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Thomas F. Bogan ’72
Venture Partner 
Greylock Partners
Waltham, Massachusetts

Appointed a venture partner in 2004 at Greylock Partners, one of the nation’s leading early-stage venture capital firms, Bogan provides operational guidance to Greylock portfolio companies and also identifies new opportunities for investments. 

Bogan was formerly the President and Chief Operating Officer of Rational Software Corporation, one of the world’s largest software companies. In this position, he was responsible for all of the company's operational and strategic initiatives. Prior to becoming president, he served as senior vice president and chief operating officer and as vice president and general manager. He is a member of the boards for mValent, Citrix Systems, ClearForest Corporation, and Ounce Labs, Inc. He also serves as a director for: iConclude; Mazu Networks, Inc.; OAT Systems, Inc.; and, Troux Technologies. He has previously been a director of private and public companies. 

Before joining Rational, he was president and chief executive officer of Pacific Data Products, a printer peripherals and networking vendor based in California. Prior to moving to California, he was president of Avatar Technologies, Inc. of Massachusetts.

A Brockton, Mass. resident while attending Stonehill, Bogan received his B.S.B.A. degree with a major in accounting in 1972. He has been a member of Stonehill's Century Club, Dean's Club, and President's Council. 

A former class agent and a past member of the Alumni Business Advisory Committee, he participated in career fairs and was a visiting executive at Stonehill in the early 1990s.

A Boston resident, Bogan was again a visiting executive at Stonehill in October 2001 and is a member of the Visiting Committee on Business Administration, which advises the College on strengthening its Business Administration program. He is also a member of the Campaign Executive Committee for the “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” He was elected a Stonehill trustee in spring 2003.

Rev. Arthur J. Colgan, Jr., C.S.C., S.T.L. ’68
Provincial Superior
Eastern Province
Congregation of Holy Cross
Bridgeport, Connecticut 

Fr. Colgan is the Provincial Superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Eastern Province, which he joined in 1966. Ordained to the priesthood in 1973, he was assigned to the Santa Cruz Parish in Chimbote, Peru. 

For 28 years, he worked with the poor and marginalized in Peru. While there, he served in various apostolates including district superior, director of training of lay pastoral ministers and as vicar general of the Diocese of Chosica in Lima. 

In 2000, he was elected provincial superior of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Eastern Province. As such, he is a member of the worldwide council of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and an ex-officio trustee of both Stonehill College and King’s College in Pennsylvania. In addition, he oversees the diverse ministries of some 150 priest and religious in the Eastern United States and in Peru.

Fr. Colgan received a B.A. in philosophy from Stonehill in 1968 and a licentiate in sacred theology (S.T.L.) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in 1973. 

The recipient of the College's 1992 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award, he has served as a Stonehill trustee ex-officio since June 2000.

Daniel J. Coughlin, Jr., M.B.A., ‘74
Principal
High Street Equity Advisors, LLC
Boston, Massachusetts

As founder and principal of High Street Equity Advisors, a real estate investment company, Coughlin is responsible for the operation, management and disposition of public, private and institutional portfolios with a combined value of over $15 billion. 

Prior to the formation of his company in 2001, Coughlin was responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of a national operations center for Trammell Crow Company, one of the world’s largest diversified commercial real estate service firms. Before joining Trammell Crow in 1999, Coughlin spent twenty-two years with New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and its real estate subsidiary, Copley Real Estate Advisors, where he served as a founder, managing director and chief operating officer. During his tenure at New England Mutual Life, Coughlin served as a member of the Board of Directors and was on the Investment Policy and Management Committees.

Coughlin was awarded his bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree in economics/accounting, summa cum laude, from Stonehill College in 1974 and earned his master of business administration (M.B.A.) from Boston University (B.U.) in 1978. In 1996, he received B.U.’s Entrepreneurial Excellence Award and has been a faculty member of the B.U. Graduate Center for Real Estate Education for over eight years.

The father of three children, Coughlin resides in Hingham, Massachusetts with his wife, Kristine E. (Gudmand) Coughlin.

Rev. Mark T. Cregan, C.S.C., Esq. ’78
President
Stonehill College
Easton, Massachusetts 

A member of the College's Board of Trustees since 1995, Fr. Cregan was inaugurated as Stonehill's ninth president in 2000. Since becoming president, he has worked diligently on several key fronts.

Fr. Cregan has enhanced the College's strong academic profile and has engaged the faculty in this initiative. He has modernized the governance structure, making it more responsive and effective. He has also built on Stonehill's many ties to the community by reaching out to neighbors and friends with renewed vigor. 

Active in all areas of Stonehill life, Fr. Cregan teaches courses in the areas of nonprofit management and institutional law.

Fr. Cregan serves on the Board of Directors for the Council of Independent Colleges, an association of 540 liberal arts colleges and universities working to strengthen educational leadership. Governor Mitt Romney recently appointed Fr. Cregan as a Massachusetts delegate to the New England Board of Higher Education. In addition, he continues to serve on an advisory and advise various non-profit boards in the Northeast, including the boards of King’s College, Wilkes Barre, Pa. and Our Lady of Holy Cross College, New Orleans, La.

Prior to his appointment, he was pastor of the Sacred Heart Parish, a large inner-city parish in the Bronx, N.Y. In addition, he maintained a general practice law office, serving low-income clients. He also provided leadership to the Archdiocese of New York's community development efforts, which produced over $100 million in affordable subsidized housing.

Fr. Cregan received a B.A. from Stonehill in 1978, a master of divinity degree from the University of St. Michael's College, Toronto School of Theology in 1984, and a juris doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1990. He received an honorary doctor of laws degree from New England School of Law in 2005.

Joining the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1975, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1983. Fr. Cregan is also admitted to the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, State of New York, District of Columbia and various federal appeals and district courts. 

Fr. Cregan is an honorary chair for “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College” and he serves on numerous nonprofit boards of directors. Besides English, he speaks Spanish fluently and has a reading knowledge of Portuguese, Italian, French and Latin.

Rev. William R. Dailey, C.S.C., J.D.
Associate
Wiley Rein, LLP
Washington, District of Columbia

An Associate Attorney with the Washington, D.C. firm Wiley Rein, LLP, Fr. Dailey is a former law clerk to the Honorable Diarmud F. O’Scannlain in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Portland, Oregon

After earning a bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1994, Fr. Dailey joined the Congregation of the Holy Cross in 1996. He was awarded a master’s degree in divinity (M.Div.), also from the University of Notre Dame, the next year. Beginning in 2000 Fr. Dailey served as a deacon at Holy Cross Parish in North Portland, Oregon until his ordination to the priesthood in April 2001.

