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An Evening to Celebrate Dedication and Commitment Chairmen's Dinner on May 3rd Will Honor Dr. V. James DiNardo, '39

Mr. Eugene J. Durgin, teaching, the Dr. V. James DiNardo Award for Excellence Jr., Chairman of the in Teaching, is presented each year to a member of the Bridgewater State College college faculty. Board of Trustees and Mr. "We expect many of Jim's friends, classmates, fellow David J. Messaline, '65, alumni and former colleagues to join us for this occa­ Chairman of the sion," said Mr. Messaline. "Few institutions are fortunate Bridgewater State College enough to have an individual of his caliber and commit­ Foundation, will host the ment render such distinguished service over a period of annual Chairmen's six decades. It is highly appropriate that we recognize Dinner on Friday evening, him on this occasion." May3,1996. Special guests at this year's Chairmen's Dinner will Dr. V. James be former Boston Bruins' hockey stars Bobby Orr and DiNardo, '39, Executive Derek Sanderson. Mr. Orr is presently affiliated with Vice President Emeritus, Dr. V James DiNardo BayBank, Incorporated, which will be presented with an will be honored for his 60 award for its leadership support of the Bridgewater years of service to the college. Dr. DiNardo returned to Foundation in 1995-1996. Mr. Sanderson is affiliated with Bridgewater in 1957 as professor of education and subse­ Tucker Anthony, a full-service brokerage firm located in quently served in a number of capacities, including Dean Boston. of Undergraduate Studies. He retired in 1983 as Executive The program will be held starting at 6:00 p.m. on Vice President. May 3 in the Flynn Dining Commons, Tillinghast Hall. Dr. DiNardo, who is a Life Member of the Alumni Tickets for the event are $100 each, with tables of ten Association Executive Board, remains active also as a available at $1,000 each. member of the Bridgewater Foundation. Reservations may be made by calling the Davis DiNardo Hall, a campus residence hall, was dedicated Alumni Center at 508-697-1290. in his honor in 1989, and the college's highest award for Be a Permanent Part of Bridgewater State College History Put Your Name on a Bleacher Seat at Alumni Park The Bridgewater State College Foundation is have the option of choosing which field to have the plate undertaking a fund-raising campaign to purchase affixed to - baseball or softball- and to choose from bleachers for Alumni Park baseball and softball fields. three types of plate: either Gift 0f__or In Memory For $85, you can have your name attached to this of or In Honor 0f__. project. If you wish to be a permanent part of BSC's history, "Creation of Alumni Park was the first major capital send a check for $85.00 and indicate (a) which field you project of the Bridgewater State College Foundation," choose and (b) which one of the three types of plate you says Dr. Richard Cost, Vice President for Institutional desire, along with the name of the person to be recog­ Advancement. "The campaign, which was spearheaded nized. Send to: Bleacher Campaign, P.O. Box 13, by Mr. David Messaline, '65, chairman of the Bridgewater MA 02324. For more information, call 508­ Bridgewater Foundation, and Mr. Lou Ricciardi, '81, 697-1290. alumni trustee, was a great success. When the ribbon was cut last fall, we were able to open the largest privately funded facility at any state college in Massa­ chusetts. Now our alumni and friends are offered the opportunity to have a bleacher seat at the park desig­ nated in a name of their choice." Dr. Cost says the campaign will continue through­ out this spring. "Athletics at BSC have always been a family affair and we realize that many people would like to be part of this successful campaign," he said. The individual plates purchased by alumni and friends will be riveted to the bleachers and will look similar to the sample below. Those purchasing a seat Class Notes We welcome updates from alumni for Bridgewater magazine. Please fill out this form and return as soon as possible. Our readers are anxious to know about your activities, career news, family news, and other significant activi­ ties. Thanks for letting us publish your news.

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A Publication for Alumni, Parents, and Friends ofBridgewater State College

Front Cover: Charles Nechtem, '76, stands in front of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Now a highly successful businessman with clients around the world, he spent a number of years building his company against odds that would have daunted and even See page 9 See page 12 See page 14 deterred most people. His story begins on page 3 of this issue TABLE OF CONTENTS Bridgewater Magazine staff Chairmen's Dinner - On May 3, 1996 Editor: David Wilson, '71 Dr. V. James DiNardo will be Honored for 60 Years of Service to Bridgewater Inside Front Cover Editorial Board: Dr. Richard Cost, vice president of institu­ President Tinsley's Message 2 tional advancement; Ms. Marie Murphy, '86, director of public Cover Story affairs and Ms. Mary Tiernan, Charles Nechtem, '76, Who Never Lost Faith director of alumni relations in His Dream 3-6 Photography: Student Profiles Galaxy Studios, Kindra Clineff, The Chemistry is Just Right: David Wilson, Rick Friedman Sangeetha and Sreelatna Raghavendra, Class of '96 ...... 7-8 Photography, Mark Shay, D. Confar Faculty Profile Dr. Benjamin Spence, '59, An Alumnus Correspondence: and Distinguished Professor Retires 9-11 address all mail to: Editor, Bridgewater Magazine Alumni Profiles P.O. Box 42 Cheryl Nelson, '79, A Life in the Corporate World ...... 12-13 Bridgewater MA 02324 Gerald Swift, '71, Helping Boomers 508-697-1287 and Retirees Alike Secure a Future 14-15 e-mail to: [email protected] Alumni Updates Dates, Programs, and Events 16-17 Bridgewater is published quar­ terly for the information and Class Notes reading pleasure of Bridgewater Read about your classmates! 18-31 State College alumni, faculty, In Memoriam 32 students, staff, parents and other friends of the college. Alumni Weekend Inside Back Cover President's Message

The Importance of the Annual Fund

Dear Alumni and Friends, The 1995-1996 Annual Fund Campaign will That gift allowed us to purchase a key plot of land conclude just a few months hence, on June 30th, contiguous to the campus when it came up for sale. and our goal is to exceed last year's total, which As a consequence, when the MBTA agreed to build a reached more than half a million dollars. joint college and commuter parking lot on campus, Charles Stockbridge, '76, the chairman of the but needed an access road to a nearby thoroughfare, campaign, expressed so well the importance of the we were able to negotiate a right-of-way through Annual Fund when he said in the last issue of that piece of property which made construction of Bridgewater magazine, "Even more than in the past, such a road, and the parking lots, possible. the college depends on its alumni and friends to be As Dr. Richard Cost, Vice President of Institu­ its 'margin for excellence.' " tional Advancement, has pointed We have come to a point out, Bridgewater once received in the life of the college when, better than 70 percent of its clearly, we rely heavily on operating budget from the donations from private sources Commonwealth. The figure to strengthen Bridgewater today is closer to 40 percent. academically, provide scholar­ Therefore, as Dr. Cost says, ship assistance to deserving "Every gift, of whatever size, is students and support a wide important to the college. It has range of projects that advance an immediate and lasting im­ the college's reputation for pact. Contributions from alumni quality and service. and friends represent their vote Last October, for ex­ of confidence in the future of this ample, thanks to the generos­ excellent institution." ity of alumni and friends of The Bridgewater State Bridgewater, Alumni Park was College Foundation, created in dedicated. This impressive 1983 to conduct fund raising for new baseball and softball the college, working closely with complex is the single largest our Alumni Association, has capital outlay project ever helped make the Annual Fund a completed by a state college in cornerstone of our every effort to Massachusetts with funds improve the college. Truly, the raised from private sources. success of the Annual Fund is This spring, for the first crucial to all of us. time in the college's history, Today, more than at any our men's baseball team and women's softball team time in the past, the differencebetween a very good will play their home games on our own campus public college and an outstanding public college can fields. be increasingly measured by its ability to raise private Also this spring, dozens of worthy Bridgewater funds. students will be on hand to receive scholarships that If you haven't yet made your contribution to the are made possible through donations and bequests Annual Fund, I urge you to do so. Since the campaign from alumni and friends. This is a long-standing closes on June 30, there is still time. Please help us in tradition at Bridgewater, but never has the need our continuing efforts to keep Bridgewater an out­ been greater. Already this year major new scholar­ standing public college. ships have been created through gifts which exceed $100,000. This is very good news and we are truly grateful to our many alumni who support scholar­ ships at Bridgewater. A~re~~Jt.; There are more examples of the impact of the Annual Fund: several years ago, Terry Hart Cogan, Adrian Tinsley d class of '51, gave Bridgewater its first $1 million gift. President Alumni Profile

From a One-Man Shop to an International Business: Chuck Nechtem, '76, Believes in Following a Dream By David Wilson, '71 ~r all of those who feel com­ problems, ranging from substance services, data analysis, and em­ pelled to follow a dream, and who and alcohol abuse to addictive ployee and supervisory training. are willing to make any sacrifice to disorders such as gambling to crime In addition, a year ago Chuck achieve that dream, even against victims and grief counseling. purchased a medical insurance relentlessly daunting odds, the story Charles Nechtem Associates also company called "Group Services of Charles Nechtem, '76, will be an offers its clients wellness seminars, Administrators," which had been in inspiration. outplacement and career transition business for forty years. He changed • Today Charles Nechtem Associates, which occupies spacious quarters in an ultra-modem office building across the Hudson River from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, is an organization with more than 4,500 contract employees in all 50 states, Canada and Mexico. Chuck, as he's known to everyone, has built his company into a major provider of what he calls "employee assistance services for healthy companies/, and his client list includes a host of the best­ known companies in the nation, including: Nestle, Pepperidge Farms, Barnes and Noble, Phelps Dodge, State Farm Insurance, and American Home Products, to name a few. Specifically, what these and other clients seek, and receive, is a combination of services from a team of "skilled and experienced psy­ chologists, social workers and human resource specialists" to keep the employees of these businesses in good health, mentally, physically and emotionally. An 800 number "helpline" is staffed 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by trained professionals who stand ready to help employees of Chuck Nechtem: "Anyone who's willing to labor seven days a week for sixteen or any client company with personal seventeen years can be an 'overnight success' too" Alumni Profile -

the name to Oasis Health Care, "so and didn't know where I wanted to live in a city, you want to live in now we can offer medical insurance, go at that time," Chuck remembers. Boston.'" claims processing, precertification, "I had heard about Bridgewater When Chuck graduated from utilization reviews, and stop loss from an associate in Chelsea, Leon Bridgewater, he was uncertain about insurance." Weinstein, who had gone there. He which direction to take. Also, as companies are inter­ had played football at Bridgewater "I got involved with Columbia ested, "we can integrate that into and had said it was a good school, a through a friend with whom I our regular employee assistance lot of green on campus, less people worked in summer camp. That program. Now we can offer the and therefore less crowded than friend was attending Columbia and whole package, from medical other schools. It was a place where I he pushed me a little bit and said insurance to wellness programs. could live away from home. I drove that I should apply to a graduate Right now, I believe no one else is down to Bridgewater with my father school that is top notch and that he doing it in this manner." and we met with Dr. Hemy Fan­ was going and that I should go and But there is more. ning, who was then the Director of set my sight on something high. "We're also developing a Admissions. I had an interview And he said he really liked New company on the Internet called with him and I enjoyed meeting York City," Chuck recalls. 'Corporate Resources,'" Chuck him. I liked the area there too. "So, he encouraged me and I explains. "This will allow companies "I also went on other interviews applied there. I was accepted and to get access to our training pro­ at other colleges," he continues, received a partial loan and got a job. grams - for example, sexual "but there was a nice feeling that I Interestingly, when I arrived there, harrassment in the workplace, had about Bridgewater. Also, the my friend said he didn't like New violence in the workplace, managing price was right. You know, coming York anymore. In fact, he couldn't change in the workplace - and they from Chelsea, which is a working stand it. He went back to Boston, can dial up our home page to get a class community, I was concerned but I've been here ever since." summary of the latest information about that. So, I sent my application • available on the issues that affect in and SATs and I was accepted." The idea for what would them." His family could provide some become Charles Nechtem Associates It's a very impressive array of financial help, but while he was a came to him after he completed his business accomplishments, and shldent at Bridgewater, Chuck studies at Columbia and while Chuck fully expects his company to always worked two jobs. "I worked working as a staff psychologist at reach the $100 million mark within for the Student Union-now the Beth Israel Medical Center in New three years. Campus Center-and I also worked York City. None of this, however, was easy as a drummer in a band on week­ "In the early 1980s some to achieve. "Anyone who's willing ends at weddings and parties so that companies had 'in-house' assistance to labor seven days a week for I could make money while in programs, developed usually by sixteen or seventeen years can be an school." someone in the human resources or 'overnight success' too," says Chuck. Chuck ran track in college and benefits office who would handle He walked a hard road for a won events in several meets. He counseling issues," he says. long time to make it all happen. was also a student journalist. "As a "Those businesses that were • matter of fact, I used to write in the hired to provide counseling services It's tempting to jump back to Comment and The Hard Times. The were primarily involved with drug Chuck's early years in New York Hard Times was a "radical paper" and alcohol abuse intervention and City when, just after completing on campus then. testing. I wanted to expand the graduate studies at Columbia • vision of the 'employee-assistance' University, the idea of promoting At this time, he says, "I had no program as a comprehensive or "wellness programs" first struck inclination whatsoever toward New 'broad-brush' program that would him. York City. New York was only a incorporate every issue - from But he begins the story even place I knew from being there as a alcohol and drug abuse to marital earlier, back in his native Chelsea, kid, and my father and I watching issues, family issues, adolescent Massachusetts, which is where he the Giants play football on Sundays. issues, job stress and violence in the was living when he first heard about I always thought that New York was workplace. Bridgewater State College. crowded, and difficult to live in. It "A number of therapists with "I was a senior in high school was my opinion that, 'If you want to whom I worked at Beth Israel .r Alumni Profile

Medical Center in New York City "1 realized that in order to start a I got my first paycheck from the were talking about industrial business, it's very difficult to do it business," he recalls. "1 spent seven­ psychology, which meant counsel­ half-way. Either I was going to go and-a-half months knocking on ing in corporations," he explains. full-force and dive into it and see if it doors, sending out hundreds of "This was a relatively new field. could work or not go into it at all. I letters, and making thousands of Companies were starting to look for knew that I wasn't going to make it telephone calls to people who on the programs that would help employ­ working full-time and trying to start whole probably considered me a ees who were going through some a business full-time. I knew I had to pest. I got rejected everywhere." difficulty. Because many of these give up my job to do this," he says. His first sale was to a branch of companies were self-insured, they "1 had no financial resources Credit Lyonnais, a bank on Wall had no experience in utlization behind me. I had a meager savings Street. "1 walked in and was told, review, which means reviewing account and a studio apartment in 'We're glad you came today. We whether or not the money being Greenwich Village. I used my have a problem.' I remember spent is being spent effectively. savings to buy myself a couple of thinking to myself, 'The other 200 There was nobody monitoring the suits, a briefcase, and some brochure days must have been the wrong system. As companies became more materials explaining what I was day.' That was my first paid job." savvy to the bills they were paying, trying to sell. Basically, I started this To help support himself, he took this began to change." business on a shoestring." a job as a part-time track and field • And getting going proved to be coach and women's volleyball coach Chuck left his job at Beth Israel a slow process. at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. in mid-1980 to follow the dream. "It took me eight months before Other odd jobs - substitute teach- •

