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1962
Tim Cooney served as the emcee of Charlie’s Surplus 10-Mile Road Race held on June 1 in Worcester.
1965
Bob Kenney and Jim Monahan were featured in a Catholic Free Press story about their participation in the Bishop George E. Rueger Memorial Golf Tournament.
1968
Michael Moran, newsletter editor for Pax Christi Massachusetts, honored the late Michael True, Ph.D., former professor emeritus of English at Assumption, by writing a column about his influence in the classroom and beyond in the newsletter’s summer/fall 2019 issue. Michael retired last year from Bay Path University, where he served as director of library and information services for 10 years.
1969
Ron Coderre ’69, G’72 and three Assumption classmates – Bob Tetreault ’75, Bob Jacques AP’63, and Bob Mercier AP’64, ’68 – competed in the Ronald P. Coderre Putnam Rotary Club Golf Tournament, held in May 2019 at the Connecticut National Golf Club. The tournament was named in Ron’s honor in 2010; he has been a Rotarian since 1982.
1973
Frances Anthes retired from the Family Health Center of Worcester after 28 years, where she served as president and CEO for the past 22 years. Fran now volunteers as a court-appointed special advocate (CASA) for children and is in training to become a docent at the Worcester Art Museum. Fran and her husband reside in Worcester and have three children and seven grandchildren.
Bill McAndrews retired in June 2019 after 46 years of teaching in the Diocese of Bridgeport (CT). Bill taught algebra and geometry at Trinity Catholic High School in Stamford, a position he held since 1991.
1977
Joseph F. Hogan has received his Class C Water Operator license, issued by the New York State Department of Health.
Terry Shanley retired from the Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps, a leader in child welfare and juvenile justice in MA.
1982
Carolyn Clancy, an Assumption trustee, co-chair of Assumption’s Light the Way Campaign, and executive vice president for Fidelity Investments, was a speaker at the annual NICSA conference, a not-for-profit trade association that connects the global asset management industry. Fellow alumnus Jim Fitzpatrick is president of NICSA.
Michael Skeary received his LL.M. in taxation from Boston University School of Law in May 2019. He previously received his LL.M. in estate planning and elder law from Western New England University School of Law in 2012.
1983
Brian Kelly, head coach of the University of Notre Dame football team, was enshrined, along with the 2009 University of Cincinnati football team, in the James P. Kelly UC Athletics Hall of Fame in October 2019. Kelly coached the 2009 team, one of the most successful in school history, which finished a perfect 12-0 regular season, won the Big East Conference Championship, and played in the 2010 All State Sugar Bowl.
Fr. Steven LaBaire has been appointed the new pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish in West Boylston.
1985
Leslie (Laquerre) Campbell, Art.D., was recently appointed the program director for the International Business Ph.D. Program at Southern New Hampshire University. In August, she presented her research at the Teaching and Learning Conference at the Academy of Management annual meeting in Boston.
Richard DeCusati was recently named the senior sales manager for the Sturbridge Host Hotel in Sturbridge.
1987
Gregory Kaminsky recently joined Alcentra, a global asset management firm, as a managing director.
1990
Andrew Coston has been hired as the executive director for the Center for Career Development at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN.
1996
Colleen Bamford Wamback has been named associate director of public relations and government communications at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Colleen resides in Worcester with her husband and two children.
1999
Jeffrey Logee and his wife, Tanya Hank, welcomed Otto Wayne on April 18, 2019. The family resides in Bar Harbor, ME.
2000
Julie (Phipps) Morancy joined the Assumption College faculty as an adjunct professor in the Department of Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies and began teaching in the school counseling program in fall 2019. She is in her 18th year as a school counselor at Robert E. Melican Middle School in Northborough.
2003
Kristine (Bergevin) Churchward and her husband, Scott, welcomed daughter Keira Lynn on June 30, 2018.
2004
Laura Tsotsis-Olson welcomed a son, Henry Michael Olson, on June 19, 2019. Henry’s grandparents are Dot and Michael Tsotsis ’71.
2005
Daniel J. Gilmore has joined Granite Telecommunications in Quincy as a financial analyst, where he is responsible for margin analysis, credit calculations, and pricing recommendations.
2007
Tara Carlson married Gordon Tam on June 1, 2019, in County Clare, Ireland. They currently reside in Singapore.