Later that year he joined the University of Portland community and was named to its Presidential Advisory Committee in 2002. In September 2003, Fr. Dailey left Portland for New York City to enter the Columbia University School of Law. He was awarded a juris doctor (J.D.) degree from Columbia in 2006.

Daniel P. DeVasto, C.P.A. ’70, P’94
President and Chief Executive Officer
Wolf & Company, P.C.
Boston, Massachusetts

A member of Wolf & Company, P.C. since 1978, DeVasto was elected the firm's president and chief executive officer in 1998. In addition to his executive duties, he is also an elected member of Wolf's Executive Committee. 

The 14th largest accounting firm in eastern Massachusetts, Wolf & Company, P.C. is one of the largest regional accounting and consulting firms in New England, practicing since 1911. Wolf's clients include privately-held and publicly-traded businesses, financial service entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals. 

With over 35 years of experience as a Certified Public Accountant, DeVasto is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants. He is also a member of the Small Business Association of New England and an associate member of the Printing Industries of New England, Inc. 

Elected to the College’s Board of Trustees in spring 2004, DeVasto received his B.S.B.A. degree with a major in accounting from Stonehill in 1970 and has been actively involved in alumni affairs activities since his graduation. The recipient of the College's Alumni Service Award in 1989, he is a member of the Alumni Council, President's Council, and the Visiting Committee on Business Administration. 

He is a past president of the Alumni Council, a past division chairperson of the Alumni Fund, and an Alumni Phonathon volunteer. He has also served on the Alumni Auction Committee, the Reunion Committee, the Alumni Career Network, Career Services Committee and as an alumni representative on the College's Board of Fellows. 

The father of two daughters, he resides with his wife, Katherine, in Sharon, Mass. Two brothers, one sister and one daughter are also Stonehill alumni. 

William F. Devin ’60, P’88
Executive Vice President (Retired)
Fidelity Investments-Capital Markets
Boston, Massachusetts 

A member of Stonehill's Class of 1960, Devin has been involved as a director/trustee of SunAmerica Asset Management, Inc. as well as a director of Cypress Tree Floating Income Fund, Inc. since his retirement from Fidelity Investments. 

During his 30-year career at Fidelity Investments, he held numerous positions, including executive vice president of Fidelity Capital Markets and vice president & head trader/manager in the Equity Trading Department at Fidelity Management & Research Co. 

Devin is also a trustee of the North American Funds and served as vice chairman of the Boston Stock Exchange from 1997 through 2003.

A member of Stonehill's Century Club, President's Club, and President's Council, Devin is the 1980 recipient of the President's Award for Excellence at Stonehill. 

He is also a member of the Campaign Executive Committee for the “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” He has been a trustee since 1994 and resides with his wife, Susan E. Devin ’04, in Braintree, Mass.

Christine A. Donovan, M.T.S. ’87
Managing Director
Treasury and Markets
Brown Brothers Harriman
Boston, Massachusetts

A former member of Stonehill's Varsity Women's Basketball team as well as a 1996 inductee to the College's Athletic Hall of Fame, Donovan is Managing Director of the Treasury and Markets Division at Brown Brothers Harriman. 

She founded Boston Global Advisors, Inc., a securities-lending firm, in 1993, which later became a unit of Goldman Sachs Group L.P. in 1996. 

Prior to 1993, Donovan worked for State Street Bank & Trust Company in various positions including assistant vice president of the Global Securities Lending Division.

Donovan received a B.A. in economics from Stonehill in 1987 and a master’s degree in theological studies (M.T.S.) from Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 2006. She is a member of Stonehill's President's Council, and has been a College trustee since spring 1997.

She was honored for her professional success on and off the playing field at an NCAA Division II Presidents Summit in Orlando, Fla. in June 2005. 

An Abington resident, she chaired Stonehill's Annual Fund in 2000 and 2001.

John E. Drew, M.S.S.S. ’65
President and CEO of the Seaport Companies
President of The Drew Company
The Drew Company
Boston, Massachusetts

Recognized as an authority on public-private partnerships and development, Drew is the founder and president of The Drew Company, an internationally successful Boston-based real estate and development company.

He is president and chief executive officer of the Seaport Companies, which includes the Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center in Boston and is chairman of Trade Center Management Associates, which manages the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C., the federal government’s leading site for trade promotion. He is also the vice chairman and treasurer of the World Trade Centers Association. 

As president of the Seaport Hotel and Seaport World Trade Center, he pioneered the revitalization of Boston’s Seaport District. He led the expansion of the Trade Center, which included the Seaport Hotel in 1998, the World Trade Center East in 2000 and the World Trade Center West in 2002. His company is a co-developer of Waterside Place, a major mixed-use project in the Seaport District.

From 1975 to 1977, Drew was Boston’s director of Federal Relations where he created one of the first public-private partnerships to revitalize Boston. From 1977 to 1979, he was the founder and director of the Center for Public Service at the Heller School of Public Policy at Brandeis University. 

In 2005, Drew received the Theodore L. Storer Memorial Award from the Boston Minuteman Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Caritas Christi Medal from Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley, O.F.M. Cap. He is chairman emeritus of Caritas Christi Inc., the Catholic health care system in eastern Massachusetts, and has served on its Board of Governors since 1995. President of the Artery Business Committee, he also serves on the boards of many civic and philanthropic groups. 

He received his B.A. in English from Stonehill in 1965 and his M.S.S.S. from Boston University in 1970. He holds an honorary doctoral degree in humane letters (L.H.D.) from Newbury College (1997). He was also presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce.

The recipient of Stonehill’s Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1979, he has been a member of the College’s President’s Council since 1988 and the Visiting Committee on Business Administration since 2002. Elected a Stonehill trustee in spring 2005, he resides with his wife, Kathleen, in Hingham, Mass. 

Brother Thomas A. Dziekan, C.S.C., M.A. ’71
Provincial Superior
Eastern Province, Brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross
New Rochelle, New York 

Brother Thomas was elected the Provincial Superior of the Eastern Province of Brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross in April, 2006. As the provincial he is responsible for approximately 120 brothers who are members of the Province, five schools sponsored by the Province in Connecticut, New York, Delaware and Maryland, as well as for brothers who are members of the District of East Africa, working in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

Before assuming his current position, Brother Thomas served in many administrative and teaching positions for the Holy Cross Brothers, including stints as headmaster in their schools in Rome, Italy and in Connecticut. He has also served on the formation staffs of Holy Cross Novitiate in Cascade, Colo. and at Morreau Seminary, Notre Dame, Ind., where he also served as Vice-Rector. From 1999 until 2005, Brother Thomas was the director of mission effectiveness for Holy Cross Educational Ministries in Notre Dame, Ind. which served 14 educational institutions sponsored by the Congregation of Holy Cross in the East and Midwest.

