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ABoUT ALUMNi ABoUT ALUMNi ABoUT ALUMNi ABoUT ALUMNi ABoUT ALUMNi MBa from UMass amherst; and Noralee, a professional violinist, who is a graduate of Wellesley College and yale School of Music. Jeanne Caputo White (StCB, BS ed ’58) has four children: a UMass Boston biology professor, a Wall Street Journal bureau chief, a children’s librarian, and an investment analyst. Jeanne also has eight grandchildren living in Massachusetts, Minneapolis, and Moscow. She is an enrichment and mediation coordinator at Newton North High School. Roberta Deehan White (StCB, BS el ed ’58) taught for 34 years before retiring from the Woburn school department. She has four children and three grandchildren. She just returned from Sun City Hilton Head in South Carolina. Brenda kelley Wislar (StCB, BS el ed ’58) has a blended family with a total of nine children plus their spouses, and nineteen grandchildren. She writes, “traveling is our favorite hobby! Still a red Sox fan!” helena M. Zubrin (StCB, BS el ed ’58) retired from teaching in Weymouth, Mass. Since then, she has been busy with family and friends, traveling to europe, volunteering for the Boston Ballet and the reagle Players in Waltham, doing watercolors, and, recently, teaching watercolor techniques to students in the olli program at UMass Boston. Directors of the Citizen Planner training Collaborative and the Northeastern Economic Developers association. Gina McCarthy (UMB, Ba Soc Anth ‘76) is commissioner of the Connecticut Department of environmental Protection. She presented the 2008 Earth Day keynote address at Wesleyan University. Prior to joining the Connecticut DEP, McCarthy worked in Massachusetts for 25 years on environmental issues in a variety of positions at the state and local levels. Anthony M. Sammarco (UMB, BA Hist ’79) is a noted historian and author of fifty books on the history and development of Boston. He is the curator of the Milton Historical Society and is a proud resident of the Suffolk resolves House. He also writes a weekly history column known as “a Piece of our History” for the Milton Times, and frequently lectures on local history and leads walking tours in Milton, Boston, and Dorchester. He was recently elected a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, is a member of the Boston author’s Club, and is a proprietor of the Boston athenaeum. Michael R. Seppala (UMB, Ba Art ’79) has been appointed vice president for institutional advancement and executive director of the Bunker Hill Community College Foundation. Seppala joins BHCC from Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, where he had held a similar position since 2003. Judith Teed Sweeney (UMB, BA Mgt ’78) is a vice president and head of research at taleo Corporation, a consulting business focusing on talent management. Someone to Be Proud of oreen Bilezikian ’61 (above, with Chancellor Motley) remembers when she coined the phrase “Don’t you just love a bargain” as the slogan for the Christmas Tree Shops, the business she co-founded. She shared this story and others as the first UMass Boston alumna to be featured at the University of Massachusetts “Someone to Be Proud Of” series in April 2008. “With determination to succeed, astute business sense, and a wealth of ‘people skills,’ Doreen Bilezikian has built one of the most well-known retail establishments in New England,” said Chancellor Motley. The Bilezikians sold the business in 1993 to Bed, Bath, and Beyond. In an era when few careers embraced women, Bilezikian believes, her teaching degree was a “passport” to work in social services before she stumbled into retail during one summer vacation. Now with the business sold, the Bilezikian Family Foundation is the family’s new shared endeavor. Judith M. Conn (BSC, BS Sec ed ’68) received a master’s degree in statistics and an executive MBa from emory University in atlanta. She worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in atlanta until retiring last year after more than 33 years. kenneth C. haddock (UMB, Ba Sec ed ’66) completed his Ma and PhD in geography at Michigan State University. He taught at the University of Florida for four years and then went to towson University in suburban Baltimore. after 28 years in the Department of Geography and environmental Planning, nine years as department chairperson, he retired in 2005. D 1970s Bruce G. hughes (UMB, Ba Pol Sci ’77) serves as economic development specialist/community development planner for the old Colony Planning Council in Brockton, Mass., and is a member and clerk of the abington, Mass., Planning Board. He received his MPa from Bridgewater State College in 2007. Hughes also serves as secretary of the Massachusetts Economic Development Council and is a member of the Board of 1960s Rev. Louis h.G. Bier (BSC, Med edu ’62) recently retired after 40 years as staff chaplain at the Boston Veterans administration Health Care Facility. 22 n UMass Boston

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UMass Boston Alumni Magazine - Fall/Winter 2008-2009 Contents UNews Oh, the Places They've Gone! "One of Those Rare Leaders" Acknowledging History, Renewing a Commonwealth Heart and Mind Indelible Images About Alumni Investing in UMass Boston A Generous Friend Alumni Calendar

UMass Boston Alumni Magazine - Fall/Winter 2008-2009

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