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The Classes
David Marks ’75 (right) emails, “My
daughter, Hayley (left), is in the class
of ’15. Babson is truly an amazing college. They sell hand-rolled sushi in the
student center, which beats the burger
and fries we got in the Dry Dock. I’m
founder and president of Medtrition/
NNI (medtrition.com). We sell enteral
feeding products and oral supplements
to nursing homes and hospitals in the
U.S., Latin America, Canada, and the
U.K. I live in Lancaster, Pa., with my
wife, Peg, and youngest daughter
Hannah, a high school senior.”
1935
Olan Snavely writes from Toledo,
Ohio, “At 98, I suspect that I am one
of the oldest alumni and one of the
few from my class. The Class of ’35
had about 25 college grads along
with an equal number of ‘juniors,’
men who had completed only a few
years of college work. I did make a
trip to a reunion on campus in 1994,
and my presence was acknowledged. I thought you might enjoy
hearing from an alumnus from the
‘distant past!’”
1959
Larry Fitzmaurice emails, “In February, my wife and I spent a few days
on Cape Cod at the Captain’s House
Inn in Chatham. The current owners/
innkeepers, Jill Meyer ’99 and her
husband, James, have maintained
and improved the property. I’m finishing my tour as vice president of
the Babson Alumni Association in
June, and I expect to continue as a
coach with the Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program. I have
enjoyed the opportunities. Happy
summer to all!”
1962 50th Reunion
Dan Singer emailed in February
from Tucson, Ariz., “My wife of 48
years and I are trying to complete
our bucket list. We leave for Dubai,
United Arab Emirates, on April 4.
We then take a 12-day cruise to India, return to Dubai, and visit Petra,
Jordan. Usually, we spend five days
per month in Coronado, Calif. Golfing and visiting our six grandchildren take the rest of our time. After
70, it becomes more important to
enjoy life.”
Paul Slosberg writes from Lecanto, Fla., “Last year, I received the Rotary’s Service Above Self Award. It
is the highest honor bestowed on
Rotarians by Rotary International.
In 2009, I received the Rotary’s
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Herb Clark ’62 emails, “My career
has been in building construction and
real estate. Through my involvement
in many historical museums, I also
help young and old learn about American history. One living museum is
Essex Steam Train and Riverboat
(essexsteamtrain.com), which runs a
steam train and riverboat along the
scenic Connecticut River. Carrying
more than 120,000 passengers a year,
this tourist attraction has become the
fifth largest in Connecticut. We also
offer a dinner train, circus train,
Thomas the Tank train, and Santa
train. This is the best museum I am
involved in because it pays for itself!”
Distinguished Service Award, the
highest recognition given by the
Rotary Foundation.”
1972 40th Reunion
Rudolph Crew, H’96, has been
named president of Revolution K12,
the software division of Revolution
Prep, an educational services company that helps students improve
academic skills. The former superintendent of the Miami-Dade County
[Fla.] Public Schools system and former chancellor of New York City’s
public schools, he is a professor of
clinical education at the Rossier
Brad Fredericks ’82 emailed in February, “I’m constructing a new restaurant, the Back Deck (backdeckboston
School of Education at the University
of Southern California.
1974
Dave Ratner was elected to the
board of directors of the National Retail Federation during its 101st Annual Convention and Expo in New York
City. Dave is founder and president
of Dave’s Soda & Pet City (davessoda
andpetcity.com), headquartered in
Agawam, Mass. The business has
five stores in western Massachusetts
and one in Stafford Springs, Conn.
1982 30th Reunion
Jay Nichols, P’11, has been named
CEO at Axis Re, a subsidiary of Axis
Capital Holdings Ltd., a Bermudabased global provider of insurance
and reinsurance. He also is a member of Axis Capital’s executive committee. Previously, he was president
at RenaissanceRe Ventures Ltd.,
which he joined in 1995.
.com), in downtown Boston near my
existing restaurant, Fajitas & ’Ritas.
The Back Deck will be a polished, casual restaurant and will feature foods
professionally grilled over hardwood
charcoal in an open kitchen. Meals
will be served in a setting reminiscent
of back decks and patios. Our opening
is planned for May.” Brad opened
Fajitas & ’Ritas (fajitasandritas.com)
in 1989.
1985
Rick Blackshaw has been appointed
president of the Keds brand at the
Collective Brands Performance +
Lifestyle Group in Lexington, Mass.
Previously, he was vice president and
general manager of the Chuck Taylor
All Star division at Converse Inc.
1986
Jeffrey Brown is the founder of
Brown’s Super Stores and a board
member of Wakefern Food Corp. He
was featured in an article, “Our Food
Heroes Are Out There,” posted on
examiner.com on Dec. 29. The article’s author, Rachel Greenberger,
MBA’11, writes, “Brown has been
building his grocery fleet inside some
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Chuck Scott ’85 emails, “My wife,
Katie, and I (left); Roger Lerrick ’87
and his wife, Emi (center); and Steve
Rapillo, MBA’84, and his wife,
Jeanne, with children Brian and Victoria (right) got together on New Year’s
Day at Roger’s mom’s house in Chappaqua, N.Y. Steve continues to grow
his family’s business, Tufo’s Wholesale Foods (tufofoods.com), in New
York City, and Roger is leveraging his
CPA and financial expertise in solar
and alternative energy in California. I
continue to be a digital troublemaker,
wielding WordPress multisite network
architecture expertise and occasionally hanging out at ChuckingIt.com.”
was one of only two named ‘exemplary’ in financial planning.”
BASTIAN PHOTO: ©2011 BY RICHARD GERST; GOLDBERG: ANDY SPENCER ’88
1989
Michael Bastian ’87 has been named
the 2011 Menswear Designer of the
Year by the Council of Fashion Designers of America. Michael (in a Babson
T-shirt) is on the runway at the showing of the spring/summer 2012 collection of his eponymous menswear line
(michaelbastiannyc.com). The collection was revealed during New York
City’s Fashion Week in September. He
also collaborates with Gant, where he
has revived the fashion house with his
Gant by Michael Bastian menswear
and women’s wear collections.
of Philadelphia’s lowest-income,
most-challenged neighborhoods.”
Greenberger is co-founder of Babson’s Food Sol (foodsol.org), which
focuses on innovations in the food
industry.
