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IMAGININGEVIL
A CONVERSATION ABOUT ART AND BELIEF
 PROLOGUE

Eichmann's feet
One winter day in the mid-fifties, a group of us fourth-grade somewhat mashed by their years in pointy-
rather small, and
boys gathered during lunchbreak at the brick wall at the far toed boots and narrow shoes. The toenails were clipped
end of the schoolyard, a place far from the teacher monitors straight across and close, probably once a week, following a
who, with hands in coat pockets and cigarettes in lips, were warm bath.
scanning the swirling games for evidence of trouble. Joined in
a rough huddle, we passed a photograph from hand to hand.
It showed Adolph Hider and a group of German officers. Primo Levi, who had the misfortune to become one of the
The Fuhrer was smiling, and the soldiers were smiling, and 20th century's most accomplished students of evil, once
everyone was dressed in uniforms and caps. The curious and noted that it was self-conscious artistry that distinguished
wonderful thing, though, was that while the soldiers stood in the real thing from all its wannabe cousins — like stupid bru-
polished boots, the Fuhrer did not, and one could therefore tality or crude barbarism. "Arbeit machtfrei" over the entry
see that in fact he did not have feet but cloven hooves. The gate to Auschwitz, was the sprightly touch of evil, as was the
story told by the boy who had brought the photo to school inmate orchestra that played Mozart while the doomed were
(claiming to have found it in a drawer in his father's desk) was invited down from their railroad cars. In more recent years,
that Hider was asleep when word of a great victory reached were nicely met by the Serbs who paraded
Levi's standards
him, and he leapt from bed and rushed out to celebrate with naked Serb women before naked Bosnian male prisoners
his colleagues, forgetting to put on the jackboots that he used, and then dismembered the Bosnians who showed the slight-
under normal circumstances, to conceal his true genus. est natural physical response. And biblically, the Serpent's

For those of us gathered at the wall, the evidence before use of Eve as a way to bring Adam God and at
to sin against
our eyes, and the import of that evidence, seemed reason- the same time place a chasm forever between man and
able, salutary, even comforting. Like most well-raised and woman certainly makes the grade.
well-protected children, we were confirmed dualists: good I was mugged once, kidnapped once, and once knew a

and evil were the opposing powers that made life intelligi- sadist. But I am no expert on evil. Further, I confess to find-
ble, whether in Yankee Stadium, in the war with Interna- ing it dull, inert, platitudinous matter, like Eichmann's feet.

tional Communism, or in the Hopalong Cassidy shorts that Auden, in my view, got it disdainfully right in "September 1,

opened children's matinees at the neighborhood movie 1939": "I and the public know / What all schoolchildren
palace. That Hitler was Satan, and not human, made perfect learn, / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return."

sense given what we knew of his desires and bloody accom- The accounting couldn't be simpler. The airplane aimed at
—
plishments made more sense, in fact, than anything we the office lounge? The pension plan laid bankrupt? The
had been taught, or might have overheard or imagined on bomb day care center?
in the rented truck beside the Not a
our own (or, frankly, would later learn). problem. You may need to check back a few years, but some-
I'm not sure when my personal fling with dualism ended, where on a balance sheet or in an auditor's note you'll find
but the letdown seems to have been gradual, as happens in the entry that seems to equalize the books: a pinched child-
most cases, and it was certainly complete by 1961, when hood, an unjust treaty, a dog-toothed god who sends signals.
—
Adolf Eichmann spectacled, sallow, diffident, the kid who I know very well what theologians say about the mystery
gets picked last for dodgeball —went on trial in Jerusalem of evil. For me, however, goodness, not evil, is the mystery.
for carrying out Hitler's plan to have Europe's Jews killed as What complex logarithm could allow us to predict the tra-
quickly and as efficiently as possible. I was a teenager then, jectories of the WTC stair climbers, or of those who stayed
and so I knew the world for what it was: a road accident, a behind with frightened colleagues? Or of those who called
folly, a joke that wasn't funny enough; and I knew as well the answering machine at home to swear unregretting love
what Eichmann's feet were like. They were yellow-white from the edge of eternity, or of those who backed away from
and clean, like wax on an old candle, with faint traceries of crowded elevators, saying, "No, you first. Please"?
red and blue blood vessels alongside the slim, girlish ankles; Our story on the art of evil, conceived long before Sep-
with arches that ached after a post-dinner walk or a trolley tember 1 1 but perturbed, like so much else, by the events of
ride on which Herr Eichmann was obliged to stand because that day, begins on page 20.
he had given his seat to an elderly woman. The toes were Ben Bimbaum
 BOSTON COLLEGE *«#
WINTER 2002 magazine VOL. 62 NO. 1

20 32 45

20 Art of darkness DEPARTMENTS

Three on the nature of evil: the 2001 Boston
writers 2 LETTERS
Co\\e,gdAtlantic Monthly symposium on belief and non-belief
NATIVE EVIL Kathleen Norris
4 LINDEN LANE
DEMON evil Joyce Carol Oates • Off campus • Urban
evil by CHOICE Nathan Englander renewal • Lab test • Word
travels • Dear Jackie
Fantasy
32 Get busy, girlfriend
• Public television
basketball
•

Carlo Rotella
Women's boxing has long been a sport. Now it may become 51 ADVANCEMENT
big business
53 Q&A
John Makransky, associate

42 The contender professor of theology,

on being Buddhist in the
Megan Gerson '00 was looking for a way to fill the long winter modern world
when she wandered into the Fairbanks, Alaska, boxing club.
Her e-mails home tell the rest 56 POSTSCRIPT
Remembrances

45 The improbable career 57 WORKS & DAYS

Comic book curator
of Mr. Blue David Jay Gabriel '88

John Breslin, SJ CLASSNOTES

In 1928, Myles Connolly '18 created a Jazz Age hero for young Follows page 28
U.S. Catholics. His peculiar literary creation survives

COVER
From the series Shadow by Arthur Tress. Additional images appear, beginning on page 20. All images © Arthur Tress, 1975.
 LETTERS

BOSTON COLLEGE SEPTEMBER 11 the fire department. My father ception at Holy Cross. He
magazine I just read the Fall edition of was at sea, serving as an had just been designated the
BCM, and I want to tell you ordinary seaman in the U.S. first recipient of a new chair
WINTER 2002
VOLUME 62 NUMBER 1 what a wonderful job you did Merchant Marine. Seven in creative writing.

in covering the 9/11 tragedy. months later, his ship was tor- ROBERT W. BARRETT '61
EDITOR
Ben Birnbaum I could hardly read the "Re- pedoed and sunk in the Newton, Massachusetts

DEPUTY EDITOR membered" page through my North Atlantic. All were lost.
Anna Marie Murphy many talented people.
tears; so Human loss as a result of FOR THE BIRDS
DESIGNERS Thank you for letting deliberate, violent acts leaves Primitive chic scales new
Annette Trivette parents know what steps the behind, I believe, a special heights of silliness when John
Melodie Wertelet
school takes when a tragedy grief and sorrow. Your child in Motoviloff writes of duck
PHOTOGRAPHY DIRECTOR occurs. time will appreciate your hunting ("Driftless, Wiscon-
Gary Wayne Gilbert
LUANNH. JENKINS P'03 struggle and may think of his sin," Fall 2001).
PHOTOGRAPHER
Lee Pellegrini Nicholson, Pennsylvania or her care as a burden. When you look past the
Your child may not speak of romantic posturing, Mr.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Catherine E. Burke hero's choice this, wanting not to add to Motoviloff is bragging about
Tim Townsend's profile ("At your sorrow. Therefore, as my the enjoyment he takes in
EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Tim Heffernan
Ground Zero," Fall 2001) mother let me know in differ- killing beings who bear him
of John McCann '99, a fire- ent words, tell your child no ill will and could not harm
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and parents of undergraduate students. and, in McCann's case, heroic nounce his citizenship because time, Boston College's break
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life. People like McCann of the faults he recognized in in the action for sophomores
bring pride to my alma mater. his country's leadership. He ("Time Out," Fall 2001).

THOMAS H. ALTON '80 would surely find comparable We have found that our
Brooklyn, New York failures in any other country. second-year undecided stu-
www.bc.edu/bcm BERNADETTE BEZAIRE, SGM, '67 dents and lower-level transfer
NOW on bcm's web site: COPING Edmonton, Alberta students are often our "for-
COMING EVENTS Based on my own experience, gotten" population. As Leah
a campus calendar for BC I want to offer advice to sur- SEATED POET Piatt's article mentioned, first-

alumni and friends viving parents raising young An added bonus for me in the year students are embraced

plus • further readings children. I was born in 1940. Fall 2001 issue is the poetry by Orientation, juniors have
• photos • links » discounts In 1 942 our
, home burned, of Robert Cording, Ph.D.77 decided on and are pursuing
from the BC bookstore and we (my mother, her par- ("Married Love"). I met Mr. a major, and seniors are in-

ents, and I) were rescued by Cording in September at a re- volved in outward transition

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programs from career focus to ning of a great era for the that activities and achieve- The names that we know
graduate program research. University. He engaged that ments would be included in of are, from Korea: Joseph
But what of the sophomores? controversy with intelligence the article. As my (telephone) Flarity '51, 1st Lt. US Army;
PATRICIA HALLORAN 78 and grace and went on to interview with "Brucie" was Ronald Hickey '51, 2d Lt. US
Williamsville, Vermont many years of distinguished coming to a close I asked if Army; and Stanley Urbanec
leadership of Ithaca College. she now wanted to know '52, 2d Lt. US Army.
whalen's gift Along the way, Jim Whalen about awards, honors, accom- From the Vietnam War:
I'm sure all the Newton Col- became a leading and respect- plishments, etc. Her response John Coll, Jr. '66, IstLt. US
lege alumnae appreciated, ed participant in the debates truly pleased me. She remind- Army; Michael B. Counihan
as I did, the acknowledgement on American higher educa- ed me that this article was '67, Sgt. US Army; John R.
of James J. Whalen's death in tion's most pressing issues. about friendship —purely Davis '66, 2d Lt. USAF;
the last issue of the magazine, A few of us (including this friendship. How nice. How Louis D. Dobbin II '65, 1st

but I can't leave notice of writer) were influenced in our very, very nice. Lt. USMC; Steven Donaldson
his passing to a one-line an- career choices by his work. CONNIE REGOLINO '56, MA'60 '68, 2dLt. USMC; James E.

nouncement. PATRICIA M. BYRNE NC74 Brookline, Massachusetts Dooley '64, Lt. USNR; Louis
Those of us who were Weliesky, Massachusetts A. Favussa '69, 1st Lt. US
Newton students during Dr. ONE OF SIX Army; John Fitzgibbons '67,

Whalen's presidency came Editor's note: Ms. Byrne is vice I regularly see six alumni 2d Lt. US Army; Joseph X.
to appreciate the wit and president for administration magazines, and BCM is the Grant '61, Capt. US Army
intelligence he brought to the and planning at Wellesley most impressive and relevant. (Medal of Honor).
college's daily life and the College. Congratulations on the fine Also, Daniel M. Kellett
controversies he engaged. job you do for BC's alumni. '64, IstLt. US Army;
As a student, I had the chance WHAT IT'S ABOUT JAMES S. DOYLE '56 Thomas Lufkin '66, Lt. (jg)

to argue many of the issues As a member of the group Bethesda, Maryland USN; Christopher H. Markey
of the times directly with Dr. featured in the summer 2001 '68, 2d Lt. USMC; Daniel
Whalen, and I always left issue ("The Group"), I want A FEW GOOD NAMES Minahan '66, 1st Lt. USMC;
thinking he understood my to thank Boston College Maga- Boston College's ROTC Michael J. Monahan '68, Pfc.

position better than I did. zine for its focus on an im- detachment has been compil- USMC; Edward J. Murphy
Jim Whalen was a presi- portant element of life: ing the names of alumni and '56, Maj. US Army; Richard

dent who never forgot he was friendship. I also want to former students who gave L. O'Leary '66, 2d Lt.

an educator. thank Charlotte Bruce Harvey their lives in service to our USMC; Dennis J. Reardon
Dr. Whalen's professional for her gende manner and her country. The eventual goal is '67, 1st Lt. USMC; Paul Sul-
career had only begun when sensitive wiiting. to add plaques for World War livan '65, 1st Lt. US Army;
he completed the transaction In response to Patricia I, Korea, and Vietnam to Richard J. Sullivan '63, Lt.

that transferred Newton Cruise's comment in her letter the World War II one already USNR; Lucien C. Tessier '66,

College of the Sacred Heart to the editor in the Fall 2001 in Gasson 100. 1st Lt. USMC; and Michael
to Boston College, the begin- edition, I too thought, at first, We have, well-document- Vaughn '65, 1st Lt. US Army.
ed, the names from World Many thanks.
War I and World War II. D. MICHAEL RYAN
The difficulty has been with Boston College

COT A SECOND? Korea and Vietnam. For the

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"there are no second acts in College Magazine would like and the latter, 21. We are sure on pages 7 and 9 of the Fall

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The layout of Boston, England's, BC. They haven't heard of us, either.

Over there
A VISIT TO THE OTHER BC

Boston is a small city of 50,000 lying on a broad plain

beside the English Channel, about two hours northeast
of London by train. Boston College —the other Boston
College — is a public institution serving about 1,500 full-

time students, ranging from teenagers completing their

GCSE studies (approximately equivalent to U.S. high

school) to twenty-somethings working at the university

level. I first ran into it on the Internet, but last Novem-
ber, on vacation in England, I decided to pay a real visit.

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 The train ride there took me through a perfect English achusetts — I had to show them my maroon-and-gold sweat-
landscape —sheep in broad pastures, small stone churches, shirt to prove that I wasn't putting them on —but at age 19,
fields greening with winter crops — making my arrival in they had a why they were in school. Stay at
good sense of
Boston all the more jarring. Exiting the station house, I home, Dan and "you're either going to work on a farm,
said,

found myself at the lonely end of an empty cul-de-sac, star- or you're going to work at a packing factory." The others
ing at the blank rear wall of a dull brick warehouse. Rain nodded; Matt took a long, thoughtful drag on his cigarette.
splattered off the tarmac; traffic whooshed in the distance. I "And that's a no-good choice," he said, and exhaled a cheer-
could smell and something being fried, but there was
a river, less blue cloud. More nodding. Their fathers, it turned out,
no sign of a campus anywhere. do exactly those sorts of jobs, and don't want their sons to
Thankfully, the one other passenger who had disem- settle for the same thing. The guys had gone to school not

barked was a Boston College student. Carrie overnight — for a general education, but to learn a skilled trade. Though
bag one hand, cell phone in the other kindly introduced
in — Boston College, England, does offer courses in the liberal
herself, and we agreed to split cab fare to the campus. On arts, many students —
by far the majority I spoke with
the way I explained what I was up to; Carrie had never heard choose to study a vocation: auto mechanics, electrical work,
of America's Boston College, and she contemplated my chat hotel management.
about "cross-cultural encounters" quietly. I angled for leads: I asked Dan, Matt, and Chris what they did for enter-
Maybe there was a pub or rec center where students con- tainment in Boston. "Well, there's a skate park," said Matt,
gregated? No. Maybe a coffeeshop? No, again. A McDon- after some thought, "but it's got no lights at night, so you
ald's, even? Carrie shot me a sympathetic look, the sort can't use much." There's also a swimming pool, universal-
it

reserved for the hopelessly lost. "I'm sorry," she said, and ly scorned by the college students because it has no diving
laughed, "but there's absolutely nothing." board and is frequented by families with young children.
Any dance clubs? "They're rough at night," said Chris. Dan
seconded that view, and then urged me to watch a docu-
That's not quite fair. Boston, I found out, is re- mentary of the town put out by the BBC a few years ago.
ally just an overgrown English farm town, with a mix of me- Apparently it's mostly about street fights.

dieval and more recent architecture and a midsized seaport Boston, England, is not an easy place to love, but the stu-
a short walk from the town center. Enough people live there dents I spoke to, for all their griping, seemed unwilling to
to support some light commerce: a florist, several inns, a give up on it, or themselves. A young woman studying to be
stationer, the requisite pubs. Produce and poultry are raised a beautician, after bellyaching at length about the bores of
in the outlying fields, and a few fishing boats still ply the country life, told me flat out that she "wouldn't live in Lon-
Channel. There's not nothing; there's just not much to in- don money." She hoped, in fact, to stay in the area
for after
terest the average young adult. getting her degree, and many of her classmates will stick
Boston College itself consists of three small campuses a around as well.
few blocks apart, tucked into the seaward edge of town and
separated from the main road by an enormous public field.

Academic departments are housed in concrete buildings of 1 Called. IOr a taXl in the late afternoon, and when I

1960s vintage; there's a cluster of low-slung dormitories and slumped into the seat, the cabbie asked me how my inter-
a small cafeteria done up in bright yellow and orange. views had gone. He was the same man, of course, who had
Most students were in class when I arrived, so I wandered given Carrie and me a lift that morning. We got to talking
around getting a feel for the place and wound up in the li- about my experiences in England, and then about his expe-
brary. An administrator there described the student body for riences in America —
he'd gone to the University of
me. Boston College, England, she said, serves three types of Delaware in the 1970s, and sorely missed "those enormous
student: local residents; commuters from up to a hundred sandwiches" he used to have for lunch. Hoagies, yes: After
miles away; and foreign students, predominantly Chinese. three days of starving on Britain's ungenerous portions, I

The English students are often the first in their families to missed them, too. Boston College, England, had not been
go on in school, and tend to come from small farm towns. what I expected, I told my driver— I'd
been ready for some-
The Chinese students also tend to be the academic pioneers thing like those classic British institutions, Cambridge and
of their families, but are for the most part urban: They grew Oxford. Too much Hollywood in my diet, I mused. My
up in Hong Kong or Beijing. driver nodded in agreement. "Now, you're from the Boston
When classes let headed out to mix with
out for lunch, I College over there, right?" he asked. I affirmed; he knew
the students.I met Dan, Matt, and Chris, three undergrads something about us, then? "Well, no," he said. "I've only
from Boston proper, under the eaves of the main building. just heard of it. What's it like?"
They, too, had not heard about the Boston College in Mass- 7/V// Heffernan

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 THEY'RE BACK
The Boston College Citizens Seminars helped redefine Boston once

the city —have changed as the BC's College of Business Ad-

city has changed, adapting to ministration. Joyce saw in
Boston's needs and opportuni- Boston's grim condition an
ties since the University began opportunity for the University
them nearly 50 years ago. to create a forum for the
Some changes are apparent city's leaders on neutral turf
from a glance around the while simultaneously enhanc-
room. (A photograph of the ing BC's prominence.
first seminar, held in Boston
College's Fulton Hall in 1954, THE FIRST IO YEARS or so
captured a wide sea of middle- of the seminars were enor-
aged white faces above dark mously successful, and they
business suits.) Others are re- have taken on something of a
flected in the questions of the mythic aura in Boston leader-
day and the resources at ship circles. Out of them
hand —now aimed at managing came plans for the Prudential

and sustaining growth rather Center, the expansion of

than at stemming a city's de- transit lines, a new Govern-
cline. ment Center, a revitalized wa-
Patrick Purcell, publisher terfront, the renewal of the

of the Boston Herald and the market district, and more

current chairman of the commercial construction than
Indicators of progress: Boston Globe editor Martin Baron, left, and Greg
Watson, vice president of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, at Boston College Citizens Semi- the city had seen for a genera-
the December 12, 2001, meeting of the Boston College Citizens Seminar nars, made clear in a short his- tion. By the 1960s, Boston
tory he gave how far the city had recovered economically,
has come with the aid of the and Boston College had
seminars. "In the 1950s," he become a highly visible agent
When Boston Mayor Thomas my State of the City speech," said, "Boston was in a slump." of change.
M. Menino stepped to the he said, "we broadcast it in This was an understatement; What followed, however,
podium downtown hotel
in a seven different languages. in the 1950s, the city was on was a period of stagnation. In
one morning last December to Could you imagine that in the the verge of bankruptcy. Inad- the 1970s, with the big work
address the most recent 1950s? No way." equate schools and services of rebuilding Boston complet-
Boston College Citizens Semi- Delivered to a crowd of were driving residents into the ed, the creative energy of the
nar, he focused at length on some 400 of the city's civic, po- suburbs. The manufacturing Citizens Seminars dissipated.
the city's ethnic and racial di- litical, and business leaders industry was being decimated "Once the city rebounded,
versity. Speaking to the topic drawn together by the Univer- by outside competition. The there was less of a need for
"Metro Boston in the New sity, the Mayor's comments shipping industry was being anybody to push an agenda,"
Global Era: The Dynamics of garnered enthusiastic applause, weakened by labor strife. And says Peter Rollins, executive

Change," Menino noted with and not just because the atten- the individuals in a position to director of corporate and gov-
pride that one of every four dees happened to be highly di- help —the city's Irish political ernment affairs at BC's Carroll
Bostonians was born outside verse. The subtext was that the leaders and Brahmin business- School of Management and,
the United States and that Citizens Seminars —which, men — clung to an historic dis- for the past decade, one of the
more than 140 languages are two or three times a year, bring trust of one another. main architects of the semi-

spoken in the metropolitan Boston movers and shakers In stepped W. Seavey nars. "The power structure

area. "Last year, when I gave to bear on issues pressing to Joyce, SJ, then the dean of stopped coming. Attendance

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dropped. The people who mayors. So basically what hap- the Boston Foundation, the
showed up were lower on the pened was that the seminars City of Boston /Boston Rede-
totem pole." Some of this was a became an untapped resource." velopment Authority, and the
consequence of a changing It is with this history in Metropolitan Area Planning
economy: Corporate consolida- mind that the seminars' plan- Council.
tion had moved the headquar- ners in recent years have been
ters of several large companies trying to forge a new viability. THE NEW SEMINARS are de-

out of Boston. Furthermore, They have made the seminars signed to face a new threat.

much of the work in civic plan- more inclusive, expanding "Boston has rescued itself from
ning had devolved to the state the invitation list to involve the oblivion into which it ap-
and local governments. members of smaller civic and peared to be headed," Paul
"The seminars did remain neighborhood organizations Grogan, the director of the
kind of a meeting place," says and emphasizing audience par- Boston Foundation, said at the
T. Frank Kennedy, SJ
Jim Lehane, the executive ticipation, which in the past seminar. "But we have to be

assistant to University Presi- was limited to a brief Q&A careful of the complacency of
dent William P. Leahy, SJ, and session. "Instead of having 60 good times." Boston's current SUCCESSION
a longtime observer of the or 70 businesspeople gather- problems —sprawl, traffic and Associate professor T. Frank

seminars. "But you weren't ing," says Peter Rollins, "now transportation congestion, per- Kennedy, SJ, '71, has been appoint-

getting breakthroughs any- you have a true gathering of sistent poverty and social ed director of the Jesuit Institute.

more. You had other organiza- community activists — people stresses, inadequate school per- A scholar of early Baroque music

tions, you had the Vault" —the on the front lines in the metro formance —cannot be fixed and chair of BC's Music Depart-
secretive twice-weekly meeting Boston region." Meanwhile, quickly with an infusion of cap- ment, Fr. Kennedy succeeds
of influential Boston execu- the University has been joined ital, as many of the city's earlier Canisius Professor of Theology

tives
—"and you had strong by some powerful cosponsors: problems were, Grogan and Michael Buckley, SJ, who held the

post for the past decade.

NOT RETIRING
The Social Security Administration

has more than doubled its grant

to the Boston College Center for

Retirement Research in the current

academic year, resulting in a total

award of $2.1 million. The center,

headed by Professor Alicia H.

Munnell, funds research into and

disseminates information about

retirement policy issues.

CLUB PRIVILEGES
The Boston College Club has pre-

sented a $20,000 check to the

University, establishing a scholar-

ship fund for Boston inner-city stu-

dents. The money represents BC's

first revenues from a profit-sharing

agreement between the University

and the club's management firm,

Club Corporation of America. "We

didn't expect this to take place for

about 10 years," club cofounder

At the table in the foreground, seminar participants were asked to discuss ways to improve race and ethnic
relations in Boston. Elsewhere in the room, table talk focused on such topics as voter participation, workforce devel- John F. Joyce '57 said. The Boston
opment, affordable housing, protection of green and recreational spaces, and access to health care. College Club was founded in 1998.

ISOS I <)\ ( Ol I !<,! \1 \(, \/l\l 7

others suggested. If the perti- emphasis he places on change ment, housing, public health, conversations were often heat-
nent question asked at the first from below and on the capaci- public safety, technology, and ed, and it was telling that
Citizens Seminar (by then ty of individuals to make an transportation. A draft of the many complained they were
Mayor John Hynes) was, Can "extraordinary social impact." first Indicators Report, "The not given enough time to ac-
Boston "regain its former place But even grassroots orga- Wisdom of Our Choices," was complish anything.
as one of the prosperous, nizers require resources, presented at a Citizens Semi- They weren't supposed to,

forward-looking cities?" then and the more diverse the par- nar in 1999, and the final re- explained Massachusetts
the pertinent question in De- ticipants in the seminars are, port premiered at a Citizens BlueCross BlueShield Vice
cember (raised in a multimedia the more essential it is that Seminar in 2000. New reports President Peter Meade, who
presentation by the Boston they share a sophisticated view will be issued every two years served as moderator. The pur-
Foundation) was, "What is of the city in all its parts. In until 2030— Boston's 400th pose of the new seminars is not
your vision for Greater Boston recent years, the Citizens anniversary. to hammer out infrastructure
in the 2 1st century?" Seminars have been working The symbiosis between plans, but to advance discus-

It was a patient, all-comers with a state-of-the-art tool: the Citizens Seminar and the sion and to trade information.
type of question, and that was the report of the Boston Indicators Project was most Or, as Boston College's Peter
exactly what the planners in- Indicators Project. The Indi- apparent at the concluding Rollins puts it: "We don't need
tended. They had chosen the cators Project is a citywide co- session, when the individuals to build skyscrapers or banks

keynote speaker —Malcolm operative effort, sponsored by in the audience, seated in anymore. We need to look at
Gladwell, a staff writer at the the Boston Foundation, that roundtable subgroups, were the base issues."
New Yorker and the author tracks data and trends in 1 asked to focus on one aspect of Daniel B. Smith
of The Tipping Point: How Little aspects of city life: civic health, the 10 indicator fields (e.g.,

Things Can Make a Big Differ- cultural life and the arts, Changing Housing Needs, Daniel B. Smith is a freelance
ence (2000) —expressly for the economy, education, environ- Family Self-Sufficiency). The writer based in Boston.

CORN La Legende du Mate, a

1942 watercolor, is on display
in Andre Masson: Inside/Outside
Surrealism. The exhibit of works
from the Cotlieb Collection
the personal holdings of former
Canadian ambassador to the
U.S. Allan Gotlieb — is featured
at Boston College's Mc Mull en
Museum of Art through April
28, 2002. The show contains
more than 90 pieces spanning
Masson's career, including

prints, sketches, and four

important painted works. For
more information, please call

(617) 552-8587, or visit the

McMullen Museum Web site

at www.bc.edu/artmuseum.

8 WINTER 2002
 CALORIE COUNTER
Student discovers an epilepsy therapy

A diet that simply cuts back found that the reduced-calorie

on calories may hold an an- diets had cut the incidence of
swer to controlling epilepsy, seizures in the juvenile and the
according to research done by adult mice.

a Boston College undergradu- In the young animals, the

ate and published in the med- reduced diet delayed the on-
ical journal Epilepsia. The set of epilepsy. Moreover,
study is the work of Amanda Greene's dieting juveniles had
Greene '00, and was begun fewer seizures than did young
while she was a junior. mice elsewhere in the lab

Epilepsy is a chronic disor- who were on the ketogenic diet.

der marked by disturbances The adult mice benefited
in the brain's normal electrical less, seeming to require larger
functions. These sudden and calorie cuts to achieve smaller

intense bursts of electricity, or gains. But, since adult mice ob-

seizures, affect a person's tain no benefit from the keto-
awareness, movement, or sensa- genic diet, even a modest
tion. About 40 million people improvement was significant.

worldwide have epilepsy. Their "The data is really striking,"

seizures can be controlled, Seyfried says, and he plans to

but there is no cure. The most find another student to test the
Greene in the BC lab where she made her finding
common treatment is medi- idea further. "We think we've
cation that suppresses the defined a new therapy with no
brain's tendency to produce ex- adverse effects."
cess electrical discharges. When therapies in mice on another to induce the stress that helps Equally significant, Greene
that doesn't work, the involved project — exploring the poten- activate seizures —and to docu- found out why the diet works,
part of the brain may be surgi- tial impact of diet on brain ment data. To hone her under- and why the ketogenic diet
cally removed. Another option, cancer. His focus was on the standing of the statistical also helps prevent seizures.

popular to varying degrees effects of calorie reduction. methods required for her proj- The ketogenic diet is named
in this country since the 1920s, When junior Amanda ect, she turned to Richard for ketones, substances formed
is the ketogenic diet, which Greene appeared at the lab in McGowan, SJ, at the Carroll by the body when it breaks
consists mainly of fats with very Higgins Hall asking for the School of Management. In down fat. Scientists have long
little protein or carbohydrates. chance to do some research, her senior year, as a scholar of known that large amounts of
The diet is moderately suc- Todorova and Seyfried decided the College, Greene pursued ketones in the blood — typically

cessful in children, but has un- to see whether caloric restric- the epilepsy experiment as her present when a person is starv-

pleasant digestive side effects. tion would do anything for independent project. ing and has literally to live off
In 1998, Dr. Mariana the seizures that define epilepsy. For the experiment, Greene fat —are associated with a de-
Todorova, who is director of "It was a shot in the dark fed juvenile mice the same crease in seizures. The idea be-
biological labs at BC, was we didn't have a clear idea nutritious mouse chow that she hind the ketogenic diet is that
researching the effectiveness of what would happen," Seyfried fed to a comparable control eating large quantities of fat
the ketogenic diet in a breed says. "But, we figured, what group, only 15 percent less. produces more ketones and will

of seizure-prone mice, devel- did we have to lose?" She also fed two adult groups reduce seizure activity.

oped for epilepsy studies. For a semester, Greene 15 percent and 30 percent less Greene noted in her mice
She was working with biology shadowed Todorova, learning than their counterparts in an that a lower-calorie diet pro-
professor Thomas Seyfried, to handle the mice —how to adult control group. After pro- duced an increase in ketones,

who also was looking at diet pick them up by their tails cessing the numbers, Greene but also resulted in a decrease

HOSIOX COM I (.1 UU.A/.lNh: 9

in the amount of glucose in herring, taking attention away dergraduate is a rarity. lab mice on the lower-calorie
the blood, which, she theo- from the really important Gregory Holmes, a profes- diet appear more alert and ac-
rized, explains why the body issue, which was glucose," sor of neurology at Harvard tive than those getting full feed.

turned to metabolizing fat, or Seyfried says. "The ketones Medical School, describes Greene, now 24, is doing
ketone bodies, in the first are the effect of reducing Greene's study as "provoca- neurology research at Boston's

place. The brain usually me- glucose, but glucose is the tive." Says Holmes, "It's a very Children's Hospital as part of a
tabolizes glucose for energy, major metabolite regulating clever idea and a nice model. team studying periventricular
but when the supply of glucose the seizures. It's a concep- It indicates that some of the leukomalacia, a condition un-
is low, it resorts to metaboliz- tually important study." torturing things we do to kids derlying cerebral palsy in pre-
ing ketone bodies. The energy Greene's paper, which [to treat seizures] may not be mature infants. She's applying

gained is sufficient to meet credits Todorova, McGowan, necessary." Holmes cautions to medical school and wants to
normal needs, Greene hypoth- and Seyfried as coauthors, that further research will be be a pediatric neurologist.

esized, but not powerful appeared in Epilepsia last needed to make sure that calo- Johanna Seltz

enough to support seizures. November. According to the rie cuts won't impair learning,
"What Mandy found journal's editor, Timothy A. but he sees an encouraging Johanna Seltz is a writer based in
was that ketones were a red Pedley, publication by an un- sign in Greene's findings that Hingham, Massachusetts.

TAKE-HOME: QUESTIONS FROM FALL SEMESTER FINAL EXAMS

Philosophy 312: "Nihilism and Popular Culture" Associate interests" standard, which is based on the interests of the
Professor Thomas S. Hibbs child? Or would you consider first the plight of the surrogate

i. Some have argued that the Harry Potter books present evil mother, ovum donor, sperm donor, or adoptive parents?

and witchcraft as so attractive and alluring that children may be Be prepared to defend your position in an informed and

led to the dark side. Assess this thesis. articulate manner.

2. Nietzsche associated nihilism with the death of God. What
does he mean by this? How do the films The Exorcist and Seven Theology 429: "Aspects of Jewish Ethics" Rabbi Rifat Sonsino
address the issue of the death of God and its connection to Briefly discuss two of the following:

nihilism? a. The change of Shabbat from Saturday to Sunday.

b. The limits of responsibility for parents in Jewish tradition.

Honors Program 254: "Senior Seminar: Law, Medicine, and c. What "stealing" means in the Bible and rabbinic literature.

Public Policy" Professor John J. Paris, SJ d. Who, according to biblical law, is subject to punishment

Elizabeth Bartholet, a professor at the Harvard Law School, in case of adultery, and how it differs from the other ancient
wrote an op-ed piece in the Boston Globe (12/5/01) in which she Near Eastern law collections.

concluded that "Our society will not find easy consensus on sex

selection, cloning, eugenics, the commercialization of reproduc- History 429: "Shakespeare's England, 1450-1603" Assistant

tion, and many other issues posed by developing technologies." Professor Burke Criggs

She concludes that these issues are "too important to be left Discuss the 16th-century Reformation and the relative impor-

for resolution by the scientists and other private actors." tance of the following: Christian Humanism, the king's "Great

Your firm has been asked to advise President Bush's newly Matter," and popular religious sentiment. Would you agree that

established National Commission on Bioethics on what regula- the Reformation was slow and that popular sentiment followed

tions should be proposed to govern surrogacy, frozen embryos, governmental statute, or do you find another interpretation

cloning, and new forms of reproduction. more convincing? In other words, when did the Reformation

What standards would you use in your lawmaking? The "best begin in England, and when did it end?

10 WINTER 2002
 MEDIA SMARTS
It's not what you know; it's how you know it

CLASSNOTES where books come from, why

CLASS they're written, their purpose."

History 351: "Information Equally illuminating, he says,

Revolutions" was a project in which O'Toole

asked students to "read" pho-
INSTRUCTOR tographs. "The assignment
Associate Professor James M. was to study pictures and how
OToole they verbalize ideas, as in
'a picture is worth a thousand
READINGS words.' I'd heard the phrase,
Orality and Literacy: The of course, but I'd never pon-
Technologizing of the Word; dered it before."
From Memory to Written O'Toole is an historian and
Record: England 1066-1207; archivist who has long been

The Measure of Reality: interested in what information

Quantification and Western is and how it travels in society.

This is the first time he's

Society; A History of Modern
taught "Information Revolu-
Computing; Knowledge Is
tions" at Boston College, and
Power: The Diffusion of Infor-
he expects to offer it every
mation in Early America,
other year. He devised the
1700-1865; The File: A
course as a challenge to the
Personal History
commonly held notion that
O'Toole: "We have erased the memory of what a world without writing is like.
the world is in the midst of an
unprecedented information
One day last fall, history pro- "They did a pretty good time-consuming and awkward revolution. "In fact," he writes
fessor James O'Toole entered job, too," he said, laughing at it was with this format to flip in his course description,
Carney Hall 330 lugging a pile how, once the students over- back and forth to an index. "this 'unprecedented' revolu-

of old, discarded books he'd came their reluctance to de- "The ease, speed, and com- tion has many precedents."
collected. "Here," he said, stroy the books, they really got pleteness with which you ab- His class examines the more
handing one to each of the 14 into the assignment. "One put sorb information will be notable ones: the revolutions
students in his "Information his book in the microwave." slower," he told the students. from orality to literacy and
Revolutions" class. "You've all There was, of course, more Another day, he escorted the from manuscript literacy to

dissected frogs. Now take to the lesson than physical ob- class to a meeting with printing; the rise of numeracy;
thesehome and dissect them." servation. He asked the stu- conservator Mark Esser at the the advance of technologies
"You mean take the covers dents to think, "How does the Burns Library. Esser explained for recording spatial and visual

off?" one student asked, in- form of a book affect the infor- how ancient and medieval texts information, beginning with
credulous. mation it conveys? Is it easy to were assembled by hand, mak- maps in the Middle Ages, on
Not just that. O'Toole told read? Does it fall apart?" By ing them costly and thus avail- through photography in the

them to pull the books apart, way of elaboration, he brought able only to the affluent few. 19th century; and the develop-
observe how they were glued to class a scroll he'd made by For Dean Somes, a senior ment of recorded and repro-
or stitched together and how gluing together typed printouts history major from Texas, that ducible sound.
the pages were divided into (from a book he's writing) and exercise caused a shift in his A mild-mannered man with
signatures. He wanted them to securing both ends of the long, perception of how information wavy, graying hair and a gift

understand the mechanics of unruly document with wooden has passed through history: for lively discussion —one
book construction. dowels. He demonstrated how "It's kind of eye-opening sophomore says the discourse

BOS I ON COLLEGE \1 \( .AZINE 11

 in History 351 is so "refresh- We think of it as natural. We of information flow had an
ing" that the 7 5 -minute class have erased the memory of impact on public life and the
flies by faster than some 50- what a world without writing United States' sense of itself

minute classes —O'Toole also is like," O'Toole says. "With as a nation.

has a talent for showing his literacy, we get the ability to For all the technological
students the relevance of their store information outside the advances in the ensuing 136
studies. For a paper on infor- brain. The brain works differ- years, O'Toole notes, the time
mation in personal life, stu- ently now, because it can." period for news delivery has
dents had to record and ana- narrowed relatively little since

lyze all the information they HOW WE PROCESS informa- Lincoln's day. What have
encountered during a 24-hour tion is the topic under discus- changed are the media and the
period. "It made you think sion one late-November packaging of information, and
about what kinds of interac- afternoon. "Think back to the degree of repetition. Tele-
Randy Thomas
tions you have in a day," says September 11," O'Toole says. vision visuals, in particular,
Thomas Cavanagh '04, who "Where were you? What was have given information a new
TOP FINISH scribbled two pages of notes the situation under which you immediacy and have intensi-
Randy Thomas, program director that included everything from learned about the events?" fied its emotional impact.
of BC's cross country and track- the wake-up chatter on his "An immediate swarm of
and-field teams, has been named radio alarm to his e-mail corre- information came at me," AND WHAT, O'Toole wonders
women's cross country National spondence. "I got the paper replies a student who awak- aloud, are other ramifications
Coach of the Year by the United back, and Professor O'Toole ened around 1 1 a.m. that day, of speed and technological
States Track Association. Thomas askedme about conversations about two hours after hijacked progress —what is the impact
led the Eagles to a sixth-place among my friends. I hadn't planes hit theWorld Trade on privacy and personal infor-
finish at the 2001 NCAA champion- thought of that. The big sur- Center towers. "The minute I mation, for instance? For the
ship meet, an NCAA District I prise was word of mouth." opened my eyes, a swarm next class, he asks students to
championship, and second place TV, radio, word of mouth." come prepared with lists of
at the Big East title meet. In his O'TOOLE'S LARGER point is O'Toole asks the students to public and private entities that

14 years at the University, Thomas how society has changed over reflect on how their reactions keep tabs on their activities.

has coached 27 All-Americans; time in response to the shift might compare with those of The students devour the
women's cross country has com- from information scarcity to people living between 1 700 and topic on the following Thurs-
peted in five of the last seven information abundance. "In an 1865, the years covered in one day. Their personal anecdotes
NCAA championships. oral world, where writing is of their textbooks, Richard D. of intrusions and information
new and not many people can Brown's Knowledge Is Power: abuses fly, and the blackboard
GOOD CHEMISTRY do it, and printing is expensive The Diffusion of Information in fills with a long list of who's
Several highly competitive research and elite, the value of any par- Early America (1989). In the watching. Internet entrepre-
grants were awarded to graduate ticular piece of information is book, Brown records the time neurs, with their "cookies"
students in BC's Chemistry Depart- that much greater," he says. it took for news to travel. Word that help identify, say, an on-
ment over the past year. Postdoctor- "In a world of information of the Battle of Lexington and line music purchaser's tastes,

al fellows George Greco and abundance, redundancy and Concord, for example, which are cited. "There's no way to
Richard Cesati received National repetition are everywhere. The began at dawn on April 19, unsubscribe or get your priva-
Service Research Awards from the value of each piece is smaller, 1775, reached Boston by the cy back," one victim wails.
National Institutes of Health; grad- and our reaction is different. end of the day; New York City Boston College identifica-

uate student David Guertin won an It's a wheat and chaff problem. by the 23 rd; Pennsylvania by tion cards, used to buy meals
organic chemistry fellowship from We have to screen out the the 24th; Williamsburg by the and perform a host of other
the American Chemical Society; information we don't want or 29th; and Charleston by May 9. functions, can become logs of
graduate student Gabriel Weather- need so we can focus on what By contrast, in 1865, when students' whereabouts and
head was named one of 10 research we do want and need. This Abraham Lincoln died at seven spending habits. "I could tell

fellows at Bristol-Myers Squibb's process has an impact on o'clock on a Saturday morning, when the kids lied about cur-
pharmaceutical research lab; and human consciousness." the telegraph ensured that few," says a resident advisor
fifth-year student Courtney Luchaco- He recalls Socrates' fear most of the country knew of who supervised high schoolers
Cullis won the inaugural Schering- that writing would foster for- his assassination by noon. From on campus one summer. He
Plough Research Fellowship in getfulness. "Writing pushes a political perspective alone, could do so by checking what
Synthetic Organic Chemistry. oral stuff out of our minds. O'Toole says, this compression time they swiped their ID

12 WINTER 2002
cards through the residence ical, and property records, the Bork faced that very video sit- STAFF SCHOLAR
hall's electronic lock. census, political party affil- uation during his contentious Jonathan Castillo '02 has been

A senior recounts the diffi- iations, driver's licenses, rental and unsuccessful candidacy for awarded the 2001-02 Boston Col-

culty of restoring his good car companies, genetic pro- the Supreme Court in 1987, lege Staff Scholarship. Funded
name after a credit bureau filing, even grocery stores when a reporter acquired the by voluntary payroll deductions from

mistakenly switched the last with their offering of coupons Bork family's movie rental University employees, the scholar-

two digits of his Social Securi- tailored to individual cus- records. "The movies turned ship provides tuition assistance pri-

ty number with that of a less tomer's buying habits, as con- out to be Fred Astaire and marily to students from Boston's
."
creditworthy person's. Somes, duits of personal information. Ginger Rogers classics. But. . inner city neighborhoods. Castillo, a

the student from Texas, tells A junior who clerks at a video O'Toole says, his voice trailing psychology major who grew up in

his classmates how police once shop says a mouseclick of off. He lets this nugget of in- Dorchester, has been involved in nu-

ordered him and a friend from the computer tells him not formation hover a moment, merous community activities while

their car at gunpoint. The only each customer's address his unspoken "what if dan- at BC, including service last summer
young men were searched and and phone number but also gling provocatively in the air. with the Ignacio Volunteers in his

detained for nearly three hours the titles of all the movies he Vicki Sanders native Dominican Republic.
over what turned out to be or she has rented.
a police foul-up of the license The classroom discussion Vicki Sanders is the editor of PULSE RISES
plate number. is now in a race with the clock. Boston College Law Magazine. With the hiring of two new faculty
The students forge on, The time approaches 2:45 p.m., She wrote about BCs Small members, it will be possible to in-

hands popping up all over the the period's end. The professor Business Development Center in crease enrollment in the PULSE
room. They cite birth, med- notes that Judge Robert H. BCMIf Slimmer 2001 issue. Program at Boston College by ap-
proximately 100 students next year.

"The short answer to why we're

doing this is that student demand
has been outstripping supply for

DATAFILE: CITIZEN MOMMY quite a while," said program direc-

tor David McMenamin. PULSE,

which helps undergraduates com-
VOLUNTEER RATES OF MOTHERS WITH SCHOOL-ACE CHILDREN
bine service work with studies in

LOCAL POLITICS CHARITIES PTA, YOUTH CROUPS the humanities, currently involves

MARRIED OR SINGLE some 300 students and 11 faculty

Working full-time 24% 48% 44% members from the philosophy and

Stay-at-home theology departments.

15% 39% 33%
MARRIED
PAPER ROUTE
Working full-time 27% 47% 48% Crossroads, an independent student
Stay-at-home 17% 42% 42% newspaper published at Boston
MARRIED, WITH COLLEGE DEGREE College, received the Ex Corde

Working full-time 46% 80% 46% Ecclesiae award for outstanding

Stay-at-home 38% 58% 52% contributions to Catholic culture

from the Cardinal Newman Society

Adapted from The Private Roots of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political Participation (Harvard, 2001)
in Washington, D.C., on November
10. The newspaper, founded in

In the so-called Mommy Wars played out between Sidney Verba and the University of Michigan's 2000, favors coverage of campus

mothers in the workforce and mothers at home, a Nancy Burns, Boston College political science pro- lectures and intellectual debate on a

key flash point has centered on volunteerism: fessor Kay Schlozman uncovers the surprising wide range of topics. "We're trying
Stay-at-home mothers complain that they have truth. In most volunteer settings, working moth- to make it as genuinely Catholic

been stuck with carrying more than their fair ers of all types are better represented than non- and nonpolitical — as possible," said
share of community and charity work. working mothers. The one exception: local school editor Gary Cabor '02. Noting that
In her latest data-packed book, The Private Roots and other youth-related activities. There, college-
the paper publishes articles by stu-
of Public Action: Gender, Equality, and Political educated, married, working mothers are slightly
dents of all faiths, Gabor added,
Participation, written with Harvard University's less visible than their stay-at-home peers.
"We're generally interested in open-

ing a dialogue to all."

