a triple Eagle. • Robert Franks, president and CEO of the Baker Center for Children and Families, was featured in a January 2023 interview in the Boston Business Journal, describing (among many topics) the current pediatric behavioral health climate. • Chuck Hogan was featured in the winter ’23 Boston College Magazine, highlighting his latest novel Gangland, his first book in 10 years after focusing on TV and film writing work, including the TV and novel versions of the vampire pandemic series The Strain, which he created with the acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro. Hogan is the author of several Boston-based crime novels, particularly Prince of Thieves (the basis for the film The Town, starring Ben Affleck and Rebecca Hall).

Molly Schweizer Brown and Danny Brown moved cross country with their two black labs to Seattle last May, where Danny took a position as a neuropathologist with CellNetix. They are enjoying exploring their new city and are hoping to meet up with BC alumni in the area. • Christine Garbis Elmore gave birth to Emily Grace on February 26, 2022. Both Christine and her husband, Bill, are over the moon. • In his role as cofounder of ReVision Energy, Phil Coupe is helping northern New England transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a sustainable, renewable energy-based economy. In its first 20 years of business, the 100% employee-owned company has installed more than 15,000 projects in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, specializing in solar electric systems, air source heat pumps, battery storage, and electric vehicle charging stations. • Paul Turner and his wife, Cindy, recently transplanted from the Bay Area to Charlotte. Paul is still with the Corporate Communication team at Wells Fargo and looks forward to connecting with any North Carolina Eagles. • Susan Gagliano has lived in Florence, Italy, since 1992. She works as a professional counselor with a private practice and as a teacher trainer on an EU platform called Erasmus +, an EU-wide study abroad program. She delivers professional development courses to teachers from across Europe on topics such as stress management, creativity, and motivation. She has two daughters, Alessia, who works in Amsterdam in graphic design and digital communications, and Sofia, who is an interior designer. • Nancy Noll Kolinski and Joe Kolinski have finally, after years of saying they were going to, moved to Cape Cod from Northern Virginia. Joe continues work as a federal government IT contractor remotely, and Nancy, after running a horticultural consulting business for 15 years, has taken a new position with Sesuit Landscapes. Joe, Nancy, and Motoko (the cat) are really enjoying being out of the city, surrounded by conservation land, and the 10-minute drive to the beach (not the cat). • A well-timed text resulted in a mini reunion in February in the Irish pubs of Manhattan. New Yorkers Patrick Langhenry, Mike Salve, and John Flanagan were joined by Ken Forton, who traveled from the Boston area, and Kara Corso Nelson from Connecticut. It’s amazing how the years melt away among good friends and Guinness!

Joseph D. Lewandowski, MA’91, writer, researcher, avid pugilist, and professor of philosophy at the University of Central Missouri, has recently published On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science (New York: Routledge) and “Sport after Auschwitz.” • Kate Chadbourne has recently launched The Celtic Wisdom School, offering online classes in Irish folklore, storytelling, and tradition. She began her Irish studies journey at BC, going on to earn a PhD in Celtic Studies from Harvard, where she currently teaches Irish language and folklore. Through the Celtic Wisdom School, Kate is excited to make authentic Irish lore available to a wider audience in classes that interweave community, scholarship, creativity, and Fáilte—a true Irish welcome. • Curtis Owens has been appointed to the Fidelity Management Trust Company board of directors. • Richard Murphy, MEd’91, has engaged in multiple weekly volunteer activities that entail the disenfranchised since his retirement from full-time teaching and school counseling in 2021. He works part time as an academic advisor at Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City, Missouri, and he mentors multiple new teachers at his old high school, where he worked for 34 years. • In September, Class of ’91 friends Kathy Barry, Andrea Benoit, Ann-Marie Breen, Debbie Wardlow Brown, Kellie Moroney Chavero, Shelby Lovett Cuevas, Lynn Page Flaherty, Meg Gross, Heather Garrigan Hentz, and Debra Page Mooney got to spend time together in Westerly, catching up with one another and spreading BC cheer throughout the Rhode Island beaches. Their time together was priceless. Debra has a small consulting practice for nonprofit organizations and is an empty nester with both her daughters in college. Meg is working in public relations, living in New Jersey, and is busy raising her daughter, a high school junior. She is teaching undergraduate PR at Seton Hall. Lynn is vice president for advancement and external affairs at Friends of the Public Garden in Boston. She and her husband, Sean, are getting ready to send their son off to college. Heather is still enjoying the Atlanta lifestyle, volunteering, and traveling. Kellie is teaching in Massachusetts and raising amazing children. Debbie is helping others as a social worker in her own private practice in Massachusetts. Ann-Marie is loving living in the mountains of Asheville with her family. Andrea is living in the Boston area and is eastern regional counsel at the Defense Contract Management Agency. Kathy moved back to North Carolina after many years in government service and is now senior counsel at SAS and almost an empty nester. Shelby is still rocking the Phoenix life and is senior associate general counsel at UnitedHealth.

Tony Munchak is enjoying a second career as the owner of Mighty Dog Roofing of MetroWest Boston located in Needham. After 20 years as a portfolio manager at Invesco, Tony has embarked on being a small business owner managing roofing, gutter, and siding projects, and he is enjoying every minute. Tony and Amy Hyland Munchak recently celebrated 25 years of fun together. They live in Wellesley with their two daughters, and they all love tailgating on Robsham for BC football games! • David “Foz” Dering graduated from BU Law and has been a civil trial attorney in New Jersey since 1995 and a partner in the firm Leary Bride Mergner & Bongiovanni the whole time. He and his wife, Karen, live in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and have two children. They are excited that their son Joseph Baldwin is in the Class of ’26, and they hope their six-year-old daughter Elizabeth Dering will be the same. At least they won’t have two in college at the same time. They hope everyone is doing well and living their best lives like they are! • Emily Barrows Cianchette MSN, FNP-BC, graduated from Boston College in 1992 with her BSN and then from Husson University in 2000 with her MSN. Emily is board certified as a family nurse practitioner and has practiced in primary care for 23 years. She is the lead primary care provider at Northern Light Health SVH Primary Care in Pittsfield, Clinton, and Newport, Maine. Emily is also the vice chief of the Northern Light Health SVH Medical Staff. • Marietta Courtney was honored with the award of 2022 Business Person of the Year by the Tri-Town Chamber of Commerce. Marietta is a CPA and owns Courtney CPA, P.C. in Mansfield.