Stephen Shinnick is president
and co-founder of Mediacare Solutions Inc. He writes, “Our core product is Dakim BrainFitness, a software
program that helps counteract agerelated cognitive decline and prevent
memory loss. Dakim BrainFitness
was inspired by studies that show
the beneficial effects of mental exercise and the need for that exercise to
be fun and engaging in order to become part of a daily routine. Please
contact me at stephen.shinnick
@me.com for more information.”
August. He helps direct all business
activities at the Stowe, Vt., company,
which includes hotel, brewery, and
recreation facilities, as well as real
estate holdings. Previously, he was
vice president and director of real estate development at Stowe Mountain Resort. He also is director and
president of the nonprofit Spruce
Peak Arts Center Foundation, which
operates a theater in Stowe.
1987 25th Reunion
Walter Frame joined the Trapp Family Lodge Inc. management team in
1988
Scott Poulin is director, sales and
marketing at Wescott Financial Advisory Group in Miami. He emails,
“Wescott has been named one of the
best wealth advisers in the Palm
Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade
market by the National Association
of Board Certified Advisory Practices.
The firm was one of 54 identified as
‘premier’ in the South Florida Business
Journal on Nov. 18. Of those, Wescott
Steve Kendrick was featured in an
article, “Customer Service Leads
Way in Competitive Climate for
Homebuilder Kendrick,” posted on
postandcourier.com on March 17.
Steve is owner and founder of Structures Building Co. (structures.net) in
Charleston, S.C. The remodeling
division of the company is called ReStructure and specializes in wholehouse renovations and additions.
1990
Chris Guiffre has been appointed
senior vice president and chief business officer at Cerulean Pharma
Inc., a nanotechnology company in
Cambridge, Mass. Previously, he
was president and CEO at Alvos
Therapeutics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company.
Ruven Rodriguez is a financial
adviser and senior vice president in
the Boston office of Morgan Stanley
Smith Barney, where he runs The
Rodriguez Group. He was featured in
a Feb. 24 profile, “Wellesley Resident
Is Both Family Man and Entrepreneur,” in The Wellesley Townsman.
Ruven and his wife, Cate, live in
Wellesley with their three daughters.
1991
Maria (Tagliente) Marshall emails,
Richard Goldberg ’89 emails, “I’m
excited to share some good news with
my Babson friends. Continuing my
family’s 58-year tradition as owners
of Marshall’s Jewelers in Milford,
Mass., I opened a second jewelry
store in Bellingham in March 2011.
I completed the move of my family’s
original store to a new location in
Milford this March. Drop by when
you’re in the area and check us out
at marshallsjewelers.com.”
“My husband and I have been living
in Southern California since 2006,
and we have three children, 10, 6,
and 1. Bruce and I own and operate A
Road Bike 4U, a bicycle business that
caters to high-performance cyclists
and triathletes. We have a brick-andmortar shop in Irvine and a website,
aroadbike4u.com.”
Eduardo Tabush was elected
treasurer of the board of directors of
Habitat for Humanity International
in February. He has been involved
with Habitat for Humanity Guatemala since 1998 and lives in Guatemala City with his wife, Amanda, and
their two children. A serial entrepreneur, he is owner and CEO of Meritage Assets Corp., which owns
Joomlashack.
1993
Max Silbershatz has been appointed
director of wireless services at New
York City-based Metropolitan Telecommunications. Before joining MetTel, he was senior vice president for
business development at IDT Corp.
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Ashish Panjabi ’97 is COO of the
Jacky’s Group of Companies, his family’s consumer electronics retail and
distribution group headquartered in
Burcu Akdari ’99 is vice president of
her family’s automotive business,
Karoto, in Bursa, Turkey. She emails,
“Last year, I was elected president of
Gyiad, a nonprofit organization for
young executives. Gyiad promotes entrepreneurship and helps provide education, mentors, and microcredit for
entrepreneurs. Our board members
include Dilara Silisan ’04 and Tunc
Berkman, MBA’98. In December, I
spoke on entrepreneurship for women
1995
Matthew Terrell emails, “My wife
and I live in Delaware with our two
wonderful daughters. In January, I
returned to campus to attend the
Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators, led by Heidi
Neck and other sensational professors. Thanks for an outstanding
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In December, he was recognized by Xponent Media LLC as one of 25 Young
Asian Achievers in the Emirates. Panjabi joined Jacky’s Group in 1999 and
is responsible for running the retail interests of Jacky’s Electronics. In addition to the Emirates, the company
does business in Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Kenya, Tanzania, and
Uganda. He also is president of the
Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Emirates chapter. For more information,
contact Ashish at [email protected].
Weight Loss the Easy Way under the
pseudonym Mac Isaya. At Babson,
I spent lots of time at the gym, but
after graduation, the weight piled
on and nothing seemed to work. So
I developed my own weight-loss
system. I think of the booklet as a
contribution to those who may be
discouraged about losing weight.
Since Babson, I’ve been working up
through the ranks of the petroleum
industry in Russia.”
Chris Titus is the author of The
God Complex (godcomplexnovel
.com), published in June 2011. Set in
Prague, the novel is a suspense story
about a man who searches desperately for a cure that will make him
well again.
1997 15th Reunion
at a global summit in Istanbul. President Len Schlesinger represented Babson and addressed the same event.”
experience and for renewing my
Babson pride. I am a founder of Vision
Creations (visioncreations.com), a
partner of The Signature Group, and
an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Delaware.”
1996
Maxim Bogopolsky emails, “I wrote
Looking forward.
giving back.
“Babson prepared me for a successful career. I still
have goals I want to reach, and one of them is giving
back so others can have the opportunities I had.”
– Stuart Goldstein ’76
As you plan for your future, consider
making a planned gift to Babson. You can
make a larger impact than you may have thought
possible while providing you and your family with
income and tax benefits. Ask us how.
1999
Eliany Shie King: See Morgan King
’97.
2000
Eric Dosal has been promoted to
president and CEO of Compuquip
Technologies Inc. (compuquip.com),
his family’s Doral, Fla.-based IT service and solutions company. Since
2010, he had been COO at Compuquip, which he joined in 2002 as
an account manager. Eric is a member of the Greater Miami Chamber
of Commerce.
Brian Fitzgerald has been named
vice president for digital strategy at
O’Rourke Hospitality Marketing
LLC, headquartered in Newburyport,
Mass. He is responsible for all company and client digital marketing
efforts. Previously, he lived in Washington, D.C., where he was vice
president for Web strategy at TIG
Global.