Chuck and his chiefaide, Beverly Pitts. She was his first employee seventeen years ago and they are still working together. "1 met Beverly on Wall Street. 1stopped to ask her directions and was so taken with her pleasant voice and friendly manner, 1wanted to hire her." Alumni Profile

ing, taking photographs at wed­ Chuck made good on his offer, and when we played baseball, the dings - helped support him. working as a "bus greeter" for the bats were often cracked and the But he was a one-man corpora­ busloads of tourists arriving at the bases were pieces of cardboard. tion. "1 was working totally alone in casino, helping out in the kitchen, "A man named Sumner Bloom my little studio apartment in and using every opportunity to talk was the camp director, as well as my Manhattan. I didn't have a secretary with casino employees to learn what ninth grade teacher, and I remember and I spent most of my time making issues concerned them. saying to him one time, "We don't telephone calls, trying to sell myself. The value of that experience is have any decent equipment," and he I remember waking up at 3:00 something Chuck never forgot. said, 'We have to make do. It's not o'clock in the morning and saying to "That was a technique I later perfect but we'll make do.' That myself, 'In just a few hours I'm used with all my clients. For ex­ always stayed with me. Things don't going to be back on that phone.' But ample, at Pepperidge Farms, I always come out the way you want I pushed on anyway because I had worked the cookie line and at Smith­ - they rarely do - so you have to to." Kline-Beecham I worked the make do. I've never forgotten that." Part of his inspiration came shaving cream line. Those contacts An experience he had while a from what he saw as he trudged help me develop employee assis­ student at Bridgewater also was Manhattan's streets day after day. tance programs suited to a client's pivotal for him. "In a city like New York, you see all special needs and the issues that "1 participated in a volunteer these businesses, and I'd think to affect them. Every company has program at Lakeville Hospital, myself, 'If they can make it, why something unique to its operation which was then a long-term care can't I?'" and getting to know the culture of facility. Every Tuesday night a • the work environment is very group of students from the college His first full-time account important. It takes time, effort and would go there to play with the turned out to be the Golden Nugget energy to get to know a company's children who lived at Lakeville. Casino in Atlantic City. particular identity." There were a lot of kids with very "1 went down to Atlantic City to Even though his company has serious physical problems there, and meet with the vice president for grown significantly, Chuck still being with them was good for me. human resources and benefits," he enjoys having those kinds of con­ I'd walk out of there every week remembers. "1 had three interviews tacts. "I'm off next week to Kenton, convinced that if they could deal in one day. It was about 95 degrees Ohio, on a project for International with their problems as well as they outside. I only had one inexpensive Paper. The plant there makes paper did, there was no problem I couldn't suit and when I arrived I was cups and other paper products, so deal with. It was a real message drenched in perspiration, carrying a I'll spend some time walking the about life for me." plastic briefcase I'd bought for eight production line to talk to employees • dollars." and supervisors on the different Having climbed the mOlmtain After making his presentation, shifts. I still go out as regularly as I himself, what advice would Chuck Chuck was told, "Why should we can." offer for others with a dream? hire you? I've got well-established • "It's persistance," he answers. companies with long track records There other valuable lessons "It's like riding a horse. I had never competing for this business." along the way, Chuck says. One gotten on a horse before, but I tried Chuck made the vice president an such lesson, from his boyhood in it once in Central Park. When I first offer. "1 don't know a lot about the Chelsea, was an aid to him in those sat in the saddle, and the horse hotel business or the gambling early, struggling years when daily started to trot, I said, 'I can't stay on business, but if you put me to work sacrifices were required. this horse.' But I was told that once here, I'll learn about your business "1 was always very good at the horse begins to gallop, the ride and I'll develop a good program for living frugally," he says. "1 'make goes smoother. And if you can take you and your employees. And I'll do' when I have to. I learned the the bucking, and get to the gallop, work for a couple of weeks for importance of that years ago when I the ride becomes more smooth. The nothing to do that." He made a good was a counselor at a summer camp same is true in life. If you can take impression. "You're the first person in Chelsea. The camp didn't have the buckings - the disappoint­ who said he wanted to learn about any equipment. We used traffic ments, the rejections - you can us," said the executive, who agreed cones to make an obstacle course eventually smooth out the ride. That to give him a chance. to me is the joy of life." • Student Profile

For These Bridgewater Students, the Chemistry was Just Right

By David Wilson, '71

Sangeetha Raghavendra and "Ivy League" - they have been explains Sreelatha. "We'll see what her younger sister Sreelatha are accepted by the University of develops as time goes on." members of the class of 1996 at Pennsylvania and will enter dental Whatever path they choose, the Bridgewater who share more in school there in September. odds are that they will reach their common than most siblings. "Our stories tend to overlap," goals. These are clearly exceptional Both are chemistry majors with says Sangeetha, although further young women. biochemistry minors. Both have discussion reveals that separate They have remarkable academic nearly identical grade point aver­ career paths may lie ahead for them. records, achieved in what is ac­ ages - 3.9+ out of a possible perfect Sangeetha is thinking about a career knowledged as one of the college's 4.0, and both are Dean's List stu­ in oral surgery, and perhaps earning most challenging majors, even dents who participate in the college both a dental degree and a medical though neither locked herself in a honors program. Both work as degree (Penn has a dual DMD-MD laboratory in the process. In addition tutors in the college's computer program); Sreelatha, meanwhile, is to their extensive work on campus, laboratory and as tutors in the leaning more towards a career in both also served as volunteers at mathematics laboratory. general dentistry. "Neither of us is Good Samaritan Hospital in And next fall both are going committed specifically at this point," Brockton, and each has many outside interests beyond chemistry. And all of this was accom­ plished in a relatively short span of time - they arrived in the United States just three years ago from their native India, where they had lived with their mother in the city of Bangalore, capital of Karnataka, in the southern part of that country. Called the "Garden City" for its lush green landscape and moderate climate, cosmopolitan Bangalore "is also called 'Silicon Valley' because it's very advanced in computer technology," says Sreelatha (Banga­ lore was visited last year by Massa­ chusetts Governor William Weld, who made it the sister city of the Commonwealth). Sangeetha had studied engi­ neering for a year there while Sreelatha finished pre-university. Both were raised multilingual. "Our mother tongue is Tamil," explains Sangeetha. "Kannnada is another language we speak, which is the regional language of Karnataka. Hindi is the national language which many Indian people learn to speak and write, and English is the language we have spoken since kindergarten." Sangeetha Raghavendra "When we were in high school, Student Profile

we had the option of studying between biology and chemistry. In departments, in particular Drs. another language, so we chose many ways, they are almost inter­ Wilmon Chipman, Vahe Marganian Sanskrit, which is the oldest lan­ changeable. I didn't find the transi­ and Walter Morin."All of them have guage in the world," says Sreelatha. tion to chemistry too difficult. been outstanding teachers and very Sreelatha's name means "Tree Chemistry is very challenging and interested in us as people. I would of Wealth" in Sanskrit, while also very interesting," she says. recommend chemistry to anyone Sangeetha's name means "Music." One course in particular gave who is interested because the faculty As children, both had attended Sreelatha quite a challenge. "My at Bridgewater are so exceptional." private schools. The chance to travel first semester at Bridgewater I had • halfway around the world for a to take physical chemistry. This is a Now, as graduation approaches, college education came about 300-level course which has a heavy each contemplates leaving because of their father. math component. I had Dr. Henry Bridgewater with some reluctance. • Daley, [BSC, '58,] professor of "This has been like a safe haven for flOur father had lived in this chemistry. "He was a wonderful me," says Sreelatha. "1 am so glad I country for many years and he instructor. Thanks to him, I did well had the chance to study here." For wanted us to spend some time with in the course but I had to study very, Sangeetha, Bridgewater was an him," says Sreelatha. "Both of us very hard. My sister and I both told "ideal place" to come to from so far were interested in the medical him that anyone who passes physi­ away. "1 will miss Bridgewater a lot sciences, and he gave us the oppor­ cal chemistry ought to be given a next year." tunity to, first, study pre-medical math minor automatically." The sisters have made quite a courses in Antigua for six months Sangeetha shares her sister's mark during their two years on and then to come here." enthusiasm for the faculty in the campus. Bridgewater is going to Their stepmother, Dr. Uma chemical and biological sciences miss them too. • Shama, is a professor of mathemat­ ics and computer science at Bridgewater, and she said, "Why don't you come to Bridgewater? It's a great college," recalls Sangeetha. So they applied and were accepted. Both shared a first impression that "the pace of life is very fast here." Nevertheless, they adjusted quickly. "We had great friends and a great family," says Sangeetha. "1 was happy here," agrees Sreelatha. Both Sangeetha and Sreelatha miss their mother in Bangalore, but both made separate trips back to India within the past year to see her. • When they enrolled at Bridgewater, each was sure that science was the preferred field of study. In the beginning, they started out as biology majors. "To be very honest with you," says Sreelatha, "even though biology was my favorite subject in school, I am not interested in studying about plants. What attracted me to biology was the human aspect of it, which is why I wanted to become a dentist. When I saw Bridgewater had plant require­ ments for a biology major, I decided to look into chemistry." Sangeetha made the switch too. "1 find there are many parallels SreeLatha Raghavendra " Faculty Profile

An "Unforgettable Professor" Retires, But Dr. Benjamin Spence, '59, Will Continue to Inspire Students By David Wilson, '71

Dr. Benjamin Spence, professor of campus without being recognized. and she was of course a wonderful history, retired from the college in And students knew most of the teacher. I knew Jordan Fiore as my December after 33 years ofteaching. faculty. I think my strongest, and department chair and fellow 'Fall Renowned among Bridgewater alumni warmest, memories of those days Riverite' with whom I had so much for his teaching skills, keen sense of revolve around the instructors I had. in common. humor, and high standards, Dr. Spence For example, I recall having Charles "I got involved in music right is himselfagraduate ofthe college, class Foth for history, Paul Huffington for away, because that's always been an of1959. In 1969, two years after he earth science, Sam Sheinfeld for activity I've enjoyed, and sang in the began teaching at his alma mater, the English, Irene Graves for biology, chorus as a soloist. In fact, I attended editors ofthe College Yearbook named and John Davoren for mythology. the annual Christmas concert in the him the recipient ofthe "Horace Mann Bill Wall was my physics instructor, Horace Mann Auditorium in Award"for teaching excellence, and even though he was a biologist. I December and as I sat there, I through the years respect for his was to have a number of history thought to myself, 'Forty years ago I I teaching ability only grew. Said courses with Annabelle Melville, was the soloist on that stage.' It was • Katherine Mitchell, '94, "Dr. Spence taught 'The Progressive Era' in my junior year. His enthusiasm for that period and his teaching methods have stayed with me since. He was an unforgettable professor . .. I sat in awe ofDr. Spence!" The following interview with Dr. Spence took place shortly after he retired:

Q. How did you happen to choose to attend Bridgewater State College? A. "I grew up in Fall River as one of eight children and attended Durfee High School. I decided in the eighth grade that I wanted to be a teacher and I loved history, so I was fairly certain I would be a history teacher. I had heard about Bridgewater and its fine reputation in teacher educa­ tion, and - this was in the 1950s­ Route 24 had just opened up, making it easier to get here from Fall River. I commuted all four years."

Q. Do you recall your first impressions ofBridgewater? A. "Bridgewater then had the intimacy of a small college. There were no more than 600 students and you could hardly walk anywhere on Dr. Benjamin Spence, '59, retired in December after 33 years ofteaching at his alma mater Faculty Profile

the Christmas concert in December, Wisconsin's history department had doctoral degree,' and he knew that 1955, and I was singing as the an exceptional reputation. and was willing to grant me a leave baritone soloist. I remember that "Specifically, I wanted to work at of absence. Horace Mann was packed with Wisconsin with Merle Curti, who "So I went back to Wisconsin for people and of course I was nervous. had won the Pulitzer Prize for his two years to complete my course But it went well and I felt a real part book on the growth of American work for the PhD. When I came of this community. The memory of thought, and I knew he was an back to Bridgewater in 1965, the that to me is still very pleasant and esteemed social and intellectual course work was finished and I had moving. historian. I can remember being taken my comprehensive examina­ "Academically, I knew by the end interviewed by him to emoll in his tions. I was ready to begin writing of the first year that I could do seminar, and he said, 'Oh, my dissertation." college work and that was a good Bridgewater, that's where Annabelle feeling. I was earning high grades Melville is,' because he was familiar Q. What was the subject ofyour PhD. and was involved in a lot of differ­ with her work." dissertation? ent activities, in addition to working A. "I started out working on David every weekend at a department Q. It must have been a difficult decision 1. Walsh, the first Catholic governor store in Fall River. So I had to to give up a teaching position to go back of Massachusetts and a senator in budget my time carefully but I to school. the years following World War 1. He enjoyed my years as a student here. A. "Well, I was in my early twenties was a 'progressive reformer' who "Because the college was so small so I was prepared to take that survived politically in the 1920s, - by comparison to its size today ­ chance. I knew there would be other which was quite a phenomenal students of my generation at jobs when I came back. As it turned accomplishment. But after doing Bridgewater didn't have anywhere out, I did everything in a year ­ several years of research I discov­ near the number of choices for finished my course work and wrote ered that someone else had already courses that students today have. my thesis on Eleanor Roosevelt and written a full book on the very same her work with refugees. topic, so I had to begin all over Q. When you graduated from "While I was finishing the thesis again. Bridgewater in 1959, did you ever think at Wisconsin, I received a call from The next topic I chose was John you would come back to the college? Dr. Fiore who asked me if I'd be W. Weeks, a conservative in the A. "No I didn't. My first job was interested in teaching at progressive era who had been a U.S. teaching history in Somerset - what Bridgewater." representative, then a U.S. senator, a difference in those days. There and ultimately Secretary of War. I were many jobs for people in Q. Were you surprised? was given access to his papers by his teaching at that time. I was hired A. "Yes I was. Somerset had wanted son, Sinclair Weeks, who had been while I was in my senior year for the me to return there when I finished Secretary of Commerce in the following September. my master's degree work, but I was Eisenhower administration. So the "I had done my practice teaching definitely interested in coming to topic of my dissertation became the in Fall River at the Hemy Lord Bridgewater. In those days, there national career of John W. Weeks." School and had also done practice weren't the search committees and teaching at the Burnell School under other structures in place for solicit­ Q. How much time did you lose? Doris Sprague, who was the finest ing applications and reviewing A. "At least two years. But I wasn't teacher at that level I have ever seen. candidates that there are today. I discouraged. I thought to myself, I think part of my love for teaching was offered the chance to come back 'Well, I'm going to be doing research came from working with her. and I said 'yes.' in my own field and I like the topic,' "I started teaching at the junior "In September of 1962 I started so I plunged ahead. I earned my high school in Somerset in Septem­ teaching at Bridgewater and I really doctorate in 1971." ber of 1959 and I loved it. It was a enjoyed it very much. That was, great experience. In the middle of incidentally, the same month that Q. When you first returned to the my second year I was asked to Adrian Rondileau began his tenure college, did it seem strange to be here? transfer to the high school, which I as president of Bridgewater. A. "It did in a way because you did. At that point I had begun "About halfway through the year always treat your former teachers thinking about earning a master's I realized how much I loved what I with a certain amount of deference. degree, so I decided to emoll at the was doing but I also knew I couldn't But it really wasn't long before University of Wisconsin-Madison, stay here without a PhD. Until that people were saying, 'Call me this' or which I knew about because my time, I hadn't even considered the 'Call me that.' They were very brother was earning a PhD. in idea. So I said to Dr. Fiore, 'I'll have accommodating and welcoming to engineering there. I also knew that to leave Bridgewater to study for my me. Faculty Profile