BOSTON COM I
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 The letter to Jackie
HOW U.S. CATHOLICS BECAME THE EXEMPLARY AMERICANS

The upsurge of unembarrassed

American patriotism wake of
in the
the terrorist attacks on New York
and Washington inevitably recalls
simpler times when almost all
Americans confidently viewed their
country as the sole beacon of free-
dom and justice in a hostile, be-
nighted world.
Last spring, the Boston College
library acquired a quintessential ex-
pression of old-fashioned American
patriotism —the "Jackie Letter," the
gift: of longtime BC classics profes-

sor Jack Shea. It was written to five-

year-old Jack in 1942 by his father,
Lt. Commander John J. Shea '18,

while he served in the Pacific on the

aircraft carrier Wasp, just weeks be-
fore he died trying to save his men
during a Japanese torpedo attack.
Commander Shea's letter, full of
longing for his wife and son and
forebodings of his coming death,
was also a lyrical expression of the Above: In 1946, the airfield at Squantum Naval Air Station was renamed for Lt. Commander John J.
Shea '18.

best of —
American values freedom His son, Jackie, laid the wreath. Opposite: Professor John R. Shea with the celebrated letter from his father

and opportunity, honor and duty,

loyalty to country and family. Shea's
sisters, Boston public school teachers, read it to their grade Fatima" was actually a hit record in the years immediately fol-
school classes, and as word began to spread, the school system lowing the war, with at least a dozen versions by, among oth-
printed the letter as a pamphlet that every child brought ers, Red Foley, Kittie Kallen, Andy Williams, and the Ray

home. The letter became something of a national sensation
when it was featured in the Boston Globe and reprinted in Life,
Look, Time, and many other publications.
For students of American Catholicism, however, the
"Jackie Letter" is even more striking as an illustration of the
mid-century convergence of Catholic values and the Amer-
ican Zeitgeist. No one blinked at Shea's flat statement: "Be a
Charles Singers. Bishop Fulton Sheen's television ratings in
the early 1950s swamped the erstwhile champ, Milton Berle's
Texaco Comedy Hour. Francis Cardinal Spellman even had a
novel, The Foundling, on the best-seller list in 1951.
Catholics dominated the labor movement, especially in
the big industrial unions like the United Automobile Work-
ers. Labor priests were fixtures at union meetings, and many

good Catholic and you can't help being a good American."
Indeed, the mass media's equation of American values and
Catholic values in the 1940s and 1950s was often so blatant as
to embarrass thoughtful Catholics. If movies were to be be-
lieved, all battlefield chaplains were Pat O'Brien-style priests,
the "superpadre" later civilianized by Bing Crosby in Going
My Way (1944) and Bells of St. Mary's (1945). "Our Lady of
scholars credit Catholic influence for the absence of a pow-
erful homegrown Socialist-Labor movement. Indeed, the
Catholic labor movement positioned itself against Commu-
nist influence and was a key factor in swinging unions behind
the Marshall Plan when postwar Europe was on the brink.
Protestants, understandably, viewed the burgeoning
Catholic influence with undisguised alarm. An eight-part

U WINTER 2002
1944-45 series in the Christian Century, a leading main-
stream Protestant journal, asked, "Can Catholicism Win
America?" and answered, "Yes." Martin Marty, the well-
known University of Chicago historian and Protestant min-
ister, lamented the media's habit of referring to "our"

Cardinal and "our" Pope, and noted that the funeral of

Chicago's Samuel Cardinal Stritch in 1958 had drawn "more
Chicago newspaper lineage" than any politician's in memory.
To be sure, the cultural dominance of American Catholi-
cism in mid-century was never as broad or as deep as it ap-
peared to contemporary observers. The media and industrial
centers of 1950s America were the big Northeastern and
Midwestern cities, all of which were Catholic strongholds.
Just as the secularist assumptions of today's television and
print journalists do not reflect the religiosity of Middle Amer-
ica, 1950s journalists, who were used to treating bishops as

powerful political dignitaries, didn't understand the deep

anti-Catholic suspicions that still lingered in the hinterlands,
as John Kennedy discovered during his 1960 campaign.
Written June 29, 1942, by Lt. Commander John Shea,
But even stripping away the exaggerations, the vast cul- J.

USN, aboard the USS Wasp:

tural power of the American Church in the 1940s and 1950s
was extraordinary, the more so when one considers that, just
Dear Jackie,
a half-century before, the Church was regarded with almost

—
uniform suspicion and hostility virtually as an agent of a This is the first letter I have ever written directly to my
foreign power. little son and I am thrilled to know that you can read it all

The signal cultural success of American Catholicism, in by yourself. If you miss some of the words, I'm sure it

fact, was the consequence of specific policy decisions that will be because I do not write very plainly

were bitterly fought out in the 1880s and 1890s between the When you are a know why your
little bigger you will

"Romanists" and "Americanists" in the U.S. Church hierar- daddy is not home so much any more. You know we have
chy. "Americanists" were willing to bet that the Church a big country and we have ideals as to how people

would thrive under American-style religious freedom; some should live and enjoy the riches of it and how each is
Americanist bishops even doubted the wisdom of parochial born with equal rights to life, freedom, and the pursuit of
schools. The "Romanists" deeply distrusted republican happiness. Unfortunately, there are some countries in the
forms of government, preferring strong rulers with a firm world where they don't have these ideals, where a boy
hand on religious practice. cannot grow up to be what he wants to be with no limits

on his opportunities to be a great man, such as a great

priest, statesman, doctor, soldier, businessman
THE STRUGGLE petered out in mutual exhaustion. The Take good care of Mother. . . . Study hard when you

Romanists helped engineer condemnation of "Amer-

a papal go to school. Be a leader in everything good in life. Be a
icanism" as doctrinally unsound. But Baltimore's James Car- good Catholic, and you can't help being a good
dinal Gibbons won a signal victory for the Americanist wing American
when he convinced the Vatican not to condemn the Ameri- Last of all, don't ever forget your daddy. Pray for him to

can Knights of Labor, a broad-based movement of industri- come back and if it is God's will that he does not, be the

al workers that was a forerunner of modern ClO-style kind of a boy and man your daddy wants you to be. . . .

industrial unionism. With all my love and devotion for Mother and you,

The grand compromise thatemerged from the years of

Your daddy
ideological struggle was a Church that was in America, decid-
edly for America and its founding principles, including reli- On September 75, 7942, three Japanese torpedoes struck the
gious liberty, but most emphatically not of America, or at least carrier USS Wasp as it sailed toward Guadalcanal. Com-
the America of slippery attachments and unrooted values that mander Shea was seen running into the flames to rescue
was already emerging by the turn of the last century. At one shipmates. He was among 793 officers and crew lost.

and the same time, the Church managed to be among the

most patriotic of American institutions and the most sepa-

BOSTON COM !•(;[• AIACA/.INF 15

ratist of American religions, with its own parallel infrastruc- Catholic compromise can be pinpointed to a narrow couple
ture — schools, hospitals, summer camps, mental institutions. of decades in mid-century. And John J. Shea, brought up
The compromise worked because of Gibbons's great in- within the warm wrap of Catholic neighborhoods, Catholic
American Church had to be rooted in
sight that a successful schools, and Catholic colleges, husband and father, Ameri-
the working classes. The great gulf between the common can patriot and Catholic believer to the bone, is representa-
man and aristocratic churchmen that was the norm in much tive of its great achievement.
of Europe and Latin America never existed in the United Charles R. Morris
States. The worker pogroms against priests and nuns that
occurred in Republican Spain, and which were a real danger Charles R. Monis is the author of American Catholic (1997).
a
in postwar Italy, would have been inconceivable here. His essay Cross Purposes," on pluralistic democracy and the
The apogee, the golden moment, of the grand American Catholic Church, appeared in the Spring 1998 issue of BCM.

SILT
By Paul Mariani

How it steals up on you, this mortality, Warsaw in July. Mortality's my leg, her arm, your heart.
dropping its calling card, say, after the flight Besides, who damn about the plight of others
gives a
back from your friend's wedding, six kinds of wine except the saints and God? But isn't death the mother
on a stone veranda overlooking the starlit sea of us all? Shouldn't death mean caring, the moving out
at last beyond the narrow self? But who has
while migrants labor in the fields beneath. time for that? Six wines on a stone veranda,
One morning you bend down to lace stars, a summer moon high over Santa Monica,
your sneakers and find your leg stiff as a base- cigars from verboten old Havana, live jazz.

ball bat. How many times you told yourself Death

That's what one wants. That, and not some blood
wouldn't catch you unaware, the way, alas, clot clogging up one's veins. No poet will ever
it did so many of your friends. That you'd hie touch again what Dante somehow touched there
yourself off to the hospital at the first sign at the Paradiso's end. It was there he had St. Bernard
of trouble. And then, when it should happen, as
beseech his Lady to look upon him that she might
ithas, you go into denial once again, while your grant him light and understanding, which he might
poor leg whimpers for attention, until at last you get share in turn with others. Lady, cast thine eyes,
the doctor, who finds a fourteen-inch blood clot I pray thee, down towards me. I cannot take much height,
silting up your veins there on the sonar.
though God knows I've tried. Six wines, two cigars,
Mortality's the sticking thinners twice a summer moon over the veranda, where I kept tilting
each day into your stomach, until the skin screams outwards, my veins absorbing even then the gravitas of silting
a preternatural black and blue. Mortality's while Love was busy moving the sun and other stars.

swallowing the stuff they use to hemorrhage mice.

Paul Mariani teaches poetry in the English Department at
It's botched blood tests for months on end. Boston College. His essay "Inside Story, " on why poetry is

Admit it, what's more boring than listening to true, appeared in the Spring 2000 of BCM. Viking will
issue

another's troubles, except thumbing through publish his spiritual memoir, Thirty Days: On Retreat
postcards of others on vacation. Friendly Finland, with the Exercises of St. Ignatius, in March.

16 WINTER 2002
 SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Alumni in the know grade Fox TV's Boston Public

"I would never sit through this

whole program unless we were

analyzing it," says Robert
Belle 76. Belle is a robust man
whose mere presence exudes
authority. He is headmaster
of Dorchester High School in
Boston's inner city, a school
of 935 students.
Oscar Santos '94 teaches
"Global Issues" and "English
Literature and Composition"
at Jamaica Plain's English

High School, also in Boston,

and he concurs. "Usually, if

I'm watching the show, there's

something so ridiculous I end

up shutting it off."

Belle and Sanchez are

among a group of high school
teachers and administrators, all

BC graduates, invited to Boston

College Magazine's office after

hours to watch television

specifically, to critique an
episode of Fox's Boston Public. A scene from the real Boston Public: From left, Dorchester High School guidance counselor Giannina Sanchez '96
MA' 00; headmaster Robert Belle '76; special needs teacher Maribel Pomales-Bunch '84; and career counselor Joan
The program is set in fic-
Dolan '61, in Pomales-Bunch's classroom. Oscar Santos '94 also participated in BCM's private screening.
tional Winslow High, an urban
high school on the edge of
Boston. It has been popular
with viewers and critics alike drama does an injustice to ond season, the police storm music. "Rave, like R-A-V-E?"
since it first aired in October the Boston public schools, de- into a classroom and arrest Judging from Dolan's inquiry,
2000. But when our Boston spite the network's claim that a troubled student for statutory it's safe to assume raves don't
public school educators watch the subplots are rooted in rape. A school secretary still has happen in the corridors of
a videotaped episode, they truth. They may also hint that her job after posing as a student Dorchester High School.
act a little like high school stu- the program no more credits and publishing a sexually expli- In the view of these educa-
dents sitting in detention. the professional life of a public cit advice column in the school tors, Boston Public's credibility

They groan occasionally. They school educator than the cul- paper. And a pupil suffers a is completely lost when the
grouse. Eyeballs intermittently turally outmoded 1970s show seizure during an ampheta- program closes with a funeral
roll in pained displays of in- Welcome Back, Kotter did. Then mine-fueled rave that takes for a teacher's amputated hand.
credulity. One set of eyelids again, they might simply speak place in the school's hallway. "See, this student, his
even droops conspicuously and to the absurdity of this partic- "Now, what's it called?" mother locked him in the

remains shut for a few minutes. ular segment's plot. Joan Dolan '61, a career coun- basement for punishment," in-

Such responses may be an In the Boston Public episode selor at Dorchester High, asks forms Dolan, who has seen
oblique way of saying that this viewed by the faculty members, when the onscreen teenagers enough episodes of Boston Pub-
Monday-night, prime-time the sixth installment of the sec- start bouncing to techno lic to provide context. "Then

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 the boy went and locked the dents and faculty. Belle agrees who've been out of schools for
mom down there, and she ac- that the majority of Boston Pub- a long time hear that, they
cidentally cut her hand off lic is "overdramatization." But think it's always like that."
with a chain saw trying to es- the reality of the urban public Joan Dolan takes up the
cape. So now, she has a hook high school, he says, is "no point. Boston Public "picks the
and teaches at his school." picnic" for students or teachers. sensational parts of educa-
Maribel Pomales-Bunch "There are a lot of things tion," she says. "I take pride in
'84, a bilingual special needs we deal with at the school that my profession, and this show
teacher who also works at remind my co-workers of an offends me." What bothers
Dorchester High, erupts. episode of Boston Public," Belle Dolan most about the show is

"How can anybody believe this says. "If you saw me handling its depiction of instructors.
is real?" Lopped-off extremi- a kid, sometimes it is some- "They portray teachers toler-
ties aside, Dolan insists that thing that should be on TV. ating things thatwe really
Mary Walsh
some acquaintances do take I'm not choking the kid, I'm would not tolerate. They
the program seriously not punching him out, but highlight teachers having sex
LOCAL HEROES enough to ask her, "Is that re- I'm thinking on my feet to with kids, teachers not follow-
Professor Mary Walsh of the Lynch ally what goes on?" turn the situation around, so ing the law. In one episode,
School of Education has been Pomales-Bunch is visibly I can handle it. Sometimes a staff person actually takes a

cited as an "Unsung Hero" by the appalled. "I don't know why I have to say, 'Boy, if you don't gun out and shoots it in class."

Allston-Brighton Healthy Boston they'd think so. We haven't had get over here and sit down, Oscar Santos says that
Coalition, which supports access a lot of big issues. What hap- I'm gonna smack you upside Boston Public favors spectacular
to health care and educational en- pened today"
—"What hap- your head.' My methods might conflicts over the more preva-
richment in nearby low-income pened today?" interrupts be considered unsavory in lent problems facing urban
neighborhoods. Walsh has been at Giannina Sanchez '96, MA'OO, other places, but it gets the job schools. "Boston Public ignores

the forefront of several University- a bilingual guidance counselor, done in Dorchester." the constant day-to-day strug-
community collaborations, includ- also at Dorchester High. Dolan gles: kids getting 800 on their
ing the Gardner Extended Services answers, "A teacher got killed SATs because they can't take

School in Allston, which offers in Springfield [Massachusetts]. a Kaplan course, colleges over-
year-round classes and social pro- He got stabbed to death." looking inner city students,
grams supported, in part, by a Uni- The attacker, according to the fact that the majority of
versity grant. Also recognized was headmaster Belle, was a 17- our school children are
LSOE graduate Greg Kiley '01, hon- year-old male. "It happened in second-language learners, that
ored for three years of tutoring school, in the building. The parents are working 80 hours
and fund-raising at Allston's Jack- governor was just on TV" The a week." Santos once asked
son Mann Community Center. killing was the first ever of a pupils in his classroom to cri-

public school staff person in tique the show, and their

FREE RANGE Massachusetts, and it brings response didn't surprise him:
Boston College has been recog- this discussion of an hour's out- They "weren't feeling" Boston
nized as a leader in wireless tech- landish entertainment to an Public, he says —they didn't
Kathy Baker, from Boston Public
nology. ComputerworldROI, a unfortunate, but relevant truth: identify with it. "I would say
supplement to the influential tech- Sensationalist television fare about 50 percent of our school
nology magazine Computerworld, poaches on some staggering re- Belle speaks from the per- is African -American, and 3 5

placed BC alongside Fidelity Invest- alities. The national reputation spective of someone whom percent is Latino," says San-
ments, Ford Motor Company, of public schools has suffered the New York Times called for tos, and the student body
and NASA's Goddard Space Flight in the wake of student shoot- comment on the day of the limned by Boston Public slights

Center in its 2001 rankings of the ings at Columbine High School Columbine massacre. "Some- both these groups. "They
top 25 wireless innovators. The in Littleton, Colorado, and times," he continues, "admin- didn't like it mostly because it

magazine pointed to the success elsewhere. Locally, this past istrators go home and people doesn't represent what Boston
of BC's local access network, which November, a high school stu- ask, 'How was your day public schools are."
allows students, staff, and faculty dent in New Bedford, Massa- today?' You'll say, 'Those kids. Camille Dodero '98
to use the Internet and University chusetts, confessed her We had five fire alarms, two
servers from virtually anywhere on involvement in a Columbine- fights, a fire, and some kid had Camille Dodero is a freelance
campus, including outdoors. inspired conspiracy to kill stu- a knife.' And when people writer based in Boston.

18 WINTER 2002
 HOOP DREAMS THOSE WHO SERVE
BC's dining services staff voted

overwhelmingly to cancel their an-

A national champ looks to repeat (virtually) nual holiday party this year, and in-

stead sent some $5,000 to the

families of restaurant workers killed

in the September 11 attacks on the

When Dan Brent '04, a stu- World Trade Center. "These families

dent in the Carroll School of now may not have a father or moth-

Management, won the Ya- er. We know how hard this work is,

hoops college basketball con- and those people need the money
test last March, he had nothing more," said Claudia Trilleras, a

to show for it —despite besting cashier. Added Bill Coakley, a baker,

110,000 fellow players in the "The contentment of what we've

nationwide game run by done outweighs a dinner party."

Yahoo.com. "They didn't even

send an e-mail saying congrat- FAST COMPANY
ulations. I was kind of hoping Boston College has joined the In-

for something, but what can ternet2 consortium, a group of uni-

you do?" he said. versities and corporations working

Contestants in Yahoops to extend the capabilities of the

have one assignment: to pre- existing Internet. By purchasing

dict the seven biggest winners large amounts of bandwidth —

each week of the NCAA bas- Brent: "They didn't even send an e-mail.
,:
measure of the data-transfer capac-
ketball season. The more ity of Internet service lines —the In-

points a chosen team wins by, ternet2 members have achieved

the more points the Yahoops data-transfer speeds up to 100
contestant earns. Whoever has the end of the week. Brent points, the equivalent of a sin- times greater than those normally

the most points at the end of delves into schedules, team his- gle blowout NCAA game. available. With this advance it now
the regular season is the Ya- tories, and the files of obscure Brent doesn't know the true becomes practical to carry out

hoops champ. athletic conferences, looking identity of everyone he squares data-intensive research on-line.

That may seem like a simple for any such edge. His analysis off against. Last year's runner-
proposition, but as Brent ex- also includes intangibles: up identified himself only as TWENTY-SOMETHING
plained, Yahoops has its nu- "Home games are big, so a Oldheads, an alias. "I was The BC football team ended its sea-

ances. Contestants, for team playing two home games going to send him an e-mail or son ranked in the Top 25 for the

example, have to "buy" their against lower conference teams something, but I never got first time since 1994. The Eagles
teams, using a weekly allotment is a good bet," he confides. around to it," says Brent, who placed 21st in the AP poll and 23rd
of 100 units. The higher a team The air is thin at the top of also remained anonymous on- on the ESPN-USA Today list.

is ranked in the NCAA, the the Yahoops hierarchy. Brent line, going by the mysterious
more it costs, so it's impossible thinks only 50 or so of the acronym TOOS. DEATHS
to choose only heavy hitters. 1 10,000 participants put in a Brent would like to repeat • John J.
L. Collins, SJ, professor of

(Brent points out that it's not serious effort. "A lot of people as champion, and so far this finance from 1948 to 1966, founder

always smart to go with the big just say, oh, I'm going to pick winter things are looking of the Finance Department in 1949,
names, anyway: The best teams Duke, North Carolina. If you good. It's not that he's the top and an advisor to finance students
tend to play one another a lot, look at the top 50, everyone's performer every week —he has in the 1980s and 1990s, on Decem-
and the point spreads in such picking these weird teams that never been higher than 1 1th in ber 28, at age 90.

matchups are usually small.) you've probably never heard any given seven-day period • Joseph R. Fahey, SJ, a University

Most teams play only two of." Last year, Brent found but he's consistent. "That's trustee from 1972 to 1979 and from

games per week, but occasion- himself locked in a fight-to- what really counts, to be in the 1981 to 1982, and academic vice

ally a team will play three the-finish with just one other top 200 every week," he says. president during the 1980s, on Jan-

and thus become a potential competitor; the rest had fallen "Once you're in there, you've uary 16, at age 65.

dark horse winner, since all hopelessly behind on points. just got to play level all year." • Katherine Holly Riley, Law'02, on
victory points are combined at He won, eventually, by 80 Tim Heffeman November 18, at age 32.

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DARKNESS
THREE WRITERS SPEAK OF EVIL

PHOTOGRAPHS BY ARTHUR TRESS

on the evening of November 27, 2001, more than 1,100 students,

faculty, and interested members of the Greater Boston community

streamed into the cavernous John Hancock Hall in Boston's Back
Bay for a public conversation on a topic that had gained urgency
during the preceding months: Evil. The occasion was the second
annual dialogue on "Belief and Non-belief in Modern American
Culture," sponsored by Boston College and the Atlantic Monthly.
The formal topic was "Evil: The Artist's Re- contention that "there is in each of us —whatever
sponse," and speaking were three of America's lit- our religion; even in a bishop — a believer and a
erary lights: the novelist and essayist Joyce Carol non-believer." Over the years, Martini has invited
Oates; the poet and chronicler of to his cathedral philosophers, psychi-
monasteries and small towns Kath- DIALOGUE and poets to talk
atrists, politicians,

leen Norris; and the short-story about their work, as viewed through
writerNathan Englander. Journalist the prisms of belief and non-belief.
Christopher Lydon moderated.
Belief and
In Boston a year ago, the discus-
The Boston College/Atlantic NON-BELIEF sion was of medicine and of the
Monthly series takes its inspiration meaning that doctors may derive as
from a celebrated annual public event Modern
in
witnesses of suffering and healing
sponsored in Milan by the archbish- AMERICAN (BCM, Winter 2001).
op, Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini Excerpts from the latest Dialogue
an event known as "The Chair Culture installment, on evil and the way artists

for the Non-Believer." It is Martini's respond, begin on the next page.

BOS I ON COL] EGE M VGAZINE 21

 Native EVIL
KATHLEEN NORRIS: My turn to prose writing could see reflected in my little corner of the world.
was occasioned by evil. I began writing my book While we in Lemmon, South Dakota, weren't liter-

Dakota in response to what I saw happening around ally sharpening our machetes, the evil was there,

me in western South Dakota in the early 1980s and it was homegrown. The annihilating instinct
when what is now termed the "farm crisis" first hit. was in our hearts. I felt that I was a witness to some-
Before then, I had been exclusively a poet. thing that needed to be described, but my poetry
In an insular culture that looked remarkably ho- seemed too small a vessel. So I turned to prose.
mogenous —mostly white, Christian, and working A saving grace emerged, helping me to survive
class —I witnessed divisions erupt among people both the inner and outer turmoil of that time, when
whose had been close for generations; I saw
families I stumbled across a group of my neighbors on the

the scapegoating of people deemed to be outsiders, Plains, monasteries of Benedictine men and women
professionals such as teachers and pastors, or even a in North and South Dakota. I quickly discovered
ranch family that wasn't "from around here," mean- that while the Benedictines are like a tribe —they
ing that its members were first-generation residents, even have a myth of origin, emerging from Bene-
having moved into the area only 30 years ago. We dict's —
cave they do not suffer from tribalism, that
needed someone to blame for the unwelcome evil and ultimately self-destructive mythology that
changes wrought by the economic crisis, and "out- identifies others as less than human. Hospitality is
siders" were convenient targets for the pent-up ani- a core Benedictine value, and it provides one of the
mosity we did not dare let loose on one another. central paradoxes of monastic life: that the
Sadly, it was young people —
couples in their thir- monastery stands apart from the world, yet is radi-
ties —
who most ardently pursued the "undesirables" cally open to it. This is why you find that monas-
in our midst, in the vain hope that expelling them teries in rural areas —Richardson, North Dakota,
would allow for a return to a more prosperous and for example, or Stearns County, Minnesota —are so
harmonious time, a past that of course never existed. often beacons of cosmopolitanism. Out in the mid-
dle of nowhere, one might encounter a translator of
medieval Dutch mystics, or someone looking at
ONE OF THE MYTHS that small-town people similarities between the Hebrew psalms and the
enjoy is that theirs is a magically stable place, a safe poems of the Veda. One might meet a monk or nun
harbor in a changing world. And we cling to that il- visiting from a Benedictine community in Tanza-
lusion in the face of considerable evidence to the nia, Australia, France, or Colombia, Manila or
contrary: In the last 40 years my town's population Tokyo. One might even find a Tibetan monk or
has shrunk from 3,500 to less than 1,600; in seven nun in residence, participating in a monastic ex-
chaotic years during the 1980s, four churches ran change program that has been quietly promoting
through eight pastors, and the school went through interfaith dialogue for nearly 40 years.
six principals and four superintendents. This is seri- As I got to know several Benedictine communi-
ous instability, and our denial of it has led to serious ties, I realized that while monasteries faced all the
evil. As a priest with parishes in North Dakota put problems of small town life — insularity, gossip, pi-

it, "Every year somebody gets crucified. It's usually geonholing, the denial and repression of differ-
centered on the school. Someone stirs up contro- ences —they generally dealt with these problems in
versy, calumny. It's vicious. It's depressing." a more healthy way, confronting human evil more
Small-town evil may not seem like much in the creatively, and with more awareness.
context of world events, but for me it is global evil
in microcosm. Tribal and/or class conflict; the re-
fusal to accept the modern world, partnered with THE PEOPLE OF MY SMALL TOWN and
the desire to retreat into a more traditional, golden church were dealing with evil the way most of us
past that exists mostly in the imagination of a do, most of the time —
stupidly, inattentively, re-
—
younger generation all of this front-page news I sponding to the threat of change, or to any per-

22 WINTER 2002
ceived threat, by becoming defensive and by acting Prayer together, several times a day. Benedictines
out old, entrenched, and largely unconscious be- have told me that while this practice doesn't work
havior patterns. This is ordinary human behavior, wonders, "It is good, when we're sitting in choir
to which none of us is immune. But the Bene- with those who have pissed us off, to be reminded
dictines had some handy tools for coping with that we are forgiven only as we forgive."
human evil, tools that I found were also available to For our own time, what may be most remarkable
me: the rule of St. Benedict, the Bible's Book of and useful about the enduring Benedictine tradi-
Psalms, and a sophisticated psychology of tempta- tion is its rejection of fundamentalism. It is a living
tion with roots in the desert monastic tradition. demonstrating that people can honor the
tradition,
The Rule of St. Benedict comes from 6th-centu- fundamentals of a 1,500-year-old way of life with-
ry Italy, a time and place at least as violent and un- out seeking to replicate the world of the 6th centu-
stable as our own; yet Benedict was unwavering in ry, or retreating into an imagined "golden past."
his faith that people could learn to live together Two vows unique to the Benedictine order reflect
peaceably, even though his communities included, the creative tension in which they are attempting to
as Benedictine monasteries do today, people with live: They take a vow of stability, promising to re-
strikingly different backgrounds, aptitudes, inter- main in one particular community all their lives,
ests, and theological and political persuasions. and also a vow of conversatio morum, which, loosely
Benedict suggested that to remove the thorns of translated, means "conversion of morals." In essence,
contention that spring up in daily, communal it means always remaining open to change, from
living, it was good for monks to pray the Lord's the inside out.
 At the center of monastic life are the Psalms — most vulnerable people in a society,
particularly the
community will recite the entire Psalter commu- we become enemies. What is most striking to me
nally over three or four weeks, and then start over about the monastic encounter with evil is the will-
again — and I've come to believe that immersion in ingness to acknowledge the evil thoughts that
the Psalms is the greatest tool Benedictines have in come, and not deny them. One sister put it in terms
their struggle with evil. It was the 4th-century of embracing evil, observing and engaging it as it
monk Athanasius who said that the psalms are a works its way through her thoughts. Not even re-
mirror to the person singing them. They reflect sisting, but simply being attentive to it, noting

human beings as we Every emotion is there, for

are. where the evil thought wants to go. Does it wallow
good or ill. What strikes modern Americans as in nursing past slights, swelling with resentment?
"negative" in the Psalms is often just a realistic por- Does it prompt her toward an act of revenge? Does
trayal of the evil that people perpetrate on one an- it turn into a desire for something she doesn't need?
other, massacres, economic oppression, betrayals. Or can she see a virtue hiding on its flipside and
The Psalms are like that difficult and priceless choose to act on that?
friend who won't lie to us about the wrong we do, The sister is practicing spiritual warfare, a tradi-

or the wrong that we harbor in our hearts. tion at least as old as the Christian monastic tradi-
The Psalms, as poems, allow the soul consider- tion. It employs a psychology of temptation that
able room for exploration; and, as one Benedictine bears little resemblance to what most of us learned
put it, God behaves in the Psalms in ways He is not in religious education about sin, because it comes
allowed to behave in systematic theology. Some from a time before there was a catalog of sins iden-
truths about human experience emerge: God may tified by the Church.
remain hidden, maddeningly absent or simply The concept of seven deadly sins evolved slowly,
asleep, but it is folly to put your trust in princes and originating in the temptations toward evil that the
rulers, or in material success. The great are an illu- early monks had experienced in themselves, which
—
sion take their breath, and they and their plans they eventually characterized as eight bad thoughts.
come to nothing. But by the time of my 1950s catechism classes in a
The Psalms look at human experience through Congregational church, this existential sense of sin
the lens of eternity, and I believe this may help ex- was lost to me, and the whole idea of sin seemed ab-
plain why so many Benedictine communities (and stract. It was easy to delude myself into thinking of

those of the Cistercians, Dominicans, Franciscans, sins as bad acts that I might succumb to one day but
and other orders whose daily prayer lives are could probably avoid. I could tell myself that if I did-
grounded in the psalms) were willing to hide Jews n't accumulate a lot of stuff, then I wasn't greedy. If
during the Holocaust. The Nazis and their sympa- I didn't "make out" with boys, lust wasn't a problem.
thizers may have had all the cards, all the temporal
power. But you believe what the Psalms teach
if

you, military and political power is not what mat- THE MONASTIC APPROACH to human evil is
ters in the long run. Justice matters more. Evil has entirely different, and much more interesting psy-
a considerable presence in the Psalms, but we hear chologically: It looks at temptations rather than
over and over that evil is its own reward: My enemy acts, at the bad thoughts that are always distracting
dug me, and fell in it himself. Malice re-
a pit for us, pulling us away from the present and what we
coils on the one who acts out of malice. are supposed to be doing. Temptations offer instead
Many Benedictines I spoke with talked about the a world of an indulgence in anxiety or de-
fantasy,
necessity of internalizing the enemies spoken of in sire. Have I ever been so struck with the fear of

the Psalms: When you come across an accusation being helpless that I became obsessed with the
"You love lies more than truth" or an image of — hoarding of goods? Then I have encountered the
"enemies pregnant with malice, who conceive evil bad thought of greed. Have I ever let a sexual fan-
and bring forth lies," you don't project it out on tasy take hold of me to such an extent that I ruined
other people but reflect on how these stark judg- a real relationship? Then I have encountered the
ments are true of you. The Psalms remind us that bad thought of lust. Have I ever lamented over a
we have enemies, people who will act in ways that lost time and place to the extent that my present
harm us. But they also remind us that if we wish condition has become abominable to me? Welcome
others ill, and act in ways that oppress other people, to the bad thought of despair. Have I ever started to

24 WINTER 2002
pray, and suddenly been overcome by the memory closest to us. We may become more capable of
of the wrong another person has done to me? It's making a good decision about our relationships.
the bad thought of anger laying siege. But it is remarkably easy to remain inattentive to
my book Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith,
In our thoughts, to lose ourselves in them, allowing
I opened my chapter on the words "good" and "evil" them to become desires, and then actions. When
by discussing the way people so often say, "I'm a evil has really taken us over, we can convince our-
good person." It's usually a preface to dumping on selves that what we are doing is worthwhile. Psalm
someone they consider bad. "I'm a good person, I 36 says it well: "Sin whispers to sinners in the
don't cheat on my wife. I don't attack the President depths of their hearts. . . They so flatter them-
.

(or) I do attack the President." "I'm a good person, selves in their minds that they know not their guilt.
I don't engage in homosexual acts (or) I don't en- In their mouths are mischief and deceit. All wisdom
gage in homophobia." The litany of self- righteous- is gone. They plot the defeat of goodness, as they
ness that pervades our culture says to me that for all lie in bed."
of our therapy and psychological sophistication, we
remain remarkably unreflective about ourselves
when it comes to our capacity for evil. But the I BELIEVE THAT ANY creative encounter with
monastic perspective lets no one off the hook. Try we not distance ourselves from it by
evil requires that

this old desert story on maybe substituting

for size, simply demonizing those who commit evil acts. In
the word "terrorist" for "murderer": Abba Poemen order to write about evil, a writer has to try to com-
said, "If a man has attained to that which the Apos- prehend from the inside out; to understand the
it,

tle speaks of
— 'to the pure all things are pure [Titus perpetrators and not necessarily sympathize with
1:15]' —he sees himself as less than all creatures." A them. But Americans seem to have a very difficult
brother replied, "How can I deem myself less than a time recognizing that there is a distinction between
murderer?" and the old man said, "When a man has understanding and sympathizing. Somehow we be-
really comprehended this saying, if he sees a man lieve that an attempt to inform ourselves about what
committing murder, he says, 'He has only commit- leads to evil is an attempt to explain it away. I believe
ted this one sin, but I commit sins every day.'" that just the opposite is and that when it comes
true,
How can I deem myself less than a terrorist? It's to coping with evil, ignorance is our worst enemy.
an offensive concept, but monasticism was never I'm going to conclude with a very brief poem on the
meant to be pleasing. I sense that when some peo- subject of goodness. In fact, it's called "Goodness":
ple think of evil —and especially of those who com-
mit evil acts — they truly believe that they stand Despite our good deeds,
apart from it; that they have nothing in common The chatter of our best intentions,
with evildoers. We pride ourselves that we are not our many kindnesses,
anything like the people who would do such things. God is at work
A perspective that I find much more useful in my in us, close

life, and my work, is that of a moral continuum, to the bone,

moving from thought to action. might harbor a
I past the sinews
bad thought — a typical one might be the casual no- of our virtues, to the marrow
tion that an adulterer toys with, thinking how con- we cannot feel,

venient it would be if the spouse were no longer the sudden, helpless tears
part of the picture. If I allow myself to move along when we know what we are,

the continuum, toward action, such a thought can and can go on.
lead to actual murder. More commonly, it leads the
adulterer to "eliminate" the spouse by acting as if Kathleen Noiris is the author of Dakota: A Spiritual
the husband or wife does not exist. Such a thought, Geography (1993); The Cloister Walk (1996);
however, properly attended and contended with,
to, Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith (1998); and,
can move us on the continuum, back into the realm most recently, The Virgin of Bennington (2001), an
of a good thought, a virtue. We might move from account of her clays as a young poet in New York City in
"how convenient if this person weren't in my life," the 1970s. The poem "'Goodness'' appears in
1

her collec-

to "my God, what am I thinking of!" to a reconsid- tion Journey (2001), published by the University of
eration of how we are shortchanging the people Pittsburgh Press.

BOS ION COLL] (.1 \l \(,\/l\l 25

 Demon EVIL
JOYCE CAROL OATES: To the Spanish it was the the very human roots of much of human suffering.
"French disease"; to the French it was the "Italian To me, evil isn't a theological concept. Its source
disease"; to the Germans it was the "Spanish dis- is not extraterrestrial or supernatural. Evil no more
ease." Elsewhere, though not in Great Britain, it exists beyond the reaches of our planet than do our
was the "British disease." More ingeniously, its ori- politics, our popular culture, the waxing and wan-

gins were sometimes believed to be the consequence ing of our world crises, and the storms that blow
of extraterrestrial forces, a malevolent conjunction ceaselessly over the rounded, grooved, and pocked
of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn in the night sky. face of our planet; it has no more currency than
The subject is syphilis, but we apply analogous such kindred concepts as good, beauty, ugliness,
reasoning to evil: In the most obvious of ways, we and justice. These speak and exclusively
to purely
ascribe to others the pathogens in ourselves. We human preoccupations, subject to continual change
gaze into the face of evil and give it a name not and modification and (sometimes) reversal. Evil is
ours, unaware that what we're gazing into is a mir- the mote in the Other's eye, a passing wink or twin-
ror, and that our instinct to attribute evil to ex- kle in our own, for which we protest that we are
traterrestrial origins is an oblique way of denying blameless —innocent.
 Elaine Pagels, in The Origin of Satan (1995), her to solemnly "renounce the devil and all his works"
examination of the origins of Satan in the New Tes- and to accept the principle of exorcism. Christian
tament and the subsequent demonizing of putative baptism seems to confirm the almost equal status of
enemies of Christendom through the centuries, Satan vis-a-vis God the Father: an astonishing ele-
noted that this form of Satan never appears in the vation of a minor folktale functionary to major sta-
Hebrew Bible or in mainstream Judaism; in the tus. It's as if a maverick congressman from an
Hebrew Bible a satan was an angel sent by God "for outlying district in Utah were suddenly granted al-

the specific purpose of blocking or obstructing most equal status with the President of the United
human activity." "The satan's presence in a story," States, and we thrilled to their televised debates,
Pagels wrote, helped "to account for unexpected Whose side are you on? being the hyperventilated
obstacles or reversals of fortune." Though Pagels media question.
didn't develop this functional aspect of the satan in
ancient religious narratives, the satan may well have
been a device akin to a second or third actor in a TO EXAMINE THE HISTORICAL origins of
play, or to the often ingenuous participants in the such cultural archetypes —or stereotypes— as God,
Socratic dialogues of Plato. In other words, the Satan, Good, and Evil is to demystify these con-
satan is a narrative device to allow for conflict, de- cepts, and to dismantle, or deconstruct, the primi-
bate, resolution, the restoration and reiteration of tive scaffoldings of superstition that have supported
beliefs and values. Edmund is a manipulative satan them. This is, of course, a rich, wildly extravagant
in King Lear, and Iago a diabolically inspired satan and imaginative aesthetic heritage, which we would
in Othello. not wish to banish, for all the cruel perversity of
As the role of the satan evolved, however, the certain of its impassioned visions.
concept was given a primitive, literal presence in
religious texts: not the satan but Satan emerges as a O'er many a frozen, many a fiery alp,

singular malevolent force in the New Testament. Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades
Whereas the ancient Greeks and Romans seem to of death,
have perceived their numerous gods as capricious A universe of death, which God by curse
projections of human desires, and rarely as wise or Created evil, for evil only good,
"moral," early Christians saw their singular God Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds,
(the Father) and their singular Savior (Jesus, the Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things,
Son of the Father) as purely moral, always wise and Abominable, inutterable, and worse
good, and never capricious. To account for the moral Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived,

chaos of nature, the allegorical figure of Satan was Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

invested with the power to tempt humankind, as in Milton, Paradise Lost

the crude cautionary tale of the Garden of Eden
a biblical version of Pandora's box and other pagan The potency of such visions is not lessened by
cautionary tales. the suggestion that their divine or diabolical di-
It's metaphor leaped to life, as in
as if a poetic mensions are purely projective fantasies of man-
comic-book magic: the satan becomes Satan be- kind. In fact, that such fantasies have the power to
comes an adversary of God so invested with wiles enthrall some of us, to impel us to extraordinary
and power that he is virtually a shadow God, an al- acts of selflessness (heroism, fanaticism, or martyr-
most equal opponent whose domain is pure evil, as dom, depending on one's perspective), suggests
God's domain is pure good. their ineffable and enduring nature.
In The Origin of Satan, as in her earlier, highly The wish to believe in extraterrestrial forces that
influential Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (1988) and condone, confirm, and meticulously guide and gov-
The Gnostic Gospels (1979), Pagels traced the fasci- ern our lives is, for some, stronger even than the
nating ways in which the ever evolving vision of wish to persevere in our own being (to use Spinoza's
Christianity's Satan has served "to confirm for haunting phrase). The power of such a wish was
Christians their own identification with God and to tragically dramatized for us in the suicide terrorist
demonize their opponents — first other Jews, then acts of September 1 1 and in similar acts of self-de-
pagans, and later dissident Christians called struction for political or religious causes in recent
heretics." In the 21st century, as in the earliest cen- times. Where we see terrorism and suicide, the per-
turies of Christianity, baptism requires the convert formers of such rites see martyrdom. Where we see

BOSTON COLITOI M\(,\/INF. 27

 evil, they see good. As in a nightmare, we who be- The United States is filled with terror from its

lieve ourselves good are perceived, apparently by north to its south and from its east to its west.
millions of Islamic believers, as evil. We, who imag- Praise be to God. . .

ine that God is on our side, are stunned to learn that

in our enemies' eyes we are of the devil; they are of They champion falsehood, support the butcher
God, and their war with us is no mere politically ex- against
pedient war, like every other, but a "holy war." the victim, the oppressor against the innocent child.
May God mete them the punishment they deserve.

These remarks, by Osama bin Laden, were

broadcast shortly after the terrorist destruction of
the World Trade Center on September 1 1
When we attribute instinctive beliefs to ex-
traterrestrial sources, and theological motives to
unconscious, biologically driven wishes for sur-
vival and self-aggrandizement, we are surely sus-
ceptible to such stunning dramatic reversals.

MOST OF US ARE PROBABLY more comfort-

able with the concept of evils than with Evil. Evils
are multiple and finite; Evil is an alarming singular-
ity suggesting that all evils spring from a primary
source, as in a theologically defined cosmos. Most
of us don't really believe that two polar forces,
Good and Evil, God and the Devil, are struggling
with each other for dominance by way of our va-
porous souls.

We do believe in the evils of poverty, illiteracy,

illness, political tyranny, sexism, and racism —and
that these evils are remediable. We believe that
some individual, wholly human political leaders
and self-ordained "holy men" (not so many
—
women one wonders why) behave out of self-in-
terest; they appeal to their credulous constituents
How like the vengeful mysticism of certain pas- in the name of good, even as they commit un-
sages of the Hebrew Bible and the Book of Reve- speakable evils against humankind.
lation of St. John the Divine are these impassioned But we don't believe that these people are in a
yet chilling "poetic" words: mystic communion with Evil or are in themselves
evil — any more than we can conceive of ourselves
Praise be to God and we beseech Him for help as evil, in any scenario whatsoever.
and forgiveness. We seek refuge with the Lord...
He whom God guides is rightly guided but he and co-founder of the Ontario
Poet, playwright, essayist,

whom God Review, Joyce Carol Oates is the author ofmore than 20
leaves to stray, for him will he find no protector novels. Them (1970) was the winner of the National

to lead him to the right way. Book Award. Blonde (2000), drawn from the life of
Marilyn Monroe, was nominated for a National Book
I witness that there is no God but God and Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Oates is a recipient of the
Mohammed PEN/Malamud Award for Lifetime Achievm,ent in the
is His slave and Prophet. God Almighty hit the Short Stoiy. Her most recent book, Beasts, appeared in
United States at its most vulnerable. He destroyed January. Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Professor in the
its greatest buildings. Praise be to God. Humanities at Princeton University.

28 WINTER 2002
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2001-2002

CLASSNOTES President
Christopher M. Flynn '80, Esq.

Vice President/ President- Elect

Hon. Charles M. Heffernan '66

Treasurer
Patricia McNabb Evans '74

Secretary
Christopher M. Doran, MD '68

Dear Boston College/Newton College Graduate: Past President

William J.
Cunningham '57

As the semester reaches midpoint, we at the Alumni Association are looking

Chair, Council of Past Presidents
ahead to your visit to campus. Reunion 2002 is right around the corner (May Hon. John P. Connor, Jr., Esq. '65 LAW '68
76-79 and May 31-June 2), and we hope to see you here. Be sure to refer to
our Web site (www.bc.edu/alumni) for up-to-the-minute news and updates Co-chairs, Nominating Committee

for your class gathering. More information is listed in Senior Associate Dennis "Razz" Berry, Esq. '70 LAW '73

Thomas Mahoney '74

Director Jack Moynihan's letter (pg. 31). On the topic of our Web site, be sure
J.

to read our feature stories on fellow classmates, and log in to the Online Directors

Community to stay connected. Robert J.

Brown '73

Janet Cavalen Cornelia '70

Morgan J.
Costello '66
Leadership and alumni involvement have always been,and continue to be,
Susan Power Gallagher NC '69
key in maintaining close ties between our office, the University, and all of Kathleen Donovan Goudie '56
you. No matter where you live, the importance of your voice is timely at Bonnie Gunlocke Graham NC '71

Boston College, especially now, as new representatives are selected to join the John J.
Lane '61

Joanne C. Locke LAW '87

alumni board of directors. Be sure to cast your vote when you receive your
CAS '98
Judy Lyons
ballot mid-March. Nancy Ann Marshall '96
Bryan McLaughlin '95
Floyd B. McCrory '77
Remember that we're always here to serve you. Feel free to email any of our
Daiqui Nguyen '98
staff, Alumni House, at (6iy) 552-4700 and someone
or call us directly at the
Melissa Quinn '02
will help you. We look forward to forging ahead with you into spring. Martin S. Ridge '67
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 Alumna Takes Flight: "Ride, Captain, Ride!"
an interview with Carole Danis Litten '76
by Tracy L. Strauss, BCAA Communications Assistant

Beverly and Salem, MA. When she made the said. "Since September n, the issue is

move to banking and Jacksonville, FL, she patience, and the need for a tremendous
was introduced to opportunities in the Navy. amount of it."
She signed up for the naval officer program Each flight assignment brings a new staff
and, January 1977, she returned to New
in on board. As Captain, Litten is responsible
England for officer candidate school in for briefing her crew on the flight logistics,
Newport, Rl. She was stationed for a year at weather patterns, security, catering, passen-
the Naval Facility Grand Turk, BWI, after com- ger medical problems, and even verifying for
pleting the program. passengers that their pets, traveling with the
Litten's career progressed further in San cargo, are okay.
Diego where she was selected as one of For Litten, the rules of flying have changed,
twelve women to attend a naval aviation pilot and continue to change every day: "It's a
program in 1979. growing process as we try to figure out what
After training, she was sent to her first works best."
Litten '76, USAirways Captain squadron in Patuxent River, MD, flying mis- Presently, flight crews, Litten explained, do
sions to and from Greenland, Iceland, not have the option of checking their bags,
"\A/ hen Carole Danis Litten '76 first envi-
sioned her career path, she never Norway, Scotland, England, Ireland, Spain, and "so any time we change aircraft, which
imagined how far life would take her. Neither the Canary Islands, Senegal, Africa, Rio de can be three or four times in a day, we have to
did this Boston College finance major realize Janeiro, Mexico, Tahiti, New Zealand, and the repeat the security process," she said. "We go
how many people she would take along for Philippines, among other places. through a great deal of scrutiny at security

the ride.
Three years later, Litten traveled back to checkpoints, where, along with our passen-

These days, Litten is a USAirways captain, NAS Whiting Field, FL, as an instructor pilot. gers, our belongings are searched.

flying passenger jets on both domestic and Said Ljtten: "Because of restrictions limiting Sometimes it can be difficult to have our per-
Caribbean routes. "I was told by a high school what and where female navy pilots fly, after sonal lives exposed in the professional

career counselor, 'You can't be a pilot ten years of instructing I left the active duty arena."

because there are no women pilots!'" she Navy." Litten subsequently was hired by Litten holds hope for the future of air trav-

said, "So focused on finance and business,

I
Piedmont Airlines, which merged with USAir, el. "People are coming back faster than ana-

which were my secondary interests, in col- and is now known as USAirways. lysts say," she said. "The news that public

lege."
confidence has taken a hit and that the num-
Boston College was
route to ber of travelers has significantly decreased
Litten's
"Since September 11, the has caused some of the airlines to exhibit a
transAtlantic. Her father served in the mili-
tary, and consequently, Litten was moved issue is patience, and the kneejerk reaction and to shut down. Many
around a lot during her childhood. During crew members are looking Such at furloughs.

most of her formative years, she lived in need for a tremendous news has taken on morale. But at the
its toll

London, attending private English schools. same time, the events have offered airlines
Litten's decision to enroll at Boston College
amount of it. the chance to clean up loose odds and ends,

was a personal one: at the time she graduat- to become more efficient."

ed from high school, her father, then serving Litten is currently working to try to facili-

in. the Navy, was stationed in Boston. "I first flew our international routes to tate and develop programs that will allow
Frankfurt, Munich, London, Paris, Rome and minorities to take a bigger role in USAirways.
Madrid," Litten said. "I was actually in Paris As past president of the International Society
overnight when Princess Diana was killed in of Women Airline Pilots, Litten has helped to
"BC was the best-sized the automobile accident." Litten's other provide scholarships for young women who
"claims-to-fame" include flying Margaret are training for airline positions.
campus for my personality Thatcher from Phoenix to Philadelphia right On a daily basis, Litten continues to pro-
after former President Nixon's funeral. her own journey, and those of others,
and for what I needed.
Litten did also continue to serve the
pel
in onward and upward.
Naval Reserves, retiring after almost twenty- She is the voice from the cockpit: "Let's
four years as a Navy Captain. make this a fun instead of a stressful trip.