Lynn-Marie Cerce emailed in January, “I am happy to announce that
Jason Sisto ’96 and I are engaged to
be married! We’re planning a wedding for this spring.” Lynn-Marie is
co-owner of Speidel (speidel.com), a
2002 10th Reunion
watch and watch accessories busiJames Basbas emails, “I have been
ness headquartered in Cranston, R.I.,
promoted to vice president at Altos
and Jason is founder and owner of
Marketing in Bedford, N.H. A digital
The Discovery Group Inc. (thedis
marketing firm, Altos has an eightcoverygroupinc.com), a commercial
year track record of specializing in
real estate investment and manageWeb design and development,
ment company in Pawtucket.
Morgan King writes, “Eliany ’99
to
and I welcomed our third child, son
Atticus King, on Sept. 9. Atticus
September 28–29, 2012
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“I chose to return to
Babson for my MBA
because I felt there was
no better environment
for entrepreneurial
thinking and drive.”
– Daniel Zolnierz ’05, M’11
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Patrick Walsh ’99 (left) is vice president, marketing at Villa, a Philadelphiabased fashion retailer. He emails,
“Last fall, I launched the Dream Project, an inner-city youth initiative. For
the inaugural event, I assembled 70
executives, most of them black or Latino, including some Babson alums.
Representing companies such as
Nike, Twitter, Timberland, American
Express, and the NBA, they shared
their stories with students. I’m shown
with three kids from Philadelphia’s
Benjamin Franklin High School, the
event host.” Patrick was featured in
an article, “‘Dream Project’ Brings Biz
Mentors to Youths,” in the Nov. 10
Philadelphia Tribune. Contact Patrick
at [email protected].
Eric Adler ’06 (center, explaining menu choices) emails, “My 2006 ‘Marketing
for Entrepreneurs’ taqueria concept is finally real! Puesto Mexican Street Food
(eatpuesto.com) is an upscale, fast-casual Mexican eatery in La Jolla, Calif. We
serve authentic Mexico City-style tacos, salads, and bowls sourced from all-natural
ingredients, including grass-fed beef. Many local Babson alums are regulars. I look
forward to seeing professor Stephen Shapiro and all Beavers traveling West.”
WALSH PHOTO: WHITNEY THOMAS
crowdsourcing to harness the insight
of students at that particular college.
Applicants receive a peer-generated
report with comments and suggested improvements. I am reaching out
to the Babson community for reaction because we have just launched.
Check us out at get-in.com or email
me at [email protected]
for more information.”
Annmarie Latta ’06 emails, “Jeremy
Monken (from left), Shaun Greene
’08, myself, and Geoffrey Anderson
’08 co-founded Gold Pieces for
Child’s Play (gp4cp.org), a nonprofit
that raises funds to provide video
games, game systems, and other donations to hospitalized children. We
held our third annual fundraiser in December at the Microsoft New England
Research and Development Center in
Cambridge, Mass. The event featured
video, board, and tabletop games.
Over the years, we have raised more
than $7,500. Email us at info@gp4cp
.org if you want to join the fun!”
e-commerce, search, and social
media marketing. I have assumed
additional responsibilities, such as
account management and business
development, and continue to support social media marketing and
search engine optimization.” James
can be contacted at james@altos
marketing.com and on Twitter
@jamesbasbas.
Leah Hurley has launched Craft
Media (craftmediany.com). She
emails, “Craft Media is a boutique
advertising agency focused on
purpose-driven and action-oriented
campaigns. Based in New York City,
Craft Media offers interactive production, event management, graphic
design, and documentary-centric
photography and video production.
For more information, please visit
my website to read my blog, or feel
free to contact me at lhurley@craft
mediany.com.”
2005
William Rudolph and Sari Gilbert
were married on Dec. 31 at the Kernwood Country Club in Salem, Mass.,
where the couple lives. Sari works for
the Salem Public Schools, and William works for Harbor Management.
Margaret Schlachter blogs daily
at dirtinyourskirt.com. Her blog, Dirt
in Your Skirt, was named Best Sports
Weblog 2012 by the 12th annual
Weblog Awards.
2006
Lisa Chin and William Droege are
engaged to be married in August.
Lisa is a marketing director at Jill’s
List, and William is a senior investment analyst at John Hancock. The
couple lives in Boston.
Noah Rosenberg is co-founder
and CEO of Get-In LLC. He emails,
“To help improve an individual’s
college application, Get-In uses
2007 5th Reunion
Forbes Marsh emails from New York
City, “I now am an account executive
at startup SocialVibe. The company
offers a way for brands to reach, engage, and spread messages to customers through audiences seeking a
value exchange in return for access
to social games, applications, and
premium content. We work with
such partners as FarmVille, Mafia
Wars, Facebook, Pandora, and more.”
Valentine Moroz is COO of
SoftInWay Inc. (softinway.com), a
Burlington, Mass.-based company
founded by his father in 1999. The
company provides the high-tech
community with software products
and engineering services for power
generation equipment. Valentine was
interviewed for an article, “SoftInWay Launches Software, Seeks
Startups to Incubate,” in Mass High
Tech on March 15. He will work at
the company’s new office in Zug,
Switzerland.
2008
Ben Chudnovskiy is founder and
managing partner of spyRealty.com,
an online real estate marketplace
launched in January. He emails, “We
deliver expert real estate advice and
negotiating power with a 2 percent
cash refund of the final purchase
price to buyers who value the freedom of attending open houses unaccompanied by a broker. SpyRealty
operates in Massachusetts, New
York, New Hampshire, and Vermont,
and we plan to expand our network.
For more information, contact me at
[email protected].”
Matthew Hancock was featured
in an article, “Congressional Candidate Says He’ll Use the Power of the
Internet to Campaign,” in Foster’s
Daily Democrat on March 3. Matthew
is a democratic candidate for the U.S.
House of Representatives in New
Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District. He emails, “I’m leveraging social media and integrating it into the
website I developed, mh2012.com,
to increase accessibility, encourage
discussion, and enhance my interactions with voters.”
2009
Darius Eslami emails, “I’m the
events and social media coordinator
at North Hill, a senior-living community adjacent to the Babson campus.
Last fall, North Hill inaugurated True
North, an initiative to expand services and experiences for residents,
as well as members of the greater
community. We released our first
courses and events catalog, which
offers free courses on varied topics
such as world religions and horticulture. For more information, contact
me at [email protected].”
