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Territorial imperative

C.P.E. Bach and the Rebirth of the Strophic Song (Scarecrow, going badly for Germany, one of the economic conse- 2003), by the recently retired English and music professor quences was a marked uptick in the sale of songs that dealt

William Youngren, is a patio pavement stone of a book: 1 with spiritual longing. inches tall, 8 3/4 inches wide, and 1 3/8 inches (518 pages) thick. Weighing in at just over three pounds of take-no- IT'S A STANDARD conceit of American universities to prisoners literary, musical, and cultural analysis, it is fur- claim that the research conducted by their faculties results ther flavored with sheet music reproductions, cascades of in (or in the temporizing phrase I have too often written untranslated German poetry, long discursions on the prin- into press releases, "could well result in") a cure, a boost, in- ciples of 18th-century aesthetics (Youngren's first academ- creased understanding, reduced cost, a new paradigm, less ic specialty) and philological sidebars (the distinction recidivism, fairer distribution, or earlier detection. between deiritlich and dentliche turns out to be a matter of As a rule, this isn't true. Yes, these lovely outcomes do consequence). occur, but mosdy not, and most of what most faculty mem- C.P.E. is in fact a reduction of the dissertation (975 bers obsess about late into the night, most of the thick books pages) that Youngren wrote for a doctorate in music he they write, and most of what they discover about the dead and began working toward when he was in his mid-fifties and the unseen (their principle subjects) affords no general happi- was awarded when he was in his late sixties. The book's the- ness, stirs no observable march of progress, and has no prac- sis, simply put, is that the second surviving son of Johann tical implications.

Sebastian Bach was not just a master instrumental compos- And that, to me, is the university's glory, in that it makes er and the author of the best-selling keyboard instruction a home for work that simply examples, for the benefit of book of his era Die Runst das Clavier zu spielen, if you need students principally, a way of living that steers not by the to know—but a prolific and compelling writer of strophic nearest obtrusive rock but by intelligence, alertness, and songs, which, you need to know as I needed to know, are stubborn hunger for the labor that makes one strangely songs whose stanzas consist of lines with recurring patterns happy, including, if it comes to it, spending half a decade of rhythm and rhyme, as is common in folk music. More- correcting the record about the origins of lieder. over, says Youngren, C.P.E.'s mastery of this medium has C. P. E. Bach and the Rebirth of the Strophic Song has earned been obscured because the man had the misfortune to de- adjectives such as "unprecedented," "monumental," "magis- cline while Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven were rising and terial," "essential [for] all serious [library] music collections," just as intellectuals, dazed by Enlightenment dreams, be- and "a key illustration of what liberal arts means." I would came convinced that history was a straight ascending line of not know one way or the other, of course, nor have I any in- human progress, which led those of them studying the his- tention of trying to acquire the scholarly apparatus, as they tory of music to draw a satisfyingly tidy connection from the say, that would help me to know. In fact, I don't intend to elder Bach and Handel to the Romantic geniuses, bypassing read any further in the book than has been necessary for C. P. E. and a number of his inconvenient contemporaries, writing this essay. For me, rather, the higher significance of and leaving the world (or at least the portion of it that cared) C.P.E., and of similar volumes that justify yards of shelf with the impression that the German predilection for mak- space in my office, is not the knowledge it purveys but its ing high art of poems and music began with Schubert. unselfconscious affirmation that this universe is a stop worth

That's about what the book says, though it's possible, of making, a place of mystery and possibility, with new territo- course, to learn much else from a stroll through its pages, ry on every hand to be plowed, cleared, or just gawked at, such as why Haydn's simple-sounding music is not so sim- range after endless range, the view jolting us into acts of rev- ple after all, and that Horace's influence on 18th-century erence, practical and impractical. German aesthetics, and particularly poetry, was consider- Our story on Boston College's new material territory, able for a man who'd been dead about 1,700 years, and that which will serve as a venue for exploring further ethereal an F-major cadence, when it follows a B-flat chord, feels territory, begins on page 34. "rather hopeful," and that when the Seven Years' War was Ben Birnbaum ' BOSTON COLLEGE

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20 Women's place Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ DEPARTMENTS

Two conflicting views guide the Church's position on women, 2 LETTERS and have from the very beginning. And therein lies hope

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• Songcraft • For Carroll • Radio 29 Small wonders Jason Reblando '95, girlz • Chasing chocolate • Fit to '98 Andrew Teed print • Good hair day • Rumors • Winners of the 2004 flash fiction contest Pigskin pioneers • Summer reading list • Safe by design • The way we were 30 In re: Brown charksjogktreejr. 49 WORKS & DAYS The court's decision was simply just. "Deliberate speed" was China TV's Keith Gallinelli '94 simply not ADVANCEMENT AND CLASS NOTES 34 Overview Follows page 23 A tour of the Brighton campus COVER A view to the apple orchard on BCs new campus. Photo by Gary Wayne Gilbert special section:

42 THE CHURCH IN THE 21ST CENTURY

learning from others—Padraic O'Hare on Rabbi Abraham

Joshua Heschel, Fr. Robert P. Imbelli on the i8th-century's

Jonathan Edwards, Mary Jo Bane on the activist Ida Wells-Barnett, Roberto Goizueta on Latino Catholics —

LETTERS

BOSTON COLLEGE BENEFIT PACKAGE ture. It goes with other stories TRADITION magazine Alicia MunnelPs article that foreground the many Re "Distance Learning," by "Retirement Blues" (Spring different Catholic cultures in Paige Parvin (Spring 2004): SUMMER 2004 2004) makes one of the America: Frank O'Connor's I teach in the religious studies VOLUME 64 NUMBER 3 strongest cases I've seen East Coast Irish, Flannery department at a Jesuit high EDITOR although the author probably O'Connor's southern school in San Francisco. My Ben Bimbaum didn't intend it—for 401(k) or Georgian, Robert Olen students, formed by a post- DEPUTY EDITOR defined-contribution plans to Butler's Louisiana Vietnamese, modernist worldview, often Anna Marie Murphy replace the current Social Sandra Cisneros's Chicago struggle to appreciate the role * Security Automatic I'll DESIGN DIRECTOR system. Mexicans. ask my students that tradition plays in our Elizabeth Brandes enrollment in such plans, with Paul Elie's questions—is the Catholic identity. As a teacher

SENIOR DESICNER government-mandated re- apparently stripped house of scripture, I struggle with

Eamonn Bonner quirements, would be far hoarding the faith's treasures ways to help them to under- * preferable to the bloated gov- or trash? Is it somehow magi- stand the power and wisdom PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR ernment agency we have cally producing a Christian of our history. Gary Wayne Gilbert now and to Congress using retire- faith the secularized In Atlanta, BC's president SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Lee Pellegrini ment funds as loans for highly Americanized couple from William P. Leahy, SJ, re- * questionable public spending. India needs, or reproducing sponded to a question regard- EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS BILL MARKOT '67 the colors of their homeland's ing women's ordination by Nicole Estvanik, Paul Voosen Newton, Massachusetts faith in Catholicism's tradi- that "a * saying person without BCM ON-LINE PRODUCERS tional "creole?" I'll ask them memory is without identity." Ben Jones, Noah Kuhn, REPAST REVISITED whether artifacts appearing in Indeed. My students may have Jeff Reynolds I was thrilled to see BC the house seem to them to be trouble grasping the impor-

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Paul: Write down five items that might be found in your character's bedroom.

For a song

ELLIS PAUL'S SIX-STEP PROGRAM

On a windy Saturday afternoon in early May, some 40 students and

campus visitors migrated indoors to Lyons 42 3 . They were there for a master class with Paul Plissey '87—known to the wider world as the singer-songwriter Ellis Paul. He was at Boston College to receive

this year's Arts Council Alumni Award, and had delivered a crowd- pleasing homecoming concert on the plaza the day before. Now the

lanky 39-year-old was gingerly stepping to the front of a classroom

to impart his self-taught method for writing songs.

Paul's urbane, pop-inflected acoustic style has been featured on 10

albums and has earned" him 12 Boston Music Awards. He's been the

opening act for the pop-folk star Shawn Colvin, and his extensive

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 3 club and coffeehouse touring, the way the character speaks. to his death while painting and focuses on the lyrics,

together with radio airplay, has Paul illustrated with one of graffiti on a water tower. eventually going back and brought him a solid national his own songs. Years ago, a "Jimmy fell down through the forth between words and following. The story goes that high school student from his darkness / An ambulance music to make adjustments. he first picked up a guitar Maine hometowTi—the boy brought silence to the scene / For example, the phrase "you while at BC, after a knee in- who "always had the loudest And carried off the life and turn a blue eye to me" recent- jur}' grounded him and ended voice at the party"—fell to his broken dreams / of Jimmy ly presented itself in a practice his college track career. death while climbing a light Aberdeen." At the end of the session, Paul said, and 15

The master class began pole as part of a stunt. Paul, song, the man climbs the hours of work had to this with Paul interviewing his stu- chalk in hand, began ticking water tower ladder, spray-paint point yielded a half-finished dents, asking them about their off salient details of his charac- can in hand, to complete song about a couple reckoning backgrounds in a friendly but ter's life. In his bedroom, for Jimmy's mischief. with the deepening serious- focused manner. There were a example, Paul imagined a cap Sitting down with his gui- ness of their relationship. He number of musicians on hand, and gown on the floor, beer tar, Paul launched into the played for the class what he not surprisingly, as well as cans stashed in a closet, and song, tapping a heavy black had of the song so far. some poets, and a woman who videos of Saturday Night boot as he sang, his face tight The hour-and-a-half lesson said she worked in market re- Live. In the mirror, his with emotion. Some students concluded with questions from search and wanted to see how character peered through continued taking notes, others the students. Who are Paul's songcraft might overlap her bloodshot eyes at his un- smiled or nodded in time with influences? Woody Guthrie own "story-driven" field. combed hair and untucked the music. and U2, among others, he

The key to effective song- shirt. The line of dialogue: When he sits down to work said. Some questions were writing, Paul said, is to show, "Pick me up a six-pack at on his songs, Paul told the technical. A student asked don't tell. "To show loneliness, the package store?" class afterward, he generally about tuning the mandolin in a you have to make it physical. For a long time, Paul said, blocks out a significant stretch minor key. Paul conceded the Are the shades down? Are he wanted to write about this of time— 10 P.M. to three A.M. dilemma. "A mandolin just there pizza boxes around?" character but the shape of the is ideal—and lights a candle comes happy," he said. He said he focuses on "people song eluded him. During an for atmosphere. He prefers And inevitably among as- at a crossroads, surrounded exhausting cross-country tour, writing in his living room to piring musicians, the conversa- by opportunity and change however, a story started to the studio. He begins with iso- tion turned in coolheaded and loss," leaving open the germinate, prompted by a related snatches of music that he fashion to royalties and finan- challenge of communicating curring sight—the solitary, works out on the guitar, play- cial pathways. Someone asked what brought them to that pale water towers that loom ing a certain melody over and how best to go about placing point and what may follow. over America's small towns. over until it becomes "almost songs in movies or on TV.

As students scribbled notes, The song that emerged was like a mantra." (Paul's music has burnished he stepped to the blackboard "Eighteen." Once the musical founda- episodes of MTVs The Real and began to lay out a six-step Jimmy Aberdeen is the tion has become nearly auto- World, the Jim Carrey vehicle method for pinning down name that Paul conjured for matic, he starts singing Me, Myself & Irene, and the character. the song's tragic character (he nonsense syllables in falsetto, movie Shallow Hal.)

First, he said, write down cautioned students to find testing the boundaries and ca- Soap operas, Paul respond- the name of the person—real ways to fictionalize the people dences of the melody to see ed, are a reliable market, con- or fictional or famous—you they write about, unless the what they will bear. Sooner or stantly in need of soundtrack want to frame. Next, think of story is unequivocally flatter- later—and sometimes, he material. The answer seemed five items that could be found ing). He liked the name be- stresses, much later—the vo- to break a spell, and a shadow in that person's bedroom. cause it carries an echo of calizing will yield an intelligi- of anxiety washed over the Third, write down five things James Dean, reinforcing the ble phrase. Paul compares the students' faces. that the person wr ould see restlessness and doom he was process to taking a Rorschach Benjamin Healy when he or she looks into the aiming to convey. inkblot test; what comes out mirror. Then, identify two col- "Eighteen" is told through could as easily be the image of Benjamin Healy is a writer based ors that the character calls to the eyes of a man returning to a bird in flight as the fragment in Boston. Highlights from Ellis mind. Fifth, find a nonhuman his hometown to attend a high of a memory' from childhood. Pauls Robsham Theater conceit metaphor that could describe school reunion, whose memo- Once other associations begin may be viewed on Boston your character. Finally, write a ries lead him back to a night attaching themselves to this College Magazine s @BC web- line of dialogue that conveys vears before when a friend fell phrase, Paul shelves the guitar site, www.bc.edu/atbc.

4 SUMMER 2004 ARTISTIC MERIT ALL BUSINESS Rev. Hubert Walters, who for 22 years has been the director CSOM selects an alumnus with global reach as dean of the Voices of Imani gospel

choir and an adjunct music lec-

turer in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been presented

Andrew C. Boynton 78 has with an artistic achievement been named the new dean of award by the Boston College the Carroll School of Arts Council. Also receiving Management. Boynton, the awards were singer-songwriter head of the Executive MBA Ellis Paul '87 (see page 3) and Program at the International students Jennifer Minguci '04 Institute of Management (theater), Paul Schutz '04

Development (IMD) in (music composition), Krista

Lausanne, Switzerland, will D'Agostino '05 (theater), and assume the Carroll School Elyse Mallouk '06 (studio art post on January 1. and English). Boynton succeeds Helen

Frame Peters, who served as SHIRT ORDER dean for three years. Since On April 22, some 600 Boston

July of last year, Professor M. College students, faculty, and

Hossein Safizadeh has been staff donned blue T-shirts with the interim dean. the message, "Cay? Fine by

Boynton will oversee the Me." The shirts were distrib- University's second largest uted by the student govern- Boynton '78, who directs a Swiss executive MBA program, will begin his school, with 2,048 undergrad- tenure in January. ment and the Women's uate and 978 graduate stu- Resource Center; the College dents. The Carroll School Republicans at Boston College grants six degrees: a BS in University of Virginia. In 1994, ranked as the sixth best in the issued a press release support- Management; MAs in finance, he returned to Chapel Hill to world in 2003, enrolls execu- ing the action. Supplies of the accounting, and business adjoin the faculty at the Kenan- tives and prospective executives shirts were exhausted in two ministration; and a Ph.D. in Flagler School, where he re- currently employed. While at- hours, and the organizers plan management with concentra- ceived tenure in 1996. The tending, students remain with to order more next year. tions in either finance or orga- following year he was named their corporations, which serve nization studies. Also under its professor of management at the as "laboratories" for practicing DIGITAL SHEAVES organization are the Center IMD. Boynton created the skills acquired through a com- The Boston College Libraries for Responsible Leadership, IMD's Executive MBA bination of month-long courses have purchased access to the the Small Business Develop- Program in 1997, and has and distance learning. Eighteenth Century Collections ment Center, and the Boston served as its director since. Boynton is the coauthor Online database, which aims to College Chief Executives The IMD, founded in 1990 with Bart Victor of Invented collect and make available

Club. by two Swiss business schools, Here: Maximizing Your Orga- every significant title printed in

Following his graduation enrolls managers with a partic- nizations Internal Growth and Great Britain between 1701 and from the Carroll School, ular interest in international Profitability (Harvard Business 1800, along with thousands of

Boynton earned his MBA and commerce. Each year, its 54 School Press, 1998), and is a works from the Americas. The Ph.D. in strategic management full-time faculty members consultant to firms in North database houses a variety of at the Kenan-Flagler Business teach more than 5,000 execu- America, Europe, Asia, and materials, from books, directo-

School of the University of tives representing 70 nationali- Australia. ries, and advertisements to

North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ties, and it has over 50,000 A native of Basking Ridge, sheet music and sermons.

He began his academic career alumni. The campus is located New Jersey, Boynton and his When completed, it will con- as an assistant professor at the 40 minutes from Geneva. wife Jane (Murphy) '78 have tain nearly 150,000 titles repre-

Darden Graduate School of Its executive MBA program, four sons. senting more than 33 million

Business Administration at the which Business Week magazine Public affairs staff pages of material.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 5 VICTORY IN DEFEAT

Jeffrey Sullivan '06, a sophomore political science major, Station master has been awarded the 112th

Fulton Prize, given to the best Estefania Alves's signal has been heard round the world speaker in the annual debate An interview by Cara Fein berg competition. Arguing against

the FCC's indecency regula-

tions, Sullivan's side lost the

debate in a narrow decision.

COLLABORATION In a convened storage closet on

Professor Thomas Chiles (biol- the fourth floor of the St. Marys

ogy) is the corecipient of a Women and Infants Center, in

five-year, $4.65 million grant Boston s Dorchester neighborhood,

from the National Institutes of 12 teenage girls run R-LOG

Health to study a subset of 540-AM. Broadcasting "music

white blood cells called B-ia. that respects women, " the station s

Overproduction of B-ia has signal reaches 2.6 miles into the

been linked to the onset of surrounding city, Monday autoimmune diseases and through Thursday, between 4 and

leukemias. Chiles's corecipient 7:30 P.M. Estefania Alves '07

is Thomas Rothstein, a profes- came up with the idea for the sta- sor of medicine at Boston tion while a senior at Jeremiah

University. Burke High School and helped to

found it in February 2004. CORPS CONSTITUENCY Thirty-one members of BC's How does a 17-year-old invent a Class of 2003 entered the radio station?

Peace Corps. In addition, 35 BC A few years ago, I and a couple

alumni are currently serving in of girls got to talking about

the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, out- how most girls in this commu-

numbering alumni from any nity, which is mostly immigrant other college or university. and low income, have the men-

tality that, "I might as well give STUDENT RESEARCH up now because I'm not going

The Beckman Scholars Pro- to make it farther anyway."

gram at BC, which funds under- We took some ideas to Larry Alves: We want girls to say, "I don't have to be what this music tells me to be."

graduate research in science, Mayes, head of the Log School

has been renewed. An initial [a settlement house], and he

award from the Arnold and arranged a meeting with We might have Cape Verdean negative. Usher is a favorite of

Mabel Beckman Foundation in [Boston] Mayor Menino. I music for an hour, or a Trin- ours right now. His song,

2001 provided support for five talked about a radio station, idadian music set. W e just "Confessions," talks about how

students in chemistry and biol- and the mayor liked the idea don't play things that degrade he cheated on his woman and

ogy to participate in faculty- and helped us find funding. people who might be listening, got another woman pregnant.

supervised research for two Eight months later we were especially women. But Usher's song is about how

summers and, on a part-time breaking down walls and much he regrets the mistake,

basis, during one academic moving in sound equipment. Is there any rap or hip-hop that how he wishes he could have

year. BC is one of 13 institutions is respectful to women? done things differently.

to be granted such funding for What kind of music do you play? Sure. Nas sings, "I know I can

2004-06, during which period Music from the early '90s, be what I wanna be." Often, Can you really tie community

another five students will re- Usher, Alicia Keyes, Avril artists will have some songs problems to pop music?

ceive a total of $17,600 each. Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan. that are positive, some that are Kids here want to be like rap-

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pers, want to talk like them. terview people; they write And so many of the lyrics are public service announcements. full of swears, or are about We try to bring in women EARS OF THE HEART men having sex with women leaders from the community by Robert Cording and then dropping them to the for the interviews. Recently we side. I'm not saying rap music interviewed Kathleen O'Toole, introduced the word "bitch," the new police commissioner, When we are dying the last faculty usually but it can make that an okay and a BC graduate actually. to shut down is hearing. word to use. Eventually, people begin to feel that that's just When you decided to take a the way it is, and they can't stand against offensive lyrics, St. Benedict said, Listen with the ears ofyour heart. do anything to change it. did any of your friends say, "Where does she get off telling And so I try to remember what was once heard So how do you compete with us what's offensive?" in the practice of the heart's listening: commercial radio? Mostly I got support. I guess the surprise of a robin's common song We don't compete; we offer some people might have alternatives. We may not reach thought it was kind of uppity. when I was ready to hear it. And wind saying itself a wide audience, but I can see Even now, I don't go around in the tulip leaves outside my childhood window. changes in the girls who work mentioning the radio station. here. I remember when they I let people find out about it So many times I've needed to learn again came in. They had ideas, and form their own ideas. what I am always forgetting but they were scared to voice that each thing has its own pitch and vibration and rings them. Now, they are so vocal You sometimes listen to rap. with the exactness of a bell. about their thoughts. So How do you square that with many times, ideas never go the radio station's public stand? Like the sounds rain makes so differently anywhere, especially in Dor- That's a sticky issue, because I filling a tin cup or waterfalling leaf by leaf through chester. But this one got up like the music even if I don't the understories of a forest. and running. And it's reaching like the message. But until farther than Dorchester—I've radio stations decide they And there's my mother's voice calling had calls from Sweden, won't play offensive lyrics, we me home for supper and, later, saying goodbye. London, California, New have to accept that it's out

York, and Virginia. They heard there and popular and our first When I am dying to the world will the ears of my about us from programs on goal is awareness: We want heart hear NPR, or the BBC, or in news- the girls to be able to say, "I paper articles. don't have to be what this in a hospital room's trickle of sad laughter, music tells me to be." They in the sitcom leaking down What kept you from being one have choices. The music can't from the television, in the doctor's voice calling my name of the neighborhood girls who tell them who they are. is I still wasn't going to make it? when no one sure am listening

I always had sports and student What was it about radio that the voice of my beloved moving like light government—positive outlets captured you? that geared me toward believ- I've always loved radio. I've at the beginning of each day, ing in myself. That's what the always been the type to listen speaking in words I have heard but never clearly enough station is about. We give girls to JAM'N 94.5 and call in to a place to go and something of win concert tickets, though I to write down, saying everything I could never say? their own. Then, we make never won any. I've always sure the experience is about enjoyed being out in the open. Robert Cording, Ph.D. '77, is the Barrett Professor ofEnglish leadership and empowerment. I'm interested in anything that at the College of the Holy Cross. To hear him read this poem puts me on the spot. aloud, or to purchase his fourth collection ofpoems, Against What exactly do the girls do? Consolation (2002), at a discountfrom the BC Bookstore, go They run the DJ equipment; Cara Feinberg is a writer based to Boston College Magazine's website, www.bc.edu/bcm. they are on the mike; they re- in Boston. Alves majors in human port community news; they in- development and communication.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 7 Bar mode

STEVE ALMOND'S CHOCOLATE VISION QUEST

It is possible to say that you have not lived a fully actualized employees. He was dressed in a suit and tie, which he ac- life unless you have eaten a Clark Bar straight off the as- cented—for our visit to production areas—with a white sembly line. I am qualified to make this judgment because I gauzy shower cap that sat on his head like a collapsed souffle. have eaten a Clark Bar straight off the assembly line. I have Necco acquired Clark Bar America, Inc. in 1999. A na- eaten two. tive of Pittsburgh, the Clark was first produced in 1917 and My guide at the New England Confectionery Company became one of the most popular bars of the post-World (Necco) headquarters on Mass Ave. in Cambridge was War II candy boom. It consists of a crunchy peanut filling

Manny De Costa, the facilities manager. Manny is a slightly covered in a milk chocolate coating. Most people would

puffed version of Norman Schwarzkopf: stern, firm- compare it to the Butterfmger, though it has far more chinned, capable of inflicting significant damage with his peanut flavor than a Butterfmger and a softer bite. Necco it- bare hands, though he turned out to be the nicest man imag- self used to produce a chocolate-covered peanut crunch

inable and no danger to anyone at all, unless you happen to known as the Bolster Bar. But everyone seemed to agree the be coated in chocolate. Manny had come to Necco as a ship- Clark Bar was tastier. This, according to Manny, is because

ping clerk 3 5 years ago. Now, he oversaw six floors and 400 of the Clark's unique production process.

8 SUMMER 2004 Step 1 : The staples were boiled into a sticky glop, cooled, The fresh bar had a more supple consistency than store- and pulled to a beige, taffylike consistency. bought. The peanut butter was more redolent. The choco-

Step 2 : The filling was fed into a huge machine that flat- late coating melted the moment it hit your tongue. "Fresh

tened it and spread a layer of real peanut butter on top. A sin- off the line is a different thing," Manny said. "It's like from

gle worker, hovering over the machine with a spatula, rolled someone's kitchen. I eat them all day long. That's why I'm

this slab into a sort of giant burrito. This step was the linch- as big as I am." pin of the entire Clark gestalt. It ensured that the filling was It was precisely at this moment, watching Manny De Costa striated into sediments of peanut butter and crunch. (Manny pat his stomach and laugh in a jolly vibrato while offering me later demonstrated this to me by biting a snack-size bar a second fresh Clark Bar, that I considered asking him to lengthwise and showing me the sediments.) adopt me. This feeling was reinforced during our brief trip to

Step 3: The burrito was lowered into a batch roller, the sample shop on the first floor, where Manny and his where it was funneled down and came snaking out, ticker wife—who, it turned out, worked in the sample shop and was, tape style, to be cut into segments. if this is even possible, nicer than Manny—foisted a shameful Step 4: The peanut crunch was now ready to be covered amount of candy onto me, which I tried (not very hard) to in chocolate, a process known as enrobing. Enrobing is the refuse, and which I seriously considered donating to orphans, money shot of candy production, a sight so sensual as to before deciding, instead, to eat it all myself. That was my seem pornographic. The conveyor belt carried the naked first taste of industrial candy production. I was delirious. Clarks forward, into a curtain of chocolate, which, in Steve Almond spilling down, created the delicate ripples and wavelets you find atop most candy bars. It is this illusion of liquidity that Steve Almond teaches creative writing at Boston College. His

I have always found so seductive; when we look at the top of essay is drawn from Candyfreak: A Journey Through the a candy bar, what we see is a particular moment, the dy- Chocolate Underbelly of America (copyright © 2004 by Steve namism of the fluid state captured. Almond) and reprinted by permission of Algonquin Books of Step 5: The wet bars were carried into a cooling tunnel. Chapel Hill. The book may be purchased at a discountfrom the BC A half hour later they emerged, 100 yards down the line, Bookstore via www.bc.edu/bcm. Anyone wishing to make a sim- ready for packing. The entire genesis of the Clark, from ilarpilgrimage to the Neccofactory should be advised that the com- raw ingredients to wrapper, took 90 minutes. pany s operations have since moved to Revere, Massachusetts.

EXTRA, EXTRA

Student newspaper to launch a second edition

The Heights, Boston College's duced from 36 to 28 pages. nior contributors the opportu- Last March, the Heights's student-run newspaper, will The Thursday edition will nity to work on more demand- website, www.bcheights.com,

begin publishing twice a average 20 pages and will in- ing projects than had been was recognized as the most

week, in October. The paper, clude news, sports, an opinion available to them under the trafficked college-weekly site

which has been a weekly page, and an arts and reviews present schedule. on the College Publisher net-

since 1919, will appear on department. Thursday's insert, Sports work, ahead of websites repre-

Mondays and Thursdays, with The paper is produced by Illustrated on Campus, was senting newspapers at 100

Thursday's edition including 150 undergraduate staff mem- launched last year and is dis- other institutions. In early a magazine insert from Sports bers and contributors. Editor- tributed through student 2001, the Heights was one of

Illustrated. in-chief Ryan Heffernan '06 newspapers at 70 participating the first journals to join the The Monday edition will notes that the need for more colleges. The magazine pre- network, which serves 250 stu-

remain similar to the current stories to fill the paper's addi- views the upcoming weekend dent papers across the country.

weekly, though at a size re- tional pages will give less-se- in college athletics. Paid Voosen

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 9 FINE PRINT

How many letters can you fit on a hair?

At three P.M. on March 10, quite intense," he says. "So we

2004, Christopher LaFratta, a were surprised that it didn't

doctoral student in John damage the hair." He credits Fourkas's chemistry lab, wrote the unusually high efficiency

the word "hair" on a hair be- of his photoinitiator. "This longing to another lab worker, means we can create polymer

Vincent Chen '04. With the at relatively low laser power.

aid of a computer, LaFratta With other photoinitiators, constructed the word in three- the power would have to be dimensional letters roughly 10 higher, so the hair might have

microns, or millionths of a been damaged. Also, hair turns

meter, high. The point of the out to be more resilient than exercise was to test whether we might have guessed." lasers can build tiny polymer Now that the technique has structures on biological mate- been proven safe for human

rials without harming the tis- tissue, the biomedical possibil-

sue. They can. ities seem endless. "You can

That piece of typography is think about attaching a little

one of many complex objects handle to a cell in a petri dish

that Fourkas, in collaboration so you could grab it and pull it with Professor of Physics wherever you wanted,"

Michael Naughton and Fourkas says. "Or you could

Professors Malvin Teich and build a monitoring device that

Bahaa Saleh of Boston would let you know what was

University, have created with a going on inside the cell. You

technique called multiphoton could put an TV' on the cell absorption polymerization and deliver specific drugs and

(MAP). In MAP, a laser beam watch how the cell reacts and

shines through a microscope The team's microscopic constructions. Above: "HAIR" written on top of a how it interacts with other

into an acrylic resin. Wherever human hair. Below: Micro-pyramids and interlocking square frames cells. Sky's the limit, really." the microscope focuses the All the more so once Fourkas

beam, a light-sensitive chemi- takes delivery of an apparatus cal—a photoinitiator—begins three-dimensional pixels are tle use in themselves. But simi- that, he hopes, will produce a chain reaction that binds called) in a controlled pattern, lar creations could find their voxels just 10s of nanometers

molecules into solid plastic. then removing the leftover way into miniature devices long (the current record, set in

"It's the same kind of process resin, "you can make absolute- such as optical switches, 3-D Japan, is 120 nanometers).

as when you get a composite ly anything," Fourkas says. computer chips, or even tiny Although Fourkas's is not

filling in a tooth, and they In an article in the Journal surgeon-robots that would the only group working on

stick a UV light in your ofApplied Physics, the re- course through blood vessels MAP, it may be the only one mouth," says Fourkas. But searchers reported creating like the submarine Proteus and that applies the technique

MAP happens on a much pairs of pyramids linked by her crew in Fantastic Voyage. to cheap, readily available

smaller scale: Each laser pulse slim cables, interlocking Fourkas never expected materials. Some researchers

creates a plastic building block square frames, and hollow that he could use his equip- use proprietary resins that,

just 140-billionths of a meter bulbs—none larger than a few ment to build directly on Fourkas says, "are sort of black long. By laying down thou- 10s of microns across—from human tissue. "The light at boxes—nobody will tell you

sands of such "voxels" (as globs of resin. These are of lit- the focal point of the laser is what's in them, so you can't do

10 SUMMER 2004 — s

anything to change the prop- Now Fourkas has begun netic properties," says Fourkas. this way," Fourkas says. "Just erties." Others brew specialty building structures that have And, of course, once he has writing the word 'hair' took chemicals that are laborious to moving parts and is developing built something useful, about an hour." duplicate. "We wondered if ways to coat sections of objects Fourkas would like to be able David Brittan there were materials out there with metals, which have prop- to replicate it easily. He and whose properties we could erties polymers don't have, his group have that covered, David Brittan is a freelance tune to whatever applications such as the ability to conduct too, and literally. They have writer and editor who lives in we were pursuing," Fourkas electricity. One technique his slathered some of their tiny Newburyport, Massachusetts. says. For now, the winning lab is studying uses a polymer sculptures with a material Other members ofJohn Fourkas blend—the one used for the containing chemicals that called PDMS—"essentially group are Richard Fairer, a post-

"hair" sign—is a mix of com- release silver when struck by bathtub caulk"—that forms a doctoral researcher, and doctoral mercial chemicals that are de- laser light. "We'd like to be rubbery mold that can then be student Tommaso Baldacchini. signed to resist shrinking and able to create devices that removed and filled with poly- Vincent Chen '04, who con- promote hardness, along with incorporate mechanical prop- mer to create an exact replica. tributed a hair to the experiment, that highly efficient off-the- erties, optical properties, "It would be much, much is now a doctoral student in shelf photoinitiator. electronic properties, mag- faster to produce structures chemistry at Georgia Tech.

AROUND THE WATER COOLER

Since it was announced in April that the 1 Housing for new faculty, visiting fac- T A stable. This surfaced at a meeting

Boston Archdiocese was going to sell ulty, graduate students, undergraduate of BC officials and Brighton residents, Boston College acres (and three con- 43 students, Jesuits. some of whom believe that Fr. Leahy siderable structures) on the north side of rasied on an Iowa farm, after all — is Commonwealth Avenue, few conversa- T Administrative offices for finance, inordinately fond of horseback riding. tions on the south side have concluded fund-raising, human resources, presi- For the record, the Leahy family has without a sidebar on the latest rumors dent's staff. used tractors for many decades, and or ideas for how the land and buildings the president has not been on a horse (and dreamed-of buildings to come) would or should be used. The following T McMullen Museum, baseball stadi- since he was "a lad." In any case, Iowa are notions that have surfaced within um, conference and retreat center, favors hogs over horses by a wide hearing of the magazine's editors. Some chapel, television studio, chemistry margin. Rumor fomenters take note. seem reasonable, some frightening, but building, physics building, school of

none, it must be said, are being consid- theology, medical school, parking ered at the moment. A significant land- spaces, School of Social Work, Boston use study will take a year or more to College's 23 research centers. complete. At issue is not only appropri- ate use of the new property, but how the addition of 43 acres at one edge of the

University can enhance what is now a

tightly knit, balanced campus. For a tour of the new Brighton Campus see page

34. For the rumors, read on.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 11 First team

BEFORE THE BIG EAST AND THE ACC THERE WAS THE LITERARY INSTITUTE

editor's note: Reid Oslin '68, senior media relations offi- school did not own a sports field, just a small gymnasium, cer at BC, was for 24 years (1974 to 1997) the University's with three pieces of gymnastics equipment and little else. associate athletic director and sports information director. College football—an offshoot of rugby—grew in popular- His new book, Tales from the Boston College Sideline, is an ity after Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate anecdotal history of football from the James Street days to game in 1 869. But it would be nearly 20 years before the sport the 2003 San Francisco Bowl: would surface at BC, in a series of interclass games. Football then was far rougher than today's version, with

It was a sweltering September night in 1973 in College no helmets and little protective equipment worn by the Station, Texas, when the Boston College football team took combatants. Pushing, pulling, and locked arms were al- the field for the first time against the famed Texas A&M lowed, and most offensive strategies consisted of only three Aggies. Just before kickoff, A&M sports information direc- plays: a dive into the line, a run around the end, and a punt. tor Spec Gammon turned to his BC counterpart, Eddie A favorite kick-return play was the "Flying Wedge," in Miller, and asked dryly, "When did y'all stop playin' club which members of the receiving team joined arms in a mas- football?" "1893," Miller replied. BC went on to defeat the Aggies, 32-24.

EDWARD IGNATIUS Devitt, SJ, BC's ninth president (1891-94), had a clear priority for his administration: upgrading and expanding the 28-year- old school's small library.

It came as no surprise then, that in the spring of his first year as president, Fr. Devitt was not especially receptive to a proposal offered by two undergraduates—Joseph E O'Connell, of the class of 1893, and Joseph Drum, of the class of 1 894—to start a varsity football team. Fr. Devitt pondered the students' BC football, 1893: Second row, center left, is sprinter Wefers; center right, is coach-quarterback Drum. idea—similar proposals had been de-

r nied by his predecessor, Robert Fulton, SJ. Two weeks into sive surge to escort the ball carrier up the field. Injuries w ere the fall semester of 1892, he grudgingly agreed to the commonplace. The wedge formation was outlawed in 1896. request. There was one catch, however. Devitt wouldn't One of Boston College's early running backs, Hughie allocate any money to the new organization. McGrath, played the game with a leather strap sewed to the Boston College football had been born. bottom of his trousers. His teammates would use the makeshift handle to toss him over the top of the scrimmage AS AT MANY U.S. schools, athletics and physical education line in short yardage situations. at BC did not formally begin until after the Civil War. During the 1880s, BC students took part in military drill ex- THE PLAYING and scoring rules changed frequently in ercises and a limited program of intramurals and class games. those days. Originally, teams had three tries to make five Located then on James Street in Boston's South End, the yards and a first down; touchdowns were worth four points

12 SUMMER 2004 —

until 1898, when a score netted five. In 1912, a touchdown Boston College football when he scored the game's only put six on the scoreboard. Conversely, the scoring value of a touchdown, jarring the ball loose from a St. John's runner field goal steadily decreased, going from five points in 1883 and carrying it across the goal line for a 4-0 BC victory. to four in 1904, before the current figure of three was de- Boston College's second game did not go so well. The cided upon in 1909. James Street lads lost 6-0 to Technology '97—a team of freshmen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology BEFORE THERE was an official football team at BC, at Clovis Field in Cambridge. BC's chances for a late-game there was the "Boston College Athletic Club," organized in comeback were stymied in this one. The contest was called 1884 to oversee physical education and athletic activities. It off at halftime because the Harvard '96 team had a game was the forerunner of the Boston College Athletic scheduled against the Boston Athletic Association on the x\ssociation, which would be established in 1887. A young same field and demanded that BC and MIT relinquish the

Jesuit scholastic, Leo Brand, SJ, was appointed as the first lined turf. faculty director of athletics. Boston College athletics historian Nathaniel Hasenfus termed Brand "a clever liaison of- BOSTON COLLEGE'S University historian, Thomas H. ficer between students and president when a real diplomat O'Connor—a 1949 BC graduate and longtime football sea- was necessary," as interest and participation in sports mush- son-ticket-holder—offers a look at how one of BC's most roomed on James Street toward the end of the century. visible athletic traditions, the maroon-and-gold school colors, came into being: IN 1892, BC's first team of football players, with no fund- "In those early years when Boston College was located ing and no coach, scrambled to find practice fields and com- on James Street and was still a part of Boston College High plete a schedule of games. The squad never played an actual School or vice versa, members of the student body had no game—opting instead for a series of informal practice particular colors of their own. Students on their way to var- scrimmages and exhibition matches against schools and am- ious athletic contests had no striped ties to wear, no arm- ateur clubs in the area. bands to put on, and no pennants to wave to announce their Senior Joe O'Connell, one of the students who had pe- school affiliation. To work out a solution to this problem, titioned Fr. Devitt, was the captain. Many members of that T.J. Hurley of the class of 1885, composer of such perenni- 1892 squad went on to professional careers as doctors, al favorites as "For Boston" and "Hail Alma Mater," was lawyers, and educators, but two of the school's original chosen to head a committee to decide on a set of colors that football alumni had particularly significant careers: would be distinctively BC. Lineman John Douglass became the first BC graduate to be "After considering the colors of such rival Jesuit institu- elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving in tions as Holy Cross, Fordham, and Georgetown, Hurley Congress from 1925 until 1935; running back James Carlin and his committee reported back to the student body that entered the Society of Jesus after graduation that spring their choice was maroon and gold, in part because none of and was president of the College of Holy Cross from 1918 the other Jesuit colleges had those colors. The student body until 1924. was unanimous in accepting the report and immediately set Another member of the 1892 squad, halfback Frank Brick, about having the first official banner made. played the sport without the knowledge or approval of his "According to T.J. Hurley's personal account, BC stu- parents. He was listed in the lineup as "Plinthos"—which his dents convinced the ladies who worked at the New England fellow students of Greek knew to be the word for "brick." Conservatory of Music—at that time located near the Jesuit institution on James Street—to produce the first maroon rN 1893, Joseph Drum, then a Boston College senior, was and gold banner, which was an instant success and was dis- named head coach of the school's first "official" football played at every event at the school. team—an unpaid position. When he called the start of prac- "Unfortunately, after a celebration at the James Street tice in September, 22 willing candidates reported. Among school, the original hand-stitched banner mysteriously dis- them was Bernie Wefers, a transfer from Holy Cross, who appeared and was never seen again. Old and savvy alumni would later set four world track records in various sprint continue to look through attics and cellars in hopes that the events. Drum immediately had himself a strong outside run- original banner will be found." ning threat—a coaching luxury that several of his successors Reid Oslin would never enjoy.

Drum named himself starting quarterback when Boston © 2004 by Reid Oslin, reprinted by permission. The book is avail- College lined up for its first official game on October 26, able at a discount from the BC Bookstore via www.bc.edu/bcm. 1893, against St. John's Literary Institute, a local amateur Mr. Oslin will be discussing BC football at the BC Bookstore on team. He completed his significant series of "firsts" for September 11 at 6:00 P.M. (before the Penn State game).

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 13 O'Neill Library, fourth floor

ONE IN A MILLION

A reader's guide

editor's note: In December David Quigley, American his- in an era of thinking about race velopments in algebra, number

2003, a mere 16 years after ac- tory: The Wages of Whiteness: as an idea that is at least partly theory, complex analysis, quiring its millionth volume, Race and the Making of the constructed by culture, and not topology, and algebraic geom- the Boston College library sys- American Working Class, by by genes entirely. It helped ini- etry. His contributions, which tem celebrated the arrival of its David Roediger (Haymarket, tiate a golden age of scholar- in this space can only be de- 2-millionth (see "Book marker," 1991) ship on race in America. scribed in the dense technical

page 16). To commemorate shorthand of mathematics, in- Solomon Friedberg, mathe- the milestone, BCM asked fac- I started grad school in 1991, clude the use of spectral theory matics: Oenvres, Collected ulty from a variety of disci- planning to work on race and to study the homotopy groups Papers, by Jean-Pierre Serre, plines to report on the most the American city. By decade's of spheres, the use of sheaves four volumes (Springer-Yerlag, influential books in their fields end, I had done just that, focus- in the context of complex vari- 1 ( that were among the million ing on postbellum .Manhattan. able theory and of algebraic

most recently acquired by the But along the way, my under- Progress in mathematics is geometrv, and the formulation

University. standings of race, class, and tvpicallv communicated of the Serre conjecture, which

American public life were al- through research papers. I played a role in Wiles's proof

tered by Roediger's master- would, therefore, choose the of Fermat's last theorem.

piece. Wages reimagined the collected papers of Jean-Pierre Serre's work is distinguished by

19th century by linking race Serre, a mathematician now its breadth and its depth. In with the history of America's retired from the College de 2003, Professor Serre was

working class and by exploring France, in Paris. Serre's contri- awarded the first ever Abel the racial identities of white butions span a half-century Prize—similar to the Xobel Americans. The book ushered and include fundamental de- Prize, but for mathematics.