"Last semester, as I was prepar­ ing to retire, and thinking, naturally, of all the wonderful experiences I've had at Bridgewater since I came here, I would come out the main door of Boyden Hall and come Horace Mann Award down those broad stairs that lead to the main quadrangle. Every once in Benjamin Spence a while I would say to myself, 'I've been doing this since 1955. I've been The Horace Mann Award is a new honor walking down these stairs since being extended to a faculty member whom then.' The realization hit me quite the Senior c1a~s felt to be the best teacher at strongly. My ties to Bridgewater do the college. indeed go back a very long way. His wit, knowledge, and most importantly, the inspiration he gives 10 his students has However, I don't feel old!" qualified Mr. Beniamin Spence for lhis award. It is seldom, and therefore cherished, when Q. What aspects of teaching did you college students, packed rnlo mammoth size enjoy the most? classes, and crowded rooms, have the privilege A. "There have been so many of knowing a teacher such as Mr. Spence. wonderful students I've encoun­ In the words of Henry Adams. "A teacher tered, and I don't mean just all'A' affects eternity; he never can tell where his influence stops_" students or 'B' students. I still think we're very well off at Bridgewater in terms of the students we have. I think the best of our students match the best students anywhere. I've taught the seminars and the profes­ sional courses, which the top students tend to take, so I'm confi­ dent about making that statement. "What I've enjoyed most, how­ ever, was having such a variety of students. This is, to me, one of the strengths of a state college. We have standards of admissions, but I wouldn't want to see Bridgewater become exclusive. I think we have to give a lot of students the chance to prove themselves, to show they are capable of doing intellectual work at Page taken from the 1969 yearbook the college level. "I believe strongly in public education and I believe in affordable the process of learning is up to the they do, oh, what a transformation education because these two are the student. I mean, a teacher can do a that is! It's really uplifting to observe twin pillars of American democracy. lot, but if a student doesn't see his or that. It doesn't always work, of Part of this is my own background. her self-interest in what they're course. Usually it does and that's My mother and father worked hard doing, either intellectually or wonderful." in the factories of Fall River, and economically, then it isn't going to without a public college, I doubt if work. If a teacher is successful in Q. Teaching is still exciting to you, I'd be here today." helping a student see, 'This is for isn't it? you,' then that's a major step A. "I've never lost my love for Q. Generations ofBridgewater students forward. teaching. I enjoy being with people speak with great enthusiasm about your 'Tve had students say to me, and I'm fascinated with my subject teaching style. Is there a way to define 'Can I do extra work for you?' And I - history. I can't imagine ever tiring how you approach teaching? always answer, 'Whatever extra with either teaching or the study of A. "I've said to many students over work you do will be for yourself.' history." the years that in the final analysis, Most students see that, and when (Continued on page 13) Alumni Profile

Cheryl Nelson, '79, on Her Life in the Corporate World: "Every Day I Have Used the Skills Taught Me" at Bridgewater By David Wilson, '71

WhenCheryl Nelson graduated responsible for the setup of a local cultures of the region," she says. "It from Bridgewater in 1979 with a purchasing team that would directly was one of the most rewarding degree in physical education, purchase products from the Asia experiences I have had in my life finding teaching jobs, she recalls, Pacific Region. In the course of that and one that I feel would not have was "difficult." She had hoped to do time I had to teach the basics of been available to me had I not had some substitute teaching that fall but doing business with large American the skills learned in Bridgewater as that avenue didn't seem to offer companies like Avon and under­ well as my family upbringing." much in the way of a future either. stand and explain our cultural Specifically, her job in Asia was to "So I went to work for Avon differences as they apply to the way recruit and train staff in systems that Products in Mansfield that sum­ we do business in the process. were unavailable to them and to mer," she recalls. As time went on, "1 spent a lot of time traveling "give them a western point of view "1 kept looking for new opportuni­ and working within different in how we do business." In return ties within the company and Avon countries and again became a she feels she gained an education kept rewarding me with promotions student, learning the many different herself. "1 will say that by the time I and new things to learn." Initially Cheryl worked as a laboratory technician, and learned about jewelry making, electroplat­ ing, and creating a testing database for incoming products. "Then Avon closed its facility of 400 people and asked about a dozen of us if we would consider relocating to New York. I was single and not tied down and took the opportunity to move to New York City." That turned out to be a good career move. Subsequently Avon had Cheryl working in research and development, as an inventory control analyst, and then as a purchasing agent for jewelry gifts items. Currently Cheryl is purchas­ ing manager for cosmetics, fra­ grances and toiletries with a com­ modity purchase of material at roughly 25 million dollars annually. Avon, a Fortune 500 company, had annual sales last year of 4.5 billion dollars. And Cheryl has seen a lot more than New York City. "Recently I returned from a two-year assign­ Cheryl Nelson recently completed a two-year assignment in Asia for Avon products. Here she ment in Hong Kong where I was is seen in Seoul, Korea, at the "Kyong Bok Kung Palace" I .f Alumni Profile

left, I truly believed I had learned as make sure that you tell people what and remember the manners you much or more about the people I your goals are. Your boss won't be were taught as a child. Share the worked with, the cultures of differ­ able to read your mind, and you skills, the knowledge and the ent countries, and the business may be disappointed waiting for experiences you've picked up with world as my associates learned that promotion unless that person others." about me, Avon and Americans. I understands where you want to go On a personal level, Cheryl thinks think, as a whole, it is difficult for an professionally." The ability to listen often of her days at Bridgewater and American who does not speak the is also critical, she says. "You can the friends she made here. "1 would language to fully understand their learn so much if you genuinely pay like to get in touch with some of my environment but I appreciated the attention. I would say you can learn classmates whom I have not seen for opportunities I had there to learn as as much from a bad boss as you can 16 years. I would like them to know much as I could." from a good one because you can that I did not go into teaching after When asked what advice she see their faults and know how not to graduation nor have I walked off the might share with current BSC act when you get in that position face of the earth! I have been quite students, especially women, inter­ someday." busy over the years and have been ested in business careers, she Most important to remember, putting my education to good use. responded, "If the opportunity to Cheryl says, "is not to forget where "Although I did not have the learning something new is there, you came from. Whether it's your opportunity to pursue my degree in take it. The important thing is to family roots, your country of origin, education, I have in fact used the learn, gain experience and increase or the position you just moved from, skills taught me every day. I would your job skills. It's not any different don't forget the people and places or love to hear from some of my than the classes you have to take to what it was like when you were classmates, especially my room­ get your degree." there. Thank people for their efforts, mates Barbara Cooke, 79, and Karen Also, she says, "You need to be humble in your own rewards, Wilson '80." •

An "Unforgettable Professor" Reti res, But Dr. Benjamin Spence, '59, Will Continue to Inspire Students • (Continued from page 11) Massachusetts State College Asso­ Q. Was it adifficult decision to retire now? ciation (MSCA) came to our cam­ A. "People obviously have different Q. In addition to teaching, what are puses; I served on many college ideas about retirement, but I came some other dimensions ofyour profes­ committees including a number of here when I was in my twenties and sionallife that have been important to search committees for both faculty I think that's a sufficient career. I you? positions and senior administrative thought about staying longer, but I A. "From the time I arrived at positions, including the search will teach a course from time to time Bridgewater as a member of the committee that recommended at Bridgewater. But now I'll have faculty, I've seen three distinct roles President Tinsley; and I also served time to do some traveling and more for myself. First, of course, as a as a member of a number of accredi­ time to read for pleasure. I consider teacher. Second, as someone who tation committees. In the last several myself a lucky person. As I said, I kept up-to-date with developments years I have been very active in the knew in the eighth grade I wanted in my field of scholarship. And MSCA, serving as a member of the to be a teacher and I got to do third, I've always thought it very local chapter's executive board. exactly what I wanted to do, what I important that a faculty member be "With regard to the latter, I feel love to do. committed to working actively on it's important, especially for "People have asked me, 'how do behalf of his or her academic younger faculty, to understand the you think you'll adjust to retire­ department and on behalf of the role of the MSCA and to work in ment?' Well, I don't know. That's faculty and the college in general. support of the organization. A good one of the reasons why I'm going to "Over the years I tried to main­ contract that spells out the rights continue teaching some courses. I tain those connections and involve­ and responsibilities of faculty, and still sing with groups and on ments. For example, I was a member in particular the role of faculty in the occasion I do solo work, and that's of the local chapter of the American governance system, is beneficial to an activity I'll stay with. I also plan Association of University Professors everyone. I viewed my work with to spend part of each year in Florida, (AAUP); I served on the Faculty the MSCA as a continuation of my and travel when I have the chance. Council in the years before the commitment to the faculty as a So I'm really looking forward to whole." retirement!"• Alumni Profile

"The World Has Changed a Lot Since We Leh Bridgewater," says Gerry Swih, President of tne Closs of 1971 By David Wilson, '71

Gerry Swift is president of Planning, has twenty years' became an agent for New York the 25th anniversary class at experience in the financial service Life." Bridgewater State College, and industry. Gerry first assignment for New when he and his classmates return None of this was in his plans York Life was in sales, and later for their reunion this spring, they when he earned his bachelor's that year, in December, 1977, he will find a campus that is much degree 25 years ago. and his wife Nancy (Hollins), class changed from the one they left in "I had wanted very much to be of 1973, became the parents of their June, 1971. a teacher, and for the first six years first child, Karen. They also There are, for example, several after I graduated, I taught English purchased a home in West thousand more students here now and speech at West Bridgewater Bridgewater that year. Within two than there were back then, and the High School," he recalls. "But, years New York Life promoted academic program has far more frankly, given the amount of time I Gerry to the position of assistant options for those students (under­ had to invest in order to do a good manager at the company's graduate majors such as manage­ job, and the relatively low rate of Wellesley office. ment science, aviation science, and pay that teachers received in those "I spent four-and-a-half years social work, to name a few, weren't days, I decided to make a change. in Wellesley and then New York even on the horizon in the early In January, 1977, I left teaching and Life offered me the position of

'70's). Physically, a half dozen new ~ buildings have been constructed since they left and the college's land area has nearly doubled to 235 acres. But for most class members, it will be the changes in each other that interest them the most. Like many of his classmates, and other alums profiled in this issue, Gerry's life has gone through several cycles since graduation. Today - as a successful business owner on Cape Cod - he finds himself enjoying a career much different than the one he originally embarked on. Swift Associates Financial Services, established in 1985 and located in Hyannis, offers clients a full range of services and products, including financial planning, retirement planning and estate planning. Gerry, who holds CFP (Certified Financial Planner), CLU (Chartered Life Underwriter) and ChFC (Chartered Financial Con­ 7J sultant) designations from the j American College of Financial Gerry Swift, president ofthe class of 71 Alumni Profile

associate manager of its Worcester boomers" and retirees in the retirement, and increasing the office," he says. In 1985, having ensuing years. "Today more than return on their IRA's," he says. spent eight years in the employ of half of my clients are retired "With estate planning, I help ew York Life, Gerry decided to people, and I concentrate on the my clients with issues such as strike out on his own. issues of greatest concern to them," reducing state taxes, saving court "Looking back, it was a very he says. "Those concerns, by the and legal fees, and passing assets scary move," he admits. "Our way, are different now than when I on the way they want to. I also second child, Laura, had been born first came here." show clients how to protect their in 1980, so I had a growing family In 1985, he says, "people in assets from prolonged nursing to support. The first year, estab­ general didn't seem to be very home stays, or how to avoid lishing a brand-new business, was concerned about the future. capital gains taxes on the sale of traumatic. But I never regretted the Everyone seemed.to be living for appreciated property." move." the moment. Real estate was seen He finds the work enormously Gerry chose to open his by many people as the main satisfying. "In many ways, I'm still business in Sandwich. "Cape Cod investment vehicle." When the very much an educator, helping looked to me to be the right place bottom fell out of the real estate people understand concepts that for a financial services company," market several years later, "a lot of are important to them and to their he says. people became skittish about futures. I'm grateful for the prepa­ Prior to opening his office on investing their money anywhere at ration Bridgewater gave me in that the Cape, Gerry and Nancy had all." regard because it's so fundamental purchased land there and "we It's a different story today. to what I do." were making plans to build a "The real focus now is on How about his own retire­ home there." For the first nine planning for the future. I find ment, years down the road? "1 months, Gerry commuted to the people are better-informed about really enjoy this business and Cape. When he sold his West the issues they're likely to confront working with people and I can't Bridgewater house in 1986, he and as they get older. From so-called imagine ever not being involved," Nancy rented a home on the Cape 'baby-boomers' to older people, he answers. "At some point, a long while a new home was being there is a heightened awareness of way from now, I may slow down. constructed. the need to plan ahead. But the best thing about helping "When I first began the "The biggest concern of most my clients with their financial business, the Cape was booming, of my clients is that, first, they decisions is that with all of the especially the real estate market," remain independent and, second, advances in communication and he says. "Within a few years, that they are able to pass their technology, I can advise them though, that market experienced a assets on to their loved ones or from anywhere in the country. steep decline and many businesses charity of choice, rather than to the Consequently, I may never really suffered as a result. I was fortunate nursing home or the government. 'retire' as such. to be in a field that wasn't affected They want to protect what they "What I am sure of is this ­ by the downturn. By this time I have." for my goals in life, I made the had identified my main client base The typical client has $100,000 right choice to do this. I've never as retirees, and this was a group or more to invest. In addition to regretted taking the risk and that wasn't impacted as severely being a certified financial planner, opening my own business. I am by the economy's problems." Gerry is a registered stock broker very fortunate that Nancy and our Indeed, says Gerry, many and sells all investment packages. two daughters gave me so much retirees were relocating to the "1 help my clients develop a plan support and I'm very grateful to Cape after selling their homes that meets their objectives and them." when prices were peaking in the then I'm able to help them imple­ The class of '71 will return for late '80's. "These were people who ment the plan and manage their its reunion just weeks after the had originally bought their homes assets," he explains. class of '96 marches off to face its at relatively inexpensive prices and Gerry has particularly honed future. "I'm sure there are many of then made substantial profits his expertise in two specific areas my classmates who've been when housing prices soared and relevant to retirement planning: through transitions such as mine," they sold those homes to come to financial planning and estate says Gerry. "1 hope we're positive the Cape. Therefore, many of them planning. role models for a new generation had assets to invest to secure their "With financial planning, I of Bridgewater graduates. The retirements," he explains. show my clients how to meet their world has changed a lot since we His focus has remained on monetary objectives, such as left here, and I believe most of us retirement planning for "baby- reducing income taxes, increasing have done just fine." • interest on savings, planning for Alumni Update

