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Nearly  30  years  ago,  while  a  graduate  student,  I  worked  a 
part-time  internship  at  the  Chittenden  County  Correction- 
al Center,  which  stood  in  a  field  set  back  from  a  quiet  two- 
lane  blacktop  just  up  the  hill  from  the  intersection  of  Route 
7  and  1-189,  in  South  Burlington,  Vermont. 

It  was  a  new  facility,  a  complex  of  one-  and  two-story  brick 
buildings  at  the  edge  of  a  worn  residential  neighborhood.  At 
night,  with  security  lights  blazing,  there  was  no  mistaking 
the  place.  But  drivers  and  their  passengers  who  scooted  by 
during  the  day  and  didn't  catch  the  gleam  of  fence  or  wire 
might  well  have  thought  they  were  passing  a  junior  high 
school  or  a  laboratory  that  conducted  medical  tests  for  the 
nearby  hospitals. 

I  was  a  shrink-in-training  at  the  time,  and  the  work  was 
to  co-lead,  with  a  female  classmate,  a  couple  of  inmate  self- 
development  groups  one  evening  a  week,  and  to  spend  an 
afternoon  a  week  interviewing  staff  and  inmates.  I  remem- 
ber taking  notes  on  those  conversations,  so  I  suppose  I  pro- 
duced a  paper,  but  I  don't  remember  what  it  was  about. 

I  do  remember  the  groups.  The  participants  were  men 
between  1 8  and  3  5  years  old,  minimum  or  medium  security 
risks:  burglars,  larcenists,  drunk  drivers,  assaulters  of  various 
varieties.  Nearly  all  were  repeat  offenders,  which  was  why 
most  of  them  were  doing  time  at  all.  Some  were  in  for  a 
month,  some  for  years.  Those  who  volunteered  to  partici- 
pate in  the  groups  did  so  for  three  reasons:  It  broke  the 
boredom,  they  believed  it  gave  them  an  edge  with  the  prison 
administration  or  parole  board,  and  they  liked  the  idea  of 
talking  about  themselves  to  people  who  hadn't  heard  the 
stories  before. 

Ah,  the  stories.  Once  they  got  the  psychotherapeutic 
drift  (and  most  arrived  with  some  experience  of  the  talking 
cure),  the  inmates  were  far  more  forthcoming  than  the  stu- 
dents and  university  employees  with  whom  I'd  previously 
done  internships.  In  fact,  they  couldn't  seem  to  provide  us 
with  enough  expressions  of  feelings  and  tales  of  trauma  and 
abuse  experienced  at  the  hands  of  mothers,  fathers,  uncles, 
schools,  caseworkers,  cops,  and  systems  ranging  from  the 
military  to  feminist  consciousness-raising  groups.  And  then 
one  evening,  watching  a  balding  young  car  thief  pick  his  way 
through  a  reminiscence  about  his  hardscrabble  childhood  in 
the  slums  of  North  Burlington,  I  realized  with  shaming  clar- 
ity that  he  was  making  it  up  as  he  went  along,  working  off 


of  what  seemed  to  please  us;  and  that  much,  if  not  most,  of 
what  we  were  being  told  each  Tuesday  night  was  lies  creat- 
ed to  impress,  placate,  charm,  or,  at  the  very  least,  divert  us. 

I  remember  mentioning  this  insight  while  interviewing  a 
senior  corrections  officer,  and  he  gazing  at  me  as  you  might 
at  a  kitten  plopping  around  in  the  current  a  couple  of  feet 
off  the  riverbank,  wondering  whether  to  pluck  it  out  or  just 
let  it  go,  and  then  saying  quiedy,  "It's  why  they  call  them 
cons."  His  words  burned  me  (and  burned  me  yet  again  about 
eight  months  later  when  I  ran  into  my  internship  partner 
one  night  outside  a  restaurant  in  Burlington,  and  standing 
close  by  her,  watching  me  closely,  was  the  balding  car  thief 
with  the  moving  tales  of  childhood,  just  paroled.) 

All  these  years  later,  though,  it's  the  place,  not  the  people, 
that  I  seem  to  have  learned  by  heart:  the  building  did  not 
meet  your  gaze  as  you  passed  on  the  road;  inside,  the  walls 
of  milky  green  paint  and  the  walls  of  milky  brown  paint;  the 
cigarette  smoke  swirling;  the  cameras  in  the  corners;  the 
artificial  light  that  never  dimmed;  the  motor  that  groaned 
for  a  moment  each  time  it  was  asked  to  roll  back  the  heavy 
barred  gates  on  either  side  of  the  guard  station;  the  crammed- 
in  mutually  hostile  kingdoms  of  men,  women,  short-timers, 
long-timers,  and  staff,  each  border  marked  by  warning  signs 
and  locked  steel  doors;  the  perpetual  cheerful  shine  of  the 
vinyl  tiles  in  the  large  public  lobby. 

One  afternoon,  I  came  by  accident  into  a  minimum  secu- 
rity unit  while  the  residents  were  out.  I  shouldn't  have  been 
there,  but  there  I  was.  A  large  shared  room  contained  sofas 
and  molded  plastic  chairs,  card  tables  and  a  television.  I 
walked  along  the  perimeter,  looking  into  the  cells.  They 
were  tiny,  each  with  a  barred  window,  a  two-tiered  steel  bed 
bolted  to  a  wall,  and  a  narrow  desk  and  chair  in  the  remain- 
ing space.  And  every  inch  of  every  wall  and  ceiling  in  every 
room  I  looked  into  was  covered  with  glossy  pages  torn  from 
magazines.  Corner  to  corner,  floor  to  ceiling,  edge  to  edge, 
a  lurching,  dizzying,  butcher's  tapestry  of  naked  women  and 
parts  of  naked  women:  skin,  hair,  teeth,  tongue,  eye,  lips, 
breast,  nipple,  thigh,  genitals,  all  carefully  pieced  and  sewn 
with  cellophane  tape  into  a  low  firmament  of  flayed  longing. 
And  I  thought,  now  I  know  what  this  place  is,  it's  Hell. 

Our  story  on  the  woman  who  has  taken  charge  of  Suffolk 
County's  jails  begins  on  page  38. 

Ben  Birnbaum 


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32    Close  formation 


Roben  Orsi 


The  American  Catholic  Church  remade  childhood.  That  was 
a  mistake. 


38    Cleaning  house 


Dave  Denison 


Andrea  Cabral  '81  straightened  out  the  notorious  Suffolk  County 
jails.  Now  she  has  to  face  the  voters. 

46   The  man  who  loves  trains  Brian  D0yk 

Dick  Carpenter  '55  is  hand-drawing  his  way  across  1946  America. 
And  he's  gaining  a  following. 


special  section: 

50    THE  CHURCH  IN  THE  21ST  CENTURY 

rescue  mission — BC  and  the  Boston  Archdiocese  team  up  to  help 
abuse  survivors.  By  David  Reich 

Tuesday's  women — Unraveling  the  dilemma,  Catholic  and  female. 
By  Anna  Marie  Murphy 

lessons  of  the  apostles — An  American  archbishop  proposes 
changing  how  authority  is  exercised  in  the  Church. 
By  Archbishop  John  Quinn 


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DEPARTMENTS 
2      LETTERS 

4      LINDEN  LANE 

•  The  competition  •  Into  the 
unknown  •  Party  animals  •  Eye 
in  the  sky  •  Solomon  challenged 

•  Land  for  sale  •  Teacher  to 
teacher  •  Newton's  law  •  Leisure 
suited  •  Mood  swings  •  TV  guide 

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57      WORKS  &  DAYS 

UpStairs  on  the  Square's 
Mary-Catherine  Deibel  NC'72 

ADVANCEMENT  AND 
CLASS  NOTES 

Follows  page  27 

COVER  Photo  by  Gary  Wayne 
Gilbert. 


LETTERS 


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GORDON'S  CHOICE 

In  "The  Feminist  Rosary" 
(Fall  2003),  Mary  Gordon 
writes  that  she  prays  for  the 
work  of  "pro-choice 
Catholics."  This  is  not  a 
fish-on-Friday  kind  of  issue. 
One  cannot  be  pro-choice 
and  a  Catholic. 

KATHLEEN  EGAN  HAWES 
Manhasset,  New  York 

BCM  ought  to  be  ashamed  of 
itself  for  printing  an  article 
that  so  blatantly  supports  the 
pro-choice  cause.  If  Mary 
Gordon  truly  wishes  to  help 
children,  she  should  pray  for 
the  many  Catholic  health  cen- 
ters that  do  not  privilege  the 
mother's  "rights"  over  the 
rights  of  the  child  by  offering 
abortion  services.  That  is  real 
love,  real  nurture.  It  seems 
that  Mary  Gordon's  Rosary 
prayers  have  unfortunately  left 
out  a  key  clause:  "Blessed  is 
the  fruit  of  thy  womb,  Jesus." 

MATTHEW  THOMPSON 
Cambridge,  Massachusetts 

How  could  a  person  pray  the 
Rosary  for  that  which  is  in- 
trinsically evil?  We  can't  be 
cafeteria  Catholics. 

KEVIN  A.  MCKEARIN 
Weymouth,  Massachusetts 

To  Mary  Gordon's  finely 
tuned  sensibilities,  had  the 
Virgin  Mary  exercised  her  pre- 
rogative to  refuse  consent  after 
her  child  was  conceived — and 
had  she  aborted  Jesus — such 
would  have  been  an  entirely 
moral  choice.  So  much  for 
that  inconvenient  other  detail 
in  the  Annunciation,  Mary's 
"Let  it  be  done  according  to 
thy  will."  One  wonders,  could 
any  two  Marys  be  more  alien? 

CHUCK  SHEEHAN  '76 
Dallas,  Texas 


BCM  never  fails  to  provide 
well-written,  thought-provok- 
ing articles,  even  though  I 
may  not  agree  with  the  au- 
thors' views.  The  Fall  2003 
issue  deserves  special  appreci- 
ation because  of  Mary 
Gordon's  excellent  article 
"The  Feminist  Rosary." 

BARBARA  S.  PEIRCE  MS  74 
San  Pedro,  California 

I  want  to  thank  Mary  Gordon 
for  reminding  me  and  teach- 
ing me  how  to  pray  again. 

JIM  CODY  '83 
Dunellen,  New  Jersey 

CHURCH  21 
Re  "From  This  Church 
Forward"  (Fall  2003):  The 
language  at  BC's  Church  in 
the  2 1st  Century  forum  was 
eloquent  and  the  emotions 
were  clear,  but  in  the  final 
analysis,  the  only  real  message 
that  I  received  was:  "We  don't 
know  where  we  are,  and  we 
don't  know  where  we  want  to 
be,  but  we'd  better  hurry  and 
get  on  with  whatever  we're 
going  to  do." 

I  hope  the  hierarchy  of  the  ■ 
Church  and  the  active  laity 
are  better  prepared  for  the 
future  than  this  forum  would 
indicate. 

JOAN  NOBIS  TONER  '56 
Colorado  Springs,  Colorado 

With  respect  to  Fr.  Bryan 
Hehir's  suggestion  about  this 
being  the  most  educated 
Catholic  laity,  one  has  to 
wonder  how  educated  the 
laity  is  in  Church  matters.  I 
believe  we  have  failed  in 
teaching  the  young  and 
reminding  the  old  about 
Christian  doctrine. 

At  the  same  time,  I  am  not 
ready  to  subscribe  to  the 
thought  that  a  pope  who  has 


to  concern  himself  with  the 
whole  world  and  each  of  its 
parts  is  really  knowledgeable 
about  each  of  those  parts.  He 
must  depend  on  the  hierarchy 
to  keep  him  posted. 

It  just  might  be  that  a  bet- 
ter communications  system  is 
in  order. 

GEORGE  E.  PORT '51 

Mamaroneck,  New  York 

CHASTITY  REDUX 
I  am  indebted  to  David 
Morrison's  "Catholic  and 
Gay"  (Summer  2003)  for  lead- 
ing me  to  reexamine  my  life 
and  my  beliefs.  Upon  reflec- 
tion, both  heterosexual  and 
homosexual  human  beings 
should  have  the  same  options. 
The  Church  would  not  foist 
24/7  chastity  on  all  heterosex- 
ual couples,  nor  should  it  on 
all  homosexual  couples. 

In  the  New  Testament, 
Christ  does  not  propose 
chastity  as  an  element  of  per- 
fection. Chastity  is  a  Church- 
imposed  stance.  In  the  early 
Church,  homosexual  couples 
were  recognized  and  their 
unions  were  blessed  (see 
Christianity,  Social  Tolerance, 
and  Homosexuality,  by  John 
Boswell,  University  of 
Chicago  Press,  1980). 

I  will  defend  to  the  death 
David  Morrison's  choice  to 
live  his  life  in  a  chaste  homo- 
sexual relationship,  as  well  as 
his  right  to  voice  his  opinion 
on  homosexual  chastity. 
However,  I  also  will  defend 
anyone's  right  to  maintain  and 
live  a  homosexual  relationship 
while  remaining  a  deeply  com- 
mitted Christian  and  refusing 
the  guilt  and  self-loathing  that 
Church-imposed  homosexual 
chastity  often  entails. 

J.  VINCENT  H.  MORRISSETTE  MA  '60 
Bridgeport,  Connecticut 


2  WINTER  2004 


HOW  TO  COMPETE 
Re  "World-wise,"  by  Professor 
Charles  Derber  (Linden  Lane, 
Spring  2003):  The  real  prob- 
lem with  free  trade,  globally 
and  domestically,  is  that  it  has 
rarely  been  tried.  Regulation  is 
always  sold  as  protection  for 
the  public,  but  the  only  moti- 
vation for  the  regulation  of 
trade  has  been  to  protect  the 
profits  of  the  entrenched  who 
got  there  first.  Incorporation 
(a  process  by  which  a  business 
or  other  entity  is  created  by 
the  state)  is  simply  a  ploy  to 
draw  a  veil  over  the  activities 
of  real  people  who  would  oth- 
erwise either  reap  or  suffer  the 
consequences  of  their  actions. 

The  answer  to  the  problem 
so  clearly  seen  by  Professor 
Derber  is  to  curtail  severely    " 
the  power  of  governments  to 
legislate  in  the  area  of  trade. 
What  we  need  everywhere  in 
the  world,  the  United  States 
included,  is  a  separation  of 
business  and  state.  Under 
such  a  system  everyone  could 
be  a  competitor. 

ELIZABETH  CARR  GOLDEST  '64 
Stone  Mountain,  Georgia 

IN  SPORTS 
BC's  actions  regarding  the 
ACC  and  Big  East  are  beyond 
comprehension  when  viewed 
from  a  moral,  Christian  per- 
spective. Fr.  Leahy's  explana- 
tion ("Conference  Call," 
Linden  Lane,  Fall  2003)  that 
this  change  was  motivated  by 
the  desire  to  play  with  schools 
who  have  a  high  academic  rat- 
ing is  laughable. 

We  all  know  that  money 
was  the  driving  force. 

JOHNDROZJR. '68 
Greig,  New  York 

For  the  record,  in  addition  to  cit- 
ing the  ACCs  emphasis  on  high 


graduation  rates  for  athletes  and 
its  programs  for  academic  cooper- 
ation, Fr.  Leahy  credited  the 
strong  student  demographics 
within  the  conference  region,  the 
ACCs  stability,  and  a  financial 
boost  that  will  uhelp  us  support 
non-revenue  sports  at  BC"  as 
reasons  for  accepting  the  ACCs 
invitation.— Ed. 

SHANAHAN  RECALLED 

On  September  15,  my  wife 
and  I  flew  to  Ireland  to  attend 
the  funeral  Mass  and  burial  of 
John  P.  Shanahan,  professor 
of  mathematics  at  Boston 
College  from  1962  to  2003. 
John  was,  for  all  who  knew 
him  during  his  tenure  at  BC, 
a  teacher  of  uncommon  char- 
acter and  intelligence.  His 
dedication  to  his  students  was 


renowned,  and  he  regularly 
provided  long  office  hours — 
for  students  needing  tutorial 
assistance  or,  more  usual, 
those  simply  seeking  a  few 
moments  of  his  quiet  conver- 
sation and  playful  Irish  wit. 

He  was  also  a  deeply  com- 
mitted Christian,  who  wore 
his  Catholicism  with  grace 
and  unfailing  charity.  After  a 
funeral  Mass  in  historic  Holy 
Cross  Abbey  outside  of 
Thurles,  we  laid  him  to  rest  in 
a  quiet  cemetery  surrounded 
by  the  rich  fields  and  soft 
green  mountains  of  Tipperary. 

MAURICE  B.  CONWAY  '60 
Duxbury,  Massachusetts 

WERE  YOU  THERE? 
In  October,  the  Italian  studies 
program  in  the  Department  of 


Romance  Languages  and 
Literatures  will  sponsor  a 
symposium  to  mark  the  60th 
anniversary  of  the  liberation  of 
Rome  during  World  War  II. 
We  are  seeking  any  BC  alum- 
ni, retired  faculty,  or  staff  who 
played  any  role  in  the  libera- 
tion or  who  lived  in  Italy  at 
the  time  and  would  be  willing 
to  contribute  their  share  of 
"oral  history"  at  our  sympo- 
sium. I  would  ask  interested 
parties  to  please  phone  me  at 
(617)  552-6346  or  e-mail  me 
at  mor7nando@bc.edu. 

FRANCO  MORMANDO 
Associate  Professor  of  Italian 

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LINDEN    LANE 


Taylor  (foreground)  with  physicist  Bedell 


Economics  major  Huneycutt  (left)  with  Hafner 


Rare  fellowship 


TWO  RHODES  TO  OXFORD 


It  was  about  four  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  last  November  22,  and  BC 
senior  Paul  Taylor  stood  waiting  in  a  reception  area  on  the  38th  floor 
of  a  Chicago  law  firm.  Not  far  away  was  the  conference  room  where 
a  panel  of  five  Rhodes  Scholarship  interviewers  had  grilled  him  seven 
hours  earlier.  He'd  made  the  semifinal  cut  in  the  state  competition  in 
his  native  Wisconsin,  and  now  Taylor  lingered  nervously  with  11 
other  contenders  for  the  four  awards  to  be  granted  in  the  Midwest 
district.  He  was  rapidly  losing  confidence. 

University  of  Chicago  law  professor  Dennis  Hutchinson,  director 
of  the  Midwest  selection  committee,  entered  the  reception  area, 


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told  the  candidates  how  de- 
serving they  all  were,  then  got 
down  to  business.  He  called  out 
the  first  winner's  name.  Pause. 
Then  another  name.  Not  only 
was  Taylor's  not  among  them, 
but  neither  was  a  candidate's 
whom  he  had  pegged  as  a 
sure  bet. 

With  two  names  to  go, 
Taylor  was  ready  to  leave,  cer- 
tain his  ambition  to  study 
astrophysics  at  Oxford  Uni- 
versity would  remain  unful- 
filled. A  third  name  was  called; 
not  his.  Then  it  seemed  to 
Taylor  the  Rhodes  agent  began 
moving  as  if  through  water. 
"He  started  saying  that  kind  of 
'pa'  sound  and  everything 
started  to  slow  down,"  recalls 
Taylor,  and  he  heard  his  name. 

In  that  moment,  a  Boston 
College  student  won  a  Rhodes 
Scholarship  for  the  first  time  in 
history.  But  there's  more.  In 
Houston,  Arizonan  Brett 
Huneycutt  '03 — who'd  taken  a 
break  from  a  1 0-month  Ful- 
bright  fellowship  in  El  Salvador 
to  interview  for  the  Rhodes — 
was  about  to  learn  that  his  re- 
sponses to  questions  on 
economics  and  trade  had  won 
over  a  panel  of  interviewers  in 
the  southwest  district.  Out  of 
the  32  Rhodes  Scholars  named 
in  this  country,  Boston  College 
could  claim  not  one,  but  two. 

While  Taylor  and  Huney- 
cutt were  putting  themselves 
through  the  social  gatherings 
and  probing  interviews  that 
make  up  the  final  rounds  of  the 
Rhodes  selection  process,  at 
least  one  person  back  in 
Chestnut  Hill  was  "literally 
pacing"  the  floor,  waiting  to 
learn  the  results — political  sci- 
ence professor  Donald  Hafner. 
"I  knew  they  were  both  very 
strong  candidates,"  he  says, 
and  for  that  both  students  offer 


Hafner  more  than  a  modicum 
of  credit.  As  director  of  the 
University  Fellowships 
Committee  and  campus  coor- 
dinator for  the  Rhodes  and 
seven  other  scholarships, 
Hafner  is  part  of  the  reason 
that  BC,  once  nearly  absent 
from  the  rolls  of  prestigious 
fellowships,  now  tosses  up  win- 
ners' names  with  frequency. 

THE  TURNING  point  can 
be  traced  to  the  academic  year 
1995-96.  The  University  was 
then  in  the  midst  of  a  31 -year 
drought  in  prestigious  George 
C.  Marshall  Scholarship 
awards;  the  previous  year,  nine 
students  had  applied  for  a  J. 
William  Fulbright  grant,  and 
one  had  been  funded.  Though 
Boston  College  was  improving 
academically  and  its  under- 
graduates becoming  increas- 
ingly competitive,  the 
administration  and  faculty 
were  concerned  that  such 
gains  weren't  being  reflected 
in  the  grant-giving  arena.  In 
1995-96,  the  University 
Academic  Planning  Council 
(UAPC),  charged  by  then 
University  President  J.  Donald 
Monan,  SJ,  with  developing 
BC's  academic  goals  for  the 
next  10  years,  defined  as  a 
University  mission  the  provi- 
sion of  "strong  support  to  stu- 
dents who  compete  for 
prestigious  fellowships." 

A  modest  support  system 
was  already  in  place,  led  by 
Michael  Resler  of  the  German 
department  and  a  cadre  of  BC's 
"good  citizens" — as  associate 
academic  vice  president 
Patricia  De  Leeuw  calls  the 
faculty  who  volunteered  their 
time  to  assist  student  grant 
seekers.  With  the  UAPC's  plan 
came  funding  to  buttress  a  new 
University  Fellowships  Com- 


mittee, and  Hafner  became 
head  of  the  committee.  During 
his  first  year,  BC  had  two  un- 
successful Rhodes  applicants 
and  one  Fulbright  winner 
among  eight  applicants. 

Back  then,  fewer  students 
knew  about  Fulbrights  and 
other  fellowships.  But  today, 
says  Margaret  Thomas,  BC's 
Fulbright  coordinator,  students 
look  "dumbfounded"  if  she 
asks  them  how  they  learned  of 
the  fellowships — it's  as  if  she 
asked  how  they  knew  to  apply 
to  college.  Last  year,  Fulbright 
grants  went  to  14  BC  under- 
graduates and  one  graduate 
student,  a  University  record. 
Four  BC  students  have  won 
Marshalls  in  the  past  six  years 
(only  40  are  distributed  each 
year).  In  all,  19  faculty  and  aca- 
demic administrators  serve  as 
committee  coordinators  for  34 
competitive  grant  programs. 
"It  wasn't  that  we  didn't  have 
the  students  before,"  says 
Hafner.  "It  was  that  we  didn't 
have  the  organization." 

The  University  Fellowships 
Committee  plants  the  idea  of 
seeking  fellowships  in  high 
achievers'  minds  soon  after 
they  arrive  on  campus.  Hafner 
holds  an  introductory  lun- 
cheon in  February  and  aims  to 
fill  Gasson  100  with  about  180 
freshmen,  so  he  invites  double 
that  number.  Invitations  are 
based  strictly  on  first-quarter 
grades;  this  year,  students  with 
an  A-  average  or  above  were 
included.  Another  luncheon,  in 
the  fall,  targets  standout 
sophomores.  "The  core  pur- 
pose is  to  rouse  their  interest 
and  enthusiasm  and  sense  of 
confidence  that  aiming  for 
these  opportunities  is  worth 
their  contemplation,"  says 
Hafner.  "Especially  for  fresh- 
men, the  prospect  of  fellow- 


ships will  seem  like  something 
off  in  never-never  land.  So  we 
need  to  persuade  them  other- 
wise— that  there  are  things 
they  can  reach  for  immediately 
and  that  it  is  good  to  get  start- 
ed." The  University's  approxi- 
mately 50  Presidential  Scholars 
(both  Huneycutt  and  Taylor 
came  from  this  group)  also  re- 
ceive frequent  reminders  of 
grant  opportunities  at  their  bi- 
weekly speaker  series.  "From 
day  one  we  were  encouraged," 
remembers  Huneycutt.  "We 
were  told  fellowships  are  out 
there." 

Faculty  in  the  Honors 
Program  also  identify  and  en- 
courage promising  students, 
says  Hafner.  And  applications 
for  Advanced  Study  Grants  (set 
aside  for  underclassmen,  these 
BC  grants  are  administered 
by  the  fellowships  committee 
and  fund  student-designed 
projects)  yield  additional  clues 
to  budding  fellowship  con- 
tenders. "It's  like  a  very  large 
funnel,"  says  Hafner.  "We 
hope  to  attract  a  large  number 
of  students  at  the  very  begin- 
ning. Only  a  few  will  have  the 
kinds  of  ambitions  that  carry 
them  along  to  the  Rhodes  or 
Fulbrights." 

Hafner  stresses  that  the 
committee  makes  no  effort  to 
groom  individuals — to  assign 
mentors  to  young  prospects, 
offer  them  prep  courses,  or 
send  them  to  mock  cocktail 
parties  as  some  schools  do, 
according  to  recent  stories  in 
the  New  York  Times  and  the 
Chronicle  of  Higher  Education. 
Instead,  he  says,  the  commit- 
tee has  set  up  a  service  that  al- 
lows talented  students  to  stay 
informed;  "we  encourage  and 
assist  them,"  he  says. 

Elliot  Gerson,  American 
secretary  of  the  Rhodes  Trust, 


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says  he  is  concerned  when  he 
hears  of  excesses  like  mock 
cocktail  parties  ("no  one  is 
turned  down  for  a  Rhodes  be- 
cause of  etiquette,"  he  says), 
but  he  enthusiastically  sup- 
ports universities  that,  like  BC, 
have  put  formal  fellowship  ad- 
visory structures  into  place. 
And  BC  is  far  from  alone:  The 
National  Association  of 
Fellowship  Advisors  lists  2  00 
members  on  its  roster,  from 
Abilene  Christian  University 
and  Alma  College  to  Yale  and 
Yeshiva  University  (Harvard  is 
notably  absent). 

"Our  feeling  is  that  the  col- 
leges that  establish  fellowship 
advisory  offices  are  providing  a 
very  valuable  service  to  en- 
courage outstanding  students," 
says  Gerson.  "No  institutional 
advice  or  support  system  has 
created  a  Rhodes  winner  who 
otherwise  might  not  have  won, 
but  it  might  have  encouraged 
someone  who  might  not  have 
had  the  confidence  or  even 
awareness." 

Even  if  the  fellowships 
committee  wanted  to  anoint 
scholarship  candidates,  it 
would  be  tricky  business.  "It's 
very  difficult  to  predict  early 
on  who  will  be  successful," 
Hafner  says.  "There  are  stu- 
dents who  are  late  bloomers — 
really  dazzling  later,  but  we 
wouldn't  spot  them  early  on." 
For  example,  one  member  of 
the  Class  of  '98  came  to 
Hafher's  attention  when  he 
proposed  a  somewhat  uncon- 
ventional Advanced  Study 
Grant:  The  student  wanted  to 
improve  his  Spanish  fluency  by 
teaching  reading  to  street  chil- 
dren in  Mexico.  "We  took  a 
gamble,"  says  Hafner,  and  the 
proposal  was  funded.  Broder- 
ick  Bagert  went  to  Mexico, 
won  a  Rotary  scholarship  to 


study  philosophy  in  Spain, 
tried  unsuccessfully  for  a 
Rhodes,  snagged  a  Marshall, 
and  studied  at  the  London 
School  of  Economics.  (Today 
he  works  for  a  Houston  phil- 
anthropy.) Bagert  wasn't  a 
Presidential  Scholar,  though 
he  was  in  the  Honors  Pro- 
gram. "We  found  him  because 
he  progressively  stood  out," 
Hafner  says.  "We  didn't  push 
him.  We  put  an  array  of  op- 
portunities in  front  of  him, 
and  he  grabbed  them." 

HUNEYCUTT,  too,  took  ad- 
vantage of  an  Advanced  Study 
Grant,  which  he  used  to  study 
the  case  of  Augusto  Pinochet's 
extradition  from  Spain.  He 
also  received  a  University- 
funded  Undergraduate  Re- 
search Fellowship  to  assist  BC 
political  science  professor 
Jennie  Purnell;  for  that  project 
he  read  archives,  primarily  in 
the  O'Neill  Library,  about 
U.S. -Mexican  relations  during 
the  Cristero  Rebellion  of  the 
1920s  and  about  Protestant 
evangelization  to  Mexican  in- 
digenous groups.  Huneycutt 
also  spent  a  semester  studying 
in  Mexico,  but  he  had  first 
visited  the  country  in  high 
school,  when  a  teacher  was 
working  in  a  Mexican  shanty- 
town.  Scenes  from  his  two- 
week  stay  in  the  town  remain 
with  him — the  stray  dogs,  the 
electrical  wires  running  every- 
where along  the  ground.  Once 
in  college,  he  says,  "I  was  able 
to  study  poverty  analytically." 
In  fact,  Huneycutt  calls  his 
economics  major  "the  perfect 
fit  for  me.  It  represents  a  per- 
fect blend  of  my  talents,  which 
are  quantitative,  and  of  my 
passion  for  social  justice." 

Now  back  in  El  Salvador 
and  working  on  his  Fulbright, 


Huneycutt  is  expanding  on  the 
subject  of  his  senior  thesis  at 
BC,  examining  the  effect  of 
money  sent  home  by  Salvador- 
ans  working  in  the  United 
States  on  the  growth  of  small 
businesses  in  the  developing 
Central  American  country. 
Some  $2  billion  a  year  enters 
El  Salvador  by  this  means; 
Huneycutt's  analysis  deter- 
mined that  the  small-scale  pro- 
prietors who  receive  U.S. 
dollars  from  their  relatives  or 
friends  run  businesses  two-and- 
a-half  times  larger,  on  average, 
than  their  counterparts'. 

NO  AMOUNT  of  experience, 
of  course,  can  prepare  an  indi- 
vidual for  the  variegated 
par  course  that  is  the  Rhodes 
application  process.  For  Hun- 
eycutt, the  trials  started  out 
low-key:  At  the  state  level,  he 
found  the  social  reception  un- 
comfortable, but  the  interview 
surprisingly  relaxed.  He  an- 
swered questions  on  econom- 
ics, international  trade,  and  his 
work  in  El  Salvador.  One  pan- 
elist, noticing  that  Huneycutt 
had  won  a  chemistry  award, 
asked  what  five  elements  from 
the  periodic  table  he'd  bring  if 
he  wanted  to  build  a  new  plan- 
et. No  sweat:  "I  said  some- 
thing to  the  effect  of,  'Well,  I 
like  our  planet  as  it  is,  so  I 
would  bring  carbon,  hydrogen, 
oxygen.'  Then  I  paused,  and 
someone  on  the  panel  suggest- 
ed nitrogen.  'Oh,  yes,'  I  said, 
'that's  the  majority  of  our 
atmosphere.  And  any  element 
that  is  not  plutonium  or 
uranium.'" 

The  district  interview  in 
Houston,  on  the  other  hand, 
was  intense.  "The  panel  was 
very  antagonistic,  almost 
mean,"  he  recalls.  "None  of 
them  smiled.  It  was  impossible 


to  gauge  how  I  did."  After  he 
exited,  he  called  a  friend  on  his 
cell  phone  and  discussed  mov- 
ing to  New  York  City  or  Brazil 
next  year. 

Huneycutt  and  Taylor  to- 
gether demonstrate  the  diver- 
sity of  Rhodes  award  winners. 
"There  are  no  targets  of  any 
kind  with  regard  to  any  fac- 
tor— male  or  female;  scientist, 
humanist,  or  social  scientist;  or 
the  number  of  institutions  rep- 
resented," says  Gerson. 

Indeed,  to  pigeonhole  Paul 
Taylor  as  a  candidate  would  be 
particularly  difficult.  His  dual 
majors,  physics  and  classics, 
point  to  a  well-roundedness  he 
has  enjoyed  for  years:  learning 
to  fence  the  summer  after 
eighth  grade  (he's  now  captain 
of  BC's  fencing  team),  playing 
high  school  baseball  and  pick- 
up basketball,  even  watching 
kung  fu  movies  (Hero  with  Jet 
Li  is  his  favorite).  Last  summer 
he  interned  at  the  Harvard- 
Smithsonian  Center  for  Astro- 
physics; over  Christmas  break 
his  pleasure  reading  included 
Melmoth  the  Wanderer,  the 
1 9th-century  Gothic  classic  by 
Charles  Maturin.  Taylor  won 
a  Goldwater  Scholarship  (for 
students  in  math  or  science) 
his  junior  year,  and  he  shares  a 
patent  on  a  statistical  process 
for  analyzing  magnetic  reso- 
nance imaging,  which  he 
picked  up  in  high  school  when 
he  had  a  part-time  job  assist- 
ing medical  researchers. 

Taylor's  many  interests  paid 
off  during  the  Rhodes  process. 
He  talked  at  length  about 
kung  fu  movies  with  a  panelist 
at  one  reception,  and  during 
the  state  interview  answered 
questions  that  touched  on 
physics,  his  work  at  a  soup 
kitchen,  the  California  guber- 
natorial recall  vote,  and  what 


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classical  text  he'd  recommend 
for  George  W.  Bush  to  read 
(he  suggested  Plato's  Republic). 

At  Taylor's  regional  and 
final  interview  in  Chicago,  the 
panel  fortuitously  included 
an  official  of  the  Great  Books 
Foundation  and  a  condensed- 
matter  theorist.  Still,  eyeing 
the  well-versed,  well-oiled 
competition  gave  the  normally 
cool  Taylor  the  jitters.  "Every- 
body has  such  high  credentials 
it  gets  almost  to  the  point  of 
a  crapshoot,"  he  says.  His  con- 
fidence flickering  to  a  "let's- 
get-it-over-with"  resignation, 
he  sank  into  a  leather  swivel 
chair  at  the  long  conference 
table  to  face  his  interrogators. 
Suddenly,  mysteriously,  he 
says,  he  felt  relaxed,  in  control, 
even  powerful.  "I  don't  know 
how  to  describe  the  power 
of  the  chair,"  he  says.  "It  was  a 
magical  chair." 

The  panelists  started  out 
with  questions  about  physics; 
then  they  asked  if  he'd  rather 
be  a  woman  in  ancient  Greece 
or  Rome  (he  chose  Rome — 
women  had  more  freedom  and 
power  there);  and  they  ques- 
tioned him  about  fencing  and 
about  the  soup  kitchen.  Most 
stunning,  says  physics  depart- 
ment chair  Kevin  Bedell, 
was  Taylor's  answer  to  one  of 
the  science  questions:  Explain 
a  Fermi  liquid.  "That's  a  ques- 
tion most  undergrads  couldn't 
answer,  especially  when  asked 
to  apply  it  to  nuclear  astro- 
physics, as  Paul  was,"  says 
Bedell,  whom  Taylor  cites  as  a 
mentor.  "That  was  the  most 
impressive,  that  he  was  able  to 
answer  that  question." 

Bedell  wasn't  particularly 
surprised  when  Taylor  pre- 
vailed. His  student  had  stood 
apart  ever  since  he  asked — ac- 
tually insisted — that  he  bypass 


freshman  physics  and  begin 
with  the  sophomore  course. 
Bedell  had  tried  to  discourage 
him,  but  then  relented.  "When 
I  write  a  letter  of  recommenda- 
tion for  Paul,  I  mention  that  he 
was  smart  enough  not  to  take 
my  advice,"  he  says.  During  the 
summers  after  freshman  and 
sophomore  years,  Taylor  assist- 
ed Bedell  with  research.  "He 
always  had  to  go  ahead  of 
where  his  academic  program 
was,"  Bedell  says,  "and  he  was 
always  up  to  the  challenge." 

THOUGH  the  Rhodes 
awards  for  this  year  were  an- 
nounced in  the  fall,  the 
Fulbrights  are  generally  made 
public  in  the  spring.  Last 
year's  14  grants  marked  a  ban- 
ner year,  thanks  in  part  to  co- 
ordinator Thomas's  guidance. 
An  associate  professor  in  the 
Slavic/eastern  languages  de- 
partment, Thomas  has  ascend- 
ed to  the  status  of  legend 
among  BC  faculty  for  her  sup- 
port of  aspiring  undergradu- 
ates; Academic  Vice  President 
Jack  Neuhauser  jokes  that 
some  now  call  the  Fulbrights 
the  Thomases. 

Thomas  says  she  almost 
turned  down  the  coordinator's 
position  seven  years  ago,  out 
of  fear  that  she  would  find  it 
difficult  to  tread  the  line  be- 
tween helping  enough  and 
helping  too  much.  But  she 
now  says,  "It  turned  out  to  be 
not  a  problem  at  all."  When 
students  are  starting  the  appli- 
cation process,  she  typically 
asks  them  to  consider  what 
they've  already  accomplished 
at  BC.  "I  always  assume  they 
will  get  the  grant,  so  they're 
not  strategizing  about  getting 
the  grant  but  about  how  they 
will  make  it  more  transforma- 
tive intellectually,  spiritually, 


psychologically."  Thomas 
might  suggest  course  work  to 
beef  up  knowledge  in  an  area 
of  interest,  or  tell  a  student, 
"You're  going  to  have  to  know 
something  about  the  history  of 
this  issue  to  write  a  persuasive 
essay  about  it." 

By  all  accounts,  the  most 
intense  guidance  from  fellow- 
ship coordinators  comes  with 
the  essay  portion  of  applica- 
tions. Thomas  typically  covers 
essays — which  can  undergo 
numerous  rewrites — with  her 
comments,  pointing  out  weak- 
nesses but  not  solving  them. 
Hafner  often  suggests  candi- 
dates write  three  or  four  dif- 
ferent essays,  "trying  to  find 
the  'you'  in  there."  Hafner 
says  his  help  focuses  on  big 
themes  more  than  organiza- 
tion or  basic  writing,  asking, 
"How  does  the  essay  reveal  a 
coherent  life?" 

The  coordinators  of  the 
fellowships  committee  strive  to 
make  sure  applicants  appreci- 
ate what  they'll  gain,  even  if 
they  lose — which  is,  of  course, 
the  statistically  likely  outcome 
(about  1,000  applicants  vie  for 
the  32  Rhodes  Scholarships 
each  year,  for  example).  "Stu- 
dents need  to  be  encouraged 
that  it's  worthwhile  whether 
they  win  or  lose,"  Hafner  says. 
"I've  had  many  unsuccessful 
applicants  in  my  office  in  tears 
when  they  haven't  gotten  the 
award,  but  I've  also  heard 
from  every  single  one  of  them, 
I  think,  within  a  matter  of  days 
if  not  at  that  very  moment, 
'Gee,  I  really  learned  a  lot 
about  myself,  so  even  if  I 
didn't  get  the  fellowship  this 
was  really  worthwhile.'" 

Gail  Friedman 

Gail  Friedman  is  a  writer  based 
in  the  Boston  area. 


Shana  Kelley 

FIVE-YEAR  PLAN 

Assistant  Professor  Shana 
Kelley  of  the  chemistry  depart- 
ment has  received  a  National 
Science  Foundation  Career 
Award.  She  will  receive 
$593,000  over  five  years  to  aid 
her  research  on  the  molecular 
properties  of  DNA  and  RNA. 

PRESIDENT-ELECT 

Political  science  professor  Ali 
Banuazizi  has  been  named 
president-elect  of  the  Middle 
East  Studies  Association 
(MESA),  an  international  orga- 
nization of  more  than  2,600 
scholars  who  specialize  in  stud- 
ies of  the  Middle  East,  North 
Africa,  and  the  Islamic  World. 
Banuazizi  will  be  president- 
elect for  one  year,  then  serve  a 
one-year  term  as  president. 

THREE  FELLOWS 

Chemistry  professor  Lawrence 
Scott  has  been  elected  to  the 
American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  which 
is  the  world's  largest  general 
scientific  society;  physics  pro- 
fessor Michael  Naughton  has 
been  named  a  fellow  of  the 
American  Physical  Society,  an 
award  bestowed  on  no  more 
than  .5  percent  of  the  member- 
ship each  year;  and  economics 
professor  Arthur  Lewbel  has  be- 
come a  fellow  of  the  interna- 
tional Econometric  Society. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  7 


Unearthed 


In  Unknown  New  England,  jon  Marcus  delves  the  region's  best-kept  secrets 

An  interview  by  Nicole  Estvanik 


What  place  surprised  you  most? 

A  one-room  museum  in  the 
back  of  a  jewelry  store  in  Indian 
Orchard,  Massachusetts,  which 
is  a  landlocked  community  near 
Springfield.  After  seeing  the 
1956  movie  Titanic,  the  owner 
of  the  local  cinema  got  the  ad- 
dresses of  all  the  remaining  sur- 
vivors. He  collected  Madeleine 
Astor's  life  vest,  a  piece  of  carpet 
from  the  stateroom,  even  a 
breakfast  menu  from  the  pocket 
of  a  floating  corpse.  The  space 
contains  2,100  artifacts. 

Is  there  an  event  in  New  Eng- 
land history  that  particularly  in- 
trigues you? 

In  1832,  settlers  in  what  is  now 
Pittsburg,  New  Hampshire, 
frustrated  with  a  boundary  dis- 
pute in  which  they  were  claimed 
by  both  Canada  and  the  United 
States,  founded  the  Independent 
Republic  of  Indian  Stream,  with 
a  militia  of  40  men.  Everybody 

left  them  alone  for  10  years — then  they  had  the  very  bad 
idea  of  invading  Canada. 

What  should  Bostonians  be  most  ashamed  that  they've  never 
seen? 

We're  so  obsessed  with  being  depressed  about  the  Red  Sox, 
but  a  lot  of  Bostonians  don't  know  the  first  World  Series  was 
played  here  in  1903.  There's  a  piece  of  granite  in  the  shape 
of  home  plate  at  the  exact  place,  on  what  is  now  the  campus 
of  Northeastern  University.  I  was  there  on  the  100th  anni- 
versary of  the  Series,  and  no  one  was  paying  any  attention. 

What  landmark  are  you  most  surprised  has  remained  un- 
known? 

The  museum  of  the  Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Com- 


Marcus  at  the  Ames  Shovel  Archive  in  Easton,  Massachusetts 


pany  in  the  attic  of  Faneuil  Hall. 
They  have  the  hoof  of  a  horse 
from  the  Charge  of  the  Light 
Brigade  in  1854,  and  cannons, 
and  a  trunk  of  a  tree  from  Get- 
tysburg. Thomas  Edison  per- 
sonally installed  the  lighting. 
The  only  thing  you  can  hear  is 
the  creaking  of  the  floorboard, 
because  there's  nobody  up  there. 
Yet  downstairs  in  Faneuil  Hall 
Marketplace  there  are  thousands 
of  people. 

Do  any  well-known  attractions 
not  quite  merit  their  reputation? 

Paul  Revere 's  house  doesn't  look 
anything  like  it  looked  when 
Revere  lived  there.  By  the  time  it 
was  opened  as  a  tourist  attrac- 
tion, he  had  been  dead  for  90 
years,  and  it  had  been  remodeled 
and  used  as  a  cigar  factory. 


New  England  is  museum-crazy, 
isn't  it. 

New  England  has  museums  for 
dirt,  plastic,  garbage,  postage  stamps,  pranks,  ham  radio,  an- 
tique radios,  the  wireless  telegraph,  kerosene  lamps,  culi- 
nary arts,  bad  art,  politics,  the  Arctic,  forestry,  lifesaving, 
fly-fishing,  skiing,  snowmobiles,  the  Mack  Truck,  shoes, 
cuff  links,  amateur  astronomy,  medical  rarities.  .  .  . 

Why  do  you  think  that's  so? 

Maybe  we're  just  frugal  Yankees  who  never  throw  anything 
away 

Jon  Marcus  teaches  feature  writing  in  the  communication  depart- 
ment and  is  the  editor  of  Boston  Magazine.  His  Unknown 
New  England:  Landmarks,  Museums,  and  Historic  Sights 
You  Never  Knew  Existed  is  available  at  a  discount  from  the  BC 
Bookstore  via  the  BCM  Web  site:  www.bc.edu/bcm. 


8  WINTER  2004 


DEBATABLE 

Candidates  for  a  night 


From  left:  Nyck  Bernier  '07,  Tony  Coppola  '06,  Sean  Coldthwaite  '07,  Rob  Orthman  '04,  Katie  Unger  '06,  Stas  Gayshan  '04.  Also  at  the  table:  Rob  Amara  '04 
and  Casey  Otto  '07  (faces  obscured) 


Last  December,  on  the  day 
former  vice  president  Al  Gore 
endorsed  former  Vermont 
governor  Howard  Dean  for 
president,  and  as  the  Dem- 
ocratic candidates  debated  for 
real  before  TV  cameras  in 
New  Hampshire,  the  College 
Democrats  of  Boston  College 
put  on  a  mock  debate  for  an 
audience  of  80  or  so  of  their 
classmates. 

Nine  College  Democrats 
were  slated  to  represent  their 


party's  then  nine  contenders. 
But  in  the  end  only  eight  de- 
bated. Moderator  Joe  Sabia  '06 
announced  that  "John 
Edwards,"  the  North  Carolina 
senator,  had  missed  a  plane 
connection.  Reached  a  few 
days  later,  Stas  Gayshan  '04, 
the  College  Democrats'  presi- 
dent, told  a  different  story:  "I 
think  the  person  who  was  sup- 
posed to  play  Edwards  ended 
up  going  to  [New  Hampshire 
for]  the  actual  debate." 


The  surrogates  who  did 
show  came  well  prepared.  Like 
the  real  Missouri  congressman 
Richard  Gephardt,  Tony 
Coppola  '06,  who  played  him, 
touched  as  many  bases  as  possi- 
ble, calling  attention  to  his 
midwestern  roots  and  pointing 
out  that  his  father  was  a  milk 
truck  driver  and  Teamsters 
Union  member  and  that  his 
daughter  is  a  lesbian  who  sup- 
ports gay  marriage.  All  through 
the  evening  Gephardt/Coppola 


seized  every  chance  to  call 
President  Bush  "a  miserable 
failure" — one  of  Gephardt's 
trademark  lines. 

If  Gephardt/Coppola 
stressed  personal  influences, 
Rob  Amara  '04,  who  played 
John  Kerry,  repeatedly  in- 
voked Kerry's  resume  as  a 
Vietnam  War  hero  and  long- 
time Massachusetts  senator. 
Having  served  on  the  Foreign 
Relations  Committee,  Kerry/ 
Amara  claimed  to  have  rubbed 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  9 


elbows  with  many  foreign 
chiefs,  making  him  the  ideal 
leader  for  a  global  antiterror- 
ism coalition.  On  health 
policy,  he  argued  that  his 
Washington  experience  would 
help  him  "stand  up  to  the 
pharmaceutical  and  health 
care  lobby."  And  so  on. 

Some  candidates  received 
broader  portrayals.  Sean 
Goldthwaite  '07,  who  played 
Dennis  Kucinich,  the  left- 
leaning  Ohio  congressman, 
flashed  the  peace  sign  and 
treated  the  crowd  to  a  couple 
of  bars  of  "Give  Peace  a 
Chance."  He  showed  up  for 
the  debate  in  a  tie-dyed  T-shirt 
and  a  big  bow  tie  that  looked 
as  if  it  came  from  a  going-out- 
of-business  sale  at  a  tuxedo 
emporium.  (The  actual 
Kucinich  wears  a  business  suit 
and  conservative  necktie  to  de- 
bates.) In  what  seemed  like  yet 
another  piece  of  caricature, 
Kucinich/Goldthwaite  pledged 
to  start  a  cabinet-level  Peace 
Department  if  elected. 
(Kucinich 's  Web  site  reveals 
that  he  had  introduced  legisla- 
tion to  create  the  department, 
which  would  promote  "nonvio- 
lent conflict  resolution"  at 
home  and  abroad.) 

In  his  portrayal  of  the 
Reverend  Al  Sharpton,  Stas 
Gayshan  also  took  some  poetic 
license.  A  Kerry  supporter  in 
real  life,  Gayshan  said  in  a  pre- 
debate  interview  that  he  has 
been  upset  with  the  actual 
Sharpton  ever  since  2002,  when 
the  New  York  City  minister 
agreed  to  speak  to  BC's  College 
Democrats  chapter  and  then 
bowed  out  at  the  last  minute. 
Gayshan  intimated  that,  by  way 
of  payback,  he  intended  "to  be 
a  very  humorous  Al  Sharpton." 
Nonetheless,  he  took  the  role 
seriously  enough  to  transcribe 


and  study  a  Sharpton  speech. 
Sharpton  "doesn't  use  many 
connector  words,  and  he 
doesn't  pause  or  say  'umm,'" 
noted  Gayshan,  "and  that 
makes  his  rhetoric  more  effec- 
tive, because  when  he  does 
pause,  you  see  it's  for  effect, 
and  it's  very,  very  dramatic." 

Along  with  the  dramatic 
pauses,  Gayshan's  portrayal 
featured  colorful  language  and 
a  fair  amount  of  table-thump- 
ing. For  example,  speaking  of 
the  Patriot  Act,  a  controversial 
law  enforcement  measure 
passed  by  Congress  shortly 
after  September  11,  2001, 
Sharpton/Gayshan  said,  "It  is  a 
hideous  abomination.  People 
talk  about  the  fact  that  it  has 
sunset  provisions.  I  tell  you 
what.  [Bam!]  I  want  it  out 
now!"  Sometimes  the  colorful 
rhetoric  shaded  into  the  off- 
color,  as  when  Sharpton/ 
Gayshan  called  Howard  Dean, 
ably  played  by  sophomore 
Katie  Unger,  "an  arrogant, 
racist  [so-and-so]."  Admitting 
afterward  that  Sharpton  doesn't 
use  such  language,  at  least  not 
on  the  stump,  an  unrepentant 
Gayshan  said,  "I  knew  it  would 
rile  up  the  crowd.  If  I  were 
blessed  with  the  reverend's  or- 
atorical skills,  I  wouldn't  have 
used  it." 

Sharpton/Gayshan  s  attack 
on  the  Dean  surrogate  in- 
volved the  former  Vermont 
governor's  now-famous  re- 
mark concerning  pickup 
trucks  and  Confederate  flags. 
As  the  front-runner  at  the 
time,  Dean/Unger,  much  like 
Dean  himself  in  that  night's 
televised  New  Hampshire  de- 
bate, suffered  attacks  from 
every  other  candidate  except 
for  former  ambassador  Carol 
Moseley  Braun  (as  played  by 
the  gentlemanly  Casey  Otto 


'07).  Connecticut's  Senator 
Joseph  Lieberman,  played  by 
Nyck  Bernier  '07,  attacked 
Dean/Unger  for  showing  in- 
sufficient zeal  in  support  of 
Israel,  while  Kerry/Amara  at- 
tacked Dean/Unger  for  being 
the  ex-governor  "of  a  small 
corner  of  New  England"  and 
for  having  sat  out  the  Vietnam 
War  with  a  draft  deferment 
"because  [his]  back  hurt." 

Gephardt/Coppola  took 
perhaps  the  unkindest  shot  of 
all,  saying,  "Howard  Dean 
sided  with  Newt  Gingrich  in 
calling  for  across-the-board 
Medicare  cuts." 

This  appeared  to  be  too 
much  for  Dean/Unger,  who 
replied,  "When  it  came  time 
to  save  Medicare,  I  supported 
President  Clinton  in  making 
necessary  cuts.  It's  ironic  to  be 
calling  me  anti-Medicare.  I'm 
a  doctor,  so  Medicare  is  close 
to  my  heart." 

"Clinton  did  not  support 
Medicare  cuts,"  shot  back 
Gephardt/Coppola.  "You  said 
Medicare  was  the  worst  federal 
program  ever,  did  you  not?" 

Looking  slightly  befuddled,  • 
Dean/Unger  answered:  "I  don't 
think  so.  I  support  Medicare." 

The  audience  reacted 
calmly  to  flurries  such  as  this, 
reserving  noise  mainly  for 
Sharpton  and  Kucinich.  A  ran- 
dom poll  of  seven  audience 
members  turned  up  five  Dem- 
ocrats', one  independent,  and 
one  persuadable  Republican, 
none  of  whom  had  a  firm 
commitment  to  any  candidate. 
After  the  debate,  Dean 
Gudicello  '04  said  the  event 
"was  definitely  a  good  show," 
but  it  hadn't  helped  him  clarify 
his  opinions  of  the  candidates. 
"One  thing  they  could  have 
done  better,"  he  said,  "is  make 
it  more  informative."  By  con- 


trast, Stephanie  Pally  '07  said 
she  is  leaning  toward  Kerry 
now  because  of  what  she'd 
learned  about  his  platform  and 
his  government  experience.  In 
between  was  Katrina  King  '07, 
who  said,  "I  kind  of  liked 
Howard  Dean  until  the  other 
candidates  started  attacking 
him.  I  don't  know  if  he's  actual- 
ly said  the  things  the  other  can- 
didates accused  him  of."  And 
Justin  Thornton  '07  said  the 
debate  had  reinforced  his  initial 
interest  in  both  Dean  and 
General  Wesley  Clark  (played 
by  Rob  Orthman  '04),  although 
he  hopes  Dean  can  curb  a  ten- 
dency to  speak  first  and  think 
later.  "He  has  to  learn  how  to 
be  politically  correct.  If  we're 
talking  about  the  Confederate 
flag,  I  don't  think  he  meant 
to  support  racism,  just  to  say 
poor  southern  whites  deserve 
the  same  treatment  as  everyone 
else,"  said  Thornton,  who 
is  African-American.  "To  be  a 
politician  today,  you  have  to  ex- 
tend your  arms  to  all  peoples." 

At  the  end  of  the  debate  the 
audience  voted,  and  Sharpton, 
or  his  surrogate,  won  handily. 
"Stas  did  a  great  job,"  ex- 
plained Sara  Dart  '06,  "but  I 
honestly  can  say  that  [the  actu- 
al Sharpton]  has  virtually  no 
chance  of  getting  my  vote.  He's 
too  abrasive  to  get  things  done 
in  the  White  House." 

Asked  if  his  and  Sharpton's 
victory  had  surprised  him, 
given  Sharpton's  low  level  of 
real-world  support,  Gayshan 
said,  "No.  If  you  take  elec- 
tability  out  of  the  picture, 
[Sharpton]  is  the  best  public 
speaker  of  any  of  the  candi- 
dates, and  the  best  debater." 

David  Reich 

David  Reich  is  a  freelance  writer 
based  in  the  Boston  area. 


10  WINTER  2004 


ACCIDENTAL  TOURIST 

A  webcam  diary 


Webcams  have  become  a  co?nmon- 
place  on  university  campuses, 
offering  the  world  quixotic, 
unplanned  views  of  complex,  pur- 
posive institutions.  Boston  College 
has  four,  overlooking  O'Neill 
Plaza,  the  Gasson  Quadrangle, 
and  the  construction  sites  of 
the  Yaw  key  Center  and  the 
Ignatius  Gate  residence  hall. 
Since  May  2003,  when  the 
first  camera  went  live,  the  author 
has  made  occasional  visits  to 
www.bc.edu/webcams  from  his 
office  and  home,  keeping  notes  on 
the  Boston  College  he  discovered: 

o'neill  plaza.  Bright  morn- 
ing. Sunlight  on  snow  piles 
below.  Students  walk  fast 
across  plaza.  Young  man  ap- 
pears to  be  my  son  who  gradu- 
ated three  years  ago.  I  watch 
him  until  he  enters  Gasson 
Quad.  Plaza  suddenly  empty, 
as  though  someone  had  issued 
an  order  through  a  bullhorn. 
A  class  hour  has  begun. 
gasson  quad.  Evening. 
Raindrops  on  camera  lens.  BC 
has  dropped  away,  leaving  a 
pointillist  painting  of  nothing. 

YAWKEY  CENTER  CONSTRUC- 
TION site.  Morning.  Webcams 
on  construction  sites  are  what 
one  colleague  calls  the  "watch- 
ing-paint-dry  Web  strategy." 
A  "Yawkey  Center"  illustrated 
banner  is  the  size  of  a  Museum 
of  Natural  History  diorama. 
Below  it  a  backhoe  roots  in 
a  hole.  Seems  to  find  nothing. 
Doesn't  seem  to  care.  Keeps 
rooting  like  a  pig  after  the 
memory  of  a  truffle. 
gasson  quad.  Midday. 


Top:  camera  on  O'Neill  Library  roof.  Bottom:  webcam  view  of  Gasson  Quad, 
flanked  by  buildings-in-progress  Ignatius  Gate  dorm  (left)  and  Yawkey  Center 


Shimmerings  and  sparklings  in 
the  south-facing  camera. 
Landing  here  on  a  sunny  day  is 
like  running  into  a  friend  who 
is  always  high.  See  you  later. 
o'neill  plaza.  Thanksgiving 
eve,  6  P.M.  Five  minutes  pass. 
No  life,  no  movement. 
Ignatius  dorm  site.  After- 
noon. Building  wrapped  in 
white  plastic  skin.  Cliffs  of 
Dover.  Construction  workers 
enter  via  a  dark  square  cave. 
gasson  quad.  Rainstorm  at 
night.  Dial-in  from  home. 
White  globes  of  lamplight 
hovering  like  benign  spirits. 
o'neill  plaza.  Same  stormy 
night.  Rain  moves  across  plaza 


like  a  rug  unrolling.  Something 
that  looks  like  a  penguin  is 
standing  in  a  lighted  window 
on  third  floor  of  Gasson. 
ignatius  dorm  site.  Same 
night.  Wind  trapped  inside  the 
white  wrapping,  fists  of  air 
flailing  at  the  sheeting. 
o'neill  plaza.  Later  that 
night.  Something  like  a  pen- 
guin is  still  there. 
o'neill  plaza,  but  I'm  walking 
through.  Young  woman  talking 
on  cell  phone  in  middle  of 
plaza  is  looking  up  at  O'Neill 
roof  edge.  "Come  say  hi  to 
my  Mom,"  she  calls  to  another 
woman,  who  hastens  to  get 
away. 


gasson  quad.  December- 
bright  morning.  Strong  colors 
everywhere.  Blue  steel  sky. 
Connection  is  slow.  Students 
step  into  wormholes  in  time, 
emerge  30  feet  away. 

IGNATIUS  DORM  SITE.  Night. 

Small  light  burns  in  municipal 
cemetery  across  the  road.  I  re- 
call a  student  who  died  weeks 
before  her  graduation.  Parents 
asked  that  she  be  buried  in 
the  cemetery.  Someone  called 
the  mayor.  She  lies  there. 
gasson  quad.  Blizzard. 
Night.  The  end  of  the  world. 
Water  seems  to  have  reached 
the  height  of  the  camera. 
o'neill  plaza.  Icy,  windy  after- 
noon after  big  storm.  My  son 
Gabriel  forwards  "Lunabean 
Newsletter,"  a  videogamer's 
e-mail  to  which  he  subscribes. 
Proprietors  "Allison"  and 
"Jeremy,"  BC  graduates,  advise 
subscribers  to  turn  their 
browsers  to  the  webcam  above 
O'Neill  Plaza,  which  "becomes 
very  slippery  in  winter  weather 
[where]  the  webcam  is  ready 
to  capture  many  a  spill.  Enjoy. 
Just  try  not  to  laugh  too  hard." 
What  are  videogamers  in 
Calcutta  thinking  as  they  gaze 
out  over  the  frozen  plaza  and 
wait  for  pratfalls? 
ignatius  dorm  site.  Early 
evening.  Pearly  sky.  Airplane 
crossing  over  Boston.  I  have 
often  looked  down  at  the 
glowing  coals  of  cities.  Have  I 
ever  imagined  a  man  in  an 
office  gazing  at  a  computer 
screen  and  seeing  me  cross  the 
sky  like  a  new  star? 

Ben  Birnbaum 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE   11 


FAIR  FIGHT 


Professor  Kent  Greenfield  takes  on  Rumsfeld  et  al. 


A  Boston  College  law  profes- 
sor is  leading  the  charge  to 
have  the  1996  Solomon 
Amendment  declared  uncon- 
stitutional. Last  September, 
Professor  Kent  Greenfield 
filed  suit  on  behalf  of  the 
Forum  for  Academic  and 
Institutional  Rights  (FAIR),  an 
organization  he  founded  and 
chairs,  to  overturn  the  contro- 
versial law,  which  (among 
other  things)  requires  univer- 
sities to  open  their  career  ser- 
vices facilities  to  military 
recruiters  or  risk  losing  federal 
funding.  FAIR's  20  members 
include  law  schools  and  law 
school  faculty  groups  that 
wish  to  exclude  the  recruiters 
from  their  campuses  because 
they  believe  the  military 
discriminates  against  gays  and 
lesbians. 

According  to  Greenfield, 
about  half  of  FAIR's  members 
have  chosen  to  remain  anony- 
mous, fearing  reprisals  from 
congressional  supporters 
of  the  amendment  and  federal 
funding  agencies.  Neither 
Boston  College  nor  BC  Law 
is  a  party  to  the  FAIR  lawsuit. 

BC  Law's  nondiscrimina- 
tion policy  prohibits  discrimi- 
nation against  gays  and 
lesbians,  and,  like  most  law 
schools,  the  school  denied 
military  recruiters  access  to  its 
campus  into  the  1990s.  After 
the  Solomon  Amendment 
passed  in  1996,  military  re- 
cruiters were  allowed  on  cam- 
pus and  permitted  to  recruit, 
but  not  given  access  to  career 
services.  Since  law  schools 


Greenfield  at  the  main  entrance  to  the  law  school 


receive  very  little  federal 
money,  the  move  was  not 
financially  risky.  However,  a 
change  in  Department  of 
Defense  regulations  in  2000 
made  it  possible  for  an  entire 
university  associated  with  any 
noncompliant  "sub-entity" — a 
law  school,  for  example — to 
lose  its  defense  funding  if  the 


sub-entity  continued  to  deny 
military  recruiters  equal 
access.  Faced  with  this  poten- 
tial cost,  most  law  schools, 
including  BC  Law  in  2002, 
acquiesced  and  opened  up 
their  career  services  facilities. 

Greenfield,  a  scholar  of 
constitutional  and  corporate 
law,  got  involved  in  the  issue 


in  2002,  when  a  group  of  BC 
law  students  spoke  with  him 
about  wanting  to  challenge  the 
amendment.  Ultimately,  he 
and  four  students  formed  an 
accredited  course  that  focused 
on  Solomon.  "Over  time  I 
became  convinced  that  the 
Solomon  Amendment  was 
imposing  costs  on  the  school, 
particularly  on  its  gay  and 
lesbian  students  by  leaving 
them  even  more  isolated,  but 
also  on  its  academic  freedom," 
he  said.  FAIR  grew  out  of 
Greenfield's  discussions  with 
law  professors  around  the 
country  interested  in  challeng- 
ing the  law  in  court. 

IN  A  jujitsu-style  legal  strate- 
gy, the  FAIR  lawsuit  cites  two 
legal  decisions  that  are  com- 
monly viewed  as  detrimental 
to  homosexuals:  Boy  Scouts  of 
America  v.  Dale  (2000)  and 
Hurley  v.  Irish -American  Gay, 
Lesbian,  and  Bisexual  Group  of 
Boston  (1995).  In  both  cases  the 
U.S.  Supreme  Court  allowed  a 
private  group  to  discriminate 
against  gays  by  barring  them 
from,  in  one  instance,  scouting 
and,  in  the  other,  Boston's  St. 
Patrick's  Day  parade,  holding 
that  the  respective  prohibi- 
tions had  an  "expressive  pur- 
pose" deserving  of  First 
Amendment,  free-speech  pro- 
tection. If  the  government 
declined  to  interfere  when  the 
scouts  and  parade  organizers 
discriminated  by  excluding 
gays  and  lesbians,  the  lawsuit 
argues,  then  surely  it  may  not 
interfere  with  a  school's  deci- 


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sion  to  exclude  people,  such  as 
military  recruiters,  who  dis- 
criminate against  gays  and  les- 
bians. Explains  Greenfield: 
"The  federal  government  is 
saying,  'If  you  don't  change 
your  academic  policies  and 
philosophy,  we  will  take  away 
your  federal  funding.'  They 
are,  in  this  respect,  forcing  us 
to  speak  for  them." 

According  to  Greenfield, 
the  Solomon  case  belongs  to  a 


class  of  suits  against  "unconsti- 
tutional conditions."  "The  law 
is,  you  can't  condition  [govern- 
ment] benefits  on  the  giving 
up  of  a  constitutional  right," 
he  said,  offering  the  example 
of  military  pensions  that,  in 
the  1950s,  were  temporarily 
withheld  from  veterans  who 
refused  to  take  an  oath  of  loy- 
alty to  the  United  States.  That 
law  and  others  like  it  were 
overturned  by  the  Supreme 


Court  on  free-speech  grounds. 

Motions  in  FAIR's  case, 
FAIR  et  al.  v.  Rumsfeld  et  al., 
were  heard  last  fall  by  Judge 
John  C.  Lifland,  of  the  U.S. 
District  Court  in  Newark, 
New  Jersey.  On  November  5, 
the  judge  denied  FAIR's  re- 
quest for  an  injunction  that 
would  have  suspended  the 
amendment  pending  the  out- 
come of  the  case.  Also  on 
November  5,  he  denied  the 


Pentagon's  motion  to  dismiss 
the  suit,  opening  the  door  for 
a  trial.  FAIR  meanwhile  has 
appealed  the  judge's  decision 
to  deny  an  injunction.  A  three- 
judge  panel  of  the  Third 
Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  will 
issue  a  ruling,  most  likely  in 
early  spring. 

Tim  Heffernan 

Tim  Heffernan  is  a  freelance 
writer  based  in  New  York  City. 


GREEN  ACRES 

Boston  College  will  make  an  offer  on  archdiocesan  land 


The  University  hopes  to  pur- 
chase 27.6  acres  of  land  that 
the  Boston  Archdiocese  has 
put  up  for  sale  in  Brighton. 
The  archdiocese  announced  its 
intention  to  sell  in  early 
December,  part  of  its  effort  to 
pay  an  $84  million  settlement 
reached  with  victims  of  clergy 
sexual  abuse. 

The  property  occupies  a 
portion  of  the  large  block  of 
land  stretching  along 
Commonwealth  Avenue  be- 
tween Foster  and  Lake  streets. 
It  is  adjacent  to  Boston 
College's  honors  housing  in 
Greycliff  Hall  and  less  than  a 
five-minute  walk  from  the 
University's  lower  campus. 
The  sale  includes  the  three- 
story  mansion  built  by 
Cardinal  William  O'Connell 
in  the  1920s,  which  has  been 
used  as  a  residence  by  the  last 
four  archbishops.  (Archbishop 
Sean  O'Malley,  a  Capuchin 


St.  John's  Seminary 


Boston  College 
Main  Campus 

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to  property) 


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former  cardinal's 
residence 


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I     I  Buildings  owned  by  BC 
[59  Buildings  on  sale  site 
□  Building  leased  by  BC 


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Greycliff  Ha 


St.  Clements  Hall 


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The  Boston  Archdiocese's  Brighton  property 


friar  who  was  installed  in  the 
position  last  July,  has  opted  for 
quarters  in  the  rectory  at  the 
Cathedral  of  the  Holy  Cross, 
in  Boston's  South  End.)  The 
residence  and  available  land 
together  recently  were  as- 


sessed at  nearly  $14  million  by 
the  City  of  Boston.  St.  John's 
Seminary  and  the  chancery, 
which  houses  archdiocesan  of- 
fices, also  occupy  the  block 
and  are  not  for  sale. 

According  to  Jack  Dunn, 


the  University's  director  of 
public  affairs,  "Boston  College 
is  committed  to  making  an 
offer  for  the  property  that  is 
reflective  of  the  value  of 
the  land  and  that  will  help 
the  Archdiocese  of  Boston 
to  reach  its  settlement 
obligations. 

"The  University  has  a  pro- 
nounced need  for  open  space 
for  recreational  purposes  that 
could  be  addressed  through 
this  property,"  says  Dunn,  who 
notes  that  if  the  land  were  sold 
to  developers,  the  impact  on 
the  Brighton  neighborhood 
might  be  substantial.  "We 
share  the  same  concerns  as  any 
other  neighbor  regarding  de- 
velopment proposals  and  hope 
that  our  connection  to  the 
Archdiocese  of  Boston  as  a 
Catholic  university  will  enable 
us  to  keep  the  land  within  the 
Church." 

Public  affairs  staff 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE   13 


CROSS-TRAINING 

Lynch  School  awarded  $5  million  to  improve  education  at  the  source 


The  Lynch  School  of  Educa- 
tion has  received  a  five-year 
grant  of  $5  million  from  the 
Carnegie  Corporation  to 
participate  in  Teachers  for  a 
New  Era  (TNE),  an  initiative 
to  strengthen  teacher  train- 
ing that  is  funded  also  by  the 
Annenberg,  Ford,  and 
Rockefeller  foundations. 

TNE  aims  to  bolster  K-12 
education  by  supporting  train- 
ing programs  that  will  offer 
original  research,  extensive 
field  experience,  and  a  rigor- 


ous arts  and  sciences  education 
for  future  teachers.  Since  the 
program  was  launched  two 
years  ago,  1 1  institutions, 
among  them  the  Bank  Street 
College  of  Education,  the 
University  of  Virginia,  and 
Stanford  University,  have  ac- 
cepted invitations  to  take  part. 

John  J.  Burns,  associate 
academic  vice  president  for 
undergraduate  programs,  will 
serve  as  Boston  College's 
TNE  project  manager.  The 
grant,  which  BC  is  committed 


to  match,  will  enable  the 
University  to  extend  its  part- 
nerships with  the  Boston 
Public  Schools  (LSOE  has  col- 
laborated with  19  local  schools 
over  the  past  decade).  The 
funds  will  bring  more  public 
school  teachers  to  BC  to 
team-teach  with  Lynch  School 
faculty;  and  there  are  plans 
to  establish  full-time  student- 
teaching  placements  within 
five  area  schools.  A  portion 
of  the  TNE  grant  will  pro- 
vide mentoring  and  seminars 


for  recent  LSOE  graduates. 

TNE  will  also  fund  an 
extensive  study  of  Lynch 
School  graduates  and  their 
pupils,  according  to  LSOE 
professor  Marilyn  Cochran- 
Smith,  who  collaborated  on 
the  grant  proposal.  The  study 
will  incorporate  existing  data 
from  state-mandated  assess- 
ment tests  and  other  sources, 
says  Cochran-Smith,  along 
with  new,  qualitative  measures 
of  teachers'  effectiveness. 

Nicole  Estvanik 


LET  IT  STAND 

State  Supreme  Court  clears  way  for  campus  construction 


The  Massachusetts  Supreme 
Judicial  Court  has  let  stand  a 
decision  by  the  State  Court  of 
Appeals  to  deny  the  City  of 
Newton's  application  for  fur- 
ther appellate  review  regarding 
the  middle  campus  construc- 
tion project  first  proposed 
by  Boston  College  in  1996. 
Following  the  court's  Novem- 
ber 26  decision,  University 
President  William  P.  Leahy,  SJ, 
announced  that  a  committee 
of  faculty,  administrators,  and 
students  will  review  the  project 
plans  and  assess  their  fit  with 
Boston  College's  current 
needs  and  new  construction 
standards. 

Under  the  original  design, 
three  interconnected  buildings 


would  replace  McElroy 
Commons  in  the  southwest 
corner  of  middle  campus, 
including  a  new  humanities 
building  and  a  consolidated 
student  center. 

Litigation  over  the  project 
began  in  1996,  when  Boston 
College  brought  suit  against 
the  City  of  Newton  following 
the  refusal  by  the  Board  of 
Aldermen  to  grant  a  permit  for 
construction.  Although  the 
project  had  won  early  approval 
from  state  and  local  agencies 
and  from  the  aldermen's  own 
Land  Use  Committee,  it  had 
failed  to  receive  the  required 
two-thirds  majority  vote  of  the 
board.  Boston  College  filed  suit 
in  the  Massachusetts  Land 


Court,  appealing  the  aldermen's 
decision,  and  a  trial  took  place 
in  1998.  In  its  legal  argument, 
the  University  cited  the  state's 
Dover  Amendment,  which 
prohibits  municipalities  from 
regulating  and  restricting  "the 
use  of  land  or  structures  for 
religious  purposes  or  for  edu- 
cational purposes"  except  by 
"reasonable  regulations." 

In  January  of  2001,  Land 
Court  Justice  Karyn  F.  Scheier 
ruled  in  favor  of  the  University, 
stating  that  the  city's  "zoning 
regulations  may  not  reasonably 
be  applied  to  the  middle  cam- 
pus project,"  and  that  the 
Newton  Board  of  Aldermen's 
denial  of  BC's  petition  to  build 
the  middle  campus  project  "is 


legally  untenable  under  the 
Dover  Amendment  and  there- 
fore beyond  the  authority  of 
the  Board." 

The  Newton  Aldermen 
voted  to  appeal  the  decision, 
which  was  upheld  in  August 
2003  by  the  Massachusetts 
Appeals  Court;  one  month 
later,  the  board  opted  to  apply 
for  further  judicial  review  by 
the  Massachusetts  Supreme 
Judicial  Court. 

According  to  the  Land 
Court's  decision,  the  University 
and  the  city  must  still  come 
to  terms  on  the  availability  of 
parking  as  a  result  of  the 
project,  before  construction 
permits  can  be  obtained. 

Public  affairs  staff 


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Life  time 


WHAT  IF  AMERICANS  WORKED  LESS? 


One  of  the  most  striking  features  of  American  society  is  how 
much  we  work.  Unlike  the  century  between  1850  and  1950, 
when  productivity  improvements  translated  into  consider- 
able reductions  in  hours  of  work,  the  last  three  decades  have 
witnessed  steady  increases  in  work  time. 

From  1973  to  2000,  the  average  American  worker  added 
199  hours  to  his  or  her  annual  schedule — nearly  five  addi- 
tional weeks  of  work  per  year  (assuming  a  40-hour  work- 
week). Now  the  worlds  standout  workaholic  nation,  America 
leads  other  industrial  countries 
in  terms  of  the  proportion  of  the 
population  holding  jobs,  the 
number  of  days  spent  on  those 
jobs  per  year,  and  the  hours 
worked  per  day.  Through  the 
booms  and  the  busts,  average 
U.  S.  work  hours  haven't  stopped 
climbing. 

Between  1967  and  2000,  the 
overall  index  of  labor  produc- 
tivity per  hour  increased  about 
80  percent,  from  65.8  to  116.6. 
That  index  represents  econom- 
ic progress,  indicating  that  the 
average  worker  in  2000  could 
produce  nearly  twice  as  much 
as  in  1967.  Had  we  used  that 
productivity  dividend  to  reduce 
hours  of  work,  the  average 
American  now  could  be  work- 
ing only  a  little  more  than  20 
hours  a  week. 

And  what  if  that  had  hap- 
pened? Our  material  standard  of  living  would  have  stabi- 
lized. Americans  would  be  eating  out  less,  the  average  house 
size  wouldn't  have  grown  by  50  percent,  and  kitchen  coun- 
ters might  still  be  made  of  Formica.  We  wouldn't  be  heating 
up  the  climate  as  rapidly,  because  expensive  gas-guzzling 
SUVs  wouldn't  have  become  so  popular.  And  we  wouldn't 
need  to  replace  our  computers  every  two  to  three  years, 
which  might  not  be  such  a  bad  thing  from  an  environmen- 
tal point  of  view  either.  (A  recent  report  suggests  that  the 
average  computer  uses  a  total  quantity  of  material  resources 
equivalent  to  the  average  car,  or  more.) 

Certainly,  Americans  would  be  consuming  a  different 


Dreyfus  Corporation,  New  York  City,  1992 


mix  of  goods  and  services  than  in  1960.  But  in  the  aggre- 
gate, taking  all  productivity  growth  as  leisure  time  would 
have  led  to  a  stable  real  level  of  income. 

WITH  THE  normal  workweek  as  low  as  20  hours  (plus 
seven  weeks  of  vacation),  two-income  households  with  chil- 
dren could  easily  do  without  paid  child  care.  People  would 
have  plenty  of  time  for  community  and  volunteer  work, 
perhaps  meaning  less  need  for  government  social  spend- 
ing. It  would  be  easy  to  pursue 
a  passion,  like  playing  music, 
or  woodworking,  or  quilting,  or 
fishing. 

We  could  become  lifelong 
learners,  or  make  up  our  chron- 
ic national  sleep  deficit.  All  that 
free  time  could  also  go  into  plea- 
surable activities  that  provide 
additional  income  or  consump- 
tion— like  gardening,  or  making 
crafts  for  sale,  or  building  furni- 
ture, or  sewing — activities  that 
steadily  fewer  people  have  time 
for  now.  Work-related  expens- 
es, meanwhile,  would  decrease, 
which  would  make  stable  salaries 
more  bearable. 

Americans  could  actually  get 
back  to  eating  dinner  together, 
talking,  and  visiting  friends. 

From  today's  vantage  point, 

a  time-surplus  society  may  seem 

Utopian,  almost  unnatural.  But 

that's  only  because  we've  been  going  24/7  for  too  many 

years  and  have  lost  sight  of  other  possibilities. 

It's  not  too  late  to  stop  and  smell  the  roses.  The  time  has 
come  to  take  back  our  time. 

Juliet  Schor 

Juliet  Schor  is  a  professor  of  sociology  at  Boston  College  and 
author  of  The  Overworked  American  (1992)  and  the  forth- 
coming Born  to  Buy:  Marketing  and  the  Transformation  of 
Childhood.  Her  essay  is  adapted  from  Take  Back  Your  Time, 
copyright  ©  2003  by  John  de  Graaf  editor,  reprinted  with  per- 
mission of  the  publisher,  Berrett-Koehler  Publishers  Inc. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  15 


SUN  DOWNER 


Researchers  link  solar  storms  to  market  lows 


The  solar  storms  that  buffeted 
Earth's  atmosphere  last 
October  produced  spectacular 
auroras,  caused  surges  in 
Canada's  electrical  grid,  and 
briefly  disrupted  radio  contact 
with  airliners.  According  to 
analysis  by  Anna  Krivelyova,  a 
Ph.D.  candidate  in  economics 
at  Boston  College,  and  her 
husband,  Cesare  Robotti,  who 
earned  his  doctorate  in  eco- 
nomics from  BC  in  2002,  those 
emissions  of  electrically 
charged  solar  gases  also  sent 
stock  markets  around  the  globe 
on  a  short  downward  trip. 
Krivelyova  and  Robotti  first 
laid  out  their  theory  in 
"Playing  the  Field:  Geomag- 
netic Storms  and  International 
Stock  Markets,"  published 
in  March  2003  as  part  of  an 
ongoing  series  of  papers  spon- 
sored by  the  Federal  Reserve 
Bank  of  Atlanta. 

Geomagnetic  solar  storms 
occur  approximately  3  5  days 
per  year.  For  their  study, 
Krivelyova  and  Robotti  corre- 
lated the  dates  of  all  such 
storms  over  the  past  70  years 
with  the  behavior  of  1 2  of  the 
world's  stock  markets  over  the 
same  period.  An  unmistakable 
pattern  emerged:  When  the 
sun  flares  up,  the  markets  go 
down.  The  condition  lasts  for 
about  six  days  after  the  storms 
end. 