Brother Thomas was awarded a B.A. in French from Stonehill in 1971 and an M.A. in French Language and Literature from Middlebury College in 1975. He also received a diploma in spiritual theology from Regis College in Toronto in 1987.

Brother Thomas has served as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors of the Holy Cross Institute at Saint Edward’s University in Austin, Texas as well as a member of many other boards of private Catholic schools. He has extensive experience as a member of Visiting Committees for the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges and its New England equivalent in Greece, Egypt, Iran, Italy, Spain, New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He is serving his second term as a Stonehill trustee.

Paul Finn, J.D., A. L.M. ’71
President and Chief Executive Officer
Commonwealth Mediation and Conciliation, Inc. (CMCI)
Brockton, Massachusetts

The President and CEO of CMCI, Finn is a full-time mediator and arbitrator who specializes in civil claims, including cleric sexual abuse, medical malpractice, auto tort, general liability, and business disputes. 

Since he established CMCI in 1990, Finn has mediated and/or arbitrated more than 5,000 claims. He also serves as the chief administrator and marketing executive for the company, which employs four full-time employees and has 25 independent mediators/arbitrators. While based in Brockton, CMCI offers services in Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Hyannis as well as in Connecticut and in Rhode Island.

In 2003, the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named Finn as its Lawyer of the Year. Over several editions, the Massachusetts Practice Series has published Finn’s insights on the subject of Mediation and Arbitration.

Prior to CMCI, Finn was a co-founder and partner in Berks and Finn, a Brockton-based five-lawyer general practice firm, from 1977 to 1992.

Long active in Stonehill affairs, Finn is a member of the President’s Council, a supporter of the Joseph Francis Finn Sr. Memorial Scholarship and a former member of the Executive Committee of Development. In his family’s name, he underwrote a room in the MacPhaidin Library as part of the Securing the Vision capital campaign in 1992 to 1997.

In May 2006, the student Saint Thomas More Law Society at Stonehill presented Finn with its annual award in recognition of the positive example that he sets for lawyers and in tribute to his fairness.

Finn graduated from Stonehill in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in history. He received a J.D. from New England School of Law in 1976 and a master’s degree in government from Harvard University in 1990.

A frequent guest lecturer on legal issues, he is or has been a member of the Plymouth County Bar Association, Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers, Association of Conflict Resolution, Scribes, Massachusetts Bar (1977), Federal District Court (1977), Supreme Court of the United States of America (1988).

Rev. Anthony R. Grasso, C.S.C., Ph.D. 
Associate V.P., Academic Affairs, Dean of the Faculty & Professor of English
King’s College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

The Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty at King’s College, Fr. Grasso is also a professor of English there. He has been a member of the faculty at King’s since 1985, and served as the College’s Religious Superior of the Holy Cross Community from 2000-2006.

Fr. Grasso began his undergraduate studies at Stonehill College as a candidate for the Congregation of Holy Cross. He continued his studies at the University of Notre Dame where he earned a bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree in English in 1973. After spending a year teaching high school in Bridgeport, Connecticut Fr. Grasso returned to Notre Dame and was awarded a master’s degree in theology (M.Th.) in 1977. He was ordained to the priesthood the following year.

In the 1980s, Fr. Grasso pursued further graduate studies in English at the University of Toronto where first he received a master’s degree (M.A.) and then his doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) in that discipline in 1985. 

Fr. Grasso serves as national chaplain of the Delta Epsilon Sigma honor society and as a member of the Northeast Regional board of the Conference on Christianity and Literature.

Patrick W. Griffin ’81
Chairman and CEO
Griffin York & Krause
Manchester, New Hampshire

Griffin is the founding partner, Chairman & CEO of Griffin York & Krause, the largest advertising, strategic communications and integrated marketing firm in Northern New England. 

A 1981 Stonehill graduate, Griffin began his professional career in the product marketing division of Dunkin' Donuts of America. He later joined Anheuser-Busch Inc, where he was involved in sports marketing, brand management, and special events. In 1985, he formed Griffin York & Krause. 

His work in consumer products, services, government, and the political arena has earned him considerable recognition. He has received Graniteer, Hatch, Broderson, Pegasus, and Best of Broadcasting Awards for creative excellence in advertising. Mr. Griffin has been nationally recognized for his work with state lotteries around the country. 

In addition to his consumer products work, Mr. Griffin heads the political and public policy division of GY& K. His clients have included President George W. Bush, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former Secretary of Education and current U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander, current U.S. Senators Judd Gregg, (R-NH) and John E Sununu, (R-NH). 

Mr. Griffin appears regularly on WMUR-TV's “Close-Up New Hampshire” and is a political analyst for the station. He has appeared on MSNBC, CNN's “Inside Politics,” Fox News and NPR. He has also been a guest lecturer at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University.

Mr. Griffin is a former trustee of the Derryfield School in Manchester, NH., a longtime member of the President's Council at Stonehill and is on the Campaign Executive Committee for “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” Elected as a trustee in spring 2002, he resides in Bedford, NH, with his wife Sally and two sons, Justin and Tyler.

Elizabeth Hayden, M.Ed. ’76, P’04
Curriculum Coordinator
Nativity Preparatory of Boston
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Hayden’76 is the Curriculum Coordinator at Nativity Prep in Jamaica Plain, Mass., an accredited Jesuit middle school (grades 5-8) dedicated to providing quality, tuition-free education to boys of all faiths from low-income families living in Boston’s inner-city neighborhoods. 

She formerly was a fifth-grade mathematics teacher at Harvard Elementary School in Harvard, Mass. Born and raised in Chelmsford, Mass., she received her B.A. degree in Child Development from Stonehill in 1976 and was awarded her M.Ed. degree from Lesley University in 1997.

She married her Stonehill classmate, James E. Hayden’76, at the Holy Cross Center Chapel at Stonehill in 1976. Vice president and chief financial officer of Netegrity, Inc. in Waltham, Mass., he was killed on September 11, 2001 in the crash of the second hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 175, that struck the World Trade Center in New York City.

In a Month’s Mind Mass in St. Mary’s Chapel on October 10, 2001, Liz Hayden in her eulogy entitled The Making of a Person traced the couple’s involvement with the College over the years and paid tribute to her late husband and the lasting influence of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and Stonehill.