Some alumni may have seen Shea Sitzer Fleming's daughter Paige ’23 on social media platforms as she unintentionally represented BC (and Costco card holders!) this past November at a BC men's basketball game. In the stands, Paige was captured by ACC cameras reacting to a fellow BC student in the stands as he showed her his Costco card. It was randomly captured by a viewer, posted on Twitter, then viewed 21 million times. Subsequently it was reposted by Barstool Sports, the NY Post, Today.com, and on Instagram! • Kevin Edgar has been elected as a partner at BakerHostetler. Kevin joined the firm in 2019 in the Washington, DC office. He co-leads the firm’s Congressional investigations practice and specializes in public company and financial services legislative and regulatory policy. • Elizabeth Talia, JD’93, was recognized by the Rochester Business Journal as a 2022 Woman of Excellence. The award is to recognize women in the Rochester community for their professional accomplishments, community leadership, and mentoring. Ms. Talia is vice president and general counsel and chief compliance and privacy officer at Thompson Health in Canandaigua, New York. She is currently on the board of directors for United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes and Compeer Rochester. • Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, PhD’93, recently retired as the vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of the faculty at Claremont School of Theology and is continuing as a professor, teaching World Christianities and Practical Theology. In January 2021 she became the editor-in-chief of the journal Anglican and Episcopal History. She also continues to teach as a professor of Anglican studies at Bloy House, the Episcopal School of Theology in Los Angeles.

The third book in Ted (T.M.) Murphy’s Totally Weird Activity Books series, Unusual Objects in Fantastic Places, was released in spring 2023. These books are perfect for the classroom. His motto is, #GetKidsCreating. For the adults, Murphy's Cape Cod-based thriller, Macabre Trophies, will be released this year under his new pseudonym, Declan Rush. His mystery writing has always been inspired by the late John McAleer's class and his late father James F. Murphy, Jr.’s Craft of Writing class. Macabre Trophies is NO kids book. • Jennifer Sullivan Sulewski started a new position in January as the associate director of the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire. Jen lives in Newton with her husband, Steve, and two daughters, Anna and Mae. • Ned Thompson is now working for an NYC-based company, Tassat, which provides blockchain solutions to US-regulated financial institutions. Having been a banker for almost 20 years, it is amazing to be exposed to such cutting-edge technology that will have such a positive effect on so many industries—from banking to shipping to food production. He is glad to see that BC is getting involved in educating students about blockchain, because there will be huge demand for workers within the next 5–10 years. • Dr. Kristin Kahle’s story of success was included in the anthology Lead Like a Woman: Tales from the Trenches, a collection of the testimonies of powerful women sharing their perspectives on leadership, failure, and resilience. She also appears in Lead Like a Woman: Audacity, a complementary text that focuses on the action of taking risks. These books, along with Crash and Learn: Lessons in Business and NOtivation, are now part of Dr. K's bestsellers. • Roger McAvoy moved back to the US with his wife and three kids after 22 years living in Singapore and Hong Kong, after what was supposed to be a 15-month assignment in 2000. He has relocated to Connecticut and has set up an office in NYC with his employer, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., to lead its North America sales and marketing team across issuers, investors, and intermediaries. • Tracey Johns Delp was appointed an associate judge of the District Court of Maryland on January 4, 2023. • Wayne Klug, PhD’94, found that social resilience helps trauma patients to heal. Joined by a student stroke survivor, the Berkshire CC professor studied 54 hospitalized adults—30 PTs and OTs ranked “socially competent” patients as most motivated—suggesting healing may be as much social as personal and undermining “rugged individualism” as key to recovery. He presented his findings at a recent New England Psychological Association conference, with a dedication to Donnah Canavan, the late BC professor.  

Steve Riden recently celebrated his 50th birthday by finally completing his goal of visiting all 50 states. A family road trip to North Dakota finished the list. Steve remains a partner at Beck Reed Riden LLP, a law firm in Boston, and recently completed a three-year term as chair of the board of editors for the Boston Bar Journal. • Melissa Conlon has been named as the director of special programs and data reporting for Longwood Central School District after eighteen years as an assistant principal at Longwood High School. She began her career in education at Malden Catholic High School in Malden and has also taught at T.A. Blake Middle School in Medfield. Melissa is currently the president of the Stony Brook University Men’s Lacrosse Parent Club as her son, Renz, is in his senior year of studies and lacrosse at SBU. • Deirdre Sanders, a principal at Hamilton Brook Smith Reynolds, has been elected to serve on the advisory board for the newly established chapter of the National Academy of Inventors at Northeastern University. • Matt Chapuran's latest short story, "Coyote," was published in Constellations Magazine, which is available on Amazon.