Numerous  studies  have 
shown  that  solar  storms  affect 
our  mood,  which  can  in  turn 
affect  our  behavior.  One  1 994 
report  in  the  British  Journal  of 
Psychiatry  cited  by  Krivelyova 


Krivelyova  and  Robotti:  "So  far  the  results  have  been  indestructible. 


and  Robotti  shows  a  36.2  per- 
cent increase  in  hospital  ad- 
missions for  depression  during 
the  storms.  A  1992  paper  pub- 
lished in  the  Russian  Aviakosm 
Eko/og  Med  shows  that  during 
solar  storms,  pilots  experience 
increased  stress  and  a  sharp 
decline  in  flying  skills.  A 
Russian  study  from  1998, 
based  on  data  from  Moscow's 
ambulance  corps,  found  that 
suicides  and  mental  disorders, 
along  with  cardiovascular  inci- 
dents— which  are  often  stress 
related — spike  during  periods 
of  increased  geomagnetic  ac- 
tivity. 

Krivelyova  and  Robotti  are 
the  first  to  relate  the  phenom- 
enon to  economic  behavior. 
Their  analysis  hinges  on  what 
they  term  "misattribution  of 
mood."  Some  investors,  they 
argue,  become  nervous  or  de- 
pressed during  geomagnetic 


storms.  Their  perceptions  of 
market  conditions  then  take  a 
dark  turn  and — unaware  of  the 
true  source  of  their  changed 
mood — the  investors  decide  to 
dump  stocks  that,  under  nor- 
mal circumstances,  they  would 
have  held.  The  aggregate  ef- 
fect is  an  overall  decline  in  the 
world's  stock  markets. 

Krivelyova  and  Robotti 
controlled  for  other  mood- 
altering  factors  such  as  weather 
and  time  of  year.  They  found 
that  drops  in  the  value  of 
stocks  owing  to  geomagnetic 
storms  are  indeed  substantial. 
An  investor  with  $1,000  in 
Great  Britain's  FTSE  100 
index,  they  point  out,  would 
have  earned  an  average  of  $  1 3  9 
annually  during  the  eight 
decades,  barring  solar  storms. 
Instead,  earnings  on  $1,000 
were  only  $96.80  per  year — a 
30  percent  loss  in  income.  The 


storms  had  similar  effects  on 
other  stock  indexes  the  authors 
studied,  including  the  Nasdaq 
and  the  Standard  &  Poor's  500 
in  the  United  States,  as  well 
as  major  indexes  in  Japan, 
Australia,  Canada,  Sweden, 
and  New  Zealand. 

The  researchers  also  found 
that  the  solar  storms  have  a 
greater  effect  on  the  prices  of 
stocks  of  smaller  companies 
(those  with  lower  market  capi- 
talizations), which  tend  to  be 
held  by  individual  investors, 
than  on  stocks  of  larger  compa- 
nies, which  tend  to  be  held  by 
institutional  investors  such  as 
mutual  funds  and  pension 
funds.  Small  investors, 
Krivelyova  and  Robotti  explain, 
are  more  likely  to  buy  or  sell  a 
stock  on  the  basis  of  emotion, 
while  institutional  investors 
tend  to  use  computer  programs 
to  guide  their  decisions. 

"PLAYING  the  Field"  is  part 
of  a  new — and  controversial — 
area  of  economics  called 
behavioral  finance,  which  chal- 
lenges the  long-standing  as- 
sumption that  investors  make 
decisions  purely  according  to 
rational  self-interest.  Ration- 
alist theories  have  never  fully 
explained  the  widespread  irra- 
tional market  behavior  that 
does  erupt  from  time  to  time — 
the  most  recent  example  being 
the  1990s  market  bubble.  In 
A  General  Theory  of  Employ- 
ment, Interest,  and  Money,  the 
contrarian  economist  John 
Maynard  Keynes  tried  to  ac- 
count for  an  earlier  outbreak, 


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the  Great  Depression,  and 
the  years  immediately  preced- 
ing it.  Why  had  stock  prices 
increased  beyond  all  reason  in 
the  1920s,  he  wondered,  and 
why,  after  the  crash,  did  in- 
vestors refuse  to  return  to  the 
market  for  years  after  any  rea- 
sonable assessment  would  have 
revealed  numerous  opportuni- 
ties for  profit? 

Keynes  blamed  what  he 
called  "animal  spirits,"  the 
whatever-it-is  that  sometimes 
makes  people  take  outlandish 
risks  and  sometimes  fills  them 
with  baseless  fears.  Main- 
stream economists  dismissed 
his  idea  as  too  vague  to  have 
any  predictive  value.  The 
study  of  geomagnetic  storms 
represents  a  behaviorist  end 
run  around  their  objections. 
"We  wanted  to  study  the 
effects  of  mood  on  market 


performance,"  Krivelyova  said. 
"Geomagnetic  storms  were 
just  a  proxy.  So  far  the  re- 
sults have  been  indestructible." 


But  don't  expect  to  make 
a  fast  buck  the  next  time  a  geo- 
magnetic storm  erupts.  The 
fact  is,  when  it  comes  to  in- 


vesting, good  predictive  frame- 
works inevitably  undermine 
themselves.  Since  the  discov- 
ery of  the  Monday  Effect,  for 
example — that's  the  tendency 
of  Wall  Street  stocks  to  drop 
on  Monday  mornings,  when 
traders  are  grumpy  about 
being  back  at  work — its  mag- 
nitude has  greatly  diminished, 
as  traders  have  learned  to  re- 
sist the  irrational  urge  to  sell. 
Krivelyova  and  Robotti  expect 
the  same  thing  to  happen  if 
their  theory  about  geomagnet- 
ic storms  and  misattribution  of 
mood  ever  makes  it  to  the 
trading  floor.  "Once  everyone 
becomes  aware  of  the  informa- 
tion, the  market  becomes 
efficient  again,  and  you  can't 
make  money  anymore," 
Krivelyova  said.  "Or" — the 
good  news — "lose  it." 

Tim  Heffernan 


field  trip — Reflections  in  Black, 
an  exhibit  presented  by  Boston 
College's  McMullen  Museum  of 
Art  last  September  to  December, 
featured  photography  from  the 
Smithsonian  collection  document- 
ing civil  rights  activism  and 
African-American  life  from  the 
1950s  to  the  end  of  the  20th  centu- 
ry. Students  in  the  Lynch  School 
of  Education  developed  grade- 
appropriate  study  guides  to  the 
photographs  for  visiting  school 
groups.  At  left,  fifth-graders 
from  Mather  Elementary  School 
in  Boston  tour  the  exhibit  with 
their  teacher. 


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THE  PRODUCERS 


Now,  from  the  studio  of  UGBC  TV 


At  left,  with  dueling  phones,  Basic  Cable  sophomore  cast  members  (from  left):  Red  Fabbri,  Frank  Maguire,  Tom  Ganjamie,  and  Hank  Spring.  At  right,  on  the  Now 
You  Know  set  (from  left):  Mike  Hundgen  '05,  Jessie  Rosen  '05,  Chris  Mitchell  '07,  D.J.  Doyle  '06,  Bill  Busacker  '05,  Matt  Jacobson  '05,  and  Chris  Bergendorff  '06 


When  it  was  designed  eight 
years  ago,  BC  Cable  was  in- 
tended as  a  vehicle  for  airing 
movies  and  videotaped  lectures 
and  campus  events,  not  for 
student  productions.  But  a 
shoestring  budget  and  fairly 
basic  equipment  haven't  kept 
students  from  launching  origi- 
nal, must-see  programming  for 
their  peers.  Two  shows  pro- 
duced through  the  undergrad- 
uate government-sponsored 
UGBC  TV — one  played  for 
laughs,  the  other  a  very  local 
news  program — have  gained 
faithful  audiences  this  year. 

Red  Fabbri  and  Tom 
Ganjamie,  both  sophomores, 
produce  Basic  Cable,  a  half- 
hour  sketch  comedy  show  that 
broadcasts  a  new  episode  every 
month.  Their  goal  is  to  get 
BC  students  to  laugh  at  them- 
selves. All  scenes  are  shot  on 
location — in  residence  halls, 


dining  facilities,  and  outdoor 
settings  around  campus.  In  the 
premiere  episode,  which  aired 
on  October  17,  these  things 
happened:  A  guy  got  caught  by 
his  roommate  dancing  girlishly 
to  an  Eighties  pop  song.  An 
average  Joe  tried  to  dunk  a 
basketball  and  missed  really, 
really  badly.  Four  male  stu- 
dents gathered  around  a  table 
on  which  two  cell  phones 
stood  facing  each  other. 
"Three  dollars  on  Big  Blue!" 
said  one  student,  and  then  the 
cell  phones  were  dialed.  They 
were  set  to  vibrate  instead  of 
ring,  and  so  they  bounced 
across  the  table  toward  each 
other.  They  collided;  the 
black  phone  toppled.  Big  Blue 
won. 

FABBRI  AND  Ganjamie's  first 
foray  into  comedy  together 
was  in  the  fall  of  2002,  when 


with  three  friends; — fellow 
sophomores  Patrick  Kane, 
Mark  Goehausen,  and  Nick 
Boniakowski,  all  Basic  Cable 
cast  members — they  produced 
a  movie  called  Tuna  Lowers 
My  Inhibitions  for  Boston 
College's  freshman  film  festi- 
val. Tuna  placed  first  and  soon 
ended  up  on  the  Internet, 
where  it  became  something  of 
a  cult  hit.  Impressed,  the  crew 
of  Boogie  Heights,  a  variety 
show  then  being  produced  by 
students  and  aired  on  BC 
Cable,  invited  Fabbri  and 
Ganjamie  to  join  them;  when 
the  founders  of  Boogie  Heights 
graduated  in  June,  Fabbri  and 
Ganjamie  decided  to  start  a 
new  show  in  its  place,  which 
led  to  Basic  Cable. 

"We're  all  living  in  this 
little  college  world,"  says 
Ganjamie.  "We  listened  to 
what  people  were  talking  about, 


and  we  played  with  that."  In 
the  weeks  following  the  Basic 
Cable  premiere,  many  students 
approached  the  producers  to 
say  how  much  they  liked  the 
show — and  how  much  of 
themselves  they  saw  in  it. 

Twelve  students — 1 1  males 
and  one  female,  Leigh  Van 
Ostrand  '06 — make  up  the 
show's  cast  and  crew.  Their 
more  or  less  weekly  meetings, 
held  in  the  UGBC  conference 
room  on  the  second  floor  of 
the  new  lower  campus  admin- 
istration building,  are  noisy 
brainstorming  sessions  where 
ideas  are  hollered  out,  embell- 
ished, tempered,  and  adopted 
by  general  approval.  "I  have 
an  in  with  the  guy  who  plays 
the  mascot  at  football  games," 
someone  pipes  up  at  a  recent 
planning  session,  to  a  raucous 
response.  "Say  no  more!" 
Ganjamie  yells,  adding,  after 


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the  laughter  subsides  some- 
what, "You  know,  there  are 
limitations  to  what  we  can  do 
with  the  mascot.  We  can't  put 
it  into  embarrassing  situations, 
for  one."  A  dozen  heads  nod, 
sober  again.  The  crew  mulls 
the  mascot  problem  for  a 
while,  and  eventually  decides 
that  the  Eagle  will  get  a  cameo 
role  in  an  upcoming  skit  about 
a  senior  prom.  The  meeting 
ends  with  a  round  of  Cell 
Phone  Game  2.0,  played  thus- 
ly:  Turn  on  phones.  On  the 
count  of  three,  bang  phones 
against  foreheads.  See  what 
numbers  came  up.  High  score 
wins.  The  group  plans  a  tour- 
nament for  the  next  episode  of 
the  show. 

JUNIORS  Jessie  Rosen  and  ' 
Mike  Hundgen  are  the  hosts 
of  a  very  different  student- 
produced  program,  Now  You 
Know,  which  premiered  in 
January  2003.  It's  a  news 
show  in  the  style  of  ESPN's    . 
SpoitsCenter,  humorous  and  in- 
formative in  equal  parts,  aimed 
at  apprising  BC  students  of 
campus  trends  and  events. 
A  15 -minute  episode  is  shot 
every  week. 

Some  two  dozen  students 
attend  weekly  Now  You  Know 
meetings.  These  are  exhaus- 
tive, detail-oriented  affairs  that 
address  everything  from  what 
stories  to  cover  to  how  to 
speed  up  filming  sessions  to 
who  is  available  at  what  times 
to  handle  writing,  editing,  or 
production  duties.  The  meet- 
ings are  chaired  by  Rosen, 
Hundgen,  and  executive  pro- 
ducer D.J.  Doyle  '06,  who 
each  devote  about  10  hours  a 
week  to  the  show. 

On  a  Monday  evening  in 
October,  the  Now  You  Know 
crew  is  gathered  in  the  televi- 


sion production  studio,  housed 
in  the  basement  of  Campion 
Hall.  The  room,  about  the 
size  of  a  double-wide  trailer, 
is  partitioned  by  two-way 
mirrors — on  one  side  is  the 
studio  proper,  fitted  out  with 
a  blue  backdrop  curtain  and 
high-wattage  lighting,  and 
on  the  other  is  the  editing 
room,  jammed  with  whirring 
audio,  video,  and  computer 
equipment. 

Half  a  dozen  students  are 
setting  up  cameras  and  props; 
another  half-dozen  monitor 
the  electronics.  Other  students 
have  already  filmed  reports  on 
location  around  the  BC  cam- 
puses; the  night's  task  is  to 
film  the  lead-ins  for  the  show 
that  will  air  later  in  the  week. 
Doyle  directs  operations 
through  a  two-way  radio 
headset. 

"Cue  talent,"  says  Doyle, 
and  Hundgen  and  Rosen,  seat- 
ed behind  a  newsroom-style 
desk  that  the  crew  built  from 
scratch,  begin  to  introduce  the 
show.  As  usual,  there  is  no 
script;  the  aim  is  to  keep  the 
banter  between  Hundgen  and 
Rosen  spontaneous.  As  they 
speak,  Doyle  monitors  the 
cameras,  ordering  them  to 
switch  angles  and  zoom  in  or 
out  as  needed.  Mike  Murphy 
'06  taps  away  at  a  computer, 
dropping  pre-made  graphic 
elements  onto  the  TV  screen 
using  a  digital  video-editing 
program. 

Several  run-throughs  are 
necessary  to  get  everything 
right,  and  with  only  an  hour  of 
studio  time  scheduled,  tempers 
get  a  little  short.  But  the  ten- 
sion adds  energy,  as  well.  At 
one  point,  Hundgen  reminds 
viewers  that  basketball  season 
tickets  are  on  sale.  "Have  you 
bought  yours  yet,  Mike?" 


Rosen  asks.  Answer:  No. 
"Why  not?"  "Because  you  and 
I  will  both  be  abroad  next 
semester,  Jessie.  Far,  far  away 
from  each  other."  Doyle 
chuckles.  That's  a  keeper. 

Hundgen  dreamed  up  Now 
You  Know  in  the  fall  of  2002, 
while  taking  a  shower,  he  says: 
"We  have  all  these  chan- 
nels"— seven  in  all — "available 
on  BC  Cable,  so  I  thought, 
'Why  not  use  them?'"  He 
raised  the  idea  with  Rosen, 
who  was  already  producing  a 
Web  site  for  BC  students, 
a  guide  to  events  in  Boston, 
and  they  agreed  to  pursue  it 
together. 

Next  September,  after 
Rosen  and  Hundgen  return 
from  Italy  and  Ireland,  respec- 
tively, Now  You  Know  will  ex- 
pand to  half-hour  segments. 
The  staff  has  also  talked  about 
producing  news  briefs  for 
viewing  on  the  Jumbotrons 
during  athletic  events. 

IN  HIS  seven  years  as  assis- 
tant director  of  programming 
for  BC  Cable,  Darren  Herlihy 
has  lent  help  to  numerous  stu- 
dent productions — "it  is  a  lot 
of  work  to  do  [a  show],  and  I 
give  them  a  lot  of  credit" — and 
watched  all  of  them  eventually 
go  off  the  air.  The  commit- 
ment to  producing  a  show 
usually  wanes,  he  says,  when 
its  creators  move  on — when 
they  graduate  or  simply  find  a 
new  passion. 

Fabbri  and  Ganjamie  will 
likely  go  abroad  next  year; 
Rosen  and  Hundgen  will  be 
abroad  when  this  article  is  pub- 
lished. But  Now  You  Know  is 
training  two  new  hosts,  and  the 
Basic  Cable  crew  has  recruited  a 
couple  of  freshmen  interns. 
The  shows  may  go  on. 

Tim  Heffernan 


Thomas  H.  O'Connor 

FOR  HISTORY 

Boston  College  historians  James 
OToole  and  David  Quigley 
have  coedited  Boston's  Histories 
(2004),  a  collection  of  essays 
honoring  University  Historian 
Thomas  H.  O'Connor's  career- 
long  attention  to  his  native  city. 
Chapters  by  historians  from 
Brown,  Villanova,  and  George 
Washington  universities,  as  well 
as  MIT,  BC,  and  other  schools, 
include  "Women  in  Boston's 
Civil  War  Draft  Riot,"  "The 
Secret  World  of  Radical  Pub- 
lishers," and  "The  Irish  Home 
Rule  Issue  and  Boston  Politics." 
The  book  may  be  ordered 
at  a  discount  from  the  BC 
Bookstore  at  www.bc.edu/bcm. 

SURVEY  SAYS 

On  Student  Activities  Day  last 
fall,  the  Undergraduate 
Government  of  Boston  College 
(UGBC)  polled  students  in  the 
Dustbowl  on  what  topic  they 
would  most  like  to  see  UGBC 
address.  Of  roughly  775  respon- 
dents, 29  percent  rated  the  lack 
of  a  student  center  as  the  most 
important  issue;  26  percent 
identified  the  threat  of  being 
subpoenaed  by  the  recording 
industry  for  downloading  music 
from  the  Internet.  Also  cited 
were  overcrowding  in  the  din- 
ing halls  and  the  lack  of  a  gay, 
lesbian,  bisexual,  transgender 
resource  center.  In  the  same 
survey,  53  percent  said  they  felt 
they  had  a  voice  on  campus. 


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Back  in  the  USSR 

HOW  COULD  THE  KREMLIN  KEEP  THEM  DOWN,  AFTER  THEY'D  SEEN  OUR  FARMS? 


Travel  broadens,  it  is  said,  but  for  Soviet  travelers  who  came 
to  the  United  States  between  1958  and  1988,  the  experience 
brought  a  broadening  of  major  proportions,  changing  not 
only  the  way  they  saw  their  host  country  but  also,  and  more 
importantly,  the  way  they  saw  their  own. 

Approximately  50,000  Soviets  were  guests  of  the  United 
States  during  that  period,  thanks  to  a  growing  array  of  gov- 
ernment-negotiated exchange  programs  (an  even  larger 
number  of  Americans  visit- 
ed the  Soviet  Union).  They 
came  as  students  and  scien- 
tists, government  officials 
and  journalists,  musicians 
and  athletes.  There  are  some 
historians  who  attribute 
the  collapse  of  communism 
in  the  Soviet  Union  to 
America's  military  spending 
or  the  threat  of  a  Star  Wars 
defense;  others  point  to  the 
pope's  visits  to  Catholic 
Poland  as  a  key  challenge 
to  Soviet  rule.  Some  west- 
ern Sovietologists  cite  the 
USSR's  unwise  intervention 
in  Afghanistan;  and  a  theory 
has  even  been  put  forward 

that  rock  and  roll's  seduction  of  Soviet  youth  eroded  the  au- 
thority of  the  Communist  Party's  ideologists.  There  is  truth 
in  some  of  these  explanations.  But  Pd  offer  another:  The  end 
of  the  Cold  War  and  the  collapse  of  communism  were  con- 
sequences of  Soviet  contacts  and  exchanges  with  the  West — 
the  United  States,  in  particular — over  the  35  years  that 
followed  the  death  of  Joseph  Stalin  in  1953.  These  ex- 
changes, moreover,  were  conducted  at  a  cost  that  was  mi- 
nuscule in  comparison  with  U.S.  expenditures  for  defense 
and  intelligence  over  the  same  period. 

EXPOSURE  TO  everyday  American  life  was  a  part  of  the 
visits  of  most  Soviets  who  came  to  the  United  States  in 
those  years.  Tours  of  American  cities;  visits  to  homes, 
schools,  and  farms;  university  or  small-town  sojourns;  and 
other  extracurricular  activities  were  arranged  by  local  chap- 
ters of  the  National  Council  for  International  Visitors,  a  pri- 
vate organization  founded  in  1961,  which  still  mobilizes  the 


Boris  Yeltsin  at  Randall's  Supermarket  in  Houston,  September  16,  1989 


services  of  volunteers  to  ensure  that  foreign  visitors  see  the 
real  America.  One  such  volunteer  has  described  a  visit  in  the 
1970s  to  a  typical  Wisconsin  dairy  farm  by  a  delegation  of 
high-level  Soviet  scientists,  who  were  in  Racine  to  attend  a 
scientific  conference:  On  a  free  day,  the  guests  were  given  a 
tour  of  a  dairy  farm  operated  by  a  farmer  and  his  two  daugh- 
ters. The  visitors  were  astonished  by  the  range  of  modern 
equipment,  the  fact  that  the  farm  grew  its  own  fodder,  the 

extent  to  which  the  dairy 
operation  had  been  mecha- 
nized, the  cleanliness  of  the 
animals  and  their  stalls,  the 
very  high  milk  production 
as  compared  with  Soviet 
dairy  farms,  and  the  profit 
made  by  the  family.  For 
Russians,  most  of  whom 
have  a  heritage  in  agricul- 
ture, such  a  visit  exposed 
the  shortcomings  of  Soviet 
agriculture  and  by  exten- 
sion the  Soviet  system. 
"Why  do  we  live  as  we  do?" 
was  a  question  many  of 
them  ended  up  asking,  ac- 
cording to  a  veteran  State 
Department  interpreter  who 
has  escorted  many  Russians  around  the  country: 


Their  minds  were  blown  by  being  here.  They  could  not  be- 
lieve there  could  be  such  abundance  and  comfort.  Many  of 
them  would  even  disparage  things  here.  "Excess,  who  needs 
it,"  they  would  say.  However,  you  could  see  that  they  did  not 
believe  what  they  were  saying.  When  they  returned  home, 
in  their  own  minds  and  in  the  privacy  of  their  own  trusted 
little  circle  of  family  and  friends,  they  would  tell  the  truth  to 
themselves  or  to  others. 

ACCOUNTS  OF  Soviets'  astonishment  on  visiting  their 
first  American  supermarket  are  legion,  from  the  first 
Russian  students  who  came  to  the  United  States  in  the  late 
1950s  and  early  1960s,  to  the  future  Russian  president  Boris 
Yeltsin  in  1989.  The  early  students  often  thought  they  were 
being  offered  the  equivalent  of  a  Potemkin  village,  that  the 
stores  they  were  shown  had  been  set  up  especially  to  impress 


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foreign  visitors.  When  a  Russian  delegation  came  to  San 
Francisco  in  the  early  1960s  and  got  caught  in  a  traffic  jam, 
one  of  its  members  said,  "I'll  bet  they  collected  all  these  cars 
here  to  impress  us." 

Russians  thought  they  were  seeing  Potemkin  villages — 
the  term  derives  from  Prince  Gregory  Potemkin,  said  to 
have  built  model  villages  to  impress  Catherine  the  Great  on 
tours  of  her  overextended  domain — because  that  is  how 
they  prepared  to  receive  important  visitors  in  their  own 
country:  Clean  up  everything,  put  undesirable  elements  out 
of  sight,  show  the  best,  and  persuade  visitors  that  what  they 
were  seeing  was  typical.  Such  suspicions  reached  to  the 
highest  levels  of  the  Soviet  government.  When  Soviet  pres- 
ident Nikolai  Podgorny  visited  Austria  in  1966  and  saw  the 
bounty  of  Viennese  markets,  he  remarked,  "Look  how  well 
they  set  things  up  for  my  visit." 

Boris  Yeltsin  reacted  somewhat  differently  to  a  Houston 
supermarket  in  1989.  He  expressed  astonishment  at  the 
abundance  and  variety  of  the  products  he  saw,  but  in  his  au- 
tobiography Against  the  Grain  he  describes  the  experience  as 
"shattering":  "When  I  saw  those  shelves  crammed  with 
hundreds,  thousands  of  cans,  cartons,  and  goods  of  every 
possible  sort,  for  the  first  time  I  felt  quite  frankly  sick  with 
despair  for  the  Soviet  people.  That  such  a  potentially  super- 
rich  country  as  ours  has  been  brought  to  a  state  of  such 
poverty!  It  is  terrible  to  think  of  it." 

After  Yeltsin  visited  that  Houston  supermarket,  says  Lilia 
Shevtsova  of  the  Carnegie  Endowment  for  International 
Peace,  "he  became  a  reformer."  Bill  Keller,  a  former  New 
York  Times  Moscow  correspondent  and  now  the  Times's  ex- 
ecutive editor,  sees  Yeltsin's  visit  to  the  United  States  in  even 
broader  perspective:  "The  prosperity,  the  rule  of  law,  the 
freedom  and  efficiency  [Yeltsin]  witnessed  in  America,  cat- 
alyzed his  notions  about  the  fraud  of  communism." 

EFFORTS  TO  give  Soviet  visitors  a  slice-of-life  view  of 
America  could  sometimes  backfire,  of  course,  as  happened 
when  a  Soviet  minister  of  higher  education  visited 
Princeton  University  in  the  early  1970s.  The  minister  was 
impressed  by  the  buildings  and  the  library,  but  then  his 
guide  suggested  a  drop-in  visit  to  a  typical  dormitory  room. 

The  room  was  a  mess — old  peanut  butter  sandwiches  on 
the  floor,  unwashed  underwear  strewn  on  chairs  and  desks, 
rancid  gym  shoes  in  a  corner,  and  an  unkempt  student  sleep- 
ing off  a  hangover  in  his  bunk  bed.  The  minister  smiled, 
thinking  he  had  seen  the  "real"  Princeton  beneath  its  opu- 
lent surface.  But  when  he  later  remarked  how  few  female 
students  he  saw  on  the  campus — women  had  only  recently 
been  admitted — one  of  the  Americans  countered  that  in  the 
entire  history  of  Soviet- American  student  exchanges  to  that 
time,  his  ministry  had  nominated  not  one  woman  for  study 
in  the  United  States. 

Such  frictions  notwithstanding,  Soviets  brought  home 


from  their  travels  to  the  West  a  redefinition  of  the  word 
"normal" — one  that  covered  the  gamut  from  service  with  a 
smile  to  functioning  telephones  to  accessible  elected  repre- 
sentatives. One  American  tells  of  a  Russian  high  up  in  the 
Komsomol  Soviet  youth  organization  who  was  silent  for  the 
first  two  days  of  a  trip  they  made  together  across  the  United 
States.  Eventually  the  visitor  said,  "Now  I  understand  the 
United  States:  It  works!" 

THE  LATE  Vladimir  Petrov,  professor  of  history  and  in- 
ternational affairs  at  George  Washington  University,  met 
with  many  Soviet  visitors  who  passed  through  Washington, 
D.C.  The  Odessa-born  Petrov,  with  his  fluent  Russian,  on 
occasion  arranged  for  high-level  visitors  to  deliver  paid  lec- 
tures. Through  such  opportunities,  he  says,  one  Soviet 
scholar  "collected  enough  to  buy  a  decent  apartment  in 
Moscow  with  his  U.S.  loot — and  he  was  a  very  doctrinaire 
man,  currently  advising  Zyuganov  [the  Russian  Communist 
Party  head]  on  foreign  policy  issues."  Indeed,  many  Soviet 
exchange  visitors  used  their  per  diems  to  purchase  items  for 
family  and  friends  or  for  resale  on  the  black  market  upon 
their  return  home.  Escort  interpreters  tell  of  Soviets  who 
arrived  in  the  United  States  with  suitcases  full  of  food  on 
which  they  lived  for  the  first  few  days  in  order  to  save  their 
per  diem  dollars. 

A  bluntly  honest,  as  well  as  irate,  reaction  to  a  visit  to  the 
United  States  comes  from  Alia  Glebova,  a  Russian  journalist: 

I  would  describe  Americans  as  a  nation  of  sober  and  even 
boring  professionals.  But  why  do  they,  without  any  imagina- 
tion, grow  flowers  in  exactly  the  same  places  I  would  choose, 
while  I,  the  essence  of  imagination,  ideas,  and  emotions,  live 
in  a  garbage  bin.  ...  I  was  very  persistent  in  my  desire  to  un- 
derstand American  life.  Nevertheless,  I  was  not  able  to  find 
an  answer  to  my  main  question.  Why  do  we  [Russians],  cit- 
izens of  a  great  country  known  for  its  riches  and  brains,  live 
in  such  deep  doodoo  [v  zadnitse],  while  they,  so  simple  and 
so  far  from  perfect,  inhabit  such  an  America? 

Among  people  in  Russia  who  counted,  namely,  the  intelli- 
gentsia, exposure  to  the  West  or  to  Soviets  who  had  been 
there  created  a  ripple  effect  that  had  an  enormous  impact  on 
the  Soviet  Union.  People  who  had  seen  the  United  States 
had  a  vision  of  what  a  better  society  could  be,  the  normal  so- 
ciety Russians  have  always  hoped  for. 

Yale  Richmond 

Yale  Richmond  "43  was  for  30  years  a  U.  S.  foreign  service  officer, 
serving  in  Germany,  Laos,  Poland,  Austria,  the  Soviet  Union, 
and  Washington,  D.  C.  His  essay  is  adapted  from  Cultural 
Exchange  and  the  Cold  War:  Raising  the  Iron  Curtain 
(2003).  The  book  may  be  purchased  at  a  discount  from  the  BC 
Bookstore  via  the  BCM  Web  site:  www.bc.edu/bcm. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE   21 


REALITY  CHECK 


Advice  from  the  tech-connected 


Boston  College's  second  annu- 
al TechDay,  which  took  place 
the  afternoon  of  October  29, 
started  with  a  litany  of  unhap- 
py economic  news  intoned 
by  Dan  Nova  '83,  managing 
general  partner  of  Highland 
Capital  Partners,  a  Massachu- 
setts-based firm  that  invests  in 
technology  start-ups.  Unem- 
ployment, he  said,  was  up  by 
50  percent  in  the  last  three 
years,  real  wages  were  down, 
the  venture  capital  business  "at 
a  standstill,"  initial  public  offer- 
ings "basically  shut  down.  .  .  . 
It's  a  good  time,"  said  Nova, 
who  moderated  the  first  of  the 
day's  two  panels,  "to  be  in 
school  and  not  in  the  work- 
force," a  point  that  may  or 
may  not  have  given  comfort  to 
the  audience. 

TechDay,  according  to  its 
organizer,  associate  professor 
of  information  systems  John 
Gallaugher,  highlights  topics 
from  business  uses  of  digital 
technology  to  ways  of  assess- 
ing the  strength  of  high  tech- 
nology firms;  it  is  sponsored 
by  the  Carroll  School  of 
Management  MBA  Tech- 
nology Club  and  by  the  Tech 
Council,  a  Carroll  School 
alumni  group.  This  edition 
drew  about  350  people,  who 
filled  the  Fulton  511  auditori- 
um to  near  capacity.  The  audi- 
ence included  some  40  alumni, 
identifiable,  it  seemed,  by  their 
dark  business  dress  and  their 
muted,  businesslike  demeanor. 
Also  in  the  audience  were  nu- 
merous MBA  students,  a  less 
reserved  contingent  that 


tapped  away  on  laptop  key- 
boards and  was  overwhelming- 
ly dressed  for  school  rather 
than  the  office.  Interestingly 
enough,  this  contrast  in  styles 
also  characterized  the  day's 
two  panels. 

DAN  NOVA'S  grim,  stage-set- 
ting litany  didn't  seem  to  both- 
er his  panelists,  who  were 
chosen  precisely  because  their 
companies  had  flourished 
in  a  bad  economy.  Philip  W. 
Schiller  '82,  marketing  chief  at 
Apple  Computers,  cheerfully 
declared  that  he  doesn't  con- 
cern himself  too  much  with 
nitpicking  matters  like  his 
stock's  price-to-earnings  ratio. 
"What  I  care  about,"  he  said, 
"is  how  much  fun  I  have  when 
I  get  up  in  the  morning,  and 
whether  my  products  make 
people  happy."  Recently, 
Schiller,  a  sandy-haired  man  in 
faded  jeans,  has  been  having 
fun  unveiling,  among  other 
products,  Apple's  iPod  digital 
music  player,  of  which  he  de- 
clared sanguinely,  "It's  become 
a  brand,  as  Kleenex  is  to  tis- 
sues." Apple's  strategy  for  dark 
times,  Schiller  said,  is  to  "rein- 
vent the  personal  computer 
around  the  digital  lifestyle, 
what  we  call  'the  iLife.'" 

Also  preaching  fun,  along 
with  "excitement,"  as  a  key  to 
profitability  was  panelist  Carl 
Rosendorf,  CEO  of  Smart 
Bargains,  which  sells  consumer 
goods  like  bedsheets  and  lug- 
gage on-line.  Describing  his 
marketing  strategy,  he  said, 
"Urgency  is  the  key."  The 


Smart  Bargains  Web  site  posts 
a  countdown  of  the  remaining 
units  of  each  item  being  sold 
because,  in  Rosendorf's  words, 
"As  you  get  closer  to  zero, 
people  are  that  much  more 
likely  to  buy." 

The  Starbucks  Coffee  chain 
was  represented  by  Kathleen 
Richardson,  director  of  mar- 
keting for  the  northeast  zone, 
who  talked  up  the  company's 
new  Duetto  Card,  which  com- 
bines a  prepay  feature  with  a 
Visa  card  that  gives  free  coffee 
dividends.  Quoted  Richardson, 
"You  may  never  have  to  pay 
for  a  latte  again." 

It  was  around  this  point  in 
the  proceedings  that  Nova 
tried  to  steer  the  panel  back  to 
the  question:  How  do  you 
make  money  in  a  terrible 
economy? 

"In  the  end,"  Apple's 
Schiller  answered,  "if  you 
build  a  good  business,  the  val- 
uation will  come.  ...  If  Sony's 
laying  off  20,000,  we  see  it  as 
an  opportunity  to  pick  up 
products  that  they  dropped 
and  hire  some  good  people." 
Rosendorf,  of  Smart  Bargains, 
also  talked  up  the  business 
opportunities  in  a  bad  econo- 
my, saying,  "That's  when  re- 
tailers cancel  orders  from 
suppliers  and  we  can  get  some 
of  our  best  bargains." 

Asked  for  any  advice  they 
had  to  offer  future  MBAs,  the 
panel  was  silent  for  several 
beats.  Then  Schiller  advised 
prospective  business  executives 
to  look  for  a  "product  you're 
crazy  about"  and  seek  employ- 


ment at  the  company  that 
makes  it. 

COMPARED  to  Nova's  pan- 
elists, none  of  whom  had  a 
business  suit  on,  let  alone  a 
necktie,  the  members  of  the 
afternoon's  second  panel — five 
chief  information  officers,  or 
CIOs,  from  large,  established 
companies — were  grayer  and 
more  traditionally  dressed;  and 
it  was  hard  to  imagine  being 
crazy  about  several  of  their 
products,  things  like  life  insur- 
ance and  commercial  air  con- 
ditioners, however  crucial. 

In  a  nuts  and  bolts  discus- 
sion, Peter  Burrows  of  Reebok 
International  predicted  that 
open-source  operating  systems 
"are  going  to  do  what  the 
Justice  Department  didn't  do: 
drive  people  away  from  Micro- 
soft as  [Microsoft]  continues 
raising  prices."  On  outsourc- 
ing of  information  technology 
(IT)  jobs  to  places  like  China 
and  India,  a  recent  sore  point 
for  out-of-work  IT  profession- 
als, Bill  Oates  78  of  the  Star- 
wood Hotels  chain  laid  out  the 
market  realities,  saying  out- 
sourcing "is  huge  for  all 
companies  now.  If  your  com- 
petitors are  doing  it,  they  may 
be  able  to  get  more  bang  for 
their  technology  than  you." 

As  for  advice  to  future 
MBAs?  Terry  Conner  of  Lib- 
erty Mutual  recommended 
cultivating  the  skill  of  "dealing 
with  change — because  that's 
the  only  constant  we  have  in 
business." 

David  Reich 


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SELF-SERVICE 

BC's  Kevin  Mahoney  develops  new  choices  for  the  elderly  and  disabled 


Boston  College's  Graduate 
School  of  Social  Work  has 
been  awarded  a  $7  million 
grant  from  the  Robert  Wood 
Johnson  Foundation  to  expand 
the  Cash  and  Counseling  pro- 
gram piloted  by  associate  pro- 
fessor Kevin  Mahoney.  The 
program  gives  disabled  and  el- 
derly Americans  who  qualify 
for  Medicaid  more  of  the  dis- 
cretion that  other  health  care 
consumers  have  when  they 
hire  aides  or  purchase  items  to 
make  their  lives  easier. 

Under  traditional  Medicaid, 
individuals  who  need  help  with 
daily  activities  such  as  bathing 
or  housework  must  rely  on 
state-contracted  home  care.  In 
Cash  and  Counseling,  partici- 
pants are  given  funds  based  on 
what  Medicaid  would  expect  to 
pay  out  on  their  behalf.  They 
can  engage  the  services  of  rela- 
tives or  friends;  they  can  buy 
their  own  equipment;  they  can 
even  let  the  money  accumulate 
in  a  special  account  in  order  to 
save  for  a  large  purchase  or  to 
create  an  emergency  fund. 
Mahoney  cites  the  example  of 
one  recipient,  a  woman  with 
multiple  sclerosis:  Under  tradi- 
tional Medicaid,  he  says,  "the 
home  care  worker  could  come 
and  help  her  do  her  laundry, 
but  she  couldn't  help  her  do 
her  children's  laundry,  because 
the  Medicaid  benefit  was  just 
for  the  mother."  Through 
Cash  and  Counseling,  the 
woman  could  use  funds  in  ways 
traditional  Medicaid  does 
not  allow — buying  a  washing 
machine,  for  example.  A  con- 


Associate  professor  Kevin  Mahoney,  of  Cash  and  Counseling 


sultant  would  work  with  her 
closely  to  develop  an  individu- 
alized budget,  handle  paper- 
work, even  recruit,  train,  and 
pay  the  caregivers  of  her 
choosing.  Mahoney  says  one 
man  whose  adult  son  had  spina 
bifida  was  able  to  retire  early 
and  provide  full-time  care  for 
his  son  himself  with  the  wage 
obtained  through  the  program, 
rather  than  see  him  enter  a 
nursing  home. 

The  Cash  and  Counseling 
model  has  been  tested  in  three 
states  since  1995 — Arkansas, 
Florida,  and  New  Jersey.  The 
longest-running  program, 
Arkansas's  Independent- 
Choices,  was  evaluated  last 
year  by  a  public  policy  research 
firm,  and  the  results  were  pub- 


lished in  the  journal  Health 
Affairs.  Among  the  findings: 
Only  6  percent  of  non-elderly 
consumers  enrolled  in 
IndependentChoices  were  dis- 
satisfied with  their  care,  com- 
pared to  one-third  of  those 
receiving  traditional  Medicaid. 
Roughly  75  percent  of  partici- 
pants surveyed  hired  friends  or 
relatives,  for  everything  from 
constant  personal  care  to  odd 
jobs.  And  within  two  years  of 
the  program's  launch,  spending 
on  nursing  homes  and  hospi- 
tals declined  in  comparison 
with  results  from  a  control 
group.  IndependentChoices 
"fits  the  rhythm  of  my  life," 
one  participant  said. 

With  the  GSSW's  new 
grant,  supported  also  by  the 


U.S.  Department  of  Health 
and  Human  Services,  10  more 
states  will  receive  $250,000 
each  over  three  years  to  imple- 
ment Cash  and  Counseling, 
with  an  additional  $100,000 
going  to  up  to  three  of  those 
states  to  extend  the  approach  to 
other  facets  of  public  assistance. 
Cash  and  Counseling  is  not 
for  everyone,  says  Mahoney. 
Consumers  unable  or  unwilling 
to  make  decisions  about  their 
care,  and  who  choose  not  to 
name  a  representative  to  do  so 
on  their  behalf,  may  still  rely 
on  the  state  to  arrange  services. 
The  program  won't  replace  the 
current  system,  says  Mahoney, 
but  it  can  be  a  valuable  addition 
to  the  Medicaid  menu. 

Nicole  Estvanik 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  23 


AMBIENCE 

A  cup  of  chai,  a  choice  of  breads,  and  thou 


This  past  September,  Patricia 
Bando,  director  of  Boston 
College  Dining  Services 
(BCDS),  scanned  a  recent  issue 
of  the  Heights,  BC's  indepen- 
dent student  newspaper,  and 
got  a  surprise.  "Sometimes  I 
open  the  Heights  and  I  cringe," 
says  Bando,  explaining  re- 
signedly that  campus  eateries 
can  occasionally  become  scape- 
goats for  students'  frustrations 
with  other  aspects  of  life.  But 
two  weeks  into  the  school  year, 
Bando  found  an  editorial  prais- 
ing BCDS  for  coming  up  with 
"a  revamped  look,  more  conve- 
nient layouts,  and  .  .  .  new 
dishes."  The  paper's  highest 
approbation  was  for  the 
Hillside  Cafe,  the  year-old  din- 
ing hall  that  the  Heights  called 
"one  of  the  most  popular 
hang-out  areas"  on  campus. 

The  Hillside  Cafe  is  locat- 
ed in  the  new  Lower  Campus 
Administration  Building, 
where  it  shares  the  first  floor 
with  a  branch  of  the  BC 
Bookstore.  The  cafe  was  ini- 
tially intended  to  complement 
St.  Ignatius  Gate,  a  residence 
hall  still  under  construction 
that  will  house  more  than  300 
students.  Since  the  nearby 
Lower  Campus  Dining  Hall 
(called  "Lower"  by  most  stu- 
dents) was  already  doing  a 
high-volume  business,  the  plan 
was  to  lure  diners  to  Hillside 
over  the  course  of  two  years. 
But  the  migration  didn't  go  as 
expected.  BCDS  projected  that 
the  new  facility  would  handle 
about  1,000  transactions  a  day 
after  its  opening  on  Parents' 


Midday  at  the  'Side 


Weekend  in  fall  2002;  instead, 
Hillside  was  tallying  3,500 
daily  transactions  during  its 
weekday  hours  of  8  A.M.  to 
8  P.M.  within  the  first  two 
months.  It  became  so  popular, 
says  Bando,  that  BCDS  had 
to  revise  the  menus  in  other 
eateries. 

Hillside's  appointments  are 
distinctive:  On  the  perimeter, 
there  are  commodious  high- 
back  easy  chairs,  two-seater 
cushioned  sofas,  and  faux  mar- 
ble coffee  tables;  tall  round  ta- 
bles with  bar  stools — the  good 
kind,  with  backs — fill  One  sec- 
tion, and  cafe-style  tables  and 
chairs  fill  another;  cappuccinos 


and  lattes  are  served  at  a  cres- 
cent-shaped coffee  counter. 

The  cafe's  success  owes 
much  to  its  menu,  especially 
its  warm  panini  sandwiches 
and  toothsome  smoothies.  "It 
has  really  good  food,"  says 
Ashley  Hawkins  '06,  as  she 
picks  at  two  breadless  scoops 
of  tuna  piled  on  cheese  slices. 
The  petite  blonde  with  a 
sparkly  metallic  nose  piercing 
elaborates:  "I  don't  like  the 
bread  down  here,  it's  like  cran- 
berry, white,  and  wheat.  But  I 
love  the  tuna." 

Around  12:15  P.M.  on  a 
Thursday  in  early  autumn, 
the  cafe's  150  seats  were  full. 


Young  men  with  fluffy  hair 
and  khaki  shorts  shared  tables 
with  young  women  in  denim 
skirts  and  plastic  flip-flops. 
Latecomers  eyed  the  packed 
premises,  then  snapped  plastic 
covers  over  their  plates  and 
sauntered  out.  In  a  corner,  on 
a  sofa  flanked  by  tall  windows, 
a  couple  snuggled — she  hold- 
ing open  a  copy  of  the  conser- 
vative, student-published 
Observer  (headline:  "Educating 
for  Damnation"),  he  flipping 
through  an  issue  of  the  Heights 
bearing  the  headline  "The 
Fabled  Freshman  15."  To  their 
left,  a  husky  male  student  in  a 
backwards  black  baseball  hat 


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tossed  a  potato  chip  at  the 
open  mouth  of  the  blonde  fe- 
male beside  him.  It  missed, 
bounced  off  her  cheek,  and  fell 
to  the  floor. 

Amid  the  ubiquitous  com- 
muning ("I  love  my  new 
apartment — I  wish  I  could  tele- 
commute  to  school";  "You 
must've  had  fun  last  night  be- 
cause you  sure  look  like  it";  "I 
was  ready  to  leave  for  Fidelity, 
but  then  I  noticed  a  peanut 
butter  stain  on  my  shirt"; 
"He's  cute — very  Marine-ish"; 
"It's  weird  to  be  doing  work 
when  it's  so  nice  outside"), 
there  was  talk  about  Hillside: 
"This  tuna  is  soooo  good,"  said 
a  young  woman  to  seven  com- 
panions squished  around  a 
table  designed  for  four. 

Shen  Chen  '06,  a  cheerful 
young  woman  with  a  round 
face  and  sunglasses  on  her 
head,  eats  lunch  at  Hillside 
once  a  week.  She  limits  herself 
deliberately — she  loves  it  here 
and  doesn't  want  to  grow 
bored.  She's  just  finishing  a 
New  England  Classic — 
smoked  turkey  with  Vermont 
cheddar  cheese,  thin  slices 
of  green  apples,  and  honey 
mustard  sauce  on  two  toasted 
pieces  of  cranberry  bread. 
Served  with  a  pickle  and  thick, 
ridged  potato  chips,  the  sand- 
wich is  the  cafe's  most  popular 
menu  item. 

Chen  says  Hillside  is  the 
rare  campus  eatery  where  un- 
dergraduates feel  comfortable 
eating  alone.  The  cafe  is  locat- 
ed a  hard  throw  from  the 
RecPlex,  and  she  comes  here 
after  working  out — as  do  many 
other  students,  judging  from 
their  attire.  "I  don't  like  going 
to  Lower  by  myself.  If  I  did, 
I  would  hide  in  the  back — it's 
just  kinda  weird,"  Chen  says. 

Kevin  Haynes  '05,  a  trans- 


fer student  from  Suffolk  Uni- 
versity, has  been  seated  on  a 
couch  alone  for  the  last  60 
minutes,  engrossed  in  a  packet 
of  photocopied  papers.  Asked 
to  comment,  he  says  Hillside 
"is  really  like  a  Starbucks." 

Across  the  room,  assistant 
manager  Chris  Bove  pours  2- 


percent  milk  into  a  plastic  cup 
of  chai  and  ice.  Call  Hillside  a 
restaurant,  he  says — don't  use 
the  word  cafeteria.  "Dining  is 
all  about  perception." 

Camille  Dodero 

Camille  Dodero  '98  is  a  writer 
based  in  the  Boston  area. 


SCREEN   LIFE 

by  Brendan  Galvin 

Not  the  junebugs  strumming  as  though 
such  bald  music  is  their  ticket  to  the  light, 
but  these  things  essentially  silent, 
that  seem  assembled  impromptu 
for  this  evening.  Crawling  screens 
for  a  flaw  that  will  admit  them,  they  look 
temporary,  put  together  out  of  whatever 
detritus  lies  around — bits  of  cornshock, 
seedcoat,  twig.  Still  others  seem  objets 
from  the  hoard  a  plow  turned  up, 
inlaid  with  enameling,  or  else 
illuminated,  escapees  from  a  gospel's 
margins.  Winged  crustacean  souls, 
hatched  from  clotted  air 
and  glaucous  webs  down  in  the  cauldron 
of  the  marsh,  travelers  of  the  synapses 
between  leaps  of  being,  they  want 
in,  they  want  to  loopily  unwind  around 
this  room,  as  if  their  mission  is  to  make  us 
glad  for  everything  we  are  and  are  not. 


The  most  recent  collection  of  poems  by  Brendan 
Galvin  '60,  Place  Keepers,  was  published  in 
November  by  Louisiana  State  University  Press. 
The  book  may  be  purchased  at  a  discount  from 
the  BC  Bookstore  via:  www.bc.edu/bcm. 


CAMBRIDGE  BOUND 

Thomas  Kempa  '04  has  re- 
ceived a  Marshall  Scholarship 
to  study  photovoltaic  cells  at 
Cambridge  University  next  year. 
Kempa  was  named  a  Beckman 
Scholar  in  2002-03. 

A  FINE  POINT 

The  Fulton  Debating  Society, 
under  the  direction  of  John 
Katsulas,  has  won  the  varsity  di- 
vision of  the  annual  West  Point 
invitational  debate  tournament 
for  the  second  consecutive  year. 
Juniors  Kevin  Shatzkin  and  Ben 
Bireley  defeated  top-seeded 
New  York  University  in  the  final 
round.  BCwill  retain  posses- 
sion of  the  first  place  trophy,  a 
West  Point  sabre. 

DEATHS 

•  William  E.  Chadwick,  director 
of  internal  audit  at  Boston 
College  since  1986,  on 
November  8,  at  age  56. 

•  Rhoda  Kramer  Channing, 
MBA  '84,  chief  CSOM  librarian 
and  subsequent  assistant 
University  librarian  at  O'Neill 
Library  from  1979  to  1989,  on 
July  25,  at  age  61. 

•  Albert  M.  "Mickey"  Folkard, 
English  professor  and  then  di- 
rector of  the  Honors  Program 
from  1946  to  1995,  on 
December  14,  at  age  89. 

•  Yvette  E.  Forget,  secretary  in 
the  political  science  depart- 
ment from  1964  to  1984,  on 
January  18,  at  age  85. 

•  Arthur  Harris,  student  at  BC 
Law  since  2001,  on  November 
23,  at  age  27. 

•  John  "Harry"  Marr,  assistant 
football  coach  in  the  1940s,  on 
November  8,  at  age  87. 

•  John  J.  McAleer  '45,  professor 
in  the  English  department  and 
Woods  College  of  Advancing 
Studies  since  1955,  on 
November  19,  at  age  80. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  25 


Crossing  over 

ONE  WOMAN'S  ACCOUNT  OF  A  FORGOTTEN  WAR 


December  1950:  Residents  of  Pyongyang  abandon  the  city  and  head  south  across  the  icy  Taedong  River 


For  several  years,  Professor  Ramsay  Liem  of  Boston  College's  psy- 
chology department  has  been  collecting  reminiscences  of  Korean 
immigrants  who  lived  through  the  Korean  War  in  their  birth 
country.  Witnesses  to  a  "war  that  isn  H  over, "  they  make  up  a 
population  that  has  largely  been  overlooked  by  historians,  he  says. 
Liem  first  met  Helen  Kyungsook  Daniels  three  years  ago.  Today 
she  lives  comfortably  in  a  California  city,  having  married  a  U.  S. 


serviceman  in  1960.  But  when  war  broke  out  in  1950,  she  was 
a  teenager  living  in  Pyongyang,  North  Korea.  Her  family  split 
up,  with  Helen  and  some  relatives  fleeing  southward  at  the 
threat  of  U.S.  bombing.  In  America,  Daniels  kept  private,  even 
from  relatives,  her  personal  experiences  of  the  war  that  inflicted 
three  million  civilian  casualties,  until  she  sat  before  Professor 
Liem  and  his  tape  recorder.  Her  story  follows. 


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I  JUST  finished  junior  high  when  the  war  broke  out.  People 
were  saying  Americans  came  to  our  town  [Pyongyang, 
North  Korea],  and  three  days  later,  they  were  pulling  back. 
They  said  they're  going  to  have  war  in  the  city.  My  broth- 
er-in-law said  we  gotta  move  out.  I  said,  no,  I'm  not  going. 
Both  my  brothers  went  to  the  army,  the  North  Korean 
army.  And  my  mother  went  about  300  miles  north,  where 
my  sister-in-law  had  gone  to  have  a  baby.  My  sister-in-law 
came  back  with  her  newborn  but  left  her  three-year-old 
daughter  with  relatives,  so  my  mother  went  to  bring  back 
her  granddaughter. 

My  older  sister  and  her  husband  and  three  children  and  I 
left  Pyongyang  on  December  5,  1950.  We  thought  we  were 
going  for  just  a  few  days,  to  escape  the  bombing.  My  sister's 
mother-in-law  came  too.  I  was  16  years  old.  They  put  one 
child  on  my  back.  My  sister  had  one  brand-new  baby  and 
my  brother-in-law  carried  a  four-year-old  kid.  Our  town 
was  a  ghost  town.  When  we  crossed  the  Taedong  River, 
there  was  a  canoe.  But  there  were  too  many  people;  it  was 
so  full  that  water  started  coming  in.  So  they  started  pushing 
us,  breaking  the  ice.  There  were  fires  all  over.  It  was  just 
war,  people  screaming,  hollering. 

We  crossed  over,  but  my  brother-in-law  couldn't  go  be- 
cause they  put  only  women  and  children  in  the  boats.  We 
got  to  the  other  side  and  waited  all  afternoon,  but  he  didn't 
show  up.  So  I  told  my  sister,  I'm  going  back.  She  said, 
how're  you  gonna  go?  There  was  a  bunch  of  empty  canoes, 
but  I  didn't  know  how  to  steer  a  canoe.  We  both  had  kids  on 
our  backs.  A  gentleman  was  there  getting  ready  to  go  back 
for  his  family,  and  he  helped  us  cross. 

When  we  got  back  to  my  home,  my  youngest  sister  was 
with  my  sister-in-law  and  she  wanted  to  come  with  us.  But  my 
sister-in-law  is  dragging  her  by  the  arm  saying  she'd  be  scared 
to  be  left  all  by  herself  and  my  brother-in-law  is  dragging  me 
to  go.  He  needed  me  to  carry  one  of  the  children  on  my  back. 
So  my  sister  and  I  are  crying,  you  know;  we  don't  want  to  sep- 
arate, but  my  sister-in-law  is  saying  we'd  be  back  in  a  few 
days,  so  leave  her.  So  that's  what  happened.  Later  I  found  out 
my  sister  was  killed  with  my  mother  and  sister-in-law  and  her 
kids  from  the  bombing.  I  never  forgot  what  my  brother-in- 
law  did  dragging  me  away  from  my  younger  sister,  even 
though  I  never  brought  it  up  to  him  for  almost  40  years. 

THE  NEXT  morning,  my  brother-in-law  and  another 
young  man  gathered  wood  and  made  a  raft,  and  we  all 
crowded  onto  it.  I  was  never  so  scared  in  my  life.  We  got  wet 
all  over.  It  was  a  cloudy  day  and  freezing,  but  as  we  were 
walking,  our  clothes  dried  from  body  heat.  I  don't  know 
how  far  we  went.  At  evening  we  slept  over  at  some  town,  but 
the  town  was  a  ghost  town.  Houses  were  empty.  People 
would  crowd  into  one  room  so  there  was  hardly  a  place  to 
sit  and  by  midnight  everyone  was  laying  on  each  other,  you 
know.  That's  how  we  went,  every  day.  Walking  early,  6:00  in 


the  morning,  and  when  it  got  dark,  then  we  all  started  to  go 
over  to  a  village.  If  it  was  far  away,  you  got  better  food.  If  it 
was  close  by  the  main  road,  there  was  very  little  food  left. 

My  sister's  baby  cried  a  lot,  because  it  was  a  newborn. 
Her  mother-in-law  kept  saying  we're  going  to  have  to  throw 
her  away,  because  she's  making  too  much  noise.  She  was 
afraid  that  communists  or  someone  would  hear  her  and  find 
us.  And  my  sister's  crying,  because  she  doesn't  want  to  throw 
her  away.  But  just  before  we  got  to  Kaesong  [near  the  3  8th 
parallel],  her  mother-in-law  had  a  friend  nearby,  so  she  said 
she  was  gonna  stay  there.  So  I  felt  better.  Then,  there  was 
just  six  of  us.  We  walked  like  that  for  28  days. 

There  were  thousands  of  people  like  us.  Thousands!  I 
had  [my  sister's]  son  on  my  back  and  he  was  urinating  on  my 
back,  and  I  got  hot.  I'm  crying,  I  was  so  mad.  I  had  a  cane. 
I  tried  to  hit  him.  I  told  him,  don't  pee  on  my  back.  People 
behind  me  saw  a  waterfall  from  his  peeing.  I  hit  him.  Then, 
they  got  mad  at  me,  because  I'm  actually  hitting  them;  that's 
how  close  the  people  were  walking.  It  was  jam-packed.  You 
couldn't  even  stop  because  they'd  get  mad  at  you.  They  just 
rushed  to  get  out  of  there,  you  know. 

So,  we  all  came  to  the  Imjin  River  and  my  brother-in-law 
said,  we  have  to  cross.  He  said  it  was  not  that  deep,  and  he 
took  my  sister  and  the  baby  across.  But  when  he  came  back 
for  me,  he  was  so  cold  he  couldn't  cross  over  again.  He  was 
freezing,  shaking,  saying,  I  can't  go.  We  hollered  to  [my  sis- 
ter] and  told  her  to  stay  there.  We're  gonna  stay  overnight 
and  tomorrow  morning,  we're  gonna  come  over,  right?  She 
says  okay. 

The  next  morning  we  came  back  to  the  river.  There's 
American  soldiers,  [South]  Korean  soldiers,  and  Korean 
women  police — they're  all  there.  They  all  had  guns  on  us, 
saying,  you  can't  come.  So  we  said,  why?  And  they  said,  be- 
cause of  the  North  Korea  soldiers,  you  can't  trust  who's  a 
soldier,  who's  not.  Everybody's  standing,  screaming,  holler- 
ing. Then  they  started  calling  names,  is  the  so-and-so  fami- 
ly there?  A  couple  of  us  said,  yeah,  yeah,  we  are.  Then 
everybody  says,  hey,  we're  going,  too.  Either  we  die  here  or 
die  crossing. 

[THE  RIVER]  was  all  ice,  and  it  broke  because  there  were 
too  many  people.  My  brother-in-law  pushed  me  saying, 
crawl  over,  you  can  crawl  over.  As  soon  as  I  touched  the  ice 
it  started  rolling  over.  I  had  a  kid  on  my  back.  I  finally  made 
it  but  my  brother-in-law  sank  in  with  his  son.  I  wanted  to 
jump  over  and  help  them,  but  people  behind  me  were 
pulling  me  back  saying,  you're  too  heavy.  You  got  kids  in 
there.  You're  gonna  break  it  and  then  we  can't  even  cross.  I 
didn't  listen.  I  just  jumped  over  and  fell  down.  My  nephew 
had  one  of  those  hats  that  ties  at  the  neck.  I  could  only  grab 
that,  and  while  I'm  pulling  him  up,  he's  screaming,  crying. 
I'm  choking  him,  you  know.  One  of  the  GIs  came  over  and 

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BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE   27 


ADVANCEM   ENT 

A  report  on  gifts  to  Boston  College 


New  Balance  Foundation  Gives  $1  Million  Grant  to  Lynch  School 
for  Program  to  Address  Childhood  Obesity  and  Diabetes 


The  New  Balance  Foundation 
has  awarded  a  $1  million  grant 
to  the  Carolyn  A.  and  Peter  S. 
Lynch  School  of  Education  to 
support  CONNECTfive,  a 
groundbreaking  school- 
community-university  partner- 
ship among  Boston  College, 
Boston  Public  Schools,  the 
YMCA  of  Greater  Boston,  and 
other  community  partners.  The 
grant,  in  particular,  will  launch 
a  new  health  education  curricu- 
lum that  will  target  the  growing 
threats  of  childhood  obesity 
and  juvenile  diabetes.  The  new 
health  education  curriculum 
will  be  implemented  in  the  10 
schools  of  Allston-Brighton  and 
Mission  Hill  that  participate  in 


the  partnership.  The  grant  will 
be  paid  over  three  years. 

"We  see  this  as  an  opportu- 
nity to  support  health  and 
physical  education  in  Boston 
with  a  particular  interest  in 
positively  affecting  the  issue  of 
childhood  obesity,"  said  Anne 
Davis,  executive  vice  president, 
New  Balance  Athletic  Shoe, 
Inc.,  and  founding  trustee  of 
the  New  Balance  Foundation. 
"The  CONNECTfive  process  is 
well  established  and  involves 
all  key  groups  in  the  child's  life, 
including  the  parents.  This  is  a 
critical  element  for  the  success 
of  the  program." 

The  partnership  will  focus 
on  education  and  prevention, 


with  special  emphasis  on  nutri- 
tion, physical  activity,  and  fit- 
ness— areas  recognized  as 
critical  to  reversing  the  current 
trend  toward  obesity  and  dia- 
betes among  children. 

"The  partnership  with  New 
Balance  creates  exciting  mo- 
mentum for  CONNECTfive  in 
many  ways,"  said  Joseph 
O'Keefe,  SJ,  interim  dean  of 
BC's  Lynch  School  of  Edu- 
cation. "From  the  beginning, 
New  Balance  understood  the 
necessity  of  a  strong  infrastruc- 
ture as  the  key  to  delivering  co- 
ordinated, comprehensive 
support  services  to  school- 
children and  their  families." 

With  the  funding  from  the 


New  Balance  Foundation, 
CONNECTfive,  which  was 
launched  in  2001,  will  adopt  a 
nationally  recognized,  evi- 
dence-based health  education 
curriculum  that  will  be  taught 
by  trained,  certified  health 
educators. 

The  New  Balance 
Foundation  is  a  charitable 
foundation  established  and 
funded  by  New  Balance 
Athletic  Shoe,  Inc.  The  founda- 
tion supports  programs  that 
emphasize  local  outreach  ef- 
forts, the  involvement  of  the 
community,  and  children's  ini- 
tiatives that  benefit  the  com- 
munities in  which  their 
employees  live  and  work. 


TEAMWORK 

In  sports,  as  in  life,  success 
takes  teamwork  and  is  seldom 
a  solo  effort.  That's  something 
James  J.  Derba  '51  and  his  wife 
of  54  years,  Joan  Leyden  Derba, 
know  and  appreciate.  To  honor 
both  his  wife's  support  during 
his  undergraduate  years  at 
Boston  College  and  the 
University's  support  of  its 
scholar-athletes,  Jim  Derba  re- 
cently made  a  $500,000  gift  for 
the  new  Yawkey  Athletics 
Center.  A  longtime  supporter  of 
Boston  College  athletics  and 
admirer  of  former  athletic  di- 
rector William  Flynn,  Derba 
first  arrived  on  campus  in 
January  1947  as  a  19-year-old 
veteran  following  a  two-year 
stint  in  the  U.S.  Navy.  Flynn 
then  was  a  freshman  football 


Joan  Leyden  Derba  and  James  J.  Derba  '51 


coach  and  Derba  one  of  his 
players.  He  remembers  that  the 
University's  athletic  facilities 
were  minimal,  especially  for  in- 
tramural sports,  but  its  loyalty 
to  the  players  was  unwavering. 
"There  was  a  football  player 


who  had  a  four-year  scholar- 
ship but  injured  his  leg  before 
he  even  played  a  game.  They 
kept  him  on  scholarship 
nonetheless  for  the  whole 
time."  That  kind  of  commit- 
ment was  also  reflected  by  his 


wife,  whom  he  married  in  his 
sophomore  year.  Noting  that 
many  of  his  fellow  classmates 
were  veterans  and  also  mar- 
ried, Derba  said  if  it  weren't  for 
the  sacrifices  of  his  wife  and 
the  other  wives  who  worked, 
many  wouldn't  have  graduated. 
"We  got  a  small  subsistence 
from  the  Gl  Bill,  but  the  money 
Joan  earned  allowed  me  to  stay 
at  BC  full-time,  be  active  in 
clubs,  and  enjoy  the  full  under- 
graduate experience.  She  had 
enrolled  at  Boston  University, 
but  gave  it  up  to  work."  He 
earned  a  degree  in  economics, 
cum  laude.  Derba  hopes  his 
gift  will  not  only  facilitate  the 
development  of  state-of-the-art 
athletics  facilities,  but  also  help 
to  attract  the  best  scholar-ath- 
letes who  live  out  the  Ignatian 
value  of  being  "men  and 
women  for  others." 


28  WINTER  2004 


Dear  Boston  College/Newton  College  Alumnus/a: 

It  has  been  an  exhilarating  winter  at  the  Heights.  The  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  introduced  some 
exciting  new  traditions  and  programs  locally  and  nationally  to  meet  the  ever  changing  needs  of  our  alumni.  The 
announcement  of  the  move  to  the  ACC  presents  a  tremendous  opportunity  for  the  BCAA  to  engage  our  alumni 
nationally.  The  Diamond  Walnut  Bowl,  held  on  New  Year's  Eve  in  San  Francisco,  brought  alumni  from  all  over 
the  country  together  to  celebrate  the  Eagles'  victory  over  Colorado  State.  The  University  celebrated  a  new 
Alumni  Memorial  Mass  on  the  Feast  of  All  Souls.  The  BCAA  sponsored  an  alumni  evening  at  the  McMullen 
Museum  for  a  viewing  of  the  Reflections  in  Black  exhibit.  Several  hundred  alumni  joined  us  for  each  of  these 
special  cultural  events  and  we  welcomed  close  to  six  hundred  visitors  to  Winter  Wonderland  in  December. 
Newton  Campus  was  transformed  into  Santa's  village  and  alumni  families  enjoyed  sleigh  rides  and  family-friendly 
activities,  which  concluded  with  a  University  Chorale  Christmas  concert.  University  President,  William  P.  Leahy, 
SJ,  participated  in  Church  in  the  2ist  Century  alumni  dialogues  in  Los  Angeles,  Atlanta,  Naples  and  Chicago. 

As  I  mentioned  in  the  fall  issue  of  BCM,  the  Alumni  Association  will  focus  on  four  strategic  objectives  over  the 
next  three  years:  the  national  chapter  program,  a  new  graphic  identity  system,  connecting  students  to  alumni, 
and  reunion.  We  are  in  the  process  of  launching  a  new  chapter  program  to  connect  alumni  nationally  and  inter- 
nationally. Jack  Moynihan,  Senior  Associate  Director,  and  his  team  continue  to  meet  with  alumni  across  the 
country  to  introduce  the  national  program  this  year.  We  have  also  launched  a  new  brand  and  graphic  identity 
system  for  the  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  in  order  to  provide  a  consistent  look  and  message  to  alum- 
ni. We  are  working  in  partnership  with  University  Relations  to  explore  the  student-alumni  connection  and  will  introduce  new  programs  and  strate- 
gies to  connect  students  to  alumni,  the  Alumni  Association  and  the  Boston  College  Fund.  Finally,  Boston  College  will  introduce  a  new  and 
enhanced  all-alumni  reunion  weekend  (June  3-6)  which  will  provide  alumni  an  opportunity  to  experience  an  enriched  reunion  program  and  cele- 
bration of  loyalty  at  the  Heights.  Keep  checking  the  reunion  Web  site  (www.bc.edu/reunion)  for  more  information  as  it  becomes  available. 

The  BCAA  National  Board  of  Directors  plays  a  critical  role  in  helping  the  BCAA  achieve  its  objectives.  Under  the  leadership  of  Board  President  John 
J.  Griffin,  Jr.  '65,  officers  and  directors  of  the  board  serve  as  ambassadors  of  the  University  and  the  Alumni  Association,  cultivate  relationships  with 
alumni,  and  provide  leadership  opportunities  for  alumni  in  order  to  support  and  help  further  the  mission  of  Boston  College.  A  national  election  is 
held  each  spring  in  order  to  elect  officers  and  directors  to  open  positions.  The  2004-2005  election  is  underway.  Kudos  to  nominating  chair  Brian 
Kickham  '79  and  nominating  chair-elect  Tom  Flannery  '8i  and  their  committee  for  a  job  well  done  in  assembling  a  talented  and  diverse  ballot  for 
your  consideration.  Please  take  the  time  to  review  the  candidate  information  on  the  last  pages  of  this  Class  Notes  section  and  cast  your  vote  today! 

The  BCAA  Web  site  (www.bc.edu/alumni)  and  the  Alumni  Online  Community  (www.bc.edu/friends/alumni/community)  are  excellent  sources 
of  information  about  BCAA  programs  and  events.  We  hope  that  you  will  participate  in  the  many  traditions — old  and  new — being  offered  this 
spring.  Please  check  the  Web  site  regularly  to  get  updated  information  on  the  Boston  College  Fund,  upcoming  Church2i  national  dialogues, 
the  Matta  exhibit  at  the  McMullen  Museum,  Laetare  Sunday,  the  Second  Helping  Gala,  the  Alumni  Evening  at  the  Arts  Festival  and  Reunion  2004 
(June  3-6). 

During  this  Lenten  season,  we  rejoice  in  the  many  blessings  and  traditions  that  Boston  College  affords  us  as  alumni.  We  welcome  your  participa- 
tion in  the  local  and  national  activities  of  the  BCAA. 

Ever  to  excel, 

Grace  Cotter  Regan  '82 
Executive  Director 


ALUMNI     AS  SO  CI  AT  ION 

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Reunion  2004  .  June  3-6* 

Join  your  Boston  College  and  Newton  College  classmates  in  returning  to  campus  this  spring 
for  a  weekend  of  celebration.  Watch  for  your  reunion  brochure  in  the  mail,  and  visit 
www.bc.edu/reunion  for  all  the  latest  information. 


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One  of  Boston  College's  greatest  sons, 
Frederick  LaBrecque,  class  of  1931,  died 
recently  at  the  age  of  94.  Many  BC  grads 
strive  to  be  "men  and  women  for  others." 
Dr.  LaBrecque  lived  our  motto.  This  good 
and  gende  man  was  a  giver  of  life.  A  pioneer 
in  the  field  of  obstetrics,  he  delivered  more 
than  12,000  babies!  His  good  works  live  on 
in  them.  In  1979,  BC  honored  Dr. 
LaBrecque  with  the  McKenney  Award.  His 
family  continues  to  honor  him  through  the 
Alice  D.  and  Frederick  C.  LaBrecque 
Endowed  Lectureship  in  Medical  Ethics  at 
BC.  At  the  close  of  his  wake,  his  nine 
children,  including  four  sons  who  graduated 
from  BC  (Doug,  Rob,  Mark  and  Jim),  27 
grandchildren,  11  great-grandchildren  and 
scores  of  friends  gathered  for  a  prayer  and  a 
rousing  rendition  of  "For  Boston." 


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The  Griffin  motorbikes  have  been  put  away 
for  the  winter  but  will  be  available  again  in 
the  spring.  Six  couples  used  them,  and  we 
got  rave  reviews  of  the  delight  of  weaving  in 
and  out  of  heavy  traffic,  especially  on 
the  Cape.  No  accidents,  probably  due  to  Rita 
and  John  Griffin's  intercession.  •  Milt 
Borenstein  has  suffered  a  grievous  loss  in 
the  death  of  his  wife,  Anne.  He  has  enjoyed 
a  brilliant  career  as  a  lawyer,  businessman 
and  distinguished  alumnus  of  Boston 
College,  and,  as  we  said  in  a  previous  report, 
"she  was  with  him  every  step  of  the  way." 
Our  deepest  sympathy  goes  to  Milt.  •  Dick 
Vaughan,  one  of  our  most  popular 
classmates,  is  seriously  ill  and  needs  our 
prayers.  •  We  lost  another  member,  Ray 
O'Neill,  on  August  27.  His  daughter,  Kathy, 
who  took  care  of  him  for  years,  sent  us  a 
recent  and  handsome  picture  of  him  that 


was  given  to  his  friends,  and  the  short 
eulogy  on  the  back  of  it  is  worth  repeating: 
"Ray  was  an  affectionate  and  caring 
husband,  father  and  grandfather  who  had  a 
marvelous  wit  and  a  knack  for  storytelling. 
He  was  an  avid  reader  and  was  in  a  book 
club  with  his  neighbors  long  before  it  was 
'the  thing  to  do.'  He  traveled  extensively  in 
the  US  and  Europe.  Known  for  his  garden- 
ing, he  fed  half  the  neighborhood  with  his 
vegetables.  He  was  a  communicant  at  St. 
John's  the  Evangelist  Church  in  Hopkinton 
for  fifty-seven  years.  From  beginning  to  end, 
family  was  his  focus,  and  we  all  benefited 
from  his  love  and  devotion."  •  Dan  Holland 
lost  his  very  special  friend  Jack  Murphy  on 
October  4  and  has  written  an  excellent 
obituary,  part  of  which  will  have  to  be  saved 
for  the  next  report.  Dan  writes,  "John  J. 
Murphy  died  peacefully  on  October  4  in 
Sacramento  of  kidney  failure,  surrounded 
by  family  members  and  his  wife,  Jean 
Runyon.  (Jack  lost  his  first  wife,  Bettejo  in 
1993.)  He  is  survived  by  four  children,  two 
stepchildren,  fifteen  grandchildren  and  five 
great-grandchildren.  Jack  was  born  to  Kitty 
and  David  Murphy  on  March  29,  1914, 
and  he  grew  up  as  a  part  of  a  lively 
community  of  young  people.  He  entered  BC 
High  in  1931  and  quickly  distinguished 
himself  in  public  speaking  and  debating. 
His  days  at  BCH  were  precious  to  him.  The 
program  of  the  Eucharistic  Celebration  at  St. 
Anthony's  Church  in  Sacramento  ended 
with  a  quote  about  him  from  his  high  school 
yearbook:  "I  shall  be  like  that  tree.  I  shall  die 
at  the  top."  He  entered  Boston  College  with 
the  class  of  1935,  where  his  oratorical  and 
debating  talents  continued  to  distinguish 
him  as  a  class  leader.  He  was  popular  with 
his  classmates  and  in  social  circles  around 
town.  After  graduation,  he  worked  with 
success  in  insurance  until  the  war  broke  out 
and  he  joined  the  army.  His  assignment 
took  him  to  California,  where  he  met  Bettejo 
Kitt.  Romance  led  to  marriage  before  Jack's 
unit  was  ordered  overseas,  where,  inciden- 
tally, they  fought  with  distinction,  being 
support  for  the  first  troops  onto  Omaha 
Beach.  When  he  completed  his  tour  of 
duty,  he  hurried  home  to  Bettejo  and 
Sacramento."  (To  be  continued.) 


Joseph  P.  Keating 

24  High  St. 

Natick,  MA  01760 

508-653-4902 


As  mentioned  in  my  letter  last  June  it 
appeared  to  be  time  to  close  out  the  class 
account.  Not  having  heard  anything  to  the 
contrary,  the  account  was  closed  in  October. 
The  final  balance  was  $13.45  which  I  mailed 
to  the  BC  Development  Office  requesting  it 
be  applied  to  the  Bishop  Laurence  Riley 
Scholarship  Fund.  Around  November  22, 
the  anniversary  of  the  assassination  of 
President  Kennedy,  there  were  a  number  of 
TV  documentary  programs  covering  his  life 
and  political  career.  In  one  of  the  programs, 
the  American  Experience  on  PBS,  footage  of 
two  classmates  appeared — the  late  Tip 
O'Neill  and  Mark  Dalton.  Comments  and 
remarks  each  had  made  many  years  ago 
were  worked  into  the  documentary.   Tip,  of 


course,  had  worked  closely  with  the 
President  for  many  years,  and  Mark  had 
been  Kennedy's  campaign  manager  in 
Massachusetts  when  he  ran  for-  political 
office  in  the  state  and  in  the  presidential 
campaign.  Mark  had  been  very  active 
organizing  Kennedy's  runs  for  office.  The 
"Big  Dig"  in  Boston  is  almost  finished  (pay- 
ing for  it  is  not!),  and  the  Mass  Legislature  is 
considering  naming  the  main  tunnel  the 
"Tip  O'Neill  Tunnel"  for  all  he  did  to  get  the 
government  approval  and  financing  for  the 
job.  Governor  Romney  however  wants  to 
name  it  the  "Liberty  Tunnel."  Mildred 
"Millie"  O'Neill,  widow  of  our  late  class- 
mate, died  in  October.  Please  remember  her 
and  her  family  in  your  prayers.  Steve  Hart 
and  yours  truly  had  our  annual  late  morning 
breakfast  at  the  Newton  Marriott  in 
November.  After  the  second  cup  of  hot 
coffee  Steve  was  headed  back  to  Florida  for 
the  winter.  By  the  time  you  read  this 
Christmas  and  New  Year's  will  have  come 
and  gone.  I  hope  you  and  your  family  had  a 
great  Christmas  and  happy  start  to  2004. 


'  Thomas  E.  Caquin 

206  Corey  St. 

West  Roxbury,  MA  02132 

617-325-2883 


John  P.  Donovan 

12  Wessonville  Way 

Westborough,  MA  01581 

508-366-4782 

jddboppa@graber.org 


REUNION  YEAR 


Hello  again!  Unfortunately,  the  news  right 
now  is  not  at  all  good.  We  have  lost  some 
more  classmates.  Last  June,  shortly  after  the 
deadline  for  fall  notes  had  passed,  we 
learned  of  the  death  of  our  active  and  per- 
sonable class  president,  John  Lynch  of 
Haverhill.  Through  the  good  offices  of  Paul 
Keane,  a  featured  article  in  the  Haverhill 
Gazette  provided  us  with  more  details  about 
his  very  full  and  rewarding  life.  John  had 
been  not  only  a  Pacific  Theater  veteran  of 
WWII,  but  also  the  city  of  Haverhill's  "most 
passionate  tennis  fan."  John  not  only  played 
the  game  at  BC,  but  in  his  alumni  days  won 
numerous  tennis  awards  and  for  many  years 
coached  the  Haverhill  High  School  tennis 
team.  He  will  be  sorely  missed  not  only  by 
his  wife,  Elaine,  his  ten  children  and  thir- 
teen grandchildren,  but  also  by  his  class- 
mates and  all  his  tennis  players.  •  This  sad 
news  was  followed  by  the  word  that  John 
Murphy  of  Norwood  had  also  gone  to  his 
heavenly  reward.  For  some  thirty  years,  John 
had  been  the  owner  of  the  Motor  Bay  Inn  in 
Bourne  and  with  his  wife,  Irene,  had  for  ten 
years  operated  the  Merrymount  Manor 
Nursing  Home  in  Quincy.  John  is  survived 
by  his  wife,  two  children,  and  many  nieces 
and  nephews.  •  But  the  sad  news  goes  on. 
Only  recently  another  Norwood  native 
passed  on.  An  e-mail  from  his  daughter, 


www.bc.edu/alumni 


Julie  Lydon  Buckley,  and  a  photo-accompa- 
nied obituary  in  the  Boston  Globe  informed 
us  of  the  death  of  Roy  Lydon.  Roy  served  as 
a  doctor  on  a  US  Navy  destroyer  during 
WWII  and  subsequently  was  a  longtime 
physician  and  member  of  the  board  of 
health  in  his  hometown  of  Norwood  and  a 
much-admired  community  activist.  We  will 
miss  him,  as  will  his  wife,  Anne,  his  ten 
children  and  eighteen  grandchildren.  Our 
sympathy  and  prayers  are  extended  to  the 
families  of  all  these  classmates.  •  But  there 
is  some  good  news!  Frank  Brennan's 
youthful  countenance  shared  a  large  photo 
with  his  son,  John  J.  "Jack'  Brennan,  in  a 
Boston  Herald  story  describing  the  reforms 
needed  in  mutual  funds.  Jack  is  the  CEO  of 
the  Vanguard  Group,  Inc.,  while  Frank 
continues  on  as  the  chairman  of  the 
Massachusetts  Business  Development  Corp. 
•  In  addition,  Pat  McCarthy  Christ,  a 
daughter  of  our  late  classmate  William  D. 
McCarthy,  empathized  with  the  paucity  of 
my  mail  by  sending  me  a  lovely  Christmas 
card  and  some  wonderful  photos  of  the 
Christ  family  and  their  activities.  Thanks, 
Pat.  She  also  reminded  me  of  the  fact  that  in 
2004  the  class  of  '39  will  be  celebrating  its 
sixty-fifth  anniversary.  We  will  be  joined  in 
this  celebration  by  a  flock  of  other  anniver- 
sary-year classes.  The  dates  for  this  celebra- 
tion are  June  4-6,  2004.  More  news  on  this 
down  the  road.  Peace! 