"Boston, as a city, was very close in my Litten currently resides in Fort Myers, FL, Let's make it feel as much as it used to as we
mind to the life style I had grown accustomed with her husband, Scott, and her two step possibly can."
to in Europe," said Litten. With her children, Koriand Andy. Her typical "com-
decision to major in finance, Boston College, mute" consists of a transstate "jumpseating"
at the time placing third in that field, just to the USAirways base in Philadelphia. Flight

below Harvard University, was her top choice, assignments usually last between two and
and one she still values today, particularly four days.

with regard to its continued reputation for "My ideal scenario," Litten said, "would be
classroom interaction. an eight-hour flight to the Caribbean and then

"As a student," Litten said, "I enjoyed the back home every night, but actually, it's
doing something interesting?
were small. BC was the best-
fact that classes sometimes nice to have a twenty-six-hour lay-

sized campus for my personality and for what over, say, in Phoenix so that I can take advan-
I needed." tage of some of the great biking trails there." Contact tracy.strauss.i @ bc.edu
Upon graduation from Boston College, Flexibility is one of Litten's assets, particu-
for profile consideration.
Litten utilized her finance skills in her role as larly since the September n events.

an assistant manager with McDonald's in "Sky rage is not an issue any more," Litten

ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
 be available for those who are not interested
Maurice J. Downey in the downhill variety. (Sleigh rides are Joseph P. Keating
180 Main Street

28 Walpole, MA 02081
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reserved for older folks.) Speaking of
reunions,
the seventy-fifth.
we are looking for a chairman for
We need someone with a 36
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01760

family history of longevity who is a con-

firmed optimist. • We were happy to find Julie Burgoyne, wife of our late classmate Al,
Charles A. McCarthy that Dom Destefano, despite the loss of his died in late September. Julie was a graduate
2081 Beacon St. very beloved wife, Rita, last June, is carrying
of Regis College and was an accomplished

30 Waban,
(617)
MA
244-9025
02468 on bravely. His
this year
in early
famous tomato crop was
due to the unusually cold weather
summer, but he gave us his very
late
classical pianist. She and
our class luncheons and we enjoyed her
company very much. Please remember Julie
Al always were at

special recipe for fried green tomatoes. We and the Burgoyne family in your prayers. As
With deep regret, I must inform you of the don't have room for it here, but please call
you can see there is little if any in the way of
death of our classmate David Hockman of
him for it at (781) 545-2787. Seriously, he class news So if you have any
for this issue.
Cambridge and Scituate on August 31, 2001.
would love to hear from you. Bishop Boles news about yourself or the class drop me a
Dave was a fellow member of Freshman G,
spends his free time with his sister next line. • Shortly after these notes were writ-
the freshman class that won the public
door to Dom and the two have become ten, learned of the sudden death of Bishop
praise of Prof. John Norton. Dave started his
I

close friends. The Bishop gave a big party

"Larry" Riley. will have more info for the
I

career as a teacher in the Cambridge public

for Dom on his recent birthday. • Eli
next issue of the magazine.
schools and also filled the posts of principal
Darveau and his wife, Doris, are adjusting
and superintendent. In World War II, Dave
nicely to their move from Madison, ME, to Thomas E. Caquin
served in the Air Force. When he died, Dave
Milton, where they are near their daughter
was a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force 206 Corey St.
Susan. One thing for which we have never
MA
Reserves. May he rest in peace.

Walter M. Drohan
given the Darveaus the credit they deserve
the fact that they did not allow distance to
is
37 West Roxbury,
(617) 325-2883
02132

keep them from sending their three chil-

85 Nelson St.
dren, Richard, Susan, and Peter to Boston

32 Winchester,
(781) 729-2899
MA 01890 College. • We checked on Milt Bornstein and
Anne and found them well. When asked for
We are sorry to report the death of class-
mate Arthur Ciampa, who passed away on
September 5. Arthur's daughter, Millie
news, he announced that he had just closed Ciampa McCarthy '78, wrote in with the
his law office. This will give him more time
news. After graduating from BC, Arthur went
Here we are, all fifteen of us left from the
for the good works he does. • We talked to
who on to graduate school where he earned his
original 165 classmates traveled up
Dick Vaughn and Mary down in Hingham. MSW
Commonwealth Avenue to begin the higher
in 1939, the second graduating class
They have had their medical problems, but of the BC School of Social Work. He then
education study of the liberal arts Radio
they are happily situated after a lifetime of
Studorum, strictly of the Jesuit indoctrina-
worked for the Red Cross, the Veteran's
faraway places like HI and Wl. Dick's con- Administration, and was executive director
tion that led to the Ever to Excel motto of
suming interest and concern is in the grow- of United Cerebral Palsy of the South Shore
the University. This 2002, being the jubilee
ing problems of the church, including the
year for us, will probably find each of us
Area, Inc., from 1958-1992, before he retired.
secularization of our Catholic colleges. •

toasting the present, past, and future, and

During his career, Arthur was a true commu-
Eddie O'Brien, from Dorchester, says that he
nity activist, serving on at least thirty boards
jubilating at home. One event that will be
has had all the ailments in the book but is
and organizations dedicated to improving
remembered is the football game played on
still able to live alone. He takes turns cook-
the lives of elders and disabled children. He
November 10, when we completely out-
ing dinner with his bachelor son James '72,
played Miami, who, before that game, was
was an annual contributor to BC and loved
who lives two doors away. James, incidental- his alma mater. Widowed in 2000, he leaves
ranked number one on top of the hill, and
ly, was a track star who won many meets for
who could never get into the end zone rush- his daughter and one granddaughter.
Boston College, running in the dashes, the Condolences to the family. • Believe it or
ing the ball.
quarter mile, and the relay. • We caught up not, it has been sixty-five years since our
with Bob Huddy who has been a faithful
graduation! A mass be celebrated on
William M. Hogan,Jr. will
attendant through the years at the Laetare followed by a luncheon. This
Brookhaven, A-305 June 1, will be
gathering, but has been hard to reach. At
Lexington, MA 02421 shared with members of the classes of 1942

33 (781) 863-8359
our request, he sent us the highlights of his
life and career since graduation. It is an
and 1947. Watch
your mailboxes
for further information in
later this spring.
unusual account of an important business
career and the pursuit of a very unusual William D. Finan
Herbert A. Kenny hobby. He is, without question, the most 1202 Creendale Avenue
Summer

34
894
Manchester,
(978). 526-1446
MA
St.

01944
active member of our class. We will feature
him in our next edition. • Dan Holland and
Walter Sullivan were the guests of the Shaw
38 Unit #134
Needham, MA 02492

Society at a brunch on Sunday, October 28.

Mona Holland and Marie Cox, Walter's
daughter, were included. Heavy nostalgia John D. Donovan
Edward T. Sullivan was the order of the day when the group 12 Wessonville Way
2082 Oyster Harbor walked into room 101 of the Tower building Westborough, MA

35
Osterville,

(617) 698-0080
MA 02655 as a gathering place. Finally, Dan Holland
reports the one casualty in our ranks: "I
39 donovanj@bc.edu
01581

came across the death notice of Fr. Clarence

Boucher, a loyal classmate, ever ready to These notes are being written on December
We are making plans for our seventieth
support our class activities." He was the 2001, but you won't be reading them until
reunion at some comfortable inn in NH or
retired pastor of St. Ann's Church in Salem,
1,

VT in January 2005. Cross-country skiing will

March 2002. This time lag means that our
well-revered by his parishioners.

www.bc.edu/alumni
news is usually dated but is still worth read-
ing. Of course it usually lacks the exciting Sherman Rogan Ernest J. Handy
updates found the notes of our younger 24 Oak Street 84 Walpole Street Unit 4-M

40
in

alumni classes, e.g.,

jobs, promotions, relocations, etc.

prisingly,, numbers and age make
marriages, births,
Not
new

for differ-
sur-
Reading, MA 01867
loganrealty@mediaone.net 42 Canton, MA 02021
(781) 821-4576

ences. Ergo, once again we have little to

Our hearts and prayers go out to the twen-
report but the good news is that we are still
John M. Callahan ty-one members of the alumni, the parents
hanging in there. Indeed, the only death of a
3 Preacher Rd. of the three current students, and the thirty-
classmate to report
Tom, an Arlington
is that of Tom Ahern.
native and an active
between 1933 and 1939,
football player
BC 4i Milton, 02186
(617) 698-2082
MA eight relatives of
College
members of the Boston
community who lost their lives dur-
ing the terrible attack on September 11,
passed away recently after a long and much
2001. May they rest in peace. • Sincere con-
decorated career as a Marine Air Force Proceeding down memory lane, Fred Jaquith
Quinn on
gratulations to Beatrice and Bill
colonel. Our sympathy is extended and our provided President Nick Sottile with a
the celebration of their golden wedding
prayers offered for him, his wife, and chil- Boston Globe article and photograph dated
anniversary. You may recall this was men-
dren. He and all members
other deceased June 29, 1945, of Fr. Ed Cowhig, Fr. George
tioned in the last issue. Unfortunately, I still
of the class of 1939 were remembered at Kerr, and Fr. Joe Maguire at their ordination
do not have the exact date. Congratulations
our October memorial Mass and at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston.
also to Grace and Bob Sneddon who will
luncheon. Fr. Bill Mclnnes, our alumni chap- Picture now the memories of that time and
celebrate their fifty years together in April. I

lain, celebrated this Mass attended by the the subsequent loyal and dedicated service
hope to embellish on this in the next issue.
following prayerful classmates and family these wonderful priests along with other
• More congratulations. This time to Marie

members: Herb and Cheryl Chernack, classmates ordained at the same time ren-
and Frank Dever. Theirs was a double cele-
Eleanor Doherty, Ann Donovan, John and dered to God, country, and mankind. May
bration, their fifty-seventh wedding anniver-
Mary Donovan, Nelson Erickson, Larry God bless them always. • On October 19,
sary on September 23, 2001, and Marie's
Fitzgerald, Paul and Florence Keane, Peter 2001, at a luncheon at BC's Conte Forum,
birthday on September 24. • Finally, congrat-
Kerr, John and Elaine Lynch, Cina McCarthy, theBC Gridiron Club honored classmate ulations also to Connie Pappas-Jameson
Jim McCrath, Fred Molloy, Arthur Morrison, Gene Goodreault on his selection to the BC who was honored as the "2001 Boston Latin
Charlie and Natalie Murphy, Ed Quinn, and Hall of Fame. His jersey will be retired, a jer-
School Distinguished Graduate" at a cere-
Arthur and Mary Sullivan. Our Prexy, John sey he wore so capably and proudly in his
mony held November 20, 2001, at the grand
Lynch, presided over a business meeting outstanding athletic achievements and his
ballroom of the Fairmount Plaza Hotel.
but no big issues were confronted. We may subsequent selection to All-American status
Please note that in each case the congratu-
be somewhat aged but we are still solvent by the press media. Congrats to Gene from
lations were most sincere. • My sincere
and hopeful that continued good health and all of us for his greatness, modesty and
THANKS to the many classmates who sent
good luck will find an even larger atten- humility. He is an All-American in every
me get well cards during my brief hospital-
dance at our memorial Mass next fall. • aspect of his life. In attendance at the above
ization at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center last
We'd love to hear from you! Peace! Wait a were classmates: Jim Murray, John Jansen,
September. While on the subject of thanks I

minute, thought that was finished but Nick Sottile, Roy Upham, Fr. Ed Cowhig, Joe
cannot forget John Fitzgerald and his regu-
I I

hold the press! Our prayers for news have Zabilski, George McManama, and Jack
lar news contributions. John could be, per-
been answered with some really great news. Callahan. Others scheduled but who could-
haps should be, listed as co-author of this
A thoughtful and welcomed letter from Fr. n't Bob
attend were Ernie Blaustein,
column. On September 9, 2001, my
Russell Cuaracello informs us that on Gallagher and Joe Bishop. The Veteran's •
youngest daughter, Joanne, LSOE grad, pre-
October 24, he, Fr. Philip McConville, and Remembrance Day Mass was celebrated on sented me with another granddaughter,
Fr. Joseph McNulty (all class of 1939) had October 20, 2001, at St. Ignatius. It was a
Mary Faith. She weighed in at seven
the joy of concelebrating a Mass at Our most memorable and rewarding ceremony pounds, seven ounces and was nineteen
Lady of the Assumption Church in as a tribute to Boston College's deceased
and three-quarters of an inch long.
Marshfield. Why? It celebrated the fifty- veterans. To see the name of my own broth- Hopefully Boston College is in her future. •

eighth year anniversary of their ordination in er, Ed Callahan '35, who gave his life in
Incidentally we (the class) are celebrating
October 1943. Think of it. These classmates France, brought back many great memories
our sixtieth anniversary as BC graduates.
have spent fifty-eight years of loving service and moments of great sadness to our fami-
Notices of the events planned by the
as priests in the Archdiocese of Boston, ly. May we never forget any of them as they
Alumni Association have either been
priests who have been both disciples of rest peacefully and eternally with God.
received or will be received in the very near
Christ and our intermediaries. Our congrat- Please also remember the recent deaths of
expected that the class will, as
future. It is

ulations, our thanks, our prayers, and our Charles Polcari who started with us and Fr.
usual, be well represented at each event. •

best wishes are with you and for you. Let's Joe Galvin. Also a communication from
Jim Stanton, Terry Geoghegan, our newly
hope now for more good news! Peace. Priscilla Vaughan, widow of Joe Vaughan,
appointed class treasurer replacing the late
was received and wanting to be remem- met
but not forgotten Jim Cahalane, and I

bered to the class. • Len Frisoli called from

with an Alumni Association representative
Pops on the Heights 2002 Florida to say hello to his classmates. • Nick
to discuss the class's reunion schedule. It

Sottile also advised that the 1941 Sugar

was a well-conducted and most interesting
iotn Anniversary Bowl trophy has been refurbished and is on
meeting. We unanimously agreed that the
display at Conte Forum. Again, my greetings
we would sponsor sepa-
September 27, 2002 to all and may God keep us together for
only activity that
rately, yet in conjunction with other alumni
Tickets on sale now many more occasions. AMDG. would be our annual memorial
activities,

Mass to be held June l, 2002. Get ready for

anniversary time. The Mass will be celebrat-
Call 1-800-767-5591 ed, followed by a luncheon. This will be

for more information. shared with members of the classes of 1937

and 1947. Watch for further information in
your mailboxes later this spring. • Also, your

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 prayers are requested in memory of Terry one of its
After a long illness, the class lost that memorable picture of your correspon-
Geoghegan's brother, Thomas, who died on most loyal sons: Robert Bucky Harris died dent at the fiftieth reunion; sometimes it

October 29, 2001. Kindly remember Bob on June 26, 2001. The alphabet gave us seems like only yesterday. A recent note
Maher, who passed on December 2. He too seats next to each other in most of our from Fr. Tom Heath tells us he's still teach-
will be remembered at our memorial Mass social science classes. We became close. ing at theDominican Seminary in Kenya and
in June. • News passed along from Steve His early departure for the military, in our praying for all the victims of September n. A
Barry '56, on the passing of his sister, senior year, left a major void in the varsity final note: mark your calendars now for

Frances (Barry) Curry, widow of classmate baseball team. In 1947, one year after his October 6, 2002, when we again will spon-
Arthur L. Curry. She leaves five daughters, return to civilian life, Polly said "yes" and sor our Fall Festival. Details to come; please
several grandchildren, and one great-grand- they were joined in holy matrimony. Bucky, a plan to attend. Finally as we close, please
child. • The first Boston College Veterans hockey season ticket holder for over thirty keep in touch.
Remembrance Day observance, held before years, often was accompanied by one of his
and during the BC-Pittsburgh football game five grandchildren. The class extends sincere Jim (James) O'Donnell
on October 20, 2001, was excellently man- sympathies to his widow, their two daugh- 3377 Newark Street
aged jointly by the Boston College Alumni
Association and the ROTC. The events con-
sisted of a Mass, celebrated by Alumni
ters, and his five grandchildren. He will be

remembered at our memorial mass next

June. Ever to excel.
44 Washington, DC 20008
odonnellbc@aol.com

Chaplain William C. Mclnnes, SJ, followed Facing another deadline for '44 classnotes,
by a delicious and complete pre-game cook- Thomas O'C. Murray your correspondent anxiously awaits a few
out at the RecPlex patio, and was a bit too 14 Churchill Road reports from and about classmates.
many of us W. Roxbury, MA Meanwhile some personal
long for
Nevertheless the class was well represented
by Frank Mahoney,
older graduates.

who with his wife, Rita,

43 (617) 323-3737
02132-3402
Another successful season for BC Golden
-Eagles on the gridiron, under inspirational
reflections:

go dancing most every Saturday night,

still leadership of Coach Tom O'Brien, reminds
Tom Flanagan, Mary Muse- (Bob, for good Once again we must begin with condo- your correspondent of the 1941 season
reason, could not attend), and yours truly. lences, first to the family of Joe Timpany coached by Denny Aleyers. My date for the
Lest I forget, the invitation included two who died October 31. Joe was a USAF pilot BC vs. HC game at Fenway on November
complimentary tickets to the football game. in the Pacific area, a member of the '43 28, 1941, was Jeanne Conners, an under-
• On October 25, 2001, the University's group to Bermuda in '67, and owner of the graduate at Jackson/Tufts. The epic loss to
Globalization and Inequality Series second Eastern Elevator Co. Condolences also to John Grigas and his Holy Cross teammates
year was inaugurated with a talk by Bob Bernie Henken on the death of his wife, resulted happily in cancellation of BC's
Drinan on "Globalization and Human Charlotte, on September 10. The class had a planned "Victory Party" at the Coconut
Rights." Bob, former Boston College Law very good showing at the annual Fall Festival Grove. Who can forget the game and/or the
School dean, has been a featured speaker with a memorial Mass on October 7 in Coconut Grove Fire? A few years later
throughout the United States, England, and Trinity Chapel, followed by a reception in Jeanne would complain that some BC
South Africa. • As you read this: I expect to Barat House. In the absence of our long undergrads, who transferred to Tufts in the
have been wallowing in the warm water of time celebrant Fr. Bill Commane, sidelined Navy's V-i2 Program, kept her dormmates
the Gulf of Mexico; puttering around on the with some hip problems, the Mass was said awake on weekend nights with spirited
extra green golf courses in Naples, FL, with by Fr. Ed Cillis. Fr. Ed left us early for the singing of "For Boston." Fast forward to
Jim Stanton and Frank Colpoys, enjoying priesthood and later became a Navy chap- 1994, when our class gathered at Tufts for
comfortable temperatures both day and lain, retiring as a commander. Many thanks their Golden Jumbo Reunion. These two
night, and, with my wife, frequently socializ- to Tom Manning for his kind assistance at crosstown (Medford/Newton) reunions revi-
ing with Helen and Jim Stanton, Agnes and this Mass. Long distance attendance prize talized friendships among students between
Frank Colpoys, Winifred and Bob Troy, goes to Ellie and Bob Casey up from MD, both campuses. Jeanne (Connors)
Louise and Jack Hart, whom beat regularly I edging out Carol Sue and Bob Donelan from O'Donnell and Jim, married fifty years on
at golf, and Dorothy McDonald. Incidentally, western MA. About fifty classmates and December 7, 2001, are not unique in sharing
you are welcome. Wish you were here.
all wives and a made for a good
few widows memories of two once small colleges, which
Maybe next year. Thanks to Chris and Kim showing and our thanks to all who made a in the second half of the twentieth century
Heaslip, the BC Club of Southwestern donation for this event. • Notes from all expanded their campuses and academic
Florida activities are well planned. over: Ernie Santosuosso tells us that he had programs into national prominence. • Now
Individually and jointly Chris and Kim make a mini-reunion with Charlie Toole and Harry that '44 classmates have again heard a per-
everyone feel comfortable and most wel- Lukachik at the Sugar Bowl veterans gather- sonal note from this quarter, it is time to
come. Because of their efforts, BC is very ing at half time at the Pitt game on October hear back from you, so this column can
well represented in the annual Naples St. 20. In the same vane, on October 4, the share your comment on "Sixty Years Since
Day parade. The club's monthly
Patrick's Gridiron Club of Greater Boston honored Pearl Harbor": your thoughts on Japanese
meetings and the traditional corned beef our old "45," Mike Holovak, as its man of destroyers departing Sasebo for the Indian
and cabbage luncheon are both well attend- the year in ceremonies at the Diplomat in Ocean in November to join up with US and
ed. My Helen and I enjoy being participants Saugus. And speaking of honors, we just British fleets to combat a common enemy,
at most of the affairs during our short stay learned that Harry Lukachik was honored your thoughts on a United Republic of
in Naples. We are indeed also very fortunate with the Citizens Award by the Stradford, CT, Germany in the same month committing to
in being invited to the social event of the Oldtimers AA a couple of years ago. Also send 3,000 ground troops to join up with
season, i.e., the annual reception in honor Harry is a popular columnist at the US military against a common terrorist

of Fr. Leahy sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Connecticut Post, writing a column titled enemy, your thoughts on surviving to live

Thomas Vanderslice at the exclusive Royal "Your Voice." Word comes from John Raferty into this new century. How about the chal-
Ponciana Country Club. How time flies. I in Winter Park, FL, that on a hot and humid lenge of those organizing a stable post-war
know that soon we will leave this all behind day in August, he made his first hole-in-one, government in Afghanistan? Can you recall
as we head for, be it ever so humble, the after playing golf for more than sixty years. the ASTP Program on the Chestnut Hill
peace, quiet, and tranquility of home sweet Recently, John Logue called from MN, Campus in the mid-1940's, preparing bright
home. Hope to see you at our annual inquiring about all classmates, and only Army personnel for engineering/technical
memorial Mass on, repeat, June 1, 2002. I wished he could have made the ND game. assignments, as well as for administrative
Ever to excel. Many thanks extended to Fran Foynes for services for days of peace in a post-WWII

6 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
era? (The 1944 Sub Turri features photos brunch honoring the members of the Charlie Burns is a retired school principal,
and a story account of ASTP at BC planning Joseph Coolidge Shaw Society in Gasson living in Keene, NH. • Paul Cummings has
for peace as well as war.) Among class of Hall. It was good to see for the first time had a career as a professor at Los Angeles
'44 are several who served in the successful since their spouses' deaths Mary Louise City College, residing in Sherman Oaks. •

occupation and rehabilitation of Japan, Seaver and Kay Campbell. Charlie Early sur- Word has been received of the death of
Germany, and with the miracle of the prised us with his wife, Marie, recovering Rolland Doherty on April 1, 2001. He was a
Marshall Plan for Europe. Share your report from a stroke. Dave and Clair Herr, Jack and teacher in the Boston School System. •

on '44 classmates involved in ILR classes Mary Lou McCarthy, Joe and Mary Figurito, Drop us a line so we can communicate up-
with Msgr. Joe Alves on BC's Newton and Joe Harrington also enjoyed the brunch. to-date information.
Campus, or in other lifetime learning pro- Following the reception we had a lecture on
grams, including As deadline
golf, etc. the history of the Borghese Gallery in Rome. Timothy C. Buckley
approaches for notes, responses from class- The next event was Veterans Day at BC, 46 Woodridge Road
mates to the
ing a
last issue are arriving, includ-

welcome note from John

CDR, USN (Ret.)of Virginia Beach. John
A. Delaney,
left
sponsored by the Alumni Association and
the army reserve officer training corps. We
had Mass at St. Ignatius Church with Fr.
48 Wayland,
pacema@pacetemps. com
MA 01778

BC in September 1943 to begin a distin- William Mclnnes presiding. It was a very

guished naval career in the Pacific Theater, spiritual and emotional event with the post- The class of 1948 celebrated its annual
USS Wisconsin and later as
serving on ing of colors by the color guard and the Mass for the deceased members of the
Commander Service Force US Pacific, singing of "America the Beautiful." The class on October io, 2001, at Trinity Chapel
awarded the Silver Star, Phillipine Liberation names of the alumni who gave their lives in on the Newton Campus of Boston College,
Medal and more. In a time of John's illness, World War I, II, Korea, and Vietnam were followed by a luncheon at Alumni House.
our prayers are with our classmate, and his read by Michael Ryan, associate dean. Mass was concelebrated by Frs. Loscocco,
family. • We sign off, awaiting reports Following the reading, taps was played. The Flynn, and Costello. Jim Costello was the
and/or corrections from '44 classmates. closing song was "God Bless America." A soloist, and Bill Noonan and Bill Melville

very touching ceremony. Following theMass were the Lectors. Among those in atten-
Louis V. Sorgi we had a cookout on the RecPlex. Tom and dance were John M. Corcoran, Jim Costello,
5 Augusta Road Mary Maran made it all the way from TX. Michael DeCesare, Alfred DeVito, Frank
Milton, MA 02186 John Larivee and Doug MacGillvery came
45 hssr@aol.com down from Danvers, and Tom and
Loft us from Nahant. The Careys and Ryders
Clair
Donelan, Robert Evoy, Eve Herbert, Kay
Hart, Marie Morin, Eileen Nee,
Nash, Joan O'Neill, William O'Meara,
Eugene

The sympathy of the class is extended to Bill came up from the Cape as did Jack and Thomas Phair, George Savage, Paul Ryan,
Hamrock on the death of his sister, Connie Kineavy. The Hamrocks also showed Paul Riordan, Bernard Travers, Paul Waters,
Katherine, on November 3, 2001. She was up from NH. Of course the day ended with and Paul Wilkos. • Three of our classmates
personnel administrator at the US Navy a victory for BC over Pittsburgh. This was a are recovering from recent illnesses: Bill

department. We also extend our sympathy very good program, one that I hope will be Melville, Frank Perry, Noonan. Bill and Bill

to the family of Jeffrey J.

Bowe, III, son of an annual event. • On the medical front, Noonan recently underwent open heart sur-
our classmate Jeffrey Bowe of Melrose. •
J.
Charlie Early had a bad fall and fractured his gery. • We are sad to announce the death of

We had our last "legends" golf game of the left wrist. Other than that he is okay. All the John E. Corcoran. • Gene and Barbara Nash
year at Oyster Harbor Golf Course, hosted rest of the wounded are making good toured the Canadian Rocky Mountains in
by Paul Ryder. It was a beautiful day and we progress. September. • Alfred and Eileen DeVito cele-
had a great tournament. Ed Burns played brated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in
with us after his operation on both knees, Leo F. Roche, Esq. Lucia, Italy. • Paul Ryan has five children -
J.

jack Harvey, our champion golfer joined us 26 Sargent Road the two oldest boys are BC graduates and
as did Bill Corbitt. Our standbys were there:
Leo McGrath, Jack McCarthy, Dave Carey
and his cane, Dennis Condon, Bill Cornyn,
46 Winchester,
(781) 729-2340
MA 01890 his only daughter
ME.
arrival
• Irene and Bill
is

of their sixteenth grandchild.

a doctor in

Melville are awaiting the

Portland,

His
Joe Devlin, Bud Curry, Jack Kineavy, and Bill daughter is the forty-third member of the
Hamrock. Paul as usual was a very gracious family to attend BC. She was the former
and organized host. We had a wonderful Richard J. Fitzgerald director of the BC law school fund. •
two days in North Conway, NH. Jack P.O. Box 171 Suzanne and Timothy Buckley had dinner
Conway Golf MA
Kineavy arranged golf at North
Course and the
many discount
women shopped
stores in the area. In the
at the
47 North Falmouth,
(508) 563-6168
02556 with Fr.

lives at

for Boston
John Flynn
Regina Cleri,

priests.
in the North End.
the retirement
He gave a tour of the
home
Father

evening, Jack and Connie Kineavy had a facility and played his technics keyboard.
lovely cocktail party in their condo at the top Get ready for anniversary time. A Mass will Father is recovering from several medical
of the mountain. Connie had prepared be celebrated on June 1 followed by a lunch- problems. Please keep him in your prayers.
stuffed quahoags and some delicious dips. eon. This will be shared with members of • Jim Ward provided a recent update of his
Jack and Mary Lou McCarthy made the trip the classes of 1942 and 1937. Watch for fur- activities. After college he worked with Bill

as did Paul and Louise Ryder, Eve and Dave ther information in your mailboxes later this Noonan at Burroughs Corporation. He and
Carey, Bill Cornyn, Barbara Tracy, and spring. • Fr. Mark Carr makes such frequent his wife Audrey, a British Bride of 1945, cele-
Audrey Keenan. The last night we had a trips to Ireland that he is able to breeze brated their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary
great dinner at White Mountain Inn in through immigration as the holder of an by returning to England to visit relatives.

North Conway. All in all it was a wonderful Irish passport. James Knox can be
• Fr. They have three children and four grandchil-
two days and we thank Jack and Connie found by vacationers in the Cape Elizabeth dren. Audrey suffered a stroke in 1999 with
Kineavy for arranging and hosting the affair. area in ME, and is associated at St. full recovery. Jim also went through open

The one sad note was that this happened Maximilian at Scarborough. • In the catego- heart surgery. He wants to say hello to fel-

on September 11 - that day of infamy. ry of "where are they now, no direct corre- low classmates Tom Spencer, Mike
Fortunately none of our classmates were spondence, but last we heard," Paul Malloy DeCesare, Bill Noonan, Bill Melville, Bill
involved as far as I know. God bless is retired from Exxon, living in Egg Harbor Palladino, and Cornelius Sullivan and offers

America. • On September 28 we went to a

Township, NJ. • Dick Gibbons has been prayers for his deceased classmates Tom
making his home in Haines City, FL. • Carroll, Joe Herbert, Frank Crosby, and

www.bc.edu/alumni J
 Charlie McCready. • Paul Riordan has not is well. His hip has mended. Great hip we shall miss him. Join me in assuring Mary
been on our mailing list since our fiftieth. bad game! Lou of our prayers for John, for her, their
He called and from now on will be included. son, and two daughters. We extend our sym-
John A. Dewire pathy and prayers to Barbara Gould Henry
William H. Flaherty, Jr. 15 Chester Street, #37 '53 on the death of her son, Courtney, 32, in
44 Concord Road
MA 50 Cambridge, MA 02140 August. Courtney graduated from Roxbury

49 Billerica,

(978) 670-1449
01821 (617) 876-1461 Latin, Harvard College, magna
and received
Syracuse. He
a

is
master's degree from
survived by his parents and
cum laude,

The following classmates attended the post- two brothers. • We attended a spectacular
It was in the middle of the parking lot just
game reception on October 20, 2001, after seventieth birthday party for Sarah Lee

outside the football stadium several the BC vs. Pittsburgh football game: Louis Whelan McSweeney '53 at the Quincy Bay
Saturdays back where Joe Quinn informed H. Arbeene, Edward Brady, Richard F. Marina in October. She was completely sur-
me of the passing of Jim Fitzgerald, a leg-
Burke, Frank Carr, John B. Casey, Joseph F. prised by the event, which her four children

end of the class of 1949. He was a member Casey, Gerald M. Coakley, James P. organized so beautifully. The weather was
of our National Collegiate Hockey Connelly, John A. Dewire, Francis M. Doran, gorgeous. We were treated to a sunset
Championship Team (along with Joe him- Brendan Fleming, Robert M. Gleason, across Boston Harbor. • I have the exquisite
self). That team, the only one we had until
Dorothy Harwood, Robert P. Heavey, joy of announcing the birth of our first

last season, defeated Dartmouth 4-3. Jim

William Horrigan, William C. Logue, Rose grandchild, Eliza Fulton Cote. She is the

had a special place in the Class of 1949.

Marie Murphy, Robert O'Connell, George T. daughter of Tin and Mark Cote of Hot
Married to Barbara Casey, Jim had four chil- Padula, Edward P. O'Connor, Edward M. Springs, VA, where I will go as often as I

dren and several grandchildren. He was one Quincy, John D. Sullivan, Alfred J.
Tighe, Jr., possibly can. Send news!

of the founders of the Pike's Peak Club of and William P. Toland. • Patrick F.

BC. Education was his chosen field and he McDonough passed away on June 20, 2001, Robert L Sullivan
worked in the Cambridge School at the Spear Hospital in Plymouth, NH. He 78 Phillips Brook Road
immigrated to the United States with his Westwood, MA 02090
Department for thirty-nine years as a math
teacher and assistant principal, retiring in family from Gonnemarr, Ireland, in 1928. He 51 (781) 126-^980
1989. Jim coached freshman hockey at BC
graduated from Boston English High School

for his beloved Coach "Snooks" Kelly for in 1942. Mr McDonough graduated from
two years before becoming the varsity hock- Boston University Law School in 1955. Pat I don't know whether you noticed that our

ey coach at Cambridge Latin. Jim never was elected to the nine-member Boston City classmate Robert Alence received the 2001
missed a BC hockey game. He was a mem- Council in 1955, as well. In 1963, he ran for Alumni Achievement Award for Religion.
ber of the board of directors of the Pike's mayor of Boston and he was defeated in his Congratulations Bob Also it should be !

Peak Hockey Club. Along with Bernie Burke attempt to oust Mayor John Collins. He noted that Daniel Kearns is the chair of

'50-and Ed "Butch" Songin '50, Jim is in the returned to the City Council in 1965 and urban development and leadership in the

BC Fame. Jim was quoted as saying

Hall of served six additional terms. As a member of Lynch School of Education named for him. I

the championship game was so clean he the Boston City Council, Mr. McDonough received a note from John F. Holland, hav-

never got checked even once in the whole worked alongside Boston mayors-to-be ing mentioned the other John Holland in an

tournament. Well, Jim has received his last Collins and Ray Flynn. He was Boston City earlier issue. John F. is alive and well,

turn on the ice and we will miss him. Our Council president in 1958, 1961, 1973, and retired and traveling, and still living in

deepest sorrows to Barbara and his family. • 1981. Mr. McDonough's political career on GA, where he's been since 1978. Al
Atlanta,

In perusing BC's Annual Report of 2001, I

the Council spanned the John Hynes admin- Freedman dropped a nice note to Jack Casey
find that BC placed thirty-eighth in the US istration through the Kevin White and spoke of attending the service that Fr.
News and World Report's annual ranking of administration. His career also paralleled Leahy presided over for the relatives and

228 national universities. A total of 3,384 the transformation of the old Boston with friends of the BC victims of the September

bachelor's and graduate degrees were con- the construction of the new Boston skyline II tragedy. • We've lost some more class-

ferred at the University's 125th commence- and the redevelopment of Faneuil Hall.He mates since our last report. Notable among
ment exercises. The University received served as assistant city clerk in 1991. He them was Dr. Thomas Durant. Tom, a physi-

19,059 applications for 2,200 places in the

retired in 1995. He is survived by his wife cian and assistant director of the

class of 2005 and eighty-three percent of Mary, two daughters and five sons, and sev- Massachusetts General Hospital, devoted
those admitted had combined SAT scores of enteen grandchildren. • Robert J.
Frazer much of his life to easing the misery of

1,200 or higher, the highest percentage in

died in January 2000. Paul A. Gillis passed tens of thousands of sick and dying

University history. While I am delighted with away in May 2001. Louis A. Maggio died refugees in squalid, disease-infested camps
the success, why do I have the feeling that on April 25, 2001. Lawrence E. Spellman, at trouble spots on four continents. There's
Esq., died at his home in Bow, NH, on June a magnificent obituary of Tom Durant in the
the University is passing me by? Maybe the
feeling is mine alone. All those buildings, all 29, 2000. He was an owner of Ransmeier October 31, 2001, edition of the Boston
those students. Our class was the first to and Spellman Professional Corporation of Globe that you can access on the Internet at

raise over a million dollars for its gift for the Concord, NH. Al DeCastro passed away in bostonglobe.com. Daniel R. Shaughnessy,

fiftieth anniversary gift. The money now August of 2001. To the families of these an accounting major with me, passed away

raised is so far above that figure. • classmates, the class extends our deepest on October 28, 2001. Dan had an extensive
sympathy. career starting with Montgomery Ward and
Witnessed the victory over Notre Dame sit-

ting with John and Mary Hickey. Just then moving to executive vice president and

returned from the BC/Syracuse game. Nice

Ann Fulton Cote CFO of the Howard Johnson Company.
Newton n Prospect Street Subsequently, he became president of
trip - bad game! My granddaughter Emily
Cosentino from Wakefield, hate to admit Winchester, MA 01890 Motel Six and ended his career by establish-

this, is a freshman at the school. She is in

I

50-53 ing Allstar Inns, a west coast motel chain.

the marching band on tuba. Great band - _A Daniel R. Shaughnessy '51 Scholarship

bad game! The Carrier Dome is in the mid- fund has been established at Boston

dle of thecampus. Great dome - bad game! Sadly, must report the death of John
I College memory. Robert J. Mitchell of
in his

The class may have a mass and luncheon in Natoli, husband of Mary Lou Julian '50. A Burlington,MA, a 1951 economics major,
the spring. I think we are ready for it. Great BC alumnus, John added infectious humor passed away on November n, 2001. Francis
class, bad game! Hank Barry checked in. All
to Newton College alumnae gatherings, and G. Bane dropped me a note recently to

8 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
advise of the death of Francis X. Doyle, Arthur Farley, Jim Kenneally, Jack
Quinn who was our class correspondent for Leary, Jim Leonard, Doris Marr, Frank 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
a number of years. Frank Quinn, originally McDermott, Jim Mulrooney, Larry Murren, Candidate Watch: Classmate Roger Connor is

from Dedham, MA, lived in Rockville, MD, Bill Newell, Bill Noble, Art Powell, and Bill running for director, greater than ten years.

and had a highly successful law practice in Walsh. • Received "greetings" from Dick
Washington, DC. During this past summer, Bangs, John O'Connor, who is enjoying his
we also lost Larry Cronin, Daniel Mullally, five grandchildren in retirement, Walter
Pops on the Heights 2002
Eugene Tangney, and John Tripp. May these McDonough, Charlie Sheehan, Archie
and the souls of all our other departed Walsh, Jerry Dacey, and Al Perrault. Jim
iotn Anniversary
•

classmates rest in peace. Corbett has moved to Buzzards Bay and is

an American Express financial advisor. • Dr. September 27, 2002

Edward L Englert,Jr., Esq. Kirwin MacMillan semi-retired, has seven-
is
Tickets on sale now
128 Colberg Avenue teen grandchildren, and enjoys golfing, sail-

52 Roslindale,

(617) 323-1500
MA 02131 ing, skiing, and traveling.
Dave Murphy is in Pittsfield and travels to
Naples and elsewhere to visit his grandchil-
Who wouldn't? •

Call 1-800-767-5591

dren. • Heard from Ed Gaudette in NJ, Tim for more information.

Ring in Manchester, NH, who is now
r Our fiftieth got off to a retired, Larry Vachon in PA, Paul Reardon in
M A Y 1 7 • 19 • 2002
great start on October Trenton, NJ, Eric Johnson in CA, Charlie
Robert W. Kelly
13when 160 gathered for the memorial Sherman in FL, and Bob O'Brien in CT.
From the Cape we received "hellos" from
586 White Cliffs Drive
Mass at St. Mary's Chapel. The Mass was
Plymouth, MA 02360
celebrated by
brants
Martocchio,
Fr.

Fr.
Fr. Tom Murray and
Hugh O'Regan, Msgr.
John Mclntyre, Fr.
concele-
Peter
Robert
Paul Woods, Jay Hughes, George Gallant,
Larry Murphy, Paul Smith and
Murray. Greetings were also received from
Fr. Tom 53 (508) 888-3550

McAuliffe, and Fr. Lawrence Murphy. Roger Joe Muscato, Bob Jingozian, Joe Shay, Joe
Connor, Frank McDermott, Art Powell, Fred Ottaviano, Art Powell, Bill Newell, Bernie As a class, we wish to extend our sympathy
Meagher, and Jim Callahan assisted with the Dwyer, John Kennedy, Paul Flynn, Paul and prayers to any and all in the BC com-
readings. Afterward, we went to the Tower Nolan, Joe Ippolito, Paul Donellon, John munity who suffered any loss as a result of
Building (Gasson Hall) for a hearty meal Kellaher, Pat Chard O'Neill, Ed Goulart and the September 11 terrorist attacks. • Our
and an evening of socializing. The new offi- Jim Kenneally. • Msgr. Peter Martocchio is great football fans went to great distances
cers for the class were announced and now senior priest in residence at St. this year to root for our Eagles. The Austin
Roger will be our next president, Art Powell Jerome's in Weymouth. • Jim Leonard made Smiths traveled to Stanford and several
and Jim Callahan will be vice presidents, his thirty-ninth trip to Ireland recently. • attended the BC vs Navy game with the BC
and Al Sexton will be treasurer. Many thanks John Paul Sullivan is in his ninth year of Club of Cape Cod: The McSweeneys,
to Frank McDermott, who served the past retirement from the MA Superior Court Farleys, Coughlins, Duggans, Driscols,
four years as our president, and who has bench and is practicing law in Boston Livingstons, and Roger Perfetti. • We also
worked diligently for eight years as a class (Mintz Levin). Other "hellos" from Tom noted that we have a couple of TV stars: Fr.

officer. The class enjoyed the reunion and McElroy, Matt Towle, Frank McDermott, Joe Larry Drennan is appearing on Channel 68
many new faces were seen. The chapel was Fagan, Fr. John Mclntyre, who is residing at at 9:30 a.m. occasionally to say Mass for the
filled to capacity and some had to stand, St. Mary's Hall, Charlie Hanafin, John shut-ins, and Sherm Saltmash, as commis-
truly a manifestation of faith and spirit of Parker Sullivan, Frank Doyle, who has sioner of regional airports, appeared on
'52. Fr. O'Regan deeply appreciated the gen- eleven children and fifteen grandchildren, Channel 2, the 7 p.m. news program, after
erous collection taken at the Mass for the Tom O'Keefe, Bob Barry, Herb Emilson, and September 11 to comment on the security
pro-life cause in the Archdiocese. Fr. Monan Larry Durkee. • Fred Tarpey was among the and safety at a surprisingly large number of
took time out from his busy schedule to faithful who journeyed to Stanford for the regional airports around the state. • A small-
speak to us at dinner and it was a pleasure game and then visited Napa Valley. • Sorry er group of '53ers attended the fall golf tour-
to see him once again. Due to space limita- to report the deaths of six classmates: Frank nament run by the BC Club of Cape Cod:
tions in this publication, I cannot list all the "Bud" Torpey was an FBI agent for fifteen Bob Sullivan (prize), Joe Hasford, J. Raftery,
names of those who attended. • Received a years before accepting a position as director and Gerry McLaughlin all played well. Glad
note from Bill Bond who is retired and living of security with the National Hockey to see that Gerry's back in action. • George
in Bonita Springs, FL. He and Elaine are League. He was West Roxbury and
born in Kieswetter has eagerly assumed responsibil-
busy playing golf frequently and Bill does lived in W. Nyack, NY, and leaves his wife, ity for creating a class Web site for all our
freelance writing for several magazines Mary, and two daughters and two sons. techies to receive information about our
when he is not tutoring immigrant workers, Loretta Ruggiero, who died in August, 2000. fiftieth We will let you
anniversary events.
mainly Hispanic, in English. In the last col- Alan Deerfield, who passed away in Florida know more when up and running. • By
it is

umn, some names were inadvertently omit- in April, 2001. Paul McDevitt, who died in the time you read these notes our ten-day
ted or evaporated after being mailed, rela- June, 2001. He retired as assistant superin- class trip to London, Paris, and more, from
tive to those attending the St. Patrick's Day tendent of the Mamaroneck, NY, school sys- September 25, 2002, to October 4, 2002,
celebration in Naples. They were Bernie tem, and moved to Hilton Head Island, SC. will have been announced, and possibly a
O'Sullivan, John Paul Sullivan, Bill Walsh, He leaves his wife, Lee, six sons, and ten second notice concerning price and insur-
Fred Tarpey, Jim Callahan, Al Cassassa, Tom grandchildren. Frank Dooley, Esq., who lived ance, etc., will have been sent. • Can you
Cummiskey, Frank Torpey, Diane Delmonte, in West Harwich, passed away in November. believe the football season is almost over,
Joan Ciroux, Dan McElaney, Dick Frank was a past president of our class and and as for the games played, weren't they
McLaughlin, Bill Newell, Charlie Carroll, was one of '52's most faithful followers. He exciting. Especially beating Notre Dame - or
Barry Driscoll, and Paul Reardon The trip to leaves his wife, Jeanne, and two children, is it "Our Lady's University" - sometimes I

Ireland in September was and a real treat Stephanie and Frank. Bill Falvey died in get it confused with that football factory
-
thoroughly enjoyed by all. The weather was November and lived in Southington, CT. As without football, who'd know about Notre
great and the food and scenery were excel- classmates, Frank and Bill were officers in Dame - I'm glad that our Boston College is

lent. Enjoying the trip were Lex Blood, Jim the Fulton Debating Society, being the presi- such a well-rounded academic institution -
Callahan, Steve Casey, Roger Connor, Lois dent and vice president respectively. 'nuff said, "Go BC!" Met up with Sal and

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 Eleanor Venezia at the Pittsburgh game. Jane Sullivan, wife of our late classmate Griffin is bidding farewell to the Board of
Both were decked out in the maroon and John. Kel, for the number of years has Health Dennis. • Sadly, our class did not
in

gold. Saw Joe Tower, but he didn't see me. returned to his "roots" each summer for a escape the tragedy of September 11.
There were a gang of '53ers at the BC Club with his sister Marge, and welcomes
visit a Stephanie Coffey Clarke's husband, John,
of Cape Cod All Soul's Mass, and all were chance to reminisce with friends and a had his law office on the eighty-fifth floor of
looking great: Paul and Maryanne Coughlin, return to the College to remark at its 2 WTC. Fortunately, John was unharmed but
Austin and Barbara Smith, Ralph and growth. The nephew of hockey coach six members of his staff of no died in the
Margaret Murphy, Jim and Mary Livingston, "Snooks" Kelley, Kel includes an annual visit inferno and collapse of the building.
Bob and Peg Sullivan, Gerry McLaughlin, to the ice rink and look at the memorial Stephanie is the director of major gifts for

Matt and Marie Flaherty, Paul O'Loughlin, plaque to "Uncle Snooks," a tribute for the Glimmerglass Opera, the summer pro-
Dick and Mary Farley. Dick was just elected which he is grateful. Since his retirement gram for the New York City Opera Co. In the
to the board of the club. He'll do a great from Novelle Enterprises, Ltd., he has last issue, I mentioned that Stephanie's
job. • At the Mass on All Soul's Day, the toured throughout Southeast Asia and mother had died recently so I know you will

name of classmate Edward (Buddy) Condon Japan, but places his yearly return to Boston join me in saying a prayer for her and her
of Sandwich was announced as having among the top of his travel list. •'
On a sad husband in this difficult time. had a lovely I

passed away. Also another classmate was note, we have learned of the passing of Jerry phone call from Ann Shephard. She is now
brought to my attention by Ken and Barbara Monaghan, who was a very popular class- living in Medford after spending so many
Cowan, that of Larry Geisler. Most of us will mate. He is survived by his wife, Ruth, and years in Maiden. • In September, the alumni
remember who was about twenty
Larry, four children. Jerry served in the Army and office received word that Alice Silva had died
years older than us, who came to BC after was a member of the BC Club of Cape Cod. in February of 1999. Alice lived in Pawtucket,
being a major in the Army for some years Steven J.
Conway, former resident of Rl, and had been in nursing for many years.
and a careerman in the hotel business. Our London, England, died on Tuesday July, 24, • In the last issue, I asked you to forward
memories and prayers follow our departed 2001, in Kansas City, KS, after a brief illness. the names of classmates who have died
classmates and their families they left Born in Mt. Kisco, NY, he had lived in since graduation so that I can be sure we
behind. • President Paul asked me to London for the past six years. He was a have an up-to-date list when we publish the
remind all those out there about class dues. graduate of Boston College and received his names during our golden eagle celebration.
Your $25 dues helps us greatly; thanks if you MBA at Harvard Business School. He was If you haven't done so, please do. I'm
paid and if not there is still time. Please formerly president of the Ivan F. Boesky adding another request. We are going to
send them to Alumni House for the atten- Corporation. Most recently, he was senior have to publish a yearbook. I'm thinking of
tion of "The Class of '53." vice president of Knowlogy, Inc. in Cairo, the Holly Ball. To help you send things, I

Egypt, and managing director of now have a mailbox in the alumni office. My
David F. Pierre EvaluTek.com in London, England. Surviving address MJK55@bc.edu. look forward to
is I

PO Box 72 is his wife, Mary Y. Conway, a son, hearing from you with news that is current
Prides Crossing, MA 01965 Christopher, and a daughter, Kendra, all of as well as help in gathering information.