14 SUMMER 2004 historian Alain Corbin on do- eled to India and set up an

mesticity and hysteria in the ashram for the study and prac-

1 9th century. These volumes tice of dialogue between

seek to expand frontiers of re- Christians and Hindus. I have search by thinking historically to say that the book taught me about the most intimate as- as much about neglected as-

pects of culture and society, pects of my own Catholic tra-

and they have set a compelling dition as it did about the agenda for historians. Vedantic traditions of Asia. Like Thomas Merton on Tao Alan Wolfe, American poli- or the Dalai Lama on the tics: The United States of Gospels, Griffiths brings us Ambition: Politicians, Power and back home by generously en- the Pursuit by Alan of Office, gaging with ways of thinking Ehrenhalt (Random House, other than our own. 1991) Brendan Rapple, library Looking at politicians as they science: Being Digital, by are and not as we expect them Nicholas Negroponte (Knopf, to be, the journalist Alan 1995) Ehrenhalt showed that people

increasingly run for office not Writing soon after the birth of so much for power or gain, but the World Wide Web, because they have chosen to Negroponte, founder of

devote their lives to the weird MIT's Media Lab, provided a

Suzanne Matson, English: Larry Wolff, European histo- calling called politics. Liberals fascinating overview of how

The Wild Iris, by Louise Gliick ry: A History ofPrivate Life, and conservatives both believe digital media transformed our (Ecco, 1992) edited by Philippe Aries and in causes to such an extent that lives in the early 1990s and

Georges Duby, translated they are willing to put up with foretold the future of life's

Gluck's sixth poetry collection from the French by Arthur the small talk, long hours, and digital dimensions. In particu- appeared to instant acclaim, Goldhammer, five volumes bad food that campaigns de- lar he predicted that the including receipt of the (Harvard, 1987-91) mand. And those who make change from atoms (physical Pulitzer Prize. Twelve years good candidates, therefore, do books) to bytes (content in later, its high-concept formu- These stunningly illustrated not make good leaders, since digital format) was irrevocable lation remains as stunningly and beautifully translated vol- they lack the primary skills for and unstoppable. His views original as it was at the time of umes explore the history of achieving success in a divided have been prescient and influ- its publication. The volume private life, from the ancient government: the ability to bar- ential in the library world. weaves a polyphonic colloquy world to the 20th century, gain and compromise. Today electronic databases, e- among voices from the evaluating the historical di- Beautifully written, with journals, e-books, and a host

"green" world; a god who will mensions of such elusive sub- telling examples, Ehrenhalt's of diverse digital multimedia

"disclose / virtually nothing"; jects as solitude and intimacy, book is a classic in political are much more the norm than and a human speaker who marriage and family, fantasy science that rivals another the exception, and libraries tends a garden, searchingly and sexuality. Conceived under great work in the field written have changed dramatically in vulnerable as she tries, the editorship of two towering in another era by a journalist, the kind of services they offer through insufficient language, French historians, the volumes Samuel LubelPs The Future of and in how they imagine to process unruly states of employ an array of brilliant American Politics (1952). themselves. feeling, intimations of mortali- scholars: for example, Peter Richard Kearney, philosophy: Phyllis Goldfarb, law: ty, and the persistent hunger Brown, the great explicator of River of Compassion: A Christian Minding the Law, by Anthony for intellectual certainties. The Augustine, on the loneliness of Commentary on the Bhagavad Amsterdam and Jerome memorable lyricism makes an early Christian hermits; Roger Gita, by Bede Griffiths Bruner (Harvard, 2000) immediate connection to read- Chartier, a noted historian of (Element Books, 1992) ers; students reading it in my books, on the rise, during the Mining anthropology, linguis- classes often name it as their Renaissance, of solitary and Griffiths was a Benedictine tics, cognitive psychology, lit- favorite book of the semester. silent reading; and the social monk from England who trav- erary theory, history, classics,

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 15 —

underlying reasons for the de- theory to inform psychological cision are tied up with theories about the human BOOK MARKER American cultural narratives mind, a movement referred to

about race and the death as evolutionary psychology. The When librarians look to com- penalty, these reasons are Adapted Mind is a manifesto for memorate the acquisition shielded from critical scrutiny this movement and a descrip- of a 2 -millionth volume, they by the rhetoric the court tion of many of its accomplish- don't honor whatever happens chooses to use. Reading a ments. The chapters—authored to drop through the mail slot court opinion is a richer enter- by leaders of this movement after number 1,999,999. And prise after experiencing show how evolutionary theory so it came as no surprise that Amsterdam and Bruner's book, has been useful in constructing Boston College's 2 -millionth theories of cooperation, mating Galileo's Istoria book, honored at a ceremony Diane Vaughan, sociology: and sex, parenting and child in December 2003, turned out The Social Meaning Money: of development, language, the to be Istoria e Dimostrazione Intorno alle Macchie Solari e Pin Money, Paychecks, Poor mental foundations of culture, Loro Accidentia and not Diirs Hardy Trees and Shrubs. Relief, and Other Currencies, by and sleep, where, for example, Istoria, or History and Deinonstrations Concerning Viviana Zelizer (Basic Books, evolutionary theory posits that Sunspots and Their Properties, was written by Galileo 1994) sleep came about to preserve Galilei and published in Rome in 1613. A collection of This book not only rechan- energy and to protect individu- treatises in the form of letters to a German patron, neled economic sociology but als during that portion of each the book describes Galileo's observations of sunspots. also had an impact on econom- day when there is little value, "Today this short book would earn Galileo three ics. Attacking the understand- and considerable danger, in Nobel Prizes," contends Daniel Coquillette, the Monan ing of money as a uniform moving about. Professor of Law and a rare book scholar. He cites the commodity with established, book's proofs that the earth revolves on its axis and Colleen Griffith, theology: unvarying worth, Zelizer shows around the sun, and Galileo's positing of the principle of She Who Is: The Mysteiy of God how individuals reinterpret its inertia. in Feminist Theological economic worth in social The volume was a gift from Angelo and Wega Firenze, Discourse, by Elizabeth A. terms. Her book is a social his-

drawn from the collections of Wega Firenze 's late father, Johnson (Crossroad, 1993) tory drawn from archival docu- Pasquale Sconzo. A mathematician and astronomer, ments, including women's This is an historic book, be- Sconzo was an IBM research scientist who, in Italy in the magazines, household manuals, cause how one speaks of God late 1920s, bought an inexpensive box of books at an court cases, and memoirs. In it, influences current and future estate sale without knowing that it contained the Galileo she describes an "earmarking" Christian thought and prac- treasure (recently appraised at between $20,000 and process by which women, busi- tice. Johnson connects feminist $25,000). ness, and government have and classical wisdom to recast At more than 2 million, Boston College's book hold- revalued money through such the "persons" of the Trinity in ings are among the top 100 in the country, in the range of innovations as pin money, metaphors that have female libraries at Georgetown and Boston University. Harvard's money as gifts, food stamps, resonance. She begins with 1 5 million volumes are the most held by an American and other welfare monies, "Spirit-Sophia," whom she de- university. Nicole Estuanik which divest currency of its scribes as the living God

impersonality and embed its vivifving, empowering, and "Page Turner" an annotated slideshovs-tour of the Galileo value in social ties. gracing the world. Then she book, may be viewed on the magazines @BC website at moves on to describe "Jesus- www.bc.edu/atbc. Click "'Archives.'" Peter Gray, psychology: Sophia" as Wisdom made The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary flesh, and "Mother Sophia" Psychology and the Generation of who is origin, creator, and Culture, edited by Jerome H. and poetry, the authors try to analyzing the Supreme Court's source of life. This recasting is Barkow, Leda Cosmides, and identify the primary methods opinion upholding the consti- not just conceptually and John Tooby (Oxford, 1992) by which law works—catego- tutionality of the death penalty morally adequate, it is inspir- rization, narration, and persua- despite staggering evidence Perhaps the most significant ing and emancipator}'. sion—and to understand more of race discrimination in its development in psychology in Christian theology must grap- richly what sort of "way of application, the authors the past 20 years is the in- ple with the expansive vision life" law is. For example, in demonstrate that while the creased use of evolutionary of God offered here.

16 SUMMER 2004 PRIORY-TIZED WIRED HELP Boston College has reached an agreement in principle to pur-

Making the world a safer place for Aunt Hermina chase St. Stephen's Priory,

encompassing 78.5 acres on

the Charles River in Dover, Massachusetts, from the Dominican Fathers Province of

St. Joseph. The property, which

BC will use as a retreat and

conference center, includes buildings totaling 68,792 square feet. More than 1,400

BC students participate in

University-sponsored retreats

each year.

TRUMAN SHOWING

Joseph Halli '05 of Northport,

Alabama, has become the fifth

BC student in seven years to

win a Truman Scholarship. The

award, which recognizes lead-

ership and public service, pro-

vides $3,000 for senior year and $27,000 for graduate

study. Halli will apply his grant

toward a law degree and a

master's in social work. BC

was cited last year as a Truman

The team, with prototype of Assist. From left: Logan, Scali, Barciauskas, and Pavlov Honor Institution for its suc-

cessful participation in the scholarship program.

Their invention inspired by a runs on a rewired computer the er William Ames, formerly an team member's 8 7 -year-old size of a paperback copy of War engineer at Hewlett-Packard, DEATHS aunt, four Boston College stu- and Peace, e-mails or sends a helped develop the $264 pro- • Paul T. Banks '39, MA'4i, dents placed second in the in- cell-phone text message to totype. Associate Professor assistant professor of mathe- augural Microsoft Windows someone outside the home. Robert Signorile was the matics at BC from 1948 to

ChallengE, held March 19-21 Logan's great-aunt team's advisor. 1982, on July 12, at age 87. at Microsoft's Redmond, Hermina inspired the project. The students made im- • Christopher Catanese '05,

Washington, campus. "She wanted to keep her inde- provements to Assist until days honors student in the College

Juniors Andrew Logan, pendence," says Logan. Assist before the competition. "We of Arts and Sciences, on July 6,

Greg Pavlov, and Joel Bar- allows seniors to live alone never really got the chance to at age 21. ciauskas, and sophomore Dan- knowing "someone will know test out the carbon monoxide • John R. Eichorn, founder of iel Scali, all computer science if something goes wrong" or detector," says Barciauskas. the Campus School and pro- majors, received $3,000—and "if they accidentally leave the "We didn't want to blow up fessor emeritus of the Lynch $1,000 for the University—for stove on." our prototype," explains School of Education, on June their design of an inexpensive The competition required Pavlov. 9, at age 90. home sensor, dubbed Assist, students to create a device on Twenty-nine teams, repre- • Ruth O'Connell Fallon, direc- that checks for unusual heat the theme "Making the World senting 2 1 universities from tor of admissions for the fluctuations, smoke, and carbon a $afer Place." The group across the United States, par- Graduate School of Social monoxide. When a dangerous worked on the project for a ticipated in the competition. Work from 1964 to 1989, on change is detected Assist, which year. Computer science lectur- Paul Voosen June 17, at age 91.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 17 Goodbye to all that

BOSTON COLLEGE, THE MOVIE

Towers on the Heights is 2 8 min- • Gasson Hall appears so often utes of flickering, jumpy, crack- that it is arguably the hero of ling 16-millimeter home movie. the film. Produced by a volunteer crew • A priest-professor in the of faculty and students in 1956 chemistry lab seems to be at a cost of $2,500, Towers was changing wine into water. ordered up by then Boston • Many faces are, as my grand- College President Joseph R.N. ma used to say, maps of Cork. Maxwell, SJ, as a means to • The fair Ophelia, descending extend the geographic range a staircase in a snippet from a of student recruitment. Eight production of Hamlet, looks prints were made, and over the oddly ecstatic, or perhaps tipsy. course of about 10 years, those • A hamster is manhandled prints were exhibited by a net- without any apparent regard work of alumni admission vol- for its self-esteem or NTH reg- unteers who projected the BC ulations yet to be promulgated. story onto portable screens in • The claim is made straight- church halls, furnished base- faced that there is an archery ments, and high school audito- bow on campus for every stu- riums across the country. dent. And then the time of Towers • During the clips of the BC- passed, and all the copies went Holy Cross football game at missing except for two that lay Fenway Park, the Eagles' tight in canisters in a storage closet end jumps the snap on a play Film clips (top): A Jesuit in the Sc hool of Education, and the Reserve in the offices of the University's where BC's halfback darts into Officers Training Corps. In the editi ng studio (bottom) is Foley. audiovisual department until Jack the Crusader end zone. 1987, when John (Jack) Foley • Physics professor James Ring,

'56, who had worked on the film as a student and who is cur- SJ, in the longest set-up joke in the film, punts a football rently an administrator in BC's facilities management office, to, apparendy, Iowa, and then winks into the camera for a asked Dave Corkum, a producer at audiovisual services, to week. look around for copies of the movie. Corkum found the can- This is a serious movie, however; serious in its earnest isters and transferred their contents to videotape, from portrayal of Boston College, and serious also in haunting which they were rendered into bits and bytes, in which form ways that its creators could not possibly have intended: its they were presented on Boston College Magazine's @BC web- guileless persuasiveness, its freedom from irony or cynicism, site, under the tide "Distant Spires," which is how, on one and particularly the quiet confidence of the Catholic world recent afternoon, I came to view the film four times in a row the movie portrays. from my desk chair in a chaotic office on a bluff overlook- That world is pointedly celebrated in the film with refer- ing the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. ences to chapel, and set pieces on hymn singing and on the Some observations: Mass of the Holy Spirit that opened the academic year in

• Everyone at BC in 1956 is well dressed: suits, ties, flowing the 1950s (and still does today). While Fr. Ring's comic role dresses; swirling cassocks; jaunty birettas; ROTC uniforms. as the greatest punter in history is the star turn, other priests

18 SUMMER 2004 are shown at work (a very young Fr. Francis Sweeney teach- And Boston College is, to be blunt, a greater university ing outdoors) in the background (presenting awards to stu- today than it was then, by every measure. Yet it would not be dent cadets on the Dustbowl). Without ever saying so, the great, or be alive at all, without the confidence, dedication, movie makes clear that priests were in charge at Boston and zest captured by the students and faculty who made College in 1956, both literally and figuratively. Towers on the Heights. That Catholic world in which priests were prime and un- The first rule of the universe is entropy—all things fly questioned authorities is gone now, both on the Heights and apart, from marriages to empires. The second rule is that in the world at large, and only the most sentimental among nothing dies utterly if one works at knowing and preserving us would mourn its demise overmuch. It was never as its spirit. So marriages may be reinvented, and nations rise sweetly monolithic as it appeared, anyway; the Catholic ge- to new grace and maturity. And the Jesuit university emerges niuses Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton were trying to from the acid bath of modern and postmodern times an in- wrench the Church back to radical simplicity then, for ex- stitution that is less sure, less prideful, less at peace than it ample, and the hierarchy was silencing such eloquent vision- was in 1956; but more interesting, challenging, difficult, aries as John Courtney Murray. The true measurement of powerful, and capable. The Heights is no longer a place the dustiness of the Church in the 1950s is the word shout- from which one looks out upon the world. The Heights is ed by Pope John XXIII in 1962: aggiomamentol open the the messy and glorious world. windows! let in fresh air! Nor were the 1950s in the United Brian Doyle

States all that simple and peaceful: The icy savagery of the

Korean War, the oily national paranoia led by Joe Brian Doyle is the editor of Portland Magazine, at the McCarthy, the violent death throes of American apartheid, University ofPortland, and the author of Leaping: Revelations the advent of the birth control pill—much more was hap- and Epiphanies (Loyola, 2003), a collection of essays. Towers on pening on and off campus than is intimated in the earnest the Heights may be viewed on the magazines @BC website, " Towers on the Heights. www.bc.edu/atbc. Click "Archives, " then "Distant Spires.

clean slate—The stained glass windows of Bapst Library's Gargan

Hall are being fully restored for the

first time in the building's 76-year

history. The windows were de-

signed by the artist Earl Sanborn

in Gothic Revival style, and each section portrays an aspect of the University's curriculum of studies

at the time of the building's con-

struction. At left, technicians from Serpentino Stained and Leaded Glass remove the panes, which

will be sent to the company's

workshop in Needham, Massachu-

setts. The panes will be soaked

overnight in a solution of hot

water and soft soap, rubbed clean,

and then reassembled in new fix- tures. The restoration of half the

windows, begun in June, will be

finished in October. Work on the

second half will start next summer.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 19 WOM

TWO CONFLICTING VIEWS GUIDE THE CHURCH'S POSITION ON WOMEN, AND HAVE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. AND THEREIN LIES HOPE.

BY ELIZABETH A. JOHNSON, CSJ

When the African-American poet Audre Lorde switched from wearing eyeglasses to contact lenses, she wrote:

Once I lived behind thick walls of glass and my eyes belonged to a different ethic timidly rubbing the edges of whatever turned them on. Seeing usually

was a matter of what was . . . behind my brain. Now my eyes have become a part of me exposed quick and risky and open

to all the same dangers.

I see much better now and my eyes hurt.

Today, as Catholic women increasingly view the Church through the lens of gender, many—and I include myself among them—think we see more clearly where its problems lie, and the hints also of solutions, and our eyes do hurt. But what gives women even the right to envision the Church? Christianity took shape in a culture where elite men held power over other men, and over women and children and

slaves. As the Church grew and became more established, its leaders adopted that same structure, called patriarchy (rule of the father) or kyriarchy (rule of the lord). The Church re-

20 SUMMER 2004 BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 21 —

mained patriarchal through the centuries, as society did, and women as well as men are capable of growing in wisdom and gave religious authorization to that organizing pattern grace. They can spot what is right and what is wrong, what men in charge. is essential and what is expendable, thanks to their prayer I am not male-bashing here. Within that system, some and lived Christian experience. men have been humanly mature, spiritually advanced; they Third, through their suffering, women also gain knowl- have been very nice to women and even loved them. But the edge of the power of sin, and of what needs to be done to system, a pattern of relationship, predetermines the roles heal and redeem life, for themselves and others who weep. men and women play. The Church reflects this inequality, We know by being pressed down precisely what humanity in its sacred texts, its religious symbols (most importantly, requires in order to flourish. The suffering of oppression, God), its rituals, governance, and laws. And as a result, for which must be resisted at every turn, does grant sufferers a most of the Church's history, women have been silent and right to speak. invisible in the public square. The authority of baptism, of Christian life experience, When the book I edited, The Church Women Want: and of compassionate suffering—that is what gives women Catholic Women in Dialogue, was published two years ago, of faith the right to envision the Church we want. And the one critic told me it should have been growing strength of our voices about called "the Church Jesus wants." Some matters of God in our day is a gift to the people argued that men should have Church and the world. IN THEORY, been consulted too. But the main criticism came from men and some women A HUGE ambiguity about women runs AT LEAST, THE who felt that women have no right to through the Christian heritage. On the envision the Church—that we should AMBIGUITY one hand, there are sacred texts and laws practice the godly virtues of loyalty and that keep women in a subordinate role. obedience to what the men in charge de- SURROUNDING These sources are appealed to today by cide is right and true. people who wish to maintain the status

There is ultimately only one source quo. On the other hand, there are points WOMEN IS of authority for the Church, namely the of light in scripture, in tradition, and in Spirit of God, giver of life and source of CLEARING. NOT SO official teaching that challenge this all love. It is the Spirit who enables the arrangement. I call these texts and prac- community of disciples, the Church, to IN PRACTICE. tices and teachings, which are also en- carry forward the word and presence of trenched in our tradition, the prophetic

Christ into the world. It is the Spirit who strand. They emphasize the solidarity of makes this living community "the only God with the poor and with other peo- real reliquary ofJesus in the world today," as the Dutch the- ple of little worldly influence, women among them. They ologian Edward Schillebeeckx put it. are the supports for liberation theology and feminist, wom-

In her 2001 Madeleva lecture, delivered at St. Mary's anist, and mujerista theologies. Far from assigning domi- College in South Bend, Indiana, and published as Speaking nance of one group over another, the prophetic pattern with Authority, Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, developed an supposes a Christian community of mutual regard, a disci- engaging argument for the religious authority of women's pleship of equals. voices today. In other words, two visions—the patriarchal and the First and foremost, she said, in the sacrament of baptism prophetic—are present in our heritage. Sic et Non, yes and the Spirit of God profoundly consecrates every woman. no, to cite the title of a famous medieval book by the the-

Body and soul, a woman is blessed and made holy by this ologian Abelard. This, I think, is a source of hope. It makes participation in God's own life. Like all baptized persons, clear that what we have been living with under patriarchy is each woman shares in the dying and rising of Christ, be- not all there is to Christianity. Something more is possible. comes in effect another Christ, called to share in his work of Consider scripture. We all know the creation story that prophet, priest, and leader. And indeed, Vatican II taught opens the Bible. On the sixth day, "God created humankind that it is not only ordained priests or vowed religious, but the in his own image; in the image of God he created them; male whole Church that is called to Christ's mission. We are in an and female he created them. And God blessed them" (Gen age of great rediscovery of the importance of baptism for 1 :2 6-2 8a). How simply this text makes a major claim: Women empowering the laity, which includes women, in the Church. and men together, and equally as human beings, are created Second, said Hilkert, through their actual experience of in the image and likeness of God. The New Testament in- living the Christian life day by day, women gain insight into herited this teaching and gave it a Christian twist. And so an the ways of God. Across their whole lifetime, as they age, (continued on page 26)

22 SUMMER 2004 TIN KNICHT

SO MOVED More than 600 people converged on BC's Newton Campus on April 16-17 for a conference entitled "Envisioning the Church Women Want." They heard prepared talks by theologians, including Elizabeth Johnson, Miriam Therese Winter of the Hartford Seminary, and Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz of Drew University, and joined in workshops whose top-

ics ranged from the tension inherent in being Catholic and feminist to the U.S. bishops' failed attempt at a "Wom- en's Pastoral" 12 years ago (Bishop Matthew Clark of Rochester, New York, was a panelist); from new forms of Catholic leadership now being modeled by women to "Is the Church Women Want the Church Men Want, Too?"

When it was all over, the attendees, who were mostly women, had the opportunity each to leave a written response. A sampler:

I hope for equality and open hearts. I need to take some risks. I am not alone.

We are the Church; we have the ability and the power to I hope I can remain Catholic. I have more hope now than move mountains. when I walked in.

Just when labor becomes most painful and we think we Hope is in every woman whose path crosses mine if I just

can't go on, the baby is birthed into light and new life. pay attention. And with God's blessing, men will also share the load and burden along the way. Jesus is in the boat with us. We can't sink! I have one life to live and I will not let the last part of my With the Holy Spirit we can build a new Church. life die out—I will speak my truth.

I hope I live long enough to see women given their God I hope that I can be transformed to truly live the message and given place in the Catholic Church. of Christ.

broken heart can lead the spirit to breathe life. A new I am a baptized, committed member of the Church, I have in the I called to bring justice I hope women will stop asking for permission. a place Church, am by God and love to the world and to the Church. We must find, care for, and nourish each other. Perhaps I must stay with the Church to effect change. for a long, long time.

Pages of notes, a hopeful heart, memories of the hundreds That my daughters, granddaughters will worship in a who gather to keep on through shared strength. Church that recognizes and values all its people.

I can't say I have much hope. I hope we are really at a moment when this envisioning

can be enacted . . . but I am afraid. Hope. — ADVANCEMENT A report on gifts to Boston College

FIRST CHAIR IN ECONOMICS HONORS FR. NEENAN

Upon learning that the first Professor James E. Anderson, on to join the faculty there. Professor Anderson, the in-

endowed chair in the depart- in a celebratory event on In addition to his academic augural chair holder, is a high-

ment of economics had been October 6, 2004. accomplishments, Fr. Neenan ly respected member of the named in his honor, William Funded by Margaret A. and has established several cele- faculty and one of the world's

B. Neenan, SJ, said: "As a Thomas A. Yanderslice '53, brated, decades-long traditions leading international trade

young Jesuit beginning my Hon. '03, the chair pays tribute at BC. Shortly after his arrival theorists. "It is personally

Ph.D. work in economics, I to Fr. Neenan 's extraordinary from Ann Arbor, the Sioux pleasing to me that this chair

never in my wildest dreams 25-year career at Boston City, Iowa, native initiated a is named for Bill Neenan, a would have thought that my College. Since coming to the luncheon club for BC students mentor, colleague, and friend,"

name would be associated with Heights in 1979, Fr. Neenan from the Midwest. The popu- Anderson said.

Boston College's economics has served as Gasson pro- larity of this semiannual event "Fr. Neenan is the soul of

department in such a positive fessor, dean of the College of catalyzed a number of other the University," said Thomas way." Fr. Neenan, the vice Arts & Sciences, and academic regional social groups for out- Vanderslice. Vanderslice and

president and special assistant vice president and dean of of-state undergraduates. Fr. his wife previously funded the to the president, went on to faculties, before his current Neenan also initiated an annual Margaret A. and Thomas A.

say, "I am extremely gratified position. Prior to his distin- "Dean's List of Recommended \ anderslice '53 Chair in

and very proud." The William guished sendee at BC, Reading." The University Chemistry and the Patricia

B. Neenan Millennium Chair Fr. Neenan earned a Ph.D. at community eagerly awaits the and Joseph T. '49 Vanderslice

in Economics will be present- the University of Michigan, publication of this book list Millennium Chair in

ed to its first chair holder, in Ann Arbor, and went each vear. Chemistry.

Wall Street Dinner Toasts Academic and Professional Excellence

An elegant dinner gala, at

New York City's Waldorf- Astoria Hotel this past April, honored Wellington T xMara, president and co-CEO of the New York Giants. Mara was presented with the President's Medal for Excellence by University President William

P. Leahy, SJ, for his several decades of loyal association '04, '04, '04, Melinda with the Giants and his active Front row (from left): Jennifer Sladek '04, Ellen Burke Elizabeth Bernardi Rebecca Simmons Holme '04, Nika Daragan '04, Laura Pyeatt '04. Back row (from left): Paul Wenger '04, Paul Taylor '04, Patrick Grady participation in religious and '04, Wellington and Ann Mara, William P. Leahy, SJ, James Smith '04, Timothy Carraher '04, Matthew Gaul '04 civic organizations. The annual gala supports the University's Presidential Scholars Program, a network of more than 150 Lynch '65 P'01, Robert M. Advancement is prepared which, to date, has raised more members of the New York fi- Devlin P'98, and Wall Street by the Boston College than S12 million in scholarship nancial community—spon- Council cofounder Mario J. Office of Development endowment funds. The Boston sored the tribute dinner. Gabelli P'90, '94, '95, '00

College Wall Street Council University trustees Peter S. served as the event cochairs.

24 SUMMER 2004 During the month of November, the BC Alumni Association will post your remembrances in St. Mary's Chapel. Please share with us the names of the people you would like remembered by returning this card. You may also send your remembrances by e-mail to [email protected].

This year's Alumni Memorial Mass will be held on Sunday, November 7, at 2 p.m. in St. Ignatius Church. Postage Required Post Office w not deliver without prope postage.

BOSTON COLLEGE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 825 CENTRE ST NEWTON MA 02458-2527

I I,I.I„I,I.I,ImI,mI.I,I.I...I.II...II.I..I.I..I„.II Dear Boston College/Newton College Alumnus/a:

As the new academic year approaches, we look forward to providing new opportunities to connect you with one another and with alma mater. In the spirit of new beginnings, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Jim Husson as the new vice president for advancement at Boston College. Jim brings with him a wealth of ideas for enhancing the services we provide to alumni, parents and friends of Boston College through closer collaboration among the various offices within University Advancement, including the Alumni

Association. I am thrilled to be part of the Advancement Planning Team, which comprises senior managers from throughout the department, who together will be responsible for strategic planning and decision-making for University Advancement as a whole.

The start of the new academic year is also the time to welcome the incoming Class of 2008, some 15 percent of whom are children of alumni. These incoming students join the Boston College community at an exciting time of transition, as we gear up to join the Atlantic Coast Conference, undertake a comprehensive strategic planning process and launch a fund-raising initiative to support the acquisition of 43 acres of land from the Archdiocese of Boston. (For more information on the strategic planning process, please go to www.bc.edu/offices/avp/planning/.) During this time of transition, however, our objectives at the Alumni Association remain steady: expanding the national chapter program, building a stronger graphic identity, pro- moting connections between current students and alumni, and enhancing the all-alumni Reunion Weekend and related programming.

As it has in years past, our board of directors will be instrumental in helping us achieve these objectives. On July i, 2004, Christopher "Kip" Doran '68 became president of a board notable for its diversity in terms of geography, gender, class, school affiliation and ethnicity. Kip, who lives and works in Denver, where he has served as chapter leader, is the first president from the Rocky Mountains. He is joined at the helm by Susan Power Gallagher NC '69, the first vice president/president-elect from Newton College. Kathleen Donovan Coudie '56 as treasurer and Julie Finora McAfee '93 as secretary round out this year's officers. The executive committee met over the summer to jumpstart their planning for the coming year and to strategize about new ways to serve as ambassadors for Boston College.

We look forward to welcoming all members of the 2004-05 board at its first meeting on Parents' Weekend, which will kick off with the 2004 Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony on Thursday, September 30, 2004, at Robsham Theater. This year's winners truly exemplify the spirit of

"Ever to Excel," and I hope you will join us in honoring them and their remarkable accomplishments.

Later in the fall, we will carry on another BC tradition as we honor deceased alumni at a Mass of remembrance on the Feast of All Souls in November. Please take a moment to return the inserted remembrance card with the names of classmates and friends you would like to be remembered.

FanFest gets under way this year on September n, when the Eagles take on Penn State at Alumni Stadium. I look forward to seeing you there as we begin another exciting year at Boston College.

Ever to Excel,

j£b-

Grace Cotter Regan '82 Executive Director ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CLASS NOTES

2004 Alumni Achievement Awards

The Alumni Association is pleased to continue this year its tradition of honoring distinguished graduates at the Alumni Achievement Awards Ceremony. This year's ceremony will be held on Thursday, September 30, 2004, at 7 p.m. at Robsham Theater. All alumni and friends are invited to join us as we recognize the outstanding accomplishments of 10 distinguished alumni. A complimentary reception immediately following the ceremony will be held in the Heights Room. Please call 800-669-8430 to make a reservation. 2004 Alumni Achievement Award Recipients

Arts and Humanities: Joseph Connors '66 Public Service: Matthew Vossler '84 Commerce: Richard Syron '66, HON '89 Religion: Fr. Gregory Ramkissoon '81, MA '82 Education: James R. Powers '33, MA '34 Science: Daniel Downey '70, MS '76 Health: Judith Krauss '68 Young Alumni Award of Excellence: Elisabeth Hasselbeck '99 Law: Lauren Stiller Rikleen JD '79 William V. McKenney Award: Fr. Nicholas Sannella '67

Visit ummf.bc.edu/alumniawards to nominate an alumna/usfor the 2005 Alumni Achievement Awards

Executive Director: Grace Cotter Regan '82 Class Notes Editor: Anne Merrill Boston College Alumni Association 825 Centre Street Newton, MA 02458 617-552-4700 800-669-8430 www.bc.edu/alumni [email protected]

www.bc.edu/alumni i To My Fellow Alumni:

Like so many of us before and after, from the moment that I first walked up Linden Lane with my father in 1963,

I knew that Boston College was where I would spend my college years. The gleaming eagle atop the pedestal backed by the grandeur of Casson Hall told me that this was a place to be proud of, and a place that would always hold a special meaning for me. Not only has this proven to be true, the University has grown in stature and continues to be a center of excellence and pride. My Boston College affection was enhanced when I married my wife, a fellow BC graduate, and watched as our two daughters enrolled and graduated from the Heights in 2000 and 2003. Nothing has topped the pride that I felt, however, when I found that I had been selected by you, my fellow alumni, to be the president of the Boston College Alumni Association.

Having resided in Denver, Colorado, for 30 years, I become the first president from the Rocky Mountain region and continue the trend of our association to reflect the geographical diversity that is already present in our student body. With alumni in all 50 states, what a national presence we have become!

• Father Leahy, in spearheading the extraordinarily successful Church in the 21st Century initiative, has

expanded our prominence nationally, including recent dialogues in Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; and Phoenix, Arizona.

• Through Executive Director Grace Cotter Regan '82, who serves on the executive committee of the Jesuit Advancement Administrators (JAA) and

is the subcommittee chair of the JAA annual conference, BC has taken a premier role in collaborating with our fellow Jesuit institutions throughout the country.

• Under the expert leadership of Senior Associate Director Jack Moynihan, we have recently established alumni chapters in Charlotte, North Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; and Westchester County, New York.

• California has more Boston College alumni than Pennsylvania, Maine, Vermont and Delaware - combined!

• The number of alumni in Florida and Virginia together equals the number in Connecticut.

• Together, there are over 5,000 Eagle alumni in the states of Texas, Georgia and Illinois.

As we become a more national body, we will no doubt come to utilize and depend on electronic communication to keep us close to each other and close to Boston College. The Alumni Online Community is an easy way for us to stay in touch with our classmates and colleagues. Online editions of Boston College Magazine, The Heights, and The Boston College Chronicle make getting BC news as easy as a mouse click. Front Row gives us access to lec- tures, performances, debates and presentations from our distinguished faculty and campus guests - just as if we all lived around the corner from

Chestnut Hill.

As each of us takes the talents learned and polished at the Heights to our communities, we demonstrate both the value of a Boston College education and the quality that our university represents. We have much to be proud of as we spread across the country. With the rest of the newly elected officers - President-Elect Susan Power Gallagher NC '69, Treasurer Kathleen Donovan Goudie '56 and Secretary Julie Finora McAfee '93 - I look forward to an exciting year representing the 140,000 of us in all of the places that BC now touches. Sincerely, (^C^p^a^__

Christopher (Kip) Doran '68 President, Boston College Alumni Association

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 2004-05 NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

'68 '69 '61 Christopher M. Doran Sarah Ford Baine NC John J. Lane President Director, Newton College Director, West of the Mississippi

Susan Power Gallagher NC '69 Ann M. Bersani '77 Patrick M. Lawler '93 Vice President/President-Elect Director, West of the Mississippi Director, Less than 10 Years

'56 '02 '64 Kathleen Donovan Goudie Irene Brannelly J. Emmett McCarthy Treasurer Director, Woods College Director, More than 10 Years

Julie Finora McAfee '93 Robert E. Burke '69, MA '70 Floyd B. McCrory '77 Secretary Director, East of the Mississippi Director, East of the Mississippi

'65 E. '82, '86 B. '60 John J. Griffin, Jr. Joanne Caruso JD John McNamara Past President Director, West of the Mississippi Director, More than 10 years

John E. Joyce '61, MBA '70 Raymond Carvey '72, MBA '81 Dineen Ann Riviezzo '89 Chair, Council of Past Presidents Director, CGSOM Director, East of the Mississippi

'81 '02 Thomas F. Flannery William J. Cunningham, Jr. '57 Omari Walker '97, MEd Chair, Nominating Committee Development Liaison Director, Less than 10 Years

Dawn E. McNair '82, MEd '83 Priscilla A. Durkin NC '65 Chair-elect, Nominating Committee Director, Newton College

CLASS NOTES of his excellence, dedication and outstanding Class Notes Editor John D. Donovan contribution to community journalism." Alumni Association 12 Wessonville Way Congratulations to Bill for a lifetime of hard Westborough, MA 01581 78-32 825 Centre St. 508-366-4782 Newton, MA 02458 work. • Finally, a sad note. A phone call to Fr. Pat [email protected] [email protected] Barrett at his retirement home in Portland, ME, revealed that "Father Barrett passed away some Greetings once again, thank God. Let's start off was no one there William M. Hogan, Jr. time ago." Exactly when, there with the good news. Just think of it: As I write Brookhaven, A-305 who could tell us. The words we used five years these notes, we are celebrating the 65th anniver- Lexington, MA 02421 ago need no repeating: "He had 20 years of sary of our cap and gown graduation ceremony 781-863-8359 chaplain service with the Army in Germany and in what was then the football stadium and is Korea, earning him the rank of lieutenant now known by today's students as the Dust James R. Powers (GA&S '34) has been selected colonel. He was a real battlefield priest, saying Bowl. Even more historically notable, come as the recipient of the 2004 Alumni Mass for troops going into the fight. He deserves September we will be celebrating the 69th Achievement Award for Education. All mem- to be remembered and honored." anniversary of our freshman walk-up from Lake bers of the Class of 1933 are invited to join in Street and our new identity as BC Eagles. WOW! honoring his achievements at the award cere- Joseph P. Keating Unhappily, too many of our 1939 classmates mony and reception to be held at 7 p.m. on 24 High St. have accepted earlier invitations to heaven but Thursday, September 30, 2004, at Robsham Natick, MA 01760 508-653-4902 they are still with us in spirit. • This sad Theater, Main Campus. For more information, reminder prefaces the sad news we have please visit www.bc.edu/alumniawards or call The curfew continues to toll the knell of parting received concerning the recent deaths in this 800-669-8430 to reserve space at the event. day - and classmates. Mark Dalton died in early family of BC 1939. In late March, Mary Lenahan O'Connell May after a short illness. He had been living and McGrath, the beloved wife of James "Sunny" O'Connell & O'Connell enjoying retirement in Woodstock, VT. Mark McGrath, passed on to her eternal reward. She 31 Milk St., Suite 515 Boston, MA 02109 had a three-pronged career: Navy lieutenant in had been a "regular" with Sunny at so many of 617-426-1224 World War II (D-Day landings), political our get-togethers and in addition had been the (Kennedy campaigns) and legal (representing maternal model of seven children and 17 grand- among others the Boston Teachers Union). children. Then, in mid-April, a nicely written e- Edward T. Sullivan Please remember Mark and his family in your mail from Jackie Hinson, a daughter of Charles 286 Adams St. prayers. Mary and Joe Keating attended the advised of his death. Charlie, remem- Milton, MA 02186 Qeary, us funeral Mass held at St. Ignatius on the BC cam- bered as an active and much admired classmate, pus. • The class received a nice thank-you letter years in the US Air REUNION YEAR had served for some 20-plus from Lindsey A. Martelli, the recipient of the Force, retired as a lieutenant colonel and in his of the "buy one, is Classmates who took advantage Bishop Lawrence J. Riley scholarship. She post-military years was a flight dispatcher for get one free" offer of knee and/or hip replace- from Rutland and is in her sophomore year in Delta Airlines. A long-time resident of Georgia, ments will be happy to know that they are guar- the School of Nursing. • I regret to report the he is survived by his wife, Rita, and by five chil- anteed for 20 years. • The volleyball team is look- death in May of Dorothy Hilbrunner, the wife of dren and seven grandchildren. Then, in late ing for a few good recruits. To be qualified you classmate Frank Hilbrunner. She was always at April, we learned of the death of Paul Nagle. must be able to jump two feet from a standing our luncheons and will be remembered for the Paul had not only been active in our class alum- position. Being on the squad also involves other way she battled her health problems, which ni activities but after his service as an officer in traditional activities such as running in the could have earned her a "profile in courage" the US Navy had headed up the United Way in annual Boston marathon (at least as far as award. Like Frank she had been active as an New England. He also had been active as a con- Natick). • Eli and Doris Darveau are living at the amateur radio operator. Mary and I were at the sultant serving educational, health and human

Fuller Estates, a retirement community in funeral Mass. Please remember Dorothy, Frank services organizations. He is survived by his Milton. When we talked to Doris in May, Eli was and family in your prayers. There may well have wife, Kathleen, four sons, four daughters and n

recuperating from a broken leg. Always interest- been other classmates of whom I am not aware grandchildren. Our sympathy and our prayers ed in a program of conditioning, Eli swam twice at both the Dalton and Hilbrunner funerals. • As go to the surviving spouses, children and grand-

a week. On the occasion of the accident, he these notes were being submitted, I learned of children of these departed classmates. • Now, let slipped on the wet floor of the shower room. On the death of Joe Cosgrove, who died in early us try to turn to some happier news. Peter

the good news side, Doris reported that one of March. I regret I did not know of it at that time Lynch, the son of the late John Lynch, captain of - her grandchildren, Kathleen, is entering the because I would have attended his funeral he the BC '39 tennis team, informed us that

sophomore class at BC this fall. • "Dib" was an old friend. Joe had been in a nursing Haverhill dedicated its city tennis courts in his Destefano, despite the loss of his life's compan- home the last few years but according to one of father's honor this past June. A granite bench

ion, Rita, is carrying on as usual as the best gar- his daughters he retained his great sense of was engraved with his name and "Ever to Excel." dener on the South Shore, raising a dozen dif- humor and loved to get out in the afternoon to ferent kinds of vegetables for friends and family. smoke his pipe! Joe had been a salesman for You are cordially invited He has an unusual physical problem that he has years with Pillsbury, specializing in spices. to join fellow alumni for the annual learned to live with. Occasionally, not often, he Please remember Joe and his family in your gets a sudden rise in blood pressure that sends prayers. him to the emergency room of the South Shore Veterans Memorial Thomas E. Caquin Hospital where he recovers quickly. This does 206 Corey St. Remembrance of activities. • not stop him from a full program West Roxbury, MA 02132 We talked to Dick Vaughan who, despite some 617-325-2883 Thursday, November n, 2004 health problems, is able to remain cheerful. He 10 a.m. Mass and Mary seem to retain the romance that sur- n a.m. Remembrance Service Class Notes Editor little Reception following rounded them when they were married in a Alumni Association chapel in Honolulu during the war. Mary makes 825 Centre St. MA Both the Mass and Remembrance Service the Old Fashioneds that they have at five o'clock Newton, 02458 [email protected] will be held in the Heights Room every evening. • We can all be proud that our in the Lower Campus Dining Facility. classmate Bill Hannan has been inducted into the Community Newspaper Hall of Fame by the Please call 617-552-4700 for more information. New England Press Association "in recognition

www.bc.edu/alumni 3 • Finally, on to news that may be educational for and pray for all of our living and deceased class- your Baby Boomer children, your Generation X mates. .• Our annual Mass and luncheon were You are cordially invited grandchildren and your Generation Y great- held on the Newton campus on June 9, 2004, to join fellow alumni For the annual grandchildren. You can now inform them that - with classmate Msgr. John Abucewicz the cele- if all goes well - you (a lucky '39 survivor) are brant and Fr. Ed Cowhig and Fr. Simeon Veterans Memorial well on your way toward saying goodbye to your Saulenas as concelebrants. John's remarks were Remembrance octogenarian identity and hello to your upcom- most timely and it was a memorable occasion ing new identity as a nonagenarian. (N.B. Please once again to get together to recall old times and note the spelling carefully. We don't want to pray for our deceased class members. The fol- Thursday, November n, 2004 to a.m. Mass become or to be known as nonogenarians). lowing classmates attended: John Sherman n a.m. Remembrance Service Again, WOW! This prospective change, of Cullen and wife, Francis X. Blouin and wife, Reception following course, is God willing and that's our prayer, too. John J. Colahan George B. McManama and PEACE! wife, William P. Hannon, Sabino T.P. Both the Mass and Remembrance Service Colamaria and wife, William R. Weiss, Walter J. will be held in the Heights Room Sherman Rogan Dubzinski, John M. Callahan and wife, Daniel F. in the Lower Campus Dining Facility. Oak St. 34 Doyle and daughter, Nicholas J. Sottile and sister Reading, MA 01867 Mary, and Mary McCafferty, the widow of Please call 617-552-4700 for more information Joseph. Those who made reservations but did

