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PROLOGUE 


Law  man 


This  edition's  Prologue  was  written  by 
Brian  Doyle,  former  senior  writer  for 
"BCM"  and  currently  editor  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Portland's  "Portland  Magazine." 

Dan  Coquillette,  BC  Law  dean  for 
eight  years  until  July  1993,  and 
now  a  member  of  the  law  faculty,  is 
telling  a  story.  It's  something  he  does 
frequently  and  with  pleasure. 

"Recently  I  was  in  a  china  shop, 
looking  to  buy  a  teapot  for  my  wife,"  he 
says.  "In  the  shop  is  a  sweet  old  woman 
perhaps  80  years  old.  She  has  the  face  of 
an  angel. 

"'What  do  you  do,  young  man?'  she 
asks  me. 

"'I'm  a  law  professor,'  I  say. 

"'You  train  new  lawyers,  then?'  she 
says. 

"'Madam,  I  do." 

"'If  a  litigator,  a  divorce  lawyer  and 
a  corporate  lawyer  were  dropped  from 
an  airplane  at  the  same  time,  who  would 
hit  the  ground  first?' 

"'Pardon  me?'  I  say. 

"'Who  would  hit  the  ground  first?' 
she  says. 

'"I  don't  know.' 

"'Who  cares?!'  she  says,  cackling 
wildly." 

It's  moments  like  this  that,  for 
Coquillette,  confirm  his  decision  to 
step  down  as  dean  and  step  up  as  re- 
former of  his  ancient  and  once  respected 
profession.  It  is  a  profession  that 
Coquillette  has  revered  since  he  first 
studied  law  at  Oxford.  It  has  paid  his 
bills  and  fed  his  children  since  1971.  It 
has  been  his  passion  since  he  began  his 
march  up  the  ladder  from  clerk  (to 
Supreme  Court  Justice  Warren  Burger) 
to  partner  (Palmer  &  Dodge)  to  law 
professor  (at  BU,  Cornell,  and  Harvard) 


and  finally  to  law  dean  and  professor  on 
the  Heights. 

By  all  the  criteria  on  which  law 
schools  are  measured — reputation, 
fund-raising,  selectivity,  awards,  fac- 
ulty publications,  job  offers  to  gradu- 
ates— BC  Law  made  great  strides  under 
Coquillette's  deanery.  But  if  ever  there 
was  a  man  ill-served  by  a  numerical 
portrait,  it  is  Coquillette,  who  is  built  of 
curiosity  and  brisk  business  sense,  schol- 
arship and  peach-colored  suits,  eager 
teaching  and  dry  remarks  offered  every 

Dan  is  indefatigable, 

ebullient,  tireless, "  says  hutch. 

"Pd  call  hint  a  Renaissance 

man  if  I  didn  9t  know  that 

would  instantly  lead  to  a 

disquisition  on  the  true 

meaning  of  the  phrase. " 

year  at  the  conclusion  of  the  annual  law 
student  comedy  revue.  This  is  a  man 
who  wrote  two  fat  and  scholarly  books, 
taught  courses  in  legal  history  and  pro- 
fessional responsibility,  and  served  as 
advisor  to  three  of  the  nation's  legal 
associations  (the  Judicial  Conference 
of  the  United  States,  the  American  Law 
Institute,  and  the  American  Bar  Asso- 
ciation) while  working  more  than  full- 
time  as  a  law  school  CEO. 

"Dan  is  indefatigable,  ebullient,  tire- 
less," says  Brian  Lutch,  who  was 
Coquillette's  associate  dean.  "I'd  call 
him  a  Renaissance  man  if  I  didn't  know 
that  would  instantly  lead  to  a  disquisi- 
tion on  the  true  meaning  of  the  phrase." 

"Dan  is  a  string  of  adjectives,"  says 
Academic  VP  William  B.  Neenan,  SJ. 
"He  is  intelligent,  enthusiastic,  self- 


deprecating,  dedicated,  energetic, 
funny.  Also  he  is  the  most  loquacious 
man  I  have  ever  met.  There  are  no  brief 
conversations  with  Dan.  I  happen  to 
know  this  for  a  fact." 

It  will  take  all  the  qualities 
Coquillette  brought  to  bear  on  BC  to 
accomplish  his  next  goal.  Lawyers  once 
had  the  respect  and  affection  of  the 
populace.  Consider  the  lawyer  that  Hol- 
lywood once  promulgated  as  the  arche- 
type of  the  profession — Gregory  Peck 
as  Atticus  Finch  in  To  Kill  a  Mocking- 
bird, say,  or  Spencer  Tracy  as  Clarence 
Darrow  in  Inherit  the  Wind.  Then  pon- 
der the  grasping  amoral  characters  that 
populate  The  Firm  or  LA  Law. 

"There  is  a  general  feeling  that  law- 
yers today  are  nothing  more  than  hired 
guns,"  says  Coquillette — an  ironic 
phrase,  for  today's  lawyers  are  increas- 
ingly under  fire  both  literally  (recent 
shootings  in  Kansas,  New  York,  North 
Dakota,  and  Texas  courthouses,  and  in 
a  San  Francisco  law  office),  and  figura- 
tively (a  recent  National  Law  Journal 
magazine  survey  reported  anti-lawyer 
feeling  "at  a  fever  pitch"). 

"The  rule  of  law  in  the  United  States 
is  what  has  made  this  nation  the  most 
successful  constitutional  democracy  in 
history,"  says  Coquillette,  "and  its  pro- 
fessional underpinnings  are  a  commit- 
ment to  social  justice  and  public  service. 
I  believe  that  this  commitment  will 
sustain  us  and  propel  us  into  a  worthy 
future.  But  the  law  itself  must  be  sus- 
tained— first  and  foremost  by  those  men 
and  women  who  belong  to  it  as  a  pro- 
fession. In  fact,  let  me  tell  you  a  story 
about  this  ..." 

Dan  Coquillette's  diagnosis  of,  and 
prescription  for,  what  ails  the  legal  pro- 
fession begins  on  page  40. 


Boston  College 


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Life  work 


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WINTER    1994 
VOLUME   S3   NUMBER    1 


EDITOR 

Ben  Birnbaum 

DESIGN   DIRECTOR 

Jana  Spacek 

ASSOCIATE   EDITOR 

Bruce  Morgan 

SENIOR   WRITER 

John  Ombelets 

SENIOR  DESIGNER 

Susan  Callaghan 

IVERSITY   PHOTOGRAPHERS 

Gary  Gilbert 
Geoffrey  Why  '88 

CONTRIBUTING   STAFF 

Sandra  Howe  '89 


EDITORIAL  ADVISORY   BOARD 

Mary  Bra  beck;  Adele  Dalsimer;  Patricia 
McNabb  Evans  '74;  David  Hollenbach, 
SJ;  Richard  Keeley;James  McGahay  '63; 
Elaine  Pinderhughes;  Stephen  Rosa  '86, 
( io  >rge  Ryan  '51,  MA'5  3 ;  Paul  Schervish; 
Maura  King  Scully  '88  MA'93;  John  F. 
Wissler  '57,  MBA  '72. 

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fRONT  COVER  IllUSTRATION  BY  MICHAEL  MclAUGHUN 
BACK  COVER  PHOTO  BY  GARY  GILBERT 


By  Michael  Yeats 

It's  not  the  eminent  poet  who  stands 
revealed  in  journals  and  correspondence 
in  BC's  new  Yeats  Collection,  but  the 
struggling  writer,  the  reluctant  public 
figure  and  the  vehement  man  of  letters. 


Like  a  bridge 


26 


By  Anthony  B/yk  '77 

For  10  years,  the  author  and  his 
colleagues  sought  to  understand  why 
Catholic  high  schools  often  succeed 
where  public  high  schools  fail.  Here  are 
their  answers. 


Winning  the  West 


Winning  the  West,  page  32 


32 


By  Bruce  Morgan 

With  a  state  system  in  disarray  and  rapidly  growing  numbers  of 
college-bound  students,  California  has  become  a  battleground  for 
"Back  East"  admission  recruiters  like  BC's  Sherman  Rosser. 


Uncivil  law 


40 


Interview  by  John  Ombelets 

What's  wrong  with  the  legal  profession  today  is  lawyer  behavior.  So 
says  former  Law  Dean  Dan  Coquillette.  His  prescription?  The  first 
thing  we  do,  let's  change  legal  culture. 


DEPARTMENTS 


Advancement  52 

Journal  54 

Works  and  Days         57 
Alumnotes  (follows page  28) 


Letters 

2 

Linden  Lane 

3 

News  &  Notes 

14 

Sports 

48 

Research 

50 

Research,  page  50 


Revolutionary  notes 

I  enjoyed  your  article  about  women  at 
Boston  College  ["Came  the  revolution," 
Linden  Lane,  Fall  1993],  particularly  in 
view  of  the  fact  that  my  daughter  is  a  senior 
there.  However,  I  take  exception  to  your 
statement  that  not  until  1972  were  women 
allowed  to  matriculate  in  the  College  of 
Arts  and  Sciences  or  the  School  of 
Management.  In  my  class  of  1963  there 
were  at  least  five  women,  if  not  seven  women, 
enrolled  in  the  College  of  Arts  and  Sciences. 
I  am  not  sure  if  more  women  were  permitted 
to  go  to  the  College  after  1 963 ,  but  certainly 
in  my  year,  the  centennial  class,  there  were 
women  in  Arts  and  Sciences. 

JAMES  SCULLY  '63 

Poinona,  California 

Editor's  Note:  Mr.  Scully's  recollection  is 
correct,  and  so  were  we.  While  the  policy  of 
admitting  women  students  to  A&S  and 
SOM  was  not  changed  until  1 972  — as  noted 
in  our  story — seven  women,  who  inevitably 
became  known  as  "the  vestal  virgins,"  were 
admitted  into  the  A&S  Honors  Program  in 
1959,  and  six  graduated  with  the  Class  of 
1963.  As  recounted  in  a  Winter  1988  story 
in  BCM,  BC  officials  intended  that  more 
women  would  be  admitted  in  subsequent 
years,  but  had  not  cleared  their  plans  with 
Jesuit  officials  in  Rome,  who  were  not 
pleased.  Eleven  more  years  passed  before 
the  ban  was  lifted  for  good. 

Committee  work 

I  enthusiastically  applaud  the  formation  of 
BC's  Committee  on  Sexual  Diversity  and 
Personal  and  Community  Development 
[News  &  Notes,  Summer  1993].  Had  such 
a  Committee  been  in  place  during  the  ten- 
ures of  Jack  Gerah  '61,  and  James  D.  and 
Maura  Haggerty  Sweeney  '80  [Letters,  Fall 
1993],  perhaps  some  of  their  present  anger 
and  hatred  would  have  been  tempered  by  a 
little  more  understanding  and  a  lot  more 
Christian  charity. 

HARRY  MCKONE  "63 

Boston 


LETTERS 

ARS  AND  VITA 

It  was  refreshing  to  read  the  profile  of  Paul 
Shakespear  ["Breaking  through,"  Fall  1 993  ] , 
which  reminded  me  of  how  important  the 
arts  are  for  sanity  and  contentment.  I  was 
inspired  deeply  by  Paul's  family  and  their 
commitment  to  each  other,  and  his  work. 

TITO  ROMAN  '82 

Cambridge,  Massach  usetts 

Casualties 

Congratulations  to  Sister  Margaret 
MacCurtain,  O.P.  She  has  written  a 
splendidly  enlightening  account  of 
courageous  Irish  women  who  endured 
famine,  social  dislocation,  forced  migration 
and  other  travails  throughout  Ireland's 
turbulent  19th  century  ["The  silence  of 
Molly  Macree,"  Summer  1993]. 

One  inaccuracy  mars  an  otherwise  flaw- 
less gem  of  an  essay.  Sr.  MacCurtain  writes, 
"Some  800,000  Irish  died  between  1845 
and  1851  from  the  effects  of  the  Famine, 
while  over  a  million  fled  the  country." 

Taking  all  the  various  studies  together, 
the  better  estimate  seems  to  be  over  one 
million  deaths,  and  between  one  million 
and  one  and  one-half  million  emigrants 
during  the  Famine  years.  That  a  country  of 
eight  million  persons  would  lose  between 
25  and  30  percent  of  its  residents  within 
four  or  five  years  stuns  the  conscience. 

WILLIAM  M.  CONNOLLY  '67 

Chestnut  Hill 


Lesson  book 

That  was  an  admirable  collection  of  little 
essays  on  hometowns  ["My  town,"  Summer 
1993].  I  liked  the  portraits  of  Agresto's  old 
Brooklyn  neighborhood,  Sheehan's  Saugus, 
Birnbaum's  East  New  York  and  the  rest. 
But  what  impressed  me  most  were  the  gen- 
eral observations,  in  these  and  in  the  the- 
matic little  commentaries  (Lochard  on  racial 
"tipping,"  Hale  on  the  importance  and  dim- 
ming of  local  politics).  "When  you  live  in  a 
place  haunted  by  three  generations  of  your 
family  on  both  sides,  vou  travel,  like  it  or 


not,  in  a  spotlight."  In  the  light  of  American 
individualism,  middle  class  or  liberated,  "the 
neighborhood  is  what  the  culture  needs 
most  and  cultivates  least." 

These  are  instructive  thoughts. 

PROF.  ROBERT  FAULKNER 

Boston  College 

Francis  B.  McManus,  SJ 

I  was  saddened  to  read  of  the  death  of 
Francis  B.  McManus,  SJ,  a  powerful  cam- 
pus presence  during  my  years  at  BC. 

In  the  summer  of  1957,  I  injured  my 
writing  hand  in  a  machine,  losing  one  finger 
and  damaging  another.  Upon  returning  to 
school,  it  was  clear  that  the  surgery  per- 
formed during  the  summer  had  not  re- 
stored my  hand  to  even  partial  use,  and  as  a 
result  I  had  great  difficulty  taking  notes  as 
well  as  exams. 

After  two  final  exams,  I  was  summoned 
to  Fr.  McManus'  office  in  Fulton  Hall.  I 
told  him  my  tale  of  woe  relative  to  mv  hand 
and  of  surgery  scheduled  for  the  following 
week.  He  asked  me  what  I  felt  my  grades 
would  be  if  I  did  not  have  this  problem.  As 
best  I  could  I  estimated  what  my  grades 
would  have  been.  He  said,  "John,  we  are  all 
victims  of  original  sin,  and  our  role  in  this 
life  is  to  make  that  burden  a  little  lighter  for 
the  other  fellow." 

I  struggled  through  the  rest  of  final 
exams  as  best  I  could  and  was  absolutely 
stunned  in  mid-February  when  I  received 
my  grades — they  were  exactly  the  grades  I 
had  given  him  in  our  meeting. 

J.R.  AKIN  '59 

Fairfield,  Connecticut 

Word  travels 

From  a  recent  visitor  I  was  glad  to  learn  that 
Boston  College  has  beaten  the  Notre  Dame 
football  team.  Congratulations. 

WALTER  E.  DE  SOUZA,  SJ 
Pune,  India 

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2  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MA( ,  \/l\l 


LINDEN   LANE 


An  era  ends 


Fr.  Monan  to  step  down  from  presidency  and  become  chancellor. 
The  search  for  a  successor  begins 


By  Douglas  Whiting 


The  scene  was  the  Winter  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  in  the  British  Catholic 
Authors  Room  of  the  Burns  Library;  the 
audience,  a  hushed  group  of  trustees  and  senior 
administrators;  the  speaker,  J.  Donald  Monan,  SJ, 
president  of  Boston  College  since  1972. 

"Several  times  during  these  22  years,  I  have 
thought  of  what  the  right  time  would  be  to  seek  a 
successor,  and  over  the  past  year,  I  have  come  to  the 
point  where  I  was  free  to  ask  the  board  for  a 
successor.  Boston  College  has  never  been  stronger, 
and  I  always  believed  that  it  is  best  to  make  impor- 
tant decisions  when  there  are  options  and  not  when 
one  is  forced  to  do  so  by  circumstance.  It  is,  I  think, 
in  the  best  interests  of  the  University  to  seek  new 
leadership  now."  [An  interview  with  Fr.  Monan 
begins  on  page  4.] 

And  so  on  February  4,  1 994,  did  Fr.  Monan  ring 
the  bell  on  the  longest-running,  and  one  of  the 
most  distinguished,  presidencies  in  the  University's 
history.  Following  his  statement,  which  was  greeted 
by  a  prolonged  standing  ovation,  Trustee  Chair- 
man Geoffrey  Boisi  '69,  announced  that  Fr.  Monan 
had  accepted  a  trustee  invitation  to  become  Boston 
College  chancellor,  a  new  position,  from  which  Fr. 
Monan  would  be  able  to  provide,  Boisi  said,  "spiri- 
tual guidance,"  "represent  Boston  College  as  a 
leading  international  educator  and  religious  states- 
man," and  offer  "strategic  counsel  and  further 
creatively  develop  the  resources  of  the  University 
to  execute  our  long-range  plans."  Boisi  also  said 
that,  assisted  by  an  advisory  committee  of  faculty, 
staff,  employees,  students  and  alumni,  the  trustees 
would  immediately  begin  a  national  search  among 
members  of  the  Society  of  Jesus  for  a  new  presi- 
dent, with  the  hope  of  naming  a  successor  early  in 
the  1994-95  academic  year. 


Fr.  Monan  "gave  new  meaning  to  our  motto, 
'Ever  to  Excel,'"  said  long-time  board  member  and 
past  chairman  William  F.  Connell  '59,  one  of 
several  trustees  to  speak  at  the  meeting.  Some 
highlights  of  Fr.  Monan's  tenure  include: 

•  A  rising  demand  for  admission,  with  more 
than  15,000  undergraduate  applicants  this  year. 

•  The  University's  two  most  successful  capital 
campaigns,  and  growth  in  endowment  that  places 
BC  among  the  top  40  American  universities. 

•  Growth  in  academic  strength  and  reputation. 

•  A  doubling  of  student  residential  space;  acqui- 
sition of  the  Newton  Campus;  construction  of  the 
Robsham  Theater,  museum  of  art,  O'Neill  Li- 
brary, Conte  Forum,  Merkert  Chemistry  Center 
and  a  new  dining  facility;  and  renovation  of  Alumni 


Fr.  Monan  and  Search  Committee  Chairman  Boisi 


B(  )STON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  3 


LINDEN   LANE 


Stadium,  Fulton,  Gasson  and  Devlin 
halls  and  Bapst  Library. 

As  trustees  moved  to  the  business  of 
preparing  the  search  process  for  Fr. 
Monan's  successor,  Boisi  turned  to  him 
and  said,  "You  have  run  this  place  with 
soul,  and  your  record  of  accomplish- 
ment speaks  for  itself.  And  because  of 
this  approach  you  have  touched  the  very 
soul  of  Boston  College  and  transformed 
it  from  fiscal  and  emotional  bankruptcy 
to  the  pinnacle  of  excellence  in  Catholic 
higher  education  that  it  is  today.  When 
St.  Ignatius  dreamt  about  what  his  fol- 
lowers would  project,  how  they  would 
perform  and  the  impact  of  their  labor, 
he  was  dreaming  about  you.  You  per- 
sonify the  commitment  to  excellence 
that  is  at  the  very  core  of  a  Jesuit  educa- 
tion. We  thank  you  for  sharing  your 
priesthood  with  us." 

In  a  letter  to  the  BC  community,  Fr. 


Monan  wrote,  "On  the  3 1st  of  December 
last ...  I  entered  upon  my  70th  year.  With 
the  University  enjoying  genuine  academic 
distinction,  with  a  strong  financial  base 
and  sound  institutional  plans  in  place,  I 
would  like  to  assure  a  transfer  of  leadership 
while  I  enjoy  my  present  blessings  of  good 
health  and  energy.  I  have  no  doubt  but  that 
the  promising  stature  of  Boston  College 
will  ensure  the  selection  of  a  highly  tal- 
ented president." 

Boisi,  who  will  chair  the  search  com- 
mittee, has  called  for  community  partici- 
pation in  the  process.  He  and  other  trustee 
committee  members  will  be  visiting  cam- 
pus to  consult  with  community  members. 
Individuals  may  also  send  candidate  nomi- 
nations to  him,  in  confidence,  in  care  of 
the  Office  of  University  Secretary. 

Douglas  Whiting  '78,  is  BC's  director  of  public 

affairs.  ■ 


Exit  interview 

Why  now?  and  what's  next? — for  BC  and  for  the  man 
who's  been  its  longest-serving  president 


Interview  by  Ben  Birnbaum 


This  interview  with  University  President  J. 
Donald  Monan,  SJ,  took  place  shortly  before 
he  made  public  his  intention  to  step  down. 

BCM:  In  your  letter  to  the  BC  community 
in  which  you  will  announce  your  intention 
to  step  down,  you  mention  that  you'd 
tried  to  do  this  several  times  previously. 
I  take  it  that  you  were  at  those  times 
dissuaded.  What's  different  now?  Why 
is  this  really  the  right  time? 

MONAN:  Well,  when  I  first  came  to 
Boston  College  and  had  my  discussions 
with  the  Board  of  Trustees  about  the 
position  of  president,  my  attitude  was  a 
willingness  to  stay  at  Boston  College  as 
long  as  it  was  good  for  the  University. 
Frankly,  I  had  no  preconception  as  to 
how  long  the  term  of  office  was  to  be.  I 


wanted  to  be  president  of  Boston  Col- 
lege as  long  as  I  was  effective  and  as  long 
as  my  continuing  was  in  the  best  inter- 
ests of  the  University. 

Twenty- two  years  later,  I  believe  this 
is,  for  the  University,  the  proper  time  to 
effect  a  transition.  Boston  College  is  in 
sound  condition  academically  and  fis- 
cally; we  have  ambitious  but  reasonable 
plans  in  place.  I  would  like  to  assure  that 
the  transition  take  place  in  a  manner 
where  there  is  no  slowing  down  of  mo- 
mentum or  of  activity.  I  don't  want  the 
University  to  go  through  a  period  of 
treading  water.  Given  my  age  today, 
while  I  am  in  full  possession  of  good 
health  and  energy,  I  believe  it  is  time  to 
move  to  another  role  and  to  appoint  a 
successor  as  president. 


4  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


Are  there  other  factors  that  influenced 
you — that  led  you  to  conclude  that  this  is 
the  time  for  transition? 

I  think  it  is  a  good  time  for  a  transition 
because  we  have  built  strong  resources 
in  our  faculty  and  administrative  staff 
and  in  the  very  unique  spirit  that  charac- 
terizes Boston  College.  There  is  a  large 
reservoir  of  dedication  to  the  school  on 
the  part  of  so  many  people.  And  yet,  the 
environment  around  us  in  higher  educa- 
tion is  changing  dramatically.  As  a  re- 
sult, some  larger  institutional  decisions 
are  in  the  offing  to  keep  us  abreast  of  the 
changes  that  are  taking  place  in  our 
surroundings.  I  believe  these  types  of 
changes  should  be  addressed  relatively 
soon,  and  that  it  would  be  good  for  the 
leadership  that  will  be  in  place  for  the 
next  five  to  10  years  to  be  the  individual 
prepared  to  make  those  decisions. 

But  there  is  also  a  point  at  which 
change  simply  for  the  sake  of  change  is 
a  good  thing  for  the  institution.  When 
you  enjoy  the  luxury  of  such  a  change,  it 
is  best  that  it  take  place  when  things  are 
going  well,  when  there's  still  a  relative 
degree  of  satisfaction  of  the  individual 
with  the  institution  and  of  the  institu- 
tion with  the  individual.  The  exactly 
appropriate  moment  isn't  always  obvi- 
ous. I  think  it's  more  a  question  of  an 
intuitive  process.  It's  like  knowing  when 
you  have  enough  evidence  to  make  a 
decision.  I  certainly  feel  at  this  time  that 
although  the  University  has  marvelous 
health  and  vitality,  after  22  years  the 
injection  of  new  outlooks  and  fresh  per- 
spective will  be  beneficial.  I  think  a 
change  will  be  good  for  Boston  College 
at  this  time.  And  it  will  probably  be  good 
for  me,  too. 

When,  previous  to  this,  did  you  come 
closest  to  stepping  down? 

Shortly  after  the  10-year  mark  I  was 
considering  that  it  might  be  in  the  best 
interests  of  the  school  to  bring  in  fresh 
leadership,  but  it  became  very  clear  that 
the  Campaign  for  Boston  College  [  1 986- 
9 1  ]  that  we  were  then  planning  would  be 
an  extremely  important  factor  in  Boston 
College's  future,  and  that  I  had  a  famil- 


iarity with  the  University  and  its  needs 
that  made  it  advisable  for  me  to  stay  on. 

While  it's  the  trustees  who  are  going  to 
be  electing  the  next  president,  I'm  sure 
you've  had  conversations  with  them 
about  the  sort  of  individual  you  think 
Boston  College  should  be  looking  for. 
What  have  you  said? 

The  position  of  president  itself  has  be- 
come dramatically  more  complex  over 
the  past  22  years,  both  in  terms  of  the 
University's  complexity  and  its  organi- 
zation, its  finances,  its  operational  re- 
sponsibilities, its  relations  with  the  world 
beyond  the  campus — and  I  think  we, 
first  and  foremost,  need  a  person  who 
can  provide  thoughtful  executive  lead- 
ership for  the  institution.  With  that  said, 
however,  he  will  not  be  able  to  do  so 
unless  he  fully  understands  academic 
life,  unless  he  has  the  highest  ideals  both 
for  research  scholarship  and  for  teach- 
ing, and  a  good  understanding  of  the 
development  that  takes  place  in  young 
people  between  the  ages  of  18  and  25, 
most  of  all,  of  undergraduates  who  are 
pursuing  their  education  here. 

It  should  be  an  individual  with  good 
knowledge  and  a  deep  appreciation  for 
the  traditions  of  Jesuit  education.  I  re- 
ally do  believe  that  Boston  College's 
contribution  to  American  society  is  not 
merely  in  terms  of  our  excellence,  but 
also  in  the  distinctive  philosophical  out- 
look that  is  part  of  the  heritage  of  Jesuit 
education — responsiveness  to  a  set  of 
values  that  differentiate  the  lifestyle  of 
this  university  from  many  others. 

One  of  our  great  strengths  as  an  insti- 


tution is  strong  centralization,  but  be- 
cause of  the  complexity  of  Boston  Col- 
lege the  person  has  to  be  a  team  builder, 
one  who  is  able  to  share  a  great  deal  of 
responsibility  with  others.  The  presi- 
dent, to  me,  is  at  the  center  of  a  very 
large  number  of  creative  units,  and  so 
much  of  the  vitality  of  the  school  comes 
from  the  initiative  and  the  sense  of  re- 
sponsibility that's  located  throughout 
the  entire  institution.  And  the  new  presi- 
dent can't  be  a  person  who  feels  respon- 
sible to  initiate  all  of  the  activities  of  the 
institution.  I  think  he  has  to  be  able  to 
spot  good  ideas  and  back  them  and  spot 
bad  ideas  and  scotch  them.  But  above  all 
he  has  to  rely  on  the  imagination  and  the 
ideas  of  a  great  many  people.  And  let  me 
also  say  that  this  person  should  be  as 
broadly  talented  as  possible.  One  of  the 
interesting  aspects  of  this  position  is  that 
you  can  employ  every  talent  that  you 
have,  and  you  can  employ  it  to  its  fullest 
extent  because  there  is  so  much  diversity 
and  complexity  in  the  day-to-day  and 
long-range  interests  of  the  University. 

Given  the  smaller  numbers  of  Jesuits,  is 
it  realistic  to  think  that  this  person  you 
describe  is  also  a  member  of  the  Society 
of  Jesus? 

I  have  no  doubt  but  that  there  are  a 
number  of  Jesuits  who  would  make  ex- 
cellent presidents  of  Boston  College, 
which  is  a  reflection  of  my  confidence  in 
their  talent  and  aspirations  and  experi- 
ence. I  regard  Boston  College  as  one  of 
our  very  finest  Catholic  institutions,  and 
I  feel  sure  that  the  Society  would  want 
very  much  to  make  available  the  best  of 
leadership  to  further  advance  the  Uni- 
versity. 

You  talked  earlier  about  this  moment 
being  right  because  there  are  critical 
issues  facing  higher  education  and  Boston 
College.  What  are  some  of  those  issues? 
If  you  were  staying  on,  for  example, 
what's  something  that  you'd  be  tackling? 

A  decisive  element  of  the  very  positive 
developments  we've  experienced  dur- 
ing the  course  of  recent  years  has  been 
strong  emphasis  upon  strategic  plan- 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  5 


LINDEN   LANE 


After  22  years  the 

injection  of  new  outlooks 

and  fresh  perspective 

will  be  beneficial.  I  think 

a  change  will  be  good 

for  Boston  College  at 

this  time.  And  it  will 

probably  be  good 

for  me,  too. 


ning.  Those  plans  have  guided  the  ac- 
tions of  the  past  20  years  and  have  set  a 
sound  strategic  direction  for  the  future. 
Indeed,  I  believe  we  have  one  of  the 
most  comprehensive  plans  of  any  col- 
lege or  university  in  the  nation.  How- 
ever, every  plan  proceeds  on  the  basis  of 
critical  assumptions,  a  number  of  which 
are  fluid,  susceptible  to  movement  with 
the  changing  environment  in  which  we 
find  ourselves.  I  believe  the  environ- 
ment itself  is  going  to  create  ongoing 
significant  challenges  that  we  will  have 
to  address  in  order  to  stay  on  course. 

Much  of  the  change  in  environment 
has  to  do  with  economic  conditions  as 
these  affect  colleges  and  universities. 
The  fact  is  that  costs  through  the  decade 
of  the  '80s  continued  to  rise  at  a  fairly 
dramatic  rate.  In  the  higher  education 
arena,  revenues  simply  are  having  great 
difficulty  keeping  pace,  and  for  private 
institutions  this  has  begun  to  translate 
itself  into  concern  for  the  affordability 
of  excellence  in  education. 

We  at  Boston  College  find  ourselves 
in  an  extraordinarily  strong  position  both 
financially  and  in  the  numbers  and  qual- 
ity of  students  and  professional  educa- 
tors who  desire  to  come  to  this  school, 
and  yet  we  want  to  assure  that  that  can 
continue.  And,  therefore,  we  have  to 
continue  very  serious  efforts  not  only  on 
the  revenue  side  of  the  institution  but 
also  on  the  expense  side.  Many  people 
feel  that  higher  education  has  to  find  a 
new  way  of  doing  business  so  that  pro- 
ductivity is  higher  or  there  is  greater 
differentiation  of  the  types  of  things  that 
you  decide  to  do  and  undertake.  I  per- 
sonally believe  that  there  are  going  to  be 
very  significant  changes  in  higher  edu- 
cation between  now  and  the  year  2  000  in 
addressing  this  whole  question  of 
affordability,  in  addressing  exactly  how 
universities  go  about  their  business  of 
research,  of  teaching.  And  I  think  Boston 
College  is  in  a  position  to  be  a  leader  in 
shaping  a  more  effective  way  of  carrying 
out  the  very  important  mission  of  higher 
education. 

I  say  that  because  I  have  great  confi- 
dence in  the  talent  of  our  Board  and  of 
our  administrative  team  and  in  the  sense 


of  community  that  is  here,  where  indi- 
vidual people  have  a  strong  sense  of 
responsibility  for  the  well-being  of  the 
school.  If  this  is  an  altogether  new  prob- 
lem which  affects  the  way  in  which  we 
carry  out  the  educational  enterprise,  it's 
going  to  take  the  very  best  of  ideas  and 
the  best  of  will  of  the  whole  community 
to  enter  this  new  era  as  a  period  of 
opportunity,  where  everyone  wins: 
where  the  educational  process  is  stron- 
ger, where  the  economic  well-being  of 
the  institution  is  stronger  and  where  the 
educational  results  for  young  people  and 
for  the  creation  of  new  knowledge  are 
more  effective.  I  think  that  can  take 
place,  and  I  think  that  Boston  College 
can  be  a  leader.  That's  what  I'd  be  tack- 
ling in  a  big  way  if  I  were  to  stay. 

In  addition  to  your  duties  as  chancellor, 
what  other  things  do  you  see  yourself 
working  on,  in  terms  of  your  personal 
interests? 

The  relationship  between  the  Catholic 
university  and  the  Church  has  always 
been  a  changing  and  developing  one, 
and  I  believe  we're  at  a  point  where  a 
new  type  of  relationship  is  beginning  to 
crystallize.  I've  been  so  much  a  part  of 
that  activity  for  the  past  10  years  that  I 
would  hope  that  I  can  be  of  some  help 
there,  on  the  national  scene  as  well  as  the 
local  one,  to  assist  in  a  newly  cooperative 
relationship,  because  in  many  ways,  I 
think  the  Church  has  never  before 
needed  universities  quite  so  much,  and 
on  the  other  hand,  universities  have  never 
more  needed  a  meaningful  religious  di- 
mension as  part  of  the  distinctive  contri- 
bution they  make  to  our  larger  society. 
There  are  many  forms  of  cooperation 
that  can  be  beneficial  to  both,  without  in 
any  way  detracting  from  the  integrity 
either  of  the  Church  or  the  university. 

You  were  once  a  teacher  and  writer.  Do 
you  think  you'll  have  time  for  that  again? 

I  haven't  begun  to  think  in  that  direction 
as  yet.  Certainly  teaching  continues  to 
hold  its  old  attractions.  There  once  was 
a  book  on  ethics  in  the  back  of  my  mind 
that  I  hoped  to  get  out  on  paper.  I  really 


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doubt  that  that  will  find  expression  at 
this  point. 

On  the  other  hand,  I  would  like  to 
draw  on  my  own  experience  of  adminis- 
tration and  of  government,  of  business 
and  of  the  major  policy  problems  con- 
fronting society.  There  are  a  lot  of  top- 
ics that  stimulate  my  reflection,  and  that 
I  will  certainly  consider  speakingor  writ- 


ing on  if  the  perspective  I  have  gained 
would  be  useful. 

Have  you  given  any  thought  to  how 
you're  going  to  spend  your  first  day  in 
23  years  as  "not  the  president  of  Boston 
College?" 

Not  yet.  There  are  always  constant  pre- 


Night  patrol 

Looking  for  trouble,  students  and  campus  officials  conduct 
the  fifth  annual  Newton  Campus  safety  walk 


By  John  Ombelets 


The  tutorial  convened  on  a  chill 
November  eve  in  a  parking  lot 
behind  Stuart  House  on  the 
Newton  Campus,  home  of  BC  Law 
School  and  800  freshmen  in  six  resi- 
dence halls.  The  students  for  this  exer- 
cise were  a  dozen  members  of  the  BC 
staff,  dressed  in  everything  from  three- 
piece  suits  to  windbreakers  to  police 


uniforms.  The  instructors  were  eight 
students,  mostly  women,  wearing  what 
students  wear.  When  all  were  aboard, 
class  organizer  Paula  Forget,  who  spends 
daylight  hours  as  assistant  to  the  VP  for 
administration,  drew  the  company  into 
a  circle  for  introductions.  Then  she  in- 
vited any  one  of  the  students  to  take  the 
lead.  "This  is  your  night  to  direct  us," 


THE  SEARCHERS— Phitsamay  Sychitkokhong  '95  (center),  leads  (from  left)  Elizabeth  Kreeft  '94, 
VP  for  Administration  John  Driscoll,  his  assistant  Paula  Forget  and  other  students  and  security 
staff  in  pursuit  of  a  safer  Newton  Campus. 


occupations  in  this  position;  you're  never 
really  finished  working,  and  I  think  that 
will  be  one  of  the  biggest  differences — 
in  that  I'll  wake  up  one  morning  and  all 
of  these  preoccupations  that  I  have  won't 
be  there.  Someone  else  will  have  them — 
together  with  the  sense  of  pride  in  Bos- 
ton College  that  will  be  his. 


she  urged.  After  some  hesitation,  a 
Hardey  Hall  resident  assistant, 
Phitsamay  Sychitkokhong  '95,  moved 
the  group  off  at  an  amble,  everyone 
conversing  in  low  tones  and  puffing 
steam  into  the  crisp  air.  The  fifth  annual 
safety  walking  tour  of  the  Newton  Cam- 
pus had  begun. 

Like  its  companion  event  on  the 
Chestnut  Hill  campus,  the  Newton  tour 
gives  students,  who  wander  BC's  156 
acres  at  all  hours,  the  chance  to  tell 
mostly  9-to-5  BC  staffers  how  to  make 
University  grounds  safer. 

Turnout  for  the  walks  varies  widely, 
according  to  Forget.  In  1992,  just  one 
student  showed  up  for  the  Chestnut  Hill 
walk.  This  fall,  with  anxiety  heightened 
by  several  reported  assaults  on  or  near 
the  campus,  more  than  30  students 
flocked  to  the  main  campus  tour,  and 
emotions  ran  high.  "One  young  woman 
stopped  us  near  one  of  the  residence 
halls  on  Upper  Campus  and  made  a 
quite  passionate  speech,  calling  the  walk 
'superficial'  and  urging  students  to  take 
greater  responsibility  for  their  own 
safety,"  Forget  said.  "It  was  a  long  night." 

By  contrast,  this  evening's  walk  was 
brief  and  amicable.  Sychitkokhong,  a 
member  of  the  student  government 
safety  committee  and  a  participant  in 
the  1992  Newton  Campus  walk,  ac- 
knowledged with  a  chuckle  that  she  was 
"an  old  hand."  She  led  the  patrol  west 
and  north,  behind  Keyes  Hall.  A  few 
residents  gazed  out  their  windows  at  the 
motley  group  of  trekkers  passing  below. 

Strung  out  in  a  loose  line,  the  caravan 
ascended  the  steps  between  Keyes  and 
Barat  House,  then  curled  to  the  left  to 
cross  the  circular  driveway  toward  Trin- 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  7 


LINDEN   LANE 


ity  Chapel.  The  tour  halted  at  a  point 
where  students  have  worn  a  path  across 
the  grass  quad  between  Hardey  and  Stuart 
House.  The  path  showed  dimly  in  the 
light  spilling  from  buildings  50yards  away. 

The  spot  needs  a  police  call  box  and 
better  lighting,  Sychitkokhong  said,  be- 
cause students  cut  through  at  night  on 
their  way  to  and  from  "the  morgue,"  the 
study  room  in  the  Law  School's  Kenny- 
Cottle  Library.  "Did  you  get  that,  Paul? " 
Forget  called  to  Energy  Manager  Paul 
Scarnici.  Scarnici,  nodding,  murmured 
into  a  palm-sized  cassette  recorder. 

As  the  walkers  negotiated  the  asphalt 
path  sloping  down  past  Hardey  towards 
the  Cushing  House  student  residence, 
Elizabeth  Hahesy  '97,  drew  Adminis- 


trative VP  John  Driscoll's  attention  to 
the  smooth  dirt  lane  that  parallels  the 
walkway.  "Everyone's  extended  the  path 
here  because  no  one  wants  to  go  near 
these  bushes,"  she  explained,  gesturing 
at  a  dark  clump  to  the  right.  Driscoll, 
nodding,  instructed  Scarnici  to  note  the 
necessity  for  pruning. 

Next,  the  tour  veered  off-road,  onto 
the  grass  behind  Duchesne  East  dorm. 
The  area  was  dark  as  the  inside  of  a  closet. 
Lighting  is  needed,  the  students  asserted, 
because  visitors,  and  forgetful  residents 
without  keys,  sometimes  come  back  here 
to  tap  on  a  window  and  ask  to  be  let  in. 

"We  used  to  try  to  discourage  people 
from  certain  areas  by  not  lighting  them," 
said  Forget,  after  Scarnici  repeated  the 


Witness 


For  six  years  the  author  shared  the  clandestine  life  and  fate  of  Guatemalans 
who  find  themselves  refugees  in  the  jungles  of  their  own  country 


request  into  his  recorder,  "but  we've 
learned  that  they're  going  to  go  there 
anyway,  so  we  might  as  well  light  them 
up,  make  it  as  safe  as  possible." 

So  it  went,  from  Duchesne  to  the 
Quonset  Hut  gym,  up  the  hill  again  to 
the  bus  stop  paralleling  Centre  Street, 
and  finally,  back  to  the  lot  behind  Stuart, 
where  the  group  dispersed.  Scarnici's 
final  tally  showed  two  requests  for  new 
call  boxes,  five  for  new  lighting,  three 
for  lighting  repairs  and  one  for  land- 
scaping work.  Summing  up  the  evening, 
Assistant  Director  of  Buildings  and 
Grounds  Tom  Hurley  said  that,  as  al- 
ways on  the  safety  walks,  "the  students 
showed  us  a  few  new  things  tonight." 


I  want  to  tell  about 
the  life  of  the  people 
with  whom  I  have 
been  living  in  Guate- 
mala, where  war  is 
going  on  and  where 
the  indigenous 
people  who  live  there 
have  suffered  repression  during  the  last 
1 1  years  in  a  very  terrible  way. 

The  people  started  to  organize  them- 
selves in  1982.  They  call  themselves  the 
CPR — Communities  of  Population  in 
Resistance.  In  that  area  there  are  three 
agents.  There  is  the  army.  There  is  the 
guerrilla.  Both  are  fighting.  There  is 
also  the  civilians.  CPR  are  civilians  re- 
sisting the  war,  though  the  army  has 
decided  that  they  are  not  civilians  but 
guerrillas.  Civilians  in  resistance  means 
that  they  endure  under  the  jungle  and 
stay  there  even  if  the  army  tries  to  chase 
them  out  of  the  country.  They  don't 


By  Ricardo  Falla,  SJ 

leave,  nor  do  they  escape  as  refugees,  as 
similar  groups  did  in  1982  after  huge 
massacres.  This  is  the  people  with  whom 
I  have  been  working  for  six  years  and 
who  are  right  now  under  the  cover  of  the 
jungle.  According  to  them,  they  are  be- 
tween 5,000  and  6,000  people  in  the 
northern  part  of  Guatemala,  between 
the  Ixcan  and  Xalbal  rivers.  Both  flow 
into  the  Lacantun  and  the  Lacantun 
flows  into  Sumacinta  and  to  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico.  They  are  between  those  two 
rivers,  next  to  the  border  with  Mexico. 
Why  did  these  people  appear?  In 
order  to  understand  that,  you  have  to  go 
back  to  1979,  to  the  Sandinista  Revolu- 
tion in  Nicaragua.  From  then  on,  a  strong 
wave  of  revolutionary  movement  moved 
to  the  north,  to  Salvador,  and  also  Gua- 
temala. The  army  and  government  of 
Guatemala  thought  that  this  wave  was 
going  to  come  to  the  country  and,  as 
they  used  to  say,  that  the  country  was 


going  to  fall  prey  of  communism.  So, 
they  had  to  stop  this  wave,  whatever  the 
cost.  They  decided  to  make  up  an  offen- 
sive which  would  start  from  Guatemala 
City  and  move  towards  the  north.  As  a 
person  with  a  broom  tries  to  sweep  the 
trash,  the  army  swept  the  countryside, 
starting  in  1981.  This  tragedy  meant 
that  the  army  had  to  capture  the  people 
in  the  villages  and  move  them  away  from 
where  they  were.  Or  if  those  villages 
were  signaled  in  the  map,  they  would 
erase  them  from  the  map,  because  those 
villages  were  considered  as  guerrillas 
and  could  not  be  redeemed:  they  had  to 
kill  even  the  children  and  women  and 
old  people. 

An  example  of  these  massacres  is  one 
that  happened  in  San  Francisco  on  July 
17,  1982.  About  400  soldiers  arrived. 
They  called  for  a  meeting  and  gathered 
the  people.  Then  they  separated  men 
from  women.  They  locked  the  men  in 


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the  courthouse  and  the  women  in  a 
small  church.  Then  they  started  with 
women.  They  took  them  out — this  was 
a  pattern  more  or  less  with  each  massa- 
cre— they  took  them  out  to  the  huts  that 
were  scattered  in  the  mountains  so  that 
they  could  show  where  they  had  the 
weapons  hidden.  The  women  said  they 
didn'thave  any  weapons.  And  they  killed 
them  there;  they  raped  them.  I  asked  the 
witness  of  this  massacre,  "How  do  you 
know  that  they  were  raped,  since  you 
were  locked  in  the  courthouse?"  He 
said,  "We  came  back  after  three  weeks, 
and  we  saw  how  they  had  their  skirts, 
and  we  saw  how  they  had  killed  them 
with  machetes."  They  tried  to  burn  them 
there,  but  it  was  raining  so  the  huts 
didn't  burn.  Then  the  soldiers  came 
back  to  the  same  church  and  started  to 
kill  the  children.  They  would  take  out 
the  babies  and  hold  them  by  their  ankles 
and  just  bounce  their  heads  and  smash 
them  against  stones  and  throw  the  bod- 
ies away.  I  asked  the  witness:  "How  do 
you  know  this?  Did  you  see  it?"  I  tried  to 
get  the  testimonies,  and  I  tried  to  have 
the  attitude  of  a  non-believer,  because 
these  things  were  horrible  and  they  were 
very  hard  to  believe.  So  I  asked  him: 
"How  did  you  know  that  they  killed  the 
little  baby  in  such  a  way?"  And  he  said, 
"We  were  locked  in  that  courthouse, 
but  there  was  a  window  and  there  were 
two  boards  over  the  window.  The  win- 
dow was  not  glass  but  there  were  two 
boards  and  between  the  two  boards  we 
could  see  how  the  soldiers  were  taking 
out  the  children." 

Then  they  had  lunch — the  soldiers 
had  lunch — and  they  went  after  the 
men — one  by  one,  killing  them — the 
old  men  and  also  the  young  men.  The 
witness  who  told  me  this  said  that  when 
almost  everyone  was  killed,  just  he  and 
six  or  seven  other  young  boys  were  left 
in  that  courthouse,  and  he  didn't  know 
why  but  he  stretched  himself  on  the 
ground  while  the  other  seven  were  cold 
like  fish  because  they  were  trembling 
and  had  such  enormous  panic.  The  sol- 
diers came  in  and  threw  grenades.  He 
said:  "Those  kids  were  gathered  in  the 
corner  of  the  house  and  the  grenades  hit 


them  and  they  cried,  and  after  the 
third  grenade  I  started  to  feel  the 
warm  blood." 

I  asked  if  he  was  injured,  and 
he  said,  "No  it  was  their  blood 
that  was  covering  me." 

When  the  soldiers  thought 
everyone  was  dead,  they 
brought  the  bodies  into  the 
courthouse  and  piled  the  bod- 
ies on  him.  They  thought  that 
he  was  already  dead  because 
they  lit  the  flashlight  on  his  face 
and  they  saw  that  his  face  was 
all  stained  with  blood.  So  they 
thought  he  was  dead  and  piled 
all  the  bodies  on  top  of  him. 
They  shut  the  door,  and  he  said 
that  up  till  then  he  thought  he 
was  so  lucky  because  he  was  still 
alive,  but  if  thev  burned  the  house 
he  was  killed.  He  decided  to  pull 
himself  from  underneath  the  bodies, 
and  he  knelt  in  front  of  his  brothers  and 
said  a  prayer,  not  to  God,  but  to  his 
brothers  who  were  there.  He  said, 
"Brothers,  you  are  already  free,  don't 
grab  me.  Let  me  also  go  in  freedom." 
Then  he  felt  a  lot  of  strength  within 
himself,  and  he  stood  up  and  took  off  his 
rubber  boots,  so  as  not  to  make  any 
noise,  and  opened  the  window  and 
jumped  out.  But  the  soldiers  were  at  the 
corner  of  the  courthouse  playing  guitars 
and  tape  recorders  that  they  had  stolen 
from  the  huts,  so  he  tried  to  make  no 
noise  and  escape  to  Mexico. 

He  told  me,  "I  was  not  even  sad.  I  was 
like  drunk.  I  didn't  even  know  whether 
it  was  daylight.  For  me  it  was  like  night. 
I  didn't  know  where  I  was  walking.  I 
hadn't  anything  to  eat  and  I  didn't  have 
any  hat."  You  know  for  a  peasant,  to 
walk  without  a  hat  is  almost  like  walking 
naked.  "I  didn't  have  a  hat.  And  I  was  all 
stained  in  my  head,  butchered,  and  ani- 
mal." So  he  arrived  there,  and  the  Mexi- 
cans told  him,  "Well,  rest  here.  You 
don't  have  to  work.  Have  something  to 
eat."  And  so  on. 

Well,  this  is  just  a  summary  of  one  of 
the  massacres,  but  we  have  about  50  or 
60  examples  like  this.  And  what  hap- 
pened then  is  that  most  people  who  were 


\Ne  were  locked  in  the 
courthouse,  but  there 
was  a  window  and  there 
were  two  boards  over  the 
window.  The  window 
was  not  glass  but  there 
were  two  boards  and 
between  the  two  boards 
we  could  see  how  the 
soldiers  were  taking 
out  the  children. 


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close  to  the  border  then  escaped.  If  they 
survived  the  massacres  or  if  they  heard 
the  news  that  San  Francisco,  for  ex- 
ample, had  been  massacred,  then  they 
left.  Just  this  San  Francisco  massacre 
caused  about  9,000  people  to  escape  to 
Mexico.  So  there  was  a  flood  of  Guate- 
malan refugees. 

But  other  people  went  back  to  their 
original  towns  or  went  to  bigger  cities  in 
Guatemala  to  hide  themselves.  That  was 
a  second  reaction.  But  a  third  reaction 
was  people  who  were  in  the  jungle  and 
said,  "We  won't  leave  this 
place.  We  will  stay  here.  We 
won't  go  out  to  Mexico.  We 
are  going  to  resist."  Or  as 
they  say  in  Spanish,  "Vamos 
aguantar."  So  they  stayed 
there.  But  how  could  these 
people  stay  alive,  survive,  if 
soldiers  would  patrol  the 
jungle? 

They  said,  "We  are  go- 
ing to  organize  ourselves 
into  small  groups,  and  then 
we  are  going  to  hide  under 
the  cover  of  the  jungle." 
But  to  hide  is  to  really  hide; 
it  is  not  a  game.  That  means 
that  women  had  to  get  up  at 
three  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing so  they  could  cook,  since 
they  cook  with  firewood. 
And  so  that  at  six  o'clock 
smoke  would  have  already 
disappeared.  Because  if 
there  was  smoke  at  the  top 
of  the  trees,  the  helicopter 
would  come  and  machine- 
gun  the  community,  or 
would  call  the  airplane  to 
bomb,  or  would  let  the  in- 
fantry know  where  these 
people  were.  And,  for  example,  the  laun- 
dry. How  do  you  dry  your  clothes?  So 
you  take  your  laundry  out  of  the  jungle 
so  that  the  sun  may  dry  your  clothes.  But 
if  the  helicopter  is  coming,  then  the 
children  run  and  bring  in  the  clothes,  so 
that  helicopter  does  not  see  the  white 
shirt  or  the  red  skirt. 

And  also  with  the  children  they  have 
to  be  very  careful  because  sometimes  the 


infantry  was  close,  and  this  happened 
during  my  six  years  with  them.  So  when 
the  infantry  would  walk  close  to  us, 
maybe  100  feet  away,  the  children,  the 
babies  especially,  should  not  cry.  So  the 
first  thing  the  women  would  do  is  give 
the  breast  to  the  child  so  that  he  would 
be  calm.  Sometimes  babies  are  tired  of 
breasts,  so  what  do  you  do  then?  So  the 
babies  cried  and  the  other  mother  with 
her  own  children  is  saying,  "Put  that 
baby  quiet.  Just  keep  silent."  Or  the  men 
are  saying,  "We  are  going  to  be  killed. 


day  when  she  saw  the  baby,  she  just 
wrapped  the  baby  in  her  shawl  and  put  it 
under  a  tree  and  fled. 

But  resistance  is  a  gift.  It  is  not  some- 
thing you  can  grab  mechanically  by  your 
own  will.  So  it  has  to  have  happiness,  joy, 
even  jokes.  And  what  do  they  do  with  the 
roosters,  since  women  have  chickens, 
and  the  rooster  crows?  So  they  get  a  big 
needle  they  use  to  sew.  And  so  they 
pierce  the  throat  of  the  rooster,  trying  to 
bring  in  the  needle  between  the  two 
tubes.  And  they  tie  the  one  in  which  the 
roosters  breathe.  And  so  they 
tie  it,  and  the  poor  rooster 
gets  white  or  pale,  and  then 
they  loosen  the  string  a  little 
bit  until  they  make  a  knot, 
so  that  the  animal  may 
breathe  but  may  not  crow. 
Everybody  laughs  and  says 
the  roosters  are  also  suffer- 
ing from  the  oppression  of 
the  army. 


B 


They  are  going  to  hear  us.  It's  better 
that  one  dies  and  not  everybody."  And 
so  she  would  clasp  the  mouth  of  the  little 
baby  with  her  hand.  I  know  of  a  1 6-year- 
old  woman  who  had  her  first  baby  and 
she  panicked  in  such  a  way  that  during 
the  night  she  thought  the  soldiers  were 
about  10  or  12  meters  from  her,  and  she 
shut  the  mouth  of  her  little  baby,  and  she 
choked  the  baby  to  death.  So  the  next 


esides  hiding,  they  have 
to  organize  themselves 
in  such  a  way  that  the  army 
is  not  going  to  come  in  by 
surprise.  So  they  have  the 
first  circle  of  scouts  moving 
during  the  day  about  two 
hours  away  from  the  com- 
munity. Then  they  have  a 
closer  circle  of  two  other 
scouts.  And  finally  they  have 
their  sentries.  And  also  they 
have  a  network  of  people 
who  move  from  one  com- 
munity to  another  so  as  to 
let  everybody  know  where 
the  army  is.  And  if  the  army 
is  coming  to  a  community, 
they  move  away. 
November  the  3  0th  [  1 992  ],  I  was  in  a 
community  and  the  army  came.  We 
were  able  to  leave  with  everybody.  And 
the  army  burned  our  community.  And 
two  days  later,  the  soldiers  found  a  cave 
we  had  made  because,  since  we  were  all 
the  time  moving  around,  we  could  not 
carry  our  Bibles.  We  had  Bibles  for  our 
catechism.  We  could  not  carry  the  mim- 
eograph machine.  We  could  not  carry 


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the  baptismal  records  of  500  children. 
So  we  hid  all  these  things  in  that  cave 
and  put  branches  on  it.  But  the  soldiers 
found  the  cave  and  took  everything  out. 
I  imagined  at  first  that  they  must  have 
thought  this  must  be  a  cave  of  guerrillas. 
But  later  they  could  see  that  it  was  not  a 
cave  of  guerrillas,  but  it  was  a  cave  of  the 
Church,  since  all  our  things  were  civil- 
ian. We  did  not  have  a  gun  there.  We 
didn't  have  a  shot  or  a  shell.  Everything 
was  civilian. 

Up  to  that  moment  I  had  been  hiding 
there  with  the  people.  I  had  the  permis- 
sion of  my  Jesuit  superiors — even  the 
Father  General — who  knew  that  I  was 
there,  and  knew  what  I  was  doing  there, 
pastoral  work.  And  the  bishop  also  gave 
me  the  mission  to  be  there,  but  he  asked 
me,  "Please  don't  say  that  you  are  there." 
He  told  me  that,  to  keep  silent:  "Do 
what  you  are  doing  but  do  it  in  a  hidden 
way."  So  I  couldn't  say  I  was  working 
there.  I  worked  there  for  six  years,  and  I 
am  sorry  if  some  of  my  friends  and  also 
of  my  family  asked  me  often,  "Where 
are  you?"  And  I  used  to  say,  "I  am  with 
the  refugees  in  Mexico.  I  am  in  the 
southern  part  of  Mexico." 

But  then  the  army  knew  I  was  there, 
and  since  three  months  before  I  had 
published  this  book,  which  \sAlasacresde 
la  Selva  [Massacres  in  the  Jungle,  Ixcan, 
Guatemala,  1975-1982].  The  army  was 
very  very  angry  at  me.  But  when  this 
book  was  published,  the  army  did  not 
answer  back,  didn't  give  any  arguments 
against  the  content  of  the  book.  They 
just  kept  silent.  So  when  they  found  that 
cave,  then  they  thought,  "Now  we  have 
the  argument."  Not  against  the  content, 
but  against  the  person.  So  they  accused 
me  of  being  a  guerrilla.  They  said  I  was 
a  guerrilla.  Well  I  said,  "How  come  a 
guerrilla?  Sixty-one  or  60-years-old 
guerrilla,  that's  a  little  bit  funny."  But 
they  said,  "No,  he  is  a  guerrilla  com- 
mander, un  comandante,  very  very  high 
commander  of  the  guerrillas."  I  laughed 
very  much  because  I  imagined  how  the 
real  guerrilla  got  this  news  and  how  they 
laughed. 

So  it  was  true  that  I  was  there,  and 
they  had  proof  because  they  found  my 


papers.  And  there  I  used  to  have  another 
name.  You  can  say,  "Why  did  you  put  on 
another  name?"  Well,  in  order  to  have 
more  security,  we  usually  changed  the 
names  during  these  difficult  missions. 
So  my  name  was  Mark.  It  was  like  a 
riddle  for  the  army.  Now  here  is  this 
Mark  who  receives  notes  from  the  peas- 
ants saying  Fr.  Mark  or  Brother  Mark, 
and  they  compared  the  handwriting  so 
they  finally  saw  that  I  was  Fr.  Mark.  The 
news  exploded  and  they  accused  me  of 
being  a  guerrilla.  Then  I  decided  to 
leave  the  countryside  in  order  to  inform 
the  bishop  of  what  had  happened,  and 
happily  he  backed  me  100  percent.  The 
bishop's  conference  in  Guatemala 
backed  the  bishop,  signing  their  own 
name  which  appeared  in  the  papers.  So 
that  the  whole  Catholic  Church  in  Gua- 
temala backed  the  mission  that  I  was 
performing  there,  and  in  doing  that  they 
backed  the  Communities  of  Population 
in  Resistance  who  have  been  persecuted 
by  the  army.  In  doing  this,  the  bishop 
confronted  the  army  directly. 

So,  that  is  why  I  came  here.  If  this 
hadn't  happened,  I  wouldn't  be  here 
talking  to  you.  The  Gospel  says  that  you 
have  the  light  under  the  bed,  but  don't 
leave  it  there — it  has  to  shine.  Well,  I 
didn't  know  when  it  had  to  shine,  but  the 
army  pulled  me  up  so  that  everyone 
might  see  this  light  and  so  that  everyone 
might  hear  the  wonders  of  God.  If  we 
are  alive,  well,  we  are  alive  because  we 
have  run  away  like  those  people  who 
have  also  been  like  nomads  under  the 
jungle.  We  have  also  been  alive  because 
God  has  protected  us  in  every  moment. 
So  I  will  end  here,  and  if  you  have  any 
questions,  I  think  it  is  better  to  answer 
those  questions. 

A  native  of  Guatemala,  Ricardo  Falla  is  an 
anthropologist  and  a  Jesuit  priest.  This  article 
was  excerpted  from  a  talk  he  gave  in  October 
1993  at  Boston  College.  His  appearance  was 
sponsored  by,  among  others,  the  School  of  Educa- 
tion and  the  Jesuit  Institute.  His  book  "Massacres 
in  the  Jungle,  Ixcan,  Guatemala,  1975-1982" 
has  been  published  by  Westview  Press. 


So  the  babies  cried, 
and  the  other  mother 
with  her  own  children 
is  saying,  "Put  that  baby 
quiet.  Just  keep  silent. " 
Or  the  men  are  saying, 
"We  are  going  to  be 
killed.  They  are  going 
to  hear  us.  It's  better 
that  one  dies  and  not 
everybody. " 


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LINDEN   LANE 


Leadership  in  high 

public  office  invariably 

confers  power  and  power 

has  a  potent  magic 

to  twist  perspective  and 

turn  the  heads  of  those 

who  hold  it.  Speaker 

O  'Neill  possessed 

the  antidote  to  that 

powerful  magic. 


Faithful  heart 


Over  a  long  and  creative  life,  Tip  never  had  to  explain  himself. 
What  he  believed  and  what  he  did  were  one  and  the  same 


By  J.  Donald  Monan,  SJ 


BC's president  delivered  this  homily  on Janu- 
ary  10,  1994  at  a  Mass  of  the  Resurrection 
for  Thorn  as  P.  (Tip)  O'Neill,  Jr.  '3  6,  former 
Speaker  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 
Mr.  O'Neill,  81,  died  on  January  5.  BC 
held  its  own  memorial  service  in  February. 

Our  human  family's  loves  and  its 
losses  have  taught  us  many  ways 
of  expressing  grief.  In  the  clear, 
cold  air  of  this  weekend,  flags  flew  at 
half-staff  in  the  nation's  Capitol  and 
here  at  home.  The  Speaker's  Chair  in 
the  House  of  Representatives  wore  a 
mantle  of  black.  Silent  lines  of  people, 
plain  and  powerful,  filed  into  the  State 
House.  If  there  are  times  when  symbols 
and  individual  physical  presence  to  each 
other  are  more  expressive  than  words, 
surely  this  is  such  a  time.  Mrs.  O'Neill, 
Susan  and  Rosemary,  Tom  and  Michael 
and  Kip,  the  presence  of  each  person 
here  this  morning  is  an  expression  of 
deepest  respect  and  esteem  for  Speaker 
O'Neill;  but  it  is  even  more  an  effort  to 
ease  your  grief  because  we  respect  you 
so  much  in  your  sorrow  and  because 
your  grief  is  ours  as  well. 

On  Wednesday  evening,  the  Speaker 
wearily  told  Tom  of  the  irresistible  tired- 
ness over  him  and  peacefully  closed  his 
eyes  for  the  last  time.  His  sleep  awak- 
ened not  only  the  brilliance  of  the 
nation's  writers;  they  responded  with 
their  hearts  as  well.  Every  step  along  the 
upward  route  of  his  public  career  has 
been  carefully  retraced.  But  it  was  clearly 
the  man  himself — in  his  humor  and  his 
inexhaustible  desire  to  help,  his  courage 
and  his  compassion  and  his  sheer  good- 
ness— that  came  through  to  his  chroni- 
clers and  inspired  them  to  masterfully 
faithful  portraits  that  those  who  loved 


him  will  always  cherish. 

Those  portraits  I  will  not  attempt  to 
recreate  this  morning.  There  is,  how- 
ever, one  feature  of  the  background  in 
each  of  those  portraits  that  perhaps  could 
not  have  been  painted  in,  until  this  morn- 
ing— in  this  sacred  place.  Every  capti- 
vating account  of  the  Speaker's 
momentous  achievements  in  public  life, 
of  his  easy  familiarity  with  the  world's 
greatest  leaders,  remarked  that  he  never 
lost  touch  with  his  roots.  And  this  was  no 
mere  metaphor.  Those  roots  remained 
the  source  of  his  lifeblood  and  his  iden- 
tity as  a  person  to  the  very  end.  The 
friendships  of  Barry's  Corner,  his  love 
for  Boston  College,  the  comfortable 
streets  of  North  Cambridge,  were  as 
much  a  part  of  him  as  were  his  Speaker's 
gavel  and  his  intense  loyalty  to  his  staff 
and  colleagues  in  the  Congress.  But  per- 
haps older  than  any  of  these — this  par- 
ish, to  which  he  returned  this  morning, 
has  been  a  figure  in  the  background  of 
every  change  in  family  and  political  for- 
tunes. It  is  just  not  a  matter  of  ritual  that 
in  this  parish  he  received  the  name  of 
Thomas  Junior  at  baptism;  before  this 
altar  as  a  young  man  he  knelt  with  Millie 
to  pronounce  their  marriage  vows;  and 
for  35  years  in  the  Congress,  he  re- 
turned humbly  to  reaffirm  his  worship 
that  God  was  his  origin  and  his  destiny 
and  that  what  he  did  with  his  enormous 
talents  and  his  opportunities  mattered 
to  God  as  well.  The  truth  is  that  God 
was  as  real  to  Speaker  O'Neill  as  were 
you  or  I. 

The  role  that  faith  plays  in  any  of  our 
lives  is  as  elusive  to  describe  as  it  can  be 
powerful  and  pervasive.  It  was  not  some- 
thing that  Speaker  O'Neill  often  put 
into  language.  (He  was  not  a  man  given 


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to  self-explanation,  but  to  action.)  And 
yet  faith  was  a  recognizable  dimension 
of  everything  he  did  in  public  and  in 
private  life.  It  was  never  a  badge  or  an 
ornament  to  make  others  uncomfort- 
able, but  always  a  star  he  checked  before 
setting  his  own  course.  Nor  was  his 
understanding  of  faith  ever  woodenly 
fixed,  incapable  of  growth  and  develop- 
ment. Those  of  us  who  have  lived 
through  the  decades  since  the  '30s  of 
dramatic  change  in  the  moral  dilemmas 
that  modernity  brings,  in  the  crises  of 
wars  and  threats  of  war,  in  more 
nuanced  understanding  of  our 
own  religious  convictions — 
those  of  us  who  have  lived 
through  these  changes  realize 
that  Speaker  O'Neill's  legend- 
ary sense  of  loyalty,  either  to  old 
friends  or  to  God,  was  no  dull  or 
wooden  conformity.  It  has  been 
a  creative  fidelity  to  values 
pledged  in  his  youth  that  he  kept 
relevant  to  a  world  of  constant 
change  by  dint  of  effort  and 
imagination  and  at  the  cost  of 
personal  sacrifice. 

What  did  the  Speaker  gain 
from  his  faith?  A  vantage  point 
that  gave  him  lifelong  perspec- 
tive on  himself  and  his  relation- 
ship to  the  world  around  him. 

One  of  the  most  important 
ingredients  to  a  portrait  or  to  a 
human  life  is  perspective — a 
sense  of  priority  and  of  propor- 
tion among  the  parts.  Over  the 
past  several  days,  countless  com- 
mentators have  remarked  upon  the  ex- 
traordinary balance  Speaker  O'Neill 
maintained  within  an  almost  limitless 
range  of  commitments.  Indeed,  his  spon- 
taneous enthusiasm  could  easily  have 
swept  away  any  sense  of  proportion  or 
perspective.  For  Speaker  O'Neill  was 
large-hearted  in  his  every  approach  to 
the  world  around  him.  He  was  large- 
hearted  in  his  compassion  and  in  his 
humor;  large-hearted  in  his  understand- 
ing of  people;  large-hearted  in  his  love 
of  all  things  human,  from  family  and 
friends  to  work  and  politics  and  sports. 
To  Speaker  O'Neill  everything  was  im- 


portant— but  nothing  was  so  important 
that  it  was  worth  sacrificing  fairness  to 
one  in  need  or  a  favor  to  a  friend  or  the 
honor  and  integrity  he  owed  God. 

How  many  stories  have  been  told  and 
retold  of  Speaker  O'Neill's  walkingwith 
royalty  but  never  losing  perspective  on 
himself  or  on  every  person  he  befriended. 
Each  of  those  stories  recognized  that 
leadership  in  high  public  office  invari- 
ably confers  power  and  power  has  a 
potent  magic  to  twist  perspective  and 
turn  the  heads  of  those  who  hold  it. 


Speaker  O'Neill  possessed  the  antidote 
to  that  powerful  magic.  He  did  not  frame 
it  in  abstruse  theological  language,  but 
in  the  simple  realization  in  faith  of  who 
he  was  and  where  he  came  from.  He 
lived  it  in  his  unwavering  sense  of  grati- 
tude for  his  roots — in  his  recognition 
that  his  most  valuable  traits  were  gifts 
from  family  and  friends  and  teachers 
and  fellow  workers — and  ultimately  were 
gifts  of  God  Himself.  And  for  the  person 
who  knows  his  roots,  for  the  person  who 
knows  gratitude,  power  and  high  posi- 
tion and  large-hearted  love  pose  no  dan- 
gers. They  are,   rather,   even   more 


effective  instruments  to  be  of  service  to 
the  least. 

The  luminous  sketches  of  the  Speaker 
that  have  appeared  this  week  are  almost 
complete.  In  the  foreground  stands  a 
grateful  Commonwealth  and  a  grateful 
nation  of  countless  individuals  who  owe 
their  job,  their  education,  their  citizen- 
ship, indeed,  their  life  to  the  friendship 
or  the  wisdom  or  the  simple  encourage- 
ment of  this  great  man.  In  the  back- 
ground of  the  portrait  stands  the  Christ, 
the  measure  of  his  own  self-understand- 
ing and  of  his  unabashed  humil- 
ity and  the  guarantor  of  the 
infinite  importance  of  everything 
he  did  for  the  least  of  those  he 
met. 

But  there  is  one  more  stroke  of 
the  brush  that  has  been  left  unno- 
ticed. If  the  Speaker's  faith  gave 
him  perspective,  the  love  of  a 
great  woman  gave  him  the  confi- 
dence that  he  could  do  whatever 
the  Nation  and  whatever  God 
asked.  The  pride  of  the  Speaker's 
life  was  not  the  Medal  of  Free- 
dom nor  the  Legion  of  Honor;  it 
was  the  love  of  his  beloved  Millie 
who  gave  courage  to  his  struggles 
and  measure  to  his  success  and 
loving  understanding  through  his 
illness. 

Those  of  us  who  live  among 
the  terraces  of  mountains  are  too 
close  to  their  grandeur  to  take  an 
accurate  measure  of  their  height. 
And  during  these  many  years  you 
and  I  who  have  known  him  and 
all  of  the  staff  and  colleagues  he  es- 
teemed so  highly,  have  been  like  those 
individuals  so  familiar  with  their  land- 
scape that  we  are  unable  to  grasp  its 
dramatic  proportions. 

But  this  morning,  with  the  gavel  fi- 
nally silent,  and  the  last  story  told,  and 
the  last  anxious  heart  put  at  ease,  we  now 
know  that  his  stature  rose  higher  than  all 
the  rest.  And  we  know  the  blessing  of 
having  known  him  as  a  friend  and  we  ask 
only  that  his  generous  soul  enjoy  the 
presence  of  the  Risen  Lord,  whom  he 
worshipped.  • 


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newsr.2 

C^notes 


Wistful  thinking 

30  years  after  Dallas,  college  students 
who  weren't  yet  born  still  seem  to  feel  the  loss 


"There  is  a  feeling  that 

'something  happened' 

in  Kennedy's  time, 

that  this  was  an 

administration  trying 

to  be  above  mere 

politics." 


For  a  number  of  years,  BC 
History  Professor  Thomas 
O'Connor  has  posed  this  ques- 
tion to  his  students:  where  were 
you  when  you  heard  the  news 
that  John  Kennedy  had  been 
murdered? 

Over  the  years,  he  recalled 
last  fall  on  the  30th  anniversary 
of  the  assassination,  the  answers 
changed:  high  school,  grade 
school,  in  diapers;  and  then  came 
the  inevitable  moment:  a 
student's  wavering  hand  and  the 
response,  "Professor,  I  wasn't 
born  yet." 

For  O'Connor,  that  moment, 
now  more  than  10  years  old, 
signaled  a  transition — the  arrival 
of  adult  citizens  who  know  of  the 
late  president  as  the  rest  of 
Americans  know  of  Lincoln  or 
Jefferson — from  books,  articles, 
TV  specials  and  movies. 

As  far  removed  from  Camelot 
as  today's  students  are,  Univer- 


sity faculty  who  deal  with  the 
JFK  era  in  their  courses  say  that 
undergraduates  nonetheless  re- 
main struck  by  the  legend. 
"There  is  a  feeling  that  'some- 
thing happened'  in  Kennedy's 
time,  that  this  was  an  adminis- 
tration trying  to  be  above  mere 
politics,"  O'Connor  said.  "The 
kids  look  back  and  see  every- 
thing came  apart  after  JFK:  Viet- 
nam, race  riots,  Watergate,  etc. 
What  they  have  is  a  sense,  maybe 
an  incorrect  one,  that  this  was  a 
special  man  for  a  special  time." 

Political  Science  Professor 
Robert  Scigliano  agrees.  When 
he  asked  students  recently  to  rank 
JFK  among  American  presi- 
dents, three-quarters  of  the  class 
put  him  in  the  top  three,  more 
than  half  in  the  top  two.  When 
Scigliano  invited  students  to  say 
what  they  associated  with  the 
JFK  presidency,  "they  recalled 
the  Cuban  Missile  Crisis,  the 
Peace  Corps,  rethinking  Ameri- 
can involvement  in  Vietnam  and 
civil  rights." 

When  they  dig  a  little  deeper, 
says  Associate  Professor  of  His- 
tory Carol  Petillo,  students  find 
another  side  of  Kennedy:  the 
hard-line  Cold  Warrior,  his  re- 
luctance to  embrace  the  civil 
rights  movement,  his  sexual 
adventurism.  "I  think  they  un- 
derstand he  inspired  his  genera- 
tion, but  that  there  were  some 
problems,"  Petillo  said.  "Stu- 
dents tend  to  be  sophisticated,  if 
a  bit  cynical,  about  these  things." 

"I  think  they  see  that,  whether 
he  achieved  success  or  failure, 
there  was  all  that  promise  in 
JFK,"  Scigliano  said.  "He  seemed 


to  have  so  much  going  for  him, 
and  he  was  going  to  put  it  all 
together." 

All  of  this,  says  O'Connor, 
may  be  beside  the  real  reason 
students  continue  to  be  charmed 
by  a  president  they  never  experi- 
enced. "I  don't  know  anyone 
from  the  political  world  who  has 
that  same  [heroic]  stature  as 
Kennedy  had,  and  it  may  be  that 
students  are  wishing  for  some- 
one who  did." 

Left:  JFK  on  campus  in  1963 


14  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


Often  and  early 

Class  of 97  boosted  by  7%  rise  in  applications  and  25% 
jump  in  requests  for  early  admission  decisions 


When  the  2,154  members 
of  the  Class  of  1997  ar- 
rived in  September,  they  brought 
with  them  the  usual  top-50-col- 
lege  qualifications:  median  ver- 
bal SAT  scores  ranging  between 
520  and  610,  and  math  scores 
between  600  and  690.  What  was 
most  heartening  to  BC  admis- 
sion officials,  however,  were  sev- 
eral other  distinguishing  char- 
acteristics, most  prominently  a 
second  consecutive  7  percent  rise 
in  applications  from  the  previ- 
ous year,  and  a  25  percent  rise  in 
the  number  of  students  who 
sought  early  admission  action. 

The  increase  in  "early  action" 
applications,  which  are  acted 
upon  by  Christmas  rather  than 
the  normal  April  notification, 


"reflects  a  greater  desire  on  the 
part  of  students  to  end  the  col- 
lege application  anxiety  as  soon 
as  possible,"  said  Admission  Di- 
rectorJohnMahoney,Jr.,"butit 
also  shows  that  more  students 
see  BC  as  their  first  choice  and 
they  want  to  hear  early  on  if 
they've  been  accepted." 

This  year  more  than  500  fresh- 
men, 24  percent  of  the  class,  were 
accepted  under  the  early  action 
plan.  That  figure  may  rise  for  next 
year's  Class  of  1998,  for  which 
early  action  applications  ran  20 
percent  ahead  of  last  year's  pace. 

Applications  from  AHANA 
(African-American,  Hispanic, 
Asian  and  Native  American)  stu- 
dents also  rose  for  the  Class  of 
1997,  with  a  14  percent  increase 


resulting  in  an  AHANA  enroll- 
ment of  18  percent,  close  to  last 
year's  record  2 1  percent. 

Members  of  the  class  repre- 
sent 32  foreign  nations  and  43 
states,  including  104  freshmen 
from  California,  compared  with 
50  five  years  ago.  (See  story  page 
32.)  "By  the  year  2010,"  said 
Mahoney,  "four  states  will  con- 
tain one-third  of  the  nation's 
youth:  California,  New  York, 
Florida  and  Texas.  The  fact  that 
we're  well  established  in  these 
markets,  with  California,  Florida 
and  New  York  among  the  top  1 0 
most  represented  states  in  the 
freshman  class,  leads  us  to  be 
optimistic"  that  BC  can  ride  the 
new  demographic  swells. 


FIRE  AND  NICE 

Visitors  to  the  new  Lower 
Campus  dining  hall,  which 
opened  in  January,  may  be  struck 
as  much  by  what  is  not  there  as 
what  is.  "We  definitely  wanted  a 
non-institutional  look,"  says  Di- 
rector of  Dining  Services 
Michael  Cunningham,  "because 
for  students  institutional  means 
'high  school.'"  Granite  counter- 
tops  and  cherry  panels  replace 
metal  surfaces  in  the  two-story 
hall.  A  flagstone  fireplace  an- 
chors the  ground  floor.  Featured 
on  the  menu:  rotisserie  meats 
and  vegetables  steamed  while 
you  wait.  "Usually,  no  one  be- 
lieves the  food  coming  out  of  a 
dining  hall  kitchen  is  real," 
Cunningham  says.  He  aims  to 
change  all  that. 