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Alex Karsos and his brother,
Chris Karsos, are founders of New
Jersey-based startup Grecian Ideal
Nutrition LLC (ginutrition.net), which
markets sports supplements. Alex
was featured in an interview on
NutraIngredients-USA.com on Feb.
14, “How Easy Is it to Break into the
Sports Nutrition Market?” The company can be followed on Facebook.
2010
Carmela Alvarez has been named
one of the 2012 Young Global Shapers
by the World Economic Forum. The
mayor of San Vicente, Philippines,
she was among nine young Filipinos
chosen for the honor by the WEF,
which invited only three of those individuals, including Carmela, to its
conference in Davos, Switzerland.
Alex Moazed is CEO, president,
and founder of Manhattan-based
Applico (applicoinc.com), which designs and develops custom mobile
apps. He and his company were featured in a cover story, “Upwardly
Mobile,” in the February issue of
Greenwich magazine.
Aron Schwarzkopf is co-founder
and CEO of Leaf (leaf.me) in Cam-
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1968
Joe McKane has joined Harborside
Realty in Marblehead, Mass., as a
sales associate. Previously, he was
director of sales for the North Shore
Navigators, a collegiate summer
baseball team based in Lynn.
1971
Peter Chick, P’92, has been named
to the board of directors of Rehabilitative Resources Inc. (RRI), a Sturbridge, Mass.-based, not-for-profit
corporation. RRI began in 1975 as
South Central Rehabilitative Resources Inc., with two group homes
for people with developmental disabilities. The agency changed its
name in 1999.
1974
John Stoddart was profiled in an article, “Ely’s Stoddart Became Chief
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Joseph Winn, MBA ’74, was named
chairman of Babson’s Board of Trustees in October. He became a member
in 2001 and was vice chairman, chair-
over All Military Trucks,” in The Ely
[Nev.] Times on Dec. 12. As a colonel
in the Army, he was responsible for
all trucks for the Department of Defense from 1990 until he retired in
1995. He then worked for the Oshkosh Truck Corp. and retired as
president of the company’s defense
division in 2009.
Dan Ustayev ’12 opened Los Amigos
(amigosburritos.com), his Mexican
eatery, in Boston’s West Roxbury section in February. Dan emails, “My fastcasual restaurant features authentic
burritos, tacos, quesadillas, and salad
bowls to go—made with only the
freshest ingredients. While in college,
I identified a market demand in the
area for burritos. Because my dad
owns a pizzeria, I have a lot of experience in the food business. My goal
over the next year is to expand Los
Amigos to the surrounding suburbs.”
bridge, Mass. The startup was featured in an article, “Leaf Adds Brains,
and Conversation, into Paying with a
Credit Card,” in the Dec. 1 issue of
the Boston Business Journal. During
retail purchases, Leaf aims to give
consumers more options, such as
the ability to decline a paper receipt,
give feedback after a purchase, or
donate a portion of the transaction
to a charity of the consumer’s choice.
2011
John Xie is CTO, chief marketing officer, and co-founder of Minus.com, a
universal file-sharing platform. He
and the company were featured in an
article, “Meet the 22-Year-Old Serial
Entrepreneur Behind a File-Sharing
man of the investment and finance
committees, and a member of the audit, executive, graduate, and executive
education committees. Joe also
served on the 2008 Presidential
Search Committee and was vice chair
of the MBA 50th Campaign. A lecturer at Boston University’s School of
Management and a consultant, he
worked at American Radio Systems
Corp. and at American Tower Corp.
Joe says, “I am honored by the vote of
confidence from my fellow trustees.
I look forward to collaborating with
them on furthering Babson’s entrepreneurial strategies around the world.”
1976
Rob Hurlbert emails, “With the Department of State for 21 years, I am a
program manager in the public affairs
strategic communications section at
the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. I oversee several multimilliondollar communications infrastructure
projects, notably the construction of
Service with $1 Million in VC,” posted
on Entrepreneur.com on Feb. 2.
2012
Stephanie Yoe emails, “With help
from Antonio Cairo, Prasanna Devadoss, and Anushka Kassim, I directed and produced Idea Generation
Babson College, now on YouTube, so
alumni and prospective students can
see today’s Babson. The music
team—Cheol Lee ’13, Kwaku Abankroh ’13, Matthew Vacaro ’14, and
professor Robert Kopp—composed
two songs for the video. And President Len Schlesinger, Dean Dennis
Hanno, and several professors star in
it.” For information, contact Stephanie at [email protected].
media towers. While the typical embassy public affairs section might
award grants for media production,
we also build capacity to enable
broadcasting to rural areas. This tour,
with extensive in-country travel, has
been challenging and rewarding.”
1983
John Donahue has been named
CEO of Brentwood, Tenn.-based
Cogent HMG, a provider of critical
care services. He has more than 25
years of health-care experience, including nine years as president and
CEO of National Imaging Associates, a radiology benefit management firm he founded in 1997 and
sold to Magellan Health Services in
2006. He also is a member of the
board of Medicalis Inc.
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Jesse Morris ’09 (left) emails, “I am
the new chair of the Autism Speaks
(autismspeaks.org) committee, Autism Speaks 2 Young Professionals,
informally called AS2YP. In February,
Danny Ryan (right) and I co-chaired a
fundraiser in Manhattan that raised
more than $35,000 to increase autism awareness. The crowd included
Johanna Sambucini, Miss New York
USA 2012 (center), and almost a dozen Babson alumni.” Contact Jesse at
[email protected].
Andrew Kitzenberg is founder
and president of Memory on Hand,
which makes USB flash drive wristbands. He emails, “With Memory On
Hand growing quickly, I partnered
with Jeff Brayer, vice president for
sales and marketing, and we haven’t
looked back. MoH Bands are sold in
more than 150 school bookstores
and 300-plus retail locations, but the
best place to purchase them is on
memoryonhand.com.” Andrew can
be contacted at andrew@memory
onhand.com for more information.
Jane Cleland,
MBA’78, emails,
“Dolled Up for Murder, the seventh
book in my Josie
Prescott Antiques
Mystery series
(janecleland.net),
was published in March. The mystery
is a tale of rare dolls, the Civil War, and
obsession. And a cat named Hank.”
The first book in the series, Consigned
to Death, was published in 2006.