She was a featured speaker to over 125 Stonehill student leaders in August 2004 at The James Hayden Leadership Seminar, a two-day event devoted to cultivating leadership, team building, and interpersonal skills. She spoke to the student leaders about the importance of Christian leadership in her family. 

Her op-ed article entitled Transcending The Evil That Men Do appeared in the March 31, 2006 edition of The Boston Globe and opposed the call for the death penalty for any terrorists who plotted the 9/11 attacks against the United States.

A Century Club member for many years and a President’s Council’s member since 2002, she was elected to a three-year term on the Alumni Council in 2004. In 2006, she was appointed Alumni Council Treasurer to fill vacancy of Kelly Giovanello. She is also a member of the Alumni Council Academic Committee.

She is the mother of two children. Her daughter, Elizabeth K. Hayden, is a 2004 Stonehill alumna. Her son, John is a student at the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass.

She currently resides in Boston and in West Dennis, Mass.

Michael W. Herlihy ’83, P’05
President
Resources Management Corp.
Farmington, Connecticut

Herlihy became a partner in Resources Management Corp., a registered investment advisor in Farmington, Connecticut in 2004. In 1999, he co-founded InsurBanc, a full-service, federal savings bank, where he served as president and chief executive officer. Prior to that, he was employed by The Advest Group, Inc., as senior vice president and general manager for their Boston office and as president and chief executive officer of Advest Bank and Trust Company in Hartford, Connecticut.

Herlihy received his bachelor of science (B.S.) degree in marketing with a minor in communications from Stonehill College in 1983. Part of a family legacy of personal and financial support to Stonehill, Herlihy is the son of the late William T. Herlihy ’52, a member of the College’s first graduating class, and Mary T. (Herlihy) Connolly P’80, P’83. His sister is Cathleen M. (Herlihy) Rafferty ’80. Along with family and friends, Herlihy established The William T. Herlihy Memorial Scholarship at Stonehill in 1984 and in 1987 funded the complete renovation of the main room in Donohue Hall, dedicated as the William T. Herlihy Room.

The father of four children, one of whom is a 2005 Stonehill graduate, Herlihy lives in Cheshire, Connecticut with his wife, Lynn K. (Fragola) Herlihy.

Rev. Daniel J. Issing, C.S.C., M.Div., S.T.L.
Assistant Professor of Theology
King’s College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

After having completed a licentiate in sacred theology (S.T.L.) from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (California) in May 2007, and soon to complete his doctoral studies in theological ethics at the Graduate Theological Union (also in Berkeley), Fr. Issing joined the Theology Department at King’s College.

Fr. Issing received his artium baccalaureatus (A.B.) in theology from Georgetown University in 1984. Upon graduation, he entered the Congregation of Holy Cross and began graduate studies in theology at the University of Notre Dame. He was awarded his master’s degree in divinity (M.Div.) in 1989 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1990.

Following two years of service as a parochial vicar at Most Holy Trinity Paris in Saco, Maine Fr. Issing was appointed campus minister at Stonehill College in 1992. He became the director of Campus Ministry at the College later that year. During his tenure at Stonehill, Fr. Issing was also an assistant professor in Interdepartmental Studies as well as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee and the College Council. In addition to those responsibilities, he also served on the College’s Commission on Campus Culture, the Orientation Committee, the Athletic Task Force and the Intercultural Affairs Committee. 

Under Fr. Issing’s leadership, Stonehill’s Campus Ministry program was honored by the Templeton Foundation in 1999 for its character-building programming. The annual “Into the Streets” program, pioneered by Fr. Issing, designed to involve 500 new students in a day of service in Brockton, Massachusetts and the international service trips to Chacraseca, Nicaragua and Canto Grande, Peru, also founded by Fr. Issing, are two examples of that excellence. 

Thomas J. Lucey
Former Senior Managing Director, Chief of
Putnam Institutional Management Business (Retired)
Putnam Investments, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts

From 1990 to 2001, Lucey served as senior managing director, chief of Putnam Institutional Management Business at Putnam Investments, Inc., the mutual fund subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Under his leadership, Putnam grew from $42 billion to $400 billion of assets.

A senior managing director, he also served as chief of Putnam’s International Business, Defined Contribution Business, and its Retail Management Business. He was a member of Putnam Investments' board of directors and its operating, senior management and executive committees during that same period. He was also a member of the Marsh & McLennan Company Partners Committee as well as chairman of its Board of Internal Business Development.

From 1983 to 1990, he headed corporate sales and marketing for The Boston Company. He served as president of its Pension and Endowment Group and as president of its Institutional Businesses as well as on its board of directors. 

A native of South Boston, he is a 1961 graduate of the Boston Latin School and received his B.S. degree in naval mechanical engineering from the United States Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut in 1965. He served as a commissioned officer with the Coast Guard and later as a lieutenant commander in the United States Coast Guard Reserve.

He is a member of the Clover Club of Boston and the 100 Club of Massachusetts as well as the Museum of Fine Arts and the Boston Museum of Science. He serves on the boards of the Ocean Conservancy in Washington, D.C., the Boston Esplanade Association, and the Boston International Institute. 

He is active in the alumni association for the Boston Latin School and the Coast Guard Academy along with serving as an advisory board member for the Boston College Finance Committee and a member of the Boston College Club. 

Elected a Stonehill trustee in spring 2003, he is a member of the Campaign Executive Committee for “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” He resides with his wife, Caroline, in Winchester and Orleans, Mass.

Thomas J. May, M.S. ’69
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
NSTAR
Boston, Massachusetts 

May has served as chairman and chief executive officer for NSTAR since August 1999 and also as president for NSTAR since 2002. 

During his career with the Boston Edison Company which began in 1976, he held various management positions and was appointed chairman and chief executive officer in 1994. 

Subsequently, he became chairman, president, and chief executive officer for Boston Edison from 1995-1998 and for BEC Energy from 1998-1999, prior to the formation of NSTAR.

May received a B.S. in business administration/accounting from Stonehill in 1969 and an M.S. in finance from Bentley College in 1980. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

May is active on various civic boards including Dana Faber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts Business Roundtable, Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. He is also a director of the Bank of America Corporation and the Liberty Mutual Holding Company, Inc.

He is a recipient of Stonehill's 1999 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award and is a long-standing member of the College’s President’s Council. A Stonehill trustee since spring 1993, May is the co-chair of “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” He resides with his wife, Donna (Jermyn) May ’70, in Westwood, MA.  Elected chair in spring 2007, May is a member of the Executive Committee.

