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Photo courtesy of Nancy Arny Pi-Sunyer
Nancy Arny Pi-Sunyer
Nancy Arny Pi-Sunyer (Wheelock’67) of Montclair, N.J., published Mousekin’s Twelve Days of Christmas (Narny Productions, 2024), a holiday book for children that she also illustrated. “Mousekin invites you to follow along as he wanders through the 12 days of Christmas to learn how Twelfth Night was probably celebrated by his 245th great-grandmice around the time the song ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ first became popular,” she writes. Nancy describes her book as the culmination of a dream formulated in her children’s literature class at BU nearly 60 years ago. Email her at nancypisunyer@gmail.com.
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.
Photo by Ryan Diegelmann/Coastal Shots Photography
Sam Barkin, Jeff Hitt, and Tony Johnson
Sam Barkin (LAW’88) (from left), Jeff Hitt (LAW’88), and Tony Johnson (LAW’88), along with friends from the School of Law Class of 1988, celebrate as Michelle, daughter of Mark “Doc” Leonard (LAW’88) of Princeton, N.J., tied the knot to Landon Countryman in Nags Head, N.C., last May.
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.
Photo by Tom Hopkins
John Hennelly and Janice Staires
John Hennelly (CAS’72) (far left) and his wife, Janice Staires (CAS’73), hosted celebrated chef, cookbook author, and BU faculty member Jacques Pépin (Hon.’11) at their Connecticut home in December. Jan’s book club had been reading Jacques’ memoir, The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (HarperCollins, 2003), so she wrote to the chef—also a Connecticut resident—and asked him to dinner. Joining them were the couple’s daughter Karen Staires Hennelly (Wheelock’05) and Jacques’ friend and photographer Tom Hopkins (who took the photo) and pup, Gaston.
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.Nancy Schön
The Noble Journey, a sculpture by Nancy Schön (DGE’48) that honors the sacrifice and struggles of Italian immigrants who settled in Boston’s North End between 1850 and 1920, was dedicated at a ceremony on September 29, 2024, in the Peace Garden of St. Leonard of Port Maurice Catholic Church in the North End. The Noble Journey recalls a gangway of a ship from the Old World to the New that immigrants would have walked, with the goal of reminding visitors of their values, challenges, and courage. Nancy, best known for her Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden, was at the dedication and afterwards was feted with a cake for her 96th birthday.
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.
Photo courtesy of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Martha Muñoz
Martha Muñoz (CAS’07), an assistant professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, received a prestigious 2024 MacArthur Fellowship—a so-called “genius grant”—from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in October. Fellowships are awarded “to talented individuals in a variety of fields who have shown exceptional originality in and dedication to their creative pursuits,” according to the foundation. Martha’s research with reptiles, amphibians, and fishes focuses on the factors that influence rates and patterns of evolution. She earned a BA at BU and a PhD at Harvard University.
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.
Photo courtesy of Voices Center for Resilience
Jay Winuk
Jay Winuk (COM’82) of Carmel, N.Y., (right) was honored with a 2024 VOICES Legacy Award alongside David Paine (left), fellow cofounder of the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance. The holiday was recognized under federal law in 2009 and has become the most widely participated service day in the United States. Jay and David accepted their awards at the New York Athletic Club in November, along with VOICES Leadership Award honoree Jimmy Pitaro, ESPN chair (center).
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.
Photo courtesy of Marnie (Pierce) Jones
Marnie (Pierce) Jones
Marnie (Pierce) Jones (COM’96) was reunited with her BU class ring in November 2024, nearly three decades after losing it. “It is as glorious as I remember! How incredibly special,” she writes. “I received it right before Thanksgiving, so we opened it as a family.” Back in October, the BU Alumni Help Desk received an email from a woman in North Attleboro, Mass., who wanted to return the ring, which her mother had found in downtown Boston many years before. The Help Desk staff contacted Marnie—the ring was engraved with her name, college, and class year—and set the wheels in motion. “There is more to this story than just finding the ring,” Marnie wrote in her thank-you note. Just hours before receiving the Help Desk’s email, her father had passed away. “He was the one who bought me my class ring back in 1996,” she wrote. “I remember being heartbroken (and terrified to tell him!) when I lost it, somewhere along a frigid, dark, and wet commute from Cambridge to Congress Street during my first year out of college.”
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.
Photo by Tommy Tette
Katie (Davis) Sweeney and Jim Sweeney
Katie (Davis) Sweeney (CAS’20) and Jim Sweeney (CAS’20, GRS’20) of Jamaica Plain, Mass., met while participating in BU’s New Zealand study abroad program in 2018. Five years later, they were married in upstate New York, near Katie’s hometown, with 12 other alums in attendance—including an aunt on each side. Soon after, the newlyweds moved back to Boston so Katie could take a job as a BU librarian on the Medical Campus.
Jim is a software developer at a firm in Cambridge.
Photo by Chris Valle
Tom Ohanian
Tom Ohanian (COM’81) of New York, N.Y., was honored at the 76th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmys with his fifth technical Emmy Award. Tom is coinventor of the Avid Multicamera System film-editing technology. He and his three coinventors were recognized for their pioneering product, which is now an industry standard.
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.
Photo courtesy of Jane Zarse
Alpha Phi Reunion
Alpha Phi sorority sisters from the Classes of 1992 to 1994 met up for the first time since graduation at BU’s Alumni Weekend in September. “There’s something really special about being back at BU together after 30 years,” says Jane Zarse (CGS’91, COM’93) (third from left). “I had so many ‘pinch me’ moments.” After touring the campus, having lunch at Fuller’s BU Pub, attending a Red Sox game, and embarking on a night out in the city, the sisters unanimously decided to make their Alumni Weekend meetup an annual event.
From the Winter-Spring 2025 issue.