REUNION YEAR not show were James P. Murray and Joseph F. promise to get back on track in the very imme- Bishop. • Msgr. Abucewicz and Rev. Saulenas We regret to report the death in April 2004 of diate future. I sincerely appreciate your patience both observed the 60th anniversary of their ordi- Bill Duffey, a retired professor and chair of the and understanding. My need for your help has nation to the priesthood. Their picture taken English Department at American International increased. PLEASE send me any news item that with Bishop Sean O'Malley appeared in The College in Springfield. He served as a pilot in the can be included in these Notes. You will not only Pilot on May 28, 2004. • were all saddened US Naval Reserve, earning three medals and the We have my gratitude but also that of our class- by the death of Jack Kehoe who has joined his Distinguished Flying Cross. He and Mary mates. • Twenty-five years ago, i.e., in 1979, dose FBI associates and roommates Len Frisoli (Small) Regis were married in 1943. Bill is sur- Gerry La Roche retired after a 30 -year career as and George Hanion in God's enforcement divi- vived by his wife, their daughter, Martha research linguist with the National Security sion. They served with honor, dedication and Doherty, Stephen Duffey, a granddaughter, Agency. He soon found out that his "retirement" loyalty and received many commendations for Grace, a grandson, Craig Doherty, and two great- was an illusion in that he has been performing exceptional performance of duties. Upon retire- grandsons. He died as he lived, at peace with chamber music, teaching calligraphy, writing ment, was appointed to serve as the com- God and man. Jack articles, polishing his memoirs and keeping up missioner of the Massachusetts State Police with some 15 publications. In addition, Gerry Callahan leader John M. where he served as a great with honor and continues to enjoy life with his wife, Joyce, their 3 Preacher Rd. distinction until leaving to head security for six grandchildren and an equal number of Milton, MA 02186 Boston Edison under President Tom Galligan. 617-698-2082 great-grandchildren. Congratulations. • Congrat- another classmate. • Our last issue mentioned ulations also to: (1) Big East Champion BC the building named in honor of classmate Rev. As I get deeper into thoughts about submission women's basketball team, (2) the men's hockey Gene Brissette at Fairfield University and neg- of our column for the BC magazine, I am asking team and (3) the men's basketball team. All three lected to mention another building at Our Lady that we all take time out to ponder BC's role in brought honor to alma mater. • I had a great deal of the Elms College in Springfield named in our lifetime. We have been out over 63 years and of respect for him as the senior BC class corre- honor of Bishop Joe Maguire. Bishop Joe could have been through several wars, several political spondent but it was not until after his death on not attend our Mass due to an orthopedic proce- regimes, a severe economic depression and also April 26, 2004, that I discovered that Maurice dure. His regards and prayers are for all class- social instability. With many unstable situations Downey ('28) and I shared the same general mates. • Len McDermott is a frequent and faith- occurring for us, we had the good fortune to address here at New Pond Village in Walpole. ful correspondent from Manassas, VA, where he matriculate to BC where Jesuit leadership and He was, I am informed, as popular here as he now resides with a son and family. He still is guidance prepared us well for future years. The was with the BC class correspondents. very active in several organizations. He sends memory of those years is everlasting. As one stu- Circumstances made it impossible for me to his regards and would appreciate any correspondent of that era pointed out, "Each passing day accompany the many residents to his funeral dence. • Bob Collins writes from Ft. Myers, FL, the shadows lengthen. Twilight is nearer than Mass. To the Class of '28 and to his surviving rel- to say hello to all of his friends. Bob has a fami- the dawn and days of old have gone glimmering atives, sincerest sympathies. He will be sorely ly problem with sickness at this time. • Peace through dreams that were. Their memory is one missed. • As I write this, it's time to renew foot- came to Francis McCarthy and Kathleen ofthe greatest beauty, watered but undimmed by ball season tickets. Mine is in the mail. I expect Hannon, wife of William. • If I forgot someone human tears." The above says it all as we think that I will still be in Section L, Row 24, Seats 13 please forgive Meanwhile or something, me. and 14. Come on over. • Included in our prayers let's for strangers that pray one another and we at our memorial Mass on June 9, 2004, was live in decent health and strength under God's Please join us for the John Gibbons who died on August 7, 2003. His guidance until we meet again. AMDG. 2004 Alumni Achievement widow, Jeanne, now of West Harwich, apolo- gized for not being able to attend but expressed Awards Ceremony Ernest Handy J. her sincere gratitude to the class. • Jim Stanton's 180 Main St., Apt. Cn8 Walpole, MA 02081 notice regarding our annual memorial Mass Thursday, September 30, 2004 508-660-2314 included a list of the others to be remembered. 7 p.m., Robsham Theater It is repeated here: John Sullivan (January Personal obligations prevented me from attend- Mahoney (February Celebrate the achievements of 2000), Marie 2003), ing the Laetare Sunday services. I am informed Ambrose our most distinguished alumni. Thomas J. Dawson (July 2003), J. Complimentary reception following the the new format was well accepted. Among those Claus (August 2003), Antoinette Graffeo awards ceremony to be held in attendance were Jim and Helen Stanton, (August 2003), Marie Dever (November 2003), in the Heights Room. Frank and Rita Mahoney, Bob and Mary Muse, James F. Sullivan (November 2003), Francis John Fitzgerald, and Frank Dever. • My contacts Ready (January 2004) and my own Helen Please RSVPto 800-669-8430. with the outside world appear to have been seri- (February 2004). May they rest in peace. The Visitwww.bc.edu/alumniawards for more info. ously diminished. As a result this column has Mass was celebrated by Joe Nolan capably assist-

been terribly neglected. For this I apologize and

CLASS NOTES ed by Deacon Frank D'Ambrosio. In attendance issue of the magazine: Antonio G. Armata, were Charlie Ahern, Leo Benecchi, Peggy Harry A. Crovo, Walter H. Maloney and George Louis V. Sorgi with daughter Patricia, Agnes Ambrose and L Mclaughlin. Along with their families, they 5 Augusta Rd. Frank Colpoys, Ronnie Corbett, Jennie were remembered at our reunion Mass in St. Milton, MA 02186 DAmbrosio, Mary and Vin DeBenedictis, Frank Mary's Chapel and also at the BC alumni memo- Dever with daughter Martha, John Fitzgerald, rial Mass on June 6, 2004, in Gargan Hall. The REUNION YEAR Jane and Tom Flanagan, Virginia and Terry Reunion Committee, as listed in the Spring Joe Harrington's wife, Mary, died on June 15 in Geoghegan, Norma and Tony Graffeo, Louise issue, was ably headed by William Mclnnes, SJ, Belmont. She and Joe have nine children and and Jack Hart, Jim Hawco, Paul Heffron, Bette who gave the moving homilies at the '44 Mass nine grandchildren. The sympathy of the class is and Tom Hinchey, Connie Pappas Jameson, and the alumni memorial Mass, as well as the extended to Joe and his family. On June 8 we had Gerry Joyce, Paul Livingston, Rita and Frank invocation at the Golden Eagle luncheon. Msgr. our annual memorial Mass for our deceased Mahoney, Catherine Malloy, John Mitchell, Jim Joseph Alves presided at the Mass in St. Mary's classmates. Paul Paget did a terrific job as chair- O'Brien, Helen and Jim Stanton, Joan and Dick Chapel. Concelebrants were Msgr. William man of the event. We had 23 classmates, plus Stiles, Charlie Sullivan, and yours truly. Bill Glynn, Msgr. William Roche, Rev. Thomas Barbara Driscoll, wife of deceased John Driscoll. Gaine was the only "no show." Mooney and Fr. Mclnnes. Joseph Delaney assist- Fr. Pat Kelly celebrated the Mass along with Fr. ed as deacon. Mary Keefe arranged the music Thomas O'Connell Murray Vin Burns, SJ, and Fr. William Mclnnes, SJ and served as cantor. The first reading was by 14 Churchill Rd. ('44). The luncheon at Gasson Hall was excel- Don White, the prayers of the faithful were by West Roxbury, MA 02132-3402 lent. This year instead of a speaker we had an 617-323-3737 Leo Wilson and the preparation of the gifts was open discussion regarding our 60th anniversary by Jean Dart, Ellen Dellea and Barbara Shea. We celebration in 2005. We had many good ideas Before any reports for this issue, we must make were privileged to have several wives at both the ranging from a luncheon and Mass plus two or note of a few errors in the report of attendees at Mass and luncheon, including Fran Anderson, three days away in New Hampshire, Vermont or our November 2, 2003, Mass and lunch which Rita Bernhardt, Elaine Boyle, Audrey Brash, Cape Cod. I am on the committee along with appeared in the Winter issue. First, it was Vin Dorothy Connor, Ruth Corkery, Irene Cox, Paul Paget, Leo McGrath, Paul Ryder, Jack Stakutis, then Peg King and finally Frank Frances Daly, Eleanor O'Connor, Jean Dart, Kineavy, Jack McCarthy, Bill Hamrock and Bill Richards and Genevieve (not Gen. Halim Patricia Delaney, Ellen Dellea, Catherine Cornyn. We ask that you write or call with your Habib!). (Editor's Note: We regret the errors.) • Duggan, Ellen Durant, Eleanor Finigan, Marge ideas and preferences for meeting sites. • Bill Some odds and ends: Gen and Joe Sullivan sent Fleming, Marie Lang, Madeline Larkin, Corbett has written to me with ideas about golf greetings from sunny Naples, FL, where they Catherine Minihan, Betty O'Connell, Jeanne on Cape Cod and a book of our academic and escaped the cold North. John Bellissimo tells us O'Donnell, Virginia O' Grady, Mary O'Leary, war experiences. Bill's wife, Ann, has won spe- that Marie had a bad session of rheumatoid Barbara Shea, Ruth Soles, Frances Spatola, cial awards at the Cape Cod Art Association and arthritis and could not make the last gathering Virginia Thomas and Barbara Wilson. Frank is recognized as a Cape talent. • Congratulations but is recovering nicely. • Had a note from Jim Doherty gave your columnist inspiration for to Bill Cornyn on his two great-grandchildren. Harvey informing us that our old classmate spotlighting wives and widows when he wrote in Please let me know if there are other classmates Marty Underwood ('47) is living in Oregon. the reunion notebook: "Thank the Lord for giv- with great-grandchildren. Bill hosted a "legends" Marty was an FBI man and spent many years in ing me the grace to be with my classmates (on golf match at Hatherly golf course. He of course Alaska where he was commissioner of public the 60th) and their lovely brides." In writing this won the money by one stroke of yours truly and safety. • From Kenya, Fr. Tom Heath tells us he's special reunion column, it is indeed fitting to his foursome. Our members have diminished had a few minor health problems and is feeling remember my predecessor, Jim McSorley, and with only six of us playing now. We eliminated better but has a little less energy. • Ernie his loyal helpmate Charlotte, Jim's widow. the discussion regarding handicap by playing Santosuosso made us aware that in the new Together they were sparkplugs for so many '44 scramble. • I met Jim Finigan at a BC event and book on the life of Ted Williams, a couple of '43 reunions and events. Hopefully Charlotte will he tells me that his mother, Betty, is now living men made news: Ray Sisk, who was recalled for join us at the next '44 gathering and will encour- in Maine. • On the medical front the news is not Korea at the same time and had served with Ted age other wives and widows to join us there. good. I would suggest that all of us remember earlier as a Marine pilot, and Paul Healy, who in Hopefully, we need not wait five years before sick and ailing classmates in our prayers, includ- his capacity as assistant city clerk officiated at coming together back at the Heights. Kudos for ing Joe Figurito, Bud Curry and Joe Bellissimo Ted's last marriage. • In the latest issue of our very successful 60th are certainly due to and his wife, Ellen. • Again I remind all of you Boston Magazine, the family of Bob Blute, com- toastmaster Bob O'Leary, bank-roDers of the about the Boston College Institute for Learning plete with picture, was listed as the #10 family. • open bar Martin Coleman and John Finigan, as in Retirement (ILR). It is a great place to learn Just heard from Harry Lukachik who says hello well as to Dean Don White, show-n-tell star John and socialize with BC people and others. We to all '43ers and is still writing his column "Your O'Grady and the entire Reunion Committee have fall, winter and spring sessions with 18 dif- Voice" in the Connecticut Post. • With many headed by Fr. Mclnnes. Here our Class of 1944 ferent subjects for you to choose from. If you thanks to Jim Harvey, we learn that Frank gives kudos to President William P. Leahy, SJ, Richards is now living in the Marina Bay nurs- for meeting head on and with welcome trans-

ing home and would welcome a card or call. • parency the challenges facing Jesuit universities You are cordially invited We are now planning our annual fall festival, in the 21st century; to Alumni Association to join fellow alumni For the annual Mass and luncheon for Sunday, October 3, 2004, President John J. Griffin, Jr. ('65), who came to with Fr. Dan Moran as celebrant. Mark your cal- our 60th reunion luncheon, to the Golden Eagle endar now and watch for details. luncheon and to so many alumni events and BC Veterans Memorial Club meetings across America in the last year; to James F. O'Donnell Remembrance 3317 Newark St., NW Alumni Association Executive Director Grace Washington, DC 20008-3331 Assistant Cotter Regan ('82); and to Program Thursday, November 11, 2004 202-362-3371 Karleen Greene ('02). Each of them led with to a.m. Mass [email protected] grace and left no stone unturned in helping each 11 a.m. Remembrance Service These notes on our 60th reunion will require a class to enjoy and savor their visit this year to the Reception following follow-up chapter in the Fall issue. All com- BC campuses, programs and classes. More on Both the Mass and Remembrance Service ments of classmates about the 60th were posi- this great reunion in the next issue, including will be held in the Heights Room tive and enthusiastic. At the outset we now Tom Donelan's finding regarding Paul Burns on in the Lower Campus Dining Facility. pause to remember in prayer four classmates Tinian Island as reported in Major General whose earlier passing was noted in the In Sweeney's World War II book, War's End. Please call 617-552-4700 for more information Memoriam section on page 32 of the Spring

www.bc.edu/alumni 5 would like to learn more about this, call 617-552- Theater on campus. Attendees included Mary 2950 or write ILR, 825 Centre Street, Newton, Amsler with Rose Crowley, Beatrice Lennon, MA 02458. • Last but not least, another great Eleanor McCabe, Arthur Ashur and Anne, John From the Heights to Your event to attend is the Boston College Varsity Bradley with Joseph and Genevieve McCarthy, Club Hall of Fame dinner on Sunday, November Hometown Charlie Brennan with Marion Fahey, Paul 7, 2004, at the Sheraton-Needham Hotel. This Breslin, Bill Butler and Ann, John Carney and Looking for a way to stay connected year there will be an 11 a.m. Mass followed by a Madelyn, Ernie Ciampa and Margaret, Bill to Boston College in your hometown? luncheon at 12:30 p.m. This is truly a great event Cohan and Frances, Ed Croke and Mary, Garrett and a great way to recognize our excellent ath- Join your local chapter. Cullen, Eileen Doucette and Mary Dowd, Phil letes from Boston College. That's it for now, but Doyle and Alice, Bill Flaherty, Jim Garvin, Gerry please keep me informed about what is going on To find the chapter nearest you, Hagerty and Theresa, Bert Hanwell and Ann, in your lives so that I can keep your classmates go to www.bc.edu/alumni Jim Houlihan and Tina, Bernie McCabe and up to date. Kay, Vin Nuccio and Mary, Gerry PucUlo and or contact jack Moynihan at Joan, Peter Rogerson and Paula, Don St Andre Leo F. Roche [email protected] and Amedia, and Jack Waite and Pat. Signed up 26 Sargent Rd. but unable to attend were Winchester, MA 01890 Joe Quinn and Alice 781-729-2340 and Leo Joy. Also among the missing were John

Hickey and Mary. I know it was opening day at the Hatherly Country Club - guess where they William H. Flaherty, Jr. Richard Fitzgerald J. 44 Concord Rd. were? • Please let me know of any happenings in P.O. Box 171 Billerica, MA 01821 your life to keep the column filled. Happy 55th! North Falmouth, MA 02556 978-670-1449 508-563-6168 John A. Dewire

To start off, Eileen and I took part in Laetare 15 Chester St., No. 31 Cambridge, MA 02140 Sunday on March 21, 2004. It was a complete « A >"V Timothy C. Buckley 617-876-1461 change from all the others we had attended. Q 46 Woodridge Rd. Wayland, MA 01778 With more of my classmates spending the win- REUNION YEAR 4 [email protected] O I ter in Florida each year, expected the number On March 10 2003, 1 picked up a pacemaker and attending to be down, which unfortunately Fr. Angelo Loscocco died in April after a brief ill- defibrillator at the West Roxbury Veterans proved to be the case. It was a 2 p.m. Mass with ness. He had just completed the 51st anniversary Hospital. I am going to call the whole thing "Big Boston College President William P. Leahy, SJ, of his ordination to the priesthood. was well Ben." I have received no material from Boston He presiding. Complimentary coffee and dessert loved by his parishioners and friends. He was College for this magazine since 2003. I believe followed in the Heights Room at the Lower the celebrant at our annual Mass for our that we have hit the "law of diminishing Campus Dining Facility. Class President John deceased classmates. Requescat in pace. • returns." Therefore, send me some news items. Carney and Madelyn were there as well as Vin Related to previous class notes, • In late May, I attended the dedication of the our some addi- Nuccio and Mary Rose, Arthur Ashur and Anne, tional ministries that our classmates are World War II memorial in Washington, DC. I and John CahUl and Louise. That was it! • Lou involved in include drivers for Meals on Wheels, was with the Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge Vesco called me to report the death of Bill readers for the visually impaired, hospice visi- association, of which I am a life member. They English who passed away peacefully on May 10. tors and repairers of audio/hearing-impaired are better known as VOBOB. We were the Our condolences to his wife, Loretta, with whom equipment. Such wonderful ways to reach out to largest contingent of World War II veterans he shared 57 years of marriage. He had five chil- others in need. • certainly a year to there - over 1,250 counting wives, children and 1948 was dren, 12 grandchildren and one great-grand- remember: New York subways went from a nick- other relatives. I stayed at the VOBOB head- child. Bill served five years in the US Navy dur- el to a dime, and the Motion Picture Academy quarters - the Marriott hotel in Falls Church, ing World War II and held five major battle stars. Award for best picture of the year went to VA. I remember from Fr. J.F.X. Murphy's US . Speaking of World War II, Fr. Paul McCarty "Hamlet," starring Laurence Olivier was history course that George Washington wor- who informs me that a year ago he joined a group adjudged the best actor. Best actress was Jane shipped at Falls Church. Due to medical prob- from his World War II infantry division for a for her role in Belinda." • lems, I was not able to go to Normandy, France, Wyman "Johnny The "battlefield tour" of areas they had fought and annual Mass for our deceased classmates will be on June 6, 2004, to observe the 60th anniver- traveled through from Amsterdam to Berlin. He held on September 28, sary of D-Day. Time marches on! • The Boston 2004. had a very unusual feeling "to walk at one's ease College Class of golf tournament was held in the warm sunshine through some fields 1950 this year at the Atlantic Golf Club in Plymouth where it was dark, wet, nasty and dangerous 60 on June 17. Ed Brady as usual put a lot of work years earlier." He attended the annual reunion of into the tournament, as he does every year. Many his outfit (104th Infantry Division) in 1988 and thanks to Ed. I hope a good time was had by all "since I appeared in clerics and Roman collar, who attended. they appointed me chaplain." He keeps busy at Join the Campion in Weston running a sort of drugstore Ann Fulton Cote Alumni Online where he hands out toiletries to the men at their Community '5o-'53 n Prospect St. health care center. He helps out at nearby parish- Winchester, MA 01890 The Alumni Online Community is your NEWTON es, one sisters' convent and two nursing homes. 781-729-8512 connection to BC: He runs a lot of errands and writes the obituar- REUNION YEAR ies for the deaths at Campion. • Our reunion was • Look up former classmates in the Online Directory. fast approaching as I wrote this in late May. I Thanks to all of you who took the time to vote for was signed up to attend the parade of classes on Susan Power Gallagher ('69) for vice president

• Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail June 5 and the Golden Eagle Society luncheon and president-elect of the Boston College

forwarding address. served the same day at 1 p.m. Joe Cotter, John Alumni Association. Susan's election speaks of

McQuillan, Jim Whelton and, I am sure, others her own hard work and of her support in the Check the Alumni Association Website at as well were working hard to reach our class Newton College community. Congratulations to www.bc.edu/alumni fund-raising goal. Thanks to them for their great Susan! • Word has come of the death of Tess for information on registering. efforts. • On May 2 many of us attended the McGrath McGuire ('51). Please pray for her. I

musical "Anything Goes" at the Robsham still remember Tess's wonderful humor which I

CLASS NOTES know will light up eternal life. • I see Mary we received hellos from Paul Daly, Will Hynes, Hall of Fame. His flashlight and seating plan (Chic) LaBonte White ('50) at the Newton Fred Tarpey, Nyal McA'Nulty, Barry Driscoll, were to be retired at a spring ceremony. Al was

College alumnae book club. When I ask for Lex Blood and Paul Stanton. We also heard from considered for the MVU (most valuable usher) news she tells me that she has lunch with her Sandra (Mrs. Michael) McCarthy, Emil Macura, until he lost six people in the fog at a night classmates Helene Sweeney Doyle, Connie Ryan Msgr. Peter Martocchio, Tom McElroy, Frank game. • Frank Devin celebrated his 75th birthday Eagan, Mary Lou Julian Natoli and Norma McGonagle, Bob Trirnper, Bill Smith, Shirley in June with a surprise party thrown by his chil-

Fallon Timmerman. • Send news! Carney, Frank McGee, Bob Freeley, Frank dren at his home in Framingham. Frank is

Sullivan, Fr. Paul Curran, Fr. Hugh O'Regan, enjoying his retirement from Polaroid, playing Joseph A. Ryan 28 Guilford Drive, P.O. Box 1167 Gene Giroux, Mary McCabe, Kay Gallagher, frequent rounds of golf and attending his grand- Harwich, MA 02645 Henry Trask, Jack Monahan, Phyllis Dustin children's many sporting activities. Thanks to 508-432-0035 Smith, Paul Nolan, Herb Emilson, Ed Gordon, Frank's daughter Therese ('84) for this informa- [email protected] Charlie Daly, Charlie Haney, Larry Durkee, Mrs. tion. • Please send news. More than half a century ago, classmate Pat Terry McCoy, Bob Barry, Bill Curtin, Frank Jim Willwerth Roche (BSBA) and his brother, Bud, turned the Doyle, Anthony Loscocco and Joe Doyle, a faith- 19 Sheffield Way key on the first "Roche Brothers" store - a mod- ful '52 follower. Classmates north of Boston Westborough, MA 01581 508-366-5400 est meat and produce enterprise in Roslindale included Jim Callahan, Jim Birmingham, John [email protected] Square. The year was 1952. This past June, P. Sullivan, Hugh Doyle, Joe Miett, Bill Terrio, "Roche Brothers Supermarkets" opened its 13th Nick Carbone, Beatrice Ames, John Kellaher, My thanks to all of my classmates who sent me store in Mashpee (the first on Cape Cod). Walter Foley, Joe Muscato, Charlie Hanafin, a note or personal greetings of congratulations, The small meat-and-potatoes grocer has Fred O'Sullivan, Bill Newell, Gene McAuliffe, support or sympathy on being elected your new developed into specialty-stores-within-a- William Colbert, John Irwin, Steve Casey, correspondent. The results will only be as good store. Congratulations to Pat on his remark- Murray Viehl, Dick Bangs, Don Shanahan, Fr. as your input. • The Class of 1953 held its 10th able accomplishment. • Bill Casey writes Henry Jennings, Ellen Lavin, Pat Clancy, Ed annual golf tournament on Wednesday, June 9, from Fitchburg to report that his/our classmate Goulart, Jim Sullivan, Alice Kain Berry, Marie 2004, at the Wayland Country Club on Old Moe Rahilly and his wife, Patricia, celebrated O'Connor, Bob Shannon, Joe McCall and Bob Sudbury Road in Wayland. The format was the their golden wedding anniversary. (Bill and his McAulifTe. Still living in Boston are Fran popular scramble. Prizes were awarded for the wife, Julia, achieved the golden two years ago.) Duggan, Lenny Hardy, Frank O'Brien, Jack first-place team, nearest to the pin on two differ- Lifelong friends, Moe and Bill followed up their O'Connor, Frank Whelan and John Kennedy. • ent par-threes and a longest drive contest. The MS degrees in library science with 40-year Lenny once told me the only time he left committee members for this event were Jim careers as professional librarians. Each retired in "Southie" was when he went to Italy with the "Ace" Willwerth, Fred "Eagle" Good, Dick

1990 - Bill as library director for Fitchburg State 88th Infantry Division in World War II. He "Birdie" Horan and Paul "Par" Coughlin. As we

College, and Moe as library director at won't tell me which place was safer! I remember went to press the following golfers had signed Northeastern. There's another dual accomplish- when many of us thumbed from the circle at up for play: Fred Good, Ray Kenney, Bill Ostaski, ment: Between the two, they have 24 grandchil- Holy Name Church every day. I had a next-door Gerry Pyne, Spike Boyle, Jack Coleman, Walter dren! • Peace came to the following, all World neighbor who went to Regis and occasionally Corcoran, Dennis Cronin, Art Delaney, Tom

War II veterans: Bob (Robert J.) Barrett (South she would give me a ride to BC. One snowy day, Vanderslice, Bob Willis, Bob Sullivan, Don

Braintree, where he grew up). Navy. AB in math. while thumbing, I happened to be fourth in fine Burgess, Phil Dolan, Jim Low, Jack Lynch, Bob Paul Duff (Peabody, 1997, where he grew up). and she came by. She had two ofher friends with McCarthy, Dick Horan, Jim Willwerth and Paul

Marine Corps. Government major. Bernie Katz her and only had room for three passengers so I Coughlin. Results next time. • On Sunday, May

(Newton, 1996). Native of Brookline. Navy. had to wait for the next ride. A few years later, 2, 2004, 53 classmates, spouses, significant oth- - BSBA in accounting. Ed (J.) McAuliffe however, I got back at her I married her! I'm ers and friends attended the Theater (Falmouth, 2002). Grew up in West Roxbury. happy to say that after 50 years, when she sees Department's production of Cole Porter's Army (1st and 3rd). Five battle stars in European me walking around, she usually stops to pick me "Anything Goes" at the Robsham Theater. After

Theater of Operations. BSBA in marketing. up! Sometimes I even get to sit in the front seat! this performance we moved to the Father Shea

Retired broker (Merrill Lynch) and banker (vice • Al Sexton had his annual spring luncheon at room at Conte Forum for a social hour and buf- president-senior trust officer, Cape Cod Bank & the Vanderbilt Inn on the Gulf in Naples in fet dinner. Classmates attending were met by

Trust). Pat Montouri (Lexington, 2002). Native March and, as usual, it was a swinging time. President Paul Coughlin and his wife, Mary of Watertown. Navy. BS in history and govern- However, Al did not anticipate having seven peo- Anne, who were accompanied by Austin Smith ment. (Note: I will try to find out why most of ple removed from the premises for swinging on and Barbara. Vice President Bob Willis and his these deaths are just being revealed at this late the chandeliers! After he explained to the police wife, Mary, enjoyed their dinner at a table with date.) that it was BC 1952's annual spring luncheon, Dennis Cronin and his wife, Priscilla, and Frank everyone was readmitted and peace was Stapleton and Marie. During the social time the Edward L. Englert, Jr. restored. Enjoying the day were Jim Callahan, classmates shared experiences about our suc- 128 Col berg Ave. Jerry Dacey, Lois Doyle, Bob Doherty, Barry Roslindale, MA 02131 617-323-1500 Driscoll, Bill Doherty, Jack Donovan, Vin You are cordially invited Greene, John McArdle, Al Johnson, Jim to join fellow alumni for the annual Since the last news column, we heard from Cape Kenneally, Dick McLaughlin, Dick McBride, Codders Joe Tuleja, Rita Walsh McGowan and Nick Gallinaro, Dan McElaney and Dave Dick Tilley. From the western part of the state, Murphy. Frank McDermott played a lot of golf Veterans Memorial we received notes from Dave Murphy, Jim there on his vacation and I was told he got a Remembrance

Parsons, Bill Gauthier, John Loughman, Larry "hole in one." I was quite happy for him, only to Murren, Art Powell and Joe Shay. Enjoying learn it was while playing miniature golf! Also at Thursday, November n, 2004 retirement in California are Kathlyn Kahle, Paul the luncheon were Lex Blood, Jim Leonard, Bill 10 a.m. Mass Kendrick, Tom O'Maley and Eric Johnson. Also Newell, Doris Marr, Tim O'Connell, Joe 11 a.m. Remembrance Service from out of state we heard from Joe Keohane O'Shaughnessy, Bernie O'Sullivan, Paul Reception following and Mike Roarke (Rhode Island), Paul Reardon Clinton, Dick Ring and Bernie Smith. Forty-nine Both the Mass and Remembrance Service (Florida), Stan Mielczarek (Maryland), Robert people attended and plans are already being will be held in the Heights Room Lupien (North Carolina), Vin Beninati made for next year. • Al completed his 14th year in the Lower Campus Dining Facility. (Pennsylvania), Tim O'Connell (Ohio), Mrs. as an usher at the Red Sox spring training camp. Harold MacDonald Clark (New York) Mulrooney retired as an usher last year, and and Gene Jim Please call 617-552-4700 for more information. I heard is being considered for the and J. Paul Hickey (Connecticut). From Milton he Ushers

www.bc.edu/alumni 7 cessful 50th reunion party last year. As my wife,

Marie J. Kelleher Mary, and I mingled with the group we had the David F. Pierre 12 Tappan St. P.O. Box 72 opportunity to visit and talk to Bill Martin and Melrose, MA 02176 Prides Crossing, MA 01965 Irene, Joe Carroll and Patricia, and Pat and Leo 781-665-2669 978-927-1149 Casey. As we talked with Art Delaney, Muriel [email protected] work- advised us that the knee replacement was Over 200 classmates gathered at our 50th REUNION YEAR just great. Phil Kerrivan, never lost for ing reunion on June 3-6, 2004. It was a unique class I want to begin this column by offering congrat- for words, had a story everyone. Matt Flaherty in many ways: some were the first in their fami- ulations on becoming Golden Eagles to all mem- extra and Marie were having an good time. Matt, ly to attend college and most commuted from bers of the Class of 1954. From those of us from a graduate of the Evening College, had invited the greater Boston area. The few boarding stu- the School of Nursing come not only congratu- some of his classmates to join us. Eight of them dents at that time lived up at the Leggat estate. lations but thanks to both undergraduate class- sat together and seemed to enjoy sharing old sto- The rest of us carpooled or used the MTA. All es. Those of you who were in the last of the five- ries. They were John and Anne Dacey Foley, men were required to wear suitcoats and ties. year program were role models who provided John Hoell and Mildred, along with Julia Hurley After graduation, many of us went into the mili- the leadership that encouraged us to become McCarthy and her husband, Bill. John and Mary tary and then went on to break into the fields of involved in activities in the School of Nursing McLaughlin rounded out that group. Dick finance, law and education. Some built their and with the alumnae. Those of you in the four- Curran and Judith Golden gave us our update on own businesses. Our class has a number of year program were our mentors, the ones who the political climate in Woburn. Dick's son is the grads who went on to become acclaimed judges, were our "big sisters," welcoming us to the mayor and his report is always enjoyed. Joe distinguished professors and leaders in the school, and who were there to answer our ques- Tower and Maureen shared a table with Sal fields of nursing and education. One of our tions and ease our anxieties. Now on to our Venezia and Eleanor. And as was expected the classmates would become a governor, another class. • Many of us attended several events that conversation went back to their days at Latin would become a president of the American Bar occurred during the Arts Festival. Jim Martin the early days at Boston College. School and Association and still another, a federal commu- and Dick Doherty ('56) were at my table during Dick Horan and Joan were on their way home nications commissioner. Thanks to the out- dinner and shared many reminiscences, includ- from Italy and didn't make the meeting standing Jesuit and lay teaching, our class was ing the trials and tribulations involved in com- although they signed up to be there. Other class- able to five up to the school motto of "Ever to muting to campus each day. • I had a note from attending were Fred Conroy and mates Excel." • We learned from Joan T. Kennedy that Pat Lavoie Grugnale in which she shared the fact Katherine, Jack Costa and Mimi Costa Iantosca. in April, Sister Therese of the Child Jesus, ODC, that she and Nick had gone on a lovely cruise. • I also had the chance to meet with Jim (Therese Sullivan) invited her School of Nursing We have another author in our class. Dick Livingston and Mary, Jack Lynch and Christine, classmates to the Monastery of the Discalced Carpenter has spent part of his retirement pro- and Carole and Richard Scalise. Also spotted in Carmelite Nuns in Danvers for a Mass ofthanks- ducing A Railroad Adas of the United States in the group were Solone, Sullivan and Jan Bob giving in honor of the Golden Jubilee. Fr. John 1946, V0I.2: New York and New England States. Elizabeth, and Joan and Frank Ward. • I have Thomas (brother of Terry Thomas McKinney) It currently has a publication date of March received a note from State Representative Kevin was the celebrant and, during the Mass, the 2005. He also reported that his son, John ('84), G. Honan, who represents the 17th Suffolk deceased members of the class were remem- celebrated his 20th reunion. • From the Editor's District covering Allston and Brighton. bered: June Dunphy Keough, Elinor Ryan, Corner: Jean O'Neil urgently requests that those Representative Honan told me that a statue of Tobin and Betty At Maureen Hughes Wyman. of you who have not sent back your survey ques- our classmate and Olympic champion Harold the conclusion of the Mass, a warm welcome tionnaire do so as soon as possible. The com- Connolly will unveiled this be summer. This was extended by the Mother Superior, and all mittee involved in preparing your information statue will be located on the campus of the Taft were invited to meet the sisters and visit with for the publisher will be hard at work early in the Middle School on the corner of Warren and Sister Therese during lunch. The Carmelites had fall in order to meet the publication deadline. Cambridge streets in Brighton. Harold over- even produced a souvenir book containing indi- Your cooperation is both needed and appreciat- came a physical disability to win a gold medal in vidual pictures of the nurses, reproduced from ed. Don't miss the opportunity to be included in the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Camitian, the School of Nursing yearbook. the yearbook. • In the last issue, I mentioned the Harold's story has received much coverage from Enjoying this special day were Audrey Brady hard work being done by Paul Croke as he tries local press, as well as from Robert Lipstyle at Hughes, Anne Como Green, Grace Devlin to find everyone who was originally in the class. The New York Times. This statue will serve as a Mullen, Ann Donovan Haskins, Ruth Dynan He has asked me to tell you that his work will source of inspiration for many future genera- Sweeney, Joan Kennedy, Mary Kent Goudey, begin in earnest in the fall. If you have any infor- tions of athletes. Congratulations, Harold. When Alice Logue Lawler, Ginny O'Brien Cahill, Ann mation about a classmate who is not receiving we went to press I didn't have a firm date for this O'Malley Dominick, Sister Therese of the Child mail from the class or who has died, please con- unveiling. • Have a good summer and keep e- Jesus and Terry Thomas McKinney. For many of tact the Alumni Association. We want to make mailing me the news. the nurses, this joyous at Carmel would day certain that everyone has the opportunity to probably be the highlight of the 50th reunion. • receive the yearbook. • Now our time has come. In its 25th anniversary collector's edition, Cape We are entering our Golden Eagle year. It will Life magazine selected journalist Cod Tom culminate in a ceremony during which the uni- Please join us for the O'Connell as one of the top 100 "influential" versity will honor us in a special way during our people on Cape Cod. He has been writing his 2004 Alumni Achievement reunion in June 2005. Notice that I said June. newspaper column "On Addiction" for Cape Cod Awards Ceremony Because of the logistics involved, it has become publications since Also, as publisher of 1986. necessary to hold commencement and reunion Lifestyle Journal at sanctuary777.com, he pro- Thursday, September 30, 2004 on two separate weekends. • Because November vides 200 public service essays designed to pro- 7 p.m., Robsham Theater is a month for remembrance, I would like to mote better understanding of the addictions. invite you to join me on November 11, 2004, at a Celebrate the achievements of Class Notes Editor special Mass and remembrance celebration our most distinguished alumni. Association Alumni sponsored by the Alumni Association. It is Complimentary reception following the 825 Centre St. designed to honor all veterans, living and dead. awards ceremony to be held ~>xr Newton, MA 02458 nuwiwn [email protected] Mass will be celebrated in the Heights Room of in the Heights Room. the Lower Campus Dining Facility at 10 a.m. It

Please RSVP to 800-669-8430. will be followed by the ringing of the bells at 11

Visit www.bc.edu/alumniawards for more info. a.m. and the remembrance ceremony. A light lunch will follow. This may be your only notice

CLASS NOTES Mass this year because we were in the process of Gasson with a social hour and dinner thereafter.

selling our house, as I reported in the last col- A general class mailing will be sent out outlin-

umn. The Mass was in the afternoon due to a ing all the particulars late this summer. • Fr. Tom From the Heights to Your change in the St. Ignatius schedule. Instead of Ahearn recently sent me a copy of his Easter Hometown the traditional communion breakfast there was a 2004 pastoral message. Fr. Tom is chaplain at reception at the Lower Campus Dining Facility. • St. Teresa's Residence of the Maryknoll Fathers Looking for a way to stay connected The daughter of Louise Tomasini Horn Sayles & Brothers in Maryknoll, NY. His work mostly to Boston College in your hometown? died recently after a long battle with cancer. involves the care of the sick and also includes Louise McCall Crawford, Piekarski Croteau coordinating liturgical celebrations. He works Join your local chapter. Joan and Carole Mahoney Flynn recently attended a with another Maryknoll priest and a wonderful To find the chapter nearest you, memorial service for her. After the service they group of nurses and aides as part of his ministry go to www.bc.edu/alumni reminisced about their days as roommates at the of healing. • Ed Brickley and his wife, Betsy, are School of Nursing and discussed plans for new owners of a new condo in Naples, FL. contact Moynihan at or Jack attending our 50th reunion. Please remember Congratulations to you both. Ed, I received your [email protected] Louise and her daughter in your prayers, as well letter outlining the great get-together of class-

as all classmates and family members. • Once mates that took place this past winter in Naples

again, thanks for your e-mails and letters. Your but I misplaced it. Sorry for the lapse of you-

classmates want to hear what you're doing! Let know-what! • Jack Conway recently underwent so please make note of it and join me. I am on me know via e-mail, letter or phone call. his second hip replacement in early March of the planning committee and would be proud to this year and is back to work as manager of the Patricia Leary Dowling see you there. Jack Conway Real Estate office in South Dennis. 39 Woodside Drive A big thank-you to Dick Dowling for furnishing Milton, MA 02186 Jane Quigley Hone NEWTON 617-696-0163 this information on Jack. Dick also related that 425 Nassau Ave. Art Flynn had emergency heart surgery early Manhasset, NY 11030 NEWTON 516-627-0973 this past February. At this writing, I understand

Francis E. Lynch • that he is doing fine. William J. Louis recently Arbutus Lane REUNION YEAR 27 received notice from the International Library of West Dennis, MA 02670 Poetry that his "The Wall of War" was [email protected] poem Steve Barry awarded second prize in "The Best Poems and 200 Ledgewood Dr., Unit 406 Poets of 2003" competition, for which an Stoneham, MA 02180-3622 The annual BC Arts Festival took place on May 1, 781-435-1352 2004. Classmates who attended were Pat Vacca, engraved award medallion was given. Bill also [email protected] Dom Emello, Paul McNulty, Bill McQueeney, had two clay pieces and one painting, "The Spirit of the Universe," in the juried traveling art show The Class Committee has begun planning for Peg Kenney, Mary Lou Hogan, Betty and Jim earlier this year at the Kansas City Museum, the our 50th reunion celebration and has set up a Turley, Norma Cacciamani and Lawrence Hojlo. UMB Bank and the Central Bank of Kansas City. committee to plan a major trip next summer. We Some attended the concert and others attended These works may be viewed on the Internet by also need people to work on committees for the musical "Anything Goes." All attended the searching for the name of the show, "Cultures other reunion events and the yearbook. You can dinner and were quite happy with all the events Without Borders." • William E. McQueeney was send suggestions for events to me at the address of the day. The students and faculty made sure one of four recipients of the 2004 St. Ignatius above. For this coming year we are planning a the day was a joyous celebration of the arts Awards, the highest honor bestowed on a gradu- football game in September, a basketball game through the scheduled events. • Jim Devlin ate of Boston College High School, on April 2, in January and the St. Patrick's Day show in reports another very successful annual golf out- 2004. Bill founded the non-profit organization Waltham put on by Bob Eagle's Reagle Players, ing at the Sandy Burr Golf Club in Wayland on Rural Waters Ventures to provide access to water who have completed their 36th year of present- May 19, 2004. It was a picture-perfect day for in remote villages of Nicaragua. The organiza- ing musicals in Waltham. • Tony Massirnino has this fine golf event. Bill Cunningham, as always, tion has seen early success, funding gravity-flow been designated as an accredited senior real came through again with the BC golf caps. The drinking water projects in two small villages last estate specialist by the National Senior Real winning team captains were Frank Higgins and year. His efforts continue to grow doing God's Estate Council. Tony has been^with the Jack Charlie Fox. All were very much encouraged to work in that far-off land. • Barry Murphy and his Conway Company in Hanover for 26 years. • see Ed Coakley at the event. Ed visited with the wife, Pauly, moved earlier this year to Chestnut Brian Concannon had the pleasure of introduc- group prior to tee time and seems to be recover- • is Hill. Best of luck in your new home. The class ing his son, Brian Jr., at a ceremony at BC High ing very well from his extended illness. Ed extends its condolences to the families of class- honoring alumni for their commitment to serv- starting to swing the clubs once again and hopes mates who have gone on to their eternal award: ing others. Brian Jr. was honored for his work in to be playing very soon. Other classmates who Angelo Damiano, Kenneth H. Neagle, Charles Haiti, where he successfully prosecuted a num- played included, by team, Larry Chisholm, Paul J. ber ofthose responsible for one ofthe massacres Daly, Bill Cunningham, Dave McAvoy, Bill several years ago. • John Surette, SJ, is now McQueeney, Ed Brickley, George Hennessy, Joe assigned to Chicago, where he directs "a center McMenimen, Don Fox, Tom Ahearn, MM, Join the for contemplation, reflection and justice in the Gene Mahoney, Paul McAdams and Dick Alumni Online Community Ecozoic era." • Dan and Carolyn Kenney Foley's Dowling. Congratulations to Jim Devlin for The Alumni Online Community is your granddaughter is starting her freshman year at doing such a great job once again as chair of this connection to BC: BC. • Dave and Ann Maguire Finnegan now annual class golf classic. Jim also notes that have 11 grandchildren (the latest two arriving last Frank Cousineau ('51), former BC football great • Look up former classmates December and Good Friday) from their five sons who is on the operational staff at the club, went in the Online Directory. and daughters. Ann is teaching in a Fairfax out of his way in extending a special welcome to our class group. • annual football dinner County, VA, public high school and Dave is with Our • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail a law firm in Washington, DC. • Dick Toland and class reunion will be held on Saturday, forwarding address. retired in December and planned a trip this October 2, 2004. BC will be playing the Check the Alumni Association Website at summer visiting as many baseball parks (and University of Massachusetts. This event each www.bc.edu/alumni seeing games) and national parks as he and his year is always a classic. I suggest you mark your for information on registering. wife, Louise Burke Toland, could fit in. • Marie calendars now and don't miss this one. As in the and I were unable to be at the Laetare Sunday past, there will be a post-game class Mass at

\AAA/w.bc.edu/alumni 9 J. O'Ntil and Cecelia M. Young. Also, please wife, Susan, children and grandchildren, flying, Auckland, New Zealand. What an interesting remember in your prayers our late loyal class- sailing, and golf, especially in Ireland. Ed and life, David! Ray Peacock, living in Ivyland, PA,

mate Paul M. Cochran who passed away last Susan are living in Venice, FL. Bill Doherty is liv- after retiring as an industrial physicist and sen-

June ii, 2003. Peace to you always, Paul. The ing in Harwich and is a county commissioner in ior staff engineer for temperature sensors in the class salutes and congratulates the Class of 1954 Barnstable. Paul and Lynne Dolan, living in research department of LTV, has started a con- Golden Eagles and especially Louis A. Florio Milton and Vero Beach, FL, are the parents of sulting business in the temperature sensor area.

