01940 Winter 2022

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A publication of Essex Media Group
Publisher
Edward M. Grant
Chief Executive Officer
Michael H. Shanahan
Directors
Edward L. Cahill
John M. Gilberg
Edward M. Grant
Gordon R. Hall
Monica Connell Healey
J. Patrick Norton
Michael H. Shanahan
Chief Financial Officer
William J. Kraft
Chief Operating Officer
James N. Wilson
Controller
Susan Conti
Editor
Thor Jourgensen
Writers
Rachel Barber
Joey Barrett
Anthony Cammalleri
Sylvia Chen
Charlie McKenna
Alexandra Rodriguez
Anne Marie Tobin
Ryan Vermette
Photographers
Spenser Hasak
Libby O'Neill
Advertising Sales
Ernie Carpenter
Ralph Mitchell
Patricia Whalen
Design
Sam Deeb
INSIDE
4 What's up
6 Marengi method
10 1000-aire
12 House Money
16 Safe house
20 Nose for names
22 Porter power
25 Candle crew
28 La Delicious
33 Crusader
34 Adam art
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LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
Purple
reign
TED GRANT
If you ever watch the Yankees and pay attention to uniform numbers – OK, close
attention —you won’t find anyone wearing a single digit. They’re all retired. In fact, the
Yankees have retired 22 numbers, including No. 8 twice (Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra).
The Celtics have 23 retired numbers and one name (extra credit if you got “Loscy”) and
the Montreal Canadiens 14.
You get the point. It’s a big deal to have your number hanging in the rafters of any arena
or stadium.
At Holy Cross, which once had a storied men’s basketball program, there are only six
numbers enshrined. You may have heard of two of them: Bob Cousy and Tom Heinsohn,
whose jerseys can also be found in the Garden.
The Holy Cross women’s program has been pretty solid for 40 years; in 1985, before
anyone heard of UConn, the Crusaders became the first New England women’s team to
make the NCAA Div. 1 tournament.
Holy Cross has never retired a women’s basketball number. That will change this year
and one of the best to ever play in 01940 will have her No. 4 hanging at the Hart Center.
Her name is Lauren Maney George, Lynnfield High Class of 1992, Holy Cross Class of
1996. Those who have followed the Pioneers will tell you she is arguably the best player ever
to put on a Lynnfield uniform. She was even better at Holy Cross, scoring 1,721 points and
twice being named Patriot League Player of the Year.
As a senior she was the league Scholar-Athlete of the Year, which came as no surprise
to the folks at Moynihan Lumber, who named her the inaugural North Shore Female
Student-Athlete of the Year in 1992. The male winner, Teddy Bettencourt, also played hoop
at HC and is the popular mayor of Peabody.
In September, George received a call from Holy Cross athletic director Kit Hughes,
who told her she would be one of the five women’s basketball players to have their number
retired. The ceremony will be on Jan. 28.
Typical of George, her first reaction, as told to Joey Barrett for a story in this edition of
01940, was that receiving the honor was “something that immediately made me think of
my teammates.”
A selfless team player is how they remember her in Lynnfield, the rare roll-up-hersleeves
star. It’s clear that nothing has changed. She showed that four years ago when she
and other Lynnfield parents were frozen out of the leadership of the youth football program
in example No. 992,137 of how parents can ruin youth sports. George and other parents
solved the problem, starting their own league, and she was named Lynnfield’s Person of the
Year by Essex Media Group.
The hometown-kid-makes-good story never gets old, especially when a generational
talent returns to her hometown to make a positive impact on future generations.
Take a bow, Lauren Maney George. You’ve earned it. Hey, I'm a BC guy and even I
acknowledge this is a big deal.
Also profiled in this edition of 01940, Clayton Marengi and Ella Gizmunt, too, have
made their marks in their sports. Coaching helped make Marengi a leader on the football
field, but he insists spending time with his Endicott College teammates is the key to his
success. And Gizmunt is a grand killer on the volleyball team – literally. She recorded her
1,000th kill last month.
Check out Essex Media Group Sports Editor Barrett’s stories.
There’s plenty more to read in this edition, so I’ll stop so you can begin.
COVER It's 1000 career kills and counting for Ella Gizmunt. PHOTO BY Spenser Hasak
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