PREFERRED  SEATING 

After  more  than  a  year  of 
public  and  private  debate, 
the  Boston  Redevelopment 
Authority  on  January  26  gave 
BC  approval  to  expand 
Alumni  Stadium  by  1 2,000 
seats,  bringing  the  facility's 
capacity  to  44,500  for  the 
1994  football  season.  Reno- 
vation work  on  the  stadium 
will  include  replacement  of 
the  lower-tier  horseshoe  with 
a  bowl,  and  the  addition  of 
upper-tier  seating  in  both  end 
zones.   Senior  VP  James  P. 
Mclntyre,  representing  BC  at 
the  hearing,  also  detailed  a 
community  benefits  program 
negotiated  by  University  and 
Boston  representatives  which 
features  the  establishment  of 
a  BC  Neighborhood  Resource 
Center  as  well  as  enhanced 
scholarship  opportunities  for 
Allston-Brighton  residents. 


MODEL  DEPARTMENT 

Recent  grants  to  faculty  Mary 
Dunn  and  Donna  Fekete  have 
pushed  the  Biology  Depart- 
ment's external  funding  levels 
to  an  all-time  high,  according 
to  Chairman  William  Petri. 
Dunn,  an  associate  professor, 
won  a  $345,000  grant  from 
the  National  Science  Founda- 
tion for  her  research  into  nitro- 
gen-fixing nodules  on  plant 
roots.  Fekete,  an  assistant  pro- 
fessor, won  an  NSF  grant  of 
$155,451  for  her  study  of  gene 
function  in  chicken  embryos, 
and  a  $30,000  grant  from  the 
March  of  Dimes  to  study  cellu- 
lar development  in  the  same 
system.  While  proud  of  the 
record  external  support,  Petri 
noted  that  women  now  out- 
number men  among  the  de- 
partment's graduate  students 
and  called  the  funding  salutary 
evidence  "that  we  have  out- 
standing role  models  for  our 
young  women  scientists." 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  1 5 


NEWS^NOTES 


JOHN  P.  GIUGGIO 

Trustee  John  P.  Giuggio  '51, 
died  on  November  1 6,  1 993, 
at  age  63.  Mr.  Giuggio,  who 
retired  last  year  as  president 
of  The  Boston  Globe  and  chief 
operating  officer  of  its  parent 
company,  Affiliated  Publica- 
tions, started  at  the  Globe  as 
a  messenger  boy.  He  went  on 
to  guide  the  newspaper's 
most  significant  business  deci- 
sions, including  its  recent 
merger  with  The  New  York 
Times.  In  the  five  years  after 
he  became  COO  in  1982, 
Affiliated's  net  earnings  grew 
more  than  $40  million  to 
$58.3  million.  "John  was  the 
complete  person,"  said  Uni- 
versity President  J.  Donald 
Monan,  SJ,  "husband,  father, 
newspaper  man — sensitive  to 
the  currents  that  underlie  the 
movements  of  a  city  and  a  re- 
gion, dedicated  to  God  and  to 
the  schools  that  helped  him 
grow  to  the  stature  that  al- 
lowed him  to  contribute  so 
much  to  all  who  knew  him." 

DEATHS 

•Joseph  L.  Driscoll,  a  member 
of  the  SOE  faculty  from  1958 
to  1 962,  on  October  22,  1 993, 
at  age  70. 

•  Heinz  Bluhm,  emeritus  pro- 
fessor and  chairman  of  the 
Germanic  Studies  Department 
from  1968  to  1976,  on  No- 
vember 21,  1993,  at  age  85. 

•  Joseph  L.  Barrett  '31,  a 
member  of  the  philosophy  fac- 
ulty from  1 956  to  1 976,  on 
November  22,  1993,  at  age  84. 

•  Patricia  Dacey  Bonelli,  an 
administrative  assistant  at  the 
Law  School  from  1 955  to 
1970,  on  November  29,  1993, 
at  age  71. 

•  Denis  P.  Moran,  SJ,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  faculty  since  1989 
and  chairman  of  the  Theater 
Department,  on  November  30, 
1993,  at  age  50. 


Scientific  revolution 

English  may  still  hold  the  lead  among  majors,  but  the  lab  is 
beginning  to  exercise  its  own  powerful  sway 


Annual  statistics  compiled 
by  the  Registrar's  Office 
indicate,  that  the  1990s  seem 
poised  to  become  a  boom  de- 
cade for  the  natural  sciences  at 
Boston  College.  The  evidence 
so  far  is  a  marked  rise  in  the 
number  of  students  majoring 
in  biology  and  chemistry  and 
a  similar  jump  in  enrollment 
for  courses  offered  by  those  de- 
partments. While  other  trends 
from  previous  years — such  as  the 
popularity  of  English — continue 
to  holdup,  said  Registrar  Louise 
Lonabocker,  it  is  quite  possible 
the  University  is  witnessing  a 
sea  change  in  student  career 
preferences. 

"Things  will  change  every  so 
often,"  she  noted.  "There  will 
be  a  reaction  to  the  marketplace, 
to  the  times,  even  to  popular 
culture — after  all,  it  isn't  un- 
usual to  hear  someone  was  in- 
spired by  'LA  Law'  to  consider 


law  school,  or  that  'All  the 
President's  Men'  got  people  in- 
terested in  journalism." 

As  has  been  the  case  since 
1991,  the  top  three  enrolled 
majors  in  the  College  of  A&S 
this  year  are  English  (955),  po- 
litical science  (773)  and  psychol- 
ogy (650).  All  have  been  among 
the  five  most  popular  majors  over 
the  past  decade. 

But  now  it  is  biology  and 
chemistry  that  are  the  new  focal 
points  of  student  attention.  Since 

1 989,  the  number  of  biology  ma- 
jors has  grown  from  396  to  618; 
during  the  same  period,  the  num- 
ber of  chemistry  majors  rose 
from  28  to  94.  Meanwhile,  since 

1990,  enrollment  for  biology 
courses  has  increased  55  per- 
cent; 65  percent  for  chemistry 
courses.  The  major  in  biochem- 
istry, which  both  departments 
administer,  has  also  seen  a  rise, 
from  45  students  in  1987  to  94 


YOUNG  SOLDIER 


Gerry  Carroll  '69,  whom 


we  profiled  last  winter  in 
a  story  on  BC's  Vietnam  vet- 
erans, died  in  October,  at  age 
46.  A  20-year  Navy  helicopter 
pilot,  Carroll  had  authored  two 
Vietnam  War  novels  (North 
S*A  *R  and  Ghostrider  One)  and 
had  crafted  for  himself  a  life  of 
noble  purpose,  without  apolo- 
gies. When  he  spoke  to  5CMsenior  writer  John  Ombelets 
with  unselfconscious  passion  about  what  America  meant 
to  him,  and  the  responsibilities  owed  to  that  meaning, 
Carroll's  words  came  from  a  conviction  and  knowledge 
gained  over  two  decades  of  helping  to  tend  the  flame. 
During  his  October  1992  visit  with  our  staff  to  the 
Vietnam  Memorial,  Carroll  sought  neither  sympathy 
nor  praise  for  having  served,  just  recognition  that  an  act 
of  service  can  speak  to  transcendent  values.  It  was  the 
soldier's  creed. 


this  year. 

Lonabocker  points  to  the 
University's  pre-medical  pro- 
gram— now  at  89 1  students,  rep- 
resenting a  40  percent  increase 
since  1990 — as  one  force  behind 
this  upsurge.  But  while  many 
biology  majors  are  interested  in 
becoming  doctors,  she  said,  there 
are  also  many  considering  other 
careers  in  the  medical  or  health 
professions,  a  reflection,  she  be- 
lieves, of  a  national  trend  to 
"helping"  careers. 

Chemistry  Chairman  Evan 
Kantrowitz  notes  a  rising  de- 
mand for  science  graduates  in 
the  biotechnology  and  pharma- 
ceuticals industries  as  another 
explanation  for  the  surge.  And 
there's  also  the  attraction  of  a 
new  facility.  "The  opportunity 
to  work  in  the  Merkert  Chemis- 
try Center  will  interest  some  stu- 
dents in  coming  here  as  chemis- 
try majors,"  said  Kantrowitz, 
"but  even  a  current  undergradu- 
ate who  sees  Merkert  on  a  regu- 
lar basis  might  be  encouraged  to 
take  up  chemistry,  biology  or 
biochemistry." 

Among  other  trends  noted  in 
Lonabocker's  report  is  the 
growth  in  CSOM's  information 
systems  major,  which  now  en- 
rolls 53  students  and  has  grown 
each  year  since  its  introduction 
in  the  late  1980s.  "Computers 
are  being  used  in  more  profes- 
sions, and  in  different  ways" 
Lonabocker  said.  "Students  are 
not  interested  in  studying  com- 
puters as  a  profession,  as  such, 
like  computer  programming. 
They  want  to  take  a  different 
approach,  like  utilizing  comput- 
ers for  analysis." 

Among  other  points  of  inter- 
est in  this  year's  A&S  enroll- 
ment, Lonabocker  said,  26  stu- 
dents are  now  majoring  in  mu- 
sic— which  became  a  formal 
major  in  1990. 


1 6  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


Social  movement 

GSSW  enrollments  do  well,  as  more  workers  look 
to  careers  in  which  they  can  do  good 


For  15  years  Andrea 
Lyman  pursued  a 
fairly  steady  acting  career 
in  New  York  City,  but  the 
role  that  changed  her  life 
was  as  a  volunteer  at  a 
health  center  for  AIDS  pa- 
tients. It  was  this  that  even- 
tually led  her  to  enroll  last 
fall  in  BC's  Graduate 
School  of  Social  Work. 

"I'm  from  Newton 
originally,"  said  Lyman,  "so 
I  have  ties  to  the  commu- 
nity. I  had  heard  good 
things  about  BC — ironi- 
cally through  another 
college's  recruiter — and 
when  I  did  further  research, 
GSSW  seemed  the  best  gfl 
place  to  be." 

Lyman  is  one  of  491 
full-  and  part-time  students  who 
have  this  year  pushed  enrollment 
in  GSSW's  MSW  degree  pro- 
gram to  an  all-time  high.  It  is  the 
apex,  thus  far,  of  a  trend  reach- 
ing back  several  years,  say  GS  S  W 
administrators.  "It  has  not  been 
explosive  growth,  but  a  definite 


steady  course  upward,"  said 
GSSW  Admissions  Director 
William  Howard,  citing  a  1986 
enrollment  of  359. 

Howard  said  that  there  has 
been  growth  in  all  of  the  three 
groups  that  make  up  GSSW  en- 
rollments. "Perhaps  half  our 


Staying  power 

BC  program  improves  the  graduation  odds  for 
students  from  "at-risk"  backgrounds 


According  to  a  recent  re- 
port, educationally  disad- 
vantaged minority  students  who 
participate  in  a  special  BC  sup- 
port program  are  highly  likely  to 
stay  on  the  Heights  a  full  four 
years  and  to  graduate. 

Issued  by  the  Office  of 
AHANA  Student  programs,  the 
report  noted  that  90  percent  of 
such  students  from  the  Class  of 
1992  who  participated  in  the 
Options  Through  Education 
Program  (OTE)  spent  at  least 
four  years  at  the  University,  and 


86  percent  had  graduated  within 
five  years.  In  the  Class  of  1993 
86  percent  were  still  enrolled  at 
BC  after  four  years.  National 
five-year  graduation  rates  are  40 
percent  for  Hispanic  students, 
3 1  percent  for  black  students,  63 
percent  for  Asian  students  and 
53  percent  for  all  students.  The 
graduation  rate  for  all  BC  stu- 
dents is  88  percent. 

Some  40  students  are  selected 
from  each  class  to  participate  in 
OTE,  which  was  founded  in 
1979  to  serve  minority  students 


people  are  typical  MSW  stu- 
dents— men  and  women  with  a 
few  years  in  the  field,  who  are 
looking  for  further  training." 
Another  20  percent  or  so  enter 
the  school  right  out  of  college, 
while  some  2  5  or  3  0  percent  are 
career  shifters.  "Economic  con- 


who  have  high  potential  for 
achievement  but  who,  despite 
fine  high  school  achievement, 
may  not  be  adequately  prepared 
for  Boston  College.  "Because  of 
where  they  come  from,"  said 
Sheilah  Shaw  Horton  of  the 
AHANA  office,  "these  students 
simply  haven't  been  exposed  to 
programs,  skills  and  the  rigor- 
ous academic  preparation  that 
other  BC  students  may  have  ex- 
perienced at  their  high  schools." 
OTE  students  attend  a  pre- 
freshman  year  summer  program 
that  introduces  them  to  each 
other  and  to  college  life  and  skills, 
including  seminars  in  study  prac- 
tices and  time  management.  Ad- 
ditionally, BC  funds  a  summer 


A  steady  upward  course 
(from  left)— Witherby, 
Howard  and  Lyman 


ditions  or  personal  devel- 
opments have  forced  some 
people  to  reconsider  their 
career  choices,"  said 
Howard.  "Others,  espe- 
cially our  younger  students, 
came  out  of  college  inter- 
ested in  social  justice  and 
community  service,  and  see 
social  work  as  a  way  to  ex- 
plore those  areas." 

Maggie  Witherby,  in 
her  second  year  at  GSSW, 
worked  as  a  hospital  admin- 
istrator until  she  had  her 
second  child  nine  years  ago. 
Through  hospice  work,  she  be- 
came interested  in  quality-of-life 
issues,  which  led  her  to  human 
services.  "I  wanted  to  be  some- 
where where  I  could  have  an 
impact  on  people's  self-determi- 
nation, on  how  they  could  lead 
their  lives,"  she  said. 


session  make-up  course  for  OTE 
students  who  find  they  need  to 
drop  a  course  during  freshman 
year. 

During  college  years,  OTE 
students  can  avail  themselves  of 
support  services  that  include 
counseling,  tutoring,  perfor- 
mance monitoring  and  faculty 
mentoring.  Said  Donald  Brown, 
AHANA  office  director,  "The 
constant  reassurance  we  offer  our 
OTE  students  that  they  can  make 
it  has  made  the  difference." 

Among  current  OTE  stu- 
dents, 97  percent  of  those  in  the 
Class  of  1994  are  still  enrolled, 
as  are  96  percent  of  those  in  the 
classes  of  1995  and  1996. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  17 


NEWS^NOTES 


Altar  ego 

In  UN  SI  7,  the  creation  of  an  artwork  becomes 
an  exercise  in  self-understanding 


CLASS  NOTES 


CLASS 


UN  517 

Aspects  of  Wholeness: 

Christ  and  Goddess 


INSTRUCTOR 


Fine  Arts  Professor 
John  Steczynski 

READINGS 


Inner  Work,  by  Robert 
Johnson 

Sites  of  Recollection 

Face  of  the  Gods:  Art  and 
Altars  of  Africa 


Last  year,  Professor  of  Fine 
Arts  John  Steczynski  had  a 
student  who  showed  up  in  class 
with  an  altar  devoted  to  her  se- 
crets. It  featured  objects  sealed 
in  little  jars  aligned  on  a  shelf. 
They  stood  mute,  laden.  "There 
was  this  tremendous  pent-up 
energy  waiting  to  burst  out, "  says 
Steczynski,  coiling  his  hands  to- 
gether and  laughing  delightedly. 
"So  remember,"  he  tells  this 
year's  students,  "that  although 
these  scenes  we  are  seeing  may 
look  calm,  they  aren't  necessar- 
ily. Altars  have  a  kind  of  energy 
that  does  not  exist  in  flat  space; 
they  carry  a  kind  of  charge." 

Exploring  the  subtle  nature 
of  this  charge  (which  the  profes- 
sor sums  up  as  "an  emotional, 


psychological,  spiritual  kind  of 
energy,  some  sense  of  sacred- 
ness  and  power")  is  the  basis  for 
the  second  half  of  Steczynski's 
semester-long  class,  one  of  a 
dozen  Capstone  courses  offered 
by  the  University  in  '93-94.  Re- 
served for  second-semester  jun- 
iors and  seniors,  Capstones  are 
electives  designed  to  help  stu- 
dents link  what  they  study  and 
who  they  are. 

Although  a  studio  course,  UN 
517  does  not  require  developed 
artistic  skills.  To  prepare  for  the 
task  of  creating  personal  altars, 
the  students  kept  journals,  medi- 
tated and  followed  assigned  read- 
ings (e.g.,  Inner  Work,  byjungian 
analyst  Robertjohnson;  and  Sites 
of  Recollection,  a  compendium  of 
essays  by  artists  on  altars  they 
had  made).  Now,  it's  show  time. 

Mike  Rinnick  '94,  goes  first. 
Gathered  on  stools  around  low 
tables  in  a  large  room  on  the 
fourth  floor  of  Devlin  Hall,  his 
fellow  students  are  inspecting 
his  work:  an  oval  of  stubby 
candles  that  ring  the  form  of  a 
small  papier-mache  television 
wrapped  in  faintly  legible  book 
pages.  Save  for  a  red  tongue 
dangling  from  the  set,  every 
surface  is  white,  denuded,  pure. 
Flames  dance  on  the  many 
wicks.  A  wash  of  static  from  a 
concealed  cassette  recorder  drifts 
out  of  the  "TV."  Candlelight 
catches  on  the  features  of  the 
students  as  they  peer — now 
bemused,  now  entranced — into 
the  heart  of  the  oval. 

The  tension  between  the  for- 
mal look  of  the  altar  and  its 
crackly,  offbeat  content  is  rich. 
In  response  to  prompting  by 
Steczynski,  Rinnick  says  that  the 
idea  for  the  altar  came  from  his 
having  noticed  that  he  and  his 
roommates  never  sit  together  in 
the  living  room  unless  the  TV  is 


on;  the  set  has  become  a  kind  of 
electronic  shrine. 

With  his  flyaway  gray  hair 
and  beard,  his  striped  peasant 
shirts  and  earrings,  Steczynski  is 
a  gentle,  ethereal  presence  in 
class.  A  liturgical  artist  himself, 
he  is  full  of  erudite  digressions 
that  shade  toward  poetry.  Latino 
pain,  the  function  of  mirrors  and 
candlelight,  social  history  of  the 
Eucharist,  the  images  of  cruci- 
fixion in  Western  art — anything 
is  fair  game. 

He  connects  easily.  When  a 
student  explains  that  she  has  al- 
ways had  a  strong  need  to  set 
meaningful  objects  apart  in  their 
own  special  space,  as  proven  by 
her  altar — a  cardboard  box  deco- 
rated with  dried  flowers,  leaves 
and  family  photographs — 
Steczynski  nods  and  smiles.  "Oh, 
I  know  how  that  is,"  he  laughs 
wholeheartedly.  "It  may  be  junk, 
but  somehow  you  just  can't  throw 
it  out."  The  sympathy  animat- 
ing the  remark  is  typical. 

In  this  class,  altars,  like  egos, 
are  fragile  and  complex  things. 
They  point  both  forward  and 
back  in  time.  They  clarify  their 
maker's  life,  often  obliquely;  at 
best,  they  lend  a  burnish  of 
meaning.  Christine  McLean  '94, 
for  example,  presents  an  altar 
that  contains  a  candle  backed  by 
a  mirror,  a  dark  blue  bottle  filled 
with  water  ("I  love  the  ocean") 
and  newspaper  clippings  in  a 
wooden  box  ("all  the  conflicting 
messages  I  hear — this  is  how  it 
feels  in  my  brain  sometimes"). 
Down  front,  she  positions  a  small 
tree  her  mother  made  from  twigs. 

"The  branches  are  like  all  the 
possible  paths  I  can  take  once  I 
graduate,"  Christine  explains, 
half  to  herself,  half  to  the  class.  "I 
know  I  will  land  on  one  of  them 
and  do  okay." 

Bruce  Morgan 


18  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


Life  work 


It's  not  the  eminent  poet  who  stands  revealed  in  journals  and 

correspondence  in  BC's  new  Yeats  Collection,  but  the  struggling 

writer,  the  reluctant  public  figure  and  the  vehement  man  of  letters 


By  Michael  Yeats 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  19 


t  one  stage  in  his 
life  he  applied  to 
Trinity  College/  in 
Dublin/  for  the  position 
of  professor  of  English 
literature.  It  cannot 
have  helped  his  cause 
that  in  his  letter  of 
application  he  spelt  the 
word  "professor"  with 
two  "f's." 


MY  FATHER,  WILLIAM  BUTLER  YEATS,  might 
at  any  time  embark  on  the  creation  of  a  poem.  This 
could  happen  during  meals,  while  he  was  playing 
croquet  at  home  on  the  lawn  or  while  sitting  on  a 
bus,  and  we  in  the  family  knew  the  signs.  He  would  suddenly  become 
oblivious  to  everything  around  him,  his  hand  would  make  a  gentle, 
waving  motion  and  he  would  commence  a  sort  of  tuneless  mumble.  At 
such  times  we  learned  to  keep  quiet. 


Facing  page:  Yeats  notebook 
containing  his  early  "Oisin"  poems. 


The  manuscripts  now  housed  in  the 
Burns  Library — the  largest  repository 
of  Yeats  manuscripts  outside  Ireland — 
reveal  a  great  deal  about  my  father's 
work  habits,  and  much  else  besides.  One 
of  the  notebooks,  over  100  years  old, 
contains  the  long  narrative  poem  "The 
Wanderings  of  Oisin,"  published  in  1 889 
when  Yeats  was  just  24  years  old.  In  a 
letter  to  his  friend  Katherine  Tynan,  he 
wrote  about  this  poem:  "It  beset  me 
night  and  day.  Not  that  I  ever  wrote 
more  than  a  few  lines  in  a  day.  But  those 
lines  took  me  hours.  All  the  rest  of  the 
time  I  walked  about  the  roads  thinking 
of  it." 

Nearly  40  years  later,  my  father  spoke 
of  his  "intense  unnatural  labor  that  re- 
duces composition  to  four  or  five  lines  a 
day."  Nor  was  he  easily  satisfied,  as  is 
shown  by  the  many  struggling,  scored- 
out  drafts  of  his  essays,  plays,  but  above 
all,  his  poetry.  Even  a  short  poem  may 
have  a  series  of  false  starts,  deletions  and 
amendments.  Frequently  the  basic  draft 
is  on  the  right-hand  page  of  a  notebook, 
with  corrections  added  on  the  left-hand 
page,  the  two  linked  with  long  arrows. 
Sometimes  my  father  would  turn  the 
notebook  upside  down  and  begin  at  the 
other  end.  His  writing  was  always  very 
hard  to  read,  and  as  he  grew  older  even 
he  was  often  unable  to  decipher  what  he 
had  written. 

It  was  not  only  in  manuscripts  that 
my  father  made  these  constant  changes 
and  revisions.  Once  he  had  a  typed  ver- 
sion he  would  make  yet  further 
changes — indeed  there  might  be  half-a- 
dozen  or  more  versions  typed  and  cor- 
rected before  he  was  satisfied.  Even  when 
finally  passed  for  publication,  this  pro- 


cess continued.  Certainly  his  sister 
Lolly — who  ran  the  Cuala  Press — com- 
plained with  reason  that  he  rewrote  his 
prose  or  poetry  at  each  successive  proof 
stage. 

The  process  of  revision  continued 
after  publication.  Each  new  edition 
would  see  changes,  and  even  a  simple 
reprint  would  often  include  minor 
changes  in  punctuation  or  wording.  In 
fact  Yeats  never  did  stop  revising  his 
work.  Two  days  before  death,  he  dic- 
tated to  my  mother  changes  in  "Under 
Ben  Bulben"  and  in  his  last  play,  The 
Death  ofCuchulain. 

Writing  to  his  friend  Dorothy 
Wellesley,  he  said,  "The  correction  of 
prose,  because  it  has  no  fixed  laws,  is 
endless,  a  poem  comes  right  with  a  click 
like  a  closing  box."  But  in  fact  most  of 
his  prose  manuscripts  have  much  less 
draft  working  than  many  poems  of  much 
shorter  length.  It  is  understandable, 
therefore,  that  he  considered  the  pro- 
duction of  four  or  five  lines  of  poetry  a 
good  day's  work. 

Before  his  marriage,  my  father 
worked  best  during  the  long  periods  he 
spent  each  year  at  Lady  Gregory's  es- 
tate, Coole  Park.  Here,  for  the  first 
time,  he  had  the  rest  and  quiet  he  needed 
for  his  work.  The  routine  of  the  house, 
in  fact,  was  arranged  to  fit  in  with  his 
needs.  Other  guests  were  sometimes 
startled  to  find  in  an  otherwise  bare 
corridor  a  pile  of  thick  rugs  placed  out- 
side his  room  to  muffle  the  sounds  of 
feet  passing  by. 

He  wrote  from  Coole  Park  to  his 
sister,  Lily:  "I  have  got  into  my  routine 
here — always  my  place  of  industry.  Af- 
ter breakfast  Chaucer — garden   for 


20  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


twenty  minutes — then  work  from  eleven 
till  two,  then  lunch,  then  I  fish  from 
three  till  five,  then  I  read  and  then  work 
again  at  lighter  tasks  till  dinner.  To  this 
I  have  added  exercises  twice  daily." 

As  my  father  grew  older  he  was  often 
in  ill  health,  and  unable  to  stand  the 
mental  strain  of  composition.  My  mother 
introduced  him  to  detective  stories,  and 
often  when  exhausted  by  his  struggle 
with  a  stubborn  poem,  he  would  read 
one  of  these  for  half  an  hour  before 
returning  to  the  struggle. 

He  was  often  oblivious  to  the  world 
around  him.  On  one  occasion  my  sister, 
Anne,  got  on  a  bus  on  her  way  home 
from  Dublin's  city  center,  to  find  the 
poet  already  sitting  in  a  front  seat.  She 
saw,  however,  that  he  was  displaying  all 
the  signs  of  composition,  so  rather  than 
sit  by  him  she  went  to  the  rear  of  the  bus. 
When  they  both  got  out  at  the  gate  of 
our  house,  he  looked  at  her  vaguely  and 
asked,  "Who  is  it  you  are  looking  for?" 

Lamplight  in  the  kitchen 

There  are  certain  things  that  are  com- 
mon to  all  Yeats  manuscripts.  The  hand- 
writing is  always  very  difficult  to  read, 
while  the  spelling  is  eccentric.  At  one 
stage  in  his  life  he  applied  to  Trinity 
College,  in  Dublin,  for  the  position  of 
professor  of  English  literature.  It  cannot 
have  helped  his  cause  that  in  his  letter  of 
application  he  spelt  the  word  "profes- 
sor" with  two  "f  s." 

His  punctuation  also  was  eccentric. 
My  mother  claimed  that  it  was  not  just 
that  he  did  not  understand  punctuation, 
but  simply  that  he  did  not  use  it.  He  told 
the  poet  Robert  Bridges  in  1915,  "I  do 
not  understand  stops.  I  write  my  work  so 
completely  for  the  ear  that  I  feel  helpless 
when  I  have  to  measure  pauses  by  stops 
and  commas." 

I  have  seen  it  suggested  recently  that 
his  appalling  spelling  and  handwriting 
may  have  been  due  to  a  mild  case  of 
dyslexia.  Whether  this  is  true  or  not,  he 
certainly  had  great  trouble,  as  a  boy,  in 
dealing  with  work  at  school.  He  was  not 
helped  in  his  earlier  years  by  the  eccen- 
tric attitude  toward  education  expressed 


by  his  father,  the  painter  John  Butler 
Yeats,  who  wrote  in  his  memoirs:  "I  had 
read  somewhere  that  to  educate  a  child 
too  early  is  bad,  since  a  too  early  devel- 
opment stops  growth,  so  that  he  did  not 
even  learn  his  letters  till  he  was  more 
than  seven  years  old.  By  that  time  he  had 
found  out  so  many  things  to  occupy  his 
mind,  imaginative  and  busy,  that  it  was 
with  the  greatest  difficulty  he  mastered 
the  English  alphabet." 

Apart  from  the  problems  posed  by 
such  excessive  family  interference,  it  may 
be  that  my  father's  lack  of  progress  at 
school  was  caused  in  part  by  his  very  bad 
eyesight,  which  went  unnoticed  through 
his  childhood.  When  he  told  his  sisters 
that  he  saw  two  moons,  they  laughed, 
and  thought  that  this  was  just  Willie 
being  poetical. 

His  school  reports  are  curious.  His 
teachers  thought  he  was  excellent  at 
science,  quite  good  at  French  and  bad  at 
everything  else.  He  was  worst  of  all  at 
English  literature.  Presumably  his  En- 
glish teacher  thought  only  of  his  dread- 
ful handwriting  and  spelling.  But  his 
father  soon  decided  that  Willie  was  go- 
ing to  be  a  great  scientist. 

In  fact  it  seems  likely  that  the  basic 
cause  of  Yeats'  failure  at  school  was  a 
simple  lack  of  interest  in  the  academic 
subjects  being  taught.  From  quite  an 


early  age  he  became  interested  in  po- 
etry. While  still  about  14  he  collabo- 
rated with  a  classmate  in  the  writing  of 
a  play  in  verse,  and  his  schoolmates 
respected  him  as  someone  who  was  able 
to  write  poetry.  Before  he  left  school  he 
had  decided  he  was  going  to  be  a  poet, 
and  indeed  had  developed  a  method  of 
composition  which  was  to  remain  with 
him  all  his  life. 

John  Butler  Yeats  wrote  of  his  son's 
poetical  activities: 

At  that  time  for  the  sake  of  necessary  thrift 
we  gathered  every  evening  in  one  room 
round  the  single  lamp,  and  my  son  would  be 
quiet  over  his  lessons.  These  finished,  he 
betook  himself  to  the  study  of  verse,  mur- 
muring over  the  lines  as  he  made  them,  at 
first  quietly  so  as  to  disturb  no  one — only 
his  voice  would  grow  louder  and  louder 
until  at  last  it  filled  the  room.  Then  his 
sisters  would  call  out  to  him,  "Now  Willie, 
stop  composing!"  and  he  would  meekly 
lower  his  voice.  Alas,  the  murmuring  would 
again  become  a  shout.  My  daughters  would 
again  object,  the  evening  always  ending  in 
his  finding  another  lamp  and  retiring  with  it 
into  the  kitchen  where  he  would  murmur 
verses  in  any  voice  he  liked  to  his  heart's 
content. 

John  Buder  Yeats  was  himself  quite 
unable  to  make  money  from  his  profes- 
sion as  portrait  painter — or  to  keep  what 
money  he  had.  So  at  first  he  was  troubled 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  2 1 


The  poet's  adventure 


William  Butler  Yeats  believed  in  astrology,  attended  seances,  occasionally  saw  or  heard  spirits 
and  consulted  the  famous  medium  who  went  by  the  name  of  Madame  Blavatsky.  His  observations 
on  the  supernatural  often  came  out  in  letters  to  his  sister  Lily,  such  as  this  unsigned  letter,  dating 
ft-om  about  1916,  that  is  part  of  the  recently  acquired  Yeats  collection. 


Stone  Cottage 
Colemans  Hatch 
Sussex 


My  Dear  Lily 


I  have  had  a  curious  psychic  adventure.  About  three  years  ago  a  medium  in 
Wiltshire  was  possessed  in  my  presence  by  a  control  who  said  that  she  had  come  to  me 
because  I  had  once  pitied  her,  and  that  she  and  I  had  the  same  evil  eye  upon  us.  I  could 
get  no  more. 

The  other  day  I  was  talking  to  a  young  woman  whom  I  have  been  trying  to  protect 
by  psychical  means  from  terrifying  dreams.  I  got  through  automatic  writing  certain 
directions  through  her  hand  as  to  this  cure.  I  then  asked  for  an  explanation  of  the  evil 
eye  tale.  I  was  told  that  the  spirit  who  came  upon  that  occasion  was  drowned  under  ice 
many  years  ago  in  Russia,  that  her  name  began  with  K.  that  I  would  find  an  account  of 
her  in  a  book  called  "Three  Sisters,"  and  that  I  had  met  her  in  Ireland  when  very  young, 
and  had  pitied  her.  I  was  told  that  my  meeting  with  her  might  be  recalled  to  my  mind 
in  association  with  a  doormat  and  marmalade.  I  went  off  to  the  British  Museum  and  got 
out  the  "Three  Sisters"  by  De  Estarre  Keeling.  After  some  search  in  a  wrong  direction 
I  had  suddenly  recollected  this  book.  This  was  on  the  1 7th  (Feb.  1 9 1 6).  I  found  in  it  that 
a  younger  sister  of  the  Keelings  was  drowned  in  Russia.  She  was  described  in  the  book, 
which  is  however  partly  romance,  as  drowned  while  trying  to  rescue  a  pupil  who  was 
bathing.  This  may  have  been  an  idealization  of  the  event.  I  wrote  to  the  automatist, 
saying  that  I  had  known  the  Keelings,  but  that  this  girl  had  been  drowned  long  before 
I  had  met  them.  That  day,  before  the  receipt  of  my  letter,  but  no  doubt  after  I  had  been 
to  the  Museum,  the  automatist  received  another  communication,  saying  that  the  sister 
of  the  drowned  girl  had  been  a  great  friend  of  mine,  or  "rather  she  was  of  a  like  nature." 

Now  I  want  you  to  write  to  Miss  D'Estarre  Keeling  without  bringing  me  into  the 
matter.  She  now  calls  herself  Madame  D'Estarre,  and  her  address,  I  believe,  is  Danvers 
College,  Church  St.  Chelsea.  I  want  you  to  say  that  some  automatic  writer  has  had 
communications  from  someone  professing  to  be  her  sister,  or  if  you  think  better  of  it, 
you  need  not  mention  an  automatic  writer  at  all.  I  want  to  find  out  if  the  account  of  her 
sister's  death  is  given  accurately  in  the  book,  or  if  she  was  really  drowned  under  ice.  And 
I  would  like  to  know  if  they  were  ever  in  Ireland  under  circumstances  when  I  could  have 
met  her  sister.  It  is  important  to  me  to  find  out  if  this  new  medium  is  reliable,  in  the 
present  instances  there  may  be  a  case  of  what  I  call  "substitution,"  or  else  personation. 
I  mean  that  a  spirit  may  under  a  curious  psychological  necessity  described  by  Swendenborg, 
have  built  up  round  itself  a  fictitious  personality.  There  was  my  memory  to  draw  on,  and 
I  notice  that  after  I  cleared  my  own  mind,  by  going  to  the  British  Museum,  comes  the 
statement  that  I  was  rather  the  friend  of  her  sister.  If  it  is  telepathy,  there  is  one 
interesting  point  about  it:  there  are  statements  which  I  have  not  described  to  you,  in 
addition  to  those  which  I  have,  which  were  made  in  reply  to  my  questions  with  perfect 
accuracy  when  I  hadn't  the  faintest  notion  whom  they  were  talking  about. 


by  the  prospect  of  his  son  becoming  a  poet. 

"It  is  impossible  for  a  rich  man's  son 
to  enter  the  heaven  of  poetry,"  he  wrote, 
"yet  a  poor  man's  son  should  avoid  po- 
etry, because  it  is  impossible  to  make 
money  by  the  writing  of  poetry.  My  son 
and  myself  both  saw  all  this  to  be  true. 
Nevertheless  he  abided  by  poetry  and  I 
encouraged  him.  It  was  a  secret  between 
us.  I  was  not  anxious  to  proclaim  to  the 
world  that  I,  a  poor  man,  was  bringing 
up  my  eldest  son  to  be  a  poet." 

But  in  spite  of  these  remarks  he  car- 
ried his  son's  poems  around  with  him  to 
show  to  his  friends — and  indeed  he  ex- 
pressed his  delight  when  Willie  declined 
to  accept  a  job  he  had  been  offered  as 
sub-editor  on  a  newspaper.  It  was,  he 
said  when  he  heard  the  news,  the  happi- 
est day  of  his  life. 

The  flower  and  the  root 

From  the  first  Yeats  had  been  convinced 
that  a  poet  must  always  be  a  public 
figure;  he  could  never  work  in  isolation. 
In  fact  he  himself  was  actively  concerned 
with  a  multitude  of  events,  cultural  and 
political,  in  the  Ireland  of  his  day.  He 
was  anxious  to  blend  his  life  and  his  art 
into  a  single  image.  In  a  lecture  on  con- 
temporary poetry,  delivered  in  1 9 1 0,  he 
insisted  that  the  poet's  life  should  be 
made  known  in  order  to  bind  more 
closely  in  the  reader's  mind  the  poetry 
and  the  living  experience: 

I  have  no  sympathy  with  the  mid-Victorian 
thought  to  which  Tennyson  gave  his  sup- 
port, that  a  poet's  life  concerns  nobody  but 
himself.  A  poet  is  by  the  very  nature  of  things 
a  man  who  lives  with  entire  sincerity,  or 
rather,  the  better  his  poetry  the  more  sincere 
his  life.  His  life  is  an  experiment  in  living,  and 
those  that  come  after  have  a  right  to  know  it. 
Above  all  it  is  necessary  that  the  lyric  poet's 
life  should  be  known,  that  we  should  under- 
stand that  his  poetry  is  no  rootless  flower, 
but  the  speech  of  a  man. 

Yeats  was,  therefore,  far  more  than 
the  traditional  poet  in  an  ivory  tower. 
Not  only  did  he  seek  to  gain  success  for 
himself  as  a  writer — he  also  deliberately 
set  out  to  create  an  Irish  literary  revival, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Abbey 


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Theatre,  was  involved  with  the  struggle 
for  Irish  freedom  and  became  a  member 
of  the  first  Irish  Senate. 

Much  of  this  activity  is  described  in 
the  prose  notebooks  in  the  Burns  Li- 
brary collection.  They  chronicle  not 
merely  the  public  aspects  of  his  career; 
they  also  tell  us  much  about  his  private 
life,  and  in  particular,  his  long  and  tur- 
bulent relationship  with  Maud  Gonne. 

There  is  reference  also  to  Oscar 
Wilde,  of  whom  my  father  wrote:  "My 
first  meeting  with  Oscar  Wilde  was  an 
astonishment.  I  had  never  before  heard 
a  man  talking  with  perfect  sentences,  as 
if  he  had  written  them  all  overnight  with 
labor,  and  yet  all  spontaneous."  He  met 
Wilde  at  the  home  of  W.E.  Henley,  and 
recorded  something  of  their  conversa- 
tion. They  were  both  employed  as  edi- 
tors by  the  same  publishing  firm,  which 
in  due  course  became  a  topic  of  the 
conversation. 

"How  often  do  you  go  to  the  office?" 
asked  Henley.  "I  used  to  go  three  times 
a  week,"  said  Wilde,  "for  an  hour  a  day, 
but  I  have  since  struck  off  one  of  the 
days."  "My  God,"  said  Henley,  "I  went 
five  times  a  week  for  five  hours  a  day,  and 
when  I  wanted  to  strike  off  a  day  they 
had  a  special  committee  meeting."  "Fur- 
thermore," was  Wilde's  answer,  "I  never 
answered  their  letters.  I  have  known 
men  come  to  London  full  of  bright  pros- 
pects, and  seen  them  complete  wrecks  in 
a  few  months  through  a  habit  of  answer- 
ing letters."  Many  years  later,  during  the 
second  trial  of  Oscar  Wilde,  Yeats  ar- 
rived in  London,  bringing  with  him  let- 
ters of  support  from  Irish  writers. 

During  all  the  period  of  the  1 890s  my 
father,  wishing  to  please  Maud  Gonne, 
became  more  and  more  involved  in  her 
political  activities.  These  culminated  in 
the  Jubilee  Riots  of  1897.  In  that  year 
Queen  Victoria  celebrated  the  Diamond 
Jubilee  of  her  accession  to  the  British 
throne,  and  this  event  was  celebrated 
with  enthusiasm  by  the  loyalist  element 
in  Dublin. 

This,  of  course,  was  an  affront  to 
nationalist  Ireland,  and  Maud  Gonne 
helped  to  organize  a  great  parade  in 
Dublin,  in  which  a  black  coffin,  repre- 


senting the  British  Empire,  was  carried 
through  the  streets.  Large-scale  rioting 
followed,  and  police  tried  to  seize  the 
coffin,  which  was  thrown  into  the  River 
Liffey  to  keep  it  out  of  their  hands.  The 
poet  no  doubt  was  in  full  agreement 
with  the  nationalist  sentiments  expressed 
on  such  occasions,  but  he  felt  uneasy 
about  joining  in  the  sort  of  direct  action 
favored  by  Maud  Gonne.  A  brief  state- 
ment in  his  Autobiography  reveals  a  lot 
about  their  relationship:  "I  was  seden- 
tary and  thoughtful;  but  Maud  Gonne 
was  not  sedentary." 

In  the  year  following  thejubilee,  there 
was  a  great  national  gathering  to  cel- 
ebrate the  centenary  of  the  Rising  of 
1798.  The  Irish  national  societies  from 
all  over  Britain  and  Ireland  gathered  for 
a  mass  meeting  in  Dublin.  Yeats,  who 
though  only  in  his  30s  was  already  con- 
sidered a  major  public  figure,  was  made 
chairman  of  these  proceedings. 

From  now  on  Yeats  was  more  and 
more  involved  in  the  dramatic  move- 
ment and  in  the  affairs  of  the  Abbey 
Theatre.  He  tells  in  his  prose  writings  of 
the  difficulties  he  and  his  collaborators 
faced  in  the  early  days.  There  was  the 
controversy  over  his  play,  The  Countess 
Cathleen,  banned  on  the  grounds  of  her- 
esy by  Cardinal  Logue  of  Armagh,  who 
had  not  read  it. 

Accusations  were  hurled  at  the  Ab- 
bey Theatre  from  all  sides.  When  the 
directors  announced  their  intention  that 
from  time  to  time  the  Theatre  would 
perform  "foreign  masterpieces,"  they 
were  attacked  by  a  nationalist  newspa- 
per on  the  grounds  that  "a  foreign  mas- 
terpiece is  a  very  dangerous  thing."  A 
few  years  later,  in  1907,  came  the  great 
row  over  Synge's  Playboy  of  the  Western 
World.  It  is  hard  nowadays  to  conceive 
what  the  objections  to  the  play  can  have 
been — but  in  the  first  week  of  its  perfor- 
mance so  great  was  the  hostile  noise  in 
the  theater  that  hardly  a  word  could  be 
heard.  Yeats  insisted,  however,  that  the 
play  continue  each  night,  refusing  to 
bow  to  mob  censorship. 

He  arranged  for  a  public  debate  in 
the  Theatre,  and  in  his  autobiography 
reported  the  speech  made  by  his  father, 


II  Dramatic  poem. 


W.     B     YEATS,  | 

»  Frontispiece  Portrait  of  the  Author  j 

By    J     B     YEATS 


urthermore,"  was 
Wilde's  answer,  "I 
never  answered  their 
letters.  I  have  known 
men  come  to  London 
full  of  bright  pros- 
pects/ and  seen  them 
complete  wrecks  in  a 
few  months  through 
a  habit  of  answering 
letters." 


Above:  One  of  the  prizes  in  the 
Yeats  Collection  is  this  copy  of 
Mosada.  Only  three  other  libraries 
in  the  U.S.  possess  copies  of  this 
exceedingly  rare  work. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  23 


_  hen  the  Cuala 
Press  on  occasion 
published  books  of 
which  my  father 
disapproved,  he 
wrote  angry  letters  to 
Lolly.  This  brought  old 
John  Butler  Yeats  onto 
the  field,  in  defense  of 
his  daughter.  "Why 
do  you  write  such 
offensive  letters?" 


Above:  A  bookplate  modeled  on 
the  Yeats  coat  of  arms,  circa  1915. 


John  Butler  Yeats.  At  first  he  was  well 
received,  and  when  he  said  "he  knew  that 
Ireland  was  a  land  of  Saints,"  there  was 
great  applause;  but  then  he  added,  "a 
land  of  plaster  Saints."  At  that  there  was 
a  total  uproar.  Thirty  years  later  Yeats 
included  this  incident  in  his  poem  "Beau- 
tiful Lofty  Things,"  in  which  he  remem- 
bers his  father's  imposing  presence  before 
"the  raging  crowd  ...  his  beautiful  mis- 
chievous head  thrown  back." 

As  manager  of  the  Abbey  Theatre,  my 
father  was  for  a  number  of  years  almost 
totally  bound  up  with  theater  business. 
He  was  always  good  at  dealing  with  busi- 
ness and  financial  affairs,  and  excelled  in 
the  maneuvering  of  committee  work.  He 
was  much  less  good  at  dealing  directly 
with  people.  Tact  was  rarely  his  strong 
point,  as  is  shown  in  a  typically  intro- 
spective passage  from  his  journal:  "To- 
day, for  the  first  time,  I  lost  my  temper 
with  an  actor.  Arthur  Sinclair  refused  to 
play  the  part  he  was  given.  I  made  a 
mistake;  my  temper  was  over  in  one 
minute,  and  the  interview  had  to  last 
longer.  As  a  result  there  was  no  climax; 
on  the  contrary,  I  must  have  seemed  to 
have  weakened.  One  should  not  lose  one's 
temper  unless  one  is  certain  of  getting 
more  and  more  angry  to  the  end." 

He  was  able  to  write  little  poetry  dur- 
ing those  years.  In  his  journal  in  Febru- 
ary 1 909,  he  wrote,  "I  often  wonder  if  my 
talent  will  ever  recover  from  the  hetero- 
geneous labor  of  these  past  few  years  .  . . 
I  cry  out  continually  against  my  life.  I 
have  sleepless  nights,  thinking  of  the 
time  that  I  must  take  from  my  poetry." 

As  a  whole,  these  autobiographical 
prose  works  of  Yeats,  along  with  many  of 
his  poems,  form  part  of  the  history  of 
Ireland.  It  is  a  history,  of  course,  created 
in  strictly  Yeatsian  terms.  As  his  biogra- 
pher, Dr.  Roy  Foster,  has  recently  said, 
"Yeats  was  his  own  impresario."  It  is 
nonetheless  true,  in  the  well-known 
words  of  T.S.  Eliot,  that  Yeats  was  "one 
of  the  few  poets  whose  history  is  the 
history  of  their  own  time,  who  are  part  of 
the  consciousness  of  an  age  which  cannot 
be  understood  without  them." 


Kinship  and  quarrels 

The  family  letters  now  in  the  Burns 
Library  provide  us  with  a  different,  per- 
haps more  true,  picture  ofYeats'  thought 
and  personality.  The  prose  journals  were 
largely  written  with  an  eye  to  posterity, 
and  formed  part  of  a  conscious  effort  to 
assert  his  own  interpretation  of  histori- 
cal events.  The  letters,  on  the  other 
hand,  are  not  aimed  at  a  public  audience. 
Addressed  to  the  poet's  father  and  his 
two  sisters,  they  give  us  a  clear  idea  of 
the  relationship — and  the  frequent  ten- 
sions— between  these  four  strong-willed 
members  of  the  Yeats  family. 

A  large  number  of  these  letters  were 
written  to  John  Butler  Yeats,  who  until 
recently  was  almost  forgotten,  save  as 
the  father  of  Ireland's  greatest  poet.  Yet 
in  his  own  right  he  was  a  remarkable 
individual.  The  son  of  a  clergyman,  he 
gained  a  First  Class  Honours  degree  at 
Dublin  University,  and  took  up  a  career 
at  law. 

It  was  at  this  period  that  he  met  and 
married  my  grandmother,  Susan  Mary 
Pollexfen.  The  newly-married  couple 
settled  in  a  small  house  in  a  suburb  of 
Dublin,  and  there,  on  June  13th,  1865, 
William  Butler  Yeats  was  born.  Shortly 
afterwards  my  grandfather  abandoned 
his  career  at  the  bar,  and  plunged  him- 
self and  his  young  family  into  an  entirely 
uncertain  future. 

He  decided  to  become  an  artist,  and 
brought  his  wife  and  child  to  London, 
where  he  enrolled  at  an  art  school.  In 
due  course  it  came  to  be  accepted  that — 
at  his  best — he  was  a  magnificent  por- 
trait painter,  perhaps  the  best  that  Ireland 
has  produced.  Yet  he  totally  lacked  any 
sense  of  business,  and  never  succeeded 
in  gaining  an  adequate  living  as  an  artist. 
He  was  always  optimistic,  but  success 
constantly  eluded  him.  At  the  age  of  68 
he  made  what  was  to  have  been  a  brief 
visit  to  New  York;  it  would  last  1 4  years. 
In  a  letter  home  he  related  what  a  friend 
had  said  to  him  about  his  life  in  New 
York:  "In  Dublin  it  is  hopeless  insol- 
vency. Here  it  is  hopeful  insolvency." 

A  constant  stream  of  letters  arrived 
from  New  York,  advising  my  father  (by 


24  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


now  in  his  50s  and  world  famous).  There 
was  advice  on  pending  United  States 
lectures,  on  what  portrait  he  should  use 
in  a  new  edition  of  his  Collected  Works, 
together  with  frequent  complaints  about 
his  addiction  to  mysticism  [see  letter 
page  22].  There  were  dissertations  on 
philosophy  and  much  discussion  of  ab- 
stract principles.  In  spite  of  his  complete 
lack  of  success  in  his  own  career,  John 
Buder  tried  in  long  letters  to  shape  his 
son's  poetry  and  drama. 

In  his  replies,  my  father  usually  ig- 
nored the  criticism — though  he  did  ad- 
mit in  one  letter  that  he  had  come  to 
"realize  with  some  surprise  how  fully  my 
philosophy  of  life  has  been  inherited 
from  you  in  all  but  its  details  and  appli- 
cations." His  letters  to  John  Butler  give 
news  about  events  at  home  and  about 
the  progress  of  his  own  writing. 

Increasingly,  as  John  Butler  Yeats 
grew  older,  his  son's  letters  to  him  were 
filled  with  appeals  to  come  home.  But  in 
spite  of  numerous  promises,  the  old  man 
in  fact  never  did  leave  New  York.  He 
died  there  in  1922,  and  is  buried  at  Lake 
George  in  New  York  State. 

The  other  family  letters  are  addressed 
to  Yeats'  two  sisters,  Lily  Yeats  and 
Elizabeth  Corbet  Yeats — always  known 
as  Lolly.  Lily  was  the  family  archivist. 
Her  memoirs  and  her  vast  output  of 
letters  display  an  acute  intellect  and  are 
written  in  a  clear  yet  elegant  style.  To 
make  a  living,  she  produced  beautifully 
crafted  hand  embroidery,  which  she  sold 
through  a  small  family  company  called 
Cuala  Industries. 

Lolly  ran  a  second  branch  of  Cuala 
Industries,  in  which  were  produced  a 
range  of  hand-colored  prints,  as  well  as 
a  series  of  hand-printed  books — to  this 
day  eagerly  sought  by  book  collectors. 

Lily  had  a  sympathetic  personality,  a 
good  sense  of  humor  and  wrote  very 
amusing  letters.  Lolly,  on  the  other  hand, 
had  a  nervous  excitability  that  made  her 
difficult  to  deal  with.  The  contrasting 
temperaments  of  the  two  sisters  are 
clearly  reflected  in  the  letters  written  to 
them  by  their  brother. 

The  correspondence  with  Lolly  is 
largely  devoted  to  business  matters.  With 


her,  my  father  seems  to 
have  been  an  unwilling 


- 


correspondent.  He  often 
asked  Lily  to  give  mes- 

1  ■  tt.   *■  **v     **•  i      * 

sages   to   her   sister —  .  ^.; 

sometimes  on  business 
matters,  sometimes  to 
thank  Lolly  for  a  Christ- 
mas or  birthday  present. 
On  one  occasion,  he  asks 
Lily  to  "tell  Lolly  I  think 
(her  new  book  is)  per- 
fectly charming  .  .  .  and 
should,  I  think,  advance 
the  fame  of  the  Press." 
Coming  from  the  liter- 
ary adviser  to  the  press, 
such  a  compliment  might 
better  have  been  written 
directly  to  the  sister  who 
had  actually  produced  the 
book — especially  since, 
as  the  years  went  by,  such 
friendly  compliments 
proved  to  be  rather  rare. 

In  fact  there  was  a  ba- 
sic source  of  conflict  be- 
tween brother  and  sister. 
My  father  felt  that  his 
position  as  literary  ad- 
viser gave  him  the  right 
to  approve  of  every  book  that  was  pub- 
lished by  the  press.  Lolly,  on  the  other 
hand,  felt  that  such  a  claim  infringed  on 
her  independence  as  publisher.  When 
the  Cuala  Press  on  occasion  published 
books  of  which  my  father  disapproved, 
he  wrote  angry  letters  to  Lolly.  This 
brought  old  John  Butler  Yeats  onto  the 
field,  in  defense  of  his  daughter.  He 
wrote  to  William  Butler:  "Why  do  you 
write  such  offensive  letters?  There  is 
nothing  fine  in  a  haughty  and  arrogant 
temper." 

With  his  sister  Lily,  things  went  much 
better.  In  general  his  letters  to  her  dealt 
with  less  contentious  matters.  However, 
there  are  frequent  remarks  in  the  earlier 
years  about  money — or  rather  the  lack 
of  it.  Once  he  apologizes  for  not  sending 
a  Christmas  present.  Four  years  later  it 
seems  that  matters  have  slightly  im- 
proved, for  he  writes  in  1899:  "I  have 
made  up  my  mind  to  review  no  more 


Yeats  with  his  wife  Georgie  in  the  late  1920s. 


books  because,  though  it  brings  in 
money  more  quickly,  it  gets  me  into  all 
kinds  of  difficulties  and  quarrels  and 
wastes  my  time." 

There  are  some  letters  written  to  Lily 
from  America,  during  William  Butler's 
lecture  tours.  He  writes  one  letter  as  he 
is  about  to  give  a  lecture  in  Carnegie 
Hall.  "I  have  been  down  there  practic- 
ing, trying  my  eloquent  passages  in  the 
big,  empty  hall.  I  got  one  compliment.  I 
had  just  finished  an  elaborate  passage, 
when  I  heard  the  clapping  of  hands  in  a 
dark  corner.  It  was  the  Irish  caretaker." 

Michael  Yeats  is  a  Dublin  attorney  and  a  former 
senator  of  the  Irish  Republic.  This  ankle  was 
edited from  an  address  delivered at  BC in  October 
1993,  when  the  Yeats  family  presented  W.  B. 
Yeats'  papers  to  the  University.  The  collection, 
which  had  been  in  family  hands,  is,  in  size,  second 
only  to  Yeats  holdings  in  the  National  Library  of 
Ireland. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  25 


Like  a  bridge 

For  10  years,  the  author  and  his  colleagues  sought  to  understand 

why  Catholic  high  schools  often  succeed  where  public 

high  schools  fail.  Here  are  their  answers 


By  Anthony  Bryk  '71 


During  the  early  1980s,  a  spate  of  research  studies  and 
newspaper  reports  chronicled  the  unusual  effectiveness  of 
Catholic  high  schools.  These  reports  talked  about  higher 
achievement  levels  and  lower  dropout  rates,  especially  for  disadvan- 
taged youths. 

If  these  accounts  were  correct,  here  were  a  set  of  schools  that 
seemed  to  be  doing  something  right,  and  yet  we  knew  virtually 
nothing  about  their  internal  organization  or  the  operations  and 
practices  that  might  contribute  to  their  success. 


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Beginning  in  about  1982,  my  colleagues  and  I 
undertook  to  try  and  understand  Catholic  high 
schools  and  how  they  might  contribute  special 
educational  opportunities  to  some  of  the  most 
disadvantaged  in  our  society.  We  found  two  ele- 
ments that  seemed  particularly  distinctive  to  these 
schools:  a  curricular  structure  that  was  designedly 
limited;  and  a  strong  communal  structure  that 
draws  its  shape  from  ritual,  collegiality,  shared 
beliefs  and  norms  and  decentralized  governance. 
These  structures,  and  the  philosophies  that  sup- 
port them,  have  some  implications  for  the  current 
public  discussion  about  renewing  U.S.  educational 
institutions. 


The  central  tenet  of  academic  organization 
in  the  Catholic  high  school  is  a  core  cur- 
riculum for  all  students,  regardless  of  back- 
ground or  educational  plans.  This  curriculum  is 
predicated  on  a  proactive  view,  broadly  shared  by 
faculty  and  administrators,  about  what  students  can 
and  should  learn.  Required  courses  predominate 
most  students'  course  of  study,  with  electives  lim- 
ited in  number  and  scope.  Some  students  begin  the 
curriculum  at  a  more  advanced  level  and  proceed  in 
more  depth,  but  the  same  basic  academic  goals 
apply  for  all.  Integrating  these  structures  and  poli- 
cies is  an  active  institutional  purpose — to  advance 
a  common  education  of  mind  and  spirit  for  all. 

A  central  organizational  problem  of  all  schools 
is  one  of  how  to  respond  to  the  differences  in 
interests  and  abilities  that  students  bring  to  the 
school.  In  principle,  initial  differences  among  stu- 
dents can  either  amplify  or  ameliorate  as  a  result  of 
school  experiences.  The  constrained  academic 
structure  in  Catholic  high  schools  minimizes  the 
normal  differentiating  effects  that  accompany  wide 
individual  choice.  In  contrast,  the  modern  public 
comprehensive  high  school  has  a  highly  differenti- 
ated structure  which  lays  out  a  menu  of  extraordi- 
nary choices  for  students.  This  tends  to  amplify 
initial  social  differences  among  students  and 
culminates  in  a  less  equitable  distribution  of 
achievement. 

In  our  book  Catholic  Schools  and  the  Common  Good 
(Harvard,  1 993),  we  present  detailed  statistical  evi- 
dence to  substantiate  this  claim.  Some  of  our  sim- 
plest results  are  also  the  most  powerful  evidence. 
For  example,  let's  consider  the  minority  versus 
white  achievement  gap  in  public  and  Catholic  high 
schools. 

At  sophomore  year  in  high  school,  minority 
students  are  scoring  behind  their  white  classmates 


in  both  public  and  Catholic  schools.  The  size  of  this 
"minority  achievement  gap"  in  mathematics  is  about 
a  third  smaller  in  Catholic  than  in  public  schools.  In 
large  part  this  reflects  the  fact  that  minority  stu- 
dents in  Catholic  schools  are  somewhat  more 
advantaged  than  their  counterparts  in  the  public 
sector.  What  happens  to  these  students  over  the 
last  two  years  of  high  school  is  what  is  significant, 
however.  In  the  public  sector,  the  "minority  achieve- 
ment gap"  grows  larger  by  senior  year;  in  Catholic 
schools  it  decreases.  That  is,  student  achievement 
becomes  more  socially  differentiated  over  time  in 
public  schools,  but  becomes  more  homogeneous  in 
Catholic  schools. 

The  focused  academic  structure  of  Catholic 
high  schools  is  embedded  within  a  larger  commu- 
nal organization  formed  around  four  core  features. 

First  is  an  extensive  array  of  activities  that  pro- 
vide numerous  opportunities  for  face-to-face  in- 
teractions and  shared  experiences  among  adults 
and  students.  The  shared  academic  experience  of 
the  core  curriculum  is  a  major  contributor  in  this 
regard.  There  are  also  numerous  school  events — 
athletics,  drama,  liturgy — created  to  bring  people 
together.  These  school  events  or  rituals  forge  con- 
nections among  current  school  members,  those 
who  came  before  and  those  who  come  after,  and 
provide  occasion  for  placing  the  current  social 
group  within  a  larger  tradition. 

A  second  structural  element  of  the  communal 
school  organization  lies  in  the  extended  role  teach- 
ers play.  Teachers  in  Catholic  high  schools  are  not 
just  subject  matter  specialists  whose  jobs  are 
bounded  by  their  classroom  walls.  Rather,  they  are 
mature  persons  whom  students  encounter  in  school 
hallways,  on  playing  fields,  in  the  school  neighbor- 
hood and  sometimes  in  student  homes.  In  numer- 
ous interactions  that  occur  among  adults  and 
students  outside  of  classrooms,  there  are  opportu- 
nities for  expressions  of  individual  concern  and 
interest,  and  a  bonding  takes  place  between  stu- 
dents and  adults  that  affects  life  in  the  schools  in 
very  profound  ways. 

A  high  degree  of  collegiality  also  exists  among 
the  teachers.  Catholic  high  school  faculty  spend 
time  with  one  another  inside  and  outside  of  school. 
These  social  interactions  serve  as  a  resource  for 
problem-solving,  and  contribute  to  adult  solidarity 
around  the  school's  mission.  In  such  contexts,  school 
decision-making  is  less  conflictual  and  more  often 
characterized  by  trust  and  respect. 

Here  the  relatively  small  size  of  Catholic  high 
schools  provides  a  significant  advantage.  The  coor- 
dination of  work  in  larger  organizations  typically 


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imposes  demands  for  more  formal  modes  of  com- 
munication, and  encourages  work  specialization 
and  more  extensive  bureaucratization.  In  contrast, 
a  smaller  school  facilitates  personalism  and  social 
intimacy. 

A  third  characteristic  that  facilitates  the  com- 
munity is  a  shared  set  of  beliefs  and  values  — about 
what  students  should  learn,  about  proper  norms  of 
instruction  and  about  how  people  should  relate  to 
one  another.  Underpinning  this  set  of  beliefs  in 
Catholic  high  schools  is  a  set  of  general  moral 
commitments  to  advance  social  justice.  These  shared 
beliefs  establish  a  common  ground  that  orders  and 
gives  meaning  to  much  of  daily  life  for  both  faculty 
and  students. 

A  fourth  distinctive  feature  of  Catholic  high 
schools  is  decentralized  governance.  The  specific 
arrangements  vary  from  school  to  school,  depend- 
ing upon  the  nature  of  school  ownership  (e.g., 
parish,  diocesan,  or  private).  In  reality,  the  "Catho- 
lic school  system"  is  a  very  loose  federation.  Virtu- 
ally all  important  decisions  are  made  at  individual 
school  sites.  To  the  best  of  our  knowledge,  no 
current  efforts  to  promote  decentralization  in  the 
public  sector  approach  this  level  of  school-site 
autonomy. 

These  were  our  field  observations.  Building  on 


these,  we  developed  statistical  analyses  that  indi- 
cated powerful  effects  of  communal  organization 
on  both  students  and  teachers.  In  schools  with  a 
strong  communal  organization,  classroom  disrup- 
tions, class  cutting,  absenteeism  and  dropout  rates 
were  much  lower.  Teachers  in  these  schools  were 
more  likely  to  express  a  greater  sense  of  satisfaction 
with  their  work,  and  staff  morale  was  higher.  More- 
over, these  effects  exist  in  both  the  public  and 
Catholic  sectors:  public  schools  with  high  commu- 
nal organization  have  levels  of  student  engagement 
and  faculty  commitment  similar  to  those  found  in 
Catholic  schools. 


At  the  crest  of  Catholic  school  enrollment  in 
1965,  serious  questions  were  raised  about 
the  continuation  of  a  separate  Catholic 
school  system.  Many  Catholics  had  successfully 
entered  American  life,  we  had  our  first  Catholic 
president  and  the  need  for  a  separate  school  system 
was  no  longer  apparent.  Vatican  II,  in  proclaiming 
a  new  role  for  the  church  in  the  modern  world, 
however,  created  a  new  purpose.  The  charter  for 
Catholic  schools  shifted  from  protecting  the  faith- 
ful from  a  hostile  Protestant  majority  to  pursuing 
peace  and  social  justice  within  an  ecumenical  and 

pluralist  world. 
Each  school  would 
seek  to  enact  the 
image  of  a  pro- 
phetic Church. 
While  thoroughly 
engaged  in  Ameri- 
can culture,  the 
aims,  organiza- 
tion, methods  and 
daily  life  of  Catho- 
lic schools  sought 
to  offer  a  strong 
countervailing  im- 
age— a  distinctive 
vision  of  demo- 
cratic education 
for  a  postmodern 
world. 

Two  important 
ideas — personal- 
ism and  subsidi- 
arity— shape  life  in 
Catholic  schools. 
Personalism  calls 
for  humaneness  in 


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25 


William  E.  O'Brien 

900  Arbor  Lake  Dr.,  Apt.  304 

Naples,  FL  33963 

(813)592-0393 


26 


Henry  F.  Barry 
1375  Pine  Neck  Road 
Sourhold,  NY  11971 
(516)765-2192 


28 


Maurice  J.  Downey 

1 5  Dell  Ave. 

Hyde  Park,  MA  02 1 36 

(617)361-0752 

The  sincerest  thanks  of  the  Class  of 
1928  are  extended  to  our  distin- 
guished president,  Father  J.  Donald 
Monan,  S.J.  for  his  thoughtfulness 
in  remembering  us  on  the  occasion 
of  our  65th  anniversary  of  our  com- 
mencement. We  certainly  appreci- 
ate that  presidential  recognition.  • 
Jim  Duffy,  once  a  king-pin  in  the 
sports  outfitting  industry,  is  now 
retired  and  I  hear  from  his  playing 
partner  that  he  plays  a  round  of  golf, 
almost  daily,  at  the  Wollaston  Golf 
Club.  •  Frank  Phelan,  a  long-time 
resident  of  Palm  Beach,  was  in  town 
this  summer  to  visit  business  friends 
and  to  take  a  respite  from  the  tropi- 


cal heat  of  his  adopted  home  town. 
In  tandem  with  his  relative  and  our 
classmate  Frank  Kennedy,  he  vis- 
ited many  of  the  well-appointed  hos- 
tels of  northern  New  England.  • 
John  W.  Healey  at  last  reports  was 
still  living  in  Lake  Worth,  FL  and 
taking  with  his  wife  occasional  cruise 
trips.  •  Paul  MeCarty  is  an  extraor- 
dinary minister  in  Newton,  and  Luke 
Doyle  heads  up  the  usher  corps  at 
his  home  parish  in  Braintree.  •  John 
H.  Ballem,  who  often  threatens  to 
return  to  his  home  base  in  Boston,  is 
still  living  in  Oakland,  CA.  •  Every- 
one have  a  most  healthful  winter 
season  and  relish  anew  Boston 
College's  triumph  over  Notre  Dame. 


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Robert  T.  Hughes,  Esq. 
3  Ridgeway  Rd. 
Wellesley,  MA  02 1  8 1 
(617)  235-4199 

It  is  with  great  sorrow  that  I  notify 
you  of  the  deaths  of  three  more  of 
our  classmates.  •  John  Flynn  died  a 
month  ago  at  his  home  in  Melrose 
after  a  brief  illness.  He  was  a  well- 
known  attorney  for  many  years  and 
had  recently  been  enjoying  his  re- 
tirement. He  was  noted  for  the  fine 
work  he  did  for  the  St.  Vincent  de 
Paul  Society.  •  Henry  R.  Keenan 
died  on  February  8,  1993.  He  had 
been  living  for  many  years  in  Santa 
Ana,  CA.  •  William  J.  LaFay  died 
on  March  19,  1993.  He  had  been 


visiting  his  son  Fr.  Michael  LaFay  in 
Rome  and  became  ill  there.  He  spent 
some  time  in  the  hospital  on  his 
return  to  the  States  and  died  at  the 
home  of  his  daughter  Louise  in 
Wellesley.  •  May  their  souls  and  the 
souls  of  all  the  faithful  departed  rest 
in  peace.  •  I  received  a  nice  note 
from  Fr.  Denny  Sughrue  telling 
me  of  his  work  at  Stonehill  College. 
He  also  described  the  very  impres- 
sive funeral  Mass  that  was  held  for 
Msgr.  Joe  Mahoney .  There  were  2  6 
priests  assisting  Cardinal  Law  at  the 
Mass.  Fr.  Fred  Hobbs  was  amongst 
them.  We  were  sorry  to  learn  that 
his  health  is  failing  and  he  requires 
assistance  in  walking.  Gen 
Donaldson  and  Mary  Cavanaugh 
were  in  attendance.  •  I  very  much 
appreciate  the  notes  I  received  from 
Fr.  Denny  Sughrue  and  Mary 
Cavanaugh.  •  We  talked  with  Jim 
Riley  on  the  phone  and  were  sorry 
to  learn  that  he  recently  had  a  slight 
accident  which  requires  him  to  use  a 
cane  in  walking.  •  That's  about  all 
the  class  notes  for  now.  Let's  hear 
from  some  more  of  you!  AdMajorem 
Dei  Gloriam. 


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Charles  A.  McCarthy 
2081  Beacon  St. 
Waban,  MA  02 168 
(617)244-9025 

Mirabile  dictu!  At  least  three  of  the 
faithful  heard  my  call  for  news  in  the 


August  issue  of  BCM.  First,  a  letter 
from  Fr  Victor  C.P.,  once  known 
as  Joe  Donovan  in  good  old  Fresh- 
man G.  He  has  moved  nearer  to 
Boston  and  can  be  found  at  the  Cal- 
vary Retreat  Center,  59  South  St., 
P.O.  Box  219,  Shrewsbury,  MA 
01545.  If  any  of  you  want  to  make  a 
retreat,  that's  the  place  to  go.  Joe,  as 
I  remember  him,  would  love  to  hear 
from  you.  •  Also  a  letter  from  John 
J.  Rusty  Callahan,  formerly  of  Cam- 
bridge. He  now  lives  at  8775  20th 
St.,  Apt.  486,  Vero  Beach,  FL,  32966. 
Rusty  is  on  the  mend  from  a  series  of 
strokes,  but  he  types  better  than  I 
do.  Hang  in  there,  Rusty!  •  John 
Farricy,  who  I  understand  plays  a 
mean  game  of  bridge,  was  seen  with 
his  wife,  Mary,  at  the  September 
Pops  Concert  at  Conte  Forum.  They 
were  guests  of  their  son,  Dr.  John  P. 
Farricy  '69  and  his  wife,  Jean.  Grand- 
daughter Jill  '94  and  grandson,  Jay 
'96  accompanied  them.  How's  that 
for  a  real  BC  family?  •  I  ran  into 
Dave  Hockman  one  fine  morning 
in  September  while  getting  the  news- 
paper in  Scituate.  He  looks  as  trim  as 
ever.  I  envy  him.  •  Although  you 
may  have  graduated  some  63  years 
ago,  alma  mater  still  has  something 
to  offer  you.  You  may  apply  for  bor- 
rowing privileges  at  the  Bapst  and 
O'Neill  libraries  through  the  Alumni 
Association.  Also  you  should  not  miss 
the  new  Museum  of  Art  which  was 
opened  in  October.  It  is  exhibiting  a 
collection  of  Irish  watercolors  and 
drawings  on  loan  from  the  National 
Gallery  of  Ireland.  The  Museum  is 
located  in  what  we  knew  as  the  Sci- 


BOSTON  COLLEGE 
ALUMNI  ASSOCIATION 

1993-94  Board  of 
Directors 

President 

Richard  W.  Renehan,  Esq.  '55 
Milton,  MA 

Vice  President/ 
President  Elect 

John  H.  MacKinnon  '62 
Hingham,  MA 

Treasurer 

Carolyn  Kenney  Foley  '56 
West  Roxbury,  MA 


Secretary 

Susan  G.  Gallagher  '82 
Quincy,  MA 

Past  President 

Joseph  B.  Dowd,  M.D.  '49 
Needham,  MA 

Directors 

William  E.  Barry  '62 
Walpole,  MA 

J.W.  Carney,  Jr.,  Esq.  IAW  '78 
Newton,  MA 

Marybeth  Celorier  '89 
Framingham,  MA 


Patricia  Y.C.  Chung  '90 

Rivervale,  NJ 

Roger  T.  Connor  '52 
Milton,  MA 

Cathy  A.  Coyne  '80 
Denver,  CO 

Joseph  F.  Cunningham,  Jr.  '69 
Carmichael,  CA 

Edward  P.  Gilmore  '58 
Canton,  MA 

Richard  F.  Goggin  GSSW  '90 
Canton,  MA 


Karen  McCabe  Hare  '87 
Watertown,  MA 

Alyce  T.  Hatem  '94 
Methuen,  MA 

Mary  Ann  Brennan  Keyes 
NEW  '62 
Wellesley,  MA 

Julie  S.  Lavin,  Esq.  '89,  LAW  '92 
Wellesley,  MA 

John  J.  McCarthy  '45 
West  Newton,  MA 

John  L.  McCauley,  Jr.  '53 
Portsmouth,  Rl 


David  R.  Nugent  '87 
Reading,  MA 

Joan  Donohoe  O'Neil 
NEW  '61,  GA&S  '90 
Cambridge,  MA 

Lisa  S.  Queries,  Esq.  '83 
Laurelton,  NY 

Shepard  D.  Rainie  CGSOM  '83 
Canton,  MA 

Stephen  M.  Rosa  '86 
Providence,  Rl 


Executive  Director 

John  F.  Wissler  '57,  CGSOM  '72 

Class  Notes  Editor 

Maura  King  Scully  '88, 
GA&S  '93 

Assistant  Editor 

Jane  M.  Crowley  '92 


Boston  College  Alumni 

Association 

Alumni  House 

825  Centre  Street 

Newton,  MA  02158 

(617)552-4700 

(800) 669-8430 


CLASSES 


ence  Building,  now  completely  reno- 
vated as  Devlin  Hall.  •  Let's  hear 
from  more  of  you! 


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Thomas  W.  Crosby,  Esq. 
64  St.  Theresa  Ave. 
W.  Roxbury,  MA02132 
(61' 7)  327-7080 

It  is  with  deep  regret  that  I  report 
the  death  of  Rev.  Joseph  Barrett, 

SJ  on  Nov.  22.  Members  of  the  class 
who  attended  the  funeral 
concelebrated  by  Fr.  Donlan  were 
Mike  Curran,  Frank  Romeo  and 
Bernie  Trum.  •  Your  correspon- 
dent has  been  a  patient  at  St.  Eliza- 
beth Hospital  in  the  neurology  ICU 
after  having  suffered  a  severe  case  of 
Guillian-Barre  Syndrome.  I  have 
been  temporarily  crippled  and  be- 
cause of  respiratory  problems  asso- 
ciated with  it  have  been  unable  to 
speak  for  a  month.  As  of  this  writing, 
I  have  been  transferred  to  New  En- 
gland Rehabilitation  Hospital  in 
Woburn.  •  I  was  not  able  to  attend 
the  BC-Notre  Dame  or  BC-West 
Virginia  football  games,  but  I  fol- 
lowed them  closely.  As  you  may  re- 
call, the  August  column  predicted  a 
bowl  game  and  that  has  come  to 
pass.  •  Sorry,  but  because  of  the 
circumstances  these  brief  notes  will 
have  to  suffice.  •  Hope  you  all  en- 
joyed a  wonderful  Christmas  sea- 
son. •  Again,  it  is  my  constant  hope 
that  I  receive  news  from  all  class- 
mates to  make  this  column  more 
interesting  and  informative. 


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John  P.  Connor 
24  Crestwood  Cir. 
Norwood,  MA  02062 
(617)762-6377 

Recently  I  heard  from  Art  King, 
Tom  Connelly,  Peter  Quinn  and 
Fran  Curtin,  whose  son  Fran,  Jr.  is 
in  Saudi  Arabia.  Peter  Quinn  has 
been  fighting  a  cold  for  the  last  four 
weeks.  Tom  Connelly  reports  ev- 
erything is  fine  with  him  and  his 
family  and  the  same  is  true  for  Art 
King.  •  I  also  heard  from  the  wan- 
dering minstrel  Ed  Herhily,  who  is 
still  on  the  road.  He  just  returned 
from  Rio  de  Janiero,  where  he  was  a 
lecturer  aboard  the  cruise  ship 
Sagafjord.  He  will  return  to  Rio  in 
April  to  join  the  same  ship.  On  March 
20  the  Actors'  Fund  and  the  League 
for  the  Hard  of  Hearing  will  honor 


Ed  at  the  Rainbow  Room.  Later  in 
the  year  he  will  narrate  in  "The  Ty 
Cobb  Story,"  a  new  movie  which  will 
begin  shooting  next  month.  •  I  am 
sorry  to  report  that  Paul 
McSweeney  passed  away  on  Nov. 
29.  Paul  was  a  widower  for  many 
years.  He  leaves  behind  five  daugh- 
ters and  two  sons.  May  he  rest  in 
peace.  Paul's  funeral  was  from  the 
Sacred  Heart  Church  in  Newton  on 
Dec.  2.  •  Ifyou  have  anynews  please 
drop  me  a  line.  Thanks. 