Dates, Programs, and Events Football Alumni Reunion with current students. For infor­ plans to attend! Ifyou would All former athletes, especially mation or to attend, please like more information, see the football players, mark your contact the Office of Career cover of this magazine or call the calendars - the 16th annual Planning and Placement at (508) Alumni Office. 697-1328. Football Alumni Reunion will be Membership Services Commit­ held on Friday, April 26, 1996. A Preparing for Alumni Weekend tee Needs Your Help golf tournament at the Easton Country Club will "kickoff" the Plans are underway for Alumni Please take a moment to com­ day and a Reunion dinner at the Weekend, May 31 and June 1, plete the Membership Services Holiday Inn in Taunton will close 1996. As part of the weekend, Alumni Survey located on the the event. The dinner will honor the classes ending in a "1" or a back page. Your responses will the 25th anniversary team of 1971. "6" from 1931-1971 will hold help the Committee, which is Invitations will be mailed to all special Reunions. Included in part of the BAA, offer services to players, and reservations are the weekend's festivities are the appropriately meet your needs. required for both the tournament Annual Meeting of the Bridgewater Alumni Association; Dr. Mary Jo Moriarty Lecture to and the dinner. For specific be held May 31 information, please contact Rich a Luncheon for All Classes; a Florence '74, at (508) 697-4680, performance by the Alumni The Hyannis Bridgewater Physi­ Joe Verria '80, at (508) 697-3786, Chamber Choir; a reception for cal Education Alumni Associa­ or the Alumni Office. the 50th Anniversary Class tion will sponsor the Dr. Mary hosted by President Tinsley; Jo Moriarty lecture on May 31, Charting Your Course tours of campus, including the 1996, as part of Alumni Week­ With Career Net John Joseph Moakley Center; and end. This year's session will Thank you to all who responded a lecture on Charles Dickens by be presented by Dr. Marcia K. to the recent CareerNet mailing, Dr. lain Crawford, Professor Anderson, Professor of Move­ sent to members of the odd and Chairman of the English at ment Arts, Health Promotion, years of classes of 1975-1995 Bridgewater State College. and Leisure Studies at (1975,1977,1981, etc.). We were Contact a classmate and make Bridgewater State College. Dr. thrilled by the response and are happy to say the CareerNet database is up and running. To officially launch the CareerNet program, which is designed to provide students and alumni with career information through the rich and varied work and life experiences shared by alumni, the Office of Career Planning and Placement will host a networking program for students and inter­ ested alumni. The evening, titled "Directions: Charting Your Course With CareerNet," will be held at Taunton was the site ofan alumni area gathering in December, and the office of Congressman 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April Joseph Moakley was made available for the occasion. In photo above, from left are Mr. Fred 10,1996, in the Bridgewater Clark, '83, who is vice chairman ofthe colle$e's B?ard ofTrustees and legaf c;unsel to Congress­ man Moakley;, Mrs. Martha (Drmkwater) jones, 6~, Alumm PreSIdent; State Representative Dining Room in the Rondileau James Fagan, 69, who represents the 3rd Bnstol Dlstnct; PreSIdent Tmsley; Mr. Louis Campus Center. All alumni are RICCIardI, '81, member, college's Board ofTrustees (Mr. Ricciardi, aformer chairman ofthe encouraged to attend and share Board ofTrustees, IS the alumm trustee on the Board); Dr. Richard Cost, vice president, mstltutzonal adv~11;cement; Ms. Mary Tiernan, director ofalumni relations; and Mrs. Cynthia information on the job market (Booth) RICCIardI, 81, first vIce preSIdent ofthe alumni association. Alumni Update

Anderson also serves as the The Alumni Association wel­ College's head athletic trainer comes volunteers from all classes and is a respected authority in the to act as their class liaison when field. The lecture, which will be planning Reunions or as their held in the Davis Alumni Center Class Secretary for the magazine; at 6:00 p.m., is free and open to to help host an area gathering for all; however, reservations are fellow alumni; to be members of suggested. the Alumni Council; and to serve as mentors for Career Planning Physical Education Major and Placement or for fellow Program Book to be Published athletes and future alumni. To The Hyannis Bridgewater Physi­ learn more about possible volun­ cal Alumni Association is pleased teer opportunities, please contact to announce the impending Mary Tieman, Director of publication of the History ofthe Alumni Relations, (508) 697-1287, Physical Education Major Program or Associate Dean of Student Dorothy Tisevich, 77, was the Convoca­ at Bridgewater State College, tion Speaker at ceremonies officially Affairs and BAA President opening the 1995-1996 academic year on written by Dr. Catherine E. Martha Drinkwater Jones '64, at Friday, October 13, Ms. Tisevich is the Comeau. This volume will (508) 697-1276. director ofthe Office ofLegislative and include historical information, Congressional Action ofthe National anecdotal comments, and photo­ Cancer Institute in Washingtoin, D.C. graphs. The book will be pre­ sold beginning in the fall of 1996; Subscribe to the JobTrakker • copies will be available in early The Career Planning and Place- 1997 in celebration of the 60th ment Office is offering subscrip- anniversary of the Physical tions to the twice monthly job Education Major Program. news bulletin, JobTrakker, which contains listings of entry-level Alumni Directory through upper-level positions The Office of Alumni Relations in career field from accounting to plans to produce a Bridgewater sales & marketing. Produced by State College Alumni the Office in conjunction with the Directory in the fall of 1997. A JobTrak Corporation, the piece is questionnaire asking you to available for $10.00 for each update address and career subscription period (four information will be mailed to all months). For recent graduates, graduates this summer and fall. the first subscription period Please take a minute to complete -...... following graduation will be the form and help us make this Congratulations to Tim Hassett-Salley, available for half price. For Directory a success. An alumni who received his master's degree in information, please contact the directory is an great way to keep 1983, and Alice Ryan '94, the first male Office of Career Planning and in touch with your classmates and female alums to finish at the Carol Placement at (508) 697-1328. Mulloy Cuttle Aloha Classic 5K Road and network with fellow alumni Race to benefit the Children's Physical in your field. Ifyou would prefer Looking Ahead to Developmental Clinic at Bridgewater '96 not to be included in the Direc­ State College. The race is held annually Homecoming tory notify the Alumni Office, or as part ofHomecoming Weekend. Bridgewater State College alumni mark and return your form. and students will celebrate Homecoming this fall on For more information on any Become a Bridgewater Saturday, November 2. Plan to Volunteer! of the dates or program mentioned, please contact join fellow graduates under the Ifyou have thought about be­ the Office of Alumni Rela­ tent as Swenson Field as we coming more involved with your tions at (508) 697-1287. cheer our football team on to alma mater, now is the time! victory! Class Notes

last July. Reporter Penny Humphrey California, with her husband Carl. authored a story about Miss Cody's Her family held the party for her 1912 cross-country romance a half birthday and in attendance were Mabel Sidelinger, who turned 104 last century ago with Edward Patrick family members Dorothy and Ken July, earned a "golden cane" from Kearney of San Francisco, whom she Paige, Christine and Matt Paige the community of Nobleboro, met while on a visit to Rome to see (Stanford grads), her son Dick and Maine, where she resides at Pope Pius XII. A lifelong resident of his family, including wife Mary, Fieldcrest Manor. Known as the Taunton, and a teacher in that daughter Cathy (age 10), and twin "Boston Post Cane," the tradition town's school system for many four year-old boys, Mike and Bill. was started in the early years of this years, she and Mr. Kearney had century by a Boston newspaper, planned to marry in St. Mary's Helen (Murley) James has lost her which gave more than 600 canes to Church in Taunton. Mr. Kearney's sight and would like to hear from towns in Maine, Massachusetts, sudden death occurred in San any of her classmates who would New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Francisco before they could carry like to contact her. Classmates can The eldest person in each commu­ out that plan, Ms. Cody related, but obtain the address by calling the nity was to hold the cane, and Ms. she still wears the ring that symbol­ Davis Alumni Center (508-697-1290) Sidelinger is the 10th recipient of the ized their love together. She resides or dropping us a line at Post Office cane in Nobleboro. After graduating in the Wedgemere Nursing Home in Box 13, Bridgewater, MA 02324. from Bridgewater, she was a teacher Taunton. for 44 years in Massachusetts, Kentucky, New York and Maryland. 1931 1934 Anna Ginnetty writes that three of 1924 Bemice Fountain was honored last her nieces have also attended the May by the town of Raynham, state colleges. Paula Ginnetty Katharine Turner McWilliam writes, which presented her with the Hartman graduated from "I'm wondering if there's anyone "Albert Porter Citizen of the Year Bridgewater and taught in Massa­ else of the class of 1924 alive! I'm Award" for"a lifetime of outstand­ chusetts and Maryland; Diane fine and living alone. I have a ing and dedicated service to the Ginnetty Sheehy is at present a daughter in New Hampshire, who is town of Raynham." She is a long­ student at the Massachusetts College a teacher, and a daughter in Tucson, time member of the Council on of Art; and Erin Sheehy is a student Arizona. I also have four grandchil­ Aging and former Conservation at the University of Massachusetts­ dren." Mrs. McWilliam was a Commissioner. Selectman Donald Boston. Anna sees Alice Homer teacher for 29 years. McKinnon said, "She continues to Merrikin and Glenda Gaven Good, work for the senior citizens, helping classmates at Bridgewater, fre­ them in any way she can." quently as both live in Randolph. Both Alice and Glenda taught before 1928 their marriages. Now each of them is Eunice (Moore) Clark retired in 1968. enjoying visiting children and "I taught two years in a private 1933 grandchildren. Anna had a long and school in Florida," she writes, "and happy period of service as a teacher since then I've been traveling as and also as principal in Randolph. much as possible. At 87 I'm still going!" 1929 Dorothea (Lindstrom) McFerren writes that she is "still alive and kicking at 87+ and keeping busy with the The information appearing in things that keep me going. Have the Class Notes was received two wonderful kids and five grown by the Alumni Office before grandchildren." December 31,1995. Infomla­ tion received after this date will be held for the next issue 1930 Dorothy (Chatterton) Carter (pictured of the magazine. Catherine Cody was the subject of a above at her 85th birthday party on feature article in the Taunton Gazette October 2, 1995) lives in Piedmont, Class Notes

CLASS ALERT! Reunion time will classes. Her father and uncle soon be here. Hard to believe, but it received their masters at the college. 1936 is our 60th. It's a major milestone so She has been retired from teaching "Calling allloyal'36s!" begins a don't miss the chance to celebrate. since 1980. note to the magazine from Phyl Esau Join your classmates on June 1st. If and Barb Alpert, class representa­ you have any questions, contact tives. "Several Floridians plan to Phyl Esau at 45 Bryant Avenue, celebrate with us onJune 1st. Milton, MA 02186 (617-698-0963) or 1939 Among them are Trudy (French) Barb Alpert at P.O. Box 1075, East Dorothy (Boyle) Breor was recently Hunt, Peggy (Gilliatt) Raymond and Dennis, MA 02641 (508-385-9518). honored when an elementary school Muriel (Eyre) Morrison. Ruth was named after her in Hatfield, (Flaherty) Lovett, our Veep, promises Massachusetts. She had taught in to be with us if possible. Ruth is the Hatfield school system since slowly recuperating from a total 1937 1940 and was principal of the now knee replacement in late 1995. Two members of the class of 1937, newly named "Dorothy M. Breor Before her operation she enjoyed a Thelma Westerling French and Marie Elementary School" from 1957 until trip to Italy even though, as she says, von Bergen Tolander (Marie was the year 1981, when she retired. In the Sistine Chapel steps and the editor of the Campus Comment September the school celebrated the cobbled-stoned streets of Pompeii newspaper in 1936-1937), not having 35th anniversary of its founding, put finishing touches on the ailing seen each other for about forty and she was invited back as a special knee. Barbara (Smith) Huffis thinking years, are now neighbors and have guest. School principal Geraldine seriously of coming from San renewed their friendship. They are Smith said she was pleased that Mrs. Francisco. If these classmates and living in a Concord, New Hamp­ Breor was present. "I was very others can make the long trip, we shire, retirement community, happy that we had the opportunity who live much closer to Bridgewater Havenwood-Heritage Heights, to honor Mrs. Breor," she said. "We can make the short trip, can't we? which is under the management of wanted to give the children a face There's only one chance to celebrate the United Church of Christ and behind the name." the 60th!" where Marie was once the Chaplain. The editors thank Phyl and Barb for She was ordained in that denomina­ Gertrude (Currier) Wirling sent Jim providing the following news items. tion in 1974 after twenty-three years DiNardo"a nice Christmas message Classmates can contact them at address/ of teaching in Needham, Massachu­ and a generous check to be added to telephone numbers below. setts. the class of 1939 fund." Following a severe leg injury Thelma had spent most of her post­ necessitating convalescence in both Bridgewater years with her family in hospital and nursing home, Nat North Carolina and on Cape Cod 1940 (Dean) Funkel has returned to the where she often was happily Irma (Wall) Dobbyn reports that she Assisted Living Complex of her involved in early childhood educa­ and her family have moved to a retirement community near Seattle, tional activities and teaching. Last temporary home while their earth­ Washington. Despite physical year they invited Avis Brown quake damaged home is being limitations, Nat is an active commu­ Cushman, Phyllis Colby, Charlie repaired nearly two years after the nity member, serving as representa­ Whitcomb and Marge Candy Jackson last quake. They are not alone, she tive for her complex to the Executive to a mini-reunion luncheon party says, " but it is still discouraging." Council and the Resident Council. here at Heritage Heights. They She is also a member of the Admin­ would enjoy hearing from any other istrative Advisory Committee and friends. continues her participation in 1941 church work. Though it's physically Carey Brush and Tinker of Rich­ impossible for Nat to be here for the mond, Virginia, maintain their reunion on June 1st, "she'll surely be 1938 interest in history and are active in with us in spirit!" say Phyl and Barb. Maryrose (Riordan) Larkin writes that the Virginia Historical Society. They Richard and her would like to say Bunny (Ludden) Robertson, who enjoyed study tours of the battle­ "hi!" to all their fellow octogenar­ fields at Chancellorsville and the moved from Massachusetts to a ians. retirement community in California 1862 Peninsula campaign around last year to be near her daughter Dorothy (Lipman) Salk writes that her the Richmond area. They also Lois and family, recently took a granddaughter is a sophomore at participated in a conference on California-Oregon coastal tour with Bridgewater and is in honor's Southern Literature in Chattanooga, Lois. Bunny's reaction to the scenery Tennessee. Carey is completing the and the tour itself: "Wonderful!" writing of the centennial history of Class Notes