Sherman  Rogan 

34  Oak  St. 

Reading,  MA  01867 

shermanrogan@netscape.net 


Your  correspondent  had  a  delightful  visit 
with  Father  Frank  Diskin  at  St.  Paul  the 
Apostle  Church  at  Columbus  Square  in 
Manhattan.  Frank  is  a  Paulist  father.  His 
church,  adjacent  to  Fordham  University's 
in-town  annex,  is  in  the  middle  of  New 
York's  media  and  entertainment  complex 
(Metropolitan  Opera,  City  Center,  etc.).  The 
decor  of  the  church  is  exquisite,  and  the 
liturgy  of  the  Mass  reflects  the  Paulist  dream 
for  America.  •  Elinor  M.  O'Brien,  director  of 
the  Sonntag  Institute  for  Cancer  Research  at 
BC,  has  started  a  scholarship  fund  in  honor 
of  William  D.  Sullivan,  SJ.  Scholarships  will 
be  offered  to  junior  biology  students  who 
have  above  a  3.5  cumulative  average  and  are 
in  financial  need.  The  fund  has  reached  over 
$78,000. 


Ernest  J.  Handy 

180  Main  St.,  Apt.  Cn8 

Walpole,  MA  02081 

781-821-4576 


As  I  write  this  column  in  late  November,  my 
thoughts  usually  involve  winter  activities  in 
Naples,  FL.  It  appears  that  those  days  are 
just  wonderful  memories,  memories  of  time 
spent  socializing  with  classmates,  time  on 
the  golf  course  and  time  at  the  beach.  My 


thoughts  today  remind  me  that,  in  the 
process  of  moving  (kindly  note  new  address 
listed  above),  my  annual  wishes  to  each  of 
you  for  a  happy  and  holy  Christmas  were  not 
included  in  the  November  issue  of  Boston 
College  Magazine.  However,  you  were 
remembered  in  my  prayers  on  Christmas. 

•  Among  the  first  to  visit  us  here  at  our  new 
address  were  Louise  and  Jack  Hart.  We  were 
served  dinner  in  the  community  dining 
room,  where  Jack  entertained  with  a  piano 
"concert."  Residents  here  still  ask  if  and 
when  there  might  be  a  return  engagement. 

•  Kindly  remember  Frances  Kissell  in  your 
prayers.  Her  daughter  wrote,  "She  had  been 
seriously  ill  for  the  last  year  with  heart 
problems  and  cancer  with  dialysis  three 
time  a  week  ...  she  continued  to  live  her  life 
with  dignity  and  enthusiasm."  One  of  my 
fond  memories  of  Frances  involved  a 
dormitory  incident  at  the  class's  twenty- 
fifth  anniversary.  At  breakfast,  Frances 
announced  that  she  and  I  had  spent  the 
night  within  one  foot  of  each  other.  She  let 
me  explain  that  "one  foot"  was  a  solid  brick 
wall  separating  their  room  from  ours. 
Frances  died  June  27,  2003.  •  My  friendship 
with  Frank  Dever  began  in  high  schoo  1. 
Over  the  past  seventy  years,  we  visited  each 
other  on  the  Cape,  tailgated  at  Shea  Field 
before  and  after  football  games,  vacationed 
together  at  Vero  Beach  in  Florida,  and  joint- 
ly attended  various  alumni  functions, 
including  Laetare  Sunday,  class  reunions 
and  the  annual  Alumni  Golf  Tournament. 
We  have  many,  many  wonderful  memories. 
In  your  prayers  kindly  remember  his  wife, 
Marie,  who  died  on  November  22,  2003. 
Both  Frances  and  Marie  will  be  remembered 
at  our  annual  Memorial  Mass  next  June. 

•  On  Sunday,  May  11,  2003,  Joe  Nolan 
commemorated  his  ordination  to  the  priest- 
hood with  a  Mass  at  St.  Ignatius  Church. 
Due  to  circumstances  beyond  his  control, 
i.e.  Commencement  Week  at  BC,  the 
celebration  followed  by  a  reception  (a  real 
party)  in  Wellesley,  was  one  week  early. 
Unfortunately,  I  could  not  attend.  I  under- 
stand it  was  well  attended  and  most 
enjoyable.  •  Congratulations  to  Bob  Drinan, 
who  on  November  15,  2003,  was  honored 
with  a  Four  Freedom  Award  from  the 
Franklin  and  Eleanor  Roosevelt  Institute. 

•  My  wife  and  I  had  a  very  pleasant 
overnight  visit  with  Dorothy  McDonald  at 
her  beautiful  new  home  in  New  Hampshire. 
She  has  the  added  luxury  of  having  a  son 
and  his  family  living  across  the  road.  •  I  had 
the  pleasure  of  attending  the  BC  vs.  Notre 
Dame  football  game  with  my  grandson 
Michael  McLaughlin,  age  14.  I  pray  that 
he,  like  his  parents,  will  someday  graduate 
from  BC.  Time  will  tell.  •  Again,  kindly  note 
my  new  address  listed  above.  Please 
send  me  news  items!  Hope  to  see  you  on 
Laetare  Sunday. 


Thomas  O'Connell  Murray 

14  Churchill  Rd. 

West  Roxbury,  MA  02132-3402 

617-323-3737 


Much  to  our  dismay,  we  must  report  the 
deaths  of  the  following  classmates.  First, 
condolences  to  the  family  of  Taylor  Ahern, 
who  died  on  September  23.  Taylor  was  a  US 
Navy  vet  and  a  longtime  building  inspector 
for  Quincy.  Next,  condolences  go  to  the 
family   of  Frank   Conroy,   who   died   on 


October  5.  He  was  a  US  Air  Force  vet  and  a 
CPA  with  MIT.  Further  condolences  to  the 
family  of  Bob  Radley,  who  died  on  October 
29.  Bob  was  a  US  Navy  vet  and  worked  for 
the  Bell  System.  Finally,  our  condolences  go 
to  John  Hayes  on  the  death  of  his  wife,  Mary, 
on  September  5.  •  The  big  news  of  the  fall 
season  was  our  sixtieth  anniversary  Mass 
and  lunch  on  All  Souls'  Day,  November  2. 
Our  own  Father  Dan  Moran  was  the 
celebrant  at  Corpus  Christi  Church,  ably 
assisted  by  Jim  Harvey,  John  Hayes  and  Tom 
Manning,  who  also  joined  us  at  the  lunch  at 
the  nearby  Marriott  hotel.  We  had  a  very 
good  attendance  including  the  Tom 
Murray s,  the  Paul  Healys,  the  Bob  Blutes, 
the  Ray  Sisks,  the  Frank  Hills,  the  George 
Brays,  Ed  Lambert,  Helen  O'Meara,  Frank 
Richards  and  Gen.  Halim  Habib,  Joe 
O'Neill,  the  Tom  Meaghers,  the  Dan  Healys, 
Rita  Lyons,  the  Al  Donovans,  Mary 
Boudreau,  Vin  Takutis,  Carol  Finnegan,  the 
Sam  Churches,  Agnes  Lyons,  Bob  Winkler, 
the  Jim  Noonans,  Frank  Flaherty,  Peg  Kind 
and  son,  Larry  Babines  and  daughter,  the 
Bill  Sheas,  and  Ernie  Santosuosso,  whom 
we  thank  for  all  his   preliminary  work. 

•  Ed  O'Connor  and  Mary  say  hello  from 
California  and  hope  to  see  us  in  the  spring. 

•  Still  playing  golf  three  times  a  week,  John 
Rafferty  reports  he  is  still  posting  senior- 
type  scores.  •  Special  thanks  go  to  Jim 
Noonan  for  his  extra  gift  for  class  dues.  •  We 
had  a  fine  letter  from  Father  Tom  Heath, 
OP,  saying  he  would  say  Mass  on  November 
2  for  all  our  deceased  and  asking  if  we  could 
acknowledge  those  who  have  helped  in  his 
mission  work.  They  are  Tom  Antico,  George 
Bray,  Ed  Callahan,  Sam  Church,  J.  J. 
Connolly,  Bob  DeGiacomo,  Joe  Finnegan, 
Paul  Good,  Jim  Harvey,  Bill  Horan,  John 
Logue,  Jack  Manning,  Tom  Meehan,  Tom 
Murray,  Joe  O'Neill,  Dick  Ramsey  and  Ernie 
Santosuosso.  •  Word  from  DC  is  that  Yale 
Richmond  has  written  eight  books  on 
foreign  policy  and  is  working  on  another. 


REUNION  YEAR 


As  these  notes  are  e-mailed  to  the  magazine 
before  Christmas,  the  60th  Reunion  of  the 
Class  of  '44,  though  still  in  planning,  will 
bring  us  back  to  the  Heights  on  June  4-6, 
2004!  Our  reunion  will  coincide  with  the 
anniversary  of  the  final  days  of  preparation 


Join  Your  Classmates  for 
Reunion  Weekend  2004 

for  class  years  ending  in  4  and  9 

Return  to  campus  to  remember, 
reminisce  and  reconnect 

June  3  -  6,  2004" 

Check  the  Reunion  Weekend  Web  site  at 

www.bc.edu/reunion  for  the  most 

up-to-date  information 

*  Activities  on  June  3  are  for  1954  Golden  Eagles  only. 


CLASS  NOTES  3 


and  the  landing  of  the  US  and  Allied  forces 
on  the  Normandy  Coast  in  June,  1944.  This 
historic  thrust  across  the  Channel  into 
Fortress  Europe  was  the  long  awaited, 
all-out,  response  to  Hitier's  Mein  Kampf 
mentality.  On  the  Class  of  1944's  6o"\  and 
the  same  anniversary  of  the  Normandy 
Invasion  and  its  momentum  toward  Berlin, 
let  us  come  back  to  Chestnut  Hill  and  the 
Tower  Bell  to  give  thanks  for  our  days  at  the 
Heights  and  for  the  willingness  of 
classmates  "To  confront  the  mystery  of 
...dropping  everything  we/they  had  dreamed 
about  to  go  off  and  fight  a  war",  before 
returning,  Deo  Volente,  to  those  dreams  of 
1939,  40,  and  41.  In  whatever  role  each  was 
called  to  serve  in  the  war  years,  we  became 
solidly  united  in  prayer  and  action.  In  June 
2004  we  shall  once  more  be  together  to  give 
thanks  to  alma  mater,  to  remember 
classmates  in  prayer,  and  to  remind  the 
generation  of  today  and  tomorrow  that 
BC  students  of  the  1940's  stood  strong  on 
watch,  in  combat,  and  in  the  peace  that 
followed.  Earlier,  following  a  policy  of 
isolation  and  failed  diplomacy,  we  accepted 
the  dismemberment  of  Czechoslovakia,  the 
rape  of  Poland,  the  Holocaust  across 
Europe,  the  fall  of  Paris  and  the  Low  Lands, 
the  buzz  bombing  of  London,  etc., 
until  America  awakened  in  194 1  by  the  "Day 
that  will  live  in  infamy".  Yet,  December  7, 
2003  was  but  a  routine  work  and  shopping 
day  for  most  of  America  with  little 
remembrance  of  Pearl  Harbor.  Our 
service  and  commitment  is  not  honored  or 
complete  if  we  fail  to  remember  and  to 
awake  America  to  recall  the  War  in  Europe, 
the  Pacific  Campaigns,  and  the  sacrifices  of 
classmates  and  American  veterans.  We  look 
forward  to  the  wives  and  families  of  our 
classmates  joining  us  in  this  "Before  We're 
Gone"  Reunion  for  a  program  that  will  be 
positive,  prayerful  and  rewarding. 
Monsignor  Joe  Alves  is  front  and  center 
leading  our  Reunion  legacy  with  BC's 
message  of  planned  giving.  Each  of  us  will 
reread  this  message  and  carefully  consider 
how  we  can  respond  on  this  occasion  or  in 
the  future.  The  growing  Reunion 
Committee  is  shepherded  by  Father 
Bill  Mclnnes,  SJ.  You  still  have  time  to 
join  the  nineteen  on  board  as  of  Christmas 
and  to  be  a  player  in  the  final  program 
planning  at  meetings  in  early  2004. 
Finally,  I  have  no  new  obituaries  to  report 
and  look  forward  to  joining  all  in  personal 
congratulations  to  Class  Treasurer,  attorney 
Bob  O'Leary  of  Milton,  who  was  recently 
honored  on  his  8o'h  birthday  by  the  historic 
Blue  Bell  Tavern  Society  in  his  home  town 
community.  An  Army  veteran  of  WWII  and 
1949  grad  of  BC  Law  School,  Bob  served 
with  distinction  as  Town  Counsel  of  Milton 
for  25  years.  Yes,  Bob  is  on  the  Reunion 
Committee.  Stay  healthy  until  June  2004. 


Louis  V.  Sorgi 

5  Augusta  Rd. 

Milton,  MA  02186 

LVSorgisr@aol.com 


The  kick-off  of  the  second  year  of  BC's  "The 
Church  in  the  21st  Century"  took  place  on 
September  18,  2003,  in  Conte  Forum.  In  the 
first  year,  the  initiative  focused  on  exploring 


the  issues  underlying  the  crisis  in  the 
Catholic  Church.  There  were  over  13,500 
participants  in  the  programs.  In  its  second 
year,  the  focus  will  shift  to  the  steps  that 
must  be  taken  to  promote  renewal  in  the 
Church.  The  September  18  event  was  a 
panel  moderated  by  Meet  the  Press's  Tim 
Russert,  NBC  News  Washington  Bureau 
chief.  The  panel  included  two  students  from 
the  2004  and  2005  classes.  More  on  these 
events  can  be  seen  on  the  Web  site 
www.bc.edu/church21/.  •  Lillian  and  I 
attended  a  Gridiron  Club  event  featuring 
Tom  Coughlin  and  members  of  the  1993  BC 
football  team,  celebrating  the  tenth 
anniversary  of  the  "kick."  Give  me  a  call  or 
drop  me  a  note  if  you  would  like  to  join  this 
club,  just  $25  per  year.  •  We  also  attended 
the  Alumni  Awards  in  Robsham  Theater. 
Jack  Joyce,  '61,  received  the  McKenney 
award.  He  was  very  instrumental  in  the 
formation  of  the   Boston   College   Club. 

•  Bill  Hamrock  was  chairman  of  our  annual 
football  dinner  and  did  his  usual  great  job. 
Of  course  you  know  by  now  that  we  beat  Ball 
State  and  had  a  successful  year  with  seven 
wins  and  five  loses,  resulting  in  a  bowl  game 
in  San  Francisco.  There  were  twenty-seven 
people  who  attended  our  dinner,  with  Don 
McMorrow  and  Miriam  coming  all  the  way 
from  California  and  Tom  Moran  and 
Mary  Nell  coming  in  from  Texas.  Other 
classmates  there  were  Ed  Burns,  Bud  Curry, 
Joe  Devlin,  Charlie  Early,  Ernie  Graustein, 
John  Greenter,  Joe  Harrington,  Dave  Hern, 
Jack  Kineary,  Tom  Loftus,  Jack  McCarthy, 
and  deceased  Tom   Seaver's  wife,   Marie. 

•  I  just  received  a  note  from  Paul  Ryder  that 
he  became  a  grandfather  again  and  that 
his  daughter,  Mary  Lou  Larkin,  was 
awarded  a  distinguished  alumna  award 
from  Columbia  University's  School  of 
Nursing  for  her  medical  work  in  Haiti. 
Congratulations  to  Paul,  Louise  and  Mary 
Lou  on  these  very  special  events.  Mary  Lou 
received  her  B.S.N,  from  Boston  College  and 
her  M.S.N,  from  Columbia.  •  It  seems  that 
every  time  I  write  notes  I  have  to  tell  you 
about  another  loss  from  our  class.  BC 
professor  and  author  John  McAleer  died 
Wednesday,  November  16,  2003,  at  his 
home  in  Lexington.  John  began  teaching 
at  BC  in  1947,  receiving  his  master's 
degree  from  BC  in  1949  and  a  doctorate 
from  Harvard  in  1955.  He  published 
more  than  a  dozen  books,  including  the 
Pulitzer  Prize-nominated  Ralph  Waldo 
Emerson:  Days  of  Encounter  and  the  Edgar 
Allen  Poe  Award-winning  Rex  Stout: 
A  Biography.  While  serving  in  India  in 
World  War  II  he  was  befriended  by 
Mahatma  Gandhi.  John  received  many 
awards  in  his  lifetime,  more  than  I  can  write 
about  in  these  notes.  Unfortunately,  John's 
wife  passed  away  a  week  after  he  did,  on 
November  26,  2003.  They  are  both 
survived  by  three  daughters,  three  sons  and 
seven  grandchildren.  John  was  a  good 
member  of  our  class,  and  we  are  very  proud 
of  his  many  accomplishments  and  awards. 
Our  sincere  condolences  go  to  his  children 
and  the  rest  of  his  family.  •  There  is  another 
death  to  report.  Although  he  did  not 
graduate  with  our  class,  he  is  well  known  by 
many  of  us,  having  started  with  us  in  1941. 
I  am  talking  about  Jim  Ronayne,  who  passed 
away  on  August  31  in  Pocasset.  Jim  was  a 


great  athlete  and  coach.  He  had  many 
winning  seasons  coaching  football  at  East 
Boston  and  at  Newton  North.  He  was  a 
professional  golfer  and  head  pro  at  the 
Pocasset  golf  course  on  the  Cape.  I 
especially  remember  playing  baseball 
against  him  at  BC  High  and  with  him  on  the 
first  Legion  baseball  team  in  Milton  and  on 
the  BC  baseball  team  of  1942  and  1943.  Our 
sympathy  goes  to  his  surviving  wife, 
children  and  grandchildren.  Pax  Vobiscum, 
John  and  Ruth  McAleer  and  Jim  Ronayne. 

•  Now  back  to  the  more  pleasant  things. 
Yours  truly  and  Lillian  were  pleased  to 
attend  a  special  reception  to  mark  the 
publication  of  Joe  Figurito's  book  (which  I 
wrote  about  in  the  fall  issue  of  class 
notes)  in  the  Reading  Room  of  the  Burns 
Library  on  Thursday,  October  30.  "The 
Burns  Library  was  pleased  to  publish 
Joe's  book,"  said  Robert  O'Neil,  Ph.D., 
Burns  librarian.  The  theme  of  Joe's 
book  Moral  Renewal  is  very  relevant 
concerning  the  crisis  in  the  American 
Catholic  Church.  Copies  are  available  from 
the  Burns  Library  on  a  first-come,  first- 
served  basis.  Congratulations,  professor  Joe, 
on  your  newest  publication.  •  One  last 
note — my  spouse  and  I  attended  the  lunch- 
eon honoring  members  of  the  Shaw  Society. 
Joe  Figiruto  and  Mary,  Charlie  Early  and 
Marie,  Jack  McCarthy  and  Mary  Lou,  and 
Marie  Seaver  also  attended  this  June  event. 

•  Thanks  to  those  who  have  already  sent  in 
dues  and  a  request  to  those  who  have  not  yet 
responded.  We  will  need  the  money, 
and  your  ideas  for  our  sixtieth  in  2005. 

•  p.s.  Just  discovered  a  note  from  Leo 
McGrath  telling  me  about  his  family 
reunion  for  his  eightieth  birthday,  which 
took  place  in  July  on  the  Outer  Banks 
barrier  islands,  NC.  Congratulations,  Leo, 
and  welcome  to  the  "octogenarian  group." 


Leo  F.  Roche 

26  Sargent  Rd. 

Winchester,  MA  01890 

781-729-2340 


Richard  ).  Fitzgerald 

P.O.  Box  171 

North  Falmouth,  MA  02556 

508-563-6168 


The  annual  Memorial  Mass  for  in  of  our 
deceased  classmates  was  held  at  Trinity 
Chapel  in  September.  Attendees  at  the  Mass 
were:  Rev.  Bob  Costello,  Jim  Costello  and 
Jeanne,  Mike  DeCesare,  Al  DeVito  and 
Eileen,  Joe  Donahue  and  Jerry,  Frank 
Donelan  and  Nancy,  Bob  Foy  and  Mildred, 
Tim  Buckley  and  Suzanne,  Eve  Hebert,  Jim 
Hogan  and  Millicent,  Rev.  Angelo  Loscocco, 
Bill  Melville  and  Irene,  John  Morris  and 
Mona,  Bob  Morris  and  Pat,  Gene  Nash  and 
Barbara,  Eileen  Nee,  Bill  Noonan,  John 
O'Neill  and  Megan,  Paul  Riordan  and  Alice, 
George  Savage  and  Danuata,  and  Rosamund 
Waters.  •  Two  of  our  classmates  have  died 


4  www.bc.edu/alumni 


recently.  John  Thomas  Linehan  died  on 
October  21,  2003.  John  was  a  WWII  veteran 
and  a  computer  programmer.  He  was  a 
native  of  Brighton  and  a  resident  of 
Yorktown,  VA.  He  graduated  from  Boston 
Latin  prior  to  enrolling  at  BC.  •  John  M. 
Corcoran  died  on  October  22.  John  was  a 
successful  real  estate  developer  and  a 
decorated  paratrooper  who  was  awarded  the 
Bronze  Star  for  bravery  and  a  Purple  Heart. 
His  many  charitable  interests  included  St. 
Mary's  Women  and  Infants'  Center,  a  multi- 
service agency  for  Dorchester  residents.  He 
was  a  founding  contributor  to  the  Center  for 
Christian-Jewish  Learning  .  at  Boston 
College.  He  was  also  a  trustee  of  both 
Suffolk  University  and  Boston  College, 
contributing  $5  million  to  the  "Ever  to  Excel" 
campaign  this  year.  •  George  Savage  and  his 
wife,  Danuata,  are  in  Naples,  FL,  where  they 
will  hibernate  until  late  spring.  •  William  F. 
O'Meara  retired  in  1990.  He  and  his  wife, 
Norma,  have  six  children  and  twelve  grand- 
children. He  is  active  as  a  Eucharistic 
minister.  Bill  belongs  to  three  prayer  groups 
and  attended  the  Divine  Will  Conference  in 
Florida  last  November.  •  Bill  Hamrock 
and  his  wife,  Anne,  celebrated  their  fortieth 
wedding  anniversary  last  June.  Their 
daughter  Sue  has  been  appointed  senior 
advisor  to  the  Ministry  of  Trade  in  Iraq.  She 
has  been  in  Iraq  since  March  2003.  •  James 
Hogan  and  his  wife,  Millicent,  will  be 
married  fifty  years  in  2004  and  will  travel  to 
Hawaii.  Having  read  the  Boston  College 
Magazine  article  on  Fr.  Bernard  Lonergan, 
he  would  like  to  join  this  group.  They  have 
four  children  and  six  grandchildren.  •  Hugh 
Daly  has  given  me  a  correction.  The  institute 
should  read  Chautauqua  Institute,  PO  Box 
28,  Chautauqua,  NY  14722  (716-357-6250). 
•  Frank  Perry  and  Bill  Noonan  have  attended 
BC  football  games  together  for  50  years. 


William  H.  Flaherty,  Jr. 

44  Concord  Rd. 

Billerica,  MA  01821 

978-670-1449 


REUNION  YEAR 

We  had  an  excellent  turnout  for  the  1949 
Remembrance  Mass  and  dinner  held  on 
Thursday,  October  16,  2003.  The  chapel  on 
the  Law  School  campus  was  perfect,  and  the 
dinner  next  door  at  Alumni  House  was 
supreme.  The  Rev.  Bill  Burkhart  said  the 
Mass.  Tom  O'Connor  was  the  guest  speaker, 
and  he  handled  the  assignment  with  great 
skill.  As  Boston  College's  historian,  he  told 
the  group  what  his  job  entailed  and  talked 
about  his  experiences  on  campus  with  the 
modern-day  student.  On  hand  were  Mary 
Amsler,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Arthur  Ashler,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hank  Barry,  Paul  Breslin,  Rev.  Bill 
Burkhart,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bill  Butler,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  Cahill,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joe 
Chiccarelli,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ernie  Ciampa,  Bill 
Cohan,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  Croke,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sahag  Dakesian,  John  Driscoll,  Roland 
Driscoll,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bill  Flaherty,  John 
Forkin,  Jim  Galvin,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gerry 
Haggerty,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bert  Hanwell, 
Dorothy  Harney,  Leo  Joy,  Ed  Kaunelis,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ron  Leary,  Beatrice  Lennon,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.   Don  McA'Nulty,   Mr.  and  Mrs. 


Bernie  McCabe,  Charlie  McKenna,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  McQuillan,  Tom  O'Connor,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  John  Prince,  Joe  Quinn,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Peter  Rogerson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Don  St. 
Andre,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  Turner,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Jack  Waite,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Jim  Whelton, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Brennan,  Joe  Cotter, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tom  Sweeney,  John  Holt,  and 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jack  Ellis.  Mary  Keyes  snuck  in 
under  the  tent.  Special  thanks  to  Ernie 
Ciampa  and  Don  McA'Nulty  for  handling 
the  arrangements,  and  to  Arthur  and  Anne 
Asher  for  the  use  of  one  of  their  sons  for  the 
wonderful  music  during  the  Mass.  •  The 
football  team  started  poorly,  losing  to  Wake 
Forest,  but  they  ended  on  a  high  note  with  a 
victory  over  Virginia  Tech.  Then  a  bowl 
victory  in  San  Francisco  on  December  31. 
Pretty  soon  they  will  have  more  bowls  than 
there  are  college  teams  to  play  in  them. 
Three  out  of  four  over  Notre  Dame  is  still 
sweet  to  say.  •  My  best  wishes  to  you  and 
your  families.  May  we  end  up  with  the  same 
number  of  '49ers  that  we  started  with  when 
we  reach  December  31,  2004. 


John  A.  Dewire 

15  Chester  St.,  No.  31 

Cambridge,  MA  02140 

617-876-1461 


We  had  our  class  reunion  at  the  West 
Virginia  football  game  on  November  8, 
2003,  and  a  nice  dinner  on  campus  after  the 
game.  Our  classmates  in  attendance  were 
Jack  Allison,  Joanne  DeGrout,  Geraldine 
and  Ed  Brady,  Claire  and  Richard  Burke, 
Anne  and  Frank  Carr,  Rita  and  Jack  Casey, 
Mary  and  Ed  Casey,  Ann  Marie  and  Shawn 
Clasby,  John  Dewire,  Joe  Devlin,  Joe  Devlin 
III  ('96),  Bernice  and  Brendan  Fleming, 
Shirly  and  Bill  Horrigan,  Ken  Hughes,  Dan 
Hughes,  Helene  and  George  Padula,  Gloria 
and  Bob  Evegan,  Eleanor  and  Ted  Quinn, 
Bill  Toland  and  five  guests,  Mary  Ann  and 
Keith  Bombauck,  Jr.,  and  Kay  and  Bill 
Logue.  •  William  F.  McNally  of  Norwood 
died  May  10,  2003,  after  a  long  illness.  He 
was  a  former  FBI  agent  and  construction 
executive.,  Bill  was  born  in  Clinton  and 
raised  in  Concord.  He  graduated  from 
Concord  High  School  in  1946,  where  he 
served  as  class  president.  He  was  a  sergeant 
in  the  US  Army  Military  Police  during  the 
Korean  War.  In  1955,  he  was  employed  by 
the  FBI  in  Michigan  and  Delaware.  Bill  left 
the  bureau  in  i960  to  spend  more  time 
with  his  family  and  ventured  into  the  con- 
struction industry,  serving  as  an  executive 
for  some  major  New  England  companies. 
He  was  involved  in  project  management, 
purchasing  and  job  bidding.  He  retired  in 
1998  after  thirty-eight  years  in  the  industry. 
For  more  than  a  decade,  he  was  a  coach  in 
both  the  Concord  Little  League  and  in  Pop 
Warner  football.  Bill  served  on  Concord's 
bicentennial  committee  in  1975.  He  leaves 
his  wife  of  fifty  years,  Priscilla;  five  sons, 
Brian  of  Sudbury,  Kevin  G.  and  John  P.,  both 
of  Concord,  Mark  T.  of  Jamestown,  RI,  and 
Daniel  J.  of  Bala,  PA;  and  a  daughter, 
Maureen  M.  Moriarty  of  Canton.  •  William 
V.  Ryan  passed  away  in  Duxbury  on 
November  6,  2003.  Bill  was  a  marketing 
major  in  the  School  of  Management.  He 


leaves  his  wife,  Helen;  two  sons,  William  of 
South  Boston  and  Russell  F.  of  Belmont, 
and  a  daughter,  Eileen  McLaughlin  of 
Belmont.  I  spent  three  evenings  with  Bill 
and  Helen  at  our  Golden  Eagle  reunion  in 
June  2000. 


'50-'53 

NEWTON 


Ann  Fulton  Cote 

n  Prospect  St. 

Winchester,  MA  01890 


October  brought  sad  news  of  the  death 
of  Bill  Eagan,  husband  of  Connie  Ryan 
Eagan  ('50).  Bill  was  a  true  "Sacred  Heart 
husband,"  always  accompanying  Connie  to 
alumnae  events.  We  shall  miss  him.  Also, 
sadly,  Raminta  Mantautaite  Molio  ('53)  died 
in  October  after  a  very  long  illness.  Raminta 
leaves  her  husband,  two  daughters  and  four 
grandchildren.  Raminta  made  a  courageous 
journey  out  of  her  native  Lithuania  when  the 
Soviets  took  over  and  shared  her  gifts  with 
us  in  her  adopted  land.  Our  prayers  are  with 
these  two  families. 


Joseph  A.  Ryan 

28  Guilford  Drive,  P.O.  Box  1167 

Harwich,  MA  02645 

508-432-0035 

josepharyan@aol.cpm 


Fellow  classmates:  Not  too  surprisingly,  it 
appears  these  notes  have  become  more  dead 
than  alive!  Therefore,  I  believe  we  can  best 
honor  our  deceased  classmates  with  more 
than  just  their  names.  So,  wherever  back- 
ground information  may  be  available,  I  will 
use  it  here,  starting  now,  as  space  allows. 
The  names  are  provided  by  the  Alumni 
Office.  My  principal  sources  of  unsolicited 
information  are  the  1951  and  2001 
yearbooks  and  obituary  pages,  if  I  am 
provided  the  dates.  Fifty-plus  years  may 
be  a  long  stretch  of  time  to  try  to  remember 
if  just  a  "name"  had  been  that  good  friend 
you  lost  track  of.  (Besides,  all  of  us  deserve  a 
little  recognition!)  •  Peace  came  to:  Charles 
A.  Bacigalupo  (Ventura,  CA).  A&S  grad. 
Grew  up  in  Melrose.  WWII  and  Korean  War 
US  Navy  veteran.  Pharmaceutical  sales  with 
Pfizer.  Formed  Spectra  Biologicals  (with 
seven  others).  Remained  with  company  after 
it  was  sold  to  Becton  Dickson  in  1964.  Eight 
children,  ten  grandchildren.  Sister  Marion 
R.  Chaloux  School  of  Nursing.  Respiratory- 
therapy  specialist.  Vermont  Historical 
Society     archivist.     Joseph     L.     Dooley 


i6th  Annual 
Second  Helping  Gala 

presented  by 
the  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 

All  proceeds  to  benefit 
The  Greater  Boston  Food  Bank 
Support  your  neighbors  in  need! 

Saturday,  April  3,  2004 

Gillette  Stadium 
Foxboro,  Massachusetts 

For  tickets,  call  800-669-8430 


CLASS  NOTES  5 


(Princeton,  MA).  Economics  major.  Grew  up 
in  Milton.  John  F.  Mahoney  (Palm  Springs, 
FL).  Business  School  grad.  Grew  up  in  West 
Roxbury.  WWII  US  Navy  veteran,  receiving 
Presidential  Commendation.  Raytheon 
executive.  Founder  of  Outline  Industries, 
Walpole.  Three  sons,  two  daughters.  John 
H.  Monahan  (Dedham).  A&S  grad.  Grew  up 
in  Quincy.  Worked  at  MIT's  Lincoln 
Laboratory  on  early  application  of  computer 
and  Internet  systems.  Mitre  Corp.  system 
engineer  for  thirty-four  years.  Three 
daughters  and  a  son,  all  BC  grads.  George  L. 
Pillion  (Weymouth).  Economics  major. 
Grew  up  in  Newton  Highlands.  WWII  US 
Air  Corps  veteran.  •  Fiftieth  wedding 
anniversary  congratulations  go  to  Bob 
Barrett  and  Lucretia,  and  to  Vin  Connors 
and  Margie.  •  BC  Club  of  Cape  Cod 
members  attending  the  All  Souls  Day 
Memorial  Mass  included  John  Bacon  and 
Mary,  Art  Casavant,  Bill  Collins  and 
Kathleen,  George  Dunn  and  Pat,  Marty  Joyce 
and  Betty,  Charlie  Maher  and  Evelyn,  Art 
Silk  and  Mildred,  and  Frank  Tully.  •  Please 
remember  to  send  class  dues  in  the  amount 
of  $35  to  Tom  Warren,  176  Strasser  Ave, 
Westwood,  MA  02090. 


Edward  L.  Englert,  Jr. 

128  Colberg  Ave. 

Roslindale,  MA  02131 

617-323-1500 


The  annual  Memorial  Mass  for  deceased 
classmates  was  held  in  October  at  the  Trinity 
Chapel  on  the  Newton  Campus,  followed  by 
a  dinner  and  the  election  of  officers  at 
Alumni  House.  Fathers  Hugh  O' Regan  and 
Tom  Murray  were  concelebrants,  John 
Kellaher  was  altar  server,  and  readings  were 
by  Art  Powell  and  Jim  Callahan.  Many 
classmates  traveled  a  great  distance  to  be 
with  us.  Bill  Glebus  came  from  Georgia; 
Tim  Ring  and  Jack  Leary,  New  Hampshire; 
Bill  Gauthier,  Springfield;  Paul  Drummond, 
Amherst;  Joe  Muscato,  Maynard;  Bill 
Newell,  Topsfield;  while  Bob  Allen,  Lex 
Blood,  George  Gallant,  Jim  Kenneally  and  Al 
Sexton  journeyed  up  from  the  Cape.  Other 
faithful  followers  of  '52  included  Charlie 
Barrett,  Jeanne  Clancy,  Roger  Connor,  Bob 
Jingozian,  Tom  Cullinan,  John  Kennedy, 
Alice  DeGuglielmo,  Jim  Leonard,  Lois 
Doyle,  Doris  Marr,  Barry  Driscoll,  Frank 
McDermott,  Tom  Megan,  Al  Reilly,  John 
O'Connor,  Jack  Monahan,  Jim  DeGiacomo 
and  Fred  Tarpey.  It  was  nice  to  see  all 
the  wives  who  attended,  but  frankly,  our 
functions  are  beginning  to  resemble  father- 
daughter  events.  Why  do  the  guys  look  older 
while  the  wives  look  younger?  •  As  Roger 
steps  down  as  president,  the  class  wishes  to 
extend  its  thanks  and  gratitude  for  all  that  he 
and  Kathy  have  done  for  us,  not  only  for  the 
past  two  years  but  for  the  past  fifty  years. 
Thank  you,  Roger  and  Kathy!  •  Newly 
elected  officers  are  Art  Powell,  president; 
Jim  Callahan,  first  VP;  George  Gallant, 
second  VP;  Al  Sexton,  treasurer;  and  Roger 
Connor,  secretary.  •  I  remember  when  Art 
was  a  star  athlete  at  Boston  Latin  and  lived 
in  Roslindale.  In  later  years,  he  and  I  would 
reminisce  about  the  great  English-Latin 
rivalry,  similar  to  that  of  BC-HC,  and  the 


great  traditions  that  existed.  One  time  Art 
asked  me  if  I  knew  of  any  famous  and 
distinguished  people  who  had  a  Roslindale 
connection  at  one  time  or  another  in  their 
lives.  In  fifteen  seconds  I  came  up  with  the 
following  names:  Jim  Mulrooney,  Fran 
Duggan,  Bob  Freely,  Jack  Monahan,  Jim 
DeGiacomo,  Charlie  Brown,  Tom  Nee,  Al 
Sexton,  Frank  O'Brien,  Joe  Tuleja,  Jack 
Donovan,  Bernie  Cullen,  John  Davy,  Charlie 
Stutzman  and  Dick  McCabe  —  just  to  name 
fifteen!  •  I  am  told  that  Barabara  Delang 
recently  got  a  dog  (a  Rottweiler)  for  her 
husband,  Gerry.  Good  trade,  Barbara! 
•  I  recentiy  heard  from  Bob  DeVoid,  who  is 
living  in  New  Bern,  NC;  Pat  Greeley,  who  is 
enjoying  life  in  Daytona  Beach,  FL;  and 
Claude  Gilbert,  who  is  living  in  Newton 
Highlands.  •  Bill  Bond,  who  lives  in  Bonita 
Springs,  FL,  has  been  traveling  extensively, 
from  New  Jersey,  Texas,  Arizona,  California 
and  on  to  China,  where  he  enjoyed  the 
cuisine  in  his  travels  there.  Bill  enjoys 
golfing  and  writing;  he  is  now  drafting  a 
theater  play  and  says  he  misses  the  BC 
class  events.  •  On  the  sad  side,  J.  Warren 
Sennott  passed  away  in  September.  Warren 
lived  in  Norwood  and  retired  from  the 
Boston  school  system  several  years  ago.  He 
leaves  his  wife,  Mary,  and  two  children. 
Also,  Jim  McMahon  passed  away  in  August. 
He  was  originally  from  Hyde  Park  (BC  High 
'48)  and  since  then  lived  in  Florida  and 
Virginia.  Jim  leaves  his  wife,  Audrey,  and 
five  children.  He  was  a  Foreign  Service 
officer  for  the  International  Development 
Agency  and  held  several  positions  in  the 
Food  and  Drug  Administration.  Jim  also 
was  associated  with  the  World  Bank  in  the 
Middle  East,  Indonesia,  the  Philippines  and 
the  Persian  Gulf.  •  The  class  extends  its 
condolences  to  John  Kennedy  and  his  wife, 
Geraldine,  and  family  on  the  death  of  their 
son,  Kyran,  who  was  aboard  a  Black  Hawk 
helicopter  that  crashed  in  Iraq.  Kyran  was  a 
chief  warrant  officer  and  was  the  pilot  of  the 
helicopter  when  it  was  shot  down.  Please 
remember  them  and  their  families  in  your 
prayers.  •  For  the  thirty-seventh  time,  the 
committee  has  turned  down  Bill  Gauthier's 
request  to  have  a  class  reunion  in 
Springfield.  It  isn't  that  they  have  anything 
against  Bill  or  Springfield,  but  the  thing 
there  is  the  sewage-treatment  plant,  and 
the  committee  feels  there  are  other  places 
more  fascinating  and  interesting.  •  Please 
send  news. 


Jini  Willwerth 

19  Sheffield  Way 

Westborough,  MA  01581 

508-366-5400 

jammw@charter.net 


Class  officers,  at  times,  experience  un- 
pleasant and  pleasant  duties.  After  many 
years  as  our  class  correspondent  and  vice 
president,  Bob  Kelly  informed  us  that  he 
was  stepping  down.  The  committee  accept- 
ed his  resignation  with  thanks  for  his  contri- 
butions to  the  class.  The  committee  then 
elected  Jim  Willwerth  as  our  next,  and 
fourth,  class  correspondent  since  gradua- 
tion. Jim's  first  column  will  appear  in  the 
spring  issue.  If  you  have  any  notes  to 
forward,  his  contact  info  is  listed  at  the  top 


of  this  column.  Jim  will  do  his  best,  but 
it  is  your  column  and  it  is  up  to  you 
to  contribute.  Other  officers  named  were 
Bob  Willis  as  VP  and  Fred  Good  as 
Secretary.  By  now  most  of  you  have  had  a 
good  opportunity  to  review  your  fiftieth 
anniversary  yearbook.  The  weather  has 
certainly  been  in  our  favor.  We  have  heard 
nothing  but  good  remarks  and  high  praise 
for  the  work  of  the  Yearbook  Committee.  We 
do  wish  to  apologize  to  Lawrence  McAuliffe 
for  one  misstep,  however.  He  served  in  the 
Marines  and  not  the  Army,  and  he  has  been 
married  to  Marilyn  for  twenty-one  years  and 
they  live  happily  together;  they  are  not 
divorced.  A  permanent  letter  of  correction 
will  go  to  the  archives  with  the  yearbook. 
The  class  enjoyed  a  very  successful  first  time 
event  at  the  BC  vs.  Miami  women's  basket- 
ball game.  More  than  twenty-eight  of  us 
enjoyed  each  other's  company,  the  mass  by 
Father  Fleming,  and  the  food.  Jim  Willwerth 
chaired  the  event.  Our  next  event  is  our  golf 
outing  which  will  be  at  Wayland  Country 
Club  on  June  9.  Save  the  date  and  plan  to 
have  some  good  fun. 


David  F.  Pierre 

,    P.O.  Box  72 

Prides  Crossing,  MA  01965 

978-927-1149 


REUNION  YEAR 

The  plans  for  the  class  of  '54's  fiftieth 
reunion  are  underway.  Jack  McNeice  is 
chairman  of  the  committee,  which  now 
includes  Charlie  Ferris,  George  Seaver,  Lou 
Torino,  John  Ford,  Jack  Curtin,  Jim  Halloran 
and  Newman  Flanagan.  Solicitations  began 
in  November  and  will  continue  in  the 
spring.  In  order  for  your  individual  donation 
to  be  credited  as  a  class  gift,  it  must  be 
recorded  no  later  than  May  31,  2004.  You 
have  until  May  31,  2005,  to  actually  pay  your 
pledge.  Let's  all  get  behind  making  the  class 
of  '54  gift  the  biggest  ever.  It  helps  to 
guarantee  a  Jesuit  education  for  future 
generations.  •  The  Memorial  Mass  for  our 
class  was  held  on  Sunday,  November  16.  The 
following  members  attended:  Sue  Andrews, 
Jody  and  Frank  Bonarrigo,  Marion  and 
Charles  Brennan,  Richard  Charlton,  Ann 
and  John  Cummings,  Mary  and  Jack  Curtin, 
Fran  DeLuca  and  Doug  MacMillan,  Caroline 
and  Bob  Donovan,  Jane  and  John  Ford,  Pat 


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and  Bob  King,  Patricia  and  Edward  Kodzis, 
Verna  and  Tom  Lane,  Peggy  and  Jack  Lynch, 
Bill   Magire,   Rose  and  Lenny  Matthews, 

Mary  McCourt,  Paul  McGee,  Rev.  William 
Mclnnes,  Francis  McLaughlin,  Alberta  and 
Gerald  Natoli,  Kathy  and  Peter  Nobile, 
Patricia  O'Hara,  John  Parker,  Joan  and 
Frank  Patchell,  Constance  and  Charles 
Pelczarski,  Anthony  Pellegrini,  Linda  and 
David  Pierre,  Mary  and  Murray  Regan,  Mary 
Ellen  Sawyer,  Nancy  and  George  Seaver, 
Joseph  Skerry,  Ed  Smith,  Lori  and  Lou 
Torino,  Martha  and  Ed  Trask,  Margaret  and 
Peter  Vasaturo,  Carolyn  and  Robert  Ward, 
Betty  and  Tom  Warren,  Emanuel  Correia, 
and  Rev.  James  Woods.  •  We  have  some 
good  news  from  Tom  Lane.  He  was  elected 
president  of  the  New  England  Gold 
Association  at  their  annual  meeting  at  the 
Kittansett  Club  in  Marion.  His  daughter, 
Katherine  foo)  recently  passed  the  bar  and 
works  for  a  law  firm  in  Boston.  •  Lenny 
Matthews  speaks  with  John  Butchko  of 
Phillipsburg,  PA,  occasionally  and  tells  us 
that  after  twenty-six  years  of  working  for  the 
government  in  Washington,  John  is  retiring. 
His  sister,  Sr.  Mary  Borromeo,  RSM,  of  the 
Sisters  of  Mercy,  has  passed  away.  She 
served  as  a  teacher  in  New  Jersey  for  61 
years.  •  Sadly,  too,  we  have  learned  that  Joe 
Johnson,  captain  of  the  class  of  '54 
football  team,  passed  away  in  November. 
After  an  outstanding  career  at  BC,  he 
went  on  to  play  for  the  Green  Bay  Packers 
and  the  New  England  Patriots.  He  is  in 
the  BC  Hall  of  Fame  and  was  honored  as 
Man  of  the  Year  in  2000  for  the  Oak 
Street  reunion  in  New  Haven,  CT  He  is 
survived  by  his  wife,  Dottie,  five  children 
and  nine  grandchildren. 


Class  Notes  Editor 

Boston  College  Alumni  House 

825  Centre  St. 

Newton,  MA  02458 

classnotes@bc.edu 


NEWTON 


REUNION  YEAR 


Hard  to  believe!  Could  we  even  have 
imagined  it  that  lovely  June  day  in  1954? 
Somehow,  while  we  went  about  our  daily 
lives,  experiencing  the  joys  and  the  sorrows, 
the  happy  and  the  sad,  the  fun  and  the  hard 
work  day  by  day,  half  a  century  has  sped  by. 
Believe  it,  Newton  College  class  of  1954:  our 
fiftieth  anniversary  is  coming  up  this  year. 
Our  reunion  will  be  held  in  just  six 
months — the  weekend  of  June  4-6,  2004, 
on  our  beloved  Newton  campus  at  885 
Centre  St.  Sound  familiar?  There  were  only 
a  few  NC  '54  classmates,  but  what  difference 
did  that  make?  It  only  made  us  closer  as  we 
shared  so  many  classes  and  events  together 
over  what  seemed  at  the  time  four  long  and 
wonderful  years.  Boston  College  Law  School 
may  now  inhabit  the  campus,  but  nothing 
can  change  the  fact  this  was  our  domain. 
Stuart  is  there;  Barat  is  there,  Duchesne  is 
there,  and  our  beautiful  chapel  is  there.  All 
that  is  needed  is  our  arrival  in  June  to  bring 
back  for  a  little  while  those  long-gone,  but 
still  glowing,  days.  So  send  a  note  to  Julie 
Nuzzo  NC  '74  ,  assistant  director,  who  is 
handling  reunion  arrangements  at  BC,  at 
825   Centre   St.,   Newton,   02458;   send  a 


fax  to  her  at  617-552-4626;  or  e-mail  her  at 
julie.nuzzo@bc.edu.'  The  Boston  College 
reunion  brochure,  which  indicates 
Newton  College  reunion  news,  will  arrive  in 
your  mailboxes  in  March.  If  you  have  any 
reunion  concerns,  contact  Julie.  Back  in 
Newton  days  I  used  to  scurry  around,  when 
I  wasn't  studying  for  a  Mother  Maguire 
English  test,  gathering  news  for  885,  but 
I'll  be  on  the  Newton  Campus  as  Patsy 
Murray,  class  of  '54,  to  greet  you  on  the  first 
weekend  in  June. 


Marie  J.  Kelleher 

12  Tappan  St. 

Melrose,  MA  02176 

781-665-2669 

mjk55@bc.edu 


At  the  first  meeting  of  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
yearbook  committee,  Al  McManama  shared 
his  news  about  a  successful  career  change. 
He  has  retired  from  his  dental  practice  and 
is  now  a  clinical  instructor  in  the 
Department  of  Restorative  Science  at  the  BU 
School  of  Dental  Medicine.  He  teaches 
preclinical  students  and  interns  and  assists 
dentists  from  foreign  countries  as  they 
prepare  to  become  licensed  in  this  country. 
He  had  sad  news  to  report  as  well.  Martin 
Melia's  son  has  died.  He  was  a  law  student. 
Losing  a  spouse,  parent  or  sibling  is  always 
difficult,  but  to  lose  a  son  or  daughter  brings 
a  special  grief,  so  I  know  you  join  me  in 
praying  for  Martin  and  his  family.  •  We  were 
delighted  to  welcome  Pat  Mitchell  and 
Winnie  Hicks  to  the  committee.  Pat  and 
Winnie  are  1955  graduates  of  Newton 
College  of  the  Sacred  Heart.  The  committee 
reviewed  three  proposed  cruise  packages, 
submitted  by  the  subcommittee  made  up 
of  Dan  Foley,  John  O'Connell  and  John 
Vozzella.  The  selection  is  receiving  a 
positive  feedback,  and  Dave  Hopkins  called 
to  report  being  in  a  travel  mood,  having  had 
a  trip  to  Bermuda.  •  To  keep  you  informed 
about  the  progress  of  the  yearbook 
preparations,  I  am  adding  a  feature  to 
this  column  called  the  Editor's  Corner.  It 
will  contain  information  from  Jean  O'Neil, 
the  editor.  Her  report  is  as  follows:  In 
November,  the  biography  subcommittee, 
Richard  Drew,  Bob  Kelleher,  Marie  Kelleher, 
Pat  Mitchell  (Newton),  Jean  O'Neil  and  John 
Vozzella,  worked  on  the  format  of  the 
biographical  questionnaire  that  will  be  sent 
to  classmates  in  the  summer  of  2004.  It  will 
be  presented  to  the  full  committee  in 
December,  then  to  the  graphic  designer 
assigned  to  us  by  the  yearbook  publisher. 
Subcommittees  for  athletics  and 
photography  have  been  formed.  Richard 
Drew,  Paul  Croke,  Jeff  Hayden,  Joseph 
Mattaliano  and  Charles  Murphy  have 
already  found  excellent  campus  resources  to 
develop  this  section.  Bob  Pagliarulo 
donated  the  type  of  photographs  needed: 
clear  quality,  with  each  person  in  the 
photograph  identified.  Bob  Sweeney  and 
Jerry  Donahoe  are  also  on  the  committee. 
Communication  continues  with  classmates 
to  describe  various  undergraduate  activities 
and  the  fifty  year  development  of  the 
professions  where  the  class  of  '55 
implemented  the  Jesuit  ideal  of  building 
knowledge  for  service  to  others.  What  Are 


We?  An  Introduction  to  Boston  College  and  Its 
Jesuit  and  Catholic  Tradition  (2002,  Boston 
College:  Center  for  Ignatian  Spirituality)  is 
being  used  by  the  reunion  committee  as  we 
think  about  our  years  from  freshman  year  to 
the  present.  This  book  is  currentiy  given  to 
every  new  BC  student.  •  Lent  will  have 
arrived  by  the  time  you  receive  this  column, 
and  I  will  be  reading  a  new  book  written  by 
George  Lemaitre.  George  sent  a  copy  of 
Crucified  Under  Pontius  Pilate:  The  Partially 
Recovered  Memoirs  of  His  Beloved  Wife 
Claudia,  to  the  alumni  office,  and  they  sent 
it  to  me.  It  looks  like  the  perfect  book  for 
that  season. 


NEWTON 


)ane  Quigley  Hone 

425  Nassau  Ave. 

Manhasset,  NY  11030 

516-627-6973 


After  missing  several  issues,  I  have  gathered . 
enough  information  about  classmates  to  fill 
some  class  notes  space.  During  a  tour  of  the 
Boston  area  in  October,  Frank  and  I  visited 
Jim  and  Mary  Nolan  Hanlon  in  Marblehead. 
Their  five  children  are  all  involved  in 
different  lines  of  work.  Our  visit  with  Pat 
Leclaire  Mitchell  in  Wellesley  found  her 
deep  in  work  for  the  fiftieth  reunion  in 
2005,  preparing  a  letter  to  our  classmates  to 
start  us  thinking  about  the  big  event.  Pat 
continues  to  work  in  the  guidance  office  of 
Wellesley  High  School.  Her  daughter,  Maria, 
who  lives  in  Vermont,  has  three  children. 
Pat  keeps  in  touch  with  Lee  McGrady  Burne. 
Lee  lives  on  Nantucket  and  has  been  very 
active  there  for  many  years.  Lee  says,  "The 
best  thing  about  my  life  is  Nantucket."  She 
has  always  loved  it.  An  article  about  her 
Nantucket  activities  is  available  on  the 
Internet  (search  for  "Lee  Rand  Burne").  Lee 
has  two  sons,  one  living  on  Nantucket  and 
the  other  in  Salisbury,  CT.  Each  of  them  is 
married  and  has  provided  Lee  with  grand- 
children. Now  that  we  have  discovered 
e-mail,  we  are  in  frequent  communication 
with  Pat,  Lee  and  others.  We  concluded  our 
stay  in  the  Boston  area  with  a  visit  to  our  son 
Andy  ('84),  daughter-in-law  Allison  ('85), 
and  their  three  daughters  for  Halloween 
activities  at  their  home  in  Wellesley  to  which 
they  moved  in  September.  •  Since  returning 
home  I  have  been  in  touch  with  Mary  Laird 
Flanagan,  who  lives  in  nearby  Port 
Washington.  Both  she  and  her  husband, 
Bob,  who  are  retired,  enjoy  visits  with  their 
married  daughters  and  two  grandchildren. 
Their  son  is  autistic,  and  Mary  has  spent 
many  years  as  an  active  participant  in  men- 
tal-health committees.  At  present  she  serves 
on  the  Quality  Improvement  Committee  of 
the  Mental  Health  Board  of  Nassau  County. 


Steve  Barry 

■  n  Albamont  Rd. 

Winchester,  MA'oi8go 

barrybc56@aol.com 


Kathleen  Donovan  Goudie  is  a  candidate  for 
Treasurer  in  the  2004-05  Boston  College 
Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 


CLASS  NOTES  ~J 


Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Bob  Halloran  was  at  the  Penn  State  game 
(which  we  won)  with  Ann  and  Will  Jackson, 
hosted  by  Betty  and  John  Moore.  Rita  and 
John  Galvin  sat  behind  them,  attending 
their  226th  consecutive  game.  Sounds  like  a 
record!  •  Joe  Hines  called  me  before  the 
dinner  at  the  BC  Club  to  thank  me  for  my 
work  on  the  column,  and  to  say  how  helpful 
Joyce  and  Dan  McDevitt  and  Mary  and  Jerry 
Sullivan  have  been.  Joe  also  asked  to  be 
remembered  to  classmates  at  the  dinner. 

•  There  were  thirty-seven  at  the  dinner,  with 
nineteen  taking  a  bus  in  from  Alumni 
House.  Maire  and  Jim  McLaughlin,  who 
also  saw  the  Penn  State  game,  are  still 
playing  croquet,  with  Maire  entering  her 
first  tournament  this  year  and  finishing 
well.  The  New  Hampshire  public  television 
program  Chronicles  featured  Jim,  Maire  and 
the  Strawberry  Banke  Croquet  Club  in 
October.  Jim  is  also  still  running,  and  he  set 
up  a  runners'  banquet  in  September.  Doris 
and  John  Mahaney  came  with  their 
daughter.  A  surprise  guest  was  Jack  Foley, 
who  worked  at  the  bookstore,  graduated  in 
1956  from  the  Intown  School  and  has 
worked  at  BC  ever  since.  Jack  came  with  a 
friend  who  drives  him  to  work.  We  sat  with 
Dan  and  Carolyn  Kenney  Foley  and 
Carolyn's  sister,  Leo  and  Claire  Hoban 
McCormack  and  Mary  and  Norm  Roy.  Owen 
Lynch  dropped  in  from  a  reception  for  new 
club  members  and  talked  briefly  with 
Mary  and  Norm,  who  later  told  us  of  getting 
a  lawyer  to  settle  a  relative's  estate  in 
Ireland  and,  when  they  mentioned  BC, 
being  asked  if  they  knew  Owen.  The 
lawyer's  son  had  interned  with  Owen's  firm 
while  attending  BC  Law.  Bill  Nolan  was 
there  with  Joan,  whom  Marie  and  I  see  at  the 
BC  Institute  for  Learning  in  Retirement. 

•  Others  attending  included  Natalie  and  Fred 
Hickey,  Ernestine  Bolduc,  Alice  Shea,  Betty 
Casey,  Kathi  and  Leo  Power,  Beverly  and 
Frank  Freccero,  Mary  and  Jack  Malloy, 
Marge  Callahan,  Marge  Murphy,  Tom  and 
Lorraine  Condon  Walsh,  Carol  Hines 
Gleason,  Elinor  Callanan  Slattery,  Bea  and 
Peter  Colleary,  and  Joyce  and  Dan  McDevitt. 

•  Tom  Sheehan  has  a  new  book  out  with  a 
football  theme:  Death  for  the  Phantom 
Receiver,   Published  by   Publish  America. 

•  Frank  Furey  works  at  Maiden  High  School 
as  a  guidance  counselor.  Frank,  John 
Harney,  Paul  Leary  and  Bill  Bulger  (who 
started  with  us),  attended  the  Mass  when 
Dave  Gill,  SJ,  was  installed  recently  as  pastor 
of  Our  Lady  of  the  Angels  Parish  in  Roxbury. 
Dave  is  still  teaching  Classics  at  BC.  John 
reports  that  Ralph  Good  is  still  at  St. 
Patrick's  Manor  in  Framingham  after  suffer- 
ing significant  head  injuries  in  a  fall  ten 
years  ago.  His  wife,  Judy,  visits  him  every 
day.  They  have  eight  children,  all  college 
educated,  with  three  from  BC.  Please 
remember  Ralph  and  Judy  in  your  prayers, 
as  well  as  all  classmates  and  family  mem- 
bers. •  Once  again,  thanks  for  your  e-mails 
and  letters. 


NEWTON 


Patricia  Leary  Dowling 

39  Woodside  Drive 

Milton,  MA  02186 

617-696-0163 


Francis  E.  Lynch 

27  Arbutus  Lane 

West  Dennis,  MA  02670 

flynch@mma.mass.edu 


The  Class  fall  event  of  September  27,  2003 
BC  vs.  Ball  State  was  a  memorable  day. 
There  was  a  4:00  p.m.  Class  Mass  that  was 
celebrated  by  Rev.  Thomas  Ahearn,  MM, 
Rev.  Gerry  Kelly,  MM,  and  Rev.  Gene 
Sullivan.  Fr.  Gene  gave  a  very  moving 
homily  while  the  liturgical  music  was  a  very 
beautiful  backdrop  to  the  Mass.  The 
following  classmates  attended:  Rev.  Tom 
Ahearn,  MM,  Ed  Brickley,  Jim  Cantwell, 
Paul  Chamberlain,  Bother  John  Collins,  Jack 
Conway,  Bill  Cunningham,  Jim  &  Paul  Daly, 
Jim  Devlin,  Dick  Dowling,  Don  Emello, 
Ralph  Ferrera,  Frank  Greelish,  Tom 
Harrington,  Frank  Higgins,  Mary  Lou 
Hogan,  Neil  &  Catherine  Hynes,  Rev.  Gerry 
Kelly  MM,  Peg  Kenney  Frank  Lynch,  Paul 
Mahoney,  Dave  McAvoy,  Tom  McDonald, 
Paul  McNulty,  Leo  Morrissey,  Pat  Mullen, 
Barry  Murphy,  Paul  O'Leary  Anna  Mary 
Dooley  Stewart,  Rev.  Gene  Sullivan,  Bill 
Tobin,  Betty  &  Jim  Turley.  The  Class  winter 
event  will  take  place  on  Saturday,  February  7, 
2004  at  Mahoney's  Rocky  Ledge  Farm  in 
Winchester.  Norma  Cacciamani  will  be  the 
Chair  again,  and  as  always,  does  a  great  job 
of  getting  a  large  turnout  of  classmates. 
This  winter  celebration  has  now  become  a 
very  popular  Class  event.  In  as  much  as 
Class  notes  were  due  on  last  December  8  , 
I  will  report  not  only  more  in  depth,  about 
this  event  in  the  next  issue  of  the  BCM,  but 
also  the  Class  Golf  Tournament  on  May  19, 
2004  at  the  Sandy  Burr  Country  Club  in 
Wayland  together  with  an  early  September 
Indian  summer  event  on  Cape  Cod.  A 
general  Class  mailing  will  be  sent  out  on  the 
latter  two  events  once  plans  become  more 
fully  crystallized.  •  Jim  Devlin  played  an 
important  role  in  the  Deusche  Bank/Tiger 
Woods  PGA  Golf  Tournament  at  the  TPC  of 
Boston  held  in  Norton  late  last  summer. 
He  worked  with  the  PGA  Tour 
Professionals-usually  about  125-150  caddies 
on  the  tour.  Jim  relates  that  the  caddies  for 
the  most  part  are  very  professional  and 
quite  serious.  The  good  caddies  have  engi- 
neering, golf  professional,  psychiatrist  and 
psychologist  backgrounds.  They  advise, 
consult,  and  work  closely  with  their  players. 
Both  player  and  caddie  have  a  lot  riding  on 
how  well  the  team  works  on  any  given  day. 
•  Jack  Conway's  son,  Rev.  Michael  Conway 
S.D.P.,  is  now  the  principal  of  Don  Bosco's 
Archbishop  Shaw  High  School  in  Marrero 
(LA).  •  Paul  Daly  was  married  last  February 
to  Irene  James.  Congratulations  to  you  Paul 
and  Irene  from  the  Class.  •  A  reception  and 
unveiling  of  the  portrait  of  our  late 
classmate,  The  Honorable  Shelia  E. 
McGovern  took  place  at  the  Heights  Room 
at  Boston  College  last  December  11,  2003. 
Shelia  passed  away  unexpectedly  in 
November  2002.  Shelia  certainly  left  a  great 
void  in  our  Class.  Peace  be  to  you.  •  Thomas 
Wheelen  had  knee  replacements  in  both 
knees  early  last  year.  At  the  time,  his 
daughter,  Kathy,  took  time  out  of  her  career 
to  provide  her  dad  with  as  much  assistance, 


and  yet  managed  the  9"1  edition  of  Strategic 
Management  and  Business  Policy  by  doing  a 
fantastic  job  working  with  the  publisher  and 
authors  of  cases.  Tom's  book,  the  Essential 
of  Strategic  Management,  2n"  edition,  has 
now  been  translated  into  Chinese  and 
Portuguese.  •  George  Hennessy  and  his 
wife,  Dotty,  traveled  Ireland  for  the  first  time 
last  October.  They  both  had  a  very  enjoyable 
trip.  •  Bill  Cunningham  was  recently  elected 
to  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Francis 
Ouimet  Scholarship  Fund.  Sometime  ago, 
Charlie  Fox  was  one  of  the  past  Presidents  of 
this  great  golf  Scholarship  Fund.  I  would 
also  like  to  mention  that  my  Dad  and 
Francis  Ouimet  grew  up  and  caddied 
together  at  the  Brookline  Country  Club.  At 
the  time,  as  young  men,  they  both  entered 
the  investment  business  before  Francis 
Ouimet  won  the  US  National  Open 
Championship  in  1913.  Class  Dues  are  now 
due.  If  you  have  not  had  the  opportunity  to 
send  in  your  dues  in  the  amount  of  $25.00, 
please  remit  your  Class  Dues  to  Bill  Tobin  at 
181  Central  St.,  Holliston,  MA  01746.  Best 
of  health  to  all  in  this  new  year  of  2004. 


NEWTON 


Marjorie  L.  McLaughlin 

139  Parker  Rd. 

Needham,  MA  02494 

781-444-7252 


David  A.  Rafferty,  jr. 

2296  Ashton  Oaks  Lane 

No.  ioi 

Stonebridge  Country  Club 

Naples  FL,  34109 


Congratulations  to  Sheldon  Daly,  who 
received  the  William  J.  Donlan  Special 
Achievement  Award  sponsored  by  the 
Boston  College  Varsity  Club  Hall  of  Fame 
selection  committee.  This  award, 
established  in  1999,  is  given  to  those 
individuals  who  have  demonstrated 
uncommon  dedication  and  performed 
exceptional  service  to  Boston  College 
Athletics  both  on  and  off  the  fields  of  play. 
Sheldon  is  the  founder  and  president  of  the 
BC  Hall  of  Fame  Club,  which  sponsors  a 
special  banquet  each  year  honoring  the  Hall 
of  Fame  inductees  and  also  entertains  300 
or  more  members  and  their  guests  before 
and  after  each  home  football  game.  Three 
tables  of  our  classmates  honored  Sheldon 
that  night.  Congrats  also  to  Sheldon's  wife, 
Nancy,  who  helps  with  mailings  and  with 
collecting  dues.  As  you  know,  Sheldon  is 
also  a  very  active  member  of  our  class 
committee,  and  he  arranges  the  spring 
weekend  on  the  Cape.  •  Jack  Kudzma 
reports  that  he  and  his  wife,  Jackie,  tailgated 
with  Ron  Walsh  at  a  recent  BC  football 
game.  Ron  has  a  CPA  practice  in 
Manchester,  CT  The  Kudzmas  summer  in 
NH  and  winter  in  Naples.  Good  luck,  Jack, 
with  your  new  knee.  •  Speaking  about 
tailgating,  Bea  and  Tony  Busa  hosted  an 
"away"  tailgate  at  their  condo  in  Naples  prior 
to  the  Virginia  Tech  game.  The  temperature 
at  game  time  was  eighty-seven.  A  great  time 
was  had  by  all,  but,  on  a  sad  note,  Bea's 
mom  was  missing.  Nana  Jo  passed  away  in 
September.  We  will  miss  her  at  our  class 
functions.  •  Father  Dan,  after  completing  six 


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years  as  a  chaplain  at  South  Shore  Hospital 
in  Weymouth,  was  appointed  administrator 
of  St.  James  Parish  in  Wellesley.  •  Jerry 
Ryan,  still  working  at  the  New  England 
Aquarium  in  Boston,  with  no  retirement 
plans,  is  doing  freelance  writing  on  the  side, 
i.e.  The  Forgotten  Aquariums-  of  Boston.  Jerry 
also  writes  for  many  Catholic  publications: 
Commonwealth,  America,  NCR,  etc.  •  Jim 
McNeil  is  actively  working  on  his  fiftieth 
anniversary  from  St.  Columbkilles  HS  in 
Brighton.  Among  the  members  of  that  class 
are  our  classmates  Paul  Fennell,  Denny 
Maher,  Ray  Kelliher,  Tom  Powell,  Mike 
Kinsella,  Tom  Hassey,  Bill  McGuirk  and 
John  Norton.  Jim,  I  am  very  happy  to  hear  of 
your  positive  recovery  from  lung  surgery 
this  past  May.  •  Some  sad  news  from  Marge 
Molloy  Vasaturo:  Betty  Wood  Vandini's  son, 
Mark,  passed  away  on  October  15.  Mark  is 
survived  by  three  children  and  his  wife, 
Denise.  Condolences  also  to  Joe  Linnehan 
on  the  passing  of  his  wife,  Ann,  this  past 
May.  •  It  was  nice  to  hear  from  Bill 
McGowan,  who  recovered  from  after  a 
recent  foot  surgery.  Bill  and  Mary,  his  wife  of 
thirty-three  years,  recently  had  their  first 
grandson  to  go  along  with  their  grand- 
daughter, Serina.  Bill  and  Mary  have  two 
sons,  Jim  and  John.  •  For  those  classmates 
living  or  vacationing  in  Florida  this  winter, 
don't  forget  our  class  luncheon  at  the 
Stonebridge  Country  Club  on  March  4.  Also 
mark  your  calendar  for  the  Weekend  on  the 
Cape,  April  23-24,  and  the  event  at 
Minihane's  Greenhouse  in  the  spring. 
•  I  need  correspondence  from  our  class- 
mates. This  column  cannot  be  expanded 
unless  I  hear  from  you.  Please  let  me  know 
what's  going  on  in  your  lives.  Don't  forget 
your  class  dues.  Send  $25  to  Jack 
"Mucca"  McDevitt,  25  Cedar  Rd.,  Medford, 
MA  02155. 


NEWTON 


Sheila  Hurley  Canty 

P.O.  Box  386 

North  Falmouth,  MA  02556 


Frank  Martin 

6  Sawyer  Road 

Wellesley  Hills,  MA  02481 

fjmo2481@comcast.net 


REUNION  YEAR 


In  two  months  we  will  be  celebrating  the 
forty-fifth  anniversary  of  our  graduation, 
June  4-6  at  Alumni  Weekend.  The  central 
event  will  be  the  class  dinner  dance  at 
Gasson  100.  You  remember  Gasson  100, 
don't  you?  I  remember  it  vividly  as  the  scene 
of  my  freshman  theology  class,  presided 
over  by  the  colorful  but  not  too  theological 
William  V.  Casey,  SJ,  a  great  teacher  and  a 
funny  and  irreverent  man  who  later  became 
academic  dean.  Gasson  ioo  was  also  the 
scene  of  our  forthieth  reunion  dinner  dance 
in  1999;  about  150  attended  that  splendid 
party.  •  I  hope  you  have  had  the  time  to  get 
to  our  earlier  events — the  Ocean  Edge  golf 
outing  and  the  BC/BU  hockey  game  and 
cocktail  party.  Put  the  dinner  dance  on  your 
calendar  for  June   5.   You'll  love  the   old 


memories  and  the  even  older  faces.  •  Arthur 
Kaplan,  class  treasurer,  reminds  me  that 
there  are  some  who  have  not  sent  in  their 
$45  in  class  dues.  This  is  something  we 
collect  every  five  years  to  cover  the  costs  of 
class  events.  If  you  haven't  done  so,  please 
send  your  check  to:  Class  of  1959,  Alumni 
House,  825  Centre  Street,  Newton,  MA 
02458.  Thank  you.  •  Terry  MacDonald  and 
Peg  moved  after  thirty-five  years  in  Natick  to 
Portsmouth,  NH.  Terry  has  downsized  his 
advertising  business  and  has  rekindled  his 
love  of  jazz  as  a  drummer  in  local  jazz 
groups.  George  Larkin,  Ph.D.,  has  served 
Southern  New  Hampshire  University  since 
1969  as  athletic  director  and  as  vice 
president  of  student  affairs.  He  was  recently 
inducted  into  the  university's  Hall  of  Fame 
for  his  role  in  developing  SNHU  into  one  of 
the  premier  Division  II  programs  in  the 
nation.  George  expects  to  retire  next  year. 
•  Frank  Scimone  is  still  at  his  dental  practice 
in  Cambridge.  Frank  and  Marilyn  have  ten 
grandchildren,  so  it's  doubtful  that  Frank 
will  ever  retire.  •  John  Blake  has  been  retired 
for  almost  ten  years  and  manages  golfing 
and  reading  when  he's  not  seeing 
classmates  Tim  Tobin,  Dick  Flanigan,  Dick 
O'Shaughnessy  and  Ed  McKenna.  •  Father 
Dick  Crowley  writes  from  Middleboro  that 
he  is  very  busy  in  a  parish  that  covers  almost 
seventy  square  miles.  Dick  is  pastor  at 
Sacred  Heart  Church  and  is  an  active  board 
member  for  Habitat  for  Humanity  in  the 
greater  Plymouth  area,  where  they  provide 
housing  for  needy  families.  •  Paul  Sullivan 
writes  to  let  us  know  of  the  death  of  Dick 
Murray.  Dick  spent  his  brief  retirement 
helping  Pine  Street  Inn  and  Bread  for  the 
World,  among  others.  Dick  is  from  our  very 
productive  chemistry  section,  which  has 
sent  teachers  and  scientists  into  many 
important  activities.  Mike  Boyle,  Bob 
Levangie  and  Peter  Sullivan  also  attended 
Dick's  funeral.  Dick  leaves  four  adult 
children.  •  Charlie  Lynch  has  been  helping 
on  the  2002-03  Ever  to  Excel  campaign  and 
on  this  year's  1959  reunion  gift  committee, 
where  I  also  serve  along  with  Bill  York,  Dick 
Ganong,  Beth  Grady,  Jack  Madden,  Peter 
McLaughlin  and  Denis  Minihane.  Charlie 
writes  of  his  grandchildren  and  his  trip  with 
Peggy  to  my  favorite  city,  Paris.  •  Thanks  for 
your  notes.  See  you  June  5  at  Gasson  100. 


NEWTON 


Maryjane  Mulvanity  Casey 

28  Briarwood  Drive 

Taunton,  MA  02780 

508-823-1188 


REUNION  YEAR 


Plans  are  underway  for  our  gala  forty-fifth 
reunion  which  will  be  held  during  the 
weekend  of  June  4  -  6,  2004.  Reunion 
committee  members  Honey  McLaughlin, 
Janet  Chute,  Janet  Connelly,  Joanne  Hynek, 
Janet  O'Hauley,  Kathleen  Lawlor  and 
Maryjane  Casey  have  been  meeting  to 
organize  various  events  for  the  weekend. 
Please  contact  your  old  "chums"  and 
encourage  them  to  come.  They  should  be 
urged  to  attend  even  if  they've  never  been  to 
a  reunion  before  and  it's  not  their  thing... 
after  all,  who  knows  what  the  fiftieth  will 


bring.  On  Saturday  night,  we  have  planned 
for  cocktails  and  dinner  at  Putnam  House 
(Duchesne)  on  the  Newton  Campus.  It  will 
be  a  formal  affair  with  soft  music  and  a 
delicious  sit-down  dinner.  Sunday's  sched- 
ule includes  a  Memorial  Mass  and  brunch. 
Kathleen  (Kingston)  Lawlor  is  putting  a 
memory  book  together,  so  if  you  have 
photos,  ideas,  or  anything  that  you  wish  to 
be  included,  please  be  in  touch  with  her 
(172  Adams  Street,  Milton,  MA  02186; 
email  JKLKML@aol.com).  Don't  let  the 
opportunity  to  have  fun,  see  old  friends,  and 
remember  when  pass... without  being  a  part 
of  it!  Our  forty-fifth  won't  be  the  same 
without  you! 


Joseph  R.  Carty 

253  River  St. 

Norwell,  MA  02061 

jrcarty@comcast.net 


John  B.  McNamara  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  More  Than  Ten  Years  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Phil  Langan  has  spent  the  last  thirty- 
five  years  in  college  and  professional  sports 
public  relations.  Recently  his  time  has  been 
spent  running  a  small  consulting  business 
from  Grantham,  NH,  which  he  calls  home. 
Four  children  and  fourteen  grandchildren 
live  throughout  New  England.  He's  involved 
in  the  pro-life  movement  and  fired  up  over 
the  recent  passage  of  the  New  Hampshire 
parental-consent  law.  Phil  speaks  fondly  of 
the  late  Ross  O'Hanley  and  Father  William 
Leonard,  a  brilliant  writer  (his  books  touch 
both  the  heart  and  mind)  and  a  teacher  who 
saved  my  bacon  on  two  occasions.  He 
reflects  on  Father  Leo  Shea,  a  hero  to  the 
downtrodden  throughout  South  America 
and  China  who  is  now  a  leader  in  the 
Maryknoll  hierarchy  in  New  York.  His 
attendance  at  BC  was  a  wonderful 
experience  made  better  by  many  special 
people  who  in  both  large  and  small  ways 
made  our  lives  better  and  helped  us  make 
the  right  decisions.  •  Jack  Falvey  writes  that 
he  is  working  on  his  seventh  book,  "All 
According  to  Plan,"  at  the  suggestion  of  the 
now-departed  Fr.  Bill  Leonard.  He  returns  to 
his  twenty-third  year  at  UMass,  Boston, 
(teaching  sales  management,  adjunct 
faculty).  Four  years  ago,  Jack  went  into 
electronic  publishing  and  now  has  1,400 
daily  readers  over  four  continents  for 
the  "Sales  Tip  of  the  Day"  from 
MakingTheNumbers.com,  which  has  been 
profitable  since  day  one.  Someone  once 
taught  him  that  more  money  must  come  in 
than  goes  out.  He  has  lived  in  New 
Hampshire  since  1968  and  is  only  forty 
miles  from  the  Heights  and  Beantown. 
•  Freelance  photojournalism  is  fun.  Clipper 
magazine,  the  in-flight  publication  for  Pan 
Am,  just  featured  "The  River  Charles,"  a 
photo  essay  on  a  small-boat  ride  from 
Watertown  to  the  harbor.  •  Tom  Cunnally  is 
living  in  northern  California  and  started  a 


CLASS  NOTES   9 


stock  and  bond  trading  business  in  1992. 
Since  the  tech  bubble  burst  in  2001,  it  has 
been  rough  sledding,  but  things  are  looking 
better  this  quarter.  He  enjoys  being  his  own 
boss  and  wishes  he  had  done  it  sooner 
instead  of  working  the  numbers  for  some- 
one else.  Tom  has  been  instrumental  in 
designing  a  home  page  for  his  BC  High 
School  class.  The  BC  Alumni  Association  is 
working  on  this  issue  as  we  speak  for  each 
class  through  the  association.  E-mail  your 
information  to  keep  up  this  column. 


NEWTON 


Patricia  McCarthy  Dorsey 

53  Clarke  Rd. 

.  Needham,  MA  02492 

dorseypm@comcast.net 


Happy  spring  to  all,  and  thanks  to  those 
who  sent  information  for  this  class  letter. 
Mary  Lou  Foster  Ryan  works  three  days  a 
week  as  a  clinical  social  worker  (LICSW)  for 
a  private  counseling  group  in  Pawtucket,  RI. 
Her  husband,  Maury,  starts  every  day  at 
Starbucks  or  another  coffee  cafe  and  then  by 
10:00  a.m.  is  in  the  office  putting  together 
his  three  projects:  an  international  beer  fest, 
the  Rhode  Island  Flower  and  Garden  Show, 
and  the  Pinellas  County  Flower  and  Garden 
Show  in  the  Tampa  area.  Foster,  their  oldest 
child,  is  practicing  acupuncture  in  Los 
Angeles.  Sara,  a  doctor  of  traditional 
medicine,  is  starting  her  acupuncture 
practice  in  Rhode  Island.  She'll  also  be  on 
the  radio  with  Tree  of  Life  in  Seekonk  from 
time  to  time.  Maury  and  Mary  Lou  will  be 
building  a  house  on  the  water  in  Warwick, 
RI,  probably  starting  in  the  spring.  Mary  Lou 
quotes  Gilda:  "It's  always  something!"  Mary 
Ann  Hehir  was  visiting  Mary  Lou  this  fall, 
and  so  was  able  to  join  Pat  Beattie 
McDonald,  Sue  Kenney  Gaetano  and  Mary 
Egan  Boland  at  Mary's  summer  home  in 
Groton  Long  Point.  •  Nan  Anderson 
Coughlin  wrote:  "What  fun  to  return  from 
my  long  trip  and  read  your  note.  This  means 
that  I  actually  have  something  to  report  for  a 
change.  My  daughter,  Laura,  and  her 
husband,  Steve,  were  assigned  their  new 
post  for  the  foreign  service  of  USAID.  They 
moved  to  the  Manila,  Philippines,  office  at 
the  beginning  of  October.  Their  son,  Max,  is 
two  and  a  half  years  old  and  needed  some- 
one to  get  him  settled.  I  was  flattered  that 
they  asked  me  to  go  with  them.  We  took  off 
on  our  twenty- two  hour  journey  on  October 
8.  Max  was  very  well  behaved;  a  personal 
video  player  kept  him  very  occupied.  We 
were  met  and  helped  through  customs  by 
the  US  government  —  nice  to  travel  as  a 
diplomat!  We  were  installed  in  a  residential 
hotel,  the  Oakwood  —  yes,  the  very  same 
hotel  that  the  renegade  army  members  took 
over  last  July!  It  was  very  luxurious.  We  had 
three  bedrooms,  five  baths,  a  maid's  room, 
living  room,  dining  room  and  kitchen,  all  on 
the  twenty-forth  floor,  overlooking  Manila. 
We  stayed  there  for  three  weeks  while  the 
apartment  was  being  readied  for  them. 
Meanwhile,  we  had  an  emergency  trip  to  the 
hospital  and  two  trips  to  the  doctor's  with 
Max,  a  trip  to  the  doctor  for  Steve,  and  both 
Laura  and  I  picked  up  laryngitis.  Never 
mind,  we  searched  for  schools  for  Max  and 
enrolled  him  in  a  morning  playschool.  He 


seems  quite  content  there.  Then  we  hired  a 
cook,  nanny  and  chauffeur.  The  basics  done, 
we  moved  into  the  apartment  and  received 
the  air  shipment.  I  unpacked  it  and  decided 
that  after  a  month,  it  was  time  for  me  to  go 
home,  as  I  had  accomplished  my  mission. 
Although  I  miss  my  family  a  lot,  I  must  say 
I  was  very  happy  to  come  home  to  my  own 
home  and  check  back  in  with  friends  and 
family.  Suzanne  Thornton  has  recently 
moved  to  DC,  and  I  am  delighted  to  have  a 
new  close-by  playmate.  We  are  planning 
a  trip  to  Egypt  in  January.  Will  let  you  know 
how  that  goes  on  our  return."  •  Stella 
Clark  O'Shea  wrote  that  she  and  her  hus- 
band spend  a  few  summer  weekends  in 
Amagansett,  Long  Island,  with  Martha 
Miele  Harrington  and  Jane  Wray  Ryan.  Both 
are  doing  great.  Her  Newton  roommate, 
Norah  McGinity  Frei,  visits  her  family  on 
Long  Island  every  summer,  so  she  and  Stella 
get  to  spend  time  together  there.  Norah  lives 
in  California.  When  Brenda  Baxter 
McHugh,  who  lives  in  Texas,  comes  east, 
she  and  Stella  are  able  to  visit.  Stella  visited 
Kathleen  Runkle  O'Brien  this  fall  at  Kathy's 
home  in  Kiawah,  SC.  This  was  for  their 
annual  golfing  week.  Stella's  catering  busi- 
ness, Stellabrations,  is  going  well  and  keeps 
her  busy.  She  and  Rick  have  five  children 
and  four  grandchildren.  •  Julie  O'Neil  is 
loving  retirement  after  forty-two  years  in  the 
classroom  in  the  Medford  school  system. 
She  is  looking  forward  to  many  healthy 
years  in  which  to  enjoy  it.  In  June,  her 
daughter,  Nancy,  was  married  in  the 
Catskills  to  William  Steers.  Julie  hopes  to 
journey  often  to  Rye,  NY,  to  visit  them. 
Elaine  Holland  Early  and  I  enjoyed  a 
gourmet  feast  at  Julie's  home  a  couple  of 
weeks  after  the  wedding  and  were  excited  to 
hear  the  details  of  the  wedding  day  and  to 
see  the  pictures  of  the  bridal  party. 


