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For
all BLS "snowbirds" flying south for the winter,
please
contact us if you'd like to receive invitations to our
upcoming Florida events!
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October Events
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calendar for details
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Phladelphia
Jazz Brunch
10:30 a.m.
Philadelphia,PA
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Class of
1944 Dinner
6 p.m.
Mount Vernon Restaurant
Somerville, MA
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South Shore
Dinner
6 p.m.
Siro's
Quincy, MA
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27
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Class of
1939 Luncheon
Noon
Picadilly Pub
Dedham, MA
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27
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Class of
1977 Social
details tba
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November Events
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calendar for details
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Early
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Northern
California Event
details tba
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Home
& School Association Auction
7 p.m.
BLS Dining Hall
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Alumni
Dinner 2005
7 p.m.
Park Plaza Hotel
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Class
of 1990
15th Reunion
7 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Boston, MA
Class
of 1995
10th Reunion
6 p.m.
West Street Grille
Boston, MA
Class
of 2000
5th Reunion
6 p.m.
Felt
Boston, MA
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December Events
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calendar for details
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Boston
Chapter Holiday Party
details tba
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LA Chapter
Holiday Social
details tba
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January Events
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calendar for details
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tba
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Varsity
Club Breakfast
details tba
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tba
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Alice
in Wonderland
Boston Latin School
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February Events
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calendar for details
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Palm
Beach, FL Brunch
details tba
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Hockey
Reunion
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Visit
www.blsa.org for more details and up-to-date listings,
including
the South Shore Chapter Dinner.
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A TRUE CELEBRATION OF LOYALTY
Nearly 200 leadership donors and current volunteers joined together
for a September 20 event at Alma Mater that paid tribute to the
philanthropy, service and commitment of her graduates. Charles
I. Clough Jr. '60, was added to the school's Founder's Gallery,
which recognizes those individuals who have donated $1 million
or greater to BLS. In addition, four school spaces were dedicated
in honor of Ruth and Eliot L. Bernstein '30; Thomas F.
and Teresa T. Cashman P'78,'83,'85 (given by Thomas R. Cashman
'78); Abraham Slifka (given in memory by his son, Richard
B. Slifka '57); and Eliot I. Snider '37. In addition,
two proud Latin School boys were presented with volunteerism awards
for their tireless work on behalf of BLSA; Larry DiCara '67
received the Dr. Joseph F. Desmond '44 Volunteer of the Year Award,
and Bill Koplovsky '54 was awarded the Lee J. Dunn '24
Award. Congratulations to all of our honorees!
WOLFPACK
"UNDER THE LIGHTS"
Just a reminder that all are welcome to cheer on the Wolfpack
as they take on Wayland at White Stadium on Friday, September
30 beginning at 7 p.m. This will be the football team's only home
game "under the lights." For a look at all of the fall
sports schedules, please
click here.
ONE
MORE REASON TO REGISTER
If you have not yet registered for BLSA's online community —
connecting you to classmates as well as thousands of other Latin
School alumni — here's one more reason to sign on: effective
October 1, all online registrations, including for the ever-popular
Red Sox tickets, will be restricted to registered members of the
online community only. Don't miss out! Register
now by clicking here and following four easy steps. In step
three you will be required to enter the following User ID Number:
XXXXX. Problems? Contact
BLSA with any questions by clicking here. Membership does
have its privileges.
HELP
WANTED
Latin's Saturday Success School is currently seeking
tutors! Saturday Success School takes place at BLS on Saturday
mornings from 8:45 a.m. to noon from October to May, excluding
long weekends and school vacation weeks. Tutors are now needed
in English, reading, math (Algebra 1 and 2), Spanish, French,
Italian, biology, German, earth science, physics, chemistry and
last but not least, Latin! A tutor orientation will take place
at the school on October 1, and any and all interested alumni
are encouraged to contact
Michael Giordano '84, director of the McCarthy Institute
for Transition and Support, at (617) 635-8895, ext. 213.
CHAMPAGNE,
JAZZ & ART
Philadelphia-area alumni are invited to the Philadelphia Museum
of Art on Sunday, October 2 at 10:30 a.m. for a buffet brunch
featuring champagne and live jazz. Following the brunch, guests
may "pay what they wish" for admission to the collections
and are encouraged to explore this world-renowned museum at their
leisure. For more information, contact Kate
DeForest or simply
register online by clicking here. The cost is $38 per person,
or $35 per person for graduates of the last 15 years.
DINNER
DOWN SOUTH
Biotech industry executive Elizabeth Chen '81 will be the
featured speaker when the South Shore Chapter gathers for its
annual dinner on Tuesday, October 25, at Siros Marina Bay in Quincy.
Her remarks, "The Times…They are a'changing…"
will focus on women, men, family and careers, but specifically
about how we need to re-cast what and how we think about careers
and how we each need to do our job to make it happen. Head
Master Cornelia A. Kelley H'44 will also provide an update
on BLS today. Tickets are $40 per person, $36 for young alumni
and are available by clicking
here or by calling (617) 450-0004, ext. 135.