Michael Brener,
MBA’92, a financial adviser
at Merrill Lynch
in Aventura,
Fla., has been
listed as one of
America’s Top
1,000 Advisers in the Feb. 20 issue of
Barron’s. This is Michael’s third appearance on the list. Approximately
65 percent of his clients are in Latin
America, with the remainder in Florida and across the U.S. He has a CIMA
(certified investment management
analyst) designation from the Investment Management Consultants
Association.
1984
Alan Oppenheim has been appointed a member of the board of Saratoga Care Inc. in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
He is president of ACO Property Advisors Inc. (acopropertyadvisors
.com), a commercial real estate firm
he founded in 1993. Alan also serves
on the board of directors of the Saratoga Regional YMCA.
1988
David Bois has been named COO
at Verrill Dana, a Portland, Mainebased law firm with offices in Washington, D.C.; Boston; Hartford, Conn.;
and Augusta, Maine. Previously, he
was the firm’s executive director.
Andrew Zarnett spoke in March
at the 2012 iGaming North America
conference in Las Vegas. The conference discussed the potential of legalized Internet gambling. Andrew is a
managing director at Deutsche Bank,
where he is a gaming, lodging, and
leisure high-yield debt analyst. He
also is co-head of high-yield research
at the bank and a member of the executive committee of its leverage
debt group.
1989
Patrick Scannell has been appointed
president and CEO of GlassHouse
Technologies in Framingham, Mass.
The company provides consulting
and managed services for data centers. A member of the board of directors at GlassHouse, he also is a board
member at Kiva Systems and Xtalic.
Previously, he was senior vice president, CFO, and treasurer at Netezza.
1990
Deborah Hardison, MSA’98, is director of the Small Business Center
at Richmond Community College in
Hamlet, N.C. She emails, “The center
supports the development of new
businesses and the growth of existing
businesses; it’s a community-based
resource for counseling, training, and
planning. I enjoy my work because
it’s a culmination of everything I’ve
learned, paired with the social component of helping people.” Deborah was
featured in an article, “NETC [Northeastern Technical College] Alumna
Builds a Lifetime of Achievement on a
Dare for a Degree,” in the Feb. 2 Richmond County Daily Journal.
Sheri Ayers Trocchi has joined J.
Barrett & Co., a real estate firm serving the Cape Ann and North Shore
areas of Massachusetts. She is a fulltime real estate agent in the company’s Beverly Farms office.
1991
Bruno Chabas joined SBM Offshore
as COO in May 2011 and became
CEO in January 2012. A Dutch public
company, SBS Offshore is the holding company of a group of international marine technology businesses
in the offshore oil and gas industry.
Before joining SBM, Bruce worked at
Acergy, now Subsea 7, for 18 years,
most recently as COO.
1992 20th Reunion
Mike Healey is founder and president
of Yeoman Technologies (yeoman
technologies.com), a Portsmouth,
N.H., company that helps manufacturers, developers, and publishers
with Internet sales and distribution
models. He also is a senior contributing editor and analyst for InformationWeek, and he writes about cloud and
Internet developments. In February,
Mike presented at Yeoman’s third
annual webinar review of Internet
sales and distribution trends, which
is designed for B2B organizations
and manufacturers.
1993
Larry Hughes, P’07, was profiled in
an article, “Local Boy Makes Good:
Somerville’s Own Larry Hughes CEO
of BNY Mellon Wealth Management,” in the March 2 issue of the
Boston Business Journal. Larry was
CFO of private client business at The
Boston Co., which was acquired by
Mellon in 1993. Mellon subsequently
merged with The Bank of New York.
1995
Mark Tullio has been promoted to
vice president, worldwide marketing
at Lantronix Inc., a communication
technologies company in Irvine, Calif.
Previously, Mark was senior director
of marketing at the company, which
he joined in 2010.
1996
Rick Altieri has been appointed CFO
at Oxford Immunotec Ltd., a biotechnology firm headquartered in England with U.S. operations based in
Marlborough, Mass. Previously, he
was vice president and CFO at Salient Surgical Technologies Inc.
2000
Andres Bernal Correa has been
named vice president for finance and
strategy at Grupo de Inversiones
Suramericana SA, a new sub-holding
company of Grupo Sura. Previously,
he was CFO and vice president for finance and investment at Grupo Sura,
which he joined in 2004.
2001
Guillermo Montano is president and
co-founder of Transactel (transactel
Joe Bardenheier, MBA’98 (left), is
part of a volunteer team that runs the
Free Surgical Camp (freesurgical
camp.com) every January in Khammam, India. He emails, “The medical
mission serves the poor at St. Mary’s
Hospital, built by the British in the late
1800s. I am shown in the post-op hallway with a few patients and their families. The team of three U.S. doctors,
including my father, Dr. Joe Bardenheier III, and other U.S. and Indiabased volunteers, conducted more
than 900 examinations and 230 operations in 11 days.” Joe is senior vice
president, corporate development at
Endurance International Group in
Burlington, Mass.
.net), a business call-center company headquartered in Guatemala City,
Guatemala. The company was featured in an article, “Call Centres that
Are Closer to Home,” in the Feb. 21
Financial Times. Transactel’s clients
include U.S. and Canadian companies, which reportedly benefit not
only from Guatemala’s proximity to
North America but also from the
country’s close ties with U.S. culture
and the fact that Guatemala is on
Central Standard Time.
2002 10th Reunion
John Corrieri has been appointed
vice president of Mutual of Omaha’s
401(k) product. He supports retirement advisers, plan participants, and
plan sponsors. Previously, he was
marketing leader for the institutional
retirement group at Genworth Financial in Richmond, Va.
Tyson Goodridge emails, “I’m director of social media at Acsys Interactive, an 80-person digital agency
with offices in Boston, New York, and
Connecticut. When I’m not talking
about social media or guest blogging
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1. Kim Nguyen and Chris Colli, both
’05, were married on April 2, 2011,
in Marco Island, Fla. Twenty alumni
attended the event, including bridesmaids Kristin (Lovett) Berg and
Whitney Robbins, groomsmen Matt
Walsh and Jim Burke, and attendants
Michael Restivo, Jennifer Sanchez,
and Katie Erickson, all ’05. The
couple lives in Simsbury, Conn. Chris
is broker/owner of Chestnut Oak
Associates, a real estate brokerage,
where Kim is marketing and
operations manager.