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Richard  A.  McGivern 

334  Sea  St. 

Qu  incy,  MA  02 1 69 

(617)471-4478 

It  is  my  sad  task  to  report  the  death 
of  Dr.  Bob  Granfield  on  October 
17.  Bob  had  been  in  hospitals  since 
last  Christmas  and  passed  away  at 
home  in  the  midst  of  his  family.  He 
was  one  of  three  our  class  sent  to 
Harvard  Medical  School.  He  served 
in  England  during  World  War  II  as 
a  lieutenant  colonel.  Bob  was  board 
certified  in  radiology,  had  an  office 
in  Brookline  and  was  chief  of  radiol- 
ogy at  Carney  Hospital.  Bob  at- 
tended all  class  gatherings.  To  Irene 
and  his  four  children  go  our  prayers 
and  sympathy.  •  General  John  Dob- 
bin reports  the  death  of  his  wife  in 
June  1992.  John  has  retired  to 
Florida.  •  John  Patterson's  father 
recently  died  at  the  age  of  1 0 1 .  •  The 
Alumni  Office  has  sent  obituaries  of 
two  classmates  who  are  not  in  our 
year  book:  Edward  J.  Keegan  of 
Bucksport,  ME  and  the  Rev.  Tho- 
mas Dwyer  of  N.  Andover.  •  Our 
class  photo  has  received  consider- 
able attention.  For  further  identifi- 
cations, a  group  met  at  the 
Winchester  Country  Club  where 
Bill  Hogan  is  a  member  (and  re- 
cently shot  a  hole-in-one).  Also  in 
attendance  were  John  Brougham, 
Ray  Callen,  Father  Charlie 
Donovan,  Phil  McNiff,  Dick 
McGivern  and  Bill  Reagan.  One 
hundred  twenty  of  the  163  in  the 
photo  have  been  identified.  Bill 
Reagan  made  a  thorough  analysis 
showing  the  position,  number  and 
name  or  blank  space  for  each  face. 
Copies  of  the  analysis  are  available 
from  Dick  McGivern  at  the  above 
address.  •  A  note  of  thanks  for  the 
photo  has  been  received  fromjeanne 
and  Bill  Dunne  from  Harwich  where 
they  have  hung  the  photo  in  a  promi- 
nent place.  Their  address  was  a  sur- 
prise since  the  alumni  printout  had 
them  in  New  Jersey.  They  are  both 


doing  fine.  •  Joe  Brennan  reports 
that  his  son  Patrick  was  celebrating 
his  50th  year  out  of  BC  while  Joe  was 
at  our  60th.  Joe  is  now  retired  from 
both  Barnard  College  and  Newport 
War  College  and  is  thus  "like  a  cat 
with  two  tails."  He  and  Mary  are 
living  on  Long  Island,  NY  where 
Mary  gardens  and  Joe  stands  by  and 
comments  (and  not  even  a  quote 
from  Ovid  on  the  solace  of  bucolic 
retirement).  •  The  University  Li- 
brarian, Mary  Cronin,  reports  that 
with  our  contribution  of  $3,000  this 
year,  the  Class  of  1933  Book  Fund  is 
now  $32,125.  This  money  is  to  be 
used  at  the  discretion  of  the  library. 
It  is  the  product  of  our  $25  annual 
dues.  This  fund  was  the  brainchild 
of  the  late  Jim  Connelly.  •  John 
Desmond  has  his  law  office  in 
Osterville.  He  notes  that  he  and  his 
wife  Jean  now  have  three  grandchil- 
dren and  are  expecting  two  more 
this  year,  one  of  whom  will  be  born 
in  Tokyo  where  their  son  is  chief  of 
the  Time  magazine  news  bureau. 
John  and  Jean  plan  to  visit  Tokyo 
this  spring.  When  their  son  was  in 
Delhi,  India  they  visited  him  there 
and  continued  west  to  completely 
circle  the  globe.  •  Dick  McGivern 
reports  that  he  is  now  legally  blind. 
Dick  has  had  macula  degeneration 
for  many  years.  His  left  eye  hemor- 
rhaged last  Feb.  and  is  now  useless, 
and  in  Sept.  his  right  eye  measured 
20/200  or  more,  which  makes  him 
legally  blind. .No  driving,  fuzzy  tele- 
vision, reading  is  minimal  and  then 
only  with  special  micro  glasses. 


34 


Herbert  A.  Kenney 
804  Summer  St. 
Manchester,  MA  01  944 

Paul  F.  Boylan,  long  retired  as  asso- 
ciate  professor  of  physics  at 
Framingham  State  College,  died 
New  Year's  Eve  at  his  home  in 
Holmes  Beach,  Anna  Maria  Island, 
FL.  He  leaves  his  wife,  the  former 
Eleanor  Daly,  and  five  children:  Paul 
Jr.  of  Clermont,  FL;  Edward  of 
Hingham,  Thomas  of  Los  Angeles; 
Mrs.  Virginia  Hamilton  of  Andover; 
and  Mrs.  Eleanor  Basa  of  San  Diego. 
He  and  his  wife  retired  to  Florida  in 
1985,  but  remained  summer  visitors 
to  Rockport.  Paul  was  born  April 
27,1912  and  attended  English  High 
School  before  coming  to  BC.  Dur- 
ing World  War  II,  he  served  as  a 
lieutenant  commander  in  the  Navy 
stationed  at  Pearl  Harbor,  resuming 
his  teaching  career  after  the  war.  He 
was  the  author  of  two  textbooks, 


Elements  of  Physics  and  Elements  of 
Chemistry,  both  published  by  Allyn 
and  Bacon.  His  wife  Eleanor  is  the 
author  of  five  whodunits  featuring 
the  detective  Olara  Bamage.  The 
most  recent,  Pushing  Murder,  is  pub- 
lished by  Henry  Holt  and  Co.  Among 
the  other  titles  are  Murder  Observed, 
Working  Murder  and  Murder 
Machree,  acclaimed  as  one  of  the 
best  titles  of  its  year.  Paul  was  buried 
from  St.  Bernard's  Church  in 
Holmes  Beach.  •  Albert  C. 
Williamson  of  Lexington  became  a 
great-grandfather  during  the  past 
year,  setting  an  example  to  us  all! 
Sarah  Elizabeth  Williamson  is  be- 
lieved to  be,  unless  challenged,  the 
first  great-grandchild  of  any  mem- 
ber of  the  class.  She  is  the  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Michael  Williamson, 
Jr.;  her  grandfather  is  Al's  son 
Michael.  The  class  salutes  Al  as  the 
lone  class  participant  in  the  annual 
telethon.  He  is  a  long  time  member 
of  the  volunteer  alumni  admissions 
staff.  He  serves  on  the  board  of  trust- 
ees of  Laselle  College  with  his  wife 
Marilyn.  •  Flavio  Tosi,  our  ail- 
American  end,  before  the  day  of  wide 
receivers,  is  ailing  and  would  appre- 
ciate hearing  from  classmates  and 
teammates  at  34  Lyman  St.,  Beverly, 
MA,  01915.  •  Our  class  seems  to 
have  missed  the  Notre  Dame  game, 
but  among  those  on  hand  for  West 
Virginia  were  the  Rev.  Jack 
Saunders,  Monsignor  John  Dillon 
Day  and  Frank  Noonan. 


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Dani i\  G.  Holland,  Esq. 

164  Elgin  St. 

Newton  Centre,  MA  02 1  59 

There  seems  to  be  an  element  of 
sadness  as  one  month  folds  into  an- 
other, made  all  the  more  acute  when 
death  coincides.  And  so  it  is  wrench- 
ing to  record  the  following  deaths: 
James  E.  Connolly,  DDS,  our  class- 
mate, late  of  Salem  who  retired  from 
an  active  practice  of  dentistry  in  1 98  5 . 
Past  president  of  the  Mass.  Dental 
Society,  he  was  also  a  former  com- 
mission member  on  licenser,  Ameri- 
can Dental  Association  and  served 
as  a  member  of  the  ADA  House  of 
Delegates  from  1959-1964.  During 
World  War  II  he  served  in  the  U.S. 
Navy.  Our  condolences  go  out  to  his 
widow  Elinor;  his  daughters,  Carol 
and  Patricia;  his  sisters  Marie  and 
Sr.  Catherine  William  Connolly, 
SND  of  Japan;  his  brothers,  Richard 
and  Fr.  William  Connolly,  SJ  of  Ja- 
maica; and  his  five  grandchildren.  • 
We  also  record  the  death  of  Bettejo 


2  BOS  ION  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


•O 


"What's  up  with 
Smith  these  days?' 

\ 


"Oh,  he's  been  this  way 
ever  since  he  put  BC 
in  his  will. " 


\ 


DP  &y 


CPPl 


w 


Unlike  Mr.  Smith, 

you  don't  have  to  make  a  big  deal  of  remembering 

Boston  College  in  your  will  or  living  trust. 


Of  course  it  is  a  big  deal,  a  generous  ges- 
ture on  your  part — one  that  should  make 
you  proud.  And,  of  course,  we'd  like  to  be 
told  so  that  we  can  show  our  appreciation, 
so  that  we  can  welcome  you  into  the  Jo- 
seph Coolidge  Shaw  Society  and  see  you  at 
our  special  events  for  members.  The  Shaw 
Society  is  our  way  of  saying  thank  you. 


But  you  can  act  privately,  too.  Here's  the 
only  information  you  need  from  us.  It's 
one  sentence: 

/  hereby  bequeath  to  Boston  College,  a  Massa- 
chusetts Corporation,  having  its  corporate 

address  in  Chestnut  Hill,  the  sum  of$ 

(or percent  of  the  residue  of  my  estate). 


That's  all  that's  necessary. 
And  in  case  we  don't  have  a  chance  to  say  it  later, 

thank  you. 


Yes,  I  have  included  Boston  College  in  my  will  or  living  trust  and  would 
be  pleased  to  be  named  a  member  of  the  Joseph  Coolidge  Shaw  Society. 

I  would  like  information  about  including  Boston  College 
in  my  will  or  living  trust. 


NAME 


BC  AFFILIATION 


ADDRESS 


PHONE 


Mail  to: 

Debra  Ashton 

Office  of  Gift  and  Estate  Planning 

Boston  College 

More  Hall  220 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02167 

Telephone:  (617)  552-3409 
Fax:  (617)  552-2894 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES    3 


CLASSES 


Kitt  Murphy,  wife  of  Jack  Murphy 

of  Sacramento,  CA.  Bettejo  was  a 
native  of  Stockton,  CA.  Over.  50 
years  ago,  while  stationed  in  Cali- 
fornia before  going  overseas,  Jack 
persuaded  Bettejo  to  become  his 
bride.  After  the  war,  Jack  returned 
to  Sacramento  where  he  had  a  very 
successful  business  career,  eventu- 
ally becoming  principle  in  the  firm 
of  Pickett-Rothholz  &  Murphy, 
from  which  he  retired  as  chairman 
of  the  Board.  Bettejo  ,  a  person  of 
beauty,  charm  and  intelligence,  en- 
joyed her  trips  to  be  with  us  for  class 
reunions  and  other  social  functions. 
Some  classmates,  as  previously  re- 
ported, share  happy  memories  of 
celebrating  the  golden  wedding  an- 
niversary of  Bettejo  and  Jack  with 
family  and  friends.  Our  heartfelt 
sympathy  travels  to  California  to 
comfort  Jack,  his  son  David,  and 
daughters  Pat,  Kathy  and  Bettejo, 
Jr.  and  all  family  members.  It  should 
be  noted  at  a  time  of  family  sorrow, 
David  was  honored  at  the  Fifth  An- 
nual Philanthropy  Day  Award  lun- 
cheon at  the  Radisson  Hotel, 
Sacramento  when  1,000  leaders  of 
the  civic,  educational,  public  service 
and  business  communities  joined  to 
acclaim  David,  as  "Outstanding  Vol- 
unteer Fund  Raiser."  •  We  are 
cheered  by  the  continuing  recovery 
of  Walt  Sullivan  with  job-like  per- 
severance and  the  devoted  encour- 
agement of  wife,  Katie  and  family.  • 
Also  our  gallant  treasurer,  John 
Griffin,  accompanied  by  his  wife 
Rita,  journeyed  to  the  Heights  to 
view  the  W.  Virginia-BC  game  as 
guests  of  President  Monan.  Despite 
such  support  for  the  team,  we'll  say 
no  more.  Send  along  good  news. 


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Joseph  P.  Keating 
24  High  St. 
Natick,  MA  01 760 
(508)  653-4902 

Sorry  to  have  to  report  the  death  of 
two  classmates — Frank  McCarthy 
of  Dedham  and  Dr.  Jim  O'Leary  of 

Osterville.  Frank  died  in  October 
after  complications  following  heart 
surgery.  He  had  been  chairman  of 
the  dept.  of  physical  sciences  at  Bos- 
ton State  College  for  many  years 
before  his  retirement.  Bishop  Larry 
Riley  was  on  the  altar  for  the  funeral 
Mass.  Frank  Hibrunner,  Steve 
Hart,  George  Mahoney  and  Mary 
Shea  were  at  the  funeral.  Dr.  Jim 
died  in  his  winter  home  in  Vero 
Beach,  FL  in  Nov.  and  was  buried 
from  his  home  in  Osterville.  Jim  had 


been  head  of  surgery  for  many  years 
at  Framingham  Union  Hospital  and 
after  his  retirement  taught  anatomy 
and  physiology  at  Indian  Riser  Com- 
munity College  in  Florida.  Being 
away  in  Colorado  visiting  our  daugh- 
ter and  family  at  the  time  of  Jim's 
death,  I  was  not  able  to  learn  who  of 
bur  classmates  were  able  to  pay  their 
respects  to  the  family — I'm  sure  there 
were  many.  Please  remember  the 
wives  and  families  of  Frank  and  Jim 
in  your  prayers.  •  Writer  and  author 
Frank  Delear  had  a  letter  to  the 
sports  editor  of  the  Boston  Globe  in 
the  Sunday  edition  on  Nov.  28.  Frank 
was  critical,  as  well  he  might  be,  of  a 
Globe  reporter  calling  for  more  hits 
in  pro  hockey.  •  At  a  recent  telethon 
calling  night,  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
meeting  and  sitting  across  from 
Michael  Power,  the  son  of  classmate 
the  late  Paul  Power.  •  I  had  a  call 
from  Leo  Horgan  who  was  sur- 
prised and  saddened  as  so  many  were 
with  the  death  of  Bob  O'Hayre. 
Leo  and  Skip  are  pretty  well  recov- 
ered from  their  auto  accident  and  he 
is  now  back  playing  golf.  Leo  and 
George  Goodiven,  as  so  many  of  us 
did,  lived  and  died  through  the  BC- 
Notre  Dame  and  the  BC-West  Vir- 
ginia games.  •  I  had  a  nice  letter 
from  Bob  O'Hayre's  daughter,  Jane 
Hamilton,  expressing  the  apprecia- 
tion of  Bob's  wife  and  all  the  family 
for  the  class's  consideration  at  the 
time  of  Bob's  death.  Please  remem- 
ber them  and  Bob  in  your  prayers.  • 
Just  as  these  notes  were  to  be  sub- 
mitted, I  learned  of  the  death  of 
John  Terry  of  Somerville.  As  you 
remember,  John  was  on  the  baseball 
team  and  after  graduation  taught 
and  coached  for  many  years  at  Rindge 
Technical  High  School  in  Cam- 
bridge. Please  remember  John,  his 
wife  and  family  in  your  prayers.  • 
Note:  Save  Tuesday,  May  12. 
Brendon  Shea  has  that  date  lined 
up  for  our  next  class  luncheon.  See 
you  there! 


37 


Angelo  A.  DiMattia 
82  Perthshire  Rd. 
Brighton,  MA  02 135 
(617)782-3078 

It  has  been  brought  to  my  attention 
that  Fr.  Daniel  M.  Hannigan  was 

called  to  his  eternal  home  on  Feb. 
27,  1993  after  a  long  illness.  He  had 
remained  at  Regina  Cleri  for  many 
years.  He  is  survived  by  a  sister,  Mrs. 
Eleanor  Kearn,  of  Connecticut.  Fr. 
Dan  retired  as  a  priest  of  the  Arch- 
diocese of  Boston  after  serving  as  a 


priest  and  pastor.  He  was  quite  a 
golfer,  but  developed  medical  prob- 
lems at  an  early  age  and  was  con- 
fined to  Regina  Cleri  for  many  years. 
He  is  remembered  as  a  popular  cu- 
rate at  St.  Columbkille  Church  in 
Brighton.  •  I  was  saddened  to  hear 
of  the  many  classmates  that  have 
been  ill  recently  and  hope  that  they 
will  have  a  speedy  recovery.  •  Dick 
Trum  of  Sherborn  is  most  anxious 
to  get  to  Florida  as  soon  as  possible 
to  convalesce  from  his  recent  opera- 
tion, but  if  I  know  him  he  will  seek 
out  Joe  Walsh  for  a  game  of  golf.  • 
All  is  well  with  Arthur  Red  Durkin. 
He  called  me  to  inform  me  that  he 
and  his  wife  Kay  were  going  to  at- 
tend the  BC  Pops  at  the  Heights 
Concert  in  Sept.  They  both  have 
had  many  serious  medical  problems 
the  past  five  years,  but  now  thank 
God  all  is  well.  •  Albert  Folkard, 
academic  counselor  in  Learning 
Resources  for  Student  Athletes,  was 
an  invited  guest  at  the  opening  of  the 
Museum  of  Art  at  the  Heights  on 
Oct.  1  with  an  exhibition  of  Irish 
artwork  from  the  National  Gallery 
of  Ireland.  He  appears  with  his 
daughter  Ellen  on  opening  night  in 
a  photograph  published  by  the  BC 
Chronicle  dated  Oct.  7,  1993.  The 
Chronicle  is  mailed  to  all  the  class 
correspondents.  I  have  never  seen  so 
many  ribbons  as  on  the  suit  jacket 
that  Al  wore,  but  he  certainly  de- 
serves them  for  the  helpful  contri- 
butions he  has  made  to  the 
University.  '•  I  am  sorry  to  report 
that  George  Curtin  is  having  some 
medical  problems.  We  wish  him  a 
speedy  recovery.  •  Let  us  remember 
our  classmates  that  need  our  prayers 
as  they  suffer  from  medical  prob- 
lems, namely  Bill  Costello,  Msgr. 
John  Kielty,  John  Pike,  Msgr.  Bob 
Sennott  and  Eric  Stenholm.  I  am 
sure  there  are  other  classmates  who 
have  not  been  brought  to  my  atten- 
tion. Please  drop  me  a  note  at  my 
home  address  if  there  are  names  that 
should  be  mentioned  in  future  class 
notes.  •  We  are  happy  for  Bill 
Sullivan  on  his  recent  vindication 
suit  against  the  National  Football 
League.  •  This  winter,  due  to  the 
many  doctors'  appointments  be- 
tween Julia  and  myself,  we  are  plan- 
ning to  stay  home  and  miss  Florida 
for  the  first  time  in  14  years.  •  Hope 
all  is  well  with  you.  BC-ing  you. 


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Thomas  F.  True,  Jr. 

37  Pomfret  St. 

W.  Roxbury,  MA02132 

(617)327-7281 

The  sympathy  of  the  class  is  offered 
to  John  Finnerty  whose  brother 
Gerard  passed  away  recently.  •  Our 
sympathy  also  to  the  families  of 
Walter  Driscoll,  AI  Keleher,  and 
Ralph  Luise  who  died  since  our  last 
notes.  We  learned  of  Al's  passing 
from  his  local  paper,  the  Nashua 
Sunday  Telegraph.  The  Boston  Herald 
carried  a  lengthy  news  story  about 
Ralph — an  attorney  and  author  who 
was  active  in  civic  affairs,  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  school  committee  as  well 
as  of  many  other  organizations.  • 
While  making  calls  on  the  telethon, 
I  raised  about  $4,000  from  20  class- 
mates. Pledges  ranged  from  $10  to 
$500.  •  Frank  Hunt's  current  inter- 
ests plus  golf  are  "maintaining  his 
homes  in  Dedham,  Falmouth  and 
Naples,  FL."  •  On  Saturday,  Oct. 
18,  1 993  we  had  our  annual  anniver- 
sary Mass  and  luncheon  at  the  chapel 
on  BC's  Newton  Campus.  Mass  was 
concelebrated  by  Fr.  John 
McLaughlin  and  Fr.  Ed  King. 
Those  attending  were  Carolyn  and 
Bill  Bergin,  Ruth  and  John  Castelli, 
Bill  Finan,  Agnes  and  John  Guthrie, 
Peg  and  Joe  Home,  Barbara  and 
Frank  Hunt,  Charlie  Kimball,  Rev. 
Edward  King,  Peter  Kirslis,  Dor- 
othy and  Byron  Leary,  John 
Mannix,  Rev.  John  McLaughlin, 
Phyllis  and  Paul  Mulkern,  Tom 
O'Connor,  Helen  and  Charlie 
O'Hara,  Ellen  and  Herb  Scannel, 
Mrs.  Paul  Schultz  (Dorothy),  and 
Ruth  and  Tom  True.  Junie  King 
and  Jim  McCarthy  called  with  re- 
grets. Dick  Canavan  intended  to 
come  but  was  among  the  missing. 
Bill  Finan  had  a  BC  wrist  watch  to  be 
presented  to  Dick.  Mass  was  at  9 
a.m.  and  Charlie  O'Hara  had  to  get 
up  at  about  5  a.m.  to  come  up  from 
the  Cape.  We'll  make  it  a  little  later 
next  year,  Charlie!  The  golfers  plan 
another  match  next  spring.  Fr. 
McLaughlin  distributed  excellent 
pictures  of  each  table  which  he  had 
taken  at  the  previous  luncheon.  We 
also  learned  that  Paul  Mulkern  is 
related  to  Fr.  Ed  King.  •  The  cover 
of  the  BC  High  Annual  Report  pic- 
tured press  clippings  of  its  past  news 
stories,  one  of  which  is  "BC  High 
shades  English  14- 13.  "That  was  due 
to  forward  passes  from  Joe  Home  to 
our  late  classmate  John  Morris.  • 
Bill  Finan's  picture  was  in  the  Alumni 
Bulletin  showing  him  assisting  the 
drive  for  food  for  the  poor.  •  Paul 


4  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


Kelly  tells  us  that  Patty,  the  last  of 
his  and  his  wife's  children,  was  mar- 
ried in  September.  She  has  two 
master's  degrees  from  BC's  Gradu- 
ate School  of  Education  and  is  the 
director  of  the  special  ed  programs 
at  the  Gate  of  Heaven  school  in 
South  Boston.  (Have  her  say  "hello" 
from  the  Trues  to  Fr.  Gil  Phinn,  the 
pastor  there  and  good  friend  of  ours). 


39 


William  E.  McCarthy 

39  Fairway  Dr. 

W.  Newton,  MA  02 1 65 

(617)332-5196 

In  November  we  had  a  great  cocktail 
party  at  Alumni  House  on  the  New- 
ton campus.  Those  attending  were 
Flo  and  Paul  Keane,  Marie  and 
Peter  Kerr,  Mary  and  John 
Donovan,  Natalie  and  Charlie 
Murphy,  Gina  and  Bill  McCarthy, 
Nancy  Norberg,  Ann  Peyton,  Ann 
and  Al  Branca,  Mary  and  Arthur 
Sullivan,  Mary  and  Jim  McGrath, 
Beryl  and  Herb  Chernack,  Winnie 
and  Bill  Donovan,  Kay  and  Paul 
Needham  and  Ed  Quinn.  •  Our 
classmate  and  friend  Dr.  Alfred 
Branca  was  recently  inducted  into 
the  Boston  College  Hall  of  Fame  by 
the  BC  Varsity  Club  at  its  annual 
Hall  of  Fame  dinner  at  Conte  Fo- 
rum. Al  has  been  the  director  of  Blue 
Chips  since  its  inception  and  has 
worked  tirelessly  for  the  success  of 
the  program.  He  has  produced  mil- 
lions of  dollars  in  support  of  Boston 
College  athletic  activities  for  all 
sports  at  BC.  The  following  class- 
mates attended  the  Hall  of  Fame 
dinner:  Charlie  Murphy,  Ralph 
Dacey,  Pete  Kerr,  Bill  McCarthy, 
Jim  McGrath,  Arthur  Sullivan, 
Nancy  Norberg,  Paul  Needham,  Al 
Fiore,  Ed  Quinn  and  Frank 
Sennott.  •  It  was  nice  to  hear  that 
Paul  Needham  was  recently  elected 
to  the  Boston  English  H.S.  athletic 
Hall  of  Fame.  •  Received  Christmas 
greetings  from  Ray  Underwood 
who  says  "aloha"  to  all. 


40 


Daniel  J.  Griffin 
170  Great  Pond  Rd. 
N.  Andover,  MA01845 

A  meeting  of  the  class  officers  was 
held  in  the  office  of  President  Bill 
Joy  in  October  to  decide  on  an 
agenda  for  the  '93  -'94  academic  year. 
Also  present  were  vice  president 


Meeting  on  the  Heights:  Class  of  '40  officers  recently  gathered  for  a  meeting;  from  left,  vice  president  Thomas 
Duffey,  spiritual  advisor  Rev.  Paul  Nash,  S.J.,  president  William  Joy,  treasurer  John  Foristall  and  secretary 
Daniel  Griffin. 


Tom  Duffey,  treasurer  John 
Foristall,  secretary  Dan  Griffin  and 
spiritual  adviser  Rev.  Paul  Nash, 
S.J.  It  was  decided  to  hold  a  Christ- 
mas party  on  December  5,  1993, 
with  an  1 1  a.m.  Mass  in  the  Holy 
Trinity  Chapel  followed  by  a  lun- 
cheon in  Alumni  House.  Mary 
O'Brien  was  designated  chair  for  the 
event,  assisted  by  Jim  Supple  and 
his  wife  Betty,  Kay  Wright,  Helen 
Drinan,  Mary  Duffey,  Jack  O'Hara, 
Kay  Gillligan,  Barbara  Goodman, 
and  the  aforementioned  class  offic- 
ers. •  Catherine  and  John  Foristall 
are  football  season  ticket  holders, 
and  while  at  the  VA  Tech  game  met 
Mary  and  Tom  Duffey,  who  were 
tailgating.  The  Duffeys  were  happy 
to  serve  the  Foristalls  a  measure  of 
homemade  chowder  which  hit  the 
spot  on  a  cool  day.  John  tells  me  that 
Tom  makes  the  best  chowder  this 
side  of  Nova  Scotia.  •  The  Annual 
Laetare  Sunday  Communion  Break- 
fast will  again  be  presented  on  March 
13,  1994,  by  the  Alumni  Associa- 
tion, and  again  your  correspondent 
is  the  source  of  tickets  for  this  affair. 
The  class  will  again  hold  its  annual 
Mass  of  Petition  on  Ascension 
Thursday,  May  12,  1994,  with  Mass 
in  the  Holy  Trinity  Chapel  and  lun- 
cheon in  Barat  House  nearby.  •  The 
Pilot  for  November  5, 1993, reported 
that  Monsignor  William  Granville 
received  an  honorary  doctorate  on 
October  27,  1993,  from  St.  John's 
Seminary  College,  on  the  occasion 
of  the  college's  25th  anniversary  and 
the  50th  anniversary  of  the  ordina- 
tion of  Monsignor  Granville.  This  is 
the  first  such  degree  given  by  the 
college  and  was  awarded  to  Monsi- 
gnor Granville  in  recognition  of  his 
2  5  years  of  service  to  the  seminary  as 
well  as  parish  work  in  the  Boston 
archdiocese.  •  This  semester  Bob 
Power  is  again  giving  a  course  at  the 
Institute  for  Learning  in  Retirement. 
The  course,  "Viva  Verdi,"  familiar- 
izes neophytes  with  the  operas  of 


Giuseppe  Verdi,  and  will  run  for  the 
winter-spring  semester.  •  Your  of- 
ficers are  open  to  suggestion  on  the 
celebration  of  our  55th  Anniversary 
next  year.  If  you  have  any  thoughts 
in  this  regard,  drop  us  a  fine. 


41 


Richard  B.  Daley 
160  Old  Billerica  Rd. 
Bedford,  MA  01 730 
(617)275-7651 

Please  remember  in  your  prayers 
classmates  Joe  Vaughn,  Francis 
O'Brien  and  Jim  Rodenbush.  They 
passed  away  since  the  class  notes 
were  published.  •  Turning  to  a  hap- 
pier occasion:  25  classmates  attended 
a  reception  for  Bishop  Joseph 
Maguire  at  the  Sheraton  Hotel  in 
Springfield  on  November  30th.  Joe 
retired  and  has  devoted  a  great  deal 
of  time  to  the  erecting  of  an  athletic 
and  gymnastic  facility  at  the  College 
of  the  Lady  of  the  Elms  in  that  area. 
It  was  a  most  enjoyable  evening  with 
a  total  attendance  of  750  people. 
The  25  classmates  were  treated  to  a 
private  room  for  a  preprandial  hour 
before  joining  the  admirere  of  Bishop 
Joe  for  a  wonderful  meal  and  fine 
comments  from  the  head  table.  The 
head  table  represented  clergy  from 
the  Diocese  and  the  College  of  the 
Lady  of  the  Elms;  also,  there  were 
officials  from  the  City  of  Springfield 
and  representatives  from  the  State 
of  Massachusetts.  The  class  mem- 
bers attending  were:  John  Colahan, 
Dick  Daley,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Harry 
Puchino,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frank 
Galvani,  Warren  Heffernan,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Frank  Hegarty,  Bill 
Hannon,  Jim  Kiely,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bud  Long,  Bill  Maguire,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Joe  McCafferty,  Bob  Sliney, 
Nick  Sottile  and  his  sister  Mary, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Len  McDermot,  Jack 
Calahan,  Fran  Bellew,  Fr.  John 


Keohane  and  Charlie  O'Rourke. 
Jack  Kehoe  could  not  attend  but 
made  contribution  to  the  cause. 


42 


Ernest  J.  Handy 

84  Walpole  St.  Unit  4-M 

Canton,  MA  02021 

(617)821-4576 

Paul  Maguire  must  be  looking  down 
with  pride  at  his  son  Tom,  a  curate  at 
St.  John  the  Evangelist  Parish,  my 
parish  in  Canton.  Fr.  Tom  is  held  in 
high  respect  and  admiration  by  the 
parishioners  and  the  Pastor.  •  My 
apologies  to  Betty  and  Tom 
Hinchey,  Mary  and  Bob  Muse, 
Roberta  and  John  McGillicudy, 
Peggy  and  Anby  Claus,  and  Helen 
and  Jim  Stanton  for  not  including 
them  among  those  who  attended  the 
Pops  on  the  Heights  Concert.  • 
Helen  Stanton  recently  underwent 
reconstructive  knee  surgery.  She  and 
Jim  will  soon  rejoin  the  husband  and 
wife  golf  circuit.  •  The  Class  com- 
mends Mass.  Senate  President  Wil- 
liam Bulger  on  his  inspiring  and 
courageous  speech  following  the  Red 
Mass  sponsored  by  the  Catholic 
Lawyers  Guild  on  September  18.  If 
you  have  neither  heard  nor  read  the 
speech,  and  would  like  a  copy,  please 
contact  me.  •  Jim  Boudreau's  sis- 
ter-in-law Mary,  Wally's  widow, 
reports  that  Jim  is  in  good  health 
and  still  active  in  his  law  practice. 
She  received  her  Golden  Eagle  pin 
last  May  with  the  Class  of  1943. 
Congratulations  and  welcome.  •  The 
Boston  College  Museum  of  Art  had 
its  Grand  Opening  on  October  1, 
1993  with  an  exhibition  of  Irish 
Watercolors  and  Drawings  from  the 
National  Gallery  of  Ireland.  The 
opening  ceremony  and  exhibition 
were  most  impressive.  The  Museum, 
housed  in  what  we  recall  as  the  Sci- 
ence Building,  is  inspiring.  The 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALl'.MNOTES   5 


CLASSES 


building  has  been  beautifully  reno- 
vated. Present  were  Virginia  and 
Terry  Geoghegan,  Elizabeth  and 
Tom  Hinchey,  Eileen  and  Brian 
Sullivan,  Agnes  and  Frank  Colpoys, 
Eleanor  Maguire   and  Margaret 
Dever  plus  yours  truly  and  wife 
Helen.  On  October  5,  Jim  Hawco, 
Dorothea  and  Bill  Cadigan,  and 
Mary  and  Bob  Muse  attended  a 
special  showing,  lecture  and  slide 
show  at  the  Museum.  •  Jim  Hawco 
has  been  travelling  throughout  the 
U.S.  In  his  travels  he  looks  up  and 
visits  various  classmates.  This  past 
year  saw  visits  to  John  McMahon, 
Bernie  Farragher,  Joe  Nolan,  Bob 
Drinan  and  yours  truly.  •  On  July 
24,  Ruth  and  Larry  Brennan  cel- 
ebrated their  Golden  Wedding  An- 
niversary.  Other    1993    Golden 
Wedding  Anniversary  Celebrants 
included  Mary  and  John  Burke, 
Jennie  and  Frank   D'Ambrosio, 
Nancy  and  Bill  Freni,  Alice  and 
Howard  Murray,  and  Ruth  and 
Fred   Sliney.  Congratulations  to 
each.  •  Belated  congratulations  to 
Clara  and  Joe  Marcantonio  who 
celebrated  their  Golden  Wedding 
Anniversary  with  a  gala  affair  on 
April  25,  1992.  The  invocation  was 
given  by  Frank  D'Ambrosio  who 
later  received  a  standing  ovation  for 
his  comic  monologue.  •  Please  re- 
member Ted  Williams  in  your 
prayers.  Ted  died  on  October  30. 
Condolences  to  his  wife  Elizabeth, 
their  five  children,  nine  grandchil- 
dren and  four  great-grandchildren. 
•  Bob  Jauron  is  now  in  semi-retire- 
ment. Bob's  enviable  football  coach- 
ing record,  138-57-4,  included  nine 
years  of  high  school  and  twelve  years 
of  college.  He  and  his  wife  Kay  had 
six  children.  They  have  five  grand- 
children of  whom  he  boasts,  "All  are 
girls  and  every  one  is  a  beauty."  • 
Thanks  to  Marie  and  Frank  Dever, 
Julie  and  Jim  Cahalane  and  Marie 
Driscoll,  our  1993  tailgating  was 
successful.    •   We  salute   Coach 
Coughlin  and  the  1993  Boston  Col- 
lege Football  Team.  •  Mea  maxima 
culpa.  Rosemary  Martin  was  referred 
to  as  "Rose  Marie"  in  the  Fall  Issue. 


43 


Thomas  O'C.  Murray 

14  Churchill  Rd. 

W.  Roxbury,  MA  02 132 

(617)323-3737 

Once  again  we  must  begin  with  some 
sad  news.  •  Condolences  of  the  class 
are  extended  to  Anna  and  the  family 
of  Carl  Lucas  who  died  in  early 
September.  Carl  was  a  member  of 


the  Orange  Bowl  squad  and  a  long- 
time salesman  for  Atlantic  Richfield 
Co.  •  Further  condolences  are  ex- 
pressed to  Geraldine  and  the  family 
of  John  Flynn,  who  died  suddenly 
on  Nov.  16.  John  and  Gerry  had  just 
attended  our  Fall  Festival.  A  long- 
time resident  of  Norwood,  John  was 
a  past  president  of  the  St.  Catherine's 
Holy  Name  Society  and  a  member 
of  the  Bishop  Minihan  Assembly  K. 
of  C.  •  Condolences  also  to  Priscilla 
and  the  family  of  Richard  Dick 
Carey,  who  died  after  a  short  illness 
in  Fitchburg.  Dick,  a  former  Air 
Force  veteran  with  the  Air  Medal 
and  Three  Oak  Leaf  clusters,  was 
associated   with   the  Lunenburg 
School  system  for  many  years,  retir- 
ing as  principal  of  the  high  school 
after  19  years  in  that  position.  •  Our 
final  condolences  to  Lou  Alfano  on 
the  sudden  death  of  his  brother  Blaise 
in  mid-November.  •  Now  for  some 
notes-here  &  there.  •  Classmates 
are  urged  to  read  an  item  in  the  BCM 
Fall  '93  issue  called  "Ring  Cycle," 
the  lost  and  found  story  of  Tom 
Meagher's  class  ring.  •  Thanks  again 
to  Jim  Harvey  for  a  great  golf  day  at 
Wayland  C.C.  Prizes  went  to  John 
Stewart,    nearest   the   pin;  Joe 
Finnegan,  long  drive;  Jim  Harvey, 
low  gross;  Fr.  Bill  Commane,  2nd 
low;  Jeanne  Stewart,  low  net;  Jack 
Hayes,  2nd  low.  •  Following  the 
golf  a  fine  barbecue  was  held  with 
additional  attendance:  Jo  and  John 
Larner,   Marie  Murray,   Ernie 
Santosuosso,  Tom  Kennedy,  Tom 
Antico,  Phyllis  and  Walter  Greaney, 
Eunice  Power,  Jean  Harvey,  Mary 
Hayes,  Pat  Bray,  Janet  Santosuosso 
and  Sam  Church.  •  Now  for  some 
congratulations..*  To  John  Logue 
and  his  new  bride  Rita,  who  were 
married  on  Oct.  9  in  Sturgis,  MI. 
John  and  Rita  were  at  our  Fall  Festi- 
val in  the  midst  of  some  wondering 
why  they  were  not  out  at  Notre 
Dame,  but  they  did  make  it  to  BC  for 
the  big  game  the  next  week.  •  Con- 
gratulations also  to  Rocco  Canale 
on  his  election  to  the  Hall  of  Fame  at 
BC.  Despite  his  physical  problems, 
he  was  able  to  come  over  from 
Watertown  for  the  dinner  and  the 
game  ceremonies.  Many  thanks  to 
his  wife  Honey  for  her  assistance 
and  to  Tom  Kennedy,  who  made 
many  of  the  arrangements.  At  the 
'43  tables  were  seen  Eleanor  and 
Sam  Church,  Pat  and  Bill  Shea,  Ernie 
Santosuosso,  Joe   Dinneen,  Tom 
Antico,  Ed  Lambert,  Tom  Kennedy, 
Mary  Boudreau,  Madeline  and  Larry 
Babine,  Bob  Butler,  Marie  and  Tom 
Murray.  •  Further  congrats  to  Rocco 
and  Honey  on  their  50th  wedding 
anniversary,  celebrated  on  Dec.  7.  • 
50th  anniversary  best  wishes  also  to 


Lorraine  and  Jim  Connolly,  who 
celebrated  on  Nov.  6.  •  The  '43  Fall 
Festival,  held  in  Alumni  House  on 
Nov.  12,  was  once  again  a  great  party 
with  excellent  attendance:  a  good 
time  had  by  all.  Special  thanks  to  Ed 
Moloney  and  John  Corbett,  who 
could  not  attend,  but  who  lent  extra 
support  for  the  event.  Terrie  and 
John  Rafferty  and  Pat  and  Bob 
Crowley  report  some  minor  physi- 
cal problems  prevented  their  atten- 
dance, but  they  look  forward  to  a 
spring  event.  •  Watch  your  mail; 
we'll  look  forward  to  seeing  you  at 
Laetare  Sunday  and  perhaps  at  Ed 
O'Connor's  theater  party.  •  Please 
keep  in  touch! 


44 


Reunion 


M  A  Y  20     23   •   I    9  9  4 


James  F.  McSorley,  Jr. 
1204  Washington  St. 
N.  Abington,  MA  02351 
(617)  878-3008 

By  the  time  you  read  this,  we  will  be 
well  into  our  anniversary  year.  When 
these  notes  were  written  in  early 
December,   some   pleasant  get- 
togethers  had  already  taken  place. 
The  post-Temple  reception  at  the 
science  building  was  a  success  as  was 
the  outstanding  December  3  Christ- 
mas Chorale  of  approximately  150 
voices.  The  applause  for  the  presen- 
tation of  the  "Hallelujah  Chorus"  from 
The  Messiah  persuaded  the  new  di- 
rector, John  R.  Finney,  to  give  an 
encore.  Among  those  attending  were 
Msgr.  Joe  Alves,  Margaret  and  Joe 
Bane,   Rita  and  Ted  Bernhardt, 
Audrey  and  Henry  Brash,  Rita  and 
Bill   Corkery,   Frances  and  Bill 
Daley,  Pat  and  Joe  Delaney,  Claire 
and  Tom  Donelan,  Megs  and  Jim 
Dowd,  Ed  Duffy,  Ellen  and  Dan 
Durant,  Ann  and  Walt  Fitzgerald, 
Lois  and  Paul  Fleming,  Lorraine 
and  Chris  Flynn,  Msgr.  William 
Glynn,  Margaret  and  Bob  Foley, 
John  Herlihy,  Gerry  Kirby,  Doc- 
tors Mitsuko  and  Gene  Laforet, 
Charlotte  and  Jim  McSorley,  Betty 
and  Phil  O'Connell,  Ruth  and  Tom 
Soles,  Ruth  and  Tino  Spatola,  and 
Barbara  and  Leo  Wilson.  From  our 
conversations,  it  would  seem  that 
half  of  our  class  will  be  in  Florida 
this  winter,  and  especially  in  the 
Naples  area.  •  Walt  Fitzgerald  plans 
to  attend  a  hockey  game  and  Tom 
Donelan   was   making  plans  for 
Laetare  Sunday.  Specifics  about  a 
theatre  night  and  the  campus  week- 
end beginning  Thursday,  May  19 
will  come  later.  However,  the  golf 
tournament  will  take  place  at  9  a.m. 
on  that  Thursday,  with  the  housing 


registration  from  1  to  5  p.m.  and 
dinner  at  6  p.m.  •  Dr.  Don  White 
and  his  co-editors  thank  everyone 
for  sending  their  biographical  infor- 
mation. Under  present  plans,  the 
yearbook  should  be  ready  for  our 
May  weekend  at  the  Heights.  We 
plan  to  mail  the  books  to  those  not 
able  to  attend  and  who  have  sent  the 
biographical  information.  •  Dr.  Don 
White,  Dean  of  the  Graduate  School 
of  Arts  and  Sciences,  has  decided  to 
retire  in  June  after  a  distinguished 
career  as  professor,  labor  mediator, 
arbitrator  and  publisher  of  articles 
in  the  field  of  economics  and  labor. 
As  you  may  remember,  Don  gradu- 
ated magna  cum  laude  from  BC,  and 
then  went  on  to  earn  his  master's  in 
1 946  and  PhD  from  Harvard  in  1 949. 
He  has  been  professor  of  economics 
at  BC,  associate  dean  of  the  BC 
School  of  Management,  and  Dean 
of  the  Graduate  School  of  Arts  and 
Sciences  since  1 97 1 .  He  has  received 
many  awards,  chaired  and  was  presi- 
dent of  many  national  academic  com- 
mittees and  boards.  He  was  awarded 
the  BC  Alumni  Award  of  Excellence 
in  Education  in  1989.  He  has  been 
chairman  of  the  Milton  Personnel 
Board  from  1963  to  1969  and  town 
meetingmemberfrom  1973  to  1979. 
Don  and  his  wife  Helene  live  in 
Milton.  They  have  three  children,  a 
boy  and  two  girls,  and  two  grand- 
children. •  Msgr.  William  Glynn, 
Pastor  of  Holy  Family  Church, 
Duxbury,  was  presented  the  Cardi- 
nal Cushing  Award  on  October  3, 
1993  by  the  St.  James  Society  for  his 
help  over  the  years  to  the  Society  in 
its  work  in  Latin  America.  •  Rev. 
Warren  Regan  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Diocese  had  a  stroke  in  1987 
which  left  him  quite  handicapped 
physically.  He  is  currently  in  St. 
Ann's  Nursing  Home  in  Dover,  NH. 
He  expresses  his  regrets  at  not  being 
able  to  attend  our  reunion,  but  as- 
sures us  he  will  be  there  in  spirit.  • 
Ted  Bernhardt  and  Leo  Wilson  are 
coordinating  Alumni  Weekend  for 
the  widows  of  our  deceased  class- 
mates who  wish  to  attend.  If  some- 
one is  interested  in  coming  and  has 
not  as  yet  been  contacted,  please 
notify  Leo   at   5   Malvern   Rd., 
Norwood,  MA,  02062.  His  tele- 
phone number  is  (617)  769-1082.  • 
The  sympathy  of  the  class  is  ex- 
tended to  the  family  of  Dr.  William 
E.  Christie  who  died  on  September 
24, 1992  in  Kentucky.  Bill  was  in  the 
Marines  in  World  War  II  and  among 
other  areas  served  in  Okinawa.  He 
also  served  in  Korea  with  the  1st 
Marine   Division.  Following  dis- 
charge in  1953,  he  worked  for  the 
Veterans'  Administration  Hospitals 
in  Pennsylvania,  W.  Virginia,  and 


6  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


Kentucky  as  a  radiology  specialist. 
He  retired  in  1 984  after  a  stroke.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife  Cheryleen 
and  his  brother  Robert  '52.  •  Our 
sympathy  is  also  extended  to  the 
family  of  Gerard  W.  Finnerty,  who 
died  November  2,  1993.  Gerry 
served  in  the  Navy  in  World  War  II 
and  was  awarded  a  Bronze  Star.  He 
started  the  popular  restaurant,  The 
Country  Squire,  a  400  seat  restau- 
rant in  Wayland  and  supervised  its 
operation  until  his  health  became  a 
problem.  His  son  Gerry  is  now  car- 
rying on.  He  was  the  first  president 
of  the  Wayland  Business  Associa- 
tion. He  enjoyed  golf  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Weston  Golf  Club  and  the 
Quail  Ridge  Country  Club  in 
Boynton  Beach,  FL  where  he  spent 
his  winters.  Gerry  leaves  his  wife 
Jeanne,  a  daughter  Louise  Thomp- 
son, a  son  Gerardjr.,  three  brothers, 
and  six  grandchildren.  •  We  are  sad 
to  report  that  Chris  Flynn,  our  class 
treasurer,  passed  away  on  Dec.  30. 
We  learned  of  this  unfortunate  event 
at  press  time;  we  will  have  more  to 
say  in  the  next  issue.  Our  thoughts 
and  prayers  go  out  to  Chris' s  family 
and  friends. 


45 


Louis  V.  Sorgi 
5  Augusta  Rd. 
Milton,  MA  02 186 
(617)698-0623 

The  sympathy  of  the  class  is  ex- 
tended to  the  family  of  Frank  Tracy 
who  passed  away  on  Oct.  1 9.  He  was 
beloved  husband  of  Barbara  A.  Scully 
Tracy,  brother  ofMary  Clarke,  Hon. 
Philip  A.  Tracy,  the  late  Sr.  Mary 
Myles,  C.S.T.  andjerome  E.  Tracy. 
Frank  was  an  active  member  of  the 
BC  '45  Golf  Legends  and  a  fellow 
member  of  Wollaston  Golf  Club.  • 
Heard  from  Jake  Santamaria  who 
was  writing  from  Buzzards  Bay.  He 
and  his  wife  Ida  winter  in  Clearwater, 
FL  and  just  celebrated  the  birth  of 
their  7th  grandchild.  •  I  also  heard 
from  Archie  LaFerriere  who  re- 
tired from  BC  where  he  was  a  pro- 
fessor of  math.  •  The  BC-Tulane 
football  game  and  dinner  event  was 
a  great  success  for  our  team  and  our 
class.  The  food,  as  usual,  was  plenti- 
ful and  delicious.  Attending  the  af- 
fair were  the  Herns,  Campbells, 
Kineavys  (celebrating  their  1  st  wed- 
ding  anniversary),  Currys, 
Galantes,  Burnses,  Ryders, 
Careys,  Hogans,  Sorgis,  Bill 
Carnyn  and  Frank  Vetere.  Peg 
Curry  looked  very  good  having  re- 
covered from  her  winter  surgery.  I 


am  also  pleased  to  report  that  Mary 
Lou  McCarthy  (Jack  McCarthy's 
wife)  is  doing  fine  after  her  recent 
surgery.  •  By  the  time  you  read  these 
notes  we  will  have  had  a  second  event, 
a  hockey  game  against  BU.  I  will  tell 
you  about  this  in  our  spring  notes.  • 
My  thanks  to  all  of  you  who  re- 
sponded to  my  request  for  dues.  John 
Campbell  reports  that  to  date,  52 
classmates  have  sent  in  their  dues. 
This  is  a  fine  increase  but  still  repre- 
sents a  very  small  percentage  of  our 
class  of  200.  You  still  have  plenty  of 
time  to  send  in  your  dues  if  you 
haven't  already  done  so.  •  We  had 
our  second  50th  reunion  meeting  on 
Dec.  2  at  Alumni  House.  John 
Campbell  told  us  about  some  unique 
ways  to  give  to  BC.  You  will  hear 
more  about  these  in  our  anniversary 
year.  Joe  Figurito  had  a  travel  agent 
talk  to  us  regarding  our  trip  to  Ber- 
muda in  the  fall  of '94.  We  discussed 
different  hotels  but  no  decision  was 
made.  Everything  will  be  finalized  at 
our  Feb.  3  meeting.  Paul  Paget  and 
Bill  Curry  will  review  our  mailing 
list  and  make  additions  and  correc- 
tions. If  you're  in  our  class  and  have 
not  been  receiving  our  mailings, 
chances  are  you  are  not  on  our  list  or 
have  changed  your  address  and  did 
not  notify  the  office.  If  this  applies  to 
any  of  you  reading  these  notes,  please 
notify  the  Alumni  Association  or  me. 
This  also  applies  to  the  wives  of  our 
deceased  classmates.  We  would  like 
you  to  be  active  members  of  our 
class,  so  please  send  me  or  Susan 
Thurmond  at  the  Alumni  Office  your 
current  address  and  phone  number. 
Joe  Harrington  was  at  this  meeting 
and  agreed  to  be  in  charge  of  our 
class  sweater,  which  you  will  be  able 
to  purchase  during  our  anniversary 
year.  John  Hogan  continues  to  work 
on  our  yearbook  and  will  be  sending 
out  a  mailing  in  Feb.  '94.  Please  be 
sure  to  answer  the  questionnaire  re- 
garding activities  for  our  50th  year. 
•  I  would  be  remiss  if  I  didn't  men- 
tion our  golf  activities  since  the  last 
issue.  We  had  a  great  round  of  golf 
at  Manchester  Country  Club,  hosted 
by  Bill  Hamrock,  followed  by  two 
wonderful  days  of  golf,  food  and 
merriment  at  Pleasant  Valley  hosted 
by  Jim  Keenan.  We  then  played  at 
Fall  River  Country  Club  facing  gale- 
force  winds  blowingoff  the  Taunton 
River,  hosted  by  Jack  Kineavy. 


46 


Leo  F.  Roche,  Esq. 
26  Sargent  Rd. 
Winchester,  MA  01890 
(617)  729-2340 


47 


Richard  J.  Fitzgerald 
P.O.  Box  171 
Falmouth,  MA  02556 
(508)563-6168 


48 


William  P.  Melville 

31  Rockledge  Rd. 

Newton  Highlands,  MA  02161 

(617)244-2020 

We're  delighted  of  the  interest  these 
notes  generate.  Every  once  in  awhile, 
we  hear  from  someone  who's  read 
the  notes  and  wants  additional  in- 
formation regarding  someone. 
We're  pleased  to  share  any  informa- 
tion we  have,  so  don't  hesitate  to 
contact  us.  •  Warren  Watson  re- 
tired after  25  years  as  director  of  the 
Thomas  Crane  Public  Library  in 
Quincy.  •  Bob  Houlihan's  brother 
Fran  tell  us  that  Bob  is  Chief  of 
Surgery  at  Yale-New  Haven  Hospi- 
tal. •  Governor  Ed  King  called  a 
couple  of  times  from  Florida  with 
comments  about  our  column.  We 
are  going  to  try  harder,  Ed.  •  Our 
class  had  a  private  tour  and  recep- 
tion at  the  new  BC  Museum  ar- 
ranged by  our  genial  Vice  President 
and  Treasurer  Tim  Buckley. 
Amongst  those  enjoying  the  festivi- 
ties were  Ed  Richmond;  Laura  and 
Morris  Breslouf,  who  flew  up  from 
Florida  the  night  before  to  join  the 
Sunday  afternoon  festivities;  Doc 
Savage;  Eve  and  President  Joe 
Herbert.  Bob  Redding,  Paul  Wa- 
ters, Bill  Noonan  and  Bill  Melville 
were  also  present.  •  One  of  the  five 
events  we  had  planned  for  our  class 
this  year  was  a  pre-game  get-together 
prior  to  the  West  Virginia  Game.  • 
Those  attending  at  the  Hall  of  Fame 
Club  in  the  Sports  Complex  were 
Tim  Buckley,  Joe  Herbert,  who  ar- 
ranged the  affair,  Frank  Perry,  Paul 
Waters,  Bill  Noonan  and  Bill 
Curley.  •  Another  of  our  planned 
events  was  Christmas  Chorale  Con- 
cert which  was  held  in  the  Chapel  at 
the  Law  School.  Attending  with  their 
wives  were  Bill  Curley,  Paul  Waters, 
Frank  Perry,  Joe  Herbert,  Tim 
Buckley,  Bill  Melville  and  Bill 
Noonan.  Also  attending  was  Father 
Bob  Costello.  •  Keep  in  mind  that 
the  Laetare  Sunday  Communion 
Breakfast  is  coming  up  and  Jack 
O'Neil  and  his  committee  are  look- 
ing for  a  real  good  turnout.  You'll 
get  a  call  from  them  if  you  are  within 
commuting  range.  •  Tim  Buckley  is 
arranging  an  Evening  of  Recollec- 


tion sometime  during  Lent.  You  will 
be  hearing  more  on  this  subject  later. 

•  Heard  from  Jim  Calabrese  as  to 
why  he  could  not  make  our  45th 
reunion — his  oldest  grandchild 
graduated  from  Providence  College 
the  same  weekend  as  our  celebra- 
tion. •  Had  a  nice  chat  with  Freddie 
Maguire  of  Casper,  WY,  who  still 
hunts  elk  in  the  foothills  of  Wyo- 
ming. He  said  he  had  been  back  East 
to  his  50th  high  school  reunion  and 
met  Paul  Waters,  a  fellow  classmate 
at  Sacred  Heart  High  in  Newton 
Center.  •  Don  Duffey  tells  us  that 
he  and  Gert  spend  4  months  each 
year  in  Spain.  Had  a  nice  chat  with 
Gert  Sculley  Duffey  (just  like  old 
times)  and  she  tells  me  that  she  and 
Don  have  8  grandchildren  with  #9 
on  the  way.  •  Bob  Foy  reports  that 
he  is  still  the  City  Auditor  in  Quincy. 

•  AJ  DeVito  and  his  wife  Eileen  are 
still  talking  about  the  nice  time  they 
had  at  our  45th  and  are  looking  for- 
ward to  our  next  get-together.  •  For 
this  column,  we  had  much  more  news 
but  because  of  space  limitations  we 
are  unable  to  print  it  all. 


49 


Reunion 


MAY  20  -23   -1994 


John  T.  Prince 

66  Donnybrook  Rd. 

Brighton,  MA  02 135 

The  committee  on  class  events  for 
our  40th  year  have  met  several  times. 
You  will  be  receiving  information 
on  the  agenda  from  Bill  McCool.  It 
is  hoped  that  a  good  number  will 
participate,  especially  at  the  gradua- 
tion week  exercises.  •  We  had  a  nice 
note  from  Harry  Warren,  who  is 
now  retired  in  Florida  and  living 
near  the  Space  Center.  •  Also  heard 
from  Charlie  McKenna,  who  is 
looking  forward  to  retirement  soon. 
•  BC  High  presented  the  St.  Ignatius 
Award  to  Fr.  Charlie  McCoy.  The 
honor  is  given  to  alumni  who  have 
dedicated  their  lives  to  realizing  the 
Jesuit  ideal  of  being  "men  for  oth- 
ers." •  Hank  Barry  is  now  living  in 
New  London,  NH.  •  Tom 
O'Connor  has  been  busy  as  a  guest 
speaker  at  Plymouth  Public  Library 
in  Sept.  and  at  Catholic  Alumni  So- 
dality in  Dec.  He  will  also  be  the 
speaker  at  the  Alumni  Association's 
Laetare  Sunday  Communion  Break- 
fast on  March  13.  •  As  we  are  sub- 
mitting these  notes,  we  have  just 
learned  of  the  sudden  death  of  Bob 
Woolf  in  Florida.  We  offer  our  sym- 
pathy to  his  wife  and  family. 


BOS  ION  COLLEGE  AI.UMNOTF.S    7 


CLASSES 


50 


John  A.  Dewire 
15  Chester  St.,  #31 
Cambridge,  MA  02 140 
(617)  876-1461 

Dr.  Thomas  Giblin,  Jr.  retired  from 
his  gynecology  practice  injuly  1 993 . 
He  announced  his  retirement  after 
serving  as  director  of  the  gynecol- 
ogy clinincs  at  BC  and  Regis  Col- 
lege and  as  a  member  of  the  medical 
staff  at  Waltham-Weston  Hospital 
&  Medical  Center.  He  had  previ- 
ously retired  from  the  practice  of. 
obstetrics  in  1987  after  delivering 
his  6,000th  baby.  "It  has  been  a  most 
enjoyable  and  rewarding  experience 
over  the  past  33  years  to  have  been 
involved  with  so  many  patients  in 
such  a  joyous  phase  of  the  medical 
profession,"  said  Dr.  Giblin.  "It  has 
been  my  privilege  to  serve  so  many 
people."  A  graduate  of  BC  and 
Georgetown  Medical,  he  is  also  a 
former  clinical  instructor  at  Tufts 
and  BU  medical  schools.  •  James 
Cotter,  Hillside  president  and  CEO, 
received  the  council  family  and  child 
caring  award  at  its  annual  meeting  in 
July  1993  at  the  New  York  Palace 
Hotel  in  N.Y.C.  Created  in  1974, 
the  council  is  a  clearinghouse  for 
non-profit  agencies  who  provide  di- 
rect services  to  needy  children  and 
families  in  New  York  state.  Mr. 
Cotter,  who  has  been  Hillside's  ex- 
ecutive director  for  24  years,  was 
honored  for  his  leadership  and  vi- 
sion which  helped  shape  Hillside's 
children's  center  into  one  of  the  most 
highly-respected  child  welfare  and 
mental  health  agencies  in  the  na- 
tion. Under  his  direction,  the 
agency's  budget  has  grown  from 
$600,000  to  $34  million  and  its  staff 
increased  from  70  to  860.  Hillside 
now  operates  39  programs  versus 
two  in  1969.  He  holds  a  BA  in  social 
services  from  BC  and  an  MA  in  so- 
cial services  from  BU.  •  Joseph  L. 
Tivnan  died  in  Springfield  on  June 
30, 1993.  Joe  was  present  when  Gen. 
MacArthur  splashed  ashore  in  the 
liberation  of  the  Philippines  in  1944. 
He  was  a  retired  hearing  rep.  for  the 
American  Mutual  Insurance  Co.  in 
Westerfield,  CT.  He  worked  first  as 
a  claims  manager  and  retired  in  1988 
after  30  years  with  the  company.  He 
leaves  his  wife  Joan  and  a  son  Peter 
J.  of  Springfield.  •  William  F. 
Malloy  of  Cohasset  passed  away  on 
Sept.  6,  1993.  Bill  was  an  attorney- 
at-law.  He  is  survived  by  his  wife 
Janet  and  children  William  F.  of 
Weymouth,  Lawrence  G.  of  Char- 
lotte, NC,  Jane  M.  Corry  '76,  Karen 
L.  Deckel  of  Buzzards'  Bay,  Ellen  A. 


Malloy  and  Janet  M.  Battenburg, 
both  of  Cohasset.  •  Arthur  V. 
Sullivan  of  Needham  died  Sept.  12, 
1993.  He  was  a  retired  special  agent 
of  the  FBI.  Arthur  was  a  World  War 
II  U.S.  Air  Force  veteran.  He  leaves 
two  sons,  Kevin  R.  of  Holliston  and 
Richard  L.  of  Alpharetta,  GA,  and 
two  daughters,  Katherine  F.  Temps 
of  Goettingen,  Germany  and  Nancy 
S.  Motley  of  Merrick,  NY.  •  In  Oct. 
1993,  I  took  a  10-day  tour  to  Ten- 
nessee and  found  Grandpa  Jones, 
Box  Car  Willie,  etc.  I  enjoyed  the 
most  amusement  at  the  Grand  Ole 
Opry.  However,  I  was  very  pleased 
to  see  on  the  State  House  lawn,  next 
to  a  bronze  statue  of  Andrew 
Johnson,  a  bigger-than-life-sized 
bronze  statue  of  Sgt.  Alvin  C.  York 
from  Folk-of-the-Woods,  TN,  the 
#1  World  War  I  hero  of  the  U.S.A. 
I  also  attended  the  BC  football  game 
at  Pitt  on  Nov.  13,  1993  in  the  rain. 
On  the  way  back  to  Cambridge,  I 
stopped  off  at  Gettysburg  for  a  couple 
of  days.  There  I  found  a  monument 
to  the  20th  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teer Infantry.  It  is  located  at  the 
"high  water  mark"  on  Cemetery 
Ridge.  Paul  Revere's  nephew,  Col. 
Paul  J.  Revere  died  there  and  his 
name  is  on  the  stone.  They  call  it  the 
"pudding  stone."  The  boulder  on 
top  was  brought  from  the  grounds  of 
the  school  in  Boston  where  Col. 
Revere  was  a  teacher.  I  also  attended 
the  BC-Notre  Dame  football  game 
in  South  Bend  on  Nov.  20,  1993.  It 
was  nice  to  be  among  the  alumni  of 
the  first  Catholic  university  in  his- 
tory to  defeat  Notre  Dame!  Many 
N.D.  people  as  well  as  others  in 
Chicago  told  me  that  BC  was  lucky. 
In  every  instance  I  replied,  "Any 
football  team  at  any  time  who  scores 
41  points  against  N.D.  in  South  Bend 
is  not  lucky!"  This  quieted  them  all! 
I  also  attended  the  Carquest  Bowl 
game  in  Miami  on  Jan.  1  and  saw  BC 
playUVA.  Since  the  Tangerine  Bowl 
in  1982, 1  have  attended  all  of  BC's 
bowl  games — this  was  my  6th. 


50n 

Mary  McManus  Frechette 
42  Brookdale  Ave. 
Newtonville,  MA  02160 
(617)  244-8764 


51 


Francis  X.  Quinn,  Esq. 
1205  Azalea  Dr. 
Rockville,  MD  20850 
(301)762-5049 


52 


Edward  L.  Englert,  Jr.,  Esq. 
128  Colberg  Ave. 
Roslindale,  MA  02131 
(617)  323-1500 

Congratulations  to  John  Irwin  on 
his  appointment  as  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Mass.  Superior  Court.  John  was 
chief  of  criminal  prosecution  in  the 
Attorney  General's  office  under  Bob 
Quinn  before  being  appointed  as  a 
superior  court  judge  in  1976.  •  Mike 
Roarke  is  returning  to  Boston  as  the 
pitching  coach  for  the  Red  Sox.  • 
Pat  Clancy,  Falmouth,  was  recently 
appointed  CEO  at  Hinckley  Home 
Centers  on  Cape  Cod.  •  Dick 
Carroll  has  retired  from  the  Lynn 
school  system  after  40  years  as  a 
special  education  teacher  and  ad- 
justment counselor.  •  Miles 
Murphy  is  VP  in  the  surety  division 
of  Frontier  Insurance  Co.  and  lives 
in  Woodridge,  NY.  •  Dana 
Doherty,  Burnsville,  MN,  retired 
from  UNISYS,  and  is  now  spending 
full  time  as  executive  director  of  the 
Minnesota  Thoroughbred  Associa- 
tion. •  Father  Paul  Curran  is  sta- 
tioned at  St.  Michael's  Parish  in 
Avon.  •  Dave  Murphy,  Pittsfield, 
has  retired  from  the  insurance  com- 
pany, Stevenson  &  Co.  where  he  was 
president.  Dave's  son  David  is  '75.  • 
Bob  Barry,  Duxbury,  was  VP  & 
director  of  claims  for  Maine  Bond- 
ing &  Casualty,  and  is  now  a  con- 
sultant with  Guaranty  Fund 
Management  Services  in  Boston.  • 
John  Burke,  Potomac,  MD  has  re- 
tired from  IBM.  •  Jim  Corbett, 
Plymouth,  is  a  financial  planner  with 
IDS  Financial  Services.  •  John 
Sullivan,  Milton,  is  with  Carpet 
Giant  in  Norwood.  •JoeChisholm 
completed  his  39th  year  on  Wall 
Street,  and  is  senior  VP  with  Rod- 
man &  Renshaw.  Joe's  daughter 
Stephanie  is  '84.  •  Received  regards 
from  Floridians  Bob  Kincade, 
Sarasota,  and  Nick  Loscocco, 
Stuart,  and  from  Paul  Doucetts  in 
Lawrenceville,  GA.  •  Fred 
DiNapoli  has  recently  moved  to  Sun 
City  Center,  FL  and  Alex  Morgan 
is  now  living  in  Osterville.  •  Also 
heard  from  Joe  Cunningham, 
Crofton,  MD;  Myron  Cohen, 
Plainview,  NY;  Dr.  Richard 
Fleming,  Wilton,  CT;  and  John 
Gleason,  W.  Boylston.  Tom  Mar- 
tin is  now  living  in  Mashpee.  •  Frank 
O'Leary  sent  regards  from 
Marlboro,  Peter  Genovese  from 
N.  Reading,  John  Troy  from 
Needham,  and  Bill  Doyle  from 
Andover.  •  On  Fri.,  Oct.  22,  the 
Hall  of  Fame  Dinner  was  held  and 


the  following  day  the  class  had  a 
reunion  for  the  Army  game,  and 
then  attended  Mass  for  our  deceased 
classmates  which  was  celebrated  by 
Father  Hugh  O'Regan.  That 
evening  we  had  our  Bienniel  Din- 
ner, which  was  well  attended.  Fa- 
ther Tom  Murray  started  with  a 
prayer,  and  we  had  an  enjoyable  meal . 
In  addition  to  the  election  of  offic- 
ers, tribute  was  paid  to  the  members 
of  the  Hall  of  Fame  in  our  class. 
Congratulations  to  Tim  O'Connell 
on  being  inducted  into  the  illustri- 
ous group  of  BC  athletes.  Tim,  Fran 
Duggan,  Tom  O'Toole  and  Mike 
Roarke  received  plaques  from  the 
Class  of  '52  in  recognition  of  their 
accomplishments.  Bill  Gauthier  was 
very  "humble"  as  he  made  the  pre- 
sentations to  Tim,  Fran  and  Tom. 
Mike  Roarke  was  unable  to  attend 
but  he  sent  his  best  wishes.  Dick 
Fitzgerald,  former  teammate,  came 
from  Pearl  River,  NY  and  spoke  to 
us,  and  along  with  Tim,  Fran  and 
Tom  did  some  reminiscing.  John 
Kastberg  came  from  Valhalla,  NY 
to  join  with  his  former  teammates. 
Jack  Leary,  as  past  president,  was 
toastmaster  and  offered  his  own 
thoughts  along  with  notes  from 
Frank  Dooley,  our  outgoing  presi- 
dent, who  was  in  Ireland.  My  wife 
and  I  enjoyed  being  with  Deniceand 
Paul  Stanton,  Dianne  and  John 
Delmonte,  Father  Hugh  O'Regan 
and  his  sister,  Alice  DeGuglielmo — 
and  our  table  resolved  all  the  prob- 
lems of  the  world.  Congratulations 
to  Bob  Allen,  our  new  president  and 
to  Fred  Meagher  and  Frank 
McDermott  our  VPs.  AJ  Sexton 
will  be  treasurer,  and  Roger  Connor 
is  secretary  and,  as  such,  will  advise, 
counsel,  help,  assist  and  rule  again — 
thank  goodness!  Can  you  imagine 
Roger  trying  to  sit  still  and  relax  now 
that  he  has  retired  from  the  teaching 
profession?  Also  attending  were 
George  Gallant,  Bill  Heavey,  John 
Kellaher,Jim  Kenneally,  Bob  Shan- 
non, Jim  Leonard,  Gene  McMorrow, 
Tom  Megan,  Jim  Doyle,  and  Tom 
Cullinan.  Pat  Clancy,  Jim 
Mulrooney,  Al  Sexton  and  Dick 
McLaughlin  came  up  from  the  Cape, 
and  Joe  O'Shaughnessy  drove  down 
from  Hampton,  NH.  Frank  Torpey 
came  from  W.  Nyack,  NY;  John 
Grady  came  down  from  Orono,  ME 
and  John  Healy  was  up  from  Spring- 
field, VA.  •  Jim  Mulrooney  went 
down  to  Naples  and  along  the  way 
stopped  in  to  see  Tom  O'Connell 
in  Jekyll  Island,  GA.  •  I  am  sorry  to 
report  the  following  sad  news,  and 
the  class  extends  its  deepest  sympa- 
thy to  families  of  Jim  Lawton,  Jake 
LaCrosse,  Don  McAuIiffe,  Jim 
Gallagher  and  Harold  Sinnettwho 


8  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


passed  away.  Jim  Lawton  was  a 
practicing  attorney  in  Woburn,  and 
was  active  in  class  activities  over  the 
years.  Jake  LaCrosse  was  president 
of  Gatling  Co.  in  Granville.  Don 
was  an  attorney  in  Wakefield  and 
died  in  his  summer  home  in 
Centerville.  Jim  Gallagher,  retired, 
lived  in  Needham  and  was  VP  of 
Suffolk  County  Trust.  Harold  was  a 
retired  office  chief  and  lived  in 
Bozman,  MD.  Please  remember 
them  in  your  prayers.  •  Bill  Bond  of 
N.Y.C.  has  written  a  play  entitled 
"Winter  Wine"  which  is  scheduled 
for  off-Broadway  production  in  Feb- 
ruary. Bill  has  produced  several  one- 
act  plays;  he  is  also  working  in  the 
law  offices  of  Strook,  Strook  & 
Lavan.  Good  luck,  Bill!  •  Charles 
Sheehan  has  unfortunately  lost  his 
class  ring  somewhere  in  the  D.C. 
area.  A  call  to  the  Alumni  Associa- 
tion has  yielded  nothing.  If  any  class- 
mates have  recovered  the  ring,  which 
has  a  garnet  stone  and  the  initials 
CMS  engraved  on  it,  please  let  me, 
Charles,  or  the  Alumni  Assoc,  know. 
•  Those  of  you  who  are  interested  in 
attending  the  annual  class  reunion 
held  in  the  vicinity  of  Naples,  FL  are 
urged  to  contact  Al  Sexton  in  Naples 
as  soon  as  possible  on  (813)  597 
4416.  It  is  my  understanding  the 
reunion  will  take  place  in  early 
spring.  iMeanwhile,  as  they  are  en- 
joying the  warm  sun  and  I  am  sitting 
here  freezing,  if  you  have  any  hot 
news,  please  contact  me. 


53 


Robert  W.  Kelly 
98  Standish  Rd. 
Watertown,  MA  02  1  72 
(617)926-0121 

At  our  40th  Frank  Sollitto  spoke  to 
me  of  his  plans  to  visit  some  of  his 
classmates  now  that  he's  retired. 
Well,  Frank  followed  through  and 
this  summer  spent  a  couple  of  days 
with  the  "three  Johns" — Toppa, 
McKinnon  and  McCauley — in 
Rhode  Island.  He  said  they  all  looked 
great.  •  Finally  our  nurses  of  '53 
have  something  to  say.  They  held  a 
40th  at  the  Ritz  on  Amelia  Island, 
FL  over  the  Oct.  15  weekend.  Nancy 
Hayes  Ross,  Claire  Kane  Skelton, 
Helen  Murphy  Miller  and  Mary 
Keene  Williams  all  had  a  swell  time. 
They  say  they  talked,  laughed,  re- 
membered their  nursing  days  at  1 26 
Newbury  St.  and  at  the  Heights. 
But,  they  were  amazed  that  none  of 
them  had  aged  over  the  years  and 
that  they  all  had  kept  their  youthful 
good  looks.  They  plan  to  do  it  again 


next  year  so  that  they  may  again  fill 
up  on  that  wonderful  fountain  of 
youth  they  were  drinking  from.  • 
Ernest  Cris  Criscuoli,  Jr.  retired 
after  17  years  as  executive  VP  of  the 
Society  of  Industrial  Security  in 
Washington,  D.C.  •  Understand 
Maryann  Coughlin  is  recuperating 
nicely  from  open  heart  surgery.  Our 
prayers  have  been  with  her. 

53n 

Alice  Higgins  Slattery 
9  Cornell  Rd. 
Framingham,  MA  01701 
(508)  877-4238 

Peggy  Mclntyre  Weinstock  has 

four  daughters  and  two  sons  and  is  a 
grandmother  four  times  over.  For 
15  years  she  taught  high  school  in 
the  city  of  Boston.  She  has  masters 
degrees  in  special  education  and 
community  counseling.  This  year 
she  is  teaching  kindergarten  through 
second  grade.  She  will  have  had  a  lot 
of  experience  with  the  joys  of  fledg- 
ling students  since  her  granddaugh- 
ter has  just  started  kindergarten.  In 
her  "spare  time"  Peggy  writes  po- 
etry. •  Polly  Madden  Murphy 
writes  that  she  was  unable  to  attend 
our  class  reunion  last  May  because  at 
that  time  her  youngest  daughter  was 
getting  married.  Polly  has  been  mar- 
ried tojim  Murphy  '5 1  for  36  years. 
They  have  three  children:  Maureen 
BC  Law  '85  who  is  a  lawyer  for  the 
General  Accounting  Office  in  Wash- 
ington;Jay,  who  has  one  baby,  Kevin, 
and  is  engineer  in  Arcadia  National 
Park;  and  Martha  Ellen,  who  re- 
cently married  Air  Force  lawyer  John 
Dowling  who  she  met  in  Germany 
while  she  was  auditing  for  the  Fed- 
eral Defense  Agency.  She  and  John 
are  now  living  in  Kansas.  Polly  has 
been  working  at  Fernald  State  School 
in  Waltham  for  14  years  as  a  service 
coordinator  and  supervisor  of  ser- 
vices. •  Sister  Marie  Cormier 
writes,  "after  years  of  teaching  on 
the  high  school  level  and  a  few  years 
as  a  CCD  coordinator,  I  entered  the 
field  I  am  presently  in,  armed  with  a 
master's  degree  in  pastoral  ministry 
with  the  elderly.  My  work  is  prima- 
rily, but  not  exclusively,  with  the 
terminally  ill.  With  the  latter  I  do 
health  care  as  well  as  helping  them 
to  be  acceptant  of  and  at  peace  with 
their  approaching  death.  Usually  this 
is  a  nine  month  process.  Although 
emotionally  draining  at  times,  it  is 
mostly  spiritually  uplifting.  Each  of 
my  careers  has  been  enjoyed  to  the 
full.  I'm  lucky  and  God  is  good!"  • 
The  husband  of  Ann  Louise  Dolan 


Save  the  date: 


Popscn  me  Heights 


A  BOSTON  COLLEGE  SCHOLARSHIP  GALA 


FRIDAY,  SEPTEMBER  16,  1994 
CONTE  FORUM 


Williamson  Foltz  very  kindly  sent 
information  about  Ann  who  died  on 
Sept.  4,  1993.  Her  husband,  whom 
she  married  on  Feb.  12,  1972,  is 
Charles  Steinman  Foltz.  Her  previ- 
ous husband,  Ronald  Stanton 
Williamson,  died  in  1965.  Ann  had 
been  employed  by  the  Central  Intel- 
ligence Agency  in  Washington  from 
1953  to  1960  as  a  report  officer  in 
Istanbul,  Ankara  and  Izmir,  Turkey, 
and  from  1966  to  1973  in  Washing- 
ton. She  was  also  employed  by  the 
English  Language  Services  of  the 
Rockefeller  Foundation  as  a  teacher 
at  the  Univ.  of  Aleppo,  Syria,  and 
Conakry,  Guinea,  and  Bangkok, 
Thailand,  from  1961  to  1965.  She 
was  executive  secretary  of  the  Na- 
tional Society  of  the  Cincinnati, 
headquartered  at  Anderson  House 
in  Washington,  DC  from  1975  to 
1982.  She  was  a  member  of  St.  John's 
Episcopal  Church.  Private  burial 
services  were  held  in  Lancaster,  PA. 
I  join  with  all  of  the  class  to  offer 
condolences  to  her  husband  and  her 
sister  Eleanor  Stevens  of  Fort  Myers, 
FL.  •  Please  send  news  of  yourself 
and  your  family  for  the  May  issue  by 
the  deadline  of  March  4,1994. 