Kathleen (Duffy) Mazan, Esq. ’78
Attorney
Clinical Technology Transfer Group (CTTG)
McLean, Virginia

With expertise in technology transfer and clinical research compliance in both the public and private sector, Mazan is an attorney with the Clinical Technology Transfer Group (CTTG), a law firm providing legal advice and counsel on technology transfer.

Prior to the founding of CTTG, Mazan for seven years practiced exclusively in the area of food and drug law with an emphasis on the regulation of clinical research. In her private practice, she assisted companies and institutions in complying with federal and state laws and regulations governing the conduct of clinical trials. She also had extensive experience in the negotiation of clinical trial agreements and the regulatory review of clinical research practices.

Before entering private practice, she worked for nine years as a technology transfer professional at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she managed the intellectual property portfolio of NCI’s Natural Products Branch and also worked with scientists from several other institutes with NIH to develop a wide range of technology. She formerly was an associate at Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C., a Washington, D.C. law firm that advises and represents clients on legal issues concerning food, drug, medical device and cosmetic law regulation.

She received her J.D. degree from the Columbus Law School of The Catholic University of America in 1992 and is a member of the bar in Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia as well as the American Bar Association.

A native of Providence, R.I., she received her B.A. degree in English from Stonehill in 1978 and her M.S. degree in Public Health Administration from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 1981.

She has been a member of the Century Club since 1995 and a member of the President’s Council since 2000. The mother of three children, she resides in McLean, Va. with her husband, Walter L. “Duffy” Mazan.

Rev. James E. McDonald, C.S.C., J.D.
Senior Executive Assistant and Counselor to the President
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

Fr. McDonald is the senior executive assistant and counselor to the president in the administration of the University of Notre Dame’s President (Rev.) John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. He was appointed to this position in January 2005 and assumed his new duties in July. 

He was elected a Regent at the University of Portland in 2005 and also serves as Director of the Office of Board Secretariat and Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the Universtiy of Notre Dame.

From 2001-2005, Fr. McDonald was the rector of St. George’s College, a Catholic primary and secondary school with an enrollment of 2,600 students in Santiago, Chile. He formerly served as associate dean for administration at the University of Notre Dame Law School where he was also assistant dean for administration from 1995-1999. 

He was provincial steward for the Indiana Province for the Congregation of Holy Cross from 1994-1997 and vice rector of St. George's College in Santiago, Chile from 1987-1990.

Fr. McDonald received a B.A. in 1979 and an M.Div. in 1984 from the University of Notre Dame. Ordained to the priesthood in 1984, he also holds an M.A. in modern languages from Cambridge University in 1987 and a J.D. from The Catholic University of America's International and Comparative Law Institute in 1994. 

Fr. McDonald has been a Stonehill trustee since spring 1999. 

Leo J. Meehan, III ’75
President and Chief Executive Officer
W.B. Mason Co., Inc.
Brockton, Massachusetts

Meehan has served as the president and chief executive officer of the W.B.Mason Co., Inc. since 1994 during the period of the company's growth into the second largest office furniture dealer in eastern Massachusetts. 

Meehan began his career with the company in 1975 as a sales representative and was appointed vice president of marketing in 1979. He became a partner in 1983 and, beginning in 1987, was responsible for day-to-day operations and strategic planning until his appointment as president in 1994. 

A former trustee of Notre Dame Academy in Hingham, Mass. and the Board of Directors for the South Shore Chamber of Commerce, he currently serves as a trustee of Boston College High School in Dorchester, Mass. and the South Shore Health and Education Foundation.

He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Brockton Health Foundation and a trustee of the Inly School, a Montessori school, in Scituate, Mass. as well as a director of the Granite City Electric Supply Co. in Quincy, Mass.

A 1975 alumnus, he has been a member of the College’s President’s Council for many years. He played a pivotal role in helping the College establish the W.B. Mason Forum on the Future of Southeastern Massachusetts in 1992 and the $1.5 million donation of the company for the new W.B. Mason Stadium at Stonehill which was dedicated on September 10, 2006.

He has also fostered the employment of Stonehill alumni at W.B. Mason spearheading philanthropy among alumni there toward the College. 

Elected a trustee in spring 2002, he is a member of the Campaign Executive Committee for “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” He resides in Cohasset, Mass. with his wife, Sara.

Kathleen (Moroney) Miller ’79
Greenwich, Connecticut

Miller joined the Development team at Greens Farms Academy in Greens Farms, Connecticut in 2002. During her five-year tenure at the Academy she held the positions of Capital Campaign Director and Director of Alumni Relations. In these roles she was responsible for fundraising and managing the Academy’s $35 million dollar capital campaign and provided alumni services to over 3,000 constituents worldwide. 

An inaugural member of the New York Council for Stonehill College, Miller served on that council until 2007. She has been a member of the Capital Campaign Executive Committee at Stonehill College since 2004. During 2006-2007 she was a solicitor in the Capital Campaign for Mount Saint Agnes Academy in Hamilton, Bermuda, where her children attended from 1994-1999. Miller received a bachelor of arts (B.A.) in public administration from Stonehill College in 1979.

Ms Miller currently resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with her husband, James Miller ’80, and their two children: Megan (21) and Christopher (19).

Marsha A. Moses, Ph.D. ’75
Professor of Surgery
Harvard Medical School/The Children's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts 

A nationally recognized biochemist, teacher, and medical researcher, Moses is associate professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School and the Children's Hospital in Boston. 

In addition, she is a faculty member in the area of metabolism and function of human organ systems at the Harvard Medical School. She and her Harvard Medical School colleagues at Children’s Hospital have been actively involved in developing a simple urine test that appears to detect breast cancer early and accurately track tumor growth in breast cancer patients.

Moses received a B.A. in biology from Stonehill in 1975, an M.S. in biology from Rivier College in 1978, and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Boston University in 1986. 

She is a recipient of numerous scientific research awards, a featured lecturer at national scientific research conferences and a published author in numerous scholarly scientific and medical research publications.

A 1997 recipient of the President's Award for Excellence, she delivered the keynote address at Stonehill's 1997 Academic Convocation. 

She is also the recipient of Stonehill's Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2000. A trustee since spring 1999, Moses resides with her husband, Gerard Gardner '75, in Brookline, Mass.

Albert W. Niemi, Jr.,Ph.D.’64
Dean, Edwin L. Cox School of Business Administration
Tolleson Chair in Business Leadership
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

Teacher, administrator and scholar with expertise in economic growth, economic forecasting, and American business history, Niemi is the dean of the Edwin L. Cox School of Business Administration at Southern Methodist University (SMU).

He also holds the Tolleson Chair in Business Leadership at SMU and is the author of six books and more than 200 articles for leading academic journals and business periodicals.