Jennifer Sierveld Doty recently published Just Lead, detailing advice she has gleaned through years of leadership experience that a boss can’t teach you. • Mary McDow passed the Philadelphia bar in the fall of 2022 and began working for the City of Philadelphia as an assistant city solicitor in the tax and revenue department after graduating from Temple Law School in 2020 and clerking for a common pleas judge for two years. • Juan Alexander Concepción ’96, MEd’97, MBA’03, JD’03,  has joined the legal team at Boston Scientific. • Adrien Ong returned to full-time education and completed the prestigious Sloan Fellows MSc in Leadership & Strategy at London Business School (LBS) in London, England, after 25 years in corporate life as an investment banker and then leading global strategy for one of the largest humanitarian NGOs to sustainably impact and transform lives. • Chris Campbell recently started a new position as vice president, user experience at the live-entertainment company AEG Presents. He also serves on the board of two mental-health nonprofits: Bring Change to Mind and Backline. He has a 14-year-old dog named Bennett. • Dawn O’Brien is proud to announce that her son AJ Wladyka was accepted ED1 to the Class of 2027. He will enter CSOM this fall. He joins his sister, Faith, who is currently a first-year student in MCAS. AJ has been a lifelong fan of BC and is excited to officially become an Eagle. • Nicole Franconere Ward was appointed deputy commissioner for the department of children, youth, and families in Albany County, New York. Her son obtained his MBA and is working for Credit Suisse in NYC, and her daughter graduated this May. • Lisa Cummings-Knight has two boys—Christopher and JP Knight—Tufts and GW baseball players, and a daughter—Bitsie Knight, who is currently a senior at BC. Lisa has her own private practice in downtown Boston. She is also a consultant with Boston Public Schools and supervises BC interns. Her husband is a partner at Morrison Mahoney and runs the mock trial program at BC High. • Eduardo Victor J. Valdez, MA’96, PhD, is serving his second term as vice-chairman of the University Research Ethics Committee of the Ateneo de Manila University Loyola Schools. He also sits on the board of the Rizal Library of the Ateneo de Manila.

Kevin Dooley Kent has joined international law firm Clark Hill PLC as a member in the litigation practice. Kent will co-lead the firm’s transatlantic strategy. Kent works from the firm’s Dublin and Philadelphia offices. • Kerry Niedermeier Lake was selected as a Fulbright Teacher for Global Classrooms for the 2022–23 year. She will be doing her international field experience in Uruguay this June. After graduating from BC, she began her teaching career on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Since 2000, she has been teaching and learning with students, teachers, and families in Oregon and Vermont. • Gretchen Hunt ’97, JD’00, received the Woman of Distinction award from the Center for Women and Families for her work on preventing gender-based violence. Gretchen currently leads the Office for Women for the Mayor of Louisville, where she advances policy, programs, and training to promote gender equity.

Tracy Sendor Woodrow, JD’98, has been named chief administrative officer of M&T Bank Corporation. • Juv Marchisio, MBA’98, is excited to share that his son, Christian Marchisio, a high school sophomore, will be attending the Boston College Experience two-week pre-college session on Government, Globalism, and Capitalism starting in July.

Michelle Wynn, MEd’99, a Donovan Scholar, has been accepted as a doctoral student in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. • Just after Thanksgiving, Dr. Jaime T. Snarski was inducted into her high school (Manchester Memorial High School) Hall of Fame as a Graduate of Prominence for her work as an emergency medicine physician in Florida and extensive medical mission work in Central America and the Caribbean. She is living in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and has two children, Jett (eight) and Jemma (six). •  Carole Hughes, PhD’99, was named Pillar of the Profession by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). Pillars of the the Profession have: provided significant service to NASPA through regional and/or national leadership roles within the Association; created a lasting impact on the institution(s)/organization(s) at which they have worked, leaving a legacy of extraordinary service recognized by a cross-section of institutional/organizational stakeholders; and/or demonstrated sustained, lifetime professional distinction in the field of student affairs and/or higher education. Dr. Hughes has served in a variety of positions in the Division of Student Affairs at Boston College since 1988. • Scott Cronin and his wife Christy were married in June 2022 at Whitby Castle in Rye, NY. Several members of the Class of ’99 were in attendance including Mike Welsh, Matt Wyneski, Mike Murphy, Tommy Voltero, Gint Rimas, and Mike Suleta. Last summer, Scott’s daughter, Ashley, MSW’22, graduated from the BC School of Social Work with a master’s in social work. •  Christian Baird was recently given responsibility for sales and marketing in the expanding territories in Tennessee and North Carolina for OSCAR Healthcare. He is now managing director of these new areas, as well as Texas and Oklahoma. He now oversees more than 100,000 customers and over $500 million in premium sales. • Clarence Perera, principal at Amazon Web Services, has been focused on driving innovation in both the Capital Markets Enterprise Customer and AWS Startup segments. His primary customer and partner is Nasdaq, and Clarence is helping Nasdaq set the pace for rethinking capital markets and economies globally. •  Sister of Saint Joseph Deirdre Griffin, JD’99, is in ministry with Annunciation House and Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center at the US/Mexico border in El Paso, welcoming people seeking safety in the United States and providing pro bono immigration legal services. Both organizations are in need of short and longer term volunteers, to help with hospitality and/or legal services. Spanish is helpful, but not required. Just come with your open heart! • Lorraine Bonk recently became a grandmother to twin boys! Her daughter and her wife welcomed them on July 20, 2022. •  Lynn Peyser Capadona was selected as the deputy chief engineer for NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate. •  Maria Finaro Cleary, MEd’99, created Readeezy, the first interactive digital library for older struggling readers, with inspiration from her learning-disabled daughter. The library has six illustrated books (and counting), with text-to-speech, checks for understanding, "dyslexia-friendly" text, and no teacher training necessary. And now there's AI and its possibilities—a reading companion, multi-level texts, and more! She would be delighted to hear from researchers and teachers at maria@readeezy.com. •  Colleen Madigan, MSW’99, received the Resolve New England 2022 Advocacy Award in recognition of her efforts of sponsoring and passing fertility care legislation in Maine. Ms. Madigan is in the Maine House of Representatives for District 64.