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Reunion 


MAY20-23>1994 


Francis  X.  Flannery 
72  Sunset  Hill  Rd. 
W.  Roxbury,  MA02132 
(617)323-1592 

Philip  Dillion  is  an  account  execu- 
tive for  E.J.  Idone,  an  insurance  com- 
pany in  N.Y.C.  He  and  his  wife 
Louisa  make  their  home  in  Brook- 
lyn. •  I  heard  from  Charlie 
Coronella  who  is  .president  and 
CEO  of  Chase  Bank  of  Arizona,  an 
entity  of  Chase  Manhattan.  He  and 
his  wife  are  active  in  cultural  affairs 
in  Phoenix.  •  Heard  from  Paul 
Lamanna  who  informs  me  that  his 
son  Jim  will  be  graduating  with  our 
reunion  class  in  June  '94.  •  Charlie 
Shishmanian  is  retired  from  state 
government  where  he  was  supervi- 
sor of  field  operations  in  the  division 
of  health.  •  AJ  Clougherty  is  resid- 
ing in  Doylestown,  PA  where  he 
works  for  General  Waterworks.  • 
Gerard  Carey  is  president  of 
Taramark  Co.  in  Needham  where 
he  also  resides  with  his  wife  Barbara. 
•  Charles  Pelczarski  has  retired 
and  is  living  in  Three  Rivers  with  his 
wife  Connie.  •  Ed  Silver  is  VP  of 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES   9 


CLASSES 


finance  and  administration  at  Cin- 
cinnati Inc.  *  Leslie  Woods  is  work- 
ing at  AFP  Transformers,  Inc.  in 
Littleton.  He  and  his  wife  Anne  live 
in  Salem.  •  Tom  Skehan  is  presi- 
dent of  Dresel  Welding  Supply  in 
York,  PA.  •  Dick  Curley  is  still 
practicing  law  and  golf  in  Hyannis. 
He  and  his  wife  Martha  live  in 
Osterville.  •  Dick  Charlton  is  su- 
perintendent of  the  Pawtucket  Pub- 
lic Schools,  where  he  also  resides.  • 
Mary  Debaggis  Mottola  resides  in 
North  Andover  and  summers  in 
Eastham  on  the  Cape.  •  Ed 
Dougherty  is  president  of  Marina 
Consulting  Corp.  in  Cataumet.  He 
lives  in  Marstons  Mills  with  his  wife 
Pat.  •  Bob  Welts  is  practicing  law  at 
Welts  and  White,  PC  in  Nashua, 
NH.  •  Anne  Sullivan  Taylor  is 
working  as  a  nurse  at  the  North 
Shore  Medical  Center.  She  lives  with 
her  husband  Paul  in  Danvers.  • 
Among  those  in  attendance  for  the 
performance  of  "Brighton  Beach 
Memoirs"  at  the  Robsham  Theater 
on  December  4  were  Jack  Ford,  Pe- 
ter and  Kathy  Nobile,  Jim 
O'Halloran,  Jim  and  Mary  Coughlin, 
Lou  and  Lori  Totino,  Dan  and. 
Marge  Miley,  Dave  and  Linda  Pierre, 
Jerry  and  Alberta  Natoli,  Murray 
and  Mary  Regan,  George  Rice, 
Lennie  and  Rose  Matthews,  Jack  and 
Lois  Galvin,  Jim  Lawlor,  Charlie 
and  Helen  Stamos,  Jack  Curtin, 
George  and  Bea  McDevitt,  Pat  and 
Bob  Rufus  King  and  RayMcPherson. 

•  George  McDevitt  and  his  wife 
Bea  are  bursting  with  pride  these 
days.  Their  son  Tom  '89  has  been 
selected  for  flight  training  at  the 
Naval  Air  Station  in  Pensecola,  FL. 

•  Lou  Totino  is  our  class  gift  chair- 
man for  our  40th  reunion  year.  Lou, 
who  retired  as  director  of  marketing 
at  the  Mass.  Lottery  in  1992,  is  se- 
nior VP  of  marketing  at  Media  Drop- 
In  Productions,  a  sales  promotion 
company  based  in  Hartford,  CT. 
Lou  operates  out  of  Dedham.  As- 
sisting Lou  with  phonathon  calling 
this  year  are  Ray  McPherson, 
George  McDevitt,  Charlie  Stamos, 
Jerry  McCourt,  Frank  Bonarrigo 
and  myself.  If  we  haven't  called  you 
yet,  we  will  be  shortly.  •  Please  keep 
the  information  flowing  so  that  I  can 
bring  you  up  to  date  as  we  prepare 
for  our  40th  reunion  next  May. 


55 


Marie  J.  Kelleher 
1  2  Tappan  St. 
Melrose,  MA  02 176 
(617)665-2669 

Since  laughter  is  considered  the  best 
medicine,  you  have  some  very 
healthy  classmates  as  I  write  this 
column.  We  didn't  even  need  "a 
spoonful  of  sugar  to  help  the  medi- 
cine go  down."  We  just  took  a  dose 
of  plaid.'l  Joining  me  at  the  perfor- 
mance of  "Forever  Plaid"  were  Bar- 
bara May,  who  was  recently  elected 
to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  District 
Two  of  the  Mass.  Nurses  Assoc, 
Doris  Frediani,  Jean  O'Neil, 
Winifred  Ryan,  Cathy  and  Fred 
Brannan,  Barbara  and  Paul  Looney, 
Doreen  and  Paul  Croke,  Pat  and 
Jeff  Hayden,  Dottie  and  Bob 
Conners,  Geraldine  and  Joe  Lynch, 
Angela  and  Matthew  McNamara, 
Marie  and  Owen  Meegan,  who  were 
also  celebrating  28  years  of  wedded 
bliss,  Elaine  and  Bob  Connelly,  who 
joined  us  with  their  lovely  daughter, 
Frances  and  George  Malone,  Mary 
and  Dick  Renehan,  Pat  and  Frank 
Callahan,  Rosemary  and  John 
Vozzella,  Geraldine  and  Dave 
Rowley,  LouAnn  and  Steve 
Woronicz,  Barbara  and  John 
O'Connell,  who  are  now  proud 
grandparents  for  the  second  time, 
Virginia  and  Jerry  Donohoe,  and 
Alice  and  Dick  Drew.  •  Charlie 
Murphy  is  rapidly  returning  to  mo- 
bility. He  had  a  hip  replacement  and 
has  returned  to  work,  even  as  I  write. 
•  Dave  Hopkins  sent  word  that, 
after  3  5  years  of  living  away  from  the 
area,  he  has  returned  to  New  En- 
gland— Hampton,  NH  to  be  exact — 
and,  to  quote  him,  "by  the  ocean." 
Dave  is  in  his  3  8th  year  with  General 
Tire  and  is  currently  a  zone  sales 
mgr.  He  and  wife  Esther  are  parents 
to  seven  children.  Dave  and  Esther 
were  to  have  joined  us  in  goingplaid 
but  were  saddened  by  the  death  of 
Esther's  mother.  Our  sympathies  and 
caring  are  extended  to  them.  •  John 
Carroll  and  his  wife  Pat  recently 
had  a  joy-filled  happening  in  their 
family.  They  attended  a  ceremony 
at  the  Naval  Air  Station  in  Norfolk, 
VA  on  Nov.  24  to  see  their  son  Sean 
'87  receive  his  wings  as  a  Navy  flight 
officer.  This  marked  the  second  time 
in  three  months  that  they  had 
proudly  gone  to  such  a  ceremony.  At 
that  time,  their  son  Kevin,  Provi- 
dence College '87,  received  his  wings 
as  an  Army  helicopter  pilot.  Helping 
to  make  Sean's  ceremony  more  spe- 
cial for  John  and  Pat  was  the  pres- 


ence of  both  Dick  Dunleavy  and 
Walter  Bankowski.  Even  though 
Dick  is  now  a  retired  Admiral,  he 
presented  the  wings  to  the  class  and 
then  gave  what  John  described  as  an 
inspirational  and  humorous  speech. 
Walter  retired  from  the  Navy  as  a 
commander  and  had  served  as  a  com- 
manding officer  of  an  F4  fighter- 
bomber  squadron.  •  Please  mark 
your  calendars  for  May  1 !  Some  class- 
mates expressed  interest  in  attend- 
ing the  BC  theater  production  of 
"Evita"  I  called  the  Alumni  Office 
this  morning  and,  even  though  it  is 
only  December,  it  almost  sold  out.  I 
have  reserved  a  block  of  tickets  for 
the  only  available  performance  which 
happens  to  be  the  matinee  on  Sun- 
day. Have  also  asked  about  the  pos- 
sibility of  having  a  gracious  reception 
in  a  very  special  mystery  place.  Since 
our  class  is  the  first  to  request  having 
anything  at  that  location,  the  re- 
quest is  under  investigation.  Trust 
me!  T'would  be  "loverly."  •  I  hope 
your  holidays  were  filled  with  the 
true  meaning  of  your  faith  and  that 
the  new  year  is  filled  with  health,  joy 
and  peace.  Hope  to  hear  from  more 
of  you  in  time  for  the  next  column. 


55n 

Jane  Quigley  Hone 
425  Nassau  Ave. 
Manhasset,  NY  11030 
(516)627-0973 


56 


Steve  Barry 

1  1  Albamont  Rd. 

Winchester,  MA  01  890 

(617)729-6389 

Congratulations  to  Carolyn 
Kenney  Foley,  the  new  treasurer  of 
the  Alumni  Association.  We  trust 
she'll  do  as  well  for  them  as  she  has 
for  us.  •  Charlie  Laverty  of  Cam- 
bridge and  Jack  Burns  of  Arlington 
joined  us  for  the  Class  Committee 
meeting  in  September.  The  meet- 
ings are  open,  so  come  on  over  if 
you're  in  the  neighborhood.  •  About 
26  from  the  class  attended  the  Bos- 
ton Pops  on  the  Heights  concert 
conducted  byjohn  Williams  in  Sep- 
tember. We  saw  Jack  McCarthy 
and  Mary,  and  Warren  Baltimore 
with  his  wife  and  his  daughter,  Carol, 
who  graduates  with  the  Class  of '94. 
Son  Robert  graduated  in  the  Class 
of  '93.  Warren,  who  commutes  be- 
tween Columbus,  OH  and  Boston 
while  running  his  insurance  busi- 


ness (and  drops  in  on  Class  Com- 
mittee meetings  when  he  can),  is 
looking  forward  to  spending  more 
time  at  his  Nantucket  home  as  the 
burden  of  college  tuitions  begins  to 
disappear  from  his  life.  •  We  had  a 
good  turnout  at  the  class  event  buf- 
fet after  the  BC-Army  game.  Father 
Frank  Irwin  of  St.  Agnes  Parish  in 
Arlington  said  Mass  for  us,  but 
couldn't  stay  for  the  buffet.  •  We  sat 
with  Chuck  Faber  and  Barbara,  up 
from  Arlington,  TX,  and  listened  as 
Arthur  Reilly  and  Mimi  instructed 
them  on  the  sights  at  Williamsburg, 
VA.  Chuck  is  considering  teaching 
at  the  Univ.  of  Texas  when  he  tires 
of  selling  insurance.  (Someday  I'll 
remember  to  write  down  who  is  at 
these  events.  Apologies  to  those  I 
missed.)  •  John  J.  Schrogie,  MD  of 
Valley  Forge,  PA  is  assistant  direc- 
tor of  health  policy  and  special  assis- 
tant to  the  VP  for  special  programs 
atjefferson  Medical  College  of  Tho- 
mas Jefferson  Univ.  in  Philadelphia. 
John's  specialties  are  internal  medi- 
cine and  clinical  pharmacology.  • 
The  voting  machine  you  use  may  be 
from  the  Electronic  Voting  Machine 
Co.,  headed  by  Frank  M. 
Fitzpatrick  of  Newton.  •  John  F. 
Boyle  of  West  Newton  has  left  the 
Mass.  State  Lottery  Commission  to 
practice  law  with  the  firm  of  Falvey, 
Boyle,  Manz,  Mullin,  and  Ring  in 
Lexington.  •  Sister  Anne  Turbini, 
Franciscan  Missionaries  of  Mary, 
formerly  Mary  Xavier  Turbini,  is 
in  Millbrook,  NY.  •  Joe  Connors 
reports  that  Esta  Keefe  Svaco  is 
living  in  Atlanta,  GA  after  a  career  in 
education  in  the  Southwest.  •  Rob- 
ert T.  Kenney  of  Wollaston  is  on 
the  advisory  committee  for  a  $12 
million  capital  development  cam- 
paign for  the  Pine  Street  Inn,  which 
serves  the  homeless  in  Boston.  Bob 
is  founder  and  president  of  the 
Kenney  Development  Co.  in  Bos- 
ton which  plans,  develops,  and  man- 
ages urban  development  and 
redevelopment  projects.  •  More 
from  Bob  Halloran's  news-filled 
letter;  this  time  from  the  Newton 
High  contingent  at  their  40th  re- 
union (who  counts?):  Ed  Lynch,  the 
Westwood  whippet,  went  out  on  the 
dance  floor  and  showed  why  Gene 
Kelly  chose  early  retirement.  •  Dan 
Coffey,  now  of  Beverly  Farms,  con- 
tinues to  enchant  readers  as  a  feature 
writer  for  the  Lynn  Daily  Astonisher 
(really?).  Bob  had  me  checking  the 
Sub  Turri  for  this  one — no  photo  of 
Dan!  •  John  Cronin,  town  trea- 
surer of  Westwood,  also  keeps  busy 
as  manager  for  institutional  equity 
trading  at  Advest  in  Boston.  Guy 
DeStefano  commutes  from  his  Can- 


10  bos  ion  c:ou,kc;f.  AI.UMNOTES 


ton  home  to  Holbrook  where  his 
company,  Boston  Beer  Brands,  dis- 
tributes imported  malt  beverages.  • 
Dick  Fitzpatrick  has  fled  the  cold 
of  the  Berkshires  for  the  sunnier 
climes  of  Jupiter,  FL,  but  he's  still 
very  much  the  entrepreneur/attor- 
ney. Guy  Rizza  retired  from  Exxon 
after  33  years  (did  he  fill  up  your 
tank?)  and  moved  to  Rockport,  where 
he  continues  his  gardening  and  wa- 
tercolors.  •  Dan  Sheehan  of 
Centerville,  who  taught  on  Cape  Cod 
before  going  to  work  for  the  Com- 
monwealth, has  recently  retired. 
"This  is  the  first  time  I  have  truly 
enjoyed  the  Cape,"  opined  Dan.  • 
John  Dapper  Monahan,  who  started 
with  '56  and  left  for  two  years  with 
Uncle  Sam  and  returned  to  graduate 
in  1959,  now  has  many  projects  un- 
derway in  Falmouth  after  a  success- 
ful career  in  Washington,  DC  with 
Speaker  John  McCormack.  •  Hope 
to  see  you  at  the  next  class  events: 
Laetare  Sunday  and  BC's  own  Pops, 
both  in  March.  •  Please  remember 
to  keep  the  news  coming.  The  Class 
Committee  would  like  to  send  sym- 
pathy cards  to  classmates  who  are  ill. 
If  you  write  to  me  when  you  hear,  I'll 
pass  them  along. 

56n 

Patricia  Leary  Dowling 
39  Woodside  Dr. 
Milton,  MA  02 186 

57 

Francis  E.  Lynch 
27  Arbutus  Ln.,  P.O.  Box  1  287 
W.  Dennis,  MA  02670 
(508)  398-5368 

During  our  class  football  event  on 
Oct.  23,1  saw  BC  crunch  Army  on 
their  way  to  an  outstanding  and  ex- 
citing season.  Many  of  our  class- 
mates attended  this  memorable  fall 
classic.  •  The  new  year  of  1 994  her- 
alds in  a  slate  of  planned  class  events. 
A  post-game  reception  took  place 
on  Jan.  14  following  the  BC-BU 
hockey  game.  Laetare  Sunday  falls 
on  March  1 3 .  As  in  the  past,  the  class 
will  reserve  several  tables  for  class- 
mates, family  and  friends  for  this 
traditional  Lenten  event.  The  class 
also  plans  a  get-together  for  "A  Night 
at  BC  Pops"  scheduled  for  March  26 
in  Lyons  Hall.  The  cost  for  this 
event  is  $32/person  which  will  in- 
clude cocktails,  dinner  and  the  con- 
cert. The  class  Board  of  Directors 
has  reserved  3  tables  on  a  "first  come, 


first  served  basis."  A  mailing  is  con- 
templated well  in  advance  of  both  of 
the  above  events.  •  Joseph  L. 
Donovan  is  fire  chief  of  the  Jack- 
son, MS  fire  department.  •  John  C. 
Dwyer  is  sales  manager  of  New 
England  Wheels,  Inc.  in  Billerica. 
Jack  lives  with  his  wife  Mary  Ann  in 
Lexington.  •  Vincent  J.  Fabucci 
recently  retired  from  the  Lynn  Re- 
development Authority  and  lives  in 
Lynn.  •  Neil  J.  Hynes  is  retired 
from  Plantronics  in  Santa  Cruz,  CA 
where  he  was  former  president  and 
C.E.O.  •  Atty.  Paul  J.  Kingston 
and  his  wife  Claire  were  both  recipi- 
ents of  the  Vincentian  Award  given 
from  the  Carney  Hospital  Founda- 
tion. •  Richard  N.  Michaud  is  presi- 
dent of  New  England  Metal  Crafters 
and  lives  in  Greensboro,  NC.  •Jo- 
seph A.  Rossino  retired  last  July 
from  Maiden  H.S.  where  he  has  been 
athletic  director  since  1975.  •  The 
sympathy  of  the  class  is  extended  to 
the  family  of  David  D.  Oldfield, 
who  passed  away  last  July.  Dave  was 
former  pension  analyst  with 
Transamerica  Co.  •  Condolences  of 
the  class  are  also  extended  to  the 
family  of  Stephen  F.  Morton  on 
the  recent  death  of  his  sister  Mary  E. 
Gardiner.  •  The  class  Board  of  Di- 
rectors has  recently  set  class  dues  at 
$25.  This  reflects  a  $5  increase  over 
the  amount  for  the  past  few  years. 
Please  remit  class  dues  directly  to 
Bill  Tobin,  181  Central  St., 
Holliston,  MA  01746.  •  Hope  you 
all  enjoy  a  very  happy,  healthy  and 
rewarding  New  Year. 


57n 

Marjorie  L.  McLaughlin 
139  Parker  Rd. 
Needham,  MA  02 194 
(617)444-7252 


58 


David  A.  Rafferty,  Jr. 
33  Huntley  Rd. 
Hingham,  MA  02043 
(617)  749-3590 

Louis  Ennis,  living  in  Bedford,  is 
VP  of  employee  relations  at  Brandeis 
Univ.  •  Frank  Clark  has  retired 
from  teaching  at  Conant  H.S.  in 
Jaffrey,  NH.  •  Tom  Farrell,  living 
in  Pt.  Pleasant,  NJ,  is  VP  and  audit 
manager  of  National  Westminster 
Bank  in  N.  Y.C.  •  Margaret  Molloy 
Vasaturo  is  teaching  in  Newton.  • 
Dick  Creed  is  with  the  federal  gov- 
ernment in  D.C.  and  is  living  in 


Arlington,  VA.  •  Paul  Harrington 

recently  retired  after  a  33-year  ca- 
reer in  the  Randolph  schools.  Paul 
and  his  wife  Marjorie  have  5  chil- 
dren and  live  in  North  Easton.  Paul 
is  keeping  active  in  his  new  career  as 
a  coordinator  of  a  Canton  travel 
agency.  •  Condolences  of  the  class 
go  out  to  the  family  of  Pauline 
Reynolds  O'Brien,  SON,  who  re- 
cently passed  away.  •  Leo  Conway 
recently  retired  from  his  position  as 
a  Boston  school  principal.  •  I  ran 
across  Myles  Cassidy  after  the  BC- 
West  Virginia  football  game;  he  in- 
formed me  that  he  won  a  bet  with 
George  Williams  (an  N.D.  alum  and 
owner  of  the  Barnside  Restaurant  in 
Hanover)  on  the  outcome  of  the 
BC-N.D.  game.  With  BC's  illustri- 
ous win,  Myles  and  his  bride  enjoyed 
a  sumptuous  dinner  at  the  Barnside 
while  watching  George  sing  the  BC 
fight  song.  Myles's  son  Brian  '87 
should  complete  his  master's  at  the 
Univ.  of  Munich  in  early  '94.  Son 
Joseph  will  complete  2  years  of  dip- 
lomatic service  in  Niarobi,  Kenya. 
This  is  his  second  tour,  the  first 
being  in  Guyana,  South  America. 
Myles's  daughter  graduated  from 
New  England  College  and  is  cur- 
rently planningher  wedding  for  Aug. 
Myles  has  not  hung  up  his  hockey 
stick.  He  still  manages  to  play  in  an 
old-timers'  league  on  the  south  shore 
once  a  week.  •  Yours  truly  retired 
this  past  April  after  3  3  years  with  the 
Dow  Chemical  Co.  Since  then  I  have 
been  involved  with  a  young  start-up 
company  in  Hingham,  Kinetic  Re- 
habilitation Instruments  Inc.  Kinetic 
has  developed  a  unique  mechanical 
arm  as  an  appendage  to  a  wheelchair 
that  allows  people  with  quadriplegia 
to  increase  their  mobility  and  gain 
more  independence.  With  the 
"HelpingHand,"  the  physically  chal- 
lenged can  open  doors,  turn  on  lights, 
put  a  tray  in  the  microwave,  pick  up 
a  mug,  take  a  drink  with  a  straw, 
etc.*  Condolences  of  the  class  go 
out  to  the  family  of  Constance  A. 
MacDonald,  who  passed  away  in 
Sept.  Connie  lived  in  W.  Roxbury 
and  was  a  teacher  in  the  Cambridge 
public  schools.  •  Don  Slipp,  M.D.  is 
company  physician  at  the  Gillette 
Co.  in  N.  Andover.  •  Ed  Solari  is  an 
attorney  practicing  in  Cambridge.  • 
George  Strom,  member  of  our  '58 
committee,  is  an  account  manager 
for  AMI  Trucklease  Corp.  in 
Medford.  •  Paul  Donovan  is  a  chem- 
ist with  the  National  Cancer  Insti- 
tute in  Bethesda.  •  Kevin  Duggan  is 
the  president  of  Duggan  &  Associ- 
ates in  N.  Attleboro.  •  John  Feloney 
is  president  of  Professional  Man- 
agement Systems  based  in  Milton.  • 
Frank  Flanagan  is  manager  of  ma- 


jor operations  for  Honeywell  Bull.  • 
John  Flynn  is  a  professor  of  law  at 
the  Univ.  of  Utah.  •  John  Chisholm 
is  chairman  of  the  English  dept.  at 
Sandwich  H.S.  •  Peter  Cerrci,  liv- 
ing in  Newington,  CT  is  an  agent 
with  Connecticut  Valley  Insurance. 
•  Jim  Ardini  is  chairman  of  the 
physics  dept.  at  Diablo  Valley  Col- 
lege in  California.  •  Carl  Desimone 
is  self-employed  in  educational  sales 
in  W.  Hartford,  CT.  "John  Croke, 
living  in  Fairfield,  CT,  recently  re- 
tired from  IBM.  •  Paul  Hannon  is 
claims  manager  for  Fireman's  Fund 
Insurance  Co.  and  is  living  in 
Bedford,  NH.  "Jim  Higgins,  living 
in  Milton,  is  VP  of  the  J. C.  Higgins 
Corp.  in  Stoughton.  •  Frank  Lee, 
living  in  Lynnfield,  is  an  attorney 
with  Boston  Edison.  •  Tony 
LoPresti  is  principal  of  Seymour 
H.S.  in  Seymour,  CT.  •  Tom  Kurey 
remains  in  Brookfield,  WI  and  is 
manager  of  engineering  for  GE  in 
Milwaukee.  •  Congratulations  to  Bill 
Quigley  on  his  Oct.  marriage  to  the 
former  Anna  Anderson.  Bill  has  been 
one  of  our  most  active  classmates 
recently.  •  Ron  Ghiradella  and  his 
wife  Norma  stopped  by  Somerville 
H.S.  to  say  hello  to  headmaster  Tony 
Fedele  and  later  took  Mucca 
McDevitt  to  breakfast.  Ron  teaches 
social  studies  in  the  N.Y.C.  public 
school  system.  •  Don  Agnetta  is 
seen  in  section  SS  at  all  the  home 
football  games.  •  Don't  forget  your 
class  dues  and  notes  of  what's  going 
on  in  your  life.  Send  $2  5  to  treasurer 
Jack  McDevitt,  28  Cedar  Rd., 
Medford  02155. 


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EUNION 

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\  Y  20  ■  23  •   1   9  9  4 

58n 

Sheila  Hurley  Canty 
8  Sherbrooke  Dr. 
Dover,  MA  02030 


59 


Robert  P.  Latkany 
c/o  NML,  P.O.  Box  4008 
Darien,  CT  06820 
(203)  857-5738 

Rockville,  MD,  otherwise  known  as 
BC  Class  of  '59  South,  is  home  to 
many  of  our  classmates.  If  you  are 
ever  stranded  near  Rockville — no 
problem.  Just  call  one  of  our  many 
Heightsmen.  Cynthia  and  Jim 
Marrinan's  daughterjane  is  a  fresh- 
man at  BC,  which  I  know  makesjim 
very  happy.  He  is  an  elected  official 
on  the  Rockville  City  Council.  Mary 
Jane  Gibbons  Walton  and  husband 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES    1 1 


CLASSES 


Dr.  Donald  Walton  reside  in 
Rockville.  Mary  Jane  was  an  RN  at 
Holy  Cross  Hospital  in  Silver  Spring. 
Helen  Foley  Clark  and  husband 
Charles  are  also  residents  of 
Rockville.  Helen  teaches  in  Mont- 
gomery. More  later.  •  Ann  and  John 
O'Donnell  live  in  Jamaica  Plain. 
John  teaches  at  Watertown  Middle 
School.  Daughter  Erin  is  '89.  •  Bar- 
bara Driscoll  Alvord  and  husband 
James  live  in  Norwalk,  CT  (a  mile  or 
so  from  my  office).  Barbara  is  em- 
ployed by  die  Norwalk  Health  Dept. 
and  James  by  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. They  have  two  children  who 
are  BC  grads — Mary  '86  and  John 
'87.  •  Robin  and  Don  Wood  live  in 
Wayland.  Don  is  managing  partner 
of  the  law  firm  Wood,  Clarkin,  Saw- 
yer, and  Rovad  in  Boston.  •  Bill 
York  resides  in  Boston  and  is  man- 
aging director  of  BOT  Financial  on 
Summer  St.  and  is  director  of  Bos- 
ton Children  Services  Assoc.  • 
Marian  and  Dave  Healy  reside  in 
Arlington.  Dave  is  with  Itek  Optical 
Systems  in  Lexington  as  director  of 
finance.  •  Mary  Caskin  Menges 
lives  in  Villa  Ridge,  MO  and  is  a  staff 
nurse  at  St.  Anthony's  Medical  Cen- 
ter in  St.  Louis.  •  Agnes  O'Brien's 
maiden  name  is  O'Leary  (omitted 
in  last  issue).  •  Ed  Snow  and  wife 
Roberta  are  in  the  deep  south  in 
Madison,  AL.  Ed  is  president  of 
Mason  and  Hanger  National,  an 
engineering  firm  in  Huntsville.  • 
Gwen  and  Richard  Ganong  reside 
in  Wellesley  Hills.  He  is  VP  of  sales 
at  S.G.  Warburg  and  Co.  in  Boston. 
Daughter  Karen  is  '92.  •  Ann  and 
Paul  Murphy  are  from  Marshfield. 
Paul  is  president  of  Paul  H.  Murphy 
and  Co.  in  Quincy,  a  printing  and 
publishing  firm.  •  Alice  Morrison 
lives  in  Wakefield  and  is  director  of 
social  projects  for  Mass.  Dept.  of 
Public  Health  in  Boston.  •  Jack 
Dowling  resides  in  picturesque  Pa- 
cific Grove,  CA  with  wife  Dorothy. 
Jack's  floormate  Peter  Delmonico 
lives  in  Stow  with  wife  Ruth.  Peter  is 
retired  from  the  Mass.  educational 
system.  Son  John  is  '89.  •  Dominic 
Gori  invites  us  all  to  visit  his  fine 
restaurant — 400  Club  on  429  Main 
St.  in  Harwichport,  where  he  is 
owner  and  chef.  His  son  Peter  is  in 
his  first  year  at  BC.  •  Dr.  Bill  Parks 
is  chief  of  pathology  at  Metrowest 
Medical  Center  in  Framingham.  He 
and  wife  Jane  live  in  Natick.  Bill's 
loyalty  and  fondness  for  BC  shows 
in  his  kids'  attendance  at  the  Heights. 
Kathleen  '85,  Philip  '88,  Jacqueline 
'90,  and  Amy  '96.  Great  job  Bill  and 
Jane.  •  Linda  and  Bob  Stewart  call 
Dover,  NH  home.  Bill  is  in  the  elec- 
tronics business  in  Nashua.  •  Molly 
and  Phil  Thibedeau  live  on  beauti- 


ful Mercer  Island  in  the  state  of 
Washington.  Phil  is  brokerage  man- 
ager for  the  Pacific  Northwest  for 
Aetna  Life  Insurance.  •  Maureen 
and  John  King  are  in  Minneapolis, 
where  John  is  senior  VP  with  Dain 
Bosworth.  •  Larry  DeAngelis  works 
in  Weston  as  president  of  Data  As- 
sociates and  lives  with  wife  Joanne 
on  Kings  Grant  Rd.  •  Mike 
Blackwell  is-  a  market  research  di- 
rector of  K I  Assoc,  in  San  Francisco, 
where  he  also  resides.  •  Jack  Bonner 
lives  in  Colonial  Heights,  VA  with 
wife  Ruth.  He  works  for  the  Virginia 
State  Lottery.  •  Sandra  Pobuda 
Tibbetts  and  husband  George  live 
in  Golden,  CO.  Sandra  recently  re- 
tired from  the  nursing  profession.  • 
Mary  and  John  McGuire  live  in 
Melrose;  John  teaches  in  the 
Stoneham  school  system.  •  Alan 
Sendker  is  president  of  RAF  and 
Assoc,  a  transportation  consulting 
firm  in  Sharon,  where  be  resides 
with  his  wife,  Fredda.  She  is  a  RN  at 
Mass.  General.  •  Frances  and 
Charles  Aronis  reside  in  Burlington. 
Charles  is  treasurer  of  Aljane  Insur- 
ance in  Medford.  •  Mary  Maloney 
Kelly  is  a  retired  NYC  school  teacher 
now  residing  in  West  Hartford.  • 
Adelaide  Banks  Peters  was  recently 
widowed  and  resides  in  Dexter,  ME. 
•  Domenic  Macaione  is  a  research 
chemist  at  the  US  Army  Research 
Lab.  He  and  wife  Arlene  reside  in 
Mansfield.  •  Joseph  Murphy  is  as- 
sistant headmaster  at  Dorchester  HS. 
He  and  wife  Ann  call  Scituate  home. 
They  have  four  children.  •  Sept.  and 
Oct.  were  wedding  months  for  Class 
of '59  kids.  Carol  and  Pete  Derba's 
daughter  married  Dr.  John  Knab  of 
Hingham,  a  recent  graduate  of  UVM 
School  of  Medicine.  They  are  living 
in  Seattle  where  he  is  doing  his  resi- 
dency. The  reception  was  at  the 
Town  Line  Restaurant;  Tina  and 
Tom  Beattie  were  in  attendance.  • 
Mary  and  Jack  Akin's  daughter 
Debbie  was  married  to  David 
Johnson  and  now  lives  in  Stowe, 
VT.  Joan  and  Roger  Sullivan  of 
Virginia  and  Mary  and  Jack  Higgins 
of  New  Hampshire  were  there  for 
the  festivities  The  wedding  took 
place  in  Fairfield,  CT.  Debbie  is  a 
grad  of  New  England  College  '90. 
Ushers  were  sonsjim,  Skidmore  '84; 
Joe,  Bryant  '85;  and  John  who  is 
running  two  liquor  stores  in 
Westport.  •  Barbara  and  Gerry 
McElaney  had  the  wedding  of  their 
fine  son  Philip,  who  married  his 
sweetheart,  Vallerie,  in  Oct.  They 
honeymooned  in  Bermuda.  Jane  and 
Bobby  Richards  of  Cambridge  came 
down  for  the  wedding  in  Norwalk. 
Bobby  was  the  coach  of  Patrick 
Ewing  at  Rindge  High.  •  My  son, 


Dr.  Paul  Latkany,  a  third  year  resi- 
dent at  NYU  in  internal  medicine, 
married  Dr.  Monica  Lorenzo,  a  sec- 
ond year  resident  in  ophthalmology 
at  NYU.  Geri  and  Jack  McAuliffe 
came  to  the  wedding  in  Longmeadow 
during  Labor  Day  Weekend.  Ush- 
ers included  sons  Joey  of  San  Anto- 
nio, and  Bobby ,  a  first  year  medical 
student  at  BU  School  of  Medicine, 
and  son-in-law  Rusty  Levicky  of  St. 
Paul.  Bridesmaids  included  daugh- 
ters Lianne  of  Rye,  NY  and  Lauren 
Levicky  also  of  St.  Paul. 


59n 


Reunion 


M  A  Y  20  •  23   •   1   9  9  4 


Maryjane  Mulvanity  Casey 
28  Briarwood  Dr. 
Taunton,  MA  02780 
(508)823-1188 

The  Boston  Club's  November  alum- 
nae scholarship  benefit  provided  a 
wonderful  opportunity  to  get  to- 
gether. Janet  Grant  Twoomey, 
Donna  Cosgrove  Morrissey, 
Kathleen  Kingston  Lawlor, 
Joanne  O'Connor  Hynek,  Anne 
Doyle  and  Maryjane  Mulvanity 
Casey  enjoyed  the  delicious  Ritz- 
Carlton  brunch  and  delightful  mu- 
sical program  provided  by  Cathy 
Connolly  Gratty  '57.  •  Joanne 
Hynek  has  just  returned  from  an 
exciting  adventure  in  India  where 
she  explored  Bombay  and  environs 
with  her  family.  •  Bonnie  Walsh 
Stoloski  and  husband  Bill  are  en- 
joying their  new  grandson,  Mac 
Walsh  Mastrangeli,  born  to  daugh- 
ter Kasia  and  her  husband  Doug.  •  It 
was  nice  to  see  Ellen  Egan  Stone 
and  Judy  Laird  Wiley  at  the  New- 
ton alumnae  reception  for  the  new 
BC  art  museum  in  Oct.  •  Jeanne 
Shaeffher  Deavy  has  written  re- 
cently that  she  "hopes  to  get  to  a 
reunion  before  I'm  old  and  blind 
and  need  a  wheelchair!"  We're  look- 
ing forward  to  seeing  you  at  our 
35th,  Jeanne.  •  Mark  your  calendar 
with  the  dates  of  May  20-22,  1994, 
Reunion  Weekend.  Plan  now  to  cel- 
ebrate our  3  5th  in  the  spring.  It  will 
be  wonderful  to  see  everyone! 


60 


Joseph  R.  Carty 
920  Main  St. 
Norwell,  MA  02061 

Condolences  to  Joe  Resha  and  fam- 
ily on  the  death  of  his  wife  Madelyn 
in  early  September.  Madelyn  was 
heavily  involved  with  charitable 


works  and  will  be  missed  by  many 
less  fortunate  people.  •  Dan 
Crimmins  is  VP  of  marketing  with 
Safety  Insurance  Co.  in  Boston.  • 
Bob  Puopolo  is  VP  in  charge  of 
claims  at  Arnica  Insurance  in 
Wellesley.  Bob  and  family  live  in 
nearby  Lexington.  •  Don  Burke 
writes  that  he  is  associated  with  the 
science  department  at  Weston  High 
School.  He  was  named  by  the  White 
House  Commission  on  presidential 
scholars  as  one  of  the  two  distin- 
guished teachers  from  Massachu- 
setts. Don  received  his  plaque  from 
President  Clinton  on  June  21,  1993 
on  the  South  Lawn  of  the  White 
House.  There  was  a  week-long  set  of 
activities  for  educators  from  the  US 
and  its  territories  to  meet  their  sena- 
tors, reps,  and  members  of  the  Su- 
preme Court.  His  sister-in-law  Mary 
Burke,  wife  of  Tom  Burke  '5 1  is  very 
instrumental  in  reinstituting  the 
Philomathia  Club  which  is  for 
spouses  of  BC  alumni.  Tom  was 
tragically  killed  in  an  auto  accident 
two  years  ago.  Don  relates  that  there 
are  22  BC  degrees  in  the  Burke  fam- 
ily from  undergraduate,  graduate  and 
law.  •  Jack  Falvey  from 
Londonderry,  NH  who  has  written 
articles  for  the  Wall  Street  Journal, 
has  become  known  as  a  prolific  writer 
on  everything  from  how  to  sell 
through  termination  to  advice  on 
sales  and  marketing  management. 
Keep  your  eyes  on  the  Journal  — 
every  now  and  then  his  articles  ap- 
pear. •  Bob  Winston  was  in  town 
from  the  Coast  and  to  watch  Eagles' 
football.  •  For  an  interesting  col- 
umn drop  a  line — don't  be  bashful. 

60n 

Patricia  McCarthy  Dorsey 
53  Clarke  Rd. 
Needham,  MA02192 
(617)235-3752 

It  was  very  comforting  to  hear  from 
Kathleen  McDermott  Kelsh,  my 

senior  roommate  and  good  friend. 
She  wrote  to  express  her  sorrow  at 
the  loss  of  my  dad  and  to  mention 
her  fond  memories  of  times  spent  at 
my  home  with  my  parents.  Kathy's 
family  of  four  is  very  busy.  Johnjr.  is 
pursuing  his  law  degree  at  North- 
western Univ.  in  Chicago.  Eileen  is 
at  Deloitte  Touche  having  already 
received  her  CPA  and  MBA.  She  is 
in  Boston  a  fair  amount  since  she  is 
dating  a  graduate  student  from  BC. 
Maggie  has  decided  to  teach  a  sec- 
ond year  in  Hawaii  and  the  young- 
est, Dan,  is  a  junior  in  high  school. 
Kathy  is  looking  forward  to  more 


1 2  BOSTON  C:OLI,F.GE  ALUMNOTF.S 


SAT's!  •  November  20  was  a  big  day 
in  Darryln  Powers  Danahy's  fam- 
ily. Her  daughter  Jane,  a  medical 
resident,  was  married  at  a  lovely 
candlelight  wedding  at  St.  Julia's  in 
Weston  to  Gregory  Michaud,  MD. 
(BC's  amazing  defeat  over  Notre 
Dame  added  excitement  to  an  al- 
ready joyous,  fun  reception).  Anne 
DanahyMcDonough,(Diane  Russell 
McDonough's  '57  daughter-in-law) 
was  her  sister's  matron  of  honor. 
Anne  is  presently  getting  her  MBA 
in  a  one-year  program  at  Babson 
Graduate  School  of  Business.  As  the 
recruiting  coordinator,  I  have  the 
pleasure  of  working  with  graduates 
and  undergraduates  so  enjoy  dis- 
cussing jobs/interviews  with  Anne. 

•  Betsy  DeLone  Balas  was  in  town 
recently  for  our  high  school  reunion. 
Betsy  and  Bernie  live  in  Poundridge, 
NY  and  presently  have  their  historic 
home  on  the  market.  Betsy,  who  has 
spent  the  last  10  years  as  a  legal 
assistant,  has  just  joined  Bernie  in 
retirement.  They  plan  to  relocate  in 
North  Carolina  where  Bernie  grew 
up,  and  will  build  a  new  home  there. 

•  BC's  new  Museum  of  Fine  Arts  in 
Devlin  Hall  had  a  gala  opening  of 
the  gallery  in  October.  Newton 
College  held  a  special  evening  where 
a  large  turnout  of  alumnae  enjoyed 
an  exhibit  of  a  collection  of  Ireland's 
best  water  colors.  BC  was  the  only 
place  where  these  paintings  were 
brought  in  the  USA.  The  Museum 
will  have  ongoing  exhibits  and  is  a 
great  addition  to  the  college  and  the 
Art  Department.  •  Thanks  and  best 
wishes  to  Alicia  Burke  who  has  been 
the  editorial  assistant  for  the  Alumni 
Association.  Alicia's  talent  in  cus- 
tomer service  will  be  as  asset  in  her 
new  job  as  Public  Relations  coordi- 
nator for  the  Greater  Boston  Food 
Bank.  •  If  you  haven't  shared  any 
information  or  ideas,  now  is  the  time! 
Hope  to  hear  from  you  soon. 

61 

John  H.  Rossetti 
9  Raleigh  Rd. 
Dover,  MA  02032 
(508)  785-2496 

Northern  Essex  Community  Col- 
lege recently  announced  that  Mary 
Travers  DiGiovanni  of  Reading,  a 
faculty  member  and  coordinator  of 
the  mental  health  technology  pro- 
gram at  the  Haverhill  college,  has 
been  elected  president  of  the  Coun- 
cil for  Standards  in  Human  Services 
Education.  Mary  received  both  her 
BS  and  MS  in  nursing  from  BC  and 
has  long  remained  active  in  the  hu- 


man services  area .  •  John  V.  Lane  is 

assistant  regional  director  for  FDIC 
out  of  Needham.  He  and  wife 
Patricia  are  staunch  supporters  of 
the  Heights  with  children  Mary  '86, 
Robert,  '84  and  John  Jr.  '93.  This 
Newton  resident  probably  has  spo- 
ken to  you  courtesy  of  the  BC  Tele- 
thon. •  Liberty  Mutual  Insurance 
Co.  Boston  has  elected  Jim  Colbert 
of  Norwell  its  senior  VP  and  man- 
ager of  personal  sales.  Jim  started 
with  this  company  in  1 96 1  as  a  claims 
adjuster  and  now  is  responsible  for 
1,200  sales  personnel.  He  and  wife 
Nancy  have  two  children,  James  Jr. 
and  Patricia.  •  Prestigious  Union 
Wharf,  Boston  is  work  address  for 
Attorney  Francis  Larkin.  When  not 
there,  he  and  his  wife  Mary  reside  in 
Belmont.  •  After  receiving  his  BS  in 
nursing,  Richard  Levesque  earned 
his  master's  in  the  same  field.  He 
currently  lives  in  Brighton.  •  Pro- 
gram director  for  Yarmouthport 
Hospice  of  Cape  Cod  is  James  T. 
Regan.  As  a  Hyannis  resident  and 
active  in  religious  education  at  St. 
Francis  Xavier  parish,  he  can  boast 
of  eight  family  members  in  the  BC 
Alumni  Association.  Having  ready 
access  in  summer  to  Nantucket 
Sound's  warm  waters  is  also  not  too 
bad!  •  Indiana  Univ.  has  published 
"Essential  Asia"  a  series  designed  to 
provide  a  thorough  introduction  to 
Asian  countries  in  self-contained 
individual  volumes.  It  includes 
James  Novak's  book,  "Bangladesh: 
Reflections  on  the  Waters, "  a  personal 
recollection  from  his  experience  with 
that  country  as  resident  representa- 
tive of  the  Asian  Foundation  from 
'82  to  '85  in  addition  to  his  newspa- 
per and  magazine  works  on  that 
country.  James  and  wife  Naomi  share 
time  in  their  Fort  Pierce,  FL,  NYC 
and  State  College,  PA  homes  with 
sons  Josh  and  Joe  and  daughter  Pei 
Wa,  a  poetess.  •  Newly  reelected 
Newton  alderman         Tom 

Concannon  has  returned  from  Ire- 
land, both  North  and  South,  in  com- 
pany with  Jack  Burke.  Their  trip 
through  troubled  lands  was  not  as 
tourists  looking  for  thatched  roofs 
to  practice  their  Polaroids  on,  but  as 
men  with  a  definite  mission.  In  offi- 
cial capacity  as  representatives  of 
The  Irish  American  Partnership, 
they  met  with  the  Republic's  presi- 
dent, premier  and  cardinal  and  then 
were  received  at  a  state  banquet  in 
Northern  Ireland's  Hillshank  Castle. 
Jack  has  retired  from  his  teaching 
position  at  Cleveland  State  Univ. 
Not  on  the  agenda,  but  an  even  bet- 
ter inclusion,  was  meeting  vacation- 
ing Ed  Meara  in  Dublin's 
Shelbourne  Hotel.*  Sources  say  that 
George  Downey's  son  Chris  has 


become  engaged,  and  that  Tom 
Hynes's  daughter  Vanessa,  captain 
of  her  Milton  Academy's  girls' 
hockey  team,  is  being  scouted  by 
highly  ranked  New  England  col- 
leges— one  of  which  is  as  close  as  the 
Heights.  •  A  call  from  Jack  O'NeiPs 
MIT  office  brought  more  nuptial 
news.  He  shares  that  daughter  Erin 
is  planning  an  October  wedding.  Jack 
sounded  like  a  man  content  with  life; 
the  cost  of  a  1993  reception  did  not 
make  him  sound  less  enthused.  • 
Our  Class  condolences  are  sincerely 
extended  to  Tom  Copp  and  his  chil- 
dren on  the  death  of  his  wife  Sharon 
this  February.  •  On  a  closing  note, 
Mary  and  I  took  advantage  of  the 
opening  of  the  BC  Art  Museum  with 
its  Irish  Watercolor  Exhibit  and  dis- 
covered both  the  renovated  setting 
and  its  contents  a  fine  complement 
to  the  College.  As  there  is  no  en- 
trance charge,  this  is  one  of  the  best 
deals  in  a  20-mile  range  and  should 
be  on  your  list. 


61n 


Rosemary  Hanley  Cloran 

30  Ransom  Rd. 

Newton  Centre,  MA  02 1 59 

(617)965-0636 


62 


Richard  N.  Hart,  Jr. 
5  Amber  Rd. 
Hingham,  MA  02043 
(617)749-3918 


62n 

Mary  Ann  Brennan  Keyes 
94  Abbott  Rd. 
Wellesley,  MA  02 1  8 1 
(617)235-6226 


63 


William  P.  Koughan 
173-10  Eyck  St. 
Watertown,  NY  13601 
(315)785-4132 

Joseph  C.  Aniello  was  recently 
elected  VP  and  director  of  sales  in 
the  personal  sales  department  at  Lib- 
erty Mutual  Insurance  Co.  in  Bos- 
ton. He  joined  the  personal  sales 
department  in  the  Chelmsford  of- 
fice in  1967.  Joseph  and  his  wife, 
Patricia,  reside  in  Methuen.  They 
have  three  childrenjosephjr.,  Mark, 


and  Julie.  •  John  Cullinane  was 

recently  promoted  to  senior  VP  of 
the  Dedham  office  of  Peter  Elliot  & 
Company,  Inc.  He  manages  Peter 
Elliot's  full  service  property  man- 
agement division  which  handles  over 
one  million  square  feet  of  commer- 
cial and  industrial  space  in  Boston 
area  properties.  •  Dianne  Duffin  is 
the  principal  of  The  Quadrant 
Group,  a  public  relations  and  mar- 
keting firm  in  Scituate.  She  resides 
in  Hull  with  her  son,  Darby.  •  John 
T.  Hannan  is  owner/president  of 
the  J.T.H.  Financial  Services  in 
Sudbury.  John  and  his  wife,  Patricia, 
reside  in  Sudbury.  •  Mary  Ellen 
DeStephano  Cox,  51,  died  at  her 
home  in  Myrtle  Beach,  SC.  She  was 
founder  and  past  president  of 
SHARE  of  Myrtle  Beach.  Besides 
her  husband  Philip,  Mary  is  survived 
by  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 


63n 

Marie  Craigin  Wilson 
103 19  Grant  Ln. 
Overland  Park,  KS66212 


Please  send  me  news. ..anything 
would  be  wonderful!  Otherwise  we'll 
be  known  as  the  dullest  class  in  New- 
ton College  history,  and  that  will 
never  do.  So  get  with  it,  girls!  • 
Clare  McMahon  Yates  is  living  in 
Albany,  NY  and  works  at  the  Center 
for  Legislative  Development  as  a 
project  assistant.  •  Stephanie 
Hamberger  Eckert  calls  Charles- 
ton, SC  home.  She  works  a  few  hours 
a  week  for  the  Charleston  County 
School  District  as  a  school  psycholo- 
gist. Stephanie  and  her  husband 
William  are  basically  retired.  If 
you're  visiting  Charleston,  look  her 
up  as  she  is  a  volunteer  guide  in 
historical  Charleston  and  would  be  a 
wealth  of  info.,  plus  a.  fun  person  to 
tour  the  city  with.  •  Just  called 
Marion  Kelly  Daley  to  get  some 
more  news.  She  lives  in  Needham 
with  husband  John.  They  have  four 
children:  Sarah,  Vassar  '90  is  at  BC 
School  of  Social  Work;  Amy, 
Harvard  '92  is  working  in  Washing- 
ton, DC  in  the  computer  field;  Tho- 
mas is  a  senior  at  Washington  Univ. 
in  St.  Louis  and  Suzanne  is  a  sopho- 
more at  Middlebury.  Marion  told 
me  that  Dorothy  Daly  Voris  lives 
in  Potomac,  MD  and  has  gone  back 
to  teaching.  •  Our  oldest  son  Bobby 
was  married  on  Sept.  4  at  Holy  Re- 
deemer Church  in  Chatham.  It  was 
a  very  small  wedding  with  immedi- 
ate families  and  a  few  close  friends. 
We  had  the  reception  at  our  home  in 
Chatham  which  we  purchased  last 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES    1 3 


CLASSES 


spring.  My  NC  roommate  and 
Bobby's  godmother,  Maura  Mannix 
Scannapieco,  and  her  husband  Bert, 
were  among  friends  who  came. 
Maura  is  keeping  busy  teaching  pre- 
school and  planning  daughter  Sarah's 
wedding  for  July  30,  1994  in 
Wilbraham.  •  If  any  of  you  will  be 
on  the  Cape  next  summer  I  would 
love  to  see  you.  In  the  meantime, 
think  of  all  the  news  you  can  put 
together  and  send  it  now! 


64 


Reunion 


MAY  20-  23*1994 


Ellen  E.  Kane 

15  Glen  Rd. 

Wellesley  Hills,  MA  02181 

Dick  Dimase  and  his  wife  Mar}-  live 
in  Lincoln,  RI.  Dick  is  with  Fleet 
Bank.  •  Theresa  McCloud  is  a  ra- 
diologist at  Mass.  General  Hospital. 

•  Elda  Carnivale  Dwyer  is  in  spe- 
cial education  in  Northboro.  •  Ann 
Sordellthe  Guden  is  teaching  at  St. 
Elizabeth's  Hospital.  •  Maureen 
Smith  Mawn  is  a  tax  examiner  with 
the  Mass.  Dept.  of  Revenue.  •  Bob 
Powilatis  is  deputy  state  auditor  of 
Massachusetts.  •  Marie  O'Neill 
Dunn  and  Richie  live  in  Milton. 
Marie  teaches  in  Quincy.  •  Jim 
Bealsey  is  VP  and  regional  manager 
of  Horizons  Tech,  Inc.  Jim's  wife 
Lorette  should  win  a  prize  for  "Most 
Enthusiastic  Alumni  Spouse"  for  all 
her  reunion  enthusiasm.  •  MaryLou 
Tepper  Deehan  and  Tom  live  in 
Manchester.  •  Bill  Joyce  is  the  sr. 
marketing  rep.  of  Nixdorf  Computer 
Corp.  in  Burlington.  •  Bill  Moffie 
teaches  in  Hingham  and  lives  in 
Quincy.  •  Mary  Murdock 
Sokoloski  is  office  manager  at  Pine 
Brook  Country  Club  in  Weston. 
Celia  Welsh  Creskoff  is  living  in 
Skidmore,  PA  and  works  at  Country 
Day  School  of  the  Sacred  Heart  in 
Bryn  Mawr.  •  Bruce  and  Angela 
Allard  Angelina  live  in  Windsor, 
CT.  Bruce  is  at  Business  Images 
Marketing.  •  Eileen  Howley  Luddy 
is  an  E.S.L.  teacher  and  is  a  graduate 
student  at  UMass.  •  Ken 
Kiriacopoulos  is  a  Lt.  Colonel  and 
is  stationed  at  Camp  Lejeune,  NC.  • 
Dan  Beuson  is  a  senior  VP  in  com- 
munications/public relations  in 
Stamford,  CT.  •  Martin  Buote  is  a 
priest  at  St.  Anne's  in  New  Bedford. 

•  Arthur  Webster  is  a  systems  ana- 
lyst with  Raytheon.  •  Jean 
Dumming  Godin  is  director  of  re- 
ligious education  at  St.  Catherine's 
in  Marshfield.  •  Finton  Wallace  II 
is  VP  of  the  Bank  of  Newport  in  RI. 
What  a  great  name  for  a  banker!  • 
Paul  Quayle  is  a  senior  VP  at  Merrill 


Lynch  in  St.  Louis.  •  Chris  Eichner 
is  CEO  of  Fleetwood  Sports,  Inc. 
and  lives  in  Connecticut.  •  Bonnie 
Moriarty  has  her  PhD  in  English 
and  is  employed  at  Cathedral  H.S. 
in  Springfield,  MA.  •  Jim  Flavin 
lives  in  Belmont. Jim  is  with  Filene's 
in  Boston.  His  daughter  Nancy 
works  at  McGrath  &  Kane,  and  Paul 
(Kane)  says  she's  a  tribute  to  her  dad 
and  her  momjanie!  •  Paul  Deragon 
is  at  AMCARE  Medical  Service  in 
Newton.  •  Col.  Dan  Camia  is  in  the 
importing  business  in  North  Caro- 
lina. •  Ed  Dowd  is  a  VP  of  John 
Hancock  and  lives  in  Wellesley.  • 
Bill  Bennett  is  in  telecommunica- 
tions in  New  Jersey.  •  Bob  Bent  is 
with  Presidential  Securities  and  is  a 
"foin,  foin  lad!"  •  Bernie  McGovern 
is  deputy  attorney  general  in  Con- 
necticut. •  John  Stadler  is  develop- 
ment director  at  Don  Bosco 
Technical  H.S.  •  Tom  Jennings  is 
an  international  economist  with  the 
U.S.  Trade  Commission.  •  Steve 
Magula  is  president  of  Creative 
Homes  Ltd.  in  Virginia  Beach,  VA. 

•  Noreen  Lindsay  Barney  is  a  ge- 
ography consultant  and  third-grade 
teacher  in  Brookfield,  CT.  •  Gregg 
McCarthy  is  a  professor  and  chair- 
man of  the  geoscience  dept.  at  North 
Dakota  State  College.  Gregg  has  a 
PhD  from  Penn  State.  •  Another 
PhD,  John  Ham,  is  a  marketing 
manager  at  the  S.D.  Warren  Co.  in 
South  Portland,  ME.  •  Skip  Barny 
is  president  of  New  Jersey  Finance. 

•  Sally  McGee  Pollenz  and  her 
husband  Ken  live  in  Wellesley.  Sally 
has  younger  children  and  makes  the 
rest  of  us  feel  old!  •  John  Dimore, 
Jr.  is  a  doctor  in  private  practice  in 
Glendora,  CA.  John  graduated  from 
Tufts  Medical.  •  Tony  Santoro  has 
been  named  president  of  Roger 
Williams  Univ.  and  its  law  school! 
Tony  was  selected  following  a  five- 
month  national  search.  He  was 
elected  unanimously!  I'm  impressed! 
Congratulations  to  Tony  and  his 
wife  Pauline.  •  John  Bormo 
Bormolini  and  his  wife  Barbara  are 
living  in  Leavenworth,  KS  in  the 
shadow  of  the  "Big  House!"  We  all 
knew  Bormo  would  be  greatly  suc- 
cessful! Rumor  has  it  that  he  works 
on  his  own,  sewing  numbers  on 
prison  uniforms.  Just  kidding!  •  Bob 
Collins's  twins,  Mark  and  Megan, 
have  started  college  at  Holy  Cross. 
Bob,  how  could  you?  •  Dave  Duffy 
wants  Norb  Nyhan  to  give  him  three 
strokes  per  side  at  the  reunion  golf 
outing.  Norb  insists  this  will  not 
happen.  •  Celia  Connell 
McDonugh  is  director  of  consult- 
ing and  training  at  the  Katherine 
Gibbs  School.  Cele  is  actively  in- 
volved in  offering  seminars  and 


workshops  in  office  skills  and  pro- 
fessionalism for  companies,  institu- 
tions and  law  firms  in  the  greater 
Boston  area.  I'm  teaching  English 
and  writing  at  Katherine  Gibbs  and 
keeping  a  watchful  eye  on  Cele.  We 
are  both  behaving  in  a  very  dignified 
manner,  hard  as  that  may  be  for  our 
classmates  to  believe!  •  The  reunion 
events  are  unfolding  fast.  On  Friday, 
May  20,  there  will  be  a  golf  tourney, 
Pops,  and  a  post-Pops  affair.  There 
are  various  activities  planned  for 
Saturday,  May  2 1,  to  be  topped  off 
with  a  reunion  dinner.  Keep  track  of 
the  mailings.  After  30  years 
(whosaidthat?  ?)  it  will  be  fun  to  party! 
Thanks  for  all  the  news! 


64n 


f 

EUNION 

|  M 

\  Y  20  ■  23   •    1    0  9  4 

Ann  Marie  DeNisco  L'Abbate 
1843  1st  Ave.,  #4  South 
New  York,  NY  10128 
(212)  348-2955 


65 


Patricia  McNulty  Harte 
6  Everett  Ave. 
Winchester,  MA  01  890 
(617)  729-1187 

Neal  Harte  was  recently  elected  to 
the  executive  committee  of  the  pri- 
vate companies  practice  of  the 
American  Institute  of  Certified  Pub- 
lic Accountants.  Neal's  firm,  Harte 
&  Carucci,  CPA  is  located  in 
Woburn.  •  Karen  Holland  is  spend- 
ing the  winter  in  Aspen,  CO.  She  is 
a  ski  instructor  a  few  days  a  week  and 
would  enjoy  having  classmates  visit 
her  if  they  are  in  the  area.  I  have  her 
phone  number.  •  Tom  Riley  is  on 
sabbatical  this  year  and  is  conduct- 
ing archaeological  excavations  on 
Molokai.  Tom  recently  stepped 
down  from  chairing  the  department 
of  anthropology  at  the  Univ.  of  Illi- 
nois Urbana-Champaign  after  seven 
years  in  that  position.  Tom  and  his 
wife  Ann  have  four  girls,  three  of 
them  in  college  and  the  oldest, 
Kirsten,  lives  and  works  in  Urbana. 
•  Carole  Lium  Edelman,  director 
of  nursing  for  the  Osborn  Retire- 
ment Community  in  Rye,  NY,  has 
been  named  director  of  nursing  of 
the  year  in  long  term  care  by  Long 
Term  Care  Magazine.  In  addition, 
Carole  serves  on  the  adjunct  faculty 
of  Adelphi  Univ.  Graduate  School 
of  Nursing  and  on  the  associate  fac 
ulty  of  the  Columbia  Univ.  Gradu- 
ate School  of  Nursing.  Carole  and 
her  husband  live  in  Harrison  with 


their  three  daughters.  •  In  Decem- 
ber, Neal  and  I  were  at  the  Catholic 
Charities  dinner  and  had  a  mini- 
reunion  with  classmates  Bob 
Hutchinson,  John  Griffin,  Rose- 
mary Thomas  MacKinnon  and 
their  spouses.  It's  difficult  to  believe 
that  we  are  only  a  year  away  from 
our  30th  class  reunion. 


65n 


Gretchen  Monagan  Sterling 
14  Morse  Rd. 
Wayland,  MA01778 


66 


Kathleen  Brennan  McMenimen 
147TrapeloRd. 
Waltham,  MA  02 154 
(617)  894-1247 


66n 

Catherine  Beyer  Hurst 
49  Lincoln  St. 
Cambridge,  MA  02141 


67 


Charles  and  Mary-Anne  Benedict 

84  Rockland  PI. 

Newton  Upper  Falls,  MA  02164 

Robert  Bent,  Esq.  is  practicing  law 
with  the  firm  of  AJlsop  &  Crawford 
in  South  Bend,  IN.  Bob  also  lives  in 
South  Bend  and  is  on  the  adjunct 
faculty  of  Indiana  Wesleyan  Univ. 
and  of  Bethel  College  •  John  P. 
Flynn,  Esq.  is  a  partner  with  the 
firm  of  Murphy  Hesse  Toomey  et. 
al.  in  Milton.  John  and  wife  Donna 
are  raising  four  children  in  Milton 
where  John  serves  as  Town  Counsel 
•  Virginia  Fall  (nee  Gudejko)  re- 
cently moved  from  W.  Newton  to 
Newton  Centre.  Jill,  an  SON  grad, 
works  at  Newton  Wellesley  Hospi- 
tal •  Mike  Ryan  also  has  recently 
moved,  to  Concord,  while  continu- 
ing to  work  at  BC  as  associate  dean 
of  students.  Mike  is  a  founding  mem- 
ber of  the  Association  of  Student 
Judicial  Affairs  •  Arthur  Daniels, 
DDS  is  a  past  president  of  the  Mass. 
Society  of  Pediatric  Dentists  as  well 
as  the  Mass.  Society  of  Dentistry  for 
Children.  Dan  lives  in  Winchester 
where  he  has  served  as  past  presi- 
dent of  thejaycees.  •  John  M.  Lyons, 
CPCU  has  relocated  from  Piano, 
TX  to  Dallas,  where  he  is  an  assis- 


14  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTF.S 


tant  VP  and  underwriting  manager 
for  Allandale  Mutual  Ins.  Co.  head- 
quartered in  Atlanta  •  Larry  Cashen 
called  to  let  us  know  that  he  is  alive 
and  well  and  a  partner  in  Cashen  & 
Conroy,  a  consulting  firm  in  the 
specialized  area  of  patient  billing 
and  accounts  receivable  manage- 
ment. Larry  is  the  father  of  Jennifer 
22,  Michael  20,  Kristen  18  and  a 
three-year-old.  He  lives  in  Pem- 
broke. •  Richard  J.  Bevilacqua 
wrote  to  inform  us  that  he  is  the 
president  of  New  England  Business 
Consultants,  a  firm  specializing  in 
business  process  reengineering.  He, 
with  his  wife  Nancy  and  children 
Cory  and  Ariana,  resides  in  Methuen. 
•  It  is  with  sadness  and  with  too 
much  frequency  that  I  report  the 
passing  of  yet  another  classmate, 
Paul  E.  Chabot.  I  received  a  notice 
that  Paul  died  on  Aug.  25  after  a 
lengthy  battle  with  cancer.  Paul  was 
a  member  of  the  BC  hockey  team 
and  he  played  semi-pro  hockey  for 
the  Louisville  Blades.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  North  American  Hockey 
League,  where  he  was  among  the 
top  five  scorers  in  the  league  for 
three  years  in  a  row.  He  was  presi- 
dent of  Keniston's  Tile  &  Design  in 
Portland,  ME.  The  class  offers  its 
condolences  to  Paul's  wife  Kathleen, 
his  son  Tom  and  daughter  Brooke, 
as  well  as  to  his  step-son  Nicholas 


and  step-daughter  Elizabeth.  • 
Thank  you  for  your  help  in  provid- 
ing news  for  this  column.  It  is  deeply 
appreciated. 

67n 

Faith  Brouillard-Hughes 
1 9  Marrick  Ct. 
Centerville,  MA  02632 
(508)  790-2785 

From  the  BC  information  update 
sheets,  we  find  that  Suzette 
Ellsworth  Baird  is  director  of  re- 
source development  at  the  Presby- 
terian Children's  Village  in 
Rosemont,  PA.  Suzette  and  Frank 
live  in  Villanova.  •  Lynn  Kuckro 
Sundermann  wrote  to  bring  us  this 
update:  she  and  Hal  celebrated  their 
2  5  th  wedding  anniversary  and  moved 
within  Cincinnati.  Son  David  is 
working  for  Holiday  Inn,  Mike  is 
beginning  a  PhD  in  chemistry  at 
Stanford,  and  Betsey  is  a  high  school 
senior.  Lynn,  in  her  fourth  year  as 
principal  of  a  K  through  8  catholic 
school,  still  has  some  political  ambi- 
tions. •  Maria  Vitagliano  is  a  full 
professor  of  art  at  Mt.  Ida  College, 
Chestnut  Hill  and  purchased  a  home 
since  we  last  saw  her  ('87?).  This 
meeting  occurred  at  Newton  Col- 


University  President  J.  Donald  Monan,  S.J.  congratulates  last  year's 
Silver  Jubilarians  Joan  McCourt  Flangan  '68  and  Alyce  Boissonneau 
Galiano  '68  after  Commencement. 


lege  Night  with  the  Irish  watercol- 
ors  visiting  the  BC  Art  Museum. 
Our  own  John  Steczynski  is  chair- 
man of  the  Art  Department  at  BC.  • 
Now  that  BCM  is  international, 
maybe  we'll  hear  from  Maria  Lina 
Santos,  CarolAnn  Haines  and  Josie 
Higgins.  •  Send  me  a  Valentine,  St. 
Pat's  Day  card  or  an  Easter  missive, 
but  please,  send  me  some  mail! 


68 


Judith  Anderson  Day 
415  Burr  St. 
Fairfield,  CT  06430 
(203)  255-2448 

Although  he  was  unable  to  attend 
our  Reunion,  Bob  Ruane  sends  a 
"hello"  to  former  classmates.  He  and 
his  wife  Kathy  live  in  Manhattan  and 
Glastonbury,  CT.  Bob  is  VP  of  cor- 
porate communications  for  Mutual 
of  America.  •  Bill  Jablon  and  his 
wife  Ellen  of  Tallahassee,  FL  were 
grand  prize  winners  in  the  Boston 
Book  Fair  drawing  for  a  trip  for  two 
to  Dublin.  Bill  was  attending  the 
National  Association  of  Independent 
Schools  meeting  in  Boston  and  hap- 
pened upon  the  Book  Fair  on  his  way 
to  his  business  meeting.  Way  to  go, 
Bill.  •  James  Miskel  has  published  a 
college  textbook,  Buying  Trouble: 
National  Security  and  Reliance  on  For- 
eign Industry.  Jim  holds  his  Ph.D.  in 
European  and  Soviet  History,  and  is 
deputy  assistant  associate  director  of 
the  Federal  Emergency  Manage- 
ment Agency  in  Washington,  DC.  • 
Barbara  Beaulieu  Chase  is  a  nurse 
practitioner  at  Mass.  General  Hos- 
pital. She  and  her  husband  Clark  live 
in  West  Newton.  •  Joe  Gannon  is 
assistant  general  tax  counsel  for 
Exxon  International  in  Florham 
Park,  NJ .  He  and  his  wife  Jane  live  in 
Basking  Ridge,  NJ .  •  Paul  Boudreau 
is  a  programmer  analyst  for  Toyota 
Motor  Sales  in  Torrance,  CA.  •  Paul 
Lamoureux  is  senior  VP  and  trea- 
surer of  the  New  Bedford  Institu- 
tion for  Savings.  He  and  his  wife 
Denise  live  in  Assonet.  •  Dan  Duane 
is  managing  director  of  The  Pru- 
dential in  Newark,  NJ.  He  and  his 
wife  Deborah  live  in  Millburn,  NJ. 
Dan  holds  a  Ph.D.  from  Yale  and  his 
MBA  from  NYU.  •  Dick  Bruno  is 
general  manager  of  National  Car 
Rental  in  Lebanon,  NH.  He  and 
wife  Patricia  live  in  Goffstown,  NH. 
•  Phyllis  Pasquarelli  Emmel  and  I 
participated  in  a  two  week  art  his- 
tory tour  of  Rome,  Florence  and  the 
Tuscany  region  of  Italy  in  March. 
The  tour  is  sponsored  by  the  fine 
arts  dept.  of  Fairfield  Univ.  Ciao! 


68n 

Kathleen  Hastings  Miller 
8  Brookline  Rd. 
Scarsdale,  NY  10583 
(914)723-9241 

As  I  sit  down  to  write,  I  realize  it  will 
be  1994  when  this  column  finally 
goes  to  print.  Who  pushed  fast  for- 
ward? What  happened  to  those  eight 
months  since  our  last  reunion? 
Here's  what  a  few  of  our  classmates 
are  up  to.  •  Christi  Becker  writes 
from  Ft.  Myers,  FL  that  life  in  the 
Sunshine  State  is  most  agreeable  (and 
she  welcomes  visitors).  •  Anne 
Cleveland  Court  was  recently  over 
from  London  to  visit  with  family 
and  friends  in  the  Philadelphia  area. 
Sorry  her  trip  couldn't  coincide  with 
our  25th.  •  Judy  Vetter  designs 
quilts,  blankets  and  linens  from  her 
home  in  Dallas,  TX.  •  Gingie 
Donahue  Donohue  (no,  it's  not  a 
typo)  is  a  director/teacher  of  the 
Parkside  Montessori  School  in  Glen 
Ridge,  NJ.  She  and  Barry  have  two 
sons  in  college  and  a  15-year-old  at 
home.  •  Susan  Regime  De  Saulnier 
is  associate  general  counsel  to  the 
Mass.  Dept.  of  Public  Welfare  and 
lives  in  Chelmsford  with  her  hus- 
band Warren .  •  Tish  Roney  Colett 
chairs  the  local  historical  commis- 
sion in  Grosse  Point,  MI  and  is  ac- 
tively involved  with  her  two  teenage 
daughters  and  husband  Gary.  'Joyce 
Southard  Finnegan  and  husband 
Richard  live  in  Needham  where 
Joyce  buys  and  sells  real  estate.  • 
Sharon  O'Keefe  Madden  is  the 
director  of  counseling  for  the  North 
Bronx  Family  Center  and  has  a  pri- 
vate psychotherapy  practice  in 
Mahopac,  NY.  One  daughter  gradu- 
ated from  college  in  1991  and  the 
other  is  Class  of '94  at  Georgetown. 
•  Patricia  Wolf  reports  that  she  is  in 
the  process  of  putting  together  an 
historical  perspective  on  Newton 
College.  She  has  interviewed  vari- 
ous former  faculty  members  and 
gotten  some  good  insights.  She'd 
love  to  have  your  remembrances  and 
comments.  Please  write  to  her  at  44 
Oak  St.,  Shrewsbury,  MA  01545. 
Our  thanks  to  Pat  for  her  effort  to 
keep  that  Newton  spirit  alive!  Don't 
forget  to  keep  me  posted  too. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTFS    1 5 


CLASSES 


69 


R 

EUNION 

|   M 

\  Y  20      23   •    1    9  9  4 

James  R.  Littleton 

39  Dale  St. 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02 167 

(617)738-5147 

Jack  Wickham  was  transferred  by 
Toyota  from  Irvine,  CA  to  Cincin- 
nati, OH  in  Sept.  Jack  is  the  assistant 
general  manager  of  the  Cincinnati 
region  for  Toyota  Motor  distribu- 
tors. Jack  is  living  in  Cincinnati  with 
wife  Terri  and  two  daughters.  Jack 
recruits  for  Toyota  at  BC  and  is  also 
involved  as  an  alumni  admission  vol- 
unteer. •  Mary  Mulvoy  Lofty  has 
relocated  from  Cincinnati,  OH  to 
Racine,  WI  as  her  husband  Donald 
was  transferred  to  Racine.  •  David 
and  Ann  Bransfield  Wallace's  son 
Kevin  is  a  freshman  at  BC.  Ann  works 
as  a  counselor  for  the  Hastings  on 
Hudson  Board  of  Education.  The 
Wallaces  live  in  Rye,  NY.  •  Nicho- 
las Anthony  has  joined  Witco  Corp. 
as  its  director  of  taxes.  Nick  worked 
most  recendy  at  General  Motors  and 
previously  at  Exxon  as  a  tax  attor- 
ney. •  Kevin  Clancy  is  a  law  partner 
with  Holtzman  and  Shepard  in  NYC. 
Kevin  lives  in  Yonkers,  NY.  •  Lillian 
Leone  Brooks  is  a  school  nurse  in 
the  Billerica  school  department. 
Lillian  and  husband  Lewis  reside  in 
Arlington.  •  Bill  Rusch  is  assistant 
VP  for  Aetna  Life  and  Casualty  in 
Hartford,  CT.  Bill  and  wife 
Maryanne  live  in  Unionville,  CT.  • 
Ed  Tulinski  is  VP  of  sales  with 
Harper  Co.  in  Meridian,  CT.  Ed 
and  wife  Dolores  live  in  Middlefield, 
CT.  •  Joe  Corkery  is  a  doctor  with 
Lahey  Clinic  in  Burlington.  Joe  and 
wife  Grace  reside  in  Winchester.  • 
John  Flaherty  is  president  of 
Flaherty  Research  in  S.  Weymouth 
where  John  resides.  •  Ronald 
Dedilippo  is  a  geologist  at  Ft.  Devins 
and  resides  with  wife  Mary  in  Ayer. 

•  John  Redmond  is  president  of 
River  Valley  Foods  in  Syracuse,  NY. 
John  and  wife  Abbie  live  in 
Cazennovia,  NY.  •  Steven 
Calabnesc  is  senior  VP  and  group 
director  at  Oglivy  Mather  in  NYC 
where  he  resides  with  wife  Patricia. 

•  Bill  Beauchamp  is  the  assistant 
city  attorney  for  Houston.  •  Ben 
Ciampa  is  president  and  CEO  of 
Rath  &  Strong  Inc.  in  Lexington. 
Ben  and  wife  Elaine  live  in  Weston. 

•  Susan  Bednanzyk  Farese  is  a 
math  teacher  at  Westwood  Middle 
School  in  Southborough  where  she 
resides  with  husband  Romeo.  • 
Carlos  Curley  is  an  associate  pro- 
fessor at  Stonehill  College.  •  Tony 
Delgrosso  is  project  manager  for 
Unisys  Corp.  Tony  and  wife  Judy 


Ernest  W.  DuBester  '72 
Chairs  National  Mediation  Board 

Ernest  W.  DuBester  72  was  recently  sworn  in  as  chairman  of 
the  National  Mediation  Board  (NMB)  in  Washington,  DC.  In  a 
private  ceremony  at  the  NMB's  headquarters  on  Nov.  15,  1993, 
DuBester  formally  assumed  his  new  position.  He  will  head  a 
three-member  board  responsible  for  administrating  the  Railway 
Labor  Act,  which  governs  labor-management  relations  in  the 
railroad  and  airline  industries. 

President  Clinton  nominated  DuBester  in  early  August  and 
the  nomination  was  confirmed  by  the  full  Senate  on  Sept.  24. 

DuBester  has  been  active  in  the  Alumni  Association  since 
graduating  from  BC,  and  is  a  former  president  of  the  Wash- 
ington, DC  Club. 


reside  in  Danvers.  •  Paul  Kiessling 

is  a  dentist  in  Medford  where  he 
resides  with  wife  Margaret.  •  Tom 
Gilligan  is  associate  counsel  with 
John  Hancock  in  Boston.  Tom  and 
wife  Margaret  live  in  Canton.  •  Bob 
McLean  is  in  insurance  and  securi- 
ties sales  with  Bay  Financial  Associ- 
ates. Bob  and  wife  Teresa  live  in 
Kalamazoo,  MI.  •  John  Lohmann 
is  retired  from  the  Army  and  is  work- 
ing as  a  consultant  in  the  Washing- 
ton, DC  area.  John  and  wife  Mary 
live  in  Fairfax,  VA.  •  Bob  Gray 
works  for  Gillette  in  Boston.  Bob, 
wife  Mary  and  family  live  in  E. 
Walpole.  •  Joan  Kelly  Turtle  is  a 
reading  specialist  for  the  Burlington 
public  schools.  Joan  and  husband 
Bernard  live  in  Woburn.  Their  son 
Chris  attends  St.  John's  Prep.  Joan  is 
president  of  the  Mass.  Reading  As- 
sociation for  '93 -'94.  •  Rosemary 
Sullivan  Tulis  is  a  teacher  at  the 
Plymouth  River  School  in  Hingham 
where  she  lives  with  husband  Rob- 
ert. •  Elly  Kinnally  Will  is  director 
of  financial  aid  at  Daytona  Beach 
Community  College.  Elly  lives  in 
Ormond  Beach,  FL  with  her  hus- 
band Norman.  •  Don  Barry  is  se- 
nior VP  and  counsel  for  the  New 
World  Bank  in  Boston.  •  Vic  Ugolyn 
is  chairman/CEO  at  Mony  Enter- 
prise Fund  in  NYC.  Vic  and  wife 
Diane  live  in  Ridgefield,  CT.  •  Mike 
Sullivan  is  manager  of  software  en- 
gineering for  Wang  in  Lowell,  where 
he  lives  with  wife  Donna.  •  Tony 
Sabino  is  town  attorney  for  Oster 
Bay,  NY.  Tony  and  wife  Maureen 
live  in  Bethpage,  NY.  •  Barbara 
Achug  Curri  is  a  nurse  at  Yale  New 
Haven  Hospital.  Barbara  and  hus- 
band Michael  live  in  Shelton,  CT.  • 
John  Egan  is  president/CEO  of 
Artec  in  Rolling  Meadow,  IL.  John 
and  wife  Lynn  live  in  N.  Barring,  IL. 
•  John  McGann  is  assistant  secre- 
tary and   attorney  for  Stone   & 


Webster  in  NYC.  John  and  wife 
Marguerite  reside  in  Haleside,  NY. 
•  Susan  Bradley  Hovani  is  nurs- 
ing/information system  coordinator 
for  the  Mather  Memorial  Hospital 
in  Port  Jefferson,  NY  and  lives  with 
her  husband  Steven  in  Stony  Brook, 
NY.  •  Marge  Waite  Geary  is  an 
administrator  for  Kaiser  Permanete 
in  Sacramento,  CA  where  she  lives 
with  her  husband  and  her  children. 
Marge  also  serves  on  the  medical 
association  advisory  board  for 
Consumnes  River  College.  • 
Josephine  Goffred  Sheldon  is  a 
pre-school  arts  teacher  in  Elington, 
CT.  The  Sheldons  reside  in  Broad 
Brook,  CT.  •  Eleanore  Jablonski 
serves  as  Sister  Mary  Theresine  with 
the  Bernadine  Sisters  OSF  in  Hyde 
Park,  NY.  •  Al  Rohling  is  executive 
director  of  ALA  Child  Caring  Foun- 
dation in  Birmingham,  AL  where  he 
lives  with  wife  Mary.  Al  is  director  of 
the  Nat'l  Coordinator  Council  of 
Caring  Programs  for  Children  and 
director  of  Birmingham  Housing 
Development  Corp.  •  It's  been  great 
seeing  some  of  you  at  the  fall's  25th 
reunion  events.  I  look  forward  to 
seeing  all  of  you  in  May. 


