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1974
✒ Grace Murphy, 6 Colony Road,
Lexington, MA 02420, grace.murphy@
gdc4s.com ¶ The Class of ’74 was
well represented at the Annual Cape
Cod luncheon, as 10 of us turned out
to hear Dr. Mary E. Chamberland give
the keynote speech. Mary retired
several years ago from the Centers
for Disease Control, but she still
does consulting for CDC and for the
World Health Organization. Her field
is epidemiology, specifically emerging
infectious diseases. She and her
husband, Harold, who also works
for the CDC, recently returned to
Atlanta after living and working in
London for several years. ¶ We were
surprised and pleased to see Diane
Brielman Hanak, who has been absent
from alumnae events for many years.
She is living in PA and working as
a pension administrator.
She has 3 children,
ages 23, 21, and 20.
Kathy Mason Podolski
and Debbie Reed Blake
also attended. Debbie
happened to be on her
annual trip back East
from her home in CA,
where she lives with
husband, Don. Joanne
Crowley, who retired
several years ago from
the New York Port
Authority, has her own
boat-detailing business
on the Cape, which
keeps her busy during
the tourist season.
Nancy Boyd Lennon’s
son Danny is entering
his senior year in high
school and contemplating
a career in the military. Nancy is
still working for the Cape Cod Times.
Kate Murray has been spending a lot of
time this summer on the Cape at her
summer home in New Seabury. Robin
Parker Brissette is teaching elementary
school and enjoying her two
grandchildren. Marie Driscoll Hanlon is
a real estate broker in Hingham. She
and her husband, Harry, are looking
forward to attending the wedding of
Jody Bayer DeArango’s daughter this
Oct. Lisa Driscoll Tuite has survived
the many reductions in force at the
Boston Globe and is still the head
librarian there. ¶ That’s it for now.
Drop me a line and let me know
what’s happening in your life.
1975
✒ Christina Mackiewicz McMahon,
841 Randolph Street, Abington, MA
02351-1039
1976
35th Reunion Class
✒ Rosamond Dunn Lockwood, 47
Greenfield Street, Manchester, NH
03104-1605, rlocknh@aol.com ¶ First,
I’d like to say thank you to all my
classmates who got in touch for
class notes. I do hear from several
classmates through Facebook. ¶ My
former Regis roommate, Liz Bartolotti
Califano, lives and works in Sea Grit,
NJ. Her son Gregory was married
in the spring of 2009 and lives in
Shrewsbury, MA. Liz’s daughter,
Emily, just graduated from NYU
Law School in May 2010 and will be
married in Sept. Liz’s youngest son,
Alfred, is a senior in high school,
where he is very active in the theater.
¶ Liz was able to catch up with
Lorraine Bullock Peabody during a
recent trip to NYC. Lorraine lives in
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Hamilton, MA, and works in Boston.
Lorraine has 3 children: Whitney,
Charlie, and Ben. ¶ Mary Bergeron
Suchopar lives and works in CT. Her
son is a junior at Endicott College in
Beverly, MA. Mary is in touch with
Elaine Richardson, who now lives
and works in Boston, MA. Peggy
Boland Admirand lives in Eastham,
MA, on Cape Cod with her husband
and 5 children. ¶ I have also been in
touch with Beth Callanan, who lives
in Concord, MA, and works for Etna
Insurance. Beth’s 2 daughters, Erin
and Meghan, are married, and she
has 2 grandchildren. ¶ As for me,
life is busy! I spend my summers in
Wellfleet, MA, and the rest of the
year I’m in Manchester, NH. My oldest
daughter, Whitney, was married 2
years ago in Newport, RI, and made
me a grandmother in Aug. 2009!
My granddaughter, Abigail, is just
wonderful and is now walking, talking,
and dancing! I truly love being
a grandmother! My other daughter,
Ginna, has been working for the
Arthritis Foundation in Dallas, TX,
since 2008. My son, Alexander, is
going into 8th grade. He manages
to keep my husband, Dave, and me
young! ¶ I’d love to hear from more
1976 Regis classmates; it is easy
these days with all the technology
available to everyone. Remember
our 35th (YIKES!) Reunion is right
around the corner on May 20, 21, and
22 of 2011! Hopefully, we’ll get a good
turnout from the class of 1976!
1977
✒ Julie O’Connor McGinn, 16 Pumping
Station Road, Peabody, MA 01960-
5718 ✒ Carol Manning Chicarello, 15
Ely Road, Arlington, MA 02467-7121
¶ Mary McAvoy is a newly published
author! We were delighted to hear
from her. This is what she had to
share: ¶ “I am a member of the Regis
College Class of 1977.
I came into Regis as a
transfer student during
our junior year. While
I didn’t stumble into
friendships with mem-
bers of my own class,
I am still close friends
with a group of women
(6 of us) who were in
the classes of 1978 and
1979. We try to get
together at least once a
year for a weekend. ¶ I
always scan the Class
of ’77 notes and then
read on through the ’78
and ’79 notes. Now and
then I’ll see news about
someone I remember. ¶
This letter is sent in the
event you might want to
record in the ’77 notes
that I have recently published a book,
Love’s Compass. I’ll share here bits
of my journey to becoming a writer.
¶ My major was one of the first, if
not the first, ‘individually designed’
majors at Regis. It was a combination
of English and the Classics, with
a secondary focus on biology. I was
grateful to Regis, and specifically
Sr. Joan Murray, for encouraging
me to follow my interests. ¶ I loved
studying literature, philosophy,
mythology, and science at Regis, and
my teachers and class work left a
lifelong impression on me. ¶ For the
record, I’ll note that I was the first
Regis student in memory at the time
who removed the 3 tiny bones of a
dissected cat’s ear (the anvil, the
stapes, and the …?) with each bone
fully intact! My teacher, whose name
I can’t remember now, was one of the
dearest women I’ve ever met. I loved
her, and she had great affection for
me, her ‘English Major’ as she called
me—though the department itself
was a bit peevish, as I recall, that a
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