Robert  W.  Sullivan,  Jr. 

484  Pleasant  St. 

Brockton,  MA  02303 

rwsul@cs.com 


John  J.  Lane  is  a  candidate  for  Director,  West 
of  the  Mississippi  in  the  2004-05  Boston  College 
Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

This  edition  of  class  notes  will  be  the 
slimmest  I  can  remember  doing,  since  I 
haven't  heard  from  very  many  people;  please 
try  to  keep  your  classmates  in  mind  when 
you  have  something  of  interest  to  say  or 
report.  •  One  person  who  sent  me  a  great 
e-mail  was  John  Cummings,  who  is  still  in 
Cairo,  Egypt.  John  and  his  wife,  Joanne, 
celebrated  their  twenty-fifth  in  a  very 
unorthodox  manner  —  he  in  Cairo,  she  in 
Iraq.  Joanne's  Arab-language  skills  make 
her  very  useful  in  trying  to  get  a  new  govern- 
ment started  in  Iraq.  John  spends  a  lot  of 
time  in  the  region  as  senior  economist  with 
the  US  Agency  for  International 
Development.  They  have  been  in  the  Middle 
East  for  twenty-four  years.  Their  college-age 
sons  are  now  here  in  the  US  attending 


college.  He  didn't  say  so,  but  I  got  the 
idea  he'd  love  to  hear  from  some  of  his 
friends  from  BC.  His  e-mail  address  is 
jcummings1940@yahoo.com.  •  By  the  time 
you  read  this,  our  annual  spring  events  will 
be  fast  approaching.  Laetare  Sunday  is 
March  21,  2004.  On  Saturday,  May  8,  2004, 
we'll  have  the  annual  minireunion:  Mass 
at  St.  Mary's  at  5:30,  followed  by  hors 
d'oeuvres  and  dinner  in  Gasson.  You  can  get 
tickets  from  Peg  Collins  by  calling  617-782- 
9328.  •  I  need  help  with  a  lot  of  things  in 
life,  one  of  which  is  material  for  writing  this 
column.  Please  take  the  time  to  get  me  some 
of  the  news  of  your  lives.  Godspeed  to  all. 


NEWTON 


Martha  Clancy  Rudman 

1819  Lakeside  Drive 

Arlington,  TX  76013 

NewtonMiz@sbcglobal.net 


I  am  writing  this  from  Cape  Cod,  during  the 
blizzard  of  December  2003!  Pretty  land- 
scape, but  we  are  worried  about  our  friend 
coming  up  from  New  York  for  our  trip  to 
Ireland.  This  is  her  second  day  of  traveling, 
trying  to  get  here!  •  One  of  our  classmates 
writes  "My  children's  accomplishments 
have  been  to  humble  me  and  my  spouse,  to 
nearly  send  us  to  the  poor  house,  to  keep  us 
sleep  deprived  from  0-2  years  and  16-22  yrs. 
=  8  years  each  child  x  3  =  24  yrs.  of  sleep 
deprivation;  this  is  what  many  people  think 
is  'old-age  forgetfulness,'  but  it  is  really  the 
aftermath  of  sleep  deprivation.  On  the  other 
hand,  they  have  provided  six  grandchildren 
who  are  clearly  baby  geniuses  and  who  are 
all  under  the  age  of  eight  and  are  still  quite 
delightful,  having  caused  us  no  sleep 
deprivation."  •  Mookie  Stehling  Kamps,  of 
Milwaukee,  writes:  "Professor  Judith  Wilt, 
holder  of  the  Newton-alumnae-supported 
BC  chair  in  the  humanities,  met  with  the 
Newton  alumnae  of  Chicago  in  November 
for  lunch  and  conversation  at  the  Chicago 
Women's  Club.  Professor  Wilt,  a  lively, 
compact,  gray-haired  woman,  discussed  the 
book  she  is  writing  on  the  19th-century 
feminist  novelist,  Mary  Arnold  Ward.  It's 
Wilt's  aim,  she  said,  to  bring  Ward  'back  up 
to  size.'"  Afterward,  Mookie  and  Mary  Alice 
Molloy  strolled  together  down  Michigan 
Avenue,  stopping  at  the  Terra  Art  Museum 
to  see  a  show  on  the  American  modernists. 

•  Bob  and  I  spent  Thanksgiving  in  Franklin, 
TN,  at  our  daughter  Mary's  home.  On  our 
way  to  Franklin  we  stopped  in  Vicksburg, 
MS,  to  visit  the  Civil  War  battlefield.  Our 
other  three  children  drove  from  Texas  (via 
North  Carolina),  or  flew  from  Las  Vegas  and 
Denver  with  grandchildren  and  spouses  in 
tow.  "Mother  Hen"  (that's  me)  was  thrilled. 

•  Another  couple  who  traveled  over 
Thanksgiving  was  Ellen  MacDonald 
Carbone  and  Duane,  who  drove  to  Virginia 
to  be  with  one  of  their  sons  and  his  family. 
Mary  Sue  Flanagan  was  spending  her 
holiday  in  DC,  rather  than  contending  with 
the  traffic  along  the  Northeast  corridor.  She 
also  said  that  she  had  visited  JFK's  grave  on 
November  22.  How  could  forty  years  pass  so 
quickly?  •  Bob  and  I  attended  a  BC  gathering 
of  alumni  and  parents  of  students  in  Dallas 
in  early  November.  Rev.  Joseph  Marchese, 
director,    first-year    experience,    spoke — 


10  www.bc.edu/alumni 


among  many  topics — of  the  emphasis  the 
Jesuits  are  placing  on  volunteerism.  Thirty- 
three  percent  of  the  BC  students  do  some 
form  of  volunteering.  That  evening  we 
also  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  Peter 
McLaughlin  ('59,  BC  Department  of 
Development)  who  is  the  brother-in-law  of 
Beth  Good  Wadden  and  the  husband  of 
Honey  Good  ('59).  My  niece  Annie  (the 
daughter  of  Molly,  '63),  a  junior  at  Fordham, 
will  spend  her  Christmas  vacation  in  Belize 
as  a  volunteer.  •  Carol  McGee  Gardenier 
informs  us  that  Ann  Gardenier  Walsh  and 
Ann's  daughter  spent  a  month  in  Florence 
last  summer.  Ann  lives  in  Bolton.  I  write 
this  as  2003  comes  to  an  end.  May  peace, 
health  and  happiness  be  with  you  in  2004. 
(Don't  forget  I  would  like  to  receive  USPS 
letters  too,  to  add  news  to  our  column.) 


Frank  and  Trish  Faggiano 

33  Gleason  Rd. 

Reading,  MA  01867 

ffaggiano@comcast.net 


Classmates  from  the  School  of  Nursing  held 
a  Cape  Cod  minireunion  this  past  summer. 
Ten  members  held  a  long  lunch  at  the 
Mattakeese  Wharf  in  Barnstable  in  August. 
Three  class  members  had  not  seen  each 
other  in  forty-five  years.  Sally  (Osbourne) 
Russell  earned  her  master's  degree  from  BC 
in  1967,  is  married  with  three  children  and 
lives  in  Brockton.  Sally  spends  weekend  on 
the  Cape  in  West  Harwich.  She  retired  two 
years  ago,  after  working  as  a  certified 
diabetes  educator  for  seventeen  years. 
Rosemary  (Dervan)  Sullivan  recently  retired 
from  the  American  Red  Cross.  She  and  her 
husband,  Jim,  are  busy  enjoying  their  three 
grandchildren.  The  Sullivans  have  a  home  at 
the  Cape  in  Bourne.  Kathy  (Curtiss)  McCue 
is  another  member  of  the  "Cape  Club," 
where  she  and  her  husband,  Michael,  spend 
six  months  each  year.  They  have  four 
children  and  four  grandchildren.  Helen 
(Murdock)  Rogers  and  her  husband,  Tom, 
have  been  married  for  thirty-seven  years  and 
have  homes  in  Uxbridge  and  Brewster. 
They  have  three  daughters  and  five  grand- 
children. Helen  received  her  doctorate  in 
nursing  in  1996  from  Widener  University 
in  Pennsylvania  and  currently  serves  as 
chairperson  of  the  Department  of  Nursing 
at  Worcester  State  College.  Nancy  (Cartnick) 
Fay  and  her  husband,  Jim,  recently  moved  to 
Canton  (GA),  near  their  daughter,  Wendy 
(Fay)  Etheridge,  ('87).  Summers  are  spent  in 
their  Tuftonboro  (NH),  home.  The  Fays  have 
three  children  and  nine  grandchildren. 
Others  attending  the  luncheon  were  Laurel 
Eisenhauer,  Katherine  (Barry)  Frame,  Gloria 
(Pratt)  Casieri,  Marietta  (Walsh)  Kennedy 
and  Jane  Sheehan.  •  The  School  of 
Education  also  reported  on  their  own  Cape 
Cod  minireunion.  Mary  Shea,  Jane  Kilgallen 
Kime  and  Jack,  and  Mary  Ann  Fitzpatrick 
joined  Bea  Hanley  Lee  and  her  husband, 
Dick,  eldest  daughter,  son-in-law  and  grand- 
daughter for  a  cookout  and  afternoon  of 
remembering.  Earlier  in  that  same  week, 
Bea  caught  up  with  Margaret  Lynch 
O'Connor  and  Brian.  She  also  reports  that 
Jean  Marie  Haragan  Allen  is  living  in  New 
Hampshire  and  is  the  proud  grandmother 


to  Joshua  and  Benjamin.  She  also  reported 
that  Rev.  Wally  Blackwood  will  be  leaving  St. 
Anne's  in  Peabody  to  be  pastor  of  parishes 
in  Manchester-by-the-Sea.  Bea  is  living  in 
Lake  Ridge,  (VA),  and  is  the  director  of  the 
Offender  Program  for  the  Domestic 
Violence  Intervention  Program.  She  is  also  a 
Virginia  Supreme  Court-certified  family 
mediator.  She  would  love  to  hear  from  any 
classmates  (dickleck@erols.com).  •  Mark 
Dullea  sent  us  an  interesting  note  informing 
us  that  he  wrapped  up  his  career  as  an  urban 
planner  fifteen  years  ago  and  started  a 
carpet-cleaning  company  with  a  couple  of 
twists:  all-natural  cleaning  products  and 
hardly  any  water.  Mark  is  married  to  Donna 
Quakers,  (Ph.D.  '71).  Donna  directs 
the  Center  for  Effective  University 
Teaching  at  Northeastern  University. 
•  Richard  LaFrencere  wrote  to  us  in  June  to 
tell  us  that  he  and  his  wife,  Debbie,  will  be 
living  in  the  UK  for  the  next  five  years.  He 
retired  two  years  ago,  but  Debbie  accepted 
the  Department  of  Defense's  offer  of  a 
position  in  contracting  located  in  Bristol, 
England.  He  can  be  reached  at  the  following 
address:  DCMA  Bristol,  PSC  36,  Unit  4825, 
APO,  AE  09456-4825.  •  Thank  you  for  your 
input.  We  heard  from  a  wide  range  of  class- 
mates who  were  contacting  us  for  the  first 
time.  Please  continue  to  write  or  e-mail  us. 


NEWTON 


Mary  Ann  Brennan  Keyes 

94  Abbott  Rd. 

Wellesley,  MA  02481 

makmad@comcast.net 


Winter  is  coming  in  with  a  blast  as  we 
anticipate  the  first  Nor'easter  to  arrive 
tomorrow.  By  the  time  you  receive  this, 
hopefully,  spring  will  be  on  its  way. 
•  Just  today  I  heard  from  Joanne  Meehan 
Berghold,  who  writes  about  her  new  book. 
Montana  Hometown  Rodeo,  a  photography 
book  with  some  text,  due  to  be  out  in  May, 
documents  an  aspect  of  rural  Western  life 
that  is  changing.  Joanne  spent  ten  summers 
following  the  small  local  rodeos  all  over 
Montana.  The  book  documents  a  sport  that 
grew  out  of  a  way  of  life — a  way  of  life  that  is 
sadly  disappearing  due  to  the  economics  of 
ranching.  Her  powerful  black-and-white 
images  show  rodeo  action  as  well  as  the  life 
of  rodeo  families  behind  the  scenes.  The 
book  will  be  published  by  the  Museum  of 
New  Mexico  Press.  Joanne  went  to  Newton 
for  three  years,  married  and  then  received 


Save  the  Date 

Alumni  Evening  at  the  Arts  Festival 
Saturday,  May  i,  2004 

Experience  the  arts  at  BC 

•  Reception  and  Dinner 

•  BC  bOp\  Concert 

•  Anything  Goes 

at  Robsham  Theater 

•  Art  exhibits,  demonstrations 
and  much  more 

For  more  information,  visit 
www.  be.  edu/alumni. 


her  BFA  from  Manhattanville.  Her  black- 
and-white  photographs  have  been  exhibited 
on  the  East  Coast  as  well  as  in  Montana  and 
Japan.  •  Marsha  Whelan  writes  that  she  is  in 
transition  from  her  job  as  executive  director 
of  the  Network  of  Sacred  Heart  Schools  and 
has  moved  back  to  Greenwich,  CT.  She  is 
looking  forward  to  doing  some  special 
projects  for  the  adult  community  at  Convent 
of  the  Sacred  Heart,  Greenwich,  beginning 
in  January.  She  is  also  finishing  her  last  year 
on  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Kenwood 
Retirement  Home  for  the  Religious  of  the 
Sacred  Heart.  In  the  meantime,  she  is 
enjoying  some  travel  as  she  waits  for  her 
new  home  to  be  built.  Marsha  has 
reconnected  with  Valerie  McMahon  Vincent, 
who  in  the  last  few  years  received  her 
master's  degree  in  theology  from  Fordham 
University.  She  also  sits  on  the  board  of 
directors  of  Fordham  Prep.  According  to 
Marsha,  Valerie  and  Sheila  Tiernan  Balboni 
traveled  to  Cuba  together,  which  is  why  they 
missed  our  last  reunion.  •  Parti  Joyce  Figge 
has  recently  moved  to  New  York  City  and  is 
enjoying  connecting  with  lots  of  old  friends. 

•  In  November,  Sacred  Heart  in  Greenwich 
honored  two  families  to  whom  many  of  us  at 
Newton  were  very  close.  For  me,  attending 
that  gala  event  was  a  wonderful  reunion 
with  many  Newton  friends,  including 
Carolyn  Dursi  Porteous,  who  continues  to 
work  for  Cablevison,  Peggy  Brennan  Hassett 
and  Patty  Joyce  Figge,  to  mention  a  few. 

•  Penny  Whelan  Kirk  and  I  are  both  in  voice 
in  the  work  of  Voice  of  the  Faithful.  I  am 
one  of  the  founders  and  now  work  at  the 
national  office  helping  to  start  and  maintain 
affiliates  all  over.  We  have  a  presence  in 
most  states  and  in  Australia,  New  Zealand 
and  Canada,  with  membership  in  many 
other  countries.  •  Please  send  news  so  we 
can  keep  up-to-date  with  all  of  you  and 
stay  connected! 


Matthew  J.  McDonnell 
121  Shore  Ave. 


Quincy,  MA  02169 

617-479-1714 

matthew@shore.net 


A  wonderful  article  appeared  in  September 
in  the  Patriot  Ledger  recounting  the  remark- 
able recovery  from  a  brain  aneurysm  of 
Karen  Quirk,  wife  of  Tom  Quirk.  Both 
Tom  and  Karen  are  now  reaching  out  to 
make  others  more  aware  of  the  condition, 
its  symptoms  and  risks,  and  the  need 
for  research  to  prevent  aneurysms  from 
forming  and  for  better  treatment  when 
they  occur.  The  Quirks,  who  have  four 
children  and  live  in  Scituate,  have  become 
active  in  the  Brain  Aneurysm  Foundation. 
Tom  is  now  vice  president  of  the  foundation 
and  is  a  principal  in  Paramount  Partners,  a 
real  estate  brokerage  firm  in  Braintree. 
•  Tony  Dragone  continues  his  very  busy  and 
successful  surgical  practice  with  Quincy 
Surgical  Associates,  associated  with  Quincy 
Medical  Center  (formerly  Quincy  Hospital), 
which  is  now  affiliated  with  Boston  Medical 
Center  (a  merger  of  the  former  University 
Hospital  and  Boston  City  Hospital).  •  The 
summer  issue  carried  a  poem,  written  by 
Bill  Cosdey,  our  class  poet  laureate,  entitled 
"On  My  Turning  61  -  To  My  Son  Alex,  37." 


CLASS  NOTES  11 


Some  heady  stuff  to  contemplate  as  our  kids 
(and  we)  get  up  there  in  years.  •  Frank 
McDermott  continues  his  long  and 
distinguished  career  as  regional  solicitor  for 
the  US  Department  of  Labor  at  the  JFK 
Building  in  Boston.  He  and  his  wife,  Brenda 
('64),  live  in  Westford.  •  Frank  Catapano 
lives  in  Marblehead  and  continues  his  suc- 
cessful practice  as  a  Boston-based  sports 
agent;  he  represents  many  former  BC 
athletes,  particularly  in  basketball  and  foot- 
ball, with  his  name  seen  frequently  in  the 
sports  pages,  speaking  on  behalf  of  his 
clients.  •  Paul  McDevitt  was  honored  in 
December  as  Man  of  the  Year  by  the 
Paraclete  Center,  a  faith-based  organization 
that  responds  to  specific  educational  needs 
of  urban  youth  and  their  families  and  is 
housed  in  the  former  St.  Augustine's 
convent  in  South  Boston.  Paul  founded  and 
operates  Modern  Assistance  Programs,  Inc., 
which  houses  a  full  staff  of  mental  health 
and  substance  abuse  counselors,  all  of 
which  is  funded  by  private  health  funds. 
Paul  specializes  in  advising  employers  with 
their  Employee  Assistance  programs.  Paul 
and  his  wife,  Suzanne  M.  Bump  ('78),  a 
lawyer  in  practice  with  Paul's  son,  Neil  P. 
McDevitt  ('95),  in  the  Braintree  law  firm 
Hynes,  McDevitt  and  Bump,  split  their  time 
between  their  South  Boston  apartment  and 
their  house  in  Great  Barrington.  •I'm  sad  to 
report  the  death  of  Phyllis  Rauch  McGrath,  a 
retired  nurse  who  had  been  living  in 
Sarasota,  FL.  Class  sympathies  to  her  family. 

•  Finally,  on  an  entirely  different  note,  our 
son,  Paul  McDonnell,  ('93),  married  his 
sweetheart,  Laura  Bradanini,  ('98),  in  a 
Greek  Orthodox  ceremony  in  October  on 
Cape  Cod  —  no  references,  please,  to  My 
Big,  Fat  Greek  Wedding,  although  Eileen  and 
I  did  see  the  flick  to  see  what  to  expect  — 
conclusion:  no  comparison.  A  long  weekend 
on  the  Cape,  concluding  with  a  reception  at 
the  Wychmere  Harbor  Club,  accentuated 
this  unforgettable  vacation.  Paul  and  Laura, 
after  a  honeymoon  to  Hawaii,  are  settled  in 
Brookline.  Needless  to  say,  the  echoes  rang 
again  as  BC  alumni  were  well  represented  in 
the  wedding  party  and  on  the  guest  list. 

•  Please  take  the  time  to  keep  your  class 
correspondent  informed  by  e-mail  or  snail 
mail.  Hope  all  of  you  enjoyed  the  Christmas 
holidays! 


NEWTON 


Marie  Craigin  Wilson 

2701  Treasure  Lane 

Naples,  FL  34102 

239-435-9709 


Maureen  Gallagher  Costello 

42  Doncaster  St. 

Roslindale,  MA  02131 

617-323-4652 


REUNION  YEAR 


The  Reunion  Committee  is  working  hard  in 
planning  for  our  upcoming  40th  reunion 
to  be  held  June  4  -  6,  2004.  Mark  your 
calendars  for  that  weekend,  especially  for 
our  class  dinner  on  Saturday  night,  June  5. 
Watch  for  your  reunion  brochure  and  for 
registration  information  in  the  mail.  •  Class 
events  held  in  November  and  January  were  a 


great  success.  There  were  over  70  people  at 
our  post-game  reception  after  the  BC/West 
Virginia  football  game  in  November  and 
over  40  people  attended  the  post-game 
reception  after  the  BC/Seton  Hall  basketball 
game  in  January.  •  Please  write  with  news  to 
include  for  the  next  edition  of  Class  Notes. 
Enjoy  the  New  Year! 


'64 

NEWTON 

Priscilla  Weinlandt  Lamb 

125  Elizabeth  Rd. 

New  Rochelle,  NY  10804 

914-636-0214 

agneau76@cs.com 

REUNION  YEAR 


It  was  with  much  sadness  that  I  received 
the  news  of  the  death  of  Barbara  Corsa.  Her 
sister  contacted  the  Alumni  Office  to  say 
that  she  passed  away  on  May  12,  2003. 
There  was  no  further  information.  It  is 
particularly  poignant  to  hear  of  the  death  of 
a  classmate  as  we  near  the  fortieth 
anniversary  of  our  graduation.  Reunions  are 
a  wonderful  opportunity  for  reconnecting, 
but  they  are  also  a  time  of  remembrance.  I 
urge  you  all  to  plan  on  attending  our  fortieth 
reunion,  held  Friday,  June  4,  through 
Sunday,  June  6.  Those  of  you  who  have  gone 
to  past  reunions  know  what  fun  it  is.  If  each 
of  you  brought  a  classmate  who  is,  perhaps, 
a  little  "reunion-shy,"  think  what  a  turnout 
we  could  have!  •  Now  here's  someone  who  is 
planning  to  be  at  the  reunion.  Sheila  Lynch 
Thompsonflores  called,  and  I  was  so  fasci- 
nated at  the  turns  her  life  has  taken  that  I 
made  her  put  it  in  writing.  Go,  Sheila:  "I  am 
currently  living  in  Bahrain.  Six  years  ago, 
when  my  husband  was  Brazilian  ambassa- 
dor to  Saudi  Arabia,  we  found  that  there  was 
no  longer  any  schooling  available  for  our 
son  in  Riyadh,  so  I  moved  close  by  to 
Bahrain  to  put  him  in  the  US  Defense  Dept. 
school.  My  son  is  now  majoring  in  political 
science  at  the  University  of  Michigan  in  Ann 
Arbor,  and  my  husband  has  retired,  joining 
me  in  Bahrain  and  doing  consulting  work 
for  Brazilian  and  American  firms.  I  have 
been  doing  volunteer  work,  in  archaeology, 
excavating  4,000-year-old  tombs  and  doing 
conservation  work  on  Islamic  objects  at  a 
Koranic  Museum.  This  is  a  field  I  love." 
Sheila  has  also  had  her  own  firm,  in  New 
York,  specializing  in  the  conservation  of  art 
objects,  has  been  a  block  trader/ stockbroker, 
and,  for  seven  years  in  Brazil,  was  an  editor 
of  a  Brazilian  magazine.  Her  husband  has 
also  been  posted  in  France,  Algeria  and  as 
ambassador  to  the  UN.  Sheila  continues: 
"We  both  love  to  travel,  especially  around  the 
Middle  East.  Next  year  we  will  probably 
move  back  to  Brazil,  and  I  look  forward  to 
fishing  (another  passion,  along  with 
shooting)  and  visiting  prehistoric  sites  in 
northern  Brazil."  And  I  look  forward  to 
seeing  you  at  the  reunion.  •  Bunny  Verdon 
checked  in  with  the  news  that  in  the  fall  of 
'02  she  was  asked  to  teach  at  a  paralegal 
college  in  Manhattan,  and  she  absolutely 
loves  it.  Bunny  says  that  "to  be  on  'the  other 
side'  —  professor  rather  than  student  — 
was  a  new  experience,  and  I  say  to  anyone 
who  will  listen:  'Hats  off  to  the  teachers  of 
the  world!'"  •  This  is  for  Karen  Wallace 
Murray:  It  really  is  our  fortieth  reunion  this 
time,  so  I  hope  you  don't  have  another  grad- 
uation to  go  to,  because  we're  all  looking  for- 


ward to  seeing  you!  One  last  note:  I'm 
looking  for  candid  photos  from  our  years  at 
Newton.  Please  send  them  to  me  ASAP. 
I  promise  to  return  them  if  you  want  them 
back.  I  have  a  plan. 


Patricia  McNulty  Harte 

6  Everett  Ave. 

Winchester,  MA  01890 

781-729-1187 

trishharte@aol.com 


Matt  Soldano  is  co-chairing  the  Greater 
Boston  Catholic  Charities  Christmas  Dinner 
with  Neal  Harte.  Matt  and  Gonzaga  High 
School  (Washington,  DC)  classmates  Greg 
Haight,  Dick  Flynn  and  Jim  Eckloff 
had  their  annual  reunion  recently.  •  Dick 
Manasseri  is  living  in  Texas  and  running 
triathlons.  •  Jim  Mahoney  and  Sarah  Ann's 
fourth  grandchild  was  born  this  past 
October  to  son  Jim  and  his  wife,  Kim.  Elise 
Lydia  joins  big  brother  Jay  in  Tucker,  GA. 
•  I  am  sure  you  as  classmates  enjoyed 
reading  the  last  edition  of  our  class  of  '65 
news.  That  was  because  classmates  took 
the  time  to  send  me  some  news.  Let's 
take  the  time  to  write  something  for  the  next 
edition.  You  can  always  e-mail  me  at 
trishharte  @  aol.com. 


Linda  Mason  Crimmins 

R.R.  1,  Box  1396 

Stroudsburg,  PA  18360 

crimmins@epix.net 


NEWTON 


Priscilla  A.  Durkin  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  Newton  College  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board 
of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time 
to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  }2  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this 
election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

Judy  Violick  and  her  husband,  Larry  Hedge, 
moved  into  their  new  home  in  Orange 
County,  CA,  in  October.  Their  house  is  on 
the  rim  of  a  canyon,  with  an  awesome  view 
of  the  Saddleback  Mountains  in  the  distance 
and  a  golf  course  just  below.  Even  though 
they  were  fifty  miles  from  the  closest 
wildfire,  Judy  reports  they  could  see  the 
smoke  plumes  and  smell  the  smoke.  Some 
days  it  was  difficult  to  breathe  outside,  and 
the  ashes  were  everywhere.  The  first  ten 
days  they  were  there,  the  temperature  was 
over  95  degrees,  and  the  supermarkets  were 
all  on  strike.  Other  than  that,  things  are 
going  well,  and  Judy  hopes  someone  will 
come  to  visit!  •  Boleslaw  Wysocki  died  on 
July  14  at  the  age  of  91.  I  have  fond 
memories  of  his  psychology  classes!  A 
concentration-camp  survivor,  Wysocki 
recounted  his  experiences  in  his  memoir, 
Urge  to  Live.  He  joined  the  Newton  faculty  in 
the  Department  of  Psychology  in  1962  and 
continued  at  Boston  College  until  he  retired 
in  1998.  That  means  he  retired  at  the  age  of 
86. 1  guess  I  really  did  take  early  retirement! 
•  Space  limitations  in  the  last  column  pre- 
vented the  inclusion  of  my  glowing  reports 
about  my  safari  to  Kenya  in  August.  Six  of 
us,  including  my  son  Mike  ('90),  his  wife, 
Leslie,  and  my  daughter  Kelley  spent  twelve 
days  on  an  unforgettable  journey  through 


12  www.bc.edu/alumni 


Kenya's  national  parks  and  preserves. 
We  saw  an  amazing  array  of  animals, 
including  a  mother  lion  carrying  one  cub 
while  another  held  on  to  her  tail,  a  newborn 
elephant,  and  the  migration  of  tens  of 
thousands  of  wildebeest.  It's  a  trip  that  I 
would  highly  recommend.  •  I  am  currently 
working  part  time  at  East  Stroudsburg 
University,  supervising  student  teachers 
who  are  majoring  in  special  education.  I  also 
present  math  workshops  for  teachers  in 
grades  K-8  and  write  federal  and  state  grants 
for  some  local  school  districts.  So  I'm  not 
exactly  retired,  but  all  of  the  work  I  do  is  on 
a  flexible  time  schedule  allowing  me  the 
freedom  to  visit  my  granddaughter  in  South 
Carolina  quite  often.  •  Please  take  a  moment 
to  send  news  about  your  life  and  about 
fellow  classmates  for  the  next  column.  Next 
year  will  be  our  fortieth  reunion  —  I  know, 
I  can't  believe  it  either.  Let's  each  try  to 
contact  one  classmate  who  has  not  been 
mentioned  in  this  column  in  the  last  year 
and  start  talking  up  the  reunion.  I  am 
looking  forward  to  seeing  lots  of  classmates 
in  2005!  Until  then,  may  good  health  and  a 
contented  life  be  yours. 


Class  Notes  Editor 

Boston  College  Alumni  House 

825  Centre  St. 

Newton,  MA  02458 

classnotes  @  bc.edu 


NEWTON 


Catherine  Beyer  Hurst 

49  Lincoln  St. 

Cambridge,  MA  02141 

catherine.hurst@comcast.net 


Condolences  to  Dee  O'Brien  Bailey  on  the 

death  of  her  husband,  Jack  Bailey,  in 
September.  His  funeral  was  attended  by 
Governor  John  Rowland  and  Senator 
Christopher  Dodd,  as  well  as  by  prosecutors 
and  police  officers  from  across  the  state. 
Jack  was  deemed  Connecticut's  "greatest 
crime  fighter"  in  a  eulogy  delivered  by 
Rowland.  According  to  the  AP  article 
describing  Jack,  he  was  "a  prosecutor  with 
compassion,  a  man  who  led  the  crackdown 
on  drug  dealers  and  gang  members  but  also 
took  time  to  counsel  young  people  in  trou- 
ble." His  death  came  from  a  form  of  Lou 
Gehrig's    disease    at    the    age    of    59. 

•  Kathy  Hyland  Krein  wrote  in  September  to 
report  that  her  employer,  Highmark,  was 
closing  its  Hartford  office,  which  left  Kathy 
job  hunting  and  "truly  dreading  it." 
Hopefully,  Kathy  will  have  cheerier  news  to 
report  in  the  next  issue!  •  Sandra  Puerini 
DelSesto  welcomed  a  new  grandson  in 
October,       Michael      James       DelSesto. 

•  Barbara  Childs  Dwyer  and  Frank  Hall, 
were  married  on  November  28  and  honey- 
mooned in  Puerto  Rico  in  early  December. 
(She  says  she  caught  the  superintendent  on 
a  good  day — getting  a  week  off  for  a  honey- 
moon during  the  school  year!)  Barbara's  life 
is  very  full  these  days — daughter  Megan  and 
her  husband  are  expecting  twins  in  March. 
Barb  has  also  been  enduring  a  major  rehab 
on  her  beautiful  old  Connecticut  farmhouse. 
She  writes:  "My  house  is  a  disaster.  No 
floors,  walls,  etc!  They  discovered  rot  from 
water  damage  in  the  foundation  in  the  back 


stairway  and  porch  area.  There  is  not  a 
decent  foundation  in  any  of  the 
kitchen/porch  area.  There  is  nothing  hold- 
ing up  my  house!"  •  Your  class  secretary, 
Cathy  Beyer  Hurst,  is  in  her  fifth  year  of 
teaching  marketing  and  management  at 
Simmons  College  in  Boston;  this  past  sum- 
mer, she  also  took  over  as  director  of  the 
undergraduate  management  program  there. 


Charles  and  Mary-Anne  Benedict 
84  Rockland  Place  . 
Newton  Upper  Falls,  MA  02464 
chasbenedict@aol.com 


Jerome  Bello  is  a  candidate  for  Secretary  in 
the  2004-05  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 
National  Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please 
take  the  time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  )2  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Peter  Boulais  and  his  wife,  Charlene,  write 
of  a  wonderful  weekend  at  their  home  in 
Pebble  Beach,  CA.  Their  guests  included 
Mike  MaGuire  and  Mike  McGinty  (original- 
ly with  class  of  '67).  MaGuire  came  in  from 
Seattle  and  McGuinty  from  Boston.  Peter 
had  just  recently  gotten  a  new  golden 
retriever  puppy,  appropriately  named  BC. 
Peter  also  saw  Becky  and  Jack  Damico  last 
year  on  a  trip  to  Spanish  Bay,  a  resort  in 
Pebble  Beach.  Peter  is  running  a  company 
that  delivers  telephone  directories  through- 
out the  US,  Canada  and  the  UK.  Peter's 
daughter,  Nicole  ('92),  is  living  in  Rochester, 
NY,  and  is  on  the  staff  of  RIT. 
•  Bill  Donovan  writes  us  with  a  sad  note 
about  his  BC  roommate,  David  Shores. 
David  passed  away  November  9  in  Newport 
Beach,  CA.  David  was  originally  from 
Pennsylvania  and  attended  BC  on  a  football 
scholarship.  He  was  president  and  owner  of 
Amalgamated  Graphic  Services  and  COO  of 
Shorko  Advertising,  Inc.,  of  Newport  Beach. 
David  sold  his  businesses  and  attended 
Western  State  College  of  Law,  where  he 
obtained  his  JD  at  age  53.  He  became  a 
successful  and  prominent  attorney  in 
Orange  County.  The  class  offers  its  sincere 
condolences  to  David's  wife,  Diane,  and  to 
his  son,  Ryan.  •  Mary-Anne  Benedict  has 
accepted  an  appointment  to  the  American 
Nurses  Credentialing  Center's  Commission 
on  Accreditation.  The  commission  is  a 
committee  of  the  American  Nurses 
Association,  which  has  responsibility  for  set- 
ting the  standards  and  monitoring 
continuing-education  programs  and 
providers  nationally.  Congratulations, 
commissioner!  •  Bill  Serow  passed  away  on 
November  5  in  Germany.  Bill  was  an 
economics  professor  at  Florida  State 
University  and  former  director  of  the  FSU 
Center  for  the  Study  of  Population.  At  the 
time  of  his  death,  Bill  was  guest  lecturer  at 
Martin  Luther  University.  Bill  was  at  FSU 
for  twenty-two  years.  After  BC,  Bill  earned 
his  Master's  and  Doctoral  degrees,  both  in 
economics  at  Duke.  A  scholarship  has  been 
established  in  his  name  through  the  FSU 
Foundation.  Our  prayers  are  offered  for  his 
repose  and  in  support  of  his  wife  Betty 
(Goetz)  Serow  also  a  classmate.  Betty  is  the 


owner  of  Renaissance  Travel  Service  in 
Tallahassee,  FL.  We  personally  expressed  the 
condolences  of  the  class  to  Betty.  •  By  the 
time  you  read  this,  BC  should  be  in  the 
Frozen  Four  in  ice  hockey,  and  the  basket- 
ball team  will  have  earned  an  invitation  to 
post-season  play.  Hope  2004  is  treating  you 
and  yours  extremely  well. 


M.  Adrierine  Tarr  Free 

3627  Great  Laurel  Lane 

Fairfax,  VA  22033 

703-709-0896 

thefrees@cox.net 


NEWTON 


Important  note  ...  see  above:  I  have  a  new 
e-mail  address!  Please  use  it  soon,  and  send 
me  news  of  what  you  are  doing  in  this  new 
year.  I  am  writing  as  snow  pounds  the 
Northeast,  but  I  hope  you  will  read  this  in 
the  warmth  and  beauty  of  an  early  spring. 

•  Kathleen  Doran  Hegenbart  managed  an 
early  start  on  her  holiday  cards,  sending  the 
report  of  a  new  arrival  to  the  family.  Her 
daughter,  Christine  Todd,  delivered  little 
Eleanor  in  November.  Christine  works 
across  the  street  from  Kathleen;  plus,  the 
Todds  live  in  Wellesley  and  summer  near 
the  Hegenbarts  on  Cape  Cod,  so  sharing 
time  with  the  three  grandkids  (isn't  that  a 
friendlier  way  to  say  "baby-sitting"?)  is  a 
favorite  pastime.  The  Hegenbarts'  son,  Jay, 
and  his  wife  live  and  work  in  New  York  City. 
Earlier  this  year,  Kathleen  wrote  to  say  that 
her  niece,  Amy,  was  engaged  to  Tim,  son  of 
Audie  Finnegan  Tunney.  Well,  the  wedding 
came  off  beautifully  in  August  in  New 
Haven,  CT  In  Kathleen's  words,  "Audie  was 
just  a  star.  She  looked  so  beautiful  in  beige 
and,  as  you  would  expect,  was  a  gracious, 
articulate  and  fun  mother  of  the  groom." 
Audie  has  retired  to  Ellsworth,  ME,  where 
she  had  always  summered.  Tim  and  Amy, 
who  met  at  UMass,  are  teaching,  doing 
social  work  and  living  in  that  same  area. 

•  Rosemary  Daly  Marcuss  also  reported  that 
she  was  the  mother  of  a  groom  in 
September.  Her  son,  Aidan,  married  Mamie 
Fitzgerald.  He  lives  in  Boston  and  works  for 
Monitor.  For  those  of  you  who  had  lost  track 
of  Rosemary  up  to  now,  she  is  still  in  DC, 
working  as  an  economist,  serving  as  the 
deputy  director  of  the  US  Bureau  of 
Economic  Analysis.  Her  husband  still  prac- 
tices law,  and  her  married  daughter,  an  attor- 
ney, lives  in  Baltimore.  •  Heard  from  Pat 
Curtis  Beirne.  She  is  a  gardener  by  trade  in 
Ipswich.  She  and  her  husband  of  thirty- 
three  years,  John,  love  to  travel  year-round. 
They  climbed  Kilimanjaro  in  1990,  trekked 
across  Nepal  and  Peru,  and  hiked  across  the 
Grand  Canyon,  "the  wrong  way,"  she  said. 
They  have  a  sailboat,  too.  She  is  still  hoping 
to  spend  some  time  with  Gayle  Forbes  and 
Martha  Cumings  Wirkutis,  but  as  with  the 
rest  of  us,  intentions  sometimes  are  hard  to 
see  to  fruition.  Her  older  daughter,  Chloe,  is 
married,  and  the  younger  one,  Mollie,  is 
soon  to  be,  so  perhaps  Pat  will  find  time  to 
travel  with  her  old  Newton  friends.  •  I  know 
more  is  going  on  with  us  than  appears 
in  this  column.  Whether  I  personally 
remember  you  or  not,  there  is  someone  who 
will  and  who  would  love  to  hear  about  what 
you  are  doing.  Our  class  prayer  network  still 
exists;  no  special  intentions  sent  in  recently. 


CLASS  NOTES  13 


fust  think  of  what  you  need  prayers  for,  and 
remember  the  same  for  all  of  us.  Enjoy  the 
bursts  of  new  life  as  spring  shows  its  bright 
face  in  your  area,  and  stay  in  touch! 


Judith  Anderson  Day 

;     :  The  Brentwood  323 

11500  San  Vicente  Blvd. 

Los  Angeles,  CA  '90049 

jnJPay@aol.com 


Congratulations   to   Richard  Connelly  on 

being  named  director  of  the  Defense  Energy 
Support  Center.  He  has  had  a  long  history  of 
service  to  the  nation  as  well  as  to  the 
Defense  Logistics  Agency,  which  he  joined 
in  1972.  Headquartered  at  Fort  Belvoir,  VA, 
DLA  provides  supply  support  and  technical 
and  logistics  services  to  the  US  military 
services  and  to  several  federal  civilian 
agencies.  After  graduation  from  BC  with  a 
degree  in  Economics,  Richard  served  with 
the  US  Army  in  Vietnam.  He  attended 
Stanford  University  Graduate  School  of 
Business  as  a  Sloan  Fellow  and  received  his 
master  of  science  degree  in  management  in 
1978.  In  2003,  he  was  selected  for  the 
Presidential  Rank  Award  of  Meritorious 
Executive.  •  As  always,  early  spring  brings 
perennial  dreams  of  the  "Best  of  Times"  to 
the  Red  Sox  Nation.  May  2004  be  our  year 
to  celebrate! 


NEWTON 


Kathleen  Hastings  Miller 

8  Brookline  Rd. 

Scarsdale,  NY  10583 

fiveiTiill@msn.com 


Katheryn  HoGan  Mullaney  is  a  candidate 
for  Director,  Newton  College  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  52  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this 
election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

There  is  snow  on  the  ground  and  holiday 
festivities  are  in  full  swing  as  I  write. 
Moments  of  peace  are  cherished  .  .  .  glad 
tidings  extended  to  all.  •  I  was  happy  to  hear 
from  Julie  Gehan  Tonks,  who  sent  a 
Christmas  newsletter  to  share.  The  year 
2003  found  her  very  busy  with  her  two 
children's  weddings.  Thanks  to  digital 
technology,  she  was  able  to  send  photos. 
Julie,  I  don't  know  if  you  see  it,  but  your 
daughter  looks  just  like  you  did  some  30 
years  ago!  Julie  and  her  husband,  Phil,  own 
and  operate  the  Grand  View  Winery  near 
East  Calais,  VT.  It  is  one  of  the  60  Vermont 
attractions  showcased  on  the  official  State 
of  Vermont  map!  I  can't  wait  to  check  it 
out  on  our  next  trip  north.  •  Best  wishes  to 
everyone  for  the  New  Year.  Keep  in  touch. 


James  R.  Littleton 

39  Dale  St. 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467 

jrlneag@aol.com 


REUNION  YEAR 

Robert  E.  Burke  is  a  candidate  for  Director, 
East  of  the  Mississippi  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 


beginning  on  page  }2  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 
Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Martin  D.  Gavin  is  a  candidate  for 
Nominating  Chair-Elect  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 
Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Marty  Gavin  is  heading  the  class  of  1969's 
thirty-fifth  reunion  committee.  There  will  be 
reunion  events  scheduled  over  the  next 
couple  of  months.  Information  on  the 
events  will  be  mailed  to  you.  Please  plan  on 
attending  the  thirty-fifth  reunion  party  on 
Saturday,  June  5,  2004.  •  Jay  Doyle  is  a 
partner  with  the  Milford  CPA  firm  Brown  & 
Doyle  and  is  living  in  Worcester.  •  Please 
take  the  time  to  write  or  e-mail  me  with 
information  on  what  is  going  on  with  you. 


Mary  Cabel  Costello 

4507  Swan  Lake  Drive 

Copley,  OH  44321 

330-666-6170 

mgc1029@aol.com 


NEWTON 


REUNION  YEAR 


Susan  Power  Gallagher  is  a  candidate  for 
Vice  President/President-Elect  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this 
election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

Greetings!  Hope  spring  is  coming  your  way 
and  you  are  thinking,  "What  should  I  wear 
to  the  reunion?"  We  have  lots  planned  for 
you.  •  Condolences  are  offered  to  Paula 
Fisher  Paterson  on  the  death  of  her  mother 
on  September  18,  2003.  •  Carol  Romano 
Tuohey  weathered  out  Hurricane  Isabel,  but 
not  without  lots  of  preparations.  She  sent 
me  photos  of  how  her  dock  and  its 
pilings  were  all  underwater.  She  also  sent 
photos  of  the  Naval  Academy  under  water. 

•  On  a  happier  note,  Polly  Glynn  Kerrigan 
and  her  husband  recently  returned  from  a 
trip  to  Scotiand  and  Ireland.  My  daughter  is 
hoping  to  do  a  year  abroad  in  Scotland 
next  year,  where  she  can  fine-tune  her 
golf  game  and  study  at  the  same  time. 

•  Jill  Hendrickson  Daly's  son  Conor  is  a 
first-year  student  at  Georgetown  Law 
School.  •  Adrienne  Tarr  Free  ('67)  sent 
me  a  newspaper  clipping  featuring  our  very 
own  Kathy  Hartnagle  Halayko.  She 
was  awarded  the  Washington  Post's 
Distinguished  Educational  Leadership 
Award  for  the  2003-04  school  year.  The 
award  recognizes  an  outstanding  principal 
from  each  local  school  district,  and  Kathy 
won  from  the  city  of  Falls  Church,  VA. 
According  to  her  staff,  who  nominated  her, 
Kathy  "has  cultivated  a  community  of  caring 
learners,  a  highly  dedicated  staff  and  parents 
who  are  very  much  involved  in  their 
children's  learning."  She  continues  to  be 
on  cloud  nine  because  she  also  won  the 
Greater  Washington  Reading  Council  Award 


(part  of  the  International  Reading 
Association).  Congratulations,  Kathy! 
•  Deborah  Donovan  has  changed  jobs.  Last 
June  she  began  working  at  seCTer,  the 
Southeastern  Connecticut  Enterprise 
Region,  a  regional  economic  development 
organization.  After  thirty-four  years  in 
the  tourism  industry,  she  is  taking  a 
different  course.  She  continues  with  her 
master's  program  in  American  Studies  at 
Trinity  College  in  Hartford.  She  has  present- 
ed a  paper  to  both  the  New  London 
Maritime  Society  and  the  New  London 
County  Historical  Society,  of  which  she  is  a 
board  member.  She  will  be  writing  her 
thesis  about  a  whaling  journal  from  1855. 
She  reports  that  Kate  Wallace  O'Rourke  is  a 
grandmother  again.  Congratulations!  Bring 
pictures  to  the  reunion.  I  hope  to  see  many 
of  you  there  on  June  4-6. 


'      Norman  C.  Cavallaro 

c/o  North  Cove  Outfitters 

75  Main  St. 

Old  Saybrook,  CT  06475 


Robert  L.  Bouley  is  a  candidate  for  Vice 
President/President-Elect  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this 
election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 


Fran  Dubrowski 

3215  Klingle  Rd.,  N.W. 

Washington,  DC  20008 

dubrowski@aol.com 


NEWTON 


This  fall  has  been  a  busy  time  for  class- 
mates. Political  commentators  Elizabeth 
"Betty"  Sherman  and  her  husband,  Mickey 
Edwards,  were  featured  in  a  Boston  Globe 
article  entitled  "In  Politics  and  Marriage, 
These  Opposites  Attract."  The  article 
asked,  "What  happens  when  a  seven-term 
Republican  congressman  from  Oklahoma 
marries  a  lifelong  liberal  Massachusetts 
Democrat  and  authority  on  women  and 
public  policy?  Answer:  Nonstop  talk  about 
politics."  Mickey  (the  political  conservative 
of  the  pair)  lectures  at  Harvard's  Kennedy 
School  of  Government  and  offers  political 
commentary  on  National  Public  Radio. 
Elizabeth  (the  liberal)  is  a  research  fellow  at 
Harvard's  Center  for  Public  Leadership  and 
a  budding  author — her  upcoming  book 
discusses   women's    political   leadership. 


From  the  Heights  to 
Your  Hometown 

Looking  for  a  way  to  stay 

connected  to  boston  college  in 

your  hometown? 

Join  your  local  Chapter.  To  find 

the  Chapter  nearest  you,  go  to 

www.bc.edu/alumni  or  contact 

Jack  Moynihan  at 

fack.moynihan@bc.edu. 


14  www.bc.edu/alumni 


They  reside  in  historic  Hingham  Centre, 
where  (according  to  the  Globe)  "a  sterling- 
silver  donkey  and  elephant  go  head-to-head 
on  the  table  between  their  reading  chairs." 

•  This  fall,  I  had  the  pleasure  of  a  visit  from 
Jane  McMahon  Endicott,  who  stopped  by  on 
her  trek  north  to  Connecticut  after  having 
dropped  her  eldest,  Isabelle,  off  for  the  start 
of  freshman  year  at  Lynchburg  College,  VA. 
Jane  returns  home  to  begin  tackling  the 
grand  American  college  tour  anew  with  her 
youngest,  Annie.  Jane  will  be  making  the 
drive  to  Virginia  periodically,  however,  so 
alumnae  En  route  may  want  to  get  in  touch 
with  her.  •  Please  pray  that  Terry  Kindelan's 
husband,  Rick,  who  recently  received  a 
kidney  transplant,  will  continue  to  stabilize 
and  improve.  Terry  reports  she  is 
"overwhelmed  by  the  thoughts,  prayers, 
cards,  e-mails,  etc.,"  that  she  received  and  is 
feeling  "so  blessed."  She  adds:  "Rick  is 
doing  extremely  well  ...  Life  is  returning  to 
normal,  for  the  first  time  in  years  ....   " 

•  We  bought  a  home  in  Princeton,  NJ,  so 
that  my  youngest,  Sarah,  can  attend  Stuart 
Country  Day  School  of  the  Sacred  Heart, 
where  Fran  De  La  Chapelle  is  headmistress. 
Sarah  is  blossoming  in  the  loving, 
stimulating  environment  that  Fran  has  cre- 
ated, and  I  hope  to  take  advantage  of  prox- 
imity to  visit  New  Jersey  alumnae.  So  if  you 
are  near  Princeton,  please  e-mail  me;  I'd 
love  to  get  together  and  chat.  And,  since 
business  and  my  office  take  me  frequendy  to 
Washington,  DC,  I  am  eager  as  always  to 
visit  with  alumnae  passing  through  the 
nation's  capital.  •  On  a  sadder  note:  Please 
pray  for  Marci  Mahoney,  who  died  on 
October  21,  2003.  Several  alums  sent 
memories  of  Marci  —  of  her  sweetness,  her 
grace  under  pressure,  and  the  courage  and 
optimism  with  which  she  tackled  serious 
illness.  Julie  Nuzzo  ('74)  from  the  Boston 
College  Alumni  Office  writes:  "Marci  was  a 
dear  person,  and  I  feel  fortunate  to  have  met 
her  last  spring  at  the  Newton  College  Lenten 
Day  of  Recollection.  She  and  I  corresponded 
occasionally  since  then.  Her  death  shocked 
me  even  though  I  expected  it.  Her  positive 
attitude  was  remarkable.  I  will  miss  her  .  .  . 
her  smile  lit  up  a  room."  Marci  is  survived 
by  her  husband,  Kent,  and  son,  Jeffrey. 


Robert  F.  Maguire 

46  Plain  Rd. 

Wayland,  MA  01778 

rfm71@bc.edu 


Boston's  Seaport  Hotel  was  the  inaugural 
site  for  the  Boston  College  Finance  Council 
Dinner.  Robert  E.  Foley,  Jr.,  established  and 
organized  the  dinner.  This  year,  David 
Spina,  chairman  and  CEO  of  State  Street 
Bank,  was  named  the  2003  Executive  of  the 
Year.  Our  class  was  further  represented  by 
Chris  Gorgone,  Bob  Lucey,  Bob  Griffin  and 
Bob  Maher.  •  Stephen  Pucci  of  West 
Newbury  had  close  ties  to  the  Tour  de 
France.  Steve  is  an  active  cyclist  who  estab- 
lished the  CCB  cycling  club.  Racing  for 
Steve  was  Tyler  Hamilton.  Tyler  was  the 
courageous  racer  who  continued  in  the  tour 
after  suffering  a  broken  clavicle.  Perhaps 
Steve  coached  a  little  "Ever  to  Excel"  to 
Tyler     during     his     time     with     CCB. 


•  Daniel  J.  Johnston  of  Norfolk,  president 
of  the  Automobile  Insurer's  Bureau  of 
Massachusetts,  reports  that  Robert  F.  Roach 
passed  away  in  November  after  a  bout  with 
cancer.  Bob,  a  math  major,  became  an 
actuary  and  worked  in  several  key 
insurance-industry  positions. 


NEWTON 


Georgina  M.  Pardo 

6800  S.W.  67th  St. 

South  Miami,  FL  33143 

ed.gigi@att.net 


Class  of  '71,  here  are  the  updates  in  your 
own  words  .  .  .  Joan  Abbott  Kiley  wrote, 
"My  husband,  Jack,  and  I  are  still  living  in 
Needham.  We  are,  for  the  time  being,  empty 
nesters,  since  our  daughter  Julianne  went 
off  to  Connecticut  College  in  New  London, 
CT,  this  fall.  Our  older  daughter,  Megan,  is  a 
junior  at  Saint  Anselm's  in  Manchester,  NH. 
Probably  most  of  our  classmates  have 
already  reached  this  stage  of  their  lives,  but 
if  not,  tell  them  not  to  be  afraid.  It's  terrific! 
I  recently  had  dinner  with  Noreen  Carey- 
Neville.  She  is  also  an  empty  nester.  One  of 
her  daughters  graduated  from  college  last 
spring,  and  her  second  daughter  is  a  junior 
in  college.  She  and  her  husband,  Peter,  are 
living  not  so  far  from  us,  and  we  do 
occasionally  have  the  pleasure  of  spending 
time  with  them.  •  Marianne  Griffin  Devine 
wrote  to  tell  us,  "Our  older  daughter,  Kate,  is 
getting  married  on  July  31  to  Steve  Devine  — 
no  relation,  just  the  same  name!  Our 
younger  daughter,  Meghan,  is  a  first 
lieutenant  in  the  US  Army,  stationed  at  Fort 
Hood,  TX.  Her  division  is  scheduled  for 
deployment  to  Iraq  in  March,  so  please  keep 
her  and  her  soldiers  in  your  prayers.  Best 
wishes  for  a  wonderful  holiday  to  everyone." 
•  Delly  Beekman  sent  us  this  news:  "I  was 
just  slated  for  a  three-year  term  as  secretary 
of  the  Association  of  Junior  Leagues 
International.  My  second  son,  Richard, 
('00),  is  marrying  one  of  his  classmates, 
Jennifer  Melvin,  on  June  26.  We  are  very 
excited!"  •  And  finally,  Kate  Russell  wrote:  "I 
live  in  Greenwich,  CT,  and  work  at  Gartner, 
a  technology-research  firm.  My  son,  Alex,  is 
14  and  a  freshman  at  Greenwich  High.  I  see 
Chris  Peterson,  Susie  Martin  and  Kathy 
(Morrison)  McShane  several  times  per  year 
(most  notably  every  summer  by  Kathy  and 
George's  pool,  where  we  relive  our  college 
days).  Other  than  that,  life  is  quiet  (and 
good)."  •  Thanks  to  everyone  who  wrote.  It  is 
wonderful  to  hear  from  you.  May  your  2004 
be  filled  with  peace,  happiness,  good  health 
and  wonder. 


Lawrence  G.  Edgar 

530  S.  Barrington  Ave.,  No.  no 

Los  Angeles,  CA  90049 

ledgar@earthlink.net 


This  will  be  a  first  for  me  in  all  my  years  of 
writting  this  column:  I  got  no  letters,  no 
clippings,  and  no  unsolicited  e-mails,  so  it's 
going  to  be  mostly  updates  on  some  often- 
mentioned  names.  It's  been  generally  a 
good  year  for  our  crew  of  Eagle  fans  here  in 
Santa  Monica.  Every  season  the  age  range 
increases  by  a  year;  it's  now  from  eighty-one 
to  twenty-two.  One  weekend,  I  didn't  get  my 


fill  on  Saturday,  so  I  visited  John  Sacco  in 
Newport  Beach,  where  his  cable  system  gets 
Doug  Flutie's  games.  John  reported  that  he 
hears  from  his  former  Atlanta  neighbor  Phil 
Marzetti,  who's  a  tax  attorney  there.  One  of 
Phil's  kids  attends  BC,  and  another  has 
graduated.  •  Another  guest  at  the  Sacco's 
that  day  was  John  Coll,  who  attended  the 
Eagles'  big  win  at  Penn  State  earlier  in  the 
season.  BC  has  scored  two  wins  in  its  legal 
dispute  with  the  city  of  Newton  on  the 
strength  of  its  litigator  Ken  Fleter.  Ken,  who 
was  Phil's  classmate  at  Harvard  Law,  has 
now  won  the  case  at  every  level  short  of  the 
Massachusetts  Supreme  Court.  •  I  spoke  to 
Frank  Buckley,  whose  move  from  a  thirty- 
one  year  Coast  Guard  career  to  the 
Department  of  Homeland  Security  was 
described  last  issue.  He's  tells  me  that  he 
sees  Chuck  Brain,  who's  now  a  Washington 
lobbyist  after  having  served  in  the  Clinton 
White  House.  •  Speaking  of  that  location, 
San  Francisco  lawyer  Kevin  Shannon  tells 
me  that  he  has  more  insight  into  what  goes 
on  there  since  Dick  Cheney  appointed  his 
Columbia  Law  School  classmate  and  friend 
Scooter  Libby  as  his  chief  of  staff.  •  One  of 
my  double  classmates  (Dartmouth  Tuck 
School  and  BC),  Jack  Harrington,  is  the  CFO 
and  VP  of  the  National  Standards  Board,  a 
non-profit  organization  in  Manhattan,  and 
commutes  in  from  Brewster,  NY.  That's  all 
I  have.  Please  let  me  hear  from  you. 


Nancy  Brouillard  McKenzie 
7526  Sebago  Rd. 
1  Bethesda,  MD  20817-4840 

NEWTON     nancy.brouillard.mckenzie@bc.edu 


Norma  Tanguay  Frye  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  Newton  College  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 
Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Meg  Barres  Alonso  is  keeping  me  updated 
on  developments  in  astronomy.  •  In  October, 
we  visited  Bob  Braunreuther,  SJ,  who  is 
leading  retreats  at  the  Loyola  Retreat  House 
in  Maryland.  •  Mary  Wurzelbacher  Hogan 
and  Phil  will  be  moving  into  their  new  home 
in  January.  •  If  the  music  industry  has  the 
three  tenors,  we  have  the  three  realtors  in 
our  greater  Washington,  D.C.  area.  Barbara 
Cook  Fabiani  is  with  Weichert  in  McLean, 
VA,  Meg  Finn  with  Long  and  Foster  in 
Bethesda,  MD,  and  Susan  Jaquet  with  WC. 
and  A.N.  Miller  in  Bethesda  and  the  District 
of  Columbia.  Susan's  daughter  is  a  junior  at 
Stone  Ridge  Country  Day  School  of  the 
Sacred  Heart.  Susan  has  a  personal  request 
to  all  Newton  Alumnae  for  a  copy  of  the  tape 
from  the  Newton  Parents'  Weekend  football 
game.  Her  son  does  not  believe  that  she 
ever  played  football  but  Susan's  jaw  still 
remembers.  In  October,  Eva  Sereghy,  Susan 
Jaquet,  Tatiana  Roodkowcky,  Lisa  Kirby 
Greissing,  Sheila  O'Reilly,  Mary  Stephens 
McDermott,  Susan  Turner  Pinzuti  and  I  had 
a  mini  Newton  reunion  at  the  reception  for 
the  Network  of  Sacred  Heart  Schools  at 
Stone  Ridge.  We  had  a  very  spirited  Newton 
corner    and   talked   with    Frances    de    la 


CLASS  NOTES  1  5 


EVER  TO   EXCEL 

THE   CAMPAIGN    FOR    BOSTON    COLLEGE 


GIFTS  THAT  GIVE  BACK 

What  are  the  memories  of  Boston  College  that  you  cherish? 

•  Friendships  forged  over  meals  and  books  •  Heart-pumping  Eagles'  competition 

•  Spirited  debates  on  politics  or  poetry  •  The  warm  embrace  of  the  Heights  community 

•  Special  moments  shared  in  service  to  the  needy 

There  is  a  meaningful  way  to  honor  your  memories,  leave  your  imprint  on  the  future  of  Boston  College, 
and  help  yourself  at  the  same  time.  By  making  a  planned  gift  to  Boston  College,  you  can: 

•  Receive  income  for  life  •  Support  financial  aid,  research,  academic 

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•  Establish  a  fund  to  endow  a  program  improvements  and  other  areas  at  Boston  College 

•  Memorialize  or  honor  a  friend  or  mentor 

Several  beneficial  gift  options  are  available  that  can  help  you  meet  your  financial  objectives  while  provid- 
ing needed  income  and  capital  for  the  University.  For  more  information  or  a  personalized  illustration, 
please  return  the  confidential  reply  form  below,  or  contact: 

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Director  of  Planned  Giving  (617)  552-3328 

Boston  College  Fax:  (617)  552-2894 

More  Hall  220  E-mail:  planned.giving@bc.edu 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467 

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Please  send  me  a  personalized  example  of  how  a  planned  gift  can  help  me  and  Boston  College. 

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mail  to:  Boston  College,  Office  of  Planned  Giving,  More  Hall  220,  Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467 

fax  to:     (617)  552-2894  3/O4 


Chapelle,  RSCJ,  and  Martha  Roughan, 
RSCJ,  as  though  we  were  all  back  on 
campus.  Take  care  and  send  news  by 
e-mail,  mail,  and  telephone.  Remember  to 
sign  up  for  lifetime  e-mail  forwarding 
through  the  BC  Alumni  Web  site. 
Classmates  are  looking  for  us!  Think  about 
visiting  Washington,  D.C.  in  the  Spring  for 
our  annual  Spring  Tea. 


Joy  A.  Malone 

16  Lewis  St. 

Little  Falls,  NY  13365 

bc73alu  m  @yahoo.com 


NEWTON 


Nancy  Warburton  Desisto 

P.O.  Box  142 

West  Boothbay  Harbor,  ME  04575 

nmdnew73@bc.edu 


Our  class  reunion  was  a  great  success;  fifty 
people  attended.  Judith  Wilt,  Newton 
College's  alumnae  chair,  led  a  discussion  on 
Richard  Russo's  novel  Empire  Falls.  Dinner 
was  held  at  the  Country  Day  School,  with  a 
DJ.  Favors  were  an  engraved  picture  frame. 
Mass  was  held  in  Trinity  Chapel  with  a 
wonderful  sermon  and  music.  Our  final 
activity  was  brunch  in  Barat.  Check  the  BC 
Alumni  Web  site  for  pictures.  •  Nancy 
Warburton  DeSisto  has  gone  back  to 
full-time  employment,  accepting  a  position 
in  staff  development  and  education  for  the 
state  of  Maine.  She  and  her  husband, 
Michael,  are  also  looking  for  a  new  house. 
•  Kathy  McDonough  Hinderhofer  graciously 
opened  her  house  to  Patrice  McGurk 
McAuliffe  and  Nancy  Warburton  DeSisto. 
Kathy  is  executive  vice  president  at  Citizens 
Bank  and  is  responsible  for  the  integration 
of  their  acquisitions.  Her  daughters, 
Emily  and  Kate,  both  attend  Newton 
Country  Day  School.  She  also  reports 
that  she  had  a  very  nice  dinner  with 
Mary  Sue  Ryan  McKenna,  Joan  Garrity 
Flynn,  Mary  Ann  Van  Gemert  Curran  and 
their  husbands  on  Cape  Cod.  •  Please  send 
updates  to  nmdnew73@bc.edu.  My  e-mail 
address  in  previous  notes  was  incorrect. 
Happy  holidays! 


REUNION  YEAR 


Thomas  J.  Mahoney  is  a  candidate  for 
Secretary  in  the  2004-05  Boston  College 
Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 
Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Happy  New  Year  everyone!  We  had  a  great 
turn  out  for  the  BC-Miami  game  and 
reception.  Too  bad  the  score  was  upside 
down,  but  it  was  good  to  see  Patty  and  Tom 
Mahoney,  Ed  and  Betsy  (Hill)  Ingalls,  Kathy 
and  Leo  Bruyette,  Dom  Marinelli,  Ann 
Marie  and  Paul  Hesketh  and  Chris  and 
Theresa  (McBride)  Levy.  If  you  have  not 


been  to  FanFest  before  a  football  game, 
check  it  out  next  fall.  It's  a  great  place  to 
meet,  with  or  without  kids.  Speaking  of 
kids,  it's  great  to  see  classmates'  sons  and 
daughters  doing  so  many  terrific  things. 
Patrick  Downes  ('05),  son  of  Deborah 
(Barrett),  was  one  of  only  two  student 
panelists  on  this  fall's  opening  of  BC's 
Church  in  the  21st  Century  series.  The 
panel  was  moderated  by  Tim  Russert,  and 
Patrick  did  a  great  job.  Kathie  and  Bill 
McCarthy's  daughter  ('03)  is  living  in  San 
Francisco  this  year  and  serving  with  the 
Jesuit  Volunteer  Corps.  Congratulations  to 
both  families.  •  Plans  are  fairly  well  set  for 
our  reunion  celebration!  I  hope  you've 
marked  your  calendar  for  Saturday,  June  5. 
We  will  be  having  a  buffet  dinner  and 
entertainment  in  the  Shea  Room  of  Conte 
Forum;  it  should  be  a  lot  of  fun.  It's  still  not 
too  late  to  get  into  the  dues  drawing  for  the 
beautiful  BC  "reverse  glass"  painted  box. 
Everyone  who  sends  their  $30  class  dues  to 
Kathy  Rando  O'Donnell  will  have  a  chance 
to  win.  Our  class  has  also  planned  a  pre- 
production  reception  for  March  9  at  the 
Robsham  theater  showing  of  "How  I 
Learned  to  Drive"  by  Paul  Vogel.  You  should 
have  received  a  letter  or  e-mail  about  this 
and  other  class  events.  If  the  Alumni 
Association  does  not  have  your  e-mail 
address,  please  send  it  to  them,  or  to  me. 
Take  care,  please  write,  and  I  hope  to  see  you 
at  the  Reunion! 


NEWTON 


Beth  Docktor  Nolan 

693  Boston  Post  Rd. 

Weston,  MA  02492 


REUNION  YEAR 


Preparations  for  our  thirtieth  reunion  have 
been  underway  since  last  fall.  The  reunion 
committee  has  put  together  a  fantastic 
Reunion  Weekend.  Please  remember  to 
send  photos  or  mementos;  we  need  them 
for  the  reunion  displays  and  centerpieces. 
And  remember  to  put  your  name  on  the 
back!  •  As  for  news  ...  Jody  Shields  heard  my 
plea  for  news,  and  this  column  is  hers.  Jody 
writes,  "My  thirty  years  out  of  NCSH  have 
not  been  the  most  orderly  or  planned  out. 
I  have  always  kept  my  art  career.  So, 
looking  to  the  inspiration  (and  many  burns 
from  the  broiler)  that  Bernie  and  Ruby's 
Langley  Delicatessen  gave  me  all  those  early 
mornings,  and  the  fun-filled  lunchtimes 
with  light  rye,  Norman,  Ruby  and  the  battle 
for  tip  money  (Kym,  Michaela,  Camy, 
Joanie,  Mary,  where  are  you?),  I  took  to  the 
kitchen  in  pursuit  of  art,  but  mostly  for  a 
steady  paycheck.  Along  the  way  I  had  a 
daughter,  Isabel,  two  marriages  and  lots  of 
travel.  Isabel  is  24  and  in  her  third  year  at 
the  College  of  Santa  Fe,  pursuing  the  arts  as 
a  theater  and  tech  major.  I  co-authored  a 
book  on  eighteenth  century  Ireland, 
published  in  Dublin  in  November  2002. 
Our  Treasure  of  Antiquities,  by  Peter 
Harbison  with  photographs  by  Josephine 
Shields,  was  featured  during  the  spring 
2003  show  at  the  McMullen  Museum  of  Art: 
Eire/ Land.  The  Irish  Times  listed  it  as  one  of 
the  top  five  nonfiction  titles  of  2002.  I  am 
considered  to  be  retired  from  the  food 


business;  I  work  as  a  private  chef  and  house- 
hold manager  in  Cambridge,  but  the  muse 
is  calling  again,  and  I  have  taken  up  the 
camera  and  brushes.  So,  the  clarion  call  has 
gone  out  to  the  class  of  '74;  Mari  Borreo, 
Bou  and  Elana,  I  know  Mickey  McMahon 
Budlong  is  alive  and  well  in  Miami,  and  I 
see  Mary  Lou  Mahoney  Howard  often.  My 
e-mail  is  jochef@att.net."  •  We  are  most 
grateful  for  Jody's  message;  now  it  is  your 
turn  to  do  the  same.  Please  write!  See  you 
at  the  reunion. 


Hellas  M.  Assad 

149  Lincoln  St. 

Norwood,  MA  02062 

781-769-9542 

hellasdamas@hotmail.com 


Hello,  everyone.  I  was  delighted  to  receive  a 
phone  call  and  have  a  pleasant  chat  with 
Tony  Volpe  (SOE).  He  graduated  with  a 
secondary-education  degree  and  was 
assistant  coordinator  of  psychoeducational 
services  at  McLean  Hospital  from  1975- 
1984.  During  that  time  he  also  received  a 
master's  degree  in  special  education  from 
Lesley  College.  He  pursued  a  second 
master's  in  educational  administration  from 
UMass,  Lowell.  In  1983,  he  married  Grace 
Capobianco,  and  they  are  the  proud  parents 
of  John  and  Danielle.  John  is  a  sophomore 
majoring  in  music  at  UMass,  Lowell,  and 
15-year-old  Danielle  is  a  sophomore  at 
Chelmsford  High  School.  Tony  served  as  the 
educational  coordinator  in  a  K- 12  alternative 
program  in  Medford.  For  the  past  six  years, 
he  has  been  the  program  director  for  the 
Fulton  Heights  Alternative  Program  in 
Medford.  He  served  on  the  Chelmsford 
school  committee  from  1994-2000.  He 
would  love  to  hear  from  classmates  and  can 
be  reached  at  avolpesr@rcn.com.  •  The 
Institute  of  Medicine  of  the  National 
Academies  named  Jim  Riviere  a  member. 
The  institute  was  established  in  1970  by  the 
National  Academy  of  Sciences  and  has 
become  recognized  as  a  national  resource 
for  independent,  scientifically  informed 
analysis  and  recommendations  on  issues 
related  to  human  health.  Jim  received  his 
B.S.  and  M.S.  in  biology  from  BC  in  1975 
and  1976,  respectively.  He  later  received  a 
D.V.M.  and  Ph.D.  from  Purdue  University. 
•  Michael  A.  Ahearn  has  been  appointed  to 
the  executive  advisory  board  of  Cambridge- 
based  Affinnova,  Inc.,  a  leading  provider  of 
product  design  and  development  solutions. 
Mike  presently  serves  as  managing  director 
at   Conley  &   Co.   and  has   held   senior 


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executive  recruiting  and  human  resources 
roles  for  over  twenty-five  years.  Most 
recently  he  was  with  Charles  River 
Ventures,  a  Waltham-based  premier  venture 
capital  firm.  While  there,  he  coordinated  the 
firm's  executive  recruiting  and  human 
resources  consulting  activity  for  over  sixty 
portfolio  companies,  and  was  heavily 
involved  in  over  fifty  executive  searches, 
several  CEO  coaching  assignments  and 
board-level  human  resources  consulting 
assignments  annually.  Previously,  he  was 
Intuit's  first  VP  of  human  resources  in  1993 
and  served  on  eleven  different  acquisition 
task  forces  while  Intuit  grew  from  a  $100 
million  company  to  over  $600  million.  He 
has  also  held  executive-level  positions  at 
Apple  Computer  and  TASA  Worldwide, 
an  international  executive  search  firm. 
Congratulations  to  our  high-achieving 
alumni!  •  The  class  was  deeply  saddened  by 
the  news  of  the  passing  of  Bruce  Kalberer. 
The  funeral  was  held  in  Myrtle  Beach, 
where  he  lived  for  twenty-six  years.  Bruce 
graduated  with  a  degree  in  business 
administration  and  was  president  of  Casual 
House  of  South  Carolina  Ltd.,  a  longtime 
family  business.  He  was  co-owner  of 
Sunbelt  Enterprises,  which  owns  and 
operates  apartments  in  Myrtle  Beach. 
He  also  owned  and  operated  several 
restaurants:  K's,  Island  Deli,  the  Blue  Moon, 
Taste  Buds  and  New  Moon  Grill.  I  wish  to 
extend  our  deepest  sympathy  to  his  family. 
•  Hope  to  see  many  of  you  at  Laetare  Sunday 
on  March  21  and  at  the  Alumni  Evening 
at  the  Arts  Festival  on  May  1.  The  next  dead- 
line is  March  1  for  the  June  publication. 
As  always,  it  is  great  to  hear  from  you. 


Margaret  M.  Caputo 

501  Kinsale  Rd. 

Timonium,  MD  21093 

3N  4!°^0t145* 

.   m.caputo@att.net 


Gerald  B.  Shea 

25  Elmore  St. 

Newton  Centre,  MA  02459 

ger.bs54@hotmail.com 


Richard  P.  Ramirez  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  East  of  the  Mississippi  in  the 
2004-05  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 
National  Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please 
take  the  time  to  review  the  ballot  and 
candidate  information  beginning  on  page  }2 
of  this  Class  Notes  section.  Your  participation 
in  this  election  process  is  important.  Make 
your  voice  heard! 

Robert  S.  Rusak  has  been  employed  with 
Time  Warner  and  now  with  AOL  Time 
Warner  for  the  past  eighteen  years,  with 
postings  in  NYC  and  Virginia  (1998-2000). 
Currently  a  vice-president  in  finance, 
he  is  working  with  an  in-house  development 
team  designing  a  response  to  the  TiVo 
phenomenon — the  ability  of  cable 
subscribers  to  pause,  restart  and  look  back 
in  time  at  shows.  From  1995-2001,  Robert 
was  part  of  the  development  team  that 
started  AOLTWs  Roadrunner  business. 
Oldest  son  Ryan  is  now  a  junior  at  Davis  & 
Elkins  College  (WV),  while  daughter  Alison 
and  son  Kyle  are,  respectively,  a  senior  and 


freshman  in  high  school.  The  Rusaks 
reside  in  Mountain  Lakes,  NJ.  •  Gracing  the 
July  2003  cover  of  Money  Magazine  was 
Robert  Shectman,  a  successful  periodontist. 
He  and  wife  Sylvia  have  twin  daughters, 
Alexis  and  Brittany,  age  3.  •  Christine  Japely 
has  released  a  collection  of  short  fiction  enti- 
tled "Resistance",  published  by  Avocet  Press 
and  available  at  fine  bookstores  and  online. 
She  is  an  English  professor  at  Norwalk 
Community  College  (CT),  and  her  fiction, 
poetry  and  essays  have  been  published  in 
the  past.  She  sends  a  "shout  out"  to  Katalin 
Kalman,  Kathy  Smigielski,  Linda  Smith  and 
Fran  Sadowski.  Chris  lives  in  Pelham,  NY, 
with  her  architect  husband  and  teenage  son. 
Congratulations!  •  Francis  M.  Giardiello  was 
recently  installed  as  the  inaugural  recipient 
of  the  John  G.  Rangos,  Sr.,  Professorship  in 
Adult  Medicine  at  the  Johns  Hopkins 
Hospital,  where  he  has  worked  as  a 
professor  of  medicine,  oncology  and 
pathology  since  1986.  Frank  attended  Tufts 
Medical  School  and  garnered  his  M.B.A. 
from  Johns  Hopkins.  A  recognized  expert 
in  the  study  of  cancer  and  cancer 
chemoprevention  in  the  gastrointestinal 
tract,  he  serves  as  director  of  the  Hereditary 
Colorectal  Cancer  Registry,  as  well  as  the 
Gastroenterology  and  Hepatology  Division 
of  the  hospital.  He  has  been  elected  to 
The  Best  Doctors  in  America  and  is  a 
member  of  the  American  Society  of 
Clinical  Investigation  and  the  American 
Gastroenterological  Association.  Frank  is 
married  to  Mary  C.  Corretti  ('77),  an 
associate  professor  of  medicine  at  Johns 
Hopkins.  Congratulations! 


Nicholas  D.  Kydes 
8  Newtown  Terrace 
Norwalk,  CT  06851  ' 
212-408-3813 


nkydes@cgsinc.com 


Deborah  Schiavo  wrote  with  a  lot  of  news: 
"after  getting  an  M.B.A.  from  BC,  I've  been 
living  in  Westchester  County  since  1985, 
most  recently  moving  to  Pelham  Manor  five 
and  a  half  years  ago  with  my  son,  Connor 
(now  10),  and  daughter,  Taylor  (7).  I've  been 
employed  by  Bear,  Stearns  &  Co.  since  1998 
as  a  managing  director  in  the  commercial 
mortgage  group,  where  I  work  on  closing 
commercial  mortgage-backed  loan 
securitizations.  I  enjoy  the  short  commute 
to  midtown  Manhattan  and  living 
vicariously  through  my  kids  at  soccer,  hock- 
ey and  baseball  games  (the  Pelham  Hockey 
squirt  team  just  won  the  Hackensack 
Thanksgiving  Tournament,  and  I  just  took 
Connor  to  his  first  New  Jersey  Devils  game, 
so  we're  on  a  roll).  I  attended  the  inaugural 
meeting  of  the  BC  Westchester  County 
Chapter  in  November  and  am  looking 
forward  to  future  alumni  events. 
Classmates  I  keep  in  touch  with  include  for- 
mer Kostka  friends  Kathleen  (McNamara) 
Shanahan  and  Julie  Coyle.  Kate  has  worked 
for  many  years  in  information  technology 
for  the  New  York  State  Department  of 
Health.  She  lives  with  her  husband,  Tom,  in 
an  1880  Victorian  in  Schodack  Landing,  NY 
(outside  of  Albany).  In  addition  to  keeping 
busy  with  their  white-collar  jobs,  Kate  and 
Tom  are  gentlemen  farmers  living  with  sev- 


eral cats  and  black  Labrador  retrievers  that 
they  train  as  guide  dogs  for  the  blind.  Kate 
and  I  still  like  to  relive  our  youth  when  I  visit 
family  upstate,  usually  heading,  up  to 
Saratoga  Springs  for  dinners,  drinks  and  the 
racetrack.  Julie  Coyle  stopped  by  to  visit  me 
Thanksgiving  weekend  while  staying  with 
her  family  on  Long  Island.  Julie  has  worked 
in  the  Boston  area  since  graduation  and  still 
lives  in  the  same  Brookline  building  she 
moved  into  after  leaving  BC.  She  recently 
completed  a  major  renovation  of  her  pri- 
mary residence  and  is  also  now  enjoying  her 
second  real  estate  investment  on  the  water 
in  Hull,  where  she's  spending  a  lot  of  time 
during  the  summer  and  on  weekends. 
We've  made  sure  to  make  it  to  all  of  our  BC 
class  reunions  and  plan  to  keep  doing  so."  • 
Jack  and  Sandy  Hughes  live  in  Needham. 
Jack  is  president  of  Visual  Manufacturing 
Co.,  which  specializes  in  computer  and  cor- 
porate consulting.  Sandy  just  keeps  taking 
care  of  the  elderly.  They  have  three  great 
kids.  Courtney  is  graduating  RPI.  Matt  is  a 
landscaper.  Renee  is  a  great  athlete.  •  Brian 
McCarthy  lives  in  Hollywood,  FL,  and  is  the 
top  salesman  for  Power  Medical 
Interventions,  getting  lots  of  stock  options. 
He  is  married  to  Lisa  and  has  a  beautiful 
3-year-old  daughter,  Lauren. 