69n 


Patricia  Kenny  Seremet 
39  Newport  Ave. 
W.  Hartford,  CT  06 107 
(203)521-8567 


[Reunion 


MAY20-23»I994 


70 


Dennis  Razz  Berry,  Esq. 
1 5  George  St. 
Wayland,  MA  01 778 
(508)  655-1497 


70n 

Patricia  Bruni  Keefe 
309  Walnut  St. 
Wellesley,  MA02181 
(617)237-3268 

71 

Thomas  J.  Capano,  Esq. 
2500  West  1 7th  St. 
Wilmington,  DE  19806 
(302)658-7461 

71n 

Georgina  M.  Pardo 
6800  S.W.  67th  St. 
S.Miami,  FL33143 
(305)  663-4420 

The  following  info,  is  courtesy  of 
Anne  Butler.   •   Eva  Sereghy  is 

working  on  domestic  public  health 
issues  as  a  senior  program  officer  at 
the  Academy  for  Educational  De- 
velopment, a  non-profit  organiza- 
tion in  Washington,  DC.  She  sings 
with  the  New  Dominion  Chorale 
group  in  her  spare  time.  She  lives  in 
McLean,  VA  with  husband  Andy 
and  daughtersjessica,  1 2  and  Lauren, 
9.  •  Jane  Hudson  has  a  freelance 
writing  and  editing  business  called 
Moving  Words,  and  is  living  in  West 
Hartford,  CT  with  husband  Don 
and  children  Jed,  10  and  Catherine, 
6.  •  Pat  Chiota  has  moved  from 
Australia  to  Singapore.  For  the  last 
three  years,  she  and  husband  Rick 
have  been  consulting  on  executive 
compensation  for  the  Pacific  Rim. 
Their  daughter  Kendra  is  9.  •  Kate 
Fitzgerald  Connolly  left  Hill  and 
Knowlton  and  is  with  the  Dillon 
Schneider  Group.  She  lives  in  Chi- 
cago with  her  husband  Vince  and 
their  three  children.  •  Martha 
Kendrick  is  an  attorney  with  the 
firm  of  Patten,  Boggs  and  Blow  and 
is  living  in  Washington,  DC  with 
her  husband  and  three  children.  • 
Anne  Butler  spent  the  last  two  years 
as  VP  of  marketing  for  Aloette  Cos- 
metics where  she  opened  up  the 
Mexico  market.  She  is  now  consult- 
ing for  companies  expanding  abroad 
and  is  living  in  Newton  Square,  PA 
with  husband  Carlos  and  children 
Marcos,  1 4  and  Elena,  1 2 .  •  I  am  still 
working  as  controller  for  the  hotel 
and  continue  to  be  active  in  local 
conservation  groups.  My  husband 
Ed  and  I  live  with  our  horse  and  two 
dogs  in  South  Miami.  Please  send 
me  info,  on  our  fellow  classmates. 


16  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


72 


Lawrence  G.  Edgar 

530  S.  Barrington  Ave.,  #110 

Los  Angeles,  CA  90049 

(310)471-6710 

How  about  those  Eagles?  I'd  say  the 
consensus  of  college  football  fans 
here  is  that  the  two  most  exciting 
finishes  in  the  history  of  the  game 
have  both  resulted  in  wins  by  BC.  It 
was  a  shame  that  one  of  the  Eagles' 
most  stalwart  fans  couldn't  have  seen 
the  Notre  Dame  game,  but  Coleman 
Szely,  Sr.,  father  of  our  classmate, 
passed  away  on  Nov.  1 .  He  had  made 
one  of  his  innumerable  trips  to  cheer 
on  the  Eagles  just  weeks  before.  Our 
condolences  to  Coleman  Szely,  Jr. 

•  Back  to  football.  .  .our  group  of 
72s  that  gathers  on  Sat.  mornings 
for  telecasts  has  grown  by  one  with 
the  addition  of  Newport  Beach  soft- 
ware magnate  John  Sacco.  John  re- 
ports that  Bill  Fornaci  is  a  computer 
broker  in  Orlando,  FL  and  that  ex- 
hockey  star  Mike  Gordie  Holland  is 
an  accountant  in  St.  Paul,  MN  • 
Mike  Spatole  reports  that  he's  made 
a  career  change  and  has  become  a 
marketing  rep.  with  Triad  Mutual 
Fund  Investors  Corp.,  a  portfolio 
management  service  based  in 
Hingham.  •  Maryann  Giligan  of 
Marblehead,  the  general  manager  of 
a  real  estate  development  and  man- 
agement firm,  married  Bryce 
Suydam  in  April.  I've  had  two  nice 
letters  from  Lucille  Niles-Walsh 
reporting  that  she  lives  in  Marshfield 
with  her  husband  Michael  and  her 
three-year-old  son.  She  is  on  leave 
from  the  Quincy  public  schools, 
where  she  is  a  reading  specialist  at 
the  middle  school.  She  reports  that 
Bob  and  Jean  O'Hara  Sheridan 
live  in  Hingham  with  their  four  chil- 
dren. Bob  is  president  of  Savings 
Bank  Life  Insurance  andjean  teaches 
adult  education  in  Brockton.  Also, 
that  Ginger  Morgan-Walsh  lives 
in  Milton  with  her  husband  and  two 
children  an  '  is  a  senior  systems  ana- 
lyst with  the  Boston  Globe  •  Thomas 
Connors,  an  attorney  who  practices 
in  Dorchester,  is  the  1 993  winner  of 
the  Boston  Bar  Association's 
Thurgood  Marshall  Award  for  his 
"extraordinary  efforts  to  deliver  le- 
gal services  to  the  poor."  •  Joseph 
Lynch  is  president  of  Lynch  Insur- 
ance Agency  of  Peabody  •  Stephen 
Roach  is  technical  support  director 
with  Caterpillar  Inc.  in  Decatur,  IL. 

•  Kenneth  Mulvey  is  a  partner  in 
the  New  Haven,  CT  law  firm  of 
Mulvey,  Oliver,  and  Gould  •  Tho- 
mas Brown  is  VP  and  publisher  of 
the  New  York  Times  magazine.  • 


Robert  Zapf  is  a  partner  in  the 
N.Y.C.  law  firm  of  Burlingham, 
Underwood. 


72n 


Nancy  Brouillard  McKenzie,  Esq. 
7526  Sebago  Rd. 
Bethesda,  MD20817 

Sadly,  the  Newton  community  feels 
yet  another  loss  with  the  death  of 
Jane  Hamilton  Devitt.  Please  keep 
her  family  in  your  prayers.  •  In  Oc- 
tober, Stone  Ridge  Country  Day 
School  of  the  Sacred  Heart  in 
Bethesda,  MD  hosted  the  second 
annual  Mass  and  tea  for  Sacred  Heart 
alumnae  living  in  the  Washington, 
DC  area.  Our  group  of  20  Newton 
graduates  was  the  largest  represen- 
tation of  any  Sacred  Heart  school  or 
college.  Adrienne  Tarr  Free  '67  is 
now  organizing  a  Newton  College 
spring  tea  for  Newton  graduates  liv- 
ing in  the  Washington,  DC  area.  • 
Sally  Burns  has  been  living  in  Wash- 
ington, DC  for  several  years.  After 
earning  a  master's  in  public  admin- 
istration at  the  Kennedy  School  of 
Government,  Sally  worked  as  the 
foreign  policy  aide  for  U.S.  Repre- 
sentativejoseph  Kennedy  and  a  con- 
sultant at  the  State  Department.  Sally 
is  now  at  the  World  Resource  Insti- 
tute. •  In  September,  the  Boston  Globe 
featured  Robert  Engler,  president 
of  Stockard,  Engler  and  Brigham, 
Inc.,  in  a  story  about  his  vision  of 
efficient  housing  for  the  future.  Bob 
also  lectures  at  Tufts  and  Harvard.  • 
Take  care  and  please  take  a  moment 
to  send  a  note. 


73 


Joy  A.  Malone,  Esq. 
1  6  Lewis  St. 
Little  Falls,  NY  13365 
fax:  (315)823-2723 

The  next  time  you  return  to  BC, 
check  out  the  new  dining  facility  on 
the  Lower  Campus.  The  new  Lower 
Campus  garage  is  scheduled  for 
completion  in  June,  1994.  The  ga- 
rage is  being  built  with  footings  and 
foundations  that  will  accommodate 
a  future,  as  yet  unplanned,  building 
on  top  of  the  garage.  •  Students  as 
well  as  representatives  of  ten  other 
universities  with  similar  facilities 
have  been  included  in  the  planning 
phase  and  critique  of  BC's  proposed 
student  center.  The  student  center 
is  now  in  the  working  model  stage. 
The  University  is  still  working  on 


plans  to  expand  the  seating  capacity 
of  Alumni  Stadium  by  12,000  seats 
for  the  1994  football  season.  • 
Stephen  Miller  is  a  staff  sergeant 
with  the  Army  107th  Military  Intel- 
ligence Battalion,  7th  Infantry  Divi- 
sion. Stephen  and  wife  Rebecca 
reside  in  Fort  Ord,  CA.  •  Kathleen 
Dacey  Kolczynski  is  a  surgical  nurse 
anesthetist  at  Kaiser  Permanente 
Medical  Center  in  L.A.  She  and  hus- 
band Phillip  reside  in  Huntington 
Beach,  CA.  •  Randall  Picard  and 
wife  Charlene  also  reside  in  Hun- 
tington Beach,  CA  where  Randy  is 
general  manager  at  Maxwell's  Res- 
taurant, 3 1 7  Pacific  Coast  Highway. 
•  Peter  Coakley  is  a  leasing  man- 
ager for  commercial  real  estate  in 
the  Denver,  CO  area  where  Pete 
lives  with  his  wife,  Pamela.  •  Michael 
Fitzsimmons  and  wife  Margaret  live 
in  Jacksonville,  FL  where  Mike  works 
for  the  Florida  Department  of  Envi- 
ronmental Regulation.  •  Paul 
Antoniou  and  wife  live  in  St.  Au- 
gustine, FL  where  Paul  is  a  clinical 
social  worker.  •  Howard  Bernstein, 
Esq.  and  wife  Alice  reside  in  Saint 
Petersburg,  FL.  Howard  is  a  senior 
assistant  county  attorney  in 
Clearwater.  •  Paul  Mannish,  Esq. 
is  in  private  practice  in  Coconut 
Grove,  FL.  •  James  McLean  and 
wife  Barbara  reside  in  Naperville, 
IL.  Jim  is  senior  VP  with  Sanwa 
Business  Credit  Corp.  in  Chicago.  • 
Paul  Boudreau  and  wifejoan  live  in 
Destrehan,  LA.  Paul  is  an  assistant 
football  coach  with  the  New  Or- 
leans Saints.  •  Joseph  Gaidis  and 
wife  Catherine  reside  in  Bethel,  ME 
where  Joe  is  the  owner  of  his  own 
antiques  auction  company.  •  Will- 
iam Brennan,  Esq.  is  an  attorney  in 
Upper  Marlboro,  MD.  •  J.  Gregory 
Boyland,  Esq.  and  wife  Anita  reside 
in  Silver  Spring,  MD.  Greg  is  presi- 
dent of  B.D.I,  in  Columbia,  MD.  • 
Mary  Palaima  is  assistant  director, 
physical  therapy,  at  the  National 
Rehabilitation  Hospital  in  Wash- 
ington, DC.  •  Susan  Wysocki  is 
executive  director  of  the  National 
Association  of  Nurse  Practitioners 
in  Washington,  DC.  •  William 
Pittman  is  program  manager  of  the 
President's  Committee  on  Disabil- 
ity in  Washington,  DC.  •  John 
Barbato  is  a  plant  engineer  with  the 
3M  Co.  in  Detroit.  •  Mark 
Schneider,  Esq.  and  wife  Catherine 
reside  in  Bloomington,  MN.  Mark 
is  an  attorney  with  a  firm  in  Minne- 
apolis. •  Marc  Robinson  and  wife 
Meryl  reside  in  Raleigh,  NC  where 
Marc  is  president  of  Environmental 
Systems.  •  Timothy  Shimko,  Esq. 
and  wife  Camille  reside  in  Bay  Vil- 
lage, OH.  Tim  practices  law  in 
Cleveland.  •  Thomas  Fleming  and 


wife  Mary  reside  in  Poland,  OH. 
Tom  is  president  of  AIM  Leasing  in 
Girard,  OH.  •  Angel  Vazquez,  Esq. 
and  wife  Diana  reside  in  Rio  Piedras, 
PR  where  Angel  is  in  private  prac- 
tice. •  Gary  Lasko  and  wife  Kim 
reside  in  Memphis,  TN  where  Gary 
is  senior  VP  with  Sedgwick,  Inc.  • 
John  Barry  and  wife  Elizabeth  re- 
side in  Knoxville,  TN.  John  is  a 
contract  specialist  with  the  U.S. 
Department  of  Energy  in  Oak  Ridge, 
TN.  •  Anne  Paull  is  a  registered 
nurse  at  the  Austin  Diagnostic  Clinic 
in  Austin  TX.  •  Rev.  Jonathan 
Carey  is  a  law  student  in  London.  • 
Mary  White  Kudless  and  husband 
John  reside  in  Arlington,  VA.  Mary 
is  director  of  Northwest  Center  for 
Community  Mental  Health  in 
Reston,  VA.  •  James  Schlesinger 
and  wife  Sandra  reside  in 
Fredericksburg,  VA.  Jim  is  a  doctor 
in  the  emergency  medical  depart- 
ment with  Fredericksburg  Medical 
Associates.  •  Karen  Rosbicki 
Whitaker  and  husband  Michael  re- 
side in  Charleston,  WV  where  Karen 
is  a  guidance  counselor  at  Charles- 
ton Catholic  High.  •  Brian  Buggy, 
MD  and  wife  Ellen  reside  in 
Mequon,  WI.  Brian  practices  medi- 
cine in  Milwaukee.  •  Deadline  for 
next  column  is  March  1 .  Please  drop 
me  a  line.  Thanks. 

73n 

Christine  A.  Hardiman 
1  6  Prospect  St. 
Hyde  Park,  MA  02 1 36 
(617)361-4524 

Congratulations  to  Mary  Sue  Ryan 
McKenna  and  her  husband  Mark! 
They  have  adopted  a  baby  girl.  The 
new  arrival's  name  is  Katherine  Ryan. 
Katherine  was  born  on  July  28, 
weighing  in  at  5  lbs.  7  oz.,  and  went 
home  with  her  parents  on  August  9. 
On  September  8,  Mary  Sue  and  Mark 
had  another  reason  to  celebrate — 
their  20th  wedding  anniversary.  In 
addition,  Mary  Sue  is  now  starting 
her  20th  year  with  Xerox.  She  is  the 
district  manager  of  sales  for  Xerox 
Corporation  for  all  sales  personnel 
in  North  Texas.  Good  luck  on  jug- 
gling your  dual  rules,  Mary  Sue.  • 
Mary  Bryant  Cooley  is  a  staff  pe- 
diatrician in  the  United  States  Air 
Force.  As  I  said  in  a  previous  issue,  a 
report  that  Mary  was  dead  was  erro- 
neous. Mary  and  her  husband  David 
are  alive  and  well  and  living  in  Rapid 
City,  SD. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES    1 7 


CLASSES 


74 


[Reunion 


MAY20-23»1994 


Patricia  McNabb  Evans 
35  Stratton  Ln. 
Foxboro,  MA  02035 


74n 


[Reunion 


Beth  Docktor  Nolan 
693  Boston  Post  Rd. 
Weston,  MA  02 193 

Hard  to  believe  that  it  will  be  20 
years  since  our  graduation.  The  re- 
union committee  has  done  an  out- 
standing job  organizing  the 
festivities,  and  we  are  grateful  to 
them  for  all  their  hard  work.  •  News 
does  come  from  Kathleen  O'Brien 
Tracy  who  has  been  living  in  Kent, 
WA  since  77.  For  the  past  19  years, 
Kathy  has  taught  every  grade  level 
from  K- 1 2 .  Kathy  received  a  master's 
in  education  from  Seattle  Univ.  in 
1981  and  has  also  received  her  cre- 
dentials in  administration.  Kathy  is 
currently  assistant  principal  of 
Mattson  Junior  High.  On  the  per- 
sonal side,  Kathy  and  George  were 
married  July  4,  1992;  Kathy  is  step- 
mother to  K.C.  and  Joey.  Kathy 
wishes  she  could  be  at  the  20th  to 
share  her  stories  and  visit  with  ev- 
eryone, but  the  reunion  is  at  her 
busiest  season  in  school — so  if  she's 
not  here  in  body,  Kathy  is  definitely 
here  in  spirit.  Kathy  also  writes  that 
Sister  Francis  Regdos  (she  was  a 
day  student  when  we  were  fresh- 
men) is  no  longer  a  nun,  but  now  is 
married  and  living  in  California  with 
her  husband  and  beautiful  daughter. 
Kathy  would  like  to  locate  her  again; 
any  information  would  be  appreci- 
ated. •  Looking  forward  to  seeing 
you  at  the  20th! 


75 


Heidi  Schwarzbauer  Steiger 
322  Central  Park  West  #7B 
New  York,  NY  10025 

First,  I  would  like  to  clarify  an  error 
made  in  a  prior  publication. 
Jeannette  McCarthy  never  sought 
appointment  to  the  Boston  City 
Council.  She  served  on  the  Waltham 
School  Committee  for  six  years.  She 
is  currently  working  as  a  staff  attor- 
ney for  the  City  of  Waltham.  She 
did  not  replace  Robert  Horack;  there 
were  two  vacancies  at  the  time,  and 
she  filled  one  of  them.  We  apologize 
for  this  mistake.  •  Ellen  Mayoue 
has  moved  from  Boston  to  St.  Louis 
and  has  set  up  her  own  law  practice. 


•  Christine  Cahill  is  now  VP  of 

small  business  banking  at  the  Bank 
of  Boston.  •  Ron  Whitaker  had  a 

small  part  as  an  extra  in  "The  Crying 
Game'"  which  starred  his  cousin 
Forrest  Whitaker.  •  Congrats  to 
Anne  T.  Kane  who  was  recently 
presented  with  the  Knollwood 
Award,  which  honors  women  whose 
commitment  to  their  vocations  and 
dedication  to  the  service  of  others 
exemplifies  the  Notre  Dame  Acad- 
emy tradition.  She  is  presently  the 
director  of  nursing  services  for 
Pernet  Family  Health  Services  which 
specializes  in  maternal  and  child 
health  care  for  marginalized  inner- 
city  families.  •  Best  wishes  to  Kathy 


75n 

Deborah  Melino-Wender 
TlOChamplin  PI.  N. 
Newport,  Rl  02840 

Carla  Malachowski  was  married 
this  past  summer  tojames  P.  Roque. 
Best  wishes  to  you  both.  Carla  is 
employed  by  Raymond  &  Whitcomb 
Co.  in  Boston.  •  Eileen  Amy  writes 
that  she  has  been  married  to  Eduardo 
Berinstein  for  the  last  five  years. 
They  have  a  new  red-haired  daugh- 
ter who  was  born  in  October,  1992. 
She  and  Eduardo  took  a  trip  to 
Eduardo's  native  Argentina  two  years 


Paul  Armstrong  '74  and  daughter  Joyce,  2  get  ready  to  cheer  the  Eagles 
on  at  the  Family  Day  football  in  last  October.  The  Armstrongs  were  one 
of  600  families  who  participated  in  the  morning's  activities,  which 
included  sports  clinics,  a  moon  walk  and  face  painting. 


Horridge  who  was  married  to  David 
Kenney  at  the  Immaculate  Concep- 
tion Church  last  February.  •  Hellas 
M.  Assad  has  joined  Century  2 1  and 
is  a  member  of  the  Mass.  Teachers 
Association.  •  John  Impemba  has 
joined  WMTW-TV  as  a  news  re- 
porter in  Auburn,  ME.  •  Steven 
Kursh  and  his  wife  are  expecting 
their  third  child.  He  is  thinking  about 
either  teaching  at  a  business  school 
or  writing.  •  On  a  sadder  note, 
Daniel  Tucker  died  in  August  after 
fighting  a  long  illness.  He  is  survived 
by  his  mother,  brothers,  and  several 
aunts,  uncles,  cousins.  Our  condo- 
lences to  his  family. 


ago.  Eileen  works  at  the  Martha  Eliot 
Health  Center  in  Jamaica  Plain  us- 
ing both  her  nursing  and  Spanish 
skills.  Eileen  has  been  in  touch  with 
other  Newton  alums:  Deborah 
Joyce  Drake  is  living  in  New  Jersey 
with  her  husband  Paul  and  their  two 
sons,  Andrew  and  Patrick.  Ann 
Brennan  is  living  in  the  Chicago 
area  with  her  husband  and  two  chil- 
dren. Your  faithful  correspondent  is 
still  living  here  in  Newport  awaiting 
your  letters. 


76 


Gerald  B.  Shea,  Esq. 

1 0  Greaton  Rd. 

W.  Roxbury,  MA02132 

Bennet  S.  Yee  is  director  of  tax 
compliance  for  Computervision 
Corp.  of  New  Bedford.  He  and  wife 
Carol  reside  in  Newton.  •  MBIA 
Corp.,  an  insurer  of  municipal  bonds, 
named  Neil  G.  Budnick  as  assistant 
to  the  president  and  CEO.  A  senior 
VP  since  1987,  Neil  received  a 
master's  degree  in  public  adminis- 
tration and  finance  from  the  Univ. 
of  Colorado.  •  Michael  Brosnan 
has  been  appointed  associate  direc- 
tor of  publications  and  associate  edi- 
tor of  Independent  School  magazine, 
published  by  and  for  the  Nat'l  Asso- 
ciation of  Independent  Schools 
(NAIS),  an  advocate  for  indepen- 
dent precollegiate  education.  Previ- 
ous career  stints  include  time  as  an 
associate  editor  of  Down  East  maga- 
zine, as  news  reporter  for  the  York 
County  (MK)Coast  Star,  as  teacher  of 
English  at  Hebron  Academy  in 
Maine  and  at  C.  W.  Post  and  Queens 
College  in  New  York.  Michael's  sto- 
ries and  poems  have  been  published 
in  the  Chattahoochie  Review  and 
Wooster  Review,  among  others,  and 
he  sports  a  master's  in  English  fic- 
tion writing  from  UNH.  NAIS  is 
located  in  Washington,  D.C.  •  Hop- 
ing all  enjoy  a  safe  and  healthy  win- 
ter season.  I  await  your  missives  and 
epistles.  God  bless! 


77 


Esq. 


Roland  J.  Regan,  Jr. 
1  1  Hathaway  Rd. 
Marblehead,  MA  01945 


78 


Cathleen  J.  Ball  Foster 
1 5 1 05  Cedar  Tree  Dr. 
Burtonsville,  MD  20866 
(301)776-6123 

Belated  congratulations  to  Debbie 
Boole  Smelko  and  husband  Tom 
on  the  birth  of  their  daughter 
Katherine  Katie  Marie.  She  was  born 
July  21,  1992  and  weighed  in  at  6 
lbs.,  1  oz.  She  joins  big  brothers  T.J. , 
7  and  Peter,  5.  Debbie's  a  cost  and 
planning  analyst  for  Texas  Instru- 
ments where  she's  worked  for  14 
years.  Tom  also  works  there.  De- 
spite a  car  accident  in  1978  which 
confined  her  to  a  wheelchair,  Debbie 
hasn't  slowed  down.  They  live  in 


18  BOS  TON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTF.S 


Dallas  and  she'd  love  to  hear  from 
Marie  Kirk  Burk.  •  Prof.  Andrew 
Boynton  wrote  that  he  and  his  fam- 
ily have  been  living  for  a  year  just 
outside  Lausanne,  Switzerland.  He's 
been  teaching  at  the  International 
Institute  for  Management  Develop- 
ment while  he's  been  on  leave  from 
the  Darden  School,  Univ.  of  Vir- 
ginia. Andy,  his  wife  Jane  and  their 
three  sons;  Owen,  10;  Dylan,  5;  and 
Ian,  3  will  be  in  Switzerland  for  sev- 
eral years,  enjoying  the  sights  and 
sounds  of  Europe.  He'd  like  to  know 
if  Brian  Dacy  gives  78  grads  "sub- 
stantial discounts"  on  houses  •  Navy 
Lt.  Comm.  Richard  S.  Callas  par- 
ticipated in  Unitas  34-93  aboard  the 
USS  Whidbey  Island,  homeported 
in  Little  Creek,  VA.  Unitas  (Latin 
for  unity)  is  a  four-  to  five-month 
combined  exercise  involving  US  fleet 
ships,  aircraft  and  ground  forces  par- 
ticipating in  warfare  exercises  with 
South  American  navy  units  from 
Venezuela,  Columbia,  Peru,  Para- 
guay, Chile,  Argentina,  Uruguay, 
and  Brazil.  Unitas  participants  cir- 
cumnavigated South  America  to  im- 
prove the  way  in  which  those  forces 
interoperate.  Richard  joined  the 
Navy  in  May  1979.  •  Best  wishes  to 
James  J.  Low  II  and  his  new  bride, 
Gabriela  Kunsmann  Low.  They  were 
wed  Oct.  2  in  the  tiny  Swiss  village  of 
Gfenn  in  a  750-year-old  church. 
Jim's  parents  (his  dad's  '53),  broth- 
ers and  their  spouses  attended,  as 
did  friends  from  Clearwater,  FL  and 
Boston.  Jim  and  Gaby  met  at  the 
Clearwaterjazz  Festival  in  Oct.  1 99 1 
while  she  was  taking  post-grad 
courses  at  Eckerd  College  (my  sister's 
alma  mater!).  They  had  quite  a  long- 
distance courtship!  They  honey- 
mooned both  in  Mergoscia,  a 
mountain  village  in  the  Italian  part 
of  Switzerland  near  Locarno,  and  in 
Clearwater,  where  they're  now  liv- 
ing. They're  thinking  about  starting 
a  family  and  moving  to  New  En- 
gland. Jim's  been  in  Clearwater  since 
'82  after  graduating  from  Suffolk 
Law.  He  has  his  own  practice  and  is 
licensed  in  both  Massachusetts  and 
Florida.  (Thanks  for  the  long  letter, 
Jim.  Gaby  sounds  like  one  lucky  lady 
to  have  such  a  wonderfully  romantic 
fellow  falling  head  over  heels  for 
her.  I  wish  you  many  more  years 
together!)  •  Patrick  O'Connell  has 
joined  Chase  Kolbin  Allen  in 
Westwood  as  a  retail  sales  merchan- 
diser. Patrick  will  be  promotinggro- 
cery  and  perishable  items  accounts 
at  the  company's  group  headquar- 
ters in  the  metro  Boston  area.  He 
lives  in  Hingham  •  Basil  G.  Pallone 
has  been  elected  a  VP  at  EVA 
Cogenex  Corp.,  where  he'll  be  re- 
sponsible for  customer  service  and 


legal  matters  as  well  as  financing  and 
regulatory  matters.  He  lives  in 
Waltham.  •  Michael  J.  Regan  and 
his  wife  Karen  Quinn  Regan  moved 
to  Concord  in  1992,  after  having 
lived  in  New  Jersey  since  their  mar- 
riage in  1979.  Mike  is  VP  and  a 
principal  in  McWalter  Insurance 
Agency,  with  offices  in  Concord  and 
Acton;  he's  responsible  for  the  per- 
sonal and  commercial  property  and 
casualty  sales  efforts  for  the  firm. 
Karen  has  been  working  at  home 
doing  a  marvelous  job  as  mother  to 
their  3  children:  Patrick,  11;  Sarah, 
8;  and  Timothy,  5 .  Mike  reports  that 
they  all  love  being  back  in  New  En- 
gland where  they  can  see  old  class- 
mates and  attend  Eagles  games!  • 
R.T.  Ryback  wrote  that  he  and  his 
family  are  living  in  Minneapolis 
where  he's  a  public  affairs  co-chair 
of  the  Tony  Bouza  for  Governor 
campaign.  He's  married  to  Megan 
O'Hara  and  they  have  two  kids, 
Charlie,  5  and  Grace,  2.  R.T.  "would 
love  to  hear  from  old  BC  friends, 
especially  those  who  are  kind  enough 
to  forget  anything  that  could  one 
day  be  used  to  blackmail"  him  »Pam 
Smith  married  Steve  Thomas  (Law 
'83)  on  Oct.  3,  1992.  In  attendance 
were  Bill  Hyland,  Mark  Weber, 
Cheri  Crow  '79,  and  Bob  Holmes 
'80.  They  honeymooned  in  St.  Lucia 
and  were  splitting  their  time  be- 
tween their  condos  in  Quincy  and 
Leominster,  while  waiting  for  the 
real  estate  market  to  pick  up.  (Have 
you  consolidated  homes  yet?)  Pam 
has  been  house  counsel  for  New 
England  Telephone  in  Boston  since 
'86,  handling  labor  law  and  general 
litigation.  She's  done  a  lot  of  court 
work,  and  recently  argued  an  envi- 
ronmental law  case  before  the  Mas- 
sachusetts SJC.  Pam  also  is  a  BC 
basketball  season  ticket  holder — an- 
other Eagles  fan!  She'd  love  to  hear 
from  Maliz  Finnegan.  •  The  Class 
Committee  continues  to  plan  activi- 
ties for  you.  If  you'  d  like  to  join  the 
committee,  please  drop  a  line  to 
Joyce  Gallagher  Sullivan,  c/o  BC 
Alumni  Assoc,  825  Centre  St.,  New- 
ton 02 158.  Upcoming  events  include 
a  family  skating  party  on  Feb.  6, 
Laetare  Sunday  on  March  1 3 ,  a  class 
committee  meeting  on  March  22  at 
7  p.m.  and  a  class  harbor  cruise  on 
June  4.  Look  for  your  '78  Update  in 
your  mailbox.  •  On  a  final  note, 
John  E.  Vitali  wrote  that  Peter  I. 
Blute,  Mass.  State  Rep.  from 
Shrewsbury,  has  been  elected  to  the 
US  House  of  Representatives  from 
the  Third  Congressional  of  Massa- 
chusetts, as  a  Republican.  Says  John, 
"Peter  is  well-known  to  his  friends 
as  a  handsome,  articulate  and  re- 
spected politician,  trained  in  Aristo- 


telian logic  by  Father  Barnett  and 
destined  to  have  a  building  on  the 
Heights  constructed  to  bear  his 
name.  Peter  lived  in  the  'mods'  and 
consequently  is  well-prepared  for  life 
on  Capitol  Hill."  (Congrats  Peter!) 
So,  what  have  you  been  up  to? 


79 


f 

EUNION 

|   M 

\  Y  20  -  23   •    1    9  9  4 

Laura  Vitagliano 
78  Wareham  St. 
Medford,  MA  02 1 55 

Patricia  Lynott  Bonan  and  hus- 
bandjames  were  expecting  their  first 
child  around  Christmas — I'm  anx- 
iously waiting  for  the  outcome. 
Patricia  says  she  is  still  working  at 
Chase.  •  Brendan  Glynn  and  wife 
Paula  had  their  first  child,  Christo- 
pher Jennings  Glynn,  on  July  15, 
1993.  •  Richard  O'Hara  spent  the 
last  four  years  living  outside  Minne- 
apolis while  employed  as  VP  of  mar- 
keting for  IDS  Advisory  Group.  He 
recently  relocated  to  New  York  to 
open  and  manage  Advisory's  east 
coast  operation.  He  currently  re- 
sides in  Fort  Salonga,  NY  with  wife 
Annemarie  and  sons  Richard  and 
Sean.  •  Felicia  Maccarone  Miller 
and  husband  Dr.  Norman  Miller  live 
in  southern  New  Hampshire  while 
working  in  northern  Mass.  She  has  a 
part-time  pediatric  position  and  her 
husband  practices  GI  full-time.  They 
are  also  quite  busy  with  their  chil- 
dren: daughter  Avery,  4,  and  son 
Jacob,  2.  •  Ellie  Mannarino  Lofaro 
and  her  husband  Frank  live  on  Long 
Island  with  their  children  Paris,  6, 
Jordan,  4,  and  Capri,  I.  Ellie  taught 
high  school  English  for  10  years 
after  leaving  BC,  and  since  1992  has 
hosted  a  daily  radio  talk  show  on 
WLIX.  She  and  Frank  are  exten- 
sively involved  with  local,  national 
and  foreign  Christian  organizations 
and  endeavors.  •  Celeste  DiPietro 
Jeffway  and  husband  Robert  have 
three  children:  Robbie,  3,  and  twins 
Alexandria  and  Nicholas,  2.  Celeste 
is  at  home  with  the  children  while 
Bob  is  an  electronics  engineering 
consultant  in  the  toy  industry  and  a 
toy  inventor!  She  hopes  to  see  many 
of  her  BC  friends  in  May.  •  John 
Mariano  and  his  wife  Karen  live  in 
Norwell.  Karen  is  teaching  Spanish 
in  Newton  and  John  left  Digital 
Equipment  Corp.  and  now  owns  and 
operates  the  Scituate  Country  Club. 
•  Michael  Preziosi  and  wife 
Lorraine  have  two  daughters: 
Alessandra,  8,  and  Victoria,  5. 
Michael  graduated  from  Seton  Hall 
Law  School  in  1 984  and  is  now  presi- 
dent/owner of  Altor  Abstract  Co., 


Inc.  •  Catherine  LaPann  Vecchio 

received  her  MBA  in  1983  and 
worked  in  the  computer  field  from 
1983-1989.  She  left  a  position  as 
radiology  information  systems  man- 
ager at  Albany  Medical  Center  to  be 
an  at-home  mom.  She  was  married 
in  1985  to  Phil  Vecchio,  a  tax  attor- 
ney and  CPA.  They  have  3  children: 
Philip  Jr.,  5,  Laura,  3,  and  John,  2. 
Catherine  is  very  active  in  her  church 
and  is  the  administrative  assistant 
for  her  husband's  law  office.  •  Kevin 
Sharp,  after  14  years  of  selling  cop- 
per and  fiber  optic  cable  to  com- 
puter-related industries,  is  changing 
industries  and  selling  textile-based 
products  to  the  cable  industry  as 
product  manager.  •  Ken  Galinas 
and  his  wife  Suzanne  have  two  chil- 
dren: David,  8  and  Laura,  5.  He  is 
the  owner  of  Gelinas  &  Co.  CPAs, 
with  offices  in  Manchester,  NH  and 
Nashua,  NH.  He  is  involved  in  de- 
veloping construction  companies  for 
elderly-assisted  living  care  facilities. 
Ken  adds  that  things  are  going  well 
and  he  hopes  that  it  is  the  same  for 
everybody  else.  •  Tracy  Mazza 
Lucido  and  husband  Bob  live  in 
Maryland  with  their  two  children: 
Lauren,  4,  and  Robert,  1.  She  is  de- 
voting most  of  her  time  to  being 
home  with  their  children  and  help- 
ing out  with  their  real  estate  compa- 
nies. She  also  sent  news  about  some 
of  her  friends:  Betsy  Nedeau 
Millane  and  husband  Neal  had  their 
second  child,  Cornelius  Arthur 
Millane  IV  last  Sept.  "Carter"  joins 
sister  Kelley,  6.  Tracy  is  the  proud 
godmother!  Sarah  Peavey,  a  senior 
VP  with  Lehman  Brothers  in  Man- 
hattan, announced  her  engagement 
to  Phil  Carvalho,  a  computer  graphic 
designer.  They  met  in  San  Francisco 
and  Phil  relocated  to  NYC.  Wed- 
ding plans  are  in  the  making!  Julie 
O'Donnell  Wright  and  husband 
Steve  live  in  Silver  Spring ,  MD  with 
their  two  boys,  Kevin  and  Sean.  Julie 
works  full  time  as  a  CPA  for  the 
Univ.  of  Maryland.  Thanks  for  the 
update,  Tracy!  •  Kerry  Mahony 
works  as  a  personnel  manager  for 
the  Bank  of  New  York.  She  does  a 
lot  of  recruiting  for  the  securities 
processing  division.  She  is  engaged 
to  a  Spaniard  from  Barcelona  and 
plans  to  marry  in  May  '94.  •  Patricia 
Cronin  Burgess  and  husband  Lloyd 
had  their  first  child,  Kevin  Francis, 
on  October  27,  1993.  •  Joseph 
Drake  and  wife  Deborah  have  a  16- 
month-old  son,  Philip.  Joe  recently 
joined  CSC  Consulting  after  having 
been  with  KPMG  Peat  Marwick  in 
Central  and  Eastern  Europe  for  the 
last  two  years.  •  Donna  Ferullo, 
afterexperimentingwith  several  dif- 
ferent careers,  has  finally  settled  on 


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CLASSES 


two:  librarianship  and  law.  She  re- 
ceived her  master's  in  library  science 
from  the  Univ.  of  Maryland  in  1984 
and  a  JD  from  Suffolk  Univ.  Law 
School  in  1989.  She  is  currently 
employed  at  BC  as  head  librarian  in 
the  Social  Work  Library  and  also 
has  a  part-time  private  law  practice. 
•  Michael  Morisi  and  wife  Carmen 
celebrated  their  tenth  anniversary 
last  fall  with  a  trip  to  Monte  Carlo. 
They  have  two  daughters: 
Jacqueline,  6,  and  Alisandra,  2.  He 
operates  his  own  law  firm  in 
Braintree  and  his  wife  works  for  the 
Middlesex  District  Attorney.  •  Jody 
O'Callaghan  and  her  children  have 
taken  possession  of  a  100-year-old 
townhouse  on  Summit  Hill  in  St. 
Paul,  MN.  She  says  that  it's  a  won- 
derfully diverse  community  in  which 
to  tend  to  self,  family  and  health 
which  is  the  focus  of  the  immediate 
future.  She's  between  positions  at 
this  time  and  is  savoring  it.  She  says 
to  look  her  up  if  you're  in  the  area!  • 
Tom  Kucher  and  his  wife  Joyce 
have  two-year-old  twin  boys,  Chris- 
topher and  Justin.  Tom  is  a  regional 
sales  manager  for  Trinzic  Corp.,  a 
software  company.  •  James 
Buchanan  got  married  in  August 
1992.  He  and  wife  Lisa  live  in  New 
Orleans,  and  last  December  he  fin- 
ished his  MBA  at  the  Univ.  of  New 
Orleans.  •  Rick  Iacobucci  is  en- 
gaged to  Bridget  Bush;  a  November 
wedding  is  planned.  He  is  complet- 
ing a  master  of  science  degree  in 
non-profit  sector  planning  at  UMass 
Boston,  and  is  working  as  a  self- 
employed  fund-raising  counsel  for 
non-profit  organizations.  •  Brian 
Caspersen  says  that  he  is  having  the 
best  time  of  his  life!  In  November  he 
received  a  promotion  as  a  national 
sales  instructor  for  an  automotive 
consulting  firm,  Pat  Ryan  and  Asso- 
ciates. He  now  travels  all  over  the 
US  and  Canada  doing  sales  seminars 
for  their  clients.  He  even  tried 
bungee  jumping  on  Vancouver  Is- 
land! Lastly,  he  adds  that  with  all 
this  traveling  he's  still  managed  to 
keep  his  5  handicap  in  golf.  •  Sharon 
Berberick  Gualtieri  and  her  hus- 
band Michael  live  in  W.  Hartford, 
CT  with  their  two  boys  and  a  girl. 
She  was  previously  employed  at 
Aetna  Life  and  Casualty  as  a  systems 
specialist,  and  is  now  at  home  with 
her  children  and  is  doing  numerous 
volunteer  activities.  •  Chip 
Reynolds  moved  to  Park  City,  UT 
the  winter  after  graduating  and  is 
still  there.  He  married  five  years 
ago,  and  he  and  his  wife  Polly  have 
one  child,  Charles  Jr.,  4.  He's  only 
been  back  to  Boston  for  the  five  year 
reunion  and  hopes  to  make  it  back 
soon — hopefully  it  will  be  in  May 


for  the  reunion!  •  Thanks  to  all  of 
you  who  dropped  me  a  line;  space  is 
limited  so  if  you  didn't  see  your  news 
in  this  column,  it  will  probably  be  in 
the  next  issue! 


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Jay  Geary 
1  1  Pond  St. 

Needham,  MA02192 
(617)449-9212 


81 


Alison  Mitchell  McKee,  Esq. 
c/o  Hunton  &  Williams 
P.O.  Box  3889 
Norfolk,  VA  23514 
(804)  640-5329 

I  hope  everyone  had  a  most  enjoy- 
able holiday  season!  Maura  Gavin 
wrote  that  she  and  husband  Mark 
Houghtlin  had  a  son  injanuary  1 993 , 
Connor  McGinty,  who  joins  his  two- 
year  old  twin  sisters,  Michaela  and 
Lindsea.  Maura  is  a  full-time  mom, 
keeping  busy  with  three  under  three! 
Mark  is  a  telecommunications  spe- 
cialist with  IBM.  Maura  reports  that 
her  family  will  be  relocating  from 
San  Diego  to  Raleigh,  NC,  and  is 
looking  forward  to  being  closer  to 
her  family  and  old  BC  friends.  Last 
May  Helene  Corea  Muldoon  took 
a  mom's  getaway  from  her  three 
children,  Joseph,  Luke  and 
Madeline,  and  husband  Casey 
Muldoon  to  visit  Maura,  her  BC 
roommate.  Maura  also  reports  that 
Beth  Barrett  Frummer  has  her  own 
law  firm  in  Boston  and  is  married  to 
another  attorneyjohn.  •  Congratu- 
lations to  Chuck  Wynters  and  his 
wife  Kathy  on  the  birth  of  their  sec- 
ond child,  a  son  CJ,  who  was  born  on 
September  20,  1993.  CJ  and  his  15- 
month-old  sister,  Annie,  reside  with 
their  parents  in  Waltham.  Chuck  is 
a  business  representative  for 
SuperValu,  Inc.  in  Andover  and,  in 
his  spare  time,  referees  college 
hockey.  He  also  recently  worked  as 
an  on-ice  official  for  several  games 
in  the  National  Hockey  League.  • 
Best  wishes  to  Jeremiah  Anthony 
O'Connor,  Jr.  and  his  bride 
Katherine  Renee  Hill  who  were 
married  earlier  this  year  in 
Greenville,  DE.  Anthony  is  a  VP 
with  NatWest  Securities  in  New 
York,  and  Katherine  is  a  product 
manager  for  General  Foods  USA.  • 
Congratulations  to  Tracy  Stivers 
and  David  Hankins  on  their  recent 
wedding.  Tracy  is  a  sales  manager  at 


Stivers  Publishing.  David  is  the 
owner  of  a  frame  shop  and  gallery  in 
Leesburg,  VA,  where  they  reside.  • 
Nancy  Goldberg  is  an  associate  di- 
rector for  The  Center  for  Corporate 
Community  Relations  at  BC.  She 
and  her  husband  Peter  live  in  Waban. 
•  Andrew  Cope  is  president  of  De- 
sign Marketing,  an  advertising 
agency,  in  Portland.  His  wife  Julie 
works  for  L.  L.  Bean.  They  live  in 
Portland.  •  Congratulations  to 
Debra  Perillo  and  Dr.  Paul  DeMeo 
on  their  May  wedding.  •  Marc 
Myrin  is  a  partner  with  the  law  firm 
of  Gerard,  Myrin  and  Singer,  P.C. 
in  Dallas.  He  and  his  wife  Amy  also 
live  in  Dallas.  •  Stephen  Galligan  is 
a  sales  manager  in  North  Andover 
for  NYNEX  Corp.  He  lives  with  his 
wife  Midge  in  West  Newbury.  • 
Theresa  Cretella  is  a  chiropractic 
assistant  with  Goodman 
Chiropractic  in  Newton.  •  William 
Stephanos  is  a  regional  sales  man- 
ager for  American  Cyanamid  Co.  in 
Wayne,  NJ.  •  Anne  Aisenberg  is  a 
pediatric  nurse  at  Natick  Medical 
Office.  •  Stephen  Masiello  is  a  re- 
gional director  for  Trust  Fund  Ad- 
visors. He  lives  in  Winchester.  • 
Captain  John  Berry  will  soon  com- 
plete his  six-month  Mediterranean 
Sea  deployment  where  he  has  been 
part  of  The  Mediterranean  Amphibi- 
ous Ready  Group.  •  In  May,  The 
Freedom  Forum  promoted  Tracy 
Quinn  to  VP  of  administration.  The 
Freedom  Forum  is  a  nonpartisan, 
international  organization  dedicated 
to  free  press,  free  speech  and  free 
spirit  for  all  people.  Its  main  operat- 
ing programs  are  the  Freedom  Fo- 
rum Media  Studies  Center  at 
Columbia  Univ.  and  the  Freedom 
Forum  First  Amendment  Center  at 
Vanderbilt  Univ.  Congratulations  to 
Tracy!  •  As  I  write  this  column,  I  am 
looking  forward  to  seeing  my  two 
alma  maters  meet  at  the  Carquest 
Bowl  on  New  Year's  Day.  In  case 
any  of  you  are  wondering,  of  course, 
I  will  be  rooting  for  BC  (despite 
being  a  UVA  season  ticket  holder)! 
Go  Eagles!  Please  stay  in  touch. 


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Lisa  M.  Capalbo 
49  Maplecrest  Dr. 
Greenville,  Rl  02828 

Here  is  what  has  been  happening 
with  your  fellow  classmates.  •  Frank 
Varinos,  DMD  wrote  that  he  and 
wife  Tina  became  parents  for  the 
first  time  to  a  son,  Anastas  Frank. 
Dr.  Lou  Dilillo  delivered  the  baby 
at  Beverly  Hospital.  •  Congratula- 


tions to  Cindi  Bigelow  O'Hara  and 

husband  Tom  on  the  birth  of  their 
son  Davis  last  summer.  He  joins  sis- 
ter Meghan  in  Fairfield,  CT.  •  Jill 
Stein  Vaccaro  and  husbandjoe  also 
had  a  second  child,  a  son  Ben.  •  Phil 
and  Lisa  McLaughlin  deCristo 
wrote  from  sunny  Bermuda  where 
they  are  living  for  a  few  years.  Phil  is 
an  executive  VP  for  Fidelity  Invest- 
ments International.  Lisa  is  at  home 
with  daughters  Caitlin  and  Allison. 
Hope  all  is  well.  •  Pam  Wilke 
Cassidy  and  husband  Peter  wel- 
comed a  second  son,  Ryan,  in  Sept. 
He  and  brother  Connor  reside  in 
Wellesley.  •  Congratulations  to 
Laura  Valerio  who  married  Gary 
Day  last  Sept.  in  Falmouth.  Fellow 
roommates  Kathy  Kasper  and  Lisa 
Lamparelli  were  honor  attendants. 
Lisa  is  director  of  marketing  at 
Northeast  Rehab.  Hospital  in  Sa- 
lem, NH  and  lives  in  W.  Peabody.  • 
Laura  VanRiper  Maturo  and  hus- 
band Frank  have  moved  to  Darien, 
CT.  Laura  gave  birth  to  twin  sons 
last  July,  David  and  Peter.  Hope  all 
is  well!  •  Rhonda  Hoehn  was  or- 
dained to  the  Ministry  of  Word  and 
Sacrament  in  the  Metropolitan  NY 
Synod  of  the  Evangelical  Church 
last  Oct.  •  Elizabeth  Simpson  mar- 
ried Gregory  Boyer  last  summer  in 
Rhode  Island.  Elizabeth  is  employed 
as  a  teacher  in  the  Pawtucket  school 
system.  •  Dr.  Anthony  Rinaldi  re- 
ceived a  doctorate  of  philosophy  at 
the  Ferkauf  Graduate  School  of  Psy- 
chology, Yeshiva  Univ.  •  Kevin 
Mulcahy  and  Julie  Fissinger  were 
wed  last  spring  in  Brooklyn  Heights, 
NY.  Kevin  received  a  JD  from  Duke 
Univ.  School  of  Law  and  is  presi- 
dent and  owner  of  a  corporate  com- 
munications consulting  firm  in  NYC. 
•  Liz  Sauer  Price  and  husband  Kyle 
announced  the  birth  of  their  third 
child,  son  Kyle,  in  Sept.  He  joins 
sisters  Elizabeth  and  Katharine  in 
Garden  City,  NJ.  •  Glen  Reed,  CPA 
isachieffinancialofficeratTeleway 
Inc.  of  Westbury,  NY  and  was  ap- 
pointed Nassau  County  region  chair- 
man of  the  Second  Annual  American 
Heart  Walk.  •  Dean  Cooperative 
Bank  announced  that  Kevin  Goffe 
was  elected  treasurer.  Kevin  is  also 
the  bank's  financial  officer.  •  Con- 
gratulations to  John  O'Meara  and 
wife  Deb  on  the  birth  of  their  second 
daughter,  Laura.  She  joins  sister  Erin 
in  Quincy.  •  The  sixth  annual 
Michael  Murphy  Memorial  Golf 
Tournament  took  place  on  Oct.  2, 
1993.  James  Prep  Taylor  won  the 
coveted  green  jacket  award.  Over  56 
golfers  participated  and  80  people 
attended  the  reception.  Thanks  to 
the  organizers  and  all  attendees. 


20  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


83 


Cynthia  J.  Bocko 

71  Hood  Rd. 

N.  Tewksbury,  MA01876 

(508)851-6119 

I  am  sad  to  report  that  the  daughter 
of  Ellen  Mackey  Rose  and  her  hus- 
band Joseph  passed  away  at  the  end 
of  April.  Stephanie,  who  was  almost 
two,  had  a  form  of  muscular  dystro- 
phy. Our  heartfelt  sympathies  go 
out  to  Ellen,  Joseph  and  their  fami- 
lies. •Julie  O'  Brien  Petrini  lives  in 
Framingham  with  husband  Chris  and 
is  a  trademark  lawyer  at  Polaroid  • 
Barbara  Napolitano  Bellis  and 
husband  Steve  welcomed  a  new 
daughter  to  their  family.  Lindsay 
was  born  in  September  and  joins  two 
older  brothers.  Barbara  and  Steve 
are  both  attorneys  in  New  Haven, 
CT.  •  Christy  B.  Miller  graduated 
from  Saint  Louis  Univ.  and  prac- 
tices with  the  civil  litigation  firm  of 
Cosgrave,  Vergeen  &  Kester  in  Port- 
land, OR.  •  Kerin  Horrigan  deco- 
rates Ukrainian  eggs  using  a  batik 
process.  Her  folk  art  eggs  are  avail- 
able for  sale  in  Maynard,  Lincoln 
and  Concord  •  Suzanne  Hopkins 
married  Jonathan  Chase  and  is  VP  at 
an  advertising  agency  in  Stamford, 
CT.  •  Dr.  Alan  Rissolo  joined  Drs. 
Stephanak  and  Lyon  of  Oral  Sur- 
geons Associates  for  the  practice  of 
oral  and  maxillofacial  surgery.  • 
Robert  Scarlatelli  is  a  medical  phy- 
sician at  St.  Elizabeth's  Hospital  in 
Boston.  •  Douglas  Guyer  is  VP  of 
marketing  at  International  Direct 
Response  in  Devon,  PA.  •  Michael 
McDermott  is  assistant  professor  at 
Univ.  of  Rochester.  •  Howard 
Brown  is  a  customer  support  engi- 
neer at  Parametric  Technology, 
Waltham.  •  Christopher  Zappala 
attends  the  School  for  International 
Training  in  Brattleboro,  VT  and  is 
engaged  to  Lisa  Kuneman.  •  Jane 
Alcott  is  a  marketing  specialist  at 
Salem  Five,  Salem.  •  Robert  Rogers 
is  a  captain  in  the  Air  Force  at 
McGuire  Air  Force  Base  in  New 
Jersey.  •  Mary  Ann  Lowney  mar- 
ried Geoffrey  Hobart  and  is  an  at- 
torney at  Fleet  Investment  Services 
in  Boston.  •  Margaret  O'Connell 
is  a  software  development  engineer 
at  Iconics  in  Foxborough.  •  James 
Livecchi  is  an  account  executive  at 
AT&T  in  Woodbridge,  NJ.  • 
Patricia  Murphy  is  manager  of  fi- 
nancial analysis  at  IBM  Corporation 
in  Marietta,  GA.  •  Michele  Cebron 
is  assistant  VP  at  Fitch  Investors 
Service,  Inc. in  N.Y.C.  •  David 
Nelson  is  a  sales  manager  at  Falcon 
Microsystems  in  Landover,  MD.  • 


Matthew  Naud  is  a  senior  associate 
at  ICF  Inc.  in  Fairfax,  VA.  •  George 
Karalias  is  a  creative  director  part- 
ner at  Karalias  Advertising  in 
Ipswich.  •  Amadio  Ricci  is  an  in- 
dustrial sales  manager  at  Crescent 
Paper  Co.  in  Indianapolis.  •  Theresa 
Donovan  is  a  treasury  systems  ana- 
lyst at  ICMS  International,  San 
Bruno,  CA  and  is  married  to  Robert 
Pope.  •  Francis  Lucey,  Jr.  is  an 
audit  manager  at  Gordon 
Harrington  et  al,  North  Andover 
and  had  a  baby  daughter  last  De- 
cember. •  Margaret  Moore  is  an 
assistant  cataloguer  at  Whitney 
Museum  of  American  Art  in  New 
York.  •  Kathleen  Foody  Abbott 
and  husband  Thomas  have  two  sons 
and  live  in  Austin,  TX.  •  Mary  Eliza- 
beth Camardese  is  an  educational 
coordinator  at  Center  House,  Inc., 
Boston.  •  Lynn  Casey  Davis  is  a 
management  supervisor  at  Stein 
Robaire  Helm  advertising  in  Los 
Angeles.  •  Julie  Crevo  Pernokas  is 
VP  of  marketing  at  New  England 
Rehabilitation  Hospital  in  Woburn 
and  has  one  son.  •  Siobhan  Murphy 
is  a  national  account  manager  at 
AT&T  in  New  York.  •  Tom 
Sheridan  is  the  afternoon  DJ  on 
WZLX-FM  (100.7)  in  Boston. 


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Reunion 


MAY  20-  23*1994 


Carol  A.  Baclawski,  Esq. 

29  Beacon  Hill  Rd. 

W.  Springfield,  MA  01089 

(413)737-2166 

Tom  Engle  wrote  to  inform  us  of 
the  death  of  our  classmate,  Dr.  Mary 
Jo  Nugent,  on  March  29, 1993  after 
a  six-year  battle  with  breast  cancer. 
Despite  being  diagnosed  with  her 
disease  in  1987,  halfway  through  her 
medical  training  at  Tufts  Univ.,  MJ 
pushed  on  through  extensive  che- 
motherapy and  radiation  treat- 
ments to  graduate  on  time  in  1989. 
She  then  went  on  to  complete  an 
internal  medicine  residency  at 
UMass  Medical  Center  in  Worces- 
ter; at  the  conclusion  of  her  four 
years  there,  she  was  appointed  chief 
resident — a  term  she  could  only  com- 
plete halfway.  As  Tom  notes,  Mary 
Jo  was  an  inspiration  to  us  all,  a 
woman  who  viewed  her  illness  not  as 
an  obstacle  but  as  a  challenge;  in  her 
own  words,"  [i]n  everyone' s  life  there 
are  challenges,  some  small,  some  not 
so  small.  To  live  life  is  to  face  the 
challenges — to  learn  and  grow."  MJ 
certainly  helped  all  who  knew  her  to 
do  both  of  these.  The  class  extends 
its  deepest  sympathy  to  Mary  Jo'  s 
family  and  many  friends.  Tom  Engle 


and  Gail  Driscoll,  MJ'  s  BC  room- 
mate, have  established  the  Dr.  Mary 
Jo  Nugent  Breast  Cancer  Founda- 
tion in  her  memory.  For  more  infor- 
mation, contact  Gail  at  (617) 
964-7079.  'Julia  Corbett  Willard 
recently  moved  to  Cold  Springs,  NY 
where  she  is  writing  and  commuting 
to  N.Y.C.  She's  written  six  books  in 
the  architecture  field,  is  a  frequent 
contributor  to  Contact  Design  maga- 
zine and  is  working  as  an  acquisi- 
tions editor  for  the  Thompson 
Publishing  Group.  •  John  Fiore  is  a 
dentist  in  Roslindale.  •  Lisa  Flo- 
rence is  a  principal/systems  con- 
sultant for  GTE  Sylvania,  Inc.  in 
Ipswich.  •  David  Spagnuolo  is  VP 
and  treasurer  for  Vocatura, 
Spagnuolo  and  Co.,  P.C.  in 
Waltham.  •  Juliette  Dacey  Fay  is 
director  of  development  for  the 
Children's  Trust  Fund  in  Boston.  • 
Pam  Theodore  Salera  is  an  ac- 
count administrator  for  First  Union 
National  Bank  in  Charlotte,  NC.  • 
Moira  Feeney  is  a  legal  assistant  for 
the  law  firm  of  Reid  and  Priest  in 
N.Y.C.  •  Robert  Sutherby  is  an 
assistant  controller  for  Saunders  Real 
Estate  Corp.  in  Boston.  •  Isabel 
Sanchez  is  a  graduate  research  as- 
sistant for  Lehigh  Univ.  in 
Bethlehem,  PA.  •  Teresa  Gomez  is 
a  senior  programmer  analyst  for  the 
Bank  of  New  York  in  N.Y.C.  •  Tim 
Deren  is  a  marketing  rep.  for  IBM 
Corp.  in  Worcester.  •  Steven 
Conkling  is  an  assistant  VP  for 
Chemical  Banking  Corp.  in  N.Y.C. 

•  Barbara  Savarese  Friedman  is  a 
special  educator/behavioral  consult- 
ant for  the  Needham  public  schools. 

•  Theresa  Devin  Royce  is  a  branch 
manager  for  Direct  Federal  Credit 
Union  in  Needham.  •  Richard 
Stefanacci  recently  completed  his 
training  in  internal  medicine/geri- 
atrics and  is  now  a  practicing  physi- 
cian in  South  Jersey  in  those 
specialties.  Richard  and  his  wife  Beth 
are  expecting  their  second  child. 
Their  first  child,  Richard,  is  now 
one  year  old.  •  Richard  Kelly  mar- 
ried Melissa  Massey  '86  in  Sept.  1 992 . 
They  welcomed  the  birth  of  Caroline 
on  Nov.  4,  1993.  Richard  is  a  collec- 
tion manager  for  a  Portland-based 
company.  He  and  family  live  in  Cape 
Elizabeth,  ME.  •  Patrick  Dunn  and 
wife  Karen  Brostoski  '85  welcomed 
the  birth  of  their  first  child,  Bridget 
Nicole,  last  July.  •  Francisci 
Perdomo  and  Caroline  Oliveiva  had 
their  first  child,  Cristina  Virginia, 
on  Jan.  31,  1993.  They  reside  in 
Puerto  Rico.  •  A  women'  s  '84  class 
ring,  engraved  with  the  initials  MBK, 
was  found  outside  the  Emerald 
Square  Mall  in  N.  Attleboro.  If  you 
know  its  rightful  owner,  please  con- 


tact Maura  Scully  at  the  Alumni  As- 
sociation at  (800)  669-8430.  •  Watch 
for  reunion  news!! 


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Barbara  Ward  Wilson 
32  Saw  Mill  Ln. 
Medfield,  MA  02052 
(508)  359-6498 

The  women  of  Mod  22A  held  an 
impromptu  seven  year  reunion  in 
Denver  in  March  1992.  Attending 
were  Sharon  Breyer  Cichinger 
from  San  Francisco,  Janet  Breiner 
from  Massachusetts,  Susan 
Hansberry  Williams  from  New 
Hampshire,  Terri  Cline  Kelly  from 
New  York  and  Margaret  Sibellan 
and  Ellen  Martin  of  Denver.  The 
three  day  visit  was  highlighted  by  a 
ski  trip  to  Breckenridge.  Terri,  hus- 
band Jim  and  son  Brendan  welcomed 
a  new  baby  girl,  Stephanie  in  Janu- 
ary 1993.  Sue  and  her  husband  Jim 
had  their  first  child,  Erin  Christine, 
in  February  1993.  •  Cathy  Cimpl 
Van  Kula  and  husband  George  re- 
cently moved  to  London  from  Los 
Angeles.  Cathy  and  George  have  one 
son  and  are  expecting  a  second  child. 
•  Maria  Mary  Leonard  Olsen  left 
the  law  firm  of  Dow,  Lohnes  and 
Albertson  where  she  had  been  a 
litigator  for  almost  five  years  when 
she  received  a  Presidential  appoint- 
ment with  the  Clinton  administra- 
tion. She  was  sworn  in  as  a  special 
assistant  to  the  attorney  general  for 
legislative  affairs  at  the  Department 
of  Justice  on  May  25,  1993.  Maria  is 
up  on  the  Hill  quite  often,  working 
on  legislation,  nominations,  etc.  • 
Susan  Ostrowski  is  living  in  Wash- 
ington, DC  and  works  for  Fannie 
Mae.  •  Kathy  Sulllivan  also  lives  in 
DC  where  she  works  for  Congress- 
man Neal  (D-MA).  Kathy  works  on 
the  Ways  and  Means  Committee. 
Kathy  graduated  from  Notre  Dame 
Law  School  after  having  been  a  nurse 
in  Charlottesville.  •  Jay  Greeley 
also  moved  to  DC.  Jay  works  for  the 
Auto-Suture  Company.  •  Carolyn 
Conigliaro  works  for  Meditech  in 
Westwood  as  a  supervisor  in  mar- 
keting support.  •  Al  Spada  is  a  VP 
with  GE  Capital  Corp.  in  N.Y.C.  • 
Robert  Turcotte  is  the  alumni  de- 
velopment officer  for  athletic  pro- 
grams at  Northeastern  Univ.  • 
Christopher  O'Hara  is  a  VP  of 
commercial  properties  at  CB  Com- 
mercial Real  Estate  Group.  He  spe- 
cializes in  industrial  and  office  sales 
and  leasing  in  the  New  Haven  and 
Fairfield  County  markets.  •  Steve 
Sitley  is  an  attorney  with  Vedder 


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CLASSES 


Price  in  Chicago.  Steve  graduated 
from  Georgetown  Law  School  in 
1988.  •  Moira  Houlihan  is  the  as- 
sistant registrar  at  Boston  College.  • 
Rosemary  Klein  is  working  as  an 
associate  manager  for  Kraft  General 
Foods  in  Glenview,  IL.  •  Ben 
Montenegro  is  employed  as  man- 
ager of  internal  audit  at  BJ's  Whole- 
sale Club  in  Natick.  •  Dianne 
Grahamn  Steblaj  and  husband 
Frank  recently  moved  from  Toronto 
to  Mountain  Lakes,  NJ  where  they 
bought  a  big  beautiful  house.  Dianne 
is  director  of  business  development 
for  Stentor  International.  •  Harry 
Ogrinc  received  an  MBA  in  finance . 
and  marketing  from  the  Univ.  of 
Connecticut  in  May  1 992 .  •  On  Sep- 
tember 1,  1993  Laureen  O'Neill 
Robbins  and  her  husband  David  lost 
their  first  son,  Paul  Edward  Robbins, 
at  four  days  old  due  to  a  bacterial 
infection.  Our  condolences  go  out 
to  Laureen  and  David.  Laureen  is 
working  at  the  Westchester  County 
Medical  Center  in  the  oncology  re- 
search unit  as  a  registered  nurse  and 
lives  in  Nyack.  In  April  1993  Laureen 
attended  Betsy  Alexander's  wed- 
ding to  Brian  Parsons  in  Virginia. 
Also  attending  were  Lori  Ostiguy 
Wasserman,  Jean  Anderson 
Smith,  Kathy  Mills  and  Jeannette 
Fougere  Watka.  •  Susan  Steele 
married  Rick  Harrington  on  August 
22,  1993  in  Boston  at  Our  Lady  of 
Victories  church;  the  outdoor  re- 
ception was  at  the  Winsor  House  in 
Duxbury.  Susan  had  many  BC  friends 
there,  including  Mary  Mahony, 
Kristin  Griffin,  Mary  Mitchell,  Julie 
McLaughlin,  Debbie  Manning 
Lundquist,  Dana  Larkin,  Mary 
Breslin  and  Helen  Stojanov.  Susan 
and  Rick  now  live  in  Brookline.  • 
Ismeria  Gomes  married  Dwayne 
Dorsey  on  August  14,  1993  in  Ply- 
mouth. The  wedding  was  attended 
by  Stella  Cooper,  Kairon  Coleman 
Mullins,  Shiretta  Johnson  Shaw 
and  Tony  Benjamin.  •  Tracey 
Campbell  married  Larry  Schwartz. 

•  Lisa  Jo  Scibetta  married  Kirk 
Allen  on  June  12,  1993.  Lisa  earned 
a  master's  degree  in  pediatric  nurs- 
ing at  Case  Western  Reserve  Univ. 
and  is  a  pediatric  nurse  practitioner 
at  Saint  Vincent  Health  Center.  Lisa 
and  Kirk  live  id  Erie,  Pennsylvania. 

•  Jodi  Delnickas  married  Warren 
McGillvray  on  October  31,  1992. 
Jodi  is  a  finance  manager  with  Gen- 
eral Electric,  and  lives  in  San  Carlos, 
CA.  •  Congratulations  to  Pam  Risio 
on  her  engagement  to  Vinnie 
Ferraro.  •  Karen  Brostoski  Dunn 
and  Patrick  Dunn  '84  had  their  first 
child  in  July  1993,  a  daughter, 
Bridget  Nicole.  •  Kairon  Coleman 
Mullins  and  husband  John  had  a 


baby  girl,  Amber  Nicole,  on  April 
19, 1993. TheMullins  family  lives  in 
New  Jersey.  •  Patricia  Standring 
Gillespie  and  husband  Daniel  had 
their  first  child,  Christopher  Daniel, 
in  March  1993.  The  Gillespie  family 
has  had  many  visitors  to  their  home 
in  Litchfield,  NH  including  Terry 
Violette,  Laura  Acosta  Powers, 
Kim  King  Adams,  and  Mary  and 
Tim  Telman.  Christopher  is  still 
waiting  for  a  visit  from  Mary 
Brobson  Gatley  and  husband  Bill. 
•  Eileen  One  Carlson  and  her  hus- 
band Jamie  had  a  beautiful  baby  girl, 
Caroline.  •  Thanks  for  all  your  let- 
ters and  cards! 


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Karen  Broughton  Boyarsky 
74  Christopher  Ln. 
Guilford,  CT  06437 

Things  here  are  going  well.  I  had  a 
lovely  letter  from  Linda  Klumpp 
who  is  attending  the  Pratt  Institute's 
master's  program  in  interior  design 
and  architecture;  she  lives  in  Brook- 
lyn, NY.  She  let  us  know  that 
Melanie  McEvoy  is  living  in  N. Y.C. 
and  is  a  commercial  real  estate  bro- 
ker; Maria  Daronco  Buckley  is  liv- 
ing in  Pelham,  NY  with  her  husband 
and  daughter  Sarah  and  is  teaching 
grammar  school;  Carolyn  Burns 
Curtin,  her  husband  Joe  and  baby 
Mikaela  are  living  in  Wellesley  where 
Carolyn  works  part-time  as  a  nurse; 
and  Ana  Santiso  Conlan  is  in  ad- 
vertising sales  for  a  pharmaceutical- 
related  magazine  in  Newjersey  and 
lives  in  Verona,  NJ.  Thanks  for  the 
update  and  good  luck  with  your 
master's,  Linda!  •  Helen 
McCullough  Duzy  is  an  ob-gyn 
physician  at  the  Medical  Center  of 
Delaware  and  was  recently  married 
to  another  doctor  she  met  in  medical 
school.  Congratulations,  Helen!  • 
Laura  Agostino  received  her  MBA 
from  UNC  and  now  lives  in  Atlanta. 
She  let  me  know  that  Susan 
Kasperovich  was  married  last  year 
and  is  also  living  in  Atlanta.  •  Regina 
McGuire  is  an  attorney  in  Newjer- 
sey. •  Kevin  Bruen  and  his  wife 
Kate  live  in  Saratoga  Springs,  NY. 
Kevin  has  joined  a  large  law  firm 
(too  many  names  to  mention!)  after 
having  spent  four  years  with  the 
Brooklyn  DA's  office.  •  Stephen 
Rosa  has  been  named  Director,  Less 
than  Ten  Years  of  the  BC  Alumni 
Association.  He  will  serve  as  the 
chairman  of  the  communications 
committee.  Stephen  is  president  and 
founder  of  AdVentures,  a  Provi- 
dence, RI  advertising  and  P.R.  con- 


sulting firm.  He  recently  began 
working  with  classmate  Carolyn 
Grew,  the  consumer  products  divi- 
sion manager  at  Velcro  USA  in 
Manchester,  NH.  He  hopes  to  work 
with  more  alumni  in  the  future!  He 
let  us  know  about  Mark  Wilson, 
who  graduated  from  Suffolk  Law 
and  signed  on  with  the  Boston  office 
of  a  prominent  Connecticut  law  firm. 

•  Dave  Beltramini  is  living  in  Los 
Angeles;  after  receiving  his  MBA 
from  the  Univ.  of  Southern  Cal.,  he 
has  become  the  marketing  manager 
for  GTE  •  Glen  Gulino  has  started 
his  own  entertainment  law  practice 
based  in  Manhattan.  •  I  loved  get- 
ting a  birth  announcement  from  Ray 
and  Karen  O'Keefe  Johnson  to  let 
us  know  about  baby  Brendon,  born 
last  summer!  Congrats!  The 
Johnsons  live  in  Jacksonville,  FL. 
They  report  that  Janeen  Dunseith 
Zimmerman  and  husband  Patrick 
'87  have  a  baby  girl,  Nicole  and  live 
in  Vienna,  VA.  Carol  Caldren  lives 
in  London  while  working  for  Equa- 
tor Bank.  Thanks,  Ray  and  Karen! 
Good  luck  with  the  baby!  •  David 
Bricker  has  recently  married  and 
lives  in  Harrisburg,  PA  where  he  is 
special  funds  counsel  with  the  Penn. 
Insurance  Dept.  •  Liane  and  Ed 
McCarthy  have  three  children  and 
live  in  Hawthorne,  NJ  where  Ed 
works  with  Credit  Lyonais  in  N.Y.C. 

•  Nancy  Connors  Mignosa  has  a 
new  baby,  Andrew.  She  also  recently 
received  her  masters  in  nursing  from 
BC  and  is  working  as  a  pediatric 
nurse  practitioner  in  Woburn.  •  Sara 
Ann  Bloom  Browning  was  married 
last  spring  at  BC  and  quite  a  few  of  us 
were  in  attendance:  Nancy  Gudaitis 
Farrad,  Tara  Ryan  Werlich,  Lisa 
Terry  Furlong  and  Wendy 
Bicknell  Leane.  •  Michele  Murphy 
Gaffhey  and  husband  Michael  an- 
nounce the  birth  of  their  daughter 
Kerry.  They  have  relocated  to  Bait- 
ing Hollow,  NY.  •  Patty  Quinn 
Carver  wrote  to  inform  us  that  she, 
along  with  Fatemeh  Toossi,  was  a 
bridesmaid  at  the  wedding  of  Karen 
Kozlowski.  Karen  is  a  high  school 
teacher  in  Alexandria,  VA;  she  and 
her  husband  live  in  Burke,  VA.  Also 
in  attendance  at  the  wedding  were 
Anthony  Carpi,  who  is  pursuing  his 
master's  at  Cornell;  John  Roberts, 
who  works  for  J. P.  Morgan  in  Man- 
hattan and  lives  in  Jersey  City;  and 
A.J.  Gallatin  Gilbert,  who  now  has 
a  baby  girl  Ariel.  •  Jacqui  Dion- 
Kershaw  has  recently  married  and 
lives  in  Merrimack,  NH  while  fin- 
ishing her  MSW  at  BC.  Good  luck, 
Jacqui!  •  Bill  and  Patricia 
McCarthy  Christ  have  a  new  baby, 
Margaret.  They  are  all  living  in  Buf- 
falo, NY  where  Bill  is  an  attorney 


with  a  large  firm  (again,  too  many 
names!)  and  Patricia  is  a  paralegal.  • 
Marie  Ernst  Rowe  and  her  hus- 
band Kevin  have  a  new  baby, 
Rebecca.  Marie  recently  attended 
Marial  Chappell's  wedding  with 
Mary  Irwin,  Joan  Dillihunt  Cut- 
ler, Megan  Malloy-Jette,  Tricia 
Flatley  and  Ellie  and  Kevin  Kenny. 
•  Liz  Tague  Kenney  and  husband 
John  '87  were  just  married  and  are 
now  living  in  N.Y.C.  Liz  reports 
that  Sheila  Marra  Grubb  is  living 
with  her  husband  and  son  in  Phila- 
delphia. Regina  Fonts  Morris  lives 
in  Dallas,  TX  with  her  husband  and 
daughter.  Anne  Cronin  Hay  is  a 
free-lance  T.V.  producer  in  San 
Francisco  where  she  lives  with  her 
husband  Phill.  •  Heidi  Oberdick 
Foggo  is  getting  her  MSW  at  Co- 
lumbia and  lives  with  her  husband 
Jim  in  N.Y.C.  •  Jillian  Braga  Hayes 
is  living  in  Dover  with  her  husband 
John  and  is  getting  her  master's  at 
BU.  •  Victoria  Szabo  is  a  high  school 
English  teacher  and  theatre  director 
for  Mt.  de  Sales  Academy  in  Mary- 
land. She  recently  received  her 
master's  in  science  in  professional 
writing  from  Towson  State  Univ. 
Congratulations,  Victoria!  •  Ted 
Angeles — where  are  you} 


87 


Agnes  Gillin  Gayhardt 
350  Ardmore  Ave. 
Ardmore,  PA  1  9003 
(2 1 5)  645-9599 

I  hope  you  all  had  a  nice  holiday 
se?son!  Lots  of  exciting  things  hap- 
pened at  the  Heights  this  fall.  •  One 
hundred  fifty  classmates  took  ad- 
vantage of  a  special  Homecoming 
ticket  offering  for  the  Sept.  25  game 
against  Temple.  A  post-game  party 
was  held  at  tbe  Eagles'  Nest,  where 
everyone  had  a  chance  to  catch  up 
with  each  other.  We  all  had  so  much 
fun  that  we  plan  to  reserve  tickets  for 
Homecoming  each  year — so  be  sure 
to  get  yours  in  '94!  •  In  December, 
classmates  from  the  Boston  area  trav- 
eled to  the  Round  House,  a  develop- 
ment for  the  elderly  and  young 
disabled,  to  host  their  Christmas 
party.  Damian  Grozier,  Molly 
Martin,  Catherine  Stanton, 
Maureen  O'  Brien,  Michelle  Zona 
Johnson,  Gina  Caruso,  Rob 
Sabella,  Joan  Keene  and  Eric  and 
Laurie  Slifka  brought  the  residents 
refreshments,  sang  carols  and  had  a 
wonderful  time.  The  class  plans  to 
do  an  annual  Christmas  charity 
event.  •  Here  is  what  some  other 
classmates  are  up  to.  •  Cristina  Diaz 


22  BOSTON  COLLF.GF.  ALUMNOTF.S 


Boston-area  young  alumni  from  seven  colleges  banded  together  for 
Party  for  a  Plate,  a  benefit  for  the  Greater  Boston  Food  Bank.  BC  alumni 
John  Morrier  '88,  left,  and  Tim  Stansky  '87,  far  right,  joined  with  Suzie 
Kang  from  Notre  Dame,  Jeanne  Heller  from  Saint  Mary's  and  Deirdre 
McCarthy  from  Georgetown  to  present  the  proceeds  to  the  Food  Bank. 