54 (97fy 927-1149
Kansas City, KS. Don't forget Laetare Sunday. You can con-
tact me if you want tickets.

Marie J. Kelleher
Last November, the class of '54 celebrated 12 Tappan Street Jane Quigley Hone
Newton
itsmemorial Mass. Over fifty-one class- Melrose, MA 02176 425 Nassau Avenue
mates, wives, and friends were present. This
was the most successful group to date.
55 (781) 665-2669
55
Manhasset,
(516) 627-0973
NY 11030

Among those there were: Tony Pellegrini,

Tom W. Lane, Ed Smith, Caroline and Bob Bishop John Kallos had a wonderful trip this
Donovan, Pat and Edward Kodzis, Fran summer. Back in 1992, Bishop John was
Steve Barry
DeLuca and Doug MacMillan, Margaret and elected bishop of the diocese of Amorion.
Dan Miley, Joe Skerry, Frank Flannery, Sue This was once an illustrious diocese in Asia
n Albamont Road
and Bert Giroux, Ellie and Bert Good, Sue
Andrews, Ann and John Cummings, Mary
Minor,
wanted to
now Turkey,
visit this
and Bishop John had
area for several years. In
56 Winchester, MA 01890
barrybc56@aol.com
McCourt, Jody and Frank Bonarrigo, Verna December of 2000, he learned that an exca-
and Tom Lane, Jane and Paul McGee, Kathy vation project was taking place so, since he
and Peter Nobile, Pat and Bob (Rufus) King, had been invited to go to an ordination and Reunion, Part 3 (Saturday lunch, Mass, din-
Joan and Frank Patchell, Lori and Lou consecration in Istanbul, he made arrange- ner): At lunch I sat with Mary and Jerry
Totino, Joan Foohey,Mary and Murray ments to visit Amorion, now known as and Gene and Miriam O'Toole
Sullivan,
Regan, Ray MacPherson, Mary B. Kelley, Bea one of the sites
Hisarkoy. Quite fortunately, Dessureau from Bethesda, MD. The
McDevitt, and Aurora and Jack Leydon. The being excavated was what had been a two- Dessureau's house sitter discovered a leak
Mass was celebrated by Father William story cross dome basilica. While there, in the water heater, and notified a neighbor
Mclnnes, and Michelle Abadia accompanied Bishop John conducted a Trisagion Service who called their insurance agent and a

soloist Cathy Grein. Francis X. Flannery, who for the forty-two Martyrs of Amorion. While plumber to repair it. After lunch, we were
was present, is the father of four children, he renewed by his visit, he also felt sad
felt free to roam and sit in on talks about cur-
three of whom graduated from BC, and one to view what it was and what it had become. rent activities. saw a presentation about
I

from Suffolk. His wife, Mary, passed away in Staying with the international theme, had a I BC's Web site —
www.bc.edu/alumni —
1990. He is still working as vice president delightful chat with Coleman Nee one after- where you can register and look up informa-
and treasurer of Suffolk University as he has noon. Coleman spent thirty-five years work- tion about classmates, library facilities, fac-
for the past twenty-eight years. Jim Kelley's ing for the State Department and had post- ulty, athletics, jobs, etc. The BC Museum in

annual homecoming (Jim has been a resi- ings in such places as Africa, Poland, and Devlin Hall (science building) had an exhib-
dent of Hong Kong for more than three France. After leaving the State Department, iton the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch,
decades) was celebrated in August at Bert he worked for the United Nations for two most noted for his painting "The Scream."
and Sue Giroux's Marshfield summer home. years and has now joined the ranks of the Late in the afternoon, class members Dave
The get-together included Bert and Ellie retired in Yarmouthport. • I understand that Gill, SJ,and Don Plocke, SJ, were concele-
Good, Mary Jane and Jim Coughlin, Bob '56 another classmate and resident of the Cape brants at the Alumni Memorial Mass at St.
and Annette and their son, Rob Giroux, and Cod area is retiring. Mary Rose McCarthy Ignatius. Both are on the faculty at BC. sat I

10 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
with Jean and Joe Danieli, Bea and Peter did a great job in organizing this reunion and is leader in improving the teaching of
Colleary, Leo and Claire Hoban McCormack, event. The following classmates were in atten- mathematics. She has touched thousands of
and Charlie and Jean Lavery Roche. Our class dance: Rev. Tom Ahearn MM, Norma individuals, many of whom are now teachers.
held a clambake in a tent directly across the Cacciamani, Jim Devlin, Marty Dunn, Ralph She is proclaimed as an extraordinary teacher
street from our building. We ignored Jack Ferrera, Mary Lou Hogan, Rev. Gerry Kelly and a prolific author of innovative problems,
Burns's challenge to write the names of all MM, Peg Kenney, Paul O'Leary, Anna Mary articles, and textbooks. Congratulations Peg
present without the list. Marie and I were at a Dooley Stewart, Bob Tiernan, Bill Tobin, Betty for this great distinction, dear board member,
table with Betty and Norm Duquette, jan and and Jim Turley, and others might have I and loving classmate. • Bill O'Connor writes
George Cartier, Marie and Jim McLaughlin, missed. This event took the place of our earli- that heand his wife, Tilda, drove over from
Jan and Dick Day, and Ted Cannon. After er planned event that was scheduled for Newport Beach, CA, to see the BC-Colorado
talking about diet and triglycerides, George October 27 football game BC vs Notre Dame. bowl game. Bill relates that it was a Colorado
topped his strawberry shortcake with a huge In light of the change of playing time from blowout but yet enjoyed the trip to Tucson. •

mound of whipped cream, and went back for early afternoon to early evening, the class Gerard J.
Hooley traveled extensively last year
coffee. We will not reveal who took a large board members, had no alternative but to go touring Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. Last
spoonful of the whipped cream, sat back to with a substitute event. In summary, it all June he took a cruise to Norway, Sweden,
enjoy it, then realized in horror that George worked out well. • Paul J.
O'Leary and Jim Finland, Russia, and other ports of call.

had witnessed the crime. • Pat and Bob Turley have been selected as co-chairs for our Gerry's son, Michael, recently was married,
Austin of Naples, FL, and Bass River are forty-fifth reunion. They have published a while his daughter, Luann, is a GS-14 with the
retired: he from Raytheon after thirty-three year-long summary of Reunion activities, US Custom Service in Washington, DC. • Paul
years and she from United Airlines. Barbara including a few sponsored by the Alumni McAdams and his wife, Gayle, are building a

and Paul Sullivan of Stuart, FL, and Sagamore Association. They included the BC Christmas new home in Chatham. They are replacing
Beach, MA: Paul retired after thirty-seven Chorale and BC vs. Georgetown basketball their 150-year-old home after using it for the
years with Ford. Dottie and Joe Reagan, game with a post-game Mass, reception, and last twenty-five years. • Edward J.
Hines
Saratoge, CA, enjoyed the Pops with Kathy dinner following the game. March 2 heralded retired nearly two years ago. He and his wife,
and Leo Power and the clambake with in a night of entertainment at Paul Mahoney's Anne, now live in Harwichport on the Cape,
Kathleen Donovan Goudie. Joe retired from Rocky Ledge in Winchester. The Second and winter in Naples, FL. • Kathleen A.
Lockheed Martin and consults for the naval Helping Dinner will take place at the 600 Bresnahan reports that she has not been well
studies board in Washington, DC. Judy and Club at Fenway Park on Saturday, April 6. of late. Kathleen can be reached at P.O. Box
Charlie Laverty celebrated their thirty-eighth Saturday, April 27, will be the BC Arts Festival, 223, North Eastham, MA 02651, telephone
anniversary. They travel extensively, and a day-long event, presented by the BC Arts (508) 255-3843. • now
Andrew F. Picariello

Charlie is on several bank boards and busi- Council. A class golf tournament is scheduled lives in Marston Mills on the Cape. He is

ness and civiccommittees. • In October, Jim for May 16 with a country club site to be keeping busy managing some commercial
Brosnahan received the Samuel E. Gates announced at a later date. Commencement real estate properties, traveling, and partici-

award from the American College of Trial weekend, the grand finale will run from Friday pating in vintage sports car racing. He also
Lawyers for significant contributions toward to Monday, May 17-20, 2002. There will be was blessed with his first grandson last
improving the litigation process. • Brian special class mailings to all class members August. • Nancy Fidelle Miller Wilberg was
Concannon's son, Brian Jr., was instrumental covering pertinent details of all these reunion recently married last September. She has
in convicting fifty-three of fifty-nine partici- events. • Bruno E. Bagnaschi retired from The been living in CA since 1957. I hope, Nancy,
pants in a massacre in Haiti. • We have had Torrington Co., in CT, after forty-two years of that you and your husband can make our big
two class-related deaths. Jack Burns's service. Joe Burke and his wife, Brenda, are
• reunion in May 2002. • John T. Twombly is

daughter died in September. Her funeral was continuing to enjoy life living on Cape Cod. director of special education for several
one of the largest have ever been to. TheI
Joe tells me that he is enjoying playing many Alternative # 766 schools on the North Shore
second was my sister, Frances Curry, who of the golf courses on the Cape. • Dick of Boston. John has five children. Daughter
died in November. Her husband was in the Coleman is almost fully retired. Dick plans to Paula Twombly Gray is a graduate of BC. •

class of 1942. Please pray for them and their move south in the near future. Dick, please Frank Lynch has been nominated for candida-
families. • We'll be back to regular updates keep in touch! • Bill Cunningham and his cy for the position of director, graduated more
next time. Thanks to all who keep the news wife, Joan, had a delightful two-week trip to than ten years, on the Alumni Association's
coming. November. Bill tells
Italy last me their next board of directors. I feel very much honored
stop be London, and the
will British Isles in being placed on the ballot, and I hope that
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board sometime in the near future. • Jim Devlin and you will consider my candidacy. Ballots will be
Candidate Watch: Classmate Margaret Murphy his wife, Mary, are now grandparents for the mailed to all March 2002. • The
alumni in

is running for chair elect. fourth time. Son Jim and his wife now have class Web site is still being worked on, and
three boys while daughter Maryellen has one hopefully soon it will become a reality. • The
Patricia Leary Dowling daughter. • Margaret M. Flynn's husband, class extends its sincere sympathy to the fam-
Newton
39 Woodside Drive Ralph, recently passed the California bar ily of William F. Doherty who passed away

Milton, MA 02186 exam. They both live in San Mateo, CA. • John last September. Bill was an award-winning
56 (617) 696-0163 T. Conway is the new manager of the Dennis legal affairs reporter and editor for the Boston

office of Jack Conway Realtors, better known Globe, whose courtroom coverage spanned
as Conway Country, jack is a look-a-like of the four decades. He was also a "Double Eagle."

Francis E. Lynch
founder, John E. Conway, who founded the Condolences from the class are extended to
company in 1957. Jack also advises that his the families of Frederick J. Crosdale, Henry E.
27 Arbutus Lane
son Rev. Michael Conway, SDB, the new Bogins, Francis Reynolds, Robert G. Rabtoy,
W. Dennis, MA 02670 J.
is J.

57 flynch@mma.mass.edu
principal of
in
Don Bosco Technical High School
Patterson, NJ. Son Tim is the new manager
and Francis P. Dufficy,
over the last year or more.
who
•
all passed away
Reunion class
of operations for Cape Air. • Margaret J.
dues are $25. If you have not already done so,
Kenney along with Rev. Stanley J.
Bezuszka, please forward your class dues to Bill Tobin,
Our first forty-fifth professor emeritus and director of the 181 Central St., Holliston, MA 01746. Your
I
m a y 17 - i9- 2002 anniversary event, the University's mathematics institute, are among dues contribution will go a long way in fund-
Hope Photographs McMullen
exhibit, at the the five inaugural members of Teachers of ing a reunion of a lifetime. Please make this
Museum of Art, was held on November 17, Mathematics in the Massachusetts Hall of forty-fifth reunion a part of your long-range
2001. Co-chairs Paul J.
O'Leary and Jim Turley Fame. Peg is the institute's associate director, plans. Experience and savor the moments

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 with those classmates that you have not October 18 issue of the Boston College passed away in late October with cancer.
seen since those early days of 1957. Your Chronicle. Jim, a novelist and faculty mem- Condolences to his wife, Jane, and four chil-
presence can make it a happy and fruitful ber at BC, reflected on his days as a private dren. Ed will be sorely missed with his great
difference! Best wishes for a very healthy during the Korean War and his recently pub- sense of humor, leadership abilities, and
and happy reunion year. lished essay "Freedom Village" which love of alma mater. Those who got to know
describes a poignant scene as an American him realized what a great guy he was. God
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board POW of the Korean War encounters the bless. Joe and Donna (Mason) Steinkrauss,
Candidate Watch: Classmate Frank Lynch is American flag on his release from captivity within the same time frame, lost Joe's broth-
running for director, greater than ten years. and how the flag meant coming home, secu- er, Philip, to cancer. He was recently-retired
rity, and happiness. • Jim Ardini, living in and a triple eagle, having earned his doctor-
Marjorie L. McLaughlin Clayton, CA, has retired as the chairman of ate from BC in education. He leaves his wife
Newton
139 Parker Road the physics department at Diablo Valley and two children. • Rev. Stephen Concannon
Needham, MA 02494 College. • Dick Barrett is the assistant vice is now the pastor of a new church in
57 (781) 444-7252 president of Ohio Casualty Insurance in Harpswell, ME, which is a summer chapel.
Raleigh, NC. • Gael Burns is an artist with He returns to his normal responsibilities for
his company, Logo Graphics in South the balance of the year. George St. Pierre of
REUNION Natick. • Jim Chishom has retired from that same area in ME said hello. • Rick
Hewlett Packard and is living in Loveland, Pierce retired from his position as assistant
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MAY 31 - JUNE 2 2002 |

CO. • John Cody, living in Carlisle, is a stock- treasurer in Plymouth county and has
David A. Raffertyjr broker with Tucker Anthony. • Phil Dawson moved November. He will
to FL as of early

2296 Ashton Oaks Lane 101 is on the City Council in Portland, ME. • Joe spend the summer in Plymouth. Please

58 Stonebridge City Club

Naples, FL 34109
Hughes, living in Brewster on the Cape, has
retired from Merrill Lynch. • Paul Lucy, living
in Kittery Point, ME, is the owner of South
drop a line or email me.

McCarthy Dorsey
Patricia
Newton
Management Group in Portsmouth, NH. • 53 ClarkeRoad
Received an interesting
Bishop who reported that he
letter from George
retired from
Arthur Mooney is a broker/trader with
Morgan Stanley in Boston. • Gerry Mitchell, 60 Needham, MA 02492
dorseypm@mediaone.net
his own sales agency about ten years ago living in Westwood, is the president/owner
and that he and his wife, Kathy, purchased of Northeastern Envelope in Boston. •

property in the Pocono region of Howie Powers is retired from Merck and I'm going to begin this letter by reminding
Pennsylvania. They do quite a bit of volun- Company and living in NYC and Edgartown. you that it is easy to email me information
teerwork in the community and George just • Bill Russell is a professor at Merrimack and would love to hear from those who
I

completed his second and final term as College. • Dick Simons is now living the haven't participated to date. These class
president of the local Lions Club. In addition good life after retiring as the president of notes are compiled three months prior to
to playing golf four or five times a week, Northeast Properties in Boston. • Edmund publication. In the fall issue, written in
George keeps busy touching base with their Solari, living in Brookline, is an attorney August, I noted that Mary Egan Boland was
three grandchildren, the latest, Collin practicing in Cambridge. • Again, I solicit married to the former, long-time congress-
Edminster, born on August 12 ME. in York, classmates to send me some news. It is get- man, Edward Boland. This fall Ed Boland
When February rolls around, George and ting more and more difficult to fill up this passed away. We send our sincere sympa-
Kathy are off to St. Simon's Island, GA, to column with information from 58ers. Don't Mary and their children. • In early
thies to
live the good life. Nice to hear from you, forget your class dues. Send $25 to Jack November, Mickey Mahon MacMillan host-
George and look forward to seeing you at
I "Mucca" McDevitt, 28 Cedar St., Medford, ed classmates in this area to a luncheon at
our forty-fifth. • "Tank" Meehan, the world MA 02155. her new home in Cotuit. Those who were
traveler, reports from Germany that he will able to share in a special afternoon were:
be attending our forty-fifth and expects a Sheila Hurley Canty Brenda Koehler Laundry, Loretta Maguire,
Newton
more elaborate gift than a beer for traveling PO Box 386 Julie O'Neil, Elaine Holland Early, Carole
the farthest to attend. • Paul (Gus) Roach North Falmouth, MA 02556 Ward McNamara, Sheila Gill, Jeanne
was recently appointed vice president of 58 (508) 754-2744 Hanrihan Connelly, Fran Fortin Breau, Gail
sales for the System Sensor Security busi- Hannaford Walsh, and We missed Sally I.

ness unit of Honeywell Security and Fire O'Connell Healy and Berenice Hackett
Solutions Group. Paul has been living in
Frank Martin Davis. They both were headed south to FL
Hanover for the past thirty years and has 6 Sawyer Road to enjoy their winter condos. Brenda tells

five children. On a very sad note, Paul

Wellesley Hills, MA 02481 us that Ferna Ronci Rourke is still working
reports that his nephew, Stephen Roach
(also nephew of Robert Roach '53), was a
59 jjmo2481@mediaone.net hard running "The Pasta Patch"
Brenda and her friends order takeout
quently and refer to it as "dinner with
in Rl.

fre-

victim of the September 11 tragedy at the

World Trade Center. Stephen was a vice
Ferna." • Good travel news for Loretta
Maryjane Mulvanity Casey
president and director of Cantor Fitzgerald Newton 28 Briarwood Drive
Maguirel Since our last reunion, Loretta has

and leaves his wife, Isabel, and three young had a kidney transplant. Despite some ups
Taunton, MA 02780 and downs, Loretta have been
children.
family. •
Our prayers are with Stephen's
Bill McGurk has a new permanent
59 (508) 823-1188 able to take two trips to Ireland.
is thrilled to

• While we

Canada address: RR#2, Vernon River, PEi were enjoying our delicious brunch, Jeanne
Canada COA-2EO. • Sincerest condolences Hanrihan Connelly received a welcome call
of the class go out to the families of the fol-
lowing classmates
away: Francis J.
who recently passed
Murray, Bob Shortell, Henry
6O Joseph

Norwell,
R.

253 River Street

jcarty@mindspring. com
Carty

MA 02061
from her daughter, Ann, relating that she
had passed the bar exam. Jeanne and Ed
are living on Martha's Vineyard. • Fran and
Ted Breau have become proud grandparents
Moreschi, husband of Lind Moreschi of
for the first time. Their daughter, Ellen,
Alexandria, VA, and Barry J.
Waters of
delivered a baby girl, Camille, in May.
Harwich. • On a brighter note, Jim Murphy
was featured on the front page of the Edward Sulesky, who was very instrumental Naturally we all loved seeing the pictures of
in class affairs for the past thirty years, this beautiful new member of their family. •

12 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
In November the Alumni Association to cast your vote for him when the ballot send you the information. • Don't forget to
planned an interesting evening featuring arrives in the mail. • Last spring at our forti- send me a line(s) about what is going on in

Margot Morrell '74, the co-author with eth reunion dinner we gave favors in the your life. Congratuations to Mary Anne
Stephanie Capparell of Shackleton's Way: form of prints of a picture of Gasson Hall, Brennan Keyes '62 who isnow the eastern
Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic which were nicely matted and framed. I have regional director for the AASH.
Explorer. Margot was a recent recipient of five additional prints at a cost of $24 each.
the BC Alumni Achievement Award in arts If you would like one please call or write me Richard N. Hart, Jr
— Amber Road
and humanities for this fascinating
Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition.
The focus is on his outstanding leadership
book on first come,
annual informal
will be held April 20, 2002.
first Our class's
served.
reunion mass and dinner
•

If you are inter-

62 5
Hingham, MA 02043
rhartny8o@aol.com
skills during this harrowing trip that never ested in attending please call Peg Collins at

reached the South Pole. today's economic 617-782-9328. Likewise you would
climate our leaders can face disaster and
In

join us at the
if

annual Laetare Sunday break-

like to
REUNION . First of all, many
Morrell and Capparell suggest that fast on March 10, 2002, call Peg. • Please MAY 31 - |UNE 2 .2002 j
thanks to Fr. Wally
Shackleton can be a great guide to those make every effort to let me hear from you Blackwood for provid-
leaders who are willing to risk new ventures especially if you haven't seen your name in ing some of the information for this column.
whether in business or new territories. • this column recently. I can't write until Fr. Wally advises that he has been communi-
September n has had a deep impact on all someone lets me know what's happening. cating with Jack Barclay, the regional direc-
Americans. Let us all continue to pray for God speed to all! tor of training for the Marriott Corporation.
those in the BC and NCSH families who Jack has three children. He has gotten
have As Easter approaches,
lost a loved one. 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board together with Sue Greeley Atkinson and her
may we focus on who and what is important Candidate Watch: Classmate John Lane is run- husband, Paul Atkinson. Sue teaches in

in our lives, and live each moment with grat- ning for secretary. Melrose and Paul Stoneham High School.
at

itude for Christ's loving sacrifice for us. They reside in Melrose. • Bob Crowley
Happy Easter! Martha Clancy Rudman retired from teaching at Franklin High
Newton
1819 Ladkeside Dr. School in June 2000. He and his wife, Kaye,
Robert W. Sullivan, Jr. Arlington, TX 76013 reside in Franklin and have three children
484 Pleasant Street
61 NewtonMiz@aol.com and five grandchildren. • Mary Ann Nally

6l Brockton,
rwsul@cs.com
02303 MA Self
College
is dean of instruction
in Bakersfield, CA.
at Bakersfield
She and her hus-
I have enjoyed hearing from many since the band Charles reside in Valencia, CA, and
last issue. If you would like email addresses, have two children and two grandchildren. •

Not long after I wrote the last column for contact me at newtonmiz@aol.com. You Terry O'Malley resides in Needham and has
our class an event of cataclysmic destruc- can also check out addresses, BC
etc., at the three children and seven grandchildren. •

tion was visited upon our shores by a group site: www.bc.edu/alumni. • Nancy Simpson Peggy Birmingham Moroney is a human
of evil people who shattered two of the Porter writes that she is fighting metastatic resource manager for Maricope County in

world's most prominent buildings and melanoma. She urges us to be aware of the AZ. She lives in Tempe, AZ, with her hus-
ended thousands of innocent lives in an act signs of skin cancer. Please keep Nancy in band Rob. • Rev. Bert Oliviera is rector of
of unprovoked and unmitigated madness. A your prayers. • Rosie Hanley Cloran said that theNew Hampshire Cathedral in
few weeks after the event, but with the Joyce Laiosa Calderone, Alo Coleman Riley, Manchester, NH. Fr. Oliviera is Grail
image of what had seen on live TV still
I Maryanne MacDonald Barry, Ellen Mahony O'Connor's pastor. Fr. Blackwood would
fresh in my memory, received a phone call
I King, Barbara Feeley O'Brien,Nancy Porter, really like to hear from Lynch School of
from Jack McDowell telling me that he and Maureen Mahoney Nolan, and Sallie-Ann Education classmates. His email address is

his wife Pat had lost their son, John, who Dow Casey and their husbands had dinner weblackwoo@aol.com. • It was nice to hear
was working for Sandler, O'Neill in one of together this summer, which gave them the from Deacon Richard "Monti" Montalto.
the upper floors when the terrorists struck. opportunity to catch up. • Micky McQueeny Monti owns and manages an insurance bro-
John was a 1991 graduate of Fordham and Matthews's summer home in Weekapaug, kerage agency in Randallstown, MD. He is

by all accounts a wonderful young man with Rl, is now her year-round home. Her oldest married to Margaret Monast Montalto '61.

a bright future. Some of our classmates son, Ted, was married November 24 in They live in Randallstown and have one
attended the funeral and have told me of the Newport. • Mary Sue Flanagan tells us that daughter and two grandchildren. He was
positive and tender eulogies. Jack's admoni- one of her great delights is visiting her recently-elected president of his local
tion to people at the funeral and to all of us nieces/nephews and their families. • Ellen Chamber of Commerce and also serves on
is profound: Don't to hug your loved
fail MacDonald Carbone and Duane find that the boards of the Liberty Assistance Center
ones and tell them you love them because they are able to spend more time at their and the Boys Home Society of Baltimore.
you may not get the chance again. A memo- vacation home in ME, much to their delight. Monti was ordained as a permanent deacon
rial fund is being established in his name by • The Rudman's fall was busy with the in 1987 and serves as a pastoral assistant at

some of his college classmates to benefit arrival of a grandson, Harrison Parker, in Holy Family Parish. • Congratulations to Jack
the high school he attended. Contributions September, and daughter Michelle's wed- MacKinnon and his wife, Rosemary '65, on
may be sent to the Sisters of Mercy High ding in November. • Mary Walsh says that the recent marriage of their daughter,
School Scholarship Fund, in memory of John having grandchildren is definitely the best Maryellen '92, to Timothy McBride. • To
F.McDowell, c/o John Kanas, Trustee, thing she has done. (Bet you will have a lot those in CBA we lost a great professor this
Northfork Bank & Trust, 93 East Montauk of us in agreement Mary!) • Paula Keene summer, Fred Zappala '46. Fred was not
Highway, Hampton Bays, NY 11946. Let's Telling and her family are living in VT where only an outstanding and dedicated teacher,
join Jack and Pat in their prayers of remem- she teaches. •Our prayers and sympathy are but also an outstanding human being. May
brance, faith, and hope. John J. Lane, cur-
• extended to Mary Nolan Calise upon the he rest in peace. • Your correspondent, Dick
rently a board director of the BC Alumni death of her mother in September. • There Hart, and his wife, Monica, are happy to
Association, called me recently to enlist our will be a retreat at Kenwood/Albany on April welcome two new grandsons into their fami-
help in his effort to become secretary of the 5/6, in which some 'mates have expressed ly: Michael John, Jr., was born in September

Association. John's enthusiasm and dedica- an interest. Contact person is Stephanie to son, Michael, and wife, Maryanne, in

makes him worthy of our confi-

tion clearly Kite, who can be reached at 518-465-5222, Glen Rock, NJ, and William Asa was born in

dence and our votes. Please make it a point Ext. 208 or SKite@DoaneStuart.org. She will November to son, Richard, and wife,

www.bc.edu/alumni
 Heather, in Coppell, TX. William joins .big our reunion. She gets an "A" for just send-
brother, Richard Nevel Hart, who was ing the email. The more help we can get the Marie Craigin Wilson
IV,
Newton rjoi Treasure Lane
born in 2000. • Our fortieth reunion is set better the reunion will be. From the sounds
May Naples, FL 34102
for Friday,

June 2, 2002. •
31,

Paul
2002, through Sunday,
McNamara is chairman
of it, lots of people are planning on being
here so mark your calendars for May 31 to
63 (9P) 435-9709
of the class gift committee. If you would June 2. Janet is retired from her job as prin-
like to help with the class gift, Paul can be cipal and loving it. On the ferry to Nova
reached at 617-227-8010 or email at Scotia, Janet bumped into Grace Kane Kelly
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
PjM@MCTLAW.com. Jack MacKinnon is who was conducting a tour for senior citi-
Candidate Watch: Classmate Delia Flynn is
chairman of the events committee. If you zens. They had a great time catching up
running for Newton
want to help out in this area, Jack can be afterso many years. • Edwina Lynch
reached at 781-749-6582 or email at McCarthy has once again stepped forward
Maureen Gallagher Costello
JohnHMacKinnon@aol.com. My email and offered to compile our class directory.
42 Doncaster Street
address is

keep the news coming.

at the top of the column. Please Please email her with your
phone numbers (at least

area codes), zip codes (which the post office

new addresses,
the most recent
64 Roslindale,

(617) 323-4^52
MA 02131

seems to change every couple of years) and

Pops on the Heights 2002 your email address if you have one. Her

email address is
Priscilla Weinlandt Lamb
tn Newton
io Anniversary edwina_02481@yahoo.com. • I talked to 125 Elizabeth Road
Kathy Smith O'Sullivan and she just as New Rochelle, NY 10804
September 27, 2002 full of energy and enthusiasm as ever. She
is
64 agneauj6@cs.com
Tickets on sale now continues to co-chair the special ed depart-
ment at the Diamond Middle School in September 11, 2001. We were in ME, visiting
Lexington. She is definitely coming to the
friends, when the phone rang. It was our
Call 1-800-767-5591 Reunion and is looking forward to seeing all
daughter, Alexis, calling from France to tell
those near and far classmates that make
for more information. up things about in this column! Kathy's
I

us that two planes had just hit the World

Trade Center. I yelled "turn on the TV" and"
daughter Kate is an assistant editor of chil-
we watched in horror, together yet miles
dren's literature at Houghton Mifflin and
apart, as the third plane hit the Pentagon.
Mary Ann Brennan Keyes her daughter, Christin O'Sullivan Ledom, is
Newton As I write this, it is almost three months
94 Abbott Road the CFO of the Gene Therapy Institute at
later. Things have definitely changed. The
MA
62 Wellesley,
Makmad@mediaone.net
02481 Harvard Medical School. Her daughter
was working for the Brookings Institute, but
Meg armories
fairs.
in

They're
NY used to be venues for
now armories again. Your bag
craft

is now working for the State Department.

gets inspected at the opera house, and
She received a PhD in ethnic conflict from when you leave to drive home, your car gets
REUNION Oxford and is now on assignment to Ireland diverted from the vicinity of the Red Cross
r My last class news and Afghanistan. Surely Newton grads of complex. You gaze up the helicopter over-
MAY 31 - JUNE 2 . 2002 at
notes were written the class of '62 are leading very interesting
head, and you realize that it's a military heli-
before September n, the day that stopped lives like this younger generation, so keep copter. Things have changed, for NY, for you
America in its tracks. I want to extend my me posted so we can read about you! •
and me, And keep remem-
for the country. I

belated sympathy to all of you as you contin- Boston College has in so many ways sup-
bering another time when things changed -
ue to deal with the overwhelming evil that ported our reunions and valued us as that fateful November day in 1963 when
befell our country. I am aware that some of Newton College alumnae. This year Paul things changed and were never the same
our alumnae were impacted in a very per- McNamara '62, Mary Hallisey McNamara's again. That's how I've been feeling, and my
sonal way with the wrenching loss of a fami- husband, has asked that we join his class- guess is that most of you share those feel-
ly member. To them especially extend my I mates in gift in honor of our
presenting a ings. We will always know precisely where
love and prayers. Susan Mulvanity Donlan's fortieth reunion. The Development Office we were, and what we were doing, when the
sister Maryjane Mulvanity Casey '59 lost her has decided that any gift made by Newton Trade Center was attacked, just as we will
daughter-in-law, Nellie Heffernan Casey. College fortieth reunion alumnae would be never forget that time, at Newton, when we
Ellen Mooney Mello '68 lost her son, Chris, for the continued funding of the Newton
learned that Kennedy had been shot. I'll

and Michelle McGarty Madden '57 lost her College Professorship in Western Culture. never forget Alice O'Connor Josephs's com-
son, Richard. The Sacred Heart family is a Over the years, so many alumnae have felt
ment to me at the time. She said that she
globalone and this was evidenced by the that our gifts should be designated in ways knew how upset was, because had I I

many alumni from around the world who that preserve and define the heritage of
stopped talking. Well, this time, I'd like to
signed our guestbook on the aashnet.org Newton College of the Sacred Heart. Clearly keep talking - to you. If any of you have any
Web site. The outpouring of love, concern, SWC was a program that was not only comments, stories, or reactions you'd like to
and good will was sincere and spontaneous. unique to Newton College, but for many was share during these strange times, I would
• Anne Morgan O'Connor and her husband symbolic of the academic challenge that was really appreciate hearing from you. This is a
Jim had a son, Chris, married in Jackson, our experience at Newton and continues wonderful opportunity for us all to come
Ml, this past summer. Mary Hallisey today for the students of Boston College. together and reconnect as classmates,
McNamara, her husband, Paul, and Kathy See you in May! friends, and women. You know where I am.
Smith O'Sullivan and her husband, Michael, Please get in touch.
were among the group from the Boston area
Dianne M. Duffin-Stanley
in attendance. Mary and Paul's son, Bernie,
6 Hanover Street
graduated from Harvard Business School in

May and was married

December. Their son, Paul, who graduated
in Bethlehem, PA, in
63 Newbury, MA 01951
dduffin @ netplace. com
from BC in '94, just completed his master's
in journalism in June. • Janet Richmond
Latour emailed me with an offer to work on

H ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
 months later and still one can't help but be 8. Condolences to his brother Robert, and
Patricia McNulty Harte moved by the emotions that were unleashed family. Robert writes, "I think his friends will
6 Everett Ave. that day. Hopefully, we have all found comfort remember him for his good heart, his devo-

65 Winchester,
(781) 729-1187
MA 01890 and hope in our Newton beliefs and teach-
ings. As Connie Lynch Godin prophetically
tion to his family, and his vibrancy."

Catherine Beyer Hurst

put it when she sent her news on September
Newton
5, "I will be there (the fortieth) with bells on, 49 Lincoln Street

God now Cambridge, MA 02141

2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
2005,
willing." Let's
God willing,
all

and
plan
in
to be there
the meantime, keep
in
66 cbhurst@mediaone.net
Candidate Watch: Classmate John Criffen is
in touch through this column.
running for vice president/president elect.

Karen Carty O'Toole is a senior business ana-

Linda Crimmins
Newton Robert M. Ford lyst at Fidelity in Boston. She writes that she
RRi Box 1396
Rocky Road
65
Stroudsburg,
crimmins@epix. net
PA 18360
66 77
Andover,
rford7446@mediaone.net
Hill
MA 01810
ismoving toward semi-retirement to spend
more time with an aging parent and grand-
children. Karen lists the marriage of her oldest
son and the births of her four grandchildren
as the biggest lifestyle changes she's under-
Since this is column since the
the first
Most of us are aware of the tragic loss of two gone recently. "It's wonderful to embrace new
September n tragedy, want to send out sin- I

of our classmates during the terrorist attack members into the family, fulfilling to watch
cerest sympathies to those whose lives have
on the Twin Towers in NYC on September 11, your children find happiness with their new
been touched by loss. Indeed, we all lost
2001. The fall issue deadline had passed for spouses." • Mary Kay Brincko Peterson is a
something that day. As a counselor in an ele-
class correspondents (deadlines are three kindergarten teacher in Hartford, CT She
mentary school only seventy-five miles from
months prior to the mailing of the magazine; reports: "Teaching kindergarten in an urban
NYC, see first hand the havoc it has wrought
I

therefore, it is difficult to be too current with school is very hard work physically, emotional-
on our nation's children and grieve for our I

class news). John and John J.

• B. Cahill ly, and spiritually. However, I can't think of
children and our children's children whose
Doherty were victims of that infamous day anything more rewarding!" Mary Kay and hus-
lives have been forever changed. • After enjoy-
that changed our world so shockingly. John B. band Rod are the parents of Colin (who lives
ing two years of leisure, Rowie Barsa Elenbaas
Cahill, a senior executive for Xerox with his wife Marney (who
in St. Louis) and
volunteered to work in the CIA's
Corporation, was on United Airlines Flight 175 lives with her husband in Baltimore). Rod
Counterterrorism division. Immediately after
when it brought down the south tower. His retired in 2000, and is now focused on the
September 11, she was working seven days a
wife, Sharon O'Carroll Cahill is a member of care of their "aged, sometimes cantankerous"
week but is now down to six doing liaison
the class of 1976. John also leaves two sons, parents. • Ros Moore is a psychologist in pri-
work with law enforcement agencies, mainly
Brett and Sean, who are high school students. vate practice and director of training at The
the FBI. All those hours of studying Greek and
The family resides at Four Aberdeen Road, Trauma Center in Allston. She writes that she
Latin at Newton are coming in handy! • Dottie
Sforza Calabrese is home safely following a
Wellesley, MA 02482. John Doherty, a vice J.
gets to do "supervision, clinical care, teach-

safari in Africa. Get that picture of Dottie

president at AON Risk Services, was in the ing, consultation, mentoring, and administra-

south tower when was struck by the plane

it tion of training programs. It keeps my aging
trudging through the jungle dodging swinging
carrying John Cahill. remember John Doherty
I mind and heart engaged!" In a note penned
monkeys and avoiding charging rhinos out of
well from our days at Campion Hall. He was just before reunion, she wrote: "My son Travis
your mind. Dottie stayed at the Sabi Sand
quite a character. He was married to Mary will graduate in June from Harvard, and then
Game Resort, a luxury resort with tennis
Birde Doherty, and they have two daughters, Michael and I will dance around in our freed-
courts, gym, spa services, pool, etc. She did
Barbara and Maureen. The Doherty family up space!" • Evelyn Fu Loh and Lawrence are
go out on two three-hour safaris a day and
resides at 43 Beechwood Road, Hartsdale, NY living in Bellevue, WA. She writes: "Living in
reports that she saw the "big five." I'd guess
10853-1602. • After thirty-five years of mili- Qingdao, China, from 1996-1999 has changed
at what they were but don't want to appear I

foolish. Sounds like a grand adventure! By

tary/government service, Bernard A. Gattozzi me in ways could not have imagined.
I

decided to retire on January 3. He and his Although we were both brought up in Chinese
the way, in response to my second poll, Dottie
wife, Patricia, plan to get the house ready for homes, neither of us was quite ready for what
reports that her grandson calls her "Grandma
sale and when sold, move to CO, western occurred during our stay. We have enough
Dottie." Connie Lynch Godin responded to
•

slope, near Grand Junction, to enjoy some stories to write a book! But what we came
the youngest child poll. We may have a win-
serious skiing and other outdoor activities. away with are the many sweet friendships we
ner!Her youngest son, Brian, was born on
After graduating from BC, he spent nine and a made with the local Chinese as well as with
March 20, 1982, and is a sophomore at a
local junior college near her home in Rl.
half years in the Army (military intelligence), other expatriots. We now have friends around
with thirty months total service in Vietnam the world. In that time, we saw Qingdao
Daughter Danielle is studying for her master's
(call him "Lucky") and twenty-five and a half bloom into a modern city with a new city hall,
in physical therapy at Springfield College, and
years in the national security/emergency plan- city plaza, high rises, hotels, supermarkets,
son Colin Kelly attends the University of
ning area with the headquarters in the department stores, and a 10K ocean drive
Oregon. Connie's husband Henry is retired
Department of Justice in Washington, DC. with parks, amusement
and a children's park,
but she continues to work as a school psy-
Bernard can be contacted at 3456 Briargate center. Qingdao changed in front of
literally
chologist in Central Falls, Rl. She is looking
Court, Fairfax, VA 20033, at ' east unt 'l next our eyes. We were fortunate enough to be
forward to retirement in a few years so she
summer. • The mystery of our missing class able to travel within China extensively and
and Henry can spend more time in their sec-
of 1966 banner has been solved. The where- experienced the multiracial culture and saw
ond home in Venice, FL. My son Michael '90
abouts of the banner had been a mystery many historic sites. Our lives have been
was married to Leslie Kelly on September 22 since the twenty-fifth reunion or one of those enriched in so many ways." • Joyce LaFazia
at the top of Vale Mountain in CO. A gor-
occasions. The banner appeared hanging in Heimbecker is director of family development
geous showing of golden aspen trees in full
the foyer of Alumni House during the visiting and clinical services at the Tri-Town
bloom set against the dark green of ever-
Community Action Program in Johnston, Rl.
hours in memory of John B. Cahill. It seems it
greens, the reunion of family and friends, and
had been hanging in Jack's rumpus room for She writes that her job "has allowed me to
the happiness of the occasion provided a wel-
quite some time. There it will stay! One final
• work within the community, and to support
come respite from the turmoil and chaos that
note on the passing of Roger McGrath, who families in their efforts toward self-sufficiency.
followed that day of September 11. It's a few
died suddenly of a heart attack on November I truly enjoy what I do, but I never imagined

www.bc.edu/alumni 1J
 working forty plus hours per week at this and suggestions are always welcome, please September n. did not hear that anyone in
I

age!" Joyce and her husband, David, execu- contact us at the above address or via email the class was directly affected, although sev-
tive director of the South Coast Educational as we would appreciate your thoughts, espe- eral of us live or work in NY or northern VA,
Collaborative, recently celebrated their sixth cially for the weekend we all get together. and a number of us have children or other
wedding anniversary. Her oldest daughter Please forward your dues directly to Leo family members working or studying in

is an attorney in San Diego; her other three McHugh at 10 Jackson Road, W Medford, those areas. Others know families or indi-
children and Joyce has four grand-
live in Rl, MA 02149. Checks can be made out to the viduals who were not as fortunate. Many of
children ranging in age from one to ten. Class of 1967, Boston College. • Also please us have stories that bear repeating when we
write, phone, or email any news directly to have time together. Meanwhile, let's all

2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board us. Looking forward to seeing you! remember that we are a special group; we
Candidate Watch: Classmate Connie Sullivan care for each other, no matter how long it

is running for Newton. has been since we were last in touch. I can
M. Adrienne Tan Free this from the contacts I've had as work
tell
Newton I

3627 Great Laurel Lane on these columns, and from the number of
Charles and Mary-Anne Benedict Fairfax, VA 22033 you joining in our class prayer network.
84 Rockland Place
67 (703) 709-0896 Let's resolve to keep in touch. My contact

67 Newton Upper
benedictGbaol.com
Falls, MA 02464 chas-

REUNION Class wordsmiths:

points are listed above.
many of you
with all
in late May. Shall
of our might" one more time?
I anticipate seeing
we be "young

REUN ON Congratulations to our

"Cover Maggie MAY 31 JUNE 2 . 2002
Paula Lyons has
Girl," -
issued a challenge. Judith Anderson Day
MAY 31 - JUNE 2 . 20
Kelly Hayes, PhD, Listen to the National Public Radio's come- The Brentwood 323
who appeared on the cover of the
November issue of Advance for Nurses
because of her involvement in the nationally
dy quiz show based on words, "Says You,"
and see if you are more knowledgeable or
creative than she, her husband, Arnie
68 77500 San Vicente Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90049

recognized Framingham heart study. Maggie Reisman, and the other contestants. She
continues her leadership role at Boston attests that it's a superb test of an English There are saints journeying among us! Frank
Medical Center as well. • Another classmate major's education. To learn more about the Connell has taken a one-year sabbatical
has succumbed to cancer. Phil Steinkrauss, show, which season, and where
is in its fifth from his law partnership with Drinker Biddle
PhD, passed away after losing his fight with to listen, log on to www.saysyou.org. & Reath, LLP, in Philadelphia to do a year of
pancreatic cancer. Phil was a good friend Otherwise, Paula continues as a television volunteer service with the Jesuit Volunteer
and the best man at your correspondent's consumer reporter with WBZ-TV in Boston. Corps in Portland, OR. Frank's wife, Ellen, is

wedding more than thirty-two years ago. • A new think tank opened its doors last also a Jesuit volunteer this year. In making
Phil most recently served as VP for adminis- November in Washington, D.C., with Nancy their JVC commitment, Frank and Ellen are
tration at Western Connecticut College. He Birdsall as president. The Center for Global following the example set by their daughter
and wife Ginny lived in Bethel, CT, for many Development sponsors research and public Amy '94, who spent her first year after grad-
years where Phil was very active in commu- and policy group programs focusing on how uating fromBC as a Jesuit volunteer in
nity and church groups, having served as nations with advanced economies affect Spokane, WA. Frank and Ellen are living in
the Supreme Grand Knight for the State of development in poor countries. • Seems community with six other Jesuit volunteers,
Connecticut K of C. Our personal condo- that retirement isn't slowing Donna Shelton ranging in age from twenty-one through sev-
lences as well as those of the class of '67 down. She recently hosted foreign exchange enty, through August 2002. Frank is working
are extended to Ginny, P.J., and Anna for students, and works with a kitchen for the at Volunteers of America's residential reha-
their tragic loss. Please keep Phil and his homeless as well as the Ronald McDonald bilitation center fordrug addicts and alco-
family in your prayers. • We almost lost House; she hopes to do some international holics whoon probation or parole. Ellen
are
BarryMawn in the September n attack traveling soon. • Word comes that Susan works at Sisters of the Road Cafe in down-
inNYC. Barry heads up the FBI office in Nunlist Smyth merged her eighteen-year-old town Portland, which serves homeless and
NYC and came near to losing his life while management consulting business with other marginalized persons. Frank reports
at the WTC as it collapsed. A recent inter- METS, the training and development arm of that this is a long-deferred dream, and that
view with Barry in the Boston Globe regard- Northern Kentucky University, to serve the his and Ellen's new life is very joyous and
ing his actions that day is quite harrowing. • needs of employers to develop their employ- peaceful sofar. Frank and Ellen would love