Mary Taylor has built a wine company called Mary Taylor Wine, selling wines in 44 US states and five countries. They were featured in the New York Times among other great press. Their wines are in stores around Boston, and also you can ask your local store to order some. They are distributed in Massachusetts by Mise Wines of Newton. Their website is www.mt.wine. • Chris Keswani is working at Meta as a senior product marketing manager. In this capacity, he is the voice of both the engineering team and internal stakeholders. Over the past 12 months, he successfully oversaw the release of four internal products that helped business units boost their productivity and efficiency when working with internal cross-functional teams and requesting resources. • Jim Murray, president of the Tiburon Company real estate group and attorney with Murray Co., LPA, has been unanimously elected to serve as the president of the board of trustees for Leadership Ohio. As a member of the 2017 class of Leadership Ohio, Jim received the Leader Among Leaders award. Jim and his wife, Anna Marie, have three children and live in Jim’s hometown of Huron, Ohio. Go Eagles! • Kevin Diebold Lehnert was promoted to full professor of marketing in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. • Claudette LaVerdiere left for mission in Chad with three other Maryknoll Sisters. The group consisted of Claudette, originally from Maine, and three other Sisters, from the Philippines, El Salvador, and Vietnam. They firmly believe that the greatest gift they have to offer is the witness of their life in community.

Jocelyn Walters now resides in Washington, DC (after 10 years in New York). Along with her own small business, she works for Next Street, a mission-driven firm creating a more inclusive economy through small businesses.  • Sean Guthrie ’01, MEd’14, H’21, would like to thank Boston College for selecting him to be one of the honorary doctorate recipients for the 2021 Commencement ceremony. It was an amazing experience.  • This year, Matt Stevens, MA’01, accepted a post at Saigon South International School in Ho Chi Minh City. He currently serves on a team of university guidance and social/emotional counselors providing support to high school students. This is his 22nd year as a high school counselor and first year working internationally.

Tiffany Anzalone McCasland and her husband, Chris, welcomed their second son, Banks Smith McCasland, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, in Washington, DC. Banks joins big brother Brooks.  • Lawrence Napoli just completed his first manuscript and attended a writers’ conference in Atlanta in March, where he pitched his novel to literary agents.

In September 2022, Dr. Richard Grijalva, MA’03, began a two-year ACLS Emerging Voices postdoctoral fellowship with the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. While there, he is continuing his research on politics and spirituality during the period of Mexican independence.  • Teresa Sullivan, MA’03, moved to Denver in August to begin Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) certified educator training at the University of Colorado Hospital. After serving many years as a National Association of Catholic Chaplains (NACC) board-certified chaplain in Boston, South Bend, and St. Louis, Teresa will become a CPE educator.  • After 20 years, Patty Báez Zamora went back to BC and had an amazing time reminiscing about her time as an undergrad there. A lot has happened since—marriage, her beautiful son was born, and a career that she loves. While taking into consideration all her blessings, Patty has decided to move back to Boston, which is home for both her and her husband. She is looking forward to this change and continuing to enjoy life’s blessing at home with loved friends and family.  • Wendy Jeffus is teaching sustainable finance at Babson College.  • Sarah Sedlock Call has been working as a staff physician at Mountain Laurel Medical Center, a Community Health Center (FQHC), in Western Maryland, since 2014. She has recently accepted the new position of chief medical officer over their three health centers.  • Colleen Costigan currently lives in Eldoret, Kenya, with her husband and two young children. She runs a nonprofit, BEAM Kenya, which she founded in 2017. BEAM Kenya provides educational scholarships and psychosocial education for at-risk children in Western Kenya. • Andrea Bevis was recently named by Forbes as one of America's Top 100 Women Wealth Advisors. 

Jessica Honeyman Costanzo, JD’04, is general counsel at MK Enterprises Inc., a family office and holding company founded by Maurice Kanbar, the creator of SKYY Vodka, with business interests spanning a wide array of industries, including real estate, entertainment, spirits and retail products. She also oversees the office's philanthropic giving. She is living in San Francisco with her husband, two sons (aged 10 and 4), and a new puppy.

David Andrews and Dina (Wall) Andrews welcomed the birth of their daughter Dylan Skye Andrews on November 1, 2022. She was born at 8:26PM and weighed 7 lbs 15.7oz.  • Adam Koneman recently joined the University of Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery as The Estelle B. Goldman Museum Educator for School Outreach, after 18 years as a special education classroom teacher and school leader. In his new role, he will further the museum's engagement of K-12 educators in Rochester and the greater region by developing professional development opportunities, creating educational resources, and promoting the museum as a powerful site for teaching and learning. • José and Katherine López ’12 welcomed their second son, Joaquin, this winter. Joaquin joins his brother, Amaru, in bringing joy and love to Casa López.  • Courtney Madigan and Mike Skvasik were married in Austin on June 4, 2022.  • Elizabeth Hassan, Cheryl Reither Damilatis, and Kellie Faircloth Hawkins rang in their 40th trip around the sun together.  • Patrick McDonnell, MBA’05, celebrated the graduation of his daughter Bridget from Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. Bridget majored in political science with a minor in Irish studies. Bridget gave back to the BC community as the lead choreographer of Boston College Irish Dance. Slainte!  • Colleen Thornton will be celebrating her tenth wedding anniversary to Dr. Owen Aftreth this summer. They are parents to Peter (eight), Joshua (two), and welcomed Rose in November of 2022. She has worked as an oncology physician assistant in Boston, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles over this past decade. She is taking some time from her clinical practice to snuggle her babies and drive a minivan. The family moved to beautiful Anchorage in the summer of 2022.

