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REUNION WEEKEND 2008 - MAY 9 AND 10
Classes of 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983 and 1988 - Save The Date!
BLSA Goes Pops! Join your fellow alumni as The Boston Pops pay tribute to one of our own - Leonard Bernstein '35 on Friday, May 9, 2008. The performance is scheduled for 8 p.m at Boston Symphony Hall. The cost is $80 per ticket and seating is limited, so please register early. Click here to register now and see who else is attending.
Saturday evening: Reception and class dinners will be held at The Boston Park Plaza Hotel. To reserve your room at the BLSA group rate of $189 per night, please call: (800) 225-2008. You must call no later than April 16 to secure this rate.
See details on www.blsa.org with more information to be mailed in the spring.
RED SOX NATION
Tickets are available for the Boston Red Sox vs. Minnesota Twins on Sunday, March 2, at the City of Palms Park, 2201 Edison Avenue, Fort Myer, Florida. There will be a BBQ by the Batting Cages at 11:00 a.m. for all BLSA alumni, Head Master Lynne Mooney Teta ’86, BLSA President David Weiner ’59, BLSA Board of Trustees Chair Lew Gack ’62, Head Master Emerita Cornelia A. Kelley H’44 and others. If you have plans to be in Florida on March 2, please go to www.blsa.org to register online and see who else is attending! Go Sox!
WANTED: AWARD NOMINATIONS
Each year the BLSA Board of Trustees solicits the nomination of individuals to be recognized and rewarded for their outstanding accomplishment and service to their community and/or Alma Mater.
The Distinguished Graduate of the Year Award, Boston Latin School’s highest honor, is given each year to an individual who has realized significant lifetime achievement.
The Outstanding Recent Graduate of the Year Award, created in 1995, annually recognizes achievement by alumni of the past 20 years, highlighting those individuals whose actions have served as an inspiration and motivation to others.
Nominations are also encouraged for BLSA’s volunteer awards: The Joseph Desmond ’44 Award recognizes outstanding volunteerism; the Lee J. Dunn ’24 Award honors dedication to furthering the efforts of the school and the Association; the Edward Lambert ’39 Class Leadership Award focuses on leadership initiatives by class committee members.
Nominations are due by April 1, 2008. To view a list of past recipients or fill out a nomination form, please visit www.blsa.org.
FORE! STUDENT ATHLETES
The 4th Annual Wolfpack Classic Golf Tournament will be held at Brae Burn Country Club, Newton, MA on Monday, June 16, beginning at 12 noon. The 2007 Wolfpack Classic contributed approximately $40,000 to Latin athletics. For more information about this tournament, please contact Bruce McKinnon ’74 at brucefmckinnon@yahoo.com, Dan McCarthy ’74 at dmccarthy@eatonvance.com or Pat Daly ’74 at pdaly@alouettecapital.com.
NEWS TO SHARE OR A NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS?
Our online alumni community maintains the latest information on classmates and happenings at BLSA. If you are a new visitor to our online community, simply click here and enter your e-mail under "Request Sign In" on the right side of the page. Please be sure to use the e-mail that BLSA has on file for you. Were you a registered member of the online community prior to July 2007? You must complete this first log in step as well to receive a new user name and password. If you have any questions, please e-mail us and we'll be happy to assist you.
GOLF IN SUPPORT OF SCHOLARSHIPS
The 8th Annual An Tain Charity Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, June 23, at the Putterham and Newton Commonwealth Golf Courses. A block party will follow at An Tain. The event is hosted by John G. Fitzgerald ’91 and Ailbe Glynn ‘91. Proceeds go to local scholarship funds including those in support of BLS students. For more information, contact John Fitzgerald ‘91 at jgriffinfitz@gmail.com.