At the October Veterans Remembrance we ees. Son Brian lives near Susan in to hearfrom you at fjconnell@msn.com. •
were proud to have Mary-Anne Benedict Cincinnati with his wife, Jodi, and "grand- We were saddened to learn of the loss of
(Navy), Helen Purcell (Air Force), Kevin puppy" Guinness. Her other son, Neal, our classmate Thomas Mozzer last August
Slyne (Marine Corps), and Mike Ryan lives in San Francisco. • Denise Hern Wood in Naples, FL. After graduation, Tom served
(Army) represent four of the six branches of reports that she and Rosemary Farley still in Vietnam and received the Army
the service represented on the field of get together several times a year for food Commendation Medal for Meritorious
Alumni Stadium. We are so proud of them and hours of talking. Sounds like they are Service. He was employed by the Hartford
all, as well as other classmates who have just warming up for our class reunion. In a Insurance Group for twenty-seven years. He
served our country. • The plans for our thir- few weeks, classmates will converge from as retired in 1996, moved to Naples, and
ty-fifth reunion are still evolving to some far away as Brazil, some for the first time began a private investigation business. Tom
degree. By the time you read this we will ever or for the first time in many years. • leaves behind his wife, Pauline (Mascaro),
have had two events behind us, one, the Nancy Bray Bottomley is coming back in his mother, brother, and sister. Our prayers
University Chorale Concert/Alumni House touch after fifteen years living in England. are with them. • Our family will be vacation-
open house in early December and the She now works for Habitat for Humanity as ing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, as we visit

reception/hockey game (January n) at a longterm volunteer in Americus, GA. our son Christopher '93 and his family, who
Conte Forum. The committee has a number Where will you be? We hope back in Boston are living for six idyllic months in Todos
of other events under consideration but will for the exciting activities that are being Santos, on the Pacific coast.
in Baja,

not meet until after these notes have gone planned as I write. Watch your mail for the Grandbabies and paradise, a perfect combi-
to press. We Sunday in
have a Laetare details; contact a classmate to come, too. • nation! Wishing you all a gentle spring!
March and Alumni/Reunion weekend on I can't close without mentioning the change
May 31 through June 2, 2002. Your input that has taken place in America since 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board

16 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
Candidate Watch: Classmate Christopher "Kip" "job" at the Mother Caroline Academy in 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
Doran is running for treasurer. Dorchester, a private middle school for inner Candidate Watch: Classmate Janet Cornelia is

city girls. She serves as the volunteer coordi- running for treasurer.
nator, fundraises, and tutors reading and writ-
Kathleen Hastings Miller
Newton ing. She and her husband, Dick, sold their
8 Brookline Road Fran Dubrowski
Newton house and now live in a Back Bay Newton
Scarsdale, NY 70583 3215 Kl ingle Road, NW
68 (914) 723-9241
condo. She keeps in touch with Teddy
Washingotn, DC 20008
Thompson
Teddy is
Helfrich and Sheila
the head of the foreign language
Carroll Curtis.
70 dubrowski@aol.com
department at Brockton High School and
Sheila, after a long career in the business
world, teaches at a middle school in
James R. Littleton
Robert F. Maguire
39 Dale Street Norwood.* We have another author in our
Road
69 Chestnut
jrlneag@aol.com
Hill, MA 02467
class, Margaret Bobalek King. She
working on a book
Experiences in Journal Writing.
titled Tadpole
It's
is

Tales,
currently

directed at
71
46 Plain
Wayland,
rfm71@bc.edu
MA 01778

young children who are acquiring pre-reading

Doug Carnival's daughter Jenny started as a skills. Margaret and her husband, Robert, live

freshman this fall at BC. Doug is a partner in in East Derry, NH. They have three children, MD, has been
Brian P. Curry of Cockeysville,
the Minneapolis, MN, law firm of McGrann, Laura, thirty-one, married and attending law nominated as vice president, president elect
Carnival. Doug's practice is primarily in gov- school in Los Angeles; Michael, twenty-three, of the Alumni Association. Since our gradua-
ernment relations and lobbying. Doug resides and Alice, a senior in
a teaching fellow at MIT; tion Brian and Toni have served BC in many
with his family in Saint Paul, MN. • Mark high school. Sue Davies Maurer emailed me
• capacities. Brian is from a true BC family:
Morley was elected co-chief operating officer reminiscing about how those Newton days dad John V. '45, uncle Fr. Pat Kelly '45, broth-
for ONTOS, Inc., a global e-business solution could continue to be so real to her, after so ers Jack '68 and Mike '74, son Tim '99 and
and software company. • am sorry to I much time. Sue and her husband, Bob, have nephew MJ 'oi. Tim is currently in Belfast,
announce the death from cancer of Dr. Bryan been married for twenty-one years. Between Ireland, earning a master's degree in political

McSweeney. Bryan, who was an oral surgeon the two of them, they have two grown sons. science and son Chris is with a golf club in

inPlymouth, passed away July 30, 2001. Bryan Sue has worked for the state of NJ for more Maryland. Brian has thirty years invested in

was a resident of Scituate. Sympathy goes to years than she'd like to admit. Most recently, the insurance field and is vice president of the
his family. was good to hear from John
• It she has been acting commissioner of the NJ Saint Paul Companies. Our support for Brian
Lohmann who was at work in the Pentagon Department of Corrections. Pam DeLeo • has been requested and is well deserved. •

on September 11. John was working in the Delaney was invited to a White House event Bob Sartini has retired as the administrative
basement on the opposite side from where announcing the Liberty United Web site, director of the Boston University Medical
the plane hit the Pentagon. John had to which lists reputable organizations accepting Center. In a year of diverseaccomplishments
immediately evacuate the Pentagon but was donations for the NYC relief efforts. She felt Bob retired, Trail from
hiked the Appalachian
not hurt. Please take the time to email or honored to be able to hear President Bush Georgia to Maine and married Judith Yogman,
write me and let me know what is new with speak. Her life has taken on greater meaning. after a thirteen-year engagement. His son
you. She is comforted by the fact that her work Jonathan is a chef in Boston and daughter
directly helps the NYPD and its mission. • Jill Emily is a naturalist in Tucson, AZ. Just finish-
Hendrickson Daly's daughter, Jen, escaped ing twenty-six years of announcing BC football
the tragedy on September 11 because she was at Alumni Stadium is Tom Burke. In 1976, his
Mary Cabel Costello
Newton late for work at the WTC that day. • Diane first game was a win over Texas. Tom only
4507 Swan Lake Drive Palmer Lilly writes that she is married to missed one game in 1985 when his son was
Copley, OH 44321-1167
69 mgc102g@aol.com
David, lives
Irene, fourteen; a
in Minneapolis, has
Portuguese water dog
a daughter, rushed to the hospital. Cal Ripken-esque
numbers! He is also in his sixteenth year of
named Hill ie; and works as a senior VP at public address announcing for the BC
Wells Fargo. • Two updates: Deborah National Champion hockey team. In his hock-
Spring greetings! The alumni office notified Donovan says she is finally getting that mas- ey tenure only four games have been missed
me of the death of Franny Whelan Dixon on ter's in American studies. She commutes since 1984. Thanks, for your dedicated serv-
August 8, 20CH. For nineteen years, she weekly to Trinity College. Chantal Moreau ice. • Sam Scribner was born and raised in

taught math at Lincoln Academy in Aramati says her son Justin continues his Panama City, Panama. In 1999, he sold the
Newcastle, ME, and for several years, she musical career on the clarinet performing at family furniture business founded in 1951 and
served as the head of the math department. Carnegie Hall and Constitution Hall. Adam, relocated to Orlando, FL. Along with his
In her spare time, she enjoyed gardening and her junior, is an accomplished trumpet player. brother they now have three furniture stores
traveling. She was married for thirty years to Chantal enjoys being the director of religious in FL. In 1975, he married Cathy who also was
Stephen Dixon, whom she met in kinder- education at St. Philip Neri Church in born and raised in Panama where her dad
garten. I remember the two of them together Newton. Take care. was an engineer with the Canal. They have
in the dining room.
She is survived by her four children, Emma (twenty-five), Sam (twen-
husband, two sons, and a daughter. 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board ty-three), Charles (nineteen), and Mary (thir-

Remember them in your prayers. • On a hap- Candidate Watch: Classmate Susan Gallagher teen). The Scribner's still have a home in
pier note, I received a photo of Winnie Loving is running for secretary. Panama with a view of the Canal. Sam was
and her new husband, Inglore Westerman, hoping to contact Greg Daoust, a CPA in
"jumping the broom," an African-American Needham and Jim McGuire an attorney in

custom that brings good fortune to a newly Norman C. Cavallaro Barrows, AK. Sam is at cgscribner@aol.com.
married couple. Winnie and Inglore live in c/o North Cove Outfitters
St.Croix, but enjoy traveling. Recently they vis-
ited

•
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and
Kathy O'Neil Jodka writes that after twenty-
Iceland. 70 75Main Street
Old Saybrook, CT 06475
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
Candidate Watch: Classmate Brian Curry
ning for vice president/president-elect and
is run-

nine years in the investment business, she Edward Saunders is running for treasurer.
retired, but immediately found a volunteer

www.bc.edu/alumni
 countless four-and five-course meals. The changed from teaching to being a school
Ceorgina M. Pardo following week, werented a car and drove psychologist. She and her husband jack live
Newton
6800 S.W. 67th Street around Tuscany stopping here and there. It in Canton. Their daughter, Krissy, is in col-
S. Miami, FL 33143 was wonderful. hope to find you and your I lege at Northeastern. Jane and her hus-
71 ed.gigi@ worldnet. att. net family in good health. Regards. band, Ralph Schlosstein, are still in NY.
They have a daughter, Kate, and a son,
Lawrence C. Edgar Jamie. Jane owns her own business, which
Melissa Robbins, Kate Foley and husbands
530 5. Barrington Avenue, #110 focuses primarily on providing analyses of
met for dinner in Westerly, Rl, to celebrate
Melissa and Kate's September birthdays.
September also marked the anniversary of
72 Los Angeles,
ledgar@earthlink.net
CA 90049 legislative
countries, and
ness forecasts.
and political issues in different

how
• Meg
these may affect busi-
Barres Alonso and
Melissa and Kate's first meeting, which was
family are very happy that the recent
in 1955, when they entered first grade! •
Chris Moran walked a half-marathon on REUNION tragedies did not touch them, unlike others

September 30 to raise money for research It seems like yester- who live near them outside Philadelphia.
MAY 31 - JUNE 2 • 2002
for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute
day that we were After Christmas, they will do the tour of col-
(Boston). She would like to walk next
attending the twenty-fifth reunion, but this is leges with son Mike, who is a high school

September in memory of the Newton class

already my last chance to encourage you to junior. During a recent tour of Princeton,

of '71 women who have died of cancer. If you

attend the thirtieth. hope to see you on
I Meg had thoughts of Mary Coan and her

wish to join her, either by walking or making

May 31 through June • Not only has it
2. mother's run for mayor. • Lenecia Anderson
been quite a season for the Eagles on the has been in Atlanta for seven years. CBS
a pledge, let me know and I will put you in
gridiron, but also it's been likewise for their brought her there as south eastern regional
touch with Chris. • Francine Hughes ran into
Rene Noctigal last summer while visiting a
fans here in LA. We've had some of the best sales manager for the Spot Sales Division.

good friend at Beaver Lake in NJ. Francine's

turnouts I've ever seen at Yankee Doodles Lenecia, like many ex-New Englanders, has

husband Brian surprised her with a trip to on the Santa Monica Mall, with an age grown accustomed to the climate in the
range that has reached twenty-two through south: little to no snow. Her heart, though,
Big Sur for their twenty-ninth wedding
seventy-eight! • had a chance to speak to a is still in Boston, and she visits her mother
anniversary (that's why she missed the I

candidate for governor of California, Bill and sister often and misses the Boston
reunion). Their youngest son is at
Georgetown, Patrick completed his master's
Simon Jr. LAW '82, and learned that one of Symphony Orchestra. Lenecia enjoys the

in education last May and is teaching fifth

his best friends is Roger Egan, managing High Museum and Alliance Theatre and is

director ofMarsh and McLennan, who on the board of aid of the Children of
grade in Milburn, and Kristin is working. •
helped organize the firm's memorial service Imprisoned Mothers, a non-profit organiza-
Peg Marcotte, Sharon Zailckas Lena, and
for the employees who lost their lives in the tion. She also enjoys cooking and garden-
hubbies were supposed to get together over
attacks. • had a message from life insur-
I ing. • Let's keep our fingers crossed that
the Labor Day holiday. However, Peg's job
ance executive and Hartford resident Dick Mary Catherine Deibel and Upstairs at the
with IBM kept her working through that
Mucci, who reports that he has two off- Pudding will be ready for our thirtieth
weekend.In her September 4 email, Peg
spring at Holy Cross, a son who's a senior reunion. Stay tuned. • Norma Tanguay Frye
commented: "You'd think this stuff is so
important with the intensity it gets."
and a daughter who's a freshman. • Ernie was in CA during the tragedy. Nonetheless,
Reading that, realized how much life has
I
Dubester, who served as an appointee to a Norma was able to have dinner and a great
national mediation board during the Clinton visit with Maureen Kelly. Back in the
changed for all of us since September n:
Most everyone know, myself included,
I
years, is now a processor at George Mason Boston area, Norma is with Compaq.
University in Virginia. • Mark Wincek is a Before that Norma was with Digital as a
spends more time with family and friends
and less at work. Sharon's oldest son, Rich,
charter fellow of the American College of program manager of an employee engage-
is a general's aid and is stationed in Kuwait.
Employee Benefits Council. • Jack Calareso ment program for the Services Division.
has been appointed president of Ohio This required that she travel all over the
Her youngest, Chris, is in his second year of
Dominican College, making him the first world for over a year, including three trips
medical school. Madeline Finnerty found
•

herself surrounded by BC graduates when

layperson ever to be accorded that honor. to the far east. Now, Norma is doing more
traditional internal and marketing commu-
she attended the wedding of Laura Back '93.
Nancy Brouillard McKenzie, Esq. nications. Her daughter, Maggie, is a fresh-
She has known the bride since she was nine Newton
years old and was delighted when Laura
7526 Sebago Road man at Brandeis University and Brian is a
lived her freshman year in Madeline's old
Bethesda, MD 20817-4840 freshman in high school (and already
dorm, Keyes. Turned out that the groom,
72 nancy.brouillard.trickenzie@bc.edu 6'3"!). Bob continues teaching at Regis.

father-in-law, brother-in-law, and about twen-

Norma still sees and talks with Anne
Brescia regularly. Anne's son Anthony is
ty-three other members of the wedding party
were BC grads. The priest who married REUNION Shea is at
Tracie
now in first grade and really keeps her hop-
them, Fr. Richard McCowan, aprofessor at
ping. Finally, Norma plays tennis weekly
M AY 31 - JUNE 2 • 2002 Brown University as an
new person
|

her group
|

and learned that a in

BC, was happy to have a wedding after hav- associate professor in
went to Newton and graduated from BC in
ing said five funerals in the previous two the department of psychiatry and human
weeks for BC alumni who were killed on 1975. Carolyn Isaak is the executive director
behavior. Tracie spends a couple of days a
September n. • My husband Ed and flew for the New Hampshire Chapter of the
I
week at the Veterans Affairs Hospital treat-
Rome American Institute of Architects and still
to for the diaconate ordination of a ing veterans with post-traumatic stress dis-
does freelance graphic design for selected
good friend. Thirty-five American men order (PTSD) and assorted other problems,
attending the North American College
clients. Her daughter, Keely, graduated from
in and does research primarily in the areas of
Oberlin in 1999 and was recently married at
Rome were ordained at the main altar at St. PTSD, personality disorders, and personali-
a private ceremony to Michael McCraken.
Peter's Basilica. Ed and I walked all Rome. ty and psychopathology. Her best news is
Margie Cangemi Sullivan, Ellen Conway
We had private tours of all four Roman that she adopted a little girl from Russia in
Barber, and Kathy Connor visited her house
Basilica's and of the excavations beneath St. March 1998. Her daughter is five years old,
last winter for a mini-reunion. Also, the
Peter's. We visited Mater Admirabilis in a delight, lively, tons of fun, and just plain
anyone who
Trinita dei Monti, talked to
summer before this past one, Carolyn
adorable. Traciesaw Karen Formichella
would put up with our Italian, and ate our climbed Mt. Greylock in western MA with
Krowski and Jane Hartley this summer,
Kathy and Betsy Leece Conti and had a
way through three four-hour banquets and both at Martha's Vineyard. Karen just
wonderful dinner with Kathy and her par-

18

ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
 ents. Margie, Ellen, Carolyn, Margie's hus- magazine in 1996 because of his achieve- couple of weeks after the World Trade Center
band, Michael Sullivan '72, and Ellen's ments with the harbor project. After receiving and Pentagon attacks, Jim and were able to I

friend,Weld Morse, met in October for din- his undergraduate degree in economics and go to NY for the extraordinary memorial Mass
ner town of Duxbury. Carolyn
in Ellen's English from BC, Walter received his master's said by members of the BC Jesuit community.
reports that all seem well and happy. • The degree in city regional planning from Cornell. So many members of the BC community were
news from Kenwood is simply filled with • Our classmate Dr. John Gallagher, associate there to pray and show support for each other
energy. If you send me an email, I will send professor of management at Maryville College and for those families who lost loved ones; it
you the current reading list of our beloved in Maryville, TN, was named the College's was an incredible experience. The Mass was
religious. Kenwood has a special home for Outstanding Teacher for 2000-2001 during said at beautiful St. Ignatius Loyola in
our Newton yearbooks if anyone wants to the college's May 2001 commencement exer- Manhattan, which is Len DeLuca's parish, and
donate them to their library. If you want to cises: "The outstanding teacher award this it was so nice to see him. • On to good news:
add to the Kenwood library, the best gift is a year is presented to professor who is a model I received a note from John Pfeiffer, who, after
monetary donation to avoid duplicate pur- for students as a community activist, as an twenty years of residency and then private
chases. Take care. My email box loved all the innovative thinker, and as someone who rec- practice in Akron, OH, is now the town family
mail for this column. ognizes the importance of building and main- physician in Celebration, FL. Celebration is

taining positive human relationships," said famous for being Disney's foray into urban liv-
Dr. Marti Craig, associate academic dean dur- ing. Sounds pretty good! • My friend Maureen
Joy A. Malone, Esq.
Galvin McCafFerty has returned to the BC
16 Lewis Street
neighborhood. She is teaching fourth grade
Little Falls, NY 13365
73 class0fj3@bc.edu
Pops on the Heights 2002 at Mount Alvernia Academy. • would love to
hear from you. Please write or email, and take
I

Classmates, it is with the deepest sorrow that

io tn Anniversary care.

we must report the tragic death of our class- September 27, 2002 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
mate, Gary Lasko, on September 11, 2001,
during the World Trade Center attack. Gary
Tickets on sale now Candidate Watch: Patricia McNabb Evans is
running for vice president/president elect, and
worked at One World Trade Center in NY as a
Bill McCarthy is running for chair elect.
managing director for Marsh USA. You may
Call 1-800-767-5591
contact his wife by writing to her at: 326 River
Beth Docktor Nolan
Oaks Road North, Memphis, TN 38120. Also, for more information. Newton
if any of you have any fond remembrances of
693 Boston Post Road
Gary, then please share them with the class in Weston, MA 02492
one of these columns. Never, never forget
ing her presentation of the award. John was
74
that one of our own classmates lost his life on
an English major at BC and later earned his
that terrible day. To Gary's wife and family,
MBA and doctorate in strategic management I had a most enjoyable time at the Alumni
please accept the class of '73's most profound
from the University of Tennessee. Nominated Association dinner and presentation of "An
condolences. We will keep you in our prayers.
by juniors and seniors at Maryville College, Evening with Margot Morrell." Margot, an
• On March 19 of this year, our classmate
John was selected from among sixty-four full- international best-selling author, spoke on her
Msgr. Timothy was ordained an
P. Broglio
time faculty members. He received a $1,000 favorite subjects: Sir Ernest Shackleton, effec-
archbishop to the Dominican
cash award and has the responsibility of mace tive leadership, and team-building. Margot is
Republic and Puerto Rico by Pope John Paul II
bearer at academic ceremonies held through- a great speaker; not only was her talk informa-
at a ceremony held in St. Peter's Basilica in
out the academic year. Maryville has been tive and but also it was downright enjoy-
witty,
Rome. Previously, Archbishop Broglio was
ranked in the top 10 of U.S. New and World able! Margot has not changed. It was
Ergo,
chief of staff to the Vatican
Report's listing of the best Southern liberal also great to catch up and laugh with Sharon
secretary of state. Now he will much
have a
arts colleges. • Classmates, thanks for your Byrne Kishida who trekked down from
more pastoral position. If any member of the
forwards and emails. Your classmates look Rockport for Margot's talk. Sharon lives in
class is down in Puerto Rico or the
forward to this column and to hearing from Rockport with husband Earl and sons Perry,
Dominican Republic be sure to call
you. Until next time! fourteen, and Christian, twelve. Sharon works
ahead to make plans to visit with the new
for the Department of Environmental
archbishop. Perhaps the class might consider
Nancy Warburton Desisto Protection as a regional recycling coordinator
holding its thirtieth reunion in Puerto Rico? Newton
P.O. Box 142 serving thirty communities north of Boston.
Well, why not? just
W. BoothBay Harbor, ME 04575 Earl, a financial planner and captain in the US
wanted to remind you all, again, that the new
alumni Web site, as well as the BC online
73 desistonancy@aol.com Navy Reserves, was recently made command-
er of the Iceland Defense Force Joint Reserve
community, is up and running and you can
Unit. Please remember as you read these
access lots of BC features at:
Peggy Beyer wants everyone to know that she notes, the next class notes are due and I still
www.bc.edu/alumni. Log on and sign up for
was not in the Pentagon when it was attacked have not heard from you!
eNews and you will start receiving notices
on September 11. She was off site and all of
about football games and other activities
her direct co-workers were not injured. She is
involving BC. So go to your computer right Hellas M. Assad
continuing to work for the Pentagon
now, log on, and sign up for eNews from the 149 Lincoln Street
Renovation Program.
Alumni Association. You'll be glad you did. • Norwood, MA 02062
Camp Dresser and McKee Inc., the global
consulting, engineering, construction, and
Patricia McNabb Evans 75
operations firm headquartered in Cambridge,
35 Stratton Lane
MA
announced earlier this year the promotion of
our classmate Walter G. Armstrong to senior
vice president. Previously, Walter was project
74 Foxboro, 02035
paej4bc@a0l.com Hello everyone. Thank you to Jack Hamilton
for sending in his personal update. In

September of 2001 he accepted the position

manager for the $3.5 billion Boston Harbor
Happy New Year! hope that 2002 brings us
I of president and CEO of Medway Cooperative
Project and named one of the Top 25
much deserved peace and happiness. A
all Bank, in Medway. The road to this position
Newsmakers by "Engineering News Record"

www.bc.edu/alumni
 ran through a number of banking corpora- hundreds of mourners were fellow class-
tions, including BayBank, Bank of New mates Kathy Murphy, Pola (Papetti)Buckley, Mary Jo Mancuso Otto
England, Numerica Savings Bank of NH, Judy(Harvey)Hayes, Lois Gannon, Ellen 256 Woodland Road
NY 14534
and Bay State Savings Bank in Worcester.
On a professional level, he has committed a
great deal of time and energy over the past
Donahue and yours
ing to her parents and to
she is
truly.

sorely missed. Requiescat in pace.

Danni was
all her friends, and
a bless-

•
11 Pittsford,
mottoooi@ rochester. rr. com

eight years to the promotion of economic Edward J. Papa worked in the same building
After five years as
and affordable housing development among on the 95th floor as a vice president for
office manager of
minority and low income communities in Cantor Fitzgerald. Eddie attended
M A Y 17 - 19 • 2002 Vincent Automotive,
Central MA. As a result of his efforts he has Chaminade High School in Mineola, NY,
Mary Jo Mancuso
received a number of recognitions includ- with this writer and several other BC class-
Otto left there in March 2001 and accepted
ing. 1995 Community Leader Award, Centro mates, and he would often be seen at BC-
a position with the downtown Rochester
Las Americas, Worcester; 1998 Business Army games at West Point and, occasionally,
office of Morgan Stanley, as administrative
Advisor of the Year, Worcester Minority on The Heights. He loved BC. Always quick
• Chinook
assistant to the branch manager.
Business Council; 1999 MA Financial with a hearty hello, Eddie would then flash a
Communications has named Margaret
Services Advocate of the year, US Small Bus. truly memorable smile. A fine and very disci-
Cutler as vice president of human
Admin; 24th Annual Leadership Award plined basketball player in high school, Ed
resources. She will lead the company's HR
2001, National Conference of Community exuded a self-confidence and poise through-
department and will direct the recruiting of
and Justice, Worcester. The common thread out his shortened life. He married his high
talented professionals for the fast-growing
among these honors is his work in opening school sweetheart, Patti, shortly after gradu-
startup. • The 2,000 member Defense
access to banking services, particularly in ating fromBC with an English degree, and
Research Institute, the nation's largest asso-
the small business area, to underserved God blessed them with four daughters,
ciation of civil litigation defense lawyers, has
communities. He and his wife of eighteen Michelle, Maggie, Elizabeth, and Kacee. Ed
named Ft. Lauderdale attorney Douglas M.
years', Trish, live in Chelmsford and will be missed our twenty-fifth reunion because one
Mcintosh as a recipient of its Outstanding
Medway area sometime in
relocating to the daughter was graduating from high school,
State Leadership Award. Douglas Mcintosh
2002. They spend much of their spare time but he was there in spirit, and Chris Joyce,'
is president of the law firm Mcintosh,
raising and showing their Rhodesian Nick Deane and Phil Elum, among other
Sawran & Peltz, Ft. Lauderdale. • Paul J.
Ridgeback Hounds Zappa and Chunga. He chums, fielded multiple inquiries about him.
Mellett has joined Althexis as CFO and vice
is also involved in the amateur music world, Ed's brother, a Catholic priest, married Patti
president of administration and finance.
and host (as well as try to play in) a couple and Ed, and presided at a crowded memori-
Prior to this he was an audit partner with
of blues based "guitar jams" in Worcester al Mass held September 22 on Long Island.
Deloitte and Touche in its Boston office. •
each year. Anyone interested in saying hello Requiescat in pace. • Margaret (Lavelle)
Joy Torresyap Oakes has worked as a regis-
to John may stop by the Medway Bank any- Ogonowski lost her husband, John, a pilot
tered nurse in OB at Brigham and Women's
time or drop him an emailJhamilton@ at of American Airlines flight n, in the terrorist
Hospital since 1982. She also plays the
medwaycoopbank.com. Please send in your attack. Boston-area papers were replete with
trumpet in several bands and runs to stay
updates. We all look forward to hearing mournful faces at his memorial services.
fit. • After twenty-five years of working and
from you. Requiescat in pace. • Sharon (O'Carroll)
living in NY, John C. Smith has moved back
husband, John B. Cahill '66, was
Cahill's a
to Boston to assume a new position at
Margaret M. Caputo passenger on United Airlines Flight 175,
Newton Marsh, Inc., as head of New England
which murderously struck the second tower.
102 West Pine Place Operations. • Timothy Redmond runs a suc-
MO He also leaves two sons, Brett and Sean.
St. Louis, 63108 cessful consulting business developing tech-
Requiescat When you receive your
75 m.caputo@att.net
ballot for the
in pace. •

Boston College Alumni

nology solutions for small and medium size
businesses. These include Web sites, online
Association board, please vote for Cam
databases and Internet connections. You
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board Murphy-Van Noord, a candidate for director,
can contact Tim at Tim@TORAssociates
Candidate Watch: Classmate Mary Pasciucco east of the Mississippi. Cam, a resident of
.com. • Leo Vercollone, twenty-fifth reunion
McCue is running for Newton. Clearwater, FL, is a fundraiser for the
gift chair, writes that the committee has
world's largest hospice. Serving more than
impressive goals. He and his dedicated
1,400 patients a day, the Hospice of the
Gerald B. Shea, Esq. group of volunteers are looking to present
Florida Suncoast in Largo, FL, needs Cam's
10 Rogers St. #501 Fr. Leahy with the largest twenty-fifth
many
76
talents as it strives to raise $32 mil-
Cambridge, MA 02142 lion. Cam served with distinction on several
reunion gift ever! They also want our class
to be the first twenty-fifth reunion to obtain
class reunion committees, and her love of
50 percent class participation. (The Class of
BC continues as founder of the BC Club of
1973 holds the record with 47 percent.) They
Tampa Bay. Good luck, Cam! • Please keep
need our help. For more information, please
The terrible and cowardly attack of last all affected classmates and our soldiers,
contact Leo at 781-934-7300. • A note from
September 11 struck our class and class- sailors, and fliers in your prayers during
Roland Regan, also a member of our twenty-
mates hard. Murdered inside Tower One of these trying times. As the centurian said:
fifth reunion committee: Roland's company
the World Trade Center was Danielle A. "Let them hate us, but let them fear us,
NAGW has merged with ProMonde.lnc. His
Delie. Affectionately known as "Danni," too." Please keep in touch. You can now
travels take him to Cuba, NYC, and
Danielle was raised in Astoria, NY, by her email to gerbs54@hotline.com. God bless!
Washington, D.C., on business. Roland still
lovely parents, Amie and Marcel, who sur-
teaches part-time at Harvard, Suffolk, and
vive her. This writer met her during fresh- 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
SSC. He recently co-authored and published
man year, and thereafter grew to love her Candidate Watch: Classmate Cam Van Noord
his second book From Boston to
entitled
and the friendship she provided for twenty- is running for director, east of Mississippi.
Berlin. Net proceeds from the book will be
nine years. Danni was an excellent forensic
placed in a scholarship fund for graduating
accountant, and worked for CAPS, a sub-
high school students accepted to BC.
sidiary of Marsh USA on the 100th floor, at
Roland urges all of his classmates to pledge
the time of her death. A sad and poignant,
a minimum of $500 each to this year's class
but ultimately uplifting, memorial Mass was
gift as a symbol of our gratitude to a univer-
held in Astoria on October 27. Among the
sity which continues "Ever to Excel." •

20 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
Bonnie Vanden-Heuvel Clay writes that she our class notes. Thanks to all who sent me
and her husband Jeff have been living in SLC, Julie Butler Evans emails. Keep them coming. Congratulations
UT, for the past eight years. Bonnie is a pedi- Road to Alica Lewis on being selected as one of
977 West
atric

hospital
enjoy
nurse practitioner at Primary Children's

all
in

that
SLC.
SLC
Bonnie and
offers and would
Jeff very much
like to see
78 New Carman, CT 06840
jubutevans@aol.com
Greenwich's (CT) Distinguished Teachers
2001. Alica and her husband
three-year-old son in
live

Old Greenwich, CT. She

with their
in

anyone coming out there for the Olympics. has been teaching for fifteen years. • I am sad
She encourages all the members of the Rat Hey! Is this the winter of your content or dis- to report the passing of Ralphine Humphrey.
Pack and the member s of the 1977 hockey content? (Just a little Shakespeare reference She was the night charge nurse in the CCU at
team weekend of May 17 for
to join us the for old times sake.) Sign on, clickety-click the Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton.
some fun memories and a few cocktails. • As old mouse, and email me about your life! We She leaves a husband and three children. • It
a member of the reunion committee, Nancy
can use any news. Big, I mean HUGE, con- was great to hear from Dennis Markell. He
Sardella is looking forward to seeing old gratulations are in order for R.T. Rybak, who lives in Bedford, NH, with his wife and two
friends when we gather in May to celebrate. was the surprise winner of the Minneapolis daughters. After twenty years with The
She writes this: "I hope to see all my roomies mayoral election this past November. A politi- Travelers Insurance and United Healthcare, he
from Mod 138. I've just completed six years cal novice, R.T. soundly defeated the two-term recently joined The Sadler Agency in Nashua,
on the North Reading School Committee, incumbent mayor. Hail the conquering hero! • NH. He is proud to report that his older

where served two years as chair. With four

I
Gregg Tousignanat is also to be patted on the daughter, Jennifer, is the lead flute player in

children, was definitely

it a worthwhile invest- back for his recent installation as the 2001- her school band and his youngest, Amanda,
ment of time and energy. Last May, I started a 2002 president of the Louisiana CPA Society was awarded the Presidential Scholar Award
new job at Tufts University as assistant direc- Northeast Chapter. Gregg will serve a one-year last year. He is praying for scholarships. He is

tor of alumni relations so I have a renewed term as president of the local chapter, having the president of the Rotary Club and has
appreciation and fondness for Boston College. previously served as president-elect in 2000- taught CCD for eight years. He enjoys sailing
I'm living in North Reading with my children, 2001. He currently sits on the LCPA's with his family and dabbles in politics. He
Michael, nineteen and a student at UMass Computer Education Committee and has been invites any classmates to join him for some
Lowell; Meghan, seventeen and a senior at a member of the Technology Task Force and "meet and greet" house parties during the
NRHS whose goal is to be accepted at
(and Business Consulting Committee. Gregg serves next Republican primary season. He would
BC for the fall; Marielle, fifteen and a sopho- as the chief financial officer of his family's like to hear from any classmates, especially
more at NRHS (and an avid hockey player, not chain of Sonic Drive-In franchises. • Speaking his baseball teammates, at dmarkell@
to mention that she's also a state and of driving, Susan Orlando Liu was more than sadlerinsurance.com. • Enjoy your spring.
National Hockey Champion); and Molly, thir- happy to drive away from Chicago and on to Please don't forget to email me with material
teen and an eighth grader (who loves dancing Washington, D.C., this past fall in a relocation for these notes.
and basketball). I would love to hear from old brought on by her husband Mike's appoint-
friends and can be reached at nancy.sardel- ment to the office of H.U.D. • Virginia (Ginny) 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
la@tufts.edu." • On a sad note, William G. Cameli Lawrence emailed that she was in Candidate Watch: Classmate Keith Matthews is

Minardi of Mount Kisco, NY, died September search of Stephen Jones, mentioned in this running for secretary.
11. William worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on column recently. Ginny lives in Arlington, MA,
the 105th floor of One World Trade Center. with her husband Steve and three children, Alison Mitchell McKee, Esq.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family. Anthony, seventeen, and identical twin girls, Road
1128 Brandon
• Hope to see you all the weekend of May 17!

Here's "Top 10 Ways to Enjoy Your Twenty-

Anna and Jackie, fourteen.
operates a catering business specializing
Ginny owns and
in
8l VA 23451
Virginia Beach,
amckee8i@aol.com
Fifth Class Reunion," submitted by Kate small gourmet dinner and cocktail parties in

Daniello and Shawn Larsen, as suggested by client's homes. Mmmmm. • Hope all this

last year's Hook-up with a

reunion class: i. gives the rest of you food for thought about Just a further note on our twentieth reunion
college roommate or old BC friends and GO popping your news in the mail. My only news weekend. Margaret Murphy extends her
(last year's goers said it was the best time of note is that I recently became the proud thanks to George McGoldrick for organizing a

they've had in twenty years). 2. Leave your mom of a United States Marine. Son Blake, cocktail party on Friday night for many of our
spouse or partner at home to enjoy a spa/golf eighteen, is a private first class serving in the classmates and a Softball game on Saturday.
weekend (she/he doesn't really want to come infantry. As of this writing he is still stateside, It sounds like all those who attended the
anyway). 3. Party and pretend you're still in and despite my patriotism, I hope he stays reunion had a great time. We'll be planning
college! Rev up the old Springsteen tunes. 4.
stateside for a while. God bless all the rest of our next one before we know it! • It was great
Stay in the dorms (it's cheaper, more conven- you and have a good winter! to hear from Steve Roche for the first time
ient, and a great way to continue catching up since graduation. Steve lives in Hollis, NH,
with your classmates). 5. Catch up with every- Laura Vitagliano with his wife, Donna, and their children,
one's what's-it-like-to-be forty-something 78 Wareham Street Danielle (eight) and Marcus (five). He's been
MA
thoughts.
who
6. Commiserate with
are as old as you, as out of shape as you
and as stressed as you! 7. Reacquaint yourself
"old friends"

79 Medford,
(781) 396-2972
02155 up there
2000, Steve
for about twenty years.
finally left

Pine Software, which he co-founded

March
Nashua-based White
In

in 1984.
with Boston, and discover some fun new He writes that it was "a long strange trip"
attractions (trolley and duck tours, Cheer's in 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board from working out of their homes through
Faneuil Hall, Museum of Science). 8. Visit the Candidate Watch: Classmate Brian Kickham is
doing an IPO in 1996, but the end result was
bookstore and buy some BC wear to impress running for chair elect, and Ken Pierce is run- worth it . Fortunately, Steve sold "just in time"
your friends with where you went to school. 9.
ning for director, east of Mississippi. last year (one of the few of us, I bet) and has
Tour the BC campus; it's come a long way moved on to new ventures. He's currently
since the Seventies. 10. Use the weekend to Dr. John Carabatsos chief technology officer for a Sydney,
tour one or more of the outstanding colleges Australia-based software company called
in the area with your children.
80 478 Torrey Street
Brockton, MA
j.carabatsos.dmd@worldnet.att.net
02301 Powerlan, Ltd.
they want
He hopes
him "down under." We shall see. •
Tim Cruz was appointed the Plymouth County
to remain in NH, but

district attorney by acting Massachusetts

As another winter draws to a close I bring you Governor Jane Swift on November 8, 2001.

www.bc.edu/alumni 21
 This is typically a four-year elected position Saddle River, NJ, 07458. • Joe DeBellis and all [BC Class of 1983] with peace, tranquility,
but Tim is fulfilling Michael Sullivan's posi- Ed Kwan were at the heart of the attacks in and good will." • Steve Casey joined

tion since he was appointed to a U.S. NYC, offering their help and support. TidalWire, Inc., a leader in storage network-
Attorney position by President Bush. Tim They're both plastic surgeons who were on ing products, service, and information as
will be running for election in November hand at St. Vincent's Hospital to help out. chief financial officer. Prior to joining
2002. Those of you who live in Plymouth When he's not being called on in emergen- TidalWire, Steve served as corporate con-
County, please be sure to vote for Tim next cies such as that, Joe runs a software com- troller forSend.com, an Internet-based gift
November! Tim and his wife, Rose Marie, pany called ViloX. Joe lives in Southampton service company. • It is with deep regret that
live in Marshfield with their two sons, with his girlfriend, Eleanor Mondale, and a I submit the news that Brion Hall died on
Timothy (eleven) and Alex (nine). • farm full of animals. Eleanor even gave Joe July 31, 2001 in Chapel Hill, NC. Brion left
Congratulations to Kevin Thomas and his a Clydesdale for his fortieth birthday. My his wife Deborah and two sons, Jeremy and
on the birth of their twin daugh-
wife, Tracy, fortieth was similar — I got a case of Joshua. Our heartfelt prayers are with the
ters, Regan Elise and Anna Christine, on Budweiser! • Former football captain Rich Hall family. • Please call me or email your
October 19. Kevin's dad, Edwin Thomas '44 Dyer was named the president and general class notes.
(who has been so good about writing me manager of KETV, the ABC affiliate in
over the years regarding Kevin's where- Omaha, NE. Rich has been building his suc- Carol A. Baciawski, Esq.
abouts), reports that "Mother Tracy is cessful career at radio and television sta- 29 Beacon Hill Road
straight out with two-year-old Abigail as an
added chow hound." Kevin and his family
live in Cohassett and he practices dentistry
Sue Gallant let us
tions across the country.*
know that she, Katy Comerford, Maureen
McLaughlin Brophy, and Kathy Rokes still
84 W. Springfield, MA 01089
(413) 737-2166

in Milton and Medford with his brothers, tailgate together during football season.
Brian and Richard. In the meantime, Kevin's Maura married Michael Brophy last June. • Hope everyone had happy holiday season! a
dad says he's "suffering in Naples six Congratulations to Beth Dixon Clark who Here's the news that have received from I

months and Cape Cod for summer." Sounds was recently elected to the Board of classmates. Lisa Hauck, her husband, Paul
pretty appealing! • Finally, Jamie Dahill, Education in Portland, CT Beth works at Borkovich, and their three-year-old son,
another of my faithful correspondents, Aetna. • If you haven't already done so, George John Borkovich, are pleased to
wants his BC
know that he attended
pals to please remember to pay your class dues of announce the newest member of their fami-
the BC Notre Dame and Miami games and $25. That helps us plan events for you lead- ly, Nicholas Frederick Borkovich, born on
"had a blast. .two awesome games at the ing up to our reunion. hope you'llI also July li, 2001. Lisa is an RN in the neurolo-
Heights!" Jamie is still in NYC and writes make it www.bc.edu/alumni
a habit to visit gy/neurosurgery step-down unit at the
that he attended the beautiful BC memorial to check out their online community; also, UCLA Medical Center. Lisa writes that she
Mass on Park Ave. for the many people lost don't forget to register and get your email recently returned from visiting her hus-
on September 11. Jamie's current email is address onto the directory. That's all for band's family in Croatia. Lisa and Paul's
jldahill@aol.com. was somewhat relieved
• I now. long-term project is restoring their 1928
not to have received any news regarding Spanish-style home in Los Angeles. Earlier
specific losses suffered by our classmates in 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board last year, Lisa writes, she met up with BC
connection with the tragic events of Candidate Watch: Classmate Dawn McNair is roommate Maureen Ryan (aka "Mo") at the
September 11. Nonetheless, I know that all running for director, greater than ten years, Los Angeles screening of her documentary
of us have been deeply affected by this terri- andJane Sulik is running for director, greater film, Wisconsin Death Trip. The film is about
ble tragedy and its aftermath. Please contin- than ten years. life at the turn of the century in a small
ue to pray for all members of our extended Wisconsin town called Black River Falls. It

BC family who have suffered a loss, and Cynthia J. Bocko was shot in black and white historical recre-
pray that God will keep all of us and our yi Hood Road ations and color contemporary documentary
families safe during these uncertain times.
83 Tewksbury,

(97fy 851-6119
MA 01876

•
footage. Released
film toured
al film festivals.
around the world
It
in the

has aired on the

fall of 1999, the
in internation-
BBC and
John A. Feudo Cinemax, and began its theatrical release in
8 Whippletree Lane
82 Amherst, MA 01002-3100
perfpliis@bigfoot.com
Marlene Browne's book, The Divorce
Empowerment Through Knowledge,
available and is being distributed through
is
Process:
now
Los Angeles
Trip is
in September. Wisconsin Death
up for an Emmy for best lighting
design and has won other awards including
Ingram. Marlene would appreciate it if you a Basta, which is similar to a British Emmy.
would keep mind as a source of divorce
it in After living in Nashville for several years,
REUN ION Happy New Year! Now information for anyone in need. For more Maureen now lives in New York City and

MAY 31 |UNE 2 . 2002 ]

that2002 is here, our information, log on to www.divorce- works at her New York-based production
twentieth reunion is process.com. Also, her novel "Aspen Heir" company, Hands On Productions. For more
officially upon us. I hope you're making
all was published in the winter. Marlene had a information on Maureen's film, check out
plans to attend the festivities on May
31 and ball dealing with the Grateful Dead, Bob the Web site at www.wisconsindeathtrip.
June i at the Heights. We only get to do this Dylan, Roger (James) McGuinn, and com. • Art Laske is board certified as a trial

every five years, so please plan to join us. Leonard Cohen in the process of obtaining advocate by the National Board of Trial
Each reunion we've had seems to be better permission to use some of their lyrics in the Advocacy. This is the only national board
than the last, although for some of us (okay, book. Marlene is also completing a third certification for trial attorneys. Requirements

at least for me) our hairlines and stomachs book, which she hopes to publish in late include extensive documentation, including
become easier to see! • Our thoughts and 2002. Marlene reconnected with Christine independent peer review from judges and
prayers go out to all our classmates and fel- Raines Rosner and she says hi to Cheryl attorneys, as well as successful completion
low alumni who experienced a loss in the Dishner Bardetti '84. Also, she ran into of a day-long examination. • Tracy Hensley
devastating attacks on our nation in Susan Sullivan Francoeur '82 and her family is living in the metropolitan D.C. area where
September. Will Raub, the husband of at the base of Sugarloaf Mountain after ski- she is an occupational therapist working for
Maureen Jeffers Raub, lost his life in the ing on the day of the season, April 29,
last Montgomery County Public Schools. She
World Trade Center that day. Maureen has a 2001. For now, Marlene spends time also has her own private practice. Tracy has
seven-year old daughter, Rebecca, and a between NJ, MA, and CO where she is lived in Greece (againl)and Italy since grad-
seven-month old son, Liam, at home. You licensed to practice law. To quote from Bob uation, and is now a single parent raising
can reach Maureen at 14 Saw Mill Road, Dylan's acceptance speech, "God bless you two great kids. Her sister, Randy '85, is a

22 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
vice president for HSBC in Athens, Greece new house, and they now have two children, to have a brother! • Julie Young is working
and recently had her second baby. Tracy was Andrew and Caroline. • The fourteenth prog- as a corporate marketing manager, Intel
very thrilled to become Randy's first child's eny of Mod 14A arrived on May 1, 2001, Architecture at Pioneer-Standard Electronics.
godmother in Athens two years ago. • Katrin Jaclyn Baum, daughter of Bill and Julie is living in University Heights, OH,
Christopher Fanning and wife Eileen are the Nancy Consalves. Bill and Nancy are totally with her husband, Peter and children Clara,
proud parents of Erica Marie, born on enjoying her. Katrin made her BC debut last three, and Matthew, one, and dog, Maynard.
November 1. The Fannings live in Portland, August when they went back east and spent • It is with sadness that I report the death of
OR, where Chris is vice president of strate- a few days on the Cape with Kathy Donahue Kristin Antonucci 1999. Kristin was
in April a

gic planning for Lattice Semiconductor Kelleher, Ann Porell McColdrick, Chrissy graduate of the Lynch School of Education. •

(LSCC). Chris, Eileen, Erica, and big broth- D'Entremont Mosher, and Peggy Fleming Please continue to send me notes and mail
ers Ryan and Michael welcome Eagles travel- Strakosch. Nancy is working at the 2002 messages. You can update your own per-
ing in the pacific northwest to visit them. • Olympics as the paralympics director in Salt sonal information, and get BC mail on the
Hope to hear from more classmates for the Lake City. • Steve Lipin's career change was BC Web site at www.bc.edu/alumni. I greatly
next edition. Please call or write at the above profiled in The Deal. corn's July 19, 2001, edi- appreciate your input of ideas and news!
address, or email alumni. comments tion, under the headline: "The new Mr. Best regards until the summer edition!
@bc.edu. I have begun the mass mailing to Spin?" The article profiled Steve's move
all classmates that I mentioned in the last from the world of financial reporting to a Karen Broughton Boyarsky
edition. Please take the time to return the
postcard with your updates.