Shen Chen was recently promoted to managing director at Bank of America where she has been working since June 2013 and based in London, UK. Previously she worked at Citi for seven years, based in New York. She has responsibility for large global corporate relationships within the investment and corporate banking division. In addition, Shen recently joined the board of trustees at Career Ready, a UK- and Scotland-based charity focused on social mobility for young adults aged 14–18. • CH (Major) Michael Morison, CAP-USAF Aux, MDiv, was recognized by the Military Chaplains Association as the 2022 Distinguished Chaplain of the Year for Civil Air Patrol (CAP). His service demonstrates dedication, innovation, and service to the Civil Air Patrol and the military, currently at Edwards AFB. The award states that "Chaplain Morison's service is greatly appreciated and reflects great credit upon himself, his church, and Civil Air Patrol.”  • Michael Cherkezian and his business partner, Justin Barad, appeared on ABC's Shark Tank on March 17 to pitch their company Chubby Buttons to "The Sharks." Several years ago, the two invented and manufactured a durable Bluetooth wearable remote for gloved adventure sport athletes. They've sold over 16,000 units to date, and they are just getting started! Chubby Buttons has been featured at the X Games and in Ski Magazine, Outside, Entrepreneur, and Mashable.

Caitlin Corrieri Augusta and her husband, Joe, welcomed their son, Charles Roger Augusta, on September 24, 2022. They are year-round Cape Codders now, residing in Mashpee, and Caitlin is a reading teacher in the Barnstable Public Schools.  • Rebecca Mergenthaler Hayes ’07, MHA’18, earned her doctorate in nursing practice and was promoted to associate chief nursing officer at Boston Medical Center overseeing perioperative services.  • Edwin Xiao married Anastasia Mirgian on Christmas Day 2022 in Yerevan, Armenia. Formerly of the Tesla Supercharging team, Edwin now runs an electrical engineering and contracting company focused on sustainability; Anastasia runs her family’s export/import company dealing with Asia/Europe trade. • Susan Groden McDonald, JD’12, and Tucker McDonald happily welcomed their son, Henry John, on April 26, 2022. Big sister Abby is excited to show Henry around the Heights!  • Marisa Ramirez is proud to share that she is in the third year of owning her own business as a coach and consultant! She partners with leaders and organizations who are ready to dream, expand, and deepen their commitment to equity and liberation. Marisa loves her work as an experience designer, facilitator, and healing-centered coach. • Daniel H. Park was promoted to shareholder at Berman Fink Van Horn, a business law firm in Atlanta. He has also been selected to the 2023 Georgia Super Lawyers list.  • Erin N. Book Bruno has announced her candidacy for magisterial district judge in District 15-4-03 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. If elected, she will be the first woman in that position in at least 24 years. A career public defender for the last fifteen years, Erin was elected tax collector for her township in 2021 and looks forward to further serving her community as a judge in the local court system.

WilmerHale is pleased to share that as of January 1, 2023, Mark Nylen will be elevated to partner. • Mandy Collier Scipione, MBA’08, still works at Fidelity Investments and has been promoted to senior vice president, relationship management group manager. In this role, she manages a team with clients leveraging Fidelity’s stock plan services and equity administration in the central region of the country.  • Alison Finck married David lanni at Wychmere Beach Club in Cape Cod, Ma on Aug 6, 2022.  • Lisa Roughsedge Twomey and Patrick Twomey welcomed their second child, Josephine "Josie" Elinor, on December 1, 2022. Josie joins her big brother, Alex (three).  • Julie Foss, MBA’08, MSW’08, was promoted to assistant director of Eliot’s Community Behavioral Health Center for the North Essex area.  • Lindsay Winget Schlegel published The Road to Hope: Responding to the Crisis of Addiction (Our Sunday Visitor) with her coauthor, Keaton Douglas. They hope this book will be a game-changer in the field of addiction and recovery as well as in the body of the Church. • Margy Burke Fabry, Carolyn Lynch Blair, Laura Maguire Jones, Meghan Crann, Meg Gambale, Aubrey Timm Ritter, Lauren Kelly, and Caitlin Gordon descended upon South Bend, Indiana, this past November for a reunion of their epic RV adventure to South Bend in fall ’07. There may have been a different game outcome, but the enthusiasm for BC football remained as strong as these friendships have been over the last 18 years. A few original 2004 “Soaring to Glory” Superfan shirts even made an appearance. • Jamie Martz and wife Jessica Gage welcomed their second child, a son named James Gage Martz, in January 2023. Older daughter Mia Anne is thrilled to be a big sister. Jamie and Jessica met during their MBA studies at Yale School of Management in 2014, they were married in 2017 in Park City, Utah, and they currently live together with their children in Seattle, Washington.  • Caitlin Leutwiler Meenan and Duncan Bourgoin had a chance meeting in Vail, Colorado, and were able to hit the slopes. Eagles on the Eagle Bahn!  • Mary Mycroft has joined Sungage Financial as head of compliance-legal counsel.