('54), an Eagle football great in his day, on their three children and the grandparents of six. Paul Ray and Elizabeth have 11 children and 15 grand- memorable milestone. Class dues for the new did a wonderful job as golf chairman of our 50th children. Peter Power, living in Red Branch, NJ, academic year remain at $25. Please remit to Bill and is looking forward to retirement from the is retired from a Wall Street partnership. Peter

Tobin, 181 Central St., Holliston, MA 01746. Dolan Funeral Homes. Paul and Lynne gener- and Claire have eight children and 16 grandchil-

Best to you all. ously vacated their master bedroom so Jack and dren. Bob Quinan, living in Norwell, is an attor- Betty Horrigan would be comfortable for the ney and vice president and senior trust counsel Marjorie L. McLaughlin weekend. Bob Donehy, living in Needham and at Mellon Trust of New England. Bob Roselli, liv- 139 Parker Rd. Humarock, is retired and enjoying his six grand- ing in Woburn and Florida, is retired and enjoy- Needham, MA 02494 NEWTON 781-444-7252 children. Walter Gay, living in Branford, CT, ing gardening, travel and walking. Gerry Ruzzo, Tolland and West Dennis on the Cape, received living in Hyde Park and Sugarbush, VT, is a his MS in organic chemistry from University of retired elementary school teacher in Marshfield. David A. Rafferty, Jr. Connecticut in his is 2296 Ashton Oaks Lane i960 and PhD from Jack Shea a lecturer in the BC Classics No. 101 University of New Hampshire in 1965. Walter, Department after receiving his MA and PhD Stonebridge Country Club since retiring from the Olin Corp. as a consult- from Harvard. Jack and Claudette are living in Naples, FL 34109 ing scientist, has been teaching chemistry at Needham and have eight grandchildren. Tom

In May, yours truly and other Double and Triple Southern Connecticut State University as an Sheehan ('59), living in Norwell, has retired Eagles from the Class of '58 celebrated their adjunct professor. Joe Giere, living in Potomac, from the Thomas A. Sheehan Company. Tom 50th year of graduation from Boston College MD, and Pocasset, continues to practice ob-gyn and Lucy spend time camping with and enjoying High School. The '58ers in attendance enjoyed in DC and volunteers in a clinic. Mike Grady, liv- their six grandchildren, walking, gardening, golf at the beautiful Pine Hills Country Club in ing in Chestnut Hill and Centerville, practices reading and following BC sports. John Feloney Plymouth, cocktails and dinner at the Water's pediatrics and is vice president of Children's remains active as president of Professional Edge Restaurant; 2004 BC High graduation cer- Hospital in Boston. Mike and Betty, a radiation Management Systems in Milton with son Tom emonies where we received our golden diplomas oncology nurse at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, holding the control lever. John and Mary Leigh and dinner at the Wollaston Golf Course. Our are enjoying their five grandsons and look for- spend their off-duty time with their children and

class was well represented. Wally Vaughan. liv- ward to their winter excursions in Sanibel grandchildren and look forward to their winter

ing in Franklin, is retired as a teacher/principal. Island, FL. Don Hughes, living in Woburn, escape in Naples, FL. John and Betty (Leary) retired living Joe Ailinger is a retired elementary school prin- from the Snyder Security Group in 2003. Horrigan are in Avon, CT. John, "Hoppy," cipal. Joe Buckley, living in Kalamazoo, MI, and Don and Cynthia have four children and five is retired from Heublein, Inc. Tom Mahoney

Carmel, CA, is a retired professor and former grandchildren. Joe Hughes, formerly of remains active as president of TJ Mahoney and department chair of mathematics at Western Hingham, has been living in Brewster on the Associates. Bob Moll, living in Cambridge, is Michigan University. Joe and Ann are parents of Cape for many years and is a retired vice presi- retired director of Arthur D. Little. Paul Maney, four children and have five grandchildren. Al dent of Merrill Lynch working in both the living in Belmont, is president of Storrow Co. in Carroll, of Naples, FL, and Scarborough, ME, Boston and Hyannis offices. Joe and Nancy have Cambridge. Paul brought his son, a BC High continues his career as an investment advisor three children and six grandchildren. Joe plays grad, as his playing partner at Pine Hills. As you and enjoys his family and trips to Ireland. Tom his golf at Eastwood. Frank Kearney is a retired can see from the above, there were many '58ers and Pat Dwyer Connolly live in Needham. Tom sales manager after 30 years in the high-tech from BC High '54 and not all showed up! • Some continues to practice pediatrics part-time. Stan computer industry. Frank is a Triple Eagle, additional news: Condolences of the class go out receiving his in Frank and Sharon to the children of Mary Coyle who passed away Curran, Jr., after serving in the US Army as an MBA 1969. officer from 1958-83, became security manager are living in Pocasset. Gerry Mitchell did an out- recently. Mary was the widow of Charlie Coyle at Wang Labs and then a paralegal in environ- standing job as co-chairman of the BC High who died soon after our graduation. Bill mental litigation at Mintz Levin in Boston. Stan Reunion Committee. Gerry is the retired former McGovern is living in Hoosick Falls, NY. His and Nancy have three children and eight grand- owner, president and CEO of Northeastern wife, Mary, recently had foot surgery. I recently Envelope Corp. in Boston. Gerry received a nice note from Bill McGurk. Bill and children. John Deady, living in Dedham, is for- Manufacturing mer attorney and now assistant clerk at and Pat ('57) five in Westwood and Hyannis and Ann continue to live on their farm in Prince Island they administer to the Brockton Superior Court. Ed Devin is retired as have three children and three grandchildren. Joe Edward where senior vice president at Wang Labs and Fleet Molineaux, living in Yorktown, VA, is retired as needs of their quarter horses, Nibs and Pip. also cater to the needs of their six grand- Financial Group. Ed is enjoying time with his a colonel in the US Marine Corps and as a York They County, VA, high school teacher and coach. children, spend a month in France or Italy each George M. Murphy, living in University Park, year and, when allowed by their three sons,

FL, is the retired director of operations for enjoy occasional sails in Vineyard Sound aboard

From the Heights to Your NYNEX Corp. Joe O'Donnell, Jr., living in Silver their sloop. Not a bad life! Congrats to Jane and Hometown Spring, MD, and Mashpee, is a physicist for the Jack "Mucca" McDevitt on the birth of their sec- US Naval Warfare Center in Carderock, MD, in ond grandchild, Matthew, who will divert some Looking for a way to stay connected the field of underwater acoustics. Joe and Claire of the attention away from his sister, Katie Ann. to Boston College in your hometown? have five children and 12 grandchildren. David The spring fling at the Sheraton in Hyannis and Ojerholm, living in New South Wales, Australia, the cocktail party at Minihane's Greenhouse on Join your local chapter. retired from the international pharmaceutical the Cape were a huge success. Please let me hear

industry in 2000. David keeps quite busy play- from you. I desperately need news from the To find the chapter nearest you, ing in a men's doubles tennis competition that class to fill up this column. Don't forget your go to www.bc.edu/alumni runs throughout the winter in Sydney, singing class dues. Send $25 to Jack "Mucca" McDevitt, prepar- Cedar Rd., Medford, or contact Jack Moynihan at with an 80-man barbershop chorus and 25 MA 02155. [email protected] ing to participate in a marathon in Queensland this summer. David and Janet have also lived and worked in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, Australia; Seoul, Korea; Jakarta, Indonesia; and

IO CLASS NOTES Pauline, Joe Corcoran and Rose, Robin Wood, (Gillespie) Steinthal, Kathleen (Kingston) Don Wood's widow (Congratulations! She's just join the Lawlor, Stephanie (Landry) Barineau, Julia received tenure at Connell School of Nursing), Lamy, Glenna (LaSalle) Keene. Sheilah (Lane)

Alumni Online Community Jack Wiseman and Peggy, Jack Donahoe and Malafronte, Gini (Little) Casey, Dean (Maloney) Joan, Dave Breen and Brenda, Bob Churchville Schnetzer, Deanie (Madden) Thornton, Nancy The Alumni Online Community is your and Margy, Bill Eleanor, connection to BC: Appleyard and Dave (Maslen) Burkholder, Joanne (O'Connor) Brauer and Peggy, Jim Cotter and Agnes, Vin Hynek, Patty O'Neill, Kathleen O'Shea, Janet

• Look up former classmates Sylvia and Nancy, Bill Sherman and Lucy, Tom (Phillips) Connelly, Dolores (Seeman) Royston, in the Online Directory. Whalen and Pat, Dick Roche and Marie, Bill Margit Serenyi, Pat (Sweeney) Sheehy, Sandy Carnes and Ann, Lorraine Bonvouloir Blais and (Sestito) Pistocchi, Sue (Sughrue) Carrington, • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail Richard, John Deneen and Karen, Ralph Bonnie (Walsh) Stoloski, Jane Whitty and forwarding address. Lespasio, Jack Madden and Barbara, Joe Maryjane (Mulvanity) Casey. On a final note, we McGuill and Roe, Dick Ganong and Gwen, are saddened to hear of the sudden death of Sue Check the Alumni Association Website at Joe www.bc.edu/alumni Leary, Charlie Lynch and Peggy, Terry (Macksoud) Wooten's husband, John, in April MacDonald and Peg, Paul King and Iris, and and extend heartfelt sympathy to her for information on registering. Joe Sue and Al Vitale with Angelina and Marilyn, Tom "Gus" family. Mahoney and Eileen, George Malloy and Ruth, Art McDonald and Sue, Tony DiMatteo and Joseph R. Carty 253 River St. Wanda, Jim Delaney, Arlene Barbeau Desmarais Norwell, MA 02061 Sheila Hurley Canty and Norm, Owen Quinn, Denis Minihane and [email protected] P.O. Box 386 Janet, Catherine McNrff and Kevin, Mary Lynd North Falmouth, MA 02556 NEWTON Schrobsdorff and Joe, Frank McGurl, Katherine REUNION YEAR McGuinness and Jim, Dan Joyce, John Joyce and Condolences to the family of Bob Cawley who Grace, George Kelley and Eileen, Dan Hanley Frank Martin passed away in late April. Here was a fellow I and Mary, Joe Fallo, Bill Shea, Claire Malis 6 Sawyer Road thought I knew but far from it. Tom Cunnally Kingston and Paul, Ed Kirby and Maria, Elaine Wellesley Hills, MA 02481 was in the service with Bob at the Boston Navy [email protected] Geissler, and Elizabeth Walda Keohane. • With Yard and they had talked about college; both the great gatherings we have had this year, our applied to BC and were accepted. Bob found the We have now completed our 45th anniversary class plans to continue the momentum by hav- going tough and thought of quitting but Tom celebrations on June 5 and 6. About 120 attending a class event each year leading up to the convinced him to stay with it, with the comment ed the dinner dance in Gasson 100. I had a 50th. Stay well and stay in touch. "If I can do it, you can do it," and he did gradu- chance to get caught up with many classmates ate!!!! Tom and Bob lived near each other in the who I had not seen since our 40th and a few Maryjane Mulvanity Casey 28 Briarwood Drive Dedham area and worked in the post office and whom I had not seen since we graduated. It was Taunton, MA 02780 attended the same church. Bob was given a sec- a memorable night and great fun. Peter NEWTON 508-823-1188 ond chance by God because in Korea he was so McLaughlin gave us a brief view of the progress badly wounded, the Navy Corps man told him he of the University and the results of our Class Our Newton College 45th reunion was a gala would not make it but he did despite being shot Gift Campaign, led by Bill York. Thanks to all of weekend of fun and reminiscence. The celebra- in the chest. He survived the night and the next you on the Steering Committee and the Gift tion began with a delightful cocktail buffet host- morning he was given emergency care and Committee for the many nights of planning and ed by and Peter McLaughlin at their Honey spent several months in various Navy hospitals calls for phone and your commitment to Boston Chestnut Hill home. It was wonderful to relax before he was sent to the Boston Navy Yard in College. Thanks also to the Class of 1959 for together while renewing old acquaintances, Charlestown so he could be close to home and making our 45th a special event. • Bill Parks told some of had not returned since our whom recover from his wounds. Bob was a true hero me that he will be retiring to the Cape from his Newton graduation. (We agreed that we had and many of us did not know it. God rest his pathology practice in about three weeks. John aged gracefully together!) Saturday's activities soul. Thank you, Tom, for the rest of the story. • McCormack is semi-retired as professor emeri- included campus tours of Boston College, lec- Word has it that Tom May is chief justice of the tus at University of Vermont. The cold winters tures on a variety of timely topics and a Garden Brookline Town Court. Congratulations. • Paul don't bother him or Grace, so he is staying put. Party luncheon. Our class gathered on Saturday Donlan is working as a certified financial plan- Charlie McCullagh, who won the award for the evening at Alumni House (formerly our Newton ner in Holliston. He and his wife spend their longest distance traveled, is staying put with College library) for a cocktail reception and filet winters at Foxfire Country Club in Naples, FL. Celeste in Naples, FL. Art Kaplan, who is going dinner. Reflections of our college days mignon Paul met Steve Denapoli and his wife who were to have to rebuild our class treasury for the 50th by various class members (including a few hus- also wintering in the area. • Our 45th anniver- told me that his granddaughter, Jessica, daugh- bands) were a highlight of the evening. Our sary will soon be upon us. If you would like to ter of Melisa Kaplan ('85), has had a successful Newton College T-shirts were a surprise bonus, kidney transplant donated by her father. Jim too! The weekend festivities concluded with Cappelletti and Pat are retired. Pat gave me a Mass followed by a buffet brunch on Sunday Please join us for the remedy to avoid colds when flying which she morning. It was a memorable weekend, and we 2004 Alumni Achievement received from son Tom, a pilot. Frank Collins missed those who were unable to attend. Our Awards Ceremony and Gail sat at our table at the reunion and Gail special thanks go to Dinner Chairman Janet told us John O'Connor stories from their college Chute and committee members Kathleen Thursday, September 30, 2004 dates. John is living in Newton and straighten- Lawlor, Donna Morrissey, Honey McLaughlin, 7 p.m., Robsham Theater ing the teeth of our grandchildren when he is Joanne Hynek and Maryjane Casey. Those not attending to his son Matthew, a sophomore attending our 45th included Ann (Baker) Celebrate the achievements of at BC. Beth Grady and her table of nurses Martinsen, Janet Chute, Dottie (Bohen) our most distinguished alumni. seemed to be having a great night of laughter. Graham, Mary Ellin (Burns) Stiles, Ellie (Carr) Complimentary reception following the Tom Hughes and Joette left their six-year-old at Hanlon, Helen (Craig) Lynch, Pat (Curran) awards ceremony to be held home with a babysitter to attend the dinner. Phil Naud, Janet (Chartier) O'Hanley, Joan in the Heights Room. Doherty and Pat, Tom Kenney and Mary, and (Coniglio) O'Donnell, Donna (Cosgrove) Please RSVP to 800-669-8430. Bill Parks and Jane sat at a table at which they Morrissey, Meg (Dealy) Ackerman, Marie Visit www.bc.edu/alumniawards for more info. shared stories about their 20-plus children!! (Doelger) O'Brien, Ann (Foley) Flanagan, Ellen Others not mentioned above: Bill Crafty and (Egan) Stone, Janet (Frantz) Egan, Jane

www.bc.edu/alumni n participate in the planning please e-mail me. Our treat to renew friendships and remember the Frank and Eileen (Trish) Faggiano first meeting will be in September. • Hope you days we spent together at Newton. Looking for- 33 Cleason Rd. had a wonderful summer and pray for peace. ward to hearing from you. Have a great autumn! Reading, MA 01867 781-944-0720 I Patricia McCarthy Dorsey Robert W. Sullivan, )r. [email protected]

53 Clarke Rd. 484 Pleasant St. Needham, MA 02492 Brockton, MA 02303 I spoke with George Van Cott in June and he NEWTON [email protected] [email protected] reported that he had successfully completed eight months of treatment for a cancerous the attendance at the spring reunion REUNION YEAR Though tumor in his back. He is doing well and espe- Mass and dinner evening was small the events A Newton get-together was held in Naples, FL, cially wanted to thank his close friends Bill were a big success because several people this past March at Carole Ward McNamara's. Byrne (Atlanta, GA), Karl Krikorian (Providence, attended who have distinguished themselves Elaine Holland Early and I visited Carole and RI), Dan Sullivan (Andover) and Lou Kirouac and their alma mater by their excellence in vari- John for a wonderful 10 days at Cedar (Atlanta) for their continuous support during the ous fields. I hope to provide you with Hammock. Kathleen McDermott Kelsh and her much ordeal. We wish George and the rest of us con- more information on them in my next column. husband, John, were driving through Naples en tinued good health. • In one long overdue note • The nature of the position I have held, when route to Sanibel Island, so they joined us for din- of recognition, we congratulate Charlie Driscoll matched with Internet-based communications, ner. Berenice Hackett Davis and Pete have a for his selection into the Massachusetts State gives me the privilege of hearing from many old condo nearby, so were able to test our cooking Hockey High School Coaches Hall of Fame. friends from a long way back. Sometimes I end too! It was great to be together again. We had Serving behind the bench as either an assistant up conversing by way of the Internet with some- hoped that Sally O'ConneU Healy and Kevin or head hockey coach since 1970, Charlie record- one whom I knew in our youth but haven't seen could be with us, but their plans were centered ed 302 career wins with stints at Archbishop or heard from in a long time. This happened on their daughter, Kathryn, and her imminent Williams, Maiden Catholic, Wakefield and, most recently when Joe Triano e-mailed me to inquire delivery of triplets. I am happy to report that recently, Medford High School where he of Bill Robinson's current well-being. In the Sally and Kevin became the proud grandparents coached for 17 seasons. • Congratulations to Fr. process I found out that Joe and Cissy are living of three girls: Margaret, Grace and Madeline, on Nick Morcone, abbott at the Glastonbury Abbey in Palm Coast, FL. Joe attended the Naval April 6, 2004, in New York City. Sally loves in Hingham, for reaching the halfway mark of Officers Candidate School in Newport, RI, after spending time with them in Essex and says that his fund-raising goal for a new conference cen- graduation. He spent two years on Arctic cruis- the babies are healthy and thriving. ter at the abbey. The center is used for the hun- es, then cruised into Key West where he met Congratulations! • Kathleen Runkle O'Brien dreds of retreats that are held annually, speaking Cissy. He held a number of business positions wrote, "My husband, Tom, and I have just cele- engagements and other spiritual, social and edu- while they raised a family of four (now with nine brated our 43rd wedding anniversary. Sounds cational events sponsored by the abbey. • grandchildren). If all goes well they are commit- unbelievable! We five in a suburb of Chicago Congratulations to Paul and Mary McNamara ted to attending the 45th. • Joe tells me he called Glenview. Prior to that we lived away for on the marriage of their son, Paul J. McNamara, touched base with Bill Robinson, who holds 10 years, spending some time in New York, Jr., ('94), to Jessie Davis. They were married in forth in Fredericton, New Brunswick, but win- Brazil, then back to New York and finally to Bermuda where Jack and Rosemary ('65) ters in Florida. • I got an e-mail from Bob Chicago. We have four sons, three of whom are McKinnon, Jim and Anne (NC '62) O'Connor, Salvatore who lives in West Peabody and works married, and nine grandchildren. Our unmar- and Bob Capalbo were invited guests. In addi- at the Carney Hospital. He describes his inter- ried son lives in Denver. I still see Stella Clark tion, Paul Sr. was invited to join the board of ests as touch football (until fracturing his jaw), O'Shea and Jane Wray Ryan at least once a year. directors at the Boston College Club. • A writing poetry, tennis, bridge, working out and '62 Now that summer has arrived, I'll be concentrat- reminder that we have a Class of luncheon singing at St. Adelaide's in West Peabody. He is ing on lowering my handicap." • Betsy DeLone on the first Friday of every month at the BC Club also part of an interfaith Bible study group in his Balas retired to Wilmington, NC, in 1994. Her and everyone is invited. If you would like to get on area. The Salvatores have four adult children and married daughter, Liz, lives in Beverly, CA, with the mailing list for the luncheon, please e-mail three grandchildren. • I have a wonderful ally in her husband, Bill, and two toddlers. Her son, Bonnie David at [email protected]. my efforts in writing this column in Peg Collins Neil, lives in New York City. Betsy and her hus- Peg is a very caring and loyal person. She tells Mary Ann Brennan Keyes band, Bernie, play golf, garden, read, walk, play 94 Abbott Rd. me that Fr. Dick Harrington is recovering very bridge, travel and volunteer at an adult day care Wellesley, MA 02481 well at St. Patrick's Manor in Framingham from center which cares mostly for Alzheimer's NEWTON [email protected] a serious health episode. She also informs me patients. • Our 45th reunion will be held next that Anne Rouse Harding of Natick recently June. We will post the exact dates in the When old friends connect, it doesn't take long to passed away. Please join with Peg and many of November issue. Anyone interested in joining fill in the blanks and pick up where you left off. our class in faithful prayers for eternal peace and the planning committee, e-mail me at That was the case last week when Marsha rest for Anne and all of our departed classmates [email protected]. It's always been such a Whelan, Grace Kane Kelly, Mary Corbett, Mary and their loved ones. • On a personal note I Martha Llewellyn with husband Jack and Pat would ask that you include the soul of my moth- Beck Reardon and her husband, Jack, headed to You are cordially invited er-in-law, Bernice Szarek, who went to her Quebec for a week. They rented a restored recto- to join fellow alumni for the annual reward in May. God speed to all. Love ya. ry and spent the week touring with Grace, who does this professionally, as their guide. Aside Martha Clancy Rudman from wonderful meals, a little golf and a lot of Veterans Memorial 1819 Lakeside Drive was all including the Remembrance Arlington, TX 76013 laughs, a great time had by NEWTON [email protected] two Jacks! Once again, work kept me from join-

ing some of the old gang! • Just today, I received Thursday, November n, 2004 Kathy Hunter, Ellen Carbone and Judy Collins to a.m. Mass the sad news that Diane Brickley Parsons (also replied to my request for notes. They wanted to after a 11 a.m. Remembrance Service known as Dede) died on May 15, 2004, Reception following know where we are moving! We will move to battle with cancer. Her husband, Fred, wrote Franklin, TN, in the fall but are spending the with such pride of all she had accomplished Both the Mass and Remembrance Service summer at the Cape. I will be reverting to my since her days at Newton. Diane received a PhD will be held in the Heights Room [email protected] address. Words of wis- in biochemistry from Boston University in 1972. in the Lower Campus Dining Facility. dom: Don't live in a house for 26 years - too While on the staff at George Washington much junk. And don't get doubles of photos!!! University, her research focused on diseases in Please call 617-552-4700 for more information Hope you all have had a great summer.

12 CLASS NOTES the back and joints. As a result of her work on Education Award for sponsoring structured Mullen/Winslow Wedding of the Year." This collagen chemistry in intervertebral discs, she training programs for at-risk urban youth in would be the marriage of Mary Lou received the Volvo Award on Low Back Pain connection with his Hawk Lincoln Mercury deal- Cunningham Mullen's daughter, Tracy, to Research. From her lifelong work and interest in ership in Oak Lawn. Ford Motor Company also Rosemarie Van Eyck Winslow's son, Ward, on

the sciences and in children's diseases, Diane awarded Tom its Hero of the Planet Award for March 13 at the Sisters' Church of Loretto on moved on in 1979 to co-found, with her hus- his ongoing involvement in urban education Saint Mary's, College campus in South Bend, IN. band, Telemet America, Inc., the first producer programs. Diana Newman e-mailed me the sad Newton classmates in attendance included of a hand-held palm-sized device displaying news that her classmate/colleague Diane Kathy Wilson Conroy, Morna Ford Sheehy and stock market quotes. Diane also spent many Suchecki Fallon, a registered nurse, died on Carolyn Davis Graham, who was Mary Lou's

summers volunteering at the Legg Mason February 11, 2004. Our class prayers are with maid of honor in what Mary Lou describes as "a Tennis Tournament. Our sympathy to Fred, of her and her family. I'm sad also to report the few short years ago." Maureen Crowley Cahir

Alexandria, VA, and her brother, John Paul death last October of Harvey Phelps. He was a (NC '65), another Newtonite and also dear South

Brickley (USMC ret.) of Tampa, FL. • As I write retired Army officer (ROTC at BC) and had been Bend friend of Mary Lou's, hosted the brides-

this, I am looking forward to seeing Tony Lilly living in Chester, VA. Class condolences and maids' luncheon the day before the wedding. Roddy and her husband, Joe, this weekend in prayers are also extended for him and his fami- But I've saved the best for next! Mary Lou could

Chatham at the wedding of Kristy McCullough, ly. Bill Costley modestly writes to suggest that not attend our 40th reunion because her role at

daughter of Katie Fishel McCullough and her George Perreault be considered his co-class Poet St. Mary's College involved their reunion that

husband, Bill. • Julie McGraw Brown and her Laureate. George is about to have published his same weekend. She did, however, interrupt her husband, John, stayed with me a few weeks ago, third book of poems and is a professor of busy schedule to send me a copy of an article

when they were in Boston for a wedding. After English at the University of Nevada at Reno. I that appeared, before the wedding, in the South considering several places to retire to in the East, eagerly await your e-mail and/or traditional mis- Bend Tribune, written by her daughter, Tracy,

they have decided to stay in San Antonio, which sives. and describing how Tracy and Ward met. It's has been home for them for many years. I have entitled "Matchmaking Moms Finally Find Judy Albers BoufFord been to San Francisco a few times since January, 1029 North Stuart #105 Success," and it's a great story. Keep in mind mixing conferences for Voice of the Faithful with Arlington, VA 22201 that the Mullens and Winslows have been close 703-528-1509 a visit to the newest of six grandchildren. Chris NEWTON friends for years, and that Tracy and Ward played [email protected] Keyes ('91) and his wife, Ruth, had a baby girl, together as children. And now, in Tracy's own Ainsley Claire, in December. To keep this col- words: "Mother knows best? In this case, yes. umn going, I really do need to hear from all of Maureen Gallagher Costello When I moved to Chicago, my mom wanted to 42 Doncaster St. you, so please stay in touch. set me up with Ward Winslow, the son of her Roslindale, MA 02131 good college friend. She and Rosemarie have Matthew J. McDonnell 617-323-4652 T2i Shore Ave been close forever, but I had not laid eyes on Quincy, MA 02169 Bill Murphy was named Man of the Year for Ward for 15 years. Five years earlier, Mom urged 617-479-1714 by Road to Responsibility, a Marshfield- me to meet the very same Ward, a Chicago [email protected] 2004 based nonprofit organization serving people native, when I arrived at Boston College for

Joe Ciccarelli e-mailed me with some interesting with disabilities. Bill was honored at a fund-rais- school. Ward was already there, three years my news about himself and classmates with whom ing event on July 10, 2004, at the South senior. Meanwhile, Rosemarie was pushing him he stays in touch. retired as a data analyst to meet me. Ward appreciated that kind of Joe Weymouth Naval air base. For the past 37 years, with an HMO in upstate New York, after being Bill has lent his talents to numerous building maternal interference as much as I did. BC is a diagnosed with throat cancer. He is now in and real estate development projects on the big school but we never connected. Not then, remission and hopes to get back to work soon. South Shore and Cape Cod. He is a former anyway. It was in 1998, when I moved to Joe reports that two of his three daughters are member and officer of the National Association Chicago, that our moms gave their matchmaking talents try. Again, it a joint married, and the other one is working near of Home Builders and is currently a corporator another was home. David Ahern and his wife, Susan, remain of South Shore Savings Bank. Tom Apprille was strike. 'Meet Ward, you'll like him,' said Mom. in California near their seven grandchildren. inducted into the Massachusetts State Hockey 'Meet Tracy, you'll really like her,' said Jack DeVeer has raised his two children in High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame Rosemarie. Finally, we did. Ward offered to be Chicago tour guide instant Atlanta where he is a vice president at Merrill in May 2004 in recognition of his long and illus- my and we became Lynch. Mike Gigante is retired from GM and is trious coaching career at South Boston High friends. Our mothers beamed. A year later, we living in Wellesley. Joe Aniello retired as a vice School. Tom was named to the NCAA Frozen started dating. Our mothers were thrilled. And president from Liberty Mutual and lives in Four All-Star Team in 1963 and was captain of now we're planning our wedding with, of Weston. Tom Hawkes, a long-time resident of the BC hockey team in 1964. He started coach- course, the help of our two favorite matchmak- Naperville, IL, was recently honored by ing in the early 1970s and landed over 600 ers. Was it fate? Was it destiny? Or was it our our Northwood University with its 2003 Dealer career wins, countless Boston City League titles moms? Whatever, our families, especially and regular state tournament appearances.

Michael Ford, SJ, a chaplain at Holy Cross, had a shell named for him by the Holy Cross crew From the Heights to Your team. Fr. Ford christened his namesake boat BC Football Hometown before leaving Holy Cross after 20 years as chap- 2004 Road Schedule lain to become assistant rector at BC. September 2 Ball State Looking for a way to stay connected Priscilla Weinlandt Lamb to Boston College in your hometown? 125 Elizabeth Rd. September 25 Wake Forest '64 New Rochelle, NY 10804-3106 October 16 Pittsburgh Join your local chapter. 914-636-0214 NEWTON [email protected] October 23 Notre Dame To find the chapter nearest you, November 13 West Virginia I know you all probably opened this issue expect- go to www.bc.edu/alumni November 20 Temple ing to find the reunion write-up in all its glory. Well, this column was actually due before the or contact jack Moynihan at [email protected] reunion took place, so the suspense continues Visit www.bc.edu/awaygames/ for another three months. I do, however, have a for more information.

real treat. A report on what I call "The

www.bc.edu/alumni 13 moms, couldn't be happier." Who says storybook romances don't happen? Linda Mason Crimmins R.R. i, Box 1396 Patricia McNulty Harte Stroudsburg, PA 18360 From the Heights to Your 6 Everett Ave. NEWTON [email protected] Winchester, MA 01890 Hometown 781-729-1187 REUNION YEAR [email protected] Looking for a way to stay connected REUNION YEAR As I write this, the Class of '64 is celebrating its to Boston College in your hometown? 40th reunion. That makes us the next class up Believe it or not, next spring will be our 40th for a reunion. Start making your plans now for Join your local chapter. College. the reunion from Boston Where have the first weekend in June 2005 in Boston. Sign To find the chapter nearest you, years gone? • Tim Holland recently sent me an e- up for the Online Community on the BC alum- go to www.bc.edu/alumni mail stating in capsule form what he has been ni site so you can get in touch with some of your doing for the last 39 years. Tim and his wife, old roommates, friends and classmates. Let's or contact Jack Moynihan at Maria, live in where Tim owns an insurance Ayer make our 40th (could that be right?) our best [email protected] daughter, her agency. Their Amy, and husband one yet. • Patricia Noonan Walsh reports that a live in Townsend and recently adopted baby she is alive and well in Dublin, Ireland. Pat is a boy from Korea, making Tim and Maria proud professor of disability studies at University grandparents. Their son, Eric, is in Nagasaki, College Dublin and her husband, Brendan students for Japan, teaching English to Japanese (GA&S '66), is a professor of economics. Living Theater, Main Campus. For more information, this coming school year. Tim can be seen at nearby in Dublin are their older son, Colm, and please visit www.bc.edu/alumniawards or call Conte cheering on the hockey team from Section 800-669-8430 to reserve space at the event. Armelle Mitchell with Aoibhinn (1), and also B. He sends his best to all School of Ed class- daughter Nessa and Chris Curran with Eliza (9 Catherine Beyer Hurst • Frechette wife have mates. John and his months). Benjamin, their younger son, has lived 49 Lincoln St. returned to New England after spending 29 and worked in San Francisco, CA, for some Cambridge, MA 02141 617-497-4924 years in Toledo. They have bought a home at years. Pat and Brendan are ardent travelers and NEWTON [email protected] New Seabury and are spending the winter visit the United States regularly to keep up with months in Naples, FL. John would like to be family and friends in Connecticut and Susan Korzeneski Burgess's art can be seen on included in the 40th reunion plans and any California. In addition, Pat's work involves regu- her own Website www.SusanKBurgess.com. On other classmates who would enjoy working on lar travel throughout Europe. Pat writes that this the home page, she describes her approach to this committee can e-mail me. • Wedding bells is a time of great change in Europe and also in painting: "From my earliest memory, I have con- rang for the Harte family in April when son Sean Ireland, which has become so much faster-paced nected to the emotive and sensual qualities of was married at St. Patick's Cathedral in New and international in outlook during the past paint. Now in my 50s, I specialize in plein air York City to Therese Auld. Sean and Therese are decade. Dublin has become a high-cost city even painting, requiring that I lug my equipment into living in New York City where Sean is a director by European standards with a much more open spaces - through the canyons of New of international equities at UBS Securities, hav- diverse population. She writes, "Not far from my Mexico, up and down the hill towns of Umbria • Bill ing left Goldman Sachs in January. Sterling office, for example, is a huge and very beautiful in Italy, and into New England, West Coast and recently had a design featured in Woman's Day mosque with a thriving Islamic school for Mexican conservation lands and coastal areas. Specials, Kitchen and Baths. Bill's firm, Sterling Dublin's growing Muslim population. These are Then, I search for spaces - moments in time Associates Incorporated, is located in images somewhat different from those in 'The and place - that elicit feelings I can capture in

Cambridge. • Bob Hutchison became a grandfa- Quiet Man,' but the good news is that there are paint. Perhaps it's a mysterious gate left ajar, ther when son Jonathan and his wife welcomed still very special, tranquil corners of Galway, allowing a glimpse of a hidden garden, or a Joseph into the Hutchison family. • Bob Berry Mayo and Kerry to explore." Pat sends her very mountain mist surrounding the tower of a sixth- was inducted into the Matignon High School warm wishes to all of her classmates. She says century abbey or an endless sky showing shock- Hall of Fame in May for his business contribu- she will start planning her trip to Boston as soon ing blue above a colorfully layered mesa. I also tions as the CFO of the Kansas City Southern as she knows the dates for our reunion. If she look for contrasts between what is seen and what Railway, is fortress wall provide the Panama Canal Railroad and the can come all the way from Ireland, no one has not seen. An ancient may contradiction to the gaiety of a con- Mexican railroad TFM. He was also recognized any excuse not to be there! • Lisa Pustorino a pleasant in for his leadership on a bishop's committee in the Edmiston is showing improvement after many temporary outdoor marketplace happening Diocese of Kansas City and for his military months of wrestling with severe back problems. the square below it, or lush vegetation may have record in Vietnam. • As always, I am asking you Here's hoping that her back will be well enough found a spot to grow in the desert near barren to send me information on what you are doing; to use the hula hoop and dance the jitterbug next New Mexican rock formations." • Anne Sweeney otherwise you only read about the people that year! Best wishes for a full recovery, Lisa! • Marschik reports that she and Maureen Neal and I see in the Boston area. Please take a moment to send me an update to Hamisch Foley were finally able to get together share with classmates. Be sure to include in March. In the tradition of Newton friendships - which are never-ending and easily restarted "Newton News" on the subject line so I don't Join the - delete you as spam! See you in June! years after the last conversation Anne reports that she and Maureen had lunch at Maureen's Alumni Online Community Class Notes Editor home and "chatted and chatted nonstop for Alumni Association The Alumni Online Community is your 825 Centre St. about two hours. We laughed and laughed. connection to BC: Newton, MA 02458 Louise Gerrity Vollertsen had planned to join us [email protected] but was sick. Both of my original conversations • Look up former classmates with Maureen and Louise were lengthy. The in the Online Directory. Joseph Connors has been selected as the recipient ofthe 2004 Alumni Achievement Award for three of us hope to get together soon." • DiSilvio hus- • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail Arts and Humanities. Richard Syron (HON '89) Condolences to Pat Foley whose forwarding address. has been selected as the recipient of the 2004 band, Alessandro, died last year after a coura- Alumni Achievement Award for Commerce. All geous batde with cancer. Check the Alumni Association Website at members ofthe Class of1966 are invited to join www.bc.edu/alumni in honoring their achievements at the award cer- for information on registering. emony and reception to be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, 2004, at Robsham

H CLASS NOTES for automotive servicing exams so that he can friends, read poetry and delivered tribute. Frank Charles and Mary-Anne Benedict get employment in the field that he loves." Once ('67) and John Giglio bore witness for their 84 Rockland Place he is on his own, Mary Lou is looking forward to brother. The couple will continue to make their Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464 taking on a new adventure, perhaps will [email protected] some form home in Boston's South End and be known of volunteering, since she loved her three-year as James and Richard Kinny-Giglio. stint Ft. Nicholas Sannella has been selected as the with VISTA back in the early 1970s. She Kathleen Hastings Miller recipient of the 2004 William V. McKenney keeps in e-mail contact with Sr. Faine McMullen 8 Brookline Rd. at Kenwood and hopes to see more of our class- Award, the highest honor the Alumni Scarsdale, NY 10583 mates at events in future. • Association bestows on its alumni. All members the Sandy McGrath NEWTON [email protected] of the Class of 1967 are invited to join in honor- Huke also was part of our group at the tea. She ing his achievements at the award ceremony and had made some follow-up calls to our local classmates and reported the following news... James R. Littleton reception to be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Carol 39 Dale St. September 30, 2004, atRobsham Theater, Main O'Donoghue McGarry is now a two-time grand- Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 mother, both boys. Carol and husband, both Campus. For more information, please visit [email protected] www.bc.edu/alumniawards or call 800-669- retired, still vacation and hold family weddings in New Hampshire, although they are presently 8430 to reserve space at the event. Mary Ellen (Mahoney) Boudreau is a nurse offi- putting their into Tom Marichelli writes that his son, Tom ('04), energy developing a vineyard cer in the Massachusetts Army National Guard. has taken a job with Bear, Stearns & Company in in Comus, MD. Sandy has joined Nancy A member of the Massachusetts Medical Schiederbauer for Manhattan and will be with the financial servic- Mahoney some family wed- Command, she is based at Hanscom Air Force dings in recent years. daughter, Molly, es group. Tommy is living in Hoboken, NJ, and Nancy's Base in Lexington. She is a veteran of Vietnam finds that there are a lot of BC grads in the area was married in May 2004 on Daufuskie Island and Desert Shield/ Desert Storm and has served off the coast of South Carolina. Sandy described who have been very helpful. Meanwhile, daugh- in the Army for 25 years, currently holding the - ter Annmarie continues working at the New the day as a sensory overload perfect weather, rank of lieutenant colonel. England Journal of Medicine in Waltham and balmy breezes, beautiful setting in a gazebo Mary Cabel Costello overlooking the ocean... "paradise!" Nancy's son, her sister, Laura, is a legal secretary at Testa, 4507 Swan Lake Drive was married in in a out- Hurwitz & Thibault in Boston. • Joanne Regan Jason, 2002 September Copley, OH 44321 door wedding at the Lyman estate in Boston; 330-666-6170 Frey (GA&S '92) writes that she maintains a fac- NEWTON [email protected] ulty position at University of Massachusetts at once again there were warm breezes and a har- Boston. Joanne earned her PhD from BC in edu- vest moon... "wonderful!" Nancy is CFO for her cational administration with emphasis in health husband's consulting company and is on the Norman C. Cavallaro c/o North Cove Outfitters education. Joanne bought a condo in Duneden, board of Wilmington Friends School for which 75 Main St. FL, on the Gulf of Mexico and is enjoying her she was formerly head of the French depart- . Old Saybrook, CT 06475 snow-free winters. She says she would like to get ment. Sandy had her own family wedding in August when son Zachary was married in connected with other BC alums in the area so 2003 REUNION YEAR in his school, give her a call; she's in the book! Joanne spends a ceremony the chapel of high Daniel Downey (GA&S '76) has been selected as the summer at Peter Pond Park in Sandwich on Georgetown Prep; he works as an investment the recipient of the 2004 Alumni Achievement the Cape. She invites classmates to give her a call banker. Son Casey works for Senator Arlen Award for Science. All members of the Class of and/or drop by if you're on the Cape. Joanne has Specter on Capitol Hill. Daughter Heidi works are invited to join in honoring his achieve- with autistic children and has a graphic design 1970 seven grandchildren to enjoy also. • Jim Day e- ments at the award ceremony and reception to side, following in her mails that he came east in July with his lovely business on the sort of be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, bride, Judy ('68), to attend the wedding of his mother's footsteps. Sandy is a graphic artist 2004, at Robsham Theater, Main Campus. For son Matthew on Cape Cod. Also attending were working for her husband's real estate develop- more information, please visit classmates Loren Miller and Paul Giblin. Our ment company and part-time for a sign compa- www.bc.edu/alumniawards or call 800-669- Rockville, • I to receive best wishes to all of you on such a happy occa- ny in MD. hope news to reserve space at the event. of in the ahead for 8430 sion. • Please make an effort to write a note, e- from more you months Mary Guerin Cole wrote to say that she and her mail or phone any news about yourself, your future Class Notes. Our NC'67 Prayer Net husband are empty nesters in the Chicago area. family or a classmate that's of interest and that remains available to pass on your requests. I can Their daughter Deborah has lived in Berlin, for either these as above. you would not mind seeing in print. That is truly be reached of noted Germany, for nine years as a journalist first for what makes this column go round. We need Meanwhile, have a glorious fall! Reuters and then for Agence France Presse. your help, as this is not a spectator sport. Judith Anderson Day Their youngest daughter, Jennifer ('96), is mar- Thanks! The Brentwood 323 ried to a gentleman from France and is the US 11500 San Vicente Blvd. M. Adrienne Tarr Free Los Angeles, CA 90049 label manager for K-7 Records in New York City. 3627 Great Laurel Lane [email protected] Fairfax, VA 22033 NEWTON 703-709-0896 Judith Krauss has been selected as the recipient [email protected] of the 2004 Alumni Achievement Award for Health. All members of the Class of 1968 are Back in the spring, so many months ago, I had BC Football invited to join in honoring her achievements at the opportunity to catch up with Mary Lou 2004 Road Schedule to at Hinchey-Qemons at the nth annual tea for the award ceremony and reception be held p.m. on Thursday, September 30, 2004, at Newton alumnae in Maryland, Virginia and 7 September 2 Ball State Robsham Theater, Main Campus. For more Washington, DC. It had been a few years since September 25 Wake Forest information, please visit www.bc.edu/alumni- she attended; several life changes in the interim October 16 Pittsburgh have kept her otherwise occupied. Her husband, awards or call 800-669-8430 to reserve space at October 23 Notre Dame Sam Clemons, had a major stroke back in the the event. November 13 West Virginia spring of 2000 and passed away in March 2002. On May 30, 2004, Richard Giglio wed James November 20 Temple Mary Lou then retired from the US Department Kinny, his life partner of 17 years, in a ceremony of Housing and Urban Development in in the backyard of their home in Boston. The marriage was presided over by their friend September of that same year. She still has a 21- Visit www.bc.edu/awaygames/ Rosaria Salerno, currently a Boston city clerk year-old son, "Sam 2," living at home in subur- for more information. ban Maryland, "finding himself and preparing and formerly an assistant chaplain at Boston College. Pam Rajpal and Liz Page, both dear

