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REGIS TODAY
stayed home with Pepper (dog) and
son Bill.
1963 50th Reunion
✒Mary Jo Pescatore Cicchetti,
quincyck1@yahoo.com Our plans
for our 50th Reunion are exciting! If
you are reading this column, I hope
you have made it to Reunion. As
Secretary for our Reunion, it’s my
and urge them to attend. Sometimes
we move, change email addresses
of Institutional Advancement and
Alumni Relations (aka “the Alumni
know Regis classmates who are not
receiving notices, please ask them to
Advancement and Alumni Relations
members are contacting you about
our plans for the Reunion. I got so
excited and talked so much with my
contacts, I ended up with laryngitis for
several days. However, I rediscovered
what made my Regis experience so
special — the wonderful classmates we
have. Kay Hurley Dermody’s husband
just passed. She is so gracious in spite
of her loss. She will be at the 50th. We
offer our condolences. Many of us are
relocating. Rosanne Belz Withington
and her husband are in St. Petersburg
and spend the summers in upstate NY
at their lake home. Fel Murphy Cullen,
who lives in Ft. Myers, is selling her
Scituate home and moving to DE
to be near her grandchildren. Jane
Camp Waligora lives in Sarasota and
visits her daughter in Tulsa, OK.
Mary Dowd Eberle attended our Jan.
planning meeting by phone. She looks
forward to the annual St. Patrick’s
Day parade in Naples, FL, where she
winters. Regis has a bus and many
grads enjoy the event. Mary works
with Joan Iverson Gallivan (fundraising
chair), JoAnne Dufort, and Jane
DeMarco Wittreich to raise money for
a class gift. Our goal is $100,000.
Connie Crean Carven lives in Wellesley,
MA, and summers in Sagamore, MA.
Still involved in the Greek Project for
Newton School System, she goes to
Greece every year. Connie has 2 sons,
Christian, an engineer, and John,
a social worker, and 2 grandsons.
Connie sees Amy Huestis Donovan,
also of Wellesley, at the grocery store.
Both are planning on attending the
Reunion. Additionally, Elly Keilty
Svab may come with Valerie Jane
O’Hearne Leger. She is supposed to
go to CA that weekend, but I urged
her to come to the Reunion instead.
Elly, you can go to Peter’s home
another time: There will only be one
50th Reunion! Finally, I promised
to have a beach party for classmates
who are coming prior to the weekend.
Invitation is for Thursday, May 16,
are 35 minutes away from Regis and
across the road from the beach. Email
at maryjoc42@gmail.com or 781-834-
9529. All are welcome! Rain or shine.
Guest speaker is Barbara McNamara
’63, Former National Security Agency
Deputy Director and Special US
Liaison to the UK, topic is Inside
National Security.
1964
✒Virginia McNeil Slep, 40 Jeffrey Road,
Wayland, MA 01778, virginiaslep@
comcast.net ✒Barbara Bye Murdock,
PO Box 266, Little Compton, RI 02837,
barbara@murdockadvisors.com This
time next year we will be getting
ready to return to Regis for our 50th
Reunion. Where did the years go?
Words uttered recently, as most of
us have celebrated our 70th birthday.
Our class has enjoyed an Oct.
dinner in past years, but now since
our schedules are changing, lunch
seems to be the preferred venue. My
co-reporter, Virginia Slep, prepared a
few questions for classmates that were
delivered in the Oct. mailing. Barbara
Glacken Compton and husband Jim
Toomey sail, getting in 4 weeks this
summer. Once Jim stops practicing
law they’d like to travel more. Barbara
plays bridge with 2 groups, improving
greatly since the days in the “Smoker.”
She also reads on her Kindle and gardens.
For the past 12 years, Barbara
has volunteered at the Boston’s MFA,
Senior Associate. Look for her there
at the Scharf Visitor Center of the
MFA at the information desk. Karen
Johnson Celi will retire after 30 years
as an Occupational Therapist specializing
in hands and the upper quadrant
at the New England Baptist Hospital.
She hopes to travel more with her husband.
Karen missed our Oct. luncheon,
as she was visiting her daughter
Carolyn and her family. Pat Luben
O’Hearn recently purchased a home
in Dennis on Cape Cod. She hopes it
will be a haven of fun for the family
and a place for relaxation and social
interaction with friends. Pat is grateful
for the support of her children and
assists them with their young families.
Eileen Toomasian Nichols retired from
Long Automotive in Framingham last
April after working there for 16 years.
Ann Batterbury Fitzpatrick works
part time administering assessments
for that federal program the nation’s
report card. She works on a team with
2 friends from the middle school where
Kate in MN, Sean in MD, Maura in
Ohio, and Claire is close (in Andover).
miles and enjoys visiting them. Mary
Lou Kelleher Homan relocated to Green
Valley, AZ, full time in 2005, after wintering
there for 3 years. This April,
she joins Sue Baker Olson and Mary
Byrnes for a nature tour in Costa
Rica. Her spouse declined, having
traveled there in the ’60s. They enjoy
opera and drive to Santa Fe for the
sum-mer opera festival. Elderhostel
offers great programs in Europe,
and they have enjoyed several musicrelated
ones, and some riverboat
cruises. Lucille Demers Reilly had
joyous, hectic holidays seeing family.
The 6 grandkids keep them moving
and up to date, teaching them about
technology, but Lucille says, “I can
Zumba better than they can.” She
and husband Ted have lived in the
Atlanta area for the last 18 years.
Judy Machaj Susanin and Ann O’Sullivan
traveled to the Berkshires for a visit
to Tanglewood last summer. They had
a great visit with Marge MacLelland
Wylde who has lived in Williamstown
for many years. Marge worked at
Williams College but is retired. A
few years ago, Mary Kay Reid Shields
responded to my email from New
Zealand saying she would be home
soon! Another year, I phoned her, only
to hear that the very next day they
were hosting their daughter’s wedding
connected recently and had a great
phone visit. Mary Kay’s 4 children all
live in the greater Philadelphia area.
They enjoy seeing their family often,
along with the 6 grandchildren who
in the Philadelphia area. They have
enjoyed some wonderful travels, the
next trip being a long visit to India.
Their only daughter has followed her
dad into law, now working for the
U of PA. This fall, Ann Casey Collins
and I had a brief visit in Little
Compton, RI, where I live now. She
attended the wedding of her niece,
her brother Bill’s daughter. I was able
to meet 2 of her children in between
their wedding festivities.
1965
✒Kathleen McCaffrey Ford, Mixief@
verizon.net ✒Joan Hartley Meagher,
102 Blodgett Drive, Folsom, CA 95630,
916-985-0643, marrhar1@comcast.
net ✒Patricia Hogan, 100 Luce Street,
Lowell, MA 01852, 978-453-1502
Deepest sympathy to Anne Bartley-
White and her husband Charles White
on the passing of their daughter
Gabriela A. Bartley, and to the family
of the late Barbara Kelleher Hyland on
the death of Barbara’s husband George
Hyland.
Class President Katherine Moynihan
McGovern to serve on the Alumni
Board. Kathleen Henighan, Mary