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CLASS NoteS
director of student support
services of all the schools.
i then happily worked
my way ‘down the career
ladder’ to be able to spend
more time in child rearing
with my son and daughter;
probably my very best life
decision! My last 18 years
were spent as a counselor at
Latin, where i worked daily with
Mike Contompasis. how many
in G.B. Cleary’s h.R. would have
predicted that educational duo?
Upon retirement in 2001, i accepted
a position as a counselor at Catholic
Memorial h.S., a commute of seven
minutes from the family home of the ’50s
(same telephone number). My present
employment in the private sector provides
a personal and interpersonal, value-based,
model of family caring and support for
each other that foster the loyalty we seek.”
Thomas H. Laird writes, “i regret that i was
not able to attend the 50th reunion of the
class of 1957. My wife is currently receiving
chemotherapy for cancer and her condition
will not permit me to be away from home.
Best wishes to all of my classmates.”
1958 REunIOn
CLASS AGeNt: DoNALD friAry
Michael S. Ashman writes, “i retired
from Medicine (dermatology) in March
2006, due to illness. Am fine now with a
host of interests! i would like to hear from
classmates, as well as fellow Dudley house
harvard classmates. i am living in beautiful
upstate N.Y.; currently studying italian;
wife studying art and drawing.” Joseph
F. McLean writes, “i am a past Boston
Public School teacher. i spent nearly 25
years at the Phillis Wheatley Middle School
in Roxbury as chair of the Social Studies
Department, with specialties in Black
history, Women’s history and immigration
history. Along with the education
Development Center and the Museum
of Afro-American heritage, we published
the “Roxbury heritage Trail” for visitors to
Boston. i have, during my active teaching
career, received the John F. Kennedy
Library Fellowship, a Radcliffe College
Fellowship, a Summer Traveling Fulbright
Fellowship, and a National endowment for
the humanities Fellowship. i represented
the U.S. at an international conference on
“The U.S. Constitution and europe,” in
Freiburg, Germany, and i was chosen by
36 Bulletin fall 2007
my peers of the
MA Council on the
Social Studies as
secondary Social
Studies Teacher
of the Year.
i graduated
harvard
College (class
of 1962),
received an
M.ed. from
the State
College
at Boston, and
received a Certificate of Advanced
Graduate Studies (C.A.G.S.) from the
harvard Graduate School of education.
i would avail myself of any opportunity
to share my experiences in music, and/
or education with BLS students.” S. Ilan
Troen writes, “i have taken early retirement
from Ben-Gurion University of the Negeu
in israel to undertake for the next five years
the development of israel studies as the
Stoll Family Professor of israel Studies at
Brandeis. My 11th book was published in
2007: Jews and Muslims in the Arab World:
Haunted by Vasts Real and Imagined.”
1959
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CLASS AGeNt: theoDore GerBer
Sadly, Anthony “Tony” Puopolo passed
away on March 16, 2007.
1961
CLASS Committee: BiLL BArry, PhiL BrykmAN,
JoSePh ComPetieLLo, Lee DUNN, roBert
hUtChiSoN, roBert morriS, teD weLBUrN
Paul Manning writes, “Mad Frank for
english—that was an experience like
no other! ‘Close the hatches fore and
aft!!’ Callahan for Greek and homeroom
was another shaper to say the least.
Subterranean card games in the subbasement,
rowing the Charles in whaling
dories, popcorn with peanut oil, football
Fridays, ancient science labs, running in the
hot basement with the ramps up, Copley
Square library, the old Corner bookstore,
and countless other memories.”
1962
CLASS AGeNt: PAUL e. PArtriDGe
William A. McQuillen writes, “i have
completed a history trip through
Pennsylvania, ohio, indiana, illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee and then
back through Virginia to New england. The
next trip will be down through the Southeast
and back. Retirement is not so bad.”
1963 REunIOn
CLASS AGeNt: BriAN miLLer
Paul J. L. Hughes writes, “After 37 years
in a history classroom, i am looking forward
to retirement on May ’08, as Paul Pearson
might say, ‘and so forth.’”
1964
CLASS AGeNt: thomAS f. mAffei
William C. o’Mahoney writes, “Semiretirement
from being a contractor is
looming near. Golf, fishing, boating and a
little work looks like fun. Any classmates are
welcome to contact me.”
1965
CLASS Committee: Steve BrowN, JACk
fitZGerALD
Paul F. DiMattia writes, “Dick Egan,
Jack Fitzgerald, Arthur Kanavos, Bill
McDonald, Frank Tirella, Rich Traiger and
i got together at various times in 2007 to
‘celebrate’ our 60th birthdays ‘o Tempora o
Mores.’” Gary Katz writes, “hi guys, i hope
you are all well and doing fine.” Francis J.
Tirella writes, “Daniel G. Puopolo ’75, of
24 Productions, and i—along with several
BLS and harvard grads—are developing a
film based on the life and times of Andrew
P. Puopolo ’73 (harvard ’77). This will be
either a studio or independent film.” Any
comments can be forwarded to: ftirello@
comcast.net.
1967
CLASS Committee: Joe ACkerSteiN, DAviD
BUtLer, StePheN CArey, Lee DANieLS, BoB
DeLeo, keviN kirrANe GerALD moteJUNAS,
DAviD NeviLLe, Jim roSe, JohN ryAN, freD
SieGeL, LeSter SheehAN, ArNie wAterS, meL
weiNer, S.G. weiNer,
George P. Field writes, “BLS ’67 will
be well-represented on the dais of the
Boston Bar Association’s Annual Meeting
in Boston on September 25, 2007. More