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Fran Dubrowski 3215 Klingle Rd., N.W. SEPTEMBER Washington, DC 20008 NEWTON [email protected] II TBD* FanFest—BC vs. Penn State RecPlex 13 7 P.M. Newton College Book Club Alumni House REUNION YEAR 17 TBD* FanFest—BC vs. UConn RecPlex 30 7 P.M. Alumni Achievement Awards Robsham Harriet Mullaney recently joined 270 volunteers from 17 countries as El Salvador's presidential OCTOBER election observers: "It really was a dream-fulfill- ing opportunity... I've always wanted to do this 2 TBD* FanFest—BC vs. UMass RecPlex [since] Jimmy Carter let us know this is a way one can spend one's time!" After week-long NOVEMBER preparations (i.e., credentialing procedures, r— 6 TBD* FanFest—BC vs. Rutgers RecPlex meetings on the election process, the campaign 2 P.M. Annual Alumni Memorial Mass St. Ignatius and the current political/economic situation - 7 11 IO A.M. Veterans Memorial Remembrance Heights Room and fiestas to enliven spirits), Harriet also visit- 27 TBD* FanFest—BC vs. Syracuse RecPlex ed a family of seven displaced by civil war; they u had spent months traveling nightly to safety. Assigned with eight observers to Metapan (two DECEMBER hours from San Salvador), Harriet reports, "We 4 I2-4 P.M. Winter Wonderland Quonset Hut were a pretty diverse group but got on just fine... 4 TBD Advent Day of Recollection Barat House My big moment came when I was interviewed in

Spanish local station. I inter- on a TV asked the * Event begins two hours prior to kick-off. Refer to bceagies.colkgesports.com viewer to speak slowly and, of course, he sped it u for more information. up as soon as the camera came on. So, I responded to each of his questions in my best Please check the Alumni Association Website at www.bc.edu/alumni or call Spanish with pretty much the same answer, 'I £ Alumni House at 800-669-8430 for updated event information. am an international observer here to help ensure that the elections are fair and transparent.'" spirit of the man and the times." • Speaking of Harriet remained for the 24th anniversary of media, Patti Bruni Keefe's son Johnny appeared Georgina M. Pardo reformer Archbishop assassination Romero's 6800 S.W. 67th St. as guest lead in an ABC TV episode of "The while saying Mass. Harriet explains this is South Miami, FL 33143 Practice." Johnny played a husband who cannot Salvadorans' most important day of the year: NEWTON [email protected] afford health care; when his pregnant wife "The whole celebration... takes two weeks. encounters problems at the hospital, he consults Jane Hudson has completed all coursework for Romero lives on in the hearts, minds and souls attorneys of "The Practice." for the Look her PhD and is preparing for her comprehen- of [the people]... We joined thousands of episode, "In re-runs. • Good Conscience," on sives. She is teaching in the Department of Salvadorans to march from the Monument of Claudia Richardson writes from San Diego: Urban and Community Studies and in the the Savior of the World to the Cathedral... for the "Life is I [two-year-old] good. now have a step- Department of Marketing at University of memorial Mass... During the prayers of the granddaughter... Although I... last babysat in Connecticut. She really enjoys the students and faithful... quite a bit [was] said about the pro- 1965, I am learning fast and enjoying it." was commenting on the exciting semester they posed CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Although her mother died in January after a had with the dual NCAA championships. She Act) and none of it good. So, the prayer became, nine-month illness, Claudia felt surrounded by also continues to consult in marketing commu- "NO to CAFTA!" chanted over and over again, Newton friends at the funeral: "What support. I nications and really enjoys her clients. Her son, and louder each time. During the am very thankful." Curtailing work for monthly Jed Borod, and Kate Fitzgerald's daughter, kiss/hug/handshake of peace, fireworks decorat- trips east to visit her mother eased Claudia into Carleigh Connelly, will be attending Johns ed the sky... Just like Mass back home, isn't it?" retirement. Now she volunteers with the Hopkins together next year: Jed will be a senior To hear more, read Harriet's featured articles at National Philanthropic Assistance League. Her and Carleigh a first year. • Ann Forquer is plan- www.denjustpeace.org: "Free Trade for Whom?" husband, Roy, "is finally going to retire (for real ning a get-together in Washington, DC, in (April '03), "Trade Marches On" (September), this time)... We plan a month trip through October which should give us fresh news for the "Las Mujeres" (September) and "Exchange and Australia... I can't wait. So, that's the from news next issue. • Kathleen McGillycuddy is now a BC Solidarity" (October). Harriet also recommends the Left Coast." trustee and instrumental along with Mary Lou the film "Romero." She writes, "It has some fac- DeLong and Cathy Brienza in founding the tual inaccuracies... but it conveys very well the Robert F. Maguire Council for Women of Boston College. Martha 46 Plain Rd. Wayland, MA 01778 Kendrick and Jane Hudson are also founding [email protected] members along with Anne Duffey Phelan. From the Heights to Your Anyone wanting more information is encour- Class Treasurer Charlie Earley and his wife, Rita, aged to contact Susan Thurmond at 617-552- Hometown of Belmont report that their son, Daniel, has 4401. • My husband, Ed Cutie, and I have taken been awarded the Fr. Arrupe scholarship at Looking for a way to stay connected to cruising/exploring. Last year we spent an to Boston College in your hometown? Boston College High School. Congratulations, adventure-filled two weeks in Alaska and this Daniel! This past weekend Annie and I attended summer we are off to the Greek Isles for a mini the Bates College graduation of our son, Rob. Join your local chapter. family reunion. I also solo with my group of Our daughter, Melissa, has completed her sec- birding buddies. In the last couple of years we To find the chapter nearest you, ond year at Suffolk Law and is working with have tackled the canyons of Arizona, the go to www.bc.edu/alumni Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault in Boston. As a swamps and rain forests of Costa Rica and the family we are spending the summer in Maine. highlands and canal zone of Panama. In case or contact Jack Moynihan at Your classmates deserve to know about gradua- [email protected] anyone out there thinks that bird watching is a tions events in world. E-mail and your works sport for sissies - wrong! I have ended up with a

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www.bc.edu/alumni 17 (slipped coming down the steep canyon side) nity to gather and remember what a great friend and covered with ticks and mosquito bites look- Nancy Brouillard McKenzie he was and how fortunate we are to have known Sebago Rd. ing for red-legged honey creepers in Carara 7526 him and also to have each other as friends. John Bethesda, MD 20817-4840 National Park in Costa Rica. It's great fun and Powers gave a beautiful eulogy making all laugh NEWTON [email protected] you get to be outdoors. Please keep in touch. The and cry simultaneously. Frankie Rich still lives older I get, the more I appreciate our Newton In April, Lisa Kirby Grossing opened her heart in New Hampshire. After a brief but obviously years and the wonderful women I met. successful career in heavy whom and her home in McLean, VA, for the annual the equipment (!) My love and prayers as always. Newton College spring tea for alumnae in industry, Frankie is now RETIRED!!! Frank Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland. Lisa's remains effervescent and almost as funny as Lawrence C. Edgar spirit, hospitality, generosity and warmth Dennis was. Joe Berarducci lives nearby and still 530 S. Barringtori Ave., No. no has season tickets to BC football. It is always Los Angeles, CA 90049 touched everyone, particularly several alumnae [email protected] who joined us for the first time. Working on the good to see Joe. John Moore's son graduated committee for the tea this year were Pat Winkler from the BC honors program this June magna

I trust that this finds looking forward to the laude. is justifiably you Browne ('60), Eva Sereghy ('71), your class cor- cum John proud but unable Eagles' football season. • I need to start out the respondent as well as numerous volunteers. to convince Patrick to enter medical school. He class news with a retraction: When I complained Everyone deserves tremendous praise and will be attending BC Law this year. John, a sur- about a lack of correspondence a while back, I thanks for all the work and extra effort. From the geon, will have to cope with an attorney in the was forgetting a letter I'd received from Mike Pax Christi Community at Kenwood, Meg Canty, family. There must be others from the Class of Comely. Mike is an attorney in Miami who spe- RSCJ, and Claire Kondolf, RSCJ, brought love '73 who have news regarding our friends from cializes in the defense of police officers. He's and prayers, along with beautiful note cards of these post-formative years. Please write!! - also the father of three a daughter who attends Kenwood, a local television station video show- Regards. Rob Boova ([email protected])." Smith College and two high school athlete sons ing the volunteer work of members of the com- Classmates, please write to your class corre- (one a starting middle linebacker). • I got a letter munity tutoring students and a brief audio of a spondent as soon as you receive this. Rob Boova from Tom Turek who's a dentist near Waterbury, few members of the community. (Gabrielle wants more news!!!!! CT, and the father of an incoming BC freshman. Husson, RSCJ, distinctly remembered • Speaking of proud fathers, Bill Kita's daughter, President's Assemblies in the Chapel Hall. Nancy Warburton Desisto P.O. Box Caroline ('04), won a Fulbright Scholarship to Remember the chairs with the red seats? Sister 142 West Boothbay Harbor, ME 04575 study in Austria. Bill is an attorney in Buffalo. • Husson's beautiful message focused on her 1^TF\X7T01^ I got to visit with Jon Sidoli who left California daily prayer and hope that we have found a road last year to become a drama instructor at that has brought us a fair share of happiness in Patricia McNabb Evans Independence Community College in Kansas. our lives. In closing, Sister Husson urged us to 35 Stratton Lane He reports that New Jersey businessman Bill use our minds on the great problems of the Foxboro, MA 02035 Fornaci wife visiting and his are Italy to cele- world today and to contribute what we can to [email protected] brate their 30th anniversary and that New York their solutions.) Elizabeth White, RSCJ, led a lawyer Lou Marett's son, who's '02, is also BC book discussion on Augie March by Saul Bellow. I am writing this column on the morning after

city. • I e-mail working in the got an from Tom By comparison, Phil Mickelson's happiness on our 30th reunion. Thanks to the 137 classmates Fleischer, who's still in the legal department of receiving his Masters green golf jacket earlier in and guests who came to share memories and Liberty Mutual Insurance that's headed by Chris April was far less than Sister White's enthusias- party! Congratulations to the Class Gift that his just finished Mansfield. Tom says son tic response to receiving from alumnae a green Committee and Co-chairs John Murphy and Paul his freshman year at Assumption College. • sweatshirt embroidered with "885." Look for O'Connor. Thanks also to the other members of

Steve Sharkey reports that for the last several Sister White in the Newton area... Thanks to the the Reunion Committee: Kathy Rando years he's been a financial advisor in Rhode generosity of alumnae at the tea, two benches O'Donnell, Paul Battaglia, Mary Cura, Betsy Hill Island and that all three of his kids are grown. • will be joining the new garden at Kenwood, one Ingalls. Kathy Kouri Milmoe and Bill McCarthy.

Last but not least, I heard from Nancy in honor of Sister Husson and the other as a gift Frank Geiger correctly identified the mystery McLaughlin ('71), who relates from Fairfield from Newton alumnae in the DC area. Carolyn photo of Tim Cyr, while Rick Ennis and Frank County, CT, that there was a charity golf tourna- Mclnerney also represented our class at the tea. Collins were the raffle winners of the BC painted ment in honor of her late husband, Mike, this Sadly, on the day before the tea, we lost another box and mirror. Thomas Confrey was the winner past spring. Mike was a CPA and a partner in the Newton treasure with the passing of Sister Julia of the BC box in the dues raffle - congratula- firmofKPMG. Ann Ellis at Kenwood. In 1947, Sister Ellis was tions! The "modmates" of B52 and A36 arrived in

among the group of six RSCJs who were the glory and danced the night away. I am sure that founding community at Newton College. Sister there were many others who traveled long dis-

Ellis served generously and devotedly as director tances to the Shea Room, but among them were of the housekeeping staff at the college, until she Nick DiMinico (Texas), Bonnie Smith (Colorado)

moved to Washington, DC, in 1969. and Charles Neeler (North Carolina). • In other news, Josephine Ursini's daughter is entering Joy A. Malone Join the BC this fall. James DiResta was awarded a Master 16 Lewis St. of Public Health from Dartmouth College in Alumni Online Community Little Falls, NY 13365 [email protected] 2004. After graduating from BC, James received The Alumni Online Community is your a doctorate in podiatric medicine from Temple connection to BC: Hello classmates! There was a small problem University and currently practices in

with my e-mail account but all is well now. If you Newburyport. He and his wife, Susan, are the • Look up former classmates have written to me within the last six months proud parents of six children. Kerry Donovan in the Online Directory. and have not received a reply from either me or was recently promoted to vice president of mar- for Coldwell Residential Brokerage • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail the alumni office then I strongly suggest that keting Banker forwarding address. you just keep trying. Rob Boova did. In fact, he in Los Angeles, CA. Kerry has been with the com- now has sent us the following second install- pany since 2001. After a long battle with cancer, Check the Alumni Association Website at ment for our Class Notes column: "Sadly I Tom SkefEngton passed away last August. Many vvAww.bc.edu/alumni report the passing of our great friend Dennis of his friends attended the reunion with his wife, for information on registering. Belisle. Dennis was one who made everyone Terri. Classmates who attended the funeral were

laugh always. His last gift to us was the opportu- Russ Klernm, Lance Stuart, Paul Mastrangelo,

18 CLASS NOTES John and Nancy Rosplock Tesoro, Tony kets. Under her guidance, the company will seek Hellas M. Assad Digirolamo, John Marenghi, and Ben Chin. Tom to expand Worth's positioning through acquisi- 149 Lincoln St. was the managing partner of the New York law Norwood, MA 02062 tions and launches covering consumer and trade office of Clausen Miller, and he will always be 781-769-9542 publications, newsletters, associations, semi- [email protected] remembered for his positive and optimistic nars, events and related businesses. Her daugh- approach to everything in his life. Terri and their REUNION YEAR ter, Isabelle, recently graduated from Tuxedo sons still live in Ridgewood, NJ. Please remem- Park School in New York where she was class The lovely ladies from Waltham High School ber them and Tom's many friends in your valedictorian. She will be attending Dwight Class of '71 got together this spring for a prayers. • Take care and please write! Englewood School in New Jersey next year. • Newport reunion reminiscing about their high With the Class of '75 so well represented at the Beth Docktor Nolan school days. Among the celebrants were Carole games, this fall may be a great time for a tailgate. 693 Boston Post Rd. Magazu Mega and Evelyn Brunaccini Milner. Any volunteers with desirable on-campus park- Weston, MA 02493 Evelyn was an auditor for four years at KPMG, NEWTON ing please step forward! It's never too early to formally Peat Marwick Mitchell. For the past 25 make plans. Take care and God bless! years she has worked as controller for Global By the time the Class Notes arrive, our 30th Procurement & Hardware Manufacturing at Margaret M. Caputo reunion will have already occurred! Notes from 501 Kinsale Rd. Polaroid Corporation. Her daughter Erica (17) is the reunion will be in the next issue. These news Lutherville-Timonium, MD 21093 a junior at Waltham High. Haley (12) is in the notes are a continuation of Mary Ellen Keyser's NEWTON 410-308-1455 sixth grade attending Our Ladies of Waltham [email protected] notes from November 30, 2003. Part II: School. While browsing through photo albums, Madeline Sherry is a partner in her own suc- REUNION YEAR Carole and Evelyn recalled many fond memories cessful law firm, Hecker, Brown, Sherry and of Waltham High days with BC alums Lisa Helen Fox-O'Brien's daughter, Amy, is consider- Johnson. She specializes in employment law. ing to she visited Kasper and Maryellen Harrington. • Tom going BC, which with her Madeline and her husband, Frank, and their two Hastings (officially Thomas John Hastings) mom. During their visit, they took the time to sons five in Ardmore, PA. Lisa Parry Howard is received his PhD from Princeton Theological enjoy a delightful lunch with Joanne McCarthy working for the investment firm an attorney Goggins her Seminary on May 15, 2004. Tom has been a pro- and daughter, Kate, who attends SEI. She and husband Neal and son John reside fessor of practical theology (Christian education) BC. • Ann Vernon Fallon and her husband, Jim, in Malvern. Jane Keegan Doherty was a stay-at- at Tokyo Union Theological Seminary since are busy with the sports and social activities that home mom for many years, raising sons Matt, a 1995. Tom and Carol along with their four chil- are associated with three energetic sons: Jamie sophomore at Notre Dame, and Kevin, a fresh- and Matt is finishing dren - Rose (24), Paul (22), Sarah (19) and Katie (17), Tommy (15) (10). Ann man at a Jesuit prep school near their Cupertino, a master's in school counseling at Fairfield (9) - have lived in Japan for about 18 years. • CA, home. Joan had recently returned to part- Congratulations to Joseph Orlando on the publi- University. • Deb Melino-Wender and her hus- time work in a senior residence when her life band, Brian, recently celebrated their cation of his first novel, The Fisherman 's Son. 25th changed dramatically a couple of years ago. Her Author and historian Joseph E. Garland wrote anniversary. Daugher Tori will be a senior this husband, Paul, was diagnosed with brain cancer that the book is "born of [Joseph's] heritage and September at George Washington University. and died about two years ago. Jane is grateful for his love for this ancient fishing town, his profes- Twin sons Taylor and Alex start their freshman their wonderful life together and maintains sion, his convictions, his innate anger at injus- years at University of Connecticut and Rhode tremendous faith and optimism. Mary Slocum tice and exploitation at sea and ashore and his Island College, respectively, at the same time. is a marketing executive with Sun Microsystems. compassion for their victims, all intertwined Brian is with American Power Conversion and She and her husband spend hectic workweeks in with a love story whose tenderness will bring a Deb works with developers on design review for the Silicon Valley, their Palo Alto near home. projects that are tear to the most jaded eye." Joseph is looking for- presented to the Capital Center Their weekend retreat is an apartment they own ward to assessment and comments from class- Commission. When she has "down time," Deb in the Presidio area of San Francisco. I When can be found enjoying her newest hobby, sea mates. • Susan Darveau Murphy and her hus- visited Mary, she was in the midst of a new prod- band, Arthur, have a daughter, Katie, who just kayaking! • Jean Kanski Bird's eldest son, Jim, uct launch for Project Orion, which has been completed her freshman year at BC. They have will attend Bowdoin College in September 2004. written about in both Fortune and Wall Street started going to the football games and have Jean recently completed a four-year term on the Journal. Barbara Anne Cagney is teaching sec- enjoyed immensely seeing long-lost friends and board of trustees at her children's school in ond grade at Stuart Country Day School, work- Florida. While she continues to part-time roommates. • Steven A. Kursh just had a book work ing for our former dean of students, Sister Fran published by Financial Times, Prentice Hall. as a freelance medical illustrator, she also volun- De La Chappelle. Mary Ellen Keyser also wrote, The book, entitled Minding the Corporate teers for the literacy council and is a member of "I took a position as manager of business opera- Checkbook: A Manager's Guide to Executing the Marion Cultural Alliance to help support the tions with a financial planning firm in early Successful Business Investments, provides a arts in their town. • Shawn McGivern is in pri- 2000 and lost that job in early October 2001, a detailed roadmap for evaluating and executing vate practice at The Counseling Center for crushing time to be a middle-aged woman out of Artists is completing research investments. The book is written for senior-level in Cambridge and work. Fifty-three weeks later, I commenced my and mid-level executives as well as entrepre- current position as coordinator of credit pro- neurs and people assuming responsibilities in grams for the Goodwin College of Professional their jobs for making investment decisions in Studies at Drexel University. Our eldest son, Football such areas as research and development, mar- BC Nelson, graduated from the US Naval Academy keting, HRM, technology and finance. The book 2004 Road Schedule in 2002; Elizabeth, a junior, is busy looking at is based on Steve's work with companies like colleges." Thank you, Mary Ellen Keyser, for IBM, Sun, Citibank and regional firms. Steve is September 2 Ball State responding to my constant plea for news notes. an executive professor at Northeastern September 25 Wake Forest Beth Carroll and husband John Meyer live in University. His daughter Eliza recently graduat- October 16 Pittsburgh Granby, CT Beth writes, "Both of my parents ed from Weston High and his other two children October 23 Notre Dame turned 80 this year. John's daughter and her are at school at BB&N in Cambridge. • After 18 November 13 West Virginia husband had a baby girl last June. And our years Heidi Steiger retired from Neuberger puppy, Rocky, was October's pet of the month in November 20 Temple Berman on March 1, 2004. She has been named Granby. Our little house in Vermont had an elec- president of CurtCo Media's Worth Magazine trical fire, but luckily it was contained so the Group. She will be responsible for furthering Visit www.bc.edu/awaygames/ damage was not too great!" Class news deadlines for information. Worth Magazine's position in the wealth man- more are several months before publication. NCSH agement, preservation and transference mar- Class of 1974 needs your news! WRITE!

www.bc.edu/alumni for her book Hold that Thought: Artists and Guy Rotella published Castings: Monuments Therapists on the Relationship Between and Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Please join us for the Creativity and Mental Health. • Pam Puce Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Derek 2004 Alumni Achievement Boggeman has been with Bank of America for Walcott, and Seamus Heaney in May 2004. Guy Awards Ceremony 27 years. She and her husband, Jay, are also is a professor of English at Northeastern active with four children. The eldest, Kevin, will University. • Reminder: If you go to the Alumni Thursday, be a senior at St. John's University (Minnesota) Association Website you can register informa- September 30, 2004 p.m., Robsham Theater in September 2004. Peter starts Providence tion, get e-mail and locate fellow classmates with 7

College (Rhode Island) at the same time and ease. It's really helpful. • Here's hoping all Celebrate the achievements of their youngest, Jane, will start sixth grade at enjoyed a great summer. Please remember your our most distinguished alumni. Villa Duschesne in St. Louis. Son Paul is in lonely correspondent by dropping a line! God Complimentary reception following the high school. Pam has been in touch with our bless!! awards ceremony to be held music professor, Emmett Windham, who would in the Heights Room. Nicholas D. Kydes love to hear from his former students at wind- 8 Newtown Terrace Please RSVP to 800-669-8430. [email protected]. • Eileen Sutherland Norwalk, CT 06851 203-829-9122 Visitwww.bc.edu/alumniawards for more info. Brupbacher and Josh watched proudly as their [email protected] youngest son, Dan, graduated from

Georgetown in May 2004. Their older son, Jay, Eric J. Marcy, a partner of the law firm Wilentz, also a Georgetown grad, works in DC for a ven- Goldman & Spitzer, PA, in Woodbridge, NJ, John Carabatsos ture capital firm. • Mary Ciaccio Griffin and was designated to serve on the New Jersey 478 Torrey St. Brockton, MA 02301 husband John also were proud parents this year District Court "Local Working Group on [email protected] as their oldest child, Caroline, graduated from Electronic Technology" being chaired by the Boston College in May 2004. Their two other Honorable Katharine Hayden, US district REUNION YEAR children are John (attending Amherst College) judge. Eric has been a trustee of the New Jersey Hello everyone. As you can see, I have a new e- and Andrew (Albany Academy). • Laura Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers since mail address. Please send me some material so Zerbinati is a successful fashion designer, keep- 2000 and serves as the administrator for its the notes can be something we all look forward ing busy with her latest projects: designing Website. to reading. • Congratulations go to Andrew evening gowns for the upcoming Panamanian Glincher who has been named managing part- presidential inauguration and participating in 971 West Rd. ner of the Boston office at Nixon Peabody. He Panama's Fashion Week when she is not travel- New Canaan, CT 06840 203-966-8580 lives in Sharon with his wife and three children. ing to Italy. • Thank you for writing - it was nice [email protected] Andrew also serves on the faculty of BC where to have a column to write again! (The count- he has taught a course in real estate finance down begins: nine months until our 30th Raymond E. Berube was promoted to the rank since 1988. He has served in various positions of reunion!) of Rear Admiral (Lower Half) of the US Navy. the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and B'nai He was commissioned in 1979 as an ensign in B'rith. In addition, Andrew has served as a Gerald B. Shea the US Navy Supply Corps and later received a 25 Elmore St. member of the Town of Sharon Zoning Board of master's degree in financial management from Newton Centre, MA 02459 Appeals and the Boston Bar Association. gerbs54@ hotmail.com the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Alison Mitchell McKee He and his wife, Mary Farrell, have two children 1128 Brandon Rd. Talk about a dry spell! For the first time since (12 and 8). Virginia Beach, VA 23451 graduation, Ellen Donahue returned to the Laura Vitagliano 757-428-0861 Heights for a mini-reunion with old chums 78 Wareham St. amckee8i @aol.com Kathy Murphy, Beth Hurley Falzarano, Judy Medford, MA 02155 Fr. Gregory Ramkissoon (GA&S '82) has been 781-396-2972 Harvey Hayes and husband John, as well as this [email protected] selected as the recipient of the 2004 Alumni writer. Even a short jaunt around campus made Achievement Award for Rehgion. All members clear the incredible changes over the past 28 Hi! I'm sitting here writing this column on of the Class of 1981 are invited to join in honor- years. To see them all at once is stunning! A fine Memorial Day, and the weather has been fan- ing his achievements at the award ceremony and time was had by all, and all made an evening pil- tastic! As I write, I'm eagerly awaiting our 25th reception to be held at 7 p.m. on Thursday, grimage to the memorial labyrinth to remember reunion. The conflict is that you will be read- September 30, 2004, at Robsham Theater, Main and pray for departed roommate Danielle Delie ing this column in August, expecting reunion Campus. For more information, please visit and classmate Edward Papa. Ellen thereafter news, but that won't appear until the Fall issue www.bc.edu/alumniawards or call 800-669- returned to the distant island of Manhattan, which is due out in November. I hope that you 8430 to reserve space at the event. promising to visit again in the 21st century. • all understand the deadlines and will be After 14 years with Fed Ex in Boston and patient with news that you share. • Jonathan Phoenix, Fred Lescher resigned in June 2003 to Scott wrote to that he's the of say been CEO pursue an opportunity as general manager-west- Victory Programs since graduation. He's ern for Bellville Rodair International, an interna- helped to build this once small organization From the Heights to Your tional freight forwarding and logistics company. into a large residential treatment center for Fred and his wife, Marianne Lucas ('83), celebrat- Hometown individuals living with homeless and families ed their 20th anniversary in June with a two- addiction and AIDS, serving over 2,000 annu- Looking for a way to stay connected week trip to Paris and London. Marianne is the to to Boston College in your hometown? ally. He has the deepest gratitude BC and principal of Kyrene de la Mariposa Elementary the PULSE program, which still today actively School in Tempe, AZ. They live in Gilbert, AZ. • Join your local chapter. provides undergraduate volunteers to their Jefrry Burr finally said no to the corporate rat race centers. He wanted to share the news that he and now owns a beautiful bed & breakfast in the To find the chapter nearest you, married Michael McGuill on May 17, 2004. Franconia Notch area of the White Mountains of go to www.bc.edu/alumni Their son, Luis, turned one year old in March. New Hampshire. It is a well-known inn called

• I hope that you all will send me updates on The Bungay Jar, named for a unique springtime or contact Jack Moynihan at [email protected] your lives if you didn't get a chance to do so at wind that blows through the Notch. As a restored the reunion! Take care! 1800s post-and-beam barn, with award-winning

gardens and amazing mountain views, it is a perfect place for Jeffry to pursue his dream. He'd

20 CLASS NOTES love to host other Eagles in need of rejuvenation. first people I met freshman year. Thinking of Jay band, Fred. Their four children - Tava (24), Evan

• - Sheila McKeon has been living in Cleveland, made me wonder where people like Oscar (20), Adrian (7) and Carin (5) keep them busy OH. for the past 20-plus years. She attended law Hopkins, Kevin Mooney and Marie Rossignol are and on their toes! She says hello to Carol school at Case Western Reserve University and now. Nick Callas, are you still practicing law down McCarthy, Lisa Buckley, Kristin Messer, Maura decided to stay in Cleveland. She's a partner with south? • Gene Roman wants to know why more of Shea, Lisa Dimarzo and Kathy Hennessey and

Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman where she you aren't writing... and so do I!! Gene's quest to would love to hear from you at has a litigation practice with an emphasis on be a professional student continues - he's begin- [email protected]. • Marianne Lucas Lescher defending railroad clients. Sheila lives in Bay ning a master's program in journalism at (LGSOE '98) is an elementary school principal at Village, a western suburb of Cleveland. Last sum- Columbia. He's been an active participant in BC Kyrene de la Mariposa School in Tempe, AZ. mer Sheila got together in New Hampshire with activities in New York City as well. • Brian Her school received the distinction of an Arizona her roommates from Mod 42A at Sue McGlew Cummins and his wife, Patty (Foley, '81), are A+ School' from the Arizona Educational

Maher's house. Katie McCready Daly, Barb Fiore thrilled that their oldest daughter, Maureen, will Foundation. Only 12 schools across Arizona Willwerth, Mary Fink Mathios and Mary Lee be a freshman at BC this year. She's now a third- received this distinction, awarded for exemplary (Hart) Schott were also there. Everyone is doing generation Eagle, since Brian's father, Dan, was educational programs and parent and communi- well with active and growing families. Sheila also Class of '58, and Patty's parents are also alums - ty support. saw Jim Chase last summer who was in Dan in 1955 and Carolyn in 1956. Brian retired Cleveland for a convention. is a United Jim from the Army last year and is working for Carol A. McConnell

• Church of Christ minister in Charlton. James J. Northrop Grumman Corporation on special intel- P.O. Box 628 Belmar, NJ 07719 Ferrelli, a partner at Duane Morris LLP, was ligence projects. They live in Fairfax, VA. • Jack sworn in as president of the Burlington County Griffin, president of the Meredith Corporation Bar Association in June 2004. He was sworn in Publishing Group, was one of five laypeople Matthew Vossler has been selected as the recipi- his father, the Honorable Dominick Ferrelli, by J. named to the Catholic Relief Services board of ent of the 2004 Alumni Achievement Award for served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge who directors. Jack and his wife, Kathleen, live in Public Service. All members ofthe Class of1984 from to • With sadness, Dan and 1974 1992. Fairfield, CT, with their two sons. • Remember, are invited to join in honoring his achievements (Karas) have informed of Cindy O'Connor me gang, that this column is only as interesting as the at the award ceremony and reception to be held the death of our classmate Roger Austin. Roger information I receive. Make it a point to sit down at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, 2004, at at of April after a two-year passed away the end and send an e-mail or note today. Robsham Theater, Main Campus. For more battle with liver cancer. Since graduation, Roger information, please visit www.bc.edu/alumni- Cynthia ). Bocko had lived in several places around the country, 71 Hood Rd. awards or call 800-669-8430 to reserve space at in the catering hospitality industry working and Tewksbury, MA 01876 the event. for companies like Marriott and Radisson. Most 978-851-6119 Hope you are enjoying summer. Carol Donahue recently he lived in Florida where he was director [email protected] Moore wrote to say that she and husband Patrick of catering at the Woodfield Country Club in Here's the news you've all been waiting for! Lois recently welcomed their eighth child. The couple Boca Raton. Roger leaves behind his parents, a Marr Fruhwirth writes: "My big news is that I founded a private Catholic school, Royal Palm sister and many dear friends. have recently been promoted to associate director Academy, in Naples, FL, six years ago. They con-

of logistics at Procter & Gamble. I'll be relocating tinue to serve on the board and welcome any visi- John A. Feudo 175 Sheffield Drive in June with my husband, Gary, and two sons, tors interested in taking a tour of the academy.

Belchertown, MA 01007 Kyle (8) and Michael (4), from Cincinnati, OH, to Please send me news of what you've been up to [email protected] Fayetteville, AR, to run P&G's US logistics oper- for the next issue. I'm sure many of you have

ations for Wal-Mart. (Please no jokes about 'the much to share with classmates and I look forward One of the best parts about being our class corre- Simple Life'!) We should be in Fayetteville for to hearing from you. Hope you have had a good spondent is that I get to hear from friends I about three years, so if there are any Eagles in the summer. haven't talked to in years. Nancy Gorman area please look me up. My husband and I will Arsenault, who had this class correspondent gig Barbara Ward Wilson celebrate our 10-year anniversary in July. I'll also 8 Via Capistrano back when we were all still young, e-mailed to say be with P&G 21 years this August (boy how time Tiburon, CA 94920 that she has four children all within a 14-month flies). My family got together over Thanksgiving [email protected] age span - Madeline Grace, who is two-and-a-half, with Julie Ciaccio Brennan, her husband, Steve, and one-year-old triplets Patrick, Casey and and their two sons, Matthew and Jack, at Julie's REUNION YEAR Audrey. Needless to say, Nancy and husband Scott home in Newport Beach, CA. Julie's doing great Hi again. I hope everyone had a great summer. have their hands full, living in their 1850 farm- and still looks exactly the same." • Jill (Nille) We are fast approaching our 20-year reunion! house in Stow. Nancy spent years in the trade 14 this "I have been mar- Freese provides update: Bob and Sue Marren were in Wellesley from show industry, dealing with loud crowds. ried to David for 12 years and am now a stay-at- 1995-1999, when they moved back to Winnetka, Hmmm... good practice! • Mike Ellis is another home to Andrew and Daniel - six-year-old mom IL. Their eldest, Tom, is 15 and a sophomore in blast from the past who likes to have kids in mul- twin boys who are in kindergarten. Previously, I tiples. He and Cathy have twin girls - Karen and taught special education classes (behavior man- Heather - who join three-year-old sister Laura. agement and autism) for 14 years in Rochester, the Many of us can hear Mike in the mornings, doing Join NY. I'm the children's ministry director at the weather reports on 20 radio stations in the church we attend and work part-time as a creative Alumni Online Community Northeast. He also does some part-time work as a consultant. I stay in touch with memories The Alumni Online Community is your social work training specialist at the Boston Barbara Stella and would love to hear from any connection to BC: University School of Social Work, where he School of Ed classmates at jillfreese@hot- earned his master's in 1997. • Jessica Mansell mail.com." • Anne DeVera Utterback wanted to • Look up former classmates Ambrose is back in New York City. While her in Online Directory. pass along the following to all the women from the three girls are in school, Jessica does voice-overs Roncalli first floor: "My husband, Tom, son, and volunteers for the Freedom Institute, while • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail Conor, and I have just moved into a new home in forwarding address. her husband runs their restaurants, Estia and Ft. Lauderdale, FL, and look forward to hosting Estia's Little Kitchen, on the East End. • former classmates. Winter 2005 anyone? My e- Check the Alumni Association Website at Unfortunately, news isn't always pleasant. I mail is [email protected]." • Leslie Buter Bess www.bc.edu/alumni learned recently that we lost another classmate, has been living in Seattle since 1991 and loves for information on registering. Gabriel of Westfield. After leaving BC, got Jay Jay the Pacific Northwest. She retired from nursing his law degree from Tulane. He was one of the and enjoys real estate investments with her hus-

www.bc.edu/alumni 21 high school at New Trier High School. Their serves as Barrington's building inspector. • Joe Nancy-Jean owns a company called BEAD daughter Megan is in eighth grade, Robby is in Massaro's construction business was purchased DREAMS. She designs and creates jewelry sixth grade, Kristin in fourth, Kevin in second by Gilbane Construction and Joe is enjoying time using sterling silver and a variety of stones and and John in first. The Marrens see Bob Home, off. Joe restores and sells old phonograph glass beads, especially lampworked Italian glass

Norton O'Meara and John Troy on occasion. • Victrolas on eBay as a hobby. • Carolyn McCahill beads which she makes over an open flame in a Congratulations to Albert and Laura (Soffey) McKigney has written a pilot show for HDTV glass studio! Nancy-Jean welcomes old friends to

Spada on the birth of their first child, Matthew entitled "PTA Moms and their Kitchen Secrets." • reconnect via e-mail at nancyjeanandchris@com-

Albert. Al, Laura and Matthew live in Westport, Mark Lavoie is a personal injury lawyer on the cast.net. Thanks for the update, Nancy-Jean; it

CT, and get together often with long-time friends north shore of Boston. As an avid skater, Mark was great to hear from you!! • Daniel S. Bleck Craig Coffey, Carole (Leong) Coffey, Mike spends his spare time coaching the Marlboro was promoted to partner at the firm Mintz, Peterson and his wife, Maria, and Rich Tang and synchronized figure skating "Snow Flurries" Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, in his wife, Lauren. Al is a senior vice president at team. • Cathy Cimpl made it back home where May 2004. Congratulations! • As for everyone

GE Corporate Lending in Norwalk, CT. • she resides in Lincoln, NE, and owns and oper- else... let me know if any of you have any news

Congrats to John and Lisa Bellantonio who pur- ates "Simple Pleasures," a small retail shop spe- fit to print!! Hope you all had a great summer! chased a new home in Chatham. John works for cializing in the design of custom bathroom vani- See you at a BC game!

Boston Whaler Boats and is also a volunteer ties. • Pete Harmon is the recruiting director for Catherine Stanton Rooney director of restoration for the famous Chatham Sears Roebuck in Chicago. • Tom "H" Honan 8 Ellsworth St. lighthouse. • After many successful years in lives in Natick and sits on the board of directors Braintree, MA 02184 advertising, Pat Corry has opened his own bou- at Papa Ginos restaurant chain based in [email protected] tique travel agency in Short Hills, NJ. "Corry Needham. • Peggy Strakosch was elected CEO by

Goes" specializes in direct flights to Turks and the board of her company after her husband, Greetings! I hope that you all had a wonderful

Caicos and secluded island "hot spots." • Bill Greg ('84), opted to step down and enjoy some summer and are looking forward to the fall. I did Dessel now resides in Boca Raton, FL, and works "Mr. Mom" time after founding the company. • not receive a lot of news, so this will be a very as district manager for Southeast Tanning & Spas Rich Smyth is in his 10th year with American short column! I heard from Patrice MacPherson,

Inc., a division of Bausch & Lomb. Bill and his Home Products, heading up its shower curtain who is currently living in Pottersville, NJ, and wife, Alison, have three boys. • Carole Schafer division. • Andy O'Brien left EMC after 12 years working as a high school history teacher. She took a leave from JP Morgan to do a part-time and is part-owner along with Greg Guimond of recently returned from a three-year leave of stint on New York's "the fan" radio sports net- "Weather Vanes Plus," a small manufacturer and absence during which she taught in an interna- work. You may have also seen Carole auditioning catalog marketer of weather measurement tional school in Barcelona, Spain. I also heard during the beginning stages of ESPN's Dream instruments and gardening tools, based in New from Sue McGuirk Shoffwho is living in Tokyo,

Job sports anchor challenge. • Beth Guimond left Rochelle, NY. • Mitch and Rob McAndrew recent- Japan, but will be heading back to California at American Express after 17 years and volunteers ly moved from Chicago north to Ossimee Falls, the end of the summer. She has a son, Nick, who her time on Ellis Island fund-raising efforts. • WI, where Rob is director of groundskeeping at is 10 and a daughter, MacKenzie Irene, who is 7.

Diane Lannon Bolusky has retired from banking Wisconsin State University. • Jim Mitchell- finally Wendy Permington-Marquard announced the and runs a Rhode Island horticultural consulting made it back to the BC area; he is presently man- arrival of her son, Alexander David, who was firm specializing in desert plants. • After years at aging the famous Boston Duck Tours while job born in July 2003. He joins big sister Sophia (2).