Since coming to the Cox School of Business in 1997, he has increased the school's endowment from $78 million to more than $150 million, expanded its faculty, and has developed SMU's M.B.A. Global Leadership Program. In addition, he has raised $19 million to support the construction of the James M. Collins Executive Education Center. Under his leadership, Cox's M.B.A. Program has been ranked ninth in the world by The Wall Street Journal.

From 1982-1996, he served as dean of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He served as an assistant professor from 1968-1971 at the Terry College of Business, associate professor from 1971-1975, and then professor of economics and associate dean in 1975 before his appointment as dean in 1975.

Neimi graduated from Stonehill with an A.B. degree in economics in 1964 and received his M.A. in 1965 and his Ph.D. in economics in 1968 from the University of Connecticut.

Active in the civic and business community both in Atlanta, Ga. and Dallas, Texas, he has served on the Business Accreditation Committee of the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), and has chaired or served as a member on Accreditation Review Teams to more than 20 universities.

Elected a Stonehill trustee in spring 2003, he lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, the former Maria DiSano.

Rev. Laurence M. Olszewski, C.S.C., Th.M. ’61
Pastor
St. John the Evangelist Parish
Viera, Florida

Fr. Olszewski is the pastor of St. John the Evangelist Parish in the Diocese of Orlando, Florida. From 1995 to 2001, he was pastor of Sacred Heart-St. Francis deSales Parish in Vermont. 

He also served as chief development officer and vice president for external affairs at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. from 1985 through 1993 where he was responsible for all fundraising, including The Campaign for King's, a five-year capital campaign that raised $19.5 million.

Previously, Fr. Olszewski was the program director for Catholic Relief Services where he served in Senegal, Tanzania and Burundi. He was also appointed as the national coordinator of church affairs as well as director of education and director of planned giving for Catholic Relief Services in New York. 

His positions from 1965 through 1978 included service as a teacher at Notre Dame High School in Bridgeport, Conn., in parish ministry at Holy Cross Missions in Peru, the director of career planning and placement at Stonehill, and the director of resettlement and Spanish-speaking ministry for the Diocese of Providence, R.I.

Fr. Olszewski received an A.B. in philosophy from Stonehill in 1961 and a S.T.B. from the University of Montreal (Canada) in 1965. He continued his graduate studies in pastoral theology at the University of Salamanca (Spain) and was awarded the Th. M. degree from Harvard University in 1977. He also pursued further graduate study at the Institute for Continuing Theological Education at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, Italy and the School of Applied Theology at the Graduate Theological Union at the University of California Berkeley.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1964, Fr. Olszewski served as a Stonehill trustee from 1985 to 1992. He was re-elected a trustee in spring 2002.

Brother John Rhodes Paige, C.S.C., Ph.D.
Vicar and First Assistant
Congregation of Holy Cross 
Rome, Italy 

In 2004, Brother Paige was elected Vicar and First General Assistant of the Congregation of Holy Cross at the Congregation’s General Chapter in Rome, Italy. Prior to this election, he served as associate professor of education and dean of the School of Education at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas since 2001. Previously, he served as director and supervisor of Secondary Education Teacher Preparation at St. Edward's University. 

From 1997 to 1999, Brother Paige was a research associate at the Makerre Institute of Social Research, Makerre University, Kampala, Uganda and was also a visiting professsor of social science at Queen of Apostles Philosophy Centre in Jinja, Uganda in 1998-1999. He began his education career in 1968 at Holy Cross High School, Waterbury, Conn. In 1972, he went to Notre Dame High School, West Haven, Conn. where, in 1975, he became principal and chief executive officer. 

He became a member of the formation faculty at the Holy Cross Novitiate in Valatie, N.Y. in 1982 and was named director of novices in 1983. He was also a member of the formation for ministry faculty for the Diocese of Albany (N.Y.) from 1982 through 1989. He was appointed to the faculty and was named president and chief executive officer at Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Md. in 1989. The recipient of awards in Connecticut and Maryland, he was a director of the National Association of Religious Brothers from 1989-1994 and served as its president from 1990-1994. He is the author of Preserving Order amid Chaos: The Survival of Schools in Uganda, 1971-1986 (2000). 

Brother Paige made his perpetual profession with the Congregation of Holy Cross, Society of Brothers, Eastern Brothers Province U.S.A. in 1970. Currently, he is a provincial councilor (2003-2006) for the Eastern Brothers Province. 

A 1968 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. degree in physics, he received an M.A.L.S. degree in Mathematics from Wesleyan University in 1976 and an M.A. degree in Applied Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. in 1983. He was awarded the Ph.D. in education policy and leadership from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998. 

Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., Ph.D.
Vice President for Student Affairs
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

Rev. Mark L. Poorman, C.S.C., was elected Vice President for Student Affairs by Notre Dame’s Board of Trustees in April 1999. He had served the three previous years in the University’s administration as executive assistant to the executive vice president and then as executive assistant to the president.

As Vice President for Student Affairs, Father Poorman is responsible for campus ministry, student residences, residence life, multicultural and international student affairs, student activities, Notre Dame security/police, the University counseling center, health services, career and placement services, alcohol and drug education, and a gender relations center.

Father Poorman is a native of Phoenix, Ill. and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. degree from the University of Illinois in 1976. He received a Master of Divinity degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1980 and professed his final vows in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1981. Ordained a priest in 1982, he served for the next three years at Notre Dame as rector of Dillon Hall and associate director of campus ministry. He then pursued graduate studies in Christian ethics at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1990.

Father Poorman is also an Associate Professor in the Theology Department at Notre Dame. His teaching and research concern moral theology and its pastoral applications. His undergraduate courses survey contemporary issues in Christian ethics while his graduate courses are concerned with Christian ethics, Catholic moral teaching and pastoral practice. Among the subjects on which he has written and lectured are medical ethics, sexuality, Christian ministry, and Catholic higher education. He is the author of Interactional Morality (Georgetown Press) and editor of Labors from the Heart (Notre Dame Press), a collection of essays on mission and ministry at the University of Notre Dame. From 1992 until 1999, he directed the Theology Department’s Master of Divinity program for seminarians and lay ministers.

Father Poorman is a member of the University of Portland Board of Regents, the Board of Governors of the University of Notre Dame-Australia, and the Board of Trustees for Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center in South Bend, Indiana. He resides on the Notre Dame campus in Keough Hall, an undergraduate residence hall.

Rev. John J. Ryan, C.S.C., Ph.D.
Director of the William G. McGowan School of Business
Associate Professor of Business
King’s College
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

An associate professor of business at King’s College since 1994, Fr. Ryan was appointed director of the William G. McGowan School of Business at King’s in 2004. During the summer of 2007 he was appointed Superior of the Holy Cross Community at King’s College..