Julie  Butler  Evans 

971  West  Rd. 

New  Canaan,  CT  06840 

203-966-8580 

jubutevans@aol.com 


Ah  ...  the  sounds  of  silence.  I  am  going  to 
cheerfully  assume  that  not  much  news  is 
good  news  and  that  at  the  time  of  this 
column's  deadline  (December),  most  of  you 
were  busy  with  the  holidays.  There  are  a 
couple  of  things  to  report,  however. 
•  Michael  Cadden  e-mailed  me  a  friendly 
"hello"  to  let  me  know  that  we  are  practical- 
ly neighbors  here  in  Connecticut.  Michael 
calls  Norwalk  home  and  is  the  managing 
director  of  operations  for  Living  Abroad, 
LLC,  a  premier  provider  of  country 
information  for  international  assignees  and 
business  travelers.  •  Also  had  a  quick 
e-mail  from  Pete  Lachapelle,  who  is  alive 
and  well  in  the  Midwest.  •  Since  I  have  this 
forum  here,  I  am  self-servingly  asking  for 
prayers  for  my  US  Marine  son,  who  is 
scheduled  to  deploy  back  to  Iraq  this  month. 
I  would  also  like  to  hear  from  more  of  you 
and  am  announcing  a  question  for  you 

Join  the 
Alumni  Online  Community 

The  Alumni  Online  Community  is  your 
connection  to  BC: 

•  Look  up  former  classmates 
in  the  Online  Directory 

•  Set-up  an  @bc.edu  e-mail 
forwarding  address 

•  Vote  in  the  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election 

Check  the  Alumni  Association  Web  site 

at  www.bc.edu/alumni 

for  information  on  registering 


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'78ers:  "What  is  the  best  and/or  worst  thing 
that  has  happened  to  you  in  the  past  twenty- 
five  years?"  You  may  send  it  anonymously 
if  you'd  like,  but  full  names  are  best 
for  obvious  reasons.  Quick  —  get  to  those 
computers  or  phones  and  let  me  know! 


Laura  Vitagliano 

78  Wareham  St. 

Medford,  MA  02155 

781-396-2972 

PassportLaura@aol.com 


REUNION  YEAR 

Kenneth  D.  Pierce  is  a  candidate  for 
Nominating  Chair-Elect  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board 
of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time 
to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this 
election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

Hi!  I'm  writing  this  as  Thanksgiving  has 
just  finished,  and  the  rush  is  on  for  the 
remainder  of  the  holiday  season!  Tracy 
Mazza  Lucido  lives  in  the  Baltimore  area 
with  her  husband,  Bob,  and  three  children, 
Lauren  (13),  Robert  (10)  and  Jonathan  (9). 
She  made  her  third  annual  trip  to  Florida 
last  May  with  Sarah  Peavey  Carvalho, 
Betsy  Nedeau  Millane  and  Nancy  Stark 
Lezman  for  a  few  days  of  "just  the  girls." 
They  comprise  two-thirds  of  Mod  33-B  from 
senior  year.  Sarah  and  Betsy  live  in 
Connecticut,  and  Nancy  is  in  Santa  Monica. 
Tracy  wanted  to  inform  us  of  the  battle  that 
Julie  O'Donnell  Wright  is  fighting  for  her 
husband  Steve's  illness.  The  best  source 
of  information  is  the  Web  site: 
caringbridge.com/md/stevewright.  Julie 
was  getting  ready  to  run  a  marathon  for 
leukemia  in  Dublin  in  support  of  her 
husband.  Tracy  has  reconnected  with  Scott 
Brown,  Kathy  O'Keefe,  Laura  Jeffreys  and 
Mary  George  through  the  Web  site.  She 
wants  to  know  where  Maureen  McCadden 
and  Wendy  Jones  are.  •  Pamela  Linton  has  a 
new  job  as  director  of  development  and 
alumni  affairs  for  LIM  College,  the  College 
for  the  Business  of  Fashion,  in  New  York, 
NY.  •  I  spoke  with  John  O'Connell,  and 
reunion  plans  are  coming  along  nicely,  with 
planned  events  already  out  in  the  mail.  He 
spoke  about  the  reunion  gift  and  said  that 
we  are  striving  to  reach  our  goal  of  100 
percent  class  participation.  We  are  also 
trying  to  build  and  update  our  database,  so 
you  can  let  me  know  or  contact  the  alumni 
office  with  your  current  name,  address  and 
e-mail.  See  you  soon! 


John  Carabatsos 

478  Torrey  St. 

Brockton,  MA  02301 

j.carabatsos.dmd@worldnet.att.net 


Keith  S.  Mathews  is  a  candidate  for  Secretary 
in  the  2004-05  Boston  College  Alumni 
Association  National  Board  of  Directors 
Election.  Please  take  the  time  to  review  the 
ballot  and  candidate  information  beginning  on 
page  32  of  this  Class  Notes  section.  Your 
participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 


Kevin  McCahill  is  a  candidate  for  Director, 
West  of  the  Mississippi  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 
Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

I  hope  everyone  is  surviving  the  winter.  It 
won't  be  long  till  we  are  breaking  out  the 
sticks  and  chasing  the  little  white  ball.  I  ran 
into  John  Barone  at  a  dental  talk  sponsored 
by  Mike  Shapiro.  He  has  two  general- 
dentistry  practices,  in  Attleboro  and  North 
Attleboro.  He  lives  in  Lincoln,  RI,  with  his 
wife,  Michelle,  and  three  children.  His 
oldest,  John  III,  is  a  sophomore  at  LaSalle 
Academy,  where  he  is  a  manager  for  the 
basketball  team.  Michael,  age  13,  is  at 
LaSalle  as  well  and  is  part  of  the  Pegasus 
program.  He  plays  AAU  baseball  for  the 
Rhode  Island  Reds.  Nicholas,  age  8,  is  in 
second  grade,  in  the  enrichment  program. 
John  reports  that  he  saw  Jack  Rigney  over 
Thanksgiving  weekend.  Jack  lives  and  works 
in  New  York  City.  •  I  got  a  nice  note  from 
Donna  Marie  Nutile.  She  just  recently 
moved  back  to  Boston  from  California, 
where  she  lived  for  the  past  ten  years,  spend- 
ing much  of  her  time  there  between  Santa 
Cruz  and  Mountain  View.  She  worked  as  a 
product  manager  and  director  for  TGV, 
Cisco,  3Com,  KPMG  Consulting  and 
Bearing  Point.  She  has  now  settled  on  the 
North  Shore  of  Boston  and  is  looking 
forward  to  hearing  from  fellow  BC  alumni. 
•  I  received  a  great  e-mail  from  Eleanor 
(Pagano)  Smith  and  John  Geaorgantas.  They 
have  proudly  maintained  a  twenty-seven 
year  friendship  that  began  at  a  party  in  the 
basement  of  Keyes  South  freshman  year. 
Eleanor  and  her  husband,  Jim,  live  in 
Weston,  CT,  with  their  four  children, 
Madeline  (13),  Peter  (12),  Charlie  (9)  and 
Mickey  (8).  In  addition  to  her  involvement 
with  her  family  and  community  affairs,  she 
has  put  her  Wharton  M.B.A.  to  the  test  as 
CEO  of  "El's  Kitchen,"  a  manufacturer  of  dry 
spice  rubs.  John,  who  also  graduated  from 
Wharton,  is  a  high-yield  analyst  for  a  hedge 
fund  specializing  in  convertible  arbitrage 
and  distressed  securities.  He  lives  in 
Manhattan  and  Southport,  CT.  John  also 
keeps  in  touch  with  John  Faust,  who  is 
married  and  lives  in  the  San  Francisco  area. 
John  and  his  wife  have  three  children, 
Lucy  (7),  Gordon  (6)  and  Margaret  (3).  John 
recently  joined  Legacy  Partners  in  Foster 
City,  CA,  as  a  managing  director.  He  raises 
funds  from  institutional  clients  interested  in 
investing  in  real  estate.  John  received  his 
M.B.A.  from  Duke.  During  a  recent 
business  meeting,  John  Faust  unexpectedly 
found  himself  sitting  across  the  table  from 
Tom  Merck.  Tom,  a  structured-finance 
specialist,  has  been  with  Standard  and 
Poor's  for  the  past  seven  years.  Tom 
attended  our  tenth  reunion,  where  he  met 
Nancy  Wilson  for  the  first  time.  Tom  and 
Nancy  are  now  married  and  live  in 
Ridgewood,  NJ,  with  their  two  children, 
Catherine  (9)  and  Margaret  (7).  •  Kevin 
McCahill  relocated  with  GE  from  Seattle  to 
the  Kansas  City  area  in  2002  with  his  wife, 


Cynthia  Hockenhull  McCahill  ('85),  and 
three  children,  Matthew  (6),  Jack  (5)  and 
Julia  (2).  He  is  CIO  for  GE  Commercial 
Insurance  in  Overland,  KS.  Kevin  stays  in 
touch  with  Ross  Page  and  Amy  Lenrini  Page, 
who  moved  last  fall  within  Italy  from  Milan 
to  Rome  with  their  two  children,  Oliver  (10) 
and  Isotta  (6).  •  John  Lombardo  is  human- 
resource  manager  at  Deutsche  Bank  in 
NYC.  •  Andy  Skaff  and  his  brother  own  an 
expanding  print-screening  business  in 
Seabrook,  NH.  Andy  lives  in  Newburyport 
with  his  wife,  Jayne,  and  their  two  children, 
Sydney  (7)  and  Joel  (4).  •  Mary  Ronan  would 
like  to  say  hello  to  all  her  fellow  RN/BSN 
grads,  particularly  Susanne  Conley.  She 
would  love  to  hear  how  everyone  is  doing. 
Mary  and  her  husband,  Ed,  have  a  21-year- 
old  son  who  is  a  junior  at  BC  this  year  and  a 
16-year-old  daughter.  She  and  her  family 
have  spent  a  lot  of  time  at  football  games 
these  past  three  years  watching  her  son  in 
the  marching  band.  They  live  in  Brookfield, 
CT,  where  she  has  a  Christian  family  life  and 
sex  education  practice  and  travels  the 
country  to  reach  nearly  9,000  teens  a  year. 
Last  year  she  had  a  book  published,  Raising 
Your  Children  in  an  Ungodly  World,  as  well  as 
a  companion  video  for  parents  and  teens. 
•  On  a  personal  note,  my  daughter,  Julia,  is 
finishing  kindergarten  this  year.  Kim  and  I 
are  shocked  by  how  fast  the  time  has  gone 
by.  It  seems  like  just  yesterday  she  was  born. 
I  am  sure  all  of  you  with  children  can 
understand.  It's  been  quite  a  journey  so  far, 
and  we  have  enjoyed  every  minute  of  it. 
Thanks  for  your  submissions.  I  look 
forward  to  hearing  from  more  of  you  for  the 
next  issue. 


Alison  Mitchell  McKee 

1128  Brandon  Rd. 

Virginia  Beach,  VA  23451 

757-428:0861 

amckee81@aol.com 


Timothy  J.  Chapman  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  East  of  the  Mississippi  in  the 
2004-05  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 
National  Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please 
take  the  time  to  review  the  ballot  and 
candidate  information  beginning  on  page  32  of 
this  Class  Notes  section.  Your  participation  in 
this  election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

Congratulations  to  Michael  Dwyer,  who  was 

named  the  2004  Vermont  Teacher  of  the 
Year  by  the  Vermont  Department  of 
Education!   Michael  is  a  secondary-school 


From  the  Heights  to 
Your  Hometown 

Looking  for  a  way  to  stay 

connected  to  boston  college  in 

your  hometown? 

Join  your  local  Chapter.  To  find 

the  Chapter  nearest  you,  go  to 

www.bc.edu/alumni  or  contact 

Jack  Moynihan  at 

jack.moynihan@bc.edu. 


class  notes  19 


social  studies  and  English  teacher  at  Otter 
Valley  Union  High  School  in  Brandon,  VT. 
Michael  taught  at  Mount  Saint  Joseph 
Academy  in  Rutland  before  joining  Otter 
Valley's  faculty,  where  he  has  been  for 
fifteen  years.  Well  known  among  his 
colleagues  and  students  for  his  vibrant, 
innovative  teaching  style,  Michael  uses  role 
playing,  hands-on  research,  traditional 
lectures  and  other  exercises  to  engage  his 
students.  As  Teacher  of  the  Year,  he  will 
travel  the  state,  visiting  schools  and  working 
with  teachers.  He  will  also  be  honored  at  the 
White  House  in  April,  when  all  of  the  state 
winners  will  meet  President  Bush.  Several 
past  awards  also  speak  to  Michael's 
excellence  in  teaching.  In  1993,  he  was 
named  Otter  Valley's  Teacher  of  the  Year.  A 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  State 
Award  for  Teacher  of  American  History  in 
1994  and  a  Whittemore  Prize  for  Teaching 
History  for  the  Ethan  Allen  Homestead  in 
2000  honored  his  work  as  a  history  teacher. 
He  also  received  a  Presidential  Scholar's 
Program  Teacher  Recognition  Award  in 
1998.  •  Rick  Fitzpatrick  ('85),  who  lives 
in  Cairo,  Egypt,  where  he  teaches  high 
school  international  relations,  directs  the 
Model  United  Nations  student  group  and 
coordinates  the  community-service  program 
at  the  American  International  School  of 
Egypt,  was  kind  enough  to  send  along  an 
update  on  John  Hage.  Rick  ran  into  John  in 
Boston  this  past  summer  and  says  he's  as  fit 
as  ever  and  has  three  daughters  under  5! 
John  lives  in  Sharon  and  works  at  Lehman 
Brothers.  •  Bob  Shea,  who  had  been  a 
partner  at  Nixon  Peabody  LLP  in  Boston, 
recently  joined  Morse,  Barnes-Brown  & 
Pendleton,  PC,  in  Waltham  as  a  shareholder. 
Bob  practices  in  the  areas  of  labor  and 
employment  law  and  is  a  former  co-chair  of 
the  Boston  Bar  Association's  Labor  and 
Employment  Law  Section.  He  currently 
serves  on  the  section's  steering  committee 
and  is  co-chair  of  the  section's  alternative 
dispute  resolution  committee.  Bob  and  his 
wife,  Julie,  live  in  Westwood  with  their  three 
daughters,  Molly,  Annie  and  Laura. 
•  I  also  received  an  e-mail  from  Bob's  BC 
roommate,  Dan  Arkins,  who,  as  you  may 
recall  from  one  of  my  recent  columns,  has 
been  stationed  in  Iraq.  Dan  has  been 
married  to  his  wife,  Cate  (Holy  Cross  '80  ... 
"Hey,  love  is  blind!")  for  seventeen  years. 
They  have  three  great  kids,  Brendan  (14), 
Elizabeth  (n)  and  Anna  (8),  and  have  lived 
in  Melrose  for  the  past  fourteen  years.  In  the 
civilian  world,  Dan  is  a  national  sales 
director  for  a  joint  venture  between  MetLife 
and  Travelers  Insurance.  Dan  writes  that  he 
has  not  seen  much  of  a  civilian  life  this  past 
year,  however.  Dan  has  been  in  the  US  Army 
National  Guard  for  the  last  twenty  years.  He 
is  a  major  and  has  been  a  commander  of  a 
military  intelligence  unit  for  the  last  three 
years.  Nineteen  people  from  his  unit  were 
activated  last  February  for  Operation  Iraqi 
Freedom.  He  has  been  in  the  Iraqi  Theater 
of  Operations  (Kuwait  and  Iraq)  since  last 
March.  He  is  currently  the  battalion  opera- 
tions officer  for  a  military  intelligence 
battalion.  They  are  operating  from  a  base 
about  fifty  miles  north  of  Baghdad.  "Really 


can  not  tell  you  too  much  more  about  our 
operations.  (The  old  MI  joke  is,  'If  I  told  you, 
I  would  have  to  kill  you.')"  Dan's  unit  is 
covered  by  the  one-year-in-country  rule,  so 
they  will  not  redeploy  home  until  March. 
Dan  says  it's  been  a  tough  and  challenging 
year.  During  the  summer,  the  temperatures 
were  routinely  in  the  120-  to  130-degree 
range.  Dan  notes  that  his  family  has  really 
made  the  greatest  sacrifice:  "My  wife  should 
get  a  medal  for  being  a  mom  and  a  dad  to 
three  exceptionally  busy  kids.  I  also  could 
not  be  prouder  of  the  citizen-soldiers  with 
whom  I  am  serving  over  here.  We  all 
dropped  everything:  family,  friends,  and 
civilian  education  and  careers  to  serve  our 
country.  These  men  and  women  are 
working  under  really  tough,  austere 
conditions  and  are  doing  great  things. 
I  hope  everyone  back  home  will  keep  them 
in  their  thoughts  and  prayers."  We  certainly 
will.  Thanks,  Dan,  for  your  update,  and 
more  important,  for  your  service  to  our 
country.  •  Hope  to  hear  from  you  soon! 


John  A.  Feudo 

175  Sheffield  Drive 

Belchertown,  MA  01007 

john.feudo.82@bc.edu 


Joanne  E.  Caruso  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  West  of  the  Mississippi  in  the 
2004-05  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 
National  Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please 
take  the  time  to  review  the  ballot  and 
candidate  information  beginning  on  page  32 
of  this  Class  Notes  section.  Your  participation 
in  this  election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

William  E.  Dwyer,  Jr.  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  West  of  the  Mississippi  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Dawn  E.  McNair  is  a  candidate  for 
Nominating  Chair-Elect  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 
Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Hope  the  new  year  has  gotten  off  to  a  great 
start  for  everyone.  Keep  this  column  in 
mind  as  you  have  news  to  share.  •  Mary 
(McAleer)  O'Brien  did  a  great  job  of  sharing 
news.  Mary  is  living  in  Dorchester  and 
teaching  second  grade  in  a  Boston  public 
school  in  Jamaica  Plain.  She  and  her 
husband,  Richard,  have  two  daughters. 
Elizabeth  is  a  ninth  grader  at  Boston  Latin 
School,  and  Caroline  is  in  second  grade. 
Elizabeth  is  involved  in  theatre  and  will  be 
in  a  production  of  The  Sound  of  Music  in 
February,  and  Caroline,  who  has  had  several 
hip  surgeries,  is  a  member  of  the  Marr-lin 
Swim  Team.  Recently  Mary  ran  into  Julie 
(Parker)  Malloy,  who  is  busy  racing  from 
hockey  rink  to  hockey  rink  with  her  two 
sons,  Christopher  and  Matthew.  Mary  also 


never  realized  until  recently  that  she  had 
taught  two  of  Edward  Spellman's  children, 
Erin  and  Jacquelyn,  when  they  were  second 
graders  at  Saint  Brendan  School  in 
Dorchester.  Erin  is  a  sophomore  in  college, 
and  Jackie  graduates  from  high  school  this 
year.  Mary  also  reports  that  both  her  parents 
passed  away  this  past  November.  Her  dad, 
professor  John  McAleer,  ('45),  taught 
English  at  Boston  College  for  fifty-six  years. 
The  support  from  Boston  College  at  the  time 
of  his  death  was  incredible.  The  Jesuits, 
colleagues  from  the  BC  English  department 
and  former  students  made  an  impressive 
showing,  reinforcing  her  dad's  dedication  to 
BC.  Sadly,  her  mom,  Ruth  (Delaney) 
McAleer  passed  away  just  six  days  after  her 
dad.  A  fund  has  been  set  up  at  BC  in  their 
memory.  Donations  can  be  sent  to:  Prof. 
John  J.  McAleer  Fund,  c/o  Fr.  James  A. 
Woods,  SJ,  Boston  College,  McGuinn  Hall, 
140  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Chestnut  Hill, 
MA  02467-3807.  Mary  also  writes  that  it 
was  great  to  see  Kathy  Kasper,  Joe  Blood  and 
Dave  Canavan  at  the  class  of  '82  skating 
party  last  winter.  Thanks,  Kathy,  for  organiz- 
ing the  event!  •  Speaking  of  Kathy,  she  sent 
me  the  news  that  Marcy  Granata  is  the 
proud  mother  of  Finn  Thomas  Currier.  Finn 
joins  his  mora  and  dad,  Tom  Currier,  and 
big  brother,  Ry,  at  home  in  NYC.  •  John 
Hurley  is  living  in  Annandale,  VA  with  his 
wife,  Faith,  and  their  two  children,  Jordan 
(15)  and  Ellen  (13.)  John  is  the  acting  director 
of  the  Office  of  International  Development 
Finance  for  the  US  Treasury  in  Washington, 
DC.  When  he  can,  John  loves  to  catch  Eagles 
hockey  on  the  Internet,  especially  when 
we're  beating  BU!  •  Some  sad  news  to 
report:  Chris  Buckley  shared  the  news  that 
his  wife  (and  our  classmate),  Lynn 
Rodstrom,  lost  her  eight-year  battle  with 
cancer.  Lynn  was  the  owner  and  manager  of 
Essentials  of  Eason,  a  three-unit  clothing 
store  chain.  She  was  active  in  breast-cancer 
support  groups  and  fundraisers.  In  addition 
to  Chris,  she  leaves  her  sons,  Michael  (11) 
and  Andrew  (9).  Rich  Seufert  also  wrote  in 
with  the  news,  as  Lynn  will  be  missed  by 
many.  •  And  finally,  for  all  our  classmates 
who  were  involved  with  the  BC  Band  at  one 
time  or  another,  I'm  sorry  to  report  that  our 
friend  and  mentor  Peter  Siragusa  also  lost 
his  life  to  cancer.  He  helped  shape  my  life, 
and  the  lives  of  many  others  as  well.  •  Just  a 
reminder  that  my  deadline  for  class  notes 
typically  falls  a  week  after  each  issue  of  the 
magazine  arrives  in  your  mailbox.  So  once 
you  read  the  column  and  it  inspires  you  to 
write,  please  do  so  immediately.  Otherwise, 
your  children  may  be  teenagers  before  you 
ever  see  in  print  that  they  were  born! 


Cynthia  J.  Bocko 

71  Hood  Rd. 

Tewksbury,  MA  01876 

978-851-6119 

cindybocko@hotmail.com 


Joseph  F.  McKenney  is  a  candidate  for  Vice 
President/President-Elect  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  31  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this 
election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 


20  www.bc.edu/alumni 


A  warm  welcome  to  all  first-time  submit- 
ters. I  encourage  anyone  who  has  never  writ- 
ten (and  everyone  who  already  has!)  to  sub- 
mit for  the  next  issue.  •  Kathleen  Minor 
Buhl  is  currently  living  in  Boylston  (just  out- 
side Worcester)  with  her  husband,  Mark, 
and  is  excited  to  report  that  she  accepted  a 
position  as  a  sales  representative  in  the  per- 
sonal-sales department  of  Liberty  Mutual 
Insurance.  Kathleen  has  worked  in  the 
insurance  industry  for  close  to  twenty  years 
in  various  positions.  •  Sean  Cunningham 
reports  that  joy  and  toddlers  ruled  the  day  on 
Saturday,  September  13,  as  he  and  his  wife, 
Jessica  (nee  Alecci,  Denison  University  '87), 
threw  a  birthday  party  for  their  2-year-old 
daughter,  Leah,  and  i-year-old  son,  Tate,  and 
about  three  dozen  of  their  children's  play- 
mates in  Cross  River,  NY,  where  the  family 
has  lived  for  the  past  five  years.  This  past 
June,  Sean  became  the  president  and  CEO 
of  the  Cabletelevision  Advertising  Bureau  in 
NYC,  following  a  three-year  stint  as 
EVP/managing  director  of  Universal 
McCann,  which  culminated  with  the 
media  services  company  being  named 
Agency  of  the  Year  by  both  Advertising  Age 
and  AdWeek  for  its  2002  performance.  Sean 
and  Jessica's  e-mail  address  is  goneski- 
ing@optonline.net.  •  Rick  Casella  competed 
in  Ironman  Florida  on  November  8,  2003. 
Ironman  Florida  is  one  of  only  five  full 
Ironman  events  in  the  US  each  year. 
A  full  Ironman  consists  of  a  2.4-mile  swim, 
a  112-mile  bike  race,  and  a  26.2-mile  run  (a 
full  marathon),  all  back-to-back-to-back.  Rick 
completed  the  course  in  12:57:46. 
•  Raymond  Rapoza  lives  in  East  Greenwich, 
RI,  with  his  wife,  Michelle,  two  daughters, 
Layson  (12)  and  Emily  (10),  and  their  faithful 
yellow  Lab,  Khaki  (5).  Raymond  has  been  an 
investment  advisor  with  A.  G,  Edwards  and 
Sons  in  Providence  for  the  last  five  years, 
having  been  with  Merrill  Lynch  for  the  ten 
years  prior.  He  has  been  busy  just  running 
around  with  all  of  his  daughters'  activities 
and  enjoyed  seeing  some  old  friends  at 
the  reunion  last  summer.  If  any  '83 
classmates  are  ever  passing  through  Rhode 
Island,  drop  Raymond  a  note  at 
raymond.rapoza@agedwards.com.  •  Liz 
Barbera  Suchy  was  recently  appointed  to  the 
board  of  directors  of  the  YMCA  in  Wilton, 
CT  Liz  practices  law  in  Norwalk  and  lives  in 
Wilton  with  her  husband,  Jack,  and  chil- 
dren, Christine  (11)  and  Will  (4).  Liz  also 
writes  that  Nancy  Doherty  works  for  Colgate 
Palmolive  in  New  Jersey  and  resides  in 
Morristown. 


Carol  A.  McConnell 

P.O.  Box  628 

Belmar,  NJ  07719 


REUNION  YEAR 

Greetings!  Hope  your  holidays  were  happy 
and  your  new  year  is  off  to  a  great  start. 
Here's  the  news  I've  received  from 
classmates.  •  Last  May,  an  early  twentieth 
reunion  was  held  at  Dave  McCullagh's  vaca- 
tion home  in  Sky  Top,  PA.  Kelly 
McWilliams,  Joel  Picard,  Ray  Sleight  and 


Greg  Strakosch  met  Dave  for  a  weekend  of 
mountain  biking,  clay  shooting,  tennis, 
cards  and  Farrelly  brothers  movies.  Ed 
Connick  could  not  make  the  trip  up  from 
New  Orleans,  but  several  games  of  boure 
were  played  in  his  honor.  The  group 
is  looking  forward  to  getting  together 
again  at  our  reunion  this  spring.  •  Cynthia 
Bremer  Smiegal,  along  with  her  husband, 
Paul  ('83)  and  her  brother  Eric,  recently  took 
part  in  the  Pan  Mass  Challenge.  The  PMC  is 
a  192-mile  bike  ride  to  raise  money  for  the 
Dana-Farber  Cancer  Institute.  Together 
they  raised  over  $11,000.  One  of  the 
highlights  for  Cindy  was  bumping  into  BC 
friend  Jim  Lackey.  Cindy  and  Paul  have 
taken  on  a  new  challenge  and  have 
volunteered  to  be  the  resident  directors  of 
their  local  A  Better  Chance  program.  ABC 
brings  gifted  high  school  students  from 
inner-city  areas  to  communities  where 
they  can  study  for  four  years  in  an 
academically  challenging  environment. 
Cindy  and  Paul,  along  with  their  children, 
Will,  Caroline  and  Julia,  and  new  puppy, 
Abby,  will  leave  the  comforts  of  their  home 
and  share  a  house  with  eight  teenage  boys. 
They  now  have  an  entire  home  to  offer  to 
anyone  who  wants  to  come  for  a  relaxing 
visit  to  upstate  New  York.  Any  interested 
former  roommates?  •  Mark  Webster  and  Ro 
Dooley,  ('85),  were  married  June  15,  2002,  at 
the  Holy  Redeemer  Church  in  Chatham.  A 
reception  followed  at  Eastward  Ho!  Country 
Club.  Ro  writes  that  she  and  Mark  were 
introduced  while  at  BC  in  the  fall  of  1981, 
during  her  first  week  of  freshman  year.  Ro's 
childhood  friend  and  Mark's  roommate 
Steve  Madden  introduced  the  two,  who  have 
been  together  ever  since.  Steve  and  his  wife, 
Annette  (Vautrain)  Madden,  and  Peter 
Cournoyer  and  his  wife,  Susan,  attended  the 
wedding.  Ro  is  the  director  of  press  and 
public  relations  at  NBC  (WHDH-TV, 
channel  7)  in  Boston.  Mark  is  the  president 
and  owner  of  M.  W  Plastics  in  Marion.  The 
Webster s  reside  in  Boston,  not  far  from  the 
BC  campus.  •  Marybeth  Schait  Samuelson 
and  her  husband,  Tom,  welcomed  the  birth 
of  their  third  child  in  April  2002.  Marybeth, 
Tom  and  their  children  live  in  Harrison,  NY. 
Marybeth  is  a  stay-at-home  mom  and  really 
enjoys  it.  She  and  her  family  spend  much  of 
the  summer  on  Nantucket  Island.  Marybeth 
would  like  to  hear  from  fellow  school  of 
education  classmates. 


Barbara  Ward  Wilson 

8  Via  Capistrano 

Tiburon,  CA  94920 

bwilson@hlmx.com 


Nancy  Spadaro  Bielawa  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  East  of  the  Mississippi  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate  infor- 
mation beginning  on  page  31  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 


I  was  really  hoping  to  get  some  great  news 
this  quarter  on  exciting  fortieth  birthday  par- 
ties of  members  of  the  class  of  '85,  but 
instead  it  has  been  "radio  silence"  in  my 
e-mail  and  snail-mail  boxes.  Please  take  a 
minute  to  drop  me  a  note  that  I  can  share 
with    the    class    in    our    next    column! 

•  Congratulations  to  Mark  Webster  ('84) 
and  Ro  (Dooley)  Webster,  who  were 
married  on  June  15,  2002,  at  Holy  Redeemer 
Church  in  Chatham  with  a  reception  at 
Eastward  Ho!  Country  Club.  Ro  and  Mark 
were  introduced  at  Boston  College  in  the  fall 
of  1981  (the  first  week  of  Ro's  freshman 
year)  by  Ro's  childhood  chum  and  Mark's 
roommate  Steve  Madden  ('84)  and  the  cou- 
ple has  been  together  ever  since.  Steve  and 
his  wife,  Annette  (Vautrain)  Madden  ('84) 
and  Peter  Cournoyer  ('84)  and  his  wife, 
Susan,  attended  their  longtime  friends' 
wedding.  Ro  is  the  director  of  press  and 
public  relations  at  NBC  (WHDH-TV, 
channel  7)  in  Boston,  and  Mark  is  the  presi- 
dent and  owner  of  M.  W  Plastics  in  Marion. 
The  Websters  reside  in  Boston  (in  fact,  just 
a   stone's  throw  from  the   BC   campus). 

•  This  season,  our  talented  classmate  Doug 
Flutie  is  on  the  San  Diego  Chargers,  once 
again  starting  games  in  the  NFL  as 
quarterback.  Congratulations,  Doug!  In 
November,  Doug  performed  on  drums  with 
the  Barenaked  Ladies  on  Monday  Night 
Football.  It  was  part  of  a  competition  called 
"Monday  Night  at  the  Mic"  that  pits  two  NFL 
stars  against  each  other  with  a 
little  help  from  a  band.  Barenaked  Ladies 
and  Flutie  played  the  song  "Brian  Wilson," 
with  Flutie  on  drums.  Flutie  dueled  against 
New  Orleans  Saints  center  Jerry  Fontenot, 
who  played  guitar  with  the  band  Nickelback. 
After  the  duel,  the  fan  vote  wasn't  even 
close.  Flutie  has  great  drumming  skills.  The 
public  voted,  and  Flutie/Barenaked  Ladies 
won  with  an  overwhelming  88  percent  of 
the  vote.  •  I  write  with  the  tragic  news  of  the 
death  of  one  of  our  classmates,  Michael  A. 
Bova.  He  was  a  special-education  major  in 
the  School  of  Education.  He  died  in  an  auto 
accident  in  August  2003.  Michael  had  been 
a  special-education  teacher  at  North 
Providence  High  School  for  thirteen  years. 
Michael  will  be  remembered  as  an  extraordi- 
nary person.  •  Please  do  take  a  minute  and 
drop  me  a  note.  Happy  spring! 


Save  the  Date 

Alumni  Evening  at  the  Arts  Festival 
Saturday,  May  1,  2004 

Experience  the  arts  at  BC 

•  Reception  and  Dinner 

•  BCbOpl  Concert 

•  Anything  Goes 

at  Robsham  Theater 

•  Art  exhibits,  demonstrations 
and  much  more 

For  more  information,  visit 
www.bc.edu/alumni. 


CLASS  NOTES   21 


Karen  Broughton  Boyarsky 

205  Adirondack  Drive 

East  Greenwich,  Rl  02818 

karen.boyarsky.86@bc.edu 


Susan      (Wortmann)      Iossa      and      her 

husband,  Michael,  are  proud  to  announce 
the  birth  of  their  new  son,  Alex  Michael, 
born  in  July.  Congratulations  to  Susan  and 
her  family!  Alex  joins  twin  sisters  Kaylin  and 
Lauren,  who  are  five.  Susan  is  a  senior  vice 
president  and  assistant  general 
counsel  with  Wachovia  Bank.  Great  to  hear 
from  you,  Susan!  Susan  also  reports  that  her 
old  roommate  Margaret  Barrett  Merrow 
had  her  second  child,  Megan,  in  June. 
She  has  an  older  son  named  Tyler. 
•  Steven  David  writes  that  he  and  his 
partner,  Samuel,  recently  celebrated  his 
40th  birthday  with  a  surprise  ski  vacation  in 
Italy.  •  Anne  Gillespie  is  a  Boston  public 
school  teacher  and  had  a  unique  opportuni- 
ty to  travel  to  Ecuador  last  summer  and  vol- 
unteer for  Global  Volunteers.  She  spent  the 
summer  helping  children  with  cerebral 
palsy  as  part  of  a  volunteer  team  that 
provided  day  care  and  treatment  for  disabled 
children.  Congratulations  to  Anne  on  this 
very  important  work.  •  Dave  Girioni  ('85) 
and  his  wife,  Kelli  Buckley,  are  the  proud 
new  parents  of  Zachary  Roland,  born  in 
November.  Zachary  joins  brother  Nicholas, 
who  is  2.  Dave  has  many  friends  in  the  class 
of  '86,  and  Bruce  and  I  knew  that  our  class 
would  want  to  hear  of  Dave's  great  news! 
Congrats,  Dave  and  Kelli!  So,  would  you 
please  write,  call  or  e-mail?  I  need  more 
info!  Thanks! 


Catherine  Stanton  Rooney 

8  Ellsworth  St. 

Braintree,  MA  02184 

catheri  ne87  @  bc.ed  u 


Stephen  E.  Ferrucci  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  East  of  the  Mississippi  in  the 
2004-05  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 
National  Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please 
take  the  time  to  review  the  ballot  and 
candidate  information  beginning  on  page  32  of 
this  Class  Notes  section.  Your  participation  in 
this  election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

Hello.  I  hope  that  you've  all  had  a  wonderful 
start  to  the  new  year.  Thanks  to  everyone 
who's  sent  in  an  update  -  I  appreciate  it  so 
much.  I  heard  from  so  many 
classmates  this  time. (thank  you!)  that  it  was 
too  many  for  the  space  allotted.  If  you  sent 
me  an  update  that  is  not  in  this 
column,  it  will  be  in  the  next.  •  The  year 
ended  on  a  great  note  for  two  classmates, 
Dave  and  Shawn  Widell,  when  Dave  was 
inducted  into  the  BC  Hall  of  Fame.  Dave 
gave  a  memorable  acceptance  speech,  and 
several  classmates  were  there  to  be  part  of 
the  evening.  I  was  fortunate  to  sit  with 
Karen  and  Mike  Gorman  and  Molly 
Martin  Alvarado;  nearby  were  Karl  and 
Jamie  Kreshpane,  Shawn  and  Chris 
Dombrowski,  Dave  Nugent,  and  Tom  Porell. 
Dave  and  Shawn  came  to  Boston  for  the 
weekend  with  two  of  their  four 
children  and  other  family  members,  includ- 

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ing  Dave's  brother  Doug  ('88)  who  was  also 
inducted  into  the  HOF.  •  Diane  Babb  e- 
mailed  that  she  moved  from  California  to 
New  Hampshire  a  year  ago.  She  has  two 
sons,  Charlie  (4)  and  Andy  (18  months).  She 
took  a  year  off  from  teaching  high  school 
English  and  is  now  teaching  freshman  com- 
position at  Saint  Anselm  College  as  well  as 
doing  educational-consulting  work  with  Liz 
Riordan-Karlsson,  who  lives  in  Phoenix,  AZ, 
with  her  husband,  Sven,  and  son,  Lukas  (5). 
She  also  sent  the  following  updates  on  class- 
mates: Kim  Finnegan  King  lives  in  Fairfield, 
CT,  and  had  her  third  child,  Bridget,  in 
March,  giving  Sarah  (8)  and  Brendan  (6)  a 
new  playmate.  Tara  Hanrahan  Oxton  lives  in 
Westborough  with  her  two  sons,  Dylan  (9) 
and  Ryan  (6).  C.  J.  Johnson  Silk  lives  in 
Delray  Beach,  FL,  with  children  Mary  Kate 
(10),  Joe  (6)  and  Timmy  (4).  Julie  Fissinger 
lives  in  Brooklyn,  NY,  with  her  husband, 
Kevin  Mulcahy  ('82),  Gavin  (5)  and  Grace  (3). 
Julie,  who  worked  at  Fordham  University, 
will  be  working  in  development  at  St.  Joseph 
High  School  in  Brooklyn.  Maile  (Andrea) 
Flanagan  is  living  and  working  in  LA,  acting 
and  doing  voice  work  for  animated  shows 
and  research  for  specials  on  HBO  and 
Bravo.  She  is  the  lead  in  a  new  PBS  chil- 
dren's series  "Jakers!  The  Adventures  of 
Piggely  Winks,"  beginning  this  fall.  She's  in 
touch  with  Kathleen  Burke,  who  is  a  lawyer, 
married  with  two  kids  in  Boston;  Julie 
Thompson,  who  works  in  advertising  in 
Chicago;  and  Beth  Comstock,  who  lives  in 
San  Francisco  and  works  for  Intuit.  Thanks, 
Diane,  for  all  of  the  updates!  •  Dana  Pantos 
Harris  e-mailed  that  she's  living  in  Sudbury 
with  her  husband,  Rob,  and  two  girls, 
Michala  (7)  and  Taylor  (5).  Two  years  ago, 
she  founded  Red  Javelin  Communications,  a 
boutique  high-tech  PR  firm,  and  has  been 
providing  targeted  PR  programs  to  a  variety 
of  technology  clients.  Dana  stays  in  regular 
touch  with  Maura  Roach  O'Connor,  who 
lives  in  Fairfield,  CT,  and  is  enjoying  family 
life  with  her  husband,  Brian,  and  three  chil- 
dren; Chris  Vigliano  Carter,  who  lives  in 
Lexington  with  her  three  boys  and  husband 
Phil  Carter  ('86);  Holly  McCauley  Herrick 
who's  been  in  Charleston,  SC,  for  the  past 
four  years,  working  as  a  restaurant  critic  and 
features  writer  for  the  Post  g[  Courier, 
Charleston's  daily  newspaper;  Laurie 
Schmaizl  McNeill,  who  along  with  6-year- 
old  Drew  has  been  in  Orlando,  FL,  for  the 
last  ten  years,  where  she  works  for  Charles 
Schwab  as  a  corporate  trainer;  and  Heather 
McCauley,  who  returned  to  the  Boston  area 
from  Dallas  and  has  spent  the  past  three 
years  in  Bolton.  She  transitioned  her 
career  from  advertising  sales  management 
to  executive  search.  Thanks,  Dana!  •  Nancy 
DeMarco  Curtin  welcomed  Hunter  Jon  in 
September  along  with  dad  Thomas  Curtin 
('86)  and  big  brothers  Brandon  Thomas  (10) 
and  Drew  Anthony  (3).  •  Brian  Steckel 
recently  completed  a  fellowship  in  colon  and 
rectal  surgery  at  Mount  Sinai  Medical 
Center  in  NYC  and  is  now  an  attending  in 
private  practice  with  Capital  District  Colon  & 
Rectal  Surgeons  in  Albany,  NY.  Brian,  his 
wife,  Brid,  and  4-year-old  daughter,  Sarah, 
live  in  Delmar.  •  Tim  Beneski,  a  housemate 
from  Crosby  Road,  e-mailed  that  he  has 


been  teaching  at  Avon  Old  Farms  School  in 
Connecticut  for  ten  years.  He  taught  AP 
English  for  several  years  but  now  teaches 
Latin  and  moral  philosophy.  He  and  his 
wife,  Cara,  have  four  sons:  Chancey  (8),  Jake 
and  Seamus  (both  4),  and  Eamon  (3).  Jake 
and  Seamus  have  been  selected  as  "champi- 
on patients"  for  the  Children's  Miracle 
Network  and  will  be  appearing  on  their 
telethon  this  June.  •  On  a  sad  note,  I  must 
report  that  on  September  22,  2003,  Jennifer 
Renna  Ferreira  succumbed  to  her  year-and- 
a-half-long  battle  with  breast  cancer,  at  age 
38.  Jen  enjoyed  a  successful  career,  serving 
as  an  assistant  attorney  general  for  eight 
years  as  well  as  a  corporate  counsel  for  a 
family  business,  while  serving  on  the 
adjunct  faculty  for  both  Middlesex 
Community  College  and  Boston  University. 
The  last  two  years  were  spent  at  Thomas  A. 
Newcomb  and  Associates,  where  she  loved 
her  job  and  continued  to  practice  law 
throughout  her  illness,  even  in  the  weeks 
before  her  death.  Jen  is  survived  by  her  hus- 
band, Sal,  and  their  three  children,  Alex  (10), 
Zach  (8)  and  Cassie  (3),  as  well  as  her  par- 
ents, siblings  and  their  spouses. 


Cheryl  Williams  Kalantzakos 

10  Devonshire  Place 

Andover,  MA  01810 

cwk89@bc.edu 


REUNION  YEAR 


Wendy  S.H.  Chan  is  a  candidate  for  Director, 
More  Than  Ten  Years  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Dineen  Ann  Riviezzo  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  East  of  the  Mississippi  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate  infor- 
mation beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Dawn  Marie  Cameron  DeVaux  and  her  hus- 
band, Larry,  welcomed  a  baby  girl,  Hope 
Cassandra  DeVaux,  on  November  14,  2003. 
Hope  joins  her  stepsister,  Lauren,  and  step- 
brother, Michael,  at  home  in  Salem.  After 
maternity  leave,  Dawn  Marie  will  return  to 
her  position  as  the  Saltonstall  Elementary 
School  nurse.  She  wanted  to  wish  a  Happy 
New  Year  to  all  her  college  friends!  •  Meegan 
McManus  Shevlin  and  her  husband,  Brian, 
are  happy  to  announce  the  birth  of  their  son, 
Kyle  James,  on  October  12,  2003.  Kyle 
weighed  in  at  8  lbs.,  13  oz.,  and  was  21.5 
inches  long.  Kyle  joins  his  big  sister,  Erin 
Marie  (4).  The  Shevlins  live  in  Ridgewood, 
NJ.  Meegan  works  at  Deutsche  Bank  in 
NYC,  while  Brian  is  a  stay-at-home  dad. 
They  are  all  enjoying  being  home  together 


for  the  holidays  while  Meegan  is  on  her 
four-month  maternity  leave.  •  Tim  Cooney 
and  his  wife,  Claire,  had  a  baBy  girl, 
Caroline.  Claire  is  a  resident  at  Johns 
Hopkins,  and  Tim  is  an  attorney  at  Atlantic 
Trust,  an  investment  firm  in  Washington, 
DC.  The  Cooneys  have  a  summer  home  in 
Chatham,  Cape  Cod,  and  encourage  class- 
mates to  look  them  up,  as  they  spend  many 
weekends  there  in  the  summer.  •  Kathleen 
Zinzer  McCarthy  wed  Brett  McCarthy  in 
March  2003.  The  couple  enjoyed  the 
company  of  the  following  classmates  on 
their  special  day:  Albert  Holt  IV,  Maria 
Salomao,  Virginia  Cunningham  Van 
Wicklin,  Carol  Ann  Quinn  and  Marc 
Messineo.  Six  other  Eagles  present  included 
the  bride's  mother,  Elizabeth  Reagan  Zinzer 
('63),  William  Carr  ('56),  uncle  Charles 
Reagan  ('70),  and  cousins  Michael  Heffler 
('01),  Kristin  Reagan  ('01),  and  Katie  Reagan 
('03).  After  honeymooning  in  Ireland,  they 
now  reside  in  Downingtown,  PA.  It  sounds 
as  if  Kathleen  is  very  busy  —  she  teaches 
pediatric  eye  care  at  the  Pennsylvania 
College  of  Optometry,  is  a  co-investigator  of 
an  NIH-funded  research  project  called 
COMET:  the  Correction  of  Myopia 
Evaluation  Trial,  and  she  works  in  a 
private  family  practice  in  Yardley,  PA. 
•  Christine  LaFleur  was  married  to  Jesse 
Taylor  in  September  2003.  Fellow  BC 
alumni  in  attendance  included  Andrea 
Rylander,  Mike  O'Brien,  Grace  Ansani, 
Geralyn  Bywater  McLaughlin,  Stefanie 
Vietas,  Michael  St.  Germain  ('88),  Michele 
Troy,  Mike  Robinson,  Steve  Schneider,  Tim 
and  Liz  Nelson  Lemire,  and  Lisa  Klingebiel 
('90).  Christine  earned  her  master's  in 
communication  disorders  from  Emerson 
College  in  2001  and  is  currently  a  pediatric 
speech-language  pathologist  at  the  North 
Shore  Children's  Hospital  in  Salem.  Her 
husband,  Jesse,  is  an  architect  with  Donham 
and  Sweeney  in  Boston.  The  couple  reside 
in  Somerville.  •  Paula  Blute  Ebben  works  as 
a  general  assignment  reporter  and  fill-in 
anchor  for  WBZ4  News.  She  has  been  at  the 
station  since  December  2002,  after  working 
as  an  anchor  and  reporter  for  New  England 
Cable  News  in  Newton.  She  and  her 
husband,  Bill  ('87),  live  in  the  greater 
Boston  area  and  have  four  children.  •  Susan 
Brodbeck  Agnew  and  her  husband,  John, 
are  pleased  to  announce  the  arrival  of  their 
son  Kevin  Thomas  Agnew,  who  was  born  on 
September  24,  2003.  He  is  their  third  son, 
joining  Patrick  (5)  and  Jack  (3).  Susan  and 
John  have  been  living  in  Chatham,  NJ,  for 
almost  six  years,  where  Susan  is  extremely 
busy  as  a  full-time  mother. 


Kara  Corso  Nelson 

67  Sea  Island 

Glastonbury,  CT  06033 

860-647-9200 

bc9onews@cox.net 


Michael  Baroni  reported  last  fall  that  he 
had  a  new  position  as  general  counsel  of 
BSH  Home  Appliances  in  Huntington 
Beach  ("Surf  City"),  a  manufacturer  of 
high-end  wares  under  the  Bosch, 
Thermador,  Gaggenau  and  Siemens  brands. 
He  also  continues  to  write  articles  and  is 
currently  doing  undercover  celebrity  gossip 


reporting  for  CosmoGirl.  •  After  early- 
childhood  teaching  and  consulting  for 
several  years,  Tina  (Palumbo)  Durand  is 
back  at  BC,  working  on  her  PhD  in  applied 
developmental/educational  psychology.  She 
and  her  husband,  Jon  (whom  she  married  in 
the  Boston  Public  Garden),  live  in  Paxton 
and  balance  work  and  leisure  with  her 
stepdaughter,  Claire,  who  is  5.  •  Maureen 
Appleyard  was  married  to  Jim  Granitsas  on 
September  21,  2002.  All  attendees  enjoyed 
an  outdoor  Wiffle-ball  reception  following 
the  wedding.  The  class  of  '90  was  well  rep- 
resented by  Kelty  (Flaherty)  Kelley, 
Bernadette  Troyan,  Tom  Duffy,  and  Julien 
Goulet  and  his  wife,  Sabeth  Fitzgibbons. 
Maureen  also  passed  the  bar  exam  in  2002 
and  opened  her  own  practice,  Maureen  A. 
Appleyard,  Attorney  at  Law,  Certified  Public 
Accountant,  with  offices  in  Maiden  and 
Swampscott.  Maureen  and  Jim  enjoyed 
many  sailing  adventures  this  summer  on 
their  trimaran  sailboat,  Celtic  Try,  and  invite 
fellow  classmates  to  contact  them  at 
maureenappleyard@yahoo.com  for  a  sail. 
•  Last  February,  Sheila  Kelly  Gaarder  and  her 
husband,  Jon,  had  their  first  baby,  a  boy 
named  Ryan.  Sheila  recently  returned  to  her 
job  as  an  international  student  and  scholar 
adviser  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania. 
Jon  is  a  classical  musician.  They  live 
in  Wilmington,  DE.  •  Mike  Caponiti 
announces  the  birth  of  his  fourth  child, 
Henry,  who  joins  Madeleine  (6),  Isabella  (5) 
and  Harrison  (3).  The  Caponitis  live  in  Rye, 
NY.  »  Jim  Walsh  and  his  wife,  Laurie, 
welcomed  their  son,  Aidan  Liam,  on 
September  30,  2003.  The  Walshes  reside  in 
Weymouth;  Jim  is  a  mutual-fund  wholesaler 
for  Pioneer  Investments.  •  Rick  Sousa  and 
his  wife,  Kim,  announce  the  arrival  of  their 
son,  Hayden  Jay  Sousa,  born  July  20,  2003, 
and  welcomed  home  by  his  big  sister, 
Hannah  (3).  The  Sousa  family  lives  in 
Hingham.  •  Scott  and  Kate  (Zimmerman) 
Olivieri  live  in  Nashua,  NH,  with  Allison  (8) 
and  Chad  (6).  Kate  is  a  nurse  at  Southern 
NH  Medical  Center  in  Nashua.  Scott  works 
at  Fidelity  Investments  in  Merrimack  as  a 
Web  developer.  In  October,  Scott  published  a 
book  called  The  Batter's  Edge:  A  Year  With 
The  Boston  Red  Sox,  which  describes  the 
first  year  he  worked  for  the  Boston  Red  Sox, 
operating  a  unique  computer  video  system. 
"More  importantly,  my  wife,  Kate,  has 
secured  the  coveted  NH  license  plate  BC- 
90!"  •  From  Tim  (SMU)  Allison:  "On  March 
29,  2003,  I  crashed  a  snowmobile  near 
Killington  and  suffered  severe  injuries.  I  did 
not  know  how  I  would  heal  and  if  I  would 
walk  again.  I  had  been  training  for  a 
marathon  at  the  time,  and  being  in  shape 
probably  saved  my  life.  As  of  December, 
after  five  operations,  I  am  walking  without  a 
cane  and  am  preparing  to  run  again.  I  hope 
to  run  a  half  marathon  by  March  and  a 
marathon  next  fall.  (I  ran  my  first  one  in  the 
fall  of  2002.)  Also,  at  the  time  of  my  crash, 
my  wife  was  three  months  pregnant  with 
our  first  child.  She  delivered  Joshua  Quick 
Allison  on  August  29,  and  he  is  happy 
(we  think)  to  have  a  dad!  I  am  grateful  to  all 
my  class  of  '90  friends  who  reached  out  to 
me  while  I  was  laid  up  and  in  rehab.  It  was 
truly  a  crazy  year,  but  my  wife,  Heather,  and 


I  have  made  it  to  happier  times  ahead.  We 
live  in  Chatham,  NJ,  and  I  work  at  the 
Federal  Reserve  Bank  in  New  York  City  in 
anti-money      laundering       compliance." 

•  Kimberly  (Cook)  Lang  and  her  husband, 
Darrin,  welcomed  their  son,  Timothy 
Patrick,  born  in  July  2003.  The  Langs  live  in 
Falmouth.  Darrin  is  a  market  manager  for 
KForce,  Inc.,  and  Kim  is  enjoying  her  time 
as  a  stay-at-home  mom.  •  Stephen  and 
Whitney  Serrell  Barbera  announce  the  birth 
of  their  second  child,  Thomas,  born  in  June 
2003.  He  joins  his  loving  big  sister,  Annie, 
who  will  be  5  in  March.  The  Barberas 
are  living  in  Stamford,  CT.  Steve  is  a 
financial  consultant  with  Smith  Barney  in 
Manhattan.  •  Susanne  Coulter  Smith  and 
her  husband,  Charles,  welcomed  their  third 
child,  Grayson  Rose,  on  July  2,  2003.  Her 
brother,  Pierce,  is  now  6,  and  big 
sister  Emily  is  4.  Susanne  lives  in  Marietta, 
GA,   where    she's    a   stay-at-home-mom. 

•  Andrew  McAleer  is  practicing  law  in 
Lexington.  He  recentiy  published  two  books, 
a  novel  called  Appearance  of  Counsel  and  a 
mystery  called  Double  Endorsement,  which 
has  received  praise  from  many  well-known 
reviewers.  (Much  of  the  action  takes  place  at 
"Chestnut  Hill  College"!)  Andrew  also  sadly 
reports  that  his  dad,  John  McAleer  ('45),  an 
English  professor  at  Boston  College  for 
fifty-six  years,  passed  away  in  November.  His 
mother,  Ruth  (Delaney)  McAleer,  passed 
away  six  days  after  his  dad.  A  scholarship 
fund  in  their  memory  has  been  set  up  at 
Boston  College.  Donations  can  be  sent  to: 
Prof.  John  J.  McAleer  Fund,  c/o  James  A. 
Woods,  SJ,  Boston  College,  McGuinn  Hall, 
140  Commonwealth  Ave.,  Chestnut  Hill, 
MA  02467-3807.  •  Tracey  Griffin  Himmel 
and  her  husband,  Tom,  welcomed  their 
third  child,  Claire  Griffin,  on  February  22, 
2003.  She  joins  her  two  big  brothers,  Jack 
(4)  and  Liam  (2).  After  eight  moves  in 
ten  years  (having  each  one  of  the  kids  in 
a  different  time  zone!),  they  have  settled 
down     outside     of    Chicago     for     now. 

•  Annmarie  Flanigan  married  Joseph  Silvasy 
on  October  17,  2003,  in  Jamestown,  RI. 
Kathy  (Ayars)  Conlon  was  a  bridesmaid,  and 
Terry  MacCalmont  Poppiti  was  in 
attendance.  The  couple  live  in  Canton,  and 
Annemarie  is  a  senior  litigation  paralegal  at 
Foley  Hoag,  LLP,  in  Boston.  •  It's  not 
too  soon  to  think  about  our  fifteenth 
reunion!  Franz  Loeber  writes  that  he  is 
chairing  the  reunion  gift  committee  and  is 
looking  for  volunteers.  Contact  Franz  at 
BCEagles90@aol.com  if  you're  available 
to  help.  It  means  a  few  phone  calls  to 
classmates,  which  is  always  a  great  way  to 
catch  up  with  old  friends! 


Peggy  Morin  Bruno 

2  High  Hill  Rd. 

Canton,  CT  06019 

pegmb@comcast.net 


I  hope  everyone  had  a  joyous  holiday  and  is 
ready  for  spring.  We  have  lots  of  wonderful 
news  about  job  changes,  promotions,  babies 
and  more.  So  read  on  to  find  out  about 
your  classmates!  •  Jean  Remillard  is  back 
on  the  BC  campus,  working  for  the 
Institute    of    Religious     Education    and 


CLASS  NOTES   23 


Pastoral  Ministry.  She  is  the  assistant  direc- 
tor of  continuing  education.  She  graduated 
from  this  program  herself  and  is  delighted 
to  be  a  part  of  such  a  wonderful,  dedicated 
staff.  •  Congratulations  to  Dan  Grady, 
who  was  named  a  partner  with 
PricewaterhouseCoopers  Assurance  and 
Business  Advisory  Services  in  Hartford,  CT. 
Dan  has  been  with  PricewaterhouseCoopers 
since  1991  and  has  been  in  the  Boston  office 
for  most  of  his  career.  •  Congratulations  to 
Ellen  M.  (Flynn)  Kelley  and  her  husband, 
Jim,  who  welcomed  their  third  child, 
Caroline  Flynn  Kelley,  on  October  3,  2003. 
She  joins  big  brothers  Jimmy  (2)  and 
Frankie  (1).  •  Congratulations  to  Matthew 
Brennan  and  his  wife,  Michele,  on  the 
newest  addition  to  their  family.  Katie  Rose 
joined  her  sister,  Danielle  (2),  on  September 
7,  2003.  The  Brennan  family  is  living  in 
Madison,  NJ.  •  Talk  about  good  things 
coming  in  threes  ...  Toni  Naylor  and  her 
husband,  Steven,  welcomed  a  set  of  triplet 
boys  on  April  2,  2003.  Max,  Brody  and 
Cooper  are  doing  well,  and  their  parents  are 
pleased  to  have  them!  •  In  April  2003,  Karen 
Golden  Russell  started  at  Integrated 
Healthcare  Solutions,  Inc.,  as  product 
manager  for  their  first  software  product.  In 
June  2003,  she  graduated  with  her  M.B.A. 
from  Boston  University  and  was  nominated 
to  join  the  honor  society  Beta  Gamma 
Sigma.  She  and  her  husband,  Terence 
(BC  High  '87),  are  celebrating  four  years  of 
marriage.  Karen  and  Terence  would  like  to 
say  "hi"  to  their  BC  High/BC  friends  and 
hope  they're  doing  well.  •  Congratulations 
to  Ellen  (Blumenberg)  Rusnak  and  her 
husband,  George,  who  just  welcomed  their 
daughter,  Shannon  Claire,  to  their  family  on 
August  12,  2003.  Shannon's  big  brother, 
George  (3),  is  thrilled  to  have  a  sister.  •  It  is 
amazing  that  six  roommates/friends  have 
developed  into  a  group  of  27,  but  here's  how 
it  happened!  Christine  (Kaufman)  Keene, 
her  husband,  David  ('89),  and  their 
children,  Mary  Ashley  (7)  and  David  (5),  live 
year-round  in  Florida,  but  they  are  seen 
during  the  summer  at  their  Cape  house  in 
Mashpee.  Tara  (Maddock)  and  Greg  Varga 
have  recently  moved  from  West  Roxbury  to 
Glastonbury,  CT.  Tara  has  her  hands  full 
being  a  full-time  mom  to  Olivia  (4)  and  Evan 
(2),  and  Greg  is  in  his  ninth  year  with  the 
law  firm  Robinson  and  Cole.  Stephanie 
(Denmark)  Lundy  and  her  husband,  Matt, 
also  live  in  Connecticut  (Monroe)  and  are 
quite  busy  with  their  four  young  children. 
Mary- Kate  is  the  newest  addition  to  the 
family,  having  arrived  on  March  7,  2003. 
She  joins  Patrick  (5),  Caroline  (4)  and  Trevor 
(1).  Matt  is  an  attorney  with  Pullman  and 
Comley,  and  Steph  is  enjoying  the  craziness 
of  being  a  stay-at-home  mom.  Deana 
(Andrus)  O'Brien  and  her  husband,  Kevin, 
are  the  proud  parents  of  twin  girls,  Anna 
and  Grace,  born  in  January  2002.  The 
O'Briens  live  in  Guilford,  CT,  where  Deana 
stays  home  with  their  daughters,  and  her 
husband  is  in  sales.  Carolyn  (Bagley)  and 
Jim  Bianchi  live  in  Hingham  and  are 
currently  renovating  their  house  to 
accommodate  not  only  their  growing  family, 
but  all  of  the  out-of-state  BC  alumni.  Ryan, 
the  newest  addition  to  the  Bianchi  family, 


was  born  in  February  2003  and  joined  his 
older  brother,  John  (4).  Carolyn  is  with 
Brown  Brothers  Harriman,  while  Jim  is  in 
sales  and  still  keeps  very  busy  with  BC 
alumni  work.  Everyone  also  uses  the  homes 
of  Jeanne  (Cox)  Connon  and  her  husband, 
Mark  ('86),  as  reunion  sites.  It  is  always 
great  getting  together  with  the  Connons, 
either  in  Winchester  or  Mattapoisett.  Jeanne 
and  Mark  have  three  children,  Henry  (6), 
Sam  (4)  and  Emily  (1).  •  I  wish  everyone  a 
wonderful  spring  and  look  forward  to  more 
news  of  babies,  weddings  and  promotions! 
Get  those  notes  in  soon! 


Paul  L  Cantello 

The  Gotham 

255  Warren  St.,  No.  813 

Jersey  City,  NJ  07302 

paul.cantello@lehman.com 


Charles  A.  Rego  is  a  candidate  for  Director, 
More  Than  Ten  Years  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Elizabeth  Singer  now  lives  in  London, 
England,  with  her  husband,  Andrew  Hunt, 
and  their  son,  Morgan  (1).  After  a  career  in 
advertising  and  marketing,  Elizabeth  is  now 
starting  her  own  children's  book 
publishing  company.  If  you  want  to  get  in 
touch  with  Elizabeth,  e-mail  her  at 
elizabethsinger@hotmail.com.  •  Jeannine 
(Todd)  Di  Camillo  and  her  husband,  Nick, 
welcomed  their  first  baby,  Chiara  Nicole,  on 
November  27,  2002.  After  working  at  the 
University  of  Southern  California  for  seven 
years,  Jeannine  resigned  in  January  to  stay 
at  home  with  their  daughter.  They  are 
currently  living  in  Torrance,  CA.  •  Jen 
(Ward)  and  Pete  Joel  had  a  baby  girl,  Megan 
Clare,  on  July  3,  2003.  Big  brothers  are  P.  J. 
(4)  and  Aedan  (2).  Pete  is  still  working  at 
CSFB  in  NYC  in  fixed-income  sales  and 
trading.  •  Terri  (O'Connor)  Cianciolo  had 
her  second  child,  Jack,  in  May  2003.  Her 
older  child,  Kate,  is  2.  •  David  Arizini  and 
his  wife,  Marieke,  welcomed  the  birth  of 
their  son,  Nicolaas  Alexander,  on  January  31, 
2003.  They  have  lived  in  San  Francisco  for 
ten  years.  David  works  as  a  financial  con- 
sultant with  a  private  wealth  management 
group  at  Smith  Barney  in  Menlo  Park.  He 
can  be  reached  at  arizini@hotmail.com 

•  Katie  (Gillespie)  LaManna,  her  husband, 
Mark,  and  their  2-year-old  daughter, 
Jacqueline,  welcomed  a  son  and  baby 
brother,  Daniel  Edward,  who  was  born  on 
June  1,  2003.  Katie  is  still  working  as  an 
attorney,  practicing  commercial  litigation  at 
Shipman  &  Goodwin   LLP  in   Hartford. 

•  Chris  and  Cathy  (Lapychak)  Martin  are 
finally  back  in  Massachusetts  after  tours  of 
duty  in  New  York,  Texas  and  Alaska.  Chris  is 
now  a  major  in  the  US  Army,  stationed  at 
Natick  Army  Labs.  He  is  the  medical  advisor 
officer  responsible  for  providing  physician 
coverage  for  ongoing  research  studies. 
Cathy  is  a  finance  operations  manager  at 
One  Beacon  Insurance  in  Foxboro.  They  live 
in    Franklin    with    their    two    children, 


4-year-old  Matthew  and  baby  Elizabeth, 
who  joined  the  family  in  May  2003.  •  Kevin 
McCarthy  married  Angie  Abbe  on  October  4 
in  Herndon,  VA.  Alumni  attendees  included 
his  brother  and  best  man,  John  McCarthy, 
soloist  David  Brauer,  uncle  Jack  Donahue, 
Betsy  (Nyman)  Bruns,  Stephanie  Evans, 
Kristi  (Hall)  Farmer,  Gerald  Graceffo, 
Melanie  (Waks)  Graceffo,  Nicole  (Innocenti) 
Hurley,  Jon  Laufenberg,  Wendy  Madigan, 
Bill  Mangano,  Todd  Mannix,  Lisa  (Olsta) 
Robinson,  Brian  Russak,  Rich  Schroder, 
Roseann  Sheehan,  Lisa  (Ostapko)  Stone, 
Michael  Sullivan,  and  Cheryl  (Simrany)  and 
Tim  Thomas.  Tim  and  Cheryl  deserve  some 
of  the  credit  for  helping  to  organize  the  ski 
trip  to  Lake  Tahoe  on  January  1,  2000, 
where  the  couple  met.  The  happy  couple 
spent  their  honeymoon  in  New  Zealand  and 
Australia.  Kevin  is  working  in  the 
Department  of  Homeland  Security  as  a  sen- 
ior consultant  with  Grant  Thornton,  and 
Angie  is  a  sales  associate  with  Gartner 
Group.  Kevin  and  Angie  live  in  Arlington, 
VA.  •  Gene  McNinch  and  his  wife,  Abby, 
had  their  second  daughter,  Ainsley,  on 
September  25.  They  currently  live  on 
Maryland's  eastern  shore,  where  Gene  also 
practices  dentistry.  •  Peter  and  Mary  Ellen 
(Stankewick)  Carignan  celebrated  the  birth 
of  their  sons  Thomas  and  Luke  Carignan, 
identical  twins,  on  April  21,  2003.  They  still 
live  in  Cape  Elizabeth,  ME.  Peter  works  at 
Fidelity  Investments  in  Portland.  Their 
other  children  are  Joseph  and  Grace. 
•  Chris  (Baldes)  Barile  and  her  Holy  Cross 
alumnus  husband,  Rob  Barile,  are  living  in 
Verona,  NJ,  along  with  their  two  girls, 
Elizabeth  (2)  and  Anna  (6  months).  Chris  is 
still  running  and  racing  in  her  "spare" 
time  with  BC  grad  and  neighbor  Suzie 
Ashley  ('87).  She  has  learned  of  at  least 
three  BC  alumni  in  her  neighborhood! 
Chris  recently  spoke  with  Christine  Klanian, 
who  lives  in  the  North  End  and  remains 
close  friends  with  Sheila  Sullivan  and 
Kristine  Hyde.  Chris  enjoyed  a  marvelous 
dinner  in  August  at  Legal  Sea  Foods  in  the 
Burlington  Mall  with  former  roommate 
Jennifer  Lane.  Jennifer  is  an  attorney  in 
the  Boston  area  and  resides  in  Newton. 
She's  still  playing  tennis  and  traveling 
around  the  US  for  work.  Jen  often  visits 
former  roommate  Amy  DiPrima,  who  is 
loving  Chicago  and  has  been  in  film 
production   for   the   past   several   years. 


16th  Annual 
Second  Helping  Gala 

presented  by 
the  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 

All  proceeds  to  benefit 
The  Greater  Boston  Food  Bank 
Support  your  neighbors  in  need! 

Saturday,  April  3,  2004 

Gillette  Stadium 
Foxboro,  Massachusetts 

For  tickets,  call  800-669-8430 


24  www.bc.edu/alumni 


Sandy  Chen 

355  Sixth  Ave.  #2 

Brooklyn,  NY  11215 

sandy93@bc.edu 


Julie  Finora  McAfee  is  a  candidate  for 
Secretary  in  the  2004-05  Boston  College 
Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 


Nancy  E.  Drane 

226  E.  Nelson  Avenue 

Alexandria,  VA  22301 

703-548-2396 

nancydrane@aol.com 


REUNION  YEAR 

John  D.  Burns  is  a  candidate  for  Director,  Less 
Than  Ten  Years  in  the  2004-05  Boston  College 
Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Hello,  class  of  1994!  As  always,  thank  you 
for  your  notes.  Brenda  Crudo  and  her 
husband,  Toma,  recently  moved  back  to  the 
Boston  area  (Canton)  with  their  Boston 
terrier,  Humphrey.  Brenda  graduated  from 
Bangor  Theological  Seminary  with  a 
master's  in  divinity  in  May  2003.  She  now 
attends  Boston  University  and  is  working  on 
her  Ph.D.  in  counseling,  psychology  and 
religion.  Toma  is  the  head  quality 
supervisor  at  Howes  Engineering  in 
Franklin.  •  Kimberly  (Kozemchak)  Paster 
and  her  husband,  Bradley,  had  a  baby  girl  in 
March.  Caroline  Celia  was  born  on  March 

18,  2003.  According  to  her  mom who 

may  be  a  little  bit  biased — she  is  amazing! 
Bradley  and  Kim  love  being  parents.  Kim 
works  part  time  at  her  firm,  Boston-based 
Holland  and  Knight  LLP,  where  she  is  an 
attorney  in  the  syndication  department. 
Bradley,  Kim  and  Caroline  live  in 
Westwood.  •  If  you  thought  you  recognized 
a  Chinese  TV  commentator,  you  weren't 
wrong!  Keith  Gallinelli  is  a  ChineseTV  star! 
After  he  finished  his  evening  M.B.A.  at  BC 
in  2001,  Keith  got  fed  up  with  the  corporate 
life.  In  August  2001,  he  sold  everything  he 
owned  and  moved  to  the  People's  Republic 
of  China.  He  went  over  to  teach  business 
courses  at  a  private  university  for  a  year.  It  is 
now  two  and  a  half  years  later,  and  he  hasn't 
left  yet.  He  is  still  teaching,  and  hosting  a  TV 
talk  show  on  Chinese  provincial  TV  (Jiangsu 
Province).  It  is  an  English-language  show, 
and  he  is  one  of  the  only  foreign  hosts  in 
China.  According  to  his  station,  the  show 
reaches  about  two  million  viewers  per 
week.  Keith  reports  that  while  his  mom 
wants  him  home,  he'll  probably  be  in  China 
for  a  few  more  years.  •  Edward  (E.  J.)  Carroll 
and  Suzanne  (McLaughlin)  were  married  on 
May  12,  2001.  Suzanne,  a  graduate  of  UNH, 
has  been  a  sales  manager  on  the  Mac  World 
Trade  Expo  for  IDG  in  Framingham  for  four 
and  a  half  years.  E.  J.  is  a  senior  corporate 


officer  in  the  business  continuity  depart- 
ment at  State  Street  Bank  in  Quincy.  On 
June  5,  they  celebrated  the  birth  of  their  first 
child,  Edward  f.  Carroll  IV.  They  are  living 
in  Dedham  with  their  dog,  Reggie.  •  Jim 
Ouellette  and  Jackie  (Schilling)  Ouellette 
('95),  currentiy  live  in  Dayton,  OH,  with 
their  two  daughters,  Julia  (3)  and  Jenna  (2). 
Jackie  is  a  nurse,  and  Jim  is  completing  his 
residency  in  general  surgery  at  Wright  State 
University  this  June.  From  there,  they  will 
be  moving  to  southern  California,  where  Jim 
will  do  a  two-year  fellowship  in  surgical 
oncology  at  Cedars-Sinai  Medical  Center. 
•  Maribeth  Diver  recently  returned  from  two 
years  in  Southeast  Asia,  in  the  country  of 
Laos.  While  in  Laos,  Maribeth  worked  as  a 
midwife  in  a  desperately  poor  hospital.  She 
spent  the  first  four  months  of  this  year  on  a 
twenty-six  foot  sailboat  cruising  through 
Thai  and  Malaysian  waters.  She  is  now 
working  as  a  midwife  in  rural  Lancaster 
County,  PA,  doing  mostly  home  births 
for  Old  Order  Amish  clients.  Maribeth 
would  love  to  hear  from  old  friends 
in  the  area.  Her  e-mail  address  is 
midwifemb@yahoo.com.  •  Beth  (Farrell) 
Sullivan  and  her  husband,  Brett,  wrote  to 
announce  the  birth  of  Lucy  Josephine.  Lucy 
was  born  in  October  2003.  Beth  teaches  first 
grade  in  Bridgewater.  The  Sullivans  live  in 
Bellingham.  •  Finally,  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
attending  the  wedding  of  Josie  Losada  and 
Patrick  McMahon  this  fall.  The  wedding  was 
held  in  Connecticut,  with  a  reception  at 
beautiful  St.  Clement's  Castle.  Also  in 
attendance  were  Lori  MacDonald,  who  was  a 
bridesmaid,  Sandy  (Mancinelli)  Brillon,  Erin 
(Miller)  Spaulding  and  Shireen  (Pesez) 
Rhoades.  Josie  is  a  teacher  at  Greenwich 
High  School.  •  That  is  all  for  this  quarter  — 
I  hope!  You  see,  I  just  moved,  and  things 
were  a  little  hectic  before  I  left.  If  for  some 
reason  I  did  not  include  a  message  you  sent 
me,  please  do  me  a  favor  and  resend  your 
message.  I'll  be  sure  to  include  it  in  the  next 
issue.  And,  of  course,  if  you  haven't  sent  me 
a  message,  please  do! 


David  S.  Shapiro 

116  Boulevard 

West  Hartford,  CT  06119 

dsshapiro@aol.com 


The  holidays  have  come  and  gone.  My 
warmest  regards  to  the  class  of  1995  as  we 
embark  on  a  new  year.  Can  anyone  fathom 
that  it's  been  almost  ten  years  since  the 
completion  of  our  Boston  College 
experience?  I  was  spending  some  time 
in  Boston  with  a  good  friend,  walking 
around  the  mall  at  Copley  Square,  and 
who  did  I  nearly  bump  into  but 
Charlie  Willhoit  and  his  wife  Grace,  who 
were  in  town  from  California  on  business. 
They  had  their  young  son  in  tow  and  were 
enjoying  the  snowy  weather.  •  Holiday  times 
are  difficult  to  make  contact,  but  I  encour- 
age all  of  you,  gentle  readers,  to  contact  me 
and  fill  in  your  classmates  on  where  you've 
been  hiding!  •  Among  the  most  recent  to 
contact  me  were  the  proud  parents  of  Reilly 
Brigitte  Connelly,  born  to  Andrew  and  Jenn 
(Oris)  Connelly  on  June  13,  2003.  Jenn  is  a 
high  school  math  teacher  in  Maynard,  MA, 


and  delivered  some  news  to  us  as  well.  She 
reports  that  Scott  and  Julie  (Ashley) 
Whitehead  welcomed  Ryan  Allen  on  June 
14,  2003.  Julie  is  teaching  3rd  grade  in 
Sudbury,  MA.  Rachael  Elizabeth  Neiberger 
was  born  to  Joe  and  Maureen  (Curtin) 
Neiberger  on  September  16,  2003.  •  Kerry 
McPhee  and  Dan  Hennessey  were  married 
on  August  16,  2003  in  Hartford,  CT. 
Andrea  (Palermo)  Ranawat  ('94)  and 
Heather  (McKigue)  McKeon  ('94)  were 
bridesmaids.  In  attendance  were  Laura 
(Mirisola)  MacArthur,  Jenn  (Oris)  Connelly, 
Julie  (Ashley)  Whitehead,  Teri  (Heitz)  Vella, 
Mike  Lenz,  Kevin  McKeon,  David  Milano, 
Rich  Stahmer,  Steve  Santangelo,  Derek 
Johnston,  Dave  Umbricht,  and  Alison 
(Andres)  Umbricht.  •  Judy  Gerardi  filled  us 
in  about  her  husband  and  classmate  Bart  D. 
Gerardi.  She  reports  that  he  went  on  after 
graduation  to  Bentley  College  where  he 
received  his  Master's  Degree  in  Information 
Systems.  The  were  married  in  Norwalk,  CT 
in  June  1999.  Best  man  was  classmate 
Robert  W.  Bell.  In  attendance  were  Tim 
Frangioso  ('96),  Robert  McCready  ('96), 
Mike  Waring  ('96),  Jeff  Fournier  ('96)  and 
Thomas  Randall  ('97).  Their  son  Brett 
Thomas  was  born  on  March  28,  2000.  Bart 
is  working  for  a  business  information  com- 
pany outside  of  Boston  as  a  software  engi- 
neer. Our  happiest  of  wishes  to  the  Gerardi 
family.  •  In  October,  Mary  Kate  Libonate 
married  Georgetown  grad  John  Doyle  in 
New  York  City.  Among  the  attendees  was 
Kristi  (Carroll)  Downing.  After  a  honey- 
moon in  Hawaii,  Mary  Kate  returned  to 
work  as  an  AVP  at  Chase  Manahttan  Bank. 
•  Amory  Cotter  thought  she  would  update 
her  classmates.  She  is  currently  living  in 
NYC  where  she  works  as  a  social  worker  at 
Mt.  Sinai  Hospital.  •  Who  have  you  run  into 
lately?  Long  lost  roommates  or  blast- 
from-the-past  friends?  Send  your  stories 
to  me! 


Mike  Hofman 

517  E.  13'"  Street,  #20 

New  York,  NY  10009 

212-673-3065 

mhofman@inc.com 


After  a  day  spent  tailgating  on  the  Heights 
for  the  BC-Pitt  game  with  Dave  and  Amy 
Telep,  Kate  Devin,  Brian  Sullivan,  and  many 
others,  Tracey  (Gilroy)  and  Chris  Giglia 
became  proud  parents  with  the  birth  of  their 
son,  John  Ryan  Giglia.  The  baby  was  born 
on  November  2,  weighed  exactly  8  lbs.  and 
was  20  1/4  inches  long.  The  Giglia  family 
lives  in  Brookline.  Tracey  works  for  Liberty 
Mutual,  and  Chris,  who  recentiy  earned  an 
M.B.A.  from  Babson  College,  works  at 
Fidelity.  •  Mike  and  Heather  (McGuire) 
Allen  welcomed  Lauren  Arleen  Allen  on 
August  28.  Mike  writes  that  Lauren  weighed 
8  lbs.  and  was  20  1/2  inches  at  birth.  •  Polly 
Lagana  and  Jim  Fanning  ('95),  celebrated 
their  one-year  wedding  anniversary  recently. 
Polly  and  Jim  were  married  on  September 
14,  2002,  in  Wethersfield,  CT.  Kerri 
Gannon,  Jen  Hogan,  Matt  Chapuran  ('95), 
and  Dave  Finnegan  ('95),  were  in  the  wed- 
ding party.  Guests  included  Alexis  Geier, 
Jennifer  Gonzalez,   Carolyn   Kirk,   Melissa 


CLASS  NOTES   25 


Seyfried,  Byron  Pavano  ('95),  Kevin  Hogan 
('01),  Patrick  Hogan  ('67),  Gretchen  Kelly 
(Newton  '69),  Matt  Pallai  ('01),  and  Jaime 
Shinn  ('01).  Polly  and  Jim  currently  live  in 
Manhattan.  •  Some  grad  school  and  career 
stuff:  I  saw  Julian  Blazewicz  recently.  He  is 
currently  attending  B-School  at  the 
University  of  North  Carolina.  Scott  Freeman 
is  going  to  New  York  University,  and 
Andrew  Fellingham  —  who  complains  that 
he  only  appears  in  class  notes  as  a  wedding 
guest  —  is  part  of  Columbia's  executive 
M.B.A.  program.  His  wife,  Crissy  Callaghan, 
has  a  new  job  working  as  the  publicist  for 
the  CBS  soap  operas  As  the  World  Turns  and 
Guiding  Light.  And  after  two-plus  years  away 
from  the  real  world,  Jim  Roth  has  graduated 
from  Columbia  B-School  and  is  now 
working  in  fixed-income  sales  at  Barclays 
Capital  in  New  York.  •  Here's  hoping  you 
have  a  wonderful  2004. 