CSFB and JP Morgan in New York, Scott hunting. • Chris Conforti and Bob Foley checked Wendy and her husband, Jeremy, have moved to Harrington left the big city and works as director in as new owners of "Hickory Pit," a barbeque- Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas, and are living of store operations for the Connecticut-based Stu style restaurant and pub adjacent to Fenway Park. at Lucaya Beach Resort, where Jeremy is the

Leonard's grocery chain. • Shelagh Walsh resides • In honor of their 40th birthdays, former director of sales. Kathryn O'Sullivan was named in Dallas, TX, with her three teenage daughters. Williams dorm-mates Eileen Orie Carlson, 2004 Faculty of the Year by Northern Virginia She and husband Todd will be moving to Deirdre Reidy Clark, Cynthia Luckart Community College's Alumni Federation.

Burlington, VT, in the fall of this year. Talk about Cunningham, Debbie Elsasser, Sue Yarvis Kathryn is a drama professor at the college's a change! Todd will be opening the Northeast Hayden, Lauren Wilkins Miner, Parti Hopkins Manassas campus. I'm sorry this is so short, but division of his commercial real estate business. • Mullin, Maria Leonard Olsen, Nina Derba Ring hopefully more people will write in for the next

Sally Tychanich Healy is the president of a mail- and Tracey Campbell Schwartz left 19 children column. Have a great fall! order company that sells safety products for pets. and numerous high-powered jobs to gather at the Rob Murray • It sounds like Randy Seidl never stops. After spa at Norwich Inn in Norwich, CT, this May. 421 Callingwood St. leaving EMC and finishing up at Giant Loop, Between spa treatments and wine tastings, the San Francisco, CA 94114 Randy was approved as a Krispy Kreme franchise group reminisced about Mod 24's antics, Sue [email protected] operator. He owns three stores in Cambridge, and Mary's infamous awards ceremonies, marry-

AUston and Newburyport. • Chris Patton is back ing an RA, spring breaks, costume parties, road I'd like to start off this edition's column with an in Rhode Island where he sells skateboards and trips, hiding beer balls, soaking up local culture explanation of the delay some of us have noticed at Mary Ann's and life-long friendships. Lauren between the sending in and appearance of items and Eileen provided a hilarious video of photos in this space. The due date for Class Notes is from four years of rooming together at BC. three months before publication, which is also Please join us for the Deirdre and Nina gamely traveled from the San before the previous column appears in print. 2004 Alumni Achievement Francisco area to join in the fun with their East Since most correspondence comes in right after

Awards Ceremony Coast buddies. • Please keep those messages com- an issue, there is often a six-month lag built in. I

ing; I appreciate any and all news. do, however, promise to publish all updates Thursday, September 30, 2004 before children can read their own birth p.m., Robsham Theater Karen Broughton Boyarsky 7 announcements... • Accordingly, Melissa 205 Adirondack Drive (White) Shaheen and husband Ross of Raleigh, Celebrate the achievements of East Greenwich, Rl 02818 NC, are pleased to announce twins born on our most distinguished alumni. [email protected] (see?). Logan Grant and Peyton Complimentary reception following the January 5 awards ceremony to be held Nancy-Jean Berardo Eagan wrote with a great Elizabeth were "discovered" on the Monday after in the Heights Room. update! She and her husband, Chris, and their our reunion! (Feel free to make your own "and I

four children, Matthew (10), Allan (8), Lillian (6) thought I was hung over" joke here.) The Please RSVP to 800-669-8430. 15" and Tess (3), are living in Newburyport. She and Shaheens were also joined at "the with Jenny Visit www.bc.edu/alumniawards for more info. Chris met in Philadelphia while doing full-time McMahon-Varick and husband Brian of volunteer corps work and were married in 1990. Milwaukee, Patty (Mullaly) Panzer and husband

22 CLASS NOTES ('90), Laura Subilia-Bell, Michael Leonard ('90), Kara Corso Nelson Ellen Massucci ('83), Alan Swirski ('85), Sandra Join the 67 Sea Island Washington ('90) and Anthony Autori ('76). The Glastonbury, CT 06033 Alumni Online Community reception was held at the Omni Parker House in 860-647-9200 [email protected] Boston. The couple honeymooned for three glo- The Alumni Online Community is your weeks in Italy settling into their connection to BC: rious before REUNION YEAR home in Winchester. Elizabeth had been work- First a little housekeeping. If you have e-mailed • Look up former classmates ing as an oncology social worker at the Dana- me recently you may have encountered the new in the Online Directory. Farber Cancer Institute, teaching sociology anti-spam system I felt compelled to put in place courses at Boston College and starting her disin order to avoid the barrage of spam I get daily • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail sertation work for her PhD in sociology and forwarding address. urging me to buy medications (and other things) social work at Boston University before that I have no use for. But don't be discouraged at Parcel Service at Stephen's job United (UPS) Check the Alumni Association Website - all you have to do is reply once to verify that transferred them to UPS headquarters in www.bc.edu/alumni you are not a computer generating the e-mail couple to the Atlanta registering. Atlanta, GA. The moved for information on and you're set for life (or for however long I con- area in May 2003. Stephen is enjoying his work tinue to write Class Notes, whichever comes in special projects for finance and accounting. first!). I apologize for making you jump through Elizabeth expects to finish her dissertation work this hoop, but it had gotten very difficult to wade Karl of Attleboro, and Iinda Malenfant of West in 2004. Elizabeth and Stephen are thrilled to through all the unwanted e-mail, so I felt I need- Newton. Linda still works at BC and can confirm announce the birth of their first child, Raffaella ed to take action. E-mail is still the best way to that the official frozen novelty of the 80s, the Elizabeth, born on February 28, 2004. • Rob and get your news to me, so please keep it up! • Chipwich, is still readily available on campus. Paula Bonanno Lordi are pleased to announce Kathleen (Straub) McAuslin and her husband Hopefully the book store is finally out of those the birth of their son John Robert "Jack' Lordi. welcomed the arrival of their third son on joins four-year- Hall & Oates notebooks... • Greg Greene also Jack was born on January 26. He October 2, 2003. Noah Quinn McAuslin joins has a new daughter, Lila. Born on Valentine's old twin siblings Robert and Hannah who are brothers Joel (9) and Drew (5). The McAuslin Day, she joins sister Georgia and brother thrilled to play with him. The Lordis live in family lives in Northampton and loves it there. Brendan in Rumson, NJ. • Lillian (Garcia), hus- Dover and are presently undergoing a move They plan to buy a house in a co-housing com- band Scott, and big brother Nicholas welcomed across town. Rob is an original partner and one munity that is just beginning construction. • "Charlie" to the Palmer house in New of the managing principals of IGS Boston, a Christopher Annunziata married Christina Hampshire. He arrived early, but then Lily has strategy consulting arm of Ernst and Young, and Messineo, a Georgetown grad, in 1998. They live always been known for getting things done Paula is a senior director of client management in McLean, VA, just across the Potomac from ahead of schedule... • Another update comes with Investors Bank in Boston. • David Qoutier Washington, DC. Chris is an orthopedic surgeon from Donald Preskenis. He works as an internal wed Catherine Abberton in May 2003. Fellow and helps take care of the DC United of Major audit director for Sovereign Bank in Boston and BC alumni in the wedding party included Tom League Soccer while Christina is an oncology fel- lives in Upton with wife Tina and sons Ryan and Slattery and David Rigazio. David's father, Alan low at the National Cancer Institute of the Devin. Word has it that Ryan is a future three- Cloutier ('59), is also a fellow Eagle. David is a National Institutes of Health. They have a two- sport letterman. • Stephen Kaminski is current- project manager for the law firm of Ropes & year-old son. This winter, they had a wonderful ly on a yearlong fellowship at the University of Gray LLP in Boston and Cathy is currently a time at Scott and Kate Olivieri's home in Maryland's Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. graduate student at University of Rhode Island. Nashua, NH. They invited several of the old He was one of the 2004 recipients of the Shock The couple resides in Providence, RI. • Joseph Fitzpatrick gang up for the weekend. Debbie and Trauma Hero Award given each year to the med- A. Iocono finally finished his postgraduate train- Robert Considine and Kerri and John Capelli ical professionals who save the most critically ing. After graduating from medical school at stayed for the weekend as well, while Rich injured patients. • Debbie "From Hawaii" Jefferson in Philly, he did five years of general Graziano, Art Queenan, Peter Tagunilla, James Gallagher wrote to say she doesn't want anyone surgery at Penn State and a three-year research Meehan, Bill Murray and Roger Willson also to know she, hubby Ron, and daughters Malia fellowship there on wound healing. After that, showed up for the mini-reunion. • On April 13, and Maile are living in Ithaca, NY, while Ron he completed a two-year clinical fellowship in 2004, Rich Iannessa and wife Jaime welcomed pursues an MBA. I don't know much about pediatric surgery at St. Christopher's back in their first child, daughter Ava Victoria. Both wife Ithaca, but it can't be any worse than that Philadelphia. Since July 2003, Joe has been at and daughter are doing wonderfully and the Hillsides suite storage closet. Just think, Deb, by the University of Kentucky Children's Hospital Iannessas send warm wishes to all! • Richard the time you read this, you'll be that much clos- where he is an assistant professor, specializing DeMarco recently married Lisa Saccoccio. er to moving back to Boston! in minimally invasive surgery in infants and Richard is currently working as a computer ana- children. Joe and his wife, Susan, have two won- lyst. BC grads in attendance at their wedding Cheryl Williams Kalantzakos derful daughters, Amanda (8) and Lauren (6). • to Devonshire Place One final note: As this year marks our 15th Andover, MA 01810 [email protected] reunion, it is once again time to hold class officer elections. Officer positions include presi- secretary. Hello everyone! I am writing this on the day dent, vice president, treasurer and From the Heights to Your Current class officers are Gloria Perez, Dawna after attending our 15-year reunion party. It was Hometown great to reconnect with old friends and re-hash Cellucci, Joe Peters and Andrea McGrath. If you for a to stay connected old stories. It looked like a fun time was had by are interested in nominating yourself or another Looking way e-mail to Boston College in your hometown? all. Now on to the updates... • Elizabeth Rohan classmate for an officer position, please

and Stephen Shanahan ('87) were married on the BC Alumni Association at alumni.com- Join your local chapter. May 26, 2002, at St. Ignatius Church. Fr. Robert [email protected] and indicate "Class of 1989 Elections" in the subject line. Nominations will verEecke was the celebrant, and not only did he To find the chapter nearest you, until November 1, after which deliver a wonderful homily, he arranged for the be accepted 2004, go to www.bc.edu/alumni liturgical dancers that those in attendance are we will notify classmates of all nominees and are to conduct the still talking about! BC alumni in the wedding conduct elections. We hoping or contact Jack Moynihan at party were Delia Gardner Baird, Kenny Alleyne nomination and election process via e-mail, so [email protected] Association ('99), Peter Kelly ('87) and Paul Bell ('88). Also please be sure the BC Alumni has in attendance were Don and Lorene Vieira both your current e-mail and mail address. Simoneau ('86), Mary Lou Cunningham Kelly Thank you.

www.bc.edu/alumni 23 were Nancy (DeMarco) Curtin ('87), Thomas husband, Matt, on the birth of their son, Nikki (3). Sue Pepin Fay and husband Tom have Curtin ('86) and Leanne DeMarco • Matthew William, ('99). a new daughter, Leah, who was born on Saint on August 18, 2003. Matthew Michael Dupee has left Goldman Sachs in New joins older sister Kara (2). Kelly and Matt are liv- Patrick's Day. • It's not too soon to think about York City and has moved on to a new opportuni- ing in Belmont. • Maria (Niell) Bannon and her our 15th reunion! Franz Loeber writes that he is ty back in Vermont. Mike accepted a senior-level husband, Kevin, are pleased to announce the chairing the Reunion Gift Committee and is position at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in arrival of their son, Ignacio, looking for volunteers. Contact Franz at Joseph on March 7. Waterbury Center, VT, providing leadership, Maria and Kevin live in Mamaroneck, NY, [email protected] if you're available to help. and direction and execution for company practice, work in Manhattan. • Congratulations to It means a few phone calls to classmates, which my policy and strategy in the areas of corporate citi- dear friend and BC roommate Kerrie (Shaheen) is always a great way to catch up with old friends! zenship and corporate social responsibility. He T.iggio and her husband, Andrew, on the arrival will be in this position as of July 1. If you want to Peggy Morin Bruno of their son, Jack Finnigan Liggio. Jack was born 2 High Hill Rd. reach Mike while he's in transit his personal e- on Sunday, May 23, 2004. He joins his big sister, Canton, CT 06019 mail address is [email protected]. • Kate • Finally, congratulations to Brian Jay [email protected] (2). Tanghey, Jr., was promoted to partner at Mintz, Kelley ('92), who will be one of eight athletes to Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC. be inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Jay One wedding, six babies and an induction (not practices in the litigation section of the firm's Hall of Fame. Brian was a star second baseman the baby kind!)... News was a little slow this go- Boston office. • This past spring, Phil Rectra for BC from 1989-91. The induction ceremony around, so remember to send in all the news you recorded two CDs, both in the crooning genre. will be held on Sunday, November • I have to share! You know everyone loves to hear 7, 2004. On June 14, there was a record release party at hope everyone had a fantastic summer and will what's happening! • Congratulations to Ed D's in Somerville, MA. It's Phil's first remember to send in your updates of your Johnny Corvese and his new wife, Yana Regan, who sum- effort in the realm of recorded music, but he has mer fun! The deadline for the next column is were married in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 7, more projects already scheduled for later this September 2004. Ed and Yana honeymooned in Bali and 3. year and 2005! • Missy (Campbell) Reid was the Singapore. They now live in Quincy. Ed has a Paul L Cantello mastermind behind a little reunion for the girls law practice in Rhode Island. • Congratulations The Gotham at Foxwoods Resort and Casino in May. Armine 255 Warren St., No. 813 also go to Christine (Pokoly) Redfern and her (Kushigian) Kanis. Susie (Mullarkey) Iovanne, Jersey City, NJ 07302 husband, Neill, on the birth of their first child, [email protected] Laura (Byrne) O'Connor, Chris (Conry) Flynn, Margaret Frances, on February n, 2004. They Diane (Cordano) Cordon, Sue Pepin Fay and I James Manfield was married on August live in Steamboat Springs, CO, where Neill is a 31, enjoyed dining, some gambling and mostly each in Boulder, to Jill (a '92 grad- snowboard instructor and lacrosse coach and 2003, CO, Arends other's company. Diane mentioned she was con- uate of the University of Maryland). Matt Woods Christine is taking a break from ski instructing sidering leaving her physical therapy practice on ('00) was his best man. James spent almost five to be a stay-at-home mom. • Patty (Deshaies) Long Island to pursue other things, such as years living in Colorado working for Sun McPherson and her husband, Sean, had a baby teaching, though after seeing her performance Microsystems. The couple recendy moved back boy, Jake, on April 16. He joins his older sister, on the slots that night, I'm thinking she's got a to the Boston area. James can be reached at Kasey. Patty and her family live in Redondo few options. Armine and husband Michael [email protected] and would love to Beach, CA, but were planning to move back to moved to East Greenwich, RI, last summer; they hear from friends still in the area. • Paul Carroll Massachusetts this summer. • Chris Kypriotis run into Leisching quite often, who is a was married on October 18, 2003, to Jennifer John moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September 2003. neighbor of theirs. Armine and Michael have Howard. They honeymooned in Aruba and have He is the president of Billabong South America. opened up "Jim's West Bay Deli" in North happily settied into their new home in Cranston, He welcomed his first child, Athina Christie Kingston, RI, a New York-style deli that rolls out RI. Paul is currently an organizational develop- Kypriotis, a baby girl, on April 14, 2004. • the red carpet for alums! Armine and ment specialist with Boston Financial, Inc. His BC Congratulations to Kelly (Flavin) Rowan and her Michael have two daughters, Alyssa (6) and wife is a quality analyst at PFPC, Inc. • Darin Weeks has been elected president of the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod

Baseball League. At age 33, he is the youngest president in the 118 years of the franchise's exis-

tence. Darin is also a mortgage lending officer at

Cape Cod 5 Cents Savings Bank. • Chris (Sloan)

Schroeder recendy moved to St. Joseph, MI, a small town a couple hours east of Chicago. Chris

is still teaching high school and loving it. •

Sarnir Asaf is the author of Executive Corporate Finance: The Business of Enhancing

Shareholder Value. He is currentiy a financial

director at AT&T Corp. in New Jersey. • Reena Thadhani was promoted to partner at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, PC, where she practices in the trusts and estates sec-

tion. • Celeste (DeMarco) Hedequist lives in Boston with her husband, Daniel. In July 2003 they welcomed their daughter, Jane Audree.

Celeste is a lawyer in the patent group at Foley Hoag, LLP in Boston, and her husband works at

Children's Hospital in Boston. • Brad Roe and his wife had their second child, Christian Bradley Roe, on September 22, 2003. His sister,

Sydney (2-1/2), is enjoying her new brother.

Brad still lives in Santa Barbara, CA. His first novel, A Saint's Last Tear, was recendy pub-

lished. • Christa (Hainey) and David Cormier are

living in Medway. Dave is working at Harvard

24 CLASS NOTES Charlotte (3) and Georgia (1), keeps her busy, Nancy E. Drane Diane somehow finds the time to also head join the 226 E. Nelson Ave. fund-raising for the development of a high Alexandria, VA 22301 Alumni Online Community school for her girls' Montessori school in Dallas. 703-548-2396 [email protected] After finishing a three-year stint with the Salt The Alumni Online Community is your Lake Olympics, Liz Ridley Leckemby moved to connection to BC: Happy summer! This issue I have some news of Chicago to the work on 2003 US Open Golf my own to share. On May 8, 2004, Dana • classmates Championship. Immediately after the 2003 US Look up former Colarulli ('95) and I were married at St. Ignatius. in the Online Directory. Open, she began a new position with the 2005 We were joined by many BC folks, including US Women's Open in Denver, CO. In the fall of Stacy Beardsley ('92), Deb (Nugent) Lussier, Rob • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail Liz married Harry Leckemby, on the 2003, Jr., Fortier ('95) and Charlie Drane ('95), who were forwarding address. Jersey Shore. BC alums Molly Carroll and Tobin in the wedding party. Beth Coyle, Elizabeth Dominick Arsenault ('96) were able to join in Check the Alumni Association Website at (O'Hearn) Galvin, Lori MacDonald, Josie www.bc.edu/alumni the festivities but thankfully not in their honey- (Losada) McMahon, Shireen (Pesez) Rhoades to Australia and Zealand. They are for information on registering. moon New and Erin (Miller) Spaulding represented the now living in Colorado Springs and welcome Class of '94. Also in attendance were a slew of anyone to visit or contact them! Erin (Burgoyne) Class of '95 folks - Ruth and Jeremy Anagnos,

currently lives in Martinsburg, WV, with hus- Jeff Croteau, Kristen D'Amato, Lori-Ann Fallon, Management Company as a derivatives supervi- band John Reisenweber, a Washington and Lee Steve Deroian, Tara McGrath and Mike and sor and Christa works at the newly formed graduate. In July 2003, they welcomed first Kristen Rozman - as well as Megan Devers Sowood Capital. child, Jack, and are truly enjoying the challenges ('96), Dan Rinzel ('92) and - most importantly that parents. Erin grad- and fun come with being - my dad ('50). We had a wonderful time with all Sandy Chen Virginia University College uated from West of of them! • Jeanne (Hurley) Horsey and her hus- 355 Sixth St. #2 Brooklyn, NY 11215 Law in May 2003 and currently is a law clerk for band, Charlie, welcomed Sarah McCrea to their [email protected] a West Virginia circuit judge. She'll begin a family in July 2003. Sarah joins big brother clerkship with a US District Court judge this Duren (3) and big sister McCormick (2). Jeanne, Janine (Bova) Goldstein and husband Andrew is district field representative August. John the who lives in Madison, NJ, is a part-time pediatric welcomed their first child, Reagan Elizabeth for Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito. On nurse practitioner in pediatric pulmonology Goldstein, on May 10, 2004. Janine left the prac- March 27, 2004, classmate Noelle Barnes mar- practice. Jenny Crawford is currently deployed tice of law as an assistant district attorney in ried Jason D. Williams (who, in Noelle's words, with the Fkst Infantry Division in Tikrit, Iraq, in June 2002 and started teaching seventh grade is "not a BC alum, but nobody's perfect"). They support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Jenny is a English at Pentucket Regional Middle School in had a picture-perfect wedding in Lake Las Vegas, defense attorney with the Army JAG Corps. She West Newbury in September 2002. Heather about 15 miles off the Vegas Strip, next to a lake, has sent me a number of interesting updates (Costello) Sullivan (LGSOE '95) and her two with lots of family and friends who had flown in about her experiences there. If you'd like to wish brothers, Christopher and Sean, all got married for the occasion. Noelle and Jason have been liv- Jenny well, you can reach her at in Rockport the of 2000! during summer ing in Seattle for the last seven years and plan to [email protected]. Elena Heather and her husband, Richard, celebrated keep on doing so. She's loving her work at (Lagratta) Coppola married Joseph M. Coppolla their daughter Holly's first birthday on January and, believe it or not, the misty Amazon.com on May 1, 2004, at St. Joseph's Church in 2004. They live in Pembroke. Heather 29, Seattle weather (apparently the constant rain Danbury, CT, with a reception following at Glen teaches English in the Hingham Public Schools and mist are doing wonders for her complex- Island Harbour Club in New Rochelle, NY. The and Richard is an engineer for Webster - ion)! They plan on moving someday maybe couple got engaged in Florence, Italy, overlook- Engineering in Boston. Heather has some great back to Boston - but will be staying there for the ing the Ponte Vecchio in October 2003. Elena updates on her BC friends. Her good friend Seattle foreseeable future with their own zoo writes that it was a dream come true! After hon- Annmarie (Carr) Fennelly (LGSOE '96) also (two dogs and two cats). Dani (Caracciolo) Burke eymooning in Hawaii, the couple returned to teaches English in Hingham. Annmarie and is currently living in Berkeley, CA, with husband Stamford, CT, where Elena is a vice president of husband Stephen live in Weymouth and have Joe and their new daughter, Natalie Maria. Dani human resources for Citigroup Asset three children, Claire and twins Megan and (3) is a content producer for LeapFrog, a toy compa- Management. Mark Bodie wanted the rest of the Brian Heather's brother Chris and his wife, (1). ny that is just a short commute from their home class to know about a fund that has been put Carmen (Ochoa) Costello welcomed their ('95), in the hills! Husband Joe is a lawyer at Werner together to honor our classmate Ed Vanacore, second child, daughter Marisa, on May 1, 2004. with friend that and Burke, a firm he started a who was killed on September 11, 2001. The Son Patrick will be two this August. They reside handles commercial litigation and IP cases Edward Vanacore Student Assistantship Fund in Rowley. Carmen is currently on leave from among others. Although Dani is still in touch was established by the Vanacore family with the teaching in the Gloucester Public Schools and with many BC friends, she couldn't make our assistance of John ('91) and Mary-Beth (Pupa, Chris is working for the Building Center of 10th reunion due to being eight months preg- Gloucester. Heather also keeps in touch with nant. She welcomes anyone who'd like to get in classmates Robert Tango (Chicago, IL), Julie touch ([email protected]). Heather Please join us for the Taylor-Massey (Denver, CO) and Bethany (Hughes) Marden, husband Kevin and son Cal (2) 2004 Alumni Achievement (Sherman) McGrail (Augusta, ME). Michele are really enjoying the new addition to their fami- Awards Ceremony (Campbell) Scannell and husband Ken wel- ly, Chloe, born on March 9. Dilip Paliath and wife comed their second son, Kyle Christopher, on Tracey welcomed their first child, Hannah Mary Thursday, September 30, 2004 February 23, 2004. Kyle joins big brother Jack. Paliath, on May 18, 2004. Eric Wiberg received a 7 p.m., Robsham Theater The Scannell family is enjoying their new home JD/Master of Marine Affairs from the School of in Shrewsbury. Jennifer (Viklund) Smith and at Roger Williams University in May 2004. Law Celebrate the achievements of husband Steve were blessed with the birth of For those of you who write in, please know that I our most distinguished alumni. their son, Daniel Pierre Smith, on December 24, always reply as confirmation. So, if you don't hear Complimentary reception following the 2003. Diane (Cheetham) married Nat Leakey, from me, please resend your e-mail! Many thanks awards ceremony to be held who is CEO of Preston Senior Living, in 1997. and hope you all had a great summer! in the Heights Room. Diane received her MBA at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and worked for the Dallas Please RSVP to 800-669-8430. Visit www.bc.edu/alumniawards for more info. Museum of Art and SMU in fund-raising. Although being at home with her two girls,

www.bc.edu/alumni 25 '93) Henry. The intent of the assistantship fund Yoo gave birth to Nathan Christopher Yoo on of the United Nations system. Lisa has become is to commemorate Ed's considerable contribu- October 18, 2003. Ashlee (Bunt) Cumello wel- the first woman of color to hold this position. tion to music at BC and to award assistantships comed her second daughter, Ava Katherine, on Congratulations to Lisa! Keep your classmates to members of BC bOp! in support of their BC November 24, 2004. Ava joins big sister Lilly (3). informed, everyone - if you don't see your name education. If you would like more information, They live in New York with their proud papa, here, it's because you didn't send anything to please contact: The Boston College Bands, 140 Pete. Bethany (DeTar) Gillen gave birth to her me! Keep in touch! Commonwealth Avenue, Conte Forum, second son, Zachary Thomas Gillen, on January Mike Hofman Hill, • I end with Zach joins big brother Erin Chestnut MA 02467. must 25, 2004. Jimmy (3). 517 E. 13th Street, #20 some sad news. I received word from the friends (Razzetti) Aben is happily married to husband New York, NY 10009 and family of Anthony "TR" Russo that he Joe, and the couple recently welcomed son 212-673-3065 m hofman @inc. com passed away while awaiting organ transplant Jameson on May 16, who joins daughter surgery in Pittsburgh, PA. After TR recovered Samantha. Erin has finally found her passion So I hope everyone is enjoying their 30th birth- from an organ transplant in May 2002, he and career as a clinical social worker. Currently, day parties. I've been to Matt Keswick's, became a strong advocate for organ donation. she is focusing on working with and assisting Mariessa Longo's, Megan Storz's, Andrew TR served as a mentor to other patients awaiting families and their children with autism. The Fellingham's and Jim Roth's recently. Whenever transplants in Pittsburgh and was a volunteer at Abens five in Crofton, MD. They'd love to hear we're bored, Rachel (Hough and I discuss where fund-raising events for the University of from their friends at [email protected]. our parties are going to be this summer. So, onto

Pittsburgh Medical Center transplant program. Fellow chemistry scholar Maggie Teliska just real news: Rick Staropoli writes that since I last

In fact, it was when he returned to Pittsburgh to completed her PhD in chemistry at George saw him (May 1996), he married his girlfriend, volunteer at one of these events that he fell ill. Washington University. She's been working in Leanne, graduated law school and passed the

TR's friends and family shared that he had a fuel cells and will be working at Naval Research bar, all in 2000. He just finished more than positive outlook through adversity and was an Labs in DC as a post-doctorate. Diana (Barman) three years as a public defender in Rochester, inspiration to all who knew him. He taught and Steve Susann continue to five in Colorado NY. Now, he is an associate at Harris, them to appreciate life and never take it for Springs, CO, and would like to announce the Chesworth, O'Brien, Johnstone, Welch & Leone, granted. Even as TR's health took a turn for the arrival of their second child, Julia Anne, on a law firm in Rochester. He writes: "Occasional worse last fall, he remained strong in his wish to February 16, 2004. Steve was not able to make it sightings of Joe Lobozzo when he and his wife - encourage others to become organ donors. • I home for the birth since he was serving in Iraq and new son - come into Rochester from am packing for our reunion weekend as I write as a captain in the US Special Forces. He was Cleveland; even less frequent get-togethers with this up. I look forward to seeing everyone there, able to be on the phone for the birth and hear the Nathan Fisher, Neal Tyrrell and the whole and gathering some more information for next baby's first cry. Steve is expected home soon, and Solstice crew; and the VERY occasional e-mail issue's column! our prayers are with him. Mary "Mimi" Sullivan with Justin Chura and his wife in Pittsburgh. No and Tom Gallagher ('93) were married on June kids. Two dogs. Four friends. A handful of David S. Shapiro 14 on Nantucket Island. Professor T Frank acquaintances." (Class Notes appreciates the m6 Boulevard Kennedy, SJ, director of the Jesuit Institute of simple arithmetic!) Rick also reports that he is West Hartford, CT 06119 [email protected] BC, officiated at the ceremony. The bride's sister, getting back into acting for the first time in 13 Tara (Sullivan) Cristalli ('94), was the matron of years. He was just cast as Edgar in King Lear, for REUNION YEAR honor and Leah Wasnewsky was a bridesmaid. Rochester's Shakespeare in the Park this sum- In attendance from '95 were Luke O'Connell, mer. My lovely East Village neighbor Anna My apologies to the Class of 1995 due to some Ann Toohey, Tom Lu, Jay Verzosa and Hien Pizarro (who told me she was shy and did not family emergencies, I have shirked some of my Nguyen. Other BC guests in attendance were the want a shout-out in this column, but anyway) responsibilities - but I'm here to reestablish our father of the groom, Frank Gallagher ('61), Lynn just got her first co-producer's credit on a film. class column, and in good time, too. We're near- Coffin Brendemuehl ('84), Rita Riley Loughlin, documentary she worked on is called ing our 10th anniversary year - that means a The Barb (Forster) Peberdy ('94), Diana Garcia ('94) Weapons of Mass Deception," a look at reunion on the Heights, ladies and gentlemen! "WMD: and Fiona Johnston ('94). Alisa (Gatti) Alt and how the media covered the war in Iraq. Anna Continue to send your updates, and please be her husband, Steve, welcomed their first child, traveled to Dubai and Rotterdam to work on the sure to include your full name and school to Steven Christopher, in December 2003. His dot- film. She is now at work on her own documen- make transcription easy. I'm beginning my third ing aunt, Lynette Gatti (LGSOE '96), is enjoying tary. Gina Davis is pursuing a master's of writ- year of surgical residency and having a ball - if him from afar - she has been teaching in the ing at University of Southern California and is you find yourself in the area, be sure to look me severe special needs program at the Bennett- living in Los Angeles. She is interning at up! Alana Zimmerman received her MBA from Hemenway School in Natick for the past five part-time, as well as coaching soc- New York University's Leonard N. Stern School DreamWorks years while Alisa and family are living in cer for her old high school, Marymount. of Business. She majored in finance and man- Randolph, NJ. Tom O'Keefe is living in Boston Johanna Roodenburg writes that she was mar- agement and is currently director of corporate and founded ResearchConnect.com in January ried to Richard Deleissegues fn Islamorada, FL, relations at Fleet Specialist, Inc. Sarah (Hong) 2003. The company is an integrated communi- earlier this year. In attendance were Class of '96 cations tool for independent researchers. Jean members Andrew TK, Mary LeBoeuf with her Ermis was married to Dennis French on May 23, husband, Henry Ostaszewski - she has two chil- - BC Football 2004, in Montego Bay, Jamaica. A reception fol- dren, Benjamin (2) and Brooke (4) Orlando in Myrtle Beach, SC, with BC (Cantallops) 2004 Road Schedule lowed on July 10 Acosta, and Judy with husband '95 attendees Mary Cristin Flynn, Maureen Michael Vignola and their nine-month-old son, (Grealish) White, Lillie Lucas, Kate May, Andrew. Judy was a member of the wedding September 2 Ball State Kimberley (McCarty) McMahon. Sharon party. Johanna lives in San Diego where she September 25 Wake Forest (Turner) Mainero, Maura Winson, Renata practices insurance defense litigation (eep!) and October 16 Pittsburgh (Piekielniak) Cary and Sean and Kerry Ennis. has been working for Callahan McCune & October 23 Notre Dame Jeannie is currendy the web manager at Coastal Willis, a regional law firm, for over a year. She November Virginia 13 West Carolina University in Conway, SC, and is work- says she sees fellow alum Tom Hobbs around November 20 Temple ing on her PhD in computer information sys- town. Noreen McDonagh and Daniel Zelano tems. Lisa N. Bertrand has recently been were married on September 20, 2003, at Sacred appointed executive director of the Center for Heart Church in Quincy. Jessica (Francis) Visit www.bc.edu/awaygames/ for more information. United Nations Reform Education (CURE), an Jefferis was one of the bridesmaids and other organization that conducts research and gener- guests in attendance from BC were Lori (Neill) ates publications on improving the effectiveness Moriarty, Marisa (Lidecis) Hillinger, Kristen

26 CLASS NOTES Connecticut, and of the time we went clamming and Jay pursued his MBA at Kellogg. Following together on Martha's Vineyard. He was a class a year of traveling abroad, the Kovals have settled

act, and everyone who was lucky enough to into married life in San Francisco. Tighe is From the Heights to Your JJ know him will miss him very much. serving as a UH-60 Blackhawk maintenance test Hometown pilot with the First Cavalry Division in Taji, Iraq, Sabrina M. Bracco about 10 kilometers north of Baghdad. He is Looking for a way to stay connected 227 E. 83rd St., No. 3-A joined in Iraq by his wife, Ingrid, who is serving to Boston College in your hometown? New York, NY 10021 [email protected] in Baghdad near the international airport. At the conclusion of their tour in Iraq, Ingrid and Join your local chapter. J J all Hope you're enjoying the summer. Here's the will be moving to Atlanta, GA, where JJ has To find the chapter nearest you, latest news... Crista Pontilena and Christopher accepted a position with the General Electric go to www.bc.edu/alumni Vigeant were married on October 18, 2003, at Company. Holy Trinity Church in Hackensack, NJ. The Mistie Lucht or contact Jack Moynihan at reception was held at Florentine Gardens in [email protected] 2316 Sherman Ave., Apt. 2A River Vale. Class of grads in the bridal party '97 Evanston, IL 60201 included Ahssa Almeida, Meghan Rull, [email protected] Stephanie (Budd) Kryzak, Brian Matteson, Keith

Vivona and Michael Chevalier. Other BC grads Happy fall! I hope you all had a great summer.

in attendance were Patricia (Navarrete) Ortega, My husband, Nate, and I have moved to (Doherty) Femandes, Brette Geiselman, Erin Kevin Mitchell, Matthew Kelly, Thomas Brooks, Chicago, where he is attending Kellogg to get his Twomey ('95) and Rebecca McCosh ('00). The Denise Fogel, Antonio Cella, Spiros Giannaros, MBA. I am currently working for Time Inc. on a newlyweds honeymooned in Hawaii for two Athena (Lymberopoulos) Giannaros ('98), David new magazine called All You that will be weeks, after which they returned to living and Carovillano ('76), Rebecca (Carovillano) launched in Wal-Mart nationwide this fall. It is a working in Zurich, Switzerland. After six years Bouvette ('82), Deborah (Carovillano) Fitzgerald women's magazine very similar to Real Simple. of living in Europe, Noreen and Dan will most ('75), Edward Fitzgerald ('75) and Sean I need to thank Charise Rohm, who works for likely return to Boston later this year. Sue Fitzgerald ('00). Retired BC Physics Professor Time Inc. on Teen People in San Francisco, for McMullen Cushing and husband Jay welcomed Robert Carovillano (who is also Crista' s uncle) the referral. Kyle Geiselman lives with Bryan their son, Samuel McMullen Cushing, on was also present. Crista and Chris honey- "Bo" McCorry, Bryan McGinn and Andy September 24, 2003. I'm told he religiously mooned in Hawaii. Crista is an assistant vice McLaughlin in South Boston. Kyle is finishing watches BC sports. Jay and Susan were married president at UBS Financial Services, Inc. and up law school at Suffolk. Valerie Barges recentiy in 2001 and had their reception at the Boston Chris is an information systems consultant at finished her master's in speech-language pathol- College Club. Bridesmaids included fellow class- MetLife. Cameron Ward and Melyn Roberson ogy at Northeastern University. She plans to mates Carolyn Levy Puzzuoli (married in 2001 welcomed their first child, Aubrey Cameron work in pediatrics at an early intervention pro- to husband Patrick), Christine Vivo Marijosius Ward, on February 18, 2004. Bernadette gram in New York City. Ann Baldelli MacDonald (married in 2000 to fellow Class of '96er Vydas) Meehan left her job in New York City as a vice gave birth to a son, Sam Joseph MacDonald, on and Nicole LeBlanc Blessing (married in 2001 to president in the asset management division of January 3, 2004. She was married early last year husband Paul). The Cushings are living in Lehman Brothers to join the State Department. to David MacDonald at a winery in Sonoma, CA. Charlestown. Susan was most recentiy a market- She was sworn in as a foreign service officer on Other BC alums in attendance include Darby ing manager at Ropes & Gray before deciding to April 23 by Secretary of State Colin Powell. Rice, Angie Graham Holins, Megan Gayman stay home with Sam. She is also studying for an Bernadette will complete a two-year tour in Parker, Jodie Lake, Fergus O'Donoghue, Brian MBA at Boston University. Margaret Maupin Bogota, Colombia, working as a consular officer Soucek, Will Beekman and Lisa Wagner. Lou moved to London about a year and a half ago. at the American Embassy. The tour begins in Corapi has been working for GE since gradua- She's almost finished with her MBA from August. She can be reached during that time at tion with assignments in the United States, Middlesex University Business School in [email protected]. Heather Europe and Asia. He met his wife, Mia, who is London and has been working as a communica- (Signore) married Greg MondeUi on April 18, originally from Norway, during a six-month tions agent for a company that matches free- 2004. A garden ceremony and reception were assignment in Barcelona. They were married lance PR people with clients. She writes that held at Fox Hollow in Woodbury, NY. Michael there in 2001 and have a daughter, Charlotte, she's visited Amsterdam, Dublin, Milan, Libby officiated at the ceremony. The wedding and a son, Marcus. They're currently living and Madrid, Paris, Brussels and Edinburgh recentiy. party included fellow BC alumni Jennifer (Lue) working in Amsterdam. Mark Hefflinger ran She adds: "I do try to keep in touch with a few Anderson, Wendy Gordon ('96) and Tricia the Los Angeles marathon on March 7. Jefif Sgro folks from our class. As a matter of fact, I was a Coyle. Other Eagles in attendance were Karl and his wife, Andrea, just bought a new place in bridesmaid last summer in Nina Sanchez's wed- Haslinger, Charles Dunn, Joshua Kruter, Al Del Mar and Jeff competed in a surfing compe- ding in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It had a live, 15- Cortes, Christina Semmel and Liz Ferson. The piece salsa band. The entire wedding party got couple met at Kanterman & Taub, PC in intense salsa lessons at the rehearsal dinner! Manhattan, where Heather is an associate attor- Also in attendance were Maureen Miller and her Join the ney and Greg is a partner. Heather and Greg husband, Tony Mullin. Julie DeMatteo, Cathy honeymooned in Italy immediately following Alumni Online Community O'Dwyer, and Kristin Wood. Moe Miller had a the wedding and now make their home in Forest gorgeous baby girl a few months back." The Alumni Online Community is your Hills, NY. In April, Dan Neumann, his wife, Marianne (Troiano) married Christopher Walsh connection to BC: Kristen, and their daughter, Julia, moved to their on April 3, 2004', in New York City. BC brides- in Norwell. Manuel Ledesma, execu- new home • Look up former classmates maids were Janis Kersten, Pamela Sanchez, tive producer and founder of Vuela in the Online Directory. Elizabeth Mignone and Marybeth (Cosgrove) Entertainment Company, partnered with Apple Leiphart. Other BC 'g6ers in attendance were Music Store and Sony Connect for the distribu- • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail Robinson Harnandez, Kerry McGinn, Rebekah tion and global promotion of artists under the forwarding address. Kenworthy, Amy (Hanrahan) Lydon, Sally Vuela Brand. Jill Desmarais and Jason Koval Sharkey, Sarah (Leonard) Flaherty and Kim Check the Alumni Association Website at were married in Aspen, CO, on September 20, O'Nefll. Finally, a sad note: Mariessa Longo's www.bc.edu/alumni 2003. In attendance were fellow BC alumni father, Sam, died earlier this spring. Along with for information on registering. Meredith Byrne, Meg Willoughby and Laura many BC people, I have fond memories of Sam Paczosa. Jill and Jay met in Chicago while Jill manning the grill at tailgates or at his home in worked as an associate analyst in equity research

www.bc.edu/alumni 27 tition in the spring. Darlene Sliva has returned Tucson, AZ. She also just recently bought her are invited to join in honoring her achievements

from living in Honolulu, HI, as her travel nurs- first house! Tony Wladyka is living and working at the award ceremony and reception to be held ing days have come to an end. She recently in New York. He's an associate attorney at at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, 2004, at moved back to Chicago to pursue her master's Proskaeur and Rose. He married Dawn Marie Robsham Theater, Main Campus. For more degree in the field of nurse anesthesia at Rush (O'Brien) Wladyka a few years ago. Jennifer information, please visit www.bc.edu/alumni-

University. Upon graduation in 2005, she will be McLean is living and working in Boston. She is awards or call 800-669-8430 to reserve space at working in the operating room at Northwestern a graphic designer at Mintz and Levin and also the event.