the State University of New York, her husband, the Rev. Dr. J. Harold consequences," she says."The class College at Oneonta. Hadley, died November 11, 1994. reads the story and then discusses They were married for 47 years. different courses of action, and the The Quincy High School class of Shirleynow lives in Hadley House, consequences to self and others." 1937 recently held its annual reunion a retirement home for senior citizens at the Neighborhood Club in Quincy named for her husband, Minister Dr. Charles D. Merrill, retired and noted at the June luncheon were Emeritus of Unitarian Universalist hospital administrator and former Edna Brown Mills and Norma Wolfe Congregation at Shelter Rock college dean and professor, contin­ Pinkerton. Edna visited for ten days Manhasset, NY. She tells us, "1 have ues as an adjunct professor at with Louise Forsyth in Quincy and come through a difficult two years. I Quincy College. Don attended the earlier traveled to her son's home in am fortunate to have myoId friends, induction of the oldest of his five Pennsylvania and to her daughter's Church and community nearby and children, Diane B. Robertson of in Massachusetts. In May, Louise my two adult children and their Hingham, into the Beta Chi Chapter participated in the convention of the families near also. Lucky to be alive of Phi Alpha (the national honor American Counseling Association in at 73." society in social work) at the college Denver, Colorado, and visited on May 1, 1995 and also the joyous family in Lawrence, Kansas. Elna (Filipson) Helgerson and Arthur commencement exercises for the have been very active working for Class of 1995 when Diane received Doris Burrell Clifford and husband their church and the new building in the Bachelor of Science Degree in William celebrated their fiftieth Lexington Park, Maryland. A Social Work. As Don watched his wedding anniversary onJuly 28th at highlight was a trip to Pacific Grove, daughter receive her Bridgewater Saint Catherine of Siena Church in California, and Crater Lake, Oregon. degree, he related that "nostalgia set Norwood. A dinner reception at They have recently been able to visit in" and he vividly recalled his own Concannon's Village was hosted by with all four of their children and commencement ceremonies in 1942. their children. Among those attend­ their families. He says he recalled the classmates, ing were members of the class of faculty, family and friends. Al­ 1941: Edna Brown Mills, Mae Hawes Elizabeth (Wood) Smith of Plaistow, though he says he "frankly admits" Ovaska and William Keams. New Hampshire, is the president of that he cannot remember the words the Vermont/New Hampshire William Edgar and Betty Milne Edgar of President Kelly's message, he says American Baptist Women's Minis­ he certainly endorses the succinct of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, tries for a three-year term. She has traveled in the spring to the lake message of President Tinsley, "1 been busy attending regional have come to have greater and country ofItaly and returned home meetings and also meetings in New by way of Rome, Florence and greater respect for the strong bonds York and Wisconsin. She also which link the present Bridgewater Sienna. In August, Bill and Betty met participated in an Elderhostel in with the past Bridgewater...and I with their daughters (Beth and Sarasota, Florida. Her christmas tree Anne) and families in Sun Valley, myself draw hope and confidence farm requires work in all seasons. from knowing that across the span Idaho, and engaged in fishing, rock Elizabeth travels often to Idaho and climbing, river rafting, swimming of 155 years, time and again the Washington state to visit two of her character of this college has been and other active sports. Beth and her sons and their families. She was family live in Florida; Anne and her tested...and often tested but never credited with being the oldest defeated." family live in Washington state. person to complete the CROP walk Louise Forsyth writes "it was good to in May. have notes at Christmas time from a few class members and I wish more 1943 of you would add my name to your Helen Winslow Chase, historian of mailing lists. Several of our class­ 1942 First Congregational Church, mates expressed the wish that more Dr. Lillian (Russell) Putnam reports Nantucket, Massachusetts, is writing would communicate because they that she has recently had two books articles about the Ladies' Union would like to have news of more of published. The first, How to Become a Circle which will appear in Historic you. Several wrote that they are Better Reading Teacher, was pub­ Nantucket and The Congregationalist looking forward to our 55th anniver­ lished by Prentice Hall 1995. She magazine. Founded on January 6, sary this spring at Bridgewater." describes it as a "graduate text for 1846, the Ladies' Union Circle is the Louise's address is 75 Monroe Road, diagnosis and recommendation in oldest continuing women's church Quincy, Massachusetts, 02169-1924. reading." Her second book is Stories organization in the United States. [Editor's note: we are grateful to Louise To Teach About, published by - most ofthe class notes for'41 came to Scholastic Press, 1994. "This is a Virginia Mayo recently attended the us through her}. booklet for grades 4-8 on actual Massachusetts State Grange session incidents in school where the child in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where, Shirley Thompson Hadley writes that has to make a decision with ethical she writes, "I was a member of the Class Notes

Rose Drill which we preformed as Library System after 48 years of part of the 6th degree. This degree service. Many of those years were was conferred on 47 candidates. 1949 spent at East Bridgewater High Lately many Granges have become Jean (Boyden) Lisewski is currently School's library. disfunctional, but we are trying to residing at 138 North Main Street in Betty Mitchell retired in 1994 after 40 get new members. We do many South Deerfield, Massachusetts, years of rewarding experiences in services for communities and 01373-1027. teaching in Massachusetts and organizations even though many Rhode Island. She spends her leisure farms are no longer in existence." time in Florida during the cold She is now the Master of Middlesex winter and in her residences in North Pomona Grange #16. 1951 Wrentham and South Yarmouth the Audrelj (Rosha) Gough and her rest of the year. She has traveled husband celebrated their 42nd extensively and on one of her recent wedding anniversary in June and trips she walked along the Great 1944 their oldest son was married in the Wall of China. Mary Catherine Iannoni retired from spring. her position as head guidance Madalyn-Ann Crawford Woolwick has counselor at the Central Middle Barbara (Holub) LaCambria wishes to just finished her second book, The School after five decades of working thank her classmates who have kept Art ofPastel Portraiture for Watson­ with students. Her official in touch with her throughout her Guptill, to be published this May. retirement date was on December bouts of illness. Cards and calls are Mickey was nominated for Who's 22nd. She first began her career in always welcome because they make Who in the East (she is already education after receiving her her days brighter. included in four other Who's Who bachelor's and master's degrees Chester Smolski has retired from books, including Who's Who in the from Bridgewater State College and teaching after 42 years at Rhode World. Three of her articles on pastel the former Hyannis State College Island College. He is still active as have been published in The Artist's respectively. She also received co-director of the National Geo­ Magazine in 1995, with two more to additional education from Harvard graphic Society-funded Rhode be published in 1996. She had two University, Boston University and Island Geography Education "one woman" exhibits this year and the former Colorado College For Alliance which works to improve had work shown in national exhibits Women, which has since been geography instruction in schools in in Texas, California, Arizona, New absorbed by the University of the state. He also writes on urban York, and Massachusetts. Her work Denver. issues for Providence newspapers. will appear in 1996 in Julia Castles' Showing Movement in Nature, London, England. Her first book, Pastel Interpretations (1993) has been 1946 1952 published in a French edition, Asnieres, France. Mickey will teach Alice Sullivan, one of the people Ruth Donnelly writes that she does a one-week outdoor workshop in responsible for the tremendous active volunteer work for the "Kids pastel landscapes for Sagamore growth of girls' sports in Rhode at Risk" program and is a Board Institute July 7-12 on the site of the Island over the past 25 years, has Member of the Palo Alto Foundation old Vanderbilt camp, Raquette Lake, announced that she will retire from for Education in California. She has New York. A master panelist with her position as assistant executive taken an early retirement as well. the Pastel Society of America, she director of the league effective July was recently honored with a signa­ 31, 1996. It has been through her ture membership of the Interna­ foresight and planning that today tional Society of Marine Painters. over 400 girls teams compete in 1953 She will be the judge and juror for annual competitions. In 1950, when Carol (Daly) Crook writes that it's the Fourth Biennial National she started, there had been none. great living in an area where people Exhibition of the Pastel Society of are concerned about reducing North Florida and teach a four-day federal spending. She writes, "The pastel landscape/still life workshop new mayor of Prescott is Paul Daly for the Pastel Society of North 1948 (no relation unfortunately) and he Florida in April. Martha (Walsh-Anderson) Noble's comes from Massachusetts." mailing address from May I-Nov 1 is: RD3 Box 347 Montrose, Penn­ sylvania, 18801. She is currently 1956 retired. 1954 Gary Getchell spent 25 years in K-12 Anne (Kenneally) Hynes has retired and now is completing his thirteenth from the East Bridgewater Public Class Notes

year at Cape Cod Community English, math, and foreign language. College. He was the keynote speaker She has also traveled with groups of at the 1995 annual convention of the students to several European 1966 New England Mathematical Asso­ countries, Mexico, and the former Sheila Lancaster Youd is a safety ciation of Two-Year Colleges and Soviet Union. This summer she educator for the Massachusetts recently conducted a "math/ plans on going to the British Isles for Electric Company. comedy" workshop at the American two weeks. Mathematical Association of Two­ She writes that her family is fine. Year Colleges' convention held in One son is a computer graphic Little Rock, Arkansas. He has been designer and the other son is a 1968 invited to run an updated version of communication major at the Univer­ this humorous event at AMATYC's Helen Worcester Bendell and her sity of North Carolina. Her husband husband Robert spent two months next convention in Long Beach, Bob is looking forward to retire­ California. Gary and wife Judy'S traveling in Alaska last May and ment. She would love to hear from June to visit their daughter. She oldest daughter, Wendy, is married BSC friends of the past. to the Methodist minister in retired from teaching after 28 years and reports she loves retirement. Amesbury, Massachusetts, and is a Ann Richardson Davis of Laurel, She and her husband travelled to registered occupational therapist at Maryland, is teaching first and Hawaii in July of 1994 to visit their the Whittier Rehabilitation Hospital second grades in Prince George's son. Helen enjoys quilting and plans in Haverhill, Massachusetts. They County. Her daughter Karen is the have one daughter, Emily Ruth. military cadet attorney at the U.S. to teach quilting. Daughter Janine is on the staff of the Air Force Academy and was Linda (Rose) Bergstrom is a physical Mattacheese Middle School in West married recently in an outdoor education teacher at the Forest Yarmouth, where Gary used to be ceremony in Colorado Springs. Ann Grove Middle School in Worcester, the principal. Son Glenn teaches spent part of last summer living Massachusetts. health and physical education in with a family in Costa Rica, where Rome, Georgia and plans to begin she studied Spanish at a language Francis (Fran) Delage and his wife doctoral studies at Springfield institute and traveled throughout Sheila (Sessums), '69, live in College. Gary and Judy are looking the country. She writes that her Northboro, Massachusetts. Fran forward to seeing all members of the Spanish has "improved immensely" works for Hanover Insurance • class of '57 at a 40th reunion week­ and that she hopes to return to see Company as New England Regional end during the spring of 1997 "If more of Costa Rica. Claims Operations Manager. Sheila you missed the 35th or were not part has taught since graduation at the of it at all, please plan on fully J.F.K. Middle School in Hudson, participating in our 40th!" writes Massachusetts. They have two Gary. 1961 daughters-Shannon, a freshman at Winifred (Murray) Leary writes that Cynthia Tower Huddy has been Harvard University; and Megan, a after careers in education and retail working as a substitute teacher junior in high school. banking-as well as a "mommy" while pursuing a master's degree at Diane (Pettey) Finucci is a first grade career raising eight children­ the University of Massachusetts­ teacher for the town of Westport, another change was made. Since Boston. She should receive the Massachusetts. 1983 she has been helping individu­ degree in 1996. She has also recently als and families achieve their goals become certified to teach math (her Lyman Goding is principal of the and dreams as a personal financial first love) for grades 5 through 9. Plymouth Community Intermediate advisor with American Express She has two grown sons. School in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Financial Advisors, Inc. In leisure moments she enjoys her nine (soon Susan (Reed) King was recently to be ten) grandchildren. appointed market manager of the 1965 Brattleboro (Vermont) branch at Allen Brown is now the Superinten­ Chittenden Bank. In her new role, dent of Schools in North Attleboro, she is responsible for coordinating 1958 Massachusetts. He and his wife Jane business development, overseeing Nancy (Duarte) Coon writes that she (Dubiel) Brown have been happily quality customer service, managing is teaching fine arts at Glen Ridge married for 30 years. Their oldest a portfolio of consumer and busi­ High School in New Jersey. She was daughter Kristin works at Interleaf ness loans, and managing the awarded a mini-grant from Arts Corporation in Waltham, and their operation of the branch. Previously Alliance of New Jersey and the John other daughter Kara works as a branch manager of the Fleet Bank in F. Kennedy Foundation for creating research microbiologist at MIT. He Bridgewater, she started her bank­ a program which interrelates the writes that he and Bill DuPaul, '65, ing career with Plymouth Home study of art with social studies, still keep in touch. National Bank in Brockton. Class Notes