Megan DeLaney, MEd’09, married Brad Deaton on June 4, 2022, in Megan's hometown of Toledo, Ohio. Megan is a graduate of the Urban Catholic Teacher Corps of Boston College (UCTC). Members of UCTC cohorts 9, 10, 11, and 12 were in attendance, along with former program director Karen Kennedy. The couple are both Boston Marathon runners and reside in Cincinnati, Ohio. • Nathan Gerbe retired from professional hockey after 13 years. He also earned his bachelor’s degree after returning to Boston College to finish his degree 13 years later. • Michael Jorgensen recently celebrated one year working full time as the public affairs official for NASA's Langley Research Center on their Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration project. Additionally, Michael still leads Jorgensen PR, a theater and entertainment public relations firm in New York City, which just celebrated its second year in business. • On Ash Wednesday 2023, Katie Sellers successfully defended her dissertation about the experiences of critical educators in urban Catholic schools. Dr. Sellers would like to thank the faculty who mentored her at BC, especially Margaret Guider, O.S.F., who introduced her to Paulo Freire; Jennie Purnell, who invited her to teach in ways that matter; James Keenan, S.J., who taught her faith and critical thinking go hand in hand; and the Himes brothers, whose appreciation of story shaped her own. • Michael and Lizzy McCarthy welcomed their third child (James) this past June. He is joined by his two big sisters—Maeve and Tess. • Proud parents Lauren Galinsky and John C. Driscoll ’07 welcomed a healthy baby boy, John Trager Driscoll, on the morning of January 21, 2023. Jack was born at BWH in Boston, weighing 8 lbs 5 oz and measuring 20 inches. Mom, Dad, and Jack are happily, if drowsily, getting used to life as a family of three in Roslindale. • Molly Levitt is heading up the US arm of the Remarkable Disability-Tech Startup Accelerator. Remarkable supports and funds startups building products for people with disabilities. The accelerator is always on the lookout for great mentors (and startups), so if this is something you're interested in, please reach out to her on LinkedIn. • Hyun Choi and Gavin King were happily wedded on April 22, 2022, in Warwick, New York. • Leela Assefi and Justin Barnes went to high school together in Moscow, Idaho. In the summer of 2019, they had their 20th high school reunion. A connection was sparked, but Justin lived in Idaho and Leela lived in New Jersey. A few months later, Leela was offered a role in San Francisco, and she took the leap. Being in the same time zone enabled them to talk more, which led to long-distance dating. They decided to quarantine together, and the connection strengthened. They got married on May 8, 2021, in true pandemic fashion. 

Jennifer Blewett was named a diplomate in clinical social work (DCSW) by the National Association of Social Work (NASW). This is the highest level of advanced practice credentialing available to social workers. She is currently a clinical social worker and the assistant director for community outreach and engagement in the department of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital. She also has her own private psychotherapy practice in Boston. • Veronica Yu Welsh has been named a partner at the Baltimore-based employment and labor law firm Shawe Rosenthal LLP. With a diverse litigation background, Welsh represents employers in a wide range of labor and employment-related matters in federal and state court, as well as before administrative agencies. She was recently recognized by Super Lawyers magazine as a Maryland Rising Star in the Civil Litigation-Defense and Employment and Labor practice areas for the sixth year in a row. • Ashley Galvez Perryman is now the vice president of global human resources for Spiceworks Ziff Davis. She is the founder and the elected president of the Ziff Davis Latinx ERG, Mezcla. She is a Gallup-certified strengths coach and a certified force management facilitator. She provides graduate-level instruction at Acton School of Business and mentors students in the Women’s Initiative on Entrepreneurship and Leadership Development at the University of Texas at Austin. • Geoff Sanzenbacher, PhD’10, recently published a book, The Six Facts that Matter: Understanding Economic Inequality in the United States. Shane Dunn, MA’10, is now chief advancement officer at Rosie's Place, the nation's first women's shelter that now serves as a community center providing wide-ranging support, education, and outreach services to more than 14,000 women a year. Additionally, Shane was recently elected to be president/chair of the board of directors of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) in Boston. Shane and his wife, Elizabeth ’04, live in Roxbury with their two young children. • Sam Lipscomb Spain and her husband, Kevin, welcomed their second son, Jayce, into the world on February 1, 2023. Big brother Aidan is ready to show Jayce how to cheer on the Eagles in Alumni this fall! • Meghan E. Gavin has been named a partner at Cascadia Law Group, PLLC and an advisor to Yale University's Carbon Containment Lab. She has also joined the Building Tribal Leadership Initiative to support Tribal Nations developing and evaluating carbon dioxide removal projects. • D.J. Murphy and his wife Holly welcomed their second child, Mackenzie Abigail, on December 5, 2022 in Lafayette, California.

Barton Gilman is pleased to announce that Thomas M. Dolan III, JD’11, has joined the firm as of counsel in the Providence office expanding the firm’s civil litigation practice. Tom focuses his practice on medical professional liability defense, premises liability, aging services litigation, and criminal defense. He also represents medical professionals in arbitration, mediation, and state licensing board hearings. • After serving as assistant chair and chair for liberal arts and sciences at Berklee, Dr. Michael C. Mason ’00, PhD’11, is the inaugural chair of Africana studies at Berklee. Mason will collaborate with all Berklee campuses and learning environments regarding the impact of the global African diaspora on arts and culture. He will build the curriculum for a bachelor of arts in Black music and culture, which is planned for fall 2024, as well as designing future master's degrees in Africana studies. • Keli Bannister Callaghan, MBA’11, was named partner at Arrington Capital. • Greg Pidgeon was promoted to senior vice president as a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management. • Naz Keskin has started a new position at Amazon Turkey as senior vendor manager. • Max Bindernagel married Caitlin Buchheit on December 10, 2022 in Alexandria, Virginia. In attendance were Billy Cody, Alex Aune ’10, Fr. Grayson Heenan ’10, Eric Hinz ’10, and Faith Hill Hinz, JD’13. • Princess Hyatt joined Grace Academy, a tuition-free middle school serving underserved girls in Greater Hartford, as their executive director and head of school in September 2022. She is an educator and advocate for organizations that work to ensure that every child has access to a quality education regardless of their ethnicity, income level, social status, or zip code. She continues to work closely with Sarah ’83 and Matthew Fitzsimons ’80, co-founders of Grace Academy and Boston College alumni! • Madeleine Moore and Eddie Howe are overjoyed to welcome their first child, Edward David, born on December 30, 2022. Madeleine and Eddie met in Tanzania, where they lived and worked for 5+ years—Madeleine working in designing public health programs and Eddie building businesses in agriculture and hospitality. They now live in Amsterdam, where they welcomed Edward. They continue to work and spend time in East Africa, as well as in their hometowns, San Francisco and Auckland.