Sabrina  M.  Bracco 

227  E.  83rd  St.,  No.  3-A 

New  York,  NY  10021 

sabrina.bracco@perseusbooks.com 


Omari  Walker  is  a  candidate  for  Director,  Less 
Than  Ten  Years  in  the  2004-05  Boston  College 
Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class  Notes 
section.  Your  participation  in  this  election 
process  is  important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Linda  Song  Wendel  is  a  candidate  for 
Director,  Less  Than  Ten  Years  in  the  2004-05 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National 
Board  of  Directors  Election.  Please  take  the 
time  to  review  the  ballot  and  candidate 
information  beginning  on  page  32  of  this  Class 
Notes  section.  Your  participation  in  this 
election  process  is  important.  Make  your 
voice  heard! 

Hope  you  all  enjoyed  the  holidays  and 
welcomed  in  the  new  year  with  good  friends 
and  family.  Several  BC  and  Villanova  alumni 
kicked  off  the  holiday  season  at  the  Jersey 
Shore  on  November  22  to  celebrate  the 
wedding  of  Margo  Rivera  and  Kevin 
Gillespie  (Villanova  University  '97).  The 
ceremony  was  held  at  St.  James  Roman 
Catholic  Church  in  Red  Bank,  NJ,  and  the 
reception  took  place  at  the  Mill  in  Spring 
Lake  Heights,  NJ.  The  bridal  party  included 
Bridget  Lesutis,  Sarah  Nist  and  Sabrina 
Bracco.  In  attendance  were  Megan 
(Kerrigan)  Byron,  Christina  (Carey)  Grimes, 
Stephanie  Millette,  Keith  Duffy,  Tracey 
Maffeo,  Joel  Amico  ('99),  Mary  Jo 
(Quatrone)  Farber,  Amy  (Moore)  Sund,  Sol 
Sund,  Ted  Franchetti,  John  Minardo,  Tom 
Rollauer,  Julie  Tucker,  Wendy  Estela,  Peter 
Mirabile  ('88),  and  Andy  McLaughlin  ('98). 
Margo  is  director  of  marketing  for 
CommCore  Consulting  Group,  a  firm  that 
specializes  in  executive  speaking  and  media 
training.  Kevin  is  vice  president  at  the  CIT 
Group,  a  commercial  and  consumer  finance 
company.  He  is  also  pursuing  his  M.B.A.  at 
Fordham  University.  The  Gillespies  reside 


on  New  York's  Upper  East  Side.  •  Marybeth 
Gerson  married  Benjamin  Heyd  on  July  12, 
2003,  in  Orleans,  with  a  reception  at 
Chatham  Bars  Inn  in  Chatham.  Marybeth' s 
sister,  Megan  ('00),  and  brother,  Brian  ('02), 
were  attendants,  along  with  Danielle 
(Furino)  Acerra  and  Julie  Tucker.  Other 
grads  who  participated  in  the  ceremony 
were  Kevin  Auerr  and  Kailin  Fenn,  who  both 
did  readings,  and  Amy  Larsen  ('98),  who 
sang.  Other  grads  in  attendance  included 
Kim  Bowers,  Suzanne  Egan,  Molly 
(Katibian)  Donovan,  Tom  Rollauer,  Melissa 
and  Mark  Runde,  Leigh  Strieker,  Lee 
Fitzpatrick  ('96),  Lisa  Stagno  ('98),  Jay 
Campbell  ('98),  Cathy  Tucker  ('99),  Sumaya 
(Twal)  McCleave  ('99),  Charles  Kehres  ('00), 
Anna  (Sense)  Kalluri  ('00),  Jamie  Grenon 
('02),  and  Laura  Mestre  ('02).  The  couple 
honeymooned  in  California  and  have  settled 
in  Cambridge.  Marybeth  is  pursuing  a  mas- 
ter's in  education  at  Lesley  University  and 
works  at  the  Pike  School  in  Andover,  and 
Ben  is  an  architect  in  Boston.  •  In  June, 
Linda  (Song)  and  Andrew  Wendel  moved 
from  San  Francisco  to  Ann  Arbor,  MI, 
where  Wendel  is  in  his  first  year  at  the 
University  of  Michigan  Business  School 
(along  with  Mike  Leporati).  Linda  found  a 
job  she  is  very  happy  with  as  program 
manager  of  Domestic  Corps,  a  nonprofit 
fellowship  program  within  the  university. 
Domestic  Corps  provides  M.B.A.  students 
with  consulting  internships  at  nonprofit 
organizations  that  typically  can't  afford  the 
business  expertise.  Linda  and  Wendel 
bought  a  place  in  Ann  Arbor  and  are 
enjoying  their  experience  as  first-time 
homeowners.  They  are  excited  to  be  closer  to 
the  East  Coast  once  again  and  are  hoping  to 
make  it  out  to  Boston  a  few  times  in  the  new 
year.  •  Alex  Thacher  and  Tiffany  Forsberg 
were  married  in  Tiburon,  CA,  on  July  12, 
2003.  Mike  Barstis  was  a  groomsman.  Also 
in  attendance  was  John  Gradek.  Alex  and 
Tiffany  spent  their  honeymoon  in  Kauai  and 
now  live  in  the  Washington,  DC,  area.  Alex 
currently  works  at  Ernst  &  Young  in  DC,  and 
Tiffany  is  a  district  attorney.  Back  in 
September,  they  were  training  for  their 
eighth  marathon.  •  Michael  Byrne  married 
Tracy  Geisinger  on  August  16,  2003.  BC 
grads  in  the  wedding  party  included  Michael 
and  Jessica  (Tamburrino)  Morris,  Cheryl 
(O'Connell)  George  and  Rebecca  (Zisblatt) 
Sanford.  Also  in  attendance  was  captain 
Richard  Corner  III.  Michael's  mother, 
Rosemary  (Dunn)  Byrne,  is  a  double  eagle 
—  class  of '72  for  undergrad  and  class  of '98 
for  her  master's  in  nursing.  Michael  and 
Tracy  honeymooned  in  Hawaii,  visiting  the 
islands  of  Kauai  and  Maui,  and  are 
currently  living  in  Braintree.  •  Peter  A. 
Maniscalco  and  Michelle  L.  Balsamo 
celebrated  their  marriage  on  September  13, 
2003.  Among  those  in  attendance  at  the 
wedding  celebration  were  Kevin  Cronin  and 
Minna  Buiser.  Those  sending  their  good 
wishes  but  not  in  attendance  were  Keith 
Duffy,  Brian  Moreland,  Alicia  Testaverde, 
Jim  Quealy,  and  Peter  and  Tiffany  Hustis. 


After  the  festivities,  the  newlyweds  took  a 
luxurious  two-week  honeymoon  in  Tahiti, 
Moorea  and  Bora  Bora.  Peter  and  Michelle 
have  made  their  home  in  Little  Neck,  NY, 
where  Peter  is  a  CPA,  and  Michelle  is  a 
lawyer.  •  Kirsten  Fuchs  graduated  from 
Thunderbird,  The  American  Graduate 
School  of  International  Management,  with 
an  M.B.A.  in  international  management. 
During  her  M.B.A.  program,  she  studied 
and  interned  abroad  in  Paris,  Geneva  and 
London.  She  is  now  living  in  New  York  City 
and  working  as  an  AVP  in  marketing  at 
Citigroup,  in  their  business  credit  cards  divi- 
sion. •  In  the  fourth  annual  Peter  "Sonny" 
Nictakis  ('99),  Memorial  Golf  Tournament, 
$10,000  was  raised  in  his  name.  Next  year's 
tournament  will  be  held  at  Bay  Pointe 
Country  Club  again  in  Bourne  on 
September  26.  Please  contact  Kevin  Penwell 
if  you  are  interested  in  participating 
(Kevin_Penwell@gillette.com).  Please  keep 
the  news  coming;  looking  forward  to  hear- 
ing from  you. 


Mistie  P.  Lucht 
4043  Quentin  Ave. 
St.  Louis  Park,  MN  55416 
mistie@group-l.com 


Colleen  Custer  and  Gavin  Mhley  were 
married  on  May  24,  2003,  in  Western 
Springs,  IL.  Colleen  works  for  BDO 
Seidman,  LLP,  in  Chicago  and  is  currently 
pursuing  a  master's  degree  in  psychology. 
Gavin  is  a  second-year  law  student  at  Loyola 
University,  also  in  Chicago.  Classmates  in 
the  wedding  included  Anthony  Aniello, 
Ryan  Miller,  Jim  DeSantis,  Ross  Kurz,  Bill 
Evans,  Gail  Rodriguez,  Sara  Saukas  and 
Jennifer  Zaldivar.  Other  classmates  in 
attendance  were  Jennifer  Adler,  Jorge  Ribas, 
Julie  Menendez,  Christine  Reedman,  Mike 
Cosentino,  Matt  Savino,  Andy  Sinnott,  Dave 
Tafuto,  Al  Furman,  Lucia  (Fankhanel) 
Furmari,  and  Brian  and  Stacy  (Ambrose) 
Neri.  •  Stephanie  Galeota  was  one  of  seven 
BC  students,  and  the  only  grad  student,  to 
spend  the  summer  in  Mozambique.  These 
students  taught  English  in  a  small  school  in 
Beira.  Stephanie  had  previously  spent  two 
years  as  a  Jesuit  volunteer  in  Dangriga,  in 
rural  Belize.  •  In  September,  Karen  Casey 
celebrated  her  second  year  at  Oracle  Corp. 
Last  winter,  she  was  promoted  to  senior 

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salesperson.  She  continues  to  live  in  the 
North  End  of  Boston  and  enjoyed 
seeing  everyone  at  the  reunion.  •  Jennifer 
Coyle  married  Jan  Sapak  on  Saturday 
September  13,  2003,  at  St.  Columbkille 
church  in  Brighton,  with  a  reception  that 
evening  at  Boston  Marriott  Quincy.  Jen  and 
Jan  honeymooned  in  Hawaii.  In  attendance 
from  BC  were  Josephine  Sciarrino  (maid  of 
honor),  Dawn  Krieger  (bridesmaid), 
Amanda  Burns,  Michelle  Breitman,  Lisa 
Byank,  Patience  (Leonard)  Brayton,  Joceyln 
Cavanna,  Jennifer  (Mullen)  Cronin,  Regine 
Cuvilly,  AnnMarie  DiBiasie  and  Matt  Reid, 
Clare  DiBiasie,  Bryan  Kasperowski,  Laura 
KavanagJi,  MaryPat  Lancelotta,  Charise 
Rohm,  Erin  Ryan,  and  Jeanette  O'Malley.  I 
wish  I  could  have  been  there!  •  Gregg  Saline 
and  Ann  Bogo  were  married  on  June  7, 
2003,  in  Ohio.  Class  of  '98  friends  in 
attendance  were  Mike  Barrett,  Tim  Devoe, 
Carolyn  (Homer)  Craven,  John  Craven, 
Chrissy  Olansen-Rilli,  John  Rilli,  Tom  Krazit 
and  Shannon  Thoke.  Gregg  is  working  at 
Sun  Microsystems,  and  Ann  is  with 
PricewaterhouseCoopers.  They  are  living  in 
Arlington.  •  Josh  Niewoehner,  had  been 
living  in  his  hometown  of  Hillsdale,  IL, 
outside  of  Chicago,  since  graduation.  He 
moved  back  to  Boston  in  the  fall  of  2000 
and  has  been  working  at  the  law  firm  Hale 
and  Dorr,  LLP,  as  a  paralegal.  •  I  am  hoping 
that  many  of  you  got  together  for  some  fun 
at  Roggie's  after  the  October  25  football 
game.  Write  to  me  and  let  me  know  how  it 
went!  •  Last  November,  after  over  five 
years,  I  left  General  Mills,  the  only  company 
that  I  have  worked  for  since  college!  I 
couldn't  be  happier  with  my  new  position.  I 
am  in  downtown  Minneapolis  at  a  small, 
integrated  promotion  marketing  agency, 
Group  One,  managing  an  account  and  team. 
Group  One's  clients  consist  of  Levi's,  H&R 
Block  and  Jennie-O  Turkey  Store  (Hormel), 
among  others.  I  have  not  heard  from  many 
of  you  lately,  so  please  send  me  an  e-mail, 
and  have  a  lovely  spring! 


Matt  Coler-an 
bci999classnotes@  hotmail.com 


Emily  Wildfire 
emily_wildfire@tjx.com 


REUNION  YEAR 


Greetings,  class  of  '99.  Believe  it  or  not,  it 
has  been  five  years  since  we  graduated  from 
the  Heights.  Mark  on  your  calendars  that 
our  fifth  reunion  will  be  held  the  weekend  of 
June  4-6,  2004.  Make  sure  that  your  e-mail 
and  mailing  address  are  up  to  date  in  the 
Alumni  Association's  database  so  that  you 
will  receive  all  pertinent  information.  Our 
main  event  will  be  held  on  Saturday,  June  5, 
in  the  Plex,  where  there  will  be  a  live  band, 
lots  of  bars  and  plenty  of  reminiscing.  You 
can  find  more  info  about  the  reunion  by  vis- 
iting the  Alumni  Association's  Reunion 
Web  site,  www.bc.edu/reunion,  or  you  can  e- 
mail  reunion@bc.edu  with  questions. 
•  Melissa  Caroline  Leber  was  married  to 
Michael  William  Stein  (UPenn  '00)  from 


Savannah  (GA),  on  June  28,  2003,  in 
Bethesda  (MD).  Melissa's  maids  of  honor 
were  Caroline  Leber  ('01),  and  Suzie  Leber. 
Her  bridesmaids  were  Allison  Matthews 
and  Lindsey  Dubie  McDevitt.  Other  BC 
alumni  in  attendance  were  father  of  the 
bride,  Chris  Leber  ('74),  Larry  Leber  '(76), 
Colleen  Leber  ('77),  Dave  Sorok  ('74),  Suzy 
Harrington,  Kara  Graziano,  Stephanie 
Crement,  Chrissy  Molloy,  Amy  Scofield, 
Melissa  Pino,  Meredith  Takahashi,  Brian 
Corby,  Brian  McAuley,  Brian  McDevitt  and 
Gretchen  Mansfield  ('00).  •  James 
Schoenecker  recently  received  a  J.D.  from 
Columbia  Law  School,  where  he  was  a 
Harlan  Fisk  Stone  scholar  and  a  notes 
editor  for  the  Columbia  Journal  of 
Transnational  Law.  Jim  is  currentiy  living  in 
Manhattan.  He  is  an  associate  with  Hughes 
Hubbard  &  Reed  LLP,  a  New  York  law  firm 
with  seven  offices  around  the  world.  Jim  is 
practicing  in  the  not-for-profit  and  general 
litigation  groups.  •  Dana  Isaacs  married 
Alistair  Duke  in  mid-October  on  Long 
Island.  They  were  lucky  to  have  a  number  of 
friends  from  BC  who  were  able  to  help  them 
celebrate,  including  Rebecca  (Hurley) 
Latour,  who  was  a  bridesmaid,  and  Tracy 
Madsen,  who  did  a  reading.  Other  alumni  in 
attendance  included  Laura  (Bailey) 
Bergeron,  Lauren  Bosworth,  Scott  Cronin, 
Alex  Franch,  Lisa  Malnick,  Amy  O' Sullivan 
and  Kim  Pierce.  Dana  and  Alistair  have 
settled  north  of  Manhattan  and  are  both 
working  for  UBS  Investment  Bank.  •  Suzy 
Harrington  married  Gus  Steppen  on  August 
9  in  Newport.  They  celebrated  their  honey- 
moon for  two  weeks  in  Brazil,  where  they 
"loved  the  country,  its  wonderful  people, 
stunning  beaches  and  cheap  booze."  Back  in 
the  real  world,  Suzy  has  a  year  and  a  half  left 
at  law  school.  She  is  looking  forward  to 
practicing  some  sort  of  poverty  law  such  as 
housing  law  or  maybe  criminal  defense.  She 
and  Gus  are  living  in  Manhattan,  where  Gus 
teaches  high  school  math  in  the  Bronx.  They 
are  both  very  busy  but  enjoying  married  life 
and  all  the  fun  that  NYC  has  to  offer.  •  The 
second  annual  charity  event  to  remember 
Welles  Crowther  and  to  help  raise  money  for 
the  Welles  Crowther  Trust  was  held  on  the 
BC  vs.  ND  football  weekend.  The  event  was 
extremely  successful  and  raised  $10,000  for 
Welles's  trust.  Welles's  parents  and  sister 
were  in  attendance  and  were  ecstatic  about 
the  outcome.  They  are  very  excited  to  make 
this  an  annual  event.  There  are  already  plans 
for  the  third  annual  next  year.  Thank  you  to 
all  who  helped  to  make  the  event  such  a 
success.  •  Mike  O'Brien  left  the  NHL  to 
become  the  radio  play-by-play  announcer  for 
the  Trenton  Titans  of  the  ECHL 
(minor-league  hockey)  and  will  be  relocating 
from  Hoboken,  NJ,  to  Bordentown,  NJ. 
•  Congratulations  to  Elisabeth  (Filarski) 
Hasselbeck  for  her  new  role  as  one  of 
the  hosts  of  ABC's  morning  talk  show  The 
View.  •  Please  keep  the  e-mail  updates 
coming,  and  I  look  forward  to  seeing  you  all 
at  the  reunion. 


Kate  Pescatore 

63  Carolin  Trail 

Marshfield,  MA  02050 

katepescatore@hotmail.com 


Welcome  to  2004!  We  had  a  very  busy  2003, 
and  I  am  pleased  to  share  all  of  the  great 
news  with  you.  Thanks  to  everyone  who  has 
sent  me  e-mails  and  letters.  Keep  the  news 
coming.  •  Mary  Madden  recently  finished 
the  two-year  ACE  program  and  received  her 
master's  of  education  degree  through  Notre 
Dame.  Mary  is  now  in  her  first  year  of  law 
school  at  Southern  Methodist  College  in 
Dallas,  TX.  Kathryn  Barrett  has  recently 
returned  to  the  Boston  area  after  spending 
several  years  living  in  San  Diego,  CA. 
Kathryn  is  working  at  Children's  Hospital  in 
Boston  and  is  pursuing  her  master's  of 
nursing  degree  at  UMass,  Boston.  Kristin 
Midura  is  obtaining  her  nursing  degree 
through  the  University  of  Maryland  in 
Baltimore.  Colleen  Sheehy  received  her 
master's  from  BC  and  is  starting  her  second 
year  teaching  at  a  charter  school  in  South 
Boston.  •  Jared  N.  Leland  was  recently 
admitted  to  the  Pennsylvania  bar  and  is 
currently  legal  counsel  for  a  firm  in 
Washington,  DC.  John  Cardillo  graduated 
from  law  school  at  Florida  State  University 
in  May  2003.  After  passing  the  Florida 
bar,  John  is  currently  working  at  the  law 
firm  Cardillo,  Keith  and  Bonaquist,  PA,  in 
Naples,  FL.  Erin  Nicholson  Maloney  has 
joined  the  law  firm  Bond,  Schoeneck  & 
King,  PLLC,  in  Syracuse,  NY.  Erin  received 
her  J.D.  from  Duke  University  in  2003.  Gia 
G.  Incardone  has  become  an  associate  in  the 
bankruptcy  department  at  Cole,  Schotz, 
Meisel,  Forman  &  Leonard,  PA,  in 
Hackensack,  NJ.  Gia  received  her  J.D.  from 
Fordham  University  in  New  York  City, 
where  she  was  a  member  of  the  Fordham 
International  Law  Review,  the  Fordham 
Moot  Court  Board,  and  the  Fordham 
Domestic     Violence     Advocacy     Center. 

•  Caitlin  Frey  and  Tim  O'Malley  were 
married  on  June  21,  2003.  The  wedding 
party  included  Marnie  Bonifacic,  Dave 
Cacciapaglia,  John  Edenbach,  Jeff  McGinn, 
Tommy  Mulvoy,  Amy  Smith  and  Kelly 
Zaremba.  Also  attending  the  wedding  were 
Kim  Arbuckle,  Becky  Behen,  Kevin  Bodkin, 
Jamie  Chiarieri,  Patrick  English,  Courtney 
Fish,  Julie  Frisoli,  Tom  Gallagher,  Meghan 
Gilligan,  Tony  Hutchins,  Julianne  Marrone, 
Adrienne  Schnaper  McGarr,  Kevin  McGarr, 
Shawn  McGinn,  Kellie  Misiaszek,  Katie 
Ryan,  Emily  Santos,  Liz  Shevlin,  Kate 
Sullivan,  Michael  Sutphin  and  Jay  Wren. 

•  Paul  Brandano  was  married  to  Allegra 
Pollock  on  July  5,  2003,  at  the  Four  Seasons 
Biltmore  in  Santa  Barbara,  CA.  Peter 
Brandano  served  as  the  best  man,  and  Ellis 
Disch,  Donald  Oliveira,  Joe  Zambella  and 
Ernie  Kappotis  ('01),  were  ushers.  Laura 
Mazor  ('01)  was  a  bridesmaid.  Tara 
Ferguson  and  Chris  Ciulla  ('97),  were  also 
in  attendance.  Paul  is  currently  pursuing  his 
M.B.A.  at  the  Anderson  School  at  UCLA. 
Allegra  received  a  master's  in  journalism 


CLASS  NOTES   2J 


from  BU  in  2001  and  is  now  an  editorial 
assistant  at  Western  Interiors  and  Design 
magazine.  •  Stephen  Holland,  Jr.,  married 
Lindsay  Phillips  in  Simpsonville,  SC,  on 
August  9,  2003.  Groomsmen  included 
Craig  Marinho,  Jon  Mendicina  and  Joe 
Sparacino.  Other  BC  alumni  in  attendance 
were  James  Arrajj,  Lisa  Gallagher,  Christy 
Jaeger,  Laura  Maestranzi,  Mike  Peters  and 
Kevin  Teaken.  Steve  and  Lindsay  continue  to 
live  in  South  Carolina  with  their  daughter, 
Sydney.  •  Jon  Mendicina  and  Lisa  Gallagher 
were  married  on  September  27,  2003,  in 
Boston.  Steve  Holland,  Craig  Marinho  and 
Joe  Sparacino  were  groomsmen.  Tara 
Ferguson  was  a  bridesmaid.  Other  Class  of 
2000  members  in  attendance  were  Marc 
Albano,  Joey  Bergida,  Becky  Carney,  Hugh 
Cauthers  and  his  wife,  Chrissy,  Cathy 
Cianci,  Rob  Cinguina,  Joe  Daly,  Meg 
Flannery,  Mary  Ellen  Frydenlund,  Erin 
Lynch,  Mike  Peters,  Jackie  Shea,  Elyssa 
Vasas,  and  Joe  Zambella.  Other  BC  alumni 
were  Stephanie  Donovan  ('99),  Diana  Erba 
('93),  Kristin  Lucier  ('97),  Khristine 
(Seneres)  Naughton  ('96),  and  Annie 
Reckhemmer  ('01).  The  couple  will  remain 
in  Massachusetts  after  their  honeymoon  to 
Hawaii.  •  Courtney  Byers  married  Samuel 
Gough  on  October  17,  2003,  in  Brick,  NJ. 
Fellow  classmates  Sakeena  Baccas,  Shannon 
Corkery,  Katie  Cowden,  Danielle  Kayal, 
Leanne  Simpson  and  Sandra  Spencer  were 
in  attendance.  Courtney's  cousin  Joseph 
Byers  ('99)  was  a  groomsman.  •  On  October 
24,  2003,  Chris  Celentano  married  his 
high-school  sweetheart,  Christina  Reide,  in 
New  York.  Chris  Goff,  Sean  Howell  and 
Kevin  Meehan  were  groomsmen.  Other 
alumni  attending  the  wedding  were  Meghan 
Barry,  Jessica  Conway,  Bess  Denney, 
Kevin  and  Lisa  English,  Ellen  Finnigan, 
Laura  Funken,  Sean  Keithly,  Pete 
Liegel,  Emily  Rehwinkel,  Missy  Salas, 
Liz  Spranzani,  Jen  Thomas,  and  Matt 
Chabot  ('9  9).  Chris  graduated  from 
Brooklyn  Law  School  in  June  2003  and  is 
now  an  associate  at  Sedgwick,  Detert 
Moran  &  Arnold  LLP  in  Manhattan.  •  On 
November  8,  2003,  Becky  Behen  and  Jamie 
Chiarieri  were  married.  The 

wedding  party  included  Eric  Anderson,  John 
Farren,  Kevin  Fee,  Deedee  Ogilvie  and 
Kathleen  Pollock.  Other  members  of  the 
class  of  2000  were  also  in  attendance, 
including  Kim  Arbuckle,  Kevin  Bodkin, 
Matt  Burke,  Patrick  English,  Jessica 
Glassberg,  Kristen  Grabowski,  Carrie 
Everett  Heffernan,  Katie  Henderson, 
Adrienne  Schnaper  McGarr,  Kevin  McGarr, 
Jeff  McGinn,  Shawn  McGinn,  Kieran 
O'Connor,  Andy  Patton,  Beth  Gnazzo 
Riesch,  Christian  Riesch,  Ryan  Robson, 
Emily  Santos,  Carrie  Scuorzo,  Liz  Shevlin, 
Katie  Williams,  Michael  Winter,  Jay  Wren 
and  Corinne  Zadigan. 


Erin  Mary  R.  Ackerman 

The  Salter  School 

2  Florence  St. 

Maiden,  MA  02148 

bostoncollegeoi@hotmail.com 


Suzanne  Harte 

6  Everett  Ave. 

Winchester,  MA  01890 

617-656-5439 

hartesb@caesar.bc.edu 


Michael  D.  Reif  is  a  candidate  for  Director, 
West  of  the  Mississippi  in  the  2004-05  Boston 
College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors  Election.  Please  take  the  time  to 
review  the  ballot  and  candidate  information 
beginning  on  page  31  of  this  Class  Notes  section. 
Your  participation  in  this  election  process  is 
important.  Make  your  voice  heard! 

Lieutenant  John  D.  Beary  graduated  from 
US  Army  Ranger  School  in  March  2003  and 
began  duty  with  the  eighty-second  Airborne 
Division  at  Fort  Bragg,  NC.  He  is  now 
assigned  to  the  505th  Parachute  Infantry 
Regiment,  also  known  as  the  Panther 
Regiment.  J.  D.  has  been  in  Iraq  since 
August,  in  command  of  a  heavy-weapons 
platoon.  He  is  located  between  the  Tigris 
River  and  the  Syrian  border.  We  all  wish  him 
a  safe  and  healthy  return  home.  If  you 
would  like  to  write  to  J.  D.,  mail  can  be  sent 
to  him  at  3-BCT  D-CO,  3-505-PIR,  eighty- 
second  Airborne  Division,  APO-AE  09384. 
•  Nina  Renda  married  Justin  Liborio  on 
September  27.  The  wedding  was  held  in 
Somerville  (NJ)  with  the  reception  in 
Morristown  (NJ).  In  attendance  were  Beth 
Schulz,  Kate  O'Keeffe,  Brooke  Kerkorian, 
Emily  Ricci,  Meredith  Castaldo  and  Angela 
Muccino. 


Class  Notes  Editor 

Boston  College  Alumni  House 

825  Centre  St. 

Newton,  MA  02458 

classnotes@bc.edu 


Still  overflowing  with  memories  of  Boston 
College  and  always  wishing  life  were  still  as 
easy  as  juggling  four  classes,  extracurricular 
activities,  and  the  obligatory  trips  to  bars  and 
social  gatherings,  the  class  of  2003  is  faced 
with  big  changes.  We  are  all  now  amidst  the 
shocking  reality  that  —  yes  —  there  is  life 
after  BC,  and  —  yes  —  we  must  live  it.  Many 
of  the  members  of  our  class  are  doing  just 
that.  •  Brett  T.  Huneycutt  is  currently  a 
Fulbright  scholar  in  El  Salvador;  he  also  has 
been  selected  as  one  of  the  first  Rhodes 
Scholars  from  BC  and  plans  on  attending 
Oxford  next  fall  to  further  study  economics. 
Sara  Rosen  is  traveling  to  Mexico  for  six 
months  through  Visions  in  Action,  a 
grassroots  service  program.  Karen  Hoff 
has  received  Phi  Delta'  Kappa's  2003 
Excellence  in  Student  Teaching  Award, 
which  recognizes  the  remarkable  potential 
of  those  beginning  careers  in  education. 
•  Also  beginning  a  career  in  education  is 
Justin  Meyers,  a  volunteer  through  the  ACE 
program  of  Notre  Dame  who  is  teaching  in 
Pensacola,  FL,  while  earning  his  master's  in 
education.  Mathias  Schildwachter,  currently 
volunteering  through  the  PLACE  Corps  in 
LA,  is  earning  both  a  master's  in  education 
and  a  teaching  certification  during  his 
placement.  Ariana  Ebrahimian  is  currently 
serving  in  the  Jesuit  Volunteer  Corps, 
Southwest  Region,  at  a  Catholic 
elementary  school.  •  Also  with  the  JVC,  Beth 
Glauber  is  the  charitable-works  assistant 


at  a  food  pantry  called  St.  Vincent  de  Paul,  in 
Billings,  MT  Kara  Kilpa trick  will  be  starting 
a  ten-month  Americorps  Program  known  as 
NCCC;  her  home  base  will  be  Denver,  CO, 
although  she  will  work  on  various  service 
projects  across  the  Midwest  region.  •  Malini 
DeSilva  is  in  LA,  volunteering  through  the 
Vincentian  Service  Corps;  she  is  an  employ- 
ment specialist  at  Chrysalis,  a  program  for 
economically  disadvantaged  and  homeless 
individuals.  Andrew  DelBoccio  is  also  in  LA, 
attending  USC  for  accounting  and  planning 
to  move  to  San  Francisco  next  fall.  Tina 
Neuner  is  currendy  enrolled  in  USC's  Ph.D. 
program,  studying  neuroscience.  •  Pam 
Longar  is  a  naval  nurse  on  the  oncology 
floor  of  a  hospital  in  San  Diego.  Maile  Yuen 
is  an  ensign  in  the  US  Navy  aboard  USS 
Preble  DDG-88,  in  training  as  the  communi- 
cations officer  in  San  Diego.  •  Katie 
Williamson  is  working  for  Victoria  Hagan 
Interiors,  an  interior-design  firm  in  NYC. 
Mary  Clemens  is  a  media  buyer  at  OMD, 
also  in  NYC.  Kelly  Agostinacchio  is  an 
accountant  at  Ernst  &  Young  on  Long 
Island.  •  Katrina  Pardo  is  a  resource  special- 
ist for  the  Inpatient  Psychiatry  Unit  at 
Children's  Hospital,  Boston.  Stephanie 
Wolfe  is  working  at  the  TJX  Corp.,  near 
Boston,  in  the  buyer-training  program.  Joe 
Reganato  is  a  campus  minister  at  Catholic 
Central  HS  in  Lawrence.  •  Tegan  Pollock 
married  Todd  Willard  on  October  n,  2003; 
the  ceremony  was  held  in  Wethersfield,  CT, 
among  family  and  friends.  •  Marin  Kirby 
will  be  the  literary-management  intern  at 
the  Steppenwolf  Theatre  Company  in 
Chicago,  beginning  this  January.  •  I  would 
love  to  have  more  news  to  spread  in  the  next 
edition,  so  please  e-mail  me  with  any 
announcements!  Looking  forward  to 
hearing  from  everyone. 


Carroll 
School 


Kristen  M.  Murphy 

Fulton  Hall,  Room  315 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467 

617-552-4479 

gsom.alumni@bc.edu 


We  regret  to  inform  you  that  Rhonda  K 
Channing  passed  away  in  July  2003.  During 
her  life  she  served  as  director  of  the  Z. 
Smith  Reynolds  Library  at  Wake  Forest 
University.  She  was  formerly  the  assistant 
university  librarian  at  the  O'Neill  Library  of 
Boston  College. 


Connell 
School 


Laurel  A.  Eisenhauer 

Cushing  Hall,  Room  202 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467 

laurel.eisenhauer@bc.edu 


Carol  Picard  (Ph.D.  '98),  has  been  elected 
president-elect  of  Sigma  Theta  Tau 
International,  the  nursing  honor  society. 
Several  alums  were  co-authors  (with  SON 
professor  June  Horowitz)  of  an  article  — 
"Promoting  responsiveness  between  moth- 
ers with  depression  and  their  infants"  — 
that  received  a  Best  of  Nursing  Scholarship 
Award  at  the  recent  convention  of  Sigma 
Theta  Tau:  Margaret  Bell  (M.S.  '94),  Lisa 
McCordic  (M.S.  '96),  Elyse  Sokol  (M.S.  '99), 
JoAnn  Trybulski  (Ph.D.  '01),  and  Shelley 
Hartz  (M.S.  '98).  •  Ellen  McCarty  (Ph.D. 


28  www.bc.edu/alumni 


'93),  on  faculty  at  Salve  Regina  University, 
published  an  article  on  professional  care 
givers'  perceptions  of  self  care  with  care  for 
patients  with  Alzheimer's  disease  in  the 
Journal  of  Gerontological  Nursing.  •  Elizabeth 
Burgess  Dowdell  (M.S.  '97),  is  now  on  the 
faculty  at  Villanova  University.  She  recently 
published  an  article  on  urban  seventh 
graders  and  smoking  in  Issues  in 
Comprehensive  Pediatric  Nursing.  •  Stephanie 
Chalupka  (M.S.  '81),  recently  received 
a  grant  award  for  "Cross-cultural 
approaches  to  healthy  homes"  from  the  US 
Department  of  Housing  and  Urban 
Development.  She  also  presented  papers 
at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  American 
Public  Health  Association  and  at  a  meeting 
of  the  National  Institute  for  Environmental 
Health  Sciences.  •  Three  alums,  Joan 
Agretelis  (M.S.  '96,  Ph.D.  '99),  Carol 
Picard,  and  Rosanna  DeMarco,  (M.S.  '76), 
presented  a  poster  on  "Clinical  insights 
shared  by  nurse  cancer  survivors"  at  the 
Oncology  Nursing  Society  Congress  in 
Denver  and  at  the  Canadian  Association  of 
Psychosocial  Oncology,  held  in  Alberta. 
.  Doug  Olsen  (Ph.D.  '94),  on  faculty  at  Yale, 
recently  published  an  article  on  ethical 
issues  in  international  research  in  Nursing 
Ethics.  •  Four  Ph.D.  alums  returned  to 
campus  to  share  their  post-Ph.D. 
experiences  at  a  SON  Ph.D.  colloquium: 
Diane  Berry  (M.S.  '97,  Ph.D.  '02),  Ginger 
Capasso  (Ph.D.  '00),  Laura  Mylott  (Ph.D. 
'00),  and  Nancy  Hanrahan  (Ph.D.  '03). 
•  Karen  Aroian  (M.S.  '79)  co-authored  an 
article  on  "Assessing  risk  of  depression 
among  immigrants  at  two-year  follow-up" 
in  Archives  of  Psychiatric  Nurses.  •  Lin  Zhan 
(Ph.D.  '93)  presented  "Toward  understand- 
ing of  dementia  care  giving  in  African 
American,  Latino  and  Chinese  Families"  at 
the  meeting  of  the  Gerontological  Society  of. 
America.  •  Deborah  Mahoney  (M.S.  '86) 
co-authored  a  paper  on  African  American 
family  caregivers  that  was  published  in 
Dementia:  The  International  Journal  of  Social 
Research  and  Practice.  •  Jean  O'Neil  (M.S. 
'63),  presented  "Patient  responses  to 
ambulatory  surgery"  at  the  ACENDIO 
European  Conference  in  Paris.  •  Three 
alums,  Margaret  Kearney  (M.S.  '87),  Lois 
Haggerty  (M.S.  '69),  and  Joellen  Hawkins 
(M.S.  '69),  presented  a  poster  at  the  State  of 
the  Science  Nursing  Research  Conference  in 
Washington,  DC.  •  Joanne  O'Sullivan,  (M.S. 
'97,  Ph.D.)  '03,  and  Margaret  Kearney,  (M.S. 
'87),  published  "Identity  shifts  as  turning 
point  in  health  behavior  change"  in  the 
Western  Journal  of  Nursing  Research. 


Maine,   Massachusetts,   New  Hampshire, 
Wisconsin  and  Rhode  Island. 


GA&S 


Michael  A.  Smyer 

McCuinn  Hall,  Room  221-A 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467 

617-552-3265 


GSSW 


Linda  Rosa 

McCuinn  Hall,  Room  208-B 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467 

doucettl@bc.edu 


William  F.  Moynihan  (M.S.W.  '46)  of 
Holyoke,  a  long  time  leader  of  Nashville 
Social  Work,  died  in  November  at  the  age 
of  82.  Moynihan  spent  his  years  as  executive 
director  of  various  different  Human  Service 
organizations.  He  also  was  commissioned  to 
write  the  fifty-year  history  on  Family 
and  Children's  Services.  He  received  a 
Lifetime  Achievement  award  of  the  Middle 
Tennessee  Board  of  N.A.S.W  and  numerous 
other  awards.  •  James  Marrinan  (M.S.W.  '61) 
has  accepted  the  offer  to  join  the  Board  of 
Directors  of  the  United  Way  of  the  National 
Capitol  Area  in  memory  of  fellow  BCGSSW 
alum  Larry  Collins.  •  Sister  Mary  Henrietta 
Domingo  (M.S.W.  '96,  Ph.D.  '02)  has  been 
elected  Superior  General  of  the  Eucharistic 
Heart  of  Jesus  Sisters.  Sister  Mary  Henrietta 
has  been  highly  affiliated  with  Boston 
College  as  both  a  two-time  alumna  and  a 
faculty  member.  She  has  also  worked  with 
African  and  Nigerian  Catholic  communities 
in  the  Archdiocese  of  Boston  and  is 
currently  the  President  of  the  African 
Women  Religious  Conference.  •  Paul 
Crawford  (Ph.D.  '02)  is  carrying  out  his 
duties  as  a  Capuchin  Friar  in  many  ways.  He 
has  most  recendy  been  elected  to  be  the 
President  of  the  Granite  State  Organizing 
Project.  Paul  is  also  the  Catholic  Chaplain  of 
the  Youth  Development  Center  in 
Manchester  as  well  as  for  the  Youth 
Detention  Service  Unit  in  Concord.  •  Gail 
Edwards  Medeiros  (M.S.W.  '71)  has  recendy 
retired  after  working  for  thirty-five  years  for 
the  MA  Department  of  Social  Services,  the 
last  fifteen  being  as  the  Area  Director  in 
Lowell.  Gail  is  enjoying  her  retirement  and 
staying  busy.  •  Michael  Norton  (M.S.W.  '93) 
is  now  the  Deputy  Commissioner  of  the 
Department  of  Mental  Health.  He  manages 
the  Medicaid  behavior  health  plan. 


Law 


Vicki  Sanders 

885  Centre  St. 

Newton,  MA  02459 

sandervi@bc.edu 


T  -\/ XT /"*  T_J    Director  of  Alumni  Relations 
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WCAS 


Jane  T.  Crimlisk 

416  Belgrade  Ave.,  Apt.  25 

West  Roxbury,  MA  02132 


Robert    Gerardi    (D.Ed.    '80),    has    been 

appointed  superintendent  of  schools  for  the 

Washington  West   Supervisory   Union  in 

Waitsfield,  VT,  for  the  2003-04  academic 

year.      Robert   has   previously   held   the     As  a  member  of  the  Alumni  Spiritual  Life 

superintendent's  position  in  New  Jersey,     Committee,    I    attended    two    memorial 


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Masses  in  November.  The  first  Mass  was 
held  in  memory  of  all  deceased  alumni,  on 
Sunday,  November  2,  at  St.  Ignatius,  fol- 
lowed by  a  reception  at  the  Heights  room.  It 
was  well  attended,  but  we  would  like  the 
church  to  be  filled  to  capacity  next 
November.  The  second  Mass  was  held  in 
memory  of  all  Boston  College  veterans,  at 
the  Heights  room  on  November  11,  and  was 
followed  by  a  luncheon.  Both  events  were 
very  meaningful.  Again,  it  is  hoped  that 
more  people  will  attend  the  annual 
November  2  memorial.  I  met  Ann  Flaherty 
('03),  at  the  reception  on  November  2.  Ann 
works  for  security  at  Boston  College  and  is 
enrolled  in  a  graduate  program,  studying 
theology.  Good  luck  with  your  studies,  Ann. 

•  Brian  Smail,  OFM,  ('89)  is  extremely  busy 
with  varied  ministries  at  St.  Anthony's 
Shrine,  Boston.  I  chatted  briefly  with  Father 
Brian  while  attending  a  Partners  in  Ministry 
day  at  St.  Anthony's,  where  I  serve  as  a 
Eucharistic  minister.  •  I  saw  Mary  Amsler 
('49)  at  the  annual  Mass.  Citizens  for  Life. 

•  While  walking  along  Center  Street  in  West 
Roxbury  on  November  30,  I  met  Executive 
Director  of  the  Boston  College  Alumni 
Association,  Grace  Cotter  Regan  ('82),  and 
her  husband,  Bernard  Regan  ('82).  Glad  I 
was  on  my  best  behavior. 


CLASS  NOTES   2Q, 


ALUMNI     ASSOCIATION 

CHAPTER  NOTES 


Dear  Friends, 

On  behalf  of  the  Alumni  Association,  I  hope  you  enjoyed  the  holiday  season  and  wish  all  of  you  health  and  happi- 
ness in  the  New  Year.  The  Alumni  Association  ended  the  year  witn  some  very  memorable  events  and  there  are 
many  more  exciting  ones  on  the  way. 

Boston  College  rang  in  the  New  Year  cheering  the  Eagles  to  a  victory  over  Colorado  State  in  the  2003  Diamond 
Walnut  San  Francisco  Bowl.  The  Eagles  traveled  home  with  their  fourth  bowl  victory  in  five  consecutive  bowl 
appearances.  While  in  San  Francisco,  the  Alumni  Association  organized  tours  of  Napa  Valley,  Alcatraz,  Muir 
Woods  and  Sausalito.  Our  festivities  began  with  a  welcome  reception  where  Executive  Director  Grace  Cotter  Regan 
'82  and  National  Board  of  Directors  President  John  Griffin,  Jr.  '65  greeted  alumni  and  friends.  I  would  like  to  thank 
Northern  California  leaders  Julie  Finora  McAfee  '93  and  Kerri  Anglin  '94  for  hosting  our  alumni  and  friends  at  a 
spirited  chapter  party  on  the  eve  of  the  big  game.  A  tailgate  party  attended  by  over  600  Eagle  fans  preceded  the 
game.  They  were  welcomed  by  University  President  William  P.  Leahy,  SJ,  and  Athletic  Director  Gene  DeFilippo.  We 
also  had  guest  appearances  by  the  radio  voice  of  the  BC  Eagles,  Peter  Cronan  '77,  and  the  Boston  College 
marching  band  ana  cheerleaders.  As  our  fans  entered  Pac  Bell  Park,  they  brought  with  them  the  sound  of  thunder, 
as  the  stands  were  full  of  maroon  and  gold  thundersticks,  compliments  of  Savings  Bank  Life  Insurance  (SBLI).  I'd 
also  like  to  thank  Mike  Seibert,  president  of  Quinwell  Travel,  and  his  team  for  their  efforts  in  making  this  year's 
bowl  appearance  a  rousing  success. 

The  Alumni  Association  has  continued  to  bring  The  Church  in  the  21st  Century  initiative  to  our  alumni  across  the 

country.  Designed  to  explore  the  issues  emerging  from  the  scandal  in  the  Catholic  Church,  these  dialogues  have  been  tremendously  well  received  and  we 
look  forward  to  more  in  the  future.  In  January,  Father  Leahy  hosted  area  alumni  in  Los  Angeles  at  Loyola  Marymount  University.  In  February  and  March, 
Father  hosted  dialogues  in  Atlanta  (GA),  Naples  (FL)  and  Chicago  (\l).  In  addition,  we  welcomed  James  Fleming,  SJ,  on  the  road  with  us  as  he  discussed 
the  Church  in  the  21st  Century  with  our  Fairfield  County  Chapter.  I'd  like  to  thank  all  of  our  leaders  and  committee  members  for  their  support  and  dedi- 
cation to  these  important  events. 

The  national  chapter  initiative  continues  to  take  shape,  and  we  are  very  encouraged  by  the  support  of  the  Boston  College  community  and  our  National 
Board  of  Directors.  Our  initiative  is  designed  to  elevate  the  role  of  our  leaders  as  ambassadors  of  Boston  College,  while  alleviating  the 
administrative  responsibilities  that  ultimately  tire  both  leaders  and  their  committees.  Among  the  volunteer  resources  we  have  developed  are  a  leader 
handbook  to  assist  leaders  and  committee  members  on  the  "how  to's"  of  effectively  managing  a  chapter  while  clearly  outlining  what  additional  resources 
the  Alumni  Association  will  provide.  Our  new  brand  and  logo  have  been  introduced  and  templates  for  newsletters  and  invitations  are  now  being 
utilized.  We  are  finalizing  our  national  dues  structure  and  are  very  pleased  with  the  benefits  that  will  be  offered  to  all  dues  paying  members.  Shortly, 
we  will  be  able  to  offer  each  chapter  its  own  Web  site,  enabling  them  to  promote  upcoming  events,  report  chapter  news,  display  appropriate  contact  infor- 
mation, post  pictures,  and  link  directly  to  the  Boston  College  Web  site.  These  innovations  will  continue  as  we  strive  to  develop  this  important 
initiative  nationwide. 

Along  with  these  additional  resources,  we  are  experiencing  a  revitalization  in  many  areas  of  the  country.  I  would  like  to  thank  Renee  Gorski  Morgan  '97 
for  her  commitment  to  the  Cleveland  Chapter  and  look  forward  to  their  first  chapter  event  in  the  coming  months.  I  would  also  like  to 
acknowledge  the  dedication  of  Kenton  Brooks  '91,  J.D.  '94  for  his  leadership  in  Orange  County,  CA.  As  we  prepare  for  our  entrance  into  the  Atlantic  Coast 
Conference  in  2005,  we  look  forward  to  establishing  chapters  in  Virginia,  Maryland,  South  Carolina,  and  Florida. 

In  closing,  I  encourage  all  of  our  alumni  and  friends  to  get  involved  with  their  local  chapter  and  also  to  register  for  our  online  community. 
For  updates  and  additional  information,  please  visit  our  Web  site  at  www.bc.edu/alumni  or  contact  me  at  jack.moynihan@bc.edu  with  comments  or 
suggestions.  We  are  committed  to  reconnecting  our  alumni  throughout  the  world  to  Boston  College.  On  behalf  of  all  of  us  at  Alumni  House,  thank  you 
for  your  continued  support  and  enthusiasm. 

Go  Eagles! 
lock    rOa#n^a^, 

Jack  Moynihan 

Senior  Associate  Director 


PHOENIX,  AZ 

LOS  ANGELES,  CA 

ORANGE  COUNTY,  CA 

SAN   DIEGO,  CA 

NORTHERN  CALIFORNIA 

FAIRFIELD  COUNTY,  CT 

HARTFORD,  CT 

DENVER,  CO 

WASHINGTON,  DC 

MIAMI,  FL 

SOUTHWEST  FLORIDA 

CENTRAL  FLORIDA 

PALM   BEACH,  FL 

SARASOTA,  FL 

TAMPA  BAY,  FL 

ATLANTA,  GA 

CHICAGO,  IL 

INDIANAPOLIS,  IN 

BALTIMORE,  MD 

PORTLAND,  ME 

BOSTON,  MA 


Martin  S.  Ridge  '67 
Harry  R.  Hirshorn  '89 
Kenton  Brooks  '91,  J.D.  '94 
Peter  J.  Salmon  '88 
Kerri  Anglin  '94 
Julie  Finora  McAfee  '93 
Dave  Telep  '96 
Marco  Pace  '93 
Christopher  M.  Doran  '68 
Vacant 

Misty  Wheeler  '86 
Christopher  K.  Heaslip  '86 
Robert  P.  Vilece  '89 
Michael  DiForio  '98 
Richard  Ewing  '98 
William  F.  Hackett  '66 
Cam  Van  Noord  '76 
Karen  Begelfer  '95 
Charles  Rego  '92 
Stephen  E.  Ferrucci  '87,  J.D. 
Brian  Curry  '71 
Kenneth  D.  Pierce  '79 
John  R.  Craven  '96 


90 


CAPE  COD,   MA 

WESTERN   MASSACHUSETTS 

MINNEAPOLIS,  MN 

ST.   LOUIS,  MO 

CHARLOTTE,   NC 

MANCHESTER,  NH 

NEW  JERSEY 

NORTHEASTERN   NEW  YORK 

NEW  YORK,  NY 

WESTCHESTER  COUNTY,   NY 

CLEVELAND,  OH 

PHILADELPHIA,  PA 

WESTERN   PENNSYLVANIA 

RHODE  ISLAND 

SOUTH  CAROLINA 

DALLAS,  TX 

VIRGINIA 

SEATTLE,  WA 

WISCONSIN 

GREAT  BRITAIN 

GREECE 


Martin  J.  Joyce  '51 

Robert  T.  Crowley,  Jr.  '70 

Roshan  Rajkumar  '95 

Jack  Stapleton  '78 

Christopher  Kubala  '93,  M.B.A.  '00 

William  Hamrock  '45 

Michael  Nyklewicz  '86 

Nancy  Spadaro  Bielawa  '85 

Dineen  Riviezzo  '89 

R.  Michael  Wirin  '89 

Stephen  Prostano  '79 

Renee  Gorski  Morgan  '97 

John  G.  Sherlock  '87 

Brian  '92  and  Suzanne  Walters  '92 

Lisa  J.  King  '81 

Vacant 

Christine  M.  Horstman  '92 

Vacant 

Kristen  M.  Johnson  '98 

Andrew  G.  Docktor  '86 

Bryan  McLaughlin  '95 

Dave  Krupinski  '88 


30  www.bc.edu/alumni 


In  Memoriam 


1927 

James  E.  O'Leary 01/03 

1929 

Edward  D.  O'Brien 10/03 

fames  J.  Regan °9/°3 

1930 

Francis  C.  Murphy n/99 

1931 

Joseph  D.  Daley 10/03 

Richard  J.  Gorman 

Frederick  C.  Labrecque I2/o3 

1932 

Edward  B.  Cass 0I/°3 

James  J.  Donohoe 01/01 

Gerald  R.  Kelley 12/02 

1933 

Rev.  Henry  A.  Williamson,  SJ... 04/99 

1934 

Martin  F.  Melia 10/03 

1935 

Daniel  G.  Holland I2/°3 

John  J.  Magee I2/°3 

John  J.  Murphy IO/°3 

Raymond  J.  O'Neill 08/03 

1937 

Rev.  Henry  F.  Barry I2/o3 

Rev.  Leonard  J.  Burke 09/03 

Leo  J.  Coveney 08/03 

Albert  M.  J.  Folkard I2/°3 

Fr.  John  J.  McCabe,  M.M 09/03 

John  V.  McCarthy 06/03 

John  L.  O'Hara ....10/03 

Edward  J.  Power IO/°3 

1938 

Joseph  P.  Home i2/o3 

1939 

John  F.  Cavan 10/03 

Roy  T.  Lydon n/03 

H.  Thomas  Maguire n/03 

John  G.  Murphy 09/03 

Paul  W.  Needham I2/°3 

1940 

Joseph  V.  Cronin n/°3 

Joseph  F.  Dannehy I2/°3 

John  F.  Mitchell 121/03 

Maurice  B.  Walsh,  SJ IO/°3 

1941 

John  J.  Cranky 09/03 

Leonard  M.  Frisoli I2/o3 

Francis  J.  O'Connor 01/03 

Frank  A.  Stanton I2/o3 

1942 

John  R.  Doyle 08/03 

John  J.  Gibbons 08/03 

John  F.  Kelley IO/°3 

!943 

John  C.  Acton 

Taylor  Ahem 09/03 

Fr.  Robert  C.  Bryson 04/03 

Elmo  J.  Bregoli 07/03 

James  P.  Connolly i2/o3 

Francis  T  Conroy IO/o3 

John  Foyne 04/03 

Frank  A.  Lind I2/o3 

Thomas  F.  Meehan n/°3 

Robert  A.  Radley IO/°3 

Edward  K.  Welch 09/02 

1944 

Walter  V.  Collins 10/03 

1945 

James  J.  Harrington 08/03 

John  J.  McAleer n/03 

James  W.  McKenna °9/92 

Joseph  J.  O'Connor n//°3 

1948 

John  M.  Corcoran IO/°3 

Robert  E.  Cunniff. 07/03 

J.  Thomas  Linehan 10/03 

Alex  H.  MacLean 12/00 

George  F.  Waters 06/03 

1949 

George  J.  Fournier I2/03 

James  P.  Harvey I2/°3 

Richard  J.  Millard n/03 

Thomas  F.  O'Connor 09/03 

1950 

George  E.  Cote n/03 


Albert  G.  Curry IO/°3 

Thomas  W  Doyle I2/o3 

John  P.  Garrahan °9/°3 

Bernard  F.  Halligan Jo/o3 

Georgena  Thome  Harding n/03 

Richard  J.  Knight,  Jr. Jo/o3 

John  E.  Madigan 06/03 

John  H.  Maloney n/03 

Barbara  McCarthy  Munn n/03 

John  P.  McGonagle 09/03 

Edward  F.  Pierce 09/03 

Jerome  J.  Plant 02/84 

William  V.  Ryan n/°3 

Paul  J.  Shea I2/o3 

Herbert  J.  Wiesenfield 02/01 

1951 

Charles  A.  Bacigalupo 08/03 

Sr.  Marion  R.  Chaloux 07/03 

Vincent  C.  Connors i2/o3 

Joseph  F.  Cusick,  Jr. 04/03 

Joseph  L.  Dooley,  Jr. °9/°3 

Richard  A.  Donohoe 04/03 

Paul  A.  Lauzon  I2/o3 

John  F.  Mahoney 11/01 

John  H.  Monahan,  Sr. 10/03 

Angelo  C.  Pappalardo n/03 

George  L.  Pillion 02/02 

Albert  A.  Polito 

John  E.  Tevnan 08/03 

Ronald  M.  Weyand 07/03 

1952 

William  E.  Costello i2/03 

Lewis  J.  Jones I2/o3 

James  T  McMahon 08/03 

Albert  Pizzi 04/03 

Rev.  James  L.  Publicover II[/o3 

J.  Warren  Sennott 09/03 

1953 

Martha  Kfoury  Bartlett n/03 

Walter  L.  Cullman °9/°3 

James  J.  Farrell 04/87 

Benjamin  A.  Hopkins 08/03 

Kenneth  F.  Hunt °9/°3 

Martin  J.  Kane n/03 

Joseph  E.  Marran 08/03 

Gerald  J.  McLaughlin II/°3 

George  M.  Sullivan i2/o3 

1954 

James  D.  Burns 12/03 

Peter  Janollari 08/03 

Joseph  F.  Johnson n/03 

Lloyd  J.  MacDougall n/03 

Wallace  C.  MacKinnon n/03 

Robert  L.  Publicover n/03 

'955 

Harry  J.  Carroll 07/03 

James  F.  Davey :o/o3 

Michael  Derosa 11/00 

William  V.  Dorney,  Jr. 08/03 

J.  Alan  Drummond °5/°3 

Rev.  Daniel  Coyne  Lewis,  SJ 09/03 

Alfred  P.  McNamara IO/o3 

1956 

James  J.  Geary 01/01 

Stanley  B.  Hale I2/°3 

Richard  L.  Myles n/03 

1957 

James  F.  Donovan 06/03 

Janet  B.  Easdon 08/03 

Virginia  M.  Graham 10/02 

1958 

Vincent  J.  Amicangelo n/03 

Michael  J.  Bennett IO/°3 

Francis  X.  Doran n/03 

George  J.  Fitzgerald °9/°3 

James  F.  Hudson n/03 

Patricia  O'Leary  Moriarty n/03 

Henry  P.  Zielinski 02/03 

1959 

Alan  J.  Courier °9/°3 

Edward  G.  Furlong 09/03 

Dorothy  M.  Mahoney 08/03 

Thomas  O.  Murphy 05/03 

Richard  D.  Murray n/03 

Rita  M.  Webb 10/03 

i960 

Helen  M.  Curley 09/03 

1961 

Robert  W  Hatch 08/03 

Elizabeth  A.  Sheehan OI/94 


1962 

Brian  E.  McDermott 12/03 

Patricia  Fedrini  McGreavy 12/96 

1963 

Michael  F.  Lane 09/00 

Peter  J.  Mahoney 09/02 

Harvey  A.  Phelps 10/03 

Girard  W  Wallace 02/00 

1964 

Edward  J.  Doyle 12/00 

David  C.  Dykeman 08/03 

Rodney  A.  Maciejewski I2/o3 

Carol  Melanson  McGovern 08/03 

Catherine  L.  Scala 10/02 

1965 

John  T  Connor 10/00 

Karl  T  Koerber 01/00 

Chester  F.  Kozlowski 09/03 

Douglas  R.  Labrecque 

1966 

Thomas  L.  Bulgar I2/o3 

Mary  T.  Conway °3/°3 

1967 

George  D.  Bennett 10/01 

Grace  M.  Bourgault 03/01 

Eleanor  C.  Hemphill 11/00 

Daniel  M.  Maguire 08/02 

William  J.  Serow n/03 

David  W.  Shores n/03 

1968 

Andres  Luis  Detorres 06/96 

1969 

Ronald  A.  MacDonald 09/03 

1970 

Christina  Rosa  Farrah 08/03 

Charles  A.  Steele,  Jr. 12/01 

1971 

Thomas  F.  Horigan °9/°3 

Robert  F.  Roach n/03 

Richard  B.  Tryon IO/°3 

1972 

Belinda  Briggs  Asano 12/03 

James  A.  Forest n/03 

1973 

Mary  E.  Minkel  Burke I2/o3 

Richard  J.  Garrity 06/02 

John  R.  Kelley 02/03 

Robert  T  Murtagh 03/03 

J974 

Ray  J.  Lawrence 08/02 

Thomas  J.  Skeffington 08/03 

1975 

Neil  Paul  Cronin 09/03 

John  Thomas  Dunlop IO/°3 

Mary  Kaye  Millard 12/02 

Anne  M.  Healy  Osman °9/°3 

1977 

Karen  Bird  Brennan 10/03 

Richard  P.  Yee n/03 

1979 

Michael  T  Downey 07/03 

1982 

Thomas  E.  Whelan 09/03 

1984 

Bruce  F.  Bennett 10/98 

1985 

Michael  A.  Bova °9/°3 

Karen  H.  Iannuccillo 

1987 

Jennifer  Renna  Ferreira 09/03 

1992 

Lisa  D.  Castano °9/°3 

1994 

Sean  P.  Clancy 08/03 

2000 

Joshua  K  Stello 08/03 

2001 

Molly  C.  Quinn 

NEWTON 

Barbara  Corsa °5/°3 

Mary  McManus  Frechette i2/o3 

Marianne  E.  Hollub I2/°3 

Marcia  Ann  Mahoney Jo/o3 

Margot  Bruguiere  Martin 10/03 

Raminta  Mantautas  Molis 10/03 

Mary  Nietupski °9/°3 

Sandra  J.  Thomson i2/°3 


CGSOM 

Rhoda  K  Channing 07/03 

Francis  Arthur  Mandosa IO/03 

Robert  W  Sossong 09/03 

Holly  A.  Vickers °4/°3 

Nicholas  F.  Yannoni n/03 

GA&S 

Betty  G.  Allen  °9/°3 

Irving  L.  Bass I2/o3 

Jean  M.  Burke 09/01 

William  F.  Canan n/89 

William  J.  Casey 12/03 

Judith  M.  Gift 08/03 

Brian  J.  Colfer I2/o3 

Carlton  C.  Cramb 06/02 

Elizabeth  A.  Czepiel 06/03 

Sr.  Justina  St.  John  Daley,  SND... 11/03 

Kimberly  Ann  Dean 05/99 

Marie  S.  Gallagher 10/03 

Albert  E.  Gibbons,  Jr. n/03 

William  P.  Hanlon I2/°3 

Alice  Ursula  Harvey n/03 

Charles  H.  Haskell,  Jr. 04/92 

Sr.  Vera  Herbert,  SUSC 12/03 

Joseph  C.  Jordan I2/°3 

Mary  T  Kinnane IO/o3 

Robert  F.  Larkin 08/03 

Maria  E.  Leandro IO/°3 

Donald  J.  Leary n/03 

Sr.  Mary  Janet  McGilley °9/°3 

Louisa  S.  Moir °5/01 

Marie  E.  Nugent I2/°3 

Sr.  Elizabeth  O'Leary,  SND 09/03 

Ralph  D.  Orcutt 03/00 

Arthur  W.  Perreault I2/99 

William  R.  Phillips 01/03 

Robert  L.  Reynes °3/99 

John  T  Schomer IO/°3 

D.  Bradley  Sullivan 08/03 

Harris  I.  Tarlin 05/03 

Rowena  M.  Taylor IO/°3 

Sr.  M.  Francis  Regis  Trogano,  CSJ 

n/03 

Sr.  Madeleine  C.  Vaillot,  OP 10/03 

GSSW 

David  Botelho I2/o3 

Charles  E.  Conway 04/02 

Pauline  F.  Murray  Devery 08/03 

Margaret  Myers  Dunn 10/03 

John  C.  Farie I2/°3 

Mary  E.  Hawthorne Jo/o3 

Rev.  Alan  B.  Hutchinson n/03 

Daniel  B.  MacArthur 10/03 

William  F.  Moynihan n/03 

Thomas  W  O'Connor,  Jr. 02/01 

Arlene  L  Rockower 09/03 

Linda  Roman-Bland 10/03 

LAW 

George  R.  Auzenne °9/°3 

Raymond  A.  Cote 08/03 

Francis  A.  Danahy 06/95 

Paul  V  Donahue 10/02 

David  C.  Donohue IO/°3 

Raymond  J.  Doyle 03/03 

Joseph  P.  Home I2/°3 

Kinji  Kanazawa !o/o3 

John  M.  Lanning I2/°3 

John  E.  Seth 03/03 

John  H.  Treanor n/03 

Deborah  S.  Youngblood 10/03 

LGSOE 

Rachel  Beverly IO/°3 

Wayne  M.  Knight 12/03 

WCAS 

Bernard  L.  Desmarais n/03 

John  P.  Dowcett n/03 

Herbert  W  Gardner 01/02 

Paul  M.  Luck  07/03 

Jonh  C.  Mahan 12/01 

Julia  E.  Montgomery n/03 

William  P.  Murphy 10/01 

Catherine  M.  O'Toole 01/96 

Sr.  M.  Thomas  Ryan,  OSF 

Charles  H.  Zibell,  Jr. 11/03 

The  In  Memoriam  is  provided 
courtesy  of  the  Office  of  Development, 
More  Hall,  140  Commonwealth  Ave., 
Chestnut  Hill,  MA  02467. 


CLASS  NOTES   31 


To  My  Fellow  Alumni: 

I  hope  you  all  had  an  enjoyable  and  healthy  holiday  season.  The  Eagles  certainly  had  a  great 
time  in  San  Francisco.  The  Alumni  Association  had  an  extraordinarily  busy  and  productive 
holiday  period  with  our  new  "Winter  Wonderland"  program,  the  activities  surrounding  the  San 
Francisco  Bowl  and  our  January  Board  meeting.  Grace,  Jack  and  the  entire  Alumni 
Association  staff  deserve  an  enormous  amount  of  thanks  for  all  their  hard  work. 

Now  it  is  time  to  look  forward.  This  issue  contains  the  ballot  for  this  year's  Alumni  Association 
National  Board  of  Directors  election.  Below  is  a  letter  from  Brian  Kickham,  our  current  chair 
of  the  Nominating  Committee  and  Tom  Flannery,  our  chair-elect.  They  and  their  entire  com- 
mittee have  worked  long  and  diligently  to  produce  an  extremely  strong  ballot  filled  with  candi- 
dates who  could  contribute  to  the  further  success  of  the  Alumni  Association.   Please  take  the 

time  to  read  the  letter  below,  review  the  ballot,  and  VOTE!  In  addition,  you  should  consider  volunteering  to  either  run  for  office 
or  otherwise  help  the  Alumni  Association. 


HsL  -- *3 

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I  hope  to  see  you  at  upcomming  Alumni  Association  events  including  the  annual 
on  April  3  at  Gillette  Stadium. 


Second  Helping  Gala",  this  year  to  be  held 


Very  Truly  Yours, 


John  J.  Griffin,  Jr.  '65 

President,  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 


ALUMNI     ASSOCIATION 

NATIONAL  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS 

2004-05  ELECTION 


Dear  Boston  College/Newton  College  Alumnus/a: 

In  the  following  pages  of  this  magazine,  you  will  see  the  names,  faces  and  brief  biographies  of  the  candidates  for  the  National 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Alumni  Association.  On  behalf  of  the  nominating  committee  that  put  this  slate  together  and  the  can- 
didates who  have  all  offered  their  time  and  talent,  we  urge  you  to  take  a  minute  to  cast  your  vote.  Your  ballot  is  inserted  between 
pages  36  and  37  of  this  section  of  the  magazine.  Just  like  last  year,  you  will  be  able  to  vote  either  by  returning  the  ballot  by  mail 
or  by  using  the  online  ballot  at  www.bc.edu/vote.  We  urge  you  to  do  so. 

Too  often  alumni  don't  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity  to  cast  their  ballot  in  this  important  election.  Recent  elections 
have  seen  only  about  5,000  votes  cast,  out  of  over  130,000  eligible  alumni.  A  turnout  of  that  nature  presents  an  obvious 
opportunity  for  your  vote  to  make  a  real  difference. 

Perhaps  you  are  a  member  of  an  anniversary  class,  belong  to  a  BC  chapter  in  your  area,  played  a  sport  or  were  a  member  of  a 
particular  organization  during  your  years  on  campus.  It  is  likely  that  you  share  one  of  these  interests  or  characteristics  with 
one  or  more  of  the  candidates — why  not  show  your  support  to  that  candidate  by  casting  your  vote  today. 

The  Alumni  Association  is  facing  a  number  of  issues  in  the  years  ahead  as  it  seeks  to  serve  an  ever-growing  and  ever- 
expanding  alumni  population.  There  is  a  great  need  to  bring  the  best  alumni  possible  onto  the  board.  But  that  can  only  be  done 
with  your  vote.  If  you  don't  vote,  you  will  be  leaving  the  decisions  of  the  next  few  years  in  the  hands  of  others. 

Show  your  support  for  your  candidates  and  for  the  Association  by  casting  your  vote. 


Brian  Kickham  '79 

Chair,  Nominating  Committee 


Thomas  Flannery  '81 

Chair-Elect,  Nominating  Committee 


32  www.bc.edu/alumni 


Each  candidate  was  asked  to  answer  the  following  question:  "How  can  the  University 
best  engage  ail  alumni  to  better  serve  the  goals  of  Boston  College?" 


VICE  PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT 


Robert  L. 

Bouley  '70,  J.D.  '73 

Wellesley,  MA 

Partner, 

McCarthy,  Bouley  & 

Barry 


Susan  Power 
Gallagher  NC  '69 

Belmont,  MA 
Vice  President  of 
Administration  & 
Human  Resources, 
Johnson  O'Hare 
Company,  Inc. 


Joseph  F. 
McKenney  '83 

Mount  Kisco,  NY 
Senior  Vice-President 
-  Strategy, 
Helm  Financial  Corp. 


I  think  the  University  can  engage  the  Alumni  best  by  being  responsive  to  their  inquiries  about  school 
events:  The  Pops,  important  sports  events,  graduation  and  reunion  activities  .  The  University  should 
also  welcome  and  acknowledge  Alumni  Recommendations  ofundergrad  applicants  for  Admission.  If 
the  University  acknowledges  and  rewards  these  inquiries,  perhaps  with  priority  seating  at  Events  or 
with  written  Thanks  for  personal  recommendations,  the  Alumni  will  be  more  likely  to  become  more 
actively  involved  in  the  University  as  it  progresses  and  prospers  in  the  Future. 

•  Member,  BC  Varsity  Club;  Member,  BC  Athletic  Hall  of  Fame 

•  Member  of  the  Massachusetts  Bar;  Admitted  to  practice  in  Massachusetts  Courts;  Admitted 
to  practice  in  Federal  Courts;  Parishioner  at  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  Wellesley,  MA 

•  Son  of  Gilbert  J.  Bouley  '44;  brother  of  David  A.  Bouley;  husband  of  Candace  Sheehan 
Bouley;  father  of  Bryan  Bouley  and  Cole  Bouley. 


The  Alumni  Association  sponsors  more  and  varied  spiritual,  social,  cultural,  athletic  and  family  ori- 
ented events  every  year  locally,  nationally  and  internationally.  We  must  reach  out  to  Boston  College 
and  Newton  College  alums  to  ensure  that  they  take  advantage  of  the  many  opportunities  that  are 
offered.  We  don't  have  to  wait  for  our  class  reunions  to  benefit  from  all  that  is  available.  The  growth 
and  organization  of  national  and  international  chapters  is  essential.  The  online  community  contin- 
ues to  expand  but  we  have  a  long  way  to  go  to  reach  as  many  people  as  we  can.  Technology  is  an 
important  vehicle,  but  we  must  not  forget  those  who  do  not  have  access  to  the  Internet.  The  Alumni 
Association  must  find  new  and  creative  ways  to  help  reconnect  alumni  to  the  University. 

•  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of  Directors:  Executive  Committee  2002- 
2004,  Treasurer  2003-2004,  Secretary  2002-2003,  Newton  Director  2000-2002,  Spiritual  Life 
Committee,  chair  2003-2004,  By-laws  Committee,  member  2000-present,  New  Board 
Orientation  Committee,  member  2001-2002,  Nominating  Committee  member  2000-2001; 
Boston  College  Task  Force  on  Women  —  Connections  Program  mentor  2001-2002;  Newton 
College:  Former  Class  Correspondent  (twenty  years),  Class  organizer  for  the  10th,  15th,  25th,  30th, 
35*  reunions,  Fundraising  for  Newton  College  Professorship  for  the  Study  of  Western  Culture 

•  New  England  Organ  Bank:  Volunteers  Committee  and  Speakers  Program;  Belmont  Hill 
School:  House  parent  for  Underwood  House  Dormitory;  Town  of  Belmont:  Past  president 
and  past  board  member  of  the  youth  hockey  program,  organizing  committees  for  educa- 
tional fundraising  events;  Church:  Former  Eucharistic  Minister,  St.  Peter's,  Cambridge; 
Pre-Cana  advisor,  CCD  instructor,  St.  Joseph's,  Belmont 

•  Wife  of  Edward  M.  Gallagher  III;  mother  of  Edward  IV,  Mary  and  Timothy  '00 

The  key  to  engaging  the  alumni  as  a  body  is  to  better  engage  them  individually.  Many  of  the  alumni 
are  open  to  more  involvement  with  the  University.  The  Alumni  Association  needs  to  create  multiple 
lines  of  communication  to  the  alumni  base  to  properly  tap  into  this  vast  vault  of  goodwill. 

•  Alumni  Admissions  Volunteer;  President's  Circle,  Fides  Patron,  Fides 

•  St.  Patrick  School,  Bedford,  NY  -  Board  Member 

•  Son  of  Joseph  P.  McKenney  '52  and  Margaret  T  McKenney;  husband  of  Cecilia  McKenney; 
father  of  Grace,  age  6,  and  Eleanor,  age  3 


www.bc.edu/alumni       33 


TREASURER 


Kathleen  Donovan 
Goudie  '56 

Petersham,  MA 
Teacher, 
Athol-Royalston 
Middle  School 


This  is  best  achieved  through  the  use  of  on-going  outreach  programs.  A  university  Web  site  that 
effectively  reaches  as  many  alumni  as  possible  is  crucial;  this  Web  site  must  be  replete  with  informa- 
tion relative  to  current  or  proposed  programs,  courses,  exhibits,  etc.,  thereby  keeping  the  alumni 
informed  and  feeling  participatory  in  the  everyday  life  of  the  University.  Additionally,  the  Alumni 
Association  must  have  as  one  of  its  goals  personal  contact  with  the  numerous  BC  Chapters  estab- 
lished throughout  the  U.S.  and  world  wide.  Communication  is  the  name  of  the  game! 

•  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of  Directors:  Director,  Graduated  More 
than  Ten  Years  2000-2002,  Secretary  2003-2004,  Executive  Committee  2003-2004; 
Mentor  to  a  BC  Undergraduate  2002-2003;  Undergraduate:  First  woman  editor  of  "The 
Heights",  "Stylus"  Board  Member,  Member  of  the  Gaelic  Society,  Member  of  the  Dramatic 
Society 

•  NEA,  MTA,  ATA  (educators'  associations);  Past  President,  ATA  (local  teacher's  association); 
Political  Affiliations:  Past  State  Committeewoman,  Past  Chair  of  Town  Political  Committee; 
delegate  to  state  conventions;  Past  Petersham  Library  Trustee;  Parishioner:  St.  Peter's 
Church,  Petersham;  Scholar  to  Israel  and  Poland,  one  of  25  teachers  in  the  country  chosen 
to  expand  my  study  of  the  Holocaust;  Recipient  of  National  Endowment  for  the  Humanities 
to  study  the  life/works  of  Emily  Dickinson;  Recipient  of  Robert  Taft  Political  Science  grant 
for  the  study  of  politics;  Recipient  of  2003  "Woman  of  Valor"  Award  for  teaching  of  the 
Holocaust  from  Temple  Israel  in  Athol  (MA) 

•  Wife  of  Robert  E.  Goudie,  Sr.  '57  (deceased);  father  of  Robert  E.  Goudie,  Jr.,  Kathryn  Goudie 
Tropeano,  Colleen  P.  Goudie,  Steven  A.  Goudie  (deceased),  Michael  I.  Goudie,  Brian  N. 
Goudie,  Douglas  P.  Goudie 


Thomas  J. 
Mahoney  '74 

Maiden,  MA 
Teacher/Asst.  Principal 
Maiden  High  School 


The  Alumni  Association  has  already  made  great  inroads  in  its  efforts  to  engage  its  members  in  serv- 
ing Boston  College  and  the  goals  for  which  it  stands.  Alumni  groups  have  been  and  are  being 
formed  throughout  the  country  from  Boston  to  California.  The  association  is  in  constant  revalua- 
tion of  its  publications  in  the  hope  of  serving  the  greatest  number  of  alumni  in  the  most  efficient 
manner.  All  of  these  must  be  continued  along  side  of  its  responsibility  to  help  Boston  College  be  ever 
mindful  of  its  most  important  mission  of  being  of  service  to  the  Church.  The  Alumni  Association 
finds  itself  in  a  fortunate  position  of  being  the  most  recognized  Catholic  college  in  the  center  of  the 
crisis  in  the  church.  We  are  in  a  position  to  do  so  much  good;  we  cannot  let  it  slip  by  us. 

•  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of  Directors:  Chair,  Nominating 
Committee,  Member,  Spirituality  Committee;  Boston  College  Lynch  School  of  Education: 
Member,  50th  Anniversary  Committee,  Member,  Lynch  Symposium  Committee;  Boston 
College  Class  of  1974:  Member,  Reunion  Committee  (25th  anniversary),  Chair,  Laetare 
Sunday 

•  M.Ed,  degree,  Worcester  State  College,  1980;  Member,  National  Council  of  Teachers  of 
Mathematics;  Member,  St.  Mary's  Parish,  Melrose 

•  Brother  of  Francis  X.,  Jr.  '70  and  John  L.  '82;  Son  of  Francis  X.,  Sr.  '42 


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SECRETARY 


Jerome  Bello  '67, 
M.Ed.  '72 

West  Roxbury,  MA 
Legal  Administrator, 
Keegan,  Werlin  & 
Pabian,  LLP 


Boston  College  provided  me  with  a  wonderful  education  and  sound  values.  I  am  honored  to  he  nomi- 
nated to  the  hoard  and,  if  elected,  will  work  to  strengthen  the  Alumni  Association  through  its  service 
programs,  which  I  helieveform  the  common  thread  that  unites  all  BC  alumni,  young  and  old. 

•  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of  Directors:  Member,  Nominating 
Committee  2002-2003;  Member,  2002-2004  Second  Helping  Committee;  Member,  2003 
Alumni  Golf  Committee 

•  Member,  Association  of  Legal  Administrators;  Finex  House  Christmas  Gift  Program,  estab- 
lished and  continue  to  run  (Finex  House  is  a  home  for  battered  women  and  children) 

•  Husband  of  Elizabeth  Gaquin/72;  Father  of 'Heather  E.  Bello  '05  (expected) 


Keith  S.  Mathews  '80 

East  Providence,  RI 
Circulation 
Marketing  Manager, 
Providence  Journal 
Company  (A.H.  Belo) 


By  effectively  reaching  out  to,  and  electing  a  slate  of  candidates  which  are  representative  of  all  of  the 
distinct  (ethnic  e[  cultural)  communities  which  comprise  the  entire  alumni  hody.  We  also  need  to 
further  engage  each  sub-segment  in  programs  which  support  the  Academic,  Admissions,  Athletic, 
Career  Development,  and  Development  (Fundraising)  programs  conducted  hy  our  alma  mater. 

•  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of  Directors  -  Director,  East  of  the 
Mississippi  f95-'97);  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  -  A.H.A.N.A.  Admissions 
Volunteer  Program,  Chairperson  (RI);  Boston  College  -  Alumni  Development  (FIDES) 
Executive  Committee 

•  Literacy  Volunteers  of  America  -  Rhode  Island,  Inc.,  Board  of  Directors  f98-'99);  National 
Association  of  Minority  Media  Executives  -  Graduate,  Leadership  Development  Institute  I 
&  II;  Newspaper  Association  of  America  -  James  K.  Batten  Leadership  &  Career 
Development  Breakthrough  Fellow  (1998),  New  Media  Fellow  (1999),  Board  Diversity 
Committee/Workplace  Issues  Task  Force  (2000-Present),  G.O.L.D.  Faculty /Subject  Matter 
Expert  (2000  -Present);  Omega  Psi  Phi  Fraternity,  Inc.  -  Distinguished  Service  Award 
(1990);  Paul  F.  Cuffee  Charter  School  -  Board  of  Trustees;  Providence  Black  Repertory 
Company  (PBRC)  -  Annual  Fund  Committee;  Sailing  Institute  -  Board  of  Trustees;  South 
Providence  Development  Corporation/ New  Village  Industries  -  Advisory  Committee; 
Worldwide  Marketing  Leadership  Panel  (19  91) 


Julie  Finora 
McAfee  '93 

Walnut  Creek,  CA 
Director  of  Resource 
Development, 
Mt.  Diablo  Region 
YMCA 


Engage  the  alumni  hy  bringing  the  Heights  to  them.  Feeling  connected  is  critical;  involving  the 
alumni  chapter  and  providing  the  resources  to  develop  a  diverse  set  of  events  for  everyone  will  entice 
alumni  participation.  Co-sponsoring  events  and  perfecting  the  way  we  communicate  regarding  the 
changing  BC  community  is  also  essential. 