Emmet Morrill has been coaching the past 17. She is credited with Leo V. Sciarappa writes that he was baseball for 29 years, and recently helping to develop hands-on science appointed in November, 1995, as the the Westfield Evening News in programs for students in the district. new principal of the Robinson Westfield, Massachusetts, where he A reputation for excellence in Elementary School in Mansfield, moved in 1969, published a feature science education has come to the Massachusetts, by Dr. Donald on him. Emmet has coached both district as a result. Recently the Nicoletti, superintendent of Little League and American Legion National Science Resource Center at Mansfield public schools. ball, and is currently at the helm of the Smithsonian Institute in Wash­ Westfield's Post 124, a team he ington, D.C., chose three local started in 1973. He and his wife elementary schools to participate in Jeanne have two sons, both in a nationwide test of a new school 1971 college. science unit. Thomas Kilduffwas appointed principal of the Furnace Brook Elementary School in Marshfield last July. Tom has worked in the 1970 Marshfield school system for 23 years, and was acting principal of the school before that. A resident of Scituate, and married with three children, Tom is a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Naval Reserve. Nancy (Needham) Burns is now a grade five teacher at the Grinnell School in Derry, New Hampshire. She and her husband Richard have three children. Robert Drapeau is the director of the police and security department at Jane E. Nugent, photo above, was In photo above, taken at the Holiday the University of Rhode Island. recently promoted to senior vice Inn in Taunton, members of the class After earning his bachelor's at BSC, president for research at the United of 1970 celebrate their 25th anniver­ Bob went on to earn a master's Way of Southeastern New England, sary. They are, from left, Kathy degree in criminal justice from which is located in Providence, (McDermott) Clifford, Nancy Northeastern University. He came to Rhode Island. Jane graduated from (Sayward) Boardman, Patti (Caloris) URI in 1993 from a similar position Leadership Rhode Island in October Haggerty, Diane Desmond, Jan Dayton, at DeanJunior College in Franklin, and was named commencement Elaine (PrekarskO Sliney and Linda Massachusetts. (Falcone) Stavris. speaker for the class. Fifty commu­ Sharon (Bowie) Morgan and her nity leaders take part in this project John Royce is a teacher of grades five husband are living in Topeka, each year. Last March, Jane visited and six at the A. F. Maloney School Kansas, and are the parents of three the White House and spoke with in Blackstone, Massachusetts. children (Patrick, 21; Seana, 20; and two of President Clinton's senior Meghan, 17). Sharon writes: "Dana policy staff, Ira Magaziner and and I eagerly await our 'first' college Bruce Reed, about several health Julie (Lafour) Raposa has been elected vice president of Citizens-Union graduation (University of California, and human service issues, including San Diego) and our 'last' high school welfare reform. Savings Bank, according to an announcement by Thomas A. Ryan, graduation (Topeka West High Linda (Lerro) Redman is a fourth bank president. She originally joined School) come June of '96! Can it grade teacher in the Panama Buena the bank in 1970 as a teller and really be 25 years since we donned Vista School District in California. subsequently served in the bank's those crimson robes? Dana is media relations and mortgage celebrating his seventh year at Hills Jeanne Tucker was featured in a news departments. In 1983 she became the Pet Nutrition, a division of Colgate­ article published recently by the bank's marketing officer and two Palmolive, with headquarters in Original Irregular newspaper in years later assumed additional Topeka. Last year I began substitute Kingfield, Maine. A science teacher duties as personnel officer. In her teaching and just love it! I'm so at Mt. Abram High School, Miss new position she has responsibility busy, I actually have to plan a day Tucker has been teaching for 25 for the overall promotion of the off." years and in the school district for bank and its services. Class Notes

Deborah (White) Trust writes to say plans to teacher social studies. organization headquartered in "hello to my classmates" and to tell Chicago. Olde New England us that her daughter is a freshman at Tobias Vasconcellos was awarded the Property Management speci~lizesin BSC, living in Shea-Durg~Ha.ll.. "Commonwealth Citation for condominium and multi-urut Debby says her daughte: is enJo~g Outstanding Performance" by residential property management. Bridgewater, where she is busy with Massachusetts Governor William academics and is also a cheerleader Weld last October for his work with Theresa Pratt Wang has been ap­ for both football and basketball. the state's Department of Mental pointed vice president of enpne~r­ Debby has been living in Medway Retardation. ing at Summa Four corporation m Manchester, New Hampshire. since January, 1977, and sees other Patricia A. Walls and her husband BSC grads occasionally. "I'm . Previously she was with Motorola Dick added 14,000 miles during the ISG, where she was vice president looking forward to our 25th reuruon summer of 1994 to their motor this spring," she says. and general manager for the Net­ home, travelling to Fairbanks, work Access Systems Products Alaska. They are active members of Group. She was also a vice presi~ent Good Sam, and upon attending the of engineering at Artel Commuruca­ Oklahoma State Jamboree in tions Group. Summa Four makes 1972 October, 1995, have now camped in open, programmable switching Harold Card has retired from teach­ 49 states and 7 Canadian provinces, platforms. ing mathematics af!er 22 year~ at the for a total of 95,000 miles on their Bristol County Agricultural High motor home. School and is now growing cranber­ ries. 1975 Elaine (Brennan) Lewis was recently 1974 Marie (Castro) Angeley is serving as promoted to assistant vice president the new dean of students at Coyle of Nynex Information Resources Barbara (Giard) Campanella has been and Cassidy High School in Company headquartered in . named vice president of custo~~r Taunton, Massachusetts. Previously Middleton, Massachusetts. Elame services for Westwood Advertismg she served as a mathematics teacher resumed her career at Nynex in 1988 Associates in Chicopee, Massachu­ for 16 years and chair of the math­ after taking ten years off to raise her setts. Prior to joining Westwood . ematics department for four years. children, Joseph, now 18, and Advertising, she had ser.ved fo: nme Brendan, 16. She works in the sales years as director of public relations Barry Lew is artistic and general channel management group at at Springfield College. manager of the Central Massachu­ pr~ud setts Repertory Theatre, ~ profes­ Nynex. Elaine is the aunt of John W. Condlin has been appointed Mike Morris, a BSC seruor and a sional theater group, which assistant principal at MastrlCola launched its maiden season last member of the men's varsity Elementary School in Merrimack, basketball team. June. Barry describes the Central New Hampshire. Massachusetts Repertory Theatre as Michelle (Dian) Orabona served as co­ Robert Gay is serving in his first year "regional theater that uses profes­ chairperson of the Berkshire County as principal of Whitman-Hanson sional people." United Way's Campaign Associate whe~e ~e Division. She is a graduate of the Regional High Scho?l, Judith Moran has been named started teaching sOClal studies m director of human resources at the New England School of Banking at 1974. Bob also holds a master of Williams College and the School of Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape education degree from t~e c.ollege. and the Islands. She had previously Commercial Lending at Babson He had been assistant prmClpal College and is employ-:ed at City served as vice president for human since 1988 and as the school's resources at Vanguard Health . Savings Bank of Pittsfield, Massa­ wrestling coach was named the chusetts. Services, and prior to that was Vice Boston Globe's Coach of the Year in president for human resources at 1994 after his team won 47 consecu­ Oakwood Living Centers, a long­ tive matches. term care and rehabilitation com­ 1973 Kathleen Lavin, president of Olde pany. Lenore (DiZio) Purington and her New England Real Estate Manage­ Thomas St. Thomas is now a kinder­ husband recently relocated to the ment Company, last summer garten teach~r in ~e t?wn of Portland, Oregon, area, where . achieved the Certified Property Marion, He lives m Bndgewater husband Eric is an instrumentation Management (CPM) designation with his wife Sue and children field engineer with Hoffman from the Institute of Real Estate Lydia, Kyle and Chloe. Mechanized Corporation. Lenore Management (!REM), a professional Class Notes

Laura (10). "She continues to host Hampshire. After graduating from her annual sununer pool party to BSC with a degree in art education, 1976 reunite the BSC girls and their he went to Kennett High School and, children!"; Nancy (Kipp) Florence in addition to his teaching duties, "has officially been declared a served for many years as part-time 'townie' after living in Bridgewater athletic director. In 1993 he was for over 20 years now. Some of us appointed assistant principal. don't know enough to go home after graduation!" She married Rich, '75, NanClJ (Reed) Imai now lives and and "is living on sports fields with works in Tokyo, Japan, doing their four children," Richie (12), freelance indexing, narrating, Collin (10), Casey (8), and Elizabeth transcribing, and editing. She (6). She teaches kiridergarten in reports that she was fortunate to get Hanson. Missing from the picture "lots of practical advice from Mike are Mary (Campbell) Tegan, who is Brown, '88, before moving there in still teaching physical education in 1991. Nancy also forwards some Cambridge and living in Arlington other class news to us: Gordon D. with husband Jack and their two Andrade is living and working in daughters, Callie and Erin, and Dillon, Colorado, managing a FILA Jeanne (Carroll) Giordano, "still Gio's shop and an Oshkosh shop. Lynn girl after all these years!" She and (Dunn) Christensen is principal of her husband are residing in Franklin Lynn School in Missouri Valley, with their three children, Lisa, Billy, Iowa. She is working on her doctor­ and Laura. ate in educational administration at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. "The Babes from '76 Annual Cape Cod Weekend Continued for the Lorraine Simon earned an M.Ed. in 15th Year!" was the inscription on Counseling in 1982 and was certified the photo above sent to us by the 1977 in Reality Therapy in 1989. For the above members of the class. Starting Bruce Cookson was appointed this past 13 years she has been employed left to right, front row, Carolyn past sununer as director of athletics as the fulltime counselor in the (Sheehan) White, who works at the at Case High School in Swansea, LATCH program at Massasoit Weymouth Library and lives with Massachusetts. He joined the Case Community College and has husband Bobby and children Bobby staff in 1977 as a physical education supervised many Bridgewater (IS), Kate (12), and Brad (8); Donna teacher. The last eight years he has graduates during their master's Mansolilli is living in Marblehead served as director of health educa­ practica. Lorraine also enjoys with her two children Brandon (12) tion for the Swansea schools. traveling to England, Russia, Italy, and Ariana (8), working in sales and France, Switzerland and throughout Dale (Parker) Ferris has been elected the United States, and spending time marketing and "last seen flying Clerk of the Bristol Community American Airlines"; Ginny Musante with her husband, children and five College Foundation. She is executive is working and living in Seattle, grandchildren, including five year­ manager of Ferris Realty in Fall old twins John and Thomas Simon Washington, and running her own River. video production company. Ginny and three year-old twins Joyce and Patrick Simon. Daughter-in-law reports that she "is never sleepless!"; David Forrest, a physical education Marie (Thibault) Jerome resides in Sandra Garceau Simon is a graduate teacher in the Foxboro, Massachu­ of the class of 1983. Lorraine also is Walpole and works for Polaroid in setts, public schools, last spring was Waltham in material management. active in the community, serving chosen as the "Outstanding Elemen­ presently as vice president of Self Back row: Bev (Dall) Harris is "still tary School Physical Education married to Craig, '75," and living in Help Incorporated, a community Teacher of the Year" by the Massa­ action agency in Brockton. Westboro with their three children, chusetts Association for Health, Todd (12), Kristen (10), and Brett (8). Physical Education, Recreation and Richard Tonner is a senior associate at "In her free time she has been Dance. He received the award at the Cassidy and Pinkard, Inc., a Wash­ mountain climbing to satisfy Craig's state convention held in Marlboro, ington, D.C.-based commercial real 'mid-life crisis"'; Patti (Koscuiszek) Massachusetts. estate firm. Rick lives in Alexandria, Landine is living in Shrewsbury with Virginia, with his wife Elizabeth Paul MacMillan was chosen last husband Michael and three daugh­ Adams Tonner and their daughter, ters, Andrea (14), Meghan (12), and sununer to be principal of Kennett Mary-Margaret Kilpatrick Tonner, High School in Conway, New age 18 months. Class Notes

continues as town administrator in Grafton, a position he has held for 1978 the past eight years. He is also an instructor at Clark University's master of public administration program, where he received his MPA. Luanne works at Grafton Suburban Credit Union. Dan and Luanne are the parents of a son, Daniel Perry Morgado, who turned 13 in January. Art Vuilleumier recently returned to the Northeast to join Asea Brown Boveri Environmental Services (ABB-ES). He has been appointed Information Technology Manager for the newly formed Information Technology Team. He most recently was a senior consultant with Management Analysis Corporation (MAC) of San Diego, California. His last project with MAC was as the In photo above, graduates from New Hampshire Community project manager for development of throughout the '70s gathered at Mental Health Services in Concord. a comprehensive environmental Homecoming 1995. Among those Janet Kelly writes that she married database designed for the Depart­ present were Missel} O'Connor Bill Clifford on May 27, 1995 at the ment of Energy in Las Vegas, McManus, 76; Lynne Borski Tufts, 78; Coonamessett Inn in Falmouth, evada. Kathi Hopkins Carlson, 77; Valerie Massachusetts. BSC alums Barbara Kemp, 78; Lisa Lovitt, 78; Jim Daley, (Wilson) Maffeo, 78; Julie (Tobojka) 75; Kim Henderson Gehrke, 78; HiI'd, 78; Sue Lawson, 78; and Debbie Maureen McClellan Daly, 75; and Ray (Galarneau x) O'Neil, 78, were guests. 1979 Oberg,78. Sue just finished a term as chair of Kimlee (Lindgren) de Ruyter writes Dr. Patricia Carlson was named the the Melrose School Committee, and that she married Luke de Ruyter on Superintendent of the Laurel, was the top vote-getter in the last November 4,1995 in San Diego, Delaware, School District, effective campaign. Julie is married, is the California. from July 1, 1995, after nine years as mother of Joseph Patrick Hird, and Superintendent-Director of the just moved back to Connecticut after Joanne Lamothe was appointed North Shore Regional Vocational stints in Maryland and Washington director of the Duxbury Free Library School District in Middleton, state. Julie's husband is an officer in this past summer. She had been Massachusetts. the U.S. Army. Barbara is the mother acting library director for the past of Thomas and Jillian, and they live year. Jane Bradley, chairwoman of Carolyn (MacFarland) Cribbie writes in Medway, Massachusetts. the library's board of trustees, was that in October her children David, quoted in the Patriot Ledger newspa­ 13, and Marie, 10, traveled with her Susan J. Lawson has been named per praising Joanne's performance to ew Orleans for the wedding of senior communications consultant as acting director prior to her Wendy (Taylor) Harris, 78, and Gary for Alexander & Alexander Consult­ permanent appointment: "Joanne, in Gutierrez. Her son David has been ing Group's (A&ACG) Northeast the course of this year, has in her accepted as a student ambassador in region. Sue is based in performance exceeded everybody's the People-to-People program. He Newburyport, Massachusetts, and is expectations - by a mile." will spend a total of three-and-a-half responsible for all aspects of em­ weeks of the summer of '96 in Italy, ployee communication, including Donald Marsan writes that he and Austria, and Hungary. Carolyn compliance, organizational change, Mary Loretta Taksar were married writes that she will be anxiously education/training and other on October 28,1995. They are (and jealously) waiting at home. human resource issues. She brings to both graduates of Western New A&ACG more than 15 years' England College's School of Law, Doris R. Gagnon has been named experience in human resources, and work as attorneys in Washing­ director of alumni relations at Notre marketing and organizational ton, D.C. Mary is with the Federal Dame College in Manchester, New communications. Election Commission and Don is Hampshire. Most recently, she had with the American Managed Care been director of training for Central Daniel Morgado and his wife Luanne and Review Association. (Perry) Morgado tell us that Dan Class Notes I