Sippel  had  a  baby  girl  this  summer, 
Isabel  Rae.  Both  are  doing  just  fine 
living  in  N.Y.C.  •  Marc  Rollo  mar- 
ried a  St.  Joe's  grad,  Laurie 
Higgenbotham,  last  year.  They  are 
doing  well  and  Marc  is  an  attorney 
for  Archer  &  GreinerinNewJersey. 
•  Ani  Yessaillian  and  classmate  Jen- 
nifer St.  Germain  graduated  from 
Columbia  Business  School.  Jen  is 
working  in  Equim  research  at  Alex 
Brown  &  Sons  in  Baltimore  and  Ani 
returned  to  Boston  to  work  as  a 
management  consultant  at  Coopers 
&  Lybrand.  •  Nancy  DeMarco 
Curtain  had  a  little  boy  named  Bran- 
don. •  Susan  Murray  Murphy  and 
her  husband  Tom  welcomed  An- 
drew into  the  world  last  summer. 
Susan  left  Reebok's  human  resources 
for  a  real  job — motherhood.  • 
Marianne  Murphy  married  class- 
mate John  Zogby.  Marianne  is  an 
engineer  for  Legent  Corp.  and  John 
is  an  attorney  at  Healy  &  Healy  in 
Boston.  •  Scott  Harney  has  been 
busy  since  graduating  from  BC.  He 
earned  his  master's  in  journalism 
from  BU  in  1991.  He  now  lives  in 
Cairo,  Egypt  working  as  the  articles 
editor  for  Cairo  Today  magazine, 
Egypt's  English  language  magazine. 
Scott  has  done  a  lot  of  traveling 
while  studying  Arabic,  learning  both 
the  Egyptian  dialect  and  the  classi- 
cal form  of  the  language.  •  Karen 
Finneran  is  finishing  up  at  Yale  and 
will  take  her  MBA  to  Yankee  Sta- 
dium as  manager  of  the  beer  vending 
and  popcorn  operations.  •  Missie 
Bertolino  married  Ohio  Wesleyan 
graduate  Chip  Bankers  last  fall. 
Missie  works  for  the  comptroller  of 
the  currency  as  a  national  bank  ex- 
aminer. Chip  is  a  bond  trader  for 


Fidelity  Investments.  They  live  in 
Boston.  •  Carolyn  Dooley  married 
UMiami  grad  Robert  Keating  last 
spring.  Carolyn  is  working  as  a  pub- 
lic relations  specialist  for  J.I.  Kislak 
Mortgage  Corp.  in  Miami  Lakes, 
FL.  •  Tracey  Andrejko  Flaherty 
and  her  husband  Bob  celebrated  the 
birth  of  their  second  child,  Eliza- 
beth Kelsey,  in  June  '93.  •  Larry 
Guerra  recently  received  his  doc- 
torate in  clinical  psychology  from 
St.  John's  Univ.  Larry  is  now  an 
assistant  psychologist  at  a  residen- 
tial treatment  facility  in  Syosset,  NY. 
•  Keep  me  up-to-date  on  what's 
going  on.  I'll  take  about  six  months 
to  get  the  news  out,  so  be  patient! 


88 


Laura  Germak 
131  Ravine  Dr. 
Matawan,  NJ  07747 


89 


Reunion 


MAY  20  -23   •!   994 


Joanne  Foley 

936  E.  Fourth  St.  #3 

S.  Boston,  MA  02 127 

(617)464-3300 

Hello  to  everyone!  Hope  the  holi- 
days were  filled  with  good  cheer. 
Here  is  some  '89  news:  •  Daniel 
Quentin  Miller  married  Julie  Nash 
on  Nov.  6  in  Marblehead.  Both 
Daniel  and  Julie  are  working  on  their 
PhDs  in  English  at  UConn.  •  Mary 
Briones  married  John  Herr  on  July 
1 0.  Mary  received  a  master's  in  health 


care  administration  in  April  and  ac- 
cepted a  position  with  a  hospital  in 
San  Francisco,  where  she  now  re- 
sides with  John.  Cathy  Ianno  was 
maid  of  honor  and  Annmarie 
Gehring  Bulgarelli  was  a  brides- 
maid. Cathy  was  recently  promoted 
to  assistant  director  of  bands  at  BC 
and  is  pursuing  an  MBA  part-time.  • 
Mitchell  Fournier  is  entering  his 
second  year  of  graduate  school  in 
the  master  of  architecture  program 
at  Harvard's  graduate  school  of  de- 
sign. •  Michele  Stopka  DiStasio 
and  her  husband  Mark  are  expecting 
their  first  child  this  winter.  •  Maria 
Esteve  Lopez-Lay  gave  birth  to 
Carlos  Jeronimo  on  July  15.  Carlos 
was  7  lbs.,  14  oz.  •  Bob  Franks  will 
begin  a  PhD  program  in  counseling 
psychology  at  BC  in  Sept.  •  Laura 
Brinkley  is  an  elementary  guidance 
counselor  for  the  Stoughton  public 
schools.  •  Joe  Loftus  is  working  for 
BC's  athletic  development  office.  • 
Theresa  Jones  married  Chris  Vinyl 
on  Sept.  1 1  in  Oklahoma.  •  Jeff 
Byrne  graduated  from  Harvard  Law 
in  '92  and  clerked  for  Chief  Justice 
Joseph  Warner  of  the  Massachu- 
setts appeals  court.  Jeff  now  lives  in 
San  Francisco  and  practices  labor 
and  employment  law  at  Morrison  & 
Forester.  •  Mike  Hersom  wed  Hope 
Durant  in  Sanford,  ME  last  sum- 
mer, with  many  BC  people  in  atten- 
dance: Louis  Ricciuti  and  his  new 
wife  Sue  Lerro;  Paul  LeVie,  Lynn 
Toney  and  Mike  Perillo.  •  Laurie 
Hegeman  is  completing  a  law  de- 
gree at  Washington  Univ.  in  St. 
Louis.  •  Tomas  Simon  is  traveling 
to  the  Far  East  to  establish  a  client 
base  for  an  export  management  com- 
pany that  he  is  starting  in  California. 
Previous  to  this,  Tomas  was  visiting 
John  Elvis  Christ  Rogers.  •  Chris- 
tine Caswell  is  currently  a  morning 
news  anchor  at  Channel  8  News,  an 
ABC  affiliate,  in  Portland,  ME. 
Christine  has  also  worked  as  an  an- 
chor/reporter in  Manchester,  NH 
and  Bangor,  ME  and  as  a  producer  at 
Channel  5  in  Boston.  Christine  has 
interviewed  President  Clinton,  VP 
Gore  and  former  First  Lady  Barbara 
Bush.  •  Karen  Waible  received  an 
MBA  in  finance  from  Bentley  Col- 
lege last  fall.  Karen  married  Jim 
Melendy  on  Oct.  9  in  Brockton. 
Christine  Caswell,  Joanne  Gigante 
and  Sandra  Higgins  Howe  were  all 
in  the  wedding.  •  Sandra  Howe  cel- 
ebrated her  3rd  anniversary  with 
husband  Dave  in  Sept.  She  is  work- 
ing at  BC  in  Lawrence  House,  the 
Office  of  Publications,  as  a  publica- 
tions assistant.  •  Beth  Wilson  Lebel 
and  husband  Larry  had  their  first 
baby  on  Sept.  5,  named  Matthew 
Laurence.  Beth  is  an  elernentary 


school  teacher.  She  and  Larry  reside 
in  Fairfield,  CT.  •  Joanne  Gigante  is 
an  assistant  buyer  at  Lord  &  Taylor 
in  N.Y.C.  •  Wendy  Parlin  Kiritsy 
also  celebrated  her  3rd  anniversary 
this  year  with  husband  Peter.  They 
recently  bought  a  home  in 
Shrewsbury.  Wendy  works  in  sales 
at  Jorgensen/Kilsby  Roberts,  a  steel 
distributor  in  Hopkinton.  •  Toni 
and  David  Rooney  had  a  baby  boy 
last  March  20.  David  Vincent  was  8 
lbs,  one  oz.  David,  Toni  and  David 
are  living  in  Sunrise,  FL  where  David 
is  teaching  high  school  and  coaching 
football.  •  Stefanie  Ganci  and 
Fareed  Kandalaft  were  married  on 
July  10.  Stefanie  is  teaching  kinder- 
garten in  Chappaqua,  NY.  Fareed's 
rock  band,  "Sinning  Gods,"  is  per- 
forming regularly  at  various  clubs 
throughout  N.Y.C.  The  couple  re- 
sides in  White  Plains,  NY.  •  Sean 
Carroll  recently  completed  the  Navy 
Aviation  Officer  Candidate  School 
at  the  top  of  his  class.  Sean  went  on 
to  flight  training  at  Pensacola,  FL 
and  now  at  Norfolk,  VA.  He  has 
been  assigned  to  the  E-2  Squadron 
aboard  the  carrier  U.S.S.  Saratoga. 
Sean  will  be  taking  courses  in  mili- 
tary law  at  the  Newport,  RI  naval 
base.  •  Maureen  O'Brien  received 
a  PhD  from  the  UMass  Medical 
School.  Maureen  is  doing  her  resi- 
dency at  the  Mt.  Auburn  Flospital.  • 
Congratulations  to  Becky  Battison 
and  Scott  King!  Becky  and  Scott 
were  engaged  at  the  BC-West  Vir- 
ginia football  game  on  Nov.  26.  • 
Kathy  Sullivan  recently  moved  to 
L.  A.  She  is  working  for  Variety  Pub- 
lications. •  Allison  Baker  married 
David  Provost  last  June  26  in 
Chilmark,  Martha's  Vineyard. 
Allison  and  David  honeymooned  in 
Bermuda  and  now  reside  in  Lexing- 
ton. •  Cindy  Gammon  is  engaged 
to  Brett  Warner.  •  Congratulations 
to  the  BC  football  team  for  the  vic- 
tory over  N.D.  It  was  good  to  see 
many  '89  alums  gather  for  the  week- 
end in  Chicago.  •  Keep  sending  let- 
ters, it  makes  it  much  easier! 

90 

Kara  Corso 
10  Millstone  Dr. 
Avon,  CT  06001 
(203)  673-9764 

Before  we  get  into  the  notes,  a  little 
reminder:  Our  fifth  year  reunion 
will  be  here  before  we  know  it 
(doesn't  that  make  you  feel  old?!). 
With  that  in  mind,  make  sure  the 
Alumni  Office  has  your  current  ad- 
dress so  that  you  will  receive  mail- 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES    23 


CLASSES 


ings  keeping  you  up-to-date  on  any 
class  events  that  will  take  place  dur- 
ing the  next  couple  of  years.  You  will 
also  receive  a  request  for  payment  of 
class  dues  (approximately  $  1 0)  which 
will  help  pay  for  the  events  we  hold 
as  a  class.  If  you  have  any  ideas  for 
class  events,  the  Alumni  Office  would 
love  to  hear  from  you!  •  Our  next 
class  event  will  be  held  on  Sat.,  Feb. 
19.  We  have  reserved  a  space  at 
Union  Street  in  Newton  Centre  to 
view  the  basketball  game  vs.  Syra- 
cuse on  wide-screen  T.V.  Game  time 
is  8:00  p.m. — see  you  there!  •  Loryn 
Lindquist  is  getting  her  master's  in 
nursing  at  Mass  General  Hospital 
and  is  working  to  obtain  her  nurse 
practitioner  license.  •  Dianne  White 
received  aJ.D.  from  the  New  En- 
gland School  of  Law  this  past  spring. 
•  Susan  Pepin  graduated  from  Suf- 
folk Univ.  Law  School.  •  Michele 
Lombardo  graduated  from  the 
Univ.  of  Florida  College  of  Law  in 
May  and  is  presently  living  in  Or- 


lando. Michele  works  in  the  Orange 
County  Public  Defender's  Office  in 
the  Juvenile  Division.  •  By  the  way, 
congratulations  to  all  who  passed 
the  bar  exam!  •  Annemarie  Marek 
is  currently  at  BU  pursuing  an  MBA 
in  non-profit  management  and  is 
living  in  Watertown.  Her  roommate 
Florencia  Gobee  works  at  Putnam 
Investments  on  a  municipal  bond 
trading  desk.  •  Noelle  Champoux 
is  in  her  first  year  at  Lesley  College 
in  Cambridge  pursuing  a  master's  in 
counseling  psychology.  She  lives  in 
Brighton.  •  Matt  Honohan  received 
a  master's  in  international  history  at 
the  London  School  of  Economics 
and  is  presently  working  on  his  Ph.D. 
in  history  at  NYU.  •  Megan  Fallon 
graduated  from  Syracuse  Law  School 
in  the  spring  and  will  remain  in  Syra- 
cuse with  Cheryl  Grady  who  took  a 
position  at  LeMoyne  Campus  Min- 
istry. •  Siobhan  Manning  is  an  eco- 
nomic  research  analyst  at  J. P. 
Morgan  and  is  pursuing  a  master's  in 


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Donation:  $25  per  person,  to 
benefit  the  Greater  Boston 
Food  Bank 

■  Help  set  the  table  for  change  at  PARTY 
FOR  A  PLATE,  an  evening  of  great  food  and 
great  music  —  all  to  benefit  the  Greater 
Boston  Food  Bank.  More  than  20  of 
Boston's  best  restaurants  dedicated  to  allevi- 
ating hunger  will  donate  a  presentation  of 
their  best  creations  to  taste.  Dinner  6  to  8 
p.m.  Music  and  dancing  'til  midnight. 


economics  at  NYU.  •  Elizabeth 
McCarthy  is  getting  her  MBA  in 
public  management  at  Yale.  •  Con- 
gratulations to  Mike  Salve  who  has 
passed  his  last  set  of  comprehensive 
exams  and  is  now  free  to  focus  on  his 
dissertation  (yippee!);  Mike's  pursu- 
ing a  Ph.D.  in  economics  at  BC.  • 
Marie  Harrer  is  at  Ohio  State  work- 
ing on  a  Ph.D.  in  psychobiology.  • 
Julie  Agapite  is  in  her  first  year  at 
MITworkingonaPh.D.  in  biology. 

•  Tom  McEnaney  is  in  his  second 
year  at  BU  School  of  Law.  •  Vinny 
Mas  works  at  the  Hispanic  advertis- 
ing agency  of  Saatchi  and  Saatchi, 
and  recently  starred  in  a  Japanese 
Karaoke  video  with  Trip  Tirpak.  • 
Heather  McLoughlin  is  a  foreign 
exchange  operations  and  systems 
manager  at  Chase  Manhattan  Bank. 

•  Michaela  Kane  has  left  Filene's 
Basement  to  join  the  buyer's  train- 
ing program  at  T.J.  Maxx.  •  Laura 
Ferry  is  working  for  Hienle  and 
Hienle  Publishing.  •  Megan 
Hotopp  is  a  staff  assistant  at  the 
Harvard  Art  Museum  in  Cambridge. 

•  Marielle  Langlois  works  at  Beth 
Israel  Hospital  as  a  research  techni- 
cian. •  Dan  Pastore  recruits  for  the 
human  resources  department  of  First 
National  Bank  of  Boston.  •  Stephen 
Soukup  is  a  cash  management  ac- 
count representative  at  State  Street 
Bank  in  Boston.  •  Michael  Sullivan 
works  for  ITT  Sheraton  in  Boston 
as  an  auditor.  "John  Stillwaggon  is 
an  analyst  for  American  Manage- 
ment Systems,  a  computer  software 
company  in  Boston.  •  Kathleen 
Lynch  is  also  working  in  Boston  as 
an  investigator  for  the  Attorney 
General.  •  Robert  Vanech  works 
for  MCI  Telecommunications  in 
Manhattan.  •  Abby  Casner  is  the 
director  of  creative  development  for 
the  William  Morris  Agency.  Jeff 
Ackerman  is  a  unit  manager  with 
Proctor  &  Gamble.  They  live  in 
Manhattan  Beach,  CA.  •  Tim  Smith 
is  in  his  second  year  with  the  New 
Britain  Red  Sox  and  was  the  most 
effective  starting  pitcher  for  the  team 
last  season.  •  Jackie  Walsh  will 
marry  Michael  Sullivan  on  March 
26  on  Long  Island,  where  Jackie  is  a 
special  education  teacher.  •  Con- 
gratulations to  Nick  Husni  and 
Minnie  Tse  who  have  recently  an- 
nounced their  engagement.  They  are 
both  currently  third  year  students  at 
the  BU  School  of  Medicine,  though 
Nick  has  transferred  to  the  MD/ 
Ph.D.  program  in  pathology  (lots- 
o-school!).  "Jennifer Reardon  and 
Michael  Kirby  were  married  Au- 
gust 21  at  Saint  Ignatius  Church. 
Among  those  in  the  wedding  party 
were  Christine  Tierney,  Julie 
Martin  and  Tim  McManus.  Jenni- 


fer has  graduated  from  the  New 
England  School  of  Law  and  Brendan 
is  getting  his  master's  in  Finance  at 
BC.  They  live  in  Quincy.  •  Kelly 
Carter  married  Paul  Geragotelis  on 
July  24.  Kelly  is  an  actuarial  student 
at  John  Hancock;  she  and  Paul  live 
in  Canton.  •  Richard  Coles  has 
married  Nguyen  Park  in  South  Ko- 
rea; they  have  a  four  month-old  son, 
Jingsoo.  •  Michelle  Wogisch  and 
Robert  Coiley  were  married  Octo- 
ber 4,  1992.  Michelle  is  an  accoun- 
tant with  Genovese,  Levin,  Bartlett 
&  Co.  and  lives  in  Ringwood,  NJ.  • 
Barbara  Mischlich  married  Bill  Bins 
in  Kansas  City  on  November  26.  • 
Catherine  Ryan  is  engaged  to  Mark 
Kinshu;  they  will  marry  next  sum- 
mer. •  Angela  White  married  Alan 
Brill  last  Memorial  Day  weekend.  • 
My  spring  column  is  due  March  4,  so 
if  you  have  any  news  make  sure  I 
receive  it  by  then.  Hope  your  holi- 
day season  was  peaceful! 


91 


Christine  Bodoin 
55  Lands  End  Ln. 
Sudbury,  MA  01776 

Happy  Valentine's  Day!  Thanks  for 
writing.  Luly  Castellanos  lives  in 
her  homeland  of  Brazil.  She  is  a 
product  manager  at  Sterling  Health, 
an  American  multinational  pharma- 
ceutical company.  •  Mauricio 
Samper  returned  to  Columbia  and 
is  a  financial  analyst  for  the  corpo- 
rate division  of  Citibank  in  Bogota. 
•  Frances  Kaufmann  is  in  Peru. 
She  works  with  her  father  in  an  ex- 
port-import company  and  is  glad  to 
be  home  again.  •  Sofia  Salazar  works 
for  Lazard  Freres  in  N.Y.C.  •  Chris- 
tine O'Callaghan  is  in  the  direct 
marketing  business  as  an  account 
executive.  •  Mariana  Espino  is  a 
first  grade  teacher  in  a  Miami  pri- 
vate school;  she  is  pursuing  her  teach- 
ing certificate  and  is  finishing 
graduate  school.  •  Ignacio  Nacbo 
Rojo  received  two  master's  degrees 
in  December  1992  from  Boston 
Univ.  in  aerospace  and  mechanical 
engineering.  He  works  at  Anderson 
Consulting  in  Buenos  Aires,  Argen- 
tina. He  misses  his  girlfriend  in  Bos- 
ton, but  not  the  snow.  •  Sean  Farley 
and  Cheri  Connolly  were  engaged 
on  August  1 1  at  the  gazebo  in  Oaks 
Bluff  on  Martha's  Vineyard.  Sean  is 
employed  with  the  John  Hancock 
Mutual  Funds  Division  and  Cheri  is 
employed  by  the  Boston  Globe.  • 
Maura  Somers  married  Bill 
Fitzgerald  on  October  30  in 
Needham.  They  live  in  Dover,  NH, 


24  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


where  they  bought  a  house.  • 
Heather  Garrigan  married  Lieu- 
tenant Jeffrey  Allan  Hentz,  pilot 
USAF  on  May  29  in  Northboro. 
Barbara  Healey  was  maid  of  honor 
and  Tricia  Lawlor  was  a  brides- 
maid. Heather  and  Jeff  reside  in 
Tucson,  AZ  where  Heather  works 
in  advertising.  In  attendance  from 
'9 1  were:  Lynn  Page,  John  Mahoney, 
Kellie  Maroney,  Kathy  Barry,  Harry 
Patz,  Joe  Furino,  Tom  Penque,  Ann 
Marie  Breen,  Meg  Gross,  Deb 
Wardlow,  Heather  Munroe,  Kirsten 
Frankerhoff,  Sharon  Rogler  and 
Megan  Rurak.  •  Karen  Golden  re- 
ceived her  master's  in  technical  and 
professional  writing  from  Northeast- 
ern Univ.  She  is  a  technical  writer 
for  ICAD,  a  small  software  company 
in  Cambridge.  Terence  and  she  are 
still  together  (6  years,  but  no  plans 
of  marriage  yet).  Karen  says  hello  to 
her  old  friends  from  BC/BC  High 
whom  she  rarely  sees,  but  thinks  of 
often.  •  Rob  Shannon  was  promoted 
to  VP  of  College  Pro  Painters  in 
charge  of  the  Southwest  U.S.  dis- 
trict. On  August  13,  eight  of  our 
classmates  including  Rob  Bodio, 
Kristen  Dube,  Jay  Duke,  Cindy 
Miner,  Caroline  Orquiola  and 
Tracy  Thistle  went  to  The  Forks, 
Maine  where  they  spend  the  week- 
end white  water  rafting,  hiking, 
climbing  and  swimming.  Rob  is  in 
his  second  year  at  the  Univ.  Bridge- 
port Law  School.  Kristen  is  pursu- 
ing her  degree  in  biology  at  Boston 
Univ.  and  plans  to  attend  veterinary 
school  upon  completion.  Jay  works 
for  Reebok  in  promotions.  Cindy 
completed  her  master's  through 
N.Y.U.  in  France  and  has  moved 
back  to  Boston.  Caroline  works  at 
the  Mass.  Health  Research  Institute 
in  Boston.  Tracy  is  doing  a  joint 
MB A/MHA  program  at  Clark  Univ. 
and  UMass  Medical  School  in 
Worcester.  •  Claudia  Baljer  mar- 
ried Francesco  Bosatra  on  June  21. 
She  met  him  in  Italy  while  she  was 
working  on  her  Fulbright.  They  live 
just  outside  of  Venice,  Italy.  •  Nancy 
Cantu  is  engaged  to  Peter  Thomp- 
son; they  both  work  for  Lamy,  a 
frame  company,  in  Connecticut.  • 
Jolyn  Cappelletti  married  Tom 
McLaughlin  on  August  14.  They 
met  in  Oregon  while  doing  JVC. 
Jolyn  teaches  first  grade  in  Walpole, 
and  Tom  attends  BC  grad  school.  • 
Liz  Kassabgi  is  still  working  for 
American  Home  Food  Products.  She 
is  thrilled  to  be  transferring  back  to 
the  Boston  area  from  Utica,  NY.  • 
Tricia  Murphy  Kelly  gave  birth  to 
Katherine  Kelly  last  March.  Tricia 
is  teaching  in  Framingham.  She  and 
her  husband  J. K.  bought  their  first 
home  last  June  in   Shrewsbury.   • 


Deidre  Flynn  is  engaged  to  Joe 
Petricone.  She  is  teaching  in  Darien, 
CT  and  is  pursuing  her  master's  at 
Fairfield  Univ.  •  Terri  Tynan  is 
finishing  the  occupational  therapy 
program  at  Tufts  Univ.  this  year.  • 
Odette  Chang  is  in  optometry 
school  in  Fullerton,  CA.  •  Angela 
Graziano  is  engaged  to  James 
McCormack  (UNH  '89).  Angela 
works  at  Cellular  One  in  Westwood 
as  a  credit  analyst.  At  her  bridal 
shower  were:  Cheryl  Tolentino, 
Maribel  Custodio,  Christina 
Bamberry,  Liana  Fantasia,  Becky 
Hitunen,  Dawn  Dlouhy,  Jana 
Kelly,  and  Patrice  Bouzan.  Cheryl 
is  at  Seton  Hall  Univ.  for  her  master's 
in  counseling.  Maribel  is  a  regis- 
tered nurse  in  Passaic,  NJ.  Christina 
is  at  Lesley  College  for  her  master's 
in  counseling  psychology.  Liana  has 
her  master's  from  BC  School  of  So- 
cial Work,  and  works  in  Hyannis  as 
a  social  worker  for  Cape  Cod  Hu- 
man Services.  Becky  works  at 
Worcester  State  College  as  an  assis- 
tant director  of  financial  aid,  and  has 
been  accepted  to  Babson  College's 
MBA  program.  Dawn  works  at 
United  Airlines  in  California.  Jana 
works  at  an  Environmental  Tech- 
nology Co.  in  Walthamn.  Patrice 
spent  a  summer  at  Ballarat  Univ.  in 
Australia  doing  research  with 
Australia's  Sports  Commission.  She 
has  her  master's  in  counseling/sports 
psychology  from  Boston  Univ.  •  On 
August  2 1  ,Jeff Magnum  Ellsworth 
marriedjody  Gill  in  Poland  Springs, 
ME.  They  met  through  Jeff  s  friend 
Aggie.  Mark  Dawson  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  bridal  party  and  surprised 
everyone  with  his  Frank  Sinatra  im- 
pression. In  attendance  were  Tim 
Chamberlain,  Vee,  John  Bray,  and 
Matt  Brennan.  Everyone  had  a  great 
time  looking  for  bears  in  the  woods 
and  hot-tubbing  with  the  brides- 
maids. John  especially  enjoyed  get- 
ting back  to  nature,  and  commented 
that  he  loved  the  freedom  that  nu- 
dity provides.  •  Rich  St.  Germain  is 
in  the  Pacific,  diving  for  lost  trea- 
sures. •  Hey,  Debbie  Monahan: 
where's  my  letter? 


92 


Paul  L.  Cantello 
60  Parmelee  Ave. 
Hawthorne,  NJ  07506 

Greetings  from  Paradise  Island  in 
the  Bahamas!  I  got  bored  with  al- 
ways writing  our  column  in  New 
Jersey,  so  I  decided  to  try  something 
new.  It's  eighty-something  and 
sunny  here,  how's  the  weather  by 


you?  Here's  the  latest  news:  •  Mary 
Ellen  Collins  is  working  as  an  ac- 
count coordinator  for  Business  Wire, 
an  international  media  relations  firm 
in  downtown  Boston.  •  Alisa 
Picerno  is  a  senatorial  assistant  at 
the  Connecticut  State  Capitol  Build- 
ing. Previously,  she  worked  as  a 
videographer  for  a  dating  service  and 
an  on-air  traffic  reporter  for  a  local 
radio  station.  •  Terri  Dallas  and 
Kevin  Grunzweig  (who  was  in  our 
class  for  three  years)  are  engaged  to 
be  married  this  fall  in  Bloomfield 
Hills,  MI.  Currently  Kevin  is  work- 
ing for  Allied- Wakefield  Distribu- 
tions in  Danvers.  Terri  is  a  pediatric 
oncology  nurse  at  the  Children's 
Hospital.  •  Chris  Barry  and 
Adrienne  Bolan  traveled  to  San 
Diego  to  visit  Brian  CuIIey.  Chris  is 
working  for  the  American  Finance 
Group  in  Boston.  Adrienne  is  rap- 
idly ascending  the  corporate  ladder 
at  United  Counties  Trust  Co.  in 
New  Jersey.  Brian  is  involved  with 
research  at  Scripps  Labs  in  San  Di- 
ego. •  Chris  Young  is  studying  at 
the  Univ.  of  Texas  Medical  School 
in  Houston.  He  has  studied  in  Quito, 
Ecuador  and  traveled  through  the 
Andes  Mountains  and  the  Amazon. 

•  David  Mittleman  has  been  elected 
to  the  New  Hampshire  House  of 
Representatives.  •  Don  Reid  is  at- 
tending Georgetown  Law  School.  • 
Adrian  O'Malley  is  also  attending 
the  Univ.  of  Texas  Medical  School. 

•  Anjanette  Farina  is  working  as  an 
administrative  assistant  to  the  presi- 
dent of  the  Garden  State  Cancer 
Center.  With  this  experience,  she 
hopes  to  eventually  go  into  hospital 
administration.  In  addition, 
Anjanette  is  in  the  process  of  apply- 
ing to  graduate  programs  in  public 
health.  •  Janet  Moran  has  com- 
pleted a  year  with  JVC  in  Philadel- 
phia and  had  just  begun  her  first  year 
at  Temple  Law.  •  Kathy 
Carmichael  is  working  in  facilities 
management  for  the  Codman  Co.  in 
Chelmsford.  •  Tracy  Mullare  is 
working  as  a  child  and  adolescent 
counselor  at  a  division  of  Pembrook 
Psychiatric  Center  in  Boston.  •  Ed 
Jenning  spent  his  first  year  out  of 
BC  teaching  English  in  Japan.  He 
has  learned  to  speakjapanese  and  is 
working  on  his  black  belt  in  karate.  • 
Jen  Gutman  finished  a  year  with 
JVC  in  Bethel,  AK.  She's  now  at- 
tending UNC,  Chapel  Hill  to  get 
her  master's  in  operations  research. 

•  Suzi  Mercein  graduated  from 
Stanford  with  her  master's  in  educa- 
tion. She  returned  to  her  alma  mater 
Scarsdale  High  School,  NY  to  teach 
social  studies.  •  Erika  Heim  is  at- 
tending Thunderbird  School  of  In- 
ternational Studies  in  Arizona.   • 


Danny  Mulkern  and  Danny  Ennis 

have  jobs  with  Goldman  Sachs  in 
NYC.  •  Ann  Sisk  moved  to  San 
Francisco  from  Connecticut.  She 
works  as  an  assistant  account  execu- 
tive with  a  small  advertising  agency. 

•  Cynthia  Nerangis  is  working  at  a 
hotel  in  Greece.  She  was  home  in 
Dallas  for  Christmas  and  then  re- 
turned to  Europe.  •  Lisa  Purtell 
wrote  in  from  Paris.  She  works  at  the 
European  headquarters  of  Otis  El- 
evator International.  Krissy  Buzum, 
Danny  Hostettler  and  Heather 
Curcio  are  also  living  and  working 
in  Paris.  Krissy  and  Danny  are  at 
Citibank  Corp.  Heather  works  for 
an  affiliate  of  Johnson  and  Johnson. 

•  Navy  Ensign  Daniel  Jack  recently 
completed  the  basic  qualification 
course  for  Navy  Supply  Corps  Of- 
ficers in  Athens,  GA.  •  Alica  Marie 
Moores  was  married  May  1 5  to  Jef- 
frey Lynch  in  Ogunquit,  ME.  Alice 
is  obtaining  her  master's  in  early 
childhood  education  at  Lesley  Col- 
lege. Jeffrey  is  employed  as  a  soft- 
ware engineer  at  Flashpoint  Inc.  • 
Steven  Fahmie  is  an  analyst  with 
Chase  Manhattan  Bank  in  NYC.  • 
Gary  Tuma  is  attending  Jefferson 
Medical  College  in  Philadelphia.  • 
Joseph  Clausen  is  a  purchasing 
agent  for  World  Industrial  Controls 
Systems  in  Ramsey,  NJ.  •  Peter 
Joel  is  an  assistant  trader  with  J.  P. 
Morgan  on  Wall  Street.  •  Susan 
Long  is  a  commercial  banking  assis- 
tant at  Fleet  Bank  in  Boston.  •  Tara 
Delnero  is  a  registered  nurse  atJFK 
Medical  Center  in  Edison,  NJ.  • 
Charlie  Erwin  is  a  graduate  student 
in  political  philosophy  at  Villanova 
Univ.  •  Amy  Chesek  is  a  credit 
associate  at  Shawmut  Bank  in  Hart- 
ford. •  Thomas  Wilcox  is  a  staff 
accountant  with  Price  Waterhouse 
in  Boston.  •  Scott  Matarese  is  a 
management  trainee  at  Citizens  Sav- 
ings Bank  in  Cranston,  RI.  •  Monica 
Snowdeal  and  Jane  Crowley  made 
the  big  trip  to  South  Bend  to  see  the 
"game  of  the  century!"  They  had  a 
fantastic  time  in  Chicago  on  Fri. 
night  at  Moran's  and  Deacon's, 
meeting  up  with  tons  of  classmates: 
Charlie  Rego,  Bill  McCarthy, 
Kevin  Backe,  Steve  Lavelle,  Den- 
nis Gaughan,  John  O'Toole,  Dave 
Mingey,  Ron  Wessel,  Meg 
Quigley,  and  so  many  others.  They 
enjoyed  the  'reunion'  and  hope  to 
see  everyone  at  the  Heights  for  next 
year's  ND  game.*  Scott  Dunbar  is 
recovering  nicely  after  suffering  from 
a  large  blood  clot  in  his  right  leg  the 
week  before  Christmas.  Apparently 
it  was  caused  by  an  unusual  vascular 
system — currently  he's  baffling  the 
Harvard  medical  community  with 
it!  Despite  this  setback  during  finals 


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CLASSES 


week,  he  will  return  to  Tufts  med  to 
finish  his  second  year  there.  Best  of 
luck,  Scott!  •  That's  it  for  now.  En- 
joy a  great  winter!  Anyone  who  at- 
tended the  Carquest  Bowl  in  Miami 
must  send  postcards.  Go  Eagles! 


93 


Alison  J.  Pothier 
556  First  St.  #6 
Hoboken,  NJ  07030 
(201)420-1937 

Congratulations  are  in  order  to  a 
few  of  our  courageous  classmates 
who  have  decided  to  tie  the  knot. 
Jaqueline  West  works  for  Herb 
Chambers  Honda  BMW  Corp.  in 
Boston.  In  April  she  will  wed  Ben- 
jamin White.  •  Tom  Burton  is  en- 
gaged to  Leslie  Everingham  '94  and 
plans  to  marry  in  August.  •.  Eric 
Gerster  and  Mini  Nunna  '90  are 
also  engaged  to  be  married  in  Sep- 
tember. •  Christine  Paterek  and 
David  A.  Cohen  '91  were  engaged 
over  the  Christmas  holidays.  •  I  re- 
cently met  Stuart  Schutze  and 
Deanna  Villegas  while  visiting  Dal- 
las. Stuart  is  working  for  Pete 
Marwick  and  Deanna  is  working  at 
Texas  Christian  Univ.  teaching  En- 
glish as  a  second  language.  • I  spoke 
with  Roshini  Rajkumar  who  was 
busy  working  in  Minneapolis  and 
applying  to  law  school.  •  Vini 
Santana  is  working  in  N.Y.C.  for 
Lehman  Brothers  and  is  joined  by 
Andrea  Haberland  who  works  for 
Merill  Lynch.  •  As  of  January,  Chris- 
tine Fahey  will  be  living  and  work- 
ing in  Chicago.  Roommate  Lisa 
Cullen  is  currently  with  JVC  in 
Fairbanks,  AK.  •  Sharon  Grazioso 
works  as  an  assistant  coach  for  the 
Brandeis  Crew  Team.  •  John  Ladd 
works  for  Gallo  Wines  in  the  Boston 
area  and  is  joined  in  Boston  by  Todd 
Altamore  working  for  Fidelity  In- 
vestments. •  Patti  Bradley  is  also  in 
Boston  working  for  Arthur  Ander- 
son. •  Tracy  Pallas  is  a  sales  rep.  for 
Reckitt  &  Colman  in  Bridgewater, 
NJ.  •  Dave  Frankel  is  working  at 
Fact  Set  Data  Systems  Inc.  •  Ray 
Alvarez  is  working  at  JP  Morgan  in 
N.Y.C.  and  still  suffering  from  lar- 
yngitis after  the  ND  victory  (Amen). 
•  Laurie  Bergen  is  working  in 
N.Y.C.  for  Junior  Achievement.  • 
Laurie  Bertolacci  returned  from  a 
two  month  trip  to  Europe  with 
Deirdre  McCaffrey  and  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Maryland  working  at  Chevy 
Chase  bank.  Roommate  Ellen  Seo 
works  at  Finnegan,  Henderson, 
Farabow,  Garrett  &  Doner;  Molly 
Kenah  is  a  systems  consultant  with 


Wyatt  Consulting;  and  Meghan 
McDonnell  is  with  Saks.  •  Beth 
Shugrue  attends  graduate  school  at 
the  Univ.  of  New  Haven  in  Con- 
necticut while  roommate  Danielle 
Sardella  works  as  a  chemist  in 
Copley  Pharmaceutical  in 
Stoughton.  •  Tara  DiMilia  is  work- 
ing in  Midtown  Manhattan  for  a 
communications  company.  •  Chris- 
tine DuBois  was  working  at  St. 
Peter's  Prep  teaching  study  skills  for 
Readak  Educational  Services.  • 
Good  luck  to  volunteers  Joyce 
Synnott  doing  JIV,  Jennifer  Will- 
iams doingJVC  in  Atlanta,  and  Kim 
Boyle  doing  VISTAin  Toledo,  OH. 

•  Last  I  heard,  Chris  Yvars  was 
enjoying  the  mountains  of  Colorado 
where  he  has  been  skiing.  •  Alycia 
Sacco  has  been  working  for  a  law 
firm  in  Albany,  NY  during  her  weeks 
and  returns  to  her  home  in  Pittsfield 
on  the  weekends  to  work  for  Leggs- 
Hanes.  •  Diane  Todd  is  attending 
the  New  England  College  of  Op- 
tometry. •  Cindy  Berivino  is  work- 
ing as  a  Pulse  administrative  assistant 
at  BC.  •  Kathleen  Gale  is  teaching 
language  and  arts  in  Torrington,  CT. 

•  Delia  Roman  is  working  at  Coat- 
ings Incorporated  &  Co.  as  a  manu- 
facturing and  sales  rep.  in  Puerto 
Rico.  While  traveling,  Delia  saw 
Ibrahim  Ghattas  working  in  Egypt 
and  John  Pierantoni  in  the  Tower 
of  London.  •  Ana  Agrelot  works  for 
Proctor  and  Gamble  Latin  America 
in  Puerto  Rico.  •  Also  in  Puerto  Rice 
are  Sarah  Irizarry  at  Ernst  and 
Young  studying  for  her  CPA,  Raul 
Gonzalez  at  the  Univ.  of  Puerto 
Rico  Law  School,  and  Carla 
Rampella  and  Francisco  Arraiza  at 
Puerto  Rico  Medical  School.  •  The 
Puerto  Rico  contingency  sends  hel- 
los  to  Veronica  Fernandez  work- 
ing in  Washington,  DC  and  Antonio 
Mendez  studying  art  in  Paris.  •  Last 
informed,  Beth  Blowers  had  re- 
ceived an  offer  with  the  Peace  Corps 
after  directing  a  volunteer  program 
in  Paraguay  for  Amigos  de  las  Ameri- 
cas. •  Laura  Prescott  is  attending 
Northeastern  Univ.  to  get  her 
master's  in  social  work.  •  Melissa 
Fish  had  been  interviewing  at  men- 
tal health  hospitals  in  Boston  and 
would  like  her  master's  &  PhD  in 
psychology.  •  Beth  Eagan  is  living 
and  working  with  Jennifer  Brya  in 
Phoenix,  AZ.  •  Matt  Gagne  is  liv- 
ing in  France  working  for  a  bank.  • 
Jonas  Geiger  returned  to  Atlanta  to 
work  for  Geiger  International.  • 
Derek  Hammel  is  in  New  Mexico 
teaching  "impressionable  fifth  grad- 
ers" from  an  Indian  Reservation.  • 
Ursula  Poehling  has  been  taking 
the  necessary  science  courses  to  pre- 
pare for  medical  school.  •  Stephanie 


Willis  was  working  for  American 
Express,  but  is  preparing  to  return 
to  school.  •  John  P.  Smith  is  work- 
ing for  Price  Waterhouse  as  a  staff 
accountant  in  the  audit  continuing 
education  program.  •  Lee 
McGlaughlin  is  enjoying 
Georgetown  Medical  School  in 
Washington,  DC.  •  Nicole  Dadaian 
is  at  the  Fashion  Institute  of  Tech- 
nology in  N.Y.C.  majoring  in  buy- 
ing or  merchandising.  #JeffPereira 
is  working  for  TJ  Maxx  Inc.  in 
Framingham.  •  Mike  Devine  is  a 
residence  hall  director  at  Sacred 
Heart  College  in  Fairfield,  CT.  • 
Beth  Benoit  went  through  officer 
training  for  the  Air  Force  to  be  a 
nurse.  •  Alison  McDonald  is  pur- 
suing her  master's  in  elementary 
education  at  Vanderbilt.  •  Jana 
SanGiovanni  attends  Columbia 
Univ.  Teacher's  College  for  her 
master's  in  philosophy,  social  sci- 
ences, and  education.  •  Corrine 
Ching  and  Stacey  Sato  returned  to 
Hawaii  to  enjoy  the  sun,  pineapples 
and  their  new  jobs.  •  Last  I  had 
heard,  Roisin  O'Brien  was  going 
West  to  live  and  work.  I  hope  it 
worked  out!  •  Thanks  for  all  the 
letters — keep  it  up! 


EVENING 
COLLEGE 

Jane  T.  Crimlisk  '74 
24  Wade  St. 
Brighton,  MA  02 135 

Jackie  Starr '  5  9  recently  retired  from 
the  Maiden  school  system  after  33 
years  of  dedicated  service.  Her  most 
recent  job  in  the  system  was  coordi- 
nator of  health  education  and  hu- 
man services.  Jackie  chairs  the 
Maiden  Health  Advisory  Council 
and  the  Maiden  Teen  ParentingTask 
Force  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Mass. 
Statewide  Health  Advisory  Council. 
Enjoy  your  retirement,  Jackie.  You 
deserve  it.  •  Alyce  Pace  '79  is  em- 
ployed by  The  Boston  Company  as  a 
financial  reporting  accountant.  • 
Dale  Rozek  '84  is  currently  en- 
rolled as  a  nursing  student  at  Colby- 
Sawyer  college  in  New  London,  NH. 
It  is  a  four  year  program,  and  Dale 
expects  to  complete  the  program  by 
the  end  of  this  year.  Congratula- 
tions, Dale.  •  Best  wishes  to  Dawn 
Hobson'92  and  Jeffrey  Costello  who 
were  recently  united  in  marriage  at  a 
double  ring  nuptial  Mass  at  St.  Jude 
Church,  Waltham.  Rev.  Vincent 
Daily  performed  the  ceremony.  Fol- 
lowing a  honeymoon  trip  to  the 
Caribbean  island  of  St.  John,  the 
couple  will  reside  in  Arlington.  I 


wish  you  both  many  years  of  good 
health  and  happiness.  •  Congratula- 
tions to  Mary  Amsler  '49  who  was 
the  winner  of  the  football  raffle  held 
at  the  BCECA  tailgate  party  on  fam- 
ily day.  •  Prayers  and  condolences 
are  extended  to  the  families  of  Hel- 
ena F.  Reidy  '38,  Sister  Celine 
Jette  '42,  and  J.  Spencer  Kelley  '62 
who  died  in  August.  May  they  rest  in 
peace.  •  If  you  have  any  news  to 
share,  please  drop  me  a  note  at  the 
above  address.  Thanks. 


GA&S 

Dean  Donald  J.  White  '44 
McGuinn  Hall  221 A 
Boston  College 
Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02167 
(617)552-3265 

Daniel  E.  Cullen,  Ph.D.  political 
science  '89,  has  written  a  new  book, 
Freedom  in  Rousseau's  Political  Phi- 
losophy. He  is  currently  an  asst.  prof, 
of  political  science  at  Rhodes  Col- 
lege in  Memphis,  TN.  •  Dr.  Lorna 
Duphiney  Edmundson,  M.Ed, 
counseling  ed.  '69,  has  recently  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  senior  VP  and 
dean  of  faculty  at  Colby-Sawyer 
College  .  •  Maryellen  Hurwitz 
Handel,  M.Ed.  76  and  Ph.D.  '84 
psychology,  currently  the  director 
of  psychiatric  ambulatory  services  at 
Newton-Wellesley  Hospital,  has 
recently  co-authored  the  book  Mad- 
ness and  Loss  ofMotherhood:  Sexuality, 
Reproduction,  and  Long-Term  Illness. 
•  ThomasJ.  Knock,  M.A.  '75,  assoc. 
prof,  of  history  at  Southern  Meth- 
odist Univ.,  was  recently  awarded 
the  Warren  F.  Kuehl  Prize  for  his 
book  on  Woodrow  Wilson,  To  End 
All  Wars:  Woodrow  Wilson  and  the 
Quest  for  a  New  World  Order.  •  Jean 
C.  Wood,  Ph.D.  economics  '79,  has 
been  promoted  to  group  VP  at  Abt 
Association  in  Cambridge  to  over- 
see Abt's  work  in  education,  surveys, 
housing,  labor  and  welfare  econom- 
ics .  •  Charlotte  Bisson,  M.A.  lin- 
guistics '56,  has  retired  after  3  7  years 
as  the  French  teacher  at  York  High 
School.  •  Sister  Elizabeth 
Broughan,  M.A.  history  '76,  has 
been  appointed  director  of  admis- 
sions at  Elms  College  .  •  Elaine  F. 
Campbell,  M.A.  ed.  psychology  '91 , 
has  recently  been  accepted  for  gradu- 
ate studies  at  Antioch  New  England 
Graduate  School  in  Keene,  NH  .  • 
Sharon  Carrish,  Ph.D.  education 
'92,  is  an  asst.  prof,  of  communica- 
tions and  the  assist,  coach  to  the 
forensic  team  at  Mansfield  Univ.  in 
Mansfield,  PA .  •  Mara  Casey,  M.A. 
English  '68,  received  her  Ph.D.  in 
English  education  from  the  Univ.  of 


26  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


California/Riverside  in  June.  She  is 
the  co-editor  of  Children's  Voices: 
Children  Talk  About  Literacy 
(Heinemann,  1993)  .  •  Robert  G. 
Coffill  Jr.,  CAES  ed.  admin.  '89,  has 
become  the  new  superintendent  of 
the  schools  in  Canterbury,  CT.  • 
Elmer  M.  Colyer  '93  is  an  asst. 
prof,  on  the  tenure  track  at  the  Univ. 
of  Dubuque  .  •  Kenneth  R. 
Craycraft  Jr.,  Ph.D.  theology  '93, 
has  recently  been  appointed  asst. 
prof,  at  St.  Mary's  Univ.  where  he 
will  be  teaching  Catholic  moral  the- 
ology, political  science,  and  philoso- 
phy .  •  Trudy  Cullen,  M.Ed.,  spec, 
ed.  '79,  is  the  director  of  human 

(resources  for  the  North  Shore  Asso- 
ciation of  Retarded  Citizens  (ARC) 
.  •  Bianca  DiNapoli,  M.A.  counsel- 
ing psychology  '92,  is  an  editor  of 
the  BC  Women's  Studies  depart- 
ment newsletter,  Voices.  She  also  is 
co-teaching  the  course  Introduction 
to  Feminism  and  is  a  member  of  the 
BC  Harassment  Resource  Network 
Committee,  conducting  focus 
groups  to  ascertain  students'  level  of 
discriminatory  harassment  on  cam- 
pus. •  Peter  D.  Goldsmith,  M.A. 
sociology  76,  received  his  Ph.D.  in 
anthropology  from  the  Univ.  of 
Chicago  and  is  now  the  dean  of  fresh- 
men at  Dartmouth  College.  •  Craig 
Hammon,  M.Ed.  ed.  psychology 
'71,  has  been  appointed  executive 
VP,  overseeing  all  external  relations, 
at  Gordon  College.  •  Philip  E. 
Jamieson,  Ph.D.  theology  '93,  is 
currently  a  pastor  in  Chagrin  Falls, 
OH  .  •  Belinda  Johnson-Cornett, 
M.S.  nursing  '89,  has  been  appointed 
assist,  director  of  nursing  at  the  Mass. 
Respiratory  Hospital.  •  Linda 
Karpeichik,  M.Ed,  special  ed.  '79, 
has  moved  from  coordinator  of  the 
early  childhood  education  center  in 
Dedham  to  director  of  the  growing 
program.  •  John  L.  LeBrun,  M.A. 
history  '63,  assoc.  prof,  of  history  at 
Kent  State  Univ.,  spent  the  '91 -'92 
academic  year  at  the  Univ.  of  War- 
saw in  Poland,  teaching  history  and 
literature  in  the  Institute  of  Ameri- 
can Studies  and  American  cultural 
history  in  the  Institute  of  English. 
He  lectured  on  the  nature  of  non- 
violence there  and  at  the  Teachers' 
College  in  Pulawy,  and  also  lectured 
on  American  politics  at  Jaggellonian 
Univ.  in  Crakow.  •  James  W.  V. 
LeGrys,  Ph.D.  theology  '93,  has  a 
one-year  lecturing  position  at  the 
Univ.  of  Dallas.  •  Joseph  J. 
Montano,  M.A.  political  science  '84, 
is  currently  teaching  social  studies  at 
Springfield  Gardens  High  School  in 
Queens,  NY.  He  is  assist,  moderator 
of  the  Newman  Club  and  is  cur- 
rently enrolled  in  Fordham 
University's  Graduate  School  of 


Social  Work.  •  Joyce  Radiches, 
M.Ed.  '83  and  Ph.D.  '89  ed.  admin., 
was  named  principal  of  the  Conley 
School  in  Whitman.  •  Barbara  Anne 
Radtke,  Ph.D.  theology  '93,  is  an 
asst.  prof,  and  assoc.  director  of  the 
Ministry  Institute  at  Notre  Dame 
College  in  Manchester,  NH .  •  John 
L.  Roche,  M.Ed.  ed.  spec.  st.  '54, 
has  retired  after  30  years  at  Cape 
Cod  Community  College.  •  Char- 
lotte Sciola,  M.A.  mathematics  '70, 
was  named  assist,  superintendent  of 
schools  in  Saugus.  •  Christopher 
R.  Smith,  Ph.D.  theology  '92,  cur- 
rently is  a  pastor  in  Williamstown.  • 
Sharon  Smith,  M.S.  nursing  '72, 
has  been  elected  president  of  the 
Mass.  Organization  of  Nurse  Ex- 
ecutives at  Mount  Auburn  Hospital. 
•  Aline  Tulchin,  M.A.  ed.  psychol- 
ogy '81,  has  been  appointed  assist. 
VP  and  manager  of  personnel  ser- 
vices at  Main  Line  Federal  Savings 


Alex,  on  10/3/93.  She  is  now  a  stay- 
at-home  mom  with  newborn  and 
three-year-old  Jennie.  She  will  start 
consulting  (part-time)  in  the  field  of 
aging  after  the  new  year.  •  Maureen 
Boyle  '90  has  been  promoted  to 
dietary  service  director  of  the 
Hillhaven  Corp.  in  Tacoma,  WA.  • 
Jaily  Gomez  '87  is  VP  and  invest- 
ment banking  officer  in  charge  of 
large  Venezuelan  corporate  clients 
and  the  Venezuelan  pulp  and  paper 
industry  for  Bank  of  America's  Rep- 
resentative Office  in  Caracas,  Ven- 
ezuela. Additionally,  he  coordinates 
marketing  activities  in  Venezuela 
with  product  managers  based  in  San 
Franciso,  New  York  or  London.  • 
Captain  Mike  Marshall  '90  has  just 
separated  from  the  Air  Force  and 
has  accepted  a  position  as  program 
manager  at  GTE  Government  Sys- 
tems in  Marina  del  Rey,  CA.  •  Alan 
Keiran  '70  retired  from  DEC  in 


Sister  M.  Rosella  Cassidy,  RSMGA&S  '34 
Celebrates  Centennial  Birthday 

On  December  18,  1993,  Sister  M.  Rosella  Cassidy  GA&S 
'34  celebrated  her  100th  birthday. 

University  President  J.  Donald  Monan,  SJ  extended  con- 
gratulations to  Sister  Rosella  on  behalf  of  the  University  and 
the  Alumni  Association  in  a  personal  letter  last  month.  He 
commended  her  lifelong  service  to  Catholic  education,  stating 
"Boston  College  is  extremely  proud  to  claim  you  as  her  own 
and  grateful  to  share  in  the  reflected  glory  of  an  esteemed 
daughter's  devotion ...  to  the  admirable  educational  traditions 
of  the  Sisters  of  Mercy." 

Not  only  is  Sister  Rosella  BC's  oldest  living  graduate,  but 
she  is  also  the  first  alumna  to  achieve  centennial  status.  She  is 
a  resident  of  Mount  St.  Rita  Health  Center  in  Cumberland,  RI. 


Bank  in  Pennsylvania.  •  Samya 
Yamin,  M.A.  ed.  psychology  '91, 
has  recently  been  accepted  for  gradu- 
ate studies  at  Antioch  New  England 
Graduate  School  in  Keene,  NH. 


GSOM 

Lesley  Fox  '91 
35  Larch  St. 
Brighton,  MA  02 135 
(617)254-5968 

Hi  again.  Time  for  more  updates: 
Jennifer  Van  Scoter  '91  has  moved 
to  the  Big  Apple  and  is  living  the  fast 
life  with  a  new  job  to  boot.  •  Arlene 
Berger  '88  recently  had  a  new  baby, 


June  1992  after  36  years  in  purchas- 
ing. With  seven  children  (six  mar- 
ried) — three  in  Colorado,  one  in 
Minnesota,  one  in  Guantamo  Bay 
and  two  in  New  England — his  re- 
tirement is  a  busy  set  of  travels.  If 
you  are  ever  in  Nashua,  please  say 
hello.  •  Deborah  deSherbinin  '83 
launched  KidSmart,  a  marketing 
consulting  business  to  help  compa- 
nies identify  and  launch  products 
and  services  to  kids.  "John  Ferullo 
'7 1  says  that  "the  education  received 
at  BC  has  prepared  me  for  most  of 
challenges  in  the  business  world."  • 
William  Delaney  '66  is  the  founder 
of  Delcom,  Inc.  in  North  Hampton, 
NH.  •  Mark  DeAngelis  '92  and 
wife  Dana  have  moved  to  Wellesley. 


Mark,  an  account  supervisor  and  VP 
at  Data  Associates  says  he  is  looking 
forward  to  the  next  alumni  mixer.  • 
Edward  K.  Pang '9 1  recently  started 
Sino-Centric,  a  bi-weekly  newslet- 
ter on  investment/business  oppor- 
tunities and  developments  in  China. 
The  newsletter  also  covers  the  eco- 
nomic impact  of  China,  an  emerg- 
ing growth  market,  on  other  Asian 
countries  including  Japan,  and  vice 
versa.  Interested  subscribers  should 
call  617-438-6922  or  fax  617-438- 
5037.  •  Stephen  Foley '93  is  now  an 
account  officer  of  corporate  bank- 
ing at  the  The  Bank  of  Nova  Scotia 
in  Boston.  •  Melinda  Vinton  '86 
says,  "Keep  America  creative.  Sup- 
port the  arts."  •  Peter  S.Joseph  '84 
was  named  director  of  the  financial 
services  group  for  Cushman  and 
Wakefield  in  Boston.  He  was  previ- 
ously with  Recoil  Management  for 
two  years  as  a  VP/senior  marketing 
manager.  •  Thadeous  Weaver  '80 
has  been  a  practicing  CPA  in 
Swampscott  for  the  part  two  years. 
His  areas  of  expertise  include  fee 
only  personal  financial  planning.  • 
Jill  Matuson  '83  is  an  audit  supervi- 
sor for  Tofias,  Fleishman,  Shapiro 
&  Co,  PC  in  Cambridge.  She  lives  in 
Framingham  with  husband  Peter  and 
daughter  Hayley.  •  Steven  Sickel 
'92  is  working  for  Continental  Air- 
lines in  Houston,  TX  as  a  marketing 
manager,  developing  marketing  pro- 
motions for  the  One  Pass  Frequent 
Flyer  Program.  •  Richard  Kennedy 
'89  has  joined  Lotus  Development 
Corp.  as  a  federal  sales  rep.  He  works 
out  of  the  N.  Reading  office  and 
resides  in  Watertown.  •  Louis 
Torino  '65,  retired  from  The  Mas- 
sachusetts as  its  first  and  only  mar- 
keting director,  is  currently  senior 
VP,  marketing,  at  Media  Drop-In 
Productions,  a  sales  promotion  com- 
pany headquartered  in  Hartford, 
CT.  •  Don  Swanson  '92  started  a 
paralegal  consulting  and  employ- 
ment agency  in  Los  Angeles,  and  is 
living  in  Rolling  Hills,  CA.  He  would 
like  to  hear  from  his  classmates.  • 
Nancy  Auger  Buckman  '83  became 
part  owner  and  VP  of  a  new  com- 
pany— Value  Health  Management — 
in  April.  Her  new  company  will 
evaluate  and  manage  health  care  sup- 
pliers on  behalf  of  employers  and 
other  health  benefit  purchasers.  • 
Randy  Hyleh  '93  is  director  of  Tax 
and  Business  Planning,  Oak  Indus- 
tries, Inc.  •  Shawn  Whalen  '88  is 
living  in  Hood  River,  OR.  He  and 
wife  Cynthia  had  a  baby  boy,  Pierce, 
on  June  10, 1993.  Everyone  is  happy 
and  healthy.  •  Brian  O'Connor  '88 
recently  purchased  a  home  in  Read- 
ing. He  married  Sonnia  Marie 
Gonzalez-Rubio  '88  in  1990  in  Ec- 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES    27 


CLASSES 


uador.  They  had  their  first  child, 
Brian  Fernando  in  September  '91. 
He  remains  VP  of  commercial  lend- 
ing at  Fleet  Bank  in  Boston.  •  Steven 
Hanson  78  was  recently  promoted 
to  president  of  Calcitek  Inc.  in 
Carlsbad,  CA.  A  manufacturer  of 
oral  surgery  and  dental  implant  prod- 
ucts, Calcitek  is  a  company  of  Sulzer 
Medica.  My  former  position  of  VP 
international  at  Intermetics  was  also 
a  Sulzer  Medica  Co.  •  Richard 
Maxwell  '78  was  just  named  regional 
sales  manager  of  Mate  Punch  &  Die 
Co  of  Anol,  MN.  •  Lisa  Vardeman 
O'Connor  '91  married  Bob 
O'Connor  last  April.  She  is  currently 
working  as  a  financial  analyst  for 
Thorn  Americas  in  Wichita,  KS. 
After  working  for  BC  for  six  years, 
Mark  Klein  '90,  left  to  work  for 
Mintz-Levin  in  Boston  as  a  senior 
database  system  engineer.  •  Ben- 
jamin Machinist  '61  retired  from 
Nissan  Motor  Corp.  as  director  of 
industry  and  dealer  affairs  after  19 
years  of  service.  •  During  the  spring 
of  1993,  Dennis  Moran  '88  was 
busy  fundraising.  The  BC  Second- 
ing Helping  Gala,  which  he  chaired, 
raised  over  $100,000.  Also,  he  raised 
$1,600  for  Dana  Farber  Cancer  In- 
stitute by  running  the  1993  Boston 
Marathon.  His  business,  Atlantic 
Search  Group,  is  going  very  well. 
They  place  people  in  accounting  and 
financial  positions.  •  See  you  next 
quarter.  Keep  the  updates  coming. 


GSSW 

Sr.  Joanne  Westwater,  RGS,  '55 
57  Avalon  Ave. 
Quincy,  MA  02 169 
(617)328-5053 

Jane  Dempsey  Gilman  '92  is  the 

program  director  of  the  Elder  Clini- 
cal Services  Team  at  the  Center  for 
Human  Development  in  West 
Springfield.  •  Brenda  Joy  Kraus 
'92  is  an  advanced  intern  at  the  Out- 
patient Mental  Health  Clinic  of  the 
Brookline  Community  Mental 
Health  Center.  •  James 
McDonough  '92  is  a  child  protec- 
tive caseworker  at  the  Dept.  of  Hu- 
man Services  in  Lewiston,  ME.  • 
Timothy  Senior  '92  is  a  deputy 
secretary  at  the  Secretariat  for 
Catholic  Human  Services,  Archdio- 
cese of  Philadelphia.  •  Terri  Bogage 
'91  is  the  program  coordinator  for 
the  Vinfen  Corp.  in  Somerville.  • 
Margaret  D.  Brown  '89  is  a  thera- 
pist/consultant in  private  practice  in 
Cape  Elizabeth,  ME.  •  Jennifer 
Marie  Dinneen  '89  is  the  director 
of  social  service  at  Eastpointe  Nurs- 
ing Care  in  Chelsea.  •  Eilen  M. 


Heffernan  Dugan  '89  is  the  direc- 
tor of  residential  services  at  Work, 
Inc.  in  Quincy.  •  Sheila  Anne 
Gleeson  '89  is  a  community  orga- 
nizer for  the  South  Middlesex  Op- 
portunity Council  in  Framingham. 

•  Elaine  Ellen  Hayes  '89  is  an  out- 
patient clinician  at  Cape  Cod  Hu- 
man Services  in  Hyannis.  • 
Elizabeth  Anne  Rohan  '89  is  a  clini- 
cal social  worker  at  the  Mass.  Gen- 
eral Hospital  in  Boston.  •  Valerie 
Ann  Wedge  '89  is  the  director  of 
residential  services  at  the  Commu- 
nity Treatment  Center,  Inc.  in 
Worcester.  •  Ian  C.  MacKenzie 
'89  is  a  clinician  at  the  Jackson  Brook 
Institute  in  South  Portland,  ME.  • 
Leah  Marie  Bradley  '88  is  a  geriat- 
ric psychotherapist  at  Specialized 
Health,  Inc.  in  Newton.  •  Marie 
Saba  '88  was  married  in  Oct.  1 992  to 
Francis  Sabatino.  The  couple  reside 
in  Winchester.  Marie  is  director  of 
the  nursing  home  program  for  Heri- 
tage Health  Systems  in  Somerville; 
she  also  works  in  a  private  group 
practice  in  Stoneham  •  LisaE.  Reed 
'84  is  a  clinical  social  worker  in  the 
Lexington  Public  Schools.  •  Eleanor 
C.  Healey  '84  is  a  clinical  social 
worker  at  the  Boston  V.A.  Hospital 
in  the  outpatient  clinic.  •  Kim  E. 
Kelly  '84  is  the  director  of  deaf  out- 
patient services  at  the  South  Shore 
Mental  Health  Center  in  Quincy.  • 
Jan  M.  Nisenbaum  '84  is  the  direc- 
tor of  community  services  and  policy 
development  at  the  Dept.  of  Mental 
Health  in  Boston.  •  Ivy  Prescott 
Dwyer  '84  is  a  clinical  supervisor  at 
St.  Luke's  Hospital  in  New  Bedford. 

•  Maureen  H.  Corrigan  '84  is  a 
licensed  independent  clinical  social 
worker  in  private  practice  in 
Yarmouthport.  •  Janis  M.  Rattet 
'83  is  the  human  resources  assistant 
manager  at  Orbotech,  Inc.  in 
Billerica.  •  Robin  Davidson- 
Catalano  '83  is  a  program  coordi- 
nator at  Emerson  Hospital  in 
Concord.  •  Beverly  A.  Poirier  '84 
is  a  supervisor  of  children's  outpa- 
tient services  at  the  Providence  Cen- 
ter in  Providence,  RI.  •  Ann  H. 
Miller  '83  is  a  clinical  worker  at  the 
Rhode  Island  Youth  Guidance  Cen- 
ter in  Pawtucket.  •  Ralph  Halpern 
'79  is  a  project  director  at  the  New 
England  Medical  Center  in  Boston. 

•  Sheila  A.  Thornton  '79  is  a  clini- 
cal social  worker  at  Foothill  Family 
Services  in  Pasadena,  CA  •  Elsie  E. 
Peck  '79  is  a  supervisor  in  the 
Framingham  Dept.  of  Social  Ser- 
vices.- •  Rosemarie  Guasconi 
Frydman  '74  is  a  psychotherapist  at 
the  Almaden  Institute  in  San  Jose, 
CA.  •  Telesforo  A.  Mendez  '74  is 
the  deputy  director  of  the  United 
Way   in    San   Antonio,   TX.    • 


Jacqueline  P.  Kirby  '70  is  a  pedia- 
trician at  Community  Health  Ser- 
vices in  Hartford,  CT.  •  Ruth  Joan 
Cohen  Spiegel  '73  is  the  executive 
director  of  Children  of  the  Heart  in 
Woodland  Hills,  CA.  •  James  T. 
Marrinan  '59  is  the  director  of  fed- 
eral agency  affairs  of  the  American 
Hospital  Association  in  Washing- 
ton, DC.  •  Eugene  R.  Nigro  '54  is 
a  psychiatric  hospital  consultant  at 
the  Mass.  Dept.  of  Mental  Health  in 
Boston.  •  Manuel  J.  Mello  '54  is  an 
industrial  social  worker  for  the  Eaton 
Corp.  in  Beverly.  •  Robert  J.  Van 
Wart  '49  is  an  executive  VP  of  the 
Community  United  Way  in  Spring- 
field. •  James  C.  Sweeney  '49  has 
joined  the  ranks  of  the  retired,  along 
with  Dorothy  Canada  Jackson  '44. 
James  lives  in  Spokane,  WA  and 
Dorothy  is  in  St.  Louis,  MO. 


LAW 

Amy  S.  DerBedrosian 

Publications  &  Public  Relations  Specialist 

Boston  College  Law  School 

885  Centre  St. 

Newton,  MA  02 1 59 

Judge  David  S.  Nelson  '60  received 
the  Haskell  Cohn  Distinguished  Ju- 
dicial Service  Award  from  the  Bos- 
ton Bar  Foundation.  •  Warren  B. 
Rudman  '60  has  been  named  to  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  Raytheon  Co. 

•  J.  Owen  Todd  '60  is  serving  on 
the  Board  of  Editors  of  Massachusetts 
Lawyers  Weekly  .  •  Edgar  J. 
Bellefontaine  '6 1  received  an  award 
for  excellence  in  government  law 
librarianship  from  West  Publishing 
Co.  •  Walter  S.  Goldstein  '61  is 
president  of  the  Mass.  Society  of 
Certified  Public  Accountants.  •  R. 
Robert  Popeo  '6 1  received  the  Bos- 
ton Bar  Foundation's  Public  Service 
Award  for  1993  •  Herbert  L. 
Turney  '62  has  become  Of  Counsel 
for  the  law  firm  of  Jackson,  Lewis, 
Schnitzler  &  Krupman  in  Boston.  • 
Stephen  M.  Richmond  '64  received 
the  City  of  Peace  Award  from 
Greater  Boston  State  of  Israel  Bonds. 

•  Nevada  Supreme  Court  Justice 
Miriam  M.  Shearing  '64  has  been 
re-elected  to  the  American  Judica- 
ture Society's  Board  of  Directors.  • 
Barbara  L.  Hassenfeld-Rutberg 
'65  has  been  appointed  as  an  admin- 
istrative law  judge  for  the  U.S.  Oc- 
cupational Safety  and  Health  Review 
Commission.  •  Robert  J.  Kates  '67 
is  now  a  partner  in  the  Boston  law 
firm  of  Goldstein  &  Manello,  P.C.  • 
James  J.  Marcellino  '68  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Boston  Bar  Association. 

•  Willard  Krasnow  '70  has  joined 
the  Boston  law  firm  of  Hinckley, 


Allen  &  Snyder  as  Of  Counsel.  • 
Barry  A.  Guryan  '71  has  become  a 
partner  in  the  Boston  law  firm  of 
Eckert,  Seamans,  Cherin  &  Mellott. 

•  Joseph  M.  Cloutier  '73  has  be- 
come a  partner  in  Cloutier  &  Briggs, 
P.A.  in  Rockport,  ME.  •  Rosalyn  K. 
Robinson  '73  was  named  a  Phila- 
delphia Common  Pleas  Court  judge. 

•  The  Hon.  RichardJ.  Chin  '74  was 
appointed  an  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Mass.  Superior  Court.  •  Maurice 
R.  Flynn  III  '75  is  now  an  associate 
justice  of  the  Maiden  District  Court. 

•  Clifford  Orent  '75  has  been  named 
president  and  chief  operating  officer 
of  InSite  Vision,  Inc.  •  David 
Strauss  '75  has  started  the  firm 
David  Strauss  Designs,  Inc.  •  Ken- 
neth S.  Boger  '76  has  become  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
the  EcoScience  Corp.  in  Worcester. 

•  J.W.  Carney,  Jr.  '78  has  been 
appointed  to  a  nominating  commit- 
tee assigned  to  recruit  and  evaluate 
judicial  candidates  for  a  statewide 
juvenile  court.  •  Kathleen  E.  Coffey 
'78  has  been  named  an  associate  jus- 
tice of  the  Chelsea  District  Court.  • 
Olivia  Cohen-Cutler  '78  recently 
was  promoted  to  VP,  Labor  Rela- 
tions, West  Coast  for  Capital  Cit- 
ies/ABC, Inc.  •  Martin  E.  Doyle 
'79  has  joined  the  Miami  law  firm  of 
Blackwell  &  Walker.  •  Katherine 
M.  Hanna  '79  has  joined  the 
Manchester,  NH  law  firm  of 
Sheehan,  Phinney,  Bass  &  Green.  • 
Frederic  Lee  Klein  '79  was  ap- 
pointed assistant  general  counsel  for 
Northeast  Utilities  in  Hartford,  CT. 

•  Thomas  A.  Barnico  '80  received 
one  of  the  first  Best  Supreme  Court 
Brief  award  granted  by  the  National 
Association  of  Attorneys  General.  • 
Manuel  A.  Moutinho  '82  is  now  a 
partner  in  the  Springfield  law  firm 
of  Brundrett  and  Moutinho.  •  Ma- 
jor Steven  K.  Forjohn  '83  earned  a 
LL.M.  degree  in  military  law  from 
the  U.S.  Army  Judge  Advocate 
General's  School  in  Charlottesville, 
VA.  •  Isam  I.  Habbas  '83  is  a  part- 
ner in  Al-Sarraf  &  AI-Ruwayeh, 
Kuwait's  largest  law  firm.  •  Suzanne 
B.  Lacampagne  '8  3  has  been  elected 
president  of  the  Women's  Bar  Asso- 
ciation in  Washington,  DC.  •  Wil- 
liam F.  Brady  '84  is  now  president 
of  Mass.  Financial  Group.  •  Augusto 
F.  Grace  '84  has  been  elected  to  the 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Mass.  So- 
ciety for  the  Prevention  of  Cruelty 
to  Children.  •  Steven  C.  Sunshine 
'84  is  now  a  special  assistant  in  the 
Antitrust  Division  of  the  U.S.  Attor- 
ney General's  Office.  •  Thomas  M. 
Letizia  '85  has  become  a  partner  in 
the  Princeton,  NJ  law  firm  of 
Jamieson,  Moore,  Peskin  &  Spicer, 
P.C.  •  William  A.  Hazel  '87  has 


28  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


been  named  a  partner  in  the  Boston 
law  firm  of  Bingham,  Dana  &  Gould. 

•  Gary  D.  Levine  '87  is  now  general 

[counsel  for  Pilot  Software,  Inc.  • 
The  Mass.  Bar  Association  named 
Timothy  J.  Bennett  '88  Outstand- 
ing Young  Lawyer  of  the  Year.  • 
Maite  A.  Parsi  '88  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  the  Hispanic-American 
Advisory  Commission.  •  Randall  L. 
Souza  '88  has  joined  Peabody  & 
Brown  in  Providence,  RI.  •  Shawn 
M.  Sullivan  '88  is  now  an  associate 
with  Peabody  &  Brown.  •  In  July, 
Kevin  Patrick  Bruen  '89  joined  the 
Schenectady,  NY  law  firm  of  Gor- 
don, Siegel,  Mastro,  Mullaney,  Gor- 
don &  Galvin.  •  Jean  Christine 
O'Neill  '89  is  now  an  attorney  with 
Bombardier  Capital,  Inc.  in 
Burlington,  VT.  •  Denise  M.  Par- 
ent '89  has  become  corporate  coun- 
sel for  the  Providence  Journal  Co.  • 
Linda  Sandstrom  Simard  '89  has 
become  an  assistant  professor  at  Suf- 
folk Univ.  Law  School.  •  Lawrence 
P.  Stadulis  '89  has  joined  the  Wash- 
ington, DC  office  of  Morgan,  Lewis 
&  Bockius.  •  Rebekah  Tosado  '89 
is  serving  on  the  Board  of  Editors  of 
Massachusetts  Lawyers  Weekly.  •  Faith 

(K.  Bruins  '90  has  joined  the  Boston 
law  firm  of  Peabody  &  Brown.  • 
Karen  R.  Sweeney  '90  is  now  an 
associate  with  Warner  &  Stackpole 
in  Boston.  •  Katherine  Topulos 
'91  received  the  Article  of  the  Year 
Award  from  the  Law  Library  Journal. 

•  Terri  L.  Yahia  '91  has  become  an 
associate  with  the  Boston  law  firm  of 
Warner  &  Stackpole.  •  Jennifer  Z. 
Flanagan  '92  is  joined  the  Boston 
law  firm  of  Gordon  &  Wise.  •  Adam 
M.  Siegel  '92  is  a  development  of- 
ficer for  the  Commonwealth  Zoo- 
logical Corp.  •  Emanuel  Alves  '93 
has  joined  the  Boston  office  of 
Brown,  Rudnick,  Freed  &  Gesmer. 
John  Giesser  '93  is  also  an  associate 
with  Brown,  Rudnick,  Freed  & 
Gesmer. 


DEATHS 

Msgr.  Joseph  W.  Lyons  '27, 

Mobile,  AL,  8/8/93 
Henry  R.  Keenan  '29,  Escondido, 

CA,  2/8/93 
Msgr.  Joseph  P.  Mahoney  '29, 

Framingham,  8/25/93 

John  A.  O'Brien  '31,  GA&S  '32, 

Hopkinton,  8/4/93 
Mary  E.  Canavan  GA&S  '32, 

Salem,  8/11/93 
Rev.  Thomas  A.  Dwyer  EX  '33, 

Danvers,  8/7/93 

Edward  J.  Keegan  EX  '33, 
Bucksport,  ME,  7/28/93 

Edward  J.  Murray,  Esq.  LAW  '33, 
Lexington,  9/1 1/93 

Thomas  F.  Balfrey  '34,  N. 
Chelmsford,  8/19/93 

James  J.  Sullivan  '34,  Rochester, 
NH,  2/14/93 

Rev.  Frederick  C.  Bailey,  SJ. 

WES '35,  GA&S  '36, 

Charlestown,  9/5/93 
Dr.  James  E.  Connolly  '35, 

Salem,  9/9/93 
Robert  J.  O'Hayre  '36,  Cohasset, 

9/5/93 

Albert  E.  Keleher,  Jr.  '38,  GA&S 
'40,  Hudson,  NH,  8/21/93 

Helena  F.  Reidy  '38,  East 
Weymouth,  8/5/93 

Oliver  M.  Sargent,  Esq.  LAW  '38, 

Ipswich,  9/15/93 
John  F.  Hart  '39,  Dedham,  7/23/93 

Francis  P.  Kelly  '39,  Newport, 
RI,  8/21/93 

Thomas  B.  McDavitt,  Esq.  '39, 
LAW  '47,  Weymouth,  9/2/93 

John  F.  Hogan  '40,  Alplaus,  NY, 
8/31/93 

James  H.  Rodenbush  '41,  W. 
Hartford,  CT,  7/4/93 

Sr.  Celine  Rita  Jette  '42,  Fall 

River,  8/2/93 
Carl  L.  Lucas  '43,  S.  Weymouth, 

9/6/93 

Paul  H.  Weiss  '44,  Baltimore, 
MD,  4/15/90 

Dr.  Edward  D.  Black  '48,  GA&S 
'50,  Hopkinton,  8/30/93 

John  X.  Bowes  '49,  GSSW  '57, 
Crofton,  MD,  6/28/93 

Michael  A.  DeSesa,  PhD  '49, 
Fair  Haven,  NJ,  6/30/93 

Henry  M.  Polese,  Esq.  LAW  '49, 
Wakefield,  8/1 1/93 

Paul  M.  Foley  '50,  Ashland,  9/6/93 

William  F.  Malloy,  Esq.  '50, 
Cohasset,  9/6/93 

Arthur  V.  Sullivan,  Jr.  '50, 
Needham,  9/12/93 


Joseph  L.  Tivnan  '50, 
Springfield,  6/30/93 

Mary  P.A.  Kane  GNUR  '51,  GA&S 
'66,  Brookline,  8/24/93 

John  F.  McDonald '51, 

Westwood,  9/6/93 

Richard  J.  Mealy  '51,  E. 
Falmouth,  8/6/93 

James  M.  Gallagher  '52, 
Needham,  7/30/93 

Donald  T.  McAuliffe,  Sr.,  Esq. 

'52,  Greenwood,  9/1/93 

Harold  R.  Sinnett  '52,  Bozman, 

MD,  6/8/93 
T.  Paul  Finn  '54,  Indianapolis, 

IN,  11/23/92 

Daniel  J.  Greene  '54,  S. 
Dartmouth,  8/12/93 

Edward  E.  Tolson  '54,  Woburn, 
7/6/93 

Frank  A.  Carter,  Jr.,  Esq.  LAW 

'55,  Barrington,  RI,  8/23/93 

Robert  E.  Hayes  GA&S  '55,  S. 

Boston,  7/10/93 
John  F.  Donovan,  Esq.  LAW  '57, 

Melrose,  8/11/93 
David  D.  Oldfield  '57, 

Westborough,  7/15/93 

Constance  A.  MacDonald  '58, 

West  Roxbury,  9/10/93 
William  F.  Hess,  Jr.,  Esq.  LAW 

'59,  Las  Vegas,  NV,  8/21/93 
Paul  F.  Deady  '60,  Apollo  Beach, 

FL,  8/23/93 
Edward  J.  Fontenarosa  cgsom 

'60,  Bellingham,  8/1/93 

Joseph  F.  Perachi,  Jr.  '60,  Dover, 

8/2/93 
Joseph  M.  Szabo,  Esq.  LAW  '61, 

Waban,  8/1 1/93 

John  S.  Kelley,  Jr.  '62,  Mansfield, 

8/1/93 
Mary  Ellen  Destefano  Cox  '63, 

Myrtle  Beach,  SC,  8/2/93 

Robert  J.  Brosnan  CGSOM  '64, 
Winchester,  9/5/93 

Donna  M.  Karpeck  '66, 

Roslindale,  9/9/93 
Mary  E.  Malloy  GA&S  '66,  S. 