•  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of  Directors:  Director,  West  of  the 
Mississippi,  2002-2004;  Co-president  of  Northern  California  Alumni  Chapter  since  2000, 
active  member  since  1998;  Graduated  with  a  Finance  degree  in  1993  and  obtained  a  MBA 
in  Marketing  from  St.  Mary's  College  in  Moraga,  CA;  Nominated  and  accepted  a  two  year 
position  to  mentor  a  current  student  through  the  BC  Connections  program;  Admission 
Liaison  and  was  part  of  the  Admissions  Volunteer  Group  as  a  student  at  BC. 

•  Member  of  the  Junior  League  of  San  Francisco  since  1998:  held  various  roles:  led  and 
trained  prospective  members,  mentored  teenage  youth,  assisted  organization  in  developing 
a  five  year  strategic  plan  and  evaluated  incoming  grants  from  local  non-profits  in  the  com- 
munity to  determine  their  funding  need. 

.  Wife  of  Stuart  C.  McAfee 


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NOMINATING  CHAIR-ELECT 


Martin  D.  Gavin  '69, 
M.B.A.  '74 

Wellesley,  MA 
Financial  Advisor, 
Gavin  Financial 
Services 


The  University  must  continue  to  foster  and  promote  the  lifetime  value  of  a  Boston  College  Education 
through  our  Alumni  Association.  Alumni  programs  reaching  out  to  senior  Alumni  as  well  as  mentor- 
ing recent  graduates  should  be  expanded  to  involve,  and  he  helpful,  to  these  important,  productive 
segments  of  our  population. 

•  President,  Class  of  1969;  Past  President,  CGSOM  Alumni  Association,  1985;  Member, 
Board  of  Directors,  BC  Alumni  Association,  1984-1987;  Member,  Fides  Gift  Committee  and 
Flynn  Fund;  Friend,  BC  Irish  Studies  Program;  Co-Chair,  35th,  30th,  25th,  15th,  10th  and  5* 
Reunion  Committees;  Alumni  Admission  Counselor,  1979-1995;  Former  Associate  Director 
of  Security,  Boston  College,  1974-1977 

•  Member,  St.  John  the  Evangelist  Parish,  Wellesley,  MA;  Member,  Board  of  Directors:  U.V. 
Tech  Systems,  Inc.,  Wayland,  MA,  Brahms  Mount  Textiles,  Inc.,  Hallowell,  ME,  Solutions 
Benefiting  Life,  Wayland,  MA  (non-profit),  Leave  a  Legacy,  Wellesley,  MA  (non-profit);  Major, 
United  States  Air  Force  Reserves,  (Ret.) 

•  Son  of  Martin  W  Gavin  '37;  father  of  Margaret  G.  Gavin  '05  (expected),  brother  of  Anne 
Gavin  Whitaker  '78 


Dawn  E.  McNair  '82, 
M.Ed.  '83,  HON  '03 

Natick,  MA 
First  Grade  Teacher, 
Sudbury  Public 
School  System 


Teaching  at  its  best  is  truly  a  celebration  of  ideas,  talents,  challenges,  and  differences.  We  all  learn 
from  each  other  everyday  in  a  variety  of  ways.  Boston  College  alumni  could  learn  so  much  from 
each  other  if  we  make  an  effort  to  "keep  connected. "  Networking  is  a  valuable  part  of  our  profession- 
al and  personal  lives  post  graduation.  Boston  College  experiences  provide  connections  that  are 
immeasurable.  Connecting  alumni  of  like  careers  across  the  nation  via  e-mail,  Web  sites,  and 
reunions  continues  to  focus  our  needs  and  talents. 

•  2003-present,  Boston  College  Dean  search  for  the  Lynch  School  of  Education;  2003 
Honorary  Doctorate  of  Humane  Letters;  2002-present  Boston  College  Alumni  Association 
National  Board  of  Directors;  1983-1993  AHANA  Alumni  Council  (Vice  President  1986- 
1989);  1983-1990  Options  through  Education  Program  (Preceptor/ Counselor);  1985-1987 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  Board  of  Directors;  1985-1990  AHANA  Mentor;  1995 
Denise  Thompson  scholarship  fund 

•  Board  Member,  Teacher  Leadership  Academy;  On  Track,  organize  an  inner  city  school  vol- 
unteer program  for  at  risk  students,  tutor  weekly  and  chair  a  multicultural  book  club; 
Supporting  Family,  Coordinate  volunteers  at  a  battered  women's  substance  abuse  shelter. 
Work  with  children,  making  crafts,  and  providing  multicultural  books  for  early  literacy; 
Sub-Saharan  African  children's  Project:  Support  tribal  children  with  school  supplies,  educa- 
tional materials,  and  clothing;  Coat  Drive,  Coordinate  Coat  collection  for  distribution  to  the 
homeless;  Health,  Coordinate  fundraising  walk-teams  for  Breast  Cancer  and  Multiple 
Sclerosis;  Martin  Luther  King  Community  Day  Plan  and  organize  a  day  of  activities  for  chil- 
dren based  on  the  theme  of  peace  and  self-empowerment 


Kenneth  D. 
Pierce  '79 

Cape  Elizabeth,  ME 
Attorney  -  Partner, 
Monaghan,  Leahy, 
L.L.P. 


J  have  been  honored  and  privileged  to  serve  for  the  past  two  years  as  Director,  East  of  the 
Mississippi.  This  experience  has  provided  valuable  insight  into  the  needs  and  demands  of  our 
increasingly  diverse  alumni  population.  As  we  continue  to  grow  into  geographically  distant  areas  of 
the  country  and  indeed  the  world,  it  is  critical  to  maintain  and  strengthen  relations  among  alumni 
and  the  University  through  strong  support  for  local  Alumni  Chapters  and  programs. 

•  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  National  Board  of  Directors:  Director,  East  of  the 
Mississippi,  2002-present;  President,  Boston  College  Alumni  Association  Maine  Chapter  - 
1998  to  present;  Co-Chair  (with  spouse),  Boston  College  Undergraduate  Alumni 
Admissions  Program,  1992-present;  Host,  Freshmen  Sendoff  in  Maine,  1992-1999 

•  Board  of  Directors,  Cape  Elizabeth  Little  League;  Den  Leader,  Cape  Elizabeth  Cub  Scouts; 
Youth  Baseball  Coach,  Cape  Elizabeth  Booster  Club;  Youth  Soccer  Coach,  Casco  Bay  U-10 
Soccer  Club 

•  Husband  of  Kathleen  O'Connor  '80;  father  of  Will,  age  8,  and  Matty,  age  6 


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DIRECTOR  MORE  THAN  TEN  YEARS 


Wendy  S.  H.  Chan 

Roslindale,  MA 

Grants  and  Contracts  Negotiator, 

Harvard  Medical  School 

The  University  can  best  engage  alumni  to  better 
serve  Boston  College's  goals  by  constantly  having 
alumni  of  a  diverse  background  relate  their  stu- 
dent and  alumni  experience  to  each  other  and 
current  students  of  Boston  College.  This  will  allow 
a  bond  to  develop  among  the  alumni,  current  stu- 
dents and  perspective  applicants. 

•  Member,  AHANA  Alumni  Association,  1996 

•  Member,  Roslindale  Neighborhood 
Association;  Member,  National  Conference  of 
University  and  Research  Administrators; 
Volunteer  Chinese  translator  for  the  Union 
Neighborhood  Assistance  Corporation  for 
Housing 

•  Wife  of  Domenic  Bozzorto  '89;  Sister  of  John 
Chi  Pun  Chan  '91;  Sister-in-law  of  Joyna 
Bozzotto  '86,  J.D.  '89  and  Maria  Bozzorto 
'96 


irf£W    i  Mm 


John  B.  McNamara  '60 

Chestnut  Hill,  MA 

President, 

McNamara-Sparrell  Funeral  Service 

Boston  College  is  an  international  university. 
With  such  diversity,  it  is  imperative  to  maintain 
channels  of  communication.  The  Association 
should  have  a  dedicated  address  to  receive  infor- 
mation regarding  exceptional  students,  athletes, 
and  faculty.  In  addition,  as  the  University  broad- 
ens its  reach,  it  must  reinforce  its  commitment  to 
the  residents  and  institutions  of  Greater  Boston. 

•  One  of  the  founders  of  the  Blue  Chip  Club; 
Boston  College  Alumni  Association  Board  of 
Directors:  Former  Secretary,  Former  Member  of 
the  Nominating  Committee;  Former  Member, 
Graduate  Board  of  Athletics 

•  Member,  several  business,  social  and  fraternal 
organizations  over  the  past  forty-three  years 

•  Husband  of  Carole  A.  Ward  McNamara  NC  '60; 
father  of  Donna  '85,  John  B.,  Jr.  '86,  Brian  B. 
'87  and  Cristin  McNamara  Geraci  '92;  father-in- 
law  of  Jonathan  R.  Sheetz  '85,  Katie  Molumphy 
McNamara  '87 


Charles  A.  Rego  '92 

Chicago,  IL 

Attorney,  Corporate  Counsel, 

Underwriters  Laboratories,  Inc. 

As  a  University  having  students  representing  all 
50  states  and  several  foreign  countries,  BC  has 
become  a  national  and  international  institution. 
It  is 

important  that  BC  continues  to  build  on  the  base 
of  students  it  draws  by  reaching  out  to  alumni 
beyond  its  traditional  borders.  One  way  that  BC 
can  do  this  is  by  continuing  to  build  its  network  of 
alumni 

chapters  outside  of  its  traditional  east  coast  base. 
This  will  enhance  the  University's  appeal  to  future 
students  and  give  its  vast  alumni  base  a  reason  to 
stay  active  with  the  BC  community. 

•  President,  Boston  College  Alumni 
Association  Chapter  of  Chicago  2001- 
Present, 

Vice-President,  1998-2001 

•  Juris  Doctorate,  DePaul  University,  1996; 
Participant  in  Chicago's  Principal  for  a  Day 
program  2002,  2003 

•  Husband  of  Jennifer  Rego;  father  of  Grace 
and  Matthew 


DIRECTOR  LESS  THAN  TEN  YEARS 


John  D.  Burns  '94 

Needham,  MA 
Summit  Partners 

By  focusing  on  excellence  in  all  elements  of  the 
University,  academics,  athletics,  religious  and 
charitable  causes,  BC  will  foster  a  sense  of  pride 
within  the  alumni  ranks  that  will  motivate  active 
engagement  in  alumni  affairs.  Genuinely  proud 
alumni  will  be  more  passionate  and  actively 
involved  over  the  long  term. 

•  President,  BC  Chapter  of  Junior 
Achievement;  President,  BC  Chapter  of  the 
Golden  Key  National  Honor  Society 

•  Board  of  Advisors,  Best  Buddies  of 
Massachusetts 

•  Husband  of  Kathleen  Burns 


Oman  Walker  '97,  M.Ed.  '02 

Mansfield,  MA 

Teacher/ Director  of  Resiliency  for  Life 

Program,  Framingham  High  School 

Through  open  communication  with  newsletters 
and  current  events,  alumni  have  an  opportunity 
to  remain  connected  to  the  University.  Keeping 
young  alumni  involved  right  after  graduation  is 
the  key  to  fostering  and  building  a  strong  network. 
I  believe  that  the  effectiveness  could  be  increased 
by  offering  young  alumni  an  opportunity  to 
enhance  and  build  their  skills  through  job  training 
programs  that  build  their  marketability  in  the  job 
world.  The  potential  is  limitless. 

•  Member,  Boston  College  Football  team  1993- 
1997;  Member,  Gridiron  Club;  Recipient 
2003  Young  Alumni  Award  of  Excellence, 
given  by  the  Boston  College  Alumni 
Association 

•  Massachusetts  State  Citation  for 
"Extraordinary  Dedication  to  the  Youth  of 
Framingham  High  School";  2003  Wal-Mart 
Teacher  of  the  Year 

•  Son  of  Joe  Walker  and  Mary  Walker;  brother 
of  Adanna  Walker  '01  and  Hakim  Walker; 
husband  of  Tina  Walker;  father  of  Breina 
Walker,  Derrion  Walker,  Britiah  Walker,  Daen 
Walker  and  Brailee  Walker 


Linda  Song  Wendel  '97 

Ann  Arbor,  MI 

Program  Manager,  Domestic  Corps, 

University  of  Michigan  Business  School 

The  most  effective  way  to  engage  alumni  is  to  make 
the  BC  of  today  relevant  to  their  lives,  taking  into 
consideration  our  increasingly  diverse  and  global 
membership.  We  must  continue  to  grow  our  pres- 
ence, particularly  through  the  new  Chapter  net- 
work, and  give  alums  a  reason  and  vehicle  for 
which  to  reconnect. 

•  Boston  College  Affiliations:  Boston  College 
Alumni  Association  National  Board  of 
Directors:  Director,  Graduated  Less  than  Ten 
Years  2002-2004;  Co-President,  BCAA 
Northern  CA  Chapter,  2001-2003,  Planning 
Committee  2000-2001,  active  member  1998- 
2003;  Alumni  Career  Network;  Cabinet 
Member,  UGBC,  1996-1997;  Class 
Government  Council,  1994-1996;  Ignacio 
Volunteers,  Jamaica,  1996;  Appalachia 
Volunteers,  1997 

•  Community  Involvement:  Volunteer,  the 
Optimist  Club,  Detroit,  MI;  Volunteer, 
Community  Leaning  Post,  an  organization 
that  proves  services  for  low  income  families; 
Member,  St.  Mary  student  Parish,  University 
of  Michigan 

•  Wife  of  Andrew  Wendel  '97 


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DIRECTOR,  EAST  OF  THE  MISSISSIPPI       (choose two) 


Nancy  Spadaro  Bielawa  '85 

Glenmont,  NY 

Director  of  Annual  Giving, 

Siena  College 

With  many  factors  competing  for  our  time  -fami- 
ly, career,  local  community  involvement — BC 
needs  to  specifically  outline  for  alumni  the  multi- 
ple opportunities  for  getting  involved  as  well  as  the 
myriad  of  personal  benefits,  especially  for  alumni 
not  geographically  close  to  campus. 

•  President,  Boston  College  Alumni 
Association  Northeastern,  NY  Chapter; 
Alumni  Admissions  Volunteer;  Member, 
BCAA  National  Board  of  Directors 
Nominating  Committee,  2002 

•  Certified  Marketing  Director,  ICSC;  Past 
Board  President/ Service  Awards,  American 
Cancer  Society;  Past  Board  Member/ Service 
Awards,  American  Heart  Association; 
Scholarship  Development  Committee, 
Bethlehem  Central  High  School;  Member, 
CASE 

•  Wife  of  Robert  Bielawa;  mother  of  Austin 
Bielawa,  age  7,  and  Katherine  Bielawa,  age  4 


Stephen  E.  Ferrucci  '87,  J.D.  '90 

Fishers,  IN 

General  Counsel, 

Lawler  Manufacturing  Co.,  Inc. 

Boston  College  should  strive  to  make  the  Alumni 
Chapter  Network  more  appealing  to  disengaged 
alumni.  To  do  so,  Boston  College  must  identify 
how  each  chapter  can  best  serve  local  alumni  and 
provide  both  organizational  and  financial  sup- 
port. In  doing  so,  Boston  College  will  reenergize 
alumni  to  promote  its  mission  and  goals. 

•  President,  Boston  College  Alumni 
Association  Indiana  Chapter,  1994-Present; 
Chairperson,  Boston  College  Alumni 
Admissions  Volunteer  Program  (Indiana), 
1997-  Present;  Member,  Boston  College 
Alumni  Admissions  Volunteer  Program, 
1990-1997;  Member,  Boston  College  Club  of 
Chicago,  1990-1994 

•  Eucharistic  Minister,  St.  Louis  de  Montfort 
Church;  Adjunct  Faculty,  Indiana  Wesleyan 
University;  President,  Hickory  Woods 
Homeowners  Association; 

•  Husband  of  Julie  Ferrucci  (St.  Mary's  College 
1986);  father  of  Vincent,  age  6,  and  Dominic, 
age  2 


Robert  E.  Burke  '69,  M.A.  '70 

Bethesda,  MD 

University  Faculty/Institute  Director, 

The  George  Washington  University 

Over  130,000  strong,  BC  Alumni  are  diverse  and 
talented.  The  University  must  continue  to  meets 
the  needs  of  alumni  by  expanding  a  wide  range 
opportunities  for  participation  i.e.,  Church  in  the 
2isi  Century  and  to  increase  volunteer,  education 
and  mentoring  programs  on  campus,  via  the  web 
and  using  local  clubs,  around  the  country. 

•  Served  or  directed  the  BC  Alumni 
Admissions  Volunteer  Programs  in  North 
Florida,  Chicago,  Winchester,  MA  and 
Washington,  DC;  Active  in  the  BC/DC 
Chapter,  and  is  a  member  of  the  DC  Fides 
Committee  and  the  35"1  Reunion  Gift 
Committee;  Participated  in  BC  Alumni 
Volunteers  to  Kingston,  Jamaica. 

•  Ph.D.,  University  of  Florida,  1977;  Co-chaired 
"The  American  Heart  Walk"  and  coordinates 
volunteers  for  "Taste  of  Bethesda";  Chair, 
Department  of  Health  Services  Management 
and  Leadership  at  the  School  of  Public 
Health  and  Health  Services  at  The  George 
Washington  University;  Director  of  the 
Wertlieb  Institute. 

•  Husband  of  Kate  Gilligan;  father  of  Brendan 
and  Brianne  '05  (expected) 


Richard  P.  Ramirez 

Natick,  MA 

New  Media/Technology  Consultant 

Capturing  the  dynamic  growth  of  Boston  College 
as  a  concise  marketing  message  to  a  dispersed 
alumni  body  is  the  challenge.  Improved  academic 
stature,  a  woven  religious  experience,  an  enhanced 
campus,  and  diverse  intercollegiate  athletic  pro- 
grams are  all  part  of  the  improved  and  improving 
Boston  College.  This  development  must  now  be 
articulated  in  a  vision  of  the  University's  next  20 
years. 

•  Member,  Gridiron  Club;  Former  Member, 
BCAA  Chapters  of  Philadelphia,  Los 
Angeles,  and  New  York/New  Jersey 

•  Recipient,  "Citizen  of  the  Year"  presented  by 
the  Boy  Scouts  of  America,  New  York/New 
Jersey  Region  for  community  service  and 
support;  Board  Member,  Centro  San  Juan, 
Hartford,  CT;  Co-Chair,  National  Puerto 
Rican  Coalition  Annual  Gala 

•  Husband  of  Carol  Kenney- Ramirez;  father  of 
Elliott  Avery  Ramirez  and  Hudson  William 
Ramirez. 


Timothy  J.  Chapman  '81 

East  Providence,  RI 

Attorney, 

Law  Office  of  Timothy  J.  Chapman 

As  a  proud  alumnus  of  Boston  College,  I  have 
been  fortunate  over  my  more  than  25  years  of  affil- 
iation to  constantly  interact  with  our  students  and 
Alumni.  We  must  continue  to  promote  communi- 
ty activism  to  diversify  and  actively  seek  to 
embrace  our  national  Alumni.  The  education  of 
our  students  is  the  most  important  goal  and 
through  the  growth  of  our  Alumni  base  and  activi- 
ties we  can  all  strive  to  reach  that  goal. 

•  Fides  Patron;  Distinguished  Alumnus  Award, 
BC  Club  of  RI;  Volunteer,  Alumni 
Admissions;  Board  of  Directors  (Support 
Groups),  BC  Varsity  Club;  Past  President,  BC 
Cage  Club;  Past  President,  BC  Club  of  RI 

•  Juris  Doctorate,  Suffolk  University  Law 
School,  1984;  Assistant  City  Solicitor,  City  of 
East  Providence,  RI;  Board  of  Directors,  East 
Bay  Mental  Health  Center,  Providence  & 
Bristol;  Counties,  RI;  Board  of  Directors,  St. 
Brendan's  School,  East  Providence,  RI; 
Former  Board  of  Directors,  Boys  &  Girls 
Club  of  East  Providence,  RI;  Former  Little 
League  and  CYO  coach 

•  Husband  of  Kimberly  Chapman;  father  of 
Brendan  and  Colin 


Dineen  Ann  Riviezzo  '89 

Brooklyn,  NY 
Attorney 

Upon  graduation,  alumni  yearn  to  continue  BC's  tra- 
dition of  serving  others  and  to  replicate  the  strong  sense 
of  community  they  felt  at  BC.  The  Alumni  Chapters 
are  the  key  means  to  provide  Alumni  with  the  opportu- 
nity to  socialize,  network  and  perform  community  proj- 
ects that  serve  others  in  keeping  with  BC's  motto. 

•  I  graduated  BC  in  1989  and  Georgetown 
University  Law  School  in  1992. 1  spent  seven  years 
in  the  Manhattan  District  Attorney's  Office  where 

I  prosecuted  sex  crimes  and  homicide  cases.  After 
three  years  of  practicing  Reinsurance  Defense  at 
Clifford  Chance,  I  have  returned  to  public  service 
as  the  Executive  Deputy  Inspector  General  at  the 
Office  of  the  NY  State  Inspector  General,  which 
investigates  fraud  and  corruption  within  a  majority 
of  executive  branch  agencies.  My  brother  Al  is  BC 
Class  of  1992. 

•  Since  returning  to  NYC  in  1992, 1  have  been  very 
involved  in  the  BC  Alumni  Chapter  of  NYC  serv- 
ing as  President  from  2000-2001. 1  am  excited  to 
have  just  been  appointed  co-president  of  the 
Chapter  for  2004.  Planning  social,  cultural,  service 
and  networking  events  for  NY  area  alumni  has 
been  tremendously  rewarding.  I  also  have  been  an 
admissions  volunteer  since  1992. 1  would  be  grate- 
ful for  the  opportunity  to  utilize  my  experience 
nationwide. 


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NATIONAL  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS  ELECTION 


(choose two)       DIRECTOR,  WEST  OF  THE  MISSISSIPPI 


Joanne  E.  Caruso  '82,  f.D.  '86 

Beverly  Hills,  CA 
Attorney/  Partner, 
Howrey  Simon  Arnold  &  White 

As  students  we  were  naturally  connected  to  BC  and 
each  other,  resulting  in  many  individual  and  shared 
accomplishments.  BC  must  create  opportunities  for 
the  diverse  and  growing  alumni  population  to  main- 
tain (or  regain)  those  connections,  and  must  regularly 
communicate  those  opportunities,  regardless  of  where 
we  live  or  whatever  our  age. 

•  Fides  Society  Member;  President, 
Undergraduate  Government  of  Boston  College, 
1981-1982;  University  Chorale;  Resident 

Assistant 

•  Member,  Board  of  Governors,  Association  of 
Business  Trial  Lawyers-Los  Angeles  Chapter; 
Member,  Board  of  Governors  Women  Lawyers 
Association  of  Los  Angeles;  St.  Vincent  de  Paul 
Society,  Treasurer  and  member  of  Board  of 
Directors  of  Beverly  Hills  Chapter;  Parishioner, 
Good  Shepherd  Church,  Beverly  Hills,  CA;  Girl 
Scout  Troup  Leader;  American  Bar  Association, 
Litigation  Section,  Co-editor,  Woman  Advocate 
Newsletter,  1997-1999;  Member,  Washington 
Lawyers'  Committee  for  Civil  Rights  and  Urban 
Affairs  (1987-1995);  Has  represented  numerous 
clients  in  pro  bono  matters,  including  homeless 
individuals  and  families,  clients  in  domestic  vio- 
lence cases  and  clients  in  child  custody  matters. 

•  Wife  of  Thomas  A.  Zaccaro,  J.D.  '84;  mother  of 
Christine  Zaccaro,  age  9,  and  Carolyn  Zaccaro,  age  7 


Kevin  McCahill  '80 

Overland  Park,  KS 
Chief  Information  Officer, 
GE  Commercial  Insurance 

Provide  more  frequent,  targeted  communication 
on  ways  for  Alumni  to  get  involved  in  volunteer 
activities  such  as  local  BC  Alumni  Association 
events,  career  nights,  etc.  Also,  utilize  the  class 
correspondents  to  solicit  volunteers  and  publish 
stories  of  those  who  do. 

•  Member,  Fides  Society 

•  Coach,  Johnson  County  Little  League 
Baseball  (five/six  year  olds);  Member,  GE 
Elfun  Society,  a  volunteer  organization  help- 
ing the  disadvantaged  through  community 
day  projects  and  Habitat  for  Humanity  proj- 
ects. 

•  Husband  of  Cynthia  Hockenhull  McCahill 
'85;  Brother  of  Edward  McCahill  '79  and 
Carolyn  McCahill  McKigney  '85 


William  E.  Dwyer,  Jr.  '82 

Broomfield,  CO 
Pilot 

Most  recently  returned  to  the  U.S.A.  after  living 
and  working  in  Bogota,  Colombia.  Getting  used  to 
living  in  the  U.S.A.  again  after  an  extended 
absence  overseas.  Very  happy  to  be  home,  especial- 
ly in  that  home  is  Colorado.  Looking  forward  to 
being  more  involved  as  a  member  of  the  extended 
BC  community  West  of  the  Mississippi  as  well  as 
local  community.  Hope  to  bring  afresh  eye  and 
perspective  to  the  BC  community  West  of  the 
Mississippi.  Not  of  the  corporate  of  normal  profes- 
sional world,  my  experience  of  the  past  16  years 
will  bring  a  unique  and  I  hope  constructive  view. 

•  Employed  as  a  pilot  by  U.S.  Government  for 
the  past  16  years;  Active  volunteer  with  the 
handicap  ski  program  at  Winter  Park  ski 
area;  Active  with  the  Save  the  Children 
Foundation  with  a  foster  child  in  Colombia 
and  another  in  Nepal. 

•  Husband  of  Lorna  Dwyer  of  Bogota, 
Colombia. 


Michael  D.  Reif  '02 

Minneapolis,  MN 
Candidate  for  Juris  Doctorate, 
University  of  Minnesota 

Engaging  all  alumni  to  better  serve  Boston  College's 
goals  requires  establishing  that  alums  are  more  than 
generous  donors;  they  are  continuing  members  of  the 
BC  community.  The  University  must  combine  tech- 
nology with  personal  interaction  to  engage  alumni  in 
a  discussion  of  the  current  and  future  state  of  Boston 
College. 

•  UGBC  (Chief  of  Academic  Affairs,  Co-Director 
of  Peer  Advising,  MLP);  Jenks  Leadership 
Program  (Co-Director);  Ignacio  Volunteers 
(Tijuana  trip  member,  Council  President); 
Kairos  Leader;  Appalachia  Volunteers;  Learning 
to  Serve  (Group  Leader);  BCTV  (Contributing 
Writer);  Order  of  the  Cross  &  Crown  (Chief 
Marshal);  Phi  Beta  Kappa;  Alpha  Sigma  Nu;  Phi 
Alpha  Theta;  Presidential  Scholars  Program 

•  Jesuit  Volunteer  Corps  Northwest  (2002-2003, 
Ashland,  MT);  Church  of  St.  Luke  (parishioner); 
Gamma  Eta  Gamma  Law  Association; 
University  of  Minnesota  Law  School  Committee 
on  Student  Life;  University  of  Minnesota  Law 
Hockey  Team. 

•  Son  of  Margaret  and  Daniel  Reif;  brother  of 
Tommy. 


John  J.  Lane  '71 

Gold  Canyon,  Arizona 
Logistics  Manager, 
Boeing  Helicopters 

Develop  and  staff  a  speakers  bureau 
(academic /policy /athletics)  to  provide  annual  or 
bi-annual  university  updates  to  alumni  chapters, 
nationwide,  on  a  recurring,  scheduled  basis. 
Provide  a  vehicle  for  more  frequent  class  notes 
(i.e.,  a  bi-monthly  bulletin  provided  by  the  alumni 
association  to  the  class  correspondents,  who,  in 
turn  could  add  class-specific  notes  and  personal 
information  and  e-mail  to  interested  class  mem- 
bers.) 

•  Member,  Alumni  Association  Board  of 
Directors,  2000-2002;  Fides  Donor  Society 

•  M.B.A.,  University  of  Massachusetts,  1972; 
Lieutenant  Colonel,  US  Army,  Retired; 
Founding  Parishioner,  St.  Bridget  Parish, 
Mesa,  AZ;  Parish  Chairperson,  Diocesean 
Today's  Children/Tomorrow's  Leaders 
Campaign;  Founding  Member,  AZ  Chapter, 
Voice  of  the  Faithful  (VOTF). 


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DIRECTOR,  NEWTON  COLLEGE 


Priscilla  A.  Durkin  NC 

Melrose,  MA 
Teacher  (ret), 
Boston  Latin  School 


'65 


The  University  will  engage  alumni/ae  to  better 
serve  its  goals  by  first  drawing  them  back  to  cam- 
pus for  conferences  and  lecture  series  on  topics  of 
interest.  BC  has  already  begun  to  offer  such  events 
and  I  would  like  to  see  the  program  expanded, 
particularity  on  topics  rising  from  current  events 
and  shows  at  the  McMullen  Museum. 

•  M.A.,  Harvard  University,  1967;  Member, 
Vergilian  Society,  Inc;  Former  Trustee, 
Vergilian  Society,  Inc.;  Member,  American 
Classical  League;  Member,  Classical 
Association  of  N.E. 

•  Sister  of  Nancy  D.  Orazem  NC  '70  and 
Arthur  E.  Durkin,  Jr.  '67;  daughter  of  Arthur 
E.  Durkin  '37; 


Norma  Tanguay  Frye  NC  '72 

Sudbury,  MA 

Communications  Program  Manager 

My  goal  will  be  to  devise  strategies  that  engage  all 
alumni  but  especially  women  in  the  life  of  the 
University.  By  working  and  networking  with 
women  graduates  of  the  two  institutions  in  the 
pursuit  of  creative  ideas,  I  imagine  developing  and 
renewing  bonds  between  the  University  of  today 
with  those  who  have  gone  before. 

•  President,  Class  of  1972  Newton  College; 
Volunteer,  Reunion  Committee 

•  Youth  Commission,  Our  Lady  of  Fatima 
Parish,  Sudbury 

-Confirmation  retreat  teams 

-Coordinated  fundraising  projects  for  parish 

youth  activities 

•  Especially  rewarding  was  traveling  to 
Honduras  with  a  group  of  parish  youth  to 
work  in  an  orphanage  and  school.  I  have 
been  a  volunteer,  and  leader  in  middle  and 
high  school  activities  in  the  town. 

•  Wife  of  Bob  Frye,  Research  Analyst, 
University  Relations,  Boston  College;  Sister 
of  Diane  Tanguay  Prokop  NC  '74;  Mother  of 
Maggie  Frye,  Junior,  Brandeis  University; 
Brian  Frye,  Junior,  Lincoln- Sudbury  High 
School 


Katheryn  Hogan  Mullaney  NC  '68 

Wayland,  MA 

Projects  Administrator,  Town  of  Wellesley 

J  would  emphasize  the  Jesuit/Sacred  Heart  mis- 
sion of  human  rights  and  social  justice  by  dissemi- 
nating the  BC  programs  that  seek  conflict  resolu- 
tion to  international  situations,  interfaith  commu- 
nication and  volunteer  opportunities.  Extensively 
promoted  traveling  courses  and  symposiums  rein- 
force BC's  missions  for  graduates  as  a  first  step 
toward  positive  peace  and  justice  in  this  world. 

•  Member,  BCAA  Nominating  Committee; 
Chair,  Newton  College  Class  of  1968  Mini- 
Reunion. 

•  Projects  Administrator,  The  Town  of 
Wellesley,  MA,  1997-present;  Transportation 
Coordinator,  The  Education  Cooperative, 
Wellesley,  MA,  1993-1997;  Eucharistic 
Minister,  CCD  Teacher,  Choir,  St.  John  the 
Evangelist  Parish,  Wellesley;  Founding 
Member,  Voice  of  the  Faithful  2001-present; 
VOTF  Protecting  Our  Children  Working 
Group;  President,  1985,  Wellesley  League  of 
Women  Voters;  Wellesley  League  of  Women 
Voters,  1980-present;  Study  Committee, 
Wellesley  Town  Government  Study,  1990- 
1993;  Member,  Town  Meeting,  Wellesley 
1980-2000 

•  Wife  of  Mark  Mullaney  '68;  Daughter  of 
Wm.  M.  Hogan,  Jr.  '33;  Sister  of  Wm.  M. 
Hogan,  III  '63  and  Leigh  Hogan,  J.D.  '81. 


ALUMNI     ASSOCIATION 

2003-04  NATIONAL  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS 


PRESIDENT 

John  J.  Griffin,  Jr.  '65 

vice  president/president-elect 
Christopher  M.  Doran  '68 

TREASURER 

Susan  Power  Gallagher  NC  '69 

SECRETARY 

Kathleen  Donovan  Goudie  '56 

PAST  PRESIDENT 

Charles  J.  Heffernan,  Jr.  '66 

CHAIR,  COUNCIL  OF  PAST  PRESIDENTS 
CO-CHAIR,  PHYSICAL  FACILITIES 

John  E.  Joyce  '61,  M.B.A.  '70 

CHAIR,   NOMINATING  COMMITTEE 

Brian  Kickham  '79 

CHAIR-ELECT,   NOMINATING  COMMITTEE 

Thomas  F.  Flannery  '81 


DIRECTOR,   NEWTON  COLLEGE 

Sarah  Ford  Baine  NC  '69 

DIRECTOR,  WEST  OF  THE  MISSISSIPPI 

Ann  M.  Bersani  '77 

DIRECTOR,  CGSOM 

Raymond  Carvey  '72,  M.B.A.  '81 

DIRECTOR,  LAW  SCHOOL 

Margaret  Mary  Connolly,  J.D.  '70 

DIRECTOR,   MORE  THAN  TEN  YEARS 

Roger  T.  Connor  '52 

DEVELOPMENT  LIAISON 

William  J.  Cunningham,  Jr.  '57 

DIRECTOR,   LESS  THAN  TEN  YEARS 

William  J.  Dorcena  '95 

DIRECTOR,  LESS  THAN  TEN  YEARS 

Patrick  M.  Lawler  '93 


DIRECTOR,  WOODS  COLLEGE  OF  ADVANCING  STUDIES 

Judith  Lyons  '98 

DIRECTOR,  WEST  OF  THE   MISSISSIPPI 

Julie  Finora  McAfee  '93 

DIRECTOR,  MORE  THAN  TEN  YEARS 

J.  Emmett  McCarthy  '64 

DIRECTOR,   EAST  OF  THE  MISSISSIPPI 

Floyd  B.  McCrory  '77 

DIRECTOR,   MORE  THAN  TEN  YEARS 

Dawn  E.  McNair  '82,  M.Ed.  '83 

DIRECTOR,   NEWTON  COLLEGE 

Mar)'  Pasciucco  NC  '75 

DIRECTOR,   EAST  OF  THE  MISSISSIPPI 

Kenneth  D.  Pierce  '79 

DIRECTOR,  LESS  THAN  TEN  YEARS 

Linda  Song  Wendel  '97 


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ADVANCEMENT 

A  report  on  gifts  to  Boston  College 


A  Tradition  of  Giving 


The  annual  tradition  of  giving 
goes  back  over  25  years,  recalls 
Jack  McCarthy  '67,  the  partner 
in  the  Boston  office  of  Price- 
waterhouseCoopers  LLP  who 
led  the  giving  efforts  for  many  of 
those  years.  Most  recently,  PwC 
partners  and  employees  pledged 
$1.7  million  to  Boston  College. 
In  keeping  with  the  tradition 
begun  by  former  partners  Brian 
Brooks  '64,  Francis  A.  Doyle  '70, 
now  a  member  of  the  University 
Board  of  Trustees,  and  Vincent 
M.  O'Reilly  '59,  now  on  the 
faculty  of  the  Carroll  School  of 
Management,  Michael  Costello 
'71,  managing  partner,  together 
with  Gregory  J.  Gailius  '77, 
Jack  MacKinnon  '62  (former 
Alumni  Association  president), 
Thomas  E.  Montminy  '83,  Barry 
R.  Nearhos  '79,  and  Glenn 


Williams  '78,  all  BC  grads, 
spearheaded  a  fundraising  effort 
to  benefit  Boston  College.  "Not 
everyone  who  gave  was  a  BC 
alum.  Several  of  the  partners 
had  children  who  graduated  or 
are  currently  students.  But  all 
shared  a  special  fondness  for 
the  University,"  Costello  said. 
"One  partner  is  a  parent  whose 
son  graduated  several  years  ago, 
but  their  son's  experience  so 
endeared  BC  to  them  that  they 
continue  to  support  BC's  mis- 
sion," added  Montminy. 

Another  partner,  Barry 
Nearhos,  pointed  out  that  such 
affection  is  not  surprising  since 
PwC,  especially  the  Boston 
office,  is  one  of  the  largest  em- 
ployers of  Boston  College  grad- 
uates. "We  hire  about  50  to  60 
graduates  out  of  the  business 


school  every  year,"  Nearhos 
said.  "In  addition,  the  firm  feels 
that  it's  important  to  give  back 
and  has  a  matching  gift  pro- 
gram in  place  that  matches  a 
charitable  contribution  of  $500 
up  to  $5,000." 

"The  goal  of  last  year's  ef- 
fort was  to  reaffirm  our  com- 
mitment to  Boston  College  and 
to  perpetuate  the  tradition 
among  the  next  generation  at 
PwC,"  noted  Williams. 

Then  there  are  the  memo- 
ries of  how  financial  aid  helped 
them  as  undergraduates  at  the 
University.  "Many  of  us  relied 
on  financial  aid  when  we  at- 
tended BC.  It  made  a  big  differ- 
ence and  was  made  possible  by 
the  generosity  of  alumni  and 
friends  who  preceded  us," 
added  Gailius. 


NEW  YORK  SUPPORTERS 

It  was  an  enthusiastic  crowd  that 
turned  out  at  New  York's  Park 
Avenue  Cafe  on  November  18  for 
the  first  in  a  series  of  annual 
events  planned  for  New  York  area 
BC  Fund  volunteers  and  support- 
ers, including  (from  left)  cohost 
John  J.  Powers  '73,  chair  of  the 
Gasson  Society  and  a  University 
trustee,  Ann  Riley  Finck  '66,  chair 
of  the  Fides  Society,  and  cohost 
Michael  J.  Conway  '90,  chair  of  the 
New  York  Fides  Committee.  Some 
70  volunteers  and  giving  society 
members  heard  about  the  critical 
role  the  BC  Fund  plays  in  strength- 
ening the  academic  resources  of 
the  University.  After  a  welcome  by 
Powers,  Jim  Husson,  vice  presi- 
dent of  development,  spoke  to  the 

group  about  the  important  role  volunteers  play  in  strengthening  the  University.  Keynote  speaker  John  J.  Neuhauser, 
academic  vice  president,  discussed  the  importance  of  recruiting  and  retaining  nationally  prominent  faculty,  and 
noted  that  the  BC  Fund  provides  essential  support  in  this  area.  Powers  and  Conway  were  joined  as  cohosts  by 
R.  Jeffrey  Smith  '72  and  Martin  M.  Hopwood,  Jr.  '73,  cochairs  of  New  York's  President's  Circle  Committee. 


NEWS    BRIEFS 

•  On  April  2,  2004,  the  annual 
Volunteer  Tribute  Dinner  will 
once  again  honor  men  and 
women  who  have  given  tireless- 
ly of  their  time  and  talent  and 
made  a  significant  difference  in 
the  advancement  of  Boston 
College.  Five  awards  will  be  pre- 
sented to  volunteers  at  the 
Copley  Plaza  Hotel  dinner. 

•  Scheduled  for  April  15,  2004, 
at  New  York's  Waldorf  Astoria 
is  the  16th  Annual  Wall  Street 
Council  Tribute  Dinner,  which 
raises  funds  for  the  University's 
Presidential  Scholars  Program. 
The  highlight  of  the  event  is 
the  presentation  of  the  Boston 
College  President's  Medal  of 
Excellence  to  an  individual 
whose  achievements  reflect 
the  highest  standards  of  excel- 
lence. 

•  University  President  William 
P.  Leahy,  SJ,  is  taking  the 
Church  in  the  21st  Century  pro- 
gram to  alumni  around  the 
country.  The  program  is  an  op- 
portunity for  alumni  to  discuss 
issues  confronting  the  Catholic 
Church.  Events  are  scheduled 
for  January  8,  2004,  in  Los 
Angeles,  February  28  in 
Atlanta,  March  4  in  Naples, 
Florida,  and  March  16  in 
Chicago. 

•  The  Boston  College 
Technology  Council  is  holding 
its  annual  dinner  March  25, 
2004,  at  the  Boston  College 
Club. 


Advancement  is  prepared 
by  the  Boston  College 
Office  of  Development 


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helped  me  pull  him  and  my  brother-in-law  up.  Then  they 
started  searching  all  over  our  bodies  to  see  if  we  had  any 
weapons.  This  was  Christmas  Day. 

The  next  morning,  we  went  to  look  for  my  sister,  but  we 
couldn't  find  her.  So  we  started  looking  for  a  sign  from  her. 
People  who  were  lost  were  writing  messages  everywhere — 
on  empty  houses,  fences,  trains  that  were  broken  down — 
"I'm  here."  "We're  over  there."  Finally,  we  found  her  name 
saying,  "I'll  be  in  the  next  town."  .  .  .  We  reunited  and  my 
brother-in-law  was  screaming,  hollering,  yelling;  all  mad  at 
her  because,  he  said,  I  told  you  to  stay  where  I  left  you!  I 
think  it  was  about  three  or  five  days  when  we  finally  found 
the  sign  that  said,  "I'm  in  this  town." 

After  that  we  came  to  Yongdung-Po.  There  was  a  train 
and  two  ways  you  could  go,  either  to  Seoul  or  down  south 
to  Pusan  or  Taejun.  So  my  brother-in-law  said,  well,  let's  get 
on  the  train.  It  was  a  boxcar  train.  We  all  climbed  up  there, 
slowly  because  we  had  babies.  We  stayed  up  there  three 
days,  sitting  on  the  top  edge  of  the  car.  When  the  train 
stopped,  it  jerked  and  pulled  back  and  people  dropped  off 
and  died,  you  know.  But  my  brother-in-law  tied  us  up  there 
so  we  couldn't  even  move. 

Finally  we  got  down  to  Taejun  and  stayed  for  about  five 
days.  Then  they  said,  you  gotta  move,  again.  So  we  got  on  a 
train  again  and  went  down  to  Iri,  a  small  town.  We  stayed  in 
a  refugee  camp  there  for  three  years. 

THAT  WAR  influenced  me  for  a  long  time,  a  long  time. 
When  my  children  were  growing  up,  in  America,  they'd 
bring  friends  over,  [and]  when  they  played,  I  was  always  try- 
ing to  give  them  cookies,  trying  to  feed  them.  My  husband 
would  say,  you  can't  do  that,  you  have  to  ask  their  parents. 
But  I  didn't  want  them  to  get  hungry,  you  know.  I  was  al- 


ways trying  to  give  my  children  everything  they  needed,  be- 
cause I  never  had  anything.  I  often  wrote  letters  to  my  sis- 
ter when  she  was  in  Korea  and  I  would  say,  I  wish  I  could 
send  this  [leftover  food]  to  you,  because  I  have  to  throw  it 
away,  nobody  eats  it.  It's  okay,  I'm  like  Americans  now.  I 
throw  food  away  even  though  I  should  not.  But  if  it's  stale 
two,  three  days,  I  try  putting  it  in  the  freezer. 

My  children  just  think  this  is  the  Korean  way,  this  is  a 
Korean  mother.  .  .  .  When  it  comes  time  for  their  friends  to 
go,  I  say,  have  some  more,  have  some  more,  okay?  And  my 
daughter  says,  oh,  you'll  never  get  away  from  my  mother.  She 
thinks  it's  because  Koreans  do  things  like  that.  But  I  look  back 
all  through  history,  and  I  think  the  reason  Koreans  are  this 
way,  the  most  important  reason,  is  [that]  a  lot  of  Korean 
people  struggled,  and  during  Japanese  occupation,  we  had 
nothing.  If  you  go  to  [a  Korean  home],  the  first  thing  they 
ask  is,  did  you  have  dinner,  did  you  have  lunch.  The  first 
thing  we  say — we  don't  say,  how  are  you — we  say,  did  you 
have  lunch?  That's  all  because  of  too  many  years  without. 

For  me  the  war  also  meant  not  having  family  and  not 
having  someone  to  tell  me  what  to  do  or  help  me.  All  my  life 
I  was  just  on  my  own,  making  decisions,  everything  by  my- 
self— even  after  I  married.  In  1991, 1  visited  my  two  broth- 
ers in  North  Korea,  for  the  first  time  in  41  years.  When  I 
saw  my  older  brother,  he  was  like  a  dad  to  me.  I  felt  like  I'm 
home.  ...  I  keep  saying  to  myself,  if  I  have  enough  money, 
I  would  go  live  there,  you  know,  three  months,  four  months, 
a  year.  I  don't  care  about  the  political  differences.  Just,  the 
U.S.  and  North  Korea  better  not  have  a  war  again.  I  feel 
strongly  about  that.  Family  comes  first. 

Ramsay  Liem  s  work  of  collecting  Korean-American  oral  histories 
continues.  Readers  with  stories  to  contribute  may  contact  Professor 
Liem  at  liem@bc.edu. 


TAKE-HOME:    QUESTIONS    FROM    A    FALL    SEMESTER    FINAL    EXAM 


POLITICAL  SCIENCE  317:  "THE  AMERICAN  presidency"    — Professor  Marc  Landy 


1  Pick  a  president  and  discuss  his  presidency  in  terms  of 
the  "shadow"  cast  upon  him  by  FDR.  Make  sure  you  refer 
to  Leuchtenburg's  In  the  Shadow  of  FDR. 

2  a)  In  The  American  Presidency,  Milkis  and  Nelson  associ- 
ate John  F.  Kennedy  with  the  "personal  presidency." 
What  do  they  mean? 

b)  "New  Covenant"  was  a  major  theme  of  the  1992 


Clinton  campaign.  What  role  did  it  play  in  the  Clinton 
presidency? 

c)  Milkis  and  Nelson  entitle  their  chapter  on  Reagan  "Res- 
toration of  Presidential  Power?"  Why  the  question  mark? 

3    Is  George  W  Bush  a  great  president?  Discuss,  using 
principles  of  analysis  derived  from  Landy  and  Milkis's 
Presidential  Greatness. 


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PRINT  SHOP 

Boston  College's  diploma  enters  the  computer  age 


In  August  2003,  a  group  of 
Boston  College  students  who 
had  completed  graduation  re- 
quirements over  the  summer 
received  their  diplomas.  On 
each  one,  as  it  had  for  genera- 
tions, an  eagle  spread  its  ma- 
jestic wingspan,  and  Latin 
script  framed  the  classic  Old 
English  letters  of  the  recipi- 
ent's name.  These  diplomas 
were  rich  with  history  and  tra- 
dition, but  they  also  represent- 
ed change. 

Until  then,  the  name  and 
degree  on  each  Boston  College 
diploma  had  been  added  by 
hand.  For  the  past  40  years, 
the  calligrapher  was  James 
Healy  '59  of  West  Dennis, 
Massachusetts,  who  inherited 
the  task  from  his  father, 
Leonard  '22,  who  himself  de- 
voted 38  years  to  the  job. 

Some  140,000  diplomas 
passed  under  James  Healy's 
pen,  based  on  an  estimate  by 
the  Office  of  Student  Services, 
and  they  were  always  delivered 
on  time.  Only  once,  a  few 
years  ago,  was  there  a  close 
call — when  Healy's  house 
caught  fire  two  days  before 
Commencement.  He  was  on 
the  way  to  Boston  College 
when  it  happened,  the  thou- 
sands of  completed  diplomas 
safe  in  his  car. 

Staff  at  BC  proofread 
Healy's  work,  but  very  rarely 
found  an  error.  "There's  a 
touch  of  the  perfectionist 
about  him,"  says  University 
Secretary  Joseph  Duffy,  SJ. 
"You're  not  going  to  find  too 
many  people  like  Jim  who'd 


Student  Services'  Ursula  Sullivan  demonstrates  the  process 


put  that  amount  of  time  into 
such  a  labor-intensive  activity." 

Over  the  last  year  or  so,  BC 
administrators  researched  laser- 
printing  the  diplomas  in-house, 
a  process  to  which  many  uni- 
versities have  already  switched. 
Director  of  Student  Services 
Louise  Lonabocker  says  a 
newly  truncated  Senior  Week 
lent  urgency  to  the  decision. 
As  of  2004,  there  will  be  seven 
rather  than  10  days  between 
exams  and  Commencement. 
Once  final  grades  are  in,  almost 
a  third  of  the  diplomas  must  be 
topped  off  with  a  "summa"  or 
"magna."  For  a  laser  printer,  at 
300  sheets  per  hour — roughly 
1 5  times  the  rate  possible 
by  hand — a  tight  turnaround 
poses  no  problem.  Though 
cost  was  not  the  reason  BC 
turned  to  laser  inscription,  the 
monetary  savings  are  signifi- 
cant. Lonabocker  estimates 
laser  printing  could  save  the 
University  $50,000  per  year. 

To  accommodate  the  new 


machinery,  the  diploma's  di- 
mensions were  reduced  from 
15  by  19  inches  to  13  by  16. 
Paper  enthusiasts  may  note  that 
the  67-pound  parchment  with 
supercalendared  finish  (ivory) 
was  switched  to  6  5 -pound 
opaque  offset  cover  vellum  (still 
ivory).  The  plates  used  to  print 
the  graphic  elements  had  worn 
down  over  the  years,  so  an 
artist  touched  up  details  of  the 
eagle  and  University  seal.  So 
far,  Student  Services  has  re- 
ceived only  positive  feedback, 
and  the  August  and  December 
graduations  went  smoothly. 
"The  big  test  is  going  to  be  in 
May,"  says  Lonabocker. 

The  fact  is  that  much  like 
the  institutions  with  which 
they're  linked,  diplomas  vary 
with  history  and  place.  Mod- 
ern Ukrainian  universities 
issue  diplomas  on  small,  lami- 
nated cards.  Amherst  College 
offers  the  now-rare  sheepskin, 
and  a  vegetarian  alternative. 
For  advanced  degrees,  the 


Colorado  School  of  Mines 
confers  a  sheet  of  sterling  sil- 
ver. The  word  "diploma"  itself 
traces  etymologically  to  the 
Greek  root  "folded,"  as  in 
what  the  ancients  did  with  im- 
portant papers — and  what 
today's  American  universities 
would  hardly  consider  doing 
to  a  crisp  new  certificate. 

The  history  of  Boston 
College's  own  diploma  is  one 
of  subde  changes.  Over  the 
20th  century,  graduates'  names 
went  from  Latin  aliases 
("Henricum  Aloisium 
Callahan")  to  plain  English;  a 
Jesuit  seal  glued  over  maroon 
and  gold  ribbons  evolved  into 
the  printed  Boston  College 
seal;  the  banner  clamped  in 
the  eagle's  beak  once  read  "Ad 
Majorem  Dei  Gloria??/"  ("For 
the  Greater  Glory  of  God"), 
then  "Ever  to  Excel,"  before 
bearing  as  it  does  today  the 
Greek  translation  of  that 
Homeric  motto.  James  Healy 
recalls  that  the  diplomas  his 
father  lettered  for  the  duration 
of  World  War  II  were  smaller 
in  size,  to  conserve  paper. 
Until  the  1990s,  he  himself 
had  to  correct  by  hand  the 
Latin  case  endings  on  each  fe- 
male graduate's  diploma — with 
a  small  inked  loop,  changing 
"probatum"  to  "pivbata???.." 

At  his  retirement  luncheon 
in  August,  Healy  was  present- 
ed with  a  cherrywood  captain's 
chair  stamped  with  the  Uni- 
versity seal  and  the  words 
"James  F.  Healy  '59,  With 
Grateful  Appreciation." 

Nicole  Estvanik 


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The  American  Catholic  Church  remade  childhood. 
That  was  a  mistake 


Over  the  last  40  years,  American  Catholics,  with  a  mix  of  affection  and  retribution,  have  elabo- 
rated the  figure  of  the  evil  nun  in  stories,  jokes,  plays,  objects  (the  "boxing  nun,"  the  little  wind- 
up  "Nunzilla"),  and  in  what  one  writer  has  called  the  "Catholic  school  conversation."  Inevitably, 
when  Catholics  of  middle  age  and  beyond  talk  about  their  childhoods  in  the  Church,  they  begin 
with  a  story  about  a  parochial  school  nun  who  did  something  mean  to  them.  But  nuns  have  not 
been  sexually  abusing  children,  and  it  is  not  immediately  clear  how  the  figure  of  the  evil  nun 


can  help  us  understand  the  past  that  now 
haunts  American  Catholicism:  the  abuse  of         BY  ROBE 
children  in  the  1980s  by  priests  who  grew 
up  in  the  1940s  and  1950s.  Indeed,  the  figure  of  the  evil  nun 
has  functioned  in  American  Catholic  life  as  an  obstacle  to 
serious  examination  of  the  distinctive  qualities  of  Catholic 
childhood  before  and  just  after  the  Second  Vatican  Council. 
That  silly,   ubiquitous,   endlessly  reiterated,   and   one-di- 
mensional image  has  crowded  out  the  past,  and  Catholics 
have  failed  to  look  carefully  at  the  experience  of  childhood 
in  the  Church. 

What  part  of  the  past  should  we  look  at  for  clues  to  un- 
derstanding the  present  scandals?  Any  number  of  issues 
could  come  into  play:  the  nature  of  authority  in  the 
Church;  the  history  and  practice  of  the  episcopacy;  rela- 
tions between  clergy  and  laity;  the  unfinished  business  of 
the  Second  Vatican  Council.  The  overriding  tendency  has 


been  to  sexualize  the  problem,  to  see  it  as 
RT  ORSI         the  result  of  the  deviant  impulses  of  the 

celibate  body  (among  those  who  are  suspi- 
cious of  this  way  of  living)  or  of  the  perverse  body.  But 
whatever  else  the  current  crisis  is  about,  it  is  primarily  about 
children — about  the  kinds  of  relationships  that  formed  be- 
tween children  and  adults  in  the  spaces  of  the  sacred,  about 
children's  lives  in  Catholic  settings,  their  vulnerability  and 
exposure,  their  bodies,  their  experiences  of  themselves  as 
persons,  and  the  boundaries  they  were  and  were  not  able 
to  maintain  around  themselves  in  a  culture  made  for  (and 
with)  them. 

Children  have  been  largely  missing  from  commentary 
on  the  recent  scandals.  The  victims  are  all  adults  now,  and 
what  has  seemed  most  salient 

has    been    their   post-childhood  Listening  to  a  sermon, 

traumas  and  difficulties.  At  the       Poughkeepsie,  New  York,  1953 


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BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  33 


The  decision  of  the  Third  Plenary  Council  of  Baltimore  in  1884  to  all  but 
mandate  a  separate  Catholic  elementary  school  system  in  this  country 
ensured  that  Catholic  children  and  adult  religious  would  spend  much  of  their 
time  in  one  another's  company. 


very  least,  studies  of  U.S.  Catholic  history  and  culture  can 
put  children  back  into  the  story. 

A  word  about  how  I  have  gone  about  trying  to  do  that  in 
my  research:  It  is  extremely  difficult  to  approach  the  reli- 
gious lives  of  children  even  in  the  not-too-distant  past. 
Children  do  not  leave  records  of  their  religious  practices  or 
imaginings.  Prescriptive  literature  for  children — the  hun- 
dreds of  articles  written  for  and  about  them  by  priests  and 
nuns — teaches  us  almost  nothing,  really,  about  children 
themselves,  although  we  can  get  glimpses  in  these  texts  of 
situations  and  environments  Catholic  children  lived  in,  if 
we  read  carefully.  And  so  I  have  developed  a  set  of  interre- 
lated sources.  First,  there  is  the  substantial  literature  by 
Catholic  educators  about  children  and  the  equally  large 
body  of  Catholic  children's  literature  (stories  of  the  saints 
and  angels,  for  instance,  as  well  as  catechisms,  sacramental 
instructions,  and  so  on)  and  the  devotional  objects  pro- 
duced for  children  (holy  cards,  pop-up  books  of  the  mar- 
tyrs, children's  prayer  books).  A  second  source  is  the 
published  literature  on  growing  up  Catholic,  written  by 
adults  filtering  what  they  "remember" — memory  is  a 
treacherous  source  for  historians — through  their  adult  val- 
ues and  perceptions.  But  the  heart  of  my  research  lies  in 
what  I  call  "memory  groups,"  gatherings  of  five  to  eight 
adults  of  different  ages  who  grew  up  more  or  less  in  the 
same  geographical  area  and  who  agree  to  meet  with  me 
over  several  weeks  to  talk  together  about  their  childhoods 
in  the  Church.  So  far,  I  have  held  these  conversations  in 
Arizona,  Nebraska,  Indiana,  Ohio,  Louisiana,  and  New 
York.  The  members  of  the  groups  serve  to  stimulate  and 
correct  one  another's  memories,  and  the  talk  has  been 
wide-ranging  and  probing. 

I  read  these  three  disparate  kinds  of  sources  together, 
using  each  to  correct  and  amplify  the  others.  What  comes 
clear  is  the  extent  to  which  relationships  among  adults  and 
children — especially  adult  religious  and  children — were  at 
the  center  of  American  Catholicism  in  the  20th  century. 


THE  DECISION  of  the  Third  Plenary  Council  of  Balti- 
more in  1884  to  all  but  mandate  a  separate  Catholic  ele- 
mentary school  system  in  this  country  ensured  that  for  the 
next  80  years — until  the  cultural  shifts  and  social  transfor- 
mations of  the  1960s — Catholic  children  and  adult  religious 
would  spend  much  of  their  time  in  one  another's  company. 
The  council's  decision  was  motivated  in  part  by  fear  that 
young  Catholics  would  suffer  personally  and  religiously  in 
the  American  public  schools,  and  that  the  future  of  the  faith 
itself  was  at  risk.  Children  were  thought  to  occupy  a  vulner- 
able place  between  the  Catholic  world  and  the  surrounding, 
often  hostile,  U.S.  culture.  A  sense  of  responsibility  for  the 
Church  had  to  be  pressed  deep  into  their  bodies  and  souls. 
One  means  of  achieving  this  was  through  the  theology  and 
practice  of  confirmation,  making  children  "soldiers  of 
Christ"  who  would  be  ready  to  defend  the  Church  to  the 
death  if  necessary.  In  southern  Indiana,  I  collected  a  story 
from  the  1950s  of  a  school  principal,  a  sister,  who  marched 
her  students  to  church  one  day,  lined  them  up,  and  had 
them  approach  the  communion  rail  as  if  they  were  going  to 
take  communion.  As  she  paced  up  and  down  the  length  of 
the  rail — on  the  altar  side — she  held  her  hand  in  the  shape 
of  a  gun,  placed  her  fingertips  to  each  child's  temple,  and 
said,  "Do  you  renounce  your  faith?"  She  was  preparing 
them  for  Cold  War  martyrdom. 

The  central  place  of  children  in  mid-century  American 
Catholicism  was  a  consequence  also  of  the  immigrant 
makeup  of  the  Church.  Priests  and  nuns  explicitly  called  on 
children  to  bring  their  Italian  or  Mexican  parents  to  church 
and  teach  them  what  it  was  to  be  a  Catholic  in  this  country. 
In  matters  of  both  affection  and  authority,  children  often 
found  themselves  caught  between  the  adults  in  their  fami- 
lies and  the  adult  religious  with  whom  they  spent  much  of 
their  days. 

With  the  stakes  perceived  to  be  so  high,  American  nuns 
filled  pages  in  pedagogical  journals  with  fervent  considera- 
tions  of  how   to   inflame   children's   prayer   lives.   Many 


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Home  shrine  in  Spanish 
Harlem,  New  York  City,  1966 


Catholics  say  that  the  prayers 
the  sisters  taught  them  to  mem- 
orize remain  "part  of  us" — in  our 
bodies,  is  how  several  people  have  told  this  to  me.  In 
parochial  schools  across  America,  the  sisters  presented  the 
sacraments  with  such  spiritual  and  emotional  intensity  that 
youngsters  came  to  expect  a  profound  transformation  of  the 
self  through  the  rituals,  that  afterward  they  would  not  be  the 
same  person. 

This  was  an  intensely  erotic  world.  By  that,  I  do  not 
mean  anything  necessarily  inappropriate  or  dark — but  pow- 
erful and  complicated  currents  of  desire  circulated  freely 
and  openly.  One  example  can  be  found  in  the  practice  of 
children  choosing  confirmation  sponsors.  Although  the  the- 
ology of  confirmation  stressed  a  kind  of  ecclesiastical  hero- 
ism, the  experience  of  the  sacrament  was  one  of  intimacies. 
Many  children  had  the  opportunity  to  select  their  own 
sponsors  and  confirmation  names,  and  they  approached 
these  decisions  thoughtfully  and  lovingly,  identifying  bonds 
of  respect  and  affection  that  mattered  deeply  to  them.  "I  took 
Veronica"  as  a  confirmation  name,  a  75-year-old  woman  in 


New  Orleans  told  me,  "because  of  this  girl  I  liked  so  much." 
Another  woman  said  she  chose  the  name  "of  an  aunt  that  I 
loved." 

Children  became  emotionally  attached  to  the  spaces  of 
the  Church,  too.  The  erotic  included  the  environment:  the 
textures,  colors,  smells,  and  sounds  of  the  built  sacred  world 
and  parish  grounds.  One  woman,  again  in  New  Orleans, 
told  me  that  as  a  child  in  the  1960s,  "I  liked  to  be  up  close 
to  the  altar,  on  the  end,  so  I  could  see  around  everybody." 
She  said  she  loved  the  way  the  candles  lit  up  the  faces  of  the 
statuary,  and  she  remembers  staring  into  the  saints'  eyes  "as 
though  I  was  looking  for  something,  waiting  .  .  .  why  don't 
you  say  something  to  me!" 

Another  woman,  who  grew  up  in  the  Irish  Channel  in 
New  Orleans  in  the  1930s,  recalled  the  stained  glass  window 
in  her  childhood  church:  "You  have  to  realize  that  this  is  a 
Gothic  church,  and  it's  about  40  feet  up  in  the  air,  the  stained 
glass,  at  least  30  or  40  feet  wide.  And  it's  the  Assumption, 
Mary  there,  reaching  down  to  purgatory,  and  the  morning 
sun  would  come  in  and" — here  her  voice  fell  to  a  whisper— 
"just  light  it  beautifully,  always." 


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AS  THEY  SET  about  to  form  (in  the  deep  Catholic  sense  of 
the  term)  children's  imaginations  and  bodies,  adults'  own 
lives  and  faith,  their  religious  imaginations,  desires,  fears, 
and  hopes,  were  shaped,  too.  Forming  children,  they  formed 
themselves.  American  Catholicism  existed  in  between  chil- 
dren and  adults,  in  a  religious  universe  that  absorbed  them 
and  held  them  both.  Children's  interiorities  were  structured 
and  shaped  when  their  parents  moved  their  hands  through 
the  sign  of  the  cross,  or  when  the  nuns  prepared  them  for 
confession  by  examining  their  souls  with  them,  when  chil- 
dren heard  consecration  bells  and  knew  that  God's  body  was 
now  on  the  altar  and  soon  to  be  in  their  mouths,  or  when 
they  looked  at  nuns'  bodies  in  the  classroom  and  smelled 
their  soap.  In  turn,  adults'  interiorities  became  porous  to 
children  through  the  same  intimate  encounters. 

Children  and  adult  religious  watched  one  another  closely, 
constantly,  in  church,  in  the  classroom,  and  in  their  worlds 
outside  of  both.  They  knew  the  secrets  of  one  another's  cor- 
poral experience.  Xuns  kept  track  of  girls'  developing  breasts 
and  quietly  (sometimes  not  so  quietly)  identified  the  moment 
when  a  girl  needed  to  wear  a  camisole  under  her  uniform; 


A  visit  to  the  lily  pond  on 
church  grounds,  U.S.,  1953 


and  children  scrutinized '  nuns' 
bodies.  A  woman  in  her  forties 
who  grew  up  in  New  Orleans  re- 
membered the  face  of  the  nun  who  taught  her  in  the  fourth 
grade.  "She  had  little  freckles  all  around  her  nose,  and  .  .  . 
such  a  beautiful  smile."  One  woman  told  me  that  her  priest 
(in  rural  Nebraska  in  the  late  1940s)  apprehended  one  day 
that  she  had  started  menstruating  and  was  bleeding  in 
church — although  she  had  not  said  anything — and  he  came 
over  to  her  during  the  devotional  service,  took  her  back  to 
the  rectory,  and  fortified  her  with  sips  of  altar  wine. 

Confession  was  a  particularly  effective  instrument  for  the 
dissolution  of  boundaries  between  an  individual  child  and  all 
others.  Children  paid  close  attention  to  one  another's  con- 
fessions, keeping  track  of  the  length  of  time  classmates  re- 
mained in  the  box  and  monitoring  the  duration  of  their 
penances.  "You'd  make  it  a  point  not  to  commit  too  big  a 
sin,"  a  75-year-old  Mexican-American  man  remembered  of 
his  childhood  in  Tyrone,  Arizona,  because  "if  you  said  any- 
thing kind  of  wrong,  [the  priest]  would  yell  at  you,  and  then 
the  rest  of  the  people  would  know."  And  despite  the  pre- 


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This  was  an  intensely  erotic  world.  By  that,  I  do  not  mean  anything  necessarily 
inappropriate  or  dark — but  powerful  and  complicated  currents  of  desire 
circulated  freely  and  openly.  The  erotic  included  the  environment:  the  textures, 
colors,  smells,  and  sounds  of  the  built  sacred  world  and  parish  grounds. 


tense  of  secrecy,  children  realized  that  the  priests  could  rec- 
ognize them  through  the  confessional  screen.  There  are 
many  stories  of  children  telling  their  sins  to  a  priest  and  the 
priest  following  absolution  with  something  like  "Well, 
Amanda,  when  you  get  home,  would  you  tell  your  mother 
that  I  need  to  see  her  tomorrow?"  In  some  parts  of  the 
country,  children  convinced  one  another  that  priests  re- 
ceived a  special  grace  that  made  them  forget  what  they'd 
heard  the  moment  they  left  the  confessional — a  poignant 
and  powerful  sign  of  young  Catholics'  apprehension  at  the 
permeability  of  their  personal  boundaries. 

This  same  porousness  made  it  possible  for  adults  to  iden- 
tify children  whom  they  believed  had  vocations  to  the  reli- 
gious life.  Little  nuns  and  little  "priests-in-the-making"  (a 
popular  phrase  for  altar  boys)  were  marked  off  from  the  rest 
of  their  peers  and  relentlessly  pursued  with  special  privileges 
in  school,  gifts  and  treats,  invitations  to  visit  the  residential 
areas  of  the  convent  or  rectory  to  see  how  the  nuns  or 
priests  lived,  and  in  general  the  delight  of  adult  attention. 
One  of  my  sources  in  New  Orleans  described  being  taken  as 
an  eighth-grader  into  the  convent  in  the  1930s  with  a  girl- 
friend and  invited  to  touch  the  special  garments  of  a  new 
postulant  that  had  been  laid  out  on  a  bed.  Some  children 
found  such  interest  flattering,  but  others  were  terrified  by  it, 
recognizing  that  to  become  the  bearer  of  adult  religious  de- 
sire in  this  exposed  way  threatened  their  identities.  Children 
who  even  briefly  entered  the  convent  or  seminary  after 
grammar  school — a  common  practice — found  it  difficult  to 
be  accepted  again  by  their  peers  upon  returning. 

THE  ABUSE  OF  children  in  sacred  settings  by  priests  over 
the  past  40  years  has  to  be  understood  against  this  history. 
Children's  bodies  and  souls — the  intimate  places  of  their  ex- 
perience— were  uniquely  available  in  American  Catholic 
culture  to  adult  religious,  male  and  female,  who  assumed  a 
proprietary  authority  over  both.  Nuns  and  parish  priests  to- 
gether created  this  world,  although  nuns  have  come  to  stand 


for  its  perverse  possibilities.  The  world  they  created  was  not 
necessarily  bad — Catholic  children  came  out  of  it  with  a 
passionate  spirituality  and  a  strong  sense  of  right  and  wrong. 
But  children  could  not  be  sure  where  the  appropriate  line 
was  between  themselves — their  bodies  and  souls — and  the 
adult  religious  around  them.  There  was  surprisingly  little 
constraint  on  the  behavior  of  priests  and  nuns  toward  chil- 
dren, and  the  same  discipline  that  shaped  proud  and  deter- 
mined young  soldiers  of  Christ  made  children  vulnerable. 
The  priests  who  have  abused  children  grew  up  in  this  envi- 
ronment of  fluid  and  blurred  boundaries,  of  radical  moral 
and  spiritual  vulnerability,  and  I  suspect  that  when  they  ap- 
proached the  children  they  intended  to  hurt  they  used  the 
boundary-dissolving  moral  and  spiritual  idioms  of  their  own 
childhoods. 

Adult  Catholic  laypeople  and  religious  need  to  think 
about  the  kinds  of  relationships  into  which  they  have  invit- 
ed children  in  religious  settings.  Theologically,  psychologi- 
cally, and  practically,  they  must  consider  the  appropriate 
balance  between  autonomy  and  authority  in  children's  reli- 
gious lives,  and  the  boundaries  to  be  maintained  around 
young  minds  and  bodies.  When  Catholics  today  take  up 
how  best  to  make  a  new  Church  following  on  scandal,  they 
must  also  consider  how  best  to  respect  children's  freedom  in 
the  Church,  how  to  honor  their  status  as  separate  persons, 
and  how  to  make  sure  that  children  know  that  loving  and 
serving  God  does  not  make  them  vulnerable  to  the  adults 
around  them,  that  holiness  does  not  mean  exposure,  and 
that  to  be  good  does  not  mean  surrender. 

Robert  Orsi  is  the  Charles  Warren  Professor  of  the  History  of 
Religion  at  Harvard  University,  and  the  author  of  Gods  of  the 
City:  Religion  and  the  American  Urban  Landscape  (1999), 
Thank  you  Saint  Jude:  Women's  Devotion  to  the  Patron 
Saint  of  Hopeless  Causes  (1996),  and  Between  Heaven  and 
Earth  (forthcoming).  His  essay  is  drawn  fivm  a  talk  he  gave  at 
Boston  College  as  part  of  the  Lowell  Humanities  Lecture  Series. 


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V 


•, 


.. 


CLEANING 


HOUSE 


Andrea  Cabral  straightened  out  the  notorious  Suffolk  County  jails. 

Now  she  has  to  face  the  voters 


BY  DAVE  DENISON 


FROM  HER  OFFICE  WINDOW  ON  THE   SECOND 

floor  of  the  Suffolk  County  House  of  Corrections  in  Boston, 
Sheriff  Andrea  J.  Cabral  '81  can  look  down  on  an  enclosed  open- 
air  courtyard  where  prisoners  take  exercise.  There's  a  basketball 
court  at  the  center,  a  wide  walkway  at  the  periphery,  and  concrete 
multistory  buildings  containing  cell  blocks  on  all  sides.  The  cells 
hold  men  (and  in  a  separate  unit,  women)  who  have  been  sen- 
tenced on  drug-related  crimes,  or  assault  and  battery  charges,  or 
gang-related  violence,  or  any  number  of  misdemeanors.  Many  are 
from  the  surrounding  neighborhoods  of  Roxbury  and  Dorchester, 
others  from  the  working-class  and  immigrant  enclaves  to  the 
north:  Charlestown,  Chelsea,  East  Boston,  Revere,  Winthrop. 
The  courtyard  is  empty  now,  in  the  dead  of  winter,  but  Cabral 

looks  through  the  window  as  if 

Cabral  with  Deputy  Tom  DeRosa  in  the 

female  booking  area  at  the  Nashua  Street  jail  checking    On    the    inmates.    "The 


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world's  worst  basketball  players,"  she  reports  with  a  bemused 
smile. 

The  first  thing  you  notice  about  Cabral  is  that  she  does 
not  lack  confidence  in  her  opinions.  That's  lucky,  for  she 
needs  to  project  confidence — she  is  the  first  woman  sheriff 
ever  in  Massachusetts,  and  the  department  she  heads  has 
been  plagued  historically  by  scandal  and  mismanagement 
and  been  a  target  of  investigations  by  the  local  press. 

A  former  prosecutor,  44  and  single,  Cabral  came  to  the 
sheriff's  job  in  December  2002  with  a  reputation  for  hard 
work  and  a  no-nonsense  attitude  about  locking  people  up,  es- 
pecially men  who  resort  to  violence. 
Now  she  is  seeing  the  other  end  of  the 

pipeline.    Being    sheriff   in    Suffolk  

County  means  supervising  about  1,750 
inmates  at  the  house  of  corrections 
(built  in  1991  to  hold  1,250)  and  a  few 
hundred  pretrial  detainees  at  the 
Nashua  Street  Jail,  also  in  Boston. 
Inmates  at  the  house  of  corrections 
usually  serve  two  years  or  less  before 
going  back  out  into  the  world.  The 
minimum  requirement  of  Cabral's 
job — and  others  have  failed  at  this — is 
to  make  sure  they  are  released  without 
having  been  mistreated.  If  inmates  take 
advantage  of  programs  on  the  inside 
designed  to  improve  their  work  skills 
or  curb  their  violence,  so  much  the 
better.  For  all  that  rides  on  the  job  of 
sheriff,  it  is  an  elected  position  requir- 
ing no  prior  experience.  Cabral  has 
come  to  it  mid-term,  appointed  by  the 
governor  in  unusual  circumstances. 

Looking  down  at  the  courtyard, 
Cabral  is  reminded  of  a  situation  that 
bothered  her  (one  of  many)  when  she  took  over  the  sheriff's 
department.  During  the  previous  sheriff's  tenure,  only  male 
prisoners  were  granted  time  in  the  recreation  yard.  Women 
inmates — there  are  100  or  so  at  the  house  of  corrections — 
were  barred  as  presenting  "a  sight-and-sound  issue,"  in 
prison-authority  speak.  With  women  in  the  yard,  there  had 
been  hooting  from  the  men  in  the  cells  above,  Cabral  was 
told,  and  some  women  had  responded  by  yelling  back  or 
even  pulling  up  their  shirts.  Cabral's  solution  was  simple: 
Restore  the  women's  recreation  privilege,  and  let  them 
know  it  will  be  revoked  as  soon  as  someone  acts  inappropri- 
ately. The  women  have  exercised  since  without  incident. 

Cabral  has  many  such  stories,  all  told  in  the  same  way,  as 
if  she's  still  amazed  at  how  much  was  wrong  here,  and  how 
most  problems  could  be  put  right  with  a  little  bit  of  com- 
mon sense.   Since  arriving,  she  has  insisted  on  rigorous 


A  FORMER  PROSECUTOR, 


in  the  past  someone  with  the  right  connections  could  be 
hired  right  off  the  street.  The  six-week  training  academy 
through  which  recruits  now  must  pass  emphasizes  profes- 
sional standards  of  civility  in  handling  prisoners.  Her  facili- 
ty is  a  not  a  pleasant  place  to  end  up,  Cabral  makes  clear  (she 
recently  allowed  an  MTV  camera  crew  into  the  cell  blocks 
in  the  hopes  she  could  help  "deglamorize"  prison  for  young 
people).  But  a  word  that  comes  up  again  and  again  in  her 
discussions  of  how  work  is  to  be  done  here  is  "professional- 
ism." County  corrections  is  different  from  state  prison,  she 
notes.  With  people  in  for  shorter  periods  of  time  and  more 

emphasis  on  rehabilitative  programs, 
if  the  job  is  done  right,  there  is  a 
chance  that  some  of  these  inmates  will 
not  eventually  graduate  to  the  state 
prison  system. 


CABRAL  CAME  TO  THE 


SHERIFF'S  JOB  WITH 


A  REPUTATION   FOR   HARD 


WORK  AND  A  NO-NONSENSE 


ATTITUDE  ABOUT  LOCKING 


PEOPLE  UP.   NOW  SHE 


IS  SEEING  THE  OTHER  END 


OF  THE  PIPELINE 


FOR  THE  last  several  years,  though, 
the  house  of  corrections  has  sorely 
needed  its  own  course  correction. 
Boston  newspapers  have  carried  regu- 
lar stories  about  indictments  of  correc- 
tions officers  for  the  use  of  excessive 
force.  Two  lawsuits  have  made  their 
way  through  the  courts  documenting 
cases  of  sexual  assault  of  female  pris- 
oners. At  least  one  inmate  was  impreg- 
nated by  an  officer.  A  special  state 
commission  led  by  former  U.S. 
Attorney  Donald  Stern  was  appointed 
to  review  conditions  in  2001,  midway 
through  the  previous  sheriff's  term.  It 
found  "a  deeply  troubled  institution" 
and  made  75  recommendations  for 
change,  some  fairly  basic:  The  sheriff 
should  not  appoint  unqualified  cronies 
to  top  positions;  the  sheriff  should  not  solicit  campaign  con- 
tributions from  employees.  A  new  $14  million  facility  built  to 
house  women  prisoners  was  deemed  unsuitable  and  unsafe. 

Shortly  before  the  commission's  report  was  released,  the 
sitting  sheriff,  Richard  J.  Rouse,  a  former  state  legislator 
and  career  politician,  resigned.  The  real  damage  to  Rouse's 
reputation  had  been  done  more  than  a  year  earlier,  when 
Boston  Globe  reporters  secretly  followed  him  for  six  days  and 
found  him  putting  in  four-hour  workdays,  using  a  state  ve- 
hicle for  private  errands,  and  scheduling  time  on  the  golf 
course  even  as  criminal  charges  were  being  brought  against 
seven  guards  for  beating  detainees  at  the  county  jail.  Rouse 
had  also  opened  a  swanky  office  for  himself  at  the  county 
courthouse  downtown,  away  from  the  commotion  of  the 
house  of  corrections. 

When  Cabral  was  appointed  by  then  governor  Jane  Swift 


training  for  new  corrections  officers,  for  example,  whereas        in  autumn  2002  to  serve  the  final  two  years  of  Rouse's  term, 


40  WINTER  2004 


one  of  her  first  decisions  as  sheriff  was  to  operate  from  an 
office  at  the  house  of  corrections.  She  wouldn't  be  working 
four-hour  days,  and  she  wanted  everyone  to  know  it.  Now, 
she  sits  behind  a  large  desk  in  a  mostly  unadorned  but  spa- 
cious room.  A  dark  blue  drape  covers  the  entire  wall  behind 
her,  as  if  to  force  visitors  to  concentrate  on  nothing  but  her 
imposing  presence.  When  she  wants  to  be  serious,  she  can 
seem  very  serious.  But  she  often  breaks  into  a  several- 
megawatt  smile  and  laughs  in  a  way  that  makes  her  shoul- 
ders rise  up  and  her  large  six-foot  frame  relax. 

"She's  got  a  marvelous  sense  of  humor,  but  she  can  be 
very  forceful,"  says  Cabral's  chief  of  staff  and  longtime  col- 
league from  her  days  as  a  prosecutor,  Elizabeth  Keeley  '76. 
"She's  no  shrinking  violet."  Cabral  has  been  described  as 
"intimidating"  in  newspaper  stories.  "I  don't  think  I  am," 
she  says,  going  on  to  suggest  that  the  comment  may  say 
more  about  the  person  making  it  than  about  her.  But  it 
seems  never  far  from  Cabral's  mind  that  she  is  the  state's 
first  female  sheriff.  She  is  intent  on  doing  the  job  well,  she 
says,  so  that  "no  one  would  ever  be  able  to  say  that  a  woman 
couldn't  be  sheriff  in  Massachusetts,  and  that  a  black  woman 
couldn't  be  sheriff  in  Suffolk  County." 