ALUMNAE
CALLING NIGHT
Sponsored by BLSA's new Alumnae Initiative, the next Alumnae Discussion
Group will take place on Tuesday, November 1, beginning at 6 p.m.
at the BLSA offices. The focus will be upcoming events and promoting
attendance at the Alumni Dinner. Come prepared to make phone calls!
Due to building security, pre-registration is required. Click
here to register, or contact
Nicole Devlin '01 by calling (617) 450-0004, ext. 135 for
more information.
A
TEST OF TRIVIA
Some would wager, including this very scribe, that last month's
trivia question was hardly an easy one, yet somehow a youngster
among us was able to solve it in record time, much to the dismay
of trivia kingpin (and Assistant Head Master) Malcolm Flynn. The
answer to August's question — as head of a commission
appointed to evaluate a medical theory that challenged conventional
wisdom, seeking a result that would be objectively demonstrable
rather than subjectively debatable, this Latin School lad went
on to devise the first blind test of a medical treatment —
was delivered in mere minutes by Kaitlyn Leahy '96, with
her keyboard no doubt smoking by the speed of her response. Leahy
knew that it was none other than Benjamin Franklin who was asked,
in 1784, to head the French commission, which included Lavoisier
and Guillotin. The Franklin Commission exposed Anton Mesmer and
his followers as charlatans, a fact noted by a handful of our
informed respondents.
Now,
seizing the challenge before him, Mr. Flynn has once again upped
the ante to all Latin School scholars out there, and presents
this month's trivia question, citing, "I don't think they
can Google this one!"
September's
question:
In 1935 Henry Munroe Rogers said of this renowned Boston Latin
School alumnus and former usher: "He could reform the rest
of the world, but he could not reform this class [1858]."
Reformers and the unreformed seeking a free T-shirt should send
responses — including name and class year — magna cum
celeritate via e-mail to blsa@blsa.org.
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IN THE NEWS |
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Sid
Topol ’41 of The Topol Group and Ron Bell ’81
of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities have
joined forces for “Retracing the Struggle: The Legacy
of the Voting Rights Act of 1965,” a commemorative
march led by Congressman John Lewis of Georgia scheduled
for October 30. The march will follow a route similar to
that taken by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 to protest
the segregation of Boston’s public schools. For more
information or to participate, click
here or call Bell at (617) 445-3700.
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In
the September 12 issue of TIME magazine, Princeton economist
(and Latin School graduate) Burton Malkiel '49 was
mentioned in an interview with John Bogle, 76, the well-known
founder of the Vanguard Group and the inventor of the index
fund. When TIME posed the following question to Bogle, "If
you could give all the nation's investors one book to read,
what would it be?" he responded: "I did my best
to provide that book in 'Bogle on Mutual Funds.' I'd say,
if you're really a basic investor, Bill Schultheis's 'The
Coffeehouse Investor.' And if you're more sophisticated, I'd
certainly do Burton Malkiel's 'A Random Walk Down Wall
Street.' " |
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Marine
and attorney Joseph Callahan ’77 of Roslindale
is on his way back from Iraq where he worked with a team assisting
the Iraqi Special Tribunal with investigating and prosecuting
war crimes. Callahan, who served a one-year tour of duty,
is a current BLS parent and works in the legal department
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On
September 25, Christopher Perruzzi '80 and his family
participated in their fifth consecutive Boston Arthritis Walk
under their team name, "Isabella's Inspiration"
in honor of Perruzzi's 7-year-old daughter,
who suffers from arthritis. “This summer, at the 2005
American
Juvenile Arthritis Organization Conference, Isabella wrote
and sent letters to senators and congressmen asking them to
co-sponsor the Arthritis Prevention Control and Cure Act,”
said Perruzzi. “Isabella now wears orthotics because
of residual affects of arthritis related foot and ankle issues
— but she hasn't complained too much because she got
all new shoes to wear." For more information, click
here to visit
the Boston Arthritis Walk website and then click ISABELLA
P. |
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The
great works of Rev. Paul O'Brien '82 of St. Patrick
Church in Lawrence was the subject of a September 22 Boston
Globe article, as his efforts have raised $900,000 for the
establishment of a center to feed Lawrence's hungry 365 days
a year. "We've got a galaxy of social ills in Lawrence,
and in that galaxy, at the heart of a lot of issues, is the
reality of hunger," O'Brien said. "If you take the
economic poverty people experience and add in an extraordinarily
expensive housing market, it leaves many folks with harrowing
choices." To read the article in its entirety, please
click here. |
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New
York City schoolteacher Jeremy Duhme '89 took two years
off from his day job to work as associate producer for a documentary
"about four funny and sweet kids from the Baltimore ghetto
who are constantly suspended from the Baltimore Public Schools,
and who go to school in Africa for a year to try to turn their
lives around." The film, "The Boys of Baraka,"
has already received coverage in the New York Times and was
winner of the special jury prize at The South by Southwest
Film Festival; the grand jury prize at The Newport International
Film Festival; best documentary feature at The Atlanta Film
Festival; and the audience award at the AFI/Silverdocs Film
Festival. It opens at the New York City Film Festival on November
30 for a two week run. Click
here for more information. |
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Rashaun
Martin '97 has been elected by his fellow alumni to serve
on the Board of Governors of the Catholic University of America
Alumni
Association. |
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