Memorial Hospital within the Department of does graphic design for her own firm, JennyMac Hey Class of 1999! I hope all of you enjoyed our Anesthesia. Nancy Angiola and Joseph Burke Designs. Kelly Mahoney married Edward Loggie five-year reunion. We had an amazing turn-out

(Providence College '97) were married in June on May 3, 2003, in Bedford, NY. Ed and Kelly and it was great to catch up with so many old

2003 on Long Island. Laura Mooney and met after graduation while working at the New friends. I hope that now that reunion is over AUyson Olewnik were in the wedding party, and York Stock Exchange for the Goldman Sachs more of you will be encouraged to send in Courtney Donohoe and Sean Harrington ('97) specialist unit Spear, Leeds and Kellogg. Kelly updates to Class Notes. We love hearing from were also in attendance. Nancy and Joe bought now works for Merrill Lynch where she covers you and I know that the rest of the class enjoys their first house in Dedham this spring. Both the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region for their keeping up with the interesting stuff people work at Fidelity Investments. Fergus soft dollar sales division. Ed continued on with have been doing. Please keep the updates com-

O'Donoghue is currently living in Washington, Goldman Sachs and is now a specialist at the ing. Andrew and Jennifer (Alden) Gregory

DC, and working with the Media Strategy group New York Stock Exchange. BC classmates in announce the birth of their first child, Eric Ryan, of Deloitte Consulting in New York City. Jen attendance at their wedding included Heather on March 17, 2004. All are happy and healthy Coyle and Jan Sapak, who were married this past Bordick, Rebecca (Yalmokas) Sheehan, Teige and residing in Norwood. Jonathan Sullivan and fall, closed on their first home in the spring! It is Sheehan ('95), Lesley Shinay, Meg Hegarty and Laura Devine were married on July 26, 2003 in a large ranch in Westwood. Jen is working for Megan McDonnell. Ed and Kelly now reside in Hamburg, NY, honeymooned in Maui and now Health Bridge Management as a nurse evaluator Hoboken, NJ. Stephanie (Calone) and her hus- live in Portland, OR. BC alumni in attendance at in Boston and her husband is practicing den- band, Patrick Gagnon, had their first son, their wedding were Michael Frost (best man), tistry in Cambridge. Amy (Sundman) and Ted Andrew Patrick Gagnon, born on February 9, Erin Anderson (bridesmaid), Richard Benjamin Kim relocated from Maryland to Indiana last 2004. Mike Siravo and Alison Cahill ('99) were ('01, reader), Jessica Emanouil, Chris King, December, where Ted started a new job report- married on May 29, 2004 in Newport, RI. Mike Megan Niziol, Brynn Rail, Rebecca Schrader, ing for the Indianapolis Star. They purchased is a football coach at Columbia University and Michael Zukowski, Kevin Labonge ('01) and their first home, which Amy works out of as a Alison is an attorney at Skadden Arps. They Kathleen Neylon ('01). Sam Wholley married freelance graphic designer. Kysa (Edsall) Crusco reside on Morningside Heights on the Upper Gayle Gastineau foi) in November 2002 and graduated from Suffolk Law in Boston in May West Side of Manhattan. BC alums in atten- they currently live in Medford. Gayle is finishing

2002 and passed both the Massachusetts and dance at their wedding were Hugh O'Mara and up graduate school in nursing at BC, and Sam is

New Hampshire bars! In September 2002, she his wife (who is also the groom's sister), Kristen running a technology and security consulting married Jeremy Crusco, whom she met when (Siravo), John Bello and wife Alexandra company in Boston. They have a dog, which has she was in eighth grade. The wedding was held (Reuckle, '99) with their four-month-old son, solidified the fact that they are going to hold off at Lake Winnipausakee in New Hampshire. BC Jack, Bryan Kasperowski and his wife, Emily, on the kids for a while. Van Balachandar is cur- alums in attendance were Michele Welch, a Chad Kasperowski, Doug Brzezinski and Alise rently living in New York and is working for the bridesmaid, Tony Wladyka, Dawn Marie Karchmer, Andrew and Connie (Tessitore) National Basketball Association where she is a (O'Brien) Wladyka ('96), Jenn McLean, Krauza with their two-year-old son, Joseph, Tim member of the Global Merchandising Group.

Samantha Briggs, Lindsey Hammond and Jeff ('00) and Elisabeth (Filarski) Hasselbeck ('99), She wrote that she enjoys being able to travel

Thomson ('89). The couple bought a house in Tracey Murphy ('99) and Todd Pollack ('97), around the country and gets to go to many bas-

Manchester, NH, and Kysa opened her own law Jennifer Briggs ('99), Alicia Ferguson ('99) and ketball games throughout the year. She says that firm downtown. Michele Welch moved to New _Eric Nelson ('99), Jackie Sanzari ('99), Nicole she loves her job particularly because of the

York City and is the manager of integrated mar- Nelson ('99), Amy Van Eepoel and Steve great people she works with on a daily basis. keting for Fremantle Media, which is part of the Valentine, Ereka Vetrini, Jill (Mullare) Hegarty Sandi Nagy and Sean Sinclair were married on

Bertelsmann group. Fremantle Media produces ('94), Kate Sandman ('99) and Matt McKinley Long Beach Island, NJ, on September 6, 2003. and markets "American Idol," "The Price Is ('99), and Meghan Dwyer ('99). Alison Curd Members of the wedding party included BC Right" and "Family Feud." Maggie Villamana graduated from the Kellogg School of grads Stephanie and Patrick Gagnon ('98), just returned from a trip to Thailand and Management at Northwestern in June 2004 and Jennifer Blakeslee, Kelly Warren, Robert Smith, Vietnam. She graduated from the University of plans to relocate to Minneapolis in September. and Stephen Marantette. Other BC alums in Arizona Medical School in the spring and has She will be working for Guidant Corporation, attendance were Angela Myers, Michelle accepted a residency position for urology in which makes medical devices for the heart, in its Lapworth, Erin Girard, Marc Mastronardi, general management leadership program. This Susan Verrill, Jackie Lemaitre, Karen summer she traveled to South America for a few Montenegro, Katie (Hart) and Andrew Rollauer, weeks. Paulette Tucciarone received a medical Jay Kaufman, Jamie Hart, Sarah Lick ('00), Join the degree in May from the Uniformed Services Sarah Almy, Rachel Morrissey, Sam Wholley, Alumni Online Community University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Laura Karosen, Sarah Shiple, Paul Schrotenboer MD. She was promoted to lieutenant in the US ('00), Emiley Zalesky, Ryan Winmill ('00), Holly

The Alumni Online Community is your Navy upon graduation. She moved into a condo Russell foo), Lori Lefevre, Jeff Wells ('01), Moira connection to BC: in San Diego to begin her psychiatry residency at Traci ('03) and Robert Creedon ('03). The

the Naval Hospital in Balboa Park. Jeffrey Sinclairs now live in Arlington, VA. I hope you • Look up former classmates Geoppinger is currently living in Cincinnati, had a great summer and please continue to send in the Online Directory. OH. in your updates. - MATT • Hello Class of 1999! Hoping everyone enjoyed our first reunion • Set-up an @bc.edu e-mail Matt Coleran forwarding address. [email protected] weekend. It was great to see so many familiar faces together again. Being back on campus with Check the Alumni Association Website at Emily Wildfire everyone was incredible. Hopefully everyone [email protected] www.bc.edu/alumni took the time to catch up with old friends and for information on registering. Elisabeth Hasselbeck has been selected as the classmates. Here are some additional updates recipient of the 2004 Young Alumni Award of for all of you. Kristen Proude, a practicing CPA, Excellence. All members of the Class of 1999 is currently working as a financial analyst for

28 CLASS NOTES He is currently working for Governor for hospitals and clinics in the developing

Schwarzenegger in Sacramento, CA. Mike is world. Britt Frisk will begin pursuing a gradu- part of a legal counsel team in the administra- ate degree in neonatology nursing at the

From the Heights to Your tion's campaign against organized crime. University of Pennsylvania in the fall. Patrick Hometown Andrew Curran married Elizabeth Bower on Stone- is a staff accountant at April 17, 2004. The couple currentiy resides in PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Boston. for a to stay connected Looking way Cincinnati, OH, where the wedding took place. Meaghan Traverse will be attending George to Boston College in your hometown? Lastly, Paul Scansaroli married Cameron Ann Washington University this fall to pursue a Bedell on December 2003, in Manhasset, graduate degree in school counseling. Ariana Join your local chapter. 27, NY. Russ MacTough served as the best man, and Ebrahirnian will begin to pursue her doctoral To find the chapter nearest you, Marc Albano, Greg Dwyer, Fletcher Evans and degree at the University of the Pacific Dental go to www.bc.edu/alumni Dave Underdown were groomsmen. Paul is cur- School this fall. Corey Podell is teaching ele- rentiy pursuing his MBA at the University of mentary school in Los Angeles while working or contact jack Moynihan at North Carolina. As always, thanks to everyone towards her master's in education at Loyola

jack.moynihan@t>c.edu for keeping our classmates informed. Please Marymount University. Brian Swenson is an keep sending the great news! assistant buyer at Filene's in Boston. Kate

Schrinsky is the team support manager at Erin Mary R. Ackerman The Salter School Cline, Davis & Mann, a pharmaceutical ad 2 Florence St. Brylane. Daniela Grande is working as an assis- agency, in New York City. Melissa (Skow) mar- Maiden, MA 02148 tant comptroller in the accounting department ried Jeff Gallant ('02) on December 6, 2003. bostoncollegeoi @hotmail.com at Vitusa Products, a chemical distributing com- The couple currently resides in Boston. Barry pany in New Jersey. Fred Cardone is currently Connolly recently joined RBC Dain Rauscher working as a senior accountant at Deloitte & Suzanne Harte as a financial consultant in the Boston office. 6 Everett Ave. louche. Samantha Steel currentiy is working as Sarah McKenzie is in the middle of her Jesuit Winchester, MA 01890 volunteer year in Phoenix, AZ, where she is the production layout coordinator for Jobson 617-656-5439 Publishing in New Jersey. Megan Clark was mar- working at a non-profit agency that helps clients find ried on July 10, 2003, to Chris Kelly in Newport JefF Gallant married Melissa Skow ('03) on homeless, ex-felon and low-income permanent full-time employment. Congrats to RI. Class of 1999 grads in attendance were December 6, 2003. The couple currentiy resides Jolynn Rana, Daniela Grande, Emily Wildfire, in Boston. all on recent achievements!! As for me, I'm estates personal legal assis- John Wildfire and Fred Cardone. I hope to hear working as an and from you soon. - EMILY Toni Ann Kruse tant at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York 156 President St., Apt. 3 City. Feel free to e-mail me any news you'd like Brooklyn, NY 11231 Kate Pescatore to share. Have a great summer! [email protected] 63 Carolin Trail Marshfield, MA 02050 Class Notes Editor [email protected] One year later. Can you believe it? The BC bub- Alumni Association 825 Centre St. ble has officially been popped and alumni from Newton, MA 02458 YEAR Class of are doing exciting things in REUNION the 2003 [email protected] all different places. Four fellow classmates are Hello Class of 2000! Congratulations to our fel- serving our nation in Iraq. is low classmates who have recendy completed Johnny McCabe Kristen M. Murphy the medical platoon leader in iAD stationed Fulton Hall, graduate degrees! Philippe Gabriel received his Carroll Room 315 Kilpatrick arrived Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Master of Science degree with a concentration in southeast of Baghdad. Pete 617-552-4479 in Iraq at the beginning of May 2004 and is the School bioinformatics from Boston University. Phil [email protected] leader to First continues to work for Vertex Pharmaceuticals scout platoon assigned the at Victory in Baghdad. Rocco M. Bruno (MBA '74) has been appointed Inc. in Cambridge. Kathryn Reyes received her Cavalry Division Camp of provider audit and reimbursement Master of Divinity degree from Loyola His address is: 2LT Peter Kilpatrick, D. TRP manager 1st DIV, for Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield. Mark R. University in Chicago. She will continue studies 9th CAV, 2nd BDE, CAV APO AE serving north- Dorsey (MBA '99) was named the Americas toward a PhD in theology, which will be concen- 09379. Ryan Mrowka has been near as the medical Software Sales Representative of the Year for trated in Christian ethics. Kathryn will continue east of Baghdad Ba'Qubah platoon leader of 2-63 Armor Battalion, iID. His 2003. He and his wife welcomed their second to take courses with Hoon Choi, who is also in contact is: Mrowka, child, Katelyn Elizabeth Dorsey, on March 13, Loyola's PhD theology program. On May 22, information 2LT Ryan HHC, Stephanie Taylor Ashman (MBA '96) and 2004, Kelleigh Domaingue graduated from the TF 2-63, 1st Inf Div OIF, FOB Warhorse APO AE 2004. her husband, Jonathan, welcomed their first Vermont Law School in South Royalton, VT. 09392 (e-mail: [email protected]). Maile Yuen will be serving in the Navy off the Kelleigh is working as an attorney at Kelley and coast of Iraq; she can be reached at: PREBLE Tilsley, PA, in Manchester, NH. Danielle Rae USS DDG-88, (e-mail: YuenM@pre- Porcelli has received her first assignment as a FPO AP 96675 ble.navy.mil). They would all greatly appreciate e- Please join us for the JAG defense attorney. Her duty station is the familiar faces. Naval Legal Service Office in Washington, DC. mail and/or snail mail from 2004 Alumni Achievement Danielle graduated from Boston College Law Jessica Jenkins will be interning for NATO in Awards Ceremony will begin medical School in May 2003, where she was honored for Brussels, and Bob Burke school this fall at Stanford University. Joe numerous accomplishments and activities. Thursday, September 30, 2004 Stanley is a pre-sell account manager for the Danielle has been admitted to the New York 7 p.m., Robsham Theater Corporation in Stamford, CT, along with State Bar. At graduation from Naval Justice Pepsi fellow Butterfield. Jennifer School in March 2004, she earned the American alum Frank Celebrate the achievements of received a master's in education distinguished alumni. Trial Lawyers Association Award for Worsham our most College this past May. Kara Complimentary reception following the "Outstanding Trial Advocacy," presented to the from Boston to be held Keating is working at Catholic Medical Mission awards ceremony student achieving the highest average in the trial in the Heights Room. Board, a world health organization in New York advocacy course at the Naval Justice School. City, as the pharmaceutical unit coordinator. Danielle is presendy living in Alexandria, VA. A. Please RSVP to 800-669-8430. She is responsible for obtaining in-kind dona- Michael D'Amelio graduated from Santa Clara Visit www.bc.edu/alumniawards for more info. tions of pharmaceutical and medical supplies Law School and has passed the California bar.

www.bc.edu/alumni 29 Law Magazine. Please forward all submissions Michael A. Smyer to Vicki Sanders at the above address. Join the McCuinn Hall, Room 221-A Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Alumni Online Community GA&S T vXTr1 !! Director of Alumni Relations 617-552-3265 l_i JL IN V_, XT. Lynch School of Education Online is s-^ Chestnut Hill, MA The Alumni Community your J f-^ tt (-^ j 02467 ) L-

NY. Vivid specializes in large, historical, rare Thompson (MEd '76), who in his words is wife, Clare, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. really white and colored diamonds. It is part of the "retired but not yet tired," went to Uganda at the Frank struck gold in 2004! LLD Group. Previously, Alexis was with the end of June 2004 for the ordination of two dea- Congratulations! • Jane Martin ('58) and her hus- Richemont Group in Switzerland and Japan for cons who had studied at Notre Dame Seminary band, Maurice Donovan ('59), of Newburyport are the proud grandparents of their first grand- 13 years. He and his wife, Jennifer, have two in New Orleans, and delivered the homily for child, Finn Donovan, born on October 1, 2003. children - Sacha (6) and Clara (4). They now one. He also celebrated his 78th birthday and reside on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. offered Mass at the local Shrine of the Martyrs. Also, Jane and Maurice have made two road trips John M. Halstead (MS '97) of Wethersfield, CT, Congratulations! Karen Hassey Dow (MS '80, through 43 states in 2000 and 2002. They had a is a 2004 Republican candidate for the First PhD '92) received the 2004 Oncology Nursing mini-reunion for BC alums in their respective Congressional District. Society Excellence in Breast Cancer Education classes and Jane met Michaela, SSND, at the

Award. Karen is a professor at the University of motherhouse in Wilton, CT, in the summer of

("* . , -j-, - Laurel A. Eisenhauer • f* T j T Central Florida in Orlando, FL. She has held 2003. I was proud to read in the May 27, 2004, VjVjJNJNhLL Gushing Hall, Room 202 leadership roles in the Oncology Nursing Society edition of The Boston College Chronicle that Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 Q("Ur\r\T Ann Marie Flaherty ('03) is this year's Service •J ^-> -T"! '"' v-* -»- [email protected] (ONS), is a past member of the ONS Foundation said, "I feel privileged Board of Trustees and is a member of the Award Winner. She to be Paul Arnstein (PhD '97) has been promoted to American Academy of Nursing. part of BC," and she describes the University as

associate professor with tenure at the School of "a gold mine of resources, spirituality and God's Nicole Malec Kenyon love." Congratulations, a well-deserved Nursing. Stacey Barone (PhD '93) is on faculty Ann, on McGuinn Hall, Room 123 of the School of Nursing. Margaret Kearney (MS award. • Once again, reunion was well attended GSSW Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 In well '87) has accepted a position as director of the [email protected] by the Town college graduates as as more doctoral program at the University of Rochester. recent graduates of the Evening College and Woods College of Advancing Studies. were Kate Collopy (PhD '00) recently published an We regret to report the death on April 23, 2004, We privileged to Fr. Cotter article about women's decision-making about of Rose-Marie DesRoches (MSW '99). She had have Woods, Grace Regan Griffin all speak at the reunion. multifetal reduction in Research in Nursing and been working at Child and Family Services in and John

Health Care. Kate is on the faculty at University New Bedford. of New Hampshire. Loretta Higgins (MS '74, Vicki Sanders DEd '86) recently co-authored "Gender, coedu- 885 Centre St. cation and the transformation of Catholic identi- Law Newton, MA 02459 From the Heights to Your ty in American Catholic higher education" in [email protected] Hometown The American Catholic Historical Review. Loretta is associate dean for the undergraduate Lauren Stiller Rikleen (JD '79) has been selected Looking for a way to stay connected program at the School of Nursing. Joanne as the recipient of the 2004 Alumni to Boston College in your hometown? O'Sullivan (MS '97, PhD '03) and Margaret Achievement Award for Law. All graduates of Kearney co-authored an article on identity shifts the Law School are invited to join in honoring Join your local chapter. in the Western Journal of Nursing Research. her achievements at the award ceremony and To find the chapter nearest you, Congratulations to Mary Beth Singer (MS '93), reception to be held at p.m. on Thursday, 7 go to www.bc.edu/alumni who was recently named Nurse of the Year by September 30, 2004, at Robsham Theater, Main Nursing visit Spectrum. Campus. For more information, please or contact Jack Moynihan at www.bc.edu/alumniawards or call 800-669- [email protected] 8430 to reserve space at the event. • Class Notes for Law School alumni are published in the BC

30 CLASS NOTES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CHAPTER NOTES

Dear Friends,

During these last days of summer, we take time to enjoy the lingering great weather even as we look

ahead to a fall full of exciting national programming. We're beginning the new academic year with a suite of enhanced tools for our volunteer leaders, including the first-ever Chapter Leader Handbook, which was distributed over the summer, as well as the brand-new chapter Web pages, which were unveiled in July on the Alumni Online Community. To view your chapter's page, simply type in www.bc.edu/chapters/ followed by the

name of your chapter (e.g., www.bc.edu/chapters/fairfieldcounty). We hope you will find these new Web pages, as well as the redesigned chapter newsletters that will be mailed in September, to be a valuable means of staying up to date on chapter news and events.

Also in September, we will be launching a national dues drive, inviting those of you who live in regions where BC has an alumni presence to join your local chapter. In exchange, you'll receive a chapter membership card that entitles you to a variety of BC and travel-related discounts.

The summer has been extremely productive, both at Alumni House and at Boston College chapters around the country. The Alumni Association chapter team was thrilled to be invited to present the national chapter initiative at the Jesuit Advancement Administrators conference in June at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. This conference annually brings together alumni relations, communications and fund-raising professionals from the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States. This was a tremendous opportunity for us to present the national program in front of our peers, share best practices and learn from one another.

Our chapters took advantage of the summer months to provide a variety of opportunities for alums to reconnect with alma mater. Several chapters held community service days; others organized networking nights for area alumni; others gathered for organizational meetings to kick-

start their planning for the coming year; and still others held social or sporting events to give alums a chance to connect with one another in a more informal setting. On that front, we congratulate the Boston, Maine, Minneapolis, New Hampshire and Rhode Island chapters on their successful golf tournaments and thank Kim O'Neil '97, Ken Pierce '79, Roshan Rajkumar '95, Bill Hamrock '45 and Lisa King '8i for their hard work in organizing these events.

As the fall gets under way, we look forward to celebrating with over 600 alumni in Cleveland on the formal debut of their chapter on September i. And we hope to see many of you at FanFest before the season's home opener against Penn State on September 11, or on the road at one of the upcoming away games. (For more information on this season's away games, go to www.quinwell.com and click on BC 2004 football travel programs.)

Thank you for your ongoing support of the national chapter program. Here's to another enriching year at Boston College!

Go Eagles!

\aM \UojM'ty—

Jack Moynihan Senior Associate Director

PHOENIX, AZ Martin S. Ridge '67 CAPE COD, MA Matthew Flaherty '53

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www.bc.edu/alumni 31 In Memoriam

1928 Patrick J. Montuori 04/02 Michael J. Zaccaro °4/°4 Norma P. Lally I2 /o3

Maurice Downey 04/04 Beverly Lippincott J. 1952 1972 08/03 Edward Nicholas Carbone J. Mooney °4/°4 J934 04/04 Bernard J. Walsh 04/04

Paul F. Nagle Edward F. Harrington 04/04 Patrick T. Greeley °5/°4 04/04 *973 George L. Keleher 04/04 1953 Dennis R. Belisle 05/04 LAW

Dorothy D. Brooks 04/04 Adolph N. Anderson 05/04 1935 J974 Richard G. Sullivan James J. Hinchey 01/87 °5/°3 Owen F. Brock 04/04 Peter D. Goldsmith 04/04

Eugene J. Cafarelli °5/°4 1936 1954 Joseph R. Passanese 12/03 John McCarthy Mark Dalton 05/04 Rev. John E. Buckley n/03 J. 05/04 J. 1976 Raymond H. Fukutani 04/03 Joseph A. McDonough 04/04 1939 Keith R. Fetridge 01/04 Francis X. Keaney 04/04 James F. Morrissey 03/04 Charles W. Cleary 04/04 Kenneth A. Rivetz °5/°4 Robert J. Todd °4/°4 Michael Duk Young Park .03/04 Paul F. Nagle 04/04 1986 Robert B. Patterson 05/04 Dominic A. Rossi 04/04 1956 Stephen P. Trapilo °5/°4 Kathleen B. Earls °5/°4 Adam M. Rayman °5/°4 1941 1999 Francis I. Sullivan Mary J. McCarthy 04/04 °5/°4 John F. Kehoe °5/°4 Tracey L. Novicsky 04/04 John B. McLaughlin 01/04 James F. Travers 08/03 Philip M. Murphy 07/02 Newton 1958 LGSOE 1944 Mary E. Donovan °4/°4 Mary M. Coyle °4/°4 Elizabeth McCoy °3/°4 James F. Travers 08/03 Anne M. Gormley n /99 1959 Weston *947 Elizabeth McCoy °3/°4 James M. Colclough 05/04 Richard J. Coakley, SJ 05/04 David G. Bonfiglio °5/°4 GA&S Elaine M. Downs 05/04 John T. Brennan 04/02 John Abbott 09/02 WCAS John B. Kelley 05/04 J. Paul L. Malloy °4/°4 Raphael L. Amrhein 05/04 Paul F. Buchwald °3/ 01 i960 Malcolm Barrett Teresa Carpentier, PBVM. 1948 J. 04/04 04/04 Robert L. Cawley °4/°4 Bernard F. Devlin John M. Letvinchuk 05/04 10/96 Jeanette Hajjar 04/04 James D. Lynch 11/01 Mary F. Doherty Rev. Angelo P. Loscocco... 04/04 °4/°4 James L. Lynch °4/°4 David A. White °5/°4 Maurice Downey J. 04/04 Daniel P. O'Driscoll 08/01 1949 1961 Peter D. Goldsmith 04/04 John F. Parish °3/°4 Cornelius Donovan 05/04 J. George P. Allendorf, Jr. ....05/04 Joanne M. Griffin 04/04 Jacqueline D. Shiver 01/98 William A. English 05/04 Anne R. Harding 05/04 Richard F. Hegarty °5/°4 Joseph A. McDonough Constanune Tsamaras 05/04 04/04 Marie Sheridan Anne 10/94 Donald K. Klabunde 02/01 Florence M. Way °4/°4 1950 1962 Terence T Leong °3/°4 Richard K. Clarke 03/04 Erratum Salvatore T. Borrello 04/04 Kathleen Ley °4/°4 John S. Moran ('69) was incor- Charles M. Cullen °5/°4 Paul L. Malloy 04/04 1964 rectly listed as deceased in the Phyllis M. Dolan IO /°3 Joaquin Martinez, SJ 04/04 Eugene F. Boyle °5/°4 Spring 2004 issue. We regret James P. Drummey 04/04 Joseph A. McDonough 04/04 David W Lane I2 /°3 the error. Robert J. Murphy 09/98 Florence H. Mintz 10/00 1968 Robert Murphy 09/98 1951 J. John J. Abbott 09/02 Dorothy Z. Roessel IO /°3 Robert J. Barrett °4/°4 1970 Richard G. Sullivan 05/03 Joseph H. DeRoche 04/04 In Memoriam is provided Thomas K. Manning 05/04 Aloysia Valentukonis, CJC. 04/03 Paul H. Duff 05/97 courtesy of the Office of Development,

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Two Steps Forward

Boston College's Computer tion. The grant, which en- the recruitment and cultiva- at Boston College exceeded

Science Department steps into courages the advancement of tion of talented, high-profile that of female majors by a the future with the creation of women in the field of science, women scientists has con- factor of more than four. a new professorship and un- will enable the recruitment of tributed to female student en- The new computer science dergraduate concentration in a female faculty member in rollment in the sciences. faculty member will collabo- bioinformatics—a rapidly bioinformatics for the Luce Today, about half of BC's rate closely with biologists, growing field that melds com- Professorship. As part of its graduate student scientists are chemists, and mathematicians. puter and biological sciences. mandate to build a world-class women. In the area of com- Recruitment for this position

Much of today's cutting-edge reputation in computer sci- puter science, however, a re- will begin during the 2004—05 scientific research, including ence education and research, cent national study revealed academic year. The Clare the Human Genome Project, Boston College is committed that only 15-20 percent of Boothe Luce Program, admin- relies upon advances in this to hiring women scientists to undergraduate computer sci- istered by the Henry Luce discipline. broaden the department's ence majors at leading U. S. Foundation, is the most signif- A $600,000 grant from the expertise and to serve as role colleges and universities are icant source of private support Henry Luce Foundation for a models and mentors for female. In the 2001-2002 aca- for women in science, engi- Clare Boothe Luce Professor- female students. demic year, the number of neering, and mathematics. ship supports the new posi- Research has shown that male computer science majors

NEWS BRIEFS GRADUATING

PAR EXCELLENCE AND Tee off with alumni and friends GIVING BACK of Boston College at a world- class golf course during the third annual Boston College This past May, the Senior

Wall Street Council Open. The Class Barbeque provided sus- event will take place on tenance to both BC students

September 27 at the Winged and their soon-to-be Alma

Foot Golf Club, in Mamaroneck, Mater. The Class of 2004 ex- New York—host of the 2004 ceeded their participation and

U.S. Amateur Championship in gift-level goals for the Senior August and U.S. Open Class Gift, contributing

Championship in 2006. Regis- $29,227 and reaching 45 per- tration for four is $5,000. For cent class participation. The more information, or to reserve final gift was even higher, as The 2002 Wall Street Council Open champions (from left): Geoffrey T. Boisi space, contact Peggy McCorkle the goals achieved qualified '69, University Chancellor J. Donald Monan, SJ, Patrick R. McAllister '75, at [email protected] the class for a $30,000 match and Mark P. Boisi '75 or at (617) 552-1055. offered by University Trustee PICNIC WITH THE POPS Thomas F. Ryan, Jr. '63, which The 12th annual Pops on the parents' weekend Massachusetts), and wrap up brought the total gift to

Heights Scholarship Gala will Come share an exciting, event- with a special family liturgy $59,227. The Senior Class take place Friday, October i. filled weekend with your BC and brunch with University Gift directly supports the

Tickets, which include a student on Friday, October i President William P. Leahy, SJ. University's key priorities, in- gourmet picnic dinner and through Sunday, October 3. The For more information, or cluding financial aid, faculty other refreshments, start at festivities begin with a Boston to register online, go to recruitment and retention, stu- $40. For more information, go Pops concert, followed by a www.bc.edu/parentsweekend dent formation, and research to www.bc.edu/pops or call football game on Saturday (BC or call the Parents' Weekend that expands knowledge and (800) 767-5591- vs. the University of Hotline at (866) 237-1120. serves society.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 25 (continued from page 22) the good news of the resurrection, giving them the apostolic early baptismal hymn has the Christians in Galatia singing: mandate to "go and tell" the others, which they did, even in "For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on the face of ridicule. Reading the gospels with the gender

Christ. There is no more Jew or Greek, slave or free, male question in mind, British writer Dorothy Sayers observed,

and female, but you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal 3:27-28). "There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole gospel

And yet also in the New Testament, there is the voice of that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody Paul, freighted with culture and custom and a terrible am- could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that bivalence. Weighing in on whether women should wear veils there was anything 'funny' about woman's nature. But we

or not, he writes, "A man ought not to cover his head, since might easily deduce ... it from his Church to this day."

he is the image and reflection of God. But the woman is not After Jesus' death and resurrection, we know from biblical

so, but is the reflection of man. . . . That is why a woman evidence as well as archaeological inscriptions, women func-

ought to have a veil on her head" (1 Cor 11:3, 7, 10). Later tioned in the early Church as apostles, prophets, teachers, New Testament writers, at one time identified as Paul, in- healers, preachers, missionaries, deacons, and leaders of

sisted that the equality in Christ due to baptism is only spir- house churches. More generally, scholars today point to itual and should not affect the social order. "Wives be subject Jesus' inclusive table fellowship, his loving words of forgive- to your husbands" (Eph 5:22) and "slaves be obedient to your ness, his criticism of oppression, and his mandate that leaders

masters" (Eph 6:5), we read in the household codes. The let- be servants (exemplified when he washed the feet of his disci- ter to Timothy roots woman's role in the original fall: "Let ples)—as grounds for Christ's community to bring an end to woman learn in silence with all submissiveness. I permit no a system where some simply dominate others. Sic et Non? woman to teach or have authority over men; she is to keep Interpreted with a prophetic vision, scripture nourishes hope.

silent. For Adam was created first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a THE SAME ambiguity about women that we find in scrip- transgressor. Yet woman will be saved through bearing chil- ture perdures throughout Christian tradition—for if

dren" (1 Tim 2:11-15). There you have it: Woman was cre- Christianity contained from the beginning a commitment to

ated second and sinned first, and Christ's redemption doesn't woman's dignity and capacity for eternal life, a terrible bias

seem to make a hill of beans of difference. plagued even the smartest and most influential of male the- How are we to sort this out? We can quote texts back and ologians. In the third century, Tertullian taught that women forth, patriarchal ones versus prophetic ones—but how to are the second Eve: Just as Eve "softened up with her cajol- discern the essence of the good news? The Second Vatican ing words he whom the devil himself could not attack," so

Council provided us with the criterion, in its Decree on too all women are "the devil's gateway." In the fifth century, Revelation. Describing how the findings of science and crit- Augustine allowed that women's souls were capable of being ical history seem at times to flat-out contradict statements the image of God equally with that of men; but a woman as

in the Bible, the decree holds that what we need to believe female, that is, in her sexual body, is not in the image of

in scripture is "that truth which God wanted put into sacred God, and can be considered such only when taken together writings for the sake of our salvation." In other words, sal- with man who is her head. Eight hundred years later, vation is the norm. Outdated "biblical" science need not be Thomas Aquinas defined woman as a "defective male," mis-

considered the inspired word of God. Neither must legend. begotten when the male seed at conception is not up to full And neither must cultural traditions that today's democrat- strength. And in the 16th century, Martin Luther wrote to ic senses find repugnant. The Church has already made this the effect that women must live under the power of their judgment with regard to biblical teaching on slavery and the husbands: "This punishment, too, springs from original sin.

right conduct of slave and master. The evil of sexism must . . . The rule remains with the husband, and the wife is com- be treated to the same judgment. pelled to obey him by God's command. He rules the home In fact, the words and actions ofJesus in the gospels give and the state, wages wars, defends his possessions, tills the

the lie to the idea that the Church was founded as a patriar- soil, builds, plants, etc. The woman, on the other hand, is

chal society. Biblical scholars today point out that Jesus like a nail driven into the wall. She sits at home . . . lookhng] called both women and men to be disciples; that women left after the affairs of the household, as one who has been de-

their homes and responded to Jesus' call; that he received prived of administering those affairs . . . that concern the

from women not only financial support (they bankrolled his state. ... In this way is Eve punished." ministry: see Lk 8:1-3), but also encouragement and in- Over time, women as a class internalized the images they struction in his mission (see Mk 7:24-30); that when Jesus were fed, and instinctively thought of themselves as less was arrested, the men deserted but it was the women who than worthy. But not all did. We have always had feisty stayed, faithful witnesses at the cross and at the tomb; and women who refused that definition. that the risen Christ chose them to be the first recipients of In early and medieval times, some women rejected patri-

26 SUMMER 2004 archal marriage and formed monastic communities where The magisterium has yet to posit equality in the social

they could pursue their relationship to God and one anoth- structures of Church life, the most striking example being or- er undeterred. Some were mystics who envisioned God as dination to the priesthood. In 1976, acknowledging that the being beyond gender and used both male and female images traditional reasoning against women's ordination, namely,

to point to this unutterable mystery. In Julian of Norwich's women's inferiority as human beings, is now inadequate, the famous visions in the 14th century, she affirmed that "God Vatican in the document Inter Insigniores brought forth three

all Wisdom is our kindly Mother; yes, as truly God is our new reasons why women are barred from the sacrament. First

Father, so truly is God our Mother." is the example of Jesus, who ordained only 12 men; second is Catherine of Siena in the 14th century remained outside the unbroken tradition of the Church, which never ordained

convent walls, becoming involved as a lay woman in Church women; and third is the iconic argument, which holds that the reform by sheer dint of her call from God. At one point she priest has to look like the male Jesus in order for the sacra- wrote to Gregory XI rebuking his choice of pastors and car- ment of the Eucharist to have its natural symbolic value. dinals, saying that they were "stinking weeds, full of impurity Subsequently, these reasons have been buttressed in the writ- and avarice, and bloated with pride," that the Church de- ings of Pope John Paul II by a dualistic view that sees mascu- served pastors who would be true servants ofJesus Christ with line nature fitted with rationality and the ability to lead in the care for the poor—and Catherine is a public realm, and feminine nature orient- doctor of the Church. ed to love and toward nurturing the vul- Of course, in addition to singular THE EXCLUSION nerable in the private realm. These women, there have always been the reasons have been so consistently uncon- anonymous millions of women who OF WOMEN FROM vincing that 20 years after Inter built up the Christian tradition through Insigniores, the Vatican issued another their quest for God, their prayer, their EUCHARISTIC statement saying that women cannot be service, and their love, staking out small ordained, period, that this is authoritative areas of independence within it and in- LEADERSHIP EATS teaching, and that the discussion is ended. structing their daughters. And so, the It is a testament to the depth of patriar- ambiguity perdures. AT THE HEART OF chal resistance to women's equality that officials of the Church are less willing to THERE HAS been a rapid shift in offi- THEIR LITURGICAL sit down and discuss women's ordination cial Church teaching, in our own time. in an open, collegial, and rational manner Vatican II sounded the drumbeat loud EXPERIENCE. than they are to sit down with other and clear, in general statements filled Christian churches to discuss con- with implications (the whole Church is tentious issues about the real presence of called to holiness; Christ is present in Christ in the Eucharist, the divinity of the whole assembly gathered in prayer), and in explicit teach- Christ, or even the inner life of the Trinitarian God—all ings such as this ringing affirmation in The Church in the of which have been subjects of ecumenical dialogue. Modern World, the pastoral constitution proclaimed by Paul The tension between patriarchal and prophetic ideas

VI at the council's conclusion: "With respect to the funda- about women is untenable over the long haul. Even under mental rights of the person, every type of discrimination, the stern watch of patriarchal resistance, new sociological whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, color, facts have taken shape. social condition, language, or religion, is to be overcome Today, for instance, more than 80 percent of the ministry and eradicated as contrary to God's intent." In other words, within U.S. Catholic parishes is carried out by women. sexism is a sin. Perhaps nowhere has this been more strong- Women provide the bulk of catechists, teachers, directors of ly articulated than in the encyclicals of Pope John Paul II. religious education, charitable service workers, and volun- Rather than repeat the old canards, he vigorously maintains teers of all kinds. Women serve in liturgical roles as lectors, the equality of women and men in creation and redemption. Eucharistic ministers, and cantors. They function as parish In his 1988 encyclical On the Dignity of Women, for example, administrators where priests are unavailable and lead com- he writes, "Both man and woman are human beings to an munion services that include preaching as part of the litur- equal degree, both are created in God's image." And again, gy of the word. They also serve as diocesan chancellors and "The human being ... is a person, man and woman equally as judges in marriage tribunals. Along with lay men, they so, since both were created in the image and likeness of the increasingly head up the three great areas of Catholic con- personal God." This affirmation can now be found in the tribution to American society: hospitals, schools and col- Catechism of the Catholic Church. In theory, at least, the am- leges, and social service agencies. In addition, there has biguity surrounding women is clearing. Not so in practice. been a blossoming of women's scholarship. Women are

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 27 active now in fields of biblical research, Church history, sys- Peter Steinfels, religion writer for the Neiv York Times, makes tematic theology, ethics, and spirituality, teaching in semi- an astute observation. The Catholic Church in the United naries and bringing women's wisdom to bear on the whole States, he writes, is currently going through two major tran- range of Christian doctrines, symbols, ethics, and rituals. sitions. The first is generational, from the older folks who With their growing participation in the life of the Church grew up in a strong cultural Catholicism with devotions and today, many of these women have come to feel an enormous feasts and observances, so that Catholicism was bred in one's spiritual strain, due to exclusions that persist. Two areas in bones, to the younger generations born and brought up after particular stand out. One is decision-making: Doctrinal Vatican II, when the old form of Catholicism dissolved under teachings, laws, and ethical mandates are still handed down the light of reform, so that younger people now hold their from a council of men -without the participation of women, Catholic identity more loosely, or even in a more confused even when decisions affect women most intimately, in their way. The second transition involves Church leadership, with bodies. The other area of tension is the sacramental life: The leadership in every aspect of Church life except liturgy pass- exclusion of women from Eucharistic leadership eats at the ing from clergy to laity—that is, to people who may well be heart of their liturgical experience. As the theologian married, with children and other commitments. These are

Rosemary Radford Ruether put it, women come to the seismic shifts, happening beyond anyone's control, and how

Eucharist hungry for the word of God and the bread of life, we Catholics negotiate them will determine the future of and they leave still hungry, even starving. Why? Because the Church in this country. they never hear women's experience interpret the word of To say that these are perilous times is an understatement. God in preaching, and they never see one like themselves But thanks to women claiming the authority of their bap- enact the sacred ritual. The Eucharistic rite works like all tism, and thanks to the men who stand with them, and sacraments do: It effects by signifying. When women are ex- thanks to the persistence of the prophetic, liberating strand cluded from presiding, it effects their subordination. The within our tradition, there is reason for hope. The feminist Eucharistic liturgy remains a symbol of the Church's reluc- writer Marge Piercy wrote a poem whose imagery I have tance to include women fullv in the mvsteries of salvation. alwavs loved:

INTO THIS fraught situation, where the immovable object . . . We must shine of patriarchy encounters the irresistible force of women's with hope, stained glass windows that shape desire for full participation in the Church, into this situa- light into icons, glow like lanterns tion, like a bomb, has dropped the sex abuse scandal. We borne before a procession. Who can bear hope have experienced the dreadful revelations of moral corrup- back into the world but us . . . tion among a small percentage of Catholic priests, and the failure of a greater percentage of bishops to protect the in- The Church is the community of redeemed sinners nocent from harm. This has been accompanied by a lack of called to serve the coming of the kingdom of God into this accountability for use of the financial resources of the world. Again and again, it has failed and become a collabo- Church, large amounts being secretly paid to bury the rator in domination, within and without. But the power of knowledge of what happened. the Spirit, Holy Wisdom herself at work in the community, We now have what one writer has called "a perfect empowers the Church to rise ever again. I believe we are liv- storm": Lay people are scandalized and outraged; good ing in such an ascendant season. What is new about this mo- priests are demoralized; many bishops are profoundly comment is that, for the first time in Christian history, masses of promised; and an increasingly reactionary Vatican bureau- women in the Church are silent and invisible no longer. We cracy is clueless about the seriousness of what is happening. are coming in from the cold, envisioning the Church in a

The responses of competent laity in Voice of the Faithful and way beneficial to all. This, I am convinced, is the work of other forums and movements for reform are met in many in- the Spirit of God. And She will not be quenched. stitutional quarters with fear and disdain, though they are in fact green shoots of hope. It has never been clearer that the Elizabeth A. Johnson, CSJ, is the Distinguished Professor of Church needs a transformed structure, fully transparent and Theology at Fordham University and the author of'The Church accountable to its members. And, as Theresa Kane, RSM, Women Want: Catholic Women in Dialogue (2002) and said in her groundbreaking address to Pope John Paul II dur- Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Alary in the Communion ing his visit to Washington, D. C, in 1979, genuine transfor- of Saints (2003). Her essay is adapted f-om a talk she delivered mation will not come about without the "full participation of at Boston College on April 1 7, 2004, part of the conference women in the ministries of the Church." The time has never entitled "Envisioning the Church Women Want.'''' Johnsons been more ripe for new envisioning. talk and other events at the conference can he viewed at In his 2003 book on the Church entitled A People Adrift, www.bc.edu/church21/programs/womensconference.