Fr. Ryan’s areas of academic interest are: business ethics, moral leadership, work values, and organizational citizenship issues. He was a member of the business faculty at King’s when the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the premier business school accrediting agency in the world, accredited the College’s William G. McGowan School of Business. 

He received his B.S. degree in accounting from Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. in 1971 and was employed at Gilbert/Commonwealth Associates, Inc. from 1971 through 1984 as a staff accountant, a general accounting supervisor, budget manager, business systems analyst, and business systems manager. He was awarded his M.B.A. degree from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1984 and served as a finance instructor at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, IN in 1985.

He joined the Congregation of Holy Cross and was professed for the Eastern Province in 1986. He received his master of divinity (M.Div.) degree from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario in 1989 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1990. 

Fr. Ryan continued his graduate studies in business administration and was awarded the Ph.D. degree in business administration from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. in 1998. He also rendered parish assistance in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia from 1990 through 1994. Since 1994, he has been a weekly celebrant at local parishes in the Diocese of Scranton. 

Fr. Ryan is a member of the Board of Directors for the Earth Conservancy, a not-for-profit corporation for conservation and land revitalization in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania as well as a councilor for the Eastern Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He was elected to the Stonehill College Board of Trustees in spring 2005.

Sherrie A. Ryan P’08
Chief Operating Officer
AAA Southern New England (AAA SNE)
Providence, Rhode Island

Employed since 1979 by AAA Southern New England (AAA SNE), a regional affiliate of the American Automobile Association, which serves two million members in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, Ryan was appointed the chief operating officer of AAA Southern New England in 2005. 

As chief operating officer, she is responsible for AAA SNE’s Automotive Services, Human Resources, Travel Agency, Branch Operations, Member Relations, and the newly launched AAA Glass, a mobile glass replacement service. Responsible for an annual operating budget of $100 million, she oversees a workforce of 1,400 employees, a network of 350 independent road services contractors, and member services in 30 branch locations.

Prior to her 2005 appointment as chief operating officer, Ryan served AAA Southern New England as senior vice president from 1999 to 2004, vice president of automotive services in 1997-1998 and staff director of member services from 1990 to 1996. She began her career at AAA Southern New England in 1979 as manager, insurance and was promoted to director, insurance in 1986. 

In 1983, she launched AAA’s property/casualty business in Massachusetts and built it into a $10 million operation. In 1990, she became the first woman in AAA’s history to assume executive-level responsibility for road serve operations. In 2001, she formulated and executed a strategy to improve road service performance in Massachusetts and Rhode Island with the result that AAA Southern New England now ranks among AAA’s highest-performing clubs.

Since 2000, Ryan has been a board member of the Providence/Cranston Workforce Investment Board and also serves as acting chair of the region’s Youth Council. In 1993, President George H. W. Bush appointed her to serve on a Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) Task Force charged with revitalizing the Emergency Broadcast System. She is a past member of the Sacred Heart Elementary School Advisory Board in Brockton, MA. 

Ryan received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1974. Elected a Stonehill trustee in spring 2005, she resides with her husband, Paul, in Carver, Mass. The Ryans are the parents of three children, including her son, Michael, a member of the Class of 2008 at Stonehill College.

Lawrence C. Salameno, J.D.
Executive Vice President and Director
Permal Group, Inc.
New York, New York

Salameno is the executive vice president of Permal Group Inc. (The Permal Group), part of Legg Mason, which offers investors access to hedge fund of funds. 

He joined Worms and Company Inc. (Permal) in 2000 as a director and executive vice president-new business development and is responsible for product, marketing and distribution strategy.

In 2005, he was made a Director of Permal Group Ltd., the holding company within the Legg Mason Group for all Permal subsidiaries.

A 1966 graduate of Cornell University, he received his J.D. degree from the Cornell University School of Law in 1969. He practiced corporate and securities law before joining Ticor Relocation Management Company. After Ticor was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1978, he transferred to Merrill Lynch International in London as general counsel to the international private client business. 

In 1982, he was appointed as deputy regional director, Western Europe/Middle East and in 1988 as first vice president and senior director the international private client group. He later worked with Merrill Lynch in the acquisition, start-up and integration of new businesses outside the United States. 

Salameno retired from Merrill Lynch upon completing 25 years of service and then served as an independent management consultant. He also assisted clients with the growth of an international mutual funds business. 

A past member of various committees of the Securities Industry Association, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Saddle River Day School, an independent day school in Saddle River, N.J., a trustee of Our Knoll School of Summit, N.J., and a trustee of the Valley Hospital Foundation/The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, N.J. He is a member of the President’s Advisory Council of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is a member of Stonehill’s President's Council and the Campaign Executive Committee for “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” 

He was elected a trustee at Stonehill in spring 2002. He resides with his wife, Theresa, in Allendale, N.J. In February, 2007, thanks to the generosity of Theresa and Lawrence Salameno the College established its first endowed chair in the Colleges’ history, The Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Endowed Chair in History.

Theresa A. (Ryan) Salameno
Philanthopist
Allendale, New Jersey

As a philanthropist, Theresa Salameno has played an active role in two major initiatives that go to the heart of Stonehill’s academic mission -- a student scholarship and an endowed academic chair.

Theresa and her husband, Trustee Lawrence Salameno, have created the Theresa Ryan Scholars Program, which benefits financially needy students who attend Stonehill. Established in 2001, the Theresa Ryan Scholars Program has to-date assisted 46 students at the College.

Also with her husband, Theresa was instrumental in the creation of the first endowed chair in the College’s history. The Lawrence and Theresa Salameno Endowed Chair in History will assist Stonehill in continuing to attract exceptional teacher scholars. 

The Salameno Endowed Chair also represents great confidence in Stonehill’s future and will help to move the College into a new phase of scholarly and teaching maturity. 

In her philanthropic outreach, Theresa assumes a very personal interest in the projects she supports. She gets to know the students who receive her scholarship, encouraging them as they make progress toward their academic goals. 

A frequent visitor to the campus, she understands the people whose hard work gives the College its edge and distinction, and she appreciates the challenges that Stonehill faces as it works toward “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” 

Theresa is a member of the Ramapo College of new Jersey Foundation Board of Governors. At their home in Allendale, NJ, Theresa and Larry Salameno have frequently hosted events in support of the College. Their daughter Francesca attended Stonehill during the 2001-2002 academic year.