2. Amanda Frier and Alex Kelley,
both ’03, were married on Oct. 8
at the Turner Hill Country Club in
Ipswich, Mass. Among the guests
were 25 alumni, including wedding
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party members Cara (Campo)
O’Regan, Alyson Yablonskie, Kathryn
(Simmons) Shilling, Kevin Shane, and
Jason Highland, all ’03. The couple
lives in Waltham.
friends included Megan (Walsh)
Mooney ’85, Rich Stone ’86, P’10, Bill
Lestan ’85, MBA’96, David Sutton
’85, and Dave Theriault ’85.” The
couple lives in Boston’s South End.
3. Gina Rosano ’00, MBA’06, and
Edward Zalewski, MBA’08, were
married on Oct. 29 in Hingham,
Mass. Gina emails, “Alumni at the
wedding included maid of honor
Maureen (Murphy) Badura ’00 and
wedding guests Jackie Regan ’00,
Sandy Estrada ’00, and Denise Kidd
Kaminsky ’81, MBA’07. Having our
friends from Babson join us really
helped make it a special day!” The
couple lives in Cohasset.
6. Katie Brown, MBA’08, and Tim
Seamans, MBA’09, were married
on July 9 at an outdoor wedding in
Northeast Harbor, Maine. Friends at
the event included (front, from left)
Mark Massaro, MBA’09, John Hose,
MBA’09, the groom and bride, Andrea Wolf Beagan, MBA’08, Colleen
Connolly, MBA’08; (back) Nava Cretu Kessel, MBA’09, Kristin Lorenzo,
MBA’08, Nish Murthy, MBA’09, Jeff
Layton, MBA’09, Nurit Bloom,
MBA’09, Ursula Liff, MBA’09, Martin
Lewit, MBA’08, Sarah Mosbacher,
MBA’09, and Gil Allouche, MBA’09.
4. Bob Weisse ’04 was married to
Katherine Toy on Oct. 8 at the
Codman Estate in Lincoln, Mass. The
guests included Rick Deveney, Phil
McGinnis, Jeff Heighington, Dave
Ballas, Jim Battista, Matt Bigda, and
Andrew Gallinaro, all ’04. Katherine
is a consultant at PwC, and Bob is
director of portfolio management at
Heritage Financial Services.
5. David Garten ’85 (center, right)
and Paul Sherman were married on
July 9 at Fox Chair Mountain Farm in
Chester, Vt. David emails, “The perfect summer day along with 130
family and friends made our outdoor
wedding truly magical. Babson
7. Robin Manoukian ’01 and Kevin
Ryan were married on July 16 in Key
West, Fla., where they had met.
Family and friends joined them for a
beach ceremony at Fort Zachary
Taylor State Park, followed by a
reception at the Old Town Manor.
Guests included matron of honor
Kim (Tulman) Healy ’01, Kevin Healy
’99, MBA’08, and Laura (Kimball)
Dassow ’99. Robin and Kevin live in
the Boston area.
8. Daniel Cowan ’08 was married to
Ellen MacLeod on Oct. 8 in Rockland,
8
Mass. Dan emails, “Eleven alumni
attended our wedding. After Babson,
I moved to Phoenix to work for
Athletes’ Performance, where I met
Ellen, a Massachusetts native. We
moved back East in February 2010
and bought a house in Rockland.
I continue to work for Athletes’
Performance as marketing manager,
and Ellen is a teacher at My Gym
Children’s Fitness Center in Norwell.”
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my two boys on the North Shore of
Boston, cooking, and steadfastly supporting New York sports teams. Follow me on Twitter @goodridge or
over at enterdialogue.com.”
Guy Van Meter has been promoted to vice president, business
development at Adimab LLC, a biotechnology company in Lebanon,
N.H. He handles all business development activities at the company,
where he has worked for more than
three years. Previously, he was senior
director of business development.
2003
Havell Rodrigues is CFO at Greenbean Recycle, a software technology
startup that works to increase recycling. He also is a member of its
board of directors, and Kristina
Momchilova, MBA’11, is marketing
coordinator. The company won first
place and $10,000 in the Technology
Track category of Worcester [Mass.]
Polytechnic Institute’s 2011 Venture
Forum Business Plan Contest in
November.
Maria Shepherd has joined the
investment committee of MSBi Valorisation, an early-stage accelerator
in Montreal. She assists MSBiV in
assessing technologies. Maria is the
founder of Lincoln, Mass.-based
Data Decision Group (ddecision
group.com), a marketing strategy
consulting firm that works exclusively in the medical devices and life
sciences industries. The firm also
offers traditional market research
and interim marketing services.
Contact Maria at mshepherd
@ddecisiongroup.com.
Saqib Syed has been named one
of the 50 Most Influential People in
New England by India New England
newspaper. The list honors those
whose work, effort, or influence benefits New England’s South Asian
community. Also listed is Raghu
Tadepalli, Murata Dean, F.W. Olin
Graduate School of Business. Saqib
is managing principal and founder of
PredictSoft LLC; a charter member of
TiE Boston, a nonprofit organization;
and an adviser to Boston Meridian,
an investment bank.
2005
Christopher Friday has been named
vice president for information systems and chief information officer
at Mohegan Sun, a casino and resort in Uncasville, Conn. Previously,
he was vice president for customer
relationship management, and from
2005 to 2009, he had been director
of program management at the casino and resort.
Forward (playingif.org), a nonprofit
founded by David. More than $9,000
was raised for the organization, which
Motonori Sato emails, “I have been
distributes sports equipment to disappointed CEO of Azden Corp.
advantaged children worldwide. The
(www.azden.co.jp), headquartered
Full House Charity Program, started
in Tokyo. My father, Fuminori Sato,
by Bernard to support New England
is now board chairman. My grandorganizations that focus on children,
father founded Azden, and I am the
helped organize the tournament. A
third generation to work for the
professional poker player, author, and
company, which designs, manufacradio talk-show host, Bernard (bernard
Bernard Lee, MBA’99 (left), and
turers, and sells communications
leepoker.com) donates $500 to his
David Cohen ’95 (right) teamed up
and audio equipment, such as
organization for every full house he is
for a no-limit Texas Hold ’em charity
microphones and video cameras.
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tournaments.
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2006
Miles Masci, MBA’11 (right), emails,
“Nicolas Warren (left) and I co-founded
Perfect Fuel Chocolate (perfectfuel
chocolate.com) in Boston. While in
the Peace Corps in 2006, I was assigned to Chipehamburgo, a cocoagrowing community in Ecuador, where
I acquired a passion for chocolate. My
Babson degree has allowed me to pursue my dream of developing a chocolate company. We offer an all-natural,
low-sugar dark chocolate that is certified organic and sustainably produced. Because the chocolate includes
supplements such as ginseng, it’s an
effective snack for athletes. Bars can
be purchased online and in retail
stores. For more information, email
[email protected].”