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SMALL WONDERS WINNERS OF THE 2OO4 FLASH FICTION CONTEST

Last fall, BCM invited readers to commit a work offiction in 250 words or less,

to all who participated, thank you. The first-place (left) and runner-up entries appear below. More can be read at www.bc.edu/bcm

THE FIANCE STAR LITE

By Jason Reblando By Andrew Teed

Philip ate his pork chops and balanced peas between Cassidy McNault was a 2 7 -year-old aspiring actress the tines of his fork as the apartment radiators hissed living in Hollywood whose acting credits to date in- and groaned. Theresa had already eaten her dinner. cluded, solely, faking orgasms. Fortunately for She knew Philip wouldn't feel like talking after she Cassidy, there was only one thing keeping her from told him about the engagement. He was unhappy stardom. Unfortunately for Cassidy, that one thing with the prospect of having a heroin user as a broth- was talent. Sensing that her prime years were slip- er-in-law. The heavy worry Philip felt for his sister ping by as audition after audition yielded no roles, Melanie had been gathering for years, long before she concluded that only by placing herself in the this ill-chosen boyfriend. The engagement was just public eye would she be "discovered." one in a series of terrible decisions. In an ingenious move that belied her lack of ge- Philip hated Melanie's pathetic rationalizations: nius, Cassidy purchased a police scanner and moni- being in a relationship would solve her depression; tored the whereabouts of breaking stories that moving in with Vincent would bring them closer to- warranted media coverage. From robberies to three- gether; getting engaged would fix the problems alarm fires to homicides, Cassidy was there, making caused by moving in with him. Melanie believed herself available to local news crews on the scene. these things would happen. But her optimism While Cassidy never knew the victim or perpetrator, wronged her at every turn. she didn't let a minor detail like that prevent her The elevated train rumbled by and turned the ceil- from delivering compelling interviews as the "unsus- ing fan's pull-chain into a pendulum. Philip barely pecting neighbor" or "grief-stricken you-name-it." noticed Theresa washing the dishes. He stared at the It seemed that Cassidy had finally found her acting empty kitchen table and tried to forget Melanie's niche. tearful phone calls about spot-checks for used needles She got her big break having sped to the town of in Vincent's jeans. He knew there would be more. He La Jolla (pronounced "La Hoya"), where she gave a tried to block out the conversations where Melanie convincing interview as the wife of a producer who had told him they were throwing things at each other, had just been in a car accident. Unbeknownst to but knew there would be more. Philip also knew that Cassidy, the producer was Tom Smith (pronounced of all the characters in Melanie's sad, frenetic life, it "very gay"), and he had watched the interview that was this feckless fiance who understood her most. night on the news from his hospital bed. Impressed And with that pitiful thought, he lifted the phone, by her audacity, he offered—and she accepted— which felt like an anvil, to congratulate his sister. role in the upcoming feature Scan and Deliver.

Jason Reblando '95 is a freelance photographer Andrew Teed '98 is a media analyst for a motion

based in Chicago. picture studio in Burbank, California.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 29 BROWNin re:

The court's decision was simply just. "Deliberate speed" was simply not

BY CHARLES J. OCLETREE, JR.

You could almost say that the Brown v. Board of Education decision was providential, an act of God. In 1953, a year before Brown was decided, a majority of the justices on the Supreme Court

were prepared to reaffirm the awful doctrine oiPlessy v. Ferguson, which since 1896 had held that laws separating the races did not contradict the Constitution's promise of equality. The chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1953 was Fred Vinson, a Kentucky native, and one of five justices

who did not believe it was time to overrule Plessy and the doctrine of separate but equal.

But on September 8, 1953, Fred Vinson died. Felix complicated and controversial way. The court ruled on May Frankfurter was among those on the court who had debated 31, 1955, that the federal courts must "enter such orders and separate but equal with Vinson. Hearing of Vinson's death, decrees consistent with this opinion as are necessary and

Justice Frankfurter told his law clerk, "This is the first indi- proper to admit to public schools on a racially non-discrim-

cation I have had that there is a God." inatory basis with all deliberate speed the parties to these The vacancy created the opportunity for President cases. The legal team of Thurgood Marshall, Robert Dwight Eisenhower to appoint Earl Warren as chief justice. Carter, Oliver Hill, Constance Backer Motley, Spottswood A former Republican governor from California, Warren had Robinson, Jack Greenberg, and others, had won again, and been the attorney general of California responsible for pro- they were celebrating their great victory—until a young moting and overseeing the internment of more than African-American secretary7 looked up the world "deliber-

100,000 Japanese-Americans in the 1940s. But Warren ate" in a dictionary and figured out it meant "slow." And in-

would later lead the U.S. Supreme Court toward the deed, it turned out to mean not just "slow," but "cautious," Miranda ruling, which established legal rights for arrested "wary"; deliberate in the sense of "ponderous" or "awk-

persons; and toward its decisions in Gideon v. Waimvright, ward," as if each step in the implementation was taken in which confirmed the right of the accused to legal represen- pain and at great cost.

tation, and Mapp v. Ohio, which confirmed the right to have Progress toward racial equality and integration may have evidence excluded if the government breaks the law in try- been slow; but resistance came quickly. In March 1956,

ing to arrest a suspect or seize evidence. And, in his first year some 19 U.S. Senators and 81 representatives signed a as chief justice, Warren wrote the Brown ruling. "Southern Manifesto," which they placed in the Brown raised the question: Does the segregation of Congressional Record, saying they'd use every lawful means to school children solely on the basis of race deprive children resist integration. In 1957, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus

of a minority group of equal education opportunities even if sent the Arkansas National Guard to Little Rock Central physical facilities and other tangible factors may be equal? High to block the entry of black children. Alabama gover-

The court's answer: We believe that it does. The court con- nor George Wallace, who took office in 1963, built his po- cluded that "separate but equal" led to inherently unequal litical foundation on "segregation now, segregation opportunities. tomorrow, segregation forever." In some places, such as

Most people aren't aware that Brown is two cases. The Virginia, more than a decade would pass before the court's first and unanimous ruling struck down school segregation right: Standing outside a Topeka classroom in 1953 are the students on May 17, 1954, without issuing orders on how to bring represented in Oliver Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, the practice to an end. The second Brown decision, a year Kansas et al. From left: Vicki Henderson, Donald Henderson, Linda Brown

later and also unanimous, is significant because even though (Oliver's daughter), James Emanuel, Nancy Todd, and Katherine Carper.

the court again decided to end segregation, it did so in a Photograph by Carl Iwasaki/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

30 SLWLMER 2004 demand would be addressed. In fact, in parts of Virginia, my wife was telling me "follow directions" and I was saying, and in some southern cities, including Little Rock, officials "I know where I'm going." I knew exactly where I was going: simply closed the public school systems. I was going to Cambridge. Well, I got lost. I called the land-

lord and told him, "I know I'm near, but I don't know how THE ORIGINAL strategy to end school segregation was to get to Cambridge." He said, well, describe where you are. the work of a brilliant lawyer named Charles Hamilton What do you see? I said, "Well, I see Paddy's Liquors, I see

." Houston. He was a Washington, D.C., native, an Amherst O'Reilly's Restaurant, I see . . He said, "Get back in the College graduate, a Harvard Law School graduate, and in car!" We had arrived in South Boston. Here we were in 1922 the first black to sit on the editorial board of the 1975, 21 years after Brown, in Boston, once the stronghold of

Harvard Lazv Review. He was also the first black to receive abolitionists, the place where Crispus Attucks was the first to an SJD, the highest degree in the field of law. And yet he take a bullet in the Revolutionary War, a city in the North. could not find suitable employment at a law firm anywhere But now it was a city wrenched by the idea of integration, in the country. So he went back to his father's practice in where black children were being taunted in their school Washington, and to Howard University Law School, where buses, were being denied the opportunity to get the quality he took a job as the vice dean. There he trained a generation education promised in 1954—two decades before. It was of lawyers for the fight against discrimination. clear to me that we still faced the problems created by the He had a simple philosophy: I'm going to train the best and decision to move with "all deliberate speed." the brightest to change this society. He liked to say a lawyer Thurgood Marshall once said that we have to find ways had only two options: To be a social engineer or a parasite; for "all of our children" to succeed. As a Supreme Court jus- there's no middle ground. And indeed, he trained engineers. tice himself, Marshall dissented in the Milliken v. Bradley Thurgood Marshall was one of them. He argued 32 cases case in 1974, a ruling that denied an effort to balance edu- before the Supreme Court, an all-white, all-male court in cational opportunities for black and white children in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He won 29. Robert Detroit by requiring equal funding among school districts. Carter, the general counsel for the NAACP, argued 22 cases He said then, "We deal here with the right of our children, before the Supreme Court and won 21. The only case he all of our children, whatever their race, to an equal start in lost involved an African-American charged with homicide. life and to an equal opportunity to reach their full potential Carter was convinced his client was innocent, but the client as citizens. Those children who have been denied that right was executed, and Carter swore to never again handle a in the past deserve better than to see fences thrown up to criminal case. deny them that right in the future. Unless our children

Leading up to Brown, a group of lawyers, following begin to learn together, there is little hope that our people Houston's strategy, filed lawsuits in five different states. will ever learn to live together." They didn't want the court to easily evade the challenge of Those were his prophetic words in 1974. And as we look facing up to segregation. So they filed in South Carolina, at America today, as we look at Boston or Chicago or New but they also filed in Topeka, Kansas. They filed in Virginia, York or Detroit or Los Angeles or Houston or Philadelphia but also in Wilmington, Delaware, and in the District of or Washington, D.C., we see more segregation in our pub-

Columbia. Their goal was to make the evidence of segrega- lic schools in the year 2004 than we saw in 1954. The chal- tion so overwhelming that the court could not ignore its im- lenge before us is to fight efforts to resegregate America. pact on the lives of black children. That means rejecting once and for all the idea of desegrega-

I am one who would not be here, who could not be here, tion through "all deliberate speed" and instead embracing who could not imagine being a college graduate, a law school our country's creed, that we're all part of one nation, under graduate, or a law professor but for the sacrifices of those God, indivisible, and that we believe in liberty and justice great lawyers. I stand on their broad shoulders. My own par- for all. If we do that, we will achieve the great goal of Brown: ents did not finish high school—my father went to fourth equal and quality education for all our children. grade, my mother went to 10th grade. My grandparents had no formal education. They all grew up in the South with no Professor Charles']. Ogletree, Jr., is the Jesse Clhnenko Professor right to vote, no right to dine in restaurants, no right to stay at Harvard Law School and author of All Deliberate Speed: in hotels. They lived in an America just 50 years ago that is Reflections on the First Half Century of Brown v. Board of radically different from the America I live in today. Education (2004). His essay was adapted from a talk given at a

That's not to imply that segregation was a southern prob- Boston College forum on Brown v. Board sponsored by the Office lem. It was and is a national problem. That came home to me of the President at the Robsham Theater on May 14, 2004. The when my wife and I left California after we graduated in proceedings can be viewed in full at Boston College Front Row, 1975 from Stanford, and I came to train at Harvard Law www.bc.edu/frontrow. The book is available at a discount from School. As we arrived here, I was driving up Interstate 93 and the BC Bookstore via www.bc.edu/bcm.

32 SUMMER 2004 Above: kindergartners at the Cage School in Washington, D.C., 1952—Wiley is in the second row, third from left. Inset: Wiley, left, with her father, Carlisle E. Pratt, and sister, Sharon. Photos courtesy Benaree P. Wiley. OUR WORLD

Like most people who grew up in the civil rights era, it's really diffi- Now, 50 years later,

cult for me to separate my personal story from the Brown decision. I find myself running

I grew up in Washington, D.C., which during that time was a segre- an organization here in gated community. Not only were our school systems segregated, so Boston, the Partnership, were our hospitals, our restaurants, our movie theaters. There were rooted in the racial strife many department stores that we couldn't shop in, and we certainly that resulted from the couldn't play in the local amusement park. Brown decision. Although there has been a 31 percent growth in the

One of my most vivid childhood memories is of May 17, 1954. I number of African-Americans living and working in Boston through

had just turned eight years old, four days before. I was home with the the decade of the 1990s, there has also been a slight decline in mumps, a childhood disease that no longer exists. My dad came African-Americans holding executive and managerial positions. We home with a cold bottle of champagne. He poured a glass for my sis- work with businesses and organizations to help them more ter, who was 10, and he poured one for me. He told us he wanted us effectively advance talent from within communities of color in our to raise our glasses, that he wanted to toast us—because as of today, city; and we help the heirs of the Brown decision to develop and be- he said, the world was ours, and we could be anything that we de- come leaders.

cided we wanted to be. And then he sat down and explained to us the I still have, I guess, a lot of my dad's hope and excitement and

Supreme Court decision that had been rendered earlier in the day. optimism.

My sister and I are among those who have been the beneficiaries Benaree P. Wiley of the Brown decision. She—Sharon Pratt—went on to become

is Inc., mayor of Washington, D.C., in 1991. I came to Boston in 1970, two Benaree P. Wiley president and CEO of the Partnership, and a years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., as part of the member ofthe Board of Trustees of Boston College. Her observations are first real wave of African-American students to attend Harvard drawn from remarks she delivered at the May 14 forum "Brown v. Board:

Business School. 1954-2004." The event may be viewed in full at www.bc.edu/frontrow.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 33

OVERVIEW A TOUR OF THE BRIGHTON CAMPUS

On June 29, 2004, the word "Brighton" joined "Lower, Middle, Upper" and "Newton" as an adjective that can be applied to a segment of Boston College's properties in Newton and

Boston. On that day, Boston College completed its acquisition of 43 acres and five buildings

from the Archdiocese of Boston for $99.4 million. It was the largest single land acquisition in

University history after the 52.7-acre Lower Campus, which BC bought when it was a sur-

plus state reservoir in 1949 for the bargain price of $10,000 (see "Landed," page 39).

While ideas for, and rumors about, Boston College's plans for its new campus have spiced University and neighborhood conversations for months (see "Around the Water Cooler,"

page 11), BC will not make any plans for use of the new campus until it completes a major

study of the property and the ways it which it can be integrated with the Chestnut Hill Cam- pus. This review will begin shortly and could take a year to complete. Boston College will

then submit a use plan to the City of Boston, with occupancy permits conditional on the city's approval. In the interim, the buildings may be used periodically for special meetings, and the fields will be used as they have been for some time, by joggers, dog-walkers, and Boston Col- lege athletic teams, and by loud and vigorous children who pour

New Brighton property (fore- fences and ontQ the grass Q f the Brighton Campus's playing thrQugh ^ r r J ° ground, bright green), with the D D °

chestnut Hiii campus beyond fields during lunch and recess at the neighboring Edison Middle School.

PHOTOGRAPHY BY GARY WAYNE GILBERT

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 35 Cardinal's residence and surroundings Including 19,800 square feet on three floors, with some 40 rooms, 2121 Commonwealth

Avenue contains offices, meeting rooms, and residential and guest rooms. It was built by

Cardinal William O'Connell (Class of 1881), who moved into this Italian Renaissance-

style structure in 1927 and is buried in a chapel that he had constructed on a nearby hill.

9th

36 SUMMER 2004 A lawn behind the former residence stretches down toward St. John's Seminary.

The agreement also includes purchase of the 13.5-acre

seminary property (which begins at the road) if the facility is offered for sale within 10 years. O'Connell's tomb. His remains are to be moved to another site.

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 37 :

St. Clement's Hall and surroundings

Built in 1940 to house a junior seminary, St. Clement's includes some 185 rooms on four floors,

covering 94,000 square feet. Since 1991, Boston

College has leased portions of the building for of-

fice space. Nearly four acres of overgrown mead-

ows on the east side of Foster Street are included

in the purchase.

One of two large athletic fields on the north edge of the property An abutting home, off Foster Street

38 SUMMER 2004 LANDED

The big deals that made Boston College possible

South End Campus

On August 17, 1857, John McEl-

roy, SJ, purchased a 65,100- square-foot parcel of land on Harrison Avenue between Con-

cord and Newton streets in Boston's South End. The land

A two-level parking and storage facility beside the road to St. Clement's

belonged to the city, and McEl-

roy paid $32,550. At 1.5 acres, the property was just large enough to house McElroy's planned two-building college

and a church, and, importantly, was connected to Boston's neighborhoods by horse-drawn

trolley. Boston College opened

for business six years later, with 22 students and three faculty.

Chestnut Hill Campus

In 1907, President Thomas Gas-

son, SJ, announced to alumni

that Boston College was leaving the South End and heading to

suburban Chestnut Hill, where he had purchased (for $187,500) a 31-acre farm on the heights overlooking twin reservoirs. The Recitation Building

(later named Casson Hall) was

completed in 1913, and other buildings followed. By 1925, Boston College's student body topped 1,000. By the 1940s, BC had founded schools of busi-

ness, law, graduate arts and sciences, and nursing.

A view toward the gymnasium (continued on following page)

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 39 Lower Campus

In 1948, the Lawrence Basin, the upper of the two Boston

reservoirs below the campus, was declared inactive. BC paid $10,000 for the 52.7 acres,

with the cost of filling in the basin estimated at $750,000. The last of the water disap-

peared in 1969, much of it having been replaced with materials excavated to make way for Route 128. Alumni $tadium

was in place by 1957, and over the next 45 years, BC built a village to house undergraduate

students, with the latest addition —the St. Ignatius Gate Residence Hall —scheduled to open in August 2004.

Newton Campus

In 1974, Boston College acquired the 40-acre, i5-building campus of Newton College of the Sacred Heart, a highly re- garded women's institution

St. William's Hall and surroundings

Built to house the junior

seminary after a 1936 fire

destroyed the previous build-

ing on the site, St. William's

contains some 80 offices, meeting rooms, classrooms, that, like many single-sex col- dormitory rooms, and a leges, had experienced declines chapel, occupying 40,650 in applications and revenues. square feet on four floors. BC assumed Newton College's Most recently, the building liabilities of approximately $5 was used as a retreat center million, hired Newton College and a training site for lay faculty, respon- and undertook ministers. sibility for supporting alumnae activities. The Law School, which had occupied More Hall, The 15,600-square-foot gym-

moved to Newton, and the nasium was built in 1937 for Newton College residence halls the use of seminarians and

became home to Boston Col- includes a basketball court lege freshmen. and squash courts.

40 SUMMER 2004 "LITTLE ROME": A HISTORY OF THE BRIGHTON CAMPUS "Little Rome," where on "every hilltop now for miles In 1880, five years after the Archdiocese of Boston was de- around gleams the sacred sign of our redemption." In 1909, clared independent from the New York Province, Archbish- O'Connell began purchasing land adjacent to St. John's op John J. Williams (1822-1907) bought the 26-acre Seminary and encouraged other Catholic institutions to Stanwood estate in Brighton for $18,500. There, upon its build nearby: Boston College, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, St. rolling orchards and meadows, he built St. John's Seminary. Gabriel's Monastery, and the Religious of the Cenacle. By Sulpician priests from France and Maryland, dedicated to the mid-1920s, with the aid of a bequest from a vaudeville clerical formation, were brought in to teach the school's first magnate, O'Connell was able to relocate himself and the class of 32 aspirants, who entered seminary on September archdiocese to the residence and chancery building. On a 22, 1884. A year later the archdiocese purchased an adjoin- hill behind the residence he constructed a "shrine of the Im- ing 1 8-acre estate for the construction of a junior seminary maculate Conception, which he has destined to be his mau- that would enroll high school-age students. Williams's suc- soleum," according to an official history of the Archdiocese cessor, Cardinal William H. O'Connell (1857-1944), had published in February 1944. O'Connell was interred in the grander ambitions for the Brighton campus. The BC gradu- shrine shortly afterward, on April 28, 1944. ate (1881) dreamed of turning the pastoral landscape into a Paul Voosen

A view toward Greycliff Road ,W+ ~Jf•m

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~ Exemplars

As with Catholicism now, other churches and faith communities have faced times

that severely challenged institutions, leaders, and believers. Boston College Magazine

recently asked three individuals who have been active in responding to the current

crisis in the Church to write about a person of another faith whose engagement with

a critical religious crisis offers a useful model of response for Catholics today.

searcher: spiritual path, was a rich and generative theme in the life and work of Rabbi Heschel. Abraham Joshua Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel was born in Poland in 1907, scion of a line of great Hasidic rabbis. He studied Jewish BY PADRAIC O'HARE wisdom in Vilna and secular thought in Berlin. For a time he succeeded the philosopher Martin Buber as the leader of Jewish education in Frankfurt. With the advent of Nazism, During the last two years, a time of crisis for the Catholic he made his way to England in 1939, and in 1940 he came Church, a book research project has engaged my energies. to the United States. Most of his remaining years, until The manuscript—on interreligious relations—derives its his death in 1972, were spent teaching at the Jewish title from words of the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Theological Seminary in Newr York City.

It is called Searching in the Wilderness. ("What then is the During those years, Heschel's became the principle voice

purpose of interreligious cooperation?" asked Heschel. It is calling Jews, and an ever-widening circle of Christians, to a "to search in the wilderness for the wellsprings of devo- joyful, loving, and morally challenging spirituality, one tion.") Heschel's thought features prominently in my work, founded on an awe-filled response to what he called the and he is for me a great guide in the current wilderness. "Divine pathos," the Holy One's incalculable love for all

To the extent that I need consolation, it is for a heart sick creation. His philosophical writings defended human digni-

over Catholicism's spiritual and theological richness being ty and freedom in the face of contemporary materialism. eclipsed—and its efficacy questioned—by identification And his professions of moral responsibility, most famously with the malfeasant and triumphal actions of Church offi- in his epic two-volume study, The Prophets (1936), but also

cials. What is breathtaking about the crisis, beyond even the in his many public speeches and protests, were a profound

sexual predation of children and teenagers by priests, is that call to tikkun ola?n, to "heal the world." He himself an- virtually no bishop honored himself by acting with justice swered by becoming a leader in the civil rights and anti- and compassion. Vietnam War movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Heschel's My consolation rests in the distinction that many before was a uniquely effective voice calling for reverence among me have drawn between religion and spirituality. This dif- people in differing religious community, insisting that "God

ferentiation, between religious community and a personal is either the Father of all men or of no men."

42 SUMMER 2004 but sustaining one another with "the courage to believe that the word of God endures forever as well as here and now; to cooperate in trying to bring about a resurrection of sensitiv-

ity, a revival of conscience; to keep alive the divine spark in our souls; to nurture openness to the spirit of the Psalms, reverence for the words of the Prophets, and faidifulness to the will of God."

THIS WILDERNESS into which we Catholics have been

brought by our leaders is removed from the conciliar reform and renewal of the Church and from the vision of Pope John XXIII. We have been led away from an ecclesiology that speaks of the people of God and back to autocracy; away from an inclusive vision of revelation inspired by the yearn- ings of our own times (what the Second Vatican Council called the "signs of the times") and toward a kind of funda- mentalism, in a Church that has no place for certain others: for the divorced; for those who in conscience do not share confidence in official teaching on sexual and reproductive ethics; for women who seek roles of leadership in service; for persons who are gay and lesbian. This wilderness in which we now dwell, fairness and ac-

curacy requires it be said, we have entered in part by our own complicity. As the author James Carroll (Constantines Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History) and others have pointed out, whenever we the people have remained silent and pliant, we have built up this sculpture, this idol. Further,

the Catholic Church, even in crisis, is by no means all wilderness. Many Catholics of courage and priests of integrity simply function as if listening to different music, with joy and reverence, with gratitude and compassion, praising the Holy One and serving their neighbor. Heschel: "God is either the Father of all men or of no men." We Catholics will escape this wilderness by refusing to live as if the "boring administration" of the Church, as Karl

HESCHEL DISTINGUISHED between religion and spir- Rahner, SJ, put it 30 years ago, were the whole of ituality by referring to theology and what he called "depth Catholicism. We will escape by becoming ever more filled theology." "The theme of theology," he wrote, "is the con- with prayer that deepens our hunger for justice and com- tent of believing. The theme of depth theology is the act of passion and also enables us to be in conflict but remain in believing." He elaborated: "Theology is like sculpture; depth charity. Above all, we will escape by becoming accustomed theology like music. Theology is in books; depth theology is to asking of each new ecclesiastical assertion, as the writer in hearts. The former is doctrine, the latter is events." Andrew Sullivan has suggested, "Is it True?"

The distinctions are useful, but imperfect. For it is from But for as long as we remain in terrain that is chiefly the music of Heschel's heart that we receive such bracing wilderness, we can hear few words more consoling than and timely words as these: "Religion is for God's sake. The those of Rabbi Heschel: "God is greater than religion . . . human side of religion, its creeds, rituals, and instructions, faith is greater than doctrine." is a way rather than a goal." And the goal, according to

Heschel, quoting the prophet Micha, is "to do justice, to Padraic CHare is a professor of religious studies and the director love mercy, and to walk humbly with God." of the Center for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations at "Religion for religion's sake," when the human side be- Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. To learn comes the object, "is idolatry," said Heschel. Real spiritual more ofHeschel s views, he recommends God in Search of Man: practice means searching in the wilderness. And Rabbi A Philosophy ofJudaism (1955), The Insecurity of Freedom: Heschel insisted that we are required to search together, Essays on Human Existence (1966), and Moral Grandeur rooted in our communities of primary religious affiliation, and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (Susannah Heschel, ed., 1996).

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 43 HEARTS AND MINDS! responsibility was to promote this gracious perception. Such seeing concerned neither the mind alone nor only the Jonathan Edwards heart, but both. Edwards would not settle for the "either/or" of a stolid rationalism or an effervescent BY FR. ROBERT P. IMBELLI pietism. His spiritual integrity required, in Cardinal John Henry Newman's terms, "notional apprehension" and "real apprehension," both cognitive understanding and personal Jonathan Edwards, acclaimed by many today as America's appropriation. Edwards's pastoral labors to foster real ap-

greatest theologian, entered what would become Yale College prehension sparked that spiritual explosion with which he is in 1716, at the age of 13, a Puritan, his heritage animated by forever associated: the Great Awakening. religious fervor and domestic In his most famous work, intimacy, frontier hardship A Treatise Concerning and intellectual ferment, the Religious Affections (1746), discernment of spirits and the Edwards defends the validi- acute awareness of mortality. ty of the revival he launched

At Yale, Edwards immersed to its rationalist detractors. himself in the writings of True religion, he says, en-

such enlightened pioneers of tails "fervent exercises of the new scientific and philo- the heart." The Scriptures sophical age as Isaac Newton "do everywhere place reli- and John Locke. It would be- gion very much in the affec- come Edwards's lifelong ad- tions," and in particular, in venture to forge a synthesis the experiences of love and

between the new natural phi- joy. Tellingly, Edwards pref- losophy and biblical revela- aced his treatise with a quo- tion as mediated by his tation from the First Letter Calvinist tradition. His abid- of Peter: "Though you have ing achievement was to reject not seen Christ, you love neither, but to see that each, him; and even though you in different ways, conveys in- do not see him now, you be- timations of God's sovereign lieve in him and rejoice with presence. In the words of bi- an indescribable and glori-

ographer George Marsden, ous joy" (1 Pet 1:8).

Edwards became "simultane- Here is the heart of ously a strict conservative and Edwards's vision. The beau- an innovator." ty of God shines out from

For some intellectuals at Jesus Christ. God's glory is the time, Enlightenment most manifest in Christ's thought spelled an absent redemptive and restorative deity, one who had set the love. From this Christie

universe in motion and left it center, the whole creation

to its own devices. But receives orientation and Edwards claimed that the purpose. The universe Triune God of Christian shows itself to be not a tradition freely creates and Edwards: True religion entails "fervent exercises of the heart." chance congeries of atoms continuously sustains his in motion but a theater for handiwork, that the universe shines forth as an "explosion of the emergence of spiritual persons in life-enriching relation God's Glory," enrapturing anyone with eyes to see. More with one another.

than a century later, a like perception inspired the Jesuit priest In the accents of his time, Edwards echoes the founding

and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to exclaim: "The world is narratives of Genesis and John: "In the beginning was the

charged with the grandeur of God!" Word. . . . and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us

Learning to perceive God's glory ever more clearly, said and we have seen his glory." And it is the perennial pastoral- Edwards, was each believer's calling; the minister's pastoral theological task to re-echo this same Good News ever and

44 SUMMER 2004 again, in a way both faithfully conservative and creatively in parish and diocesan pastoral bodies are implemented and innovative. For the pastoral mission is, in every generation, real consultation among laity, clergy, and bishops becomes to wed hearts and minds to Jesus Christ, "in a pure disin- a matter of course, the Catholic Church will only have ar- terested love to Christ and desire of his glory." rived at the threshold of awakening and renewal. As

I remembered Edwards as I read the homily that Sean Jonathan Edwards knew and taught, when the Bridegroom O'Malley, OFM Cap, preached at his installation as arch- asks the decisive question, "Do you love me?" the answer bishop of Boston. Amid phrases poignant and repentant, cannot be mouthed by a surrogate. At the moment of crisis joyful and trusting, appeared this striking affirmation: and choice, we each stand personally accountable. "Despite the sins and the failing of priests and bishops and the crimes of Catholics over 2,000 years, Christ is with his Fr. Robert P. Imbelli is an associate professor of theology at

Church. Christ is the bridegroom, not the widower." When Boston College. For more on Edwards, he recommends George M. the last clergy abuse lawsuit is finally settled and preventive Marsden s Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003) and A Jonathan policies are firmly in place, when needed structural changes Edwards Reader (John E. Smith, et al., ed., 1995).

FIRST things: Ida Wells-Barnett

BY MARY JO BANE

Ida B. Wells-Barnett—daughter of slaves, anti-lynching activist, suffragist, integrationist—was extremely clear about what was essential and what could be compromised or delayed. A chapter in her autobiography describes her work with suffragist Susan B. Anthony. On most issues the two women agreed about both goals and tactics. But at one point, Anthony explained to Wells-Barnett why she had not invited Frederick Douglass to address the Equal Suffrage Association in Atlanta, and why she did not support the foundation of a colored branch of the association: that she "did not want anything to get in the way of bringing southern white women into our suffrage association." Anthony asked Wells-Barnett if she was wrong. "I answered uncompromis- ingly yes, for I felt that although she may have made gains for suffrage, she had also confirmed white women in their atti- tude of segregation," wrote Wells-Barnett. Though Wells- Barnett continued to value her relationship with Anthony, she remained firm that the fight against racism—and lynching and segregation foremost—could not be compromised. Reflecting on Wells-Barnett's life, on the controversies that seemed to stir around her, on the exclusion and failure she met often with her tireless courage, has helped me to put into perspective the challenges that Catholics—particularly Catholic women—confront in our times. Like Wells- Barnett, we face myriad injustices in our Church, our country, and the world. Like Wells-Barnett, we need to dis- Joumalist Ida Wells-Barnett in 1893

BOSTON COLLEGE MAGAZINE 45 cern which challenges are most important and which must belonging at various times to Methodist, Presbyterian, and wait, knowing that the work we begin will not likely be fin- community congregations. The churches to which she be- ished in our lifetime. longed were segregated; this bothered her greatly, and she Ida B. Wells was born in Mississippi in 1862, of slave par- sometimes protested. But the failures of churches neither di- ents who ensured that she was well educated for the times verted her energies nor weakened her commitment to God and that she developed a firm faith anchored in the or to Christian discipleship in the world. Catholics, especial- Methodist Church. At age 16, she lost her parents to yellow ly Catholic women, might heed that example. fever and took responsibility for her five younger siblings, Second, Wells-Barnett worked for the long term. She supporting the family by teaching at a school six miles from lived through slavery, Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow home. She moved to Tennessee and continued teaching, in era. She died before lynching had been abolished, or in- Memphis and nearby, until she was fired for bringing anti- tegration begun, or equal participation by African- segregation litigation against the local railroad (more than a Americans in the economy and governance of our country decade before Plessy v. Ferguson reached the U.S. Supreme could be achieved. Despite personal disappointments and

Court). In 1889, she became a full-time journalist and edi- setbacks to the cause of equal respect for all men and tor of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight, then the city's women, she did not lose faith in the worth of the goal or leading African-American newspaper. in its possibility.

The brutal 1892 lynching of three respected members of I have been angered, as have many, by the clergy abuse Memphis's African-American community, acquaintances of scandal, by the institutional Church's continuing insensitiv-

Wells, shaped her life. She became a relentless anti-lynching ity to women, by the hierarchy's obsession with liturgical crusader, first in print and then through public speaking, in rubrics and its preoccupation with imposing its own norms this country and in the drawing rooms and lecture halls of of sexuality, marriage, and reproduction on a pluralistic Great Britain. She took risks: Against the argument that democracy. Sometimes my anger at the Church distracts me lynching was an understandable response to the rape of from what I know is my own call to mission, God's invita-

LIKE WELLS-BARNETT, WE NEED TO DISCERN WHICH CHALLENGES ARE MOST IMPOR- TANT AND WHICH MUST WAIT, KNOWING THAT THE WORK WE BEGIN WILL NOT LIKELY

BE FINISHED IN OUR LIFETIME.

white women by black men, she documented that rape was tion to work for peace and justice on this earth. I know that often not the issue at all, and that white women were not reform of the Church is important. A vibrant, inclusive, immune to sexual attraction to black men. evangelizing Church serves God's kingdom and is worth the At age 33, Wells married activist lawyer Ferdinand investment of time and passion. But at times, we as disciples Barnett. They had four children, and Wells-Barnett (as she must choose: We can work for the ordination of women, or became known) balanced caring for the family with contin- agitate against war, or work for the alleviation of poverty af- ued activism and a job, working as a probation officer in flicting a billion people.

Chicago. She devoted considerable time to a variety of In the long run, we know that the Spirit is with the Negro organizations. She founded the Ida B. Wells Club for Church and with the world. In the short term, the path is Negro women and the more activist Negro Fellowship not always clear. Faithful disciples may take heart from and League in Chicago; she helped found the NAACP, though choose to follow the example of Ida B. Wells-Barnett: to be her relationship with that organization as it developed was about the mission, to tolerate or work around the failings of often stormy. During the last decade of her life—she died in the Church, to risk disapproval and exclusion, and to keep 1931 —she found herself pushed to the sidelines by the our eyes on the long term. emerging Negro leadership, having alienated many people with her confrontational style and her difficult personality. Mary Jo Bane is a professor ofpublic policy and vianagement at Harvard University s Kennedy School of Government. Forvwreon

TWO TRAITS make Ida Wells-Barnett a hero to me. First, the life ofWells-Bamett, she recommends Linda 0. McMuny'sTb her deep faith motivated her total dedication to what she had Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells (1998); discerned as her unique mission. She was active in church ac- Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells {edit- tivities throughout her life and was a regular teacher of ed by Alfi-eda M. Duster, 1970); and Patiicia A. Schechters Ida B. Sunday school classes. She was flexible about denomination, Wells-Barnett and American Reform 1880-1930 (2001).

46 SUMMER 2004 Old-time religion

LATINO TRADITIONS CAN SAVE THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES

ROBERTO GOIZUETA

The Catholic Church today is a predominantly Third Maryland in 1634 was post-Reformation, affected by the World church, even within the United States. Indeed, by threat of Protestantism and by the need to define itself in re- the end of the decade, a majority of Catholics in this coun- lation to the reformers. try will be Spanish speaking. As U. S. Catholics go through The Reformation never had the same influence in Spain a period now of disillusionment with their church over re- that it had in northern Europe. Nor would its impact be cent clerical scandals, they may draw hope from communi- felt in Latin America for generations, until at least the 19th ties within the larger Catholic world that remain vital, century. growing, and energetic. Almost half of the world's Catholics today live in Latin IN LATIN AMERICA, and among U.S. Latinos,

America. In fact, counting the U. S. Latino community, fully Catholicism is grounded from early childhood in ritual and

50 percent of the world's Catholics are Latino. Overall, custom and stories retold. Religious identity is not necessar- about two-thirds of Latinos are Catholic. Of course, within ily limited to creed. Indeed, many Latinos are what is called the United States the term "Latino" is artificial; there are pluri-confessional. They participate in more than one Cuban-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, church and even in more than one religion, simultaneous- Hondurans, and so on. Nevertheless they all share charac- ly—behavior incomprehensible to most North Americans. teristics beyond their common language—traits with the They may attend a Catholic Mass on Sunday and a Baptist potential to influence U.S. Catholicism's future. The two Bible study or perhaps even an African ritual on Wednesday. most significant of these are the broad experience of mesti- They often cross and recross confessional boundaries to a zaje or mulataje, racial and cultural mixing; and a tradition of degree that confounds social scientists and undermines the popular Catholicism—a spirituality celebrated with a surveys that portend massive Latino conversions to panoply of religious rituals that lie close to the heart of Protestantism and Evangelicalism.

Latino culture. What's more, Latino popular Catholicism is home-

To understand popular Catholicism one must first un- grown, reflecting the cultural and religious variety of Latin derstand how the history of the Catholic faith in Latin America—Catholic, Evangelical, Yoruba, Aztec, indigenous. America is distinct from its history in the United States. To The famous devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe is an ex- begin with, the religion that came to Latin America with ample. The lady made her presence known on Mount Christopher Columbus 500 years ago was not Roman Tepeyac, the mountain associated with the mother goddess

Catholicism; prior to the Protestant Reformation, it was of the Nahuas, the Aztec group to which the witness Juan simply Christianity. The worldview was distinctly medieval: Diego belonged. She embodies both Christian and Aztec To be a Christian was not only to hold certain beliefs, but symbols. also to have one's identity defined by certain practices—by For the most part, Latino rituals are preserved and led by devotions, by processions, by pilgrimages. Faith absorbed the laity, especially lay women. The center of religious life the body and the mind. is the home, where one often finds private shrines, or "home With the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, altars." In effect, Latino Catholicism embodies the ongoing and particularly with the Council of Trent in 1545-63, con- influence of a "domestic church." Often a grandmother be- fession, or creed, increasingly carried the weight of religious comes the religious leader of the home and of the commu- identity. The Catholicism that arrived with the English in nity. There is a practical reason for this: Latin Americans

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have for generations suffered a shortage of native priests. a Spanish Mass or reaching out in some other way to Even today, on a continent that is two-thirds Catholic, the Latinos, he seemed befuddled. He truly believed there was majority of Latin American priests are foreign born. no Latino presence within the parish boundaries, until I

Latino popular Catholicism is not an alternative to the brought the census statistics to him and said, "Look, they're institutional Church or the sacramental life. Indeed, its here. They're just not coming to church, and they're not practices and symbolism depend on the formal faith. registered in the parish"—the idea of registering in a parish Nonetheless, Latino Catholicism poses a major challenge to is new to most Latinos. the U. S. Catholic Church in how to value and how to inte- grate popular lay practices into the life of the parish and the THERE'S A SENSE among Latinos that the Masses and sacramental Church. liturgies in most U.S. parishes are cold, internalized affairs.

Among U.S. Catholics, there is ingrained resistance. (It's why many start attending Pentecostal and Evangelical Rituals like the Good Friday procession, where the commu- churches.) Among the contributions that Latino Catholics nity reenacts Jesus' Passion and accompanies him to can make to the U.S. Church of the 21st century is to re- Calvary, look an awful lot like the Italian, German, and store and keep alive the role of religious practices, of phys-

THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA IS DISTINCT FROM ITS

HISTORY IN THE UNITED STATES. TO BEGIN WITH, THE RELIGION THAT CAME TO LATIN AMERICA WITH CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WAS NOT ROMAN CATHOLICISM;

PRIOR TO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION, IT WAS SIMPLY CHRISTIANITY.

Polish celebrations of Catholicism that immigrant grand- ical expressions of faith, as a way of conforming to Jesus parents and great-grandparents of today's Catholics prac- Christ. We don't become Catholic simply through the ticed publicly and at home. Their popular religion was head, any more than we can hope to pass the faith on to the derided in the predominantly Protestant culture, which in- next generation individually and intellectually. It's impor- terpreted such devotions as reflecting an immature or infan- tant that we eat together, that we pray together, that we tile faith. To assimilate, European Catholics had to let go of walk publicly together. And if the physical dimensions of those customs. popular religion are important, so, too, is the communal di-

mension. Whether it's the family, the neighborhood, the WHEN GERMAN Catholics came to this country, they Church, or the communion of saints, community defines brought their priests with them and set up German us, makes us who we are. We're not just isolated, au- Catholic parishes. They had a place they could go to pray tonomous individuals. in their language, to participate in their religious practices, In 1999, Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic exhorta- to teach their children their cultural heritage; and a base tion entitled Ecclesia in America {Church in America). In it, he from which they could move out into society fortified by maintained that Catholics ought to "reflect on America"— the bonds of community. Because of the priest shortage in North America, Central America, and South America "as

Latin America, that is not the case with Latino Catholics. a single entity." And in fact, when the Vatican issues statis-

For the most part, Latino Catholics come into this country tics on Catholicism worldwide, it combines the Americas and into existing parishes to fend for themselves. into one demographic unit. As we work through the chal- Nourished by traditions rooted in the home, many Latinos lenges facing the Church in the United States today, I hope become invisible to an institutional Church rooted in the that we move toward a more inclusive Church community, parish structure. one that embraces a vital American Catholicism of faith and

About 10 years ago, I lived in Chicago in a neighborhood action. that was roughly 40 percent Latino. The pastor of the local parish was an Irish priest, a wonderful man, a deeply spiri- Roberto Goizueta is a professor of theology at Boston College. His tual man, but completely unaware that he was surrounded essay is drawn from a talk delivered on April 14, 2004, in Devlin by hundreds of Latino Catholics to whom he was offering Hall on "The New Faces of Christianity. " The fill event may be little. When I asked him if he would think about providing viewed at www.bc.edu/church2 1 /resources/webcast.

48 SUMMER 2004 WORKS &. DAYS

People's choice

Keith Gallinelli '94, MA '97, MBA '01

Callinelli hosts his English language talk show in Nanjing.

The story of Keith Gallinelli's rise to TV stardom has an spoken views on fairly tame subjects. In censorship-heavy urban myth ring to it, though he swears it's true. After grad- China, Small Talk tends to focus on light social themes: uating from BC in 1994, and returning for master's degrees keeping a pet, family life, outdoor sports (the host is a bud- in geology and business administration, Gallinelli, a Con- ding triathlete). Attempts to introduce more controversial necticut native, was teaching business classes in a local pri- subjects meet resistance—Gallinelli has recorded shows on vate school in Nanjing, China (a job he still holds). He met sex education and tattoos, which never aired. a young Chinese woman in a bar and, on a whim, told her Chinese programming today is a bit like 1970s American he was a famous talk show host named Jerry Springer. He TV—laden with variety shows and melodramas, with an soon revealed his true identity, but she turned out to be a added heavy reliance on kung-fu serials. Talk shows have TV producer, and a week later she called and offered him a made a stir only in the last few years. "I think this has the job. Today Gallinelli is the host of Small Talk, the only opportunity to keep me going for 10 years," Gallinelli says English language talk show in China's populous eastern of the show, though the monthly wage—a few thousand province of Jiangsu. yuan (several hundred U. S. dollars)—means television work "My first shows were not great," he admits. "When I is apt to remain a sidelight. watched them back, I noticed I kept saying 'excellent' over Still, Gallinelli finds himself propelled into celebrity. and over again. But they are getting better. And I am much "You'd think it would be college students and foreigners more confident now." Efforts to land visiting former presi- who would recognize me, since the show is in English," he dent Bill Clinton and pop star Mariah Carey as guests fell says. "But it's usually taxi drivers and fruit stall holders, the through. But he recently had an exclusive interview with ordinary people in the street." the magician David Copperfield, on tour in the People's Arthur Jones Republic. Other guests have included local celebrities and a mix of foreigners and locals with quirky hobbies or out- Arthur Jones is a writer based in Shanghai. BOSTON COLLEGE FUND

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