Educated at Brooklands College in Surrey, England, Theresa maintains close ties to her native England and is active in numerous civic, educational, and philanthropic causes. In addition to their daughter, Francesca, the Salamenos have a son, Charles.

F. Robert Salerno P’06
President and Chief Operating Officer
Avis Budget Group
Parsippany, New Jersey

Salerno is the president and chief operating officer of the Avis Budget Group, one of the largest general-use car rental operators in the United States and an industry leader in the car rental sector worldwide. When Cendant Corporation divided its operations into four independent, publicly-traded companies, the Cendant Car Rental Group, Inc. evolved into a new company, the Avis Budget Group. 

This new company brings together two of the most recognized brands in the car rendal industry -- Avis, a leading supplier to the business travel segment, and Budget, a top brand in the leisure travel market. Combined the two brands have an extended global reach that includes over 6,600 car and truck rental locations in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean.

Since 2003, Salerno had served as president and chief executive officer of the Cendant Car Rental Group, Inc., the operator of Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. and Budget Rent A Car System, Inc. Previously, he was the president and chief operating officer of the Cendant Car Rental Group, Inc. following its acquisition of Budget Car Rental System, Inc. in November 2002. 

Prior to his Cendant appointment, Salerno headed the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. as president and chief operating officer since 1996. He served as Avis' executive vice president of operations in 1995, and from 1990 as senior vice president and general manager. He was appointed vice president of field operations in 1987.

A native of Springfield, Mass., Salerno earned his A.B. degree in psychology/chemistry from Marquette University in 1972. A member of the President’s Council at Stonehill, he is a member of “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.”

He was elected a Stonehill trustee in spring 2003. He resides in Katonah, N.Y. with his wife, Donna, and his daughter, Natalie, a member of the Class of 2006.

Carmel A. Shields, M.B.A.
Executive Vice President
Shields Health Care Group (Shields MRI)
Quincy, Massachusetts

Currently, Shields serves as the executive vice president of the Shields Health Care Group (Shields MRI), New England’s original and largest independent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provider.

Prior to joining Shields Health Care Group in 1983, she was a fiscal analyst for the House Committee on Ways and Means for the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She opened the Medford Dialysis Center for the Shields Health Care Group in 1983 which she managed through 1986. Carmel then opened the Brockton Regional MRI Center as well as several other MRI facilities in the area, and served as chief operating officer of the MRI network through 1996.

The daughter of Thomas F. Shields, Sr. P’84, P’92, L.H.D. (Hon.) ’94, former chairman of the Stonehill College Board of Trustees, and Mary (Murphy) Shields P’84, P’92, Carmel is a 1981 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College. She also holds a juris doctor (J.D.) degree from the New England School of Law and a master of business administration (M.B.A.) degree from Northeastern University.

Carmel is a volunteer and has served as a board member of various community and civic organizations including: the Metro South Chamber of Commerce; the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education; the Brockton Area Workforce Development Board; the National Braille Press, Inc.; the Epiphany Middle School in Dorchester, Massachusetts; the Education Management Accountability Board for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; the Brockton Visiting Nurse Association; The Fuller Museum of Art (now known as The Fuller Craft Museum), Nativity Prep of Boston; The Crittenton Women’s Union and The CRUDEM Foundation, Milot, Haiti.

Daniel E. Somers ’69 
{Vice Chair)
Vice Chair
Blaylock & Partners, L.P.
New York, New York

Somers was appointed vice chairman of Blaylock & Partners, L.P., a leading investment banking and securities brokerage firm in 2002. 

Before that, he was president and chief executive officer of AT&T Broadband. As a member of its Operations Group, AT&T’s leadership council, he previously served as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer and was responsible for financial strategy.

Prior to joining AT&T in 1997, Somers served for two years as the chairman and chief executive officer of Bell Cablemedia, plc. in London. From 1992-1995, he was executive vice president and chief financial officer for Bell Canada International, Inc. He also held a number of senior executive, financial and operating-management positions, including president of Radio Atlantic Holdings, Ltd. in Nova Scotia before joining Bell Atlantic. 

He spent 11 years at Imasco Ltd., a Canadian consumer products company and its Hardee's restaurant subsidiary in North Carolina where he served as chief financial officer at both companies. He is also an experienced Wall Street investment banker/financial analyst and is a director for many corporations.

Somers received a B.S. in business administration from Stonehill in 1969 and also pursued graduate studies at the University of Hartford. A member of Stonehill's President's Council as well as the College's Visiting Commitee on Business Administration, he served as chairman of the College's Annual Fund from 2001 through 2003. 

He has been a Stonehill trustee since 1999 and was elected board vice chairman in spring 2002. He is the co-chair of “Attaining the Summit: The Campaign for Stonehill College.” Somers resides with his wife, Mary Jane, in Summit, N.J. and Vero Beach, Fla.

Rev. David T. Tyson, C.S.C., Ed.D.
Provincial Superior
Indiana Province
Congregation of Holy Cross
Notre Dame, Indiana

Elected provincial superior of the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross in 2003, Fr. Tyson oversees the work of more than 300 priests and brothers in the Americas, Asia and Africa for the Indiana Province, the largest Holy Cross province in the world.

Before becoming provincial superior, Fr. Tyson served as the eighteenth president of the University of Portland, where he was also a professor of business administration. During his presidency from 1990 to 2003, the University of Portland experienced unprecedented growth and its “A Defining Moment” capital campaign raised more than $116 million. In 2000, the Templeton Foundation named Fr. Tyson as one of the 50 outstanding university presidents in America.

Under his leadership, the University established five endowed professorial chairs, tripled its endowment and built six new halls on campus. The University also experienced a steady growth in its applicant pool to over 3,000 applicants yearly and welcomed the most academically talented freshman class in its history for eight consecutive years.

During Fr. Tyson’s tenure, the University was recognized by U.S. News & World Report both as one of the top five Western regional universities in the United States as well as the best Catholic university in the West for excellent education at a reasonable cost. In addition, the University earned its first NCAA Division I national championship in women’s soccer. 

Prior to his election as president of the University of Portland, he served at the University of Notre Dame in a variety of positions, including vice president of student affairs.

A native of Gary, Ind., Fr. Tyson joined the Congregation of Holy Cross, Indiana Province in 1967 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. He received his B.A. in sociology (1970) and his master’s degree in theology (1974) from the University of Notre Dame. He holds a doctoral degree in education from Indiana University in Bloomington (1980).

A trustee of the University of Notre Dame, Fr. Tyson has served on the boards of the NCAA Executive Council, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, Saint Edward’s University, St. Mary’s College and the Board of Visitors of Air University which oversees all educational programs for the U.S. Air Force.