Yarmouth,  8/17/93 
Fred  E.  Michelson  CGSOM  '66, 

Walpole,  7/15/93 

Ernest  G.  Paquette  CGSOM  '66, 
Framingham,  8/18/93 

Paul  E.  Chabot  '67,  Portland, 

ME,  8/25/93 
Jane  G.  Roche  '69,  GA&S  '73,  S. 

Dennis,  8/29/93 
Jane  Hamilton  Devitt  NEW  '72, 

Wellesley,  8/16/93 
Kenneth  L.  Manning  '72,  Dover, 

8/29/93 

Joseph  M.  Healey,  Jr.,  J.D.  law 

'73,  W.  Hartford,  CT,  9/5/93 


Jane  C.  Grace,  PhD  GA&S  '74, 

Winchester,  9/7/93 
Daniel  E.  Tucker  75,  Quincy, 

7/31/93 
William  J.  Cotter,  Jr.  GA&S  '77, 

Centerville,  8/20/93 
Denise  S.  Nagle-Stoll  '78, 

Walkill,  NY,  4/21/93 
Jill  Conn  Warther  CGSOM  '86, 

WestChester,  PA,  6/17/93 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES   29 


CLUB   NEWS 


ARIZONA 

An  enthusiastic  group  of  alumni  at- 
tended our  annual  clambake  at  the 
Royal  Palms  Resort.  As  usual,  the 
lobsters  and  clams,  which  we  flew  in 
from  Boston,  were  delicious.  The 
entertainment  was  provided  by 
Boston's  own  Frank  McGuire  and 
was  most  enjoyable.  We  took  this 
occasion  to  host  the  members  of  the 
freshman  class  from  Arizona;  they 
are  a  fine  group  of  students  and  we're 
quite  proud  of  them.  •  BC  was  well- 
represented  at  the  Dial  Invitational 
basketball  tournament  at  the  new 
America  West  arena,  where  the 
Eagles  defeated  the  Arizona  State 
Sun  Devils.  A  group  of  us  met  prior 
to  the  game  at  Jackson  Grille  (where 
we  expect  to  be  for  the  Beanpot 
telecast)  and  swapped  reflections  on 
this  year's  football  team.  •  We  look 
forward  to  future  gatherings  for  the 
Beanpot  and  St.  Patrick's  Day  and 
urge  area  alumni  to  contact  us  with 
suggestions  and  support.  •  Our  own 
Cornelius  O'Driscoll,  Esq.  '57  will 
be  on  this  year's  ballot  for  Director, 
West  of  the  Mississippi.  Please  re- 
member to  vote  and  especially,  to 
vote  for  Corny.  •  We  are  saddened 
by  the  passing  of  our  friend  Jim 
Duffy  LAW  '72  who  always  had  a 
great  smile  and  an  encouraging  word; 
our  condolences  to  his  lovely  wife 
Gail  and  family. 

CALIFORNIA 

Northern  California 

We  were  very  active  this  fall  and 
winter,  cheering  on  the  televised 
Eagles  football,  basketball  and 
hockey  games  at  Dooley's  Pub  in 
San  Francisco.  The  excitement,  ten- 
sion, and  celebration  during  the  big 
win  over  Notre  Dame  was  incred- 
ible— go  Eagles!  •  We  enjoyed  a 
plethora  of  other  summer  and  fall 
events,  including:  another  BC  sell- 
out event  of  100  tickets  at  the  new 
San  Jose  Arena  to  see  the  Boston 
Bruins  skate  against  the  San  Jose 
Sharks;  a  benefit  held  at  the 
Punchline  Comedy  Club,  in  con- 
junction with  alumni  from  Holy 
Cross  and  Fairfield  Univ.,  for  Project 
Open  Hand,  a  local  organization  that 
feeds  homebound  AIDS  patients;  and 
another  successful  freshman  send- 
off  in  August  hosted  by  Cindy  and 
Cliff  MacDonald  '74  at  their  home 
in  Pleasanton.  Thanks  Cliff  &  Cindy! 
•  During  July,  we  went  to  see  the 
Boston  Red  Sox  play  the  Oakland 
A's.  •  We  were  also  very  fortunate  to 
see  our  own  Doug  Flutie  lead  Calgary 
over  Sacramento  in  the  Canadian 
Football  League.  •  Christmas  in 
April  is  our  annual  charity  project 
held  in  April.  We  need  alumni  to 


lend  a  hand  and/or  supplies  for  one 
day  to  renovate  the  home  of  an  un- 
derprivileged family.  This  national 
program  is  extremely  fun  and  re- 
warding— a  great  way  to  meet  fellow 
Eagles!  •  We  hope  to  organize  a  golf 
tournament  with  area  alumni  of  an- 
other interested  East  Coast  school. 
If  you  are  a  golfer,  please  help  by 
joining  the  planning  committee.  • 
Join  us  on  a  private  tour  of  the  Yuerba 
Buena  Center,  San  Francisco's  new 
cultural  center.  •  We  are  also  plan- 
ning to  have  a  visiting  BC  Jesuit  say 
Mass  at  a  local  San  Francisco  church. 
•  Get  involved  with  the  BC  Career 
Network!  Opportunities  include  vol- 
unteering to  represent  your  indus- 
try on  a  panel  discussion  for  alumni 
looking  to  change  careers;  acting  as 
a  mentor  to  recent  BC  graduates 
moving  to  northern  California;  and/ 
or  using  the  network  to  hire  fun, 
energetic,  and  productive  BC  gradu- 
ates. The  network  has  been  requested 
by  alumni  for  quite  some  time;  1994 
will  be  its  flagship  year,  so  please 
help  us  get  this  worthwhile  program 
off  to  a  good  start!  •  The  BC  Hotline 
has  been  installed  to  keep  members 
informed  of  upcoming  events  and  to 
provide  a  number  to  leave  club-re- 
lated messages.  The  hotline  number 
is  (415)  974-9740.  If  you  wish  to 
volunteer  in  any  capacity  or  have 
new  ideas/comments,  please  call  the 


BC  Hotline.  Looking  forward  to 
seeing  you  soon! 

San  Diego 

We  held  our  annual  golf  tourna- 
ment at  the  Meadowlake  Country 
Club  in  Escondido  and,  once  again, 
a  great  time  was  had  by  all.  We  en- 
joyed our  largest  turnout  to  date, 
and  next  year  promises  to  be  bigger 
and  better  than  ever.  •  Look  for  a 
new  BC  Hotline  coming  in  January. 
This  hotline  will  be  updated  monthly 
to  keep  members  informed  of  up- 
coming activities.  Check  your  mail- 
box for  details. 

CONNECTICUT 

Greater  Hartford 

The  club  began  its  third  year  since 
revival  in  1991  with  a  successful 
happy  hour  at  Spencer's  Restaurant 
in  downtown  Hartford.  Jo  Ann 
Young  of  Tolland  was  the  winner  of 
our  annual  sweatshirt  raffle!  •  This 
year  more  people  than  ever  are  com- 
ing out  for  events  and  offering  to 
help  the  board  with  planning  and 
organizing  activities.  •  Once  again, 
the  demand  for  BC  vs.  UConn  bas- 
ketball tickets,  including  a  free  buf- 
fet at  El  Torito'  s  in  East  Hartford 
and  a  ride  on  the  Eagle  Party  Bus  to 
Gampel  Pavilion,  exceeded  our  sup- 
ply. •  In  early  spring,  we  are  plan- 


The  BC  Club  of  Washington,  DC  recently  sponsored  at  1  Ok  walk-a-thon 
to  raise  money  for  a  new  foster  care  facility  for  Boys'  Town  in  the  greater 
DC  area.  Above,  club  president  Charles  Van  Hecke,  Jr.  '79  accepts 
honorary  citizenship  in  Boys'  Town  on  behalf  of  the  Club. 


ning  to  hold  a  charity  event — ideas 
are  welcome!  •  Also,  we  hope  to 
have  BC  basketball  head  coach  Jim 
O'Brien  as  this  year's  guest  at  our 
annual  speaker  dinner.  •  If  you  are 
not  on  our  dues-paying  list,  please 
send  your  donation  ($10/person, 
$15/couple)  to  Rosa  Silva,  81  Coles 
Ave.,  Newington,  CT  061 1 1. 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA 

In  August  we  welcomed  local  fresh- 
men students  and  their  parents  to 
the  BC  family  at  a  special  picnic  co- 
hosted  by  young  alumni  and  current 
students.  •  In  September  the  club 
held  its  second  community  service 
project  of  the  year.  Local  alumni 
organized  a  10k  walkathon  which 
raised  a  generous  amount  of  money 
to  benefit  a  new  foster  care  facility 
managed  by  the  Washington  office 
of  the  Father  Flanagan's  Boys'  Town. 
•  In  November,  a  large  crowd  of 
enthusiastic  alumni  gathered  at  a 
local  sports  pub  to  cheer  the  Eagles 
on  to  a  spectacular  football  victory 
over  Notre  Dame.  Donations  from 
the  event  raised  over  $500  for  the 
new  Boys'  Town  facility.  •  The  an- 
nual Christmas  activity  was  held  in 
early  December.  In  a  repeat  of  last 
year's  successful  event,  we  enjoyed  a 
nice  reception  at  the  Hard  Rock  Cafe 
and  attended  a  performance  of  the 
acclaimed  play,  "A  Christmas  Carol, " 
at  Washington's  famous  Ford  The- 
ater. •  At  press  time,  plans  were 
underway  for  our  club's  annual  ca- 
reer network  reception  in  earlyjanu- 
ary,  a  Beanpot  Tournament 
gamewatch  in  early  February,  and 
our  popular  reception  prior  to  the 
basketball  game  vs.  Georgetown  at 
the  Capitol  Centre  in  late  February. 

FLORIDA 

Naples/Marco  Island 

On  Sunday,  Feb.  6,  the  Alumni  Club 
hosted  another  cocktail  party  at  the 
Naples  Beach  Club.  A  cash  bar,  free 
sunset  and  good  conversation  were 
on  the  program.  At  that  gathering 
we  provided  details  for  the  BC  vs. 
Miami  basketball  game  bus  trip;  the 
BC  vs.  Boston  Red  Sox  baseball 
game;  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  fun  cruise 
planned  for  March;  and  the  1994BC 
vs.  Miami  football  game.  •  We  are 
still  looking  for  a  BC  graduate  who 
would  coordinate  our  efforts  at  pro- 
viding a  network  of  local  businesses 
and  services  in  which  our  alumni  are 
employed.  •  We  are  in  the  process  of 
changing  our  name  from  the  BC 
Alumni  Club  of  Southwest  Florida 
to  the  BC  Alumni  Club  of  Naples/ 
Marco  Island.  •  The  BC  Book  Award 
made  to  outstanding  local  high 
school  juniors  went  to  the  following 


30  BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES 


St.  John  Neumann  students:  Suzanne 
Rehak,  Connie  Byrne  and  Maria 
Medetis.  •  If  you  wish  to  continue 
being  on  our  mailing  list  and  sup- 
porting our  club,  please  remit  your 
$15  annual  dues  as  soon  as  possible. 
Dues  are  used  to  help  with  mailing 
and  other  administrative  costs.  • 
Looking  forward  to  seeing  you  at 
future  events. 

ILLINOIS 
Chicago 

The  football  team  visited  the  greater 
Midwest  for  two  games  this  fall,  and 
the  club  held  brunches  and  tailgates 
for  both.  The  disappointment  of  the 
Northwestern  game  was  greatly 
overshadowed  by  the  huge  victory  at 
South  Bend.  It  will  be  a  great  payback 
year  for  all  of  us  who  have  to  put  up 
with  our  Notre  Dame  friends  and  all 
their  comments!  Special  thanks  to 
all  who  helped,  especially  the  group 
at  Deacon  Brodie's  and  to  all  ticket 
distributors.  •  Thanks  to  Erin  Dickes 
'91  who  organized  a  summer  harbor 
cruise  for  our  alums  along  with  grads 
of  Duke,  Georgetown  and  Holy 
Cross.  •  Thanks  to  Tom  Bransfield 
'89  who  has  put  together  a  First 
Thursday  club  for  all  local  alumni 
and  friends.  On  the  first  Thurs.  of 
each  month,  the  group  meets  in 
happy  hour  format  to  discuss  cur- 
rent events,  job  leads  for  young 
alumni  and  any  current  BC  info. 
The  night  is  concluded  with  a  raffle 
that  has  been  a  huge  success;  past 
winners  have  received  Notre  Dame 
football  tickets,  free  dinners  and 
homemade  Thanksgiving  trinkets 
from  Tom's  family.  •  We  have  initi- 
ated a  24-hour  hotline  that  updates 
club  events.  Proceeds  form  the  First 
Thursday  club  support  the  cost  of 
the  hotline.  Call  for  all  current  ac- 
tivities and  leave  a  message  if  you 
would  like  to  participate  or  if  you 
have  ideas  for  future  club  events. 
The  hotline  number  is  (312)  BOS- 
TON C  (267-8662).  For  all  other 
requests,  please  write  to:  BC  Club  of 
Chicago,  P.O.  Box  146584,  Chicago, 
IL  60614-6584. 

MARYLAND 
Baltimore 

The  Baltimore  Club  is  looking  for- 
ward to  cheering  on  the  Eagles 
against  the  Georgetown  Hoyas  on 
Saturday,  February  26  at  the  Capitol 
Centre  in  Landover.  •  Mark  your 
calendars  now  for  the  6th  Annual 
Red  Sox/Orioles  picnic  and  baseball 
game  at  Oriole  Park  at  Camden 
Yards  on  Saturday,  Aug.  13  at  7:05 
p.m.  •  The  Club  is  in  need  of  volun- 
teers to  plan  and  execute  activities — 


can  you  help?  Please  call  Eileen 
Unitas  at  (410)  889-3300. 

MASSACHUSETTS 
Cape  Cod 

Our  membership  has  tripled  in  the 
past  two  years  and  we  have  had  ex- 
cellent participation  and  support  by 
alumni.  •  In  December  we  were  able 
to  send  our  Santa,  Henry  Welch,  to 
Campion  Hall  in  Weston  with  a 
sledful  of  gifts  and  members'  contri- 
butions raised  at  our  Christmas  party 
for  our  elderly  and  infirm  Jesuits.  • 
We  took  a  weekend  bus  trip  to  BC 
for  the  hockey  game  vs.  Lowell  on 
Fri.,  Jan.  28  and  the  basketball  game 
vs.  Seton  Hall  on  Sat.  Jan.  29.  • 
Other  events  will  include:  a 
Valentine's  brunch  on  Feb.  13;  a  St. 
Patrick's  Day  brunch  on  March  13; 
our  annual  Communion  breakfast  at 
Willowbend  Country  Club  on  April 
17;  and  the  spring  golf  tournament 
with  Holy  Cross  on  May  20  at  King's 
Way  in  Yarmouthport.  We  will  close 
the  year  with  our  annual  meeting  on 
June  19.  •  We  still  need  to  do  more 
for  the  young  alumni  group  and  will 
concentrate  on  their  needs  and  in- 
terests this  year. 

MICHIGAN 

The  rejuvenated  BC  Club  of  South- 
eastern Michigan  met  at  Mr.  Joe's  in 
Southfield  for  a  successful  BC/Syra- 
cuse  Football  Party.  There  were  40 
"Screamin'  Eagles"  cheering  on  our 
victorious  football  team.  Congratu- 
lations to  Notre  Dame  ticket  raffle 
winners  John  Barbato  '73  and  Ann 
Pero  '92 !  Contact  Paul  &  Mary  Ann 
Deters  (313-851-7869)  for  upcom- 
ing events. 

MISSOURI 
St.  Louis 

Club  members  took  advantage  of 
both  opportunities  to  watch  and 
cheer  for  the  Eagles  football  team 
during  their  two  visits  to  the  Mid- 
west. A  group  of  about  15  fans  made 
the  Sept.  trip  to  Chicago  to  attend 
the  match  vs.  Northwestern;  more 
recently,  two  dozen  "true  believers" 
threw  caution  to  the  wind  and  fol- 
lowed the  maroon  &  gold  into  Notre 
Dame  Stadium  on  Nov.  20.  We  wit- 
nessed BC's  greatest  victory  ever.  • 
A  modestly  sized,  spur-of-the-mo- 
ment "gathering  of  Eagles"  de- 
scended upon  TNG's  Restaurant  in 
Webster  Groves  the  day  after 
Thanksgiving  to  watch  the  broad- 
cast of  the  BC-WVU  battle.  Al- 
though its  outcome  was  a  letdown 
after  the  magic  win  over  ND,  we 
were  excited  about  the  Carquest 
Bowl!  •  Plans  are  also  brewing  for 


the  club's  1 994  grand  annual  dinner. 
Last  year  we  enjoyed  a  St.  Patty's 
Day  theme;  this  year's  time  and 
place — as  well  as  the  name  of  our 
visiting  dignitary  from  the  Heights — 
are  still  "under  discussion."  Watch 
your  mail  for  details;  or  if  you  prefer, 
give  me  call  at  (314)  849-4211  for 
more  specific  info.  •  1993  proved  to 
be  a  watershed  year  in  our  recruiting 
efforts  in  the  St.  Louis  metro  area. 
Our  club  sent  off  20  outstanding 
college  freshmen  to  BC  to  become 
members  of  the  Class  of '97.  It's  well 
to  know  that  this  number  matches 
St.  Louis'  previous  all-time  high  in 
recruits!  It  seems  that  the  reputation 
of  our  grand  alma  mater  grows  stron- 
ger and  more  respected  with  each 
passing  year.  •  Once  again  our  high 
school  book  award  program  is  in  full 
swing.  Spring  '94  will  be  the  8th 
consecutive  year  that  we  will  present 
such  awards;  if  all  goes  as  planned, 
six  juniors  at  some  of  the  finest  prep 
schools  in  our  area  will  be  recipients. 
•  We  gathered  on  the  first  two  Mon. 
eves  in  Feb.  for  the  Beanpot,  the 
nation's  most  prestigious  college 
hockey  competition. 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 

Our  fiscal  year,  which  ended  June 
30, 1993,wasabanneroneofgrowth 
and  accomplishments — concluding 
with  a  superb  dinner  dance  on  April 
30.  •  The  new  fiscal  year,  begun  on 
July  1,  kicked  off  with  a  bang!  We 
held  a  terrific  golf  outing  and  sports 
night,  featuring  Chet  Gladchuk,  on 
the  eve  of  the  football  season  opener 
vs.  UMiami.  •  Our  young  alumni 
committee  has  sprung  into  action, 
sponsoring  a  TV  tailgate  party  for 
the  BC  vs.  Notre  Dame  game;  91 
attended — much  better  results  than 
last  year,  in  all  respects!  •  The  re- 
sponse to  our  request  for  '93-'94 
dues  ($10)  has  been  quite  rewarding 
so  far.  As  of  Dec.  1 ,  we  have  received 
checks  from  90  alumni  who  have  not 
previously  responded.  Our  thanks 
to  all  contributors,  and  a  request  to 
keep  dues  coming  from  those  who 
have  not  yet  participated.  •  The  win- 
ner of  the  $100  gift  certificate  from 
the  Early  Birds  is  John  Langone  '50 
of  Derry.  •  Additional  activities  for 
the  year  are  in  the  planning  stages. 
Possibilities  include  a  stage  produc- 
tion or  musical  with  a  reception; 
hockey  vs.  UNH  on  Feb.  19;  a  din- 
ner dance  on  March  12;  a  BC  schol- 
arship and  high  school  book  award 
presentation;  a  football  home  game 
ticket  program;  a  golf  outing  in  June 
or  Aug.;  and  an  'incoming  freshmen 
welcome.'  Notices  and  sign-up 
sheets  for  these  events  will  be  mailed 
at  the  appropriate  time.  •  Sugges- 
tions and  comments  are  welcome 


and  may  be  sent  to:  BC  Club  of  NH, 
P.O.  Box  517,  Manchester,  NH 
03105-0517.  Or,  you  may  call  Bill 
Hamrock  '45,  president,  at  (603) 
472-2574. 

NEW  YORK 

Albany 

The  Club  gathered  on  Jan.  3 1  at  the 
Fort  Orange  Club  in  Albany  to  watch 
the  televised  BC  vs.  Georgetown 
basketball  game.  The  event,  spon- 
sored by  our  club,  was  the  perfect 
way  to  take  the  chill  out  of  winter!  It 
also  provided  an  excellent  opportu- 
nity for  alums  to  reinforce  friend- 
ships and  make  new  acquaintances. 
We  even  enjoyed  the  company  of  a 
few  Hoyas.  •  We  are  now  busy  pre- 
paring for  our  8th  annual  Book 
Award  Program. 

Rochester 

A  family  club  day  at  Seneca  Park 
Zoo  took  place  in  the  fall  to  welcome 
our  newly  adopted  eagle,  Windsor. 
•  We  celebrated  the  Christmas  holi- 
days together  with  a  lovely  dinner 
party  at  the  Century  Club  in  early 
December.  •  Once  again  we  joined 
forces  with  alumni  from  BU, 
Harvard  and  Northeastern  to  watch 
the  Beanpot  Tournament  at 
Woody's.  •  The  club  is  also  plan- 
ning a  ski  outing  at  Hunt  Hollow 
Club  this  winter.  •  Several  new 
events  will  be  happening  in  the 
spring,  so  watch  for  a  club  mailing! 

OHIO 

Cincinnati 

The  BC  Club  of  Cincinnati  met  on 
Tues.,  Feb.  16  on  the  sixth  floor  of 
McAlpin's  Restaurant  at  the  Fourth 
Street  Door.  The  purpose  of  the 
meeting  was  to  plan  activities  for 
1994  and  to  elect  officers  for  the 
club.  We  also  discussed  the  fre- 
quency of  meetings,  possible  activi- 
ties for  the  club  and  tentative  trips. 
Depending  upon  interest,  we  may 
run  a  trip  to  the  BC  vs.  Michigan 
football  game  at  Ann  Arbor,  MI  in 
the  fall.  •  Please  call  club  president 
John  G.  Patten,  Jr.  at  (606)  261- 
7000  to  indicate  if  you  are  interested 
in  attending  the  next  meeting.  • 
Activities  are  limited  to  dues-paying 
members  of  the  club.  Yearly  dues 
are  $10;  we  use  the  money  to  help 
defray  the  cost  of  mailings  and  ad- 
ministrative costs.  We  hope  that  all 
alumni  in  the  area  will  become  ac- 
tive members  of  the  Cincinnati  club! 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  ALUMNOTES   31 


Boston  College  Regional  Alumni  Clubs 


ARIZONA 

Martin  S.  Ridge  '67 
3117  West  Meadow  Drive 
Phoenix,  AZ  85023 
Home:  602-9421 303 

CALIFORNIA 
Los  Angeles 

J.  Joseph  Lally  '61 

Senior  Vice  President 

PaineWebber 

725  South  Figueroa  Street  -  40th  Floor 

Los  Angeles,  CA90017 

Home:  213-553-9927 

Work:  213-972-1535 

or  800-624-9289 

Northern  California/San 
Francisco 

Mary  S.  Castellone  '86 
89  Cerrantes  Blvd. 
San  Francisco,  CA  94133 
BC  Business:  415-974-9740 

San  Diego 

John  L.  Frasca  '83 
10476  Caminito  Rimini 
San  Diego,  CA  92 129-2060 
Home:  619-672-4047 
Work:  619-484-1189 

COLORADO 

Grace  E.  McNally  '86 

8357  West  Floyd  Avenue,  Apt.  1-106 

Lakewood,  CO   80227 

Home:  303-989-5727 

Work:  303-236-3054 

CONNECTICUT 
Fairfield  County 

John  E.  Summ  '66 
5555  Main  Street 
Trumbull,  CT  066 11 
Home:  203-261-4219 
Work:  203-334-3484 

Hartford 

Jean  Crescenzi  '88 
143C  Brittany  Farms  Road 
New  Britain,  CT  06053 
Home:  203-223-0205 
Work:  203-277-8141 

DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA 

Charles  Van  Hecke,  Jr.  '79 
2400  4 1st  Street,  N.W. 
Apartment  206 
Washington,  DC.  20007 
Home:  202-625-7956 
Work:  202-651-5410 

FLORIDA 
Boca  Raton 

Paul  K   Duffey,  Jr.  '62 

Smith  Barney 

1  200  N.  Federal  Highway  -  Suite  400 

Boca  Raton,  FL  33431 

Home:  407-997-7104 

Work:  407-393-1  809  or 
800-327-5890 


Miami 

Roland  Sanchez-Medina  '91 
10220S.W.  88th  Ave. 
Miami,  FL  33176 
Home:  305-595-7915 
Work:  305-358-5100 

Southwest  Florida 

George  R.  Abounader  '76 
3000  42nd  Terrace,  S.W. 
Golden  Gate,  FL  33999 
Home:  813-455-1653 
Work:  813-455-3044 

Tampa/St.  Petersburg 

R.  Leo  Murphy  '53 
1  1709  Lipsey  Road 
Tampa,  FL33618 
Home:  813-935-3547 

GEORGIA 
Atlanta 

Kathleen  ('83)  and  Michael  ('83)  Cote 
370  Spring  Ridge  Drive 
Roswell,  GA  30076 
Home:  404-993-1871 
Work:  404-319-3300 

ILLINOIS 
Chicago 

Sean  C.  O'Brien  '86 
BC  CLUB  OF  CHICAGO 
P.O.  Box  146584 
Chicago,  IL  60614-6584 
Work:  708-3 1  8-3660 

MAINE 
Portland 

James  P.  Waite  '72 
94  Old  County  Road 
Hampden,  ME  04444 
Home:  207-942-2643 
Work:  207-945-0262 

MARYLAND 
Baltimore 

Eileen  O'Connell  Unitas  '81 
3808  Saint  Paul  Street 
Baltimore,  MD  21218 
Home:  410-889-3300 

MASSACHUSETTS 
Cape  Cod 

Dr.  John  D.  Sullivan  '50 
87  Hinckley  Circle 
Osterville,  MA  02655 
Home:  508-428-43  1 7 

Western  Massachusetts 

Robert  T.  Crowley  '70 
65  Ridgecrest  Circle 
Westfield,  MA  01 085-4525 
Home:  413-568-3995 
Work:  413-734-2163 

Worcester 

Atly.  Howard  B.  D'Amico  '84 
Kirkpatrick  &  Associates 
446  Main  Street,  19th  Floor 
Worcester,  MA  01608 
Work:  508-755-4600 


MICHIGAN 
Southeast  Michigan 

Paul  B.  Deters  '88 
Mary  Ann  Deters  '88 
673  1  White  Pine  Court 
Bloomfield,  Ml  48301 
Home:  313-851-7869 

MISSOURI 
St.  Louis 

Peter  S.  Maher,  Esq.  '72 
902 1  Lowill  Lane 
St.  Louis,  MO  63 126 
Home:  314-849-4211 
Work:  3 1 4-554-2996 

NEW  HAMPSHIRE 
Manchester 

William  F.  Hamrock  '45 
46  Birchwood  Circle 
Bedford,  NH  03 1 02 
Home:  603-472-2574 

NEW  JERSEY 
Northern  New  Jersey 

Dr.  Robert  C.  Reardon,  Jr.  '63 
78  Magnolia  Avenue 
Tenafly,  MJ  07670 
BC  Business:  201-567-4772 

NEW  YORK 
Albany 

Peter  G.  Crummey,  Esq.  '78 
90  State  Street,  Suite  1003 
Albany,  NY  12207 
Work.  518-426-9648 
Home:  518-463-5065 

Buffalo 

Joseph  C.  Bremer  '77 
210  Fieldcrest  Court 
West  Seneca,  NY  14224 
Home:  716-824-0853 

New  York  City 

Joseph  J.  Rogers  '81 
230  Riverside  Drive 
New  York,  NY  1 0025 
Home:  212-316-1413 

Rochester 

Patricia  Brophy  Taylor  '75 
One  Northfield  Gate 
Pittsford,  NY  14534 
Home:  716-248-8877 

Syracuse 

John  J.  Petosa  '87 
203  Tudor  Lane 
Camillus,  NY  13031 
Home:  315-487-6440 
Work:  315-488-4411/4311 

OHIO 
Cincinnati 

John  G.  Patten,  Jr.  '65 
Attorney-at-Law 
One  Moock  Road 
Wilder,  KY41071 
Work:  606-261-7000 


Cleveland 

Camille  A.  ['74)  and 
Timothy  A.  ('73)  Shimko 
292 1 5  Inverness  Drive 
Bay  Village,  OH  44 140 
Home:  216-892-8392 

PENNSYLVANIA 
Philadelphia 

William  G.  Downey,  Esq.  '62 
Clark  Ladner,  et  al 
One  Commerce  Square 
2005  Market  Street 
Philadelphia,  PA  19103 
Home:  215-368-5695 
Work:  215-241-1816 

Western  Pennsylvania 

Rosemary  ('76)  and 
James  ('74)  Droney 
1  1 5  Namy  Drive 
Pittsburgh,  PA  15220 
Home:  412-921-2423 
Work/James:  412-344-4300 

RHODE  ISLAND 

Mark  P.  McKenney,  Esq.  '78 
1  54  Andrew  Comstock 
Warwick,  Rl  02886 
Home:  401-737-1024 

TEXAS 
Dallas 

Timothy  B.  Rhatican,  Esq.  '74 
1613  Throwbridge  Lane 
Piano,  TX  75023 
Home:  214-596-2571 
Work:  214-931-8236 

Houston 

Philip  H.  Hilder,  Esq.  LAW '81 
4930  Fagan  Street 
Houston,  TX  77007 
713-869-5821 
Work:  713-222-1434 

WASHINGTON 

James  G  McGowan  '62 
4250  West  Lake 
Sammamish,  N.E.  #1001 
Redmond,  WA  98052 
Home:  206-869-0595 
Work:  206447-2461 

WISCONSIN 
Milwaukee 

John  D.  McGourthy,  Sr.  '63 

President 

Thermoset,  Inc. 

6 1 00  West  Donges  Bay  Road 

Mequon,  Wl  53092 

Work:  414-242-1430 


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hundreds  of  mundane  social  interactions  that  com- 
prise daily  life.  Key  to  advancing  personalism  is  an 
extended  teacher  role  that  encourages  teachers  to 
interact  with  students  in  a  variety  of  ways  and 
creates  a  sense  of  purpose  about  teaching.  Teachers 
care  about  not  just  what  their  students  know  and 
can  do,  but  also  about  what  kind  of  people  they 
become.  Moreover,  personalism  is  a  communal 
norm  for  the  school — the  kind  of  behavior  mod- 
eled by  teachers  and  held  out  as  an  ideal  for  stu- 
dents. As  such,  personalism  is  valued  not  only 
because  it  is  an  effective  device  to  engage  students 
academically,  but  also  because  it  signifies  a  moral 
conception  of  social  behavior  in  a  just  community. 

Similarly,  subsidiarity  means  that  the  school 
rejects  a  purely  bureaucratic  conception  of  an  orga- 
nization. Clearly,  there  are  advantages  to  work- 
place specialization,  and  it  is  hard  to  imagine  the 
conduct  of  complex  work  without  established  orga- 
nizational procedures  and  routines.  Subsidiarity, 
however,  claims  that  considerations  about  work 
efficiency  and  specialization  must  be  mediated  by  a 
concern  for  human  dignity.  Likewise,  decentrali- 
zation of  school  governance  is  not  chosen  primarily 
because  it  is  more  efficient,  although  it  does  appear 
to  have  such  consequences.  Nor  is  it  primarily 
favored  because  it  creates  organizations  that  are 
more  client-centered,  although  this  also  appears 
true.  Rather,  decentralization  in  the  Catholic  sec- 
tor is  predicated  on  the  view  that  personal  dignity 
and  human  respect  are  advanced  when  work  is 
organized  around  small  communities  where  dia- 
logue and  collegiality  may  flourish.  At  root  here  is 
a  belief  that  the  full  potential  of  persons  is  realized 
in  the  social  solidarity  that  can  form  around  work  in 
small  communities. 

In  a  related  vein,  subsidiarity  also  makes  a  claim 
on  the  policy-making  activities  of  higher  levels  of 
government.  For  the  Catholic  church,  a  commit- 
ment to  subsidiarity  means  that  dioceses  and  reli- 
gious orders  see  their  roles  as  enhancing  the  function 
of  local  institutions  where  they  currently  exist  and 
promoting  the  development  of  new  institutions  as 
needs  arise.  Rather  than  regulating  human  activity 
under  the  homogenizing  norms  of  a  central  bu- 
reaucracy, the  role  of  extended  governance  is  to 
facilitate  and  stimulate  collective  local  action.  In 
the  simplest  of  terms,  the  central  norm  of  higher 
levels  of  government  is  primarily  to  "educate  rather 
than  regulate!" 

At  base  here  is  quite  a  different  language  for 
discussion  about  education  from  the  now-domi- 
nant public  rhetoric  of  accountability  systems,  effi- 


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hat  happens  to  these  students  over  the  last 
two  years  of  high  school  is  what  is  significant, 
however.  In  the  public  sector,  the  "minority 
achievement  gap"  grows  larger  by  senior  year; 
in  Catholic  schools  it  decreases. 


ciency  optimization  and  cost-benefits  tradeoffs. 
This  is  a  language  which  encourages  students  to 
engage  questions  about  the  kind  of  persons  we 
should  become  and  the  kind  of  society  we  want. 
This  is  a  central  strand  in  anything  worth  calling 
education.  Such  a  language  also  makes  important 
demands  on  schools:  fostering  such  moral  reflec- 
tions requires  that  schools  themselves  be  moral 
communities. 

Externally,  Catholic  high  schools,  like  all  pri- 
vate schools,  are  subject  to  market  forces.  These 
market  effects  were  quite  apparent  in  the  1970s, 
when  parents  spurned  Catholic  schools  that  adopted 
such  then-popular  innovations  as  an  expanded  per- 
sonal development  curriculum.  As  a  result,  these 
reforms  never  took  deep  root  in  Catholic  schools. 
Market  influences  can  also  be  seen  in  Catholic 
school  history.  For  example,  there  were  important 
reasons  why  vocationalism  was  never  taken  up 
strongly  in  the  Catholic  sector.  Today,  these  mar- 
ket forces  contribute  to  the  relatively  low  dropout 
and  expulsion  rate.  Since  most  Catholic  schools  are 
not  over-enrolled,  there  is  an  institutional  interest 
in  holding  students  in  order  to  balance  budgets. 

On  balance,  the  control  of  Catholic  school  op- 
erations involves  considerable  responsiveness  to 
clients.  Many  important  observations  about  these 
schools  cannot  be  reconciled  in  market  terms, 
however.  Market  forces,  for  example,  cannot  ex- 
plain the  broadly  shared  institutional  commitment 
to  advancing  social  equity.  Nor  can  they  account 
for  the  efforts  of  Catholic  educators  to  maintain 
inner-city  schools  in  face  of  mounting  fiscal  woes. 
Likewise,  market  forces  cannot  easily  explain  why 
resources  are  allocated  within  schools  in  a  compen- 
satory fashion  in  order  to  provide  an  academic 
education  for  every  student.  Nor  can  they  explain 
the  norms  of  community  that  infuse  daily  life  in 
these  schools. 

In  short,  the  market  influences  at  work  in  the 
Catholic  sector  are  tempered  by  an  ideology  that 


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both  grounds  institutional  policy  and  guides  the 
largely  autonomous  day-to-day  behaviors  of  indi- 
viduals within  the  organization.  This  force  is  the  set 
of  fundamental  beliefs  and  values  that  constitute 
the  spirit  and  undergird  the  inspirational  ideology. 


Our  book  attempts  to  convey  an  understand- 
ing of  the  particular  beliefs  present  in 
Catholic  high  schools  and  how  they  are 
enacted  through  deliberately  formed  school  life. 
Our  research  demonstrates  that  the  particular  com- 
bination of  organizational  structure,  social  behav- 
ior, beliefs  and  sentiments  found  in  Catholic  schools 
constitutes  a  distinctive  approach  to  the  education 
of  the  disadvantaged,  which  we  summarize  in  the 
idea  of  a  "school  as  a  bridging  institution." 

The  philosophy  of  a  bridging  institution  is  by  its 
nature  dialogical.  On  one  side  is  an  empathetic 
orientation  toward  children  and  their  families  which 
is  grounded  in  an  appreciation  of  the  dignity  of 
each  person  without  regard  for  outward  appear- 
ances or  customs.  The  school  welcomes  all  who 
come.  On  the  other  side  is  a  clear  recognition  of  the 


ublic  educational  policy  has  searched  for 
instrumental  levers  to  advance  moral  purposes. 
In  the  recent  past,  we  used  busing,  magnet  schools 
and  individual  educational  plans.  Now,  school  im- 
provement plans,  accountability  systems  and 
markets  are  offered  as  solutions. 


demands  of  contemporary  middle-class  American 
life  for  which  the  school  consciously  seeks  to  pre- 
pare these  children.  From  this  perspective,  the 
school  is  a  value  to  disadvantaged  students  because 
it  is  culturally  different.  Specifically,  school  staff 
aim  to  provide  an  education  that  will  enable  each 
student  to  develop  the  knowledge,  skills,  disposi- 
tion and  habits  necessary  to  function  effectively 
and  critically  in  modern  democratic  society. 

The  tasks  of  the  bridging  institution  involve 
constant  tensions.  While  sensitive  to  the  mores  of 
family  and  community,  it  must  also  challenge  be- 
haviors and  attitudes  clearly  at  odds  with  the  child's 
progress  in  school.  While  social  idealism  is  a  source 
of  inspiration,  the  school  and  its  students  must  also 
live  in  this  world.  While  the  school  espouses  a 


caring  community,  it  also  operates  within  a  larger 
culture  which  values  hard  work,  delayed  gratifica- 
tion and  material  success.  While  schools  are  com- 
mitted to  systematically  preparing  students  with 
intellectual  and  social  competencies  required  to 
function  in  contemporary  middle-class  American 
life,  they  also  seek  to  hone  a  critical  consciousness 
toward  social  life  not  only  as  it  is,  but  also  as  it 
should  be. 

Staff  in  a  bridging  institution  seek  to  nourish  and 
validate  the  best  of  family  and  community,  while 
also  providing  a  link  to  a  very  different  world.  The 
transitions  are  difficult,  for  the  institutions  and 
their  students  alike.  Certainly  the  schools  we  stud- 
ied are  far  from  perfect,  but  alive  within  these 
schools  is  a  very  rich  and  dynamic  conversation 
about  these  issues. 

As  we  begin  to  think  about  urban  schools  in  these 
ways,  we  are  reminded  that  all  schools  undeniably 
act  as  agents  of  socialization.  This  socialization  role 
is  especially  salient  in  the  inner  city,  where  the 
formation  of  a  two-class  society  appears  imminent. 
If  real  educational  opportunities  are  to  be  afforded 
students  who  live  in  "underclass"  communities, 
they  must  have  access  to  schools  where  strong 
norms  exists  such  as  we  have  described  in  the 
Catholic  sector. 

Yet  there  is  a  silence  these  days  about  the  social- 
ization aims  of  schooling.  Amidst  the  cacophony  of 
talk  about  school  restructuring,  educational  goals, 
performance  standards  and  so  on,  this  silence  is 
remarkable — especially  because  it  is  the  moral 
grounding  of  Catholic  schools  that  catalyzes  their 
social  activism.  It  is  this  moral  grounding  that 
undergirds  the  institutional  norms  that  we  have 
found  to  be  central  to  the  education  of  disadvan- 
taged youth — for  they,  more  than  anyone  else,  must 
rely  on  the  expertise,  good  intentions  and  efforts  of 
societal  institutions  for  their  advancement. 

This  line  of  analysis  raises  questions  about 
whether  Americans  can  obtain  such  moral  aims  as 
equality  of  educational  opportunity  without  an  en- 
livened moral  discourse  about  schooling.  Public 
educational  policy  has  instead  searched  for  instru- 
mental levers  to  advance  moral  purposes.  In  the 
recent  past,  we  used  busing,  magnet  schools  and 
individual  educational  plans  as  such  levers.  Now 
school  improvement  plans,  accountability  systems 
and  markets  are  offered  as  solutions.  To  be  sure, 
different  organizational  arrangements  can  facilitate 
different  consequences.  Ultimately,  however,  it  is 
school  values,  norms  and  traditions  that  influence 
the  selection  of  "appropriate  structures"  and  create 


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meaning  for  participants  within  what- 
ever structure  they  happen  to  con- 
front. Whatever  specific  reform 
initiatives  we  choose  to  pursue,  they 
must  be  enacted  by  individuals  in 
schools,  each  of  whom  draws  on  his 
or  her  own  private  beliefs,  but  also 
must  operate  within  a  larger  context 
where  such  moral  conversation  holds 
a  very  uncertain  status. 

More  generally,  these  observations 
direct  our  attention  to  the  role  of 
religious  understandings  in  contem- 
porary schooling.  Past  discussions 
about  this  topic  have  tended  to  flash 
around  highly  visible  events  such  as 
Bible  reading,  school  prayer  and 
creches  on  the  front  lawn  at  Christ- 
mas. For  several  decades  now,  efforts 
have  vigorously  sought  to  banish  all 
such  symbols  from  schools,  and  other 
efforts  have  now  arisen  in  their  de- 
fense. To  be  clear,  the  central  issue  is 
not  the  presence  or  absence  of  these 
activities  in  schools.  For  some,  these 
symbols  have  meaning;  for  many  oth- 
ers they  do  not.  Much  more  impor- 
tant in  our  view  is  the  quality  of  the  interior  life  that 
schools  foster  in  their  students,  the  voices  of  con- 
science they  nurture  or  fail  to  nurture.  In  this  sense, 
all  education  conveys  religious  understandings,  that 
is,  a  set  of  beliefs,  values  and  sentiments  which 
order  social  life  and  create  purpose  for  human 
activity.  These  may  be  comprehensive  ideals  which 
ennoble  the  person  and  reach  out  broadly  to  others, 
or  they  may  narrowly  focus  only  on  furthering 
material  self-advancement. 

In  terms  of  the  Catholic  schools  we  studied, 
school  life  comprises  a  tradition  of  thought,  rituals, 
mores  and  organizational  practices  that  both  invite 
students  to  reflect  on  this  systematic  body  of  thought 
and  to  immerse  themselves  in  a  communal  life  that 
seeks  to  live  out  its  basic  principles.  The  aim  of  this 
type  of  schooling  is  to  nurture  in  students  the 
feelings,  experiences  and  reflections  that  can  help 
them  apprehend  their  relations  to  all  that  is  around 
them — both  the  material  world  and  the  social  world, 
both  those  who  have  come  before  and  those  who 
will  come  after. 

Isn't  this  what  education  should  be  about? 

Isn't  this  what  we  aspire  to  for  all  our  children? 

At  root  here  is  a  fundamental  question:  what  in 
the  "postmodern  age"  is  "education  for  democ- 


racy?" The  "Catholic  school  answer"  involves  a 
melding  of  the  technical  knowledge  and  skill  to 
negotiate  an  increasingly  complex  secular  world;  a 
moral  vision  which  points  this  skill  toward  a  more 
convivial  and  humane  society;  and  finally,  a  voice  of 
conscience  that  encourages  each  student  to  criti- 
cally pursue  such  a  vision. 

Revitalizing  the  public  conversation  about  this 
question  is  essential  to  all  of  us,  whether  we  have 
children  in  school  or  not.  Life  in  a  free  society 
presumes  broadly  shared  commitments  to  basic 
principles  of  truth,  justice  and  compassion.  So 
much  of  the  livability  and  vitality  of  a  free  society 
depends  on  the  "right  living"  of  its  people.  In  its 
absence,  we  are  less  secure  and  ultimately  less  free. 

Anthony  Bryk  '77,  is  a  professor  of  education  at  the  University 
of  Chicago  and  co-author,  with  Peter  Holland,  of  "Catholic 
Schools  and  the  Common  Good"  (Harvard,  1993).  This 
article  was  edited  fivm  a  talk  delivered  at  the  School  of 
Education's  annual  Charles  F.  Donovan,  SJ,  Lecture,  in 
December  1993. 


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With  a  state  system  in  disarray  and  rapidly  growing  numbers 

of  college-bound  students,  California  has  become  a  battleground 

for  "Back  East"  admission  recruiters  like  BC's  Sherman  Rosser 


By  Bruce  Morgan 


I'llnlOSBYCFOFFWHY 


The  college  guidance  counselor  at  Palo 
Alto  High  School  in  Palo  Alto,  Califor- 
nia, tells  a  story  about  the  University  of 
Chicago  recruiter  who  came  by  her  office  last  week. 
At  the  end  of  the  presentation,  a  student  asked  the 
recruiter  to  describe  what  winter  was  like  on  his 
campus.  "Well,  it's  not  that  bad,"  answered  the 
recruiter.  "There  are  some  days  when  it  may  get  to 
five  below."  Meekly,  a  student  slowly  raised  her 
hand.  "Excuse  me,  but  five  below  what?"  she  said. 

California  is  a  special  place.  Taking  the  long 
view,  Boston  College  has  registered  a  faint  pres- 
ence out  here  amid  the  soothing  wind  and  palm 
trees — student  recruitment  efforts  did  not  even 
begin  in  this  state  until  1981 — but  lately  that  pic- 
ture is  changing.  Last  year  more  than  100  students 
from  California  enrolled  at  BC,  making  the  Golden 
State  the  fifth-ranked  contributor  of  students  to 
the  Class  of  1997  (after  Massachusetts,  New  York, 
Connecticut  and  New  Jersey).  And,  for  a  variety  of 
reasons,  the  trend  of  plucking  students  from  this 
sun-drenched  region  is  likely  to  accelerate  in  the 
days  ahead. 

"It's  one  of  the  states  where  population  is  grow- 
ing," points  out  Sherman  Rosser,  the  senior  assis- 
tant director  of  Undergraduate  Admission  whose 
turf  this  has  been  for  the  past  dozen  years.  College 
recruiters  in  the  East  are  facing  two  main  prob- 
lems. First,  a  decreasing  percentage  of  the  U.S. 
population  is  less  than  18  years  old.  Second,  what 
population  growth  exists  is  not  occurring  evenly 
across  the  national  map.  Rather,  the  growth  has 
spiked  in  a  handful  of  states  in  the  South  and  West, 
far  from  the  regions  that  have  traditionally  fed 
eastern  colleges. 

For  eastern  recruiters,  the  news  is  not  all  bad. 
California-born  applicants 
are  often  the  children  of 
people  who  grew  up  in  the 
East  and  then  moved  west — 
"migratory  parents,"  Rosser 
calls  them.  This  gives  a 
"name"  eastern  university 
like  Boston  College  a  re- 
cruitment edge,  since  such 
transplants  are  more  likely 
than  other  Californians  to 
be  comfortable  with  the  idea 
of  sending  their  children 
across  the  continent  to 
school.  The  kids  may  also 
feel  some  native  yearning  to 
return  to  the  place  where 
their  families  began.  Ex- 


plains Fr.  Martin  Mager,  of  Woodside  Priory,  a 
Franciscan  school  set  amid  rolling  hills  south  of 
San  Francisco,  "There's  a  concept  held  by  Califor- 
nians that  there's  a  state  called  'Back  East.'  I'll  have 
a  student  sitting  here  saying,  'Father,  I  think  I'm 
going  to  go  Back  East."Oh,  any  state  in  particular?' 
I'll  say.  'There's  Massachusetts,  there's  Connecti- 
cut .  .  .'  'No,  I  just  want  to  go  Back  East.'" 

Californians  have  a  number  of  reasons  to  make 
the  leap.  Squeezed  by  recent  cuts  in  the  California 
budget,  the  quality  of  the  state's  vaunted  university 
system  has  declined  sharply.  ("It  used  to  be  one  of 
the  best  bargains  in  the  country,  but  not  anymore," 
Mager  laments.)  Admission  requirements  have 
tightened.  Classes  are  in  demand;  waiting  lists 
stretch  around  the  block.  The  average  Californian 
attending  school  in-state  must  now  expect  to  spend 
five-and-a-half  years  earning  an  undergraduate  de- 
gree— and  this  delay  exacts  a  toll  in  lost  income. 

In  addition,  students  are  apt  to  be  more  warmly 
received  at  a  place  like  Boston  College  than  they  are 
in  their  home  state.  Traditionally,  the  California 
system  has  put  most  of  its  chips  in  the  research 
basket,  with  all  the  clinical  coolness  and  inattention 
to  undergraduates  that  this  implies.  "Students  look 
to  BC  because  they're  looking  for  a  community," 
claims  Rosser,  "and  that's  something  the  California 
state  system  doesn't  have." 

According  to  a  report  issued  a  year  ago  by  the 
National  Institute  of  Independent  Colleges  and 
Universities,  the  trend  of  colleges  and  universities 
panning  for  gold  in  the  South  and  West  will  con- 
tinue strong  well  into  the  next  century,  as  recruiters 
chase  a  profound  demographic  shift.  Notes  the 
report:  "Three  states — California,  Texas  and 
Florida — accounted  for  more  than  half  of  the 


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nation's  population  growth  between  1980 
and  1990."  During  the  same  decade, 
"There  was  virtually  no  population 
growth  in  states  where  there  are  large 
numbers  of  [private]  institutions — Illi- 
nois, Indiana,  Massachusetts,  Michigan, 
New  York,  Ohio  and  Pennsylvania." 

The  number  of  high  school  graduates 
in  Massachusetts  is  projected  to  dip  5 
percent  between  1990  and  the  year  2000. 
Meanwhile,  out  in  California,  demogra- 
phers predict  a  surge  of  41  percent.  It's 
evident  that  adroit  college  recruiters  are 
going  to  be  packing  suntan  lotion  and 
logging  many  more  miles  on  their  rental 
cars  in  the  years  ahead. 

"The  best  independent  institutions  of 
higher  education  are  highly  selective, 
and  will  fill  their  classes  with  no  particu- 
lar difficulty,  even  in  states  that  will  de- 
cline in  youth  over  the  next  17  years," 
says  the  NIICU  report.  "But  for  the 
majority  of  our  1,600  independent  col- 
leges and  universities,  between  now  and 
the  year  2010,  the  options  will  be:  (1)  Increase 
student  ethnic  diversity.  (2)  Get  smaller.  (3)  Move 
downward  in  the  'quality'  pool  of  applicants."  (For 
"ethnic  diversity,"  read  "geographic  diversity,"  since 
the  fast-growing  states  of  California,  Texas  and 
Florida  have  shown  disproportionate  gains  in  mi- 
nority populations.) 

Boston  College  glimpsed  the  message  on  the 
wall  earlier  than  most.  "It  really  goes  back  to  1974, 
and  Jack  Maguire,  who  was  the  first  dean  of  enroll- 
ment management  in  the  country,"  says  Robert 
Lay,  who  worked  under  Maguire  as  a  researcher 
and  then  replaced  him  when  Maguire  left  to  launch 
a  consulting  business  in  1988.  "Jack  was  one  of  the 
leaders  in  the  field  at  the  time.  He  and  others  were 
looking  at  these  demographic  shifts.  We  knew 
there  were  going  to  be  fewer  and  fewer  students  in 
the  Northeast.  We  also  knew  that  to  be  more  of  a 
national  school  we  would  need  to  get  more  diver- 
sity on  campus." 

The  Class  of  1997,  laden  with  students  from  43 
states,  reflects  the  success  of  BC's  20-year  effort  to 
forge  a  national  identity.  That  effort  is  fueled  by  a 
two-month  period  each  autumn  during  which  Ad- 
mission representatives  fan  out  across  the  country. 
Quick  school  stops  are  typically  blended  with  more 
substantial  evening  receptions  aimed  at  parents. 
This  fall,  Admission  staffers  hosted  61  such  recep- 
tions along  a  29-state  path  stretching  from  Maine 
to  Hawaii.  A  more  broadly  anchored  and  economi- 


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|   +11%  to  +29% 
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Decreases 


CONTINENTAL  DRIFT — The  projected  percent  change  in  the  number  of  high  school  graduates, 
state  by  state,  between  1 989-90  and  1 999-2000.  Of  1 8  states  expecting  substantial  popula- 
tion gains,  1 4  are  located  west  of  the  Mississippi  River. 


cally  sound  university  is  the  goal.  Lay  points  out 
that  in  the  past  five  years,  for  example,  as  California's 
share  of  BC  freshmen  has  climbed  dramatically,  the 
percentage  of  freshmen  from  Massachusetts  has 
shrunk  from  38  percent  to  27  percent. 

Making  a  dent  in  California  is  also  significant  for 
cultural  reasons.  Lay  disputes  the  idea  that  a  stu- 
dent recruited  from  a  comfortable  West  Coast 
suburb  is  more  or  less  the  same  as  his  or  her  eastern 
counterpart.  "California  probably  represents  the 
country  in  microcosm,  but  it's  five  or  10  years 
ahead  of  us,"  he  suggests.  "In  terms  of  cultural 
diversity,  the  middle-class  kid  from  Los  Angeles  is 
going  to  be  bringing  a  lot  to  BC."  (On  this  subject, 
Rosser  says  simply:  "Californians  don't  think  like 
other  people.")  "And  this,"  Lay  continues,  "is  what 
it  means  to  be  a  national  institution — to  embrace 
diversity." 

Among  colleges,  opinions  do  differ  on  the  im- 
portance of  California  in  the  great  scheme  of  things. 
"To  read  the  demographics,  you  might  think  the 
Northeast  is  going  to  disappear,"  says  Kevin  Rooney, 
the  director  of  undergraduate  admissions  at  Notre 
Dame.  "It's  not  actually  that  severe.  There  will 
continue  to  be  lots  of  good  students  all  over." 
Notre  Dame  has  increased  its  California  recruit- 
ment efforts  only  slightly  in  recent  years,  while 
numbers  of  applications  from  the  state  continue  to 
rise.  California  currently  ranks  sixth  among  states 
sending  students  to  Notre  Dame. 


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In  contrast  with  Rooney's  serenity,  recruiters 
for  Villanova  University  and  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania  are  bearing  down  hard  in  the  Golden 
State.  Steven  Merritt,  director  of  undergraduate 
admission  at  Villanova,  explains  what  motivated 
his  school  to  go  prospecting  for  applicants  in 
California.  "A  couple  of  years  ago  we  did  a  study 
which  found  that  there  were  a  lot  of  students  out 
there  who  were  interested  in  an  Eastern  college 
experience,  and  who  could  afford  to  pay  for  it,"  he 
says  bluntly.  Since  then,  Villanova  has  maintained 
a  full-time  staffer  in  San  Diego  whose  sole  respon- 
sibility is  to  drum  up  applications  from  California 
and  other  western  states.  Merritt  describes  the 
region  as  holding  "great  potential  for  supplying 
Villanova  with  talented  students." 

Penn  got  into  the  game  even  earlier.  They  have 
had  a  full-time  recruiter  working  out  of  Los  Ange- 
lessince  1982.  Pennsylvania  saw  "the  need  to  be 
positioned  in  a  more  positive  way  outside  the  East," 
relates  Lee  Stetson,  the  school's  dean  of  under- 
graduate admissions.  The  move,  intended  to  "take 
us  to  a  new  level  in  the  West" — has  been  a  clear 
success.  California  is  now  the  fourth-best 
represented  state  on  the  Penn  campus. 

Opening  a  Los  Angeles  branch  office  for 
recruitment  paid  off  because  of  "the  person- 
alized approach,"  Stetson  says  confidently. 
The  handshake,  the  quip,  the  empathetic 


smile  are  as  much  a  recruiter's  tools  as  any  brochure 
he  or  she  might  carry  in  a  briefcase. 


Sherman  Rosser  has  been  visiting  California 
secondary  schools  for  more  than  a  decade 
now,  and  his  job  is  getting  easier.  He  knows 
most  of  the  college  advisors  by  name,  and  the 
university  he  represents  has  risen  apace  in  national 
esteem.  Simply  being  a  familiar  face  yields  divi- 
dends. These  days,  many  people  approach  Rosser 
to  say,  "Hey,  we  saw  you  three  or  four  years  ago, 
and  our  child  didn't  go  to  BC,  but  now  we  have 
another  coming  along,  and  we'd  like  to  try  again." 
Things  were  different  on  Rosser's  first  few  jaunts 
to  California.  "Boston  College — oh,  is  that  the 
undergraduate  part  of  Boston  University?"  was  a 
common  refrain  when  natives  spied  the  BC  em- 
blem on  his  polo  shirt.  Recalls  Rosser:  "We  were 
always  described  as  a  small  Catholic  school  in 
Boston,  and  that  was  deadly.  It  took  a  long  time  to 
get  students  to  venture  to  the  East.  After  all,  for  a 
1 6-  or  1 7-year-old,  3 ,000  miles  is  a  long  way  to  go. 


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But  little  by  little,  we  began  to  chip  away." 

The  numbers  bear  him  out.  The  year  before 
Rosser  began  trekking  around  the  state,  only  two 
Californians  enrolled  at  BC.  His  first  year  out 
West,  in  1981,  Rosser  brought  35  Californians  to 
the  University — and  the  state's  enrollments  have 
edged  steadily  upward  since  then.  In  1986,  52 
Californians  came  to  BC.  Four  years  after  that:  93. 
Last  year,  120  students  followed  the  newly  blazed 
trail  to  Chestnut  Hill. 

By  temperament,  Rosser  may  be  the  perfect 
California  recruiter.  He  has  a  buoyant  disposition, 
a  salesman's  unflagging  energy  and,  after  14  years 
on  campus,  he  plainly  loves  BC.  He  sings  tenor  in 
the  University  Chorale  and  knows  scores  of  stu- 
dents by  their  first  names.  Like  a  bright  billboard 
for  Boston  College,  Rosser  is  a  man  whose  message 
is  legible  from  across  the  room.  At  the  same  time, 
his  manner  is  low-key  enough  to  fit  seamlessly  into 
a  student  culture  where  no  one  seems  to  wear 
anything  much  more  formal  than  open-toe  sandals 
and  a  neon-colored  backpack. 

Rosser  usually  spends  about  two  weeks  in  Cali- 
fornia, dividing  his  time  equally  between  southern 
and  northern  portions  of  the  state.  A  day  on  the 
road  with  him  in  late  October  begins  with  a  morn- 
ing visit  to  the  Menlo  School,  a  small  coed  prep 
school  located  in  suburban  Atherton,  40  miles 
south  of  San  Francisco.  In  the  college  guidance 
office,  Rosser  greets  advisor  Deccie  Jeffers  like  an 
old  friend;  the  two  are  still  trading  quips  as  the  first 
students  drift  in  for  the  8:40  talk,  nabbing  seats 
around  a  blond  table  in  the  adjoining  interview 
room. 

"How  many  people  have  been  to  Boston?"  asks 
Rosser.  (Most  hands  go  up.)  "How  many  have 
visited  Boston  College?"  (One  or  two.)  "All  right," 
smiles  Rosser,  "let  me  tell  you  a  little  bit  about  the 
school.  We  were  founded  by  the  Jesuits  in  1863. 
Jesuits  have  always  been  teachers,  and  I  always 
emphasize  that."  Rosser  next  gives  a  capsule  review 
of  the  University's  early  years,  and  its  evolution, 
commenting,  "We're  proud  of  the  Irish-Catholic 
heritage,  but  we're  not  a  little  school  anymore." 

He  uses  the  local  angle  when  he  can,  describing 
the  relation  of  the  Newton  Campus  to  the  main 
campus,  for  example,  as  the  distance  from  "San 
Mateo  to  Menlo,"  or,  on  another  occasion,  "from 
here  down  to  the  Stanford  Mall."  Facts  (95  percent 
of  classes  are  taught  by  staff  with  terminal  degrees; 
86  percent  of  students  graduate  in  four  years)  get 
sandwiched  among  crisp  summary  lines  ("I  can  tell 
you  we  are  a  medium-size  teaching  institution  with 
a  great  deal  of  research  going  on")  and  genial 


I  he  year  before  Rosser  began  trekking  around 
the  state,  only  two  Californians  enrolled  at  BC. 
His  first  year  out  west,  in  1981,  Rosser  brought 
35  Californians  to  the  University,  hast  year, 
a  contingent  of  120  followed  the  trail 
to  Chestnut  Hill. 


application-linked  asides  ("There's  no  one  thing 
that  will  get  you  into  BC;  there's  no  one  thing  that 
will  keep  you  out"). 

After  20  minutes  or  so,  Rosser  takes  questions. 
Does  BC  offer  environmental  studies?  ("Yes.")  Do 
students  have  to  live  on  campus?  ("Students  want  to 
live  on  campus.")  How  powerful  is  the  religious  influ- 
ence at  BC?  ("We're  not  going  to  make  you  go  to  Mass, 
but  there  is  a  strong  moral  character  to  the  Univer- 
sity.") A  few  more  questions  and  it's  time  to  go. 

"If  Boston  College  is  your  first  choice,  I  hope  to 
see  you  on  campus  next  year,"  Rosser  concludes 
lightly.  "I  remember  Nelson  Singleton  last 
year — we  were  actually  sitting  in  that  room  over 
there  [pointing  across  the  hall] — and  Nelson  said, 
'I  probably  won't  get  in,'  but  now  he's  in  his 
first  semester  on  the  BC  campus  and  enjoying 
it.  So  . . ."  The  students  rise  and  shuffle  off  to  their 
classes.  Later,  Rosser  concedes  that  his  ability  to 
mention  recent  successful  applicants  by  name  is  a 
strong  recruitment  card  to  play.  Each  year  there  are 
more  local  connections;  each  year  more  tales  to  cite 
as  proof  that  a  Golden  Stater  can  vault  the  Rockies, 
land  in  chill  New  England  and  survive. 

At  the  Castilleja  School,  a  small,  private  women's 
school  in  nearby  Palo  Alto,  the  BC  recruiter  meets 
two  shy  young  women  seated  side-by-side  on  a 
wicker  settee,  nervously  swinging  their  feet.  One 
wants  to  be  a  teacher;  the  other  plans  to  study  film. 
Almost  imperceptibly,  Rosser  adjusts  his  pitch  to  the 
homey  circumstances.  Leaning  forward  in  his  seat, 
he  encourages  both  women  to  consider  Boston  Col- 
lege. "We're  a  medium-size  school,  but  we  sit  in 
Boston,  which  is  sort  of  a  mega-town  for  college 
students.  I  always  like  to  say  that  we  are  an  'academi- 
cally fun'  school.  Test  scores?  Well,  I  can  assume 
neither  of  you  has  a  combined  SAT  score  below  400 
[nervous  laughter],  and  you  don't  have  a  combined 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  37 


score  above  1600  [more  nervous  laughter  and  ob- 
lique downward  glances],  so  you're  in  the  running. 

"You  asked  about  campus  spirit.  I  like  to  de- 
scribe BC  as  a  rah-rah  school.  There's  lots  of  spirit 
on  campus.  It's  fun,  because  we  sit  seven  miles  from 
downtown  Boston,  up  on  a  hill,"  says  Rosser,  cup- 
ping his  hands  into  the  shape  of  a  bowl.  The  two 
women  ask  a  few  specific  questions  related  to  their 
curricular  interests,  and  depart  smiling.  Moments 
later,  Rosser  is  cutting  across  a  trim,  grassy  court- 
yard. Some  students  are  doing  calisthenics  in  the 
distance.  Were  the  prospects  won  over  by  his  pitch 
or  not?  "What  I  wanted  them  to  get  was  a  warm 
feeling  about  the  place,  and  I  think  they  got  that," 
Rosser  says. 

Whether  the  audience  numbers  one  or  one 
hundred,  Rosser's  poised  approach  is  theatrical  in 
the  best  sense,  retaining  freshness  despite  repeated 


The  result  of  Rosser's  pitch?  A  few  nibbles  here 
and  there.  BC's  man  in  California  has  been  a 
recruiter  long  enough  to  believe  he  has  a  handle  on 
which  kids  are  likely  to  follow  through  with  an 
application.  Often,  he  says,  he  can  tell  merely  from 
a  student's  body  language  that  a  prospect  has  no 
real  interest  in  Boston  College.  "Sometimes,"  con- 
cedes Rosser,  "you  think,  Here  I  am  talking  about 
BC  and  these  jokers  just  wanted  to  get  out  of 
French  class." 

Rosser  has  the  afternoon  free — just  enough  time 
to  dash  back  to  San  Francisco  to  get  some  dry 
cleaning  done,  and  then  he's  due  for  an  evening 
reception  at  Bellarmine  Prep,  a  Jesuit  high  school 
in  San  Jose,  just  a  few  miles  from  where  he  began 
the  day.  After  saying  good-bye  in  the  Palo  Alto 
parking  lot,  he  spins  down  the  road  in  his  beige 
Ford  Escort.  The  day,  as  usual,  is  sunny  and  warm. 


shows — as  many  as  four  or  five  per  day.  "It's  really 
a  Broadway  performance,"  laughs  Rosser.  "I  try  to 
create  the  illusion  that  it's  directed  at  the  individual 
student,  but  of  course  it's  also  general,  directed  at 
everyone." 

Increasingly,  places  like  Palo  Alto  High  School 
will  be  the  college  recruiters'  battleground.  Last 
year,  30  percent  of  graduates  from  this  affluent 
suburban  school  entered  the  University  of  Califor- 
nia system;  another  13  percent  ventured  east  to 
college.  Seven  students  variously  attired  in  togas  (a 
Senior  Week  uniform)  and  jeans  crowd  around  a 
table  in  the  guidance  office.  College  pennants 
decorate  the  walls.  "How  many  of  you  have  been  to 
Boston?"  Rosser  asks.  (Maybe  half  raise  their  hands.) 
"Okay.  I  can  tell  you  that  Boston  College  is  a 
medium-size  teaching  institution,"  he  says — and 
then  he's  off  and  running.  "We  have  8,500  under- 
graduates, so  you  really  get  to  know  people  on  our 
campus  .  .  ." 


Bellarmine  amounts  to  a  full-fledged  show, 
complete  with  a  welcoming  tray  of  cookies, 
coffee  in  a  silver  urn  and  a  20-minute  video 
depicting  the  charms  of  Boston  College.  (Posted  in 
a  glass  display  case  in  a  hallway  is  a  schedule  of  visits 
from  college  recruiters.  In  October  alone,  the  list 
includes  Stanford,  Penn,  Colgate,  Bowdoin  and 
Cornell.)  Perhaps  70  or  80  people  have  taken  their 
seats  in  the  small  auditorium  just  off  the  library  by 
the  time  Rosser  clears  his  throat  at  the  front  of  the 


room. 


"Good  evening,  I'm  Sherman  Rosser.  I'm  a 
director  in  the  Boston  College  Admission  Office, 
where  we  will  read  between  13,000  and  14,000 
applications  for  a  freshman  class  of  2,100  students, 
and  if  you  apply  I  will  be  the  final  judge  in  the 
application  process.  Then,  at  that  point,  I'm  either 
going  to  put  the  response  in  a  big,  thick  envelope — 
and  you  know  what  that  means  [nodding  his  head, 


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looking  side  to  side] — or  in  a  little,  thin  envelope 
[pinching  two  fingers  together,  still  smiling  and 
nodding  slowly,  slowly] — and  you  know  what  that 
means."  (Laughter  all  around.) 

"At  Boston  College,  we  try  to  provide  our  stu- 
dents with  the  best,  sound  moralistic  education 
that  we  can."  Rosser  pauses,  before  adding  his 
customary  punch  line:  "We  always  tell  our  stu- 
dents, 'We  want  you  to  make  a  lot  of  money,  but  we 
want  you  to  make  it  the  right  way.  And  if  you  don't 
make  it  the  right  way,  we  want  you  to  feel  guilty  for 
the  rest  of  your  life.'"  (Appreciative  chuckles.) 

Following  his  opening  remarks,  Rosser  rolls  the 
BC  video,  an  introduction  to  the  University  that  is 
liberally  populated  with  student  cameos  extolling 
the  virtues  of  the  place.  Near  the  finale,  a  glimpse 
of  students  crunching  across  a  campus  banked 
in  snow  elicits  a  low  groan  from  the  audience. 


to  do  that;  you  have  to  brag  a  little. 

"This  is  the  purpose  of  your  essay  on  the  appli- 
cation. I  always  like  to  say  that  your  essay  should  do 
for  your  application  what  Walt  Disney  did  for 
Mickey  Mouse.  Think  about  that  for  a  moment. 
Mickey  was  two-dimensional,  lying  flat  on  Disney's 
desk — just  as  your  application  is  lying  there,  flat  on 
my  desk — and  Walt  Disney  was  smart  enough  to 
animate  Mickey  and  bring  him  to  life.  Your  essay 
should  do  the  same  thing  for  your  application." 

The  Bellarmine  pitch  is  winding  down.  After 
fielding  a  batch  of  questions  from  students  and 
their  parents,  Rosser  concludes  his  talk  on  a  posi- 
tive note.  "Wherever  you  decide  to  go  to  school," 
he  says,  "really  take  advantage  of  that  situation. 
Hopefully,  we'll  see  you  all  at  BC  for  the  next  four 
years.  Thanks  a  lot  for  coming  tonight." 

Of  all  the  students  he  has  seen  today— at  Menlo, 

w\.osser  continues  pointing  around  the  room 
until  all  the  students  have  responded.  Then 
he  draws  up  short,  a  concerned  expression 
shadowing  his  face.  "J  can  tell  you  right  now, " 
he  says,  uthat  none  of  you  would  get  into 
Boston  College. "  The  shock  sinks  in. 


At  film's  end,  Rosser  asks  the  students  in  the 
audience  to  tell  him  something  about  their  inter- 
ests outside  of  class.  He  points  to  a  young  woman 
in  the  front  row,  who  mumbles  about  liking  to  read 
books.  "Okay,"  says  Rosser,  indicating  a  young 
man  nearby,  "how  about  you?"  He,  too,  mumbles 
something  brief  about  playing  sports  and  studying. 
Rosser  continues  pointing  his  finger  around  the 
room  until  all  the  students  have  responded.  Then 
he  draws  up  short,  a  concerned  expression  shadow- 
ing his  face.  "I  can  tell  you  right  now,"  he  says,  "that 
none  of  you  would  get  into  Boston  College." 

The  shock  sinks  in.  Rosser  continues:  "I  asked 
you  to  tell  me  about  yourself,  and  this  is  what  you 
did.  [He  imitates  the  mumbles  he  has  just  heard.] 
That's  not  good  enough.  Now  this  mom  here 
[pointing  down  front]  did  the  right  thing.  As  we 
were  going  along,  she  said  to  her  daughter,  'Tell 
the  man  something.'  And  she's  right.  You  do  have 


Castilleja,  Palo  Alto  and  Bellarmine — Rosser  esti- 
mates that  perhaps  7  5  percent  will  eventually  apply. 
"It's  like  playing  the  market,"  he  shrugs.  "We  don't 
know.  Could  be  all  of  them,  could  be  none  of 
them."  Rosser  would  love  to  see  the  California  yield 
for  next  year's  class  hit  150  students,  a  25  percent 
jump  over  the  Class  of  1997.  "It's  a  wacky  world  in 
Admission,"  he  suggests.  "We're  selling  a  product 
that's  very  expensive  and  very  important,  but,  un- 
like a  car,  for  example,  it  has  no  tangible  value." 

Within  minutes,  Rosser  has  gathered  his  bro- 
chures from  the  table  in  the  entranceway,  bid  his 
Jesuit  hosts  adieu  and  walked  out  into  the  soft  night 
air.  It's  getting  late,  and  the  BC  recruiter  faces  a  45- 
minute  drive  back  to  San  Francisco.  Tomorrow 
there  are  more  schools  to  visit,  more  hearts  to  win. 

Bruce  Morgan  is  this  magazine 's  associate  editor. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  39 


UNCIVIL 

LAW 


Whafs  wrong  with  the  legal  prof ession  today  is  lawyer  behavior. 

So  says  former  BC  Law  Dean  Dan  Coquillette.  His  prescription? 

The  first  thing  we  do,  let's  change  legal  culture 


Interview  by  John  Ombelets 


BCM:  The  perception  of  the  legal  profession  today 
is  that  it  is  a  sleazy  business  in  which  old  ideals  take 
a  back  seat  to  material  gain  at  any  cost.  What 
should  the  profession  do  to  change  that? 

COQUILLETTE:  I  can  tell  you  what  the  profession 
has  done  which  I  think  is  useless,  if  not  counterpro- 
ductive: the  American  Bar  Association  has  hired 
media  consultants  to  improve  the  image  of  lawyers. 


That  is  a  pointless  exercise.  The  real  issue  is,  what 
is  the  reality  of  the  profession?  The  perception  will 
follow  the  reality  in  time. 

The  current  reality  is  that  the  profession's  ideals 
are  badly  out  of  balance.  Let  me  give  you  a  little 
historical  background.  The  American  legal  profes- 
sion has  inherited  three  professional  ideals  that 
often  conflict. 


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The  first,  going  back  to  the  Middle  Ages,  is 
called  the  attorney  ideal.  "Attorney"  comes  from 
old  Latin  and  French  terms  meaning  "to  assign"  or 
"to  substitute,"  i.e.,  to  stand  in  the  shoes  of  some- 
one. In  the  attorney  ideal,  you  are  "assigned"  to  do 
whatever  you  can  to  promote  your  client's  interest. 

From  1 3th-century  England  came  a  conflicting 
ideal,  the  officer-of-the-court  ideal.  From  the  days 
of  Edward  I,  lawyers  have  been  licensed  and  super- 
vised by  the  courts.  You  take  an  oath  on  admission 
to  the  bar  and  that  oath  refers  to  your  obligation  to 
the  system  of  justice.  In  Massachusetts,  it's  a  17th- 
century  oath  that  says  you'll  "delay  the  cause  of  no 
man  for  lucre  or  malice." 

A  third  ideal,  also  coming  out  of  the  Middle 
Ages,  is  the  so-called  guild  ideal,  which  calls  upon 
lawyers  to  be  loyal  to  each  other  and  their  profes- 
sion. While  it  sounds  very  self-serving,  the  guilds, 
in  the  form  of  bar  associations,  have  been  stalwart 
protectors  of  certain  principles  of  government, 
particularly  the  rule  of  law  and  the  independence  of 
the  judiciary  from  both  the  legislature  and  the 
executive. 

My  point  is  that  we  have  gone  overboard  on  the 
attorney  ideal  and  we've  forgotten  about  our  re- 
sponsibilities as  a  profession  both  to  the  system  of 
justice  and  to  providing  services  fairly  to  a  wide 
group  of  people. 

What  shape  is  reform  taking? 

One  area  is  rules  changes.  I  am  reporter  to  the 
Committee  on  Rules  of  Practice  and  Procedure  of 
the  Judicial  Conference  of  the  United  States,  the 
committee  that  proposes  new  rules  for  federal 
courts.  One  of  the  controversial  rules  that  the 
Judicial  Conference  has  adopted  is  Rule  1 1,  which 
punishes  not  just  a  client  but  his  or  her  lawyer  for 
filing  a  frivolous  action.  Under  the  new  Rule  11, 
when  a  suit  is  filed,  the  lawyer  is  expressing  his  or 
her  own  independent  opinion  that  this  is  a  legiti- 
mate lawsuit  and  not  one  that's  brought  out  of 
malice  or  a  desire  for  lucre.  That's  been  very 
controversial  because  it  holds  lawyers  indepen- 
dently responsible  for  filing  frivolous  actions. 

Another  change  is  in  Rule  26,  which  makes 
lawyers  responsible  for  handing  over  relevant  in- 
formation at  the  beginning  of  a  lawsuit,  even  if  that 
information  is  not  requested  by  the  other  side.  It 
restores  an  obligation  of  lawyers  to  make  sure  that 
the  court  has  the  most  relevant,  important  infor- 
mation in  a  case. 

I  have  seen  a  number  of  cases  where,  months 
into  a  lawsuit,  a  crucial  document  is  accidentally 


I  he  increase  in  cynicism  and  dissension  in 
modern  society — including  a  breakdown  of 
consensus  about  what  the  rule  of  law  ought  to 
be — has  produced  the  law  professor  who  says, 

Tm  going  to  teach  law  as  a  set  of  tools. " 


«T\ 


disclosed  that  is  a  real  smoking  gun  in  the  case — say 
a  report  on  well-water  testing.  And  the  judge  asks, 
"Why  wasn't  this  document  produced?"  And  the 
answer  would  be,  "Because  the  other  side  didn't  ask 
for  it  exactly.  They  asked  'What  tests  did  you  do?', 
not,  'What  tests  were  done  by  you  and  your  con- 
sultants?', and  this  test  was  done  by  our  consult- 
ants." Under  the  new  Rule  26,  not  just  the  client, 
but  also  the  lawyer  would  be  responsible  for  seeing 
that  vital  pieces  of  information  are  produced  early 
in  the  case.  This  proposal  is  an  effort  to  speed  up 
the  process,  reduce  the  amount  of  money  spent  in 
pre-trial  discovery  and  help  ensure  just  results. 

Do  rules  changes  make  for  effective  reform  or  is 
something  more  required? 