Jared Collins and Jen Yoo welcomed Edward “Eddie” Britt Collins to the world on August 1, 2022. Eddie is a bundle of energy and love for his parents and grandparents, including Teresa (Coppola) Collins ’85 and Peter Collins ’85. • Jeff Cohen, MBA’12, is excited to share that his son was accepted early decision to Boston College. Andrew plans to study finance at the Carroll School of Management. A happy announcement from Washington State as Andrew gets back to his roots. • Semira Zereit has two beautiful kids and a new career. • For Meredith Koch and Ryan Hayes, Christmas came early in 2022 with the birth of their first child, Grant. He has already visited campus once with many more trips to come! • Double Eagle Pamela Naab, MA’07, MA’12, recently started a career as an assistant professor at Lasell University, where she teaches undergraduate psychology courses, collaborates with Lasell Village (an intergenerational campus community), and researches topics related to health behavior change. • LCDR Joe Horton, JD’12, JAGC, USN, graduated from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law, receiving his LLM in both environmental law and ocean law and policy. At graduation, Joe was honored by his classmates to serve as the 2022 LLM class commencement speaker. LCDR Horton currently serves in the national security and environmental law fields as the force judge advocate for Commander, Joint Region Marianas in Santa Rita, Guam. • Karen Wilfrid, MEd, signed a book deal with HarperCollins Clarion for her first novel, Just Lizzie, a middle-grade book scheduled to be released on November 14.

Kristina Fusco and Joe Doren were married in New York City at Our Lady of Pompeii Church in Greenwich Village on October 15, 2022. • Pedro Pereira Tomás, S.J., is grateful and proud to be a BC alumnus. He was able to realize his first desire, to contribute to the peace process of genuine reconciliation in Angola through Christian faith. He has created the Association of Angolan Friends for Peace, helping families and neighbors to reconcile. • Courtney Kuhn Callegary and her husband, Henry Callegary, welcomed their son, Grant Kenneth Callegary on August 6, 2022.

Victoria Carter and her husband Ian Carter welcomed their baby girl into the world, Liliana Zuri Carter, this past July! After having emergency open heart surgery during her first weeks of her life with them, she is now doing quite well and thriving. • Leah Nees and Kenny Ierardi ’13 were married in September 2021 in Toledo, Ohio. BC classmates and friends Michael Fogarasi, Alexander Tingle, Samyr Laguerre, Beth Farmer, Molly O’Dea Tyler, Rob Raimundo, and Derek Robinson were in attendance. Leah and Kenny reside in Huntington Woods, Michigan. • Andrea, MA’14, married Scott Hemborg at a small ceremony at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Grand Junction, Colorado. Eagles in attendance included Fr. Robert (Bob) Jones, S.M., MA’13, as the presider, and Fr. Mick McCarthy (current Dean of the School of Theology and Ministry) as a guest. Mick is the bride’s uncle, which made it fun with two STM alumni! • Cristina Costa, MSW’14, LICSW, opened her private practice. • Lauren (Ciarci) Langendorf and Thomas Langendorf ’13 welcomed their first child, Owen Lewis Langendorf, on February 6. • James Patterson is the new clinical director of perennial recovery in Westborough and also has a private practice based in Brighton. After practicing in the addiction medicine/substance recovery field, James is delighted to be building an agency and a program from the ground up. • Marissa Manhart married James Loeffler on June 4, 2022 in Caldwell, New Jersey. They were joined in celebration with fellow Eagles including bridesmaid Charlotte Shih and Mod 34A roommates Alice Chen, Diana Tran, and Cecilia Huang, as well as Rob Granara, Charlotte Randall ’13, Alyssa (Zaprzalka) Campbell ’13, Meredith Irvine Casper ’13, Claire Marinello Fisher, and Brian Keller ’06. • Reigning Ark Trivia champions of Iggy A31 find themselves now all on the wrong side of 30, but the right side of the Jersey Shore thanks to host David Farley. Michelle Cunningham Gulen and Altan bought a purple house, which only shows up on Apple Maps, that they are painting. Willis Wang finally got Covid (he’s fine now). Lani Frankville got a big fancy business promotion so she’s an even fancier business lady now and also really good at actually getting tickets to the Eras tour. She also became a dog mom. Charlotte Parish finally has a working office chair and dabbles in carpentry. Clara and Cooper Aakhus are in Santa Monica with a big yard. Christine Zhao started drinking more water but then had to stop. Wonchan Yi is somewhere in Southeast Asia (we think). Allie Rottman is working in medical writing at the cutting edge of innovative medicine.

Paul Woo Lee married Sara Seonmin Chung ’19 on May 15, 2022. They met in Boston and moved together to Las Vegas during Covid-19 where they bought a house together to work from home. They have two cats and enjoy golfing, hiking, and shopping in their free time. • Paulina Canales completed her PhD in leadership and human development a year ago. • Annie Weber Lizzul was honored to stand on the podium and participate in the bell ringing ceremony on International Women’s Day at the New York Stock Exchange, as a result of her work with KKR's Women’s Employee Resource Group (ERG). On International Women's Day, the KKR Women's Employee Resource Group (ERG) rang the bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness about gender discrimination, and take action to drive gender parity. KKR Women hosted events around the globe to highlight their commitment to promoting the advancement of women. • Sara B. Fraser has published her second novel, Just River, with Texas-based publisher Black Rose Writing. Just River recently won the American Fiction Award for humor/satire and has been a finalist in the Foreword Indies Humor category as well as the Wishing Shelf Book Awards for general fiction.