| SCHOOL NEWS |
As recently featured in the Boston Globe, Jake Sherman '08 was selected for the 2008 Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY Jazz Band. The GRAMMY Jazz Ensemble program selects top high school instrumentalists and singers to receive an all-expense-paid trip to perform in the Jazz Choir, Big Band or Combo at GRAMMY week events (Feb. 2-11, 2008). |
The BLS Home and School Association is sponsoring a night of laughter with comedian and satirist Jimmy Tingle in support of the class of 2008 scholarships. The event will take place on Sunday, March 2, at 4 p.m. in the BLS auditorium. Please mark your calendar. The cost is $25 per ticket. Advance tickets can be purchased on line by clicking here. A limited number of tickets will be sold at the school and fewer than 50 will be available at the door at a price of $35 per ticket. |
Congratulations to all of the BLS Science Day participants and prize winners. First prize in the Junior Division went to Anthony Cheung ’13 for “The Hot, the Cool, and the Warm…Comparing Various Materials as Insulators”; First prize in the Senior Division went to Anartya Mandal ’09 for “A New Target of Aspirin: Unveiling a Novel Mechanism of Action XRCC4 Deficiency Leads to Double Stranded DNA Breaks in Immunoglobulin Light”. The Doc Shea Award for Excellence in Chemistry was awarded to Amanda Anastasia ’09 for “Charles River Water Analysis” and the Richard Spillane Award for Excellence in Physics went to Kevin Fisher ’08 for “The Effect of Impact on the Mechanical Properties of Metal Matrix Composites.” A number of alumni also participated in BLS Science Day. Our gratitude goes out to the following alumni who served as judges: Joe Gavin '37, Louis Cohen '55, Ralph Buonopane '56, Jack Price '72, Lazarus Vekiarides ’86, Pam (Fitzgibbon) Flatley '93 and Michael Russo '93. |
"Pieces of Eight," an after-school string ensemble, has been invited by the Boston City Councilors to perform at the reception for their annual city hall meeting. |
The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association (MIAA) has recognized the student-athletes of Boston Latin School as having qualified for the 2007 MIAA Sportsmanship Honor Roll. The MIAA recognizes schools that did not have any coaches or student-athletes disqualified from a contest for an entire academic year. |
Kudos to Ms. Christa Crewdson and the student-led production team of "The Idiot's Guide to High School." More than 50 students participated in the production, which played to an enthusiastic audience January 18 and 19. |
Boston Latin School's Youth CAN - an environmental action club - was the winner of the “Do Something”/KeySpan Foundation Environmental Sustainability Competition, in recognition of their recent recycling campaign. The group earned a $1,000 grant which they will use to support their environmental summit later in the year. |
Five BLS students competed in the 4th Annual Museum of Fine Arts Rhetoric Competition. Approximately 40 students from around Boston competed in the contest. The BLS students were well prepared and dazzled the judges with their renditions of the Iliad and Odyssey. |
ALUMNI NEWS |
The BLSA Varsity Club Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Dinner took place on Friday, January 25, at the Venezia Waterfront Restaurant in Neponset Circle. Honorees included: Sumner Rodman '31 (tennis), Dave McKenna '91 (football, hockey and baseball); Seton Seto '91 (volleyball); Jamie Smith '94 (basketball); Frank Woods '94 (hockey and baseball); Zach Falconer '95 (football); Kevin Fidalgo '96 (football) (posthumous recognition); Matt Chardavoyne '97 (swimming); Jim Mahoney '97 (hockey and baseball); Brendan Sullivan '97 (manager of football); Keith Dixon '98 (wrestling); Annie Tomasini '98 (basketball); Monique Tubbs '99 (track). Congratulations to all of the honorees! |
BLS Archivist Cynthia Curtner P’05, ’08 has received a great deal of help from Robert Volante ’53 in his support of the archives. He is a database manager and has designed the BLS database entry/reports/queries that will make searching for records and creating inventories very easy. |
Click here to submit news of your own. |
POINTS OF PRIDE CONTEST
Our congratulations go out to Roy Seliber '77 who had the first correct response to the January 2008 question: How many actual schoolhouses has Boston Latin School called "home"? The correct answer was in fact seven. Visit the Points of Pride Contest webpage to learn about the exact locations and dates, as well as see the two unsolved Points of Pride mysteries.
February's question:
Which BLS head master, appointed while still a senior at Harvard, is credited with instituting misdemeanor marks and the practice of declamation, fostering the beginnings of a library and implementing the first regular reports of scholarship to parents?
BLS history buffs seeking a free T-shirt should send responses — including name and class year — magna cum celeritate via e-mail. Note: Alumni may win only once during an academic year.
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