Barbara Ward Wilson

new
office
al PR
position as senior partner
of London's Brunswick Group, a glob-
firm. According to the
in the

article:
NY
86 205 Adirondack Drive
East Greenwich, Rl 02818
karen.boyarsky.86@bc.edu
"During his ten years at The Wall Street
8 Via Capistrano journal, Lipin's name became synonymous

85 Tiburon,
bwilson@hlmx.com
CA 94920 with high-end deal reporting.
the art of the
—to
He elevated
Monday morning M&.A scoop
a science, breaking a steady stream of
Chip Walsh, an old friend of ours who we
had the opportunity to visit with at Mark
Dacey's wedding last fall, is pleased to
deal stories a day ahead of their official announce the birth of his second child,
Hello and happy winter from San Francisco! announcements. Hardworking, smart, and Aiden John, born in October who joins big
I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoy- driven, Lipin also boasts a Rolodex overflow- sister MacKenzie, four. Chip and his wife,

ing the winter season. Thanks for the email ing with dealmaker contacts." Kim, live in Guilford, CT, and Chip has a pri-
and the letters. do appreciate your
I really Congratulations Steve and best wishes for vate law practice in New Haven, Licari and
news! • Mary Brobson Cately had a baby much success! • Richard and Sonia '88 Walsh. • Lorene Vieira Simoneau and her
girl, Elizabeth Mary Kathleen Gately, on May Hoponick welcomed son on June
their third husband, Donald, have three daughters:
12, 2001. She weighed in at 5 pounds, 8 29, 2000. Elias Sterling was eagerly greeted five-year-old twins, Marlena and Michaela,
ounces, 19 inches long. She joins her broth- by big brothers Theodore and Myles. Rich and a baby girl, Julia. They live in Bedford
er Will, who is two. Mary was on maternity and his family moved from New Haven, CT, and Lorene has put a nursing career on hold
leave through October and then returned to to Ellicott City, MD, in June 2001 due to a to be home with the girls. They attend most
work at Piper Marbury Rudrick and Wolfe, job transfer. Rich is the Worldwide football games and would love to hear from
where she is a partner in the litigation prac- Controller of Prometric, Inc., a division of old friends at dlsimon@attglobal.net. •

tice group. • Jeff Shmase, "The Baron," is Thomson Learning. • Alicia Montecalvo and Stephen Chunias and his wife, Kathleen, are
living in Peabody, with his wife Anne, and Steve Sitley of Chicago welcomed their living in Topsfield with their three children.

two children Hannah, eight, and Benjamin, daughter, Rachel Langdon, in October 2000. Stephen recently sold his Stratographix busi-
four. (Jeff and his wife gave birth to a son in She joined Parker who is now four. • Gail ness to a national firm and is currently man-
1996, who subsequently died when he was and John Sadowey were joined by a new aging the company's Boston area facilities.

three weeks old due to complications from baby boy, Surf Finley, on August 20,2000. • We recently had the opportunity to visit
birth.) Jeff is presently in the midst of a Surf's older brother Gunnar is very excited with Mike Carey and his wife, Beth, and their
career change. After working in the journal-
ism and public relations field for fifteen
Not your reunion year? You don't have to miss out on the
years, he went back to school and plans to
become a school guidance counselor. Jeff great events we have planned! All alumni are welcome to pur-
goes to about two football games each year,
chase tickets to our signature events.
and tries to get a basketball/hockey game
onto his calendar as well. • Vinny and Pam
Risio Ferraro took a trip to Boston last
BC NIGHT AT THE POPS RAISE THE ROOF
Memorial Day weekend, and caught up with
their BC gang for dinner. Rachel (O'Hara) featuring Keith Lockhart featuring Livingston Taylor
and Jon Kurtyka, Dan and Shelly (Barillo)
McCillivray, and Mary (Tyrrell) Coughlin and
May 17
Friday, followed by Precision
her husband, Chris, met for dinner at Symphony Hall May 31
Friday,
Mamma Maria's in the North End. They had Robsham Theater & the
8 p.m.
such a great time, and talked and ate and
drank for hours. Pam is working in Heights Room
Greenwich for Chalk & Vermilion Fine Arts,
8 p.m.
a fine arts publisher. Pam handles market-
ing, advertising, public relations, and the
Web site. Pam updated me on several of
For ticket information, please visit www.bc.edu/alumni or you
her other Hillsides roomies - Lisa
(Hartunian) Campbell has a new position in can contact us by phone at 800.669.8430.
San Francisco, and moved there from
Atlanta with her husband Steve. Eileen
(Coerss) Thornberry and her husband Mike Tickets are limited, so order today!
are still in Brecksville, OH, although in a

www.bc.edu/alumni
 two beautiful little children, Aiden and Katie. to the family of Tom Fitzpatrick, who was tunately the class of 1989 budget is extreme-
Mike is a clinical psychologist and works for on September n. He and the
tragically killed ly They request that class members
low.
Family Services of Providence and has a pri- other BC alumni who were killed will be begin to donate annual dues to the class of
vate practice. The Careys live in North sorely missed. The last column that wrote I '89 to help us build our treasury so events
Attleboro. Great to see you, Mike and Beth! was a week before the terrible events of that can be funded (particularly our next "big"
• Unfortunately, if you did not see the day - who could have ever imagined what reunion in 2004). The officers suggest dues
announcement in the last BC Magazine, our has transpired since? hope that you andI of $25 annually, which they feel is both rea-
class suffered the tragic loss of Brad Vadas your families are all well and look forward I sonable and will help us build a substantial
on September n, 2001. Brad was a senior to hearing from you soon. treasury going forward - they need your
vice president at Keefe, Bruyette and Woods help! Please send checks to the BC Alumni
and worked on the eighty-ninth floor of the 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board House, 825 Centre Street, Newton, MA
World Trade Tower. A scholarship fund is Candidate Watch: Classmate Steve Ferrucci is 02458 Attn: Class Dues Class of 1989. • -

being set up in memory of Brad. send our I running for director, east of Mississippi. Walda Keohane Jensen and her husband,
entire class's deepest condolences to Brad's Charles, announce the birth of their first
family and friends. Let us all pray for peace child, a son, Philip John on June 16. •
Laura Cermak Ksenak
in this new year. Denise Harrington and Nick Gingola were
54 Kendal Avenue

Catherine Stanton Rooney 88 Maplewood, NJ 07040

ksenak@msn.com
married at St. Ignatius Church on June 2,
2001.
High, and a
Fr. Joseph Laughlin, resident of BC
BC alumnus, presided. The
35 Emerald Ave.

87 Braintree, MA 02184
cathsr5@a0l.com
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
couple honeymooned in St. Lucia and now
lives in Watertown. • Norman Mineta, U.S.

secretary of transportation, has announced

Candidate Watch: Classmate Dan Wessel is that Julie Nichols has been appointed as

REUNION Hello! I hope that you

running for director, west of Mississippi. deputy assistant secretary for governmental
affairs at the U.S. department of transporta-
MAY 31 • JUNE 2 . 2002
are all doing well and Cheryl Williams Kalantzakos tion. Previously, Julie served as managing
are looking forward to spring.
that our fifteenth reunion
away! hope that you are all planning on
I
is
I can't believe
only weeks
8Q to Devonshire Place
Andover,
cwk8g@bc.edu
MA 01810
director of government affairs at
Airlines.

VA. • I
She
would
is currently living in Arlington,
like to send condolences to
American

coming for the weekend- know that the 1 .the family and friends of Sean Lynch, who
reunion committee has been very busy put- was killed in the September n attacks on
ting together some great activities for us. Hi everyone, first to some business — we the World Trade Center. He was an employ-
There will be an on-campus event on Friday can no longer publish engagements or preg- ee at Cantor Fitzgerald.
night, as well as a small reception at the BC nancies in this column. We will, however,
Club. On Saturday there will be an alumni continue to publish marriages, births, and 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
barbecue and our class event at the Rat on other milestones that have already occurred, Candidate Watch: Classmate Gloria Perez is
Saturday night. That should bring back so please keep the email and letterscom- running for director, greater than ten years.
some great memories! There will also be a ing! • Gloria Gonzalez Perez will be on the
Mass and brunch on Sunday. Can't wait to ballot this spring for the annual vote of BC
Kara Corso Nelson
see you there!
• apologize that my column Alumni Association Board of Directors.

QO
I

67 Sea Island
is so short this time. I really didn't hear Gloria is running for: director, graduated ten
Glastonbury, CT 06033
from very many people. I hope that if you years plus. Voting will take place online in
bcgonews@home.com
haven't written to me in a while, or even at March at the Alumni Association's Web site

all, do so today after you've

that you will or look for your ballot in the mail soon. •

read the magazine so that can include it in I Sally Driscoll, business development execu- This is the first installment of the class
my next column. My friend Rob Sabella was tive at the J.
Barry Driscoll Insurance Agency notes I am writing since the terrible
married on Cape Cod in October to Beth Inc. in Norwell is co-chairing the Alumni tragedies of September n. I know I am
Donaghue. Among those attending the wed- Association's Second Helping event at the echoing many of our classmates when I take
ding were Molly Martin Alvarado, George 600 Club. This event benefits the Greater this opportunity to express my grief and
and Kathleen Roper, Matt and Joan Keane Boston Food Bank Second Helping pro- condolences to the families and friends of
Zimmerman, Mary Lee Bolan, Enza Ricerca, gram, which distributes perishable foods all the victims, but especially to those in our
Deb Masone, Tony Pelino, and Joe Linehan. used at events and hotels to feeding pro- BC community. As you know, we lost one of
A good time was had by all. Rob is a co- grams throughout the greater Boston area. our own that day, John J. Murray. John
founder and president of OTA Solutions a Contact Sally at 781-681-6656 X234 for more worked for Cantor Fitzgerald in the World
wireless consulting and placement services information on the April 2002 event. • The Trade Center. Our thoughts and our prayers
company. They are living in Dallas, TX. alumni officers of the Class of 1989 encour- are with John's loved ones. • The BC/Navy
Congratulations Rob! • I also got a great age all classmates to check out a new football game in Annapolis on September
email from Jeanne Donovan. She and her option on the BC Alumni Association's Web 22 opened with a three-plane fly-by led by
husband, Darin welcomed their first
Porter, page that will allow individual classes to reg- Greg Golden. The fly-by concluded a
child, Grace Margaret, on September 28. ister and read about class and local area
moment of silence for the victims of the
Jeanne also has a seven-year-old step- events (www.bc.edu. alumni/ click on "online September 11 attacks, specifically the Naval
daughter. They live in Rye, NY. Jeanne gradu- community" to register). The officers are Academy alumni and the BC alumni that
ated from BC Law in 1990, and recently gave hoping this site will help develop a better were killed. Greg was extremely proud to
up the practice and now works in public class communication tool and improve participate in the salute to our fallen Eagle
relations in Manhattan. She remains close regional networks of alumni, as interested alumni, especially our classmate John. The
friends with BC pals Stacey Kardamis classmates can register on the site with fly-by was impressive, according to Ray
Kerkhoff, Jude Smulsky, Brenda Bynarowicz their updated information. Additional plans Cabalu and James Arkelett who were in
and Deidre Cunnane '86. She'd love to hear include the organization of class of '89 attendance. Lynn (Amoroso) Davies joined
from any old friends at jdonovanporter events for 2002 leading up to our reunion them for the post-game tailgate. Greg's
@aol.com. Thanks Jeanne! • On a sad note, year in 2004. Coordinating any of these Navy fighter squadron is VFC-13 and they're
I'd like to offer our condolences as a class efforts, however, requires funding and unfor- stationed at Naval Air Station Fallon in

24 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
northern NV. They flew their F-5 Tiger fighter Howard and husband Vinnie Delia Valle Chestnut Hill. Other BC graduates in the
jets across the country for the fly-by. And have been living happily in Darien, CT, for wedding party were, matron of honor,
apparently the fly-by made ESPN's Top Five the past three years. After working for Jessica David Page '96, bridesmaids, Angela
Plays of the Day! • Beth and Mike Conway almost six years at TIME magazine in adver- Clofine '96 and Caroline Melia '97.
are thrilled to announce the birth of their tising sales, Carrie moved to Entertainment Groomsmen were Todd Fischer, Richard
third child, Lucy McAllister Conway, born Weekly as an account manager just over a Gazarian, Jeff Nelson, Edward Ricci and Ted
September 10, 2001. She weighed in at 8 year ago. Cool perks include movie pre- Page '93. Allison is an equity and derivatives
pounds, 14 ounces. Her big brothers are mieres and trips to the Sundance Film trader for NavigatorManagement Company,
Jack, four, and Chuck, two. Mike sells con- Festival! Her husband, Vinnie, has been with a hedge fund in Boston. Chris is the co-
vertible bonds for Merrill Lynch in NY and CBS Television for five years and is a director founder and vice president of Resinate
Beth enjoys the chaos at home. • Steve and of new business development in their Corporation, a software company in

Anne-Marie (Cold) Hultin welcomed Julia sales/marketing division. Susan (English) • Andover. Mushkin and Angela
• Scott
Babette on July 19, 2001. Siblings Stephen Mazzetti and Peter Mazzetti welcomed their (Bante) Mushkin have moved to Hoboken,
(eight), Caroline (six) and Francoise (two) son, Peter Paul III, on May 19, 2001. They NJ, where Scott is working for Lehman
are excited to have a new little sister. Anne- have a daughter, Sarah, who is nearly Brothers. They have two little girls, Riley
Marie works hard with the four children and three. During the past year, Sue and Pete Nicole born on Feburary 28, 1999, and
Steve still works for Accenture out of relocated from NY to Danville, CA. Pete has Ryann Elizabeth, born February 16, 2001. •

Boston. Annie O'Connor and her husband

• changed jobs and joined his father's compa- Meghan Gross and Christopher Magner
Lloyd Chapin welcomed their second son, ny, NorCal Moving Services, an Allied Van were married October 20 in Arlington,
Aidan Lloyd, on August 14, 2001. Their first Lines agency, as corporate counsel and gen- MA. Ann-Marie Breen and Kellie Moroney
son, Connor (three) enjoys his new role as eral manager. • Melanie (Morse) Dawson were bridesmaids, while Deb (Wardlow)
big brother. They live on the Upper West and Dave Dawson had a babygirl on August Brown, Debra (Page) Mooney, Shelby
Side of Manhattan. Annie is currently on a 27, 2001. Emily Catherine was 8 pounds, 11 (Lovett) Cuevas and Lynn Page Flaherty also
leave of absence from her position as senior ounces. She gets lots of attention from her participated in the ceremony. Also in atten-
manager in Accenture's financial services big brothers Andrew, Brendan, and Patrick. dance were Kathleen Barry, Andrea Benoit,
practice and has greatly enjoyed the time Dave, Melanie, and family are living in Barbara Healey, and Janine (Dione) Saks, as
home with her family. She has been with Medway. • Ron Friedman was promoted well as assorted spouses, a significant other,
Accenture (formerly known as Andersen from assistant vice president to vice presi- and a few Eagles yet-to-be-hatched. •

Consulting) since graduating from BC. Lloyd dent with U.S. Equities. Congratulations! • Morgean (Milkofsky) Hirt and her husband,
is also with Accenture as a partner in the That's it for now! Please keep your updates Jim, both association executives in
Energy Practice. • Laura Livaccari and hus- coming; it's always great to hear from you! welcomed their son Dylan
Alexandria, VA,
band, Andrew Herzig, welcomed, Julia Rose, James on September 26, 2000. They were
in February 2000. The family recently moved visited by Robin LeGallo, chief resident in
Peggy Morin Bruno
from the D.C. area to Westchester, NY, and pathology UVA Medical Center, and her
at

has enjoyed being closer to both of their

2 High Hill Road two boys Quinn, who is four, and Ian, who
Canton, CT 06079
extended families.
move, Laura transferred to the
In

the law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius.

conjunction with the
NYC office of 31 bcalum 91(g) world net. att. net
was born December
.Cheri (Connolly) Farley
Kayla LeeAnn, on June
23, 2000.
welcomed
7,
• Sean and

2001. Kayla joins

a baby girl,

Her husband Andrew also practices law in It is with great sadness that I write of the her big brother, Ryan, who is three. • Vicki
NYC. • Margaret Carroll Berzins and hus- one of our classmates in the
loss of (Bryan) Curtin lives with her husband Peter
band Mark Berzins live in Denver. They have September 11 tragedy. Our sympathies go and their one- year-old daughter Tess in
three children: Clare is five-and-a-half, out to the family of Thomas Brennan. Garden City, NY. Vicki is working part-time
Caroline is four and Patrick is twenty-one Two other classmates lost family members as a nurse practitioner. • Deb Deroian is

months. The Berzins own three neighbor- very dear to them in the tragedy. Tara enjoying her job teaching English at Bristol
hood restaurants; the first two are named Henwood lost her brother, John, and Susan Community College in Rl. • Kerrie Dolce has
"Spot Bar and Grill" and the newest is (Doherty) Buhse lost her husband, Patrick. been working in London for the past two
"Three Dogs Tavern." If BC alumni are in or Our sympathies go out to our classmates years as the European product manager for
near Denver, please stop in and say hello! • and their families. • Greg Ladd and his wife, an information publishing company. She
Mary Margaret Lewis and Brian Friel recently Barrett, were blessed with the birth of their often meets up with Karen Duffy who also
welcomed their third child. The future Eagles first child, a son named Cameron Gregory. lives and works in London. • Karen Petrecca
are Delia (three), Declan (one-and-a-half) They also moved to Concord and Greg is lives in NYC and is a vice president at
and Rory (born July 2001.) Mary Margaret working as a senior manager with Deloitte Citibank. • Indira Perez McLeod lives in Los
finished her medical training and joined a Consulting. • Patti Hart got married to John Angeles, CA, with her husband Robert and
private pulmonary and critical care medicine C. Kelly in June 2000 in Hingham. Patti's works as an occupational therapist for the
practice in the Washington, D.C, area. Brian cousin Colleen Rielly was maid of honor and LA school district. • Kimberly Punsalan West
is still litigating at a D.C. law firm. • Jeanne jean Lascor and Maria McLaughlin served as lives with her husband Patrick in Boston and
Canavan Downey and Greg Downey wel- bridesmaids. Nancy Allaire performed a is an assistant attorney general specializing
comed their second child Kathleen Canavan reading during the ceremony. Other BC in public corruption. • Sarah Yezzi received
Downey (Kate) on September 25, 2001. Their alumni in attendance were Chrissy her MEd in technology education from
son, Aidan Patrick Downey, was born in June (Moynihan) Murray, Bryan Banks, Chris Harvard in 1998 and works as a senior pro-
of 2000. Jeanne is teaching elementary Langway, Heather (Strout) Finn, Hugh ducer in educational multimedia. She lives
school part-time in Acushnet, MA, and Greg Flaherty, Judy (McLaughlin) Stanton, Paul in Jamaica Plain. • Katie Wahl received her
is an attorney at Downey &. Downey, P.C. in Bernardin '89, Kate (McCauley) Johnson '92, master's degree in nurse anesthesia from
New Bedford. • Brian Hammer accepted a and Rob Johnson '92. Patti is a training Columbia University and works as a nurse
postdoctoral research position at Princeton director at Investors Bank & Trust in Boston anesthetist in Boston. • hope everyone had I

University and moved the family from Ann and John is director of sales at Medical a happy, healthy holiday! Please be sure to
Arbor, Ml to Lawrenceville, NJ this past sum- Systems Management in Wakefield. They keep the updates coming. We can no longer
mer. Brian's wife, Tracy, teaches kindergarten currently live in Charlestown, MA. • publish engagements or pregnancies. Due
in neighboring Hopewell, NJ, and sons Ben Christopher Poirier and Allison David '96 to the lag time between article submission
(three) and Charlie (six months) are adjust- were married on September 22, 2001, at and publication, we don't want to list things
ing beautifully to their new home! • Carrie Boston College St. Ignatius of Loyola in that have not yet occurred.

www.bc.edu/alumni 25
 estate, leisure, and transportation industries
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board Cina Suppelsa Story for JPMorgan in NYC. They live in Darien,
Candidate Watch: Classmate Steve Wronski is 47 Matchett Street CT. Jacquline West Ondry and her husband,
running for director, greater than ten years. Brighton, 02135 MA Aaron, had a baby boy in August named
gina.suppelsa.g3@bc.edu William West. They live in Marlboro. • Sue
Paul L Cantello Walsh is a doctor at Yale New Haven
255 Warren Street #813

Q2 Jersey
cantelloi@aol.com
City, NJ 07302
To begin
prayers are with
and or
this issue,
all
our thoughts and
those affected directly
indirectly by the tragedy of
Hospital specializing in pediatric emergency
medicine She married Manny in Cape Cod
this September. They live in Branford, CT. •

September Kelly Wild is an elementary school teacher in

11. This past June, Andrew Melli
passed away. He had fought leukemia since Fairfield, CT. • Tessie Kopoulous Mower and
REUNION Our thoughts and
prayers are with
November 1999. He was the life of the party
Josh Mower have a two-year-old named
all Joshua. They are both high school teachers
MAY 31 • JUNE 2 . 2002
at BC, and accomplished many great things
of our-fellow alumni, inLynn. • Michele Campbell Scanned and
since graduation. He ran the NYC marathon
family, friends, and Ken Scannell had a baby boy named Jack
prior to being diagnosed with cancer. He
who were affected by the
neighbors Thomas. He was born in May. • Greg Cerny
graduated from law school, lived in London,
September n terrorist attacks in NYC and and his wife, Jennifer, are the proud parents
and most recently lived in Hoboken, NJ,
DC. Please continue to write and email news of four; Ashley, Jamie, Jack, and Matt. They
where he worked at his father's law firm.
from your lives to be included in this col- live in Westborough, and both work for
Our deepest sympathies to Andrew's family
umn. • Steffan Berelowitz's company, BiT Fidelity. • Jennifer Viklund married Steve
and friends. In Andy's memory, good friend
Group, was named to the INC 500. Steffan Smith in Newton, in May. Jennifer works for
Cara McNally ran the Dublin Marathon this
is president and founder of the company Clhoun Consulting in Waltham, and they live
fall for the Leukemia and Lymphoma
which he started He can be
six years ago. in Medford. • Dana Kawalautzki Lauducci
Society. Cara is currently at BU, going for
reached at steffan@bitgroup.com. • Anne and Brian Lauducci live in Bridgewater, NJ.
her master's in education. She reports that
Marie (Ligda) Vorbach and husband Justin Brian is an independent software developer
Eric Rowe is living in Boston and works at
have returned to the Boston area. Anne and basketball official and recently complet-
Genzyme. And that Laura Milano works for
Marie is working as a full-time intern at
the Manchester, NH, school district as a
ed his MBA Dana works as a
at Rutgers.
South Shore Mental Health in Quincy. •
manager for Hewitt Associates. •
benefits Jill
bilingual evaluator. She is pursuing her mas-
Kevin Silen married Melissa Powers on Flemming is a family practice doctor and
ter's in social work at Salem State University
September 29, 2001. It was a beautiful fall married Jim Reid this October. • Dianne
in MA. Laura has sung at many of her
wedding in Dan Ferrin and Deepu
VT. Edson is currently working as a corporate
friends' weddings, and at Andy's funeral
Daryanani were groomsmen. Fellow '92 recruiter for Monster.com in Maynard. •
mass. Diane Vankoski Van Dyke and Rick
•
classmates that attended included Steve Laurie Vakos works as a first grade teacher
Van Dyke welcomed their first child this past
Souza, Josh Herbert, Henry Seto, Karen in Greenwich, CT. • In late July, Courtney
March, a baby girl named Renee. Diane, an
Connors (Rimmele), Mary Nolan (Riley), and MacArthur Beaulieu had a baby girl Alison
Internet copywriter/editor for the shopping
Tom Nolan. • Tim Muldoon's The Banquet of Rose. • Denise O'Donnell Canavan and hus-
channel QVC, recently left her job for an
Wisdom: Christian Spirituality for Generation
2000 will be published by Sheed and Ward
exciting new career — full-time Mommy band Patrick welcomed their second child,
Engineer! Rick is a telecommunications
Carolyn Elizabeth, in November 2001. Other
this spring. • Chris Boccaccio and his wife, daughter, Katherine Mary, was born in
sales manager for Graybar. They reside in
Jeannie, had their second child on May 17, August 1999, one month after Denise fin-
Diane's hometown just outside of
2001, a boy named Colin Michael. Big broth- ished her MBA in finance and international
Philadelphia. • Shea Sitzer Fleming and hus-
er Eric and the rest of the family are doing business at NYU. Denise is currently taking
band Chad happily welcomed their first child
well. Chris is currently a senior associate in a break from work so that she can be at
(a daughter, Paige) into the world July 25,
the business law department at Day, Berry & 2001. They live in Atlanta, GA, where she is
home with their daughters, and Patrick is a
Howard LLP They get together period-
in CT. director in the controller's department at
finishing her last year at Emory University
ically with Juan Ciachino and Nayomi UBS Warburg in Stamford, CT. • Peter Cote
Medical School. Her specialty will be in
Omura, as well as, John LaCratta and his writes: "I have had a difficult time still com-
pediatrics when graduating next May. •
fiancee, Maria Lisi. • Friends from MOD 4B municating with some of my past friend-
Maura Kelly started a job as a reporter for
recently reunited at Donna Merhige-Petrick's ships. In 1996 I married my high school
the Associated Press in Chicago in August.
home in Brooklyn, NY. Betsy Bonello-Smith, sweetheart, Christine Kearns. In 1997, had
She has been
I

living in Chicago since January

Kelly Evans-Brown, Holly Mason, and my first child, Ryan Cote. My second child,
2000, when she started a one-year reporting
Megan Mount-Mormile had a great time Niamh Cote, arrived in 1998, third, Ridley
job for the Chicago Tribune. That ended in
together, as usual. Roommates Liesl Cote in 2000, and four and five
finally
January 2001, and she wrote freelance arti-
Anzoleaga, and Debra Sullivan-Tullis were (twins), Eoin Edward and Brigh Elise Cote.
cles for the Chicago Tribune and Boston
missed. Donna feels fortunate that her BC As you can see, since my graduation from
Globe before getting hired by the AP. •

classmates continue to be a part of her life. BC, I've been very busy. I'd just like to pass
Jennifer Trenaman (Landry) and her hus-
Their friendships are very special to her and
band, Eric, welcomed their first child,
this info some of my fellow alumni.
along to
she enjoys keeping in touch. • Yes, I know I just want them to know have not forgot- I

Jackson Landry Trenaman, on September 6,

it's difficult to believe. Ten years have ten about them." • That's all for now. hope
2001. • Anne Trenkle Schaefer and husband
I

passed since graduation. I hope to see you you all had a Happy Holiday Season.
Stuart welcomed Maxwell Reed this past
all at our reunion. Don't forget to mark 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
September as well. Dan Cushing and wife
your calendars! You can expect to be receiv- Candidate Watch: Classmate Julie Finora is
Karen Abucewicz Cushing, welcomed their
ing information about the ten-year reunion running for director, west of Mississippi, and
first child into the world this June. Her
in the mail soon, but if you have any ques- Rob Tyler is running for director, less than ten
name is Caitlin Elizabeth. They have been
tions, or would like to get involved in the years.
living in Natick for the past three years.
planning process, please contact Cina
Joan Monahan Streeter and Mark Streeter
Hager-Moitoso at gmoitoso@prodigy.net. Alyce T. Hatem-Sader
also welcomed their first child, Megan
33 Clementi Lane
Caroline, this past August. Joan is taking a
Methuen, MA 01844
year off from teaching and
as a fixed income analyst covering the
Mark continues
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26 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
 for more than five years. He received his
David S. Shapiro MBA in finance at Fairfield University. He
2 Bretton Road recently served as an officer for Putnam Pops on the Heights 2002
West Hartford, CT 06779 Investments and joined John S. Herold, Inc.,

95 DSShapiro aol.com @ as an institutional salesperson

2001. His primary responsibilities at Herold
in August iotn Anniversary
September 27, 2002
are togrow revenues from investment man-
The tragedies of September 11 took the life
agement firms and seek out new lines of Tickets on sale now
of one of our fellow classmates, Peter J.
business for the firm. • Bartholomew &. Co.
Mulligan. Our prayers are with his family at
has promoted Joshua A. Paul to vice presi-
this time and heartfelt condolences. Please
dent. Joshua has been an account executive Call 1-800-767-5591
send in your special memories of Peter so
with the Worcester investment firm since
we may have a tribute to him in the next col- for more information.
1995. • There was an error in the 2001 fall
umn. Also, our prayers and heartfelt thanks
edition of the Boston College classnotes sec-
are with our classmates who are serving our
Christmas of the Grand Summit Hotel
tion: Bonnie (Kozel) Dougherty and Bill feel
nation in the war against terrorism. Thank
Dougherty's son is named Joshua. got everyone ready for the holidays. Dr.
you and Cod bless you. • Matt Carley mar-
Brian and Mrs. Liz Millett spent two weeks
Congratulations on the arrival of your son!
ried Theresa Ciuccoli Carley on October 6,
Hawaii post-wedding. Other BCers in the
{Editor's note: this column was written by in
2001, in Fairfield, CT, followed by a fifteen-
Megan Gurda Iran '95. We thank Megan for wedding party were best man Michael
day cruise that included a passage through
all her hard work. New correspondent David Morris; maid of honor Shana Carroll; brides-
the Panama Canal for their honey-
maids: Regan Barnett, Katie Curran and
Shapiro '95 takes over next issue. Please note
moon. Attending the wedding from the class
Jessica Morris; readers: Jim Beltis and John
new address .}
1
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association
of '95 were Adam Zuckerberg and Ashlee
Board Candidate Watch: Classmate J.R. Minardo. Congrats are also in order for
Bunt Cumello, who were both in the wed- who graduated from Brooklyn
Craven is running for director, less than ten John Minardo
ding party, and Abby Wood, who was the
years; Katherine "Stephanie" Cronin is run- Law School in May and recently passed the
soloist. Also in attendance were BCers Sherri
ning for director, less than ten years; and NY and NJ Bar exams. He is currently an
Mariani Franzman, Greg Fortuna and his
William Dorcena is running for director, less associate with the law firm of Kaye Scholer
wife, Stephanie Head Fortuna, Tom Dee,
LLP in NY. • After college Jennifer Mordavsky
than ten years.
Tom O'Keefe, Steve "Kegger" Morino, and
went on to the University of Massachusetts
Phil Pergola. Matt is a finance manager with
and received her master's in public health in
GE Capital and Theresa is an Elementary Mike H ofman
1999. In the summer of that year, she
School Teacher. They reside in Trumbull, CT. go Montebello Road #2
• In other news, Sherri Mariani Franzman
and her husband Marc had
Samantha, on July 19, 2001. • Ashlee Bunt
their first baby,
96 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
michael_hofman@inc.com
moved to
her doctorate
CA where she's been working on
in public health at the
University of California, Berkeley. She will be
graduating in 2002. The girls of Rubenstein
Cumello and her husband Pete had their
C55 have been busy since graduation! Jaime
first baby, Lilly Elizabeth, on October 19,
Head married Todd Hoyle in Dothan, AL, on
2001. • Maureen Walsh was married to
Sabrina M. Bracco July 17, 1999. Jaime and Todd are graduates
Shane Kramer in June 2001 in
7377 First Ave., 4R of the University of Richmond Law School,
Charlottesville, VA. Maureen and Shane met
NY 10021
in law school at Washington and Lee in

Lexington, VA. They graduated from law

school in 1999 and now practice law in
97 New York,
sabrinabracco@yahoo.com
where they met, and are attorneys living in
Richmond, VA. Bridesmaids included the fol-
lowing BC grads: Kristen Dunphy, Kerri
Feyler, Mary Grace, Deb Murphy, Amy
Washington, D.C. The newlyweds live in
Sullivan and Casey Templeton '98. Other '97
Bethesda, MD. Some BC friends at the wed- REUNION This column is dedi- alumni in attendance were Berto Cost, Nick
ding were Emily Cooper (formerly Lewis), Jill
MAY 31 - |UNE 2 • 2002 cated to the memory Granata, Jennifer (Biffano) Sullivan, Mark
Cupoli, Cynthia Ennis, Jennifer Mooney,
of Patrick Aranyos, Sullivan, Mike Fitzgerald, TJ Thompson,
Shelley Dell'Orfano (formerly Weinand), and
who died in the World Trade Center attacks. Scott Feldman, Gavin Leavay and Ryan
Ken Oliva. To celebrate being newlyweds, Mark
We him for a
are fortunate to have had Halsted. • Kerri Feyler married Startler
Maureen and Shane trained for and com- pharma-
classmate and privileged to call him a friend. on May 27, 2000, in MA. Kerri is in
pleted the Chicago Marathon together. •
More than 800 people attended the memori- ceutical sales and the couple resides in
Kimberly McCarty married Brenden
al service held in his honor in NYC. He is Andover. Deb Murphy is back to nursing
• in
McMahon on June 30, 2001, at St. Ignatius. Boston at Mass General after spending a
sorely missed by all of them. A BC scholar-
Kimberly is a lawyer at the City Solicitor's
ship fund has been established in his name, few months in Los Angeles, and then
Office in Lowell. Brenden is an assistant
please contact the BC development office for Denver as part of a traveling nursing pro-
district attorney for the Middlesex County • Amy Sullivan is working at an exclu-
information on how to contribute. • And gram.
DA's office. Kimberly and Brenden live in
now for your updates. Congratulations to sive country club in nearby Rl after spending
Lowell. Fellow alumni at the wedding were: of
Michael Morris and Jessica Tamburrino who her first few post-grad years at the office
best man Gene McMahon '92, GSOM '98,
development at BC. • Mary Grace left
tied the knot this summer on August 25,
matron of honor Sharon Turner Mainero,
2001, at St. Ignatius on the BC campus. The Boston two years ago and moved to subur-
bridesmaid Alice Reynolds '96, usher Jeffrey
reception was downtown at the Fairmont ban Los Angeles where she is employed by
Bochman '96, Renata Piekielniak Cary,
Fidelity Investments as a financial represen-
Copley. The newest Mr. Mike and Mrs. Jess
Maureen Grealish, Mary Cristin Flynn,
working as an assis-
Morris honeymooned in Tahiti, Bora Bora tative. • Josh Nolan is
Katlyn May, Lillie Lucas, Michael Ford, Dr.
and Moorea. Other BCers in the wedding tant director of residence life at Allegheny
Heather Ristuccia Mark '92, and James working
were best man Brian Millet; groomsmen: College in PA. • Denise Clemente is
Stanton. Sadly missed at the wedding was
Patrick Aranyos, Jim Beltis and Ted as an elementary school teacher at an inter-
Jeannie Ennis, who recently moved to Myrtle
national school in Trieste, Italy. • Kathleen
Franchetti; and bridesmaid Elizabeth
Beach, SC. • Philip Murphy earned the pres-
Mulvehill living in CT and working in the
Taranto. was a weekend full of fun events!
It
is
tigious chartered financial analyst designa-
Brian Millett and Elizabeth Taranto also Greenwich Public Schools, teaching second
tion, administered by the Association for
recently married on November 30, 2001 in grade at the Cos Cob School. • Megan Haley
Investment Management and Research.
NJ. A great time all and the
was had by married Christopher Noller on July 22, 2001,
Philip has worked in the financial industry

www.bc.edu/alumni
 in Philadelphia, PA. Members of the wed- Trial Competition. • Matt Wentland married and is living in Los Angeles, did a reading in

ding party included Kristen Bodenhofer, Meghan Pontbriand '97 on October 2, 2000. the ceremony. Others in attendance were
Mary (Vidayathil) Sawyer, Michelle They reside in Silver Spring, MD. • Ciulio A. Keri Rourke, working in Austin for CSC,
Cuerriere, Kathy (DeCoste) Flaherty, Lisa Savo received JD degree from Roger
a Stephanie Galeota, who, after a year teach-
Noller '92, Paul Martin, Alex Marshall, Williams University Ralph R. Papitto School ing for Boston Public Schools, took a teach-
Bradd Haley 'oi, Michael Haley '96, Brian of Law on May 19, 2001. While in school, ing position in St. Croux; Andrea (Witt)
and JoeToohey, who did a reading.
Sullivan, Giulio a member of the Student Bar
was Sendlenski, married in June 2000 and who

Other BC alum in attendance were Dohyun Association, Federalist Society, Moot Court finished up Suffolk Law School last spring;
Cha, Greg DeMarco, Meredith Dunn '99, Honor Society, and Law School Division. • Rob Desanto and Danielle Wood, both living
Eric Dohr, Dayna Hutchins '96, Tamara Mary Dawson married Cuido Jacques on in MD, Mike Fattal, who entered medical

Krause, Trevor and Mary Beth (Brennan) July 21, 2001. Joseph Bustros, Justin school in Boston last fall; Amanda
Magee '96, Michael and Holly (Schwartz) Martell, Paul McCaffery, Renee Biancardi Mahoney, living in Los Angeles and working
Pomraning, Jason Rotondo, Perry '88 and Pierce, and Christina Blanco were in the in the movie business; and Jenny

Michelle (Lally) '89 O'Crady, Fred Palascak, wedding party. Other attendees included Kovecevich, who was eating dinner with her
Tod Pierce, and Heather (Lynch) Stepler. Paul Cri Salli, Mike D'Occhio, Jen Schuster, husband coincidentally at the inn during the
The newlyweds enjoyed their honeymoon in Garrett Swanberg, Sharon Panda, Katie reception and recognized Becky's name and
St. Lucia and are now residing in Pocatello, Scalley, Colleen Walsh-Vann, Ann Bogo, stopped in. Jenny was married last year and
ID, where Kit is a graduate student and Gregg Woods, Chris Foresto, Jim
Saline, Jim is living with her husband on the Cape. •

Megan is teaching high school, special edu- Gagnon, Stephanie Calone-

Collins, Pat Brad McConville left Chicago last fall, where
cation. • Lisa Shrayer recently graduated Gagnon, Greg Stepka, and Joe Ciolino. • he was working as a counselor at a psychi-
from Cornell Law School and is working for Autumn Davis is still living in the Boston atric hospital, and moved to IA to start med-

a law firm in London. On

June 23, 2001,
• area, but moved from Watertown to ical school at the University of Iowa. Kristin
A.J. Borrelli was married to Meredith Newton. This is her fourth year teaching Pugh is still working at Bullhorn and still liv-

Swobodzinski. The ceremony was held at St. Spanish at Boston College High School. ing in Boston's North End. • Troy Turick is

Andrew's Dune Church Southampton, in PeteTrivelas in still working and living in working for an advertising agency in Far
NY, and the reception was on Shelter Island, Boston, and doing great! • Patience Leonard Hills, NJ. Troy will be traveling around the
NY. Pat Visone, who introduced the couple got married in June 2001. Josephine country with Michael Foster beginning April
over six years before, was in the wedding Sciarrino and Charise Rohm attended. 2002. They plan to hit all forty-eight contigu-
party. A.J. graduated from Fordham Law Gretchen Schubert got married in June 2001 ous United States. They'll be doing a lot of
School May 2000, passed the NJ Bar in
in as well. I attended that wedding MN. • in In camping and "couch-crashing" and are look-
November 2000, and practices commercial September, Michelle Breitman and Dawn ing for volunteers! • Natalie (Scott) Dwyer
litigation at the law firm of Riker, Danzig, Krieger took a trip to London and Paris, and spent her first year after BC teaching sixth
Scherer, Hyland & Perretti in Morristown, Dawn and Josephine Sciarrino made a trip and seventh grade at an all boys military
NJ. Meredith teaches special education and to the South of France and Italy. • Mary Pat school. She then worked for two years with
reading in Warren Hills, NJ. In August 2001, Lancelotta was in Australia and Tokyo for a the County of Orange in adoptions while
the couple purchased a home in Long Valley, few months with Accenture. • Darlene Sliva going to grad school for social work at USC.
NJ. • Sadly, Michael (Maca) R. McCarthy and Erin Kelly were living in Chicago for Currently, she is interning at UCI Medical
passed away on October 19, 2001. Please three years and were working at Center in the Trauma/ER Department as a
note, I can no longer publish engagement Northwestern Memorial Hospital, both as medical social worker and loves it! Last July
announcements due to the magazine's new nurses working in the Neurosurgical Spinal 21, she married her high school sweetheart,
policy. Please hold off in sending me such Cord ICU and Medical ICU, respectively. Jason Dwyer. They now live in Newport
updates until after the weddings. I apologize Last September, both accepted travel nurs- Beach, CA. • Danielle Cappanelli left her
for the change in procedures. Also, don't ing intensive care positions in San Diego position at the Museum of Fine Arts in

forget our fifth-year reunion will be held May and then in HI, each location for three Boston to pursue a master's in fine arts. She
months. After their traveling experiences, received a fellowship and is studying Italian
30 through June l this year. You will be
both are looking forward to pursuing gradu- Renaissance art at Syracuse University's
receiving information in the mail regarding
reservation details. Hope to see you all
ate school. Darlene is applying to nurse abroad campus in Florence, Italy. • This col-

there!
anesthesia school for entrance next fall, umn is in memory of Bryan Bennett, who
2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board hopefully in Chicago. • In May, JonMarc was working in the WTC on September 11.

Candidate Watch: Classmate Linda Song is

Buffa graduated from Notre Dame Law His family held a memorial service on

running for director, less than ten years.

School. He took an attorney position at the September 22.
national law firm of Arter Hadden. He is & a
litigator in the Los Angeles office. • Becky Emily Frieswyk
Mistie Psaledas
Slade was married on August 25, 2001 on 141 Lake Shore Road #1
4043 Quentin Avenue
MA
98 St. Louis Park,
mistie.psaledas@genmills.com
MN 55416 Cape Cod to Christopher MacDonald. The
reception
New Seabury.
was at

Becky
the Popponesset Inn
is a CPA working
in

at
99 Brighton,
emily_frieswyk@ hotmail. com
02135

PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston, and

effective in 2002, will be transferring with 2002 Ballot/Alumni Association Board
Please note: I am no longer allowed to print
engagements or pregnancies. I CAN publish the company San Francisco. Chris will
to Candidate Watch: Classmate Cristian Baird is

attend flight school out there. Bridesmaids running for director, less than ten years.
marriages and births. • Calling all volunteers
to plan our five-year reunion! If you are included Jen Sheehan, currently studying for
joint master's and teaching degree at Tufts Kate Pescatore
interested, please email me at
mistie.psaledas@genmills.com by May
Thomas S. Rea received the Milton
Napier Award for proficiency in trial
F.

advoca-
i. •
University, Lindsay Hayes,
obtained her master's and
U Maryland in public relations, and
torate at
Melinda Metz, who moved to VA from Los
who
is
just
going for doc-
00 63 Carotin
Marshfield,
katepescatore@hotmail.com
Trail

MA 02050

cy from the Washington University School of

Law in St. Louis. He also received the
Angeles to teach kindergarten. Groomsmen
William M. Pomerantz Trial Prize for excel-
included Jason Micks, who works in invest- Hello class of 2000. Here are your updates

lence in regional mock trial competition and ment management at Amex in Minneapolis. for this issue. Congratulations to Su-Ying
Gretel Twombly, who works in the movies Leung as she was recently crowned Miss
was a national quarterfinalist in the National

28 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
Maine USA. Su is currently living in Italian imports called wwwbottega- (Our Lady of the Presentation, Brighton)
Portland, ME, where she is preparing to italia.com. • Linda Tulloch (Eisenberger) and was a friend of her sister, Marilyn, who
I

compete for the Miss USA crown. You can MBA'90 and her husband, Ken, welcomed died many years ago when we were in gram-
watch her March 1, 2002, on CBS. Good the birth of Claire Allison in October. They mar school. Edwin DeSimone '66 died on
•

luck, Su! Alice Lehne is doing well at her also have a son, Jack, age two. • Alexis August 28. Prayers and condolences are
Peace Corps position in Africa. She recently Sarkissian MBA '91 was promoted to extended to the cousins of Geraldine and to
received her own post office box and loves General Manager of Piaget Japan, Ltd. the family of Edwin DeSimone. If you have
to get mail. If anyone would like to get in Previously, Alexis was manager of any news, please drop me a note.
contact with her, just drop me an email, and Piaget's Switzerland office. Alexis and his

I will send out her new address. Finally, I wife, Jennifer, live in Tokyo, Japan with their Dean Michael A. Smyer
would like to send a long distance thanks to two children. • Julie Taylor MBA '96 is cur- GA&S McCuinn Hall 221A
our fellow classmate, Rafael Castillo. He rently pursuing a doctoral degree in psychol- Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
generously established a link on his home- ogy. • Marcelo Dadone MBA '97 recently (617) 552-3265
page as a message board after the events of joined Armando & Partners, an accounting
September 11. Rafael, you provided many of and advisory firm in Cordoba, Argentina. •

us with news and reassurement about our David Hybels MBA '97 and his wife, Joyce M. O'Connor '62 passed away on
friends and classmates. I, along with many Caroline, welcomed their daughter, Lydia, in August 18, 2001. • William P. Jacoby '60
others, appreciated it. Please let me know November. Congratulations. Tim Cooke • passed away on August 13, 2001. • Sr. Alice
about any exciting news about our fellow MBA wed Carroll School communica-
'98 Marguerite O'Brien '71 passed away May 22,
classmates. I love to share that information tions assistant, Amy Graham. Many alumni 2001. • Rita M. Battles '71 a Tenet
with all of you, but I need your help to keep attended the wedding held in MD on Healthcare Corporation executive with exten-
the information flowing. November 3. • Glenn Barry MBA/MSF '99 sive management experience at large inte-
recently became a CFA charter-holder and grated healthcare systems, has been
Erin O'Connor accepted a new position at Sun Life appointed president of UMASS Memorial
825 Centre Street Financial in the Derivatives and Investment Health Care's University Campus.