Cabral  manages  a  staff  of  about  1,100  employees  and  an  al- 
most $100  million  budget.  Since  her  appointment,  she  has  in- 
sisted on  interviewing  every  new  employee  hired  in  the 
department,  giving  special  attention  to  new  officers.  That  has 
helped  to  slow  the  hiring  process,  and  the  house  of  correc- 
tions this  winter  was  about  40  officers  short  of  optimum 
staffing,  according  to  Superintendent  Gerard  Horgan,  one  of 
Cabral's  top  managers,  whose  responsibility  is  the  day-to-day 
operations  of  "the  house."  But  Horgan  credits  Cabral  with 
bringing  in  "high-quality  people."  A  17-year  veteran  of  the 
department,  he  describes  Cabral  as  "an  extremely  quick 
study"  who  leads  by  example.  Two  years  ago,  he  says,  when 
Cabral  appointed  him  to  supervise  the  Nashua  Street  Jail,  she 
showed  up  first  at  the  6:45  A.M.  roll  call  to  announce  his  pro- 
motion, then  at  the  2:45  roll  call,  and  then  again  at  the  10:45 
shift  change.  "She  basically  had  an  18-plus-hour  day," 
Horgan  says. 

In  an  hour-long  conversation  in  her  office,  Cabral  talks 
about  the  challenges  of  her  job.  The  more  problems  she  de- 
scribes— the  lawsuits,  the  budget  cuts,  the  guards  caught 
smuggling  contraband  to  inmates — and  the  more  one  looks 
around  and  tries  to  imagine  coming  to  this  place  every  day, 
this  dreary  block  of  buildings  set  down  in  an  urban  waste- 
land hemmed  in  by  highways,  the  more  one  wonders:  Why 
would  anyone  want  this  job?  "Do  you  like  it?"  she  is  asked. 

"I  do,"  she  says.  "This  is  important.  We  run  people's 
lives.  We're  in  charge  of  other  people.  And  we're  in  charge 
of  people  that  a  court  has  decided  cannot  live  outside  of 
these  walls  for  a  period  of  time.  This  is  like  a  little  city.  We 
bring  education,  food,  medicine — you  name  it,  we  bring  it 
inside  these  walls.  And  it  literally  runs  like  a  city.  Because  it 


Clockwise  from  top  left:  Cabral  at  age  seven;  at  her  graduation  from  BC  in 
1981;  her  swearing-in  as  sheriff  by  Governor  Jane  Swift,  December  3,  2002 


is  so  enclosed,  because  we're  dealing  with  a  population  that 
at  least  for  a  temporary  period  of  time  very  few  people  on 
the  outside  care  about,  bad  things  can  flourish  here."  She 
talks  about  the  huge  ripple  effects  of  crime — of  how  a  single 
auto  theft  can  affect  the  lives  and  wallets  of  multiple  people 
and  companies.  "If  you  can  keep  it  so  that  out  of  10  people, 
two  don't  re-offend,  you've  had  a  huge  impact  on  society," 
she  says.  In  fact,  Cabral  expects  better  than  that — but  not  by 
much.  Studies  of  recidivism  suggest  at  least  50  percent  of  in- 
mates will  run  afoul  of  the  law  again. 

For  now,  Cabral  is  the  mayor  of  this  "little  city."  And  she 
likes  the  position  well  enough  that  she's  getting  ready  to 
fight  to  keep  it.  This  summer  and  fall,  she  will  run  her  first 
campaign  for  elective  office.  She  will  raise  money,  and  she 
will  talk  about  reform  and  professionalism  and  the  changes 
she's  made  in  this  place  that  so  few  people  on  the  outside 
care  about.  She  will  point  to  a  2003  year-end  report  pub- 
lished by  her  office  that  contends,  "We  have  addressed 
nearly  every  recommendation  made  by  the  Stern 
Commission." 

If  things  get  rough,  as  they  sometimes  do  in  Boston  pol- 
itics, her  credentials,  her  integrity,  even  her  race  and  gender, 
may  come  under  attack.  If  she  wins,  her  reward  will  be  a  six- 
year  term  in  office. 


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ONE  OF  THE  Stern  Commission's  chief  criticisms  of  the 
sheriff's  department  was  that  not  enough  of  its  top  officials 
had  experience  in  criminal  justice.  By  the  time  Andrea 
Cabral  was  appointed  sheriff,  she  had  logged  1 6  years  in  the 
Massachusetts  criminal  justice  system. 

Growing  up  in  a  suburban  neighborhood  in  East 
Providence,  Rhode  Island,  young  Andrea  was  one  of  those 
children  who  chooses  a  future  early — it  was  in  fifth  grade 
that  she  announced  she  wanted  to  be  a  lawyer,  her  mother 
recalls.  "She  always  had  a  strong  penchant  for  justice," 
Yvonne  Cabral  says.  "She'd  go  to  bat  verbally  for  anybody 
who  required  it,  if  she  thought  that  person  was  right  and  was 
not  being  properly  defended."  The  Cabrals  raised  three  chil- 
dren— Andrea  was  the  middle  one — in  the  raised  ranch 
house  where  they  still  live  today.  Yvonne  Cabral  worked 
for  18  years  as  executive  director  of  the  East  Providence 
Community  Center.  Joseph  Cabral,  whose  parents  came 
from  the  Cape  Verdean  island  of  St.  Nicholas,  was  a  steel- 
worker  for  the  Washburn  Wire  company  in  Providence.  He 
was  a  union  member,  now  retired.  On  many  Saturdays,  both 
mother  and  daughter  recall,  Andrea  would  be  dropped  off  at 
the  local  public  library.  "She  loved  to  read,  and  the  librarian 
just  loved  her  to  death,"  Yvonne  Cabral  says.  "I  would  read 
six,  seven,  eight  books"  in  a  day  at  the  library,  the  sheriff  re- 
members, "and  it  was  literally  my  favorite  thing  to  do,  and  I 
did  that  for  years  from  a  very  early  age." 

Cabral  carried  her  bookworm  tendencies  into  college, 
majoring  in  English  at  BC.  After  graduating  in  1981,  she 
went  on  to  Suffolk  University  Law  School.  In  1986,  her  first 
job  out  of  law  school,  portentously,  was  as  a  staff  attorney  at 
the  Suffolk  County  Sheriff's  Department,  where  she  worked 
on  bail  appeals  for  pretrial  detainees  at  the  jail. 

Having  read,  before  high  school,  Vincent  Bugliosi's 
book  Helter  Skelter — in  which  the  prominent  California 
D.A.  recounts  how  he  obtained  murder  convictions  for  the 
Svengali-like  Charles  Manson — Cabral  had  her  mind  set 
on  becoming  a  prosecutor.  She  remembers  the  impression 
the  book  made  on  her — the  challenge  Bugliosi  faced  in 
convincing  jurors  to  hold  Manson  guilty  of  crimes  he  di- 
rected others  to  commit,  the  gravity  of  government's  re- 
sponsibility to  do  the  work  to  hold  the  guilty  accountable. 
"I  realized  that  was  what  I  wanted  to  do,"  she  says.  After 
five  years  as  an  assistant  district  attorney  in  Middlesex 
County  and  three  years  in  the  state  attorney  general's  of- 
fice, Cabral  landed  in  the  Suffolk  County  district  attorney's 
office.  The  D.A.  then  was  Ralph  Martin  III,  who  was  win- 
ning attention  as  one  of  the  few  black  Republicans  in  state 
politics.  Martin  appointed  Cabral  to  head  a  newly  created 
domestic  violence  unit. 

The  Massachusetts  system  for  dealing  with  domestic  vi- 
olence was  changing  in  the  1990s,  and  Cabral  was  part  of  a 
new  trend  of  aggressive  pursuit  of  batterers.  Cases  had  been 
notoriously  hard  to  prosecute,  because  victims  often  backed 


away  from  legal  action.  "At  some  point,  the  law  collectively 
woke  up  and  said,  'This  is  an  assault  and  battery,'"  Cabral 
recalls.  "If  this  guy  walked  up  to  a  stranger  on  the  street  and 
beat  them  up,  there'd  be  no  question  that  you  would  arrest 
him  and  he'd  be  prosecuted.  Why  is  it  any  different  that  the 
person  he  beats  up,  he  lives  with? 

"In  the  five  years  I  was  head  of  that  unit,"  says  Cabral,  "we 
spent  a  huge  amount  of  time  training  prosecutors,  victim 
witness  advocates,  and  police  officers  to  approach  the  cases 
differently,  to  understand  that  they  needed  to  make  some 
good  decisions  at  the  scenes  of  these  crimes,  justify  their  ac- 
tions in  their  police  reports,  write  good  police  reports,  and 
shore  up  our  cases  in  other  ways,  because  the  victim  could  at 
some  point  walk  away  and  not  show  up  to  court."  In  more 
than  a  few  cases,  Cabral  proceeded  without  the  victim's  pres- 
ence in  the  courtroom.  "And  the  law  allowed  us  to  do  that. 
We  really  became  very  proficient  at  it."  In  other  cases,  it  was 
important  to  "redefine  winning,"  she  says.  The  victory  might 
not  be  an  immediate  conviction  in  court;  it  might  be  spend- 
ing enough  time  on  the  phone  with  a  victim  that  she  would 
know  where  to  turn  if  the  battering  continued. 

By  the  late  1990s,  when  Ralph  Martin  left  the  D.A.'s  of- 
fice, Cabral  says,  he  was  encouraging  her  to  run  for  the  po- 
sition. "I  laughed  and  said  absolutely  not.  Because  I've 
never  liked  politics,  or  what  I  perceived  as  politics."  Her 
aversion  came  "from  a  certain  amount  of  cynicism,"  she 
says,  about  "the  political  game,"  the  glad-handing  and  the 
backslapping.  And  she  didn't  like  the  modern  scrutiny  of 
political  candidates,  the  idea  that  "you  sacrifice  a  certain 
amount  of  your  private  citizenship  to  be  a  public  figure." 

On  top  of  all  that,  there  was  the  obvious  question  of  how 
a  black  woman,  a  political  unknown  at  the  time,  could  put 
together  an  organization  in  Suffolk  County.  Success  in 
urban  politics  comes  from  having  a  base.  Where  was  her 
base?  Not  in  heavily  Irish-Catholic  South  Boston  or 
Charlestown.  Not  in  the  prosperous  Back  Bay  or  Beacon 
Hill  districts.  Perhaps  she  could  start  by  appealing  to 
Suffolk  County's  African- Americans,  who  account  for  22 
percent  of  the  population.  But  voter  turnout  is  often  weak  in 
African-American  wards,  and  the  city  of  Boston — which  has 
never  had  a  black  mayor — does  not  have  a  good  track  record 
of  embracing  black  political  leaders. 

POLITICS,  HOWEVER,  caught  up  with  Cabral.  With  the 
Suffolk  County  Sheriff's  Department  in  disarray  in  2002, 
Governor  Jane  Swift  was  hearing  from  fellow  Republican 
Ralph  Martin  that  Cabral  would  make  a  good  sheriff.  Swift 
liked  the  idea  of  appointing  a  competent  woman  to  the  job, 
but  there  was  a  hitch:  Cabral  was  not  a  Republican.  As  she 
readily  admitted,  she  thought  of  herself  as  an  independent 
and  would  prefer  to  stay  that  way.  As  Swift  would  have  it, 
that  wasn't  an  option.  To  win  the  appointment,  Cabral 
agreed  to  join  the  GOP  and  promised  Swift  she'd  run  as  a 


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Republican  candidate  in  2004.  It  was  a  decision  she  would 
come  to  regret. 

The  Cabral  appointment  was  one  of  Swift's  last  official 
acts — a  lame-duck  governor,  she  had  been  muscled  out  of  the 
2002  gubernatorial  race  by  Republican  Mitt  Romney.  After 
Romney's  inauguration,  Swift  went  home  to  western  Mass- 
achusetts, leaving  Cabral  with  a  morass  of  inherited  problems 
at  the  sheriff's  department  and  without  a  friend  in  high  places. 

Cabral  meanwhile  faced  an  immediate  and  pressing 
worry — in  the  amount  of  $5  million.  A  lawsuit  on  behalf  of 
1,500  women  who  were  illegally  strip-searched  at  the 
Nashua  Street  Jail  in  the  1990s  had 
resulted  in  a  judgment  of  $5  million 
against  the  city  of  Boston  and  $5  mil- 
lion against  Suffolk  County.  The  city 
had  paid  its  share.  The  county's  pay- 
ment— for  which  the  sheriff's  depart- 
ment was  fully  responsible,  since 
actual  county  government  structures 
have  been  practically  abolished  in 
Massachusetts — was  due  the  week 
Cabral  started  her  job.  She  soon 
found  out  it  hadn't  been  paid,  nor  was 
money  set  aside  to  pay  it.  Somehow 
she  had  to  come  up  with  $5  million. 

The  court  had  no  patience  with  the 
argument  that  the  department  simply 
didn't  have  the  funds.  And  the  longer 
the  debt  went  unpaid,  the  more  cost- 
ly it  got;   the   interest  penalty  was 
$50,000   a   month.   Cabral   went   to 
Boston  mayor  (and  Democrat)  Tom 
Menino's  office  for  help  and  came  up 
empty.  She  placed  calls  to  Governor 
Romney's  office  and  was  told  by  his 
aides  (rather  abruptly,  it  seemed  to 
her)  that  the  state  could  not  help.  In  early  May,  Cabral  fi- 
nally got  her  meeting  with  the  governor,  but  no  assistance. 
In  the  end,  Cabral  did  the  only  thing  she  could.  Owing  al- 
most $5.3  million,  she  directed  in  May  that  the  settlement 
money  be  paid  out  of  the  sheriff's  department's  general  op- 
erating budget.  As  a  result,  the  department  ended  the  fiscal 
year  last  summer  in  deficit. 

Through  it  all,  Cabral  grew  frustrated  that  she  had  been 
unable  to  develop  a  working  relationship  with  the  new  gov- 
ernor. Word  got  out  that  she  was  upset  enough  to  consider 
switching  parties.  And  if  she  were  going  to  switch,  she  faced 
a  deadline — she  would  have  to  be  a  member  of  the 
Democratic  Party  for  one  year  in  order  to  declare  her  candi- 
dacy as  a  Democrat  in  the  spring  of  2004  for  a  run  at  the 
November  election.  A  week  after  her  disappointing  meeting 
with  Romney  (at  which  the  matter  of  her  party  status  did  not 
come  up),  Cabral  traveled  to  Washington,  D.C.,  for  a  meet- 


the  governor's  apparent 
disinterest  gave  her 
an  out.  cabral  talks  about 

her  time  as  a  republican 

almost  in  terms  of 

a  temporary  confinement. 

"four  months  and  30 

days,"  she  says.  "that's 

how  long  it  lasted." 


ing  with  Democratic  senator  Edward  M.  Kennedy  and  a 
public  announcement  of  her  decision:  She  would  register  as 
a  Democrat.  Newspaper  coverage  played  it  as  a  setback  to 
Romney's  efforts  to  bolster  the  Republican  Party  in  the  state. 
Was  it  opportunism?  One  doesn't  have  to  spend  much 
time  with  Cabral  to  understand  why  she  decided  she  would 
be  happier  as  a  Democrat.  She  remembers  thinking  highly 
in  college  of  President  Jimmy  Carter  and  of  being  alarmed 
by  Reagan  Republicanism.  Indeed,  the  opportunism  ques- 
tion turns  not  so  much  on  the  switch — which  brought  her  in 
line  with  her  own  inclinations — but  on  the  original  promise 

to  Governor  Swift  that  she  would  run 
as  a  Republican.  Recalling  it  now, 
Cabral  says  she  wishes  the  hiring  deci- 
sion had  been  made  strictly  on  who 
could  do  the  best  job  at  the  sheriff's 
department.  She  made  her  calculation 
that  the  job  was  more  important  than 
party  affiliation.  "If  I  had  said,  I  won't 
run  as  a  Republican,  then  the  oppor- 
tunity to  help  would  have  been  lost. 
And  I  had  to  think  about  it." 

What  kind  of  ambition  did  her  deci- 
sion reveal?  To  hear  Cabral  tell  it,  there 
was  more  than  desire  for  a  political 
appointment — there   was   a   sense   of 
outrage  that  an  important  part  of  the 
local  justice  system  was  not  being  pro- 
fessionally and  competently  managed. 
Government  authority  was  failing  at 
one  of  its  most  basic  responsibilities, 
and  she  knew  she  could  put  it  back  on 
track.  Before  she  announced  her  deci- 
sion to  switch  parties,  she  called  Swift 
to  explain.  That  conversation  remains 
private,  and  Swift  declined  to  comment 
on  Cabral 's  decision  for  this  story.  In  the  end,  Governor 
Romney's  apparent  disinterest  in  Cabral's  decision  gave  her 
an  out.  As  chief  of  staff  Keeley  puts  it,  "She  was  receiving  no 
support  from  the  Republican  Party.  She  was  essentially  ig- 
nored." Cabral  talks  about  her  time  as  a  Republican  almost 
in  terms  of  a  temporary  confinement.  "Four  months  and  30 
days,"  she  says.  "That's  how  long  it  lasted." 

IT'S  A  BITTER  cold  Friday  night  in  January  and  Andrea 
Cabral  is  hosting  a  graduation  ceremony  at  the  Morse 
Auditorium  at  Boston  University  for  1 5  new  corrections  of- 
ficers who  have  made  it  through  the  department's  six-week 
training  academy.  She  wants  them  to  regard  this  as  a  mo- 
mentous event.  After  about  70  relatives  and  friends  are  set- 
tled in  the  auditorium,  members  of  the  sheriff's  honor  guard 
escort  Cabral  and  her  top  deputies  to  the  stage,  one  by  one. 
The  new  officers  then  march  in,  dressed  in  sharp  navy-blue 


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On  their  two-month  anniversary  of  employment,  new  officers  meet  with  Cabral  at  the  Nashua  Street  Jail  to  provide  feedback 


pants,  crisp  blue  shirts,  black  neckties,  and  black  caps.  With 
ramrod  posture,  directed  by  a  Lou  Gossett-like  lieutenant, 
they  take  their  position  in  the  two  front  rows.  As  civilian 
hands  go  over  hearts,  the  officers  pledge  allegiance  to  the 
flag  with  a  white-gloved  salute. 

In  Cabral's  view,  it  is  her  hiring  policies  that  will  truly  de- 
fine whether  she  succeeds  in  this  job.  By  being  a  hands-on 
manager,  by  weeding  out  the  wrong  kinds  of  officers  and 
bringing  in  well-trained  professionals,  she  can  create  an  in- 
stitution that  emphasizes  corrections  along  with  legitimate 
punishment.  Cabral  has  met  each  of  the  officers  individual- 
ly, in  hour-long  interviews  in  her  office.  Now,  in  her  key- 
note address,  she  exhorts  them  to  remember  that  they  are 
part  of  "a  new  day  in  this  department"  and  that  "with  great 
authority  comes  great  responsibility."  She  reminds  them 
that  "sometimes  you  will  be  dealing  with  good  people  who 
have  done  bad  things,  and  sometimes  you  will  be  dealing 
with  bad  people  who  have  done  bad  things  and  will  contin- 
ue to  do  bad  things."  And  then  she  leaves  them  with  a  story 


from  her  days  as  a  prosecutor:  She  was  working  on  an  ag- 
gravated rape  case  and  the  accused  was  one  of  the  most 
violent  men  she  had  ever  prosecuted.  She  ardently  wanted 
to  see  him  behind  bars.  But  while  she  was  involved  in  se- 
lecting the  jury,  something  disturbing  happened.  One  of  the 
prospective  jurors,  having  been  interviewed  by  Cabral  and 
the  defendant's  lawyers,  winked  at  Cabral  on  his  way  out  of 
the  room.  She  understood  the  wink  to  mean,  "I'm  with 
you."  If  she  had  kept  that  knowledge  to  herself,  it  would 
have  meant  one  sure  vote  for  conviction.  But,  she  tells  her 
new  officers,  that's  not  how  the  system  is  supposed  to  work; 
jurors  must  hear  the  evidence  before  taking  a  side.  So  she 
told  defense  attorneys  about  the  wink  and  the  prospective 
juror  was  dismissed.  "You  cut  corners  once,  and  it  is  so  easy 
to  cut  corners  a  second  and  third  time,"  she  tells  the  new  of- 
ficers. (In  the  end,  Cabral  got  the  conviction  anyway.) 

After  her  remarks,  the  audience  is  shown  a  video  depict- 
ing scenes  from  the  boot  camp-like  training  the  officers  have 
just  been  through.  There  are  early-morning  calisthenics,  and 


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simulated  attack-and-restraint  practice,  and  an  especially 
challenging  routine  where  an  officer  gets  pepper  spray  in  the 
face  and  has  to  fight  through  noise  and  near  blindness  to  call 
on  a  hand  phone  for  assistance.  From  the  stage,  Cabral  stud- 
ies the  video  intently  as  she  fingers  her  pearl  necklace.  The 
film  ends  with  a  still  shot  showing  the  words  "Suffolk  County 
Sheriff's  Department,  Andrea  J.  Cabral,  Sheriff.  Integrity 
Matters."  The  slogan  has  been  used  throughout  the  sheriff's 
department  and  will  be  used,  as  well,  in  the  upcoming  cam- 
paign. "Integrity  Matters"  is  already  printed  on  Cabral's 
bumper  stickers  and  giveaway  caps. 

FEW  CANDIDATES  get  far,  even  in  local  electoral  politics, 
without  having  their  integrity  questioned.  In  fact,  Cabral  got 
an  early  taste  of  what  is  likely  to  come  when  she  switched 
parties.  She  had  received  good  press  from  Boston's  two  major 
papers  upon  her  appointment.  After  her  announcement  in 
Senator  Kennedy's  office,  though,  information  leaked  to  the 
Globe  that  she  had  defaulted  on  student  loan  payments.  Both 
BC  and  Suffolk  Law  School  had  won  judgments  against  her 
in  the  late  1980s,  for  a  combined  total  of  $6,478.  Cabral  told 
the  press  she  was  "not  proud"  of  the  record  but  that  she  had 
struggled  financially  early  iri  her  career  because  of  low-paying 
public  sector  jobs  and  had  repaid  her  loans  in  1994.  The  news 
of  her  defaults  set  her  up  for  a  public  flogging  by  the  Herald's 
harshest  columnist,  Howie  Carr,  who  called  her,  among  other 
things,  a  "student-loan  scofflaw." 

Most  political  observers  have  reserved  judgment  on  the 
political  savvy  of  Cabral's  party  switch.  Would  she  have 
stood  a  chance  of  getting  reelected  had  she  run  as  a 
Republican  in  Suffolk  County,  where  Republicans  are  about 
as  numerous  as  Yankee  fans  at  Fenway  Park?  (To  be  exact,  9 
percent  of  registered  voters.)  It  isn't  impossible — Cabral's 
mentor  Ralph  Martin  proved  as  much  when  he  won  a  con- 
tested race  in  1996  as  Suffolk  County  D.A.  But  Martin  spent 
a  lot  of  time  making  the  rounds  at  community  meetings 
around  the  city,  and  his  suave,  almost  nonpartisan  style  went 
over  well.  And,  too,  a  D.A.  has  an  easier  time  than  a  sheriff 
making  the  news  as  a  crusader  against  crime. 

If  Cabral  faces  a  strong  challenger  in  the  Democratic  pri- 
mary for  sheriff  in  September,  the  thinking  goes,  she  could 
lose  her  job.  Primaries  in  Boston  generally  draw  low  turnout, 
a  fact  that  favors  candidates  with  established  organizations.  As 
it  happens,  such  a  candidate  is  contemplating  a  challenge  to 
Cabral — and  he  would  seem  to  have  a  strong  motive  to  run 
for  Suffolk  County  Sheriff.  Boston  City  Councilor  Stephen 
Murphy  was  considered  by  former  Governor  Swift  for  the 
sheriff's  appointment  in  2002.  But  he  declined  to  switch  to 
the  Republican  Party  and  lost  out  to  Cabral. 

Now,  says  Republican  consultant  Charles  Manning,  it's 
not  hard  to  imagine  the  kind  of  ad  someone  like  Murphy 
could  use  against  Cabral:  "She  first  cut  a  deal  with 
Republican  Governor  Jane  Swift.  Then,  when  she  thought 


she  could  cut  a  better  deal  with  Democratic  leaders,  she 
switched  parties.  Can  you  really  trust  Andrea  Cabral?"  How 
might  that  play  in  Democratic  strongholds  such  as  South 
Boston?  Manning  wonders.  "I  don't  think  most  people  see 
Andrea  as  a  partisan  figure,"  he  concedes.  But  in  a  Dem- 
ocratic Party  primary,  that's  not  necessarily  a  winning  suit. 

If  Murphy  decides  this  spring  to  bypass  the  race,  Cabral's 
life  will  be  easier.  Still,  she  will  have  a  Republican  opponent: 
Shawn  Jenkins,  a  former  budget  director  in  the  state's  pub- 
lic safety  office.  Cabral's  campaign  manager,  Matt  O'Malley, 
says  the  campaign  will  need  about  $350,000  to  run  a  strong 
race,  and  had  raised  about  $50,000  by  January.  Cabral  hired 
O'Malley  after  he  made  a  credible  run  for  Boston  City 
Council  last  year  at  the  age  of  24.  "We  represent  a  lot  of 
what  the  new  Boston  political  landscape  looks  like,"  O'Malley 
contends.  He  envisions  a  coalition  of  young  professionals 
and  blacks  and  Latinos  who  can  move  city  politics  beyond 
the  old  ethnic  and  racial  divisions.  "We're  going  to  build  our 
own  organization  from  scratch,"  he  says. 

Cabral,  too,  sees  a  "new  landscape."  She  says  she's  grown 
more  comfortable  with  the  idea  of  being  in  politics,  because 
she  sees  how  a  leader  can  bring  about  real  change.  Her  mis- 
sion is  to  bring  something  new  to  Boston  politics:  "The  bot- 
tom line  is,  I  am  the  first  black  sheriff  in  Suffolk  County,  and 
I'm  the  first  female  sheriff  in  the  state.  And  that  means  that 
I  bring  a  certain  perspective  that's  never  been  held  by  any 
other  sheriff,  and  a  perspective  that  is  held  in  only  limited 
fashion  on  the  political  landscape  in  the  city — because  there 
just  aren't  very  many  black  female  politicians." 

And  yet  that  doesn't  mean  she  envisions  a  campaign  built 
around  what  is  sometimes  dismissively  called  "identity  poli- 
tics." It  will  be  obvious  enough  to  voters  that  Cabral  isn't 
the  stereotypical  Boston  pol.  What  she  most  wants  them  to 
respond  to  has  nothing  to  do  with  race  or  gender:  It's  her 
mantras  of  integrity  and  professionalism.  "People  vote  on 
their  perception  of  how  professional  a  person  is,"  she  says. 
So  even  as  she  will  talk  about  the  reforms  she's  brought  to 
the  "little  city"  she  presides  over,  she  knows  that  the  condi- 
tions behind  these  walls  only  directly  affect  a  small  percent- 
age of  Suffolk  County  voters.  "It's  not  a  reform  campaign, 
it's  a  professionalism  campaign,"  she  insists.  That  means  ap- 
pealing to  voters'  concerns  that  their  tax  dollars  are  being 
well  spent,  that  prisoners  are  supervised  by  well-trained  of- 
ficers, and  that  the  officers  are  supervised  by  experienced 
managers.  If  she  can  get  that  message  across  and  win,  Cabral 
says,  it  will  be  "a  turning  point  in  Boston  politics."  Why?  It 
won't  mean  that  race  and  gender  are  no  longer  factors — 
only  that  she  was  not  disqualified  because  of  them.  Cabral 
responds  with  typical  confidence  when  asked  what  that 
would  mean  for  her  long-term  political  career:  "I  assume  it 
could  go  anywhere." 

Dave  Denison  is  a  freelance  writer  based  in  the  Boston  area. 


BOSTON  COLLEGE  MAGAZINE  45 


THE  MAN  WHO  LOVES 

TRAINS 

DICK  CARPENTER  IS  HAND-DRAWING   HIS  WAY  ACROSS  1  946  AMERICA. 

AND  HE'S  GAINING  A  FOLLOWING 

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BY    BRIAN    DOYLE 


In  1946,  as  the  Second  World  War  end- 
ed, railroad  was  king.  There  were  137 
railroad  companies  in  die  United  States, 
webbing  the  nation  with  more  than  a 
quarter  of  a  million  miles  of  track  and 
employing  more  than  a  million  work- 
ers— trainmasters,  crewmen,  signalmen, 
station  agents,  roundhouse  men,  yard 
clerks,  trackmen,  freight  agents,  coalers. 
The  railroad  system  had  performed  mag- 
nificently during  the  war,  moving  incred- 
ible numbers  of  men  and  material  in 
service  to  President  Franklin  Roosevelt's 
"arsenal  of  democracy."  (Indeed,  the  rail- 
road system  often  moved  FDR  himself, 
in  his  private  railroad  car,  the  Ferdinand 
Magellan.)  While  wartime  restrictions  on 
gasoline  use  and  nonessential  travel  had 
slowed  the  prewar  surge  of  automobiles 
and  airplanes  as  new  modes  of  travel  and 
shipping,  every  rail  line  carried  freight, 
nearly  every  line  carried  passengers  and 
mail,  and  most  towns  of  any  size  had  a 
station,  a  freight  agent,  or  both. 

The  year  1946  was,  in  short,  a  pinnacle  of  American  rail- 
roading— and  the  first  year  of  its  modern  decline,  as  Dick 
Carpenter  '55  notes  in  his  new  book,  A  Railroad  Atlas  of  the 
United  States  in  1946,  Volume  1:  The  Mid-Atlantic  States, 
which  sets  out,  with  admirable  directness  and  startling 
scope,  to  map  every  aspect  of  railroading  in  Delaware, 
Maryland,  New  Jersey,  Pennsylvania,  Virginia,  West 
Virginia,  and  the  District  of  Columbia. 

Carpenter's  labor  of  love  might  seem  a  remarkable  but 
obscure  feat  of  amateur  cartography  and  scholarship — a 


Carpenter:  "I  spend  two  to  six  hours  a  day  drawing  maps,  so  I  figure  I  am  a  lucky  man." 


"foamer's  delight,"  as  Oregon  railroad  scholar  Lauren 
Kessler  says,  using  the  term  railroad  professionals  apply  to 
railroad  fanatics — but  it  has  earned  both  sales  and  salutes.  It 
rose  as  high  as  8,739  in  Amazon's  sales  rankings  (out  of  more 
than  a  million  books  listed)  and  drew  praise  from  the  New 
Yorker  ("surely  one  of  the  most  appealingly  eccentric  pub- 
lishing ventures  of  the  year"),  the  Balt'nnore  Sim  ("nothing 
short  of  a  miracle  .  .  .  the  kind  of  work  that  only  a  gang  of 
monks  would  consider  undertaking"),  the  business  magazine 
Fast  Company  ("his  maps  have  style  ...  a  point  of  view,  a  voice 


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.  .  .  elegant,  wistful  .  .  .  compulsively  detailed  and  artistical- 
ly rendered"),  and  scholars  like  the  geographer  John 
Hudson  at  Northwestern  University  ("the  finest  railroad 
atlas  ever  published  ...  he  has  invented  his  own  style  of  car- 
tography") and  the  historian  Maury  Klein  at  the  University 
of  Rhode  Island  ("an  amazing  piece  of  work  ...  it  answers 
questions  you  didn't  even  think  to  ask"). 

A  Railroad  Atlas  of  the  United  States  in  1946  is  an  honest  but 
essentially  misleading  title  for  the  vast  American  visual  poem 
Carpenter  and  his  publisher,  Johns  Hopkins  University  Press, 
are  composing — a  mapmakers'  nirvana,  time  machine, 
poignant  literature,  paean  to  the  Marvy  Brush  Marker  pen 
set.  From  the  shore  of  Lake  Erie  in  Pennsylvania  to  the  banks 
of  the  Elizabeth  River  in  Virginia,  Carpenter  records,  by 
hand,  in  10  Marvy  colors,  every  scrap  of  mid- Atlantic  railroa- 
dia  in  1946:  lines  (in  service  and  abandoned),  stations, 
bridges,  tunnels,  towers,  coaling  points,  water  troughs,  mile- 
posts,  ownerships,  crew  change  points,  canals  (in  service  and 
abandoned),  rivers  (including  direction  of  flow),  and  the 
boundaries  of  states  and  counties. 

"Took  me  about  three  years,"  says  Carpenter,  now  retired 
after  a  40-year  career  as  a  city  and  regional  planner  in 
Connecticut.  "I've  always  been  fascinated  by  railroads,  and 
much  of  my  work  as  a  planner  involved  saving  and  expand- 
ing commuter  train  service  in  southwestern  Connecticut;  I 
was  also  very  interested  in  freight  trains  from  a  planning 
standpoint,  to  see  if  we  could  reduce  some  of  the  incredible 


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think  'wouldn't  it  be  nice  to  have  a  really  thorough 
American  railroad  atlas,  as  the  British  have,'  and  about  10 
years  ago  I  started  to  draft  maps,  and  I  found  that  I  was  en- 
joying every  minute. 

"First  I  would  draw  a  preliminary  map  in  my  study 
[Carpenter  works  in  a  small  room  off  his  bedroom,  with 
many  windows  and  a  view  of  Long  Island  Sound],  and  then 
I  would  check  every  source  I  could  find  for  more  details — 
employee  timetable  books  in  1946,  The  Official  Guide  of  the 
Railways,  all  railroad  maps,  Moody's  Steam  Railroads  1946, 
topographic  maps,  anything — and  add  those  details.  Then 
I'd  draw  a  final  map  on  archive-quality  109-pound  paper. 
My  maps  are  30-minute  quadrangles  between  each  full  de- 
gree of  longitude  and  latitude,  and  they're  easily  cross-ref- 
erenced with  U.  S.  Geological  Survey  maps  and  Hammond 
and  Rand  McNally  state  maps.  I  wanted  to  convey  what  you 
would  have  actually  seen  in  1946 — signal  towers,  coaling  sta- 
tions, everything. 

"The  railroad  was  and  is  such  an  integral  part  of  our 
story,  of  our  culture  and  character,  that  I  resolved  to  tell  it 
clearly.  I  suppose  some  of  my  friends  wondered  what  in 
heaven's  name  I  was  doing  up  there  in  my  little  studio,  but 
my  wife  and  children  encouraged  me  all  along,  and  they  are 
thrilled  to  see  this  first  book  published." 

While  the  book  is  mostly  maps,  Carpenter  also  includes 
voluminous  notes  and  indexes:  of  the  railroads  themselves 


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(such  New  World  poetry,  such  a  flurry  of  ampersands:  the 
Bare  Rock,  the  Conemaugh  &  Black  Lick,  the  Eagles  Mere, 
the  Mount  Hope  Mineral,  the  Patapsco  &  Back  Rivers,  the 
Kane  &  Elk,  the  Scootac),  of  coaling  stations,  of  extant  and 
former  signal  towers  (O  lost  Callicoon!  O  Paxtang!),  of  sta- 
tions and  tunnels  and  viaducts  and  water  troughs.  And  his 
opening  essay  is  both  eloquent  and  poignant,  noting  the 
smell  of  creosote  preservative  in  wooden  railroad  ties,  the 
ways  that  bells  and  gongs  and  buzzers  announced  the  spe- 
cific directions  and  origins  of  trains,  the  "venerable  wooden 
baggage  carts  in  passenger  stations,"  the  "sublime  stretches 
of  summer-evening  silence  on  the  prairie  .  .  .  marked  by  the 
unmistakable  throaty  moan  of  the  steam-engine's  whistle." 
"I  drew  my  first  railroad  map  when  I  was  a  kid  in  Hart- 
ford," says  Carpenter.  "It  was  the  track  layout  of  the  Greater 
Hartford  Society  of  Model  Engineers,  and  they  liked  it  so 
much  they  let  me  be  a  member.  I  never  really  stopped  draw- 
ing after  that.  I  was  a  sports  cartoonist  for  BC's  student  news- 
paper, the  Heights,  and  I  drew  track  layouts  when  I  was  in  the 
Army,  and  maps  during  my  career  as  a  planner.  I  still  draw 
scenes  and  tracks  when  I  ride  the  train.  I  happen  to  like  rid- 
ing and  watching  and  mapping  trains  and  tracks,  and  now  I 
spend  two  to  six  hours  a  day  drawing  maps,  so  I  figure  I  am  a 
lucky  man.  Lucky  too  to  be  doing  such  a  project  in  the  com- 
puter age,  because  I  can  sit  here  in  my  study,  staring  out  at 
Norwalk  Harbor  and  Long  Island  Sound,  and  call  up  U.  S. 
Geological  Survey  maps  on  the  Internet." 


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Carpenter  has  just  finished  Volume  2  of  the  adas  (cover- 
ing New  England  and  New  York),  is  headlong  into  Volume 

3  (Ohio,  Indiana,  and  lower  Michigan),  and  plotting  Volume 

4  (Illinois,  Wisconsin,  upper  Michigan,  and  maybe  Iowa). 
After  that?  "Well,  I  should  turn  south,  into  the  Carolinas, 
but  there's  something  alluring  about  the  West,  although  I'd 
certainly  have  to  change  the  scale  of  the  maps  to  reflect  the 
vast  acreage  out  there.  And  sometimes  I  think  it  would  be  fun 
to  map  one  railroad  line  in  its  entirety,  all  the  way  across  the 
West — the  Union  Pacific  or  the  Santa  Fe,  for  example."  His 
publisher,  Johns  Hopkins  University  Press,  has  agreed  to 
publish  at  least  three  volumes. 

And  what  would  Dick  Carpenter's  favorite  railroad  mo- 
ment be?  "My  favorite  railroad  memory  of  all,"  says 
Carpenter,  "is  from  a  childhood  trip  with  my  dad — standing 
and  watching  a  New  Haven  Shoreliner  Hudson  1400  loco- 
motive pull  a  passenger  train  through  Kingston,  Rhode 
Island,  at  dusk.  There  was  a  long  straightaway  there  before 
the  town  and  you  could  see  the  whole  train  coming,  blowing 
its  whistle  at  grade  crossings.  The  Shoreliner  had  a  beautiful 
steamboat-deep  whisde,  a  sound  that  filled  the  world." 

Brian  Doyle,  editor  of  Portland  Magazine  at  the  University  of 
Portland,  in  Oregon,  is  the  author  most  recently  of  Leaping 
(2003),  a  collection  of  essays.  A  Railroad  Atlas  of  the  United 
States  in  1946  may  be  purchased  at  a  discount  from  the  BC 
Bookstore  via  www.bc.edu/bcm. 


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THE  CHURCH   IN  THE  21ST  CENTURY 


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Archbishop  O'Malley  with  Sr.  Mary  L.  Walsh  of  Worcester,  Massachusetts  (left),  and  GSSW  conference  coordinator  Vincent  J.  Lynch 


Rescue  mission 


TEAMING  UP  TO  HELP  ABUSE  SURVIVORS 


BY  DAVID  REICH 


On  January  14,  in  his  first  public  appearance  on  campus 
since  his  installation  as  archbishop  of  Boston  last  July,  Sean 
O'Malley,  OFM,  welcomed  participants  to  a  conference  on 
clergy  sexual  abuse  of  children,  cosponsored  by  the  archdio- 
cese and  Boston  College's  Graduate  School  of  Social  Work. 

As  the  opening  speaker  at  the  daylong  conference,  which 
focused  on  the  treatment  of  victims,  O'Malley  related  his 
own  encounters  with  abuse  survivors,  beginning  in  the  dio- 
cese of  Fall  River,  Massachusetts,  where  he  served  as  bishop 
during  the  1990s.  Early  on,  O'Malley  said,  he  learned  that 
the  survivors,  by  then  grown  men  and  women,  came  from 
deeply  religious  homes  where  priests  were  seen  as  "icons  of 
the  transcendent."  Thus,  he  continued,  "the  abuse  had  con- 
sequences that  went  beyond  the  damage  caused  by  similar 
cases  of  abuse  which  did  not  involve  clergy." 

Unlike  many  victims  of  abuse  by  laypersons,  victims  of 


clergy  sexual  abuse  need  spiritual  as  well  as  emotional  heal- 
ing, O'Malley  said,  a  point  echoed  by  several  other  speakers 
at  the  conference,  which  drew  about  150  people,  mostly 
mental  health  professionals,  on  a  morning  when  the  mer- 
cury was  hovering  around  zero.  Wearing  a  hooded  brown 
cassock  and  speaking  slowly  and  distinctly  in  a  soothing 
baritone,  O'Malley,  a  thin  man  with  wispy,  slightly  unruly 
hair,  said  that  many  victims  have  left  the  Church.  Many 
other  survivors  "have  sought  help  from  their  parishes  but 
have  found  priests  unwilling  or  ill-equipped  to  respond,"  he 
said.  The  archdiocese  and  the  University  will  soon  cospon- 
sor  a  second  conference,  O'Malley  announced,  aimed  at 
educating  priests  and  deacons  in  ministering  to  survivors. 
O'Malley,  who  since  his  arrival  in  Boston  has  been  meet- 
ing with  survivors  regularly,  both  in  groups  and  one-on-one, 
said  the  encounters  have  "given  me  the  opportunity  to  thank 


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them  for  coming  forward  to  help  create  a  Church  and  soci- 
ety with  heightened  awareness  of  the  evils  of  child  abuse." 

The  morning's  next  speaker,  Barbara  Thorp,  a  clinical  so- 
cial worker,  gave  a  brief  history  of  the  sexual  abuse  crisis  in 
the  archdiocese.  Thorp,  who  directs  the  archdiocesan  office 
of  pastoral  support  and  outreach,  which  works  with  sur- 
vivors and  funds  their  therapy,  said  that  an  early  milestone 
in  the  archdiocese's  response  came  two  years  ago,  when  the 
archdiocese  agreed  to  pay  for  therapy  for  all  survivors  who 
requested  it,  including  those  who  were  suing  for  damages. 
Around  the  same  time,  Thorp  said,  the  archdiocese  decided 
to  locate  her  office  in  a  secular  office  building  "devoid  of 
any  religious  symbols  that  might  trigger  re-traumatization" 
of  survivors.  Since  then,  the  office  has  filled  a  wide  variety 
of  needs.  As  part  of  treatment,  for  example,  one  survivor 
wanted  to  return  to  the  site  of  her  abuse.  The  office  helped 
arrange  the  visit,  and  a  staff  social  worker  accompanied  the 
survivor  and  her  therapist.  Other  survivors,  Thorp  said, 
"had  been  given  religious  objects  by  their  abusers  and  didn't 
know  what  to  do  with  these  terrible  symbols  [of  their  abuse] , 
so  they  returned  them  to  us." 

Another  milestone,  a  sort  of  crisis  within  the  crisis,  said 
Thorp,  came  near  the  beginning  of  2003,  when  lawyers  de- 
fending the  archdiocese  in  the  survivors'  lawsuit  asked  to  de- 
pose a  survivor's  therapist.  "This  was  a  truly  horrific  moment 
for  those  of  us  in  the  office,"  Thorp  recalled.  "Early  in  the 
process  of  establishing  trust,  [it]  set  us  reeling."  Thorp  re- 
vealed at  the  conference  that,  at  the  urging  of  her  office,  the 
archdiocese  in  the  end  agreed  not  to  depose  any  therapists. 

Since  September,  when  the  lawsuits  were  settled,  Thorp 
said,  her  office  had  seen  a  marked  increase  in  requests  for 
therapy.  To  date,  some  400  abuse  survivors  and  family  mem- 
bers have  had  therapy  paid  for  through  the  office.  Thorp 
said  she  suspects  that  more  will  come  forward  after  the 
abuse  crisis  moves  out  of  the  media  spotlight.  Between  that 
and  the  fact  that  many  survivors  need  years  of  treatment, 
she  said  her  office's  work  is  still  in  its  "very  early  phase." 

IN  HIS  opening  remarks,  O'Malley,  like  other  conference 
speakers  who  followed,  invoked  the  need  to  listen  to  sur- 
vivors' stories  as  a  crucial  part  of  learning  how  to  help  them 
heal,  and  in  keeping  with  this  view,  the  conference  featured 
two  survivor  panels.  One  panel  included  Bill  Cratty,  a  long- 
time member  of  St.  Francis  Xavier  Church  in  South  Wey- 
mouth, Massachusetts,  whose  daughter  Jeanne  was  sexually 
abused  by  a  parish  priest  from  age  six  to  age  1 1 ,  during  the 
1970s.  Years  later,  said  Cratty,  when  his  daughter's  memories 
of  the  abuse  emerged  in  therapy,  his  and  her  mother's  "first 
reaction  was  guilt.  How  could  we  not  have  known?  How 
could  we  have  trusted  [the  abuser]  with  our  little  daughter?" 
After  the  abuse  was  brought  to  light,  the  priest,  a  close  fam- 
ily friend,  told  the  media  that  Jeanne  Cratty  was  unstable 


and  not  credible.  "Jeanne  felt  re-victimized,"  her  father  said. 
"After  that,  she  could  no  longer  go  to  church."  Bill  Cratty  is 
now  on  medication  for  anxiety  himself,  he  said. 

Jeanne  Cratty,  who  also  appeared  on  the  panel,  reeled  off 
a  list  of  her  symptoms,  including  attention  deficit  disorder, 
suicidal  tendencies,  compulsive  and  self-hating  tendencies, 
and  severe  nightmares.  For  a  period,  she  said,  she  was  un- 
able to  work.  Survivors  on  a  second  panel  also  spoke  of  dif- 
ficulties working,  along  with  broken  families,  psychiatric 
hospitalizations,  and  struggles  with  addiction. 

Survivors  "deal  with  issues  of  control,"  said  Jeanne  Cratty. 
Memories  of  abuse,  she  said,  bring  back  not  only  the  abuse 
itself  but  the  loss  of  control  that  accompanied  it. 

Cratty  described  her  reaction  to  a  chance  encounter  with 
her  abuser  at  a  Wal-Mart  store.  She  fled  to  her  car,  but  then, 
she  recalled,  "I  forgot  how  to  drive.  I  sat  in  the  driver's  seat, 
but  my  feet  weren't  reaching  the  pedals."  To  the  therapists 
in  the  room,  she  said,  "You're  treating  adults,  but  you're 
treating  really  more  than  one  person.  You're  treating  their 
child,  or  their  adolescent.  Their  emotional  life  stops"  at  the 
age  when  the  abuse  begins. 

AT  NOON  the  conference,  which  took  place  in  McGuinn 
121,  broke  for  an  hour,  during  which  O'Malley  repaired  to 
an  upstairs  lounge  to  meet  the  press.  Television  cameras  and 
still  photographers  crowded  in  as  he  told  reporters  that 
when  it  came  to  helping  abuse  survivors  heal,  the  archdio- 
cese was  in  it  for  the  long  haul.  He  challenged  the  view  that 
now  that  most  of  the  lawsuits  have  been  settled,  the  crisis  is 
over.  "The  trauma  and  the  effects  are  long-range,"  he  said. 
"There  is  a  need  to  try  to  continue  services  and  to  address 
the  problems  and  suffering  that  is  ongoing  in  people's  lives." 

When  a  local  TV  reporter  asked  why  the  conference  had 
focused  on  survivor  treatment  and  given  no  attention  to  the 
causes  of  abuse,  an  unruffled  O'Malley  said  the  National 
Conference  of  Catholic  Bishops  is  sponsoring  research  into 
the  causes.  Also,  because  seminaries  now  do  psychological 
screening  of  candidates  for  the  priesthood,  "the  situation  has 
been  vasdy  improved,"  he  said.  Most  abusive  priests,  he  said, 
were  admitted  when  little  was  known  about  pedophilia,  and 
when  "those  kinds  of  tests  were  not  routinely  given,  the  way 
they  .  .  .  have  been  now  for  several  years." 

Another  reporter,  a  well-coiffed  man  in  a  navy  blazer  and 
striped  necktie,  drew  some  chuckles  from  his  colleagues 
when  he  asked  whether  O'Malley 's  presence  at  the  confer- 
ence signaled  "a  rapprochement  between  the  archdiocese 
and  Boston  College,  which  from  time  to  time  has  been 
viewed  as  a  cauldron  of  dissent." 

O'Malley,  refusing  to  take  the  bait,  said  only  that  BC  "has 
always  been  very  welcoming  to  me,  and  we're  happy  to  be 
able  to  work  together  with  a  Catholic  institution  on  issues 
like  this  that  we  all  share  an  interest  in."  ■ 


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Tuesday's  women 

UNRAVELING  THE  DILEMMA,  CATHOLIC  AND  FEMALE 


BY  ANNA  MARIE  MURPHY 


"I've  decided  to  make  God  the  center  of  my  life,"  the  young 
woman  told  the  20  or  so  women  seated  around  her  holding 
coffee  cups  and  listening  attentively.  She  spoke  quiedy,  firm- 
ly, and,  in  the  early  morning  stillness  on  campus,  her  words 
filled  the  room,  a  lounge  in  one  of  BC's  administrative  build- 
ings. "I'm  a  Catholic,  so  that  is  my  way.  But  the  more  I  learn 
about  the  Catholic  Church  the  less  I  like  it.  Men  won't  help 
me.  They  say,  'Not  in  your  lifetime,  dear.  Just  do  the  best 
you  can.'"  Her  listeners  nodded,  some  winced.  "I'm  kind  of 
trapped.  Women  do  all  kinds  of  things  in  the  Church — pas- 
toral ministry,  choir — but  have  no  real  voice."  Again  the 
nods.  "Men  aren't  coming  to  the  priesthood  anymore,  and 
it's  men  who  have  the  power,"  she  said,  and  her  face  grew 
taut.  "This  institution  that  I  feel  the  need  to  be  attached  to  is 
falling  apart,  and  it  doesn't  really  want  me." 

This  was  the  first  meeting  of  the  academic  year  for  the 
BC  group  informally  dubbed  "The  Church  Women  Want," 
after  a  book  by  that  name  published  in  2002  by  Elizabeth 
Johnson.  The  book  is  a  collection  of  essays  by  prominent 
Catholic  women  (including  BC  theologian  Colleen  Grif- 
fith). A  semester  after  the  launch  of  BC's  Church  in  the  2 1st 
Century  initiative  in  the  fall  of  2002,  the  group  began  meet- 
ing weekly  to  develop  programs  for  the  initiative  and,  as  one 
regular  put  it,  to  "make  sure  women's  voices  are  heard."  It 
revived  a  practice  born  in  the  1980s,  and  resurrected  episod- 
ically, of  BC  faculty  women  meeting  in  the  early  hours  of 
the  day  to  discuss  gender-related  issues;  out  of  such  gather- 
ings came  the  Women's  Studies  Program  in  1983.  Now  be- 
tween 10  and  20  women  meet  on  Tuesday  mornings  at 
eight;  they  break  up  just  before  nine,  as  some  sweep  up  their 
bags  and  head  out  for  the  first  class  of  the  day.  The  women 
today  range  in  age  from  seemingly  late  teens  to  mid-seven- 
ties, and  they  include  undergraduates,  graduate  students, 
and  faculty  in  a  variety  of  disciplines,  as  well  as  staff  and  se- 
nior administrators.  Several  are  nuns. 

At  the  first  meeting  last  fall,  each  woman  in  the  room  ar- 
ticulated the  issue  or  issues  she  would  like  to  see  on  the  table 
for  discussion.  Over  the  following  months,  the  group  con- 
sidered many  of  them:  not  only  female  ordination,  but  the 
historical  traditions  and  distortions  of  history  surround- 


ing women's  roles  in  the  Church;  the  concept  of  Sophia — 
"woman  wisdom" — from  the  Old  Testament,  and  feminine 
images  of  God.  "What  is  our  relationship  to  authority?" 
And  "why  do  we  silence  ourselves?"  "What  keeps  women 
Catholic?"  And  "what  do  we  tell  our  kids?"  Invariably  the 
talk  was  personal,  scholarly,  witty,  honest,  and  kind — a  shar- 
ing of  what  worked  to  keep  one  in  the  faith  and  of  what 
made  it  hard  to  stay  ("This  is  what  sustains  me,"  an  older 
woman  said  once  to  the  group).  "It  doesn't  have  to  do  with 
blind  loyalty,"  said  a  younger  faculty  member,  "there's 
something  peaceful  in  the  Church,  something  beautiful." 
And  then  she  related  her  unfulfilled  search  for  a  service 
where  women  are  on  the  altar  and  the  priest  seems  enlight- 
ened about  the  laity:  "So  if  you  see  me  in  your  parish,  I'm 
just  visiting.  I  used  to  stay,  now  I  get  up  and  walk  out,"  she 
said,  if  she  doesn't  like  what  she  hears.  Another  morning  an 
undergraduate  said,  "My  faith  is  not  tainted  by  the  scandals 
that  are  going  on.  But  I  worry  about  passing  the  Church's 
traditions  on  to  my  children  regarding  women." 

Sometimes  women  described  attending  unconventional 
liturgies,  where,  say,  a  complicit  priest  would  give  a  one-sen- 
tence introduction  then  pass  the  privilege  of  delivering  the 
homily  to  a  woman.  "The  Church  is  not  God,"  said  one  fac- 
ulty member,  "it's  a  very  flawed  but  struggling  effort  to  me- 
diate God.  Still,"  she  went  on,  "while  the  Catholic  Church 
isn't  the  best  thing  for  the  human  race,  it  is  the  best  for  me." 

As  part  of  BC's  Church  in  the  21st  Century  initiative,  a 
conference  will  be  held  on  April  16-17,  "Envisioning  the 
Church  Women  Want."  Organized  by  the  women  who  meet 
on  Tuesdays,  it  will  explore  "the  past  and  future  of  women  in 
the  Catholic  Church."  Speakers  and  panelists  will  include 
the  theologians  Elizabeth  Johnson  of  Fordham  University 
and  Ada  Maria  Isasi-Diaz  of  Drew  University;  Bishop 
Matthew  Clark  of  Rochester,  New  York;  Thomas  Groome  of 
BC's  Institute  of  Religious  Education  and  Pastoral  Ministry; 
and  Miriam  Therese  Winter  of  the  Hartford  Seminary. 

Anna  Marie  Murphy 

For  more  information  on  the  upcoming  conference,  go  to 
www.bc.edu/church21/programs/womensconference. 


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Lessons  of  the  apostles 

AN  AMERICAN  ARCHBISHOP  PROPOSES  CHANGING   HOW 
AUTHORITY  IS  EXERCISED  IN  THE  CHURCH 


BY  ARCHBISHOP  JOHN  QUINN 


At  1 1  o'clock  on  the  morning  of  December  6,  1999, 1  met  in 
a  private  audience  with  Pope  John  Paul  II.  I  had  asked  to  see 
him  for  two  reasons:  First,  I  wanted  to  thank  him  for  Ut 
Unum  Sint:  That  They  May  Be  One,  the  encyclical  letter  on 
Christian  unity  he  had  issued  four  years  earlier;  and  second, 
I  wanted  to  present  him  with  a  copy  of  my  new  book,  The 
Reform  of  the  Papacy. 

The  encyclical  on  Christian  unity  is,  without  question,  un- 
precedented and  revolutionary.  I  don't  know  of  another  in- 
stance in  history  where  a  pope  has  called  for  a  discussion  by 
bishops  and  theologians  about  the  exercise  of  the  primacy  of 
the  pope  and  asked  for  their  advice  on  how  it  could  be 
changed. 

But  this  pope  explicitly  writes,  "The  pope  is  a  member 
of  the  college  of  bishops,  and  the  bishops  are  his  brothers 
in  the  ministry" — a  statement  that  the  papacy  is  not  a  sov- 
ereign, monarchical  office  whose  authority  is  absolute  and 
indivisible.  In  fact,  he  continues,  the  primacy  of  the  pope 
must  always  be  exercised  in  communion.  It  is  not  outside 
and  above  the  episcopate,  it  is  within  the  episcopate.  So 
true  is  this  that  the  Code  of  Canon  Law  and  the  rules  gov- 
erning the  election  of  the  pope  in  the  conclave  mandate 
that  if  a  priest  is  elected  pope,  he  does  not  acquire  the  pow- 
ers of  the  papacy  until  he  is  ordained  a  bishop.  (The  last 
pope  who  was  not  a  bishop  when  elected  was  Gregory  XVI, 
in  1831.) 

In  Ut  Unum  Sint,  John  Paul  II  points  to  the  first  millen- 
nium of  the  Church  as  a  guide.  And  why  is  this  period  im- 
portant? Because  the  first  thousand  years  saw  an  undivided 
Church,  and  yet  saw  nothing  of  the  centralization  of 
Church  government  that  we  know  today.  As  the  Jesuit  his- 
torian John  O'Malley  has  written,  "In  the  first  millennium, 
popes  did  not  run  the  Church,  nor  did  they  claim  to  run  the 
Church.  They  defined  no  doctrines.  They  wrote  no  encycli- 
cals. They  did  not  convoke  ecumenical  councils  and  they 
did  not  preside  at  the  councils." 

In  that  era,  papal  intervention  in  the  wider  Church  was 
largely  confined  to  causae  majores — to  responses  to  appeals 


in  notable,  unusual  cases  where  there  were  unresolvable  dif- 
ferences, such  as  the  vigorously  contested  unseating  of  St. 
Athanasius,  the  fourth-century  bishop  of  Alexandria.  Popes 
also  intervened  when  issues  of  heretical  doctrines  could  not 
be  resolved  at  the  local  levels  of  authority.  They  did  not  nor- 
mally become  involved  in  local  or  regional  affairs,  nor  did 
the  episcopacy  normally  refer  local  issues  to  their  decision. 
In  the  words  of  Cardinal  Joseph  Ratzinger,  dean  of  the 
College  of  Cardinals,  "The  early  Church  did  indeed  know 
nothing  of  the  Roman  primacy  in  practice  in  the  way  in 
which  the  Roman  Catholic  theology  of  the  second  millenni- 
um has  come  to  know  it." 

IN  NAMING  the  first  millennium  as  a  guide,  John  Paul  II 
is  saying  that  in  the  future  there  could  be  true  communion 
with  less  centralization  and  intervention  by  Rome.  But  he 
also  explicitly  focuses  on  the  structures  of  unity  that  existed 
at  that  time.  There  were  regional  synods.  There  were  patri- 
archates and  councils.  The  structures  of  unity  in  the  first 
millennium  were  collegial  structures,  involving  the  partici- 
pation of  the  bishops.  And  though  they  were  not  indepen- 
dent, they  functioned  with  a  degree  of  autonomy.  Their 
autonomy  existed  within  the  framework  of  communion — a 
communion  among  the  bishops  and  the  churches  of  a  re- 
gion, communion  with  all  the  other  churches  and  with  the 
bishop  of  Rome. 

The  German  historian  of  the  primacy  Klaus  Schatz,  SJ, 
points  out  that  even  though  the  pope  was  not  involved  in 
the  normal  life  of  other  churches  in  the  first  millennium, 
Rome  increasingly  became  regarded  as  the  center  of  their 
communion.  Though  communion  did  not  mean  centraliza- 
tion as  we  now  know  it,  there  was  a  developing  conviction 
that  crises  of  faith  could  not  be  resolved  apart  from  the 
judgment  of  Rome  and  that  ecumenical  councils  could  not 
be  considered  definitive  without  Rome's  concurrence.  And 
so  even  when  John  Paul  II  holds  up  the  first  millennium,  it 
is  with  the  steady  insistence  that  papal  primacy  cannot  be 
the  primacy  of  a  figurehead. 


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OF  COURSE,  the  notions  of  less  Church  centralization 
and  of  a  papal  primacy  embedded  in  and  functioning  within 
the  college  of  bishops  inevitably  stir  objections  in  certain 
quarters.  Such  ideas,  it  is  argued,  are  contrary  to  the  teach- 
ing of  the  First  Vatican  Council  (1869-70).  To  give  a  sense 
of  how  plausible  this  argument  is,  here  are  the  words  of 
Vatican  I:  "If  anyone  says  that  the  Roman  Pontiff  has  mere- 
ly an  office  of  supervision  and  guidance  and  not  the  supreme 
and  full  power  of  jurisdiction  over  the  whole  Church,  or 
that  this  power  of  his  is  not  ordinary  and  immediate,  both 
over  all  and  each  of  the  churches  and  over  all  and  each  of  the 
pastors  and  faithful,  let  him  be  anathema." 

Well,  that  would  appear  to  end  discussion  of  a  truly  col- 
legial  exercise  of  the  primacy.  But  if  we  are  not  to  be  funda- 
mentalists— and,  addressing  a  different  topic,  in  1993  the 
Pontifical  Biblical  Commission  called  fundamentalism  "a 
kind  of  intellectual  suicide" — then  we  have  to  take  into  ac- 
count the  language,  the  historical  circumstances,  and  the  in- 
tention of  those  who  formulated  such  a  teaching.  We  must 
go  to  the  Acts  of  the  Council. 

The  Acts  are  the  minutes  of  what  took  place  at  Vatican  I, 
and  they  show  that  a  fair  number  of  bishops  got  up  on  the 
floor  and  objected  to  calling  the  pope's  jurisdiction  ordinary. 
They  objected,  they  said,  because  it  would  mean  that  the 
pope  could  intervene  on  a  routine  basis  in  the  affairs  of  all 


lar  flocks  which  have  been  assigned  to  them."  In  other 
words,  the  jurisdictional  power  of  the  pope  does  not  elimi- 
nate, or  dilute,  the  jurisdictional  power  of  the  bishops,  nor 
does  it  exclude  the  bishops'  collegiality. 

A  striking  historical  clarification  of  this  came  about  when 
the  German  chancellor  Otto  von  Bismarck  wrote  an  in- 
struction to  his  diplomats  after  Vatican  I,  saying  that  Pius  FX 
had  taken  over  all  the  powers  of  the  bishops.  When 
Bismarck's  missive  became  public,  the  German  bishops  im- 
mediately issued  a  vigorous  public  statement  denying  the 
claim:  "We  can  decisively  refute  the  statement  that  the  bish- 
ops have  become,  because  of  Vatican  I,  mere  papal  func- 
tionaries. According  to  the  teaching  of  the  Catholic  Church, 
the  pope  is  bishop  of  Rome.  He  is  not  bishop  of  any  other 
city,  or  diocese.  The  pope  is  not  bishop  of  Cologne  or  of 
Breslau."  These  bishops  had  been  present  at  the  council. 
What's  more,  on  two  separate  occasions  Pius  FX,  in  a  very 
emphatic  and  public  way,  endorsed  the  interpretation  of  the 
German  bishops,  thanking  them  for  speaking  up,  and  con- 
gratulating them,  saying  that  their  statement  expressed  the 
true  and  real  meaning  of  the  Vatican  Council. 

Popes  Paul  VI  and  John  Paul  II  developed  these  ideas 
further.  At  a  Mass  in  St.  Peter's  Basilica,  in  the  presence  of 
the  patriarch  of  Constantinople,  John  Paul  II  said:  "The 
Second  Vatican  Council  asked  that  in  efforts  to  reestablish 


IN  THE  IDEA  BEING  PUT  FORWARD  NOW,  NORTH  AND  SOUTH  AMERICA  WOULD  FORM 
ONE  PATRIARCHATE,  AFRICA  PERHAPS  ANOTHER,  AND  SO  ON. 


the  dioceses  of  the  world.  The  commission  responsible  for 
writing  the  council  documents  listened,  and  then,  on  the 
floor  of  the  council,  as  recorded  in  the  Acts,  replied:  "The 
word,  'ordinary,'  is  not  meant  to  be  understood  in  its  every- 
day meaning.  It  is  meant  to  be  understood  in  the  way  it  is 
used  in  canon  law."  In  canon  law,  'ordinary'  refers  to  a 
power  that  goes  with  and  is  attached  to  an  office  and  is  not 
delegated  by  someone  else.  It  does  not  mean  that  the  power 
is  used  often  or  on  a  daily  basis. 

According  to  Vatican  Council  I,  then,  the  pope  has  ordi- 
nary jurisdiction,  but  this  does  not  mean  that  he  must  exer- 
cise a  centralized  government  in  all  parts  of  the  Church.  It 
means  that  he  has  the  power  to  intervene  if  and  when  cir- 
cumstances call  for  it.  That's  what  we  saw  in  the  first  mil- 
lennium. 

Here  are  the  explicit  words  of  the  council's  text:  "This 
power  of  the  supreme  Pontiff  by  no  means  detracts  from 
that  ordinary  and  immediate  power  of  episcopal  jurisdiction 
by  which  bishops  tend  and  govern  individually  the  particu- 


full  communion  with  the  eastern  churches,  particular  con- 
sideration should  be  given  to  the  character  of  the  relations 
which  obtained  between  those  churches  and  Rome  before 
the  separation."  In  other  words,  particular  attention  should 
be  given  to  the  first  millennium.  "These  relations,"  the  pope 
said,  "fully  respected  the  power  of  these  churches  to  govern 
themselves,  according  to  their  own  disciplines.  I  want  to  as- 
sure you  that  the  See  of  Rome  wishes  to  respect  fully  this 
tradition  of  the  Eastern  Church."  Communion  does  not 
mean  absorption. 

SIDE  BY  SIDE  with  the  search  for  unity  among  all 
Christians,  of  course,  is  the  continuing  dissatisfaction  inside 
the  Catholic  Church  with  the  extent  of  Roman  centraliza- 
tion, and  a  corresponding  desire  for  greater  collegiality.  The 
formula  that  Paul  VI  and  John  Paul  II  put  forward  for  rela- 
tions with  the  Eastern  Church — communion  without  ab- 
sorption— could  very  well  apply  inside  the  Catholic  Church, 
as  well. 


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From  a  ninth-century  manuscript,  Latin  Gospels,  the  apostles  at  the  "Glorification  of  Jesus  Christ" 


The  idea  of  collegiality,  present  over  100  years  ago  at 
Vatican  Council  I,  and  more  fully  developed  40  years  ago  in 
Vatican  Council  II,  still  meets  resistance.  "The  Church  is 
not  a  democracy,"  is  how  opposition  is  often  expressed.  The 
Church,  indeed,  is  not  a  democracy,  but  it  is  a  communion. 

I  was  present  at  the  historic  meeting  of  Pope  John  Paul 
II  with  the  bishops  of  Latin  America  at  Puebla,  Mexico,  in 
1979.  One  of  the  points  the  pope  made  strongly  on  that  oc- 
casion was  that  the  Church  does  not  need  to  turn  to  com- 
munist doctrines  for  inspiration  for  her  social  involvement. 
The  basis  of  the  social  teaching  of  the  Church,  the  pope 
said,  is  already  found  in  divine  revelation,  in  the  Book  of 
Genesis,  where  the  dignity  of  man  and  woman  is  rooted  in 
the  fact  of  the  creation  by  God.  In  a  similar  way,  the  Church 
does  not  need  recourse  to  political  democracy  to  ground 
ideas  and  structures  of  collegiality.  As  most  theologians 
agree,  communion  is  the  underlying  idea  of  the  Second 
Vatican  Council.  And  as  Francis  A.  Sullivan,  SJ,  pointed  out 
in  an  article  in  2001  in  America,  the  essence  of  communion 


is  participation.  The  Church  is  the  body  of  Christ  and,  ac- 
cording to  scriptural  teaching,  the  head  may  not  say  to  the 
feet,  I  do  not  need  you.  Every  part  of  the  body  contributes 
in  an  active  and  participative  way  to  the  whole. 

A  STRUCTURE  for  advancing  the  collegiality  of  the  bish- 
ops that  is  being  talked  about  and  written  about  increasingly 
is  the  patriarchate.  This  was  a  Church  entity  that  developed 
gradually  in  the  first  millennium.  It  typically  encompassed  a 
large  region,  and  at  its  head  was  a  bishop  from  a  principle 
city.  He  was  responsible  for  gathering  the  region's  bishops 
together  from  time  to  time  for  debate  and  discussion,  but  he 
also  had  the  authority  with  his  synod  to  approve  their  ap- 
pointment and  removal,  to  create  new  dioceses,  to  deal,  in 
sum,  with  all  the  normal  affairs  of  Church  life.  In  the  idea 
being  put  forward  now,  North  and  South  America  would 
form  one  patriarchate,  Africa  perhaps  another,  and  so  on. 

In  this  era  of  rapid  and  constant  change,  it  is  easy  to  rec- 
ognize the  near  or  utter  impossibility  of  Rome's  under- 


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staffed  congregations  dealing  effectively  with  all  Church  is- 
sues emanating  from  the  world's  diverse  continents  and  cul- 
tures. To  offer  just  one  example:  In  Finland,  which  has  one 
bishop  and  seven  or  eight  priests  for  7,000  Catholics,  the 
bishop  tried  for  years  to  get  a  Mass  book,  a  sacramentary, 
approved  in  the  Finnish  language.  But  there  was  nobody  in 
the  Vatican  who  knew  the  language.  Finally,  an  approved 
sacramentary  arrived  from  Rome;  the  bishop  later  found  out 
that  the  work  had  been  given  to  a  German  priest,  despite  the 
fact  that  the  languages  are  far  apart. 

Naturally,  the  creation  of  patriarchates  would  have  to  be 
understood  within  the  framework  of  communion,  and  we 
must  not  forget  that  the  mark  of  communion  is  communion 
with  Rome.  Care  would  have  to  be  taken  to  avoid  the  risk  of 
developing  national  and  schismatic  churches — one  reason 
why  patriarchates'  boundaries  should  not  be  identical  with 
single  nations,  but  rather  with  several,  as  continents  are. 

Another  proposal  for  creating  a  more  effective  collegial- 
ity  of  the  episcopate  was  made  on  the  floor  of  the  Second 
Vatican  Council  by  the  eastern  Catholic  patriarch  Maximos 
Saigh.  He  called  for  the  establishment  of  a  permanent  synod 
made  up  of  bishops  from  various  parts  of  the  world,  elected 
by  episcopal  conference.  The  bishops'  terms  would  be  lim- 
ited— three  to  five  years,  perhaps. 

In  addition,  Patriarch  Maximos  proposed  periodic  syn- 
ods, which  a  larger  number  of  bishops  favored  and  which 
Pope  Paul  VI  did  in  fact  establish.  But  in  the  opinion  of 
many  bishops  around  the  world  these  sessions  are  not  great- 
ly effective. 

The  permanent  synod,  as  Patriarch  Maximos  conceived 
it — elected  by  the  bishops  with  perhaps  a  certain  minority  of 
members  appointed  by  the  pope — would  always  be  at  the 
pope's  side  to  deliberate  the  major  issues  of  Church  life.  It 
would  be  superior  to  the  Roman  curia,  which  would  be  an 
administrative,  not  a  governing,  body. 

In  words  even  more  valid  today  than  they  were  in  1963 
when  he  said  them,  Patriarch  Maximos  explained:  "The 
Holy  Father,  no  more  than  any  other  person  in  the  world, 
whatever  his  talents,  can  not  govern  an  institution  as  large 
as  the  universal  Church  just  with  the  assistance  of  his  own 
staff  and  bureaucracy.  This  point  is  certainly  in  line  with  the 
Gospel  because  if  the  Church  has  been  entrusted  in  a  spe- 
cial way  to  Peter  and  his  successors,  it  has  also  been  en- 
trusted to  the  apostles  and  their  successors.  But  if  the 
government  of  the  universal  Church  is  given  to  the  pope's 
staff,  the  common  good  will  surely  suffer." 

The  idea  of  new  patriarchates  and  the  notion  of  a  perma- 
nent papal  synod  are  rooted  in  Church  history  and  Church 
doctrine.  But  we  live  in  a  global  world,  with  instant  commu- 
nication— isn't  centralization  necessary  now  more  than  it 
ever  was  before? 

Ironically,  a  notable  20th-century  support  for  this  view 


was  evidenced  when  Pope  John  XXIII  used  his  authority  to 
call  the  Second  Vatican  Council.  If  the  pope  had  sent  out  a 
letter  consulting  the  bishops  of  the  world  about  whether  to 
hold  a  council,  they  would  have  said,  no,  you're  the  pope, 
we  don't  need  a  council.  If  he  had  consulted  the  priests  of 
the  world,  they'd  have  said,  well,  that's  none  of  our  business. 
If  he  had  consulted  the  laypeople  of  the  world,  they  would 
have  said,  we  don't  know  what  a  council  is,  and  it's  not  for 
us  to  get  into  such  questions.  But  if  there  had  been  no  coun- 
cil at  that  late  hour  in  the  world's  cultural  shift,  the  Church 
would  be  in  a  greater  state  of  disarray  than  it  is  today.  We 
would  have  no  map,  no  way  of  going  through  the  difficulties 
that  we  encounter  in  our  time. 

And  so  neither  of  the  proposals  for  collegiality  that  I've 
described — the  patriarchates,  the  permanent  synod — chal- 
lenge the  idea  that  papal  primacy  is  important  and  neces- 
sary. The  issue,  as  John  Paul  II  himself  has  identified  it,  lies 
in  how  the  primacy  of  the  pope  is  exercised. 

It  is  evident  that  there  is  agreement  by  the  pope,  by  the 
world  episcopate,  by  many  eastern  orthodox,  and  by  other 
Christians  that  the  doctrine  and  the  historical  existence  of 
papal  primacy  is  not  an  obstacle  to  unity.  So  why  don't  we 
have  visible  unity  and  communion?  I  think  it  is  because 
Rome,  in  practice,  intensifies  its  centralizing  policies,  out 
of  a  great  fear  of  schism,  a  great  fear  of  the  development  of 
national  churches  and  of  the  disintegration  of  Church 
unity. 

The  search  for  Christian  unity  will  depend  in  large  part 
on  embracing  the  authentic  teaching  of  Vatican  I  and  on 
accepting  the  legitimate  development  of  that  teaching,  in 
terms  of  collegiality  and  structures  of  participation,  achieved 
in  Vatican  II.  But  let  us  face  the  fact  that  neither  structures 
nor  laws  can  be  effective  by  themselves. 

When  we  believers  confront  these  issues  of  the  Church, 
we  must  do  so  in  faith.  And  in  that  faith  I  call  up  words  writ- 
ten by  Pope  Gregory  the  Great  in  the  sixth  century,  when 
the  Church  was  suffering  terrible  disarray  and  conflict  be- 
cause of  the  collapse  of  the  Roman  Empire.  Amidst  starva- 
tion, social  disorder,  lack  of  communication,  Gregory 
wrote:  "Dawn  changes  imperceptibly  from  darkness  to  light. 
And  so  the  Church  is  called  dawn.  .  .  .  She  opens  gradually 
to  the  splendor  of  heavenly  brightness  in  the  way  that  dawn 
yields  to  day.  .  .  .  And  are  not  all  of  us  who  follow  the  truth 
in  this  life  daybreak  and  dawn?" 

Archbishop  John  Quinn  was  ordained  a  priest  in  1953.  He  be- 
came auxiliary  bishop  of  San  Diego  in  1967,  bishop  of  Oklahoma 
City  in  1971,  and  was  named  an  archbishop  a  year  later.  From 
1977  until  his  retirement  in  1995,  Quinn  served  as  archbishop  of 
San  Francisco.  His  article  is  drawn  from  a  talk  delivered  at 
Boston  College's  Lonergan  Institute  on  December  4.  The  complete 
lecture  may  be  viewed  at  www.bc.edu/frontrow. 


56  WINTER  2004 


WORKS  &  DAYS 


Puttin'  on  the  puddin' 


Restaurateur  Mary-Catherine  Deibel  NC'72 


"It  used  to  be  a  big  deal  to  go  to  a  restaurant,"  says  Mary- 
Catherine  Deibel.  But  at  today's  pace,  "between  takeout  and 
going  out,"  she  observes,  it  rarely  seems  a  special  occasion. 
UpStairs  on  the  Square,  the  Cambridge,  Massachusetts, 
restaurant  Deibel  co-owns  with  Deborah  Hughes,  counters 
with  a  roster  of  award-winning  chefs,  a  unique  decor  (de- 
scribed variously  by  critics  as  "a  throwback  to  1940s  glam- 
our" and  "a  Barbie  bordello"),  and  a  personal  approach  so 
thorough  the  reservation  system  includes  notes  like  "had 
wedding  here,  two  kids,  remind  MCD  to  say  hello." 

Deibel  is  known  locally  with  her  business  partner  ("I  have 
two  life  partners,  my  husband  and  Deborah — and  I  proba- 
bly spend  more  time  with  Deborah")  for  their  first  venture, 
UpStairs  at  the  Pudding,  which  prospered  for  nearly  20 
years  before  losing  its  lease  in  2001.  In  December  2002, 
they  reopened  in  a  vacated  theater  with  a  space  for  "casual 
haute  cuisine"  and  the  fancier  Soiree  Room  two  flights  up. 

Officially,  Hughes — who  was  the  chef  at  the  first 
UpStairs — oversees  kitchen  matters,  and  Deibel  focuses  on 
public  relations  and  hospitality,  although  the  line  between 


the  two  women's  roles  gradually  has  blurred,  Deibel  says. 
Between  meals,  Deibel  has  what  resembles  an  office  job, 
with  morning  e-mails  and  afternoon  meetings.  During 
mealtimes,  she  mingles  and  smooths  the  day's  wrinkles:  an 
impatient  party  of  six,  an  incognito  critic,  a  query  about  the 
bitter  green,  trevisano,  served  charred  atop  the  duck  salad. 
While  a  student  at  Newton  College,  Deibel  supported 
herself  waiting  tables  at  Peasant  Stock,  a  Somerville  eatery 
owned  by  her  theology  professor,  Jerry  Pierce  '64.  "Even  if  I 
was  doing  the  dishes  I'd  always  sneak  out  to  see  who  was 
there  and  to  make  sure  the  candles  were  lit,"  she  says.  Deibel 
worked  there  for  14  years,  while  pursuing  graduate  stud- 
ies in  English  and  an  initial  career  managing  classical  music 
groups.  A  pile  of  New  Yorker  rejections  at  home  testifies  to 
that  era,  as  does  a  cello  that  has  hardly  left  its  case  since 
Deibel  turned  3 1 .  That  was  the  year  she  and  Hughes  pulled 
together  a  modest  amount  of  capital,  scouted  locations 
around  town  until  they  saw  a  high-ceilinged  space  that  cried 
out  to  be  a  dining  room,  and  set  their  tables  for  the  first  time. 

Nicole  Estva?iik 


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On  May  37,  2003,  Boston  College  concluded  the  most  ambitious  and  successful  capital  campaign  in  its  history,  raising  $441  million 
from  more  than  92,000  gifts.  The  campaign  has  transformed  the  University  and  its  ability  to  create  opportunities  for  graduate 
fellowships,  faculty  research,  scholarships,  endowed  academic  chairs  and  professorships,  student  life  programs,  undergraduate 
research,  athletics  and  classroom  facilities,  and  programs  that  support  Boston  College's  Jesuit,  Catholic  heritage. 

THE  EVER  TO  EXCEL  CAMPAIGN 

During  the  Ever  to  Excel  Campaign,  its 
leaders  often  spoke  of  the  University's 
history  as  a  set  of  responses  to  kairos 
moments — places  in  time  when  oppor- 
tunity and  strength  meet  in  a  unique 
way  and  call  out  for  a  response.  To  each 
person  who  contributed  to  this  kairos 
moment,  to  each  of  you  who  helped 
strengthen  Boston  College's  ability  to 
meet  the  opportunities  and  challenges  of 
the  2 1  st  century,  we  extend  our  sincere 
gratitude. 

WILLIAM  P.  LEAHY,  SJ,  PRESIDENT 
JACK  CONNORS,  JR.,  CHAIRMAN 


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