1980 as affirmative action officer for Weymouth, Massachusetts, and in 1984 became its first executive 1982 secretary. Karyl (Ferreira) Benoit has joined the staff of Gold's Gym as director of aerobic programming. Karyllives in Swansea with her husband George 1981 and their three children. Father Daniel Lacroix has been appointed parochial vicar at St. Maura Cullen received her doctorate Mary's Parish in Mansfield, Massa­ in education from the University of chusetts, by Bishop.Sean O'Malley. Massachusetts-Amherst last May. Father Lacroix, a native of St. Mary's Self-employed, Maura travels thrOl~g~out ~he Pa~ish.in New Bedford, was paro­ country and Canada chial VICar at St. Patrick Parish in provI.dmg dIversity h·aining. She Wareham prior to his new appoint­ lIves m Ithaca, New York, with her 1980 ment. partner. Attending Homecoming '95 were Mary Love is working at Community Christine (Spangler) Evans is a the above members of the class of Health Link in Worcester, Massa­ consult~g teacher/ interpreter with 19~0: Paula Hutch Emina, Carol Meyer ~husetts, as a program coordinator the Whitman-Hanson Regional Gnp, Sara Hoague Cassin, and Lesley m the rehabilitation department School District. Oslzry Perreault. persist~nt serving individuals with Lynn (Haffner) Feingold and Jeff are Maureen Lynch Burke is moving back mental illness. pleased to announce the birth of East after fifteen years! She writes Ronald (Yfurphy and his wife Cynthia Hannah Grace Feingold onJune 20, that they are in Lexington, at least (Harnazs) Murphy, '82, will celebrate 1995. Hannah was ''7lbs., 10 ozs., ter;nporarily, and a?d:d a new baby, their 10th ~e~ding anniversary this cute as a button and lots of hair!" Bndget, to the family m July. Bridget year. Ron IS VIce president of Merrill is the family's fourth child. qeralyn Hafetj was recently voted Lynch's corporate institutional client Employee of the Year" at Women Joseph Gonsalves is principal of the group and Cindy is a real estate and Infants Hospital of Rhode Redan Elementary School in Redan appraiser. They are the parents of Island, where she is administrative Georgia. ' two children, Brendan, age 2, and coordinator for the hospital's senior Alanna, age 4. vice president. Scott McDonald and his wife Kathy are the parents of a baby girl, Mary Ann Pessa and her husband Patricia (Szczesny) Kaupinis has two Frances Ann, who arrived at 4:35 Marc are the proud parents of a new boys, ages 12 and 9, and a girl, age 2. a.m. on February 10, 1996. She daughter, Giovanna Maria, born She married a man from weighed in at 6Ibs., 3 ozs., and was October 10, 1995. The new baby's Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and has born at Piedmont Hospital in brothers are Danny, Joey, and settled there. She writes that she Atlanta, Georgia. Frances Ann is Gregory. Mary Ann is on leave from m~ages a travel agency as well as a their first child. her job at New England Health and family. She would like to hear from Racquet Club in Hanover, Massa­ anyone who remembers her­ Jean (St. Andre) Remillard has joined chusetts. She works in the child-care especially her tennis teammates! the staff of the Southeast Coastal facility doing pre-school programs. Remember Ralph's? She would like Massachusetts Prevention Center in Terry (Crowell) Warner recently to know where Carol Coletta, '81, is, ew Bedford as a comprehensive and would like to say hello to her health education specialist. In her earned her registration as a profes­ sionalland surveyor for the Com­ and Donna Corio, '81. Please write or ne~ duties, Jean is responsible for a call! varIety of outreach and prevention monwealth of Massachusetts. projects throughout southeastern !Jr. Mary~. Yakimowski is an adjunct Jack Nicolas and his wife Kris Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the mstructor m the Educational (John~on) Nicol~s, '88, are celebrating Islands. She has a master's degree Leadership Department at the the bIrth of theIr second child, Kelly from Boston College. University of Connecticut and ~, on October 28,1995. Jack, a ~istrict-wideadministrator respon­ seruor account executive with Blue Karen Woronicz has been appointed Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts personnel director for the town of SIble for student evaluation, re­ search, and all compensatory is currently serving on the Board of ' Wayland, ~assac~~setts.She began ~he education programs. Directors of Old Colony United her career m muruClpal service in Way and actmg as chairman of the Class Notes

United Way's Loaned Executive industry for the past fifteen years. Program. Recently he finished a Easter Seal Home Health Care term as chairman of the Norton provides nursing, physical and 1984 Town Finance Committee and plans occupational therapy, speech Richard J. Vacca graduated from law to continue active service with that therapy, and home health aide school in 1994 and is now an committee. During 1995 he and his services to individuals in their attorney specializing in environmen­ wife organized a successful golf home. tal law. He heads the conservation fund raiser for the David Jon Linda J. Glynn was appointed last department for the town of Franklin, Louison Center in Brockton, Massa­ Massachusetts., and was formally chusetts, which is a shelter for June as communications director for the Ellison Center for the Arts, employed by Stone and Webster of women and children. Jack is also co­ Boston. chair of the Cardinal Spellman High which is affiliated with the South School Alumni Fund and Kris plans 5hore Consenratory. Prior to that to return to her position as the she was a marketing communica­ controller for the Northeast Public tions and public relations consultant, 1985 Power Association. and had formerly been employed as a marketing manager for the Dean L. Johnson is working as a Christopher White has been ap­ Williamsburg Company at Mer­ biomedical technician in Madison, pointed a part-time professor in chants Row in Hanover. Her Wisconsin. Northeastern University's graduate background also includes advertis­ program in counseling psychology. ing agency, nonprofit, and Chris holds an EdD. and is a fundraising experience. licensed psychologist, specializing in cognitive/behavioral psychotherapy Jeanne (Grasselli) Ionata is teaching at North River Counseling in third grade at the Waldorf School in Marshfield. Bourne, Massachusetts. Donna Ramos-Wirzburger was Marc Pelletier and wife Eileen featured by the Taunton Gazette recently celebrated the arrival of newspaper last summer for her their second son, Thomas, to join the work with the Star Players as an elder son, Matthew, "to form Coach interpreter for that group's produc­ Pelletier's pitcher/ catcher battery." tion of the musical "Nunsense." Donna, a speech pathologist with Patti (Morse) MacLennan sent us a the Reads Collaborative in note advising that she has been Middleboro, studied sign language working in the Duxbury Public while at Bridgewater. Schools since graduation, and is a third grade teacher. She has "three Kristine (Towne) Leahy and her great kids"; Billy, 5; Kerri, 31/2; and Patrick, 14 months. husband, Major Peter Leahy (USAF), are the parents of a third son, Jacob 1983 Janet (Dasilva) Rando was appointed Peter, who arrived on April 15, 1995. Anthony Asci is employed as super­ last August as a teacher at the In photo above, taken at Anderson visor of computer operations at Methodist Nursery School in Air Force Base on Guam, are SunGard Brokerage Systems in Milford, Massachusetts. Andrew, Tim and Jake. She writes Waltham, Massachusetts. that soon after, the family moved to Steve Walsh was recently elected to Guam for a two-year tour. Kris and Robin (Lacouture) Dobson accepted an the Fall River City Council and his the family are enjoying the 85­ appointment as senior account term will continue through 1998. He degree year-round temperature and executive at Sterling Hager, Inc., in was also elected to the Spencer the wonderful snorkeling. They are December. Sterling Hager is a full­ Borden Elementary School Council, also hoping to do some traveling to service high-technology public where Steve and wife Mariann's two Asia. relations company. She was for­ children, ages 9 and 7, attend school. merly a senior marketing specialist He is employed by the Plymouth Steven Lewis and his wife Lisa (Casile, at Banyon Systems, Inc., in County Sheriff's Department as '83) are expecting their first child in Westborough. general counsel and director of legal July of 1996. Lisa, a psychology major, has been employed at Old Francis Fagan accepted the position services. In his spare time, Steve coaches a youth hockey team, is a Colony Elderly Services in Brockton of regional director at the regional for the past seven-and-a-half years office of Easter Seal Home Health postsecondary law instructor, plays ice hockey in an "over-30" men's as the senior member of the informa­ Care this past summer. He has tion and referral department. Steven worked in the home health care hockey league, and operates a small private law practice. " Class Notes

has been employed as a window/ Bradford Kilby was elected to tl1e distribution clerk for the U.s. Postal School Committee in Fall River in Service for the past two-and-a-half last fall/s election. 1990 years. Tara Roark writes that she received Sean Carey accepted a position as a Steven and Claire (Hegearty) Willis, her master's degree in physical physical education teacher in the '86/ are living in Mesa, Arizona. therapy from the University of town of Carver public schools. Steve has been promoted to senior Massachusetts-Lowell in October, Kevin Cusack is a lieutenant with the geologist at a consulting firm in 1995. She is currently working as a Boston Fire Department. Phoenix. Clare is home with their physical therapist at Catholic three children: Thomas Jefferson, 5/ Medical Center in Manchester, New Steve Goodyear has been working for Cary Claret 2/ and James Madison, Hampshire. Gerber Products Company since six months. They are planning to graduation. Gerber is the manufac­ return East this summer and are turer of baby food and baby care attempting to set up a reunion. accessories. Steve writes, "I have Those interested can call Steve at 1989 held four positions with Gerber over 602-838-9016 or write to 1820 S. Jane Aube Caruso graduated from the the past four-and-a-half years and Palmer Streett Mesa, Arizona 85210. New England School of Law in May, am currently category account 1994/ and passed the Massachusetts manager-sales development. I am Bar and was sworn in December, based out of my home which is now 1994. Her first child, Beatrice, was in Elkton, Maryland. I have lived in 1986 born on June 30/ 1995/ and Jane Rochester, New York, and Pitts­ burgh/ Pennsylvania, while working Glenn T. Benne, 11/ recently moved reports she is staying at home with for Gerber." Steve married his wife from Connecticut to Manhattan, Betsy now but is still doing some Montana, where he bought a legal work from home. Colleen in 1991 while working in • working cattle ranch. He is also Rochester. She is originally from Christopher Michael Daly married Sackets Harbor, New York, and is a • employed at Garrity Development Constantina Hajioennou on July 18/ graduate of Bauder College, Atlanta, as a senior housing development 1992/ and they are expecting their Georgia, and the State University of superintendent. first baby in May, 1996. Chris is a New York, College at Oswego. She Karen (Houghton) Kane has been petroleum plant manager for is currently working at the Museum married to David Kane, '87/ for seven Agway Energy Products in Wash­ of Natural History in Wilmington, years. They live in Ft. Meyers, ington/ New Jersey. He has been Delaware, and also as the buyer for Florida, where Karen teaches special employed with Agway since a gift shop and art gallery. education at Ft. Meyers High School graduation and has lived in Ver­ Ivo Karmely has been promoted by and David owns Coconut Pools. mont/ New York, Rhode Island, and Karen/s twin sister Kathi, '86/ lives in now New Jersey, because of steady Continental Cablevision to the Ft. Meyers and she is a sales repre­ promotions. He also coaches Pee position of programming director at its Revere station. Previously, Ivo sentative for the Community Wee football (defense) in Washing­ was the video technician at the Directory Company. Kathi is ton/ New Jersey. studio. As program director, he will engaged to Mike DeAlmeida from Ellen M. Lennon is currently attend­ North Attleboro, Massachusetts. supervise Revere studio operations, ing Simmons College in Boston in recruit, train and advise program­ Their wedding is set for April. Karen the communications management ming volunteers, participate in and Kathi would like to say hi to all program. She works in the commu­ television productions and serve as their old friends at Bridgewater! nications department of Nellie Mae, Continental/s front-line liaison to the Lisa Medeiros writes that she is a nonprofit student loan provider/ community. planning to marry Salvador Morano service, both for the director of the Beth Empey-Morley got married on on February 10/ 1996/ after which Nellie Mac Fund for Education and they will reside in Corona, Califor­ the vice president of Communica­ November 25/1995/ to Robert nia. tions and Public Affairs. She recently Morley, a 1990 Stonehill College traveled to Vancouver, British graduate. She is currently working Columbia and Bermuda, and she as an administrative assistant for also took up the challenging game of Pilgrim Associates, Incorporated, in golf. Brockton. Her husband is a com­ 1988 puter analyst for the Massachusetts Sonya Evancho is in her first year of Environmental Police. teaching high school mathematics in the town of Carver. This year's Annual Fund Eileen Murphy writes that she has ends June 30. Is your gift in? been teaching second grade for four years in Andover, Massachusetts. Class Notes

She is also incorporating a non­ Debra Lee (Baker) Shumway married zine will publish a follow-up article violent conflict resolution compo­ Kary Shumway, '91, on October I, in a forthcoming issue. nent to the curriculum and is 1994. Jeffrey M. Denton is a 2nd Lieutenant teaching in service courses for in the Air Force, and is currently in teachers. pilot training at Columbus AFB, Mississippi. He is half-way through Kathleen Patricia (Kelley) Naples and 1992 the program and will eventually fly her husband Bill moved to Cape Trina Lee (Angiolillo) Andrews writes the F-15C Eagle Fighter aircraft for Cod in August, 1995, with their son that onJune 24, 1995, she married the Massachusetts Air National Liam. Baby number two was Michael J. Andrews and is working Guard based at Otis ANG Base on expected around Christmas, 1995. for New Perspectives Personnel in Cape Cod. He is also currently She would like to send her hellos to Beverly, Massachusetts, as a sales qualified in the T-37B aircraft and Steve Thomas, Bill Green, and Chuck consultant. will be in the T-38 Talon high­ Zizzo, and to tell Cheryl (Corbett) performance trainer by Christmas. Marcoux, '88, that she is "still Teresa (Ciotti) Motz writes that she running long distance." was married to Johnny Motz on Lauren (Sanguedolce) Garozzo married September 2,1995. She works Orazio Garozzo on July 2, 1995. She Suzanne (Norris) Silvia writes us, as a supervisor for Dansk interna­ tional Designs in Central Valley, taught in Guam for one year and is "After graduating with degrees in now home teaching emotionally social work and history, I have New York. She would like to say "hello to Charlotte." disturbed students at a private found a way to combine them! I school. She is pursuing an M.Ed. in work at a homeless shelter (Family Peter Tarvis enlisted in the United bilingual/ESL at the University of Resource Center) as an aftercare States Air Force and is stationed in Massachusetts-Lowell. counselor and spend all vacations Aviano, Italy. He took the down South, haunting Civil War officer's candidacy test onJanuary 8, Matthew Hibbert is a chemical battlefields, collecting Civil War art, 1996, and writes that the base is technician and principal investigator and learning as much as possible busy due to the Bosnia for Springborn Laboratories. about that era. I also got married in situation. He has been travelling 1993 and have converted my quite a bit as well-Venice and Kristin Mahoney is working in husband Jim into a true Civil War many other Italian cities (Pordenone, advertising sales for The Boston buff!" Pabova, Udine, etc.), and also trips Globe. to Austria and Slovenia. Anyone Isabel "Catia" McCusker writes that Michele (Ranese) Redding and Chris wishing to contact Mr. Tarvis can Redding, '91, were married on she has had two daughters with her write to: husband Tom since she graduated September 30,1995, and are living in Acc. Peter Tarvis Bayfield, Colorado. Michele is a inJanuary, 1993. Their daughter PSC 54 Box 108 Carnila was born in July, 1993, and bookkeeper for a real estate develop­ APOAE09601 ment firm and Chris is a manager their second daughter for Albertson's Grocery Store. Kelly Dominique was born in September, Powers, '90, and Cathy McCabe, '91, 1994. They built a house in Franklin were attendants to the bride. and for the time being, Isabel 1993 is at home with her daughters. She is Laura Colclough is currently attend­ trying to start a translation business ing the Tufts University Graduate from home (English to 1991 School of Occupational Therapy. Spanish, Spanish to English.) Marlene M. (Pluta) Adamsky married James Connell, who was the subject of Renata Medeiros is a service coordina­ Bill Adamsky from Ware, Massa­ a feature story in the spring, 1995, tor with the Commonwealth of chusetts, on June 24, 1995. They issue of Bridgewater magazine, is Massachusetts' Department of bought a home and are currently currently studying in Germany as a Mental Retardation. renovating it. She resigned as Fulbright Scholar at the Max Planck Stephen Messina is a case manager for accow1ting manager from World Institut for Verhalten Physiologie in Sports International, U.S., to join the Work, Incorporated, in Brighton, Seewiesen and the Max Planck Massachusetts. family business G.B.G. Propane Institut for Human Ethologie in Services in Ware, Massachusetts. Andechs. Jim, who is a doctoral Christian Pease is a sixth grade candidate in neuroscience at mathematics and science teacher for Anna (Asselin) Bibeau and her Princeton University, is engaged in husband Stephen are the parents of the Alief Independent School neuroanatomy research. He will District in Houston, Texas. "Teach­ a son, Adam Stephen Bibeau, who return to Princeton at the end of this was born on September I, 1995. ing is a lot of work," he writes, "but academic year. Bridgewater maga- it pays off in the end." He adds, "I want to thank Dr. Lynn Willett, vice .'