Luke Reynolds recently had his nonfiction book, Braver Than I Thought: Real People. Real Stories. Real Courage., published by Simon & Schuster. Kirkus Reviews calls the book, "A refreshingly down-to-earth exploration of trauma and healing." Exploring the lives of people like Chadwick Boseman, Padma Lakshmi, Queen Latifah, Joan of Arc, and more, the book navigates trauma and healing and how we learn to live and connect again. It was also chosen as an official Junior Library Guild Selection. • Matthew Pierce is a senior restaurant success manager with Toast, specializing in mid-market / enterprise accounts. Matt is celebrating his fifth year with Toast. He and Maggie Mullins are engaged to be married on September 9, 2023, in Portland, Maine. • Haley Wallace graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School and begins her federal clerkship with the Honorable Eric C. Tostrud in the fall.

Kierstin Giunco, Urban Catholic Teacher Corps alum and current doctoral student in the Lynch School, was named to the International Literacy Association’s (ILA) 2023 30 Under 30 list. As a teacher-researcher, she supported sixth-grade Mission Grammar students as they explored meaningful questions about current events, their communities, and their lives. • Ryan Peffer MS’17, MBA’21, and Suzanne Peffer of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, gave birth to Winston Peffer. • Aaron Rothbard, PhD, is still savoring his high ACT score while working hard to recruit top talent at Bain & Company. As a lucrative side hustle, he has entered the luxury watch market as both investor and advisor. • Christopher Calderón, S.J., MDiv’17, has been appointed the next president of Cristo Rey High School in Sacramento. Cristo Rey is a school co-sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy and the Jesuits. • Kimberley Zakka found her passion working at the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence. She hopes to leverage technology to improve diagnostic accuracy and aid therapeutic decisions. After graduating with an MD from the American University of Beirut, she pursued an MSc in health data analytics and machine learning from Imperial College London. She is currently working as a data scientist and machine learning researcher at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Samuel Lee Luisi was born to Alexandra, MA’18, and James Luisi, MDiv’18, on November 19, 2022. • Clayton Trutor, PhD’18,'s book Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports was named one of Sports Collector Digest's best baseball books of 2022. Public Books named Loserville one of its "Public Picks" of 2022. • Michael Lane and Grace Molla ’19 met outside of Patrons (RIP) in 2017. Michael proposed in Ibiza and they got married on May 6th in Boston and again on May 13 in Las Vegas with too many Eagles to list in attendance! They honeymooned in Europe. Talons Up!

Sr. Sean Mayer, FSP, ’03, MA’19, of the Daughters of St. Paul was appointed the new editorial manager at Pauline Books & Media, a Catholic publishing house located in Jamaica Plain. • Erin Anderson is completing a masters in lower elementary Montessori teacher training with the hopes of becoming a lead teacher in her Montessori elementary classroom. • Ryan Gardner is currently a stage manager on the National Tour of the Broadway musical Les Misérables. Managing all of the backstage technical elements as well as the cast on stage, Ryan and team work around the clock to make sure the show happens eight times a week as they travel across the country. From the Robsham Theater to now the world's most popular musical, BRAVO to Ryan!

Celine Lim graduated with her master's degree in clinical psychology from the University of Indianapolis. She earned this master's along the way, while working toward her doctorate of psychology (PsyD) degree, which she will be matriculating from in 2025! She passed her two competency examinations, is currently proposing her dissertation, and continues to deliver psychotherapy as part of her training. • Zhongyu Yvonne Cheng and Yuqi Tang were married in San Diego, after six years together as a long-distance couple. • Alex Benoît was awarded the position of department chair of English at Greenfield School in Wilson, North Carolina. • In July of 2021, Adam Renda became superintendent of Ayer Shirley Public School District. • Breeana Blalock birthed Amado Meruk Natruth-Remerang Blalock on September 11, 2022. Breeana completed her certificate in animal assisted psychotherapy and is working on publishing a literature review of animal assisted psychotherapy for refugee and asylum-seeking youth. • Jake Nowak is the first recipient of the DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. Having been nominated by one of his labor and delivery patients for outstanding care during the delivery of their first child, Jake is a shining example of pursuing the passion he found while at BC. Outside of work, Jake is a Mentor with TERN Mentoring, giving back to college students by sharing the lessons he is learning along the way. • César Muziotti, S.J., MEd’20, graduated with an MEd in educational leadership and policy in 2020 has been the director of identity and mission at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He is also the new chair of identity, leadership, and commitment. In December 2022, he was appointed as the coordinator of the Network of Pastoral, Identity, and Mission of the Jesuit Universities of Latin America. He also teaches educational management in the graduate program in education on campus.

Craig ’22 and Dylan Stacey welcomed Lily Lake Stacey on June 21, 2022. • Rebecca Bianchi completed a master's degree in healthcare administration from the University of Minnesota. • Hunter Bruhn graduated from Navy Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island, where he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy. He is stationed in San Diego, where he serves as a Division Officer at Strike Group Oceanography Team San Diego. He will deploy on an amphibious warship, where he will lead a team of forecasters. • Rebecca Bianchi graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health with a master's of healthcare administration.

Caroline Rocha Sheehy received her bachelor of arts degree in corporate systems. She is a real estate broker and operates her own practice, Seaport Properties Advisory Group. She is a first-generation graduate, and her parents, Manuel Rocha and Eileen Mary Rocha, were her inspiration for completing her degree. Caroline is married to Shawn K. Sheehy and is the proud mother of Conor (25), Seamus (23), and Sinead (21). • Jillian Yuhas, MHA’22, was chosen as a fellow for the 2023 cohort of the Trinity Health Administrative Fellowship Program out of 145 applicants. She couldn’t have done it without all the knowledge gained from the MHA program and the help of her favorite professor, Dr. Basel Tarab!