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2007 5th Reunion
Rattikorn Prichavongwaikul was
featured in an article, “Media Makeover: Daughter of Onpa Founder
Helps Business Navigate Shift Away
from Cassettes and Discs to Providing Content Regardless of the Medium,” in the Jan. 24 Bangkok Post.
Rattikorn’s father’s company, Onpa,
made cassette tapes and discs but
has struggled with digital media. She
works at Onpa and has helped the
company thrive by concentrating on
quality content.
2009
Rob Banagale is co-founder of Gliph
Inc. (gli.ph), a mobile-technology
startup focused on secure communication. Rob emails, “Gliph was one of
eight startups selected in March for
the Portland [Ore.] Seed Fund business incubator. The incubator is
backed by a $3 million public-private
fund, which invests $25,000 in each
business and mentors the entrepreneurs for three months. The Gliph
app is available for iPhone and Android devices.” For more information,
email [email protected].
Andy Fitzpatrick has joined the
Boston office of First Republic Bank
as managing director and business
banker. He is part of a team that
serves venture and private equity clients in the bank’s offices in Silicon
Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
New York City, and Boston. Previously, he was a senior vice president at
RBC Bank in Boston.
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Brian Testarmata has joined
Workers’ Credit Union as a mortgage
loan officer. The credit union serves
north central Massachusetts and is
based in Fitchburg.
2010
Richard Enos co-founded StudyPoint
(studypoint.com), formerly named
StudySmart, in Boston in 1999. The
company now offers one-to-one tutoring for students nationwide. In
2011, StudyPoint was on Inc. magazine’s list of the fastest-growing private companies in America for the
fifth consecutive year and on the
Boston Business Journal’s Pacesetters
list of the Boston region’s fastestgrowing private companies.
Dan Gustafson has joined the
acquisitions department at Brookwood Financial Partners LLC, a real
estate private equity firm in Beverly,
Mass. Previously, he was a leasing
representative at Linear Retail
Properties.
Sanjiv Patel, MBA’02, is the founder
of Dallas-based Holy Cow LLC, which
offers a selection of seasoned peanuts. He emails, “It’s been a long year
following the launch of the Lord Nut
Levington peanut line in early 2011.
However, so far, so good. We are now
in around 300 stores across the country and about to launch our sixth flavor, Sweet Miss Keet. Living my own
case study every day, but enjoying it
so far. Check us out at lordnut.com.
All in flavor—say yes!”
2011
Kristina Momchilova is marketing
coordinator at Greenbean Recycle, a
startup that operates high-tech recycling machines. The company won
first place and $10,000 in the Technology Track category of Worcester
[Mass.] Polytechnic Institute’s 2011
Venture Forum Business Plan Contest. Greenbean also was featured in
a Feb. 10 Boston Globe article, “The
Social Network, Smaller,” which explained how social media brings together those with shared interests.
Havell Rodrigues, MBA’03, is
Greenbean’s CFO and a member of
its board of directors.
Caroline Murphy is director of
operations at Brass Monkey Inc., a
Boston-based gaming technology
company. She emails, “In March,
the MIT Enterprise Forum’s New
England Games Special Interest
Group gathered game marketing
executives to share secrets and
marketing tactics at Microsoft’s
New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge. I participated in a panel and discussed
how developers without large marketing budgets can bring their game
directly to consumers.”
Bradley Sikora and Anna Erhard
were married on June 4, 2011, on
Sea Island, Ga. The bride is a senior
account executive with Mullen Advertising Agency, and the groom
works at Mercer Investments in
Boston, where the couple lives.
Rick Drumm, MBA’07, is president of D’Addario & Co., the Farmingdale, N.Y.based maker of strings and accessories for musical instruments. He’s also a
drummer. He and his group, Rick Drumm and Fatty Necroses, have released an
album, Return from the Unknown. Rick emails, “The album covers the infancy of
jazz fusion, performed with a contemporary sound. The names of the album and
group are a nod to my survival of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. And 25 percent of all
proceeds will be donated to the Strike A Chord foundation, which shares the gift
of music with seriously ill and disadvantaged children.”
Larry Fitzmaurice ’59 (center), Babson Alumni Association vice president, represented the association at the annual President’s Scholarship Luncheon last fall
in Knight Auditorium. The event was attended by more than 75 student recipients and scholarship donors. Babson Alumni Association Scholarship recipients
Arber Mavraj (from left) and Imran Rashid, both ’14, joined Larry with fellow
recipients David Zwick and Adam Karger, both MBA’12. Larry says, “Babson
attracts the best and brightest applicants from around the world, and our community recognizes that some future entrepreneurs would be unable to consider
a Babson experience without financial assistance.”
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(azdencorp.com) in New York. At
Babson, I studied family business,
which has been a great help.”
Bob Sullivan is senior vice president at East Greenwich, R.I.-based
Arpin Group, an international moving and storage company. He emails,
“In December, I represented Team
USA in a hockey tournament in Russia, where ‘hockey diplomacy’ is like
playing golf in the U.S. This event
brought together politicians, scientists, business leaders, and hockey
legends. I am excited about a potential Moscow expansion for Arpin.”
Bob is co-owner and co-founder of
Arpin’s offices in London, Dublin,
Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong,
and Shanghai.
In Memoriam
Elizabeth Berestecky of Osterville,
Mass., formerly of Needham, died
on Jan. 27. She was an administrative assistant at Babson from 1985
until she retired in 1999.
Melvyn Copen of Sedona, Ariz., died
on March 12. From 1981 to 1987, he
was vice president for academic affairs at Babson. He earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from MIT, and a
doctorate in international business
administration from Harvard Business School. A member of the staff
or faculty at several academic institutions, he also worked for the government, starting as a White House
Fellow in 1970. He was a veteran of
the Army Reserve.
John Gilbert ’41 of Pebble Beach,
Calif., died on Nov. 12. He served in
the Army Air Forces during World
War II and became a lieutenant colonel. After retiring from the military,
he was a Northern California Golf
Association official for more than
25 years.
Ernest Ansley ’46 of Seal Beach,
Calif., died on Aug. 28.