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president for student services; the Marine Corps in August, 1993. Paul Ricciardi is a coordinator of Professor Judy Deckers; Dr. Ann volunteer resources at Victory Lydecker (currently acting vice Brendan Stack is a special police Programs, a non-profit, multi­ president for academic affairs), and officer with the Dover, Massachu­ service agency that specializes in Professor Joe Yeskewicz for a great setts police department. residential treatment for people who experience. If it were not for their are in recovery from addiction to encouragement and words of drugs and alcohol. wisdom, I would not be here. I Bridget Roche is a first-grade teacher enjoyed my time at Bridgewater. My 1994 Susan Adams is an activity planner at the Delaney School in Wrentham. advice to current students would be She is the third generation of her to get involved and make the most for social day-care at the Middleboro Council on Aging.. family to teach in the town's elemen­ of it. Through my involvement with tary schools. Her aunt, Jeanne Rush, SGA, Greek Council, and my Megan A. Buckley is an elementary teaches sixth grade and Bridget's fraternity, and serving on various school teacher in Stoughton, Massa­ late grandmother, Loretta Roche, committees, I acquired skills which I chusetts. taught first grade at the Delaney am using in my job today as a William Cardinal is an account School from 1965 to 1972. teacher." executive at J. M. Perrone Company Sherri Stewart is a first-grade teacher Kady D. Plante recently completed a in Weymouth, Massachusetts. at St. Peter's School in Boston. master of arts degree in Human Jennifer Grunzweig received a master Services Administration from of science degree in sports medicine Rider University in Lawrenceville, from Indiana University last June New Jersey. She worked for two and has accepted a position at 1995 years at Rider as a graduate assistant Boston College as an assistant Lori Sousa is emolled in the master's in athletic training, and has recently athletic trainer working with program at Kent State University in accepted a position as head athletic football. Ohio studying speech pathology trainer at Pine Manor College in Melissa Horman is an exercise and audiology. Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. technician at the Heart Center in Amy Warren has been appointed the Eileen (Sullivan) Putman went to Hyannis, Massachusetts. first field hockey coach at Stonehill work after graduation as a part-time Marilyn Jonas is a speech and College. Field hockey will become a reading tutor in two local public language therapist for the Ayer, varsity sport at Stonehill in Septem­ elementary schools. Eileen writes, Massachusetts public schools. ber, 1996. Amy played varsity field hockey and lacrosse at Bridgewater "The schools in the area didn't seem Kirk Marshall is teaching high school to be hiring many new full-time and captained both teams her junior mathematics in Acton, Massachu­ and senior years. grade 1-6 teachers, so my husband setts. and I decided to try our hand at Zachary Pelchat, a 2nd lieutenant in parenting. My son Liam was born Addendum to 1994-1995 on September 14, 1995, and nothing the U.S. Army, graduated from the can compare to the joys of mother­ U.S. Army Military Intelligence Donor Honor Roll hood!" Eileen plans to resume her Officers' Basic Course at Fort The following individuals/ career in a couple of years, she says. Huachuca, Arizona, on June 14, organizations were inadvertently 1995. He is currently attending the omitted from the Donor Honor Christopher Rezendes, a U.S. Marine University of San Diego School of Roll of the 1994-1995 Bridgewater Corps first lieutenant, was recently Law, studying public interest law. Annual Fund, published in our designated a Naval Aviator. The "Right now I'm enjoying the perfect last issue. Their gifts are very Marine officer was presented with San Diego weather," he writes. much appreciated: what the Navy calls tl1e "coveted President's Club ($1,000 or more) wings of gold" following months of Class Representatives Marilyn (White), '51, and flight training with Training Air Dennis Barry Wing Two at the US. Naval Air Needed Lynne M. (Briscoe) Wisneski, '69 Station, Kingsville, Texas. He joined The recent change in the Frank F. Dunn, Jr., '49, '51 Alumni Association by-laws Class of1938 Minutes of the Bridgewater allows for two representatives Rita M. (Murphy) Bleakney State College Foundation and from each class to serve on the the Bridgewater Alumni Alumni Council. If you are Class of1946 Association meetings are interested in being considered Elizabeth M. (Cate) Johndrow available by contacting the for the position, please contact Corporations and Foundations Office of Institutional Ad­ the Alumni Office at (508) 697­ Barnes and Noble, Incorporated vancement at (508) 697-1290. 1287. Student Government Association In Memoriam

Alice T. Aash, '16, 11/12/95 Alice (Olsen) Roberts, '34, 1/12/96 We were saddened to learn of the Evelyn P. Hansen, '16, 1/10/96 Verne E. Bodwell, '37, 12/18/95 death of Paul Monaghan, class of Helen B. (Cobb) Yeaton, '17, 1/17/96 Louise (Eldridge) Thompson, '37, 1970, a longtime newspaper re­ Emily Daniels, '18, 11/19/95 10/2/95 porter, who died in September 1994, Jean Gehrke, '19, 12/28/95 Constance (Sanderson) Taylor Pye, after a battle with brain cancer. Mabel E. Ballam, '20, 11 /4/95 '39,12/10/95 After working for The Patriot Margaret T. MacNeill, '20,8/10/95 Barbara (Walton) Zeoli, '39, 12/19/95 Ledger in Quincy for a number of Helen Galvin, '21, 12/18/95 Mary (Scott) Alden, '43, 9/17/95 years, Paul worked in the Washing­ Grace (Fletcher) (Stevens) Iadonisi, Elsie N. Peltz, '46, 9/1/95 ton bureau of the Griffin-Larrabee '22,9/17/95 Raymond B. Merry, '49, 12/2/95 News Service covering the federal Edith (Cavanaugh) Ryan, '24, 1/3/96 Joseph c. Driscoll, '50, 1/9/96 government for newspapers in Mary Toomey, '24, 9/13/95 Warren F. Kiernan, '50, 11/24/95 Massachusetts and Maine. Anna (Cantor) Marks, '26, 1/15/96 Arthur K. George, '52, 10/9/95 Pauline A. Gula, '27, 10/10/95 Francis R. Verre, '52, 12/21/95 Margaret (McDermott) Walsh, '27, Barry M. Moriarty, '56, 10/6/95 9/26/95 Mary O. Creedon, '57, 1/8/95 FACULTY Phylis (Travers) Goodrich, '28, 1/1/96 Dorothy (Howard) Borjeson, '58, Professor Achille Joyal, 11/30/95. Marcella Crowley, '29, 10/6/95 12/27/95 Professor Joyal was a member of the Elizabeth (McClure) Jason, '29, 9/19/95 Laurence C. MacArthur, '66, 8/24/95 Department ofPhilosophy and Helen G. Law, '29, 1/19/96 Frederick Boyd Stinson, '69, 11/30/95 Religious Studies from 1966 until he Mary C. (Santos) Whetzel, '31, 11/24/95 Aileen (Sanders) Tiffany, '69, 1/9/96 retired in 1984. Evelyn (Sullivan) Hastings, '32, 2/26/95 Pauline (Grogan) Carey, '73, 1/7/95 The "Achille Joyal Humanities Award" Virginia (Howland) Lays, '33, 10/22/95 Donna (Cushing) Morse, '73,8/28/95 is presented annually to ajunior or Irma (Waaranen) Wood, '33, 1/14/96 Kathleen A. Johnson, '87, 10/9/95 senior student excelling in the liberal Lucienne (Galipeau) Dionne, '34, 8/14/95 JoAnn Dickey, '92, 8/12/95 arts. Doris (Stenberg) Major, '34, 7/30/95 • Tribute: Stanton Davis U Alumni Day in 1991, and sustain a strong fund-raising A successful businessman, Mr. and Mrs. Stanton Davis were record. Mr. Davis was Chairman of present when the "Davis Alumni "Stanton was a remarkable Shaw's Supermarkets when he Center" was officially dedicated. man," says President Tinsley. first became affiliated with the It was their gift that made it "Shortly after I was appointed college in 1983. At that time he possible for the college's oldest president in 1989 he and I had a agreed to serve on the Manage­ continuously operating organiza­ lengthy conversation and I recall ment Science Advisory Council, a tion - the Alumni Association how truly interested he was in group of area business leaders (founded, 1842) - to have a the welfare of Bridgewater. I which was created to help faculty permanent and very impressive came to value personally his and administrators strengthen home. friendship and appreciate greatly what was then a brand new Last summer Stanton Davis his care and concern for the major in Management Science. passed away, but his legacy lives college and particularly its After he retired from Shaw's on at the college. His support of students. He believed fully in our Supermarkets, Mr. Davis re­ the college, an institution with mission. He was a very modest mained involved in the life of the which he had previously had man who initially resisted our college and he and Mrs. Davis only limited ties (Mr. Davis was a attempt to name the Alumni regularly attended campus graduate of Dartmouth College), Center for him. I'm very glad we events and programs. was an important milestone for finally persuaded him to let us do The entire campus commu­ Bridgewater. His faith in that because future generations nity is greatly indebted to Mr. Bridgewater's mission was should know about the key role and Mrs. Davis. Our condolences instrumental in helping the Stanton Davis had in the history go to the family. Bridgewater Foundation develop of the college." Gift Items The Bridgewater Chair . .. Arm chair or rocker $240 Laser engraved w / college seal

Arm chair $240 Black with gold college seal

Boston-style rocker $240 Black with gold college seal

Thumb back side chair $134 Black with gold college seal BSC Mirror BSC Stoneware Mug Featuring Picture of White stoneware mug Optional chair personaliza- Boyden Hall with red college seal tion $20 $165 $5.00 Available up to 2 lines Other items for sale! Crewneck sweatshirt - 90% cotton, 10% acrylic; athletic cut, grey with red Bridgewater Alunmi Association (BAA) logo; L or XL - price is $28.00; Bridgewater Polo Shirt - 100% cotton white with embroidered BAA logo; L or XL ­ price is $25.00; Bridgewater Portable Umbrella - Red/white nylon panels with BAA logo; price is $15.00

To order fill out name and address form below then indicate item and send a check including shipping (Add $2.00 for purchases under $35.00; $4.00 for purchases $36 to $65; and $6.00 for purchases $66 to $100; $35 for chair ship­ ping.) Mass. residents add 5% sales tax. Send to BAA, P.O. Box 13, Bridgewater, MA 02324. Make checks payable to the Bridgewater Alumni Association. To order with VISA, MasterCard or American Express, use form below or call us at 508-697-1290. Expect 6-8 weeks delivery for mirror and chairs. Name: _ D Visa D MasterCard DAmex Address: _ Card # _ City, State, Zip: _ Exp. Date _ Signature _ Daytime Telephone: _

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Life insurance Options D Individual D Family D Medical Insurance D Automobile Insurance Purchase of College Merchandise - what items would you like to see available?

Credit Card Services DYes DNa Use of College Facilities D Kelly Gym D Moriarty Swimming Pool D Maxwell Library D Moakley Center D Career Planning and Placement I am interested in serving as a volunteer D to help plan alunmi events in my area D to act as a class secretary D help fundraise for my class D work on my class reunion committee D represent my class on Alunmi Council D to be a mentor for Career Planning and Placement D to help the Admissions Office (identifying or meeting or corresponding with prospective students or hosting a reception) Please be sure to include your name, address, and telephone number. If you check an item, a member of the BAA will contact you with more information. Your comments and suggestions are most welcome! Seal with tape or staple

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Fold here Friday, May 31, 1996 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. - Welcome Back Reception plus Registration for the Class of1946 Davis Alumni Center, 25 Park Terrace Alumni and guests are invited to come by! Guided tours of the campus will be provided 4:00 p.m. -- Dedication ofStearns Memorial Gate (across street from Rondileau Campus Center)

6:00 p.m. -- Dr. Mary fo Moriarty Lecture Dr. Marcia Anderson, professor of movement arts, . health promotion and leisure studies at the college, and head athletic trainer, is the featured speaker

6:30 p.m. -- 50th Anniversary Dinner, Class of1946 • Saturday, June 1, 1996 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. -- Registration for All Classes Flynn Dining Commons, Tillinghast Hall

9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. -- Continental Breakfast for All Classes and Alumni Council Flynn Dining Commons, Tillinghast Hall Update from Louis M. Ricciardi, '81, Alumni Trustee

11:00 a.m. -- Annual Meeting ofthe Alumni Association Horace Mann Auditorium, Boyden Hall Martha Drinkwater Jones, '64, Alumni President, presiding

12:15 p.m. -- Parade ofClasses to Tillinghast Hall Lunch in Tillinghast Hall

Immediately Following Luncheon -- Class Meetings

2:00 to 4:00 p.m. -- Art Building Open for Special Exhibit 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. -- Alumni College Session "It Was the Best of Times ..." a lecture on the life of Charles Dickens by Dr. lain Crawford, chairperson, Department of English Davis Alumni Center Following the Session -- Formal Tea Hosted by the Class of 1946 in the Davis Alumni Center 4:00 p.m. -- Reunion Celebration for Social Work Graduates and the Bridgewater Professional Network Group Social Work and Management Science Graduates Invited, Rathskeller, Campus Center 4:00 p.m. -- Alumni Mass, Catholic Center 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. -- Presidents' Reception for All Alumni Davis Alumni Center 6:30 p.m. -- Individual Reunions for Classes of 1951, 1956, 1961, 1966, and 1971

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