As  someone  who  is  a  professional  rule  maker,  I  am 
becoming  more  and  more  convinced  thatyou  can't 
just  reform  the  rules,  that  basically  what  is  going  on 
here  is  a  cultural  problem.  If  you  simply  reform 
rules  without  reforming  the  culture,  the  rules  are 
going  to  be  resisted  and  litigated  themselves.  For 
example,  we've  had  Rule  11  for  a  couple  of  years, 
and  we  now  have  a  whole  subset  of  litigation  called 
Rule  1 1  litigation.  One  of  the  things  that  lawyers 
do  now  when  their  clients  are  sued  is  to  automati- 
cally file  a  Rule  1 1  motion  against  the  lawyer  who 
brings  the  suit.  The  new  Rule  26  was  resisted 
because  there  was  a  fear  that  it  would  give  rise  to  a 
galaxy  of  subsidiary  litigation.  So  you  can't  just 
change  a  rule.  You've  got  to  change  the  way  the 
people  in  the  system  think  and  act  as  a  culture. 
That's  an  educator's  job. 

Why  is  that?  What's  the  proper  role  of  educators  in 
legal  reform? 

The  history  of  the  bar  is  the  history  of  a  profession  that 
has  always  seen  itself  with  a  higher  duty,  to  truth  and 


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\  ou  can't  say  that  being  a  lawyer  is  what  you  do 

and  not  what  you  are.  There's  no  way  you  can 

split  these  roles.  If  you  act  like  a  jerk  in  court, 

you're  not  an  aggressive  advocate  pursuing 

an  assertive  strategy — you  're  just  a  jerk. 


justice.  But  the  new  spirit  in  the  profession  sees  it 
solely  as  a  business  and  solely  as  a  service  to  clients — 
to  the  paying  clients  really,  although  I've  seen  excesses 
for  charitable  clients  as  well.  That  narrow  view,  based 
on  the  attorney  ideal  and  ignoring  the  other  two,  has 
come  about  in  the  law  schools  through  the  growth  of 
a  concept  known  as  legal  instrumentalism,  which 
basically  sees  the  law  simply  as  a  tool  to  get  economic 
and  political  results. 

The  increase  in  cynicism  and  dissension  in  mod- 
ern society — including  a  breakdown  of  consensus 
about  what  the  rule  of  law  ought  to  be — has  pro- 
duced the  law  professor  who  says,  "I'm  going  to 
teach  law  as  a  set  of  tools.  Who  am  I  to  know 
whether  my  students'  goals  are  right  or  wrong?  If 
all  morality  is  subjective,  why  should  my  morality 
be  better  or  worse  than  my  students'?  I'm  going  to 
say  to  them,  'This  is  how  to  be  an  effective  advo- 
cate, this  is  how  to  use  arguments  effectively,  you 
use  them  for  whatever  ends  you  think  are  right.'" 

That  philosophy  of  teaching,  which  goes  back 
to  the  cynics  and  sophists  of  ancient  Greece,  has 
become  very  predominant  in  American  legal  edu- 
cation over  the  last  20  or  30  years,  and  I  strongly 
disagree  with  it.  There  are  principles  of  equal 
protection  and  due  process.  These  are  principles 
independent  from  political  and  economic  ends, 
and  they  are  of  great  value  in  themselves.  We  have, 
as  a  nation,  spent  hundreds  of  years  trying  to 
protect  these  principles. 

But  we  have  lost  sight  of  this  in  the  way  our  law 
students  are  educated,  so  we  shouldn't  be  surprised 
when  they  go  out  into  the  world  feeling  no  alle- 
giance beyond  the  client  who  pays  the  bills  or 
whose  ends  they  are  trying  to  promote. 

Another  bad  development  that's  been  encour- 
aged, I  think,  by  law  schools,  is  the  increased 
popularity  of  role-defined  ethics,  which  says  that  a 


person  has  different  ethical  responsibilities  de- 
pending on  the  role  he  or  she  is  playing.  According 
to  this  philosophy,  in  your  capacity  as  a  lawyer  you 
have  one  set  of  ethical  constraints,  as  a  family 
member  you  have  another  set  and  as  an  individual 
walking  down  the  street  you  have  a  third  set.  This 
is  real  rubbish. 

The  word  integrity  comes  from  the  same  Latin 
root  as  integration,  oneness,  and  the  notion  that 
you  can  divorce  your  activities  as  a  lawyer  from 
your  activities  as  a  human  being  and  your  character 
as  a  human  being  is  a  dangerous  idea.  One  lawyer 
I  talked  to  who  was  very  embarrassed  about  the 
profession  said  to  me,  "You  know,  one  thing  I  keep 
telling  myself  is  that  being  a  lawyer  is  what  I  do.  It's 
not  what  I  am."  I  said,  "You've  got  it  wrong. 
Aristotle  said  you  are  what  you  do  every  day.  You 
are  the  product  of  what  you  do,  day  in,  day  out, 
hour  in,  hour  out.  You  can't  say  that  being  a  lawyer 
is  what  you  do  and  not  what  you  are.  It  is  what  you 
are,  and  you  better  deal  with  that  up  front."  There's 
no  way  you  can  split  these  roles.  If  you  act  like  a  jerk 
in  court,  you're  not  an  aggressive  advocate  pursu- 
ing an  assertive  strategy — you're  just  a  jerk. 

So  when  I  talk  about  law  reform,  I'm  not  just 
talking  about  creating  new  rules.  I  think  we  have  to 
re-examine  the  way  that  law  is  taught  and  also  the 
way  that  the  profession  perceives  itself. 

Do  you  believe  BC  Law  School  bears  a  share  of 
responsibility  for  what's  transpired? 

Let  me  say  first  that  I  am  not  objective  about  this 
law  school.  I've  taught  at  three  other  law  schools, 
Harvard,  Cornell  and  BU,  and  I  just  think  this  an 
extraordinary  school.  BC's  has  always  been  a  law 
school  that  teaches  law  as  a  higher  calling.  We're 
not  completely  immune  from  the  major  develop- 
ments in  legal  education,  and  we  bear  responsibil- 
ity, as  do  all  law  schools.  But  this  has  always  been 
one  of  the  schools  that  have  been  like  voices  crying 
in  the  wilderness.  This  has  always  been  a  school 
that  has  looked  for  a  central,  moral  mission  in  legal 
education. 

BC  has  a  course  titled  "Professional  Responsibility" 
that  I  assume  deals  with  professional  ethics.  Are 
you  saying  that  many  law  schools  don't  have 
similar  courses? 

The  way  "Professional  Responsibility"  can  be  taught 
is  simply  as  a  way  to  avoid  being  disbarred,  thrown 
in  jail  or  making  mistakes  that  prejudice  your 
client. 


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I  can  tell  you  personally  that  some  of  the  lawyers 
most  expert  in  these  professional  rules  of  conduct 
are  the  ones  who  are  constantly  living  on  the  edge, 
lawyers  engaged  in  things  that  you  and  I  would 
regard  as  really  evil  activity.  The  people  most  likely 
to  fall  foul  of  the  disciplinary  rules  are  naive  lawyers 
who  think  they  are  doing  the  right  thing,  and  they 
are  just  unfamiliar  with  the  rules.  So  you  can  have 
a  thoroughly  bad  person  who  is  totally  cynical 
about  the  whole  system  and  is  going  to  exploit  it  to 
the  umpteenth  degree  who  is  an  "A"  student  in 
"Professional  Responsibility." 

I've  been  developing  a  new  kind  of  course  based 
on  a  series  of  problems  that  occur  frequently  in  law 
practice.  But  rather  than  using  the  American  Bar 
Association  model  rules,  the  materials  are  excerpts 
from  Plato  and  Aristotle  and  Thomas  Aquinas  and 
Kant  and  others,  the  leading  ethical  philosophers. 
There's  even  a  section  about  situations  where  you're 
going  to  have  to  break  a  disciplinary  rule  to  do  the 
right  thing.  One  of  the  materials  in  that  section  is 
Martin  Luther  King's  "Letter  From  Birmingham 
Jail,"  in  which  he  explains  why  he  is  violating  the 
law  even  though  he  believes  strongly  in  the  rule  of 
law.  It  is  a  very  practical  course  because  it  provides 
a  framework  for  solving  moral  problems  on  your 
own.  I've  been  teaching  it  on  and  off  for  seven 
years,  and  of  all  the  courses  I  teach,  this  is  the  one 
that  former  students  now  in  practice  write  to  say 
was  their  most  useful  course,  because  when  the  real 
ethical  problems  come  up,  they're  never  resolvable 
by  looking  at  the  disciplinary  rules.  Indeed,  the 
disciplinary  rules  actually  can  get  in  the  way. 

This  is  something  that  we  are  pioneering  at  BC 
Law  School,  and  my  hope  is  that  once  I  have  a  book 
together  on  it,  it  will  catch  on  at  other  law  schools. 
We're  really  seeing  a  crisis  in  morale  amongyounger 
lawyers.  This  client-oriented  cynical  view  of  the 
law  is  not  a  satisfying  career;  it  ultimately  leaves 
people  empty.  It  may  leave  them  with  money.  It 
may  leave  them  with  security.  But  they  don't  like  it 
in  the  end.  They're  looking  for  something  more, 
and  I  think  it  is  really  a  question  of  recapturing  the 
heritage. 

You  spoke  to  several  groups  in  October — the  fed- 
eral judges,  the  Massachusetts  state  judges,  and 
members  of  the  North  Carolina  bar — and  most 
agree  that  there  are  real  problems  in  the  profes- 
sion. In  the  face  of  that,  how  can  the  ABA  decide  that 
what's  needed  is  a  simple  image  makeover? 

That's  the  response  of  any  big  organization,  to 
think,  "Well,  we're  better  than  our  lousy  image." 


The  truth  is,  the  image  reflects  the  fact  that  the- 
profession  has  squandered  a  good  deal  of  its  self 
respect  over  the  last  20  years,  and  I  don't  have 
to  tell  you  how  the  media  has  picked  up  on  it. 
You  can  see  it  in  movies  like  The  Finn  and 
TV  shows  like  LA  Law. 

The  lawyers  this  has  hurt  the  most  are  those  for 
whom  professional  respect  is  everything,  and  it's 
among  them  that  I  think  we're  going  to  see  the  real 
impetus  for  change. 

It  is  widely  believed  that  most  lawyers  make  a  lot 
of  money  and  represent  the  economic  elites.  There 
are  1 7 1  accredited  law  schools  in  the  United  States, 
and  the  bulk  of  their  graduates  go  to  work  in  the 
trenches — as  defense  lawyers  in  criminal  cases,  as 
prosecutors,  in  legal  services,  in  government  bu- 
reaucracies, and  they  never  make  any  money.  The 
average  income  of  lawyers  is  not  that  much  higher 
than  school  teachers  across  the  country.  When  the 
profession  begins  to  lose  its  self-respect,  it  is  devas- 
tating to  these  lawyers.  It  makes  a  tremendous 
difference  to  them  that  they  are  professionals  and 
not  just  pursuing  a  business. 

When  the  big  ethical  disputes  come  before  the 
ABA,  it  is  not  the  partners  in  the  big  law  firms  who 
espouse  the  highest  principles,  but  the  small-law- 
yer groups,  because  to  them  being  a  lawyer  is  very 
important.  Heaven  knows  how  much  our  civil 
liberties  depend  on  prosecutors  taking  seriously 


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their  obligations  to  the  rule  of  law.  You  have  to 
believe  that  people  who  are  making  $2  5,000  a  year 
are  honest  and  dedicated,  and  if  you  and  I  were 
arrested  for  something,  that  they're  not  going  to 
seek  our  conviction  just  because  it  would  be  conve- 
nient to  their  records.  We  have  to  believe  that  these 
people  are  idealistic.  But  the  top  of  the  profession 
is  setting  a  terrible  example  for  the  rank  and  file. 

At  the  ABA  Ethics  Committee  conference  last 
year,  we  had  a  hypothetical  problem  in  which  a 
mix-up  occurs  involving  two  letters  from  an  attor- 
ney. One  is  a  confidential  letter  to  his  client  sug- 


gesting exactly  what  their  case  should  be  settled  for; 
the  other  is  a  demand  letter  to  a  lawyer  on  the  other 
side.  By  mistake,  the  demand  letter  is  sent  to  the 
client,  and  the  confidential  report  is  sent  to  the 
lawyer  on  the  other  side.  The  attorney  discovers 
what  has  happened,  so  he  picks  up  the  phone,  calls 
the  opposing  lawyer  and  says,  "You  know,  I've  sent 
you  an  envelope  and  in  that  envelope  is  a  confiden- 
tial report  that  is  supposed  to  go  to  my  client.  It  is 
something  that  is  protected  by  the  attorney-client 
contract.  It's  privileged  as  a  matter  of  trial  law.  I 
really  would  appreciate  very  much  if  you  would 


Field  reports 


Nine  working  lawyers 

on  what's  wrong  and 

what  needs  to  be  done 


WAYNE  A.  BUDD  '63 

Former  assistant  U.S.  attorney  general 

Partner,  Goodwin,  Procter  and  Hoar, 

Boston 

Lawyers  have  to  do  more  to  help  resolve 
lawsuits  in  a  manner  other  than  the  tradi- 
tional litigation  route.  It's  an  acrimonious 
process,  a  time-consuming  experience  that 
often  has  the  appearance  of  being  pursued 
more  for  the  benefit  of  lawyers  than  for 
clients. 

The  profession  should  look  more  to  Al- 
ternative Dispute  Resolution  (ADR)  meth- 
ods— mediation,  conciliation  and  arbitra- 
tion— to  setde  cases.  Law  schools  need  to 
pick  up  on  ADR  as  an  option  for  their  stu- 
dents. 

GAYNELLE  GRIFFIN  JONES  JD'72 
U.S.  Attorney  for  South  Texas 

The  legal  profession's  problems  mirror  the 
problems  we  have  in  society  as  a  whole: 
decaying  ethical  standards  among  people  in 
leadership  positions  that  filter  down  to  ev- 
eryone else,  and  a  culture  that  values  win- 
ning and  making  money  above  all. 

It  would  not  hurt  to  teach  ethics  in  the  law 
schools,  but  what  I  see,  historically,  is  that 
ethics  and  morals  are  taught  best  at  home 
and  in  churches,  and  we've  gotten  far  afield 
from  that.  It  might  not  be  enough  to  reform 
the  legal  culture;  we  may  have  to  reform  the 
culture  as  a  whole. 

MICHAEL  F.  KILKELLY  JD'83 

Private  practitioner,  Maiden,  Massachusetts 

I  deal  with  lawyers  in  small  practices,  and  one 
of  the  problems  I  see  is  that  these  lawyers  are 
just  not  good  business  persons — they  don't 
run  their  practices  efficiently,  they  don't 


know  how  to  deal  with  other  lawyers  or  their 
clients  in  a  professional  way.  A  lot  of  times,  it 
comes  down  to  plain  civility.  There  is  a  lack 
of  it.  Lawyers  must  realize  that  they  can  be 
adversaries  and  still  be  civil  about  it.  Indi- 
viduals in  this  profession  have  to  change. 

IRENE  NORTON  NEED  JD'85 

Former  public  defender 

Solo  practitioner,  Durham,  North  Carolina 

I  think  too  many  lawyers  have  lost  sight  of  the 
fact  that  they  are  officers  of  the  court.  We  have 
a  case  down  here  now  of  a  lawyer  who  billed  a 
client  more  hours  per  month  than  there  are  in  a 
month.  The  system  tends  to  reward  rude,  ag- 
gressive, dishonest  attorneys,  and  it  starts  with 
the  law  schools.  Even  at  Boston  College,  which 
I  feel  does  a  much  better  job  than  most  schools 
at  teaching  ethics  and  responsibility,  one  of  my 
professors  once  said  to  me,  "You're  an  idealist 
now,  but  you'll  find  out  after  a  year  of  practice 
that  we're  all  just  hired  guns." 

Some  rules  changes  could  make  things 
better.  For  example,  in  North  Carolina,  there 
are  a  number  of  rules  and  customs  that  ad- 
dress the  question  of  civility,  and  so  there  is 
a  higher  degree  of  public  civility  in  the  courts 
here  than  in  the  Northeast.  Lawyers  are 
required  to  sit  behind  a  large  desk  while 
doing  direct  or  cross-examination,  so  they 
can't  intimidate  a  witness  physically.  You 
don't  get  any  brownie  points  with  our  judges 
by  being  nasty  in  court  or  by  trying  to  twist 
facts.  There  are  only  a  few  of  what  we  call 
"barracudas"  in  this  county,  and  they  are  not 
well-respected  by  the  other  members  of  the 
bar. 

But  there  also  has  to  be  a  change  to  make 
the  process  of  litigation  less  expensive  and 
faster.  As  it  is,  expert  witnesses  are  literally 


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simply  send  the  envelope  back  unopened."  The 
other  lawyer  decides  that  he  had  better  ask  his 
client's  permission  before  sending  the  envelope 
back,  and  the  client  basically  says,  "No  way.  Open 
the  envelope  and  find  out  what  they  think  this  case 
is  worth."  What  does  the  lawyer  do? 

We  spent  two  days  arguing  about  it.  I  got  so  fed 
up  with  people  that  I  said,  "Suppose  you're  in  a 
conference  room,  and  the  lawyer  on  the  other  side 
has  to  go  to  the  ladies'  room  or  the  men's  room  and 
leaves  a  briefcase  open.  Do  you  go  around  and  peek 
at  the  briefcase?  Do  you  lift  up  a  file  in  the  briefcase 


to  see  what's  underneath?  Where  do  you  stop  once 
you  go  down  this  road?  If  rules  about  attorney- 
client  confidence  and  privileged  documents  aren't 
enforced  by  the  professionals  themselves,  but  left 
up  to  the  clients  and  the  clients'  desires,  where  does 
this  process  end?" 

The  net  result  was  a  narrow  vote  in  favor  of 
returning  the  envelope  unopened.  A  narrow  vote!  Ten 
years  ago  the  same  situation  actually  happened  to  me 
when  I  was  an  associate  in  a  law  firm,  but  we  were  the 
recipients  of  the  phone  call.  The  senior  partner  took 
exacdy  3  0  seconds  to  decide.  He  said,  "We  can  lose  any 


bought  and  sold — you  see  ads  for  them  in  our 
professional  magazines — and  the  very  wealthy 
can  tie  up  cases  endlessly.  The  rise  in  media- 
tion to  settle  disputes  is  an  encouraging  de- 
velopment, and  that's  the  direction  I'd  like  to 
see  us  move  in.  There  should  be  rules  man- 
dating that  mediation  is  the  first  recourse  in 
civil  cases,  and  setting  time  limits  on  trials  so 
that  lawyers  lay  out  the  real  elements  of  their 
cases  instead  of  the  smoke-screen  stuff. 

ALLISON  CARTWRIGHT  JD'92 
Public  defender,  Boston 

The  profession  has  become  almost  an  elite 
club.  We  need  to  make  ourselves  more  acces- 
sible to  the  people  who  don't  have  a  lot  of 
money.  I  don't  know  if  that  means  making 
pro  bono  work  mandatory  for  all  lawyers,  but 
we  have  to  address  a  system  where  only  a  very 
few  people  with  the  most  money  have  access 
to  the  best  legal  talent. 

From  a  personal  perspective,  I  haven't  felt 
the  lack  of  respect  that  society  at  large  gives 
lawyers  these  days.  As  a  black  woman,  in  the 
community  I  come  from,  lawyers  are  still 
looked  upon  with  a  lot  of  respect,  and  I  get  a 
sense  of  fulfillment  from  what  I  do.  In  this 
job,  you  give  it  your  best  because  you  believe 
in  something  higher.  It's  why  I  went  to  law 
school.  At  the  same  time,  I  wonder  how  long 
I  can  afford  that  idealism. 

MARIANNE  SHORT  JD'76 
Judge,  Minnesota  Court  of  Appeals 

The  practice  of  law  has  gone  from  a  profes- 
sion to  a  trade.  I  believe  it's  a  calling,  but  in 
a  move  to  be  more  efficient  and  businesslike, 
we've  lost  sight  of  that.  Lawyers  have  be- 
come just  watchdogs  or  fighters  for  their 
clients.  In  litigation  now,  the  emphasis  is  on 


lawyers  fighting  other  lawyers,  and  they're 
running  themselves  out  of  business  because, 
with  the  cost  of  discovery  and  the  other 
tactics  that  are  used,  clients  cannot  afford  to 
take  a  case  to  trial. 

The  burden  is  on  law  schools  to  do  a 
better  job,  but  it's  equally  on  all  of  us.  We 
have  to  take  time  to  mentor  each  other,  to 
change  the  tone  of  the  profession. 

RICHARD  M.  GELB  JD'73 
Partner,  Gelb  &  Gelb,  Boston 

I've  been  practicing  law  for  20  years,  and  the 
nature  of  the  practice  has  changed.  Now 
lawyers  are  more  adversarial  and  are  more 
controlled  by  their  clients  rather  than  by 
what  is  best  for  both  sides.  In  the  old  days 
there  was  more  courtesy. 

The  law  schools  need  to  do  a  better  job 
training  lawyers  so  that  they  do  what  is  right, 
and  not  just  what  clients  demand.  And  the 
legal  system  needs  to  do  better  at  educating 
the  public,  bringing  the  average  citizen  into 
the  equation. 

MICHAEL  E.  MONE  JD'67 

President,  Massachusetts  Bar  Association 

Partner,  Esdaile,  Barrett  &  Esdaile,  Boston 

As  a  profession,  we  have  not  had  good  rela- 
tionships with  clients.Theydon'tunderstand 
what  we  do.  We  don't  respond  to  their  ques- 
tions or  return  their  calls,  and  then  we  bill 
them  too  much.  In  fact,  surveys  show  that 
people  have  a  lower  opinion  of  their  own 
lawyers  than  of  lawyers  in  general,  which 
runs  contrary  to  most  professions. 

Law  schools  bear  responsibility  here. 
Young  lawyers  with  great  intellect  are  com- 
ing into  the  profession  without  knowing  how 
to  act  properly. 


There  is  a  lack  of  courtesy  in  practice,  and 
to  some  extent,  it's  a  problem  of  numbers. 
When  I  graduated,  there  were  8,000  lawyers 
in  Massachusetts;  now  there  are  35,000, 
40,000.  You  get  more  lawyers  dealing  with 
people  as  if  they're  never  going  to  see  them 
again,  on  another  case,  in  court.  The  lack  of 
face-to-face  communication  contributes  to 
rude  behavior:  it's  easier  to  be  discourteous 
in  a  fax. 

JOSEPH  TAFELSKI  JD'71 
Executive  director,  Advocates  for  Basic 
Legal  Equality,  an  agency  providing  free 
legal  services  in  Toledo,  Ohio 

What's  happening  in  the  legal  profession  is  a 
by-product  of  what's  happening  in  society  in 
general:  principles  and  values  have  been  thrust 
into  the  background.  I  think  most  lawyers 
are  trying  to  be  professional,  but  the  public 
perception  is  that  the  first  question  we  ask  is, 
"What's  in  it  for  me?"  and  that  our  attitude 
toward  clients  is,  "Anything  you  say." 

Lawyers  are  fueling  that  perception  in 
different  ways.  I'm  concerned  with  a  decline 
in  the  number  of  lawyers  going  into  public 
interest  work.  A  lot  of  people  are  being 
locked  out  of  the  justice  system,  and  if  people 
don't  feel  they  can  go  to  the  system  and  get 
a  fair  shake,  they  are  going  to  turn  elsewhere. 
All  of  this  has  created  a  gap  between  the 
principle  of  equal  justice  and  the  reality.  It 
prompts  the  question,  "What  are  lawyers 
really  doing  to  uphold  the  ideal  of  justice?" 

There  clearly  needs  to  be  a  re-examina- 
tion by  law  schools  of  their  mission.  Also,  the 
bar  associations  must  regulate  lawyers  more 
stringently.  There  are  clearly  some  people  in 
the  profession  who  have  no  business  being 
lawyers. 


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client  that  this  firm  has,  but  we  can't  lose  our  self- 
respect."  That's  the  spirit  that  has  been  lost,  and  it's  a 
very,  very  critical  loss.  And  all  the  media  consultants  in 
the  world  are  not  going  to  restore  the  profession  unless 
we  deal  with  that  problem. 

We've  all  seen  the  TV  ads  urging  people  to  think 
about  whatever  wrongs  they  might  have  suffered, 
then  dash  out  to  their  nearest  law  firm  and  sue 
somebody.  Isn't  that  contributing  to  the  cynicism 
with  which  citizens  view  lawyers  and  to  the  idea 
that  justice  is  a  mere  commodity? 

Yes,  but  I  see  this  as  a  symptom  and  not  a  cause. 
There  have  always  been  lawyers  who  wanted  to 
advertise  and  wanted  to  commercialize  the  profes- 
sion. There  have  always  been  ambulance  chasers. 
When  I  was  chairman  of  the  Massachusetts  Bar 
Ethics  Committee,  there  were  lawyers  engaged  in 
sophisticated  frauds,  who  were  known  for  using 
"floppers."  A  flopper  is  someone  a  lawyer  would 
hire,  an  actor,  who  would  go  to  a  big  store  like 
Lechmere  or  Jordan  Marsh,  and  look  for  an  unsafe 
condition,  for  example,  where  a  bottle  has  dropped 
on  the  floor  and  it  is  slippery,  or  where  there's  a 
loose  handrail.  When  nobody  is  looking,  but  where 
there  are  witnesses  close  enough  to  hear,  the  actor 
would  fall  down  and  yell  and  scream.  Before  the 
store  manager  gets  involved,  the  flopper  takes  the 
names  of  the  witnesses  and  leaves,  limping  or 


hobbled  or  whatever.  Six  months  later,  within  the 
statute  of  limitations,  the  lawyer  files  suit  on  behalf 
of  his  flopper. 

There  has  always  been  this  fringe.  The  real 
question  is,  how  isolated  is  this  fringe  from  the  rank 
and  file  of  the  profession?  What's  happened  is  that 
the  fundamental  behavior  of  the  rank  and  file  has 
become  more  like  this  fringe.  It  has  moved  away 
from  the  ideals  of  the  guild  and  the  justice  system. 

Getting  back  to  the  rules,  are  there  any  others  that 
are  ripe  for  reform? 

The  underlying  rules  of  professional  conduct  need 
to  be  constantly  revisited,  and  I  think  that  the  most 
important  one  is  the  obligation  to  reveal  attorney 
confidences  when  you  know  your  client  is  engaged 
in  a  serious  fraud  in  which  other  people  are  going 
to  be  injured  directly.  For  example,  I  make  automo- 
biles and  I  tell  you,  my  attorney,  that  with  the  gas 
tank  in  the  back  of  the  car,  we're  going  to  have  a 
predictable  number  of  deaths  that  occur  from  rear- 
end  collisions  rupturing  the  gas  tank.  Or  I  tell  you 
that  we  have  not  installed  an  adequate  fire  escape  in 
our  apartment  building.  Under  the  current  rules, 
these  are  confidences  that  can  be  kept.  The  only 
thing  you  can  do  in  Massachusetts  is  to  inform,  as 
a  matter  of  discretion,  when  your  client  is  about  to 
go  out  and  commit  a  crime,  a  future  crime.  Many  of 
these  things  that  I've  described  may  not  even  be 
crimes,  yet  be  seriously  harmful. 
This  has  made  the  legal  profes- 
sion the  repository  of  dirty  se- 
crets. It's  damaging  to  the 
profession.  It's  not  necessary  for 
the  protection  of  client  interests, 
and  it  is  part  of  what  robs  the 
T^j__  yjt-  profession  of  its  self-respect.  It 
\  /.  also  drives  decent  people  out  of 

the  profession.  I  think  those  rules 
have  to  be  changed.  At  the  mo- 
ment though,  I'd  say  that  the  votes 
are  not  there  in  the  ABA  House 
of  Delegates  to  get  them  changed. 

How  far  should  reform  go?  Say  a 
defense  lawyer  discovers  that  his 
client  in  a  criminal  case  is  guilty. 
Would  the  logic  of  legal  ethics 
dictate  that  he  or  she  should  then 
resign  the  case? 

To  send  someone  to  jail,  the  state 
has  got  to  prove  its  case.  So  the 


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defense  lawyer  is  not  saying,  "My  client  is  inno- 
cent." The  defense  lawyer  is  saying,  "You've  got  to 
prove  your  case." 

What  I  don't  like  is  that  you  increasingly  see 
defense  lawyers  going  in  front  of  reporters  and  TV 
cameras  to  declare,  "I  know  my  client  would  never 
do  a  thing  like  that!"  Defense  attorneys  are  not 
supposed  to  do  that,  not  even  if  they  think  their 
client  is  innocent.  It  brings  the  question  of  actual 
guilt  or  innocence  to  the  fore,  when  in  fact  the  role 
of  the  defense  lawyer  is  to  make  sure  that  the  state 
proves  its  case  and  the  jury  comes  in  with  a  verdict 
based  on  a  fair  and  adequate  presentation  by  the 
state. 

As  has  been  famously  said,  justice  delayed  is  justice 
denied.  Are  there  pending  reforms  that  would 
speed  cases  through  the  courts? 

The  U.S.  Judicial  Conference  has  been  trying  to 
reform  the  federal  rules  of  procedure  to  encourage 
quick  trials,  to  encourage  even  quicker  settlements, 
where  it  is  clear  that  one  party  is  in  the  wrong  and 
simply  should  pay,  and,  going  back  to  the  new  Rule 
26,  to  get  the  facts  of  the  case  out  on  the  table  early 
and  with  minimum  expense.  The  problem  with  this 
is  that  the  system  is  a  multi-billion  dollar  industry. 
The  litigators  who  charge  by  the  hour  all  have  a 
vested  interest  in  this  system.  It  is  necessary  to 
convince  the  lawyers  that  you  need  a  better  and 
more  efficient  civil  litigation  system,  so  again  we're 
back  to  the  old  question  of  the  culture.  They  can 
defeat  almost  any  rule  that  we  make  if  the  culture 
doesn't  come  to  the  realization  that  this  reputation 
for  constant  delay,  for  constant  obstruction,  is 
doing  the  legal  profession  no  good  at  all.  I'm 
convinced  that  there  are  enough  lawyers  and  judges 
of  good  will  that  we're  going  to  get  somewhere,  not 
just  with  the  rules  reform,  but  with  the  underlying 
culture  reform. 

Who  are  your  allies  in  this  effort,  and  what  are  the 
chances  in  the  next  few  years  of  accomplishing 
something  meaningful? 

First  of  all,  there  is  a  wide  group  of  members  of  the 
practicing  bar  who  are  coming  to  the  same  conclusions 
that  I  have  about  the  unsatisfactory  nature  of  law  as  a 
career.  They  know  that  we've  lost  sight  of  some  of  the 
things  that  made  law  important  to  us,  the  reasons  why 
we  went  to  law  school  and  became  lawyers.  Every  time 
I  speak  to  an  audience,  lawyers  come  up  afterwards  and 
say,  "I've  been  thinking  this  for  months,"  or  "I've  been 
thinking  this  for  years." 


I  he  truth  is,  the  image  reflects  the  fact  that  the 
profession  has  squandered  a  good  deal  of  its  self- 
respect  over  the  last  20  years,  and  the  media  has 
picked  up  on  it.  You  can  see  it  in  movies  like 
"The  Firm"  and  TV  shows  like  "LA  Law. " 


The  second  group  is  the  judges,  who  see  this 
firsthand.  They're  deeply  concerned  that  our 
justice  system  is  being  derailed  by  this  out-of- 
control  emphasis  on  the  gamesmanship,  lack  of 
attention  to  the  fundamental  purpose  of  the  law 
and  a  lack  of  courtesy  that  gets  in  the  way  of  doing 
things  with  civility  and  respect  for  the  institution 
of  the  law. 

The  third  group  in  this  alliance  is  the  American 
public.  Many  Americans  don't  feel  that  they  can 
get  timely  or  just  results  in  legal  cases.  Most 
Americans  hope  they  don't  have  anything  to  do 
with  the  legal  system  or  with  lawyers.  The  public 
is  pressing  for  real  change,  not  an  image  improve- 
ment. In  the  end,  we  have  to  care  because  it's 
the  legal  profession  that's  got  to  get  the  job 
done.  If  the  profession  doesn't  respond,  Con- 
gress will.  In  fact,  with  the  Civil  Justice  Reform 
Act  of  1990,  we're  beginning  to  see  Congress 
saying, "Ifyoudon'tcleanupyouract, we'll  clean 
it  up  for  you."  We  only  have  so  much  time  to  get 
it  done  ourselves. 

Daniel  R.  Coquillette  taught  law  at  Harvard,  Cornell  and 
Boston  University  and  was  a  partner  in  the  Boston  law  firm 
Palmer  &  Dodge  before  coming  to  Boston  College  in  1985  as 
a  professor  and  dean  of  the  Law  School.  He  resigned  the 
deanship  in  1 993  to  devote  his  time  to  teaching,  writing  a 
textbook  for  the  legal  ethics  seminar  he  developed  and  pursu- 
ing his  goal  of  reforming  the  legal  profession.  Coquillette 
serves  as  reporter  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  of  Practice  and 
Procedure  of  the  Judicial  Conference  of  the  United  States,  as 
advisor  to  the  American  Law  Institute  for  Restatement  of  the 
Law  Governing  Lawyers  and,  until  recently,  was  a  member 
of  the  American  Bar  Association's  Standing  Committee  on 
Ethics  and  Professional  Responsibility. 


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Editorial  and  other  advice  for  those  who  will  prepare  the  Winter  2044  "BCM' 
story  commemorating  the  50th  anniversary  of  the  Notre  Dame  Game 


MEMORANDUM 

TO:  Editor,  BCM,  2043 

FROM:  Ben  Bimbaum,  Editor,  1994 

RE:  Notes  Toward  the  Notre  Dame  Game  SOth 

1 .  Set  the  context. 

Here  are  some  guideposts.  As  of  kick-off  time  on 
Saturday,  November  20,  1993,  there  were  3,638 
colleges  and  universities  in  the  United  States,  of 
which  235  could  lay  claim  to  a  Roman  Catholic 
heritage,  of  which  three  were  generally  thought  of 
as  national  universities,  of  which  two  played  Divi- 
sion IA  football. 

Of  these  two,  one — hereafter  called  ND — was 
hands-down  the  best  Catholic  university  in  Indi- 
ana, enjoyed  a  full-time  arrangement  with  NBC 
(look  it  up)  for  game  broadcasts,  and  had  long  taken 
care  to  play  the  toughest  football  slate  available  that 
did  not  include  another  Catholic  college. 

The  other — hereafter  BC — had  spent  the  previ- 
ous 30  years  transforming  itself  from  a  Mom-and- 
Pop  store  into  a  headline  academic  performer. 


Reputation-wise,  it  was  still  suffering  from  a  bit  of 
jet  lag.  You  will  find  this  hard  to  believe,  I  know, 
but  on  a  national  television  broadcast  on  January  6, 
1994,  a  BC  author  of  a  significant  book  was  iden- 
tified in  a  "super"  as  a  "Boston  University  Librar- 
ian." Also  useful  to  know:  (1)BC  had  recently  lured 
three  heavyweight  theologians  from  ND  to  its  own 
faculty;  (2)  in  the  previous  year's  football  meeting, 
ND  had,  within  sight  of  Touchdown  Jesus,  run  up 
the  score;  (3 )  ND  was  ranked  #  1  at  kick-off — which 
was  not  unusual.  BC  was  not — also  not  unusual. 

2.  Gather  spectator  stories. 

A  warning:  by  2043,  the  5,000  or  so  who  wore 
maroon  and  gold  that  day  in  South  Bend  will  have 
become  30,000  individuals  who  sat  alongside  Fr. 
Monan  when  he  came  down  from  the  president's 
box  into  the  stands  behind  the  north  end  zone  for 
the  final  quarter.  Ask  to  see  game  tickets  and  birth 
certificates.  Also,  see  if  you  can  find  the  BC  stu- 
dents who  celebrated  by  smashing  the  coach's  car 
while  it  sat  parked  in  a  Chestnut  Hill  lot.  Find  out 
if  they're  ashamed.  Tell  them  you're  going  to  print 
their  names.  (I'd  like  to.)  On  a  personal  note,  I'd 
appreciate  your  looking  up  the  11 -year-old  girl 
who,  being  presented  with  a  victory  cap  inscribed 
"BC-41,  ND-39,"  exclaimed,  "Wow,  BC  beat 
North  Dakota!"  This  is  my  daughter  Sara.  Check 
the  alumni  directory. 

3.  Get  to  the  players. 

Gather  as  many  as  can  still  gather,  and  take  them  to 
some  private  place.  Have  chairs  available  for  those 
who  must  sit.  Hand  out  the  footballs.  Instruct  the 
photographer  to  do  nothing  that  would  obscure 
the  bellies,  the  sloped  shoulders,  the  eyes  that  have 
looked  upon  50  years  of  adult  life — that  have  read 
the  auditor's  statement  and  the  cardiologist's  re- 
port. Under  no  circumstances  ask  whether  any  day 
since  was  the  equal  of  that  one  in  South  Bend.  It's 


48  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


a  foolish  question  (though  perhaps  not  for  the 
reason  you  think),  as  the  players  will  know  well  by 
this  time,  even  if  you  don't,  yet.  Also,  do  not  ask 
whether  they  think  they  will  ever  gather  this  way 
again.  Believe  me,  they've  considered  this.  Listen 
to  what  they  say.  Take  notes.  Don't  print  a  word. 
Throw  out  everything  else  you  and  your  reporters 
have  gathered.  Don't  use  the  pre- Agincourt  speech 
in  Hem-y  V.  Just  run  the  photo,  and  big. 
Best  of  luck.  Take  your  feet  off  my  desk. 

P.S.  A  sidebar  possibility:  check  the  game  film  for 
theological  pronouncements  by  the  announcers.  It 
was  my  impression  that  in  the  number  of  visions 
they  received  that  autumn  day  alone  they  outdis- 
tanced Joan  of  Arc  and  half  the  Hebrew  prophets. 
Generally  speaking,  what  was  revealed  to  them  was 
that  despite  some  wavering  here  and  there,  He 
guided  BC's  hand  through  most  of  three  quarters, 
switched  allegiances  in  the  fourth,  and  only  at  the 
last  possible  moment  got  His  pillar  of  fire  back  into 
blocking  formation  ahead  of  the  Eagle  offense.  You 
may  want  to  consult  with  a  real  and  subtle  theolo- 
gian of  your  time  as  to  the  possibility  that  He  bet 
the  over-under  and  really  didn't  care  who  won  so 
long  as  the  points  came  out  right.  • 


By  2043,  the  5,000  who  wore  maroon 
and  gold  on  that  day  in  South  Bend  will 
have  become  30,000  individuals  who 
sat  alongside  Fr.  Monan  when  he  came 
down  from  the  president's  box  into 
the  stands  behind  the  north  end  zone 
for  the  final  quarter. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  49 


Unhealthy  choice 

The  harsh  competition  of  managed 

care  has  some  unpleasant 

side  effects 

Health-care  gurus  in  Washington, 
D.C.,  should  think  twice  before 
rushing  to  embrace  the  unbridled  com- 
petition of  a  managed-care  system,  cau- 
tions Judith  Shindul-Rothschild. 

An  assistant  professor  in  the  School 
of  Nursing,  Shindul-Rothschild  has  been 
analyzing  the  impact  of  managed  care 


RESEARCH 

on  Massachusetts  nurses  since  the  1 980s, 
and  finds  competition  has  been  exacting 
a  price — in  the  quality  of  patient  care,  in 
nursing  jobs  and  salaries  and  in  the  abil- 
ity of  hospitals  to  plan.  One  of  her  stud- 
ies has  been  published  in  the  journal 
Nursing  Management  and  another  is 
awaiting  publication  in  the  International 
Journal  of  Health  Services. 

Managed  care — in  which  insurance 
and  other  private  companies  contract 
with  groups  of  doctors  or  hospitals  to 
provide  health  care  to  subscribers — be- 


came more  commonplace  in  Massachu- 
setts as  the  1980s  progressed.  "Massa- 
chusetts serves  as  a  microcosm  for  the 
national  health-care  system,  and  from 
that  standpoint,  there  are  concerns  which 
really  need  to  be  addressed"  in  new 
legislation,  says  Shindul-Rothschild. 

Managed  care  is  not  an  inherently 
bad  model,  she  says,  but  in  the  past  few 
years  the  state  has  granted  insurers  the 
authority  to  negotiate  unlimited  dis- 
counts with  providers.  "It's  created  a 
very  cutthroat  competitive  environment. 


In  limbo 


Underground  life  levies  a  delayed 
psychological  toll  on  illegal  immigrants 

Illegal  immigrants  in  the  U.S.,  particularly  fami- 
lies, may  hit  a  psychological  wall  after  two  years 
that  leaves  them  unable  to  cope  with  the  uncertain- 
ties and  hazards  of  their  underground  status. 

In  an  article  published  recently  in  Issues  in  Mental 
Health  Nursing,  Assistant  Professor  of  Nursing  Karen 
Aroian  reported  that  even  those  with  a  strong  sup- 
port network  find  the  strain  of  living  and  working  in 
a  twilight  world  unbearable  after  about  two  years. 

Aroian  based  her  findings  on  interviews  with  1 7  Irish 
immigrants  living  in  Boston,  surmising  that  whatever 
problems  were  manifested  among  Boston's  Irish  immi- 


grants would  probably  be  magnified  in  groups  facing 
greater  cultural  barriers. 

Aroian's  research  revealed  a  world  in  which  even 
highly  educated  professionals  worked  at  relatively 
menial  jobs,  since  their  illegal  status  prevented  them 
from  obtaining  professional  licenses.  It  was  not  un- 
usual for  nurses  to  work  in  home  care,  and  for 
accountants  and  lawyers  to  work  as  housekeepers. 
Despite  this,  most  of  the  illegal  immigrants  Aroian 
interviewed  were  happy  to  be  working  at  all. 

But  they  were  also  well  aware  of  the  fragility  of 
their  employment,  Aroian  said.  A  pervasive  sense  of 
vulnerability  and  fear  of  being  apprehended  and 
deported,  she  discovered,  was  among  the  most  diffi- 
cult aspects  of  illegal  status,  and  was  particularly 
troublesome  for  families  with  young  children.  "The 
illegal  experience  may  suit  a  young,  adventuresome 
individual  who  is  willing  to  work  for  quick  money  in 
a  job  that  offers  no  security  or  future  advancement," 
she  wrote.  "However,  illegal  status  may  become 
problematic  for  the  same  individual  just  a  few  months 
later  when  a  worsening  economy  or  personal  illness 
threatens  his  or  her  job." 

Irish  immigrants  in  Boston  can  find  networks  that 
provide  job  leads,  connections  and  friendship,  as 
well  as  underground  services  such  as  check  cashing. 
But  Aroian  noted  that  dependence  on  these  net- 
works can  also  increase  vulnerability  to  betrayal. 


50  BOSTON  COLLEC, I  MAGAZINE 


The  managed- 
care  groups 
shop  around  for 
the  cheapest 
deal  from  year 
to  year,  and  this 
can  create  tur- 
moil for  health 
professionals 
and  patients." 
Several  dis- 
turbing trends  in  nursing  have  emerged 
under  managed  competition:  registered 
nurses  are  being  laid  off  or  replaced  by 
lower-paid  unlicensed  personnel,  such 
as  medical  trainees;  job  losses  are  larger 
and  more  unpredictable  because  hospi- 
tals don't  know  from  one  quarter  to  the 
next  if  they  will  keep  their  managed- 
care  contracts;  and  nurse-managers  are 
being  saddled  with  more  administrative 
responsibilities  in  the  area  of  drafting, 
negotiating  and  rewriting  contracts. 
With  this,  there  has  been  a  dramatic  rise 
in  rationing  of  hospital  services  for  pa- 
tients in  managed-care  groups,  Shindul- 
Rothschild  says,  and  an  increase  in  re- 
hospitalization  rates  and  patient  com- 
plaints. 

One  solution  Shindul-Rothschild  ad- 
vocates is  for  the  state  to  mandate  longer- 
term  contracts  between  insurers  and  pro- 
viders— at  least  three  years.  This  would 
free  institutions  and  their  staffs  from  the 
uncertainty  and  paperwork  associated 
with  year-to-year  negotiations,  she  said. 
"It  would  slow  down  the  cost  savings 
managed  competition  is  supposed  to 
bring,  but  from  my  perspective  as  a 
nurse,  it's  worth  it  to  have  that  continu- 
ity for  the  patient." 

Question  authority 

More  adult  direction  isn't  always 

better  for  developmentally 

disabled  children 

A  recent  School  of  Education  study 
suggests  that,  contrary  to  conven- 
tional wisdom,  children  with  developmen- 
tal handicaps  benefit  in  some  ways  from  a 
lesser  adult  presence  in  the  classroom. 
Professor  of  Education   Martha 


Bronson,  Assistant  Professor  of  Educa- 
tion Penny  Hauser-Cram  and  researcher 
Carole  Upshur  studied  153  children  with 
disabilities  in  1 48  preschool  classrooms, 
looking  at  how  they  interacted  with  peers 
and  teachers,  how  they  approached 
learning  tasks  and  how  they  used  class- 
room time. 

Anong  the  most  significant  of  their 
findings,  said  Hauser-Cram,  was  that 
disabled  children  in  classrooms  with  high 
adult-child  ratios  (one  or  more  adult  for 
every  three  children)  had  less  social  in- 
teraction with  peers  and  engaged  in  less 
high-level  social  play,  although  children 
in  these  classrooms  did  complete  more 
tasks  successfully  and  displayed  less  hos- 
tility toward  their  classmates.  The  study 
is  scheduled  for  publication  in  Early 
Childhood  Research  Quarterly. 

Heal  thyself 

Psychotherapy  is  held  to  be 

of  professional  benefit 

for  social  workers 

In  separate  surveys  of  two  groups  in 
the  social  work  field — clinical  social 
workers  with  an  average  of  seven  years 
professional  experience,  and  graduate 
students — Professor  of  Social  Work  Ri- 
chard Mackey  has  found  strong  support 
for  the  idea  that  psychotherapy  can  be  a 
valuable  asset  for  professionals  in  the 
field.  More  than  half  of  the  practitioners 
participating  in  the  study  said  that  psy- 
chotherapy should  be  required  for  stu- 
dents pursuing  a  master's  degree  in  so- 
cial work. 

Mackey,  who  was  joined  in  the  stud- 
ies by  his  wife,  Eileen,  assistant  director 
for  Southwest  Boston  Senior  Services, 
and  BC  Associate  Professor  of  Educa- 
tion Bernard  O'Brien,  reported  the  find- 
ings recently  in  the  Clinical  Social  Work 
Journal. 

A  1 985  survey  showed  that  a  majority 
of  social  workers  in  the  United  States 
had  been  in  therapy  at  some  point  dur- 
ing their  careers,  but  the  role  of  personal 
psychotherapy  in  the  professional 
development  of  social  workers — or  any 
clinical    practitioners — has  been  little 


explored. 

In  Mackey's  survey,  both  students 
and  practitioners  reported  that  psycho- 
therapy had  enhanced  their  knowledge 
of  the  therapeutic  process  and  provided 
them  with  role  models — their  thera- 
pists. The  clinical  social  workers  said 
that  therapy  had  contributed  to  their 
ability  to  empathize  with  clients,  and 
respondents  in  both  groups  believed  that 
treatment  helped  them  deal  with  per- 
sonal issues  that  might  impede  their 
professional  development. 

Psychotherapy  also  helped  practitio- 
ners integrate  personal  dimensions  into 
their  role  as  professionals,  Mackey  said, 
and  helped  students  connect  theory  with 
skill.  Mackey  found  that  students  and 
clinical  practitioners  picked  up  verbal 
techniques  and  non-verbal  mannerisms 
from  their  therapists. 

He  noted  that  none  of  those  surveyed 
had  sought  psychotherapy  "as  some  kind 
of  professional  development.  Their  rea- 
sons for  seeking  help  were  not  different 
than  most  other  people:  interpersonal 
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BOS  ION  COLLEGE  MAG AZINF  51 


ADVANCEMENT 


Seat  of  learning 

I960  alumnus  Rattigan  endows  chair  in  English 


Boston  College  has  estab- 
lished an  endowed  profes- 
sorship in  English  through  a 
major  gift  from  Thomas  J.. 
Rattigan  '60.  The  chair  will  be 
named  in  memory  of  his  father, 
Thomas  F.  Rattigan. 

"I  feel  very  strongly  about 
the  time  I've  spent  at  Boston 
College,  both  as  a  student  and  an 
alumnus,"  said  Rattigan,  who 
earned  a  degree  from  the  then- 
College  of  Business  Administra- 
tion. "I've  been  fortunate  enough 
to  return  to  the  campus  several 
times,  and  I  feel  [University 
President  J.  Donald  Monan,  SJ] 
has  done  a  fabulous  job  in  the 
more  than  20  years  he  has  been 
there.  I  just  reached  the  point  in 
my  life  where  I  felt  it  was  time  to 
honor  some  debts,  and  I  wanted 
to  repay  Boston  College  for  what 
it  contributed  to  my  life." 

Rattigan,  a  Boston  native,  is 
former  chairman  and  chief  ex- 


ecutive officer  of  the  Chicago- 
based  G.  Heileman  Brewing  Co., 
the  nation's  fifth  largest  brewing 
company.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
National  Development  Board 
and  the  Wall  Street  Council,  and 
has  been  a  major  contributor  to 
University  fund-raising  efforts. 

"The  marvelous  generosity 
of  Thomas  Rattigan  underscores 
the  traditional  strength  of  Bos- 
ton College  in  the  liberal  arts," 
said  Academic  Vice  President 
William  B.  Neenan,  SJ. 
"Through  his  generosity,  the 
College  of  Arts  and  Sciences  will 
be  able  to  honor  in  a  distinctive 
way  a  distinguished  member  of 
the  English  Department." 

University  administrators 
expect  the  position,  formally 
titled  the  Thomas  F.  Rattigan 
Professorship  of  English,  to  be 
filled  in  time  for  the  1994-95 
academic  year.  Fr.  Neenan  said 
he  will  meet  with  Dean  of  the 


College  of  Arts  and  Sciences  J. 
Robert  Barth,  SJ,  and  English 
Department  chair  Professor 
Judith  Wilt  to  consider  internal 
candidates  for  the  professorship. 
Also  under  discussion,  Fr. 
Neenan  said,  is  how  the  Rattigan 
Professor  will  carry  out  the  re- 
sponsibilities of  the  position. 

"I  am  delighted  with  the  es- 
tablishment of  this  professor- 
ship," Fr.  Barth  said.  "It 
recognizes  BC's  commitment  to 
excellence  in  the  humanities  and 
the  caliber  of  our  English  De- 
partment. We  also  see  it  as  fur- 
ther strengthening  our  programs 
in  the  arts  and  humanities." 

Rattigan  said  he  wanted  to 
honor  his  father,  whom  he  cred- 
ited as  a  major  reason  for  his 
success,  and  therefore  chose  to 
make  the  gift  in  his  father's  name. 

"My  father  had  a  wonderful 
way  with  words,"  said  Rattigan, 
explaining  why  he  had  desig- 


nated the  professorship  for  the 
English  Department.  "As  I 
thought  about  it  more,  I  tried  to 
relate  as  much  as  possible  the 
gift  he  had  to  what  Boston  Col- 
lege represented  for  me,  and  it 
struck  me  that  the  way  to  do  this 
was  to  do  something  in  the  area 
of  the  humanities.  But  I  hope 
this  will  benefit  the  school  in  its 
entirety." 

Rattigan,  after  receiving  his 
master's  in  business  administra- 
tion from  Harvard  University  in 
1962,  found  a  position  with  the 
Post  division  of  General  Foods. 
In  1970  he  joined  PepsiCo  as 
executive  vice  president  and 
served  in  company  offices  in 
Hong  Kong,  Tokyo  and  Mexico 
before  returning  in  1977  to  as- 
sume more  senior  positions.  He 
joined  Commodore  Interna- 
tional in  1985,  becoming  presi- 
dent and  CEO  in  1987,  then 
went  on  to  Heileman  in  1991. 


EYEING  THE  FUTURE 

University  trustees  (from  left)  Richard  T. 
Horan  '53,  and  Peter  S.  Lynch  '65,  and 
30th  reunion  class  co-chair  Charles  I.  Clough 
'64,  discuss  projects  outlined  in  a  model  of 
the  BC  campus  at  the  Oct.  22  meeting  of  the 
National  Development  Board.  The  NDB, 
convened  in  1 993  by  University  President 
J.  Donald  Monan,  SJ,  to  provide  overall 
direction  to  University  fund-raising  efforts, 
met  for  two  days  with  a  series  of  panel 
discussions  on  fund-raising  issues,  projects 
such  as  the  Fulton  Hall  renovation, and 
undergraduate  and  international  education 
at  Boston  College. 


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52  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


MATCHMAK 


GTE  executive  Francis  A.  Gorman, 
Jr.  '66,  presents  Vice  President  for 
University  Relations  Mary  Lou 
DeLong  with  a  1993  third-quarter 
matching  contribution  of  $17,325 
from  the  GTE  Foundation.  GTE 
matches  employee  donations  to  Bos- 
ton College  under  its  iVIatching  Con- 
tributions to  Education  program. 


Bricks  and  books 

BC  Law  School  makes  its  case  for  a  new  library 


The  Law  School  has  under- 
taken a  $5-million  fund-rais- 
ing effort  to  help  fund  a  new 
campus  complex,  beginning  with  a 
library  that  will  give  BC  law  stu- 
dents and  faculty  a  state-of-the-art 
research  and  reference  facility. 

"The  library  is  the  intellec- 
tual center  of  any  educational 
environment,"  said  Associate 
Dean  for  Administration  Brian 
Lutch,  "so  this  project  is  a  very 
meaningful  representation  of 
BC's  commitment  to  its  Law 
School  as  well  as  the  school's 
commitment  to  its  people." 

JohnJ.Curtin,Jr.'54,JD'57, 
chairman  of  the  Law  School's 


Capital  Gifts  Committee,  said, 
"The  library  will  put  Boston 
College  at  the  forefront  of  all 
law  schools  in  the  country;  it  is 
one  of  the  most  important  things 
the  University  can  do  in  terms  of 
a  capital  investment." 

Lutch  and  Law  Library  di- 
rector Sharon  Hamby  O'Con- 
nor have  visited  new  law  school 
facilities  throughout  the  coun- 
try to  draw  from  the  best  of  what 
others  have  done. 

O'Connor  said  the  new  facil- 
ity will  feature  a  rare  book  area, 
classrooms  for  instruction  in 
LEXIS  and  WESTLAW,  the 
two  major  electronic  legal  data- 


bases, a  student  computer  lab  for 
word  processing,  and  a  number 
of  group-study  rooms  for  oral 
advocacy  practice,  moot  court 
competitions  and  other  projects 
on  which  students  benefit  from 
working  together. 

Other  amenities  will  include 
increased  seating;  a  faculty  re- 
search section;  computer  work 
stations  located  throughout  the 
library;  a  microfilm  room;  new 
staff  offices;  and  ample  room  for 
growth  in  the  collection. 

The  libra rv,  which  is  expected 
to  open  in  January  1996,  is  the 
first  phase  of  a  10-year  Law 
School  construction  program. 


Getting  the  message 

Class  of  84  answers  10th  reunion  call 


As  10th  reunion  class  co- 
chair,  Kara  Cleary  is  not 
just  trying  to  raise  money;  she's 
trying  to  raise  the  consciousness 
of  her  classmates. 

"One  thing  I  want  to  achieve 
personally  through  this  effort  is 
to  reconnect  young  alumni  to 
Boston  College  in  a  positive  way," 
said  Cleary  '84,  MEd'91."The 
campus  looks  very  different  from 
the  way  it  looked  when  I  gradu- 
ated. BC  has  built  the  O'Neill 
Library,    Conte    Forum,    the 


Merkert  Chemistry  Center  and 
numerous  dormitories,  and  cre- 
ated a  beautiful  Museum  of  Art  in 
Devlin  Hall." 

Cleary  and  co-chair  Robert 
Miley  '84,  have  been  very  effec- 
tive at  getting  that  word  out,  said 
BC  Fund  assistant  directorjames 
Flanagan.  "They've  been  pio- 
neers in  terms  of  recruiting  Fides 
members,  and  they've  already 
more  than  doubled  the  total 
amount  raised  last  year,"  he  ob- 
served. Nearby  $90,000  has  been 


raised  towards  the  class  goal  of 
$1 15,000,  according  to  Flanagan, 
including  eight  commitments  at 
the  Fides  level,  which  includes 
gifts  of  between  $1,000  and 
$4,999. 

"People  are  really  into  giving 
to  the  University,  which  makes 
our  job  easy,"  said  Cleary.  "  It's 
very  exciting  for  alumni  to  re- 
turn to  campus  and  see  that  their 
donation  is  a  tangible  investment 
in  the  future  of  the  University." 


HIGH  HONOR 

Daniel  P.  Tully,  chairman  and 
chief  executive  officer  of  Merrill 
Lynch  &  Co.,  Inc.,  will  receive 
the  President's  Ignatius  Medal 
at  the  sixth  annual  Boston 
College  Tribute  Dinner  in  New 
York  City  on  April  21. 

The  black-tie  gala,  which 
will  be  held  in  the  Grand  Ball- 
room of  the  Waldorf-Astoria 
Hotel,  is  expected  to  draw 
more  than  1,000  alumni,  par- 
ents and  friends  to  raise  money 
for  the  Presidential  Scholars 
Program. 

Tully,  a  graduate  of  St. 
John's  University  and  the 
Harvard  Business  School's  Ad- 
vanced Management  Program, 
is  strongly  committed  to  com- 
munity service.  Under  his  lead- 
ership, Merrill  Lynch  sponsors 
the  arts,  health  care,  education, 
and  other  services,  including  a 
program  that  will  provide  four- 
year  post-secondary  scholar- 
ships to  250  inner  city  students. 
Tully  has  worked  on  behalf  of 
the  National  Center  for  Disabil- 
ity Services,  which  develops 
educational  programs  for  chil- 
dren with  special  needs,  as 
well  as  for  the  Cardinal's  Com- 
mittee of  the  Laity  and  the 
Boys'  Club  of  New  York. 

For  more  information  on  the 
dinner,  please  contact  the 
Boston  College  New  York  office 
by  calling  (212)  753-8442. 

IN  TRIBUTE 

The  following  are  among 
named  endowed  funds  recently 
established  at  Boston  College. 
New  funds  may  be  established, 
and  contributions  to  existing 
funds  made,  through  the  Office 
of  Development,  More  Hall. 

STUDENT  SCHOLARSHIPS 
Mary  C.  &  Stuart  S.  Finch 
Scholarship  Fund 

David  M.  McAuliffe 
Scholarship  Fund 

John  Powers  Scholarship 

FACULTY 

Thomas  F.  Rattigan 

Professorship  of  English 

LIBRARY  FUND 

Eileen  F.  and  John  A.  Carr 

Irish  Book  Fund 


BOSTON  C:OLLEGE  MAGAZINE  53 


WINTER 


STREET  SMARTS 

Stymied  in  his  job  search,  Brian 
Mahoney  '92,  hit  Boston's  streets 
armed  with  a  sign,  resumes  and  Kit 
Kats.  "I  pretty  much  stood  out  there 
and  said,  'Hey,  how  about  a  Kit  Kat 
and  a  resume?'"  Mahoney  said.  In  his 
two-and-a-half-day  stint  in  Boston's 
financial  district,  Mahoney  handed 
out  more  than  100  resumes.  Seven 
interviews  later,  he  had  a  marketing 
job  with  Standard  Solution,  a  soft- 
ware company  in  Medford,  Massa- 
chusetts. "The  guy  from  Standard 
Solution  pulled  up  in  a  blue  truck, 
and  I  threw  him  my  resume  and  of- 
fered him  a  Kit  Kat.  He  said,  'Keep 
the  Kit  Kat,  you  need  it  more  than  I 
do,'"  recalled  Mahoney,  who  had  been 
working  part-time  as  a  waiter,  re- 
porter and  in  PR.  "I  wanted  to  put  my 
efforts  into  one  position.  This  job  is 
exactly  what  I've  wanted  to  do  for  a 
long  time." 


S.h. 


BIOGRADABLE 

Enter  the  name  of  Jen- 
nifer Hayes  '92,  into  the 
annals  of  undergraduate 
biology  at  BC.  Now  a 
medical  student  at 
UMass,  Hayes  just  be- 
came the  first  student  to 
see  her  undergraduate 
biology  research  pub- 
lished in  two  juried  re- 
search journals.  Based 
on  her  work  as  a 
Scholar  of  the  College 
under  Associate  Profes- 
sor Grant  Balkema,  the 
reports  were  published 
in  Behavior  Genetics  and 
Visual  Neuroscience,  and 
confirmed  a  positive 
correlation  between  the 
pigment  melanin  and 
light  sensitivity  in  mice. 
The  lab  experience,  in- 
cluding many  a  morning 
starting  at  6  a.m.,  was  a 
powerful  introduction  to 
a  career  in  science,  said 
Hayes,  who  is  now  mull- 
ing how  she  might  com- 
bine her  primary  interest 
in  clinical  practice  with 
laboratory  work. 


PARTY   HARDY 

Democrats  may  have  the  White  House,  but 
Republicans  are  staking  an  increasing  claim  to 
the  Heights.  College  Republicans  of  Boston 
College,  a  group  of  500  students,  has  received 
the  Ronald  Reagan  Leadership  Award  for  being 
the  "Most  Outstanding  College  Republican  Club 
in  Massachusetts,"  and  was  ranked  second  na- 
tionally by  the  College  Republican  National 
Committee.  "We  really  came  back  from  the  dead 
on  the  Massachusetts  scene,"  said  BC  Chairman 
Dom  Atteritano  '95.  One  of  the  club's  goals,  he 
said,  was  "to  break  down  stereotypes  about  young 
Republicans.  "We're  not  a  bunch  of  Alex 
Keatons,"  said  Atteritano,  adding  that  nearly 
half  the  members  of  the  BC  chapter  are  women. 


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I LLUSTR ATIONS  B Y  E VZEN  HOLAS 


BEGINNE 

Before  even  one  class  was 
held  this  spring,  "The 
Legislature  and  the  Leg- 
islator," a  seminar  taught 
by  a  neophyte  part-time 
faculty  member,  was  al- 
ready the  most  popular 
course  offered  in  Politi- 
cal Science.  Limited  to 
25  students,  the  class 
fdled  up  "faster  than  any 
course  we've  ever  of- 
fered," said  department 
Chairman  Dennis  Hale. 
"We  put  up  the  sign-up 
sheet  on  a  Monday  and  in 
two  davs  it  had  50  names 


R'S   LUCK 

on  it. "  The  secret  was  the 
faculty  member:  William 
Bulger  '58,  president  of 
the  Massachusetts  Sen- 
ate, and  as  non-neophyte 
a  politician  as  one  could 
hope  to  meet.  "I  was 
afraid  I'd  have  students 
knocking  on  my  door  in 
hopes  of  getting  over- 
rides, but  nobody  came 
to  beg,"  Hale  said.  "The 
students  knew  that  it  was 
not  just  our  wish,  but  also 
Bulger's,  to  keep  the  class 
small,  and  they  respected 
that  wish." 


54  BOSTON  COLLFCF  MU.AZINE 


HEARD   ON 

Investors  take  note.  Lisa 
Cammuso  '94,  a  Spanish 
major  who  confesses  to 
little  knowledge  of  the 
stock  market,  was  the 
hands-down  winner  in 
the  fall  1993  Stock  Con- 
test sponsored  by  The 
Heights,  BC's  student 
newspaper.  "I  just  fol- 
lowed a  few  random  com- 
panies for  two  weeks  be- 
fore the  contest  and 
picked  the  best  one,"  she 
said.  Her  choice,  West- 
wood  One,  a  communi- 
cations firm,  grew  an  im- 


THE   STREET 

pressive  48  percent  over 
the  contest  period.  The 
last  place  finisher,  on  the 
other  hand — history  ma- 
jor Jay  Behringer  '94 — 
chose  his  stock  on  the 
considered  advice  of  a 
roommate's  stockbroker 
father.  Behringer's 
choice,  US  Surgical,  lost 
63.83  percent  of  its  value. 
"I  got  a  bum  deal,"  said 
Behringer,  who  takes  slim 
solace  in  the  knowledge 
that  the  broker's  son,  a 
finance  major,  also  picked 
a  loser. 


CARD  CARRYING 

John  Patrick  White  '63, 
a  local  writer  and 
teacher,  became  the  first 
alumnus  to  check  out  a 
book  (Richard  Ellmann's 
James  Joyce)  with  the 
new  library  privileges 
now  available  to  alumni 
through  the  Alumni  As- 
sociation. A  Brighton 
resident,  White  found 
out  about  his  new  status 
while  visiting  the  library 
last  semester.  "I  just 
went  to  O'Neill  to 
browse,  and  someone 
on  the  staff  told  me  I 
could  get  a  library  card 
and  take  out  books  for 
free.  It  was  a  great  sur- 
prise." So  far,  more  than 
5,000  alumni  have  re- 
sponded to  the  offer. 
Once  they  receive  a 
card,  graduates  can  con- 
duct modem-linked 
searches  of  library  data- 
bases or  drop  by  to  pick 
out  a  book,  as  in  under- 
graduate days. 


aMBBtf 


DUOS — Coaches  in  the  Boston  College  Athletics  Department  are  seeing  double 
this  year,  and  so  is  the  opposition,  with  six  sets  of  twins  involved  in  various 
varsity  sports,  including  (from  back  left  to  front  right)  Tarez  and  Torrance 
McNeil  '96,  in  baseball;  Matt  and  Mike  Dullea  '95,  and  Luke  and  Sarkis 
Renjilian-Burgy  '97,  in  wrestling;  Mark  and  Sean  McGehearty  '97,  in  track  and 
field;  Jennifer  and  Heather  Spellman  '96,  in  softball;  and  Allison  and  Jessica 
David  '96,  in  soccer. 


DEAR  MR.   CLEARY 

More  than  300  local  school  children  at- 
tended October's  Pops  on  the  Heights  ben- 
efit concert  in  Conte  Forum  as  guests  of  the 
University,  and  a  fair  number  of  them  have 
since  dispatched  thank-you  notes  and  re- 
views to  trustee  James  F.  Cleary  '50,  the 
guiding  force  behind  the  event.  As  one 
teacher  noted  in  her  letter,  for  many  inner 
city  students  "it  was  the  first  time  ever  to  be 
present  at  a  live  concert  of  this  nature  and  to 
witness  the  sophistication  of  the  adult  crowd." 
The  kids  had  their  own  views,  of  course:  "I 
loved  when  the  balloons  fell  on  the  people's 
heads,"  opined  Kimberly  H.  "I  liked  the 
cheesecake  the  most,"  said  Juanita  A.,  while 
Jessica  R.  enjoyed  "the  funnest  night  of  my 
life."  '[Soloist  Robert]  Honeysucker  was 
great.  You  tell  him  that,"  Sandra  G.  advised 
Cleary,  while  Nicayra  T.  confessed,  "When 
I  first  heard  about  going  there,  I  thought  it 
would  be  boring,  but  I  was  surprised."  Andy 
D.  took  a  more  formal  approach,  simply 
informing  Cleary,  "You  have  a  good  school." 
In  response  to  the  terse  plea  voiced  by  Pierce 
D.,  "Please  inform  of  further  events,"  Jour- 
/7tf/hereby  announces  that  the  second  annual 
Pops  on  the  Heights  concert  will  take  place 
on  September  16,  1994.  Start  your  cheese- 
cakes, please. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  55 


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CABLE   CONNECTION 

Education  Professor  George  Ladd  is  devel- 
oping a  cable  TV  program  that  promotes 
science  activities  in  the  home.  Funded  by  a 
grant  from  the  D  wight  D.Eisenhower  Math- 
ematics and  Science  Education  Program, 
Ladd  is  producing  four  videos  for  the  Massa- 
chusetts towns  of  Norwood  and  Westwood. 
The  videos  will  show  parents  and  children 
doing  science  experiments  that  can  be  repro- 
duced in  most  kitchens.  Local  teachers  and 
BC  faculty  also  will  appear  on  the  programs. 
Ladd  said  that  studies  have  shown  a  signifi-. 
cant  correlation  between  parental  involve- 
ment in  curricular  projects  and  student 
success.  Parents  and  children  will  be  able  to 
call  in  their  questions  during  the  programs. 

O'BRIEN'S   BACK 


returned  to  the  school  as 
CSOM  associate  dean, 
where  she  will  oversee  the 
undergraduate  program. 
Among  her  immediate 
tasks,  O'Brien  said,  was 
an  examination  of  how 
CSOiVI  will  balance  new 
undergraduate  core  re- 
quirements for  all  stu- 
dents with  the  school's 
focus  on  professional 
business  and  manage- 
ment training.  "There 
are  definitely  some  chal- 
lenges    ahead,"     said 


Christine  O'Brien  75, 
JD'78,  and  a  former  in- 
structor and  visiting  pro- 
fessor in   CSOM,   has 


CENTENNIAL 

Sr.  Mary  Rosella  Cassidy 
MA'34,  the  oldest  living 
BC  graduate,  celebrated 
her  1 00th  birthday  on 
December  1 8  at  Mount 
Saint  Rita  Health  Centre 
in  Cumberland,  Rhode 
Island.  Four  generations 
of  her  family  were 
present  for  a  liturgy  and 
luncheon,  and  citations 
were  read  from  Presi- 
dent Clinton,  Rhode  Is- 
land Governor  Bruce 
Sundlun  and  University 
President  J.  Donald 
Monan,  SJ.  Sr.  Cassidy 
taught  CCD  classes  until 
she  was  90,  and  is  still 
quite  active,  according  to 
fellow  sisters  at  the 
health  center.  "I  feel  no 
different  inside,"  said 
the  newly  minted  cente- 
narian. "The  only  differ- 
ence is  that  others  can 
tell  that  I'm  older  on  the 
outside." 


O'Brien.  "We  are  look- 
ing at  the  implementa- 
tion of  the  new  core,  the 
start  of  the  school's 
requirement  in  ethics 
next  year,  as  well  as  the 
ongoing  review  of  the 
CSOM  undergraduate 
curriculum."  O'Brien 
replaced  James  Bow- 
ditch,  who  became  dean 
of  the  business  school  at 
St.  Joseph's  University  in 
Philadelphia. 


HOVEYDA  Wl 

Amir  Hoveyda,  the  as- 
sistant professor  of 
chemistry  who  recently 
received  an  NSF  Young 
Investigator  Award,  has 
again  been  selected  for  a 
rare  honor.  He  is  one  of 
two  individuals  to  receive 
a  $100,000  Pfizer  Award 
for  Research  in  Synthetic 
Organic  Chemistry, 
which  goes  to  the  finest 
young  organic  chemist  in 
the  nation.  Candidates 
are  nominated  by  senior 
chemists  throughout  the 


NS   (AGAIN) 

country,  and  previous 
winners  were  attached  to 
the  California  Institute  of 
Technology,  Harvard, 
MIT  and  the  Scripps  Re- 
search Institute.  Said 
Hoveyda:  "The  award 
shows  that  the  private  sec- 
tor can  be  as  impressive  a 
supporter  of  academic  re- 
search as  the  government. 
It  also  shows  that  the 
chemistry  research  being 
done  at  this  University  is 
attracting  a  lot  of  atten- 
tion." 


HIS   HONOR 

Faith,  Peace  and  Justice  Program  Director 
James  Rurak  has  left  Gasson  Hall  for  city 
hall.  Running  on  a  reform  platform,  Rurak 
defeated  a  two-term  incumbent  in  Novem- 
ber to  become  mayor  of  Haverhill,  Massa- 
chusetts, a  community  of  51,000  alongside 
the  Merrimack  River,  in  the  state's  north- 
east corner.  "I  do  have  some  regrets  about 
leaving,"  said  Rurak.  "It  was  just  time  for  me 
to  take  this  step."  Rurak  said  that  his  career 
at  BC  helped  him  refine  the  ideals  he  brings 
to  public  service.  "The  FPJ  Program  is  es- 
sentially a  study  of  the  relations  between 
values  and  social  policy,  so  one  aspect  of  that 
study  is  how  we  can  enhance  the  common 
good  through  the  power  of  an  electoral 
office,  such  as  mayor." 


56  BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE 


WORKS   AND   DAYS 


High  time 


AIR   RACER 

CONNIE   SPRAUER  JD'85 

When  attorney  Connie  Sprauer  has 
peered  through  one  law  text  too 
many,  when  stacks  of  paperwork  are 
threatening  to  obscure  her  28th-floor 
view  of  Boston  Harbor,  it  is  high  time 
for  a  trip  to  Hanscom  Field. 

The  private  airport  in  the  western 
suburbs  is  home  to  Sprauer's  escape 
vehicle:  a  four-seat,  green-on-white 
Aerospatiale  Tobago  that  eases  stress  at 
a  cruising  speed  of  140  miles  per  hour. 
Like  many  small-plane  pilots,  she 
loves  to  fly  out  for  meals — breakfast  in 
Sanford,  Maine;  dinner  in  Montpelier, 


Vermont.  Other  days,  it  is  enough  just 
being  alone  with  the  aircraft  and  the 
shifting  panorama  of  land,  sky  and  wa- 
ter. And  her  latest  relaxation  technique 
is  cross-country  racing.  Sprauer  and  her 
teammate  competed  last  June  in  the  all- 
female  Air  Race  Classic,  an  exhausting 
four-day,  2,532 -mile  jaunt  from  Corpus 
Christi,  Texas,  to  North  Kingstown, 
Rhode  Island.  They  ended  the  race  46th 
of  47  finishers,  but  intend  to  rev  up  at  the 
start  line  for  this  summer's  Classic  in  St. 
Louis.  "You  fly  such  different  terrain,  in 
changing  weather  conditions,"  she  ex- 
plains. "It  tests  your  decision  making  in 
real  ways." 

Intense  flying  is  only  part  of  the  at- 


"By  race's  end," 
Sprauer  recalls,  "we 
were  saying,  'Where 
else  can  people  spend 
two  weeks  together, 
talk  about  nothing 
but  flying  and  have 
no  one  get  bored?"' 


traction.  The  Classic  is  a  movable 

feast  of  shop  talk — "hangar  flying," 

in  the  parlance — that  is  a  favorite 

pastime  of  pilots  when  they're  not 

airborne.  Among  the  kindred  free 

spirits  enlivening  the  conversation  at 

the  Classic  was  an  original  member  of 

the  99s,  the  association  for  women 

pilots  founded  a  half-century  ago  by 

Amelia   Earhart.   "By  race's  end," 

Sprauer  recalls,   "we  were   saying, 

'Where  else  can  people  spend  two  weeks 

together,  talk  about  nothing  but  flying 

and  have  no  one  get  bored?'" 

If  boredom  poses  no  problem,  time 
does.  She  co-owns  the  Tobago  with 
another  pilot,  the  weather  and  her  work 
schedule  at  Mintz,  Levin  do  not  always 
mesh  and  Sprauer  must  take  her  aerial 
thrills  when  she  can. 

One  icy-clear  morning  in  mid-De- 
cember, the  Tobago  floats  at  2,000  feet. 
The  slate-blue  tidal  rivulets  of  Plum 
Island  and  ragged  white  lines  of  surf 
breaking  on  Crane's  Beach  pass  slowly 
beneath  the  left  wing.  Sprauer,  a  radio 
headset  clamped  on  her  reddish-brown 
curls,  is  absorbed.  Inside  the  snug  pad- 
ded-vinyl cockpit,  she  monitors  a  half- 
dozen  instruments — air  speed  and 
altitude,  compass  heading  and  engine 
gauges — and  keeps  the  other  eye  out  for 
unseen  aircraft,  unexpected  weather 
fronts  and  the  wintry  beauty  of  the  Mas- 
sachusetts coastline  unfurling  below. 

John  Ombelets 


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Chairmen 


Boston  College  was  there  for  you. 

Be  there  for  Boston  College. 

Support  the  BC  Fund. 

We  can't  do  it  without  you. 


A  decade  ago,  the  University  boasted 
fewer  than  a  dozen  endowed  profes- 
sorships, or  chairs.  Today,  thanks  to 
generous  donors,  students  and  other 
faculty  benefit  from  the  scholarship, 
experience  and  wisdom  of  2 1  "named" 
professors — including  these  three  eminent 
Jesuits — who  occupy  endowed  chairs. 

Private  gifts  to  the  University,  your  gifts, 
help  support  the  continued  high  caliber  of 
faculty  at  Boston  College,  with  all  that  this 
means  for  the  excellence  of  education  on 
the  Heights. 


From  left: 

Professor  of  Theater 
Ernest  Ferlita,  SJ 
Thomas  I.  Gasson,  SJ,  Chair 

Professor  of  Theology 
John  J.  Paris,  SJ 
Michael  P.  Walsh,  SJ, 
Chair  in  Bio-Ethics 

Professor  of  Theology 
David  Hollenbach,  SJ 

Margaret  O'Brien  Flatley 
Chair  in  Catholic  Theology