01 Newton, MA
erinoconnorbcoi@hotmaH.com
02458 Strategies group.
Pam Petropolous
Congratulations Glenn!
MBA '98 is in the market-
•

Laurel Eisenhauer
ing department of Cimmetry Systems in CSON Cashing Hall 202
Montreal, Canada. • Sandy O'Shaughnessy Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Hello Class of 2001! Welcome to your first Mulkern MBA '98 and her husband, laurel.eisenhauer@bc.edu
entry into the Classnotes section of the Michael, joyfully announce the birth of
Boston College Magazine. I am looking for Madeline Alexandra, born in January. • Suzie
information about you to enter into the next Sergi MBA '98 is the regional solutions Denise Charron-Prochownik MS '82 was
issue. Where have you traveled since gradu- manager for DigitalThink in Boston. • recently awarded the 2001 Nightingale
ation? Who have you run into? What have Jennifer Brock MBA
was recently hired as
'oi Award for Nursing Research, given by the
you been doing? Let the rest of us know the museum manager for
partner Nightingale Awards of Pennsylvania for indi-
what is happening in your life so that we can MuseumShop.com, a company based in viduals who demonstrate excellence in nurs-
keep our class connected. For starters, we Arlington, MA. Jennifer lives in Carlisle, MA, ing research and who have made
already have a potential star in our class: with her husband, Mark, a 1992 graduate of contributions to patient care. She is on the
Brian TafTe, a communications major, has the School of Management. • Chris White faculty of the University of Pittsburgh and is

taken his first job with TV-7, an ABC affiliate, and Hussein Alhadi MBA '01 launched their a pediatric nurse practitioner at Children's
in Bangor, ME. Brian was originally hired as new company, MVS, soon after graduation. Hospital of Pittsburgh. • Elizabeth Ruthful
a reporter but will now be appearing as a Best of luck to Chris and Hussein! • For Lenz, MS '67 is now dean of the College of
weekend anchor in the Bangor viewing area. additional alumni news, please refer to the Nursing Ohio State
at University. • Carolyn
Make sure to tune in on Saturday and "Carroll Connection." Corliss Padavano PhD '92 is vice president
Sunday nights to see Brian! That's all the of ZA Consulting, LLC; she consults on busi-
news for now. The Alumni Association is Jane T. Crimlisk '74 ness operations, research, informatics, edu-
looking for a permanent volunteer to
CAS cation, and public health care. • Diane Berry
416 Belgrade Ave. Apt. 25
become the class correspondent. If you are W. Roxbury, MA 02132 MS '97 is a diabetes trial coordinator at Yale
interested, send your name and contact University; she also is a doctoral candidate
information to Tracy Strauss, BCAA at BCSON. • Karen Aroian MS '79 is holder
Communications Assistant of an endowed chair at the College of
tracy.strauss.i@bc.edu. This is your chance Mary Amsler '49 keeps herself busy and is Nursing at Wayne State University. • Pay Fan

to become involved with one of the best an active member of the West Roxbury chap- Lin PhD '01 is now assistant professor and
alumni networks around. Have a wonderful ter of Massachusetts Citizens for Life. I had director of the planning and coordination
spring the pleasure of sitting at the same table with division of the Research and Development
Mary at the annual MCFL dinner. • Brian Center at National Taipei College of Nursing.
Elizabeth Ann Corman Smail, O.F.M. '89, ministers to the Spanish
Carroll Fulton Hall 154-A community at St. Anthony's Shrine and cele- Linda Rosa
School Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 brates Mass every Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. CSSW McCuinn Hall
gsom.alumni@bc.edu in Spanish. Also, Fr. Brian assists the mar- Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
riage tribunal office in Brightonon cases doucettl@bc.edu
that need a Spanish interpreter. promised I

Martin Malinow MBA '87 recently moved Fr. Brian that would continue to keep him
I

from Houston, TX, to Westport, CT. Martin in prayer during this difficult time in his life. I have received a significant number of
is co-founder of a financial products busi- His mother, Shirley, died September 21, six address changes and new email addresses.
ness. • Yoshio Shiina MBA '90 is currently weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. • I Thank you! For those of you interested in
working at Novartis Animal Health in Tokyo, was sad to learn about the death of keeping your address updated please take
Japan. • Nancy Barker MBA '90 recently Geraldine Gardner '68, '72, who died on advantage of the BC online community. In

returned to the U.S. from Milan. Nancy cre- September 12. Geraldine was three years order to facilitate this you should log on at

ated an e-commerce shopping site for ahead of me in grammar and high school www.bc.edu/alumni . You can also receive

www.bc.edu/alumni
 BC email this way. • Lisa (Crunstein)
Eisenbud '94 is executive director of the
Garden State Coalition for Youth and Family
Concerns. She has held this position since
1 995. This organization is NJ's strongest
advocacy group working on behalf of adoles-
cents in crisis and runaway homeless youth

and adults. She married David Eisenbud in

1997 and has two girls, and lives in rural
western Nj. • Kathryn Mclnnis-Misenor '98
had a baby girl, Sara Jeannette, on
November 9, 1999. Kathryn is currently
director of Maine Leap, a national pilot proj-
ect for women and girls with disabilities at
the YMCA of Greater Portland. • Roland
Rose '75 married his wife Margaret in 1977.
Regrettably after a two-year battle with can-
cer, Margaret passed away on March 15,

2001. Mr. Rose's plan is to return with his

eleven-year-old daughter to complete their
missionary work in the state of Chiapas,
Mexico, which they left in March of 1999. •

Linda Weiner '96 is currently working at

Heritage at Cleveland Circle. This is a kosher
assisted living environment for the elderly. •

Captain Jeff Yarvis '94 will be attending the

University of Georgia for his PhD in social

work. He will be studying the combat and

operational stress in UN Peacekeepers. Jeff
will be joined by his wife, Laura, son Jacob,
and new addition, Olivia.

Director of Alumni Relations

Ch
^1
School I
Lynch School of Education
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
lynchschoolalumni@bc.edu

The School of Education at Boston College

will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in fall

2002. The Lynch School will sponsor activi-

ties and events throughout much of 2002 to

mark this golden anniversary. More informa-
tion tocome! • James J. F. Forest PhD '98 is
assistant dean for academic assessment and
assistant professor of political science at the
US Military Academy, West Point. He has
recently published a new book, / Prefer to
Teach (Routledge, 2001), and is co-editor of
The Encyclopedia of Higher Education in the
United States (two volumes: ABC-CLIO,
2002). • Daniel P. Egan MA '98 and his wife,

Donna, are happy to announce the birth of

their second daughter, Claire O'Connell, on

June n, 2001. Dan reports her big sister,

Emma (two), is new sis-

overjoyed with her
Dan is vice president with the govern-
ter.

ment relations division of Trion

Communications, Providence, Rl, a full-serv-
ice government relations, public relations,

and advertising group. Dan represents

numerous local, state, and federal clients in
the fields of transportation, energy, telecom-
munications, and education.

Vicki Sanders
LAW 885 Centre Street
Newton, MA 02459
sandervi@bc.edu

30 ALUMNI CLASSNOTES
 We have BC clubs in these cities,

CLUBNOTES countries, and regions around the

world. Please contact Jack

at jack.moynihan@bc.edu or

617.552.4752 for more information.

Moynihan
at

Phoenix, AZ
Dear Boston College/Newton College Club Member: Los Angeles, CA
Mission Viejo, CA
As spring approaches New England, the Alumni Association is also experiencing a

revitalization in many ways. Our Reunion 2002 plans are both traditional and San Diego, CA
innovative, a manifestation of the many positive and forward-thinking changes that San Francisco, CA
are occurring in our office while remaining deeply invested in the memories and
Hartford, CT
traditions of the University. Two reunion weekends this year will allow for a more
personalized reunion experience for each graduate and allow you to truly enjoy one Denver, CO
another and the beauty of the BC campus. We are excited to be able to provide this Washington, DC
new programming to help reconnect you with old friends and memories.
Miami, FL

Similarly, our national club program is experiencing a great deal of change and Naples, FL
renewal as we bring a team approach to the club leadership structure. We hope to Palm Beach, FL
strengthen our current partnership with club leaders around the country, as well as
Sarasota, FL
generate steering committees to provide support for these leaders, who in turn will
organize local alumni-related events. The support our office is able to offer both leaders Chicago, IL

and their committees will manifest itself in leaders' ability to truly reach out to their Indianapolis, IN
local alumni in ways that will most effectively benefit Eagles across the nation and
speak to the needs of each region. 2002 will also see the furthering of our current
Baltimore, MD
international effort with the official launch of the Boston College Club of London. The Portland, ME
effort of Bryan McLaughlin '95 and Jim McDonnell 'SB to organize this new program Cape Cod, MA
is yet another example of the Eagle spirit even across oceans, as well as a wonderful
Springfield, MA
t

example of the new leadership structure that will succeed in reconnecting alumni
around the globe. Worcester, MA

Minneapolis, MN
We continue to encourage, support, and value our active club and class leaders and are
always interested making new connections on behalf of Boston College. If you are
in
St. Louis, MO
interested in getting more involved and becoming part of this process or if you have Manchester, NH
any questions, comments, or concerns regarding other club issues or events, please feel Northern New Jersey
free to contact me at jack.moynihan@bc.edu or 617-552-4752. Remember to visit
Albany, NY
www.bc.edu/alumni for more information regarding specific regional club events in

your area, as well as other alumni-related events and information. New York, NY
Rochester, NY
Go Eagles!
Syracuse, NY
Cleveland, OH
Philadelphia, PA
Jack Moynihan Pittsburgh, PA

Senior Associate Director Providence, Rl

Dallas, TX
Seattle, WA
Milwaukee, Wl

Great Britain

Greece

www.bc.edu/alumni 3^
 1933 1952 1982
Charles G. Duffy 10/99 Alan J.
Deerfield 04/01 Gerard J.
Paglia 10/01
Francis E. Dooley n/01
1934 Timothy L O'Brien 04/01 1984
William J.
Boehner 10/01 Ann Maclone Preston 10/01 Constance A. Smith 09/01
Thomas F. McDermott n/oi Edward L Queeney 05/01
Donald J. Shaker 02/00 1985
1935 Francis A. Torpey 08/01 Carmen Dore Lewis n/oi
Thomas P. Donovan 10/01
1953 1992
1936 Est. Of William Crimmings n/01 William Louis Goodbody 10/01
Edward P. Boland n/oi Frances Giso Gill 08/01
Lawrence J. Riley 12/01 Alumni death list courtesy of

1954 Office of Development, More Hall, 140

1938 Earl L Killilea 02/94 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA
Arthur E. Flynn 10/01
1955
1939 Donald P. Bradley 11 /oi
Thomas P. Burns 11/00 Marian J.
Ego n/oi
Francis D. McGaffigan n/oi John B. Natoli 10/01

1940 1956
Elmore M. Campbell 10/01 Doris Goulet Cayer 10/01
William A. Connolly n/oi Gerard R. Forgues 09/01
Edmund J.
Kenny 05/01
1957
1941 Harold Goldstein 10/01
William J.
Bulger 10/01
Joseph A. Gavin, S.J. 10/01 1958
John J.
Chisholm 10/01
1943 Frances J.
Murray Ol/Ol
Thomas Martin Curran 07/01 Martin M. Santa n/95
Joseph A. Timpany 10/01
Joseph G. Turke 10/01 1959
Agnes Genevieve Nyhan, SCNJ n/00
1944 Catherine Dooley Thayer 10/01
John P. Kavanagh 07/01
i960
1945 Caryl P. Haskins 10/01
Edward J. Kiley 09/01 Edward F. Sulesky 10/01
Samuel Serpico 06/01
1963
1946 Nathan M. Pusey n/oi
Christina M. Dinapoli 03/01
1964
1947 Joseph A. Dornig 06/01
Robert J.
Bliss 10/01
1965
1948 Joseph N. Bolognini 08/00
John T. Farrell 08/01 William C. Foehl n/oi
Rose Marie Gerace 10/01
Bernard K. McGrath 08/01 1967
Arnold A. Rubin 12/01 Philip J.
Steinkrauss 10/01

1949 1969
Edward J.
Doherty 06/01 Howard F. O'Brien 10/01
Joseph E. Travers 06/01
1971
1950 Linda M. Betts 08/01
John T Donovan 06/01
Francis M. O'Hara 12/01 1972
Robert J.
Tighe 09/01
1951
Bernard J.
Driscoll 05/01 1976
Thomas S. Durant 10/01 Regina Monaghan Letiziano 03/01
Alfred E. Finn n/oi
Coleman P. Geary 10/01 1977
Richard J.
Higgins 10/01 Noreen T. Webber 10/01
Robert J.
Mitchell n/oi
Albert I. Murphy 05/00 1979
Daniel R. Shaughnessy 10/01 Christopher N. Bovers 10/01
John T Tierney 10/01
Timothy E. Toohig, S.J. 09/01

32 ALUMNI DEATHS
 EVIL by choice

NATHAN ENCLANDER: We've been asked to destruction of Jerusalem, the fall of the Temple.
respond to evil in our fiction, and unlike the other Even under the huppah, under the wedding canopy,
authors, I have my whole body of work right here. we don't allow for a pure joy.
[Laughter] was raised very, very religious and
I In that same vein, on Passover, when we cele-
now I'm very, very not religious, and I guess I was brate the exodus, the Jewish liturgy also recognizes
left with a superstitious belief in evil. Basically I'm the tragedy that took place for Egypt, for the op-
an atheist with a real fear of divine retribution on pressors. We say the Hallel prayer — a prayer of
this earth. joy —on Jewish festivals. But on Passover we say a
I could probably say a lot more about evil in half-Hallel because we remember the Egyptians
writers than evil in writing. But in fiction, I don't who died during the Israelite's redemption and
really think there's room for a pure evil. I looked at therefore can't wholly rejoice. I thought back to the
my own book, which has a story set under Stalin, black-and-white world that I grew up in. The cler-
whom I softened, and a story centered on Hitler, gy, the teachers, may present a black-and-white
whom I made a ghost Hitler. I'm more interested in world, may present a pure evil and pure good. But
evil as a force.For me, the interest lies in how peo- the books, the religions themselves, aren't that way.
ple function under it —
how a group of Jews live Now I'm going to read you a midrash I've writ-
under Nazism, a group of writers under Stalin. ten. It's called "Clearing God's Name."
Similarly, in the books I love, when a pure evil is
present it's almost always a condition under which
the characters live, an umbrella evil. If I can anthro-
pomorphize a bit and give a plague evil intent, then God planted a garden in Eden, to the east, and
Camus' The Plague is an example. Or Kafka's The placed there the man whom he had formed.
Trial. When I think of evil, injustice comes to mind. Genesis 2:8
I'm going to read you a midrash this evening, a
story based on a line in the Bible. So I went back to There is a common misconception about the order
the Old Testament, to Pharaoh and the 10 plagues, of things. When the Earth was tohubohu, and Up
one of my favorite biblical stories. Pharoah is an did not have the slightest inclination to separate
evil character, ruthless, a slayer of children, but if from Down, and Wet did not intend to give way to
he was purely evil, would be of no in-
the narrative Dry, God looked Earthward with Adam at His side.

terest. You wouldn't need 10 plagues, you'd need "I will send you to that place," said God.
one plague. If you've got a purely evil character, want to go," Adam told Him.
"I don't
stick a knife in his eye and it's done. It's justified. If God began to lift the sky from under the sea.
you look at the Bible as literature, then I think this The roiling mass tried to hold its formlessness,
is why, before the plagues, God says to Moses, earth clinging to the hand of God, trailing up to-
"Va'ani aksheh paroh" "And I will
et lev harden ward the sky until it could go no further, the moun-
Pharoah's heart." If Pharoah had hardened his own tains born from failure.
heart, there would be no story. We are presented "I will not go," insisted Adam.
with someone who does evil things, but in the end God laughed. It was only the start, a gessoing of
there's this very clear line where God says, I am the canvas. With a giant spoon of stone, God
going to harden Pharoah's heart. In this case of an scooped out the oceans, scraped out the lakes, and,

extreme evil, it's God that does the hardening. The as if considering a half-eaten slice of custard pie,

Old Testament presents us with shades of gray, turned the spoon over and scratched out all the
forces us to empathize. rivers of the world. Adam was not impressed.
I guess most of you probably know that at a Jew- For Adam, He added color to the fish in the sea,

ish wedding ceremony the groom breaks a glass placed billy goats on rocky ledges, and added to the
under his foot. One of the things it represents is the ibex a second horn. Still Adam refused to descend.

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Eternity piled onto itself as the discussion contin- ant sensation of resting in the sharp, cool grass.
ued, as God, laughing all the while, spruced up His Adamhad become shrewd at God's side. He had
little world. He hung fruit from the trees, hid milk learned thatdawn and dusk threw the same shad-
inside coconuts and the udders of cows, turned ows, though they fell on opposite sides of the tree.
some bees into hummingbirds and half the mice He had learned, also, that Good and Evil were a
into bats. Still Adam would not go down. single force — just as rain, if God deems it, will
God put lightning in the clouds, then thunder to flood the bounty it creates. It was only in His
chase after it. He taught the chameleons to hide image—with a sin for every kindness, a decision in
and hinged the armadillo's once-solid shell. All this every deed— that Adam was willing to walk the
was for His own entertainment as much as Adam's; land. But God, so in love with His new Earth and
He knew what offer must be made. His man and His woman, and excited, like any fa-
"Keep your stubbornness. You can go about ther, for all the joy to come, did not want to see
your business without any interference." pain in the eyes of His children. He did not want to
Adam.
"I will go, then," said hear the endless crying as night moved in a circle
God placed Adam on Earth, his body atop a around the globe.
hillock, his weight flattening the long virgin grass, He was only trying to protect them.
the air around him at its sweetest, simply for never "Fine," He said, reluctantly. "Fine, Adam. What
having been breathed by man before. is freedom without choice? You may have it." God
But Adam would not awaken. pressed His lips against Adam's ear, to whisper into
God, one and only time, came down to
that it the last of the gifts. "There will be Evil, Adam.

Earth. He sat on the right side of Adam at the top
of that hill and whispered into his ear, entreated
him, most politely, to come alive.
"There will be ostriches," He said, "and ospreys,
and aardvarks, and sun-showers." A warm rain
began and the new animals, unafraid, sniffed the feet
of the body not dead but not born to life. God start-
You may have Evil as well as Good."
And Adam knew this to mean that he was free, a
god himself, a maker of choices, that the future was
no longer closed. Adam opened an eye and rolled
over toward Eve, placed a hand on her shoulder to
wake her, a kiss on that shoulder to welcome her to
life, his head light, still dizzy with that first long

ed the flowers pollinating and put a moon in the sky breath.

that would, throughout time, occasionally eclipse God, then, went back, forever, to Heaven.
the sun. He made it so stars were not eternal, He I only tell you this to set the story straight, out

sent meteors flying, started the sun spinning, and of fairness to God. For it is time that the miscon-
gave all the birds teeth. Looking up at the sky, God ception was corrected, that God's name was finally
decided against the last two. He stopped the sun in cleared of guilt.
its place and took the teethfrom the mouths of the In the beginning, on a hill, it was man who first

birds and gave them to the fish who were already
blessed with brilliant color. The birds became jeal-
ous, and God gave them feathers without a second
thought. He was most concerned with man.
Finally, He said, "There will be Eve." He fash-
turned his back on the Lord.
Nathan Englanders short stories have appeared in the
Adantic Monthly and the New Yorker. His first col-
lection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, was pub-

ioned her right there on the hill and placed her at lished in 1999. Englander received the PEN/Malamud
Adam's left side. She waited in a most peaceful fash- Award for Excellence in Short Fiction in 2000, the sa?ne
ion to be woken into the world. year his ''''The Gilgul ofPai'k Avenue" was named an 0.
Obstinate and unalive, Adam offered no wel- Henry Prize winner. "'Clearing
1

Gods Name' is reprint-

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY GARY WAYNE GILBERT

SHORTLY BEFORE THE FIRST UNDERCARD BOUT OF THE EVENING,
when the audience was still arriving and the houselights had not all been
turned on yet, Mitzi Jeter made her prefight visit to the ring. Wrapped in

crisp black and red sweats, she climbed through the ropes and moved delib-
erately around their inside perimeter, leaning into them to feel how they
gave, shuffling and bouncing as well to test the footing. Having com-
pleted the circuit, she stood in one corner for a few minutes, still and watch-
ful in the gloom, then crossed to the fight card at the Teachers Union Hall, a waterfront
blockhouse in Dorchester that squeezed the ring,
opposite corner and stood there for the fighters, and a couple of hundred spectators be-

a while. "I always do that before a tween a low drop-ceiling and industrial-strength
office carpeting. The promoter had come up with
fight," she explained a few hours an action-movie tag line to advertise the event

later, after her bout. "I'm visualizing

"Fully Loaded" —and had arranged an undercard of
bouts between men in which local fighters defeated

the fight, how it will go, my oppo- undistinguished opponents. The mismatches were
predictable, but not egregious enough to qualify as
nent. I'm getting used to the surround- criminal. The keyed-up local guys furiously assailed
the out-of-staters, who, depending on mood and
ings, the room, the lights, everything.
ability, covered up or fought back. Nobody got

There was killed,and everybody except the losers and their

a soft spot out there in
seconds had a good time.
the floor tonight; you need to know When Jeter and her cornermen made their en-
trance into the ring, two young women and one
that. I don't want anything to catch man preceded them down the aisle, holding high
the belts representing Jeter's titles: The IWBF and
me off-guard or surprise me, even
International Female Boxing Association recog-
something like seeing some seats out nized her as welterweight champion of the world,
and she also held the intercontinental title (one step
of the corner of my eye in a place I
short of the world title) of a third sanctioning body,

don't expect them. And I'm a Christian; theWomen's International Boxing Federation.
Dawne George was already in the ring, the chal-
I don't want to step in there without lenger's faction having entered first in accordance
with fistic tradition. It was time for the main event.
God's protection and blessing on
me, so there's praying going on, too." THE PROMOTER OF THE JETER-CEORCE BOUT
might have believed he was making history by pre-
"Smokin"' Mitzi Jeter, a 38-year-old elementary senting a women's title bout as the headliner, a first
school gym teacher from Chatsworth, Georgia, was in Massachusetts, but the evening's historical signif-
in Boston to defend her International Women's icance more properly resided in its business-as-
Boxing Federation (IWBF) welterweight title usual quality. The two fighters weighed in under
against Dawne "The Devastator" George, a 42- the welterweight limit, the commission's mandato-
year-old prison guard from Gardner, Massachu- ry prefight examinations determined that neither
setts. Their bout headlined a modest Friday night fighter was injured or HIV-positive or pregnant, an
impartial referee enforced the rules, three licensed

"Smokin" Mitzi Jeter (left) and Dawne "The Devastator" George judges (two of them from out of state, as Jeter's

(right) at the IWBF welterweight championship in Boston manager-husband and the IWBF had insisted) ren-

in )s rON ( oi I l (,| \1 U, V/IXK 33

 dered an unbiased decision despite the fact that the cially when she switched to a southpaw stance in
challenger was local and the champion was not, and the middle rounds, but the champion put on the
—
everybody got paid not much, but what they ex- evening's only exhibition of accomplished technical
pected.The fight was just another day at the office, boxing. Jeter jabbed and double-jabbed to set up
and that, in the long view, is news. combinations, circling to create advantageous an-
Women bent on mixing it up have always found gles of attack. She made George's punches miss,
their way into the fights, even when the sport or then made her pay for missing. She drove with her
their participation in it was illegal. Women fought legs and shifted her weight in the clinches, encour-
on the illicit margins of the legitimate boxing world aging George to spend her upper-body strength in
for most of the 20th century. Bareknuckle bouts be- pushing back with inferior leverage. The only blow
tween women were common in the 18th and 19th that caught Jeter by surprise was an illegal one, an
centuries. And (to follow the line all the way back) accidental headbutt in the third round that stag-
the recent discovery of the remains of a young gered her. The referee, a smiling gent with flowing
woman buried with gladiatorial honors in a Roman white hair, gave Jeter a few seconds to recover.
cemetery in London seems to confirm archaeolo- After the unscheduled break she went back to work
gists' belief that fighting women carved out a place with a burst of punching that won the round for
for themselves in the ancient world's bloodsport her. An uneasy male voice called out from George's
demimonde. corner, "Get busy, girlfriend."
The current boom in women's boxing, which Both boxers' trainers had the limber, straight-
began almost a decade ago, may be just the latest backed carriage of fighting men in advanced middle
episode in this long history, but it also has occa- age. Squatting in front of George's stool between
sioned major changes in the fight world. The in- rounds, her trainer shouted, "You got to hit her!
creasingly institutionalized character of women's Let your hands go! Boom-boom-boom-BOOM!"
boxing is a new development: title-granting organi- He threw an illustrative sequence of punches
zations (multiple, competing, and variably shady, alarmingly close to her face. Jeter's corner was qui-
just like those in men's boxing) award belts and rank eter, almost peaceful. While her husband knelt on

contenders, state commissions regulate women and the canvas in front of her, silently giving her water
men alike, and a formal amateur network under- and applying and then Vaseline to her face, her
ice
girds the profession. For the first time since the rise trainer stood on the ring apron and craned through
of boxing to state-regulated legitimacy a century ago, the ropes to murmur in her ear. When George
now common
it is practice to include a women's began to tire in the seventh round, grabbing Jeter
bout among men's bouts, or to stage all-women's more often and leaning heavily on her, Jeter's train-
cards. To the extent that any boxing is legitimate, er called out "Can you feel her weight?" just loud-
women's boxing has become increasingly legiti- ly enough to cut through the crowd noise. Jeter
mate, and sometimes it can even be the main event. accepted even more of George's weight in the
clinch, then turned her and stepped away suddenly
TO HANDICAP THE JETER-CEORCE MATCHUP, to one side, causing George to stumble forward off-
one needed to know that Jeter had been winning balance. Jeter nailed her with a jab, a cross, and a
fights of one kind or another for most of her life, hook — left, right, left —before George could get
ever since taking up karate in childhood; that her back into position.
record after three-plus years of professional boxing Jeter scored well the rest of the way with this

was 15-3-1; that she usually went the distance,
seeming to gain strength as her opponent tired, and
won by decision; and that among her victories were
two previous decisions over George, who, at 4—7-1,
usually knocked out her opponent when she won but
had never gone 10 rounds. Both were in sound fight-
ing shape. George, the bigger- framed of the two
welterweights, had trained down to a lean but broad-
shouldered 145 pounds. Jeter's body, at
was smoother, its strength concentrated in the legs.
The challenger landed some hard punches,
sidestepping tactic out of the clinches, sweeping the
laterounds and winning the fight by a wide margin
on every judge's card. Holding her wrist, the refer-
ee raised Jeter's ungloved but still-wrapped hand in
victory after the ring announcer intoned the tradi-
tional formula: "The winner, and still welterweight
champion of the world. ..."
146 pounds, THE INDIVIDUAL AND AD HOC CHARACTER OF
boxing, with a core of serious practitioners and
espe- many more who are semiserious or just in it for the

34 WINTER 2002
GEORGE'S TRAINER SHOUTED, "YOU COT TO HIT HER! LET YOUR HANDS CO! BOOM-

BOOM-BOOM-BOOM!" JETER'S CORNER WAS QUIETER, ALMOST PEACEFUL HER HUSBAND

KNELT ON THE CANVAS SILENTLY APPLYING ICE AND THEN VASELINE TO HER FACE

workout, makes it difficult to determine how many ment of women into traditional proving grounds of
women box. Frank Globuschutz, founder of an all- American manhood. The generation of women
women's gym on Long Island and guiding force of currently integrating boxing, contact sports, hunt-
the IWBF (in which capacity he gave Mitzi Jeter a ing, and the military combat arms (not to mention
big postfight hug), has estimated that there are action movies) has grown up in a time of remark-
more than 2,000 female professionals in the United able fluidity in the sexual division of work and play.
States and perhaps half as many amateurs, each In particular, the assumption of a male monopoly
group constituting less than a third of the world- on skilled, socially valued aggression has been seri-

wide total. A woman arriving in the gym these days ously undermined, and not only by the feminist im-
with an inchoate urge to box finds that, unlike pulse. The Title IX legislation of 1972 that enabled
women in previous eras, she can give form to that the late 20th-century boom in women's sports was
aspiration by plugging herself into the fight world's a symptom as much as a cause of the movement of
standard routine. First, she becomes a regular at the women into previously off-limits areas. Beneath
gym, finds a trainer, spars with peers and more ex- and behind the transformation of play lies the
perienced stablemates. Then she enters the Golden transformation of work: the final collapse of the
Gloves amateur tournament in her state; if that family wage system that theoretically allowed a
goes well, she can fight for national amateur titles working man's salary to support his wife and chil-
and try to qualify for international tournaments. dren, together with the complementary movement
Eventually, if she turns pro, she signs with a man- of men into service jobs that resemble what used to
ager who can line up plausible competition and be called "women's work." Deindustrialization, the
pursues the attention of promoters, sponsors, and mechanization of farming, and the expansion of
television executives; as her career progresses, she undermine
service work, especially, have helped to
angles for higher-profile fights, title belts, bigger the traditional calculus of masculinity based on
paydays. body work and associated rough play, on being
Among the several social and cultural frames one good with one's hands.
might place around this —
phenomenon and its high A variety of enterprising women have undertak-
visibility in a recent round of movies, books, news en to explore the evocative ruins of that partially
features, and advertisements — is the larger move- collapsed tradition and to salvage usable parts for

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BEAR IN MIND THATJETER HOLDS TWO WORLD WELTERWEIGHT TITLES BUT MADE
"LESS THAN $10,000" IN HER FIGHT WITH GEORGE. MALE WELTERWEIGHT CHAMPION
SUGAR SHANE MOSLEY CAN MAKE $3 MILLION-PLUS FOR AN ORDINARY TITLE DEFENSE

their own purposes. Women

pushing for access to through martial which tend to emphasize
arts,

the fight world have been part of a larger push in technique over brute strength and which have been
the realms of work and play (which overlap at the relatively integrated in the United States since the
once "manly" virtues that boxing is
fights) to claim late 1960s and 1970s, when feminism and a spike in
known to nurture and embody: autonomy, physical crime statistics inspired widespread interest in
competence, and discipline, all wrapped up with women's self-defense. Dawne George, who began
productive aggression. training as a boxer in part to lose weight, has a black
belt in tae kwon do. Mitzi Jeter won a national
WOMEN WHO WANT TO FIGHT, DRIVEN BY championship in sport karate and tried amateur
an appetite for hitting as incompletely explicable as kickboxing before moving on to boxing. Jeter
that which urges men into the ring, come to boxing switched to boxing three-and-a-half years ago, she
from a variety of directions. A few come from fight- said, "in part because of the popularity of women's
ing families; they grow up trading punches with boxing, but also because of the natural progression
brothers, or learn the ropes from fathers. More of intensity. Sport karate was more like a tag game,
women, for the most part educated and middle- kickboxing was more intense, boxing is even more
class, are recruited through the boxing-themed aer- intense. Some things are the same —the fact that it's

obic exercise regimes currently popular in health fighting, the way you and centered.
stay balanced
clubs. They grow tired of punching air to the beat But probably the biggest difference is distance, and
and begin to wonder what it feels like to hit some- intensity." Jeter was talking to reporters at Slade's,
body who hits back. Others, the multi-sport ath- a nightclub in Roxbury, at a press event the day be-
letes, come to boxing after playing organized sports fore the fight. She got up to demonstrate how the
in high school or college. Most of those sports offer distance between combatants shrinks and the deci-
little in the way of a professional future, and boxing sive violence of their encounter escalates as one
is so individualistic that an extraordinarily motivat- moves from sport karate to kickboxing to boxing.
ed woman can take it up in earnest while still earn- Everybody gave her plenty of room.
ing a living at day jobs or even pursuing a Jeter's and George's biographies also suggest the
full-fledged career. range of class trajectories that deliver women into
The majority of female boxers come to boxing the ring. Jeter, like many of her female peers and

36 WINTER 2002
unlike most men in the business, has solid middle- ing to her manager-husband, in her fight with
class credentials: a degree in health and physical ed- George; male welterweight champion Sugar Shane
ucation from Barry College in Georgia, a teaching Mosley can make $3 million-plus for an ordinary
career, options. She never faced the classic choice title defense, much more for a big bout against a

between fighting and factory work, nor did she take marketable opponent. Female boxers, even more
up boxing to protect herself on the street. George's than men, do it primarily for the challenge, the
trajectory, by contrast, resembles the classic por- feeling of accomplishment, the momentary glory,
trait of the male boxer in at least two respects: She the potency, the hitting. These mostly intangible
grew strong doing hard manual labor in furniture rewards matter a great deal, but steady income
factories, and she found boxing in prison, albeit as must derive from elsewhere, which usually entails a
a guard rather than an inmate. working life beyond the ring that eats up significant
The two women have in common their entry amounts of time and energy. On the Sunday after
into boxing at an extremely advanced age. Neither their Friday-night fight, George, a single mother of
grew up in boxing, and it is certainly not a sport four and a grandmother, would be back at her part-
that they could have learned in school. Both had to time job as a short-order cook, and on Tuesday she
make their way to it as adults through a changing would be back at work at the North Central Cor-
social and cultural landscape. One might think of rectional Institute. Jeter would be back at the
them as part of a backlog of women who have only Spring Place Elementary School. "The kids are
begun to act on their fighting potential in the past done for the year," she said, "but Tuesday, Wednes-
few years. If the sport continues to grow, and if in day, and Thursday at school we have post-planning,
time at least a prominent handful of women can then I have to take some classes this summer." And
make a decent living as boxers, this cohort of older both fighters, of course, would soon be back in the
pioneers (including most of the middle-class fight- gym, training.
ers) will be squeezed out by younger women who
will come straight to boxing in their teens —hungry, NO MATTER HOW HARD WOMEN WORK IN
committed most of them working-class,
fighters, the gym, though, they face long odds in fighting
who will choose boxing over other life options and their way out of the bind that the boxing business,
other sports. (Women's boxing may actually have a forever suspended between craft and entertain-
recruiting advantage over men's boxing in that re- ment, puts them in. The novelty of women's box-
spect, because football siphons off many of the boys ing, an institutional fledgling, makes it especially
with an appetite for hitting.) susceptible to the eclipse of skillful fighting by the
Now, for all their seriousness about boxing, nei- priorities of showbiz.
ther Jeter nor George can make a living in the ring. That helps explain the less-than-acceptable cur-
Bear in mind that Jeter holds two world welter- rent state of women's boxing. A fighter can only im-
weight titles but made "less than $10,000," accord- prove by facing competent opponents in the gym

The play-by-play (pages 5-7): Mitzi Jeter (red trunks with black trim) and
Dawne George (black trunks with red trim) meet in the ring. George press-
es forward on the attack, and Jeter tries to contain that attack and then
counter it. When they come together, Jeter muffles George's punches with
her arms and drives with her legs, making George expend upper-body
strength to keep her balance. Stepping to her left, Jeter shifts position to

create leverage and an advantageous angle from which to punch. After

scoring with a combination, she falls into a clinch with George, resting and
looking to set up the next opportunity CR

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 and and there are not enough good female
in bouts,
boxers to go around. Dawne George, for example,
was game and strong, but her losing record made
her a less-than-ideal challenger for a world title,
and she did not offer Jeter, who had already beaten
her twice, much of a test.
Many women who fight for titles
sion are just notgood enough boxers to merit such
exposure, but they are game enough to wade in
swinging, which always sells. Managerial skulldug-
gery and incompetence produce far too many mis-
matches (a major problem in men's boxing, also),
but even fair matches between women too often
turn into flailing sessions that do not belong on
which some see as more and technical-
aesthetically
ly pleasing than men's basketball. Female basketball
players, the argument goes, work harder on pass-
ing, shooting, and team play because they cannot
rely so heavily on the sheer strength and athleticism
that often turns the men's game into a Hobbesian
and on televi- bricklaying contest punctuated by improbable
dunks. But proper basketball skills may be learned
in school, where fisticuffs are always discouraged,
and a major part of the entertainment value of
women's boxing seems to reside in its zmsoundness:
wild punching, no blocking or slipping of blows,
action to the exclusion of craft.
Women's boxing often pleases crowds because it

major fight cards. Euphemistic talk about women's looks, paradoxically, both conventionally manlier
boxing as "more honest" than men's boxing than men's boxing and more womanly. It looks
"more action-packed," "tougher," and "fresher" more like the way men pretend to fight in movies,
draws a veil of marketing-speak over the plain fact dishing out and taking outsize blows by the double
that green female scrappers, fighting short, two- handful. Yet at the same time the women's bouts
minute rounds that encourage bell-to-bell punch- that collapse into unskilled pummeling call to mind
ing (men fight three-minute rounds), often beat the certain forms of pornography premised on the
hell out of one another with less regard for defense principle of the catfight.
and technique than more seasoned men display. Those bouts anger fighters who pride them-
Consider the contrast with women's basketball, selves on their skill. "I have some strong issues on

Barbara Buttrick, founder and president of the Women's International Boxing Federation, as a teenager in London, 1948. Her defiant
commitment to the sport opened the door for other women —few of them as good as Buttrick, who retired in i960 at 30-1-1.

38 WINTER 2002
"The winner and still welterweight champion of the world. . .
."

gender discrimination and sport," Mitzi Jeter said purely economic motives when he dumped the in-
at Slade's, her soft Georgia voice hardening a comparable Lucia Rijker, the best female boxer on
touch. "More people would enjoy women's fighting earth, and signed St. John instead? Why should
if there were better women fighters. But they want women fight shorter rounds? Perhaps, like the in-
to put on a T and A show—pardon my language. It junction that once barred women from running
seems like they find the worst women fighters they marathons, the rule protects an embattled ortho-
can. They're all like this:" She did a perfect imita- doxy rather than women's health.
tion of a novice, head back, eyes shut tight, throw- Then again, conspiracy might be too strong a
ing weak rapidfire blows with both hands. "It's like word. Powerful mixed motives drive boxing pro-
they want the women to look bad. You see what moters and their associates in television, the casino
women can do in other sports, like Flo Jo [the business, and the sport's public and private govern-
Olympic sprinter], what women have done in bas- ing bodies. Sensing a demand for women's boxing,
ketball, and soccer. And then you look at the they want to cultivate an audience for it (and build
women who fight on TV, and you know they aren't a bigger female audience for all boxing). Part of
the best." cultivating that audience could well be to develop a
Jeter half-jokingly used the word "conspiracy" to large cohort of skilled female boxers, but to achieve
describe the primitive state of women's boxing, and that end promoters would have to patiently invest
one can see why she might suspect the fight world's in upgrading the quality of women's boxing over
male authorities of colluding to defend the fistic the long run. As notoriously sharkish purveyors of
and cultural status quo. Do the best female boxers violent entertainment, though, promoters are ori-
remain obscure precisely because they are threaten- ented toward short-term profit and not toward ef-

ing? Why should Mia St. John —not much of a fecting long-run change in the business or the
boxer, but easy enough on the eyes to appear on the surrounding culture. They know they can cash in
cover of Playboy wearing boxing gloves and not right now on the appeal of the catfight —premised
much else — get bigger bouts than Jeter could ever on the combatants' ineptitude — and the darkly
dream of? Was promoter Bob Arum acting on timeless attraction of women getting beat up in

BOSTON COLLEG1 \l \(,\/l\l 39

JETER'S SOFT GEORGIA VOICE HARDENED A TOUCH. "IT SEEMS LIKE THEY FIND
THE WORST WOMEN FIGHTERS THEY CAN. THEY'RE ALL LIKE THIS:" SHE DID A PER-
FECT IMITATION OF A NOVICE, HEAD BACK, EYES SHUT TIGHT, THROWING WEAK
RAPIDFIRE BLOWS WITH BOTH HANDS

public. So promoters go for what they regard as the
sure thing, showcasing inexperienced female
brawlers and comely incompetents rather than
sound boxers. The resulting messy slugfests be-
tween women play not only to fans who value ac-
tion over craft but also to those who regard a match
between women as a palate-cleansing freaky sex
show inserted among real fights.
One might argue that the same mix of fascina-
tions with athletic skill, nakedness, and sexually in-
flected pain draws fans to men's boxing, but the
proportions tend to be reversed. Some spectators
may see a pornographic subtext in the spectacle of
men boxing, but many spectators see any conjunc-
tion of women and violence as primarily a sex show.
The tangle of contradictions remains in evi-
dence as women's boxing works into the
world's collective psyche. Take, for example, the
fight magazine Boxing Digest. Its editors, who pine
in print for the lost golden age of "the nocturnal
-«TONl (JPZ****'
V ERONA.
NV
urban male subculture," have made clear their pre-
ferred understanding of women's place at the fights:
They discontinued a new section devoted to
women's boxing after only a few issues, while con-
tinuing prominently feature a near-naked
to
"Round Card Beauty of the Month" in every issue.
But Boxing Digest also offers backhanded respect to
women's bouts, which it includes in its small-type
capsule reports on fight cards around the world.
One typical recent report contrasted a "tame" main
event between men to a slugfest between women
on the undercard that served as "the real headliner"
because, "as usual, the women's [bout] produced
the most action." The mating of "action" to "as
usual" implies praise for women's courage and for-
titude (by which many men still affect to be sur-
fight prised), but also distaste for yet another amateurish
fight between female professionals.
The staff writers at Boxing Digest exemplify the
ringside point of view of most boxing literature
the noncombatant expert's perspective, with au-
thority derived from experience in watching rather
than doing. But some of the educated women who
were pioneers in legitimate boxing in the 1990s
have been writing and making movies about boxing
from a commanding new in-the-ring perspective:
books like Rene Denfeld's Kill the Body, the Head
Will Fall (1997), Kate Sekules's The Boxer's Heart
(2000), and Lynn Snowden Picket's Looking for a
Fight (2000); movies like Katya Bankowsky's Shadow
Boxers (1999) and Karyn Kusama's Girlfight (2000).
Firsthand ring experience translates into powerful
leverage when these women's books and movies
urge a reconsideration of received ideas about gen-
der and aggression, sex and violence. The manly art
of self-defense having become esoteric in our age,
most partisans of those received ideas have not
given or taken a good one to the chops since grade
school, which can put them on the defensive when

Jacqui Frazier-Lyde (left) was a lawyer and Laila Ali (right) ran a

nail salon before a six figure purse drew them into Ali-Frazier IV.

40 WINTER 2002
women with bloody knuckles enter the cultural bat- and leaner, knew how to move her feet, jab with her
tle royal over the meaning of women's boxing. long left arm, and follow up with a straight right,
but she forgot about all that and settled for throw-
TWO WEEKS AFTER THEJETER-CEORCE FIGHT, ing both hands indiscriminately when Frazier-Lyde
a 39-year-old lawyerand ex-college basketball play- charged her. If any blows were blocked by either

er named Jacqui Frazier-Lyde fought a 2 3 -year-old fighter, it happened by accident as an incoming

celebrity-in-training named Laila Ali in the main glove ran afoul of an outgoing one. Increasingly
event of a card at the Turning Stone casino in up- winded, the two traded swings like drunken sailors,

state New York, an event that was broadcast on landing scores of punches without leverage that had
pay-per-view television. The bout —which the pro- little effect other than to generate "action."
moters insisted on calling Ali-Frazier IV, placing it The crowd, which had been inattentive during
in the company of three great fights between the the undercard fights, came to life during the main
protagonists' illustrious fathers, Joe Frazier and event. This was more like it: a close, fast-paced
Muhammad Ali — exemplified
most of what was bout with lots of hitting, celebrities, everything.
wrong with women's boxing, and also some of its People shouted out the fighters' names, taking spe-
promise. cial pleasure in chanting "A-li, A-li" again after all

Begin with the promise. Two female novices these years. They howled when the women went
fighting an eight-round, nontitle bout divided a toe-to-toe, which was most of the time. Some of
total purse (including a piece of the TV revenue) their enthusiasm was about boxing, some about
amounting to perhaps a quarter-million dollars, women, some about women boxing three differ- —
probably the biggest payday in the history of —
ent things and some of it sprang from their mem-
women's boxing. Not only did women headline a ories of Ali and Frazier pars. They went home
card that included a number of good male fighters, satisfied by the result, a close victory for Laila Ali

but the 6,500 or so people in attendance —includ- by majority decision.

ing hundreds of reporters from all over the world Mitzi Jeter, who was home in Georgia and re-
seemed two daughters had
to accept the notion that fused to watch the bout on TV, was not satisfied.
charged themselves with upholding the family Even giving away 15 pounds and a giant reach ad-
honor the old way, dukes up. A number of fear- vantage, she was confident that she could have out-
some-looking female professionals in street clothes boxed Ali and Frazier-Lyde, perhaps even in
took the opportunity presented by the massive succession on the same night. She dismissed their
gathering of reporters to lobby for their own shot bout as "a publicity stunt" and worried that it had
at the big time. There was a sense of possibility in "hurt women's boxing." Frazier, she said, "is a joke.

the air. Ali, she's better than average, but still not a good
On the other hand, the fight itself belonged fighter. Five years from now, after she's continued
deep on the undercard at a local club, or in a Gold- to work and train, she could be a good fighter. I'm
en Gloves tournament. The combatants, who surprised she let it be so close. That doesn't say
showed plenty of heart and little ability, had no much for her."
business in a much-publicized main event. Frazier- Five years from now, the statuesque Ali will
Lyde could barely box at and Ali was only be-
all, probably be making action movies and hawking her
ginning to develop a style. Both had skipped celebrity workout video; Frazier-Lyde will be
amateur careers and assembled brief but undefeat- lawyering again, happily retired from her brief ring
ed professional records by dispatching sacrificial career. Jeter, at 43, will be fighting or training oth-
patsies, so neither had much experience against ers to fight, because fighting is her craft, her gift,

competent opposition. Frazier-Lyde, the shorter her calling.

and thicker aggressor, rushed in at the start of ever) 7

round, taking punches and windmilling her own Carlo Rotella, an assistant professor of English at Boston
until shewas gasping for breath. Her left-handed College, author of October Cities: The
is the
blows sort of resembled her father's definitive Redevelopment of Urban Literature (1998) and the
Philadelphia left hook, but when she threw her forthcoming Good with Their Hands, from which
right the punch collapsed into a pushing motion portions of this article are adapted. His essay "Cut
known on the street as a moosh, more of a provo- Time, "
of another book-in-progress entitled The
pan
cation than an effective form of assault. Ali, taller Distance, appeared in Best American Essays 2001.

BOS fONCOLLEGl \l W. \/l\T 41

 THE CONTENDER

MECAN CERSON '00

WAS LOOKING FOR A WAY

TO FILL THE LONG WINTER

WHEN SHE WANDERED

INTO THE FAIRBANKS,

ALASKA, BOXING CLUB.

HER E-MAILS HOME TELL

THE REST

Gerson: "The sport of boxing isn't really all that gory or crude."