2009
Heidi (Lukas) Baj and her husband, Steven, welcomed their son, Michael Clement Francis, on August 4, 2019. He joins his sister, Celestine Mira Sophie.
2010
Colleen Fish married Sean Cassidy on July 27, 2019, in North Falmouth.
Marie Torto has worked as a communications and social media marketer for Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Sprüngli since 2013. She married Sean Bucklin in June 2016. Alumni in attendance included Amy (Laurendeau) Basbas ’09, Matthew Kisil and Kimberly (Ricciardone) Kisil ’09, Jennifer (Clancy) McWhirter, Alyse Moccia, and Sarah Wyman. They welcomed a baby girl, Lena Marie, in September 2019.
Kara (Soteropoulos) VanSlyke and Bill VanSlyke ’08 welcomed a baby girl, Shay Katherine, on September 16, 2019.
2011
Julia Brough has been working as a digital project manager at Linchpin since June 2016. For the last six years, she has been living in Providence, RI, and traveling the country with friends.
Katie Barthelette married Alex Cuscovitch on June 28, 2019, at Valley View Farm in Haydenville.
Lauren Keating was recently hired as a special education teacher and girls’ varsity soccer coach at Nashoba High School.
2012
Stephanie Joy Bouley graduated from Dartmouth College with a doctorate in experimental and molecular medicine in June 2019. Her dissertation focused on the identification of novel synthetic lethal targets in NF1 and RAS dysregulated tumors. She is now employed at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she will continue to work on identifying new therapeutic targets for treating neurofibromatosis type 1.
Nick DiAntonio has been a volunteer with Special Olympics Massachusetts for the past 17 years. He recently established and started coaching a powerlifting team; he previously established and coached a wrestling team for three years.
2013
Jennifer (Kennedy) Rawson and husband Christopher Rawson announced the birth of their daughter, Maddison.
Erica Micciche married Adam Williamson on July 26, 2019, at Charter Oak Country Club in Hudson. Monique Girard and Laura (Micciche) Valladares ’10 served as bridesmaids, while other alumni in attendance included Brenda (Wyman) Bachant ’88, Jill Foley ’11, Shannon (Murtagh) Hulton ’10, Keri Lamontagne, Kate (Janosko) Lemire ’09, Michael Quinn, Jennifer Ryan, Kaitlin (Owen) Spinna, and Lucas Spinna ’14. Erica, who played tennis during her four years at Assumption, works as a graphic designer for Smartfish Group. She and Adam, who served as Assumption’s head tennis coach from 2016–18, live in Paxton.
2014
Nicole Millick completed her M.S. in clinical mental health counseling at Rhode Island College in May 2019. She works as a home-based clinician at Family Service of Rhode Island (FSRI), serving children and their families who have experienced trauma. She previously worked at FSRI as a case manager for two years while in graduate school.
Ian Mack is working at a startup in Boston called CloudHealth, which was recently acquired by VMware for $600 million.
Mike Uva, a sports anchor at WACH FOX in South Carolina, recently served as master of ceremonies at his alma mater, St. John’s Prep, for their Homecoming Athletic Hall of Fame breakfast and induction ceremony. Uva was named Carolina Sportscaster of the Year in 2018.
2015
Kaitlyn Poirier earned her doctoral degree from the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.
2016
Molly (Sweeney) Prospect married Daniel on August 17, 2019. Alumni in attendance included Shanell Cartagena ’16, G’17, Jennifer Faenza, Amy Logue Gontarz ’01, G’08, Caroline Kenney, Marianne Knoegel, Brian Morrone, Bea Patino G’07, Kari Thoresen, and Jessica Wisniewski ’17. Molly was recently named the first director of marketing communications at East Catholic High School in Connecticut, where she previously served as assistant director of admissions.
Kevin Flaherty and Ralph Cola summited Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in July 2019. They used the trek to raise $3,300 for the David Louis Cunha Foundation, established in memory of one of Kevin’s friends who passed away while he attended Assumption. Kevin currently serves as treasurer of the foundation.
2018
Jacqueline Avola was promoted to corporate fulfillment and game operations manager of the Worcester Railers Hockey Club, where she works closely with the corporate team as well as oversees game day operations and promotional efforts. She previously worked as the organization’s corporate fulfillment coordinator.
GRADUATE STUDIES
G’16
Brittany Hanna was recently hired as a school counselor at Wachusett Regional High School.
G’18
Daniel F. DosSantos serves as a compensation analyst at Lifespan.
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