Richard Holden ’49 of Avon, Conn.,
died on March 8. He served in the
Army during World War II. He
worked in his family’s business,
Holden & Gobell Estate Jewelers,
formerly Holden Jewelers, in West
Hartford.
Robert Moore ’49 of Ashland, Mass.,
died on Nov. 10. He served in the
Navy during World War II. When he
retired in 1998, he was a vice president at United Business Service.
Donald Higgins ’50 of Rochester,
N.Y., died on Feb. 13. He served in
the Army during World War II and
the Korean War. He worked for R.T.
French Co. in Rochester for 25 years
and then Scientific Calculations Inc.
in Fishers.
Ray Rodey ’50 of Mesa, Ariz., died
on Dec. 21. He served in the Navy
during World War II. An attorney,
he practiced with the law firm of
Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin &
Robb in Albuquerque, N.M.
Robert Hillery ’51 of Orr’s Island,
Maine, died on Aug. 10.
Dick Kirk ’51 of Wooster, Ohio, died
on Dec. 24. He was an Air Force
veteran. He founded Central Farm
Supply and retired in 2011.
Victor Tomasso ’51 of Sea Ranch
Lakes, Fla., died on Jan. 23. He
served in the Navy during World
War II. A life member of the Babson
Corporation, he was CEO and chair
of Buchanan Marine. He was predeceased by his brother, George
Tomasso ’49. Tomasso Hall is
named in honor of the family.
Paul Elliott ’52 of St. Petersburg,
Fla., and West Dennis, Mass., died
on Dec. 7.
Charles Webster ’53 of Cleveland
died on Oct. 15. He was an Army
veteran.
Donald Faerman ’54 of Stamford,
Conn., died on Nov. 16. He was a
financial planner in the New York
City area.
Thomas Fry ’54 of West Chester,
Pa., formerly of Reading, died on
Jan. 23. He served in the Navy during World War II. He was president
and owner of Dolfin Corp.
Charles Black ’55 of The Villages,
Fla., formerly of Cumberland, R.I.,
died on March 9. He was an Army
veteran. When he retired in 1992,
he was properties manager at East
Providence Credit Union.
Albert Hudon, MBA’55, of Montreal
died on Jan. 10.
independent investment consultant.
He leaves his grandson, Joshua
Bennett ’14.
Konrad Gesner ’57 of Duxbury,
Mass., died on Dec. 7. He was a Korean War veteran. He worked in real
estate.
Bruce Munn, MBA’59, of Wachapreague, Va., died on Jan. 25. He was
a Marine Corps veteran. He was
racing secretary at the Harrington
[Del.] Raceway when he retired in
2006.
John Quinton ’60 of Lisle, Ill., died
on Jan. 15.
Warren Tourtellot ’60 of Lakewood,
Pa., died on Dec. 9. He served in the
Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. When he retired, he was vice
president at a medical publishing
company.
Charles England, MBA’65, of Tilton,
N.H., formerly of Manchester, died
on Feb. 25. He was an Army veteran. He was director of railroad operations for the Massachusetts Bay
Transportation Authority.
Charles Blaser, MBA’66, of Warrenton, Va., died on July 30. A retired
Army lieutenant colonel, he served
for 26 years and completed two
tours in Korea and one in Iran.
John Alexander, MBA’67, of Sherborn, Mass., died on Dec. 14. A military veteran, he served in Korea. He
worked in human resources at Dennison Manufacturing Co.
Thomas Moore, MBA’70, of South
Yarmouth, Mass., died on Nov. 18.
He served in the Navy during World
War II. He was treasurer at the William Carter Co. in Needham. He
leaves his sons, Daniel Moore ’83
and William Moore ’92.
Mark Salowitz ’72 of East Hampton,
Conn., died on Dec. 5. A CPA, he
worked at Case, Corrado, Yazmer &
Co. in East Hartford.
Edgar McClung, MBA’61, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., died on Feb. 20. An
Army lieutenant colonel, he retired
in 1973. He subsequently worked for
Ford Motor Co. and Nissan.
Norman Isabelle, MBA’74, of Palm
Bay, Fla., died on Feb. 26. He was an
industrial engineering manager at
Honeywell and Digital Equipment
Corp.
Thomas Wheelen, MBA’61, of Tampa, Fla., died on Dec. 24. He was a
Navy veteran. He earned a DBA
from The George Washington University and was a professor of strategic management at the University
of South Florida from 1983 to 2005.
Merton Round, MBA’74, of St. Augustine, Fla., and Raymond, Maine,
died on Feb. 4. He was an Army veteran. A CPA, he was CFO at KingSize Inc. in Brockton, Mass.
Richard Perley ’62 of Laconia, N.H.,
died on Jan. 17. He owned the local
Dairy Queen and a children’s clothing store.
Paul Ferrari, MBA’56, of Hobe
Sound, Fla., formerly of Danvers,
Mass., died on Dec. 19. He served in
the Navy during the Korean War. He
was treasurer at Thermo Electron
Corp. He was predeceased by his
brother, David Ferrari, MBA’64,
P’92.
Michael Bellobuono ’63 of Wethersfield, Conn., died on Feb. 18. He
served in the National Guard. An attorney, he co-founded the law offices of McVane, Bellobuono, Kuzmak,
Wiezalis, and Bibisi in Hartford. He
also co-owned the First & Last Tavern in Middletown. He leaves his
sons, Michael Bellobuono ’91 and
Jonathan Bellobuono ’98.
Edmund Bennett ’57 of Holden,
Mass., died on Jan. 20. He was an
Army veteran. He founded Bennett
Consulting Inc. in 1991 and was an
Daniel Harris ’64 of Hampton Bays,
N.Y., died on Dec. 29. An Episcopal
priest, he had been a fire chaplain
since 1973.
Richard Day ’78 of Rochester, N.Y.,
formerly of Hamilton, Mass., died
on Dec. 30. He was a chef.
Joel Beck, MBA’79, of Arundel,
Maine, died on March 16. He was a
Marine Corps veteran. After a 35year career at Honeywell, he taught
at the University of Southern Maine
School of Business for eight years.
Nina Clinton, MBA’79, of Hull,
Mass., died on Nov. 15. She worked
in agricultural investments at John
Hancock Financial Services.
Scott Coulter, MBA’84, of Lakeville,
Mass., died on Dec. 22.
Barry Shea ’85 of Mansfield, Mass.,
died on Nov. 28. A CPA, he was an
internal auditor.
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