Alumni Profiles
Throughout our 100-year history, alumni/ae continue to inspire us. On these pages are just a few who have been highlighted in the Alumni Magazine and honored with an Alumni Award.
If you know of someone who should be profiled/honored, please contact Diane Laska-Nixon, Director of Alumni Relations at 508-767-7239. Thank you.
Business |
(Deceased) Former President, Aubuchon Hardware, the largest privately owned hardware store chain in the U.S. | |
| Owner, The Thorncroft Inn, Vineyard Haven, MA | ||
| Executive Vice President of Product Development, Fidelity Investments, Providence, RI | ||
| Chairman/CEO of Big Y Foods, Inc., Springfield, MA | ||
| Vice President, Human Resources, CUNA Mutual Group, Madison, WI | ||
| Retired President, The Protector Group Insurance Agency, Worcester, MA | ||
| CEO, National DCP (Dunkin’ Donuts brands supply chain), Bellingham, MA | ||
| Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets, Prudential Retirement, Hartford, CT | ||
| Retired President/Chairman, Marois Brothers, Inc. (construction/contractor), Worcester, MA | ||
| Sue Morton G'91 | Owner, Inn at Round Pond, Round Pond, ME | |
| Owner, Skowhegan Motel, Skowhegan, ME | ||
| Former Managing Director, Dresdner Bank, London, England | ||
Education |
Expert on Iran, Author, Retired College Politics and International Studies Professor, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA | |
| Aquaculture Biologist Expert and Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University | ||
| Law Professor and NCAA faculty athletics representative, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN | ||
| Survived near-fatal car crash, returned to graduate from Assumption Graduate student at Northeastern University |
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| Former Journalist/PR specialist and Author World traveler and Peace Corps volunteer at age of 79 |
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| President/Founder, Quaglia Institute for Student Aspirations, Portland, ME | ||
| Astrophysicist, University of Pennsylvania, Former Trustee, National Science Foundation |
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| Legal | Massachusetts State Senator represents 32 towns in Central and Western MA | |
| Kilby Garabedian, R.N., J.D. '82 | Associate General Counsel, UMass Memorial Health Care | |
| Federal Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Puerto Rico | ||
| Former Research Fellow for the Miller Center of Public Affairs’ Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia, Author | ||
| (deceased) World-renowned, legal pioneer in the venture capital and high tech. industries, Former Partner, Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault | ||
| Health | (deceased) long-time family doctor in Maine, devoted AC alumnus, delivered Commencement address in 2004 at age of 100 |
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| Providing free dental care through Cape CARES to underprivileged in Hondouras | ||
| Thomas Welch, M.D. '74 | Prevents infectious diseases at National Cancer Institute, Professor at John Hopkins University | |
| Military | Brig. Gen. in U.S. Army, Bronze Medal recipient for service in Iraq, 29-year Army veteran |
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| Retired in 2004 as Brigadier General after a 30-year career in the U.S. Air Force. Stationed in 22 worldwide locations during tenure. | ||
| Entertainment | Director of Travel Agency Sales for the Walt Disney Company Foundation | |
| Emmy award-winning Journalist and Co-anchor of 6 and 11 p.m. news for CBS affiliate WFSB-TV, Hartford, CT | ||
| Professional actor, Appeared Fox’s drama 24, CBS’s CSI: New York and the feature film, Bruce Almighty, which starred Jim Carrey. | ||
| Former Producer of the Williamstown (MA) Theatre Festival Artistic Director of the Center Theatre Group, L.A. & Culver City, CA |
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| TV producer, has worked for Oprah Winfrey, WGBH’s “American Experience” and HBO Sports | ||
| Athletics | Retired, Former Atlantic Coast Conference Associate Commissioner for Men’s Basketball and Coordinator of Basketball Officials | |
| Ray Fagnant '86 | ||
| Head Football Coach, University of Notre Dame 2009 ESPN Home Depot National Coach of the Year | ||
| (deceased) Former President/CEO of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, long-time Assumption coach and administrator | ||
| 2008 Chair, NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship Committee Assistant V.P./Athletics Director, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA |
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| Most prolific amateur golfer in Massachusetts state history | ||
| Government | Former aid to Hubert Humphrey and former Mass. Lt. Governor John Kerry, Former Undersecretary of Labor to Robert Reich under Pres. Clinton | |
| Associate Vice Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA | ||
| State Representative for the 12th Worcester District, served U.S. Army Reserves in Iraq and Kuwait | ||
| Religious | (deceased) First American born Superior General of the Assumptionist Order, long-time Assumption College administrator | |
| long-time Assumption College administrator, current ambassador to Alumni Association | ||
| Non-profits | Anne Lynam Goddard ’77 | President/CEO, ChildFund International, Richmond, VA |
| Sr. Margaret Leonard, LSA, CE’64 | Executive Director, Project HOPE, Roxbury, MA | |
| Allyce Najimy '86 | Executive director, Foundation To Be Named Later, Boston, MA | |
| Larry Thayer '70 | President, Cape Abilities, Cape Cod, MA |