WED, 18 OCT 2000 speed bag, and did more crunches than I have in my
Hello Everyone, whole was in shape and I was ready.
life. I

I have taken up a new activity to keep me mov- On Saturday morning I had a physical and was
ing during the long winter. Boxing. I train for a weighed in with my male teammates. While we
couple of hours every day after work at the Fair- waited, we watched the red, white, and blue ring,
banks Boxing Club. Training is intense and diffi- supplied by USA Boxing, being set up. George
cult, but apparently I am doing well, because I will Foreman fought in that very ring as an amateur.
be competing in my first official fight a week from I returned Saturday night to the gym only to
Saturday. Yes, I know I'm crazy. find that my fight was going to be scratched— there
I am scheduled to box a 26-year-old woman was too big a weight differential. If I didn't lose
from the Yukon Territory. It will be her first fight, three pounds and the girl I was supposed to fight
as well. I'll let you know how it goes. didn't gain four pounds in the next hour, we would
not be allowed to fight. I don't know what turned
MON, 30 OCT 2000 on inside of me, but I knew I had to fight, so I lost
I WON! ! ! ! I got in that ring on Saturday night in three pounds in an hour. I threw up, spat, ran inside
front of over a thousand people, in the only female with sweats and hats and mittens, and got rid of
fight on a 15 -fight card, scared out of my mind, and everything that I could. My opponent drank bottles
I WON! and bottles of water. We made the official weigh-in,
Let me tell you what it was like. For over two then we both had a couple of hours to recuperate
weeks, I trained hard every day. I cut fat, alcohol, before stepping into the ring.
caffeine, carbs, and everything else that is fun and Mine was the 12 th fight of the night, one of the
indulgent out of my diet. I hit the heavy bag, the final fights leading up to the main event: the face-

42 WINTER 2002
off between the Number One and Number Three first-ever champion of the Fairbanks
female
junior superheavyweights in the country. I got my Smokeout Amateur Boxing Tournament is alive
hands wrapped, put on my headgear, groin and kid- and well!
ney protector, mouth protector, chest protector (a

wonderful hard plastic bra that only female boxers FRI, 05 JAN 2001
have to wear), and slipped on my shiny blue Fair- My next bout is scheduled for mid-February. In the
banks uniform; someone tied up my
As I gloves. meantime, I continue to train four to five days a
stood in my corner, my coach kept reminding me week in a sweaty, testosterone-filled gym, working
that it was "just another day in the gym." The bell to improve my left hook.
rang, and the first round began. My coach, bless his heart, is still a bit surprised

I fought three two-minute rounds, and to tell to be training women to compete. He has a kind of
you the truth, most of it is a blur. I remember get- unexpected pride, and says things to visitors and
ting hit so hard in the chin with a right cross that I newcomers to the gym like: "You see her over
couldn't believe I was still standing. But I had so there? When she's outside, she's just a regular girl.
much adrenaline at that point that people in the au- But when she walks through those doors, she be-
dience didn't even know the other fighter had con- comes a boxer." When I am doing well on my pad
nected. I faced her punches and rolled with them. drills with him, sometimes he just stops and laughs.

By the end of the first round, I didn't know how Not in a condescending way, but more out of de-
I was going to make it. It is a scary thing being in light. Perhaps I should fuss about being called a
that ring and knowing that getting beaten up is to- "girl," but I am the first woman who's ever compet-
tally within the realm of possibility. But I saw that ed for Fairbanks, and for now I will let my combi-
she was tired too, and in the second round, I con- nations do the talking.
nected my straight-punch combinations with an
energy I didn't know I possessed. I hit her with a 1- FRI, 16 MAR 2001
2-1, and as she tried to sidestep away, I followed her There was a boxing tournament in Anchorage, so
around the ring, using my combinations until my my team traveled the 360 miles down the Parks
arms couldn't do it anymore. By the end of the sec- Highway. During the ride, I had one of those mo-
ond round, we were both fighting with bloody ments when one realizes that life is a hilarious and
noses. I had caused a standing 8-count in the sec- unpredictable gift. There I was in a 15 -passenger
ond round, and I did it again in the third. The van filled for the most part with high-school-aged
crowd was wild. I knew hardly anyone there, but boys, surrounded by the monumental beauty of the
people were screaming my name all over the gym. Alaska Range, listening to the "Rocky TV" sound-
It was the support of the crowd that took me track.
through the third round until my opponent and I I didn't get a bout that night —there were no
were saved by the bell. women in my weight class. However, the other two
When the judges announced that I had won the women on my team had their first fights, so I was
fight, the crowd exploded into a standing ovation. there to help them prepare (I'm considered a veter-
As I was climbing down the stairs from my corner, an after my October fight, I guess). Now the Fair-
a woman sitting at ringside stood up and screamed, banks team has three female veterans — quite an
"You go, girl!" and jumped up and down. For the accomplishment for a boxing club.
rest of the night, people kept approaching me, con-
gratulating me, asking me for an autograph. I'm not MON, 19 MAR 2001
kidding. Everyone kept telling me that I had clear- I have no idea when my next fight will happen. It's

ly won, that I had beaten her badly, but I don't re- twice as hard to find match now that I have a vic-
a

member that. All I remember is wanting to make it tory under my belt. For a lot of women, getting in
out of that ring with my nose in the same spot as it the ring to compete for the first time takes some
has always been. coaxing (I know it did for me), and word that a po-
I came out of the bout relatively unscathed: a tential opponent has any victories at all can be in-
bloody nose, a fat lip, and some bruises on and timidating.
under my chin where her cross connected with my And there are simply no women in my weight
face. It was hard and scary, and my face still hurts, class. I usually weigh in at 158. (Here's an unex-
but it was an unbelievable, euphoric feeling. The pected side effect of boxing: geting used to telling

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 the truth about how much I weigh and actually the great boxing god. And the tears came immedi-
being okay with it.) If I can get myself in the low ately, not because I was upset, or even in that much
150s, I'll have a better chance of finding matches pain, but more as a physiological reaction as if he —
with some of the smaller fighters in the 140s. had laid that hook right into my tear ducts.
Now, nothing will make you feel more like a
WED, 23 MAY 2001 sissy than tears in the ring, so I got up as fast as I
The military had their smoker in February, and could and asked if we could keep going, please. The
they brought down their women to spar in prepa- guys standing around the ring taunted my coach for
ration for their bouts. All of them began boxing for beating on a Although the guys in the gym re-
girl.

the sole purpose of competing in the Army tourna- spect me, they still have a hard time hitting me. It's
ment, so their technique and form weren't all that a strange combination: True respect as a woman
great. But they were in stellar shape, they were ag- boxer is often marked by the fact that a man is no
gressive, and some of them hit like a truck. One longer afraid to hit you, meaning that when I get
sparring match in particular, against a tall, thick the respect I yearn for, I feel it by way of a body
woman who easily outweighed me by 15 pounds, blow that puts me on the canvas.
was pretty terrifying. I had just come back to the
gym after a week of being laid up in bed with a hor- MON, 24 SEP 2001
rible flu. My coach put me in with her for just one This summer, the roughhouse boxers made their
round, warning me that she hits "like a mule" with way into town. People kept asking me if I was
her right, but that I would be able to see it coming. fighting over at Cheap Charlie's, one of a few local
I spent the entire round slipping rights that bars that sponsors brawls. And after a while, I had
skimmed my headgear with a whoosh I had never to laugh, as I realized thatmost people have no
heard before. It was true, you could see them com- concept of the difference between what I train to
ing for a mile, but I knew that if even one of them do and brawling in a back alley. I suppose that's
landed, I would have likely wound up on the canvas. why people are surprised that I box. They don't
I remember getting out of the ring and wanting to know that the sport of boxing isn't really all that

cry. My flu-damaged body was screaming at me. gory or crude. That it's about timing, and move-
My coach came over to where I was sitting and ment, and That in many ways, it's like danc-
agility.

told me that day that I was a real boxer, because I ing, and when it's done right, it looks like superb
had put everything aside and got in there and did choreography.
what needed to be done.
So I may not get a fight every week, but I have WED, 14 NOV 2001
my share of challenges. That woman wound up Something great has been going on in our gym
winning the Army tournament I guess the other — lately. There are now about seven women who train

women didn't learn defense. consistently at the Fairbanks Boxing Club. One of
I'm beginning a new training schedule: Three them, Pearl, a Fairbanks police officer, is at a tour-

days of weight training a week, worked into two- nament right now, and we were able to prep her by
hour-long practices. Lots of bag work, counter- putting her in the ring, round after round, with five
punching drills, and a two-mile run at the end of or six different women. We are all going to im-
every practice. prove, because the diversity will make us better
boxers.
FRI, 10 AUG
2001 It's funny to look around the gym and see
I got knocked to my knees for the first time this women outnumbering men some days. Our pres-
summer. I was in the ring with my assistant coach ence is a constant now, and that makes it a whole lot
doing a counterpunching drill kind of like spar- — easier to simply go to the gym and train hard — all

ring, only with a set sequence of punches, so you any boxer really wants to do.
prettymuch know what's coming at you. Well, even Fighting in Fairbanks,
though in my mind I knew that a left hook was Megan
coming to my ribs, my body clearly forgot, and I

didn't protect myself. One pop —not even full Megan Gerson '00 has been a Jesuit Volunteer and
force —into my rib cage and I literally fell to my Youth Outreach Coordinator for the Interior AIDS
knees in the ring as if I were going to give praise to Association in Fairbanks, Alaska, since August 2000.

44 WINTER 2002
 THE IMPROBABLE CAREER OF

MR. BLUE
BY JOHN BRESLIN, SJ

When I was a kid at Regis High wartime tearjerker Music for Millions.

School in New York City during the He produced or wrote 40 films in

late 1950s, a number of us eager all, but when he died in 1964, his

types read a small book called Mr. single greatest legacy was generally
Blue on the recommendation of a acknowledged to be Mr Blue. The
Jesuit scholastic or book remained in

two. First published IN 1928, MYLES CONNOLLY print for most of

in 1928, Mr. Blue 60 years. Nothing
'18 CREATED A JAZZ ACE
was the fictional Connolly pub-
creation of Myles HERO FOR YOUNC U.S. lished subsequent-

Connolly, a 1918
CATHOLICS. HE WENT ON
ly—he wrote three
Boston College more parable nov-

graduate who went TO CRAFT SCRIPTS FOR els —came close to

on to make a re-
HOLLYWOOD, AND DIED IN being as popular.
spectable mark in Besides being
1964. HIS PECULIAR LITER-
Hollywood writing brief, at 152 pages,
screenplays. ARY CREATION SURVIVES Mr. Blue featured
Connolly wrote what adolescents
scripts for, among others, Spencer are most likely to be drawn to in a

Tracy, Jimmy Durante, and June novel: a youthful protagonist who

Allyson, and was nominated for an can thumb his nose at the establish-
Oscar for his work on the 1944 ment and get away with it. The book

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MYLES CONNOLLY A book to own and a book to

give owoy, a book to read

and to reread and love."
~ PROVIDENCE lOUKSAL

COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED

BV MYLES CONNOLLY

Mr.
R.BLU
BLUE
Myles Connolly
# MYLES CONNOLLY
Witk a New Preface by
Joseph F. Girzone
AS YOUNC CATHOLICS, MY HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS AND I

WERE CAPTIVATED BY MR. BLUE. HE REMINDED US OF

HOLDEN CAULFIELD AND PERHAPS A BIT OF DOROTHY DAY,
THE ONLY CLEAR AMERICAN
about young man—the eponymous Blue him-
is a
SAINT OF OUR GENERATION
self—who decides to take Christianity seriously as a
layman, not as a chore but as a challenge. He
chooses poverty. He lives variously in a festively
painted packing crate on the roof of a skyscraper the modern world with all its scientific works and
(where he flies kites and frees balloons); in man- philosophical pomps in the name of a reimagined
sions, thanks to a surprise inheritance that he soon Christendom, alive with story and redolent of para-
dispenses; in the spartan garret of a Boston lodging dox. "To have fallen into any of the fads from
house; and in the ward of a city hospital, where, in Gnosticism to Christian Science would indeed have
the end, he dies. He
works "here and there," at been obvious and tame," he wrote in Orthodoxy.
shoveling snow or chopping wood, surviving on "But to have avoided them all has been one
"backdoor begging" for meals. He speaks of Christ whirling adventure; and in my vision the heavenly
to anyone who will listen and to some who won't. chariot flies thundering through the ages, the dull
And he prays passionately, alone in his attic, be- heresies sprawling and prostrate, the wild truth
fore a massive cross. Blue intrigues, awes, and trou- reeling but erect. There are an infinity of angles
. . .

bles the narrator, a somewhat older man caught up at which one falls, only one at which one stands."
in the workaday life of a businessman, his feet Chesterton's method was simple but brilliandy
squarely planted on the ground. realized: One by one he raised and demolished,
As young Catholics, my high school friends and I often through ridicule or humor, the suppositions of
were captivated by the idealistic rebel in Mr. Blue. pseudoscience and the secular nostrums of the edu-
He reminded us of Holden Caulfield and perhaps a cated classes. In response to the Freudian notion
bit of Dorothy Day, the only clear American saint of thatGothic spires were phallic symbols, Chesterton
our generation. To our teachers, the book formed a sagely agreed; otherwise, he deadpanned, they
continuum with the robust, paradoxical defense of would surely have been built upside down.
Christianity laid out by the British author G. K. Chesterton saw himself as an apostle of affirma-
Chesterton, beginning with his Orthodoxy, pub- tion in a world gone gray. At the same time, he
lished in 1909. threw open doors and windows in a Church that
Recently, I read Mr. Blue again, and I have come seemed cautious to a fault and not very interested in
to realize that the character of Blue must also have new ideas. The Council of Trent had settled all the
appealed to us all, and to countless other readers, important questions four centuries before, but G. K.
because he was a uniquely American personality. As made orthodoxy exciting, even dangerous. Rather
Myles Connolly wrote him, J. Blue was the man than viewing it as a straitjacket that stifled Christ-
that the ambitious Jay Gatsby might have become orthodoxy as a glo-
ian theology, he preferred to see
had he steered by a higher truth than the sound of rious balancing act and spoke of its "romance."
money in Daisy Buchanan's voice. Myles Connolly made young Mr. Blue its ardent
embodiment.
IT IS HARD TO OVERESTIMATE G. K. In 1924, just four years before Mr. Blue ap-
Chesterton's effect on several generations of young peared, Chesterton published his version of the life
Catholic intellectuals-in-the-making. He took on of St. Francis of Assisi, another brief book with
great staying power. Did Myles Connolly, then. 27
years old, read it? I think it more than likely. Cen-
Clockwise from lower left: editions of Mr. Blue from 1990, 1965, tral to Chesterton's understanding of Francis is the
1954, and 1928, the year of its first printing notion of seeing the world with a God's-eye per-

BOSTON CO] I 1 <.l MAGAZINE 47

 spective. He imagines Francis going down so Opposed to such sanity stands the more ordinary
deeply into his cave of prayer that he comes up, as kind that the narrator can't seem to get beyond:
it were, on the other side: "the attitude," he says, that "was the attitude of
everyone everywhere. Blue, I'm afraid, was not
[Francis] sees things go forth from the divine as marked out for success."
children going forth from a familiar and ac-
cepted home, instead of meeting them as they in 1925, f. scott Fitzgerald's
come out, as most of us do, upon the roads of The Great Gatsby appeared, a year after Chesterton's
the world. . . . He who has seen the whole St. Francis of Assisi and three years before Mr. Blue.
world hanging on a hair of the mercy of God The brief novel, now an academic classic, recounts
has seen the truth; we might almost say the cold the story of Jay Gatsby, a mysterious millionaire who
truth. He who has seen the vision of his city up- takes his place, somewhat brashly among the mon-
side down has seen it the right way up. eyed aristocracy of eastern Long Island in pursuit of
Daisy Buchanan, the love of his impoverished youth.
Connolly set Mr. Blue in Boston, his hometown, In the very first sentence of his novella, Myles
but also in New York City, because that metropolis Connolly identifies his hero as J. Blue. Could that
of strivers was exactly the right venue for Blue and be a coincidence? Hardly, for someone as well read
his Roaring Twenties restaging of the St. Francis as Connolly. Jay Gatsby stands for everything that
story. From atop the skyscrapers of Kenneth Blue, three years later, rejects: the pursuit of great
Clarke's "heroic materialism," Blue shouts his chal- wealth, the willingness to do whatever it takes to
lenge to the modern world and its hubris, much as win, the craving for status and acceptance. Gatsby is

Francis did to the burgeoning market economy of also, as Blue turns out to be, bigger than life, lavish
13th-century Assisi. And he does so with the same in style, doomed to die young, a striking figure who
dramatic panache, for Blue is a poet as well as a fascinates and puzzles his own half-admiring chron-
mystic, a man, like Francis, with a sense of play and icler, the reserved future journalist Nick Carraway
a talent for the grand gesture. Can we imagine Gatsby and Blue inhabiting the
Blue is always gesturing. marching He loves same space in the Jazz Age before the Crash? De-
music, delights in color, the brighter the better, and spite their commitments to radically different value
thinks of money only as something to be spent, systems, these two might have hit it off. Certainly,
quickly, generously, and extravagantly, so that he the view from the skyscraper would have stirred
can be without it. There is no middle ground for Gatsby; he might even have been able to pick out the
him, and this makes the narrator uncomfortable light on Daisy's dock in East Egg, with the help of
—
and wary surely, life is about getting a job, settling binoculars. And certainly the lavish style Blue takes
down, having a family. But Blue is a misfit; he up briefly on inheriting a fortune —multiple houses,
craves nothing. limousines, world trips —would have appealed to Jay
Of course, he is also a challenge, like Francis. Gatsby. But Blue's true delight in his wealth is in giv-
For the narrator and, I suspect, for many readers of ing it away and
as fast as possible, hiring servants
Connolly's book, Blue represents the folly of the then setting them up in their own homes, keeping
saints, to be admired if not exactly imitated. On the his fortune in over a hundred checking accounts so
narrator's first meeting with Blue, he confesses: he can write checks at any time.
"The more I listened to Blue the more I liked him. There is a startling echo of Jay Gatsby in Con-
I liked his looks, to begin with. Anybody would. nolly's book. Halfway through Gatsby, Nick Car-
But besides that there was a certain spectacular raway reveals the millionaire's origins as Jay Gatz,
quality, one might call it a certain spectacular sani- the son of a shiftless farmer, who re-created himself
ty, beneath all his ideas that was novel and stimu- as the worldly Jay Gatsby, sprung "from his Platon-
lating to me." ic conception of himself. He was a son of God, a

Spectacular sanity: the echo of Chesterton is un- phrase which, if it means anything, means just that,
mistakable. Blue's ideas are infectious, and his the- and he must be about his Father's business, the ser-
ology entirely orthodox: The Incarnation is what and meretricious beauty."
vice of a vast, vulgar,
makes the immense power and beauty of creation Contrast that with Blue's apostrophe to the stars
bearable to him. But for Jesus, Blue says, "I would from the roof of his Manhattan skyscraper: "God is
be crushed beneath the weight of all these worlds." more intimate here. Don't you find Him so?
. . .

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Boston College seen from the vicinity of St. Ignatius Church, prior to the filling of the upper Newton reservoir

EXCERPT! MR. BLUE BEHOLDS THE HEIGHTS

We were tramping out in the Newtons, out around something, though no stone is left upon a stone."
the twin reservoirs which they Dusk was call lakes. Blue is a mystic, and mystics while they appear
sifting out of Boston and giving the massed trees crystal-clear are sometimes difficult to understand.
of which there are plenty in Newton that stealth — He saw my shrugged shoulders.
and secrecy which is their pretense at night. Boston "No great battle for a great cause can ever be for-
College, with its solid Gothic tower, stood black gotten. That up there is no mere group of college
against the last smoking flame of the November buildings; that up there is a battlefield, a sanctuary;
sunset. We were down in the dark. But no one could that up there is a hearth and home for the Lost
mind the dark, even of November, with the Gothic Cause that is never lost, the citadel of a strength that
that dominated the hill. Blue caught his breath at the shall outlast the hill and rock it stands upon. . . .

magnificent silhouette. Once heroes built fortresses against the Mongol and
"That gives me courage," he said, with his face up the Saracen; now they must build fortresses against
toward the hill crest. "Of late, I have been melan- the whole world. . . .

choly with autumn — a sign of adolescence or old "I tell you I know what I am talking about. Once
age. But I couldn't be melancholy with that above they —the believers, the students, the scholars, the
me. Not that I care for the Gothic, but for what it rep- soldiers, the saints — could fight heresies and
resents. Sunsets may flare, and the blackness of heretics. Today they have to fight a state of mind."
hades eclipse the earth, but that will endure."
"An earthquake could toss it into the lakes," I Excerpted from Mr. Blue by Myles Connolly. Copyright
objected. © 7928 by the MacMillan Company; copyright renewed
"And so could the cataclysm at the end of the 1956 by Myles Connolly. Reprinted with the permission
world. . . . But where that stands there will always be ofScribner, a division of Simon e( Schuster, Inc.
 CAN WE IMAGINE CATSBY AND BLUE INHABITING THE
SAME SPACE IN THE JAZZ ACE BEFORE THE CRASH? DESPITE
THEIR COMMITMENTS TO RADICALLY DIFFERENT VALUE
SYSTEMS, THESE TWO MIGHT
This is height without desolation, isolation without
HAVE HIT IT OFF
emptiness. ... I think my heart would break with
all if I did not know that God Him-
the immensity
self once stood beneath it, a young man, as small as
I. . I'm no microcosm. I, too, am a Son of God!"
. . of the rich. And like Gatsby, he dies protecting
Blue and Gatsby clearly serve different Gods, someone else, pushing a homeless black man out of
who nonetheless lead each of them to an early danger and taking the blow from the speeding lim-
grave. Their deaths, however, could hardly be more ousine himself. But there the parallel stops. What
different. Worshiping mammon and his memory of propels Blue, like Gatsby, is a dream, but a selfless
Daisy, Jay Gatsby finds himself defeated by both. one, founded on the gospel example of Jesus and
Daisy refuses to admit that she never loved her hus- renewed in a quite literal way a millennium later by
band, Tom, thereby destroying Gatsby's romantic the man from Assisi. Blue has chosen a way of life
dream. Moreover, her willingness to let Gatsby that startles, challenges, and puzzles the people
shoulder responsibility for her reckless driving around him just as thoroughly as Jesus and Francis
—
which killed Tom's mistress costs Gatsby his life, did in their times.
at the hands of the victim's aggrieved husband. What was Myles Connolly's aim in writing Mr.
J. Blue also dies because of the reckless driving Blue? Like Chesterton he wanted to confound the
materialists and the skeptics, to proclaim a Chris-
tianity full of romance and gusto, to launch a chal-
lenge to the materialism Jay Gatsby so reflexively
embraced. But after Connolly's death, in 1964, his
wife suggested that the story was also autobiograph-
ical. The young Connolly himself had loved kites,

balloons, brass bands, the movies, and the Mass; Mr.

Blue was his youthful challenge hurled at the world.
In 1954, when Connolly was in his late fifties and
the father of five children, he backed off a bit from
the message of Mr. Blue in a foreword to the book's
silver anniversary edition: "I also feel that Mr. Blue,
like Thoreau, failed to make the deeply important
distinction that what is sauce for the bachelor may
not be sauce for the married man and father at all."
Wiser? Sadder? Perhaps just older. Which is why
Jesus always insisted that the kingdom of God be-
longed by natural right to the young and the poor.
The rest of us are allowed in on sufferance.

John Breslin, SJ, is the rector of the Jesuit community

at Lemoyne College, in Syracuse, New York.

Mr. Blue's creator Myles Connolly in 1937. Director Frank Capra

called him, "my friend and severest critic — but also my ace-in-

the-hole story constructionist."

50 WINTER 2002
 ADVANCEMENT

HIGH TECH — In attendance at

the Boston College Technology

Council inaugural kickoff meet-
ing in November were, from
left, University Trustee Jack Con-
nors, Jr. '63; University President
William P. Leahy, SJ; Council
cochair Dan Nova '83, chairman
of Highland Capital Partners;
and Council cochair University
Trustee Peter Bell '86, chairman
and CEO of StorageNetworks,
Inc. The Technology Council is

modeled after the successful

Wall Street Council, and will

gather prominent graduates in

the technology field to assist

advancement efforts for the Uni-

versity and provide networking

opportunities for alumni and
students.

SCHOLARS FUND
Goizueta Foundation establishes Hispanic/Latino scholarship

The Goizueta Foundation has Goizueta Foundation send a rollment and scholarship at van, which provides transporta-
made a $1 million gift to powerful message to deserving Boston College. tion to Sunday morning wor-
Boston College to establish students that it is possible to at- The University's AHANA ship services in the Boston area,
and endow the Goizueta tend and achieve success at a student retention rate has contribute to the high AHANA
Foundation Scholars Fund to national private university such risen from 17 percent to 80 student retention rate.

provide need-based scholar- as Boston College," said Robert percent over the past two "The Goizueta Foundation
ship assistance annually to Lay, dean of enrollment man- decades. Director of AHANA affords a wonderful opportuni-
Hispanic/Latino students. agement at Boston College. Student Programs Donald ty to prepare Latino students
Established in 1992 by Currently 5 percent of BC stu- Brown credits this rise to BC's for positions of authority and
Roberto C. Goizueta, the dents are Latino. ability to provide key services responsibility in the work-
Goizueta Foundation focuses Boston College has worked such as academic advisement, place," said Brown. "Latinos
its philanthropy on education- at increasing the number of tutoring, personal counseling, are underrepresented in virtu-
al and charitable institutions. ALIANA (African-American, academic performance moni- ally every institution in our
Goizueta was chairman of the Hispanic, Asian, and Native toring, career advisement, and society. This scholarship fund
board of directors and chief American) students enrolled at comprehensive financial aid. will help ensure that Latino
executive officer of the Coca- the University. The Goizueta Special programs, such as graduates are present in the
Cola Company until his death Foundation scholarship will the Benjamin E. Mays Mentor- teaching profession, the legal
in October 1997. bolster this effort and is one ing Program, which pairs arena, the medical field, and
"Need-based scholarships in a growing number of initia- AHANA freshmen with faculty virtually every other profes-

like those made possible by the tives to support AHANA en- mentors, and the Gospel Cara- sional arena of our society."

BOSTON COI I K.I \IU,\/INI 51

 WHITE AND WHITE
Professor's wife makes $250,000 bequest

The late Anna Mary White, He also served as moderator Boston College community. He
wife of the late Frederick E. of Sigma Phi Sigma, the was somebody that everybody
White, a former Boston Col- University physics club, and saw and everybody knew. The
lege physics professor, has as acting director of the Na- Whites clearly believed deeply
made a bequest of $250,000 tional Science Foundation Insti- in Boston College."
to Boston College. tute for Teachers of High In recognition of this gift
Charles Dolan
During his 38-year tenure School Physics. and of Professor White's many
at Boston College, Professor "Fred had a sense of conti- contributions to the sciences
WALL STREET HONORS White was acting chairman of nuity and constancy that had in- at Boston College, the Univer-
Charles Dolan, chairman of Cable- his department, a member fluence on his colleagues as sity will name an area in the
vision Systems Corp., will be hon- of the pre-medical and pre- well as his students," said Uni- newly renovated Higgins Hall,
ored at the 14th annual Boston dental advisory committee, and versity Historian Thomas H. home of the biology and
College Wall Street Council Tribute assistant dean of the Graduate O'Connor '49, MA'50. "He was physics departments, in honor
Dinner in New York City on April School of Arts and Sciences. a visible and lovable part of the of the Whites.
18. The dinner raises more than
$1.5 million annually for the Uni-

versity's Presidential Scholars

Program, which provides

group of undergraduates with
four-year comprehensive educa-
a select

a OLYMPIC-SIZE GIFT
tional experience. Cochairs of this Fund benefits Hellenic studies and athletics
year's dinner are Robert M. Devlin
P'88, '90, former chairman of
American General; Mario J.
Gabelli Drake Behrakis '86, president for the Behrakis Athletic Fund.
P'90, '94, '95, '00, chairman of and chief executive officer of The Hellenic Studies
Gabelli Asset Management; and Markwich Associates, LLC, Fund will help support a vari-
Peter S. Lynch '65, vice chair- and his wife, Maria, have cre- ety of activities related to
man of Fidelity Management and ated the Maria E. and Drake Hellenic studies, including lec-
Research Corp. G. Behrakis '86 Endowment tures, museum and scholarly

Funds in Hellenic Studies and exhibits, and international pro-

EXPANSION Athletics. The gift, which grams with a focus on the na-
Boston College is announcing a totals $300,000, is in honor of tion of Greece.
restructuring and major expansion Behrakis 's 15th class reunion. "Hellenic studies offer
of its development division. The "We wanted our gift to rich lessons in both culture

restructuring involves the promo- go toward something person- and history. It is wonderful to
tions of Marianne E. Lord '79 from ally meaningful. I've always have the support of the
Drake G. and Maria E. Behrakis
director of capital giving to associ- been a fan of BC athletics, and Behrakis family and to be
ate vice president for leadership our Greek heritage is very able to bring Hellenic studies
gifts, and Robert G. Millar III, important to us. We felt this to an even broader audience,"
MS'oo, from director of develop- was the best way to honor said John J. Neuhauser, athletics on a variety of levels,"
ment for advancement services these two priorities in our life academic vice president and said Gene DeFilippo, director

to associate vice president for ad- and make them more availa- dean of faculties. of athletics. "This generous
vancement services. The division ble for others to enjoy." The Athletic Fund will gift will provide us with much
expansion will include the addition The gift consists of generate income to be used for flexibility in meeting the fu-

of more than 40 new professional $200,000 to establish the specific needs of the athletic ture needs of Boston College
staff members over the next two to Behrakis Fund in Support of department. "Drake has been athletics and will greatly bene-
three years. Hellenic Studies and $100,000 involved with Boston College fit our student-athletes."

52 WINTER 2002
 Q&A

True east
Associate Theology Professor John Makransky is a lama in the lineage of

Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. In his book Buddhist Theology: Critical Reflections by

Contemporary Buddhist Scholars (2000), coedited with Roger Jackson,
he invites Buddhists to consider their tradition's relationship with modernity

An interview by Robert Cohen

Does Buddhism have anything like Cod? Tibetan lamas. Buddhahood implies a not be accepted within Buddhism.
Sometimes apologists, trying to inter- penetrating insight pointing the way Buddhism does not have the concept
pret Buddhism to a secular, postmod- to ultimate freedom, or nirvana. The of a God who created the universe. In
ern world, too quickly say, "No, there's qualities that follow on that insight a way it substitutes for that notion the
nothing like God in Buddhism, and unconditional compassion and love, doctrine of "dependent arising," which
therefore it should be very interesting spontaneous generosity, an unstop- says that anything we experience arises
to you." But I wouldn't agree with that. pable will to be offered up to the in dependence upon its own causes and
There are certain qualities usually world —are analogous to qualities of conditions, including our patterns of
associated with God in other religions God or of someone who has become thought and action. Buddhists focus on
that are ascribed to the Buddha and to receptive to God in Christian or Jew- the notion that we mistake our
those who followed in his footsteps in ish tradition. thoughts of the world for the world,
the various Buddhist traditions— such But there are also aspects of the construct our experiences accordingly,
as the most revered Zen masters and Christian or Jewish God that would and suffer for that. A quick example:

B( is 1 o\ COLLEGE MAGAZINE 53
When someone cuts me off in traffic, I The was the truth of suffering;
first mon mantra of Tibetan Buddhism, om
may have an immediate perception of the second concerned the causes of man-ni pad-me hum, om man-ni pad-me
that person as a simple jerk. That may suffering, including karma and self- hum. It's the prayer of the Buddha of
lead me to feel wrenched up in anger clinging patterns of thought; the third compassion. You could hear it at a dis-
or to cut him off in return. It seems in was the cessation of the causes of suf- tance —the people all chanting togeth-
that moment that I really am the cen- fering, in mind and body, or nirvana; er as they worked in the fields —almost
ter of the world. and the fourth was the truth of path, like the hum of a thousand bumble-
The Buddhist path around that which is the discipline through which bees. I would argue that for them this
would require seeing into the actual re- one can awaken into freedom from is a way of understanding doctrine,
ality —recognizing that the other dri- suffering and cease to be a condi- even though they may not be able to
ver, like me, is what Buddhists call a tioned, reactive person. These first talk about it like a trained monk or
"conditioned" being, a product of many teachings are shared among all the scholar. They are actually practicing
causes, including habits of thought that Buddhist traditions, but the interpre- the doctrines with their bodies.
put him in the center of his own tation of them in the various cultures
thought-constructed world. Maybe he of Asia has become quite diverse. In your book, there is a chapter about "en-
was thinking about a fight he had with A Buddhist in, say, Sri Lanka, may gaged Buddhism" that looks at Buddhist
his wife that morning, or maybe he was have a hard time understanding a Bud- political and social activism. Is there a long

anxious to get to work because his boss dhist in Japan. Sri Lanka has a conserv- history of such involvement?

is overbearing. He's no longer a jerk to ative Buddhist tradition that focuses Well, yes and no. There have always
be angry at. If we see things as they ac- primarily on ethical disciplines and aes- been populist movements rising up in
tually —how profoundly condi-
are thetic monasticism, as well as on high- the name of Buddhism against social
tioned we and how much we
all are, all er meditation practices of stable oppression —for example, the Ma-
suffer for—then our reaction be
it will attention and insight into the imperma- hayana movements that spread from
empathy or compassion. nent nature of phenomenal reality. By India in the first centuries C.E. to Cen-
contrast, certain kinds of Japanese Bud- tral Asia, then to China, Japan, Korea,
Is there any counterpart to a judgmental dhists pray to a cosmic Buddha named and Tibet. Mahayana traditions in
Cod? Are reward and punishment absent in Amida. They rely in faith totally on the those lands put special emphasis on the
Buddhism? Amida Buddha them at the
to liberate capacity of all for spiritual liberation. A
There is a Buddhist analog, in a way, time of death and draw them to his follower of the Buddha will be pro-
in the teaching of karma. Karma is the pure realm. There they believe they foundly concerned about social justice
Sanskrit word that literally means ac- will receive special teachingand en- because the fundamental Buddhist
tion and intention behind actions. Al- lightenment, not so much through self- concern is to make the possibility of
though we mostly are not conscious of discipline as through the power of freedom available to others. And how
it, our every intentional action has the Amida Buddha's Buddhahood. can anyone possibly explore that possi-
profound and subtle effect of imprint- bility while struggling just to survive?
ing within us the capacity to be happy Do the differences in doctrine express them- But "engaged Buddhism" is a mod-
or unhappy, and the capacity to dis- selves in concrete ways, in ordinary life? ern term. It refers to a contemporary
cover our inmost nature of compas- In Asian cultures, Buddhism is very development very much like what
sion or to be lost to it. Therefore our much a practice. The vast majority of happened within Christianity and Ju-
actions, virtuous or nonvirtuous, mat- Asian Buddhists not highly
are daism after the Enlightenment in the
ter very much. But karma does not in- schooled in doctrine. But from a very West, when new frames of social, eco-
volve a deity who stands above or young age they are taught how to bow, nomic, and political analysis had a
apart, judging our behaviors as good how to make offerings to the Buddha profound effect on the understanding
or bad. It is simply a natural law. or to the religious community, simple of how Christians or Jews ought to
forms of meditation, ways of chanting participate in the world as Christians
Earlier you mentioned that there are various sacred prayers and ancient sacred or Jews.
Buddhist traditions. What do Buddhists dis- sounds in order to make them more In Sri Lanka, in Thailand, in
agree on? receptive to the unconditioned, tran- Burma — in fact, all over the Buddhist
The diversity within Buddhism is scendent dimension. world —you now find movements to
comparable to the diversity within the When was living in Nepal and
I explore Buddhism's relevance for so-
other great religious traditions, such hiking through parts of the Himalayas, cial and economic development and its

as Christianity. Some 2,500 years ago, I sometimes would hear the sound of a role as a prophetic voice for human
the Buddha taught four noble truths: whole village chanting the most com- rights and against oppression.

54 WINTER 2002
 The prominent Buddhist Thich I think it's beginning to. Generally What brought you to Buddhism?
Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese monk, was a speaking, the emphasis in the West Initially, when was young, in my
I

leader of a nonaligned movement dur- and in the United States is on funda- twenties, I was caught by the teaching
ing the Vietnam War trying to bring mental meditation practices. Lay peo- within Buddhism that life the way we
together political and social forces for ple, both men and women, are live it ordinarily is suffering. That may
peace. And the Dalai Lama belongs to interested in learning what effect med- seem strange, especially here in the
boards and councils all over the world itation can have on their lives, how it United States where we have the means
that involve themselves with human can be a tool for becoming more pre- to get whatever we want. Yet no matter
rights. He's been very concerned sent to one's spouse, to one's children, how much we get of whatever we want,
about threats to the environment, and and to one's community, and offer an we're still not finally happy. My experi-
he has been reevaluating the structures alternative to being lost in the suffer- ence as a young man was that life

of power within Buddhism regarding ings of self-concern. seemed pretty hard a lot of the time.
women and men and religious and lay Americans are drawing from a But over the years what I've come
people. And of course he's working range of Buddhist traditions. There's to appreciate the most about Bud-
hard to get the current Chinese gov- been a strong interest in so-called in- dhism is that it has such specific and
ernment to deal with the problem of sight meditationsfrom Southeast Asia, concrete ways of looking, of paying at-
Tibetan freedom. He's also, like in Zen meditation from China, Japan, tention, and of meditating to open the
Aquinas, of the view that the truths of Korea, and Vietnam, and in the basic possibility that the inmost nature of
reason —which include science —and meditations of Tibetan Buddhism. In human beings —unconditional com-
the truths of faith should not contra- the inner cities, we find the Japanese passion — can be discovered within
dict one another. He's open to reinter- tradition called Soka Gakkai, which each individual.
preting aspects of Buddhism in line emphasizes chanting the name of a
with findings in neuroscience, cogni- certain scripture and the possibility for What's a Buddhist like you doing in a Jesuit

tive science, and even physics. one's life to be transformed through institution like this?

ritual practice. When I came to Boston College and

Is modernity subverting Buddhism, as one Another Western distinction is the first interviewed for a teaching job, I

of the contributors to your book puts it? very strong involvement of women. In sensed something about this institu-
Perhaps to some degree. I also suspect Asian cultures, women have had the tion that deeply attracted me. I later

that, as in the past, the principles of opportunity for higher learning in came to realize that Boston College
Buddhism have a tendency to subvert Buddhism, but not nearly so much as provides a space for a sacramental vi-
whatever culture they enter. Buddhism, men. Here, you tend to see about sion of the world. That's a Catholic ex-
in whatever form, says that human hap- equal numbers of men and women pression, meaning that there is an
piness depends upon virtue and an maybe even higher numbers of understanding that all of the different
openness to the transcendent dimen- women. kinds of studies—whether English, bi-
sion of being that is unconditioned by There's also a broader sense of de- ology, sociology, or physics — are ways
temporal, self-clinging habits of mocratization, a tendency to be skep- of expressing the very ground of our
thought. In that way, it's analogous to tical of hiearchy. I think what attracts being; are all potential expressions of
Christianity: It appears to be the oppo- many Westerners is that Buddhism God. In Buddhism, there's something
site of secular, modern, Western under- provides entry to an inquiry into the very analogous to that: The ordinary is

standings of happiness based on the very nature of reality, into the very a doorway into the extraordinary.
accumulation of material things or the heart of spirituality, and perhaps even Each aspect of the world offers poten-
achievement of a good reputation. into the very heart of what religion is tial entry into nirvana, into a glimpse
Buddhism is subversive because it supposed to be about without some- — of freedom beyond the concerns of
requires those who study it to look one stopping them at the door with, self-clinging.
deeply into assumptions about where Do you believe in X, Y, and Z? Will The deep and rigor that
spirituality
happiness originates, and to alter their you memorize the following? inform faith in the Jesuit and Catholic
behavior accordingly. How that works There's a book called Awakening the tradition are tremendously interesting
out in each culture can vary. Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the to me. They support my own sense of
Western World, written by a contempo- the world, and they inspire me.
I gather there's been a considerable in- rary Western teacher named Lama
crease in interest in the Buddhist path in Surya Das, that identifies 10 distinc- Robert Cohen is a freelance writer based in
the United States. Is a distinctly American tive trends in Western Buddhism, if Boston. His interview with sociologist

Buddhism taking shape? you want to read more about this. David Karp appeared in Winter 2001.

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 POSTSCRIPT

Recollected
Editor's Note: Postscript is a new depart- tember. More than 30 BC colleagues those wishes to Dan and his family in
ment that will reflect back on previous mag- were in attendance, and countless oth- this troubled time: "May the sun shine

azine stories. Following the terrorist attacks ers have reached out to his family. warm upon your face, may the wind be
of September If BCM invited readers to Personally, I will remember Tom as: always at your back, and may God hold
send remembrances of alumni lost that day another native New Yorker from the you in the palm of his hand. ." . .

to its Web site, www.bc.edu/bcm. (The in- other Jesuit high school in York New Dave Dering '92

vitation remains open.) Here are excerpts. City • my next door neighbor from
Duchesne West, who I met on my first
JOHN DOHERTY '66 day at BC • the roommate who lived Loyola Blakefield High School in Tow-
I read with sadness the notice of John with me for the next three years and son, Maryland, is home to the Dons.
Doherty. had not seen nor spoken to
I shared so many college memories • the Technically, a "Don" is a "Spanish lord
John in many years, but we worked to- friend who grew closer long after we or nobleman," but at the all-male
gether for awhile in 1973, when I [was] graduated • the connection that enabled school it is embodiment of the Jesuit
the
a marketing trainee for Commercial me to know his wife, Marianne, and his ideal: a man for others. In 1986, 1 came
Union (CU) in Lower Manhattan. children, Brendan and Caralyn • the to Loyola a scared, lonely freshman. I
Our office was on John Street, not person I talked to almost weekly on the don't remember the first time I met
very far from the just completed phone right up until September 1 1th. Dan McNeal, because he was the type
World Trade Center. I arrived from James McEleney '87 of guy who made you feel like you'd
Boston, not really knowing anyone. known him all your life after speaking
John was a commercial underwriter DAN MCNEAL'94 with him for five minutes. "Dan the
for CU at that time. He heard that a I knew Dan McNeal from several activ- Man," as we called him, was a true
Boston boy had started so he sought ities at BC, including the Fulton Debat- Don, a class leader, extremely compet-
me out to say hello. John was from ing Society and the Residence Hall itive, a shoo-in for every student gov-
Medford, I was from West Roxbury. Association, and as a fellow resident as- ernment position which he ran, but
for
Quickly we discovered we had BC as a sociate with the housing office. I will al- always modest. On campus, he was
common background, as well as our ways remember Dan as what we hope everywhere, breathless on some im-
Boston roots. Just as quickly we be- the prototypical Boston College student portant errand but always able to stop,
came friends, and we would join oth- will be: intelligent, with the ability to smile, and make a witty remark. Dan
ers at the office and, a few nights each communicate the fruits of that intelli- followed the stock market, and the
week, take part in the nightlife Man- gence to others; studious, with the abil- Wall Street Journal was often under his
hattan offered. Many times we would ity to understand that there are as many arm. While many of us slacked by
go out and paint the town red (some- valuable experiences to be had outside keeping our ties loose, barely button-
times two coats) but we were young, the classrooms at BC as there are inside. ing our top shirt buttons, Dan tied his
single, and were in a great place. John Dan was always proud and happy to be tie in a full Windsor knot and wore a

was quiet but had a great sense of a BC student, and I am sure that he re- tie clip. He told me once, "If I'm going
humor. He was very smart and very mained a happy, proud BC alum. to tie a tie, I might as well do it the
kind. He was just fun to be around. Before I graduated, Dan gave me a right way."
I was glad to see he was married and biography of a famous trial lawyer, He andwere the only two from
I

had a family. My condolences to his which I have always kept with me in my Loyola's class of 1990 to attend Boston
wife and two daughters. office. When I found out about Dan's College. Now more than ever I will

Ray Beattie 72 passing, I retrieved that book and once follow in his footsteps, as a man for
again turned to read the message he had others. I will be modest and giving. I

TOM FITZPATRICK '87 written inside the cover page. When he will work hard, laugh often, do it

Tom's enduring friendships with his wrote it, the words were meant to wish right, hold the door for people, and tie

BC classmates were evident at his me well on my way from BC. I now my tie in a full Windsor knot.
memorial service in New York in Sep- rewrite what he wrote to me, to return Alex Houston "94

56 WINTER 2002
 WORKS & DAYS

Bam! Zap! Pow!

DAVID JAY GABRIEL '88

At the moment, the New York City Comic Book Museum Gabriel continues to finance its care and growth). Working
exists mostly in a Manhattan mini-storage facility and in a alone, he has secured nonprofit, tax-exempt status for the
large closet in founder David Jay Gabriel's Upper West Side museum. Now all permanent exhibit space.
he lacks is a
one-bedroom apartment. Gabriel preserves the museum's This hasn't kept Gabriel from establishing a virtual mu-
20,000 comic books in acid-free bags stashed inside acid- seum on the Web (www.nyccomicbookmuseum.org), or
free boxes. He keeps even his current reading away from di- from mounting temporary shows. The New York Presby-
rect sunlight and heat. "If I could read them in the dark, I terian Hospital hosted Gabriel's first exhibit —of "comics in
would," he says. the last 10 years that dealt with AIDS"— for World AIDS
The 34-year-old Gabriel is a former actor,now working Day; the show later moved to the Empire State Building. A
in desktop publishing in the finance industry. He has been women's gallery in Manhattan has expressed interest in an
passionate about comics since he was six years old and his exhibit of popular female comic book artists. And Gabriel
parents gave him a quarter to spend at a corner store. "It was would like to sponsor showcases for young talent.
a Fantastic Four issue," he recalls of his first comic book "I have no models to look to," he says. "I like making this
purchase. "All red, so colorful —
was hooked."
I all up as I go along." Lately he has had offers of help from all

Gabriel, who majored in English and minored in theater sorts of "closet comic book readers" —
lawyers, teachers, mar-
while at BC, is still a faithful fan of the Fantastic Four (the keting professionals, librarians. He's optimistic that in the
Human Torch, Invisible Woman, the Thing, and Mr. Fan- near future "someone will have office space for the museum,
tastic, for the uninitiated). He describes his taste as "very and then someone will come to us who's a fan —with money."
mainstream." Fans of independent comics "would make fun Ann Cohen
of me," he says with a laugh. The museum's trove is actually
his personal collection, officially on permanent loan (though Ann Cohen is a freelance writer based in New York City.
Mario Gabelli, Chairman and CEO ofGabelli Asset Management, and a founder of the Boston College Wall Street Council, at a
meeting of the Council in New York City. His children Marc 'go, Matthew 'gj, Michael 'oo, and Elisa Gabelli Wilson 'g<j are grad-
uates of the University, as is his son-in-law Tom Wilson 'g$.

A FAMILY MATTER
Through a gift of $10 million, the Gabelli
Foundation has endowed the Gabelli Distinguished
Presidential Scholars Fund within Boston College's
Presidential Scholars Program. The leadership edu-
cation program attracts some of the most gifted stu-

dents in the nation to Boston College. "As founder

of the Gabelli Foundation, my father is committed
to Jesuit education and BC," said foundation presi-
dent Elisa Gabelli Wilson '95. "Fie was there when
the concept of the Presidential Scholars Program
was formulated and believes this gift from our foun-
dation underscores our continuing belief that the
program will create a group of future world leaders."